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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to season twenty eight, episode
one Day for April two thousand and eight. Team, my
name is Jack O'Brien a k fair Jack, go fair
Jack o Brian boom, Brian okay? Or are you reeping?
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Are you sleeping? Brother Jack? It's my brother John. Jack
is English Persian Jim. I don't know. I'm not well
versed in nursery rhymes. Fun come on nursery rhyme translators. Uh.
That is courtesy of Aisha Sisse. I'm good. Say yes,
there's accent mark yes uh. And I am thrilled to
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be joined by my co host, Mr Miles. Hello, my
name is Dr Great Thumb. That is a cypers Hill reference.
Thank you to Evan Alderson on Twitter. I should use
that last week, but you know, I just I just
got around. You got my muftovers, you got some leftovers.
And and we are thrilled to be joined by the
hilarious writer and comedian Charlotte Laura. So Charlotte, Charlotte, Charlotte.
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That's when someone recognized you at IKEA. Yeah, I also
have a twin so that yeah. Ident Her name is Arsla. Yes,
some people A lot of times they're like Ursula. So
I'm Charlotte, ak. That's even better. Actually, what are you
doing here? I didn't know you lived in l A.
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She lives in DC. She works for Union, she does
which one? I don't know? You know, Charlotte, what's something
from your search history that is revealing about who you are?
All right? Well, this is a little gross, but I
was just looking up how to heal a sky naturally?
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And last time I was on, I was talking about
my Haitian nous, my Haitian sritage, because we were talking
about the left hand scratch thing. But the Haitians actually
have a remedy for sties, and it's garlic. Like you
slice garlic and you rub it on your eye and
it gets rid of your sty. So that's a rhyming way,
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and I just want your sty and I wanted to, like,
I just was googling it to see, you know, if
there are other things to do, and garlic wasn't even
on there. Really, I didn't find it anywhere. You got some.
I got some Haitians are really brilliant. They're just like
and it worked. Doctors there totally works. So I used
to get sties all the time. How do you get them?
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It's just that thing where it looks like I have
another rhyme for how you get them. You put your
stupid dirty hand in your stupid eye and you get
a sty oh, so it's like a infection. It's basically
because you're gross hands dirty. I used to I used
to get them monthly when I lived in New York
City for whatever reason, just because it's like, yeah, and
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I was also sleeping face down in the street, so
that probably didn't help. I watched my face in street
corner puddles. That's not good, right, that's funny. I got Yeah,
I haven't gotten them ever since I left. And what
you just gotta rubb just a little garlic on there,
I rubbly like I did it all weekend, like because
your no, you're not looking at Yeah, it was fun
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that I couldn't even open it does actually look bad
because I've been really the garlic on all week guys.
And when you put a garlic on it, you just
like slice a piece of raw garlic and rubber like,
you know, the part that has the juice because there's
like antimicrobial properties to garlic, so like just like the
actual juice of the garlic or whatever the side that like,
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and then whenever it dries up, I'll like wipe my
eye with the wet cloth and do it again and
like and it goes down significantly. Like something I looked
up was like, go to the hospital, get antibiotics, And
I was like, right, I got garlic, I got garlic.
Let me let me exhaust all my attion. Wait, so
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what would be the traditional way, Like, what if you
were like a scared person who knows not of the
powers of garlic, what would you probably do? Yeah, what
did you say? Warm washcloth? That's that's what. It's a
problem that can be solved quite easy. Goes away within
a week by itself. Yeah, exactly, So I don't know
if the warm wash cloth was working. One thing that
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I did do once that is actually sort of a
weird little hack is I heated a baked potato in
a microwave and that keeps it so A warm washcloth
lose it taconds, but a baked potato like lasts for
like thirty minutes. So so I had like a baked
potato inside a wet, warm towel and somebody walked in.
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My roommate walked in and I was like, oh, hey,
just rubbing a baked potato. What did I say about
you touching my potatoes? Right exactly? I took it off
his plate and put it on my Charlotte. What's something
that is on to rated? I don't know if anyone else.
I feel like a lot of people might feel like this.
But I was eating some Indian vegetarian food over the weekend,
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and I was just like, why isn't this like the
known as the best food in the world, Like Indian
vegetarian Indian vegetarian food is the best food in the world.
The dishes were eating when some dolls some lentils. Garlicy spicy,
but not too spicy, you know. I think that's another
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thing people like. I don't know, like if people just
can't take spice at all, but like there's just good spice.
And you are here on behalf of the garlic industry.
I'm here. I'm here from Big Garlic. The second your
first really into garlic. I know, I'm surprised you didn't
use your gar Do you want to be healthy? Eat
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some garlic? Um? They made this thing called dokla, which
is made out of gram flower. I think that's like
chicken flower maybe um, but it's like the spongy eat
and it's like colored with tumeric, the spongy yellow bread
basically and like they like sprinkling with mustard seeds. It's
it's also like visually beautiful, like vegetarian food. Uh. And
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they had this like um, eggplant curry and I don't
know what's actually because I just started trying to eat
less meat, and so you're trying to not go to
like the regular veg places because I'm Haitian and I
like spicy food, I like flavor. So Indian vegetarian food
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has opened up a whole new world like amazing food,
and you don't even think about the fact that you're
not eating meat, so it's underrated as fun to meat.
Or there Haitian restaurants, like in Los Angeles there was
one called T. George's, And you know, people listening can
tell me if I'm wrong. Some I did the research.
I was trying to find like Haitian restaurants out here,
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at least in l A proper and T. George's recently
closed I think like last year or two years ago,
and that was the only Haitian restaurant and I have
just not found. I think the way to find is
there's probably somebody who has a catering business, which usually
how the George. Yeah, yeah, we might have to go
to some black churches. Like where's the Haitian. I tried
to find Haitian church too, because that's where Haitians are,
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and maybe he is. And I couldn't find a Haitian
church out here either, so I don't know where the
Haitians are. Is the you know, if you go to Haiti,
you gotta have you know, it's deep fried pork and
you usually have it with um plantains called buz, which
are just like you know, flat deep fried plantains, Yeah, exactly, um,
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and then you'll usually have it with like some pickled
peppers that like Haitians make, like they like cut up
like carrots and peppers and all kinds of things and
they just like put it in vinegar and like so
it's like this pickled um. It's like people coast law basically.
Especially it's so delicious. That's like the street food, like
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everybody has to have it. That sounds wonderful. Makes me
want to go to the Haitian. I'm getting so hungry lunch.
I should not record this around lunch time. Some of
the news of the day. Tell me more about Haitian.
Let's describe Haitian food. Tell me more about President Fried Pork.
But that would be a good president, so much better
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than this current president. Charlotte Wood is something that is overrated.
An alternate point of view from our tourisode. Oh yeah,
I think it's I almost spit out my cow. Go on.
You know, I haven't been smoking weed that long, maybe
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five years probably, which is not very long, I think thirtiesties,
and I'm getting less and less enamored with it. And
I think the proliferation of weed is adding of that
exhaustion with it. Like I'm just using it as a
cure all an everyday use kind of thing for whatever.
I'm kind of getting over it. So like before, I
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just like, man, I'm stressed, Like, let me smoke. Yeah
I have cramps, let me smoke. Or I got rider's block,
let me smoke. I need to sleep, let me smoke.
You know what I mean? Literally, anything I needed, I
would smoke and I'm loud. And now I'm like, I
can see how that relationship can wear out eventually, because
if it's like the means to an end then like
versus me. I don't know where I stand. I can't
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think uh no, but I can see how especially to
like as I see the like stores expanding brands to
like a like advertising more aggressively. It's weird to sort
of like be in this weird sort of quasi prohibition
era where there's also like massive marketing pushes for week
there's And I saw an article in The Guardian. I
didn't even read it, but the headline was like We'd
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made me a better mom, and I was like, we
don't need that's that's you right over it. The writer
of that was communicated directly to an in law who
was critical of that. Right, marijuana culture has always had
its side that was like obnoxious and annoying to be around,
like the white dudes with dreadlocks who are gonna, you know,
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tell you that marijuana can fix everything and like have
all these conspiracies and ship like that. And I'm sure
the main streaming of it is not going to fix that.
That is just gonna make that even more you know,
present in the mainstream culture, and you're going to be
seeing things on Goop about how how six marijuana is
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I've also had a lot of like emotional reactions to
weed as far as it making me extra um anxious
or extra depressed or you know, like I've really had
to watch when because if I'm in the least bit
emotionally triggered, it can really Yeah. Yeah, that's what I
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went either way back when I smoked and but our
guest on Friday's four twenty episode, Josh and Drawski, was
saying that for his underrated it was getting too high
because you like learn things about yourself, like you learn
what your biggest insecurities have to come front of them.
That was always my thing is like I would always
feel much better after I would have a horrible experience,
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But I would have those experiences where I was like, God,
I'm the worst. I'm damn. I'm like, damn have my
parents thought about their retirement for because I'm high and
see one commercial come up, like, oh my god, what
about them? What about the get that with shrooms and
you don't need? Yeah? Yeah, well I think it's all
versions of like, yeah, if if it is meant to
sort of inspire some deep uh self reflection and introspection,
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then yeah, like you can work in that sense but
also yeah, like I think some people, like I have
friends who were just wired in a way that they
react to smoking weed in a way that just exacerbates
sort of certain ways of thinking. And even for the
self reflection thing, it's like, you can't do that every day.
You don't want a deep diagnosic day into your own brain.
It's real dark in there. Yeah, I like to I
don't know it, Charlotte. What is a myth? What is
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something that people think is true that you know to
be um that breakfast is the most important meal of
the day. Thank you? I go off, been in a
minute fasting for the past year, and I skipped breakfast
every day. Did you like a staunch? I was breaking religious.
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I was a religious breakfast eater. Like I couldn't like
I could skip another meal, but breakfast wouldn't be it,
especially because I love breakfast food in particular. I went
to Emmanual College in Boston and we had like an
annual event where we would serve breakfast at midnight, and
like you know, I'd be the first person there. That's
ston ship. For five years, it was a super It's
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not about drugs, even though it totally should have been.
And it was all about trucks. But I was just overeating.
I was over eating, and I didn't need breakfas And
it was usually sugary is usually a muffin, is usually
pancakes are like that you don't need, right, Yeah, of
course that's terrible and cereal. The whole idea that it
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is the most important meal of the day comes from
like a marketing push by like the bacon and egg industry. Honestly,
is that cynical? I, for one, embrace our chicken embryo overlords. Yeah,
and and swine. But yeah, the dairy lobby. You guys
just know that the dairy lobby is like killing lots
and lots of people in right, especially when you look
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at like those images of like part of a Bounce
breakfast and it was like a big gas glass of milk,
a big orange like a whole plate of eggs, and
you're like, I'm eating all this. And there's been one
time in American history when our rate of death from
heart disease has like gone down. Otherwise it's just been
going up and up and up. And the only time
it went down was during World War Two when there
was milk rations and you couldn't drink as much milk
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or use as much milk as you normally would because
that it's really bad, really bad for you. I have
lost weight And another thing you guys can learn about
me personally is my digestion has been superb since skipping breakfast.
No breakfast. I always tried to be a breakfast person
because I used to think, like, oh, it's good for
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your metabolism to start even if you're not eating, like
just bullshit, but just to kind of put stuff in
your body to get the metabolism going. But I just
have trouble, like since I was a kid of being
hungry in the morning, but I love breakfast. I was
just always eating breakfast like one being hungry. Yeah, Like
I'd wake up and I was never like, man, I
need to eat. I was like, you're you don't realize
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that your body is trained to be hungry at that
time when you eat breakfast every morning. Because when I
stopped eating breakfast every morning, I'm really not hungry. Yeah,
your body really does adapt and you get a sense
of how hungry you actually are. Like I never I
was never hungry because I was eating three meal o
the day. I was definitely eating way too. Number one. Yeah,
the new hot shit is like having a or our
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feeding window where like you just eat during those four
hours or something. If he comes in a panic, he's like,
hold on chicken breasts or like or I'll be like, oh,
you were eating on that podcast, He's like the feeding window. Yeah, exactly.
So that's why I just skip breakfast because that like
when you start learning about intermitute fasting, you learn all
this crazy ship to do just like this is sustainable.
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Like I'm just going to do that every day. I'll
just get breakfast. That's easy. Yeah. And speaking of breakfast, guys,
let's get into the stories of the day. Waffle House.
I shouldn't have said it in such a joyous way, um,
but waffle house. Uh, let's bring it down here. Uh No,
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there's a mass shooting there. Uh in Nashville waffle house. Uh.
The guy who the purple has a long history of
making threats. Uh. He was naked but for a trench coat.
Very very strange story, but yeah, four people were killed
and he was wrestled to the ground by like a
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real life John McClain action hero. Yeah, like we're as
it was happening, you know, they're they're asking him, like,
you know, what were you thinking? And he just said,
I'm going to have to try to find some kind
of flaw or a point in time where I could
make it work for myself. And by making work for himself,
he bum rushed this dude and talking on the ground
and got the gun away from him, and then the
dude eventually escaped and as of just recording, we found
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out that he was apprehended. Uh So, yeah, it's interesting
to see, you know there there was a real hero there.
Uh And this guy was also another person who had
a very clear record of having problems with his mental state.
And he had his guns taken away, but then they
were giving back to his father who then just gave
him back to him. And wait when you look at
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sort of his like he was a known entity to
law enforcement for like saying stuff like Taylor Swift was
actually stocking him and ship like that, which I mean,
we don't know whether to believe that or not. Right, Like, no,
I mean, I don't know, we don't we don't know.
But do you remember I think the last year there
was a guy who bum rushed the White House lawn
and try to get into the White House and the
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sovereign citizen that's this guy, right, So it's just again,
we need to be doing more about our gun control
because clearly this is another person who clearly should not
have been anywhere near any kind of weapon. Obviously, gun
rights people are going to say, well, he like broke
the law, but our laws need to be more strictly enforced.
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And I need to work around the fact that they're
like anybody can get a gun at any time, given
the current just flood of guns in the United States.
So yeah, we need to work around that because there
are a lot of mentally ill people out there, and
there are a lot of guns out there, and when
those two ingredients are put together, we're gonna have ship
like this until we start getting guns off the street.
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I think, Yeah, it's just weird, how the fucking normal
this ship is now, you know what I mean? Like,
even when I saw the the headline, I really thought, oh,
only four people were killed, and that's terrible place to
be in mentally where that's like the calculus in my mind, like, oh,
is there like a number that makes it a tragedy
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in my mind? Or like that's how I've had to compartment,
you know what I mean. I'm sure it would have
been more if not for this fucking dude who like
just had the insane, like non uh instinct for self preservation,
but just instinct to you know, go do the thing
that I think nine percent of the population would not
have the guts to do and like tackle. And you know,
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he said he was only looking up for himself, but
I thought, I'm sure he saved a lot of people's lives.
Of Republicans that are four guns would never do that stuff, right,
never ever. And I don't even think if they had
a gun on them, they would actually shoot another person.
Because this is the other thing what we're talking about
earlier is like I don't think at least the gun
owners I know, they don't own guns because they have
a fantasy about using them on other people. Like the
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gun owners I know are people who like target shooting
or just like are part of like a culture of
like you know, their parents were veterans and things like that,
or in law enforcement, so they just grew up around
guns or whatever. But they don't this idea of a
person who's like always packing a pistol or whatever and
it's just ready to enforce the law on somebody, you know,
I think you have to really look at our fabric
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as people, like we're not built to be doing shit
like that. Yeah, because it's batshit crazy. I I wish
I heard more from sane gun onwards like this, because
the whole conversation is so black and white. It's like
either guns go away or you have crazy people screaming
that I wouldn't away my guns and I would have
killed them. And it's just like, it would be great
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to hear from sane regular people who like use guns, right,
And I thought and think that there should be a
lot of laws, you know, regulating it. But I don't
hear from those. Well we did for a second right
after Parkland, Right, there are a lot of people who
were not a lot, but there was this there was
like this sort of uh, it was like fashionable for
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people to be like I was in the military, this
is my a R. I'm breaking it because like since
you shouldn't have it, And there was that kind of thing.
But yeah, I feel like there could be a lot
to this debate when you actually have like common sense
people or like or even gun owners who aren't seen
as immediately being these sort of like doomsday prepper type people.
It's really a shame that the n r A has
chosen the direction they've chosen, because the n r A
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is when you buy a gun, they are you go
to a training course immediately that is sponsored by the
n r A. They are pro responsible gun ownership. It's
just that their public persona, at their public brand, has
become this like crazy vigilante justice thing. And yeah, I
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mean there are two camps. They're the same gun owners
who you know, by a gun or two and you know,
keep it in a safe or you know, take it
to target practice. But then there is this gun culture.
Like if you look at gun magazines, they're all these stories,
their ads written to be like, you know, protect your
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family with this like automatic or like semi automatic assault rifle.
And you know, those are the people that the gun
industry is focused on because those are the people who
buy fifty guns, right and are going to be the
most sort of energetic when defending the right to own
a weapon, right right. Yeah, I guess it really is
two camps. It's those people who, yeah, they're responsible to
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other people who are really operating in this bizarre fantasy
world where they have to protect themselves from the evening.
I think we need to put pressure not even a
bizarre world, it's like very much a world that's been
like cultivated by this like xenophobic racist, like, uh, they're
coming to get me white women. It's just like just
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you know, I would love for us to just talk
more openly about like just call a thing a thing.
It's just like you guys have been brainwashed with racism
and xenophobic ideas about you've never been outside of wherever
you're from, right exactly, You've never met that kind of
person want to shoot them. So it's anyway, I think
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people let's put pressure on responsible gun owners to kind
of have more of a more of a voice, like
find your own n R because like sane n R A,
s n R A, I want to I want to
see some people together message me on Twitter and Instagram
talking about their gun especially around the Parkland time when
we're talking about is saying like I'm a responsible gunner.
I don't think people need like this and that, but
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I think, yeah, it's important that we can still talk
about gun ownership in a way that is divorced from
this idea that it's either taking all your guns or
every guns for everybody there is, there is the same
middle ground. The smartest person I've ever talked to about
gun ownership is this guy Jason Parjeon who writes at
Crack is David Wonk, and he's a gun owner, but
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he has this inside look at the gun industry because
like he grew up around gun magazines and so he
knows like how crazy that part of it is. But
you know, he's also a responsible gun owner or so,
uh yeah. I think those are the people to sort
of help us reel this fucking crazy conversation in a
little bit, because I think on the right, many people
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view people on the left is every liberal person wants
to take away all of your guns. And then there
are people on the left who think everyone on the
right in regards to guns are just crazy gun obsessed
people who just want to keep guns everywhere out in
the open. And I think people need to understand that
it's much more nuanced. I feel like, yeah, the discussion
is really so black or white. It's it's and to me,
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like the saddest part is like, whenever I read about
it, it it looks like it just comes down to sales.
It just comes down to, like if the conversation isn't
black and white, then it hurts our sales. It's like,
if we have any kind of sanity going into this,
then you know our shareholders don't, right, because it's an
industry where not people are. It's not like a refrigerator
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every home needs one, but they want you to think
that like if that is it needs to get hurt,
then that thing needs to get hurt real bad, like
those sales needs well. And that's why you're seeing a
lot of manufacturers, like I feel it was Remington or
Mossburg recently they had to file for bankruptcy. I think
it was Remington's because yeah, like sales are declining and
because I think most people are kind of catching what
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everyone but sales aren't declining to the point that I
don't know. The industry still did really well during the
Obama presidency, and I think maybe got a little greedy
and maybe overexpanded and that's why Remington fell down. But yeah,
David Hogue, the kid from Parkland, has been talking about
you know, these financial industries like Vanguard and different big
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banks have a lot of their money in the gun industry.
And you know, if you have your money with them,
uh you know, divest or let them know, like you
don't want any of your money in the gun industry,
and you know, get get it away from those funds
that are helping to support this ship. All right, we're
gonna take a quick break and we'll be right back
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and we're back. Hey, fun waffle house fact to transition
from the last thing. Uh So, apparently waffle houses are
the thing that FEMA uses to determine how bad a
hurricane is because waffle houses are like the most resilient
business in the world, Like you can't shut them down.
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They won't shut down unless like the tornado directly hits them, right,
so basically ahead and after a hurricane, they're like, Okay,
what's the waffle house index? And it's just like are
they up and running, are they at half you know,
productivity where like they can only offer like a few
things on the menu, or are they totally shut down?
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And that's one of the main indicators they used to determine,
like how well location is doing. Who's who's contributing to
this index? Is there like some dude who was like,
all right, manOur waffle house today, let me tell you
my car was destroyed by debris. But yeah, I mean like, like,
is the waffle house like I guess is are they?
They must cooperating, Yeah, and it's probably good marketing for
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them to just be like we're fucking always open, you know,
so like we'll work with FEMA to let them know
what our indexes is. Fucking crazy. Yeah, that is cool,
It is all right, let's move on. So I just
thought it was like a shitty employee is like the
worst place you'd want to work. Like, they're like, you
got work off a fucking still have to because these
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motherfucker's never shut it down, right, Sorry, I just had
to put myself in a hurricane. Yeah, exactly. You take
the canoe in Hurricane Harvey. You're like, you know, I
take the bus right the bus isn't even running, Like,
I'm sorry. Shift with the waffle house, baby, you know
we do have you guys eating a waffleff I have
(26:48):
waffle House has some delicious shit. Um, all right, they
have country gravy on everything. Alright, let's talk about the
upcoming mid terms. Smiles. You talk about that. Your headline
and our doc is fuck Muller. Focus on the fucking
mid term that's right, because again everybody, all the liberals
(27:10):
were dancing in the streets being like, oh man, he's
gonna flip, Moler's gonna laugh. You know, I get it. Look,
this fucking presidency is a nightmare, and we were trying
to look at any way to get out of it,
to end this thing. But I think people need to
be really realistic, right. I think the most important thing
is that we have an effective check on the executive branch,
(27:32):
because right now, with the Republicans controlling all the House,
all the chambers, that that means people can, like in
the in the House and in the Senate, can use
their power to just simply obstruct or keep the Democrats
from properly investigating or getting answers to things, or just
generally holding the president or his cabinet members accountable. So
let's paint a picture that is an actual nightmare for Trump.
(27:54):
It's twenty nineteen, okay, and they're swearing in the whole
new batch of Democrats have basically given the Democrats control
of the House. Nancy Pelosi maybe gets her galvel back
if if Nancy Pelosi does in fact become the speaker again.
And now we have twenty one subpoena wielding House committee
chairman waiting to just is full on investigation season. So okay,
(28:17):
So they're twenty one committees in the House where their
chairman's actually have subpoena power, so they can you know,
some of them there's a committee vote or a consultation
with a ranking minority remember, but none of them actually
give the minority like any veto power, as we saw
in the House's investigation quote unquote into Russia, where Adam
(28:38):
Schiff was powerless as the ranking minority member. All he
could do is be like, uh, Devin noon haz is
fucking and he had no nothing. He could do nothing
except to just be like they're fucking around. So these
twenty one different committees are always led by whoever has
the most whoever the majority party. That means the whatever
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the rank member is, you've suddenly become the chairperson or
you become the ranking minority member. So based on the
power how it's distributed. Now, the crazy thing is when
you're checking the executive branch, it can be one chamber,
like the Senate can do that on their own, the
House can do that on their own. It's not like
like legislation where they like, both houses have to agree
on the legislation and then you know, has that its
own process when it comes to accountability and things like that.
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Any one chamber can do that on their own, they
don't need the other chamber to do that. So that's
very interesting because right now, as we've seen is that
basically the GOP has used their power to just come
up any investigations or they use their subpoena power to
to get fucking just to obstruct Mueller's investigation or just
protect the president. But we're starting to see that using
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the you know, using their majority as like a human
shield is not really the best practice because there are
many people who are getting off the fucking ship very quickly.
As you can see with the number of retirements. They
don't like what's written in the sand. So on the retirements,
the question I've had is is this just an unprecedented
number of retirements or are all these people coming to
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a point in their career when you know they might
normally retire and it's like an either or thing, or
like I mean, I think, like a very diplomatic reading
of it would be there will always be people retiring.
There will always be people switching offices or looking to
get other positions that so that always happens. There's always
set number. I think we're above forty four now, which
is actually not normal, Like it's the number of it,
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which kind of transcends the sort of normal turnover when
it comes to the Congress. Uh. And now we're seeing
a lot of people just being like given weird, weird examples,
like other people be like I'm actually going to go
into the private sector to do this or whatever to
make money and exploit exploit my like John Baynard did. Look,
let me get out a little bit and then I'm
gonna get all the goop to come around on medical
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marijuana or whatever. Anyway, So you look at like Jason Chafitz,
he was like, I want to be with my family,
or like Paul Ryan was like I want to be
with my family, which I get I get it, but
everyone wants to be their family. But you know it
didn't prior to Trump. You seem to have no problem
like being like we're getting my family. Then away from
you you're like I'm showing in DC, you know, like whatever.
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So we're seeing people kind of looking at it of
being kind of in the GOP in this administration is
sort of an untenable situation for some people. Now that
people will spend their reasons for doing it, but it's
clear to see that some people would rather just retire
than even try and put up a fight for their seat.
I'm not letting any of these things that I'm seeing
give me any kind of hope in the Democratic already.
I'm still very much waiting to see what they do,
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even if they do get control of the House. Let's
see how they use it. Because I just don't write.
So here's a no, yeah, totally, because I think already
the Democrats as a party, the platform is fucking whack.
It's like, it's not it's not resonating with anybody except
for the old people over in d C who think
it's like it's effective that There was a front page
article in the New York Times yesterday about how the
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Democratic Party is actually like trying to get people to
drop out of the races so they don't like split
the Democratic quote essentially, and they're always always choosing like
the centrist, the person who used to be a Republican
and now as a Democrat, because that like gets them
physically aroused like the idea of like somebody who can
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appeal to both sides, right, and so they're like, get
the people who they are encouraging to drop out are like,
you know, outsiders who are and women didn't don't, aren't
like establishment people. And that's bullshit because as we saw
in two thousands sixteen, like we want outsiders. That's what
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people want right now. But this is exactly why, because
totally day by day don't show that they've learned from
at all that most people in the base want to
go away. You want to go away. You know who
surprised the shift out of me, Cynthia Nixon. She did this, um,
she did this video about legalizing marijuana and like called
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out how racist like Marin has been in the past
or whatever arresting black people for it and it's been
legal for white people for a long time. And she
literally said that, and I was just like, you might
make me want to vote for a celebrity. I got
nervous for a second, said disproportionately affecting people. I was
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just like, WHOA, she's really coming out swinging, and I'm
just like, that's what you have to do to grab
our attention, especially people of color, because especially with with
white candidates, they like to dance around ship like that
they'll never full throw to be like, hey man, the
criminal justice system is completely fucking up an entire section
of our population. If we have learned anything from the
Trump presidency, it's that the majority of the country is
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not okay with honesty, Like we are not okay as
a country saying that the president is racist, saying that
the GOP is racist, say or just talking about things
as they actually are, like we're not okay with reality.
And the way that the Democratic Party, seeing clearly that
they're is like this crop of black women. You know,
I'm a black woman, so obviously I'm going to talk
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about the stuff because this is what I feel like.
Is just like looking at how the Democratic Party doesn't
support an uplift black female candidates, even though these people
have been on the ground and delivering election after election
after election for you, building your campaigns, volunteering for you,
doing all of the groundwork, and and yet we're never elevated,
even though I think that black women could possibly save
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the party. Oh, when you have someone like Michelle Obama
in the wings, who literally helped Barack Obama become president.
This insane resource that you have. There's a record amount
of women and women of color running for office. It's
because now I think people are actually what's great is
to see people be empowered and go, you know what
fun this? I can actually do something. I don't give
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a funk about what the traditional knowledge was around this.
I know what I'm cable. I see the energy and
I will now apply that to running a camp. Meanwhile,
the d n c c S test for whether you
are a viable candidate. They take your phone, they go
through the list and they're like, Okay, how much could
you get this person to donate? How much could you
get that person to donate? Are they like a fundraiser?
Are they like basically how well connected? Are you? Too? Rich? People? Right?
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Essentially because they're like, look, we can't have any broke people.
You can be woke, but don't be broke. But isn't
that their job exactly? And you're already you know, there
are plenty of candidates who are raising with small donations
or away from using superpacks. I mean, Kamala Harris just
I think over the weekend was like, I'm not taking
pack money anymore because someone's running um but yeah, there
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aren't plenty of people. Like I know, Elizabeth Warren raised
a huge son of money off small donations. There are
a lot of people who are able to raise off
small donor money. Because yes, the reality is in politics,
people when they look at a candidate, they're like, well,
is this guy funded? Because if they're not, then the
dances go great. Now we're gonna have to fucking pitch
in or whatever because they don't have their own hookups.
But if we can get a lot of these candidates
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to not rely on the traditional forms of fundraising or
the traditional traditional donors or benefactors, then we can start
to empower actual candidates that are more you know that
they reflect the values that I think people want to see.
And so I would tell you if you see a
potential candidate that embody the values that resonate with you
as a voter, I would recommend giving them money because
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the money does add up, and you can get them
off of this idea of having to be beholden to
a lot of these huge donors and then protect their
interests once they get into office, because let's be real,
that's sort of the game. Right. At the same time,
if somebody who's not establishment gets the ability to like
raise money from a super pack or something, and they're
having to compete with like the Koke brothers take that ship. Sure, sure,
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but again all that money comes with strings attached, you
know what I mean, they're expectations. You know, once you
once you kiss the rank. George Soros, we know what's
going on. Yeah. I think what they're doing is so
they see they have this blue wave as people are
describing it, or a blue tsunami like, depending on how
excited wave Okay, uh, how excited and motivated voters are
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totally determines how, you know, how many seats the Democrats take.
And they're just taking it for granted that their base
is going to come out and record number because they're
mad at Trump. But they should not be taking it
for granted because if you have some candidate who is
just another inauthentic person who is just playing politics, that's
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not gonna do it. That's not going to get people out.
And the Republicans are going to the base they are.
And again the Hillary campaign took us for granted. She
assumed that we would vote for her despite all the
ship show that was going on in the d n
C and those emails about you know, trying to undermine
Bernie's campaign, and it was just like, we don't like
that ship either. So it's just like you guys continuing
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to take things for granted, our vote, our voice, or
whatever it is. And I'm just like, there's clearly no learning.
There's been no learning, which is the problem with the
d N, with the Democratic Party to me in general,
is that they don't learn from the stakes. Yeah. Well,
the left in general is like a Thanksgiving dinner where
everybody wants to say the polite thing about something and
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nobody's drunk enough to just start truth speaking at the table.
And right now, once we saw a little bit of
truth speaking work, people are like, oh, ship, what they
have to realize now that is actually a very sexy.
But there's a lot of appeal to say, Yo, the
country is fucked. We have real fucking solutions. We're not
just gonna say hey man, we're gonna get you back
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to work. No talk about income inequality, talk about like
how hard it is to own a home as a
person of color, talks about how hard it is to
go to college in this country. You talk about how
how like unequal education is in this country. Even if
you do go to public school, are you gonna go
to a good one? Are you gonna got one? Talk
about the fact that there's no water in an American
city or no power in the commonwealth in Puerto Rico, right,
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Like we talk about how there's people coming up into
waffle houses and little like schools and little kids and
shooting it up in movie theaters and like this is
bad ship created. Don't don't like paper over the cracks
and be like, na, let me talk about let's hold
Wall Street accountable? Like I'm anyway, Yeah, I'm sure Hillary
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mentioned all those talking points, but then she also met
with all these Wall Street people and was taking money
from them, and you knew she wasn't gonna do shit
about it. Yeah. Well, I mean she never said anything
that resonated with people of color, like once on that
campaign trail, like that that campaign was what reminded me
that Hillary was white. I was like, oh yeah, like
a couple of boiler plate sort of like talking points.
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I was never like, whoa, she's she's really talking that, right?
And and again that's because I think she took for
granted that In general, it just seemed like an easy choice, like, look,
you can vote for me or you can vote for
this fucking ship. Granted that Bill was the black People's
president ever since he played and like and he ain't anymore,
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and I think not. And I think their cat had
a video game on Genesis sres the cat, or at
least he had a comic book. I mean, what a time.
How did she lose you after that? I don't know.
I mean back to what I was saying though about
the mid terms. So, right, so if the Democrats do
take control, right, think about all these committees that have
the subpoena power and how they can deliver all these
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congressional colonoscopies to the administration. For example, the Ways and
Means Committee. And this is from an article on Slate.
They're talking about all the possible investigations that could happen
with Democrats in power the Ways and Means Committee. They
can sharpen the national discussion around tax fairness and subpoena
and the president's tax returns. Okay, what about the Financial
Services Committee that would be chaired by Maxine Waters. I
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have a feeling if she, if she was the fucking chairwoman,
she was subpoena the ship out of soap for what's
in their purview, and the financial services they have the
authority to look at like sort of the phenomenon of
you know, foreign oiligarch's laundering. They're ill gotten gains through
purchases of luxury condominiums like the ones that are in
Trump owned buildings in New York or that weird building
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in Miami that he sold for like a three profit inexplicably,
and you look at even just sort of like the
Armed Services Committee, they can they can convene like proceedings
to fucking talk about why it's bad to share state
secrets with people who don't have security clearances, like basic
things that Republicans went out like it's not an issue.
It's not an issue. You know, there is the ability
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to actually be like hold on, you need to come
in here and explain what the fund is going to
expose the wildly corrupt ship that is happening, Like nobody
likes corruption. It's gonna be hard to argue with, although
Trump supporters I'm sure will find a way, but yeah,
if Democrats are a sober Thanksgiving, Republicans have become like
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Irish St. Patty's Day, like everybody's just fucking wasted and
saying the first thing that comes to mind, because they
are just going to the base hard, Like they're all
of these House elections. They're wearing maga hats. They're basically
talking about how like Trump is their avior of America.
Like this new crop of candidates for the terms, Yeah, exactly,
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they're like lock her up in their campaign ads. You're
not running against uh what? The guy who said that
has actually been to jail for killing twenty nine people
by violating safety standards and the mind that ship, and
his talking point is we don't need to investigate our president,
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we need to arrest Hillary. So yeah, they're just going
back to the two thousand and sixteen election and basically
the thing that they have going for them is, you know,
the Democratic Party kind of went away from their authentic
ground swell of support and the Republicans went with it.
And they're realizing, Okay, go to this horrible toxic wave
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of you know, aggression that has been bubbling up. What
a weird I mean, I guess we'll see if this
two year old campaigning style will still hold up. I mean,
he clearly didn't work for the countless Republicans that try
to brand themselves as like Trump clones. Uh in the
special elections in the last eight months. So that's one
thing to somewhat rest easy about. But yeah, it's it
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feels like they're like, well, fuck it, man, just play
the greatest hits, you know, maybe they'll maybe they'll keep dancing. Yeah.
So yeah, I'm not gonna play these ads for you.
But there's just crazy ship where like the guy's spouting
off about like, uh, a guy running for the Senate
in Missouri is talking about like how Trump is the
savior of our country. He has also said that feminists
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have snake filled heads and he hopes his daughters don't
become she devils. So, uh, this is where we're at.
And you have a shirt that says feminist on now
ye super, how many snakes you've got in your head? Oh?
You seven tongues said it all? What then kind of
thing is that snake head snakes in their heads? These
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guys don't get laid. I don't know what it is
about Republicans and their fear of women and like right
like they just it's like a force field they don't
understand or something like just the way they talk about
women is bananas. Clearly that's to be like you know,
the garden and that's exactly the beast or whatever. It's
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very like, let's play out in their mind if feminists
to control of the country, what does that mean? Everyone's
penis will have to be turned into a vagina and
then men are like thrown off the like I don't
you know what I mean, because like it was easy
with gay marries. They just say ship like, well, what's next,
Man's gonna marry a horse in a blah blah blah,
Like is no argument, right because this is just a
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person that's dumb or like I don't even want to
call them dumb, but someone who doesn't have like a
real actual point of view, sound opinions, right, And then
I'm now I'm supposed to argue about the legitimacy of
women if I'm that candidate I'm debating, I'm like, well,
people of Missouri's clear to see my opponent. I mean,
look at all the snakes in her head literally have
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liked my hair right now, that's my hair style. Well,
well you get where I'm coming from, don't you. I'm
really curious what the fear is is that I guess
it's just that men are no longer the dominant force
in society, are right, exactly, But but isn't that is
that like the expiration date that they seeming fear, it's
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the fear of their own sexual insecurity or the fear
that a woman will say because I don't think any
man has a real fear that a woman will seduce
him unless he is a basketball player or like, you know,
someone someone who has actual money that people are coming
for and can use that excuse for exactly, and you
literally were. But like the average man I don't think
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has to worry about relationships with women who are less
you know, assertive, and they might just think, well, I
could never like deal with a woman who speaks her
mind because that's too intimidating. And so I don't know, Guys,
give it a try. It's actually very rewarding. Number one,
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think imagine you were talking to another human being and
start there just exploded. All right, we're gonna take a
quick break. We'll be right back, and we're back. Uh.
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And unfortunately, there is a developing story we're just seeing
right now that a band drove into a crowd in Toronto,
a parent terror attack or it looks like terror attacks
that have happened before. Uh, looks like many people are dead.
But you know, this is a developing story as we
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record this, so we're not gonna really get into it
other than to say that it's fucking tragic, tragical. Yeah,
I love to everybody in Toronto, Canada. At the moment um,
we are going to talk about a couple of our
thought leaders in America today. Uh Kanye is out here
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basically uh live tweeting the writing of his philosophy book.
And uh Shania Twain, who I've always looked to for
uh my political and generally existential philosophical thoughts. Uh. And
you know they both came out with some pretty strange
takes over the weekend. Yeah. Well, I mean Shani Twain
(47:32):
had a interview come out I think with I want
to say The Guardian where she basically she's like this
is what she said and this is a quote. I
would have voted for Trump because even though he was offensive,
he seemed honest. Do you want straight or polite? Not
that you shouldn't be able to have both. If I
were voting, I just don't want bullshit. I would have
voted for a feeling that it was transparent, and politics
(47:54):
has a reiputation of not being that right. So again, Shanya,
I get it. You're from Carena. You don't get it?
Are you work in America? But you know you know
what Trump means, right? Like you can tell. It's like
if you have to end something with right, am I right?
Guys like you just you know you were taking a
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hot take. You weren't willing to say what's your chest up?
So I guess yes. The clapback on Twitter is crazy.
Like I saw many people be like, I'm not going
on her tour. There was someone right, right. So then
after the fucking just chorus of people being like, no,
you can't say that, she came out and said I
would like to apologize to anybody I've offended. In a
recent interview regarding the President, the question caught me off
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guard as a Canadian. I regret answering this unexpected question
without giving my response more context. I'm passionately against discrimination
of any kind of hope, It's clear from the choices
I have made and the people I stand with, I
do not hold any common moral beliefs with the current president.
I was trying to explain in response to a question
about the election that my limited understanding was that the
president talked to a portion of America like an accessible
person they could relate to, as he was not a politician.
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My answer was awkward, but certainly should not be taken
as representative my values, nor does it mean I endorse him.
I make music to bring people together. My path will
always be one of inclusivity, as my history shows. Now,
we gave too much time to her bullshit backing out
of what she said statement, So do you think I
don't know anything about Shania Twain. I don't know ththing
about her. Polygists, She's had two great comedy appearances, and
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I heart Huckabees or just I don't even know if
she was in there, but just the he always retells
his story about Shania Twain, and it's like every businessman
you know who has like the one story that you've
heard like five times. It's one of my favorite parts
of any movie, even though that movie is a little whick.
But you know, I had a hole in woman Charles
Barkley right exactly. And then she was in a great
(49:42):
episode of Broad City that I was watching last night actually,
and but I think she's actually hitting on something. Uh.
So on Love It or Leave It the Crooked Media
podcast over the weekend, UH, Aaron Ryan, who's a friend
of the pod and a former Obama, I think you
know something or other uh was saying that she thinks
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that the like Rosetta stone for current American politics is
authenticity matters more than anything, like feeling like this person
is authentic and you know that they can just say
what they're saying over social media and you're actually hearing
from them and not a bullshit like sort of canned statement,
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Like that's what is determining whether people come out for
somebody or not. And look at Cardi b like unapologetically herself,
and I don't think that's any coincidence why she's been embraced,
because this is not a facade, right, because the Internet
and social media have broken down this barrier where like
people just used to be satisfied with like getting canned ship.
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Now people are sort of almost fetishizing the idea of
like authentically getting plugged into this person's personality. And Trump
exploited that like a glitch in the system. And you know,
I think she was right in her analysis of you
know how Trump came to power. It's insane that she
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thinks that that would have worked on her, right, It's
a it's weird to be circumspect about it and then
also be like, but yeah, I would have, you know,
voted for that. Do you ever listen to night Twain?
How did you respond to this? Um? Honestly, I don't care.
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I mean, I just don't believe in anyone anymore. Like
and I also, I mean, this goes back to a
conversation that I was having with a white friend. I
look over, hi, Hi, Charlotte. This is a conversation I
was having with a white friend who was talking about how,
like their mom is very racist, but their mom is
like a really good person, you know, And like anytime
anyone has alway told me, like this person in my
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family is racist, like they're they're just a staunch they
hate blacks and Jews or whatever, but they are good people.
And it's like, and they always, I feel like everyone
always makes a point of telling me that second part
when they tell me the first part. And I think
it is impossible to try to make me believe that
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a racist person is also a good person. And I
think that people hide behind their innocence that's been given
to them by privilege, you know, as a white person,
Like I'm a good person, this is you know what
I mean. And it's like, no matter how she came
about that conclusion, you know, like if it was a
part of a bigger question, or if she was trying
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to put herself in someone else's shoes, you know what
I mean. Like, I think it's really hard for me
to give passes to people who have never had to
face the consequences of what they believe, you know what
I mean. It's just like if you are ignorant, or
if you are stupid, if you're not well read, if
you don't understand the history of why we are here
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today and what the experiences like, and what it means
for people like me to see this president get to
do whatever they want and for them to be able
to embolden the people that want to see people like
me gone or whatever, Like whatever your reasoning is, I
don't give a ship anymore. I literally don't care and
I don't want to hear it. And to me, it's
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just like I've had so many faves go away because
like it's impossible to like love, like a white like
who who said some shi it like, wasn't it like
Helen Mirram, like somebody like during the Oscar so white
like said that, like they didn't. I don't want to
say the quote because I don't know if it's actually
the person. But I just had so many white faves
that I just like love people that I look up
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to artists, singers, authors or whatever that I would say
some ship that I'm just like, oh, you're white, just
like Hitler, Like she just reminds me because you know,
as a human being, you connect with people not based
on race. I don't connect with people based on I
connect with them based on who they are, on their
humanity and if I love an artist or if I
love I used to listen to Twain my whole life,
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and not like she's one of a group of other
white people who remind me that they are right. I'm
just like or someone who says like, oh, I understand
the situation, but you don't really understand. Yeah, And I'm
just like, no, you don't understand. It's like and I don't.
I don't give a anymore. I'm just like over everybody. Yeah,
it's exhausting, this is what that brings us to our
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next person, Kanye to the and again from and to me.
He fucking he was done the second he showed up
a Trump Tower, I was like whoa. And even like
as that tour was winding down, he was like, hold on,
let me take twenty minutes talking about Donald Trump or whatever.
I was like, okay. So over the weekend we were
getting excited because he's like, Yo, five albums coming out,
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Like I got an album, Me and Cutty are doing something.
Tiana Taylor's got a new album coming out, Push the
Tas got a new album out. Fucking Nas. I'm gonna
do album with Nas, and everyone's like wow. Then he tweeted,
I love the way Candice Owens thinks just I guess
that's part of his philosophy book. Now, if you guys
don't know who Candice Owens is, she is a very
problematic woman of color who Fox News just loves because
(55:04):
her takes are so spicy. Her the melanin just shoots
off her skin. It's magical, it's crazy. For example, she
hates Black Lives Matter. Okay, let's be real there. She thinks, man,
these NFL players, they need to get off their knees
because I don't know what they're complaining about type takes.
She thinks Trump is quite literally and I quote, the
savior of the free world. And she also has a
(55:25):
great video where he talks about how The Black Panther
is actually a pro Trump film. So just to give
you an idea of who Kanye loves the way this
person thinks this is the person he's talking about, and
it has basically I mean, now, hey, I think people
on the writer are like, hey, we love Kanye now yeah. Man,
this was highlighted red all weekend on the front page
(55:45):
of Drudge, uh, you know, which is an indication that, like,
it's a story that was the most clicked on Kanye
quote thought police want to suppress freedom, embraces black Trump supporter. Uh,
And this is huge for them. Racist people needed to win.
They were they had a bad run there. They were
repeatedly faced with sort of irrefutable evidence that black excellence
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was real. Black Panther came through, broke all the records,
Beyonce gave the greatest live performance ever, and Kendrick Wanta
Pulitzer and they were just like, fun, but what the
fund do we do now? And then Kanye came through
and yeah and said some ship like that, and then
Candice Owens went on Fox to be like, yeah, and
Kanye gets it, blah blah blah, like he's he's opening
(56:30):
up to the fact that, uh, you know, liberals want
black people to feel like they're victims, and you know
it's time to get past that. You know, black people
are so focused on the past that they don't even
talk about their vision for the future. And it's like,
I'm sorry, you need to acknowledge history to understand where
the funk we're going. And it's not that this is
just some Bill Cosby respectability. Yeah, and it's just it's old,
it's tired, bullshit and I don't know what the fund
(56:50):
is wrong with Kanye, But again it's true, Like and
now Trump is probably loving is that you see that
we got the coolest one now on our team, the
coolest black guy. I'm on that Dave Chappelle, Ray Soul Draft.
He Kanye can go racist white people, Yeah, I can
have him. It was so straight up trade trade Who
picking up? I don't know, I don't know who do
(57:11):
you guys get? Who should we pick up? Who's a really?
I heard Lord is like a real woke white woman,
like she knows she speaks. Well, did she skip her
performance in Israel? Yeah, okay, that's right. I knew was
somebody Natalie Portman did. I told you she was bayh
and you producer around Hosnie. I was like, no, that, Uh,
(57:31):
well Jack, who do you? Who do you think I'll
draft Jack? Jack's pretty cool, You're pretty You're pretty clear
about being like JT can he could kick rocks bro
Um what's his name? The big black guy that just
came out for we're trying to draft a white guy
can go to maybe take LP back? Yeah, well did
(57:56):
you see his comments after though? He was like yo,
they freaked. Yeah, they He's like they did a bait
and switch. Although I'm like, you so smart, like killing
Mike is so smart. He was running. I really was
looking to him. I mean he said a lot of
things that I really respect. And then he came for
Joy and Reid and she owned his as him so hard.
(58:16):
But again, you know, Kanye, I bro you know, it's
it's hard to it's so hard, too sick goodbye to yesterday.
But yeah he's saying goodbye to Kye. For a second,
I really thought he was re emerging. It like he
found his ship and then got the Dope album or something. Yeah,
(58:39):
recovery is tough because a lot of people use whatever
made them break down to treat a sort of mental
imbalance or like a mental disorder, and then when they
come out of recovery sometimes they're absent that thing they
were using as a crutch and they need to adapt
to being in reality. And like it just seems like
he's he's too some crazy ships. Something's something's wrong because
(59:00):
this is the man who literally said Bush doesn't like
black people, you know what I mean? And then back
when Kanye was black, now he's something, well, what's funny too,
because remember what wasn't he tweeting? He's like, yeah, I've
been sambling beats from the Sunken Place, And I'm like, yeah, yeah,
I think, yeah, I can tell you're tweeting from the
place were you identifying with the family in that movie.
(59:22):
He's like my teacup game and with spoon is strong,
uh ship Um yeah. Also being extremely famous as a
form of like I believe it's it's like being insane,
like just yeah, you're living in a world that is
not real for and also like, uh, back in the
(59:44):
day when I was kick around celebrities, a lot of
these people they just don't feel that they can ever
meet somebody who's just trying to be their actual friend.
Like they at a certain point, every person you meet,
you look at through the lens of how's this person
trying to snake me? How's this person trying to get
something from me? It's weird that that's sort of our
privilege of not being so famous, is that you can
go into interaction and not immediately go now, this person
(01:00:04):
is up to some fucking weird ship. Although I always
assume that, I mean the daily guys is you know,
blowing up. You know, I'm rude as fund the dude
that Popeye celebrity looks absolutely unappealing. Oh, it looks terrible,
terrible because also to like I would think about like
just going somewhere looking sloppy as ship, just trying to eat,
and so I'll be like, yo, yo, it's bolable over there.
(01:00:25):
I'm like a fuck some play on your name and
like having a belly or some ship. Look at come on,
think of something fatty fat O'Brien, damn yeah, self owned
whack O'Brien. Yeah, I don't know, Charlotte. It's been a pleasure.
Other than that last part where I was shipping on myself,
(01:00:47):
it's been a pleasure having pleasure. Guys. You guys are
the best. Where where can people find you? The next
velvet is that copper still in Koreatown? May four, nine pm?
That is the show? Uh that in the Los Angeles
area that I host. H Yeah for the l as
I gang. I know we have listeners out here. I
(01:01:08):
just feel like I don't see you out there. Come
up to me, you know, let me know you're out here.
I feel like what people New York and me alone,
New York and l A are are rocking pretty hard
with the Yeah all right? And are you on social media?
I am Charlotte Lawrenceton across the board. Boom boom. That's
with us, see Charlotte with the sea Uh miles, where
can people find well? Before I tell people where we
(01:01:29):
find us? Jack on Twitter, I told the listeners that
we would reveal our zone, and I just want to
make good on that promise. Now this is a big
moment for me because prior to this, no one knew
my birthday. I didn't tell anybody. The government didn't even know.
And now I'm willing just because people have been asking
on Twitter. I'm going to tell everybody that I'm a Virgo. Okay, wow,
(01:01:54):
I knew it. It's Virgo season. I got all the
prolific names from that sign. Oh you're booming the Virgos. No,
do you not believe in the zodiac sign? Of course
I do. Oh interesting, Now Jack is your turn? Uh,
you know what. I don't feel comfortable my sign. I
told the people. Jack, I told the people that I
know you did that without consulting me. I just you
(01:02:16):
guys don't even give a shit about this. I'm serious.
I know Jack doesn't. He's got to protect gotta wait
a couple of months and you know, see how things
are going in my life before I reveal. And I
bet somebody now is on Twitter and be like. His
answer made it very clear with his signs. Yeah, I know.
I want to hear you all. I want to hear
(01:02:36):
you guys. Guess that what my sign? You have a
one in twelve chance? Yeah? Okay, but yeah, if you're
looking for me and all things Virgo and hashtag Virgo season.
Shout out to all the Virgos, Beyonce, Michael Jackson, Mozart.
That is a pretty good list. Yeah, and look we're
out here. Is it a coincidence? Yes? But if you're
(01:02:58):
looking for me on Footer on Instagram at Miles of Gray,
the Beyonce of podcast, people always called you that of
the fifty through one, top one hundred on the news
genre of podcast. There you go. Uh. You can find
me a jack Underscore Old Brian on Twitter. You can
find us at Daily Ziegeist on Twitter. We're at the
Daily z i Guist on Instagram. We have a Facebook
(01:03:20):
fan page and a website, Daily zi geist dot com.
We also have other podcasts that we've been making and
releasing that are really good, you guys. Ethnically Ambiguous superproducer
on a Hosny and Shrine Units is podcast. Uh just
dropped an episode today, UH called We Are Syria that
is really worth listening to. Uh, and we're gonna have
(01:03:42):
them on a little later this week to further talk
about that episode. UM Culture Kings is out here. Nerdificent
is a show that we just launched with if you
Wadaway and Danny Fernandez, two of you guys favorite guests
from the Daily Zeitgeist. Uh, go check that shut Out.
They've got I think four episodes up now, and they're
(01:04:02):
really really good. They basically breakdown pop culture, nerd culture,
things that you are sort of aware of but might
not be fully versed on them. They just do a deep,
deep dive. They've done episodes on cons like conventions, They've
done it on cosplay, like these things that I knew
about but didn't know we're like crazy super interesting until
they talk to me about it. This week they're dropping
(01:04:23):
an episode about the Marvel Cinematic Universe and just going
in deep. Uh. So, yeah, that is a great show.
And we're about to launch a show called Behind the
Bastards with Robert Evans from Cracked and we are. We
will link off to that in our Footnope, where we
also link off to the stories and information that we
(01:04:43):
talked about in today's episode. Uh. And the song that
we ride out on miles what are we gonna write
out all today? We're gonna go out on a song
by Apra called pull Up. Uh. She's from New York.
R and b artists just in on their dope, young
artists coming out of New York I think, uh, and
just got like really sort of simple eight oh weight
kind of hip hop production. But it's just, you know,
(01:05:05):
I just got a great voice. I like the melodic lines.
There's some good harmony in there. I mean not that
it's pull on harmonies. Don't come at me all the vocalists.
But again this is pull up by Abro. That's not
technically harmony. I know. Yeah, just like when I said
the scatting that fucking uh Samantha from Sex in the
City wasn't scatting. It was actually jazz vocals something. Look,
I'm sorry, I didn't know to me diarrhea, Yeah it was.
(01:05:28):
It was a mess either way. But this is not
a mess. This is pure, pure talent. Your next list
is ab Yeah. Well, also link off to the r
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GOP house races uh and Senate races, and going forward,
we want to start looking in the footnotes to maybe
some candidates who needs some support, who are good candidates
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women of color. Uh So yeah, shout us out any
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probably aren't getting that super pack support and get the
Sight gang behind them. Get give him the zight gang bump.
We'll push the whole election in one direction that's in
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our footnouts on daily's like guys dot com. Uh, and
that's gonna do it for today. We will be back
tomorrow because it is a daily podcast. Talk to you
guys on tell me like me was in trouble at
the moment you said, he your first of all out
if they want to be taking from getting nobody else
hours you to myself, nobody else. I wanted you to
(01:06:35):
muself and were go on it up. Yeah, we go
on it up. So we're going it up. So yeah,
we're going it up. Getting the job. Get into trouble
with me, love getting the job of getting to job
me love you good. A shot inside y'all. Somebody strubbering
(01:07:02):
the wavy baby feeling crazy said, I'm crazy you don't
seeing ship. Dad, go to y'all, sad butt and shot shine.
We have the cobbage out. Somebody strappery the waby by
selling crazy said I'm crazy you ain't seen ship. Yeah,
(01:07:40):
well you don't want to be in little know you
think it's that easy to walk out the phoe what
you killed? Creasy's the for yourself? Baby, lose every time, Well,
you don't want to be in little know you think
it's that easy to walk out the phoe what you
killed Creasy's the for yourself? Baby lose every time you
don't want to be in lovel is that if you
don't want to know what you kill creasy? So we
(01:08:01):
go hunting out some more. We wanted up wanting don't
want to be go on, you're getting daddy lint walk
You know what you kill creasys from so many easy
John Love, pull up to your Grandbady Shotty, Shotty, pull
up with Yabbage, out with somebody Strawberry the way. The baby,
(01:08:24):
feeling crazy, said, I'm crazy. You'll be seeing ship. Yeah,
wote you sit by the shiny shotting Yobba shown somebody
Strawberry the way. Baby said, I'm crazy, said, I'm crazy.
You want to see ship a