The Daily Zeitgeist - The Boy Who Cried War, The Right Is Getting Left Swiped 7.23.18

Episode Date: July 23, 2018

In episode 195, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Sara June to discuss boring Comic Con, Disney firing James Gunn, the latest episode of Sacha Baron Cohen's show, how hard it is to date as a conservative according to Fox News, Trump threatening Iran on Twitter, Delicious skeleton water, and more! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Miles want to get away Miles want to Zyde a gray Yeah Oh yeah Thank you so much Chapman Rice There you are Peter You're back thank you for that aka

Shout outs to you know all the half black half Jewish people out there like Lenny Kravitz. You know, holding it down for us half black people. And we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious comedian and host of the podcast, Left Coast. Please welcome Sarah June. All right, hold on, hold on, hold on. And the reason it's June. Hell yeah.

Nice. Thank you. I'm not a perfect... Oh, hell yeah. There we go. See, we were just talking about that song. All right. Sorry we're going to get to know you a little bit better, but first we're going to take

our listeners through what they're in store for. We're going to talk about Comic-Con being maybe like a little bit... It seems like the quietest Comic-Con in a while. Thank fucking God. But there was some news in the culture. Disney firing James Gunn. We're going to talk about that. We are going to talk about just culture war stuff in general.

We're going to talk about Sacha Baron Cohen and his work with Jason Spencer, the Georgia Assemblyman. Yep. More culture wars. We're going to talk about Fox News saying that having some interviews where they talked about how it's hard for conservatives right now in Washington, D.C. to find a date. I know. It's so sad. We're going to talk about how Trump threatened Iran with war and no one seemed to really care or take him seriously. We are going to talk about how a bunch of rich people want to drink skeleton water from

an Egyptian sarcophagus. It's the only thing I have in common with them. Yes. But first, Sargeant, we'd like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? My latest search history is Goku Dragon Bridge, and this is a very important clip from Dragon Ball Z where Goku has to run down a very, very long bridge

for an extremely long time. It appears to go on forever, and the whole time he's like, damn, this bridge is really long. What the heck is this bridge? What the fuck is this bridge? This is a long bridge. Run, run, run, run, run.

The bridge does not seem to get any shorter. You cannot see the end of the bridge on the horizon. It is windy. Just feels like now, you know? Mm-hmm. Right.

I just needed to watch that clip of Goku running and running and being like, feels like this bridge doesn't end. Yeah. Is this a joke on me?

Yeah. Am I in a joke? What's going on? That's how we all feel most of the time. Yeah, on the media had a thing this past week where they talked about that tone that is always going up. Like it's an auditory illusion. It sounds like it keeps getting higher and higher and higher

even though it never stops. Wait, what? We'll find it and insert it right here. But it just basically sounds like it's going up in tone. It's like getting more and more. Yeah, like in pitch. But it just keeps going somehow. And they were using that as a metaphor for the Trump presidency.

Sounds a lot like the Dragon Bridge. Yeah. You can just use what I just said. We don't need to put the clip in. Just do my shriek. Miles was perfect. Thank you so much. Perfectly on pitch. Nailed it. But yeah, and just how every day seems like, okay, well surely this is it.

And we've reached the climax. I think people were referring to it as like the climax or the season finale last week. Like, finally we got to the season finale of the Trump presidency. Oh my God. And nope, he's just getting- That's fucking sweeps week.

You guys, this is definitely the worst America's ever been. Ever. Ever. It's never been worse than this. We've never had any democracy problems. No one has ever- We've never received a foreign attack. We've never interfered in other countries elections

our democracy perfect pure untouched exactly until now it's strange how that well that's my dirty russian bear paws are fucking shoving our democracy into their butthole and trying to hibernate for another cold war but before trump man everything was fucking perfect that's the one thing i kind of like about all this is people, like, they're blind spot to history about American just general meddling and interference and imperialism. Yeah, I mean, all this, like, what is it, like, Rob Reiner's tweeting, like, this is an act of war. I'm like, do you understand what America does all the time?

This is maybe, like, a teeny little bit of getting a little bit of what we serve to everybody else all the time. And it's like, if that's an act of war, we're at war with the entire world. Right. And we created War School in the School of the Americas. We're like, hey, we'll show you how to put down socialists or communists and then do whatever the fuck you want in your country as long as you respect the Yankee dollar. Everyone's like, I cannot believe they tampered in elections. That is so fucking low. That is unbelievable. I have never. I cannot believe they tampered in elections. That is so fucking low. That is unbelievable.

I have never... I have never heard of Mossadegh. I mean, the list is Bolivia, fucking Venezuela. I can read the Wikipedia entry. And yet, if you had told me two months ago

what was happening in the news now, I would be amazed that it got as bad as it did. But it's just so rampant. Yeah, that is funny. Honestly, I am not in the same place. You're not? It's been like this. You're just like, oh, this is going to happen?

Yeah. I mean, do you want to take a bet on when the war with Iran is going to start? Because I would love to make some money. Oh, I don't think that's – that's not what I'm referring to. I'm just referring to how blatant and open the – it just seems so clear that the stuff that we thought of as kind of loony conspiracy theory stuff with regards to the Russia thing is now kind of open, out in the open, and people are still denying it and still kind of gaslighting us. Denying – And themselves. Like interference in our election?

Yeah, yeah. Just to, I think it's all self-preservation. All we're seeing is self-preservation from the right, though, too, is, like, psychological self-preservation. Like, I can't admit that I was totally fucking wrong this whole time. Of course not.

Look, as I'm still just trying to... But also, a lot of them know that it's true and they don't care. Yeah. You know? If Russian interference got my candidate elected, I would also be like, great. That's why I still wear JNCO jeans.

And I'm like, fuck what you heard. This shit is a wave. I'm still trying to picture how a bear is jamming something up its own ass without opposable thumbs. I think I've got it. Do you want me to draw it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Could you? Hold on.

One second. I'm going to do a little. Hold on. Oh, yeah. Whoa. Oh, wow. You should definitely trim your nails hold on. Oh, yeah. Whoa. Oh, wow. Should definitely trim your nails. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay. What is something you think is overrated? Overrated? I got to go with new country music here. I know I'm a maverick in expressing this opinion, but I think current country music, pretty bad. Don't love it. What's current country music? I don't know.

Well, I guess Taylor Swift was supposed to be country music. Right. And then she was like, I'm pop now. And I was like, were you not pop before? That's the thing about new country music is it kind of sounds like rock. It kind of sounds like pop. It sounds like a lot of different things. And I don't like any of it.

Also, most of it is just about being from America. All country music now is like, I'm from America. I love beer. And I love my truck. And I love America. And this is where I live. This is where I was born. This is where I live.

This is where I was born. This is where I was born. This is where I live. This is where I was born. This is where I was, it's my country. And I love the dirt roads I was raised on. I fucking, driving down a dirt road, beer in the console. What was the one track Billy Wayne Davis showed us?

That was that joke song where it's like parked by the lake. It was like this whole circuitous thing. Like it was the same lyrics just sort of emphasize different ways every verse, but it was about being like at a truck by a lake. Yeah, that's what old country music sounds like now. I guess, yeah. Avery Moore is a comic in Austin. This is an old bit of hers where she goes like,

driving down a dirt road. God is my dad and I am his son. Told me go up on the hill and kill everyone. That's really fucking good. But old country music is like emo. They're really sad all the time. Or there's a good story, you know. With old country music, you know you're going to get some real feelings.

Or a good story. Often a zither or a double bass, right? Those are good instruments that I like. And new country music is just like, yeah, I'm from America. Like, I fucking get it. Right. Man, how do you feel? It's just sort of like the instrumentation sort of like, well, if there's slide guitar in it, then we can call it country.

Yeah. And also like old country music had very dramatic stories. You know, like country music is about storytelling. It's like a real ballad form. Yeah, like old Dolly Parton. Exactly. And those are really good. She's country, right?

Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I just got to mix it because I fuck with Dolly Parton. I'm like, that can are really good. She's country, right? Yes. Yeah, for sure. I just got to mix it, because I fuck with Dolly Parton. I'm like, that can't be cocked. New country is like, I'm from America, and old country is like, I shot a man for no reason, and I'm crying in jail.

So old country is, you're going like 60s? I'm going with 60s. 60s is my favorite country. Yeah, that's, I think, the peak of, I just want country music to be more interesting. Driving down a dirt road, boring, shoot a man for no reason. That's for old, scared American white men

who are like, yeah, America. So new country for old men. New country for old men. Oh, man. Moving on. That was all to set up Miles. That's not the best in the biz. That entire bit was set up Miles.

Hey, guys, and I'm out. He is done. What are you drinking there, by the way? Hey guys, so, and I'm out. He is done. What are you drinking there, by the way? Mixture of Fen Fen and Starbucks Frappuccino. Very nice.

So is your underrated old country music then? My underrated is, yeah, it was 60s country music. Nice. I just, I've been listening to a lot of Patsy Cline lately, and every fucking song is like, this dude fucking left me for some other girl, and he's a slut, and she's a slut, and I'm sad. Right. Like, that's good.

Like, country music now is like, I'm going to bash this guy's windows in. I'm not going to do that. I'm just sad. There's a specificity to country music lyrics that you don't get in rock lyrics. It's almost like rock lyrics are at their best when it's as vague as possible.

Yeah, when it's broad. Country music is like, we're telling a very specific story. Literally. I know the waist size of the jeans he had on. I'm stuck in Folsom Prison specifically. Not just any prison. We'll take a cell block on it too. Yeah, it's very literary.

And it's all about listening to trains and crying. There's just a lot of crying. They cry a lot and it's not about the troops. What is a myth, Sargeant? What is something that people think is true that you know to be false? I guess a good myth is that the mayor of LA

is ever here. That's a thing. I think people sort of assume that when you're the mayor of a city you live there and you mostly spend your time there. But Eric Garcetti is gone all the time. I don't think I've ever seen Eric Garcetti in LA, ever. I saw a picture of Eric Garcetti in the Trader Joe's parking lot after the shooting.

That is the only time I've seen him. Like literally a photo of him in the parking lot? Yeah, like it was a press conference or something. In my mind, I took it flippantly a step further and someone was merely holding a picture of Eric Garcetti. He's here for you. He's here for you. Look at the picture.

Which almost was feasible to me. Yeah, I need to get a life-size cardboard cut out of Eric Garcetti and just put him in my window and it's like, where the fuck is

the man? He's right here, man. He's right here. Don't look too hard. Oh, there he goes. Goodbye. Yeah, Eric Garcetti's never fucking here.

Apparently, he is now talking to Jeff Bezos to try and get Amazon HQ2 here in LA. Oh, that'll be fucking great. So he's trying an ender end? Because was LA even involved in the HQ2? No. No? No.

I mean, well, it's an open call. It's basically a cattle call for getting fucked by Jeff Bezos. And Eric Garcetti's like, me, me, me, please. Yeah, we don't have a housing crisis at all here. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Literally, there's people on the streets

everywhere. Everywhere in LA. Like, it's really, it's spreading. This has been going on for a very long time, but in the past two years, it's gotten

noticeably worse. Oh, 100%. Everybody that comes here is like, what the fuck is going on in LA? Because nobody fucking talks about it. Yeah. Except for the UN, who's like, oh, this is a humanitarian crisis. Yeah, no, 100%. And Eric Garcetti is like, what the fuck is going on in LA? Because nobody fucking talks about it. Yeah. Except for the UN,

who's like, oh, this is a humanitarian crisis. Yeah, no, 100%. And Eric Garcetti is like, we need Amazon to build here so that we can employ all these homeless people, I guess. That's 100% what's gonna happen. And we already have,

and we have funding though to try and address this, but like, isn't one of the biggest things now is like trying to find neighborhoods that are open to building the actual facilities and everyone's like on this NIMBY shit where're like i don't want a fucking it's like

affordable housing place in my neighborhood that's exactly i mean it's it's kind of what's you know it's a sort of a vicious cycle going on for a long time there's there's nimbys who are like i don't want there to be any homeless people but i also don't want any new buildings and then there's yimbys who are like, I support more private development near me because private development is really just more of the same. It's not really going to help the people that need the most help. Public housing is where it's at and nobody wants that. Yeah.

Because of, you know, all the fucking shit you get fed about how homeless people are, you know, they just love to, they're homeless because they want to be and they love to do drugs and throw their shit at you. Like, you know, this is what people want you to think homeless people are. So you're scared of them. No, most of these people are victims of a failed health care system or, you know, late stage capitalism. There's like full families living on the street. Like these people are not here to hurt you in general.

And yeah, it's. Well, especially when you think about how like how much the shelters are just sort of packed to the gills. And it's already like we to the gills. Yeah. And it's already like, we need relief from that. Yeah, we don't need more shelters. We need permanent public housing because clearly the system doesn't work. And the LA Times yesterday was like, hey, a new solution to the homelessness crisis,

private funds. Oh, wow. Private? Private funds, yeah. This was on the Sunday LA Times, and it was like, yeah, some, I guess, private investors, not named, spent about a million dollars building a nine-unit building, and maybe that's the answer.

Private funds got us into this mess. Probably they can get us out. There's a chance, huh? All right, guys. We have to get to the important stuff, though, because comic books happened this week. Wow. So it was a down year for Comic-Con,

and it might be the first of the rest of the history of Comic-Con being down. Welcome to the club, Comic-Con. Because Disney and Marvel were not there. There was no big Star Wars thing because they have their own con. Marvel did not drop any heat like they have in years past. And so the big reveal was the Aquaman trailer.

Was it? Sick. I guess. That seemed to be the top trending thing over the weekend. Aquaman rules. Usually you would hear news out of Comic-Con will escape the immediate nerd universe, the

Twitter universe. Usually at least one thing happens that's sort of of general interest. Yeah, and then people are like, oh shit. I remember last year, I think it was that Rick and Morty clip of when they were reading that trial script out. So I felt like that was a huge thing and then there were some trailers, but this year yeah, I think, I was like, I guess there was

a Breaking Bad reunion panel? But that's not like a forward looking thing. It's like, hey, I think I was like, I guess there was a Breaking Bad reunion panel. But that's not like a forward-looking thing. It's like, hey, remember these motherfuckers? Yeah. For 10 years. And I'm like, okay. Aquaman? Not a fan.

Yeah. The trailer had some cool moments, but the stuff that takes place underwater just doesn't look like it takes place underwater. Can I see it? It looks like they're just kind of walking around on a green screen stage. That's fucking bullshit. Who is it? Jason Momoa is Aquaman, right? Jason Momoa, which, I mean, I can't get enough of that guy.

I mean, who can? Right. Miles is showing you the trailer right now. Man, that water looks fucking whack. All right, this water's bullshit. Yeah. It just looks like they're in a dark field. Yeah.

It just looks like they're in a field and it's cloudy out. The particles are around them rather than the, I guess, bubbles. This is what every Marvel movie looks like. It's all blue. Yeah. It just looks like they're in a field and it's cloudy out. Some particles are around them rather than the bubbles. This is what every Marvel movie looks like. It's all blue. Right. Every movie looks like this. You can't tell that it's fire or water, I guess. Sorry. Yeah. It is expensive to make shit look really...

I feel like in 2018 we should be able to believably make people look like they're actually underwater. There were Portishead videos in the 90s that were doing it believably. Don't make the Aquaman. Well, I mean, those guys were underwater. There was a whole crowd of people who were like, whoa. Yeah.

And you're like, wait, this is underwater? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there's just a lot of money and sometimes it doesn't go to the right place. Yeah. You know? Yeah. And I mean, this is the director. People are going to watch this movie the right place. Yeah. You know? Yeah. And I mean, this is the director.

People are going to watch this movie anyway. Yeah. Yeah. There are some good looking action sequences or like brief flashes of action sequences that look like they could be cool. Yeah. If you watch it and you don't think about the fact that it's supposed to be underwater, it's like, oh, this looks tight.

Right. Right. This looks like a good action movie. Cool. And it's by the guy who directed some of the best Fast and Furious movies. Nice. So I think there's a chance for it still. Oh, yeah.

It'll do fine. I mean, no one's, I think. Do you guys think they're going to be okay? Yeah, exactly. I don't think someone's going to be like, damn, did you see that trailer? I mean, they took an L on the water, you know, fucking motion graphics. I'm going to have to, whatever. But you know it's bad for DC when it's their Comic-Con.

They're the ones who are releasing shit, and they still get overshadowed by Marvel news, which is that Guardians of the Galaxy 3 fired the director, James Gunn, after there was a- Where do I send my resume? What's that? Where do I send my resume? It's a direct-to-director. Exactly. Because there were some old tweets of his that came to light, and this was all part of the ongoing culture wars. Culture wars.

Do we have a sound bite for culture wars? We just kind of do that. Did you not just hear the perfect voice? It's done live. But yeah, so it was Mike Cernovich and Jack... Posobiec, whatever you call him. Weird Jack Posobiec. Yeah, it was like a campaign by them to dig up shit on the director,

James Gunn, because he is anti-Trump online, and they've been looking for their person that they could get taken out the way that they think liberals took out Roseanne. Liberals, wow. I mean, because on one side, this guy just made like really just shitty, awful jokes. This guy's a hack.

Like he should get fired for being a fucking hack online. Yeah. I think that should be a fireable offense for anyone. I'm a hack. Oh no. No, but I think like when you look at the way people were reacting, like Ted Cruz was like, if this is true, like he needs to be prosecuted. Right. And think, like, when you look at the way people were reacting, like, Ted Cruz was like, if this is true, like, he needs to be prosecuted.

Right. And you're like, bro, he's talking about, like, shit that is not even of this world. This is like third grade humor or whatever. I mean, I guess third graders don't make that many jokes about pedophiles. But, yeah, this is, like, this is extremely, these are just bad jokes. Yeah. Trying to use, trying to be edgy, trying to use shock humor. Very immature male humor.

Yeah. It's very, like, oh, what's the edgiest thing I can think of? Pedophilia. I'm going to make that joke over and over, over a period of what, years? Right. It's really hacky. But if you believe in Pizzagate, you're like, damn, this is all coming together. I mean, but that just shows how desperate they are to come up with evidence in the whole pizza gate that the

media is run by a cabal of pedophiles theory that they've been working on. Oh, I thought it was that the media is run by a cabal of pizzas. A cabal of pizzas. Of Jewish pizzas. So, right. One of his tweets was, I'm doing a big Hollywood film adaptation of The Giving Tree with a happy ending. The tree grows back and gives the kid a blowjob.

Oh! There was one where he tweeted that the water pressure at his hotel felt like a three-year-old peeing on his head. Just like throwing in shitty. This is a bad open mic set, man. Yeah, that's exactly what it is. But the idea that Ted Cruz was like, if this stuff is true. If this water pressure truly is that bad... We need to talk to the hotel.

Very confusing. Can't get a lather going like that. But a writer... Everyone should be fired for posting badly. If you post bad, fucking lose your job, man. Stop posting. Just don't step into the arena if you don't have the heat. Yeah, it's fine. Not everybody has to post. You're James Gunn.

You direct movies. Put it in drafts. Right. This was written at a time when he was directing movies for Troma and his career hadn't really taken off. But Troma's better than that. Right. It's still way, way better than that. If you're trying to be edgy and do shock humor,

Troma's better than that. Come on. But in retrospect, it's weird that his career path ever led to Disney. Truly, yeah. And directing such a huge movie. I thought Disney was supposed to be like a big fucking, do they not vet tweets? That seems like an important part of stuff now. Like, if I was a big company like Disney and I hired somebody, I would be like, just delete your whole Twitter.

Right. somebody i would be like just delete your whole twitter right and they basically supposedly knew about these tweets in the same way that they knew about roseanne's background of tweeting crazy shit and they were just like from here on out just shut the fuck up please and roseanne did not do that uh you know gun did do that but because there was this public outrage then they caved and fired him and our writer jm mcnabb pointed out that before we start jumping in and you know starting a campaign to get james gumry hired uh we should look at other directors who were fired by disney for worse reasons uh like there is a director named brenda chapman who wrote the pixar movie Brave and was hired to direct it. It was a very personal story to her.

Everybody who worked on it with her were like, she had an amazing vision. She was lovely to work with. But because Pixar was such a boys club, they let her go and basically just said that her vision didn't match with the company's, which was that she was making a movie from a strongly female perspective. And, you know, they replaced her with Mark Andrews. Just two male names just thrown together. So Sam Michaels. Yes.

Sam Michaels and Mark Andrews to team direct. But, yeah, so I don't know. It seems a little weird to get too, too worked up about about the James Gunn thing I'm sure he's learned a valuable lesson now they're still cutting checks to Johnny Depp you know what I mean like there are people who like comparatively on paper one guy who's just a fucking

dumb idiot making shit jokes versus like a serial abuser you know but they still have him there and also like these two Cernovich and Posovic their fucking their backgrounds like a serial abuser, you know, but they still have him there. And also like these two, Cernovich and Posovic, their backgrounds are fucking awful too. I'm pretty sure Cernovich, like, I mean,

aside from their racism and crazy, you know, shit that they post online, I feel like one of them like legitimately was charged with rape a few years ago. Right. Or like 15 years ago. Super believable. Yeah, yeah. Over at the QAnon subreddit, they are writing- Meanwhile, at the QAnon subreddit-

Meanwhile, they are responding to this. Look into CPS. They are helping the elite steal children. No one wants to talk about it. That congresswoman who was exposing CPS was murder-suicided. Your world is run by devil-worshiping pedophiles. People are finally starting to wake up. Stop supporting occultist pedos like Disney.

Okay. So that's their read on the situation. But like you were saying, this does tie into an overarching conspiracy theory that the media is run by pedophile pizzas. Yeah. Pizzas love kids. That's why they got that deal with the turtles. Right, exactly. Just for the kid access. We were going to talk about Lasseter too, yeah? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Pizzas love kids. That's why they got that deal with the turtles. Exactly. Just for the kid access.

We were going to talk about Lasseter too, yeah? Yes. Yeah. So Lasseter is the head of Pixar who created Toy Story and Frozen and I think the Cars franchise. And it came out, was very huggy at work and liked to make female employees hug him and would say inappropriate things and you know Disney did an investigation

he was on leave for a while and they quietly were like he's going to stay on as a consultant through the end of the year he's not allowed back in the office and he's fired at the end of the year but he was heading up Pixar at the time when Chapman

was fired from Brave. So you get the sense of what Pixar's culture was like. Yeah, I mean this is sort of animation a lot all the time and Pixar sort of positions itself like this is new animation. We're Pixar. We make movies that are for the

whole family, including the adults. All cultures. All cultures. All cultures. We're diverse. We tell a lot of stories. We have values that are different from what you would consider old Disney movie animated values that are very fairytale or whatever. Like racist depictions of people. Yeah, like racist princesses and stuff.

But it's still just animation. It's still the same old fucking dudes. And I mean, what's amazing about the Lasseter thing is like, he's a big fucking deal. He's a really big, that dude's rich. That might be the most powerful person who's been stopped by Me Too up to this point. And what's, I mean, what I'm, I mean, not to like speculate, but there's no fucking way they fired him for hugging. Right. This guy makes literally billions of dollars for Pixar.

Frozen is like, I mean, you have kids, Jack. You know what Frozen is. I am aware. You know Frozen doesn't fucking end. Yes. You know there is no ending. You don't even have kids. You look like you just came back.

You're like, you know that shit. It's like that dragon bridge. I went to a Frozen birthday party where they had the same three songs from Frozen on repeat at very loud volumes the whole time. It was wild. It was let it go. And then, do you want to go to Snowman? Yes, yeah, yeah.

And then probably, what's another song from Frozen? I don't know. I shored it out and woke up and I was covered in blood. Well, I used to, I babysit a lot, man. I work with kids a lot. And when did Frozen come out? 10 fucking years ago? Or some shit?

No, three years ago. Frozen 2 came out a few years ago. Frozen came out 10 years ago? When did Frozen come out? No, it didn't come out 10 years ago. I bet it was 2012. No, 2013. Time flies when you're fucking Frozen, man.

Damn, it was 2013? It was 2013. How the fuck did I just hear about it? You just heard about Frozen? Yeah, just now. Wow, you must not hang out with a lot of kids, man. No, man, I can't stand that shit. 2014 in LA, I was hearing kids in my parking lot sing Let It Go in a little helium chorus.

Right. And they didn't know most of the words. It's so funny because the history of Frozen, well, so first of all, Brave was supposed to be their groundbreaking movie where it was the first Pixar movie with a female protagonist, and this is what happened. All right, you guys are going to shit yourselves.

Hold on. We got ourselves a white female protagonist. Stop the presses. Oh, God. What will we do? But Frozen was seen as like this big deal because it had a female relationship at the center of it. It centered a non-romantic female relationship rather than the romantic relationship between the main character and a love interest.

But initially it was a Little Mermaid Ursula situation. And the only reason that they ended up making it friends is because Let It Go, they like heard it and they were like, oh, that's too good of a song that we need to make them friends. We need to make her a protagonist. It's based on The Ice Queen, which is a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale. If you guys know anything about Hans Christian Andersen, it always ends with a girl dying.

It ends with an evil woman getting killed in a really painful way. So yeah, Elsa was supposed to be the Ice Queen, is the villain of the story in the fairy tale The Ice Queen. And I mean, thank God they changed it because that's a much painful way. Right. So like, yeah, Elsa was supposed to be the Ice Queen, is supposed to be the villain of the story in the fairy tale, the Ice Queen. And I mean, thank God they changed it because that's a much better movie. But they did it accidentally just because somebody wrote a great song. Because Robert Lopez wrote a really good song.

Yeah. So they, but basically anytime they're adding diversity or, you know, strong female characters to a movie. It's a fucking mistake. It's a mistake that they're like doing kicking and screaming. Yeah. And yeah, and plus you have Pixar being part of the whole tech world.

So that doesn't help also. Are there not a lot of women in tech? Jack? Jack? We're going to take a quick break to look that up. And we'll be right back. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th, 2017 was murdered.

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Aired last night. I just read recaps of it because I do not have Showtime. But, Miles, you watched parts of it? Yeah, I use the internet to not pay for Showtime and find ways to watch it. But, yes, today's... So, last week, everybody was getting real hot and bothered by the whole kindergarten segment where

GOP congressmen were like, yeah, arm kids. And basically this one dude had... We went over that. So this week, the man in the hot seat is Jason Spencer, who is a Georgia state representative. So he works in the state legislature. And he... Sam Michaels, right? Yeah, Sam in the state legislature. And he –

Sam Michaels, right? Yeah, Sam Michaels. Jason Spencer. So he – I mean, just to give you some background, he's had a few – you know, he's a little bit of a controversial guy when it comes to standing up for – He's a Georgia assemblyman is what you mean. Yeah, like caping for Confederate statues or having like anti-hijab or burqa bills. statues or having like anti, you know, hijab or burqa bills. So here at the beginning of the segment on this is who is America, they sort of did a quick greatest hits of sort of Jason Spencer's history in the assembly. My name is Jason Spencer. I'm a state representative

in the Georgia General Assembly. That's the House of Representatives. Jason Spencer, a Republican, threatened his former Democratic colleague after she criticized his support of Confederate monuments on Facebook. Representative Jason Spencer, a Republican, threatened his former Democratic colleague after she criticized his support of Confederate monuments on Facebook. Representative Jason Spencer says his bill is definitely in response to mass terrorists. House Bill 3 would make it illegal for people to conceal their faces in public. OK, so he likes, you know, we get where he likes fascism. Yeah, the political spectrum. Didn't he also say that one of his opponents would potentially go missing or has to watch her back or something?

That's when he said, yeah, he intimidated someone for criticizing a Confederate monument bill or something. Yeah, there was another elected official, a black woman, who was like, maybe Confederate monuments aren't a good idea. And he was like, careful, bitch, you might go missing. Yeah, that's not a hypothetical in the South. That's a thing with a lot of horrifying history. It's actually not a hypothetical anywhere. Yeah, that's not a hypothetical in the South. Like, that's a thing with a lot of horrifying history. It's actually not a hypothetical anywhere. Yeah, that's a very good point. So, suffice to say, he's a racist Islamophobe.

We kind of get it. A lot of those don't cover your face bills are also about anti-fascist action. Because people cover their faces to just not get recorded. So, like, there's a lot of bills like that, not just in Georgia, but all over the place. So, it's sort of a, it's a,'s sort of a, it's a two for one. You get to hit the Burka thing, and you get to hit the Antifa thing. So in this one, Sacha Baron Cohen dusted off

his ex-Massad Israeli special forces character with the exaggerated face. Who is still in this season. That somehow people still look at this and go, that's a human from Earth. That's not a Dick Tracy villain. That is a human being with a normal face. That guy's face moves normally.

So they started to do some exercises where he was running them through, like, what to do if, you know, how to deter a would-be kidnapper. And so one of the first ones was like, yeah, take your clothes off or, like, you know, literally shove your ass in someone's face because maybe homophobia is actually a good way to keep yourself safe. So this is just like a quick soundbite of one of the drills they did when he was like, okay, so imagine a guy's got a gun. He's like, you're coming with me. What do you do? And then listen to this thing. And picture this man, this state assemblyman with his bare ass out, and he's charging Sacha Baron Cohen, who has a pistol in his hand. Show me your weapon. Go.

I'll touch you. I'll make you a homosexual. You drop that gun right now. USA. USA. I, what? Can I just hear that one more time? That's my new ringtone.

Show me your weapon. Go. I'll touch you. I'll make you a homosexual. You drop that gun right now. USA. USA. I'll touch you.

I'll make you a homosexual. Drop that gun, USA. I'm making a t-shirt right now with that on it. And I cannot believe this man put his bare cheeks out there like that. Yeah, he's running backwards at him. Running backwards. USA, buddy, USA. With his ass forward.

Ass forward. You know, showing their ass really saved a lot of those guys at Abu Ghraib. Yeah. Those guys at Abu Ghraib, they were like, wait a second, hold on. What if I show you my ass? And then, you know. That was the secret the whole time. They were like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Cannot touch you. Don't want to be gay. Yeah. Well, we'll see. So this guy, they went on and they kind of upped the stakes a little bit more. So they're still doing, this is how you protect yourself. Because the whole time, Sach Sasha Baron Cohen's like you know you could be you know kidnapped

by ISIS so the way you talk Jason Spencer is like yes yes I believe that so this next one he's like okay so we're going to do one more because aside from taking your clothes off a lot of it is about attracting attention to yourself by like screaming or cursing so people notice that you're being

kidnapped exactly to bring attention to yourself so like screaming or cursing. So people notice that you're being kidnapped. Exactly, to bring attention to yourself. So this is the real cool point. Yeah, so this is him saying, okay, now let's do the screaming part. In America, there is one forbidden word. It is the N word. Now, I am going to be the terrorist. You have three seconds to attract attention. Go.

Nigger, nigger, nigger, nigger. Are you crazy crazy the n word is noony not this world this world is disgusting he's really good at his job yeah he really and so this suffice to say this has gotten uh our man jason spencer in some hot water i mean he's i think he's already been primaried out so he's not going to be in office. He's not really going anywhere. But, you know, it's weird because this morning on, like, news shows, they're like, is Sacha Baron Cohen going too far? Right. Like, is this ethical or whatever?

Like, he's getting racist to be racist. On camera? On camera. This has never happened, especially not in Borat, the movie we all fucking know him from. Right. Especially not in Borat, the movie we all fucking know him from. Right. This is why I think it's actually journalism, what he's doing, because a lot of the shit- That's going a little far.

Well, a lot of the shit that you get people saying, there's a segment where he has a town where they think that he's building a mosque there, and they just get outraged and start saying all this crazy crazy racist shit like this is not stuff that he's making them say this is just stuff that they would not normally say in front of a camera if you know if it was the news but he manages to put them in situations where they say the things that you know we only suspect they say but do you think it's journalism in that, like, I feel like it's political satire that is just very eye-opening. I don't know. The journalism part, I guess.

I would not call it journalism. Because he's duping them into behaving. Right. The whole point of journalism is, like, being open. You cannot secretly record a conversation as a journalist and use it as a source. You know what I mean? There's supposed to be ethics in journalism. Right.

So if this is journalism, it's probably better journalism than a lot of what we see. Right. But it doesn't, you know, like does it reveal stuff about our country? Yes. Is it journalism? No, man. It's fucking art. Right.

This is art. Yeah, that's fair. The word you're looking for is art. It's a glimpse of a part of reality that we don't normally see because there's also like there's a lot of people that say this shit on camera all the time right they're just on different parts of the internet than the ones i go to yeah they're not even want to see that yeah and they're not even not in la man they're in fucking orange like i saw a video uh from this guy who just like works in works in orange county just straight up a video clip of

a lady being like get out of my country and was like, I'm just fixing your neighbor's fence. And she was like, I hate you. And he was like, why do you hate me? And she was like, because you're Mexican. Like verbatim, I hate you because you're Mexican. And he was like, there was somebody filming. I think either somebody he was working with or his mom or something. He was like, someone's filming you.

And she was like, I hate you. Yeah. Yeah. It's definitely, you know, what he does, I think, is he creates a safe space for racists to just be like, oh, OK, I'm going to talk my shit now. Especially that mosque one. He either pushes them to an outrage point where they think, all right, fuck it, I'm going to say what I think, because this is the thing that they're scared of.

They're scared a mosque will be built in their town and that they'll be taken over by Muslims and then suddenly fucking Fort Wayne, Indiana is under Sharia law, you know? Yeah. And that's what they're afraid of. And they're like, all right. And it's crazy to listen to them though too where they just don't, at the end where he's like, well, we have black people and like, they're lucky they're here. We tolerate them.

And you're like, who said that? Was that Jason Spencer? That's no, that's going like further on in the clip of like the mosque town hall thing. And you realize, damn, like it's, he damn, he really just pulled the curtain back on me. Right, and that was a thing that I hadn't heard. That was a thin curtain. Right. That was a thing I hadn't heard racists say before.

So from that perspective, it was like, yeah, that's a- That we barely tolerate black people? Right. Well, just that they feel like they're doing everyone a favor by tolerating people of other races. It was just like a weird weird sort of uh warped version yeah just sort of a new spin on a new spin on race like i'm doing the good thing not getting violent and like trying to terrorize these people yeah

this is what like a lot of a lot of quiet racists are like i'm a fucking saint man you put me on a damn stamp because i have not lynched anyone this year and uh last night's episode was also featured the dick cheney interview where he got dick cheney to autograph a waterboarding kit that rules uh dick cheney there was also a part where he basically said that he used the waterboarding technique to interrogate his wife because he thought she was being unfaithful to him. And Dick Cheney laughed at that. So, like, Dick Cheney is the monster we all thought he was.

Yeah, he's fucking Darth Vader. Yeah. Hey, guys, remember this guy who sucked? Still really bad. Yeah, exactly. But it's really hard out here for conservatives, on the other hand. I mean, they're getting duped left and right, whether it's by it's really hard out here for conservatives on the other hand. I mean, they're getting duped left and right, whether it's by Russians who are so obviously Russian spies or people with fake faces.

Or pizzas that are trying to molest their children. And now they can't even fuck. Right. They can't even date. Now they can't even fuck. Well, it's, it's getting worse. So Fox, right. I like last week, I think Politico had a story about lamenting Republican pieces.

I've been seeing a lot of smaller local stories that come out where it sort of started at colleges, where it was like the whole, oh, we're college campus Republicans and we're super oppressed. And one aspect of that is young Republicans, especially people in a young Republican global group, being like, no one wants to fuck me. Right. When the new one is now, D.C. is a dating swamp. It says in D.C. may be impossible for young Trump and GOP one wants to fuck me. Right. When the new one is now- It's an issue. D.C. is a dating swamp. It says in D.C. may be impossible for young Trump and GOP staffers to find love. And some of the quotes are, first of all, keep in mind, these are people who are supporting

a, I mean, we already know. Y'all, Zeitgang knows what we're dealing with here. So these are people who are like looking at children being ripped away from their parents and be like, yeah, that's cool. I'm cool with that. Yeah, being like, you know what? It's just what we need to keep our country safe yeah it's to put these one-year-olds in court and have a judge ask them questions like do you understand the charges

yeah right so so they go along they interview all kinds of people who like work in the administration and some people are saying like you know another person who works for the trump administration said she has endured insults for simply posing with the american flag. Guys say, are you one of those Trumpies? It's ridiculous, she laments. How did posing with the American flag turn me into a country-hating loser? They go on where another person— I don't know, man. You tell me. I know.

How did you get to be such a loser? Another Hill staffer said she's been harassed on dating sites so much that she and her friends just, quote, stick to our own these days. I thought that was what they fucking wanted. I guess to a certain extent. I thought they just wanted to inbreed with other white losers. Well, I guess they do like hot liberal guys too or something. And they're like, why is it bad that I'm conservative? So this quote is, it's disheartening. She said,

basically, we now all date one another. It's safer that way. I have a group of friends who are all pretty conservative and we end up dating in the same circle. I don't think coming to the heart of the nation's capital would be like this, but it's a reality these days. Another person says- Damn, white people are so oppressed, Miles. Yeah. Well, look, go on. Ted Dooley, who's the executive director of College Republican National Committee, he said- Sorry, those are the four least fuckable words in English language. He said that he's heard numerous horror stories of conservatives being berated for their beliefs. It reflects the larger tone of our environment that extremists like Maxine Waters are encouraging fringe extremists on the political left to verbally and physically berate those with differing opinions.

It's no surprise that her encouragement has seeped into the personal interactions of young people they have in all aspects of their lives. So it's just a lot of people being like, I don't know what to do. A lot of people saying, I don't even bring up politics anymore because it just ends the date immediately. You know what I think about Republicans? They're lucky we let them live here, man. They're lucky we tolerate them. Yeah. I mean, you're out here.

There's no, again, the physical intimidation shit, come on. That's just because people are like, you are aligned with something. You are supportive of something. That makes me disgusted. Well, not only are you supportive of it, but you spend your life working for this administration you know what i mean it's not just like oh i got some views which again i don't know why are you so surprised that people are upset at your terrible job yeah like you're a you support an administration that puts babies in jail right do you think people are just gonna let that go right that's kind of a like all over the political spectrum people have a problem with that.

Yeah, exactly. It gets at the somewhat maddening thing about Fox News and it's, you know. They're just trying to show both sides, Jack. They're trying to show their ass and their balls at the same time. But they view it as, look, these are our beliefs, yours are your beliefs. And they're just like two sides, two equal sides of the same thing. like you know I just feel like it's not necessary to physically intimidate them or yell at them or whatever like I feel like a lot of these guys can be saved and can um you know if you talk to them and like level with them and I was like man I completely agree like that that that's possible but it's not what I want to do right you know I want to tell those guys fuck off and don't be

around me you as a white guy I would love it for you to talk to them and try and get on their level and sympathize with them and like maybe change their mind. But at this point in this country, nobody has the patience or the time for anything that's not safe. Right. You know what I mean? If somebody is like, I'm a neocon, it's not just a differing view. It's a view that puts me in an inferior position and it means that they believe that I should

be dead or out of this country or both. I'm not just going to be like, oh, I guess we like different movies. Yeah, no, your philosophy is an existential threat

to my existence. Exactly. It's not just, you know, I'm not just like, no, but I like different music than you. Yeah, and you don't have to get in their face

and be like, I'm going to fuck you up, but people need to signal them that society is rejecting this belief system. It doesn't mean, yo, go out here and just knuckle up. No, not at all.

But people have to know. You can tell someone fuck off and that's not the same as punching them. This is not, you're like, yo, this does not fly out here. Yeah. We do not fuck with this. We do not subscribe to this and either should you. This is such fucking entitlement. Like young Republicans are entitled to a date. No, you're not.

Right. Exactly. They're like, I can't believe people are taking our sex away. Right. Yeah. Yeah. You don't have a right to it, man. If somebody doesn't want to fuck you, you just have to you're not. Right. They're like, I can't believe people are taking our sex away. Right. Yeah. You don't have a right to it, man. If somebody doesn't want to fuck you, you just have to deal with that. Yeah. And while you're on Twitter talking about all these liberals with their child smuggling rings, look at CBP and ICE, motherfucker.

Those are people smuggling children around and profiting off of it. You give a shit about children being abused? There's tape. Anyway, but so they're not fucking. Great. So so they're not fucking. Great. So that'll probably make them. They go on to say, though,

It's fine because the ones that fuck have so many kids. Right. But they go on to say there aren't many places in D.C. for them that are like, they can rock being Republicans. So they say it's just a place like the Trump International Hotel and this place called the Benjamin Bar and Lounge. Hold on, I'm writing this down.

Yeah, write it down so you can avoid it forever. Yeah, that's what I'm going to do. The place there, I think at the Trump Hotel, Bellini's start at $15 with other signature cocktails going as high as $100 a pop. Milk, Ben, baby. Such prices are not financially feasible for the average Washington worker.

Oh no! Just fucking drinking shame in your garage. Like every other American. Right. You want to be in touch with common America? You can't afford a bar and you can't get laid. Yeah. Welcome to America, bitch.

What the fuck's going on? Is this what's going on now? Is everyone broke? Yeah. Whoa. Yeah. Whoa, whoa. What is this?

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Right. Yeah, exactly. That was the tone. So what exactly happened here? So the Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, was just sort of like, yo, if you want to keep pulling up and trying to fuck with our nation, there will be, he used a term, he said, war with Iran is the mother of all wars. And so you know Mr. Ego Tiny Hands was not having that. He was like, I hate mothers. Yeah.

He all caps clapped back at night. Like, I think around midnight or something, Eastern time last night. He said to Iranian President Rouhani, never, ever threaten the United States again or you will suffer consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered before. We are no longer a country that will stand for your demented words of violence and death. Be cautious. Your demented words of violence and death. So I guess, you know, let's think of Trump had an awful fucking week. There's a few ways to look at this. One is that clearly he's been huddled up with the homies Israel and Saudi Arabia and be like,

all right, how are we going to squeeze the Iranian economy to then, quote unquote, organically precipitate some kind of regime change and have the people rise up? Because Mike Pompeo was also out here on the weekend being like, hey, you know, if the people of Iran, you know, really seek change in their government, like we will always be there to support them because the United States stands for freedom bullshit. Yeah, man. You could have used some of that in 53. Yeah.

Well, hey, it didn't help. You know, BP. We were looking for other things. Beating a dead could have used some of that in 53. Yeah, well, hey, it didn't help. You know, BP, we were looking for other things. Beating a dead horse, are we? So, yes, this basically got everyone... Oh, get over it. The coup happened.

Yeah, everyone got super fired up, but no one really took this seriously because this is how Trump talks. He gets loud on Twitter and seldom can back it up in person. No, exactly. And then, so the other thing is like points

points got it every time trump tweets i'm like points he's like what's the score right now okay good as long as i'm winning so the thing is you know the fire and fury thing may have worked with north korea because they are actually isolated from the rest of the world like those sanctions have cut them off iran is a completely different question. There are diplomatic ties and financial ties to Europe, and we're draining all of our political capital and goodwill every time we try and doubt NATO or basically doing a cheesy foreplay with Vladimir Putin in front of everybody. a very different situation and one that is granted he has all many Iran hawks in his ear like John Bolton who are just praying every day for some kind of reason to create a conflict

with Iran. It's the only thing keeping McCain alive. Oh yeah. 100%. Those little tumors are like every day they wake up and they're like where's the war? Yeah. I'm tired. Yeah. Again I know at the beginning of the show you're like how much you want to bet that there's going to be some kind of conflict with Iran. I mean you think about like I think there was a tweet,

someone pointed out there was a tweet a few years ago where Trump was like, Obama's going to try and start a war with Iran to get reelected. Right. That might be you, my guy. That's definitely me. Because you clearly have a lot of many losses that you're battling from last week, whether it was that awful performance in Helsinki or whether it's Manafort's trial starting this week

and knowing that the judge gave immunity to five secret witnesses that Robert Mueller is like, yo, these five people will testify against Manafort, but they need immunity. Immunity granted. You find out Michael Cohen has you recorded on wax. Boom. Take that L. The FISA warrant where they're like, oh my God, can you believe they were surveilling Carter Page, who clearly needed to be watched? Boom, another L. So, I think he has a lot of things happening at once that it's

an easy tactic, like when shit's going crazy, to start being like, what about Iran? Let's get all of our attention over there. Well, it's kind of like what a lot of this stuff is leading up to. Like, there's a lot of shit going on here right now, not just in, I mean, California alone we got enough shit to deal with all over the country there's a fucking fascist movement trying to form and organize

it's a big fucking problem we have a lot of issues here just saying like hey let's start a war with iran it's been a long time coming this is like sort of a 50-year plan my bet is not whether there will be a war but when Because there's just a lot of people extremely invested. Iran is an extremely stubborn, just a hard nut to crack. Every president is trying to crack this nut, and they're squeezing and squeezing with these sanctions. And the reason Rouhani tweeted was because they're running out of medicine. People are dying because of the sanctions that the US has enacted, and is enforcing and is pressuring other countries to enforce, too. Yeah. And having them pull out of the country as well. Exactly. So there's not,

you know, Trump and the right want to act like this is this is an unprovoked, you know, act of aggression from Iran saying, hey, if you will try to start a war with us, it's going to be real bad. It's not. We've been acting aggressively towards Iran forever. Well, yeah, because I think the whole game plan is like, well, we can't just pull up with tanks. So maybe we can get the populace so destabilized that they're so fucking mad.

No country has ever humiliated the US and Britain like Iran did because they were like, we're done. We don't want Western intervention. And we were like, OK, how about we knew we couldn't start a war with them because they have too many weapons and everyone around them has too many weapons. Like Iran will die before. Sorry, I should I shouldn't fucking get into this. I think Trump thinks that if he starts war with Iran, number one, everyone will be very

distracted. And number two, it's the key to the rest of the Middle East. Right. That's what he thinks. I don't think that's true. I don't want there to be a war with Iran. I'm extremely invested in there not being a war with Iran. Right, being Iranian.

Yeah, I would really love for my remaining family there to not die in a nuclear attack. Yeah. And that's what is I'm very afraid of happening. not die in a nuclear attack. Yeah. And that's what is I'm very afraid of happening. Well, yeah. Like a lot of the response to the tweet is just sort of from the Iran, like Iranian officials have sort of been saying this thing of like, this is just sort of psychological warfare

and you're trying to provoke like Iran to do something to like legitimize your grievance. Which is so funny because like to try and provoke Iran and fail is really funny because generally the Iranian leaders are like, oh, you want to go? You want to fucking go? Yeah. And now they just see they're like, nah, bro, we've seen your playbook right now. We're like, we're good on this because we're trying to, I mean, at the very least, like maintain some semblance of peace despite, you know, all the aggression coming from the

White House. Yeah. No, it's definitely not that. I mean, Fox News certainly gives a fuck that Trump wants to start a war with Iran. They're fucking pumped. They're ready to go that Trump wants to start a war with Iran. They're they're fucking pumped. They're ready to go. They want to make this the main story. Of course especially when you have polls come out.

Because you're going to run that line Iran is the world's number one exporter of terrorism. Like it's not true. And they say it over and over. And they're like yeah if we get Iran terrorism over. Fucking over. Saudi Arabia not a problem you guys. Right. No terrorism comes out of there yeah

wait no terrorism zero zero zero but yeah i think again there's like there was polling last week that was showing that in a lot of gop held districts like coming up with these midterms a majority of voters in those districts when they say between democrats and republicans which do you think are more corrupt and the majority said that republic were. That's even in GOPL districts. That's incredible. Part of us are a little apprehensive about how intense of a wave there could be. Others are just sort of like, oh, man, if you can actually turn a lot of this sentiment into fucking people going to the polls, then there could be a fucking wave. And I'm sure a lot of that factors into their math.

I don't think that people getting disillusioned with the corruption of the two main parties is going to make them go to the polls and fucking vote blue. I think it's going to push them to far right groups like what's been happening. You know, there's a lot of people that are mad at the mainstream Republican, a lot of conservatives that are like the mainstream Republican Party doesn't represent my interests anymore. That's why they liked Trump. And that's why they like everybody to the fucking right of Trump, you know, who's in his cabinet? Yeah. Not a lot of answers, but let's look at one thing that I think we should look into as a solution. And that is a 2000 year old sarcophagus was found in an Egyptian construction site. Sounds like it could be the answer to a lot of these problems. And people are talking about drinking the water that was in the sarcophagus

that smelled so bad that when they opened the lid, people had to run for cover. Yeah. They said they opened it two inches, and immediately the dry heaving began, and people had to fucking skedaddle out of the fucking excavation site. Imagine if they just flung it open, and everybody puked on the mummy immediately. That would have been so good. That sounds like a-

It's like a priceless mummy just eroding from stag acid. Like if Todd Phillips directed a movie about these guys excavating. Like, oh, you vomited on Alexander the Great's remains. Yeah, it's like the nerd version of sneezing on the coke. Yeah. In the beginning, they're like, oh, this could be the tomb of Alexander the Great. It's like a huge granite sarcophagus. And then it was just three skeletons and a bunch of this reddish brown water, which you're like, it's sewage.

Basically is what they concluded. Wow. But then this guy from Surrey in England, he started a petition on change.org, you know, where everything great happens, that basically he wants 25,000 cursed dark sarcophagus in the form of some sort of carbonated energy drink so we can assume its powers and finally die. He's right, man. I think we have our solution. Yeah. Just fill up a beer bong with mummy

water. Oh my god. I can't imagine what, is that like when they say it's sewage, does that mean I guess the water seeped into the sarcophagus like that? I don't know. It could be if you have a body and the body still has water in it, which

I don't know if you know this, but bodies have a lot of water. Really? I've heard it's at least like 10%. Like pee. It's like 10%. It's mostly pee and it's all in the balls. 10% water. So this is all the ball water of ancient Egyptians. But yeah, if you put it and if you seal it, because they sealed this shit really good.

It was in granite. If you seal it, that water's not going anywhere. That's just melted body water. That's melted body water. That's all the ball water. I can't imagine what that honestly smells like. If you've ever dumped out- I don't know.

Have you ever had black beans go bad? It smells pretty bad. Black beans go bad? Yeah. pretty bad. Black beans go bad? Yeah. You ever left any black beans out? No. It smells really bad. Have you ever had really old flowers in water and then you have to dump the water out and

it smells like the inside of a dead person's mouth? And you're like, I didn't know that plants could smell this bad. Right. It smells like rotting meat. Yeah. Oof. Cool. That's what I'm imagining and

that is what I want to drink. Hold on, let me take a big nice cool glass of mummy water. Yeah, mummy water. It's the solution to all our problems. Look, I'm willing to try anything. The cause of and solution to all of life's problems.

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and he tweeted, Roseanne is pronounced with a hard R. That one, Jack, it got me. That should have. That's wonderful. Alright, Miles. Yeah. Where can people find you? Oh, me. You can find me. Hey, bro.

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Footnotes, footpicks.es by footnotes and picks foot picks you guys keep picks in those if you subscribe to the patreon you get the footnotes and yeah same with mine yeah subscribe to my patreon uh yeah exactly for exclusive foot picks efps uh but today's track that we're going to go out on is a track by mac demarco that i really like called Passing Out Pieces. That's a good vibe. I feel like, you know, we're just all passing out pieces of ourselves. But, you know, just start your week off with this. And let's get the week going.

Tender message from Miles. Tender. So tender. I'm going to add a tweet. SeanBaby. He hasn't tweeted in a while that I've noticed. SeanBaby.com tweeted, He hasn't tweeted in a while that I've noticed.

At SeanBaby.com tweeted, when you're obviously evil and trying to get someone fired for jokes, it's only because you're too cowardly to kidnap their family and hold them ransom until they make all the people in Star Wars white. All right, we're going to ride out on that song. We will be back tomorrow because it is a daily podcast. Talk to you guys then. Bye. Bye. podcast talk to you guys then bye bye Thank you. Can't claim to care, never been the learner to share

Ties and the pieces of me, don't you know nothing comes free What mom don't know has taken its all on me It's all I've seen It can't be white clay It's hard to believe What it's made of me Passing my life Living it out with her side Listening closely, hearing mostly

Can't shake the concern, it seems it's the time that I turn I'm passing on pieces of me, don't you know nothing comes free what mom don't know has taken its toll on me it's all I say

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