The Daily Zeitgeist - UBoof40’s, Bezos Blesses The Peasants 10.3.18

Episode Date: October 3, 2018

In episode 244, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Liz Stewart to discuss Comedy Cellar's new policy cause of Louis CK, more news from Kavanaugh's wild drinking days, how the Trumps think this is a scary time for white men, how Whole Foods employees are considering unionizing since Amazon acquired them, a new Game of Thrones whiskey, and more! FOOTNOTES:1. Louis C.K. Performs Again, but Club Gives Patrons an Out2. Kavanaugh Was Questioned by Police After Bar Fight in 19853. Toobin: Poor plight of white men is ridiculous4. NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll National Survey Results and Analysis5. Poll: Majority of Republicans want Brett Kavanaugh confirmed even if assault accusations are true6. The unbearable corporate spin7. Amazon warehouse workers skip bathroom breaks to keep their jobs, says report8. Amazon's patent for caging workers was "bad" idea, exec admits9. Bernie Sanders introduces the BEZOS Act, slamming Amazon's low wages 10. Amazon is doling out raises of as little as 25 cents an hour in what employees call ‘damage control’11. Whole Foods employees are worried about new owner Amazon — so they’re trying to unionize12. Amazon's Aggressive Anti-Union Tactics Revealed in Leaked 45-Minute Video13. Game of Thrones®- Inspired Whisky Is Here In Celebration Of The Hit TV Series14. WATCH: Maxine Ashley - Happy (With Or Without You)  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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this season on the new podcast, Rip Current. Hear episodes of Rip Current early and completely ad-free and receive exclusive bonus content by subscribing to iHeart True Crime Plus only on Apple Podcasts. Hello, the Internet, and welcome to Season 51, Episode 3 of Der Daily Zeitgeist. Whoa. Wow, I got a little bubble there. For Wednesday, October 3rd, 2018, my name's Jack O'Brien, a.k.a.

I got a Dalmatian. I can still get miles. I can do this podcast like a fucking Jack O'Brien. Sublime. The best, right? Am I wrong or am I right? That is courtesy of Nicholas Speer on Twitter. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray.

The Zyke Act don't dance. We just sit on the hands and listen to Miles Gray. And hot takes. And hot takes. That's a Fat Joe lean back inspired, a.k.a. from Damion Smith. I hope I didn't botch your name, sir, but you are at Legendary Black Lion. So thank you for that, a.k.a. Fat Joe. I mean, he has a very special place in my heart. heart at legendary black lion has a pretty great twitter handle yes i would not

change anything about that i would just be at legendary black line you do a lot of twitter handle yes i do and my man you've got to just stick with that consistent branding is what we're about here on the daily zeitgeist we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a very funny actress and comedian. Her special, I'm Crowning, is out currently on Amazon. We're thrilled to be joined by Liz Stewart. Hello, I'm thrilled to be here. Hey. Hey, hey, hey, hey.

Thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. You were telling us before we hit record that the explanation behind the title of your comedy special, I'm Crowning. Oh, yeah, yeah. There's actual footage from the birth that is in the comedy special, so you can see it. And at one point while giving birth, I actually do exclaim, I'm crowning because at that point I was.

You're not lying. It's completely true. Well, we're going to get to know you even better in a moment. But first, we're going to tell our listeners what we're going to be talking about today. Louis C.K. is back at the cellar again. We're going to talk about that and how the cellar is dealing with people maybe feeling a little bit uncomfortable about Louis C.K. just popping up every once in a while. We are going to talk about UB40 Gate, as it's being called nowhere except on this podcast, but the fact that Brett Kavanaugh tried to fight a stranger

because he thought he was the guy from UB40 and then thought he was lying to him in college. Just amazing. I don't like red, red wine. I like beer. Right. I like beer I like beer No wine, beer

What's your song about beer? There is a story that's gaining some traction on the right And trying to break through into the middle About how it's a scary time for young men in America right now This was a quote that came from DJ TJ, Donald Trump Jr. and his father, who is apparently the president. And so we're going to talk about that, just the condition of these poor white men in this country.

We're going to talk about how the president's businesses have been doing since he became president. the president's businesses have been doing since he became president and amazon just being crazy with the fuckery when it comes to how they're treating the possibility that the workers at whole foods will unionize i feel like whole foods has good workers they're always like real friendly and i don't know hard working i mean i think they might have good customer service and they're not going to be like hey i'm miserable right anyway do you want to try this Ferrari prosciutto? Right. I'm not saying Whole Foods treats their workers well and they should not think about unionizing.

Anyways, we're going to talk about Game of Thrones, whiskey, and other things. But first, Liz, we like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? All right. The last thing I searched for was MapQuest to get here. There you go. Because I don't know where I'm going. Wait, MapQuest? Yeah, MapQuest.

Maps or Google Maps? Oh, okay. I'm like, I'm pretty sure MapQuest doesn't exist. Oh, yeah. Well, the maps I'm pretty sure MapQuest doesn't exist. Oh, yeah. Well, the maps with the, that popped up there. But before that, it was Chuck Woolery. Chuck Woolery. He's like the guy from Love Connection 2 and 2.

I was like, is he still married? Because I actually got married in the house of his mistress. And he's Mr. Family Values conservative guy. So like every now and then I'll troll him on Twitter. Right. And I'll be like, hey, have you checked in with your mistress? Oh, really? Mr. Family Values guy.

And then I'll be like, you know, I know she'd love to hear from you. Your picture's all over her house. Right. Has he blocked you? No. Oh, wow. No, no, no. She was a stunt driver.

Oh, wow. And she wrote a book. And she's like a Fox News person and i had i known that i wouldn't have gotten married in her house but it's a beautiful house and it had a nice twisted oak tree which is something that i really really wanted to get married under when i got what's a twisted oak tree just like a knotted and gnarled and defiant and huge roots you know yeah like like it refuses to be tamed ah yes yes yes yes i'm one of one of those badass trees you know? Yeah, yeah. Like it refuses to be tamed. Ah, yes, yes, yes, yes.

On one of those badass trees, you know? Right. Oh, yeah, yeah, okay. And you had that car stunt that figured heavily into your wedding ceremony, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. The car crash. We drove it into the pool. Right.

And then we had to get married before the people could get out of the trunk. Oh, right, right. So it was a fun time. We actually had a predator wedding. Oh, really? Yeah. We got married.

A friend of ours dressed up like a predator, like from the movie Predator. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And we had like a fog machine. That is amazing. Yeah, it was awesome. And we had a double stabbing at like a a machete went through two different people's chest at the wedding which was really cool so you did have stunts at your wedding we did have stunts

at our wedding because i've never been to a wedding where like when two people were stabbed i hate being at a wedding being like, what if the officiant just got stabbed in the fucking heart right now? Well, I wouldn't, you know how they say, you know, if anybody objects, you know, speak now or forever hold your peace. Or get shish kebabbed by this giant machete. We had somebody object and they were like, oh, I object, you know. Hey, you know, i was at a terminator wedding last week and they had twice the amount of this fog right and so like and so like then my my husband takes a machete and he throws it but it's like a trick um and he grabs the machete and

it goes through his chest he's like oh and then another guy objects to the jankiness of that bit He's like, oh, and then another guy objects to the jankiness of that bit. And then he gets stabbed by the first guy who got stabbed. Holy shit. And they got air, too. Like the second guy, Kurt Long. It was Kurt Long and Mark Fry both got stabbed at our wedding. It was great. And it was like the applause break.

You know, it was like the best. It was so much. It was so much fun. That is amazing. We had a blast. the best. It was so much. It was so much fun. Now, I'm assuming there is some stunt coordination in like the wedding wedding party, like something. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, my husband plays a superhero. Okay. And I took stage combat. Yeah. And my husband plays a superhero. So he like, they rehearsed it. It was okay. Yeah, That's really cool. And is there a Criterion Collection DVD of your wedding?

It's actually on my Facebook, like buried somewhere in there. There is a video of the double stabbing and it was a beautiful time. Do you mind saying who your husband is? Oh, his name is Cooper Barnes. Okay. And he's on Henry Danger on Nickelodeon. Oh, cool. And he plays Captain Man, which is like a hybrid of Captain America and Superman

but he doesn't fly. But he has a helicopter. And he throws machetes that impale people. Not on Nickelodeon. That's just in our free time. Were there any people at the wedding who were just terrified by this?

Well, right when my friend Mark was like, I object. Like, you can see. Someone was shocked. You can see, like, people's eyes go, I hope this is a bit. Right. Yeah, right. You can see people get, like, visibly uncomfortable for a second.

Right. And then, which is great because when the laugh hits, it's like, oh, it's even more delicious. So much relief. So much relief. So much tension. You know? It was so much fun. Wow.

So much fun. And who played the predator? Mike Jaworski. Okay. He's actually the guy who introduced my husband and me. Oh, okay. Cooper and I. And did Carl Weathers marry the two of you?

Well, we did the mid-air arm wrestling. Yeah. When they're like, you may now pronounce you man and wife. And we're like- You son of a bitch. You son of a bitch. And we did that. And then we did a kiss.

And all of the tables were like different parts of the movie. There was like the get to the chopper table. And then there was like the uh oh our drink was a sexual tyrannosaurus which i made oh it's a it was really good can you get married again so i can go it was so much fun dude and if you want the sexual tyrannosaurus recipe you get a red jalapeno and uh get a couple of those, put it in tequila and let it sit there for like a week or two. Then you use that tequila with margarita mix and pineapple juice. It's a spicy pineapple delicious margarita, man. Now, is there a dinosaur sex scene that I don't remember from that movie or is that

a drink they talk about? Oh, he was like, they're on the helicopter chopper and it's Stone Cold Steve, no, no, no, I'm sorry,

it's Jesse Ventura. They look a lot alike. Right. He is like, he spits on Carl Weathers' shoes, he spits his dip on it and he's like, real nasty habit you got there

and he's like, this stuff will make you a goddamn sexual Tyrannosaurus. Nice. Just like me. All right. So that's my Jesse Ventura impression. Hell yeah.

That's a great one. And is that just your favorite movie? Or you guys just kind of? It's definitely one of, it's in top five and definitely our most watched movie. Got it. Because no matter what is happening in the world, no matter what's happening in your life, you're like, you know like, I had a roommate, she came home crying and she was like,

I've had the worst day, and I'm like, you wanna watch Predator? It works for me when I come home crying, having a bad day, Predator or Alien. You know, Aliens, you want the action, the first one's a little heavy, you want the second one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Did you know Predator is, the director thought of it as like a satire of masculinity?

Oh, yeah. I love it. It's so over the top. Right. Yeah, yeah. It's so over the top. What are you waiting for? Kill me.

Kill me now. Do it. I'm right here. I'm right here. Do it. What are you waiting for? Do it. What is something you think is overrated?

What is something that's overrated? Oh, I know. Cooking your own food. Okay. Like when I became a mom, I was like, I'm going to use all natural diapers, cloth diapers, cloth diaper delivery service. I'm going to make all of my own baby food. I got like the pouches and like a food processor. I was like, I'm going to do this.

And then like literally within two weeks, I was like, all right, I've got disposable diapers and somebody needs to go to the store and get some more applesauce. Yeah, right. Because I can't handle this.

I'm on two hours of sleep. I'm blending French fries and a Coca-Cola. I think I can give this at this point. Yeah, man, if they make it, you know, and plus, I mean, I'm a French fries and a Coca-Cola. I think I can give this a different. Yeah, man. If they make it, you know, and plus, I mean, I'm a pretty good cook. I have like a 70%, you know, good food, you know, ratio to 30%. Like, I've been told that like my carrot cake, I made vegan gluten-free carrot cake once.

And the flavors are good, but the texture is disturbing, and I agree. Disturbing. Disturbing texture. It's a little sinewy. Yeah, it's a little sinewy. Is that a finger? It's a fingernail. I tried to make my own rice flour.

I blended up rice, and I think you're supposed to cook it before you put it in. I blended up rice and I think you're supposed to cook it before you put it in. I have no idea. It floated to the top and it was like crunchy layer on the top but the rest was like this gelatinous it tasted good. Scrape off the top and get eaten.

Just eat the primordial ooze. Cooking and baking is hard enough without putting limits on yourself like that. Yeah, I don't blame you for having a difficult time with a vegan recipe.

It's like a magic trick that like cakes ever turn out. I know. I just picture you being burning so many cakes. Oh my God.

Slamming your oven door with another one. There goes another one. Why? Just buy it. Right. What is something you think is underrated? Horror. Horror, man.

When we were talking about top five favorite movies, Exorcist is in there, right? Best horror movie ever made. But the best thing, horror is like the pizza of film genres because even bad horror is awesome. Yeah, it's still fun, yeah. I saw this movie called Blackwater Exorcism,

and it is so bad, but I had the best time because this guy's checking his mailbox. His daughter's possessed. They're doing a three-day-long exorcism, and his neighbor's like, hey, how's Nancy? And he's like, ugh.

Still getting exercised you're like cutting herself up saying i molested her oh god what wow i was like that's you know uh how are the hoa meetings in this neighborhood everybody's just yeah he was just casually checking the mailbox as his daughter is going through a three-day. Demonically possessed. He's going, I don't know, you know, demonically possessed. Still. Still. Was it on a streaming service?

Because that's typically how I encounter awful movies, because they're just right there. I think it was on Netflix. Okay. Blackwater Exorcism, unless they've pulled it to make room for their other exorcist derivative horror films for Halloween. Ooh, this has the rare 3.4 out of 10 on IMDb. That is low, but it's a loving 3.4, I assume. Emotionally disturbed, Isabel is locked in a fierce battle with a vicious demon that's hell-bent on owning her soul. Saying, I'm listed.

All while stranded at sea at night. Yes. What is a myth? What's something that people think is true that you know to be false? What is a myth? Well, we already talked about how home-cooked isn't necessarily better than store-bought. That's a myth. Some people are saying that Ted Cruz is a Zodiac killer.

Right. Have you heard that? Yeah, but the timeline doesn't work out. Yeah, yeah. I'd say that that's a myth. I think that he's a snake covered in oil, but I don't think he's the Zodiac killer, unless he's like a vampire.

Ted Cruz is actually in his late 20s. It's a little-known fact. No, but he's like a vampire. Ted Cruz is actually in his late 20s. It's little known fact. No, but he's shockingly young. He's like 40 something in his 40s. No, not 42. There's no way he's 42. He's like younger than Beto O'Rourke.

He's 47. Insane. And how old is Beto? I don't know. But if he's younger than Beto O'Rourke, I'm gonna... No, no, no. Sarah Huckleberry. Barely than Beto O'Rourke, I'm going to. No, no, no. Sarah Huckleberry. Barely. Beto O'Rourke is 46. So he's one year.

One year younger. He's one year older than Beto. But he looks like, again, if you put mayonnaise in a balloon and then drew a face on it. It's like he's the, I was saying that earlier, that he's the, Ted Cruz is the thing that you get lasered off at the dermatologist and it keeps growing back. You know what I mean? And I'm from Texas. So I guess the myth is that Texas will always be red.

And I'm from Texas. And Texas really, really, really wants to go blue. And I think that, you know, I think Beto O'Rourke is the guy, you know, to help him do it. And yeah, come on, Texas. You can do it. You got one guy born in Calgary, Canada. And then, come on, Texas. You can do it. You got one guy born in Calgary, Canada. And then you have someone born in El Paso.

Right. You'd think at some point. How long can Ted Cruz keep treading on that fake accent he's got? Right. Or that weird, that's like intermittent drawl he employs when he has to. Yeah, it's like he's like, all right, so I want to sound slimy and nasally but I also want Texans to think that I'm one of them. But real Texans, no.

There's a saying in Texas that anybody can become a citizen of the United States but you've got to be born a Texan. Right? And I'm like, and you vote for this fucking genital wart? You know? Like, come on. Seems like his,

well, we'll see. It seems like his time could be running out. Oh, God, I hope so. It's gonna be such a mind fuck when we find out that Beto O'Rourke is the Zodiac Killer.

Oh, my God. You know what? If he did it, I'd keep an open mind as to why. Yeah. I'd be like, all right,

tell us your reasons, Beto. Tell us your reasons, Beto. Can you do it to song while playing with Willie Nelson, please? Yeah, I'd be like, alright, tell us your reasons, Beto. Tell us your reasons, Beto. Can you do it to song while playing with Willie Nelson, please? Yeah, yeah, exactly. 55,000 people turned out to that concert. I know. And that's why, yeah, wasn't it Greg Abbott saying, he's like,

this is some cult-like shit going on with Beto O'Rourke. From the Abbott brothers? No, no, no, the governor. Got it. Yeah, I mean, it's frightening to see somebody i mean if you're on the right to see someone as charismatic as he is and get people like yeah you know that one speech where he's like if you're a republican you're in the right place if you're democrat you know he was right he was doing the work to bring people together so i want

i want a kamala harris beto o'rourke ticket and that's what you get. California, Texas, New York. It's basically over. Right. It's basically over, man. You just need Ohio or Florida. Right. At the same time,

if he wins, you don't want to then throw that seat up for election two years later. Like, and then you just like turn

it right back over to the red. Yeah. Greg Abbott would be able to appoint somebody, at least in the interim. Yeah. But Miles, weren't you saying that his rally was the biggest rally for a Democrat since Obama?

Yep. Well, all right. Hey, that's pretty cool. So Louis C.K. dropped by the cellar again last night or two nights ago. And same deal, didn't mention his abusive behavior. Two women walked out during the set, but mostly he was received warmly. Yeah.

So the only real development here, other than the same shit as last time, is now the comedy seller has a new policy that they're posting. Yeah, they have a sign apparently outside the door now on the tickets that say, swim at your own risk. We never know who's going to pop in. If an unannounced appearance is not your cup of tea, you are free to leave unobtrusively, please.

No questions asked. Your check on the house. So I guess they're just sort of like, hey, if you're so politically correct that you're put off by this guy coming in here and us, you know, warmly accepting him, you can go and we'll pick up your tab. Can't take how real we are. Right. Man, it's kind of like, you know how like

everybody yells Freebird at Leonard, at Leonard Skinner? Right. Like, I think they should be like, if Louis C.K. is going to do a drop in, he has to jerk off while telling his jokes. I mean, that's what they're paying you for. Right. Yeah, essentially.

Like the entitlement of like having like, oh, I'm just going to drop in and they have to put me up. Lots of people just drop in and you don't get to go on the lineup. Like if I go to the improv, I'm not going to be like, oh, so I'm doing a drop in. I mean, granted, I mean, I'm not a star like Louis C.K., but I mean, when the thing that you're best known for is jerking off on women who did not in any way want to see that, then you don't get to do a drop-in. Yeah. Then people just do, just do the hits, man. Jerk off. Next time if I'm ever there and he does a drop-in, I'm going to take my lighter, I'm going to put it in the air, and I'm going to yell, dude jerking off, man.

Dude jerking off. That's what we're here for. That's what you're known for at this point. I don't know about the joke. Oh, you're a comedian? I thought you'd just show your dick to people. I thought you were a sex crim. Show us your dick.

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He will be flashing you. So there's more news from Brett Kavanaugh's wild days. Yeah, drinking days. They sound like some shithead from the 80s kind of behavior. So previously, he denies that he has ever had a problem drinking or is a problem drinker in any way. He's a saint. He's never blacked out in his life. Have you blacked out, mom?

And so, you know, and Chris Dudley, basketball great, great fucking joke, Chris Dudley, you know, who also went to Yale with him, has sworn up and down the aisles, like, you know, Brett Kavanaugh's a good man. He's never, I've never seen anything remotely close to him blacking out from drinking. It's absurd. So now we find out that there was an incident in the 80s that the very least documented by the police, where after a concert, a UB40 concert, Brett and his homeboys went out for a few beers, you know, because he likes beers. I drink beers.

I like beer. I like beer. Yeah, he's had a couple beers. I still like beer. Yeah, I still like beer. I still will do beers. I do beers all the time. I did like three beers before I came in here.

They just went to a local pub after the show, and, you know, they were so amped up from seeing all that amazing white reggae. Just amped, man. UB40 seeing all that amazing white reggae. Just amped, man. UB40. Red, red, white. That they were at a pub and they could have sworn that Allie Campbell, who is the lead singer of UB40, they were like, yo, I think that's Allie Campbell over there.

And they started like, yeah, I think that is Allie Campbell. And they kept insisting that this man at the bar was Allie Campbell. This man was not Allie Campbell, because why the fuck would he just be at this bar after his concert by himself? But again, when you're that fucked up, sure, I will believe it. Or maybe they were fucking with him. Either way, it got to a point where they kept insisting he was Allie Campbell, and they were getting closer and being like,

hey, you're Allie Campbell. It basically was like, yo, get the fuck out of my face, man. I'm not Allie Campbell. Please leave me alone. of my face, man. I'm not Ally Campbell. Please leave me alone. Do you hear my voice? I'm not speaking with an accent. Right. And he's like, right, I'm not from England.

I'm just some guy. Right. And then apparently Brett Kavanaugh threw his ice or a drink in the guy's face. He was like, hold on. I need to finish all the booze that's in this and leave it just the ice. Yeah. Waste not, want not. And then Chris Dudley glassed the guy.

Well, that's why Chris Dudley's backing him up and being like, I've never seen him. Because this is a cover-up of a felony. You throw a drink, a glass at somebody's head, that's assault with a deadly weapon, man. Right, and the guy had a laceration on his ear and had to go to the hospital. So the police showed up right after. They took statements. No one was arrested or charged in that immediate aftermath. But CNN released an arrest report that Chris Dudley actually was arrested later on.

He wasn't charged, but he was taken in because he glassed this guy in the head. When you say glassed him, like he broke a glass over his head. Yeah, like smashed a glass on his head. Yeah, sorry for my bar brawler slang. Right. But yeah, because look, now we're seeing, again, more examples that are just proof that at the very least, Brett Kavanaugh knows how to get aggro when he drinks. Yeah.

But whatever. We talked about an email that was one of the emails that was released in the like 5% of his emails that actually got released to the Senate that made the rounds because he, it was like after a bachelor party and he was like, Hey guys, I don't need to remind you about the need for discretion and not telling our wives.

One of the things he says in that email is like, sorry for getting out of control, like on Saturday night. Right. For that dice game. Yeah. For that dice game. Like, for that dice game. The dude just can't control himself.

What are they, fucking pirates? You're like, sorry the dice game got out of control, mate. What the fuck were they? Who plays dice? I didn't think Yale guys were playing CeeLo at a party. CeeLo in the alley. He's like, yeah, that's a head crack, motherfucker. Don't move, don't move don't move

let me get my money it's so weird i think dice has to be like an abbreviation for something like like uh like doing it with corpses everywhere right yeah yeah yeah you know like like corpses exclusively like i i just this is a humble brag but i i i as soon as i saw brett kavanaugh i i posted you can find it that i uh he's a sexual he's a fucking sexual predator and he has sex with under underage corpses like like as soon as i saw it because you can see it like like if you have those beady little eyes beady little eyes and those tiny little shark teeth and you got all that money but you can't get some white strips get the fuck out of here less than zero right get some white strips get some white strips and yeah i mean those poor strippers i mean if it's a bachelor bachelor party and they had strippers

like like has anybody checked on the strippers like to make sure they're still alive because he's like i want you to lay in this ice bath and don't move no matter what I do. That's the kind of sickness I'm talking about. He's like, what are you drawing on my back where the incisions will occur? We'll take your kidneys. So meanwhile, The Daily, the New York Times podcast, that's like a worse version of this show, interviewed two journalists from the New York Times

who are on the Brett's Drunken Escapades beat. One of them is like digging around in amongst his high school friends and the other is digging around amongst his college friends. And everything they've uncovered has suggested that all accusations are real and trustworthy. And they were saying that people, and this is something I always assumed, but I hadn't actually heard anybody say it, but that classmates have pride, even if they're Democrats, even no matter what their politics are, they have pride in the fact that, oh, well, this guy I went to school with is a Supreme Court nominee. That's a cool thing to say. And I'm sure the Chris Dudleys of the world are like, hey, it's not bad to have somebody

who's on the Supreme Court in case I get into a knife fight at a bar or whatever. You're Alex Trebek. Yeah. So they were basically saying that people didn't want to go on the record and contradict Kavanaugh until the Fox news interview and his testimony, at which point people started coming out and being like, yo,

this guy, like you can't just live that hard. Um, and so they were saying that they have a lot of, uh, people who either on the record or anonymously are painting a picture of him as like such a fuck up that everyone was shocked at graduation from college when he won like all these honors because he was

the guy at the keg who was always trying and failing to like get girls and he wanted to be a ladies man but instead he was always holding up the wall, which they meant leaning against the wall because he would fall over if he stepped away from it. So he was just like constantly way entirely too drunk and, you know, pestering women. He's a sex pest. I mean, all the lies. There's so many. Now, like, there are so many lies or so many conflicting reports about this person. It's hard to even keep track of because like every single thing he said, there's always been something to be like, wait.

He said he found out about the Ramirez accusation when the New Yorker piece came out. But then there are people saying that he was texting people before the release of that article being like, hey, if this comes out, you got to back me up. And acting like he's, but he told Orrin Hatch, oh, I found out when the New Yorker piece, although, I mean, you may argue that he meant that when he was contacted maybe by the New Yorker that that's when he found out, but there's

plenty of, there's so many other things that, like, are so, that are already disqualifying that it's just mind-boggling that we're still kind of like, oh, okay, well, let's just hold our nose and see what happens. Yeah, man. He's lied to Congress. You know, that should get him yanked out of contention, should get him yanked off of his

D.C. circuit position, and he should go to jail, you know, and at least for like a couple of weeks, you know, so that he can see what it's like to be on the receiving end of what he does. Oh, yeah, yeah. I don't think he's even probably seen a prison. He's like, oh, they freak me out. Right. He looks at it and he's like, ooh, they're gross. They're gross.

I mean, that facial twitch doesn't come from nowhere. Yeah. There's a reason behind it. So meanwhile, on the right, the story that is gaining traction is that this is now out of control it is a scary time for young white men in america uh and this is according to the trump's donald trump jr uh said he's worried for his sons i think we have audio of that and uh your boy jeffrey tubin who is the new yorker writer who is also cnn's legal expert, commented on that in a way that I found wildly appropriate. Who are you scared most for, your sons or your daughter?

I mean, right now, I'd say my sons. But when the other side weaponizes it against men and says, you know, 40 years later, we can bring it up. And you did something in high school that no one remembers, but it should disqualify you from ever doing anything again. It really diminishes the real claims. That's text to subtext right there. You know what? Every night, I cry myself to sleep over the fate of white men in America. White men have no power.

I mean, it's such garbage. And you're not listening to right-wing media where this is a talking point that has caught on like wildfire. I understand that. And you know what? If you sexually assault someone in high school, your life should be ruined. Your life shouldn't be pursued. What? I mean, the idea that this is somehow unjust.

Remember, this all started with accusations of sexual assault. How about the lives of the women who were sexually assaulted in high school? How about the 15-year-old Ms. Blasey? She wasn't Ms. Blasey Ford in those days. How about her life? All this whining about the poor plight of white men is ridiculous. I don't know where he gets off. I don't know.

I mean, well, when you hear these male politicians say it, to me it feels so clearly that these people refuse to have a reckoning with their own past behavior that it's just easier to just look at this and say, this is such bullshit. Rather than like, yeah, fuck. I fucked up. I grew up in a time where we didn't, like, no one told me shit. I was, I've operated under this fucked up misogynistic culture. That's there's something needs to change rather than be like, oh, my God, like this is getting out of control. Like because I'm refusing to do the be introspective and look at my own self. I'd rather just be like, well, see, this this is all bullshit.

Right. It's very I mean, to me, it's very transparent. Like when you hear people start using this defense, like, I wonder what is in your past. Right. Because it seems like to begin to agree that, oh, yeah, this is something we have to deal with, would force them to confront some of their own behavior and then put that through the context of what's going on and be like, yeah, I may have been a shitty guy or maybe I still am. Yeah.

But. And the just sheer indignation from white men on behalf of other white men, like Trump, the president himself, actually, like he doesn't give a shit about his sons with good reason, as we recently heard. But he was just saying broadly, it's a scary time for men in America, obviously the implication being only white men, when you can be perfect and one accusation can ruin your life. And yeah, even though he himself admitted that Dr. Ford seemed completely credible, it's just like their brain just goes from A to C. It skips the middle step where, you know, sexual assault occurred.

And it's just like, like yeah but think about it from his perspective it's gotta suck because i get that perspective because i'm a guy who did fucked up shit and if that happened to me that would be terrible yeah i mean you have to remember that ivana trump uh told the police right that uh uh donnie raped her and then then Donnie Jr. was like, you know, I think I'm gonna go work for my dad. Right. You know what I mean? So like, like Republicans will always be like, you know, or people who are talking to Republicans

in order to make them have like, even pretend to care about women. They're like, oh, imagine if this happened to your daughter or your mother or your mom. Like it did happen to their mom and they don't give a fuck. Right. That's a good point.

Yeah. I mean, yeah. your mom like it did happen to their mom and they don't give a fuck right that's a good point um yeah i mean yeah to i think just to make sure to keep this father in this pristine image of a guy who really doesn't care about him but yeah i mean it's so funny too because you know that the solution for this problem is very simple if you're a parent is just teach your sons that raping people is bad that consent is something that they need to learn about, that they have to respect someone's agency, not violate them. Pretty simple. Pretty simple, man. Because it's like, well, I want to start teaching my kid you can't do this shit. Like, that's the subtext of that, too, where it's like, oh, my God, I fear for my kids because I'm not telling him about this stuff.

I'm just being like, yo, this is all good. This is how you. Boys will be boys. Yeah, right? Am I right, guys? And it's like, yo, this is all good. This is how you- Boys will be boys. Yeah, right? Am I right, guys? And it's like, yo, just do the work of a fucking parent. Yeah. And raise a child to know what the fucking, what the rules are to this game we're trying

to play called life. Yeah. Our baby Ripley is two years old and three months now. Oh, this makes so much sense because you were talking about aliens. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I named her after the first female action star. Oh, that's fucking awesome. Thank you. She's awesome. Hey, I believe

it, right? Believe it or not. Ripley's name. That's a different Ripley though. But she's gonna hear that a lot too. From very funny people. Really lame old dudes. Hey, believe it or not, you're Ripley. I love Jack Palance. Believe it or not, you're Ripley. I love

Jack Palance. Believe it or not. But yeah, I'll be like, hey Rip, can I get a kiss? And she'll go, no. And I go, that's okay. You do not have to give me a kiss just because you're adorable and I want a kiss doesn't mean I get one even if I'm your mommy.

And I'm taking your food away from you. Because clearly you don't love me. Oh, then I guess you don't need my food either. White men are in the 60s versus 30s when it comes to whether to approve Kavanaugh. Wait, what do you mean? In the 1960s? No, no.

60-something percent versus 30-something percent, they think he should be approved versus people who think he shouldn't be. Everyone else is like the opposite, essentially. Well, if Kavanaugh gets on the court, everybody gets issued a woman. So that's good. She's historically unpopular. However, and this blew my mind, most Republicans, so 54% of Republicans, said that they would support confirming Kavanaugh even if it turned out that the sexual assault accusations against him are true. They're just like, yeah, I don't give a fuck. Well, that's a bonus for a lot of those guys.

Right, yeah. Yeah, I think, again, because these are men who are unwilling to – they don't want to do the work of looking at their own behavior. So it's easier to just be like, no, this guy's chill. Right. Because I'm, I don't want to live in a world where this is bad and now I'm going to have to confront my own shit. It's just such a, they haven't had a reckoning with their own behavior. A lot of people.

It's like they're all, a lot of them are like Bible thumpers who use the Bible to reinforce their toxic masculinity. Yeah, for sure. You know, instead of us, I believe that we are stewards of the earth and we are to protect it and protect the animals on it and take good care of it so that whoever comes behind us, you know, we left it better than we found it. You know, just like if you let me stay at your house, I'm going to probably leave that room better than I found it. You know, whereas these guys are like we are to have dominion and women are to obey. And we have to, if we can't kill it, we fuck it. And if we can't

fuck it, we kill it. But sometimes we fuck it, then we kill it. And sometimes we kill it, then we fuck it. Because that's what men do. That's not what real men do. I know two speeds, fuck or kill. Which one are you going to be on today? It ain't cuck or cry on the left, man. It, fuck or kill. Which one are you going to be on today?

It ain't cuck or cry on the left, man. It's fuck or kill over here, my man. Oh, man. This is very upsetting, that character. What? Two speeds, fuck or kill? Two speeds, fuck or kill. I mean, it's true.

The subtext of a lot of things we're seeing, yeah, it's like you say. I mean, it's true. The subtext of a lot of things we're seeing, yeah, it's like you say. When you have people who are so unwilling to just look at this in a way that is free from politics or maybe just their own personal history, you just say it is a bad thing for someone to do this to someone else. Yeah, and if you rape someone, even if you were bad at raping and you didn't get all the way. Right. You know, you've made an attempt at raping someone. That's a disqualifier. Oh, yes.

Like forever. Yeah. Forever. Yeah. You know? Yeah. One thing, just while we're on the subject of him being too drunk to sexually complete his attempt at sexual assault.

So the actual definition of devil's triangle, like people have just been pointing to that as an example of him lying because he said it was a drinking game. But the actual definition of devil's triangle is a threesome with two men and a woman, which is what he was attempting to have happen if you believe Dr. Ford's account of the events. Two men in a room. Yeah, two men in a room alone with a woman, and he just didn't, whether she was into it didn't appear to cross his mind.

But people are just like, see, he lied about that and it's not actually a drinking game. And it's like, no, it's actually the thing that he would like was attempting to do. Like, why aren't we talking more about that? But I guess in the,

the way that the logic is operating in the Senate, the only way they can get the, the GOP to concede that anything bad happened is for this investigation to come back and say that that in fact happened. They're not interested in the fact that he's lied about his drinking history or all these other things. That's why the scope of the investigation is so narrow, too. It's just limited to these allegations of sexual assault. It's not about whether or not he lied about his drinking or many of these other things that should be relevant, because they would probably show that he did lie to the Senate.

Yeah. No, it's very clear he lied about his drinking and he lied about the definition of that. I'm just saying it seems like the media at the very least should be pointing out he was bragging that him and his homies had threesomes with girls. Who are not into it. No woman that from brett kavanaugh and mark judge have you seen these guys jesus christ like like and like and you have to have a discussion about that you know i i would think you know if i were to be with two guys i'd be like all right now here's uh diagrams of what's allowed and what's not allowed it's a very thorough vetting process here's the diagram.

The two of you fuck off out of here. See ya. There we go. They need to get hooked up to a polygraph. She passed a poly. This isn't a criminal prosecution. That's inadmissible in court, but this is a job interview. Hook those two up to a polygraph and see what happens, man.

Right. And it's so funny, too, because even in the Senate hearings, they're like, well well we use it to hire people in the intelligence community and like we employ it in all these other ways but again i'm sure yeah there's he can't there's there's no way he could because i don't think it would in any way show him to be honest about yeah it would just like it would just start smoking yeah exactly but just melts the second he puts it on. On the Daily, one of the reporters was saying that the people who drank with him are like, yeah, he probably believes that he believes it when he denies that this happened because he doesn't remember it. But he was like blacked out all the time. Like he was just constantly blacked out.

So like, yeah, it's easy for him to deny it. Maybe he would pass a polygraph, but he was blacked out all the time like we we all knew those kids in college and high school who were just always completely blacked out and you know uh some of us may have been those kids and there's no shame in that you know but like you know and then you make uh you kind of get real with yourself and acknowledge that you, you know, that you don't just like drinking beers or like beers. Right. Yeah.

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What were they getting before? Like half that, was like 750 well it depends i know some places they were getting 13 or whatever but yeah like i mean it wasn't clearly for the amount of hours they were forcing these people to work 15 was the absolute least they could pay them because like there are people who were like like having to forego using the bathroom because like the workload was so intense give me my give me my my work catheter yeah yeah no that people were literally being forced to pee in bottles because they had to meet these fulfillment demands and you couldn't both meet the fulfillment demand that the job required and take a break to go all the way to the bathroom. You had to be like carrying a package back and forth while peeing into a bottle.

Oh, my God. So, yeah, your packages are being handled by pee hands, first of all, guys. Sounds like a slur for working class people, Jen. What, pee hands? Got a bunch of pee hands over here. All right, money bags, O'Brien. Just use your hand sanitizer after you open your goods. What one weird story that I had seen a couple weeks back

is that they had patented cages for their workers. Yeah, that was a mistake. Now granted, it was kind of looked worse than it was because it was supposed to be a cage to protect them from falling boxes still wouldn't be that cool to work inside a cage i don't know what you guys think but unless you called it the octagon right right i'm getting back there you go you know climbing back in the octagon the octagon to fill these orders yeah it's a very like the diagrams of it are pretty interesting.

Like, they look like just like a, I don't know, like apocalyptic workers jail cell. Oh, my God. They should give them, like, exoskeletons, like, in Day Before Tomorrow or Day After Tomorrow. What was that Emily Blunt, Tom Cruise movie? Edge of Tomorrow. Edge of Tomorrow. Thank you.

Or Live, Die, Repeat, depending on when you saw it. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, did they change it partway through? They basically changed the title because they... I've never seen a movie where it was just so unnameable that they were just like, we still haven't come up with a good name for it. Or an exoskeleton like Ripley had. There you go.

There you go. Yeah. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, so they're giving their companies a raise. And according to one employee who hadn't received a raise in four years and recently got a 40-cent raise, I believe. Yes, yes. A very generous 40 cents. Their HR manager announced the raise and people were just like, yeah, we're so worn down.

We don't even give a shit. And like, also, it's just not enough. And so the manager instructed them to clap and they just started a slow clap with no emotions on their face. Like Jeb Bush did that one? Yeah. Please clap.

Please clap. Oh my, so painful. The HR manager in the room was like, aren't you excited? Come on, clap. We started a slow clap with no emotions on our faces. Aren't you excited? You're getting a nickel.

Right. Like, what the? And, yeah, again, it's just so funny, like, the way Jeff Bezos, you know, acts. I don't know if he really views himself as being, like, this morally righteous person who's doing good on behalf of his workers. But even when he gave $2 billion to fight homelessness, it's like, dude, that's a drop in the fucking bucket for you. Compared to even what other people, what percentage of their earnings they give to charity, $2 billion doesn't even actually equate to the same proportion for Jeff Bezos. But again, I think you know there

was a lot of pressure especially from Bernie Sanders to be like hey man if your fucking employees are on food stamps then every dollar that they're taking from the government we're going to tax you for because we're not footing the bill because you're not going to give people a living wage and clearly that that pressure worked because now you know they're making something a little bit more fair and not just just here, like across the world too. Yeah. Are you talking about the Sanders tax bill where it was like for every dollar spent on like aid for a worker, that company would have to – Yeah, pay that back essentially.

Pay that back. Yeah. And it was like – Oh, that's a good bill. And the way he titled it spelled out Bezos. It was like the B-E-Z-O-S bill. Yeah, stop bad employers by zeroing out subsidies act. Wow.

So, you know, the shade worked. I mean, the guy is the richest man possibly in the modern history of the world. And you don't get that way without um i always talk about this article where malcolm gladwell looked at like people who were on you know the richest like the founder of walmart and he was saying that they all got there by being predatory finding like a way that they could exploit somebody or some condition and just exploiting it over and over and over again until they had billions and billions of dollars. And then they have them go, oh, I'm sorry.

I didn't know I couldn't do that. Exactly. So Amazon bought Whole Foods for $13.7 billion last year. for $13.7 billion last year. And they have recently sent out a 45-minute training video to Whole Foods managers produced by Amazon that informs them on how to deal with the fact that Whole Foods employees may be wanting to unionize. Oh, no.

They're like, oh, shit, we were bought by Amazon, the famously abusive fucking company. Pee bottle? Right. Yeah, the old pee bottle up in Seattle. Yeah, so there's been whispers amongst Whole Foods employees that they might unionize. And we have some audio from the video,

but it's just an early South Park-level animation of a guy with like a shitty like beard right like of how to bust unions yeah just being like how to tell if your employees might be trying to unionize on you unions pose a threat to this direct connection this commitment to a direct connection with our associates makes union representation unnecessary we are not anti-union but we are not neutral either we will boldly defend our direct relationship with associates as best for the associate the business and our shareholders we do not believe unions are in the best interest of our customers our shareholders or most importantly our associates we are not

new wait what did he say? We're not anti-union, but we're not, we're not neutral either. How is that true? It's not. I mean, how can that logically be true?

It's just word salad. If you're not anti, but you're not neutral, that you're in between where it's like, we just think unions are shady. It assumes anti-union is on some level of a spectrum wherein, like, it's a 10 being anti-union. And we're a 9. We're not all the way to anti-union.

Unions are like tattoos. Like, they look good on other people, but not on us. Yeah, yeah, exactly. My arms aren't developed enough for, like, a cool sleeve tattoo. Right. So that's why I'm anti-union. The video gives managers a list of quote warning signs to look out for amongst employees. And they're really telling. Number one, are they pissing in bottles?

No. So number one is use of words like quote living wage. Oh, Jesus. Oh, my God. Yeah. Living wage. Living wage. Oh, my God.

Did you hear that? I think I heard Scott talking about an LW. Right. Living wage. We have to bust this shit. So if you say, I think people should make a living wage, that's union talk, man. You're fired. Yeah.

Associates raising concerns on behalf of their coworkers is one of the- Empathy? Yeah, empathy. Wow. Showing empathy is a warning sign. Hey, I heard they're pissing in bottles over there. That doesn't seem right.

Sorry, say that again? I've got to take down... Oh, that's number four on the list. Oh no, I've ticked two of the four probably going to unionize boxes. Unless you follow that, I hear they're pissing in bottles, which is a great way to raise productivity. Maybe we should start peeing in bottles here.

That's what they want to hear. That's the Kellyanne Conway approach. Workers who normally aren't connected to each other suddenly hanging out together. So like good morale and like people liking each other. That's right. Which is the other one. The other warning sign. Increase negativity in the workplace. Right. other, that's seen as- Right, which is the other warning sign, increase negativity in the workplace. Right.

Yeah, that's right, because if people work in shitty conditions, they will naturally try and figure out how to improve them for themselves. But hey, we're not anti-union. Yeah. We're not neutral either. Just animated double speak is basically what this is. That's crazy, man. It's good for- Happy workers, happy customers, man.

I don't go to Whole Foods because I was tired of having to walk over the bodies. Right. You know, like you ask somebody, hey, where's your crystallized ginger? And they use their own shoelaces to hang themselves from the fluorescent lighting. Right. That's no way to run a place. But hey, they can't unionize them, God forbid. The other shit in this video is really wild, too, about the language they can use to try

and sort of nudge them in a direction. Right. Where it's like, hey, your speech is legally protected. Right. Anything you say is lawful. So it can be anything from like, hey, unions, they hurt. They're going to hurt us. Right.

To like, yo, fucking unions suck, motherfucker motherfucker and they're shit rats right yeah no that's what they amazon instructs managers that quote almost anything you say is lawful so while you can't threaten people's jobs you can't be like don't unionize or you're fired. Oh, you better not. You can offer opinions such as unions are liars. And also unions are lying, cheating rats. That's in the text. That's in the text. Lying, cheating rats. Where the fuck?

Is it just like that? They like got these talking points. We're not anti-union. Upton Sinclair novel or something? Like villain of an Upton Sinclair novel? Lying, cheating rats. They're rats. They're rats.

You hear? Yeah. Oh yeah. It's a, uh, they're flippers. Call the Pinkertons in and unions forming over here. The amazing thing. And this makes total sense.

Amazon's response to this Gizmodo report, Gizmodo, like got all this, you know, got, got access to the videos. Uh, Amazon was like, was like read their report

and they're quote perplexed why anyone would be creeped out by any of this because if you're in a really good corporation just everybody's fucking heads down like just totally bought into the cult mentality just like no we're just obsessive about our customers what are you guys talking about unions just aren't good for our customer obsession. When you're not a fucking lizard person, you know, like you have like and you're a mammal that you want to have a you want to unionize, man. Yeah. I mean, yo, live better. Work union.

Yeah. Amen. But yeah, that's again that like because of the stage of capitalism we're in, that's the biggest threat to a lot of these companies. And you can hear that it's not good for our shareholders. What the fuck does your employee give a fuck about your shareholders? Those are people who are making so much money or have at least the disposable income to be invested in a company and not pissing in bottles.

You're just laying out very clearly that you're like, yeah, see, we're going to say shareholders and then work our way down to then the employee, which is like our tertiary concern. Yeah. So congratulations, Amazon, on raising the minimum wage of your employees to $15. Maybe let them talk about, at least empathize with one another not consider that a fucking warning sign

you right creeps all jobs should be union yeah and if you're ever having to tell your employees

come on guys clap you need to be more excited about how well we're treating you you're in prison or in a cult yes

but you know what we can we can rejoice over one thing. If you're a Game of Thrones fan and a whiskey drinker, Diageo, the evil liquor empire, has come for us because now they've so expertly rebranded Johnny Walker into White Walker whiskey.

What? Yes. They brought the Game of know special edition whiskey on deck because it's the final season and people are going crazy for it now there it's not just the white walker one which they're so impressed with they're like it uses like thermo ink to like when you put it in the freezer johnny will turn into the night king um but the whole point is like who drinks whiskey like ice cold well you're not're not supposed to, cause there's no, you'll lose all the flavor. Right.

I mean, maybe you have, you can have like a rock in there with it, but you don't want it like straight out the freezer. But again, maybe they've blended it in a way that it still has, it's like flavor profile, despite just drinking a straight up ice bottle of whiskey. But again, I'm not some kind of whiskey sommelier. Right. Uh, but, but also they're also offering single malts for like all the different houses of westeros too so like that

also have like some kind of thematic tie-in so like if it's like this house stark whiskey like it's meant for like a a colder region of scotland that is more akin to like the temperatures of the north uh and things like that so look i don't't know how excited people are for Game of Thrones, but I might entertain a bottle of White Walker just because it's such brilliant marketing. It's so, but it seems beneath a brand like Johnny Walker that's kind of this classic. Well, remember, wait, didn't they do that weird fake woke-washing feminist thing? Oh, did they?

Where they changed the Johnny Walker to a woman? Oh, weird. To be like, see? Doesn't always have to be a dude. I think they're always just willing to just cash in on Johnny Walker. This just feels like it's a children's breakfast cereal style tie-in with the new DreamWorks animation or something. Right.

We have Walker in the title of this brand and one of their characters is named a White Walker. I mean, it shitwrites itself. They had the Jane Walker edition. I hate that so much. I think we talked about in the show

but things get lost because we talk about so many companies doing this like thirsty woke washing shit but yeah now they're doing it with the night king I have have you seen the bottles have the bottles been released yeah the bottles uh does it looks does it looks like sweet is a sweet looking bottle I'll play the 30 second commercial that they have put together for this epic moment. From deep in the north, far beyond the wall,

the howl of the frozen wind brings word of something new. A whiskey from the land of always winter for those who face the oncoming storm and never stop walking winter is here white walker by johnny walker oh shit they got me they got me i'll get that shit i'll get that shit i'm gonna sip it on november 6th because winter is coming, man. There you go, yeah.

And we will have a celebratory drink. Oh, is that when it comes back? No, that's the election. That's the election. Oh. What election? There's an election coming up? Don't worry about it, man.

It's going to be a scary one for white guys. I would probably stay home too. They have nothing but tiki torches to defend themselves with. Yeah, exactly. But yeah, I mean- And all the guns. Again, this, I'm, yeah, the more I, at first I'm like, come on, Game of Thrones, because there have been a lot of things coming out recently, like they're going to open possibly

a theme park, or let people visit the sets, or turn them into permanent installations people can go to to really get the GOT experience? That I'm behind. Yeah. And I think like if I'm trying to think of what the right brand for this would be, I guess Johnny Walker because people like collect the different color labels. And so there's like some collector's addition-ness about it. But it just seems like, I don't know, super, super like childish.

Oh, yeah, yeah. It's transparent. It's childish. It's being manipulated. But, you know, just like a Lifetime made-for-TV movie, I know I'm being manipulated and I'm into it. Yeah. All right. But it's not the first time because there was a brewery that had like Westeros beers and then there was –

Well, that makes sense to me. There was like a wine, Bob Cabral did a Game of Thrones themed wine line. Yeah, but there's like- Wine makes sense. Nine million types of wine. Does Ben and Jerry's have one? Oh, I don't know. I bet Ben and Jerry's is going to get in on this.

See, Ben and Jerry's seems above this sort of thing. Jerry Garcia is the lowest they go. Right, yeah, yeah. Oh, red velvet wedding Cake oh there we go See don't get these ideas out for free Liz Yeah come on man Nick get Vermont on the phone

Hello operator Ben And or Jerry please Get me Vermont Liz it's been so fun having you Oh thank you Where can people find you well you can find me on your television set Liz Stewart

I'm crowning on Amazon on Amazon disregard all that stuff we said we'll just bleep out the company name when we do that other story well you know I didn't know. I didn't know.

Amazon, Xfinity, Comcast, iTunes. There we go. If you have a TV, you can find it. And then can people actually see footage from your wedding somewhere? Oh, that's on my Facebook. Oh, okay. One day maybe it will be public. One day I will make that public.

Because I was waiting. I literally was hoping you had a DVD I could buy. I'll have to show it to you. I bet I could pull it up. Please do. Well, we'll take it out after the show for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And is there a tweet that you've been enjoying?

Oh, I love Nihilist Arby's. If you haven't heard of Nihilist Arby's. Yeah, Nihilist Arby's is great. They had to put a tweet out five days ago that says, sure, you're friendless, unlovable, and alone, but look at the bright side. So is everyone on this dumb website. Enjoy Arby's.

So, yeah, yeah, yeah. I love Nihilist Arby's. And also the tweet of God. I think that that's really good. So that would be the one that I'm into. That would be the tweet that I'm into. All right. Well, we appreciate that. Miles, where can people find you?

Follow you? Oh, man. Gosh, everywhere. Twitter, Instagram, LiveJournal, at Miles of Gray. And a tweet I like is from The Onion. Because I feel like maybe last week or the week before, we were talking about how Coca-Cola was moving into the cannabis-infused drink space because they got to stay relevant. So The Onion was like, Coca-Cola was moving into the cannabis-infused drink space because they got to stay relevant.

So the Onion was like, Coca-Cola may move into marijuana products. What do you think? And they show a picture of this cynical older guy in a suit, and it says, sorry, but I'm more of a Pepsi and meth guy. It says, Tommy Walmsley Pandiculation researcher Pandiculation is when you like stretch When you yawn and shit What a stupid fucking thing

Anyway Pepsi and meth guys Salute Tweet I've been enjoying is from Abby Evans Me my eyes are up here Picasso I disagree And Perfect me my eyes are up here Picasso I disagree and it's true

and it's truer than you might think if you've seen the net Picasso total asshole alright and you can find me on twitter at jack underscore o'brien you can find us on twitter at daily zeitgeist we're at the daily zeitgeist on instagram we have a facebook fan page on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook

fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com where we post our episodes and our footnotes. Footnotes. Where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode as well as the song we ride out on. You can also find that information in the show notes. Miles. Show notes. What are we

going to ride out on today? Anna, what are we going to ride out on today Anna what are we going to ride out on today hi oh it's super producer Anna Hosnier she just skateboarded into the room I push runs like way um okay

doing great the track I'm going to recommend is Finn's Weezing just kidding I'm going to recommend is Finn's Wheezing. Finn's Wheezing. Just kidding. I'm going to recommend a song from Maxine Ashley, who's this artist from New York that I saw this weekend in L.A. Oh, my God. She travels.

And she's really cool. She does a lot of tracks where she samples a lot of really great songs. And this one's for all my ladies who've been through a breakup and they're tired of those poor shitty men trying to ruin their lives so this is called happy with or without you by maxine ashley and it's just a good jam you know put it on when you're flipping off his photos on Instagram or whatever you do. Enjoy. All right, we're going to ride out on that. We will be back tomorrow because it is a daily podcast.

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