The Daily Zeitgeist - The Best Offense Is NO DEFENSE, Best To Divest 10.1.19

Episode Date: October 1, 2019

In episode 485, Jack and Miles are joined by trans super model and comedian Arisce Wanzer to discuss a possible new Uber recording option, the State Department investigating Hillary's email's again, the Trump administration taking to the news to defend the whistleblower situation, Trump's civil war threats, divestment as a solution to climate change, personality being an indicator of the music folk listen to, and more! FOOTNOTES:1. Uber might let you record the audio of your ride if the driver is being creepy2. State Dept. intensifies email probe of Hillary Clinton’s former aides3. Kevin McCarthy again displays his unique brand of incompetence and dishonesty.4. "This is an exercise in obfuscation" -- Stephen Miller has no response when Chris Wallace presses him about why Trump went against his own Pentagon & State Department and withheld Ukrainian aid5. Rudy Giuliani, Joe diGenova Rage at Fox News Bombshell on Ukraine-Biden Plan6. Trump Pressed Australian Leader to Help Barr Investigate Mueller Inquiry’s Origins7. Trump Was Repeatedly Warned That Ukraine Conspiracy Theory Was ‘Completely Debunked’8. Trump’s Twitter tirades about treason and civil war reveal a dangerously unfit president9. Money Is the Oxygen on Which the Fire of Global Warming Burns10. Silicon Valley’s Crisis of Conscience11. Warren Buffett and Jamie Dimon want companies and investors to embrace a new idea of value. Here’s where to begin12. Maladaptive personality and psychopathy dimensions as predictors of music and movie preferences in US adults13. WATCH: Parallel Dance Ensemble - Weight Watchers (Official) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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and say, officially off the top, fuck coke industries and fuck Fox News. By the way, we have a cease and desist out to Robert De Niro's people for saying fuck Fox News on CNN over the weekend. Like me, fuck them. Really, Fabi? Really, dude? It's ugly when I see you, fam.

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And pull up, represent, and, you know, maybe there'll be free merch. Who knows? Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious and talented Reese Wanzer.

Hi. Welcome back. I know, right? I'm back. Is this your third time or second time? Second time with you guys, but I've been all up

and through this office. Yeah. I'm like a virus. Yeah. That we can't get rid of. Right? Truvada for Pratt. Anyway.

Yep, that's you in the commercial. That's a good check, huh? It was a great check. Yes, it was a buyout, but it was a great buyout. Hey, look, buyouts are great,

especially on their nationals. Yeah, exactly. I have no more student loans. I'm one of the debt-free Americans. Bless you. I know, I'm so excited. Couldn't agree more

right buyouts great it's banging you don't have to wait for your fucking money you got it Jack when was the last time

you were in a commercial a national and be real a national I'm just gonna say it's been too long okay but do you do a lot

of commercial work I try to but they don't be picking hoes they do not be picking me it's fine things will change yeah I audition for a lot of. They do not be picking me. It's fine. Things will change. Yeah, I audition for a lot of commercials.

I book a lot of commercials. So it's fine. There's a change in the air. Exactly. I hope so. God, I hope so. Right? All right.

We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. But first, we are going to tell our listeners what we're talking about today. We're going to check in with Uber what what's going on in their minds uh you can look at the code and figure out what they're worried about the code look at the code it's in the code uh we're gonna talk about uh blowing that whistle just had the continued fallout the continued continuous uh news stories that are breaking upon our heads constantly. Yesterday, there were like three different big day-defining news stories all happening on the same push notification on my phone. Yeah.

So we're going to talk about all of those and more. We're going to talk about divestment as a solution to climate change. That as an idea. We're going to talk about personality traits that line up with musical preferences. But first, Aris, we'd like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? I can't believe that's the first question you guys are giving me. I know. I'm always looking for new shoes. Always. I have like 300 pairs of shoes and that's not enough.

300 pairs? Yeah. Oh, like Imelda Marcos? That's a washed reference. Yeah, I was like, what? I think it's a historic reference. I think there's a difference between historic and washed. Is that the Filipino woman? Yeah.

Okay, good for me. I that the Filipino woman? Yeah. Okay. Good for me. I've been knowing my shoe people. Okay. I was like, wait, is that the Filipino woman that has like a billion pairs of shoes? Yeah. What was her record? It was something obscene.

Yeah. Hers is something like a billionaire. But are you trying to get there? Would that be you? No. Oh, okay. There's limits. I purge shoes all the time.

Oh, shit. So you purge? Yeah. As soon as the style's up, like it's kind of. Oh, so will you lean into a style, take a, you know, be like, you know what? This is the moment. Yes. But know that the moment is fleeting, and eventually that will have to be tossed.

Yes, unless it's like a classic look for me. Like, I'm wearing sneaker wedges right now. I'm never letting them go. Yep, sneaker wedges. Bam, right? Fucking comfortable. You can still wear them to a club. Okay.

Bam. How do you look for shoes? Because I just look on sneaker websites because I only wear sneakers. Is there like a website? Is there a way for you to centrally? No, I totally Google search. I'm just like, all right, pointed toe pump in leopard print, actual like pony hair, which is actually just, you know, a cow, but it's called pony hair.

Oh, cow is just called pony hair? Yeah. They call it pony hair to sound like fancy rather than rather than cow hair or leather with the hair still attached. Yeah, it's a little less exotic. We call that lazy leather. Exactly. It's like they did a little less work. You won't believe they skinned an animal that little children squeal over at birthday parties.

There you go. Yeah, that's the hook. You're like, ooh, this is pony hair. This is cruelty to a young animal hair. Exactly. Hey, people love veal. Yeah, right? That's true.

They know exactly what that shit is. Yeah. I do wonder if there was a point where people started liking food based on how cruel it was. Right? Because there's foie gras. I feel like that's the basis of meat. Right. You know what?

Let's kill the dog. Well, I think a lot of people probably don't know, right? Yeah. You know what I mean? That's like the basis of meat. Right. You know what? Let's kill the dog. Well, I think a lot of people probably don't know, right? Yeah. You know what I mean? That's true. You just eat something and then someone's like, you know what that is, right? Right. It's like they force fed a goose till it fucking died, basically.

Right. And they're eating the liver. That's so sad. I didn't know that. That's what foie gras is? They force feed it? Oh, yeah. To get all the stuff.

That's why it's banned, I think, now, again, in in California because they're like, we can't stand behind this practice. Oh, my God, that's terrible. I did not fucking know that. Yep. I don't eat it, so I'm in the clear of it still. Yeah, I think foie gras is gross. See, for a while, I wasn't able to get the foie gras quesadilla at Taco Bell because I was like, I don't know if I can get behind this.

No, that's a joke. I was like, I have to give that a firm nigga, please. I'm like, wait, they had like a money taco. Like you can get the $19 taco if you feel like springing that at lunch. Doritos locos with truffle. Right? It doesn't make sense. When truffle got like popular, I was like, there's no way this is all real truffle.

How much of this is Parmesan? Oh, for sure. Or just like the perfumed version version because that's the other thing people there are a lot of truffle oils if they're not the real article it's actually just perfumed oil there you go yeah because like real truffle I'm like that's like a whole to do to get oh yeah there's not enough pigs to sniff all this out yeah not to have like a company based on truffle and when you see like people who are like truffle dealers like in the food scene like that shit it's like it's like drugs they're like yeah they're like no i'm sorry i'm out like i already promised this to this person right they're like go to a restaurant they're like this is what i got no you're good all right i keep moving to

the next chefs have their own connect yeah yeah some of them's legs are already broke yeah right there's like are there like prized truffle sniffing pigs or like i don't know like one truffle per pig and then you have to kill the pig oh no a bee gets one sting is there the babe of truffle pigs yeah yeah right uh what is something you think is overrated oh my god i'm gonna get heat for this but here we go i think the marvel bubble is bursting wow yeah like how many canceled shows are we going to like they just canceled ghostwriter and wait there was a ghostwriter show exactly and they're hoping like i think it was on hulu or something but they're hoping it gets picked up by someone else but i'm saying like it already happened to jessica jones right uh jessica jones got canceled yeah i think

they tried to bring it back because that was part of like the net, when Disney Plus was about to come out, Netflix was like, well, fuck y'all then. We're not going to make your shows. Okay. And then that's why a lot of like Daredevil and those other things. What was that other one? Iron Fist. What the fuck?

Iron Fist. That one was, I tried watching that. I could not. Exactly. Isn't that a Marvel show? That was the first Marvel production that I remember everybody just being like, this is hot garbage. This is not it.

I'm telling you though, here's the thing. This is why the bubble has to burst because when they made Marvel Studios, I knew the bubble was going to burst because how many superhero origin stories can we watch? They're so fucking repetitive. Oh my god, I've got powers. Oh my god, let me test them out. Oh my god, let's make a movie based on me

saving the world with my new powers. Have you written any of this stuff down? I'm telling you you this is literally the formula of every fucking movie first step oh my god oh my no it's oh my god i'm a loser oh my god i have powers yes it's never some popular awesome person except for iron man which was fun i'm like oh at least he's rich and white so this is not expected i didn't think you'd get any better than that he made he made it work in a taliban jail exactly exactly now so i'm just saying like and you know the good like good I didn't think you'd get any better than that. He made it work in a Taliban jail. Exactly. Exactly. So I'm just saying like, and you know the good will prevail over evil every single fucking time. I'm like, okay, this is getting so predictable.

I can't sit through this anymore. So even if Thanos kills everybody, guess what? They're back. I'm like, okay. Spoiler alert. I'm done watching the films. I'm done. There's no sense of mystery.

There's no mystery. I mean, there's even like the box office numbers kind of support that too, that they're worried, right, that Marvel basically blew their wad this year with Avengers films, all these. They're like, what are you all going to do next year? Because some of the stuff we're seeing coming up in development is like, this ain't it. This isn't the kind of stuff that's going to do a billion dollars.

No, no, no, no, no. Yeah, it's probably time to ain't it. This isn't the kind of stuff that's gonna do a billion dollars. No, no, no, no, no, no. Yeah, it's probably time to relax a little bit. Yes. I mean, I feel like anything, right? It's all marketing. So if they've identified an audience that has enough money to make the film even like three bucks profitable,

they're like, it's a winner. I'm just over it. Like, I think it's overrated. We've all seen the movie a hundred times. You can just watch it. Like this new DC one, the Batgirl thing coming out. I'm like, well, I know how that ends. I already know.

Like, I'm glad that she's eating pussy now. So that's fresh. But I mean, like, that's fresh. I'm like, well, she's dyking it. I love that. But at the same time, I'm like, but I know how this ends. You're not going to kill her. She's going to win every time.

It's going to be, it's just going to be what it is. You know? With Batgirls? Batgirls'm bored that girl's a bad girl a bad girl no she's like she's just a lesbian yeah but she's a good guy yeah she's like you're not gonna kill her yeah no i see yeah they're not gonna kill her yeah and it's um i think it's a show so they're gonna want that going six or seven seasons so guess what we know how that ends right who gives a shit well guess what in the end of the first uh season finale the first season she loses right so the first season doesn't end all yo season season one stay tuned for next season exactly next season i wonder if we'll have a different bat girl i'll bet you not because she's under contract and those

are public so i'm gonna go ahead and say she'll at least be in a bunch of dream sequences. But you're a fan of comic books and the culture or no? I like, you know what I love? I miss the old days. Like the cartoon X-Men when Rogue was hot and not Anna Paquin.

Girl, bye. I'm sorry. I was like, that was the worst casting choice I've ever seen in my life. I was like, okay, this gap tooth bitch

is not about to be my Rogue. Not my, hashtag not my Rogue. With her flat hair. I was like, bitch, Rogue was a goddess. Yeah, Rogue had big ass fucking hair. I was like, are we joking right now? We couldn't get Lindsay Lohan in her prime to play this? That would have been a much better rogue.

I'm not kidding. Yeah, with those breasts. I'm like, that's Rogue. Hello? Let's sexualize Rogue again. Make Rogue hot again. Thank you. God. You know what? I think that old X-Men, that's going to be on Disney Plus now. That old... It's going to be banging. It's going to be fucking banging. I'll watch those

old cartoons. I am absolutely watching that. But yeah, I think it's one of those things. I like a lot of these comic book characters and things, but at a certain point, you're like, sure. It's like that Phoenix thing. Like, honey, if Phoenix isn't Famke Johnson, I'm not watching it. I need someone

whose jaw could cut glass right i like my comic book characters looking just like they did and that film was sort of tortured wasn't it like they had to do reshoots and stuff and it completely flopped it's of course yeah flopped because you're giving you're literally giving a platform to people who one have a platform like the girl who played like she was something in game of thrones sophie turner yes and i think she's a great actress but is she jean gray dear god no no can we stop who, one, have a platform. Like the girl who played, she was something in Game of Thrones. Sophie Turner, yeah. Yes. And I think she's a great actress, but is she Jean Grey? Dear God, no.

Can we stop this? Can we start casting according to... Yeah, like, oh, she already makes money somewhere else. Honey, keep it there. Right. Have her be her trained English-ass self or whatever. I don't know where she comes from. I don't know.

But I'm saying keep the characters true to what the characters were because that's just not it in my mind especially when we had a Famke well right and also like you're dealing with

one of the most powerful mutants in the galaxy in the Marvel universe so like she doesn't have that aura about her I want to see some shit where you're like this is fucking wild

yeah it's about one of the most dangerous mutants in the Marvel universe right that could have been lit yeah it was lit in the cartoon

yeah it was litty lit litty titty. I remember when I had the, I got the Dark Phoenix trading card when I used to get, like, Skybox Marvel trading cards

or I forget who made those and I was like, at the beginning I was like, this is a girl character. I don't know. And then I read the back and it's like, Dark Phoenix is actually

the most powerful and it's like, oh, fuck. I'm like, now I need to read this. Yeah, she's fucking punk rock. Yeah,

there you go. Yeah. What is something you think is underrated? Oh, my God. Most underrated comedic actress of our time is Jennifer Coolidge. Wow, yes. I think she is the funniest bitch on the planet. I love Jennifer Coolidge.

Effortlessly. That's Stifler's mom. Okay. Yeah, she's also in Best of Show. Yes. She was in Lemony Snicket's series on Unfortunate Events. That's the movie with Jim Carrey, which was way better than the show, let's be honest. Sorry.

Sorry, Neil Patrick Harris. Anyway, I'm here to insult everyone. I'm here to tell the truth. Yeah, there you go. Okay, if you have a problem with me, slide in my DMs, bitch. Well, then go on, Ruth. Tell the truth. Yes, exactly.

But she's in so many things. She's so underrated. No one in, oh, like Legally Blonde, where she has all those one-liners. I'm like, she's so fucking funny. And to not get Her Day in the Sun, I would see fit. I think she's like one of those people that if you enjoy comedy, then you know who Jennifer Coolidge is. But to the general public, they're like, oh, I know her. But it's not like, yo, she's paid her dues.

Yeah, like she should not be known as Stifler's mom or anything else. Like she's Jennifer fucking Coolidge, and she's fucking her dues. Yeah, like she should not be known as Stifler's mom or anything else. Like she's Jennifer fucking Coolidge and she's fucking hilarious. Yeah. I think that was sort of what blew my mind is like I knew her as Stifler's mom and like a couple other things, but then when Best in Show came out,

I was like, this is really amazing. She's like, sometimes we do things and then sometimes we don't talk. We could talk or not talk about things for hours. We could talk or not talk about things for hours. The stupidest shit ever. I'm like,

God, she's so fucking funny. I got to meet her last week at a party called Evita in Hollywood at the Nightingale Plaza. My friend throws that party.

Shameless plug. There you go. My friend Ollie throws that party. My friend Ollie and Andres. And Jennifer Coolidge was sitting there with one of her favorite drag queens

who was headlining that night and I went and talked to her. I said, I just want you to know I absolutely love you. And you are perfect with comedic timing. You're improv. I was like, I love you. I think you're wonderful.

And she said, thank you so much. And she couldn't believe that she was being recognized. What? Yeah, she was just sitting there being left alone. I was like, that's motherfucking Jennifer Coolidge. Oh, she was just in the cut at this party? Yeah, she was sitting at a private table. But I mean, I was also at a private table.

So of course I wouldn't talk to her. But it was lit. I was like, oh my God, I got to talk to Jennifer Coolidge. And I just thought about it. I was like, she's the most underrated fucking comedic actress of our time. Yeah. I feel like Jane Lynch gets the kind of credit now that Jennifer Coolidge should be getting. And I think Jane Lynch definitely deserves it.

Yeah, 100%. She's definitely fucking funny. I love her in Mrs. Maisel. Right. Like, she plays a great character that is unexpected. And also great in Best in Show. Yes, so great in Best in Show with Jennifer Coolidge. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

No, but, yeah, I want to see Jennifer Coolidge in more stuff. Like, she should be getting so many fucking offers. I should see her in everything to where I'm bored of seeing her. Well, we'll go outside. We're in Hollywood. We'll just yell it out. Right? Hire Jennifer Coolidge.

Hire Jennifer Coolidge. And myself. And Arise. Don't forget me as well. I also have. Hire Arise, then Jennifer Coolidge. Exactly. Help.

Help. I'm black and trans. We need help. Two-hander? Help. Yeah, please. There you go. Exactly.

Pull up. What is a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false? The last time I said that milk is good for you. That was a really good one. That was you. That was a really good one. That was a really good one. Okay, so. What is one?

Oh, you know what? And everybody thinks that everyone's hair is real on TV. Everyone has on a fucking wig. Everyone has on a fucking wig from the guys to the girls. If you watch the news every night, all of them got wigs on. Really? Yes. Every single person. Call you watch the news every night, all of them got wigs on. Really? Yes. Every single person.

Call out some news wigs right now. Honey, like Kelly Ripa. Oh, okay. Oh, Diane Sawyer. That's an easy one. That looks like a helmet. Sorry, girl.

Anyway. Is that true? Yeah, no. Everybody has a fucking wig on. And I didn't know until I got into wig culture, which is TV. It's good for continuity.

Right. Yeah, because if you have to reshoot or if you have to refilm something, bitch, she's sitting right over there. Like, oh, good. Oh, okay, got it. Fit it on. All right. Get the makeup done. And guess what?

You have no idea. We shot this two weeks later. Sure. Because it is the exact same hairstyle sprayed into place. Right, right, right. And so, yeah, they call it news hair. Honey, they are literally

one of my favorite quotes is from Dolly Parton and someone said how long does it take to do your hair she said I don't know I'm never in the room

when they're doing it I was like bitch you better work fucking Dolly Parton yeah she was outing that shit in the 80s she's like I'm here to tell you

these are wigs ain't nobody wearing their real hair because you would damage the fuck out of your hair also do you think I have this much fucking hair?

It's so much hair! Call the fucking CDC or something. Exactly. There might be medical secrets contained in this scalp. Exactly. I'm like, yo, I know her neck hurts. Oh my god. If she has to sleep with that on, absolutely not. So many parts of her must hurt. Yeah, exactly. Her back for sure. Oh my god.

What does her hair actually look like? Just like close cropped look that's when we don't need to know you know we don't right just dolly do whatever you got to do right i don't care what your tattoos are i don't care what your wigs are yeah just just keep dolling it up being dolly keep doing but yeah wigs yeah everyone's got a wig on and if you don't believe me oh like nicole kid Big Little Lies that was that was wig little lies that whole show that is the most

clocky wig I was like girl if they don't give y'all the budget next season I was like you need to call my guy that was the first time that I noticed it

like yeah that was funny when that second season came around we were both like oh shit I think everybody's wearing a wig

and we're like it was that bad two straight men we're like I think it's wigs exactly like And we're like, it was that bad. Two straight men. We're like, I think it's wigs. Exactly. Like, where is her hairline? It starts from nowhere. What's her name?

The one from The Descendants who had Ziggy? Shailene Woodley. Yeah, Shailene Woodley. Shailene Woodley's was... That's two days in a row where... Offensive. Two shows in a row where there's been a thing on the tip of our tongue that I know the listeners were probably screaming, going,

Shailene Woodley! Shailene Woodley! It's mohair! They're talking about mohair. I said it the second I thought about it without a pause. The magic of editing. Boom. Work.

Boom. All right, let's check in real quick with Uber before we get into all this whistleblowing shit. You know, they've not had a great track record with safety for passengers. And that was like a big thing they've had to overcome with the new leadership that they had as the leadership changed. And by overcome, do you mean hide from the public? Yes, probably. And a whoop?

Yeah. And, you know, like the first step, they had the safety kit where you could like report a driver call for help and things like that. And then there's a new feature called Ride Check that would know if like you got in a car wreck or maybe there's been a very long stop for some reason. But look, don't make it hot for people who are trapping out of an Uber. Okay. Everyone has to make their money. Having sex with their driver. Yeah.

What do you want to crash while we have sex um so now there is a a developer based in hong kong has like this rep of like reverse engineering apps to like look at what's in the code to be like because people will hide shit in the in the app that we might not see as the consumers but that functionality is there for people who are developing and found something recently that there is a new audio recording tool inside the uber app and like a black box for i was gonna say it's like a plane well it's part of that safety toolkit which makes people think it's like okay so they're not trying to do cheeky shit to be like okay record everyone's like messy ass uber ride right in case they're saying wild shit um but right now uber hasn't really said anything on it, but it seems to be like a way that it would allow drivers to like if your drivers or passengers, if the driver is like being creepy, out of pocket, whatever, abusive, you could actually begin recording maybe unbeknownst to them.

But it could essentially possibly have a live connection to some Uber safety center where they can monitor it, send help, or you just have receipts later on when you're like, okay, you don't believe me? Like, here it goes. I can't believe there are that many predators out there. I'm just trying to get a ride to the club. It's so weird. Yeah, I wonder if it leaves it on your phone or if it immediately uploads it to Uber.

They're like, okay, we have that now, and thank you. We'll be dealing with this. And they're like, actually, we can't do anything because that's a non-employee employee contractor who we don't treat with rights or it's just an automaton but with human skin.

I mean, I've wished I had been recording when I was in an Uber before but only because the person was the most high on cocaine human being that has ever spoken without a punctuation

for like 45 minutes straight. 45 minute run on sentence? Yeah, just like... Where were you going? About their career as an actor. I think I was going to the valley from... Not the valley. In their defense, that's kind of just actors.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. They cannot wait to talk about them. I'm sorry, actors are the most obnoxious people. I'm calling all y'all out because I'm not really an actor. I do acting gigs. Anyway. There you go. I know because-

You're an artist. Exactly. So I'm an entertainer. Yes. I'm here to entertain you. Yeah, but actors, when you meet like these diehard actors, they are so, like they think everyone wants to see their one man show. Right.

And I'm like, no one gives a fuck. A lot of one man shows going around. Yeah, they're awful. to see their one-man show. Right. And I'm like, no one gives a fuck. A lot of one-man shows going around. But I know animated actor who's excited by their own narcissism and cocaine. And this is definitely like sweaty.

Did you say, that is a fine line. Was it one of those things because sometimes, you know, an Uber driver will hit you with a solo like of their life story.

Like sometimes it's unprovoked. Sometimes they find an in, right, where they're like, what do you do? And you might have said something about comedy and they're like, what are you doing? You might have said something about comedy and they're like, oh man, I love comedy, man. Because actually I was just up for this

audition, man. Yeah. Fuck, man. You got any water back there? You're driving. It's like four in the afternoon. It's like, what the fuck? I make sure everybody knows what I do whenever I get into a car with a driver.

I'm pretty sure I didn't say anything. So the first thing you do, five minutes into a ride, and no one says anything, you go, huh, so you're not a fan, huh? I'm sorry? It's me, Jack O'Brien. Okay, whatever.

I cannot. Do you, man. Do you. I love how you're playing it cool, but it's okay. Yeah, I'm pretty chill, actually chill actually man i'm a regular dude man no too many people want favors in this town i'm always like i work at a library like i don't tell anybody yeah because they're just like oh yeah so many business cards i'm like

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Caitlin Clark versus Angel Reese on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back, and it's time. Dan, just blow the whistle also actually shout out to too short who just had his first child at the age of 53 yeah maybe first child that he's acknowledging i don't know i don't want to cast aspersions but you're pointing out that they're like now that all the news everywhere, all content is about this whistleblower and the Trump administration, impeachment and shit.

Like you like check TMZ and they're like, I don't fucking know, man. Do you sure it just had a kid or something? Stacey Dash. They're like wrongfully employed in that office at this point. There's no news. Just close for a week, honey. Give it a sec. All right. right just close for a week honey yeah like give it a sec uh all right so up first let's just do

a petty check with the state department under the trump administration uh they are investigating hillary's emails that's what they're up to that's where we're at yep their shit is so bad again they're like can y'all look man man, check, check her emails again. Maybe one more time. It's part of like the, I guess, continued investigation. But recently they just went back to contact like around 130 people, officials from the government by the state department just to figure out like what was going on with some emails. Like maybe there was some classified shit. They're like, we already did this.

Like, yeah, we were talking about like business, but like we were never mishandling information but you know they seem to still be digging can they let the woman rest like she's not president let her go yeah let her go it's a it's a i mean double jeopardy at this point i'm like didn't we already try this case yeah well i think this is still part of the same one because the comment was sort of like, we're going through millions of emails. So it's three and a half years. So yeah, like we're still on this. I thought it was a new thing, but it seems like this is just an ongoing investigation.

It's the initial one. They're still reading the millions. Because it's anybody. Even if shit was like, if your shit got forwarded on to that server, they were asking you. Like, but it's like, I didn't even email it. They just forwarded my shit because I said something about some other thing. Oh, that's a nightmare. Six degrees of that.

Wouldn't that just be all emails ever sent? Possibly. I think it's only based on like four. I mean, they had a way to figure it out very specifically. But I mean, this is shit that Trump has been saying since day one that the fbi should be looking into or his uh yeah what attorney general should be looking into but now it's gone behind closed doors because he has you know william barr and i mean what kind of devious person would take some kind of secret communication and then transfer that to another server wait that's also trump wait fuck out of here second the one

thing you know obviously we haven't seen any kind of indictments or arrests coming from this so like you know keep keep digging you know find try and find a new angle that's pretty much the theme this week for the gop is trying to find as many angles as possible like a model on their first shoot but right now the problem is for the people who have been contacted even though they've not been found to do any wrongdoing like there'll be a note on their record and that can actually be bad if like you're trying to get like a security clearance and things like that so in a way like it's also a way to fuck with these people too i mean clearly i think they'll be able to explain like they you y'all remember that email shit i'm sure you could probably say that in a fucking interview but yeah that's like one thing people who were being contacted by the statement department

were like this kind of can fuck me up in the future a little bit got it's just unwanted scrutiny let's get into how the gop is dealing with all this right now real quick over the weekend actually a couple days back there were some gop officials and senators and congress people just appearing on i think it was the you know various cable every show outlets meet the press state of the union fucking 60 minutes they were everywhere because right now the game plan is like just act stupid and deny everything. Right. There's no plan because this is the part that's really hard if you're trying to defend pure unadulterated bullshit. Right.

You have no leg to stand on. So all the angles you try and work just look really bad and look very transparent. And you can never give a straight answer because a straight answer would be the truth which is damning right you can't just say like yeah he made that call and that is terrible but yeah it's just like they can't even go there because then you've given up the ghost so it's like well actually i think we need to talk about uh what's really going on with joe biden like hold on but that that wasn't my question sir right um so yes everyone has been really sloppy with like all of their appearances on television. It's because everyone knows.

That's the thing that's the most annoying thing is that everyone fucking knows. We know. We all know the truth and we're all just dancing around it to avoid what? Well, I guess that's the thing. It's like because if the GOP give in, then the whole thing comes crashing down because they would essentially, if that were true and they acknowledge it, then be like, you know what? Yeah, we should probably impeach him and throw him out. They're literally playing house of cards, though. Like, it really is just he's the last card.

You guys were absolutely going to fall down. Oh, yeah. He was your last bet at, like, white supremacy, let's be honest. Yeah. You were going to fail. You were going to fail. He's a walking failure. He's filed for bankruptcy, like, eight times.

To your point. Like, he's a failure. eight times to your point like he's a failure there was a former police chief in new jersey who right now is being tried on federal hate crime charges for slamming this young black kid's head into a doorway and in his depositions or like in his trial manifest he basically was saying that trump quote is the last hope for white people yeah like that's like oh good okay i'm glad somebody was able to fully articulate what other people have been observing and saying, oh, this is what it is.

And just telling you, he said, quote, I'm telling you, you know what? Donald Trump is the last hope for white people because Hillary Clinton will give it all to the minorities to get a vote. That's the truth I'm telling you. Yeah, my dad said that years ago when he ran. He was like, oh, this is their last hiccup for supremacy.

And then it's going to fall down. Right, right, right. Because we breed faster than them. It's true. We don't have weddings. We have baby showers. Yeah. Well, the thing, you know, so this all is kind of what's all swirling and sort of speaks to the desperation for people trying to defend the president.

So first is Kevin McCarthy, who's the minority leader in the House, who on the who not on the record, who said to other congresspeople right when Trump was elected, said that he thought Trump was on Putin's payroll. This is the guy who said that before he realized he was going to have to snuggle up with him. But, you know, sorry. He went on 60 minutes. And apparently, I don't think he even read the transcript of the phone call, because as we all know, the whole thing sort of hinges on this idea where the Ukrainian president says, I need these Javelin anti-tank missiles. And Trump says, but I need you to do me a favor though. Right. It seems to me that a lot of GOP people think that or have not read it because they always point to that word though, as being added by the media. And then this is the moment where Kevin McCarthy says that. And he's like, no,

fam, this is in the transcript. What are you talking about? What do you make of this exchange president zielinski says we are almost ready to buy more javelins from the united states for defense purposes and president trump replies i would like you to do us a favor though you just added another word no you said i'd like you to do a favor though yes it's in the it's in the White House transcript. When I read the transcript, President Zelensky brings up a javelin is a protection for anti-tank, something that President Obama would not sell. See, look, okay, just stop.

That's not even, he's, that was actually kind of a cool way to begin pivoting without not saying anything. He's like, when I read the transcript, let me start a new sentence i don't interpret the bible yeah right versus so when i read that that word actually doesn't come out out loud inside my head so therefore because that's the operative word there but i do that that specific like fuck up on his part does and the fact that this has happened a couple times where people were like you didn't say though where's that coming from right i feel like that's an indication of like that they're just not letting themselves see what's actually there or something because like you wouldn't go on 60 minutes and not have read the transcript like i don't know well i mean but yeah maybe but yeah he thought he was

prepared for that interview yeah oh and presumably he has staff right i just wonder how much is of it is just like a disordered you know they're just papering over every different you know piece of information that they're getting in their bubble to basically keep up this scaffolding or this house of cards like you were saying, of beliefs that they have. They're so blinded by the money because they're all just lining their pockets with these shady fucking deals that we all fucking know about. Again, we all know that you guys are accepting

money from all these different places you're not supposed to, including, you know, I don't know, people at the top. They're all just so blinded by the money and being told yes and being told that they're right within their little bubble. Right. Well, yeah.

And they have a bad example in the White House, too, where it's like, oh, shit. OK. He's getting away with lies publicly. It's like that? OK. Yeah. Because you also look, there's a couple of people right now who are members of Congress who the Ethics Committee is like sort of looking into their campaign finance things. They're starting to be more campaign finance things happening. But again, this is just sort of what's going on

because when you're trying to defend an indefensible position, this is just what comes out. And then so Stephen Miller, the little ghoul from the West Side. West Side? I had to do that out of respect for the West. That was like Steve Miller band? Yeah, Steve Miller. So he was on Fox News and got absolutely rinsed by Chris Wallace because Chris

Wallace has had it. Like he's one of the few people who, you know, he waffles sometimes at times he was like, I remember during the Kavanaugh thing, he was like shocked when his daughter told him, it's like, yeah,

like women get harassed by men straight up. And he was like, I heard from my daughter. And it was like, there was like this whole scene where you're like, I heard from my daughter. And there was this whole scene where he was like, I'm sorry, what? And that made it real to you? All they do is spend time around each other in the 80s

basically. And so they're just being reinforced with the We used to call that horsing around. Just grab our pussy. So with this one, Chris Wallace, he's really been one of the more vocal people on Fox. He'd be like, this is not good. And even like talking to other people on Fox when they're like, you know, when he told a guest on someone else's show on Fox,

he'll be like, you're kind of not treating this with the kind of urgency that it needs to be. Like, this is a serious thing. They're like, oh, come on, Chris. He's like, what? No, what the fuck is wrong with y'all? So this time, Stephen Miller goes on, who is the architect of a lot of the cruelty in terms of our immigration policy. And, you know, he's being asked straightforward questions. But when you can't give a straightforward answer, you do this.

About the information Ukraine possesses about the corruption of the previous administration. Let's just make this point. Just make this point. In May, as part of a regular interagency process, in May, two months before he withheld the aid, the Pentagon certified to Congress, certified, a formal process certified to Congress after a rigorous process and after consultation with the State Department that Ukraine had made dramatic progress in fighting corruption and that the aid should be released. Why did the president, if the argument is corruption, why did the president go against his own Pentagon and his own State Department? Chris, I don't understand how you can ask that question while at the same time

admonishing the president for wanting to get to the bottom of perhaps one of the biggest corruption scandals concerning Ukraine in the last few years. I'm not admonishing anybody. I'm simply asking, why did he go? Chris, Chris. I mean, this is, with all due respect, this is an exercise in obfuscation. Why did the president go against his own Pentagon and State Department? All right, cut it.

It's a tone of judgment. It's just, this is where it is. Rather than being like, okay. Miles. I'm sorry. Miles. Miles. Mm-hmm. What? sorry. Miles. Miles.

What? It's just so wet. When you have to say someone's name to buy you time to figure out what the fuck you're saying. It's just so transparent. Jack. Jack, right? Yeah. He's like, hey, I don't have a pot to piss in.

Can you just give me a minute? I need my team to speak in my ear for me. Hold on. Someone's holding up a cue card. Fuck. It says we're fucked. Shit. Well, even Jim Jordan, he was on Jake Tapper's show and he, Jake, Jake Tapper kept pressing

him. He's like, he's like, you're not talking facts right now. He's like, these are facts. He's like, look, bro. He's like, he's like, okay, you want to talk about like these kinds of corruptions. He starts pointing out how Ivanka is getting trademarks and copyrights in other countries that we do business with. His sons are still doing business and generating money,

like using the prestige of the office. Just like there's corruption there, even in this side of the fence. Oh my God. And he was like, all Jim Jordan could do is like, come on. He said,

come on. Yeah. Like why you got a wife? Come on, come on, come on, come on. He said, come on. Yeah. Like, why you got a wife? Come on. Come on. Jake. Come on. Come on.

That's not an answer. Yeah. But that's like really almost in a way where you're saying like, have mercy on me. You know I'm bullshitting up here. Right. Come on. Come on. Come on.

You and I both know very well. Come on. Like, is it worth the money? And especially to put all the cruel, like, immigration stuff into place. Yeah. What are you gaining from being cruel to all these people as well? I think these people just I mean, Stephen Miller, I think at his core is just an evil person. He wants people should never be in charge of anything.

Well, that's the problem. So, yeah, like when you get these people who, you know, because Trump had to shed a few generations of staff to get to this point. So many in three years. Yeah. Where there are people who are like holding their noses and they're like, fuck, I'm not going to I don't want to get to this point so many in three years yeah where there are people who are like holding their noses and they're like fuck i'm not gonna i don't want to work with this person some people just gave the fuck up other people's were truth talking too much to the president that he fired them right so now we're left with like the evil motherfuckers right we're

at like the ninth string players because first of all they're like nobody wanted to work for the trump administration at the outset they were like nobody wanted to work for the trump administration at the outset they were like well this is going i think some people did when they didn't realize you know because i think at the end of the day if you're a very opportunistic politician to work for the executive to work at the white house is a good thing you could hang your hat on but i think some people maybe thought it was it's going to be like maga fun all day we're really making america great rather than like oh i'm getting fucking food thrown at me in public like i'm i'm a pariah and you deserve it yeah exactly and i'm like and i'm co-signing all this evil bullshit

so you know you can get a little it gets a little stressful when when we listened to the steven miller fox news clip i was like wait what does that response remind me of? Somebody just being completely out of shit to say and just being like, look. Right, right. And it was the Jim Jordan clip that you played earlier in The Office, which is the exact same shit. Because they're getting just fucking... I mean, and then also on top of it, you have

Rudy Giuliani making it worse every fucking day. He opens his mouth and causes another problem. And recently, again, Chris Wallace on his show broke a story or a dimension of this story that wasn't reported. So, okay, Fox News, do you? That was saying that not only was it Rudy Giuliani working on behalf of the president, quote unquote, off the books to dig up dirt. Also, this guy, Joe DeGeneva, who's like on there, he's like a talking head Fox News lawyer and his wife vicky tensing they've also been implicated in all of this and they've just been out here being like

no i don't know anything about that the president i don't even know if ukraine's a fucking country wait these are fox news personalities yeah i mean they're like lawyers but they come on because they cape for the president so they like to be like and here's a lawyer who has no soul who will say legal words to make you the viewer feel like there's this isn't as bad as it is and yeah they what's funny is too even before their names were brought up on sunday the daily beast like reached out to joe degenova for like just to get his take on what's going on like and he wasn't even named nobody knew he had anything to do with this the second they brought up the word ukraine to him this guy loves to give interviews he just said i'm not commenting on anything and then when they asked

why he said i'm not commenting on anything and hung up damn so he was already shooketh joe d from the onset almost like an airtight seal where like all of the people who are covering up and like on fox news are involved with the original like conspiracy in the first place so like yeah where did you think this was gonna go especially in the culture it screams their age so badly like oh you guys are

used to the way things used to work whereas we have camera phones we have emails we have proof beyond proof beyond proof of the things that you do and you will be held accountable and we have people who are tired. Yes, exactly. And broke. Honey, don't be broke and tired.

They're really going to get your ass. They did it to Marie Antoinette. They'll do it to you. It's easy to be fucked up and corrupt in the 80s and 90s. Exactly. When you could shred papers and it was gone. Yeah, exactly. No, it's never gone now.

Right. So if you did it within the past 20 years, honey, we know about it. Yeah, it's a new, I mean, hopefully it'll be a new era. That's where we hopefully can see momentum going with these impeachment inquiries. I'm into it. The polling is not conclusive yet. There's some polls that indicate that people are, you know, ready for things to, you know, return to reality. And there's some polls that say like support for the president is still

extremely high. Uh, real quick areas. Let's check in with like, what's some developing news. What has changed since we last spoke on this subject? Rudy has been subpoenaed. Rudy Giuliani,

fully subpoenaed. They're like, come with the receipts because the shit you said on CNN basically makes you look very guilty. Right. So it's exciting. Please bring your shoe box with the receipts because the shit you said on CNN basically makes you look very guilty. Right. So please bring your shoebox with the receipts. Trump and Barr went after the leader of Australia, the Australian head of state, to basically get help investigating the FBI and CIA. What?

It's basically, you know how after he says, do me a favor, though, he starts talking crazy shit about CrowdStrike being like a Ukrainian operation. So it's more on that stuff, basically trying to get help from foreign leaders in fabricating stuff about the beginning of the Mueller investigation. So he wants the Australian government to look at itself to produce some kind of report that makes them look bad yes because australia was involved like when people first started realizing something was up and george papadopoulos was running his mouth talking to an australian like diplomat or something like that somebody like that yeah yeah so they're like okay you guys must have been involved let's let's get to the bottom sorry mr president i can't really look into that for you yeah the the thing about that crowd strike shit is okay first of all that's

a debunked conspiracy theory yeah that this old man just can't get out of his brain which is another aspect of this whole shit right is like is he we've always been like you know questioning his morality right but now mental health yeah like right now just in general it's it's we're able to be like maybe he actually can't fathom how bad this is or that he even didn't like he is fully not capable of doing i think he fully is delusional like he is so delusional he thinks everybody loves him he doesn't understand right he's an megalomaniac like he's he's all ego no reality right like he's like an actor on steroids well you know what i mean yeah and he's your uber driver and he's ready to talk to you about ukraine yes the thing was his own staff right his own staff trump's own staff were telling him

yo this theory that you and Rudy Giuliani are like going after has been completely debunked. They're like, this is not it. It's not even remote. It's not even the same neighborhood. Yeah, just let it go. Even his first Homeland Security advisor told the president, he's like, there is no basis for the idea that it was Ukraine and not Russia that got involved in the 2016 election.

But the problem is Rudy Giuliani keeps telling Trump this. And that's what a lot of the reports are. It's like, then Rudy gets back in his ear about this shit and then he's tweeting off this bullshit again. But that's the kind of like, that shows you like, you know, it's like, you know, if an elderly person heard about vaping and then you get that chain email, you're like, hey, you never know with the vaping. well watch out for the vape everything's gonna kill you who cares yeah

who fucking cares the whole world is on fire hey i'm gonna smoke myself out see millennials and gen z unite in our nihilism over at the wall street journal where they're you know accurately reporting on this story but then their opinion page page is basically the Fox News. Their most popular article of the day is John Durham's Ukrainian leads that talks about how they're looking into the origins of the Mueller report. So you can still hold out hope. They're like, what he asked about was CrowdStrike, and we don't know the answer to that yet. So they're still out here doing that shit.

Imagine being on a TV show where the point of the show was for you to verbally describe like the object in front of you. And it's clearly a can. But your mission is to never say the word can and fuck your audience up to think that it's not in fact a can on the table. You're like what i actually see is a cylindrical object right that um is patriotic in nature and made of strong aluminium right like this is i was watching fox over the weekend pretty much like every day at

some point i would check in to see what they're saying and it was constant the way they and like it was a pattern of the truth is not the truth and then little chunks of hope for the viewer of like and we're gonna get into biden after this next break he's like because the former vice president might also be in a lot of trouble like and that's how they they're just doing the oh him too kind of thing to get like to get their viewers to like feel good about this shit right now and it's just so i feel you know i don shit right now. And it's just so, I don't feel bad, but this is where the fuck we're at right now. It's been ongoing for three years, though,

because they're like, he won, and then they're like, but let me tell you about Hillary. And I'm like, she lost. Leave the bitch alone. We're done with that. Let's really talk about his problem now. Because we cannot figure out what the fuck his problem is. Here's this meme where Trump is the undertaker

and chokeslams her into a grave. It's like, okay. Oh, okay. It's's like i think she's just in her little house just tombstoned her we have talked before on uh this podcast about you know the possibility of a civil war saying it's you know a second american civil war is unlikely but people who are experts on modern civil wars say that like there are a lot of the ingredients for um a modern civil war present and you know robert evans did an entire podcast called it could happen here about what uh second american civil war would look like uh trump came out on twitter and was basically like if y'all impeach me it's gonna give to be civil war. Yeah. Let's bring it on. Sorry.

Where is it going to take place? Somewhere stupid? Don't fuck with me. I'm fine with that. Just not in L.A. Hi. Yeah. We're too high in California.

Exactly. I wish we would just be too high and too unarmed. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Like here, I'm going to hit you with my tickets to my one man show that didn't sell out. Right.

Yeah. That is a weapon. The whole thing is he was quoting this guy, Pastor Robert Jeffress, who was going on Fox all day being like, no, I've talked to thousands of evangelical Christians over the last few days. And the mood is that they will be so upset if the Democrats use impeachment to overturn the election. An overturn. It's like, this is not overturning the, you know what I mean? They're getting ahead of it. They're being like, you're breaking the law.

You're being impeached. Exactly. That's what it is. Yeah. But that's sort of their narrative of this is sort of like the sore losers can't do it, even though he lost the popular vote. Honey, what doesn't upset evangelical Christians? I'm sorry.

Two men in a commercial being in love is upsetting to them. Who gives a shit that they're mad about their stupid president who's doing fucking illegal crap? Yeah. Okay. Well, and I think,

so that's where he got that whole thing and I think he likes, again, he wants to always, if it wasn't the economy first, he's like, oh, I mean,

you fuck with me, the Wall Street's gonna fucking crash. Yes. Don't fuck with me. Yeah, it's similar. And then it's been pretty stable. Kind of.

I mean, it hasn't been crashing, but- No one's gonna stop spending money because you get impeached. I still have to buy things. Yeah, it's similar. And then it's been pretty stable. Kind of. I mean, it hasn't been crashing. No one's going to stop spending money because you get impeached. I still have to buy things. Right, right. I need Q-tips. I'm not worried about you. And people in Washington will be like, yeah, should we just dump his ass?

Because we need to get this money. Exactly. And then so this whole thing, right? There was a Harvard professor who was like, him already tweeting this would also be grounds for impeachment. Yes. To say like, threatening civil war to prevent Congress from doing its constitutional duty.

What the fuck is that? He's an evil villain. And he has no finesse. A country obsessed with these Marvel and DC movies about super villainy doesn't recognize a super villain. I don't get that. Yeah, because they're a lot dumber in reality.

Turns out. out yeah I know they're not geniuses Michelle Obama said that she said I was I've been in the room with world leaders and they're not that smart people are not as she literally said this I was like you better work bitch right like call them out it's true they're not the smartest people otherwise there'd be no war right war is a it's a product of stupidity yeah it's because we have words we all understand each other now. We have devices where we can translate your words to be understandable to my words. Right, right, right.

We have all this understanding and knowledge that could go around. And instead, we're going to use bombs and buy weapons because we're still stupid. We're still using our caveman brains. Yeah, it's stupid as hell. Yeah. Well, you know, bright future ahead. Yeah. Probably.

I can't wait for the world to burn. I hope I get to watch. Yeah, that's like most people. You're part of that very distinct group of people who use those exact words to describe on the left and the right. They're like, let's burn it down. Exactly. Because guess what? If you're not in the 1%, you'll burn it down.

You're like, you know what? If you get to have three yachts and I'm paying rent, it's time for you to go. Yeah. All right. We're going to take you to go. Yeah. All right. We're going to take another quick break. We'll be right back. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th, 2017, was murdered. There are crooks everywhere you look now.

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And speaking of burn it down, there's a New Yorker article about this solution that I guess has been around for a while, but basically focuses, I think the article is called money is the fuel that climate change like burns on or something like that. And basically focusing on the role of money in perpetuating climate change, like the fact that, you know, there are these enormous banks like JP Morgan that is, you know, has huge amounts of money invested in technology that we know is actively, you know, bringing about climate change. And just, you know, that's something that can't be faked. Like that's not a thing that you can hide in the dark. Like if it's a market thing

like that, that's, you know, has incredible amounts of money and it's like one of the Fortune 5 company or some shit like that, then you can shame them. You can bring this sort of shit to their attention. So they're basically talking about the possibility of making these companies through shame and through publicity divest themselves from any... Right. Well, and even more than that, through fucking money.

Right. Sadly. Like, you know, I hate to quote Vanilla Sky, but the answer to 99 out of 100 questions is money. Yeah. That's a fact. You actually love to quote Vanilla Sky.

Love to quote Vanilla Sky. Also, like, you know, the scenes where they show attraction, very realistic. It was not the worst movie in the world. It's just Tom Cruise is awful can we stop giving him money actually it's funny because when Jack first brought up this article

I was like I think in Vanilla Sky one of the first lines in the answer to 99 out of 100 questions is money but then I found a YouTube video where a pickup artist is breaking down how Vanilla Sky will show you how to interact better with women it was very sad anyway that'll be in the footnotes.

It's just Tom Cruise is such an alpha is what you have to understand. A-mog, dude, you got A-mogged. Alpha male, other guy. You're the other guy. You don't want to be the other guy. I will gladly pass on the soapbox. I couldn't, the whole thing was a toxic fire.

But yeah, it's true. Sadly, when the profits look a certain way or your money doesn't look right, then it's an issue. It's not the existential threat to future generations and many of the people who will be living on this earth to see some awful changes. It's just 20 years away. 20 years goes by like that. Think of where you were 20 years ago. We're here now. Yes.

20 years ago in 1999. Exactly. It goes by really, really fast. Yeah. So the ice caps, they're like almost completely melted now. I'm like, this is not going to end well for anybody. There will be no Miami. There will be no New York because we'll all be underwater.

And these are realities that are coming that could be reversed if we all just chilled out a little bit. Maybe. And we can't eat money. But that's the message, right? out a little bit maybe and i mean like you can't eat money but that's the message right is like if we want to even have a shot at this right then shit has to get fucking extreme very quickly like in terms of how we're like we need to fucking hit the brakes on so many things but again because money's being made that's not going to slow shit up right so then the only way i guess because everybody for all the people who are moving capital around in this in the world and you know perpetuating the climate change from this aspect can they be moved yeah

if the profit margins look different yeah i think one of the lines in the article is there shouldn't be like masters of the universe who are like sitting back and controlling everything from wall street but the fact that there are masters of the universe we can take advantage of that to like try and shame those masters well then let's get all these people's names out right so jamie diamond is the person they point out is the ceo of jp morgan chase yeah uh and they are the company that is most uh invested in fossil fuels and you know just retrograde forms of energy. And he's also part of a movement that is basically trying to have their cake and eat it too among CEOs where they're no longer only focused on shareholder value. So up to this point, like from the 80s through like basically last year, the main job

of a CEO that would keep them from getting fired was how much money they were making for their shareholders. And that could include, you know, fucking over customers, fucking over employees, just as long as they got that shareholder value. And he's part of a movement where they're like, no, let's take a step back because that is transparently evil. And people are starting to notice that about me and my kids are asking me questions probably. Let's look at the entire health of the company. Let's look at like how healthy, like, is this sustainable for instance, is this growth sustainable? Is it doing good things for the customer and the employee and the shareholders?

Like, let's at least put those other humans. Yeah. His like lukewarm wokeness that he likes to parade around with, like before he was like, you know, we got to do something about housing prices because like younger people can't afford them. Right. I'll just say that and won't do anything. Right. But I'll say that and won't do anything right but i'll say that and this other shit an interesting anecdote about him just so you can see like what being very wealthy and white can do to your brain he fucking pitched bob eiger the ceo of disney an idea for a corporate rom-com

he had thought up oh fucking pulled up to bob eiger and was like hi i'm jamie diamond i don't know what the fuck i'm doing about anything. Except making a lot of money. Here's a pitch. Jamie Dimon, a character named Jamie Dimon, like a really attractive woman, falls in love with him. So do you know what it was?

No. Wait, it just got made? No, it did not get made. Because the pitch sounds like some fucking evil quibrilbinaire, whatever the fuck you are, thought up a fucking movie idea from your corporate headspace of what a rom-com would be. Oh, okay. It's very much involving the mechanics of a corporation at the level he's operating in and romance. A CEO and CFO fall in love.

He's just trying to tell on himself and his affair with his secretary. This just sounds like a confession. This is what he said. Quote, it was about a woman who couldn't pick men very well, so she had a board of directors of women who would be testing men for her and picking her husband. Not only

that, he also said it should probably star Bette Midler and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. He had the casting in his eyes. He likes them older. That's fresh. I don't think he knows

anything past that though. He's like, I don't really watch movies. It's too much weird. They are Dinotopia over there. No shade. Lovely women. But I'm like,

oh, I expected something different. Shout out to Bob Iger because he said, that's just a bad idea. Right? That's just not going to go anywhere.

I'm also rich and white, and that's a no. But here, look, you deal with moving money around in evil ways, I'll just convince people to pay for the same movie 900 times over and over. Exactly. We're going to make The Little Mermaid eight more times. That's what we're going to do. This time it's CG but photorealistic. Right?

And she's still black, though. Right. But because it's CG, we can just assign a skin tone value for different markets and not upset anybody. Right? Now she's still black though right but because of cg we can just assign a skin tone value for different markets and not upset anybody right now she's green yeah yay everyone's happy due to pollution yes what about that yeah exactly or ariel's all sick and eric's like what the fuck is that right please the seas are so filled right it's played by that Olsen twin. So it's realistic. Dying. Took it there.

Who looks like they're dying? What, Miles, this story says that personality traits may be linked to musical preferences. Yes, look. No duh. No duh. In a way, yes. So the people who did the study are not out here saying, like, this is conclusive evidence that there are these strong correlations.

It is though. But their thing is a lot of people are like, you know what? There's a lot of interesting pathways for more research now because what they've dug up seems pretty interesting. So they were mapping a lot of people's like psychological traits and political leanings or things like that sort of in juxtaposing that with their musical tastes. leanings or things like that, sort of in juxtaposing that with their musical tastes. So they found a preference for rhythmic music, such as rap, hip hop, reggae, and R&B was associated with specific aspects of agreeableness, but not as a broad domain. Okay. But they did say rhythmic music fans tended to score high for traits related to compassion,

but lower on politeness, you know, cause we're rude. Yeah. Rude them. on politeness you know because we're rude yeah rude them now people who like the other the one of the other connections they found is some people who are not really into like upbeat music uptempo music loud shit were typically more introverted and also did not like to go near like large gatherings and things like that because they maybe suspect that the music could be overstimulating but those are things they're not jumping to those conclusions. They're just saying, like, we noticed this.

There may be something there. Like, what questions does that bring up? Is the music too lit for somebody who's skittish? But, like, upbeat music resists. Like, when you're listening to upbeat music, it doesn't lend itself to introspection. And I feel like lower key music does. So maybe it's just sort of.

Oh, they're like, I don't need all this distraction. Right. Yeah. I have like cleaning my house music, which is like your John Mayer Radiohead music. And then I've got my getting ready music when I'm like painting my face pretty much. And that's like your Britney, your like uptempo stuff. Like, and that's because I don't have time to think right now. I need to be the person I'm paid to be.

You need energy. Yeah, exactly. You need energy. You need to be the person I'm paid to be. Yeah, exactly. You need energy. You need to be the person I'm paid to be. Exactly. Oh, that is great. We all know that person. Hell yeah.

But it's actually a tweet. I really love it. It said, if we all go to hell for downloading music illegally, I hope we're separated by genre at least. Yes. And I completely agree. Well, this is the other thing too. So they said that another question that they were posing was there was a link a small link between conservative and religious entertainment and neurotic hostile and eccentric tendencies

so but their question is like does that mean that those people and movie interests are more willing than the average person to like acknowledge common personality failings or does it mean that those people struggle with negative emotions and then they turn to conservative religious media for answers oh yeah so it's a lot of things where there's enough to be like we can't say one way or the other but that's an interesting sort of thread to mine a little bit to understand a little bit more yeah i'll agree with that just because like uh a lot of and i'll say this a lot of religious people they're looking for answers so heavily and there's something dangerous about needing to know everything because I don't need to fucking know. They're like, are there aliens?

I'm like, I really don't need to know. I don't. I really need to get my rent paid next month. And that's where I'm at. He's like, well, if the aliens are paying my rent, then I'm interested. Exactly. I'm like, this is LA. Okay.

You guys are not under enough pressure to give a shit about where God comes from. I don't care. Like, he put me here. If he exists, whatever. I'm dealing with what I've got. Yeah. Or exactly. God's a black woman.

Anyway, it's Oprah. God is Missy Elliott. She's among us. Yeah. Missy Elliott would also be a really good one. I'm like, these beats are lit,

Pam. I believe it. But yeah, like, you know, there's, so there's enough to sink like, Oh,

maybe there is. I mean, I most, even the researchers themselves aren't convinced. So I, you know, most times you get these studies and they come with their chest out being like this is the truth right based on my sample size of 180 people no go to a nickelback concert and you know this is real like you know what i am more intelligent than everyone else here i would be the i would fuck that whole thing up because i'll be at a nickelback show. Miles is, look at this photograph.

Every time it makes me laugh. That's some good writing. Anyway. Yeah. I know that was shade. No, no, it's well-deserved. But, you know, there's something about it.

Shit, I might be evil. You know, I don't know. I cannot. Because I fuck with Nickelback. I like that Rockstar song. I mean, Nickelback is more wistful than it is religious or country. Yeah yeah it's not giving

an agenda well i mean they were you know they all talk about like getting along too right if everyone cared it's a great song yeah okay fair fine i'll let you have nickelback no you don't have to i'm it started off as a joke like a rom-com and then i fell in love with it right um but i feel like if some other dude really came at me with some heavy Nickelback energy I'd be like yeah thank you but I kind of like it half jokingly but you know if they're Canadian shout out to y'all

Has Nickelback ever suspected that you guys started dating on a dare? I don't think I hope not and please don't say that I have to see Chad later Reese it's been a pleasure having you this has been fun. Where can people find you? Instagram is my main.

Yes, Instagram is my main, my main. And I'm at aristocrat, A-R-I-S-C-E-S-T-O-C-R-A-T. And that's also the same on Snapchat, Grindr, Twitter. TikTok? Yeah, right. No, I don't know what that is. I'm in my. TikTok? Yeah, right. No, I don't know what that is. I'm in my 30s. Yeah, me too.

What the hell is this? I just, hey, you can follow me on TikTok. I haven't posted anything yet. Oh, really? I don't know how to use it. I'm not the one. I mean, I do know how to use it. Just make a video.

I'll pass. I've got Instagram. It's taking a lot of work. Yeah, there's so much. Yeah. Is there a tweet or post on Instagram that you've been enjoying that you want to tell our listeners about? Just anything by Angelica Ross. Follow Angelica Ross.

She's a fellow trans woman of color. She stars in Pose and AHS 1984. Just go and read her tweets. She is a truth teller. She hosted the LGBTQ Forum for the President's, the President Hopefuls, Presidential Hopefuls. Canada, yeah, yeah. Yes, there we go. I was going to say, what the hell are they called?

Yeah. Yeah, and she did an excellent job, and she has been reading people who are failed, and she's amazing. So follow her everywhere as well. Boom. Miles, where can people find you? Yeah, find me Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Gray.

A couple tweets I like. First one from Andrew T, at Andrew T. If there was tweets. I like, uh, first one from Andrew T at Andrew T. If there was even one good journalist out there, one of them would ask Trump which side he was on in the last civil war. Blair Saki at Blair Saki. Yes. I talk about my pussy a lot on here, but I also gave two different ailing strangers allergy medication out of my purse last week.

Another one from your doy. A Travis at Professor Doye. Fun fact, manga is mango for girls. Japanese manga. Okay, and Amy Miller, at Amy Miller, this kid just yelled at his mom, why do you always have

to go to Starbucks? And she just sighed and said, I don't know. and she just sighed and said, I don't know. That is a dark glimpse into that life. I know.

The kids are fed up, honey. I know. At Lias, L-I-A-S underscore tweeted, please take your Apple Watch off. If you are wearing a dress or formal attire, you look like a spy kid. And John is Toasted tweeted, I inject heroin into my arm that's scarred from times prior. My eyes roll back into my head as my manager pounds on my door telling me I'm on in five minutes. Let's rock, I say as I grab my bass guitar, take a pool of whiskey, and get in my Chuck E. Cheese Mouse band costume. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien.

You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes. We link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode as well as the song we ride out on. Miles, what's that going to be today? This is a track by Parallel Dance Ensemble. I don't know much about them. I was fucking around the internet looking for music,

and this is a track called Weight Watchers. It's a dope band. They're very edgy uh playing like i'm presuming live instruments as well but you know it's got a little punky rocky feel but good good rhythms too by edgy you mean they like make you feel like edging no no definitely not i had to stop edging but no this is more like it's a very lo-fi sound. It's raw. Raw. Yes, I mean raw.

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Bye. Bye. Boys all make me fall my tail, act like they got out of jail See my frame and they go pale, I smash these speakers, she too fell Boys all swept me in the VIP, Boney B.H. trying to trip Eat that ice cream, lick the drips, we just deserve cause we just tripped Can't compare me to them Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16, 2017 was assassinated. Crooks Everywhere

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