The Daily Zeitgeist - Trump’s Day Of L’s, Carlton Makes ‘Em Pay 12.19.18

Episode Date: December 19, 2018

In episode 297, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Alison Stevenson to discuss a new advertisement asking people to give Trump some love, the Trump administration's weird attempts to raise money, Michael Flynn's delayed sentencing, the dissolution of the Trump Foundation, how Russian social media hacking was aimed towards black voters, Alronso Ribeiro suing Fortnite and NBA2K for stealing his dance, the passing of Penny Marshall, the new Brexit film, and more! FOOTNOTES:1. Trump’s campaign manager asks people to call hotline to say, ‘Thank you, President Trump!’2. Eric Trump’s Attempt To Hawk Christmas Ornaments Leads To Holiday Jeers3. Roger Stone Is Selling ‘Roger’ Stones4. Michael Flynn Is Owed an Apology5. WATCH: Judge Jeanine's EPIC Opening Statement on General Flynn6. Judge Postpones Sentencing of Michael Flynn After Harshly Rebuking Him7. Trump charity agrees to dissolve amid allegations of a 'shocking pattern of illegality'8. Russian 2016 Influence Operation Targeted African-Americans on Social Media9. ALFONSO RIBEIRO Sues Fortnite and NBA 2K Creators ... FOR STEALING CARLTON DANCE10. Remembering Penny Marshall: The Joy of A League of Their Own11. WATCH: Brexit (2019) | Official Trailer | HBO12. Benedict Cumberbatch will star in an HBO movie about Brexit. Here’s why the film is controversial.13. Music's Mystery Mogul: Len Blavatnik, Trump and Their Russian Friends14. WATCH: Parliament - Backwoods Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 62, episode three of Der Daily Zeitgeist, the podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness using the headlines, box office reports, TV ratings, what's trending on Googs and social medias. It's Wednesday, December 19th, 2018. My name's Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Last Christmas, I gave you my heart.

And the very next day, you gave it to gray this year to save me from tears i'll give it to jack o'brien that is courtesy of jj netter on twitter and i'm thrilled to be joined And my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Close your eyes, make a wish, and turn on the daily zeitgeist. For tonight is just your night. We're going to Miles Gray. Ooh, all through the webs. Paula Croy, light the fire. Girl, the dish is on It's way

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CBD. CBD. CBD. CPV. J-O-B. Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious comedian and writer, Allison Stevenson. Hello.

What's up? I don't have to sing, do I? No. Okay. No. What's your favorite karaoke song? Miles took up all the singing. Yeah.

My favorite karaoke song? Yeah. Man, honestly, okay, only because the words I know, like I'm so bad at karaoke, it's lit, my own worst enemy. Oh, hell yeah. It's just,

it's, I know this song by heart and it's the only song I know by heart. Every now and then I just beat the living shit out of me. Yeah,

exactly. Is that, what is that, like screamo? I don't even know. It's not really screamo. Like hot punky. Yeah,

hot punky. Orange County hot punk. Cause it's not like this, that's more emo. Uh huh. You know, when I not like this, that's more emo. You know, when I sing like this. Can you do that voice for the rest of the show? Hell yeah, Jack.

All right. Well, we're going to get to know you a little bit better, Allison. But first, we're going to tell our listeners a couple of things we're talking about. Today, today is the day of L's. It is upon us for the Trump administration. We're going to talk about how they're reacting, the commercial asking people to call the president and cheer him up, I guess. Beggars trying to be choosers within his orbit, just different things that they're trying to get funded in really janky ways.

We're going to talk about the Trump Foundation dissolving into thin air, what the D.C. court had to say at Flynn's sentencing, and people on the right just getting ready to celebrate the judge throwing his guilty plea out and being like, Mueller's the bad guy. You're right. We've, the right has been right all along. We're going to talk about Carlton suing Fortnite for some reason.

And the specific details of Russian social media fuckery, all of that and plenty more. But first, Allison, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Okay. what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Okay. I'm doing this one only because I literally just did it this morning, and I think people want to know the answer, too. Who is Michael Flynn?

Who the fuck is this guy? Who is this guy? Close. I Googled if you can donate vibrators to Goodwill. Oh, yeah. I bet not. No, you can't. You can't. Not if they're out of the not. No, you can't. You can't.

Not if they're out of the packaging. Yeah, because don't they specifically say no underwear, too? They're just like, we don't want your dirty underwear. Yeah, I guess so. But yet I keep giving it to them, and they keep taking it. And they take it, so. Someone's taking it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Someone's got all my underwear. It's all up on eBay now. Right. Just for sanitary reasons, I'm assuming. Do they call it like a medical device or something? Because it's like it enters an orifice. Yeah, probably. Like just like they probably wouldn't take catheters or, you know, those are things that.

You just boil it. I would buy it used. Yeah. Just boil it. Boil some stuff. Will that hurt the mechanics? I don't know. Just fucking, just Purell this shit out of you. Yeah. Just boil it. Boil some stuff. Will that hurt the mechanics? I don't know. Just fucking, just Purell this shit out of you.

Yeah. You could send a public toilet seat. Why can't you? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Germs die, right? Yeah, look, guys. I mean, look, if you've got some used sex toys you want to send our way. Yeah.

We're good. We'll take it. We'll take it out. We're looking for any way to make money. Beggars can't be choosers. You know what I mean? As we will soon learn. What is something you think is underrated? Okay. Produce

specifically from the 99 cent store. Wow. Wow. Yep. Yeah, I do the majority. I am a poor and I do the majority of my grocery shopping at the 99 cent store. Or I hit up the 99 cent store first. Okay. And then, you know, you move up from there. Yeah. You start at the bottom cent store. I hit up the 99 cent store first. And then you move up from there.

But you start at the bottom. Now we're here. They got good stuff. That's the fucking thing about the 99 cent store. You're like, yo, this is like all shit in the normal store. Exactly. Organic. Check out the 99.

Soy milk? They got stuff. Yeah, my grandfather only buy candy at the 99 cents store. He's like, everywhere else. It's a very grandfather thing. Yeah, he's like, it's a scam everywhere else. He's like, they got nutrageous there. He's like, so why can't I go to 99 cents store? What else do you need?

Yeah. I like that that's his baseline. What? You think they don't have nutrageous? Oh, what you want? Nutrageous. They got nutrageous. Snickers?

Well, they got nutrageous. They got that,ous. Snickers. Well, they got Nutrageous. They got that too. They got big ass Snickers there too from three years ago. For 99 cents? Fuck yeah. You can get like three Nutrageous depending on, you know, because it all depends on the stock. Three Nutrageous.

You just keep going back to Nutrageous. No, it's because that's my, yeah, my food is the same shit. Like we fuck with the 99 cent store. So yeah, all praise to 99. Does he break down, like, tax cuts and things like that into nutrageuses? How many nutrageuses? I mean, he's a little bit older now, so he's just, you know, he's keeping it as simple. You know, bird's eye view on everything.

He's like, look, I'm not paying fucking retail. Because sometimes, like you said, if they get a lot of inventory, then it's not just like, oh, you get two for 99. They might do the wild like four for 99. Oh, yeah. And then what? And then what, Jack? I'm asking you. You're going to go to 7-Eleven?

Right. Fuck that. Yeah, 7-Eleven is the opposite. 7-Eleven, if you try and buy anything there. You're a fucking rube if you buy candy at 7-Eleven. But 7-Eleven, it's like national emergency standards where they know if you're trying to buy diapers or something at 7-Eleven. But 7-Eleven, it's like national emergency standards where they know if you're trying to buy diapers or something from 7-Eleven, it's because

you need them right then. So they just gouge you. Oh, and that's so true. Yeah. We're just trying to spread the joy. Is 99 national? I think it is. Or like everyone has a version, right? If you don't have 99, you have Dollar Store or whatever.

Dollar Tree. Yeah. But think about how much you're saving at the 99. We're saving a fucking cent. I know. No. Idiots. Yeah.

There's one here in LA that I recommend. I got a rep. Dollar King. Oh, yeah. Dollar King. Just real quick. Just so people know about Dollar King and then we can move on. Okay.

I love the Dollar King hat you're rocking too. I bought sage at the Dollar King. Okay okay like for like smudging sage yeah or like sage like herbs to cook no no no like the dried out yeah that's like that's peak la but that's also like you'll go around the corner the wild crystal shop and they're like yeah for a bundle of sage it's like 18 exactly like get the fuck out of my face okay you just moved did you smudge your home with sage do i look crazy of course i did i did yeah i get them fucking the energy out and i had some palo santo you know oh nice brought that i really like how palo santo is my new you know nog champa but that's more of a fragrant thing that's not like you're not warding off evil spirits i mean I don't even necessarily

just do the sage thing for like because I'm attaching it. I don't know. I grew up seeing like my dad did it and I was like, I don't know. Incense is big in Japan too. So I'm just like, yeah, fuck it. Just incense. Just bring it around. If people are like it's great for energy, I'm like,

well, then great. And if it happens to ward off evil spirits. Then great. That's a bonus. Yeah, great for energy, I'm like, well, then great. And if it happens to ward off evil spirits. Then great. That's a bonus. Yeah, exactly. Honestly, I'm trying to attract them because I have a lot of beef with spirits that are unfinished. So anyway, that's in a whole other show. Yeah. Miles is always riding on the bow of ships, screaming at evil spirits, come take me, you cowards.

Come take me, exactly. Like Lieutenant Dan. What are you waiting for? I've got all the. Like Lieutenant Dan. What are you waiting for? I've got all the new hip movie references. What are you waiting for? What are you waiting for? Kill me. The Fugitive and Forrest Gump, making a lot of timely movie references.

Yeah, no, I mean, I just found out about smudging because I'm not as hip and cool as you guys. So we're going to smudge our house. We already did the chicken sacrifice, but we haven't done the smudging. And were you able to fill how many rum bottles with the blood? We actually just painted the walls. Oh, great. Yeah. Okay.

Allison, what is something you think is overrated? I did it today, but reluctantly, showering. Like frequently, you know? Like, you know, I get you got to do it, but- Like once a week. What are we talking about here? I'm trying to save the water. Look, I'm a freelancer.

Like if I don't have to go anywhere for like, I know I don't have to be somewhere for a good amount of time. Yeah. I could go a solid like four days without a shower. There you go. And I smell fine. I don't stink or anything. You smell great.

I mean, I had to shower today. Oh, shit. Okay. I was like, I'm going to be at, I'm going to be around people in close proximity. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I mean, I don't know. Yeah, I get what you mean.

Like, what's the problem if you stink in private? Or like, I don't know. Yeah, I get what you mean. Like, what's the problem if you stink in private? Or like, I don't know, like a little greasy hair didn't hurt. Just, you know, figure it out. Style it differently. Ally Sheedy made that a whole wave in the Breakfast Club. Right. Speaking of cutting edge films, you guys said Ally Sheedy in the Breakfast Club? She's making a comeback.

Yeah. I saw Harry Styles in person. That dude hasn't washed his hair in like six months. And it looks amazing. See, it's like a sex thing. Yeah, it is a sex thing. It's sexual. He's too busy having sex to wash his hair.

Or whatever. That's the message it sends when you don't shower. I think maybe it's more like there's an allure to greasy hair. You're like, ooh, what's up with this person? Is he like an artist? Oh, yeah, they don't care. Are they sexy? I do.

You have to ask. is that what it is are you sexy is this what sexy is i said no i don't know what it is are you sexy uh that would not be the response i got if i decided not to shower before work one day i would not come in and you guys would be like whoa jack is sexy today uh i find that uh not showering like i feel like i have less energy if i don't shower i think it must be like a mental thing or something but like i have like the night funk on me the sleep funk and it just i like to i like to bathe at night right helps me sleep oh i can't do that because then like i i thought i mean it could could be some pseudoscience, I believe or whatever, but like you secrete oils as you sleep that you need for the day. Oh, is that right?

And then if you wash, I don't know. Someone I'm sure is going to be like, this tweet brought to you from umactually.com. Because you don't. But yeah, I think I just know because like in Japan, like a lot of bath culture and that helps you sleep. So I just kind of was like raised doing that at night. But yeah. And sometimes you just do it in the morning yeah whatever i should note that i shower with just a cold hose water so that that might be what's helping me wake up yeah that'll wake you up yeah and mr clean uh what is a myth ajax what is a myth what's something people think is true you know to be false

okay i don't i don't have one but perfect i like i'm just like okay i'm not stupid but i'm a gullible person and i've been a gullible person since i was a child so i'm the opposite where i always. Right. And I never prove anything wrong because I just believe things. Like I can't watch conspiracy documentaries or anything. Right, right, right. Because I just believe them. I'm like, oh yeah, no, 9-11 was an inside job. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm convinced. Yeah. That's not a conspiracy. It's a whole other show. Okay, right, right, right. I believe you. I'm a 9-11 truther that is trying to get murked by ghosts. Miles did send me a

gif of Building 7 collapsing the other day. Yeah, I mean, look. I didn't get hit by a plane. What happened there? It's because they smudged. That's all. They didn't smudge. No, it was in response to something else about something being a lie. Anyway, don't make me look like a truther, but the truth is out there, X-Files. Wait, so

you just believe all the myths? I have something that I believed for a very long, an embarrassing long amount of time that I think I can share maybe instead. Let's hear it. Barack Obama's not American. Here's the thing about birth certificates. No, I believed for a stupid amount of time that um

clouds are solid oh wow yeah that they have like is it because you saw dragon ball the opening and they were surfing on the machines you're like okay no they must be solid right no i guess like when i was really young my dad told me that to like make me not afraid of turbulence on an airplane. Oh. Like that was him lying to me. So then you were just like bumping into clouds a little bit? Yeah, he was like, oh no, that's just us going through the cloud. And because they have solid, he said they have like ice in them or something.

I think they have ice crystals in them. Do they? Yeah. They're just like very sparse and, you know. Oh, he was saying like, oh, that's why we have turbulences because there's a lot of shit and clouds that we're going through. No, that's very wrong. Yeah. Yeah.

And I believe that for a very long time. Right. Like almost into early adulthood status, like just believing that turbulence on airplanes was because of ice in the clouds. Uh-huh. Okay. And that's not true. And that's not true. And that's not true. Did you ever,

yo, but when I was probably very young and I didn't know about science, I would be like, yo, it'd be cool to just chill on top of that cloud. Yeah. Well,

I mean, you believe, you're like, why the fuck, it looks like a thing. Why can't I stand there? It's where the Care Bears live. Right,

they can do it. That's where God lived, according to a lot of books that I've read. Oh no, God lives in the hearts of all of his believers. Oh shit. yeah, yeah. Hate to a lot of books that I've read. Oh, no. Did he move? God lives in the hearts of all of his believers. Oh, shit. So I hate to fact check you on that.

All right. So clouds are not solids. And what about contrails? Chemtrails? Chemtrails. Yeah. Sorry. All right.

Let's talk about. It's a contrail, but hold on. I don't know what a contrail is. Okay. I meant chemtrail. Let me just make sure. Contrail is a trail of condensed water from an aircraft or rocket at high altitude. Oh, which we think are chemtrails.

Which we, yeah, they changed that to chemtrails for the purposes, which is what I was trying to refer to. So you were right. In that way, we honor you. Yes. Thank you. All right, guys, let's talk about what's going on in washington and with the trump administration i think just a good mood setting is for us to play the audio from a television ad that was just

started airing today right brad parscale who brad parscale who you know like was his social media guy now running his campaign, just dropped a fucking sick ad for Trump 2020. Let's just, I think we'll know a lot about what's happening right now if we just listen to this new TV ad. This is Brad Parscale, the campaign manager for President Trump. President Trump has achieved more during his time in office than any president in history. And that is why I need every Trump supporter to pick up the phone right now and deliver a personal thank you to your president. We have a booming economy. Hallelujah! he's doing for America. I need you to call the number on your screen and deliver a thank you to President Trump. Call

or go online now. Call 800-684-3043 now and press one to tell President Trump thank you. Thank you, President Trump. Thank you, President Trump. Thank you, President Trump. President Trump needs to hear from his supporters

by calling 800-684-3043. Guys, he's really, he's down in the dumps. Hey, have you visited Grandpa? Right. He's not doing well. Go visit him. Come visit me.

It's like a depressed friend who people are like looking out for. Yeah, well, what the fuck was that? I mean, are we gonna learn that there's like some sort of scheme to this? Should we call it right now and just be like, yo, eat shit Donald Trump. It's going to ask for your social

security. From the Daily Zeitgeist, eat my ass. Right. In a not good way. In the not millennial sexy way. So why does he need cheering up? Rather than trying to get people to contribute or to give them some sort of information so they can stay in touch with them for the 2020 campaign.

They're just having them call in and their call to action is just be like, thanks, man. Hey, you're actually better than they say. Hey, you're all right, man. Yeah. Don't worry too much about it. Keep your hair up. So why is he so down in the dumps? And we're going to get into, I think, most of these in a little more detail.

But so he's not getting the border wall. He's not getting the money for the border wall, which we knew. There was that meeting with Nancy and Chuck where he was like, oh, I could get the votes if I wanted to. Yeah, go. All right. All right, tough guy. Yeah, go do that. Go do that.

And he then said, I'm happy to shut down the government to get funding for the border wall. And then I guess they went and looked at polls and realized that that was wildly unpopular. So now he just backed down from that, which he does not like to do, back down from things. Well, if you look at him, his whole life is puff your chest up, bluff, bluff, bluff, bluff, take the L. l right he never fucking gets what he wants it's like yeah okay we'll see we'll see we'll see if we can find the money somewhere else it's like what the arc was right and that's what they said today to try and sidestep that just i mean really yeah but that wasn't a good look so that that was not good and also not

good is that it's happening on the same day that he had to dissolve the Trump Foundation because it's been exposed as a criminal organization. Yeah, criminal enterprise, which, you know, this was the way that he claimed he was giving back to the community. And it turns out, no, it was just his favorite way to disguise crimes. And he can't do that anymore. And the people around him are doing so badly that they're starting to try and sell like knickknacks, basically. Well, yeah, a lot of people are either, look, there are things they can't get paid for, or they want things they can't afford, or they're just upside down with legal fees.

Underwater. They're just drowning in legal fees. So yeah, a lot of people have come up with very clever things. Eric Trump was out there being like, hey, you guys should check out this really cool, these Christmas ornaments that were like 60 bucks or something. And everyone was like, what the fuck is this? What are you trying to do? And again,

I think it's probably trying to be like, we need to sort of generate some money on the side here to help other things. And I'm like, okay, what's that? Then there was like this really cool, like crowdfunding campaign to try and build the wall with people putting their own fucking money in. How much they get?

I don't even know. I mean, like one person, all they need is five bills. Yeah. Right. I mean, you know, the Koch brothers should, where are y'all at with that? they get i don't even know i mean like one person all they need is five bills yeah right i mean you know the coke brothers should where you where y'all at right with that even though that's something they actually don't want uh that was another thing that happened i think another someone else

suggested like well why don't we just sell bonds to build it right like what like like as this like when we used to buy like war bonds to help right like now you want us to just build a wall or like buy a, like build a wall, pay for a brick in the wall with your name on it. So when people seeking fucking asylum, we'll know who to fucking go after when they actually get in here to be like, literally put your name on a monument to racism. Yeah.

Yes. And then I think the saddest one comes from old Roger Stone. Right. Where he was selling what he calls the Roger Stone. And it is a, what he describes of, is an exact replica of the stone that David used to take down Goliath with Roger Stone's autograph on it. It's a stone with Roger written on it. He's selling a motherfucking rock with, he writes his name on it. Oh, wow.

And he's selling them for eight bucks. So he is having some really- That's where we're at, guys. That's where we're at. Roger Stone is coming up with pun gifts, which this was so fucking sad. We considered buying it. Yeah. But I'm like, I also don't want to help this motherfucker in any way.

And I realized I can make my own Roger Stone. Yeah. I just write roger on a fucking stone right but will it be authentic will it be the exact stone that david threw to slay goliath right because as we know uh roger stone did do a whole uh forensic analysis of the slaying of goliath yes uh in which he does have the sling that david used he's what he's mainly known for. He has Goliath's skull. Right. To see the traumatic brain injury, just massive head trauma that he got from the rock. And then from there, also found the actual weapon used in the killing.

And then made that into mold. Look, I can keep going. But yeah, let's just say that this is it. He's got the stone. It's a weird claim to make just all around. I'm just picturing him like sitting at a desk with just like a pile of stones around him being like next and having to sign each one. Yeah. I mean, it's rough times behind closed doors with Roger Stone when he's just like, okay, what can we do?

We'll just get a bunch of rocks and then stamp my first name on them. Right, and then his phone goes off and this is his ringtone. Oh, no. Yeah, he's got... I mean, look, and that's why he had to go out and take out ads to apologize

for spreading fucking bullshit on info wars yes he's just in man it's all just it's slowly i know like every week we're like we always try and be like well i don't know if this was really going on i mean right it looks like things are at least progressing in a much faster race i think we're seeing things are speeding up and they're turning out as bad as they could possibly turn out, it seems like, for everybody in the Trump orbit. A Christmas miracle. It's apparently not a miracle. It's just exactly what you suspected when you were like, is he trying to get away with that?

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on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you stream podcasts. And we're back. And I was surprised that we were back there. You could hear it in my voice. So the other big news from yesterday was that Michael Flynn was in court for his sentencing. Right. Now, Mueller had suggested that he, you know, cooperated substantially in their investigation and gave a recommendation of no prison time.

The very bottom of the sentencing, like, you know, zero to six months. But really, we feel like he doesn't deserve prison. Right. And this was, I mean, people who are national security experts have been saying that's kind of startling because what is being alleged about what he did is really bad. It's treason. It's treasonous. And like, he's a national security advisor and he's selling out the United States of America. So heading into this, though, people on the right had reason to believe that this was going to break in their direction, right? Well,

yeah, because Michael Flynn or his lawyers, probably at his direction, you know, made a court filing that basically said, hey, well, you know, this is kind of fucked up. Michael Flynn was set up by the FBI because they didn't tell him that lying to the fbi is something you can't do right therefore uh he is innocent despite him entering a guilty plea a year ago for lying to the fbi uh and what that did was everyone was like oh shit well see this is what we're talking about muller and the doj they're really just they're overstepping they're trying to get this guy by any means necessary, even if it means violating his constitutional rights. Right. So it's basically he claimed that they sort of trapped him and he didn't really know what he did was wrong. And because he was coming in for his sentencing and Mueller had

suggested not a lot of jail time or no jail time, it seemed like, wow, this is going to be evidence that Flynn was really mistreated. That's how the right chose to understand what was taking place yesterday. And they thought that seriously, that he would go in and the judge would be like, I'm throwing out your guilty plea. I'm so sorry. Yes. What the DOJ did to you, General Flynn. Yeah, I think that's what, don't we have like Judge Jeanine Pirro claiming that, you know.

The person who couldn't get Robert Durst convicted. Right. Yeah. Yeah. So this is her, yeah, just spiking the football on the 50-yard line. Yes. On Tuesdays, the parties will appear again before Judge Emmett Sullivan, a jurist unafraid of the swamp,

a judge who has a track record of calling out prosecutorial misconduct, a man who does not tolerate injustice or abuse of power. Judge Sullivan can throw out this guilty plea if he concludes the FBI intentionally interfered with their target Flynn's constitutional right to counsel. Wow. So that seemed to be what she thought was about to happen. Right. And then so General Flynn was in court yesterday to have the judge apologize to him. There was a, there's also a Bloomberg opinion piece that went up that was America owes Michael Flynn an apology, basically assumes that he's going in and getting forgiven for everything that he did.

Right. And then we actually have audio of the judge apologizing to General Flynn. We'll play that right now. Surprise, motherfucker. Okay. So the judge said, get the fuck out of here what the fuck were you thinking this the whole thing went left okay i mean a lot of people especially like everyone was like okay well muller said zero to six months he'll probably go in there maybe he'll get a little bit more but it should probably be within what robert muller is suggesting suggesting. And because Michael Flynn made that court filing that basically said, well, I wasn't trapped,

I was set up. The judge said, I have never had a defendant plead guilty to something and then act like suddenly they weren't guilty of it. They're like, this is absurd to me. And I think the judge was really pissed off that this happened because clearly you know, clearly the FBI, when they put out their actual notes on the interview, they're basically verbatim describing the thing that he did to them. They're like, when you were on a vacation in the Dominican, did you not call the Russian ambassador to talk about less like easing sanctions? And he's like, nah. And then he's like in his guilty plea is like, I did, in fact, call the Russian ambassador while I was on vacation in the Dominican. So they knew everything, yet he still lied. Right.

And then, you know, the judge basically was tearing him a new one. It was like, look, you sold out your country. How could you be in the White House? And as a national security advisor, having a foreign government as a client that you're doing other lobbying work while you're also having the interest of national security to think about said, I don't really care how much you've cooperated like this. I cannot hide my disgust for your crimes. Yes, it was wild. And the judge basically then asked the prosecutors, they said, you ever think about charging him with treason? Yeah.

And they're like, what? They're like, what I'm looking at. Did you not think of maybe bringing treason charges? And they're like, that's a very serious, I mean, we can't really comment on that. And that shows you what the headspace was of the judge who was just purely like, you should know better. You're a general. You worked in intelligence. You're dumb enough to think that a call with a Russian ambassador isn't being, like no one's listening in on that. Right. No one's transcribing that. Right. So I think the judge was just very,

just like pissed. So we don't know what they're, what this means. So the judge said, basically, look, if you want to go forward with sentencing today, it's not going to look good for you, my man, you will see the inside of a jail cell. Right. Or we can delay it. Maybe you can cooperate with Mr. Mueller a little bit more and at least let's see what he says in three months and then left it to them and say, what do you want to do? And the defense came back and said, I think we would like to delay sentencing. So it's an interesting thing because on one hand, right, you don't know if the judge ultimately believes that Michael Flynn has more to offer, although he's been meeting with Mueller for like a year now, like 19 times.

So it's possible that maybe he did tell everything, but maybe the judge is also just mad and wanting to say this. But there's a lot going on too, because Trump, when you compare Michael Cohen and Michael Flynn, they're both cooperating with Mueller, yet Michael Cohen is a rat. Right, according to Trump.ael cohen is a rat right and according to general flynn is a victim right great american who did nothing wrong the fbi entrapped him which either means what he's dangling a pardon in front of him or maybe michael flynn does no more that he's not telling which is why he's not a rat he's like okay you know cop to that other shit but let's you know

don't don't give up the goose right so it's a very, I don't know. I don't know. It's fucking weird. Yeah. And the fact that this judge was like, hey, man, you didn't think about getting this guy on treason, which although I mean I think by the definition of it, it would have to be someone we're literally at war with.

But I think that is where. Or maybe, I mean, it depends on what your definition of war is. If they've just attacked our country by subverting our democratic process, that could be seen as. Right. But I guess that's where when you look at it, it's like you at one point upheld the oath to protect the country, but you want to sell it out on the back end. So, you know. Yeah. Good luck to you.

Pretty awkward Christmas this will be. Right. When you're like, Dad, what are we going to do? Because, yeah, his son could be in some shit too. Yeah. That's another thing Judge Jeanine was saying, that she thought maybe the FBI was entrapping him into taking these pleas because he was worried about his son and didn't want his son to get into trouble.

So they were just basically like, had him in an arm bar and we're like, come on, say you did it. Well, that's the thing though too. And then, cause the judge was so pissed. He basically made Michael Flynn take all that shit back under oath.

Right. And he's like, so you did know that the F like lying to the FBI was a crime, correct? Yes. Yes. And he's like, and they did not mislead you.

Correct. He's like, yes. He's like, so what the fuck was that about my man? And then it was just like, and they did not mislead you, correct? He's like, yes. He's like, so what the fuck was that about, my man? And then it was just like, you're. Yeah. Yeah, see what else you got.

I mean, I'd imagine he probably knows a little bit more. Yeah, it seems like the people within the Trump organization and people who are, you know, getting pressed by the special counsel are, you know know they're grasping at straws they're claiming stuff that like is you know it's basically not possible for him to have like said he was guilty of this thing and then say he didn't know because why okay well if you didn't know what you were doing was wrong why didn't you bring that up before uh when you were pleading guilty so you pled guilty because they had your lies and then the facts next to it and go, we literally have a tape of you saying this.

You cannot argue that this didn't happen. So, peace to Michael Flynn. And doesn't the judge have access to unredacted documents? The judge is going to see whatever pertinent material there is or whatever. So the judge knows more than we know and does not appear to be super pleased with what he's seen from the court. Yeah. And a couple other U.S. attorneys that were on the news today that were commenting on this were basically saying, I've been in front of this judge and he does not like government fuckery.

He's like, if you're a government official and you fuck around he's like he fucking it it's like the the worst shit you could do so you know yeah it's a tough time thoughts and prayers but yeah it just seems like a lot of things are just breaking in the direction of worst case scenario for anybody who is supporting Trump or people in Trump's orbit. Trump's inauguration is now being criminally investigated. The shit that they were doing on the inauguration, like Ivanka is on emails where she is basically pressing different organizations to pay, let's say it's $180,000 to like have a ball at the Trump Tower or whatever the Trump Hotel is down in D.C.

And then they're like, but that's – do you really think that's a fair market value? And she's like, all right, I'll give it to you for $85,000 because you're like that's a friend price. And they're like, actually, we checked and like the fair market value is like $35,000. So like – but they're just doing the thing that we actually saw was part of the Trump organization's MO back in the New York Times investigation where it was about how they were evading taxes is they would overvalue things that they were selling to themselves, essentially. So they're just overvaluing how much people would pay them for various inauguration

services. And they're like, look, we're taking a hit. Right. And they're just pocketing the money. He's basically getting rich off of his own inauguration. It's just like very basic, low-level criminal scams. Yeah.

Well, you know, maybe they'll learn better ones in jail. Somebody's got to cheer that guy up. Yeah. Somebody call that number. That number. And just just fart on the phone. Right. Yeah.

So, I mean, everything, you know, there's that. There's the foundation. Yeah. The quote unquote. The charitable organization that is known as the Trump Foundation. That New York attorney general said on Tuesday that the Attorney General's Office will continue to pursue a lawsuit against the foundation. But they said in the meantime, like part of their deal is that like amid all these allegations,

they have to dissolve the charity under government supervision because they're like, this is not a fucking charity. This is like, this is a thing that like they were self-dealing. They were inappropriately or illegally working with the administration and using it as what they believed was little more than – this is a quote – little more than a checkbook for payments to nonprofits from Mr. Trump or the Trump organization. And the people that are on the board, which is Donald Jr., Eric, Ivanka, Donald Trump himself, and then Allen Weisselberg, who he said he didn't even realize he was on the board of the charity. Like when they asked him, he's like, yo, I just work for the Trump. Wait, what? Right. Okay.

Yeah. So he's just using it as a checkbook to pay nonprofits. just using it as a checkbook to pay non-profits is that just like so he's has extra money and can like like what what is the what's the ultimate criminal scheme well it was just like a lot of again like taking money from another organization cutting a check from a smaller thing it was just another pocketing yeah it was just a fucking scam scam ball right uh and what's funny is like that trump was fighting tooth and nail to get a judge to throw this case out before because again here's another example bluff bluff bluff no this is bullshit i'll throw the watch me begging the doj to throw the case out the judge laughed in

his face right or laughed in the the lawyer's faces uh because it was so clear to them he's like no this we're gonna let this rock because was like, no, we're going to let this rock. Because if he did say, no, we're not going to dissolve it, then basically for like the civil case that I think the state of New York was going to pursue, they would have been able to like dig up all kinds of evidence in discovery that could have probably led to even more liability for them. So this is probably the smarter move, even for the Trumps to just be like, okay, just burn the thing down and we'll dissolve it and let the government sort of distribute the rest of the assets to the organizations rather than like letting the people who are running it be like, oh, yeah, no, we know where to send the rest of the money. So, yeah.

So now that's Trump University and the Trump Foundation who have been shut down for illegal activity. And then pretty much every other organization is under investigation. That he has run. Yes. Yes. Being the president is like the worst thing that's ever happened to him. Yeah, right? Yeah, it's an amazing... God, he could have just shut the fuck up and stayed in his corner and just been a greasy, hairless dude.

Yeah. It's amazing just to think back. Like, I think it's a more important detail than we give it credit for that he didn't think he was gonna win he like the night when the election results started coming in his face looked like our faces which was like drained of all blood like what the fuck is happening this is not good this is not good. His wife, like all of our wives, was weeping openly and was like, this is the worst thing that's ever happened to us. We're so fucked. I can't divorce you. Now, that's not know what he was getting into, and he didn't think he was going to win. And then when he did, Steve Bannon has said that he witnessed Trump go from looking like he saw a ghost to convincing himself he could do this.

But none of these things were running through his mind at that point. Well, I think that's, again, like I always talk about how people get gaslit by their own privilege. Yeah, exactly. Well, I think that's again, like I always talk about how people get gaslit by their own privilege. Yeah. And he's been able to rock as like the white man who got the fucking star in Mario Kart. Yeah. And nothing was fucking touching him. Right. And then it's like if he had probably just stayed there, like who knows?

He could have just operated like most, you know, wealthy people who can just skirt the law. Yeah. But boom, now there's oversight and you're not used to that. And you're like, what the fuck is all this oversight shit? Like I'm fine. Dude, this never touched me. How the fuck could it now cut to now? And Brad Parscale is like,

Hey, have you visited him? He said, thank you. He's in a really, really tough spot right now. Gaslit by his own privilege. Yeah.

That's like the name of the memoir right there. Thank you so much. Yeah. Yeah. I love it. I do too. I'm going to get a tag. I mean, I hate it, but I so much. Yeah. I love that. I do too. I'm going to get a tatted. I mean, I hate it, but I love it.

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interference. And it's pretty telling. You know, one of the things that they focused on was the black community in America was, quote, targeted extensively with dozens of Facebook pages or Instagram accounts. And, you know, they were all aimed at just getting people to be like, yeah, Hillary is not a great choice either. Like, don't vote, boycott the election. And African-American participation in the election was at a 20-year low. Yeah, the first time it declined. Yes. In 20 years.

Yeah. And so like, yeah, we can't really draw clear lines and say like there's causation. But if you look, clearly the black vote was suppressed, not on top of all the other shit that the people in America do to suppress the black vote. Right. Which is, again, like it's more telling about like, you know, the Russians look at that and go, wow, that's something we can just squeeze. That's a scab we can rip off and ooze out.

And it's funny that the way they were. That's gross, by the way. Wait, look, I'm into scabs. Oh, you know why I thought of that? Because there was, this is a side note, apparently they're developing a new Band-Aid that if you blast it with UV light, the adhesive will just make it easy to take off and doesn't just rip your fucking skin off anymore. Really? Yeah. Update. Science update. Side note. your fucking skin off anymore. Really? Yeah.

Update. Science update. Side note. Back to this. Some good news. Yeah. Some good news. But yeah, they were saying that the three sort of buckets that the interference fell into was malicious misdirection, as they call it, which were efforts to confuse users about voting rules or how to vote or how to register or where to vote.

Another one was encouragement to vote for third parties. And the other was just voters just stay home altogether. They'd just be like, yo, fuck that. This is not the country that gives a fuck about me. Sadly, that is true. That was a very effective tactic, I guess, to keep some people at home. And one of the really more sophisticated ways they were, it wasn't just sort of like accounts like doing like memes that were getting shared.

Like they were really building like wormholes for people on Facebook to fully go into and think like shit looked legitimate. So what they called that, these security analysts, they call it the media mirage that sort of gave these pages like the appearance of credibility. the media mirage that sort of gave these pages like the appearance of credibility. And so what they would do is they were like linked with other phony accounts for black voters, as well as like real pages from real African-American activists or other things. So as they say, quote, an individual who followed or liked one of the black community target IRA, which is the Internet Research Agency of the Kremlin operation, one of their

pages would have been exposed to dozens more as well as carefully curated authentic black media content that ideologically or thematically aligned with the IRA, Internet Research Agency's messaging. So, you know, it was just a huge cloud of deception that worked there. And not to mention, like like they were fucking going heavy on youtube also uh with a lot of videos and you know when they compare that to other uh religious groups or ethnic groups like it was clear that there was way more emphasis put on the black folk than anything else amongst many other things about like how savvy was but this was sort of like the

thing that really stuck out yeah and and the other thing that stuck out is apparently the Russians, like around 2013, that's when they started helping Republicans too. Yeah. Or just like getting more and like, oh, let's prop this side up a little bit. Yeah. I mean, it is the thing. I'm actually reading Jill Lepore's history of America, these truths. And it's just like this like kind of broad overarching like starting with Columbus and

going up through the present day and the really notable thing over and over again is just slavery and how America treated people of color throughout its history and like there's no doubt that like when a country like Russia looks at the United States, they're like, oh, well, there's the thing that you exploit. Yeah. Yeah. It's that. It's the thing that they. White America versus black America.

It's the horrible sin that they built their entire society on. And have failed to have a reckoning with. So it's easy to fucking stoke the flames. Yeah. It's not surprising. And also like some of the details are just like some of the things that you saw, like people in cages dressed as Hillary. Also, some of the details are just, some of the things that you saw, people in cages dressed as Hillary, those were Russian operatives.

They had Russian operatives over here laying the groundwork for a lot of this shit. It was more detailed and, I don't know, elaborate than I had realized until this New York Times report. Yeah, man. And then you got the Maria Butina stuff going on too, than I had realized until this New York Times report. Yeah, man. And then you got the, you know, like Maria Butina stuff going on too. And they're like, it's like how many more people like that were there? Like rocking, you know, trying to infiltrate different political parties or organizations. So, hey, man. I can't wait to see the NRA's involvement.

That's going to be very interesting. Well, you know, speaking of another, I just want to bring the plight of another person of color to the forefront. Alfonso Ribeiro. Thank you. I was waiting for this one. Who is known as Carlton Banks from the Freshman's of Bel-Air, who had a very,

very unique dance to the Tom Jones song, It's not unusual to be loved by anyone. The Great Welshman. His Carlton dance has been ripped off in at least two games, and Alfonso Ribeiro is taking them to fucking court. As he should.

Yeah, he's suing Epic Games, the makers of Fortnite, and Take-Two Interactive, the people who make NBA 2K, because the companies, as he says in his suit, unfairly profited from his likeness and protected creative expression. I didn't realize he hosts America's Funniest Home Videos now. Yeah, he's the guy. What happened to Tom Bergeron?

Is he okay? Yeah, he just moved on. That's good. I mean, look. He's got other things. Make space for Carlton. Right. Or, I'm sorry, Alfonso.

But yeah, they were saying like, so in like an NBA 2K, they called it the Too Fresh Dance. Okay, really? Not very subtle. Yeah. Fresh what? Prince of Bel-Air Carlton Banks dance to Tom Jones song. Well, at least Fortnite made it less obvious. Right.

And they just called that Fresh Emote. Oh, wait. Sorry. No, they did not. Yeah. So again, you know, like we were talking a few weeks ago or maybe two weeks ago about how the artist 2Milly was suing them because they were stealing the Millie rock. Right.

And like I think even Donald Faison was like, yo, they took my dance from Scrubs. Right. Just put it in the game. So, you know, just want to throw that back into people's, you know, put that on the radar. I wonder, did he invent that dance then? I mean, I don't, when I look at that, I only associate that with Carlton Banks. But I'm wondering, did he actually, or was he directed to be like, do like this thing? I don't know.

You know what I mean? I mean, there must have been an amazing choreographer on set if the director was like, I actually have a vision for what this dance looks like. What if? Yeah. I don't know. I'm sure maybe, and if it really goes to trial or something, that's when someone's going to, their defense is going to dig up. Wait a minute.

It's like, actually, Carlton is an imposter. And this was a stolen dance. Right. But, I mean, as far as I think everyone of our generation, when we see that dance, we're like, that's Carlton from the Fresh Prince. That's the Carlton dance. And they're specifically calling it like the Fresh Prince. That's the Carlton dance, and they're specifically calling it the Fresh Prince dance, essentially. Yeah, I mean, even if he copied it off of his grandparents or something, or some white people he saw at a wedding,

that doesn't mean that he shouldn't profit off of it, because he's the one who appropriated that for a character and made it a moment in the zeitgeist where hey but if hey look if carlton stole it though shame on from who no i don't know i don't want to know i want to know that they came out that from alfonso ribeiro's mind from his genius but it's yeah i mean it is whatever wherever he stole it's It's the comedic, the context, everything about the Carlton dance. It's like the Elaine, I guess. Right.

In that sense. Right. Can you imagine someone suing Julia Louis-Dreyfus? You'd be like, that's actually how I dance. My name is Elaine. Right. So, thumb out. Do that kick.

Just wanted to shout out Penny Marshall, who just passed away. just wanted to shout out penny marshall who just passed away uh director of two of my favorite movies from my childhood big and a league of their own yeah just how did she pass away i think she had lung cancer oh man yeah it was in remission for a while but fucking big man that was that movie was huge for me no pun intended wasn that the first, she was the first female director to ever have a box office hit or something like that? Oh, was she? Because of Big,

it was like the highest grossing movie at the time or something. I believe it. I should know facts before I say them? Is that what you're saying? No, no, no, but I think she really did like break through and-

Oh yeah, there's no, I mean, she's a fucking juggernaut pioneer. Yeah. I mean, between Laver fucking juggernaut pioneer. Yeah. I mean, between Laverne and Shirley and – yeah. Like, those films, too, like, League of Their Own and Big are seminal films. That F.A.O. Schwartz, I wanted to go to as a kid. I thought it didn't even exist. Right.

It was so mythical in my head. Yeah. Giant piano. And I remember – dude, when I saw, like, a giant piano at another place, I almost had a fucking meltdown. And my mom was like, okay, go do it. And I was so pissed that I didn't know how to play chopsticks on it. And I cried. I had a fucking tantrum.

And I was taken out of the store. But man, she... That was last week. That was last night. Those are two huge Tom Hanks performances that gave us... We were like, oh, this dude is like, he's not just a sitcom actor. He's amazing. He's the most charming.

He's a charmer, huh? Yeah. Well, look, rest in peace. Thank you for all those movies. Oh, Renaissance Man. I forgot about that, too. Okay. I was looking at other film.

We don't need to bring up Renaissance. And popularizing Coke and Pepsi. I mean, milk and Pepsi. Milk and Pepsi. On Laverne and Shirley. That was like her drink. She drank milk and Pepsi.

Really? I did not. Have you ever tried it? It's good. Is it? Yeah. Really? Milk and Pepsi. Pepsi?

It's like a creamy soda beverage. Pilk or Mepsi? Yeah. She just called it Milk and Pepsi. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, if you want to get crazy with it. Get ahead of it, start bottling it, selling it outside our concerts.

Yeah. Well, in the world of movies, HBO just released a trailer for an upcoming movie that I think is just called Brexit. Okay. Clever title. What's it about? And it's about sort of the conspiracy. It's women's

baseball league. It's about the conspiracy behind Brexit, basically. The dude who, you know, used social media and various underhanded techniques to motivate the leave vote, the Brexit vote, and get people. The genius behind this is played by Benedict Cumberbatch. It seems very similar to Social Network in that it's critical of the star and what he's doing, but at the same time, it makes it exciting and fun and puts a cool classic rock soundtrack underneath it. He basically led the vote leave campaign with a bunch of social media fuckery.

Dominic Cummings. Dominic Cummings. Yes. Sounds like a terrible porn actor's name. British porn actor. But yeah. And he seems like he's playing him with like sort of the same vibe that he brings to Sherlock Holmes,

where he's like sort of a genius who is, he's too smart for society. And at one point he tells the people he's going to hack the political system with quote, the matrix of politics. And, you know, people are getting pissed about this because this journalist,

Carol Kedwalder pointed out that this is like releasing a movie about the Mueller investigation right now. Like it's in the middle. Yeah, like why the, this hasn't even been resolved. Right. So why go out here and be like, dude, this guy was fucking pretty chill. Right. He looks pretty exciting. Right.

Right. And they think they're criticizing him, like the social network. And, you know, Mark Zuckerberg was like, like oh this is not fair to me and what happened but it's like yeah but it's still way cooler than what actually happened like right you are a monster like the what you did is not is not great and you know they could have made a movie about all the people in india that facebook was killing or right but yeah the journalist kudwalder basically said you're literally interfering with our criminal justice Right. Soviet Union in 78, and he's financed movies like Lee Daniels is the butler, and he currently owns Warner Music Group, but he also has business ties to Putin. He doesn't have direct ties to Putin.

He has ties to people who do, and as we know, Putin basically launders his money in the people around him. People think Putin is the richest person in the world and he's just hides his money. And like one of his best friends from growing up is has five billion dollars, I think. And he's a cello player. Yeah, but that's. Yeah, that sounds about right. Right.

He deserves that. Yeah. It was very hard to play. And they're really expensive. Very, very expensive. play and they're really expensive very very expensive but he uh started donating to very right-wing causes in the around 2015 2016 he donated millions to people like mitch mcconnell and marco rubio then he donated a million dollars to trump's inauguration committee speaking of um and nobody's saying that like he it was his idea or he directed it but it's not a good look

for a brexit movie that was financed by someone who gave a million dollars to trump like to come out you know right now you know just trying to deal though just trying to disrupt the european union who cares you know what's it all mean, really? Who cares? Lies aren't lies. No one got robbed. No one got killed. I went to the Rudy Giuliani School of Law. Truth isn't truth.

Truth isn't truth, honestly. What are we talking about? And who knows? Brexit could all work out. Right. They should just retitle it Brexit with a question mark. Yeah, right. And then everything's solved. Yeah, that is so weird, though.

Like, HBO should have a little more savvy. Although I think it's them, Channel 4, the BBC also. But you'd feel like it's a little too early to be making. If someone started making a Trump movie right now, I'd be like, what the fuck? What? Yeah. Who would play trump oh alec baldwin that that his impression is so good you guys it should be anthony atamanek right yeah fuck that you know if we're just gonna ridicule this guy let it be atamanek yeah he's so good at it yeah and what like i feel like the more historical distance you get from an event

the better the movies get yeah yeah the the stuff that's like made at the time like oliver stone's w is not right nobody watched it because i'm like i just lived that 15 minutes right that sucked we're good thanks uh but you know this vice movie is supposed to be better and yeah give it some time is it supposed to be better than w oh yeah okay yeah comparative version yeah for sure for sure uh allison it's been a pleasure having you oh thank you so much uh where can people find you at just about glad on all the socials. The social needs. The social needs.

Have you ever said Googs before? You said Googs up top. I did. You said it before? Yeah. I just said it for the first time last night and I was like, whoa. Wow. Googs. But then you said it today and I was like, man, there's something going on.

People are saying Googs. We're all incepting each other. That's all. You might have said it. Were you in a dream when you did it? Like you woke up and you're like, gooks. What the fuck? I might be right now.

And is there a tweet that you've been enjoying? Oh, this is from Fred Delicious. Fred underscore delicious. And it's Siri, show me the worst possible combination of words. And then it shows an article and the headline is Pitbull covers Toto's Africa for Aquaman soundtrack. That's amazing.

What the fuck is happening? How is that not the only thing we're talking about? Miles, where can people find you? Find me on twitter and instagram at miles of gray i like two tweets today one is so you know a lot of people on the right again really thought michael flynn was just gonna be fucking vindicated you know and sadly maybe like 10 15 people showed up like on the Internet. They're like, yeah, we got to go show support.

And people barely came out. And this is from a reporter who isc federal courthouse with his dog trigger where he says he's come to defend michael flynn's family from antifa though he admits that antifa doesn't seem to be here everyone's being like yo antifa's gonna be out there we gotta go fight him back right uh and he looks like the kroger brand ron perlman uh and the dog's name is trigger yeah i know it's it's all very poetic uh and then this other one's from ben rosen He looks like the Kroger brand Ron Perlman. I love that the dog's name is Trigger. Yeah, I know. It's all very poetic. And then this other one is from Ben Rosen,

at Ben underscore Rosen. It says, man goes to doctor, says he's depressed, says he feels all alone in the world. Doctor says, treatment is simple. There's a great movie coming out that should pick you up. Man bursts into tears, says, but doctor, I am the mule. It's a stupid mule joke.

Wow. Yeah. Blew my mind. I heard that movie's real interesting too. What? The mule. Oh, for real? One last job. One last mule job. One last mule job. Clint Eastwood. And I can retire. That is supposedly going to be his oneule job. Yeah. One last mule job. Clint Eastwood. And I can retire.

That is supposedly going to be his one last job. Although he keeps saying that. Gran Torino was supposed to be his one last job. And then he was like, what about maybe one more racist old man? One last job, yeah. Mr. Grace Mugabe, Matt V. Brady, tweeted, there's still a couple weeks left, but I think my best post of 2018 award simply has to go to the Saudis admitting they did 9-11 and threatening to do another one to Canada. And then there's also a good visual one that is just a tweet of, it's like a close-up on

a child's head with a boot pressing down on it and and says the war on christmas on the boot and then christians on the child's head and then like below it it's a pan out and the kids got their hand in it and they're just he's like pressing the boot against his own head uh yeah because the war on christmas is made up christians well hey look merry christmas christmas yo i just saw a car in the parking lot that says, keep Christ in Christmas. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah, man.

That's fine. It's so hard out here for Christians. Hey, C is for capitalism. C is for consumers. Poor Christians, man. They're so... Well, you know, it's a tough thing because evangelicals are kind of fucking it up for people who are actually decent Christian people like my grandparents.

Right. No, no. I love Christ. I will help them. But it's a bad look because most of the people who are the most visible Christians right now are the ones who are like, I hate gay people. I hate non-white Christians.

And that's it. And also I have a bucket for the apocalypse that I'm going to eat. You're going to eat the bucket. Or whatever Jim Bakker is selling. You can find me on Twitter, Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find us at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, dailyzeitgeist.com,

where we post our episodes and our footnotes, where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as the song we ride out on. Miles, what song are we going to ride out on? We are going to ride out on a song called Backwoods by Parliament. Not Parliament, Funkadelic Parliament. And this is a great little half-rapping,

a little R&B, and just some toe-tapping music. Make a big toe shoot up in your duck boot. Because I hear the weather is not pleasant in certain parts of the country right now. All right. We're going to ride out on that. Shout out to Ed Krasenstein, who is engaged in a Twitter battle with our very own Robert Evans.

Because Robert pointed out in an episode of his podcast, Behind the Bastards, that the Krasensteins are scam artists. And he did not like that. So he is full of threats, and Robert is full of tweets and links that prove him wrong. So that's been enjoyable. Check that episode out if you haven't listened to it already. It's the one about Jacob Lowell also. So we cover the whole spectrum of political scam artists uh that's gonna do it for today we will be back tomorrow because it is a daily podcast we will

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