The Daily Zeitgeist - Trump = Jedi? Drunk Shopping Epidemic 8.2.18

Episode Date: August 2, 2018

In episode 203, Miles and special guest host Andrew Ti are joined by comedian and travel writer Chelsea Frank to discuss Facebook censoring a legitimate counter protest, the Trump administration moving forward with its plan to relax fuel standards for new vehicles, the stand your ground law not being for POC, Trump trying to convince Mueller that his investigation is just a witch hunt, Trump wanting to give another hundred billion to the rich, Papa John continuing to try and defend himself, Americano drunk shopping, and more!  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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i guess miles gray today aka gray babe take a walk on the miles side oh lou reed love that bass line too one of the first bass lines i learned how to play actually uh thanks to will moran at willie moe 323 for that aka and i am just so delighted to be joined by one of my favorite guests and you know maybe one day we should have our own podcast uh please welcome my co-host today comedian writer podcast host of the crazy crazy podcast yo is this racist mr andrew t oh what up i finally got an aka and i'm gonna do it now everyone ready okay the clock's run out time's over blouse step back to reality oh there goes andrew t oh there we go and that was it yeah all right and you wrote that just now no from um from uh eight months no but i mean you just created i came up with that idea you just finessed

that because i've never once gotten the aka right and so I was so excited when I was like, oh, that almost works. You should have just took the one I always gave you. Androule, Androule, mommy, T-I-T-I. That one's, no, that's, I don't have the chops to pull that off. I mean, look, Jackie's out here singing all kinds of opera and shit. I think you can pull off a Nelly, a couple bars of Nelly. And in our third seat, our very special guest today is someone I literally just met. And she seems like a wonderful person, comedian and comedy and travel writer, amongst many other things.

Please welcome Chelsea Frank. Wow, what an intro. Yes. Thank you so much. I like to be honest. Although most people I have just met prior to doing that, but it felt right in this. I feel, I mean, we have known each other previously. That is true.

I know you from something. Yeah, sure. Yeah. We go way back. Another lifetime? Like, I think five minutes before you mentioned. Yes, yes, yes, that was me. Yes.

Okay, good. We're on the same page. Fan-fucking-tastic. Now, let's get into what we are going to be talking about today, just so you guys stick around, because, man, we got all kinds of stuff. We got a little bit of an update on the Facebook pages that were censored this week. Also, you know, the Trump administration has some ideas on fuel efficiency that'll basically keep us all safe.

Thank you, Jesus. Then we're going to talk about how stand-your-ground laws have now been proven to only be for white people, thanks to some new events in the state of Alabama. Trump is feeling extra confident about maybe sitting down for an interview with Mueller, finally, I guess. He also wants to give away maybe another $100 billion to the rich. And you know what that means for us, like regular non-billionaire people. Let's see.

Oh, Papa John, he won't go away when he should be. And America, we are just drinking too much and we are shopping too much online while we're drunk. And we need to talk about that. And we will. And that's the lighter side story. That's the lighter side. We drink too much. Yes.

That's the light stuff today. Because, you know, we are at the mercy of the zeitgeist. So before we get into that, let's talk to Chelsea. Chelsea, what is something from your search history that is, you know, reveals are at the mercy of the zeitgeist. So before we get into that, let's talk to Chelsea. Chelsea, what is something from your search history that is, you know, reveals a little bit about yourself? Okay, last night I Google searched to see if there was a Tumblr on Jews in gyms. I just thought that would be a good Tumblr. And there's not actually. There isn't?

And what were you hoping to see? I don't know. I just, every time I see a Jew in the gym, it's just like, it's so sparkly to me. It's so, I can say this. I'm Jewish. It's okay. I was getting, I was starting to sweat. Welcome to Daily Stormer Radio.

I just, I, every time I keep seeing like very, it's just, we can, it's the tribal thing. I can just tell, you know, it's a Jew. Yeah. But whenever I go to my gym, it's just so fun and sparkly to see little Jewish boys trying to lift weights. Lift weights, yeah. So I thought maybe it would be fun to see if there was a Tumblr on Jews in gyms. And I'm surprised like some neo-Nazi hasn't covered that yet.

That feels like from one end of the spectrum or another, someone should have done that. Yeah, right. It's like a proud Jewish person. Either with love or tremendous hate. But I did Google search that and I thought that would be fun. What is it about the sparkliness that you're just more like you see a member of your community and you're like, we're both in the gym. It's just funny to me every single time. I look ridiculous in a gym every single time I work out.

I just don't look like a muscle has ever entered my body. So it's just fun. And I don't know. I wanted to Google. What's your workout like? Do you walk on your hands on a treadmill? Oh, how cute that you call it a workout. That's adorable.

Oh, thank you. That's so nice. It's usually what happens at a gym. How sweet of you to even elevate me to calling it a workout. Allow me to rephrase my question. What size Frappuccino are you drinking while you're at the gym? I'm literally in the sauna just drinking that a train to

a train to yeah I you know what do I do in the gym I sort of like sit at the different machines and look online gotta chill

until someone comes over and says are you gonna use this or what like you're gonna you're gonna like work out those thighs yeah

I do a lot of squats alright I like squats because I know what to do. Yeah. All I got to do is just sit down kind of. Just press your legs. And then stand back up. Yeah.

It's like a reminder of this is what sitting is about to be like. I'm going to sit the shit out of this thing. My feeling is I go. Like at least I go. That's something. And if I just get in there and I do something, good for me. Yeah. I'm never going to be one of those like fitspo people.

I'm never going to be jacked. So like my feeling is I went, I did something, my body sort of feels sore kind of the next day. And there you go. That's a fitspiration in and of itself. That is fitspo. Yeah. And are you heavily invested in athletic wear? Or do you kind of go looking like somebody who's never been to the gym?

Because I know people who like, they're people who like buy outfits because they're like, oh, I joined the gym and now I'm going to look like someone who's active. No, I wear, I mean, very basic shit. Fantastic. No, I don't care at all. It's not where I'm going to spend my money. I'm about to literally go to the gym after this in the polo shirt I'm wearing. Damn.

Looking like a proud boy and shit. Well, I just forgot to pack a gym shirt. Oh, yeah. We might have some for you. I just threw shorts in the bag and I'm like, I'm good. But I forgot because normally I'm a dirtbag t-shirt boy.

You're not one of those guys that goes shirtless? Because you could. Can you do that? Yeah. Can you? I don't know. I feel like you gotta do muscle beach.

It's your world, baby. That's true. Just do whatever you want. I'm definitely not confident enough to have a shirt on. Not at the 24-hour fitness. 24-hour fitness has an all-shirts policy. I wear a rash guard into the shower.

Chelsea, what is something that is overrated? True love. I'm joking. So you're single. No. So you're single. I'm joking. Something overrated.

I think fine dining like anything where it's uh tiny portions um but it's like from some guy with a neck tattoo and he's like like gastropubby shit yeah like i'm just like i better be full if i'm gonna spend like they charge so much for every little you know bite that i'm like, I better be full when I leave here if I'm going to drop like $150, $200 on this meal. Like being Japanese, if I see like an $8 plate of shishito peppers, I'm like, no. This shit's cost a fucking $1.

And you threw a little fucking soy sauce on there and a sesame seed. Like these are blistered shishito peppers. A surprising amount of sugar when white people do it, I feel like. Really? It's always like a sweet glaze kind of jam at those places. Oh, yeah. And I'm just like, what are you doing? I don't, you know, see, that's where I have to draw the line.

But yeah, especially with the small plates thing. And at first it was fun because I felt like, man, I can taste a bunch of shit. But if each plate is like $8 to fucking $14, that adds up. Well, that is like, I've been to some places here in LA where it's like $40 for a side of cauliflower. And I'm like, who the fuck are you? Okay, money bags. That's a good ass cauliflower though. Where are you going where they got $40 cauliflower?

I'm not going to name names because I do write about food. So I don't want to be a dick. Put him on the spot. But there are some places here in LA that are so overrated. I'm like, everyone- Just say it right now. We're going to censor it. All right.

There's this place called- You're not going to censor it, but it's fine. There's this place called- We will censor it. And I fucking hate this place so much because everybody comes to this place. They jizz all over this place. They're just constantly like, it's the best. It's the best.

It's so expensive. The food is fine. It's not great. It it's fine but the ambiance must be special it's so blah it's so whatever it's tiny you can't hear anything it's just like all hype and that pisses me off because i'm like there's so much good cheap or affordable food here in la that it's like but also i'm fine with like fine dining if they feed you. I get it. Some people are top of their field. They're chefs that have been training forever.

And great. I mean, there's always going to be top of your field, more expensive than any field. Fine. But I don't want to have to go get tacos after I spend fucking so much money on this tiny piece of piece of lettuce so i love a grilled romaine lettuce well but the other thing about fine dining like especially that place you just mentioned and some others which is like it is a thing also where it's like taking the food of people of color charging eight times more than it should cost and selling it to white people right i mean like i i don't i'm fine not censoring this, but, like, that's, like, basically, like,

David Chang's entire empire. And it's not like he does it bad. Yeah. He does a good job, but... He's repackaging. Yeah, for the price, you could go literally 10 miles in either direction to K-Town or the San Gabriel Valley from his L.A. restaurant.

Right. And get the same thing for, like, a third as much. But he's making it accessible. Yeah, exactly. Because I think a lot of people, if you aren't of that community or of that culture, it can be intimidating sometimes. You're like, but I don't have the menu. It's like, yo, they're going to – it's all about selling, baby. So you go in there, they're going to hook you up either way.

Yeah. Okay? But yeah, I guess that is what it is. What's a very cheap place that you would suggest to people that isn't getting enough love before I go to the underrated? Unless that's your underrated. There's a taco truck on Fletcher that's $1 tacos and they're good. Okay, which one?

It doesn't even have a name. Oh, shout out to them. Unnamed. Unnamed is always good. I don't even know the name of it but it's honestly for a dollar it's so good. That's what I love. Yeah. Unnamed, it's this random taco truck on like

Fletcher and like near the Red Lion here's how you find it if you're in LA just start walking in concentric circles if you see a taco truck

and be like you got a name yeah and if they say yeah we're this they're like nah El Froggy no

just keep walking you got a name they're like what keep walking I'm gonna when we're done here I'm gonna google search it cause I've labeled it on my Google map so that I can't lose it.

You'll always know. Because it's really close to me and I will let you guys know. What is something that is underrated, Chelsea? Second season of American Grit. Whoa. Okay. Tell me about it. I came correct.

Okay. Who's that? John Cena hosts the show. It had two seasons. the first season sucked the second season was amazing was that with like people in the military yeah he had like these the hosts were all these people who are either like it's like a reality show it's a reality show and essentially they take like military dudes and women and or like people who are trainers or whatever. And they take all these people who are like lazy or unmotivated or like kind of lost in their lives or just like, they take you.

So like all, you know, all these people who basically have no grit and they put them through a series of like obstacles and, um, you know, mental and physical, uh uh programs or whatever to help them achieve like higher grit this is better grit and it's hilarious but it's also like heartwarming because some of these people like really get their shit together yeah they do grow but it's so fun i mean these people you couldn't like find better people for this season of right like you were truly like whiny. It was whiny crying. Like this one girl would just every single time

like one of the instructors or coaches would yell at her. Not yell, but do like military voice. She would just cave and start crying immediately. One girl like refused to take off her fake nails.

So she would just like, they would just pop off like every time she would just like go, you know, try and lift something. Try to lift something. Navigate an obstacle.

One guy kept falling every time. There's like this big bell that when you lose a challenge and you leave, you have to ring this giant bell and every single time

he would try to like hit the bell, he would just slide and fall down. I mean, it's like amazing. Okay. It's so, so, so good. I remember when at first

they were like advertising for it, I was like, oh, this could be interesting because I like seeing people who are whiny get just fucking run through the ringer. That's another reason why I like Kitchen Nightmares. I'm looking at a promo clip right now, and it does strongly imply these people are about to get waterboarded. Oh, wow. Wait, what?

It's just called American Grit, the dunking challenge. And it looks like everyone's in a body bag. And they're about to get dunked in water. So that is where, yeah, they all are upside down. And they're like, yeah, this body bag type thing. And then they just every so often get dunked into the water. And whoever lasts the longest wins. But there's drama.

And there's just like, there's so many feelings. It's amazing. It's amazing. I don't remember. I mean I saw it on Hulu or something but I wish that I had been on the show before they cancelled it. I would have loved to be on the show. Well you know maybe there can be a reboot. John Cena bring it back.

I loved it. Join the military. Yeah. I don't know if I would fit in too well. Well that's the whole point of American Grit right? It's people who wouldn't fit in and then they get that grit. Well, there's an army recruiting office right around the corner. We'll go there after this and we'll see if you have grit. I'll sign up. Why not?

Not to bring this back, but Jews don't go to the military. Yeah, well, hey. We need trailblazers. I've seen that IDF Tumblr. Oh, yeah. That one's real as hell. Finally, Chelsea. Oh, yeah. That one's real as hell. Finally, Chelsea. Oh, you got something to say?

Oh, I was just going to say like American Grit feels like the kind of thing where if someone actually does find grit, it's like the perfect thing for someone to just have a psychotic break. It's like a whiny person who all of a sudden gets steely and weird. Right, right, right. Oh, no. Chelsea, what's a myth that you want to tear down? Okay, I'm actually only here to talk about this. Oh, no. Chelsea, what's a myth that you want to tear down? Okay, I'm actually only here to talk about this. Oh, fantastic. And then you're leaving right after this.

And then I'm gone because I don't care about anything else. So I have heard from many people that uncircumcised penises are unhygienic. This seems to be like some kind of crazy myth that has been you know floating around yeah the zeitgeist thank you wow okay cool the millennial long zeitgeist and i am here to say from tons of research uh that it is just normal and we need to stop shaming people for their foreskin here's what i will say as a person who looks at the dark underbelly of the internet a lot, though. The people who are going to take most sucker from that statement is there's like a whole offshoot of men's rights activists who claim that being circumcised is a form of genital mutilation. And that's the hill they die on.

They're like, this is the most important thing that's ever. And it's just like, this was a tragedy. I had no choice. Up to and including various plastic surgeries or stretchy parts to try to restore the foreskin. Restore skin? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow. Imagine telling your parents that's what you got out of medical school.

Right. This is your path. No. Okay. So look, here's my thing. I don't think that getting circumcised out of medical school. Right. This is your path. No, okay, so look, here's my thing. I don't think that getting circumcised is a bad thing. I just think that if you do... Just the stigma that people... There are people who will be like...

No, if you choose to circumcise your kids, go for it. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm just saying if you happen to be from a place or a culture or a family or whatever, that there's so many people... Even girls I hear saying it's so disgusting and it's gross and it looks weird and whatever. And I'm like, it's fine.

It's natural. It's whatevs. I prefer, I think I like it better. I'm going to say that. Wow. You're Jewish too. I'm Jewish and I prefer it. But I'm just going to say, if you've got that extra skin, live your best life.

I'm here for you. You know, it's a win. The whole thing. Okay. But people like to say it's like unhygienic and that you know it's not as easy to clean it's not like we're living in the caveman era anymore i mean people have soap now it's not like yes wash your junk yeah you're fine yeah and you have hands you have you have thumbs you can get in there and you're fine i mean i just you know i hear this a lot and i'm here to say it's bullshit

yeah shout out to my friend uh nurse britney who talks about how they know how to, like you have people who are bedridden, they have to clean them. They have whole methods of how to clean the uncircumcised penis. So you know what? People are out here surviving. Google it. Yeah, Google it. If you're uncircumcised and you still mysteriously don't know how to clean yourself, I'm sure

there are plenty of tutorials on the internet for you. Please Google it at Starbucks. Yes, or your public library. Your public, yeah, yeah. Do that. So let's get into some of the stories. So yesterday we were talking about how Facebook had detected some foreign influence campaigns and had taken down pages that we were kind of like, what's wrong with these pages? One was like about like, I think it was from the resistors that was just sort of like women don't have to. And it was just a list of like things pushing back against patriarchy. And I was just sort of like, that't have to. And it was just a list of like things pushing back against patriarchy.

And I was just sort of like, that's interesting. Why is that something that they're taking down? So we find out that one of the groups, especially one of the resistors pages that was organizing a rally to like a counter protest against the unite the right rally that's happening in DC was a legitimate actual campaign put on by actual people, not Russian bots or foreign agents, but merely that because Facebook doesn't have their shit together, they took that a lot of activists try and communicate anonymously through Facebook, that that kind of put them in that bucket of Russian actors who also sort of use this

anonymity to communicate or to organize. And so they were wrongly censored, had their event basically sort of delegitimized by people by being like, oh, well, then this is like a foreign influence campaign. So this is just a fucking very weird thing. And again, underlines the idea that Facebook still doesn't know what the fuck to do when it comes to try and figure out what's free speech, what is malicious misinformation from a foreign power. And I think it sort of brings up the question of how we figure this out, because there are vulnerabilities for us in terms of getting

the misinformation spread, but also, rightly so, Facebook can be a powerful tool to organize people for good causes. So yeah, just another thing to throw in the pile of facebook is the dumpster fires getting bigger and bigger by the day i think it's one of those things where you like so clearly see how whoever writes their algorithm even whether it's a computer algorithm or like just like a series of steps that the fucking you know alleged people that are like reviewing these things have to follow because it's the same shit that you see all the time where like you know if you report something that's like racist or whatever but in post-modern racism it's always like couched in something or like something and people are like oh we can't tell

for sure and they're like you're denying the holocaust yeah i think we know for sure or like oh i said ghetto that doesn't mean you know right whatever and it's like that's like i i feel like the last thing that will save us from ais is like they're not going to get irony for a long time right yeah or how dog whistling really works yeah you robots are stupid as fuck come at me robots i'll fight a robot would you yeah i'll fight a robot. Would you? Yeah, I'll fight a robot. How are you going to knock a robot out, though? Unplug it? I think you have to ask it a question that has no answer. Oh, wow.

You know what I'm saying? No, I'm just kidding. You just punch it. You're like the Socrates of fucking robot takedowns. Yeah. Oh, wow. So, again, let's talk a little bit about Mr. Donald Trump because we can't avoid it. But this time, the administration is in the

news again. I mean, they're always in the news because this is a hellscape we live in. But they are now trying to move forward with a plan to sort of, you know, roll back fuel efficiency standards for new vehicles, including a freeze on the escalating miles per gallon requirements, because God knows we hate fuel efficiency. But we're sort of like in an attempt to sort of hamstring California's ability to control emissions in the state, which also kind of dictates what the automaking industry does in the country. And our boy, rest in power, Scott Pruitt, back in April, said that, you know, he was like, was arguing that, you know, new vehicles could be better for the environment if they weren't held to, you know, Obama regulation, miles per gallon

standards, because that means people could buy cars for cheaper, which would make them more likely to get rid of their old hoopties. And then they could be in a newer, safer car. And then also the logic was sort of that people will drive less if their cars get fewer miles per gallon, lowering the risk of crashes. No. So that makes no fucking sense. It is just like that John Lovitz pathological liar character mixed with a Captain Planet villain. They're just like, oh, well, okay, we want cars to be more inefficient.

How do we reach this aim? Right. Just say anything. Right. Sometimes I feel like they act like those kids who come in and they're like, oh, shit, I had a book report due today. Fuck, I didn't read any of it. Right.

And they just get up and do their presentation. They're like, you'll see that on page three something happened. Fuel efficiency is bad. It's bad so we see that if you have sanguine. You know what I mean?

That's how I feel a lot of the times when they come out with this shit. I'm like, did you read any? Do you know what's going on? I think because it's so transparent that this is just to help the people who sell gasoline basically orakers, who even they themselves are a little bit, like, conflicted. They're like, well, you know, we don't totally need this. Like, at least the response has been mixed from automakers. But, yeah, I guess when you're doing something that transparent, like, there's really no good way to try and obscure, like, what your actual aim is.

Try and be like, well, if gas is more expensive, then you drive less and crash less and you're safer. But this is the type of reasoning they've been trying for the last 50 years. I mean, that's what trickled out economics is. It's like, you know what will actually help poor people more? If we give rich people more money. Yeah. Because... Then they'll spend it give rich people more money. Yeah. Because.

Then they'll spend it on poor people's shit. Yeah. So. So you gotta do it. So we good, right? In a way, it's criminal not to give rich people more money, though. Yeah, because they know what to do with it because they're already rich. You know what I mean? You feel me?

They're smart with it. Yeah. I mean, I guess that makes sense. It's like, you know, who gives a fuck about making housing more affordable so people can live closer to their jobs or spending it on fucking public transport? Fuck all that. Like our fucking city, you know, we used to have fucking trains in here, you know? And now we just have our weird fucking subway system

that we're trying to incrementally make better and better, but it's just a... Nah, it's cool. What about scooters you can rent? Yeah, right. And then fucking leave in the goddamn street for me to trip over and shit. Have you guys talked about 3D printed guns? Oh my God, I was just watching that yesterday.

Yes. Does the NRA support that? No. I mean, they do and they don't. They've kind of just been mum about it, but we were talking yesterday about the reason why the NRA isn't going to kind of fully be like, oh, hell no to this. Because people would be like, well, isn't that money out the pocket?

Yeah. Like a traditional gun? It's because a lot of these Second Amendment people, their whole idea, one of their biggest fears is about registering guns. No, yeah, yeah. So making untraceable guns kind of fits in line with like, yeah, but we also want people to be like you know no but those people are the ones being used by the nra which is funded by gun manufacturers i just would have assumed gun this i mean this is basically 3d printed guns is like napster for guns yeah that's what we were saying yesterday like and why they wouldn't push back but a lot of it has to do

with this this one one of their main tenants of sort of this fear of a gun registry because they always use this weird backwards fake lie about how the Jews were disarmed and that's why the Holocaust happened when that's not even close.

You mean the one time they're on our side about something? Yeah, right. Suddenly like, well, the Jews, man, you saw what happened there and that was a tragedy.

Even though most of them are Holocaust deniers? There wasn't a Holocaust but if there was, it was because of this. It would have been better if they were armed. Yeah, but it didn't happen. But they should have guns. I wasn't a Holocaust, but if there was, it was because of this. It would have been better if they were armed. Yeah, but it didn't happen.

But they should have guns. I mean, not them, but we should have guns. We, therefore, sanguine. All right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. This summer, the nation watched as the Republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts separated by two months. These events were mirrored nearly 50 years ago when President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks. President Gerald R. Ford came stunningly close to being the victim of an assassin today.

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And we are back. So let's just get right into it. There was a story out from Selma, Alabama, where a woman who had filed a restraining order, protective order against her estranged husband shot and killed him when he suddenly showed up at her house and charged her, like just ran at her. Now, Alabama is a state with standard ground laws, which is basically meaning it's justified to use deadly force against anyone if you,-unquote believe there is an imminent physical threat to yourself and you don't have to retreat because you can stand your motherfucking ground because you're a cowboy or whatever and so this is a state that has those laws and you'd imagine that by definition this situation would fall under the protection of the stand your ground laws but there's a there's a twist right those laws typically only protect white people who are shooting people of color uh and in this case the woman her name is uh jacqueline

dixon she is a black woman and so that means she was pretty much straight up taken into custody over like you know a murder case and they set her bond to fuck you level at a hundred thousand dollars and the whole reasoning the argument is just mean, here, this is a quote from one of the Alabama newspapers. It says Collier and Dallas County District Attorney Michael Jackson said Michael said Jacqueline Dixon did have a protection from abuse order against her husband. However, it appears she did not seek enforcement of the order at times during her marriage. Jacqueline Dixon made the request for the protective order in 2016, according to court records,

claiming Carl Omar Dixon had punched her in the face and called her curse words. And this happened multiple times, but he always came back. So again, I don't know if they're trying to say it. No, they are trying to say that it is the victim's fault for not constantly reporting the torment and abuse she had to endure at the hands of her husband, who she already asked for. I'm in fear of my life protective order from them.

And then the D.A. also went on to say, you know, the couple had a history of domestic issues in the past and said Tuesday's argument possibly started after Carl Lamar Dixon found a condom at his wife's house that did not belong to him and he thought she was cheating. So, again, I'm not sure what the logic being applied to is here that like, well, you know, if she was cheating, he would be mad. Yeah, re-justified. It's a tragedy that this man was cut down in his prime yeah it's i i'm still really trying to understand how this doesn't if if you there are truly these stand your ground was why this doesn't apply here i mean because i remember remember i think it was last week or

the week before an unarmed black man was shot uh in a parking lot because he shoved a guy uh and then that guy just went home. And I think I remember this guy, I think his name was George Zimmerman, who also did some- What did he do? I think he shot a man named Trayvon, a young man named Trayvon Martin again, with the standard ground law.

He is now out here just acting a fool. And he's out here committing more crimes. Yeah, more crimes. Uh-oh. But like, even again, there was that woman, Marissa Alexander, who was in Florida, who fired warning shots at her abusive husband. It just didn't even hit him near her, near him, just like, yo, get the fuck away.

You're not putting your hands on me. And she got sentenced to 20 fucking years. And I mean, that that her sentence was later bumped down to something like eleven hundred days after she took a plea deal. But again, this is more just bizarre how, you know. That's still three years in prison for something that a white person would go literally free for. Yeah, and it's, you know, we have apparently those stand your ground laws. It's more just to protect people who, you know,

it's more state-sanctioned murder. But again, I don't, it's really hard to wrap my head around this whole thing because already those laws are so fucking awful. But is this that shocking, though? I mean, like everything's just for white people. No, I know. But I mean, I still want to believe that, you know, I'm not I'm not in denial of the white supremacist capitalist patriarchy that we exist in.

But at the same time, you'd there. This is so it's just so blatant that that it's just clear. It's like, well, it doesn't apply here because not white. But like stand your ground laws have. It's just like if they were actually applied logically, I like find me the legal justification then that any black person can't shoot any given cop. Literally. I mean, just like if you're like i have a reasonable fear that i'm an imminent physical threat if you're a black person a cop walks

towards you you can shoot them hey well i don't know about that that's my legal analysis from andrew t come at me you'd think so i mean because i mean clearly police their first instinct when seeing approaching a man of color is like, yeah, this guy might kill me. I got to be ready to shoot first. This is just I hope that we can figure out a way to introduce more common sense into things like this. But, you know, that's why we have to vote with our conscience. But I don't know if that would say this. I would be fine if the good people of Alabama as a population voted the opposite of their conscience. Right.

Specifically. Right, right, right. Yeah. Well, gosh, it's another story that is leaving, you know, people of color in prison and a person's life ended. I mean, again, if if the state had just followed through to enforce this protective order, they could have kept this man away from her. Or like I just this idea that she was somehow responsible for documenting every single incident and therefore that made them feel like, oh, well, maybe it's not that big of a deal. It's such a failure on their part to protect their own citizens. I mean, it's just like a perfect storm of all of the of so many issues that we're dealing with.

I mean, it's completely sexist. It's victim shaming. It's like we don't we don't believe women um and we put the onus on them to report you know yeah constantly even though it's like they're not clearly not doing anything right you're still able to come you know contact her it's like yeah it's like she probably had a reason she wasn't going after you know reporting everything probably nothing was getting done um or you can forget i mean it's like having to renew your don't domestically abuse me license is insane. I can't even remember to renew my writing license in LA. You know, like, it's like there's so much shit, you know, there's it's like when you're

worried for your life, maybe that's not the top priority on your list. Yeah. Or at the very least, you can tell the municipality who's supposed to protect you saying, I need this person away from me. I think it should really be more on the owner should be on the person who is the perpetrator of the violence should prove to the state that they are not around this person, that they are not calling this person. Seriously.

Like, why the fuck is it on the victim? And then all you're doing is having the victim have to relive this over the time and be like, well, now I have to obsess over is this person calling me? Is this person approaching me? I got the restraining order so I could keep them away from my life. Now my whole life is centered around them still. So it is really insane. Well, yeah, this is America, as Donald Glover once said. as Donald Glover once said.

So now let's just talk a little bit about, a little more about Donald Trump, because he did go on a fucking whole Twitter shitstorm tirade yesterday, and everyone was sort of like, yo, what happened with all this telling Jeff Sessions to just straight up fire Mueller and stop the investigation, all that other stuff? And the trickling story out of the White House, sort of like he heard a little bit about Mueller wanting wanting to interview him and he just started tweeting or whatever.

But I think it's because there are many other forces coming to his doorstep much quicker. But what's interesting is that according to old Maggie Haberman, the old Trump whisperer, she found out that apparently Trump had been telling his advisors that he's eager to meet with investigators to clear himself of wrongdoing. And in effect, he believes he can, quote, convince the investigators for the special counsel, Robert Mueller, of his belief that their own inquiry is a witch hunt. So this man is so, he thinks, yes, please let me talk to Robert Mueller. Because first he was like, look, I'd really love to sit down and talk with you. We can limit the number of questions to the obstruction charges. And we can just kind of, I just need a few questions because you're going to lie the whole time anyway.

And all of his lawyers are like, no, no, don't do it. Don't do it. Obviously, because this man cannot stop lying and doesn't know fact from fiction. But the idea that he thinks he can sit down toe to toe with Robert Mueller and just be like, fam, you get it, right? This thing's a witch hunt. Oh, I think it's even more. I feel like it's on some like duck season, rabbit season shit where he's like, actually, you colluded with Russia. Oh, you think he can fucking just Jedi mind him?

I think that is what he thinks he can do. Yeah, I think for sure. Doesn't it feel like he's just like oh this is just a witch hunt you're you're just uh you're just a politically motivated deep state just relax relax and he's like i used to run the fbi uh and i'm a prosecutor and i'm looking at evidence that's what i'm looking at i'm not just in he's not just in the room being like yeah let's let's just make up some stuff to figure out how we can bring this person down. That's again.

I hope he does. I hope he does talk to him and I hope he does realize his fantasy. God, I hope that conversation is recorded and we can listen to it later. I mean, I mean, just so juicy. So juicy. Oh, and it will be hilarious. So funny. Oh, yeah.

Just to hear that. He's like, OK, Mr. Trump, President Trump, I'd like to ask. So when did you know that Michael Flynn was compromised by the Russians? Probably, I don't know, a long time ago before I talked to James Comey. OK, so that's why you asked him to relax on him. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because, you know, I didn't want to get in trouble for, you know, working with the Russians. Thank you.

I have to go now. I mean, I don't know what the fuck. Yeah. Oh, I think it'll be more. Because that's what, like, Trump is the kind of dumbass that thinks he's going to go to this meeting and be so confident and mean that Mueller will just wilt. I think that is what he thinks he can do. That he can intimidate him into dropping this.

It's like, all right, man. All right, keep flying towards the sun. That level of narcissism is truly inspiring. Yeah. Didn't think it was possible, but we got it. Yeah, when you think you can literally just change reality before someone's eyes. I mean, he sort of has for so many people. Yeah.

Not to defend, but I mean mean he has made so many americans and i'll you know just completely uh you know retreat on what is reality and so he has succeeded in the past it's not like it's but but then he's like but muller it'll be the same thing right he's like i got people to believe the birther shit yeah i got people to believe that people to vote for me yeah that's like the reality is fake news. Yeah. Why can't I convince this really intelligent prosecutor? He does have a track record. But I think that's the danger of the rallies is Trump has only been around people basically who he has successfully brainwashed and doesn't realize that there are other people who he

hasn't brainwashed. Yeah. He's like a poet who's only done like readings for his really supportive aunts and mom. And they've always been like, that was great. That was great. He's like an American Idol auditioner. Yeah. Then you pull up and they're like,

then you talk to some real people and they're like, no. What? But this whole time I was led to believe that this is okay. No, he's literally been like the beneficiary of white affirmative action telling him he's okay. Yeah. He literally, you know, it's like he's okay yeah he literally you know it's like he's the result of the participation trophy for billionaires or millionaires yeah high hundred

thousandaires maybe yeah really uh he yeah he's been getting participation trophies his entire life and so now he thinks he could do this i uh the other thing they were saying i cnn i think was reporting to that his like staff, like because of all these, like he's just in a really bad place. Apparently they're trying to like, uh, you know,

just plan more rallies for him to distract him. Cause they realize like, he'll just kind of just be so gone in his own world at the rallies. Like that's the one way they can try and kind of keep him in line. But we all know the second he goes off book at those rallies, he then just says some more shit that causes problems. That leads to nothing. Yeah.

That everyone just goes, oh, that was bad. Don't do that. And then nothing happens. Well, I think the walls are closing in a little bit, though, especially with the Manafort trial. What we need is like, look, if there's ever going to be any sort of tech innovation, it will be building just one matrix for Donald Trump to jack into where he's constantly at a campaign or at a not even campaign rally, at a fascist rally. Yeah, exactly. And he can

just relive that moment over and over and over again in his life. That's my Black Mirror episode. Yeah, right. That's White Mirror. White Mirror. Well, speaking of just Trump again. Just keep going. Yeah, there was just this thing floating around that they've been considering possibly giving another $100 billion away to the wealthiest people in America because, again, they deserve it. Now, without getting too wonky about it, it would just basically be not through legislation

but through regulation where the Treasury Department could redefine the word cost in terms of what their investment profits are. So in a way, they would just save a lot of money over like, they're like, well, I just made all this money in the stock market so let me keep more of it yeah um because i because the cost of it was is so much higher because we can just change the accounting terms this is some enron shit yeah no it really is it really is and uh there's there was an analysis uh early this year uh that found that this proposed cut would reduce tax revenue by more than $100 billion over 10 years. 63% of that money would flow to the pockets of the top 0.1% of income earners.

63% of that goes to the top 0.1%. Now, again, this is another thing that Trump has done really well, is to have people be like, yeah, billionaires are tight and that's fine. And my life isn't my lack of opportunity or fair wages isn't because of their greed. It's because of the MS-13 or whoever the fuck it is this week. And yeah, I guess they said another 23 percent would go to the next 0.9 percent. So those are people with an adjusted annual gross income of more than like around one and a half million dollars

so yeah about so 80 about 86 percent of that tax cut or like about 80 billion dollars goes to the top one percent of orders so yeah i think again people need to familiarize themselves with how much of another like this is another attempt at just a violent redistribution of wealth in this country that they think that – like this is – when you look at I guess the bottom 50%, while about 10% was that sat with the top 1%. That's in Europe. In the United States, 20% of the national wealth was going to the top 1%, while the bottom 50 was fighting over 12%. So like, if you look on a graph, right, that's what Western Europe looks like, where the bottom 50% clearly holds more of the wealth than the top 1 percent. But if you look at America's, it's been basically turning into an inversion, like an X over time. And then around the mid 90s, it basically all started flowing up to the top.

portions that are like because the thing so so this graph uh the thing that it's hard to like you know wrap your brain around is there are 50 times more people in the bottom 50 percent than in the top one percent like these lines shouldn't be comparable no not at all even remotely comparable yeah that's the disgusting part yeah i mean they say that a lot of the reasons that these like this this income gap or this wealth gap created was through a lack of access to higher education for low income people. And then just these like totally non-progressive tax cuts that we have. While in like Europe, they try and sort of have more progressive tax laws there. One thing that you said earlier that it's just like the parlance of this is like when you say, when you call these people the 1% of earners, which is like, this is literally

like people just getting stock money, like as far from earning money as humanly possible. I mean, it's like you have to say earners because what else are you going to call them? Stealers. Top 1% of sitting back and taking it. Yeah, these are the takers. These are Ayn Rand's tak and taking it yeah these are the taker these are

Ayn Rand's takers for you these are the leeches on fucking society if anyone wants to for sure get something into like MoMA or an art gallery or

something try maybe a Louis Vuitton branded guillotine I'm pitching art pieces now for people someone did that actually did they do it already I feel like

Tom Sachs has done that he had a Chanel Chanel guillotine, I think. Wow. Yeah. To downgrade it. And that's Arch Corner with Miles. Yeah. But again, you know, but the economy is doing so great, right? Because Trump's like, oh, the economy has never been better. Like everybody's winning. Yeah. But it's these millionaires that are winning because, you know, and I talk about this all the time of just sort of how the wages are stagnant. And a lot of these tax breaks have just been like, especially the last one that happened at the end of last year, all that money that they said, oh, that's just going to, again, the trickle down shit is like, they're saving all this money. It's going to come down to you. But it's functionally done nothing for the actual wages that the employees of these companies that are generating all this revenue.

It hasn't impacted their wages at all because a lot of these savings have just come in the form of sort of stock buybacks where they're buying just basically up shares to help increase the price of the existing shares by taking away the supply. So people who have a lot of stock, they're like, oh, well now that's become more valuable. Or that's basically sort of just sharing some of the like rewarding investors by being like, oh, here you go. So like, we'll buy the stock back. And now you got a little money and there's a return on your investment. Thank you very much. But when you look at sort of a lot of these companies that are massive employers in this country, it's just, it becomes, I don't know, it kind of put it all together for me when you can kind of look at what it means in terms of what they save through a tax cut and how those buybacks work. So like, for example, at McDonald's, the median pay is about like $7,000 because most people, their, their employees are hourly workers. A year. Yeah.

And they, they did a buyback of $1.6 billion in stock in the first quarter of this year alone. At Walmart, they have 2.3 million workers. Half of those people made less than $19,000 a year. And Walmart launched a stock buyback initiative to the tune of $20 billion so they could boost their stock prices. Chipotle, it's around $13,582. Last year, offered a $100 million stock buyback program. And then they did it again this April. Yum Brands, we talk about Taco Bell a lot. You know, I like Taco Bell,

but yo, you gotta fucking treat these workers right. Their median yearly wage, around 9,000. And then late last year, offered a $1.5 billion stock buyback program program and recently did another around 500 million in buybacks for the first quarter of this year. So when you look at it, like what's going on, like they're showing a lot of studies have shown a lot of these profits or the revenue that they're, they're, they're these money savings that they have, the cash on hand is just going like 60 to 70% is just going into stock buybacks. It's not going into investment in their own workers to create a cycle of actual growth for their company and

their employees. So if you do the math, for example, if McDonald's took their stock buybacks and invested it into their actual wages, all 1.9 million employees could have gotten a raise of at least $4,000 annually. If Starbucks reallocated the money from their repurchases, every worker would get a $7,000 raise. How about if Lowe's, CVS, and Home Depot could, rather than doing buybacks, and they put it right back into their employees, their workers would get raises of at least $18,000 a fucking year. Yeah. Which is also like that is meaningful to millions of people, $18,000 a year.

Whereas a billionaire having $1 billion or $1.1 billion. Right. That's extremely meaningful to me. Well, I know. We all love it. It's embarrassing when you're just $1.0 billion. Right. That's extremely meaningful to me. Well, I know. We all love it. It's embarrassing when you're just $1.0 billion. Yeah. My question is, though I agree with everything, how long are these workers staying at the

company? Are they there for the whole year, multiple years? Or are some people there for two months and then they're included in the medium wage for the year? Do you know what I'm saying? I think, I mean, it's probably just based on, I think it's probably people who are actually working a year or, or if they just extrapolate what they're paying and then that works out too.

Yeah. Okay. Okay. And again, whatever they were being, like if you worked at CVS and you got $18,000 more a year, that that's actually, that's rehabilitating the middle class or creating a middle class. Yeah, creating more upward mobility because what is like the middle class? Like, I mean, it's completely dwindled in the last 40 years. But again, half that would be so helpful for people.

Like 9,000. Yeah. I mean, crazy. That's the difference between like, you know, especially if you've got children. I mean, that like completely. Kids having their own. Yeah. You don't have kids sharing bedrooms or whatever. You can pay for college yeah you can do so much you can save you can get

out of debt i mean there's so much you can do i mean i i think a way to to that as i'm looking at what you just like uh paraphrased on the page right now it's the fact that like when when i when i asked the clarification it was like mcdonald's median pay seven thousand clarification, it was like McDonald's median pay $7,000 per year. Because for a moment, I was like, I wonder. A CEO makes closer to that per hour. That yearly median wage is closer to that 365,000 times or whatever. It's bonkers. Yeah, it is bonkers.

Like, don't, there's no need to do, like, that's the thing. The short-sightedness of all the billionaires is like, eventually this has to get evened out. that was supposed to be good about democracy was that we can work this out you know at the ballot box as opposed to you know under the point of you know at the point at the at the down the barrel of a gun right and they're really pushing this theory to the limit yeah because this is yeah this is some shit that in every other human society has been settled with violence. So yeah, good luck dogs. I mean, we hungry,

but them belly full. Yeah. You know, I feel like you can really only go so long where these policies, people can only delude themselves into thinking that they're benefiting from somehow these wealthy people getting more tax breaks and giving more money away that could go to our, to our infrastructure,

to anything else. Although, don't get us wrong, this inequality can still go over several human lifetimes. Oh, 100%. I think it's just that now, I mean, I think it'll take a while because in the US, there's still, I feel like a lot of people do spend to try and pretend they're not poor. You know what I mean? To outwardly project an image that they aren't struggling. Many people are struggling and

when you look at the math of it, the number of people, a lot of us are still kind of playing ourselves that things could be a lot fucking better, but for whatever reason, we buy this sort of like, well, maybe I will be lucky and become the next millionaire out of thin air or whatever.

Well, at least my taxes didn't go to black people. Right, exactly. That's the other part that they think about it too well guys uh put your uh you know napkins in your shirt because we might have to eat the roots pretty soon uh and with that let's take a break this summer the nation watched as the Republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts separated by two months. These events were mirrored nearly 50 years ago when President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks. President Gerald R. Ford came stunningly close to being the victim of an assassin today. And these are the only two times we know of that a woman has tried to assassinate a U.S. president. One was the protege of infamous cult leader Charles Manson.

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He took the L of the century, he was booted out of the company, but still was like trying to take him to court and be like, I'm the one who knows how to write this ship. And he gave an interview with the Associated Press. I don't know why he thought that would be a good idea. But he thinks that he can return to TV and radio ads once the public understands the context of his comments. He said, quote, My persona resonates with the consumer because it's authentic, it's genuine, and it's the truth. Then he was just saying like a lot of like the company can

like blame the poor performance of the company on his actions. He said the company is actually suffering because it moved away from its, quote, roots and made too many marketing changes at once. Like so he was blaming like his disappearance from ads uh he said papa john stopped focusing on its better ingredients mantra and made misguided changes like tweaking the red and green in the logo to quote cater to the millennials i don't know why he hasn't just fully gone away he has his money just leave you don't realize you fuck this whole thing up for yourself and if your company is going down as a result of your actions so stop trying to blame the color scheme of the pizza boxes it's

your use of the word n-word on calls and trying to blame you know fucking nfl players for kneeling on your poor business yeah well i don't know we're like this close to an ad where he comes out i really want him to independently fund an ad where he's just like, says the N-word several times and tries to explain himself. It's like, please keep digging. He probably could. I mean, the whole thing of he's like, well, they just need to understand the context of my comments.

What? Just please. I want to hear the explanation. Please. I mean, I'm willing to. And then you will, you know, send your company deeper down in a death spiral. Next week is probably going to be like, Donald Trump endorses Papa John. Probably.

Yeah. I mean, he'll probably run or something. Right. Oh, I can't wait. Makes him like head of food and beverage or something. FDA or something. Exactly. Yeah.

So we're thinking of you to run the FDA because your pizza gives people, sends them into diabetic shock. Yeah. I hate, I mean, I can't say enough how much I don't like the actual pizza. It's not good. It's just not good. That's also another problem, too, they want to look into.

You have a racist owner who fucked up in public many times, and your pizza is not good. It's the racism that makes it taste not good. Extra sweet. That's where the sweetness comes from, the racism. Oh, well, you know, that's because, you know, I think we're just in a bad place in America right now. And that's why a lot of studies have shown that Americans are also drinking a lot more than we have been in the past years. much as we did last year on drunken late night purchases to the tune of $30 billion or $450 per person. This is according to a finder survey of 2000 people finding that about nearly half of American

adults who drink alcohol regularly admit to making a purchase while under the influence. Do you guys drunk shop ever online? I have once accidentally, well, it wasn't accidentally. I got drunk and purchased a beehive. Like a live beehive? Yeah, but here's the thing. This isn't just talking shit about lemonade online.

Yeah, right, right, right. But what I love about it is the reviews because I, you know, in my sober light of day, I canceled the order.'s fine um but i love i look back and i thought that the it had like three stars and i want to know who's going on and being like i'm dissatisfied with my bee purchase right you know with the quality of bees low i mean what the fuck they're bees what do you want them to do like also with what the fuck? They're bees. What do you want them to do? Also, with what the fuck, what the fuck were you thinking when you're like, I need a beehive?

I, you know, I was living my best life. Maybe I wanted to save the bees. I thought in my drunken stupor, maybe I will be the one person that can turn this shit around. Right. With my Amazon late night drunken purchase of a beehive, the turnaround starts here. That rules so hard. We should all,

everyone listening to this right now, buy some bees. Buy some bees, yeah. That's how we're going to fix it. Don't buy any bees. Please. I have a wild beehive in my backyard. Really?

And yeah, like the realtors would be like, yo, you might want to get rid of that or whatever. I'm like, yo, let the bees rock. I'm allergic to bees. Oh, like do you have an EpiPen?

No, but I'll like break out in hives and like get all gross and so that's why i'm like i don't know what the fuck i was yeah you have a bee allergy and you're like yeah i'm gonna embrace the hive i i don't know i was very very very drunk i don't even remember doing it i just saw it oh really oh wow cool um and what were you drinking? Tequila. Interesting, because there was, I think, a rehab institute that also kind of coincided with this study, and they kind of broke down the groups of, like, what alcohol you drink, like how that sort of coincided with how much you spend. So the most, like, the people who are real splurgers are the gin drinkers, apparently, who spend an average of more than $82.

Whiskey drinkers are actually the most frugal group somehow. They wound up spending only $40. And beer drinkers, I think, were the only other group to spend less than $40, where red and white wines, about $42 and $46, respectively. But everything's around $40 except for gin drinkers. $82 is like fucking double. I'm surprised that wine drinker's not higher, because there's many a times where you just like- Sit down with a glass of wine.

Yeah, and you're like, all right, let's ready to go on this wild ride. Yeah, let's find some fucking, I just need a beehive and some sandals, or whatever the fuck. I'm gonna buy a beehive and have it shipped to you. Okay, that's fine. Oh my God, the how stuff works, beeh going to buy a beehive and have it shipped to you. Okay, that's fine. Oh my God, the how stuff works beehive.

Indoor beehive. But yeah, they're saying that one of the interesting things was that the study found that people spent 30% more when shopping after midnight on a Friday versus on a Monday. And then by 1 a.m. that jumps to 40%. So Friday night purchases of lingerie apparently averaged $308. That's all me. And that's 140% higher than they are on Monday nights. So sit down with your bottle of gin or whatever and buy you some lingerie, some Asian provocateur or whatever the fuck.

Is that high-end shit? If it's just people drunk enough that are like, what if this gets here right now? Right, right, right. This is going to be tight. I think usually that's what you think when you are drunk shopping, is like, that would be tight right now in this moment. I'm going to fuck up some bees. Oh, you're going to fuck them up?

I'm going to fuck up some bees. I thought you wanted to save them. I don't know. You know what? Maybe you're going to eat them. Like, this is my bees. This is my snack. I'm hungry, man.

What if I ate a couple bees? I hate bees. Like, I want them to survive. You know, I want to save the bees. Absolutely, they're pollinators. They're vital to our ecosystem. Like, all that shit. Great.

But I don't want to be around them. So I was probably in a dark, dark, dark place. Clearly, yeah. You wanted to embrace the bee and to your own peril. Maybe it was like a passive suicide. Oh, well, hopefully you'll find some help. And, you know, just stay away from the bees. Stay away from the Amazon.

I'll do my best. Have you ever bought anything drunk, Andrew? You just don't strike me as someone who impulsively buys things on the internet, drunk or sober. I impulsively buy stuff only because I am a terrible person and i have uh my credit cards are i think i could probably figure out a different way to do it but currently they just give you amazon my credit cards just give me amazon points oh wow so you just give your money right back to master yeah it's terrible but what i will do is just however many amazon points i have spend those when i get get fucked up.

So I actually have my second pair. I have a pair of very cheap Bluetooth headphones for the gym coming to me because I was like, I'm going to need these. Wow. I can't remember the last. I don't know.

When I get drunk, my impulse isn't to go on the computer and shop, really. Well, phones, though. That's where I do it. I'm like, oh, yeah. Oh, you know what's weird? I hate buying shit on my phone.

Like, I don't trust it for some reason. And I also can't see it properly. I need to, like, have a big screen spread out. Yeah. It's weird. That's the one part I can't, like, every time I'm like, well, I see it on here, but I will do it when I get to a traditional computer. Right.

And that's how I, that's my financial tip for y'all for the day. Put your phone down, only shop through the computer. Don't trust your phone. Yeah, exactly. Don't trust your phone. It's not happening. Well, everyone,

it's been a pleasure having you. I mean, Chelsea, please tell people where they can find you, where they can embrace your work, where they can follow you on social media. You can find me on Instagram

at Chelsea Frank. You can find me on Twitter at Chelsea Frank. You can find me on Twitter at Chelsea S as in Sarah Frank. I know I got all the good ones. All right. And that's about it. Okay. You can, yeah, hit me up

and I'll show you some good hot links to the bees. To the bees and good food probably too. Good food, good drinks. Okay. All the good stuff, travel stuff. Where's the last place you traveled to? And some LOLs. I just got back from Canada. All right good stuff, travel stuff. Where's the last place you traveled to? LOLs.

I just got back from Canada. All right. Shout out to Canada. Shout out to Canada. I almost stayed to flee the Nazis, but, you know, had to come back. Oh, yeah. I went to Gimli, Manitoba. Okay.

Which honestly sounds like a Star Wars character to me. Yes. But yeah, it was where the Crown Royal Distillery was, and it was super cool. Nice. Got to tour the distillery. What's the story? Did they give you a bag? Like a big velvet bag? Big velvet bag?

They gave me a duffel bag with my name on it. It was gray and purple. Oh, I love the Crown Royal bag. Oh man, that's the first bag you store your drug shit in as a kid. Yeah, I feel like Asian people love just keeping it around for knickknacks. Oh yeah, I think my mom has like pens in hers. Yeah, yeah. And like I stole it and I was like,

man, my pipe gonna go here, my grinder. Yep. Yeah, and then I'm heading to Patron. I'm going to Guadalajara. Wow. I'm gonna go step on that Patron life and order some more shit online. Okay.

Yeah. And then I'm going to Bali. For what? So another trip. This is just through your writing work? Yeah, man. Damn. It's the greatest scam of all time.

I know. I like a good scam. It's really fun. Follow me if you want to see my travel photos. Chelsea, is there a tweet that you're enjoying that you'd like to show some love? Alright, gotta plug the boo. Because I want to have sex later.

This is the only way that's going to happen. He'll be like, you plugged me. Here's some dick. So gotta make it. This is the only way that's gonna happen. Yeah. He'll be like, oh, you plugged me. Here's some dick. Okay. Finally, dick authorized. Okay. So at Premawesome on Twitter.

Wait, what do you mean Jesus loves me? Did he say something to you? Oh my God, I'm freaking out right now. Tell me his exact words. Jesus loves me. This I know.

Andrew, what about you? Where can people find you? Andrew T. The last name is spelled T-I. Yo, is this racist? This is my podcast. And if you're a fan and you live in the metro Detroit area, August 10th in Ferndale, a place called Go Comedy.

It's a little early, 6 p.m., but we're doing the podcast live for part of Detroit Improv Festival. So please, please buy some tickets now because I'm trying to sell this shit out. Yeah, go Michigan. Zyte Gang, go support. You know, if you're from The Hand or The Glove or whatever y'all call it.

Just go. We know you're not working at 6 p.m. on a Friday. Come on. No. I mean, you might be, but... No, you're not. Not if you're about to pull up to a live podcasting taping.

It'll be good. Oh, we got great guests. Please, seriously, come if you're not. Not if you're about to pull up to a live podcasting taping. It'll be good. Well, we got great guests. Please, seriously, come if you like improv comedy. Can you tell us who the guests are? Yeah, we got Eugene Cordero. Paul F. Tompkins is going to be there. Okay. And I'm working on a couple more, but.

Oh, yeah, because Eugene is from Michigan, too, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Shout out to him. It's going to be real wild. He's one of my first improv teachers. Oh, shit. Eugene.

And he was always like, hey, man, you should really stay in the theater because we need more Asian people. That's true. And then I was like, I need a job. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Can't be improv-ing all day. andrew what's a tweet that you're liking this is uh from previous guests of this show and guests on my podcast uh molly lambert a couple days ago wrote i hope i get banned for saying i hope cryptids fuck racists to death this was this

was after that uh that racist got caught with all that Bigfoot porn. Yeah. Yeah. That was weird. The drawings. It's fine. You thought it was fine? I didn't see the drawings.

Oh, they were like, it was like ripped Bigfoot with just a big dangling penis. That's how I imagine Bigfoot. I always imagine him having a weird non-penis. I guess like a gorilla. Or like a Shape of Water monster penis sheet or something like that. Like it goes. Yeah. Yeah.

And like screams. Yeah. A tweet I'm liking comes from. Yes. You got a tweet? Oh, thank you so much. Yes. Alyssa Limparis at Alyssa Limp tweeted a video.

There were like pictures of like Melania Trump in her like vegetable garden that kind of went viral, where she just looks so overly posed or whatever. And there's this one shot of her with glasses on and a flannel, because that's how you know you're working class. And she's doing this contorted pose where it looks like she's placing something in a basket, but it's so unnatural, the photo. And then her caption is, me making sure the barista sees me put money in the tip jar.

Because, you know, that's important. Alright, well, you can find me on Twitter and Instagram at MilesOfGrey. You can find us at Daily Zeitgeist on Twitter, at TheDailyZeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook page if you want to look at that kind of stuff. We also have a website,

DailyZeitgeist.com, where you can find show links and our footnotes. Footnotes! Oh, there you go. As well as a link to the song that we're going to write out on today. And today,

I'm feeling like the song I heard on the way in today is by this artist named Jean Doe, but it's spelled G-E-A-N-D-E-A-U-X. Very, very European. And the song's called Wikipedia. So check her out. Very dope track.

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