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November 27, 2018 70 mins

In episode 281, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Alison Stevenson to discuss the weekend box office, Melania's White House Christmas decorations, the Mueller Report coming out soon, the US climate report, the situation with the immigrants seeking asylum at the Mexico/US border, Jerry Springer's new show, Google trends and more!

FOOTNOTES:

1. Ralph Breaks the Internet

2. Creed II

3. Melania Trump unveils the 2018 White House Christmas decorations

4. Mueller report will be 'devastating' for the president: Frequent Trump defender

5. Trump Administration’s Strategy on Climate: Try to Bury Its Own Scientific Report

6. U.S. Climate Report Warns of Damaged Environment and Shrinking Economy

7. San Ysidro border crossing closed for hours; U.S. officials fire tear gas at migrants

8. US agents fire tear gas as some migrants try to breach fence

9. Fox & Friends guest defends use of pepper spray on migrant caravan: "It's natural. You could actually put it on your nachos and eat it."

10. Trump’s Cheerleaders Praise the Border Patrol for Tear-Gassing Toddlers

11. U.S. closes major crossing as caravan migrants mass at border in Mexico

12. Mexico: Tijuana declares humanitarian crisis over migrant caravan

13. Health impacts of chemical irritants used for crowd control: a systematic review of the injuries and deaths caused by tear gas and pepper spray

14. Jerry Springer Will Return to TV Reborn As Judge Jerry

15. Thicc Strip: A Body Positive Strip Show Tickets

16. Daily Zeitgeist Merch on Tee Public

17. Daily Zeitgeist at Chicago Podcast Festival Tickets

18. WATCH: Letherette - Langsette (instrumental)

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to season fifty nine, Episode
two of Judge Leeze eight Guys, the podcast where we
take a deep dive into America's and the world sometimes
shared consciousness, using the headline, box office reports, TV rating clues,
kinding on Google with social media. It's Tuesday, November seven,
two thousand eighteen. My names Jack O'Brien, A kay I

(00:20):
like pleasure spiked with pain and music. Is my Jack O'Briant.
It's my Jack O'Brien courtesy of Hannah Saltus, and I'm
fair to be joined as always by my co host,
Mr Miles Gray. Welcome tomorrow, logo. This is my Judgements

(00:41):
number two, so no reading can wake him up for
the policy reading. Okay, well, that was born out of
the last show we did with Robot Caitlin Caitlyn gil
based off a tweet from Nathan Lund and then put
together again by at Emilio ar Gomez for your AK Pleasure.
I still can't get over it, but it's so good.

(01:03):
It doesn't have your name in it, so I'll just
say it's my os up Gray so much. H Well,
we're thrilled to be joined by the very funny writer
Alison Stevenson. So I mean, you know, yeah, life and ship. Yeah,
life and ship. I can say yeah, yeah, yeah. Really

(01:27):
well actually I can't say fun. You can say say ship. Though.
How was your Thanksgiving? Your whole past week? Everything about
your life? You know, I'm not much of a Thanksgiving person,
So I did not do anything. There you go, So
you just sat in a dark room. I just sat
in a very dark room. I ordered Dominoes. Did you
on Thanksgiving? Yeah? Kind of like my little tradition, like

(01:49):
it's my my self care or whatever, I just get
diarrhea basically yeah, yeah, me too. Doesn't stop us though.
Diarrhea is a form of self care because on the
toilet ye holiday. Alison. We're gonna get to know you
a little bit better, but first we are going to

(02:09):
take our listeners through what we're talking about today. We're
gonna talk a little bit just check in with the
box office because there was some Bafo bio over the weekend.
Bafa Bo. We're gonna talk about Milania returning with the
fire Christmas decorations. She she did it last year and

(02:30):
she has taken it up a notch. We're gonna talk
just kind of check back in with the Mueller thing,
because there there seems to be some thing's a bruin
on that front. We're gonna talk about how the Trump
administration took advantage of the slowest news day of the
year to slide in their report on how climate change

(02:52):
is going for America. We're gonna talk about what's going
on down at the border. It's a fucking mess. But
we're going to talk about just how various conservatives are
justifying that to themselves and each other. And of course
we have to check in with Jerry Springer because his

(03:13):
show may be over, but make way for the honorable
Judge Jerry, And if we have time, we will do
a Google trend skim at the end. But first, Allison,
I also should have said you're a you're a comedian too.
I don't know why I just said, right, But we
like to ask our guests, what is something from your

(03:33):
search history that was revealing about who you are? UM?
I don't I think this is revealing about who I am,
but it is the most recent thing I searched, so
I'm just gonna say it. I just looked up. It
was like Frankie Minias doesn't remember Malcolm in the middle. Yeah. Yeah,
And then I because I heard that, and I was like,
I don't know if this is a rumor or not.

(03:54):
I don't know how. I Oh, it got brought up
because I was reading a Frankie Menia's tweet that made me.
I mean, it's a sad I don't know if you
guys know this tweet where he was said that it's
really sad, but I'm laughing. Uh. It's like he's like,
my whole entire home is destroyed, like four of the
five levels of my mansion is ruined from what the firefires. No,

(04:16):
it's an air. He lives in Arizona, but it's because
he was like away for three days and one of
his cats just opened the sink like somehow made the
sun overflowed. His whole house is flooded, like four or
five stories completely flooded because of his cat because he
was away from his cat. And it's like that's you know,

(04:39):
take care of your cats because they can do damage
to or get a house sitter. Bro, you have a
five story you think he just did the thing like
ripped open the catlin bag And it's like, I really
think that's what he did. And he was like, I
was gone for four days, which I think has come
on like two days. I get two days if you
have a cat that can handle two days exactly. Yeah,

(05:00):
but the cat just destroyed his home and he tweeted
it and I don't know why, but I couldn't stop
laughing and sharing it with people because I'm a horrible person.
And someone was like, you know, he doesn't remember Malcolm
in the middle right, and so I had to google that.
Isn't that from like his like f one accident, like
racing accident or something that, like he had a few
things that have said a few bad like health things,

(05:22):
because I remember when he tweeted that last year, we
covered it and we were like, damn, this guy's got
some darkness. I don't remember covering it. So the head
is where I'm at mentally, and I haven't even been
in a car racing crash, just normal car crash. Uh. Yeah.
That he his Twitter sometimes slips into like Colonel Kurtz

(05:45):
from Apocalypse Now territory, Like he had this one Twitter
run for like a week where he was just talking
about all the scorpions in his house and like how
he was like battling them and murdering them, and it
was like very like, you know, Colonel Kurt's talk about
the snail sliding on the edge of a razor. It's like, oh,
your brain is melting, dude, Like, oh, he had nine concussions, No,

(06:08):
there are goods had like fifteen. You can't even remember
from It was like in the middle, Damn, I had
no idea that that show. Yeah. Uh and then like
many strokes to yeah he's got you know, yeah, come on,
come on, Malcolm, it is I'm pulling for you. But
you know. Also, yeah, one of the quotes in his

(06:30):
aren't the article that I read was like, I'm not
a doctor person saying that, So I don't think he's
really trying to make anything better. Yeah, not really a
doctor person. So whatever. Anyway, what's the longest you go
leave a cat in the house? Yeah, five days? That
sounds that sounds like an adaptive malfunction. People who are

(06:52):
not doctor people are probably not gonna last that long. Uh.
What is something you think is overrated? This is something
I've always believed for a really long time, and I
just feel like people get angry at me and I'm
not trying to be like the Beatles, I'm just gonna
say the Beatles get the fun out. You know. It's

(07:13):
one of those things where it's like it's so I
don't want to fight about it, but it is really
how I feel. I don't like the Beatles music is
it's it's it's it's all subjective, you know, like you
can't really go I think they're great, but I'm not
a huge fan, Like I'm not on the people who
like capes for them. And that's when I brush up.
I bristle against people. And they're like the greatest man

(07:35):
ever existed. There's the greatest songs of all time. And
I'm like, well, maybe to you, and I get that's
valid for you. I don't. I'm just not on that train.
Just like the status they've achieved of like God's I
think is just really too much. It's a bit much.
I think it's a bit much. They're good at what
they do though. They were a good little band. Know
they did the thing. Yeah, they did their things, and

(07:56):
they were like okay, And after reading I think, what
was it at the moment of the Malcolm glad little
books about how they did their ten thousand hours even
prior to like blowing up like, yeah, just playing live
over and over. I'm like, okay, this starting to make sense.
Why they just stepped out? Yeah, and they weren't doing
it for very long, only eight years. The Beatles are great,
aren't they guys? Anyways? Moving on, how does that usually

(08:19):
come out? Someone goes, this is the greatest album of
all time. It will be a beetle thing and you're like,
I disagree, or you just kind of like to come
out with a hot take. It comes from place of
like being told my whole life that I have to
love the Beatles, and then finally listening to the Beatles
and being like, yeah, okay, Like they're fun songs, but
just this feeling like it's something I have to requirement

(08:43):
that kind of pisces me off. No, I don't need
to do what I want to do. I'll think they're
okay for the rest of my life. While worshiping the Monkeys, Yeah,
alert the I have noticed in uh kind of re

(09:06):
listening to them now, trying to introduce, you know, some
of their songs to my son. His favorite song is
Yellow Submarine, which is a garbage song, but a lot
of their music is i'd say, of the popular you
know music They are maybe the closest to children's music.
Their songs are like very simple, is like just like

(09:28):
kind of get stuck in your head for years. Yeah,
in that sense, they're you know, if you don't think
Raffi is a musical genius, then maybe, uh, I know,
I actually think rafi I didn't bring Now we get
to your underrated and Raffia. So who is the greatest
band for you personally? Um? That's so tough. I mean

(09:49):
I am a big Elvis Costello fan. I think I'll
always consider him one of my top faves, but I
don't really have like a favorite favorite, Like this is
my obsession, except for in middle school when I was
obsessed with blinkin eighty two. So there you go. Yes,
they deserve that title. And they've all gone on to
do great things. They deserve the title. How did they Yeah,

(10:16):
I'm still my circuits are fried from cyber Monday. What
is something you think is underrated? Um? I want to
say white chocolate? Oh okay, yeah, go on. I feel
like now everyone's just like fuck her. These are hot.
These are boiling hot takes. Yeah, boiling Yeah. I love

(10:40):
white chocolate. Hate the Beatles love white chocolate. I mean,
as you'll notice, this section is designed to get people
to make some pretty unpopular statements, so don't don't worry
too much about it. What is your you know what
I really got into for a while, there was the
kit cat white chocolate better than the regular kick cat

(11:01):
for a while. The thing that I really got well,
when you eat cheap white chocolate, you're like, yo, this
ship is fucking what's like white waxy? Not good? And
then you have like a lind or your eyes roll
back in your head, like the girl eating the Doritos
in that old vine clip that reverses for three people.
But then I had, you know, like Magnum ice cream bars.

(11:23):
They make like like pints of ice cream now that
are just the inside is lined with chocolate and you
just like crack the ship like and it basically has
broken up chocolate pieces and it's Ingenie's okay. But they
have a white chocolate one that I was surprised how
much I liked it, and I was like, this is
I'm starting in my head's turning. I mean, I'm always
it's not wait, what is white cholate? It's not really

(11:44):
chocolate though, right, Yeah, I've heard that it's not really chocolate.
I don't know what it is, a chocolate derivative which
consists of cocoa, butter, sugar, and milk solids. And his character, Yeah,
so it's a chocolate derivative, okay, and he assume they
made it in the same factory is crystal pepsi, And
it was just you know, they just take the color out,

(12:04):
still got the essence. It's on the same facility. Yes,
that classic crystal pepsi, which I still see around every
once in a while. It made a comeback briefly, but
like it seems like it's like had this like petering
comeback where they've been trying to get it to come
back and everyone's just like, nah, we're we're kind of
over it. Oh, I'm sorry. Now. The Washington Post had

(12:25):
an article this is for those who think white chocolate
isn't real chocolate. We got bars for you. What do
you a battle rappers for you? Must be chocolate bars.
But like that's a play on the thing. Oh wait,
when you see the byeline written by fabulous that makes sense.
My favorite Washington Post column. Yeah, no, white white chocolate

(12:46):
surprise you every once in a while, dipped in a
pretzel we're talking about Jason Collins, right, yeah, the Sacramento Kings.
I call him Collins, but yeah, you can call him
who went to high school with Randy Moss. Yes, and
that great rsal lot of fun to attend their games. Uh.
And finally, what is a myth? What's something people think
it is true that you know to be false? And

(13:08):
I know you came in here with one that you've
been dying to tell our listeners about. Sorry, and I
think you said if if the listeners are driving, pull
over now as the gravity of this myth, I mean,
just please just ready to get ready to have your
entire universe shake into its foundations. And Alice, yeah, no, um,

(13:31):
I'm pausing for suspense here. Uh wow, really playing it up.
You know, she's got the goods and she knows it.
Everybody's sitting down. I'm about to tell a tale. Uh
you know, actually, are you googling? What is a myth?

(13:53):
I guess it's more like a stereotype. Let's do it.
But it's about Jews, which I am one of. So
I'm and the media no, go on, just you know,

(14:13):
because yeah, I was trying to think of something and
I think there's this myth slash stereotype that Jews complained
too much. And I think really what it is is
that everybody else doesn't complain enough. I'll get on my
level kind of thing. Yeah, Jews are at the right

(14:34):
place and everybody else kind of has to step it
up a little just about everything. Just complain as much.
What's the what's the thing you think? Regular the boys
could start complaining? Um, body pain and if your back hurts,
let us know, if you're gassy, let us know, let's

(14:56):
talk about. Just be the strong, silent type. Yeah, exactly.
Help anybody your next been hurting, Let's talk about you
know that kind of stuff. Just little things, just little
things here and there. It's therapeutic. It really helps. There
is always something to talk about. There is never an
awkward silence in the Jewish household because you always have

(15:17):
something to talk about. You have any pain right now
that you would like to talk about, you know, actually
a little bit lower back. I don't know why. I
don't know, maybe from lying down too much over the weekend. Yeah, yeah, um,
And what is your bed consist of mattress? If you're like,

(15:39):
it's egg crates or like milk crates or something. Like
a cardboard box a bed of nails actually, but I
don't know where this pain is coming from. All right,
I love that myth complain more. Uh, and guys, let's
get into what's happening right now, into the zeke Geist.
So just real quick, wreck it. Ralph To Ralph breaks

(16:02):
the Internet and creed To both crushed at the box
office this weekend. The Rocky franchise holds a special place
in my heart. I did not see it, but the
very first movie I ever saw at theaters with my
dad was Rocky four. And this movie is basically an
avenging of Rocky four because it's Apollo's son avenging his

(16:27):
father's demise who killed his dad Ivan Dragon. Oh and
then now they're now their sons are fighting each other. Yes,
fights to the death. No, no, not usually, but when
you have Sylvester Stallone writing the movie, however, he Sylvester
Stallone is a genius of knowing that you always have

(16:49):
to leg ramp it up. Sometimes he ramps it up
a little too quickly, like in Rambo two. But he
in Rocky four. Yeah, he had his best friend get
murdered in the boxing ring in a friendly fight with
the Russian as like it was like about he came
in like dressed as George washing Are, like had the

(17:10):
big top hat, the American flag top hat, and was
just like goofing around and then Ivan Dragon literally murders
him because no, no, he's just that strong and he's been.
But then he also he also utters the line which
I feel like would have probably been a bigger deal

(17:33):
in the boxing community. He says, if he dies, he dies,
as he's dying in front of him, which is I
think that's that is, you know, in this pr age
of ours, athletes are their their statements are always so
carefully handled. He just came with the if he dies,
he dies, but he's a cybernetic organism from the Russian Federation,

(17:56):
so yeah, of course if he dies he dies. Anyways,
Rocky goes is to Russia wins the Cold War for
for America because by the end, the Russian people are
chanting his name, and the head of the Soviet Union
in the movie goes and yells at the boxer. He's like,
listen to them, they are chanting his name, and then

(18:20):
I've been Dragon like lifts him up and throws him
to the side, and then Rocky gets a long speech
about if I can change, you can change, we all
can change. You know the guy. You guys got rights,
you know, Yeah, you have to fight for him. I
feel like you've only seen one scene at the entire

(18:40):
hockey franchise. It's Rocky Balboa where he's in the court
and he just doesn't he loses some judgment. He just
comes back something. That's all and that'll always stay with me. Yeah,
nothing else. Anyways, that movie did extremely well. It did
even better than the first Creed which did really did. Yeah,
good for them for for the first weekend box and

(19:01):
well rerecord, Ralph had our very own Danny Fernandez. Yeah
there from How Stuff Works comedy podcasts near difficent way.
When the Robin Hood movie also came out this weekend
did not do that well. So this is I think
I saw one commercial for it. Yeah, I was laughable. Yeah,
Approximately of Hollywood's economy is built on just rebooting Robin

(19:27):
Hood projects, like they are literally thirty of them in productions,
so that a lot of people are going to lose
their job because this movie did very badly. Uh and yeah,
at the top we had two stellar outings, so you know,
America is interested in the Internet and beating a shift

(19:48):
out Russia that act like you know, franchise. Yeah, we
want to see the Internet broken and we want to
see defeated. I don't know how that has anything that. Yeah, well,
speaking of none of that, Milania is back with her
triumphant return to holiday decorating. Yo. It is hescape. It

(20:14):
is literally a healthscape. Okay, here I'll just go through. So, yes,
this year's theme, this tree is made of blood. The
theme was American Treasures, and the statement is the White
House is. Decorations include a tree trimmed by gold Star families. Okay,
that makes sense, an array of topiary trees and mantelpieces

(20:35):
featuring the skylands of New York City, St. Louis, Chicago,
and San Francisco. And here's some like concept designs. Then
she's literally walking around blood piles of just like congealed
entrails of the downtrodden people. Uh. Then a really nice
like wreath made out of b best pencils, which very
you know, I guess shout out to yourself, very crafty.

(20:58):
There's yeah, like the video you know that. I think
it was released from her Twitter account that we took
all these clips from it's just like her, just like
being in awe of her own you know, design prowess,
and I really did it. What do you guys think
of this tree topper? Tree topper is very not satastic.
It is a golden eagle with its wing spread, which yeah,

(21:22):
looks like it belongs in a at the top of
a flagpole in a classroom. Yeah, at the right stock.
But yeah, I mean, you know, sure, sure, Monia. That's
cool for you. That's how you design your house as
your house. I don't look forward to being invited ever.
But so the trees made entirely out of cranberries like branches.

(21:44):
Oh it is cranberry, I believe. So basically the progression
where they show us the cranberry branches and then is
that a cranberry? I don't know what. Aren't they grown
in a bog? Yeah, that's true. It's like giant elves
were buried there just like their hats, right, or it
wasn't it in war the World's like where the like
the machines just like picked people up and then just

(22:05):
shout out like weird, go Well it wasn't it was
it turned them into ash. It was a very clear
reference to nine eleven. Actually I think so, because like
he's like running around and there's like ash all over
him from like disintegrated people, right right, right, you remember
what movie am I thinking of? Were like they were
they were leaving behind like red webbing on like the whatever.

(22:28):
That's not important because this is this really looks, don't
it looks. It looks like a more dramatic if you
like did a freeze frame on the moment after the
blood elevators opened in the shining and then like because
it looks like it's just red cascading down. It really looks.

(22:52):
And then there is on one of the on one
of the trees, there is not not the blood trees,
the regular Christmas trees. There's just a an ornament the
the official White House tree. There's an ornament that just
says Puerto Rico. Did you see that picture that when
the tree was bright in Trump slapped like the horse's
ass that was like bringing the tree in. There's like

(23:13):
a horse some horse drawn carrouse it was. There's just
a photo him just like like as if you were
at like some stockyard assessing. Its just like muscle memory
for him not slap something on that, right, can't resist yeah,
but this is all just a waking nightmare. Do you

(23:34):
have do you all have like Christmas ornaments you put
up every year? Do you just still do this? Yeah? Okay,
what about you? Yeah? Do you have a pickle that
you put on your tree? Yeah? What is when? We
just got that like for a few years ago, and
I forget what tradition it's from, but I have a pickle.
Her majesty has a pickle. That's why we have one.
And it just says she has a pickle on her tree. Yeah,

(23:57):
somebody gave it to us. I mean, we just started
doing Christmas trees because we're but we're even growing up,
we did not have a pickle. But now my new
tree has a pickle. Wow. I think that just like
broke wide like that tradition. Explain it to us is
like garing because we're too lazy to google like a
real pickle, you know, like a pickle ornament. Moldy's the

(24:21):
same one. It's hard as a rock. Yeah, all right,
we're gonna take a quick break. We'll be right back,
and we're back and Miles, the headline on this next
story is oh yeah, that Mueller thing. Oh man, Yeah,

(24:44):
there's been so much news. I forgot. You forget that
ship's going on in d C constantly? Uh yeah, I don't.
I forgot about it. And then you look at the
president's tweets on Monday and you're like, oh, okay, because
it's a good you we get one idea of what
his current panic attacks are about. So this one who
was win Butler does his final report. Will he be

(25:07):
covering all of his conflicts of interest in a preamble?
Will he be recommending action on all of the credit
And he just goes on and on hundreds of people close.
He's just trying to, I don't know, act as if
don't believe what's about to hit come out, whatever this
report is. And because he never asked other people who
would tell him that there was no collusion, he's using
the all effective Look, there may have been people who

(25:27):
committed crimes in my campaign, but think about all the
people who didn't. Who didn't, and he didn't ask them
if they didn't, So wow, okay, just go after the
people that did. That's fair, all twelve of my intern right. Yeah,
but it does seem like I don't know people in
the know, and I'm going to include the president on
that because he is the president and the subject of

(25:50):
this report. But Hunt, there seems to be some something bubble.
There's a lot cooking. Alan Derschwitz, who has always been
on the President's side when it comes to this report,
came out and said, I think the report is going
to be devastating to the president, and I know that
the president's team is already working on a response to

(26:11):
the report. He said that on the This Week yesterday
with George Stephanopolis. So I think people are vaguely aware
that Mueller has his report about to drop, and it's
not going to be good for the president. It's gonna
make the story of Addie don even look looks it
will make that look to him. But yeah, Like, because

(26:32):
there are other people around the the Muller investigation that
are also like just saying all kinds of stuff, like
Jerome Corsi, who was like the former DC bureauci for
in full Wars and birth conspiracy theorist and John Carry
swift boat guy like he's out here like doing on
One America News, which is like the fucking even zanier

(26:53):
non news thing for right wingers. They were like, like,
we can exclusively report that Jerome Corsi is going to
like rich checked his plea deal with Mueller and then
sue him and then also drop a book about his
quote Gestapo style tactics. Uh. Wow, okay, so that can't be.
I mean clearly that man is in a tail spin.

(27:14):
Like the idea that he's going to have a book
or something that's gonna exonerate him. I'm not sure what's
going on there. Then George Popadopolis he had to go
to jail Monday, uh, and was like asking, like in
the last minute, he tried to like you know, push
back and be like, yo, I actually shouldn't be going
to jail, and the judge was like see him Monday. Man,
you're going, And I don't care what you think the

(27:36):
law is, but you are going. So yeah, we'll see.
And then also there's gonna be a report that Mueller
puts out on Manafort's cooperation. It was a status report,
so we'll know just how cooperative and uh, you know,
easy to work with Mr Manafort has been. Oh that'll
be interesting. Yeah, so there could be Oh, who knows
what's gonna happen. Yeah. But one thing I also did

(27:58):
read is that the like as more and more people
leave the White House, especially for like General Counsel for
the White House. They're like, oh, man, like the White
House is so horribly ill prepared for, like the coming
subpoenas and all these other things Democrats are about to
to go ham on in terms of investigating and things
like that. So this can't be add that to the
pile of the Mueller Report coming out soon. Maybe yeah,

(28:23):
you almost makes it's gonna be like on SoundCloud or
exactly Lincoln Bio Lincoln Bio. It does seem like Muller
is using sort of the I don't know, like the
recording artist timing thing where you go silent for a
while and then people are like, oh, ship, no, I
can't wait to find out, like what yeah. Yeah, By

(28:45):
the way, just speaking about people, like stories coming out
from behind the scenes of the White House. The story
wherein somebody asks Trump how much he thinks the Joint
Chiefs of Staff Chairman Earns and he says five million
dollars was one of my favorite things from over the week.
Million dollars. He just assumes everyone's like a billion there

(29:06):
around him, and that was probably him thinking of like
a low number. How did that guy just someone on
the spot, like, hey, how much the Joint chiefs Chief
of Staff John Kelly has told others about watching TV
with Trump and asking the president how much the chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Ferns Trump guest five
million dollars, according to people who were told the story

(29:27):
by Kelly, startling the chief of Staff, Kelly responded that
he made less than two hundred thousand dollars. The president
suggested he get a large raise and noted the number
of stars on his uniform. Oh a star for a
million dollars. Look at all those stars. Guy deserves at
least four. Yeah, isn't there five? We're not more, but yeah,

(29:47):
he's just not a This is the So someone quizzed
him basically like, you're like a president, how much do
you think he makes? Well? Kelly comes off as like
an annoying asshole in the story too, because you have
you ever been like talking to somebody and they ask
you a question that you think they're like genuinely curious
about but they know the answer just so you were
just like quizzing me, right, you man? But instead Trump

(30:11):
just started talking about all the shiny things on the
guy's uniform because that's how his mind works. He's like
that one the American flag. Yeah there like uh. So
it's always fun to look at the news cycle over

(30:34):
the long Thanksgiving holiday because, first of all, the news
is we we talked on today's episode. I think about
how the news media has these stories that they just
like rerun every year. On one of them is like
Black Friday Stampede. And one of the other things you'll
see is that people try to just like, you know,
offload a bad news story, sort of like Indy DeFraine

(30:58):
leaking dirt from his like pant leg and hush an like,
you know, quietly, like don't don't look over here. I
was gonna say, Leslie Nielsen and naked gun. Three. So
the Trump administration decided to take advantage of that slow
news day to inform us of our impending doom. They

(31:22):
dropped a one thousand, six d and fifty six page
National Climate Assessment, which is they only did because it's
required by Congress. Obviously, waste of paper, right, and it's
just it's not very promising. It's you mean, because it's
a real assessment of climate. Yes, uh, And I don't

(31:44):
know if we can keep acting surprised I mean somebody
even speculated in the New York Times article about this
that this could have some legal precedent or or some
sort of legal implications for the administration, because now you
have clear evidence that they know about this. If they
continue with policies where it's right, you're not doing the

(32:04):
bare minimum to help prevent problems that are actually hurting Americans.
Like that's somewhat of a dereliction of duty. You know,
they have this incredibly detailed report to point to at
least in the in courtrooms going forward. Well, yeah, I
mean I think the Pentagon warrant w Bush like fourteen

(32:25):
years ago there, like, hey, this will fuck the world,
right strategic Yeah, I mean we talked before who you
know who else dropped news the day before Thanksgiving was
Facebook also admitting there, like, yeah, a lot of the
stuff you read in that New York Times piece was true.
So we did direct them to take the sorrow single
on trying to defend our fucking negligence as a company.

(32:48):
Uh So, Yeah, I guess that's just a note to
anybody just if you want to announce something, just just
put that out down on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving? Right,
But yeah, I mean, I think people are probably familiar
with the very straightforward repercussions of climate change, like the
hurricanes and the flooding from the hurricanes, and but there's

(33:09):
also they point to in this report, you know, flooding
from thunderstorms and like things that aren't like huge national
news stories, but that are still you know, smaller weather
events that are still going to cost people, you know,
over the course of the next couple of years, hundreds
of billions of dollars. Like basically, you know, it keeps

(33:29):
getting worse and worse. Where it used to be twenty
five years from now, We're all fucked, and then earlier
this year it became twelve years from now, We're all fucked.
And then this reports like, actually, we're all kind of
all currently we're being fucked. That sensation that you feel, right,
so uh. And one of the stories that has been

(33:52):
pointed to as like a less straightforward thing is just
the conflict in Syria was at least partially caused by drought.
Drought caused by a potentially climate change. So I mean,
there's going to be all sorts of national security issues
that we I don't think I'm gonna go out and
say it. I don't think this president is taking it

(34:13):
seriously enough. Oh whoa, what the fun jack? I have?
Just I'm up to here with this guy, I'll tell
you what. Well. It's also funny is when you hear
people like on the right too. I think it was
Rick Santorum's whack ass being like, oh, it'll like dealing
with climate change will devastate the economy, and you're like, okay, capitalism,

(34:33):
what are we Like you're saying, let's put that off
and then we'll just shrivel up and die and fires
and floods or whatever. When you can't just do the
bare minimum to try and like get ahold of this thing. Yeah,
I love all those tweets I saying that conservat I
think even Trump tweeted it that was just like the
coldest winter, elb warming my ass or whatever. God's global

(34:56):
warming now? Yeah, global colding. Yeah, I was just in
a meat freezer. Where's global warm right now? That? So,
another thing that has been going down over the weekend
is just the fucking mess at the border. The caravan

(35:16):
the doesn't stop. I know. Yeah, the caravan finally arrived
or at least part of it. Yeah. Well, and there
are a lot of people just currently at the border,
specifically at the San a Cedra border crossing, where there
I think something like five thousand people camped out near
the sports complex and they're all trying to apply for

(35:37):
asylum because the administration is like, if you're gonna do it,
you do it the right way and you present yourself
at a point of entry and apply for asylum there.
And there's a couple of problems with that. Yeah, five
thousand people who are trying to do that, and right
now the agents at the border are processing less than
like a hundred a day, So do the math on
that and tell me that you don't have people trying

(35:58):
to figure out what the funk is going on. So
there was people protesting about how just slowly they're like
processing asylum claims and things like that, and that protest
turned into this showdown between the border patrol and some
people who tried to cross the border like breach a
like a weak point in the border on Sunday, and
they fired some tear gas at them, like into Mexico,

(36:18):
the US border patrol, and then like the gas was
like carried down wind and like you had a bunch
of they were like awful images of like like parents
running with like shoelist kids, like clearly choking on like
all the tear gas and things like that. And this
is like one of these really fucking it's just a
ship situation because the Trump administration says, hey, you have

(36:39):
to come through a proper point of entry, but they're
not even like according to the laws that the US has,
like under the US laws, if you make it to
US soil, you are entitled to ask for asylum. So
you can't even even if you didn't across at a
point of entry. So they're changing the rules constantly, trying
to make it harder and harder. These people who are

(37:01):
not again here to fucking take over your aunt's lake
house in Minnesota or fucking get your free US slow
up the WiFi in your neighborhood. People who are fleeing
violence and just lack totally lack of economic opportunity. Some
people who are coming from Honduras are like sort of
like business owners who are just could not stand the
violence in their country, so they're not you know, again,

(37:23):
this is a situation where typically the US was a
place of refuge for people and now it's just like
I don't know. Trump's talking about trying to completely shut
the border down, which legally he cannot do. And even
Fox News just told had to tell him, They're like, illegally,
can't just shut the border down, p Mr President. But
they also have some pretty hot takes on the tear
gas that was being shot at people on Fox and Friends.

(37:47):
I think it was a guest of their's said that
the tear gas is all good because all natural, and
I think that there is it's so natural you could
eat it. Yeah you put Yeah, let's just hear this
this hot take. There was a small whole they were
able to puncture through the border wall and they hurled
also some rocks, et cetera at the border patrol agents

(38:07):
and then they fired the tear gas. Is that warranted? Absolutely?
And to clarify, the type of deterrent being used is
o ce pepper spray. It's literally water pepper with a
small amount of alcohol for evaporation purposes. It's natural. You
could actually put it on your nachos and eat it. Right.

(38:31):
Let's see that. Yeah, let's see that challenge. We really
should feed this see that, Gop. I want to see
all y'all is Ronald Colburn, who is Border Patrol Foundation founder,
um and just to have to state the obvious, and
I wish that our world wasn't where you had to

(38:52):
state the obvious. But the chemicals that combine with the
pepper can cause adverse cardiac, respiratory, and logical effects, including
a rhythmi isn't sudden death? That is especially true of
children who come into contact with pepper spray. I mean,
you probably knew pepper spray was bad, but just it's

(39:12):
I feel like at a at a certain point, the
only thing to do is just take each of these
arguments one at a time and just kind of bat
them down. Well, yeah, because I mean all people on
the right are trying to do is rationalize what, like
why everything is okay? Why you can treat these people
like this rationalist pepper spray? Yeah, as a nacho topping, all,

(39:34):
what what are these nachos that you're eating where you're
gonna put pepper? Even the idea of like just putting pepper,
because I think he was trying to get at that, like, oh,
you know, like how you pepper your nachos? Like pepper?
Someone comes around some fresh ground pepper on your Yes,
But I know, I actually brought my own CS guess

(39:55):
that I'm going to spray on it. Please wear a
gas mask. A Lissa Milano tweeted, you tear guest women
in children swipe, and Tommy Lauren twote bum Rushing the
border is a choice and has consequences. Watching the USA
finally defend our borders was the highlight of my Thanksgiving weekend.
Prayer hands, prayer hands, prayer hands. And then there was

(40:18):
Breaking News Live showing a report, uh U S military
helicopters are currently heavily patrolling the US Mexico border near
the border city of Tijuana as illegal immigrants try to
storm the U. S border, And uh there's a picture
of a person from the caravan or you know, an
immigrant who's quote trying to storm the border who is

(40:40):
in a wheelchair, And Derek Hunter from The Daily Collar tweeted,
I'm sure the guy in the wheelchair will be net
positive to the economy and then shut it down. So yeah,
they're like, the proudly unsympathetic, unempathetic response to this is just,

(41:00):
you know, it's nice. It's like getting an ice bath
of just conservative shittiness like that gets us back into
the new cycle. Right, Yeah, we're too comfortable over the weekend.
I guess uh. It's it's funny because no one can
ever acknowledge what these people are fleeing. We can only
sort of frame this as the barbarians at the gates,
so to speak, of his people trying to break in,

(41:22):
mash the gates up, breach the border. And I think
even the Mexican officials, like it was maybe at thirty
at the most people who were actually part of like
trying to breach the actual border or whatever. There were
people sort of like in this dry riverbed part where
a lot of the sort of showdown was happening. But
it's never acknowledging what the situation is that these people

(41:43):
are fleeing. It's always just like they're trying. They're coming
for whatever, our our lake houses are jobs, whatever. Not. Hi,
have you ever had a child and had to worry
about like what their future is going to be, Like
you had daughters, you had to worry about sexual violence
or people getting killed in gang violence and things like that,
and your only option is too fun can leave your home?
No no, no, Yeah, it's like coming from this like

(42:03):
if you want to leave your home, the place you're from,
Like you're obvious there's obvialy something going on that you
need to get away from. Like people don't like I'm
sure they're not, like, yeah, I get to like leave
my home country. Like it's not a stoked thing. It's
like I gotta I have to do this. I literally
have to do this, and to not see that, and
I just think that it's like a fun thing. That's

(42:25):
like yeah, yeah, they just want to live here. Okay,
Well that's a comfort of not having any sort of
any realistic existential threat to you, like like like the
closest thing and be like, there weren't enough steam punkers
in my town in Idaho, so I had to move
to Seattle, right, yeah, exactly. I left a bad situation
and those people who fled I would live with more

(42:47):
steampunkers in Seattle are the people who the conservatives all hated,
and fuck you, don't don't move to my town. Also,
just to dismantle some of the excuses that services are
using to go to sleep at night, they've been talking
about how Mexico offered them asylum but they refused to
accept the asylum. That offer of asylum was made on

(43:10):
a quote rural stretch of highway where the caravan was
blocked by over a hundred cops dressed him riot gear,
And there was no guarantee that they wouldn't immediately be
deported after asylum was granted. So it wasn't just the
term asylum. You'd be like, okay, asylum and you have
to go. It wasn't a great offer that everybody on

(43:30):
the right is making it out to be. And also,
these are people who are fleeing violence, like you said,
and Mexico has had a history. People have fled Mexico
because of how you know, certain groups like lgbt Q
people are treated, or people with indigenous heritage. Uh. So
Mexico is also not the ideal location to be granted asylum.

(43:55):
So come to the US where some right wing terrorists
will kill you, but we're not. We're mostly okay. Uh.
And then officers in Mexico encourage asylum seekers to give
up on their applications and just get deported. They openly
mocked people's fears of violence and actively discourage them from
seeking protection. Uh. There's also the why don't they just
enter legally? Because I mean, the clear answer to this

(44:19):
is they must just like breaking the law or something,
because yeah, no, it's uh, they are trying to seek
asylum through the proper channels, and Fox just completely focuses
on the people who are trying to storm the border,
like it was like a scene from The Walking Dead,
but it's actually that's a very very small portion of

(44:40):
the caravan. It was like five people held a peaceful
protest out of the eight thousand people in the caravan,
and then like a group of a couple like, yeah,
like just broke off. Well yeah, and then they get
like I was saying, like why don't they apply? It's
because the Trump administration is just basically trying to end
the practice granting people asylum completely. So they're like, okay,

(45:02):
well then not just we'll ignore the laws that say
if you get to the US then you can apply.
It's like, well, now you have to do it through
this very narrow channel. And even then there's such a
backlog that I think they're it's less than a hundred
summer saying less than forty or maybe forty a day.
So yeah, and the reason some of these people are
desperate enough to you know, storm the border is that

(45:24):
they're being held in like soccer stadiums with two bathrooms
for thousands of people, and they're just terrible, you know,
circumstances that they're living in and they have children with them,
and it's a humanitarian crisis. And then there's obviously the
argument about pepper spray that we already explained why it's

(45:45):
not totally correct at least again. I look, there's anybody
from Fox that really wants to do the CS Nacho challenge,
put them pull up? You know what I mean? Is
that safe? Pull up? I want to set a whole
Nacho's bellground day, fucking gas that ship, right, and let's
see how how fucking tough your insights are. Right? Oh

(46:05):
my goodness, someone will do it. I can't wait till
I have a feeling can be baited into it. You're like,
oh yeah, i'll show you. Actually, but I don't even
know if they would upload the video because it would
be taking such a massive l on the internet, right,
and it also maybe possibly be dying, so that makes
it hard to upload the video. But it's all natural

(46:26):
from something all natural. I don't know. That's the question,
isn't it all right? We're gonna take another quick break.
We'll be right back and we're back, and so is
Jerry Springer. Baby. Yes, I mean, look, it was some

(46:52):
dark days ahead because as we all know, I mean,
I don't know about you guys. I have Google Alert
set up for Jerry Springer. But after fucking seasons, I
cannot believe it had twenty seven seasons. Uh. The CW
basically stopped ordering new episodes. Uh. And so the former
it wasn't even mayor of Cincinnati, he was Cleveland or Cleveland,

(47:13):
I forget it says he was born at the Highgate
Tube station. On his Wikipedia he was born. Yes, he
was Cincinnati mayor anyway, after all that, he uh, yeah,
the season is ending, So the Jerry Springer shows ending. Uh.
And we all know Steve Wilcos he had to leave.
He had his own show, you see Wilco Show, which
is another flaming pile of American garbage. But this one

(47:35):
is now. The new show will be called Judge Jerry,
and I mean, you guys are aready get where he's going.
The show will have Jerry Springer quote slide from the
stage too, behind the bench using law in order to
settle disputes. At least they accurately portrayed how he moves,
which is just sliding along on a trail of slime. Yeah. Right,

(47:58):
But I mean it would be interesting what kind of
fake conflicts they had cook up in this show, considering
how it wasn't all of the Jerry Springer show fake basically,
or they could find people with enough problems and they
could just embellish on the show. I think it was
just very embellished. I think those were real problems that
they escalated. Oh yeah, I mean, I'm my you know,

(48:19):
my husband doesn't know that the baby is his brother's.
Is a common theme on this show and in life
right or like early on, like like every episode with
some weird problematic, transphobic episode. What yeah, not a woman, right?
So I don't know what this show end up doing.
Uh but you know, he's got a liberal streak to him,

(48:41):
so maybe think something less wacky. I'm just wondering if
they're still going to be physical altercations, what are they
going to keep that going? I mean, that's one thing
these Judge shows are missing. Yeah, because no one acts
up in Judge Judy's court because she's too she will
fucking destroy you with her words. There are great supercuts
of Judge Judy just vaporizing people rhetorically. But yeah, I

(49:05):
don't know. I think it's going to be mostly trial
by combat and trial by word deal. Uh, those Middle
Ages ways of determining whether you just fight each other
to the day and if you don't die, then you
are innocent, um and you get to be uh the
king of Judge Jerry's court. But you know, good luck
to him. This is an NBC venture, So I maybe

(49:27):
one day we'll be on that show and we can
have a dispute settled. Right, it's a great idea. Okay, great,
well let's try and book that. Jack, you and I.
Let's great, we have to create a books the Jerry
Springer Judge Jerry Show. Yeah, I mean brilliant people clearly
to podcast hosts argue over the name of their show.
They fight over a Casper mattress, Judge Jerry. When the

(49:51):
deal came through, I was promised the king size mattress
and Jack took that. So what say you? It's also
playing that Jerry has any sort of like what he
says will actually get be in effect. You you win,
Like what's going to go from there? Right? Judge Judy
is an actual like Judge like a very successful, like

(50:13):
hard nosed, you know, person from the legal profession, and
Judge Jerry, they're just gonna be like, no, fucky man.
He's got a j d from Northwestern Oh my bad. Yeah,
and he was a political campaign advisor to RFK. But
Judge Judy had a long and distinguished legal career before
she decided to become a billionaire. Oh yeah, yeah yeah.

(50:34):
I mean her money is so long, I know it
will your eyes will roll back in your head. Yeah
is that true? Still? Oh yeah, okay, yeah, And she's
like the deal, the last deal she signed was some
kind of astronomical like he's like, good for you, Judge Judy.
I don't know why. I'm like, really, I really want
her to do well, and she really is doing alright.

(50:57):
Guess let's check in with Google tray search. Um, what
was trending? What is trending over? What are you all
talking about? So yesterday cyber Monday was obviously trending. Did
you guys cyber any Monday? Up? Nope? No, cool, No
thought about it. But the closest thing I bought over

(51:20):
the weekend was a portable battery pack to charge my
phone with because it was really cheap. That's pretty dope.
But that's about the level of excitement in my life. Yeah,
I need one of those. Actually, oh really, well look
you should should agree to do a secret Santa Jack.
But he said no, I got a leaf blower. That's
my big thing. You did plugging leaf blower? Yeah for

(51:42):
for a backyard. Yeah you're gonna use it? Yeah, okay,
hell yeah, I have some real dad ships. I am
turning into the daddi ist. Dad. Did you order some
khaki shorts to start with a brown belt and a
white polo? You can talk right in there with saknes
or no A via sneakers. A couple of days ago,

(52:04):
and NB A Young Boy was trending, and that is
a rapper's name. What's Who's NBA young Boy? He's a
rapper who uh was rumored to have been shot three
times over the long weekend and who has responded to
those rumors thing I wasn't shot. My name is the
NBA Young Boy. Uh. I just like, I think that's

(52:26):
my favorite new rapper name that I've heard. Dummy Boy
also trending. Also, that's actually Takashi six nine new album.
Oh it is yeah, ah man, he's in jail. He
can't do any press for that. Huh, what a wasted album?
Does any update on him? Is he trending today? Is
he does he safe in jail? He's the child molester? Right?

(52:48):
He was in a video where I think someone was
having sex with a thirteen year old or something, which
is like very anyway. Yeah, so that's what that's and
he only got probation for that. Yeah, I mean, come on,
I mean, get a good lawyer. We've all showed up
in time your background of a video or somebody's you know,

(53:10):
uh having sex with okay, okay and a young boy.
Let he without through the first stone. I don't know
this one. A lot of NBA stuff tweeting or trending.
Dwight Howard there was a big story where that I
think ended up being a hoax, but it it was

(53:32):
basically his former girlfriend, who is a trans woman, came
out and alleged that he had abused her when they
were in a relationship, and that gave NBA Twitter the
opportunity to just be incredibly problematic. Yeah, it was interesting.
I thought there was going to be a thing where

(53:52):
we had like a star athlete kind of be outed
and see how how he dealt with it in the world,
dealt with it. But it looks like this might be
a hoax because the person who outed him apparently did
the exact same thing to Playboy CARDI last year, like
around this time. Wow, homophobic hip hop fans? Do you

(54:13):
believe it? What can we do? Wait? What was the
thing with Tiger was playing Phil Mickelson? I saw that training.
Did they just do like a weird trick match or
something like a charity game or something? It was it
was a pay per view. They tried to boxing a
five golf They did one on one Tiger Woods versu.
Phil Mickelson where the winner would win nine million dollars. Oh,

(54:37):
that's why I saw memes of Tiger Woods looking at
up like literally a mountain of cash, and he said
that feeling when you lose nine million dollars. Yeah yeah wait,
so oh my wow, golf. Come on now, going on,
how many people have paid for that ship? Nobody? I
think a lot of people initially paid for it, and
then there were technical difficulties and the parent company had

(54:58):
to just turn that whole ship down. Oh and just
make it free. Yeah, just real funded almost everybody's money.
So that's a bad day for them. Did anybody watch
any football over the weekend? Michigan, VERUS, Ohio State? No.
I saw that L s U, Texas A and M
game go to like nine overtimes yea, or just towards
the tail end of that. And I was the first

(55:19):
time I've watched college football in a long time, and
I didn't know what was going on. You know how
people like make fun of fans of sports by being like, oh,
you root for the laundry. You just like, you cheer
for a team even though the player like leaves the team,
but all you care about is like the logo on
the thing. I literally root for Michigan because of the laundry.
I just like their uniforms. And I've always rooted for

(55:42):
them ever since the Fab five. Always been a big
Wolverine fan, Always been a big Wolverine fans. I mean,
if you're a fan of it, if you're actually a
fan of a team or a club, it's because you
actually like the team and not the players in it, right, Yeah,
I mean yeah, And I've just heard that logic attacked
by people being like, oh, you're just fan of the lawn.
Well yeah, my laundry is looking great. I know you're

(56:04):
just a fan of the tattoo on your hand. Yeah, well,
what are you gonna do? Yeah? Well, those are a
couple of things that jumped out of me from the trend.
I have to ask one thing. Because it was a
long weekend and everybody had a lot of time. Did
anybody watch movies over the weekend that I actually watched
something new because I finally saw Stars Born. Oh wow,
And I didn't realize Lady Gaga is in the movie.

(56:29):
That was really to this a bit that you told
me you were doing the whole the whole movie was Yeah,
I was pissing off her majesty. We're watching with some friends.
Shout out to Jason and injury. But I was like, way,
so is that? Well, that's Lady Gaga? Dumn. That was
although Bradley Cooper some a lot of people had to
take of like, yeah, Bradley Cooper was like whatever. I

(56:49):
didn't think he was bad, but I guess his character
could have been played by I think any actor, Like
I didn't feel like it was something that only Bradley
Cooper could have played. His ultimate decision, his character is
most important decision. I will say it feels unearned, but
I thought I thought his performance was pretty cool, maybe
just because I've seen him be so different that he
like I was, like, man, he really changed his voice, right,

(57:10):
that's pretty like anybody can tell no, see nice trash myself?
You're no, Bradley. Did you see stars? No? I haven't
seen it. Do you care to? Um? Is there any
no gravity? Did you not know that? Lady? Well, now
to check it out. I feel like they should have
led with that. Yeah. I should have definitely promoted that more.

(57:32):
I thought it was just Bradley Cooper like a solo show.
It was his life story. Also shout to Angela, the
drag queen was in the movie, very heavily featured, and
they they called her so Angela, So yes, Hallelujah, Hallel.
I only watched a movie by the name of Rules
of Engagement that was on So I finally got cable

(57:53):
after after moving a few weeks ago and just went
into a you know, just watching whatever shitty movie was
on on Start at like eleven o'clock at night, And
Rules of Engagement was it in which Tommy Lee Jones
defends Samuel L. Jackson for like slaughtering a group of

(58:14):
people in Yemen, I believe. And it is the most
islamophobic movie I've ever seen. And I assumed it was
like in response to September eleven, but it was like
a year before September eleven. They're just like, yeah, you're
gonna want some justification for why. I thought you were
talking about the David Spade show Rules of Engagement. Now, yeah,
I've seen I've already seen that show. Yeah, I can't

(58:37):
believe that she was on for six years. Uh. Super
producer around Hosni watched a ton of movies, like an
impressive number of movies, and she said the Crimes of
Grindele mild. I think I nailed that. Yeah, Candle Candle

(58:57):
would Candlewood was hard to follow on Edibles was the
her most cogent critique of the movies she watched over
the weekend. Yeah, I heard that not many people were
feeling that one, The Robin Hood one. I think when
you go see The Robin Hood one, I'm a little curious.
I think I need to see it. I think I
need to go And I like to be in a

(59:18):
movie and get so angry at the movies. It's a
good feeling. I don't know. It's a chase I feel.
I think it's better to go on rot Tomatoes. Okay,
and just pointed to on Rotten Tomatoes for Robin Hood.
What what is it on Metacritic? It's like three. Don't know.
It's hard for me to hate a movie, Like a

(59:40):
movie has to do a lot for me to like
hate it. Or don't you ever watch a terrible movie
and just turn it off? You're like, okay, now you are.
Now you're pushing me too far. I can't believe any
of this Ford Okay, you know, like they try. I
don't know. It's hard for me to be like this.
I to walk I've never really walked out. I would
think I've only walked out of two movies my whole life. Oh,

(01:00:01):
even if it's bad, I'm like, I'll just like, well,
a movie I pay for, I'm not gonna walk out
of Would you walk out of? Safe Haven? Actually wrote
about walking out of that one, which was it's like
a Nicholas Sparks joint. You know, it's like it's so
bad it wasn't a safe Wait, so how did you
what took you to the point where you go? I
cannot physically be in the same space as this film.

(01:00:22):
I think it was my state of mind. I was
really hungover and like I was just meant like I
wanted to go into like a cheesy rom com sort
of romantic movie kind of being like I just need
this right now, because like every sparks and then it
just made everything worse. Instead of being like the sort
of heart flattery like oh maybe love is out there

(01:00:43):
or whatever, it was like fuck this and walk out.
It was so bad. It was like there's a you know,
I don't want to give too much away. I think
people can I get just do it. It starts off
kind of almost feeling like it's like a like a
crime thriller where this woman's town. It's starting to spoil

(01:01:06):
spoiler alert. There are opening credits, um, but it's like
you feel like it's like a crime thriller and this
woman is escaping town and you're like why she did,
and then she ends up in this little town and
meets this guy and they fall in love, and then
you finally find out why she was escaping, and like
she's supposedly wanted for murder, but it's just her crazy

(01:01:27):
alcoholic ex husband who's trying to find her and he
works for the cops and he's like framing her for
murder so she can get her back home. And then
this whole time, she has like a friend who she
meets in this town, and you find out at the
end that this friend is the ghost of her new
boyfriend's ex dead white what I just locked out that

(01:01:54):
on that on that summary, they just like packed every
like plat twist into that movie. It was like it
was very chump shamal And then it turned out she
was also dead, And turns out I was dead to
right on the inside. Yeah, Godzilla only movie I've ever

(01:02:17):
walked up and I was with genre no and Matthew Roderick.
Ye oh, come on, come on, Jack. I don't know
what the funk I was expecting. I think it's because
it's in the same genre as my favorite movie, Jaws,
and so I go in with higher expectations than has
Like Jaws, it's a monster movie. I guess My FIRS

(01:02:38):
seven is so like based in Japanese culture. I'm like, oh,
it's just a guy, like I'll just habitually see every
Godzilla movie. Yeah, Japan ripped off Jaws first, that I know,
And I apologize to you every day for that. But
the thing that really got me is because of the
Taco Bella promotion with Chalupa's, you had to get the
z to one a million dollars at Godzilla with every
Chalupa you bought, never get the fun I have Goddilla

(01:03:03):
could never didn't say that's good enough, No, that's good enough, man,
you win. Yeah, it's because it's what is a boardwalk
basically of like game pieces, where like that's the one
for McDonald's. If you ever want to get the full
like board you would never get boardwalk at that story. Yeah,
did you know the story behind that? The dude who
was like in charge of security for that was scamming

(01:03:23):
the whole thing and like he basically was giving out
the winning pieces to his friends and family and they
were cutting him in and they were cutting him in.
It's an amazing story that they're going to make a
movie about, uh fairly soon and I'm going to walk
out on that fucking movie because it should have been me. Yes, well, guys,
this has been a blast. Wow truly has Alison? Where

(01:03:47):
can people find you? Follow you? Oh? I'm on Twitter
and on Instagram at just about glad that's where you
can find me. And is there a tweet that you've
been enjoying? Yeah, I saw. I'm organizing a strip show,
a body positive strip show that I want people to
come to if you live in l a. Where is

(01:04:08):
it at. It's at DAFT Creative Studios in Echo Park,
Echo Park, Filipino Town. Uh. And yeah, it's just gonna
be like this huge, Like we're gonna have a bunch
of body positive plus size girls stripping and it's gonna
be a fun time. There's vendors music. It's gonna be
a big Do you like a permit for that? Um? Oh,

(01:04:28):
my bad? Big hot does in all the time in
l A Is We'll be walking around. There will be
like a student film being shot on the street and
I'll walk up and be like, hey, let me see
those permits. Who's the producer out of got a permit? Oh?
You don't? Okay? Should I call film l A right now?
All right? Cool? It's cool. Move. Uh wait, what's this

(01:04:51):
show called. It's called Thick Strip. There you go. When's
it at? December four, eight pm? Fift dollars? It's Friday. Yeah,
you're you don't got anything to do the next Day,
you can come get drunk. Spent a lot of money
before Christmas, you know, just ye, it'll be good, it'll

(01:05:12):
be fun. I want people to come. I mean, if
all these deals people are getting on Cyber Monday, you'll
have money left over, exactly any extra singles This episode
of sponsored by Cyber Monday Day. In general, the tweet
you've been enjoy Yeah, you know there's this tweet that
I liked. Um, it's kind of It's from at Rachel

(01:05:39):
and Ladies. If he never text you back, always interjects
with unsolicited advice, read your personal documents, constantly tries to
help you format paragraphs. Is a sentient paper clip. He's
not your man. He's clipping the Microsoft word as system clip.

(01:06:01):
H Miles. Yeah, where find Oh wow, I want to
tell you guys. I can be found on Twitter and
Instagram at Miles of Gray. You can also find us
doing a live show at UCB Sunset Thursday. Well, hey,
there's still wait list. You can still get on the
waitlist because people flake, you know, so I'm not going

(01:06:21):
to discourage people. I want to jam this thing out
the back doors. I just mentioned that it was sold out.
Yeah well yeah, well yeah, well do we flex, but okay,
you know I want the fire Marshal will come through.
Do you guys get a permit for Hey, whoa were?
There will be some stripping also and also also if
you were in Chicago on Saturday, December one, we will

(01:06:43):
be in Chicago at Chicago Theater Works for our live
show and it'll be you know, it'll be a fun time.
We'll have one of y'all up, maybe be the third
chair now I keep saying maybe you will be. We
will have somebody come one person I guess technically the
fourth chair because we will have an official third person,
but you will give us over under a myth and
if it's garbage, prepare for to be eviscerated by the

(01:07:04):
panel of three. Also, they're both our live shows. You
said also on Saturday our live show, like you put
emphasis on a weird one. Okay, it's like the first
one was not our live show. I just want to
make sure we have to go on Judge Jerry. I
just want people to know we sold out the Thursday show,
so no big deal. Uh. What's a tweet? Tweet I
like always comes from Reductress and there are two of them.

(01:07:27):
One is a woman holding your cell phone. It says
a woman thinking of what to say after starting instant story,
what you gonna do? And another one for all you
lazy ass boyfriends out there, it says, how to be
impressed by the little things he does, because he definitely
won't do big things. All right. You can find me

(01:07:49):
on Twitter at Jack under Squirrel Brian. A tweet I've
been enjoying is from the very funny comedian Mark Little,
Mark Mark Little on Twitter. Uh. He tweeted, As a child,
I was intrigued by Rudolph, the overlooked reindeer underdog turned
champion of the skies. As an adult, I have put
aside such childish interests and turned my attention to Vixen.

(01:08:09):
Why did you name that one reindeer? Vixen? Santa? What
the hell is going on? Man? You're good? And then uh,
he is Santa naming reindeer dasher, fast dancer, nimble, prancer,
A bit much Vixen. I want to suck this reindeer
fast cupid. This reindeer will help get Vixen to fuck me.
Donor who cares Blitz and who cares Rudolph ship anyway,

(01:08:32):
Mark Little is very funny dude, I like that observation.
Why did he call one of the reindeers vixen? Uh?
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(01:08:53):
well as the song right out on. You can also
find that information in the show notes shy nights miles.
What song are we going to ride out? We are
going to ride out on a track by Leatherette little
sample based music here. A song is called Lang said
and I like it because it has that Bobby called
Weell sample from Skies and limiting you, that notorious b

(01:09:17):
I G. P's Ring one twelve song. But it's just
a little rework of that and it's just a little
nice easy beat to you know, get the get the
get the week roll. We've got a lot of got
a lot of work to do do we ever? All right,
We're gonna ride out on that. We will be back
tomorrow because it is a daily podcast and won't talk
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