Hakeem Jeffries = Aspiring Undercover, Cat In The Hat-phobia 08.27.26

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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Who do we think's the third? The third 80-year-old to go.
I'm not going to say it. Yeah. I don't want
to jinx it. Oh, a third 80-year-old. Oh. Because we
got some 80-year-olds. Yeah, we need an Etsy. We got
some 80-plus out there that I'm just saying, like.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Is this a time to put some money on some
Etsy witches?

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Or, like, on Fiverr? There's got to be, like, a
shaman somewhere. Oh, no, he's still in prison, isn't he? Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Q Shaman? Yes, Ray. Q Shaman. Q Shaman. When he
got out, I was like, Q Shaman. I call him Jake,
but yeah. Oh, he's out. He's out. Good for him. Yeah.
I'm just saying, famous 80-year-olds, keep your head on. Who's
80 right now? Ooh, there's a big list. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Sylvester Stallone, George W.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Bush, Cher. W is 80? Ed O'Neill. Wow. Henry Winkler.
What a year. We have Winkler. Goldie Hawn. Brian Cox.
John Lithgow. Danny Glover. Cheech. Goddamn. Ernie Hudson. Liza Minnelli. Dude,
this is too much, bro. Ernie Hudson's 80? That guy
is wild. Bette Midler.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
He is.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yeah. Holy shit. Six pack. Yeah. Al Green, who just performed.
This is terrible. Linda Ronstadt. We're speaking it in reality.
This is the reverse jinx. Yeah, this is.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
I'm just trying to say as many names now to
dilute it. Candice Bergen. Brenda Blevin. Brian Doyle Murray.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Oh, man. Bolo Young. He's 80? I'm sorry. I'm still
trying to get around Brenda Bleden. Sorry, yeah. I thought
for sure she was dead. Hucky Bear, Antonio Fargus. Jesus Christ. Guys,
now I'm worried. Everybody, stay safe. Damn. Yeah, he just
turned 80. Don't eat any of the lettuce.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
His son went to my high school. Justin Fargus. And
then went to USC.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Fargus. Fargus. I just got bit by the love bat.
And it's driving me mad. Son of a bitch. Hello,
the Internet, and welcome to Season 453, Episode 4 of
Dear Daily Zeitgeist! Fuck, it's written right behind me.

Speaker 4 (02:20):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Jesus Christ. Where did that come from? This is a
podcast where you take a deep dive into America's shared
consciousness through the day's news. We also have a new
non-news history version of the Daily Zeitgeist dropping each Monday
morning called The Iconograph, where we do a deep dive
into the Zeitgeist through the lens of a different icon.
On Monday, we dropped... A big one with Madonna, Ciccone.

(02:42):
And then yesterday, we re-ran the Dolly Parton one. R.I.P.
to a true ledge mate. But those are the episodes.
They have a different logo, different name and everything.

Speaker 5 (02:53):
They're a lot of fun.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
Right now, here, it is Thursday, August 27th, 2026.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
Oh, man.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
Love this.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
It's Crab Soup Day. National Burger Day.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
You gotta have a Crab Soup Day. National Peau de
Creme Day. With a real fine, fine dessert.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
And obviously, shout out to all my oil and gas lobbies.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
It's National Petroleum Day. Hell yeah, man.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Finally, a day where we can appreciate. Dinosaur blood. Thank you.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Give us our dinosaur blood for our cars.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
Petroleum Day. I kind of want to see like what.
What they've got cooked up. Probably hundreds of millions of
dollars being spent brainstorming. Best National Petroleum Day.

Speaker 6 (03:40):
Everybody just puts on their leaf blowers for 15 minutes.
It's a 31 leaf blower salute.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Here's how to cook up some napalm at home, kids.
They say as in recognition, focus is less on consumer deals.

Speaker 5 (03:56):
What you could be said and one industry appreciation and
educational outreach oh good propaganda and and educational outreach yeah
yeah it's a circle jerk pat on the back guy
goes by.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
Like a kindergarten classroom yeah hey guys petroleum or just
like does some cool stunt with fire like like you
know how i did that kids patrolling yeah yeah It's
dinosaur blood. It should be actually pretty easy to pitch
to children now that I think about it. Dinosaur goo?

Speaker 7 (04:26):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
I'm surprised they don't have the thing from Jurassic Park
that was explaining how they.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Dino DNA!

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yeah, to be like, and this is why we need
to keep killing the Earth.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
For it, kids. My name's Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. My Mitch,
he lies totally frozen. My Mitch, he lies there in
his seat. My Mitch, he lies totally frozen. Oh, make
Mitchie a retiree. That one courtesy of Rezik on the Discord.

(04:58):
I don't know what that's in reference to. It couldn't
be Mitch McConnell because he's fine. You were just talking
to him on the phone. He's fine. I just had
a phone call with him. Lively, spry. Spry, yeah. And
then he sent me a photograph of him holding today's newspaper.
With one side of his mouth smiling, so that was
pretty good. He's very excited for National Petroleum Day.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
He has to be able to hop online to play
2K also.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
Exactly. WWE or NBA?

Speaker 2 (05:26):
NBA, because he's like, I want to be LeBron on
the Sixers.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
I've got to see what that's like. He's a huge
LeBron fan. I'm thrilled to be joined.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
As always.

Speaker 7 (05:36):
They've got to be fooling with this one. They've got
to stay healthy, though. Can you imagine? Mitch Noseball. Thrilled
to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray!

Speaker 1 (05:47):
It's Miles Gray, aka America Flock, yeah!

Speaker 2 (05:52):
Surveillance state to stop my high school ex-girlfriend, America Flock, yeah!

Speaker 1 (05:58):
Ratting you out to the motherfucking law, yeah!

Speaker 2 (06:03):
Memes to an end with that wonderful aka. It's been
a while since I've got to sing that song. When
that shit first came out, dude, I thought that was
the height of musical comedy.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
I was like, comedy?

Speaker 2 (06:16):
You mean the movie?

Speaker 1 (06:21):
Team America. I just know the album Team America. Oh, yeah.
There was a film, too. It's kind of like Spinal Town. Oh, cool.
I thought it was just straightforward songs about America.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
I ain't trying to watch no Thunderbirds bullshit.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
Fuck that. Oh, you got a problem with Thunderbirds? Miles,
we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by
a very talented writer, humorous podcast host whose work you've
seen in the LA Times, The Guardian, The New Yorker,
The New York Magazine. Heard him, heard him, heard him.
More if you're extremely well-read. consummate podcast host, professional wrestling expert.

(06:58):
Please welcome the hilarious, the fashionable, the brilliant, Dave Schiller!

Speaker 2 (07:02):
Dave!

Speaker 1 (07:02):
Thank you. Thank you for having me once again. I mean,
the credits just get longer for me every year. Well,
stop fucking working, dude. Stop it, dude. They're trying. Yes, yeah, yeah.
They're out there.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
Trust me, they're trying. How hard is it to be
writing still in the manner that you do? Because, like,
I see you're buying, like, I read you in The
Guardian all the time. But I'm, like, also, like, knowing
my mom, who also came from, like, print journalism, how
hard just writing is in general.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
Are you... Where are you at in your existential dread?

Speaker 6 (07:34):
Oh, I'm drinking this free coffee because I desperately need
free coffee. Is there any snacks back there? Like jerky
or non-perishable goods?

Speaker 1 (07:43):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
I've got a paper bag out. I was noticing you
were filling up Ziploc bags with coffee.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
I wasn't sure what that was about. Yeah, I mean,
it's not great. Yeah. But I see you working. I'm like, well,
Dave's doing okay. I don't have a choice. Only the best,
you know? Wintered it down. Yeah, yeah. shitheads like me,
you know, got kicked to the curb.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yeah, because you're writing goofy shit, dude.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
That's why, man. What's this goofy bullshit? Talk about some
real shit. Yeah, be serious like me. Yeah, that's right.
Be serious like this show. Thank you. Dave, we're going
to get to know you a little bit better in
a moment. First, we're going to tell the listeners a
couple of things we're talking about today. We're going to
get to know a little guy by the name of
Jed York. Net worth, $ 200 million inherited from his parents.

(08:27):
Owner of the 49ers. And he's just, Part of a
winning streak that oligarch sports owners are on. So we
just wanted to check in with that trend. We're going
to check in with Akeem Jeffries because he showed us
that he was real. Over the weekend. He's a real guy.
He's very charismatic and normal. Based on him wearing all

(08:50):
green in New York City, I'm like, are you a.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
Trinitario gang member?

Speaker 1 (08:54):
I don't know. But I thought you'd be Dominican to
be in that gang. Was a tag still on that
Yankee fitted hat he was wearing? Probably in the back somehow.
I got to return this. So we'll talk about that.
We'll talk about Trump's midterm strategy. We'll talk about the
cops 3D printing fake flock cameras as bait. And of course,

(09:15):
we will talk about the new trend. Exactly 10 years
after the killer clown scare of 2016, we got a
new one. And it's giving Michael Myers, it's also giving
Mike Myers, because it is the cat in the hat.
All of that, plenty more. But first, Dave, we do

(09:36):
like to ask our guest, what is something from your
search history that's revealing about who you are?

Speaker 6 (09:40):
Recently, I googled whether or not the restaurant owner in
New York, Keith McNally, has seen teenage sex and death
at Camp Miasma. It's a convoluted story why I looked
this up. In his autobiography, I Regret Everything, he tries
to tell a very kind of risque story about hooking

(10:03):
up with a TV star in the 90s. And the
pseudonym he used was X. And everyone figured out it
was Gillian Anderson because we're not stupid.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
Oh. Because he was just like.

Speaker 6 (10:15):
It was a very popular science fiction show for children
that I did not watch because I'm, you know, classy, sophisticated.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
Yeah, it's not for kids.

Speaker 2 (10:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
Though I was a kid and I did watch it.
Of course, I watched it. But I'm like, I watched
it because I'm like, this ain't for kids. Smoking man? Yeah,
you're not supposed to smoke cigarettes, at least. That man
is smoking. And so.

Speaker 6 (10:35):
I was fascinated by this story. I have plenty of
celebrity encounters, dates and things of that nature that I
like to talk about publicly, but without using the name.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
You're not a coward. Well, no, I'm not a coward. No,
I'm just trying to respect Monica Lewinsky. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 (10:52):
And so I was like, I wonder if he saw
that movie because he was so kind of disrespectful to
her in the book. And I'm like, did he see
this movie?

Speaker 1 (10:58):
Because... you know, he's got this connection to her.

Speaker 6 (11:01):
The New York Post was reporting about, obviously it's her.
We all figured it out because there are photos of
them on the internet from this exact time.

Speaker 1 (11:08):
Right, right, right, right. I don't think he's seen it.
Let's call her X. Nah, let's actually do Phylus instead.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
XF.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
Let's call her Agent Scully. Alien Ganderson. Yeah. And, yeah,
I keep thinking, maybe I should just post on his Instagram, like, hey, buddy,
have you seen this movie yet? Right. But I don't
want to get blocked by it. She's really good at it.
He's kind of a dick to people on Instagram. What's
his restaurant? Balthazar's. Oh, that guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He

(11:38):
had a tavern. He owned the Odeon for a long time. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And you know I'm a classy guy, right? I like
a martini. I like a steak. Great fries. I love
French fries. It's so classy you read autobiographies of people
that own classy establishments. Yeah, exactly. So that's classy as fuck.
Thank you. I read and everything. It's crazy. What's that like?
It takes a long time. Yeah, yeah. Especially when you're

(11:59):
reading phonetically. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Out loud. Yeah, yeah. On
the bus. Hello. He was disrespectful just in terms of
not devising a better alias. No, he just kind of
made her sound crazy.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
Like, oh, she came over to my apartment and she
spent the night. Yeah. To a certain type of man,
all women are crazy. I broke up with her and
she got upset.

Speaker 5 (12:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (12:26):
Oh, no.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
I thought she was going to take it well because
I slept with her. And we're like, you know what?
I love someone else.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
Right.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
That's the mentality of a man who goes, well, there's
certainly nothing wrong with me. Yes. So what the fuck
is their problem? Have you seen Camp Miasma? I sure have.
It's great. That's what I'm seeing. Amazing reviews. That's from
the creator of I saw the TV glow and we're
all going to the World's Fair. Jane Schoenbrun. Jane Schoenbrun, which. Yeah,

(12:52):
I'm excited to see this one. I thought it was great.
I don't think it's their best movie. but every, every
TV is your favorite. Yeah, I think so. That one
kind of devastated me. I cried a lot. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (13:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
Cause I love TV.

Speaker 3 (13:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
It's a, it's a film about the love story between
a person and their television. Yes.

Speaker 7 (13:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
I just, uh, watched, was it, uh, Fuck, what's the
Scorsese movie? Cundoon. Oh, my bad.

Speaker 6 (13:23):
That always reminds me of the Sopranos episode where Christopher
sees Scorsese and he's.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
Like, Cundoon! Hey, Cundoon! Yeah, so good. Which one was it?
Alice doesn't live here anymore. Oh, man, that movie's great.
And it has a moment where like she has a
son and she's having to like, you know, be a
single mom and like go out and work. And the
son is just like sitting at home, like watching TV,
like an inch from the TV. And like, for whatever reason,
I found that like so heartbreaking. because it just reminded

(13:52):
me of my childhood.

Speaker 6 (13:53):
I thought you were going to be like, yeah, it
reminded me of all the poor kids that I used
to hang out with.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
No, it was you. That boy was me. That boy
was me. I love a twist ending. Yeah. What is
something you think is underrated? Air conditioning.

Speaker 6 (14:08):
It is too hot outside. I probably said this before
because every time I'm on here, it's too hot. Not
in the studio, but just in the world.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
The world, yeah. This is getting old. I'm tired of it.

Speaker 6 (14:18):
And I was in London in May, and they have
no air conditioning anywhere. So I just took the Elizabeth line.
back and forth until my flight there's other ones but
like that's a nice one.

Speaker 2 (14:33):
When i was on uh the piccadilly line i was
just dying in the tube horrible and also like also
i was trying to get to the emirates stadium because
i like i was there to see arsenal stuff and
the trains were just so packed with no it was
like the hottest version of the tube you could do
where it's like sardines in a can yeah but everyone's
so lovely it was just, that was the one part.

Speaker 1 (14:54):
If like in America, you're on a cramp train, be like,
Hey man, stop fucking touching me, bro. Like you'd hear
shit like that. But here they're like, Oh, you have
an interesting accent. Are you here for the Arsenal parade
as well? And I'm like, yeah, it came from LA.
They're like, Bitch, he came from Los Angeles. And I'm like,
it's really hot. I'm sorry. You're actively sweating on them.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
She's like wiping drops of sweat off of her face
that are just beating off of my chin.

Speaker 6 (15:16):
They're so polite. And they get a bad rep in English,
I think. Probably because of the colonialism and all of
that stuff.

Speaker 1 (15:23):
And they didn't even do it. The people I met,
they didn't even do any of that. They weren't there
for it. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:27):
A lot more ignorant about it, though, like here.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
But hey, great group. We've been to our museum. Yeah. Lovely,
lovely bits and bobs we have in there. Bits and bobs?

Speaker 2 (15:39):
The fucking Rosetta Stone with an Army stamp on it.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
I think I've been to that club by the airport. Madonna?

Speaker 3 (15:45):
Madonna?

Speaker 1 (15:46):
Does not believe in air conditioning. Lives in London. A
lot of people in England don't, or in Europe in general,
don't believe in it. They're like, oh, it circulates germs. Right.

Speaker 4 (15:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
No, it's not even true. No, it circulates happiness. I
think it's one of those things too. Like everyone has
their version of being like of climate change, denialism they're
living in. And because, yeah, since time immemorial, it was
a place you didn't need to really consider like how
hot a summer is.

Speaker 7 (16:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
But now like, I mean, the amount of people you see, like,
with personal fans. I saw a lot of people rocking
personal fans.

Speaker 1 (16:18):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (16:20):
What happened?

Speaker 1 (16:20):
I put one on my dick.

Speaker 4 (16:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
And? It's great. Cool. I always have a nice, well-smelling penis. Great.
My penis smells well. Yeah. Does that mean it smells
healthy or does that mean your penis can actually smell?
It has the sense of smell. Wow.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:37):
That's impressive. Evolved penis.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
Oh, it's not just talking like Ronald Reagan going, well.

Speaker 1 (16:43):
Any more jelly beans? And the reason it's suddenly hot
in Europe is immigration, right? Yes. Yes. The boats. Right.
The boats that made it hot.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
Maybe have something to do with Israel's connection to Morocco.

Speaker 3 (16:58):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
There's a whole thing there of like the whole boats
propaganda that's been launched now.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
Yeah. I'm unclear why anyone would want to go from
one country to another.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
No.

Speaker 1 (17:08):
That doesn't make sense. Certainly don't come here. All countries
are the same and great. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
Right.

Speaker 1 (17:14):
According to. What I've learned. They're probably here to see
our bits and bobs. They've probably never seen anything the
like of which we stole from their country. What is
something you think is overrated? So I recently wrote for
The Guardian about the proliferation of Halloween decorations in Target.

(17:34):
CVS is obviously Spirit Halloween is already open across Los Angeles. Wow.
And I think this is horseshit. It's August. August is
not October. In fact, it is months apart. There are
multiple months apart. And it's everywhere. My friend Hallie, she

(17:55):
bought a cauldron at Target. And I'm like, what are
you going to do with a cauldron now? Yeah. Well,
I'll put, I'll put change in there. My keys. I
don't know stuff. It's like, it's not a small cauldron.
It's like a, like a little cauldron. Yeah. Small, small, small.
You put it on like a, I don't know your
entryway table or something. Okay. But it's not time yet.
You won't even allow it in the house. You can

(18:17):
put it in a storage unit.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (18:19):
You can put it in a crawl space. That's where
my Halloween decorations currently are. That's where they belong. You're
going to need to have a talk with my eight-year-old
who has asked me every morning for the past week.
All right. Is it time? He wants that big-ass witch
in the front. He wants the big-ass witch in the front.
He wants the skeleton up and he wants to add.
He's got some ideas. Oh, really? Some notes about what

(18:39):
we should be adding. Listen, he's eight. He's allowed to
love Halloween in any way he wants. It's my job
as a parent to kill his dreams. It's not time yet. Yeah, exactly.
It's 90 degrees outside. You'll know when I play the
Bruce Buffer video and he says, it's time. Yeah, that's
all I want is to wait. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (18:58):
But to me, and I say this in the piece,
the problem is, I guarantee you there is a spreadsheet somewhere,
an algorithm, some sort of data set that proves that
people are ready to start buying this shit.

Speaker 1 (19:11):
In August. Sure. As soon as the 4th of.

Speaker 6 (19:14):
July is over, all those big box retailers are like,
all right, let's get the skeletons out.

Speaker 1 (19:19):
Let's get the witches brew and stuff out. But it's not.
I still believe that seasons are dictated by the weather.
Not by... You have some bad news there. Capitalism. But
the weather means canceled this year.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
We're not going to have seasons or Christmas by that metric.

Speaker 3 (19:37):
No, not at all.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
We're cooked. We're literally cooked.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
I have the same feeling when I see Christmas shit
go up too early.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
That's the one where I go, not fucking yet. Not.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
And I love that period, but I treat it like
it's got to be done.

Speaker 1 (19:50):
In this very December. You know what? Day after Thanksgiving.

Speaker 5 (19:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
Go for it. That's when it's popping off. Go for it. Yeah, yeah.
Hold on, bro.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
You got to respect our genocidal colonizer holiday first.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (20:03):
And that's how I say that. If I ever want
to run for governor, I'm not caught out here saying
I want to cancel Halloween. But I will say it's
a genocidal colonizer holiday.

Speaker 1 (20:11):
Halloween is Thanksgiving. Sorry. Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving. Yeah, because that's the
zombies have been colonizing. It's crazy, man.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
He would have he would have won governor if he
didn't say cancel the Halloween thing. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:24):
You shouldn't have stepped on it. Crazy, man. Christmas used
to be so compact. And maybe this is just my
dad's family, but my dad's family very into Christmas that
has been passed down to me to a degree that
like drives my wife a little bit crazy because I'm
like art directing the like really Christmas gifts. Like how

(20:45):
what it looks like when they come down Christmas morning. Oh,
you're really directing the scene. I'm really into like, I
want the magic. You're like the Brett Ratner of Christmas. Thanks, man. Yeah,
that's exactly. I was hoping you would say that. He's
a good guy, right?

Speaker 2 (20:58):
Very much. The mise-en-scene of Christmas morning.

Speaker 1 (21:01):
One of my dad's childhood memories is going to get
the Christmas tree on Christmas Eve night.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
Christmas Eve.

Speaker 3 (21:08):
They would go and get it.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
Did it win a discount or something? I don't know.
It must have been a discount. In retrospect, I'm like, no,
they couldn't have even been open. You were getting one
off of a street corner or something like that. Okay,
so how long did they keep it up then? I
think just until like new year's probably.

Speaker 3 (21:23):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
So yeah, that two were one week. Mine was up
past Valentine's day this year. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (21:29):
We got way too big a tree and I just,
it was, it became dawn. It was like a reusable one.
And I was like, I don't want to take that down.

Speaker 5 (21:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:36):
That's a real pain in the ass.

Speaker 4 (21:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
You're part of the problem, Miles. I know. I know
the problem. I know. All right. Well, so Halloween canceled
this year. It sounds like. Yeah. That's what I'm advocating
for is no more Halloween. If it's too hot. There
goes a gubernatorial campaign right now. I really thought I
had a shot, too. They're going to clip that. Ideal
Halloween weather. Fog. Like 45 degrees, 50 degrees. What are

(21:58):
we talking? Are we talking Celsius or Fahrenheit? Yeah, yeah.
45 degrees Celsius.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (22:03):
That's what it feels like outside right now. Yeah, I
want some fog. You know, I want some... I want to...
Like the crispness in the air. I want to smell
the fireplace. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like we
don't get that. Well, the good news is you can
smell the fire season. Oh, that's what that is.

Speaker 6 (22:19):
Or the industrial fire at a refrigeration. I thought for
sure that was the barbecue spot.

Speaker 1 (22:23):
By my place. No, no, no. It's been closed for
three years now. That's the lineage fire still. Yeah. Let's
take a quick break. We'll come back and talk about
oligarch sports owners. Doing good?

Speaker 3 (22:35):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:36):
They're doing great.

Speaker 5 (22:37):
Good.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
And we're back. And guys, this isn't a sports podcast.
So we haven't been talking a ton about the state
of the Los Angeles Dodgers. But they're having a bit
of a tough run. Yeah, the owner of both the
Lakers and the Dodgers. Well, formerly the Lakers. Formerly the Lakers. Well,

(23:08):
it's not done yet. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (23:09):
Right.

Speaker 1 (23:10):
Genie's still trying to, but yeah. So he's apparently about
to go down big. Like people, I'm hearing people use
the name Madoff in terms of like, I don't think
it's quite there, but they're saying it's not Madoff, but
that's never what you want to hear. I mean, it's
not quite Madoff. It's not quite Hitler. We're in the neighborhood.

(23:32):
It's more of a Pol Pot situation.

Speaker 7 (23:35):
Damn.

Speaker 1 (23:36):
Stalin.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
It's two days in a row Pol Pot has come
up on the show.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
Well, I mean, he left his mark.

Speaker 4 (23:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (23:43):
Icon. Yeah, but he basically was doing, I don't understand finances,
but he was borrowing against insurance companies in a way
you're not supposed to do that. He was leveraging the
insurance companies. taking money he didn't have and being like, well,
look at how big this insurance company is type thing.
And then you just use a shorthand fraud. Yeah. Yeah.

(24:04):
Fraud is kind of the word for it. Somehow Jerry
Kushner's brother, like got words that this was a really
bad and was, was able to swoop in and, uh,
get the Lakers for.

Speaker 5 (24:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
Right after Mark Walter gave Trump a world series ring.

Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yeah. That's interesting timing, but yeah, interesting timing. We, the
Clippers fine at that. scandal came to an end. We
have talked about that one before on the show, and
the NBA was like, nothing to see here. They're good.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
In the murkiest way, we were like, what do you
mean there's nothing to see? We saw a bunch of
stuff that is things to see here.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
Last year, Pablo Torre kind of outlined what Steve Ballmer
was doing as the owner of the Clippers. Steve Ballmer,
one of the richest people in the world, richest sports
owner in the world, and Not only was it shady
as fuck, but he also was able to be like,
and this is what he's always done. Right, right. Like,
this is what he did at Microsoft, too.

Speaker 3 (25:02):
And.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
Laws are merely speed bumps on the road to success.

Speaker 1 (25:06):
So now we have, we get to meet a gentleman
by the name of Jed York, who is one of
the owners of the San Francisco 49ers. Mm-hmm. You familiar
with this football team? Yeah. I'm not a fan, but
I know that they exist. So he was caught in

(25:29):
East Palestine, Ohio, which you may remember from a train
derailment a few years ago, soliciting sex from a sex
worker for $ 160. And he wasn't actually soliciting sex from
a sex worker. He was soliciting sex from a undercover
cop who just posted a thing on a website that

(25:50):
was like, cheap sex for rich man. And he was like, huh?
Was the cop hot?

Speaker 2 (25:58):
That's what he's like. Yeah, when he got busted, he's like, wait,
so is the girl real?

Speaker 1 (26:03):
Just show me. What? No. Showed up at the sting
with exact change in his hand. Wow. In his hand.
Not a penny more, not a penny less.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
Fletched to his chest like this with a carnation in
his hair.

Speaker 1 (26:18):
The phone that he had organized the deal in his hand,
like still alight with text messages. Walking up right now.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
An alarm going off says meet up for sex with
person from internet.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
I am wholly erect. Yeah. Hello walks right into this
trap dick first and is immediately arrested. So sex work
is work. And you know, the, I'm glad that this
wasn't a Robert Kraft situation where there were actually sex
workers who were like taken down with the rich person,

(26:52):
because I hadn't realized this, but you know, people remember him,
Robert Kraft, the owner of the new England Patriots getting
busted back in 2019. He was, You're not going to
believe this, was able to afford really good lawyers who
got him completely, who got him off. Someone had to
get off. Yeah, I mean, that's just what he was
looking for the whole time anyways. Prosecutors pressed ahead against

(27:14):
four Chinese women who worked at the massage parlor. And
the women didn't receive the same breaks. Instead, they received
criminal records and about $ 45, 000 in fines.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
Yeah, because, I mean, yeah, it's all just so twisted because, like, yeah,
we still live in this world where, like, we haven't
decriminalized sex work. So everything, just the existence of it
is criminal. And half the time, you don't know what
gets somebody into sex work.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
Yes. But then this guy, I'm sure.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
was loving to exploit that fact to be like, well,
cheap sex for a rich man.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
Let me go.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
And has he made any statement? Has he denied that
he was there for that?

Speaker 1 (27:53):
No, he owned up to it. He was just like,
we're going to put this behind us. You guys Niners fans?

Speaker 3 (28:00):
No, we're not.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
No, you're in Ohio. We're Browns fans.

Speaker 3 (28:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (28:05):
Other details about the arrest is that he contacted the
fake ad three times. Like, hey, did you see it?
Not sure if you saw my message. What was he
doing in Ohio? He's from Ohio. Okay. The owner, like
his whole family. So he got this position and his
$ 200 million by having rich parents. And once again, proving

(28:27):
America is a meritocracy where only the best and brightest
are able to thrive. How did they amass such a fortune?
I have no idea, Miles. Probably completely ethically. Would be
my guess. But he he amassed his fortune by being
rich people's child and inheriting. His first job was with

(28:48):
the Guggenheim Foundation, which was a Mark Norman joint. So that's. Hmm.

Speaker 6 (28:56):
Hmm.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
He only worked there for Walter. Mark Walter. Yeah. Mark Walter.
I was like, the comedian? Yeah, just random. I was like,
Mark Norman? Wait, who? It's a Mark with a first
name for a last name. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Mark
Walter joint. So, I don't know. Just further good press
for the extremely wealthy oligarchs of this nation.

Speaker 6 (29:18):
I wonder what the cops felt when they found out
that their clever sting operation led not to arresting a
regular person.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
Right.

Speaker 6 (29:27):
Or they would get a bunch of... rewards and praise,
but a really rich sports owner who everyone's going to
be like, you should have just let him go.

Speaker 1 (29:38):
What are you doing? Because he's not going to get
in any real trouble. Oh, he also is co-owner of
Leeds United. Yeah, no wonder they stink.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
And a lot of Americans play on that team.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
Good for him. Good for him. Well, speaking of undercover
cop smiles... Here's my badge. You guys are all arrested
for being unfunny. I'm kidding. Let's talk about Hakeem Jeffries.
My God.

Speaker 2 (30:05):
He's been hearing it from everyone ever since they found
out he was just chilling with Jared Kushner.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
Right. Who.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
A lot of people were trying to speculate who the
go-between was. They said it was due to a mutual friend.
I was on Bituation Room with Francesca Fiorentini yesterday, and
she was like, I'm pretty sure it's Van Jones. She
was like, I feel like that is the person who
knows both of them and would be like, Hey, this
might be a good thing for you guys to just
like cozy up together. I think most people build.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
Yeah. I want to look fam. I'm trying to link.
I'm trying to build. Okay.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
Uh, most people looked at his meeting with Jared Kushner. Like, okay, yeah,
this dude is compromised. Uh, and he isn't about to
do shit to this administration. If he gets the gavel,
which I think most people were like, yeah, this isn't,
this doesn't bode well for people who are looking for
any kind of, um, accountability. So he just posted a
video looking like this. I would say that he posted

(30:59):
this on Tuesday, uh, looking like the most obvious undercover
cop outside of the next game, um, assuring people that
he is not going to go easy on the Trump cartel.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
Yeah. All right.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
So this is Hakeem Jeffries. I've got some splaining to
do upload version one.

Speaker 8 (31:18):
What's up y'all just finished up an event here in
the community in Brooklyn.

Speaker 3 (31:23):
I want to give you a little real talk on
this Jared Kushner situation.

Speaker 1 (31:27):
Okay, okay.

Speaker 3 (31:30):
He asked for a meeting, and I took it.

Speaker 8 (31:35):
To discuss the affordability crisis that exists that is not
a hoax.

Speaker 1 (31:40):
What a... How much time do you... I had a meet...
It's like he was lying on the spot.

Speaker 3 (31:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
We had a meeting.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
And I took it at no boo to discuss the
affordability crisis.

Speaker 1 (31:54):
Yeah. I can't afford a yacht. There it is. Go on. Okay.
So that is not a hoax. Thank you for listening.

Speaker 2 (32:02):
For reassuring the people that you are aware.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
By the way, anybody who's just listening to this should
just be picturing he is oozing charisma. He looks like
Russell Simmons doing a cameo video. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (32:15):
Actually, this is exactly how Russell Simmons used to dress
with the polo.

Speaker 6 (32:19):
Yo, Jim, I just want to say happy anniversary to
you and your girl.

Speaker 1 (32:24):
Hey, man, I'm loving it here in Bali.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
Would love to be there in the U.S., but, you know,
kind of having some misunderstandings with the police over there,
my guy.

Speaker 1 (32:32):
So I will stay here in Bali. OK, go on, Hakeem.

Speaker 8 (32:35):
At the same period of time, I shouldn't have to
say it, but I am. No one is going to
get a pass. We're going to hold every single member
of the Trump cartel accountable.

Speaker 1 (32:50):
Including my new friend. Beginning on day one. Name names.

Speaker 8 (32:54):
If you're stealing from the American people, shortchanging the American people.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
Is he going to give a specific?

Speaker 3 (32:59):
Or screwing over the American people. A specific consequence? You're
going to be held accountable.

Speaker 1 (33:04):
Held accountable. There it is. Which is his phrase. He's
used that before, right? Where he's like, they need to
be held accountable.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
He was saying this even at the height of ICE
raids and brutalizing people and killing people.

Speaker 1 (33:16):
It was just vague. They need to be held accountable.
Boilerplate talk. In what way?

Speaker 2 (33:22):
Accountability-wise. Trust me, guys. I'm not compromised, okay? I'm just
saying we will stop them. Also, do you have.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
Weed you want to sell to me? I'm not a cop.
I swear to God.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
Or else I wouldn't be wearing this Yankee fitted that's
three sizes too big for my head looking like Cassidy
in 2005. Yeah, I mean, it's interesting like how he
evoked that because when we were saying like when we
first heard about it, like what could they possibly have
common ground on? Because Jared Kushner is concerned with affordability. No,

(33:58):
because that's not what his that's not what his lane
is in the administration.

Speaker 1 (34:01):
It'd be good to talk to about the affordability crisis,
a billionaire who just caused a mini French revolution in Albania. Yeah,
that's my guy. He knows, he knows, he knows.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
Because I'm thinking like, what what does Kushner actually do
with the administration?

Speaker 1 (34:17):
Gaza, Israel, Iran, Ukraine.

Speaker 5 (34:21):
Right.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
So then I'm like, OK, that's that's the one thing
he is sort of transparently involved with in the administration.
And then now that some time has passed, a lot
of things have happened, like suddenly a lot of establishment
Democrats launched like identical bad faith attacks against on Hassan
Piker for being anti-Semitic. And they use like an out
of context clip where he was saying that people continuing

(34:44):
to insist that Judaism and Zionism are the same thing
will lead to more anti-Semitism and violence because that's you.
You can't you can't use this defense that you're saying
all Jewish people want this to happen because now you're
painting every single person with that.

Speaker 1 (34:58):
And for people as part of the horrible things that
the Israeli military is doing.

Speaker 2 (35:02):
Yeah. And he said something like, if you keep doing this,
somebody is going to do something.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
Right.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
And then they're like, you see what he said? He's
co-signing anti-Semitic violence without even talking about the buildup to
what like that point was. And now the other piece
of news is Hakeem Jeffries has appointed staunch supporters of
Israel to the Middle East and North African subcommittee.

Speaker 1 (35:21):
Yeah. That, which is a powerful subcommittee.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
This just happened like, yeah, like within, like within a
day of him posting that video, we just found out
about these new assignments. And this is a very powerful
subcommittee that shapes foreign policy in that region. Um, And
this is how The Guardian described a quote in an
apparent effort to stem the anti-Israeli tide. Debbie Wasserman Schultz,
a representative from Florida and Missouri Representative Wesley Bell, who

(35:46):
just beat Cori Bush, will join the committee while Jared
Moskowitz becomes the Democrats ranking member on the subcommittee for
the Middle East and North Africa. Moskowitz predicted his position
would become vital if the Democrats retake the House in
November's midterm elections, as many polls indicate. Quote, if Democrats
take control of the House, I'll be in a position
to help steer U.S. policy on Israel and the Middle East.

(36:09):
So you're like, maybe Jared's like, link, build, link, build.
Just putting places, putting pieces together just to sort of
make sure that the status quo is maintained, which I
think a lot of people are pointing out, they're like,
You've constantly seen all these new candidates talk about our
need to decouple our government from Israel's and actually have

(36:31):
foreign policy that's humane, that's sane, and also domestic policy
that is also considering the people here without just sending
boatloads of money out. So it's just, again, another moment, too,
where you're just seeing the establishment be like, oh, you
thought you guys got a win?

Speaker 1 (36:47):
Watch this.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
I'm going to make it even harder so that the
committees that are actually doing the business on Middle East
policy is stacked with the people that wouldn't dare rock
the world.

Speaker 1 (36:57):
Absolutely insulated from any public opinion or any wins on
the left or from people who are critical or view
the Israeli military.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
Because, I mean, on some level, we're saying the one
thing that I could see them having common ground on
is being like, man, what's up with these like these
like progressive DSA, like leftist. Yeah, they're starting to like
they're starting to get some attention from like even independents
or former MAGA people because of the way they're talking.
Like we need to we need to figure this out.
And when you look at Jared Kushner's history, I mean,

(37:27):
like this guy like literally had Netanyahu sleeping at his
house as a kid. It's not like, it's not, this
isn't a far off thing. Like it's a very close relationship.

Speaker 1 (37:36):
Wait, he had net. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (37:37):
Like in the nineties, like, like babysitting him. Like they're like,
they're like, Hey, Benjamin's coming over. You need to sleep
in the basement. Cause he's going to sleep in your room.

Speaker 1 (37:45):
I guess the kids room. Do you have any idea
how nice his room was? It like, he must've had that.
Who's the race car.

Speaker 2 (37:51):
Bed with his feet hanging off the bottom.

Speaker 1 (37:54):
He's like, he must've had a bedroom, like the bully
from a Peewee's big adventure. Francis? Yeah. He must have
had a Francis-ass bedroom, like a giant bed. Like, if
you're going to kick him out and put the head of, like,
Benjamin Netanyahu in there, like, what kind of room did
this kick you up with? Was he the prime minister
at the time, or was he just in the Knesset?

Speaker 2 (38:15):
Let's see. At the time, this was 1995?

Speaker 1 (38:23):
So, no, not the prime minister yet. No, not yet.
Not yet. Okay, so they just gave him a bunk bed.

Speaker 3 (38:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (38:31):
I sleep in a bed shaped like a car. I
sleep in a bed with my wife.

Speaker 7 (38:35):
He's like, Charles, you're going to have to do something
about this bed, man.

Speaker 1 (38:38):
It's way too small for me, man. It's like rocks.
I can't believe it, man. Yeah, Jared, I'll be out
of here one day, guy. Give me a second. He
sleeps with his eyes open, probably. He's like, it's fine.
I'll do it standing. That's what I do anyway. Just
in the dark. Like the Babadook. Yeah. Like Mitch McConnell. Yeah, exactly.
Just powers down.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
Something about these guys, they don't need real sleep like
the rest of us. Probably because you close your eyes,
then you have to go into your subconscious.

Speaker 1 (39:06):
Yeah, they need to think about all the horrible things
you've perpetrated on the world. Purity of heart. I think
that's what it is. Yeah, it's like this approaching midterm.
So on the Democratic side, they're like... We're seeing a
lot of energy from the left. We need to start
criticizing Hasan Piker more. And using it as a litmus test, too.

Speaker 2 (39:25):
Because a lot of people are like, do you disavow
Hassan Piker or whatever and it's like dude what I
don't know yeah they're trying to make their I think
as most people don't understand at least the audience for
the these Hassan Piker attacks they don't know about twitch
streaming they don't know what that audience is like what
the way younger people are thinking. So it's much easier
to just be like, this guy's a freak to older

(39:47):
people who will never look online and be like, yep,
that guy's bad.

Speaker 6 (39:51):
Whoever that person is, I don't like them. It's all
games that get played on cable news.

Speaker 1 (39:56):
Yeah, yeah. And it's like gladiatory games. games you know
it's like going to the coliseum and seeing a christian
fighting a lion yeah we're all watching this for fun
but it doesn't really matter right right yeah the things
that they say on these on these shows don't do
anything to the real world if they did Polling would
be very different right now for the midterms. Like, I

(40:17):
think people are just upset. And most people aren't on Twitch.
Like you said, most people aren't streaming Hassan Piker videos.
They're doing normal stuff. Yeah. They're trying to pay their bills.
But there is a power structure in place. Like everybody
who's running the campaigns and running the official Democratic campaign.
strategy is like in the bubble of only like hearing

(40:41):
what is on what is being said on those shows
yeah they should they should watch anything else yeah well
yeah turn turn ms now off turn cnn off watch
lanterns on hbo max or.

Speaker 4 (40:51):
Something i don't know just like have yourself a night
anything um yeah well i think it's like yeah that
it's like every sort of move we see from elites
or from politicians or whatever, again, always reveals a complete
disconnect from the reality that normal people like working people are.

Speaker 2 (41:07):
Involved in because I, for them, it's like the same
way they tried to take down like Zoran or whatever,
like just evoke the five stereotypes. And that's what surely
he's a socialist Muslim nine 11.

Speaker 3 (41:18):
Right.

Speaker 2 (41:19):
That's not working because what he's saying is speaking to
actual people's lived experience. And for this, I'm sure their
shorthand is like, okay, tie them all to Hassan Piker,
get this spicy clip, make that the thing. But most
people are going to be like, I don't know, man.
What about gas?

Speaker 1 (41:34):
Like, are you doing something about that? I don't know.
I really don't know.

Speaker 2 (41:38):
Like, it was easier to get caught up on that
shit when, again, things weren't as existential. But they're completely
misreading the situation and how people are going day to
day right now.

Speaker 1 (41:49):
But then on the Republican side, it's like it's like
a race to see who can fuck this up the worst,
because Trump is demanding that the entire midterm strategy be
tied to him and about him.

Speaker 4 (42:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (42:01):
Like their biggest liability?

Speaker 2 (42:04):
Everyone would say, what's the biggest liability in the Republican Party? Oh,
it's got to be Trump's terrible approval ratings. They're in
the gutter. If anything, you'd hope that you could make
every race just about the candidates and maybe hat tip
to Trump out of respect. But we don't need to
get into the MAGA of it all. Like, let's just
kind of be like, let's see if we can get

(42:24):
an office. So there was a meeting recently. because Trump
is like sitting on like over $ 400 million in campaign
cash to use. And they're like, Guy, the midterms are
coming up, man.

Speaker 1 (42:35):
We need to fucking start spending some money here. No,
we got an affordability crisis. I can't afford that. I'm sorry.
Let's hold on to that just in case.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
Maybe I'm going to put this in the bank, man.
The interest on this might be good. It might be
good for me. All the consultants and strategists are telling
Trump the same thing. Best way to spend this money,
focus on individual candidates, local issues that are going to
actually resonate with people who are struggling, right? And also
to decouple them from your... I'm sure they're not saying

(43:01):
this explicitly, but like also just to like make be
able to give them no have a distraction free campaign,
which is being like with not you fucking around. But
this is what happened. This is from Politico quote. But
Trump himself has rejected that approach. House and Senate Democrats,
the president noted during the meeting, will make their fall
campaigns a referendum on him. His advisers told him that

(43:24):
the poor polling reflect reflects the fact that the voting
public still does not know about many of his accomplishments,
the dozens of new stock market highs, a decline in
fentanyl deaths, the sealed southern border, the increase in domestic
manufacturing production. The solution Trump settled on, according to three
people familiar with the meeting, was to lean into the

(43:44):
Democratic strategy and focus on himself. The president ordered a
series of television advertisements about his own record that will
serve as a backdrop to the hundreds of individual House
and Senate contests. That decision has resulted in a Trump
midterm election ad blitz that is set to be rolled
out soon from MAGA Inc.

Speaker 1 (44:01):
which is the main organization that is holding all that money.
It's bad. It does seem better than the Democratic strategy
of attacking the actual candidates who are winning. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (44:14):
But this one, he's just saying, oh, what are they doing?
They're saying, I'm bad. The defense say, I'm good. What
if we tried that?

Speaker 1 (44:20):
Yeah. Have we thought about that? It has historically worked.
I'll just say that. It's a strategy. We make fun
of it. But... I'm pretty good. He's done okay for
himself so far.

Speaker 2 (44:31):
And I think that's the thing where, like, just messaging-wise,
it's going to.

Speaker 1 (44:35):
If people are.

Speaker 2 (44:35):
Offered a thing where it's like, hey, this guy... The
declining fentanyl deaths and the sealed southern border. I mean,
the border thing appeals to people.

Speaker 1 (44:44):
And fentanyl. I mean, it's devastated lots of communities around
this country.

Speaker 2 (44:48):
The increase in domestic manufacturing production, I think pretty narrow
because again, I think most people are trying to hear,
like the thing that I'm sure they've observed from successful candidates,
especially progressives, are like telling people about shit they know
will make their life better in a way they can understand.
Most people are like, Increased domestic manufacturing products?

Speaker 1 (45:11):
What? Again, groceries?

Speaker 2 (45:14):
Can I eat this beef that you're about to sell
that's coming at a cut rate from Argentina?

Speaker 1 (45:19):
It will be cheaper. You should not eat it. Don't
eat it. Oh, don't eat it. Don't eat it. Don't
eat it. But it's very affordable. Yeah, it's very affordable.

Speaker 2 (45:27):
But you cannot afford to eat it because of how
sick you will get.

Speaker 1 (45:30):
You said there is an affordability crisis. What do you
want me to do? I'm addressing that. Meat's so affordable,
you're in a crisis. How about that? Roadkill everywhere, guys. Enjoy. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (45:40):
So, again, like, just the self-patting on the back stuff,
we'll see. Because I think at the end of the day,
the people who are going to vote Republican aren't swayed
by really much anyway.

Speaker 1 (45:50):
Right. Like, they're going to do it because they're still
bought in on, like, the MAGA project. Right.

Speaker 2 (45:54):
It's the independents that are clearly becoming more and more
not the kinds of people who are, like, conflicted Republicans,
but people who seem more of, like, a get for,
you know, the left.

Speaker 1 (46:05):
If anything.

Speaker 5 (46:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (46:06):
Uh, let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll
talk about the cat in the hat. Of course. And
we're back. We're back. And I'm still focused on giving
flock the benefit of the doubt as their CEO instructed

(46:30):
me to yesterday.

Speaker 5 (46:32):
Hmm.

Speaker 1 (46:32):
Yeah. So you're willing to compromise. I'm willing to compromise.

Speaker 2 (46:36):
Your privacy for a form of safety that is non-existent.

Speaker 1 (46:41):
I stopped listening once he said these are cars and
like I like cars so much and the way that
they've affected my way of life in that like, you know,
they're hurtling around everywhere and make it difficult to walk
anywhere with people. And so I was like, good, we
do need more flock cameras. Other people who probably haven't
heard that speech yet are destroying flock cameras. And so

(47:05):
many of them are destroying flock cameras that police in
Florida are now 3D printing fake flock cameras as bait.
And despite the fact that the fakes cost a couple
of dollars at most, a guy who took one out
with his dad's pruning shears has been charged with attempted larceny,
grand theft, criminal mischief of property damage worth more than $ 1, 000,

(47:27):
and property crimes against computer equipment supplies. But it's a
3D-printed plastic square. That costs a couple dollars. Yeah, that
doesn't seem like it's going to hold up in court. Yeah. Eh,
you never know.

Speaker 2 (47:37):
Or it's like one of those things, like, if you
can't afford it, then you're like, fuck, I guess I just, like,
plea out to this thing or whatever.

Speaker 1 (47:43):
But, interesting. If you're the head of the 49ers, you
could probably get a lawyer who could.

Speaker 2 (47:48):
So they're doing stings with setting up fake bait cameras
to then be like, aha, got you, privacy liker.

Speaker 1 (47:55):
It does seem like maybe this is similar to the
sting operation on Jed York. Thank you. Yeah. His rights
were violated.

Speaker 8 (48:03):
Uh-huh.

Speaker 1 (48:03):
You ever think about that? He just wanted to get
a blowjob. No, he actually wanted full sex, actually. Oh,
full sex. He clarifies what they cost. No, no, actually.
I thought it was going to be. It was actually 50-50.
And that's what I was hearing.

Speaker 2 (48:19):
I also wanted to see if the person could count $ 160.
It's kind of a dual thing. I was sort of
doing a community.

Speaker 1 (48:26):
So, is it $ 150 and then a $ 10?

Speaker 2 (48:28):
$ 10.

Speaker 1 (48:30):
We'd have to ask him. Yeah, but I'm curious what
the currency mix was. Sure, sure. We don't know. We
don't know. I bet it was 820s. It was 160.

Speaker 6 (48:40):
That probably makes more sense because it's what an ATM
would be.

Speaker 2 (48:44):
I just like the idea of just scrounging up loose
bills you could find.

Speaker 1 (48:47):
Just so... Anyway. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (48:51):
So they've got, I mean, this, this bodes well for
flock where your, your product is so hated.

Speaker 1 (48:57):
Now people are putting up fake ass flock cameras.

Speaker 2 (48:59):
Like hopefully this cut that fucking thing down instead of
the real thing.

Speaker 5 (49:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (49:03):
My thing is, how come we're not in the era
of using lasers to disable these things?

Speaker 1 (49:08):
I think it is possible to use lasers.

Speaker 2 (49:10):
I think it'd be really close, because I remember as
a kid, fucked up a camera with a laser pointer once.

Speaker 8 (49:15):
Oh, really?

Speaker 1 (49:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (49:15):
Oh, a laser pointer. I thought you meant like a
laser cannon.

Speaker 2 (49:18):
No, no.

Speaker 7 (49:19):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (49:19):
I was picturing a Star Wars blaster. Yeah. Where the
laser moves at like 86 miles per hour.

Speaker 2 (49:26):
No, because you know how people like aim them at
police helicopters? You've seen those videos where they're like, this
guy's flashing a laser at us.

Speaker 1 (49:32):
Yeah, yeah. And they're like, arrest him.

Speaker 2 (49:34):
Because yeah, that high burst of light can mess up
the optics in a camera.

Speaker 1 (49:38):
I just know... It has to be pretty powerful. Work smarter,
not harder, guys. It sounds like people, those are people
who aren't willing to compromise. Right.

Speaker 2 (49:51):
I do it the old-fashioned way. I get a sawzall
and cut the fucker down.

Speaker 1 (49:55):
Yeah, yeah. Trying to do this coward-ass laser pointer shit, allegedly.
Let's talk about the cat in the hat. I think
the UK and Ireland have figured something out that, Like
an agreement over past troubles? Yes, the troubles. They've solved
the troubles. No, I think they've located a figure who
could be our next great horror movie villain, and that

(50:19):
is the Cat in the Hat. This must be generational. Yeah, probably.
I mean, the original Cat in the Hat in the Dr.
Seuss book seems like a good time. It's a party,
and then he cleans the party. That is actually his
greatest superpower. He comes, he fucks shit up. The kids
are like, oh my God, I'm so stressed out. Because

(50:41):
like that is, there is a point when children's entertainment,
the most stressful thing is like getting in trouble. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They're like, oh no, the mom's going to come back.
Everything's fucked.

Speaker 4 (50:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (50:51):
And then he comes through with like a machine that
like puts everything back, exactly back in its place. Somehow
puts a cake back in its place that had been smashed.
Plot hole, Dr. Seuss. And, yeah, is a hero. So
I think there's a generation that mainly knows The Cat
in the Hat from the Mike Myers movie, which that

(51:16):
movie has bad vibes, to say the least. I remember
seeing the trailer. Again, it came out, what?

Speaker 2 (51:24):
I was in high school, so that was.

Speaker 1 (51:26):
03? 03, maybe. Yeah, 2003.

Speaker 2 (51:29):
2003. So peak me being like, man, get this shit
out of my face.

Speaker 1 (51:33):
That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (51:33):
Generationally, I could see me being like, do not care.

Speaker 1 (51:37):
Do not want. It's also an ugly movie. Aesthetically, the
humor is kind of crude and stupid and just not
a movie that anyone who grew up with it remembers fondly. Right, right.

Speaker 2 (51:52):
Did you see the 2003 Mike Myers cat in the hat?

Speaker 1 (51:54):
You know, baby. Mike Myers is like my spirit animal. Oh, okay.
If we're still allowed to say that. No, no, no.
I don't think so. Damn it. All right.

Speaker 6 (52:02):
Let's see. Mike Myers is... Is my god.

Speaker 1 (52:07):
Is a good guy. So, yeah, I saw it. And
it's terrible. It's really bad. And the makeup is scary. Yeah,
the makeup's fucked. And so I understand where this started
to percolate.

Speaker 2 (52:17):
I guess that's what I'm saying. It's generational in that, like,
I'm like, Dude, I don't even need that. But I
guess if you're younger, you grew up seeing that, then
it's freaky as shit.

Speaker 1 (52:26):
Yeah. So the reason, there's actually a good explanation for
why the Cat in the Hat movie was deeply cursed.
So Mike Myers was essentially forced to star in that
movie as part of a legal settlement with Universal over
the canceled Sprockets movie. That's a great script, by the way.
The Sprockets script? Yeah, it's on the internet if you
want to read it. Wow. It's hilarious. His monkey is stolen.

Speaker 8 (52:50):
Oh, no.

Speaker 1 (52:51):
And so he has to come to America to rescue him.

Speaker 2 (52:54):
Who was his co-host on Sprockets?

Speaker 1 (52:55):
It was different every week. It was always different, right?

Speaker 8 (52:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (52:57):
This is the part of Sprockets where he danced.

Speaker 1 (52:59):
He had Kyle MacLachlan on once. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (53:02):
I guess that's why I'm always like, who was the person?
But he was just the main Sprockets.

Speaker 1 (53:07):
Dieter. Dieter, yes. The film was called Dieter. And it
was just, the premise of Sprockets is like, German people
are fucking weird, huh?

Speaker 4 (53:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (53:16):
Yeah. Not wrong.

Speaker 6 (53:17):
The first part of the movie took place in Berlin
and it was all supposed to be shot in black
and white. And then he comes to America and it's
in color.

Speaker 1 (53:26):
Oh, okay. Wow. I've heard that that's true of Germany.
It is quite black and white over there. It's like
the early parts of Pleasantville. He was apparently so hard
to work with that Oscar-winning makeup artist Rick Baker quit
before production began. Which explains the makeup, the mask. You

(53:51):
got Rick Baker to quit? They got Rick Baker and
Rick Baker was like, no. Rick Baker will do anything.

Speaker 2 (53:56):
I mean, that's like the goat of creature makeup.

Speaker 1 (54:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (54:01):
And you're I wonder what the fuck he was saying
to Rick Baker. He's like, dude, if he fucking says
that shit one more time, I'm telling you, I'm walking
off the set.

Speaker 1 (54:10):
Look, have you ever been in hours and hours of
prosthetic makeup application? Yeah, okay. Never mind. Then you understand.
I am right now. This is not what I look
like at all. Mission impossible reveal.

Speaker 3 (54:23):
Oh, God.

Speaker 1 (54:24):
Can we just share what this image, the original cat
in the hat, costume worn by mike myers in the
cat in the hat film is now being auctioned off
by prop store and it i think puts everything into
perspective that look at that guy like.

Speaker 2 (54:43):
Decaying as we speak like that is terrifying yeah why
do you why.

Speaker 1 (54:48):
Wouldn't he be pissed off all the time he had
to put that thing on What if the eyes looked
like that? I'm saying if that creature was walking down
the street, I'd be like, Oh fuck.

Speaker 3 (54:59):
No.

Speaker 1 (55:00):
Well, okay. So yeah, the, the, what, what's happening in
the UK and Ireland is if you remember in 2016,
there was a rash of like viral videos where people
would just be like, I was just driving down the
street at 2am pointing my camcorder out the window when
I happened to, and then when I looked back at the, yeah,
I looked back, back at the footage and there's just a, uh, clown,

(55:23):
like a creepy clown standing there with like three balloons
just staring blankly ahead. And then there were early flock
cameras capturing scary clowns coming up on people's doorsteps and
like punching pumpkins or stabbing them with a knife is
one that I remember. It was effective and scary. And

(55:44):
then it kind of went away because the scary clowns
lust for blood was satiated. I have to assume. And
they only appear once every four years. Yeah. But now with, uh,
the option of AI generated footage, um, there, there's a
new trend and it is the cat in the hat.
Just like people looking out their window and the cat

(56:06):
in the hat is like standing on the street corner,
not moving. And then they hide and then they look
back again and he's like crouched on a car, like
right by the window, which is good, scary shit that
I think people are.

Speaker 2 (56:18):
It's a, It's a bad sign for the Cat in
the Hat brand that Mike Myers was so terrifying in
it that it has become like how people have coulrophobia
over clowns. Yes. There's the same amount of people like,
it's tapping into that for this hoax. I see Mike
Myers and I scream.

Speaker 1 (56:35):
Yeah. That's all it takes. So, weirdly, the true story
behind the clown panic was that It was a promotional
stunt for some shitty horror movie that then people started
like copycatting.

Speaker 2 (56:48):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (56:49):
And so it like went viral to do that. Damn.
And that did great for that movie too, huh?

Speaker 4 (56:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (56:53):
Called Gags the Clown. Gags the Clown? Gags. I'm gagging.
I don't know, man. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (57:02):
Unfortunately, the viral marketing stunt was the most effective part
of that whole offering. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (57:06):
It was the only thing anybody saw. But Warner Brothers
does have a Cat in the Hat movie coming out
in November. Yeah, I think Bill Hader is the one.
Bill Hader.

Speaker 3 (57:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (57:15):
Oh, great. Is this just very strange viral marketing?

Speaker 6 (57:21):
Bill Hader gets in the costume and he goes to
Northern Ireland.

Speaker 1 (57:25):
This is Bill Hader. I'm in Belfast right now. Yeah,
he's like, they kicked the shit out of me, these guys.
They're like, oh yeah, we should have told you that.
They're not fucking around. They're in a Celtic game. They
did not want you in their neighborhood. They kicked the
shit out of me, these guys.

Speaker 7 (57:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (57:41):
So, I don't know. That... Loose theory. I don't know
how it would possibly help. The Cat in the Hat
movie seems like a real illumination. Like, have you seen the...
Minions and monsters? Yes, of course. Well, minions and monsters,
minions and everything, but also the Grinch minions? Yeah, that was...
Or the Grinch illumination? Illumination Grinch? Cumberbatch was the voice

(58:03):
of the Grinch, yeah. And it's very, very bright and
happy and cheerful. So this wouldn't... based on what I'm
assuming the illumination cat in the hat is going to
be like it's this is not a fit necessarily well
yeah luckily it's not live action you know that's the
benefit of this yeah it's not you don't have a

(58:26):
freaky man dressed as a cat that just turns into
nightmare fuel but I do think this is like a
powerful like demon powerful shared unconsciousness demon that I hadn't
really thought about the cat in the hat the cat
in the hat Mike Myers version yeah.

Speaker 2 (58:41):
Right that's what I'm saying like it's not, it doesn't
have the same pervasiveness or ubiquity of like a cat
of a clown.

Speaker 1 (58:48):
Right.

Speaker 2 (58:48):
But at a certain age, it's like when they say
interstellar is the greatest movie I've ever seen.

Speaker 1 (58:53):
Right. They're right for them.

Speaker 4 (58:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (58:55):
But for them. So right.

Speaker 4 (58:57):
No.

Speaker 1 (58:57):
And I, I cried. I cried. Watched it again on
the plane. That's how I was with Austin powers.

Speaker 3 (59:03):
The spy.

Speaker 1 (59:03):
Who shagged me.

Speaker 2 (59:04):
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 (59:04):
Gold member does that for me every time. Oh, yeah.
I love gold. Dave. Yeah. Pleasure. Pleasure having you on
the podcast. Oh, no. Are we done? I know. I
got to go home?

Speaker 5 (59:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (59:15):
People don't realize we cut this episode down from three hours.

Speaker 1 (59:19):
Yeah. And that was a joke. I brought my sleeping
bag and everything. I don't think I'm going to make
my rent this month. Feel free to take some coffee, though.
This mug.

Speaker 3 (59:29):
Headphones.

Speaker 1 (59:32):
And bring the Ziploc bags back next time I see you.
I'll wash them out. Thank you. Like my mom does.
You've lined your handsome blazer with Ziploc bags. Yep. Always prepared.
Where can people find you, follow you, hear you, see you,
all that good stuff? I am on Instagram at dwschilling.
I am on X at Dave underscore X.

Speaker 6 (59:54):
That is, of course, you know, Gillian Anderson's Instagram. And
you can read me every weekend on the Guardian.

Speaker 1 (01:00:03):
Amazing. Is there a work of media that you've been enjoying?
Let's see. There is this meme of I forget what
the premiere was, but it's Zendaya laughing. And it's like
she's cackling in this kind of very exaggerated fashion. And

(01:00:24):
it's been used across social media for various things. I
can't remember a specific one, but just the idea of
Zendaya laughing. I don't see her laughing often in public.
I think celebrities aren't allowed to laugh. Yeah. I've been
wanting for a long time to run up to her
and tell her she should smile more.

Speaker 3 (01:00:44):
Marie!

Speaker 1 (01:00:45):
Marie! You're using her real name. Wait a minute. That's
not her real name? Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:00:50):
And I found out because Tom Holland said it at
a premiere. And everyone was like, isn't it so cute?
He called her by her real name.

Speaker 1 (01:00:56):
And he's like, Marie, what was the name of the
gelato place we went to? Gelato. You know, he loves
Tottenham Hotspur. I know. He sucks.

Speaker 2 (01:01:03):
That's why Andrew Garfield is the one true Spider-Man, the
real Arsenal supporter.

Speaker 1 (01:01:07):
That's right, baby.

Speaker 3 (01:01:08):
That's right, baby.

Speaker 1 (01:01:08):
I actually, speaking of Andrew Garfield.

Speaker 3 (01:01:11):
Speaking of Garfield.

Speaker 1 (01:01:12):
Speaking of Garfield. Can you believe it's Monday? Garfield the cat.
I got some Andrew Garfield. There's an upcoming Robin Hood movie.
It's not a Robin Hood movie. That's bullshit. It's not?

Speaker 8 (01:01:24):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:01:24):
Doesn't that become controversial or something?

Speaker 1 (01:01:26):
It's based on a true story that people say is
the basis of Robin Hood.

Speaker 8 (01:01:32):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:01:33):
Yes. It's called The Uprising.

Speaker 3 (01:01:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:01:35):
Directed by Paul Greengrass. It's wild that it took this
long for people, because they make a Robin Hood movie
every three months. And it's wild that it took this
long for people to be like, Man, what if we
like made one where he like fucked with the poor
and like there was like a working class uprising? It's like,
that's the story. Why have you not focused on that? Right, right, right. Instead,

(01:01:57):
there's like the Kevin Costner one where he's like a
rich guy.

Speaker 2 (01:02:00):
We don't want to tie that to real life. You
can rise up against your oppressive, you.

Speaker 1 (01:02:05):
Know, lords. He's the prince of thieves. Just like Jared Kushner.
And then he also played Sam Altman, right?

Speaker 2 (01:02:14):
And he recently is playing Sam Altman, Andrew Garfield.

Speaker 1 (01:02:17):
Is he?

Speaker 5 (01:02:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:02:18):
Yeah. Yeah. And that movie called Luca Guadagnino.

Speaker 7 (01:02:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:02:23):
The one that got like shit canned. Yeah. Yeah. Because
Amazon was like, but he's our friend. Yeah. We like him. Miles,
where can people find you? Is there a work of
media you've been enjoying? Yeah, find me.

Speaker 2 (01:02:35):
Everywhere at miles of gray. Check out the footy podcast
footy subscribe over there. The show has gone independent. So
just make sure you keep supporting the show. I appreciate
everybody that's been listening. And also I'm talking about 90
day fiance on four 20 day fiance with Sophia Alexandra,
a work of media. I like, Oh, it's okay. There

(01:02:59):
was this one that really got me. So, there's G
you know, Gio Rainbolt, the guy who's like the Gio guesser.

Speaker 1 (01:03:05):
Oh yeah. Yeah. You're just like, he's like, this is
a picture of my mom in 1980. Where is this?
And they're like, it's actually this place. Anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:03:11):
So this one just caught me as like a Laker
fan who was brought into Laker fandom through my dad.
This guy like sent him a message like, like last
month and was like, Hey, this is a picture I
took with my dad at a Lakers playoff game.

Speaker 1 (01:03:23):
I know it's from 2004.

Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
I just don't know when, I just know he passed
away a little bit after this around the time. And he,
he though the way this guy again, because he's fucking just, he,
he finds out, you know, finds the game specifically. And
then at the end, like there's like this beautiful like
thing where he like finds another clip of him and

(01:03:44):
his dad that the guy didn't even realize existed.

Speaker 1 (01:03:46):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:03:47):
And it's like, it was just so like from the
background of, uh, it was from a broadcast.

Speaker 1 (01:03:52):
Wow. So the photo was like him and his dad.

Speaker 2 (01:03:55):
And then he's like, and here, uh, is another memory
to share that maybe his memory can live on longer.
And like, they're playing that like cinematic orchestra music that
is always like part of that, like hope core edit.

Speaker 1 (01:04:06):
And then I was just like, oh my God, I've
been to a Laker game with my dad. And the
twist is it was a 2004 NBA finals and no
one really wants to remember that at all. Exactly. Really? Yeah.
Did Karl Malone play in that game or not? I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:04:24):
He knows a specific game. I want the box score.
I want to see how much Kobe put up. Give
me the whole thing. I've been enjoying some work. Just
the Dolly Parton clip of her singing Sly and the
Family Stone with Kermit the Frog.

Speaker 1 (01:04:42):
Did you see that one? Her voice is so fucking good.
I was like, damn, this is better than the original.
Her singing with Kermit. I liked a tweet from Henry
the Vacuum, like right after the news hit, wrote, that
bitch Jolene did this. And I liked from Josh, oldfriend99 tweeted,
Dolly Parton taught me it was okay to be universally beloved.

(01:05:06):
All right.

Speaker 3 (01:05:07):
I like that.

Speaker 1 (01:05:08):
Yeah, it's tough for me too. It is, right? Guys,
it's not your fault. We do what we can. It
was one really good one where it was very believable.
Somebody tweeted like.

Speaker 6 (01:05:19):
Yeah, Dolly Parton was at this concert and somebody screamed
from the crowd, I love you. And she said, I
love you too, but I told you to stay in
the trunk. That's the Dolly Parton.

Speaker 3 (01:05:30):
I want to remember.

Speaker 1 (01:05:31):
That rules. You can find us on Twitter and Blue
Sky at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram.
You can go to the description of this episode wherever
you're listening to it. And there at the bottom, you
will find the footnotes.

Speaker 3 (01:05:44):
Footnotes.

Speaker 1 (01:05:44):
Where we link off to the information that we talked
about in today's episode. We also link off to a
song that we think you might enjoy. Miles, is there
a song that you think that people might enjoy? Yep.

Speaker 3 (01:05:54):
Oh, good.

Speaker 1 (01:05:55):
Song's over Baghdad. sandstorm the root.

Speaker 2 (01:06:02):
Uh this is just like a just a kind of
hard ass uk track uh called bokeh creeper b-o-k-e-h-c-r-e-e-p-e-r by
solomon you're gonna find this one on soundcloud because it's
not on the other platforms but this is one of
those tracks I don't know if you I know some
of y'all DJ. I shared it with Justin because he's

(01:06:25):
in the midst of working on some garage mixes and
things like this. I'm like, this is the kind of
music you want to drop in a set that will
make the earth crumble.

Speaker 1 (01:06:33):
And also fantastic instrumental.

Speaker 2 (01:06:35):
If you want to throw an acapella on top. maybe
you can make something fun too. I know most people
aren't doing that with music, but hey, I'm just going
to say that regardless. So this is Bokeh Creeper by Solomon.

Speaker 1 (01:06:45):
And we will link off to that in the footnotes.
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