Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to season forty six, episode
two of their Daily Zeitgeist for Tuesday, August twenty eight.
My name is Jack O'Brien a k oh oh oh
brian uh, and I'm thrilled to be joined as always
by my co host, Mr Miles Grag. Everybody, get up,
(00:24):
it's time to grain nap. We got a real mile
damn going down. Welcome to the Zy Gang. This podcast
here the last with the Zy Gang. Alright, alright, alright,
come morning gang. Okay, I gotta that part that is
from at ange m Camp Angela Camp shut out to
you for that uh space jam little ditty right there.
(00:46):
One of the first CD soundtracks I bought with my
own money as a child. One of the first CD soundtracks. Yeah,
I think mine was Above the Room was my first
CD sound track. Oh, it was so food. Before that,
I had the Flu soundtrack to anyway whatever, who knows.
It could have been one of those things. I got
to the Columbia house scam where you put all the
stamps for one cent and then your parents like why
they charge you be twelve bucks and I'm like, but
(01:07):
I got that Foxy Mans anyway. All right, Well, Welcome back, Miles.
My ak was courtesy of at the Miami Sound Machine.
Uh just is that what that was supposed to be?
That was actually yeah, that was supposed to be. I
got a gift man. I know, baby voice of Gold.
(01:30):
You have a way of turning songs into your own. Yeah,
that's that's good. That's kind of how I intended it. Well,
we are thrilled to be joining our third seat. We
have the actor, producer and activist who you've seen on
How to Get Away with Murderous Simon and on The
Shy as a Mayor. It's thrilled to be joined by
bis Dabu. I got a song too, we go, Here
(01:51):
we go, no doctor the base, There we go. Welcome man.
That was I don't appreciate you showing me up like that.
People could totally tell what yours was supposed to be. Wait,
what song is that from Miami Sound Machine? Uh? Super
producer around it. Hos me A last week was doing.
(02:12):
Uh yeah, there we go. That was glorious. But credit
to the to the Sound Machine. You got to my
a I M screen name was down by the Bay
as odd. Okay, what was your I AM screen names? Oh? Man,
(02:36):
I had a few. I had a hobo parade, why
because I remember was a line in The Simpsons where
they say sound about like, oh and it's gonna be
a hobo parade. And I did that, and then there
was another one had Hobo sex slave was another one
I was a weird kid and ye came from a
sketch on SNL where I think it was Ray Romano.
(02:57):
It was like a bit where people were like the
trenches of the war and they're like, what are you
gonna do when you get back home? And like the
first guys like I'm gonna marry my girl and blah
blah blah. I'm like, what about you? Is like I'm
gonna open a restaurant, and then like Ray Romanto's characters
like for the Game of this guy's like I'm gonna
have an army of hobo sex slaves and everyone's like
and I was, wait, you had to hobo based jokes
(03:20):
that were from separate source material. Yeah, look you know uh,
And I was Obie Cool Jay. And I have another
one that I won't reveal because that is my Reddit
user name and I like to just creep on redd.
I don't want people know on how I get down.
Uh well, Obi cool Jay is my password for everything,
so okay, great, and my Social Security is uh you
(03:45):
three oh nine, Basil. We're going to get to know
you a little bit better in a moment. But first
we're gonna tell our listeners what we're gonna be talking
about today. We're gonna be talking about the passing of
John McCain and how the President of the United States
is deal with said passing. Uh. We're gonna talk about
the potential changing of the Senate building uh to John
(04:08):
McCain's last name from the last name of a guy
who I didn't know a lot about until Myles brought
him to my attention. Uh. We're going to talk about
how the GOP, the Grand Old Party is preparing for
that blue wave. We're gonna talk about Roger Stone, who
appears to be in disguise currently as a character from
(04:32):
The Hudsucker Proxy. Uh wow, Yeah, he's got these weird
circular glasses that he just breaks out widely released film.
Was that just for HBO? Right? Yeah? Yeah, I told
someone hopped out of building with like at the ticker tape. Yeah, anyway,
and there was that real like fast talking yeah, which
(04:56):
did people really talk like that or was that just anyways? Uh,
we're gonna talk about Roger Stone. We're gonna talk about
the shooting at the Madden Tournament. Fantasy football season is
upon us, and so is season three of True Detective,
or at least the trailer of season three of True Detectives.
So we're gonna talk about that. But first, Basil, we
like to ask our guest, what is something prem your
(05:19):
search history that is revealing about who you are? Yesterday
I searched anxiety blankets. Those they're like weight blanket and
I had heard about how they feel really great. I
live alone, so I want to sit on my couch
and have an anxiety blanket, I thought, And I was like, okay,
I'll buy an anxiety like. They are expensive, Oh yeah,
(05:41):
spent their hundreds of dimes if you want like a
like a wild like twenty five pounder or something. Yeah,
because at first, you know how I realized one that
covers your whole body, like a little like Jim towel
size one, and those are like a hundred dollars, but
like a full blanket that would cover my body and
be enough weight that I felt like would be in
a minute. It was like a couple of hundred, but yeah,
(06:02):
like a fifteen pounder seventy two bucks and you probably
want like I would want something fucking heavy, like I
want to crush my check. And I think that one
half I remember it is only like three ft. Yeah,
I mean they want one that's gonna get my whole body. Yeah,
Like for what Like if you're a hunt between a
hundred seventy and two pounds, they say you need about
a twenty pounder and one that's probably like six ft long. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
(06:25):
that's for the right one, and that's like what a
hundred and something? Yeah, and just put it the whack one.
I did buy it? You did right? Look at you
doing well? Or just that anxious combination of both. So
what are they made of? It's like the lead blankets
that they give you. It's like a quilt. But then
in each like pocket is weighted, beads, got it, glass
(06:48):
fill whatever whatever you however you want to fill, sleep
under them or just like watch TV under them. It
all depends. Like it's good for anxiety. Insomnia can be
good for people with autism or a d h D.
Like there are a lot of people just feeling of
It is just very settling. That's why I like, Yeah,
it's weird when you put that lead vest on for
like a dental X ray I was. I was like, oh,
I'm like yeah, they go so far away to the
(07:12):
dentist will put that on, and then they'll go to
like four buildings over so far away. Yeah right there, Like, okay,
you staying here, let me put this on your mouth
head and go to the other room there. Yeah. Yeah,
it's like it's something gonna blow up. Like you don't
have earrings on, do you. My wife works near Flora,
(07:36):
and so she has to have one of those, like
except the very strong type that like you know, covers
all the parts, and she had to have one, you know,
when she was pregnant, but like she wanted to get
a stylish one and they all just look like the
wet suits from Sea World. Wait, what are you talking about?
It works in your floral Yeah, it's like when you're
doing certain procedures, it's basically X ray. Why did you
(07:59):
say that we should know? Because I wanted to sound
smart and then forced this question out of me. So
he's like, oh, so for the person, right, Actually, she
always just talks about it like, oh, yeah, I work
near Flora, so you know, it's come up a lot around,
like why she wasn't doing procedures during certain parts of
her pregnancy. And I just assumed that other people knew
(08:23):
what it was because she speaks like they do. And
I actually have never looked it up, so I don't
even know what it's tru for. But she rocks like
a hurt Locker style thing, basic her Locker style. But
it looks like sea World gear, like it looks like
things that people who ride on the backs of killer whales.
Fluoroscopy is an imaging technique that uses X rays to
(08:43):
obtain real time moving images of the interior of an object.
That's more research than I've ever brought to you by Wikipedia.
There you go. Well that's good to know. I will
now use the whole My wife works near fluoroscope and
uh anyways, baso, what is something that you think is overrated? Overrated? Um?
(09:07):
Believing in God? Hot take no, no, wait, let me
let me rephrase that. Um, that you're like better because
you believe in God. I see, like you know what
I mean, Like things are happening because God on your side. Yeah,
that believing God's cool, believe whenever you want. But like,
you know, another thing is overrated horoscopes. Like I think
(09:28):
horoscopes are overrated, like you taking shot to all the
gods because people will be like, what I think is
overrated is oh, you know. The reason why I've been
such an asshole this week is because my my virgo
is in moon or something. Virgo is in moon. And
I'm like, okay, but like maybe you're just being a
day as Kelly Oxford family said, guys mercury is and
(09:48):
gatorade right now. I also had a family friend and
this guy's like Cornell educated, like super hard working, really
great work at really smart, and he got this amazing
promotion at work and he literally g of all the
credit to his horoscope and it offended me. I'm like,
not you, your whole life, everything you the networking you've done,
like the work you put into it, the education you guys,
(10:08):
like it's just like you're fucking where the moon is. Yeah,
I just look at my you know, Susan Miller. I
pay a little extra get that personalized horoscope, but that
astrology isn't hook up. So that's what's overrated. Or every
athlete after why they won the game is because well,
God was on their side. Like, I don't think that
God cares. I think, yeah, for sure, if whatever, you
need to motivate yourself. At the same time, you know,
there are things that we do personally that help us
(10:30):
get there. But yeah, I think it's important for people
like I know many people who are religious and they're
able to not become self right just about it. But yeah,
I think when there are also those people, especially on
the evangelical right at the moment, who are like, well
we can see Satan a mile away and already all
are Satan, and you need to buy my doomsday buckets
of food. Exactly right, exactly right. Yeah, man, fucking astrology
(10:53):
had me fucked up for a while though, like when
I was mad, hopeless, like right after college, I thought
like Shusan Miller was gonna tell me when my dream
person was. You know, you're talking about a really smart
person who believes in astrology, And I was looking over
at Miles. Yeah. I don't think what's overrated is your
belief in the thing. I think what's overrated is crediting
(11:14):
that thing for your successful failures. Well, what is something
that you think is underrated? Solo international travel h Okay.
I think I think it's important to leave your comfort
zone solo. A lot of people do it like with
their friends or cousins of family, and that's one thing,
and that's great, But I think I think everybody should
(11:36):
take at least a five day trip somewhere by themselves
and stay like in a hostel or something. Where do
you do that? I've done it all over. I had
this amazing job where, um, I worked for Columbia College Chicago.
I would say, at this job, I go to countries
and I would get a suitcase from this guy to
bring it back here and if I did. I worked
(11:57):
for a college where I would go and help other
students just in the arts learn about United States options
in the arts. So it was sort of like with
the Department of Education in conjunction with private art schools,
and so I would go to all these different countries. Um.
But that kind of gave me the travel bug and
learn how to travel. So now I sort of just
like I'm like, oh, I have a week. You go
to Google flights and you can put in a number
(12:18):
and be like, and what does this get me? You
can literally say the airport you want to leave from
without a destination, and the whole map pops up of
where things are and you be like, oh, I can
go to hell Sinky tomorrow for three fifty bucks around trip.
What are some places you've seen because of this kind
of have it other than hell Sinky? Actually didn't go
to hell Sinking. It was a funny name, you know.
This summer, I literally just did that and it was
(12:39):
like Barcelona was cheap. He stayed in the house toil
went to Barcelona. Um, I'm thinking about doing Athens. Um.
I did Bali, U, Vietnam, m Keito and Ecuador. Really
cool spot. As sometimes you're just like, I'm like, I
don't know anything about this place. Five days you realize
how resilient we are and how much we can do
by ourselves, and like how it actually you do meet
(13:02):
people because you have to meet people right right, it's
really just keep to yourself, like in the corner. But
I'm on a journey. I think the most growth I've
had as a humans because of solo travel, and I
think I see that in other people too. Yeah, I
think I haven't done the full on solo thing, but
that the times I've had huge growth or when I
go to places that are not the kind of like
(13:23):
kick back and relax and you know, just vibe out
type of trips, or like where you go somewhere it's
like a country or culture completely unfamiliar with and you
have maybe preconceived notions about it and you go there
and they're fucking shattered and you're just like, wow, I
that just kind of going out, like, you know, realizing
the things you believe that are different. It really does help. Man.
Another thing I would say is if you're going out
(13:45):
with a group of friends or family and you do
this like huge week long vacation somewhere, take a day
or two and do your own day trip. So even
if you're already like there with your family you're doing
this thing, take a day trip. Because I love the
idea of I'm stuck in the country, I don't know
the language, my flight has been canceled, I don't know
when to do right, and you figure it out because
(14:06):
you have to figure it out and you get it done,
and that's like a lesson for like it'll work out, yeah, right.
Just in general, that you put yourself in positions where
you're like, I know how to navigate it gives you
a sense of like, oh cool, I can figure things
out when I'm in situations where I didn't think I could. Yeah.
I think just in general, forcing yourself outside of your
comfort zone on a regular basis is like you know
(14:27):
that that's something I've definitely struggled with. Is uh, you know,
just getting too comfortable and you know, avoiding discomfort as
much as possible, And you know you're not growing when
you're just completely avoiding discomfort. So and you're whether it's
travel or you know, finding new places around you that
you can get to without spending any money, you know,
(14:49):
there's you'd be amazed, like the second you push back
against your comfort to do something uncomfortable, how that decision
can end up being something so fun or so unexpected.
Where Like sometimes I can get in a pattern of
like you go, you do your work or whatever, and
you come home like you just don't want to do ship.
And then sometimes you're like, hey, let's go out or
like here, come check out this thing or whatever, and
normally be like, hey man, just tuesday, you know, like
(15:11):
I can't really do ship. And then the times when
you just do a little bit something different, you're like, wow,
I went out, had a nice experience. You stimulate yourself
in such different ways that yeah, it's a very very
beneficial thing. There's an old Hebrew parable about like the lobster.
As the lobster grows, the muscles get bigger and bigger,
and it gets really tight in his shell, and then
the shell has to crack open, which is painful for
(15:33):
the lobster. But then he gets a new shell as
he gets bigger. And if the lobster doesn't grow, and
then we'll never get bigger. But he has to crack
out of a shell and go through the ship first, right,
and then they get big enough, A motherfucker eat you
with butter, so in a way, stay small, so the
fisher we have to throw you back because you don't
meet the standards of an edible humane mom. I just
(15:54):
took that parable and I flipped. Lobster has never stopped growing.
So if you've ever eaten a really big lobster, that's
like they've found lobsters that are like as old as
very old humans and even older like the ship. Yeah,
lobsters live alone. I have respect for old things, So
maybe I wanted maybe stop eating giant lobsters every day.
(16:18):
That's my lifestyle, baby, even though you know her Majesty
says we're hemorrhaging money because my lobster have it, But
I tell her this is have no choice. Yeah, but
this is a great underrated everybody, because I feel like
we rarely get underrated where people are like, and this
is the reason I am who I am, and like
this is the best best thing that happened, because yeah,
(16:38):
like being by yourself around people who don't know you.
That also like builds character, because what your character is
what you do when nobody else is looking. I think
that's like an American proverb from like one of the
founding fathers or something, But I think that's true. Like
figuring it out awesome man. And finally, what is a myth?
What's something people think is true that you know to
be false, something that people that I know to be false,
(17:01):
or that people just get wrong about life in general
that you feel like it's a myth that's perpetuated. Oh man,
that's gonna be controversial. I better say this right. Um.
I think there's like this myth that people reward good
behavior and kindness, and I think that we should have
good behavior and we should be kind and we should
show up on time, and we should do all those things,
(17:22):
but not because it's going to be rewarded because people
won't reward it. People reward bad behavior all the time.
Right in my industry, especially, good behavior gets you nothing
but a shittier contract the next time around. Um So, like, honestly,
like as I've always been coached to my industry is like, man,
as long as you're kind and you're a good person,
good things will happen. As long as you're kind, you're
a good person, you work hard, and you work on
(17:43):
your craft, you're gonna succeed. No, you're not. The examples
do not support that. The stats don't support that. You
should be a good and kind person so that you're
nice to be around. I agree with that, but I
think it's a myth that, like, because let's be honest,
what often Too had his Instagram followers whether you're an
asshole or not, or your agent or whatever it is,
(18:05):
you know what I mean. So, yeah, you should be
a kind of good person so that you're lovely to
be around. But I think it's admit that it's going
to help you get anywhere. Yeah, so that you're putting
more good out into the universe that totally otherwise. But yeah,
I mean, the more you learn about history, and like
history is the thing that I'm most interested in learning about,
the more you realize that history tends to not have
(18:26):
a Hollywood ending shaped like story arc where people do
good and are eventually rewarded. It has more of a
Game of Thrones shaped story arc where it's like, oh,
I love this dude and then his head gets squashed
by a grape or like a grape, not by a grape.
That would be a much different story. Uh all right,
that's isn't that the way? Like kinda that like with
(18:48):
even Buzz altern and Neil Armstrong, it's because Neil Armstrong,
what was like, Yo, I'm fucking being the first dude
to step on the movie funk out my way buzz altering, like,
wasn't that really what happened? Like the reason why is
the first person but we're always like yeah, lands Arms
were like no, this motherfucker was like hold up, we're
up here. I'm gonna I'm about to be this first.
I've got this line written about being one small step.
(19:12):
All my heroes have turned out to be flawed. I mean,
I loved Kevin Spacey. I loved Kanye West, I loved
Kobe Bryant, I loved Michael Jordan's like all my heros,
they all have problems, they all have I love him
in it, and they all have like downsides, you know
what I mean. And so yeah, I don't know, Oh,
you know what it was. It was the structure of
the Eagle landing craft that put him there. And there
(19:35):
was also a third dude who just stayed back in
the shuttle, right who didn't even go down on There
is a fascinating, fascinating story about that guy. Yeah, So
while the two guys were down on the Moon, the
third guy had to like be in the ship. And
when he was in the ship, he had to sort
of stay in the Moon's orbit. And when you're on
(19:56):
the other side of the Moon, the Moon blocking the
radio frequency back down to Houston. So for that like
three hours or whatever, he didn't know what He was
literally the most he was the most isolated person in
the universe, and it was he was literally and he
(20:19):
wrote about it. It's called the other side of the
Moon or something like that, but he was like on
the other side and he just he was like, I
couldn't contact anybody. If I wanted to, I could scream,
nobody would hear me. Like literally, I was so isolated
from the entire universe. And then he came back in
and he had and and all of a sudden, it
was like, Oh, now I can contact humans again. And
it was sort of sad. He really enjoyed that three hours.
(20:40):
It's a really beautiful thing to think about. Yeah, that's crazy. Um,
I wonder what that was. I gotta find it. All right, Well,
we're going to take a quick break and we'll be
right back. All right, we're back, and we're talking about
(21:03):
Michael Collins. That is the third dude on the Apollo
eleven mission, who was the most isolated human being in
the history of the species for three hours, and whose
name you have never heard of before. Jil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin,
and Michael Collins. They're not naming tories story characters after
Michael Collins. Alright, guys, John McCain passed away. We knew
(21:28):
that he had stopped receiving medical treatment, and then over
the weekend he passed, like almost the day after that
announcement was made. It was really fast. But he's getting
I think lionized as probably the proper terminology. And I
think he's like a complex figure who owned up to
(21:51):
his own complexity. Like I feel like he owned some
of his failures, Like he was pro Iraq war and
he he was frothing at the pants from Yeah, he
beat the drum for every war we've had during his lifetime.
And he also I think his decision to bring Palin
in was an early precursor to Trump is um and
(22:16):
the whole mega movement because on like his campaign became
all these rallies where Palin was out there talking about
the lamestream media and you know, just basically presaging all
the all the ship that would go down during Trump's campaign,
and they're like, you're not gonna give me with gotcha questions, right,
Like have you read a book? Oh give hit me
(22:38):
with these gotcha questions? Just one magazine that you've read
an article from. That's what it was, right. But then
he eventually came out and said, you know, the Iraq
War was a bad idea and that Palin was not
the right decision. And the thing that I think he
deserves a lot of credit for is trying to reform
campaign finance the way that the government is finance didn't
(23:00):
end up being effective. Well, that basically put large donors
in the driver's seat for policy essentially, right, Well, what
he did, I mean, no, no, but that's but then
we've that now that's all changed now that they were
trying to stave off the influence of large donors, which
is the main like that one of the main problems
(23:21):
with our whole you know, political system, which is a
corporate ocracy, right, And he was trying to solve that.
But I hadn't realized that the reason he was trying
to solve that is because right when he became a
congress person, he was implicated in a scandal where he
passed legislation that was favorable to somebody who had donated
(23:41):
to him. There was the bad and the good on
all sides, and I think that's important to keep in mind.
And like even at the end his last speech was like,
I lived a good life, but I wasn't perfect and
owned up to his own failure and also acknowledge something
that I feel like it's important for really successful people
to acknowledge, which was how lucky he was. So yeah,
(24:04):
sorry to cut you off, No, no, I'm just you know,
I think, yes, there were a lot of you know,
they're these hagiographic descriptions of his life basically. But on
the other side, you see a lot of people just
sort of being like, this is why he's so evil,
And yes, I think you can give credence to those things.
I mean, being the biggest cheerleader for the Iraq War,
which basically destabilized an entire reason, it caused massive loss
(24:26):
of life, and it was a total waste of money
can't be overstated enough. But I think really what the
people are seeing is I feel, you know, he acted
honorably according to what his own political beliefs are and
who he was as a person and his experiences as
as a man. I can't take that away from him,
you know. I got into it my mom this weekend.
She was like, I hope to see McCain up there
(24:50):
one day, and I was like, what are you talking about,
like on the political on the move. I don't know.
I think she just mentioned that was her just kind
of waxing poetic that she felt bad because and and anyway, yeah,
I think so, I think too, even though she doesn't
really believe in That's what I was like, what are
you watch. I understand that it's a complex thing, and
I'm not like out here celebrating his death or anything
(25:10):
like that, but I think one thing that's weird is
he's sort of being held up as like the last
bastion of politeness. When this man like called his wife
a c u nt in public, he called Iranyan's monkeys,
he called he literally sang the song Bom Bom Bom
bom bomb Iran. He called a teenage Chelsea Clinton ugly,
saying Janet Reno was her father. She was like thirteen
(25:30):
or fourteen at the time. So he's done a lot
of things that aren't polite and are not the bastion
of platonism. I mean, publicly railing against Martin Luther king Day.
He's done a lot of that's pretty unforgiving of weird stuff.
I mean, even the thing that everyone is spreading right
now about when someone said Obama is an Arab and
he said he's not an Arab, he's a decent man,
sort of implying that Arabs decent men. And I understand
(25:53):
that it was a spur of the moment thing, but
let's let's rewrite history. It always scares me as a
person of color to see us like rewriting history like
the bar is so low. Yes, he was like maybe
the last Republican who tried at least tried to do
some bipartisan things, because the Republican Party now seems to
be so down the line sheep um, And we can
(26:13):
talk about that, but I just get a little weary
of the rewriting of history, yeah, or sanitizing it like that,
just sort of looking at that. And I think one
of the reasons too, is he kind of marks that
death of like the GOP in general, of like what
it used to look like where these people weren't so
caught up in their ideology and unable to look at
(26:34):
a problem objectively and not in such a partisan manner
and be like this is not a good thing for people,
not is this good for my party or is this
good for my reelection bid or things like that. You know,
there was a shred of bipartisanship to him, and I
think that's what people are really kind of lamenting to her,
or just feeling that they've lost because I don't know
who looks like that now at this point, everyone is
(26:57):
completely inconsistent. I don't know any people the GOP. Granted
the mistakes that John McCain made were pretty major, but
he later on in life cool was able to look
back and say, Okay, that might have been a mistake.
But I don't know if anyone has that sort of
to be, certainly not the current leader of that party,
Donald Trump, which there's a lot of ways that he's
(27:18):
like sort of the anti Trump because he did acknowledge
his funk ups in some cases, and he seemed to
like drama when it came to like fucking with Trump
because he specifically didn't invite him to his funeral, And
also like the thumbs down thing, even though he went
on to you know, basically undermine the individual mandate like
(27:40):
six months later, right when the Republicans were very publicly
trying to end Obamacare, he did the big thumbs down things.
So it's like, I think it's natural that they were
set up as sort of different sides of like some
sort of conflict at the heart of the Republican Party.
And I'm just interested to see, like we're already seeing
(28:04):
that Trump can't deal with people paying tribute to McCain
or anyone who isn't him, And what a low bar
for the GOP that were like, well, at least he
wasn't a public racist only kind of and like I
mean with the Roy Moore thing in album, like what
a low bar like like the pedophile almost one, right, Yeah,
(28:29):
it's it's well, at least he's not a pedophile? Is
now like the bar for the GOP. Yeah, well, I
mean he did say a lot of stuff, McCain, that
was he spoke out against the president, but he voted
something like a percent of the time with the party,
you know, And even people like Jeff Flake and Bob
Corker who don't face the existential threat of being primaried,
(28:51):
who were talking a good game, they still aren't voting
like that. Yeah, And that's the thing I take issue with.
And and I realized that's just the way this fucking
system works. Though, You're not really gonna find even on
the left. You're not gonna find people like that because
everyone sort of lives in this world where, well, how
am I gonna stay in office? How am I going
to stay in office? If the polls did because I've
back this certain bill or I this comment, then I'm
(29:14):
going to have to get back in line or whatever.
I think that's that's always something that has to be,
you know, considered when we look at the behavior of
a lot of our politicians. But yeah, Donald Trump and
watching Who is America on Showtime every now and then,
I watched the clips. I've probably watched three full episodes.
I've watched all of them. And one of the things
that's fastened to me is he's he went after politicians
on both sides. And it was amazing to me that
(29:36):
for the most part, the Barney Franks and the Bernie
Sanders and the Ted Copples and things like that, we're
all like, this is ridiculous, and they walked out of
the interview, and the politicians on the other side, We're
not doing that. They fully are going forth and end
up doing insane things. And I realized there's editing, and
I realized there's producers, and I realized there's a lot
of stuff that goes into that. But it was very
(29:56):
telling to me that the politicians him on one side
were like, this is stup, but I'm out of here.
Yeah well, and others like, oh, this is gonna be
a TV where okay, yeah, um at And that's why
you know, we have President Pettiness, who was at full
turned pettiness up to on the knob. Yeah. And he
also his tweet was my deepest sympathies go to the
(30:19):
family of McCain. And also he tweeted a picture of
himself looking at there was another Yeah, like with that text,
it was like him a photo of him on the side,
not even if John McCain. And then the Potus account
just or maybe it was the White House account just
tweeted his face with his life and death dates on
it like nothing else. And then there's also reporting coming
(30:40):
out that the White House had fully drafted a press
release to come from the Office of the President that
talked about his service as a soldier as a politician
and calling him a hero, and Trump did not like
that and was basically put the kai bosh on that,
like no betweet something. Yeah. So I think it makes sense,
(31:02):
Like I think if as we see people lionizing him
like that is definitely not completely in keeping or fully
acknowledging the entirety of his legacy. But it makes sense
to me symbolically because we're at this point where the
actual head of the Republican Party is just things are
(31:24):
going in such a terrible direction, and one that you know,
after Tuesday of last week, people now on both sides
are sort of having to acknowledge, like the deal that
they made with the devil. So think about how many
lives are being destroyed or affected negatively because of one
man's insecurity. Trumble is the most insecure man I think
(31:45):
I've ever read about. And I don't know we're in
we're in Hollywood that we've probably I mean, this man can't.
He's the president. He's literally the most powerful person. Yeah,
he's a sim them of this sort of system we
have where connivers and cheaters win, and so naturally we
(32:06):
get someone like this who as sends to power because
that's just sort of been the playing field. And I
think this is the the the punctuation on what the
what I guess old school gop UH politicians look like.
And now you have this new crew because then you
have Kelly Ward, who's running for Jeff Flakes Senate seat
in Arizona. She tried to claim that the announcement of
(32:27):
McCain's family saying we're gonna take him off, we're stopping
the treatment, cancer treatment, she was like, oh, they did
that to funk with my bus tour. M like really
like what the funk like, and that shows you the
state the worldview of some of these new incoming people
who are looking to oh, Donald Trump is in office. Okay,
now now you're seeing more people of this sort of
ilk come forward, just from pathological narcissists. Yeah, and who
(32:50):
are just who are trying to make the announcement of
of someone who even you know, despite our disagreement with
his politics, done more for the you know, as a
as a politicy issition from the state of Arizona, and
you want to just say, oh, he's sucking up my
bus tour, Mike Cernovich, come on now. Um. So despite
you know, as we acknowledged the you know, McCain being
(33:12):
flawed to awful and certain circumstances, there's also this idea
that's being floated that they should rename the Senate building
for him and Miles you're kind of behind this idea. Well, yeah,
of course, I'm Chuck Schumer. I think it was the
first person to be like, I would like to put
forward a proposal to rename the you know, the Russell
Senate Building. There's three Sentate buildings, so the one specifically
(33:35):
named after Richard Russell to change it to name it
after John McCain, which I think is probably a better
idea when you look back at who Richard Russell was,
who was a Georgia, you know, straight up Southern Democrat,
who you know, let me just read you a quote
from the campaign trail when he was running for office,
as one who was born and reared in the atmosphere
(33:56):
of the old South, was six generations of my four
bears now resting beneath Southern soil. I'm willing to go
as far and make as great as sacrifice to preserve
and ensure white supremacy in the social, economic, and political
life of our state as any man who lives within
her borders. So yeah, that's enough. I don't have to
(34:17):
go Yeah, I don't have to go into it anymore.
I mean, okay, let me just say, even white supremacists
don't say white supremacy. Boy, that's a data turn they
try and use. You know, they used dog whistling. But
he you know, he philipbustered the a federal ban on
lynching twice and called the Civil Rights Act shortsighted and
(34:38):
disastrous piece of legislation, and you know, he was sort
of basically really was one of the leaders, you know,
led the Southern Charge against the civil rights movement. So yeah,
I mean that's old, you know. I think one of
the reasons though, why the building was named after him
is because he was a very effective politician. Like he
knew how the Senate worked, He knew how to game it,
and he was a very astute student of politics and
(34:59):
would read all the agendas and things and understand what
the next day was going to look like on the
Senate floor and really played the game. And I think
in that sense maybe that is why they, you know,
were able to overlook these other things and like, well,
he was a very effective senator. He knew how to
get stuff. I mean people believe that now. He was
born in eighteen nineties seven, so people a lot of
(35:19):
people believed what he was talking about. Then, yeah, he
probably had the majority of and a lot of people say,
like it's a it makes sense, you know, Chuck Schumert
is looking at the optics of his like, oh, change
the name of building. Who is someone who was a
Democrat and now name it after a Republican right and
probably everyone will be behind that. Because he was very
he was very well liked amongst his peers. So, yeah,
(35:39):
it's like anything when you look back at half the
buildings and the statues that we have erected at people
who was like, he's aren't dating well at all. While
we're talking about politics on the Hill, the blue wave
that has been predicted by some uh you know five
thirty eight has it currently at five out of seven. Uh,
(36:02):
the chances that the Democrats will actually take the House, Um,
that's what they had for the election to election, but
they didn't do very well. I don't know if I
trust they. Yeah, so I think a lot of people
remember them just straight up predicting Clinton would win and
kind of lump them in with the people who were saying,
(36:22):
like New York Times and a lot of other people
were saying like they were still giving Trump like a
one in four chance to win. It's just and they
basically said, like, here's the scenario where he wins. And
I feel like, right up until the end, because I
was like desperately hoping he was wrong, Like Nate Silver
(36:43):
was saying, no, it's a very real chance that Trump
could win the election. It's one in four. I don't know.
It seems like it's about the same maybe a little
bit leaning in the direction of the Democrats this time,
but it is still a possibility that things go a
little stronger in the other direction, because I think one
of the big reasons that there was an upset and
(37:06):
the presidential election was because of turnout, and I don't
think that is going to be in the Republicans famal
democratic enthusiasm is true to roof as they say, so yeah,
and you know, on the surface, though, it's so funny
that a lot of the politicians in the halls of
Congress are like, well, you know, we'll see if there's
a blue wave. I don't know, let's we'll We'll wait
(37:29):
to see. I think, you know, some people have said,
you know, there'll be a red wave. Okay, but you're
going to vote. Huh are we going to vote? Though?
Oh I've never voted, But what is the blue is
the blue wave? Going to vote? Is my thing because
there might be all this excitement, but just in the
last California vote, I mean, no one's voting. Yeah. Well,
I think the difference is this is such a comfortably
(37:51):
blue state. That's run thing. But when you look at
a lot of these special elections where normally people don't
give a funk about a special election. The turnout has
been really significant, you know, on both to be fair
on both sides, but there are a lot of things
when you look at some of these other special elections,
like where Connor lamb one in Pennsylvania, and even the
one special election that just happened in near Columbus, Ohio,
(38:12):
there was huge moves from things that went from solidly
red to suddenly purple and nearly in you know, in
the h he's only a few points behind. So when
you look at that, there is definitely that enthusiasm, and
I think that's why now secretly Republicans are kind of
shifting themselves because Axios is reporting that there's like this
spreadsheet circulating amongst Republican members of Congress where they're kind
(38:38):
of like, these are the possible probes investigation subpoenas that
the Democrats will probably try and get when they have
the control of the House, because that means they're going
to be running all the committees now, and all the
times that they asked for ship and we just stone
wall them, they basically wrote that down. They're like, remember
when they asked to get documents about the President's tax
returns and we're like, now, we're not going to do that.
(39:00):
That might be a thing that will probably happen if
we lose power. What about the stuff about the travel
band and how that happened, Maybe that'll be a thing
now that they're going to look into. Or the firing
of US attorney. This like list is over a hundred
entries long. Do you think if you work for the
Trump administration right now that you how do you prioritize
the fires? In the beginning of the day, You're like, okay,
so we have like this Russian story. We have this
(39:21):
story about Stormy Dangs, this story about Cohen, we got
this story about Kavina, we got this story. It's like,
how do you there's so many massive fires, how do
you prioritize which one we're gonna try to put water?
I think people are just drinking bottles full of emmodium
because of all the stress, diarrhea everyone has. Uh, it's
I can't even so I'm just looking at the news.
I'm like, yeah, this is too much. And I think
(39:42):
it comes down from the top that his whole philosophy
is he looks out for himself. So I think that
tends to be like, that's what we keep seeing. We
see his lawyer, the White House Legal Counsel, is working
with the prosecutors. Roger Stone is now getting very worried.
He issued a statement to his fellow patriots that blast blast,
(40:05):
Robert Mueller is coming after me. Read that. Read the letter,
because this is an email blast that he sent out
to his legions of loyal fans of followers Stone Defense
Fund dot Com. Yeah, fellow patriots, Robert Mueller is coming
after me. President Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen just made
a plea bargain with the FBI after months of intense pressure.
(40:26):
And I'm next on the crooked special prosecutors hit list
because I've advised Donald Trump for the past thirty nine
years texts. Right, I'm being targeted not because I committed
a crime, but because the deep state liberals want to
silence me and pressure me to testify against my good
friend President Donald J. Trump. So you getting indicted this week? Right,
(40:49):
So it's it's gonna be an interesting week for Trump
and his White House because he's going to you know,
on one side, there's the Mueller investigate ation and just
not a lot of good news coming in from there,
and on the other side, in the media that is
usually focused on like lionizing him, they're going to be
focused on John McCain, So I could see him kind
(41:11):
of having it's a bad week, be a bad week
to work for him. Do you think the people that
work for him. I had this conversation with friends the
other day, the Sarah Sanders and the Kelly and Conways
and things like that, I believe that they don't believe
a word they're saying. Yeah, I agree, I'd say pribace seventy, don't.
I think there's a good chunk that our sociopaths, I
mean more like Sarah Sanders and Kelly and Conway, because
(41:34):
they get on and I can tell they're so good
at what they do, They're so good at deflection. They
have to be incredibly intelligent people, and I think they
know that every time they get in front of American people,
they're lying. And then my question is what's worse being
like ignorant and blindly believing the dumb things and having
that job, or knowing that you're lying every single day
to the American people but doing it. I think consciously
(41:54):
being deceptive is by far the worst. Well then they're
evil people. Yeah, and I think there was even like
I think who was I think the Washington Post wrote
that little article about like what the at home life
of the Conway family, because you know, her husband goes
on Twitter and just like flames the president and they're like,
what's going on with Then she's like, well, he has
to realize the president is my boss and that is
(42:15):
my work and blah blah blah, and he like scoffs
in the background like the way this articles, right, So
you know that on some level that is a stress
in the home because he's probably like, you know, I
know you're better than this, and if you don't want
to do it, I'm just letting you know. I'm gonna
get spic you on Twitter because that's just what I
have to do. But yeah, I think the other thing
with Roger Stone to remember is his longtime aid was
(42:36):
just granted immunity to testify in front of the grand jury.
And this was a guy who was stonewalling Robert Muller
because he was like, no, I'm just I don't have
to cooperate because this whole thing is unconstitutional. And then
a judge was like, my man, I will hold you
in contemptive court if you fucking keep if you go
on with this, like you're in contemptive court right now.
And so he's like, okay, okay, he got right now,
he's got immunity, and now's testify. And now Roger Stone
(42:57):
is like sending out emails being like I'm to get
deep stated now I need some money. I know. The
other thing to keep in mind about Roger Stone is
he has Richard Nixon's face tattooed on his back. That's
what yeah, yeah, yeah, alright, so let that say. We're
gonna take a moment to contemplate that fact and we'll
be right back. And we're back, and we got to
(43:30):
talk about bett oh Rouric at some point. We're not
going to do it today. But he I feel like
he is blowing up. You mentioned him briefly and he
he's yeah, he's gaining and just his you know, there's
that video of him talking about the right of NFL
players to protest during the national anthem, not protest the
(43:52):
national anthem. Was so well said, but it's just so
well said, and just like so like, oh my god,
a politician who seems like he is yet human being,
and doing that in Texas where we have Jerry Jones
saying his players are going to tow the line or
behind and like that. I love this dude. Yeah, and
that wins. I mean, how afraid will the GOP be
(44:12):
if he beats Ted Cruz? Yeah, it's weird. A lot
of people are writing like, you know, he's kind of
slowly emerging as sort of like a new leadership voice
despite not even being an office yet for Democrats. But
Ted Cruiz has already weaponized that video and an attack
at I think this week that's coming out, like using
it as like a bad like look at because it's
all I think the only thing that the GOP has
right now is culture war talking points and talking about
(44:35):
immigration and other stuff when all the polling suggests that
is like near the bottom of the list of things.
Healthcare is at the top. And so what are you
gonna talk about right now? How you're trying to suck
the A C A one more time? This week I
saw a great screen capture from the Laura Ingram Show,
and she had the bullet points of why a Kasio
Cortez is so bad, and it was like all the
(44:56):
things that Kazi Corte is looking for it's like health
care for all education, affordable education, and then and the GP.
He was like, this is horrible stuff. Yeah, equality, Yeah,
oh you know super producer Nick. He just held up
a sign that that said Mars Volta. I'm like what
and then I realized, you know, because beatol work. He's
kind of a punk. He had a punk bassist past,
(45:18):
and like played in a band with Cedric from you
know at the Drive into Mars Volta and they were
in a band together. That's crazy. And there's like a
video of him skateboarding at like you know what, a
Burger parking lot too. He's got like there, so he
got a little bit of credit out there. It's like
I get the young kids. This is the liberal version
of the pictures of Paul Ryan lifting weights. Yeah, with
the backwards half. He's like, bro, you funk with after
(45:40):
driving Mars Volta. Bro, I used to play with him
like a red backdrop, like a red paper backdrop. He's
lifting weights, yeah backwards. He's just a normal guy, just
like us, pumping iron and going to keg parties where
he talks about repealing entitlements. Yeah, exactly like the rest
of us. To college. So I did want to talk
(46:02):
about another mass shooting that happened in Florida. This was
at a Madden video game tournament. And I saw the
picture of the dude this morning, and he just, you know,
he looks so fucking young. It's crazy. And allegedly and
then like their details still coming out, but allegedly it
was like a spur of the moment he lost, he
(46:24):
got real mad and you know, went on our shooting
spree and then killed himself. And just as somebody, I
haven't played video games in a long time, but when
I did play video games, I was known to throw
a controller once or twice. I would get into fights
with my friends, like usually not physical fights, but like
people get heated when they play video games in any competition. Yeah,
(46:48):
just any competition, but especially video games where you're just
like sitting cooped up like all the like adrenaline and ship.
It doesn't have anywhere to go, You're not burning off
the calories. But I don't know, this seemed like you're
blaming video game. Yes, no, I'm no, I'm just saying
this seems like such a clear case of a thing
that everybody's experienced that they just didn't have a gun
(47:10):
in their hands when they experience that like little moment
of stupid, you know, short sighted rage, And I don't know,
Like it's the same thing I talked about with why
suicide is almost the better argument for gun control is
because when you have a gun, like you're lacking in
(47:31):
a permanent decision that would have been just a passing thing. Otherwise,
like firearms in the case of suicide are eighty two
percent successful in terms of people who attempt suicide with
a firearm succeed at killing themselves a two percent of
the time. People who use knives succeed one to two
(47:53):
percent of the time. So it's like the same. I
don't know. People are like, well, like bad guys will
find a way to do what they want to do,
and like they always talk about like stabbings and stuff,
and it's like, well, no, it's not really the same.
You know, one is a two effective at killing people
and the other is one percent effective about means reduction,
(48:14):
And yeah, I think about the Orlando nightclub or the
Denver movie theater shooting and Aurora, and I think about
they always talk about good guys with guns, and I
think about if good guys with guns all pulled out
their guns, both in Orlando and in the shooting, and
then the swat team comes in. Yeah, you know, how
do they are? You shooting right? The good guys with
the guy I have to be like, no, no no, no,
I'm the good guy with the guys. I don't even
(48:36):
understand that concept. That just bullets flying everywhere. And I
don't want people who haven't shot a gun in ten
years whipping out their guns trying to be Tom Cruise
shooting that bad guys like just stray bullets flying everywhere.
I don't know, I don't know. That's why. Yeah, that's why.
I think the n r A has done a good
job of completely misinforming the public or obscuring what the
(48:56):
actual facts are around gun violence. And even you know,
the government itself has kept the CDC from actually doing
meaningful research on gun violence and things like that, to
keep the actual stats out of our hands, when clearly
it's very clear to us that the issue is that
a lot of people are have very easy access to
weapons that shouldn't have it, and what those sort of
(49:17):
costs are supposed to be human life? And now we have,
you know, we have things like classes where people are
being taught how to administer first aid in the case
of like a shooting, right, you know what I mean,
Like that's what we're doing. Like there are more groups
out there of like concerned individuals who are like, well, fuck,
how about we show people how to at least try
and minimize the loss of life once a shooting has happened.
(49:39):
But the government is still you know, sitting on their
hands in terms of trying to figure out some kind
of real, meaningful gun control reform. Rather the classes that
kids are having to partake in this year in American
schools because of you know, the how how common shooting
school shootings has become is an example, and you know,
the fact that it I'm having to argue against video
(50:02):
games like that's video games are obviously not the problem.
But if there is a gun added to the conversation
or to the situation like that, that makes a lot
of situations really deadly. Yeah, And I think one another
really sad fact is, you know, we talked about how
Florida has really like you know, the n r A
has a really stronghold on a lot of the more
(50:26):
powerful politicians in the state and local government in Florida
and Pambonda. I I think her Pond or whatever name is,
who is like the n r A backed attorney general.
She went on TV right after this thing and was
warning about video game geo tagging, like as that was
the spin from the a G of that state. And
it's like, wow, you can't even really give a proper
(50:48):
analysis and a solution to this and just say, oh,
it's game geo tagging that would have prevented this. Alright,
let's talk about other fake football playing because it is
fantasy football, Sea, and this is just something we're talking
about at work today. I had a fantasy draft last night. Miles.
You were saying that you were at a restaurant. I
was at a restaurant. And I don't really funk with
(51:10):
the NFL in general, but you know, I don't know
about fantasy culture. I used to try and do it
when I pretended I liked at the football. But there
was his dad. I was at dinner. I just see
this family eating like three young kids. It looked like
maybe a mother and a grandmother or like another elderly
family member, and the dad was at the end of
(51:31):
the table not saying ship. The whole dinner, just the
fucking phone glued to his face just like this, like
really scowling at the thing, like just swiping and typing.
And then I just I was I was just like, Yo,
this dude hasn't said ship. And then suddenly one of
the I think it was the mother or the woman
that he was with, and said, what are you doing? Like,
what's going on? What are you doing? Goes? I got
the draft coming up, and I was just like, what
(51:54):
the funk? This dude has been ignoring the family the
whole time because the draft is coming up. Like I
don't even know if it was happening at that time,
but it seemed like he was draft No. I think
he was just trying to figure it out. So I
don't know, Jack, I hope your family is okay with
you going down this fantasy football black hole, but you know,
do do the very least and look at your kids.
(52:14):
During dinner. I play fan Duel, which is a daily
basketball NBA thing. Yeah, daily with a group of friends.
We have like a group chat that's like fift deep,
and we play um but on the East Coast. The
game started seven, so it locks here for me at
four pm. So during the season. Wherever I'm at at
three five, if I'm driving, I pull over. You gotta
get done, and I gotta check. I just gotta check
(52:36):
make sure everybody I pick, No one got injured, no
one's a late scratch, no one's going on from over
the game. And there's been plenty of times, all our
friends in the car. But like, I gotta pull over
about three fifty seven and make sure everything's cool before
it locks at four. What I like about FanDuel is
that once it locks at four, there's nothing you can
do about it anyway. You just have to let go,
just like God, it's already done right right, BASI, you're
like sort of a NBA head. You win money on
(52:57):
NBA ship naul and be a like fanatic. Yeah, I
don't follow any other sport. I couldn't tell you ten
players in any other professional sport, but I'm an NBA.
I play every player in your roster. Who are co rookies? Nine?
I could probably do this when we talked about earlier,
I think you do. Yeah, your boy, true boy, true boy?
(53:20):
Is it is it any hardaway? Is it? Jason Kidd? Okay,
so Jason Kidd? And is it Alonzo Morning? Grant Hill. Okay,
we're just talking about anyway. I don't even put you
on the spot, but but you totally did. But yes,
so follow my pod. Yeah, dude, what do you do?
(53:43):
You like fantasy football whenever I play fantasy sports, like,
I play fantasy like Premier League sometimes, but it fox
me up because I have such strong rivalry beliefs that like,
sometimes I like, I like hold my nose and draft
players because I'm like, I want them to do well
for me. It like kind of sucks me up, but
(54:04):
it does get me to watch every fucking game. Yeah,
it definitely makes the season fun and it's like it's
a good way to kind of keep in touch with
people who you know, I don't have tons of conversations
with on a regular basis. So like I have one
league with my high school friends, one league with my
college friends, and one league with soaring and just uh,
(54:29):
it certainly makes you care about a game between the
tours teams in the league, which that's already over but
the spread and you're like, no, but yeah, I view
it as advice like that is absolutely wasted energy, wasted time,
And now that I have kids, I spend literally literally
(54:52):
no time with them. No, I spend literally no time
preparing or like following up on ship or like you
trying and at the expense of being that dad I
was just describing, yeah, exactly, And I haven't seen it
hurt my production at all. So like that's the one
thing that I would say about fantasy football is it's
such a crapshoot and like there's so many injuries that like,
(55:16):
I don't know, it just seems like trying to do
that much preparation guys, because I'm assuming that guy listens
to the podcast. It sounds like he would. Yeah, I mean,
he had headphones into it during the dinner, so I
was probably listening to Daly. I am wondering because fantasy
has been this sort of underrated thing that or it
was underrated for i'd say, like a decade and early
(55:39):
two thousand's and then now like all the apps have
caught up, like the apps actually work. For a long
time there the apps like didn't even work, and it
kind of broke through, and now they've monetized it and
to the point that I have to imagine that like
fantasy has something to do with gambling becoming legal. But
I do wonder if gambling becoming legal is now going
(56:01):
to kill fantasy sports off because you still can't live
like you can't flex your like knowledge brain, because I
think that's what it is to you can reaffirm. You know,
you're like, oh, I know everything about the league, So
I'm gonna show you through my fantasy selection that I
can do that together. You're not gonna get that from,
you know, from gambling aside from like losing money, unless
(56:21):
you are like bes out over here, who's claiming he's
you know, the gambling, he sees the matrix. It's not that. Honestly,
I'm gonna tell everybody right now. I hope everyone's listening.
Is not because I'm smart. It's because y'all vote, y'all
gamble with your heart. Stop gambling with your heart sports, right, Yeah,
I said it's you guys says you win money every
year off of friends from Chicago. Yeah. I lived in
(56:43):
Chicago for twelve years. I have a lot of Chicago
Bulls fans friends, and they know this year, this year,
this year, this year. I'm like, okay, fine, put money
on it. If you really put money on it, let's go.
I want to pay my the playoffs. If anybody out
there wants to at me, the Chicago Bulls will not
make the playoffs this year, even though Lebron James has left,
and that's opened up one more spot. The Chicago Bulls
(57:05):
will not make the playoffs this year. You can bet
me any amount of money, it doesn't matter. I'll pay
you a Let's go. And what does Jackie's feel. I
have been talked about Jackie's yet on this, but I'm
sure he thinks they're gonna make the playoffs. Jackie is
actually smarter than the average Bowl fan of Jackies has
like a good like a good head on his shoulders.
He knows how to But I got friends, man, No, no, no, no, no,
(57:25):
not Chris does. The best point guard in league, the
best two guard in the league. Lori Markana should have
been Rookie of the Year. Now Window Card is gonna
be Rookie of the Year. It's like, oh, you guys
are just wrong on every aspect. They don't have one
player that's top five in their conference at their position,
not one well at the man at ye. If you
believe in this Nico real quick NBA question, do you
(57:46):
believe in the Curse of the Kardashians. Do you think
that Ben Simmons is in trouble this year because he's
dating one of the one of Chris Kardashian's children. Before
I say this, I have zero proof of what I'm
about to say. Perfect, This is totally speculation, caveat. I
like that, But I heard that that whole relationship is fake. Really.
(58:06):
I heard that the whole thing is like set up
that they don't even like, they don't even talk like,
it's just like it's a bullshit like they just it's
like a whole set up thing. Weird. Okay, but okay,
you heard this from somewhere. Just no. I heard this
from someone who is a like a music manager who's
kind of in the industry sort of, And I heard it.
And again, I don't know that, I don't have any
proof of this, but I heard that they don't even
(58:28):
like they're not even a thing. Well, as a sexers fan,
I hope it is, and I hope he's been all
the time. Wait, wouldn't the curse be bad? The curses
saying it's true and all the time that he was
like fake hang out with her, he was secretly in
the gym waking up but with that curse didn't do
anything to Blake Griffin. He had a career last year.
(58:50):
Oh yeah, this was doing really well. James Harden had
that summer where he led the league in scoring less.
He came back in such bad shape and played terrible
for like two and it's the only time he's not
been one of the three best players in the league.
But yeah, he led the league in scoring last year.
Blake Griffin had a career year statistically and career. Blake
Griffin just signed a thirty million dollar a year contract
(59:12):
for the next four years, so he's about to make
a ton of money. Hey, how's Chris Humfrey doing them? Yeah,
Chris humans ain't doing great. He wasn't doing great before.
And Tristan Thompson is in a bad situation. Yeah, very Tristan.
Did you guys see the True Detective season three teaser?
I did. I said to you guys earlier, like, have
you ever had to make a season three when you
(59:34):
know nobody watched season two? Yeah? Right, I think they're
making a new season two. I got through a few
episodes of season two and then I was like, I
don't know about this one. I forced my way through
to the end, was it more of like a hate
watch By the end that hate watch like just just
sort of fascinating, like more a bit fascination. And also
(59:55):
I really, I really like Colin Farrell, and I thought
Rachel mcadam's performance was really good. Yeah, at first, I
think that was the only thing that was keeping me
into it, and then I was like, but the whole
I'm not invested in any other dimension of this. Yeah,
side for some moments of great cinematography. Cinematography, cinema tells crunch,
but yeah, I think me Herchel Atli looks fucking great.
(01:00:16):
I don't know what's going on with like multiple timelines
going on, but I'm here for it. Yeah. And David
Milch was rumored to be basically the co writer on
this season. David Milch is the creator of Deadwood, which Miles,
I know you're a fan of Love, Love me some Deadwood. Apparently,
when it was all of a sudden done, he was
just co writer on a single episode, so I don't
(01:00:39):
know how that collaboration went. Apparently, the the writer of
True Detective and basically the show runner, Nick Pitts Alatto,
is difficult to work with, but it's still good to
have his influence in there. And the trailer looks intriguing. Yeah,
it looks like a haunted man to say the least. Uh.
(01:00:59):
I'll Sharp Objects head at season finale, and I'm not
caught up yet, so we will talk about that eventually.
But have we did a lot of tough sharp objects
talking here I think when it first started. Yeah, we
just mentioned that it was good, and so in case
people want to know our take, I don't have it yet.
I don't feel like people who read the book were
like okay, or like it did a fine job at
(01:01:22):
doing of being a finale, I will say the first
three episodes I thought were like, damn, this is incredible,
and then the ones I've seen since then have not
been on that level. But we will see definitely better
than a True Detective season two. Yes, that is for
much better. Yes, Basil, it's been a pleasure of having
(01:01:43):
you man. Thank you so much. I love chatting with
you guys. This is a nice, free flowing conversation. Yeah,
come back, Where can people find you? Follow you? Everything
is my name and it's all the same tag. But
it's a hard name to spell correct. Why do you
do that? So it's A B E h Z A
D D A B you. That's my Instagram, that's my Twitter,
(01:02:04):
that's my Facebook page. All that is there. You'll get
a lot of me doing lip syncs. I do. I
do lip sync videos in the car on my Instagram
while driving while driving to nineties R and B jams.
I promise you'll enjoy um. There's a lot of funny
videos and social media activism. And that's about it. That's
(01:02:25):
what's so good. All right? And is there a tweet
that you've been enjoying. Yeah, I'm gonna shout out tw tweets.
Cash out of two tweets. Okay, So first one is
from the cousin of Molly Tibbitts, who oh yeah, who passed,
whose body was found, and then the right wing used
it as a racist talking point. So the this is,
(01:02:46):
uh do I do the Twitter tag? Ams? It's at
Sam Lucas with three says at the end. So Candice Owens,
who is a horrible person, tweeted try to politicize that death,
and they said, hey, I'm a member of Molly Tippet's family. Uh,
she was my cousin, and we are not so fucking
small minded that we generalize a whole population based on
(01:03:07):
some bad individuals. Now, stop being a snake and using
my cousin's death as a political propaganda. Take her name
out of your mouth. I loved that tweet. Um. And
then also, this is a tweet from Heather Moderazo, who
is an actress and activist and just won the Human
Rights Campaign Award for something. I don't know what. I
saw a picture though, So the Washington Post tweeted this
(01:03:30):
about the shooting. What we know multiple fatalities at the
Mall in downtown Jacksonville. Jacksonville Sheriff's office set a suspect
is dead. Shooting took place during a Mad nineteen tournament
at the mall. And then she retweeted that with comment
and said what we know, thoughts and prayers, tweets coming soon,
Tweets about not politicizing the shooting coming now, Nothing will change.
(01:03:50):
Will forget this shooting happened in a few days, because
there will be another one somewhere else in the school,
a movie, theater, etcetera. Ain't that the truth? Yeah? Where
can people find you? You can find me checking my
blood pressure because I half of a fried chicken last
night from poiot camperto and three sides. I like the
competto beans, you know what I mean. I had to
(01:04:12):
have me some poiot competto If you don't know about that,
if you're not lucky enough to have when you're you
go get into it. But anyway, I'm at miles of
gray on Twitter and Instagram. And now this leads me
to my tweet because I ate a whole. I like,
you know, a bunch of fried chicken last night. It
was delicious and I thought my my salt intake was
too much, and it is. But this is from Minerva
Zimmerman at Grumpy Martian. You know why I quote everything
(01:04:35):
tastes like chicken? It isn't everything, It's just all the
animals that have dinosaurs as ancestors. Technically they all taste
like dinosaur. So you know what, I like this idea
that I'm just having a finger looking good time eating
the dinosaurs, all right, And you can find me at
Jack Underscore O'Brien on Twitter. Some tweets that I've been
(01:04:58):
enjoying at a whale Act tweeted whales are pretty fucking big.
I just enjoyed that. Wait, are there other facts on
that I don't know one tweet that is the only
one that I have witnessed. They got a blowhole. Yeah, yeah,
you guys keep reminding me that Nelly song. You can
find me And a lot of people will be like,
(01:05:19):
why don't you see that? Yeah, why don't you say that?
Because there's like four things I would do and then
it would get annoying. But I am going downtown baby
Yo Street and the Range rover Um Street, super baby
cocked ready to let it go. Yeah, shimmy, shimmy cocoa hu, shimmy,
shimmy and take a puff past to me now. Also
there's that video from dude who retweeted the NBC announcement
(01:05:41):
of John McCain passing. Yeah, and then they're like, okay,
back to your regularly scheduled program. And I don't know,
is it like America's got or something. And it was
like it's just sharks or something. It's too wearing dolphin
masks and no shirts, like pretending to masturbate or like
farts sounds. I don't know. It was a very almost
(01:06:01):
it was a parody of itself and like and yeah,
like our most solemn condolences to the McCain family. Now
we go back to our residcl schedule program and it
was just shirtless buffoonery. Also, some ship that I learned
over the weekend is that I've been mispronouncing Appalachia. I
was calling it Appalachia last week, and uh, good way
to remember that is if you pronounce it Appalachia will
(01:06:25):
throw an Appalachia. Oh ship, I am dumb. Also, I
said that my wife went and saw crazy rich Asians
and I stayed home and baby sat and people were like, um,
it's not called babysitting at your children or yours. So
(01:06:45):
I was trying to get by on the low expectations
for fathers out here and trying to be like, ah, yeah,
babies that So I'm going to never said that home
and watched my children. I was home with the kids. Yeah,
like a babysitting seems like it's outside the sphere of
what you're responsibly get that, but there should be a verb.
(01:07:06):
I stayed home with the kids. I stayed with my
children and was a parent basically, but I mean and
parents parenting. Yeah, just be like yo, I mean, you
know short he took off to go see crazy right,
and I showed them how to probably do a fantasy
football draft. Uh. You can follow us at daily zy
(01:07:29):
Guys on Twitter, where at the Daily z Guys on Instagram.
We have a Facebook fan page on a website daily
like Guys dot com boy. We post our episodes in
our foot liak off to the information that we talked
about in today's episode, as well as the song we
ride out on. You can find the footnopes, but the
information about the episode wherever you're listening to it, Um
(01:07:49):
and Miles, what song are we going to write off? Okay,
you were talking about Night's R and B. I just
heard this album by Stimulator Jones over the like last
week that it's like an album that just came out.
But Yo, they're really finessing these like nineties R and
B songs. So this track is called as Soon Never Comes.
(01:08:10):
If you are a nineties R and B person, you're
gonna listen to this and my goodness is put Stimulator
Jones Stimulator never Comes. It sounds like the tagline and
the topic for a vibrator at its stimulators. I got
the new Stimulator Jones and soon never comes because it's
always comes. Yeah, this track, it's just I don't know.
(01:08:31):
It felt like some soul for realize some I don't
know Andy Green, I don't know what it's. It blew
my mind. But like I said, money in my hips,
big toe just jumped up in my boot and I
didn't know what to do. So guys, take this with
you some little nineties R and B and just relax
minute right, we are going to ride out on that.
We will be back tomorrow because it is a daily podcast.
(01:08:51):
Talk to you guys. You feel that she was crazy
right here, you're warm. We're shut up to find my
(01:09:28):
time and keep you off my mind, but I cannot
thinking up. Dot you you've got me right away? What's
it gonna have to take? I just can make you
and dot you. Yeah, you got me going out of
(01:09:53):
my head. Yes you do. I I know somebody in
your bed when it is a mine. But you know
you know that that's all right because that don't mean
(01:10:14):
my game mate. He just looks like it's gonna be
another lonely eye be being so confused when I know
what I got to do. It hurts me so to
know that it's just too late for me. You to
me soon, but Soper never house. Yeah, make me is
(01:10:44):
soll that you do what I think around for you
be to me. I'll be seeing yourself. But sooner the
ground now it is so that you do what I think.
(01:11:16):
I'm not the one that you think enough, because you
already have my love the next one and the next one,
and so you ever give form. But just because his
love is new doesn't mean that it's right for you.
You know that you want me. You hear me knocking
on your door. You understand how you'll be, Yes, I
(01:11:46):
do he they see he's got your loving. But soon
you're making down because he's gonna find out what you're
saying and what you're doing. It just ain't for me.
You'll be eating your soul to summit up. But oh
(01:12:09):
Lord thinknaw bet is so that you do what I
think damn done. I mean the money be day, I
see in your soul to summit up. Come yeah, nicknam
(01:12:33):
beating so that you do what I think dn't done.
M m m