The Daily Zeitgeist - Trump Goes AGGRO, Manufactured Chaos? 6.24.20

Episode Date: June 24, 2020

In episode 658, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and Culture Kings podcast co-host Jacquis Neal to discuss Trump slowing down coronavirus testing, Trump facing back-lash for tweeting out race-baiting videos, Facebook advertisers pulling out, a cop 'finding a tampon' in his drink, and more!FOOTNOTES: 'I don't kid': Trump contradicts aides and insists he meant it when he asked for coronavirus testing to be slowed down Trump Faces Backlash For Tweeting Race-Baiting Vids Of Black Men Attacking White People Product Recommendations Facebook advertisers hit pause Police say deaths of black people by hanging are suicides. Many black people aren’t so sure. Firework Complaints Increase By 230X In June As Officials Seek Supplier Crackdown Police Officer 'Finds Tampon' Inside His Starbucks Coffee, Probe Launched WATCH: Jai Paul – Do You Love Her Now Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Nailed it. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! Hail as old as time. Murder in the streets. Screw the damn police.

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already but yeah thank you for that one we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by one of our favorites one of the faces on Mount Zeitmore he He is the hilarious, the talented, the brilliant Jockeys Neal!

Allow me to reintroduce myself. My name is Jockeys to the Neal. I got some J1s on my heels. And you know, fuck the cops, they not the best. But Jockeys is back on the Daily Zeitcast! Oh! He's back, fuck the cops. They not the best. But Jack Keys is back on the Daily Zeit.

Yes. Oh. All right. He's back. He's back. Oh, what up, everybody? What's up? What's up?

Welcome back. You have some ones on right now? No, I got feet on. I ain't got no shoes on. We at the crib. There you go. No shoes on. My toes are out.

They wiggling. They feeling good. Has this been the end of swag for anybody like in terms of dressing because i realize now i merely wear clothes to keep myself from being nude there's no thought goes into the clothing no matter where i go now it's like no i just have to wear this so my dick isn't out or like i'm having, I have a shirt on. Yeah, man. I, I, I've, I've bought too much shit during the teen, you know? Uh, so, you know, right, right now I haven't worn jeans in four months, like legitimately jeans in four months.

But when I step back out into the world, like for good, man, I'm going to be so glowed up. Uh, it's going to be, it's going to be amazing. People are going to be like, somebody saw me the other day. I was like, Jackie, you look skinny. And I was like, man, somebody saw me the other day and was like, Jacquees, you look skinny. And I was like, man, it's just the clothes. I've been buying the good shit. I've been buying the Italian cuts.

Oh, you didn't know? You didn't see me on my birthday? Yeah. I've been buying the shit that fit now. So y'all ain't ready. Y'all not ready no more. It's funny. The jeans thing,

I have my clothes. I have one drawer that was usually pants that I wore that were pre-quarantine. And I look at jeans and I'm like, not putting those on. In a way, similar with collared shirts with buttons, I'm looking at jeans like, get the fuck. It's basketball shorts all fucking year from now on. Yeah, I don't know how jeans are going to feel on my legs no more, man. It's going to be restrictive. It's going to be restrictive.

It's going to be oppressive. All your nerve endings are overstimulated. Cut him off at the knees or cut him off at the thighs. Turn him into some jorts. Oh, you're going to rock jorts, Jack? Oh, shit. John Cena? Gunna.

Oh, stand up real quick. Let us see. I'm going to cut him so short you can see the pockets hanging out the bottom. Oh, that's a tough look. Yeah, that's a tough look for men when you got the pockets dangling. Especially if you've seen someone who has the pockets exposed and they're using the pockets. So it's like a bunch of loose change is like pooling at the bottom you're like there's like ink stains on it from when they put a pen in there yeah i want somebody i want somebody

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to the tune of Cher, would you like to see my thighs in the sun? Use that. There you go in the sun? Use that. There you go, Zeitgang. Take that. You've got your homework. Now come back with the verses.

I don't know how you beat that. And I don't know how I'll get through. Yeah, I mean, you got something there. You got something there. All right, Jaquese, we're thrilled to have you. We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners a couple of things that we're talking about today. Trump has confirmed something that we talked about at the very early stages of the pandemic. We thought that he might be slowing down testing

because he knew the numbers looked bad and he just can't think beyond tomorrow and is just like, I don't want the big number tomorrow. But he confirmed that in the tulsa speech his aides came out and said he was obviously kidding uh and then yesterday morning he said i don't kid uh when asked about that so um that happened and apparently one of the things he wants to run on is his COVID response. He thinks he did a good job, despite the fact that we have a quarter of the world's deaths in the U.S. alone. We're going to talk about Facebook and other companies who are still tacitly supporting white supremacy and what can be done to, you know, speak their language. We're going to talk about what this election is going to look like now that Trump, you

know, he doesn't have really a coherent strategy. But, you know, Miles, you were pointing out that, like, John Bolton kind of previewed it of just, like, kind of doubling down on the racism. Somebody, a Vanity Fair reporter, like, kind of actually looked at his speech in Tulsa and was like, whoa, it's actually, like, really, like, dark and violent and, like, teases a bunch of Q stuff. Uh, so we're going to look at that. Uh,

we're going to look at the, the police being petulant, um, the unsolved lynchings and the, uh, fireworks conspiracies. Um, and maybe if we have time,

we'll get to, uh, this Trump movie that's coming out at can. Uh, but first, yeah, it's's a it's not made by him it's about him uh and it co-stars stormy daniels uh and yeah that is that's a gut punch for anybody who wanted to make a film when you're like damn stormy daniels is going to be at cam before us. Yeah. Shout out to her. But first, Jakeese, we'd like to ask our guest,

what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Oh, all right. All right. All right. So listen, when I fire up the old Google, because Bing is no longer a thing. We were talking about that before. So Google is all I got. The last few things that I've been searching is characters from One Tree Hill. Now, let me tell y'all why.

Because I'm watching One Tree Hill. That's it. That's why. That's why. So that's it. I don't know why the in the when it first came out the marketing in my mind had me thinking that that was an address like one tree hill i don't know why rather than literally like a hill that had one tree on it but aside from that i have no fucking clue what the show is about so please enlightenen me. What the fuck is One Tree Hill?

It's definitely not about a hill that has one tree on it. Damn, okay. I don't think you can get nine seasons. I don't know. White people can figure out how to get nine seasons out of anything. So possibly. They could. So it's about two brothers who have the same dad.

One of them abandoned. They are like six months apart. One of them abandoned the mom and the one son and then went to have a baby with his other girl. They live in the same town. They're basketball players.

And it's a teen drama. It's a teen drama that just follows the life of Lucas and Nathan Scott. All right. It is the most dramatic shit that I've ever watched. I've seen it before. My fiance made me watch it in the early part of our relationship.

And the past like month, we've been watching it again. And it is truly one of the worst shows that's ever been made but it sucks you in because it is such a dramatic show right like every every episode ends with some like omg cliffhanger type shit is that like is that how they should have tried it to tease it out every episode to be like oh you gotta put the next one on because this last one just ended like this kinda kinda yeah uh i will say this listen i i normally am not the one to come at people's jobs uh in the entertainment industry because you know uh this shit ain't easy but but you know i feel confident going after people whose work is 15 20 years old whoever were the

editors and the writers on this show i hope never worked in Hollywood again. Because shit was so bad. I'm getting some Outer Banks vibes from this, the way you describe it. Trash but drama. So I keep watching it for some reason, even though I can point to so many problems. It's so good. It's so bad, it's good.

It is so bad, it's good. The OC, it is not. See, the OC was good. I'll come at anybody coming me on the oc i'll come i'm only familiar with one tree hill from uh the soup used to like the soup used to be talk shows and like uh soap operas from during the day and then like one tree hill clips that was like the one show from like prime time that they were like this is bad enough that it's just like yeah self-evidently ridiculous and hilarious um yeah yeah there was some amazing shit

um so yeah how many how many seasons of one tree hill are there nine bro wow nine seasons of this show what are they like trying to resolve like which kid the dad loves best like what's so you know dan scott you know one of the worst characters on television which kid the dad loves best like what's so you know dan scott you know one of the worst characters on television that's the dad he kills his brother in the show yeah he like chokes is terrible it's like next level like people you know it's like one of those shows that they're just writing episode to episode like what is the wildest shit that can happen right now okay and like they just you know kind of write themselves into a corner it's a little like like homeland and 24 written in that way

but yeah uh to give you an idea one of the characters hayley james uh which if you saw you remember that that i take responsibility video um that uh oh shit yes uh that that i take responsibility video and then there was that one girl who um who was like who the who the hell is this that was the person from one tree hill hayley james scott was her character uh like in the first season she was the only child by the end of the series she has seven brothers and sisters. That's how bad the writing was on this show. And Dan Scott, Dan Scott, you know, super producer, hit me up with this info that I haven't gotten to yet in my rewatch.

Eventually had a heart problem. He had to get a heart transplant. He got to the top of the list. He was in the hospital ready to get a heart transplant. He got to the top of the list. He was in the hospital ready to get his heart transplant, sitting in a waiting room. The people were bringing a heart transplant, rushing it in because he needed it. You know, we need our heart to breathe and live. And he accidentally tripped. The heart fell out.

And for whatever reason, a dog was in the hospital, came up, scooped the heart up, and ran away with his heart. This is the show that I'm watching, bro. Oh, my goodness. This is what's real. And you're supposed to take that seriously? Like, oh, no, his heart. But it's supposed to be like some cartoonish, like, yoink. Dude, that's exactly what it was. The dog just

like, he was on a leash. He broke from his leash, scooped the heart up, and ran away with the heart in his mouth and ate the heart. So does Dan Scott die? Dan Scott miraculously he still lives until he gets shot

at the end of the season finale, or the series finale of the show hell yeah spoiler alert spoiler alert for anybody who's gonna watch it spoiler alert for that dog cliffhanger too somebody needs to do like a list ranking all those like teen drama shows

like intergenerational like 90210 vs Riverdale vs One Tree Hill versus Gossip Girl versus OC I feel like I want to because those are like a very specific type of show but the the degree to which the quality varies is like absurd yeah yeah it's so absurd it's so absurd and within the show too like the first season of the oc versus like the last season friday night lights had that random season that was like a murder mystery um jakeys what is something you think is underrated uh something that i think is underrated um a good-ass pillow

a good-ass pillow is underrated everybody always always talks about, you know, get the mattress. And you can get the mattress, and the mattress would be nice. But if your pillow messed up, your sleep still not going to be good, y'all. So a good-ass pillow. I recommend some foam, you know, the memory foam pillows, but not the ones that's squishy. I'm talking the ones that you can adjust, like the adjustable memory foam pillow,

so you can adjust it to your likeness. Wait, how do you adjust it? So they have memory foam pillows that are shredded, like the foam is shredded. Oh, got it, got it, got it. So you can open it up and take some out or put some in because they give you an extra bag of it. In my mind, there's like a switch. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like a sleep number.

It's like a sleep number. I'm like, damn, you're living that life you get the fucking app for your pillow you're like firmer yeah yeah i mean that would be dope too i would buy it but uh i mean yeah myself i'm definitely a my pillow guy obviously because those were right owner of the company he stands with our president and also you know he was smoking krills for fucking 14 years or whatever and then finally got off it uh the pillow though it really is i've it's so funny it took me years to actually invest in a pillow where i would like maniacally do like origami on a pillow to get it to like the requisite height i needed for like my

neck uh and then suddenly you know i became an adult one day and i was like oh that's right i think i've been used i i just have not spent any money on a pillow. And that's half the gig. That's half the gig. Honestly, buy a new pillow before you buy a new mattress. It's a real talk. Easy adjustment first. The pillow might be all you need.

You know, the mattress will be good. But, you know. I need a body pillow, I think, next. I'm a side sleeper. I think I need something for my knees. I like a knee pillow. Can I, next. I'm a side sleeper. I think I need something for my knees. Me too. I like a knee pillow. Can I say one extra thing about underrated pillows?

I have a little... It's a pillow. I have a second pillow that I just use as a body pillow. Make sure to wash that thing because, you know, after a few months, you know, that shit start getting yellow. No, my pillows always get so yellow, man. Like, I don't know what is leaking out of my head at night. Your sweat. Sweat.

Yeah. It's gross. And Jack, I mean, you're a self-admitted sweater. Yeah, I'm like one of the sweatiest human beings in the world. So that's probably why my pillow looks like the scene of a murder after like three months. You're like, yeah, I mean, I'm the Swedish guy. I just don't, I don't know if I get these mystery spots on my pillow. It just doesn't make sense.

Jinkies, what is something you think is overrated? Something that I think is overrated. Instagram stories. Instagram stories are overrated. They're too fucking short when you actually want to say some shit and say something, you know what I'm saying? Like if you want to have a talk for like a minute or so, you got that weird little cut in between each Instagram story that just makes it feel weird. It also is a fake illusion for people uh you can put some shit on instagram clip it the best 14 seconds of it and basically lie about anything you want to

lie about uh on instagram stories and then also you know what i'm saying uh i'll be mad when i be looking at my instagram stories and only like 400 people be watching them so you know like it's i'd be upset i'd be upset about it so i've deemed it unnecessary and overrated until i can get that number up to like a thousand then you know are people watching yeah yeah people watch it it's funny selfish reasons yeah the capturing like the best moments of your life because again no shade to any friends or people who i know who listen to this show but i know couples whose stories are absolute fabrications of your actual life trust me because i talked to both of y'all after fights or whatever but it's always like going out here everything's all to the good

and like these little moments cut to text from one person i can't stand this motherfucker like he's always doing this or like another person's like she always makes me take the photos and i'm just trying to eat um it's always funny like how people use the stories too like it really is has like been a substitute for like just a t like if your life was a tv show like when you can fully be in control of like your image it stresses me out when i see people put that kind of work in when i'm like that isn't like how it is with you guys i know i know a very good friend of mine and his girlfriend on instagram posted a picture and a story uh talking about you know the calm of a relationship you know i just can't i love this and it was a picture of both of them sitting at

a kitchen table eating dinner and i'm just like who the fuck took that picture y'all set that shit up on the tripod and press record just so you can put it on instagram like stop with this fake shit like who took that picture of y'all like why it was in the dark and the light was all right i'm just like this is insane but you know listen we love we love our friends we love our friends we love our friends that's right we love our friends and we love to talk shit even though they're listening right now yes i'm talking about you uh finally what is a myth jaheese what is something people think is true you know to be false or vice versa hmm uh here's a myth that podcasting is better remote i know like you know listen listen it's definitely nice to be sitting in my draws right

now uh y'all can't see them you know what i'm saying so i can have the thigh meat out uh it's very nice to you know not have to get up and go somewhere uh we have figured it out shout out to all the editors and producers uh as guests and hosts of a podcast i'm letting you guys know right now we have the easiest part of this fucking job uh remotely right now uh so shout out to all of those but man the energy of being in a room uh there are some podcasters who are like yeah man i'm liking the remote i like it better and it's cool but as a performer yeah the energy of being in the room uh doing this i i miss it i think it is better and when we are able to get back in studio uh i think all your favorite podcasts are going to churn out some of the best content

that they've had in the past year. Because just the excitement and the energy of being back in the room together is going to be so evident in what you guys are going to listen to when it happens. So I don't know if that's a myth or not, but if you're thinking that, I just want to debunk from my own opinion that I think podcasting should be done as much as possible face to face. In person. In person. Yeah.

Yeah. And I think there's probably there probably is a myth like I've kind of forgotten that they're doing it remotely or at least that there is a quality difference, you know, because like that's what I've just been listening to for the past few months but yeah i i definitely think things will i don't know that there's like a you know a 10 to 15 percent uh diminishment of like the energy and the timing and stuff like that that i think yeah and just from a yeah from this side of the equation, I definitely miss being in the same room with you guys. He misses you, Miles. He misses you. He won't say it. I miss Jack, too.

I miss getting obsessed, like looking at his sweat stains and getting distracted by them while we record. But the thing is, I know Jack is comfortable right now wearing his jean cutoffs because he's a never nude like Tobias Funke. That's right. But it is true. Like there is something, yeah, there's just an energy. And obviously we are consummate professionals.

So people didn't even know, oh, we're not in the same room, but that's because we're having a, we're digging deep to give you guys that energy. But like the first three, first three weeks, I, it was so disorienting on top of trying to process everything that was going on but yeah i think to your point like i think there will be so much more laughter um like in light when people are back in the room because you know even like comedy podcasts like it's easy to still have fun and things like that but like when when funny people are all in the room together it's a completely different experience and yeah for sure i definitely miss that i mean one thing i don't miss is you know what i'm saying listen you know all podcast hosts are great uh but you know we do

i have been liking the fact that only i have been using this mic that i've been using for the past four months you know i'm saying sometimes you get up on these mics after somebody else used it you got to spray them bad boys down with you know some glade spray or something so you know it's called eco lab you know so i do i do i i'm not missing that i'm not missing you know the multiple mic use especially once we get back in after the covid shit you know but i think that's what that's the next step you know because yeah even the the day we all had to shut our offices down we knew nothing is going to be the same when we come back. And I think even like to these points, like I think we're going to be learned to be more efficient, like with our time, like in how we work and what the things are that like how we do things in studio with mics and keeping things cleaner. Because it's wild.

with mics and keeping things cleaner because it's wild i think the longest time because of relatively low incidences of pandemics like this it's just been like yeah man no sanitary no sanitary guidelines is fine like we're just kind of rocking like that for 50 years or whatever yeah and now people i just glad i'm glad that there's like sense now because rather than people being like okay germaphobe when you would like wipe some shit down at the grocery store before this, it's like, no, it's standard now. What were we thinking? We should actually just keep things as clean as possible. Yep, but you know what's going to happen now?

We're all going to live to 100 now. Once this passes, we're going to be stuck in our relationships even longer now. Right, right, right. You're like, Lord, take me on my 115th birthday. korea that uh the mask wearing is much more normalized because of having gone through sars so i'm

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Wow, really? When do you get? Come on now. Hey, now you're talking about it. So, I mean, who really won? But I don't know how anyone still supports this other than just straight up. I don't know it's outside of just you mean support trump or support yeah supports trump i mean just pure racism people it's a death

cult yeah killing it ends with them dying it ends with them dying too though yeah it ends they are not if they cannot even act in their own self-interest that's what i mean like it's purely they're like we we want a front row seat to cruelty that's all it is it's not a direction it's not a policy it's just this morbid extension of this like feeling of powerlessness and wanting to like readjust the scales where like cis gendered white people are the fucking rulers i mean the homie uh alex fernie yeah if you guys don't know him he's a he's a he's a he's a funny ass dude in la writer you guys should have him on one day he's dope oh man uh but he legendary legendary improv team with him with dominic durkis i

remember i would watch them when they were on a cage match streak from hell before heather and miles of course you know shout out to all the great cage match teams fernie fernie is that dude but uh he throughout trump's presidency would routinely say sorry guys bush is still the worst president of my lifetime uh but now during this pandemic even now he's saying all right trump is taking the fucking record because he's actively he is actively killing people to prove a point it's not like just to prove a point like that's the simplest way you can put it and you know brothers you know black folks you know that dave chappelle shit when everybody was like i can't believe trump won and all the black people was like you can't uh like because so many people could see the writing on the wall

and you know forget all the politics the hillary the bernie's all that shit so many people could see the writing on the wall that this was not only an incompetent person but somebody who is willing to do the worst to prove to himself and the people who love him that he's the best is such a dangerous mix of power for power right it's insane at this point it's i'm confused what point he thinks he's proving because like this was only just a short-sighted... He didn't want the numbers to be high the next day in the newspaper, and so he delayed testing. It's just short-sightedness

without any larger ideological point. I don't see what his incompetence is proving here. I'm sure they'll come out and retcon something but uh it's just he's just trying to prove that he is better than obama and his own like mind and there is not logical so it's hard for logical people like us to try to make sense of that but i think for him everything is he's trying to prove he's better than obama and and anybody who like thinks that he's not they're just lying media and and just terrible people who just don't want him to succeed for america uh it's insane it's insane the rhythm of he says the like bad

thing his staff says he's obviously kidding he says i'm not kidding about the bad thing i said like the rhythm of that is like it's it seems like satire but it's also too stupid to happen on veep which is a satire about how stupid politicians are like i don't i don't know it's unbelievable well the wheels are coming off. And when you look at how the coronavirus cases are now, they're still going up. And now, like, Texas is becoming a new hotspot and Florida. And there's a lot of places where his supporters are. There's also like this thing where he is trying to, you know, stifle any headlines about spikes in coronavirus cases but to also like keep up the charade for his own followers to ignore the threat in their own communities too and so it's this really fucking cynical thing which i get i mean i understand the logic as you know like a

scummy dude who's like well don't go to the doctor because i'll tell you something's wrong like don't do that because you're going to find out something's wrong then don't go to the doctor because they'll tell you something's wrong. Like, don't do that because if you want to find out something's wrong, then don't go. It's that same logic applied here, but also trying to make sure that, you know, the polling and everything stays at a certain level. But the jig is up at that point. And I think now with like the EU treating the US,

like, yeah, we can't have any like infected rat people from the US coming to this continent. Like, what the fuck? The game is lost regardless if you're testing or not, so you might as well try and curb the death. I mean, bro, there is an acceptable death loss. There's an

acceptable death number for these people, and it's sad and it's scary. It sucks because, like, I wish I could just laugh at that 45 second video of him drinking water because that shit is hilarious that shit was hilarious i belly laughed but then like after you get through belly laughing you realize damn and this nigga killing us and there's nothing you can do there's nothing you can do but just like take it almost and hope that we vote him out.

And the sad thing about that, too, is it's not just him. You know, it's it's an entire problem with the entire system of governance. I mean, I think that's where we have to get, you know, really clear eyed about it. Obviously, Biden is just going to be a vote to like stop the you know the steam building in the engine of fascism in america like that's the only reason to vote for him is to just put fascism on pause for a second and then try and get our shit together to move in a real direction but i don't i can't you know there are plenty of people who just think biden is the answer and i think those are precisely the kind of people who are what's wrong with the country because if you

haven't paid attention to the in the last last month, um, something's wrong, or you're just unwilling to really check, you know, the real inefficiencies we have, even within, if you're a self-identified Democrat within that party. So it'll all come around, but whether or not it's the election or people having to be more acting in solidarity with, you know, a general strike and things like that, there's gonna, you know, the, acting in solidarity with, you know, a general strike and things like that, there's gonna, you know, this is not done, you know, even with Trump, it's just not done. And we have so much more to do. And there's even a poll. I'm even surprised to see that there's a poll that like 70% of Americans think that the United States judicial

system needs like major overhaul or like it needs to be completely rethought so there's at least a public like that's popular very popular to at least have that opinion now so it's it's all about how we can maintain that momentum to you know not just let this be a thing where people would be like well finally we got rid of trump and now we can that's good now uh because it's it's not just that. Yeah. I mean, John Bolton in his interview that I think a lot of people watched over the weekend kind of in the run up to his book just kind of confirmed what we all kind of knew that Trump has no coherent strategy, plan, vision vision like anything he's just you know just out there trying to um trying to get immediate gratification and get his ego pumped up um but bolton also said like to a second term of this like the country is completely fucked oh yeah yeah i mean he's he's just a senile racist and he's on he's stumbled his way into the

driver's seat of this country and now he is he's trying to win a re-election but he is losing a fucking three-front war right now he's fighting a three- war against the pandemic, the economy and popular unrest around racism in this country. And he cannot actually be able to solve any of them because they all require empathy. All those issues require empathy and he does not have it in him. So since he is a straight like reptilian, you know, fucking shapeshifter guy who only thinks in his own self-interest it's just gonna he's just gonna fall into his bad habits which is the thing that got him elected the first time which is this fiery rhetoric and now he's just gonna go i'm just telling you the white supremacy is going pedal to the metal on into november that's just that's what it is because they're they're saying

okay that's what time it is it's like like I keep saying, it's the fucking fourth quarter. They're trying to come up big. That's why there's all these things going around with nooses showing up places, people getting lynched. There's a lot of things that are, I don't know, at least to me as a black person, I'm seeing images of white people trying to be like, you remember what this country is too. That's how i interpret a lot of this these things too um and now he's even resorting to like tweeting videos of black men like assaulting white people like all this violence he is where are the protesters where yeah where are the protesters for this when this black man shoved this white woman against the

subway what the fuck is going on like that's his whole thing but the problem is like he's just playing 4d chess now in a world that's actually 12d so it's it's a very very inelegant but violent way he's trying to motivate his his supporters i mean listen we gotta in november you know because they we can see it today with kentucky how they're trying to you know one polling place for a county that's mostly uh black populated so listen when it come time to vote first of all vote by mail as much as you can wherever you can uh wherever you are i mean and then if you can't yo let's make these voting days fucking parties come out with boom boxes bring your rolling grills feed people uh have music place get a table and play some craps i don't give a fuck do what you gotta do make it a damn party like we should make you know these protests have been so great and amazing but also the fun energy

of just black joy that permeated to you know all races and creeds and kinds when they were out there bring that shit to voting day because i'm telling you be ready to stand in line for eight nine ten hours uh because they're gonna try to do it they're gonna try to do it so let's turn this shit into a party you know what i'm saying yeah i think any good any like good meaning wealthy people like just hire a catering company to set up at a polling place like this, because essentially the whole thing is meant to inconvenience you to the point. Obviously, if they're going to, you know, they're going to try and fuck people over who have who have work or jobs they have to get back to. And so that's one time constraint. Other people might be able to leave to vote as long as that takes. And then they're counting on you to just be so inconvenienced for how long it's taking that you're just giving up your right to vote. So I think the way to counteract that, because I can't see any sort of legal remedy for the fuckery that's going on, is to just be like,

okay, well, if your weapon is to inconvenience people people then we also need to find ways to make people be able to stay in line too but this is just how like fucked the game is now because we're talking about these active measures that are being taken by the republican party to disenfranchise people of their vote to try and keep this like very you know very white racist system and uh party in power right now. And not even party, just the whole system. It doesn't even matter. The whole thing is built foundationally on white supremacy, so let's not kid ourselves. No one is

innocent in this sense. You know, the Democrats shot Lincoln and the Republicans freed the slaves. Thank you so much, Candace Owens. I will now follow you into battle. Yeah, I mean, this writer for Vanity yes the slaves thank you so much candace owens i will now follow you into the into battle yeah i mean this uh writer for vanity fair was point was who pays attention to like q stuff and

uh sort of the darker corners of the white supremacist kind of ideology and movement in america uh was saying that you know while while the mainstream media was covering the the tulsa rally was not well attended and i think social media was paying attention to him triumphantly drinking that glass of water and uh explaining why he like couldn't walk down that ramp. Leather shoes. Yeah. The guy had the best gripping shoes I've ever seen. He had better ones. Actually, I'm going to get the DOJ to investigate his shoes.

I think they were performance enhancing. They were Timberlands. This writer was pointing out that he did not respond to the small crowd by sulking. He like came out and gave probably his most like violent, like he, he did this like long rape fantasy basically of, he said it's one o'clock in the morning and a very tough,

I've used the word on occasion, hombre, very tough hombre is breaking into the window of a young woman whose husband is away as a traveling salesman what is this 1952 exactly but like he's doubling i mean he's going like you said he's going to use the fact that he's losing like that his response is going to be to double down then he he said that uh they cut up young women they cut up a young woman and her friend cut them up with a knife because it was more painful dead cut them with a knife because it was more painful takes longer than shooting a gun they cut

them up uh again just like making shit up like right that he you know i mean we've seen based on his retweets like where he spends his time it's uh the like racist forums and you know racist white supremacists like openly white supremacist ideological twitter uh echo chamber i just wonder what trump would be like if he got just like a good night of sleep. Because he doesn't go to bed until like one in the morning. Then that motherfucker is up by six. And I'm 33 years old. And I can't even imagine doing that every day.

I would be cranky. I would be racist if I did that every goddamn day. I'd be like, man, fuck these black people out here, man. Because I'm sleepy. I'm sleepy. This nigga just sleep. Trump just sleepy, man. He these black people out here, man. Because I'm sleepy. I'm sleepy. This nigga just sleep. Trump's just sleepy, man. He needs a good eight hours of sleep.

He'll wake up. He's just blowing fat rails of Adderall every day. Good Lord. Will just break your brain. That's what. It's insane. Yeah. He also kind of vaguely threatened of like, like he was like our people are not nearly as violent

as the protesters but if they ever were it would be a terrible terrible day for the other side yeah because everybody remembers before 1860 when all the black people enslaved the white people and made them build the country i mean our people were never this violent what the fuck are you talking this whole and you know what's sad though it's so like it's not it's so inelegant like it's not even capable of like duping somebody like unless you are already frothing at the mouth racist that's who it's going to resonate with it's not like slick enough to try and fuck with somebody who's like you know susceptible to this kind of shit because it's so like in your face being like they're all fucking animals right let's fight them his rallying cries i think it's gonna work for a very specific group but i think that's where you know it's interesting to see just how public opinion is shifting somewhat too and it's like how many people really want to

sign up it was easy when it was maga okay and that shit was a wink you know what i mean and it's like how many people really want to sign up it was easy when it was maga okay and that shit was a wink you know what i mean and it's like yeah you know i'm trump baby you know what that means like now it's just like i fucking hate you i'm a nazi um i don't like jewish people i don't like black people i like trans people i don't like anybody who's not white fuck you unless you're like a candace owens type person shucking and jiving like we like that but that now you that brand has become so clear i think it's really it's not good branding at the very least like that's why republic the republican party was able to get on for so long because they did all their racism in quiet or just in these ways that the media didn't cover to make it as transparent and so now that it's just become like come to tulsa sign this

waiver in case you die of covid but also fuck covid right it doesn't matter but also for real if you get it and die that shit is not our fault like yeah it's you have to you have to be really invested now uh to to keep going but i know many people despite maybe the numbers are low are still very much interested in an America where the again, the racial dynamics are not inverted, where white people are less than or whatever they believe that even to be like what it means to be less than. I mean, I'll say this last thing for myself on it with the vote and the support shifting from 2016. With the vote and the support shifting from 2016, there was this meme that went around, and not even a meme, just a saying, that, sure, everybody who voted for Trump isn't racist.

But you decided that racism wasn't a deal breaker, right? I think, obviously, the people who are racist, he still has that vote locked up. But the people who decided racism was a deal breaker, I think that's where he's going to start to lose a lot of that support. Because those people are starting to be like, damn, it kind of was a deal breaker. And it sucks that, you know, those are the people that have to change their mind and shit like that and weren't just on that train in the first place and i'm not saying all those people will but you know that is the side that i think that's going to say you know what uh i think i'm gonna go ahead and not vote for the person who is just as racist as he's been for the past four years because as now they have a goddamn uh they have a laundry list of evidence to show outside of just oh the guy from apprentice who you know just said some shit on his tramp campaign

trail uh whatever whatever like they have tangible evidence now that it's going to be hard for them to say that's not a deal breaker yeah well i think it also credit to like you know white people who are cutting ties with their Trump supporting family members and friends, uh, because you're telling them I don't bang with racists at all. So I'm doing, but I'm like,

I don't care that it is what it is. Uh, and I think that's really how you communicate to people. Cause a lot of people in their bubbles just think, well, nobody's saying anything. Nothing's bad. But when other people start being like,

that is fucking wrong. What you're doing is wrong. That will at least create a thought in somebody. Uh, well, nobody's saying anything, nothing's bad. But when other people start being like, that is fucking wrong, what you're doing is wrong, that will at least create a thought in somebody. But I'm always going to bet on good old-fashioned American racism because it brought the country this far. It's going to be a big, big, big battle to dismantle it. Just a couple other examples of what doubling down is going to look like with Trump. He said Biden will subsidize, this is all at Tulsa, he said Biden will subsidize late term abortion and afterbirth execution. buzzword that basically refers to the idea that obama and biden and the clintons kill children but it's like at the very extreme end of the q movement um and then he also said this thing that's like really ominous and i think uh probably an indicator of what he has in mind if things start going really bad uh in the polls he said we have to go to the polls on November 3rd,

and the rest, you know what to do. You know what to do. So it's like, he would rather have a civil war than lose the election. That and pay the half trillion dollars in loans he's got come into in the next four years.

Right. There's like so many added layers of pressure on this man he has bills he's trying to fucking run the clock out on he has legal problems he's he will face if he is out there like it isn't just going to be like a bush style retirement for this guy if he if he is actually voted out so that's what i'm saying like this is more than just his like freedom is on the line and he has a lot lot. I think a lot of his loan, not a lot, but a good portion of these loans that he has, it's near, you know, a half billion is are personally guaranteed, too. So it's not like the Trump, you know, organization is going to take the hit. He will actually lose his own money that he clings to so dearlyly so there's all kinds of shit that this guy has

fueling this like you know racist panic rocket yeah i don't think i don't think there's a version of reality where he just loses the election and checks out peacefully and calmly i just don't think yeah i don't think that's uh that's what i think a lot of people think like if you know based on how he he's all he's a pump faker that's all he does he's not about it ever he's a pump faker that he will probably you know like self-exile to another country to try and avoid being brought to justice here or something like that like that seems feasible too like if he's like fuck it i don't want the smoke get me on a jet out of here now i'm never leaving leaving. Thank you, Putin. Like, whatever it is, that seems like a solution for somebody like this, too, because this is a man who is willing to do anything to escape accountability at every turn.

Mm-hmm. To think, man. Either way, like, it's going to be ugly. It's going to be ugly. He could have been the greatest actor of the 21st century after his turn in Home Alone 2. You know what I'm saying? He could have just kept going down that path and it would have all been good. Did you know how he got in that was

if you shot at a Trump hotel, he required that you let him appear in your movie? For real? Oh, so he's like the James Dolan of hoteliers? Exactly. Exactly. Okay, fine. But that's, I mean, it worked.

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And we wanted to talk about some of the companies that are still allowing hate groups to thrive on their platforms. Because there's always this sort of free speech response that Mark Zuckerberg comes with. And we've talked before about the movements to get advertisers to move off of Fox News. And that's happening again on the Facebook platform. Yeah. They always do this thing, right? Where it's like, oh, hold on. The misinformation here is leading to mass murder and genocides and violence. And they're like, oh, well, we're looking at it. But sometimes people have to share. They use these really, really lame excuses. And recently, right, with the amount of like, you know, white supremacist groups, Boogaloo boys and things that are thriving on Facebook, even with two of these men like these Boogaloo boys, they met on Facebook, right? They just got charged with murdering a federal officer, you know, in their plot to try and ignite a second world war. And sucker turd is like, oh, I don't, you know,

not really saying much aside from, you know, they're looking into it. Obviously we don't, we don't allow this, et cetera. So now this group, right? It's like the NAACP, the Anti-Defamation League, Sleeping Giants, they are trying to get a lot of companies and advertisers to essentially, quote, stand in solidarity with our most deeply held American values of freedom, equality, and justice and not advertise on Facebook services in July. Granted, it's just a pause because capitalism, you can't pause it that long. Let's be real. But so far they have companies like

Patagonia, REI, and maybe they account for a million and a half, $2 million worth of ad spend. Well, because when you think about it, Facebook did $70 billion in revenue last year, and 90% of that comes from ads. So this is a huge part of their business. And it's one of the reasons why they're like, well, you know, if we don't have these other wacky fringe audiences on here, then maybe that's ad money we lose out on, et cetera, et cetera. So they're making some headway, but we need, I think there need to be more companies sort of getting in on this. But luckily there's like ad agencies too, who are the people who the companies go to, to be like, how do I sell Febreze? They're like, okay, let's do this. Let's buy ads here. There's a few major

ad firms who are actually trying to get their clients to support this movement too. So there's a company called 360i. They're telling their clients that they should not be advertising on these platforms. It doesn't help. And to support this campaign and this company they they have clients like unilever you know what i mean right and mccormick and discover financial like unilever owns like fucking everything you know it's one of those just multinational conglomerate mega corporations that's like owns hellman's mayonnaise axe body spray fucking ben and jerry's you name it if you look on most products you turn on a tv right now you'll see at least two uniliver ads within the first like 15 minutes right i think that's like a law of like earth so that is pretty that's good that may you know we're trying to get these people to to at least you know speak with their dollars because i think the bottom line is that's the only way these

companies are ever going to listen they it's It's been proven every time that they believe that human life is just an obstacle to their profits. And because at the end of the day, human life isn't a motivating factor. It's profit and money. So apparently, these groups are like, okay, I guess we have to speak the language they know, which is money. So let's try and get these advertisers to pause for a second to get them to agree to some of their demands, which are very easy. I mean, their demands, which are very reasonable, like having somebody who's a victim of hatred or abuse on

Facebook to be able to speak with a live Facebook person to be able to look into it or have a more transparent way of auditing these groups and letting advertisers know like, oh, just so you know, your shit appeared on a hate group, or just so you know, your shit appeared on a website that we deemed misinformation. So people know more, like what happens when they give Facebook all this money, and it's actually going, you know, in front of people they want to advertise to. It's weird too, because, you know, like, for instance, I'm not on Facebook anymore. So when, like, when you hear this, you know, how much of a shit Mark Zuckerberg is and then the call, obviously, for the advertisers to pull out, but for the consumer to also not be on Facebook.

Get off of Facebook. Get off of Facebook. Right. not be on Facebook. Get off of Facebook. Get off of Facebook, right? And then it sucks because you realize that sometimes you will see people calling for that on Instagram and you well, Mark Zuckerberg owns

that too. Like, Facebook owns Instagram, you know? And so, like, getting off of Facebook is cool because you know, you can that's where a lot of the misinformation is easily spread, that's where a lot of the misinformation is easily spread. And that's where, you know, somebody you worked in a grocery store with for three months will come on your page and spew racism more than any other platform.

But as a consumer, Zuckerberg don't care if you're on Instagram or Facebook. You still are seeing seeing putting eyes on his ads uh and making money for him you know what i'm saying so it's so fucked up that how dependent we are like if yeah you know if people were to leave instagram and facebook in droves and like twitter for instance would uh you know would have a a video service like instagram does or video and picture service like instagram has you know it's been proven already that a certain class of politician loves zuckerberg i wouldn't be surprised if zuckerberg just bought twitter and like it would be you know like he would try to and say all right fuck it we need to give him more power so he that's why we have to break these

fucking companies up man to your point it's like there's nowhere to run and they're like what are you gonna do we advertise to fucking people who are actively planning terrorist attacks in your community uh where are you gonna go but i think the other key is that the social media just tapped in the worst parts of our personalities and our psyches, which are our egos. And it would be very hard for somebody who is very egocentric or ego aligned to put down the thing where you feel like you're completely in control of the narrative of your life through your posts or how you talk or how you present yourself digitally. digitally and so it's such a i mean yeah it's really just some dystopian shit at this point where you know you have these people unwilling to actually control the thing that is causing a lot of damage like if anybody out there feels like you know damn this this is connected with me i do want to get off facebook i do want to start to disconnect from instagram uh And you don't know how. And, you know, this is a page right out of Lacey's book.

You know, Venmo me $150. And I'll give you the keys and the tools on how to disconnect from social media. In a way that you haven't heard yet. You know, Miles has done it. Miles has done it. I've done it, yeah. Full disclosure, I'm a very proud client. Yeah, yeah.

Jack isn't on the social media like that. So he hasn't had to but he's been he does when he does he is he has vowed to pay me 500 for my service the expensive the deluxe package it's the deluxe package because you've gone this long without it so if you do go into it like something is wrong something you're gonna need the platinum you'll need the platinum package but yeah it, it's wild, man. It is wild. We do have to break these companies up.

And it really sucks that, you know, somebody like a Zuckerberg has gone half their career in the public eye being praised. You know, with everybody loving Facebook and, oh, this is better than MySpace. And, oh, this is some cool shitSpace and, oh, this is some cool shit and, oh, the social network was such a good movie and, like, all these things, right? And I'm not coming for the social network. It was a good movie. But it was propaganda for Zuckerberg to a degree.

But we have failed to realize that this dude is a piece of shit and he always has been. So, like, so, so you know now we're trying to convince people who we've given a 15 year head start into telling them this person is a good person and now telling them actually he and his company are doing irreparable damage uh to to us you know on online it's hard man and suddenly everyone's parents has a fucking master's degree in sociology from facebook seriously like their feed and you're like

what the fuck have you been looking what the fuck yeah as well i do want to just kind of move on to this you know we track the zeitgeist and it feels like there is this sort of ambient terror that is happening i mean i guess it's pretty acute in a lot of cases where you know black and brown people are being found uh hanging from trees uh there there's been i think five in the last six weeks six in the last seven yeah six or seven seven uh in the last six weeks, six in the last five weeks. Yeah, six or seven. Seven in the last month. Seven in a month. And the police are saying that they are dying of suicide and it's just not the way that,

you know, experts, sociologists say that it's very unlikely, but the police in each case are suggesting that that is what is happening. And it just seems like the police are actively being like, fuck you guys. Being petulant in the same way they're being petulant about every other aspect of their response to this uprising. is like they're just like yeah no it was a suicide one of the victims mothers was saying that the portland police were just completely

dismissed her when she was asking for information uh about you know what happened uh and so as this is happening there's also this and these aren't like overtly connected but it it's also i think just connected to this sort of ambient swirl of like terror and helplessness uh are these like fireworks conspiracies uh where people are like what where are these fireworks coming from and i think a lot of people think the police are setting them off as like ways to terrorize communities uh there was a video of like a firehouse a bunch of firefighters in new york city setting off a bunch of illegal fireworks in the street at like two in the morning. Like for fun or trying to sort of paint them as

these people were just like trying to set it off in the neighborhood. It's unclear like they didn't interview them they were just there was somebody who went out because they were like our kids are being kept awake it's like two in the morning. Oh and it's like your fucking firefighters doing this. Wild fireworks going

off and they have a video where they're like there it is it's the people at this ladder in this station in brooklyn who are just setting it off in the middle of the street at two in the morning and then just going back into the fire station and i mean before it was like a meme that people were talking about i noticed it in la and like the koreatown area and i was i was googling around to try and find out like what was going on because i i was you know there were protests happening around here i didn't know if there were like flash bangs being set off or or what but um so i've been paying attention to this and i don't know if i'm just part of the, you know, I was extra aware of it because of the protests

and because of the flashbangs. And then like this is just sort of normal for the season. But when you look at the charts from New York, it's like from June 1st to June 19th in normal years, there's like 11, 16, 20, 27, 27 fireworks complaints. And in 2020, there's been 6 385 um so it does seem like there's more complaints by kind of a wide margin i think yeah there's a few ways you can look at it there's one version where people are saying that these fireworks are being given to kids uh just

to fuck around like there's been anecdotal evidence where people are like i asked some kid where they got these you know super ridiculous fireworks and they said oh this guy gave them to us then there's also talk of like how you know because normally people would be out partying fireworks is something you just buy if they're legal in your state because you're just doing a little outdoor thing and you set some sparklers off or whatever roaming candles whatever it is uh and. And now they're cheaper and people can buy super expensive ones for cheap. There's all kinds of explanations for it. But the thing that was kind of catching my eye really is because I've been watching a lot more Fox News because they're actually

telling the truth uh about what's going on in this country and you know preach yeah thank you so much if i may have my time um and i was watching this segment on the fireworks and the way they kept framing it was that they they were using it to paint this chaos narrative it was like always like you know i it was always to kind of act like this is why we need cops. It's out of look at what's happened. It's basically to for their audience to paint this picture that the streets are in absolute chaos because of BLM and pushing back against the brutal police state. So they're saying, and look what's happening.

These kids are out here shooting off these fireworks, probably damaging property. And they show the same ass tired clip of these black kids playing with fireworks every time. And it's like a way I think a cynical version of me is they haven't they've lost their ability to show buildings burning down to paint these like to paint black people as, you know, doing bad things. So the second best thing I think now is fireworks and painting this as like a very specific kind of i don't know what's going on the fireworks like people are just doing so much and maybe it's an easy way that again to your point sonically creates an atmosphere of chaos because when things are going off dogs are barking children can't sleep if you're not if you've never heard like a gunshot before, you might mistake it for like gunfire or whatever.

But it's all adding to this narrative that they need, I think, ultimately, because that's why it ties into this police thing of like, this is why we need law and order. People are out here fucking doing anything now because suddenly Black Lives Matter and the police are bad. Look at what's happening. It's like it's always that sort of the conversation that I was seeing seeing it being presented on fox news yeah dude i it it is wild like i i mean i agree with you 100 miles that you know it's a reason why la went from one of the you know more favorable states or california and la county went from one of the more favorable counties and states when it came to you know coronavirus cases cases and deaths uh and saying we're not going to open up to probably almost august to opening up the entire fucking city in a week uh it's a reason why

you know all all these and it is to paint a narrative right it is to paint a narrative and i know that sounds like a conspiracy theory but it's really not because it's not that hard to do if i wanted to literally go outside right now and for the next five nights pop off fireworks and run into my house you know how easy that is for me to do so you you're telling me that like and it's not or just give them the kids yeah just give them the teenagers if some dude pulled up is like yo you want some fireworks i'm like fuck yes dude for free right yeah yeah the fuck you tell their fireworks and i'm not doing it fireworks are fun as hell yeah be safe be safe but they are super fun.

But they are fun, yeah. So yeah, it's a narrative. They're creating an atmosphere to paint the narrative because- We need cops. We need cops. Because look what happens. Power and soul is a thirsty thing. And we're trying to tell them we're going to quench your thirst, and they don't want it.

Another thing, the more cynical dark side, I was saying this off mic, is that you have these narratives, right, where these cities are exploding with sounds like explosions and gunfire. And people, you know, kids running around with sparklers or things that are shooting sparks off at the end. That's almost giving police a reason to shoot people. And like this explanation of like, I don't I mistook. Look, there's a lot going on. There's all this chaos. You know, some someone came around the corner i see a flash i thought it was a muzzle and i did what i had to do like we've seen time and again that the police are willing to do anything anything to look like victims or to smear people who are the victims of their own

brutality so whatever this is whatever the origin is, I know that the presentation I'm seeing that's the most disingenuous is this narrative to try and remind people that we need a law and order and the police are a big, big part of this. And that's, you know, because I think most people, fireworks is a thing people

would just call the police for. You know what I mean? He's like, oh, it keeps going off. I'm going to have to call the cops now. And then when that doesn't get resolved, now you're frustrated too because the things are going off and now you're like, oh, it keeps going off. I'm going to have to call the cops now. And then when that doesn't get resolved, now you're frustrated, too, because the things are going off. And now you're like, see, you know, they're good for something. At least even though I'm completely disconnected from the violence. Also, to everybody calling the cops for some fireworks.

Stop gentrifying neighborhoods. Yeah, get the fuck out of here. It ain't fireworks. It ain't fireworks. Like, man, y'all don't get out of y'all country lives noise is real i know it's as somebody who grew up on the south side of chicago and in the city and and with noise and stuff like that it ain't that day i mean it's annoying it's an angeleno's i think i was saying i don't know if i even said this on mike but our

fireworks season is the week before Memorial Day until January 4th. Yeah, for real. Like there's always, because, you know, kids just like setting shit off. I don't know. And I get it. People got kids. I know Jack is like, nah, man, they need to stop popping these motherfucking fireworks. My kids need to sleep.

I hate that it makes my dog bark. Yeah, and I get that. And I agree with that notion of it. yeah and i get that and i agree i agree with that notion of it but i think the thing that we're fighting for the most is stop calling the cops for unnecessary shit uh you know like stop calling the cops to come and clean up things where all they're gonna do is escalate a matter like is it worth somebody possibly losing their life because they popped off a roman candle like not really i don't think so oddly enough there were fireworks going off they've been going off every day like every night

uh and i kind of get mad because they're setting them off like before it's dusk and i'm like bro you can't even see the illumination yeah fucking idiot anyway and like the cops showed up last night uh and they're outside like trying to find people but it was like it seemed like this really futile effort where they just parked their car in the street and we're like looking around like you better not do anything all right now we'll leave because we also have to go frame a starbucks uh for trying to poison us and then we will you know pretend that we have we're just you know we're just being bullied by society the tamp tampon and the Frappuccino, you saw that? Yeah.

And Diamond Bar? Now, I don't know what happened. They're definitely, they said they're going to look at surveillance footage. But the officer is claiming, okay, so for people who don't know, in Diamond Bar, California, there's an officer who claims that they had a tampon in their Frappuccino. They were at a Starbucks in a Target. They pulled out their police credit union debit card and and paid for it and that's how they knew that's how they knew

i was a pig who deserved a tampuccino uh and that's what the fuck happened and suddenly they're like he's the guy was drinking it walked out of the store and then came back when they noticed and when you look at this image it's like how the fuck are you i don't know how did you not this shit was it looked like a goddamn paper towel roll like yeah it looked like he just and you drank half and it was a clear cup you ain't drink half that shit before you noticed like come on man like i would look at that and be like yo what the fuck is this in my drink yeah like so it's like first grader shit it's just first grader shit where like you think everybody is as stupid as you yeah that is i'm like i'm not that dumb the shake shack thing was the exact same where even the cops who said they were ill were not even ill like the entire thing was made up the whole thing was a fabrication

yeah i just wanted to say on your point about like the police wanting there to be a concerted like storyline of chaos in the streets that like well this is what happens when you like doubt our uh supremacy um i i have noticed that and i was gonna like bring it up on one of the shows this week that like the new york post which is a rupert murdoch company uh fox news i've seen these stories where they're like deadly weekend in seattle chicago minneapolis yeah this weekend yeah it was the deadly city reports uptick in shootings and it's like they're like they reported on they were like a completely bloody weekend in New York City with nine shootings, one fatal. Is that something you would even report on? A single fatality over a weekend in New York City?

Nine shootings? That doesn't seem... No shootings are better than, like, we shouldn't, you know, tolerate gun violence, but it just seems like it's a very concerted effort to try to focus on, you know, how things are out of control. Just watch Fox. It's the exact, the narrative is the same. Like, you know, that's why, like, I only need to watch 15 minutes to know what the

marching orders are giving their viewers that day. And this was basically chaos in the streets. And it was all every every pundit or guest they would have on, like, in relation to anything to do with the police or reform would be like, you know, and if if it's chaotic like this, I bet you're going to also want to make sure that the police are just as responsive in your neighborhood as well. and make sure that the police are just as responsive in your neighborhood as well. And that's why we need this organized gang to abuse people that don't look like you, which is why you'll tolerate it, even though a lot of the things we're trying to scare you with

isn't even happening in your neighborhood. But either way, go on with your racist self. All right. Well, Jaquese, it's been a pleasure having you as always. Guys, always a pleasure. Always a pleasure having you guys always on the always a pleasure always a pleasure coming through to tdz hey yes where can people uh find you and follow you ah man you know what it is you can find me in these streets uh you can also find me on every piece of social media at jakees neil. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You know, come through, see what's popping. Every show I do, every show I got, it's always going to be on social media. That's the easiest way to see what I'm up to. And your other, you got a podcast too, don't you, Jockeys? Oh, man, I got it. You know, we got a couple. Listen, you know, like when LeBron left, you know, Cleveland and he went to Miami. You know what I'm saying?

Taking your talents to Earwolf. You know, it didn't mean that he didn't love Cleveland. You know, he came back and he won a title for them. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, you know, we took the talents to Earwolf. We're on Culture Kings. Culture Kings is on Earwolf.

That's a myth that I can bust. People was all like, man, what happened at iHeart? Ain't no ill will, man. We still boys. We got love for Jack. We got love for Miles and the whole crew. Everybody except Dan. You know, Dan be on that shit.

Dan be on that shit. Very toxic force. Very toxic. Just toxic. Just toxic. Nah, Dan is the homie. Culture Kings is popping. I also got another show called The Deliberation. If you are a fan of MTV

The Challenge, me and the homie Ray Sani, we host a recap show covering this current season and we're going to cover more. We're going to keep this thing going. It's doing pretty so uh yeah check that out it's called the deliberation with did somebody get in trouble on that show oh yeah d d got in trouble for d got in trouble for posting some wild shit about the black lives matter movement and stuff like that and they

banned her and they basically wiped her out for every frame of the show which look man listen let me tell you something i'm mad at mtv because mtv and the challenge has had a history of racism and they've never done anything about it uh but then you know the woman of color says some shit i'm not saying she shouldn't have been punished but damn you gotta wipe out every frame like every frame bro like you don't even hear her breathe on the show oh wow anymore and i'm like yo y'all just trying to get niggas to say damn it wasn't that bad y'all like it's y'all just trying to get us to like be on your side like well look you wanted some change here's some change

like it's performing like yeah you didn't have to act like she betrayed stalin or some shit yeah it's performative especially when they have people on that season who have said worse in the past right yeah uh so it's performative but but yeah man it's a fun you know it's i listen i'm a challenge stan i love it uh me and ray both love it so check it out cool uh and is there a tweet or some other work of social media you've been enjoying oh yeah yeah so somebody this was uh yesterday i don't know who this person is it just came across the timeline at internet daughter and she spells internet without the first e um she wrote asked a guy for a dick pic and he sent me a video of himself gaming and said later oh that shit cracked me up so hard uh so listen shout out to that king who knows his worth uh it was like nah nah nah i'm playing the last of us too right now you're gonna have to wait for these goodies uh for a couple of hours all right last of us too seems

to be what the entire world except for for me, is up to right now. I'm not playing it either, so I don't know. Well, Jack stays playing League of Legends. That's why. Okay. Well, I already beat The Last of Us 2. That's why. What do you think about that twist, man?

Ah, blew my mind. Miles, where can people find you and what's the twist oh the twist i'm for it what uh you can find me on twitter and instagram playstation network miles of gray uh right now i'm uh playing assassin's creed going to the ancient greece uh but i'll be back uh communicating with everybody on there soon enough. Uh, also my other podcast for 20 day fiance, where if you'd like to show 90 day fiance, uh, and you'd like to hear me ramble, listen to that. It's me and Sophie Alexandra. Uh, and now let's see some tweets that I liked a few, uh, there.

Okay. So, you know, we were talking before about some UCB drama. And the CFO of the company just went off, like, in a really ridiculous way. But it's funny because that same person was also in hot water when people were talking about UCB laying people off. And I just want to point to this tweet from March of this year about this same guy. It's from at Caitlin Linden. So one of the guys who wrote this article about UCB doing all these massive layoffs through the pandemic,

he tweeted, yesterday UCB's chief financial officer threatened to sue me for my reporting and tweets. I pressed him about the layoffs in UCB's business and it was an interesting conversation. Then this person quote tweeted, said, I've worked at UCB four years. Last year, enter Daryl.

He's a great CFO in that he has helped make a sloppily run exploitative comedy theater continue to not pay its performers, lay off 160 staff, and won't give the paid staff or accrued sick hours in a crisis. You can't eat money, Amy. So that was just interesting take to read. And then one more is from Blair Saki at Blair Saki. She tweets, every day when I have the thought,

hmm, yes, I'd like some poison, please, I sign into this app with my grubby little gremlin fingers and then glug, glug, glug till I'm very ill. And I think it was a great point. Yo, let go of the rage scrolling. Let go of the toxic scrolling because you got to keep your physical body in the game here. So give yourself a break on there.

You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. Some tweets I've been enjoying. Juice tweeted, Benadryl, smart as hell. You can't have allergies if you're asleep for eight hours. Babs Gray tweeted, thinking of deleting social media and making the switch to organic anxiety. thinking of deleting social media and making the switch to organic anxiety. And Eliza Skinner's happy birthday video to Yasser Lester is incredible.

People should watch it. It's like her doing a Eminem style rep. But Eliza Skinner is the funniest person. Oh, and then Nico at Poco Ha Ha tweeted, what the fuck is going on at this pizza place and screen capped this this pizza place that has just like tons of reviews of people being like bone in pizza and then like a picture of a pizza with like a chicken bone sticking out of it and then the next one is bruh bones and the next one is, bruh, bones. And the next one is,

the pizza has so many bones. Do not eat. And the next one says, there's bones in it. My tooth fell out, bruh. Did you know the pizza that may contain bones and other sharp objects? Very disappointed. What?

I ordered a pizza from here and it had a bone hidden under the cheese. Disgusting. I ate bone. Bone not good bone come from pizza pizza try to kill me uh terrible like they just treat it like a thing that happens it's so weird uh but they don't tell you what the pizza place is so uh unfortunately we can't test this hypothesis but but bones and pizza.

I agree. Not good. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes, where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as the song we ride out on. what is that going to be today oh we are going to go out on a track from uh this english artist uh named jay paul um and a lot of the tracks have been really dope that i've listened

to over the years but there's a new one out it could be new i don't know it's new to me it's called do you love her now and the a lot of the tracks are just so vibey but this has like kind of like i don't know like d'angelo's voodoo but if it was like made in like you know 2043 is like the world is like ending it's got like it's sexy but dark and it's got all kinds of vibrations to it. So this is Jay Paul. Do you love her now? Check it out. All right. We're going to ride out on that.

The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That's going to do it for this morning. We'll be back this afternoon to tell you what's trending. And we'll talk to you then bye Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, I give you my life. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th, 2017, was assassinated. Crooks Everywhere unearthed the plot to murder a one-woman WikiLeaks. She exposed the culture of crime and corruption

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