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December 20, 2018 63 mins

In episode 298, Jack and Miles are joined by Stuff You Should Know co-host and The End Of The World host Josh Clark to discuss Twitter trends including Will Smith as the Genie, the Carlton dance coming from Bruce Springsteen,  Paul Ryan's final speech, James Harden, some more absurd Rudy Giuliani comments about Trump's Russia connections, Trumps disdain for Christmas, Tucker Carlson losing sponsors, Steph Curry's response to his moon landing comments, and more!

FOOTNOTES:

1. Take Your First Look at Will Smith as Aladdin's Live-Action Genie

2. We Can Thank Bruce Springsteen for the Gift That Is Alfonso Ribeiro's Carlton Dance

3. Ryan reflects on 'great and lasting difference' in farewell address to Congress

4. The 6 funniest things about James Harden’s double-step-back travel that wasn’t called

5. Giuliani indicates conversations with Trump on Trump Tower Moscow occurred later than previously known

6. The Damning, Damning Letter

7. Rudy Giuliani Is Definitely Losing It

8. War on Christmas? Trump Was For ‘Happy Holidays’ Before He Was Against it, and Ivanka Still Is

9. Trump Is Milking the War on Christmas for Every Last Penny

10. Donald Trump Hates Christmas Parties

11. Donald Trump Jr. says his dad ‘regifted’ monogrammed presents — including one that he gave him

12. In the 1980s, Donald Trump banned Christmas decorations to harass his elderly tenants

13. NEW YORK; DONALD HUMBUG

14. "Obviously, they’re men": Tucker Carlson, guest kvetch about "gingerbread people."

15. Advertisers are dropping Tucker Carlson's Fox News show after he said immigration makes the US 'dirtier'

16. Here Are The Advertisers Boycotting Tucker Carlson’s Show

17. Kyrie Irving Responds to Outcry over Stephen Curry's Moon Landing Comments

18. The End Of The World with Josh Clark

19. WATCH: Sam Gendel & Sam Wilkes - BOA

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet. I welcome to season sixty two, Episode
four Up Turn Daily Night Guys, the podcast where we
take a deep dive into America share consciousness. He's in
the headline, Box office reports, TV ratings, what's trending on
gigs and social media. It's Thursday, number twenty two thousand eight. Team.
My name is Jack O'Brien. Ak whullo over that ass

(00:20):
to Jack. Whullo over that ass to Jack. It's courtesy
of Christie Meme Donut and I'm thrilled to be joined
as always buy my co host, Mr Miles Gray. I
know Hanukah is over, but brace yourself for this great song, Miles, Miles, Miles,
I made him out of Gray hanging with O'Brien and
Anna holds me a whoa that gives a hanaka joints

(00:44):
from Andy Kerwin at a Kerwin. Yeah, you know, I
know it's no longer this season, but you know, I
just felt like I want to get there there because
it is the holidays. Yeah, I'm sure people who spelled
right hanaka are very honored. Literally a ten days off,
eleven days, eleven days. Well, it's for next year. Get
you guys excited. You have to think about those Hanicuff

(01:04):
presents a little bit early what. We're thrilled to be
joined by the man, the voice that launched a thousand podcast,
including this one. It's the hilarious, the inimitable Josh Clark.
What's up? Hello, Hey, how's it going, Mannie? It's going
pretty good? How's it going over there? I mean, man,
the weather here is frightful. It's the fire delightful though, Yeah,

(01:30):
the fire. Yeah, the fire is definitely delightful. It's a
it's a it's a it's it's a frigid. I think
seventy degrees right now, so yeah, yeah, nice. Yeah, I
had to hold on, Josh, I had to wear sleeves today,
so how Yeah, which is there rolled up though? I'm sure?
Oh yeah, because it's hot in the studio to his shoulders. Yeah,
I guess you call it a tank talk. All right, Josh,

(01:53):
We're gonna get to know you a little bit better
in a moment. First, we're gonna tell our listeners a
couple of things we're talking about today. We're gonna do
Twitter trends up top because a couple of interesting things
trending on Twitter. We're gonna talk about Rudy Giuliani needing
to be put in a home probably or somewhere safe
to just look out for his well being. We're going

(02:14):
to talk about the President of these United States being
a Christmas movie villain because he apparently hates Christmas and
likes to spite people on Christmas, so we can talk
about that. We're gonna talk about Tucker Carlson losing money
and just how broken up we are about that, and
Steph Curry continuing to, you know, dig himself deeper as

(02:38):
he tries to apologize and make it clear that he
totally believes in our space program and uh did not
mean it when he said that everybody involved with it
is a fraud. But first, Josh, we like to ask
our guest, what is something from your search history that's
revealing about who you are? Oh see, most of my

(03:01):
stuff is about the end of the world these days
and all the ways we are probably gonna wipe ourselves out.
The weirdest thing I guess in my search history is
a recipe for lacto fermented curried mango ginger chutney. Wow,
lacto fermented curry ginger chutney. Don't forget the mango. That's

(03:21):
the main part. Okay, so walk me through this. So
I haven't made it yet. I just found this recipe.
But um, have you guys ever like made your own
pickles or fermented anything. I have left orange juice in
the refrigerator for five months kind of counts. This is
a little more deliberate than that, but it's it's kind
of the same principle. You just take a bunch of

(03:43):
a bunch of different ingredients and put them together in
just the right way and add something like in this case,
you would add way and uh, it kind of starts
to ferment and becomes pickled, and all of a sudden
you have chutney. In a couple of days, I've made pickles.
I haven't made the chutney yet, but I'm kind of
crazy for this stuff. Now. Is this a survivalist thing,
because you do have a new podcast that is The

(04:06):
End of the World. Is this something that keeps particularly
well during an apocalypse? No? I just like just like that. Okay,
this is actually this would turn pretty quickly up top.
What is what is the name of the podcast? It
is called The End of the World with Josh Clark
estely enough, and it is very good. I mean, do

(04:26):
you think we're going to upload our consciousness to a
main frame? Though? I probably, I don't think so necessarily
in our lifetime, but I think it's virtually inevitable. I think,
I mean, it could be. I'm not saying it's impossible,
but I'm not. I'm not betting on it, you know
what I mean. But I think yes, I think if
you look at a long enough time span of humanity, yes,

(04:46):
it's basically going to happen. Whether it's all humans or
just some I don't know, but I'm I'm banking on
it at some point. Yes, Josh, just say it's going
to be in our lifetime or Miles to it's probably
going to be Christmas. I bought a lot of servers.
I would say, by next Tonica, Miles, thank you, thank
you been a year a little less than a year. Now.

(05:09):
Does chutney when you're making it? Does it stink up
the refrigerator? I know that the fermented things that I've
had in my refrigerator tend to be fragrant, and you know, um,
you want to kind of keepum. You want to keep
them in like a bell jar or something that has
like a nice tight seal on it so it doesn't

(05:29):
stink up the fridge and feet underwater like a bell
jar refrigerator in an open bowl, uncovered bowl, everything's just
in a mixed bowl, right. Uh. Yeah, you want to
steer clear that when you're fermented. Yes, that's probably a
good idea. What is something you think is underrated? Uh? Olives?
Olives I've recently realized. I don't know where it came out,

(05:52):
but I think, um, another kind of pickled thing. But
I found out that not everybody loves olives. And I've
just been walking around my whole life under the assumption
that everyone loves olives and that's not the case. So
until every single person on Earth loves olives, they're underrated
in my opinion. I hated them as a child, and

(06:13):
then I think, like maybe ten years ago, I started
really embracing the olive. But it took It was a
Spanish olive that got me to change my stance because
I hated black olives. And then I had a green
Spanish olive that had anchovy in it, and I was like, oh,
this is this is actually delicious, And then that and
now now all I drink are like filthy martinis, Like,

(06:34):
I'm just olives are my DNA. You drink filthy cold brew,
little for minute orange juice, but yah know, anchovy olives
are the best you can have with the with the martini.
I would say second to that is like a good
blue cheese stuffed martini. What's your favorite kind of olive? Just,

(06:55):
you know, regardless of cocktail accessory, just if there's one
of the is an olive that you say is the
greatest alive you had? What is it? Um? I can
never pronounce it correctly, but it's like kevil strano I
think is what it's called. It's like a Spanish olive.
It's a pretty standard like green olive. And I think
Marzi like that kind of pickled food company you can

(07:16):
find at the store. They have a good kevil Strano
olive for in a jar. Now they owe me some
money for the buzz market. When you when you guys
woke up this morning, did you think that you're gonna
be talking about olives this much today? I don't think
I ever think about what we're gonna end up talking
about it. Just it's always an adventure. But I'm glad

(07:36):
we're talking about olives. What is something you think is overrated.
I don't know, Like I don't like to yuck anybody's
yam or anything like that. So sure, like, if I
say something is overrated, then somebody's gonna say, hey, I
think that's super underrated and I love it. We'll give

(07:57):
the caveat that. Whatever you think is overrated, it's not
an attack on someone's taste. It's just your taste. And
by the way, people are going to attack your taste
in olives the second thing. They're going to be like,
you're wrong about olives. They suck. That's fine, that's fine.
I know my convictions in all of their bulletproof, and
so will come for somebody's convictions. Then something overrated. Um,

(08:21):
I really think reality TV is overrated because this is
two thousand, two thousand nine. Are you into reality TV?
For real? I just call it TV. It's pretty much
the case, isn't it. Yeah. I think there's something fascinating
about reality not that I think it's actually good TV.

(08:41):
It's I think it's pure schadenfreude for me, Like like
I like I watched Ninety Day Fiance heavy, but I
also part of me when I watch it. I'm like
I become so grateful that I have a functioning relationship,
or I begin to see things in like these toxic
relationships that slightly mirror like things that I'm from RELI with,
and I'm like, uh yeah, I'm just second that I

(09:02):
was like ship talking this person, and then it made
me a little more self aware of like things I
might do. It's like therapy then, yeah, so yeah, what
were you saying again about reality TV? I think it's
a super underrated I wanted to no. I mean, yeah,
there's a lot. There's a lot though too that the
thing that worries me is that there are people like
reality TV does inform some people's perception of certain groups

(09:27):
of people or places without taking into consideration how heavily
overproduced everything is. I think. I think that's what bugs
me is the exploitation, you know what I mean, it's
it's such a big part of reality TV. You know,
get somebody drunk and then talking them into going and
confronting their best friend about something. That's just mean, that's

(09:49):
the thing that bugs me. Yeah, they do. The drinking
is an underrated aspect of reality TV, which is overrated right,
which itself is overrged. I have a friend of mine
used to work on that dating show called The Fifth Wheel.
I don't know if you remember that. It was like, no,
it was like on like whatever the c W was,

(10:10):
or like the local affiliate. It was like usually on
c W channels or at that time, the wb UM
And it was like a show where there would be
two u two men and two women and like they
would go on a date and then they would switch
and see if they're compatible. Then they would throw in
a fifth wheel to shake it up, and then basically
some it would be like musical chairs where a person
didn't end up with a partner at the end. But

(10:33):
the whole tactic he was saying is like the second
they arrived, they just pulled out like just handles of
liquor and they're like, just please do what you have
to do to become comfortable on camera, because we're not
gonna start ruling until you guys are a little bit lubricated. Right. So, yeah,
that's pretty sophisticated as far as like the the show
set up goes. I mean, do you remember Blind Date?

(10:55):
It was just like a blind date that they filmed
with Roger Lodge. Yes, Yeah, that actually was a pretty
good reality show. Roger Lodge actually a very charitable guy.
When we had renal prom at my high school, which
was for kids with like renal problems, like kidney problems
who weren't able to make their prom, Roger Lodge came
and gave like a speech at the thing, and I

(11:16):
was like, yo, it's Roger Lodge from Blaying Babe. Really
And that was the only person stoked about it. And
then Mr Han from Lincoln Park spun for twenty minutes
on the DJ set just that you were high school
did maybe? I mean, I think it was just a
way to host yeah, like host a problem for kids
who may have been getting treatment and missed their own
dances or whatever, and they didn't need a date because

(11:39):
we would be the dates for them and we would
get paired up. Oh and then one time the look
Look Full disclosure. We were drinking a little bit before
the prom and one of the dates called out my friend.
She was like, you smell like alcohol. Oh no, and
just include them on the drinking or they they well,
they pulled up first, we were drinking in the parking lot.
Got it like gentlemen, Yeah, like gentleman in eighteen year

(12:00):
olds do uh? And then we were. We were mortified. Actually,
homebrew my smear office. Let us sprite go really bad. Yeah, Josh,
what is a myth? What's something people think is true
you know to be false. Oh, I've got a good one.
If it is a myth that if you punch in
your pin number backwards at the a t M while

(12:22):
you're being robbed, it will notify the police to come
help you, it's not true, Okay, I would be screwed. One.
Have you heard that myth? I heard that you really?
I didn't even know that was a thing. Yeah, I
think I had heard that, but i'd never really like
I thought about it like that, that it was actually

(12:44):
something you could do. When did you first hear about it? Jack,
I think maybe in college or something. Huh, Yeah, I'd
never I never knew that one. It was just like somebody,
I think someone said when we were like planning how
to rob people at a t M. S right, right,
just be like first out loud, say and then you
you punch in the opposite the reverse of that. There

(13:05):
you go, Right. It'd be really intimidating to be like,
don't even waste your time. I know what you're doing
to help you and then and then you just walk
off because you don't want to get caught. It's like
robbery failed. Wait where did you? How did you hear
about this? To Josh? I'm curious where this even began?
A little place called the internet? Yeah, how did I

(13:27):
get that? Let you just go your local internet store
and they will hook you up. Oh yeah, I have
a stack of net zero boot discs CD ROMs that
I haven't opened up. Yeah, um, what and how did
you find out it was false? Just any any guess
and check? Did you trying to get the police out?
Or I think the whole thing honestly called like that.

(13:49):
It all began and ended on like um Snope's tweet?
Got it? I thought you're gonna say, well, I was
robbed at a t M, put it in backwards and
busy making my own pickles at home to be wrong, right,
I wonder because that that's not a great strategy because
you would be alerting the person to the fact that

(14:11):
you were putting the number in wrong, which is shoot you. Yeah.
It's not like they're like okay, and this gives out
fake money and it's secret. It's just or what would happen?
You punch it and goes calling police because you are
being robbed, and you're like, I don't know just that happen.
Uh yeah, At best it's gonna say wrong pin number,

(14:34):
and then the rob will be more frustrated and then
you get pistol whip and then they're like, Yo, don't
funk around. Man need my money, I need these Pokemon cards. Yeah.
I was gonna say, I have another myth that's a
little more um a proposed today. Okay, let's hear it.
This one my dad told me. And I don't know
because I've never been to Iran myself and seeing Laverne

(14:56):
and Suley in person, but I'm almost positive that this
is a myth. But when Lavernon Shirley was on originally,
or at least on in reruns like in the early eighties,
and I'd watch it with my dad and he told
me multiple times that before Laverne and Shirley came on
in Iran, they would show a disclaimer that said that
these two um women had been put into an insane asylum,

(15:19):
that they had been, that they were now taken care of,
and now we can watch them. Like like everyone in
Iran just couldn't figure out that you know, this is
a sitcom from America, there had to be this disclaimer.
So I I've never gone and like verified this, but
I just know that to be absolutely wrong. That sounds
like some late seventies early eighties dad ship, right exactly,

(15:40):
but that they couldn't like conceive of two women who
behaved that way, right, those are like the kinds of
that are able to grow before the Internet. Yeah, right exactly.
That was like I remember when the first time someone
told me the Simpsons in Japan they had to draw
on a fifth finger because four fingers is like you know,
de yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that they were shedding fingers yeah,

(16:01):
for certain things that they could for like promotional things. Wow.
But yeah, anyway, Yeah, there are things like that where
shows get edited overseas. So I don't know. Maybe maybe
your dad was telling the truth, Josh, No, I'm pretty
sure he was dead wrong. Yeah. What about you, Anna Hoosie,
do you know anything about this? In Iran Laverne and Shirley.

(16:23):
I've never heard this, but I would believe it was
a thing because Irons really weird like that. But they
would still show like an American show, but just be like, Okay,
we'll just add this disclaimer and it's all big. Well.
I I feel like they would dub it and then
they would change what they were saying to make it
more like just got out of the superproducer around a Hosnie.

(16:46):
Her family is from Iran, she spent a lot of time.
She's not just saying Iran is weird based on what
I've seen on the news. So I think I think, yes,
so Anna, if my dad is right, I need to
let him know before he kicks the bucket eventually down
the line. Alright, I'll ask my parents if they ever

(17:08):
watched Lavernon Shureley in Iran. It may, it may, they
may have already come to America at that point, but
I'll ask and I'll get back to you asap. I
I would sincerely appreciate, thank you very mu Alright, guys,
let's check in. Oh wait, sorry, I had to just
correct myself. In Japan, they gave God five fingers for
whatever reason they gave God five fingers God from the Simpsons, Yeah,

(17:30):
like whatever depiction of God or something like that. So
would that imply that our God in our universe has
six fingers because their God has an extra finger? I
don't know, man, it's just like a yacht is the
thing that they wanted to get away from because you know,
you chop your finger off to show loyalty. Yeah, the
superstition around numbers in Japan. And is it also Japan

(17:52):
that has the blood type superstitions? Oh? Yeah, like when
they'll like, if you're on a panel show with other
celebrities of like Jack O'Brien, he's like be blood type, right,
because then people are like, oh, okay, I know about you, right,
it's like a horoscope signers. Alright, guys, let's check him
real quick with Twitter and what's trending? Because Will Smith

(18:12):
is trending as he always deserves to be, very talented man,
but he's trending today because they've released pictures of him
playing the Genie in the upcoming live action a Laddin.
And I don't know how to describe what I'm feeling
about about his his look. It just looks like him.

(18:35):
I don't I don't know what is it. It's it's
the shaved It looks like it's a bad Halloween costumes,
sort of like I am the Sultan for Halloween or something. Yeah,
it's weird because I feel like if he were. I
don't know. His the consistency of his chin hair is
very straight and silky, right, it's also just odd to see.

(18:57):
I don't know. I think it's the facial hair that's
really throwing me off because we've seen Will Smith like
with a big head before. But like it's the hair
and the earring. He looks like Mr Clean doing black face.
Yeah or yeah, there there's something weird going on that
like it's it's uncanny almost, but I don't like it.
He has since said, don't worry, guys, I'm I'm mostly

(19:20):
a blue CG character during the movie. And also, like
Dr Manhattan, will be fully exposed throughout most knocked buildings
down right exactly. Oh you know, I I totally forgot.
I've just been seeing a cropped photo. He's got a
top bun too. He's got a top yea, what is

(19:41):
going on? It's his top knot with the chin strap thing. Yeah,
I don't know, I don't see. I'm looking at Entertainment
Weekly's cover and like it just looks like Will Smith
looking kind of weird. But it's got the Will Smith
smile and everything going on on, and it's a it's
a little bizarre. But if you look at the rest

(20:03):
of the images from this, like first look, it looks
like pretty cool. Look at movie. Aside from the Will
Smith casting, Yeah, it just seems like maybe they designed
the character before casting it, or before like getting Will
Smith in the chair to like do the thing too,
and then I don't know yet, just it seems it
seems like a dude in the Halloween costume more than

(20:24):
it looks like a Hollywood level Uh, you know, iconic
talent inhabiting an iconic character. We've yet to see like
an actual trailer right for this, It's only been production,
so I'm sure he's gonna pull it off. I mean,
I look, I've I've been a huge Will Smith fan
since a child, So I'll wait all way, I'll reserve.
I'll wait till I jump to conclusions. But the hair

(20:47):
looks mad weird. Speaking of Twitter and Will Smith, one
of their followers tweeted at us that Bruce Springsteen and
Courtney Cox were actually the first people to do the
Carlton dance. It you if you go back and look
at the Dancing in the Dark video. We were talking
about how Carlton is trying to sue the makers of
Fortnite for you know, appropriating or no, not the makers

(21:09):
of Fortnite, the makers of NBA two K and Fortnite
and Fortnite for appropriating the Carlton dance. I still say,
though he's the one who put it in the context,
the cultural context, but it deserves But in a way
it doesn't make sense, right because Carlton was sort of
the sort of not black black character of Fresh Prince,
so of course his dance, he would be appropriating white

(21:31):
culture in his dance. So really, maybe Courtney Cox, I think,
and before them, this just looks like to me how
white people were dancing in the eighties. That's just how
white people dance. Yeah, yeah, Well with the overbyte and everything,
I'm thinking, yeah, I'm thinking we have a class action
lawsuit here. You know, Backpack Kid is suing Fortnite too
for appropriating the Flossing Day, and I got like three

(21:54):
different dancing lawsuits against him. Right now, this is going
to be future legal historians are gonna be talking about
the Fortnite lawsuit or the next wave. Like you know,
people just like sit on U r l s for
websites like you try and create dance crazes to hopefully
get like, you know, exploited by Fortnite, then you can
sue them. Oh right, so I'm just gonna start. We

(22:16):
need a dance that will eventually make it into Fortnite,
so we can sue. Make up a dance that would
be appropriate for having just sniped somebody like, well, yeah,
there you go. Paul Ryan is also trending because this
is his last day. I guess he announced I'm not
one of these big ego legacy guys. But he's giving

(22:38):
a speech about how you know he is one of
the all time greats, and his office today released a
six part taxpayer funded ha giography of his relentless drive
to pass the first tax for form law in a generation.
Uh so, uh funk that guy. I mean he's gonna

(22:59):
he's gonna be an afterthought and just known as a
terrible and if like just ineffective speaker and enabler of
one of the worst will actually the worst president ever. Yes,
I get the impression that he knows it too. He
seems got a lot of there's a lot of desperation
to this farewell. It's multi pronged farewell. This has been
going on for months now, and then the irony too,

(23:22):
was like he was trying to push through a bunch
of visas for Irish workers on his way out the door. Yeah,
this is like, Yeah, I think I look, I made
America just a little bit wider. Yeah, I'll vote against
the Dream Act, but let me try and get a
little more Irish worker visas through. There you go. And
then James Harden was trending at various times over the

(23:44):
past twenty four hours because of a very specific move
he tried to pull off and actually did successfully pull
off in an NBA game. It was a step back
wherein he takes probably three steps. He like picks up
the ball and steps backwards three steps. It's really something

(24:04):
you have to see. But he makes it look, i
don't know, smooth enough that it's it almost looks like
a cartoon character, like the way he scrambles across the court,
or like a bad video game animation, like somehow the
foot is still sliding without having their weight on the floor. Yeah.
And then somebody isolated him and put him into the

(24:27):
Every Little Step video with Bobby Brown and his backup
dancers doing the step dance. And it's a mess. But
I think everybody is like that's the trend I've seen
in the NBA this year is the step back has
like gone to a new level. Luca don check the
Dallas rookie has the step back that covers like half

(24:51):
the court. It's crazy. It's called changing the game. And
now James Harden, you know, can't cover that much ground,
but he he found a way. He tried. Yeah, and
also shout out to the user who putted out the
Bruce Springsteen thing at Cockney Devil. You're West Ham supporters,
so he's forever blowing bubbles there. You I don't know

(25:11):
what that means at all. That's what the West hamp
supporters saying. Okay, well we are going to take a
quick break and we'll be right back. And we're back,
and let's talk about Rudy Giuliani. Guess, oh, rude boy

(25:34):
Juliani the rudest lawyer in town and not he's not
even I don't even can we call him a lawyer
at this point. He's a guy who is pretending to
be a lawyer and is constantly exacerbating problems and not
even making points that make any legal sense. And it
got really good. He talks about lost stuff, so they're in.

(25:56):
He's like a w W E character who is a lawyer.
It's about lost. He's like and here comes legal and
he's got a brief case and an amicus brief. So yeah,
he wow. Over the weekend, you know, he was doing
his uh weekend dementia tour of news outlets, and he
went on CNN and was basically talking about you know,

(26:19):
he kept going on and on about he was making
those points about how Flynn was set up, which that
take didn't age well at all. Uh. Then he said
another thing about how Trump and how he's really not Russian.
It has nothing to do with Russia. Ever, didn't do
anything with Russia, I guess. And he said up until
November twenty sixteen, Uh, they could have had a conversation
about Trump Tower Moscow, meaning the Trump camp and the Russians,

(26:42):
and it went nowhere. It was a real estate project.
There was a letter of intent to go forward, but
no one signed it, a letter of intense nothing. He
signed it exactly. Smash cut to Chris Cuomo on Tuesday
night literally holding the receipt up to the camera and
being like, here is the letter of intent signed by

(27:03):
Donald Trump. And at this point we all know Donald
Trump signature because it looks like his messed up E
K G. Reading uh, And it was just like it's
just there, It's all there. And this isn't anything new
because first of all, Michael Cohen and Donald Jr. Testified
in front of Congress and said the letter of intent
was signed. They're just saying like, you know whatever, blah
blah blah. So again, I don't know if they just

(27:23):
don't even know how to lie anymore or whatever, but
this isn't a new point. And we've always suspected that
this was going on and knew this was happening. It
was just funny that it was just the evidence was
just so clear this time. We're like, no, this never happened.
Cut to I'm holding up the agreement being signed from
what I saw. Rudy Giuliani then came on and said,
of course Trump signed the letter of what. Well, it's

(27:46):
a letter of intent, of course he would sign it. Yeah,
truth does not truth. Well, what he did was he
actually went further and goes he said it was fine
because the letter was quote bullshit. He said it didn't
because it didn't go anywhere. And he's like, that was
the end of it, you know, and is a quote
it means nothing but an expression of interest that means
very little unless it goes to a contract, and it

(28:06):
never did. But so that this is all about the
Trump Tower Moscow, which was being negotiated all through the
two thousand and sixteen presidential election up through I think November,
quite possibly up through the election. And that's why people
think it's weird, because they were exchanging all sorts of favors.

(28:27):
They were, you know, doing little things like helping him
get elected president of the United States, and he was,
you know, telling them not to worry about those sanctions
and going behind the back of the sitting US president
and people are like wait, And they were in the
midst of this like business deal, right, and the whole
campaign trail literally saying I don't know Russia. I have

(28:50):
nothing to do with Russia. I don't know Russia, right,
what's Russia? Right? Hey Russia if you're listening. But then hey, Russia,
if you're listening, I love it, right, But also I
don't know Russia. I don't know anything to do with
the right Shaw and then he even knows a little
bit of Russia because remember those like video clips of
him like speaking Russian kind of well, no, oh really,
I think he learned it just like as part of
like a pr thing. But like he said, he like

(29:12):
said this thing pretty like pretty I was impressed because
I don't really give him any credit for any kind
of skill, but he surprisingly had a little bit to
say in Russian pretty clearly. But I think when you
also look at the actual letter of intent, like sort
of what this deal looked like they were possibly going
to make hundreds of millions of dollars if this thing happened,
like from licensing and all this other ship. So when

(29:34):
you're looking at that, this is a deal that the
Trump organization has never made ever in the history of
its organization. This would have been the single largest deal
the Trump's ever like like put together the Trump organization
and like some suspect, you could have combined all the
other deals in the past and it still wouldn't add
up to what could have potentially been made had the

(29:55):
Trump Moscow Tower been a thing. So when you look
at that and you go, okay, so there's your carrot,
and then like you're saying, it's like okay, so money
for Trump plus help to swindle the election equals no
sanctions for Russia. I think you can see what the
dynamics here are. And even if there was no the
deal didn't go anywhere. There's clearly a letter of intent

(30:16):
for it to go somewhere. But again, you know, what
do we know? We're just podcasters who wildly isn't that
saying something? Also then that he would have been over
backwards and did all the stuff that he did and
compromised himself and went on to national TV and the
debates and talked about how great Russia is and how
we should, you know, take it easy on him, and
then he still didn't get the Trump Tower, like like

(30:39):
Putin still was like, nah, thanks, thanks a lot. Yeah,
maybe that could have been the master work of Putin
where he's like, I'll just draw you in just enough
that I have you basically in my hand and then
blow the deal up and I'm hopefully can still get
what I want. I mean, it's like, I think I
think they didn't go through with it because he got elected.
Like I think most of this was based on the

(31:00):
idea that he wasn't going to get elected, and then
they once all of the ships started coming out, they
realized it would look bad. But they don't sound like
though for him for him to lift the sanctions, like,
there's no point. That's a good point. There's no reason
for him for them to help him become the president
because it's not Hillary was going to lift the sanctions.
So that's where it gets interesting. But again, that's like

(31:22):
the compromat part, where you now it's like, oh, we
have a lot of documentation of all this stuff whatever.
I mean, who knows what else it is. But yeah,
plus something not looking good, it doesn't seem to be
like yeah, yeah, yeah, well, speaking of his concern over
things that don't look good, Apparently people who are in

(31:44):
the know and kind of familiar with Giuliani behind the
scenes and Trump's thinking said that the reason Giuliani didn't
go like from you know, being out there and stomping
for Trump during the election to being part of his
administration and right away was because Trump was worried about
how much he's drinking. And there's all sorts of sort

(32:07):
of behind the scenes things suggesting that Giuliani like. People
said that they saw him at a bar before one
of his appearances on one of the on CNN, uh
and he was like, I don't have a recollection of
whether I went to the bar before or whether I
went after. It's you know, so, I mean he's always

(32:28):
leaned back in. He's very comfortable. Yes, so he also
says like really crazy stuff too, Yes, yeah, yeah, wild stuff.
That doesn't It's almost like each sentence doesn't have any
conception of what the other sentences were. Right. But I
guess that getting a drunk person caught in an argument

(32:50):
when you haven't dead to rights, saying truth isn't truth
seems like something that would come out of course. And
you can't win an argument with a drunk person because
they just keep changing the grounds on which here having
the conversation. And that is essentially what it's been like
listening to Rudy Giuliani. And that's why drunken boxing is

(33:11):
the deadliest form, that's right. It's like, you know, there's
just how do I, how do I nail this person down?
You to wobbly, It's like trying to nail Jell out
of the wall. Well, it is the Christmas season, as
Miles acknowledged earlier, when he's the holiday season. But I
think I think so This next story is about how

(33:33):
the president feels about Christmas because he made it one
of his key platforms that we are going to bring
back the phrase Merry Christmas, because you know, we've all
been trying to get that phrase out of existence. The
war on Christmas is real. It's intense. We are fighting

(33:53):
it through propaganda out here in Hollywood. We just don't
want Christmas to ever be had out loud and Trump
took pride in the fact that he was bringing Christmas back.
But apparently Trump like hates Christmas. According to everybody who has,
you know, been around him during the Christmas season. He's

(34:16):
still using the like I'm bringing Merry Christmas back to
try and get money from his supporters, evangelical he courts
at the time, who still claimed that he's a Christian
despite not knowing anything about Christianity or going to church.
But okay, but they just sent out an email with
President Trump in the White House, America is once again
saying Mary Christmas. But a report came out this week

(34:39):
about how much Trump hates the White House Christmas parties,
which is weird because he loves hosting parties. But one
of the sources who are close to him theorized that
because Christmas parties aren't about him like they are specifically. Yeah,
they're not like Trump parties. They're not. It's not a

(35:00):
birthday party for him. It's friends who Chris Guy right
and White House staffords say he regards presidential Christmas parties
with a special loathing and goes out of his way
to escape early. At one point last year, he was
heard openly complaining about having to take photos with people

(35:20):
at the White House Christmas Party, which apparently does suck.
You have to like wait while people just line up
and take photos with you. No, I'm saying that based
off of a scene from Veep. Yeah, I'm sucking around.
And at one point, like during the lineup, which presidents

(35:43):
have done since the early sixties, is just part of
the job. But you know, it's you just shake hands
with people and smile and take picture after picture. But
at one point Trump spotted Mike Pence and forced him
to take his place in the lineup, and just like
left with Milannia. Think Trump would like the photo thing
just because it really does, like, in the most physical sense,

(36:05):
make him the focal point of something, right, But I
guess it's more just like he doesn't get to like
rant at people and they tell him how great he is.
I mean when they approach, like, oh my god, thank
you so much. It's an honor photo next, because that's
like I mean, they literally set up a hot line
that we talked about on yesterday's show that is just
for strangers to tell him thank you. So, I mean,

(36:26):
he loves people kissing his ask. But I guess it's
because Jesus is the reason for the treason. He Yeah,
he doesn't like they're wearing different red hats that are
not specifically they're honoring a different tradition. Um they're The
White House official in this article said this year has
been a lot better because the photo line hasn't been

(36:46):
as long because they've had so many parties this year.
Are you sure that's the reason the photo line is. Well,
he canceled the one for the journalists, right, so then
so this is like the one for just like staffers,
like the office party basically for the White House. Yeah,
and for uh you know big donors all that ship.

(37:10):
And yeah, they did cancel the press one, but because
they went out of their way to point out that
they will let press and their family do tours of
the White House Christmas decorations so that's cool during open
house hours, so that that was nice to them, But
it kind of goes deeper than just him hating those parties.

(37:32):
He apparently like doesn't buy people gifts for Christmas. He
just re gifts ship that people give him that he
never likes. He like never likes a present that he's
ever gotten. Um. One year, Donald Trump Junior gave a
monogrammed gift to his dad, uh that he brought for him,

(37:52):
and Trump the next year regifted it back to Donald
Trump Jr. And Donald Trump Jr. Was like, yeah, I'm
pretty sure you didn't buy this for me this year,
like you're saying, dad, And he was like, how do
you know that? He's like, I gave it to you
last year for Christmas. He's like, there's also not a
junior on there. That's your name, that's your legal name.

(38:17):
But then they go on to say that apparently Trump
gives Don Jr. All of the monogram ship. Yeah, like
I don't want it here, this is also your name.
So grateful. I think just the idea of getting free
stuff is, you know, he only wants the best, most
expensive stuff. You know. What's funny, I stuff that he stole. Yeah,
I can't imagine, aside from golf stuff, what his interests

(38:38):
really are that, Like you can imagine a gift to
get Donald Trump, yeah, emphetamines outer all big mac, Like, ah,
I guess that what was that McDonald's gift card for
thousands and thousands? Or like what was the little like
little tykes like McDonald's play set type thing he could
pretend he worked to drive through. Yeah, but I think

(39:00):
of just stuff amphetamans. Huh yeah yeah. According to a
really cool open mic stand up comedian, yeah yeah, well no, no,
but I know what I'm like stand up comedian who
worked on The Apprentice for a number of years and
said that Trump is always snorting adderall and apparently there
are other people who will confirm that off the record.

(39:22):
H really yeah yeah. And then it doesn't he like
his prescription he was getting prescribed like uppers in the eighties. Yeah,
there there's stuff going back to the eighties where he
has like, you know, up go pills that he was
prescribed from that crazy looking doctor who the Secret Service
just went and rated his medical records because they were
worried about something getting out from there. We're not totally

(39:45):
sure what. Yeah, so it would make sense of you know,
his erratic, you know, all hours of the night, crazy
adult behavior. But isn't he like famously anti drug, anti
dre you can like like just looks down on anybody
who's on drugs or drinks or smokes or whatever. He is,

(40:06):
although he's also head parties where people have said that
he's like specifically talked about there being cocaine at his parties.
I think I think it's drinking in particular that he's
really against because of some family history there. But also
it's easy for me to imagine that he's in the
same category as Elvis, where it's he won't take any

(40:27):
illegal drugs, but he apprises the ship out of drugs
that are prescribed to him from like some you know,
enabling doctor. So did you ever did you ever hear
the story about Elvis is um like crew having to
to keep him from um going out and shooting drug
dealers around Memphis because he gets so worked up at
the idea. Yeah, so he would get kind of messed

(40:51):
up himself. And and this is um, this is a story.
I wasn't there, so I don't know if it was fact,
but I've heard this multiple times over my life, that
Elvis would get pretty high and he would start talking
about how it would just like get under his skin
that there were drug dealers out there in Memphis, you know,
selling drugs, and he was going to do something about it,

(41:12):
and he would like get one of his guns or whatever,
and his crew would have to be like, no, no, King,
you know, let's let's do something else. Let's go play
some music or something, and they'd have to like basically
get the gun away from him and like call them
down and distract him. And um, like, like I said,
I've heard that story before, but I know he reached
out to Nixon to say, like, um, you know, I
want to be a d E A agent. Why don't

(41:33):
you deputize me. You know I can kind of get
in with the hippies or whatever. They'll probably trust me.
He wanted to be Nixon's number one undercover drugs are
which was not a position. It was a position he
had made up. But yeah, he wanted to like basically
inform on the Beatles. He specifically called out the Beatles
for like using marijuana, but meanwhile he was he was
so high that he showed up like in a cape

(41:56):
with a hand and to meet the president. But that
was a gift for next Yeah, I get a golden
handgun that he brought to the president, like like the
j jack what's it called joke where it's like, I
bet a good gift for the president would be a
chocolate handgun, and since he's really busy, you'd have to
run up and give it to him really quickly. Jack candy. Anyways,

(42:16):
So then there's this other great story from back in
the day. Trump bought an apartment building that he wanted
to tear down to put up luxury condos, as he does,
and part of his company's strategy involved making the place
just completely unlivable, Like he had to get the tenants out,
so he had to make it completely unlivable. And he

(42:37):
conducted an actual literal war on Christmas that year in
that apartment building banned all Christmas decorations from the lobby
claimed that it was because they would violate people's religious freedom,
so like they weren't allowed to put up a Christmas
tree for multiple years, and like one of the tenant

(42:58):
representatives was like, this is really like there's a lot
of old people who don't have family. This is really
their only chance to share in the holiday spirit, please
just put up one Christmas tree. And he was like, no,
no way, and kept like all Christmas decorations away from
this building. Uh. He sent eviction notices and threats of

(43:19):
eviction to tenants between December twenty six the New Year's Eve,
filed baseless eviction proceeding against a tenant the day after
Christmas that year and the tenants heating hadn't worked for
three consecutive winters, and he threatened six tenants with eviction
if they didn't reverse apartment alterations done with permission like

(43:40):
years earlier. Well, Leasi respects Christmas Day and New Year's Day, Yeah, exactly,
no respect for Boxing Day, Christmas Eve? Okay, okay, yeah,
I mean, yeah, that's odd that you know, I mean,
because he clearly doesn't care about Christianity or the even
the anti Semitic roots of the War on Christmas in general.
But like, yeah, whatever it takes to just harass people,

(44:03):
he doesn't care. Nothing's real to him unless it's Dawn
miss the real Christmas. Right. Yeah, it's just too much,
too much focus. It takes people's eye off the ball,
the ball being him, right, God, could you imagine being
insecure about Jesus. That's like a new level of your

(44:24):
fucking ego. Man, Like wow, like that, shout out to
your ego. What's everybody talking about him? This guy? Guy's dead.
Look at he's dead. Look at him. All right, we're
gonna take a quick break and then we'll get back
to more War on Christmas stuff and we're back, and

(44:53):
Tucker Carlson is just the man. No, he's he's also
engaged in winning the War on Christmas for Christians. And
this is really blurring the line between reality and SNL
sketch at this point. Yeah, he started off a show
or at one point had a very long segment about

(45:15):
you know, what the heck is going on with the holidays.
And this is a really interesting take on a very
popular holiday confection that most of us enjoy. So listen
to this take on the gingerbread. The people of gingerbread,
the War on Christmas is a global struggle. In the
Parliament of Scotland, they have a national parliament. The coffee
shop has stopped selling gingerbread men. Why gender specific? They're

(45:40):
not called gingerbread people. You don't want to give them
a gender without their consent. You don't even want to
know how many bathrooms there are in gingerbread houses? Now
a lot. And now I've been starting to think about
the complicated structure of gingerbread houses because of your comment.
I'm just wonder how many bathrooms can they get into
one house? Um? Look, here is the problem. Just proves
of course our point in general. Uh. The left has

(46:03):
worked now for a couple of generations to condition us to,
ahead of time, worry about what we're going to say. Wow,
there's a guy named Swan of the death on Twitter
Seawan seven Swans a swimming Kelly is his current display name,
who tweeted way back in the day, I am truly

(46:23):
excited for the first conservative to make a it's a
gingerbread man take. He tweeted that actually just back in
November of this year. And what do you know, it
unto us a gingerbread man, right. Do you think you
would have got upset if it was a gingerbread woman.
I don't know. It's just there's no skirt, right, there's

(46:45):
no apron, right, So it's not a woman. Yeah, this
is clearly a man. Also, they make their houses out
of the same material as their bodies. As somebody pointed, out,
So that's that's fucked up. Like, uh, but if you're
gonna nitpick, yeah, welcome to my home. It's made of
bone and sinew, Like, oh Jesus is not at home.

(47:07):
This is a collection of remains. Yeah. I mean, look,
it's a tough time for him because he's kind of
scrambling right now for things to talk about that won't
get him like a total loss or desertion of sponsors. Yeah,
so it's been a tough week for him, right, Yeah,
I mean, so last week he was had a really
Tucker Carlson take on immigrations, like immigrant immigrants make America

(47:30):
dirtier and poorer, Like, wow, you can't even get creative
anymore with your senophobia. You're just literally been like dirtier
and poorer. Uh. And of course that was going to
lose him some sponsors. What I don't even know what
universe he thinks he's in, but again it's Tucker Carlson.
So then he like doubled down and was like, look,
I'm not gonna get intimidated. So so far, just in
the last week, he's lost. The recent departures of sponsors

(47:53):
or enablers have been Pacific Life, both Flex Indeed, Minted,
Nerd Wallet, Smile Direct Club, Voya, Financial answerstry dot Com,
land Rover. Is any optical I hop in just for men?
That is a lot of sponsors. That is the best
marketing for those companies that I can think of. Yeah,
I mean Nerd while it has a really cool commercial,

(48:14):
I just know trust the Nerds. And I'm like, for what,
But I guess it's about it's about using points for
your card the best way. Yes, I kind of want
to both flex now. Yeah, right, it's been a while
I was like, oh, yeah, both flex. Both FLEs used
to be like both flex was like a real goal
for people I remember the nineties, like just seeing that,

(48:35):
like it would be like a man working out against
a beige canvas, like as a backdrop, get the V
shaped torso of a man. Yeah. By the way, that
observation about that was a tweet from sweatpants Share. She said,
are we supposed to just accept that gingerbread men live
in houses built from the flesh of their fellow men? Yeah,

(48:56):
that's that's maybe a better point to be worrying about, Tucker.
But yeah, I mean it's and and now this is
becoming a weird, like people who I like, like Nate
Silver was tweeting, like, are are we really gonna stop
advertising on shows that just offend one side or the other.

(49:17):
Doesn't that lead us to like straight down the middle
only political stuff And it's like, I don't know, man,
that's there's there's no use to what Tucker Carlson is saying,
and you don't want to and if anything, it offends
people for very clear reasons that are like reasonable consumers.
But you know, at least you know he still has

(49:38):
hobby lobby, Papa John's and suspiciously looking at your brown
neighbors through your blinds as presenting sponsors. So yeah, those
are you know, they're still rocking big. And but that
has set off kind of this like culture war again,
because that's what he loves. He's a culture war veteran
of like you know, Fox. They puffed their chest up
and said, it is a shame that left wing advocacy group,

(49:59):
under the guys of being posed media watchdogs, weaponized social
media against companies in an effort to stifle free speech.
We continue to stand by and work with our advertisers
through these unfortunate and unnecessary distractions. That's odd, I mean
he can still say what he wants to. You don't
have a right to land Rover's money to say xenophobic
garbage on TV. But again, this is the free market,

(50:22):
my man, right, isn't that what capitalists? And then yeah,
then Tucker Carlson also had another take on this whole
thing of just saying the left says we have a
moral obligation to admit the world's poor, even if it
makes our country more like Tijuana is now, which is
to say, poor and dirtier and more divided. Wow, he
couldn't even step it back. He had to double down

(50:45):
on his comments of poorer and dirtier. Oh that that's
not even the original comment he said, him coming back
and just being like, I guess we have to say
it even with what I said is true, right, But
you know, yeah, indeed, apparently was a huge loss to
Fox though they had a huge adby and then losing
indeed is will hurt them a little bit. So did

(51:08):
all of those advertisers leave Fox or just Tucker Carlson Show.
They're leaving Tucker Carlson Show, and then some are leaving
Fox entirely, so it's it's a mix of people. But yeah,
where are people who watched Tucker Carlson going to find
their international houses of pancakes? Well, I mean just watch
like Shepherd Smith or something, because we'll still advertise on

(51:28):
on his show. Okay, Yeah, Well he's the closest thing
to a centrist that network has from what I can
tell you. No, he's like the one person who like
will have to be like, I'm sorry, I know what
people on either side of my show are saying, but
what they're saying is wrong. Right. He was the one
who came out after the Flynn sentencing with the when

(51:49):
the judge made Michael Flynn and his lawyers walk back there.
There claims that Michael Flynn was was duped into um
lying to the FBI. He was tricked by the FBI
and that's why he was railroaded into this this Moeller probe.
That Shepherd Smith came out and said it's done, like,
there's no there's no ambiguity any longer. This is like

(52:10):
he clearly knew he was lying to the FBI and
he knew that was wrong. So this whole narrative that
the Trump administration has been playing up this whole time,
it's done. It's been blown up right, Yeah, that's what
he always loves to do. And even like I remember
with the caravan during the mid terms, he goes, there
is no caravan coming to storm the border. These are
groups of people who are seeking asylum. We do not

(52:32):
need the military there. This is just all a setup
for the mid term elections. Like he basically he like
he'll always have those moments like every now and then
where he basically has to be like, let me just
try and destroy this narrative that's being pushed on the
network today. That's gotta be very surreal as a Fox
News viewer to just be have this moment of reality

(52:52):
that just punctures it in the middle of the day,
especially so calm to because of what they do is
like it's like news up to like five o'clock. Then
it's opinion, right, and then that's where it gets murky.
But it's funny to me even like as as you say, Josh,
like the idea of being tricked into lying about something, right,
that was the narrative, Like if anything you could be

(53:13):
tricked into admitting something that you didn't know it was
going to be damaging to you down the road, not
like they tricked me into lying, right, not like I'm
trying to deceive something that's where anyway, that's another logic
pretzel for us anyways. But by the way, Chep Smith,
I think makes like twenty million dollars a year, and

(53:33):
I was I was trying to like figure out why
that is, because couldn't you just get anybody to go
there and tell the truth. But it requires that person
to like both be okay with being on Fox News
while also having like a grasp on reality. Like it's
a very specific type of like compromised that you need

(53:54):
to find. Yeah, well, he's more of kind of I think,
Like I mean, he still has other weird viewpoints on
like on like legislation or yea, but it's like it's
weird when when things kind of go off the rails
fully he typically is like, sorry, you're listening to this
channel that's saying a bunch of weird stuff. I'm ashamed,
but I'm gonna at least have some a shred of

(54:16):
dignity on this little show. But it really, I mean it,
it's sadly it really has no effect because again, on
either side of him, everything he's saying is being torn
down and they're just pushing more more wacky, wacky conspiracies. Well,
it's like you said, everything is a culture war, and
how can you get anything done anywhere, any time ever

(54:38):
if everything is just divisive, like even issues that people
could come together on, or just divisive because of the
way that they're presented, you know, right, Yeah, Well you
know they have a tough time on Fox dealing with reality. Hey,
speaking of having a tough time dealing with reality, Steph
Curry said some more so. Basically, the way that he

(55:00):
has dealt with the fallout from claiming that that he's
a moon hoaxer was obviously. I don't like any apology
that starts with obviously. Yeah, that's not obvious. It was
obvious that you said that you believe the moon landing.
Probably didn't send it obviously, I was joking when I
was talking on the podcast. That was not obvious at all,

(55:22):
and in fact, it sounded like you were completely serious. Uh.
Then he said, I was silently protesting how stupid it
was that people actually took that quote and made it
law as, oh my god, he's a fake moon landing,
truth or whatever you want to call it, YadA YadA, YadA. Huh,
So I was silently protesting that part about it, how
the story took a life of its own. I guess

(55:44):
he's talking about, like why he didn't like come out
and explain himself more clearly. My protest is to let
the people continue taking my words seriously, because I said
them out loud, in a serious manner, right, in a
way that was clearly not joking, and in protest against
people's observations of my wacky take, I chose to not

(56:06):
clarify my words to protest they're jumping to conclusions. Yes,
but then whenever he talks to NASA, he sounds like
a sane and reasonable person. So yeah, he might just
be like a dude who you know, when he gets
around his wild friends with wild takes, he likes to
get worked up. But then when uh, you know, he's

(56:26):
talking to NASA, it's because he accepted an invitation to
visit NASA and interviewed retired astronaut Scott Kelly on an
Instagram live video and said, of his original remarks, I
am honestly genuinely sorry of how that came across. So yeah,
and then but then he says more Steph Curry, nice

(56:46):
guy stuff. He's like It's important for me to understand
one the mac two of the things that I say
in my comments and how much weight they carry, no
matter if I'm joking or not, but totally honor that
in every situation I put myself the sense of national
pride and how that x floration for mankind has pushed
boundaries and limits of what is possible, you know, pushed
our imagination for what we can accomplish. I do not want,

(57:08):
in any way, shape or form, to mean the significant
accomplishments that you when he's talking about Scott Kelly and
the people you work with on a daily basis make
a reality. So he's like the really nice kid. He
wants to fit in with the dumb guys, and when
they're talking about the moon, like yeah, man, the moon's
is fake. And then like his parents like what the
hell did you What did I hear you say? Nothing?

(57:28):
I would really I would like in no shapewear for
him for him to like, I have a feeling he
really I don't know. Do you think he's the guy
who he was just in with the wrong crowd of
people with bad takes on science and just didn't want
to be the odd man out. I do you think
he really he believes that there wasn't a moon landing.
I get the sense he had not thought that much
about it and had been like, yeah, what if it

(57:49):
is hoax? Like, what if it is a hoax? Because
I've seen that one picture and that one picture is
a little weird looking. And that was the extent to
which he had thought about it. And he was on
the podcast, and you know, other NBA players were saying
they thought it was faked, and he was like, yeah,
you know, I I kind of do too, and hadn't
really thought about it. And now like that he has

(58:09):
taken a hard look at it, he probably is sensible
enough to realize. I mean I would if I'm on
a podcast with Vince Carter, I'll agree with everything he says. Yeah,
just in general, I'm such a fan contest. Yeah yeah,
moon landing, fake building seven? What happened there? E, Vince,
I don't know, man, you tell me kan Jett kan
Jett Field Burn Steel Beams, I don't know. That's that's

(58:32):
how this great. I saw a great tweet once from
I wish I could remember who sent it, but it
was the idea that that Kubrick faked the moon landing.
It's just so preposterous because he definitely would have done
a retake when Neil Armstrong flubbed that line about once
one small step for man, right, yeah, because that it

(58:52):
was supposed to be, uh something different, right. I think
it's for a man for a once, all step for
a man, one giant leap for mankind. Yes, that makes sense.
But yeah, man, the way the way it is, the
way we all have heard it doesn't actually man and
mankind are the same thing. He's the original Kevin Garnett

(59:14):
a fucking up the moment to do the flex quote
where he's like anything is possible and they're like, it's
Adidas and it's impossible is nothing, and all the Adidas
ad people were like head slapped at the same time.
But well, I guess we have a new catchphrase now, Yeah,

(59:35):
not impossible is nothing. But anyway, Um, well, Josh, it's
been a pleasure as always having you. Man. Where can
people find you? They can find me on the Internet's
at Josh um Clark and um I started a hashtag
for my solo podcast. It's hashtag e O t W

(59:55):
Josh Clark. Nice, All right, that's a that's a catchy hashtag,
well well tagged, well hashed, and you're also on stuff
you should know, which continues to be a great podcast
a juggern Yes, thank you guys. Is there a tweet
that you've been enjoying? I'm gonna go with that one

(01:00:16):
about Stanley Kubrick doing a retail That's a good one.
Miles Where can people find you? You can find me
on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Gray. There's two
tweets I like. The first one is from our very
own Naomi Parigan, who says, whenever I watch movies, I
get too focused on the property damage. That's like, who
is paying for all this? And then another one is

(01:00:38):
from at Continental Breakfast or display named Trey says, making
new Oriole products used to be so easy. It was
just like, let's add more cream in the middle. Now
it's like, how can we make this oriole taste like
the Avengers? Yeah, that's a good one. Although I do
like Avengers oreos They're so good. Yeah what they taste like?

(01:01:00):
Ironman oreo so good? A mouthful of pennies. Now, I
do like I do like special oreos tho, the Lemons,
the Birthday cakes, Apple Pie, Apple pie. And then another
tweet I enjoyed was from at Aadville. He just got advills.
Wow thing, I guess uh. He said, my favorite thing

(01:01:21):
in the world is responding to my hateful messages and
seeing how fast I can change their mood. And then
you just screencapped this conversation where a guy tweeted that
and said, shut the funk up and go back the
funk wherever you came from? Then pussy, and she responded,
you look really nice sing your icon. What do you
use to white in your teeth like that? And the
guy said, I'm really nice. Usually I'm just a little

(01:01:43):
sick right now. I guess my girlfriend does it. I
don't really prefer it, but I liked the pick. I
like your facial hair, by the way, I wish I
had some. And then he was like, I used activated
charcoal capsules, pull them apart, brush with them. It would
taste weird, but it worked. And then the guy's like,
where does and get those? He's like any drug store,
like Steve, Yes, I appreciate it. Well, sorry to have

(01:02:03):
been rude. Man. Have a good night and sleep well, homie,
Love you. The other guy goes, love you too, goodnight.
The greatest one. All right. You can follow me on
Twitter at Jack under Squirrel Brian. You can follow us
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(01:02:24):
website Daily zigeys dot com, where we post our episodes
and our footnotes. Story link off to the information that
we talked about in today's episode. We'll also link off
to Josh's new podcast that will scare the ship out
of you. We also link off to the song we
ride out on miles. What's that gonna be? Uh? That's
the I think. Last week we did a Sam Gendal

(01:02:45):
song that was pure imagination, like the Willy Wonka song
with the low five version. There's another track from Sam
Gendal called Boa b o a uh, and it's like
it's very low five. He's got a little saxophone in
it and it's just a nice little sacks track because
I just want we have to ease into this holiday,
so I want to relax with a little saxophone. So

(01:03:05):
this is Boa by Sam Gender. All right, we are
going to write out on that. We will be back
tomorrow because it is a daily podcast. We'll talk to
you guys. Then h Ye

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