The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 28 (Best of 6/11/18-6/15/18)

Episode Date: June 17, 2018

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Yeah. So without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist. I just wanted to start out by talking about the fact that liberals are bad at these culture wars that we are in the midst of. So shots fired Robert De Niro last night at the Tony Awards we have a an audio clip of this elaborate say more he's a Elaborate. Say more. He's flexing right now, doing the strong arms. And vaping. Grandpa's getting dirty.

He's blowing smoke rings. Honestly, that'd be sick. Yeah, it just happened. Grandpa's getting his high on his own power. I that's tight robert de niro and like that merrick garland is a supreme court justice shout outs to you who do we think this is rallying guys do we think there are people who are on the fence about whether to back Trump or who were on the fence about how opposed to Trump they were, who are now like on board with Les Resistance. Yeah.

Just stop. I like honestly can't imagine a single hypothetical human being. Yeah. I mean, maybe there are people who are more locked into, you know, Robert De Niro's stance on politics. Especially if you're watching the Tonys too. But even then. I mean, that's very specific.

But it feels like a moment that would have been dreamed up by Matt Drudge, Vladimir Putin, and Charles Koch as like a perfect way to rally their base to vote Republican. Right. Because it's a nothing statement. There's no argument. Doesn't touch on any salient issue, unlike, you know, when Trump gets people mad about the fucking flag or whatever, NFL players. But from a liberal perspective, there's nothing salient there.

And from the conservative perspective, it touches on the salient issue, which is how the immoral elites are trying to hold them down. And he said it in a fucking tuxedo at an award show and said it in words that would offend a good Christian person. Also, what's with it's no longer down with Trump? Before we were like, hey, you know how we in the streets are like- All the kids are saying down with Trump. Down with Trump. Down with Trump.

Okay, Bobby. I will say like, okay, so you're a nut in a tuxedo getting a Tony, but you think that these times are not normal and maybe this president should be told fuck you. It's weird. It's misplaced. But like times aren't normal. And I'm glad that some speeches aren't just like, I really loved being in the union. Thank you so much for my word. Like, yeah, it's unusual.

And like, it's an award show. So it's an odd place to make a political statement when you are not a political figure. But he's not a political figure. And he's not on some kind of press tour to be one. Like he's not on trying to go on CNN every night to make fuck Trump his platform for some kind of other agenda. He just had to do a speech and was like, you know what? Fuck this guy. I don't know.

I don't know that it helps on a grander scale, but because shit isn't normal sometimes like, yeah, OK, thanks. Yeah, all right. Dirty grandpa guy. He's had many more acclaimed films in his career, but I keep going back to that. Sure. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I don't know. It's not career, but I keep going back to that. Oh, Rocky and Little Winkle. Sure, yeah, exactly. Yeah, I don't know. It's not good, but I'm...

No, it's just like one of those things that, it's more probably for the reaction that will happen with conservative writers, bloggers. He had come out with an incredibly articulate speech that he had given, like policy, like, you know, if in the 60 seconds he had, he managed to list out five bullet points that could move us forward successfully on some executive and administrative, like a legislative level. Terrific. But nobody who doesn't agree with him is watching the tone.

Nobody. It wouldn't have reached the audience. Like, I don't think Republicans are going to be just like nobody's being convinced by De Niro saying, fuck Trump. Nobody's being convinced on the other side that like, oh, the Tonys are on our side. Like, I'm watching the Tonys to figure out if I should maybe learn lean left when I vote in 2018. You know, right. I don't know. It's it's high up higher up on conservative outlets than it is on liberal ones, it seems to me.

Like, it is the second story in the left-hand margin on Drudge Report today. So it just seems like, first of all, I do not object to the content of his message. Sure. Just from a strategic perspective. And this might be just letting them define the grounds that we like view political statements along, uh, in, but from a strategic perspective, the thing that you hear conservatives complain a lot about is like Hollywood

elites and like specifically raised the idea of like award shows, like giving their speeches at award shows. And I don't know. and I guess getting that as a point, cause really all of that's going to happen is the people on both sides of it on the extreme ends are just going to get more entrenched in their thinking either way. So does this really do anything for the swing voter type person? Yeah, I guess just the whole advantage that Democrats are counting on in the midterms is enthusiasm and like rallying the base and people being motivated to vote. And you're right.

This is not going to do anything. But we're a daily podcast. We need content. I think making art about it can do something. Yes, I agree. So you're the guy who gets up at the award show and like, Fart Trot was no longer down. Okay, you're not a political speechwriter.

But you've long been a brilliant performer and you're respected for it. If there's a piece of art that speaks to that sentiment, make it. Make it for free. Make it tomorrow. Pay the director. You're fucking rich enough.

Just make it. Right, right. If you find yourself in this position where you are the Hollywood elite, congratulations, by the way, do you want to hire me? Right. It's just frustrating. If that's the way you do you want to hire me? It's just frustrating.

Like if that's the way you feel and if the criticism is, it is apt. Like you're in a dazzling gown or a fancy suit that's tailored telling me how to live my life, but they watch your art and they're moved by it. So make the art that speaks that. If you're no good at speaking it, you're great at making the art. Just do that. Do that. Do that.

Keep doing that. Jurassic World's going to be great, but take all that money and make some... I don't know if any of the stars of Jurassic Park would get up and say, fuck you. I'm not speaking for anyone else. I just picked Jurassic World as an example. Right. I mean, I think it's just an allegory about socialism in the United States, right? Isn't everything? Yeah. Just like it was an experiment.

It could have, a potential experiment, gone horribly around. Yeah. Is anybody else watching Westworld? I just noticed that Westworld has the same plot as Jurassic Park, the first Jurassic Park. Same author. Yeah, same author. And I was like, oh, this is going in the same direction as Jurassic Park. No spoilers, dude. I haven't seen it.

I don't want to know that there's dinosaurs in Westworld. Yeah, so then the T-Rex comes and saves them all. So then the T-Rex comes and saves them all. So now we are staring down the barrel of what I'm calling the wing it more in Singapore. Wow. I like that. Well done. It feels like we need a rumble in the jungle, thrill and manila style thing, because that's how it's being treated by the media and Trump.

And that was the best I could come up with. So apologies. No, that was sincere. I like it. I appreciate it. If that clap came off as insincere, I want to put on the record that I really like that All compliments to me come off as insincere and sarcastic. Caleb liked that pun.

Let it be noted. So by the time most people listen to this, this will be over. So what can we talk about in the lead up to this that is, you know, is evergreen, Miles? It's good to know that, well, for starters, to know that his schedule is basically to get there, meet with Kim Jong-un, and then get the fuck out pretty quickly.

He's only going to be there for, I think, 11 hours past the initial meeting. So the way it's supposed to go, they're meeting at 9 a.m., which is very soon, about six hours from when we record this right now. They're going to meet at 9. They're going to do some walk-around photos, do a little photo shoot, like prom 2018 type shit.

Then they're going to do a one-on-one, just full-on you and me and translators only sit-down. That's so bad. Where who knows where that goes. That is so very bad. It's so bad for us. And then they go into more traditional bilateral talks

with like the cabinet members. Oh, my chest got just, my chest is tight. Yeah. Well, I mean, the way he's saying it, but even, I don't know, it seems like there's some strategy of basically like not agreeing to anything because Trump is just like,

this is more of like get to meet them. He legitimately have never needed a porn star more. Right. She could save the world. Just by standing in the room, they probably wouldn't even touch you. You'd just have to pee in a cup or dance in a circle. I'll do it, but they're not interested. That's why you need a porn star. They're so good at it.

They're so good at peeing and stuff. Oh, no, they're so good at understanding people and manipulating their basest impulses and emotions. They're geniuses. They see right through you. They know exactly what you need. They give it to you.

They leave having given you nothing of themselves. They are wizards. Or they did give you something of themselves, and in that case, they really deserve our love and support. Yes. The one thing that's not going to change, no matter how this meeting goes, is how President Trump is preparing for it. It's a generous word that you chose. Prepared. He said about that one-on-one meeting, he will know in a minute how the meeting is going

to go. A reporter asked, how? And he said, touch, feel. It's what I do. Like you're going to grope him? Yeah. I cannot wait. First I'm going to go, I'm going to give him a good ball squeeze.

That'll let him know who's boss. Expect him like a show dog. He comes away from the Chinese meeting wondering if Xi Jinping likes him. Right. Saying he thinks they're friends. And China comes away startled and a little shaken at how simplistic his worldview seems to be. So that's how, when he just goes in and is like, yo, I'm going to just use my natural business person charisma and complete lack of preparation to just feel this guy out. That's where we end up. So I don't know.

We'll see. I don't think we're going to come away and there's going to be a definitive answer where he walks out and it's like, they've denuclearized. No, I think some people suspect that they will maybe sign something to commemorate the summit just because it'll give them the optics of a win. So it could just be something like, hey, we hereby declare that we agree on most shit going forward. We hereby declare that we agree on most shit going forward. And then that way, you know, Trump can be like, you know, wave the flag and be like, you know, has someone to hang his hat on, which effectively won't have any real progress. But, you know, Mike Pompeo is saying things are going very well and things are accelerating at a speed that he didn't anticipate. No acceleration. I want nothing to accelerate.

None of those words. Oh, man. Yeah. I want nothing to accelerate. None of those words. Oh, man. Yeah. Very nervous. People on the left keep saying on all sides, but even on the left keep saying he's gotten farther than any of his predecessors when it comes to North Korea. I heard that literally on NPR this morning. NPR is driving me bananas. His predecessors were not willing to risk what he's about to risk. That's it. This is a huge risk. There's so much on the line for this one individual meeting, and that is why nobody has done this before. He's just putting way too much in the balance for it to be advisable.

Now, who the fuck knows how it's going to go, but he has not gotten further. He is willing to risk more than any of his predecessors and that needs to be the way that we talk about it no matter what happens i feel like yeah that's gotten farther is such a crazy thing yeah a lot of people got closer and closer to a cliff what happens that's when you fall right off of it right other predecessors had the wisdom to recognize the cliff and they just didn't fall off of it. This isn't some brave, bold move. He's not, I don't know, this is, it's a dictator talking to a dictator. Fox News said it, so I get to it.

You know, he's not doing this, him doing anything about North Korea or denuclearization has nothing to do with weapons, safety, or nuclear security. It has to do a little bit with Obama, but mostly it's this like, I'm going to use, it's a dick to dick thing again. He just sees this other player in the news. He sees this like wild card dude and he wants to come

for him. There's no other, there's no deeper motivation. It has nothing to do, he's never read any of the, it makes me so Well that and just like the hot takes he's getting from John Bolton just going into it. There are other analysts who kind of also wonder if this could be

the beginnings of like overtures of friendship because to pry North Korea away from China's influence and then align North Korea with the United States to be like, aha, see, now that's how we're going to get China. Because, you know, a lot of people note that China and Korea have been sort of historically unfriendly over the years. Like, you know, a lot of Korean people still remember the Chinese invasion of the fifth century, whereas like the U.S. more of just like a new uh enemy historically for them so you know there are other people saying that for kim jong-un being aligned with the u.s seems like a better thing to him than china uh because they're the bigger power to him

and offer more opportunity in terms of like being normalized but i don't know smart enough around trump to realize and take advantage of that but i don't think it it's him, Trump himself. No, no, not at all. Not at all. But there have been a lot of things being said like, oh, we have we can make security assurances, whatever that means. A lot of people were asking, like, wait, is this a complete change in policy? Does that mean taking our troops off the peninsula? Does that mean changing the umbrella of protection that we have for the allies?

Like, what does that mean? Does it mean we won't seek regime change? for the allies, what does that mean? Does it mean we won't seek regime change? So clearly, the US is going to bring something to try and get something out of this. But what happened now, what happened soon? In international relations circles, what's seen as one of the biggest blunders of the past 20 years is America being overly optimistic that by introducing elements of market economy into the Chinese bloodstream, that we were going to see them open up and become less of a dictatorship. And just capitalism was going to work its magic. And it seems like we're addicted to this optimism that we're going to be able to convert these communist countries and like pry them apart and like make them like us better than they like other communist dictatorships.

And I just, I, I think it, that, that would be my concern if this were an informed president going into this is like, it seems like we're maybe a little too rosy on this idea that he's going to, once he talks to us, he's going to love it. He's going to wear a Nike. We're going to talk about like him having a McDonald's there and he's going to, once he talks to us, he's going to love it. He's going to wear a Nike. We're going to talk about like him having a McDonald's there and he's going to. Meanwhile, they've met like secretly like two, three times like Xi Jinping and Kim Jong Un. So like they, they are on the same page.

It's also that our economy and our capitalist miracle depends on the labor from nations that we're trying to then introduce elements of capitalism for. Tired of being enslaved? Enslave someone else. It doesn't make any sense. It's a pyramid scam, yeah. Yeah, I live next to three incredibly well-stocked dollar stores. I understand what end-stage capitalism looks like.

Yeah, yeah. There's nothing to sustain our ability to buy, create, or sell this stuff. It's fading. It's not going to work the way they think it will. That's so funny. Yeah, let's get dollar stores in China. Then you can just walk directly out of the factory where you made the fidget spinner and get yourself the fidget spinner.

Right, exactly. And you pay with a fidget spinner. Exactly. We do think that Trump might have picked up a new idea for what to do with his poop. Yeah. Because Kim Jong-un brought his own sort of port-a-potty, like high-end port-a-potty thing that contains his poop so that no intelligence agencies could get to his shit.

Do we talk about shit too much on this show now? No, no, no. We've talked about it on the last three episodes. This is the Daily Bow Movement. There's a new show. Daily Shitegeist? Yeah, there you go. Ooh. Daily about it on the last three episodes. This is the Daily Bow Movement. Right. There's a new show. Daily Scheitgeist? Yeah, there you go. Ooh.

Daily. Well, that's what your haters will call you. Yeah. Right. The Daily Scheizegeist. Anyway. Scheizegeist. Yeah.

What's funny is, dude, Kim Jong-un was, there were reports even leading up to this that he was afraid someone was going to try and assassinate him while he was there. So to say the least, a man who's only left the country like three times since taking power might be a little paranoid because there were apparently like decoy planes that were like being dispatched to like confuse people. He brought his own unpoisoned food. And yeah, and the toilet was just the other part of his comfort package. Yeah, I mean, he traveled to his ally, China, in a bulletproof train.

So, like, this dude does not fucking with his own safety. But, yeah, so that is a thing that they were really worried about, was containing his bowel movements. And you think it seems paranoid, and then you learn that Stalin's secret police actually stole other world leaders' poop and sent them to a secret lab to construct psychological profiles on them. And, you know, now it's starting to sound pretty smart. And according to an ex-CIA person who super producer Nick Stumpf heard interviewed.

Hangs out with. Yeah. His neighbor Rick. This is something that U.S. intelligence operations do all the time because, you know, everything is revealed in people's shit. Medications, illnesses, pathogens, it's all in there. How has that not been like an entire episode of Veep? Someone stealing their shit and having to get it back. Just with like one time used chopsticks and like a doggy bag.

I'm going to chop it up. Anyways, that's the best story from this from this summit well the other thing too is to know that beyond this this is like normal because he has like a shitting car too that he uses in north korea like with a toilet built into it yeah because i mean uh it's funny because in the quote where they talk about that the person the spokesperson references his regular morning shits that he takes he's like if he doesn't take a shit in the morning like normal right then he will have to travel in like an extra secure like shit car but it's just funny that he both knows about his shitting routine like throughout the day and also assumes knowledge on behalf

of people on it like if he doesn't take the morning as to the restaurant. His usual morning shit. That's like me. Wow. Maybe I should talk to him. Like, we got a lot in common, bro. It's so funny that every time I hear Trump doing something crazy, there's no justification for it that works with me. But then you give me like, oh, so Kim Jong-un shits. He has a special toilet he carries around.

I'm like, that's fucking whack. Ten minutes later, I'm like, now that makes sense. He's going to protect himself. Yeah, can't have your shit stolen. Can't have your shit stolen. Yeah, because they're saying, like, even Mao had, Mao Zedong had his shit stolen by Stalin. So I guess, like, when you're in that world of, like, still thinking, like, how the Soviets move and shit, like, that really, you're always thinking, like, yo, gotta keep these shits

under lock and key. Yeah. They found Trump's shit. They got a piss tape. He's like, nah, I don't need that happening to me. Right. I mean, I think one last thing that I just do want to bring up is, you know, we talked a lot of shit about Dennis Rodman being there, you know, and what was the most wild thing I had ever heard was people like James Clapper and other people in the intelligence community like admit on the air, be like, you know, Dennis Rodman may be a good bridge to Kim Jong Un and being like, yeah, he might he might have someone going here. to Kim Jong-un and being like, yeah, he might have something going here.

And, you know, a lot of people were laughing at him, not to say that he even really contributed to this specific summit, but he definitely was there in his MAGA hat and pot coin T-shirt in one of the more bizarre fucking moments I think I've seen on TV, like weeping about how happy he was about this on CNN. And just I've listened to this awesomeness, I guess. Everybody said the door will open. And it was amazing. It's amazing.

It's amazing. It's amazing. It's amazing. It was amazing. It's amazing. It's amazing. When I said those things. Oh, God.

When I said those damn things. This is when he breaks down into tears. When I went back home, I got so many death threats. I got so many death threats. I was sitting there protecting everything. When he breaks down and deters. Okay. Yeah. Well, look. He's like a priest. Yeah.

I had to hide out. I had no idea. I couldn't go home because I out i had no idea i couldn't go home because i was evicted but i couldn't go home i you look dennis rodman you're you you you aren't the guy you think you are but uh you do have the honor of knowing both of these people the distinct honor of being like clapper did yeah like he was like I mean, he is one of the only bridges that we had prior to Trump meeting with him to Kim Jong-un. And you pointed out that it almost felt like James Clapper, who at the time of that meeting was the head of the CIA, director of the CIA, like that he was trying to maybe develop him as an asset or something? Well, that was it. Him saying that does give credence to this idea that he was maybe a CIA asset or had been approached by the CIA

prior to going to North Korea with the Harlem Globetrotters or that that was maybe part of a whole other thing to be like, look, bro, he fucks with the bulls. And you're the weirdest one we could get. Jordan is not down. Bill Wennington did not want to go. Oh, the CIA definitely has approached Michael Jordan about going to meet him, for sure.

You think so? But Michael Jordan is such an asshole that they're probably like, actually, no. Michael Jordan probably would probably have fucked the meeting up worse than Donald Trump. Too competitive. He'd be like, who the fuck are you? Right.

Get the fuck out of my seat. You like cigars? You like my big ass hoop earring? What shoes you got? Yeah. fuck are you? Right. Get the fuck out of my seat. You like cigars? You like my big-ass hoop earring? What shoes you got? Yeah. What are those? Literally, what are those, my man? Because they're not fucking Jordans.

How long do you guys think it'll be until a rapper brags about having a shit car? And who do you think it'll be? I bet Young Thug did that two years ago. We just missed it. Yeah, right. Before anybody knew. Oh, so Clapper, he was the DNI, Director of National Intelligence

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So, like we said, up top, Michael Cohen is is expected to flip which is kind of what we thought was going to happen what people speculated was going to happen he has not traditionally been the most loyal of people on his on his lapel uh he so the reason people are thinking this he dismissed his legal counsel he has hired new lawyers It's not like he's decided to defend himself. He has hired new lawyers who have more experience in Southern New York. So it's entirely possible that this is just him kind of pivoting. But we'll see. But Miles, you were pointing out one other option is that he's trying to maybe signal that he needs help. Yeah, I don't think he – I mean, yeah, I know some people want to really jump on the idea like, oh, well, he got rid of his lawyers. I mean, is that like one thing?

It could – I mean, a lot of other lawyers that I've heard talk about it say like, oh, well, you know, one thing is that he may have irreconcilable differences with them and just wants to change. And I think it could be he could be broke and they just cost too much money. Right. Or he's pursuing a different legal strategy. But I think, you know, right now they're saying that, you know,

he thinks the indictment is just imminent and he's a shooketh. But I think with him even get like leaking these things, it's to send up a little bit of a smoke signal, a flare to his boy to be like, yo, where are you? Because it's getting real for me now and I need your help. Right.

So we'll see if, you know, we'll see where that goes. He's going to see that old boy is going to be like, I can't. Yeah, well, it's tough because, I mean, it's a big week. On Friday, Paul Manafort goes in for his arraignment and chances are he might end up in jail on Friday. He needs to be in jail. Oh, yeah. And then we'll see how tight-lipped he is when he has to be in prison rather than being on house arrest.

And can go to the Hamptons if he wants to. Right. So, yeah. Michael Cohen, you know, I guess the one good thing for Trump is that most of his fuckery doesn't have much to do with the campaign itself. But just many other weird things to do with the Trump organization. Or just, like, campaign-adjacent things. But, you know, who knows what this man knows? So I don't know.

They all know. I mean, if you read anything about Cohen, it's just that I think what happens with some of these dudes, they're like children to see what they're going to get away with, and when they don't get caught immediately yeah they like someone doesn't slap their hand or the iron doesn't burn them immediately they're like oh i got away with this you can do it this way right yeah and then they just keep doing it that way and then one day someone goes yo that's illegal you can't do that it's not okay and they're like no it's cool we've been doing it this way for a while. And you're like, yeah, but that's because no one looked at you. Yeah.

Right. And you're going to jail for a long time. And they're like, whoa. Whoa. Hey, hey now. What do you mean I can't wipe my ass with these Lysol disinfecting wipes? They're not for body use, my guy. How is that my fault you guys didn't catch me?

Right. Yeah. That's my favorite reaction is like, yo, hey, you didn't catch me for a long time. Oh, and now we're going to act like this is bad? Yeah, it's like your son being like, it's your fault, Dad. You weren't looking after me. I mean, you fuckhead. Right.

Yeah, so in honor of Donald Trump's birthday, the inspector general released a report that will give him everything he needs to just, you know, keep spinning off on this on this idea that there is a vast conspiracy against him. This has been coming for a while. People knew it was coming. I think there was a lot of fear on the left that this was going to come out and say, yeah, these two agents were conspiring against him because there were these like text exchanges that people that had leaked to the media that seemed to suggest that there were two, I think, FBI agents who were having an affair who were, you know, like the rest of the country, extremely worried that Donald Trump might become president. So the report does have an exchange that gave Sean Hannity a small orgasm. So Lisa Page. Did you get sort of hung up thinking about him having a small orgasm? So. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that is what he would look like. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, that is what he would look like. So Lisa Page wrote, she's the, I guess, an FBI lawyer who was having an affair with a guy named Strzok. I think they had been saying it's Strzok. Okay. But it's that fancy spelling. Yeah, with a Z in the middle of it for no reason. She said, Trump's not ever going to become president, right?

Right. And he texted back, no, no, he won't. We'll stop it. So that's not good well also good job stopping it asshole yeah yeah so fuck off i mean that's the other thing he's the president yes so sure this sounds like a guy who like tells you he can get you a discount a footlocker and it's like so i really want can you give me that discount oh yeah i got you i got you well yeah and just pumping up his ego i don't know we don't know. He's having an affair with her. Like, he.

It wasn't an affair. They're just in a relationship. Oh. I thought it was an affair. I think if you're in the FBI, it's an affair. It's always an affair. It's always an affair. Yeah, but he's an agent.

It's always top secret. She's one of the lawyers at the FBI. Right. She's not an agent. But, yeah, they, you know, they're work texting. Look. But no, no, he won't. We'll stop it.

It is such just, like like pumping up his ego. Like, you know, I'm a serious FBI man. Just me. Just me. Watch Gerard Butler is going to fucking play me in the Lifetime movie about this. Right now, the overall conclusion from the inspector general, you know, explicitly is that it was not politically motivated. All these fuck-ups that happened that were consequential to the election, you know, and they call out Comey for his handling of the Clinton email investigation.

They say they were not politically motivated. That's the overall conclusion. The inspector general in 2003, George W. Bush chose him as a member of the Federal Sentencing Commission. And then he was appointed to his current role by Obama. So he has credentials from both sides. But he was the guy who spearheaded the investigation

into Fast and Furious, where people under the Obama administration were smuggling guns and lost track of all those guns. And one of them was used to shoot a US agent, I think. So he's come for people during a Democratic administration before. He's not just like an anti-Trump guy by any means. But I'm sure his credentials will be questioned, or at least his conclusion that there was no political motivation

will be either questioned or just completely overshadowed by a focusing on that. They'll scream about, oh, James Comey used his personal email these other fbi agents use their personal email tiller use their personal email motherfucker all y'all been using your personal emails too i mean can they make a big deal about using personal email at this point trump uses his like fucking he has email yeah and he's also like refuses to like go of his like personal phone right whatever yeah oh really he hasn't gotten rid of his phone he He has one, but they're like, yo, please use this other one. And he's just doing him.

Man. He cannot be told what to do. That's the same. He will not listen to people or really consult with people. It's the same reason why he saluted that North Korean general at the summit. And North Koreans are loving that

because they have a photo of him just straight up saluting this North Korean general. And they're like, you see the respect? Because he's a maverick, Miles. Right. North Koreans are loving that because they have a photo of him just straight up saluting this North Korean general. And they're like, you see the respect? Because he's a maverick, Miles. Right. Respect our president. I mean, that's a mistake. But usually they say like someone, a military advisor would be like, he's going to salute you, but you don't salute him back.

Right. That's him showing you respect. You don't have to. You just don't salute him. It is a bad look. I didn't even consider that. I think he's just a guy in a uniform. Got to sleep back. Got to play. That's exactly what I would do. And to a bad look. I didn't even consider that. I think he's just a guy in a uniform, gotta salute back, gotta play.

That's exactly what I would do. Yeah, if you feel awkward, if you're not used to it, you're like... If somebody salutes me, I'm going to salute back. Yeah. Even if I'm president. Yeah. Amazing. So, I don't know. This will be a big clusterfuck. It does not look good that that text exchange happened.

This is going to be the focus of conservative outrage for presumably decades. Hey, the World Cup is happening. I know. We had a fucking energetic show. I'm hyped up, and it's not because the AC is off. I'm sweating like a madman. But, yeah, World Cup kicked off today in a showpiece match with Russia versus Saudi Arabia

in a battle of whose team fears their leader more. And it was wild watching Putin and Mohammed bin Salman being like, yeah, boy. Like really dapping each other up. And then like Putin would be like, hey, I don't know, bro. Y'all suck. Because Russia won 5-0. And I'm'm gonna chalk that up to ramadan oh you know i mean uh because these were the two lowest ranked teams going into this

so it wasn't going to be like a barn burner uh but yeah there was a five nil was a score and i'm very disappointed at the commentary on fox already it's just so aggressively american now and like they got rid of like a lot of like the real actual commentators from England who knew the sport. Right. And now it just sounds like they're like, oh, I mean the pressure, man, he just smashed that in your post. And you're like, oh God, like please talk a little more about tactics or like something

a little bit more than like, oh, he went for a cool move there and like was talking about an elastical flip, which if you soccer that's like ronaldinho's signature move the flip flap anyway i was just like very checked out so i'm probably gonna go switch to the univision yeah uh feed the decision to have the main commentators be joe rogan and hulk hogan was really weird dude rogan hogue rogan hogue at the world cup and the other thing too is they have a lot of the commentary teams broadcasting from L.A., watching a feed, and then doing their commentary from L.A. in a studio. Really gets that energy up.

That is a violation of the rules of sport. Right. The commentators should be in the venue because half the fun is them trying to speak over the crowd. Right. And, like, when goals are scored, they have to get loud, too, because it's don't know right i'm still you know i'm gonna watch america we're just we're having a tough time with soccer in other better news the new york attorney general uh and this is by the way like the 30th story on drudge and you know mostly being ignored by the conservative media the new york attorney general is investigating

the trump foundation or was investigating the trump foundation since back in 2016 and are now filing a suit against them basically suing the trump foundation which is run by the president and his idiot children and he tiffany's the only one that got off scott free though huh yeah because dude tiffany's great because he doesn't even consider her a child right exactly she's going to be the only one that gets away because he has completely ignored her for the most part she was actually on instagram like playing a cards against humanity style game that is just full of insults against her father called Trumped Up. So shout out to Tiffany Trump. No way.

Yeah. She's so cool. Right? I guess. We'll see. Love Tiffany. But basically, they've just done all sorts of shady shit with this charity, quote unquote. The last recorded donation from Trump to his foundation, which is what the foundation is supposed to be for, was actually in 2008.

Since that time, he has been basically getting people to give charitable donations through him to other charities and taking credit for it. I know, it's so scummy. He will go to another nonprofit and be like, hey, I'm putting some money together to give to this police foundation. And they'll be like, okay, what's the check? Right. $150,000, $150,000. to give to this police foundation and they'll be like okay what's the check right 150 150 000 he gets the check puts it in his foundation and then cuts the check to the charity from the trump foundation like yo you just re you just re-gifted that shit right guy that's literally what you did

damn yep re-gifted that um so yeah i mean good i'm glad you know someone is you know clearly putting has their eye on this but i guess they must have had to really build this case because they're trying to go be like, yo, we need to start paying some restitution and also make sure that none of you ever sit on the board of a nonprofit ever again. Right. So yeah, just a drop in the bucket. Is that going to have any impact on anything? Probably not. This isn't like a criminal suit, right? It's a civil suit. Right. But I think, yeah, it would break up the foundation. It would make sure no one else could really work for... Yeah. I mean, it's going to cause some problems, but is this like anything

of real substance that will stop the horrific things in the world? Probably not. I mean, I think some of this relates to the emoluments clause, and that is impeachable. And I think one of the things that is being evaluated is whether there is campaign finance violations, which are felonies. So I think this could eventually relate back to criminal cases. So, you know, there's always a chance that this might do something other than, you know, be the 3000th entity to sue Donald Trump. But yeah, one of my favorite details from the suit is that he used the foundation money to pay for advertisements for his hotels and multiple portraits of himself. Oh, right. Oh, because like he would use the foundation foundation to bid on a painting of him.

Right. And then buy that. Right. That's tight. Good for you, scam lord. Right. Do any of you own any kind of Trump paraphernalia? Oh, yeah.

I'm a member at Mar-a-Lago. Foundation member at Mar-a-Lago. No, I don't own a fucking thing. I only say that because I've been to a bunch of liberal friends of mine's houses that have kind of ironic Trump thing. Like Trump on the toilet. Yeah. But that makes me feel uncomfortable.

That feels very – I have a Trump portrait in my two-year-old's room with a war quote underneath it. Yeah. But, you know, that's just American. You have that actually on the ceiling. Right. So when he's sleeping, he looks up at it. That's so crazy.

No, I would never... No, fuck that. Yeah. I don't even think he's ironically, like, fun. You know, because he would see that and he would like it. He'd be like, good, yeah, I am funny. Oh, cool. Whatever.

Yeah, wipe your ass with my face. Exactly. Oh, God. We have more details of Scott Pruitt fuckery. Summer of Scott, baby. He just came in and stole my coffee. He, just another detail, just put it on the list. He was still working in the interest of his wife.

So, you know, good husband. It was still for him. It's still for him somehow. You know what I mean? He was basically like, she needs to get work because she's spending too much time criticizing me at home and we need money. Yeah.

Well, they hit the thing. So again, throw it on the list of thousands of dollars being spent on pens, so much money being spent on flights, millions of dollars being spent on security, driving them around finding lotions, finding used mattresses,

only getting snacks from Dean and DeLuca, all this other shit. Trying to get his wife a Chick-fil-A franchise. Using sirens to get to a dinner reservation. That's pretty smart. I mean, he's not dumb. Which franchise prints money? Right.

Chick-fil-A. Yeah, seriously. He picked the right one. Yeah, that one's smart. Exactly. He did his research. And it kind of sounds like a version of a comedy from the 90s where some outsider becomes in the government. And it's like, hey, buddy, put the sirens on.

I'm late for my kid's recital. And I was like, yeah. Doug Kinney wrote this. So this latest one is one of his top aides reached out to the top Republican donors in their official capacity once again at the EPA to try to find his wife a job with one of them. And they succeeded. But then it went away when there was more scrutiny being put on this. their official capacity once again at the EPA to try to find his wife a job with one of them. And they succeeded, but then it went away when there was more scrutiny being put on this. But in this Washington Post article, they're talking about how they suspect that, you know, a lot of this scrambling and scheming could be because our boy Scott, he's got some B-I-L-L-Z bills to pay. He's got a house in Oklahoma, like with a pretty hot mortgage on there,

like some $5,000 plus a month kind of deal. And he also has a snazzy DC apartment he's got to pay. He's got a house in Oklahoma with a pretty hot mortgage on there, like some $5,000 plus a month kind of deal. And he also has a snazzy DC apartment he's got to pay for. And so this coupled with the fact that his wife used to work as a school nurse, he's trying to get her back into the workforce. And so again, yeah, he could be a great husband or a husband

that has made a lot of mistakes and needs to make up for it. I still don't know which one it is. I mean, let's just look at his job performance. He doesn't seem great with money. So I could see that transferring into his personal life as well or just bleeding into. Yeah. I mean, this guy has 14 ongoing investigations

into his behavior and actions while in his post at the EPA. So I don't think honestly i don't know if it'll ever stop i mean 14 fucking investigations and they're still like hey man but he knows how to fuck the earth so right we uh we love him yes and he's just shitting on all anything to do with obama era environmental protection well i think that's what i mean yeah that if you do look at it that way if your main goal is to just fuck all that shit up, he's your boy. No, he's your guy. I did not know man-made earthquakes were a thing, but this dude is an oil man from Oklahoma.

Now Oklahoma has earthquakes like every 30 minutes because of people. Every 30 minutes? It's crazy. There are certain areas, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. The fracking? Yeah, yeah, yeah. The fracking? Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a great 60-minute story on that.

It's all because you can't put the groundwater back in there. Yes. Yeah, you can. No, don't because of earthquakes. Oh, what's going to happen? Go fuck yourself. We don't live here. Right.

Yeah. Yes, exactly. Yeah, those boom towns, the fracking boom towns, when you hear about those, you're like, whoo. Yeah. Some interesting stories. Mm-hmm. All right, we're going to take a quick break.

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as we're recording this Kanye seemed happy which was nice I think the word is manic I don't know just watching the commercials for it I was instantly like this feels so set up and artificial and just weird

just like a pr thing but uh okay i don't know it makes sense that like on the same weekend that he's released a good album like the thing people are talking about the next day is that he was on family feud because that seems to be what is happening his weird kind of manic celebrity persona is just swallowing the artist and but guys the blogs say that kendall jenner shaded trump by saying that she wouldn't want to have group sex with him i think was how that worked it was like it's a wild party everyone is naked name someone you would hate to see show up and she said trump that is a solid answer though burn hey bobby de niro take some fucking notes my guy boom there it is that's how you burn his ass you know what i mean um and then the most but we always like to end with the most

important story uh please so the english-speaking world has continued to reveal our weird public pooping fetish slash habit. A driver has defecated on a man in a road rage incident. I'm sorry. I don't know. I don't know how the physics work on that. But that is a catch and release. I think it must be like the Tim Hortonian angry ape flinging poo as opposed to the secret I made a boom boom and everybody must know my shame variety that we get from public pooping joggers. But this is an epidemic we're seeing.

I feel like throwing shit. I'm reading the article. It says that Henry George Weaver of New Tripoli faces a harassment charge after he allegedly defecated on the victim i feel like shitting on some there should probably be something a little bit higher than harassment yeah if it's involving shit i don't know if that's just like my own germophobia type thing i'm like that feels like a real real crime yes poo-based harassment should not be taken lightly yeah public endangerment maybe because it's yeah yeah yeah who knows yeah it's not good i worked in a coffee shop for a long time and uh people need to shit there because you just gave them a shit accelerant so it is totally fair

it was reasonable to have to clean the bathroom on a regular basis you would encounter some other humans poo and it was gross and you dealt with it. But occasionally there was the aggressive human. More than once I had to clean shit off of walls. Walls! Identifiable fingerprints. It was on Market Street in the Castro in San Francisco. A lot happens there. But it's cleaning human poo, even though I think you should never feel shame if you have

to take a poop. Take a poop wherever you are. Poop in a public bathroom. Come on, buddy. It's hard. Never shame someone who is pooping next to you, especially in an airport. Anywhere. Everybody poops.

Let them poop. Let them poop in peace. But if you do something aggressive with your poop, feel deep shame. Oh, yeah, yeah. If you have to shit as powerfully as you need to, blast a stream, wherever you are, you need to shit. But what you decide to do next with that stream. Wherever you are, you need to shit. But if you, what you decide to do next

with that shit is dispose of it responsibly. That is the only choice you should make with your poop after that. Don't put anybody at risk. Even if you're really mad and on the road

and obviously had to shit. Right. That's how I don't understand how you can be defecated upon. Like, if he's like, you fucking stay right there, man. I want to say something to you. Do not roll this window up.

We're going to play Santa at the mall. I have to get a magazine or maybe bejeweled. Yeah, right. Like, what he's like, you fucking stay right there, man. I want to say something. Do not roll this window up. We're going to play Santa at the mall. I have to get a magazine or maybe bejeweled. Yeah, right. Like, what the fuck? I don't, whatever. I'm sure we'll find out. Yes, I'm sure there will be some sort of dash cam video. Maybe just a passing car.

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