The Daily Zeitgeist - Turns Out This Trump Guy’s A Real A***ole, Japan Goes Clear 9.4.18

Episode Date: September 4, 2018

In episode 224, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Madison Shepard to discuss Brett Kavanaugh's upcoming Supreme Court confirmation hearings, a 1950's murder case that could influence the Mueller case, Eminem's new album, the funeral of queen Aretha Franklin, California's latest legislative wins, Japan's pushing for clear beverages, In n Out supporting the GOP, and more!FOOTNOTES: 1. The Jesus de Galindez Case2. What to expect from Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation hearings next week3. Author Sues CIA for Info on Trujillo Victim4. CIA Archive5. Eminem’s surprise album Kamikaze is his best in years6. When We Almost Stopped Climate Change7. Aretha's Funeral8. Asian-American Students Suing Harvard Over Affirmative Action Win Justice Dept. Support9. Trump personally lobbying GOP senators to flip on Sessions10. Bombshell leak to Toronto Star upends NAFTA talks: In secret ‘so insulting’ remarks, Trump says he isn’t compromising at all with Canada11. California Just Became The First US State To Condemn Surgeries On Intersex Children12. California Is About to Abolish Cash Bail. Criminal Justice Advocates Aren’t Happy13. California passes trio of gun control bills, including lifetime ban on domestic violence convicts14. Crooked Media on Gillum15. Clear Beer? Don’t Judge a Drink by Its Color16. The future is clear: Companies testing transparent beer, coffee in Japan17. Democratic leader's call for In-N-Out Burger boycott meets its own resistance18. Brad Pitt's 'Make it Right' foundation faces lawsuit over degradation of New Orleans homes19. Rot wrecks Brad Pitt's hurricane homes: Actor's charity sues timber firm over claims wood used to rebuild houses in New Orleans was defective20. Hiatus Kaiyote - 13 By Fire Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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And you know that notion just crossed O'Brien. Yeah. Okay, wow. Hannah Soltis. Get your hats out. Out here. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Making your way in the zeit today takes everything you got.

Taking a break from all your worries is sure will help the pot. Wouldn't you like two miles gray? Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name and there's fire aks you want to be where you can see the takes are never lame you want to be where everybody's in zeitgang madison is like is this a musical? I don't understand what I signed up for. Oh, yeah, you signed up for that. And that, a.k.a., goes out to at Das Jose Reyes.

Jose Antonio Reyes, I think we've talked before because you have the name of a great Arsenal player. So thank you for that cheers-inspired a.k.a. One thing I did realize when I was listening to this song last night, there is a very odd lyric in there where one of the things is like, and your husband wants to be a girl yeah you're like what it's a really dark ass song yeah and i was like okay so we're just doing that whole yeah transphobic shit okay well theme song this ties into my fan theory about cheers which is that cheers is actually about a sad bar but it's from the perspective of drunk people,

so everybody is good-looking and funny at all times. So you're only seeing it through their eyes. But because the theme song is actually about very sad alcoholism, it's about you just want to get away, so you leave work and go hide out in a bar instead of going home. With other people who are getting fucked up. It's dark, man. It's dark.

Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the funny and talented and somewhat confused stand-up writer and actress Madison Shepard. Hi. Hi. Sorry. It's a weird way that we open this podcast. No, listen.

I know the campaign. I listened. I listened to Caitlin Durante's episode, which was great. I love her. AKA Latin dancer UTI. Yes, exactly. You can catch me on an episode of her podcast, The Bechdel Cast.

Yeah, I love that. What movie did you guys talk about? Girls Trip. Oh, nice. Yeah, it was really good. It was a lot of fun. It's a great podcast. And yes, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment.

But first, we're going to tell our listeners what we're going to be talking about today. We're just going to be previewing the upcoming week for you, telling you about the Kavanaugh hearing that is going to be going down, things to look out for. Also, a murder case from the 1950s that could fuck over the Mueller investigation, potentially, if we have time to get to it. We're going to talk about a album that was surprise released at the end of last week by an old white dude named Marshall Mathers. We're going to talk about climate change and an idea I have. We're going to talk about affirmative action. We're going to talk about how Trump is just a world-class asshole to Jeff Sessions, to his attorney general, to the nation of Canada. We're going to be talking about California, being out here just doing the most legislatively.

We're going to talk how the North Korea talks have stalled again, giving a little bit of an election preview slash an idea that occurred to me the other night while watching the Florida primaries. And we're going to talk about the latest trend in beverages in Japan, why In-N-Out Burger should have always been boycotted. Fuck In-N-Out Burger. It's not that good. Okay, let's calm down. Easy now.

Pump your brakes. And we're going to do a session of Boyd Watch. Boyd Watch. But first, Madison. Hi. What is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are as a human being? Recently, I've been Googling Drake a lot and figuring out, like, I basically am having, like, a 13-year-old boy band level crush on Drake right now. Really?

It's a lot. I Googled his baby mama, her artwork. I Googled her. Oh, wow. Every dimension. I was like, am I a viable romantic prospect for Drake? How do I like, I'm like, should I like get a, print out a photo of him and put it on my wall?

It's a lot. He's right now actually my own background. I'm having a problem. I just. Oh, wow. Standing in that little white. Like James Terrell looking. A little hotline bling.

I just. You know what? What happened? Why suddenly? Because Drake's been around. I mean, I know. But I didn't really fuck with him that heavy until like hotline bling. And then like something just switched me.

I think also like as a, you know, dating woman in my 30s recently uh in the last couple years i've just been dating a ton of mixed guys like other people with my same like racial background and it's been very uh great and so i'm like oh man like maybe i'm just like obsessing about drake because he reminds me of the dudes i date i don't know what's your racial background oh my mom's white, my dad's black. Okay, so you've been dating a lot of black, half black, half white men. Correct, yeah.

Got you. Drake is... Date is a loose term. Oh, oh. Can I say that? I mean, is that a little frisky? Is there anything I can't... What?

Dating is a loose term? Well, you know, I mean... Oh, yeah, no, we say all kinds of things. Okay, great. Terrible shit. Fuck you, want. I see, I've never found my... Yeah, I haven't found my black and East princess.

You just have to like, you know, she's out there. Yeah. Drake is the new Liam. It is the new name that when you say it on a playground with a bunch of two and three year olds around all heads turn. There are a ton of Drake's. No one swear to God.

And it's like white kids. Like everyone is named Drake. It doesn't matter of Drakes. Everyone, swear to God. And it's like white kids, like everyone is named Drake. It doesn't matter. Asian kids. Wow. Alright. Yeah. Cool. I mean, I don't think I get the sense like based on the parents that they don't think they're naming their child after Drake.

But they don't realize. Oh, it's a cool name. It's a family name. It's like, yeah, your family had a lot of names. Sir Francis Drake. Yeah, exactly. So cool name. It's a family name. It's like, yeah, your family had a lot of names. Sir Francis Drake. But we know why you really named him. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So Drake, very influential out here. So how do you see yourself with Drake? Do you think this will work if the two of you met up?

I mean, I tweeted recently that I was like, I just want to get famous enough to fuck Drake. So if I could just like make a little money, you know what I mean, get a little shine, I think it could happen. Right. You know what I mean? I think so

I'm gonna put it on my vision board I believe in you yeah yeah yeah you know and he's already got the Birkin bags for you wow when I heard that

I was like oh it's on yeah he's so emotional I love it he's like I've been all the bags for my future wife I saw that fucking interview

you know what I'm just like I'm at the starting line now with every other woman in the world deciding that they are gonna that Birkin bag collection is for them it's for me You know what? I'm just like, I'm at the starting line now with every other woman in the world deciding that they are going to, that Birkin bag collection is for them. It's for me.

I mean. Popular line of bags. What is something? Thank you. You could really give a shit less about those bags. No, no. I have spent a lot of time researching those bags. Why?

Young Tim Gunn over here. They're very expensive. They are very expensive. I want one. They are absurd. And they are a bag that you can go into the store and be told, sorry, we don't have the bag for you. For you, specifically.

Judgmentally, yes. Right, right, right. So it's pretty crazy. What is something you think is overrated? Going live on social media, I think, is really overrated. Number one, most people don't have the pull, the draw to have numbers to benefit from it. I watched a friend go live, and it was just him and his boyfriend walking in Miami. And it was just me, like, literally.

I was like, we could just be FaceTiming. Nobody else. Oh, show me what's over there. Just, like, you know, engaging. I was like, show me what's over there I was just like you know engaging this is very dumb and like unless you're like Cardi B or something like no one gives a shit about your going live it's pathetic

do you remember the first time you ever went live cause I do cause it was the same thing where I did it and like three people showed up and I just got so embarrassed for myself I just turned it off I was like no no no that did not go how I thought it would I tried to go live at the women's march in DC but conveniently there was no cell service. Could not get a signal.

Thanks, Sprint. But I've never actually gone live. Oh, so you're like philosophically opposed to it in a way. You know what? I just have self-respect. You know what I mean? Like I actually like want to protect the brand a little. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Don't let them see everything. I mean, they already see my low like levels. You know know what i mean like they don't need to be reminded in another form like oh she's really ancient you know can they see how many people are joining them on the live stream yeah everybody can see and i just i feel a certain amount of judgment when i even get an alert that like this person's going live i'm like why the fuck do they think it's never somebody cool yeah it's never think I want to watch what they're doing right now? It's never somebody you want to see live. Come on, man.

Whenever Mero goes live, it's just him smoking weed in his basement. Right. But then I watch and I'm like, man. I will watch famous people's lives, but I don't want to see my friends' lives. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Famous people keep doing it.

Our friends. Shout out to my friend, Rom, who was at a Wii spa in Koreatown and went live inside a Wii spa. And it was so foggy. I'm like, you brought your phone in the fucking steam room? Wow.

He does the most. What is a weed spa? Wii spa. Oh, Wii spa. The Korean spa. Got it, got it, got it, got it. I just assumed it was some cool weed thing that I didn't know about.

Oh, there's probably that too. That's when you smoke a blunt in the bathtub. That's probably a million dollar idea. You know what I mean? Oh, ae Spa. The Korean spa. Got it, got it, got it. I just assumed it was some cool weed thing that I didn't know about. Oh, there's probably that too. That's when you smoke a blunt in the bathtub. That's probably a million dollar idea. You know what I mean? Oh, Wee Spa? Yeah. We just accidentally invented. Get some VC money for this.

Madison, what's something that's underrated? Something that's underrated is McDonald's soft serve ice cream. Ooh. Is McDonald's soft serve ice cream. Ooh. Number one as, you know, somebody who is lactose intolerant. It's the only ice cream that's like not specifically like non-lactose that I can actually eat. Because guess what?

It's not made with anything. It's made of nothing. I never get sick when I eat it. And so like I feel like it needs to get its props. Just frozen sugar water basically. Is there no lactose in it? I mean there might be. But like i've never gotten sick from eating it you know not very calorically dense either like it's pretty it's pretty light and fluffy it's like mostly air it's quote unquote frozen yogurt you know what i mean is it i mean that's what they that's what they claim right

yeah mcdonald's you ever do the thing where you just get the soft serve ice cream in a cup and then you get the apple pie, and then you just fucking fuck the shit up in a cup and eat it like that? You know what? I don't smoke weed, so I don't. Oh, yeah. My God. I know.

Man, I do so many kinds of menu hacks at McDonald's. Wow. Holler at me. The McSurf and Turf? Do you do the McSurf and Turf? Oh, yeah. They'll do that for you, too. Well, I don't want them to know I'm doing it.

I like to act like I got a lot of kids back here I got to feed. And then I'm just in the parking lot. What is the McSurfin' turf? Oh, you take a double quarter pounder with cheese. Wow. And you get a Filet-O-Fish. And you open it up and you put the fish square. Patties.

Fish patties. Kind term. I call it the fish square. And you put it in between. And then you have it. It's just a fucking Filet-O-Fish. That sounds fucking disgusting. Oh, it is.

It is. It is. But again, you don't smoke weed. Right. It's true. It's true. So-Fish. That sounds fucking disgusting. Oh, it is. It is. It is. But again, you don't smoke weed. Right. It's true. It's true. So when that happens, the bar vanishes. That's real.

What I get at McDonald's is I always get the caramel sundae, but with caramel on top and the bottom. Ooh. And they'll do that for you? Yeah. Yeah, because they want me to get diabetes. They're like, do you want your teeth in 10 years? Probably not.

They're like, how's your foot? How 10 years? Probably not. How's your foot? Yeah. Ready to lose it. Still on? Here you go. All right, sugar foot. There is a strong, small, silent cult following for the Filet-O-Fish that I'm just kind of learning about where I'll hear one person say it and then one other person in the room

will be like, oh, yeah, fuck with that. For real. But I need to try it again. You've never had the flavor? I think I haven't had it since I was a kid. It's disgusting, but I love it. It's really great. It's not really fish either, I don't think.

Well, it's Alaskan haddock is what they call it on the box. Haddock? Yeah. You're not going to find that on any sushi menus. No, no. Alaskan haddock. Or poll're not gonna find that on any sushi menus no no but you know it's just or pollock maybe or whatever i mean it's like whatever the general white fish they use for that right they make it seem like it's sustainably farmed or grown in a lab yeah uh finally what is a myth what's something people think is true that you know to be false um there's a myth that goes around that's pretty prevalent um that ellie has

no culture and um you know on one hand i don't want to tell you that yeah we do have culture because then like you'll keep moving from wherever the fuck you're from and ruining my city but also like actually it has a ton of culture it has a lot of museums and gardens and food and entertainment like whatever the fuck kind of entertainment you want you can get it at any time basically um i think there's a lot of culture here there's outdoors cool like there's just outdoors culture that is definitely something i just made up to prove my own point but like there's like all sorts of it's like hiking out but when i hear outdoors culture i mean yeah there's surfing there's you know there's so much to do what do you think wait so what do you think is the credit when people say culture you think it's like hiking. When I hear outdoors culture, I mean, yeah. There's surfing. There's, you know, there's so much to do. Wait, so what do you think is the credit?

When people say culture, you think it's usually tied to like, well, y'all don't have museums. Yeah, but we do have a ton of museums. Or an identity as a city. Yeah, well, I think they're comparing us to New York, which is an older city than us. It's one of the first cities in the United States. So, of course, it's going to be different from this from this like you know under 200 year old city New York is like hundreds of years old yeah so here's the thing so everything out here is really well preserved so even though it's a young city like a lot of the houses are like from the early

1900s and shit so there is like some time to it it's not like it was built on a grid from the 1800s like New York I think it's just a weak ass attack on L.A. for L.A. haters. But man, you read like a New Yorker article about the opening of the Gary Museum and they're just like throwing so much shade like for a city with zero culture. And it's just like, yo, what the fuck? There is like literally a Twitter blog that like just has quotes from the New York Times shading LA. Oh, really? Anytime they write about us, they're just like hateful about us.

I love it. They're just mad because their tacos are trash. That is so true. And you know what's funny? I have friends who are like born and raised Angelenos who have moved out there and lived there for like maybe 10 years at this point. And I go out there and they're like, I found the spot that has the tacos. And then you go and it's trash.

And I go and I'm like I'm like yo I gotta take your card you are not from LA anymore you think this is a taco right yeah they're like they put pineapple on the al pastor I'm like was it grilling from the top has it been there the whole time or they taking dull pineapple slices and just resting that on it's disgusting they just open the can and yeah no it almost is. And I was like, I was surprised. I mean, look, granted, they have, you know, their pizza's good too. Yeah, oh, the Greek food. I mean, we have a real, we lack Greek food.

That I'll give to New York because the Greek food in New York is like out of this fucking world. Diners. Yeah, yeah. Is that Queens? That's everywhere. Isn't Queens where all the main Greek diners used to be? Yeah. Astoria. Shout out to them to be? Yeah. Astoria.

Shout out to them. Yeah, shout out Astoria. My God, you don't get enough shine. I know. You're dope. I see you. I remember. We never had those Greek-themed coffee cups that they have out there.

Good food neighborhood, Astoria. Yes, it is. All right. Let's get into the stories. Something that's coming up this week, the Kavanaugh hearing. He is the least popular Supreme Court nominee with the public, according to polling. And that usually, usually like the three other least popular were people who did not get approved during their hearing. So we'll see.

He could be the guy who helps Trump if anything goes to the Supreme Court about presidential power. You saw this move from the jump, like what the reason was. Right. He could be the guy who helps Trump if anything goes to the Supreme Court about presidential power. Right. It's like you saw this move from the jump, like what the reason was. Right. Yeah, because McConnell was like, just don't select Kavanaugh because he has the biggest paper trail and that's going to slow things down. But Kavanaugh was the dude who had that presidential power thing. Yeah. You know.

was the dude who had that presidential power thing. Yeah. So, you know. Well, and I think when they were talking about, you know, when Kagan was being confirmed, they got 99% of the documents that, like, she handled at the White House. And with Kavanaugh, it's like something less than, like, 10%. Yeah.

Because there's just too much. Yo, he had his hands on all kinds of shit during the Bush administration that they're like, ooh, let's make sure. You know, like, they're hiding so much shit, and that's why everyone's being like, what are they hiding with the documents? And I think at the very least, if they want to have some semblance of equity here, at least let everybody review the documents.

But that just shows you how underhanded this whole process is. What if they're just hiding Kavanaugh's crayon drawings of George W. Bush? You know what I mean? What if it's really nothing like Kavanaugh's crayon drawings of George W. Bush? You know what I mean? Like what if it's like really nothing? Yeah. But something. But something. Yeah.

Apparently the like preparations they're going through, they're doing like mock hearings and like staging fake protests. Oh, really? Don't let this get you off your game when suddenly people are, you know, like pulling your card about, you know, X issue or whatever. Or inevitably when people will be there to protest because this is a Supreme Court seat, they stole again. And the Democrats are seemingly like OK to kind of pretend like they're going to oppose him. But there have been a lot of people like, OK, we had a good conversation. No one's gone full out being like, no, I will not vote for him or yes, I will vote for him. But I don't know. We'll see the math.

The Republicans have the votes, right? So, well, yeah, they have 51 seats. But I think with John McCain passing away now, it's 50 seats. So is that which is enough, right? Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, they need a defection for him not to get nominated. And who knows if that's going to happen?

It seems like it might just go down party lines. Yeah. But we'll see. Another story that's kind of a strange story with implications on the Mueller investigation. So there's this murder case from the 1950s. It's a weird case. There was a Columbia University professor who had a paper coming out that was critical of the Trujillo administration, I guess, in the, is that the Dominican Republic? Yeah, the regime. Yeah, the regime. Yeah, not administration, regime. And he suddenly disappeared and is believed to have been murdered by his regime.

And now there are questions as to whether the CIA was complicit in that because the CIA was tied up in all sorts of Central and South American strongmen and keeping them in power and strong so that no socialists came to power. Obviously, we would not want that. So there's now a legal battle. And it's basically they're trying to keep subpoenas from this case under wraps. And there's a chance that if they say that they can't have any report or an impeachment inquiry with a judge, that they would basically set precedent. If Republicans still control the House after the midterms, then McKeever's case could be super important because there was a law that allowed

independent councils in the 80s and 90s to send reports to Congress, which that was what happened with Clinton's impeachment. But that law actually expired in 1999. So it basically means that depending on the findings in this case, it could mean that we never get to see the Mueller report and Congress doesn't even get to see the Mueller report. Possibly, right. Yeah. But if the Democrats have the majority, then they could subpoena it and traditionally get their access to it. Right. But yeah, it's interesting how even these things, all because a CIA agent might have been on Trujillo's payroll, ends up being some kind of a threat to people getting the information about Mueller's findings. Right. Now, granted, people are saying that given the current

administration and the way things have leaked during the Trump administration, that even if the Mueller report was not able to be officially released, there's like a 100% chance that it would be leaked. We don't know that for sure because Mueller is pretty buttoned up. But this report would be released to some people and those people would probably leak that shit. Do you think that Meryl Streep will also star

in the movie about that? You know what I mean? Yeah, I know. Oh, shit. Isn't Ben Affleck in that movie? Am I crazy? Am I confusing it with Argo? I am.

Yep. Yes. Oh, yep. Yep. Sorry. Tom Hanks. Yeah. Tom Hanks, the other white man.

Tom Hanks. Tom Hanks. The Ben Affleck of the 80s. Slightly older white dudes. That's banana town. Yeah. It's wild. But, you know, it all makes sense it all makes sense

the 50s was a crazy time i was watching that wormwood documentary that was fucking bunkers what's the filmmaker's name who made thin blue line errol morris he made this like series for netflix and it's all about this dude who was a like government scientist who they dosed with lsd and then he basically started having second thoughts about all sorts of government programs and then he jumped out a window of his hotel like you know a week later and it's looking into it and it's basically the government threw him out the window government killed hella people yeah also destroyed all kinds of political movements as well, both here and abroad. I mean, we're not shocked. Yeah, that's why I'm like, of course, it's the CIA being like, hey, hey, yo, don't make

it hot for us. Right. Of course we just did something there, but then that's going to fuck this up. At the same time, they started the hippie movement because if you ever read electric Kool-Aid acid test, the whole Ken Kesey crew and the Mary Pranksters, they first tried acid because the CIA was doing trials on people up in Stanford and they administered acid to them. They were like, holy shit, where do we find this stuff? And basically started the whole LSD movement.

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And this album is about how Revival was a dumpster fire of an album. And he's like, well, just so you guys know, I can still rap really fast though. But he does. I mean, it's like an impressive gymnastics floor routine. Like there's just like,

he's like, you know, doing all sorts of maneuvering and you know he is linguistically on point uh but for me he's just like late career eminem reminds me of late career al pacino in that like he's just always going at like full throttle 100 it never sounds effortless it's like why are you screaming man like why why are you he's you know in a time capsule because we all know he still has like porn dvds right because he doesn't know how he's internet and he woke up in 2018 and saw how all these young kids are you know to him quote unquote rapping so he had to clap back and you know the

one thing i'm just sort of disappointed is that he's still using the F word in his raps, like, come on, bruh. You gotta figure out a new way to do this. And he's still defending that shit. So in that way, throw it on the fucking tired pile. But at the very least, it's like the last dying farts of a capable MC just trying to be like, I can still fucking rap really

fast. It sounds like he's trying to do New God, like, rap God flow on everything. Yeah, exactly. But again, he says it, you know, he lets people know he's trying to do new God, like rap God flow on like everything. Right. Yeah, exactly. It's just. But again, he says it, you know, he lets people know he's upset that people didn't think his objectively shit album was good. Right. So, yeah.

I mean, the Marshall Mathers LP was really good. He only had two good albums. Yeah. And the first two, and then it's been a bunch of weird stuff. And, you know, then even then, take what you want. Yeah. Literally haven't heard a single song

since that Slim Shady song came out so I wouldn't know and don't care or I'm Slim Shady yes I'm the real that one or my name is

well you know whatever they whatever yeah exactly it's like one of those things where there are albums

and you're like oh those are albums and then every year there's like oh there's an Eminem song I thought he was retired I didn't even this is very important news, I guess.

Yes, very. He's not. He's back and terrible. Ladies and gentlemen. He's back and screaming. Eminem. And couldn't even let Aretha, you know, just fucking have her day, you know? I know.

He's really from Detroit. He would have sat on that album for at least a week. Right. Yeah. But he was like, I'm carrying on her legacy. That's what this is about. Yeah. So the Aretha funeral was end of last week and amazing.

And, you know, with all the outfit changes and the ankles being crossed, pretty dope spectacle. I'm worried about that Will, though. Yeah. I'm wondering how much money. Because, like, she like she's like known or it's a rumor that might be true that she only got paid in cash and whatever money they gave her you know like two hundred thousand dollars or some crazy amount of whatever her big lady paycheck was she would take that and just strap it to her tape it to her body right so i want to know how much money is taped to the body of a real franklin right now just She's being buried with. Yeah, just to honor that. Wait, you're saying like even now

she was still taking only cash payments? I mean, now she takes Venmo. You know what I mean? Because heaven. You know what I mean? But I mean prior to this. Yeah, she was like up until her dying days only got paid in cash.

That's an old school Detroit shit. That's why she carried her purse with her out onto the stage to keep the payment. That's a far reach. Also, towards the end of last week, the New York Times lesser podcast, The Daily, no zeitgeist, just The Daily, come on guys, released an episode about climate change that, you know, it's stuff that I kind of already knew, but it, you know, it told the story of how clearly the science community and the US government knew about climate change

in the 80s and that there were these initiatives that were agreed on by the entire science community, most of the government, other countries like the international community, and it was basically George H.W. Bush and his chief of staff John John Sununu, who just were like, nah, fuck it. You can't do it. Like, we're not going to let any of these things go. And they have scientists on this episode just being like, this could have fixed it. We would have, like, that would have been enough time to stop. Yeah, I mean.

Yeah, gradual global extinction event. Slowed it or turned it around. Or at least addressed it in a meaningful way rather than being like, no, no, no, we're good, we're good. Cut that check, ExxonMobil. Thank you. Imagine if we added bird scooters sooner. You know what I mean?

That could have been dope. There could have been some lift could have been around earlier. All kinds of stuff. This is probably not a good take, but it makes me wonder, because they're basically committing generational genocide for future generations, should John Sununu's children and children's children be put in prison? Now, isn't it bad enough that they have to have that dumbass last name?

I mean, haven't they suffered enough, my guy? So God saw it from the jump and was like, your name is Sununu. Sununu? I mean, I think there has to be some kind of reckoning for climate change deniers, for sure. I feel like, yo, you should just register right now. If you fuck with climate change,

you can go to the parts of Earth that are still safe for human life. And then people who want to deny it be like, okay, you can stay over this dried up part or this place that is threatened by rising sea rise and you can you know just take that L over there in peace and keep living in denial I mean yeah it is one of those things where

it's just going to have ramifications that are going to be horrific for future generations they should at least have their assets seized because they got rich off that that's why they did what they did is because they were getting rich off of it so you know they shouldn't be able to spend that money that money should go towards rebuilding people's homes and poor parts of communities that just get leveled by hurricanes right weren't there

some grumblings though of like trying to try fossil fuel companies like with crimes against humanity well something like that it was an idea that will never happen, but people were like, shouldn't we do something? Well, ExxonMobil, they were the first to be onto this shit. Like in the 70s, they were like, oh, yeah, this is not good. People are not going to be into us in the future and decided to do nothing about it. So come on, guys. Come on, Sununu.

We got to figure something out. Sununu's son is the governor of New Hampshire. So that's dope. He's really he's really paid the price. He's living free. And another thing, too, there were some lawsuits that were trying to be brought against fossil fuel companies that we were talking before around climate change. But the local judges had to throw it out, not because they were like, this has no ground. It was more like, this court doesn't necessarily have the jurisdiction to do that. Is there an intergalactic court that we could, like, for the whole world?

So at the very least, if at that level it's being struck down, I think that shows that there is definitely a legal movement to keep this thing going and that there is movement moving in that direction of trying to hold these fossil fuel companies and polluters. Go after their money. Yeah. Yeah. That's what they care about. That's why they did it in the first place.

Go after their money. basically claiming on behalf of Asian Americans rejected by Harvard that Harvard has systematically discriminated against them by artificially capping the number of qualified Asian Americans. Harvard and a lot of Asian American communities are also saying like that this group does not speak for us. And so they're back in the news because the Trump administration, Department of Justice, just sided with the group that is suing to basically they're trying to end affirmative action. Oh, good. Yeah. So that's cool. They're suing because they were capping the number of Asian-American students. That's what they're claiming.

And Harvard's admissions board is claiming that just race is one of a number of different factors that they take into account when you know considering an applicant but they have not provided like specific details of what their admissions policy is or it can't be broken down into like a systemized detail-based like point-based system, they should probably do that though. You know what I mean? In general. Just to eliminate any ambiguity. Right, exactly.

Because then they have the defense like, well, that's like one of the other things. Yeah. But like, and what are those other things? Right. My mood. The weather. Yeah.

Yeah. So, I mean, they are asking them to show their work. And I think Harvard thought they did that to a sufficient degree. And anti-affirmative action people are claiming that they didn't. But I mean, a statement from a Harvard Alumni Association said eliminating race conscious admissions would disproportionately harm applicants of color, including some Asian Americans. Yeah. And I mean, there are other forms of affirmative action that are the problems that ail our government and our society are rigged to keep them in power. point to China and India over the past couple decades as examples of capitalism doing good and you know proving its worth because they have like basically you know shot up out of nowhere and had all this success but he was pointing out that there's a massive historic affirmative action program in India to correct for the historic caste system. Right. So it's a combination of these things.

And America just thinks, well, capitalism on its own will fix things. Doesn't take into account human greed. Right. Yeah. A factor. Yeah. Affirmative action, there are examples of it being extremely successful and important in market economies and also in education. So let's talk about what a world-class asshole we have in charge of the free world right now.

So we'll just say whatever we want right now? Yes. All right. Fuck his hair. Yeah, right? now yes all right uh fuck his hair yeah right no i the political has this story where i mean we always knew that donald trump hated jeff sessions because he he thinks the attorney general just means the guy who will protect you from the law i guess is like his idea of personal yeah or like just guard dog who'll be like any legal trouble. Apparently, the attorney general just helps you skate on all that shit.

So they were talking about, you know, if Sessions recusal, this is from Politico, was his original sin. Trump has come to resent him for other reasons, griping to aides and lawmakers that the attorney general doesn't have the Ivy League pedigree. The president prefers that he can't stand his southern accent and that Sessions isn't a capable defender of the president on television, in part because he, quote, talks like he has marbles in his mouth. Hmm. Ah, that's not fair. Jefferson Ball recalls. Yeah, I mean, look, leave legal Smeagol alone.

You know what I mean? Like, he's doing what he has to do. Also, no, fuck that guy. I think what's funny is the whole idea that he's like, oh, his Ivy League pedigree when Trump is nowhere even close to being any kind of intellectual to be able to sort of throw that around as an insult. Also, you know, Alabama has a lot of his supporters there. I'm surprised he thinks he's much more well liked than I'm sure Trump is. But who knows? I haven't really seen polling about that. But this whole thing of him really hating him is it's just getting more and more intense and intense and intense do you think he's gonna get fired well they think that it probably won't happen till after the midterms because they don't want that to become another thing that will just mobilize more people to vote

against him look if you're gonna do it wait for the blue wave to crash on the capitol and then go into full panic mode because at that point all bets are off. But, you know, it's just Trump doing his little hate. And there's another thing I was reading that Trump really doesn't like his supporters because they're not like pretty people. And so this all fits into his, you know, torture worldview. Yeah. world view yeah i mean he has that narcissism personality disorder where he's just trying to fill a hole that can't be filled with you know with aga hats with the presidency of the united states he's still just like why is hollywood so mean to me yeah um but you're an asshole yeah but

like the biggest asshole maybe in america the best at being an asshole in the country, potentially. There's also the story where he basically said in a room full of reporters to Bloomberg off the record, I'm really fucking Canada. You know that, right? And they're like, uh. Honestly? Yo, like off the record. All right. I guess off the...

I mean, I'm gonna report this. Right. That's so funny, though. He said, here's the problem. If I say no, the answer's no. If I say no, then you're gonna put that, and it's gonna be so insulting, they're not gonna be able to make a deal.

I can't kill these people, he said, of the Canadian government. Wow. Off the record, Canada's working their ass off, and every time we have a problem with a point, I just put up a picture of a Chevrolet Impala because the Impala is produced at the General Motors plant in Ontario. So, yeah.

Again, off the record, they came knocking on our doors last night. Let's make a deal, please. Dude, he has such an issue of understanding what off the record, on the record confidentiality agreement. He just thinks like, okay, off the record okay, I'm going to get spicy and this won't get out. Okay, so apparently

that was said to a Bloomberg reporter. They didn't report it, but there are other people in the room who heard it and then reported it. Now, I mean, there is, I guess, some sanctity to the journalistic integrity of, you know, taking someone off the record. Yeah. But with this fucking guy, I mean.

I mean, it's so funny and sad. You know what I mean? It's like, you got to laugh instead of cry at this. Because who the fuck, what is he? Like, some kind of super villain? Like, I want you to fuck Canada. What? Yeah.

I'm just going to hold hold a picture of the impala it's like this isn't a fucking love and hip-hop reunion show like where you get all fucking messy like this but he's mr reality tv so i guess yeah he really does think of how like it's the kind of way that if you were scripting out like a fun way a shitty president would act like it's this kind of stuff and i think he's just like, I'm just going to hold up the picture and that'll shut him up. I said Tame Impala. Chevy Impala.

But them too. He's going to fuck Australia as well. Oh, shit, mate. You better not. So California is... We're out here right now, legislatively. So what did they do? So many fucking pieces of legislation last week.

So first, the state legislature passed a trio of gun control bills that aren't necessarily revolutionary, but we live in a time where common sense is revolutionary. So let's call these revolutionary. I mean, first was a bill that would be a lifetime ban on owning a firearm if you've been convicted of domestic violence, because that was, you know, it used to just be like a long period. It wasn't a lifetime ban. Now they're like straight up like, nope, you can't do it. Well, it's because it's always an indicator. Of course. Yeah. You know,

almost all mass shooters and that have some kind of history. Absolutely. And anyone just who, you know, commits a lot of like a murder with a gun, typically, yeah, they have that background. Then some of the other bills that were passed was a lifetime ban for people placed on involuntary psychiatric holds twice in one year. And a new standard for residents who are trying to get a concealed weapon permit where you need like eight hours of training. I think they're just trying to be like, OK, yeah, let's figure this out a little bit more. So yeah, those will be things that Governor Jerry Brown will most likely sign into law. Those are all things that are surprising they don't already exist. Like I'm more scared from that story knowing that those things didn't already exist.

Well, California already did have very strict laws for people who had assault charges or domestic abusers. So, I mean, California's always had very strict gun laws. But now, like with these lifetime bans, they're trying to really do something. I think Oregon was probably the first state to really begin tightening up their gun laws after Parkland. But it's good to, you know, the liberal states kind of have to show everybody else how to how to do shit or at least keep people safe and then there was another bill for intersex children now this was a bill that wasn't necessarily an outright ban on corrective surgery so like for intersex children who have a genitalia that is ambiguous a lot of parents would elect to have a procedure to correct any

ambiguity so they resemble more cisgender children. So this is California kind of saying, we consider this, we're condemning the practice and consider it to be just a violation of someone's human rights because that should be something a person with a little bit more age can determine for themselves if they want to do. So I mean,, not that it is a, you know, a straight up ban, but it does signal to a lot of doctors who do it. The state of California does not agree with the practice and sees it as a human rights violation. The executive director for the Interact Advocates for Intersex Youth said, you know, means for the very first time a U.S. legislative body has affirmatively recognized that intersex children deserve dignity and the right to make decisions about their own bodies just like everyone else. So, you know, again, not an outright ban, but movement, movement, we're acknowledging those things. And finally, one of the bigger things was in criminal justice reform.

Governor Brown signed a bill that effectively ended the cash bail system for pretrial detention. Now, a lot of people don't like the cash bail system because it basically criminalizes, you know, it's like when you bail out. So, you know, if you get charged with something, they're like, well, you're going to have to be detained until your trial. Most people, if you have the money, you can bail yourself out and you're just out there doing whatever the fuck you want until your trial. But if you're poor, a lot of times you don't have money to bail yourself out.

Even coming up with $500, $1,000 is too much to ask. And essentially criminalizes poverty. Because then even if you're in pre-trial detention, you lose your job. You could lose your home. It just snowball effects. And a lot of people said, yeah, and they're like, this is just a system where you're just taxing people to get out of jail. And it doesn't proportionately affect people, especially if if you're wealthy you see a lot of people do horrible

shit and like yeah i could post a million dollars bail like boom and you're out and i think that's the thing uh that you know a lot of people who are against the cash bail system are trying to change now he did sign the bill but it is imperfect like it's the bill started off with being what a lot of criminal reform advocates are like oh oh, this is a great bill. But over the years, over the like because it was first introduced in 2016, it just got watered down and watered down and now kind of gives the discretion of judges to like it gives them a little too much weight to figure out like what a person's pre-trial detention could do. So it would shift it from a bail system to now like a risk assessment system that isn't completely standardized. So people could be using, you know,

like it could use like, you know, algorithms that might disproportionately say that a person of color is actually of higher risk because of these other biases that are built into like the data that it's using. So a lot of advocates are like, I don't know, like this data that it's using. So a lot of advocates are like, I don't know. While it's good, it also has the possibility,

like people from the Union of Public Defenders have also said, because they have this broad power, it could mean more people actually end up being detained before trial. So that's a bill that looked really good when it started, but at least is a movement in the right direction, kind of like how Obamacare kind of started off as being a good thing. But it just got so watered down that it became a thing that it's well-intentioned but isn't quite fully addressing what the damage that could be done. All right, California. Yeah, but a lot, a lot, a lot happening in California.

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his opponents, who were like the front runners and had all the smart money behind them, had all their money on like TV ads and mailers. Right. And it's just, it made me think because I think I brought this up before, this idea of like an insurgent mentality, like that, like Trump's campaign had the insurgent mentality where they were just like, you know, we're against the odds, so we're going to take anything that we can get. So yeah, Facebook wants to give me someone, sure, come on, like come aboard and give us

every advantage that we could possibly get. Whereas Clinton's campaign turned down someone working from Facebook. Yeah. To embed themselves. Yeah. And I just feel like in general, Republicans have had so much success lately when they should be fading from relevancy because of demographic shifts. But they're working shrewder. They're cheating. When you say working shrewder, you mean like with fucking wild voter suppression? Yeah, voter suppression and gerrymandering

and all this shit they're using to... But they are basically, they're like, okay, we have to cheat to win. What are the ways that we can get away with cheating? And I just think that there are... I don't know, we keep seeing these out of nowhere candidates like Gillum, Trump, Sanders. And I think they're the people who don't, yeah, Cortez, they're the people who don't have the smart inside money on them.

And so they don't have the consultant class just fucking everything up. It reminds me of if you read about the Civil War, like the people who had generals on their side who were really respected running their war, they were basically using outdated, like the guns at the Civil War were a huge technological leap. And so they could shoot straight for the first time. And so all generals who had experience in wars were completely fucked because they were fighting an old outmoded form right word you didn't know where the bullets were right yeah exactly so they were like sending people charging and everyone was just getting mowed down because they didn't know so like you needed people who had less experience and didn't

really who were just scrapping and making it up on the as they went and i feel like a similar thing is happening with campaigns and with politics where people who have experience are spending money on tv ads and nobody's watching fucking tv ads anymore man i think the other thing is that it's starting to show that the left or at least that if you look at the democrats as a party there is a huge caucus growing of real progressives within it that is really developing now. And again, like you say, the establishment class would look at something in Florida and say, oh, well, Gwen Graham, I think was her name, is going to be the one to win because all of these other things. And I think it doesn't take into account that there is a very large group of people who are registered as Democrats or vote for Democrats that are looking for something

much more progressive than the party's offering. I think that's what these Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is and Andrew Gillum are showing that there's also this other thing that the establishment Democrats have to really take seriously because you're going to have to, again, you're going to start pandering to these people to get a vote eventually. And yeah, I think, yeah, like you say, there's nothing like being an underdog, especially with elections. Like you can just turn people out a little bit more when they feel like there's something they there's change that they can affect by voting. Yeah. We'll see.

But it's also just they don't know how to create meaning in our culture anymore. Like they're using an old paradigm by doing tv ads like when was the last time you saw a successful political tv ad like the the only water yeah exactly the only time you see it is when they go viral for being terrible it's like you need a beto like giving an answer in a thing to get filmed and go viral. That's not a TV ad, though. The only TV ads I'm seeing are people laughing at Ted Cruz's TV ads. Right.

Yeah, so I don't know. Let's talk about Japanese Crystal Pepsi trends. Japan has gone clear. They've gone clear, yeah. Because the Wall Street Journal just put out a little piece talking about how there's a huge push going on for more clear beverages. So, like, I remember Crystal Pepsi. Loved it. I thought it was the craziest shit because as a kid, colas are brown.

And suddenly you have the flavor in a thing that looks like water. What is this, the fucking future? Yo, that shit was so crazy. in a thing that looks like water. What? What is this, the fucking future? Yo, that shit was so crazy. So now Japan has really started doing a little bit more like with all kinds. So they have a Coca-Cola clear that's like a lemon flavored, zero calorie, basically cola flavor, but none of that brown color.

Zero calorie, but like a thousand percent cancer. You know what I mean? One thousand percent. Yeah, but look, it's a trade. It's up to you. Don't worry about how we got the flavor in this clear beverage. Suntory also has like a tea with milk drink that is also clear, a non-alcoholic beer.

How is that? I don't know. I mean- Milk that is clear. It has the flavor of something like that. You know, again, I'm not saying every idea is good here, but they're clearly trying to do this to sort of like appeal to i think they're showing that consumers somehow there's like something subconsciously that acts on you like

you're like well if it's clear it can't be that bad because water clear and therefore blah blah blah which could also be the downfall of our bodies because everyone's just been like well it's clear right but i'm yes i'm drinking 5000 calories worth of sugar a day. Or they've been watching Sharp Objects, and they see that you can just disguise anything as water if it's clear. Right. You got that just pouring a LaCroix. They think it's a beer. But it's a beer. Yeah.

I don't know. But yeah, I think I'm definitely one of those people who's just based off of the appearance of it. I'm like, I'm going to try this because I have to know that what this not, like the seemingly tasteless thing actually tastes like. Yeah. Yeah, try anything once, but you know. Did you like Crystal Pepsi? Oh yeah, of course. For the flavor or for the?

I don't even remember what it tastes like. But I remember liking it and also really being into slap bracelets and eating a lot of nacho cheese. That was the late 80s for me. I love nacho cheese. If anybody wants to know what the early 90s were like, they just need to watch the Crystal Pepsi commercial with the Van Halen Right Now song on it. It's like the text over profound images and it is dumb as shit. The early 90s were

dumb as shit. Yeah, except for In Living Color. It was kind of all stupid. Oh, In Living Color. So good. Imagine if it was In Living Clear. You know what I mean? It would be like very different show premise. With all ex was in Living Clear. You know what I mean? It would be like very different show permits. With all ex-Scientologists.

Yes. In-N-Out Burger. Hey, look. You're an In-N-Out stan. So am I. Look, I'm from California. In-N-Out, I've always said this. I think to me, for what you get through, a drive-thru is the best burger you can have.

Right. A drive-thru. Okay. Okay. Now, like anyone who has grown up in California, you've noticed on all the packaging, there are all kinds of Bible verses printed on the stuff. Yeah. Like, you know, all underneath the cups, on the boxes, whatever.

I think for most people, In-N-Out's always known as being a conservative company. But recently, some of their donations were made public, and I think for most people, In-N-Out is always known as being a conservative company, but recently some of their donations were made public, and I think they gave like $25,000 to the state GOP. Not a surprise, but considering what the GOP fucking is now, I think it was easier to pretend like the GOP was like, well, those are just scared

conservative people who aren't totally racist overtly, and now that it's become this thing it's like now the gop has completely turned themselves into this other thing that should deserves really no respect at all uh so a lot of people have been like they're boycotting in and out i'm fine with that you know if you don't want to fuck with in and out because they're giving their money to the gop and like people like devin nunez who actually does it i mean that's up to you i don't necessarily think that's going to fucking change anything

based on the amount that they're giving. They're not giving boffo fucking money to dark money groups. Boffo. Yeah, boffo funds to the dark money. What does boffo mean? It's like a shit ton of money. Boffo fundraising. I feel very old right now.

You should feel very young. That's like an old person. Really? It seems like a young person. Yeah, it's like what variety says when a movie opens big. Bofo, B-O. Nope. Bofo, B-O.

Yeah, nope is exactly right. But again, you know, it's like anything with the boycotting thing. I mean, shit, if you really looked at half the shit that you consume every day, like you'd fucking have to wear homespun clothing. Anybody who says I'm boycotting something, I'm like, well, why don't you start with that fucking iPhone in your hands? Toss that. Right.

Because people literally are slaving away for you to use that. Right. Don't shop at Fashion Nova. Don't shop at H&M. Don't shop at- Any of the fast fashion, yeah. Any of the junk food stuff that you own and use, get over yourself. If you want to enact real change, get in these streets, get in that ballot, voting box thing,

or whatever it's called. And fucking. The booth. Yeah. Stop. Stop. Like making these public grandstandings. Yeah. You should try it, man.

Well, none of your rights have been at stake, but I think that for In-N-Out, the animal fries are so good. I don't know. I'm not here to fucking defend what the fuck they do, but, you know, I think it's one of those boycotts, too, where you look at it and you're like yeah i can see why you'd be upset uh but i haven't been in and out a long time yeah what you should go like today it's on the street um i've been eating a lot of shake shack recently it's actually very good too shake shack is so good something about it yeah and you know that's because i half the time we talk on the show about In-N-Out,

because there are many people from around the country who don't have In-N-Out, so they're like, well, fuck that place. I'm like, yeah, you know what? Fine, whatever. Shake Shack's fucking better. Yeah, but Shake Shack costs three times more, and you sit down in the fucking place. In-N-Out, you're on a road trip on the five, and you have to take a piss or whatever, get your animal fries, and keep it moving.

No, I want In-N-Out. Although keeping it moving is not... They are good at processing a large number of orders, but there's always a long-ass line. Always. It's crazy. Well, they're hand-cutting the fries, man. You know what I mean?

Mm-hmm. All right, guys. It's time for a little Bloid Watch. Bloid Watch. Brad Pitt is just the focus of all these tabloids out here. So we wanted to give you an update that's not in the tabloids, but is, I think, typical of a lot of celebrity charities. He had a campaign called Make It Right,

where he was building homes for people who had lost their homes to Katrina in New Orleans because he lived part-times in New Orleans. And it was just his heart was in the right place, but it wasn't a well-overseen project. And timber in the buildings were not treated. They skipped a vital part of manufacturing process. And the wood is now useless. It's warping and moldy. Yeah yeah it's warping and moldy there's all these houses have like mold problems so i don't know like he if he

had just taken the money that he was putting together for this and given it to a charity that already existed that was building homes for people who lost their homes yeah but then he can't just measure his big fat fat, philanthropic dick in front of everybody and be like, I've got 26 million. I've got Frank Gehry-designed homes. Because it was on paper like, shit, Frank Gehry? He got to fucking design a house for these people? And they were selling it at a loss, making it affordable and energy efficient.

He got all these high-end architects to do this. But some of them, like, what's that Fallingwater house? What's the- Frank Lloyd Wright. Frank Lloyd Wright. That house is full of leaks. I went there a couple summers ago.

Yeah. He was not a good home builder. It was all about vision, but he didn't give a fuck about- That house is leaky? Leaking everywhere. I mean, his house here is also in disrepair, by the way. It needs to be renovated to the tune of millions of dollars. Which house is his house?

The one that's across from the Barnsdale Park, like in Los Feliz. Oh, the Hollyhock house? Yes. No, no, no, no, no. That's in Barnsdale Park, right? Yeah, but they sit right across from each other in Los Feliz. It looks like an Aztec. They shot a house on the hill there. Oh, yes, no, no. That's in Barnsville Park, right? Yeah, but they sit right across from each other when it's in most police. It looks like an Aztec. They shot House of High and High Hill there.

Oh, yes, yes, yes. It's always like a bad guy's lair in a lot of films. Yeah, it needs millions and millions of dollars for renovations. Damn. I will say, though, Falling Water is dope as fuck. Falling Water is my dream home. There is a room in there that is like the coolest room

I've ever been in where there's like stairs that just go down into the river and it's fucking dope uh damn but fucking all kinds of repairs yeah but this is the thing like you know it's a it was a glamour project for Brad Pitt I mean again your heart is in the good place but you wanted to do it in a way that he was the focal point of like look at me saving the lower ninth ward of New Orleans with all this you know philanthropic so these trendy designs he got these high-end architects, and one of them was a little too sleek,

and it had a flat roof that was part of the vision. Wow. And that started leaking because the water didn't drain right. And so there was just all sorts of problems. It was like a cool idea that then it turns out he should have just given his money to actual charities that were actually like doing the grinding out the work a day, hard work to give people roofs over their heads or roofs. However, that is him just pretending to support black people.

You know what I mean? That's all. I mean, yeah, I feel like he probably in a way, I just think it was one of those things where his narcissism completely clouded his ability to do good. And in that way, just fucking let that ego go you know what I mean just cut a check for 26 million anonymously but guys I mean look at that face he is on

the cover of InTouch magazine what is that picture from? photoshopped yeah I guess that so it's a picture from 12 years ago or however many long years he looks real ragged lately I don't know if you've seen him. He looks like an old man. He wishes he looked like these photos from 2003.

Yeah. But there, yeah, Brad and Jen, Honeymoon in Italy is the cover. Yeah, there's a picture of her with somebody on the beach, and then his head is Photoshopped on in just not very well either. Why do they keep, i don't understand that we we do this almost every week where they're like they're married they're moving in together they've been married they're about to get married right they've had their honeymoon brad and jen honeymoon in italy but like there's no photographic america wants them to fuck. I know. Yo, let it go. For some reason, I mean, that's the only explanation that I can come up with. It is our secret.

Biggest desire is for Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt to have sex and have a baby. No, they're trying to inception us with that shit. Yeah. The repetition. You think there's... Can they have children? I feel like they're both a little over the hill for that. I don't know. I mean, I'm sure the next one will be like,

oh, and Jen can still have kids because she's invested all of her friends earnings into... She invested all of her eggs into somebody else's over-eating and still have children. Just let that one die. Yeah. Theirs is just like the end.

How many papers have they sold using that? You know what I mean? There's so much money in it that they're never going to stop. That doesn't even make sense where I'm like almost like if you're still buying it because you think that's the reason you're buying it. We should just ship you to the same place we're putting these climate change deniers. I wonder what InTouch would look like or how itself is. Someone would be like, do you deserve a living wage? Like rather than like Jen and Brad are fucking getting a honeymoon in Italy.

Would that move the needle? Well, they hate Angelina Jolie. So like that's the other thing is that because she broke up their number one couple, she is just constantly headline, Angie's wasting away. Yeah, she was very ill For a long time But they're trying to make it look like She's just some Her bones are so brittle they're breaking

Blah blah blah The toxic culture of These celeb rags Although I had a Boss who worked in Entertainment who said the actually the only one that kind of tells the truth is the national inquirer like weirdly if you read it in an inquirer there actually might be a good chance that it's true we've talked about the

things like client stuff will get in there and she's like how the fuck like people lose their jobs over it yeah right we've talked about them a lot i think the one thing they're good at is knowing the state of someone's health. Yes. That's the one where they like they seem like it's come out of left field like months before and they're like also affairs of political affairs. What was that one? John Edwards.

John Edwards. They fucking crack that. Also Barack Obama's affair when he went. Oh fair. Barack Obama had an affair. Yes. When he was on the campaign trail to be a senator. And the National Enquirer covered that, too.

I didn't even know about that. Yeah. Well, that's because he had Michael Cohen buy that story up. There seems to be a political turn overall. Now that David Pecker, who owns all of these magazines, is no longer Team Trump, there is a cover story about how Laura Ingraham is mean, basically. Wow. Which it just seems like they just started paying attention for the first time. They're like, Queen of Mean is going to get fired by Fox News.

Are they starting to get woke? Yeah. They're starting to get woke. They have Mumia on the cover next? You like the secrets. Why is this man in jail? And the only other big story is that Jen and Ben back together. Another Jen, Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck are supposedly moving back in together.

It's really just an excuse to show more pictures of his hungover ass getting Jack in the Box picked up on his way to rehab. of his hungover ass getting Jack in the Box picked up on his way to rehab. And so they're saying that the person riding shotgun with Jen Garner is the lawyer? Yeah, so it's her lawyer. That must be some things like, yo, don't act up, Ben. I have my lawyer here. They also might have the same lawyer. Yeah, although are they trying to get back together?

That's what they're trying to say? Yeah, that's what they're trying to say is this is them mending. I'm sure it's just more if she wants what's best for her kids and it's good for them to have a sober father. She also might actually care about him too as a person. I'm sure. You know what I mean? It's like if you know somebody

is sick and they're trying to get better, why wouldn't you? If you've ever loved them, you would want to support that, even if it means J-Bo in the daytime. Daytime J-Bo, you know? Right. Yeah, Laura Ingram, too mean for TV, you guys. Fox femme fatale facing firing squad.

Oh, I like that alliteration. Alliteration in the building. Get an A in AP Lit. Come through. Yeah, it is really Ingram's recent anti-immigration rant on her show. The Ingram angle earned the praise of David Duke. And they're treating that like a bad thing. Too mean to just be.

Shout out to you, Globe. Too mean for TV. You mean fucking too racist fucking goblin. And, okay, we also have, I don't know how I left this one out, breaking motherfucking news. Bin Laden is alive in U.S. prison. Holy shit. And we know it because they have a photograph of someone with their back to camera

who has a beard but doesn't even look like the same build as Bin Laden. So, yeah. Hold your breaths. Yeah. So check that out. They live a Bin Laden. So yeah. Hold your breaths. Yeah. So check that out. They live a good scandal. They do. Any other stories people.

You think Bin Laden is going to replace Elvis as like the new person who's been alive for all these years. I think Elvis is still alive. Oh yeah.

Yeah. How old would Elvis be right now. 700. I don't know. No that's right. Elvis would be he was born in 1935 so he would be 83 years old.

Tupelo, Mississippi. That's not as old as I would have thought. Yeah. Definitely still alive. He still could have been around. Still could be around. Yes. He still is around.

Madison, it's been a pleasure having you. Where can people find you, follow you? You can find me on Twitter at Madison Shepard or on Instagram at Madison underscore Shepard. That's S-H-E-P-A-R-D. Also, yeah, just find me. I have a website with my comedy dates. There you go. I'm all over California and whatnot this year.

So come see me in your town, hopefully. All right. And is there a tweet that you've been enjoying? Yes. Okay. So a tweet that I really love this week is by my dear friend, Lauren Rantala, who actually just sold a show to FX, which I'm very proud of her for. She's very fancy.

Look at her. Look at her. Her tweet was, if I was a SoundCloud rapper named Lil' Coochie, would y'all still fuck with me? I was like, yeah. Uh at her. So her tweet was, if I was a SoundCloud rapper named Little Coochie, would y'all still fuck with me? I was like, yeah. Yeah, I can't believe that's not a name already. Miles, where can people find you, follow you? Oh, you

can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Gray. And what's a tweet that you've been enjoying? I mean, goodness gracious, great balls of fire. Okay. I don't know if you saw the Aretha Franklin funeral, but Ariana Grande sang there for some reason. God knows why.

Not sure why. Because there are people like Fantasia and Jennifer Hudson. I'm like, that makes sense. Yeah. Ariana Grande, she can hit whistle tone. She's a trick singer. She can sing very high. Her range is very high. But there's no weight to her voice you know i mean like i mean she has a full gospel choir

singing behind her and any of them are stronger vocalists she's not a vocal right so when you saw the footage from inside you would see ariana grande like meeting like bill clinton and stuff and then pete davidson was walking. Someone just posted this GIF of Aretha just doing really blinking eyes into the camera. And it just said, Aretha in heaven, wondering how Pete Davidson got an invitation to her funeral. I don't know how, but he snuck in and he's in there. So shout out to you.

And that was from, hi friend, at Faluke Fiasco. All right. Okay. You can follow me at Jack underscore O'Brien on Twitter. I've got a few tweets saved up that I want to share with you guys. So the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, tweeted, The weak crumble are slaughtered and are erased from history while the strong, for good or for ill, survive. The strong are respected and alliances are made with the strong

and in the end, peace is made with the strong. And Rabbi Jonah Geffen tweeted, well, this is one of the least Jewish things I've ever read, which is so good. Michael McKean, just a true statement about music. Just a true statement. Sometimes people say a song made them cry When they mean a song let them cry Yes That's true Look at your emotions a little bit differently And then Subaki-san tweeted

This one really has me weak as fuck And so it's just this trend That we've been seeing in the past couple weeks Where people tell you What rappers' names are short for. So T-Pain in this one, you Google T-Pain full name, and it's short for Tylenol Pain Relief. And then others that we've enjoyed are Bow Wow,

short for Bowerd Wowward. And you gave me my favorite. Oh, yeah, my favorite one is Offset is short for office settings. That's so good. Internet, you ain't shit. You know what I mean? You're just up to nothing. Too much time. Get a job, the internet.

And then someone named Jamie Loftus tweeted. Some hacker, right? Yes, I know that hacker. Quote, UTI origins ranked. One, Cheeto fingers. Two, not peeing after sex because your sex partner is lecturing you on a Coen Brothers movie and you can't find an exit line.

Three, Dorito fingers. Four, not showering after going commando on Splash Mountain. Oh, remember Log Flume UTI? Log Flume UTI. Log Flume UTI. Log Flume UTI. So shout out to her as always. And that's going to do it. 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. We link off to the information that we talked about as well as the song we write out on Miles. Yes. Oh, that's me.

You know, I want to do another Hiatus Coyote song. We did one like a long time ago, but there's another song from Choose Your Weapon. That's one of my favorite songs on this album called By Fire. They're just good. You know, they change up the time signature on y'all and they're just a really great band

I can't thank them enough for being a band Of good capable musicians So this is By Fire by Hiatus Coyote Alright you can also find That song and our footnotes In the information of the episode The very episode you're listening to right now That's going to do it for today

We will be back tomorrow because it is a daily podcast. Talk to you guys then. Bye. Bye. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Direct to the old number Hold by the fire Wish we were burning old business Bye. Not in July A bell that breathed A chest of story told Meet you in this future

Say Jackie Pond Leave me to his funeral And lost it young and old And I lost it, yeah Regret less than I, yes I give you the end to hold Through darkness and earth where I seek through the land to mold A woman, the breast, night and day, sweat and tears unfold To undress the burden and caress the bloods I'm told Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Regret lasts the night, yes I give you the answer, hold on Through darkness and earth where I seek through the land of mold A woman impressed, night and day, sweat and tears unfold

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