The Daily Zeitgeist - Team Kavanaugh vs Team Zeitgeist, The Strzok Hearing = 5 Flame Emojis 7.13.18

Episode Date: July 13, 2018

In episode 189, Jack and Miles are joined by comedians and Couples Therapy Podcast hosts Andy Beckerman and Naomi Ekperigin to discuss their intention to challenge Brett Kavanaugh's daughters to a two on two basketball game, FBI agents Peter Strzok's messy hearing, the Russia probe, Trump disliking women in power, Henry Cavill's weird #metoo comments, Taco Bell and Demolition Man's history, giant avocado's in Australia, and more!  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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13th, 2018, Friday the 13th. Guys, watch your back out there. Keep your head on a swivel. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Virgin Strawberry Jackery. That is courtesy of At Invisible Worm, and I am thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! I can't feel Miles Gray

when I'm with you. And I love it. And I love it. Anyway, I'm not gonna sing the rest of it, because I love it. Thank you to Christy Yamaguchi-Main for that AKA. Thanks, Christy. We can't be surprised that they have the most fire AKAs when they have the most fire Twitter handle of all time.

Solid. And we are thrilled to be joined in our third and fourth seats by two hilarious writers and performers and the hosts of our newest podcast on the Hey Sluts, What's Up Network. Our first live comedy podcast. You guys, please welcome the hosts of Couples Therapy, Naomi Ekperigan and Andy Beckerman. Yay! Get out those official Andy and Naomi scrub brushes, everyone. Clean them tubs while you listen. Hey, guys.

Are you branding those? We're branding everything. We're selling out. We moved to L.A. and we're like, monetize every molecule, every C, A, what are all the parts of the DNA? C, A, T, G. Every single chromosome is monetized. Gattaca. Yes.

Yes. Thank you for that. Thank you for a Gattaca. We are rebooting Gattaca as a web series. What is it? Guanine, adenine,

cytosine, and... I don't know, man. Whatever. I didn't know any of them. I like how you named them all and you're like, whatever.

Whatever. No, because I'm botching it and we have a lot of intelligent listeners in the Zeitgeist who are like, excuse me, I actually am working on DNA and this is what it is.

And you know what? That's fine. You know, whatever. Like CRISPR, whatever that is. I don't know. I'm not. Oh, also, again, shout out to the Zeitgang for pointing out yesterday. When I pointed out someone had said that they identified as an attack helicopter,

I didn't know that was some alt-right transphobic dog whistle bullshit. Shit. We were like, it's so funny. Retract that. Yep. Because we're not here for that dumb shit. So apologies to anybody who was offended by that. I had no idea.

But thank you to James McDonald and The Suck on Twitter for pointing that out because we're not here for that nonsense. That sounds like a really bad rock duo. James McDonald and The Suck. All right, guys. You guys are so morning zoo right now. It's a George Starr good at the Destroyers cover band. Right.

All right. You should hear the early versions of this show before Nick and Anna were like, we can't do this. Who farted? It was called Jack and the Blasian. Who farted? With Jack and the Blasian. Ooh, bro. All right.

It's like an 808 trap beat of that shit. Jack and the Ablation. Well, guys, before we get to know you a little bit better, we like to tell our listeners what they're in store for. First, Miles and I are going to be making a challenge

that ties into the news a little bit. We're going to be, uh, making a challenge, uh, that ties into the news a little bit. Yeah. Uh, we're going to talk about Henry Cavill, uh, Superman and his, uh, brilliant take on the Me Too movement. We're going to talk about the, uh, the Stroke hearing, uh, that happened yesterday. I'm hearing it's Stroke instead of Stroke. Oh, really?

Yeah. Okay. I mean, I think people are just issuing new pronunciations of his last name every day that he's in the news cycle just to fuck with us but uh the rosenstein indictments of the 12 russian uh intelligence agents we're going to talk about uh trump's tour is just setting fire to the western European country, Western Alliance in general, all of Western Europe before his meeting with Putin. We're going to talk about the Senate confirming another just a guy with a spotty background.

We'll talk about very appropriate for this administration. Yes, yes. We're going to talk about Taco Bell having a demolition man tie in. We're going to talk about Taco Bell having a Demolition Man tie-in. We're going to talk about something called the Avocadozilla. Avzilla. Avosilla. They should have gone with mine. And we're going to do, of course, Boyd Watch.

But first, we like to ask our guests, you guys, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are as people or as a couple? Yeah, we did all, since we've been on individually before, we thought, since we're on together, we're are as people or as a couple yeah we did all since we've been on individually before we thought since we're on together we're gonna do this as a couple so uh this is uh something we looked up recently oh we side by side we side by side squirrel yes apartments not infested by ants okay because we live in a hell that we did not ask to live in.

Yes. We got a real, it's a real bug issue. Really? Honey, we got these damn ants because apparently it's ant season, so that's what just happens. Everywhere. But also. We got a piggy little termite.

We got termites. A piggy little termite. A piggy little, the guy won't stop eating. I come in every time, I sweep up all the little wood chips, and then I come back an hour later, a bunch of more wood chips. Hey, buddy. You just think he's going to just get, like, sated?

You're like, I'm done. I don't want to body shame him, but come on, Chubzo. Shut up with the wood chips. Also, I like that you think it's one termite. We do. It's one alone termite. Yo, if I find him,

it's ugly. I am gonna take him to an OA meeting and say, buddy, you're worth more than this. Overeaters Anonymous? Yes. Yeah. I'm gonna take him to watch the OA on Netflix. Wait, so what kind of recourse do you have

to address your plight? Wow. Sorry,? Well, sorry. You go, Naomi. My love. My sweet dear. The queen of my heart. Wow. Wow.

It's amazing how- I wish that had gone for like 20 minutes. I know. Queen of my heart. Love my life. Moont of my son. Sorry. Go ahead.

The order in the romantic- Hush! Hush! Don't be turning it off with a microphone. I'm coming in all romantical so the record can show. You know? We have talked to our landlord about these

goddamn critters. He don't give a fuck. Really? You own this property. I think termites are an issue for you long term. Structurally, yeah. Yes, here's the deal. He said he went under the house and did something.

I don't see any evidence that he did anything besides told us that he did something. Yeah, that he went under the house. Yeah. I don't care about the – here's the real thing. I don't care about the termites. Let the whole house fall apart. No, not on you though. Yeah, well, we'll be out – by the time – it takes 10 years apparently for termites to really destroy a house.

Which brings us to your second Google search. So we'll be out of there long before it falls apart. Yeah. So that's on them. It's the ants. When we moved in here a year ago. We made a pact. When we first.

Oh, yes. I promised I would not talk too much about the ants. I'll just say this. I will say this. You're raking the past. I will say this. You're raking the time. I will say this, Naomi, the romantic spine in the skeleton of my love life. So romantic.

That when we first moved in and the first day we were there and I saw ants everywhere crawling over the cat food and I told him he's like, yeah, what are you going to do? That's basically his attitude. And now he asked me, he's like, so what do you do? We're going to get rid of the ants. He asked me, he's like, yeah, what are you going to do? That was basically his attitude. It was like, oh, what are you going to do? And now he asked me, he's like, so what do you do? We're going to get rid of the ants.

He asked me, he's like, so. Have you tried anything? He smashed them. Oh, yeah. When he came in, he literally just like, literally you see them swarming. He got a paper towel and just smashed the floor with his hand. Yeah, and looks at me and goes, for millions of years, humans have been battling ants and cockroaches. Is it Morgan Freeman?

I know. For millions of years. Hello, I'm Morgan Freeman. I'm a voiceover actor, by the way. So good. Yeah, for people who don't live in Los Angeles, the plot of Starship Troopers is taking place in Los Angeles on a microscopic level. It is just taken over by bugs. If you leave food out in certain parts of the city, it will be like skeletonized in moments.

Even if it doesn't have a skeleton. Yeah. It could be a candy bar. Eat it into the shape of a skeleton. There's a weird bone shaped. Yeah. But yeah, it's very, the bugs are not fucking around in the Los Angeles area.

So get you a Johnny Rico to dead that bug problem. Starship Troopers. Starship Troopers reference. I told you, Jack, earlier, you were like, what's a bad movie? I'm like, Starship Troopers. I know, and I wanted to test your knowledge, and you do know what the main character's name is. Thank you. Correct.

Guys, what is something that you think is overrated? Oh, our overrated would have to be civility. I'm done. Civility. I'm done. In its butt. I ain't got time, but Andy, that's a nice fun time for people. My point is civility, however.

I think this whole idea of when these people who are destroying our world go to get a sandwich, you have to treat them just like everyone else. You ain't like everybody else. You're destroying everything. Yeah, you a sociopath. You got to be called out. I'm sick of sociopaths getting a pass. Yeah.

A sociopath. Yeah. Andy. You and I. Two for two. Hey, before we started recording, we came up with a new term. Yeah, for when you have too many tabs open on your browser. It's called taboose. Taboose. Taboose. Taboose. Taboose. Two for two. Hey, before we started recording, we came up with a new term. Yeah, for when you have too many tabs open on your browser. It's called taboose.

Taboose. Taboose. Taboose. Taboose. Taboose. Anyway. Yeah, they have fun with portmanteaus. We are Natalie Portmanteau-ing it about.

We are portmantastic. Miles and I are collaborating. No, Jack. I tried to jump in. It just didn't work. Jack, you can't jump in, Jack. Do what I do and let it happen. All right.

Yeah, it'll burn out eventually as we realize we're just doing this for our own enjoyment. But if you see an ice agent in public, if you see one of these Stephen Miller freaks, if you see... Kristen, what's her name? Just someone who looks like Stephen Miller. Honestly, if you look like Stephen Miller, there's probably something wrong with you. Because he's twisted. He's what?

22? And he looks like a Nosferatu? Yeah. He's at most 22, and he looks like he's in his mid-50s. He's 20 Nosferatu. Was yesterday the National Day of Civility or the day before or something? I don't know. That basically was for people on the right to be like, hey, stop flaming us.

Civility is just for people who enjoy the way things are. They like the status quo. Right. They don't like arguments. Right. But really, they're status hoes. Wow. Watch out now.

Shots fired over here. The sort of thing I couldn't get away with, but you nailed it, my friend. As a white Jewish man from Pennsylvania. Guys, what is something you think is underrated? Ooh, this is an exciting one. We love Detroiters on Comedy Central. This is maybe the third time people

have recommended Detroiters on our show. Okay, guys, listen. It's happening. Get those numbers up, guys. We need a third season. It's really our... I feel like it's the best of both of our worlds. So my mom's family's from Detroit, so I spend every summer there and all my vacations, and they really get

the details of Detroit, and it really makes me chuckle. What are the details of Detroit? Because I started watching and... The shuffle? Oh, yeah. Everyone's... Or the hustle? Everyone's got to do the hustle at every party. I just love whenever they profile Faygo Pop and gym shoes instead of sneakers.

But that could just be a general Midwestern thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then, God, there was stuff in like the first episode. Oh, I like the dad. Like we watched one episode and Tim Robbins, Robinson or Robbins? Robinson. Robinson. His parents, they live in the suburbs, like almost everybody in Detroit.

And they come inside the city and they're like, we have to leave. Your father doesn't want to be here after dark. It's like noon. It's literally exactly how people feel when they come from the suburbs into the city. And they're like, it's dangerous. Yeah. And they always refer to penises as big dripping hogs, which I assume is a real Detroit thing. I can't believe you would say that.

Is that true? It is literally what happens on the show. It is true. But on the show, I don't think that happens in Detroit or that's just what they like to do. But there's a clip we watch over and over again with Cecily Strong where she's Roz Chunks. Her name is Roz Chunks.

It's that kind of show. It's a little touch of cartoon-y. You know what I mean? Like goofiness. But then they are saying, okay, we want to set this comedy in this city that doesn't get much love. You know what I mean?

Because they're both from there. So it's real funny. It's real smart. And we first connected over Strangers with Candy. That was one of the first shows we watched when we started dating. because we both loved it. And it was a connection point. So there is a kind of like, I think for both of us, we like silly.

Silly, touch of a grotesque. It's created and the stars are Sam Richardson and Tim Robinson, who Sam Richardson, you guys might know him from Veep. He's like the best part of Veep. He plays the aide. Richard. He's the only best part of Veep. He plays the aide. Richard. He's the only black character in the show. He's the... He's Richard. Jack trying to navigate that.

It's okay. You're allowed to say black. Jack, he's the only brother on the show. Tim Robinson was great on SNL. Yeah. I like him a lot. His characters episode is wonderful. On Netflix is theL. Yeah. I like him a lot. He has a great, his characters episode is wonderful on Netflix. The characters. Yeah.

And yeah, I started watching it because I'd, did you mention Detroiters when you were on Andy? I think so. Probably. Because I had, because I think yours was the last episode before I went to Europe and then it was on the plane. I was like, I'm watching this. You wanted us to know you went to Europe.

They all know. Everybody knows. You went to Europe. Hold on. You wanted us to know you went to Europe. They all know. Everybody knows. You went to Europe. Hold on. You should look at my passport real quick. See what that says right there? You pull it out and all this European money falls out of your pocket. Hey, and then we got a change for a dollar.

I can't find it. Oh, God. Just Europe. These damn Nepalese coins. Get in Europe. I know. That's something about me. That's a something about me.

That's a Pat Healy reference. Guys, what's a myth? What's something most people think is true that you as a couple know to be false? So this is one of the ones I suggested on my episode. I gave you like 10 different ones and you didn't pick this one. But it represents both of us. Blame it on Jack. This is all your fault, Jack.

Cats are aloof. That is a myth. Cats are not aloof. That is a myth. Cats are not aloof. Cats follow from whatever the person who's scratched them or owning them, whatever their emotional template is. So if you are a standoffish person, if you are someone who like doesn't access your emotions, then your cat will read that from you and be aloof.

But if you are a loving human being, that's the thing. If you're saying cats are aloof, you probably don't know what love is. If you're saying cats, that's coming in hot. I would say if you think cats are aloof, it's because you don't know how to relate to a cat. A dog in general is like, let's be friends. Let's roughhouse. Let's be active. A cat's like, why, let's be friends. Let's roughhouse. Let's be active.

A cat's like, why don't we be near each other for a minute and then see where it goes? When you go to pet, let them smell your hand first. Don't touch on their bodies. You know what it is? Cats have boundaries. And people don't want that sometimes

from a pet. People don't respect it. People don't respect the sovereignty of animals in general and in specific cats. In specific, the sovereignty of cats. Cats are sovereign beasts of the jungle. They require attention, I feel like. They require some, yeah, you need a little bit of focus. And yeah, I like the idea that they act aloof because people are just kind of like distractedly dealing with them like they're, you know, a piece of furniture in their house or something. And you got to give it agency.

You got to give it agency. When our boys, Squee and Prembly, when they want to play, they let me know. And then I. I'm sorry, what were your cats' names? Squee and Prembly. Squee and Prembly. Okay. Okay.

I love those names. You know, and it's rewarded. Prembly loves me so much He waits for me when I go take a shower in the morning He waits outside the bathroom He's loyal Does that have nothing to do with feeding? No he just wants to hang out

He wants to hang out Wow Miles trying to shoot your relationship through a hole Well what does that say about you? It's lame, nothing man And I'm over my parents divorce So what the fuck are you talking about, Andy? I don't give a fuck. It's what I'm saying.

My cats are bullshit. Anyway, fuck them. No. When he gets like this, just let it burn out. Let it burn out. Let it burn out. Oh, no. No, you know, I believe that, too, because my cats, in the beginning, they were rescues.

And they were a little bit like, they were just figuring it out. And Her Majesty, my partner, Rosie, she was like, I don't know what's wrong with these cats. I'm like, yo, just let them rock. They're getting used to it. And now they slowly, as we show them love, now they, it's like, they're like drug addicts, though. We gave them a little bit, a little bit, a little bit more, and now they're like, wait, we need that. We need that. Where you at?

Where you at? And now we got them. That's humans, too. Yeah. What a sociopathic way to think about love and relationships. Hey, well, I'm trying to use my past experiences. Just give it to them free and then they're going to need it. Then they're addicted.

Yo, give them that first rock for free. And then they're back. And I'm like, I'm sorry, bro. I can't use a TV with a built-in VHS player. Yeah. But you might take that down to that pawn shop. You could actually become a millionaire by rewriting How to Win Friends and Influence People just for like the modern generation, like in that way. Just based off my weird background.

Yeah. All right, guys. We have to get to the challenge that Miles and I are putting out there. Yeah. I mean, this is big. This is huge. There's an event in everyone's future that you're going to have to get ready for. So this stems from the fact that Brett Kavanaugh, the candidate for the Supreme Court, has on multiple occasions bragged about coaching his daughter's basketball teams.

When in his first national television appearance, he brought his daughters up and was like, I coach their team. They call me Coach K. Ha ha ha ha, because that's the coach of Duke basketball. Oh, I thought it was Coach Klan. Right, Coach K, K, K. And there was a Wasp op-ed,

Washington Post op-ed, that said, I don't know Kavanaugh the judge, but Kavanaugh the carpool dad is one great guy. I don't know Kavanaugh the judge, but Kavanaugh the carpool dad is one great guy. I don't know the BTK killer, the murderer, but I know BTK killer, the deacon. You're also seeing this from all the Harvard Law and Yale Law people.

They're like, he's such a great teacher. His students love him, and he wants to overturn Roe v. Wade. Let's just close every sentence like that. So I'm tired of this dude getting all this credit for coaching, for being a great basketball coach to his daughters, and Miles and I have decided we are announcing that we're challenging Brett Kavanaugh's daughters to a game of 2-1-2. Elizabeth and Margaret Kavanaugh, what's good?

If he's such hot shit as a basketball coach, we should be no challenge to them. And if we beat them, we ask that he just withdraw from consideration to be a Supreme Court justice. Or from life. And go work on his basketball coaching skills. And yeah, so what? Their maybe combined height is six foot two.

Yeah. I will windmill on these kids. Yeah, are we going to? It's not on them ho Yeah. I will windmill on these kids. Yeah. Are we going to? It's not on them hives. I'm windmilling. Vince Carter slam dunk contest 2000. That first dunk he did.

Watch me. Watch me posterize you. How old are they? I don't know. 12. Yeah. They were like sixth grade and younger. They old enough to hold this L.

Right. So we're thinking we're willing to bring the hoop down to like eight feet. Yeah, eight feet. You know, fuck it, seven and a half. Seven and a half. For them. Yeah, for them. Clearly that's the best height for you to dunk on.

And then we'll just let it rock from there. Right. Because we want to give you guys a show. We saw how that Jimmy Kimmel, Ted Cruz. Right. Nonsense. That was actually a crime against basketball. Yeah.

Right. Nonsense. That was actually a crime against basketball. Yeah. The last time entertainers challenged conservative politicians or people related to them to a sporting event, the entertainers got owned. So, I mean, this should be, I think we're the underdogs heading into this. It would be actually awesome, though, if they were just so nice with it. It's like, yo, Shemeiko holds claw 2.0.

Right, right. But I'm will hold squad 2.0. But I'm willing to risk that. The Ted Cruz thing. In my mind, though, he throws it like grandma style, like under his legs. Is that how he shot? Well, no. The first, it was like two minutes of them actually driving to the hoop, and then it was like a war of attrition of distance jumpers and

really low energy post play. Just like old man YMCA moves. You guys said it was about the dribble drives. The dribble drives. Dribble drives. That is what we said. I know sport. I bet Ted Cruz would win in any contest because no one would want to touch him.

No one would want to play defense close enough. Well, you can't because he's amorphous. It's like trying to hug a cloud. Alright, so you guys think about it. Think about that hot take of two grown men challenging some children to basketball. I think it's going to work. What if they really pull some Globetrotters type shit on you guys? I hope they do

because that's comedy either way. I'm all about comedy at the end of the day. I don't think you guys can beat us. I'm saying that. I'm putting it out there. Brett, i think you're a dog shit coach brett you're just spicy talking from a guy whose dad is an nba coach like well my dad will be coaching us and uh you'll be coaching your kids and we'll see how yeah you'll probably outsmart us and just so you guys know just so to you can work on your defense uh ladies my favorite type of video is videos of grown men crossing over babies and they fall over. So that's all I'm going to be going for.

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that's how you pronounce that right? exchanges? there's some great exchanges between the we've coined so many words guys do you feel proud? I do we're doing it it's all happening

book deal chronicle get at us so just as a summary overall Daily Zeitgeist Dictionary. We're doing it. We're doing it, guys. It's all happening. Book deal. Chronicle, get at us. So just as a summary overall, the Republicans played up the obvious implications of the text, which was a really terrible fucking look. He made the case that he, like everyone, had political views during the 2016 election. I guess I should say the text said, you know, somebody texted him. I think it was a woman he was having an affair with and said, like, Trump isn't going to become president, right? And he said, we're going to stop him. Bad luck. So the Republicans dwelled on that, which, you know, you would expect. And he

made the case that he was doing this in his, you know, as a person and not as an FBI agent. And his personal views never came into play when he was doing his job. He made the case that the FBI is too strong an institution to allow one person's political leanings to influence the casework. And the most convincing point that he made is that if he had a vested interest against Trump during the election, he would have leaked the fact that they had this Russia investigation going while everyone was focused on the fucking Hillary Clinton thing. Literally, no one knew that they were investigating Trump for Russian collusion and that there was so much evidence that there have been 20 indictments now like it's there is uh reason to believe that he you know i i think that's a convincing case uh but anyway so that was the substance but the uh the flare on display oh my was something else so miles what are we gonna

listen well there's a few there are a few moments i mean treyowdy was really, really trying to go in with his chest out. What is up with his fucking hair, first of all? He just can't decide on a look. He really is like between having like a faux hawk and like just bang swept to the side. It's honestly, yeah. It's such a weird fucking look. It could be Flock of Seagulls or Hitler Youth or whatever. He has many.

He's got three different. In a way, shout out to him, man. Very versatile hair style. I don't know how. I guess. At times, I shout out to him, man. Very versatile hair. I don't know how. I guess. At times I'm like, yo, does he have a wig on? Because it looks shorter a second ago. That's just his magic. Okay, but either way, Mr. Benghazi was really, he really took some shots.

He's the guy who created the Benghazi. He was really the one who really was out there screaming from the hilltops. Right. And there were even moments where he was just going so in that Bonnie Watson Coleman from New Jersey was like, this isn't Benghazi, Trey. And it was just getting really hot because it was very clear from people like Bob Goodlot and Trey Gowdy, they were grandstanding to just, again,

paint this guy, to smear him to look like a partisan who was just completely caught up in this witch hunt and again as we said yesterday our this guy uh peter strook he is a literal russian spy hunter that is his that is his specialty that is his special power if you look on the back of his trading card special power russian spy hunter uh anyway so uh one of the funnier moments too came when louis gomert uh from texas basically uh tried to i don't know i mean this was him for having an affair in the first i just went from one of the least funny moments to then one of the funniest isn't gomert like one of the the spider enemies in zelda he probably is like it's legitimately the same guy But let's hear the point he was trying to make

I've talked to FBI agents around the country You've embarrassed them You've embarrassed yourself And I can't help but wonder When I see you looking there with a little smirk How many times Did you look so innocent Into your wife's eye

And lie to her about Lisa Mr. Chairman this this is outrageous. The credibility of a witness is on the way. Mr. Chairman. Will the gentleman from Texas eat my shit? Mr. Chairman, this is intolerable harassment of the witness. What's wrong with that? You need your medication.

Oh, my God. It became the dozens. Very quickly. You need your medication. You want to be that last voice screaming. As everyone else quiets down, you're like, you need your medication. Yeah, wow, wow, wow. That's like government, y'all. That's how government talks.

I wish they talked more like the british parliament where they were saying insane shit to each other but it's like always like witty sick burns clever stuff instead like in america just like well you could smell my shoes it's just like dumb idiots like it's all it's all idiots except for like a handful of people and they're all you get maxine waters why she why she is so so infuriated because she's surrounded by fucking morons everywhere. Especially in this too where like on – some people are looking at people like Louie Gohmert or Goodlatte and they're like, are you for real? You can't possibly believe this, like what you're doing. You are so – you are this partisan that all of your reason goes out the door in defense

of this president i think that's why because the emotion on the right seemed in this especially in this testimony during this testimony was because peter struck is like sort of he he's done a lot and so and his answers to a lot of their pointed gotcha questions quote unquote he gave very measured responses that were like that were pretty solid clapbacks and you could tell like trey gowdy tried to get like five bites of the apple on this thing because he kept taking l's back to back to back and he's like let me rephrase this thing maybe i'll get him this time so you could see that the frustration built on the right because they thought they were probably getting in the ring with like someone who wasn't as intellectually like sort of i don't know i guess intelligent right and also understood like understands the fbi and protocol where they can't just say these wild statements like oh well you probably were going to try and stop me he's like

i don't know if you know how the fbi works there are levels of control above me and then there are many levels below me where i can't just give a blanket thing like okay we're going to stop trump guys here we go right you know like that's that's just not going to happen by the way if there was a congressional hearing with like a, a herd of pigs, the Republicans would be outmaneuvered by their intelligence. Well, it's funny because when Steve Bannon was in there and he refused to answer questions, they weren't, like, being like, oh, we're going to hold you in contempt.

They were real cool about it. Oh, weird. Yeah, of course. Weird how a Republican operative ties to the Mercers would get a skate. Right, and then when the colleagues on the Democratic Party were like, oh, so are you also going to call Steve Bannon back in and hold him in contempt or threaten him like this? And they're like, well, this is different. Yeah, it was a bunch of just like back and forth where I definitely thought the Democrats got the better side of things. I still think it looks bad that he sent that text.

Oh, yeah. But, you know, it's just like taking a step back, which side is trying to be like, okay, yeah, no, it was bad that I sent that text, but let's go back to the substance of the investigation and like keep in mind what we're talking about here and which side is like, well, you had an affair. Well, that's

the thing that gets me it's like he's like he's like how many times did you lie to your wife i'm like oh we want to bring line of wives up in this i mean dennis hastert lied to his wife how many times has any of them yeah but i think anyone literally anyone in congress this is the republican party side for the last like 30 40 years which is like they know they're on the side of, you know, Dr. Doom or whatever. Like pick your comic book supervillain. Right. They're so far on that side of monstrousness that they don't have anything. So they have to pick apart and then use their money and power to just like, well, we have a text.

So we'll just use that as a, well, it's also like outrage, right? Like they use the yelling and the anger. And then you're like, well, well,

they're passionate. They must care. Right. Like if you're not, yeah. So it's like, Oh my God. But I was like,

I love it. Cause the moment he said wives, I feel like to me, I think everyone was like, don't bring up wives. Okay. We all got something. You saw them all like holding,

like putting their finger in their collar. By the way, every time did the camera cut to Ty gowdy did you have a new look he had like he went from rayman wayfarers like angular sunglasses every time i was very impressed um so one thing that happened this morning is or last night i guess was that 12 russian intelligence agents were indicted and this timing is interesting because trump is just finishing up his uh highly successful trip to the uk uh where he openly talked shit about theresa may and then when he was asked about it was like no that's fake news uh no you're wax, my guy. It's not like an opinion piece. It is a recording of you speaking. What the fuck are you talking about?

But anyways, so he's doing all this just taking a flamethrower to Western powers and Western established alliances right ahead of his meeting with Putin. And his meeting with Putin, he's like, it's going to be the easiest thing ever. He's like, because I nailed my test. He gave me three things to do, three homeworks. I did it. Try and destabilize NATO. Talk spicy, Theresa May.

So both in the run up to that and in the aftermath of this hearing where the Democrats and the FBI were trying to put attention back on the fact that we are talking about Russians fucking trying to upset the Democratic order of the United States. They announced these 12 indictments and These are yeah, they they have enough evidence to indict 12 Russian intelligence officers. Yeah, so it it's straight up people working for Putin, for the Kremlin. Now, in any rational world, this would cause Trump to cancel his meeting with Putin

or make the meeting with Putin exclusively about that. And not behind closed doors. Right. Are they all going to take cyanide pills, you think? Oh. Just like the 12, meaning the 12 spies? Yes. Like literally all going to take cyanide pills, you think? Oh. Just like the 12, meaning the 12 spies? Yes.

They're like literally like, don't worry, they're all going to take their pill at exactly 6.01 a.m. I mean, they'll just not come to the U.S. That's all they got to do. Right.

But I'm like, there's like, okay. Yeah. They're like, oh, indictment? All right. I just won't go there. So good for you. Oh, I don't go to U.S. anymore?

Boo hoo. Right. I just stay here with my sex slaves Boo chiffer Your accent work is just improving On a daily basis What a burn But this is

Producer Nick Stumpf was pointing out This could be If Trump goes forward with the meeting And just doesn't bring this up This could be if Trump goes forward with the meeting and just doesn't bring this up, this could be brought in as evidence that he is just obstructing this investigation or just're all all the republicans are happy with this they don't give a shit because they're gonna cash out and go to their like hell island and that's that it's called long island um but do you know what i mean they all have their private islands paul ryan is like oh yeah okay i'm done i know this i know the way that when him and m McConnell are going to go and – sorry, I was trying to think of something that was not disgusting to say.

I was going to say – I literally could tell by the look on his face. I was like, he's thinking something gross. He's thinking something gross. No, it's – I mean, that's why I guess especially now, again, we have to talk about midterms again because the only way that there – any kind of check on the executive branch is going to have to come from the from Congress. And right now, because you have all these enablers on the right, especially in the GOP, in both in both chambers, there's there you're never going to get any kind of real like, hey, my guy, we can impeach you or something like that. Or let's let's launch some actual investigations because we control the committees now. There's, you know. The timing of this to me,

just as like somebody who accepts circumstantial evidence into, you know, into the court. I feel like this is the most obvious kind of piece of evidence to suggest that there is an adversarial nature between like how they are thinking about this investigation and Trump,

like that. They're just like, yeah, this guy's fucking guilty. Let's make it as difficult for him as possible because they would not have announced these indictments. Like they would have worked with him to, you know,

make it after the Putin meeting. Like this is not what he wants. Yeah. Well, I think that's the only way that these are the small things that they can fight back with and again they're really not aside from what the hug with putin will be one second shorter because of it right well yeah do you guys think actually if the democrats take back the senator of the house in the midterms that they'll actually do anything i think actually i

think it'll probably an oppositional party or opposition party yeah i'm sure i mean i feel like at the very least with like court like court nominations like nominations will be much harder when you have a like if if the senate is controlled by the democrats impeachment gets a little weird because i know some people are like we don't know but who knows i mean if if there's something like if it ends up being like a democratically controlled house and then you get a good like a spicy muller report right if that'll be enough like to cause enough outrage that even like republicans would be like and the strict hearing was one of the most i don't know it seemed like democrats were straight up like being resisting the push to sort of obstruct this investigation.

Like they held up pictures of all the people who had been indicted in the investigation, which is like that's and when Strzok like kind of gave his speech about like how this is another notch in Putin's belt because they are like, look at what's happening. The United States tear itself apart like the Democrats clapped. So I do think they're sort of getting on board with being an actual opposition party. Yeah, but exactly. But to

your point, Andy, I don't know if that may be it. It could be an opposition. I don't know if they have enough hardcore people in the Democratic Party to be like, all right. Like Doug Jones, who the only reason he won was because he was facing a child molester. Right. Is like, well, I could vote for I could vote for Kavanaugh.

We'll see what happens. And I'm just like, what? Like, that's not why you here. Yeah, girl. If Schumer is so weak and or Pelosi is so weak in the House that they can't whip the entire there wasn't even a unanimous dissent against cabinet nominees. Yeah. And from then there on, there should have been unanimous dissent on every one of them.

Gillibrand is the only one that voted against them all. And I'm pretty sure that was only to say, hey, 2020. Yeah, 2020. Look, I'm the only one that's voted against all of them. And that's why Cory Booker's out here, too, screaming from the top. Hey, man, I need some air, too. Yeah, I'm the only one that's voted against all of that. Well, that's why Cory Booker's out here too, screaming from the top. He's like, hey, man, I need some air too. Yeah, no, I agree. I think it's hard to know because I think on one end too,

I think we've talked too of like, is impeachment the best way to sort of check this president? Or does that give more fuel for his supporters to act like, well, there's this conspiracy and then to continue their delusion about what is actually happening. It's a weird situation. And again, yeah, when you have these like red state Democrats, they're not that, you know, they're not that reliable in terms of voting with the party because they're like,

I'm trying to stay in office. And then you're like, you're then you're not actually acting in the best interest of the country. So I don't know. With regards to impeachment, it is. Yeah. I mean, he might get impeached in the sense that it's considered getting impeached like Bill Clinton was impeached. If you get a simple majority in the House to impeach an article of impeachment. majority which just isn't going to happen no matter what like as far unless the muller report is just incredibly like there's photographs of him yeah it won't matter it still won't matter

yeah exactly they're not going to mitch mcconnell's gonna do his whatever i i i assume it's just like scientology he has like blackmail stuff on nobody's looking at me what am i making enemies of scientologists now by saying that but i assume he has blackmail stuff on. He's looking at me. What am I making enemies of Scientologists now by saying that? But I assume he has blackmail material on all of the other Republicans. Right. That's how he keeps them in line. Who knows what it is? I mean, this is conjecture.

Who knows what it is? Snitch McConnell. But yeah, it's just that's why like, yeah, in a it's it's just tough because when you look on one on one side of it you look at trump and you're like well maybe we can just vote him out but he's doing so much damage right now as it is in europe right now with like undermining nato and then like you know coming after uh angela merkel and theresa may and just again talking hot and making it see who again i think i think the real thing that I'm really concerned about is what happens when he's in that one-on-one with Putin where there's nobody in there and there are no aides. It's just him and Putin and what he does.

Because in Singapore with Kim Jong-un – I imagine Putin feeding him like little treats like a dog. Or a bird, like a bird. Like in Singapore, the South Koreans and then even our own – like Jim Mattis had no idea that Trump was like, all right, we'll suspend military exercise with South Korea. Like he just said, like he just did that without consulting with anyone. Mad Dog Mattis? Yeah. So then what happens when he's in the room with Putin?

You know, like what, are there going to be concessions there? And that's why a lot of people. We will end up Russian citizens. Do you know what I mean? He's like, guys, you're going to love this. We're all Russian now. United States of Russia. It's like, okay.

Well. Yeah. Yeah. And Miles, you were suggesting, and I kind of think this is an interesting theory, that an alternate option for why Trump is doing what he's doing to our Western alliances is, or an additional contributing factor, is just that Trump can't deal with women in power? Yeah, I don't know.

Oh, well, yeah. I mean, we know that. But I think, yeah, that's one way. If you want to look at it the nicest way, and he's not a Putin operative. He just can't deal with Theresa May and Angela Merkel for some reason. Who knows why?

Well, and then it's like, it's only the toxic bros that he fucks with right erdogan sick putin tight fucking do territory my boy kim jong-un check out this cd my guy right you know what i mean like those are those are the people that he loves and then it's anyone who is but like man when you get a smart woman in there like an oxford educated woman who's like looking at you like this is him he's like who can Oxford-educated woman, who's looking at you like, what are you? That pisses him off. He's like, ugh. Who can see through him.

Oh, 100%. Anyone who just looks at him and he knows they know he ain't shit, they got to go. Yeah. He got to leave. He gonna shut it down. He can't shake your hand.

You know what I mean? Look away. Just like, nah, I don't want to do that. Comedy Central, bring back the president show. We need Anthony Atamanek now. More than ever. All right. Let's take another quick break.

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And we're back. And hey, speaking of toxic bros, Miles, Henry Cavill, however that's pronounced. Wow, you don't respect Superman. I know, my bad. I don't even know how to say his name either. Hello, it's me, Henry Cavill. Is he British?

No! He's still auditioning for The Simpsons i think over here he sure is not british he might be british yeah i think i think that's why it's so hard for them to keep him on screen if you look for this in the superman movies they cut around him like he can't keep a straight face during shooting because he apparently just does not have the actorly heft to carry the emotional weight of an alien who is like emotionless. Boy, I'm from Krypton, I is. Right.

Isn't it? Anyway, so that guy decided to weigh in on the Me Too movement. Oh, I'm sure it's a great take. Yeah, I know you guys think you get this, but I have some more thoughts that I'd like to share. So basically, the overall thesis statement of his rambling. Just read it. Just read it. You don't even have to. When you hear it out loud, you're like, read it in a Cock read it. Just read it. You don't even have to...

When you hear it out loud, you're like... Read it in a Cockney accent. I will not. Can I? Yes. Okay. Oh, God. Why do you encourage this?

Apologies to the UK's icon. That one? Yeah. There's something wonderful about a man chasing a woman, there is. There's a traditional approach to that, which is nice. I think a woman should be wooed and chased, but maybe I'm old fashioned for thinking that. Right. Are you Irish?

What was that? Jesus. And then he went back to his American accent and said, because then it's like, well, I don't want to go up and talk to her because I'm going to be called a rapist or something. I'm sorry. You'll be called a rapist if you're a rapist, my man. Then he said it's very difficult to do that if there are certain rules in place, rules of, you know, not raping women, he said,

because then it's like, well, I don't want to go up and talk to her because I'm going to be called a rapist or something. So you're like, forget it. I'm going to call an ex-girlfriend instead and then just go back to a relationship, which never really worked. But it's way safer than casting myself into the fires of hell because I'm someone in the public eye. And if I go and flirt with someone, then who knows what's going to happen? So he like switches from the second person, like hypothetical situation, you know,

then you might think this too. And then I don't want to go because people are going to think I'm a rapist. So then I call my ex-girlfriend who it never worked out with in the first place. It's like, yo, you're really unloading in this hypothetical me too fucking clusterfuck. Do you think he was just trying to get back with his ex-girlfriend?

No, I think it's a really fucked up way of saying that. I miss you, Kiki. Well, Kiki. But he essentially was saying that he got back with his ex-girlfriend even though their relationship never worked in the first place. So it was like, if he's dating

his ex-girlfriend, somebody he once broke up with, that would be really bad for their relationship. She's like, wait, what the fuck is this? So you guys are our relationship experts. How would that work if you were, you know, sublimating criticism of your current

relationship through an interview with GQ, in which you also said, and I'm kind of a rapist. Yeah. I mean, he should be in therapy. Right. Yeah.

He should also stay single for the rest of his life. Yeah. Because he thinks that if he talks to a woman, he'll be accused of rape. Right. Which leads me to believe he talks to them with his penis. You see what I'm saying? He doesn't actually know how to talk to someone. Which means, you know what?

You're going to have to sit in your house. He just pulls up. He's like, so you do dick? I'm like, what? He's like, oh, God. Okay, now I'm a rape killer. Dammit. Now I can't come back to Nando's. And then he Kelly, you around. And that's how it happens. W-I-D. Fine, I'll

call Kelly again. God. god yeah i don't know yeah it just it shows you someone who already does not understand how male female interaction or just interaction can work where somehow by merely interacting you're like oh that opens me up to rape accusations like right in normal day-to-day you can be like hi how are you oh great are you free this sunday and you will not you can't be called a rapist for talking like that unless your hardwiring is more aggressive or something where you're like, well, I've been swatted back too many times. From the very first sentence, I'd like to ask the women in the room if they agree with this. There's something wonderful about a man chasing a woman. And yet what I'm thinking in that scenario is about a woman who is running.

Yes. You know? Me too. You are chasing me. I am getting away from you. Right. I mean, there's a difference between showing interest. Andy, you were a nice boy.

You said, let's go out. For a milkshake. That was your intro. That wasn't like Pepe Le Pew. I know. Seriously. But it's like the idea of like there's something romantic about chasing. It's terrifying.

Don't you agree? Hey, Superfoodists are on a whole game. Okay. There's like. She's already in her sleep. How much timied you are by his insane misogyny. The thing is, I don't under, to him it feels like chasing is like literally almost harassing a woman who is clearly uninterested in you.

That just means she's playing hard to get. Yeah. See, that's the problem. That's what he's implying. It's like, oh, these women are playing hard to get. Right. With their mace and pepper spray. That's what turns me on is chasing a woman.

I like what I can't have. And it's like, okay, well, that's not actually like courting a woman. Right. That's you like playing like a game in your mind that you almost are fetishizing this. And that's just a bit like, courting a woman. Right. That's you, like, playing, like, a game in your mind that you almost are fetishizing this, and that's just a bit much. Right, you like the resistance. Yes.

But then it's also, I don't know about you, Super Producer, I don't know, you have self-respect, but, honey, if I liked you, you knew it. You know what I mean? Like, I've never really understood the game of being difficult because at some point, then you have to stop being difficult. Do you know what I mean? Like, if you're kind of being coy to at some point then you have to stop being difficult. Do you know what I mean? Like if you're kind of being coy

to reel someone in and then once you think they're in, you stop being coy, then aren't they going to leave? You see what I'm saying? Like if what they like is you being distant and difficult and aloof and withholding,

you got to kind of maintain that. And that's someone you don't even want in your life because you're like, well, this is just a game. Exactly. It doesn't feel real. It just maintain that. And that's someone you don't even want in your life because you're like, well, this is just a game. Exactly. Because it doesn't feel real. It just feels absurd.

Yeah. I don't know. Also, think how toxic his personality must be. He's like a handsome man, right? Oh, my God. Yeah. What? Sorry.

We've got a window into his personality here that he must be so awful as a human being right that women are repulsed like like even though physically he is he is a handsome man right they're just like oh like they're grossed out by him that he has to chase them right he really needs to chase them like he is a putrid person inside right um oh henry you're putrid come on man anyways he apologized for all that i'm sure his publicist did right i mean yeah he's like just write some shit yeah he's like okay they're mad and i'm sure him and a bunch of problematic dudes are like what i mean he's telling the truth i guess we can't tell the truth now in this new era. What? I can't steal women's panties and sniff them now? Right.

Like Revenge of the Nerds, which hinges on a rape scene as laughs. What a riot. Miles. Yeah? Hey. Hi. So Taco Bell. Let's Taco Bell-ed it.

We're fans. We're fans. And look, I'm a big fan of the 1993 movie Demolition Man starring Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes. You're saying it's like made by a great artist? Yes. Yes. So the director of it is this guy, Marco Brambilla, who is like a video artist. And like it was like one of his first movies.

And then after dealing with Hollywood, he's like an artist. Right. They're like, oh, what about this movie? And it looks visually visually it's very interesting film. And then after dealing with like studios he's like they don't like let you do your artistic vision. Like he had like a sort of like a

realization about how Hollywood works. So he like left and he's like I'm just doing visual art. And also check out all his visual art because it is fucking so impressive. If you ever have a chance to see any of his pieces called like megaplex or creation he like stitches together all kinds of film and like really meticulously does these these really great video collages anyway that's a side point in demolition

man there is a scene where they go out to eat and they go to taco bell and he's like what the hell is why is everything taco bell and standard, well, they won the franchise wars and Taco Bell's every restaurant. So I guess to celebrate that, Taco Bell is bringing back the nacho fry, which was the fries with the nacho cheese. And I just have to say, I'm really here for the marketing because they're paying respect to Domino's people. And so get yourself some nacho fries, not sponsored by Taco Bell or Pepsi. God, we really do the work of these marketing firms for Taco Bell and Domino's Pizza. They speak directly to my 90s media-addled brain. Yes. Demolition Man, yes.

In honor of Demolition Man, we're not going to use horse meat this week. Cool. Wait, that was horse meat? All good. Okay. Okay. It's time for us to talk about Avocadzilla avozilla this is you now avocadzilla makes more sense because it's like godzilla avocadzilla okay yeah so try harder

avocado okay well this is what's happening in australia i'm in they have figured out they've unlocked the key to the avozilla it is a basically a size of just about a three-year-old. It looks like a dinosaur egg. It looks like a dinosaur egg. The average weight is about 1.2 kilos. So what? That's like almost 2.5, 2.6 pounds. I don't know.

Look, I'm not a converter. And it costs $12 a piece. But if you look at it actually pound for pound, that's good money. Because I think, well, what are avocados right now? Avocados cost a lot. Like $3 a bag. $2 or $3? 2.6 pounds is how much the average one weighs.

Yeah. Right? That's what it says. 1.2 kilos. So the reason this doesn't work out so well in my mind is because avocados go bad like in minutes. Like the second they remove them from inside the avocado, there's not a great way to just like keep the pit in. Slowly work your way through. Keep the pit in.

Is that true? Yeah, keep the pit in and that'll help. It helps a little bit, but then I don't know. Sometimes I try to put them in the fridge and then that makes them get a little mealy. But it's not just that, but it's the nature of an avocado. It literally goes from hard as a rock to mushy as a pillow yeah and it's like i literally will buy an avocado and then put in my calendar eat avocado you know what i mean in two days because if i don't get it then it's a waste

of three dollars yeah i know and you're eating a water balloon exactly water balloon much better right i was gonna say you guys have sweaty pillows. Mushy as a pillow. Mushy as a pillow. My pillows are mushy because I sweat, but yeah. No, I think honestly, for me, for people who like to do guacamole, you know what I mean, for a party. That's a party guacamole.

Get yourself one of these avozillas. Yeah, that's a party guacamole. Boom. Now you got yourself something going. Yeah, I'm not saying like buy this. It's probably good for restaurants, for millennials, you know, serving their avocado toast. For millennials. We love our avocado toast, according to the media.

Where are we going to get huge bread from? Yeah. No, man. With this one. Explain that. You get a 40-person brisunch going and everybody's eating avo toast, man. But yeah, I mean, I like freak-ass vegetables and fruits. How do they make it so big?

What'd they do? Did they cross it with the DNA of a velociraptor? I don't know. Hey, look, I'm not on trial here. How do I get a giant avocado? Clever-cado. Alright, guys, it's time for a little Blib Watch. Blib Watch. So, what do you guys have? Everybody looked through some tabloids? Looked through.

There wasn't much. Naomi, what were they saying about Jamie Foxx and Katie Holmes? They're saying Jamie does not respect Katie. He's been seen out with many a hot woman while she's working in Ireland. Allegedly, they've been together a long time, but he's just not respecting her. But one of the claims is that he spent July 4th with his ex. His ex. Who's the mother of his child.

Which I take to mean, he spent the 4th of July with his child. And he's trying to give the child some semblance of normalcy, but like, yeah, look, mom and dad get along, so this is fine. I have news item here. Baby Jessica's back down a well again. Andy, you gotta read the trades. You're Jessica's back down a well again. Andy, you got to read the trades.

You're reading the back of a gum pack. I mean, the Globe and National Enquirer. Well, you'd be surprised at how up-to-date these stories are because the front page of the National Enquirer is cops find JonBenet's killer. So not too far off from Baby Jessica. And did they? cops find JonBenet's killer. So not too far off from baby Jessica. And yeah. And did they?

Kind of. Case closed. I had always assumed that it was the parents because that just seemed like the narrative we got through the media and the details of the crime, it seemed like, okay, they were the only ones in the house.

How did that happen? Or is the brother? If you actually go back and read, it really does seem the only ones in the house. Like, how did that happen? Or is the brother? But like, if you actually go back and read, it really does seem like someone broke into the house and like did it. And Bill James, who created like the whole Moneyball thing, did this book that was called Popular Crime, where he basically Moneyballed all the different crimes.

He's the one who came up with the theory on the JFK assassination I love talking about, where it was one of the Secret Service agents, Nick. Thank you. And he says that like after reading all the books on the JonBenet thing, he thinks it wasn't the parents. It was somebody from outside. And they basically provided somebody from outside. They say it was a neighbor who was also a psycho drifter, which I think is just a psycho drifter.

You can't be a neighbor and a drifter. I know, that's a good point. Drifters don't have homes. Yeah, but apparently he- Unless he's like, like he does like car drifting. Right. Like, yeah.

Psycho drifter. Need for Speed, Tokyo Drift, yeah. Keska say. Yeah. Yes. I was thinking it. Psycho drifter. Keska say.

Also, guys, Roseanne is rising again. Like the South? Yeah. Exactly. She apparently is going to put everybody to shame because she's launching a sitcom of her own that is going to compete with the Roseanne reboot in which she has been killed.

The Clanners? Yeah. That's hers. $37 million is the money that she's being thrown. By who? RT? Those sort of figures are being thrown around. So basically, this is National Enquirer serving as the right wing's mouthpiece.

Yeah. Culture war flotation device. Right. In a sea of L's. That's exactly right. It's going to be shot at all Sheldon Adelson's casinos. Right. Wait, do they even say what network is going to touch it?

They're saying 37 million. There's heat on Roseanne. Yeah. The keynote channel at the. Yeah, exactly. Right. At every casino. One story that they have that seemed crazy when I first saw the headline, but hear me out,

is that John Belushi's ghost drove Robin Williams to suicide. They what? They printed that. Why even do it? Now you're doing ghost stories? Now, on the other hand, what they say is that-

On the other hand. Sounds crazy, right? But because he had a devastating case of Lewy body dementia, which triggers hallucinations. And apparently in this new documentary about him, they talk about the fact that he was always haunted by John Belushi's death. And that's actually what drove him to get sober because he was one of the last people to see John Belushi alive. And he still blames himself for leaving. And he thinks that if he had stayed, he might have been able to save John Belushi's life. So that was apparently a very important event in his life.

And they say that he was having hallucinations at the end of his life. And then they're drawing a wild conclusion from that. Honestly, you're so brave for reading past the headlines. I would have never. Usually when you read past the headlines it just gets crazier and crazier but this week, I don't know if the Globe

brought in a new editor but they have some kind of interesting tales. Tell them about the surface of the sun fuego take so hot it would burn up about Princess Leia. Oh, yeah. Princess Leia. Okay.

Now, this is not one that I agree with, but headlines Princess Leia. Haunted by the ghost of Charles Rocket. No. Of course not. Just wait. Princess Leia died from AIDS! Carrie Fisher got killer virus from Freddie Mercury. What?

What is the line there that they're connecting? I have no idea. There is no line. Are they talking about in the latest Star Wars when the character Princess Leia died? That was actually from AIDS. They're not talking about Carrie Fisher. Well, she didn't die in the latest Star Wars. I guess that's true.

She has to die in between. I guess maybe that's't die in the latest Star Wars. I guess that's true. Yeah. Oh, you're right. Yeah, you're right. She has to die in between. She's going to die in between. And that's, I guess maybe that's a spoiler for the next Star Wars movie. You haven't seen it by now. No, no, no. I'm saying the next one. Right. Because she's alive at the end of this one.

Right. So the next one is just going to be about her battle. The next one, how they explain how she's not there. They're like, yeah, it's like half Philadelphia, half Star Wars. Yeah, and the band played on in the Star Wars universe. Oh, my God. Fuck it. I mean, did they date it or something?

I don't know. They just were seen at a party once together in the 80s, I'm sure. Oh, my. Find something to do, the Globe. Which one's owned by Trump's pal? They're all owned. They're all owned. Oh, God.

The Globe, the National Enquirer, Us Weekly, The Examiner. It's either In Touch or OK that isn't owned by American media. There's a couple that aren't, but otherwise it's all Trump's homie. Yeah. You guys, it has been so much fun having you, and we are so excited about your podcast. Can you talk a little bit about what the show is? Yeah. Naomi, do you want to say something? Sure.

Couples Therapy. It is based on our live show where we have comics who sets together about their relationship. Friends, lovers, exes, siblings. For the podcast, we bring you the best sets from our live show which we do here every month at the Virgil in Los

Angeles. Yeah. By the way, Saturday at 8 p.m. is the next one. Brian Safi and Aaron Gibson from Throwing Shade will be on. It should be a real fun show if you live here in L.A. Saturday the 14th. Yeah. Yes.

And so we're bringing you the hottest, the best, the funniest. And then me and Andy are kicking it with you. We're going to have some in-studio guests, little interviews. We talk about our relationship. We've been together for eight years. We are engaged. We work in the same industry. We live together.

We do not get much time apart. There's a lot to unpack. So you guys hit us up. The first episode drops July 17th. It's so good. Yeah. For people who are like fans of stand-up comedy podcasts, it's like a really good stand-up comedy podcast, except it's like a different type of stand-up than you've ever heard because

nobody's doing material. They're just kind of riffing with someone they love. And so it's like really funny people just being funny off the cuff in front of crowds. It's one of the best podcasts I've ever heard anywhere. So everybody should check it out. Yeah. Subscribe now on Twitter at Naomi and Andy for the show on Instagram at Couples Therapy Pod.

And you can go to the website, CouplesTherapyPod.com if you feel like it. It is the one with the purple logo, not none of the other. Apparently while we were launching this, other podcasts came out as Couples Therapy. They've been doing this show for years. We've been doing this since 2014.

Yeah, so we're not changing our name, they can. Anywhere else people should catch you, follow you? Naomi's on Twitter at Blacktress. I'm on Twitter at Andy Beckerman. And that's pretty much it. Okay. Yeah, Naomi, anything? I like you guys so much.

Yeah. You guys complete us. Thank you so much. Also, we've been asking our guests to share a tweet that they've been enjoying. You guys have any of those? Oh, yeah. I got a tweet that really tickled me today, and I just have to share it. I'll give you a second second because Super Producer Anna Hosny

just showed me breaking news about how Scarlett Johansson backed out of that role because of all the backlash. So she's figuring it out. Yes, yes, yes. So no more scar washing. I did enjoy roasting her on Twitter.

So I almost feel like I was involved in that process. I think she cited you. Oh yeah, if it weren't for all the non-stop criticism from Black Trish. I got one. Do you want to go first, my love? No, go ahead. Jake Wiseman always speaks to

my heart, and he wrote this. All the TV writers who rage about politics online all day every day would rather have an Emmy nomination than have any of the problems in the world fixed. Smiley face. Smiley face. That's so fucked up. And truth.

A truth teller. Right. I love Hallie Kiefer. She is a New York-based comedian and writer. She posted this today, which I loved. A reminder to all women now that we're in charge of dating just ask him to sign

the consent paperwork online instead of printing out all three copies this is a massive waste of paper and it just really got me I like the idea of sending someone

consent paperwork before you go on a date yeah it really tickled me that's how it's fine I think I would say 99% of her tweets are hilarious

wow 99 that's a high number he doesn't believe in absolutes. It's true. No one's perfect. Every once in a while it's just a promo for her show. That's the 1%. That's the 1% we have to rail against. The real problem

with America. Miles, where can people find you? Oh, you can find me on Twitter and Instagram at MilesOfGrey. A tweet that I like wasn't really funny, but just sort of a general criticism that we hear a lot, especially in politics is from Emily Nussbaum from the New Yorker. But she was saying, honestly, among the most damning and suspicious things is that he has

no idiotic nickname for Putin, which I think that really should tell you something. But yeah, anyway, that's my contribution. I'm sure he has an adorable one, like behind the scenes. Oh, yeah. Poo-poo. Poo-poo bladder. Poo-poo bladder. Vatty. A tweet I've been enjoying. Actually, two tweets.

Oh, wow. Tied together. Matt Chrisman, one of the hosts of the Chopper Trap House podcast, at Kushbomb tweeted, right after Papa John's resigned, Chris, I'm one of the hosts of the Chopper Trap House podcast. At Kush Bomb tweeted right after Papa John's resigned. He tweeted shirtless, hammered, drunk Papa John trying to commit seppuku with a stick of pepperoni, which is just probably what was happening at that moment. I think they're scrubbing him from all the marketing material.

Yeah. And then at Willie underscore Vanilli on twitter tweeted around the same time when papa john dies they're gonna put a little pepper in the corner of his coffin i i think they should uh you can follow me on twitter at jack underscore o'brien uh you can follow us on twitter at daily zeitgeist we're at the daily zeitgeist on instagram we have a facebook fan page and a website daily zeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes. We link up to the information that we talked about on today's episode, as well as the song that we write out on Miles.

Yeah, today I just want to do a little remix of Cali Ucha's track called After the Storm with Bootsy Collins and Tyler Crater, but it's a Pete Rock remix, because I was just thinking about the golden era of hip-hop. So yeah, this is After the Storm, Pete Rock Flip Remix, whatever you want to call it. Alright, we're going to ride out on that. We will be back

on Monday with season 40? Oh, wow. Really? Shit. I think so. Damn. That's a lot of seasons, you guys. I think this might be our 200th episode. So we'll do something special for that that we haven't planned yet. Anna just hit me with a fire joke. Go.

This is 40. Ah. The movie. Right? Is that what you're doing? Yep. All right. Don't worry.

See, I'll give you air. I get it. Nice. All right. But I'm the one that say out loud, so I look weird now. Yeah. This is 40, Jack. Nice.

Any other? No. All right. Cool. We're going to ride out on Miles' song, and we'll see everybody on Monday. Have a great weekend. Oh, my God. Bye.

Bye-bye. Random. Bye. Bye. Bye. random bye whatever goes around eventually comes back to you so you gotta be careful and look both ways before you cross my mind

remix did you ever wonder We're a remix. Did you ever wonder? Yeah, do you ever wonder what hate might be going through on its own? And the demons that it's facing alone. And sometimes I can't go home. And it just ain't the same on the phone, no. But everybody's got to go go on don't beg so if you need a hero just look in the mirror no one's gonna save you now so you better save

yourself and everybody's hurting everybody's going through it But you just can't give up now Cause you gotta save yourself The sun will come out Nothing could ever come easy I know times are rough But winners don't quit So don't you give up

The sun will come out But we've been struggling endlessly Someday we'll find the luck Cause after the storms When the flowers bloom Cali, what you mean? I take it offensive Cause I'm the hottest flower boy

That popped up on the scene Feeling better, better than ever cause you're my brother, brother Sun is beamin' on me like headlights beamin' on Bambi Now let's pretend the street is the room and you are a camera Cause you drive me candid, the Tito to Miranda Now let's produce some thrillers, my chocolate with your vanilla The sun will come out Nothing good ever comes easy I know times are rough

But winners don't quit So don't you give up The sun will come out Though we've been struggling And let's play Someday we'll find the love Cause after the storm I know it's hard

To even really try Maybe you could understand All you had to do was ask And just open your mind Everything is passing by You had to do this try Bye. We'll be right back. Thank you. Exposed the culture of crime and corruption. That we're turning her beloved country into a mafia state. Listen to Crooks everywhere. On the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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