The Daily Zeitgeist - Trump = Shark Hater, Timberlake = Woke 1.19.18

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sponsored by Gilead, now on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes every Thursday. Hello, the internet, and welcome to Season 14, Episode 4 of Das Daily Zeitgeist for January 19th, 2018. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Jackety Jack. Don't talk Jack. That is courtesy of at Triz.

And I am joined by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. That's right. It's Life Miles of the Rich and Gray-mas. That is a fire AKA. I want to tell everybody because you incorporated my first and last name and you did a great song. Who's that? Good Charlotte? Who's that?

I don't know what you're talking about. Anyway, that came from A Dog Called Norman. So shout out to you, A Dog Called Norman. And we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious comedian Amy Miller. Hello. Hello. How are you, Amy? Good.

You doing okay? You having a small stroke over there today? I'm having a small stroke. A small stroke. It's a little one. A mini. A cute one. It's a cute stroke.

Amy, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are as a human being? Well, okay. I did look up the last thing I Googled in my phone, and it was Portuguese water dogs. I've been having a real week with the Obama family. Because two nights ago, I had a full-on sex dream about Barack. My first one ever. Which seems like great. Congratulations, welcome to the club. Yeah, you had eight years.

I miss him. And then, I don't know, I was just talking to somebody about his dog, Bo, and we were like, what breed is that? And then I Googled Portuguese water dog, which incidentally also sounds like a horrible sex act. Yeah, just a nickname for somebody. Barack was pulling a Portuguese water dog. Yeah. Yeah. Just a nickname for somebody. I had a dream that Brock was pulling a Portuguese water dog. Yeah. Exactly. And I let him.

What's something you think is overrated? Something I think that's overrated. The Walking Dead. Ooh. You a big fan? No. I've actually, I'm one of three Americans who have never watched a single episode of The Walking Dead. Yeah. I mean, I think I've actually I'm I'm one of uh three Americans who have never watched a single episode of The Walking Dead yeah I mean I think I've seen three and then I just couldn't do it well and the

standard's so much higher now right because there's so much stuff to watch yeah that's just like if I'm not grabbed if I don't care I just don't care and I don't know how people watch that much gore on a regular basis for years. Because I think some people live with that fantasy of the zombie apocalypse happening. I have friends who they're praying every day that it happens. I don't know why. Why would they want

that? I don't know. Maybe to prove that they're able to survive or something like that. Because they've watched so many of these shows, they feel like they're ready. Yeah, they're like, yeah, it's fine. So they ain't. Okay. Because we don't know how.

This could be happening now. Right. Yeah. Well, it's like we didn't have a war in our generation. Right. Or we did, but not that your friends fought in or that was necessarily real to them. Well, I mean, wait. I would say the Iraq War was pretty real for our generation.

Right. But I feel like this is – Or there's no lick, yeah. There's like also zombies let you off the hook in terms of you're just killing – like that's what Hollywood uses for – or like video games use instead of Nazis. It's like the safe thing that you can kill. Disposable people. Yeah, disposable bad guys that you can just kill with impunity. That is true. I never thought about that.

Yeah. But it's just like, yeah, it's such an easy thing to murder. And they're also, it's like putting everything on, like, the easiest level in a video game. Yeah. Like, slow and dumb. Dumb as shit. Yeah. Just use, like, clan members. That would be fun. Yeah, that would be fun, actually. Well, that's why there's games like

Wolfenstein, where it's just literally, it's's just like yo kill nazis in the most gruesome way you can with like futuristic guns that will just melt them but yeah i the only thing i saw i first watched walking dead because i i thought frank darabont would probably do a good job and like it was kind of like whatever and then once the second season started i was more into it for frank and then it was kind of a different show. And I think also, I don't know. It didn't grab me either. It wasn't just like, oh, shit, I have to keep watching this.

I just don't care. I sort of watch regular TV shows like I watch porn where I'm not interested if I can't put myself in that scenario. It's not real to you. There needs to be someone that I relate to, you know? What's relatable porn? Like meeting someone at Ross? I mean that. No, I mean like, you know, it has to be like sort of like a curvy girl.

Gotcha. And, you know. So it's more about the performers, not the context. Yeah, I can imagine myself doing. There can't be too many like upside down flips and stuff like that. I can't do that. Just like one or two. Yeah.

I can't get fucked while doing a handstand. Whoa, okay. I didn't know we were going to talk about that. So I'm like out right when stuff like that happens. Right, right, right. Because I can't. It's like watching Cirque du Soleil. Yeah.

It's just not me. What is something you think is underrated? This one I did think about and it's sad. Current day Domino's pizza. Hey, all right. Because here's the thing. Oh, yeah. You say underrated.

Okay, yes. Yes. Go on. I remember now if I think back on eating Domino's pizza as a kid, it was pretty gross. Especially, I have a huge family. There's also a lot of people in it. That's a fun joke i like to tell um we used to get those like big like rectangular ones with the square pieces yes like a party size um it was like i mean how long was that like five feet long maybe just a big

ass rectangle um and i think it was pretty gross it It was gross, yeah. But current day, great value. Yeah. Here's what I do on a lot of road trips because I'm on the road a lot as a comic and often driving by myself. And I don't want to eat super shitty food all the time. Domino's, I don't know. It's got some veggies on it.

Whatever. I can justify it to myself. $7.99 walkout large pizza. I'll just put that in foil and keep it with me on the trip. And I'm eating pizza for three, four days. You get that kind of mileage out of a pizza? That's discipline. Man, you put a fucking piece in front of me, man, if I'm smacked, I will fucking eat the whole.

I'm not burning any calories. I'm just sitting in a car driving. Right, and neither am I sitting on the couch watching Netflix. You're being like, wait a minute. The engine demands the calories, so I must eat it. But the store remodels, they're so nice. It's a franchise. I haven't been inside a Domino's that has been remodeled.

Even you could own a Domino's pizza today in 2018. Surely not me. I had an old coworker. Her family, she's really well-to-do. They're the largest franchise owners of Domino's. She's like the Domino's queen. She's like, if you ever need a pizza, let me know and it will appear magically.

I like how militant you're being about Domino's. Have you seen their oven cars? Yes. Those are so dope. I think the pizza is good now. I really like their thin crust pizza and have always liked their thin crust pizza. Yeah. Yeah.

It's too crackery. It's like crispy. That's really offensive. That's what I like. I'm right here. You know, well, you know, that's why I looked you dead in your eye, Amy. And I was like, you know what I'm saying? But yeah, with the new pizza, a shout out to the herbs on the crust too.

That also makes the crust very edible. And now I feel like we're getting so caught up in pizza. And we're not even being sponsored by Domino's. Every 10 pizzas, I get a free pizza? That is so generous, Domino's. Thank you so much. What? That happens?

Yeah. That happens. It's just in your account. See, I never sign in. Oh, you are blowing it. I just don't trust big Domino's. But when you compare Domino's pizza to the other big chains, Papa John's is fucking hot garbage. Pizza Hut has never been good.

I like Pizza Hut's crust. I like it. You got to ball your fists up at me. It is so greasy, that pan pizza. I love it because it's like eating just a grease pie. Their personal pan pizza is fine. But their overall pizza i just feel like it's i feel like their sauce is really bad you're so conflicted you're like but they're also like two three dollars more expensive on it on all the options and it's like why what am i paying that for pizza because you have because you're

in a hut no thanks yeah and mostly that'sids is what I always say. You do always say that. You walked into our office today and that was how you greeted all of us. It's like, hi, I'm Amy, nice to meet you. Avoid the noids. Alright, that's a great over under. We're going to get into format. We're trying to take a sample of the national shared

consciousness. People are getting on me for saying global shared consciousness because apparently and I'm just finding this out, there countries besides the united states there are i've been telling you jack right uh miles you were right yeah when i said i was half japanese he thought my mom was just born in little tokyo right that's uh so uh the way we like to open up uh in sampling that shared consciousness is by asking our guests, what is a myth? What is something that most people in the United States believe to be true that you know to be false? Okay, this is really important for today because I'm really showing who I am and what I care about.

But I think that too many Americans think that I Will Always Love You is a Whitney Houston song when, in fact, it belongs to Dolly Parton, whose birthday it is today. Happy birthday, Dolly. It is Dolly's birthday? I love you so much. Yes. Shouts to Dolly. That is something I'm so shocked I come across it probably every few days in my life. Or people know that I'm a giant dolly parton fan and uh and for whatever reason

like a lot of people think she covered a whitney song and i'm like how does that even that is frustrating like chronologically you know so just so you all know i'll be watching it later tonight best little whorehouse in texas uh great film with dolly parton and burt reynolds and she sings that song to burt reynolds at the end when all the whores have to leave the whorehouse. It's very sad. Really? And then Whitney remade it after many, many people tried to buy it from her and she turned them down, including Elvis. She said no.

And yeah, it's her song. And it's her birthday. And she's an angel. And Whitney does a good job with it. Oh, she does. She made it better. No, I prefer the Whitney version. But we have to trace the legend back to its origin.

Yes, but that's part of the genius, though, is knowing whose hands it's going to do the best in. And Dolly knew that. Whitney didn't write the national anthem. She just did it better than everybody. I don't know. Have you seen pictures of Frances Scott Key? Yeah. It looks like Whitney Houston. She may be time traveling.

But the other thing, too, is I don't know if we talked about this in warm-up episodes, but you know how she has the Dixie Stampede dinner show? Yes. She dropped Dixie from the Stampede. Oh, really? Because it used to just be medieval times for people who liked the Antebellum South. Right. And she was like, yeah, we're keeping up with changing attitudes.

Yeah, she's keeping up. I think she should take Stampede out of the name because I've been to that dinner and there's not a lot of stampeding. Just change the name. Is the food good? Just call it the Dolly Parton dinner. No, the food's not good. Oh, so it's just the nut and spray.

I mean, it's fine. Have you been to medieval times? I have. And I love the little potato. Don't ask me about medieval times. Just a hot potato? Yeah, it's all eat with your hands food. It's hard to know what's really good when you can smell so much horse shit.

Right. You know? You're like, is this good? Because I feel nauseous. Yeah. Or am I just thankful it's not a shit flavored thing? Yeah. But for some reason, like, I like New York street food and all of New York City, like,

in the wintertime smells like horse shit. And the summer. Yeah. Yeah, that too. But, yeah. Like a hot dog or like a gyro? Both or like the hot nuts that you can get in the wintertime. Street meats.

All of the above. Have you heard of – sorry, just because I've heard of Dolly Parton. Have you heard of Jolene at 33 RPM? Oh, yeah. That's one of my favorite things. Yeah, it's awesome. We had to put people onto that. I also love Miley's cover.

Yeah, it's not bad. had to put people onto that. I also love Miley's cover. Yeah, it's not bad. Yeah, she got pipes too. All right, let's get into the stories of the day. The government is about to shut down if they don't come to an agreement on funding and also DACA and other other things. And, yeah, it's it's basically it's a looming shutdown and both sides are trying to blame the other so that it hurts somebody. Yeah. Which is interesting because one side controls the government. Right.

Yeah. And that's the other thing, too, is like it's just been real shameful because like with CHIP, the Child Health Insurance Program, like they didn't fund it because they knew they were going to use it as quite literally a bargaining chip for like these other bills that they wanted to pass. And yeah, and now we're at a point where the Congress is trying to act like they're using CHIP to be like, look at what the Democrats are stalling out, like funding child health insurance. Like, y'all, let that lapse. Let's not get that fucked up. And we'll see. I mean, the blame game is just going back and forth. Right.

On the left, it's like, well, you control all sides of government. And on the right, it's like, well, you know, we can keep the government funded and let's talk about this. But you're also going to do child health insurance dirty like like that it's just it's turning into a fucking mess and i'm not sure both sides seem to think that they're gonna fare better on the other end of it but one thing you know with these government shutdowns because it really affects people at the end of the day you don't know who is gonna like you know really be holding the bag at the end right yeah the the one thing that this has made me realize is just how much of an advantage uh the right has by having fox news by having like

a mouthpiece for the republican party uh when you go to foxnews.com right now the headline is the schumer shutdown uh which is a phrase that trump must have tweeted out today, I think. And when you go to CNN or MSNBC, they're just kind of reporting on it and saying this is – apparently Schumer is going in and trying to negotiate with Trump. But yeah, Fox is just so disciplined. They just are – Very consistent. Well, it's like know it's the same

thing with just the way the parties work the republicans aren't afraid to just go full stop like not give a fuck about anything right and just do it because they're going to do it and that's the problem with i think on the left it's like well let's try and be objective yeah but realistically too the second you tune in msnbc or even CNN, you're just getting you're getting very democratically talking points. Obviously, like they have people representing all the viewpoints. But and I know you don't. I can see you grimacing. I don't.

Yeah, I guess MSNBC does. Like when you have the the pundit shows, they are pretty left leaning, but they're not consistently on message. There's not a concerted, like everybody on the right has the same talking points. It is like a propaganda machine. I don't know. I was like listening to a crooked media podcast yesterday and they were like, basically like, this is what the left's talking points should be. This is what the Democrats talking point should be. This is how they should message the government shutdown. And I was just thinking like that would be really beneficial to Democrats if they basically had if crooked media was their Fox News and they were

just like, OK, those are good talking points. Those are functional. Let's use those. But instead, there's like kind of bickering. And, you know, Democrats from red states are saying that the reason that Democrats are like holding out on this is because they want to like appeal to the base. new generation of what the democratic party could be should be right and but you look at the dnc it's all old guard people so right i think that's that's sort of the difference is that old guard is not they don't have their shit together and they're not the messaging isn't right and clearly the the people of the of the crooked media ilk like they know they know they know like they have their ideas of what the messaging should be right and yeah for all intents and purposes like they're the messaging that they talk about is definitely the more effective of the two. Well, that's what's so sad when you watch Fox News and they're like, you know, the Democrats had a weak attempt at something.

And it's like makes me feel bad when I kind of agree. Like, yeah, it should be a more militant approach a little bit. Like, why? Why is your goal still to compromise? And yeah, that's what you're saying. It's like the old guard that that's where they came from is like a place of compromise. But the other side is not doing that anymore.

So yeah, it's very fragmented. There's just too many different cooks, you know, deciding what the messaging is going to be. And, you know, people are trying to figure out who's going to get left holding the bag and like being blamed for the government shutdown if it happens. And I saw an ABC News poll today that was like, most Americans are going to blame Republicans, according to our most recent polling. But I just I don't believe that based on the fact that there is a mouthpiece that a lot of Americans get their news from, Fox News, that is just consistently putting out a very disciplined message that is just always going to be in line with whatever the president wants to say.

Well, I mean, yeah, at least Shepard Smith on his show has made it very clear that the – but Shepard Smith is obviously a minority over there at Fox. Right. But like he, his whole thing, like his opening monologue was basically like they control the white house, they control the Senate, they control Congress or the house of representatives. And so, you know, this is their own, they only have themselves to blame because of the fracturing within their party. Cause they can't get their shit together if they really wanted to. But as far as the media is concerned, it is like unless you're watching Don Lemon or frankly, a comedy show or a late night show, like the approach is still to a little bit too balanced.

A lot of the time trying to be even handed, which is great in most circumstances. It's just that the it's just an absence. The Fox News performs a very vital function for the right. And the left just doesn't have that. They don't have Kimmel. Yeah. Surprisingly, Kimmel has been like moving shit. And frankly, National Public Radio, which is so far left leaning.

It's amazing. It's still being funded. is so far left-leaning, it's amazing it's still being funded. I guess Jack's point is that it's not myopic and so redundant that they're clearly trying to, like with Fox, they're trying to inoculate their viewers. Yeah. Like with a certain understanding of how they want them to view these events. Whereas, like, I think the other things are more like,

hey, we're going to put the facts out there for you. A reasonable person will come to that conclusion versus, like, force-feeding it. And it works. And it's also where the president gets a lot of his talking oh yeah well he just watches fox in the morning and that's terrifying yeah it's uh especially concerted and you know uh a tight message because yeah the president gives them talking points and they give the president talking points and it's sort of this internal echo chamber. All right. We're going to take a quick break.

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just a click away and we're back um so breaking news uh the name you just broke for us but you want to share share with our listeners? Oh, sure. I just opened my Twitter and saw that Kanye named his baby Chicago. His baby girl. Chicago. Little Chicago. Shy baby.

You know, there have been famous people who've named their children Brooklyn, which sounds like a name. Chicago just doesn't sound like a name. It just sounds like a city. It's groundbreaking. No, it's upsetting. That is not a fucking name. It's like Wisconsin or something. North is not a name either.

He loves Chicago, dude. I know. Look, that's his prerogative name is child, whatever he wants. One of my least favorite Kanye songs is the song about Chicago where he raps about how it's a girl it's like basically the bonnie and clyde thing where he's like laying some groundwork laying some groundwork where he's like uh yeah what sucks is

her name is chicago west which is like a real middle finger to the south side you know what i mean right exactly well it's look i i guess shout out to the algonquin peoples uh you know who were historically the inhabitants of the chicago area right uh because as we all know chicago came from the french uh rendering of the native american word chicago well you know all this uh because i had to google the etymology of chicago because i'm just trying to find some meaning outside of him just naming it after his hometown. I wouldn't name my kid North Hollywood Gray. Right.

Oh, that sounds kind of dope. Yeah, it does actually. But that's my- Hollywood Gray is a cool name. San Fernando Valley Gray. Yeah, that's a cool name. Hollywood Gray sounds like a Coke dealer. San Fernando Valley. Hollywood Gray does sound like a-

Who the heck does Hollywood Gray? That's like a Dolomite bad guy. Yeah. That's like a Dolomite bad guy. Yeah. So we wanted to get into a little blood watch right off the bat because InTouch has interviewed your girl Stormy Daniels, who apparently carried on. Another good name. Stormy. Yep.

Parents were geniuses. Stormy, yep. Parents were geniuses. Actually, that's not her real name. But she carried on an affair with Donald Trump and shared dirt with InTouch. And Miles, you read the transcript of the interview. I had to rush through the transcript and read it. How'd it go down? I mean, look, I can tell you the good – I can do like a step-by-step thing or just talk about weird shit that popped out.

How about I just talk about shit that popped out? Yeah. The first thing is when she talks about how she – when she met him at this golf tournament. Right. He was like, okay, let's have dinner or whatever. He is married at this time. He is married at this time. To Melania.

Who is pregnant. Who is pregnant. My Eggers. Yes. With the expert. Yes. And so I guess she goes up to his room. She's like, I was all dressed up because I had assumed that we were going to dinner.

But he meant to have dinner in his room. Like he wasn't dressed to go out at all, just lounging. He was just like in pajama pants. Oh, it's a Cosby move. Exactly. And she like negs him apparently. She said, quote, ha, does Mr. Hefner know that you stole his outfit? I was actually really means him. Apparently she said, quote, hot. Does Mr. Hefner know that you stole his outfit? I was actually really mean to him.

He got all huffy and tried to play it off and was like, oh, I just thought we would relax here. So he was already kind of scrambling. Then it's funny. Stormy Daniels is kind of I'm digging her the way she was talking to Donald Trump, like constantly giving him shit, like in a fun way. One of the questions was he like during their conversation over dinner. He's like, Hey, can I ask you something? And I don't want you to be offended. And she thought, Oh, here we go. Some question about like porn or whatever. And it was like actually something

about like the royalties she made. And she was like, Oh, okay. And then she was like, Hey, can I ask you something? That's like kind of offensive. And he's like, sure. And she goes, dude, what's up with your hair? I he was like, I love you. Yeah. And then he's like, he's like, he laughed. He said,

you know, everybody wants to be, uh, wants to give me a makeover and I've been offered all this money and all these free treatments. And she's like, what is the deal? Don't you want to upgrade that?

Come on, man. Uh, he said that he thought that if he cut his hair or changed it, that he will lose his power and his wealth. And I laughed hysterically at him. So this motherfucker think he's Samson. Exactly.

He's like, don't cut my motherfucking whatever. Yeah. Whatever that shit is. I mean, his hair is kind of brilliant because it's like the most he's good at branding basically. Yeah. It's a shell game of hair. Like you don't know what it's what you're quite doing. And anyway, so then apparently she went during like later on in the night, she goes to the bathroom.

And when she comes out, like the bathroom is in his bedroom in the hotel suite. And when she comes out, he's laying there on the bed and he's like, no, he's just he's laying in the bed and he said, come here. And then in the interview, she says, quote, and I was like, oh, here we go. And we started kissing. I actually don't even know why I did it. But I do remember while we were having sex, I was like, please don't try to pay me. And then I remember thinking, but I bet if he did, it would be a lot. And then like the in touch people, like she was like, that's this is all you were thinking.

And she's like, yeah, isn't that horrible? And then they asked her if she was attracted to him. She said, would you be? I was more like fascinated. I was definitely stimulated by the conversation. And then like later on afterwards, he's like, hey, can you – like Trump asked Stormy Daniels to sign one of her DVDs for him. Really? Yeah.

But she was like – he probably got that in the gift bag at the thing. It's not like he like had it on deck. It was like, hey, I'm a big fan or whatever but apparently she he was this very like smitten with her uh and then the next day like they go to hang out and he was like chilling with ben roethlisberger and like good and then he demanded this convention right exactly and i was like but then he demanded ben roethlisberger he couldn't walk stormy daniels to a room so he's like ben walk her to a room and she said ben roethlisberger was He couldn't walk Stormy Daniels to her room. So he's like, Ben, walk her to her room. And she said Ben Roethlisberger was a gentleman and made sure she got to her room.

I think one of his last acts of decency. And so basically it just goes on. The weird shit is that he was basically kind of dangling this idea that he could get her on The Apprentice for sex, essentially. It was kind of like the, you know what I could do for you kind of thing. And making her look at the Forbes magazine with him on the cover being's kind of like the, you know what I can do for you kind of thing, and making her look at the Forbes magazine with him on the cover, being like, you know, because I know what I'm doing. Now, what about this Forbes magazine with him on the cover?

Didn't that- Yeah, later she wanted him to, he wanted him to get a little spanked with it, I guess. He asked her to spank him with a Forbes magazine with him and his children on the cover? Yeah. That's like, that's not in this thing for whatever reason. It's not in the transcript of that, but that's being reported in another, I think, interview that she did. What a dirty baby.

Yeah, exactly. And then it's just other weird shit. He basically would call her all the time and just be like, hey, honey bunch, and trying to hang out with her all the time. I mean, it's very obvious that like the way to get him to love you is just to insult him because he's like got such just an absence of self-esteem. Like he's –

Yeah, and so many yes men. He would fuck the New York Times if the New York Times was a human being. Yeah. Obsessed with the New York Times. Right. Because, yeah, he's so used to sycophants around him. Like, yeah, the second someone is doing something different, he's like, oh my gosh. I don't understand why nobody like recorded any of these things like if i was going up to

donald trump's hotel room i would immediately turn on my phone recorder right yeah the one thing that was interesting that popped out was like one of the other times they hooked up he was like fascinated with shark week and like like he was like hey come watch this with me they just sat down and watched shark week for like a few hours and uh this is this is what she said this is from the thing uh he was watching shark week and he was watching a special about the uss something and it sank and it was like the worst shark attack in history he is obsessed with sharks terrified of sharks he was like i don't uh i donate to all these charities and i would never donate to any charity that helps sharks i hope all the sharks die he was like riveted he was

like obsessed it's so strange i know he got an anti-shark agenda or something so great because there's there's also that part uh evidence that he's like into trucks and like pretending to drive trucks yeah he he really is like he's really is like a four-year-old. He probably saw Jaws as a fucking full-grown adult man. Oh, yeah. And was shook. And he's like, no, fucking shark can't trust him. No.

Yeah. That's why he served shark soup. I was exactly like that from the age of four to eight. I was obsessed with sharks and scared of them. But he's like had this weird life that said no attachment to like nature at all like he's probably scared by a lot of it he's probably scared by like fucking forests and bears because he's just been living in this ivory tower and like i mean he doesn't even like stairs right he just only goes in elevators like it's fucking weird it Yeah, well, so it goes on.

They hang out a few more times, and he just keeps trying to tell her he's going to get on The Apprentice. He doesn't. And just follows this pattern of just kind of manipulating her with the possibility of working on The Apprentice. But she was kind of never under the illusion that he probably could. Does she say why she kept hanging out with him? Well, they only really hung out twice. He just kept calling her all the time and like they would talk or whatever and she just thought it was so funny that like like she had a boyfriend and she would have him on speaker and be like yo

donald trump is like calling us oh yeah that is funny so now she clearly was not as invested as he was and he was and she also mentions how like he never brought up milani the only person he ever spoke about was ivanka and he's like you're just like her you're beautiful and smart really yeah oh my one true love yeah so so fucked up yeah but anyway i guess uh you know in the end uh shout out to stormy daniels because i like how you be fucking with donald trump when you do your small talk like you're the banter is just so fun. There are other quotes where she's just always kind of taking shots at him and he's like scrambling to defend himself. That's amazing. I'm shocked that he doesn't have a better sense of humor about himself.

Um, well at least he laughed when she was like, what the fuck is up with your hair? Yeah, that is true. Like he, at least he must get that question nonstop, right?

Yeah. Or like, that's his like sort of,-installed answer to that question. I'm like, why don't you change it? He's like, if I did, I would lose my money and my power. Oh, yeah. I'm sure he's got that answer in the hopper ready to go. Yeah.

Again, still no mention of this story on the Drudge Report, which breathlessly reports every detail of the Obama children going to parties in college. Yeah. Not this guy cheating on his wife. With a porn star. I mean, not that the porn star thing makes it worse or whatever, you know, because we're not trying to shame the porn stars. But, like, you're cheating on your wife, your pregnant wife, and, like, carrying on a relationship. Later on in the interview, Stormy Daniels is like, if I was his wife, like, whatever. She's like something like, if you put his dick in 100 chicks like i wouldn't care

what would upset me is that he was carrying on the relationship with somebody right like trying to talk to them or whatever right so i could just like picture him like on a phone like with the cord like twirling it with this like when lisa simpson was calling the cory line yeah yeah exactly how is he how is she able to talk about this now when they settled out of court? This is an old interview before she signed all that, that InTouch unearthed to let people in on it. Oh, that's great. Because this was all pre-gag order dishing. So she started to talk about it and then –

And then his lawyers came for her. Speaking of other people coming for Donald Trump, Omarosa, there are rumors. There are rumors. We don't know for her. Speaking of other people coming for Donald Trump, Omarosa, there are rumors. There are rumors. We don't know for sure. Because it's from the New York Daily News, so take that with not just a grain of salt, maybe an entire salt shaker. But apparently she may have been

recording interactions that happened inside the White House. I love it. They were saying in their support that apparently Omarosa loves House. Dude, I love it. They were saying so in their support that apparently Omarosa loves to record meetings like with her iPhone. And they were saying that one of the reasons why the White House staff

had to give up their personal cell phones was because Omarosa was always trying to record shit in the White House. Good, I would too. Yeah, now they're saying that, you know, like this is where it gets tabloidy in the New York. Yeah. Now they're saying that, uh, you know, like this is where it got gets tabloidy in the New York daily news writeup. It's like,

don't be surprised if she has secret audio files on everyone in that white house, past, present staffers included. Cool. Juicy gossip. But they're also tying that to the fact that she seems to be pretty concerned that she could get caught up in the Robert Mueller investigation.

So I don't know if like, she has like safety receipts to be like, hey, leave me alone. But I have all these recordings you can look at or they're just trying to sort of because she's in the White House, probably everybody is connected or is worth investigating. Right. But I don't, you know, Omarosa clearly was not doing much there in terms of, I think, liaising with the Russians. It clearly was not doing much there in terms of, I think, liaising with the Russians.

So I thought Washington, D.C. was a two-party consent district where you needed both people to know when you were recording a conversation. That is incorrect. Oh, shit, really? It is a one-party consent district, and that means that you can record a phone call as long as at least one party to the conversation consents. So all those recordings would be fair game. There's no way they would ever be released, though. I just don't believe it's possible. Well, see, I mean, it would only be like if there was something that was so incriminating that helped that she needed to save herself from some kind of wrongdoing, which I doubt she has anything to do with the Russia stuff. Yeah.

But who knows? Or she could just be petty as fuck and just be like, hi, I have a mixtape. Do you want to pay me $3 million for 400 megabytes of voice notes? That I can see. Get paid, Omarosa. So I wanted to talk about protest music, you guys, because you two and Justin Timberlake just both released videos in the last 72 hours that are just attempts by incredibly wealthy white men to address the current political situation. They're basically protest anthems. white men to address the current political situation.

They're basically protest anthems. And this is something I remember people saying back when Trump was elected. Like, well, imagine how good the protest music is going to be. And the comedy. Yeah. And the comedy has been solid in a lot of cases. Thank you. The comedy. I compliment you a lot of cases. Thank you. The comedy. I compliment you on the comedy, Amy.

Thank you so much. And obviously, you know, Kendrick Lamar has made some great protest music. But there has also been some like really just ham-fisted, horrible attempt at protest music and videos. And I think these are both kind of examples of that. What's the U2 song about? So the U2 song is about love and other vague things. Typical latter-day U2 bullshit. Right.

They're both pretty general. Right. They don't have a unified message. Both videos are awesome looking. Very cool general. Right. They don't have a unified message. Both videos are awesome looking. Very cool looking. Yeah. Like made by great artists who should have been spending their talents on other things. But, you know, good for them getting paid.

But the YouTube video looks amazing. It's this animated thing. And it has, you know, Trump in his uh in the oval office while kkk people march by and it's whoa whoa think about it man and then there's like business people who come home from work in their kkk robes man because when you think about it they just got home from a meeting though right like think about that dude uh there's even where, like, a black power fist turns into a yin-yang. What? Yeah.

Fucking yin-yangs, bro. It's a very unfocused message. Yo, I'm sorry. I'm gonna have to go take a walk around the block really quick. Yeah, that blew your mind. Process all this shit. It's, like, the kind of thing that I feel like Twitter trolls imagine when they call someone a social justice warrior. Right. Girls imagine when they call someone a social justice warrior. It's like, oh, yep. Way too general.

Just like you barfed out every cause in three minutes. Yeah. And you're like, this is this all matters to me, even though I'm super rich and I'm Bono. Yeah. It's like a social justice warrior whose mind is just like exhausted. And they're just like, I don't know, a black power fist. And yeah, I guess. Fuck it. And that guy's a KKK member, I don't know, a black power fist and a yin and a yang, I guess. And that guy's a KKK member.

I don't know. And then just like write the word intersectional on it. There's a lot of flags and rainbows. It's a nightmare. Justin Timberlake's video. I got supplies. I guess it is catchy. Yeah.

It's catchy. It is catchy. Yeah. It's catchy. It is memorable. It kind of burrows its way into a part of your brain. But it's so should we just go through what happens in the video? He's like up to a point. Yeah, sure. He's seated in an empty apartment watching a wall full of TVs and it's like Harvey Weinstein. What?

And like protests following the murder of Eric Garner and like signs that say Me Too. Tell them. Fucking Kevin Spacey, bro. Spacey? Think about that shit, man. Get on your spaceship, man. A lot of screens. A gunshot, bro.

And then like- It's like the beginning of Scrooged. Right. Right. Exactly. OG reference for people out there uh then we cut to uh like very it's basically the capital from hunger games like a bunch of like fancy fancily dressed white people and uh we know they're white both because they are played by white actors but they're also completely painted white.

And their hair is painted white, and their clothes are painted white. And they're harassing this beautiful actress named Aysa Gonzalez-Reyna. And they're just being mean to her. They're like, hey. You don't hear it. Hey, you're not white. Yeah, you're not white. We're going to push you. And then Justin Timberlake intervenes, and he but like, hey, you're not white. Yeah, you're not white. We're going to push you.

And then Justin Timberlake intervenes and he's like, hey, I'm the man. I'm going to save you. Get back. And then he punches one of the dudes. She punches one of the dudes. And then, yeah. So the lyrics of the song are all about how he wants to get supplies. Yeah.

The chorus is I got supply. Yeah. Yeah. Supply. Yeah. the chorus is, I got supply-y-y's. Supply-y-y's. I got you. I got supply-y-y's. And the pre-chorus is, because I'll be the light when you can't see. I'll be the wood when you need heat. I'll be the generator.

Turn me on when you need electricity. Some shit's about to go down. I'll be the one with the level head. Ladies, don't worry. The man will keep the level head. The world could end now baby we living in the walking dead so i don't know if he's literally saying referencing the show probably because people are just walking around like zombies is he trying to say like they're sheeple or is it like that we're living in such a horrible place like And the world's coming, like, you and me against the world. Did he write this song while he was watching TV?

And he's like, all right, so the video will open. I'm watching TV. Does he write his songs? I think sometimes. Yeah, I think he mostly writes his songs. So it's basically a lot. It's not even exactly a protest anthem because it ends up just being a fuck song. Yeah. Yeah. Right.

Because even in the video, despite all that, where she torches a pyramid of money like Illuminati shit. Right. That actually happens in both videos. Oh, like torching money? Yeah. They burn a pyramid of money in both videos. Burn all those dollars.

Burn your God down, bro. Your idols. Yeah. Think about it. Your Pharaoh is money, bro. Yeah. But still in the Justin Timberlake video, it still ends with them fucking. Yeah. Like, you know, they're still like kissing each other.

That's important. For a protest song that opens with him learning about the Me Too movement is to still have a sexy lady that you can have sex with. Yeah. No, women are the future as embodied by this female character who beats up rich people and destroys the metaphorical banks. But mostly still good for fucking. But she wants to bang Justin Timberlake. And that is the important,

that is the climax of the video, so to speak. I mean, because he's the wood when you need heat. Yeah, that's true. If you really need to know. There's also a weird part about his dick falling out. I don't know.

What's this weird? And the bridge says, now I want to know everything. Don't leave a single detail out. I'll get mine later. Just fell out. It makes me a generous lover. Oh, I want to see everything. So don't leave a single detail out.

This sounds like a cuckolding scenario to me. Okay, so walk me through this. He's being cucked. I feel like, because he's saying I fell out, I feel like he lost his erection and he's like, okay, this other guy, you come on in, take care of it. I'll get mine later. Yeah, I'll get mine later. I just fell out.

Yeah. That makes me a generous lover. What's the first line again? Now I want to know everything. Don't leave a single detail out. Oh, yeah. And then he's like, but tell me about it. Yeah. He's getting cooked. Very, very voyeuristic dude total beta bro you've made a well there's not you know after the apocalypse because we're like so weak and there's not going to be a lot

of women left right that you'll be used as currency naturally be a lot of cuckolding scenarios because there's so few of us and so many of you. Yeah, no, totally. So he's describing a utopia for some people. Fucking wild. Yeah, it's weird, too, because his melody delivery is very country. Like, meh-neh-neh-neh-neh-neh-neh-neh-neh. It's kind of got the Everlast thing. Yeah, they got a little twang to it. Where he's rapping with a twang.

But it's on a sort of straight mumble rap trap beat. Right. Pharrell. Sounds very un-Pharrell. But hey. Yeah, but this is not Sounds very unpharrell. Very. Yeah. But hey. Yeah. But this is not to say that all protest music is bad.

You know, like we said, Kendrick Lamar is dope. Lady Gaga has had some good protest anthems. Many people. Rage. Many people. Just fucking,

you know, people who have sold millions and millions of albums and live, like haven't met a person who makes under $3 million a year in the past decade like maybe should not be making protest music. All right. I don't know. Wait. But before we say that, do we even think this is actually a protest song? Because the lyrics completely – like the visuals are clearly trying to say something.

completely like the visuals are clearly trying to say something but do you think this you think even justin timberlake thinks because clearly i feel like the imagery sounds like i want to do something that like makes a statement even though this song might not even connect with the visuals i think it is the uh time's up pin of like protest songs and that he's just like you know conveniently throwing a nod to like crazy times are, man. It's like we're living in The Walking Dead. It's just crazy. He's like, but I'm still right off in the sunset with my beautiful lady and orphan children at the end, which is so weird. The little girl knocks on the thing.

She's like, wake up. Wake up, sheeple. She doesn't say sheeple. Nearly says sheeple, but does say wake up. She says sheeple with her eyes. Yeah. All right. We're going to take a quick break.

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another good protest song, Zombie by Cranberries. We're going to ride out on that in honor of the lead singer, the Cranberries, who passed this week. But it's also time for a little more Bloid Watch. Bloid Watch. And this is the point at which we go through the tabloids because people still need to buy milk. And so they pass by all these tabloids. People still need to buy milk. And so they pass by all these tabloids. People still need to buy milk?

In the grocery store. You were just talking about how much milk is being consumed in your house. That felt very personal. Yeah. Well, everybody buys milk. Everybody with kids buys milk. And you still have to walk through the aisle at the grocery store and see the headlines by a publishing empire that is owned and run by one of Donald Trump's best friends. Everything except In Touch, which surprise, surprise is the one publishing outlet that was willing to break the Stormy Daniels story.

Shout out to Bauer Publishing in Germany. And People Magazine, also not owned by David Peckar, but everything else from Us Weekly to OK to the National Examiner, the Globe, the National Enquirer, all of them are owned by the same dude who is Trump's homie. The other thing we have noticed that tabloids are good for is they're usually onto it first when a celebrity is dying. Occasionally they're just wrong. But it does seem like they are making some predictions that seem like they might be right on. Like Val Kilmer, it looks like, is not doing well.

Yeah, they said his cancer spread to his brain. Yeah. Oh. Which is really sad. That's weird that that's the one thing that they kind of don't fucking completely lie about. Like for whatever reason they're so fixed. I guess because the elderly people are so fixated on their mortality too. Right.

Probably at that point that it just helps to know like Michael Douglas and his last dying wish and shit like that. Right. Loretta Lynn also. That's in. And Alex Trebek. No. Yeah. So Alex Trebek. No. Yeah. So Alex Trebek apparently had a fall last year.

Alex Trebek 77. I didn't realize he had a fall last year in December, I guess. And, you know, after a couple of weeks, he went in to have it checked on and there was a lot of like internal bleeding on his brain. have it checked on and there was a lot of like internal bleeding on his brain so he had to have you know surgery to uh suck some of the blood off of his brain and uh people are saying that it's things haven't been going well so uh jeopardy is currently on hiatus well he is sort of getting treatment for that but uh like in the way that this shitty journalistic institution reports things, they they wrote something like pals think he's a goner exclamation point or something like that. Sounds like something a pal would say. This poor motherfucker has nine weeks to live, says an insider.

Right. Exactly. Anything else you guys noticed on the cover? Well, on the other hand, Betty White, thriving. Thriving. Her secret to staying young, vodka and hot dogs. True. Where's that coming out of?

On the cover of the National Examiner. So they have no predictions for Betty White kicking off anytime soon. She just turned 96, yeah. I mean, I guess they need to have that to juxtapose that with Trump's dietary habits. Well, look at Betty White. She's 96 eating hot dogs and drinking vodka. So, you know, Mr. Big Macs and Flail Fish, he's clearly going to live to be at least 105. He's not drinking vodka.

But the fact that this is basically published by Donald Trump is very evident. There's a big front page story on the cover of The Globe. Trump nails Clinton confession. We're guilty. So like Trump is behind the scenes as he's doing his job as the president. He's also like secretly Batmanning the Clintons. There's also a story like that about Obama. Yeah.

And the Inquirer, it was saying like the cover was something like thatama was behind the big book of lies about fire and fury and then inside they're saying like clearly the people behind the obamas and clintons were behind this book like on election day and then the source of that is they said a guy who was a harvard graduate who looked at documents from like the cia and that's what they're basing their whole cover story off of so not a former c CIA insider. No, no, a Harvard graduate who combed through thousands of documents. Right. So based off him, because he went to Harvard, guys, because this is clearly how they treat their viewers' intelligence. Well, he went to Harvard.

Yeah. And he read this, and he says that's true. So because you are an octogenarian, you should believe this as well. And that's a big book of dirty fucking lies. Right. So I wouldn't have predicted as a kid that we would still be so enamored of the royal family at this point. Unlike the level of like front page stories about everything. I guess once, you know, they started like marrying and fucking Americans, then we have more of a it's a course in the race but it's still

just like i've never i just haven't cared since princess die i've never cared that was the last time you cared yeah i've been won over by megan mark i do like megan mark you know it's funny i don't think i've ever heard her voice really because i didn't know the show she was on and i just knew her with her and harry i know but I only read the transcripts because when we do the show, I'm just having – the videos are harder to watch, so I'm just reading through transcripts. What's her voice like? Is she pleasant?

Have you ever heard an angel sing? Yes. I have been to a Four Nonblondes concert. She is lovely. Yeah, she's great. I like that she's in the family just for the funny stories about the racist aunts and all that stuff. Right, right, right. That's really enjoyable for me.

Bringing them out to woodwork. Yeah. I mean, that episode of The Crown in like 40 years is going to be so dope. Yeah. Well, the show's going to be on for a long time. Yeah. You didn't know? Well, the show is going to be on for a long time.

Yeah. You didn't know? We also have a story about how – there's all this positive news about how the new tax cut is helping people out. It's making Walmart – You mean propaganda. It raised their minimum wage or started paying people $11 an hour, which is above. I think they raised it like 10% or something. Well, knock me over with a feather. Right. So the thing that I hadn't realized, I had kind of seen these headlines, but 10,000 people were fired by Walmart the same day that they announced raising that. And so usually a tax bill like this would have some incentives for companies to do the things that the Republicans claimed they wanted the companies to do, like bring American jobs home and pay people more.

There would be incentives for doing that and disincentives. America first. And disincentives for firing people. But there is a notable absence of any of that in the tax bill. And so people are just getting fired like left and right. Yeah, they fired 10,000 people in Walmart. AT&T, I think, bragged about how they were announcing $1,000 bonuses to about 200,000 workers. But they also on that same day or a couple of days after fired 700 DirecTV technicians.

Oh, damn. And old people are going to feel that one because they're not going to be able to figure out their direct TV. But yeah, it's wild because you think if you lay off a bunch of American workers, like maybe you shouldn't deserve to have your tax rates slashed and save all this money. Right. And it's absurd that they can do that with zero consequence. Right. Carrier, which received $7 million in incentives last year to keep jobs in America. And Trump, you know, at the beginning of his presidency,

was bragging about how he saved all these jobs. It announced 215 firings after the passage of the text. That was the one thing even in the New York Times op-ed section yesterday, like some of those letters were about the only times people talked bad were like those people at some of those factories were like, yo, Trump straight up duped us. So it's not good that especially with someone like something like Carrier because he was really acting like he just saved all those people's jobs. And then they fired 215. It's not good.

It's not good. Sure. You steal from Walmart, everybody. Yeah. Yeah. Also, fuck Walt. The fuck the Waltons and fuck Stan Kroenke, too. I'm sorry.

I'm having to bring my own shit into this because I hate Stan Kroenke. He owns the Rams, and he owns Arsenal, and he's destroying my club, and he's destroying America. So, ah! The tax bill also makes it easier for them to switch over to robots and phase people's jobs out with technology, which there were disincentives to do that in the past. They are no longer disincentives to do that. And now they can write off these, like, robotic job replacements. So, yeah, the thing that's actually taking away American jobs, which is, you know, automation, that is actually going to be more and more profitable for companies. If the robot is made in America, does that count as giving an American a job, do you think? Probably.

Do you think they would count that? They're like, well, we created 700 American jobs. American-made robots. Check out robots. They just never are. If you give it an American-ish name or something like that. Like Yankee Capital Bot. Can't name it Chappy or some shit like no no no uh chicago

west chicago west you know a normal name like chicago west uh and finally we wanted to end on some good news red lobster has released the secret ingredient you can now go to your local grocery store and buy the mix for the Cheddar Bay Biscuits. Oh, my God. Holy shit. Wait, what? That mix has been out for a while, hasn't it? Did they just release the recipe also? It only became news to me yesterday when I saw an article, but I think it had been for maybe like a couple months now.

So you were already up on this news. Oh, yeah. I've seen it. And have you had it? No. I've had them in Red Lobster, but I haven't made it at home yet right i want to though i would just go extra because i think you have to add your own cheese and your own butter so i would triple whatever the recommended amount is for both of those ingredients i feel like it's not going to taste

the same but i'm going to try it all the reports have been that it is pretty damn good because before you know like for people who are really obsessed with Cheddar Bay Biscuits, now for people out there, international listeners, Red Lobster is a really fucking weird seafood chain that I'm not sure it's actual seafood. But they have biscuits there that are legendary to American people, North Americans. I don't know if they have it in Canada. But the Cheddar Bay Biscuit is, like, just, like, one of those things that you could only get in the restaurant and everyone was trying to figure out how to make it at home.

There were some DIY recipes that worked, but the fact that they gave you the source code. It's like a flaky, cheesy hotness. Yeah. Well, the other thing is they give you as many as you want. Yeah. Right. So you can bag up some and take them home. Oh, they're so fucking good.

Or do what I did once and show up to a party, hand out Cheddar Bay Biscuits to everybody, and then look, I'm the most popular comedian at that party. So did you go to Red Lobster to get them? Yeah, like I had a dinner at Red Lobster with a bunch of people. So we all just like stocked up on Cheddar Bay Biscuits, went back to the after party and handed them out. Oh, this is a pro tip. Everyone goes with a tote bag that you line with plastic. You have to. So you don't get the grease all in your bag.

And then just be like, every time the basket comes out, dump it. Yeah. You walk out that motherfucker with seven huge beach bags full of Cheddar Bay biscuits. And everyone loves you. Except for the people who work at Red Lobster. Who are like, come on. Oh, they don't care. Have you guys ever tried to reverse engineer anything?

Like in the kitchen? Hmm. Oh, I tried to do Porto's Bakery, the Cuban bakery. The papas rellenas, which are the fried potato balls with meat inside. I looked up recipe to do that because I wanted to make

a Thanksgiving version. Do you have a deep fryer? No, but I have a big pot. I can do it old school. Just heat up a big ass pot of canola oil and deep fry it there. That's the closest thing. I typically only try and do it with fried foods for whatever reason because fried foods fascinate me. I often try to make the Safeway seven-layer dip at home, which is one of my favorite foods. It's not really cooking so much as layering.

Right. No, it's not hard to make. Okay. I don't know. The way you said it, I was like, this must be good. And the ingredients are cheap. Whole Foods has a tuna salad with crayon raisins in it. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think we spent maybe 20% of our food budget on that last year. And my wife was like, all right, we have to figure out how to reverse engineer this. And did you figure it out? No. You know what you do? You surprisingly ask the people at the deli and they'll typically break you off with the recipe. Yeah.

Because they're not like – There are examples online. It's just – But go to the counter though because they will be like – because they're the ones making it. They're like, no, you need this pepper. You need this thing. You can get all the ingredients here because this is Whole Foods. And then you got your own Whole Foods going.

You're probably just not seasoning enough. That is almost definitely the case. More salt is almost always the secret. More salt is really the secret. More salt, more butter, more garlic. Getting that tattooed on my neck tonight. Amy, it's been a pleasure having you. Thanks for having me.

Where can people find you? Do you have anything you'd like to plug? Oh, sure follow me on twitter at amy miller a couple dates up coming up i'll be in minneapolis or actually hopkins minnesota at the royal comedy theater this month and next month february 11th headlining helium comedy club in portland oregon also check out my podcast who's your god that who's Godcast on Twitter. We talk to comedians about their religious beliefs. Oh, nice. It also sounds like some cold shit to say to someone right before you tell them. Who's your God?

Yeah, exactly. Now bite this barrel. Miles, where can people follow you? You can follow me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Gray. You can follow me on Twitter only at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can follow us at Daily Zeitgeist on Twitter, at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page. Just search Daily Zeitgeist.

And we have a website, DailyZeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes. Footnote! Where we link off to all the articles and other things that we used as source material. That's going to do it for this week. The Daily Zeitgeist is produced by Super Producer Anna Hosnier, Super Producer Nicholas Stump, Project Manager Sophie Lichterman,

and Miles and I, and me. Yeah, and our guests. And Executive Producer Amy. Exactly. And we're going to executive producer, Amy. Exactly. And we're going to ride out on an actual protest song from the Cranberries in honor of the passing of Dolores O'Riordan. This is Zombie, and that's going to do it for this week, season 14 in the books. Boom.

We'll be back on Monday. Talk to you guys then. guitar solo Another head hangs lowly, child is slowly taken. And the violence causes silence. Who are we mistaken? But you see, it's not me. It's not my family. In your head, in your head, they are fighting. With their tanks and their bombs and their bombs and their guns.

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