The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 22 (Best of 4/30/18-5/4/18)

Episode Date: May 6, 2018

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Starting point is 00:02:29 We want to start out with the fact that Jeff Bezos is entering the space race. This is the world we live in now, where you know, instead of being nations in space races against one another, it's just like two very wealthy men in space races
Starting point is 00:02:48 because they are having somewhat of a dick measuring contest. Whose dick can go further into space, basically? Who's back inside them? Whose science dick can go further? Jesus. Mine's smaller. But moves faster. But more efficient.
Starting point is 00:03:05 So Bezos actually had some interesting things to say. He was talking about how the solar system can easily support a trillion humans. And if we had a trillion humans, we would have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts and unlimited resources, which I think is an interesting and underrated part of progress and the history of progress. People keep talking about how much progress is speeding up and how science and technology is moving really fast. And I think a big part of that is, and people have speculated that a big part of that is that we have a huge population of people, and we're also creating a form of government that more than any in history actually lets a large portion of the population contribute and have a voice. I mean- In the past, there's a reason-
Starting point is 00:03:59 To an extent. In theory. Yeah, more so than in history is all I'm saying. In the loosest sense, Billy. In a broad, loose sense, we are moving in the right-ish direction. Yeah. The idea that the solar system can support a trillion humans, is he saying that we're going to have to inhabit other planets?
Starting point is 00:04:17 Because I guess as he goes on, he was saying that, I believe that in that time frame, we will move all heavy industry off Earth and Earth will be zoned residential and light industry. Which is crazy to be like, okay, move all that shit off and then Earth is just a big apartment complex. Yeah, I think the way he's envisioning it is that it's going to be like factories and shit like that. Like all the stuff that's like belching gross smoke and shit that we now just relegate to New Jersey will actually be on other planets. And, you know, there will be those like giant oil refineries. And they will just rename that planet New Jersey.
Starting point is 00:04:52 This just sounds to me like a rich dude, very aware of his legacy at all times, sounding, because all of this is not new. just sounds like basic science fiction yeah of course yeah yeah so but it's like a grandiose rich dude who's like now i'm now the richest man in the world in the history of the world in the history of the world yes and what i foresee is what everyone else foresees yeah that we cannot live on this planet forever and we need to go further and but i'm the one who said it first and the loudest and can control the message because i have all the billions most money yes i mean i don't yeah exactly like i don't think he's like really
Starting point is 00:05:36 sitting at home being like let me really theorize about space you know he talked to some people and was like yeah okay that makes yeah i could put put money into that all right fuck you what you need a billion okay exactly yeah he was like i'm going to uh liquidate a billion of my amazon winnings every year for the next cool foreseeable way to see your wealth is that what he calls it winning his winnings oh he's a piece of shit exactly converting my amazon winnings into space there There's an interesting article in Bloomberg called the massive prize, luring miners to the stars, where it talks about the amount of like resources in all the different asteroids that are just like within visible,
Starting point is 00:06:15 like distance from earth. And the amount of resources, like there's like a hundred quadrillion dollars worth of just raw resources that you can mine these asteroids oh my god you just gotta bridle them ride them right and break them there you go so it's like armageddon you just get that same crew of like you know deep sea drillers out there and start mining the fucking strip clubs throughout hou and Beaumont, Texas. Exactly. All right, let's get into the stories of the day. We're trying to take a sample of the global shared consciousness,
Starting point is 00:06:56 what people are thinking and talking about right now in this country mostly, but also outside of it. And we wanted to just continuing on from a story from yesterday, the mainstream media is continuing to speak truth to power by criticizing a female stand-up comedian for saying stuff that's way less offensive than the stuff they let most powerful men get away with. And especially the most powerful man in the world get away with. But we have this statement from Michelle Wolfe. She was like, fuck off, I think was her exact statement. Yeah, I just admire her. She was just like, fuck it, man.
Starting point is 00:07:31 Fuck you guys. Yeah, and the White House chorus. I mean, the WHCA kind of walked it back. I mean, like, it wasn't in the spirit of the thing. But you know what? Come on. What the fuck did you expect? You hire comedian to roast people?
Starting point is 00:07:41 And they booked her with the specific description that she is like the voice of this moment because she speaks truth to power yeah so like that's what she did and then they were like oh we wanted this to be about inclusiveness
Starting point is 00:07:53 and supporting meanwhile the theme is like celebrating the first amendment what's crazy is she killed for like all of it and had so many funny jokes
Starting point is 00:08:00 and the one thing they focus on is like she was mean to Sarah Huckabee Sanders because of her makeup and it's like she was mean to sarah huckabee sanders because of her makeup and it's like she complimented her makeup right what the fuck yeah it's so i mean that smoky eye was on point yeah the sarah huckabee sanders thing as much as yeah there were two jokes that might have been about her appearance uh the softball thing the softball
Starting point is 00:08:20 thing and the aunt lydia thing which i didn't even think funny as fuck. See, I feel like that was such an inside reference. I didn't like that joke because you had to watch that show to get it. If you have watched it, though, it's funny as fuck. That did feel like that was a coastal elitist joke. Check your Hulu privilege, Michelle Wolf, because I'm out here with no Hulu fucking account. You're going to assume everyone
Starting point is 00:08:39 watching, first of all, has Hulu, and then second of all, watched The Handmaid's Tale. It's like so much to me. That's the Venn diagram overlap. Very specific. But in that room, it makes sense. Yeah. I feel like they couldn't have been that offended because none of them have seen the show.
Starting point is 00:08:52 No, they just didn't like that they got the smoke and it hurts, so you got to find a reason to get mad. Yeah. I get it. Look, you don't know how to take a joke. It's like when you flame the kid at school who's like, well, I'm the teacher. Yeah. Look.
Starting point is 00:09:03 But the media got mad because they also got made fun of. Yeah, and they also need to also pretend like it was offensive too to maintain their relationships to have access to some of these politicians.
Starting point is 00:09:13 Like, hey, she's our friend. She lies to us every day and then like demeans us and belittles us and it's like, that's stupid.
Starting point is 00:09:20 It was so weird to me that the New York Times, like Maggie Haberman even. Yeah, fuck Maggie Haberman. Maggie Haberman, she's, her whole deal is to get, she has to kiss ass to get access and all, you know, we don't have to talk about her. Mueller, his questions for Trump have leaked. What?
Starting point is 00:09:36 It's a list of what, 40, 50? 49 questions. 49 questions. Yeah. That the effect these questions had on me, it was like almost a reality check where some of the things that i had digested and moved on from like a while ago are sort of put into the context of like a baseline of normalcy like of what a investigation would look like and just like stuff he has questions about behavior he's like so why'd you do that? Why'd you fire?
Starting point is 00:10:05 Why'd you fire Comey? Why are you berating your attorney general in public on Twitter all the time? Just like asking those questions. It's like, Oh yeah, these events that I have just like normalized in my mind are fucking crazy. And like completely the behavior of somebody who, you know,
Starting point is 00:10:23 in the cold, sober light of morning, is behaving like an actual guilty criminal. Yeah. I mean, this kind of sucks for Mueller, though, because it just gives Trump... Would Trump already get these? So the way this worked is Mueller sat down with Trump's lawyers and said, here, we want you to have Trump meet with us,
Starting point is 00:10:44 so we're going to give you the questions ahead of time. And they read these to them. Well, did they read them, though? They told them the questions, and Trump's attorneys were taking them down, basically trying to write them down as fast as possible. So people are speculating because of the way the questions are worded. It's not fully legal, so there's also grammatical inconsistencies. But so they think that these aren't actually from like Mueller's list of questions. These are Trump's attorney's sort of version, like what they heard.
Starting point is 00:11:19 Well, they said, yeah, because the way that probably happened was that they sat with Mueller and he just broadly outlined these topics. And then that's when they're like, OK, these are probably the questions that are going to be asked. Yeah. But that's why. Yeah. I mean, again, he's not. But like that's he's not trying to do a gotcha thing.
Starting point is 00:11:35 He's just saying this is what I want to know. Yeah. But that's why John Dowd quit, because remember, he was trying to be like, dude, we cannot have Donald Trump answer any of these fucking questions because he will self-own and just lie his way through this thing and it will be a major fucking problem. Yeah. And I can't even imagine. Like, these are such specific questions. Like, what did you mean when you told Russian diplomats on May 10th?
Starting point is 00:11:57 Like, Trump doesn't even remember that, I bet. Right. Like, he's just like, I mean, they're going to tell him what to say, but even if they tell him what to say, he's going to go off book and be crazy. He likes to freestyle. He likes to jazz. He likes to go off top. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:09 So, I mean, there's many ways to kind of take this in. And I think one thing is that it clearly, again, underlines the fact that Robert Mueller, I mean, he's got a plan. We've seen it with the way he's been seeding these investigations in other offices through like throughout new york and and virginia and things like that but yeah these the the it seems like it's just it's just getting hotter for trump and the fact is their defense to these kinds of things is getting worse and worse because like trump's like well these just prove like there's no collusion or anything it's like motherfucker their question is directly talking about what knowledge did you have of any outreach by your campaign to Russia about potential assistance to the campaign? Miles is doing very broad hand gestures. I mean, I guess.
Starting point is 00:12:54 Interlocking my fingers like Legos. Things like that. He could just be like, I hadn't. He just lie. I had no whatever. But things like this are so hard where they're like, what did you mean your interview with Lesterester holt about mr comey in russia it's like i'm trying to think how his lawyers answer that in a way that's yeah a defendable position yeah there is no way yeah trump's response in twitter was so disgraceful that the questions concerning the russian witch hunt were leaked
Starting point is 00:13:19 to the media leaked in quotes for some reason because he's like don't know how to use those to me that means that he leaked them or something. Well, people are speculating it must have been from his side because they are basically a moron's version of what these questions would be like. So they're clearly not like how Mueller would have written them. Then he says, no questions on collusion. Oh, I see. You have a made-up phony crime collusion that never existed
Starting point is 00:13:47 and an investigation begun with illegally leaked classified information? Right. Nice. Also, the other one of, it would seem very hard to obstruct justice for a crime that never happened. It's like his idea of obstruction, too, that it could be like, well, crime has to be committed, and then that's when you obstruct.
Starting point is 00:14:03 It's like, no, you're trying to avoid justice. So you obstruct it. So it doesn't touch you. Yeah, you can't just be like, well, you didn't get me for that other crime. So I couldn't have been obstructing anything. Hey, wait, what crime? In the interview, Rob was like, I'm sorry, what other crime?
Starting point is 00:14:18 Oh, nothing. I'm just saying hypothetically is what I would be doing. Right. But yeah, he asks him about the Lester Holt thing. It is really just like if you had asked me to spend a month just going back over the details of the case, a lot of these are like the questions I would have had. Like, OK, so that clearly guilty thing you said, what did you mean by that? Just very like open ended. I mean, right now, can we think of a way his lawyers could tell him to answer that?
Starting point is 00:14:46 Well, I said I was thinking about Russia when I fired him, but I was just thinking about the country itself. Literally, I was thinking about it as I said that, not that I was considering that as a motivation to him. It was just on my mind. Yes, exactly. I don't know. Yeah, it would be really weird, and that's too complex of a logical dance. That's a form of logical jujitsu that Trump has a white belt in. He's not ready to fucking, he's not ready to roll. But he's making reference to things we already knew about, but putting them in the context of, oh, yeah, these arefort and campaign aides asking Moscow for assistance, which we don't have any evidence of. We don't know of the existence of any evidence of, but that question implies the knowledge of
Starting point is 00:16:01 some evidence of that. Yeah. Again, they must know so much. Because if you look at people like VanderSwan or whatever, that one lawyer and Rick Gates who lied thinking Robert Mueller doesn't know everything, and he just comes back, he's like, fam, I know you lied because I already have all the information. Right. I can't imagine how close to the chest these cards are that even if with these questions being asked,
Starting point is 00:16:22 what the direction of this investigation could truly go. And really, Robert Mueller really is the only person that knows. I mean, do you think that the play here is that he like commits perjury in this interview and then that's how he takes him out? I don't even think that's going to be the way it, I mean, it's not clear what could happen. Yeah. I don't know. Would Congress be willing to do anything, you know, because their whole strategy is now just make sure the Democrats do not get the house. So I don't get impeached or an impeachment debate doesn't even begin. So what do you guys think of how Comey was like, I don't want him to be
Starting point is 00:16:56 impeached. I want the American people to vote him out so that that's like, like, yeah, it's, it's a tough pill to swallow, but it's kind of like there's like a wise dad aspect to that of sort of like, let's not use this as a get out of jail free card, because I think also for people who support Donald Trump, that will give them motivation to begin to cook up all kinds of conspiracies and whatever. Yeah. Whether he can just be, you know, somehow we can hamstring him by making sure that the Republicans no longer control Congress. And that way there's a better check on his power. That could be a good thing. But, yeah, I can also see like by letting the process work in terms of voting him out might just be a more. It's like, look, people fucked up and voted for him. You made your bed now sleep in it.
Starting point is 00:17:40 But at the same time, God, fuck, the stakes are fucking high, man. So many more years to do his fucked up shit. I see what he's saying. Part of me wants to be on board with it, but the other part too is like, yo, I don't want to even know what the worst of this presidency could be. And that's the other part of it. Yeah. I mean, I could definitely see a scenario where nothing fully gets done, like even if Mueller completes his investigation, but the GOP just refuses to do anything about it.
Starting point is 00:18:11 I could see a version of this where he only gets in trouble once the Democratic Party controls both branches of the government, basically. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Finally, Billy Wayne, what is a myth? What's something people think is true that you know to be false? That jury duty is a panel of your peers. I was just on jury duty.
Starting point is 00:18:38 What did that panel look like? Well, first of all, it was 50-something people. I guess I can talk about it now. I got dismissed. I was there for five days. Oh, Jesus. I kept having to come back because I was deep in the numbers. Oh, shit.
Starting point is 00:18:52 Oh, because you had to go in on Monday, and then they're like, sorry, I'm going to have to come back Tuesday. Tuesday. Sorry, I'm going to have to come back Wednesday. Wednesday. Thursday, we were off. It's a Friday and Monday, so then I had to come back again on a Tuesday. Right.
Starting point is 00:19:03 You get $15 a day. That's it. Right. So I got a $66 check because they did some kind of weird math with whatever the commute is to. But it's like straight. They don't do like any.
Starting point is 00:19:16 Like roads, yeah, yeah. It's like straight. It was a medical marijuana case and as soon as I heard that, I was like, just let me talk right now. You're gonna let me go right right exactly but sitting there it was fascinating either how misinformed people were about marijuana one lady said it was against her religion it was really hard what was her religion
Starting point is 00:19:37 oh you can't ask that's the most frustrating thing when they talk you can't be in like the panel and just raise your hand you're like like, yo, can we get some backstory on what the fuck she's talking about? Yeah, are you, is Jeff Sessions your Christ figure? I mean, it was like, and then some people you can see are figuring out how to get out of it. Right, right, right. And then, I was just very honest
Starting point is 00:19:59 as soon as I found out it was medical marijuana. I was like, oh, I'm gonna get out of this just by telling the truth. Right. But also, $15 a day. A friend of mine brought this up. He's like, you can't tell me that doesn't affect justice. Right.
Starting point is 00:20:12 Where it's like, a lot of people don't wanna be there. Right. It messed up five of my days. Right, right, right. Five, I mean, granted, I don't have a regular job where I have to be somewhere. Right. But everyone else pretty much did.
Starting point is 00:20:29 Yeah. And the whole time you're just like, you can see people in their head like, I'm losing this much money being here. Right, right, right. Exactly. So I want to make this. Yeah, and a lot of people are fucking angry in there too. Yes. I've never been in like a holding room with potential jurors with relaxed people. No, no, people are mad.
Starting point is 00:20:47 And then the people that want to be there, you're just like, what is wrong with you? Right, right, right. They're like, I want to put someone in jail. Yes, yes, that whole thing, like that's a very real thing. Yeah, there are people, right. Where you're like, I don't.
Starting point is 00:21:00 But that is a bias, right? That bias is who the panel is going to be. It's going to be retired people. It's going to be people who have some weird acts to grind. I've been to jury duty three times, and the only time I did it was when I was in college and hated my summer job and so didn't actively try and get out of it. So I was like a wrongful
Starting point is 00:21:25 death case with a bunch of other people yeah it's like all you have a life experience to be thinking about a wrongful death too as a dude trying to get out of college job right exactly it's gotta have a good opinion on things right but yeah it's a very specific type of person yeah i was uh like tip to L.A. people. Try and go to the Burbank Courthouse. I was in East L.A. Oh, yeah. If you go downtown there, I mean, they have a lot of cases going through there.
Starting point is 00:21:51 But when I was in Burbank, they were like, yeah, we only have one courtroom open right now. So I think we don't even we're not even hearing anything today. I've gone twice and been like asked to go. Yeah, I did Santa Monica. And they were like, does anybody like is it not convenient for you to be here because of work and like half of the people just like moved to the section they said to move to and they're like all right later i'm like let us go after two days it's fucking wonderful hey any of y'all like not trying to be here at all yeah basically okay this judge was
Starting point is 00:22:20 like he took his time asking people right right to get and then when it was my turn I was like I am prep for this right there were three there were four defendants three of them had public defenders one of them couldn't speak English mm-hmm is it for for it was like no it was like running a I think it was some kind of weird zoning right and when it was my turn you know you have to say if you've been arrested before and I definitely been arrested before and one of most possession of marijuana and then I could tell when you have to say your job and I was like I'm a comedian right I could feel all the eyes like people weren't paying attention right and they're like okay this guy isn't fearless and and at one point the judge is like you know you can say anything
Starting point is 00:23:09 you want we're not gonna judge you here and i i without even thinking i was like i don't care if you judge me or not that got a huge laugh nice and then i just said listen i'm a patient for medical marijuana and then the judge made this big thing the first day about how you don't want somebody in there to get into the jury and pollute it and to get, you know, blah, blah, blah. And I said, I'm going to tell you if I got on this jury, that's what I would do. Because since Citizens United passed, the laws aren't being made to represent the people. There you go. Lawyers are like, get him the fuck out. Oh, but the defense attorney's eyes lit up and they were smiling
Starting point is 00:23:49 and they were like, keep talking. Because I knew what I was doing. And I said, and it's obvious there's three public defenders here. No one made any money off this. This is a weird political case. Right. And the judge goes, okay, I understand what you're saying. Thank you very much like he
Starting point is 00:24:05 cut me off real quick when I was getting on my soapbox I was like so I don't understand and he was like well you understand like could you separate who makes this law because this is like a zoning and I was like no I understand that and my problem comes with who is regulating these laws and zoning right it's is it a marijuana conglomerate or a representative someone with a ton of money right right so they're just boxing out the little people right and he goes okay so we'll just get to the thing could you blah blah blah i was like absolutely not so we'll get to the part where we kick you the fuck out of here yeah or just talk about jury nullification yeah Yeah. And then they'll really get you the fuck out of here. Yeah, it was clear they were going to.
Starting point is 00:24:49 You don't want people knowing about that. And when I said this is a clear political case right there, it was like, I'm out of here. But what if I wanted to nullify this law as a jury member? Like, oh, don't let people know about that power. Yeah. All right. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back.
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Starting point is 00:28:29 available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And we wanted to do a quick check-in with Kanye because there was some news in the world of Kanye. Since last we spoke, he stopped by TMZ to do one of his patented Kanye slash Trump rants. Straight rant. Just goes Kanye jazz on the inhabitants of the TMZ office and one of the places that he ventured was talking about slavery and saying that slavery was a choice yeah that I think officially signaled to most of the world that Kanye has left earth
Starting point is 00:29:19 and is now joining the rest of the sort of out-of-touch people and the unread, unlearned people who are conflating free thought with critical thought. Because, yes, again, after that, and he got flamed, clearly, for saying something as inflammatory and absurd that slavery is a choice. That's why, by definition, it is called slavery. Anyway, look, don't get me spinning my wheels on this. Man, words don't have definition. But then he had to back it up because then there's this whole Twitter hashtag of slavery was a choice, which shout out to Twitter. One of the few times you like Twitter is because in mass people have put their senses of humor on display to talk about such an absurd notion like slavery being a choice.
Starting point is 00:30:01 But then that obviously because Kanye's ego will not allow him to say that he was ever wrong. He was like, you see, that was an idea I had. And I don't really believe this is an idea. And see, that's my free thought. Once again, I am being attacked for ideas that I'm putting out there. What did he say? Some bullshit. It doesn't even matter.
Starting point is 00:30:19 Like essentially, you know, you can't use the free thought defense to back up when a hot take blows up in your face. So he's confusing freedom of thought with not knowing how history works, which, yes, not being aware how things have actually happened frees your mind because then you think anything can happen or you think, yeah, maybe slavery was a choice. Who knows? Because you haven't read about history. You don't actually know. Or you don't know what the word slavery means. Right, exactly. Yes, that.
Starting point is 00:30:51 That precisely. By definition, it's not a choice. It's always the people who know the least history and sometimes very smart people who just don't know anything that actually happened or don't know like what words mean that uh confuse freedom of thought with just being able to think whatever the fuck you want whether it has any coherence to the truth so anyway it's it's consequences it's freedom of consequences right i want to say and do whatever i want without anyone else reacting to me. Yeah. And you're like, well, that's not how anything works. Right.
Starting point is 00:31:29 And also, he's a really, really talented music producer. There we go. Yeah, exactly. Let's treat him like that. Yeah. Well, I think the outrage just becomes, again, because the content of his music seemed so aligned with everything that is not what he is right now that the reason why he's in the news that people are getting over the shock of being like oh this guy was i think just selling this idea of empowerment and shit just to sell
Starting point is 00:31:55 records without and then right and then but they can't also it's i think it's even harder to grasp that a person of color would sell that out you know so quickly i'm not black i'm oj yeah right okay exactly okay that's what that as soon as this started that's what that's the first i didn't tweet it or anything but that's the quote that came to my mind right was like he's living in a bubble now no exactly 100 and to me he's more proof that it's rich versus poor more than color or any other group. 100%. He is the proof of once you get a certain amount of money in a capitalistic society, you own a lot. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:32:38 It's power. And you've left the real world. And you are not. Roseanne is another fucking example of that. the real world and you are not Roseanne is another fucking example of that so suffice it to say he thought he was at TMZ just to get some clicks and say some crazy
Starting point is 00:32:50 shit and after he did his really cool take on history he then posited to the entire bullpen at TMZ what their thoughts were on his new ideology do you feel that I'm feeling do you feel that I'm being free and I'm thinking free?
Starting point is 00:33:06 I actually don't think you're thinking anything. I think what you're doing right now is actually the absence of thought. And the reason why I feel like that is because Kanye, you're entitled to your opinion. You're entitled to believe whatever you want. But there is fact and real world, real life consequence behind everything that you just
Starting point is 00:33:27 said. And while you are making music and being an artist and living the life that you've earned by being a genius, the rest of us in society have to deal with these threats to our lives. We have to deal with the marginalization that has come from the 400 years of slavery that you said for our people was a choice frankly i'm disappointed i'm appalled and brother i am unbelievably hurt by the fact that you have morphed into something to me that's not real that is what i think every most people wanted to say to fucking kanye to his face for the last couple or last week at least so yeah that was von lathan just a tmz reporter tmz guy yeah and the most appropriate time for that stephen a smith cadence right exactly yeah that's when it's called
Starting point is 00:34:20 for right now no 100 and you could tell that kanye was as like when you look at the shots of this exchange go down he's kind of thinking like oh wow like his gears are going because he's having to have a moment he's like well none of the sycophants around me talk like this that's it and i think that it was an interesting moment for him because he goes everywhere and everyone kisses his ass and blows smoke up his ass like he ain't saying shit that's fucking wrong or completely ignorant, and then cut to someone who is outside of his circle, you know, taking him to task on all the shit that he's saying. Was it live when that happened? Like, was it being broadcast live?
Starting point is 00:34:55 No, that video, I think, was cut together, but, I mean, that was a moment that had just happened. But it's also not in his controlled environment and everything, like not in his studio, so he can't walk out. No, no, because he sat down first. When he said the 400 slate, he was with like Harvey Levin and the dude with the dreadlocks. And that's when he said that other shit. And then when he got up, that's when he was like, well, what do y'all think?
Starting point is 00:35:15 And that's when the people in the bullpen were like, actually, yes, I have something to say. So, yeah, shout out to Von Lathan. And again, yes, I don't think we need to discuss as much further because there are even studies that find that wealthy people are less cooperative when income inequality is visible to them. They are less likely to share. There was a game that was set up, I forget what, I think it was at Yale, where they did a bunch of experiments where people from around the world, they grouped them into online networks to play this like economics game. And each participant was given like an income. So like some person was going to be wealthy,
Starting point is 00:35:52 some person not so much, some person like middle class or whatever. And when they said, okay, here's the game. If you cooperate, you will be contributing some of your wealth. You'll give up some of your wealth. So everyone else's fortunes go up. But if you defect, that means you pay nothing and you can still reap the rewards of other people paying into you to lift you up. Now, when those people saw what they had relative to other people, people who had the higher incomes were not willing to share. When the inequality was invisible, everyone was more likely to cooperate with each other. So like already you begin to like, just when you know you have more, there's just this thing,
Starting point is 00:36:28 this part of us or certain people that just sort of does not allow them to sort of like, you know, there is a phenomenon that that sort of wealth status can affect how willing you are to. It's like a lizard brain thing. Right.
Starting point is 00:36:40 It's like, yeah, they become immediately defensive. They're like, whoa, well, you know, people are gonna think that this is unfair because it is. Well, I had the thought, like, if I was a billionaire, it was because of what Michelle said at the end of her thing where she was like, Flint still doesn't have... I was like...
Starting point is 00:36:56 Right. I just thought of, like, who the richest people were. Like, they could throw a check and fix that. $50 million. That's all they need. And then I started, I was like, well, you know, if I had $50 million, what precedent are you setting for blah, blah, blah? I understand that thought. But then it was like,
Starting point is 00:37:10 oh, that's why I would never be a billionaire is because I couldn't keep that money like that. Right. I would have a certain amount of money for me and then everything else would just be because of the way I was raised. I've read those studies like that too where it's like people with money, it's not that they don't think of community as much
Starting point is 00:37:34 because they don't have to. Right. And I learned that when I was in a fraternity in college. I look back and it was not a good experience at the time or anything. I had fun in there's some times but like looking back was like but I learned how people that had money operated right so there was like times where I just didn't understand like how they thought because I was like no we're putting this money and we're all going to do this thing right right no no I got it it's like I'm taken of. Where I was thinking of the group as a whole.
Starting point is 00:38:07 And so it was like, I remember being very frustrated and not understanding that. But as I got older, looking back, I'm like, oh, they weren't dickheads. They just, it's something that never occurred to, it's weird thing to have empathy for bad people. Yeah. And Kanye's around a bunch of people who will just say yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. So that coupled with his ignorance is a very bad combination. Yeah. And the idea that you just mentioned of it being more a thing of rich people versus poor people, I think, is the most dangerous idea in America.
Starting point is 00:38:42 The idea that people do not want anybody to have, which I think there's a reason that Martin Luther King Jr. got killed once he started pointing that out and why RFK got killed when he started, like made poverty instead of like anything else, his main mission. And then I also think-
Starting point is 00:39:01 RFK got killed because his dad fucked over the mafia if we're being honest well they were both focusing on that and got killed in the same year cue the curb music but yeah but I think on the other side of the coin the idea like having Kanye
Starting point is 00:39:19 come around to the rich people side and be like a cultural force that people from all economic strata identify with. That's why you're seeing this like outpouring from the right of people being like, yes, finally, we got one. Like we got somebody who can like convince them to just be cool.
Starting point is 00:39:39 Because like you're saying, Kanye doing this also further deepens the racial divide too, which is a key element to not getting people who are disenfranchised to not focus on race and be like wait hold up we're an entire class of people that is being affected like this and with kanye doing this kind of shit it further distracts people from the idea of this kind of the haves and the have-nots of sort of like being like because now everyone's like you, within the community of people of color, it's like, yo, what the fuck is this dude talking about?
Starting point is 00:40:06 And now it's just all about what is this guy doing, trying to figure him out, what's going on, blah, blah, blah. When really it's like, no, let him go. We have better work to do. It's just like, there are people who actually need help. Him and Ben Carson, let him go. Oh, yeah, Ben Carson. He's been gone.
Starting point is 00:40:19 But he's the same if you, and I'm not talking about race at all. I'm just talking about the same kind of, the man is a brain surgeon and brilliant brain surgeon. Right. That's it. That's it. Yeah. That's it.
Starting point is 00:40:32 He doesn't need to do anything else. Yeah. Like I have a friend who works at a hedge fund. He doesn't run it. I don't even know how he got the job. It's pure nepotism. It has to be. But he talks about, he's like, we get a lot of doctors money because they think
Starting point is 00:40:46 they're good at other stuff. He's like, a lot of doctors don't have money because they just throw money at the dumbest stuff. Like goats or like,
Starting point is 00:40:56 you know, llama farms and stuff like that because they think, they're like athletes because they're really good at one thing and think they're good
Starting point is 00:41:04 at everything. And it's like, that's what's happening to Kanye. Because we build him up because he's good at beats. Well, hey, look. I'll wave from Earth as his spaceship goes off. See you, bro. He's good at beats. I'm back when you wake up.
Starting point is 00:41:20 What is something you think is underrated? Underrated? Bing. Bing, the search engine. Bing, the search engine, gets so much shit. So check this out. Bing is a punchline, and no one would ever use it. But if you are looking for, let's say, a rare live performance on a Japanese site
Starting point is 00:41:43 or a music performance on a French, basically international stuff that isn't filtered out by Google's heavy search thing. And I'm not even talking about porn. I am talking about porn, but I'm not just talking about porn. I know, you keep winking. Yeah. I thought you had something in your eye. Yeah, so basically-
Starting point is 00:41:59 Doing hand gestures. Bing is, I believe Bing is a more thorough video search engine. It's not the best actual result search engine as the list of stuff in text, but for video, I think Bing is highly underrated. And the proof is in the pudding. I don't think it'll be like that forever. Who knows? This stuff fluctuates all the time.
Starting point is 00:42:17 But if you just think of artists you like and you want to find something rare, go to Bing, search for that, and then go to Google, also search for that, and then just compare, and you'll to find something rare go to bing search for that and then go to google also search for that and then just compare and you'll see that bing is actually good oh shit no you might be right it was funny i was with super producer nick stump last week and we were talking about billy preston uh the was he the fifth beetle was that what they call him yeah anyway and we're talking about this one performance i did for the concert for bangladesh that i could not find on youtube anymore and i I was like, looking for it, and I just Binged that shit right now.
Starting point is 00:42:47 Really? Yeah. You could probably download it too. But it was on Dailymotion, so maybe I'm just too lazy. I think maybe that's what it is. Well, that makes sense. We don't...
Starting point is 00:42:55 Google owns YouTube, so they're only giving you YouTube results. Well, if you go to videos, they have the other ones too, but yeah, it will... But they heavily favor the... Yeah. Whereas Bing...
Starting point is 00:43:04 Look at that. That's pretty. Just Binged it. Wait, why do I already have an account on here? Oh shit. Okay, they got me. I'm in the matrix. Never mind. Yeah, we often just pick one thing and like that's the best and then we won't try the other, but same with browsers, like it fluctuates which is better, Firefox or Chrome.
Starting point is 00:43:20 Like Chrome busts ahead and then it gets kind of bogged down with stuff and Firefox is on top. And there were like even a couple months last year where Safari was actually good. Oh, yeah. Remember that? Opera was super fast in 2012. Opera was the way to do it, but now Opera is behind. But somebody should have a Rotten Tomatoes of browsers
Starting point is 00:43:38 where you can just keep track of which one you should be using at any given time. Yeah. Yeah, I need to know. That's true. I just use whatever one I should be using at any given time. Yeah. Yeah, I need to know. I've just been, that's true. I just use whatever one I've been using. God, we're just sheeple, man. Did you ever use browsers as like a burner browser as like growing up,
Starting point is 00:43:55 if you wanted to look at pornography or something like that, you would use that browser so you wouldn't, a deleted history is very suspicious, but if you have a whole new browser that you could delete it's like there was nothing to even you burn the building down that was my little trick i was lucky enough to have an old ass computer in my room that i could look at the internet with and back then in my day there was only sublime directory uh for porn and it was a whack ass website that was just like weird just yeah sublime director yeah yo shout
Starting point is 00:44:24 out to anybody who remembers Sublime Directory. That was like an old school. Just a list of stuff. There's this whole history of the internet and different sections and how we used it, whether it's porn or looking for video or news or anything that's just, maybe it is covered a lot, but I don't think we look at the internet as how big of a thing it is. Or actually we do.
Starting point is 00:44:44 There's infinite amount of content of everything everywhere. But I haven't recently we look at the internet as how big of a thing it is. Or actually we do. There's infinite amount of content of everything everywhere. But I haven't recently reflected of that. I'm thinking of decades all the time. I'm thinking of, yeah, there's the 2000s and then there's the 90s and the 80s and 70s. But a whole bunch of shit has happened within cyberspace while the outside looks the same. Like my friend who's a substitute teacher was saying that he looks at those pictures of the graduating class of 2017 and the one from 99, and it's the same clothes. Like the clothes varies a lot in the 80s, 70s, 60s.
Starting point is 00:45:17 But fashion stopped evolving towards the millennium. And then after the millennium, the thing that started evolving was the cell phone. The device is what changes in people's hands we just stopped giving a shit yeah cause now it's funny like when you go to places like you know like our urban outfitters or whatever and people wanna buy clothes that look like old bullshit clothes that like were hand me downs
Starting point is 00:45:36 to us in the 90s we're like I want an oversized Fila t-shirt you're overpaying for that and also take that FUBU off young woman I haven't been in a hot topic in so long. I just picture all kids today having face tattoos and the unicorn frappuccino dreads. That's true.
Starting point is 00:45:54 We saw the one dude at lunch the other day who was like, are you trying to look like Lil Pump? That's not a look. Off-brand Lil Pump is not something you want to look like. I think if one out of every hundred kids in this generation have that look, that's how I'm going to picture them from now on. The Lil Pump dreads. Going back to the subject of Michael Cohen, there's a story that broke fairly recently that he owes all these back taxes because he was long on taxic cab medallions which are these things that the new york times podcast the daily uh the daily nothing not even daily zeitgeist
Starting point is 00:46:33 is it called daily nothing or the daily uh it's basically called the daily nothing yeah yeah that's it's called michael barbaro's fest michbaro's I don't know the reference, but I like it. Don't worry about it. That's for us to have our secret rivalry with a much bigger podcast. No, they know about it. Yeah, they know about it. You guys are big, right? They're scared of us. No, I was lying to you when I said we were big. I just wanted to get you on the show.
Starting point is 00:46:58 You're bigger than me. You have a building. Yeah. Well, we might get kicked out. We're actually squatting. The real company will probably show up in about an hour, and we've got to act like we're janitors. But in addition to all of the paying off of Stormy Daniels and all the other illegal shit that Michael Cohen was doing for Trump, the search warrant to raid Michael Cohen's everything, like everywhere Michael Cohen is, was based on the fact that he had not been paying taxes on all these taxi medallions. And he's like tied really closely with this guy who's known as the his name is Evgeny Gene Friedman, known in New York as the Taxi King. He operated more than 800 cabs and was basically skimming five million dollars off of surcharges that were supposed to go to the government.
Starting point is 00:47:46 According to a report in page six, Cohen once put Friedman up, the taxi king, he put him up in Ivanka and Jared's apartment after Friedman attacked his wife before they got divorced. And Friedman is also in trouble because he once had this conversation with a former business partner. He said, don't fuck with me. You know how I am.
Starting point is 00:48:07 You know how I roll. I will kill you, your wife, and your kids, and maybe I will let you survive, actually. That's tight. Wait, didn't he say kill you, your wife, and your kids, and then let you survive? Didn't he already kill you? He's like, oh, actually, you know what would be cool
Starting point is 00:48:21 if I let you survive and killed your wife and your kids. Because if he kills you first and then your wife and kids die before seeing your wife and kids die. Right. Come on, man. That's the worst order to do it if you're a mobster, aren't you? Again, yeah. It's just these weird, it's just such a dark, weird, shady world where, like, you know, Michael Cohen's got his hands in all these different places. And then we find out, his uncle owned like the spot,
Starting point is 00:48:46 the Russian mob, like to kick it out in Brooklyn. Like it's very clear, like they come from a certain world and they're not even the good versions of it. Right. And not that there's a good version of organized crime, but like they're clearly a respectable or their abilities of deception are just so they're like bush league. They're disorganized crime, it seems like.
Starting point is 00:49:06 They just can't keep their shit straight. Fire, fire, fire. Oh, wow. There you go. There he is. We're going to go to a break on that. We'll be right back. This summer, the nation watched as the Republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts, separated by two months.
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Starting point is 00:51:09 BPM 110. 120. She's terrified. Should we wake her up? Absolutely not. What was that? You didn't figure it out? I think I need to hear you say it.
Starting point is 00:51:24 That was live audio of a woman's nightmare. This machine is approved and everything? You're allowed to be doing this? We passed the review board a year ago. We're not hurting people. There's nothing dangerous about what you're doing. They're just dreams. Dream Sequence is a new horror thriller from Blumhouse Television, iHeartRadio, and Realm.
Starting point is 00:51:44 Listen to Dream Sequence on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. It was December 2019 when the story blew up. In Green Bay, Wisconsin, former Packers star Kabir Bajabiamila caught up in a bizarre situation. KGB explaining what he believes led to the arrest of his friends at a children's Christmas play. A family man, former NFL player, devout Christian, now cut off from his family and connected to a strange arrest. I am going to share my journey of how I went from Christianity to now a Hebrew Israelite. I got swept up in Kabir's journey, but this was only the beginning. In a story about faith and football,
Starting point is 00:52:28 the search for meaning away from the gridiron and the consequences for everyone involved. You mix homesteading with guns and church and a little bit of the spice of conspiracy theories that we liked. Voila! You got straight away. I felt like I was living in North Korea,
Starting point is 00:52:44 but worse, if that's possible. Listen to Spiraled on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. Billy, I know you're a very big baseball fan, a former player. The Rockies are doing something very interesting called the Business Person Special. Now, that is not a massage parlor deal. This is a deal for $21. A business person, someone who just wants to do work, can get a standing room only ticket with a ledge to put your laptop, a cheeseburger, fries, and a beer, and Wi-Fi.
Starting point is 00:53:20 So you can now work at the ballpark because baseball games are so slow moving. They're like, fuck you. You could probably do work here too. That's smart. Yeah. It's what we call in the industry a two-screen experience in the world of bullshit marketing. I mean, but what's funny is like I think in the Denver Post that like someone, a couple of people went to a couple of games and like, yeah, it's mostly people just taking advantage
Starting point is 00:53:43 of like the deal. They're like a couple of people that did have have laptops they were having to deal with people like spilling beer yeah yeah so they're still working it out but again i think it does make sense like because i clearly i think there's an attendance issue at major league baseball games especially during a day game because there's 162 yeah right exactly every team plays 162 so Yeah, right. Exactly. Every team plays 162, so it's like you can't fill 40,000 people. No, no, no, no. Even when they're good. Yeah, no, seriously.
Starting point is 00:54:10 I mean, a fucking midweek day game, rest in peace, if it's not during the summer. I look for those just because that's what fits my schedule, and there's still not enough of those, the midweek day game. How many are there maybe? A lot of them are Sundays. Right. Sundays is like the day for it. But to me, a Wednesday noon 1.30 game, come on. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:54:34 That's perfect. Well if you have the free time. I'm also like, yeah, and if I lived in the 1950s where there's only baseball so I could just skip out of work. I'm already a little drunk from work anyway. Yeah, that was like one of the excuses. It's like tuberculosis or you got tickets to the game.
Starting point is 00:54:55 Those are excused absences from work. The Karate Kid has been revived as a YouTube Red series. This made me very nervous. The only movie that I've seen almost as many times as Jaws is the original Karate Kid. It was like my favorite movie growing up. Love the movie. Is that why you asked me if I knew Mr. Miyagi when you met me?
Starting point is 00:55:19 Yes. I ask all Asian people when I meet them that question. Including your wife, and she was like, I'm Korean. Yes. Oh, oh, oh, okay. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to derail you. I had to get that joke in. No, it's not a joke.
Starting point is 00:55:32 I really want to know. I want to derail, too, really quick. Has YouTube Red figured out, like, their thing yet? No. Remember Netflix figured, oh, they haven't. I don't think so. Amazon figured it out. I don't know a single fucking person who pays for YouTube Red.
Starting point is 00:55:44 Oh, no. I mean, if they are, it's the younger kids who like they have shows like I think whatever. There's like the Rhett and Link show and like other like Good Mythical Morning. Yeah. Lilly Singh has her shit on there. But I think that's specifically for that. Yeah. It's a weird branding thing, right?
Starting point is 00:55:59 Because Netflix was Netflix and all the other ones are that thing. But YouTube we associate with free and like very raw content. Exactly. So I think this is the first show that I've heard of on YouTube Red that's doing something actually somewhat interesting because the direction they took it is not the direction you would expect them to. So Johnny, the bad guy from the first one, is actually becomes the underdog hero of this series. The Cobra Kai dude?
Starting point is 00:56:25 Yeah, the Cobra Kai, because his life is so fucked up from that loss to Daniel. He is just a loser who never got his life together. And Daniel is this shitty dude who owns all these car dealerships and is like, I will chop prices, too. So Daniel's the big asshole johnny is like this underdog who when students who like he comes into contact with however they never really figured out how to make like old men friends with young children in a way that wasn't creepy but so he like starts up cobra kai again to teach these kids how to defend themselves. And Daniel's like,
Starting point is 00:57:05 Cobra Kai is evil must be stopped. And so it's a conflict between them. But I like the fact that they're, you know, going back on the whole thing. I think Karate Kid, the original fucked me up because it just taught me that underdogs were good. Inherently that I should always root for the underdog.
Starting point is 00:57:23 Right. Whereas like Jason Parge and David, who writes it cracked as David Wong wrote this article about how like, it's not fair to the people who work harder and are better to just automatically be like, no, fuck the Cobra Kai guys. They've been working years to be good at karate.
Starting point is 00:57:41 And then this like skinny twerp comes up and like starts a fight with them. Who's like friends with an old gardener. Right. And he wins. And then this like skinny twerp comes up and like starts a fight with them. Who's like friends with an old gardener. Right. And he wins. And we're like, yes, their years of work go down the drain. And I think this like has something to do with, like I've always been puzzled by,
Starting point is 00:57:55 I've always been a LeBron stan like from day one because I think it's incredible that we have somebody who was like a child prodigy and didn't end up fucked up was just like exactly as good as people expected him to be. Uh, even though there were like Nike and Adidas billboards just aimed directly at him when he was like 14 years old. Like it's insane that he's not a crazy person. Uh, but people, I feel like hate on him because he's the Johnny of the NBA. He's like the guy who was chosen.
Starting point is 00:58:26 And there's just always been this, like, hate that I think comes from, like... For LeBron? Yeah, for LeBron. Like, I don't know. People always hate the greats. I mean, in general. You know what I mean? Like, you always be like, man, fuck that guy.
Starting point is 00:58:36 Like, you know, it's... Yeah, there's part of it that it could be, yeah, that sort of underdog mentality of, like, oh, well, you're so good, that actually means you're bad. Right. Because you must be some form of evil, supernatural chicanery that got you to this point. And also not all nerds are good and not all jocks are bad. Right, right. There's bad nerds.
Starting point is 00:58:56 Yeah. I like the idea, though, with this show, right, that Johnny's just a fucking loser because of that. Right. And then afterwards, I wonder if there's a scene where he was like, look, bro, I know I was kind of addicted. Like my parents were getting divorced.
Starting point is 00:59:08 Like I didn't really know who I was. So yeah, I was kind of a shitty guy, but, and Daniel's like, fuck you, bro. I ain't giving you a break on this fucking Chevy Cobalt.
Starting point is 00:59:17 Get the fuck out of here. And it takes place today in 2018 with apps and everything. And they have Snapchat and yeah, exactly. She's, uh, but they have snapchat and yeah exactly she's uh but they they still keep the conceit uh a that old people are just like friends with middle school students and high school students but also uh that the all valley karate tournament is like what determines your success in the world of los angeles like yes there's the film industry and the entertainment industry but more important is who wins
Starting point is 00:59:46 the All-Valley Karate Tournament. Dude, you didn't win AVKT? Fuck you, bro. Get the fuck out of here. How many times does Rocky lose? Because Rocky is like a good story of the underdog doesn't win, right? Yeah, he's lost, I think, in the original four, which are the only ones I count.
Starting point is 01:00:01 I think he's only lost twice. He lost in the original movie, and then he lose to Clever Lang at the beginning of three after Clever Lang literally murders his trainer. And everyone's like, ah. Well, Clever Lang's the new champion now, I guess. All right. That's going to do it for this week's weekly zeitgeist.
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