The Daily Zeitgeist - Team Trump Is A Mess, Affleck Bender Over 8.24.18

Episode Date: August 24, 2018

In episode 219, Jack and guest host super producer Anna Hossnieh are joined by comedian Riley Silverman to discuss Trump's Fox & Friends interview, Jeff Sessions clapping back at Trump, David Pecker flipping on Trump, Lanny Davis asking the American people to fund the truth out of Michael Cohen, how Fox News struggling to understand why we need to raise the minimum wage, the most sexist states in America, Saudi Arabia not standing up to their new 'progressive' ways, a feminism camp for men, a google trend skim, and more! FOOTNOTES: 1. EXCLUSIVE: President @realDonaldTrump on if he knew about the Cohen payments. See more from his interview with @ainsleyearhardt tomorrow 6-9amET.2. ‘Fox & Friends’ nails Trump interview — by shutting up3. The 36 most outrageous lines in Donald Trump's Fox News interview4. Sessions hits back at Trump: DOJ won't be 'improperly influenced'5. Jeff Sessions fires back at Trump: DOJ won't 'be improperly influenced' by politics6. David Pecker, CEO of National Enquirer Publisher, Granted Immunity in Michael Cohen Case7. Lanny Davis: No dispute that Trump committed a crime8. Michael Cohen Truth Fund9. Rational Security Podcast10. Fox News host: People who earn the minimum wage "don't plan on raising a family" so we should keep it low11. The most sexist places in America12. My Woke Hot American Summer: 72 Hours at Male Feminism Camp13. Saudi Arabia, which has been calling out Canada over women's rights, may soon behead a female activist for the first time14. Why Jennifer Garner Took Ben Affleck to Rehab: 'It Was a Crisis Situation'15. The Big Bang Theory ending because Jim Parsons was ready to leave16. What we learned from Ohio State's investigation into Urban Meyer, Zach Smith17. Watch this amazing performance by The Korean Taekwondo Team! 18. WATCH: SSION - "Earthquake" (Official Video) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. It just takes some time. In the middle, in the middle, Jack O'Brien. Everything, everything will be alright. It's like, no, it won't. And Miles Bray is away on vacation in a place for which a travel advisory was issued this morning. So watch out out there, Miles. I'm sure you're listening.

And I'm thrilled to be joined. She's your super producer and my temporary co-host. Today, please welcome Miss Anna Hosniak. Hi. A.K.A. Anna Butnia. Nice. Good one. You put a lot of work into that. Thank you so much. Nice. Good one. You put a lot of work into that.

Thank you so much. And I am impressed. Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the comedian and writer and fashionista, Riley Silverman. Hello. What's up? What's up with you? Welcome back.

Thank you. It's so good to have you. I don't know why I'm doing this voice. It's working well. It's very friendly. I appreciate it. Classic podcasting voice. have you. I don't know why I'm doing this voice. It's working well. It's very friendly. I appreciate it. Classic podcasting voice. Thank you.

Yeah. I feel like I'm doing a Paul F. Tompkins character. Yes, most people don't realize Riley is a Paul F. Tompkins character. I am. I fully invented my Paul F. Tompkins. All right. I work at a balloon, an elegant balloon store. I actually live in the neighborhood of the elegant balloon store.

And when I first moved to L.A., it made my day. I took a picture and sent it to other comedy nerds back in Ohio. Like, I live here. Look where I live. Is that one of his characters works at the elegant balloon store? He has this really vintage Paul F. Tompkins joke from way back in the day of the elegant balloons. And he has a guy walking into a balloon store with a monocle and an opera hat. He's like, where are your elegant balloons?

These balloons are gauche. It's like back when he was doing, it's on his impersonal album, which is kind of like one of those albums where I was like, here's all the bits I used to do, and now here's the stuff I actually care about as a later album. Hey, speaking of albums, do you have a special coming up? I do. Holy shit. That was so organic. I know. I have a

special uh coming out on a streaming site called Seed&Spark which you may be aware of. Seed&Spark is a crowdsourcing website that specifically is focused towards independent filmmaking and they're a thing where they raise money for film but they also have the ability to like just buy people like if you want to buy them equipment or they have equipment that's available people can rent it like you can like put money towards certain things and they are venturing into and they've also they've had a thing for a while where if you finance a film on their site you can also use their site as a streaming resource so that you can have audience to see it and it's a pay as you at what you can also use their site as a streaming resource so that you can have audiences see it.

And it's a pay-as-you-can streaming site, so it's as low as $2 a month if you want to pay more. That money goes towards other films. They are producing their own comedy specials, and they've got some

big ones coming up with, like, Brian Posse and Cameron Esposito, but they're also doing this one where they booked a bunch of, like, up-and-coming comics, and they had us do a special in July,

and they're calling it Everything is Fine! And it's coming out. Is that true? everything is fine? everything is fine! unfortunately Seed&Spark is not a sponsor so all of this will be cut no I'm just joking so it's gonna be like you're gonna like

find a random time that I say no in the episode and you're like Riley you have a special coming out? no wow she's a bitch about it. I'm like, we're just trying to help her out. So anyway, but there's,

so my special is called Everything is Fine and it'll be available starting September 12th. That's exciting. Yeah, I'm excited. I can't wait to check it out.

I'm looking forward to it. All right, we're going to find out more about you, but first, we are going to tell our listeners what we're going to be

talking about today. There's so much Trump news. There was the Trump Fox News interview. There is Jefferson Beauregard Sessions openly clapping back. There is David Pecker having been granted immunity, the publisher of all of the garbage publications that we talk about during Bloid Watch. Lil Pecks.

Lil Pecks. Lil Pecs. Pecker Immunity just sounds like the worst porn. Wow. Or the best porn. That would be really bad. Yes. We're going to talk about Michael Cohen and his lawyer, Lonnie Davis, out here just dropping the wild thirst trap.

Michael Cohen knows information. That would be of interest. Really just very specific clues. And apparently also looking for a little crowdfunding help. I'm going to just be a real downer and talk about the overlooked dirt lining of all this news we're having fun keeping up with right now. We're going to check in with Greg Gutfeld and see how in touch he is. He's always talking shit about, you know, the elites, as is everybody at Fox News.

And we're going to see how in touch he is with the workers of America. We're going to look at a study of the most sexist places in America. Is it just a map of America? Yeah. No. There are degrees, believe it or not. Yeah. And we're going to also look at a sexism summer camp, which is interesting.

So, producer Anna Hosny brought that to our attention. We are going to look at Christopher Steele's win in a defamation case. Ana's going to tell us what's going on with feminism in Saudi Arabia. It's great! And we're going to do a Google Trends skim at the end. But first, Riley, we like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? I have been every day frantically searching for information about when the Funko pops for the new 13th doctor will be available for public purchase because there was a small batch made for comic-con this year but they haven't actually been put into wide

release yet and so every day i'm basically like searching for them like just looking for a release date looking for when i'll be able to find them now what is a funko pop funko pops those little like they're almost like bobblehead looking figures the next some actually are bobbleheads, but they have a little body, and they have a giant head. And is this for the new female doctor? Yeah. Good times. Funko is the toy company, right? Yeah.

Funko is the brand that makes them pop, is the actual line of toys. And I collect them. With the exception of the doctors from Doctor Who I only collect female figures it's been like part of that was my way of trying to limit my collection which did not work yeah but now they're coming together hell yeah and I've already seen the main one and I've seen photos of a variation one and so now I need both of those and I'm like where are the I need all these give me the things and I can't find them so I already have like other ridiculous toys as they as like they've come to market and so I'm just like like looking for like this is like my golden standard now.

Anna, you brought in a great addition to the office earlier this week from Funko there. It's a bobblehead set. I didn't know that was Funko. Yeah. Funko makes bobbleheads. I had no idea. Did you make some? Yeah.

They make a lot of toys. And your bobblehead set is DeAndre Jordan, traded Los Angeles Clippers Center, and DJ Khaled on the same platform for some reason. Yeah, there's a DJ stand. DeAndre seems to be dunking over it, and then DJ Khaled is holding a cell phone towards him, assuming he's Snapchatting. It's such a strange combo.

My roommate left it when he moved out, and I was like, this is not going with me. So you brought it in to share with the rest of us, and we truly, truly appreciate it. Also, it is clearly designed by DJ Khaled. It is the most flattering depiction of anyone I've ever seen. He lost like 80 pounds for the bobblehead.

And looks the same height as Deon at 7 foot. Andre Jordan, yes. He is certainly not going down on his wife. That would be a great bobblehead. But he would never do that. No, I know. He brags about it. It's the only place he could possibly do that. Riley, what is something you

think is underrated? Empathy? Empathy's underrated. Do you want to do overrated first i'll do overrated overrated i think i think we're done with internet comments i think we can be done with them completely i just i think there's like there's no good to be found and it's always someone who like didn't read the article and it just like i was writing about a tv show that had a controversy around it and i like mentioned the controversy in my post to say like hey i'm not going to focus on this because it's like it would be the entire piece if i did so i'm gonna talk about other stuff instead but don't think that i don't think it's

important it's just not what this piece is about and then every comment is about the controversy and like like giving arguments that i like i didn't take a position either way i just been like this is too big of a thing it would take over the article if i wrote about it so i'm not going to touch it and then it was like everyone has their bullet points against it and i'm like that's i'm not in this fight like what are you doing like it's just it's just like there's some weird thing people have where they just have to yeah put things out a good example and i'm sure you guys talked about it on the show when it happened but the whole thing with ruby rose as as batwoman and also you know the article the great article came out with lone kelly and marie tran i've

never disliked someone in a movie or a show enough that I needed to go yell at a stranger and the idea of like going on Twitter and like tagging a person who you don't know to tell them that you hate them because you didn't like a movie they were in or you don't like the choice of casting is like it's fine to not like stuff sometimes like just not like it and move on with your life and I think what happens is the internet I like I'm saying things that aren't like the most obvious detail but I think what happens is people get a little mad and they go online and they see like 600 people who are mad. And then those two start talking to each other and then they get madder and madder. And then like 10 more people come in.

And the next thing you know, it's like this rage engine where it's like we're all pissed together. And then I don't think people realize like this is a very, very small fraction of this actual thing. But it gets so loud and vocal that you just keep feeding it. In corporate America, we call that synergy, Riley. And yeah, no, internet comments. That was a really frustrating thing for me when I was working at a website is that the higher ups would be like, look how many comments. And then they would read the comments and act like that was everybody's opinion. And it's really frustrating. It happened when we talked to the new doctor when it came out. I remember there was a YouTube video and it's really frustrating it happened when like you know we talked the new doctor when it came out like i remember there was like a youtube video and someone's like see look

how much it's already split the fan base the up and down votes in this video are half and half and i'm like but people go on youtube just to be garbage people so you can't use that as a cross-section of your cultural yeah it's true it's like if you're ready to leave a comment on something you're ready to fight someone it feels like Yeah. You're not just going to be like, hey, I feel moderate about this. All right, bye. Yeah, and if you're happy about something,

you might post like, oh, this is great, but you're not going to have a rant about it. Yeah. The amount of times that I've just seen a wall of text

and then someone at the end of that wall of text will be like, you need to calm down. You wrote this thing. How do you get off telling me to calm down? Yeah.

I say as I'm currently ranting on the internet about something just vocally but i've been curated and i've had my voice approved exactly you are approved yeah uh also popularity makes something like i feel like this is left out um anytime an article even travels really well and you know millions and millions of people read it that will have the most negative comments because it's reaching a wider audience that it is not necessarily designed for and so when a movie like star wars comes out and there are a bunch of negative comments and people are like wow there's such backlash it's like no it's just so popular that literally everyone in america is reacting to. And some of them are going to be angry assholes.

Yeah. That's good underrated. I think Star Wars Last Jedi is very underrated. I think it's being like lampooned is like the worst thing that ever happened to Star Wars. And I think it's fantastic. I think it's a great movie. Yeah. I feel like it's getting a new life on Netflix.

So that'll be my underrated. It's on Netflix? Yeah. I know nothing. Yeah. Yeah, it is. underrated it's on Netflix yeah I know nothing yeah yeah it is it's recently I think it's like last like month or so myth last Jedi is not on Netflix what is your myth it was

is it gone no no no I was just joking no I was gonna be very upset um my myth is dumb today I that was like I was getting yelled at to think about my myth My myth was, I think people don't know that closed captioning is still done by humans

I think people think that all closed captioning is done by a computer and I don't think, no it's not I work in it a little bit for a career and I think people don't know that, no no, we actually have someone transcribe most audio I think everyone thinks that it's all voice recognition software I did that for a while, I did transcribing for documentaries yeah it's not great but it's great it's great pay but it's not great yeah there's different there's different methods of it like if it's a live show

it's probably someone who either is like a court reporter type person who can go really fast or they even use a steno mask and they actually like speak they just like say what's being said on screen or if it's like a pre-recorded thing then there's actually a whole process where someone will like actually take time to type it out and then time it in and format it and stuff like that. There's actually like really rigid rules about it too.

Like there's like FCC has like super strict rules about what has to be done if it's going to be broadcast on TV. Oh I was always very old and analog.

I would listen type it out all really fast then go back and like correct every word I spelled wrong. That's what we do. Yeah. We usually go through

a video at least three times before it's like, and then somebody else reviews that person's work before it's done. I'm so intellectually incurious. I've never, I've watched live shows with the closed captioning on just because I like to know what people said. And sometimes I don't totally understand.

And I've never asked the question like, Oh, how are they doing that? Yeah. But the mask makes sense. I've gotten really into the habit of watching almost every show that i watch with subtitles on yeah oh yeah i do too people mutter and people like it's just great and also if you're at a party and you have it all like if you're like at a watch party for a show and people are making jokes and stuff which is great and part

of the fun i think sometimes it's a good way of having to not go wait go back what they say like right yeah i watch a lot of like deep northern England, British crime dramas. Honestly, I watched the first season of Peaky Blinders. I was like, I kind of get it. And then I watched it again with subtitles. And I was like, I know every plot point. Yeah. Like I understand everything now.

I'm reading the script as I go. So yeah. That's what I think. Like to go back to Doctor Who again, I think that in the new series, I think a lot of people are going to need those subtitles because Jodie Walker is using her northern English accent as part of it so the biggest change I ever had while watching subtitles inherent vice is almost a incomprehensible movie without subtitles you know what I can tell you something it's because Joaquin Phoenix is that his name yeah he whisper acts right yeah so he's like

but it's really like he's like a mumblecore. He's built into mumblecore. And you're like, can we at least turn that little audio track up? Nope. And they're like, no, no, no. That's his specialty. So you really just try. Apparently, it's really hard to act with him. I have friends who've had to act with him.

And they're like, what's that? Come again? Yeah. But I liked it a lot better when I knew what everyone was saying. All right, let's listen to what the president had to say on Fox News. Let's get right into it. Did you know about the payments? Later on, I knew.

Later on. But you have to understand, Ainsley, what he did, and they weren't taken out of campaign finance. That's a big thing. That's a much bigger thing. Did they come out of the campaign? They didn't come out of the campaign. They came from me and I tweeted about it. I don't know if you know, but I tweeted about the payments, but they didn't

come out of campaign. In fact, my first question when I heard about it was, did they come out of the campaign? Because that could be a little dicey. And they didn't come out of the campaign. And that's big. But they weren't. That's not a it's not even a campaign violation. If you look at President Obama, he had a massive campaign violation, but he had a different attorney general. And they viewed it a lot different. If you took a shot every time he said campaign, you would black out, You would be dead. In addition to the cicadas whining in the background that signal the coming of one of the apocalypse. The way to know that he's lying is because he's just like jumping around.

I mean, I granted he usually jumps around, but it's just I mean, does does he seem credible to you well can you say that the fact that your your go-to defense now is oh i paid out of my own account and not campaigns like at this point like you're just grasping at like what's the least incriminating thing i can say right he's not even at this point able to say it didn't happen anymore now he has to say like no i personally paid for the hush money to benefit my own campaign like that's still not previously said i didn't know about yeah so i, does he seem credible to me? Yeah, today is the day that he lost credibility. He's got me.

And I just, you know what? I was really rooting for him, and now... So, at the end there, you hear him turning to the subject of his attorney general, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, and acting as if he didn't hire Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, and acting as if he didn't hire Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, and as if Sessions wasn't the, well, not the first person in his corner, but the first person who hasn't been indicted in the past couple weeks in his corner, actually the third person who backed Trump.

You know what I hate the most about Trump is that I have to feel in any way defensive towards Jeff Beauregard Sessions. Isn't that bullshit? The thing I hate about this guy so much is how many times he's made me want to be rooting for... When I had his heart rooting for James Comey, I'm like, are you effing kidding me right now? I don't want to root for Comey.

Yeah, the fact that this racist elf gets to take the moral high road is very frustrating. But yeah, he said, i will not i'll say i will not be influenced by politics in response to this morning yeah saying that you know what kind of man is this that's what he said what kind of man is this he said about trump no no trump said that about sessions oh man which trump is really good at taking the words out of people's mouths that they would say about Trump and just like saying it about somebody else. Oh, 100%.

Like, you know, I'm rubber. I mean, he's called Hillary Cook it for, you know. I know. He's a king of projection. Yeah. Yes, he is. I mean, that's the most famous thing is that whatever he talks about, you can find a tweet of him saying the opposite.

Yeah. Like four years ago. Right. I know. And he tweets so so much it's like when he goes well i tweeted about it's like sure but we can find that and then find another tweet where you contradicted yourself and then put them together yeah and when he says i tweeted about it like that's just come on it's crazy that a president has to say that yeah that's not your all right as the president you can look through my log of tweets. Right. Yeah. And find literally anything. Also, just the-

Find me tweeting about this and also playing at midnight hashtag games. I had some really great jokes about putting, I don't know, spinach into a movie. I don't know. That was a bad example, but we're doing it. Maybe the best example of him being the king of projection is this tweet that people have been sending our way ever since we talked about his diet coke obsession where he tweeted like five years ago i've never seen a thin person drink diet coke and it's like dude you drink nine a day like what why are you talking shit about people

who was still doing one liner jokes yeah yeah exactly open mic night uh so david still i think he's not still doing it now right um so sad sad david pecker sad uh he is the publisher of national inquire uh us weekly now uh just all the tabloids he's got a tabloid empire and he has been homies with trump for years, and we've been talking about this. We've been on to this motherfucker from Jump Street, guys. Yeah, he's just been doing Trump's bidding, basically publishing Trump propaganda, and now he's been granted immunity because he knows. He jumped ship.

He jumped ship. That's the greatest thing about these guys is they will all literally just push each other under a bus. It'll get to a point where Trump will push himself under a bus and not realize he just did it. They just don't care. Did you guys, did y'all see the Death of Stalin movie? This is exactly what it is. All these guys now just like scooting themselves around the statue as it goes by.

I'm actually with him. Yeah, it does really remind you of that. And finally, Michael cohen his lawyer lonnie davis is out here just i like i'm just gonna read what he said michael cohen knows information that would be of interest to the special counsel regarding both knowledge about a conspiracy to corrupt american democracy by the russians and the failure to report that knowledge to the fbi so he's basically like, yeah, this is specifically what he knows. Come talk to us.

And apparently that sounded intriguing because they subpoenaed him on Wednesday. And also we have a clip from Lonnie Davis talking about how Michael Cohen needs the American people's help. And we, at the time that he said that had assumed that that just meant like, you know, he needs public opinion to turn in his favor and against Trump. So here we're going to play that clip real quick. Can he implicate the president in other crimes? I don't know yet. That's Stephanopoulos.

I know that he needs help from the American people who have a vested interest in avoiding a president who commits crimes and denies Russian interference. What? We already failed to avoid that, but OK. Also, just why would we not know that if somebody is asking for help from the American people on behalf of Michael Cohen, they're clearly talking about money. So there's actually a Kickstarter or, you Kickstarter or GoFundMe page for Michael Cohen for the American people to crowdfund his truth telling. I'm not even sure what to take that

because why? That's like, I'm sorry, to be a white man must be the greatest thing in the world to be like, well, now you give me money and i give you a thing that i should have been doing which might not actually even happen because who knows with with this presidency anything can happen like literally i'm asking for a bribe i don't know like hey if you give me this money i might do the right thing who knows they get a pretty good case against president right here be ashamed if something happens yeah be ashamed if something happened to the truth yeah what do we expect from an attorney named lonnie uh why does every single person have a name in this in this whole storyline have a name that if you pitch them into a movie they go no that's the name it's literally like a current day johnny grisham now or johnny grisham

johnny grisham johnny grisham novel i'm a super tight with john grisham. Johnny Grisham. Johnny Grisham novel. I'm going to play Johnny. I'm going to super tight with Johnny Grisham. She's always calling him Johnny. Johnny Grisham. I was always a big fan of John Grisham's period pieces, personally. All right. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. I've been thinking about you.

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Lanny. So I just wanted to be a huge bummer, but I was listening to the Rational Security podcast, which is a really good podcast with like four different national security experts talking about stuff that wouldn't have occurred to me just reading the regular news. And they made the point that our current situation, you know, having one, just an inexperienced president, two, a president who doesn't like back down when he clearly should and is cornered, and three, a president who is almost definitely facing the most dire consequences to his reputation, which is the thing he cares the most about, and less importantly to

him, to his family. It's a lot of fun and very exciting, but it's really bad for all of us in the United States, I think. The fact that he's already an unstable person. He's in, he's being backed into a corner. Um, we don't really get the consequences of his actions as the leader of the United States, because the one skill that he has is the ability to manipulate the media into not really paying attention to the consequences of his crimes and lies and sort of not giving them the full-throated treatment they would be given if literally any other politician did them. The consequences and the high stakes of having a president who's just a constant and extraordinary fuck-up is not, I don't know, it's a really unstable world out there. We're at a very important time in the history of our nation's role within that world. It just seems, I don't know, like we're, I had totally lost track of that. I've just been focusing on the consequences of the, and there's nothing to do about it. It's just, it's something that I guess is worth keeping in mind.

I just realized Trump's life is full circle because one, he was probably raised by a father who always told him he was a fucking idiot and now he's president and all we're doing is telling him he's a fucking idiot and then he's taking it back out on us. And now there's no end. Yes.

Oh, God. When he's like, there's like an evilness to his idiocy as well. Like it's not just that he's inept and he's an idiot. Like he's just good enough at doing the one thing he wants to do, which is dismantle our country. He keeps appointing people to positions of the highest power over a thing that they don't want to exist. Like, DeVos is the best example of someone who, like, doesn't really believe in public education and, like, doesn't really, like, believe in the right to everybody to a fair and equal school system.

And, like, she's just tearing it apart. All right, let's take a moment to hear a word from Fox News as it relates to the minimum wage and their thoughts on how that should be treated. The minimum wage is the low... It's a low temporary rung. You're not supposed to hang out there. And especially at restaurants.

The big problem with restaurants is turnover because everybody in New York is an actor or an actress. So they're just working on tips anyway so that you don't need the high minimum wage there. And they don't plan on raising a family. So people who work on minimum wage don't plan on raising a family, right? I think that's a straightforward A to B line of reasoning.

But yeah. I hate this attitude so much. I don't think that there could be a better encapsulation of Fox News' attitude and myopia and misunderstanding of the American people than that. The idea that every single server at every restaurant is an actor it's just like it's maybe 10 or less and it just seems like there's a lot you're probably eating at the very expensive restaurants that are like in the lobby of the fox news building and then you're like and you're like ah i know i know all about the struggling working class because all my hoity-toity rich places and people kiss my ass are all working and also actors and actresses

don't raise families is that that's such a strange poor people just want to be poor okay yeah and it's also like a lot of people working these jobs are people who like like the whole thing in the campaign was i mean i know we kind of moved on a little bit but was all about all these coal mining jobs are going all these manufacturing jobs are gone all these jobs are gone and then so like where do you think those people who didn't have those jobs went they went into the service industry right and so a lot of this life like not everyone who works at a fast food place is a teenager like saving money for college and you know what fine make that the rule then make a minimum wage that is if you're over 18 you make this if you're 16 to 17 you make this like do that then yeah

that's your legit concern make that the law and then then if so if somebody is an adult and they are trying to like feed their family on their minimum wage job they should be able to make enough money for the minimum wage for the area yeah that would be controlled by the politburo or whatever come on riley this isn't communist, that's the thing is if you're working these jobs, it doesn't mean you're not trying to move up in any way. Right. Well, how the fuck are you supposed to move up in any way if you're not working?

Like it just, it's such a defeatist sort of, yeah. Just the most elitist viewpoint by a network who just decries the rest of the world for being elitist and i get so mad when you say like if someone like will post like a misspelled sign and they go this person wants to make this much money an hour i'm like so because they're dumber than you they don't or like less educated i should say they don't deserve to feed their family like that's like even more why the people who are at this job and and these are the jobs they can get, should be able to make a living doing it. Yeah.

You think? That's a crazy idea. All right. Let's talk about the most sexist places in America. Turns out the Northeast and the Western states of the United States are the least sexist places in America, and the Southeast are some of the United States are the least sexist places in America, and the southeast are some of the most sexist. In Arkansas in particular, this is based on a study where they asked eight questions

such as women should take care of running their home and leave running the country up to men, and a working mother can establish just as warm and secure a relationship with her children as a mother who does not work. So it's not super surprising that Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, West Virginia, these are the states with the most sort of, I guess, conservative, old-timey views on those questions. They did say that the findings don't really follow a red-blue state line thing, like Wyoming and Alaska were among the least sexist states, even though they tend to be reliably Republican, whereas Democratic strongholds like Illinois and New York end up being in the

middle of the pack. So it's not just a straightforward red state blue state thing but also like red blue beliefs don't really follow state lines anymore they follow more urban rural divides so yeah we should see if that has an impact i also feel it's a big thing of how who your parents are yeah because if you're just you know like i was raised by a mom who worked a lot so i immediately was like hey i can work a lot and do what i want but then there's also women who who were raised by parents like I'm not saying my mom didn't like being a mom but it was definitely kind of like yeah I'll get to you that sounded really sad but it was like she she had her priorities which was like I'm working to make money and then you guys can live a nice comfortable life it was more about you know giving us what we needed versus like trying to like, you know, actually like cook dinner for us, you know?

Right. So I think it's like you get this world where women can have both where you're like, I want to be a good mother and I also want to work because you're raised that way. But then there's also people who are raised thinking, you know, like I don't necessarily need to work and I can still raise my family and not feel like there's any sort of sexism in my house because I'm the person who cooks and cleans. So it's kind of this interesting divide like that we shouldn't necessarily be like, you're being oppressed because you're at home taking care of the kids. Because at times it's just like, that's how they were raised and that's who they are. Like I'm just a more maternal person. I don't really care to go have a job. I just want to actually raise and take care of my home because that's where my interests are. Right.

Should we call it sexist or more traditional? Yeah, I guess traditional. It's kind of a weird thing because sometimes it is where it's like, oh, you just really aren't allowed to speak up. Right. whether it's people who really value their role in these more traditional, you know, communities or they, you know,

I just don't feel comfortable speaking up because everybody around them seems to value it. Well, and also I think it's worth questioning, like, why do you value that? And it's like, were you raised in a way that makes you believe that not valuing that as a sin?

And then like that gets into like a weird, like gray area of like, well, are you now persecuting their religious freedom by telling them they're wrong to think that way it's like for me it's all about education like i just think that the more you educate people the more they can make conscious choices about what they do and don't get to do but that's the thing is i think being a parent you have to be like you have the right to choose you have to like learn what your interests are and you make the decision of what you want to do. So I feel like it comes down to who your role

models are, because your mom can still be someone who stays at home and just be like, hey, it's up to you. You don't have to have kids right away. You don't have to get married. You can go off and do what you want. Right. But education is a huge variable in terms of how much you value education. And a lot of times, you know, when you choose to have children is directly related to, you know, how much you value education. So, I mean, it's just one of these things. And they found that sexism in a woman's state of birth and in her current state of residence both lower her wages and likelihood of labor force participation and lead her to marry and bear her first child sooner. But I guess the- I thought you said marry and bury for a second.

I was like- Marry and bury her first. And I guess the fact that even if you are born in Tennessee and moved to New York City, it still has an effect on you. That's just the cultural context that cling to these different regions of the country are so deeply entrenched. We talked before on the show about this book, The 11 Nations of America, where they broke America out into these 11 different regions, and they're based on who settled them hundreds of years ago but those values still hold in those different and you can like look at the voting patterns and it just like makes sense of the country like one of the interesting things is appellation people tend to be distrustful of the government and want to live off the grid. And that can be seen because they

were settled by people on the borderlands of like Ireland and Scotland, where people were constantly getting the shit kicked out of them by, you know, England and the monarchy. And then, you know, New York versus Boston is a big rivalry. And New England was settled by religious zealots from England and New York are these like Dutch capitalists who were like influential in the slave trade. And so there are these big differences that I think we don't give a lot of credit. And I think that ties directly into into this study. I want to read that more of that. I've always read. I've heard the ideas like the nations that break up America. But I like the history because I'm from Ohio and we've always had a huge rivalry with Michigan.

Yeah. And it's easy to go, yeah, it's just a college thing. It's like whatever. But it's entrenched in history. And a lot of it's over like there was the Battle of Toledo, where the two states fought over who got to have Toledo. And that's part of why. Yeah.

And in California, we go to music festivals and wear Native American garb and celebrate that way and dance to cool EDM. That's our vibe over here right yeah that's that's our history yeah our history is taking things Native Americans and making it into a party that they don't get that they don't get to enjoy from Thanksgiving to music festival but yeah with regards to Michigan and Ohio I forget what Ohio is. I think it's German settlers. Ohio's a weird mix because we're kind of half Appalachian

and then half like that German thing. In Columbus, where I'm from, there's the German village and there's like Schiller Parks. There is like... Right. But it's also like the northern Ohio area is kind of in between Chicago and New York.

So it's like as people... So whenever you look at where dialects and stuff spread out, Ohio area is like kind of in between Chicago and New York so it's like as people so if like whenever you look at like where dialects and stuff spread out right there's like three dialects in Ohio yeah the country is horizontally striped and that's because basically a bunch of Germans come to the east coast and they settle and they learn how to farm like in that temperature and in those seasons and then they just spread horizontally across the country because they're teaching people who are their offspring how to farm in that way.

But yeah, Ohio is really interesting because it breaks out between three. It's Greater Appalachia. It's what he calls the Midlands, which is mostly Germans. And then northeastern corner of Ohio is Yankeedom, which is the same as like Massachusetts. And it's also Michigan is the same as Massachusetts, is the same as northern New York. Yeah. And that's why like, yeah, it's like the way the accent goes.

The Cleveland accent is almost exactly between the New York accent and the Chicago accent. So you get a little bit of that like bears kind of thing going on, but it's Browns, Browns. But they also have that like that more like New York vibe. Like it's weird how much, because my dad is from Northern Ohio. Well, he was born in Missouri, but raised in Cleveland. My mom's family is from Appalachia. So I'm like this weird like bastard child in the middle to where like people in Ohio

didn't know. People in Columbus where I grew up thought I was from a different area because they couldn't decipher my dialect because I have such a weird mixture of accents and people when I moved from New York to southern Ohio thought I was from England because of the way I talked they were like

why do you say that like that what was your accent like? I don't know I guess they said I said like a bay say day? I don't know. I guess they said I said like, A-bay-say-day. Okay. Yeah, it's very weird. I don't know. That's how it sounded to Ohio.

I don't know. All right, then. You just spoke in a British accent. I just spoke in a British accent. I was always saying, pop, pop, cheerio. Maybe I was just an affected child. I used to wear Union Jack t-shirts all the time.

I don't know why they thought I was from the... Bunch of assholes. So let's talk about the 72 hours at male feminism camp. So I found this article. I was just scrolling through my classic Elle magazine. I wasn't, but I did find it online when I was looking through something about clothing. And then this article like picked up. And so the first I read the first line and I was like, oh, here we go.

And it said 40 of America's wokest men are sitting in a circle on a mountaintop in Ojai, California. I would have stopped reading right there if I wasn't moving for this thing. That's what I said. I wrote down the first line of this article makes me want to kill myself. But, you know, then I was like, you know what? Calm down. Read through. See what's actually happening. Because, you know, it was like you know what calm down read through see what's actually

happening because you know it sounds like a good idea yeah but it is also a program that you pay 895 to do so it is just the most elite of men you know i am i just there's no photos but i just imagine they all had like coiffed haircuts they're all like head of like tech companies or something like that they go to this camp and they spend an entire week learning from like top, like women authors who write on feminism and more, you know, stuff like that. And they just learn to express themselves. And it is truly, it felt like it wasn't necessarily

the greatest thing because it, it, it creates more of this divide. I feel because when you create this like level of, of men who are the elite, who are the wokest men there is, it doesn't help. I don't think, I think that's what like literally when the right goes like, Oh,

you're all elites. It's like, Oh, we're actually just kind of creating that stereotype that they're concerned. They think themselves as the wokest men or is the person writing the article put that in his flavor? Well, that is like the vibe that they're like learning that they are. It was a woman who wrote the article.

She was the only woman. There was no women allowed except for the speakers who go in. And the way she was describing the men is that they were the most in touch with their feelings of any man she'd ever come across and they were saying things that were like as i was able to like find myself and and be able to like see the other men around me for what they were and that i was really learning about myself it was a lot of where you're like okay we'll slow down there's a lot here feminist camp it's like now i finally see other men as humans so now i am all my feminism is perfect right that's not it was it's a strange thing

because i feel like this it while it is good for men to you know talk about things be you know less like hey i can't talk about my feelings because a man is a man and then we you know we're strong and we keep it we're serious and we have our aggression and we're alphas it's like that you know obviously is not the thing but i also feel like killed yeah yeah it's also thing it's like this should be more our 900 retreats in ohai the way to kill it yeah even the idea of the alpha is not a real dynamic like the guy who wrote that like that they like took that they got the idea of alphas and betas from yeah like the guy who created that argument has debunked it since then and been like oh we studied wolves we like we weren't we were studying wolves in captivity where they were actually act they were behaving

the way humans would if they were imprisoned whereas like in the wild wolves operate as a cooperative family unit and so it's weird that we're still so stuck on this idea of like alpha males and like men think they have to be alpha males and they base it on like oh i'm trying to like nature but it's like that is all not real oh that's so interesting because yeah that's a really good myth because it's funny because when that guy came out against it then people were calling him a beta it's like it was his thing he created um but yeah because america loves to elevate the individual over the group. They will do that at the cost of anything, basically. And that's why Steve Jobs is given credit for being this genius visionary behind Apple.

It's like he stole most of his things. He just was working with a lot of really smart people and was mean enough to get them all to work together. But we need these ingenious visionaries that's like it started with like the cult of george washington which was a literal like what they used to call it and then the idea of the wokest is like like to go back to your point like i think that like that's not getting the point of being quote unquote woke it's like it's it's like when people go oh i'm a good person yeah it's like well now that you've said that like we can't go we can't go forward because when you've convinced yourself

that you're good like you have a block on learning new things or trying to like i can't tell you how many people i've been like in discussions with that aren't arguments but like we'll be like talking about like well let's just look at it from this point of view and they go it's it's it's the whole like i'm not racist but i'm not sexist or i'm not right so it's like but okay like let's get past this idea that we're attacking your your personality or your quality as a human being and think of it more as like we're part of a society that has these flaws and we're all flawed because of it and like it's same as like i'm not like if you go i'm the wokest like you're not understanding what is actually about. It's about always trying to be like if you go, I'm a good person.

Great. But like no one's a good person. I mean, if you just sit around and I'm a good person, like it's the game should not be I'm good. It's all it should always be. Yeah. How can I be better? How can I be more empathetic? I feel like it shouldn't just be this camp. It should be this should be our everyday discourse. Like we should be talking to everyone like parents should be

talking to their children schools we should acknowledge that these are issues in our lives versus just like being like well if you have 900 you can go to a camp in ohio and they'll really teach you how to be a feminist yeah although good on these women for making this 900 per head camp and like making bank off these i know yeah they really were like, these dudes, you know what they need? At least it's not taught by men only. Oh yeah, that would be so funny. My guys, let me tell you a little thing about women. Thank you for filling in the my guy.

I know ladies and ladies feel this way. They hate it. So the point is only rich people are allowed to be woke. Okay, so stop trying to be woke but yeah just as like I know everything is the most ignorant thing you could possibly say

like you know because the more you learn the more you realize you don't know the I think the same is true for ethics and morals like the better you think you are the probably more work you have to do. The more annoying you are. Right.

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or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. So, Super Producer Ana Hosniyeh, while we have you as Super Co-Host Ana Hosniyeh, I wanted to hear your thoughts on Saudi Arabia. I have many thoughts on Saudi Arabia. So if you guys remember recently, we touched on it, how Saudi Arabia has gone to a little Twitter spat with Canada over women's rights. And this is all started because Saudi Arabia imprisoned a few female activists,

some that were connected to Canada. And Canada kind of called it out on Twitter. And this led to Saudi Arabia getting very upset and then basically shutting down all this, basically making a lot of threats towards Canada. And while they were doing all this and being like, Canada has all these women's rights issues. They don't, you know, there's no human rights there or whatever. Just making very crazy claims. Saudi Arabia, while MBS, a.k.a. IBS, Mohammed bin Salman, he's the current crown prince. People are saying, wow, he's so progressive. He's letting women drive. Women are now allowed to go see sports games and whatnot in Saudi Arabia. They all have rights.

Movies are now in Saudi Arabia. Oh, my God, the work he's done. The man is literally still imprisoning female activists. And now Isra Al-Gongham, she is facing execution for her work as a female activist in Saudi Arabia. So I just want to make it clear that a lot of what this man has done, MBS, a.k.a. IBS, he is he's creating a facade that he's a progressive. But at the same time, what he really wants is to maintain his power hold while creating this like propaganda of who he is and consolidating all this power in the background that we don't really see as much because, you know, a lot of mainstream media does not report on news in the Middle East, which is why you can listen to my podcast, Ethnically Ambiguous, on the HowStuffWorks network. The last episode of Ethnically Ambiguous is so fucking good. And the problem also with Saudi Arabia is that none of these countries are going to step to Saudi Arabia because one, oil, a lot of their political allies are like France, England, the U.S. The U.S. would never touch that because, like I believe Miles told me yesterday,

they have a bunch of our money was given to us by Saudi Arabia. There's some credit situation there that if Saudi Arabia really wanted to screw us over, they could. A lot of our money for weapons are sold into Saudi Arabia. We get like $250 million deals where we sell them weapons. So we're deeply tied into Saudi Arabia. We get like $250 million deals where we sell them weapons. So we're deeply tied into Saudi Arabia. Also, I do want to point out that this, for how progressive they claim they are, they do execution by sword. Oh my God. Which is, that's their method of death penalty. They have not moved on from that. They truly believe if you are to be executed you are killed by sword people this is that it's so archaic i can't even move i it's it's heartbreaking so the execution does

not have an exact date yet um it still requires authorization by mbs aka ibs so it probably um won't happen till later in the year so i will definitely be keeping an eye on that because I just, I can't move on from how horrible a person MBS, aka IBS, really is and this whole facade they're putting on. I do think more light needs to be shown on their behavior and what they're doing in our connection to the country, U.S. to Saudi Arabia, if that makes sense. This is horribly sad.

So you're saying this cult of personality that he's trying to build up around himself is not innocent and he's actually a bad person? He's a 30-year-old in power, way too much power. Yes. And he wants that power so badly that if you're a woman and you step to him, he doesn't give a shit.

He'll have you killed by sword. Yeah, he wants to make that brutal example of step to him, he doesn't give a shit. He'll have you killed by sword. Yeah, he must make that brutal example of you. Yeah, he doesn't care. And also, just so you know, women who have fought to drive this whole time, the actual female activists, they're all still in jail. They're not being let out. This only really applies to this new law is if you come from a prominent family with money. It's all about prominence there. They don't, if you're a poor person, they they're not they don't care about you what's that like

it's not good they they'll put you in jail for having an opinion it's not good there's you know these are little steps but it doesn't help what's really going on behind the scenes in this country and it's like another country that like reminds country that reminds me things are going real bad. All right. Let's drop into the Google stream to do a trend skim. Right now, what do people give a shit about? It seems like it's a time for things coming to an end.

Ben Affleck's bender is coming to an end. He was driven to rehab by his ex-wife, Jennifer Garner. Shout out to long-suffering wives of fuck-up husbands and vice versa. Because she stopped at Jack in the Box on the way. Let him have a little Jack in the Box before he went away. What's better for a hangover than Jack in the Box for people who don't live in Jack in the Box regions. It's just a great greasy fast food restaurant that has some of the best deep fried tacos out there. They're deep fried? Yeah.

It's like they drop them in a fryer, which is how things become deep fried. That has been Science Hour. Let's myth bust that. No, I'm kidding. Big Bang Theory is coming to an end. These are all things that are in the top five trending things on Google over the past couple of days. But Jim Parsons is apparently the reason why this tends to happen with sitcoms where he's- Jim Parsons?

Yeah, Jim Parsons ends them. He's like a sitcom executioner. No, but his career is, it seems to exist outside of the show, so he's the one who decides to end it. The rest of the stars are heartbroken, and yeah, America is also heartbroken. I am not a fan.

I'm not, but I also like, if people enjoy it, they enjoy it. I'm happy for them. I also feel it's so deep in syndication. Yeah, right. It's not like,

it's one of those shows where I feel like you're watching it like, is this a new one? Yeah. It's also, there's a point, if you like the show,

I'm not trying to shit on you, but you're an awful person and deserve to know. No, I just think of like, how many times can you watch, like I liked How I Met Your Mother, but I could have done without

like several of those seasons and I feel like, I mean like think i think it was fine to end when it did i think friends was fine to end i think they're i think that every i i i don't want anyone who's working on a thing who depends on a thing for livelihood to lose their job but i also feel like if you've been on this show for this long you've probably got some some money saved up at this point but that's for me i i like the british tv model of we kind of just tell the story we want to tell and we get out like i know like yeah the good place which i love i thought it was always planned to be three seasons and apparently he's had like nope like at least up to seven seasons in his head

of what he can do with the good place and there's a point in my head i'm like i kind of wish you wouldn't just do one more season to be done with it as much as i like that show like but then again i'm also someone who when when book one nine nineine was canceled by Fox, I was like furious. I was like, no, we need more Brooklyn Nine-Nine. I know. It's just so, such a comforting show to let wash over your brain, Brooklyn Nine-Nine. But anyways, Jim Parsons, you're putting a lot of people's family in a very bad spot. Yeah, Jim Parsons.

You're a monster. Urban Myers, we don't cover a lot of sports stuff on this podcast. Well, I'm an Ohio State alumni. And so this is like, there's a certain point where I'm just like, it's hard to say you're from Ohio State anymore because there's always a scandal. There's always something happening. There really is. That's what happens when you have the biggest schools in the country and you make so much of your importance around your sports program. Right. So he's being suspended for a whole three games, which is a big deal, because he basically had every reason to know that his former assistant, his wide receivers coach, was abusing his wife. His wife talked to Myers and Myers' wife about it, and they were like, ah, she seems like a real drama queen.

Yeah. And apparently the dude is a monster. There's all sorts of, as the article wrote, embarrassing and promiscuous sexual behavior. I think he likes to be dominated. It's very puritanical, but yeah,

I guess. Which isn't embarrassing, but I'm sure if you're like the Midwest or that high up married, they're like, how could you? How could you? There was a conversation between Meyer and his AD on the practice field where the athletic director was like, hey, there's a bad article coming out. And then they proceeded to talk about how to alter the settings on your phone to delete text messages from over a year ago, which is just Trumpian, just incompetent shade. And I've always been waiting for the other shoe to drop on this

dude because he retired from Florida, you know, had a really great career at Florida, retired to, you know, spend more time with his family. And it was sort of out of nowhere. There were like some health issues from stress, which I totally believe. But then he took like a couple seasons off and then took the most difficult and all-consuming job in college football as the coach of Ohio State.

When you're an alpha, you're an alpha. Of the Ohio State University. I'm sorry, Riley. I am too. As an alum of the Ohio State University. Were you there when he was coaching? No, I'm too, Riley. Yeah. I am too. As an alum of the U.S. University. Were you there when he was coaching? No, I'm too old for that. It was still, it was the previously.

Was he? The previous coach who was left in shame. And finally, and maybe most importantly, guys. Jim Trestle was the coach that event. I think Trestle also had to leave like for negative reasons. For violations of NCAA. Yeah. Recruiting. He was the coach when I was a student. had to leave like for negative reasons. For violations of NCAA recruiting.

He was the coach when I was a student. Guys, the Korean Taekwondo team. Yes. So producer Anna Hosnia sent this to our group thread last night. Late last night. I've seen plenty of karate videos. I was like, what is she doing? So we had to get in this morning before I finally watched it and it is not like the other

karate videos you've seen before no this is amazing also it's taekwondo i'm sorry yeah but like in my dumb brain i was like karate video i've seen karate kid what is this bullshit so this korean taekwondo team does the most amazing performance where they're basically they bring these like sticks that have plywood held up very high up and then they just proceed to defy gravity and destroy every piece of plywood. But in the most synchronized, amazing way. Yeah, they're like doing flips through the air like you would see maybe a, you know how when cheerleaders do flips in the air, there's like seven people standing around them, throwing them into the air. It's like they're doing that, but nobody's throwing them in the air.

And then at certain points, as they are flying through the air, they just like go into slow motion. Like it's really one of the craziest things I've ever seen. The Korean Taekwondo team fucking rules. And it's to the point that you are like, well, why isn't this just all of our karate movies? Like, why isn't this all of our action movies is just this team kicking people's asses because it's so dope.

Yeah, they should just be hiring these guys. But apparently there's a type of martial arts where you just like throw people around and they just fly through the air and look like... It's really Crouching Tiger-esque. Video will be in our footnotes. Please go watch it. It's wild. Yeah.

That came across your transom on Twitter? Yes. It's got like 40 to 50K retweets, because everyone is losing their minds over this. What was your favorite response to it? There's a lot of 50 Cent telling people to go grab the strap to go just shoot them if they come for you, which is just funny, just overwhelmed.

Like, oh, God, get a gun. It's a great gif because it's a defeated response. It's like he's almost exhausted. He's like, I guess go get the strap, because we're going to have to. We have no chance. Yeah. All right. Yeah, like he's almost exhausted. He's like, I guess go get the strap because we're going to have to. We have no chance. Yeah.

All right. Well, Riley, it's been a pleasure having you as always. Thank you. Where can people find you? You can find me on Twitter at Riley J. Silverman and you can keep your eye out for Everything is Fine on Seed&Spark, September 12th. That sounds wonderful.

And is there a tweet that you've been enjoying? Yes, I just found one because I was going to just jokingly do Trump's, if anyone needs a lawyer, I do not recommend you take Michael Cohen's services. Gotta love it. But a sincere one will be from comedian Guy Branum, which is that, when people say something politically inappropriate, maybe instead of canceling them, we should put them on hiatus for retooling, then recast the male lead. That's great.

You know, Guy was our guest yesterday. What? Yeah. I didn't know that. That's crazy. That's crazy. I wonder how long we can keep this. Did he read one of my tweets?

No, but maybe tomorrow's guest or Monday's guest will. No, my tweets suck. Super producer Ana Hosnia, it's been a pleasure having you as super co-host. Where can people find you? You know, on the internet. Cool. Thank you. And a host.

You're on the internet? Yes. I occasionally dabble in the internet. Yeah. Listen to my podcast, Ethnically Ambiguous, on the HowStuffWorks network. Jack was our recent intern on an episode. You might enjoy us berating him. I was emotionally abused, verbally abused.

But it is really a great show. And this past episode, your co-host Shireen has an incredible conversation with her mother, as do you. You guys both have a great conversation with her mom. Yes, her mother invites me over for dinner. Yes. But it's a great show. What do you guys talk about on your show? You know, just classic Middle East news.

You know, what's up with Saudi Arabia? Who does Iran hate this week? It's like the tabloids for the Middle East with our parents every once in a while calling in and trying to be famous. And you talk about what it's like to be a Middle Eastern person in America. Oh, honey, do we ever.

Oh, girl. You make sense of a lot of the news that we should care about as Americans, but that you should feel bad that you don't care about or don't already understand. And is there a tweet you've been enjoying? So this is a tweet from Mitra Juhari at tweetra juhari this kills me turns out screaming yes queen ironically four times a day is not a substitute for a personality okay guess i'm headed back to the goddamn drawing board i love her she's great that's, queen. Yes, queen. Yes. I like how, like, unpassionately I said it. So, yes, queen.

Yes, queen. Yes, queen. Hello, queen. We've gotten a couple good corrections. Apparently, I engaged in a little bit of false news, as the people call it, false news. Because I said that a brand name like Doritos can't be shown in a movie without a placement deal or permission from the trademark owner. That is not true.

A person on Twitter named amazumdar underscore IP, who I am presuming has a law degree because they hashtagged their post hashtag trademarks hashtag IP law, said that it's actually optional. You can show, you know, a Doritos label. You're just, you know, taking on additional risk, essentially. Making up a fake brand gives the storyteller more flexibility because they don't have to worry about making things up or defaming a real company uh or you know just out of an abundance of caution which legal departments attached to entertainment companies are very very cautious places they do not want to be sued i believe also there's like a fear of like coming across like you're actually endorsing them like right like a lot of companies don't want to give like free advertising to a brand or something like that.

Right. There's also people with morals, I guess, or whatever. So thank you for that correction. And then also Sam Palum tweeted that around bipolar disorder, given our nuanced understanding about their mental health issues, given our nuanced understanding of other mental health issues, they assumed that we would not just imply that because the person who ended up in the water tower in that Los Angeles hotel was bipolar,

that I just kind of brought that up and was like, but turns out they were bipolar and it wasn't a haunting. And that was just sort of a shitty way to address and bipolar right and it was kind of a shitty uh way to just explain it away and you know yeah i believe that's literally how the police just were like well come on she was bipolar i hate that so much and it's like okay but have you seen the video in the elevator well it's the whole thing with like the, oh, why am I blanking on her name, Molly Tibbetts? Molly Tibbetts, where like, oh, well, he was an immigrant. Like, that's not the focus here. Like, don't make that the focus.

Yes. Yeah, Newt Gingrich just said that if Molly Tibbetts is a household name by November, it's going to be bad news for Democrats. It's like, wow, that is the most cynical shit I've ever fucking heard. But anyways, they also pointed out that just saying, chalking it up to being bipolar suggests that that's just what happens when you're mentally ill.

I did not mean to imply that. So apologies for being wrong. Yeah, you get haunted and end up in a water tower. That story, to this day, just freaks me out so much. No, it's truly one of the most interestingly, hauntingly, just confusing stories to have happened. Yeah. Because the water...

Hey, guys, it was locked. Right. How'd she get in? She got a key. Locked from the outside. Well, she was bipolar. No, it was not. Well, she was...

So with bipolar powers, you were able to open water towers that are locked. Yeah, you pick locks. It makes you chaotic neutral. What you need to understand is that when you're bipolar, you have powers. You're a rogue. You're a rogue. Yeah, you're just a-

Yeah. So in addition to those thoughtful corrections, I've been enjoying tweets from Karen Kilgariff, who tweeted, I just like LaCroix tweets. They're like their own weird little comedy- Oh, I almost had LaCroix tweet for mine today, and I didn't because I saw there was one yesterday.

They're their own weird little comedy haiku. Karen tweeted, five sips into every LaCroix. I remember that they taste like someone else's Skittles burp, and I bail. Oh, that was the one that I, I thought that was yesterday, so that's why I didn't use it. And then Bob Avakian tweeted, biggest indictment of white people is that Eminem,

in over two decades of rapping, has not produced one track that's appropriate for dancing, sex, or anything other than angrily gaming. Dan Telfer had a good LaCroix tweet that was, Yes, LaCroix is offensive to you. Yes, to you it tastes like some plastic fruit insulted some seltzer, an alien's flu dream of real water, but it is all that lies between me, dehydration, and madness. Leave my people be.

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wherever you're listening. Just click on the episode and you should be able to scroll down and see them. And that is going to do it for today. Super producer Ana Hosnia, what musical choice are you going to have us write out?

I'm going to come in with Conga by Gloria Estefan. Just joking. I'm going to do this. Who is that character?fan. Just joking. I'm going to do this. Who is that character? I don't know. It's the character I was doing earlier in the show. I really wanted to.

The enthusiastic Gloria Estefan fan. I want to just do it. You guys have heard this song. It is delightful. It is just, you know, if you go to a wedding, you should play it. I really love to. I know chicken dance is the dance of choice, but I actually think that conga's gonna go. I love the concept of recommending conga.

I don't know. I just have been listening to that song a lot, but that is not what I'm recommending. I'm going to recommend a song by Shun, who is this artist who is around. I don't know. Maybe you've heard of her. Heard of her. Heard of him. It's spelled S-S-I-O-N.

This is a song that came out a few years back that I still to this day cannot stop playing, and it's called Earthquake. So feel those vibes, and feel the love you could be having from an old mistress back in the day. Because that's what this song is like for me. And now we'll all sit here and not speak and let it play. All right, we're going to ride out on that.

We will be back on Monday. Talk to you guys then bye We live together Across the world Pushing hints into our heads Time and time again Rolling down the line Of every word that is said Passing all the time

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