August 27, 2018 • 63 mins
In episode 220, Jack and special guest host Laci Mosley are joined by super producer Anna Hossnieh to discuss how Crazy Rich Asians is a culture phenomenon, the possible biggest flip in the Trump Organization, how Republicans actually want to impeach Trump more than the Democrats, how stock market buybacks are going down currently, bloidwatch, and more!
FOOTNOTES:
1. How ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Hooked A $35M+ #GoldOpen At The Box Office – Update
4. This may be the biggest flip yet in the Trump-Cohen saga
5. Top Trump Organization official Weisselberg was granted immunity in Cohen investigation
6. Republicans Are Talking About Impeachment Way More Than Democrats
7. Bookmakers: Trump impeachment odds are way up after Cohen trial
8. Trump says impeachment would crash the market. Really?
9. Your Questions About Impeachment, Answered
11. In 2008, America Stopped Believing in the American Dream
12. Why Stock Market Buybacks Should Make Investors Nervous
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to season forty six, episode
one of the Daily's eight geast for Monday, August two, eighteen.
My names Jack O'Brien, a K in the morning and
in the morning in the morning, Jack O'Brien kind of
lost it at the end there. That AK is courtesy
of La La Baba Yaga. Uh La la Baba Yaga.
(00:23):
Miles is still away on vacation or sorry, on location
fighting the cartels. Uh So, I'm thrilled to be joined
by today's temporary co host, one of the first faces
on Mountains Lightmore, the hilarious and talented Miss Lacey Mosley.
Lacey Mosley a k A crazy poor blacks. Oh no,
(00:48):
I'm kidding. Thank you, Perhaps to be Jackson thrilled to
have you, And in the guest spot, we're thrilled to
be joined by yesterday's co host, the Coast of the
great podcasts in this world Ethnically Ambiguous. Please welcome on
a hosted Yeah, a k A. I sucked up and
did not book a guest for today. I'm great at
(01:13):
my Please keep me to have you. Yeah. I did
not get enough, just one serving, come on, not enough?
So an you've sat through over two hundred of these
recordings of this show, you have never done the search history, overrated,
(01:33):
underrated myth. So I'm I'm assuming you just have these
like built up that you're just ready to roll. So
let's ask you. Yeah, I'm sorry, let me just stop you. There.
I did it on the one episode and then I
did it on the fourth of July episode. Right, you
didn't do search history or myth. Right, Well, I don't
reveal my search histories, but I do I did do
(01:53):
my episode. Okay, word, I don't remember any of the
episodes you've done completely on your shoulder everywhere you go
and just whisper everything into your right. I have an
ear awake. Uh. She helps me through my dates with
Mrs all Right, But before we get to that, we're
(02:15):
going to tell our listeners what we're gonna be talking about.
We're gonna be talking about crazy rich Asians being officially
a cultural phenomenon, the fact that Trump's CFO gentleman named
Alan Weisselberg has been granted immunity, so looks like he's
(02:35):
going to flip. We're gonna be talking about who is
seeking impeachment? Who's talking about impeachment? We're gonna be talking
about what would actually happen if Trump were impeached, and
we're gonna be talking about the importance of the year
two thousand eight podcast I Love Nightcall with Molly and Tests.
Molly and Tests been guests on this show. They had
(02:56):
a two thousand eight retrospective last week, and also Simon
Rich's father, guy named Frank Rich, wrote a pretty killer
article for New York Magazine last week about how sort
of two thousand and eight was the year the American
dream died, which seems like a cliche point, but it's
actually he just had a really compelling sketch of the
(03:19):
significance of the financial crash in two thousand eight as
compared to other big events from the past couple decades.
So we're gonna talk about that. We're gonna talk about
what companies are doing with those tax dollars, with all
those tax cut windfalls that they've gotten, how are they
spending that, presumably giving them back to the workers. Right,
(03:40):
we're gonna check in, and of course we're gonna give
you a quick boy, which which we're gonna be doing
on Mondays now given the new schedule. So something that
you might notice is that this is gonna be a
big ideas show where we take stock of the entire zeitgeist.
(04:01):
But you know, last Monday's app we talked about what
our quicksand is just generally, uh, and today we're talking
about the importance of the year two thousand and eight.
But if news breaks over the weekend, like when Milania
Trump is granted immunity and announces she's cooperating with federal investigators,
we will not be reporting on that because we're recording
(04:23):
this before the weekend. So yeah, there you go. Baron Trump. Yeah,
Baron Trump has been granted. He's just got like I mean,
and you all thought I was slow. Donald Trump Jr.
Is definitely just like there's part of him. You know,
(04:44):
we contain multitudes, and you know, there's definitely part of
him that still hates his dad that's dying and he
knows he knows Allso, uh, before we get to any
of that, on Ane, what is something from your search
history that is revealing about what your Social Security number is? Yes,
(05:06):
four twenty sixty nine six. She's not the coolest in them.
I know, I was born really cool. Um no I
search How the fund do you spell Cincinnati, because how
the fun Cincinnati? So many eyes and ends and teas. Yeah,
I do that WITHLD definitely. I can never spell definitely correctly.
(05:27):
I'm so embarrassed about it. I definitely have those words. Yeah,
I say death just to be like, fuck guys, just
like Phantasia Barrino. I can't breathe. I've been keeping the
secret long enough. I got that five from you. You
can only show me memes that are just photos and
(05:49):
then you show her the word ones and she's just like,
such a good one. I love that meme very general.
That mean made me laugh so funny. What is something
that you think is overrated? Um challenge culture? I swear
to God if you challenge me to something responding, I
(06:12):
agree with you on that. If you go like I
nominate Anna to talk fast in an Instagram video, I
will ignore you. Some challenges I think are cute, like
I like that I'm a cow dog cat obviously, I like,
you know, fun ship like that. But I'm so sick
of tired, y'all. Damn movie challenge. Somebody challenged me to
put up ten fucking posts about oh dass movies. I like,
(06:33):
nobody challenge you to this ship that ain't no damn
challenge or to order order post a beautiful photo of
yourself day. Somebody nominated me, but it ain't nobody. Literally,
it's like dumber versions of chainmail. It is. That's what
it is. It's become chainmail challenge. Yes, the bit I'm
(06:55):
a Cow that song, but that challenges it was. The
challenge is to dress in the cow outfit and try
and trying to be a cat like you will never
be account I know. Seriously. Yeah, that was fun. That
is one of the more ill advised challenges because nobody
can be k was fun for a while. Some of
you were way too late, so some of you are
(07:16):
literally getting hit by cars. Now was that one? Did
that start with an official like video? Because I only
ever saw the people doing the challenge. Shiggy started it. Yeah,
so he like I guess he did the dance first,
and then everybody was like, oh, this is cool. I
want to recreate this. And I know who Shiggy is,
but why don't you tell our listeners who? He's a
(07:40):
Instagram like comedian? Of course? Yeah, what is something you
think is underrated? Movers? Holy sh it, they just show
up to your house. They'll take all your ship to
your other house. So I've never used movers before, well
I mean outside of like my parents have, but I
personally have always just been lugging shit around just ambu
person My boyfriend hates me. So I just like hired
(08:04):
movers and they were like, I'll just take that. You
don't this stuff, And I was like, yeah, I made
a move from Missouri to New York where we're trying
to save some money and my wife, so we moved
our entire house to like a house into uh. I
think it was like a fourth floor apartment, and like
(08:26):
there was one point like at the end where we
were both carrying a couch and like her knees buckled,
and I was like come on. And then we were
just like why aren't we hiring movers? We're adults, What
the fund is wrong with us? You're trying to get
her hands like sweat pouring down. That is crazy. But honestly,
(08:52):
like this is something you only need to tell people
in their twenties, like after that you're an adult. But
like I don't touch cardboard. Saw my family move uh,
And that's when I was like, oh, there's a chic
ways to move. We once moved to Florida just for
a year, and like there are people came and packed
our whole house up for us, like all, like all
and labeled everything. I was like, oh, this is how
I'm moving. That's what my parents would always do. And
(09:15):
I was like, oh, I'm not an adult. I can't
do that. And then like I was like, oh my god,
I'm almost thirty. Am I What am I doing? Someone?
I feel like this is an argument for ex convicts
to be able to work wherever without facing such harsh discrimination,
because why don't we let x cons be movers? If
you worry about you're about to give this man all
(09:36):
your stuff, right and he go moving, right? Like, so,
let x cons work in other places. That is something
to note is that it is exclusive. And I don't
know why that is right. Suld be something with their
hiring processes. Yeah, well just because this is a strong,
(09:56):
brawny man and yeah, it's like a physically difficult job.
They spent time in the yard credit writing something like, damn,
Lennox cons work other places. We already give them the
most trust when they get out. Anyway, you let them
move your ship on what is a myth? Finally, what
(10:17):
is something people think is true that you know to
be false. Um, if you see a woman in a
he job in America, do not assume she is being
forced to wear that because of her religion or her father,
or her husband or anyone around her. Just think, hey,
maybe she made that choice by herself. That's my myth.
Don't assume that kind of ship because there is so
(10:39):
much more to a person than just through he job.
Like that person was like, oh, you know what, I
like to cover my hair. It has nothing to do
with my dad, has nothing to my husband, has nothing
to do my religion, or sometimes you know, does have
to religion, But like, don't assume that's my thing. People
make their own choices. Such an interesting conversation on last
week's Ethnically and Big Us between Sheran and her mother
(11:02):
that touched on like a period where Sherian's mom was
covered and just like why she made that decision and
it had nothing to do with her dad. Her dad
had no opinion on it. Was like, dude, what you want?
Yeah exactly, all right, Well thank you for that. It's
good to get to know you a little bit better.
You know, debunked like that. You must check out my podcast.
(11:23):
What's it called the Ambiguous? I thought you were going
to talk about will You Accept This Rose? Which you
which is the only podcast you ever talking about Bachelor contestants?
Who where he jops? So just moving on to cultural things.
Crazy Rich Asians is I think we can say officially
a cultural phenomenon. It's expected to repeat as the number
(11:43):
one box office movie this weekend, and the book is
now the best selling book according to Amazon, and number
two on that list is China Rich Girlfriend, which sounds
like it was a poorly translated for read but is
actually the second book in that series and that is
(12:05):
at number two, and the third, Rich People Problems, just
showed up on the chart for the first time and
it's already at number ten, so number three, Yeah, that's
the third Rich People Problems. So yeah, people give a
funk about this movie? What a shock? I know, seriously,
I haven't seen it. There wasn't enough white folks in
(12:26):
it for me. That's how I like my movies, like
I like my milk. This makes me want to write, uh,
like a romantic comedy about Persian people and being like
this Iranian Jewish person wanted to marry a Muslim Jewish
person their families were horrified. I swear to God, if
anyone steals that idea you put it out there. But
(12:49):
that would be crazy because it's just like so not okay.
They don't like that at all, So here come my
studio money. Fine. Definitely have to put some Kardashians in it.
All these all cast as Kardashians and shows of Sunset
Armenians put them in as well. I still haven't seen it.
I baby sat last night while my wife saw it,
(13:10):
so she got to see it and she loved it.
This has all come back for all that that moving situation. Yeah, exactly,
look at me now you stay with the kids. She
was talking about how like her friend liked it so much.
She was like, I'm going to bring my husband and
like see it again tomorrow. And she was like huh.
(13:30):
I was like, you're not going to do that anyway.
Massage exactly would bring their husband so that they can seewhere.
But I I am curious to know, like what those
producers who were just saying Asian people and black people
(13:54):
couldn't have leading roles in movies for the past seventy years,
Like are they telling themselves right now? Like the director
of crazy rich Asians was asked to make the lead
character a white girl studio, Yeah, because otherwise how would
white people be able to relate? You know, That's what
they said. I can't see myself even though I see
myself everywhere. How so did you see myself here? Unless
(14:17):
this is like super in genre of like some stereotypical
you know, trope. Yeah, I bet there's at least one
shitty executive was like, just it's a coincidence. This is
just like black Panthers. It's just chance, doesn't happen. I mean,
you would think that because the two most like culturally
(14:42):
like Zeitgeist movies of the year so far are movies
that star not white people. That they would learn the lesson.
But I don't know. Inertia is a hell of a thing, right.
They're like, no, no no, no, let's just keep rebooting no
white stuff that worked out. They're bringing back Murphy Brown.
What I know what, here's what we need, Murphy Murphy Brown.
(15:05):
I'm gonna need another Cheers. I'm gonna need another Frasier
Murphy Brown. They're talking about rebooting more Brady Bunch. I
do feel like this made me think of the fact
that it feels like the culture is advancing now, like
a little bit faster than old people are dying off.
(15:26):
So there's like still these older executives who are like, well,
so are we thinking Julia Roberts in the lead role
or Andy Griffith reboot and let me guess Julia right
before the wedding runs off. It's coming. But this two
(15:46):
thousand eight article that we're going to talk about a
little bit later on in the episode made me realize
that the last generation to be this much like smarter
and more idealistic and progressive than the older people that
they were inheriting the earth from was the Baby boomers,
the people that we're inheriting the earth from. So let's
not funk it up quite so hard this time. Guys,
(16:08):
what do you say We're going to take a quick break.
We're gonna be right back, and we're back and today's
Inner Circle flip. It'll be Friday's when you're listening to
this a few days back, So there might have been,
(16:31):
like we said, Baron and Milania might have flipped by now.
But on Friday, gentleman by the name of Alan Weisselberg,
it was announced it was granted immunity is expected to cooperate.
And he is a name that I actually heard for
the first time from Adam Davidson, who was a New
(16:52):
Yorker reporter who was the dude who like six or
seven weeks ago when Cohen's office was first rated, was like, Oh,
this is the beginning of the end of the Trump presidency.
This is gonna be like really bad for him, and
kind of called that like Cohen knew where the bodies
were buried and that this was going to be a
big problem. So that same reporter yesterday I heard him
(17:16):
say that Alan Weisselberg will be one of the most
famous names in the history of the country when it's
all sudden done, because he's basically been the CFO for
the Trump organization since the seventies, so he knows literally
all the crimes that Trump has committed. H and Trump
has committed all the crimes. So it works every kind, yeah, exactly.
(17:41):
So I don't know, it's interesting. It just seems like
one after another. And also Weislberg was called by prosecutors
in a different case and it seemed like he was
ready to just roll over on Trump, like immediately he
was like, I don't like this. He's like, yeah, he
did it. He did that if anybody wants power. It
was like he did that, guilty foot, he crushed my yoker.
(18:05):
The thing is is Adam is seventy one, right, yeah,
So I'm like Trump, why you not? What's yall plan?
You're gonna murder him? Or what make it look like
an accident. If we've learned anything from this presidency, it
is that all conspiracy theories must be wrong, or at
least any conspiracy theories involving these people, because it's just
(18:28):
nothing but incompetence. They had plans to get away with
these crimes. They had no plan in place to actually
get away with the crime. Trump was like, no, I'll
just tell people I didn't do it right and they'll
believe me as as are a resident, like scam expert.
You must just be shaking your head. Well, I'm shaking
my head at Trump. But I'm impressed with Adam Wisselberg
(18:49):
because you know, when you get offered immunity, it's because
you yourself was committing mad crimes as well. You was,
you know what I mean, Like, you didn't kill the person,
but you definitely dug up a little bit of the
land to put the body in, like you know what
I mean, He was like, hold on, you get tired, Trump,
let me get that shovel. Fam, I got you involved,
you know what I mean. Love to see a movie
(19:10):
from him about the Trump organization from his perspective, played
by Lacy who I gotta pay off? Okay she on
Hollywood and what okay? How when okay, I'm gonna go
pay it right now? Here go your money, bitch. Don't
say nothing. It saysn't me. People a right, like all right, Trump,
(19:33):
what are we doing now? Russia ship? All right? When
we get that Goovaco over there, let's go, let's go.
So I just think he's the best camera because he
got to commit all the crime adjacent you know. Yeah,
so he was in called the Sack of crime, the
CFO for a crime family, right, and he is now
(19:57):
being granted immunity. So that's pretty but that's dope, pretty
good deal for him because then he got to live
his whole life be as shady as fun and now
it's never gonna go to jail for it. Like, you
don't ever want to be the kingpin, you know what
I mean. You want to be the Hinchman, who live
in real good the guy behind the guy. So honestly,
it feels like all you have to do is send
an email in the subject that says immunity please, I
(20:18):
work for Trump, and then you got it and you
just have to talk. It seems like anyone could get
it at this point, as long as you've got dirt
Like this entire organization is filled with people. I'm just
like Trump, why you an't got no muscle? Like you
got nobody to intimidate people Like was the guy who
was like, I take a bullet, Mr Trump? And then
do you think Avanka is gonna go for it? I
(20:42):
don't know if she's going to go for it, but
she's in trouble if she, I think she should. She's
got some issues that she needs to get that immunity
for everybody protect her uncomfortable ass shoe line, She's like,
Who's gonna put give bit of stress fractures if I'm
not in business? Okay, have you tried on her? Yes? Trump.
Trump's shoes are terribly narrow and they immediately hurt your
(21:04):
feet as soon as you put them on, and they cheap.
You can't run from the cops and nose and only
body heels I can run from the cops in. It's
incredibly narrow. Who was gonna sell pay for last shoes
for bit just to sit in? Okay, that's women's shoes
for running from the cops. That's Jessica Simpson is put
(21:25):
some real was about to get the scale at least
the tim foot fence and some of those, okay, because
she was doing it all pregnant, so she right, Jessica
got a shoe game a lot. At first I was laughing.
I was like, Jessica, okay, shoes. Then I put them
ships on and said, okay, bait, stop saying it because
this is your colleague and it don't sing no more.
(21:47):
Don't you ever sing another note in your life. I
don't want you're singing in the shower. But yes, I
think that everybody's just rolling over a Trump. It's it's
crazy to me, like there's no loyalty in this there there. Yeah,
And I mean I think people are smart enough to
see that he has no loyalty to anybody. So you
know he's not gonna he's not gonna back anybody up, obviously,
(22:08):
but yeah, he it's turning into like residate dogs where
they're all pointing. Everybody's shooting each other. Does the spider
man mean they're just looking at it? Like we thought
Cohen went back far with Trump, But this dudent has
been running the family business since nineteen seventy. He's a CFO,
(22:28):
so he has all the like literal receipts, and you know,
he probably has the evidence that Trump has not in
any way stepped back from running his company and any
corrupt ship that he did with his company and foreign governments,
which I mean, I would literally be shocked if there
weren't some of that. So yeah, that's what's going down
(22:49):
on Friday. Republicans have been talking a lot about impeachment,
and what they're talking about is basically that the Democrats
are going to impeach him, and Sarah Huckaby Sanders last
Wednesday suggested that impeachment is quote the only message they
seem to have going into the mid terms talking about Democrats.
But five thirty like did an actual analysis of who's
(23:13):
talking about impeachment, like actual quotes and interviews and websites
and just like went through and it's just completely lopsided
that Republicans are talking about impeachment constantly and Democrats are
keeping their mouth shut, right, they're just waiting quietly in
the in the shadows. It's Sarah hu Colby Sanders, poor thing.
(23:33):
She's the same may just I just want I just
want you to know, the same career, same career. No.
I just think it's crazy that she says that, Like,
can you believe they have only one message? It's like,
are you not reading the news? Like this literally your job?
Like do you not see all this? Sy know, they
know they're the best scammers of all because they know
(23:54):
if you just say something on TV, a lot of
people will believe it. You just gotta be on TV.
And they're like, well they they are on the TV,
So how could it be a lot? Literally was like,
how could I be impeached? I've done such a good job,
which I talk about I'm good at this right, how
could I be impeached? I've done such a great job
(24:15):
as one of the all time great quotes. And so
the Democrats not talking about impeachment. I kind of assumed
that was them just playing coy, you know, like, yeah,
obviously we're gonnapeach over the house. But they would actually
need sixty seven senators to vote to remove Trump from
office in order to actually like have the impeachment get
(24:38):
him out of office. So and they're not going to
win the sen They might not even have a majority
in the Senate after the mid terms, and I mean
they might not win the majority in either house. But
even if the blue wave comes, they're definitely not going
to have sixty seven senators. So they would need like
over a dozen Republican senators to agree to remove him
(25:00):
from office. So it might make more sense for them
to like leave an ineffective executive in office and like
let him stick around until because he would be the
easier one to run against. And also he is great
for them pointing out like what what the Democrats are
(25:20):
now going to be running on is like we're not
corrupt and we're trying to help people. Don't like literally
there's a new revelation every week about like some ship
he did to literally line his own pockets at the
expense of other human beings. So it's like a fresh
cup of coffee every morning. He did crime every day.
(25:44):
The best part awaken exclusion in your cup, Like every
day he was doing a crime, Like this is too
much cry that for us. The other possibility of Producer
Nick Stump was pointing out Trump's biographer has predicted for
a while that this will end with Trump resigning with
(26:06):
some sort of you know, bullshit about the deep state
and the media to claim, you know, whatever victory he
can and just trying to say. I don't see him
trying to save face. I feel like he's the type
that he's gonna go down with the ship. He's on
the Titanic. He's like, no, no, we're good, We're good.
It was just a little little ice cube. But he's
(26:27):
like coward and like this. So he he likes a
fight in the media, but when it comes to actually
like getting face to face with somebody, like he won't
fire people to their face. He'll like you that call,
that almrossa call. Yeah, He's like, damn it, trying to
blame it on everybody else, which nothing I can do.
I'm only the president of the United States of America
(26:49):
and what they had told me, um, So I don't know.
I could see him just kind of bitching out, and
that would be probably strategically the smartest thing for him
to do, at least at a certain point, because it's
thing for him to do with fake his own death
right and moved to an island. We shouldn't like a
(27:11):
papulo Escobar actually had become president when he ran, right,
because it's literally what would happen, Like like you haven't
done too much dirt to put yourself under a magnified
glass like that. The thing is, I don't understand how
people this guilty can just be like the most high
profile job in the world, Like really, yeah, you would
do that, right, I Mean, that's the amazing thing is
(27:32):
the reports from inside the room that he and Milannia
were in when they were watching the election. Milannia was
openly weeping, like not with joy, but with like fuck,
we are so fucking and Trump was like looked like
he'd seen a ghost for like the first three hours,
and then eventually, because he is a narcissist, was able
(27:53):
to convince himself that, oh, I got this. I'm smart
enough that I can. That's like me when I'm told
I have to like co host this podcast, I'm like,
oh god, and then the reality set him and then
my narcissum sits and I'm like, you know whatever, I
got this, and then halfway through I'm like, oh my god,
(28:13):
I don't know what they're talking to. Melania just wanted
to marry a rich man and have a better life.
You know. She just wanted to shoe in a bag
and and a nice vacation home. You promised me no presidency,
So she just wanted to Jessica Simpson, right, she was
just trying to upgrade her life. There's some revelation from
(28:34):
last week or it was speculated that she's actively protesting
her husband through her wardrobe, so that like I don't care,
do you, was like directly a shot at him, and
like other things that she's wearing are specifically like him
to mock him. Yeah, it's like a fuck you. She
like hates her. I mean it's been pretty clear, like
(28:56):
she hasn't held his hand in public, and when he
tries to hold her hand, she's like that's like when
she had that uh he did it sweatshirt on. She's
just drinking poison, Like take me to the hospital over
a few weeks please. Um. So people do think impeachment
(29:16):
as a possibility. Uh. The people who the bookmakers in
the UK actually do take odds on this and they
increased the likelihood of him being impeached to whereas it
was only at thirty percent following the Helsinki conference, which
was also bad for him. But if he's okay, so
(29:39):
he can do like hell of crimes, and if he's
impeached and they don't get the votes, he stays in office. Yes, damn,
that's a sweet deal. Could do mad crime. You just
gotta get people to vote, like you like your crime
becomes subject to vote instead of like just facts. So
did you think I didn't? I mean, I did it,
(30:01):
But how do you feel about me doing it? You
still want me to stay even I did it? As
we were talking about earlier, he did that interview with
Fox News where he said that the stock market would
crash and suddenly everybody would be very poor if he
were impeached. Yeah, I thought it was sore. People are like, whoa,
let's start making all the things like cars and everything.
(30:24):
I don't know, America, would I feel like I just
talked to my father. My father is a stock market expert,
and he tells me every five minutes what he thinks
it's going to be, and then it happens. It's crazy.
Let's I really should ask him what he thinks is
going to happen, because he just he just knows he
(30:45):
has that feeling. I just think it's funny that he
would say stuff like this, and he knows people are
going to believe it, Like fear tactics really work, right,
And where's Mike Pince at Mike piz has been quiet
as hell. I haven't seen his ass in so long. Know,
he recently saw him helping a woman up who fell
who was not his wife. I bet he was so
(31:08):
tempted to do sex with her, sex those things like
Mike Pence touches a woman who is not wife, He's
just like, hey, would you like out of his pants? No,
he's really keeping it, mum. I think he really thinks
that he's about to step into the spotlight. I definitely
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think he's constantly aware of that possibility. Some people, like
you were saying, have argued that impeachment would be good
for the market. Forbes said that if Pence took office
and you know, ended Trump's tariffs, it would negate all
the dark cloud on the earnings horizon ship that they
have been going through, even though the market's been Really
(31:49):
think Pence would help. That's interesting, Yeah, I mean he's
exactly the same. It's just he's the most pro business
politician ever. He was literally in ended by the Koch brothers.
Like the Koch brothers heard him have a conservative talk
show and we're like, okay, this is our guy, and
they built him up. They groomed him in a labor like.
(32:11):
He also looks like a politician, So he really does.
He really looks like the most president. Yeah, even though
he's a monster in his own way, at least he's
not going to be so preoccupied with undoing everything Obama
did because he has no obsession with Obama. Yeah, I
have a question. So if he does get impeached, then
he has to go in front of Senate. Correct, and
then they so he has to go in front of
(32:34):
the House and then the Senate. The s and so
Clinton I think got impeached by the House, but then
the Senate acquitted him. He got a peach so fast
for a blowjob, I know. And then we go, let
we're gonna let top Trump do all they like. They
can't even if we were watching c SPAN, they just
(32:54):
start listing everything he did would be there all goddamn day. Look,
do we really need to say it all out loudly?
He did this? Okay, but got a blowjop At immediately. Um,
well he did live one time. It's not like Trump lies. So,
but impeaching Trump for Pence would be basically going from
(33:16):
a kleptocracy to a theocracy. Um. There's a book out
called The Shadow President about Mike Pence, uh that says
that he believes he's on a like quote mission from God,
not in like a fun blues brother's way, but in
the like determination to mold the entire country in the
shape of his like weird Christian faith. Not that there's
(33:39):
anything wrong with Christianity, just but his is his is
very specific. I'm like, what God are you talking to? Like, look,
I had texted me. Yes, he told me that we
need to start making conversion camps. Yeah. Okay, he's a zealot.
He's a well documented racist. He tries he supports gay
conversion therapy. Um, he calls his wife mother. He was like,
(34:02):
it worked for me. He's like, look at me now.
Now I'm so horning for women. I can't even be
in a room alone. I just have to sit with
all these men, these muscular the tight, tight soup pans on. Um.
(34:26):
But yeah, so this goes back to another reason why
you know, they might not be pushing for impeachment. Right,
It's it just doesn't get better for us. It's a
lose lose. Also, there's the fact that if Pence were
to take over after January, uh, he could finish the
term and then run twice for reelection. Oh god, it
(34:48):
does seem like the better option is just letting Trump
try to run again in like saving some of the ship,
you know, like saving some of the stuff. Just be
like yeah, no, no, no no, we're good. Just you're going
to run for election, okay, Greg col awesome. Just the
first debate is just listing his crimes. So I did
(35:10):
want to talk about the year two thousand eight. I
think you guys were in elementary school at that time,
but eighteen, But yeah, I was in high school when
I was back until I was eighteen and elementary school.
I mentioned that I had seen a very large I
mentioned that I had seen Crookland in movie theaters earlier,
(35:32):
and I just got mercilessly. I was a kid. It
was likely goes in the movie theaters when the man
was playing the piano. Was the last chapter film. Chaplin
was a junius, so uh, Simon Richard's dad wrote an
(35:57):
article about how two thousand eight was the year of
the American ream died, and I don't know, he makes
some good points, Like he starts out talking about how
if you were standing in the ashes of nine eleven
looking into the future and you saw that there had
been no subsequent major terror attacks, American troops were not
in any ground war, American workers were enjoying four percent unemployment.
(36:20):
You know, the stock market was booming up two d
and fifty percent since September two thousand one, and that
the most admired person America, according to Gallup, is the
nation's first black president, a man no one had heard
of at that time. And that comedy, which is the
one art whose currency is laughter, is the culture's greatest
(36:42):
growth industry. That was his editorializing I'll take it though
for comedy, but he was like, what's not to like
about that? And then you know, he points out that
actually the mood in America is as dark as it's
ever been. Birth rate is at a record low, and
the suicide rate is that a thirty year high. Damn.
And he's basically points to the two thousand and eight
(37:04):
stock market collapse as being the time when this sort
of rose colored glasses that we've had on for the
American dream and for you know, this idea that just
hard work and idealism would all lift us up by
the bootstraps like that. Those were just kind of taken
(37:25):
off and everyone was like, oh, it's a scam. The
whole thing is a fucking scam. So sad when that
scam unraveled, it was a good one. Yeah, it was
really had a whole brand white picket fence, which is tacky,
just how everyone knows. People still love that ship though. Yo,
it's wild too because like that whole time when things
(37:48):
like Ship was good, I feel like everything felt like
it was possible, and now we're living in a time
where I'm just like, oh funk. Like I saw an
advertisement I'm so millennial. I saw advertise my Facebook that
was like experience everything own nothing. That was like, damn,
that's really what we are here doing that, Like I'm
written everything. You know now you can rent a dishwasher, Yeah,
(38:09):
you can rent anything. So I mean because they rent dishwashing,
like you know, I do my dishes in it and
then I passed it to my own ship. It's comfortsome.
I won't not like pushing it back and forth. But
it's sister, But it's true, like owning a home is
(38:32):
not even something that I feel like a lot of
millennials are thinking about, you know what I mean, because
it's not as possible all that, because the baby boomers
won't die. Yeah, I mean, part, like literally part of
the American dream was owning a house, like getting the
white picket fence. And as he points out, that was
like the foundation of the collapse in two thousand eight
(38:52):
was homeownership and it was like, yeah, no, none of
you could pay for those houses that we said you
could pay for. And the way he play it, he
said when talks about how like we believed that rising
tide lifts all boats, and he said, when the tide
pulled back in two thousand and eight to reveal the
ruins underneath, the country got an indelible picture of just
how much inequality had been banked by the top one
(39:13):
percent over the decades, how many false promises to the
other percent have been broken, and how many central American institutions,
whether governmental, financial, or corporate, had betrayed the trust the
public had placed in them. And then you Know points
out that unlike nine eleven, which there was like the
nine eleven Commission. We were like, you know, they're all
these really good books Looming Tower that were like how
(39:35):
the fund did this happen? And like who was to blame?
We like built a international prison where they could like
torture people. But the Great Recession, it was just like
oh yeah, and they all get away with it and
like nothing, none of this ship gets fixed. That is
also like a reason that I think does that kind
of feel like we all just got a little too cocky. Yeah,
(39:56):
we really did. I mean, it wasn't our fault. I mean,
but also I think it like with all the de
regulation that the Clinton administration did, which was supposed to
promote growth, all it did was make everybody like, oh, scamming,
it's so easy now, Like god damn, And it's not
even a scam that hasn't happened in history. Before you
take economics, you learn about the whole flower implosion, like
that bubble. Yeah. Yeah, so it's like we've done this before,
(40:18):
we know what happens, but we get greedy because we're American.
But the biggest tragedy of two thousand eight is really
Jesse McCartney's career, you know what I mean, Like it
was popping. He has songs on the Billboard charts and
now I mean it's over for him. Jesse McCartney and
Katie Perry. I kissed the girl came out in two
(40:39):
thousand and eight, and now her career is trash too.
She is so annoying. Sorry, Katy. You know she got
a shoe line too. I just want to help her.
Check that out. Katie Perry's shoes help help a bit out. Okay,
she's a good one. But I mean it's crazy because
(40:59):
we're constantly innovating and we can't really go back. So
it's like, what is the future for millennials when it
comes to ownership. We're definitely not having kids. We cannot
afford them. Yeah, no, I mean that's why the birth
rate is it an all time. That's one of my
favorite jokes is like my mom is like, what am
I gonna get some grand babies? I'm like, do you
have grand babies? Money? You got grandchildren? Coins or not?
(41:22):
Because I don't. I could barely support my own mouth.
I'm supposed to have little mouths. Yeah, Although I will
say seeing the only time I've ever wanted children was
when I saw a picture of Kim Kardashian where North
was in the back and she had she took the photo.
I was like, damn, yeah. It was like in a bathroom,
so you could see her little hands like this huge
(41:42):
phone taking this photo of her mom. And I was like,
oh my god, You're like, I want pictures of me
only I had a beautiful baby to take photos of me.
You can teach the baby, yeah, and you got plenty
of time, So trying up a child. That is the
most millennial things I've ever said. Actually, but I can't
(42:04):
afford what I can't Babies are expensive, jeweler is expensive.
I love that there's so many articles. Somebody like listed
all the articles. I was just like, our millennials killing this?
Are millennials killing that? Like it's like, just be cheaper,
be cheaper. Alright, we're gonna take another quick break. We'll
(42:26):
be right back, and we're back, and just kind of
continuing on with that conversation because you know, Lacy during
the break was saying, well, when's it going to turn
around for us? And so two thousand eight was also
(42:49):
a hopeful time because Obama was elected and he ran
on hope and change. But you know, he also when
he was addressing things like the style market implosion, he
had the people like on the panels who were also
you know, wealthy businessmen and like all these tycoons and stuff,
(43:10):
and it just like it wasn't radical enough. And I
think that's to be expected because you know, it had
only just happened, and we were still in a previous paradigm.
He existed in a different world, and I do feel
like people are adapting now to the fact that that
world doesn't really work anymore. Um and just more evidence
(43:33):
of that. So the tax cut that the Republicans gave
to businesses earlier this year, you know, the promise was
that it was going to pay for more jobs and
higher salaries for workers, and what we've seen instead is
a lot of stock buy backs. I don't know if
(43:55):
you guys have heard about stock buy backs, but like
if you pay attention to like the market, they're constantly
talking about how this is what like all the big
fortune companies are doing. They're buying backstock, which I didn't
really know what that meant, so I wanted to research that,
and basically it takes they just buy back stock from
private people who own it like out in the stock market,
(44:18):
and it makes the current stock more valuable, and that's
basically all it does. It just makes there there's less
out there, so that makes it more smaller supply, So
it basically just makes the people who already own the
stock richer. But it doesn't add anything. Like there was
this article in Fortune where they were talking about like
(44:42):
why this is sometimes not the most advisable. Like first
they were like, well, it's really good because it will
make your stock more valuable. But then they were like,
but on the other hand, your company isn't investing in anything.
They're just like making themselves richer, and like that's not good.
And ap Morgan estimates that repurchases in two thousand eighteen
(45:03):
will jump fifty one percent from last year's mark to
eight hundred billion, and the median return on investment is
annually for companies that do stock buy backs, while the
rest that SMP five hundreds return is so critics point
that it's a misallocation of capital. They're spending money on
(45:25):
buy backs instead of, you know, investing in projects that
fuel longer term success, which is how the whole text
comes and fuel the economy. Right exactly, it's not fueling
the economy, it's just making rich people richer, which is
I mean, I think that there's a tide turn on
all of that though, Like because the top one percent
has more than the bottom like ninety um, it starts.
(45:49):
I mean at some point we're gonna get to like
storming the BUSTI you know what I mean, Like we're
gonna we're gonna get that money one way or another,
Like you're gonna give it to us or we're gonna
take it right. And whether that's going to be something
dramatic like storing with the steeler, or it's going to
be us you know, electing someone who has more socialist platform,
(46:09):
you know, one of the two is going to happen.
I feel like even if we elect someone of the
socialist platform, there's so many people in our government, you know,
because it's a balanced system that can thwart that, and
they're all in the pockets of big business or the
big businesses in their pockets, Like it's insane. The biggest one,
for me, the biggest scam is in our a and
like I've just never seen like shootings happen and then
(46:32):
the stock goes up. People are like we need more goods.
It reminds me of there's a moment in Talladigga Knights
where Ricky Bobby has a knife in his thigh and
they're like, oh, here, we're gonna use another knife to
pry that knife. Like that's literally what we're doing. We're like, oh,
let me get a gun. And then when you got
a gun and we both got guns. Yeah, Like, I
(46:53):
don't know how we stopped that machine. Like when the
little babies died, I said, well, ship, what if we
do something real crazy and we make the corporations give
the stocks that they bought back to the less percentage
people who are way below and give them the opportunity
almost create like a like a program where you teach
people who don't have much money how to Like I
(47:16):
don't know, it's almost like this pro bono stock program
where do we teach losing my mind? I just want
to teach people to invest and give people money who
need it. I'll the cops. I know, I sound crazy, crazy,
(47:36):
That's exactly what how we should be thinking. So that's
one thing that Trump keeps talking about a booming economy.
That's something that people have been talking about since two
thousand is like the stock market recovery and how well
that's going. And the richest ten percent of the country
owns eighty percent of all the stock and the bottom
(47:57):
eight percent own just eight percent. So yeah, they could
use some of some of that stock. Nobody needs that
much fucking money. But I mean, we'll ruin them eventually,
we broke. Okay, we all keep sharing everything that comes out.
I'm gonna give my Netflix password to everybody I know.
We're not gonna pay for ship. Yeah, but fifty seven
(48:20):
to six of tax cuts are going just right back
to people who are already on the stock And the
trickle down isn't real, Like it's never trickling. No. I've
heard people start talking about, you know, universal basic income
and they're calling it a trickle up economy, and that's
actually been shown to the only person that you can
guarantee will spend the money if the government gives them
(48:43):
are people in need because they need the fucking money. Like,
you don't infuse the economy with more money by giving
it to people who need the money the least, because
they will spend that ship, they're just going to save it.
The example I was saying, as my dad goes. Just
always tell them you're broke, which is like, but you're
not broke. It's like, yeah, but you just make them
think you're broke. It's just like that is crazy. Your
(49:05):
dad is a great scammer all the money being like
this is how stock market is gonna go. Tell them
you're broke, and it's like, but you're driving a BMW.
Tell them you are broke. Started this podcast off saying,
crazy black broke. That's what I want my reputation to be.
It's like, just act like you need the money even
though you clearly don't, and everyone will just believe you,
(49:27):
and it's like, oh god, we're fun. Listen. I believe
in all these ideals until I get rich, and then listen,
I will be voting Republicans. I know. If you don't
see me in a red hat, don't talk to me.
That's too rich to be black now. Drawn Carmichael had
that joker is like, I just can't wait till I'm
rich enough where I'm a Republican and I don't have
(49:49):
to do ship like this. It's not stop caring about
poor people's rights because I'm not one of them anymore.
All Right, guys, let's check in with the boy. So
there just seems to be like a birth and babies
vibe going on. Charlotte, the World's Cutest Princess, is on
(50:11):
the cover of one of the magazines, and then they're
just making up pregnancies more than usual. Even I'm all clooney.
They're saying it is pregnant. Megan Marco. They're saying is
pregnant because she was wearing a flowing skirt and some
thought they saw a bump, so that means she's pregnant.
(50:32):
I think they in both cases they were like, it's
twins and they have zero reason to believe that anyone's pregnant.
Can't you imagine being so famous that you can't eat
a burrito without people thinking you're pregnant. She definitely pregnant,
and it's more than one baby in there. Fat is Hail.
That woman is rail thin, like a breeze went up
(50:53):
our skirt and they were like, oh, definitely pregnant. Look
at her thick. Okay, like you can't do ship no more.
I'm sure they are like looking for her to have
a baby though, isn't that the natural? Next up? Yeah,
that seems to be what everybody's hoping for and she's
in her late thirties, so she baby, it's tom to
cook it all up? Right now? Do you think the
Queen's in They're being like it's time. Well, and something
(51:17):
I had just learned is that the Queen she has
guardian chip over any babies that they have. The Queen
just owns their babies immediately. She she owns h Wills
and Kate Middleton's babies, so they split her. She keeps
the baby. There's no custody battle Royal Tea cages. But
(51:40):
one of my favorite articles, teased on the cover of
one of the Boloyd's is who will be forced into
rehab next us? And they suggest Selena Paris Jessica. So
let's check in because what when you turn to the
actual article, it turns out this was written by a
psychic because it was published. You know, they couldn't have
(52:02):
published it in the last two days and Ben Affleck
is front and center. So somehow they were able to
foretell that Ben Affleck, who had been on a bender
for the past two months, would end up in rehab
two months. But didn't we know from that tattoo? Yes, yeah,
that tattoo said it all. It was a crapt of
(52:24):
help for those dragons. What was on it? It was
like a phoenix was who did that tattoo? Is what
I want to know? Who's like, Okay, Ben, you sure
about this? Lie bro? Your money green? The phoenix, the phoenix.
There you go. And that felt that feels like a
tattoo that you go into the tattoo parlor, you like,
look at what's on sale. Okay, let me get this.
(52:46):
His drive to rehab right the costco of tattoos. He
went on Hollywood Boulevard. But like the sad thing. I
looked at the pictures of them driving him to rehab
and it was just so it looked like Jennifer Garner
like really did not want to be bothered. No, I
know she was. We we mentioned on Friday's show that
(53:08):
they stopped at Jack in the Box, but we failed
to mention one of the great details of that photograph,
which is that she's handing the Jack in the Box
back to him without looking back. It's the most aggressive,
just like it's just like, take your fucking Jack in
the box, have embarrassed you in the grocery store, and
here are you going? But not saying nothing else. The saddest.
(53:30):
It's literally she's like, I have twenty minutes, right, She's like,
I'm a movie right now. I've gotta be at work.
I will not walk you in. So some of their
other predictions, Hayden Panetary was apparently stars Spies caught the
troubled actress wasted outside of Gladstones, which is a seafood
(53:52):
restaurant in Los Angeles, barefoot and vomiting. So in Malbou
yes on the way out to alab Yeah, and just
they said wasted. Oh well, Maliboo is much cleaner sidewalks.
If you're going to be barefoot, right, that's the rich
way to look wasted. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So they're
they're expecting her to be on this list. Maybe she
(54:16):
just got a little too lit. I just can't imagine,
Like rehab is such a personal thing and addiction is
so serious and like scary. I I it is very
sad that like people are going to take photos of
you're looking like trash on the way to the rehab facility.
But I can't feel bad for Ben Affleck. But you
stopped at Jack in the Box. We're like, here we go.
(54:37):
He was like, but I'm hungry I'm hungry your way
all right, We're gonna go to this damn jack in
the box. Hello, Hello, what you want? What you want to?
Number six? Alright? Ship quick crying? Let me get a
number six? And can I have extra napkins? Please? You
don't know how to get so messy? Here you go. No,
(55:01):
you don't get no shake. You're about to make a
best in my car. Well, an, it has been such
a pleasure having you. Thank you. You know what. When
I got invited on by myself by saidself, I emailed
myself back and I said I would love to be on,
thank you so much for asking me. And then I
(55:22):
emailed back and said confirmed. And then I showed up
this morning. Yes, we're all very impressed by your work
on this, on this booking. I'm losing my wife emailing
myself and you know, as I was reading some John
Lennon comy theories before I came John Lennon Bangers. Yes,
(55:50):
where can people find you? So you can find me
on Twitter at Anna hosting a n H O S
S and I E h I tweet, Um, you can
let's into my podcast Ethnically Ambiguous on the House Stofworks Network.
It's great. My Mica host Sherine Units. We have fun.
We talked about mid least issues. Sometimes we call our parents.
(56:10):
We have a great episode dropping today actually with comedian
meetra Ju Harri. If you don't know her, learn about
her because she is a star. Yeah what a promotion.
Yeah check it out? Uh yeah, alright, Lacy, where can
people find you? As always d I V A l
(56:30):
A c I Diva Lacey on Instagram and also on Twitter,
the Twitter. Keep watching pop TV. Eventually I will be
on there. Uh yeah, that's all. I was plug right out.
And is there a tweet you've been enjoying A tweet
that I've been enjoying my own tweet. I wish that
(56:55):
we could blind copy text messages. And that's because I
really want to start sending like you up in mass
and the first person to respond gets it gets the pea. Alright,
some tweets I've been enjoying. Uh Andy Kindler one one
(57:18):
of the great tweeted Mexico is volunteered to pay for
the walls that are closing in on Trump. That was
my tweet I picked out such best, my good couple
other ones. Young one Lee tweeted to all the boys
I loved before until I heard them talk. Yes, that's
a movie that's in the zeitgeist. That's a Netflix movie.
(57:42):
We'll probably talk about that at some point in the future.
Super producer around Hosny. I forgot to ask you, what
was a tweet that you've been enjoying. Well, I mean,
you actively stole my Andy Kindler one, but I have
another one from Aton Sisson scn at Reese. Don't tweet
you're when chicks think you go ghost because you got
(58:02):
hella hoes when you really just be sad. And then
there's a photo of Charlie Brown looking out the window
as it snows. That's the borowiest. It's like, when you're
trying to have emotions. That's the borrowest way to say,
I'm sad that I've ever you know, when you feel
(58:23):
like you know a star up beside you, like like
if you hitched, like like if you stopped Joe to
but that was like how you felt exactly you ever
had water come out your eyes? All right? You can
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we talked about, links off to sources for the information
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and we're also going to link off to the song
that we ride out on. Anna, what are we going
to ride out on today? Before I tell you that,
we gotta shout out one of our great shows on
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They have told you about the Koch Brothers and a
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So you do the math. Okay, it's a producer on
as what song are we gonna write out on? You
know what I thought, Why why don't we go back
to the nineteen sixties when things were just so great
and we were all on drugs? And I want to
recommend a yellow summer. I want to recommend Bobby Hebb
(01:00:35):
song Sonny because it always makes me feel good. Yeah,
Sonny means son and it's probably a woman's name, is right,
all right, it's better than Pete David exactly. We are
going to write out on that. We will be back
tomorrow because it is a daily podcast. We'll talk to
you guys then, bob By. Yesterday, my life was filled
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with rain, Sunny you smiled at me and really easy pain.
Now the dawn days are done and the bright days
are here. My sunny one, shine, so sincere, Sunny one,
so true. I love you, Sunny. Thank you for the sunshine. Okay, Sunny,
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thank you for the love. You broke my away. You
gave me your all and all, and now I feel
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Hello the Internet, and welcome to season forty six, episode
one of the Daily's eight geast for Monday, August two, eighteen.
My names Jack O'Brien, a K in the morning and
in the morning in the morning, Jack O'Brien kind of
lost it at the end there. That AK is courtesy
of La La Baba Yaga. Uh La la Baba Yaga.
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Miles is still away on vacation or sorry, on location
fighting the cartels. Uh So, I'm thrilled to be joined
by today's temporary co host, one of the first faces
on Mountains Lightmore, the hilarious and talented Miss Lacey Mosley.
Lacey Mosley a k A crazy poor blacks. Oh no,
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I'm kidding. Thank you, Perhaps to be Jackson thrilled to
have you, And in the guest spot, we're thrilled to
be joined by yesterday's co host, the Coast of the
great podcasts in this world Ethnically Ambiguous. Please welcome on
a hosted Yeah, a k A. I sucked up and
did not book a guest for today. I'm great at
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my Please keep me to have you. Yeah. I did
not get enough, just one serving, come on, not enough?
So an you've sat through over two hundred of these
recordings of this show, you have never done the search history, overrated,
(01:33):
underrated myth. So I'm I'm assuming you just have these
like built up that you're just ready to roll. So
let's ask you. Yeah, I'm sorry, let me just stop you. There.
I did it on the one episode and then I
did it on the fourth of July episode. Right, you
didn't do search history or myth. Right, Well, I don't
reveal my search histories, but I do I did do
(01:53):
my episode. Okay, word, I don't remember any of the
episodes you've done completely on your shoulder everywhere you go
and just whisper everything into your right. I have an
ear awake. Uh. She helps me through my dates with
Mrs all Right, But before we get to that, we're
(02:15):
going to tell our listeners what we're gonna be talking about.
We're gonna be talking about crazy rich Asians being officially
a cultural phenomenon, the fact that Trump's CFO gentleman named
Alan Weisselberg has been granted immunity, so looks like he's
(02:35):
going to flip. We're gonna be talking about who is
seeking impeachment? Who's talking about impeachment? We're gonna be talking
about what would actually happen if Trump were impeached, and
we're gonna be talking about the importance of the year
two thousand eight podcast I Love Nightcall with Molly and Tests.
Molly and Tests been guests on this show. They had
(02:56):
a two thousand eight retrospective last week, and also Simon
Rich's father, guy named Frank Rich, wrote a pretty killer
article for New York Magazine last week about how sort
of two thousand and eight was the year the American
dream died, which seems like a cliche point, but it's
actually he just had a really compelling sketch of the
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significance of the financial crash in two thousand eight as
compared to other big events from the past couple decades.
So we're gonna talk about that. We're gonna talk about
what companies are doing with those tax dollars, with all
those tax cut windfalls that they've gotten, how are they
spending that, presumably giving them back to the workers. Right,
(03:40):
we're gonna check in, and of course we're gonna give
you a quick boy, which which we're gonna be doing
on Mondays now given the new schedule. So something that
you might notice is that this is gonna be a
big ideas show where we take stock of the entire zeitgeist.
(04:01):
But you know, last Monday's app we talked about what
our quicksand is just generally, uh, and today we're talking
about the importance of the year two thousand and eight.
But if news breaks over the weekend, like when Milania
Trump is granted immunity and announces she's cooperating with federal investigators,
we will not be reporting on that because we're recording
(04:23):
this before the weekend. So yeah, there you go. Baron Trump. Yeah,
Baron Trump has been granted. He's just got like I mean,
and you all thought I was slow. Donald Trump Jr.
Is definitely just like there's part of him. You know,
(04:44):
we contain multitudes, and you know, there's definitely part of
him that still hates his dad that's dying and he
knows he knows Allso, uh, before we get to any
of that, on Ane, what is something from your search
history that is revealing about what your Social Security number is? Yes,
(05:06):
four twenty sixty nine six. She's not the coolest in them.
I know, I was born really cool. Um no I
search How the fund do you spell Cincinnati, because how
the fun Cincinnati? So many eyes and ends and teas. Yeah,
I do that WITHLD definitely. I can never spell definitely correctly.
(05:27):
I'm so embarrassed about it. I definitely have those words. Yeah,
I say death just to be like, fuck guys, just
like Phantasia Barrino. I can't breathe. I've been keeping the
secret long enough. I got that five from you. You
can only show me memes that are just photos and
(05:49):
then you show her the word ones and she's just like,
such a good one. I love that meme very general.
That mean made me laugh so funny. What is something
that you think is overrated? Um challenge culture? I swear
to God if you challenge me to something responding, I
(06:12):
agree with you on that. If you go like I
nominate Anna to talk fast in an Instagram video, I
will ignore you. Some challenges I think are cute, like
I like that I'm a cow dog cat obviously, I like,
you know, fun ship like that. But I'm so sick
of tired, y'all. Damn movie challenge. Somebody challenged me to
put up ten fucking posts about oh dass movies. I like,
(06:33):
nobody challenge you to this ship that ain't no damn
challenge or to order order post a beautiful photo of
yourself day. Somebody nominated me, but it ain't nobody. Literally,
it's like dumber versions of chainmail. It is. That's what
it is. It's become chainmail challenge. Yes, the bit I'm
(06:55):
a Cow that song, but that challenges it was. The
challenge is to dress in the cow outfit and try
and trying to be a cat like you will never
be account I know. Seriously. Yeah, that was fun. That
is one of the more ill advised challenges because nobody
can be k was fun for a while. Some of
you were way too late, so some of you are
(07:16):
literally getting hit by cars. Now was that one? Did
that start with an official like video? Because I only
ever saw the people doing the challenge. Shiggy started it. Yeah,
so he like I guess he did the dance first,
and then everybody was like, oh, this is cool. I
want to recreate this. And I know who Shiggy is,
but why don't you tell our listeners who? He's a
(07:40):
Instagram like comedian? Of course? Yeah, what is something you
think is underrated? Movers? Holy sh it, they just show
up to your house. They'll take all your ship to
your other house. So I've never used movers before, well
I mean outside of like my parents have, but I
personally have always just been lugging shit around just ambu
person My boyfriend hates me. So I just like hired
(08:04):
movers and they were like, I'll just take that. You
don't this stuff, And I was like, yeah, I made
a move from Missouri to New York where we're trying
to save some money and my wife, so we moved
our entire house to like a house into uh. I
think it was like a fourth floor apartment, and like
(08:26):
there was one point like at the end where we
were both carrying a couch and like her knees buckled,
and I was like come on. And then we were
just like why aren't we hiring movers? We're adults, What
the fund is wrong with us? You're trying to get
her hands like sweat pouring down. That is crazy. But honestly,
(08:52):
like this is something you only need to tell people
in their twenties, like after that you're an adult. But
like I don't touch cardboard. Saw my family move uh,
And that's when I was like, oh, there's a chic
ways to move. We once moved to Florida just for
a year, and like there are people came and packed
our whole house up for us, like all, like all
and labeled everything. I was like, oh, this is how
I'm moving. That's what my parents would always do. And
(09:15):
I was like, oh, I'm not an adult. I can't
do that. And then like I was like, oh my god,
I'm almost thirty. Am I What am I doing? Someone?
I feel like this is an argument for ex convicts
to be able to work wherever without facing such harsh discrimination,
because why don't we let x cons be movers? If
you worry about you're about to give this man all
(09:36):
your stuff, right and he go moving, right? Like, so,
let x cons work in other places. That is something
to note is that it is exclusive. And I don't
know why that is right. Suld be something with their
hiring processes. Yeah, well just because this is a strong,
(09:56):
brawny man and yeah, it's like a physically difficult job.
They spent time in the yard credit writing something like, damn,
Lennox cons work other places. We already give them the
most trust when they get out. Anyway, you let them
move your ship on what is a myth? Finally, what
(10:17):
is something people think is true that you know to
be false. Um, if you see a woman in a
he job in America, do not assume she is being
forced to wear that because of her religion or her father,
or her husband or anyone around her. Just think, hey,
maybe she made that choice by herself. That's my myth.
Don't assume that kind of ship because there is so
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much more to a person than just through he job.
Like that person was like, oh, you know what, I
like to cover my hair. It has nothing to do
with my dad, has nothing to my husband, has nothing
to do my religion, or sometimes you know, does have
to religion, But like, don't assume that's my thing. People
make their own choices. Such an interesting conversation on last
week's Ethnically and Big Us between Sheran and her mother
(11:02):
that touched on like a period where Sherian's mom was
covered and just like why she made that decision and
it had nothing to do with her dad. Her dad
had no opinion on it. Was like, dude, what you want?
Yeah exactly, all right, Well thank you for that. It's
good to get to know you a little bit better.
You know, debunked like that. You must check out my podcast.
(11:23):
What's it called the Ambiguous? I thought you were going
to talk about will You Accept This Rose? Which you
which is the only podcast you ever talking about Bachelor contestants?
Who where he jops? So just moving on to cultural things.
Crazy Rich Asians is I think we can say officially
a cultural phenomenon. It's expected to repeat as the number
(11:43):
one box office movie this weekend, and the book is
now the best selling book according to Amazon, and number
two on that list is China Rich Girlfriend, which sounds
like it was a poorly translated for read but is
actually the second book in that series and that is
(12:05):
at number two, and the third, Rich People Problems, just
showed up on the chart for the first time and
it's already at number ten, so number three, Yeah, that's
the third Rich People Problems. So yeah, people give a
funk about this movie? What a shock? I know, seriously,
I haven't seen it. There wasn't enough white folks in
(12:26):
it for me. That's how I like my movies, like
I like my milk. This makes me want to write, uh,
like a romantic comedy about Persian people and being like
this Iranian Jewish person wanted to marry a Muslim Jewish
person their families were horrified. I swear to God, if
anyone steals that idea you put it out there. But
(12:49):
that would be crazy because it's just like so not okay.
They don't like that at all, So here come my
studio money. Fine. Definitely have to put some Kardashians in it.
All these all cast as Kardashians and shows of Sunset
Armenians put them in as well. I still haven't seen it.
I baby sat last night while my wife saw it,
(13:10):
so she got to see it and she loved it.
This has all come back for all that that moving situation. Yeah, exactly,
look at me now you stay with the kids. She
was talking about how like her friend liked it so much.
She was like, I'm going to bring my husband and
like see it again tomorrow. And she was like huh.
(13:30):
I was like, you're not going to do that anyway.
Massage exactly would bring their husband so that they can seewhere.
But I I am curious to know, like what those
producers who were just saying Asian people and black people
(13:54):
couldn't have leading roles in movies for the past seventy years,
Like are they telling themselves right now? Like the director
of crazy rich Asians was asked to make the lead
character a white girl studio, Yeah, because otherwise how would
white people be able to relate? You know, That's what
they said. I can't see myself even though I see
myself everywhere. How so did you see myself here? Unless
(14:17):
this is like super in genre of like some stereotypical
you know, trope. Yeah, I bet there's at least one
shitty executive was like, just it's a coincidence. This is
just like black Panthers. It's just chance, doesn't happen. I mean,
you would think that because the two most like culturally
(14:42):
like Zeitgeist movies of the year so far are movies
that star not white people. That they would learn the lesson.
But I don't know. Inertia is a hell of a thing, right.
They're like, no, no no, no, let's just keep rebooting no
white stuff that worked out. They're bringing back Murphy Brown.
What I know what, here's what we need, Murphy Murphy Brown.
(15:05):
I'm gonna need another Cheers. I'm gonna need another Frasier
Murphy Brown. They're talking about rebooting more Brady Bunch. I
do feel like this made me think of the fact
that it feels like the culture is advancing now, like
a little bit faster than old people are dying off.
(15:26):
So there's like still these older executives who are like, well,
so are we thinking Julia Roberts in the lead role
or Andy Griffith reboot and let me guess Julia right
before the wedding runs off. It's coming. But this two
(15:46):
thousand eight article that we're going to talk about a
little bit later on in the episode made me realize
that the last generation to be this much like smarter
and more idealistic and progressive than the older people that
they were inheriting the earth from was the Baby boomers,
the people that we're inheriting the earth from. So let's
not funk it up quite so hard this time. Guys,
(16:08):
what do you say We're going to take a quick break.
We're gonna be right back, and we're back and today's
Inner Circle flip. It'll be Friday's when you're listening to
this a few days back, So there might have been,
(16:31):
like we said, Baron and Milania might have flipped by now.
But on Friday, gentleman by the name of Alan Weisselberg,
it was announced it was granted immunity is expected to cooperate.
And he is a name that I actually heard for
the first time from Adam Davidson, who was a New
(16:52):
Yorker reporter who was the dude who like six or
seven weeks ago when Cohen's office was first rated, was like, Oh,
this is the beginning of the end of the Trump presidency.
This is gonna be like really bad for him, and
kind of called that like Cohen knew where the bodies
were buried and that this was going to be a
big problem. So that same reporter yesterday I heard him
(17:16):
say that Alan Weisselberg will be one of the most
famous names in the history of the country when it's
all sudden done, because he's basically been the CFO for
the Trump organization since the seventies, so he knows literally
all the crimes that Trump has committed. H and Trump
has committed all the crimes. So it works every kind, yeah, exactly.
(17:41):
So I don't know, it's interesting. It just seems like
one after another. And also Weislberg was called by prosecutors
in a different case and it seemed like he was
ready to just roll over on Trump, like immediately he
was like, I don't like this. He's like, yeah, he
did it. He did that if anybody wants power. It
was like he did that, guilty foot, he crushed my yoker.
(18:05):
The thing is is Adam is seventy one, right, yeah,
So I'm like Trump, why you not? What's yall plan?
You're gonna murder him? Or what make it look like
an accident. If we've learned anything from this presidency, it
is that all conspiracy theories must be wrong, or at
least any conspiracy theories involving these people, because it's just
(18:28):
nothing but incompetence. They had plans to get away with
these crimes. They had no plan in place to actually
get away with the crime. Trump was like, no, I'll
just tell people I didn't do it right and they'll
believe me as as are a resident, like scam expert.
You must just be shaking your head. Well, I'm shaking
my head at Trump. But I'm impressed with Adam Wisselberg
(18:49):
because you know, when you get offered immunity, it's because
you yourself was committing mad crimes as well. You was,
you know what I mean, Like, you didn't kill the person,
but you definitely dug up a little bit of the
land to put the body in, like you know what
I mean, He was like, hold on, you get tired, Trump,
let me get that shovel. Fam, I got you involved,
you know what I mean. Love to see a movie
(19:10):
from him about the Trump organization from his perspective, played
by Lacy who I gotta pay off? Okay she on
Hollywood and what okay? How when okay, I'm gonna go
pay it right now? Here go your money, bitch. Don't
say nothing. It saysn't me. People a right, like all right, Trump,
(19:33):
what are we doing now? Russia ship? All right? When
we get that Goovaco over there, let's go, let's go.
So I just think he's the best camera because he
got to commit all the crime adjacent you know. Yeah,
so he was in called the Sack of crime, the
CFO for a crime family, right, and he is now
(19:57):
being granted immunity. So that's pretty but that's dope, pretty
good deal for him because then he got to live
his whole life be as shady as fun and now
it's never gonna go to jail for it. Like, you
don't ever want to be the kingpin, you know what
I mean. You want to be the Hinchman, who live
in real good the guy behind the guy. So honestly,
it feels like all you have to do is send
an email in the subject that says immunity please, I
(20:18):
work for Trump, and then you got it and you
just have to talk. It seems like anyone could get
it at this point, as long as you've got dirt
Like this entire organization is filled with people. I'm just
like Trump, why you an't got no muscle? Like you
got nobody to intimidate people Like was the guy who
was like, I take a bullet, Mr Trump? And then
do you think Avanka is gonna go for it? I
(20:42):
don't know if she's going to go for it, but
she's in trouble if she, I think she should. She's
got some issues that she needs to get that immunity
for everybody protect her uncomfortable ass shoe line, She's like,
Who's gonna put give bit of stress fractures if I'm
not in business? Okay, have you tried on her? Yes? Trump.
Trump's shoes are terribly narrow and they immediately hurt your
(21:04):
feet as soon as you put them on, and they cheap.
You can't run from the cops and nose and only
body heels I can run from the cops in. It's
incredibly narrow. Who was gonna sell pay for last shoes
for bit just to sit in? Okay, that's women's shoes
for running from the cops. That's Jessica Simpson is put
(21:25):
some real was about to get the scale at least
the tim foot fence and some of those, okay, because
she was doing it all pregnant, so she right, Jessica
got a shoe game a lot. At first I was laughing.
I was like, Jessica, okay, shoes. Then I put them
ships on and said, okay, bait, stop saying it because
this is your colleague and it don't sing no more.
(21:47):
Don't you ever sing another note in your life. I
don't want you're singing in the shower. But yes, I
think that everybody's just rolling over a Trump. It's it's
crazy to me, like there's no loyalty in this there there. Yeah,
And I mean I think people are smart enough to
see that he has no loyalty to anybody. So you
know he's not gonna he's not gonna back anybody up, obviously,
(22:08):
but yeah, he it's turning into like residate dogs where
they're all pointing. Everybody's shooting each other. Does the spider
man mean they're just looking at it? Like we thought
Cohen went back far with Trump, But this dudent has
been running the family business since nineteen seventy. He's a CFO,
(22:28):
so he has all the like literal receipts, and you know,
he probably has the evidence that Trump has not in
any way stepped back from running his company and any
corrupt ship that he did with his company and foreign governments,
which I mean, I would literally be shocked if there
weren't some of that. So yeah, that's what's going down
(22:49):
on Friday. Republicans have been talking a lot about impeachment,
and what they're talking about is basically that the Democrats
are going to impeach him, and Sarah Huckaby Sanders last
Wednesday suggested that impeachment is quote the only message they
seem to have going into the mid terms talking about Democrats.
But five thirty like did an actual analysis of who's
(23:13):
talking about impeachment, like actual quotes and interviews and websites
and just like went through and it's just completely lopsided
that Republicans are talking about impeachment constantly and Democrats are
keeping their mouth shut, right, they're just waiting quietly in
the in the shadows. It's Sarah hu Colby Sanders, poor thing.
(23:33):
She's the same may just I just want I just
want you to know, the same career, same career. No.
I just think it's crazy that she says that, Like,
can you believe they have only one message? It's like,
are you not reading the news? Like this literally your job?
Like do you not see all this? Sy know, they
know they're the best scammers of all because they know
(23:54):
if you just say something on TV, a lot of
people will believe it. You just gotta be on TV.
And they're like, well they they are on the TV,
So how could it be a lot? Literally was like,
how could I be impeached? I've done such a good job,
which I talk about I'm good at this right, how
could I be impeached? I've done such a great job
(24:15):
as one of the all time great quotes. And so
the Democrats not talking about impeachment. I kind of assumed
that was them just playing coy, you know, like, yeah,
obviously we're gonnapeach over the house. But they would actually
need sixty seven senators to vote to remove Trump from
office in order to actually like have the impeachment get
(24:38):
him out of office. So and they're not going to
win the sen They might not even have a majority
in the Senate after the mid terms, and I mean
they might not win the majority in either house. But
even if the blue wave comes, they're definitely not going
to have sixty seven senators. So they would need like
over a dozen Republican senators to agree to remove him
(25:00):
from office. So it might make more sense for them
to like leave an ineffective executive in office and like
let him stick around until because he would be the
easier one to run against. And also he is great
for them pointing out like what what the Democrats are
(25:20):
now going to be running on is like we're not
corrupt and we're trying to help people. Don't like literally
there's a new revelation every week about like some ship
he did to literally line his own pockets at the
expense of other human beings. So it's like a fresh
cup of coffee every morning. He did crime every day.
(25:44):
The best part awaken exclusion in your cup, Like every
day he was doing a crime, Like this is too
much cry that for us. The other possibility of Producer
Nick Stump was pointing out Trump's biographer has predicted for
a while that this will end with Trump resigning with
(26:06):
some sort of you know, bullshit about the deep state
and the media to claim, you know, whatever victory he
can and just trying to say. I don't see him
trying to save face. I feel like he's the type
that he's gonna go down with the ship. He's on
the Titanic. He's like, no, no, we're good, We're good.
It was just a little little ice cube. But he's
(26:27):
like coward and like this. So he he likes a
fight in the media, but when it comes to actually
like getting face to face with somebody, like he won't
fire people to their face. He'll like you that call,
that almrossa call. Yeah, He's like, damn it, trying to
blame it on everybody else, which nothing I can do.
I'm only the president of the United States of America
(26:49):
and what they had told me, um, So I don't know.
I could see him just kind of bitching out, and
that would be probably strategically the smartest thing for him
to do, at least at a certain point, because it's
thing for him to do with fake his own death
right and moved to an island. We shouldn't like a
(27:11):
papulo Escobar actually had become president when he ran, right,
because it's literally what would happen, Like like you haven't
done too much dirt to put yourself under a magnified
glass like that. The thing is, I don't understand how
people this guilty can just be like the most high
profile job in the world, Like really, yeah, you would
do that, right, I Mean, that's the amazing thing is
(27:32):
the reports from inside the room that he and Milannia
were in when they were watching the election. Milannia was
openly weeping, like not with joy, but with like fuck,
we are so fucking and Trump was like looked like
he'd seen a ghost for like the first three hours,
and then eventually, because he is a narcissist, was able
(27:53):
to convince himself that, oh, I got this. I'm smart
enough that I can. That's like me when I'm told
I have to like co host this podcast, I'm like,
oh god, and then the reality set him and then
my narcissum sits and I'm like, you know whatever, I
got this, and then halfway through I'm like, oh my god,
(28:13):
I don't know what they're talking to. Melania just wanted
to marry a rich man and have a better life.
You know. She just wanted to shoe in a bag
and and a nice vacation home. You promised me no presidency,
So she just wanted to Jessica Simpson, right, she was
just trying to upgrade her life. There's some revelation from
(28:34):
last week or it was speculated that she's actively protesting
her husband through her wardrobe, so that like I don't care,
do you, was like directly a shot at him, and
like other things that she's wearing are specifically like him
to mock him. Yeah, it's like a fuck you. She
like hates her. I mean it's been pretty clear, like
(28:56):
she hasn't held his hand in public, and when he
tries to hold her hand, she's like that's like when
she had that uh he did it sweatshirt on. She's
just drinking poison, Like take me to the hospital over
a few weeks please. Um. So people do think impeachment
(29:16):
as a possibility. Uh. The people who the bookmakers in
the UK actually do take odds on this and they
increased the likelihood of him being impeached to whereas it
was only at thirty percent following the Helsinki conference, which
was also bad for him. But if he's okay, so
(29:39):
he can do like hell of crimes, and if he's
impeached and they don't get the votes, he stays in office. Yes, damn,
that's a sweet deal. Could do mad crime. You just
gotta get people to vote, like you like your crime
becomes subject to vote instead of like just facts. So
did you think I didn't? I mean, I did it,
(30:01):
But how do you feel about me doing it? You
still want me to stay even I did it? As
we were talking about earlier, he did that interview with
Fox News where he said that the stock market would
crash and suddenly everybody would be very poor if he
were impeached. Yeah, I thought it was sore. People are like, whoa,
let's start making all the things like cars and everything.
(30:24):
I don't know, America, would I feel like I just
talked to my father. My father is a stock market expert,
and he tells me every five minutes what he thinks
it's going to be, and then it happens. It's crazy.
Let's I really should ask him what he thinks is
going to happen, because he just he just knows he
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has that feeling. I just think it's funny that he
would say stuff like this, and he knows people are
going to believe it, Like fear tactics really work, right,
And where's Mike Pince at Mike piz has been quiet
as hell. I haven't seen his ass in so long. Know,
he recently saw him helping a woman up who fell
who was not his wife. I bet he was so
(31:08):
tempted to do sex with her, sex those things like
Mike Pence touches a woman who is not wife, He's
just like, hey, would you like out of his pants? No,
he's really keeping it, mum. I think he really thinks
that he's about to step into the spotlight. I definitely
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think he's constantly aware of that possibility. Some people, like
you were saying, have argued that impeachment would be good
for the market. Forbes said that if Pence took office
and you know, ended Trump's tariffs, it would negate all
the dark cloud on the earnings horizon ship that they
have been going through, even though the market's been Really
(31:49):
think Pence would help. That's interesting, Yeah, I mean he's
exactly the same. It's just he's the most pro business
politician ever. He was literally in ended by the Koch brothers.
Like the Koch brothers heard him have a conservative talk
show and we're like, okay, this is our guy, and
they built him up. They groomed him in a labor like.
(32:11):
He also looks like a politician, So he really does.
He really looks like the most president. Yeah, even though
he's a monster in his own way, at least he's
not going to be so preoccupied with undoing everything Obama
did because he has no obsession with Obama. Yeah, I
have a question. So if he does get impeached, then
he has to go in front of Senate. Correct, and
then they so he has to go in front of
(32:34):
the House and then the Senate. The s and so
Clinton I think got impeached by the House, but then
the Senate acquitted him. He got a peach so fast
for a blowjob, I know. And then we go, let
we're gonna let top Trump do all they like. They
can't even if we were watching c SPAN, they just
(32:54):
start listing everything he did would be there all goddamn day. Look,
do we really need to say it all out loudly?
He did this? Okay, but got a blowjop At immediately. Um,
well he did live one time. It's not like Trump lies. So,
but impeaching Trump for Pence would be basically going from
(33:16):
a kleptocracy to a theocracy. Um. There's a book out
called The Shadow President about Mike Pence, uh that says
that he believes he's on a like quote mission from God,
not in like a fun blues brother's way, but in
the like determination to mold the entire country in the
shape of his like weird Christian faith. Not that there's
(33:39):
anything wrong with Christianity, just but his is his is
very specific. I'm like, what God are you talking to? Like, look,
I had texted me. Yes, he told me that we
need to start making conversion camps. Yeah. Okay, he's a zealot.
He's a well documented racist. He tries he supports gay
conversion therapy. Um, he calls his wife mother. He was like,
(34:02):
it worked for me. He's like, look at me now.
Now I'm so horning for women. I can't even be
in a room alone. I just have to sit with
all these men, these muscular the tight, tight soup pans on. Um.
(34:26):
But yeah, so this goes back to another reason why
you know, they might not be pushing for impeachment. Right,
It's it just doesn't get better for us. It's a
lose lose. Also, there's the fact that if Pence were
to take over after January, uh, he could finish the
term and then run twice for reelection. Oh god, it
(34:48):
does seem like the better option is just letting Trump
try to run again in like saving some of the ship,
you know, like saving some of the stuff. Just be
like yeah, no, no, no no, we're good. Just you're going
to run for election, okay, Greg col awesome. Just the
first debate is just listing his crimes. So I did
(35:10):
want to talk about the year two thousand eight. I
think you guys were in elementary school at that time,
but eighteen, But yeah, I was in high school when
I was back until I was eighteen and elementary school.
I mentioned that I had seen a very large I
mentioned that I had seen Crookland in movie theaters earlier,
(35:32):
and I just got mercilessly. I was a kid. It
was likely goes in the movie theaters when the man
was playing the piano. Was the last chapter film. Chaplin
was a junius, so uh, Simon Richard's dad wrote an
(35:57):
article about how two thousand eight was the year of
the American ream died, and I don't know, he makes
some good points, Like he starts out talking about how
if you were standing in the ashes of nine eleven
looking into the future and you saw that there had
been no subsequent major terror attacks, American troops were not
in any ground war, American workers were enjoying four percent unemployment.
(36:20):
You know, the stock market was booming up two d
and fifty percent since September two thousand one, and that
the most admired person America, according to Gallup, is the
nation's first black president, a man no one had heard
of at that time. And that comedy, which is the
one art whose currency is laughter, is the culture's greatest
(36:42):
growth industry. That was his editorializing I'll take it though
for comedy, but he was like, what's not to like
about that? And then you know, he points out that
actually the mood in America is as dark as it's
ever been. Birth rate is at a record low, and
the suicide rate is that a thirty year high. Damn.
And he's basically points to the two thousand and eight
(37:04):
stock market collapse as being the time when this sort
of rose colored glasses that we've had on for the
American dream and for you know, this idea that just
hard work and idealism would all lift us up by
the bootstraps like that. Those were just kind of taken
(37:25):
off and everyone was like, oh, it's a scam. The
whole thing is a fucking scam. So sad when that
scam unraveled, it was a good one. Yeah, it was
really had a whole brand white picket fence, which is tacky,
just how everyone knows. People still love that ship though. Yo,
it's wild too because like that whole time when things
(37:48):
like Ship was good, I feel like everything felt like
it was possible, and now we're living in a time
where I'm just like, oh funk. Like I saw an
advertisement I'm so millennial. I saw advertise my Facebook that
was like experience everything own nothing. That was like, damn,
that's really what we are here doing that, Like I'm
written everything. You know now you can rent a dishwasher, Yeah,
(38:09):
you can rent anything. So I mean because they rent dishwashing,
like you know, I do my dishes in it and
then I passed it to my own ship. It's comfortsome.
I won't not like pushing it back and forth. But
it's sister, But it's true, like owning a home is
(38:32):
not even something that I feel like a lot of
millennials are thinking about, you know what I mean, because
it's not as possible all that, because the baby boomers
won't die. Yeah, I mean, part, like literally part of
the American dream was owning a house, like getting the
white picket fence. And as he points out, that was
like the foundation of the collapse in two thousand eight
(38:52):
was homeownership and it was like, yeah, no, none of
you could pay for those houses that we said you
could pay for. And the way he play it, he
said when talks about how like we believed that rising
tide lifts all boats, and he said, when the tide
pulled back in two thousand and eight to reveal the
ruins underneath, the country got an indelible picture of just
how much inequality had been banked by the top one
(39:13):
percent over the decades, how many false promises to the
other percent have been broken, and how many central American institutions,
whether governmental, financial, or corporate, had betrayed the trust the
public had placed in them. And then you Know points
out that unlike nine eleven, which there was like the
nine eleven Commission. We were like, you know, they're all
these really good books Looming Tower that were like how
(39:35):
the fund did this happen? And like who was to blame?
We like built a international prison where they could like
torture people. But the Great Recession, it was just like
oh yeah, and they all get away with it and
like nothing, none of this ship gets fixed. That is
also like a reason that I think does that kind
of feel like we all just got a little too cocky. Yeah,
(39:56):
we really did. I mean, it wasn't our fault. I mean,
but also I think it like with all the de
regulation that the Clinton administration did, which was supposed to
promote growth, all it did was make everybody like, oh, scamming,
it's so easy now, Like god damn, And it's not
even a scam that hasn't happened in history. Before you
take economics, you learn about the whole flower implosion, like
that bubble. Yeah. Yeah, so it's like we've done this before,
(40:18):
we know what happens, but we get greedy because we're American.
But the biggest tragedy of two thousand eight is really
Jesse McCartney's career, you know what I mean, Like it
was popping. He has songs on the Billboard charts and
now I mean it's over for him. Jesse McCartney and
Katie Perry. I kissed the girl came out in two
(40:39):
thousand and eight, and now her career is trash too.
She is so annoying. Sorry, Katy. You know she got
a shoe line too. I just want to help her.
Check that out. Katie Perry's shoes help help a bit out. Okay,
she's a good one. But I mean it's crazy because
(40:59):
we're constantly innovating and we can't really go back. So
it's like, what is the future for millennials when it
comes to ownership. We're definitely not having kids. We cannot
afford them. Yeah, no, I mean that's why the birth
rate is it an all time. That's one of my
favorite jokes is like my mom is like, what am
I gonna get some grand babies? I'm like, do you
have grand babies? Money? You got grandchildren? Coins or not?
(41:22):
Because I don't. I could barely support my own mouth.
I'm supposed to have little mouths. Yeah, Although I will
say seeing the only time I've ever wanted children was
when I saw a picture of Kim Kardashian where North
was in the back and she had she took the photo.
I was like, damn, yeah. It was like in a bathroom,
so you could see her little hands like this huge
(41:42):
phone taking this photo of her mom. And I was like,
oh my god, You're like, I want pictures of me
only I had a beautiful baby to take photos of me.
You can teach the baby, yeah, and you got plenty
of time, So trying up a child. That is the
most millennial things I've ever said. Actually, but I can't
(42:04):
afford what I can't Babies are expensive, jeweler is expensive.
I love that there's so many articles. Somebody like listed
all the articles. I was just like, our millennials killing this?
Are millennials killing that? Like it's like, just be cheaper,
be cheaper. Alright, we're gonna take another quick break. We'll
(42:26):
be right back, and we're back, and just kind of
continuing on with that conversation because you know, Lacy during
the break was saying, well, when's it going to turn
around for us? And so two thousand eight was also
(42:49):
a hopeful time because Obama was elected and he ran
on hope and change. But you know, he also when
he was addressing things like the style market implosion, he
had the people like on the panels who were also
you know, wealthy businessmen and like all these tycoons and stuff,
(43:10):
and it just like it wasn't radical enough. And I
think that's to be expected because you know, it had
only just happened, and we were still in a previous paradigm.
He existed in a different world, and I do feel
like people are adapting now to the fact that that
world doesn't really work anymore. Um and just more evidence
(43:33):
of that. So the tax cut that the Republicans gave
to businesses earlier this year, you know, the promise was
that it was going to pay for more jobs and
higher salaries for workers, and what we've seen instead is
a lot of stock buy backs. I don't know if
(43:55):
you guys have heard about stock buy backs, but like
if you pay attention to like the market, they're constantly
talking about how this is what like all the big
fortune companies are doing. They're buying backstock, which I didn't
really know what that meant, so I wanted to research that,
and basically it takes they just buy back stock from
private people who own it like out in the stock market,
(44:18):
and it makes the current stock more valuable, and that's
basically all it does. It just makes there there's less
out there, so that makes it more smaller supply, So
it basically just makes the people who already own the
stock richer. But it doesn't add anything. Like there was
this article in Fortune where they were talking about like
(44:42):
why this is sometimes not the most advisable. Like first
they were like, well, it's really good because it will
make your stock more valuable. But then they were like,
but on the other hand, your company isn't investing in anything.
They're just like making themselves richer, and like that's not good.
And ap Morgan estimates that repurchases in two thousand eighteen
(45:03):
will jump fifty one percent from last year's mark to
eight hundred billion, and the median return on investment is
annually for companies that do stock buy backs, while the
rest that SMP five hundreds return is so critics point
that it's a misallocation of capital. They're spending money on
(45:25):
buy backs instead of, you know, investing in projects that
fuel longer term success, which is how the whole text
comes and fuel the economy. Right exactly, it's not fueling
the economy, it's just making rich people richer, which is
I mean, I think that there's a tide turn on
all of that though, Like because the top one percent
has more than the bottom like ninety um, it starts.
(45:49):
I mean at some point we're gonna get to like
storming the BUSTI you know what I mean, Like we're
gonna we're gonna get that money one way or another,
Like you're gonna give it to us or we're gonna
take it right. And whether that's going to be something
dramatic like storing with the steeler, or it's going to
be us you know, electing someone who has more socialist platform,
(46:09):
you know, one of the two is going to happen.
I feel like even if we elect someone of the
socialist platform, there's so many people in our government, you know,
because it's a balanced system that can thwart that, and
they're all in the pockets of big business or the
big businesses in their pockets, Like it's insane. The biggest one,
for me, the biggest scam is in our a and
like I've just never seen like shootings happen and then
(46:32):
the stock goes up. People are like we need more goods.
It reminds me of there's a moment in Talladigga Knights
where Ricky Bobby has a knife in his thigh and
they're like, oh, here, we're gonna use another knife to
pry that knife. Like that's literally what we're doing. We're like, oh,
let me get a gun. And then when you got
a gun and we both got guns. Yeah, Like, I
(46:53):
don't know how we stopped that machine. Like when the
little babies died, I said, well, ship, what if we
do something real crazy and we make the corporations give
the stocks that they bought back to the less percentage
people who are way below and give them the opportunity
almost create like a like a program where you teach
people who don't have much money how to Like I
(47:16):
don't know, it's almost like this pro bono stock program
where do we teach losing my mind? I just want
to teach people to invest and give people money who
need it. I'll the cops. I know, I sound crazy, crazy,
(47:36):
That's exactly what how we should be thinking. So that's
one thing that Trump keeps talking about a booming economy.
That's something that people have been talking about since two
thousand is like the stock market recovery and how well
that's going. And the richest ten percent of the country
owns eighty percent of all the stock and the bottom
(47:57):
eight percent own just eight percent. So yeah, they could
use some of some of that stock. Nobody needs that
much fucking money. But I mean, we'll ruin them eventually,
we broke. Okay, we all keep sharing everything that comes out.
I'm gonna give my Netflix password to everybody I know.
We're not gonna pay for ship. Yeah, but fifty seven
(48:20):
to six of tax cuts are going just right back
to people who are already on the stock And the
trickle down isn't real, Like it's never trickling. No. I've
heard people start talking about, you know, universal basic income
and they're calling it a trickle up economy, and that's
actually been shown to the only person that you can
guarantee will spend the money if the government gives them
(48:43):
are people in need because they need the fucking money. Like,
you don't infuse the economy with more money by giving
it to people who need the money the least, because
they will spend that ship, they're just going to save it.
The example I was saying, as my dad goes. Just
always tell them you're broke, which is like, but you're
not broke. It's like, yeah, but you just make them
think you're broke. It's just like that is crazy. Your
(49:05):
dad is a great scammer all the money being like
this is how stock market is gonna go. Tell them
you're broke, and it's like, but you're driving a BMW.
Tell them you are broke. Started this podcast off saying,
crazy black broke. That's what I want my reputation to be.
It's like, just act like you need the money even
though you clearly don't, and everyone will just believe you,
(49:27):
and it's like, oh god, we're fun. Listen. I believe
in all these ideals until I get rich, and then listen,
I will be voting Republicans. I know. If you don't
see me in a red hat, don't talk to me.
That's too rich to be black now. Drawn Carmichael had
that joker is like, I just can't wait till I'm
rich enough where I'm a Republican and I don't have
(49:49):
to do ship like this. It's not stop caring about
poor people's rights because I'm not one of them anymore.
All Right, guys, let's check in with the boy. So
there just seems to be like a birth and babies
vibe going on. Charlotte, the World's Cutest Princess, is on
(50:11):
the cover of one of the magazines, and then they're
just making up pregnancies more than usual. Even I'm all clooney.
They're saying it is pregnant. Megan Marco. They're saying is
pregnant because she was wearing a flowing skirt and some
thought they saw a bump, so that means she's pregnant.
(50:32):
I think they in both cases they were like, it's
twins and they have zero reason to believe that anyone's pregnant.
Can't you imagine being so famous that you can't eat
a burrito without people thinking you're pregnant. She definitely pregnant,
and it's more than one baby in there. Fat is Hail.
That woman is rail thin, like a breeze went up
(50:53):
our skirt and they were like, oh, definitely pregnant. Look
at her thick. Okay, like you can't do ship no more.
I'm sure they are like looking for her to have
a baby though, isn't that the natural? Next up? Yeah,
that seems to be what everybody's hoping for and she's
in her late thirties, so she baby, it's tom to
cook it all up? Right now? Do you think the
Queen's in They're being like it's time. Well, and something
(51:17):
I had just learned is that the Queen she has
guardian chip over any babies that they have. The Queen
just owns their babies immediately. She she owns h Wills
and Kate Middleton's babies, so they split her. She keeps
the baby. There's no custody battle Royal Tea cages. But
(51:40):
one of my favorite articles, teased on the cover of
one of the Boloyd's is who will be forced into
rehab next us? And they suggest Selena Paris Jessica. So
let's check in because what when you turn to the
actual article, it turns out this was written by a
psychic because it was published. You know, they couldn't have
(52:02):
published it in the last two days and Ben Affleck
is front and center. So somehow they were able to
foretell that Ben Affleck, who had been on a bender
for the past two months, would end up in rehab
two months. But didn't we know from that tattoo? Yes, yeah,
that tattoo said it all. It was a crapt of
(52:24):
help for those dragons. What was on it? It was
like a phoenix was who did that tattoo? Is what
I want to know? Who's like, Okay, Ben, you sure
about this? Lie bro? Your money green? The phoenix, the phoenix.
There you go. And that felt that feels like a
tattoo that you go into the tattoo parlor, you like,
look at what's on sale. Okay, let me get this.
(52:46):
His drive to rehab right the costco of tattoos. He
went on Hollywood Boulevard. But like the sad thing. I
looked at the pictures of them driving him to rehab
and it was just so it looked like Jennifer Garner
like really did not want to be bothered. No, I
know she was. We we mentioned on Friday's show that
(53:08):
they stopped at Jack in the Box, but we failed
to mention one of the great details of that photograph,
which is that she's handing the Jack in the Box
back to him without looking back. It's the most aggressive,
just like it's just like, take your fucking Jack in
the box, have embarrassed you in the grocery store, and
here are you going? But not saying nothing else. The saddest.
(53:30):
It's literally she's like, I have twenty minutes, right, She's like,
I'm a movie right now. I've gotta be at work.
I will not walk you in. So some of their
other predictions, Hayden Panetary was apparently stars Spies caught the
troubled actress wasted outside of Gladstones, which is a seafood
(53:52):
restaurant in Los Angeles, barefoot and vomiting. So in Malbou
yes on the way out to alab Yeah, and just
they said wasted. Oh well, Maliboo is much cleaner sidewalks.
If you're going to be barefoot, right, that's the rich
way to look wasted. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So they're
they're expecting her to be on this list. Maybe she
(54:16):
just got a little too lit. I just can't imagine,
Like rehab is such a personal thing and addiction is
so serious and like scary. I I it is very
sad that like people are going to take photos of
you're looking like trash on the way to the rehab facility.
But I can't feel bad for Ben Affleck. But you
stopped at Jack in the Box. We're like, here we go.
(54:37):
He was like, but I'm hungry I'm hungry your way
all right, We're gonna go to this damn jack in
the box. Hello, Hello, what you want? What you want to?
Number six? Alright? Ship quick crying? Let me get a
number six? And can I have extra napkins? Please? You
don't know how to get so messy? Here you go. No,
(55:01):
you don't get no shake. You're about to make a
best in my car. Well, an, it has been such
a pleasure having you. Thank you. You know what. When
I got invited on by myself by saidself, I emailed
myself back and I said I would love to be on,
thank you so much for asking me. And then I
(55:22):
emailed back and said confirmed. And then I showed up
this morning. Yes, we're all very impressed by your work
on this, on this booking. I'm losing my wife emailing
myself and you know, as I was reading some John
Lennon comy theories before I came John Lennon Bangers. Yes,
(55:50):
where can people find you? So you can find me
on Twitter at Anna hosting a n H O S
S and I E h I tweet, Um, you can
let's into my podcast Ethnically Ambiguous on the House Stofworks Network.
It's great. My Mica host Sherine Units. We have fun.
We talked about mid least issues. Sometimes we call our parents.
(56:10):
We have a great episode dropping today actually with comedian
meetra Ju Harri. If you don't know her, learn about
her because she is a star. Yeah what a promotion.
Yeah check it out? Uh yeah, alright, Lacy, where can
people find you? As always d I V A l
(56:30):
A c I Diva Lacey on Instagram and also on Twitter,
the Twitter. Keep watching pop TV. Eventually I will be
on there. Uh yeah, that's all. I was plug right out.
And is there a tweet you've been enjoying A tweet
that I've been enjoying my own tweet. I wish that
(56:55):
we could blind copy text messages. And that's because I
really want to start sending like you up in mass
and the first person to respond gets it gets the pea. Alright,
some tweets I've been enjoying. Uh Andy Kindler one one
(57:18):
of the great tweeted Mexico is volunteered to pay for
the walls that are closing in on Trump. That was
my tweet I picked out such best, my good couple
other ones. Young one Lee tweeted to all the boys
I loved before until I heard them talk. Yes, that's
a movie that's in the zeitgeist. That's a Netflix movie.
(57:42):
We'll probably talk about that at some point in the future.
Super producer around Hosny. I forgot to ask you, what
was a tweet that you've been enjoying. Well, I mean,
you actively stole my Andy Kindler one, but I have
another one from Aton Sisson scn at Reese. Don't tweet
you're when chicks think you go ghost because you got
(58:02):
hella hoes when you really just be sad. And then
there's a photo of Charlie Brown looking out the window
as it snows. That's the borowiest. It's like, when you're
trying to have emotions. That's the borrowest way to say,
I'm sad that I've ever you know, when you feel
(58:23):
like you know a star up beside you, like like
if you hitched, like like if you stopped Joe to
but that was like how you felt exactly you ever
had water come out your eyes? All right? You can
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that we ride out on. Anna, what are we going
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So you do the math. Okay, it's a producer on
as what song are we gonna write out on? You
know what I thought, Why why don't we go back
to the nineteen sixties when things were just so great
and we were all on drugs? And I want to
recommend a yellow summer. I want to recommend Bobby Hebb
(01:00:35):
song Sonny because it always makes me feel good. Yeah,
Sonny means son and it's probably a woman's name, is right,
all right, it's better than Pete David exactly. We are
going to write out on that. We will be back
tomorrow because it is a daily podcast. We'll talk to
you guys then, bob By. Yesterday, my life was filled
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with rain, Sunny you smiled at me and really easy pain.
Now the dawn days are done and the bright days
are here. My sunny one, shine, so sincere, Sunny one,
so true. I love you, Sunny. Thank you for the sunshine. Okay, Sunny,
(01:01:36):
thank you for the love. You broke my away. You
gave me your all and all, and now I feel
ten feet tall. Sunny one soul true, I love you, Sunny.
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Thank you for the truth you let me see, Sonny.
Thank you for the facts from a two Z. My
life was torn like wind blown sin. Then a rock
was formed when he held Sunny in one SOULCI I
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love you, Sonny. Thank you for that smile upon your face.
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