November 24, 2019 • 43 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the
Weekly Zgeist. Uh. These are some of our favorite segments
from this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment
laugh stravaganza. Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is
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the Weekly Zeitgeist. We like to ask, I guess, what
is something from your search history that's reallying about who
you are? Oh? Ship, I was just looking up the
career David hyde Pierce, David hYP Piers. Yeah, man, because
they got the Frasers coming back, they saying, and I
don't know how they're gonna do. Um John the Dad.
I'm sorry, I probably Frasier Twitter, do not come in.
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Do not come in. Frasier Twitter is rough. But yeah,
I was just looking up all the things that he did, man,
and like like just his history. So that's just a
lot of David hYP Pierce. Yeah he was. He's a
theater guy, so like h and I love theater. So
like I was just looking up, um, you know, just
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his career and like how he got to Fraser and
different shows he was on it. I had, I did never,
I never watched Fraser, but I respected him when he
was in wet, hot American summer. Yes, and he said, oh,
fuck my cock, and I was like, what he's He's
just a he's a master turned in a singular phrase.
There was a there was an episode of Frasier where
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he was trying to get back into the dating the
scene and it was like this mixer and he got
rejected by a woman and Frasier acton what happened. He
was like, her lips said no, but I said, read
my lips. That's like the greatest line history to me.
In the way that he said it was just like,
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I love just nailed that. It's amazing because those shows
just had the same premise for like ninety percent of
their jokes, but they were just good every time. They
just like new writer's rooms turning over. If people just
making this same like low status smart guy jokes over
and over. The beautiful thing is that it covered everybody
because the pompous smart crowd they were like Frasier Niles,
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and then the the International was Daphne, and then the
the you know Joe Shmo American was was dead so
and dogs loved you know Eddie, so like it was
they worked it in and what if you were what
if you weren't white? That one space needle episode, women
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with their hands on her knees, trying to look like yeah,
like this just a fresh prince running. I've been to Seattle, man,
it should have been way more Asian representation or fras Northwest.
I didn't even, like, you really get to find out,
um where the poor people of any type of race
are if you go to the greyhound station in that city,
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like I didn't. I've never seen you know, I grew
up in Chicago, lived in New York, and I've never
seen this large like poor or Asian representation until I
took a megabus to from Vancouver to Seattle and I'm like, oh,
this is like yeah, right, right right, this is some diversity.
And you don't never true story, right, stop telling stories
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about Frasier having sucked his piano teacher when he was
a child. I believe that was an episode. There's at
least that's what they laugh at off. That's what scrambled
eggs and toss out with. It's all reference to that episode, Uh,
scrambled eggs because never mind, never a comes, that's all
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will say. I'm not going to pull up from that bar.
Your whole face is turning to red. I love it.
And I wish I knew what you were going to say.
Shakes our rosie. David Hyde Pierce had a small role
in determining did you know that? I did not know that.
I didn't know that either. Wait what he should have been?
Was he like, yeah, is he the fetus and Sarah
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he broke the glass? No? I guess he was. Yeah,
I guess he was maybe like one of the punks
in the bar scene. Did you see the new one?
Is it any good? I have? I hear it's bad,
But that's not gonna stop me because I've seen every
Terminator film. David Cameron's back so like they said, like
that touch is back there. But it's just like David
Cameron from the UK, the Politician, the James David Cameron
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also in the background of the bar. What is something
you think is underrated? Underrated? I mean, this is gonna
sound really bad, and I know people are gonna hate
me Arby's people. I all I do is argue with
people about Arby's. You know, I'm not let me let's know,
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I'm very stupid, so I don't know a lot of
the news, So don't don't hate me. But this is
what I think about and it's Arby's because I really
like to think, honestly, god, the curly fries. You're not
getting these other places. You're not getting to sandwiches for
five dollars with that kind of meat. It doesn't matter
what it is. Does Rby have the meats, They have them.
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They have something with an asterisk. I mean I think
it comes out of a clear bag and dries in
the sun. I'm not sure how they make Arby's to
beef and cheddars, Oh my god. And then because they
have the Rby sauce, you can help yourself on the
sauce horse sauce, and the sauce I wasting. I honestly, well,
I'll look in your eyes and tell you you're you're
speaking truth. I will soak in that cheddar sauce. And
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then you're adding Horsey sauce. And then and you're getting
an onion. But does it not getting enough onion? But
it's like a lame barbecue. Yeah, very sweet. Yeah, I
don't mess with the Arby size as much. I'm more
of a Horsey plus my beef and cheddars. Sometimes you
need that tang, you need little tangs. It it's funny
because the Arby's like have gone out of style in
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l A. So typically when I have it, it's like
on a road trip, and I'm always like when I'm
on the road, I'm like, I'm going to fucking Arby's,
and my partner, her majesty shall be like, why are
you know? People get very upset there's one Arby's in Hollywood.
It looks like it from a different time by the
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big neon hats. No, they're not changing. They are staying
exactly where they are and they're getting the exact same
clients right right. They have not up their game at all.
They need a new like another Saving Silverman moment, because
Saving Silverman put Arby's kind of back into the zeitgeist.
I didn't even really Oh yeah, because they were feeding
her like when they when she was their captive. They
were feeding her like Big Montana's and ship like that
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was her like their prisoner foods. So is it safe
to say that Arby's is the Neil Diamond of the Yeah,
maybe fast food world possibly slightly underrated. Is Neil Diamond
underrated not to a certain generation? Yeah? Yeah, but he
he was brought back into line light by saving Sylvan
and right. Yeah, but I think that's what I'm Yeah.
See Arby's didn't get that same glove even when they
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didn't meet Mountain, which I had delicious every motherfucking meat
they made in that place. A. Yeah, they know what
they're doing. Yeah, they're just putting everything into one thing.
At this point. I've I've known some Arby's die hard.
It's not just miles before, and they're in terrible. Their
health is in terrible. We're all very ill. Has been
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slowly is a teen heartthrob and he big Arbi. Yeah, um,
well you can tell it. You know, the devil knows
the right. Let's pour one out real quick to for
Mina Chang. Yeah, she's the state department official. I guess
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who was called out because she was making up most
of her resume and using a fake Time magazine cover
of herself into booster cred you know. Yeah, it's a
story story of just straight scamming. Yeah. I mean we
all have. Yeah, we all have the fake Time magazine
cover on our wall in our office. We have the
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mirror that is Time Person of the Year and you
just look right into it. But she was already lying
about going to Harvard all these other things, and when
she was being considered for a larger position that needed
like confirmation, they're like, can we we need to hear
more about some of this stuff we're seeing on this
resume because I don't this is a lot of weird stuff.
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For example, like she was saying she was on a
humanitarian aid mission to Afghanistan, where apparently no aid was delivered.
She also said she had a degree in international development
from the University of Hawaii UM, but the universe the
university doesn't even offer that degree, doesn't have a program.
One of those things you got a fact check, Yeah,
you gotta do some Google like googling. Yeah. Then they
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even went then they went further and said, I'm gonna
be real with you. We don't even have a mina
chain like eving registered here. And then we told we said,
last time she had a fake u N position, it
was the UNESCO Cross Cultural Ambassador UM and they're like
the and UNESCO is like, we have no position like that.
She also said she won CBS Humanitarian of the Year
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Women that sore award in twelve and CBS says, we
have no award by that name, right. Kind of creative though, Yeah,
I'll give her that, But just think about all the people,
like how many officials in the government must just be
scammers who know how to use Google like like a
good one. All she all she had to do was
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find real awards. Let's find actual colleges that offer that
as a major putting confidence in the in they were
a con. Job. It's really not hard to do that.
My first job by lines that I had a serving job.
Just give your friends number, changed their answering machine, and
you get a job. Yeah. I've been a landlord for
six people in the city. I've oh yeah they rented
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and pay me by like right, yeah, but those are
but those are the ones where we know we can
get away with you know, just a few we can
we can set up, we can we can create that
fake create. I guess they just would assume that she
wouldn't make something like that up because you can check it,
Like they're not going to look into it, right, Yeah,
I was in Hawaii. No one's going over there. But
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apparently it was her worst nightmare and they did, I
mean the even the way she so then she resigned
because it got to because they were like, hold on,
what is this suddenly, Oh you don't want to be
here anymore, but she said, and from her resignation letters
said resigning is the only acceptable, moral and ethical option
for me at this point. Um. And then she goes
on to say, in already difficult times, the Department of
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State is experiencing what I and many believe is the
worst and most profound moral crisis, confronting career professionals and
political appointees in the department's history. Department moralities at its lowest.
The professionalism and collegiality, once a hallmark of the U. S.
Diplomatics service, has all but disappeared. But it's weird. So
she's saying, like, I'm getting out because it's too fucked up.
But then she later says, I want my resignation to
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be seen as a sign of protest rather than surrender.
It's like he got cough, just say at this point,
go back to Instagram scamming because you got college, get
an actual degree. Protest. She's like, fine, I'll protest your
I don't know if accusations or But then she's talking
about how the State Department so fucked up. Right, A
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character assassination based solely on innuendo was launched against me,
attacking my credentials and character. My superiors at the department
refused to defend me, stand up for the truth, and
allow me to answer the false charges against me. Okay,
how that this? She goes her confirmation hearing they say
true or false? Did you go to Harvard? Right? Uh? Well,
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let me tell my side of the story. I could
hear yes or no. I could almost hear the orchestral
music swelling up in her mind as she was like
delivering that that in already difficult times. Yeah, well, you
know you hate to see it. But I mean, look,
she's got forty four followers on Instagram. We can only
get two on a photo. H yeah, that way, I
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think you bought followers. But hey, look she had a
Christmas album that she put out. I think people are fans.
I think she has forty four thousand fans from her
music career. Uh. And finally, what is a myth? This
is this true? I don't I don't know if you guys,
and you guys might have already talked about a myth.
A myth is that the Tea Party was a grassroots
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movement with literally dark money. Like, yeah, honestly, it was
exactly and the fact that you know, this week the
Buddha video surface where he was like, you know, there's
real concerns, and I'm going to reach out to you
because I am nothing but a series of angling you know,
algorithms together day game the system. Yes, uh and and
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that's b y s. I mean we know that. Like
they were just holding signs about socialism, not wanting healthcare,
and they were busting by you know, the so the
Cooke Brothers once again r I p as well. Yeah.
So the thing I'll say, uh, especially then too, because
it was basically like this black president is trying to
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like change things. Let's create a group of angry people
who like wave their gads and flags and pretend that
they're like about something other than what they are. And
when you look at a lot of like how much
the discourse or like the language is somewhat shifted. When
you see like the old t baggers that are still
in Congress now, like they're kind of like they even
know they're sort of distancing themselves from that era of
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like that that wave they wrote in on. Yeah, I
mean it'll come back if and when there's a female
president or president of color, like they'll just like whip
it up. Yeah. I think what happened was that was
sort of a precursor to a lot of this sentiment now,
like the same mentalities president and like the is present
in the alt right and things like that, but not
necessarily like where they come from, but it's tapping into
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that same sort of and now their lawmakers. Yeah right, yeah, yeah.
But Dark Money that the book by Jay Mayr is
incredible and like goes into uh, like just how transparent
it was. Like it started at a like golf course
banquet for billionaires. After it, like right as Obama was
being sworn in, they had this like banquet where they
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were like, what are we gonna do to make people
like funk with this dude? And they came up with
the Tea Party movement. They then like went about like
systematically like astro turfing, and it got covered by the
media's as grassroots, even though it was a bunch of
you know, middle aged All you gotta do is give
people sharpies and poster board. Yeah that's all you know,
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you just don't print them out the same sign, right,
and you know it's a grassroots movement. Yeah. Yeah. It's
interesting too because they at first like David Coke was like,
I don't know anything about the tea party. And then
there was like some footage that came out of him,
um at like Americans for Prosperity, where he's like telling him, like,
five years ago, my brother Charles and I provided the
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funds to start Americans for Prosperity. It's beyond my wildest
dreams how a FP has grown into an enormous organization.
And then you go on to be like, yeah, that's
the people who was mobilizing everyone. Oh the tea party
party got it? Yeah? Oh yeah that we did that.
We did that. Um. There is a new movie called
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Harriet coming out out already that is out sut uh
and it's uh script that has been shopped around Hollywood
since or even before. Ye, like it's forever forever because God,
I mean, God forbid we make a film like this. Um. Yeah.
(15:56):
The the writer of it and producer, this guy, Gregory
Allen Hallard Howard, he said in this recent interview or
in an Entertainment weekly, this thing came out where he
brought up this moment when he first started working on
it into that a studio executive in a meeting suggested
that the actress to portray the legendary slave turned abolitionist,
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the one behind the underground railroad should be none other
then black, a redheaded icon Julia Roberts off and when
it happened, he said, quote, I was told how one
studio had sat in a meeting. The script is fantastic.
Let's get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman. When someone
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pointed out that Roberts couldn't be Harriet, the executive responded,
it was so long ago, no one's going to know
the difference. That's that's perfectly believable. Yeah, And that's what
it's like when you know ship like that was being said,
like of course, of course. This is literally like the
attitude of the media industry, of Hollywood executives completely of touch.
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I mean they're like, well, look, man, her and Denzel
were just great and Pelican brief, right, so she knows
how to act with black people. She's basically black. At
this point. I don't know if that's what it was,
because property I put, I looked up IMDb. I'm like,
what the funk was she doing in in like ninety
four that this dude was like, it should be Julia Roberts.
On either side of that, she was in Hook as Tinkerbell.
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So she can play all different you know, she can
play a little little fairy. She can play you know,
Vivian Ward and pretty Woman or Harriet Tubman. She can
play all kinds of fantastical creatures. That right, could you
imagine what the rest part was? He's like, is this
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story even true? Yeah, I mean it's all made up anyway. Yeah,
we have some notes about how we want to just reshaped.
Can you make her a white woman that saves all
these black people? Exactly? That is? Yeah, that's kind of
the perfect Hollywood movie. I'm curious to know really what
had what the sequence was after that with that executive
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who said that? And how like who put their foot
in Like absolutely what no, because clearly the people like
in positions powerful enough or to be like, we would
never do Julia Roberts as it. We just won't do
it at all. But I'm curious to know what who
that you know, who that executive was. I'm really curious
he went on to green light green book? Right if
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he went on to grope many actresses exactly? I think listen,
let's be fair though, in that moment. Julia was waiting
for her breakout like she needed it, um more than
you know, history needed accuracy. We needed Julia's career to
take off. And then it was Aaron Brockovich. Yeah, that's true.
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And Aaron Rockovich had been Latina, Julia Roberts would have
absolutely played it. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean this
would have been her Aaron Brockovitch moment. Probably know we
denied it to her. Uh that's It's the most Hollywood
feedback I've ever heard that it was so long ago.
People don't Oh my god. I mean this just shows you, like,
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like why it's taken so long for people of color
to have any kind of representation. All Right, we're gonna
take a quick break. We will be right back, and
we're back. It's time to look as we always do.
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Flash have never done at the New York Times best
seller list because there's a highly relevant book at number one.
It's triggered, bitches, libs. It's triggered by Donald Trump Jr.
The Cowboy Bodyguard Romance. Not the Cowboy Bodyguard uh funk
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novel by L James with the dude with sick abs
on the cover. That's the other book. That's number two,
the true number one. I guarantee they saw the sales
for that shoot through the roof with people being like, damn,
don jew looks good on the d of this book.
How many do you think how many maga people bought
the wrong triggered book buying a one even bought this
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book if you really think about it. So well, first
of all, it's funny that he called it triggered, and
like he has a bunch of just horrifyingly stupid shit
in there, like he calls uh, trans women athletes mediocre men.
Uh and uh. He also compares his family uh sacrificing
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running their business, which they haven't done at all. And
they continued to run their business and make it more
profitable from their father's presidency. But in theory they were
supposed to stop running their their father's business. And he
compared that to the sacrifice of veterans with the book,
uh by not making a lot of money. Yeah, think
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about it. I mean, well, there's a monetary value to everything,
and so if you think about these families that are
losing the earning value of a son who they lost
or you know, a husband, Uh, it's like the N
word for the Trump family right. One of the more
questionable surprising claims in the book that I did not
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see coming. His claim was that his his dad is
not racist, which I assumed he would say, But the
best he could come up with was an anecdote from
his childhood when he would let Don Jr. And Eric
play video games with Michael Jackson. M hmmm. Complicated, very complicated.
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There many layers, but that is that's where his mind
went when they were like, come up with, like how
come up with an anecdote that like paints your dad
in a picture where like he's not racist? And he
was like, I got it. Yeah, it's wild when the
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selection process is made of like the black person, we're
supposed to go like, okay, we approved. So wait a minute,
he golf with O J. I can do like who
were supposed to go like okay, Well if he played
with him, it's fine, okay by association, not yeah I'm
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racist Michael Jackson. Yeah. So the book immediately appeared on
best seller list right when it was released, but some
people noticed that the RNC is giving out signed copies
of the book in exchange for donations, which they claimed
helps boost reported sales so it wasn't even like again,
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they don't even try. They've been getting away with ship
for so long, they don't even try to cover that
ship up there. It's all glamoured. It's like it's like,
you know, it's like even like when you meet even
like in media companies, where people are just focused on
the chart itself, not the quality of the work, because
like that's the currency for some people. It's like, well,
is our thing at the top of a list? First?
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He's like, is this thing actually respected by peers? That
an industry that people were trying to appeal to, And
this is sort of that exact same logic because they
just need to be able to be like number one,
number one, number one, number one, number one. But that's
what's so funny because it has the little dagger dick
next to it, right the death asterisk on the New
York Times list, which denotes this is from bulk purchases,
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just letting you know that this is a bit of
fucory as they call it on the New York Times
Bestsellers list. He just got booed too. Yeah, it is
funny that he called the book triggered because he then
did scheduled a book signing and book reading at u
c l A, the hot bed for libs, like Miles
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triggered libs get ready and so looking a cigarette dipped
red oil cutting out in front of the library. So
him and his girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoil showed up there, and
there were protesters, but not the protesters they wanted, because
it wasn't liberal protesters. There were like a handful of
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liberal protesters who were, you know, basically respectful and didn't
do that much, but there were conservative protesters who thought
that it was messed up that he wasn't opening it
up for questions for them to up to pone him,
because these are the people who are the who are
so right of even Trumpers that they're like, y'all not
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racist enough. And that's what that's what was even more
interesting about that. It just sort of this process of
evolution of the offshoots of ship bags on it right.
So ship bags on the right started protesting and shouting,
and Don Jr. Started getting triggered, and he only spoke
for twenty minutes, and then Kimberly got up and started
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shouting at the people, telling them that their mothers were
probably not proud of them, and I bet you engage
and go on online dating because you're impressing no one
here to get a dating person. Uh isn't that funny
when people trying to hit you with a burn from
their generation and you're like what, Yeah, I don't even
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know what that just meant. You probably got like three
songs in your zoom making fun of people for online dating?
Is that just said? Like okay, what and just like
as a general online dating like that's a whole that's
I actually found a meaningful match on the Harmony dot
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com right, we matched on seventy three different dimensions of love? Yeah,
farmers only which made up significant? Is that true? Yeah?
There's they're Yeah the people who one of the dudes
who's like the face of the Harmony, that gray haired guy.
I'm pretty sure he um. He's in one of the
social sciences that u U c l A. And there
was like a bit of debate between people in that
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department of like what you're doing isn't exactly science, Like
you're selling people a concept that based on studies we've done,
like we found correlation, but to be like the seventy
three dimensions, like whatever that is yeah. Yeah, anyway, keep
it down. We're making money over here. Yeah yeah, anyways,
Oh Jack, actually time to do an ad for e
harmony dot com. Yeah, I know, I met Miles on
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a beard. So there's a new book called From Russia
with Blood, which is kind of a campy name for
a book that has like a bunch of journalistic bombshells.
But this reporter was talking to Terry Gross and she's
talking about how there's been all these murders in the
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UK of Russian ex pats who are like Vladimir Putin
opponents or rivals, and they've clearly been murdered, and the
British police are just like, no, I was a suicide.
He stabbed himself to death in the two knives. Like
it's just that that ship is happening. So there's four
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in the head. They point to fourteen cases where it's
like super obvious, like there's a guy who, yeah, fourteen
murders over the past, like since Putin came and super obvious. Yeah,
that that are the super obvious ones. There's also one
in America. There was a media's Putin's media's are who
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was on the eve of testifying to the US Justice
department was found blegend to death in his room, and
they ruled that the blunt force injuries to his head, neck,
and torso were him falling down over and over because
he was drunk um, which doesn't like it just so
then they also have the medical examiners. Yeah, I think
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they just don't want to make the Yeah, they don't
want to make it hot. Basically, he died trying to
give himself the Heimlich Right, Yeah, that's like, honestly what
it seems like. We got in the apartment, the song
Slam by Onyx was playing, and I believe he was
just slamming around the room exactly. And then I started
choking on a pretzel and one of the dudes was
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zipped up inside a bag in a bathtub, and all
the entire outside of the bag, including the zipper, was
wiped for prints. And he wasn't wearing gloves, so like
if he had zipped himself in the bag for some reason,
they're his finger prints would have been on the outside
of the bag, and it was just everything was wiped
for prints, and they ruled it a suicide. Where the
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fourteen murders or suicie suicides um outside of Russia, or
both inside and the outside now all in the UK.
So so the point they're making is that there's this
overarching system where Russian oligarchs have been a boon to
the UK economy because they're like fleeing Russia their billions,
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and the UK has like a bill that's like if
you invest a certain amount of money in the UK economy,
you can stay, which is like more transparent than I
think the America is willing to be about stuff, but
the UK is just like, yeah, we want money, sure,
bringing money. Uh. And so the theory is that that's
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kind of what part of their incentive is to just
look the other way. Cash injection is also very important
to the economy, so they just don't want to make
it hot. But they also talk about, um, you know Putin.
She she kind of made it seem like I had
always heard Putin was the most badass KGB dude, and
she was saying he's more of like a a fanboy
KGB person who like really like bought into just the
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overall methos of the KGB. Yeah, he's a KGB nerd right,
And so he when he got into office, started like
researching all the like cool ways of killing people, And
she was saying that, like they have all these really
like if you go really deep there, like these clusters
of heart attacks and like mental breakdowns and suicides that
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they think have something to do with like you know,
they they have been researching murder methods since he got
into office, and they might have found really difficult ways
to beyond the what's the what's the chick I don't
know how to say it, the one you're talking about,
the one that's what's what's the Yeah, what's the poison
(30:27):
that was used to poison? Thank you? The one where
I feel like they do that one if they want
people to know before us, butter out before I rad
him out. Um the Because there's another dude actually in
Germany too, who was like a Georgian who was commanding
(30:50):
forces against Russia during the Chechen Uprising. This dude got
straight up clapped up in a German park like and
then the cops caught this dude, like he shot the dude,
ditched his bike, ditched the gun, then got on an
electric scooter and the cops nabbed him. But they're like
hold up, yeah, and he had one of those getaway Yeah, well,
I think because he wanted to blend in with other
(31:11):
people in the park, like and also like when they
looked at his passport, he had one of these passports
where like a lot of the intelligence agencies no based
on the numbers, Like there's a specific passport office that's
in the Kremlin that a lot of people who are
like these quote unquote tourists who come through to you know,
stick people with umbrellas with poison, like have they all
come out of this same office. So it's like, yeah, dude,
(31:34):
like this is it's like some penguin ship. What is it?
Like umbrellas? Yeah? Yeah, because another person, was it lit
Vinenko or someone who was someone had got hit with
like a poison tip of an umbrella, Like that's how
they got the poison. I mean that was like some
cold worship. I think Batman just poisoned. Okay, yeah, he's
(31:55):
he's just a fan of I feel like he's just
a Marvel fan. Yeah, ultimately, yeah, he wants to be
a Marvel villain. But like all of this is it's
so bizarre that we're you know, because I think, you know,
we know that the impagement hearings are related to the
Russia investigation because obviously part of the investigations we're trying
to um go back to and basically move blame from
(32:19):
Russia over to Ukraine, and Trump was trying to facilitate
that and having Ukrainian government openly say that they were
going to do that and investigate themselves as possibly the
reason or the those who meddled in our in the
American elections. But it's so weird that, like to see
how our CIA, and as someone who's just not a fan,
(32:42):
you know, just not a fan of like the CIA personally,
but how we're like so behind when it comes to
like comparing our work to like Russia and or maybe
some of the human rights like clauses that we follow,
you know, like preventing us from you know, doing some
(33:02):
batman like murders, which is good. Yeah, I feel like
they pay people to do that locally, and I think
they might be better at it, and that's why we
don't catch them doing it, whereas like Russia, I feel
like Putin wants people to know like part like he
wants that's part of his kink, and that's also but
it's a message to everybody else. I don't give a
(33:23):
funk where you're at like I can touch you, right,
and it well exactly, it's a message to his own
people too, because apparently, like after it was revealed that yes,
Russia did medal in the U S elections, like people
you know in Russia like, really, hey, that's pretty good
kind of coming back, aren't we? You know? Um? But
on top but it's it is really scary also because
(33:44):
with the Maria Ivanovich, you know, the former ambassador's testimony
on how the day she was told to leave her
position was that she was giving that award to the
anti corruption activist who had acid thrown on her and
then died. Now I'm not saying that was Putin's doing,
but it probably was probably something to do with it. Um,
(34:06):
And like that's what happens when you try to go
against the Kremlin. And I'm like, all right, well, I
want to live in a rational world and I don't
want to just think, you know, Putin's behind everything. But
did Putin take that parking spot that I was going
to parking? Probably? I mean it made me lad, So
you guys, who does uh? It made me think of
(34:31):
So do you guys remember that dude Michael Hastings who
wrote the Stanley McCrystal article for Rolling Stone that got
McCrystal to resign, and then that guy died like in
a car accident. The writer did not know that, Yeah,
he died when he was thirty three in a car accident,
and like there's actually video of his car like speeding
out of control with like sparks flying behind it and
(34:54):
I don't know. So they were talking about how Russia
has these uh drugs that they will dose people with
that will make them lose their mental equilibrium. So in
the weeks leading up to their death, they're acting strangely
so that people are like, oh, well there, yeah, there
was something going on with them, uh, And that just
(35:14):
made me this dude's death was very suspicious, but his
both his brother and his wife were like, yeah, but
he was acting really strange, like right before he died.
But he was also like calling people and being like
I'm onto a big story, but like the US government
is investigating me. And then when Wicky wiki leaks revealed
(35:36):
a bunch of CIA documents that revealed that one of
the ways they were investigating to kill people was hacking
into their cars so that they would just like out
of control and like yeah, and as untraceable ways of
killing people. And this was the guy who wrote about
was it like Crystal and Obama like he was talking
(35:58):
it was this like gen role in I think Afghanistan, right,
it's war machine, It's what war machines about. The guy
was like talking shit about Obama basically, and uh, he
reported at all. I don't think that's why he got killed.
That was just like the big story that put him
on the map. And then he had some other big
scoop and was like, I'm about to have to drop
(36:20):
off the grid, like an hour before his car just
sped out of control and DA killed him. So and
we don't know what that scoop was about. We don't
know other than that it was big and he was
gonna have to drop off the grid because he thought
he was being investigated by the US government and I
thought xan X was powerful, you know what I mean.
That's where I'm still getting over that. How do I
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get that? Yeah? Anyways, but Epstein killed himself, right, Yeah,
I don't know. If you go to the man, I
just everywhere people are throwing up. Yeah, yeah, it spray
painted in the street. Vendetta moment is just Epstein. Yeah,
(37:00):
that's like it's yeah, why wouldn't it be. I mean,
that's a very potent symbol of like, you know, excess
and capitalism not working and being away for people to
you know, just be behave in the most despicable way
as possible. It really is uniting all people, the left
(37:21):
and the right. Yeah, even if they're very narrowly focused
on bringing the Clinton's down, fine man, even if they
don't really care about the victims that much. They're just
like Epstein didn't kill himself. Um. I I think the
one thing about the Epstein thing, and I don't know
you guys have talked about it, is that the way
the media dropped it like a hot potato as soon
(37:41):
as he died. Yeah, well that's what the medical examiner said,
so we just gotta just gotta follow. That makes you wonder,
huh Yeah, how many people in those uh, in those
you know, C suites, that those companies, those corporations are
like I don't want to hear a thing about this guy. Yes, yeah,
but because as a journalist like you, that's so only
off limits suddenly, and which is totally messed up because
(38:03):
you you don't even have to talk about the conspiracy
at all. You can still talk about the actual like
the reporting and the victims and the and the lawsuits,
Like why did that also go away immediately? And listen,
I know the media cycle is now we're on the
impeachment Internet, but like she just straight up day and night,
(38:24):
it was blanket coverage and then nothing nothing, And it
is the story that Americans are most interested in right
now across the board, and they're just like, nah, we
don't think it's a good story to cover. But he
is dead, right, so why would we talk about it?
To the point where people like rearranging like monogrammed Christmas
(38:47):
stockings at Target to spell out e Stein didn't kill himself? Well,
how about that war on Christmas? Though? Yeah, all right,
we're gonna take another quick break. We'll be right back,
(39:10):
and we're back. What's a what's a myth? What's something
people think it's true you know to be false? Okay,
I don't think a lot of people know this, But um,
when like female hysteria was a thing, the there's a
thought process that male doctors would cure hysteria by massaging
the clip and that's like the invention of vibrators. But
(39:32):
that is actually a myth. Oh they they like the
idea was that vibrators were invented to calm women down, right,
But doctors were just like they didn't didn't think I'm
giving her an orgasm. They're like, I'm just cure, I'm
just calling her down because she's correct. Um. But actually,
(39:52):
but that was like it written up in like one
journal and no one was like that must be it,
and no one refuted it, no one like did it
their research. And then finally people are like, actually, there's
no evidence of that at all. There's no doctors who
reported this at all, Like it's just not true that
wait about the invention of the vibrator, or though that
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that was the reason the vibrator was invented, and that
and that that's how medical professionals were hearing quote unque right,
because the vibrator was invented. It was invented to cure
weak dick that weekend trash dick, I believe because suffering
(40:36):
from weak dick a vibratory she'll never know. Yeah, that's
man coming. This one's going crazy. I feel like most
of what we know about history is is what you
just described, where it's like one place wrote that because
(40:56):
they were like probably, and then like the whole it
been I'm berlin Er thing JFK. It's like from a
spy novel. And then like the novel came out in
the eighties and then like everybody just started quoting it
as said the wrong thing or it wasn't that the
thing about how he said he was a pastriot, that
everybody thought he was saying I'm a doughnut, right right right.
(41:17):
It's just like it's not true. Nobody thought that ship.
I mean, that's the beauty of the pre internet age.
It's like you could have just changed, like the course
of history could have been changed from a few misunderstandings
or someone just being overly confident about something like Okay,
well they said it's true, no way to fact check,
or like yeah, I honestly have no other way to
it sounds true, yea Napoleon being short. It's all just
(41:40):
rumors people started because it seemed like a thing a
smart person or like you and your sweating, Yeah yeah,
people thinking I don't know what to do with my hands.
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Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the
Weekly Zgeist. Uh. These are some of our favorite segments
from this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment
laugh stravaganza. Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is
(00:22):
the Weekly Zeitgeist. We like to ask, I guess, what
is something from your search history that's reallying about who
you are? Oh? Ship, I was just looking up the
career David hyde Pierce, David hYP Piers. Yeah, man, because
they got the Frasers coming back, they saying, and I
don't know how they're gonna do. Um John the Dad.
I'm sorry, I probably Frasier Twitter, do not come in.
(00:45):
Do not come in. Frasier Twitter is rough. But yeah,
I was just looking up all the things that he did, man,
and like like just his history. So that's just a
lot of David hYP Pierce. Yeah he was. He's a
theater guy, so like h and I love theater. So
like I was just looking up, um, you know, just
(01:06):
his career and like how he got to Fraser and
different shows he was on it. I had, I did never,
I never watched Fraser, but I respected him when he
was in wet, hot American summer. Yes, and he said, oh,
fuck my cock, and I was like, what he's He's
just a he's a master turned in a singular phrase.
There was a there was an episode of Frasier where
(01:26):
he was trying to get back into the dating the
scene and it was like this mixer and he got
rejected by a woman and Frasier acton what happened. He
was like, her lips said no, but I said, read
my lips. That's like the greatest line history to me.
In the way that he said it was just like,
(01:47):
I love just nailed that. It's amazing because those shows
just had the same premise for like ninety percent of
their jokes, but they were just good every time. They
just like new writer's rooms turning over. If people just
making this same like low status smart guy jokes over
and over. The beautiful thing is that it covered everybody
because the pompous smart crowd they were like Frasier Niles,
(02:10):
and then the the International was Daphne, and then the
the you know Joe Shmo American was was dead so
and dogs loved you know Eddie, so like it was
they worked it in and what if you were what
if you weren't white? That one space needle episode, women
(02:36):
with their hands on her knees, trying to look like yeah,
like this just a fresh prince running. I've been to Seattle, man,
it should have been way more Asian representation or fras Northwest.
I didn't even, like, you really get to find out,
um where the poor people of any type of race
are if you go to the greyhound station in that city,
(02:56):
like I didn't. I've never seen you know, I grew
up in Chicago, lived in New York, and I've never
seen this large like poor or Asian representation until I
took a megabus to from Vancouver to Seattle and I'm like, oh,
this is like yeah, right, right right, this is some diversity.
And you don't never true story, right, stop telling stories
(03:22):
about Frasier having sucked his piano teacher when he was
a child. I believe that was an episode. There's at
least that's what they laugh at off. That's what scrambled
eggs and toss out with. It's all reference to that episode, Uh,
scrambled eggs because never mind, never a comes, that's all
(03:47):
will say. I'm not going to pull up from that bar.
Your whole face is turning to red. I love it.
And I wish I knew what you were going to say.
Shakes our rosie. David Hyde Pierce had a small role
in determining did you know that? I did not know that.
I didn't know that either. Wait what he should have been?
Was he like, yeah, is he the fetus and Sarah
(04:08):
he broke the glass? No? I guess he was. Yeah,
I guess he was maybe like one of the punks
in the bar scene. Did you see the new one?
Is it any good? I have? I hear it's bad,
But that's not gonna stop me because I've seen every
Terminator film. David Cameron's back so like they said, like
that touch is back there. But it's just like David
Cameron from the UK, the Politician, the James David Cameron
(04:35):
also in the background of the bar. What is something
you think is underrated? Underrated? I mean, this is gonna
sound really bad, and I know people are gonna hate
me Arby's people. I all I do is argue with
people about Arby's. You know, I'm not let me let's know,
(04:57):
I'm very stupid, so I don't know a lot of
the news, So don't don't hate me. But this is
what I think about and it's Arby's because I really
like to think, honestly, god, the curly fries. You're not
getting these other places. You're not getting to sandwiches for
five dollars with that kind of meat. It doesn't matter
what it is. Does Rby have the meats, They have them.
(05:17):
They have something with an asterisk. I mean I think
it comes out of a clear bag and dries in
the sun. I'm not sure how they make Arby's to
beef and cheddars, Oh my god. And then because they
have the Rby sauce, you can help yourself on the
sauce horse sauce, and the sauce I wasting. I honestly, well,
I'll look in your eyes and tell you you're you're
speaking truth. I will soak in that cheddar sauce. And
(05:40):
then you're adding Horsey sauce. And then and you're getting
an onion. But does it not getting enough onion? But
it's like a lame barbecue. Yeah, very sweet. Yeah, I
don't mess with the Arby size as much. I'm more
of a Horsey plus my beef and cheddars. Sometimes you
need that tang, you need little tangs. It it's funny
because the Arby's like have gone out of style in
(06:02):
l A. So typically when I have it, it's like
on a road trip, and I'm always like when I'm
on the road, I'm like, I'm going to fucking Arby's,
and my partner, her majesty shall be like, why are
you know? People get very upset there's one Arby's in Hollywood.
It looks like it from a different time by the
(06:22):
big neon hats. No, they're not changing. They are staying
exactly where they are and they're getting the exact same
clients right right. They have not up their game at all.
They need a new like another Saving Silverman moment, because
Saving Silverman put Arby's kind of back into the zeitgeist.
I didn't even really Oh yeah, because they were feeding
her like when they when she was their captive. They
were feeding her like Big Montana's and ship like that
(06:43):
was her like their prisoner foods. So is it safe
to say that Arby's is the Neil Diamond of the Yeah,
maybe fast food world possibly slightly underrated. Is Neil Diamond
underrated not to a certain generation? Yeah? Yeah, but he
he was brought back into line light by saving Sylvan
and right. Yeah, but I think that's what I'm Yeah.
See Arby's didn't get that same glove even when they
(07:05):
didn't meet Mountain, which I had delicious every motherfucking meat
they made in that place. A. Yeah, they know what
they're doing. Yeah, they're just putting everything into one thing.
At this point. I've I've known some Arby's die hard.
It's not just miles before, and they're in terrible. Their
health is in terrible. We're all very ill. Has been
(07:27):
slowly is a teen heartthrob and he big Arbi. Yeah, um,
well you can tell it. You know, the devil knows
the right. Let's pour one out real quick to for
Mina Chang. Yeah, she's the state department official. I guess
(07:47):
who was called out because she was making up most
of her resume and using a fake Time magazine cover
of herself into booster cred you know. Yeah, it's a
story story of just straight scamming. Yeah. I mean we
all have. Yeah, we all have the fake Time magazine
cover on our wall in our office. We have the
(08:09):
mirror that is Time Person of the Year and you
just look right into it. But she was already lying
about going to Harvard all these other things, and when
she was being considered for a larger position that needed
like confirmation, they're like, can we we need to hear
more about some of this stuff we're seeing on this
resume because I don't this is a lot of weird stuff.
(08:29):
For example, like she was saying she was on a
humanitarian aid mission to Afghanistan, where apparently no aid was delivered.
She also said she had a degree in international development
from the University of Hawaii UM, but the universe the
university doesn't even offer that degree, doesn't have a program.
One of those things you got a fact check, Yeah,
you gotta do some Google like googling. Yeah. Then they
(08:52):
even went then they went further and said, I'm gonna
be real with you. We don't even have a mina
chain like eving registered here. And then we told we said,
last time she had a fake u N position, it
was the UNESCO Cross Cultural Ambassador UM and they're like
the and UNESCO is like, we have no position like that.
She also said she won CBS Humanitarian of the Year
(09:15):
Women that sore award in twelve and CBS says, we
have no award by that name, right. Kind of creative though, Yeah,
I'll give her that, But just think about all the people,
like how many officials in the government must just be
scammers who know how to use Google like like a
good one. All she all she had to do was
(09:37):
find real awards. Let's find actual colleges that offer that
as a major putting confidence in the in they were
a con. Job. It's really not hard to do that.
My first job by lines that I had a serving job.
Just give your friends number, changed their answering machine, and
you get a job. Yeah. I've been a landlord for
six people in the city. I've oh yeah they rented
(09:58):
and pay me by like right, yeah, but those are
but those are the ones where we know we can
get away with you know, just a few we can
we can set up, we can we can create that
fake create. I guess they just would assume that she
wouldn't make something like that up because you can check it,
Like they're not going to look into it, right, Yeah,
I was in Hawaii. No one's going over there. But
(10:24):
apparently it was her worst nightmare and they did, I
mean the even the way she so then she resigned
because it got to because they were like, hold on,
what is this suddenly, Oh you don't want to be
here anymore, but she said, and from her resignation letters
said resigning is the only acceptable, moral and ethical option
for me at this point. Um. And then she goes
on to say, in already difficult times, the Department of
(10:46):
State is experiencing what I and many believe is the
worst and most profound moral crisis, confronting career professionals and
political appointees in the department's history. Department moralities at its lowest.
The professionalism and collegiality, once a hallmark of the U. S.
Diplomatics service, has all but disappeared. But it's weird. So
she's saying, like, I'm getting out because it's too fucked up.
But then she later says, I want my resignation to
(11:07):
be seen as a sign of protest rather than surrender.
It's like he got cough, just say at this point,
go back to Instagram scamming because you got college, get
an actual degree. Protest. She's like, fine, I'll protest your
I don't know if accusations or But then she's talking
about how the State Department so fucked up. Right, A
(11:30):
character assassination based solely on innuendo was launched against me,
attacking my credentials and character. My superiors at the department
refused to defend me, stand up for the truth, and
allow me to answer the false charges against me. Okay,
how that this? She goes her confirmation hearing they say
true or false? Did you go to Harvard? Right? Uh? Well,
(11:52):
let me tell my side of the story. I could
hear yes or no. I could almost hear the orchestral
music swelling up in her mind as she was like
delivering that that in already difficult times. Yeah, well, you
know you hate to see it. But I mean, look,
she's got forty four followers on Instagram. We can only
get two on a photo. H yeah, that way, I
(12:16):
think you bought followers. But hey, look she had a
Christmas album that she put out. I think people are fans.
I think she has forty four thousand fans from her
music career. Uh. And finally, what is a myth? This
is this true? I don't I don't know if you guys,
and you guys might have already talked about a myth.
A myth is that the Tea Party was a grassroots
(12:39):
movement with literally dark money. Like, yeah, honestly, it was
exactly and the fact that you know, this week the
Buddha video surface where he was like, you know, there's
real concerns, and I'm going to reach out to you
because I am nothing but a series of angling you know,
algorithms together day game the system. Yes, uh and and
(13:02):
that's b y s. I mean we know that. Like
they were just holding signs about socialism, not wanting healthcare,
and they were busting by you know, the so the
Cooke Brothers once again r I p as well. Yeah.
So the thing I'll say, uh, especially then too, because
it was basically like this black president is trying to
(13:24):
like change things. Let's create a group of angry people
who like wave their gads and flags and pretend that
they're like about something other than what they are. And
when you look at a lot of like how much
the discourse or like the language is somewhat shifted. When
you see like the old t baggers that are still
in Congress now, like they're kind of like they even
know they're sort of distancing themselves from that era of
(13:45):
like that that wave they wrote in on. Yeah, I
mean it'll come back if and when there's a female
president or president of color, like they'll just like whip
it up. Yeah. I think what happened was that was
sort of a precursor to a lot of this sentiment now,
like the same mentalities president and like the is present
in the alt right and things like that, but not
necessarily like where they come from, but it's tapping into
(14:07):
that same sort of and now their lawmakers. Yeah right, yeah, yeah.
But Dark Money that the book by Jay Mayr is
incredible and like goes into uh, like just how transparent
it was. Like it started at a like golf course
banquet for billionaires. After it, like right as Obama was
being sworn in, they had this like banquet where they
(14:28):
were like, what are we gonna do to make people
like funk with this dude? And they came up with
the Tea Party movement. They then like went about like
systematically like astro turfing, and it got covered by the
media's as grassroots, even though it was a bunch of
you know, middle aged All you gotta do is give
people sharpies and poster board. Yeah that's all you know,
(14:51):
you just don't print them out the same sign, right,
and you know it's a grassroots movement. Yeah. Yeah. It's
interesting too because they at first like David Coke was like,
I don't know anything about the tea party. And then
there was like some footage that came out of him,
um at like Americans for Prosperity, where he's like telling him, like,
five years ago, my brother Charles and I provided the
(15:12):
funds to start Americans for Prosperity. It's beyond my wildest
dreams how a FP has grown into an enormous organization.
And then you go on to be like, yeah, that's
the people who was mobilizing everyone. Oh the tea party
party got it? Yeah? Oh yeah that we did that.
We did that. Um. There is a new movie called
(15:34):
Harriet coming out out already that is out sut uh
and it's uh script that has been shopped around Hollywood
since or even before. Ye, like it's forever forever because God,
I mean, God forbid we make a film like this. Um. Yeah.
(15:56):
The the writer of it and producer, this guy, Gregory
Allen Hallard Howard, he said in this recent interview or
in an Entertainment weekly, this thing came out where he
brought up this moment when he first started working on
it into that a studio executive in a meeting suggested
that the actress to portray the legendary slave turned abolitionist,
(16:19):
the one behind the underground railroad should be none other
then black, a redheaded icon Julia Roberts off and when
it happened, he said, quote, I was told how one
studio had sat in a meeting. The script is fantastic.
Let's get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman. When someone
(16:39):
pointed out that Roberts couldn't be Harriet, the executive responded,
it was so long ago, no one's going to know
the difference. That's that's perfectly believable. Yeah, And that's what
it's like when you know ship like that was being said,
like of course, of course. This is literally like the
attitude of the media industry, of Hollywood executives completely of touch.
(17:00):
I mean they're like, well, look, man, her and Denzel
were just great and Pelican brief, right, so she knows
how to act with black people. She's basically black. At
this point. I don't know if that's what it was,
because property I put, I looked up IMDb. I'm like,
what the funk was she doing in in like ninety
four that this dude was like, it should be Julia Roberts.
On either side of that, she was in Hook as Tinkerbell.
(17:21):
So she can play all different you know, she can
play a little little fairy. She can play you know,
Vivian Ward and pretty Woman or Harriet Tubman. She can
play all kinds of fantastical creatures. That right, could you
imagine what the rest part was? He's like, is this
(17:42):
story even true? Yeah, I mean it's all made up anyway. Yeah,
we have some notes about how we want to just reshaped.
Can you make her a white woman that saves all
these black people? Exactly? That is? Yeah, that's kind of
the perfect Hollywood movie. I'm curious to know really what
had what the sequence was after that with that executive
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who said that? And how like who put their foot
in Like absolutely what no, because clearly the people like
in positions powerful enough or to be like, we would
never do Julia Roberts as it. We just won't do
it at all. But I'm curious to know what who
that you know, who that executive was. I'm really curious
he went on to green light green book? Right if
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he went on to grope many actresses exactly? I think listen,
let's be fair though, in that moment. Julia was waiting
for her breakout like she needed it, um more than
you know, history needed accuracy. We needed Julia's career to
take off. And then it was Aaron Brockovich. Yeah, that's true.
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And Aaron Rockovich had been Latina, Julia Roberts would have
absolutely played it. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean this
would have been her Aaron Brockovitch moment. Probably know we
denied it to her. Uh that's It's the most Hollywood
feedback I've ever heard that it was so long ago.
People don't Oh my god. I mean this just shows you, like,
(19:10):
like why it's taken so long for people of color
to have any kind of representation. All Right, we're gonna
take a quick break. We will be right back, and
we're back. It's time to look as we always do.
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Flash have never done at the New York Times best
seller list because there's a highly relevant book at number one.
It's triggered, bitches, libs. It's triggered by Donald Trump Jr.
The Cowboy Bodyguard Romance. Not the Cowboy Bodyguard uh funk
(19:55):
novel by L James with the dude with sick abs
on the cover. That's the other book. That's number two,
the true number one. I guarantee they saw the sales
for that shoot through the roof with people being like, damn,
don jew looks good on the d of this book.
How many do you think how many maga people bought
the wrong triggered book buying a one even bought this
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book if you really think about it. So well, first
of all, it's funny that he called it triggered, and
like he has a bunch of just horrifyingly stupid shit
in there, like he calls uh, trans women athletes mediocre men.
Uh and uh. He also compares his family uh sacrificing
(20:42):
running their business, which they haven't done at all. And
they continued to run their business and make it more
profitable from their father's presidency. But in theory they were
supposed to stop running their their father's business. And he
compared that to the sacrifice of veterans with the book,
uh by not making a lot of money. Yeah, think
(21:04):
about it. I mean, well, there's a monetary value to everything,
and so if you think about these families that are
losing the earning value of a son who they lost
or you know, a husband, Uh, it's like the N
word for the Trump family right. One of the more
questionable surprising claims in the book that I did not
(21:26):
see coming. His claim was that his his dad is
not racist, which I assumed he would say, But the
best he could come up with was an anecdote from
his childhood when he would let Don Jr. And Eric
play video games with Michael Jackson. M hmmm. Complicated, very complicated.
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There many layers, but that is that's where his mind
went when they were like, come up with, like how
come up with an anecdote that like paints your dad
in a picture where like he's not racist? And he
was like, I got it. Yeah, it's wild when the
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selection process is made of like the black person, we're
supposed to go like, okay, we approved. So wait a minute,
he golf with O J. I can do like who
were supposed to go like okay, Well if he played
with him, it's fine, okay by association, not yeah I'm
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racist Michael Jackson. Yeah. So the book immediately appeared on
best seller list right when it was released, but some
people noticed that the RNC is giving out signed copies
of the book in exchange for donations, which they claimed
helps boost reported sales so it wasn't even like again,
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they don't even try. They've been getting away with ship
for so long, they don't even try to cover that
ship up there. It's all glamoured. It's like it's like,
you know, it's like even like when you meet even
like in media companies, where people are just focused on
the chart itself, not the quality of the work, because
like that's the currency for some people. It's like, well,
is our thing at the top of a list? First?
(23:11):
He's like, is this thing actually respected by peers? That
an industry that people were trying to appeal to, And
this is sort of that exact same logic because they
just need to be able to be like number one,
number one, number one, number one, number one. But that's
what's so funny because it has the little dagger dick
next to it, right the death asterisk on the New
York Times list, which denotes this is from bulk purchases,
(23:32):
just letting you know that this is a bit of
fucory as they call it on the New York Times
Bestsellers list. He just got booed too. Yeah, it is
funny that he called the book triggered because he then
did scheduled a book signing and book reading at u
c l A, the hot bed for libs, like Miles
(23:54):
triggered libs get ready and so looking a cigarette dipped
red oil cutting out in front of the library. So
him and his girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoil showed up there, and
there were protesters, but not the protesters they wanted, because
it wasn't liberal protesters. There were like a handful of
(24:14):
liberal protesters who were, you know, basically respectful and didn't
do that much, but there were conservative protesters who thought
that it was messed up that he wasn't opening it
up for questions for them to up to pone him,
because these are the people who are the who are
so right of even Trumpers that they're like, y'all not
(24:36):
racist enough. And that's what that's what was even more
interesting about that. It just sort of this process of
evolution of the offshoots of ship bags on it right.
So ship bags on the right started protesting and shouting,
and Don Jr. Started getting triggered, and he only spoke
for twenty minutes, and then Kimberly got up and started
(24:58):
shouting at the people, telling them that their mothers were
probably not proud of them, and I bet you engage
and go on online dating because you're impressing no one
here to get a dating person. Uh isn't that funny
when people trying to hit you with a burn from
their generation and you're like what, Yeah, I don't even
(25:18):
know what that just meant. You probably got like three
songs in your zoom making fun of people for online dating?
Is that just said? Like okay, what and just like
as a general online dating like that's a whole that's
I actually found a meaningful match on the Harmony dot
(25:41):
com right, we matched on seventy three different dimensions of love? Yeah,
farmers only which made up significant? Is that true? Yeah?
There's they're Yeah the people who one of the dudes
who's like the face of the Harmony, that gray haired guy.
I'm pretty sure he um. He's in one of the
social sciences that u U c l A. And there
was like a bit of debate between people in that
(26:02):
department of like what you're doing isn't exactly science, Like
you're selling people a concept that based on studies we've done,
like we found correlation, but to be like the seventy
three dimensions, like whatever that is yeah. Yeah, anyway, keep
it down. We're making money over here. Yeah yeah, anyways,
Oh Jack, actually time to do an ad for e
harmony dot com. Yeah, I know, I met Miles on
(26:28):
a beard. So there's a new book called From Russia
with Blood, which is kind of a campy name for
a book that has like a bunch of journalistic bombshells.
But this reporter was talking to Terry Gross and she's
talking about how there's been all these murders in the
(26:48):
UK of Russian ex pats who are like Vladimir Putin
opponents or rivals, and they've clearly been murdered, and the
British police are just like, no, I was a suicide.
He stabbed himself to death in the two knives. Like
it's just that that ship is happening. So there's four
(27:11):
in the head. They point to fourteen cases where it's
like super obvious, like there's a guy who, yeah, fourteen
murders over the past, like since Putin came and super obvious. Yeah,
that that are the super obvious ones. There's also one
in America. There was a media's Putin's media's are who
(27:31):
was on the eve of testifying to the US Justice
department was found blegend to death in his room, and
they ruled that the blunt force injuries to his head, neck,
and torso were him falling down over and over because
he was drunk um, which doesn't like it just so
then they also have the medical examiners. Yeah, I think
(27:55):
they just don't want to make the Yeah, they don't
want to make it hot. Basically, he died trying to
give himself the Heimlich Right, Yeah, that's like, honestly what
it seems like. We got in the apartment, the song
Slam by Onyx was playing, and I believe he was
just slamming around the room exactly. And then I started
choking on a pretzel and one of the dudes was
(28:16):
zipped up inside a bag in a bathtub, and all
the entire outside of the bag, including the zipper, was
wiped for prints. And he wasn't wearing gloves, so like
if he had zipped himself in the bag for some reason,
they're his finger prints would have been on the outside
of the bag, and it was just everything was wiped
for prints, and they ruled it a suicide. Where the
(28:38):
fourteen murders or suicie suicides um outside of Russia, or
both inside and the outside now all in the UK.
So so the point they're making is that there's this
overarching system where Russian oligarchs have been a boon to
the UK economy because they're like fleeing Russia their billions,
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and the UK has like a bill that's like if
you invest a certain amount of money in the UK economy,
you can stay, which is like more transparent than I
think the America is willing to be about stuff, but
the UK is just like, yeah, we want money, sure,
bringing money. Uh. And so the theory is that that's
(29:18):
kind of what part of their incentive is to just
look the other way. Cash injection is also very important
to the economy, so they just don't want to make
it hot. But they also talk about, um, you know Putin.
She she kind of made it seem like I had
always heard Putin was the most badass KGB dude, and
she was saying he's more of like a a fanboy
KGB person who like really like bought into just the
(29:41):
overall methos of the KGB. Yeah, he's a KGB nerd right,
And so he when he got into office, started like
researching all the like cool ways of killing people, And
she was saying that, like they have all these really
like if you go really deep there, like these clusters
of heart attacks and like mental breakdowns and suicides that
(30:05):
they think have something to do with like you know,
they they have been researching murder methods since he got
into office, and they might have found really difficult ways
to beyond the what's the what's the chick I don't
know how to say it, the one you're talking about,
the one that's what's what's the Yeah, what's the poison
(30:27):
that was used to poison? Thank you? The one where
I feel like they do that one if they want
people to know before us, butter out before I rad
him out. Um the Because there's another dude actually in
Germany too, who was like a Georgian who was commanding
(30:50):
forces against Russia during the Chechen Uprising. This dude got
straight up clapped up in a German park like and
then the cops caught this dude, like he shot the dude,
ditched his bike, ditched the gun, then got on an
electric scooter and the cops nabbed him. But they're like
hold up, yeah, and he had one of those getaway Yeah, well,
I think because he wanted to blend in with other
(31:11):
people in the park, like and also like when they
looked at his passport, he had one of these passports
where like a lot of the intelligence agencies no based
on the numbers, Like there's a specific passport office that's
in the Kremlin that a lot of people who are
like these quote unquote tourists who come through to you know,
stick people with umbrellas with poison, like have they all
come out of this same office. So it's like, yeah, dude,
(31:34):
like this is it's like some penguin ship. What is it?
Like umbrellas? Yeah? Yeah, because another person, was it lit
Vinenko or someone who was someone had got hit with
like a poison tip of an umbrella, Like that's how
they got the poison. I mean that was like some
cold worship. I think Batman just poisoned. Okay, yeah, he's
(31:55):
he's just a fan of I feel like he's just
a Marvel fan. Yeah, ultimately, yeah, he wants to be
a Marvel villain. But like all of this is it's
so bizarre that we're you know, because I think, you know,
we know that the impagement hearings are related to the
Russia investigation because obviously part of the investigations we're trying
to um go back to and basically move blame from
(32:19):
Russia over to Ukraine, and Trump was trying to facilitate
that and having Ukrainian government openly say that they were
going to do that and investigate themselves as possibly the
reason or the those who meddled in our in the
American elections. But it's so weird that, like to see
how our CIA, and as someone who's just not a fan,
(32:42):
you know, just not a fan of like the CIA personally,
but how we're like so behind when it comes to
like comparing our work to like Russia and or maybe
some of the human rights like clauses that we follow,
you know, like preventing us from you know, doing some
(33:02):
batman like murders, which is good. Yeah, I feel like
they pay people to do that locally, and I think
they might be better at it, and that's why we
don't catch them doing it, whereas like Russia, I feel
like Putin wants people to know like part like he
wants that's part of his kink, and that's also but
it's a message to everybody else. I don't give a
(33:23):
funk where you're at like I can touch you, right,
and it well exactly, it's a message to his own
people too, because apparently, like after it was revealed that yes,
Russia did medal in the U S elections, like people
you know in Russia like, really, hey, that's pretty good
kind of coming back, aren't we? You know? Um? But
on top but it's it is really scary also because
(33:44):
with the Maria Ivanovich, you know, the former ambassador's testimony
on how the day she was told to leave her
position was that she was giving that award to the
anti corruption activist who had acid thrown on her and
then died. Now I'm not saying that was Putin's doing,
but it probably was probably something to do with it. Um,
(34:06):
And like that's what happens when you try to go
against the Kremlin. And I'm like, all right, well, I
want to live in a rational world and I don't
want to just think, you know, Putin's behind everything. But
did Putin take that parking spot that I was going
to parking? Probably? I mean it made me lad, So
you guys, who does uh? It made me think of
(34:31):
So do you guys remember that dude Michael Hastings who
wrote the Stanley McCrystal article for Rolling Stone that got
McCrystal to resign, and then that guy died like in
a car accident. The writer did not know that, Yeah,
he died when he was thirty three in a car accident,
and like there's actually video of his car like speeding
out of control with like sparks flying behind it and
(34:54):
I don't know. So they were talking about how Russia
has these uh drugs that they will dose people with
that will make them lose their mental equilibrium. So in
the weeks leading up to their death, they're acting strangely
so that people are like, oh, well there, yeah, there
was something going on with them, uh, And that just
(35:14):
made me this dude's death was very suspicious, but his
both his brother and his wife were like, yeah, but
he was acting really strange, like right before he died.
But he was also like calling people and being like
I'm onto a big story, but like the US government
is investigating me. And then when Wicky wiki leaks revealed
(35:36):
a bunch of CIA documents that revealed that one of
the ways they were investigating to kill people was hacking
into their cars so that they would just like out
of control and like yeah, and as untraceable ways of
killing people. And this was the guy who wrote about
was it like Crystal and Obama like he was talking
(35:58):
it was this like gen role in I think Afghanistan, right,
it's war machine, It's what war machines about. The guy
was like talking shit about Obama basically, and uh, he
reported at all. I don't think that's why he got killed.
That was just like the big story that put him
on the map. And then he had some other big
scoop and was like, I'm about to have to drop
(36:20):
off the grid, like an hour before his car just
sped out of control and DA killed him. So and
we don't know what that scoop was about. We don't
know other than that it was big and he was
gonna have to drop off the grid because he thought
he was being investigated by the US government and I
thought xan X was powerful, you know what I mean.
That's where I'm still getting over that. How do I
(36:40):
get that? Yeah? Anyways, but Epstein killed himself, right, Yeah,
I don't know. If you go to the man, I
just everywhere people are throwing up. Yeah, yeah, it spray
painted in the street. Vendetta moment is just Epstein. Yeah,
(37:00):
that's like it's yeah, why wouldn't it be. I mean,
that's a very potent symbol of like, you know, excess
and capitalism not working and being away for people to
you know, just be behave in the most despicable way
as possible. It really is uniting all people, the left
(37:21):
and the right. Yeah, even if they're very narrowly focused
on bringing the Clinton's down, fine man, even if they
don't really care about the victims that much. They're just
like Epstein didn't kill himself. Um. I I think the
one thing about the Epstein thing, and I don't know
you guys have talked about it, is that the way
the media dropped it like a hot potato as soon
(37:41):
as he died. Yeah, well that's what the medical examiner said,
so we just gotta just gotta follow. That makes you wonder,
huh Yeah, how many people in those uh, in those
you know, C suites, that those companies, those corporations are
like I don't want to hear a thing about this guy. Yes, yeah,
but because as a journalist like you, that's so only
off limits suddenly, and which is totally messed up because
(38:03):
you you don't even have to talk about the conspiracy
at all. You can still talk about the actual like
the reporting and the victims and the and the lawsuits,
Like why did that also go away immediately? And listen,
I know the media cycle is now we're on the
impeachment Internet, but like she just straight up day and night,
(38:24):
it was blanket coverage and then nothing nothing, And it
is the story that Americans are most interested in right
now across the board, and they're just like, nah, we
don't think it's a good story to cover. But he
is dead, right, so why would we talk about it?
To the point where people like rearranging like monogrammed Christmas
(38:47):
stockings at Target to spell out e Stein didn't kill himself? Well,
how about that war on Christmas? Though? Yeah, all right,
we're gonna take another quick break. We'll be right back,
(39:10):
and we're back. What's a what's a myth? What's something
people think it's true you know to be false? Okay,
I don't think a lot of people know this, But um,
when like female hysteria was a thing, the there's a
thought process that male doctors would cure hysteria by massaging
the clip and that's like the invention of vibrators. But
(39:32):
that is actually a myth. Oh they they like the
idea was that vibrators were invented to calm women down, right,
But doctors were just like they didn't didn't think I'm
giving her an orgasm. They're like, I'm just cure, I'm
just calling her down because she's correct. Um. But actually,
(39:52):
but that was like it written up in like one
journal and no one was like that must be it,
and no one refuted it, no one like did it
their research. And then finally people are like, actually, there's
no evidence of that at all. There's no doctors who
reported this at all, Like it's just not true that
wait about the invention of the vibrator, or though that
(40:12):
that was the reason the vibrator was invented, and that
and that that's how medical professionals were hearing quote unque right,
because the vibrator was invented. It was invented to cure
weak dick that weekend trash dick, I believe because suffering
(40:36):
from weak dick a vibratory she'll never know. Yeah, that's
man coming. This one's going crazy. I feel like most
of what we know about history is is what you
just described, where it's like one place wrote that because
(40:56):
they were like probably, and then like the whole it
been I'm berlin Er thing JFK. It's like from a
spy novel. And then like the novel came out in
the eighties and then like everybody just started quoting it
as said the wrong thing or it wasn't that the
thing about how he said he was a pastriot, that
everybody thought he was saying I'm a doughnut, right right right.
(41:17):
It's just like it's not true. Nobody thought that ship.
I mean, that's the beauty of the pre internet age.
It's like you could have just changed, like the course
of history could have been changed from a few misunderstandings
or someone just being overly confident about something like Okay,
well they said it's true, no way to fact check,
or like yeah, I honestly have no other way to
it sounds true, yea Napoleon being short. It's all just
(41:40):
rumors people started because it seemed like a thing a
smart person or like you and your sweating, Yeah yeah,
people thinking I don't know what to do with my hands.
Photo all that's gonna do it. For this week's weekly Zeite, guys,
(42:04):
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