February 2, 2018 • 55 mins
In episode 77, Jack & Miles are joined by comedian Louis Katz to discuss black history month, Black Panther, the infamous 'memo' from the GOP, super bowl predictions, 'bloidwatch with Matt Lauer, Tom Cruise, JonBenet Ramsey, & more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to season sixteen, episode five
of their Daily Zeitgeist for February second, two thousand eight.
Team My name is Jack O'Brien, a k Little List
Conversation A Little More Objection courtesy of Kreko Sarah and
I am joined as always by my co host, Mr Miles.
It's right. It's Miles, as in the distance from which
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I can see through Devin noonez his bullshit. Ray. Thank
you for that fire a k A moderate science or
moderate science, either one you call yourself Dave on Twitter,
So shout out to you for that. What up, Dave?
And we are thrilled to be joined in our third
seat today by the hilarious Louie Cats. What's up? Thanks
for having me, Hey, wanks for being here. Man. We
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just found out we're both in the battle yeah, or
he went to school in the Battles, Yes, but I'm
from the Balltos but he's from the other side Valley Roots.
Yeah yeah, yeah, I got a when coursing to our means, louis,
what is something from your search history that is revealing
about who you are as a human being? Uh? I
was just found yesterday and I didn't even realize when
I woke up this morning, but I guess around two am,
I was googling waterproof microphones. I'm considering doing a stand
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up show in a pool, and I'm at that point
where how much does it cost? You can only get
like the headset kind like I guess if you're gonna
like a train, a killer whale or something like that,
right like this world, Yeah, and I don't want I
was like, how can I get a handheld mic? Like
I'm gonna do a stand up show like an idiot
in a pool and no one has that because it's
a bad idea. Yeah right, wait, so your idea for this,
like you are in the water? Well, I'm I'm actually
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I'm doing a show on February fourteen on the roof
of the Ace Hotel and they have a little pool
there and that's right next to it. So I'm like,
there's this pool right here, like a wading pool, or
you're gonna have to be treading water the whole time.
It's tremendous strength. It's only comedians who also do water
polo can do this, right, But yeah, so it's it's
like a shallow pool. It's barely a pool. But if
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you've been to the Ace, it's like it's it's like
they want to have a pool, so they have a
quote unquote pool. It's a glorified puddle people to take
Instagram photos and yeah, yes, yes, basically it's just a
grambable pool. But I figured, I mean it's just right
next to the stage. Well you need to do just
rock the headset and then just have a prop stick
mike so you have the feel of like using the
regular mike, but clearly you're getting the application through the
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safer wars And I don't know, Look, I think those
headsets look goofy firs stand up, you know what I mean.
It looks like I'm I don't know, you're doing a
Ted talk, a Ted talk or like there's some kind
of fancy choreography coming. There's nothing. There's no choreography. So yeah,
so yeah, that was it. I don't know if I'll
buy one, but I'm looking into it. How much there
I found one stick one that was like a thousand bucks.
I'm like, I guess I'm not gonna do a show that.
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I'll just talk real loud. Yeah, Louis, what is something
you think is underrated? Soup? Yes, Louis, what is something
you think is over and nothing right? Which favorite? Too? Oh? Man,
there's so many soups. I have to say. Lentil is
my favorite. I don't know. I can't. It's hard, it's hardy, Yeah, lentil.
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I like ramen, I like chicken. Man. I like so
many soups. My girlfriend doesn't like soup, so I find
that problematic. So I just want to say how good
soup is? What do you think of biskus? Do you
need something in your souper? Can you do just like
a ground up sort of bis? You'll go bisk I'll
go spato if I have to Where I draw the
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line because I like salsa? Uh? Just eating it with
a spoon a bowl. Yeah, I can't do it. I
cannot do it. Uh, Louis, what is something you think
is overrated? Marty gros Oh, I went. It's timely and
I'm just thinking about it. I went the last two years.
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Two years. You gave it to this a formed opinion.
I've done things that people really love, and I've also don't.
I mean I could. I went to the World Cup,
wasn't wasn't into it? Which world I went to the
last one? One Brazil. Yeah, you don't like it. It's
just like I said, like this is the most uh
expensive way to find out. I definitely don't like soccer.
Like now, I'm sure yeah if you're on the fence
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and going to the World Cup, but definitely, lets you know,
what games did you see? I saw one game and
I was in Rio, so I saw us. I forget.
I forget the game. I feel like there was they
weren't even comparing in Germans there. It was like it
just here's the things that like, you know, the whole
thing where there's only like a you know, one goal
or two goals, so you have to watch so intently
and like at one point I just had to pee.
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I'm like I have to pee at this point, and
I go to pee, I'm in the stall and here
I'm like, oh, well, I missed the one thing I
was here to see. I mean, you know, and it's
just I don't know. I just couldn't get into it. Man.
But those ninety minutes, Man, it's tense. Maybe everything matters.
That's why I'm a huge I'm a huge football fan.
So I love I love I love the World Cup.
I just like to don't you like to look like
not look at the field for half a second, you
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know what I mean? Like in America, you have to
watch so many fucking commercials that I'd rather just do
a ninety minute focus fest and just then like, oh
another TV time out or man, but the commercial is
the best part of the Super Bowl, am I? Right? Guys?
Can't wait for those at the commercials? What do you
have one in the Puppy Bowl? Sloth? Isn't there a
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sloth this year? Or some shi? It? Is that? Right? Yeah?
I think like because you know, well, no, it's like
the Puppy Bowl and then there's gonna be a random
fucking sloth I think in the background because they just
need as many force multipliers as possible. It's gotta be
against regulations. Yeah. Well, and also because uh NFL football
has gotten more and more dangerous, the faster and stronger
the athletes have gotten. So the safest animal that you
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could play football with would be a Yeah, there's no
and that's science. But I'm sorry we got side track
because we're talking about in terms of Marty Grot what
what is it that you think people take or put
too much stock in or what was it to you
that you said, you know what, it's fine. I've been
twice just like what it's it's crowded. I'm I'm supposed
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to get It's like, so the whole thing with like
women showing the breasts and getting beads like that doesn't
really happen that much. There's like one part of the
street where that happens, right Instead you everyone just stay
on the street and they have parades go by, and
I'm supposed to get excited about catching beads. I don't
give it about beads. I don't need beads. Just some
guy dressed as this weird clown on a truck and
I'm supposed to be excited that he throws a plastic
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trinking at me. Like you said, I'm just a weird
guy ad dressed I'm on a truck. I was like, well,
there's your problem. That's the other thing. I mean, I
wish I could be if I was on a truck,
that would be nice. You know. I'm just standing there
like I'm would be the beat thrower, not the beat receiver.
I'm just wearing I'm wearing a wig, I got makeup on,
and someone's throwing beads at me, I'm like, what am
I doing here? I don't, I don't and you're drinking
out of a hand grenade shaped up I would say,
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New Orleans on during non Mardi Gras is phenomenon like
Hannibals bit about how you can just get a parade.
You can just rent a parade for a reasonable amount
of money and you're just followed around by a parade
for the rest of the day. I mean, just a
second line like that, just just when you're there on
a random brain and you see a second line, you
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just join it. That's great, But this with all the
people I don't. I don't need that. And also like
and Marty guards to wake up like at six and
start drinking like, I'm why am I waking up early
to party? That's the opposite of what you how you party? Pay? Yeah, yeah,
party what you want to That's right, Eddie Murphy song,
I think, right, No party all the time, party only
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when it's convenient. All right. We are trying to take
a sample of what people are talking and thinking about
right now at this very moment, and the way we
like to open up is by asking our guests what
is a myth? What is something people believe that you
based on your personal experience. No, to not be true
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that Jews control the media. Okay, and how do you
know that not to be true? My career? All right,
go on, If Jews control the media, I would just
go to the meetings and be like, hey, guys, I
could use a little more work, and then uh, trying
to get a pilot, so let's get up, like and
I haven't been able to do that, although once it's
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funny mom, you know, like, I'm sure it's every kind
of family, but it's maybe especially Jewish mom or all
my relatives, Like I have one connection. At one point,
my rabbi writes to my mom and says, um, he
could hook me up with uh Howy Mandel, Like I
can hook you up with Hawing Mandel, not the comedian,
but Will Ferrell's wife's skynecologist. That's his connection. And I'm like,
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I don't think that's gonna help at all. You're like, oh, cool, No, Uh,
he's connect Have him put in a good word. I'm
sure that would be seen as totally appropriate. Will Ferrell's
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all right, let's get into the events of the day.
We will obviously be talking about the memo. Uh, but
but we'll we'll say that for the second sort of
longer part, let's get in a Black History Month. It
is black a three month. Happy Black History Month everyone,
Uh and yeah, what what are some Black History months?
(09:07):
God damn you know Black History Month is starting off.
I mean, look the ship I'm already reading for starters
just found out there's like a Facebook group who is
trying to tank the Rotten Tomato score of the Black
Panther movie. Uh, there's a group called The event itself
is called give Black Panther a Rotten audience score on
Rotten Tomatoes. And there's like thirty participants. Uh, and the
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event is basically like wanting to get the participants obviously
to tank the score, but also like make like distribute
massive spoilers because they have like a they hate Marvel
fan boys and like they want d C fans to
like give their own reviews. So it's like this d
C thing against Marvel. But then you get into it
(09:49):
this I think blog inverse. They they reportedly spoke to
the person who said they are leading the group, and
he said that the movement is to protest Disney's supposed
efforts to quote shove s J. W messages down our
throat being social justice warrior exactly, and also adding that
minorities should stay that way. Uh huh so yeah, that's
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where placed minority Yeah exactly. So that's clearly it's not
a DZ Marvel thing at all. How do they not
know they're the bad guy? Like or do they are
they just into the fact that they're the bad guy?
I don't. I mean, on one handed, scary In another
hand of like this is such a step down for racist,
like we're gonna give you bad reviews for your movie.
It's like whatever happened to burning across or you know
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what I mean, it's not about that life. And I
guess that's good, is that we have diet racism, but
still it persists on the list. Yeah, and I mean
at the same time, it just becomes harder to spot
maybe like it's like more insidious. They're like, yeah, right
that this there's more ship like this, right, They're just
trying to find less visible ways to fund things up.
(10:57):
But the rest from what it looks like, it's not
going to do a fun king thing because what it
already shattered, like the pre sale record for a film
or something. Yeah, Marvel films. Any actual reviews out or
is anyone Well, there was a premiere Monday or Tuesday.
I felt like on Twitter everybody was at the Black
Panther premiere on Twitter, but it seemed like people really
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liked it and like, yeah, that's the people who went
to the premiere are glowing about it. It's amazing that
it's so hyped. I's like, what if it's just not
that good? That's what I keep on besides the things
it's like, you know, it's like, I don't know what
can wait to see if it's it looks cool, but
a lot of things look cool. One of our former guests,
David Shilling, on Twitter was saying he was there too,
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and he's like, avoid reviews people give immediately the second
they step out of a theater. Uh, is like, and
give it a second to really think, because he said,
is it the greatest film ever? No? He's like, is
it one of the best Marvel films? Yes? And like
that's where it's yeah exactly. So I'm like, that's pretty
fucking good. Yeah. I mean, just I feel like wonder
and also suffered from the same kind of hype where
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people were very excited to see a female superhero and
I just didn't think it was that good. I just
didn't think I was hoping it would be good and
it wasn't. It was it was long. There's the funky
accents in the beginning where she supremacist that yeahs he
didn't because he's not trying to see an empowered woman.
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You're doing all that masculine. And that was my favorite
thing about Wonder Woman is like it changed the depiction
of a female superhero, like it sort of turned it on.
It's here because most of the time, like Storm and
these other female like superheroes like flying or using telechnesis
like one, it was like straight up brute strength, let
me fucking head. But this tank my geep back. She
was badass and just an Israeli playing or it's like, yeah,
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I am scared of Israeli women in general, and that
that makes sense. There are many layers to you kind
of being like I don't know about like I liked it.
I just think people get over excited sometimes like it's
it's okay, like is it is it on the I
just have my favorite superhero movies. If they're saying it's
one of the best Marvel movies most of my favorite
ones are Marvel ones, so yeah, hey must be pretty good.
But are you a Marvel or DC person? Yeah? Okay, see,
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and this is the seed now the DC Army R
I pre mentioned because um. But then to go along
with that, there was another study that the Southern Poverty
Law Center just released that basically indicates that most of
our high school students don't know shit about slavery, which
I mean is not surprising when you look at sort
of just in generally the state of our education system
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and the sentiment people have in regards to slavery, like
John Kelly and many other people, but some of the
things like in there, for example, only eight percent of
high school seniors surveyed could identify slavery as the main
cause of the Civil War. Less than ten per cent
of these surveyed high school seniors. You're like, what was
the cause of war? That's crazy? Uh, Trump, I don't know.
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I mean, I think there was a movement to try
and make it about at least yeah, states rights, and
also like the money involved. They were like, well, you know,
the North was just trying to make it and you
know that was almost like a backlash. It was like
the hip thing to be like, well, actually, historically it
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really wasn't about slavery for like a little while there.
Let's negate the suffering of the slaves um, you know,
so I can see that, But it sounds like in
this case people are just like, I don't know, taxes,
That's the thing. Around four year percent of the students
said that tax protests were the cause, right, so they
just think that the American Revolutionary War, yeah, or they thought,
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you know, the occupy movement basically Tea Party. But to me,
it's like, see between the lines that kind of like
the last line of the Black Panther protests, Like it's like, okay, well,
maybe they're just confused and you see, oh, it's this
tax protests. So it does seem like right leaning people
have been like influencing history books. You know, like as
soon as you say that, well, I mean, oh, well,
I know where this information is coming from, you know
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what I mean, it's like kind of clear once you
say that, oh, it's tax protests, sounds like a Republican
agenda to me. Well, and I think they're they're saying
that another staff from that only could correctly identify that
provisions in the constitution gave advantages to slaveholders, which is okay, interesting,
but that's a little more nuanced. I'm surprised that knew
about that, but only eight percent knew that slavery was
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the cause of the Civil War. And then I guess
in the last when you look at the books themselves,
they're saying the text books are also a huge problem
because when they looked at textbooks providing like comprehensive coverage
of slavery, they got like a score of seventy against
like the rubric that the SPLC created to rate a
book based on like how thoroughly they covered the subject,
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the average score of the textbooks that where they were
looking at in the study it was for so you.
And they also say, like teachers also have a hard
time facilitating nuanced conversations about slavery, Like once the book's
closed and you begin discussing that, some teachers are also
just sort of not equipped to like navigate that conversation,
it's going to get uncomfortable. Yeah, a lot of textbooks
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are determined by Texas, actually because Texas is so big
and uh, the way the textbook industry is set up,
Texas creates a lot of the textbooks in America and
Texas as of you know, the past handful of years
has been like violently violently conservative, uh and you know,
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violently against the teaching of any buddy's version of the
story that isn't you know, white European settlers, uh there,
or anything that would make the the US look bad
in any way because we've you know, we've done no
running doing ever well the history of our country. I mean,
if the textbooks are one thing, but the like you know,
people have pointed out, there's all these other museums. There's
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no slavery museum, you know, really or anything about that, right.
I went, I went to one. Actually there's one plantation
outside of New Orleans and only there from Marty gar
I also go to learn and they have a museum,
but it's like they're just getting started. I mean, compare
that to like the Holocaust Museum in d C. Wouldn't
even happen here, you know what I mean. It's like
there's no there's not these means of teaching it because
because everyone's awkward about it. I mean, so so when
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we're not teaching adults, we're not teaching anyone problem. I mean,
the close thing is in d C, the African American
History Museum. But that is like the hardest thing to
get into because everybody wo so they covered there. But yeah,
it's true. I think it's sort of underlines the fact
that Black History Month is in the shortest month of
the year. Uh and it's real early on. I think
we can use this time to really like change our
discourse around what we understand about black history, because I
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think it's right now. It's like a sentiment and it's
not so much about really like kind of looking like, oh,
is everyone aware of like the contributions and the trials
and tribulations of African Americans in this country. But hey,
so the Black History Museum in d C is like
it's like a hot club. It's hard to get into.
It's very hard. It's very hard to get into. Yeah,
like because it's so popular. Everyone wants to go because
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it was a great museum. It opened last year, so
it's people people have just opened last year. Yeah, we
just found out we needed a museum about that last year.
All Right, we're gonna take a quick break and when
we come back, we're gonna talk about that memo and
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we're back. Uh. So this fucking memo, you guys. Uh.
I was getting all sorts of tweets and uh texts
from different people about this memo as it was released
while I was driving into work uh this morning, and
uh the my Apple watch thought that I was working
out because of how fast my heart was going because
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I was so fucking stressed out by everybody being like,
oh well see now this this shows that the investigation
is bullshit. There are people texting you that yeah, yeah,
my As I've said, I have conservative friends who very
smart people who of you know, uh buy into this
bullshit somehow. Um yeah. I was like, do you just
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pay attention to Fox News? And he was like no,
what else? I read the Wall Street Journal, which also
uh Rupert Murdoch outlet, So they used to pretend like
they were maybe not totally like on the GOP end
of things, but now it's like full scale, like okay,
we'll spread the news too. So got in read the
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memo and now I feel a lot better about it
because it's just it's really nothing. Um so what it is?
I actually like took the time to read all four
pages of it, uh, and it's all based on a
single visa application that they said, is misleading. So they've
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cherry picked like one tiny piece of procedure from the
entire investigation and focused on that. And I feel like
that's the most telling thing because if anything, this suggests
that the entire investigation is like super buttoned up, because
obviously Nunez and Trump's team like poured over the entire
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idy of the investigation for things they could use to
suggest bias, and like, this tiny part is the best
they could come up with, and it's not a convincing
argument MILLI in the least bit. And and again they
tried to bring in the Steel dossier again, which is
like their favorite rallying cry. So it starts out saying
the Steele dossier, which was being paid for by the
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Clinton campaign, Uh, it was also paid for uh and
in fact started Uh he was hired in the first
place to create the dossier by Republicans, so it's a
bipartisan effort. But they talked about how Steele was contacting
and stude Or at the FBI, whose wife also worked
for the law firm that was compiling the Steele dossier
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for the d n C, and that like admittedly doesn't
look great that uh, this FBI agent who was working
on this had a wife who was working for the
law firm that was, you know, working for the d
n C. But that's just like a connection they make
king to try and make a point that, right, if
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that was substantive, then it wouldn't just come into play
in the carter page, uh FISA, which like that's not
a substantive part of the investigation. Like at the very
end of the memo, they like throw in and uh,
the memo mentioned Popadopolis and they just like try and
(21:22):
throw all this Popadopolis stuff at the wall because they
know that that's actually a relevant part. But the fucking's
dumb part is that it basically confirms that the investigation
started because of Papadopolis and not the dossier. Right that
it betrays itself already in putting that information out right,
so it fucking negates everything after that. This thing is
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I don't know. This is why, Like when you came in,
I was like, this is I don't even know it's
worth talking about, because all this is is the fucking
dumbest distraction to begin the sequence of talking points that
will lead to the outst of Rod Rosenstein. Right, because
nothing in here, like and I know, like we can
pick apart bit by bit like what is wrong, what
is factually inaccurate? But you know this is it's I
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just I don't know. It's it's so massively distracting and
the ship in there is so weak. There's nothing fucking
new in here, or if it is, it's just to
like drum up these like old conspiracy theories, like when
they even say like, oh, well, you know Christopher Steele
didn't want the president to be elected. Yeah, maybe because
he saw a bunch of disturbing ship and felt duty
down to tell the security apparatus in this country that
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this person poses a fucking threat to your democracy and
your and your national security. And I was telling Nick
like that's like someone looking at saying like, oh, I
don't like the Redskins this. You know the Redskins is
it's a it's offensive, and they're like, oh, you're saying
that because you're a Giants fan. It's like, know what
I'm saying, because it's the logos races. I think the
Redskins name is race. It's not because I'm a Giants fan.
You're completely missing the point that would is motivating this,
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Like what my distaste for something could be or the
fact that he is alarmed as an intelligence expert what
he has found, right, Yeah, I mean, he was pretty
supposed to be worried about a Trump presidency because he
had been investigating him and had found a bunch of
disturbing ship. So there's this sort of mad scramble too,
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basically get this out there by the Trump regime and
their propaganda wing Fox News and make it seem like
a bigger deal than it actually is. And I don't know,
I guess the question is whether it's going to work, right, Yeah. Well,
other the other thing, Ze Gang, when you're out here
and you have to talk to funk heads who are like, well,
you know, they were monitoring carter Page was all off
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the steel dots. Save that first of all, you say
that's wrong. Read the dot say they're saying investigation started
because George Bobbodob was then moving on to Carter Page.
This fucking idiot was giving documents to Russian spies in
and was already on the radar of our intelligence community
because he was fucking working with Russian spies, like they
had already got him cooperating with them. So to act
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like they never say that Carter Page was a bad target.
That's never in the memo at all. And if they
don't really also allude to the or just acknowledge the
fact that clearly, if they keep renewing it, that there
had to have been evidence that each time they were
surveilling him it was yielding evidence that would justify continuing
the surveillance. So I don't know. It's just like, and
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Carter Page, we should mention when it came out, like
all all this super suspicious behavior. Uh, the White House
completely disavowed him and was like, oh, yeah, we don't
know that guy. I don't know. So I don't know.
Those two things don't seem to Like the fact that
they're saying it's completely unfair that they were going after
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Carter Page and the fact that they were like we
don't know him, like those it's just like somebody was lying.
He's just saying whatever in the at that moment is convenient.
It's a bad episode of cops when the dude is
clearly crashed his car drunk and they pull him out
and they're like, hey, what happened here and there? Oh no, man,
I think this guy was driving the car and like
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motherfucker in the driver's seat, saw the same ship but
playing out at the highest levels of government. So, you know,
this morning on Fox News they were acting like, oh,
well lookye here, So I guess Steele was against Trump
the whole time. So that dossier, this is the strippers
pete all over the bed, is untrue. But I've yet
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to read anything that has completely debunked the Steel dossier.
We've only seen things that essentially corroborate everything's corroborated the
Steele dossier. The all this says is that Steele was
worried about a Trump presidency after he started investigating him
and found out about the pe tape and found out
like that he was compromised by Putin. So um, yeah,
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And I mean this seems to be the first step
in Trump's attempt to purge the FBI and fire you know,
the FBI, which, let's remember was happy to feed details
of the Clinton email investigation cheese to Rudy Giuliani an email,
and that's it, Like, let's keep in mind that's what
they were worried about. And also, yeah, that Peter Strock,
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who is the FBI agent who's like, oh, the guy
who said Secret Society. In those text messages, he drafted
that letter that Comey released in October that I think
most people will say helped push the election into Donald
Trump's favor. So and they were treating this Peter Strock
guy like a fucking boogeyman the whole time, and then
here it comes out, your boy actually helps Trump significantly.
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So where's that now? Like they're just grasping at straws.
It's so apparent that the GOP is just covering for
this president's fuckory. It's just fucking and it's so transparent,
like it's just oh man, it's so disheartening. Like, But
at the same time, that's where I'm like, don't even
give this ship air because bullshit, let's keep it moving.
Let's pass some legislation that will fucking protect Robert Mueller
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and do that, right. Yeah, the thing I have heard
conservatives say is we need to pass legislation that protects
the president from stuff like this. Um So, yeah, I
don't know. This is just if anything evidence, Like you know,
even if you were on the fence of whether the
Russia investigation was going to reveal anything, just how completely
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desperate they seemed to debt it is kind of one
of the most revealing things. It is a total distraction.
How about this. Can we all agree on these things?
Russia hacked the d n C to influence selection that
both sides agreed on that. Can we agree that Trump
was so excited when he was like, Yo, I love
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wiki leaks. I would love to have this dirt right right? That? Okay,
we can accept that. Can we also agree that the
Trump team may have most likely had a meeting with
that Russian lawyer about getting those Hillary emails. Yeah, according
to them, they had a meeting with her. It was
just about that, he says. Even when he met with Putin,
he said, oh, I met with him about a break.
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For an innocent person, these would all be things they
would want investigated to prove, right, like, there's nothing going
on here. Also, we can also accept they were trying
to obscure the fact that those meetings happened, and then
that the FBI was they were only looking at Hillary
during the campaign. So I'm sorry. That to me is
more of a scandal than ship pass. Devin Unez trying
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to to like drum up this. It's just stupid, man.
There's nothing substantive in there. And now I want to
see that's why they need to have the Democrat memo
out to just eviscerate this thing, right, So, yeah, that's important.
People are probably hearing Memo gate the memo has been
released and assuming that this is in some way like
a comprehensive thing or so, let's just say what the
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memo is. The memo is one Republicans like Cherry picked
account of a very specific, like procedural aspect of the
case that he thinks was biased. That's all like a
thing that really has barely any bearing on the investigation,
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like Carter Page is not a key part of the
investigation at this point that we know of, right, Um,
I guess this is why it's been taking so long,
because they knew they would pick up any kind of
there being so careful. Like That's what this points out
to me, is that like every fucking thing they're doing
is so careful that like this is the best they
could come up with. But yeah, Miles, like you said,
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there is a Democratic version of this that points out
all of the ways that this is. You know that
the Republican memo that was just released is misleading. Uh,
the FBI once that out there, the FBI said like,
this is wildly reckless to put this out there. The FBI,
which is run by people who Trump hand picked. These
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are Trump appointees, you guys. These are not the Democrats
and the FBI are in the The FBI fucking swung
the election to Trump. Like Miles said, so, um, I mean,
I assume the FBI, even besides the fact that they
turned the election, that maybe a lot of the agents
are are right leaning. So how do they feel and
how are they going to react when he's doing this
kind of stuff I think they're doing. They're involved in
(30:02):
an investigation that it I don't know. I wouldn't say,
but I think it's misleading to I guess say that
the all the entire FBI was totally on this team
Trump thing. There were definitely a few agents who in
New York were the ones who were putting the pressure,
like through like leaking to Rudy Giuliani that basically forced
Comy's hand to talk about that there was a thing
because he didn't want it to get out like that.
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So there are I'm sure there are people who were
like that, But to say, I guess, really the FBI
in general is for the most part, it is not
who you want to funk with as president, because I
take down all the presidents whenever there's foora. So what
are some examples of that? Oh? No Nixon, Uh, you know,
uh fucking Kennedy. No. But with Nixon, he actually asked
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the FBI to shut down the probe. Uh, and someone
at FBI flatly said no. Also remember Mark Felt, who
was deep throat also FBI assistant director, so you know
the fb I has receipts. And even like in two
thousand four, George W. Bush Bush two was actually confronted
by Bob Mueller himself where Mueller was basically saying like, Yo,
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I'm gonna resign if you don't knock off some of
this electronic surveillance ship that you're doing after nine eleven,
and then guess what happened. Bush agreed, and he agreed
to put it on more like, you know, make it
above board unless you know illegal. So clearly the FBI
has a relationship with being independent and also stepping in
when presidents are going out of line for the well
being of the rest of the country. So yes, I
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think the bottom line though, is that if there is
ever in time where Trump needs are top law enforcement
apparatus to be functioning in his favor. This is not
gonna this is not good for their relationship for him
to paint all these guys to be like, oh, their hacks,
because they're I'm sure most I would say most people
are probably being professional, actually respect the work that they
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do at the bureau, trying to be unbiased. Actually neither
side exactly. But the goal here is for him to
be able to fire all of the leadership and put
more leaders in there who are you know now like
on his side, right, And they want to say that
it's politicized. I'm sorry, did you not ask James Comey,
Rod Rosenstein all these people for loyalty oaths? And you
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want to say it's it's I'm saying. And how many
people of his own can he put in there? All
the people underneath are gonna be upset. I mean, like,
there's no you can't just replace everybody, well, right, I mean,
like one thing is that so if he's able to
remove Rod Rosenstein, that he'll either try and get someone confirmed,
or what he can do is move somebody that has
already received Senate confirmation into that position to do his bidding.
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And if that's the case, I think they know is
like if they fire Bob Mueller, it's gonna be a disaster.
So what they can do is put someone in that
deputy a g position to like massively curtail and hamstring
his investigation and like limit the scope of it, so
it becomes much more difficult for Robert Mueller to put
his case together. That's where like all these signs are
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pointing to so and just a thing we keep bringing up.
But Trump continues to talk about some attack in the
future that we don't know about, but he keeps talking
about or a major event, a major event that will Okay,
what was the thing with the election? This has maybe
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a month or two ago in the Washington Post they
were talking about it was an article about mid terms,
and it was like a small line. I think clearly
many other people picked it up because it's very weird
talking about how the midterms are not looking good. But
he's been saying privately that when nine eleven happened, that
helped the Bush White House like tremendously because it's just
approval rating skyrocket when there's like a fucking terrorist attack
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like that. You know, they said well, maybe nothing like
that will happen, but I know that it helps or whatever.
Then earlier this week, he was talking to the press
before the same of the Union's saying, I would love
to be able to bring our country back into a
great form of unity quote without a major event where
people pull together. That's hard to do, but I would
like to do it without that major event because usually
that major event is not a good thing. Mhm. So again,
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just you know, be a shame if something were to happen,
because then everybody would be But so whether that is
I mean, if you want to look at all the
news coming out of the Pentagon with North Korea, like
the fact that the White House keeps telling the Pentagon,
give us more options, give us more options, because clearly
the Pentagon is like, okay, here are options. They're like,
don't show him anything, like with a military strike. And
now the White House like, no, we want, we want,
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we want military options. I don't know what this is
leading to. We'll just keep in mind that his his
boy Putin came to power through a false flag operation
where they bombed a bunch of like apartment buildings and
blamed it on chechens, and it is almost definitely like
everybody like obviously the press there is not free to
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print this when you read up on the details. It's
basically their version of the CIA is like all over
the place, and and the investigation of the bombings, not
to mention the head of that s B, the g
r U and like their main spy chief. We're in
d C talking to Mike Pompeo, and we didn't know
until the Russian media was like, oh, hey, by the way,
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like all of our top spy people were talked to
Mike Pompeo at the CIA about terrorism or whatever, and
then here we are not enforcing the fucking sanctions, which
would probably deter Russia from attempting to funk with the
mid terms. There's like really like I don't know, it's
just all this memo ship is just such a distraction
from like the real fucking problems, because the more we
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talk about this memo, the less you have to talk
about the fact that he's not enforcing sanctions and that
these people have been visiting d C, and who knows
what's going on with North Korea. It's you know, it's Friday.
Maybe he just read The Watchmen recently, he's end. Let's
hope it's like some kind of weird alien thing and
not not something where a lot of people die that
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is true, fake alien things with lands, and then we
all unify against the aliens. That would be probably the
best case scenario. And I hope when he says like
we have to you know, Increa is an arsenal he's
talking about, we have a doctor Manhattan or something, just
pull up. I'll be way more entertaining. It's almost it's
it's scary on so many levels, but basically what he's
saying is also that like, uh, not only is he
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gonna solidify power, but in a way probably a lot
of people are gonna have to die in order for
him to solidify power, which is disgusting. And I don't
want to be reckless and say that that is what
is going to happen, but it's just very unsettling language. Well,
if he's allowed to speculate about it, then I feel
like we should be able to speculate about it too,
Like if he's allowed to be like be a shame
of something more to happen thing it would be ashame
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of someone nine eleven, then I feel like we should
be able to point out, because that's fucking crazy something
in North Korea. Here in California, we are the closest,
uh you know, I mean maybe Alaska technically, well no,
but we it's people from inside North Korea have said that,
you know, the very first target that Kim jongan would
(36:54):
attack is Los Angeles and Hollywood. Yeah. Really, yeah, because
he's like an I thought his dad loved the movies
they do, but like that's why you dad. I think
it would be like a way of feeling like he
destroyed something important and not at Brogan's house, just straight
(37:15):
to a straight to a tactical nuclear strength. Yeah, and
not to mention what would happen in the region in general,
what happens the soul just across the border there and
the Japan like yo, yeah, putting people at risk man, Yeah,
fucking ridiculous. I didn't thought it would be North Care.
I would just thinking more of a terrorist thing here
and not like some kind of big war things. He says,
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a major events, So who knows the Super Bowl halftime
show could be major. Sloth takes the Puppy Bowl, Yeah,
that's a major event, brings a country together. All of
his approval ratings go up and we're out of this right,
all right, we'll take a quick break. We'll be right back,
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and we're back. Uh So, the Super bowls this weekend,
which means it's the Friday of super Bowl Week, and uh,
ESPN has reached new levels of desperation when it comes
to generating stories about the Super Bowl. This happens every year.
We actually one of the first like hit viral things
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we did on Cracked was create a fake ESPN that
was just like all the super Bowl uh stories that
like they were trying to generate um. Right now, though
the front page of ESPN, the second story is who
will prevail in super Bowl fifty two? Maybe the team
that sleeps on it. Studies show that even a small
increase in r M sleep can boost performance. Uh So
(38:45):
that's where they're at right now, is like, yeah, they're
just because they have to. They're covering this one game,
like for they have to write, you know, a thousand
stories about this one game. And well, I think time
I saw the gown there Twitter, it's like twenty three
facts you didn't know about the super Bowl, right, It's
like that It's okay, sweet, I mean I would have
(39:08):
loved that when I was still reading like Sports Illustrated
for kids. I think the Eagles are gonna win. That's
that's my Yeah. Uh. They feel like a team of destiny,
feels like they've been underrated, underestimated every every step of
the way. I'm an ashamed Patriots fan, but I think
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the Eagles are definitely gonna win. It's like they've been
underdogs for the past three rounds. I think it's definitely
the same thing is happening every time. People are like, yeah,
but the not this time. The Eagles suck, the Nick
Foles won't do it again, and uh, they keep surprising people.
I think it'll happen. When you say you're an ashamed
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Patriots fan, what was that mean. I've been a Patriots
fan since before Tom Brady was their quarterback, and you
know I'm still a Patriots fan. Do Do I love
the fact that he had a mega hat in his
uh locker? Yes? I do? Uh No, you know he's
it's just because because Patriots fan gets such hate and
(40:10):
you're like, but I was down with it before I
got like this. I think the cheating stuff is over
is overblown. I don't, I don't. I'm not ashamed of that.
I'm just ashamed of you know. Uh, they're kind of assholes.
But I'm a reverse conspiracy theorist on that he's being honest.
He's uh yeah, And I just get that it's fucking
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annoying to have a team that is there every year.
But Louis, you gotta pick. I don't like any form
of football wack in international football or football, yeah, football,
either kind of food, food or foot how my pick
is that I will be drunk on a couch somewhere
on Sunday and that's and I will participate in that way.
(40:53):
But I don't have a pick. Yeah, okay, what about
a food Let's talk food. What do you like to
eat on the Super Bowl? Man? Whatever whatever one's serving up.
I'll tell you this, And this is my favorite thing.
This is gonna sound like some l a bullshit, but
someone brought these, uh like vegetarian buffalo wings, which I
didn't think would be good like coullie flower buffalo. Uh.
These were these were from some other place, Boulon, this
vegetarian type place. But man, those are phenomenal. Like I
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didn't know that could be that good. And now I'm
like turned onto like buffalo cauliflower, which sounds like some bullshit,
but I'm telling you it's delicious. It's really good someone
who does not normally eat vegetarian or vegan really specifically,
the first time I had that, I was like, oh, yeah, right,
you've done it. Yeah, cauliflower is like kind of the
new hot shit, right. I mean, it's been cool, but
crociferous vegetables have had a bad rat for a long time,
(41:37):
and I'm just gad they're coming back. For me. Personally,
I'm going to the the Eagles because you know, my man
is Chris Uh and his family there from Philly, so
I don't care about the NFL either, but I'll use
like the one good memory I have football. I was
just doing my friend Chris Flick, so shout out to you, Chris.
I hope to fucking Eagles do it. I also think
the accents Uh in Philadelphia great too. Yeah, getting uncle
(42:00):
league E's that's how my cousins talking. My whole family
is from Philadelphia. They're gonna sme on you damn see.
The stakes are high. Yeah, you know, familial roots, but
it also really is two places with like horrible accents.
You know, I mostly live in New York now, and
I feel like the bad reputation that New Yorkers have
is actually true about Philly and Boston. Like that's where
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those people actually you know what I mean, people who
are like really mean and like yeah obnoxious and mean
and try. Yes, that's not in New York. That's in
those places, right. Yeah. People like to fight in Boston, man, Yeah,
they really do like to fight. Called man. I was surprised,
like whoa, whoa Okay, just for walking on the street
or just the way they talk out there. It sounds
like someone's about to fight him where they're not, like
what the funk are they fucking? And it's like this
(42:43):
is this about to go down? Like no, they're just
going to get some food. Yeah, you know you can't
ordering at a drive through. Do you have any predictions
for the do of anything you think might happen in
the game? Jack, look into your crystal ball. Anything doesn't
have to be sports related. Will there be a blackout?
Will there be something controversial? I think there are a
big blackout for uh, I don't know. The it's really
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cold up there in Minnesota right now, up bear in Minnesota.
Uh So you know, I think I think the stands
will be almost all Eagles fans. It will be almost
like a home game for the Eagles because Patriots fans
are like, ah, we're over it. We've seen like six
super Bowls. You saw that. You saw Philadelphia looked like
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the night after the Eagles made it. So it's gonna
be like a home game for them, and uh, I
think I think it'll be closer than their game with
the Vikings, but I think it'll be I'm just gonna
pray that Janet Jackson comes out and she pulls out Justin.
I just feel like that's what has to happen. That's
how the universe is, even you know, even with all
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his memo gate Ship, we might just be who knows,
it could be vaporizing nuclear blast by North Korea. But
if I could see Jannet Jackson get up there and
pull just in to re league dick out and bring
balance to the force, that could be the great event.
I think it's too far. I think you gotta go
one nut or left. I think, okay, you know I'll
accept that too. I'll accept that, all right. We gotta
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get to Bloyd watch before watch the episode is over.
What's going on in the world of tablaids. Just to
remind people, we talk about tabloids because millions upon millions
of people past those every day, because humans still have
eyes and they still need to buy milk. Those the
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information on the cover of tabloids are still being dumped
into millions and millions of brains every day. So, Miles,
what is happening in what are the good ones? On
the cover of Star Tom escaped scientology for Surrey? What
pushed him over the edge? Inside the magazine though, when
they trying to allude to the fact that he's leaving Santoogi,
he didn't go to the opening of a center, so
(44:50):
they're like, oh, But then in the same article they
all say he might be being groomed to replace like
David m scaffage to be the head of the church.
So so he's either leaving the church or about to
be I'm the Pope of the church. So we've got
some good inside information on that. Uh, this one, Matt's
revenge got Matt lower On in touch. He knows all
their dirty secrets inside his explosive twelve million dollar tell
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all I love children, nude selfies anchory bombshell quote Everyone
was sleeping with each other. You go inside and they're saying, like,
he might write a book because he thinks it will
help him, you know, pull him out of Like if
if he's going down, then I'm taking the whole motherfucker
with me kind of out of Uh. I don't you
know what is someone that rich cares like just live
in your mansion and you're year yeah, and you're gonna
(45:35):
do it for twelve. That's hold of money, all right.
Next in the National Choir, my husband murdered John Bonnet.
So why are we talking about the Melo Jack my
husband's five year olds dying confession Exclusive interview When you
go in there, so they're saying the creep lived in
the neighbor's basement and he had a shrine to the
(45:57):
beauty queen. And it all hangs on the fact that
the man he smiled when I asked if he did it.
But this was somebody who lived in the neighbor's basement.
I guess, I don't know. I didn't even read that
far until I saw that it was all hang on
the fact that he smiled when she asked if he
did it. They put a dude's picture on the fucking
(46:19):
cover too. Like, granted he's dead, but that's still like,
could you fucking imagine you know, that's my fucking uncle.
Many Yeah, anyways, shout out to John. Now, this one's big.
This is this is this is hot ship. Why are
we talking about the memo when the queen survives assassin's bullet,
(46:40):
arrested after firing kills shot as she left a limo. Okay,
first of all, you going the thing Apparently she was
in New Zealand and this guy tried to take a
shot at her. But they're saying the media didn't cover
it and say there wasn't an attempt and then the
guy mysteriously died in jail. Like it's full of so
much weird, many little confirmed shit, and they're like, you know,
(47:03):
many Islamic terror groups have put a fucking target on
the family, so watch out for the wedding. It's gonna
be crazy. But I don't know. Again, so you think
they'd be in the news, Yeah, the real news. Sorry,
no offense to the If you look right above, JFK
buried next to Nazi So America's hidden shame, so so
(47:24):
funk with Joe Kennedy said at the response because his
fucking great uncle was buried next to a Nazi. Uh.
And then that's about it. Also, Natalie Wood case solved
finally because I was I was reading, I had some
things bookmarked about that. But it's it's been because she
cheated with Chris Watkin and Robert Wagner flew into a
jealous rage. Oh okay, well that is that is what
(47:47):
people think, like I think happened. But that's the thing
that I feel like the media has just in the
back of their file of like stories that can always
come up because like if there's no snowstorm coming or something,
they're just like, Robert Wagner has been a person of
mystery like for ten years, and they'll just mention it
again every fucking time. Or head investigator. They asked the
(48:11):
lead investigator is is he a suspect? And he said no,
I'd say he's a person of interest. So it's just like,
you know, that is nothing that tells us nothing, And
it is not the investigator coming out and saying that
like motivated by him having some new information. It is
the media asking him and him saying, but I temper that. Um,
(48:34):
so yeah, hey, you gotta try though you gotta swing
for the fence, right, Louis, It's been a pleasure of
having you. Man. Where can people find you? Follow you
do all that good stuff. I'm on all the internet things,
um and if you just search my name you'll find me.
L O U I s K t Z. You can
see me on the new season of This Is Not
Happening on Comedy Central. I'm telling a story. My episode
(48:55):
comes out February ninth. I'll check that out. It's just
me and Kevin Smith on that one. I think, and
check on my album online, my first album, If These
Balls Could Talk. We were just listening to that, yes
and uh and I haven't. I'll have a new one
coming out soon, so keep keep your eyes after that
awesome miles Where can people follow you? You can follow
me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Gray g
(49:17):
r A Y So stop getting with these akas with
that d R E Y ship. The people will be
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we have a website daily zieis dot com where we
post our episodes and our foot were link off to
the sources that we used for this episode and all
of those stories we talked about. Uh. And that's gonna
do it for today, Miles. What are we gonna write albums?
I just need you know, we need calm our vibs
a little bit. We just need to you know, the
(50:02):
the collective world needs to smoke a wild l in
the bathtub. Just relax, okay. Uh. And this is the
song I want to play from the Internet produced by
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last album. It's you know, Ego Death. It's a it's
a great vibe. It's a great vibe, the Internet being
the name of the band the Internet. Yes with Yes
with Sid as the front person sister of Taco from
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Our Future anyway, but yes, this is Girl from the
Internet produced by catre Nada. Get into it all right,
that's gonna do it for this week. We will be
back next week on Monday with Season seventeen. Uh So,
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Hello the Internet, and welcome to season sixteen, episode five
of their Daily Zeitgeist for February second, two thousand eight.
Team My name is Jack O'Brien, a k Little List
Conversation A Little More Objection courtesy of Kreko Sarah and
I am joined as always by my co host, Mr Miles.
It's right. It's Miles, as in the distance from which
(00:22):
I can see through Devin noonez his bullshit. Ray. Thank
you for that fire a k A moderate science or
moderate science, either one you call yourself Dave on Twitter,
So shout out to you for that. What up, Dave?
And we are thrilled to be joined in our third
seat today by the hilarious Louie Cats. What's up? Thanks
for having me, Hey, wanks for being here. Man. We
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just found out we're both in the battle yeah, or
he went to school in the Battles, Yes, but I'm
from the Balltos but he's from the other side Valley Roots.
Yeah yeah, yeah, I got a when coursing to our means, louis,
what is something from your search history that is revealing
about who you are as a human being? Uh? I
was just found yesterday and I didn't even realize when
I woke up this morning, but I guess around two am,
I was googling waterproof microphones. I'm considering doing a stand
(01:08):
up show in a pool, and I'm at that point
where how much does it cost? You can only get
like the headset kind like I guess if you're gonna
like a train, a killer whale or something like that,
right like this world, Yeah, and I don't want I
was like, how can I get a handheld mic? Like
I'm gonna do a stand up show like an idiot
in a pool and no one has that because it's
a bad idea. Yeah right, wait, so your idea for this,
like you are in the water? Well, I'm I'm actually
(01:31):
I'm doing a show on February fourteen on the roof
of the Ace Hotel and they have a little pool
there and that's right next to it. So I'm like,
there's this pool right here, like a wading pool, or
you're gonna have to be treading water the whole time.
It's tremendous strength. It's only comedians who also do water
polo can do this, right, But yeah, so it's it's
like a shallow pool. It's barely a pool. But if
(01:53):
you've been to the Ace, it's like it's it's like
they want to have a pool, so they have a
quote unquote pool. It's a glorified puddle people to take
Instagram photos and yeah, yes, yes, basically it's just a
grambable pool. But I figured, I mean it's just right
next to the stage. Well you need to do just
rock the headset and then just have a prop stick
mike so you have the feel of like using the
regular mike, but clearly you're getting the application through the
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safer wars And I don't know, Look, I think those
headsets look goofy firs stand up, you know what I mean.
It looks like I'm I don't know, you're doing a
Ted talk, a Ted talk or like there's some kind
of fancy choreography coming. There's nothing. There's no choreography. So yeah,
so yeah, that was it. I don't know if I'll
buy one, but I'm looking into it. How much there
I found one stick one that was like a thousand bucks.
I'm like, I guess I'm not gonna do a show that.
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I'll just talk real loud. Yeah, Louis, what is something
you think is underrated? Soup? Yes, Louis, what is something
you think is over and nothing right? Which favorite? Too? Oh? Man,
there's so many soups. I have to say. Lentil is
my favorite. I don't know. I can't. It's hard, it's hardy, Yeah, lentil.
(02:56):
I like ramen, I like chicken. Man. I like so
many soups. My girlfriend doesn't like soup, so I find
that problematic. So I just want to say how good
soup is? What do you think of biskus? Do you
need something in your souper? Can you do just like
a ground up sort of bis? You'll go bisk I'll
go spato if I have to Where I draw the
(03:20):
line because I like salsa? Uh? Just eating it with
a spoon a bowl. Yeah, I can't do it. I
cannot do it. Uh, Louis, what is something you think
is overrated? Marty gros Oh, I went. It's timely and
I'm just thinking about it. I went the last two years.
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Two years. You gave it to this a formed opinion.
I've done things that people really love, and I've also don't.
I mean I could. I went to the World Cup,
wasn't wasn't into it? Which world I went to the
last one? One Brazil. Yeah, you don't like it. It's
just like I said, like this is the most uh
expensive way to find out. I definitely don't like soccer.
Like now, I'm sure yeah if you're on the fence
(04:03):
and going to the World Cup, but definitely, lets you know,
what games did you see? I saw one game and
I was in Rio, so I saw us. I forget.
I forget the game. I feel like there was they
weren't even comparing in Germans there. It was like it
just here's the things that like, you know, the whole
thing where there's only like a you know, one goal
or two goals, so you have to watch so intently
and like at one point I just had to pee.
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I'm like I have to pee at this point, and
I go to pee, I'm in the stall and here
I'm like, oh, well, I missed the one thing I
was here to see. I mean, you know, and it's
just I don't know. I just couldn't get into it. Man.
But those ninety minutes, Man, it's tense. Maybe everything matters.
That's why I'm a huge I'm a huge football fan.
So I love I love I love the World Cup.
I just like to don't you like to look like
not look at the field for half a second, you
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know what I mean? Like in America, you have to
watch so many fucking commercials that I'd rather just do
a ninety minute focus fest and just then like, oh
another TV time out or man, but the commercial is
the best part of the Super Bowl, am I? Right? Guys?
Can't wait for those at the commercials? What do you
have one in the Puppy Bowl? Sloth? Isn't there a
(05:08):
sloth this year? Or some shi? It? Is that? Right? Yeah?
I think like because you know, well, no, it's like
the Puppy Bowl and then there's gonna be a random
fucking sloth I think in the background because they just
need as many force multipliers as possible. It's gotta be
against regulations. Yeah. Well, and also because uh NFL football
has gotten more and more dangerous, the faster and stronger
the athletes have gotten. So the safest animal that you
(05:29):
could play football with would be a Yeah, there's no
and that's science. But I'm sorry we got side track
because we're talking about in terms of Marty Grot what
what is it that you think people take or put
too much stock in or what was it to you
that you said, you know what, it's fine. I've been
twice just like what it's it's crowded. I'm I'm supposed
(05:50):
to get It's like, so the whole thing with like
women showing the breasts and getting beads like that doesn't
really happen that much. There's like one part of the
street where that happens, right Instead you everyone just stay
on the street and they have parades go by, and
I'm supposed to get excited about catching beads. I don't
give it about beads. I don't need beads. Just some
guy dressed as this weird clown on a truck and
I'm supposed to be excited that he throws a plastic
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trinking at me. Like you said, I'm just a weird
guy ad dressed I'm on a truck. I was like, well,
there's your problem. That's the other thing. I mean, I
wish I could be if I was on a truck,
that would be nice. You know. I'm just standing there
like I'm would be the beat thrower, not the beat receiver.
I'm just wearing I'm wearing a wig, I got makeup on,
and someone's throwing beads at me, I'm like, what am
I doing here? I don't, I don't and you're drinking
out of a hand grenade shaped up I would say,
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New Orleans on during non Mardi Gras is phenomenon like
Hannibals bit about how you can just get a parade.
You can just rent a parade for a reasonable amount
of money and you're just followed around by a parade
for the rest of the day. I mean, just a
second line like that, just just when you're there on
a random brain and you see a second line, you
(06:55):
just join it. That's great, But this with all the
people I don't. I don't need that. And also like
and Marty guards to wake up like at six and
start drinking like, I'm why am I waking up early
to party? That's the opposite of what you how you party? Pay? Yeah, yeah,
party what you want to That's right, Eddie Murphy song,
I think, right, No party all the time, party only
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when it's convenient. All right. We are trying to take
a sample of what people are talking and thinking about
right now at this very moment, and the way we
like to open up is by asking our guests what
is a myth? What is something people believe that you
based on your personal experience. No, to not be true
(07:37):
that Jews control the media. Okay, and how do you
know that not to be true? My career? All right,
go on, If Jews control the media, I would just
go to the meetings and be like, hey, guys, I
could use a little more work, and then uh, trying
to get a pilot, so let's get up, like and
I haven't been able to do that, although once it's
(07:59):
funny mom, you know, like, I'm sure it's every kind
of family, but it's maybe especially Jewish mom or all
my relatives, Like I have one connection. At one point,
my rabbi writes to my mom and says, um, he
could hook me up with uh Howy Mandel, Like I
can hook you up with Hawing Mandel, not the comedian,
but Will Ferrell's wife's skynecologist. That's his connection. And I'm like,
(08:23):
I don't think that's gonna help at all. You're like, oh, cool, No, Uh,
he's connect Have him put in a good word. I'm
sure that would be seen as totally appropriate. Will Ferrell's
(08:44):
all right, let's get into the events of the day.
We will obviously be talking about the memo. Uh, but
but we'll we'll say that for the second sort of
longer part, let's get in a Black History Month. It
is black a three month. Happy Black History Month everyone,
Uh and yeah, what what are some Black History months?
(09:07):
God damn you know Black History Month is starting off.
I mean, look the ship I'm already reading for starters
just found out there's like a Facebook group who is
trying to tank the Rotten Tomato score of the Black
Panther movie. Uh, there's a group called The event itself
is called give Black Panther a Rotten audience score on
Rotten Tomatoes. And there's like thirty participants. Uh, and the
(09:29):
event is basically like wanting to get the participants obviously
to tank the score, but also like make like distribute
massive spoilers because they have like a they hate Marvel
fan boys and like they want d C fans to
like give their own reviews. So it's like this d
C thing against Marvel. But then you get into it
(09:49):
this I think blog inverse. They they reportedly spoke to
the person who said they are leading the group, and
he said that the movement is to protest Disney's supposed
efforts to quote shove s J. W messages down our
throat being social justice warrior exactly, and also adding that
minorities should stay that way. Uh huh so yeah, that's
(10:12):
where placed minority Yeah exactly. So that's clearly it's not
a DZ Marvel thing at all. How do they not
know they're the bad guy? Like or do they are
they just into the fact that they're the bad guy?
I don't. I mean, on one handed, scary In another
hand of like this is such a step down for racist,
like we're gonna give you bad reviews for your movie.
It's like whatever happened to burning across or you know
(10:35):
what I mean, it's not about that life. And I
guess that's good, is that we have diet racism, but
still it persists on the list. Yeah, and I mean
at the same time, it just becomes harder to spot
maybe like it's like more insidious. They're like, yeah, right
that this there's more ship like this, right, They're just
trying to find less visible ways to fund things up.
(10:57):
But the rest from what it looks like, it's not
going to do a fun king thing because what it
already shattered, like the pre sale record for a film
or something. Yeah, Marvel films. Any actual reviews out or
is anyone Well, there was a premiere Monday or Tuesday.
I felt like on Twitter everybody was at the Black
Panther premiere on Twitter, but it seemed like people really
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liked it and like, yeah, that's the people who went
to the premiere are glowing about it. It's amazing that
it's so hyped. I's like, what if it's just not
that good? That's what I keep on besides the things
it's like, you know, it's like, I don't know what
can wait to see if it's it looks cool, but
a lot of things look cool. One of our former guests,
David Shilling, on Twitter was saying he was there too,
(11:40):
and he's like, avoid reviews people give immediately the second
they step out of a theater. Uh, is like, and
give it a second to really think, because he said,
is it the greatest film ever? No? He's like, is
it one of the best Marvel films? Yes? And like
that's where it's yeah exactly. So I'm like, that's pretty
fucking good. Yeah. I mean, just I feel like wonder
and also suffered from the same kind of hype where
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people were very excited to see a female superhero and
I just didn't think it was that good. I just
didn't think I was hoping it would be good and
it wasn't. It was it was long. There's the funky
accents in the beginning where she supremacist that yeahs he
didn't because he's not trying to see an empowered woman.
(12:23):
You're doing all that masculine. And that was my favorite
thing about Wonder Woman is like it changed the depiction
of a female superhero, like it sort of turned it on.
It's here because most of the time, like Storm and
these other female like superheroes like flying or using telechnesis
like one, it was like straight up brute strength, let
me fucking head. But this tank my geep back. She
was badass and just an Israeli playing or it's like, yeah,
(12:45):
I am scared of Israeli women in general, and that
that makes sense. There are many layers to you kind
of being like I don't know about like I liked it.
I just think people get over excited sometimes like it's
it's okay, like is it is it on the I
just have my favorite superhero movies. If they're saying it's
one of the best Marvel movies most of my favorite
ones are Marvel ones, so yeah, hey must be pretty good.
But are you a Marvel or DC person? Yeah? Okay, see,
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and this is the seed now the DC Army R
I pre mentioned because um. But then to go along
with that, there was another study that the Southern Poverty
Law Center just released that basically indicates that most of
our high school students don't know shit about slavery, which
I mean is not surprising when you look at sort
of just in generally the state of our education system
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and the sentiment people have in regards to slavery, like
John Kelly and many other people, but some of the
things like in there, for example, only eight percent of
high school seniors surveyed could identify slavery as the main
cause of the Civil War. Less than ten per cent
of these surveyed high school seniors. You're like, what was
the cause of war? That's crazy? Uh, Trump, I don't know.
(13:53):
I mean, I think there was a movement to try
and make it about at least yeah, states rights, and
also like the money involved. They were like, well, you know,
the North was just trying to make it and you
know that was almost like a backlash. It was like
the hip thing to be like, well, actually, historically it
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really wasn't about slavery for like a little while there.
Let's negate the suffering of the slaves um, you know,
so I can see that, But it sounds like in
this case people are just like, I don't know, taxes,
That's the thing. Around four year percent of the students
said that tax protests were the cause, right, so they
just think that the American Revolutionary War, yeah, or they thought,
(14:35):
you know, the occupy movement basically Tea Party. But to me,
it's like, see between the lines that kind of like
the last line of the Black Panther protests, Like it's like, okay, well,
maybe they're just confused and you see, oh, it's this
tax protests. So it does seem like right leaning people
have been like influencing history books. You know, like as
soon as you say that, well, I mean, oh, well,
I know where this information is coming from, you know
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what I mean, it's like kind of clear once you
say that, oh, it's tax protests, sounds like a Republican
agenda to me. Well, and I think they're they're saying
that another staff from that only could correctly identify that
provisions in the constitution gave advantages to slaveholders, which is okay, interesting,
but that's a little more nuanced. I'm surprised that knew
about that, but only eight percent knew that slavery was
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the cause of the Civil War. And then I guess
in the last when you look at the books themselves,
they're saying the text books are also a huge problem
because when they looked at textbooks providing like comprehensive coverage
of slavery, they got like a score of seventy against
like the rubric that the SPLC created to rate a
book based on like how thoroughly they covered the subject,
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the average score of the textbooks that where they were
looking at in the study it was for so you.
And they also say, like teachers also have a hard
time facilitating nuanced conversations about slavery, Like once the book's
closed and you begin discussing that, some teachers are also
just sort of not equipped to like navigate that conversation,
it's going to get uncomfortable. Yeah, a lot of textbooks
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are determined by Texas, actually because Texas is so big
and uh, the way the textbook industry is set up,
Texas creates a lot of the textbooks in America and
Texas as of you know, the past handful of years
has been like violently violently conservative, uh and you know,
(16:23):
violently against the teaching of any buddy's version of the
story that isn't you know, white European settlers, uh there,
or anything that would make the the US look bad
in any way because we've you know, we've done no
running doing ever well the history of our country. I mean,
if the textbooks are one thing, but the like you know,
people have pointed out, there's all these other museums. There's
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no slavery museum, you know, really or anything about that, right.
I went, I went to one. Actually there's one plantation
outside of New Orleans and only there from Marty gar
I also go to learn and they have a museum,
but it's like they're just getting started. I mean, compare
that to like the Holocaust Museum in d C. Wouldn't
even happen here, you know what I mean. It's like
there's no there's not these means of teaching it because
because everyone's awkward about it. I mean, so so when
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we're not teaching adults, we're not teaching anyone problem. I mean,
the close thing is in d C, the African American
History Museum. But that is like the hardest thing to
get into because everybody wo so they covered there. But yeah,
it's true. I think it's sort of underlines the fact
that Black History Month is in the shortest month of
the year. Uh and it's real early on. I think
we can use this time to really like change our
discourse around what we understand about black history, because I
(17:28):
think it's right now. It's like a sentiment and it's
not so much about really like kind of looking like, oh,
is everyone aware of like the contributions and the trials
and tribulations of African Americans in this country. But hey,
so the Black History Museum in d C is like
it's like a hot club. It's hard to get into.
It's very hard. It's very hard to get into. Yeah,
like because it's so popular. Everyone wants to go because
(17:49):
it was a great museum. It opened last year, so
it's people people have just opened last year. Yeah, we
just found out we needed a museum about that last year.
All Right, we're gonna take a quick break and when
we come back, we're gonna talk about that memo and
(18:12):
we're back. Uh. So this fucking memo, you guys. Uh.
I was getting all sorts of tweets and uh texts
from different people about this memo as it was released
while I was driving into work uh this morning, and
uh the my Apple watch thought that I was working
out because of how fast my heart was going because
(18:33):
I was so fucking stressed out by everybody being like,
oh well see now this this shows that the investigation
is bullshit. There are people texting you that yeah, yeah,
my As I've said, I have conservative friends who very
smart people who of you know, uh buy into this
bullshit somehow. Um yeah. I was like, do you just
(18:55):
pay attention to Fox News? And he was like no,
what else? I read the Wall Street Journal, which also
uh Rupert Murdoch outlet, So they used to pretend like
they were maybe not totally like on the GOP end
of things, but now it's like full scale, like okay,
we'll spread the news too. So got in read the
(19:16):
memo and now I feel a lot better about it
because it's just it's really nothing. Um so what it is?
I actually like took the time to read all four
pages of it, uh, and it's all based on a
single visa application that they said, is misleading. So they've
(19:38):
cherry picked like one tiny piece of procedure from the
entire investigation and focused on that. And I feel like
that's the most telling thing because if anything, this suggests
that the entire investigation is like super buttoned up, because
obviously Nunez and Trump's team like poured over the entire
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idy of the investigation for things they could use to
suggest bias, and like, this tiny part is the best
they could come up with, and it's not a convincing
argument MILLI in the least bit. And and again they
tried to bring in the Steel dossier again, which is
like their favorite rallying cry. So it starts out saying
the Steele dossier, which was being paid for by the
(20:20):
Clinton campaign, Uh, it was also paid for uh and
in fact started Uh he was hired in the first
place to create the dossier by Republicans, so it's a
bipartisan effort. But they talked about how Steele was contacting
and stude Or at the FBI, whose wife also worked
for the law firm that was compiling the Steele dossier
(20:42):
for the d n C, and that like admittedly doesn't
look great that uh, this FBI agent who was working
on this had a wife who was working for the
law firm that was, you know, working for the d
n C. But that's just like a connection they make
king to try and make a point that, right, if
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that was substantive, then it wouldn't just come into play
in the carter page, uh FISA, which like that's not
a substantive part of the investigation. Like at the very
end of the memo, they like throw in and uh,
the memo mentioned Popadopolis and they just like try and
(21:22):
throw all this Popadopolis stuff at the wall because they
know that that's actually a relevant part. But the fucking's
dumb part is that it basically confirms that the investigation
started because of Papadopolis and not the dossier. Right that
it betrays itself already in putting that information out right,
so it fucking negates everything after that. This thing is
(21:44):
I don't know. This is why, Like when you came in,
I was like, this is I don't even know it's
worth talking about, because all this is is the fucking
dumbest distraction to begin the sequence of talking points that
will lead to the outst of Rod Rosenstein. Right, because
nothing in here, like and I know, like we can
pick apart bit by bit like what is wrong, what
is factually inaccurate? But you know this is it's I
(22:07):
just I don't know. It's it's so massively distracting and
the ship in there is so weak. There's nothing fucking
new in here, or if it is, it's just to
like drum up these like old conspiracy theories, like when
they even say like, oh, well, you know Christopher Steele
didn't want the president to be elected. Yeah, maybe because
he saw a bunch of disturbing ship and felt duty
down to tell the security apparatus in this country that
(22:28):
this person poses a fucking threat to your democracy and
your and your national security. And I was telling Nick
like that's like someone looking at saying like, oh, I
don't like the Redskins this. You know the Redskins is
it's a it's offensive, and they're like, oh, you're saying
that because you're a Giants fan. It's like, know what
I'm saying, because it's the logos races. I think the
Redskins name is race. It's not because I'm a Giants fan.
You're completely missing the point that would is motivating this,
(22:51):
Like what my distaste for something could be or the
fact that he is alarmed as an intelligence expert what
he has found, right, Yeah, I mean, he was pretty
supposed to be worried about a Trump presidency because he
had been investigating him and had found a bunch of
disturbing ship. So there's this sort of mad scramble too,
(23:12):
basically get this out there by the Trump regime and
their propaganda wing Fox News and make it seem like
a bigger deal than it actually is. And I don't know,
I guess the question is whether it's going to work, right, Yeah. Well,
other the other thing, Ze Gang, when you're out here
and you have to talk to funk heads who are like, well,
you know, they were monitoring carter Page was all off
(23:32):
the steel dots. Save that first of all, you say
that's wrong. Read the dot say they're saying investigation started
because George Bobbodob was then moving on to Carter Page.
This fucking idiot was giving documents to Russian spies in
and was already on the radar of our intelligence community
because he was fucking working with Russian spies, like they
had already got him cooperating with them. So to act
(23:53):
like they never say that Carter Page was a bad target.
That's never in the memo at all. And if they
don't really also allude to the or just acknowledge the
fact that clearly, if they keep renewing it, that there
had to have been evidence that each time they were
surveilling him it was yielding evidence that would justify continuing
the surveillance. So I don't know. It's just like, and
(24:15):
Carter Page, we should mention when it came out, like
all all this super suspicious behavior. Uh, the White House
completely disavowed him and was like, oh, yeah, we don't
know that guy. I don't know. So I don't know.
Those two things don't seem to Like the fact that
they're saying it's completely unfair that they were going after
(24:37):
Carter Page and the fact that they were like we
don't know him, like those it's just like somebody was lying.
He's just saying whatever in the at that moment is convenient.
It's a bad episode of cops when the dude is
clearly crashed his car drunk and they pull him out
and they're like, hey, what happened here and there? Oh no, man,
I think this guy was driving the car and like
(24:58):
motherfucker in the driver's seat, saw the same ship but
playing out at the highest levels of government. So, you know,
this morning on Fox News they were acting like, oh,
well lookye here, So I guess Steele was against Trump
the whole time. So that dossier, this is the strippers
pete all over the bed, is untrue. But I've yet
(25:20):
to read anything that has completely debunked the Steel dossier.
We've only seen things that essentially corroborate everything's corroborated the
Steele dossier. The all this says is that Steele was
worried about a Trump presidency after he started investigating him
and found out about the pe tape and found out
like that he was compromised by Putin. So um, yeah,
(25:43):
And I mean this seems to be the first step
in Trump's attempt to purge the FBI and fire you know,
the FBI, which, let's remember was happy to feed details
of the Clinton email investigation cheese to Rudy Giuliani an email,
and that's it, Like, let's keep in mind that's what
they were worried about. And also, yeah, that Peter Strock,
(26:05):
who is the FBI agent who's like, oh, the guy
who said Secret Society. In those text messages, he drafted
that letter that Comey released in October that I think
most people will say helped push the election into Donald
Trump's favor. So and they were treating this Peter Strock
guy like a fucking boogeyman the whole time, and then
here it comes out, your boy actually helps Trump significantly.
(26:27):
So where's that now? Like they're just grasping at straws.
It's so apparent that the GOP is just covering for
this president's fuckory. It's just fucking and it's so transparent,
like it's just oh man, it's so disheartening. Like, But
at the same time, that's where I'm like, don't even
give this ship air because bullshit, let's keep it moving.
Let's pass some legislation that will fucking protect Robert Mueller
(26:47):
and do that, right. Yeah, the thing I have heard
conservatives say is we need to pass legislation that protects
the president from stuff like this. Um So, yeah, I
don't know. This is just if anything evidence, Like you know,
even if you were on the fence of whether the
Russia investigation was going to reveal anything, just how completely
(27:09):
desperate they seemed to debt it is kind of one
of the most revealing things. It is a total distraction.
How about this. Can we all agree on these things?
Russia hacked the d n C to influence selection that
both sides agreed on that. Can we agree that Trump
was so excited when he was like, Yo, I love
(27:30):
wiki leaks. I would love to have this dirt right right? That? Okay,
we can accept that. Can we also agree that the
Trump team may have most likely had a meeting with
that Russian lawyer about getting those Hillary emails. Yeah, according
to them, they had a meeting with her. It was
just about that, he says. Even when he met with Putin,
he said, oh, I met with him about a break.
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For an innocent person, these would all be things they
would want investigated to prove, right, like, there's nothing going
on here. Also, we can also accept they were trying
to obscure the fact that those meetings happened, and then
that the FBI was they were only looking at Hillary
during the campaign. So I'm sorry. That to me is
more of a scandal than ship pass. Devin Unez trying
(28:11):
to to like drum up this. It's just stupid, man.
There's nothing substantive in there. And now I want to
see that's why they need to have the Democrat memo
out to just eviscerate this thing, right, So, yeah, that's important.
People are probably hearing Memo gate the memo has been
released and assuming that this is in some way like
a comprehensive thing or so, let's just say what the
(28:36):
memo is. The memo is one Republicans like Cherry picked
account of a very specific, like procedural aspect of the
case that he thinks was biased. That's all like a
thing that really has barely any bearing on the investigation,
(28:56):
like Carter Page is not a key part of the
investigation at this point that we know of, right, Um,
I guess this is why it's been taking so long,
because they knew they would pick up any kind of
there being so careful. Like That's what this points out
to me, is that like every fucking thing they're doing
is so careful that like this is the best they
could come up with. But yeah, Miles, like you said,
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there is a Democratic version of this that points out
all of the ways that this is. You know that
the Republican memo that was just released is misleading. Uh,
the FBI once that out there, the FBI said like,
this is wildly reckless to put this out there. The FBI,
which is run by people who Trump hand picked. These
(29:40):
are Trump appointees, you guys. These are not the Democrats
and the FBI are in the The FBI fucking swung
the election to Trump. Like Miles said, so, um, I mean,
I assume the FBI, even besides the fact that they
turned the election, that maybe a lot of the agents
are are right leaning. So how do they feel and
how are they going to react when he's doing this
kind of stuff I think they're doing. They're involved in
(30:02):
an investigation that it I don't know. I wouldn't say,
but I think it's misleading to I guess say that
the all the entire FBI was totally on this team
Trump thing. There were definitely a few agents who in
New York were the ones who were putting the pressure,
like through like leaking to Rudy Giuliani that basically forced
Comy's hand to talk about that there was a thing
because he didn't want it to get out like that.
(30:24):
So there are I'm sure there are people who were
like that, But to say, I guess, really the FBI
in general is for the most part, it is not
who you want to funk with as president, because I
take down all the presidents whenever there's foora. So what
are some examples of that? Oh? No Nixon, Uh, you know,
uh fucking Kennedy. No. But with Nixon, he actually asked
(30:47):
the FBI to shut down the probe. Uh, and someone
at FBI flatly said no. Also remember Mark Felt, who
was deep throat also FBI assistant director, so you know
the fb I has receipts. And even like in two
thousand four, George W. Bush Bush two was actually confronted
by Bob Mueller himself where Mueller was basically saying like, Yo,
(31:09):
I'm gonna resign if you don't knock off some of
this electronic surveillance ship that you're doing after nine eleven,
and then guess what happened. Bush agreed, and he agreed
to put it on more like, you know, make it
above board unless you know illegal. So clearly the FBI
has a relationship with being independent and also stepping in
when presidents are going out of line for the well
being of the rest of the country. So yes, I
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think the bottom line though, is that if there is
ever in time where Trump needs are top law enforcement
apparatus to be functioning in his favor. This is not
gonna this is not good for their relationship for him
to paint all these guys to be like, oh, their hacks,
because they're I'm sure most I would say most people
are probably being professional, actually respect the work that they
(31:51):
do at the bureau, trying to be unbiased. Actually neither
side exactly. But the goal here is for him to
be able to fire all of the leadership and put
more leaders in there who are you know now like
on his side, right, And they want to say that
it's politicized. I'm sorry, did you not ask James Comey,
Rod Rosenstein all these people for loyalty oaths? And you
(32:14):
want to say it's it's I'm saying. And how many
people of his own can he put in there? All
the people underneath are gonna be upset. I mean, like,
there's no you can't just replace everybody, well, right, I mean,
like one thing is that so if he's able to
remove Rod Rosenstein, that he'll either try and get someone confirmed,
or what he can do is move somebody that has
already received Senate confirmation into that position to do his bidding.
(32:36):
And if that's the case, I think they know is
like if they fire Bob Mueller, it's gonna be a disaster.
So what they can do is put someone in that
deputy a g position to like massively curtail and hamstring
his investigation and like limit the scope of it, so
it becomes much more difficult for Robert Mueller to put
his case together. That's where like all these signs are
(32:58):
pointing to so and just a thing we keep bringing up.
But Trump continues to talk about some attack in the
future that we don't know about, but he keeps talking
about or a major event, a major event that will Okay,
what was the thing with the election? This has maybe
(33:19):
a month or two ago in the Washington Post they
were talking about it was an article about mid terms,
and it was like a small line. I think clearly
many other people picked it up because it's very weird
talking about how the midterms are not looking good. But
he's been saying privately that when nine eleven happened, that
helped the Bush White House like tremendously because it's just
approval rating skyrocket when there's like a fucking terrorist attack
(33:41):
like that. You know, they said well, maybe nothing like
that will happen, but I know that it helps or whatever.
Then earlier this week, he was talking to the press
before the same of the Union's saying, I would love
to be able to bring our country back into a
great form of unity quote without a major event where
people pull together. That's hard to do, but I would
like to do it without that major event because usually
that major event is not a good thing. Mhm. So again,
(34:04):
just you know, be a shame if something were to happen,
because then everybody would be But so whether that is
I mean, if you want to look at all the
news coming out of the Pentagon with North Korea, like
the fact that the White House keeps telling the Pentagon,
give us more options, give us more options, because clearly
the Pentagon is like, okay, here are options. They're like,
don't show him anything, like with a military strike. And
now the White House like, no, we want, we want,
(34:26):
we want military options. I don't know what this is
leading to. We'll just keep in mind that his his
boy Putin came to power through a false flag operation
where they bombed a bunch of like apartment buildings and
blamed it on chechens, and it is almost definitely like
everybody like obviously the press there is not free to
(34:47):
print this when you read up on the details. It's
basically their version of the CIA is like all over
the place, and and the investigation of the bombings, not
to mention the head of that s B, the g
r U and like their main spy chief. We're in
d C talking to Mike Pompeo, and we didn't know
until the Russian media was like, oh, hey, by the way,
(35:07):
like all of our top spy people were talked to
Mike Pompeo at the CIA about terrorism or whatever, and
then here we are not enforcing the fucking sanctions, which
would probably deter Russia from attempting to funk with the
mid terms. There's like really like I don't know, it's
just all this memo ship is just such a distraction
from like the real fucking problems, because the more we
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talk about this memo, the less you have to talk
about the fact that he's not enforcing sanctions and that
these people have been visiting d C, and who knows
what's going on with North Korea. It's you know, it's Friday.
Maybe he just read The Watchmen recently, he's end. Let's
hope it's like some kind of weird alien thing and
not not something where a lot of people die that
(35:51):
is true, fake alien things with lands, and then we
all unify against the aliens. That would be probably the
best case scenario. And I hope when he says like
we have to you know, Increa is an arsenal he's
talking about, we have a doctor Manhattan or something, just
pull up. I'll be way more entertaining. It's almost it's
it's scary on so many levels, but basically what he's
saying is also that like, uh, not only is he
(36:11):
gonna solidify power, but in a way probably a lot
of people are gonna have to die in order for
him to solidify power, which is disgusting. And I don't
want to be reckless and say that that is what
is going to happen, but it's just very unsettling language. Well,
if he's allowed to speculate about it, then I feel
like we should be able to speculate about it too,
Like if he's allowed to be like be a shame
of something more to happen thing it would be ashame
(36:33):
of someone nine eleven, then I feel like we should
be able to point out, because that's fucking crazy something
in North Korea. Here in California, we are the closest,
uh you know, I mean maybe Alaska technically, well no,
but we it's people from inside North Korea have said that,
you know, the very first target that Kim jongan would
(36:54):
attack is Los Angeles and Hollywood. Yeah. Really, yeah, because
he's like an I thought his dad loved the movies
they do, but like that's why you dad. I think
it would be like a way of feeling like he
destroyed something important and not at Brogan's house, just straight
(37:15):
to a straight to a tactical nuclear strength. Yeah, and
not to mention what would happen in the region in general,
what happens the soul just across the border there and
the Japan like yo, yeah, putting people at risk man, Yeah,
fucking ridiculous. I didn't thought it would be North Care.
I would just thinking more of a terrorist thing here
and not like some kind of big war things. He says,
(37:37):
a major events, So who knows the Super Bowl halftime
show could be major. Sloth takes the Puppy Bowl, Yeah,
that's a major event, brings a country together. All of
his approval ratings go up and we're out of this right,
all right, we'll take a quick break. We'll be right back,
(38:01):
and we're back. Uh So, the Super bowls this weekend,
which means it's the Friday of super Bowl Week, and uh,
ESPN has reached new levels of desperation when it comes
to generating stories about the Super Bowl. This happens every year.
We actually one of the first like hit viral things
(38:22):
we did on Cracked was create a fake ESPN that
was just like all the super Bowl uh stories that
like they were trying to generate um. Right now, though
the front page of ESPN, the second story is who
will prevail in super Bowl fifty two? Maybe the team
that sleeps on it. Studies show that even a small
increase in r M sleep can boost performance. Uh So
(38:45):
that's where they're at right now, is like, yeah, they're
just because they have to. They're covering this one game,
like for they have to write, you know, a thousand
stories about this one game. And well, I think time
I saw the gown there Twitter, it's like twenty three
facts you didn't know about the super Bowl, right, It's
like that It's okay, sweet, I mean I would have
(39:08):
loved that when I was still reading like Sports Illustrated
for kids. I think the Eagles are gonna win. That's
that's my Yeah. Uh. They feel like a team of destiny,
feels like they've been underrated, underestimated every every step of
the way. I'm an ashamed Patriots fan, but I think
(39:29):
the Eagles are definitely gonna win. It's like they've been
underdogs for the past three rounds. I think it's definitely
the same thing is happening every time. People are like, yeah,
but the not this time. The Eagles suck, the Nick
Foles won't do it again, and uh, they keep surprising people.
I think it'll happen. When you say you're an ashamed
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Patriots fan, what was that mean. I've been a Patriots
fan since before Tom Brady was their quarterback, and you
know I'm still a Patriots fan. Do Do I love
the fact that he had a mega hat in his
uh locker? Yes? I do? Uh No, you know he's
it's just because because Patriots fan gets such hate and
(40:10):
you're like, but I was down with it before I
got like this. I think the cheating stuff is over
is overblown. I don't, I don't. I'm not ashamed of that.
I'm just ashamed of you know. Uh, they're kind of assholes.
But I'm a reverse conspiracy theorist on that he's being honest.
He's uh yeah, And I just get that it's fucking
(40:32):
annoying to have a team that is there every year.
But Louis, you gotta pick. I don't like any form
of football wack in international football or football, yeah, football,
either kind of food, food or foot how my pick
is that I will be drunk on a couch somewhere
on Sunday and that's and I will participate in that way.
(40:53):
But I don't have a pick. Yeah, okay, what about
a food Let's talk food. What do you like to
eat on the Super Bowl? Man? Whatever whatever one's serving up.
I'll tell you this, And this is my favorite thing.
This is gonna sound like some l a bullshit, but
someone brought these, uh like vegetarian buffalo wings, which I
didn't think would be good like coullie flower buffalo. Uh.
These were these were from some other place, Boulon, this
vegetarian type place. But man, those are phenomenal. Like I
(41:16):
didn't know that could be that good. And now I'm
like turned onto like buffalo cauliflower, which sounds like some bullshit,
but I'm telling you it's delicious. It's really good someone
who does not normally eat vegetarian or vegan really specifically,
the first time I had that, I was like, oh, yeah, right,
you've done it. Yeah, cauliflower is like kind of the
new hot shit, right. I mean, it's been cool, but
crociferous vegetables have had a bad rat for a long time,
(41:37):
and I'm just gad they're coming back. For me. Personally,
I'm going to the the Eagles because you know, my man
is Chris Uh and his family there from Philly, so
I don't care about the NFL either, but I'll use
like the one good memory I have football. I was
just doing my friend Chris Flick, so shout out to you, Chris.
I hope to fucking Eagles do it. I also think
the accents Uh in Philadelphia great too. Yeah, getting uncle
(42:00):
league E's that's how my cousins talking. My whole family
is from Philadelphia. They're gonna sme on you damn see.
The stakes are high. Yeah, you know, familial roots, but
it also really is two places with like horrible accents.
You know, I mostly live in New York now, and
I feel like the bad reputation that New Yorkers have
is actually true about Philly and Boston. Like that's where
(42:21):
those people actually you know what I mean, people who
are like really mean and like yeah obnoxious and mean
and try. Yes, that's not in New York. That's in
those places, right. Yeah. People like to fight in Boston, man, Yeah,
they really do like to fight. Called man. I was surprised,
like whoa, whoa Okay, just for walking on the street
or just the way they talk out there. It sounds
like someone's about to fight him where they're not, like
what the funk are they fucking? And it's like this
(42:43):
is this about to go down? Like no, they're just
going to get some food. Yeah, you know you can't
ordering at a drive through. Do you have any predictions
for the do of anything you think might happen in
the game? Jack, look into your crystal ball. Anything doesn't
have to be sports related. Will there be a blackout?
Will there be something controversial? I think there are a
big blackout for uh, I don't know. The it's really
(43:03):
cold up there in Minnesota right now, up bear in Minnesota.
Uh So you know, I think I think the stands
will be almost all Eagles fans. It will be almost
like a home game for the Eagles because Patriots fans
are like, ah, we're over it. We've seen like six
super Bowls. You saw that. You saw Philadelphia looked like
(43:26):
the night after the Eagles made it. So it's gonna
be like a home game for them, and uh, I
think I think it'll be closer than their game with
the Vikings, but I think it'll be I'm just gonna
pray that Janet Jackson comes out and she pulls out Justin.
I just feel like that's what has to happen. That's
how the universe is, even you know, even with all
(43:47):
his memo gate Ship, we might just be who knows,
it could be vaporizing nuclear blast by North Korea. But
if I could see Jannet Jackson get up there and
pull just in to re league dick out and bring
balance to the force, that could be the great event.
I think it's too far. I think you gotta go
one nut or left. I think, okay, you know I'll
accept that too. I'll accept that, all right. We gotta
(44:07):
get to Bloyd watch before watch the episode is over.
What's going on in the world of tablaids. Just to
remind people, we talk about tabloids because millions upon millions
of people past those every day, because humans still have
eyes and they still need to buy milk. Those the
(44:28):
information on the cover of tabloids are still being dumped
into millions and millions of brains every day. So, Miles,
what is happening in what are the good ones? On
the cover of Star Tom escaped scientology for Surrey? What
pushed him over the edge? Inside the magazine though, when
they trying to allude to the fact that he's leaving Santoogi,
he didn't go to the opening of a center, so
(44:50):
they're like, oh, But then in the same article they
all say he might be being groomed to replace like
David m scaffage to be the head of the church.
So so he's either leaving the church or about to
be I'm the Pope of the church. So we've got
some good inside information on that. Uh, this one, Matt's
revenge got Matt lower On in touch. He knows all
their dirty secrets inside his explosive twelve million dollar tell
(45:12):
all I love children, nude selfies anchory bombshell quote Everyone
was sleeping with each other. You go inside and they're saying, like,
he might write a book because he thinks it will
help him, you know, pull him out of Like if
if he's going down, then I'm taking the whole motherfucker
with me kind of out of Uh. I don't you
know what is someone that rich cares like just live
in your mansion and you're year yeah, and you're gonna
(45:35):
do it for twelve. That's hold of money, all right.
Next in the National Choir, my husband murdered John Bonnet.
So why are we talking about the Melo Jack my
husband's five year olds dying confession Exclusive interview When you
go in there, so they're saying the creep lived in
the neighbor's basement and he had a shrine to the
(45:57):
beauty queen. And it all hangs on the fact that
the man he smiled when I asked if he did it.
But this was somebody who lived in the neighbor's basement.
I guess, I don't know. I didn't even read that
far until I saw that it was all hang on
the fact that he smiled when she asked if he
did it. They put a dude's picture on the fucking
(46:19):
cover too. Like, granted he's dead, but that's still like,
could you fucking imagine you know, that's my fucking uncle.
Many Yeah, anyways, shout out to John. Now, this one's big.
This is this is this is hot ship. Why are
we talking about the memo when the queen survives assassin's bullet,
(46:40):
arrested after firing kills shot as she left a limo. Okay,
first of all, you going the thing Apparently she was
in New Zealand and this guy tried to take a
shot at her. But they're saying the media didn't cover
it and say there wasn't an attempt and then the
guy mysteriously died in jail. Like it's full of so
much weird, many little confirmed shit, and they're like, you know,
(47:03):
many Islamic terror groups have put a fucking target on
the family, so watch out for the wedding. It's gonna
be crazy. But I don't know. Again, so you think
they'd be in the news, Yeah, the real news. Sorry,
no offense to the If you look right above, JFK
buried next to Nazi So America's hidden shame, so so
(47:24):
funk with Joe Kennedy said at the response because his
fucking great uncle was buried next to a Nazi. Uh.
And then that's about it. Also, Natalie Wood case solved
finally because I was I was reading, I had some
things bookmarked about that. But it's it's been because she
cheated with Chris Watkin and Robert Wagner flew into a
jealous rage. Oh okay, well that is that is what
(47:47):
people think, like I think happened. But that's the thing
that I feel like the media has just in the
back of their file of like stories that can always
come up because like if there's no snowstorm coming or something,
they're just like, Robert Wagner has been a person of
mystery like for ten years, and they'll just mention it
again every fucking time. Or head investigator. They asked the
(48:11):
lead investigator is is he a suspect? And he said no,
I'd say he's a person of interest. So it's just like,
you know, that is nothing that tells us nothing, And
it is not the investigator coming out and saying that
like motivated by him having some new information. It is
the media asking him and him saying, but I temper that. Um,
(48:34):
so yeah, hey, you gotta try though you gotta swing
for the fence, right, Louis, It's been a pleasure of
having you. Man. Where can people find you? Follow you
do all that good stuff. I'm on all the internet things,
um and if you just search my name you'll find me.
L O U I s K t Z. You can
see me on the new season of This Is Not
Happening on Comedy Central. I'm telling a story. My episode
(48:55):
comes out February ninth. I'll check that out. It's just
me and Kevin Smith on that one. I think, and
check on my album online, my first album, If These
Balls Could Talk. We were just listening to that, yes
and uh and I haven't. I'll have a new one
coming out soon, so keep keep your eyes after that
awesome miles Where can people follow you? You can follow
me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Gray g
(49:17):
r A Y So stop getting with these akas with
that d R E Y ship. The people will be
able to hear it in your voice. You can follow
me at Jack Underscore O'Brien on Twitter. You can follow
us at Daily Zygeist on Twitter at the Daily zi
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(49:42):
we have a website daily zieis dot com where we
post our episodes and our foot were link off to
the sources that we used for this episode and all
of those stories we talked about. Uh. And that's gonna
do it for today, Miles. What are we gonna write albums?
I just need you know, we need calm our vibs
a little bit. We just need to you know, the
(50:02):
the collective world needs to smoke a wild l in
the bathtub. Just relax, okay. Uh. And this is the
song I want to play from the Internet produced by
Catronata producer. Song is called Girl. Uh. It's off their
last album. It's you know, Ego Death. It's a it's
a great vibe. It's a great vibe, the Internet being
the name of the band the Internet. Yes with Yes
with Sid as the front person sister of Taco from
(50:25):
Our Future anyway, but yes, this is Girl from the
Internet produced by catre Nada. Get into it all right,
that's gonna do it for this week. We will be
back next week on Monday with Season seventeen. Uh So,
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