October 11, 2017 • 42 mins
In episode three Jack & Miles, along with special guest comedian Brandie Posey discuss Mike Pence's dislike of the film Mulan, Rick & Morty fan's intense need for Szechuan sauce, how everyone seems to be babysitting Trump at the White house, & more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
A very good Oh, we're recording recording this. This is
a podcast, Hello the Internet, and welcome to the Daily
Sitgeist for Wednesday, October eleventh. My name is Jack O'Brien.
I am joined as always buy my co host, Mr
Miles Gray. Yes, Hi, Miles, Hi. I just want to
(00:21):
let all the kids out there. No, do not have
hot cheetos for breakfast. Not a good way to start
your day. Followed by black coffee. Yeah, exactly, bad one
to punch. And we are thrilled to be joined by
the hilarious Brandy Posey. Hello than having me, Thank you
for being here. I feel like we've got a real
ticking time bomb situation happening on this podcast. Right, No, no, no, no,
(00:42):
I'm clenched up tight. He's been all right, I've been armed.
I feel like the black coffee was like the arming mechanism. Right,
things I lifted. I lifted the cover that that protects
the switch. Now you know I'm serious? Yeah? Do you
have your nuclear football at them? Definitely have some kind
of football, all right, Brandy. We want our audience to
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be able to get to know you quickly. What is
the weirdest thing in your recent Google searches. Literally this morning,
I was searching Peter Field blood for sale. Some of
that blood in my veins? Well that yeah, because I
always forget. There's like a real like ross and racial
situation with whether or not he is or is not
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injecting the blood of youth into his veins to try
to live forever. And I kind of forget every time,
and um, I just like to Google just to see
where that's at. And there's just conflicting news stories constantly,
like the all of every other one just conflicts itself.
It's amazing. What's the latest. The top of the search
for Peter Field blood is no, Peter Field is not
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harvesting the blood of the young. But then Peter Field
wants to inject himself with young people's blood, and then
an anti aging startup paying thousands of dollars for teen blood,
and then someone is trying to discredit the story of
Peter Theold. It's just every other one. So what's amazing.
What's the one saying no denying the Peter THEO story.
Where's that coming from? It's from tech Crunch. Tech Crunch
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could just he could destroy tech. Yeah, it's all like
the guy so Peter theel is the guy who destroyed Gawker. Yeah,
people's blood. Yeah, so nobody on the internet is going
to be like telling the truth about that. Okay, one
thing that's overrated, one thing that's underrated, Brandy okay, um
overrated barcades right like it coming out, Because here's the thing.
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They never have enough pinball machines that are working at
the same time. Whoa you know what I mean, every
we're taking shots at specifically here that one Downtown no No.
I was in a barcade in Chicago and there was
like the Adams Family one, the Indiana Jones one, and
one of the w W E ones. None of them
were working, and I was like, you gotta have the
Adam Family barcade working at all times, you know what
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I mean. That's a classic pinball machines, everyone's favorite one.
That's so barcades are overrated, right because they've got too
many games on their hands to like keep track of
the really good pimball. Also, all I actually want is
a barcade full of Area one. Oh my god, Yes,
that's the Midway Shooting game. Yeah, that's the only game
that I actually want to play. A barcade and it's
always it's always taken, there's always in line. Buck Hunter
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is my game of choice. Didn't they didn't Zinki the
interior guy have a buck Hunter arcade machine installed inside
like the offices of the Interior. I don't know. I'm
pretty sure I'll check this. I've always thought that I
was similar to him. He's sort of my spirit animal. Yeah,
the man behind conservation has a buck Hunter video game.
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I think in the arcade. But in my in my twenties,
I loved above a bar called the Village Tavern in
New York City and there was a buck hunter there
and Eli Manning came in one time and uh, we
destroyed him and buck Hunter. The thing that I always
said about Eli Manning is he didn't have a smooth
cock like his just not a smooth enough cock. You
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have to have a smooth cock when you're cocking the gun.
And a big buck hunter. But yeah, I just confirmed
Zinky did the Interior, the Ministry the Interior. He did
put a big buck hunter in the cafeteria man. But also,
I just have one thing I want to say about
Air fifty one. I would rage out there's a bonus
box that like when you're driving through the airport. In
that first level, if you look up towards the tower,
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there was a box you can hit to get the
machine gun. If I missed that, I would rage out
every time, because when you get it, you're just mowing
down these fucking zombie alien dudes. Anyway, that's for the
real nerves out there, you guys. Mike Pence fucking hates Mulan. Um,
which wait, were we not talking about he hates Mulan. Yeah,
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he hates Mulan. He apparently back in before he was
vice president. Uh, he was a blogger. Uh, and one
of the things that he blogged about was how much
he hated Mulan. How the moral of the story, uh
was that women in military is a bad idea for
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people don't know Mulan. Uh. It's the story of a
warrior princess essentially like goes undercover and becomes like kind
of sneaks her way into being a great warrior. And
that offended Mike Pence's conservative sensibilities because she's afraid her
her ailing father would be drafted into the Chinese military.
So she like put personates a man and takes his place. Oh,
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so she goes as tribute. Yeah, yeah, yeah, way this
is This is from his review moral of this story
women in military bad idea. I suspect that some mischievous
liberal at Disney assumes that Milan's story will cause a
quiet change in the next generation's attitude toward women in combat,
and they just might be right. Housing in close quarters
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young men and women, in some cases married to non
military personnel. He's always coming back to, like how nervous
he is, that like women are just gonna like jump
on his dick when his wife isn't around. Uh So
he's worried about young men and women, uh some married
to non military personnel at the height of their physical
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and sexual potential is the high of stupidity. I think
he meant height. It is instructive that even in the
Disney film, young miss Mulan falls in love with her
superior officer exclamation point, Mike Pence just like needs a
very regular masturbation regiment because the dude is just so
fucking tightly wound. It's just like feel him to sitting
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on his keyboard, vibrating women everywhere, held them up and
put them away except for mother. But he also kind
of like he lives in that fantasy world like single
men do where they're like, yo, like we're gonna get
we're gonna go to the club and we're gonna fuck
and it never happens. Just like he's like, man, don't
get you. Don't don't get me in a room with
some women alone, because it's crazy. That's why mother has
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coming Like, dude, I don't think that's you do such
a good impression of Mike Pence, and mone felt like
he's like Mr Vice President is in the house becaus
mulans has been in the news a lot lately, uh
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my because of Mike Pence's rage and then uh, other
people who are mad Rick and Morty fans are just
furious that the Sechuan sauce that was brought back by
McDonald's uh there there wasn't enough of it apparently at
a couple of locations. Um. First of all, this was
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just a like reference to what was intended to be
a random and like obscure pop culture reference in the show,
and it has been completely ruined. So, I you know,
forgive me Internet for not watching Rick and Morty. What
you yeah, must Rick and Morty is. I mean, I
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know what it is, but I mean, like, oh, man,
the show it takes place in a bunch of different multiverses.
I know that that probably doesn't make sense to you
as a non Rick and Morty. Uh, you're not going
to get it. So it's it's a moderately smart, very
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very funny cartoon, I guess you would call it. But
it's fans are like so obnoxious. They are like the
new uh like MENSA members Like I saw dude. I
saw a dude the other day on a plan doing
mensah sudoku. I was just like, yeo, man, like that
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is it makes you dumb? Guys, living not in your
mom's basement makes you dumber. You gotta have subterranean you
gotta stink all the time. Yeah. But in the show.
In the show, Rick, who's like the mad scientist, reveals
in the first episode of this season that everything he's
doing is secretly for this Sechuan sauce that McDonald's like
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head for a brief moment. Yeah so and then right, okay,
now so that McDonald's was like, hey, we're hip, We're
in on this thing. Kids will bring it back, and
then the kids showed up in force. Uh so, Rick
and Morty fans. Another thing you should know about them
is that they have been bombarding the creators of Rick
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and Morty, Dan Harmon, uh and the other guy whose
name I'm drawing a blank on who I follow on Twitter,
uh about the fact that they have incorporated women writers
into the writing staff and like they're mad about that,
and they're like, come on, man, they can't get this
like stem science stuff that we're so good at. Our
brains are so much better at it, right, Um. Yeah,
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So just a bad group of people who are completely
ruining what is a really awesome show. Uh. And they're
also ruining I guess. And it's like, just just enjoy something.
You don't need to take it to the you don't
like murder every don't getting mad at the ship time.
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Goddamn it. I love this ship except if it weren't
for these women writers will make it funnier because I
think you you were saying too, And a lot of
guests have said that this season has been the funniest one.
I think, yeah, and yeah, who know. I wonder if
interesting they did a study about that they were, um,
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so they had diverse groups and non diverse groups, and
the diverse groups actually were better at solving problems and
like coming up with the right answer on really complex problems. Uh.
Non diverse groups were obviously worse at it, but they
thought they were better because they were like more confident
because they were all, you know, similar and like giving
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each other positive feedback, and it was just easier. So yeah,
diversity works. It just is hardy. That makes sense. So,
I mean, obviously, the Weinstein story is continuing to evolve.
Harvey Weinstein horrible human monster, sexual predator, uh ronning Pharaoh,
who is obviously Woody Allen and Mia Pharaoh's son, who
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is sort of like a an avenger of he's like
a superhero avenging sexual abuse. He talked about how Woody
Allen his father abused his sister um and now he
put together this huge piece of really in depth reporting
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that he released yesterday, uh in The New Yorker about
Harvey Weinstein just being basically a serial rapist. Uh. But
we're going to uh talk about that in depth in
a later episode. We feel like that story is developing,
But for now, we're going to take a quick break,
and when we come back, we're going to talk about
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this guy, Donald Trump. Apparently he is the president of
the United States, and uh, he has a lot of
shady financial dealings. We actually haven't talked about Trump. I'm
proud of us. I haven't talked about Trump NonStop since
we launched. Eventually we would break though, eventually we would
have to acknowledge the real We will talk about that
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when we get back and we're back. Um. So Bob Corker,
who is uh Tennessee Republican, who has announced that he's
no longer going to run per Senate and is therefore
just completely out of Fox to give, has now come
out and said, yeah, anything that I said to normalize
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Trump was a mistake. Even though that was just a
few months ago. He's now saying like we're clearly on
the path to World War three. Uh. And he also
said that the White House has become an adult daycare center,
which seems like a you know, fun way of calling
Trump a baby. But when you actually look at it,
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and Politico did, they kind of did a deep dive
with um, you know, sources inside the White House. Uh,
it turns out he wasn't really exaggerating. Like the tactics
that they used to kind of keep him on track
are tactics that you use with toddlers and with babies.
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I'm like, hey, look at the shiny thing over here. Yeah. Yeah,
they just shake keys over their head. Uh, blown on
his belly, did give it him? Raspberries? Take the football,
They take the football. One of the things they literally
say is when he has a bad idea that he's
like kind of obsessing over, they just say, we'll talk
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about it next week. Instead of saying no to him,
They're like, yeah, yeah, I know next week, buddy, next week,
we'll go to the park. Uh. You know. They will
try and get him to like an idea by convincing
him that the good eye idea was his. Like that
like that in which I think anybody who's also had
like a bad boss miles don't say shit has has
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has done that before. But it is still like very
i don't know, like compared to when you when you
hear the guys that like crooked media talk about their
time inside the Obama White House. That's just like this
enormous respect for him, like he's this gravitational figure where
like and like with trumpets, just like yeah, we gotta
like we gotta con vincent that all these ideas are
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his president diaper boy, what's funny is like I've worked
for people where like their egos are so big that
they actually are susceptible to that tactic, where like you'd
be like, you know, and I feel like you said
that last week that we should do something like that.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah I did and went for that ship. Yeah,
Like I guess when it makes sense because his dude's
ego is so unchecked, like just just give just get
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him like a giant stamp with Trump on it and
let him like walk around walk a us the countryside,
just stamping things and give a bunch of old male
he can't read. So it's like when I was king,
like my parents were like, hey, you want to write
on something? Another detail that. So I had always heard
that Avanka would always pop in during interviews just to
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like say hi, and I was like, that's not appropriate
because I'm the president and I'm talking to the New
York Times. But he would always just be like, oh hey, honey,
um and excited to see her. And I had heard
that he did that too cleverly, like cut interviews off, um,
But in this context, it almost seems more like a
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you know, a caregiver stopping by to like make sure
that they're you know, child or uh dementia written uh
grandparents is like staying on message or like that everything's okay.
It reminds me of like nanny popping in during Muppet
Babies remind him where he is. She must be sweat though,
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you know what I mean if like that's kind of
like her thing where like beak is glowing, she's glowing
about the situation. Yeah, I mean, like because yeah, when
you first read about it was like, man, like, look,
how informal this ship is. Like she's like hi, daddy,
like checking you. But now like if you look at
it through the lens of like she's sort of like
funk o funco funk He's he gonna like lose it
today sort of thing. But all, I guess it all
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depends on what what side of reality you choose to
look at it. Right, Well, I don't think they live
in such weird, rarefied air that like, I don't think
they believe they they'll ever get caught for any of us,
Like they've never been challenged in any way, right, I
mean even yeah, like a few weeks like there that
story came out about how they shook like like real
charges from like the New York d A like for
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like misleading investors. So like yeah, they definitely live in
a world where they're like, yeah, we'll never get caught anything. Yeah. Yeah.
The wine Stein story also has him just like shaking off,
like a woman went to the NYPD and was like, yo,
he like basically tried to rape me, and it like
went all the way up and then suddenly it just
like disappeared. Um. But yeah, so rich guys seem to
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have a knack for that. But speaking of him like
kind of melting down, it does seem like he's been
sort of flailing more than usual, like just sort of
I guess tilting it windmills or just blowing up at everything,
like any perceived slight, whether it's Tillerson calling him in
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war and he's like, well, we should trick our accused,
Like let's comp please webcast that ship. I want to
see those tests being taken. A Lotus is talking about
like how he's just purely literal, and like when they
talked about transparency in the wall, he was like, yeah,
we have to have a sea through a wall. And
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when uh, someone talked about how or Bush talked about
how you can't hide, and when you're in the Oval office,
you can't hide from like anything because of the media scrutiny.
He was like, yeah, there's no corners to hide in. Yeah,
everything is so super literal, just super literal. Um. I
think that he tends to be like flailing more as
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the Russian investigation seems to be ramping up. Well, he
he's never not had control or the artifice of control
over everything in his life, and it's making him more
and more mad because now he realizes how little he
can actually do, right, Like he can't get shipped done legislatively,
Like he's like, he can't do anything but to go
through and experience this probe. There's nothing yet. He can't
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pay off Miller, there's no way. He just can't do
any His whole trick back as it doesn't doesn't work
when you're the president, right, And I mean it's also
effective because it keeps us like focused on you know,
his fucking i Q test and dick measuring contest with
like one of his three babysitters. Um, but that never happened. No,
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actually no, I mean, Um, I didn't realize how shady
Trump's finances were. Um until like all these different journalistic
institutions started looking into it. But basically, uh, after you know,
the eighties and nineties, when he had gone bankrupt like
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so many times and had managed to like bankrupt a casino,
which is like just free money, like a building where
people come in and literally just hand you money. Their
games are set up for people to fucking lose, and
you still can't run that ship. So after being like
a famously failed business person, uh, Trump found himself unable
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to get loans from American banks because he has no
fucking credit, Like he got the worst credit. So at
that point he apparently started going and getting loans from
other countries. And it's like pretty shady people who are
like involved in these shell companies that are like moving
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money around in like really shady ways. Um. So Trump's
son in law, Avanka's husband, Jered Kushner, has a similar problem,
similar problem, Yeah, he uh, will you just marry your dad?
You know, like women are always just looking for their dad.
Are you a terrible business person? You drowning in debt?
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We're about right. So apparently like immediately before the real
estate market crashed in two thousand, Jared Kushner put down
fifty million to buy this building, which amazingly and once
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again proving that, uh, we're living in a high school
creative writing class. Short story. The building that he bought
is six six six Avenue. But so he and his
family bought the building for one point eight billion dollars
in two thousand seven, which is the most ever paid
for a building in Manhattan. And it was like right
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before the financial crisis hit. Um, he put down fifty
million of his own dollars and then borrowed the rest.
So borrowed a shipload of money and then immediately was
like underwater on the building. And so apparently he hasn't
even been able to like keep up with the debt
payments on the loan and so basically hasn't paid a
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cent towards paying back this one point two billion dollar
mortgage and it comes due February of two thousand nineteen,
and he like doesn't have any way of paying it back,
Like yeah, because i'd like to what the building is
just totally fucked up in like not not desirable in
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any way, right, Yeah, So they bought a bad building,
was the first problem. It was like built in the fifties,
the like ceilings are all low outdated, right, yeah it was.
It was like a building from mad Men, And in fact,
in one shot you can see it across the street
from Don Draper's office and mad Men, but like quite
literally you can literally see it. But like there's this
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scene in mad Men where where Peggy is like having
a drop ceiling put in on her like high ceiling department,
and it's like, yeah, that was the style back then,
and like, uh yeah, people are just like fucking their
apartments up. But apparently this was like this was built
at that time when like drop ceilings and low ceilings
were cool. Now that's like the opposite of what you want.
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And so it's just like a fucking mess of a building.
So he can't really sell spaces to anybody. Um, he
has this plan to turn it into big fancy condos,
but it would require crazy amounts of money to even
get those renovations, which is which she doesn't have. What
and what he was twenty six right when he bought
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this building, right, like what the are you doing? Twenty
six year? Little by at one point a billion dollar thing,
and then we gotta borrow more to even make that
ship a viable investment. Where's your family. She really did
marry her father as it's just like a dude who
inherited a real estate empire. And so the reason any
of this is relevant is that people think that Kushner's
meetings with like Russian officials and all the shady meetings
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he's been having were at least partially about business dealings
and like about this debt and trying to basically make
cheap money, get cheap money from overseas, which is something
that Trump has done in the past. Uh, there's a
bunch of financial records that apparently Mueller is like asking
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for that, get into that on Trump's behalf, and uh,
Kushner like is in the really shitty position of like
now having to do what Trump had done, but like
while he's being actively investigated. So you really can't do it.
It's not a private citizen anymore. You can't hide the
way he used to who are part of the presidential administration?
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Like so yeah, I mean, like when you can't go
to banks, like okay, so what's next shady like dark
money from Eastern Europe? Yeah, just the biggest cash for
gold that you can find, Right, That's what he's going for.
Can you imagine how much red string Robert Mueller has.
Oh my gosh, just miles and miles of red string
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connecting what is happening in those offices. So Trump's biographer,
this guy Timothy L. O'Brien no relation, uh was speculating
that Kushner was probably looking for help from the Russians
to keep the building like viable, and that he also
might be like jockeying for Chinese and Russian financiers. So
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it's basically, uh like really shady position for anyone just
remotely associated with the White House and decisions being made
by the President to actually be in Yeah, I mean
he is swaiting to like mean, like normal twenty six
year olds are like, funk, I gotta make rent or something.
You could like pop in, you could throw the uber
app on and like maybe make a quick like two
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hundred bucks Like he's like, I got a one point
two billion dollar bill do in February. Yeah exactly. Yeah,
he would have to do, like he would have to
multiple and stuff like that. Uber. But it's crazy to think,
like because yeah, he's gone out to a lot of
like Russian bankers, Like it seems like all the meetings
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that they've tried to connect Kushner with have been with
people who are either heads of banks or tangentially connected
to huge banks. And then at one point there was
like there was a rumor that a Chinese company was
gonna invest in it, and then there's another like another story.
I mean it's not that they're directly connected, but they
were saying that he wasn't talked with like the richest
man and cutter to invest like a half billion dollars
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into the building. And the guy the this this wealthy dude,
was like, Okay, if you all put down a half billion,
let's see if you can get someone else to like
come to the table and then we can do something.
So that's when he found like this Chinese investment company
who has like a lot of ties like to the
political elite there. And when that story came out there
like this Chinese bank was like, no, no, we're actually
not doing business with him because it was perceived as
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like a huge conflict of interest, like are you just
investing in this to like have access to the White
House and like no, we never had a deal, is
never gonna be a deal, And then that basically tanked
his deal with this uh, the wealthy man from Cutter
and then like a few days later, Trump's now like
coming after Cutter, you know, because the Trump's and you know,
they know how to get past a grudge. So I think, yes,
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finances are not the strong sit over there. Well, and
it's funny because it shows like why they have no
empathy for anybody struggling with student loans, because they're like, well,
why can't you just find a shady billionaire in another
country to run for president and when and become That's
how you get your loans paid. Come on, guys, cheese
figure it out. It's that easy. It's just that easy.
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Stupid ass over here one to learn about literature. Yeah,
so maybe we'll keep watching this uh disaster of a
scenario unfold for Jerry Kushner. He really feels like the
guy who's in over his head with like mob blows. Yeah,
and like it's just like I don't know what to do.
I really think Trump should just like appoint John Taffer
from bar Rescue to his administration and he might be
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able to fix this. For Yeah, we've got to run
a billion dollars. You gotta pay back. We like the
wrong reality stuff. Yeah, right, really all right, we'll be
right back after this. Alright, we're back, um yeah, before
I'm just thinking about him in because like it looks
like there's he's having a lot, like a real hard
time finding his money. Like do you think he'll just
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tell like the credits like that's miles move every time
he's like at at at a restaurant, ye and the
bill comes he and they'll just think you're so pitiful.
They'll be like, all right, just do these dishes. And
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that's how you eat at Matsuhisa every day for Jared
is a flaming hot Cheetos in black coffee, exactly all right.
I wanted to move on real quickly to a story that, uh,
it's kind of always in the headlines somewhere on the internet,
the Florida Man's story. The entire genre of Florida man stories. Uh.
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You might recognize them from the Florida Man who shot
himself in the dick, or the Florida Man who punched
a swan um or even even if you just right
now look at top News and you stick at Florida Man.
Florida man sets himself on fire after losing Cowboys Packers
bet to his wife. Yeah, there you go. So I'm
still doing it. Still got it. You said you'd set
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yourself on fire. You said it, I know, karenen Um.
So I've always wondered why the fuck Florida is so
much weirder than the rest of the country because, right, well,
so it is the third most populous state in the
United States, so there are a lot of people to
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choose from. Uh. It also is in the South, and
it's got like a really interesting collection of different cultures
and you know, a crazy mix of different types of people. Uh.
But the reason that the Florida Man section reads like
Dave Berry's breaking Bad is because Florida is the only
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state in the United States that has open record laws
where it's called the government in the Sunshine Act. Uh,
and it's basically every meeting that happens in Florida between
the government, like you have to have a record of
everything that was said in that meeting. And that also
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applies for arrest records, the that police have to make
arrest records public. So so you're just saying it's just
their wokenness of being the most transparent state. You should
should be admiring Florida because they're actually the most progressive state. Um.
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But yeah, the reason that we have so much detail
on like that's basically all it is, is that Florida
is the only state where we get to see in
detail how fucked up like Americans just in general are
like how the funk up ship that is like going
on behind the crime blodder in your town is just
(30:38):
as crazy as the Florida manship. It's just that the
arrest records are not like made public to everybody, and
Florida is the only state where that is true. So
you can just like sit there and read arrest report
after arrest report and just find the best ones. And yeah,
like that, really they just red pilled me right there.
I was. I was just in my mind. I was like,
(30:59):
it's Florida fund crazy and then it's like, oh, it's
because everything is transparent and everything is fucking crazy. But
I guess how I like to think about it, I
bet New York would have some crazy ones fucking California, man,
even so, more like grow up. There's all kinds of
weird ship. I've seen crazy ship like the Captain in
New York and Ella just like Los Angeles Spider Man,
(31:22):
just them alone. The people that dressed up like Spider
Man outside of Hollywood Highland. Just their crimes alone, right
right right would be up there. And like the Times
Square characters too, I'm sure they're all getting into some
ship man. I also do think there's a bias at
work in the Florida man thing, and that poor you know,
white people are the last type of person who in
(31:42):
mainstream culture it is okay to just openly shipped on
and make fun of and being controversial right without being controversial.
So uh yeah, that that's another reason that we like
to make them the protagonist of our screwball comedies in
the news. Yeah, well it makes us all feel better
that we're not Florida. But also there are so many
(32:02):
documentaries about Florida that are just like mind blowing, Like
Vernon Florida is an amazing one, and then also check
out Mule Skin or Blues. That's another insane one about
this guy who's trying to make a horror film in
his trailer park and it's like it's it's legit, but
it's amazing. Uh So, I mean I'm not saying Florida
is not a place where like you know, I'm not,
(32:23):
but yeah, but I feel like, yeah, it's interesting, but
I guess it is. You know what, I think we
need an open call to all the states to start
making these records transparent because you know what, now I'm
having some California pride. We could be we could be
the real fucking weird state. And I mean, hey, man,
we all voted for Trump. Like, we're all Florida. Now
the whole country is are you voting for Trump? Oh?
Oh god, no, no, no no, no, I mean likes the
(32:44):
country did? Oh the country did? I thought that was
your way in this room. Yeah, you guys, yeah, no,
not individually, but as a country we did. Right. So
we're all Florida. We don't We've lost the ability to
get this better than flower people. Yeah, I think so
the whole country is a Michael Jordan crying face. So
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you guys want to give a quick update to a
story that we talked about on I think it was
episode one about the sonic attack on US diplomats in Cuba.
I have an update. Um. First of all, there's this
Moscow signal thing that a lot of the people who
believe the attacks on the diplomats are real have brought
(33:29):
up because apparently in the sixties and seventies in the U.
S Embassy in Moscow, they were targeted by microwaves. They
just like suddenly found that microwaves were like coming into
the embassy, like they were throwing him at him, right basically, yeah,
like microwaves micro Yeah, microwave ovens. They're throwing microwave ovens. No,
they were, they were firing microwaves at them. And so
(33:53):
a study in the seventies like looked into how this
was affecting them because nobody really knew what microwaves did
other than cook popcorn badly. So the group that was
hit with these symptoms had been reporting that they were
experiencing depression, irritability, difficulty, and concentrating and memory loss, which
are also symptoms that have been mentioned in Cuba UM.
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But when they did a study, so they found that
those symptoms were actually more common in the Moscow embassy
than other U. S embassies. But when they actually broke
it out, the symptoms were more common in people who
hadn't been exposed to the microwaves. So it was just
them kind of feeling like, Okay, something's going on, and
(34:41):
also I feel like embassies I I've not worked in
an embassy, but it seems like it might be one
of those uh environments where there's a lot of stress
closely linked people and their cycles sync up, so to speak.
Um And another another detail that is making me further
(35:03):
think that we're dealing with a sort of mass panics
psychosomatic deal is that after the US government pulled the
diplomats and started warning people that this was going on,
tourists traveling to Cuba have started reporting the same symptoms
of headaches and yeah, so like the same ship, like
(35:28):
when like those magic eye posters were out, and like,
oh man, I see the dragon you see And I'm like, yeah,
do you want to be in on the things? So, yeah, yeah,
I'm getting those headaches. But it is such a the
symptoms are so diffuse and vague that it's possible to
feel them and for it not to be being caused
(35:49):
by some secret uh microwave laser weapon. I always just
assume everyone's dehydrated, especially on vacation. Last thing you dream
is are you like gon booze every two? Yeah? Yeah,
that's really going That's that's my favorite explanation is one
of the people who actually believes that it might be
(36:11):
like a case of ascessteria was like, yeah, those are
all symptoms that come with getting older, and like literally
every one of us is living a day where we're
the oldest we've ever been, and so we have more
symptoms of old age than we've ever had before. Like
hearing loss is something like I suffer permanent hearing loss
and that my hearing will never be as good as
(36:31):
it was yesterday, except for Peter theel or maybe not
the young children. All right, we're gonna try a new
segment where we go out on stories that are warming
our hearts, and Brandy, let's start with you. Yeah, so
do you guys know about the Chicago mothman sightings that
(36:52):
have been happening over the summer into the fall. Okay,
so there's been cogo mothman sightings and it's all over
like all over Chicago, South Chicago, North Chicago, East West
over by Lake Shore over like up in Evanston. And
Chicago is like a no nonsense city where it's like
(37:14):
um market just have a hard time doing stuff there
because people always like I gotta get to work, get
out of my way. So for them to be making
up mothman sightings all over the city is like maybe
this is real, who knows, but people have been trying
to get photos. The closest one that they've got is
like this, this one. This is like a it's a
very vague picture, kind of a probably just a drone.
What do I think it is? It looks like it
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looks like a kite or a sting ray or a
guy in one of those wingsuits. Could be anything, or
it could be a mothman. Yeah, I mean, I hope
it's a moth man. I mean, I just feel like
we got Jared's like six six six building, Like all
of the signs of the apocalypse are coming together. So
at this point, why wouldn't there be a shall appear
(37:59):
in the city of Chica The Book of Revelations. Turns
out it wasn't subtle. Yeah, it just all came about
like like so here, here's a here's a description from
one of the sightings. Um uh. Suddenly, the large winged
being slowly descended in front of them, no more than
five ft away. It hovered about five feet above the
sidewalk with its wings spread open as it appeared at
the couple, with large, bright red eyes that slowly altered
(38:22):
back and forth. In intensity. Several people on the other
side of the street, including a delivery van driver, reacted
with screens and frightened yelts. The winged being hovered for
about ten seconds and then quickly pulled in the wings
into its body and shot quickly into the night sky.
Oh yeah, yeah, I've seen that. Yeah, that's the one
(38:43):
man that is fucking crazy. Yeah, there's a bunch of
let's keep an eye out forman if you're living in
Chicago and you see the Mothman, see Mothman, tell someone
about moth Man. You think, uh, Miles was warming your
heart right now? You know. The story that's wearing my
heart right now is is finding out that Frankie Munez
(39:05):
can't remember that he was on Malcolm And that's my
favorite though. Minds, great minds. But yeah, it came out
that like I'm dancing at the stars, he was saying
he's had like nine concussions and like he's having mini
strokes and can't remember ship from like being on Malcolm
in the Middle. Yeah, it's it's a weird thing to
(39:25):
warm your heart, but it's just so Frankie Munez, who
played Malcolm in the Middle, is such an interesting whack job.
Like there there's his Twitter feed. At one point was
just overtaken and this was back in two thousand and ten,
just overtake him with his like hunt of scorpions. He
was just like one day he was like tired of
(39:45):
all these scorpions, and then he was he was like,
my pest guy lives with me. Basically we have scorpions bad.
And then just like NonStop talking about scorpions. I get
so much joy from murdering scorpions trespass onto my property.
He died by shoe smash, like he's just oh my god.
Do you think he remembers this? I wonder or is
(40:07):
like a scorpion like code for something else? Yeah, because
like a racist tirade. He was really a wink wink wink.
At one point he said his mouth was getting numb
because he put a scorpion in his mouth and tried
to chew it. Okay, so maybe that's what's going on.
It's just like I get himself. I get this vibe
of like Hunter S. Thompson styled debauchery like going on,
(40:28):
and Frankie Munus is like weird Malcolm in the Middle
Mansion exactly. There was a thing. He said an interview, said,
since two thousand and six, I've broken thirty eight bones
and I've had nine concussions since the age of seven. So, like,
does this dude have like CT or something to like
for sure has CT at this point, and he's had
(40:49):
mini strokes. And he also said he doesn't hasn't gone
to the doctor to like talk about his memory loss.
So anyway, I choose to believe he was just fucked
up the whole time. Yeah, that that's the way the
story would doubt. And he can't remember ship all right. Well,
on that note, On that note, Brandy, where can our
audience find you? I'm on Twitter and Instagram at brand, Dazzle,
(41:09):
b r A and d A z z Ellie. Yeah,
and Um, I have a podcast called Lady to Lady.
It's um Me and too their FEMA comics. I usually
a fourth guest, just kind of riffing and hanging out. UM.
And then I have an album on iTunes and all
the places you buy albums called Opinion Cave I'm Gonna
Stand Up, and and then my touring dates for Everywhere
very funny stand up um miles. Where can people find you?
(41:31):
You can find me in the bathroom right now. You
can follow the Daily Zeitgeist at daily Zeitgeist on Twitter,
at the daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. There's a Facebook group
called the Daily Zeitgeist. I'm at Jack Underscore, O'Brien, O
b r, I e en. And also, so, we are
(41:53):
going to eventually be publishing footnotes, which are basically just
going to be our uh notes for the shows with
links to the stories, so that people can follow along
at home or you know, check our sources and read
the articles we've been reading. We're working on that. Those
will eventually be up on our website. Um but uh yeah,
(42:16):
uh and I at that point, once it's top and live,
I will start pronouncing footnotes footnotes like an asshole. Uh
until then, Uh yeah, We'll talk to you guys tomorrow. Bye.
A very good Oh, we're recording recording this. This is
a podcast, Hello the Internet, and welcome to the Daily
Sitgeist for Wednesday, October eleventh. My name is Jack O'Brien.
I am joined as always buy my co host, Mr
Miles Gray. Yes, Hi, Miles, Hi. I just want to
(00:21):
let all the kids out there. No, do not have
hot cheetos for breakfast. Not a good way to start
your day. Followed by black coffee. Yeah, exactly, bad one
to punch. And we are thrilled to be joined by
the hilarious Brandy Posey. Hello than having me, Thank you
for being here. I feel like we've got a real
ticking time bomb situation happening on this podcast. Right, No, no, no, no,
(00:42):
I'm clenched up tight. He's been all right, I've been armed.
I feel like the black coffee was like the arming mechanism. Right,
things I lifted. I lifted the cover that that protects
the switch. Now you know I'm serious? Yeah? Do you
have your nuclear football at them? Definitely have some kind
of football, all right, Brandy. We want our audience to
(01:04):
be able to get to know you quickly. What is
the weirdest thing in your recent Google searches. Literally this morning,
I was searching Peter Field blood for sale. Some of
that blood in my veins? Well that yeah, because I
always forget. There's like a real like ross and racial
situation with whether or not he is or is not
(01:26):
injecting the blood of youth into his veins to try
to live forever. And I kind of forget every time,
and um, I just like to Google just to see
where that's at. And there's just conflicting news stories constantly,
like the all of every other one just conflicts itself.
It's amazing. What's the latest. The top of the search
for Peter Field blood is no, Peter Field is not
(01:47):
harvesting the blood of the young. But then Peter Field
wants to inject himself with young people's blood, and then
an anti aging startup paying thousands of dollars for teen blood,
and then someone is trying to discredit the story of
Peter Theold. It's just every other one. So what's amazing.
What's the one saying no denying the Peter THEO story.
Where's that coming from? It's from tech Crunch. Tech Crunch
(02:07):
could just he could destroy tech. Yeah, it's all like
the guy so Peter theel is the guy who destroyed Gawker. Yeah,
people's blood. Yeah, so nobody on the internet is going
to be like telling the truth about that. Okay, one
thing that's overrated, one thing that's underrated, Brandy okay, um
overrated barcades right like it coming out, Because here's the thing.
(02:31):
They never have enough pinball machines that are working at
the same time. Whoa you know what I mean, every
we're taking shots at specifically here that one Downtown no No.
I was in a barcade in Chicago and there was
like the Adams Family one, the Indiana Jones one, and
one of the w W E ones. None of them
were working, and I was like, you gotta have the
Adam Family barcade working at all times, you know what
(02:52):
I mean. That's a classic pinball machines, everyone's favorite one.
That's so barcades are overrated, right because they've got too
many games on their hands to like keep track of
the really good pimball. Also, all I actually want is
a barcade full of Area one. Oh my god, Yes,
that's the Midway Shooting game. Yeah, that's the only game
that I actually want to play. A barcade and it's
always it's always taken, there's always in line. Buck Hunter
(03:14):
is my game of choice. Didn't they didn't Zinki the
interior guy have a buck Hunter arcade machine installed inside
like the offices of the Interior. I don't know. I'm
pretty sure I'll check this. I've always thought that I
was similar to him. He's sort of my spirit animal. Yeah,
the man behind conservation has a buck Hunter video game.
(03:34):
I think in the arcade. But in my in my twenties,
I loved above a bar called the Village Tavern in
New York City and there was a buck hunter there
and Eli Manning came in one time and uh, we
destroyed him and buck Hunter. The thing that I always
said about Eli Manning is he didn't have a smooth
cock like his just not a smooth enough cock. You
(03:57):
have to have a smooth cock when you're cocking the gun.
And a big buck hunter. But yeah, I just confirmed
Zinky did the Interior, the Ministry the Interior. He did
put a big buck hunter in the cafeteria man. But also,
I just have one thing I want to say about
Air fifty one. I would rage out there's a bonus
box that like when you're driving through the airport. In
that first level, if you look up towards the tower,
(04:18):
there was a box you can hit to get the
machine gun. If I missed that, I would rage out
every time, because when you get it, you're just mowing
down these fucking zombie alien dudes. Anyway, that's for the
real nerves out there, you guys. Mike Pence fucking hates Mulan. Um,
which wait, were we not talking about he hates Mulan. Yeah,
(04:43):
he hates Mulan. He apparently back in before he was
vice president. Uh, he was a blogger. Uh, and one
of the things that he blogged about was how much
he hated Mulan. How the moral of the story, uh
was that women in military is a bad idea for
(05:05):
people don't know Mulan. Uh. It's the story of a
warrior princess essentially like goes undercover and becomes like kind
of sneaks her way into being a great warrior. And
that offended Mike Pence's conservative sensibilities because she's afraid her
her ailing father would be drafted into the Chinese military.
So she like put personates a man and takes his place. Oh,
(05:27):
so she goes as tribute. Yeah, yeah, yeah, way this
is This is from his review moral of this story
women in military bad idea. I suspect that some mischievous
liberal at Disney assumes that Milan's story will cause a
quiet change in the next generation's attitude toward women in combat,
and they just might be right. Housing in close quarters
(05:48):
young men and women, in some cases married to non
military personnel. He's always coming back to, like how nervous
he is, that like women are just gonna like jump
on his dick when his wife isn't around. Uh So
he's worried about young men and women, uh some married
to non military personnel at the height of their physical
(06:09):
and sexual potential is the high of stupidity. I think
he meant height. It is instructive that even in the
Disney film, young miss Mulan falls in love with her
superior officer exclamation point, Mike Pence just like needs a
very regular masturbation regiment because the dude is just so
fucking tightly wound. It's just like feel him to sitting
(06:31):
on his keyboard, vibrating women everywhere, held them up and
put them away except for mother. But he also kind
of like he lives in that fantasy world like single
men do where they're like, yo, like we're gonna get
we're gonna go to the club and we're gonna fuck
and it never happens. Just like he's like, man, don't
get you. Don't don't get me in a room with
some women alone, because it's crazy. That's why mother has
(06:54):
coming Like, dude, I don't think that's you do such
a good impression of Mike Pence, and mone felt like
he's like Mr Vice President is in the house becaus
mulans has been in the news a lot lately, uh
(07:14):
my because of Mike Pence's rage and then uh, other
people who are mad Rick and Morty fans are just
furious that the Sechuan sauce that was brought back by
McDonald's uh there there wasn't enough of it apparently at
a couple of locations. Um. First of all, this was
(07:36):
just a like reference to what was intended to be
a random and like obscure pop culture reference in the show,
and it has been completely ruined. So, I you know,
forgive me Internet for not watching Rick and Morty. What
you yeah, must Rick and Morty is. I mean, I
(08:00):
know what it is, but I mean, like, oh, man,
the show it takes place in a bunch of different multiverses.
I know that that probably doesn't make sense to you
as a non Rick and Morty. Uh, you're not going
to get it. So it's it's a moderately smart, very
(08:21):
very funny cartoon, I guess you would call it. But
it's fans are like so obnoxious. They are like the
new uh like MENSA members Like I saw dude. I
saw a dude the other day on a plan doing
mensah sudoku. I was just like, yeo, man, like that
(08:42):
is it makes you dumb? Guys, living not in your
mom's basement makes you dumber. You gotta have subterranean you
gotta stink all the time. Yeah. But in the show.
In the show, Rick, who's like the mad scientist, reveals
in the first episode of this season that everything he's
doing is secretly for this Sechuan sauce that McDonald's like
(09:04):
head for a brief moment. Yeah so and then right, okay,
now so that McDonald's was like, hey, we're hip, We're
in on this thing. Kids will bring it back, and
then the kids showed up in force. Uh so, Rick
and Morty fans. Another thing you should know about them
is that they have been bombarding the creators of Rick
(09:27):
and Morty, Dan Harmon, uh and the other guy whose
name I'm drawing a blank on who I follow on Twitter,
uh about the fact that they have incorporated women writers
into the writing staff and like they're mad about that,
and they're like, come on, man, they can't get this
like stem science stuff that we're so good at. Our
brains are so much better at it, right, Um. Yeah,
(09:49):
So just a bad group of people who are completely
ruining what is a really awesome show. Uh. And they're
also ruining I guess. And it's like, just just enjoy something.
You don't need to take it to the you don't
like murder every don't getting mad at the ship time.
(10:11):
Goddamn it. I love this ship except if it weren't
for these women writers will make it funnier because I
think you you were saying too, And a lot of
guests have said that this season has been the funniest one.
I think, yeah, and yeah, who know. I wonder if
interesting they did a study about that they were, um,
(10:32):
so they had diverse groups and non diverse groups, and
the diverse groups actually were better at solving problems and
like coming up with the right answer on really complex problems. Uh.
Non diverse groups were obviously worse at it, but they
thought they were better because they were like more confident
because they were all, you know, similar and like giving
(10:54):
each other positive feedback, and it was just easier. So yeah,
diversity works. It just is hardy. That makes sense. So,
I mean, obviously, the Weinstein story is continuing to evolve.
Harvey Weinstein horrible human monster, sexual predator, uh ronning Pharaoh,
who is obviously Woody Allen and Mia Pharaoh's son, who
(11:18):
is sort of like a an avenger of he's like
a superhero avenging sexual abuse. He talked about how Woody
Allen his father abused his sister um and now he
put together this huge piece of really in depth reporting
(11:39):
that he released yesterday, uh in The New Yorker about
Harvey Weinstein just being basically a serial rapist. Uh. But
we're going to uh talk about that in depth in
a later episode. We feel like that story is developing,
But for now, we're going to take a quick break,
and when we come back, we're going to talk about
(12:02):
this guy, Donald Trump. Apparently he is the president of
the United States, and uh, he has a lot of
shady financial dealings. We actually haven't talked about Trump. I'm
proud of us. I haven't talked about Trump NonStop since
we launched. Eventually we would break though, eventually we would
have to acknowledge the real We will talk about that
(12:22):
when we get back and we're back. Um. So Bob Corker,
who is uh Tennessee Republican, who has announced that he's
no longer going to run per Senate and is therefore
just completely out of Fox to give, has now come
out and said, yeah, anything that I said to normalize
(12:44):
Trump was a mistake. Even though that was just a
few months ago. He's now saying like we're clearly on
the path to World War three. Uh. And he also
said that the White House has become an adult daycare center,
which seems like a you know, fun way of calling
Trump a baby. But when you actually look at it,
(13:05):
and Politico did, they kind of did a deep dive
with um, you know, sources inside the White House. Uh,
it turns out he wasn't really exaggerating. Like the tactics
that they used to kind of keep him on track
are tactics that you use with toddlers and with babies.
(13:25):
I'm like, hey, look at the shiny thing over here. Yeah. Yeah,
they just shake keys over their head. Uh, blown on
his belly, did give it him? Raspberries? Take the football,
They take the football. One of the things they literally
say is when he has a bad idea that he's
like kind of obsessing over, they just say, we'll talk
(13:47):
about it next week. Instead of saying no to him,
They're like, yeah, yeah, I know next week, buddy, next week,
we'll go to the park. Uh. You know. They will
try and get him to like an idea by convincing
him that the good eye idea was his. Like that
like that in which I think anybody who's also had
like a bad boss miles don't say shit has has
(14:12):
has done that before. But it is still like very
i don't know, like compared to when you when you
hear the guys that like crooked media talk about their
time inside the Obama White House. That's just like this
enormous respect for him, like he's this gravitational figure where
like and like with trumpets, just like yeah, we gotta
like we gotta con vincent that all these ideas are
(14:33):
his president diaper boy, what's funny is like I've worked
for people where like their egos are so big that
they actually are susceptible to that tactic, where like you'd
be like, you know, and I feel like you said
that last week that we should do something like that.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah I did and went for that ship. Yeah,
Like I guess when it makes sense because his dude's
ego is so unchecked, like just just give just get
(14:55):
him like a giant stamp with Trump on it and
let him like walk around walk a us the countryside,
just stamping things and give a bunch of old male
he can't read. So it's like when I was king,
like my parents were like, hey, you want to write
on something? Another detail that. So I had always heard
that Avanka would always pop in during interviews just to
(15:15):
like say hi, and I was like, that's not appropriate
because I'm the president and I'm talking to the New
York Times. But he would always just be like, oh hey, honey,
um and excited to see her. And I had heard
that he did that too cleverly, like cut interviews off, um,
But in this context, it almost seems more like a
(15:37):
you know, a caregiver stopping by to like make sure
that they're you know, child or uh dementia written uh
grandparents is like staying on message or like that everything's okay.
It reminds me of like nanny popping in during Muppet
Babies remind him where he is. She must be sweat though,
(16:00):
you know what I mean if like that's kind of
like her thing where like beak is glowing, she's glowing
about the situation. Yeah, I mean, like because yeah, when
you first read about it was like, man, like, look,
how informal this ship is. Like she's like hi, daddy,
like checking you. But now like if you look at
it through the lens of like she's sort of like
funk o funco funk He's he gonna like lose it
today sort of thing. But all, I guess it all
(16:22):
depends on what what side of reality you choose to
look at it. Right, Well, I don't think they live
in such weird, rarefied air that like, I don't think
they believe they they'll ever get caught for any of us,
Like they've never been challenged in any way, right, I
mean even yeah, like a few weeks like there that
story came out about how they shook like like real
charges from like the New York d A like for
(16:43):
like misleading investors. So like yeah, they definitely live in
a world where they're like, yeah, we'll never get caught anything. Yeah. Yeah.
The wine Stein story also has him just like shaking off,
like a woman went to the NYPD and was like, yo,
he like basically tried to rape me, and it like
went all the way up and then suddenly it just
like disappeared. Um. But yeah, so rich guys seem to
(17:08):
have a knack for that. But speaking of him like
kind of melting down, it does seem like he's been
sort of flailing more than usual, like just sort of
I guess tilting it windmills or just blowing up at everything,
like any perceived slight, whether it's Tillerson calling him in
(17:28):
war and he's like, well, we should trick our accused,
Like let's comp please webcast that ship. I want to
see those tests being taken. A Lotus is talking about
like how he's just purely literal, and like when they
talked about transparency in the wall, he was like, yeah,
we have to have a sea through a wall. And
(17:48):
when uh, someone talked about how or Bush talked about
how you can't hide, and when you're in the Oval office,
you can't hide from like anything because of the media scrutiny.
He was like, yeah, there's no corners to hide in. Yeah,
everything is so super literal, just super literal. Um. I
think that he tends to be like flailing more as
(18:10):
the Russian investigation seems to be ramping up. Well, he
he's never not had control or the artifice of control
over everything in his life, and it's making him more
and more mad because now he realizes how little he
can actually do, right, Like he can't get shipped done legislatively,
Like he's like, he can't do anything but to go
through and experience this probe. There's nothing yet. He can't
(18:32):
pay off Miller, there's no way. He just can't do
any His whole trick back as it doesn't doesn't work
when you're the president, right, And I mean it's also
effective because it keeps us like focused on you know,
his fucking i Q test and dick measuring contest with
like one of his three babysitters. Um, but that never happened. No,
(18:58):
actually no, I mean, Um, I didn't realize how shady
Trump's finances were. Um until like all these different journalistic
institutions started looking into it. But basically, uh, after you know,
the eighties and nineties, when he had gone bankrupt like
(19:19):
so many times and had managed to like bankrupt a casino,
which is like just free money, like a building where
people come in and literally just hand you money. Their
games are set up for people to fucking lose, and
you still can't run that ship. So after being like
a famously failed business person, uh, Trump found himself unable
(19:44):
to get loans from American banks because he has no
fucking credit, Like he got the worst credit. So at
that point he apparently started going and getting loans from
other countries. And it's like pretty shady people who are
like involved in these shell companies that are like moving
(20:04):
money around in like really shady ways. Um. So Trump's
son in law, Avanka's husband, Jered Kushner, has a similar problem,
similar problem, Yeah, he uh, will you just marry your dad?
You know, like women are always just looking for their dad.
Are you a terrible business person? You drowning in debt?
(20:28):
We're about right. So apparently like immediately before the real
estate market crashed in two thousand, Jared Kushner put down
fifty million to buy this building, which amazingly and once
(20:48):
again proving that, uh, we're living in a high school
creative writing class. Short story. The building that he bought
is six six six Avenue. But so he and his
family bought the building for one point eight billion dollars
in two thousand seven, which is the most ever paid
for a building in Manhattan. And it was like right
(21:10):
before the financial crisis hit. Um, he put down fifty
million of his own dollars and then borrowed the rest.
So borrowed a shipload of money and then immediately was
like underwater on the building. And so apparently he hasn't
even been able to like keep up with the debt
payments on the loan and so basically hasn't paid a
(21:31):
cent towards paying back this one point two billion dollar
mortgage and it comes due February of two thousand nineteen,
and he like doesn't have any way of paying it back,
Like yeah, because i'd like to what the building is
just totally fucked up in like not not desirable in
(21:52):
any way, right, Yeah, So they bought a bad building,
was the first problem. It was like built in the fifties,
the like ceilings are all low outdated, right, yeah it was.
It was like a building from mad Men, And in fact,
in one shot you can see it across the street
from Don Draper's office and mad Men, but like quite
literally you can literally see it. But like there's this
(22:14):
scene in mad Men where where Peggy is like having
a drop ceiling put in on her like high ceiling department,
and it's like, yeah, that was the style back then,
and like, uh yeah, people are just like fucking their
apartments up. But apparently this was like this was built
at that time when like drop ceilings and low ceilings
were cool. Now that's like the opposite of what you want.
(22:36):
And so it's just like a fucking mess of a building.
So he can't really sell spaces to anybody. Um, he
has this plan to turn it into big fancy condos,
but it would require crazy amounts of money to even
get those renovations, which is which she doesn't have. What
and what he was twenty six right when he bought
(22:57):
this building, right, like what the are you doing? Twenty
six year? Little by at one point a billion dollar thing,
and then we gotta borrow more to even make that
ship a viable investment. Where's your family. She really did
marry her father as it's just like a dude who
inherited a real estate empire. And so the reason any
of this is relevant is that people think that Kushner's
meetings with like Russian officials and all the shady meetings
(23:20):
he's been having were at least partially about business dealings
and like about this debt and trying to basically make
cheap money, get cheap money from overseas, which is something
that Trump has done in the past. Uh, there's a
bunch of financial records that apparently Mueller is like asking
(23:41):
for that, get into that on Trump's behalf, and uh,
Kushner like is in the really shitty position of like
now having to do what Trump had done, but like
while he's being actively investigated. So you really can't do it.
It's not a private citizen anymore. You can't hide the
way he used to who are part of the presidential administration?
(24:03):
Like so yeah, I mean, like when you can't go
to banks, like okay, so what's next shady like dark
money from Eastern Europe? Yeah, just the biggest cash for
gold that you can find, Right, That's what he's going for.
Can you imagine how much red string Robert Mueller has.
Oh my gosh, just miles and miles of red string
(24:24):
connecting what is happening in those offices. So Trump's biographer,
this guy Timothy L. O'Brien no relation, uh was speculating
that Kushner was probably looking for help from the Russians
to keep the building like viable, and that he also
might be like jockeying for Chinese and Russian financiers. So
(24:46):
it's basically, uh like really shady position for anyone just
remotely associated with the White House and decisions being made
by the President to actually be in Yeah, I mean
he is swaiting to like mean, like normal twenty six
year olds are like, funk, I gotta make rent or something.
You could like pop in, you could throw the uber
app on and like maybe make a quick like two
(25:07):
hundred bucks Like he's like, I got a one point
two billion dollar bill do in February. Yeah exactly. Yeah,
he would have to do, like he would have to
multiple and stuff like that. Uber. But it's crazy to think,
like because yeah, he's gone out to a lot of
like Russian bankers, Like it seems like all the meetings
(25:29):
that they've tried to connect Kushner with have been with
people who are either heads of banks or tangentially connected
to huge banks. And then at one point there was
like there was a rumor that a Chinese company was
gonna invest in it, and then there's another like another story.
I mean it's not that they're directly connected, but they
were saying that he wasn't talked with like the richest
man and cutter to invest like a half billion dollars
(25:50):
into the building. And the guy the this this wealthy dude,
was like, Okay, if you all put down a half billion,
let's see if you can get someone else to like
come to the table and then we can do something.
So that's when he found like this Chinese investment company
who has like a lot of ties like to the
political elite there. And when that story came out there
like this Chinese bank was like, no, no, we're actually
not doing business with him because it was perceived as
(26:12):
like a huge conflict of interest, like are you just
investing in this to like have access to the White
House and like no, we never had a deal, is
never gonna be a deal, And then that basically tanked
his deal with this uh, the wealthy man from Cutter
and then like a few days later, Trump's now like
coming after Cutter, you know, because the Trump's and you know,
they know how to get past a grudge. So I think, yes,
(26:34):
finances are not the strong sit over there. Well, and
it's funny because it shows like why they have no
empathy for anybody struggling with student loans, because they're like, well,
why can't you just find a shady billionaire in another
country to run for president and when and become That's
how you get your loans paid. Come on, guys, cheese
figure it out. It's that easy. It's just that easy.
(26:55):
Stupid ass over here one to learn about literature. Yeah,
so maybe we'll keep watching this uh disaster of a
scenario unfold for Jerry Kushner. He really feels like the
guy who's in over his head with like mob blows. Yeah,
and like it's just like I don't know what to do.
I really think Trump should just like appoint John Taffer
from bar Rescue to his administration and he might be
(27:18):
able to fix this. For Yeah, we've got to run
a billion dollars. You gotta pay back. We like the
wrong reality stuff. Yeah, right, really all right, we'll be
right back after this. Alright, we're back, um yeah, before
I'm just thinking about him in because like it looks
like there's he's having a lot, like a real hard
time finding his money. Like do you think he'll just
(27:40):
tell like the credits like that's miles move every time
he's like at at at a restaurant, ye and the
bill comes he and they'll just think you're so pitiful.
They'll be like, all right, just do these dishes. And
(28:00):
that's how you eat at Matsuhisa every day for Jared
is a flaming hot Cheetos in black coffee, exactly all right.
I wanted to move on real quickly to a story that, uh,
it's kind of always in the headlines somewhere on the internet,
the Florida Man's story. The entire genre of Florida man stories. Uh.
(28:23):
You might recognize them from the Florida Man who shot
himself in the dick, or the Florida Man who punched
a swan um or even even if you just right
now look at top News and you stick at Florida Man.
Florida man sets himself on fire after losing Cowboys Packers
bet to his wife. Yeah, there you go. So I'm
still doing it. Still got it. You said you'd set
(28:46):
yourself on fire. You said it, I know, karenen Um.
So I've always wondered why the fuck Florida is so
much weirder than the rest of the country because, right, well,
so it is the third most populous state in the
United States, so there are a lot of people to
(29:08):
choose from. Uh. It also is in the South, and
it's got like a really interesting collection of different cultures
and you know, a crazy mix of different types of people. Uh.
But the reason that the Florida Man section reads like
Dave Berry's breaking Bad is because Florida is the only
(29:31):
state in the United States that has open record laws
where it's called the government in the Sunshine Act. Uh,
and it's basically every meeting that happens in Florida between
the government, like you have to have a record of
everything that was said in that meeting. And that also
(29:54):
applies for arrest records, the that police have to make
arrest records public. So so you're just saying it's just
their wokenness of being the most transparent state. You should
should be admiring Florida because they're actually the most progressive state. Um.
(30:15):
But yeah, the reason that we have so much detail
on like that's basically all it is, is that Florida
is the only state where we get to see in
detail how fucked up like Americans just in general are
like how the funk up ship that is like going
on behind the crime blodder in your town is just
(30:38):
as crazy as the Florida manship. It's just that the
arrest records are not like made public to everybody, and
Florida is the only state where that is true. So
you can just like sit there and read arrest report
after arrest report and just find the best ones. And yeah,
like that, really they just red pilled me right there.
I was. I was just in my mind. I was like,
(30:59):
it's Florida fund crazy and then it's like, oh, it's
because everything is transparent and everything is fucking crazy. But
I guess how I like to think about it, I
bet New York would have some crazy ones fucking California, man,
even so, more like grow up. There's all kinds of
weird ship. I've seen crazy ship like the Captain in
New York and Ella just like Los Angeles Spider Man,
(31:22):
just them alone. The people that dressed up like Spider
Man outside of Hollywood Highland. Just their crimes alone, right
right right would be up there. And like the Times
Square characters too, I'm sure they're all getting into some
ship man. I also do think there's a bias at
work in the Florida man thing, and that poor you know,
white people are the last type of person who in
(31:42):
mainstream culture it is okay to just openly shipped on
and make fun of and being controversial right without being controversial.
So uh yeah, that that's another reason that we like
to make them the protagonist of our screwball comedies in
the news. Yeah, well it makes us all feel better
that we're not Florida. But also there are so many
(32:02):
documentaries about Florida that are just like mind blowing, Like
Vernon Florida is an amazing one, and then also check
out Mule Skin or Blues. That's another insane one about
this guy who's trying to make a horror film in
his trailer park and it's like it's it's legit, but
it's amazing. Uh So, I mean I'm not saying Florida
is not a place where like you know, I'm not,
(32:23):
but yeah, but I feel like, yeah, it's interesting, but
I guess it is. You know what, I think we
need an open call to all the states to start
making these records transparent because you know what, now I'm
having some California pride. We could be we could be
the real fucking weird state. And I mean, hey, man,
we all voted for Trump. Like, we're all Florida. Now
the whole country is are you voting for Trump? Oh?
Oh god, no, no, no no, no, I mean likes the
(32:44):
country did? Oh the country did? I thought that was
your way in this room. Yeah, you guys, yeah, no,
not individually, but as a country we did. Right. So
we're all Florida. We don't We've lost the ability to
get this better than flower people. Yeah, I think so
the whole country is a Michael Jordan crying face. So
(33:07):
you guys want to give a quick update to a
story that we talked about on I think it was
episode one about the sonic attack on US diplomats in Cuba.
I have an update. Um. First of all, there's this
Moscow signal thing that a lot of the people who
believe the attacks on the diplomats are real have brought
(33:29):
up because apparently in the sixties and seventies in the U.
S Embassy in Moscow, they were targeted by microwaves. They
just like suddenly found that microwaves were like coming into
the embassy, like they were throwing him at him, right basically, yeah,
like microwaves micro Yeah, microwave ovens. They're throwing microwave ovens. No,
they were, they were firing microwaves at them. And so
(33:53):
a study in the seventies like looked into how this
was affecting them because nobody really knew what microwaves did
other than cook popcorn badly. So the group that was
hit with these symptoms had been reporting that they were
experiencing depression, irritability, difficulty, and concentrating and memory loss, which
are also symptoms that have been mentioned in Cuba UM.
(34:17):
But when they did a study, so they found that
those symptoms were actually more common in the Moscow embassy
than other U. S embassies. But when they actually broke
it out, the symptoms were more common in people who
hadn't been exposed to the microwaves. So it was just
them kind of feeling like, Okay, something's going on, and
(34:41):
also I feel like embassies I I've not worked in
an embassy, but it seems like it might be one
of those uh environments where there's a lot of stress
closely linked people and their cycles sync up, so to speak.
Um And another another detail that is making me further
(35:03):
think that we're dealing with a sort of mass panics
psychosomatic deal is that after the US government pulled the
diplomats and started warning people that this was going on,
tourists traveling to Cuba have started reporting the same symptoms
of headaches and yeah, so like the same ship, like
(35:28):
when like those magic eye posters were out, and like,
oh man, I see the dragon you see And I'm like, yeah,
do you want to be in on the things? So, yeah, yeah,
I'm getting those headaches. But it is such a the
symptoms are so diffuse and vague that it's possible to
feel them and for it not to be being caused
(35:49):
by some secret uh microwave laser weapon. I always just
assume everyone's dehydrated, especially on vacation. Last thing you dream
is are you like gon booze every two? Yeah? Yeah,
that's really going That's that's my favorite explanation is one
of the people who actually believes that it might be
(36:11):
like a case of ascessteria was like, yeah, those are
all symptoms that come with getting older, and like literally
every one of us is living a day where we're
the oldest we've ever been, and so we have more
symptoms of old age than we've ever had before. Like
hearing loss is something like I suffer permanent hearing loss
and that my hearing will never be as good as
(36:31):
it was yesterday, except for Peter theel or maybe not
the young children. All right, we're gonna try a new
segment where we go out on stories that are warming
our hearts, and Brandy, let's start with you. Yeah, so
do you guys know about the Chicago mothman sightings that
(36:52):
have been happening over the summer into the fall. Okay,
so there's been cogo mothman sightings and it's all over
like all over Chicago, South Chicago, North Chicago, East West
over by Lake Shore over like up in Evanston. And
Chicago is like a no nonsense city where it's like
(37:14):
um market just have a hard time doing stuff there
because people always like I gotta get to work, get
out of my way. So for them to be making
up mothman sightings all over the city is like maybe
this is real, who knows, but people have been trying
to get photos. The closest one that they've got is
like this, this one. This is like a it's a
very vague picture, kind of a probably just a drone.
What do I think it is? It looks like it
(37:36):
looks like a kite or a sting ray or a
guy in one of those wingsuits. Could be anything, or
it could be a mothman. Yeah, I mean, I hope
it's a moth man. I mean, I just feel like
we got Jared's like six six six building, Like all
of the signs of the apocalypse are coming together. So
at this point, why wouldn't there be a shall appear
(37:59):
in the city of Chica The Book of Revelations. Turns
out it wasn't subtle. Yeah, it just all came about
like like so here, here's a here's a description from
one of the sightings. Um uh. Suddenly, the large winged
being slowly descended in front of them, no more than
five ft away. It hovered about five feet above the
sidewalk with its wings spread open as it appeared at
the couple, with large, bright red eyes that slowly altered
(38:22):
back and forth. In intensity. Several people on the other
side of the street, including a delivery van driver, reacted
with screens and frightened yelts. The winged being hovered for
about ten seconds and then quickly pulled in the wings
into its body and shot quickly into the night sky.
Oh yeah, yeah, I've seen that. Yeah, that's the one
(38:43):
man that is fucking crazy. Yeah, there's a bunch of
let's keep an eye out forman if you're living in
Chicago and you see the Mothman, see Mothman, tell someone
about moth Man. You think, uh, Miles was warming your
heart right now? You know. The story that's wearing my
heart right now is is finding out that Frankie Munez
(39:05):
can't remember that he was on Malcolm And that's my
favorite though. Minds, great minds. But yeah, it came out
that like I'm dancing at the stars, he was saying
he's had like nine concussions and like he's having mini
strokes and can't remember ship from like being on Malcolm
in the Middle. Yeah, it's it's a weird thing to
(39:25):
warm your heart, but it's just so Frankie Munez, who
played Malcolm in the Middle, is such an interesting whack job.
Like there there's his Twitter feed. At one point was
just overtaken and this was back in two thousand and ten,
just overtake him with his like hunt of scorpions. He
was just like one day he was like tired of
(39:45):
all these scorpions, and then he was he was like,
my pest guy lives with me. Basically we have scorpions bad.
And then just like NonStop talking about scorpions. I get
so much joy from murdering scorpions trespass onto my property.
He died by shoe smash, like he's just oh my god.
Do you think he remembers this? I wonder or is
(40:07):
like a scorpion like code for something else? Yeah, because
like a racist tirade. He was really a wink wink wink.
At one point he said his mouth was getting numb
because he put a scorpion in his mouth and tried
to chew it. Okay, so maybe that's what's going on.
It's just like I get himself. I get this vibe
of like Hunter S. Thompson styled debauchery like going on,
(40:28):
and Frankie Munus is like weird Malcolm in the Middle
Mansion exactly. There was a thing. He said an interview, said,
since two thousand and six, I've broken thirty eight bones
and I've had nine concussions since the age of seven. So, like,
does this dude have like CT or something to like
for sure has CT at this point, and he's had
(40:49):
mini strokes. And he also said he doesn't hasn't gone
to the doctor to like talk about his memory loss.
So anyway, I choose to believe he was just fucked
up the whole time. Yeah, that that's the way the
story would doubt. And he can't remember ship all right. Well,
on that note, On that note, Brandy, where can our
audience find you? I'm on Twitter and Instagram at brand, Dazzle,
(41:09):
b r A and d A z z Ellie. Yeah,
and Um, I have a podcast called Lady to Lady.
It's um Me and too their FEMA comics. I usually
a fourth guest, just kind of riffing and hanging out. UM.
And then I have an album on iTunes and all
the places you buy albums called Opinion Cave I'm Gonna
Stand Up, and and then my touring dates for Everywhere
very funny stand up um miles. Where can people find you?
(41:31):
You can find me in the bathroom right now. You
can follow the Daily Zeitgeist at daily Zeitgeist on Twitter,
at the daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. There's a Facebook group
called the Daily Zeitgeist. I'm at Jack Underscore, O'Brien, O
b r, I e en. And also, so, we are
(41:53):
going to eventually be publishing footnotes, which are basically just
going to be our uh notes for the shows with
links to the stories, so that people can follow along
at home or you know, check our sources and read
the articles we've been reading. We're working on that. Those
will eventually be up on our website. Um but uh yeah,
(42:16):
uh and I at that point, once it's top and live,
I will start pronouncing footnotes footnotes like an asshole. Uh
until then, Uh yeah, We'll talk to you guys tomorrow. Bye.
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