The Daily Zeitgeist - Trump Disappears People From Rallies, Dictionary Adds New Words 9.10.18

Episode Date: September 10, 2018

In episode 228, Jack and special guest host Laci Mosley are joined by actor and writer Lucas Neff to discuss Barack Obama's speech at University of Illinois, Trump staffer's switching out indifferent people behind him at his rallies, how Trump wants Sessions to investigate who wrote the NY Times op-ed, Elon Musk's appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, new words in the dictionary, Jared Kushner having his 'Veep' moment, Domino's Pizza offering free pizza for life for tattoo's of the logo's, microwave weapons are a prime suspect in the attacks on US diplomats, Nicki Minaj donating money to the Cosby Show's Geoffrey Owens, and more! FOOTNOTES: 1. In defining speech, Obama takes down Trump, his politics and enablers; warns of 'dire' consequences of not voting2. Obama gives 'State of our Democracy' speech3. Obama slams 'crazy stuff' coming out of Trump White House, hits politicizing of Justice Department4. This hilarious, too-candid guy behind Trump was deemed an unsuitable background prop by the Trump choreographers. He was replaced (see next tweet) with someone who could actually feign enthusiasm for Dear Leader.5. Trump wants Attorney General Jeff Sessions to investigate writer of anonymous NYT op-ed6. Tesla's Elon Musk appears to smoke weed in Joe Rogan live interview7. We Put a Bunch of New Words in the Dictionary8. This Video of Jared Kushner Stuck Outside a Meeting Is Straight Out of ‘Veep’9. Domino's Pizza tattoos earn some Russians 'free pizza for life'10. Microwave Weapons Are Prime Suspect in Ills of U.S. Embassy Workers11. Scientists and doctors zap theory that microwave weapon injured Cuba diplomats12. Nicki Minaj plans on donating $25,000 to 'Cosby Show' actor Geoffrey Owens13. WATCH: Leon Bridges - Lisa Sawyer (Audio) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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For Monday, September 10th, 2018, my name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. I'm not the man they think I am at home. Oh, no, no, no. I am Jack O'Brien. Ah, that was courtesy of Hannah Solstice. Or Soltice, but I give it a little space theme. Anyways, I'm thrilled to be joined today by a very special guest co-host, Ms. Lazy Mosley.

Hey, what's up? This is Lazy Mosley, a.k.a. Nicki Minaj's kind candy wig. And I called you Lazy Mosley. You did. Everyone loves to call me lazy. Yeah, because the mostly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anticipated that. I don't think you're lazy. You sprinted into the office today.

I did. I'm in athletic wear. You were in athletic wear and it looks amazing. We are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by an actor, a writer. He is currently on Disney's Big Hero 6, Lifetime's upcoming show American Princess, an upcoming movie on Netflix by Noah Baumbach, an upcoming Netflix cartoon called Trash Truck.

He co-hosts Saving the World with Barry and Lucas on Starburns Audio. He is Lucas Neff. What's up, man? What's up to you? Thank you for having me. Thank you so much for being here. Yes, of course. We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment, but first we're going

to tell our listeners what we're going to be talking about today. Obama is back. He talked to a weary nation about our weariness. We're going to talk about his speech. We are going to talk about Trump's latest Trump rallies and what's going on in the background. Some people started paying attention to the background, noticing people literally blowing their nose on the flag. But also a strange sort of invasion of the body snatchers mystery that was taking place where people who seemed to be appropriately baffled by the president's words would then just be replaced by smiling mega hat wearing aides. And we're going to talk about the best deal ever, Domino's Pizza giving

away 100 free pizzas per year for 100 years. I don't know math, but that's a lot of pizzas. Unfortunately, you have to be Russian to get that. All you have to do is get Domino's logo tattooed on your body. We're going to talk about the latest additions to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, Trump's continued reaction to last week's New York Times op-ed. Now he's saying he wants Sessions to investigate. And we kind of do too, because we're curious who wrote that shit. We're going to talk about Tesla and Elon Musk smoking weed on podcast on the wrong podcast. I might add. We're going to talk about Cuba and China attacking us with microwaves. The whole diplomat attack conspiracy and why I still don't buy it. We're going to be talking about Nicki Minaj giving

money to Jeffrey Owens from the Cosby Show. We call him Gary here at the office. You did. Well, you wrote Gary. Oh, crap, did I? Yeah. That gets contagious that way. Hey, that's all right. But first, Lucas, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? Revealing about me? I guess, well, just the last thing that I Google searched was images of Joseph Stalin. Uh-huh.

Because. Just a big fan. No. Love Joseph Stalin. Love his work. Love, yeah. Well, you know, efficient. Efficient and thorough.

Never left a job half complete. My wife's relationship to house flies is sort of most similar to Joseph Stalin's relationship to the Russian rural class. She crushes them. She crushes them. Got it. She's furious at their insubordination and she's constantly making lists. Okay. Got it.

Yeah. So I was looking up for... Just purges? Yeah. I was looking up for a good image that I was like, this is you. This is who you are. Right. And it's sort of like him in military uniform, sort of in the middle end of his career.

We have this podcast, Behind the Bastard, hosted by a guy, Robert Evans, where he has this theory that it's actually Joseph Stalin's handsomeness and a lot of these different dictators handsomeness

that caused them he was a really good looking he was a really handsome dude if you look up young Joseph Stalin you're gonna be like watch the fuck out I would totally have

signed up I mean it's well it's the same thing with like CEOs we were talking about Elon Musk being really tall earlier there's like some

average height of CEOs they're all almost all over six feet tall. Right. Which is just like, we like tall, good looking people. Charisma, you know? And also I think it's also partially, there's that 30 Rock episode, The Bubble, where Jon Hamm is so good looking

that nobody tells him he's a terrible doctor or a terrible cook. And I wonder how much of it is just them sort of just everybody being like, yeah, man, that's great. You're crushing it, Joseph Stalin. I think we all live in a bubble. I think we're all actually in a bubble that's almost completely filled with sort of like delusions of some measure. Well, you think we're living in a... I don't think we're living in a simulation.

Okay, that's good. I don't think that's good. I think this is very real. I adhere to the Raymond Tallis view of life. What is that? He's a polymath, and he's like, all these theories about time and everything are really great, but at the end of the day,

you're still late for the bus. I think that things are a lot simpler than we, I mean, in LA, no one's late for the bus, really, because there are no buses, practically. I mean, people take it, but's late for the bus, really, because there are no buses, practically. But, I mean, people take it. But it's just that there's certain—life in some ways in time is simpler than we like to imagine because I think it's sort of—more complicated theories offer us the possibility of less mortality. And I think that's sort of very seductive.

Yeah. But I don't think it's true. At the same time, really complicated math gave us the atomic bomb, which was very real. So somewhere in between. Well, I think math is real. Yeah. I agree. What is something you think is overrated?

Overrated? Probably just like money and media. I think all money is essentially overvalued for having value. Okay. I think that, you know, we've sort of like created a construct within our own brains where now we commodify everything we encounter. We're like, oh, this moment is worth this much, and this thing is worth this much, as opposed to experiencing things on their own terms. And I think that's sort of a really shitty way that we've sort of made sure that we all go through life.

Oh, man. I'm a part of that shitty way. I monetize everything. I Instagram at funerals. So keep watching. This is good content. Keep those hearts coming, ladies and gentlemen. I will Instagram live my family's funerals. Yeah, I just think like two miles away in space,

there's literally nothing that cares about us or any of our problems. And so it just seems crazy to me that the only way we can experience the world is through this sort of made up system of currency. Yeah. No, it's very pervasive. You sound like Anna. I agree.

It's good to get out of that mind frame sometimes. If it's possible. I don't know that it is. Yeah. Meditation's good. Check out meditation. Check out meditation. Check out meditation. What is something you think is underrated? Figs.

Whoa. Figs are amazing. You came in hot. You came in hot with the figs. I'm starting to get the sense that your whole appearance on the show is fig-based. I have like six boxes of figs in my fridge currently because they're available like three weeks a year and they're the best tasting thing on the fresh figs. So not currently, because they're available like three weeks a year, and they're the best tasting thing.

Like fresh figs. Fresh figs, guys. So not dried, like the fruit. Oh, dried figs. What are you doing to yourself eating dried figs? I'm eating chips. Okay, look. I'm living like the plebes.

No, you know what, Lacey? Get out of here. I'll get my things and go. Bye, guys. Bye. I didn't understand why everybody in history books was like, oh, the sultan was eating figs, and now I get it.

They are the food of Sultans. They're delicious. It's like a Greek god food. Yeah. You can't just get figs on the reg. No. It's really hard to get figs. They're super expensive.

But they're the most delicious. I would eat crates, crates of figs every day if I could. And everybody doesn't like them. I don't get it. So are they underrated or are they just rare? I mean, I think most people. No, I think they're underrated because I offer them to people

all the time free of charge and they're like, nah. You're out on the streets doing the Lord's work handing out figs. And I'm like, you don't know what you're missing. You're crazy.

This is so weird because my mother-in-law is in town and was really pushing figs on me earlier this week and I was like, what is happening? Is there like a fig conspiracy? You were like resistant, right?

Yeah, because I was- Nah, I don't want figs. Well, it wasn't that I didn't want them. I just wasn't in the mood to eat anything. And I also thought they'd be messier than they were. No, they're really easy to eat. Yeah, they're really easy to eat. You just...

Yeah. That's like two bites. See, I've always had a bad impression of them because of like fig Newtons. Right. See, that's... Yeah, fig Newtons are gross. Look, fig Newton put its stamp stamp on fig and I believed him.

I believe Newton and his fig. Figg Newton is like a tray of bar-like snacks. You know what I mean? It's like this number six or number seven thing I will turn to in a case of desperation. Where I'm like, I need a bar-like snack that is kind of like carby and like jammy it was a bit of sweet

I'll do like ah fuck it I'll have a fig newton but I'm not a fan it was like daycare food it was like you know what I mean yeah yeah

for sure it does feel like something a baby just like like chews on so like it's really wet and it goes away very soft

like a soggy fig newton yeah those and bananas are among the foods that you can just give a kid and not worry about them choking. Just give it to them and then leave the room. Yeah. Leave for a week. They're good.

Just a box of fig newtons. I have kids. That's bad news for them. In terms of them being rare, all fruits used to be rare and only come uh of season like for two weeks out of the year and then science just you know scienced it now we have strawberries year round because that was like what there was a lot of demand for so figs would be less rare if there was more demand for them i'm okay with rarity though okay you know it's a bummer to not have figs but i think globalization but think about how much money they could be making, Lucas.

That's the important thing. Lucas, you're not behind Big Fig? I mean, look, man. I love Big Fig as much as anybody. Got that big money. One great SoundCloud album, but. Big Fig. That would be Lil Fig.

Lil Fig. Lil Fig. Have a tattoo of an even smaller fig right in his eye. I'm all into that. Yes. You should take that while it's still free. Oh, no. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I got to get on it. That's moving quickly, right? All the SoundCloud rapper names? Oh, yeah. SoundCloud rappers are lit. There's everything. I took Lil Xanadu. Why are they also Lil?

Huh? Why are they also Lil? They are very thin and little in stature. Is that all the lean? I guess. A diet of lean will really slim you down. Right. You know what I mean?

Talk about a light casket. Yeah. As a child, you don't want to be doing too much lean. Just a one pallbearer casket. Right, right. He was carried out by only one other SoundCloud rapper. Looks like they're carrying a basket of one. Lil Paul Bearer.

Lil Paul Bearer. And he's born. A SoundCloud rapper is born. Lil Paul Bearer. And finally, Lucas, what is is a myth what's something people think is true you know to be false a myth that people think is true that I know to be false

um okay I guess that recycled toilet paper is good it's not I interviewed this woman who has a zero waste sort of lifestyle and she's like recycled toilet, one paper only can be recycled so many times. It doesn't have infinity recycling, and then it eventually ends up as just waste. And recycled toilet paper in specific is bleached with BPAs, which are like super carcinogenic.

So every time you're using recycled toilet paper, you're basically rubbing yourself down with these highly carcinogenic. So every time you're using recycled toilet paper, you're basically rubbing yourself down with these highly carcinogenic, yeah, ass cancer. And it leaks into our groundwater and then our landfills and our ground because the BPA escapes the toilet paper eventually and that's what's left behind. So we were sort of poisoning our buttholes and the planet's buttholes as well.

What do you use on your butt, Lucas? A bidet. I have a bidet. Oh, so you just shampoo your butt. It's not shampoo. It's water. It's just water? I don't know what a bidet is.

Could I add soap to it if I wanted to? I'm sure you could find a way. It would be a complicated rig, but you could do it. It's really easy. You can get it on Amazon. Brondell bidet. That's true. They attach to the toilet. Do would be a complicated rig, but you could do it. It's really easy. You can get it on Amazon, Brondell, Bidet. That's true. They like attach to the toilet. Do you have a hair dryer or what do you use to dry?

Yeah, how do you get dry? I mean, you just, you know, I'll dab. I like dab dry. With what? I'm sorry, I'm so curious. You know, I think bamboo toilet paper is maybe better than recycled toilet paper. All right. But frankly, you know, you can just air dry

you know a nice breezy day if you're in the comfort of your own home you just don't pull your pants up for like 30 minutes you can just hop around air those cheeks out I got a big butt I don't know if there's a lot of air flow going through I have a fan that I sit on after I use my bidet

that's nice right now is it hard to get a bidet installed in your bathroom? It was hard for me because I have a Toto brand toilet, which are these Japanese-like. Oh, yeah. I know what you're talking about. They're like the Fort Knox of toilets. They're like made to be one piece, unbreakable ceramic fortresses.

Right. But for most toilets, it's a pretty easy install process. Nice. All right. Well, you can get it on Amazon for like 30 bucks. There you process. Nice. All right. Well. You can get it on Amazon for like 30 bucks. There you go. Do it, people.

You'll save so much money on toilet paper. Save your butthole. Save the earth. Or it itself. And on, you know, ass cancer, which is very expensive. Yeah, ass cancer is very expensive and uncomfortable. Yeah. Gentleman by the name of Barack Obama is back, you guys.

He gave a speech at the University of illinois that had just some some great rhetoric that would unite us all if half the country wasn't just like bouncing on the balls of their feet just ready to jump on whatever he says and be offended by it uh but his overall message was that trump's not america's biggest problem america's biggest problem is indifference, which was a nice refreshing message, I think, because it's something that people can actually solve and do something about, as opposed to the news cycle and just the zeitgeist in general these days makes people feel a little bit helpless and like they don't really have any control over over the world or you know the news cycle and uh i think his point was you know get out there and vote did you guys hear the

speech hear any parts of it um i heard it and by heard i mean i read quotes on twitter yes there you go so it's practically like brock was like next to me. Did anything reach you? Did anything move you or affect you? I mean, he's always a moving speaker. And I've seen him and heard him speak a ton of times. And what he's saying is not stuff that I guess I'm unfamiliar with. So I was just like, OK, cool, cool. Yeah, we should be voting. Yeah, we shouldn't be getting, you know, complacent or cynic or cynical.

Thank you. My brain is not functioning on full form yet but i uh i don't know i i think trump could get a second term yeah no i think it's totally possible it feels almost inevitable yeah i don't know so some part of me this morning was like ah shit this is really gonna rev up Trump base. But people were saying that that's not necessarily true, that he's gone out and stumped for liberal candidates in the past and Democrats have shown out in higher numbers. But the right, like Ben Shapiro was like, Obama lecturing us is how you got Trump in the first place, which is probably what he'd say if he was just worried that Obama talking to the country was bad for his side.

Yeah, I mean, Obama galvanizing the country isn't what caused Trump to be elected. Yeah, I mean, does itvanizing the country isn't what caused Trump to be elected. So, yeah. I mean, does it ever feel like, you know, these sort of like moments are just this endless feedback loop? Yeah. It's just the same people saying the same things over and over and over and over and over again. Yeah. Like, I mean, I don't know what sort of analysis of actual impact these sort of like like the conversation like Obama makes a speech. actual impact these sort of like like the conversation like obama makes a speech the right gets upset the left defends it like right it feels like this sort of is happening ad infinitum like at what point does it still matter to everyone that we that ben shapiro criticized obama like i mean does it still matter it still matters deeply to me because I am a Shapiro head. I'm a huge fan.

No, I think his argument is disingenuous and bullshit. And I think more of a sign of, I think it's more of a sign of them being a little bit scared or worried about, because this is the first time that Obama has come out and directly addressed the state of the nation and Trump in particular. And I think he did it in a way that wasn't luxury. Like I think sometimes you can look at people's words and see what like values the

word that they want to be true. And like so he wished that Obama came off as lecturing, but it was really like a unifying message and kind of rhetorically pretty smart and not lexury the way that he did it. Yeah, and essentially this speech is the equivalent of a you-up text from the one that got away. We did our bae Barack so dirty, and then he went on vacation. He lived his best life. He's finer than ever. And he came back, and it's like having a cathartic talk with an ex,

like, yeah, man, I know I fucked up. Right. You're like, yeah, you did fuck up. But hey, you can always change your life. But not with me, though. I've moved on. Yeah. But he seemed to be really reaching his hand out to everybody except for the powerful and the privileged.

So in a sense, he may have been lecturing Ben Shapiro because he might be one of the few people who's like, I am powerful and privileged. That's how I identify. Do you think anybody's listening to Obama who doesn't already listen to Obama? Yeah. Like, do you think like any part of the right is actually open to listening to the man they literally despise? I don't think that that speech is for the right. I know. But you know what I mean?

I'm just like, so the people who are listening, though, are like, what, what new audience is he reaching? I don't think he's probably reaching the 39% of people who are still supporting Trump. But Trump didn't win with only those people. He also won with people who were Obama voters, and then came over to the Trump side. And now Trump has lost part of the people who voted for him like not a huge part but still a percentage of them and you know I think well also the people at home right like the people who didn't vote in the last election who you know who didn't feel as inspired I feel like Obama has the gift of being a talented speaker and unfortunately we live in a country that sustains itself more on entertainment than it does on education. So people need their dicks hard to go vote.

You know? Yeah. I guess like I still think like for me, I guess I always think that's a candidate issue. Like, you know what I mean? Yeah, it was. If Obama makes a million great speeches, but you have a shitty candidate, people are still going to be less motivated to go vote. But they'll still be motivated to vote if they're worried about the alternative. Although we've seen in the past with like elections like John Kerry, where it was like

we were voting against Bush and not for John Kerry. Yeah, voting against is not a great motivator. Yeah, it's not. Yeah. I mean, he specifically tried to address that by connecting people's outrage to the act of voting as opposed to, and I think he even specifically said like, this is not a popularity contest. Like there's some great candidates out there, but like, this is not Coachella.

It's not a rock concert. Like, you're not going there to be necessarily inspired. You're going there to vote, to affect change in the world around you. So I think what you're talking about is specifically something he was trying to address. So there will be no Tupac holograms at the polls? I guess not. That's why I was going. If we got like a cute- It might be The Rock. Rocks could very well run. I voted stickers, get people out. You could put that on your Instagram. Should we make those cuter? Do we need a mural? Like an I voted mural at every poll?

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drifts to what's going on behind him. And there was a young lady, you know, respecting the shit out of the flag, wiping her nose on it, which for some reason people didn't object to that, even though that's the sort of thing that if an NFL player did it, whoo, man, they would freak out. But anyways.

They'd have a real tough time if Tom Brady did it. It'd be tough to figure out how to feel about that. Right. A lot of people would be really confused kneeling is disrespectful for the flag but you can stick that shit all the way up your nose right on national television um i do feel really bad for her because she looks like she's you know middle school age person and is probably getting a lot of shit but she's also at a trump rally so that's on her. So there's also this dude who was like right over Trump's right ear who seemed to be reacting appropriately, because he was like, what?

At a couple points, like literally mouthing the words what after Trump said something particularly wild, and was like looking into the middle distance, like just kind of shocked and horrified as to what the president was saying. And but not like overly so, like he wasn't like hamming it up, really. And then at a certain point, a young woman who looked she really has the same look as

Kavanaugh's assistant who was sitting behind him and Dana Lash. She's got like that straight brunette hair look that there's apparently like a factory for conservative women that churns these folks out. But she comes up and just like moves him out of the, she's just like, you have to leave. And he's like escorted out the other direction. And then there are these other people,

a couple dudes wearing MAGA hats who aren't doing anything really bad, but a pretty Trump staffer comes up and replaces them and begins just smiling like a cheerleader. He's just like, yes. And then another woman comes up and is smiling. So they want the optics of, you know, enthusiastic Trump-supporting women, and they don't want any sort of dissonance. But it ended up having the vibe of real, like, invasion of the body snatcher shit. And I'd like to take credit, though,

because those women came from my new modeling school, Make America Beautiful Again. I'm sure you've heard it on the radio. Yeah, yeah, Mabba, Mabba, Mabba. I'm sure you've heard of us on the radio. We're going to have a convention at the Marriott next week. Bring your checks. But, like, it's crazy because also what they're saying is that,

like, look, you real ugly-ass Trump supporters got to get the hell out of the way. Like, they replaced them with complete plans. Like, there was a girl who was just being quiet, loving Trump, you know what I mean? Like, she looked like she came straight out of the way like they replaced them with complete plans like there was a girl who was just being quiet loving trump yeah you know what i mean like she looked like she came straight out of a hot topic and threw on that manga hat right and they were like oh no sis get your goth ass out of here yeah exactly give me somebody who looks like they love god god in the aryan race yeah let me get tina but yeah the most white woman, white woman. Right. Yeah. And apparently ever since the Manafort and Cohen guilty pleas, the energy at these events has been down.

Really? Yeah. I thought it would never change. I thought there was nothing that could shake them. Such a deep denial. It just doesn't matter. I thought nothing mattered. They're still able to fill the places.

So it's not like it- Are they filling it? Or are they calling central casting? Yeah. I mean, from beginning, right? It was always central casting, right? Right, right. Well, at the beginning, it was central casting.

But then it started being pretty authentically a groundswell. But now it seems like it might be going back to them having to, you know, stick staffers here and there to kind of pep things up because everyone's like, oh, he's talking about this shit again. So I don't know. Just, I mean, the level of artifice in politics in general is, I mean, it's across the board. Yeah, that's for sure. As much as it is like, if you think that either of our major political parties aren't like handpicking every single person you see on camera as much as possible.

Right. Show the plumber. You know, like, you know, yeah, you look at the convention last or in 2016, I would say last year. But with Hillary and you're like, it is the most like overt diversity, like diverse. Here is a woman. And here is, you know is a Middle Eastern American. They just called Dove, and we're like, who did y'all have in that commercial?

There's like a league of acapella singers in wheelchairs. And you're like, this is a better message, but it's just as, to some extent, feels just as artificial to me. Because it's meant to manipulate us into thinking a certain thing about the candidate at the same time to me yeah i guess it's just the idea that who you're replacing them with oh yeah it's just their idea yeah they didn't roll anybody in super alarming and it is this yeah i there's something about that aesthetic. I mean, you could almost, it's progressive for Republicans to have a dark-haired woman instead of a blonde-haired woman. They've seen how big Kim Kardashian's got. They're like, look, the goddamn Jenners aren't going anywhere.

Get us a brunette. Yeah, well, it's still like Betty and Veronica, like levels of diversity. Exactly. Whoa, different. Watch out now. Brunette. I think brunettes are in for the repubs. It's not the artifice that gets to me, because I agree with you, Lucas.

It does cross party lines. And sometimes it is nice to see yourself represented on TV. No, it's great to see that representation. In this manner, because this is obviously not like acting. You know what I mean? It is just seeing people on television. But what's interesting to me is how they go about it. I want this shit to be behind the scenes.

Like y'all knew where the podium was. Y'all knew who was gonna be standing behind a truck and y'all let this old, his eyes look dodgy as fuck. Like they should have known he was not supposed to be

standing behind the president. It's like the Wizard of Oz where you're like, really you put the curtain and the controls directly next to the hologram? Right. You could have had

like a separate room nearby. Like at least like Ed Harris was in the moon watching Truman. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like, he had a little bit of distance. You weren't going to see him in the same shot. Yeah.

You know, he wasn't, like, walking behind Jim Carrey being like, okay, let's get another, let's get another pretty lady over here. And then, you know, it was a little bit more covert. Right. And they weren't even smooth about it. It feels like they respect your intelligence a little bit more. Yeah. That's true. They respect you with their their lies and trump doesn't give a fuck he's his

lies have become so lazy and like these that's what i mean i'm like come on you can't even act like we're looking at you right now like y'all like fuck it well he's mastered the superpower of being able to come up with a lazy lie and believe it himself immediately. It's a talent. It's really beautiful. Speaking of which, so he has now decided that the New York Times op-ed from somebody within the Trump White House and also part of the resistance, according to the author, that that is an attack on the country. And he is saying that he wants Jeff Sessions and the Department of Justice to investigate to find out who

did this and I kind of want them to do that too because I think it would just be first of all I think the person who did this is like not you know not the hero that they think they are and it to me felt like they were trying to be like look don't hang us all at the end of the day

yeah exactly like the don't put us all at the end of the day. Right. Yeah, exactly. Like, don't put us all on the guillotine. When the consequences start coming. Yeah. Some of us were secretly playing for the other team. Right. That sounds like someone hedging their bet. Yeah, exactly.

They're like, I'm not going to say who I am. But then when all the chips fall, like, wait a minute, it was me. I wrote it. I was rebelling. I'm Spartacus, the writer of that column. Get these cuffs off of me. I wrote it. I wrote it. I was rebelling. I'm Spartacus, the writer of that column. And I mean, it is also, I think, true that it's probably some sort of national security threat for the reason that Trump's attorneys were asking Mueller not to interview him in the sense that like they were worried that the transcript of Mueller talking to Trump would leak and other leaders of foreign nations would know how dumb Trump is. That was specifically what they were worried about.

What I would have carefully kept secret. Yeah. And so the way that the op-ed makes the White House seem dysfunctional and makes him seem just like a complete lame duck probably isn't good for our national security but it's not for the reason like he thinks it's because there's like a coup that's going to overthrow him and it's just like I think you know the opposite the inverse of that is that an argument can be made that it's better for national security because it's offering the idea that there's a logical failsafe right right some there's

actually someone at the steering wheel. Yeah. Right? Yeah, no, totally. Which is like a message to the world, too, to be like, hey, don't think you're playing with a toddler. Totally. There are adults here in the seats of power and in the throne room. And just, you know, however you're treating us, however you think Donald Trump, how moronic you think this infant is who's currently president, there are real adults there who still have decision-making power

and can keep the agenda somewhat on track. Yeah, but on the other hand, I just want to know who it is, Lucas. Sure. So don't argue with me. I mean, right? Nobody plays Clue to keep the mystery. Right, exactly.

I'm sure we'll find out sooner or later. Let's move on to other... Who's your bet? Weird billionaire. Who do you think it is? I don't know. I haven't spent too, too much time sooner or later. Let's move on to other... Who's your bet? Weird billionaires? Who do you think it is? I don't know. I haven't spent too, too much time thinking about it. My guess would be somebody whose name I don't know.

I wouldn't be surprised if it's Kushner. Yeah, it could be Kushner. You know what I mean? That guy is so... Him and Ivanka are so desperate to play both sides for their own advantage. Something out of their camp wouldn't shock me at all, but I don't think they're smart enough

or responsible enough to have that view. Right. Yeah, that would be really interesting if it was. All right, let's move on to big podcast news, and we're bringing in super producer Ana Hosnia. Elon Musk's appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast is rocking the financial world because he got high on the Joe Rogan podcast.

And yeah, you watched a good bit of this, Anna. Yeah, man. You know, it really made me realize, one, I don't understand science at all. And two, if you're a white man with a monotone voice, like, my attention span is immediately gone. I'm so sorry. I know. Oh, Lucas, I didn't even know you were here.

That's it. Yeah. I exist as white noise. Literally. Literally. That is a confidence, though. To be so confident that people will listen to you that you put no inflection in your voice. One day I'm going to sound just like NPR.

Like, bitch, I'm interested. I will just talk like that. You will still listen. It's surreal. I was saying the other day, like, you could do a best of NPR, like, album and just call it White Noise. Yeah. You know? That's real.

Yeah, it's an interesting episode where, you know, I don't listen to the joe rogan podcast but i always like i've seen clips of it i have an idea of what it's like joe rogan you know likes to get deep you know he likes to talk about the things he likes to talk about multiple universes you know he doesn't he likes dmt he likes drugs he's open um he likes mma i just don't like hitting the plot the buzz The buzzwords. Mixed martial arts. All the letters. Yeah. He likes MMA. DMT. He likes all the letters. C-R-A-C-K. You know. He would probably defend Louis C.K.

Who knows? But yeah, it's... I have never actually seen Elon Musk speak. And that, I think, was the most interesting thing. I feel like I wasn't even listening to him half the time. I was just watching his facial expressions. I really recommend watching this. Did you have the sound on? I did. But the thing is, it was all droning out because he's like and, you know, when the Lennox

cortex meets his, you know. It was a whole thing. So they talk about how the world is simulation. You know, they discuss whether or not there's like multiple universes that we're just, you know, not seeing. And then, of course, they open the show while smoking weed, which Elon Musk asks, it's legal, isn't it?

At first, he doesn't even know if the joint is a cigar or a joint. He's just like, is that a cigar joint? That must be a big joint. Yeah, it was pretty fatty. That sounds like a blunt. It sounds like it was a fatty. And he really squints his eyes to look at it and be like, oh, marijuana marijuana you can tell

he's like i'm i'm elon i'm cool yeah devil's lettuce my impression of the whole episode was my impression of his appearance was takes one hit off a joint and then is like instagram's a facade yeah he does say he does make a very common point that Instagram's a facade, that we're not all as happy as we make it seem. And it's like, damn. Wow. Wow. You blew my mind, Elon.

Oh, wow. Elon. But we have some clips from it. There's one where he is talking about us merging with AI because that's our future. We have no choice. If you can't beat them, join them. Mm-hmm. So-

I talked to a neuroscientist recently who's talking about neurological enhancements and how they're inevitable. Right around the corner. And then it will be classist because only certain people will be able to afford them. I can afford the best brain. Oh yeah, I'm going to be rich enough to have me

the most souped up brain. Right, because I want to pit my ride. Like the Tokyo Drift of brains. Yes, I'm going to do Tokyo Driftinged up brain. Right. Okay. Just like fast and furious level brain, like the Tokyo drift of brains. Yes. I'm Tokyo drifting with my brain. And then that will be another. I got Vin Diesel up there.

Boy. That'll be yet another advantage that rich people use to keep down poor people. Right. I plan to be rich and also oppressing by that time. My brain will have a new paint job. All right. Let's listen to what Elon says.

And this will be like a game where we all try to see how long we can stay awake during this. Okay, here we go. Do you think that it's likely that we will merge somehow or another with this sort of technology? And it will augment what we are now? Or do you think it will replace us? what we are now, or do you think it will replace us? Well, that's the scenario. The merge scenario with AI is the one that seems like probably the best. For us, yes.

If he's talking from inside of an eyedropper. If you can't beat it, join it. What else do you say, Elon? Uh-huh. Okay. Cool. What else do we have uh and then we have i'm sure it goes on for much longer than he goes on to talk about how we basically our brains are too slow and we really need to step it up to become you know which is why we need to just try to cocaine for the first time yeah he says we don't have the bandwidth to just continue to compete with AI so we must

become that. So that's what he goes on to say. And then here's another clip where he talks about different new things that the Tesla can do that we weren't aware of which is just unnecessary. Cook you breakfast. Make your toast. Vacuum.

No? Oh shit, here it comes. What can it do that I need to know about? I mean, the Model X can do this, like, ballet thing to a trans-Siberian orchestra. It's pretty cool. Where it dances? Yes. Legitimately? Like, it moves around? Yes.

Damn, Elon. Why would you program that into a car? It must be difficult to work for Elon Musk, because he's like, make it dance. This isn't going to help us sell it. Make it dance. Make the Tesla twerk. All right, guys, I guess we got to make the cars dance now.

Fuck. All right. Before, you thought men just loved women and cars. But really, they just want the car to become a woman. Lord Musk has demanded we make the cars dance the ballet of the night okay what's that shitty sport uh where you make courses dance dressage dressage yeah yeah damn you had that way too quick damn you got that elon brain that was faster than google my bandwidth is crazy damn i'm over here with the spectrum Wi-Fi brain.

My shit is slow as hell. Stopping all the time. Just dial up, yeah. Yeah, I got dial up brain. God damn. Anyways, he's trying to usher in the next era of shitty rich sports with car dressage. So if you have two and a half hours to listen to Elon Musk drone on, it is so absurd that I was just listening because I was like, what is he going to say next about science?

I guess he's so important that you're always like, no matter how bad the conversation is, you're like, well, we have to go as long as he lets us because he's incredibly influential, right? What fucking power? I cannot wait. Elon decides when an interview ends, right? Because you're just like, fuck, I mean, maybe he'll say something that will change the world.

I think he's trolling himself a little bit. I think he's lost a little bit. There's also a great moment where Joe Rogan shows him a samurai sword and he just observes it for five minutes and his face is hilarious. So I just recommend going to look just for that because he's just like, wow. I mean, that's fucking great though. Like, Joe Rogan's like, I have Elon Musk coming. I'm going to show him my samurai sword. Like, eight-year-old boy moves, you know what I mean?

Like, check out this. It's a real sword, you know? It was owned by a real samurai. Uh-huh. Yeah, and then Elon's like, but can it dance? Exactly. He starts dancing with the sword. He puts it in his Tesla and then dances. And then Elon's like, but can it dance? Exactly. He starts dancing with the sword.

He puts it in his Tesla and then dances. And Anna, it should be pointed out that it doesn't look like he knows how to smoke weed or that he inhaled it. No, he definitely did not inhale the actual weed. You see him hit it and the smoke comes out immediately. If you have ever smoked weed, you know you have to inhale the weed into your lungs to destroy them. And he has said in the past that he's not a marijuana smoker. And it's very clear. He's trying to be cool

with old Joe Rogan. So overall Tesla stock has been down in the past month by quite a bit. Bizarre. But they dancing though. So in the past month, it's down from 370 when it started. And at the beginning of the day, it was at 280.

After this podcast went public, though, it dropped to 260. Oh, shit. Like just straight down. People were like, oh, this guy's a fucking idiot. Yeah, I'm sure if you're thinking of a giant company and you're thinking of money and then you see the head of the company smoking weed with Joe Rogan, clearly you're going to be like, okay, where is this going? You know, that's the thing. They're all like that. All these CEOs, especially the tech bros.

The past week, they were all out at Burning Man together. Yeah, but I'm not seeing or hearing that. Dressed as extras from the fifth element. It's just like, you know, this is who runs the world.

It's not necessarily intelligent people. It's opportunistic, fortunate people. They have the brains enough to be like, I'm not gonna, you know,

broadcast this. Because if we don't, you can do whatever you want. I just don't want to see you smoking weed with Joe Rogan and then being like, okay, so I, you know. We this. Because if we don't, you can do whatever you want. I just don't want to see you smoking weed with Joe Rogan and then being like, okay, so I... You know, we live in this age

of like immediate availability and transparency. Like, you know, you get the Kanye's of the world, the Donald Trump's of the world who market their brand off of availability and like a ubiquitous celebrity.

True, but old white men who sell and buy stock are like, what is this? where is your suit that Colin Kaepernick commercial was too much for them but you know

I just think that like I think a lot of people are being tricked into thinking that it's always good for your brand to be like as visible

as possible and it's like and let the chaos be visible too because that's somehow compelling in and of itself people's imaginations especially when you're successful can sometimes be to your benefit yeah and bursting that bubble is not always

yeah yeah i don't need to know i don't need to know everything right let me imagine right let me imagine that you're just in a suit everywhere you go i think the thing kanye did so well for a long time was like being able to step outside of himself and like see himself like and like sort of do things with that in mind and he lost that ability recently and i think trump has a pretty good sense of like what his appeal is to people and is able to like work with that manipulate it and i think that is what elon musk just doesn't have he like doesn't know what we want from him or what people want from him and what his like the people who run his company want from him. He's just like, ah, no, I can do anything.

It's all a simulation. Nothing matters. He also was raised by multimillionaires and carried around rubies. Was he a child of great fortune? Yeah, he walked around with emeralds in his pockets. Is that a true story? That's a true story.

He was walking around New York City with emeralds in his pockets. For what? So like he, you know. You know, you need emeralds. You don't have loose emeralds in your pockets? His parents owned like an emerald mine. Yeah.

Which is only the richest of people. So he goes into the bodega. Owned an emerald of people. So he goes into the bodega. Owned an emerald mine. Yes. He goes into the bodega. He's like, can I have a snicker? Here's an emerald. For nothing else, I'm glad I came for that.

That's amazing. His dad just had a child with Elon's stepsister. So he was there from her birth to forward. It's not his daughter, but he just had a child with her. Very Woody Allen. Very Woody Allen. Very Woody Allen. Cool, cool.

Dark background. Cool, cool. And there are new additions to the Merriam-Webster's dictionary. So they added some food-based words to the Merriam-Webster's dictionary. So they added some food-based words to the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Just the dictionary is trying to keep up with the millennials, it seems like. It is the most millennial dictionary

in Merriam-Webster. I love it. They're active. They added words like guac, hangry, which, fuck off. No, that's a word. That's absolutely a word. You know exactly what it means.

You know what it means. I do, but it's... Portmanteau is a word for a reason. Yeah, I guess so. Gochujang is good. Avo? What is that? It's an avocado.

It's avocado? This is a very avocado-related word exchange. What are abbreviations considered their own words? You can spell... If you really go deep into Scrabble and things like that, the spelling of letters are words. True.

You can spell the letter E. And things like that. There's sounds. I think anything that is a discreet object that conveys a meaning, right, can be sort of like,

becomes a word if it becomes culturally used enough, right? It's all about usage. Well, I do, one, appreciate that because it started to incorporate way more like AAV words, VE words, which is the African American Vernacular English, which black people have always gotten shit for for speaking differently. Like, oh, ain't ain't a word.

And it's like the King's English was made up. Everything's made up. Stay low. You know what I mean? So I do appreciate Miriam Wessler for a lot of english that uh has been used widely by different races and cultures but wasn't necessarily acceptable by white america yeah so keep going miriam webston yeah let me get lol in the dictionary you know i'm sure is it there lol yeah yeah right i think it's like like if you look at like german as a language,

usually so many of the words are the combinations of other words and things that you just sort of endlessly put together, which is like a really cool thing, but it's like baffling. Hangry is very millennial, though. I think hangry, I absolutely think it should be a word. Next edition's to Merriam-Webster. Da fuck? A lot of words. D-A-F-U-Q.

Da fuck? I will say that I was wrong about hangry because that is something that I'm the older I get, the more I realize that I just wasn't aware of my body enough to realize that's why I was in a bad mood. Like, oh, I haven't eaten like since last night. And yeah, that's a that's a real thing that people deal with that we should be probably more aware of. And yeah, that's a real thing that people deal with that we should be probably more aware of. On the other end of the spectrum, some of the darker additions are Tent City and Food Bank. Is Tent City hyphenated or is it one word? It must be hyphenated because you can't put a two word. The way it's written on our doc is just as two words, but they wouldn't put two words separately in it.

So it must be a hyphenate. they wouldn't put two words separately in it. So it must be a hyphenate. You know, that's something that even as the conservative media and even a lot of the mainstream media is emphasizing that the economy is booming and consumer confidence is way up. Other things that are way up are like people going to visits to food banks and soup kitchens and stuff like that. Like that sort of thing is way up. So as there are these economic indicators that show rich people are making more and more money, poverty is getting worse and worse in the country. I mean, it's all about, it's like metrics, right? But if you measure GDP or something like that,

you're like, oh, things are great, right? If you measure overall expansion, but it's when you start breaking it down into demographics that you're like, oh, most of this money is only going to a few people. The economy is actually doing terribly for most people. And we're going to have the words to describe it because food bank- What was the other one?

Food bank? Food bank and tent city. Yeah. Okay. There you go. Like the words just keep getting darker and darker and darker. There is a, my favorite word that exists in any language is this Russian word that means man cow. And it was invented to describe a person that you would be in the gulags with and you would let them like eat your food to fatten them up and then escape the gulags with them and then eat them as you crossed the tundra.

And that's why they called. But they had a fucking word for that that is so russian what a new meaning for a snack i know like you look like a snack like a snack uh all right we're gonna take a quick break and then we'll talk more russian food when we come back. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th, 2017, was murdered. There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate. My name is Manuel Delia. I am one of the hosts of Crooks Everywhere,

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And I really feel so content, which is a word that used to scare the crap out of me. And I love that word now. Listen to The Bright Side from Hello Sunshine on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And a couple updates from Super Producer Nick Stumpf over the break. Jared Kushner, JerBear, as I call him,

was trapped outside of a door that he couldn't get into and surrounded by reporters who were shouting at him questions about whether he wrote the op-ed, and he refused to answer. Boom! There you go. Hey! Might have called it. And the other reason this is kind of a big deal

is because Kushner is one of the very few people who has not come out and released a statement saying, I did not write that op-ed. So it seems like he might have something to hide. And also, Super Producer Nick Stumpf does not believe that avo is a word. Come to Silver Lake, man. Yeah, it's a word out there. You will not be able to communicate without embracing avo. Eventually, we're just going to stop saying aw. We're just going to be like, I went to the M and then ah.

That's like a full sentence. Give me two of the bleh bleh. Can I get extra uh? All right. As I was saying, we're moving on to more Russian food talk. From Man Cow to Domino's Pizza, they are trying to make it big in Russia. And they have decided to give away 100 free pizzas to any Russian who gets a tattoo. That's 100 free pizzas a year for a century, which is $200,000 worth of pizza over the course of a century.

Yeah. How many pizzas do you think you eat a year? Oh my god. I'm the wrong person. Really? Like break it down by week. Like on an average week how many pizzas? Actually that's true. When I was younger I probably ate like pizza every day of my life. Okay. So yeah you know couple I'd say I probably. pizza every day of my life. So yeah, a couple. I'd say I probably ate a hundred. But not two pizzas a week. No, no, probably not two pizzas a week. You're right.

That's a lot of pizza. It is a lot of pizza. Yeah, but it's also Domino's. Domino's is big. But is it like a small nine, eight, whatever the small pizza is? It's like the thin crust. You know those personal pizzas they used to make? Yeah, I do like the thin crust.

Like the shit you get for Book It? Did you guys ever have Book It? That was Pizza Hut in Chicago. Yeah, Pizza Hut. Yeah, I do like the thin crust. Like you get for Book It. Did you guys ever have Book It? That was Pizza Hut in Chicago. Yeah, Pizza Hut. Yeah, us too. Yeah, the free personal pan pizza. You read 600 pages or something like that or 600 minutes. I don't know.

I can't remember. 600 seconds. Oh, right. And they gave you the free pizza. You bring a sticker and they give you a free personal pan pizza. That shit was amazing. We had that in Texas. Every Friday I was there.

We had that in Texas. I mean, Domino's is bae. I've talked about Domino's on this show before. Domino's texts me every day. I'm cheating on Domino's right now with celery. It's like made out of- With celery? Yes.

It's not a good relationship, but I got to do what I got to do. I got to lose weight. But Domino's texts me. I'm like, bitch, don't text me no more. I told you not to contact me on this line. But I would get a tattoo if it was for life. What's the tattoo? I would too.

You could get whatever you want. Some of these are very creative. It's like a dominoes and then there's like a claw. And then what did it say? Like forever freebie? It's slave to freebie. Slave to freebie. That's the wrong country to do that in because Russians will do anything.

They don't give a fuck. They give zero fucks. A tattoo for 100 free pieces a year for a century? Yeah. So they immediately called this off, by the way. Yeah. Because they were deluged, I'm sure. This is too good a deal for Russian people who don't give a fuck, which is about 90%

of the Russian population. That's a terrific tattoo. Absolutely. This is a terrible idea. And Russians are famous for their crazy tattoos. My favorite genre of YouTube videos is just Russians not giving a fuck about like crazy stuff. Like that video of the dude driving and the meteor is coming towards the plane. And he just is like driving, changes the channel to like listen to like a different song.

But like doesn't do anything. Doesn't even react. But what would you do? What would be like, oh, thank God he ran away from his car. Right. different song but like doesn't do anything doesn't even but what would you do what would you what would what would be like oh thank god he ran away from his car right i don't know because the meteor would have hit him otherwise he just seemed so unfazed though yeah well at a certain point you gotta be like well it's me you know it's all in the meteor's hands yeah i feel like that's like the russian mentality sure absolutely well they've been through the shit they have that country has had a crazy

century doesn't vodka mean little water yeah yeah so they all just yeah so they all just had a little water and went down to the tattoo parlor it was like yeah fuck it up yeah give me the dominoes pizza man give me the pizza tattoo yeah i would do it for a year like if i got free dominoes for the rest of my life i might i have no, but I might get a dominoes tattoo. Yeah, me too. Because you can put it anywhere, right? Yes. You get a little cute little ankle joint.

What about a little inner thigh? That's for bae. Yeah. And yeah, it's an investment. It's an investment. So there's this story that's been kind of percolating. We've revisited it a a couple times now on the podcast about diplomats in cuba and in china oh yeah who are reporting having like basically they were calling them sonic

attacks like they would hear strange sounds and then they would start feeling like they were concussed the next day and earlier last, it was being reported that the military and the doctors they had looking into it were considering microwave weapons as a prime suspect because there is a theoretical possibility that you could use microwaves to basically cause sonic illusions in people's minds.

Jack, are you telling me I need to go home and fight my microwave? Yes, that is exactly what I'm telling you. I need to go fight my microwave tonight. It's dangerous. Yeah. Well, it's a theoretical possibility. Also, the New York Times article that everybody was reacting to was just saying microwaves were a prime suspect and like the Fox News's and other you know garbage publications of the world took that to mean that that was exactly what it was and a lot of doctors are now basically

calling bullshit on this report I think a lot of people are on you know I've been saying I thought it was mass hysteria since the very first article and or you know a social contagion is another way of putting it because all right uh there's my conspiracy theory music uh but you know it's not that they didn't feel these symptoms they have the symptoms it's just that like anything your mind can cause physical symptoms i don't know if it's real or not what happened, if there was an attack or not, but I find it hard to believe that Cuba in any way, shape, or form was behind it.

Right. Because just the political position they're in right now. I went for a visit there last year. Nice. With The Nation magazine, which is like a cool leftist rag. Yeah. But we spent a lot of time being fed a certain amount of government propaganda, but also getting to interview and talk to a lot of interaction with their natural organic trading partner 90 miles away the coast of Florida, it doesn't make any sense to be attacking US diplomats

or to be in danger as they're opening the window and opening the door to a better and more fruitful relationship with the United States. It makes no sense. Yeah. China, maybe. I don't know. Right. And some people are saying Russia.

Some people are saying China because then it's spread to diplomats in China. China as well't know. Right. And some people are saying Russia, some people are saying China, because then it's spread to diplomats in China. China as well, yeah. Right. But the other thing is that microwave weapons are a thing that the US military has been investigating and investing in and trying to develop for many years and just weren't able to. So if you believe it's microwaves, you also believe

that another country has created a weapon that not only have we not been able to create yet, but we still don't know that it's possible and most scientists don't think it's possible. Yeah. Actually, I interviewed this woman, Mary Wareham, who's from the Human Rights Campaign. interviewed this one Mary Wareham who's from the human rights campaign uh and uh she she on my podcast saving the world with Barry Lucas but uh she she uh her whole thing is that she works against uh weapons of particular cruelty and warfare and uh we were talking about like you know she helped stop the use of blinding lasers dazzling lasers uh cluster bombs uh intercontinental ballistic missiles an ICBM treaty in the 90s that she was responsible for. She's now working to stop killer robots because we're like two to three outs

from totally autonomous sort of terminators. Robot war? Yeah, robot war. But a point that sort of came up in our conversation was that the two world leaders far and away for creating these crazy, crazy, crazy weapons

were the US and Israel. Yes. Like the entire creating these crazy, crazy, crazy weapons for the US and Israel. The entire world is like, absolutely, we want to stop using these crazy weapons because they're the ones that the weapons get used on most of the time. And the US and Israel are like, yeah, but it's so cool. Don't you want to die

in a cool, exciting way? Dazzling lasers, come on. That's fun. Come to West Hollywood. Enjoy theazzling lasers. Come on. That's fun. The name alone. Come to West Hollywood. Enjoy the dazzling lasers. You know? Yeah. But yeah, so it's hard to believe, like you said, that another country has beaten the U.S. to the punch with new weapons technology.

Well, Zai King, if you're listening out there and you're worried about your microwave, for $60, I will come to your house and fight your microwave. I mean, I've never trusted my toaster, just first things first. I will fight all of the appliances in your kitchen. I have so much trust in my toaster. For $60. I trust my toaster with my life.

Wow. I love toast. No, I do too. If there's anything I can make into toast, I'm gonna do it. It's so good. I grill mine in a toast griller, because I need to see what the fuck the toast is up to.

Toaster oven. You check on it. You gotta have a lot of trust to stick something in a to griller because I need to see what the fuck the toast is up to. Toaster oven. Do you check on it? You got to have a lot of trust to stick something in a toaster because it is just down there percolating. You don't know what's going on. You learn it. You learn it. You know what I mean?

There's a process of getting to know each other. No passcode on my toaster. But the Washington Post published an article with a more kind of complete scientific consensus that's saying, they basically said, you know, there's an old scientific aphorism that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and they're not giving the extraordinary evidence. They're not giving any evidence. So I'm still leaning towards social contagion. It's an actual illness. That's not a thing that's like, ah, they're a bunch of wacky kids, got it in their head. It's an actual illness.

It will cause physical symptoms. It's just the human mind is a crazy thing we just don't even come close to understanding. But microwave weapons is a thing that we should be able to understand and would have figured out by now probably. And finally, we wanted to talk about Nicki Minaj. So Jeffrey Owens is, what was the name of his character on the Cosby show? Do you remember? Alvin.

Alvin, yes. So Alvin. He was such an Alvin. From the Cosby show, I know. He looks like an Alvin in real life. I think he defined the name Alvin. He did. That and the chipmunk.

Yes. Well, he took it over. The chipmunk just couldn't get work after Jeffrey took over the word Adam. When you think about it, the name Alvin and the chipmunks is incredibly misleading. Right. Because you immediately assume that he's not a chipmunk. Right. Because it's and the chipmunk.

Yeah. Alvin with other chipmunks. But it's like Destiny's Child. There were children. Yeah. But it was Beyonce who was the child. Yeah. Right.

Oh. Yeah. Well, because it was her mom who named it, wasn't it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. She wasn't trying to be subtle. Uh-uh. Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. And right.

She was right. She was right. Very right. Speaking of earlier, Beyonce is a great example of someone who is ubiquitous but still mysterious. Oh, yes, because she keeps things to herself. Yeah, you don't know anything about her, really. And I love it. Yeah, because it allows us to all keep her up on that pedestal.

Ugh. You know? She looks so good up there. Yeah, she looks amazing. Maybe Alvin has like an OJ's theory on race. Like that's how Alvin views himself as a chipmunk. He's like,

I'm not a chipmunk. I'm Alvin. I'm Alvin. I'm OJ. Alvin the chipmunk also murdered his chipmunk wife. Oh, everybody knows that. Everybody knows that.

Everybody knows it. Who was that guy he was with? Dave. Dave. Dave is crazy. So having kids, I now have these radio stations, streaming stations where it's just children's music, and chipmunk songs will come on,

and Dave is just a barely contained rageaholic the whole time. He's just like, Alvin, you shut the fuck up. Like he's so mad all the time. It's crazy. Anyways, Jeffrey Owens, somebody saw him working a non-acting job at Trader Joe's. His shirt looked a little dirty. He might have just been like moving some dusty boxes

in the back of the Trader Joe's. Yeah. And they took video of him and were like, what are you doing, idiot? Why are you working a real job, loser? He did look a little dusty for Trader Joe's. He looked dusty for a Trader Joe's employee. And he was like, this is, you know, I do other jobs besides acting because acting is not the steadiest of work and people were immediately like this poor man right and nikki minaj decided to get involved and has

chosen to donate twenty five thousand dollars to him i need my sis nikki to get off those pills and potions what a what an embarrassing donation to make i know yeah first of all we know how much money you got girl like what this is barely like a market just like of all the people to help out right he's not the guy yeah like jeffrey's not um destitute he's got a job he has a job he's working it he got embarrassed uh wrongly on social media well that embarrassment led to great fortune those haters big ups to the haters. I never knew haters could do so much for you. So all my haters, stay strong out there.

Keep hating on me. That was way better than a 25K donation. Tyler Perry offered him a job, though. He got several job offers off of... I think he said he wouldn't take any of them. No, he quit Trader Joe's. I know he quit Trader Joe's, but it wasn't a take. I also saw somewhere where he was like,

I don't want to take jobs because of this. His ass about to take a damn job. He was like, bye, Trader Joseph. Hello, Nicki Minaj, 25 grand. I think that's what he's saying. I think that's what he's saying. Because it'd be a bad look to be like, and bye-bye. Goodbye, plebs.

There's nothing wrong with working at Trader Joe's. Good day. I'll never be here again. I wouldn't even shop here. You never believed in me. Yeah. I mean, it's also because she's just, one, she's had so many public meltdowns as of late

that I'm just like, sis, get it together. Like, she was clowning Travis Scott, calling him the ho-nigga of the week on her podcast because he has the number one album and she feels like she should have it. Well, her album is not it's not great it's not um but you didn't hear that for me as a black american i love nikki i'm kidding i don't have to stand up for her she's so homophobic and misogynist boo bitch bye

um be mad stay sad um but great she she freaking like has been attacking him on every platform and she's like no i'm not mad i'm not mad it's like girl you are and now here she is on twitter trying to flex like girl if you want to slide gary or jeffrey owens why can't you call him gary i'm so sorry you want his name to be gary name yourself gary alvin um but if you want to slide jeffrey 25 g's can't you just do that quietly through paypal well that's the thing, right? Like, we don't need to know about this. It was less about helping him than making sure everybody else knew that she was doing it, right? Yeah.

It just seems so transparently. He's not in need like that. Yeah, just chasing a trend. Donate that to one of Merriam-Webster's new food banks. It's not only chasing the first trend that you see, but also going with the very first thought that that trend gives you it's like okay and 25,000 well this is why I'm like I disagree with Elon

I don't think speed is the answer I think we need to start I think our brains work better at a slower pace I think we're trying to act like we can make decisions at this furious pace and I think we inevitably are just like making terrible decisions like one after the other in a sort of dominoes sequence this furious pace. And I think we inevitably are just like making terrible decisions. Right.

One after the other. Yeah. In a sort of dominoes sequence almost really. Dominoes. Like getting a tattoo for free pizza for a century. What a terrible idea. That's a great choice. I mean, it's a great choice to do. What a terrible idea for dominoes.

Oh, yeah. Bad choice dominoes. You know, they were trying to be fast. Slow down and realize how good your pizza is. They should have done that to like a small country. Right. You know what I mean? Pick a small island nation.

That's what we were saying, like Papua New Guinea. Like, you know, or really test people's faith. Like do it with Rastafarians who don't believe in tattoos. You know what I mean? Then it's like, man, how much do you love dominoes? How much do you love to forsake your religion? Yeah, would you forsake Ja? Would you forsake Ja for the delicious MSG and stuff first?

Kneel before your new God you know we are dominoes yeah man just embrace being evil you know what I mean but be smart about it

absolutely also Nicki Minaj did you guys hear about this she doesn't sound like the most considerate of lovers you know what I mean she was talking about

how she's like if you're gonna be with me one I'm not into kissing that much so don't try and be like kissing me that much. But I want it three times a night.

Not a lot of kissing. Just get to work. Make me happy. And I was like, if some guy said that, you'd be like, what a monster. I know, right? I can't lie. But as a woman, I'm like, yeah, fuck me three times a night. Don't kiss me or look at me in the eyes.

Don't even come in here with a face. Just a dick and legs. Like the worst. You're right. It's so bad. You know, someone actually tweeted her after she said she was donating the $25,000. And they said, donate as if this man is in dire straits or a charity organization. Please use an Uber ride credit to get the fuck out of my face.

That's what someone tweeted, Nicki Minaj. Then she retweeted it and said, I'd rather use my Uber ride to you to suck my dick. Wow. What? Things are going well. She should be using her energy.

But you can just tell she's like, she must have just surrounded herself with some bad people. Absolutely. Because you know what I mean? Because those artists don't make decisions by themselves at that level. You have

a posse of people who are all helping you make decisions and strategize and things like that. And she just doesn't have... Look at the production on her album. That wasn't a lot of good decisions. And they're also just afraid to be cast out. You hear them on her podcast and they'll be in the back. She's like, I'm the best rapper to ever do it.

And they're like, yeah, yeah, Nicki, you the best. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Queen is the number one album yeah yeah yeah despite what Billboard says definitely the number one they're just back there hyping her and it's so insane Gary Owens I hope you get Gary Jeffrey I'm so sorry

Jeffrey I hope you get that $25,000 that apology is not going to come across well and Gary hang in there, pal. We're feeling for you, buddy. Always a fan. I'm not an out-of-work actor, but if I ever am,

should I be tweeting Nicki Minaj? Yeah, apparently. Nicki. Just hope she doesn't find this episode. Lucas, it has been a pleasure having you, man. Thanks for having me. Where can people find you other than all that stuff we talked about up top?

You stay working, but where can they find you on social media? Well, I'm only on Instagram, so you can get me at lucasneff666. Whoa. What? Son of the devil. That's right, guys. I'm a wild card.

You know, it's just a lot of fun content. You know, I get to know the inner workings of my mind a little bit more. The things I like, the things I dislike. Slang that tent. So you're not on Twitter, so I can't ask you if there's a tweet you've been enjoying. Is there an Instagram post or an Instagram feed that you enjoy? I mean, there's a bunch of really great feeds.

If you high process video, look at this Russian. I'd say look at this Russian if you're like really want to get to understand why Domino's made a terrible decision like they didn't know

who they were up against that's great they are an unstoppable chaotic force yeah that loves pizza I'm sure

look they're just free stuff man if you offer free stuff to anybody they will take that shit. I mean, a tattoo, you can get like a $60 tattoo. I may or may not have a McDonough's tattoo on my ass. Okay?

Yeah. Why not? Yeah. You know what I mean? It's just financially, it's a great investment. It is. I mean, admittedly, you have to be Russian. Right.

Shit. Did not think this through. This is once again why we need to slow down. Laci, where can people find you? Ooh, you can find me on all platforms under the same name. D-I-V-A-L-A-C-I. Diva Laci.

And is there a tweet you've been enjoying? Ooh, there is a tweet that I have been enjoying. Okay, I've been enjoying a series of tweets. I don't know if you guys have seen these you have to have um based off of the colin kaepernick nike just do a campaign there have been a bunch of photos that have surfaced with other people's photos and other quotes like there's one of donald trump says believe in something yes even if you just made it up my personal favorite which is just a bunch of

letters like and it's got a picture of floyd mayweather oh i know i actually just got i got sent a tweet through instagram that i think is pretty great and it's uh elon musk smoking that wow that is a huge joint yeah on joe rogan's and uh and it's what if the cars had titties yes they dance and they have titties and that's from at ya ya ya me

am I some Twitter handle I don't know but I get sent tweets now awesome you know what I mean I'm in that world sent tweets on Instagram

that's how you're living yeah man I hate how much I read tweets like in newspapers or whatever. You know what I mean? Media. I'm like, God. They're like random Joe Blow 666

big cock over here thinks that President Trump's foreign policy is great. Yes. I'm like, Jesus Christ. And you need to thank him and his big cock. How is this? This is acceptable news? Okay. You can follow me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. And a tweet I've been enjoying.

Lenarchus Aldridge at Adam L1226 on Twitter. Twote, white people love saying, oh, that was terrible after throwing a Frisbee. Very true in my experience. You can follow us at Daily Zeitgeist on twitter we're at the daily zeitgeist on instagram we have a facebook fan page and a website dailyzeitgeist.com where we post our episodes and our footnotes where we link off to the information that we talked about on today's episode as well as the song that we ride out on. You can also find those in the information about the information for the episode wherever you are listening to it on whatever device.

It should be right in there. We are going to be at Chicago PodFest on December 1st. It's going to be the first live Daily Zeitgeist. Probably not going to be like a live just regular episode of the show we'll figure something fun out for you uh and miles is not here to recommend a song to ride out on so uh miles is sick by the way people wondering where he is he woke up ill today, so we decided to let him stay home. But Super Producer Anna Hosnier Hi. is an all-time great,

legendary pinch hitter when it comes to ride-out songs. What are we riding out on today? I'm going to recommend this soul singer, Leon Bridges. This is one of my favorite songs of his. It's called Lisa Sawyer, and it's so sweet, and it's so smooth. You know how I like those smooth jazz.

Oh, yeah, you do. You are always saying, I like smooth jazz. Yeah, so check it out. Lacey, it was great having you. Thank you so much for filling in for Miles. Miles, I miss you. That's going to do it for today. We will be back tomorrow because it is a daily podcast.

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