The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 54 (Best of 12/10/18-12/14/18)

Episode Date: December 16, 2018

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or wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes every Thursday. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of the Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from this week, all edited together into one nonstop infotainment laughstravaganza. Yeah, so without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist let's talk about chipotle and other fast cash yeah i mean so there was an article i was reading in the takeout today about how like fast food prices are going up because like recently i saw a commercial on mcdonald's

it's like the six buck value meal and for six, you got like a sandwich or nuggets and a small fries and like a small drink for six bucks. I was like, back in my day, I could get fed with a $5 bill. And I was a little bit, I was like, okay, something's going on. And then I saw this article and it makes sense. So they were pointing to the fact that like fast casual restaurants, like Chipotle and Shake Shack and things like that have basically raised our expectations as consumers for what fast food should be. So that knock-on effect is that places like McDonald's are trying to give you a little bit more for your money or give you what are, I guess, seen as premium ingredients and things like that to raise its cachet. They were also pointing to the fact that in 2008, the median price of a fast food burger, $4.50. Today, $6.95.

What? Okay, and back to the $5 bill argument. You know when the last time you could get fed for a $5 bill at a fast food restaurant and get changed back? A year ago? 2012. Really? It's been that long since we've moved past.

To get a whole meal. So you're saying with the drink and the side? Yeah. I think the $5 meal was years ago, but even just a good burger was 2012. And now chicken sandwiches are going up. But I guess that all has to do with Chipotle and also things as like more of these fast food places are using like actual ingredients rather than like fake nonsense chemicals that the prices are going up because they have to still compete uh and also things like you know wages i guess oh no yeah so i mean we'll you know we'll hold tough but i it's still at the end of the day i think as people just become more savvy and are like i don't think i can just be eating this all

the time. That probably means the clock is starting to run out a little bit on fast food as we know it in the sort of fake meal era. I mean, certain things have become way, way cheaper, like electronics. Like a really nice TV used to cost like a month's salary, and now you can get like a flat screen for nothing. A week's salary. A week's salary a week's salary uh and but yeah it seems like food because we're having higher and higher standards for what we put in our uh face hole yeah yeah wait what was your take on chipotle though any that you were

you wanted to flame um i hadn't been to chipotle until a couple years ago, and it had been built up so much by my friends. So much. And then I went, and I was kind of, you know, meh. Yeah, it's okay. And the reason I eventually struck it from the list was because I'm not sure how people feel about Chipotle anymore. People love it. They still love it? I think, yeah yeah i think it

was really big in places where you weren't really eating real mexican food right like people it's like oh man chipotle you get the whatever but when i put that against any like taqueria or something or truck in la i'm like no i'm good on chipotle pretty much every time but still really love their chips their chips are good the one thing i need to eat is a quesarito. Yeah, the quesarito. Where they take the tortilla for the burrito and make a – they take two of those and make a quesadilla, like a big circular quesadilla, and then they use that to wrap your burrito in.

It makes a difference. I would definitely give it a shot. Oh, it does make a difference? Yeah, it's great. Oh, you've never had that? No, that's what I'm saying. Oh, it does make a difference? Yeah, it's great. Oh, you've never had that? No, that's what I'm saying. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because that's the thing I'm like,

ah, that does pique my interest as a scumbag food connoisseur. With queso and then extra cheese. No, I'm just joking. Yeah, get it mojado style just with queso all over the top. And then instead of a meat, you just say sour cream and extra cheese. Yeah, what do you want in the middle? Sour cream, cheese, and... Do you have any whole milk back there?

And half and half. So Ecuador is really trying to send a message to Julian Assange that it's over. Yeah. Yeah. It is over. Things have not worked out between the two of them. Well, we saw a couple months ago, maybe it was last month. I don't know.

I'm experiencing severe time dilation with the news. But we heard that the Ecuadorian embassy was like, well, first of all, man, your cat is like not – you don't clean up after your cat. Your bathroom is a disaster. Please clean up your bathroom or you will have to leave. Please stop antagonizing foreign governments from our Wi-Fi. Just please, like they set ground rules. And I think he probably wasn't following them because now the president of Ecuador was basically saying, like Lennon Moreno in a radio interview was just like, look, man, the road is clear, as he said,

for Mr. Assange to take the decision to leave. And he said that they have written assurances from Britain that he will not be extradited to face the decision to leave. And he said that they have written assurances from Britain that he will not be extradited to face the death penalty abroad. So it's sort of like, hey, look, the UK says, look, they're not going to extradite you if there's the death penalty on the table. So can you go? And it's not sure what's going to happen,

but the accounts of, like, we're hearing more about what his life is like. And I don't know if he's clearly struggling. Like I want to laugh, but I don't know. I mean, if I was a guy who was cooped up in an embassy for six years, even though I'm facing a slew of interesting charges in many countries. It's like one person who has gone to interview him. A quote from him just says, it seems he doesn't wash properly is a direct quote because he is the smelly kid and that feels like a very insulting way like that's more cutting

than just saying yo the dude smells like fucking shit right yeah like something like it seems he doesn't like it seems yes it's there's something very passive aggressive. Yeah, and I love that. One of his former aides said, Julian ate everything with his hands, and he always wiped his fingers on his pants. I have never seen pants as greasy as his in my whole life. So he's wearing like grease chaps? Yeah. Basically on the front.

Like I would have suspected that this was just Ecuador's way of being like, get the fuck out of here, man. Like, we're going to spread rumors about your hygiene if you don't just leave. But they've got, like, journalists who went and interviewed him. They have one of his closest aides just being like, yeah, man, I don't know what to tell you. Yeah, eating everything with your hands seems like you've, I don't know what's going on. Like, you're regressing in some way or another. It seems like some've, I don't know what's going on. Like you're regressing. It seems like some Howard Hughes shit is going down.

Like he's like on to that place where, you know, he might as well be peeing in bottles. Well, I mean, when you hear the state of the bathroom he was in, he's probably somewhere in that. Just saying they switched the samples over and over again. somewhere in that. Just saying they switched the samples over and over again. Well, one thing that John Kelly is certainly going to miss is freaking out about the border and blocking, trying to shut down the U.S.-Mexican border. And the caravan is a story that we were all kind of focused on in the run-up to the election, and it has become far less of a story in the aftermath of the midterm elections. And there is some recent reporting from BuzzFeed that suggests that there were some mysterious actors

working on behalf of kind of getting people pumped up and getting the numbers pumped up in the caravan. Like it was manna from heaven, rhetorical manna from heaven for them to be like, oh, finally, okay, let's drum up all the xenophobia with this thing to get people to the polls. Now, there's a report, like I think BuzzFeed was reporting that they found that there was a fake account that may have helped build momentum for the migrant caravan. So they're not saying that it actually like it began with this account, but there was

an account that was using Facebook Messenger to communicate with other like political figures in Honduras to pretend to be Bartolo Fuentes, who's like one of the main activists who like is in support of the caravan but was basically opposing as him to sort of get other people to like get involved with it so it said before the account got started not many people seemed to be joining but only after the account kicked into gear did enthusiasm and participation spike and the account also claimed falsely that the caravan was being led by a migrant rights organization called Pueblos Sin Fronteras. And yeah, once like I think the caravan began to swell, this group did get involved, but they weren't like leading it. So it was a very interesting thing. Like they're saying

that this thing may have sort of pushed it to the tipping point to get people moving. Now, of course, they're not saying that this had anything to do with like the socio-political forces at play. It's just that there's migrant caravans like multiple times a year and this turned into the biggest one. And it got some help kind of gaining momentum and becoming the biggest one ever through this imposter Facebook account. Well, it's funny too, because when they reached out to Facebook, they're like, hey, can you tell us anything about it? They basically, as they say, refuse to release information about the account who may have set it up or what country it may have originated from. Right. But who knows with Prussia, but we're not going to tell you who in particular. Um, yeah, that timing was just,

I mean, again, this is what happens with Facebook now when they're not upfront about everything. Yeah. You think they could make things go away if they could just begin owning up to the fact that they've been screwing up tremendously every day. Yeah. But think about all the ways that the left cheats by like having all these

huge storms come about because of climate change. That's true. And like, they're all, come about because of climate change. That's true. Like they're all, you know, the climate change people. It's like the timing on that pretty convenient. That is true. Yeah. So there was a big alt-right con over the weekend convention. Yes.

I probably need to clarify. Convention. Yeah. And it featured the likes of Laura Loomer, Jack Posobiec, whatever. And it- Mike Cernovich. Mike Cernovich. Stephen Molyneux.

Weird Mike Cernovich. There's all kinds of people there. Is Laura Loomer the Twitter? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And it did not draw as well as people were expecting. Yeah.

They called it the American- Yeah. American Priority Conference in D.C. First of all, bad name. Yeah. Horrible. Yeah. And it's basically like what CPAC is, but to the right of that even, which is hard to imagine what that is even like. And it's because it's a lot of QAnon shit, people from like gateway pundit or formerly of gateway pundit just all varieties of uh wacky alt-right kind of talk yeah real goofs yeah a bunch of goofballs there

but the photos of the thing are so so sad like a lot of will summer uh went to i guess a panel that was called why you should subscribe to PewDiePie was a thing. And there were maybe nine people like in this gigantic ballroom, like for at a, at a hotel. And then even like the, as like the DC police said, they were like, Oh yeah,

a couple of dozen, like two to three dozen at most in each room. But a lot of the journalists who were there were like, that is a very generous estimation of who came. It was 165 bucks a ticket. And yeah, like all these people, they're in constant just like weird scandals. Like Jack Posobiec has like constantly been caught

trying to cheat on his wife on Bumble by people. And like Cernovich is just a weird, weird, sad dude who drinks and goes like on live streams and just says nonsense. Like the brand is fucking just failing it's just so funny to be like evil and your problem is that like people don't really like you very much

you're kind of unpopular sorry it's funny now but like that used to be sort of what I would have expected but now it seems like this is a new direction for the alt-right where they're in somewhat of a spiral.

Yeah. And like, I think they thought, well, I mean, I'm sure at the very beginning of the administration and the like a tail end of the 2016 election, like, OK, there's we got an audience here. Right. And then they just they made their move too late and realized, oh, nobody is fucking with us anymore. And all the retweets I'm getting is probably from people who are ridiculing me. Right. And then Anthony Scaramucci was there for some reason and apparently like gassed up a bunch of QAnon believers like at an event called Coffee with Mooch.

and apparently they're saying uh in political they said he spoke glowingly of the theory the q anon theory uh as a couple from stafford virginia showed their q paraphernalia uh and then apparently he told these people that he's like you're not gonna believe who it is to these people yeah wow and they're like oh my god so you do know and he's like yeah you're not gonna believe it and then he goes away and then these journalists from Politico went up to him like, yo, did you just tell them something about QAnon? And he kind of denied he had said anything about it. And then those same journalists went to the couple he was talking to and they go, yeah, he's talking about Q.

Oh my God. I mean, don't take advantage of these people with their fantasy QAnon. That's so sad. Right. But hey, you know, it's like Harry Potter for baby boomers. Yeah. But like sad, sort of lost spiritually and emotionally tweets and like message board posts from Q followers.

Yeah. When something happens that makes it seem indisputable that the Q thing was bullshit. Yeah. Or that Mueller is working against Trump rather than with Trump, as they all believe. Yeah. Like, I haven't spoken to my wife. Because I have a headache. It's so stressful.

I haven't spoken to my wife in months. Yeah. Please tell me this isn't all bullshit. Like, I've lost my family over this. Like, I really do believe Q, but I need something to help me. I need more than this. I wanted to talk real quick about this New York Times story about location-based tracking, which is something that I was vaguely aware was happening in the background of my smartphone.

And it's apparently a $21 billion business. The idea that an app will track you or serving people? What is it? They're selling the data. They're selling your data. So apps that track your location are keeping extremely close tabs on where you are. They know where you live. They know, okay, you're the only person who moves from this house to this like on a regular basis and ibm just bought the weather channels app

because the weather channel is like one of those apps that you always leave the location service on foursquare remade itself as a location marketing company but 21 billion dollars as a industry like to put that in perspective like billboards and outdoor marketing is a 7.1 billion dollar industry and that's like the highest it's ever been so it's like that's triple that yeah it's triple that and that's a thing that we all know we all know we're under the influence of like billboards when we see them because they're just fucking right there yeah that's why i love altered carbon right on netflix yeah exclusively and netflix is a joke. Oh, wait.

Wrong genre. But yeah, there's this completely invisible industry that is three times the size of that. I know someone who, I don't know them well, but it was like in a social gathering and this person was talking about how she worked briefly for Google. And it's probably illegal for her to tell me this story. So no one will know who I'm talking about. She said that her job was simply to put this device in her purse and find a reason to go into local business and stay in there long enough until she felt it vibrate and then she would get to leave and she never knew what it was for what the fuck but she quit after a short while because it was making her so uncomfortable

because she was like she'd have to like an optometrist like go in and be like oh i'm just looking at glasses you know just have to like make up a reason to be in there and then mid sentence it beeps and she's just like oh i'm. Oh, I don't – I changed my mind. My eye is working out. Yeah. And she said she thinks that it was like surveying the space, that it was like measuring, like sending out little signals and like creating sort of like a map of the store. And then that data was going to be sold. So Google was going to sell that data back to the businesses and go,

we can track it. Cause she's like, it was something to do with what you're talking about, where they were mapping the store. And then that data could be used in conjunction with people's phones. So they could find out how long does someone stay at the front of the store? How long did they stay in the back of the store? I mean,

we're talking like splitting gears down. That's what this, that's what this is. They were looking at this rack for five minutes. So that rack is very successful. Yeah, that display was effective. You get high engagement in the lower left quadrant. Yeah, and companies are buying this stuff.

I mean, it's crazy. Personally, I'm just pissed that I don't have access to that information because I bet it's fascinating. There's all sorts of interesting shit about like how humans move in groups like the way that they lay out grocery stores like they lay it out this way because that's like the direction that humans circle and also cows circle in that direction like we all we prefer to go counterclockwise but then there was a change because Whole Foods, to make themselves seem different, changed it up so that their direction was in a different direction. And now everybody wants to be like Whole Foods,

so they changed it to the opposite direction. Wow. It's just weird. McDonald's, they design, I mean, there's a million examples of this at McDonald's, but they designed their booths to become uncomfortable after 20 minutes. Oh, so you're like, let's get the fuck out of here. Right.

They don't want you to stay in there long enough to go, this is disgusting. Right. It's true. Like red and yellow are the proven colors that like make you uncomfortable. Right. And you want to get out of that area and they're stressors. So like it's like they researched everything. Red is also a stimulant.

So it like causes, it makes you more likely to make impulse decisions. Yeah. Yeah. But then after 20 minutes, you're like, wait, why are the floors so slippery? Is that fat just in the air? Yeah, no, that's it.

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And we're back. Let's talk about the most Googled foods of 2018. And we have brought in Let's talk about the most Googled foods of 2018. And we have brought in our special keto correspondent, super producer Ana Hosnier. Hi. Are you keto? Wow, listen to that energy from that keto diet.

See, she's fucking vibrating right now. She's hovering. Well, the reason we bring her in is because when you look at the most Googled food of this year, five of the fucking entries are keto recipes. So keto pancakes, keto cheesecake, keto chili, keto brownies, amongst the others. Cheeto cookies would be better, but it's actually keto cookies. Uh-huh.

But yeah, it just shows you the power, the strength of the keto craze. I've been swept up in the keto wave. Are you keto wave too? I am not, but my roommate was keto for a while, and I just, through osmosis, started eating a lot less bread. Yeah. Huh. Yeah.

Now I know what's keto and what isn't, and I know what it is. Right. I'm not keto. You know, I didn't have a need or desire to lose quite a large amount of weight, but, yeah, it's making its way through all our brains. Yeah, my dad was on three different kinds of it this year. I tried it for three weeks. Three ketos. Three tried it for three weeks. Three Ketos?

Three Ketos, three Dole. Yeah, so you just said that you had made Keto pancakes this weekend, did you not, Anna? Yes, I made Keto pancakes this weekend. I've made Keto cheesecake, which I brought in, and you guys all pretended to like it. I did like it. No, they were delicious. Yeah. Uh-huh.

Uh-huh. No, they were good. There's some face humor on this podcast. It's so easy to fuck with her I've made keto cookie chocolate chip keto cookies I've made keto lava cakes

I use almond flour I also use like coconut flour so this is like no carbs is that the keto philosophy it's all fat very little sugar too high fat moderate protein low carb Is that the keto philosophy? It's all fat. Yeah. Very little sugar too. Yeah.

Very, very little sugar. High fat, moderate protein, low carb. But that keto cheesecake was sweet. What was so sweet? Mung fruit. I said mung. For the keto cheesecake, I used the Swerve sugar, which is like fake sugar. It's the fake sugar from taking the world. You got to go buy,

you got to go spend most of your life savings on this stuff because it's very expensive and they only sell it at like health food stores. Okay. Right.

Yeah. I feel like keto is expensive. I'm going to go and swerve past that. I feel like this is a good time. I need a raise. Yeah. I know. I saw you ordering that bread.

I can't feed myself. 20 bucks a loaf for keto bread. Yeah. Well, low carb bread. Look, it's not great, but it does the job of you thinking you're eating bread. Yeah. It's just you need something to put things between. You toast your keto bagels here in the office.

I do. And sometimes I smell them and I'm like. Yeah. And you're like, is someone using whiteout? Well, the other things on this list were very interesting too. I feel like we're not treating ourselves very well as a species because most of these are like... When have we ever? Right.

But these are like it's... Okay. So like romaine lettuce, you know that was because of the recall. Right. Yeah. That's not because everybody needed a romaine recipe. Right. How do I cook romaine lettuce?

CBD gummies. So we're treating ourselves well there. Love gummies. Everybody loves... But this was the year for CBD. You know what I love now? CBD? CBD? CBD gummies so we're treating ourselves well there love gummies everybody loves but this was the year for CBD you know what I love now CBD

CBD boys to men ABC CBD the gummy thing is cool I like that there's just a lot of vegan gum

I always felt a little weird about eating gelatin I'm not vegan but like gelatin's a little bone goo I'd rather it's bone goo

I'd rather not and now there's vegan gummies everywhere which I think is great. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We've made a lot of advances in vegan sciences. And vegan edibles. Yes.

People want to get that CBD wave. And the other ones, Necco wafers, I'm surprised, because we talked about how that shit should have just been thrown on the fucking trash heap of history. It's so bad. That's what I'm talking about. And then Gochujang is pretty good. Overrated Necco wafers. Underrated Nilla waf pretty good. Overrated NECA wafers.

Underrated Nilla wafers. Oh, I love Nilla wafers. For sure. Nilla wafers are like currency in my preschool. I remember as a kid. With bananas and pudding. They're coin shaped and everything. Yeah.

But the thing with gochujang, I wonder if that had to do. What is gochujang? It's the Korean spice paste. Oh, nice. Like a foundation for all Korean spicy food. It's like pepper paste. Yeah. And that was mentioned in that woman's really tired obituary about her potato salad or whatever

the fuck. Remember the woman, she was like, millennials are ruining mayonnaise. That's what it was. The pro mayonnaise thing. She's like, and now people want gochujang or whatever. Right. But I think this was just a hot year for Korean fusion. Yeah.

And a cold year for mayonnaise. Yes. Cold year. Yeah. Mayonnaise is number 576. Oh, for sure. Oh, and a cold year for mayonnaise. Yes. Cold year. Yeah, mayonnaise is number 576. Oh, boy. Unicorn cake was the number one searched thing, which- That's Instagram, baby.

Yeah. The power of Insta. Oh, yeah. It's just because that's- It's pretty. It was like cake with a horn on it? Oh, no, it's rainbow cake. Right, but it was all about the visual of it rather than this was a thing to eat.

Everyone's obsessed with like, you can make this little cake look like a unicorn. Look, it's pretty. I say uniform. Yeah, people want to eat things that look good and don't taste good, I find. Yeah. All those pastry instruments, I'm like, you know this doesn't taste. It's kind of dry because you have to make a thick cake. Yeah, it has to be very rigid.

It has to be very rigid. I'm not a fondant fan either. Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. Good for sculpting, bad thick cake. Yeah, it has to be very rigid. It has to be very rigid. I'm not a fondant fan either. Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. Good for sculpting, bad for eating. Yeah. Oh, okay. So I see the inside of the unicorn cake looks like a unicorn frap from Starbucks. Oh, God.

Right. Sure. You get that a lot? What does a unicorn frap look like? It looks like a Kashi 69's hair. It's like blue. It's like cotton candy because it's blue and pink and white and all that. Yeah.

That was a 2017 thing. Basically, Super Producer Ana Hosnia, the way to break the internet, come up with a keto unicorn cake. Oh, shit. With CBD in it. With CBD. There we go. We're on the same page.

That wouldn't be too hard. I want some CBD in my go-to jang. You can imagine. You just need to get like, you could make frosting from like Swerve confectioner sugar. Holy shit. With food coloring. And then you can make the cake out of either almond flour or coconut flour. Use the same recipe as a cake, but you just replace those certain items with the replaceable.

Take all the wheat in your diet and replace it with nuts. Guys, her eyes are closed as she says this. And she was just running her fingers through the air like she was seeing the Matrix. Her eyes just went all white. That's actually the thing. Once you do and start making enough keto things, you immediately can see how to make the keto version of everything. Yeah, it's like the gif of the woman seeing the math in the air.

Right, right, right. It's just keto-ing. She's gone into a keto fugue. And I wanted to take a quick moment to look at the 2020 Democratic field, because specifically the Beto versus Bernie debate that is now sort of bubbling to the surface. Some of the people on the. Don't forget Biden. Yeah.

It's Beto, Beto, Beto, Bernie. I think people just have a Biden is like a fixed, like a known quantity. And then... Like mayonnaise. Right. And then... Beto is the go-to jang. Right.

Beto is the go-to jang. Bernie is Miracle Whip. Right. Well, so, you know, I heard somebody talking about how Bernie gets like harshly criticized for, you know, not having very woke politics on race. And I started doing like research into that. And it seems like people don't really know where to come down on Bernie and how he feels about race. Well, he's had gaffes, right?

Like so during on Super Tuesday when he got blown out by Hillary, like it was almost like there was no effort to reach out to black women who are going to be a Democratic candidate. You need that. And there was very little effort to court that voting bloc. And he said things here and there. But, you know, it's criminal justice. Things do address those kinds of things. He's just not a very vocally like I think the issue is he doesn't say enough out vocally that people go, oh, I see him vibing with people of color. Now, in the last year, he's done a lot to, I think, change that. Right. But I think a lot of the criticism comes from, I think, sort of the lack of interest, and from Hillary, too, from just trying to better understand the black vote. Kind of the two ends of the spectrum on, you spectrum on white Democrats trying to appeal to voters of color is on the one hand, you've got Bernie who just doesn't really talk about it.

But he talks about policies that affect class, which is very influenced – like race and class are deeply intertwined. And then on the other end of the spectrum, you've got Hillary Clinton telling you that she's your abuela. Right. Which – does that help her with- I have hot sauce in my bag, swag. So authentic. I've got hot sauce in my bag. What kind?

Texas pizza? Oh, come on. Get that shit out. It's not crystal. I had slaves in Arkansas. Yeah. Oh, did you? She did.

She did. I had slaves in Arkansas. Yeah. Oh, did you? She did. Yeah. I mean, so Sanders in 2016 said something about like how we need to move beyond identity politics to focus on class, which I get. Sounds like something a white guy would say.

Very, very nervous. Yeah, exactly. It's a big debate right now. Yeah. Because people are talking about identity politics like it's meaningless right which i think is upsetting but at the same time identity politics are not the whole sum of all politics i feel like it's used by certain white like liberals to suggest that like it's basically their discomfort with focusing on racial issues yeah it's a euphemism for do you have to talk

about being black all the time right but meanwhile like trump's entire platform is identity politics like yeah and just in the reverse it's identifying yourself as white and identifying people of color and the lgbtq community as other and yeah that is identity, but it doesn't get identified as such. Right. Identity politics is a term reserved for people with marginalized identities who won't shut up about it. Right. Exactly. Better definition. Right. Yeah. So when you look to, I think what that move on poll, that straw poll is a thing that got everybody talking about sort of like, oh, let's, according to these people, it's just about people who support for members if they ended up becoming political candidates.

Who's polling the best of the Democrats. 28% was someone else don't know slash other. 15% Beto. 14.9% Biden. 13.1% Bernie. 10% Kamala Harris. 6.4% Elizabeth Warren. And then on and on and on.

And Cory Booker at the very bottom at 2.6. That's where he belongs. Yeah, I mean, good luck to you, Cory. So I'm very curious to know what's going on because we know Beto has been talking to Obama. He's been talking to Al Sharpton and Andrew Gillum. The Andrew Gillum thing is very interesting to me that they're talking, what they're talking about, what he is trying to do if he's trying to position himself to be more aggressively courting people of color as part of his voting bloc or whatever. Or his potential cabinet, potential running mate.

I mean, yeah, that would be interesting. But yeah, I don't know. We will see. I just know that Joe Biden, come on now. biden come on now unless he just has a radical change where he's like completely progressive and like updates his politics to you got the rose emoji in his display name right which i i just don't see happening like i think he is the joe biden needs a pepper in his display too spicy too spiced the he's the choice for people who are like, we just need to do Obama again. Yeah.

The exact same thing. Remember Obama? That was great, right? Right. Let's do it again, but without the identity politics. Right. Yeah, yeah, exactly. It's very, you know, old.

Oh, God, the thought of Joe Biden running is just making me feel heavy. Yeah. Heavy and bored. Yeah, and also worried because I feel like enough people who don't know, who aren't engaged enough politically will be like, I don't see what the problem is with Joe Biden. Do you remember when Parks and Rec had Joe Biden on a bunch of episodes

and a whole thing with Amy Poehler's character was that she was way into Joe Biden? Even then, I was like, this isn't working for me. He does not have a lot of charm as a statesman. I don't know. The way he's intoxicating to white women, middle-aged white women.

Remember that photo of him? He's got the biker's girlfriend on his lap. What? And he's whispering in her ear. And the two biker dudes are like, this motherfucker. And she's like, Joe? This slick motherfucker. Yeah, it's so funny.

Oh, my God. And I'm like, yo, Joe Biden, he's just a player. He's kryptonite to white women. Yeah. But I just don't see i don't see the appeal i i probably couldn't pick him out of a lineup they had him on the show and i was like i wonder if this is the real joe biden his smile will blind you see them shits are too those teeth are so white so white so large yeah he is central casting president yes from a 90s movie like yeah just what a president looks like in a 90s movie.

He's not even an action movie president. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, exactly. He's like a movie about journalism president. Yeah, and that president always ends up being the bad guy. Like, even though he comes off as very positive. Him the whole time. Yeah.

I think, like, president from the RoboCop universe, maybe. Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Where he inspires confidence in the populace, but then he's secretly building a robot cop. Yeah, exactly. I feel like there's sort of frustration from all sides. Like people on the far left and like democratic socialists are concerned that Bernie is being criticized for his racial views. And then people who are like more center left are concerned that people on the far

left are criticizing beto and i i think we need to just be okay with everybody being criticized until we have a candidate like just for the news to take its course yeah why do people want a perfect i mean i guess why do people want a perfect candidate because their world is so imperfect why do people keep expecting a perfect candidate you know what i mean especially in this system we have yeah you're not coming out of here fucking unscathed it's a really interesting time i think now and and people are starting to talk about class now and and a big part of that is bernie bernie was like really mainstreamed talking about the working class again. Yeah. In a way that the Democrats really haven't for a long time. And they certainly haven't explicitly for a long time talked about raising up the working class, even using using the terms working class families.

But where does the Democrats money come from? It doesn't come from working class families. Maybe it did 50 years ago, but it doesn't anymore because their policies have not really helped working class people. I mean, everybody knows that the rich have gotten richer and the poor have gotten poorer and the class gap has just widened and widened and widened. So anything that either party has been trying to do to help the working class is obviously not fucking working. Yeah.

So, but now we're coming up on this weird sort of framing. And I do believe this is like, it is being framed as this in order to weaken it. This idea that class politics and a class-based analysis of politics and economy are at odds with a race-based analysis or with a gender-based analysis, the identity politics analysis, when in fact, it's just another factor and it's all intersectional. Yeah, absolutely. It's not an either or thing. But they're being pitted against each other.

And this is something that honestly Republicans have been doing since the 30s to destroy any kind of unionization of marginalized groups in the working class. And it's just kind of the same thing over again. But it's very weird to see. Well, the smoke bombing is slowly starting to not work as much as it used to like where they'd obscure be like okay now y'all fight yeah yeah hold up man we we're both fucking poor yeah and it's been like so many years of them doing this and we're like wait a second that didn't work and that didn't work and that didn't work and like

the only thing that worked was really radical shit that then people got murdered by the fbi for when it got too far. You know, they were like, OK, we'll give we'll get civil rights. OK, fine. Shit ton of people died. Fine. You can vote now. We all teaming up with poor white people.

Yeah. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. Time to kill Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Like that's the line. Yeah. Is poor people teaming up. Yeah. And that was the thing that, you know, made him very unpopular in the lead up to his death with white America was the idea of him. That's it. That's too far.

Yes. You know, that's that's crossing the line. Yeah. And I think the media. Rich black people. OK. Poor people. No, no, no, no, no, no. Yikes.

Yeah. And I think the media is somewhat complicit in this. I think like we've talked before about how the Dean scream was somewhat... Yeah, that was... That was perfect, man. That was sort of fabricated by the media to be a... Like, he did scream like that, but it was because he had no...

It sounded crazy because he had a noise-canceling microphone, and so he couldn't hear. It sounded crazy because it was fucking crazy. Yeah. But who cares? You know what I mean? That's the thing. But they made it a point. I mean? He was hopped up. But they made

it a point. I don't think we even have to explain why he did it. Nobody even heard it in the room. Yeah, all of these things are like really inflated. Yes. And I do think that the center media, the mainstream media,

takes it upon themselves to protect capitalism with this idea of electability. Like, well, Bernie Sanders just isn't electable. Yeah, like people are too stupid to vote in their own interest. Right. Is really the thread being perpetuated. I wonder when the left media will turn on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, though.

Oh, wait. What's the left media? I mean, like the MSNBCs of the world, where they're sort of like- They've already turned on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez though. Oh, what's the left media? I mean, like the MSNBCs of the world where they're sort of like, you know, they've already turned on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

But not to, not like in the way where they're full on trying, I mean, they buy into like the really stupid vapid headlines of like, oh,

she messed up this thing or whatever. But you know, like on Fox, they're in full on like terror mode. Yeah, they're like,

I'm talking about when they like, they tear her the fuck down. Like now they're just sort of being like, oh, well, she seems like a spirited young man. They're dismissive right now i think it's going to be when she starts implementing policy really uh and also if she speaks up more about about uh palestine

right i think that's really going to be because that's been what she's been torn down for the most on you know mainstream media that skews liberal um is you know being being called anti-semitic for for opposing israel Right. I think the one good thing with her that will make it difficult for them to tear her down is she's got a Trump-like unflappableness on Twitter. She's just like, you're not fucking knocking me off my message. She's like, I'm a 29-year-old Twitter literate millennial.

Get in my mentions and see what happens. Fuck around and find out. You want to quote tweet me poorly? I'm going to do a thread. Here we go. Yes. It's time to thread this shit. The fallout from yesterday's immediately famous Oval Office meeting between Trump, Nancy Pelosi, he went in thinking he was going to ambush them. And he came out apparently just throwing his papers to the floor and complaining that he

got ambushed. Wah. This is my favorite shit. Wah. Because he was, he was like bragging, oh, I got the votes. Nancy's like, well, pull up with the votes then. You don't got shit. Well, I need chock to, that's what I thought.

Sit back down. You pee sitting down. So basically what happened Chuck to, that's what I thought. Sit back down. You pee sitting down now. So basically what happened was. Nancy Pelosi piss-doming Trump. Exactly. Yeah, so one thing was like he threw his shit. Say thank you. Say thank you, Mr.

Say thank you. Exactly. I'm going to spit on your face. Then he basically went on to complain about how that was such an embarrassment. He was really pissed off that Chuck Schumer wasn't even looking at him while he was just making jokes to the press because Schumer was just sort of like going,

what about this asshole, huh? And that really got to fucking Trump to the point that even like once the press left, they're like, okay, let's have our meeting. Like he couldn't recover. And he was like, fuck this. He's like, yeah, I know when I'm being unrespected. Yeah, no, seriously.

And one of the funniest things is like he got really mad at Mike Pence. Yes. He felt that Mike Pence when he powered down in front of everybody like that. He was like, you burned me, Pence. I think he's right, though. Yeah. I think this is in keeping with my theory that something happened with the revelations either that we know about or stuff we don't quite know yet because of all the redactions but with the muller investigation in the southern district of

new york investigation like last week's revelations that the pence camp seems to have cooled a little bit um and yeah mike pence definitely like that the memes around what was going through his mind were were a lot of fun, but also kind of unavoidable when you look at his performance. He just either choked or was like, I don't want anything. He almost looked like a spouse of an alcoholic who's at dinner, and the spouse is drunk, and they're just like, oh, Jesus. Just let this be over with.

What do you mean I can't take leftovers from the Saucony Buffet? Yeah, exactly. I fucking paid for it i'm gonna take it home where's my food we already ate honey and then he where is it he was literally closing his eyes like fucking luke skywalker in the last star wars movie trying to like astrally project himself into another place like please get me the fuck out of here yeah just visualizing hawaii yes his eyes he's like i'm somewhere else yeah and then he said they set me up but the funny

thing is in the daily beast they report how trump initially this was supposed to be a no cameras yeah behind closed door thing and at the zero hour was like you know what let's bring the press in because i think i'm gonna press him about the wall and see how they handle it and then got his i feel a big win coming just flipped like you fucking idiot yes you poor poor idiot he can't say no to those cameras i know he lives for them and then just gets looks like a total ass like he's supposed to be mr reality tv and he just showed his ass so bad and somehow then did the worst thing he could do is be like yeah i'll i'll own the shutdown yeah oh my god at the same time so i did read an analysis of this on the daily beast which obviously is not a conservative place where they uh somebody was saying that they thought trump

actually won that in his like weird version of reality not just like he believes he won it but the people who he appeals to would think he won it and the idea is that while nancy and chuck were trying to they were like, let's talk behind closed doors because political decorum, he was like, no, let's do it right here. And that does seem like, I don't know, political decorum is popular with the mainstream media, but for, you know, the people who vote for Trump and even just regular people, I feel like urging somebody to do to have the conversation behind closed doors is an immediate red flag.

Right. Well, I think the hit isn't necessarily, I don't think he gains from it being out in the open. I think the hit he takes is from openly owning a shutdown, if it happens, over the wall. Right. And that's the part that isn't a good look, because we're used to him just having a hissy fit in public. Well, Trump, I think throughout the campaign has always been like, that's the part that isn't a good look because we're used to him just having a hissy fit in public. Well, Trump, I think like throughout the campaign has always been like, yeah, I'll make Mexico

pay for the wall. Yeah, I'll do it. Yeah. You know, he's always that like, yeah, I'm going to fucking do it. I'm going to do the thing that's unthinkable. And now that, you know, he got sort of confronted about the shutdown. He was like, yeah, fuck it. You know, I don't care.

And then all his constituency was like, we care. Yeah. At the same time, he's fighting for a thing his constituents want or think they want in the wall and he's willing to do an unpopular thing to get it with the shutdown now I think the place that the L is really gonna come is when

the shutdown actually happens if he really does force it and then it's a complete fucking disaster and he still doesn't get his wall. Then, yeah, that's not going to be a good look for him. Well, there was a thing. I don't know how real it was, but there was some article saying that the wall was just merely a mnemonic device for him to talk about immigration. Oh, for sure.

That's not what mnemonic means, but okay. But, yeah, that's what they were. They needed it as a concept, as a mnemonic, to help the candidate remember. It's a synecdoche. Synecdoche, New York. It's a synecdoche, yes. Yeah, thank you so much.

It is a synecdoche, yes. I never knew what that meant. It's a synecdoche for immigration. Well, you just got an English major on your show, buddy. Boom. Holy shit. So then, yeah, and then essentially he just took it literally and then his melted brain just turned it into the thing

that it's like, say the wall so they know immigration. He's like, no, it's a literal wall that I want now. He's obsessed with the wall. No, it is. Okay, whatever. But the other thing is like, you see. It's like he's like, someone's like, you got to ask for her hand in marriage. And he's literally like, I want your hand.

I want the hand. And he cuts off her hand. Oh my God. The hand is mine. I have the hand. What do I do now, Steve? I have the hand. No, no, no.

Jesus Christ. Jesus. Okay, first of all, bury the body. Hence, I got the hand. What do I do now, Steve? I have the hand. No, no, no. Jesus Christ. Jesus. Okay, first of all, I got the hand. Why aren't you glad? Well, Senator Kennedy from Louisiana, John Kennedy, he was basically saying, if I were playing poker with the president and he was across the table from me and he had demonstrated the face that he demonstrated in that meeting

and I wasn't holding good cards, I'd fold because I don't think he's bluffing. I think he's prepared to shut down the government. That's a really long way to say I don't think he's bluffing. Yeah, he's prepared to shut down the government. That's a really long way to say I don't think he's bluffing. Yeah. Right. But it's a sort of like, you're starting to see also the weird sort of the sycophant comments steam in about like, they're like, yeah, he's digging in or whatever.

Yeah. I don't think it's as clear cut a win as the media has portrayed it, or at least people who pay attention to the media. Oh, I don't even, I don't think it's a, don't get me wrong. I don't think this is a policy win in any way. This is merely just like a shit talking at lunch break win

where you're like, you made a fool. His whole campaign was, I'm going to build a wall and now he's like, I'm building a wall and all his constituents are like, great.

And then everyone who voted for him is like, good. And he's like, I'm building a wall and they're like, we're going to shut down the government. And he was like, I don't care,

I'm building a wall. Yeah. You know. He's like, you're going to shut down the government. He's like, I'm going to shut down the government. He just repeats whatever they said.

And taxpayers are going to pay for it. You don't shut down the government, I shut down the government. Mexico's not paying for it? No. But I think apparently after the cameras left, he insisted that Mexico was still paying for it to Chuck and Nancy. I'm excited to see how Mexico's new president is going to deal with this because he's AMLO, baby. Manuel Lopez Obrador. I don't think, baby yeah manuel lopez operador i don't

think yeah he's he might just be like i don't know i don't know her he is like i don't know her he's pretty lefty yeah he's he's like we're not fucking paying for this all right we're gonna take a another quick break we'll be right back definitely caruana galicia a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16, 2017, was murdered. There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate. My name is Manuel Delia.

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politics and terrible open mic comedy. Yeah. And, yo, this comedian, quote unquote, named Noel Kassler, took to the stage in New York, I think, and basically just spilled the tea on his time working on The Apprentice and was like, I don't give a fuck about my NDA. Yes. And let's just listen to some of the nuggets he drops.

Yeah, it's like he knew he wanted to like get some publicity out of having this like crazy information. And rather than doing like an interview with ABC, he was like, I'm going to launch my standup career because he didn't know how standup worked. And here are the results. He's like, I'm going to launch my stand-up career because he didn't know how stand-up worked. And here are the results. He's a speed freak. He crushes up his Adderall and he sniffs it because he can't read. So he gets really nervous when he has to read cue cards. I'm not kidding. This is true. I had a 24-page NDA, non-disclosure agreement. I didn't know then he was becoming president.

Now it's no way, dumbass. I'm telling you everything I know. So he gets nervous and he crushes up these pills that's why he's sniffing when you see him in debates and when you see him reading that's why he's tweeting you know he's like he's out of his mind it makes sense if you think about it methamphetamine was invented by the nazis to keep the fighter pilots up all night on bombing runs right so it makes sense that trump would use it to hate tweet and it's self-centered rage at 4 a.m on the toilet so we missed a couple awful jokes. I'm glad Super Producer Nick cut that out because there were some lame-ass jokes about his preference for women. But yeah, he also spilled some tea about when he was doing the Miss Teen USA competition. Teen USA, mind you.

Yeah. He was inspecting their teeth like the fucking Westminster dog show and then being like, if you want to win, meet me in the penthouse. Mm-hmm. And people were apparently going up. Yeah. And the people who went up were performing well in the competition. Yeah.

So I don't know what the fuck he was doing. People would laugh at that story and he would be like, no, I yeah which is not usually a good stand-up uh strategy but it is a fucking crazy story that this guy apparently had access to yeah working on the apprentice saw that he was snoring i mean you know who knows if this is real but it he was sniffing so goddamn much during those debates where you're like yeah that's when everyone was like what the fuck is going on and that is definitely something that happens you you start getting well i mean yeah if you don't want yeah i mean they start farting and shit i mean let's be doing that below but i think weren't you saying like in the 80s though he was like into doctor prescribed yeah or something yeah it was like that the doctor wait the doctor said that yeah there

was a doctor who prescribed him all sorts of pet pills and like feel good pills. And he, uh, yeah, he has like a medical record history that I think people were trying to pull from his doctor's office that either the secret service came in and like pulled it or something or like got rid of it. But, uh, it was that dude who like looked all shady

with the long hair. Oh like a scummy porn director? Oh yeah who does not look like a he's like the doctor that gives you your weed prescription that's what he looks like. He checks your fucking blood pressure for two seconds yeah yeah you're good okay you might want to get your blood pressure checked. Yeah I forget the specific details but I know that

he was like using basically medical speed during the 80s. And then like the trail kind of went cold. And I mean, this is there's a type of celebrity who, you know, uses their influence and celebrity to, you know, get doctors to give them the good shit. Do you mean every celebrity? Right. Or just any person who grew up on the West Side?

A lot of like teetotaling celebrities. Like Elvis never took illegal drugs. He just died of a drug overdose from drugs that like his homie doctor just prescribed to him. Yes. Or Dr. Pepper. Yeah, I think, I mean, that's the same kind of mentality a lot of people who get even into other prescription drugs do. Because they're like, well, it's not a drug. And it's easy to just in your mind be like,

oh, I'm not a drug addict. I'm taking these things to the doctor. And that's never gotten anyone in trouble. Yeah. Except for America right now. So we'll see. And it's also like for sure he's on speed when he tweets. Yeah.

In the middle of the night. Like how else do you think that happens? Yeah. I thought he was just really inspired. Like he's a man was incredibly poor nutrition. Right. Like, of course he would be asleep. Like, do you know what I mean?

Like he doesn't eat well enough to have energy. He doesn't exercise. He doesn't believe in it. He believes that exercise wears out your machinery. Right. So if you don't believe in any of those things, I can't imagine you have enough energy to run the country. So of course you're going to be a speed addict.

Yeah. Well, there's also that thing he said that he only needs, like, what, three hours of sleep a night? I wonder if that's a lie he created because he's just twacked out all night. Right. I only need three hours of sleep. Exactly. And I need a screwdriver and some old TVs and a lot of porn. A lot of porn.

Just leave me alone. A lot of porn. A lot of porn. Just leave me alone. And there was also the dude who he wanted to give the entire Veterans Affairs Department to, who ended up having to pull himself from contentious. Dr. Ronnie, I think was the name. Ronnie something.

One of the things that he got in trouble for was being like a Dr. Feelgood. Yeah, just handing out pills. Yeah, just handing out pills to everybody. And a lot of people were like that. It's funny because there are a lot of people on other administrations who were like, yeah, well, you know. Yeah. Take those flights. It's a hard job.

You might need a little something to go to sleep. You need something to stay up. No, I don't doubt that. Also, I got to say, Dr. Feelgood always sounds amazing as a job. No. Like, he's not a bad guy. He makes you feel good. No, he's Dr. Feelgood. Yeah.

You should call it something more nefarious. Yeah. Like, the killer of Prince. Right. Something like that. Yeah. There of Prince. Right. Wow. Yeah. There you go. Dr. Yen.

Yeah, he killed the king of pop and Prince. Was it the same? No, it's not the same doctor. No, but doctors. Doctors, yeah. Doctors. Who just did. I don't know how to say no. Enabler doctors.

Yeah. Dr. Murder Early's. Yeah, exactly. Dr. Murder Early's. Yeah, exactly. Dr. Murder Early's? It's better than Dr. Feelgood. We'll workshop that. I think we got it.

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