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Episode Date: November 17, 2022

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the first day of donald trump's new reign yeah or second depending on second yeah i guess timeline we're in everything stretches out but nove November 17th is National Homemade Bread Day, National Baklava Day, National Butter Day. I like all three of those things so far. National Take a Hike Day, National Rural Health Day, World Pancreatic Cancer Day, and the Great American Smokeout. Which I think is about just saying, hey, man, quit the cigs. Will you? Oh, that's not what it sounds like. No, it sounds like a Cypress Hill concert with Wiz Khalifa.

It's not sounding anti-smoking. I think there was a thing called that, like the Smokeout Tour, actually. Or Smokers Only. Yeah, there's always a smokeout like that. Smokeout is a great name for a tour. Hell yeah. Also, take a hike day. If that was created to get people out to the public parks,

they probably... I don't know if that's good branding. All I hear is... Get out of here, basically. Take a hike, buster. No, but it is. They want people to take a hike. Literally, please.

Anyways, my name's Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Potatoes O'Brien, and I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, Anyways, my name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Potatoes O'Brien. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! Let's go to Long Beach really quick. November 16, 2022. Trump announces run, tell me where were you? You were sitting home watching your tv while the worst human beings

threw a big party first shot he took was at sleepy joe even though for democrats the midterms didn't blow the party was crashing trump sounded tired then he droned on for an hour sounding uninspired next topic hit was about the cops and how will the Democrats want violent crime to never drop Finally he then mentioned PA And said I never even liked us Plus I think he craved Hey! Okay, shout out to Chris the Yamaguchi man at Waffle House

On the Twitter for that That was also my AKA So that's why I had to hit him Jack was mouthing it along with Spirits It was a duet It was a spiritual duet Because right before he came on He was like, like hey what's this part of the lyric and i was like oh you're gonna do the a.k.a i was like i got the beat here he said why don't you

i was saying miles help me with the phrasing here when does this when does this syllable hit finally he then mentioned pa no it's finally we got our own pa that's from the song. Yeah, yeah. Great AKA from the master and from the master performer. Yes. Yeah, I was mouthing the words along. I think that's what more actors should do during. That's what my six-year-old was in a play on Monday night

and he was not just mouthing other people's lines along with them. He was pointing to them on stage when it was their turn to deliver the line which he's on it he's on yeah did he point at himself when he had a line though no that would have been wild he really came alive for his lines like you know would like put put on a big smile and really project when it was his lines and then when i tell you he his body language just completely slumped over like he would deliver his lines and then just like he

plays crutchy in newsies and so he would go from like you know being real animated looking at the audience like saying his line and then just like basically comatose when other people were saying their lines he's not a very He's not a giving actor. Yeah. Hey, look. He's on his way. He's on his way. He's on his way.

Anyways, Miles. Yes. We are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the creator and co-host of the Webby Award winning podcast, Unladylike. Please welcome back to the show, Kristen Conger. Kristen. Hello.

Hello. Hello. Hi. Thank you so much for having me back. It's great to have you back. With Jack here, no less. With me here. This is our first time meeting. I know.

Hi. Hi. I'm Jack. I host the show normally. It's great to meet you. Pleasure. It's me, Miles, from the Sublime Song. I'm here.

How you doing? I'm you doing i'm good i'm good i right before i fell asleep last night because i'm on the east coast i got a little new york times alert and i made the mistake of opening it yeah yeah but that way i could then turn to my husband say hey you trying to nod off to sleep? Because guess who's running for president? Guess who's back? Donald Trump. Back again.

I saw some responses. One of those big, broad, mainstream Democratic counts, Rex Chapman, the former NBA player, Rex Chapman. His response was, you gotta be kidding me. I was like, yo, you didn't think he was going to run? You thought it was Buster the whole time? He was like, I didn't think this time he was going to be a pathological narcissist who is physically incapable of doing the thing that will get his name in headlines. Right.

And also his only way out of all his legal trouble as he sees it is just to become president again. No, of course. Yeah. How could he? Wow. He surprised us all. The timing also really stepped on Tiffany's wedding because just yesterday I was enjoying

some unhinged TikToks of whatever was happening at that reception. So I wouldn't have minded, you know, having, you know, just having a little extra time to really soak all that spectacle in. But, you know, we know he hates Tiffany, so. Wait, what happened at Tiffany's wedding? The most I saw was like the shade of Ivanka cropping out Kim Guilfoyle in an all black dress, which I was like, okay, fair. And also she's like, oh oh my fucking idiot brother's girlfriend's

ruining the picture crop her out but what wait what was it going on at the reception okay so what i saw was imagine a dance floor okay blindfolds yep yeah it was odd and they started doing a just a bizarre dance that i guess was like the opening the entrance for tiffany and whatever her like new husband's name is like that was their like walk-in oh song and it was the strangest like weird snm meets prom s vibe i had no idea what was happening but it felt i guess right for the occasion right feels like like like artsy from an 80s movie like, that's what I'm getting from that. Whoa! Okay, hold on. Now I just found it here.

I'll share the screen here. It's definitely... Right? Some weirdness. It's like... What the fuck? Oh. It's like... Like, Eyes Wide Shut?

Yeah, Eyes Wide Shut. Yeah. They have something in their mouth. Are they, like, cash gag balls or something it's just their ndas yeah yeah it's like they literally made them sign ndas and then oh it's a gold rose they're holding a gold rose like bloom like in but it is the biggest gold rose that i've ever seen it really seems like something that they'd be gagging on. So gagging on gold, very appropriate.

On brand, on reason. It's to the point that if someone were to do a critical, like if someone bombed the wedding with an interpretive dance performance, this might be what they'd do to be like, you guys are out of touch rich elites we're gonna gag ourselves with gold right and blindfold ourselves to like demonstrate you know if they were if they were not very subtle i guess that's what they would do to criticize the trumps but they just did it themselves turns out turns out donald trump

not a very thoughtful dad right yeah i'm sure he's confirmed i guess at this point design that much but he is a messy a messy dude so maybe he did design it or i bet he was sitting back and being like look at this shit this is i i do i do love the idea of him choreographing it though like him out on the dance floor in like a sweatband like two three four he's like more he's like straightened your arm more your wrist is too bent straighten it out good now five six boy hold on let's go back to one you guys are a mess it also yeah it feels like cocaine choreographed this whole thing so well yeah when like the moves are just like sultry vibe poses yes and less like

boom type stuff. Just feel like, all right, man, just do a fucking fat line before you go out there and just be horny. All right. Well, Kristen, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we are going to tell our listeners a couple of things we're talking about. We are going to talk about Donald Trump's announcement from a couple nights ago. We are going to talk about Twitter's newest advertiser, which is Starlink. Oh, yeah. Space Action Starlink. Daddy's company. Yeah. Daddy's

daddy's advertiser. Like some circular spending there. Yeah. So we'll just talk about that. We'll talk about the new Olympic mascots, which are here already revealed for 2024 and they are clearly clitorises oh really yeah for sure i have not seen okay which london's was like definitely dickish and the very first olympic mascot was a skiing sperm so it's in a grand tradition but But I just I'm excited to read to you the marketing that went along with the announcement because first, Kristen, we do like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history? Okay, this might be one of the saddest things I've found in my search history. And I am going to timestamp it on Friday at 1146 p.m. I don't even remember this, but I googled Frasier Rewatch podcast. Thank you. It's about time. Yeah. You know what? Frasier Rewatch podcast, when you type Frasier Rewatch, I guess it does pop up. So people are looking for it. You're not alone. You're not alone. I'm not alone. But it was it it was just like one of those, one of those things that, you know, I love

Frasier. Obviously, I've seen all the episodes. So I'm now looking for another way to like relive all the moments. But I don't like seeing that like that's what I was doing, you know, at 1145 on Friday night. You're like, where is my show like kristen okay you gotta you gotta get out there again was this get your life together was that was this just like in your twilight as you're like about to fall asleep or like what's the situation here like why like what's happening at 11 46 p.m on a friday it's your crib i forget i was putting together some kind of podcast something

or other and was looking for clips and i think i had like fallen down fallen down some kind of some kind of stairwell google yeah google rabbit hole and google okay and just found myself like hey tossed salad and scrambled eggs it's like that's the name of a podcast like anybody talking about fraser i know like all shows a recap now but i would love that and yeah apparently kevin smith was on that tip like um in like the right thousands so i was like well and i'm not gonna be listening to that one so he's like podcasts are a thing maybe we should get a fraser rewatch together this is my pitch guys this is actually why i'm here i know when you said that i was like there isn't a podcast called tossed salads and scrambled eggs i feel

like that that's like the the best low-hanging fruit name for your fraser rewatch podcast yeah i might just have to start it exactly exactly doesn't even need to be related to fraser yeah why not toss hey welcome to toss salad and scrambled takes oh you know something like that i don't know just spitball in here yeah all right and you didn't you didn't proceed to listen you were like okay well it exists and i'm glad glad for that fact yeah i'll you know i didn't i didn't dip in there are there were a few different fraser rewatch podcasts that i found but they all seemed a bit low quality so maybe there still is room in the market this crowded podcast market for me to get in there with

my tossed salad and scrambled eggs but i i haven't moved i haven't moved forward yeah i was just rudely reminded of of what i'm doing with my spare time when i was looking through my history so i i listened to like some movie rewatch podcasts i people seem to really prefer the ones where the cast is involved and we we produce a couple great ones on our network so i'm not talking shit about ones where cast is involved involved. There are some great ones where a cast is involved, but the cast has to be great podcasters, which I feel like is not always the case. I don't need anyone to watch it with me who was there personally. How do you guys feel about that?

Oh, I feel like it works when you're getting some really interesting director's commentary type stuff that's like right you're like it's adding dimensions to an episode you had no idea about but other than that like i'd prefer hearing like other people who are from the fan side of it like coming at it with their very interesting perspective but i don't know yeah or just being able to be like freely critical of something. That said, y'all know Kelsey Grammer would be fantastic on a podcast. I don't know that.

I'm not clear on that at all, based on some of his takes. Clearly, I'm watching enough Frasier. Yeah, I guess so. Frasier would be great on a podcast. Kelsey Grammer? That's a great point. They're kind of one and the same to me. You're right.

You're right. My parasocial relationship is like too strong. It's like, can you just be Frasier Crane when you do this? That would be cool. Yeah. I mean, who knows? Maybe Frasier would also have like weird vaccine takes and shit like that you know frazier might be mega it's gone no i don't think so because his dad was the conservative

one yeah he was a little more liberal you know yeah yeah but you never know as frazier gets older he's getting some more money just like his dad wait till you get some more money and you get older yeah although i yeah i think i wasn't a huge frazier head but now that i think about it just wait till you get some more money and you get older. Then you'll be true. Although I, yeah, I think I wasn't a huge Frazier head, but now that I think about it, just hearing me say Frazier might've been mega would have actually killed Frazier crane. I think is more likely he's,

he's a big, big NPR fan. A lot of NPR totes in that household. Kristen, what is something you think is overrated? Okay. This, I don't you think is overrated? Okay. This, I don't know if y'all have spoken of this yet, but what is overrated right now is fucking Black Friday. I cannot, I didn't know that we were starting this early.

I don't know what I'm having for my Thanksgiving meal. Don't stop coming at me with all these Black Friday deals because now what is even that day? You know, like capitalism, stop it. It's obvious we need to extend Halloween if we're going to extend anything, don't extend back up with black Friday. And I got a, I got a text even yesterday from a family member who shall not be named since there's like a secret Santa situation that happens. And they were like, Hey,

I went ahead and just like drew names for secret Santa this year since, you know, black Friday's happening already. And I was like, no, no, no, no, I'm not responding to this and what's happening yeah i went ahead and took the magic out of the holiday because black friday is happening so you know we gotta we gotta knock this out in the summer yeah it's three weeks early this year come on didn't you say you wanted that dyson v10

vacuum no oh well maybe someone else yeah i can't it is truly meaningless also because all it is is the retailers snitching on themselves being like you know we could sell it this cheap and still be profitable but we don't that to me is like what's most like i get so incensed by when you're like how the fuck is it 60 bucks less just today? Ugh. So, yeah. We could sell this cheap, but it's much more entertaining to just do it one day a week and then watch you little piggies

run around and knock into each other and just oink about in our Walmart. That's my impression of the Walton family, I guess. Yeah. What's something you think is underrated? Okay, staying on theme, Black Friday

is overrated. Black Christmas is underrated. Are y'all fans of the horror movie Black Christmas? I am not. I am not not a fan. I just have not gotten into it. But I have heard that it's

better than people remember no i never heard of this oh oh okay so whoa and i went to school with her okay go on well there's the there there's a remake that came out a few years ago but the original one i think came out in 1974 and it's a christmas not themed but like it's a horror movie that takes place during christmas break on a college campus and one of the reasons why it is iconic and underrated to me is that the whole like trope of the final girl in horror movies like we think it started with jamie lee curtis in halloween which came out right after black christmas but this movie black christmas was actually the first to include a final girl the one who like survives at the very end but unlike the trope where she's like super chaste and virginal, this character, Jess, is we know she's sexual because she's pregnant and she's getting an abortion.

But she's not like punished for it. In fact, like her boyfriend, who's a jerk about it, ends up getting slashed. Spoiler. ends up getting slashed. Spoiler. And it was just a really fascinating, like, I don't know, to me, seeing kind of what could have been.

But it was the same director who went on to make A Christmas Story. So clearly he loves Christmas. Another dark take. He was like, oh, too dark? Too dark. And a Christmas story. Okay. Okay, Bob Clark.

There's your double feature. And it is legit scary. It is very, very spooky scary. I was like, wow, what an interesting storyline with this like character. Like it's going against most of like American tropes. Like a Canadian slasher film. Okay. I like that.

I see it now. Yeah. That's wild that the slasher genre like started in a very progressive place and then they're like nah we'll we'll make it basically a metaphor for puritan values right that's why i think there's another christmas horror movie that i've seen billboards for with a mean Santa? That's the one with the guy from... David Harbour? David Harbour, yeah, yeah.

What the fuck is that one? Harbour, Santa movie. Violent Night. Violent Night plays killer Santa. That's just what my kids need to see. I think Hallmark should really kind of get in on this you know the holiday horror genre really it's worth it i don't i don't see that i mean like as somebody who watches so much hallmark movies i'm like can we spice it up a little because some

motherfucker gets stabbed in this movie please just to kind of keep things going they have one that's like there's a series of films that's sort of like a murder mystery one. And like one takes place during the holidays, but they don't, they haven't leaned into that. I mean, I get it. Cause Hallmark, like I'm pretty sure they have this thing where like,

you can't even have, they used to say you can't have magic shit, like be the inciting incident in it because Christians, you know, don't like that. Just keep it, keep it, keep it, you know, keep it, you know, nice and above board with God.

Yeah, that would be my main objection. So I'm glad to see that that rule is being held back. I think it is rolled back, but there was a while where people were like, in talking with people who make them, they're like, yeah, you can't pitch Hallmark a thing where magic is like the main point of something occurring

in this Christmas story, or else they'll be like, no point of something occurring in this christmas story or else they'll be like no no no this is this is satan shit right although maybe maybe like they're just wrong and it would it would push things like nobody thought you should include religion in your horror movies until the exorcist so right just saying just take a shot christmas the holidays are a lot darker than people depict them in their shows so christian are you a big horror slash slasher slash slasher fan i sound like it but uh not especially i have like some select favorites and black Christmas is one of them. And yeah, I,

I'm, I'm just thinking if we're gonna, if we're gonna have to have a, you know, two month long Christmas season now, holiday season. Now let's spice up the genre. Yeah.

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Fox News was like what the fuck bro just get to the stupid part already where you say make America great again and you're announcing it I want to play this part though because it's amazing how like they actually cut the fucking they just had they couldn't take it anymore he started talking about like angela merkel and shit and they're like oh fuck they're like all right so that's the president right now i'll play this because it's a good indication of how meandering the whole thing was remember i sent to angela remember angela do you remember angela nobody's remembering just joining us president trump in mar-a-lago announcing his 2024 presidential run so they're just like yeah enough of that like because he just wasn't getting to it on top of it there was also a video from from inside the event that apparently staffers and security prevented people from leaving the speech because like attendees apparently just had enough.

And they're like, let's go and we can be racist at our own home. Why do we have to be here? And like there's this like one clip of you see clearly a movement of like bodies towards the exits and like it just stops. And you just see like some people there clearly not like ushering people out and there's just for whatever reason like a choke point there reverse ushers yeah reverse ushers yes you stay you stay yeah but again i think it's important to see we were talking about yesterday or the day before like what the reaction has been what the responses have been from all the people who would, you know, be sort of, you know, or at least pivotal in his campaigns in past years. So let's take a look around the right wing block and see what is happening. And let's start with the donors.

A lot of his mega donors that backed him in 2016 and 2020 are now changing their numbers and closing their wallets. And they're like, I don't know him at all. Andy Saban, who's like a, like a, another GOP mega donor. He said, quote, I'm not going to give Trump a fucking nickel was his quote. When they asked him, he said, he's already contributed $55,000 to a pro DeSantis pack. And he would, and he would rather, he's going to back DeSantis if he runs. That's what he's just said. He's like, I don't need this guy. I want DeSantis. The CEO of Blackstone, Steven Schwartzman, he said again, I don't think I don't think I'm going to back him in 2024. Quote, America does better when its leaders are rooted in today and tomorrow, not today and yesterday. It's time for the Republican Party to turn a new generation

of leaders, and I intend to support one of them in the presidential primary. So money's looking a little bit tighter you know yeah i mean that was also the case his first like 20 2016 when he announced no like the donors kind of laughed at him and then when it became they got it he was getting the votes they got in line yeah yeah so i trust none of none of them well it's like it's funny because before in 2021, like after January 6th, there was a lot of performative like distancing to be like, oh, I don't want that to fuck up my brand. But they're like, but I do because we have the same goal and I'm addicted to it. So sorry. And now it feels more like they're doing like a real they're trying to get them out, but they just don't realize they don't have the power to. So for all of the talking that you may do, I just, like we said yesterday, I just don't, I don't know what their way out is.

Because then you look at the media, right? They're staying, they're staying pretty consistent trying to say, we're done with this guy. Because not only they waffle within a week, maybe they'll waffle within three weeks this time. The New York Post had a headline on the bottom of the front page on wednesday that just said there was no picture of him there was just a bold headline at the bottom of their main front page headline and it just said florida man makes announcement yeah then the national review their headline was in response to the him running a firm unmistakable no is the name of uh their piece and they said quote to paraphrase voltaire after he attended an orgy once was an experiment twice

would be perverse a bruised donald trump announced a new presidential bid on tuesday night an invitation to double down on the outrages and failures of the last several years that republicans should reject without hesitation or doubt man they love they love Voltaire, huh? There's a reason one where they were claiming that Voltaire said to learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize. And everybody on the right was I think even Elon Musk was quoting that. And it turns out that that was not written or said by enlightenment era writer voltaire it was said by kevin alfred strom a neo-nazi that's that's where that quote comes from a 1993 radio broadcast by a neo-nazi uh-huh but they love to go voltaire voltaire neo-nazi

what's the difference honestly i mean anytime you're starting a sentence with to paraphrase voltaire yes it's not gonna go well you're like oh uh-oh watch out he's they're speaking directly to maga country with that with that fucking intro they're like huh what they're gonna say about voltaire go on i want to know and then his sycophants they came out fucking swinging okay yes i first want to play uh mike huckabee who the speech was fucking awful like it wasn't good at all it really i think the the only kudos he could get from people were like he actually didn't mention like the election theft of 2020 that was like the most growth he showed because i think people were like dude no one's gonna fucking back you if you keep talking this and somehow he responded to that but mike huckabee

is like this guy's perfect in response to this and i just want to play this wonderful bit of butt kissing sean the construct of the speech is pitch perfect if he keeps on like this tonight he is unbeatable in 2024 nobody can touch him not a republican not a democrat he stayed on message one of the key things he said this is not my campaign this is our campaign he has made whoa whoa you fucking socialist what the fuck was that bro also i do want to add that all that pitch-perfect speech, they're talking over this supposed... This is when they cut him off. It's a split screen between Huckabee and Trump delivering the speech,

and Trump is slanting to the side. He looks like he's falling asleep. He's unbeatable. They had to cut away from the speech to go to Huckabee to be like, hey, can you do something to liven this shit up? Yeah. Do you think Huckabee is just really hoping for Veep? Yeah. I'm sorry.

You know, he's going to disingenuously pick a woman or person of color. Yeah. Because that's going to be he. We already saw his logic in Georgia. He's like, well, I'll put a black man against the black man there, even though this person

is not even close to being qualified to even eat at a golden corral, but let alone be a senator. And I think that's like, because that's why there's a lot of Tim Scott or like, you know, I don't know, Carrie Lake

or whatever. She's been, she was immediately like, you have my full support. We're like, we get it. You audition you auditioning we get it don't worry about it um but then i also want to point out another group of sad sacks these older gen x maga fans decided to crip walk on a ronda santas flag outside of the trump tower because loyal as fuck my guy uh so just watch this is some this is peak i want to cry when I watch these men who are out here defending Donald Trump in front of the tower. But here's some dudes who are saying Trump or death.

They're stomping on a flag right now. He has plenty of time to gain wisdom. Let him stay in Florida for for a while remember when they did the side i'm just saying the statue came down they're like dancing on the side statue came down he's like we my father used to say to me he used to say hold on he used to say son i brought you into this world i can take you out everything everything we're taking hats everything he's got is the trump it's trump or death okay so they're doing this doing a soft shoes first of all yeah that that unrelated anecdote about your dad was not the closer you thought it was gonna be i love the way he was

telling the dude like yo i gotta get this take on you know on, hold on, hold on. So my dad, who I hate, used to tell me this thing. He used to threaten to murder me using a cliche that you've all heard. Boom! What's up? They're also, it is the laziest, least at, like, they're stomping on the flag in the loosest definition of the word stomp. It is, they look more like they're shuffling unsteadily on a flag. Yeah, since we were talking about dance earlier,

a bit of a soft shoe. They're doing a soft shoe on there, you know? It wasn't like, it was so funny because then, like, they can't do two things at once,

so, like, when the camera panned up to them, they, like, their feet stopped moving and then they could talk again, but when it went down,

you could tell their feet started, like, doing light stomps and, like, uh, and, um, the, oh, let me stop something trump or death trump or death what was the the saddam reference is like when the flag for saddam is interesting i think because like during the whole you know regime change moments in iraq when they toppled the statue. But it's like, so in this instance, Ron DeSantis is the leader, the established

leader that you're toppling? Wouldn't it be more like Biden? You know he's governor of Florida, right? And this is the beauty of this fucking absurd circular firing squad that's forming on the right because

it's like, what are they doing i also want to check in quickly with q anon as we do as we do because you always have to know they were pretty bummed out about the midterms they were like what the fuck was that already during the midterms so during the fucking announcement a lot of the people who like monitor a lot of like the q anon message boards and like the telegram channels. There are messages like this from people after like that speech. Quote, just another Trump rally. He just conceded 2020 election.

We're just going to skip over the 2020 and 2022 fraud. All that we've heard from three years plus. We are now officially just nut jobs. There's no justice for treason. There's no justice for crimes against humanity. By 2024, we will have no country. Big disappointment. Here's another one.

I'm fucking done with this political shit show and will never vote again. Fuck politics and the Nazi regime. Okay. And then one more with Christ, like cry emoji says, this isn't feeling like the storm. like cry emoji says this isn't feeling like the storm oh no it is funny like because for the true believers it doesn't make sense when he's like listening to advisors who are like yeah you can't talk about the stolen election anymore that's no nobody believes in that shit anymore and so then he just like moves on to the next thing but still i don't know they somehow keep coming out and voting for him specifically yeah i mean supporters

as long as you know like cultural regression and white supremacy misogyny all that's on the ballot in some form they're going to come out so i think it's just about like which shapeshifter they're going to map on to that platform but i think at the end of the which shapeshifter they're going to map onto that platform. But I think at the end of the day, they have all they're going to have all like this is only going to create more problems for them as they even try to pretend they're a political party. Like it's going to devolve, devolve even further to just like whatever, whatever we're about to see as like more and more people begin to splinter off. Like more and more people begin to splinter off. But right now it seems that the establishment seems to have more support behind it within like the elected officials class. But down ballot and then into like the actual like voter base. I don't know.

I don't know what their polling looks like. I don't know. The Ron DeSantis like wave scares me so much more, than trump 2024 because yeah i i well yeah i don't want to it's not that they have great ideas either of them but no but i i think the reason i am also just like he he actually legislates this culture war shit in florida like he'll be like here's a fucking bill that's a nightmare and i did that and like there's's a fucking bill. That's a nightmare. And I did that. And like, there's just a level, like I said, like last episode was like, they're both like the, they're both these same like creatures. But DeSantis has like clearly like looking at what, you know, Trump is doing.

It's like, okay, I don't need any of that stuff to win. I can do this thing and I can still probably get the culture war stuff to get people to come support me and do it with a smile on my face. I do. I don't know. I do feel like Trump is more built for like the conflict than DeSantis is. But I mean, that's all that's all speculation. The one thing that makes me less scared of DeSantis in this moment is the knowledge that even if he wins the primary, Trump is running as a third party, which is like that's almost the prefer the preferable option is DeSantis winning because Trump's going to come in as a third party and, you know, fuck over both of them. So I don't know.

I can't I can't foresee a situation where Donald Trump has prevailed upon using logic and what's best for the Republican Party to step back if he loses the primary. So at that point, it's bad news for them. And also, like the only actual member of Congress that showed up or not even technically a member anymore was Madison Cawthorn. Matt Gaetz didn't even go. Matt Gaetz matt gates was like oh the weather's kind of bad i think so i'm i ain't gonna go like it was his excuse basically yeah so yeah it's all just very it's all up in the air and then like ronda santis was like asked again they're like hey dude so like what's going on like you know are are you gonna are you gonna be running and he just said let's just he's like what's going on like you know are you gonna are you gonna be running and he just said let's just he's like it's been a long election we've got the georgia

runoff he's like we just need to chill out for a second also mr desantis do you have any comment on what that guy's dad used to say to him i mean was it my daddy are we brothers because my dad said that to me too right so were you insulted by grown men soft shooing on a terribly designed flag? Also, and are you sad that they actually had to buy your swag to then disrespect it? Because the joke's really on them at that point. Care to comment? The most inauspicious beginning to a campaign like campaign announcement was still like Donald Trump's announcing in 2016 coming down an escalator. And he had to hire actors to pretend like they were supporters of his. Yeah. Still still managed to pull that one off.

So I don't know. He is a talented populist. Still scares the shit out of me. Yeah. Yeah. I think either one's's fucking scary i think it's i think in a vacuum ron desantis is is scarier if trump doesn't exist like if they ran like without the chaos of trump then i'm like oh shit he's gonna be like hey i'm i've got the charisma of a manager at Hooters from the 90s. Is this enough charisma to get people to vote for me? And unfortunately, it is a lot of the time.

So we'll see. But I think that's why we're continuing to watch just it kind of flake apart. And I just want to see what's under there really quick. Is it total chaos or are they going to figure it out? Because I don't think they are because they continue to like scratch their heads with the abortion thing to this like today's and like they're still like is that what did it i don't get how the huh yeah i saw i saw a tweet right after the midterms from some republican operative who was like it's single women in america who are addicted to antidepressants and sex and like all of this stuff.

Like, okay. Yeah. Yep. Our fault. But in terms of this appearance from Trump, I feel like the one thing we can say is that there's more evidence that America is running out of Adderall because he looked like he was off his meds, man. Yeah.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And so let's talk Twitter. Since Twitter is currently a dumpster fire full of verified Nazis and fake Mr. Beans, advertisers are pausing their spending on the social media platform. General Motors, Audi, Volkswagen, General Mills, Pfizer, you know, the big ones. There's also like a big advertising agency that recommended that all their clients basically pause until Twitter seems like they might be a functional company again. Hey, see, and that's how you know who's in power because you can't criticize the corporations.

That's right. Think about that. That's my favorite neo-Nazi said on the radio once. So in the big tech equivalent of a kid setting up a lemonade stand and not getting any customers and just selling it all to their parents, Elon Musk just secured a lucrative deal with a major new advertiser, Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet service, which this happened a number of days ago. But I do just want to highlight it because it's like such a good example of all of the ways that like the myth of him being a genius is a myth. It's just like so full of shit.

He's Emerald Boy. That's it. Yeah. He was born with emeralds in his pocket so much of his wealth is like based on like selling carbon tax he's like so much of his money is based on tax funded shit right he basically took advantage of because he was in a position to take advantage of it and he's shrewd and predatory. And that's what makes someone take someone from being a CEO to being a very successful CEO is being best predator. But yeah, the ads, the ad buy costs upward of $250,000 and they're aimed at Spain and Australia, I think maybe. And it's basically a full stop. Everybody in those countries who goes to Twitter,

the first three times they log in that day will be hit with a Starlink ad takeover. And now, is Starlink something that's, like, a viable option for people in those places? Like, I'd imagine you can get broadband in australia or spain are they talking like is there like a reason like there's a market i think he saw kangaroo jack and assumed that the entirety of australia was just like that and didn't have access to the internet no i have i have no idea what the strategy is yeah yeah but they're i think part of the strategy is

probably they're going through a rough patch they've been in the news a lot recently for not the best reasons so back in march you know elon musk good at playing the pr game donated a bunch of starlink dishes and internet service to ukraine to aid the war effort and everyone's like that's that's cool you know that's probably because a lot of the storylines around that were that Russia was going to cut off internet access to the Ukrainian fighters. And so he was like, here, I come in, save the day. And because I'm the world's richest man, I can pay for it. No worries. Just keep fighting the good fight. Things took a pretty

drastic turn last month when Elon Musk released his own peace plan in the form of a Twitter poll, which involved Ukraine ceding territory to Russia. And it also took a turn when it was revealed that he didn't actually donate any of that shit. It was paid for by the Pentagon. What the fuck? Paid for handsomely by the u.s by the pentagon and like paid for handsomely by the i had no fucking idea and millions of dollars either yeah despite earning kudos for the donation most of it received full or partial funding from outside sources including millions from the u.s government which spacex's president had previously denied so they did this lied about it and there's so much of the reporting was just like breathlessly like he donated them yeah like consistently to

the point where i i was like i haven't seen one thing where someone's like well technically the fucking pentagon's footing the bill he's not donating shit yeah i mean this just came out in the past couple months but wow it's it's yeah he he likes to seize on a major global news story, like the kids trapped in the cave, and try and insinuate himself as Tony Stark. Like, here, I'm magical technology man. I'll come solve the problem. Wait, what? That's not a good plan?

Well, then you're a pedophile. What? He's the guy who actually knows what the fuck he's doing of being a pedophile. Around this time, SpaceX sent a letter to the Pentagon warning that they may stop funding the service in Ukraine unless the U.S. military kicks in tens of millions of dollars per month. So in addition to not even providing the satellites, they were like, we're not going to operate them unless you give us more money than we would otherwise get. What are you, crazy?

Right. Cool. So like making money off of war? Yeah, yeah. War profiteering. That's so cool. Hold on. I wouldn't describe it like that. There was a need in the market. After coming from the meager beginnings of being an apartheid profiteer, you know, the meager beginnings of being an apartheid profiteer, you know, he is now a war profiteer. So there's also this story that's happening in parallel that just came out yesterday where a shareholder from Tesla, who is just like a lower level employee, doesn't have much stock,

is just kind of a check to check employee, sued Elon Musk and pointed out that he became he took over the spot of richest person in the world by arranging this package that's worth $50 billion for himself as Tesla's CEO. And he was like, yeah, but like, he just asked the board to do it. And the board are all his friends. And it makes no business sense because he's not leaving tesla so it wasn't it wasn't at a time when like they were like oh we've got to like woo him away they gave him the biggest payday in the history of like an american business paying a ceo for no reason and he was like that doesn't make sense he's just robbing his own company essentially and robbing his own shareholders.

Genius, Jack. Genius. Exactly. He's a genius. So much of these billionaire geniuses are just good at finding, taking their advantage of already being immorally wealthy, and using that to get people to give them free money.

I can't believe that part of him patting himself on the back was like, come on, guys, give me 50 billion dollars exactly like what the fuck you were like begging for it yeah he is really good though at like amassing somewhat like kind of fake money like there's the carbon credits thing and then the money that he had to borrow to buy Twitter. Money feels like such a total and complete construct when it comes to Elon's wealth. Or just those figures in general. They're unfathomable.

I can't even properly process what those amounts of money are. I don't know. Sure. $50 billion? From what? In options? Okay. Yeah. like yeah i don't know sure 50 billion from what and options okay yeah so i don't know it's it's a lot of bullshit it's funny the ukraine's ambassador to germany responded to his peace plan by saying fuck off is my very diplomatic reply to you elon musk which is going to be a problem because Germany is an important ally and their diplomat is almost certainly going

to be banned for insulting Elon from Twitter. Well, we'll see before the EU totally fucking destroys Twitter for, like, running afoul of, like, so many of these, like, safety things they're supposed to have. Like, there's so many things on the horizon there that I'm just like, omni-crisis

alert. Here we go for twitter yeah but still haven't seen my major fuck up that i predicted would happen this week fingers crossed wasn't wasn't two-factor authentication kind of a major fuck was that confirmed like are many people completely locked out of their accounts i just know that they said like those sort of micro services were going down but like is there a trend of feeling like it's happened? I've there's no way I can get back into my Twitter now because a two factor authentication screwed up. I'm not I'm not sure.

I'm I just never logged out because I was I'm addicted. Yeah, because we're scared. But it's funny. that was brought up with this lawsuit was that he when he came over to twitter like and fired half of the engineers he like was like oh no i fired too many people and started making tesla's like best engineers work on twitter he was just like you move over here now and so they were pointing out they were like so did tesla's board approve that too like they were cool with you just like taking their best engineers off task and moving them to another thing that is just of personal interest to you because the the point they're trying to make is

like he is a board unto himself just like choosing deciding to pay himself however much is best for him which turns out to be 50 billion dollars did y'all see the open letter i guess that he's sent out to twitter employees today basically being like yeah if you want to be extremely hardcore you can stay on right but if not it's a fork in the road i think was that like the name of the subject line on that and it's like you're gonna either fucking work was that like the name of the subject line on that and it's like you're gonna either fucking work till your eyes bleed or take three months severance asshole it's up to you yeah which i think a lot of people were like yeah i'll take that severance yeah have the holidays off oh yeah yeah no i'm good with that good luck man good luck motherfucker

all right he's a great ceo though you know he's willing to be really mean and also likes money a lot, which seems like are the two things. And he's so funny. He is so funny. Did you see him with that sink? I know. Hey, let that sink in. I can't wait. I mean, and he's getting destroyed by his own bullshit, too.

destroyed by his own bullshit too. And it's just so funny to watch him then like ban people for like just pointing out how much he sucks or like posting stories about like Tesla autopilot accidents. Like it seems to be like the one thing a lot of people do to troll him. And he's like, cut this shit out of here. But the way that letter sounds that he wrote to people, it really is like, it's just such a difference in energy. Like of him also from a not understanding how like people work at all. And also not realizing how desperate he sounds. He said to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, we will need to be extremely hardcore. This will mean working long hours at high intensity. Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade.

Twitter will be much more engineering driven. Design and product will still be very important and report to me, but those writing great code will constitute the majority of our team and have the greatest sway. And it's just like, he's like, please respond to this email

so I know you're still down. We have the best people. Only the best people. It really feels like that. We will be good and work hard the hard only if you're the best though because otherwise i don't want to be friends with you oh poor guy yeah poor guy go cry in your big pile of money yeah all right let's talk the the new olympic mascots are here and they're clitorises so we're 600 days away and, you know, the world may have other important things they're thinking about.

I don't know, but where they might have thought they did before they met these mascots for the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics. They were just revealed a couple of days ago. And instead of just being like an amusing cartoon bear, the mascots are anthropomorphic hats modeled after the Phrygian cap. Am I? I'm probably fucking Phrygian Phrygian. Let's do that. Phrygian. And that's associated with the French revolution, but they don't even look remotely like hats really to me.

They look like clitorises like cartoon cl to me. They look like clitorises, like cartoon clitorises. There is very yeah, there's something bodily about these. I've seen little plush toys of a little

stuffed uterus. This would go with that. It should be like a sex ed tool of like, hi! this is inside of you. Right. Yeah. This is the pleasure zone. Wait. And I'm looking at the hat.

What? This doesn't even look like the fucking hat that they're talking about. They're bright red. And which I don't think the hats were. Maybe. Oh, it's it's it's like that. That scully that has like the curl. OK, so the up top part looks like it.

But everything from like the eyeballs down, I'm like, huh? Yeah, very confusing. But I want I want you guys to hear the thinking. This is from Olympics dot com for Paris 2024. This new generation of fridges will write history led led by one olympic and one paralympic friggin the tribe of mascots will be central to paris 2024's vision to change lives by leading a revolution through sport oh shit okay go on that's all they got they just have a cartoon like the proletariat must must capture the means of production you're like whoa whoa what the fuck are these little fridges talking about yeah i mean

they could have they could have stuck googly eyes on a beheaded aristocrat but they chose this much more friendly version of the french revolution if they just subbed out, you know, friezes, is that how it's said, for clitorises? I mean, I would buy into the marketing for Paris 2024, this new generation of clitorises will write history. I'll tune in.

Right, right. I'm on board with that, and it could be what is happening under, it could be the subtext of this, or like the artist they hired subtext because past you know sexually charged anthropomorphic olympic mascots have been a penis in for the 2012 london mascot i don't know it it like has a little police Bobby hat on the top, but for the most part, it looks like a cartoon cock and balls with a big eyeball in the middle of it. You can see it further down.

A penis wearing a cop hat is disturbing. The most just toxic thing that could be conceived of. Yeah. So maybe this is the French response to that to to be like yeah fuck that we're we're feminist over here yeah i mean it's equality some of the past ones like the la 84 it was just like a fucking corny ass eagle with like an uncle sam hat on like soul had tigers uh barcelona had kobe who looked like a just a cool i don't know cubist animal it's like when did it get starting getting really weird is it atlanta 1996 yeah i have to shout out abstractzy. An anthropomorphic abstract fantasy figure. Do y'all know why Izzy is called Izzy?

Because I'm in Atlanta and I remember Izzy well. No, what is Izzy? Like, as in, what is he? Yeah, it's literally short for, what is it? Because they had no idea what to call it. It was such a mess and people disliked the design so much, but I guess they were just kind of stuck with it. So then that's how I got it.

Is this like the one design project where they're like, and unfortunately we have these bylaws going back a hundred years where you're only allowed to have one draft for this specific design project. It's first thought best thought unfortunately and so because these all look like first drafts the eagle miles that you call it out for the los angeles 1984 is the worst most generic it's clip art it's clip art it is straight up clip art of an eagle. Yeah, that's not a good look.

It looks like a cartoon eagle from like a NRA coloring book that they would have given out. Yeah, I'm just looking at if there's anything interesting in the Wikipedia thing about like the beginnings of Izzy. It's like in 91, the Atlanta Committee forlympic games began a search for a mascot and they the selection what is it was designed by john ryan a senior animation director at atlanta based design firm originally appeared what is it originally appeared as a blue tear-shaped quote blob with rings around his eyes oh wow sure he wore high top sneakers has star-shaped pupils his arms and legs were also short with a toothy grin he was later modified to have longer limbs to give a more athletic look after a very critical reception to what is its introduction uh during the closing ceremonies of the 92 barcelona

olympics the atlanta committee of organizing the olympics began work to reshape the character specifically focusing on children who are far more attracted to the character than adults. Oh, so they were like, fuck y'all adult haters. This one's for the babies. We didn't even want you to like it. It was for the kids. It is the most 1996 designed. Like, if 1996 just naturally, like,

Yeah, I mean, look at him and Newt Gingrich. Look at what is it and Newt Gingrich together in 95. Look at that match made in heaven. Those were the days. Yeah, it was a real embarrassment at the time. I do remember my parents complaining about what an abomination it was. But in retrospect, like you said, I think it's a perfect encapsulation of 90s culture, really. I think it's a perfect encapsulation of 90s culture, really. It does seem like when you go back to that spreadsheet of all the different designs, it seems like it's either animal or like weird anthropomorphic piece of modern art that is somehow sexual.

Like Izzy seems to be the one example where it's not like weird. Like Izzy seems to be the one example where it's not like weird. I guess there were the ones that are just like Marshmello, the DJ in a couple of places. But it feels like once you when you go abstract, you're you're running the risk that you're going to just draw a sperm because like that's what your unconscious mind wants to do. You know? Yeah. Well, you know, for all those designing out there, just just keep it i don't know like half of these i'm looking i'm like i don't even fucking remember this like who gives a fuck man just make the olympics in one place yeah

i actually really like the first one the uh skiing sperm like that one's pretty cool looking. Oh, 1968. Yeah. Shoes from Grenoble. Shoes. Yeah. Shoes was the first mascot. Oh, so he's the first ever. Yeah. Yeah.

First one. Good for him. Just a skiing sperm. And it nails the assignment. Like he's active. He's on skis. Right. He like looks like, I don't want want to say athletic but like there's a sense of athleticism the next year it is a dog with a dove on its tail like yeah just with a peace dove this

is el jaguar rojo and that's for the mexico city games his friend paloma de la paz symbolizes the slogan games of peace okay at. At least you can understand it. I like how 76 Innsbruck, there's this one, Schneemann. Means snowman in German. Who's been beheaded, by the way. It's a snowman that's been beheaded. Yeah, he's lost his other three spears that

make up his torso. Truly the shittiest of all. Los Angeles 84. sam the bald eagle walt disney productions selected the eagle wow you guys fucked up big time i remember kobe from barcelona kobe was cute yeah that was i mean that was the first olympics i was super invested in and i think i that's like it's weird how I really remember Kobe, Izzy, and then everyone else.

They can get lost. I'm sorry. Get, take a hike folks. It's over. Hey, speaking of it's over, Kristen,

it's been such a pleasure having you on the show. Yeah. Oh, thank you so much for having me. I can't wait to follow the journey of these French clitorises over the next few years in the lead up to the Olympics. And, and look, I hope they lead us into a fucking proletarian revolution yeah and if that does then we'll have egg on our face for sure i do like that they called it a sports-based they're like no no no just a sports revolution not class consciousness sports revolution yeah but it is such a perfect example of how revolutionary things just get digested and shit out into vague capitalist pablum of revolution of sport.

What, are they going to do the kickflips different? People really like that word right now. I don't know if it's because people are check to check and there's such food instability, but this is a revolutionary revolution where it's getting a lot of buzz. People really like this Fetterman guy. I guess we got to invest in Carhartt. Yeah. Yeah. That's the lesson.

Yeah. But anyways, viva la revolution. Oh, Kristen, where can people find you? Follow you? All that good stuff? You can find me on Unladylike, the podcast. And you can follow Unladylike on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok at Unladylike Media. And I have a dog who's going crazy at my feet. I hope that y'all can't hear that.

No, we can't at all. In fact, we think that you might be making that dog up. I'm not. I think Kristen's lying to me. I promise. See? Oh, my God. This is Brewster.

What a cutie. I love how, like, shaggy his hair is on his face. He really looks like, yo, you didn't have to do this right now. Now, is Brewster named after the COVID vaccine, or was the COVID vaccine named after Brewster? Oh, well, his name is actually Brewster. Brewster's millions. Got it. My bad, obviously. His name is Brewster Pfizer Moderna. And is there a tweet or some of the work of social media you've been enjoying, Kristen? You know, the latest tweet that I was really enjoying came from Roxane Gay, where she was shouting out last night NPR's headline for Trump's presidential announcement.

May I read? Yes, please. Breaking. Oh, she tweeted like this is the way that you write a newsworthy headline. This is the way that you write a newsworthy headline. Donald Trump, who tried to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election and inspired a deadly ride at the Capitol in a desperate attempt to keep power to himself, has filed to run for president again in 2024. There you go. Well done. Nice.

Nice headline. There you go. Nice. Miles, where can people find you? What's a tweet you've been enjoying? You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Grey. You can also check Jack and I on the new episode, the latest episode of Miles and Jack Got Mad.

Boosties. Yeah. That's a fun one. Yeah. With Sean Keen from Round Ball Rock. And also find me on 420 Day Fiance. And also make sure you get tickets for the Will You Accept This Rose live show that I will be doing with the whole Will You Accept This Rose crew. December 9th at the Dynasty Typewriter. And I will be doing a character that is going to destroy me from the inside out.

So you can probably want to come see this. It's just going to be. I'm doing a lot of preparation for some character work at this thing. So be sure to check that out. Let's see. Some tweets that I like. First one, Mike Kaplan, M-Y-Q-K-A-P-L-A-N, Mike Kaplan tweeted,

I wish Fox News was just news about foxes. Yeah, that would help a lot. Much less damaging. Yeah. And then at AO Tristan tweeted, which yeah that that would that would help a lot and damaging yeah and then uh at aotristian tweeted that man that man attempted a coup and they let him run for president again they're stricter rules at planet fitness yeah it does feel like that it really does all right some tweets i've been enjoying carl kinsella tweeted, for some reason, tweeted this news story that Michael Lewis, the writer behind The Big Short, has been traveling with Sam Bankman Freed for the last six months and is writing his next book on the FTX founder, Per Bloomberg.

And Carl Kinesa, quote, tweeted that and said, me noticing that the guy who wrote The Big Short has been hanging around me for six months. Is this good? Louis Vertel or Louis Vertel tweeted a headline. Helena Bonham Carter is 21 years older than her boyfriend. Rye dag home bow. Name is Rye. Last name home bow. And Louis Vertel tweeted Helena Bonham Carter dating dating noises Michael Caine makes after being frightened.

And then Billy Hurley tweeted just a screen that I've seen a thousand times at the New York City subway stop when you try and purchase or refill your MTA card. It says, what do you want to add? Add value, add time. And Billy, Billy Hurley said, and the purchase of a Metro card,

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We link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as a song that we think you might enjoy. Hey, Miles, what song do we think people might enjoy? I heard this wild drum and bass remix, so you have to do. It is called Down Under featuring Colin Hay from Men at Work.

And it is by Lude, L-U-U-D-E. And it is like this hard-ass drum and bass remix of Down Under, Land Down Under. I come from a land down under. It's just like wild. The breaks that they have, like just his, like the verse, there's no beat. And it's like, and like the beat drops when they get to the chorus and it's just like heavy so i just like i remember her majesty was in the car with me i played it's like what the fuck is this and i'm like this is the hardest fucking remix to down under i've ever heard featuring colin hay this

is lewd l-u-u-d-e so that out. That song is like such an offensive stereotype of Australians, but it's by an Australian band. But I have to feel it. It's like, he just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich. Well, that was the man from Brussels. He was six foot five and full of muscles. I said, do you speak of my language? He just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich. I need to read that again. I need to you, speak of my language. He just smiled and gave me a wedge of my sandwich. You know what? I need to read that

again. I need to read that song again. Jack, please, man. Don't embarrass yourself out here. I feel ashamed. Well, the Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That is

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