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Episode Date: June 3, 2018

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Listen to Lucha Libre Behind the Mask on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you stream podcasts. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of the Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from this week, all edited together into one nonstop infotainment laughstravaganza. Yeah, so without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist. Breaking news, when we're recording this, presumably not when you're listening to it, ABC this morning canceled Roseanne after they looked up racism in the dictionary. Oh, they're like, oh, this matches, I guess, with what Roseanne was tweeting.

So what did Roseanne tweet? This morning she went on like a rip. First, she came at Chelsea Clinton for like suggesting that maybe she was related to a family member of George Soros. Like that old right wing, that boogeyman that they love to conjure up. I don't know a single liberal who's ever met George Soros. The only time I hear of him is via Fox News and people with conspiracy theories. He's so old. I don't even know if he exists

to be honest. But again, sure. Dude, he's from the Holocaust. He's super old. You just don't know you've met liberals who've met George Soros. They don't even know him. I've only met actors. Exactly. So yeah, she came at him and Chelsea Clinton was like, just for your information, my middle name is not Soros.

It's Victoria. Like, was very kind. She's like, but thank you. And then Roseanne was like, well, you don't know. During the Holocaust, like, he was selling out Jews to the Nazis. So that was the beginning. Then there was, like, a thing. Someone had tweeted something about Valerie Jarrett, who's a former Obama aide.

Someone had tweeted something about Valerie Jarrett, who's a former Obama aide. And underneath this Twitter thread, she replied, Muslim Brotherhood and Planet of the Apes had a baby equals VJ, which are Valerie Jarrett's initials. So she did the time-honored anti-black racist thing of comparing black people to apes. And then threw in some Islamophobia in there just to top it off. And then afterwards, I think clearly because the internet blew up at her and was like, what the fuck is going on? Everyone was telling ABC to cancel it.

She had like an apology where she said, oh, it was like a joke and bad taste and I regret talking about her politics and her looks. And sure, but for someone who thinks they're so smart that they can see the deep state and comment ping pong

and all these other QAnon and all these deep conspiracies, you can't even tell the difference between racism and a bad joke. Also, I regret commenting on her looks is like suggesting that, I don't know, it's not like I regret evoking the deep-seated racism of just horrible white supremacy. It's like, yeah, my bad for being superficial in my comments that were wild racist. It also annoys me that she used the construct of a great roast joke.

Right, right. You are, you know, A plus B equals you. B equals a baby, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They had a baby, right. And then she just picked imagery that was very racist and went that way. Yes.

And then it's like, oh, it's just a bad joke. And yes, it was a very bad joke. Terrible joke. A bad racist joke. It was a lazy joke and a racist joke. And to not understand the history behind it. Right. But that's where you go.

You know that was racist because you were making a racist comment to get your fellow racists excited about your quote unquote joke. And we all know what's going on. So afterwards, everyone was criticizing ABC because they had really not said anything, and then a few hours later they said, okay, season three is canceled. Wanda Sykes tweeted pretty quickly. She's like, I will not be returning to the Roseanne show.

I think she's a consulting producer. She did that first, and then ABC canceled it. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I think this is going to create a lot of debate because Roseanne was very popular and the right mega heads are going to say this is PC culture run amok. I would just say that I think ABC should keep the show. They need to Valerie this shit. There was an 80s sitcom called Valerie.

And the lead actress, the titular Valerie, went into negotiations in the off season and was- Valerie Harper, right? I think so, yeah. Yeah, from Mary Tully Moore. Yes. And they were like, oh, you are going to be difficult with us well screw you we're gonna just kill your character off and the next season it became the hogan family and the first episode

was i remember this because it was jason bateman was one of the sons and he came in with like a piece of burnt metal from her car that she had died in and made a joke about the piece of burnt metal? He's already recovered from his grief. Yeah. Wow. They're already doing sitcom jokes about mom being dead. And then they just moved on without skipping a beat. Wow.

Perfect. I mean, she came after Valerie Jarrett. So why not Valerie her now? Just Valerie this shit. When Roseanne said VJ, now if she had meant Victoria Jackson, would we all be having this conversation? No.

No. We'd be like, you know what? Then I'd be like, what's wrong with your eyes? Victoria Jackson is so blonde and white looking. Right. I'm sorry. Do we have a disconnect on what an ape looks like? Right.

Yeah. But it's also, this is just capitalism and that's it. Yeah. And it's a shame too, because I think the woman who is the head of programming at ABC is a woman of color too, who even signed off on Roseanne coming back and things like that. So I think, yeah, put in a very tough spot because I think most people were like,

you have to do something. If you're ABC, you're Disney. Like, is this what Disney believes too? But yeah, again, the other thing that I noticed too on, I forget which website, I think ThinkProgress sort of aggregated how many media outlets just sort of obscured the fact that it was racist by describing it in every single way except using the word racism or racist comments. Her tweet or the show? No, this tweet, this specific moment this morning about her tweets at Valerie Jarrett. Some people were like, she waded into racial waters, was one.

Fox News tweeted, Roseanne Barr quits Twitter after offending with statements about Chelsea Clinton, former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett. That was just it, just offending them. Washington Post said racially charged. So, you know, again, I think this kind of speaks to the culture that we're in now, where a lot of conservatives get up in arms when racism is described for what it is. And they're like, again, the PC culture run amok thing. And the same thing, too, when people sort of begin to fear the backlash of, you know, actually calling out bad ideas for what they are.

And the right maybe spinning it as, oh, this is suppression of thought or whatever. I mean, yes, you made a terribly racist comment. Let's call that racism. We don't have to say waded into racial thought or whatever. Yeah. I mean, yeah, you made a terribly racist comment. Let's call that racism. We don't have to say waded into racial waters. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sure it's in her contract that she's not allowed to be racist on Twitter. Oh, of course.

Yeah, it's got to be. They must have thought about this and she was just, you know, thinking she was big enough and the show had done well enough that she could just do this. But I'm honestly not even kidding about the Valerie thing. There's so much talent involved with that show that's not her. So you're saying if Roseanne were to die from opioid addiction. Exactly. Because that's what-

Yeah, because they already set up her opioid addiction. It's great to have a show about a socioeconomic bracket that is rarely depicted in mainstream pop culture. And yeah, a lot of those people are dealing with opioid addiction and people passing away from opioid addiction. And maybe they could use some laughs. You could call it, instead of Roseanne, you could call it Roseanne IP, R-I-P. Yeah. R-I-P. Roseanne in. R-I-P. Yeah. R-I-P. Roseanne in peace.

Exactly. And also it would be mocking her that like we have your IP now. Yeah. We have your name. R-I-P. Intellectual property too,

mom. Yeah. We have an update on a story that we mentioned yesterday. Yes, we do. We were hailing Drake's cold-blooded

takedown at Pusha T and things have escalated a little bit. Things have gone, they've gone next level. I've always hated Pusha T's ad-lib. Yeah, yeah. It's just, I don't know, it seems forced and annoying. It's one of my least favorite of the ad-libs. I mean, there's 2121, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or 2 Chainz or Oh God or Killah

take that take that yeah no it's still my least favorite shut the fuck up what take out me go

yeah yeah I mean there's many there's many hip hop ones shut the fuck up oh that's Juicy J oh yeah he just screamed shut the fuck up

it's so crazy it's not even an ad lib it's like a weird I don't even know what it is I'll admit to loving Take That, Take That. Take That, Take That is classic. Take That, Take That. 21, 21.

But yeah, man. So Pusha T dropped a rebuttal yesterday called Adidan. Was it the tale of Adidan? The story of Adidan. Based on the story of OJ. Uh-huh. And I didn't know what that was, but you're going to explain what it was. So, okay, let's just start from the beginning because we just talked about their beef.

The beef between the two of them has always been about Drake used a ghost rider and Pusha T didn't really sell the drugs like he acts like he does in his lyrics. So then in Infrared, Pusha T is like, he used a ghost rider. And then so Drake's response was, yeah, so what? You're not that poppin'. And it turns out that you actually grew up middle class and you didn't really sell that cocaine. And you're old. Yeah, and you're old. Then Pusha T responds with, your dad abandoned you.

Your mom is a loser. Your boy has MS and is about to die. You've bounced out on your illegitimate love child and about to kneecap your deal with Adidas. I mean, like he took the nuclear option, which is, you know, I like hip hop beef because now we've gone from I'm gonna kill you to push a T basically being like, you're a terrible father, my God. If you distill it down to that.

Personally, I didn't like the shot he took at OVO 40 with his MS because that's like that's kind of next level shit. And it's a little tasteless to me, but I clutch my chest for sure. Yeah. I couldn't believe how in he was going. So, yes, he talks about everything from his baby moms, who is French, who has this child, Adonis. And what's really interesting is that allegedly, you know, we've seen Drake wearing Adidas recently, and he's had a deal with the Jordan brand. Like, there have been a whole line of OVO Jordans and things like that.

And then recently he started wearing Adidas, and everyone's like, what's going on? Is that deal about to fall through? And from what we understand is that, yes, he does, in fact, have something going on with Adidas. And the line is called Adidon, named after his son Adonis. And that's how he's going to, like, sort of let people know about his son is along with this. So Pusha T is like, shame on you for, first of all, not really supporting your child. And then like using this like Adidas marketing thing to announce you have a kid to sell stuff. Like what's going on?

And possibly like what's going to happen, a lot of people speculate, is that sort of like by attaching this uh the name of this diss track to the thing that's coming out that's going to really kind of mess things up from marketing standpoint for this new apparel line not to mention that the cover art for this freestyle is drake in blackface uh wearing like a jim crow hoodie and a jim crow t-shirt and that's like not photoshopped like that is an actual photo that he took and Pusha T linked to this photographer's website that it came from. It's I mean, clearly Pusha T did some actual oppo. Yeah.

The amount of oppo research that went into this is impressive. Well, that's what I was wondering was, do you think somebody brought this information to Pusha T? Somebody showed him the burner account or whatever. I like to think it was Pusha T up like for like two days. I'm like, I'm just going to find everything. Do you think someone

brought him that info though about the sun and all that stuff? Well, there was speculation about it before because he started following this woman

and he was building a crib at his house so people knew these things. Everybody on Lipstick Alley knew what was happening. Exactly. I just pictured Pusha T reading Lipstick Alley. I honestly think Pusha T reading Lipstick Alley.

I honestly think Pusha T, this has been the plan since the beginning. Well, that's what I'm saying. You think he baited Drake. He Venus Fly Trapped him. He Admiral Ackbar. It's a trap. Got this dude. I'm going to talk a little bit about you in this track to get you to say something,

but what you don't know is I have a preloaded response, basically, that is just like a scorched earth campaign. Do you guys think Drake can come back from this? Yeah, I think he can. He's going to need to do a lot of research. I mean, look, Meek Mill came back from basically being ethered by Drake. So, you know, we'll see. And also, I think Drake's appeal is so big.

Like I was talking to my friend who works at a hip hop station out here. They're saying the kids don't even know who Pusha T is. Right. But do you think that like this like will will damage drake's like nice guy image well that's the thing is that to come back from this and just to own that energy he has to go so hard like i feel like there's not a look for him right that is gonna that doesn't agree with his personality. I guess, yeah, his diss track will be like, yes, I was a bad dad. I'm real sad. Sorry, guys.

And just to be like, you're a sensitive guy. You're a sensitive guy. Somebody was saying he should rap over the Degrassi beat and just own it. Yeah. I mean, where did the blackface photo come from? What's the deal with that? We're still trying to figure out what that is.

It was for a streetwear line. Oh, is that what it was? Yeah. I think the company is called two black guys it's uh like a you know other rappers had like done photo shoots for this somebody was saying that like in the instagram comments the guy who took the photograph said it was drake's idea and then people were saying it was because drake was really into little brother at the time which was when little brother was doing like the minstrel show yeah and got it i mean but

also people were saying like uh it's crazy that this was still up on the internet and like drake who's usually pretty savvy about stuff like that wouldn't have like remembered this existed and scrubbed it although that might have been worse obviously to scrub it if it had come back up you know right he's got to find a way to own it but what's funny is like push the t i think he called in the breakfast club and was like, he needs to explain this photo. His blackness is in question. I'm like, my guy, you were working with Kanye West. As our boy

said in Philadelphia, find another angle. That collar is normal. That collar is normal, and you are with one of the most problematic black people right now. I don't know. My whole thing is I honestly feel like Kanye may have been Emperor Palpatine-ing this thing all from the back. Because if you think about it, uh so i don't know my whole thing is i honestly feel like kanye may have been uh you know emperor

palpatine in this thing all from the back because if you think about it drake took over kanye's spot and he even admitted that he's like you know i i've been gone for a while and now drake is just like that top guy in hip-hop he's like the big hit king and we then found you know later on like we find out drake wrote a few songs on Pablo, some things that weren't even credited. And now to know that Drake is coming on to Adidas, I feel like it was activating all those Kanye insecurities. And I feel like they definitely had some coordination at some level. Right. This fight isn't even necessarily between the people it's between. Right. Because it's also about the real issue was that Pusha T and Wayne were fighting about who wore Bape first a million years ago.

And that's how Pusha T inherited the fight with Drake. Really? Yeah. It's like a hip-hop proxy war. Yeah. I am entertained. It's been a while since

there have been the trading of freestyles like this has happened the trading of like, you know, freestyles like this has happened where you're like, whoop! Like, I mean, the last time I really felt, I mean,

the Drake Meek Mill stuff was fine, but it felt a little one-sided. But, you know, like I guess the 50 Cent Jaw Rule thing was like the last time someone was just sort of consistently

getting smashed to bits in diss tracks. But, yeah, I like it. It's getting messy. The funniest thing too is thinking about Drake and Kanye living next to each other in Calabasas also. Right.

Are they going to run into each other, get in the newspaper? How can you not in Calabasas? You meet up by the little duck pond or whatever. It's really not that big. Go to the comments. Go to the comments. Wasn't there a competition where one of them heard about the size of the pool of the other and was like, okay, I got to go big. Right.

I got to put a lake. My house looked like a resort inside. Right. Where I reside looked like a resort inside. Drake has a grotto. Yeah, exactly. I really want to see that grotto. He talks about the grotto.

Yeah. Yeah. If I had a grotto, I talk constantly about my grotto. Me too. Yeah. I might not even be able to get baited into disc wars because I would be like, I'm going to my grotto. This is a very important,

I think, a note, or this is a lesson. I think Drake could become a cautionary tale for people who, you know, like this was clearly a good move by Pusha

to bring in one of the biggest names in hip hop to now put his focus on you and now look at all your mentions because, again, I feel like this was really well thought out plan

because I think he already knew what he had on Drake and that's why in the interview interventions, because again, I feel like this was really well thought out plan, because I think he already knew what he had on Drake. And that's why in the interview after the Dupie freestyle, I was like, we will be dealing in truths. Right. Like very ominous. Yeah. We were, we were like, he seems like he doesn't know what he's talking about.

He's just rambling. And it was actually him just like dropping like cryptic hints about how he was going to. Cause then he said, this is his truth. This is Drake's truth. Right. Like yeah I mean Drake is at this point any anyone he responds to it's gonna be punching down but the Meek Mill thing kind of worked out for him although because he had a beef with Meek Mill last year two years ago and like Meek Mill it seemed like everybody agreed took a huge L on that

but then Meek Mill six months later was like a legend everybody would just know who Meek Mill was so like Drake is like not that hard so when he tries to be really hard that's like where his weakness is yeah you come in here like right no you don't know what you're talking about I'm a clap and push a tee up or anything like that he's gonna be like it's just gonna be no it's gonna be like i got i got shot by rick in the hallway and then i was in a wheelchair for the rest of the you know what it's like to be paralyzed guys now i want to talk a little bit about art in the alt-right world in the in the very hyper conservative world in the white nationalist world because we're seeing all kinds of offerings in the realms of film and music and writing recently. J.M. McNabb, one of our writers,

brought our attention to a story about a film that is coming up called The Trump Prophecy. I think it's based off a book written by a man named Mark Taylor, who is a retired firefighter who claims that one day while watching TV, Trump came on and then God told him that Trump would be president. And this was back in 2011. And, you know, it was a very powerful moment. You know, from there, he was like trying to tell people, yo, this guy's gonna be president. You should listen up. I have it on good authority, my hallucinations, that he will be president. Man, any like out of work, arrested development writer could have made that same prediction in 2011. Or The Simpsons years ago, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So then he basically co-authored this book, The Trump Prophecies, The Astonishing True Story of the Man Who Saw Tomorrow, and what he says is coming next. So basically then he said, there's a really nice part where he just, this is just from the book. In November of 2016, the world witnessed the impossible. Nearly every household in America was tuned in to the election feeds, and every update pointed to the loss for the Republican Party. But when the map of the states flipped red in the final hour,

there was a select few who weren't surprised. They had always known Trump was going to win. He was chosen for such a time as this. The prophecy had said so. This prophet, this reserved man of God, was a retired firefighter, Mark Taylor. The word given by Holy Spirit was delivered on April 28th, 2011, in the middle of the most debilitating sickness a man could ever experience. Now, you know, despite the fact that, you know, he basically admitted that his prediction was for the 2012 election, you know, for marketing purposes, he

was going to extend that to 2016. I called this too so you know it still stands you dumbass nostradamus seriously but when what comes next though he was also saying that in he's trump will win a second term uh and then he will release the secret cures for alzheimer's and cancer uh because you know why blow it all in the first term why why why do your grand ending in the first term so wait that trump is going to reveal the cure to alzheimer's by just and by so it's like performance art that he's just demonstrating uh perhaps having alzheimer's himself in his first term and then at the end is like i actually know how to benjamin button this whole thing well the the reasoning being, the logic being that he will basically come after Big Pharma

because they hold the secrets to solving these diseases because they profit off of people being sick, which I agree with. I mean, I get that part of it. We've seen that kind of shit before. I agree with all of it. Yeah, but then he'll say once he comes after Big Pharma and ends that corruption,

then they will release the antidotes. Now, honestly, I hope that there is something like that because that would be great. But again, I'm not too... I don't know how optimistic I am that Trump would do that. Here's what it is, guys. Again, please. You guys are supposed to be basically

journalists and I'm trying to help you out here. I never said I'm a journalist. Miles says he's a journalist all the time. Yeah, he does. Sometimes he'll just group text us at night and say, I'm a journalist. Guys, I'm a journalist all the time. Yeah, he does. Sometimes he'll just group text us at night. Yeah. And say, I'm a journalist. Guys, I'm a journalist. The only time Miles ever came to one of my UCB shows was to get up on stage and interrupt

the whole thing to say, I'm a journalist. That's true. He's done the same thing to me a lot. Yeah. Yeah, that's why when we met the first time, you're like, wait, I know you. Yeah. Wait, you're that journalist. You're that journalist.

Journalist. So Barack Obama did something very, very similar where in his 2008 term, he was pro-gay marriage, but he never said it because he didn't want to alienate his black Christian base. So he waited until the 2012 election when he knew he had them in the bag to say it. Donald Trump is doing the same thing here, okay? With cancer patients? That's right. And he knows that that's a big part of his base. And he doesn't want to alienate them.

Wow. So he wants to do all the work now so that in 2012 he can be like, yo, guess what? I'm for this. And then they'll all hop on the train because they're already on the train. It's the same thing. But we want to crucify Donald Trump for doing the things that barack did and i'm tired of it wow you're really gonna have some crazy people coming at you in your after this one uh so let's move on uh because another thing that he also said was that he also

said that megan kelly fell ill i don't know if you remember this uh right before the one of the first republican primary debates in 2015 yeah she couldn't do it because she fell ill. And he claims that that was God sending her a, quote, warning shot to let her know that she should not try to harm his anointed candidate, Donald Trump. Oh, my God. So this guy is going all in. So now this is going to be a full on film that's coming out in October called The Trump Prophecy, because I guess they couldn't call it based off the book The Trump Prophecies. They just kind of made it just like the one, maybe that he'll be president.

And anyway, this is being made by Liberty University, which is a Christian school founded by Jerry Falwell. And they have a film department and they have a program where students, instead of making sort of like a bunch of shorts, they contribute to making one feature film. And they did this before with a film called Extraordinary starring, guess who? Kirk Cameron. You know, our Christian actor. Our best actor. Yes, he's amazing. Absolutely. My favorite Jerry Seinfeld. So now they're working up the Trump prophecy

drop in October. You're just in time for the midterms to get people to really wake the fuck up and realize, you know, Trump is anointed by God. But the thing is, which makes sense, is that there are people there who aren't really quite thrilled about this Trump prophecy film at the school because you're at a Christian school, there's a lot of things that Trump does that contradicts Christian dogma. Not something that would be considered a good Christian thing to do?

Yeah, yeah. So people still actually read the Bible and follow it. So I think when they see what Trump's doing, they're like, nah, I can't get on with this. I think that one of the best bad press you can get is having a student film made about you. I think this is actually going to work in the world's favor. I'm a connoisseur of bad student films. Oh, really? As am I.

And here's what I'll have to say. Those students who are unhappy about it, I know exactly who they are. They're the kind of students who pitched a movie that didn't get picked up, and they're upset that it's not their movie. And that's all this is. Oh, that's what you think. Can I get a student film rec? That's not what I think. That's what I know.

Oh, you want to give a student film recommendation? Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's my favorite one. It came out in 2009. I had to go into the backlogs to find it. But it's called Love, Bacardi, Boston. It's really good. You can watch it on Vimeo.

I do some screenings of it sometimes. Was it made by you? No, no. It was before I went to college but it was like a legendary thing on campus. They're like, if you can get this file, it's the worst thing you'll ever see in your life.

It's called Love, is it like love comma? Oh, love period. Bacardi period, Boston period. Wow. It's just, it's beautiful. Will you put this up on your Twitter please? Yes, I, period. Bacardi, period. Boston, period. Wow. It's just beautiful. Will you put this up on your Twitter, please?

Yes, I will absolutely. We'll also have it in the footnotes. Yeah, you got to watch Love, Bacardi, Boston. How long is it? I'm doing a screening of it tonight. Oh, you are? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like legitimately?

In LA, yeah. There's like a few annual screenings of it, and people come out, and they bring their LBB gear. It's like shot on a camcorder it's one of those things like when you're a freshman in film school you're supposed to make like a five minute short this is 45 minutes long

autobiographical just some real masterful work shout out to the director Dane Schubert who still interacts with because he's like he's like almost 30 now and still dealing with this thing he made when he was 18. What does he do now? Love Bacardi Boston.

He still works in like videography and stuff, I think. Oh, good for him. Yeah. All right. Well, love Bacardi Boston. He stuck with it. About a man just smashed off daiquiris all day. It's so much more than that.

Oh, really? Okay. Well, I'm going to assume that's what that is. All right. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who, on October 16, 2017, was murdered. There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate. Everywhere you look now, the situation is desperate.

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your podcasts. And we're back! And there's a fucking crazy story out of, I guess, the Ukraine. Yeah, Ukraine. Yeah. So, Miles, why don't you tell us about it? Okay, so this guy is a Russian journalist, which already puts him at risk because he reports on news and he's Russian.

His name is Arkady Babchenko, and he basically was in a plot to fake his own death, to foil a murder plot. So what happened was this guy, Babchenko, he reports on all manners of Russian fuckery, specifically his reporting on the annexation of Crimea, put him in some hot water. And he's a very vocal Putin critic. And he had to flee Russia in like February 2017 because he was getting death threats and his family. And then, like, I think at a certain point, his like information, he was doxed. So all of his like addresses and his phone numbers were released on social media. And this is all because, you know, he was basically shining a light on the actions of

the Kremlin. So this is where the drama kicks in. On Tuesday, yesterday, the Ukrainian police were like, he has been killed. He was shot to death in his apartment and then today the head of the ukrainian security service announced in a news conference that uh basically they've solved his murder and then but then call a press conference yeah he called it was like we've solved it the next day and he's like why don't you come out arkady babchenko he comes out and was like and like people like applauding and he's and he literally is like yes i am alive and it's like the most it is i arkady it was like the most he literally was like, yes, I am alive. And it's like the most dramatic. It is I, RKD. It was like the most dramatic shit and was like also sorry to people who were like mourning my death for 24 hours, my bad.

But I kind of had to do this because things were getting hot for me. So what had happened was the investigators identified a Ukrainian citizen who had been recruited and paid 40 grand by the Russian security service to organize this hit and carry it out. And then that guy went and found an acquaintance of his who had fought in the separatist war in eastern Ukraine to be the actual trigger man for this. They basically gotcha'd this guy. And it was just a huge thing because they're like, oh, see what happens? And then the Kremlin, at first, after his murder was announced, like, we'll look into this. Because they were saying, they're like, he was probably killed because of his investigating into, like, the annexation of Crimea and other things going on in the Kremlin.

And then the next day after they come out with this, Russia said, oh, well, you know, we'll look into it. But, you know, that kind of stuff happens a lot in Ukraine. So you might have to look into that, too. So then cut to today where they're getting real petty. They're like, well, look, I got receipts. It's just getting crazy over there. But it was specifically like the Russian government paying the hitman, right? They have the receipts. They were saying that, yes, this man was recruited by the Russian security service to basically carry this hit out across the border.

I mean, is that as good of evidence as we have? Because we know Putin kills people like on the regular, but because it's like somebody who Putin has threatened to kill then gets shot mysteriously and the cops just like don't look into it or whatever. I don't know, man. Isn't this the first time we have like receipts? I don't know. I mean, I feel like there are plenty of receipts for other people like Litvinenko and even like the dude who just got hit with the VX nerve agent in the park with his daughter.

Yeah. Like, I mean, you can see these sort of lines of sight to the Kremlin or whatever, but I mean, yeah, sure. I don't know. I just feel like nothing that the Kremlin would do, anyone's going to be like, aha, we got you. Right. You know what I mean?

But this seems pretty much like an episode of Matlock where the guy's just like, ah, you got me. And then they play the fun music. I can't believe he only stayed fake dead for 24 hours. I know. It seems very tempting. Too juicy. Isn't he worried he'll be real dead very soon?

That's what I would be worried about if I were him. To be continued. Who knows? I mean, it's funny. He came out in a hoodie, too. Like, he didn't give a fuck. When they were laying down, he had this hoodie on. He was like, yeah, I'm alive.

Showing up at the press conference about your own death is like the baller. It is. Oh, yeah. In a hoodie and then being like, yeah, I'm alive. Showing up at the press conference about your own death is the baller. It is. Oh, yeah. In a hoodie and then being like, yeah, I'm alive. Right. And then also just kind of they were saying other people who they had talked to, like other members of the government in Russia who had fled because of their outspoken criticisms of Putin, were trying to warn him.

And they were saying for a long time this guy, Babchenko, was just not really fazed by the threats. He was just like, whatever. He wasn't taking them seriously. And then they were like like for a long time, this guy, Babchenko, was just like not really fazed by the threats. He was just like, whatever. Like he wasn't taking them seriously. And then they were like, hold up. Someone is trying to do something. Maybe he's like unkillable though. Maybe he's like a Rasputin.

That'd be amazing. No. Oh yeah, like he actually was shot. Yeah. But I'm alive. Did it say like he was like knifed in the back and he just chilled or something? Who, Babchenko? Yeah, I thought.

Oh, for real. Maybe I'm just reading though. I mean, it would explain the hoodie. Right. The padding, all the padding you he just chilled or something yeah i thought maybe i'm just reading the mean it would explain the hoodie the padding all the padding you can get gotta get those extra layers in just a weird note i always anytime there's a russia story that clearly makes russia look bad i like to follow it uh on the front page of drudge because i really believe that he has like some deal with the kremlin because of the way he covers these stories. So all of yesterday it was reported that this guy had been killed in the way that the Kremlin was reporting it. And then this morning they, for a moment, had faked his own death, question mark.

And then now it's Ukraine admits faking death of anti-Kremlin journalist. Almost like the Ukraine did a bad thing, like the way they've phrased it, which I don't know. I've just always noticed that Drudge tends to link off to Russia Today and Pravda articles more than other journalists. And there was a story where basically the only people in the world who were siding with the Kremlin was the front page of Drudge Report and RT, and they were just laying off. I think it was when they shot down the airliner, and they were like, no, it wasn't us.

It was Ukraine. Yeah, like an airliner accidentally explodes. Yeah, yeah, and Drudge just reported that unquestioningly. I mean, yeah, it's funny that Ukraine admits faking death of anti-Kremlin journalists. Right. No, my God. They foiled a murder plot. Sentence structure there.

They do that in American papers, too, though. Oh, absolutely. A bunch of Palestinians. Happened to die. Happened to die. Ran into some sniper bullets. Yeah. Right. Or when they do this stuff recently with all the,. Ran into some sniper bullets. Yeah.

Or when they do this stuff recently with all the like, the racially charged. Oh, God. Racial waters. Yeah. Waded into racial waters. I was like, wow. Way to dumb that shit down. Yeah. Like racist.

You mean racist. Right. Just say racist. But yeah, we talked a little bit before about how Drudge gets more traffic than the New York Times and Washington Post in the U.S. So that's why it matters, even though I think a lot of people have stopped checking Drudge. Well, this story is good, too, because it's like, you know, journalism's been under attack so much from everything.

Right. The image of a journalist, like, getting fake killed and then coming back just to his own funeral. Right. It's kind of inspiring. Oh, 100%. just to his own funeral. Right. It's kind of inspiring. Oh, 100%. It's an action movie. Yeah.

Can't kill journalism. Literally. Speaking of Boston, there was a Harvard study that's, you know, horrifying, but confirms what I think we have speculated about here on The Daily Zeitgeist. So they looked into the number of deaths that are attributable to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico and have come up with a number slightly above the 64 that the Trump administration had thrown out there. They were only about like 75 times off.

Yes. It's 4,600 is the number of deaths that Harvard is saying, over 4,600 is the number of deaths that Harvard says are attributable to the hurricane. So just to put that in perspective, because I think in the aftermath of a lot of these super storms, people were referring back to Katrina and saying, you know, at least this isn't as bad as Katrina. And the death toll of Katrina was one thousand eight hundred and thirty three across all the states. And Puerto Rico, they're thinking four thousand six hundred. and that dropped Bush's approval rating into like the 20s caused Kanye West to say something really smart

and the fact that it's in more slow motion this time and that like with Katrina it was like five days of just the government fucking up and here it's been months and months of months of complete neglect and also presumably the fact here it's been months and months of months of complete neglect uh and also presumably the fact that it's brown people who speak a different language uh who can't vote right who can't vote but uh clearly that is something is making a difference because uh this is not the defining story of the year like katrina was uh or maybe the country is more

racist than it was back then. But I think we're just not really treating this as a story of Americans are being left to perish in an unnecessary way. Like when you look at it, a third of those deaths were preventable in the sense that people perished because of delayed or interrupted medical care. So that's people who had medical treatments that you get at hospitals or diabetics or things like that. Like those are just things like as your infrastructure crumbles and you don't address, those people are very vulnerable and they, yeah, they would naturally be at risk to die unnecessarily. Do you, and also it's an island.

Do you think if the same thing happened to Hawaii, you know, say what the lava situation gets way, way worse and there's that many deaths in Hawaii. Do you think this government would have the same? I don't give a shit. No, because people can vote in elections. Those people can vote for president. But they always vote Democrat. Yeah. Well, yeah, but I'm sure at the same time, I don't think their calculus is just is that

blatant. We're like, oh, well, they can't vote. They don't care. I think it's just sort of less of a priority for the people who are putting in the aid. less of a priority for the people who are putting in the aid. I'd imagine that any bona fide state would get proper response from the government. And I think because Puerto Rico is a commonwealth, they just feel like it's sort of like people just have this weird thing. I think a lot of people were reminded, especially in the immediate aftermath of the hurricane, that they're like, remember, Puerto Ricans are American citizens who are like that need to be treated with the same dignity that we care for people

in Louisiana or Florida or Hawaii, California, what have you. So I think that's what makes it exceptionally troubling because it seems like for the longest time, the people on the ground in Puerto Rico were waving their hands saying, hello, like we have real problems here. And I think, yeah, because they're on an island too i think it's even easier for people in the media for us here on the mainland or whatever to sort of be like oh yeah that's right puerto rico but i think this is something hopefully that uh will spur some kind of change i mean i know there are a lot of people going over there from congress to try and like talk to the people and say like hey we care about you i you. I don't represent you, but I want you to know I'm trying to do something

for you, despite the utter lack of effective response. I was just kind of looking and comparing the two sort of responses and scandals, Katrina and Maria. And, you know, Bush at the time told FEMA they did a good job. And that was a huge scandal because they obviously clearly fucked it up. And, you know, he backed away from that. And that was considered a huge blunder. Trump, like in the immediate aftermath of Maria, was telling people of Puerto Rico that the responders can't stay there forever and that they like created a terrible financial situation for themselves.

Yeah. And just like, I wonder if there's like a shamelessness, like he almost steers into the swerve like so much that it's just like you can't even fucking comprehend of how horrible like it is. And it's just, it just explodes. Or in his like sort of paint by numbers, like conservative like thinking is brown people who need help are leeches on

the system. Yes. So it's like, oh yeah, look, we can't, we can't be here the whole time to help you get back on your feet. I mean, come on. At some point those bootstraps got to kick in and you got to pull yourself up. He probably wants to put a wall around Puerto Rico.

Yeah, probably. He doesn't even know where it is. He just wants to take a couple of slick jump shots with the paper towels, get the photo up, and then be like, all right, mission solved, mission accomplished. Yes. We also, as a nation, may have had catastrophe fatigue under the Bush administration. Right. 9-11, which was preventable, and Katrina, which was not preventable, but definitely

we could have done a much better job. Some kind of barrier has been broken. And now we're like, oh, this thing happens to us every year maybe. And also I think right from the election, Trump for 50 percent or more of the population was so unacceptable that this is just the 95th thing where you're like, Jesus Christ. this is just the 95th thing where you're like, Jesus Christ. Whereas Bush was, you know, people were infuriated that the Supreme Court gave him the election, but at least he was like, well, he was a governor and we know his dad. And so he seemed a lot more legitimate. So when he kept the second term of screw ups, it maybe turned the 5% of the population that was like, well, what can he do? What harm can he do?

I think people just need to take the immutable truth of it all is 4,600 American people died and there was a terrible response and many of those deaths were preventable. And I think that's the conversation. I think that's a conversation that needs to be had more of sort of like, we need to look at FEMA. We need to look at the government's response and like really ask for like real answers here. Like there needs to be like investigation and hold people accountable.

And Puerto Rico needs to have a voice in Congress. Right. Absolutely. They don't. There's some Puerto Rican American Congress people, but they don't represent Puerto Rico. No, they don't. Yeah. There's also the fact that they have politicized literally everything to the point that I'm sure they're going to look at this report and be like, oh, that's just, you know, the liberal media. Because

I mean, in the aftermath of the hurricane, the way the media was covering it being like, man, there's really a lot of people without power. He was like, oh, that's just the liberal media trying to, it's a combination of things. But I also think it is that things have just become so politicized that part of the Trump administration's overall goal has been to create a world. And this is exactly Russia's propaganda strategy. Create a world where there are no objective truths so that you can't never arrive. Yeah. You can't be wrong because there are no objective truths and people's minds are just exhausted. And I think it's worked.

But yeah, people need to think. If you're getting so up in arms about people fucking taking a knee to draw attention to police violence as they're disrespecting the flag. Yeah. Well, what about the disrespect to these American citizens? They're not inanimate objects. Right. They're human beings too. Now, I'd like to talk about what's going on with alt-right white nationalist music

because, you know, they're on a wave right now. There's a new song out by one of the members of this group called the White Art Collective. That's what they call it. And it's just basically a group of no-talent Nazis. Wack? Their name is Wack? Wow. W-A-C-Wack.

And it's just they have a terrible website where they share their non-art I love their like Wix beta site it's so cute it's really really something else and the latest is a certified banger song in the summer called It's Okay

to be White it's just a fucking terrible song with awful lyrics the music video itself is wacky it's just a fucking terrible song with awful lyrics the music video itself is wacky it's just a guy hand drawing images that eventually like morph into stock photos yeah he's just free handing and then it fades into an image he certainly is not paid to use no no no no and if he has good on him then that means there's a little budget for this that mean i mean well there it is not watermarked yeah to his credit um so let me just let me there's a little budget for this. I mean, well, it is not watermarked. Yeah.

To his credit. So let me just play a little bit of the track and we talk about it. It's okay to be white. Getting to bash vibes. Yeah. A little bit of Tame Impala. Yeah, it's gothala Yo it's goth night It's goth night at the satellite baby

Like heavenly blades Birthing at the surface The sound of children's voices Birthing at the surface. The sound of children's voices. I like the part of the music video where he draws a butt really badly. Okay, here comes the chorus, though. Here comes the chorus, though, guys. It's okay to be blind.

All right. Hey, hey, hey. Okay. Okay. Caucasian. Okay, so, yeah, that was a big pilot trip. Guys, thank you for featuring my boyfriend's music on this show. I really appreciate it.

Y'all are being fake as fuck right now. Y'all are being fake as fuck right now. If the chorus had went, I hate the LA traffic. Y'all would have been like, oh, that song is great. It represents us. Y'all are just hating because that's a good song.

That is not a good song. Real talk, that's a good. That's the most derivative garbage song I've ever heard. It goes without saying, the name of the singer is Bryn. Yeah. So, I mean, to me, it sounds like a ripoff of that song, The Promise by When in Rome. Like, just from like the... Sing it.

I'm sorry, but I've been thinking about the ride versus safe. That song. Listen to that song. I think it's at the end of Napoleon Dynamite, actually, when they play that. It's definitely, yeah. That is like kind of the exact ripoff. And the reason why his voice is like that is because he's actually a UK-based racist named Bryn Dolman. On Wonkhead, they did a little digging.

They found his LinkedIn profile. We found out he manages a coffee shop, and he's a life coach. So, yeah. I know this. He's my international boyfriend. Jesus Christ. So, yeah. I don't know what it is.

He's a manager? He's the manager of, yeah. That's got to be embarrassing, right? Like, when they come and like, yo, I heard your track, right? A, B, D. They're like, hey, I heard your racist song, boss. Yeah. Oh, no, that wasn't me.

Yeah, do you think he plays it in the shop? Of course he does. Because it's a banger. He's a barista who, baristas will always try and let you know what they really got going on. Yeah, yeah. I'm here right now, but check out my mixtape. Yeah, if you want to check this out, hey, you look white. You look white.

There's a chance that he's going to grab somebody who's not. But I mean, there's some, you know, I don't know what it is about like, you know, like art inherently, like to be a good artist, you have to have an ounce of empathy and be willing to challenge yourself, right? Like personally and like the way you think philosophically, like that's how you like really have genuine self-expressive art that connects with people. self-expressive art that that connects with people and i guess it's no you know it's no surprise that people who have the mentality of they're very xenophobic racist whatever you have what have you just hating their heart can't really get the art to flow but who is the person who's hating right now miles let's be honest with ourselves who's really hating i think that you guys are hating on this very again that beat goes hard i'm not even joking right now that beat goes like when i was just that beat i was like yo'm not even joking right now. That beat goes, when I was listening to that beat,

I was like, yo, I kind of want to flow over this beat. Okay, we'll try and get you the instrumental. Get me that instrumental. I'm going to drop a remix. I'm going to drop a remix to it. It's okay to be wild. You should just still do the same chorus.

Yeah, same chorus, but I'm going to rap over it. You look like, you'll take a lot of heat off of Drake. All right, let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th, 2017 was murdered. There are crooks everywhere you look now.

The situation is desperate. My name is Manuel Delia. I am one of the hosts of Crooks Everywhere, a podcast that unhurts the plot to murder a one-woman Wikileaks. Daphne exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country into a mafia state. And she paid the ultimate price. Listen to Crooks everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradente. And I'm Jemay Jackson-Gadsden.

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This is kind of a tricky one. Brian Colangelo, who is the GM of the 76ers, technically my dad's boss, has done something somewhat embarrassing. Like the way you're the ringer dropped an article last night that put out a theory uh that brian colangelo the gm of the 76ers has been using five different burner accounts to leak classified information about players they were trying to trade and talk shit about players who were just like angering him and uh the he replaced and the GM who replaced him and just really messy, petty shit. And it's just very old white male toxic narcissism vibe to it. Like his prose is very Trumpian. The way he tweets is like very just 100% protecting his ego from everything. And also at one point he defends Donald Trump from a criticism from Gabrielle Union.

So he has five fake Twitter accounts? Five fake Twitter accounts. Yeah, I'm kind of surprised he can handle switching back and forth between the five fake Twitter accounts. He did not do a good job. It was very little differentiation other than that Eric Jr. was the one that talked the most spicy. And there are some Reddit theories going around that that is actually his father, whose name is... Colangelo Sr.? Yes.

Colangelo Sr. because it is an anagram. I bet there's a whole world of fake burner accounts. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we found out that Kevin Durant had one earlier. But this one's just, I think, a little bit more problematic because of him talking shit about Joel Embiid, who is his franchise center. Probably not the best thing to antagonize the guy who is the future of your franchise.

Hey, trust the process, though. Well, so that is a reference to the previous GM. And anytime somebody says that, he just like burns up inside, apparently, because he just spends the whole time defending himself and like tearing down Sam Henke. Does he talk about his big collars? Yes. So this is people are wondering how the anonymous source who tipped the ringer off to this, how they figured this out. Their explanation is that they're an AI person who like noticed similarities in the way they were tweeting.

But you had to have been like looking at these accounts in the first place to have put all that together. So my theory is the most transparent thing that one of the burner accounts did that would suggest it's Brian Colangelo is somebody made fun of Brian Colangelo's obsession with big collars. He always wears like big collars. And one of the burner accounts was like, it's a normal collar. He said, that's a normal collar. Find another angle. There's just no way that's anybody except him. Who defends the collars of another person? Yeah, that's not a real dig at someone.

Like, oh, those collars are big. It's fine. Why don't you let it go? Right. That's just such a very specific... They're really big. Yeah, they are. They're huge. I've not seen these collars. I looked it up because I didn't know who this guy was.

Yeah. And I looked it up and I was like, those are some big collars. Are they like stand-up Victorian collars? No, they're not. I'm trying to fix it. They're like 70s, like just big lapels. Oh, okay. Oh, I see.

I mean, this is a more exaggerated one, but it goes to show you what I think people are thinking about his big collar game. Yeah. Has anyone suggested that maybe this is like a rival team trying to frame Colangelo? That's some 4D chess right there. That would be amazing. I will suggest that right now because fuck everybody who's not the 76ers. Yeah, who are the 76ers' biggest rival that would want... I could totally see Danny Ainge doing this for the Celtics. That's what i'm saying oh yeah here goes jack on his anti-boston angle uh no i i like the

city just not a fan of the celtics that's right okay okay we got it but yeah he also talked shit about faults who is the player he picked with the first pick in the nba draft and like was leaking information about how he thought it was a mental thing, how he wasn't shooting well and stuff. Oh, right. Because that was like a big saga. Yeah. So he, yeah, was basically like ask his quote father figure why he had to like restructure his shot and all this shit.

Like that was very petty and specific and was like, it seems like you might have some information and also a vendetta to make it seem like Brian Colangelo is totally innocent of making a terrible draft pick. Someone show these old people how to use fake accounts, please. I know. I think that how to use them is to not make them. Yes.

That seems like... But you gotta have one. But if you want to get messy, you know? I'm just saying if people are gonna find out. Right, eventually. You know? No matter, especially if you're like waving messy, you know. I'm just saying if people are going to find out. Right, eventually. You know? Yeah. No matter, especially if you're like waving around a trail. Yeah.

Just being like, hmm, don't look here. Don't look at the collar. Follow the money. Yeah, like his header. Just look at the collar. His header image was like a comparison of collars. Yeah. Like the spectrum.

It's like, this is actually normal. Right. Follow the collars. Follow the collars. All right. actually normal. Follow the callers. Follow the callers. Alright. That's going to do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist. Please like and review the show

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