The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 36 (Best of 8/6/18-8/10/18)

Episode Date: August 12, 2018

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So what happened over the weekend? I tried to keep Trump news out of my brain as much as possible on my vacay. So can you explain to me what the latest is with the Trump Tower meeting? Okay, so you've heard of Donald Trump. Yes. Okay, you've heard of... Senior, thank you. And you've heard of D.Ju, Don Jr. Okay, so we know don ju and we know you yeah it's like from when they uh homer

said we can call him hoju i thought that was a content aggregator on instagram no uh and then so uh you know he's clearly over the last week we were talking about how how he's so transparent and signaling his frustrations and how you can tie every single tweet back to a specific news story that he's just addressing. It's not just like, oh, he's saying stuff again. And most of the time, it's like you can attribute it back to a news story that's been on this show within the last 25 minutes. 100 seconds.

Yeah. 100%. And Mahler, by the way, is paying attention to his Twitter. Yeah. I think he definitely, he probably has the internet, right? Right. Okay, cool. I'll help out with the whole investigation.

So, yeah, there was an article in The Washington Post that sort of described how Trump is sort of increasingly going from angry to more worried about Don Jr.'s legal future since, you know, up and done a spiracy against America. And so they say from the article, they say, quote, Trump has confided to friends and advisors that he is worried about the Mueller probe and how it could destroy the lives of what he calls innocent and decent people, namely Donald Trump Jr., who is under scrutiny by Mueller for his role organizing a June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower with Russians promising dirt on Hillary. And then they go on, they said, he does not believe his son purposely broke the law, but is fearful nonetheless that Trump Jr. inadvertently may have wandered into legal jeopardy. That is very... I like how the wording shifts there.

Yeah. That he did the... He didn't break the law, but maybe by the end of this long sentence, you'll think about something else. He done stumbled into a conspiracy. Like his car freezes jumping over a ravine. Thank God. Oh, Don Jr. done got himself into a whole mess of trouble, and then the car lands on the other side.

Great Dukes of Hazzard. Yeah, both cars definitely have the rebel flag on them. But yeah, since the president is like the rapper Bone Crusher and thus never scared, he fired off this tweet just to prove how, you know, so relaxed he is. And so this is a tweet from, I think, yesterday from 530 in the morning. Fake news reporting a complete fabrication that I am concerned about the meeting my wonderful son Donald had in Trump Tower. This was a meeting to get information on an opponent. Legal, totally legal and done all the time in politics

and it went nowhere. I did not know about it. Okay, so here's the thing. It almost seemed like he gives a shit about his son which is the most striking thing to me. If it was Eric,

he wouldn't have said my wonderful son. Yeah, I think both sons. He would have said my I think taller son. I think other son. Yeah,

so I guess he cares about him. But the whole thing of, you know, like this happens all the time and it's legit is total bullshit. I mean, yes, getting opposition research is, you know, a huge part of running. I remember one president I heard actually broke into a hotel to do it. Yeah. And it worked out. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, so the oppo part, we I think we all understand that you need that to sort of create negatives about or pull out negatives about your opponent. So then the voters will be like, oh, OK, maybe he doesn't. His voting record is this. But to accept any help from a foreign national or hostile foreign government, see, that is a crime. And it's a completely different situation. And the whole thing of like, well, it went nowhere and blah, blah, blah is like it's like not that it's one for one but it's like well yeah i i hired the hitman to kill my husband but he didn't kill him imagine if lee harvey oswald hadn't killed him he's like i shot him but he's not like dead yeah well and i mean not that it's completely one for one like that but

you've engaged in the conspiracy to commit this crime and you know they want to say like well there wasn't even good stuff isn't a real defense it's definitely shifted from this has never happened this didn't happen how you said it did this happened but isn't a crime this happened but maybe is a crime and he got nothing to now the next steps is this was a crime like it's just slowly shifting right and you're running out and it's the same thing with like his talking heads that have to go out so like rudy giuliani had a terrible couple weeks the last two weeks where he was just going on like like literally breaking news or then walking it back in a way that he was confusing like people on fox who were trying to like walk him through his logic it's incredible

to watch rudy giuliani navigate any conversation that's not about 9-11 right yeah or the yankees yeah yeah that's only his two strong points. You know, I told W to throw that pitch out. Okay. All right, Rudy. So that's me. And so when you saw yesterday on the Sunday shows, one of Trump's lawyers, Jay Sekulow,

he went on to George Stephanopoulos' show. And even like, you know, this week was looking bad because there were also reports about like, yeah, Trump knew about Flynn being compromised and still asked Comey to ease back on the investigation, thus creating an obstruction of justice case. And even Jay Sekulow, I think he literally reached into his like bag of like rhetorical rebuttals and literally grabbed nothing and threw this just weird argument out. So this is his defense of the president's probable obstruction of justice. Are you suggesting it wouldn't be a problem if the president pressured James Comey to let the Flynn investigation go after knowing that Michael Flynn was under criminal investigation?

Well, I want you to understand something. I mean, I know this sounds remarkable to a lot of people, but if there was investigations going on on Martin Luther King Jr., and do you think if President Kennedy would have gone to J. Edgar Hoover and said, hey, stop that, that that would have been an obstruction of justice claim? I mean, of course not. That would have been article to authority. But none of that has happened here. There's been no shutting down of any investigations, no shutting down of any inquiries. That was, I love the just complete silence on the other end when he asks that question. That's incredible. Like I think he's hoping the person would be like, well, you know, Lincoln was a Republican. Yeah. So he's on the penny. Right. It's yeah. The arguments are getting

thinner and thinner and worse and worse and yeah this is just kind of again i don't even understand the logic there is that like because martin luther king was probably being harassed by the fbi because he was like doing some because of his civil rights leadership that they identified him as like a threat to stability in this country i think he meant today though if he had had asked Kennedy today to slow it down. Yeah, I don't, it's very, it's, yeah, I don't know. I mean, it makes sense to me

because that was a corrupt FBI that was persecuting an innocent person and they're trying to portray our FBI as persecuting an innocent president and all of his innocent henchmen, because innocent people have henchmen. But it's just when you find yourself comparing Michael Flynn to Martin Luther King Jr., that's the point where you're like, oh, shit, no, no, no, no.

That doesn't pass the anything test. God. Yeah. I think, you know, and it makes sense as the Manafort trial heats up, because like the other reporting, it really is that like,

it's less anger now and it's a lot more fear. That's from people who are like talking to AIDS behind the scenes. But again, who, I mean, scared. Yeah. We're also living in the,

until something happens, nothing's going to happen. Yeah, exactly. Like it's hard, scared. But Trump was never scared. We're all still living in the until something happens, nothing's going to happen part. Yeah, exactly. Look at what has happened. Right. And just on the everybody else does this, a lot of people would have taken that meeting thing, Trump's defense there. We've talked about this before, but Al Gore, in preparing

for a debate with George W. Bush, he was handed basically all of George W. Bush's preparation, like all of his notes. The whole coloring book? Yeah, the whole coloring book. His study book, like all the arguments, all the ideas he was going to use. All the pop-ups. It's a highlights magazine. And he immediately turned it over to the FBI.

Probably partially because he thought he was just going to roll over Bush and like didn't think it was going to be a problem. But also, you know, the thing that he was afraid of was probably, well, what if it's from the Russians or something? Like, how are we to know who this is from? What's the source of information influencing an American presidential election? That's, you know, we do not want to be involved in a vast conspiracy to throw this election. And now he's an award-nominated filmmaker. Right, but, you know, Trump in this case knew that it was from Russia, and, you know, at least we know that Donald Jr. There's some balls to the defense of, well, but it was lame information.

Right. These idiots are lame. It wasn't even good. It wasn't even like any Pizzagate stuff. These guys suck. But yeah, like a lot of people point out that like this isn't the first time Russians have tried to help a presidential candidate and they've all turned it down. Like I know there was a they were saying in the 80s, like in 84, Moscow was like, they offered

help to quote any candidate of either party as long as they were against Reagan. And people were like, no, dude. Again, you know, Reagan was definitely not touted by Republicans as the greatest president of all time. Yeah. So Trump went at LeBron James. Yeah. Over the weekend. Yeah, because he was a black guy who said something about him.

Yeah. Over the weekend. Yeah. Because he was a black guy who said something about him. And we know that's you know, when you look at the criteria it takes for Donald Trump to come at you in a non-politics setting or even a politics setting. It's you should be a person of color who says something about him, as we've seen. Or even just like kind of has any success. Yeah. As long as as long as. Yeah. But those are the people who really get something out of them. Like, you know, other politicians like, well, hold on. What did what did LeBron say? something out of him like you know other politicians be like wait hold on what did what did lebron say so he was on lebron was on i did an interview with don lemon on cnn to talk about his new school where he's you know creating a like massive opportunity for these kids in akron of just just another divisive issue yeah opening up schools for at-risk youth yeah and

being like hi we'll pay for your school we'll get you a bike so you can get to school if you don't have food at home we'll have a pantry so you can eat at home. And the thing you were talking about earlier where you're talking about underprivileged people and people not having opportunities in downtime of school, the school also is a longer school year and then offers up programs for the kids outside of it. And on top of it, if you graduate, then they will pay for you to go to college. I mean, God, what a fucking asshole this LeBron. It's just these polarizing issues. Yeah.

And so, again, that was all fine. But then it came to a moment where Don Lemon was talking about how divisive the current atmosphere is in politics right now in the country. And what LeBron's doing is a great thing. And they said, you know, Don's like, what would you say to the president if you were sitting across from him, you know, to talk to him? And LeBron was just very flatly was like, I would never be sitting across from him. And cue angry racist grandpa on his quest to demonstrate dehumanizing. Honestly, that is giving a run for you're not interesting to look at as best specific race.

Because that's so specific. Yeah, that's even more like- Not I would call him a bum, which he has done, which I loved. But I would never be across, not I would turn down, it's so specific. Like I would never be in that situation. I would never be in a situation to be across from him. I would put myself at risk. Yeah.

Intellectually. So, yes, then he fires off this tweet. This is from Donald J. Trump. LeBron James was just interviewed by the dumbest man on television, Don Lemon. He made LeBron look smart, which isn't easy to do. I like Mike. Okay. So, again, Donald Trump does his thing again where he tries to make people of color

be like a stupid people uh and painting the first don lemon who's african-american as the dumbest man on television uh that's actually you my man uh and then going at saying lebron looks smart even though in the past donald trump was all about lebron i love lebron he moved to miami yeah it's his year it's his year go lebron but he had he had the audacity to basically be like no you're the president's disgusting and i want to be around i'm excited for lebron james to be worth more money than donald trump he already is like he definitely already is and it's it's so what an incredible thing to take any time of your day doing as the president. Right. Of a thing. And I love all the tweets that are saying, like, LeBron puts kids in school and you put kids in cages.

And the time to do it is incredible. Yeah. Right. Three days after the school opened. Now's the time. Come at him in the finals. Right. Right, right.

There's all these times where a bunch of people will be like, I hate you, but I agree with you. Right. But now it's like LeBron James' stock could not possibly be higher. Right. Right. Yeah. And, you know,ron James' stock could not possibly be higher. Right. Yeah. And, you know, I like how because he said, I like Mike. So cue a very Michael Jordan response. It's just sort of like, I support LJ.

He's doing an amazing job for his community. End quote. Michael Jordan said that? Yeah. But he meant Larry Johnson. He supported him for being in Space Jam. I support Grandmama Larry Johnson and all of his efforts for the Charlotte basketball team. Also, one disclaimer,

the React juice in those Converse sneakers aren't actual juice. Right. But yeah, I guess the whole, that's also such an MJ thing too. He couldn't have given more. Jordan doesn't, you know, he's a stand-up guy. He's an asshole. Yeah, Republicans buy sneakers too. Famous quote from Michael Jordan. Yeah.

Plus, kids in cages make great shoes. Yeah, exactly. You need little tiny hands to get those laces. I'm wearing Nikes right now. And I'm like, that hypocritical Michael Jordan. I'm wearing Jordans right now. I bought Jordans I bought in Chinatown in New York. Yeah, the money thing is something that I hadn't thought about for a while.

But the fact that the myth he's most worried about people finding out about him is that he's not as rich as he says he is. So I do wonder, do we think all of this is just a distraction so that people will stop asking for his tax returns? That kind of seemed to prompt the entire snowball. I mean, shit, if the Democrats win the midterms, you might be seeing those tax returns real quick. But I think the other thing, it's funny, too, now that you say that,

is that there is a lot that I think resonates with a lot of Americans that do vote for Donald Trump and a lot of Americans in general. And I talked about this last week of just sort of this idea that a lot of people also spend money to simply fight off the appearance of being poor. And that's a lot of the situation when you look at how there's just a virtually no middle class or whatever, and people don't earn enough on a spectrum for the time that they put into their jobs. Like Donald Trump, he's lying about what he's got. And it also appeals

to people who might be in denial that their situation is actually a lot worse than it is. And they're like, yeah, maybe they feel that. Probably not like the most politically productive line of attack, but it is the one that would hurt him the most. I've never seen more people with no business talking about it telling me why bankruptcy is a good move. You know what I mean? Right, right, right. What are you talking about? We're all at Wendy's right now.

Yeah, exactly. People are like, well, actually, it's smart to go bankrupt. It's smart. It's a freaking casino going bankrupt. I'm like, is that right? You just asked to dip your fries into my milkshake. Yeah. Look, we're all your fries into my milkshake. Look, we're all in this Uber pool right now.

I don't need to be learning this from the driver. One pool, one love. And then also Melania even got messy too because she just came out of nowhere without being asked for comment. She wasn't at an appearance anywhere. She just had her spokesperson put out a quote that was just, it looks like LeBron James is working to do good things on behalf of our next generation, and just as she always has, the First Lady encourages everyone to have an open dialogue about

issues facing children today. I hate so much that people call people disagreeing about facts open dialogue. When something's objectively true or false, you can't have an open dialogue with both sides. Freedom of speech, bro. It's incredible.

Just think about how I feel though. Right, but I don't – I feel like I don't want to know what the truth is. No, no, but the truth scares me. I think we skim past the fact that if Donald Trump's tax returns come out, it's going to be funny watching him try and remember his TurboTax password. He was like the only billionaire who probably had to file online. And he's like, what's the free version? Do I have audit protection? What is it, $30 more?

Forget it. I don't have that. Forget it. I don't have that. I don't have that. What do I look like, a rich guy? So, Miles, what's going on in the Paul Manafort? I mean, not much.

We all know Paul Manafort is so capital G guilty. Yeah. And, you know, this is what all the lawyers call a documents case because a lot of it has to do with a lot of his fraudulent claims about his income and defrauding banks and lying about his money and money laundering, et cetera, et cetera. So there is clearly a mountain of evidence up against him. But they just need a few witnesses just come through and be like, yes, that it is what it looks like. So, yes, cut to Rick Gates, who is Paul Manafort's protege and his like right hand man when Paul Manafort was running the Trump campaign and even stayed after Paul Manafort left. Yeah, was a big figure on the Trump campaign. Yeah, he's the number two. And then I think took over the inauguration committee after after that.

number two and then I think took over the inauguration committee after that. So he took the stand yesterday in the trial and it essentially just boiled down to this. Him going up on the stand just saying, yes, Paul Manafort and I committed crimes and I also helped him commit crimes and also I used to steal money from him. It was so refreshingly plain spoken in a way that I didn't expect. Like reading over transcripts, you always assume someone would be like, well, crimes is a very, it's all encompassing. I'm not really sure. At the time, what I was doing in this guy was like, oh yeah, I woke up and I looked at my schedule and it said crimes with Paul.

And then I did crimes with Paul. And then more criming at five. Yeah. Like, yeah. Because I mean, as we've said on the show earlier too, like that there's plain email threads back to each other where he's like, help me doctor this like PDF. I can't do it in Word and I need to make it look like I make more money. And then he sends it back. And then Paul Manafort literally is like, can you make this a PDF for me? The bank needs it

as a PDF. And like, it's just all there. Also, while I've got you, Hotmail is different right now. Can you come and fix that? It's not the way i like it how do i change the picture that come why does my last name come up before my first name i don't like that uh so yeah it was very easy time and i guess you know when you think about why it was so clean in terms of him uh when the prosecution was talking to him or uh what do you call that uh uh that they were cross-examining cross-examining thank you uh that yeah he was just up there because he's he's got a plea deal with Robert Mueller. And it's essentially, you know, he was looking at 10 years for lying to the FBI and conspiracy against the United States. Probably not a good thing you want on your record.

And because he's cooperating, I think they're knocking it down. But, yeah, it's clear that he's just like, yes, whatever you need. So I don't have to go to jail for 10 years. I will tell you. Because the evidence is so damning. They really allow them to bring out like the C squad of lawyers. Now, did you do crimes? Yes. No further questions.

No, it was almost like that. And, you know, good luck to Paul Manafort's defense team, because I mean, you know, there's a chance that maybe the jury could be convinced that rick gates isn't reliable because he's also a criminal but i mean like most cases where you have someone snitch on the other person you have to kind of be like well he's pretty credible like why he's doing it uh but yeah i mean even if a lot of a lot of uh pundits are saying like even if uh rick gates didn't take the stand The fucking documents are just all there already. So it was more just for them to really underline and underscore. Like, yeah, these guys, this is what they do.

And again, this is the guy who was in charge of the inaugural committee for the president. He played a big role. Like, whether you believe that he, anything he says about Manafort, he's like, I do crimes. I steal from everyone. I steal from my own boss, I do crimes. I steal from everyone. I stole from my own boss. I do the worst. I am bad. And people, yeah, it's amazing how far we've come in terms of what we're used to and what we're just dismissing.

This is a just weak defining news story in any other time, any other administration. It's the first trump campaign official who has in court admitted to committing crimes right we you know used to talk about like wow what if this thing goes as deep as like watergate what if this is our watergate this is like watergate is nothing compared to this fucking pixar movie uh this guy morton halperin who was like he was on on Nixon's enemies list and he was a, you know,

he helped write the Pentagon Papers and then served on Nixon's National Security Council staff and, you know, actually criticized him. He was like one of Nixon's like mullers, basically. And the New Yorker interviewed him

and was like, so how do you think like this compares to Watergate? And he was just immediately like, oh, Trump's way worse. He's far worse than Nixon, certainly as a threat to the country, which like you would totally expect him to be like, you know, I stopped the worst person. But he's just like, no, we do not hold a fucking. I'm too old for this shit. Yeah. It's also, I think, just for a timing perspective, because John Lovett tweeted this this morning,

if the Trump presidency is a marathon, we have just passed mile 10. Right. That's where we're at timing-wise. And Jack and I, we've both run marathons. Yes. We know there's quite a bit more after that. Oh, it's 26.2 miles? Mm-hmm.

Uh-oh. The last six miles are like, you know, 20 miles. Yes. They really say that in your brain, the first 20 miles are only the halfway point. Yeah. Oh, okay. As a fellow marathoner, Daniel, you would get that, right? I agree with that, yeah.

Okay, fantastic. What is a marathon? Technically, the distance between the town of Marathon and Athens or something. Isn't that why the distance is 26.2 or something like that? Yeah, it was something like that. It's a mythology. Well, we don't all need to flex. I was feeling good about my marathon stuff.

And now I feel dumb and small. No, because people always have those 13.1 or 26.2 bumper stickers. I'm like, the 26.2 is so specific. Right. Like when people are like, yeah, I ran a 10K or a 25K or whatever. I'm like, why 26.2? Like a bunch of fucking jerks. 10K.

Wow. Jack, when you're driving and you see someone with a 13.1 sticker, do you like ram them a little bit? I used to do that all the time. Well, I just feel entitled to cut them off because they're less than me. Right. They clearly don't want it as bad. All right. We'll be right back.

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Papa is one of the Johns all of this was written out ahead of time Papa Johns is not doing well

guys no they aren't they just of course they're not because you have a fucking wacky avatar owner or founder who refuses to go away and blame everyone but himself

uh and they just reported their earnings fell by another six percent this last quarter because yeah uh mr john schnatter or whatever he's getting too messy out here in the streets. So they have a new plan, which is to spend $50 million and hire an army of, quote, advertisers and consultants to basically scrub old Papa John's existence entirely from like their marketing universe. And be like, we are this whole other thing. I mean, unless you fucking change your name to just like not fucking Papa John's, I don't know how you're going to distance yourself from this thing. You should change it to Lil John's. Lil John's, yeah.

What? Yeah, these pizzas will have, this pizza is okay. Not that good. But yeah, so right now, their current CEO is sort of saying like, their whole strategy is like, you know, millennials and Gen Zers,

they've left us for actually good pizza or just not eating as much pizza. So their whole thing is to try and bring them, the youngins back in, uh, and they can avoid total destruction. And like, they're even talking about pivoting to sort of like a more quote purpose driven model like Chipotle is talking about.

So I don't know if that means like, what is Chipotle doing that has purpose besides- They have like short stories on their bags, I think. Oh, yeah. I remember one of the first times I went to Chipotle, there was like a George Saunders quote. But it just made me concerned for George Saunders. I'm like, does he need money?

Is he poor? Yeah, there's like a Neil Gaiman or whatever the fuck that guy's name is. I know there's like a short story on there. like a Neil Gaiman or whatever the fuck that guy's name is. I know there's a short story on there. Gaiman. Gaiman. Gaiman. I guess their purpose-driven thing with Chipotle is being like Toms or something.

I'm not sure. I'm excited for Instagram influencers to start shilling for Papa John's. Yeah, yeah. Of a really hot 17-year-old just eating a slice and being like, it's not your mom's John. Yeah, right. It's not your papa's John. Yeah, that makes sense. The way Chipotle is talked about, they say they've demonstrated a little bit of our personality

and our sense of humor. And they said the commercials, they feature close-ups of their fresh ingredients and quippy voiceover. And the CEO wants customers to see Chipotle is a purpose-driven lifestyle brand to help people think. It's more than just a place to eat. Yeah. But is it?

A place to have diarrhea. Right. Right. To have Frank Zappa's sharts. Sharts, yeah. I mean, we go to Chipotle occasionally, but I've definitely fallen off that bandwagon. There's a while when my blood type was Chipotle. But when we do go to Chipotle,

it's because we identify with their quippy voiceover. You've always said that. I've always said that as a millennial. I'm like, where's the quippy VO at? I honestly am like, I lost my library card. Where can I go to get some literary stuff? I'm like, oh, I'll just go to Chipotle and take a giant dump while reading the bags.

That is nice that one of the poopiest restaurants in the entire world provides you with reading material while it exits you. I don't know. I say don't sleep on the other papa, sweet little Gino. Do you ever go to Papa Gino's? No. It's an East Coast pizza chain. Yeah. Don't sleep on Gino's.

I hope that Gino is is i used to date the assistant manager of papa genos not to freak anyone out disclosure thank you i haven't in it papa genos or i did in the late 2000s so i think that genos takes this opportunity to be like there's a vacant papa throne right and he's like okay so here and so genos is a cutie pie. He's a little cartoon who looks like the drummer in the Chuck E. Cheese band, a.k.a. Pasquale. There you go. Yeah. And this is basically a mainly Massachusetts-based pizza brand.

I keep saying Papa Geno's. When you think of pizza, you think Massachusetts. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Give me the Papa Geno's. I mean, they could change their name to fucking Papa Smurfs, and I think it would be better. Even Papa Doc. Papa Doc. Yeah.

I mean, fucking Papa Shango. I don't know anything but fucking Papa Johns. Yeah. Well, Papa himself, John Schnatterly, whatever the fuck his name is. Schnatter. Okay. his name is? He was saying that the reason their stock is actually down is that they're chasing these millennials by,

and they changed their colors. And the color change is what has them down. It's not blaming people protesting police brutality. All these people under 30 don't understand the colors. And so because of that, interesting of him to make All these people under 30 don't understand the colors. Right. And so because of that, interesting of him to make a color-based argument. What a fucking idiot. Yeah.

So the thing that people don't understand is the thing people want with their pizza is the same colors as before and right-wing politics. That's what you want to associate with your pizza-eating experience. So now this brings me to the story that has made me the most skeptical that there is a blue wave or that any rational thing will happen in the future of America. We hack a spy. So there was a USA Today survey that was based on 22,500 customers in America. They were asked about the quality of products, services, and satisfaction with more than 380 companies and 46 industries. And the limited service restaurants list, I'm going to give them to you in order.

This is fast food? Yes. Limited services, fast food. Right. What a give them to you in order. This is fast food? Yes. A limited service is fast food. Right. What a euphemistic term. Right. A limited service. Top of the list, Chick-fil-A.

I'm okay with that. I mean, politically not great, but- They're very polite. I understand where they're coming from and their food is satisfying. Panera bread is confusing to me. Oh, I like Panera. Yeah, it's nice that they just let you chill there. Chill there for hours while you eat.

Yeah, I used to always eat the Asiago roast beef sandwich when I was in college. I was the broccoli cheddar in a bread bowl if I could afford it. Oh, wow. In college. All right, money bag loft is over here. That's where all the moms go to gossip. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you wanna find out. Oh, wow. In college. All right, money bags, loftas over here. That's where all the moms

go to gossip. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you want to find out that is the hot mom gossip. Right, it's always like a Panera Nira, like a gym or yoga studio. Next door to a nail salon.

Like, yeah, fully the moms, it's the Panera's last stop. So Panera makes sense because that's where we're going to have our town hall meetings going forward. Like that is the town center.

All meaningful discourse will take place at a Papa John's. Number three, Papa John's. Number three? The highest rated pizza restaurant. The third highest rated fast food restaurant. Before Domino's? Way before Domino's. Oh.

Next one is Pizza Hut somehow. What? And then Subway. This was just bunk. Subway, no. Subway, they fucking suck. I love the cookies. I occasionally eat the sandwich.

But the people at the Subways I go to, they act like I'm fucking bothering them every time I ask for just anything. I'm like, oh, can I get a little more of this? And they're like, ugh. I've had some good discourse at Subway. Really? Yeah. Because I always ask where the seafood sensation's at. When they bring back the seafood sensation,

and they're like, oh, it's good that they took it away. It was really bad. Right. Was that a seafood salad? Like a mayonnaise seafood salad? It was a jar of mayonnaise with some imitation crab inside of it, and it cost like $10. Like a shrimp tail?

It was really bad. I used to love the seafood sensation as a young buck. Wait, and weren't you also the tuna fish eater at Dunkin' Donuts? I was young tuna. Yeah, so you just fuck with the fast seafood shit. I like the gnarliest, mayonnaise-iest, most dangerous food. Honoring your Bostonian roots. Just embracing the sea.

Just mayo-based meat dishes. Yeah. Is Long John Silver's even a thing anymore? Do you know what that is? Yeah, but I feel like they just crop up occasionally at malls. Fast food. Yeah, are they doing like combination Pizza Hut, Long John Silver type thing?

Are they a gum brand? Oh, it is like a combo one. They're their own company. Oh. In eighth grade, when you won the award for being the student of the month in your grade in Lexington, Kentucky, at the public school I attended, the reward was going to Long John Silver's corporate headquarters and getting a tour. Oh, right, because they're based in Louisville.

Yeah. Was it cool? It was so cool. Really? We got to go in their test kitchen and eat really gross food. Congrats on student of the month, by the way. Yeah. Was it cool? It was so cool. Really? We got to go in their test kitchen and eat really gross food. Congrats on student of the month, by the way. Thank you. No one had mentioned that.

I'm really sorry about that. All a roundabout way of letting you know in eighth grade, I was a kiss ass. And you've been to the LJSHQ. Right. Exactly. Good on you. I've been looking for a way to drop that. Yeah, Domino's, they should be up there a little bit more.

Yeah. Domino's is way the fuck down there. I mean, we came for Domino's. Little Caesars is down there. Wendy's is way down there. Like, Wendy's is, and McDonald's and Taco Bell are, like, way down. Insulting. I don't know, but it's just, it's confusing to me.

I don't know a single person who likes Papa John's. So it suggests to me that there is a pizza bubble. Yeah. Are we in a bubble? Are we in a completely different reality? Yes. Like, have I not been to real America since I was a child. If you grew up eating fast food pizza and you've never had a good pizza, of course Papa John's is the shit. Much in the same way when I first encountered Papa John's, I was like, yo, do you have fucking garlic sauce and a pepper in there? I was like, this is next level service or whatever the fuck.

But then as you expand your horizon a bit and you're exposed to different kinds of pizza, I'm like, wait, this fucking sucks. Is this a good time to say i've never been to a papa john's in my entire life no it isn't a good time and i let's edit this out i'm sorry you're right wow now everything you said has no weight i grew up genos i grew up genos top of genos pg i think people know that they should respect your food opinions since you shared that you like Subway Festa. Yeah, Subway Festa. And Mike's harder blood orange.

Another male name is Devin. Miles, take it away. Wow. Whoa. Crushing it. Thanks for that, Ali. You love Brian Shaw. Now let Shaquille O'Neal throw it down, my man.

So, yes, a boy named Devin. He spoke at a fundraiser in Washington State for Kathy McMorris Rogers, who is the number four Republican in the House. So very up there. So she's the pizza hut of the Republican House. She's the pizza hut, yes. We will be relating everything back to that. Exactly. If Paul Ryan is Chick-fil-A, she's the pizza hut of the Republican House. We will be relating everything back to that. Exactly. If Paul Ryan is Chick-fil-A, she is the pizza hut.

So the event was meant to be like a private fundraiser, meaning like no press, just only wealthy Republicans who are all the homies, so you can talk loose in there because ain't nobody listening. And we can just tell our secrets because we're all paying so much money to be there but fuse washington which is like a progressive sort of

watchdog organization they basically had somebody pay them pay the price to get in here and just record the shit uh to hear how what they were talking about and so we all know about you know devin nunez and his love for trump and how he'll fucking do anything to gum up the whole investigation, whether it's the Mueller investigation, or the House Intel investigation, or fucking Investigation Discovery Channel, whatever it is. He's a little creep. Yeah, he's just a fucking, you know, he's a lackey. He's the guy who hopped out of his black car in the middle of traffic to go visit with

the president when he got a message from him. I would love to call him a loser to his face. I think it would really devastate him. It would really hurt. Yeah, it would be devastating. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I would love to call him a loser to his face. I think it would really hurt. Yeah, it would be devastating. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It would be devastating. And if you saw the photo of him in high school, he's got the sickest mullet. It's pretty chill.

He's got like a turtleneck with turtleneck sweater mullet combo that only someone from the Central Valley could rock so seamlessly. But anyway, so suffice to say, he is totally all in for Trump and will do anything it takes, including completely sacrificing his own morals and just giving up his ability to feel shame. So during this recording, he said a few things that were very interesting. One of the first things that they were – this is all on Rachel Maddow because she exclusively got the tape and aired it last night. One of the first things that like they were, this is all on Rachel Maddow because she exclusively got the tape and aired it last night.

Uh, one of the first comments was pretty standard stuff, like not totally surprising where he was sort of saying like, you know, the, the president tweets some good stuff sometimes and sometimes like makes you want to cringe and blah, blah, blah, which is a little interesting because normally in his eyes, Trump can do no wrong. Uh, and also Devin Nunes has repeatedly been on like the nicer end of Trump's Twitter more than once because he's always been like, all right, good boy. Thank you for doing what I need. And so then he got he got a little bit more and more honest and use it in an election that was hacked material, that would be criminal. So listen to this recording of him sort of basically admits that he knows better about what collusion is.

So, there are so many things that my campaign, or Kathy's campaign, is colluding with the Chinese, or uniting the country. It could happen, it could be a very bad thing, if Kathy was getting secrets from the Portuguese that say, just because I'm Portuguese, but I'm not. So, if Kathy was getting secret information from the Portuguese, you know, well, you know, it may or may not be illegal, but ultimately, if that said, the Portuguese came and brought her some stolen email, and she decided to release those, okay, now we have a problem, So he basically is describing what is happening right now. Did he not know he was doing that? I don't know.

I mean, he did a lot of work to not say Russia. He was like, maybe it's the Chinese or Portuguese, because I'm Portuguese. Right. If they gave her hacked emails and she released them, that would be criminal. OK. It sounds like he sounds like a high schooler trying

to impress his friends by all but saying it, just in case it gets leaked hacks zeros ones but you know it's like when you're at the lunch table you're like guys you're not like you know we're talking it's like no you're a dork shut up i like that you can hear in that sound clip you can hear all the tinkling of forks and knives right and people being like it sounds like people who have are like have like really impaired motor skills are using silverware because it's so loud. People, for example, yeah, if you told them Donald Trump wasn't handsome, they'd die in front of you. Right.

But it is nice that Subway catered it with all seafood sensation. All seafood sensation, yes. So you can tell. Yeah, again, it just shows you how blatant he is in his actions where he knows what is the he's basically trying to obscure criminal behavior by hamstringing the investigations in any way he can. But we knew that, you know, like obviously he knows better. And but and then he just shows everybody. Yes, I know that if you received hacked information and you used it from another and it came from a foreign government, that is criminal. Thank you for putting on your hacker glasses, Jamie.

I just on behalf of the community. Yeah, thank you. We, of course, are out is criminal. Thank you for putting on your hacker glasses, Jamie. I just, on behalf of the community. Yeah, thank you. We, of course, are out there hacking. Stamp it. We've always been hacking zeros, ones, clicking, delete. Thank you. Take my glasses off. You're in.

Now, then he moved on to talking about Rod Rosenstein and essentially how, you know, it's not that they, you know, like, I think someone asked the in the fundraiser like, oh, what's going on with that? And he was sort of framing it sort of like, well, it's not because we don't want to. It's just like it's more of a timing thing. So in this, he's going to speak a little bit about why, you know, impeaching Rod Rosenstein would interfere with confirming Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. And so they can't confirm him and tear down our democracy at the same time, guys, is sort of what he's saying.

And so listen to him explain sort of how he sees the sequence happening if they're going to impeach Rod Rosenstein. So if we actually vote to impeach, what that does, that triggers the Senate that has to take it up. Well, you have to decide

what you want right now because the Senate only has so much time. Do you want them to drop everything and not confirm the Supreme Court justice? The new Supreme Court justice? So that's part of why I don't think you have, you're not getting from, like I've said publicly, Rosenstein deserves to be impeached. I mean, so I don't think you're going to get any argument from most of our colleagues. The question is the timing of it right before the election. So the Senate has to start. The Senate would have to start.

The Senate would have to drop everything they're doing and start to start with impeachment in Rosenstein. And then you take the risk of not getting not getting Kavanaugh. So it's a it's not a matter of the tape of slight rosin stuff it's a matter of it's a matter of time okay wow did you hear someone choke to death on their seafood sensation in the middle of that it's tough when your audience is entirely tobacco executives executive so yeah when you hear that one you're like oh shit okay clearly he still has his plan or agenda to try and impeach rod rosenstein again if you don't know rod rosenstein is he's the deputy attorney general of the department of justice and he is in charge of the muller investigation because jeff sessions recused himself, as he should have, because he has conflicting interests when it comes to this investigation.

So their whole thing is, well, if the Mueller investigation start getting too hot, we can impeach Rod Rosenstein and then put someone else in there that will basically either end the Mueller investigation or just kneecap the thing so it can't really do functionally anything. So when you listen to it, I was having we were kind of talking about like what's going on here because on one hand you have people like paul ryan and other top republicans being like there's no reason to impeach rod rosenstein right or whatever like it doesn't make sense it's just not going to work so on one hand i was like well maybe he's telling these donors like he's trying to protect his ego about like oh i didn't really take that L like that. It's not like they don't back me. Like, it's just a timing thing.

Like, we're going to get around to it. That makes sense to me. Which makes sense. But also when you listen to his the next thing he says, I can imagine a world where a lot of leadership on the in the Republican Party is secretly on board with that because their end game is sort of becoming a little bit clearer. is secretly on board with that because their endgame is sort of becoming a little bit clearer. So this is now Nunes sort of basically admitting that if the government functions properly and the Department of Justice does what it does, which is, you know, make sure there's no laws being broken, then Trump's presidency would effectively end. And they that's why they have to fuck around so much to keep the president. And so this is this is this is him sort of showing his hand in terms of what the endgame could be.

If Sessions won't unrecuse and Mueller won't serve the president, we're the only one. I mean, we have to keep all these seats. We have to keep the majority. If we do not keep the majority, all of this goes away. So those are the stakes of the midterm election. Yeah. So again, he says, quote, if Sessions won't unrecuse and Mueller won't clear the president, we are the only ones, which is really the danger.

That's why I keep and thank you for saying it, by the way. I mean, we have to keep all these seats. We have to keep the majority. If we do not keep the majority, all of this goes away. So they know that if they lose the majority, that means the Democrats are in power. And now they can really set the agenda of like what what Trump's future is going to look like. And that's why they're like, well, see, that's why, you know, if we hopefully we keep the majority so we don't have to fully burn the fucking house down and impeach Rod Rosenstein and tear the DOJ down in that sense to keep the heat off the president. So that's why we have to do this, guys, because it's just us now.

Right. It's just us. It's just our thin majority. And just to be clear and put this all in context, so they're basically saying our last option is to use the Republican controlled, you know, Congress to, you know, shut the investigation down because the Trump appointed deputy attorney general like won't shut it down and, you know, they can't get any other way to shut it down. So this is what they what it's come down to. And he's like one person left who still wants to shut it down.

I hate to bring it back to the forks, but I can't hear anything on that tape other than forks. So as that tape goes on, you'll notice the fork sounds diminish. And it does remind me of something else that sounds a lot like my not-Uncle Mike's terrible Republican band, which is the Jonestown tape, where it gets quiet as the tape goes on, and that is kind of what the whole Nunez dinner is from. Slowly winding down, expiring at the table.

So the hacker news on this is that the seafood sensation everyone was eating was poison. Oh, wow. So as Devin Nunez is talking, everyone is slowly dying. And so a bunch of tobacco gods are dead now. Well, the other thing to notice is Kathy McMorris-Rogers, so she had a primary in Washington, and she barely got out of there alive.

Because they also have a jungle primary in California where the top two vote-getters face off in the midterm election in november right she barely got in okay and for being that high up in the party second uh and i think she's i think she was first but like not in a way that like an incumbent should normally win right uh which is yeah which i think is another indication too because this was before the thearies happened, that she was clearly feeling the heat already. And they were kind of in this thing where like, yo, even the number four Republican, like it's it's closing in on them, too. Like people are just sort of getting a little bit weary of their fuckery. Who'd she almost get beat by?

Was it a Democrat or like a further right Republican? No, it's a it's a Democrat. Wow. Oh, that's great. Oh, yeah. Yeah. No. In her primary, she had a Democrat. Wow. Oh, that's great. Hell yeah. Yeah, no, in her primary, she had a lead of a little more than 500 votes. Oh, wow.

Yeah. Wow. In other tape news, Omarosa was apparently taping the president during her time in the White House. We don't know what is going to be on that tape. I'd imagine it won't be much good, but who the fuck knows.

Yeah. I read an article where someone was saying like they after speaking with people had who had heard the recordings it wasn't really that great it was like oh you recorded him but I don't know maybe she maybe Omarosa isn't she's only letting people know like I have tapes but I haven't showed you the the bangers on this album right right right right shout out to the the album Bangers by Miley Cyrus. One of the greats. Yeah, and her book might have some Fire and Fury style funsies that we can get out of it. Yeah, I mean.

We'll see. Also, I mean, what a blatant cash grab, too. If Sean Spicer's book wasn't enough, hers is just called Unhinged. Right. I think all caps. I do love that title. Yeah. Oh, it's great. I just wish it was someone whose book I'd want to buy called Unhinged. I think all caps. I do love that title. Oh, it's great.

I just wish it was someone whose book I'd want to buy called Unhinged. It might as well just be like, ah! Ah, real monsters! I go back to that Big Brother tape often in my mind. Oh, man. Of her just being like, it's not good. It's bad.

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And I think it was last night on Kimmel. Kanye. Yep. Kanye showed up. Showed up. He ghosted some other shows. So they've had a feud in the past. Oh, yeah.

Remember? It was like a low-key feud, though. Well, on Twitter, remember? They were going back and forth. That's true. That's when Virgil Abloh was helping him make memes to clap back at him. It was like SpongeBob SquarePants, and he's like, Jimmy Kimmel face looking motherfucker. It was just weird.

Right. It was right around the Yeezus album, I remember, when they were fucking going at it, and then they squashed it or whatever. So yeah, when he showed up yesterday, I was like, ooh. It was like a 22-minute interview in total. And I really love Jimmy Kimmel as an interviewer, actually. He's never rubbed me the wrong way. He's always really nice, and he still is funny without being obnoxious.

Right. And I really like the interview. I think, I mean, Kanye is just a character, but his, I don't know. I like how Jimmy spun it all, because he always was underlying, like, Donald Trump sucks, Donald Trump sucks. Yeah. And Kanye didn't really have anything. No.

Like he didn't have a rebuttal to any of that aside from like he would just say his point. Like I had to build up a lot of confidence to put that MAGA hat on. It wasn't because of that. It was just it was more of a symbolic moment for me to like take control. Yeah. Or just be like, I'm going to do this thing I want. I don't care what the repercussions are. I want to wear the hat or whatever. And sure.

But there was one moment that was so good where you could tell Kanye doesn't really, he's not in the ring with intellectual heavyweights too often trying to defend his position. Right. Because Jimmy Kimmel. No one questions him properly. Jimmy Kimmel just melted him with one question, basically. So I think we'll play a clip of Kanye kind of talking about his love for Trump, how fucking love can solve everything.

And then Kimmy, Jimmy Kimmy gets him real good. When I see people just even like go at the president, it's like, why not try love for one person to stand up against all odds and just hug somebody the way that Alice Johnson hugged her family when she got out of jail. That one by one by one, we can defuse this nuclear bomb of hate that we're in as a society by thinking of everyone as our family

and how we treat our kids, how we treat our aunties. I think that's a beautiful thought, but just in literal terms, there are families being torn apart at the border of this country. There are literally families being torn apart as a result of what this president is doing. And I think that we cannot forget that. Whether we like his personality or not the his actions are really what what matters I mean you so famously and so

powerfully said George Bush doesn't care about black people it makes me wonder what makes you think that Donald Trump does or any people at all why don't we take a break we'll come back and Kanye West every time Kanye gets nervous in this interview he crosses his arms yeah you go he's so transparent I mean like is you know the few times where you can read someone's body language is Kanye cuz he's signaling like okay let me close off to what you're saying now and then okay what do you so what you can't see because this is an audio podcast, is right after he asks that question,

Connie, like, he takes it in, he leans back like he's about to say something, and then just kind of goes, ah. Right. And then Kim will just mercifully, just like, okay, let's take a break, because you don't need to take that much of an L on camera.

But the thing that disappointed me a little bit is when they came back, they just kind of went back to other topics. Yeah, he never answered it. Yeah, and I think you need to, you know, hold this man's feet to the fire

because he doesn't even really know where he lands, Connie, because he hasn't really thought about any of this shit. And also, when he said Alice, when he brings up Alice Johnson, that was the woman that

Kim Kardashian caped for and then got the pardon, right? It was like, well, why can't, when she comes out and hugs her family, like blah, blah, blah. That's love between a family where there is love that exists.

That is not a situation. People who supported her. Yeah, that is not an adversarial relationship. So what the fuck are you talking, like, that's where you're like, oh man, you are, you just talk out loud. You're so detached from reality. It's absurd. Well, you know.

But I do like Jimmy Kimmel and how he handled it though. He's a smart man. Yeah, yeah. He didn't, I mean, he didn't get how he handled it though he's a smart man yeah yeah he didn't I mean he didn't get real messy about it but he just brought up a few things

like okay I'm gonna leave that there you really couldn't answer that so just let that marry me I mean his points his views are very obviously shown you know what I mean

like he's not gonna just like jack him off as he's like interviewing him I like that about Jimmy Kimmel he's not like Jimmy Fallon just like laughing at every joke who jacks everyone off on camera

yeah yeah most people who don't live out here don't know that but he's constantly jacking his guests off. Especially Trump. Little known fact.

You don't see, that's actually a green screen. You're just sensitive because that's your name. Right. That is true. I was constantly called Jack off when I was a kid.

Yeah. Oh yeah. A sweat rolled down his face. Are you crying? He's not crying, okay crying okay no these are tears of laughter called courage water courage sweating uh it means my courage is so much it's coming out my floors and my eyes i thought it was really smart that he pointed out he was like yes you're viewing that as a completely personality-based thing.

And that is true of narcissists. That's true of Trump, that's true of Kanye. It seems that everything is just personality-based. And I think it's also true of our media that we tend to just, when we're viewing elections or these stories, we're just like, make it into world wrestling. Even with the Me Too stuff, there are people who,

some people, if you're a fan, there's that first layer of like, oh, but that person's cool. Right. Am I willing to remove that from observing this situation? Yeah. I think it's interesting

that you started out talking about not knowing the difference between a character and a non-fictional thing and a character and a fictional thing because I think that that kind of breaks down for us a lot of the time. That a lot of these celebrities are just kind of fictional

characters. Right, right. You know Kanye's not a fictional character though, right? You called him a character. You know he's just a character. Wait, he's a real person? Yeah. Oh yeah. I'm so sorry. Yes, that is sadly a did like i did like when kimmel when he brought him out he described him as like a very talented musician whatever whatever

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