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Episode Date: July 8, 2018

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I did not look at the interview, Miles watched some uh i read through it uh he's definitely shifting his tone a little bit uh he like some you know pull some choice quotes the biggest thing was that he's essentially saying i'm not loyal to trump was sort of the thesis of this entire thing uh he says my wife my daughter and my son have my first loyalty and always will i put my family and country first so yes that should be a bit of a signal to donald trump because clearly michael cohen has many receipts uh and you know when they like you know stephanopoulos over the time like he was he was noting that he sort of reiterated this whole thing of like i'm loyal to my family or not to trump like in a few different ways throughout the interview. There's another part where Stephanopoulos notes, when I

asked Cohen how he might respond if the president or his legal team come after him to try and discredit him and the work he did for Mr. Trump over the last decade, which they will already begin starting to do already. He sat up straight. His voice gained strength. I will not be a punching bag as part of anyone's defense strategy he said emphatically i am not a villain of this story and i will not allow others to try to depict me that way so yeah he's it's like the kid he might stand up to the bully but we'll see uh and even like kind of was like saying that uh you know defending the muller investigation you know so he he hasn't really been he hasn't been charged with anything formally yet. Yeah. But clearly the tone is shifting before where he was like, you know, he said, I'll take a bullet for Donald Trump.

Yeah. And now, I don't know. The things I do to you will be disgusting. Yeah, now he's like, ooh, I got a wife and kids, man. Yeah, exactly. So, yeah, it's one thing to talk with your chest out like that. And then I think as things get real, he's starting to say, like, you know, even when they ask, oh, well, will you talk a little bit more about the Stormy Daniels thing? He's like, I would love to.

But against my legal counsel says I shouldn't right now. But that time will come. So I don't like the term witch hunt. You know, it's a little strong. Yeah. So that's just like, oh, but then he says, yeah, that if I'm Trump from that quote, that's what he says. And then he says, quote, as an American, I repudiate Russia's or any other foreign government's attempt to interfere or meddle in our democratic process. And I would call on all Americans to do the same.

So, you know, I don't know what he he may know something about that Trump Tower meeting. Yeah. So I don't know if he's like he's clearly trying to position himself as like, hey, I just got caught up in some bullshit. Yeah. You know, I'm not the bad guy here. I'm just a dude who was in the way. I'm not the bad guy here. I'm just a dude who was in the way. Well, this will be telling. If the CIA still gets down like they did in the 60s and 50s, then Cohen will get into a car accident in the not too distant.

He'll be the second after the new Mexican president. So we'll see. Fox did an interview with his highness himself, President Trump, sat down with Maria Bartiromo, and I guess you could call it an interview. It was pretty... I mean, I guess, loosely. Like, she said the word, I agree, too often for it to be anything but, like, a hype man situation.

It was literally, you know, it would just be real underhanders. Like, what about, like, there was no pushing back on on like real issues like that, like if the tax cuts are working or if these tariffs are damaging, everything was sort of like, yeah, for sure. For sure. Basically. So, you know, we'll play a little montage of the main points. They talk about rush collusion. They talk about the tax cuts, the stock market, the economy in general on tariffs. Those are all things that you could ask some pretty hard-hitting questions about.

Yes, but again, this is clearly propaganda.com. So they just, I mean, just listen to their responses. It's really not about the answers. It's just about how just, uh-huh, cool, dude, like how this is a non-interview. It's just like someone just helping helping trump yeah leave his own bullshit there's no collusion with me there's no russia with me there's no nothing it's a it's honestly it's a disgrace uh you know they found nothing nobody has found anything i know i think ultimately the tax cuts as they kick in and they're kicking in you see the kind of hundreds of billions of

dollars brought back into the country already uh I think ultimately that's going to be something really special. And you're seeing the result right now. I agree with you because under President Obama, the Federal Registry pages were up to 97,000 pages. And I will tell you that you don't know about this, but every country is calling every day saying, let's make a deal. Let's make a deal. It's going to all work out. And the markets feel like they're trusting you at this point. I think they trust me and the farmers trust me. They do. I had a great company, the head of a great company come up to me.

He's very seriously affected by the tariffs. He said, Mr. President, it's not good for me right now. Ultimately, it is. But you're doing the right thing on tariffs. Well, you're doing the right thing. One of the greatest. I'm pushing back on China as well. Most people understand that they've been stealing from us for decades.

Let's bring up this other thing you're right about. Hey, you're right about everything. Don't forget this other thing because I feel like you're not kind enough to yourself President Trump. Honestly, don't stress yourself out. Also, good job on LeBron going to the Lakers. What the fuck?

This is, yeah, that is, it's Fox, you know what I mean? And it's just becoming more and more. It's like, why are we even mean? And it's just becoming more and more. It's like, why are we even calling it news at this point? It's not. And there's nothing new about this. I did have sort of a moment of realization last week after the mass shooting at the newspaper. Sean Hannity's radio show, he blamed Maxine Waters for, you know, the rhetoric, the fact

that she was telling people to protest and, you know, get in people's faces. He was like, I mean, you know, from that to this shooting, I'm not saying it caused it, but I mean, and then would say it like next to each other, like time after time to the point that it was like very clear the implication was that he was saying that Maxine Waters telling people to protest fucking Trump officials in public was causing this mass shooting. So I went on CNN.com and their article on this, the headline was Hannity denies tying Maxine Waters rhetoric to shooting. So which then you click on it. It's just quote after quote from Hannity blaming Maxine Waters for the shooting.

But the headline they use. He denies it. Is that he denies it. And it's like, yeah, he denies it. But like, that's not the noteworthy thing that he denies it. The noteworthy thing is that he did it in the first place and that you have quotes of him doing it. But this kind of made me kind of put things into perspective for me that just the left has no Fox News equivalent, like the way it's been set up by, you know, the right and Trump. And therefore, I think the mainstream media has even adopted this is that Fox News is to the right and CNN is to the left. And that's not true. CNN aspires to journalism. They're not great at their job all the time,

as that headline suggests, like they're missing the big point. But I think they're reacting sometimes to, you know, disagreeing with the president and sometimes to being afraid that Fox News is going to call them left wing. Yeah, but what is the left's version of Fox News? Because if you think about it, if we're comparing them, Fox is just a center for misinformation. Right. But I don't think we necessarily need something that's to the left that misinforms people.

You know what I mean? It's just that people are aggressively pursuing the truth because that's where I'm kind of, you know, I don't know what, what is, what is the version? I don't know.

I don't know what the answer is, but I'm just trying to describe the system as I see it. And the way I see it is that you have Fox to the right. That is just putting forth all this misinformation. And then the entire mainstream media is trying to react to that misinformation and that pushes them rightward. And, but because Fox exists, they are always going to be comparatively to the left. And so when I put that, like, I just tweeted about this and was like, look at this article. It's insane. Like the mainstream media doesn't have a left-leaning,

you know, mainstream media outlet. People were like, what are you talking about? CNN and New York Times, all those places are left. And they are left compared to Fox News. Fox News has created the Overton window in which that whole spectrum is being defined. And so, yes, they look left compared to Fox News. But if you compare our mainstream media to any other country in the world, it's to the right. Right. Well, and also, like, if CNN, they're doing shit like when administration officials are lying, they're like, oh, well, we have this quote right now. Let's pull that and confront you with the evidence of your deception. And they're like, oh, and people like see why are they why are they attacking

them it's like no they're what they're trying to do is not allow people to just be so deceptive in such an aggressive way like they are so i guess yeah to the left of uh propaganda is truth or like trying to have some semblance of of of like reality yeah that's what i was basically it was gonna say is just that yeah if we take fox news at what they're claiming to be then yeah we definitely don't have a left version of that but because fox news is constantly lying and there's like at least a modicum of journalistic integrity in all these places they appear left because they're like well no that's just a lie right and there's no slant to it it's just facts but because we now live in an age where anything opposing what's being said by

the right whether it be true or not equals left equals a left slant but you're you're right because i think if there truly was a left version of what fox news pretends to be, you'd have someone following up on these questions. Because I do get frustrated watching CNN or MSNBC when they point out a lie and just let it go. They don't put it in the context of a story. They just leave it. Because I would say MSNBC is definitely of all the major ones. They're definitely the most left aligned. But still, there's people like andrew mitchell who's pretty moderate and will still kind of like you know report things in a way that's still kind of favorable to to republicans or the conservative movement or whatever but yeah i mean i'm just like so this i was just imagining because the the morning after

the mass shooting breitbart their headline was all about how the left was trying to blame Trump for this shooting that happened at the newsroom, which there wasn't actually good evidence. There were some people on Twitter who were saying, because Trump was like, the media is the worst, hate the media. And at his rallies, people were suggesting violence towards the media. That's a sort of one-to-one comparison, but nobody was outright saying it is Trump's fault for doing this. But Breitbart was drawing that comparison because they are a right-wing ideological outlet and they wanted to make that case. And so they made it. Whereas CNN, who's supposed to be leftist, had Hannity in quotes saying that it was a left-wing person who caused

this shooting and they didn't do anything with it. If that had been on the right, that would have been the number one story on Drudge. It would have been the number one story on Fox. If you had the equivalent thing happening on the other side, but because the left doesn't have that, that story just never gets picked up. But had it been like, if both sides are just completely even the, when someone slips up and does something stupid like that on the left, it's going to get picked up and blown up and made into a running narrative on the right. Whereas when somebody on the right does something like that,

the left just does nothing with it. So you just get this unbalanced sort of mainstream media. Well, yeah, it's this, it's the fear of appearing biased when the bias is just purely self-created on the right to defend themselves from their own fuckery, basically. Right, exactly. We wanted to check in with the international scene, what's going on with North Korea, first of all, because Mike Pompeo is traveling back to North Korea at the end of this week, I think on Thursday, to meet with diplomats there

to continue the conversation that started a month ago between Kim Jong-un and President Donald Trump. Wait, why does he need to go back? It's been settled. Right. Donald Trump just did the handshake. Sleep well tonight. I'm sorry, was that not fixed?

So, you know, if you stopped paying attention at that point, if you were like, hey, you said we don't have to pay attention anymore. So, thank you. Done and done. Every expert on the subject thinks that President Trump is either being like willfully obtuse because he knows that just saying it's done with is good for business and good for his approval ratings. Or he has legitimately been tricked by North Korea and people aren't sure which one it is because he keeps referring back to the fact that like, he's like, I met him. I shook his hand. I looked in his eyes. We have like a close personal bond. I believe him.

And then, you know, there was satellite footage last week that shows that they have continued just with that unimpeded to upgrade their nuclear facilities on like both coasts. Their main nuclear facility is still fully operational. So Pompeo is headed over there to basically ask them to... What the fuck is going on here? I thought this was done. Guys, excuse me.

Someone announced... Excuse me. I'm sorry. Part of the issue is nobody really knows what has been promised, like what Trump promised him, because they like the meat of the deal is being carried out like some sort of like golf course handshake thing where he's just like, I looked him in the eye. We're cool. We understand each other rather than the traditional way, which would be, you know, pouring over a document like the incredibly important legal contract that it is. So people like don't know what each side is.

Like as it is, we have a, you know, page and a half double spaced word document full of like vaguely defined terms. One of them is total denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, which Trump clearly thinks means they will get rid of their nuclear weapons. But it has like every North Korea expert is like, no, they have used that phrase for decades. Every time. To mean that the U.S. has to remove their nuclear umbrella from the region that protects Japan and South Korea. It's like it's the last thing thing, the last step on their list. And so he agreed to the very last thing, the biggest ask that they had on their list. He's like, yeah, sure. So I don't know.

We'll see how the Pompeo meeting goes. I think there's a very plausible timeline now that, you know, Xi Jinping came to Mar-a-Lago last year. They were reportedly floored by how basic Trump's understanding of international relations were. And then North Korea is in this war of words with him at that time. And suddenly Kim Jong-un is like, actually, let's be friends and set up a meeting. he was down because xi jinping had basically told him okay all you have to do is like tell this guy he's like smart yeah yeah and he's gonna give you everything you want um and so yeah i don't know and they really haven't given anything up and the americans and south korea it's like all small stuff where they're like oh they're they're they're like ramping down the anti-us propaganda stuff like right stuff stuff

like that's being removed and I guess I guess to Trump like that seems like yeah see they love us so right yeah well because he's still like operating on the assumption that everyone is forming their policy based on the book that was ghost written for him like 25 years ago he's like oh the famous diplomatic text the art of the deal and that's how and like trump's never gonna do a one of those reading deals he's gonna do uh we made eye contact and we touched each other's skin and therefore i fixed the nuclear problem what did he say this morning didn't he tweet something this morning where he's like we would have been in a total nuclear war if it wasn't for me like he tweeted some dumb shit this morning probably that sounds that sounds like him uh no yeah someone come and wipe my butt please this morning i want to just

start tweeting out his demands the presidential butt wiper someone's got that new twitter account many good that's what he this is what he tweeted this morning many good conversations with north presidential butt wiper. Someone's got that job. New Twitter account. This is what he tweeted this morning. Many good conversations with North Korea. It is going well. In the meantime, no rocket launches or nuclear testing in eight months. All of Asia is thrilled. Only the opposition party, which includes the fake news, is complaining. If not for me,

we would now be at war with North Korea. So, cool. Yeah. Fox News even, like, there's an article on Fox News that's saying, how can we be shocked that North Korea went back on its word? North Korea has never kept its word when it comes to any atomic agreement. Like, they're writing the same thing that he says the opposition party is writing. Like, everybody is in agreement.

Yeah, that's like the one thing Fox couldn't really come around, except for, like, Hannity for Hannity and Tucker Carlson. But everyone else is like, no, the handshake didn't solve this problem. And it was really foolish to even think it was. So in addition to the Pompeo meeting happening

on the 5th, on Thursday, this is also relevant because Trump has a meeting with another incredibly important foreign official. One Vladimir Putin. Talk about someone with a tongue

strong enough to not get too bad. Oh yeah. Putin's tongue. A new Twitter account. At Putin's tongue. At Putin's tongue. So you're saying, Miles, that they have written into the schedule that there will be seven minutes? They are going to, well, basically, I'm calling it Trump and Putin doing seven minutes in heaven on July 16th

because there's going to be a face-to-face meeting where they will first meet one-on-one, meeting where they will first meet one on one man versus cheeto in a room with no aids absolutely none and then later on the aids will come in similar to the north korea meeting right what's odd about this is because when there's no aids or whatever that there won't be an official record of what was said and so it'll be hard to know what agreements were made or what deal what was spoken about so it's very who knows what the fuck they're gonna talk about it could be poodle being like hey my guy ramp up the hot rhetoric because we hacked the midterms too thanks to jamie loftus or whatever the hackers they get we gotta get we gotta get the hackers but yeah so again this is like one of those things too where he met with kim jong-un one on one. We're not quite sure what happened there because no one was in there to know and no aides were present.

No diplomats were there to be like, hey, this is a very complex thing. And they're going to be talking about election interference, Syria, nuclear weapons. But who knows if that's what they talk about on their one on one. I don't know. So we don't know. know. So we don't know. It does seem like, for whatever reason, America's sort of international adversaries or these people that

we have a lot to lose in our interactions with have seen fit to keep having these one-on-one meetings with Trump where nobody else is around. It's probably because he's really good at game theory and is just besting them. They just want to spend time with a really cool guy.

That's so terrible. I mean, because there's no version of the world in all the infinite ways that ends well for this country. Like, just nothing. Yeah, I don't, it's, whatever. You know, we'll see. That's fine. Fourth of July.

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So this weekend, we got a trove of letters and communications from a Freedom of Information Act request. I think that the Sierra Club initiated. And they're basically a bunch of love letters to the Petro gods like Chevron and other various climate change denying Earth fuckers. Where Pruitt is like writing sweet little nothings in the corner. He's like, so good to meet with you. Like, really had a great time. And I mean, there's nothing really tremendously surprising, but it's just when you read the letters,

you're like, oh, that's exactly how I'd imagine Scott Pruitt is talking to these people who in most other administrators in the EPA in years past would have been like not writing shit like this. Does he write letters to his own stinky mattress no sadly no although one of them is written on a mattress tag um but we also found out this week that he has two schedules there's a public one that the public obviously that we see that so is like his official appointments that he has and another one that's more private uh where

he has his naughty little meetups with like problematic energy producers or like actual sex crims uh like cardinal pell uh who is a clergy member who's i think about gonna face a trial sometime this year for sexual abuse uh but so he would basically have aides go through his public schedule and be like yo comb it for whatever is gonna make me look bad basically because he because he even knows that shit looks bad. And yeah, I mean, I guess normally that would be a problem because that would be like falsifying records. But it's 2018.

It's 2018. Scott Pruitt's Google Cal is open season. Yeah, he's hacked our brain. And then we also found out more because he's still trying to get Shorty a job. He's got all of his assistants full steam ahead trying to get his wife a job, but for no less than $200,000 a year. She's not a peasant, okay, because we got fucking mortgages on all these houses.

So, yeah, he's just demanding. Like, Samantha Dravis was one of his aides. I think in her testimony, she was talking to the, I think, ethics committee, who was also ex-girlfriend of rob porter who's the one who may or may not have like leaked the info on rob porter out there because this administration is so fucking messy uh yes they she was confirming like yeah i had to go look at like the association of attorneys general in the u.s to try and get her a job somewhere got her a job but less than 200k job, but less than $200,000.

So, you know, my hearts are with them, you know, for all the people struggling out there making less than $200,000 a year. How are they going to buy $100,000 worth of Postmates every month? What's with that salary? That's not sustainable. That's two months. What do they do the other 10 months? Starve? I don't think so.

And then along with that, there's this other story about how he, just in general, is so cheap. He's trying to keep the optics of his spending low. So he'll ask aides to use their personal credit cards to pay for stuff. So during the transition, he asked an aide to put a $600 hotel room for his family on their personal card. And then when they got their credit card bill, this aide went to the chief of staff was like hey i gotta he had me put six hundred dollars on my card for this hotel room and the chief of staff was like sorry the uh window for transition expenses has closed and so yeah they were like well what the fuck am i supposed i just paid for this dude's family's hotel room what the fuck and then like i guess a few weeks later or something a month or two later

like six hundred dollars cash was like left on her desk to pay for it but like this is the kind of just dumb shit that this fucking kleptocrat again this man is in charge of the environmental protection agency not the school scam lord who's cheap as fuck agency and so obviously people have an opinion on this man because he's completely just letting companies do whatever they want to the earth and not looking out for our future with things like climate change.

So he joined the prestigious club of administrators who have been confronted in public. Recently, he was confronted by a teacher who was holding her child and she caught him at lunch and was like had some few words to say then someone recorded it check this out meanwhile you're slashing strong misdemeanors for carbon trucks for the benefits of big corporations. You've been paying about $15 a night

to say that DC kind of is connected to an energy lobby at the moment while approving our dirty sands pipeline. We deserve to have somebody at the UK who actually does protect our environment, somebody who believes in climate change and keeps it seriously for the benefit of all of us, including our children.

So I would urge you to resign before your scandals push you out. Hmm, go fuck yourself. Yeah. Pretty concise. Yeah, it's hard to hear with all the talking in the restaurant. But yeah, she was basically like, hi, you're a fucking scumbag.

You're taking money from lobbyists. You then approve their deals. You know, the laundry list of things that we always bring up on the show. And then she's like, hi, you're a fucking scumbag. You're taking money from lobbyists. You then approve their deals. You know, the laundry list of things that we always bring up on the show. And then she's like, yeah, I urge you to resign. Very politely, too. I know. Very polite. And the whole time he was just kind of glumping his fingers on the table like this.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's a video. Yeah, it's a video. Yeah. And he's just kind of not saying anything. He's drinking oil from a mason jar. He's drinking oil out of

the skull of a baby seagull or something like that he's like proceed yeah right so yeah yeah we'll see i i i know that the inspector general uh who handles like a lot of the ethics stuff at the epa they're clearly investigating him but you'd think at this point he would be uh one to resign but i think he's doing the Lord's work, and by the Lord we mean the energy companies. Right. Has there ever been a scandal where the inspector general just can't complete it because they keep committing crimes?

Because it's just too much. Well, yeah, it's just too much crime. It's like I ran out of ink in my pen. Just never. Yeah, I think in a in a yeah right now I guess I guess yeah because they're all

in the these other stories that they're reporting apparently they sort of gutted the ethics department at the EPA when he first took office

by just sort of letting people retire transition out and not rehiring anyone so at one point it was down to just one person working there

and of course when that happens you're gonna buy tactical pants and do all that dumb shit. Oh, right. Tactical pants, tactical polos.

Miles, Jessica Simpson is back in the news again. Yes. She's the GOAT. She is. She is the GOAT. She is now officially a patron saint of something

here at the Daily Zuckers. Yes. The queen of Postmates. The queen of delivery. She, it has been rumored, told to Radar Online, which we were discussing. Radar Online is still a gossip website, but it's a step above American Media Inc., like the Bloids that we talk about on Fridays.

They aren't written by a close friend of Donald Trump in the voice of Donald Trump. They just seem to use the same sort of journalistic techniques where they have unnamed sources. But I feel like stuff that they report eventually gets confirmed about half the time. And this is, I think, somewhat believable.

This is good. They're reporting that she has spent $100,000 on Postmates in one month because she does not leave the fucking house. And that is tight to me. Because if I had my way, I would just be sitting down and have everything brought to me constantly like the boy king that I believe myself to be. See, I find this to be horrifying. because if you have $100,000 a month to spare, and you're just spending it on yourself and eating, I don't even, how do you spend $100,000 a month on food and?

So this is what they say. Insiders revealed to Radar exclusively, Simpson, 37, and her former NFL player hubby, Eric Johnson, 38, have, quote, nothing to do. That's such a weird detail to have. So they spend all their time together with the kids drinking and eating. Quote, it's been a cycle of eating and drinking, says the source. Isn't that just life, though?

They just don't want to leave their house. Well, she has so much money from her Jessica Simpson fashion empire. Oh, sure. Sold exclusively to Kohl's, Macy's, wherever. Walmart. Finer wears her pedal. Yeah. I wonder Macy's, wherever finer wares are peddled. I wonder if she's still getting royalties from newlyweds. A classic.

I wonder how... Chicken of the sea tuna. I just think that you have that much money to spare and you're not donating it to good causes and you're just spending it all on yourself. I hate it. Yes, of course.

So I use it as a joke, but. We don't know like. Sorry, let me just take off my tiny glasses. How hungry she is. We don't know how hungry she is. And she could also be giving money, you know, outside of this 100K. Maybe she's doing $1,000 tips every time. That's true.

Yeah, maybe she's stealing from the rich, aka herself. I used to be a Postmates driver for a few months when I first moved. I drove for Postmates. Did you ever make a delivery to Jessica Simpson? I certainly did not, no. You wouldn't know, though, because I think she wears a whole outfit to try and obscure

her. She's got a hacker disguise. It's kind of similar to what I'm wearing today. We just want to talk about the fact that the world right now is hotter than it's ever been uh like at this moment basically in all sorts of places denver just tied its all-time high temperature record of 105 degrees which is very hot for there. Actually, the thing that sticks with me from all these stories about how they're setting record high temperatures is how low some of these places' high temperatures are. Right, right, right. Like Montreal's high temperature is 97.9 degrees.

That's the highest it's ever been. Is that Fahrenheit? In 147 degrees. Yeah. No, that's Fahrenheit. Just want to clarify. Yeah, that is- This thing's Celsius. Yeah, that's that's Fahrenheit. Just want to clarify. Yeah, that is. This thing's Celsius.

Yeah, that's Celsius, and they're on fire, literally. Their hottest temperature ever is colder than a healthy human body temperature. It's crazy. Scotland is setting all-time highs at 91.8. Ireland, 89. But yeah, it's bad. San Diego might hit 117 degrees. Oh, God.

It's to the point that even Drudge, who usually only reports when it's colder than expected because he likes to throw that back in the face of the libs who think that global warming is happening. Even he is quoting articles from this on the front page of the Drudge Report. You might as well be walking on the sun. Right. My favorite song. Which is about global warming, kind of. Yeahudge Report. I might as well be walking on the sun. Right. My favorite song.

Which is about global warming kind of. Yeah. Yeah, any thoughts guys? How are you gonna stay cool? I mean, I moved out of Texas. The whole point was supposed to be that I was supposed to be moving to a slightly colder climate.

At least a breeze every once in a while. What part of the city are you in right now? I live in Glendale. Oh, okay. Yeah. It'll get hot. Well, it's all concrete over there too it's all concrete and reflective buildings welcome yeah cook thyself yeah i i keep my temperature at like meat i mean i keep my apartment at meat locker temperature anyway so i'm probably just gonna stay inside and never leave although i was

gonna go to a bar and watch the world cup game tomorrow so i which is supposed to be the worst to go it's at 11 a.m. too. Yeah. So, yeah, I'm going to die probably. That's my solution. My solution is just to lay down and accept it. Yeah, locally it's supposed to hit like 98 to 100 tomorrow. Yeah, and I was going to walk to that bar.

Just do the broke boy air conditioner like you used to do. Take a bath towel. Wet bath towel. Wet it. Wring it out. Yeah. And use that as your blanket. Yes.

Oh, yeah, yeah okay and it keeps you cool now that's how i used to get around the heat in the valley i personally have a convenient little body hack called hyperhidrosis where my body turns all clothing into a wet towel immediately so i have a very similar problem so i'm with you there yeah yeah i run really hot already like i get hot at like 50 something so i so I don't know what I'm going to do. Yeah. I do carry a hand fan with me everywhere I go, though. I know.

I noticed that. Yeah. That was a Texas hack. It looks cool. I thought that was a flex. Yeah. I was like, damn. Okay, Cody.

I came in with the fan like that. Like, excuse me. That matches your outfit. Do you have different colored uh hand fans i used to but i need to get a better fan merchant the quality of those fans were not good they kept breaking all the time uh and so now i just kind of went with a bulk order of these because they don't break as much but they also are way cheaper so i could just kind of like throw them around as much as i need to right but right now i just kind of have a basic order of

orange but i used to have different colors. So I couldn't match them better with outfits. Nice. Yeah. Yeah. I try, you know, it's nice to live in a time where people don't make fun of me for having

hand fans. Cause I've had these since like elementary middle school. Oh, okay. And it was a very different environment when I was a child. Yeah. My man. You don't say Texas wasn't,

it wasn't. Yeah. No one. No. The fact that you almost felt backwards when you were like, I thought it was a flex. I was like, no one's ever said that to me before about pulling a hand fan out. That's me. I'm like, that's a flex.

To me, I'm like, that's a flex, my man. I was like, who are you, Oscar Wilde? I was like, he just caught the vapors right in front of me. Oh, I catch the vapors constantly. I'm a constant vapor catcher. Miles. Yes. We are reaching an important moment in the trade war.

Ongoing story. Sunday, Sunday, Sunday. Sunday, trade war. Trade war. Trade war. So, yeah, tomorrow the U.S. starts their first round of tariffs. The big one is $34 billion on imported goods from China. And that's not good for anybody.

And China has basically said, we will clap back, but we will not fire first, but we will clap back if you guys hit us with these tariffs. So most likely, I think China is probably going to hit us back with tariffs of their own. But yeah, it's not going to be good for anyone. We'll probably be paying a little bit more for certain goods depending on – it's a lot of supply chain disruption and like the markets are going to go a little wacky for a little bit. When the two big economic powers go basically head-to-head over some bullshit. It does sound like a boxing match. Yeah, no, it really is. And it's like just a fucking stupid political flex that everyone is like begging Trump like, hey, hey, hey, hey, what are you doing?

This is not how you do this. It's everyone is like begging Trump, like, hey, hey, hey, hey, what are you doing? This is not how you do this. But China, you know, they have a plan, too, because there's an analysis in Washington Post of all the tariffs that China is imposing. And it shows that the tariff exposed jobs are more than twice as likely to fall in counties that voted for Donald Trump in 2016 than in counties won by Hillary Clinton. So they have a very measured plan of exerting pressure on the president because it's a lot of agricultural goods and construction equipment manufacturers. Right. And things like whiskey, right, in Kentucky,

which that might mean, actually, I just learned today, that whiskey will suddenly be extremely cheap. So if you're a whiskey drinker, keep your eye on those store shelves because those prices might be falling. You whiskey hoarders out there. Get your barrels rolling. Yeah, get them now. Yeah.

My favorite thing about this is, I don't know how much you guys, I don't want to be that guy, but I don't know how much you guys know about James K. Polk, the former president. Very little. Oh, so much.

Thank God. He's the one who ran on promising to be a single-term president credibly racist uh the weirdest thing about him is he started the mexican-american war and then also was known for like wrecking part of the country with tariffs yeah right and it's just like i don't think he reads but it feels like donald trump's just reading james k polk's biography at this point or someone's at least telling him to do it wasn't it with canada like the tariffs yeah it was a bunch it was a bunch but uh it was a little bit with canada but a lot of european at that time would have been it but yeah it's wild i don't know did you see that the the thing about the uh harley davidson yeah trump was citing 2017 as a reason for why like they're making a decision in 2017 for something that

happened now right he's like oh they're yeah they moved all their stuff in 2017 because of the tariffs and they're like how did they preempt move something right yeah nobody nobody knows anything well then it was crazy to hear like some of the people who worked there who are losing their jobs and they're like hey man if this is what trump says we need like we'll do it and you're like damn you you're beer bonging the kool-aid right that really. That really feels like I have a hard time imagining people in those counties being like, well, now I'm for the Democrats because it's just the culture wars have been so deeply divided the country that I feel like he can get away with this. This is like a calculated risk where like, yeah, you're all unemployed, but fuck the

Democrats and people will get on board. But I mean, but it is going to some people will actually be, you know, feel this, you know, like some people, if you're not in an industry that's affected by the tariff. Sure. It'll probably be easier to be like, well, fuck it. Like, I'll pay more for this. But, you know, there are people like soybean farmers and stuff like we're the largest exporter of soybeans. And China does a lot of buying of our soybeans. Those people are going to feel it a lot. I was just reading odd things from the pork futures are also – they're worried about the hog prices too going down. Because, yeah, that stuff is going to – it'll be interesting when it hits people and they still try and sort of rationalize why this is actually a good thing.

Yeah, I mean as somebody who has still some empathy, in general, for just people. Yeah, of course. And especially for children and stuff who can't make decisions on their own. It is like watching a horror movie where you're just like, no. Don't go in there. Don't go in the room. Run. Run.

Right. They're just like, no, I'm going to still make this really horrible decision. It's going to ruin my life. And you're just watching it slowly happen like a car wreck. It's not the way you want people to sort of begin to wise up to maybe why this president is harmful to them. To be like, wow, you're going to get hit directly in your wallet. Yeah. Who would have thought you could use fear mongering to people's basis instincts in order to get them to vote against their own interests?

Yeah. Never heard of it. Not in this economy. I don't know. It's wild. Not in this economy. Yeah, I don't know. It's wild.

The feel-good story that we're all clinging to for dear life, like some of the characters in the story, the Thai soccer team that was presumed dead when they went missing inside a cave for 10 days, inside a cave that flooded and were found, I think, yesterday or the day before by a diving team that was just, like, going, you know, swimming around, exploring this cave, seeing if they could find anyone. You know, so they brought them food. They brought them fresh water. Not food, actually. They're bringing them, like, those gels that runners eat

because, like, that's the only thing they can make. Power gel? Yeah, you can't, like, bring a pizza underwater to them, so they're, like, just bringing them in power gels. They eat gel. Wait, what do they eat? It's basically sucrose. Like marathon runners?

Yeah, it's just calories in a gel form. Health goo. Yeah, health goo. Got it. It's Soylent Green. Yes. It's people. But it's now being reported that because the caves are so flooded

and won't be unflooded for months because it's the rainy season, they will either have to learn to dive like the ragtag group of underdogs that they are or wait for the water to recede. To be months. Yes. I don't this. I mean, like I said, we need to option the fuck out of this. this I mean like I said we need to option the fuck out of this these kids doing just like their diving classes and the little puddle area they have

and they're like I can't even imagine because the water visibility it's not like it's water right it's like mud right it's like brown water and also the question I have is if they're in a cave where like there is no sunlight like animals that live inside caves they just

yeah they evolve to not have eyes because you just like there's no point in having eyes because it's like such a complete I like that evolved straight you go there's no point yeah just like smooth don't eat them because yeah what's the point why would I have them ain't no water ain't no bite down so something that I just, like yesterday, I was saying the coach kind of fucked up by getting them lost in the cave. But think about this. For the past nine to 10 days, he's been in pitch dark with 12 kids on like this tiny patch of sloping dirt.

And he managed to keep them all alive where like nobody could see literally anything. Like that's pretty, I don't know. Or maybe the kids were like keeping him alive and he was just like, oh no. They're like,

it's okay coach. I fucked up so bad. I'm never gonna coach again. But it's still, I don't know. Like when those people came up, not only hadn't they spoken with anybody besides themselves,

they hadn't like seen anything. They'd just been like complete darkness. That's got to be so disorienting. I hope at the very least, just PlayStation, Sony, put a care package together. Seriously.

Bring them that PlayStation, a little living room setup. Be like, look, I know it's probably a tolerator to get you guys to become expert divers through low visibility water, but we got this PS4. Some new games. Got God of this PS4. Some new games.

Got God of War. Yeah. I like that. You would think that like an expert diver would be able to like hold them and swim out. But I guess.

Yeah. Tandem diving. Yeah. Isn't there like a small like submarine like submersible that they can just like. Yeah.

Like surely there's some vehicle. Clearly I think it must be they're like the crevices are so small or something that they can't, that's probably why they have to bring power gel

and not, you know, Taco Bell or whatever to them. I, God, again, don't play in caves. Right. A simple lesson we all learned. Yeah. All right,

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I think it's a GoFundMe. I think it's garnered $1,000 or a couple thousand dollars. It's a filmmaker by the name of Nick Loeb, which if you don't know him as a filmmaker, that's because he's never made a film before. know him as a filmmaker that's because he's never made a film before he is mostly known as the guy who was dating Sofia Vergara and brought his main product that he sold onion crunch which is a fried onion topping fried onion topping for hamburgers right He brought that to a meeting with President Obama, like an appearance where, like, Sofia Vergara was invited to the White House. She brought her boyfriend who was like,

hey, can I get our picture taken with this can of wonderful onion crunch? And she was so embarrassed, reportedly that ended their relationship. But they had two frozen embryos they were thinking about doing IVF. And he is now suing her for, you know, custody of the frozen embryos. And it's just a whole mess. But he has used this as a way to sort of stake his claim as like Mr. Pro-Life kind of thing,

claiming that Sofia Vergara was going to destroy the fetuses without his say-so. Or embryos, technically. Yeah, embryos, sorry. And he's the man, so she shouldn't be able to make decisions like that without the man involved. So when he saw that he was getting a little heat as Mr. Pro-Life, he decided to make Roe v. Wade the movie. And that's the name of the fucking movie.

It's Roe v. Wade. Yeah. It's like one of those parody movies that they used to like scary movie and superhero movie. Onion Crunch, the movie. I would much prefer that movie. I would love to see that. I want to know the history of Onion Crunch.

My God, who knows? This onion, it's so crunchy. That fucking fight after he tried to pose with it must have been epic. What the fuck were you doing? I'm sorry, man. I said this would really help Onion Crunch. That Obama story is the most LA meets Washington, D.C. story I've ever heard in my entire life. Like, that's just 100% everyone you meet in both of those

cities combined. It was wild. It was so on brand. It was great. What's going on with this movie? It's in production, right? Are people quitting it left and right? The reason he is the filmmaker behind this is because the

director quit after she realized what the movie was. Also, there's been multiple occasions where production assistants, people who work on the film quit once they find out what the movie is. You know you're making a good movie when you have to actively hide the subject of the movie from the people working on the movie so that they don't quit. And at one point he was walking off the set and someone walked up to him with a headset, you know, a PA and was like, hey, are you the director?

And he said, I am. And she said, go fuck yourself. And threw her headset on the ground and walked off. So she was the electrician on the film. Amazing. Becoming a more dangerous place to work. Hey, are you the director? Go fuck yourself.

I quit. But it does have some stars in it. It has... And the whole thing is meant to be like how this is a horrible mistake. Yes. And how it was just all... It's like Inherit the Wind for Roe v. Wade,

but if it was propaganda against him. Right. Yeah. Oh, man. Yeah. I mean, the heavy hitters in this film are crazy. So who's who of conservative A-listers like Jon Voight will be appearing. Of course.

Sure. Goonies villain Robert Davey. Robert Davey. Yeah, dude. He's so gross. I love it. What a great way to introduce him, too. Goonies villain.

Yeah. And Stacey Dash. Of course. Of course. Also, Kelsey Grammer's daughter is going to be making an appearance it's a legal drama but it's going to be just peppered with tons of

from Major League he was also former president of SAG but I looked on the IMDB and also Joey Lawrence and Jamie Kennedy are listed as well on the IMDB as being in it yeah it'll be called

Whoa, V. Wade. So you're saying this goes all the way to the top of Hollywood. Well, but here's the problem. It's missing two major names for me, which are Kirk Cameron and James Woods. And I'm like, how good of a movie can it be if it doesn't have Kirk Cameron and James Woods? And also, James Woods' agent just fired

him yesterday. Oh, got rid of him. Yeah, he was like, happy Independence Day. I'm going to celebrate my independence by firing you, basically. Sent him an email. And I'm just like, well, I mean, but how good of an agent is he if he couldn't get James Woods in this film, you know? James isn't acting a lot these days, and this seems like right up his alley. Or maybe even he has standards. Like, I can't even be in this shit show.

I don't think James Woods has standards. Fucking Stacey Dash? No. I'd be surprised if James Woods had standards. I thought that guy died. Yeah. But the campaign has, so it has raised $134,572, which is a lot of money to raise for anything. But Miles, as somebody who has worked in production.

That money can go real quick. On a major actual Hollywood movie, that would be. You could rent a camera rig for like one day or like two days and cash out your $100K right there. Like there's – I mean, again, we don't know what they're using the money for. These people getting paid. Are they having McDonald's for lunch? I don't know. Yeah, that's not a lot of money.

That is not. That's not enough for – They're shooting it in one location. It's an abandoned warehouse. Yeah, right. That they've outfitted to look like the Supreme Court. Supreme Court. And it all takes, it's a contained thriller in one room.

It's a bottle episode. Yeah, exactly. There's also a historic recreation. They're like, we only got, yeah. We locked the doors of the Supreme Court. We're going to get this settled today. It's like, for $134,000, we can afford to pay two PAs, a sound guy, a makeup person, and just have this warehouse for about eight hours. To give us an idea of the production quality of the movie, the Indiegogo campaign features a video

of Alveda King, who is Martin Luther King Jr.'s conspiracy theorist daughter. So they have her green screened and the background that they've chosen is a living room. So it was almost like they wanted to make it seem like she was on location at her home, but it's clearly green screened. So they just green screened a casual location for her appearance. And she's just saying how important this movie is. She also,

you know, thinks Planned Parenthood is in the business of selling baby parts. I'm sorry, what? Oh, you haven't heard that?

Those are her theories she deals with? You haven't heard about that? No. Oh, yeah. That birth control gives women cancer.

Sure, we've all been there. Oh, cool. Lots of other, you know, wild theories. Hey,

keeping the spirit of her father alive. Yeah, my favorite thing was that she name-checked the Margaret Sanger KKK speech that she gave because Margaret Sanger KKK speech that she gave.

Because Margaret Sanger, who founded Planned Parenthood, spoke to the KKK, and that was a big thing a couple of years ago that they were trying to, like, disprove Planned Parenthood. Which is, again,

a weird, like, conservative tactic that no one else ever uses, which is, hey, historical figures that you, like, did bad things, that disproves everything they believed, right? And it's like, no, I don't care.

You can just throw her away. I'll keep the thing I still care about, though. But the thing was that she just spoke to anybody who would have her. And so she specifically spoke out against the KKK. But it was like, but I also want to let them know about reproductive rights. And Martin Luther King liked Margaret Sanger and accepted an award from her. So if you're going to trade on the Martin Luther King name, you need to at least do the research into what he actually thought. What a mess.

But I think you were actually right uh when you when you said uh that she was on set because i think that's how they're getting the 100k is that the whole set's just green screen i think it's just a giant green screen and they're just going to do the whole thing that way that's how you stretch the budget i mean my goodness i would love to watch i cannot wait to see an all green screen movie right the person who has to key everything out what good for you good for you. Good for you guys. They just hired Andy Serkis and then they're going to layer John Voight over him.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because it's just cheaper that way. Can you do a John Voight? Yeah. But they are using the Supreme Court retirement of Justice Kennedy on their Indiegogo to raise money. And, you know, this is... Right.

So that's why it's in the news, so raise money. And, you know, this is... Right. So, that's why it's in the news, so to speak. But, yeah. We'll keep an eye out for that one. They say Supreme Court Justice Kennedy has announced his retirement, and our movie could have influence on who is picked as the new justice, which suggests that they could

finish the movie before Monday? Because he's announcing his nominee on Monday. I mean, with that budget, they're going to have to. Right. Just for craft services alone. Right. Just craft macaroni and cheese services. You guys have two times now made the assumption that they are feeding the people who work

on this movie, and I just do not believe that to be the case. I just look at some of the perks on the Indiegogo thing. Jack, I wish, if this weren't so problematic, I wish we could pay the money to go for a set visit. Yeah. Or the premiere. Just to see what kind of a fucking shit show. I mean, I'm sure somebody out there,

because aren't they filming around New Orleans or something like that? Yes, they're in Louisiana. Any Zeit gang out there, if you see them, please send me some pictures. I would love to see what this production quote unquote looks like.

If it's just a Canon DSLR and a selfie stick. I don't know if I can handle looking at a picture of a sad John Voight. Like that's just, that's several different levels of just uncomfortable. All right. That's going to do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist. Please like and review the show. If you like the show.

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