The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 10 (Best of 2/5/18-2/9/18)

Episode Date: February 11, 2018

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I promise you'll be happier and healthier if you do. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of the Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from this week, segments from this week all edited together into one non-stop infotainment laugh extravaganza. So without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist. Jamie, what is something that is underrated? Something underrated, I think is uh reading the comments everyone always says don't read the comments but sometimes i dip my toe into the comments and i get this rush i was awake three

hours earlier than i was expecting to be because i just sat up in a cold sweat because i'd read comments the previous night and i was like whoa i'm fully activated and i walked for seven miles so uh underrated um no i knew where i was going okay and i walked for seven miles and then i just ended up somewhere and like and i was in that's how we met yeah that is how we met that sounds uh healthy read that well what happened yeah what what what comments under what okay so i i I do a show on Super Deluxe and never read the comments. On YouTube, never. No. But sometimes on Facebook especially they're bad.

And sometimes it will just like show up in my feed because I like subscribe to the channel from my Facebook. Right. So this one just showed up and then I fell deep into a hot or not debate about me. And it was – I mean some points were made, some valid points. Some people were nice. Some people think I should see a dentist. It's like there's a lot going on. Jesus Christ.

And I normally wouldn't dip in, but I did this time. And you know what? I don't regret it. Okay. Yeah. Wait. So you interacted or you just read through it? Oh, I love interacting with them. Yeah. i'm just like thank you valid point uh if anyone wants to give

me dental insurance that'd be fucking tight if there's any dentists in the comments right like is this an ad for your dental practice yeah if so very hurtful but like i will show up so yeah reading comments underrated uh i would say never to read the comments just based on my own experience. It is a horrifying experience. My most popular video on YouTube. So the more popular a piece of content or whatever gets, the more likely it is to reach an audience that is not your audience, basically. Oh, the audience that doesn't think you're hot? Right.

Yeah, basically. Oh, the audience that doesn't think you're hot? Right. Yeah, exactly. So I had a video very early on the show I used to do, The Spit Take, where it was a good premise, just videos of celebrities while they were unmistakably high or drunk. And it was a lot of fun but you know i wasn't my performance wasn't uh great it was like the fifth video i'd ever done and the comments were so mean it was like the i think that one of the top comments was i just want to punch you in the fucking throat bro and everyone was like yep yes that was the top comment uh it's a debasing experience being on the internet. It is. More than being a frequent podcast guest?

Oh, that's true. No, it's worse. It's definitely for sure worse. And then it's weird because you'll see comments about your friends sometimes and it's like, wow, now I know this mean thing someone thought about you. Do you know? I can't tell you. And I can't bring it up without looking just shady.

No, right. Can you believe what someone said about you? Right. I'm like, people say that you got Cheeto fingers. Like, it's like they're. Cheeto fingers? Yeah. I can't.

Like, that they're jaundiced and like. I cannot discuss it further. I cannot discuss it further. I mean, the yellow is like. Oh, like they're knobby, like a. I don't. Oh, yeah. Jamie's one friend.

Remember they have Cheetos for fingers? Yeah. Just like actual Cheetos. I feel like I'm like calling them out one friend. Remember they have Cheetos for fingers? Yeah. Just like actual Cheetos. I feel like I'm like calling them out now. My friend who has Cheetos for fingers. We call her Chris Cheeto. They are delicious, though. God bless her.

I have seen. God bless her Cheeto fingers. I have seen people, like any creative people who are out there. I would recommend not reading the comments as much as possible. I've seen talented writers kind of lose their way, at least temporarily, because of comments. Because that voice gets in their head and then they open their next column arguing with a voice in their head that represents the comments. I've done that before. For like a page.

And it's just like, that's not. It's just a terrible way to live. You want to live from your inside and exude outwardly. You don't want external things to begin affecting you internally. And I think you begin to betray yourself because if you live by the comments and you get gassed up when people big you up, you're like, oh, yes, I'm feeling good. You also die just as bad from the bad comments. Yeah, you got your hot days and your not days.

Just believe in yourself. Well, I would, I guess, clarify from the bad comments. Yeah, you got your hot days and your not days. Just believe in yourself. Well, I would, I guess, clarify reading the comments. I wouldn't do it on purpose, but if you come across them by accident when you're just innocently scrolling through your own damn feed. Right. I was literally looking for people who were sad that the Patriots lost to make myself feel good because I like when people from my home state are upset. And then instant karma came across the hot or not discussion. So when you see it, make the best of it. Make the best of it.

You found one of us, by the way. I am a Patriots fan, a self-loathing one. Really? Yeah, yeah. Wild. The Super Bowl was yesterday. And... Hey!

Yeah. So... Hey, you had a good party. You had a good party. We had a good party over at my house. It was a lot of fun. I'm sorry I didn't make it to the party. The Zeitgeist Cave.

Whatever, Jamie. We were recording. Go to your Bechdel cast. We did. We did. We were recording. Go to your Bechdel cast. We did. I was recording. No, you were missed, but it was a lot of fun and another good game. I feel like there's been a pretty great run of Super Bowls for the past, I don't know, handful of years. There are Super Bowls that feature the Patriots, have been really good games the past three

times, but they lost this time, as I knew they would. Nick Foles was great and won't be the starting quarterback for the Eagles next year. And there are rumors that this would be the last year of the Patriots dynasty. So think of the boys, guys. Think of the the last year of the Patriots dynasty. So think of the boys, guys. Think of the boys. Think of the fucking guys. Think of the fucking guys. Think of those guys.

Don't be reckless tonight, guys. Don't be reckless. They don't want that. The guys wouldn't want that. But, yeah, the rumor is that Belichick might leave because Brady made them trade away Jimmy Garoppolo. Not Janine Garoppolo, as I just wanted to say. Oh, that got a bigger laugh than it deserved. I really liked it.

Someone photoshopped that. Yeah, but also they could make Tom happy. So we'll see about that. Ratings were down. I know people who skipped it because they didn't want to watch a sport that is, you know, complicit in giving people CTE. And then I know of a bunch of people who skipped it because they feel like, you know, NFL players were disrespecting the troops. And then you have people who don't watch it because they feel like the NFL is disrespecting those people's right to protest. Right.

Exactly. That sounds like a little conflicting because, like, I just don't generally care about the NFL. And this year kind of solidified why I don't really watch. Right. So I don't know. It was hard to kick the tradition of doing something on Super Bowl Sunday. I think that's what I found myself in that place. Yeah.

Maybe we need to create a new tradition. On Super Bowl Sunday, everybody gets together and just watches The Simpsons or something. Oh, that sounds really nice. You know what I mean? Yeah, that would be fun. And you can still eat and drink or whatever, but just don't watch the fucking Super Bowl Sunday, everybody gets together and just watches The Simpsons. Oh, that sounds really nice. You know what I mean? Yeah, that would be fun. And you can still eat and drink or whatever, but just don't watch the fucking Super Bowl. Just don't watch the Super Bowl. Yeah.

I had a great time. My co-host, Caitlin, and I went to a cantina last night. Totally empty. We got half-priced margaritas because no one was there. And they were just like, oh, did you watch the game? We're like, nope. They're like, are you 18? And we're like, what? Yes. And then we got We're like, nope. They're like, are you 18? And we're like, yes.

And then we got half price for a greet. Because you were 18? No, well, Kaylin was like, I'm 31. I was like, I'm 18. All right, half price for you, not the old lady. But yeah, I mean, there was a hit during the game. One of the cooks, a Patriots receiver, caught a ball and then did this weird cartoon character

circle thing and then ran and just got completely knocked out. And that was a point where everybody laughed at first because it looked silly and then were like, oh, wow, he could be dead.

That's legitimate. Like, he did the same sort of hand thing that Uma Thurman does, actually, in that car crash video. Sort of like a fencing response. Yeah, where your hand just like kind of goes up because you're so knocked out. You just kind of go back to fetal position. Brutal. Yeah. So that was the game.

Congratulations to the city of Philadelphia. We'll get it. Guys, quick update. I did just send Steven Swalsoz a request for $50 on the Cash App, and we'll see what he says. We'll see how swole that bank account is. I put the caption as, making me sad sad so let's see if he pays me 50 for making sauce is just like a word for steroids right we are all i guess yeah i'm just saying if

like i guess when people add sauce to the end like yo i'm swag so i'm swole sauce or something i don't know if that's what he means or he mixes steroids with his ragu and eats pasta like that. All I know is it's time to make Stephen Swole sauce Zaza's life hell until he gives me $50. That I feel sure of. I'm in a Kill Bill mood. Well, let's wait. We'll see.

By the end, I have a feeling we'll have some kind of outcome. Yeah, for sure. Justin Timberlake was the halftime show. A lot of fun in the room while watching it. Lacey Mosley, crowd favorite. She was having a great time. Yeah, was having a great time.

Edgar having a great time. Edgar Momples here. Yeah. Some great videos of them dancing on Instagram. I saw them. You should check out. It was very fun in the room because I feel like everyone was just having a good time and there was music. Teresa had a good Insta story of one half of the room not loving it and the other half of the room mainly Edgar loving it.

But yeah, it was – I don't know. Apparently, there were sound issues, which I couldn't tell in the room. I watched because afterwards I was like, I don't know if I actually really watched it. I was just kind of like having fun at the time. And like there just happened to be Justin Timberlake sound on. Right. And then like, yeah, when you watched it back, like the sound was bad. And it was actually really underwhelming.

Like when you really think about when you compare to like the halftime show, like Beyonce or like even Katy Perry. We've talked about that one or Lady Gaga. This was like really. It was a bummer. Yeah Lady Gaga this was like really it was a bummer yeah it was not funny it's a bummer and I and I I have I've liked Justin Timberlake like there I have nothing against him I don't know I mean I do have things against him but I liked what future sex love sounds forever I don't know yeah didn't we all are we done are we done with him i don't know if we're done with him he will never be done with him people will never be done with him but yeah i mean look he still did janet dirty i was so pissed that janet did not pop out and bring balance to the universe and pull his penis out right but you know there's still time

for that and he still hasn't you know addressed that whole thing right but aside from that the prince cover the duet he did was also weird, too, because I would die for you. You want to have a song with the title Die in it when you're talking about Prince? Someone who historically did not like him. Why? Right. Yeah. So I didn't realize they had an actual beef when Prince was alive.

Prince was alive that, you know, Prince at an after show performance, like not an official concert, but like just after the Emmys performance or something or the Grammys performance was like, by the way, for people saying they're bringing sexy back, sexy never left. And Justin Timberlake was like, fuck that. Nobody says sexy never left about me. And then I started getting a little swole sauce about it. Yeah, I got real swole sauce about it and like had a lyric in the song. Give it to me where he was like, now it's sexy. Never left. And why is everybody on my shit? I remember that.

Don't hate on me just because you didn't come up with it. Well, that was about Prince. That was about Prince. I didn't come up with it. Well, that was about Prince. That was about Prince. I didn't realize that. And then he made fun of Prince being short at the 2007 Golden Globes. Prince won for the Song of the Heart from Happy Feet. And he wasn't at the ceremony. So Timberlake, who was just presenting the award, was like, I guess I'll accept it on his behalf.

But like ducked down to like a tiny stance at the microphone to be like, get it because Prince is short. Yo, JT, don't fuck around, bro. You will not win that. You will not. A dead Prince will be two. Yeah. Every time. Every single time.

Also on a live Prince. Yeah, exactly. But even now, posthumously, you can't win against this man. Right. Because the funny thing is, you know, he was saying, like, there might be a hologram and shit, and everyone was like, do not do that. No. And then they just did, like, a whack-ass big sheet or whatever.

But it's funny because even, like, Prince has been on record, even when he was alive, saying, like, holographic depictions of dead people is, quote, demonic. Right. So he's like, I want nothing to do with that. Yeah. And so I guess the sheet is cool, but it was, again, I mean, the sheet was a reference back to his performance, Prince's halftime show. Do you remember that halftime show where like his silhouette of him just like shredding

the guitar was, that was actually one of the great halftime shows. Yeah. There was a reference to that in the first concert I ever saw. Obviously I didn't know at the time, but I saw it was Prince. I saw Cisco open for the Backstreet Boys. No, there you go.

On September 10th, 2001. Wow. True story. Boston, Massachusetts. And Cisco did the sheet thing and like paid, you know,

homage to Prince for a bunch of, you know, nine year old-old girls. Right. And we received. Yeah. Yeah. And he sang about thongs to the children.

And we loved it. My mom was like, let's get this guy's autograph. You did? Yeah. I got this guy's autograph. There's nothing more pre-9-11 than a Cisco Backstreet Boys concert. It's truly down to the wire on that. I would.

There's no amount of money I would pay to just be in the world in that moment. Speaking to the white trashiness of it all, my mom and I, we made signs for the Backstreet Boys. And this is when one of the Backstreet Boys had just gotten out of rehab. And so we made a sign that was just like, three days sober, AJ. And held it up. Nice, AJ. Good for AJ. I hope he's still sober is he still alive we don't know no i think he is did how we have issues too no how he was the sensitive one oh he was okay just making sure but maybe maybe he was troubled um i always get him and how we mixed up yeah it is the bad boy. Okay. Howie's alive? Howie is... They're all alive.

Super producer Anna Hosnia has informed us that Howie... Life status update. Howie alive. AJ. AJ alive. Alive. Sober? We don't know.

I wanted to ask you, what is... Do you have any predictions, things you think we're not aware that we should be taking seriously right now that maybe we should be? Well, I have a whole idea of where our next three wars are going to happen or at least our next three military interventions trump has a long history of when people bring up human rights he's just like whatever we abuse human rights too right so then whenever trump's the trump administration comes out and uh is concerned about human rights it's always a red flag.

The three places they've talked about being concerned about human rights are Venezuela, South Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. And Rex Tillerson used to be the CEO of Exxon in Venezuela at a time when they nationalized all their oil and basically took that company from him. He went to court and sued and got a settlement that wasn't what he was looking for. And he's had a grudge ever since. Now he's our Secretary of State. Yeah, right. Right.

And around April of last year, these stories started coming out about Trump being concerned about human rights in Venezuela. And I'm like, oh, yeah, well, we're going to go to war in Venezuela pretty soon. concerned about human rights in Venezuela. And I'm like, oh, yeah, well, we're going to go to war in Venezuela pretty soon. And sure enough, just this last week, Rex Tillerson, he's kind of floating the idea that, hey, maybe a coup will happen in Venezuela. Maybe the military will back it. And once any representative of the U.S. government starts talking that way, it's bad times for that country. We're either going to go in or someone's going to go in and we're going to give them a lot of support.

Yeah. And I think it's all tied to natural resources and oil. Right. I mean, I know that Venezuela has a lot of oil. Right. That was sort of the whole issue is that Hugo Chavez like nationalized their oil and we didn't like that because they sold us a lot of oil. Yeah, I get the sense they knew they had more oil than we realized before we knew it. Because we didn't find out until 2014 that they have actually the biggest reserves of oil in the world, even more than any country in the Middle East.

Oh, wow. Hashtag oil boys. Yeah. than any country in the Middle East. Oh, wow. Hashtag oil boys. Yeah. And in 2015, not long after we found that out, Obama all of a sudden issued this executive order calling them an enemy of the state.

And basically what that means is any country that does trade deals with us cannot trade with Venezuela. And what it did is it blocked Japan from doing this big gold deal with Venezuela that would have bailed their economy out but once we put that executive order in place japan couldn't do anything so we've been kind of waging if you look in i like it would take an hour to go through it all but if you look into it we've been kind of waging economic war with venezuela for a minute for almost three years now and it's been pretty devastating i mean we, back at Cracked, we had this section, the personal experience section of the site, where we would just interview people with interesting or extreme life experiences.

And a couple of the craziest stories we ever heard were from people in Venezuela who – like there was a guy who – it had gotten so bad and hunger had gotten so bad, like all the grocery store shelves were just barren. And he was having to fight off looters with a crossbow because he had a mango tree in his yard and they were all coming for the mangoes. And that was the only way he was feeding his family. Yeah, it's inflation is the thing we hear about all the time. And it's like it's been a long time since we've had really high inflation in this country. So it's hard to wrap your head around. But in Venezuela, inflation got so bad that basically if you were making the equivalent of one hundred thousand dollars in the United States overnight, you were making like ten thousand dollars a year right your money just became worthless overnight and it's not our fault but the things venezuela did that made it happen we've kind of seized on

and are exacerbating it to i think go in and uh put a government in place that's a little more friendly friendly to our needs. Yeah. I mean, because the human rights abuses that we hear about in North Korea and Iran. Right. And that was in the State of the Union. Right. Yeah.

In the State of the Union. Those are the places that get all the attention as you know, that watch out. America is going to go to war there. Right. You're saying that these three other countries are also quietly being. There's a CNN article. If you just search Nikki Haley, Trump, South Sudan, and you'll find this opinion piece she wrote for CNN, which is weird because that's like their their boogeyman.

Basically, that's all where all fake news emanates from. Right. But Nikki Haley was writing this opinion piece about why we need to go to South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo and fix these human rights abuses. And if you look, you can actually pull up a list of conflicts happening in Africa right now. And yes, those places, there are bad things happening, but they're way, way, way down the list in terms of countries that need humanitarian help. Right. help right but what they are both are they're both really resource rich countries that china is working with to set up a basically set up their own oil market that would not be backed

by the u.s dollar as all oil markets are right now and it would basically cut us out of the foreign oil market which would destroy our economy and even like it's such a high level thing they can't like i the government's never going to come out and go okay here's why we need to go to war in south sudan right like people are just gonna be like shut up we don't need that oil right but we kind of do right it depends on what kind of lifestyle you want to have in the united states right and Right. Right. Yeah. I mean, isn't it possible that some of these military campaigns will just happen without us noticing? Like, I feel like a lot of, uh, you know, military action was happening in Africa that

we didn't know about until a handful of troops were killed over there. And then people were like, Oh, look at, look at that. Yeah. Yeah. When that, I think a lot of people were like whoa why are we in africa though right yeah it's interesting to see like before all of our meddling in south america previously was to like curb communism yeah and now it's like well now we gotta get we gotta get the jump on china so we're not fucking up the whole right oil futures and shit so it's it's interesting to see this whole pattern play out with sort of the same tactics and things like that.

Right. But now it was just different stakes. Yeah. It almost feels like an alien invasion kind of thing where they don't want to tell us. Right. That's what we're fine. Because if we lose,

it's going to be a whole different country. Right. If we lose that economic standing in the world, it's going to be a radically different place to live. And I don't know if Americans are ready to hear that. Yeah, right. I'd rather hear there was an asteroid coming than I might not be able to

afford a Blu-ray player if a new one comes out next year. Right. Yeah, no, just kill me now. Yeah, exactly. Right away. Yeah, if you told them you had a number one at McDonald's, it would now be $78. Yeah, it's not a world I want to live in. Alright, we are going to take a quick break. We'll be right back with more.

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And we're back. We wanted to talk about some people who made a bunch of money off of cryptocurrency and went down to Puerto Rico. It's basically like if somebody wrote a satire of late-stage capitalism, like they couldn't do any better than this so all these dudes who are like in their 30s and then there's like one guy in his 50s uh all like decided they were going to take all their earnings off of cryptocurrency and like they have you know billions of dollars of cryptocurrency some of them, and they're moving the money from the Caymans, which is what you use as a tax shelter before. They're moving it over to Puerto Rico. And this is something we've talked about before, a thing called disaster capitalism where capitalists come in after a disaster and basically privatize things. And we've talked about how there are people who are privatizing Puerto Rico's power company, national power grid. By the way, 40% still don't have power in Puerto Rico. So these guys have decided they're going to create a crypto utopia where it's like this society that's run by this guy.

His name is Brock Pierce. He's sort of the leader. He sounds dope. Of course his name is Brock. The Portopia movement. A former child actor who has been sued for fraud multiple times. Like clearly a con man uh but i let's let's listen to the description of these guys because this new york times reporter went down there

uh so the leader of the portopia movement emerged brock pierce wearing drop crotch capri pants a black vest that almost hit his knees and a large black felt hat. There's other guys. One guy is wearing two-tone aviators, and another guy is wearing a smartphone on a necklace. So they're just like – What are fucking two-tone aviators? The ones that like gradient. There's like a gradient?

Yeah. Oh, wow. So he's in the CIA. Yeah. He's a spook for sure. And he's got a cell phone necklace cell phone yeah smartphone on a necklace i like how they simultaneously straddle nerdy dad with like out of touch dude who just like went to a hip store to buy clothes or something yeah it's just they're transported from silicon valley but um they're they say things like we're benevolent capitalists building a benevolent economy.

Mr. Pierce got into digital money early as a professional gamer, mining and trading gold in the video game World of Warcraft, an effort funded partly by- Steve Bannon. Steve Bannon. Yay. And he's a controversial figure. Like I said, he has been sued for fraud Among other things

Oh, also, I just had to pull up his acting career He played young Gordon Bombay in The Mighty Ducks Oh, shit So just think about that He was also Luke Davenport in First Kid Is that the one with Sinbad? I don't know Yep, it is

That's what I remember Sinbad is like Secret Service agent Anyway, that's a whole other thing Luke Davenport Is he the first kid? thing. Luke Davenport. Is he the first kid? I wonder. President Davenport, your son is out of hand.

Yeah, he is. He is? He is. He's the main kid. So the kid from first kid. The first kid. Of course he's got government connections. So here's a quote from them.

He said he is aiming to create a charitable token called One with $1 billion of his own money. Wow. And now I want you to – Now get ready to have your fucking mind blown, you guys. So it's called One? One. Okay. Now he says – Like you won something or owe any?

No, owe any. Okay. And he says, if you take the my out of money, you're left with one. Don't be that way, Brock. And if you look at one, it means you're on E. Then somebody about him immediately, he's tuned into a higher calling, said Kai Nygaard, scion of the Canadian clothing company Nygaard and a crypto investor. Quote, he's beyond money.

Is this a fucking Christopher Guest mockumentary? It's amazing. That guy's starting a cult for sure. Oh, no. They've taken over an abandoned hotel and they're all living in a hotel that like was just a building that happened to not be touched by the hurricane so of course you want to put the somehow they got that building while people were living in fucking shanties and shit exactly uh fuck out of here now this is maybe maybe the most telling quote uh next we hear from a gentleman named halsey Miner. Is that like a gamer tag for Xbox?

He's the founder of the news site CNET, which is a very useful website. And he is moving his new blockchain company, VideoCoin, from the Cayman Islands to Puerto Rico this winter. He says, referring to what's happened here, he says, what's happened here is a perfect storm. Referring to Hurricane Maria and the investment interest that has followed, he added, while it was really bad for the people of Puerto Rico, in the long term, it's a godsend if people look past that. Man, perfect storm is such an awful phrase to use in that context.

Yeah. Wow. Bad for the people of Puerto Rico, but when you think about it, cryptocurrency is really what matters. Just look past that. Just look past the humanity of it all. Yeah.

And think about the sick-ass video coin, baby. Right. Yeah. Katrina was bad, but we'll have so many casinos there someday. Man, Cryptopia. I thought it was a place for crypts to hang out. I didn't realize this is what they were going with. Yeah, Cryptopia would be. We're in Cryptopia. I thought it was a place for crypts to hang out. I didn't realize this is what they were doing with that.

Yeah, Cryptopia would be. We're in Cryptopia. Yeah. We have to get into this Quincy Jones interview. Yes, yeah. He went, as the headline on our doc here says, he went in. He goes in on many topics. Yeah.

So, Miles, you're going to just take us through. I'm just going to read you. Please do. I haven't read it. The best moment. So, yeah, he's about to turn 85. There's a Netflix documentary, blah, blah, blah. It doesn't matter.

There's a Netflix documentary coming? Yes. This article says he's in the midst of a victory lap ahead of his turning 85 in March, a Netflix documentary, and a CBS special hosted by Oprah that are all on the horizon. And we all know Quincy Jones is a prolific music producer. He's worked with the best. And he has a right to have an opinion on many things because he has seen it all. He even played jazz with fucking Benito Mussolini's son.

So that's even in this article. But let me just go through some of the hotter takes in here. So they go through the usual stuff. They get to Michael Jackson. So this is him on Michael Jackson.son produced thriller right yes a little little album yes uh some people may have heard of it i think i have yeah uh so he says about michael jackson i hate to get into this publicly but michael stole a lot of stuff he stole a lot of songs like donna summer state of independence and billy jean the notes don't lie. He was as Machiavellian as they come.

And he says, they go on. He sort of explains a little more about how he's like always kind of taking sections of song and making his own, which is fine because those songs – That's what all musicians do. Right. Everything is a remix of a remix. I've heard the two songs. Yeah, it sounds like it's the same notes, like you said, but it's definitely sped up.

And I still think Michael Jackson is a genius for remembering that bass line and being like oh i'll take that slow it down put it here and make the greatest pop song of all time exactly and then he said what about the interviewer asked what about outside of music what's misunderstood about michael i used to kill him about the plastic surgery man he'd always justify it and say it was because of some disease he had that was bullshit and then they're like well how much were his problems wrapped up with fame? You mean the way he looked? He had a problem with his looks because his father told him he was ugly and abused him.

What do you expect? And they're just like, yeah, you know, it's a strange juxtaposition how Michael's music was joyous, but his life seems sadder and more odd as time goes by. And Quincy says, yes, but at the end, Michael's problem was propofol. And that problem affects everyone. It doesn't matter if you're famous. Big Pharma making Oxycontin and all that shit is a serious thing. I was around the White House for eight years with the Clintons, and I learned about how much influence Big Pharma has.

It's no joke. What's your sign, man? Then the interviewer's like, Pisces? Me too. It's a great sign. Then the interviewer goes on, you just mentioned the Clintons who are your friends your friends friends of yours why is there still such visceral dislike of them uh what are other people not seeing in hillary for example that you see and he goes it's because there's a side of her when you keep secrets they backfire interview goes on like what secrets man this is something else i shouldn't be

talking about interview goes on well you seem to know a lot. I know too much, man. Come on, Quincy. What's something you wish you didn't know? Who killed Kennedy? And then the interview goes on. Who did it? Man, Chicago mobster Sam Giancana. Man, the connection was there between Sinatra and the mafia and Kennedy.

Joe Kennedy, man, he was a bad man. He came to Frank to have him talk to Giancana about getting votes in Illinois. Kennedy, man, he was a bad man. He came to Frank to have him talk to John Kahn about getting votes in Illinois. And they're like, yes, we've heard this theory before that the mob helped win Illinois for Kennedy in 1960. And he goes on, man, we shouldn't be talking about this publicly. Where are you from? And he's like, Toronto? So that's how the sort of interview is going. He's got a lot of interesting things.

Just like drop an earth shattering revelation. And then immediately try to pivot. What's your sign, man? What's your sign? Where you from? What's that? So then they go on a little bit later. Then they kind of get to more current events like sort of the Me Too movement. He says, well, we've obviously been learning more lately about just how corrosive the entertainment industry can be for women.

As someone who's worked in the business at the highest levels for so many years, do all the recent revelations come as a surprise? No, man. Women had to put up with that fucked up shit. Women and brothers. We're both dealing with the glass ceiling. But what about the alleged behavior of a friend of yours like Bill Cosby? Is it hard to square what he's been accused of with the person you know?

It was all of them. Brett Ratner, Weinstein. Weinstein, man, he's a jive motherfucker motherfucker wouldn't return my five calls a bully return my five i don't know and he's a bully he called him a jive motherfucker like this is dolomite or something right uh what about cosby though what about it were the allegations a surprise to you man we can't talk about this in public man i'm surprised he didn't pivot that was a perfect moment to be like, hey, man, who does your hair? That's not what happens. So then they go into – then they start talking about racism, like in this modern age and like white nationalism that's popping up.

And the interviewer asks, what stirred everything up? Is it all about Trumpism? And Quincy replies, it's Trump and uneducated rednecks, man. Trump is just telling them what they want to hear. I used to hang out with him. He's a crazy motherfucker. Limited mentally. A megalomaniac.

Narcissistic. I can't stand him. I used to date Ivanka, you know. What? He said he used to date Ivanka? So obviously the interviewer goes, wait. His daughter? Yes.

His daughter says, wait, really? Yes, sir. Twelve years ago, Tommy Hilfiger uh who was working with my daughter cadada said uh quote ivanka wants to have dinner with you i said no problem she's a fine motherfucker she had the most beautiful legs i ever saw in my life wrong father though quincy is a fucking fool man what do you think that date was like oh my god i i just have to take a second for that one i still have to process would be like just how he can't be like you know i should date ivanka 12 years ago how old is ivanka so she's like 22 at the time she's like in her early 20s

at that time well no she's i think like 37 or something. Right? So 12 years ago, she would have been 25. 12 years ago for an 85-year-old would have been 73. Oh, my God. 24. Yeah, she would have been 24. 24 and he's 73 at the time that they dated. Right.

Oh, my God. I don't know. Look, I don't know what happened with that, but that's just so weird that she was even like – We need more old people to do interviews. Ivanka wants to have dinner with you. Also entirely possible that she was just like – had a business proposal for him maybe. Yeah, probably. And he was like, oh, she's trying to get with me.

She's trying to get. She's trying to get it. We know Quincy definitely has – he's like kind of a prolific father. You know what I mean? Yeah, because he's Rashida Jones' dad too, right? And I think he has children with like four other women. Yeah. So he gets out there. So anyway, too, right? And I think he has children with four other women. Yeah. So, you know, he gets out there.

So, anyway, they move on to the Beatles. Oh, shit. Ready for the fuego take. So he says, he talks about Paul Beck. He said, how was it like when you first heard rock? And he said something like, man, it just sounds like white boys trying to do rhythm and blues. He's like, you know, I knew Paul McCartney when he was 21. And then the guy says, what were your first impressions of the Beatles?

That they were the worst musicians in the world. They were no playing motherfuckers. Paul was the worst bass player I ever heard. And Ringo, don't even talk about it. I remember once we were in the studio with George Martin and Ringo had taken three hours for a four bar thing. He was trying to fix on the song. He couldn't get it. We said, mate, why don't you get some lager and lime, some shepherd's pie, and take an hour and a half and relax a little bit.

So he did. And we called Ronnie Varel, a jazz drummer. Ronnie came in for 15 minutes and tore it up. Ringo comes back and says, George, can you play it back for me one more time? So George did. And Ringo says, that didn't sound so bad. And I said, yeah, motherfucker, because it ain't you. Great guy, though.

Yo. The pivots in this are like Olajuwon-esque. His footwork on these pivots are so good. The way he can just sort of diffuse something so crazy. Great guy, though. Great guy, though. Quentin Jones just became my favorite person, man. Then there's one where he talks about Marlon Brando.

This is just a funny thing. Where he says, you know, Marlon Brando and I, we used to go cha-cha dancing. And he could dance his ass off. He was the most charming motherfucker you ever met. He'd fuck anything. Anything. He'd fuck a mailbox. James Baldwin, Richard Pryor, Marvin Gaye.

He slept with them? How do you know that? Come on, man. He did not give a fuck. You like Brazilian music? He said he fucked Marvin Gaye. I don't know. I don't know if he was saying... I don't know if he was saying

that James Baldwin fucked... Are James Baldwin and Richard Pryor and Marvin Gaye were all in that camp? That they would fuck anything like that they would fuck anything or that it's hard to know when you're not hearing it but it's just so funny that he's like wait the guy even has to be like he slept with them and he's like come on man you didn't give a fuck you like those pivots are just yeah they're next level so i mean that's that's just a portion of it he still he talks about playing with like i said mussolini's son he talked the one good thing which i i'm not i can't fully like read the quote back but like he talks about like creatively what was like sort of his x factor and he's like you

know do you hear any innovation in music he's like nah man because a lot of these people are chasing like siroc vodka and fat farm okay clearly taking shots of p diddy and right uh and also about 10 years late yeah fat farm fat farm went out fat farm is sponsoring everything he's like i love baby fat and apple bottom jeans though uh but he he was saying like you know the second you chase money god leaves the room and you're not going to make that fire music which is i mean which i think is a really good piece of advice for anyone never thought about money when he was making yeah the second you consider an outside audience and you are just not making art that's true to you, yeah, you've lost. Exactly.

Which is, to me, the most useful thing that I saw. He also talks about the person's like, would you ever date someone your age? And he was like, pa! Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, right. I read something maybe a few days ago. So this is before this interview or maybe it was something from this interview

that he has 22 girlfriends and they all know about each other. Is that right? Is that true? Yeah, that's something that happened. Maybe that was like a Playboy interview. He's getting interviewed a lot. He talked about how he had 22 girlfriends all over the world.

Like one in each country that he visits. There is a, he kind of make references that because the guy just says, uh, the interview asks, okay, let me ask you a left field question in your memoir. There's a section where you talk about being a dog.

And he says, that's not what I was thinking of, but yeah, that's in there. I was thinking it just goes on to this other thing. Like he, I think thought he was alluding to that. Right.

Yeah. You want to hear about the fucking, right? You want to hear about the people I fucked. No. No, I read your Playboy interview. We got that. But yeah, and he talks about how like he's never dated a woman. I think they ask like what his expiration date is.

And he says like 30s or 40 or something. This man is stuck in a time warp. You know, since Cyndi Lauper almost ruined We Are the World with her loud-ass jewelry and had a blowout with her. Just to show you hit this man's ego, though, one of the questions was, what's something you've worked on that should have been bigger? And he answers, what the fuck are you talking about? I never had that problem.

They were all big. So he's like LeVar Ball mixed with Trump. I mean, this dude, he's, I mean, but he earned it. LeVar Ball and Trump were super talented. Yeah, I mean, he doesn't earn to be problematic, but he definitely earns the right to talk shit because, you know, nobody's on fucking Quincy's level. I guess, like, he waited for a long time to be this unfiltered. Right. Have at it, man.

He waited for a long time to be this unfiltered. Right. Have at it, man. Yeah, I mean, look, when you're an octogenarian, as we've seen, you begin to let loose a little bit. You stop giving any fucks at all. Yeah, man. So, guys, yes, please check out that. It's a wonderful read. And the interview is from what magazine?

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the toilet and honestly that's probably a better experience than riding on spirit air. Right. Yeah. The hamster was like, thank you. This is dope. I mean, well, that's the thing is, yes, this woman, she called twice and was like, yo, I have an emotional support hamster. Can I bring pebbles on board? And they said twice, yes.

Then she pulled up and they're like, no, fam, you can't bring that rat on here. Yes. Then she pulled up and they're like, no, fam, you can't bring that rat on here. And I guess she alleges that they said, well, why don't you just flush it down the toilet because you can't bring that shit on? And she tried to call a friend to pick it up. Spirit Airlines, their statement was obviously was like, we made the mistake by clearly someone told her she could bring it on when they couldn't because that's not our policy. But they're like, but they really deny that they said anyone suggested to flush it down the toilet i can't imagine there was some like let me get my manager and the manager's like well you have two options you know i think like i could have maybe someone like was off-handedly like i don't know just fucking flush it down the toilet you know like the but like i just cannot imagine

that that's what they did yeah but i do love like her being like okay fine i'll do it and then being like well that's the spirit and or she refused to call it a spirit animal right and so that's why she wasn't emotional support emotional she was like no like because the tsa does allow them that technically can be considered uh an emotional support animal but man i just don't like flying with people when they bring emotional support pets i've my girlfriend we have a dog and she's like she likes to bring it with us on airplanes i'm like so my japanese side does not want to make a scene yeah or like cause inconveniences so like when the dog's like barking i'm like oh god don't just and we brought in the airport it took a mad shit in the airport yeah it was a moment.

The dog literally started arching his back to shit. I lifted him up and barehand caught the shit before it got all over the airport. Wow. Airport floor and then I just slam dunked it in the toilet or in the garbage can and walked embarrassingly into the bathroom. Now, that's the spirit. Yeah. So, I don't know.

Most of the – they stress me out. Yeah. But that's me. I feel like you need to know your dog is going to be able to handle it. Because I've been on a couple of flights recently where I've seen some chill-ass motherfucking dogs that can just handle it. And you've got to know that. Maybe just load them up with some CBD edibles before they get on and chill out their anxiety. But my dog would not be able to handle it.

Even though she's a little girl who likes to be around me, she would would just be so like just like super hyper aware of everything that's going on. It wouldn't be the best. Yeah. So whatever. Shout out to that toilet. Yeah, we're being forced to choose between people who bring emotional support, animals on flights, and Spirit Airlines. There's like – that's a tough – I mean look, if they – I don't want to – I'm not trying to shame anybody who actually animal provides support because I get that.

Yeah. You know what? Fuck Spirit Airlines. That's where that goes. Their seats are rigid. They charge you for everything. I just feel like there's more to this story than they asked me to flush it. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. The point that they must have got to, because I'm kind of with you. I'm sure someone did say that, but it was after like 20 minutes of straight, like, no, you don't fucking get it. Yeah. I have a, like, it was, well, why don't you flush down the toilet? Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. straight like, no, you don't fucking get it. Yeah. I was like, well, let's just flush down the toilet. Right.

Yeah. Yeah. I am calling the Miami Herald. But the fact that she did it is a little. Did she do it? Yeah. She flushed the fucking thing down the toilet. I guess the option was right.

She did try and have, I think Andrew, you're saying someone, she did try and have i think any you're saying someone she did try to call a friend right to come pick it up but they were hours away so there was no way for her to make her flight and hand off pebbles to somebody so i can't imagine she was like heading to some like insanely important meeting like she doesn't sound like she's the type of girl who had that thing to get to it's like take the be like i'll give up my seat for you know someone i don't know. If it was really her fucking support animal, she wouldn't be so quick

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