The Daily Zeitgeist - Trump’s Diplomatic Thirst, Domino’s Will Save Us 6.12.18

Episode Date: June 12, 2018

In episode 167, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and writer Demi Adejuyigbe to discuss Domino's stepping up and fixing potholes on roads across the US, Trump showing Kim Jong Un a trailer for capitalism at the Singapore Summit, their agreement to potentially have an agreement, Kim Jong Un's traveling toilet, Jimmy Kimmel versus Ted Cruz one-on-one basketball game, Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson's engagement, millennials staying at home to drink because going out 'takes too much effort,' and more!  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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New episodes every Thursday. Hello, the internet, and welcome to Season 35, Episode 2 of the Daily Zeitgeist for June 12, 2018. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. 2000 Party Over. Whoops, out of time. Tonight I'm gonna party like it's potatoes. O'Brien. That is courtesy of... Tonight I'm gonna party like it's potatoes. Oh, Brian.

That is courtesy of... At ATL Prince O'Whales on Twitter. And I am thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. It's not Miles, but it's so gray. I'm gonna make it any gray. Thank you for that, Whitney Houston. That's Whitney Houston, isn't it? Uh-huh.

Yep, the remix. MissStag on Twitter because, you know, just hit me with old R&B hits. That's how I do it. That's not really an R&B hit, but, you know, it's an anthem. It's an anthem. Our guests always look so surprised, so confused. I wasn't surprised. Well, you didn't even scream the intro.

I was like, what is he doing this week? I heard it over the weekend. And my wife has this streaming service, and the show just comes on when we start our car. And I was like, damn, that's hard to listen to. Wow. I think I'm over it. Damn. I can't come with that same energy.

Shout out to the people on Twitter who've been asking me, like, yo, he just knocked that shit off. It's annoying. They were right, apparently. Oh, I fuck with it. Yeah. Well, you know what? Now I'm going to have to make up for it in my own annoying way, just to keep the opening

as grating as possible. Bring the energy on that. Yeah. They're going to miss it. Yeah. It's going to just be like, yeah! In the back. Anyway, so there you go

Hey, we are thrilled to have in our third seat You know, one of the must-follows on Twitter I demand you follow him He is a screenwriter, a comedian, a podcast co-host He is Demi Adjouibe Hello Hello How are you?

Thank you for having me, I'm great We're thrilled to have you, man. I'm excited to be here. There's so much shit that's happened this week. I know. This is a- Yeah. You're on for a day when it's just-

And just not even the news. You're saying in your life, right? Yeah. Some shit went down this week. I saw a dog. I mean- Wow. A dog?

Yeah. Was it pregnant? Holy shit. Didn't check. Whoa, I saw a pregnant dog for the first time. Really? That was cool. I don't- Really? I didn't know what a pregnant dog looked like, I think. Didn't know. Whoa, I saw a pregnant dog for the first time. Really? That was cool. I don't know what a pregnant dog looks like, I think.

Didn't know. It might not have been pregnant. Just got to extend the belly. I'm just trying to add something to this conversation. Like, I did something cool. Hey, this story is good. And worth talking about on the biggest news day so far in the history of this podcast. Of my life, probably.

Definitely, according to the president. All right. Today, we're going to talk about some trends with how millennials are getting fucked up. We're going to talk about one of the stranger- Boofing! One of the stranger details that is developing in late stage capitalism that involves dominoes fixing our infrastructure.

We are, of course, going to talk about the summit in Singapore and just all manners of the trailer that Trump presented, the secret toilets, just everything. Secret toilets, Dennis Rodman unraveling on Chris Cuomo's show. The real shit you need to know. We're going to talk about the big sporting event that is happening. We thought basketball season was over. It is just beginning because we are getting the one-on-one game to end all one-on-one games this weekend, Kimmel versus Cruz. And we're going to talk about the hot new It couple, Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson. So that was like the number one trending thing on Google all yesterday. All right.

All right, Pete Davidson. Good for you guys. Good for the world. Seriously. But before we get into any of that, Demi, we'd like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? I recently searched the word pander because I needed to find the exact word-for-word definition because something happened when Trump became president, and I just had a break,

and I no longer am able to get into arguments about politics on the internet because they'll just break me. So I have to take out my anger on something else. And that anger is just getting mad about movies. I'm like getting into arguments with people, complete strangers about movies. And since everyone was talking about Ocean's 8, people were just like, it's pandering to women. And I was like, that's not every fucking movie is pandering. Every movie panders to everyone. And so I was like, here's the definition of the word fucking pander and I just

got into it and I was I look back at shit that I do like that sometimes I'm just like I need to spend my time any other way but that's a lot of my time off I guess how you get your steam out I mean watching movies and then also yeah then getting not even getting angry about the movies themselves I'm generally just kind of like, yo, all movies are good. But then seeing other people have like shitty takes on movies that are like not even it was good. And I disagree. It was just some weird metatextual thing about how the industry is like not doing things properly because they're diversifying their interests and whatnot. I always get mad about.

And then I'm just like, it's time to type a fucking paragraph about why this person's an asshole. Just for everybody's gratification, Pander, the definition is gratify or indulge in the verb form and dated in the noun form, a pimp. I did not realize that. Yeah, I didn't know that either until I looked it up. Did they call somebody a pander? Yeah.

Okay. What is something that you think is overrated, Demi? Ooh, I made a whole list. The thing is, at first, because my life currently is just movies, my list was just like, what have I been watching that I don't like? But then I was also just like, what is another thing that's not so serious? And I think LaCroix is overrated. Ooh, you are the second person in a week.

Good. It's not a good drink. Why? You tell me why. Because, first of all, sparkling water in general is just, just drink soda. You don't need,

it's not good, it's not better than soda. It's a trick. Just drink water or drink soda. LaCroix specifically, I feel like, I don't know what happened

in LA that everyone's just taken a sudden interest in LaCroix being the sparkling water, but I've tasted it many a time to try and convince myself that it's good. I mean, you know, when times are tough and I'm not sipping badoit,

yes, I will reach for a LaCroix just to feel like the working man. Sure. But, you know, the fucking sodas are bad for you. As I get older, I don't know, are you in your 20s still? I am. Yeah, so when you get in your 30s, I realize, man, soda, like that sugar just fucks my body up way more now. And that's one reason why I drink it.

Anyway, that's because I'm old. I just drink tea, which is also probably bad for me. No. No, tea's fine. I mean, mushroom tea? Opium tea? Oh, yeah, yeah. Should I not mention that?

Oh, I'm just synthesizing poppy pods in my house. Just put weed leaves in a bag and dip it. Now, a question I have is the LaCroix Boom LA specific, because this is one of those things that I have a difficulty figuring out if it just blew up when I moved to LA or if it blew up everywhere in America and I just happened to live in LA. It's very hard to take you seriously because you're in head-to-toe LaCroix merchandise. You have a hat on, a t-shirt, hoodie, sunglasses.

Pompel Moose, man. You have shutter shades with LaCroix printed on it. You asked me to call you Mr. Pomplamoose when I won? Mr. Pomplamoose. I said no. That's a great word. Super producer Ana Jose has something to add in here. It was Joe Mandy.

Oh, yeah. Joe Mandy made LaCroix a thing. And then ditched it at its peak. Because they were like, stop pretending we're sponsoring you. And he was like, well, you're dead now. But he was the one, from as far back as I can remember, was tweeting about LaCroix all day, every day, and he really brought it into my consciousness, for sure,

when I was on Twitter. I mean, I still am. I just had it at every office and set I would work on. It just became more and more a thing. Because of Joe Mandy. No, not even before Joe Mandy. Exactly. They were like, this is courtesy of Mr. Mandy.

We hope you enjoy it. He bought it for every opposite outlet. Yeah, and that's another thing that I do wonder, is Joe Mandy a tastemaker and he therefore made that happen, or does he read the tea leaves? Because LaCroix is bad. Yeah, he hopped on the wrong wave is what you're saying. Yes.

Actually, you know, originally I used to fuck with Talking Rain. I remember that. Tea Rain used to be my number one. As they called it. The T-Rain. I worked on the show at midnight for a year, and they got Talking Rain, and all of my coworkers loved it so much that I just started getting fake angry whenever someone would bring it into the office. And then they would just drink it and sit in front of me like, ah, just enjoying a nice glass of Talking Rain just to see me get fake mad about it. Talking Rain, also a good podcast for farmers

in drought-stricken areas. Yeah. Have you heard T-Rain without the auto-tune, though? Is that actually really good? No, I have not. T-Pain joke. He's a really good singer. That's terrible.

Talking Rain! A little late on that, Nick. When I bring a fire joke like that, I want it immediate. That's how he says fuck you from the booth. That was actually early for his chocolate rain joke. Right. Yeah, that's true. It obscured my chocolate rain joke.

You guys made eye contact like you were breaking back door and he was throwing you a noob. Demi, what's something else? You said you had a whole list of overrated things. What's a movie? Yeah, you said you had a movie in there. Well, I had the first two Star Wars movies I think are overrated, but that's a whole thing, I feel like. Just saying that, I'm going to get switched. Like what? Excuse me? 4 and 5? Yeah, like A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back. Wow! Yeah. You do not I think are overrated but that's a whole thing I feel like just saying that I'm gonna get a sweet excuse me

episode 4 and 5 like A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back wow you do not hear that get the fire extinguishers in here they're good

I just think that everyone like people talk about Empire Strikes Back as being like one of the greatest movies of all time and I feel like every time I watch it

I'm just like it's good it is that's the most I will say about it it's good I don't think it's the best movie of all time

I think it's the best of the three Star Wars movies from that original trilogy yeah but not by much that's my take and you think Jedi is the best movie there was a time when I did think Jedi was the best one just because the fight at the beginning

because I'm this many years old the fight at the beginning and the fight at the end I was. Because I'm this many years old. The fight at the beginning and the fight at the end, I was like, this is the best fight I've ever seen. Why does everyone hate this? Just because of some fucking Ewoks? Whatever. They're like dogs. Enjoy them.

Right. But. I mean, the real movie out of that series or the universe is Caravan of Courage and Ewok Adventure. Right. I mean, that's really where it's at. It's what everyone stayed for. Okay. We can get to your underrated because I'm dying to hear if you think any Star Wars movies are underrated.

Oh, no. Okay. Just the whole franchise. What if I was just like, yeah, I really think that the prequels are underrated. I still have not seen them, actually. Oh. I mean, Sebulba as a character, very underrated. Right.

I don't even know who that is. And Watto. That diner scene is up there with the Reservoir Dogs diner scene. Yes, this world did chance cube. Or dice, as we call them on Earth. Right. But I like the chance cube. Fuck you, George Lucas.

Fuck you, Watto. Honestly, go fuck yourself. What's something you think is underrated? I think the TV show Detroiters is underrated as fuck. Okay. Because I feel like everyone I talk to has either never heard of it or never seen it and it is easily

the funniest thing that I saw all of last year. God damn. It's so good. It feels like if you watched Stella when it was on Comedy Central it's like that

except just two people and it's so goofy and sweet and Sam Richards What channel is it on? It's on Comedy Central. Wow. Sam Richardson

and Tim Robbins. Tim Robbins. Yeah. And it's just like I saw those guys as fresh faces at the Just for Laughs comedy festival. And they were both so funny and so nice. Incredible. And you said, they're going places. Yeah, I said.

Well, at Cracked, we worked with Sam a lot right as he was blown up. And then we worked with him less as he became the most famous guy in comedy. He's like, is it conversation? Yeah. And you know what? When you said that, I said fuck because I just never watched that show and I know it's going to be great. I can't wait.

It got picked up for a second season and I hope that more people watch it through the second season or else I'm worried it'll get canceled. Right. But I think it's so funny. Yeah. It makes me like genuinely laugh out loud like four times an episode. It's great. What's the last show to make you do that?

Just so I can get a baseline. Probably like Nathan For You. Oh, okay. I feel like laughing out loud is something that rarely happens. I'm always just like, pretty good. It's pretty funny.

That Nathan For You finale. That needs an Emmy. That fucking, yeah, needs an Emmy. You will be the Joe Mandy of Detroiters. I will. I foresee it. I'm a Detroiter boiter.

That's not a good thing. Detroiter goiter. Detroiter goiter what else anything else underrated that you want to tell us about because that was a fire underrated I said men wearing women's jackets is underrated okay and I say that as a man who has realized that women's jackets not only fit me better but I get unanimous compliments on them whenever I walk around in like a nice fitting woman's jacket I feel like I bought a red leather jacket for a Halloween costume and then continued to wear it and everyone's just like, that's such a cool jacket. And then I got this one jacket from this place in Echo Park called Big Bud Press that is like, in my life, I've never owned anything that people have been nicer to me about.

So I'm just like, I think women's jackets are the new thing. They're like, who makes it? And you're like, Donna Karan? DVF. I don't know what that is. And you're like, Donna Karan? DVF. I don't know what that is. Now you're wearing a very nice sweater right now. Is that? This is not a woman's jacket.

This is a man's jacket that's shrunk in the wash. Okay. So I'm trying to get that woman's jacket fit without actually. What is it about the fit that you think is better? Like on the sides, the sleeves, the shoulders? Yeah. It's like tighter. It just, I feel like it also looks a little different than people are used to when it's on a man's body.

So I think people go, oh, wait, that looks different, but still fitting. I had a homie from high school who would just, he would like trying to act like he has style. And he would just dig through his mom's old clothes and like wear like one of her sweaters. And like a lot of women would be like, oh, I like that jacket. He's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I'm like, yo, it's his mom's. And they're like, that's why. I would love to wear that.

I like it because I imagine it on me. He's also now to this day claims he's a fashion designer. I won't put his name out there. Damn. I hope he listens. Yo, he's fucking whack. You just described his career and said that it's just something he claims.

Yeah. Kanye West. I hope he listens. No, it is. He a liar. He a liar. All right. We have people in our lives like that who have known him so long, but I don't really

fuck with them. We all got someone that claims they're mayor of Detroit or something. Right. All right. I want to give you the opportunity. Any overrated or underrated that you want to get out there before we move on because you've been 100%? I think Soulja Boy is underrated.

Ooh. And I know that that's a crazy thing to say. Ooh! Yes. Even as it escapes my mouth, I'm just like, that might have been a mistake. But no, I think he's underrated. I think what he did for music between 2007 and 2010 alone

is enough for him to still be in the conversation when we talk about rappers that changed music and so what to you specifically what did he change first of all i think he added a weird sense of humor to rap that is not was not there before like i think all of the soundcloud rappers that exist nowadays would not exist without soldier boy i think that like the weird corny sensibilities you had with like crank that and speakers going hammer like, those are everywhere now, and it feels like it's just normal, and we don't acknowledge where it came from, and everyone else gets credit for it. But Soulja Boy, people make fun of him now because the shit he's doing now is not as good,

if it's even worth talking about. And he's getting into fights with Bow Wow and stuff. But I just think, I don't know, I've been listening to his music a lot lately, and every time I hear one of his old songs I'm just kind of like yeah this you opened a door fun era yeah he opened a door and he just had so much fun releasing shit that was not intentionally not good like that song hey you there right it's just fucking nuts but it's so funny and I don't know I feel like nowadays I mean there was a period

where everyone had skits on their album, but he was just kind of like, I'm not doing skits. This is just a full-on song. It might even be a single. Who knows? Right. So I think Soulja Boy doesn't get enough credit.

I mean, yeah. I mean, Hurricane Chris, he has to thank Soulja Boy for everything he has. That's true. He has so much. Yeah, I mean, there would be no Hurricane Chris without Soulja Boy, so very true.

And finally, we like to ask our guests, what is a myth? What's something people think is true that you know to be false? He has so much. Yeah, I mean, there would be no Hurricane Chris without Soulja Boy, so. All right. And finally, we like to ask our guests, what is a myth? What's something people think is true that you know to be false? I think people believe that the Rotten Tomatoes rating system is about, like, that percentage is about of how good a movie is. It's not. It's about how many people just liked it, like, on any sense. If someone liked it and they say it's a six out of ten that's a plus for them right like a hundred percent of people surveyed said that they liked it okay that's a hundred percent but if like a hundred people said this movie is a 10 out of 10 and one person was like

i don't like it then that's a 99 that's how rotten tomatoes works i am convinced that they are paid by certain studios or around certain movies to on the in between stuff, give it a thumbs up because like it's very subjective, like what they choose, like a two and a half star movie or a three star movie, depending on what like paragraph or sentence they choose to isolate can be a rotten or a right. Right. And I'm not sure if like the people who submit the reviews get to choose if it's rotten or not,

but I would believe that. Although there are some Warner Bros. movies that have shitty reviews, which is weird because Warner Bros. owns Rotten Tomatoes. Oh, really? I didn't even know that. I think that's only, it's been like two years now. And everyone was freaking out when it first happened because they were like,

all the reviews are going to get skewed, and then all the Batman movies came out and tanked, and they were like, okay, maybe not. That's why I remember with the Justice League shit, they were going to reveal the Rotten Tomatoes score because they knew they were going to sit on it to not discourage people from seeing it.

So they did a countdown? They're like, and it's an L. Bad for us. Do you fuck with Metacritic? I don't because I feel like every critic has their own different sense of what a scale is. And I'm not interested in knowing what an 83 movie is like. I'm just like, will I like the movie or not?

And then within that scale, I'll figure out how much I like it or don't. So do you have critics that you sort of keep an eye on? Or how do you determine whether you're interested in a movie? I generally use Rotten Tomatoes because I feel like even when a movie is like a 60 i'll go see it and then be like oh i really liked this movie and i get why some people wouldn't or it's like a movie like hereditary gets a 93 because everyone generally agrees it's like this is a good horror movie but i don't know how i feel about it critically and then i'm like well great i'll make my own decision right what do you think of hereditary i loved it and i'm going to see it again tonight I'm fucking terrified of that movie

I've been talking to Miles about this I know in a weird way Like a kid who's really scared of it But fascinated by it You're like Dude it's a fucking hereditary Look at this trailer man Yeah

I think it's like Super fucked up But very good And I honestly think That it's the kind of movie That everyone Who is like scared of it Should go see

Right Yeah So you should take your young children Yeah Take your kids Take the whole family. Take your one-year-old, take a two-year-old.

Take the dog. Yeah, I don't know. It's getting a D plus on like the exit polling, which makes me like it even more because it's like, it's kind of got that shining vibe

where it like does something evil to you a little bit. It pushes you too far as a viewer. You walk away with like a virus of whatever thought the person had

while making it. People were leaving during my screening, which I didn't expect. But yeah. Why? Because it was too scary or they were like, or problematic to them. They're like, I can't get behind this. I think a little bit of both.

Like, I don't know how to describe it. There's some sequences that are like, it's not scary, but it's surprising and disturbing. And that's when like, I think the most people were just like, no, I'm not. They're like, I'm not signing up for this. I want to see people's heads pop off or something. Not just real psychological I mean Tony Collette's face that they've shown in the promotional pictures is enough for me to be like yo I'm already freaked out by this still yes I avoided all the girl too it's so scary all all of it is so fucking freaky

and like I avoided all of the trailers and everything because I was like I'm just gonna go see it everyone says it's great and then seeing her face when she's screaming was horrifying. Like more than almost anything else in the movie. Just Toni Collette's emotions I'm just still stuck with. She's amazing. She's great. Alright. Movies are great. Let's get into the stories of the day. The story everybody's talking about. Domino's

is fixing potholes, you guys. Yes. We have to bow to our new supreme pizza leader, Domino's. Let him take over everything. Yeah, I agree. Super producer Ana Hosnier and I came out pro leader yeah domino's let him take over everything yeah i agree super producer anahosnia and i came out pro domino's thin crust today i said it's my favorite work of fast food artistry and miles acted like i had just disgusting uh stripped naked and you know no even when you strip naked in the office i was like but with this i'm like you're like where wait do you think that the thin crust is

disgusting, or do you hate that he said it was that good? No, no, no. Personally, when it comes to Domino's, I'm not looking at the thin crust pizza. I'm looking at that regular pizza, because they revamped it with the herbs on the crust. I fuck with it heavy. And I used to work at a laser tag place doing kids' birthdays all

the time, where we only ordered for Domino's. And I used to have to eat a lot of leftover thin crust pizza and i did not like it it just felt like i don't know just like a cracker with pizza toppings on it doesn't feel like a pizza to me i'm more about their public works right you've always said i'm i'm really about their civil conservation core efforts that they've been doing along with the conservation corps of los angeles county uh but yes the the this new thing is just kind of hilarious to me because the way they're marketing this whole fixing the potholes

thing is they put a camera like in a box to be like look how fucked up your pizzas get with these potholes and like i think they were off-roading because this shit was flying everywhere but again when you look inside i mean i'm sure you've had a pizza get delivered and it is like a little wacky or something it It's been years. Yeah. But so their whole thing is, all right, we're fixing the potholes. And apparently right now they're fixing, just not everywhere, but a few cities, including Burbank, California. They fixed five potholes.

Bartonville, Texas, eight potholes fixed. 40 holes fixed in Milford, Delaware. And another 150 potholes filled in Athens, Georgia. So they're doing their thing. This is actually, I feel like, the beginning of what they described in Demolition Man with the Franchise Wars. Yeah. When Taco Bell became the supreme winner of the Franchise Wars. I feel like this is how this kind of shit starts.

We're going to get a president sponsored by, like, fucking the Chalupa Nuts or something. We're nearly there. I mean, based on the shit that went down at that summit, I feel like we're very close. I mean, Trump is basically sponsored by McDonald's based on his... Everything about him. I co-sign. Yeah, it's this whole governing by

PR stunt thing that is like, I love it. Great gesture and 40 holes fixed in Milford, Delaware seems like they're going above and beyond what would be required. You know, like fixing a couple in a big city would seem to be what you would do if you were just in it for the PR pop. So that that's a lot of potholes. But at the same time, it seems like the sort of thing that everybody will lose interest in within a week.

And also a commentary on how terribly ran these municipal governments are. You're like, Domino's is like, I'm sorry, we're going to just fix it. And then they're being catty too because once they patch the pothole, they're putting a stencil on with the Domino's logo. It's like, yeah, we did it. Yeah, we did that. The fact, like this being a sign of how the government has failed is maybe the worst thing about this to me.

But overall, I just keep trying to, I look at it and go like, capitalism is fucking whack, a sign of how the government has failed is maybe the worst thing about this to me but overall i just keep trying to i look at it and go like capitalism is fucking whack but this is maybe a good thing and i'm just kind of like i i hope that this turns into a successful thing and other companies try this venture like i want to see like habitat for humanity sponsored by wendy's just housing a bunch of homeless people yeah it's like the local little league park being sponsored by Wendy's just housing a bunch of homeless people. Yeah. It's like the local little league park being sponsored by the, you know, real estate firm. Right.

Right. Right. The local dentist or whatever. But do it like into real public works though. You know what I mean? Like going nationwide with it. That's kind of an interesting. Like we're fixing potholes.

Yeah. We're, we're causing like, we're going to fix the housing problems in certain cities. But then I also want the government to turn around and be like, Oh, okay. This is embarrassing for us now. So we have to. Right. No, anything. They'll just beat those slash the budgets government to turn around and be like, oh, okay, this is embarrassing for us now,

so we have to... If anything, they'll just slash the budgets even more. They'll be like, dude, Domino's will pay for that shit. They'll be like, we're doing 10 more military parades. We're not changing your taxes. Do you fuck with Domino's Pizza?

I do fuck with Domino's Pizza. I was actually going to say I might agree with him on the thin crust. Wow. Sorry, it's good. They're right. Look, that's fine. I don't need...

It doesn't matter what y'all think. I live my truth. Look who's wildly outnumbered. It's that's fine. I don't need, this doesn't matter what y'all think. I live my truth. Look who's wildly outnumbered. It's not about numbers. My mom told me, just have your own judgment. And that's what you will win with. Your mom told you to have your own judgment? Yeah.

Sure. And here I am. And I got all my friends to smoke weed. So tell me where that power dynamic's at. All right, we're going to take a break. But now they're off of Domino's. Yeah, that's true. All right, we're we're gonna take a quick break we'll be right back definitely caruana galicia was a maltese investigative journalist who on october 16th

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huge. People are searching the fuck out of that on Google. The kiddies love it. People are mad. But the Singapore summit, guys. Oh, that little old thing. There are just so many details in this. First of all, I just need to ask the mainstream media. I've seen this on NPR, New York Times, lots of different places, CNN, where they're doing the,

well, we looked at their body language and brought in a body language expert there are no body language you can't get a PhD in body language those people are fucking like con men who convince you to put them on the air body language experts are just the guy who at night put on like feather caps and just go pick up women at bars

pull like the game on people but there are some amazing details from this meeting. Actually, one person who would be expert on body language, Kylie Minogue. Yeah. Her album, Body Language. Okay, never mind. Bye.

Nope. Nope. We're keeping that. We're keeping that, Nick. No, keep that. It stays. I'm not ashamed. That's going to work for a lot of people.

Yeah. A lot of people are going to be like, no, not in the room at all. I was going to say that or Body Party by Ciara. Anyway. I thought you were going to say Ciara. That's Body Party. And I be like, no, not in the room at all. I was going to say that or Body Party by Ciara. Anyway. I thought you were going to say Ciara and then I forgot. That's Body Party and I was like, wait, body language? Kylie. I'm glad that you had a backup ready to go.

I know, look at that. I take L's very comfortably on this show. So the first most amazing thing, I mean, let's just cover the overall coverage. LA Times is the only mainstream media outlet that is like not normalizing this, like are not just using a trump quote as the headline right because i guess up top they met right and they came out and yesterday i was saying watch the president signed something and they're they'll call it a win he did not put him in a headlock he did not like nothing just disastrous happened oh yeah so they came out and

they were like yay look we shake hands blah blah. And I've just acted like this human rights violator is a cool guy. But yeah, every sort of headline was just like this spinny version of it and not like an objective reporting of it. So, yeah, like I was pointing out this morning, the New York Times, Trump and Kim see new chapter for nations after summit. Washington Post, Trump-Kim summit. Trump says we have developed a very special bond at end of historic meeting wall street journal kip uh trump kim begin new phase of diplomacy la times trump and kim agree to more talks but fail to produce nuclear disarmament plan right like that's what the fuck happened yeah like so everybody who oh my god look what he did look this

is the whole thing i mean yes this is sure he he met with kim jong-un like no president has had because they chose not to because doing that uh validates his uh sort of existence as a leader and gives him the normalizes him as a leader which is not something we're trying to do a lot of presidents knew that was the thing that they wanted north korea and we gave that to him but other that, not really much happened aside from the U.S. giving a lot away. This feels like the global version of when people, like Nazis online,

would just be like, oh, if you stick by your ideals, then debate me on them. It's like, yeah, but if we debate, then I'm accepting that it's something that you might have a reason to believe, and it's like, no, fucking get rid of your nukes. You're putting it on equal footing, essentially. And that's what they wanted.

And even the buildup to it, they were very adamant about everything being equal to the number of flags, to the number of support staff that would be in the meeting and everything like that. Everything was meant to look like they were on equal footing, that North Korea is on equal footing with the United States. Weirdly, the only other media outlet that I'm seeing be kind of overtly skeptical in their headlines is the Drudge Report, which they just seem to be kind of sounding that like, Trump surprises with pledge to end military exercises in South Korea,

but denuclearization details scant. Like those are the top two stories. So it seems like maybe on the conservative side, other than Fox News news which there's a great video that compares how that how fox news talked about obama just saying he might meet with kim and this meeting and it's amazing but uh this is a sign that maybe some on the conservative side aren't like totally on board well ben shapiro was even bitching about like him meeting with kim because they're like why is he doing this because you know some people agree that like this this is not a friend of the united states it's not someone to treat as your homeboy and what's funny too i remember people were showing how when obama went to cuba because everyone's like well he went to cuba and blah blah blah i remember when castro tried to like lift his arm up and and obama was

just like don't raise my hand with you dog And he was just trying to like did the most limp arm thing. Meanwhile, and then you juxtapose that with Trump like hugging him, being like, this guy's so talented. Like what the fuck is he talented? The fucking quotes he has of saying like, wow, his people really love him. He must be doing something right. It's just like I... Is that based off what

he told you? Yeah. Or his staff that was there and like, we love Supreme Pizza. He truly does like report the last thing that anyone told him as like, well, I guess that's the fact. That's what is so dangerous about like starting conversations. You would think that this is like, it's got to be a good thing that they're not threatening each other. But putting anyone in a room with Trump, it's just he takes whatever they're saying as fact. Well, yeah. What do you think about it, though? Part of me, you know, I think before we were like,

well, nothing's going to happen. Trump's predictable. But there were so many moments where you could tell that Trump being just not a smart leader was kind of confusing to Kim Jong-un. Like there's a moment where they were like setting up for a lunch. He's like, yeah, take a picture of us and make us look real thin and handsome or whatever. And then the camera pans over to Kim Jong-un and he's like, what the fuck is this dude talking about? I am thin. Right. And then in the meeting, we find out that Trump played Kim Jong-un on an iPad, a four minute video of like a fake trailer to a fake movie.

four minute video of like a fake trailer to a fake movie that was basically like a weird trailer to like capitalism slash world peace yeah but it's almost like how a fortune 500 company in the early 2000s would have like introduced a new insurance plan or something like it's just like this like really whack like poorly put together conglomeration of fucking stock footage and shit that's just well here we'll play some audio some audio and then i will describe some of the imagery right and just consider the fact that this is the beginning of a video that donald trump is showing to fucking kim jong-un as they talk about possible denuclearization clearly that didn't happen but uh this is how we are using diplomacy history is always evolving and there comes a time when only a few are called upon to

make a difference but the question is what difference will the few make the past doesn't have to be the future out of the darkness can come the light. And the light of hope can burn bright. What the fuck? There can only be two results. One of moving back. Jesus Christ. This is insane. This is insane.

This is legitimate. This is something you would play if their dictator was a child, like a literal four-year-old who needed to be explained. Or if your dictator was a child and assumed that everybody else was at his same level. I wonder if people made this for Trump to be like, here's the briefing. He was just kind of like, look here, look for you. Like that's how they got Trump to figure out how he has to go into this? It's a binary choice.

A Destiny Pictures production? Yeah. Geez. They open, guys, with a card. A card. Like it's a movie opening and it says a Destiny Pictures production. It ends with from Destiny Pictures featuring President Donald Trump and Chairman Kim Jong-un. And the quote from Donald Trump is something about how I see great

possibilities and very presidential. And Kim Jong-un's line is, we will no longer have to tighten our belts, which suggests that's not something you would put in there if this was made for Kim Jong-un. So I think your theory might actually be accurate that they made this as a way of getting him like fucking psyched up for the meeting. And he was just like, yo, look how tight this is. I love just imagining that there is like a high schooler with After Effects who's just been off. After Effects?

My God. Okay, sorry. Sony Vegas. Maybe. Windows Movie Maker. Yeah. Like an old version who just got hired out of high school

just to do this to explain everything I'm pretty sure there was a fucking star wipe in it the editing already from working in production I couldn't handle how Bush League the editing was too and it's just

it looks like something even a North Korean video editor would be like fam you can come harder than this. You're doing cross dissolves? Just a description of the imagery that isn't Kim Jong-un and Trump are a herd of wild horses galloping across like water, speedboats racing each other. Well, when the word prosperity is mentioned, that's the thing is like prosperity. Speedboats? It's two speedboats racing. Oh my is mentioned, that's the thing is like prosperity. Speedboats? It's two speedboats racing.

Oh my fucking God. There's no way this was not. Through the keys. There's no way Kim Jong-un is like interested in speedboats. Right. Right. Well, they do throw him a bone because at one point they say something positive and they show a slam dunk.

But literally. Like a dude dunking in the worst stock footage, fake basketball uniform you've ever seen. It's like this like purple thing. I think it's a Kroger or something. So it was so bland and generic. Like a video of Dennis Rodman. Right. Hey, that's what we said.

You couldn't just pull it off the flu game or the shot. You think the NBA would be like, we got to ask you to take this down, my guy. I bet they would. Honestly, we don't want to be a fuck world piece. We got to protect Brian Russell's image. Dealing with i don't we don't want to be a fuck world peace right we got to protect brian russell's image dealing with this shit i don't we don't want to get involved right maybe baseball now they would tell them to take it down but but there's also a message in there so you you heard him say like there's two different directions you can take it and they it's basically part of it is a trailer for capitalism where you see like time-lapse footage of buildings being built and like cars being built huge complexes on the beach like this is what we're gonna do for you kim

jung-un and then like in the middle it's like or we can go backwards and then they just like show a bunch of missiles being launched and like the fucking film melting like that effect from like movies about nuclear apocalypse so it's basically like, hey, we want to be your friend or we'll kill you. This is like an AP history class project. Yes. It really has that vibe. This is something that I could have seen be made back when I was in school,

which was a long time ago. So guys, Jesus Christ. There's a quote when Trump, they asked him, he's like, I think he loved it. That's what he said about the... Oh the – he said the optimistic outcome could, quote, very well be the future. And then when they asked if he was worried that North Koreans could use it as propaganda, as they often do, he goes, no, not at all. We can use that for other countries.

Just dust it off and put it in someone else's face. Yes. And this is our new diplomacy. Show them the pump- up video for capitalism. So I do just want to highlight something, Miles, that you mentioned, because I think this meeting had both my favorite moment of just Trump being Trump fuckery and also just a perfect explication of like what is horrifying about the idea of this meeting. So first of all, you talked about they're at this photo op, they're about to sit down and Trump turns the camera and says, are you taking good pictures? Make us look handsome and skinny. And it's just like such a great passive aggressive. That's where he's great. He's great at being like a catty bitch who likes to gossip about people because there's a great footage of him saying that. And then like the office, like pan over to Kim Jong-un and he's just like blinking.

Like what the fuck? What the fuck did you just say about me? He's like, in my country, I would have you hit with anti-air artillery. Right. Point blank. Just like next time we have this meeting,

just come stop by. Come check out this, uh, missile launcher. Yeah. Just acknowledging that he, like Trump is a fat guy is just a brilliant bit of, like, I'm sure spur of the moment, like, diplomacy.

One hundred percent. Because nobody has ever told that dude. I bet that is the moment where he's just like, no, I'm keeping these nukes. Right? Yeah, fuck you. Or if I fucked him up, too. Right. Because also, I'm sure he probably expects to meet a president.

He'd be like, hey, okay, what's good, motherfucker? Let's sit down. Yeah. Figure this out. Meanwhile, he's like, oh, hey, hi, what's good, motherfucker, let's sit down, figure this out. Meanwhile, he's like, oh, hey,

hi, what's up, what's cool, I'm Donald, hi, you're Kim, cool, you have a cool suit on,

I love your hair, you're very talented. And he's like, what did I do? Like, that's also one to know, was there a talent aspect to this thing?

For him to be like, he's very talented, very talented. He did a Kendama demonstration. Why would his people love him otherwise? I only know one language, he seems to know another one that's pretty impressive.

I don't know what it was. I think it might have been some Game of Thrones stuff. It was definitely Game of Thrones. The scariest quote or like the one that is just like the most pathetic was in the aftermath in Trump's interview with George Stephanopoulos. I think we have it queued up. He trusts me, I believe. I really do i mean he said openly and he said it to a couple of reporters that were with him that he knows that no other president ever

could have done this i mean no other he knows the presidents he knows who we had in front of me he said no other president could have done this i think he trusts me and i trust him bring it back to obama could have what? Because you didn't succeed. So it kind of sounds like you're saying, like, you know, other presidents, they would have, this would have been done. Yeah, well, no, that's a horrible mischaracterization of how this works. It's not that no one couldn't have done it. They refused to do it because they were like, no, you will not have a seat with the sitting president of the United States until you've actually made gestures.

Some concessions. Yeah, that we can tell you are serious about this because this is the same shit. And a lot of critics are saying even this four point deal they signed or this whatever, this agreement or declaration is the language is even weaker than past similar agreements that we've engaged in with North Korea and like so with past administrations. What does the declaration even entail? It's just so vague. It's like we have security assurances and they're committed to the denuclearization of the peninsula. There's nothing about CVID, which is like the real thing that everyone's talking about,

complete, verifiable, irreversible denuclearization. That is like one thing everyone's like, yo, until you have that, you don't have shit. The only reference to denuclearization that is concrete is referencing back to the South Korean agreement that they already made. So it's like, yeah, we already made our concession and Trump gave him the concrete. We will no longer do the military exercise. And who knows if we even follow through on that? Because that I mean, those are coming up soon because South Korea immediately like they were like, we're going to need a second to figure out what the fuck this dude just said. Right.

In regards to the halting of military exercise. But that quote, that part where he describes how Kim said he's the only president who could have done it, it's like the one sort of worst case scenario was Kim was having this meeting because he heard from the Chinese dictator that if you just tell this guy

whatever he wants to hear, he'll be eating out of your hand. And like, that's exactly what that sort of exchange, that description seems to imply. Like, I almost should be viewed skeptically because it's being said by a mass murderer who is trying to get something from you. Right. But he was just like, he likes me. He really likes me more than Obama. What about the human rights stuff, Trump? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, we'll talk about that. Right.

I didn't say he was nice. I fully believe there's just a group text of like the world's dictators just like, you can fucking anything. It's a goddamn rub of land. They're like, yo, Kim just fucking really went there. They're like, okay. All right, Kim, I see you. Right.

Assad is next. Right. Who knows? I mean, the thing which is also just so interesting, I almost believe that maybe Trump made that up because he was speaking Korean, and he was like, what did he say? Did he say that I was the only president that could do this?

Right. And they're like, yeah, maybe. Yeah, that's what I thought he said. So that's what he said to the other people who speak another language that'll take very long for you to figure out if that's what they actually said. He just saw it was going well and was's like i don't think any other president can do this right and uh kim just maybe not and he's like yeah that's a good that's a good sure

asshole whatever you write it also just the beginning of that quote too where he's just like he liked me i think i just seem so so needy yeah so fucking thirsty so needy and so weirdly not honest but just like of all the things to say in this interview when he clearly just wants to get to Obama couldn't do this for him to be like, I think it went well is so strange. Yeah. I don't know. His brain is broken. Yeah, it would seem to be. Well, I mean, the cool Kim Jong Un.

I mean, just look at the Iran deal and then let me know if you're still comfortable making deals with this country. Right. I mean, just look at the Iran deal and then let me know if you're still comfortable making deals with this country. Right. Because it's funny, too. For all that shit he was talking about the Iran deal, this dude comes with the weakest fucking language possible for this agreement and isn't really even pushing, pressing the fact after it, you know, about like, no, like we got to really make sure. It's like, oh, you know, this is a first. This is a start. And that's why some people were speculating that that's why it, the trip was cut short of like, oh, we're not even need another few days or whatever is because secretly they

weren't able to actually get the kinds of concessions they really wanted. And we're like, well, fine, let's cut it short. We'll just call this a meet and greet for now. And then we can come back to the negotiating table because it wasn't like anything that's an actual win, including when he said, oh, well, they destroyed that test site and blah, blah, blah. Kim Jong-un has made that clear that he did that on his own because he was demonstrating to the world that he's a reasonable nuclear superpower now or whatever.

It wasn't because of pressure. He was like, no, I'm doing it because, you know, I'm not trying to scare everybody. Yeah. So. Yeah, man. The comparison between this and the Iran deal is pretty crazy. But. Yeah.

Where's the verification here in this one, my guy? Yeah. Because they haven't even given justification for doing either. It's just optics, you know, and great. Everybody can go rah, rah, rah in their MAGA hats and act like, you know, this dude just 4D-chested him. But, I mean, there was nothing in here that suggests that anyone is going to do what they say they are going to do with the United States included. And Trump has proven many times that if someone says that they didn't do something bad, he just goes, I believe him. Like all of the Putin shit.

He just came out of every meeting just going, he says he didn't do it and I believe him. And we're like, you have multiple agencies telling you that there is proof that this happened. I asked him and he didn't do it. It's like he killed his uncle with an artillery cannon. I know. Point blank. He said he didn't do it asked him and he didn't do it. It's like he killed his uncle with an artillery cannon. I know. Point blank. He said he didn't do it. He said he didn't do it.

He said it'd be very messy and a waste of ammo. Show me the video. Show me the car facts. For people who don't know what artillery cannon, that's an anti-aircraft gun that will disintegrate your body with a single strike. Is there even a word for what would happen to you? I don't know. It's so fucking violent.

Yes. But on the other hand, we do think that Trump might have picked up a new idea for what to do with his poop. Yeah. Because Kim Jong-un brought his own sort of port-a-potty, like high-end port-a-potty thing that contains his poop so that no intelligence agencies could get to his shit. Do we talk about shit too much on this show now? No, no, no. We've talked about it on the last three episodes. This is the Daily Bow Movement.

There's a new show. Daily Shite Geist? Yeah, there you go. Well, that's what your haters will call you. Yeah, the Daily Shize Geist. Anyway, so, yeah, what's funny is, dude, Kim Jong-un was, there were reports even leading up to this that he was afraid someone was going to try and assassinate him while he was there. So to say the least, a man who's only left the country like three times since taking power

might be a little paranoid because there were apparently like decoy planes that were like being dispatched to like confuse people. He brought his own unpoisoned food. And the toilet was just the other part of his comfort package. Yeah, I mean, he traveled to his ally, China, in a bulletproof train. So this dude does not... Like literally the one from Snowpiercer, I think. He's not fucking with his own safety. But yeah, so that is a thing that they were really worried about

was containing his bowel movements. And you think it seems paranoid. And then you learn that Stalin's secret police actually stole other world leaders' poop and sent them to a secret lab to construct psychological profiles on them. And, you know, now it's starting to sound pretty smart. And according to an ex-CIA person who super producer Nick Stumpf heard interviewed. Hangs out with. Yeah. This is something.

His neighbor Rick. This is something that U.S. intelligence operations do all the time because, you know, everything is revealed in people's shit. Yeah. Medications, illnesses, pathogens. It's all there. How has that not been like an entire episode of Veep? Just someone stealing their shit and having to get it back yeah just with like just like uh one time used chopsticks and like a doggy bag yeah i'm gonna

chop it up uh anyways that's the best story from this from this summit well the other thing too is to know that beyond this this is like normal because he has like a shitting car too that he uses in north korea like with a toilet built into it. Yeah, because I mean, it's funny because in the quote where they talk about that, the person, the spokesperson references his regular morning shits that he takes. He's like, if he doesn't take a shit in the morning like normal, then he will have to travel in like an extra secure shit car. But it's just funny that he both knows about his shitting routine throughout the day and also assumes knowledge on behalf of the North Korean people on it. Like, if he doesn't take the morning trip to the restroom.

His usual morning shit. That's like me. Wow. Maybe I should talk to him. Like, we got a lot in common, bro. It's so funny that every time I hear Trump doing something crazy, there's no justification for it that works for me. But then you give me, like, oh, so Kim Jong-un shits. He has a special toilet he carries around.

I'm like, that's fucking whack. Ten minutes later, I'm like, now that makes sense. He's going to protect himself. Yeah, can't have your shit stolen. Can't have your shit stolen. Yeah, because they're saying even Mao, Mao Zedong had his shit stolen by Stalin. So I guess when you're in that world of still thinking how the Soviets move and shit, that really, you're always thinking like, yo, got to keep these shits under lock and key yeah they found trump shit

they got a piss tape he's like no i don't need that happening to me right i mean i i think one last thing that i just do want to bring up is you know we talked a lot of shit about dennis rodman being there uh you know and what was the most wild thing i had ever heard was people like james clapper uh and other people in the intelligence community like admit on the air be like you know a Dennis Rodman may be a good bridge to Kim Jong-un and being like yeah he might he might have someone going here and you know a lot of people were laughing at him not to say that he even really contributed to this specific summit but he definitely was there in his MAGA hat and pot coin t-shirt in one of the more bizarre fucking moments I think I've seen on TV like weeping

about how happy he was about this on CNN just I've listened to this awesomeness I guess everybody said the door will open and it was amazing it's amazing it's amazing it's amazing

it's amazing when I said those things when I said those damn things It's amazing. It's amazing. It's amazing. It's amazing. When I said those things. Oh, God. When I said those damn things. When he breaks down the towers. When I went back home, I got so many death threats. I got so many death threats.

I was sitting there protecting everything. And I believed in our career. And when I went home, I couldn't even go home. I couldn't even go home. I had to hide out for 30 days. Okay. Well, look. He's like a priest.

Yeah. I had to hide out. I had no idea. I couldn't go home because I was evicted. But I couldn't go home. Look, Dennis Rodman, you aren't the guy you think you are, but you do have the honor of knowing both of these people the distinct honor of being like clapper did yeah like he was like yeah i mean he is one

of the only bridges that we had prior to trump meeting with him to kim jong-un and you pointed out that it almost felt like james clapper who at the time of that meeting was the head of the CIA, director of the CIA, like that he was trying to maybe develop him as an asset or something. Well, that was it. Him saying that does give credence to this idea that he was maybe a CIA asset or had been approached by the CIA

prior to going to North Korea with the Harlem Globetrotters or that that was maybe part of a whole other thing to be like, look, bro, he fucks with the bulls. And you're the weirdest one we could get. Jordan is not down. Yeah. Bill Wennington did not want to go. Oh, the CIA definitely has approached Michael Jordan about going to meet him, for sure. You think so?

But Michael Jordan is such an asshole that they're probably like, actually, no. Michael Jordan probably would probably have fucked the meeting up worse than Donald Trump. Too competitive. He'll be like, who the fuck are you? Right. Get the fuck out of my seat. You like cigars? You like my big ass hoop earring?

What shoes you got? Yeah. What are those? Literally, what are those, my man? Because they're not fucking Jordans. How long do you guys think it'll be until a rapper brags about having a shit car? And who do you think it'll be? I bet Young Thug did that two years ago.

We just missed it. Yeah, right. Before anybody knew. Oh, so Clapper, he was the DNI, Director of National Intelligence, back in 2010 and 2017. My bad, Jim. I had to fact check myself. All right. We're going to take another quick break. And then we'll finally get to the

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this very show, about the fact that Ted Cruz referred to a basketball hoop as the basketball ring while visiting Indiana. And so presumably has never picked up a basketball hoop. Not true. They say that he played varsity hoops in high school. Who knows what that means, though.

That's when literally the only play they did was a three-man weave. He means like pushing hoops with a stick. Yeah, exactly. Varsity hoops. That game, I was so funny. I was just talking this weekend to my friends about that. What the fuck was that game? Just throw a wooden hoop down the street and just prod it with a stick and run around?

This is a time where there are 10 objects in the world. You do what you can. Yeah, right. Exactly. Anyway. It's rolling. I digress. Back to this story.

Yeah. We'll see what happens. So it all started because after game 7 Kimmel said some shit about Ted Cruz looking like a blobfish which he kinda does and then Cruz was like

alright we'll bring your punk ass to the court and get rolled the fuck up we're gonna play one on one basketball and so this Saturday at the

Texas Southern University they are going to be playing one on one in what should be the most low-energy, uninteresting game between two Caucasian men. Yeah. Just balling out of control. They don't, like, get to draft their own teammates or anything?

No. That would be so funny. As they put it, baller versus blobfish. So we'll see what happens. I don't—Kimmel a baller? I don't think we're— I don't know. I think Kimmel's probably gonna get his ass kicked

if Cruz played varsity hoops I would love to see that and like watch Kimmel's like a Ted Cruz the nasty drop step I don't wanna

see proof that Ted Cruz is good at anything I don't either I don't either but I would also laugh so hard if like Ted Cruz

actually was on some like Uncle Drew shit yes hit fucking Kimmel with like a nice jab step have him falling back fade away like get the fuck out of here or if they just have like Steve Nash and Ted Cruz makeup

it's such a fake fucking scam oh I love it I have to see this because it's probably gonna be one of those things that anyone who's ever even played half a minute of any sport will instantly be like I'm better than these assholes get me in here I'm definitely using this matchup of all time. I feel good about myself.

He definitely throws like granny style, right? I don't know. We'll find out. All shots. He like has a step back jumper, but it's granny style. Oh, shit. He's just going to like pull fouls. He's just, oh, great.

I'm granny shot. Yo, imagine if he does the two-handed dribbling with both hands. Oh, wow. Honestly, you know there are going to be so many GIFs to come out of here. That'll be how I see it. That's really what this is for. They're giving meme fuel to the internet. Sure.

And we have to move on to the relationship everybody's talking about. Yes. Domino's on the street. And Pete Davidson are engaged. We just found out they were dating and were incredulous, still incredulous, and suddenly now they're engaged again, matching tattoos. That's where you know.

You never get the tattoo. I don't know anybody who is younger, got the tattoo, and they're still together. It's worrisome, but at the same time, I want so much to just be like, maybe they'll work it out and just try to be happy for them. But just so many things about this just point to it not being a wise idea.

I mean, they're both in, or like Pete Davidson's new out of recovery and Ariana Grande. They both just broke up with people. Yeah. It's got that, Miles, you were saying, it has that like your friends who just got out of rehab. Yeah, exactly. It's like they get out of rehab, but they already fell in love with somebody at rehab.

And they're like, oh, and you want to feel good because you're like, well, you're happy. Yeah. You're projecting all that good and healthy shit onto another human being. Yeah. I mean, aside from all that, when I heard about the tattoos, that's when shit onto another human being. Yeah. I mean, aside from all that, when I heard about the tattoos, that's when I was like, nope. Yeah. I was willing to just be like, fine.

You've only known each other 24 days and you're engaged. Fine. It's going to be like Johnny Depp with his Winona Forever tattoos. Yeah. Got to change it. Right. I mean, I guess Jhene Aiko is still with Big Sean and she has that fucking whole Big Sean face tattoo. She's a face tattoo? Yeah.

Not his face on her. Not on her face. Oh, my God. Yeah. And everyone was like, oh, you better watch out. But no, they're still together. I gotta be with someone like 10 years before I even think about getting their initials or something.

That seems just like so much. That's a lot. On the other hand, dude, shout out to the men of SNL who are suddenly dating A-list celebrities. Pete Davidson's dating Ariana Grande. Engaged, my man. Engaged, too, Ariana Grande. And Colin Jost is dating Scarlett Johansson. Who'd have thunk?

Look, man. Funny wins. Adam Sandler is not out here dating, I don't know who the equivalent is. Ooh. Angelina Jolie. Yeah. Ooh. Angelina.

Ooh. Catherine Zeta-Young. Oh, yeah. Kevin. Yeah, well, look. You know, looks aren't everything, guys. They're both still, like, very handsome men. Yeah, for sure.

For sure. Pete Davidson looks like him and Rami Malek fell off the same tree, though. Those are both hot men. They got that hot Edward Scissorhands look. Yeah. Pale. The kind of pale where it's like, yeah, they're white, but they're not really white. Yeah, it's like trippy.

You're like, ooh, that's not regular. Like ghostly. Like, are you sickly or just mysterious? I want to figure out what's down there. Yeah. I need to know. I'm dating you, so I can do that 23andMe. And finally, millennials are staying at home to drink because going out, quote, takes too much effort.

Yeah. Good. It does. And this is a study that came out by Mintel, whatever they do. But they were showing that, like, I guess 55% of Americans, they like to drink at home, which makes sense. I mean, that's not like that crazy. But the stats that they're pointing to is from this study say that almost 3 in 10, 28%

of younger millennials, 24 to 31, drink at home because they believe it takes too much effort to go out. In comparison, only 15% of baby boomers agree it takes too much effort to drink away from the house because they just drink at Whole Foods and do that kind of weird shit. Now, is this like having friends over and drinking? Yeah, yeah. They like it because it's less effort. It's more personal. Some people say they can control their drinking at home more. I mean, I don't know what that means. I think you're probably more likely to drink less because you're broke. Right.

And also if you go to a bar, you don't know how strong they're going to make the drinks and shit like that. But if you really play, if you go out, you know what bars to get the heavy hand. Yeah. But this continues a trend. Like millennials don't fucking go to grocery stores anymore. Right. All of our food is delivered. Costco is too stressful.

So it makes sense that you're just retreat killing the diamond industry miles yeah i'm killing i'm killing the diamond industry propping up big avocado yeah you know i i do love this trend of news stories where it's just you know baby boomers just reacting to millennials doing cost saving things because the economy sucks and being like, look at this trend. You're ruining it. I invest so much in diamonds. Why? Kids these days. Well, yeah. Or also just blaming their own lack of ingenuity on the changing tastes of a younger generation and not being able to adapt.

That's also cool, too. Oh, it's their fault. Not because I think that we need to do everything in this set way. But I guess it gives a little bit of weight to the idea of a lot of these pop-up bars and restaurants. They're so wildly successful because like they give people like a place to flex their social media like i guess especially like in la like you think about that saved by the bell spot that they opened up the max or whatever and it was like powers one yeah and everyone just wants to go and be like look i'm at the max and like sad ass actor mr belding is there yeah dennis

haskins and also isn't that his name yeah like one of the main reasons people used to go to bars Sad-ass actor Mr. Belding is there. Yeah. Dennis Haskins. And also... Isn't that his name? Yeah. One of the main reasons people used to go to bars is to meet people, and now you have dating apps to do that for you. So you just have more efficient ways to do the things that people did at bars. But is it more... I guess there's efficiency in terms of outcomes to meet a mate,

but what happens is it takes away people, their skills to socialize in a healthy way. Because I feel like you are. Oh, for sure. Because I have friends, too, where a lot of these apps have, like, sort of enabled them to be even more awkward. Because, like, normally you'd be like, yo, we got to go out because this is the only fucking place to go. Right, right. We're going to drink at home and meet nobody. Right.

So, and then now it's like, well, I got the app. I got this, blah, blah, blah. And you're like, come on, man. Let's let the fucking light hit our skin. The sun hit it. Kiss our app. I got this, blah, blah, blah. And you're like, come on, man. Let the fucking light hit our skin. The sun hit it. Kiss our bodies. I got Windows, though. Yeah, right.

Windows is like, you know, in Ski Free, if you jump over the tree, it'll go on fire. Demi, it's been a pleasure having you, man. It's been a pleasure to be here. Where can people find you, follow you? I said you are a must follow, so. I am at Justin Bieber on Twitter. All right. Gotta see me. No, I am at Justin Bieber on Twitter Gotta see me

No I'm at Electro Lemon And on Twitter, Instagram Anything like that? Yeah both And also I do a podcast called Punch Up The Jam That you can subscribe to What do you do on Punch Up The Jam? We take music that most people know

Talk about how fucked up the lyrics are And then we rewrite the songs ah what's the latest one uh we just i'm trying to think what the last one we did is we did uh it wasn't me by shaggy uh-huh we're doing summer girls coming out this week how do you punch up it wasn't me to be less problematic well we don't make it less problematic we just put it in a different context and say, alright, this scenario would not work if he was in like, he killed somebody. Right. I mean, she even caught me on camera. Right. I was banging in the shower. Okay.

Those lyrics are crazy. Insane. The American pie of the fake reggae world. The thing that seems like it should have been a hundred years ago. That was actually only like 20 years ago. Miles, where can we find you? On Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Grey.

On your special toilet. On my special toilet, a.k.a. my squatty potty. You can follow me at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can follow us at Daily Zeitgeist on Twitter. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, dailyzeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes. Footnotes.

Link off to the information that we talked about on today's episode as well as the song that we ride out on. Miles, what's that going to be? Just, you know, a little more easy listening beat track after just a high-stress day. Just relax. This track is called That Thumb by Cook and Soul. And this is like a,

it sounds like you would think it's like a Cisco thing, but you know, it's more of a wacky instrumental track. Quick one. So yeah, enjoy that. All right.

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