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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The
Weekly Zeitgeist. 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 breaking news when we're recording this, presumably
not when you're listening to it. ABC this morning canceled
Roseanne after they looked up racism in the dictionary and
they're like, oh, this, this matches. I guess So what
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what did Roseanne? Well? This morning she went on like
a rip. First, she came at Chelsea Clinton for like
suggesting that maybe she was related to a family member
of George Soros, like that old right wing uh, the
boogeyman that they loved to to conjure. I didn't know
a single liberal who's ever met George Soros. The only
time I hear of him is via Fox News and
people with conspiracy here. Yeah, he's so I don't even
(01:06):
know if he exists. But again, sure, dude, he's from
the Holocaust. I just don't know you've met liberals who
have met I've met I've only met actors exactly. So, yeah,
she came at him and Chelsea Clinton was like, just
for your information, my middle name is not Sorrows, it's Victoria.
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Like it was very kind, It's like, but thank you.
And then Rosanne was like, well, you don't know during
the Holocaust, like he was selling out Jewics. So that
the beginning. Then there was like a thing someone who
tweeted something about Valery Jared was a former Obama aide.
And underneath this Twitter threat, she replied Muslim brotherhood and
Planet of the Apes had a baby equals v J,
which Valery Jared's initials. So she did the time honored
(01:51):
anti black racist thing of comparing black people to apes, uh,
and then some and then throwing some Islamophobia in there,
just just to top it off. And then afterwards, I
think clearly because the Internet blew up at her and
was like what the fun is going on? ABC? Everyone
was telling ABC to cancel it. She had like an
apology where she said, oh, it was like a joke
and bad taste, and I regret talking about her politics
(02:11):
and her looks, and sure, but for someone who thinks
they're so smart that they can see the deep state
and comment ping pong and all these other q and
on and all these deep conspiracies. You don't you can't
even tell the difference between racism and a bad joke. Also,
I regret commenting on her looks is like suggesting that
I don't know. It's not like I regret evoking the
(02:32):
deep seated racism of you know, just horrible white supremacy.
It's like, yeah, my bad for being superficial in my
comments that were wild racist annoys me that she used
the construct of a great roast joke is where you
are you know, A plus B yeah, yeah, and then
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she just picked imagery that was very racist and went
that way and and then it's like, oh, it's just
a bad joke, and yes, it was a very bad
It was a lazy joke and a racist joke, and
to not understand the history behind right and but that's
where you go. You know, that was racist because you
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were you were you were making a racist comment to
get your fellow racists excited about your quote unquote joke,
and we all know what's going on. So afterwards, everyone
was like criticizing ABC because they had really not said anything.
And then a few hours later they said, okay, Season
three canceled. Wanted Psykes tweeted pretty quickly, it's like, I
will not be returning to the Roseanne Show as I
think she's a consulting producer. So she did that first
(03:37):
and then ABC canceled. Yeah yeah, I mean I think
this is going to create a lot of debate because
Roseanne was very popular, and you know, the right mega
heads like are going to say this is PC culture,
run them off. I would just say that I think
ABC should keep the show. They need to valerie this ship.
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There was an eight sitcom called Valerie, and the lead actress,
the titular Valerie, went into negotiations in the off season
and was Valerie Harper, right, I think so yeah from
Mary Telly More Yes, And they were like, oh, you
are going to be difficult with us, Well, screw you,
(04:23):
We're gonna just kill your character off. And the next
season it became The Hogan Family and the first episode
was I remember this because it was Jason Bateman was
one of the sons, and he came in with like
a piece of burnt metal from her car that she
had died in and made a joke about the he's
already recovered from his greef. Well, they're already doing sitcom
(04:46):
jokes about mom being dead and then they just moved
on without skipping a beat. And uh, she came after
Valerie Jarrett. Why not valid just Valerie this ship? When
rose and said said VJ. Now if she had meant
Victoria Jackson, would we all be having this comment now?
We'd be like, you know what, and I'd be like,
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what's wrong with your eyes? Right? Is so blond and
white looking that I'm sorry, do we do we have
a disconnect on what looks like? Yeah, but it's also
this is just capitalism and that's it. Yeah. And it's
a shame too, because I think the woman who is
the head of programming ABC is a woman of color
to even signed off on Roseanne coming Back and things
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like that. So I think, yeah, put in a very
tough spot because I think most people were like, you
have to do something if you're ABC, your Disney, like
is this what Disney believes to? But yeah, Again, the
other thing that I noticed too on I forget what
webs I think think progress sort of aggregated how many
media outlets just sort of obscured the fact that it
was racist by describing it in every single way except
(05:49):
using the word racism or racist comments like her tweet
or the show, no this tweet, this specific moment this
morning about her tweets at Valerie Jarrett. They were like
some people were like, she waded into racial waters, was one.
Fox News tweeted. Rosambara quits Twitter after offending with statements
about Chelsea Clinton, former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett. That was
(06:11):
just it, just offending them. Washington posts had racially charged Well, so,
you know, again, I think this kind of speaks to
the culture that we're in now, where a lot of
conservatives get up in arms when racism is described for
what it is and they're like, just again, the PC
culture runn a muck thing. And the same thing too,
when people sort of begin to fear the backlash of
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you know, actually calling out bad ideas for what they
are and the right maybe spinning it as, oh, this
is suppression of thought or whatever. I mean, if yeah,
you made a terribly racist comment, let's call that racism.
When I say waited into racial waters, like yeah, yeah,
I mean, I'm sure it's in her contract that she's
not allowed to be racist on Twitter. Of course, Yeah,
it's gotta be. They they must have thought about this,
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and she was just you know, uh, thinking she was
big enough and the show had done well and that
she could just do this. But I'm honestly not even
kidding about the Valerie thing. There's so much talent involved
with that show that's not her. And so you're saying,
if Roseanne were to die and from opioid addiction, exactly,
because she they already set up her opoid addiction. It's
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great to have a show about a you know, socio
economic bracket that is like rarely depicted in mainstream pop culture. Uh,
And yeah, a lot of those people are dealing with
opioid addiction and people passing away from opioid addiction, and
you know, maybe they could use some laughs. You could
call it instead of Roseanne, you could call it Roseanne
(07:37):
I p R I p R. And also exactly and
also would be mocking her that, like we have your
I P now, Yeah, we have your name property. Yeah.
We we have an update on a story that we
mentioned yesterday. We were hailing Drake's cold blooded takedown and
(07:59):
push a t uh and things have escalated a little bit,
things have gone They've gone next level. I've always hated
push the tease ad lib the Yeah, it's just I
don't know. It seems forced and annoying. It's one of
my least favorite. What about the ad libs? I mean
there's or or or two chains, oh god, or kill
(08:23):
take that take that. Yeah, it's still my least what
to cap you go? Yeah, I mean there's many, there's
many hip hopes. Shut the funk up. Oh that's juicy.
J oh yeah, he's just it's so crazy. It's not
even an ad lib. It's like a weird ethic. I
don't even know what it is. Take that, take that,
take that, take that, take that take But yeah, man,
(08:48):
this so uh. Push it T dropped a rebuttal yesterday
called adi Dan that wasn't the tail of a based
on the story, huh, and I didn't know what that was,
but you're gonna explain what it was. So okay, let's
just start from the beginning, because we just talked about
(09:08):
their beef. The beef between the two of them has
always been about Drake use a ghost rider and push
it T didn't really sell the drugs like he acts
like he does in his lyrics. So then an infrared
push the tas I use a ghost rider, and then
so Drake's response was, yeah, so what you're not that
popping and uh, it turns out that you actually grew
up middle class and you didn't really saw that cocaine
(09:28):
and then pushing old and you're old, then push your
T response with uh, your dad abandoned you, your mom
is a loser, your boy has MS and is about
to die. You've bounced out on your illegitimate love child,
and I'm about to kneecap your deal with Adidas. I
mean like he took the nuclear option, which is you know,
I like hip hop beef because now we've gone from
I'm gonna kill you to push your T basically being
(09:50):
like you're a terrible father, my guy, if you if
you distill it down to that. Personally, I didn't like
the shot he took at ov O forty with his
m S because that's like, that's kind of next level
ship and it's a little tasteless to me. But yeah,
I couldn't believe how in he was going. So yes,
he talks about everything from his uh baby moms, who
(10:13):
is French? Who has this child Adonis? And what's really
interesting is that allegedly, you know, we've seen Drake wearing
Adidas recently, and he's been had to deal with the
Jordan brand, like there have been a whole line of
O V O Jordan's and things like that, and then
recently started wearing Adidas, and everyone like, what's going on?
Is that deal about to follow through? And from what
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we understand is that yes, he does in fact have
something going on with Adidas, and the line is called Adidon,
named after his son Adonis, and that's how he's gonna
like sort of let people know about his son is
along with this, so pushes He's like, shame on you
for first of all, I'm not really supporting your child,
and then like using this like Adidas marketing thing to
announce you have a kid to sell stuff like what's
(10:53):
going on? Uh? And it possibly like what it's going
to happen. A lot of people speculated is that's sort
of like by a tag watching this, Uh, the name
of this distract to the thing that's coming out that's
going to really kind of mess things up from marketing
standpoint for this new apparel line. Not to mention that
the cover art for this freestyle is Drake in blackface
(11:13):
wearing like a Jim Crow hoodie and a Jim Crow
T shirt. And that's like not photoshopped, Like that is
an actual photo that he took and push it T
linked to this photographer's website that it came from. Uh,
it's I mean clearly push it T did some actual
APO research that went into this is impressive. Well, that's
what I was wondering. What do you think somebody brought
(11:36):
this information to push it? Somebody showed him the Burner
account or whatever up like for like two days everything.
Do you think someone brought him that info though about
the sun and all that stuff. Well, there was speculation
about it before, like because he started following this woman
and like he was building a crib at his house,
so people knew these things. Everybody on Lipstick Alley knew
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what was happening. Actually, I just picture to push It
to like reading Lipstick Out. I honestly think Push it
T this has been the plant since the beginning. That's
what I'm saying. Do you think he like bated Drake
Venus trapped in he Admiral Akbar It's a trap. Got
this dude to you know, I'm going to talk a
little bit about you in this track to get you
to say something. But what you don't know is I
have a preloaded response basically that is just like a
(12:20):
scot Start campaign. Do you guys think Drake can come
back from this? Yeah, I think he can. He's gonna
need to do a lot of research. I mean, look,
Meek Mill came back from basically being ethered by Drake,
so you know, we'll see. And also I think Drake's
appeal is so big. Like I was talking to my
friend who works at hip hop station out here. They're saying,
the kids don't even know who push it t is right,
(12:41):
But do you think that like this, like well we'll
damage Drake's like nice guy image. Well that's the thing
is that to come back from this and just have
to go so hard, Like I feel like, look for him,
that is gonna that doesn't agree with his personality. I
guess yeah, his dis track will be like, yes, I
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was a bad dad. I'm real sad. Sorry, guys, and
your sensitive, your sensitive. Somebody was saying he should like
wrap over the Degrassi beat and just own it. And
where did the black face photo come from? Like that
streetwear lines? Yeah, I think the company is called two
(13:22):
Black Guys. It's a like a. You know, other rappers
had done photo shoots for this. Somebody was saying that,
like in the Instagram comments, the guy took the photograph
said it was Drake's idea, and then people were saying
it was because Drake was really in a Little Brother
at the time, which was a Little Brother was doing
like the era and it. But all the people were saying, like,
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it's crazy that this was still up on the internet,
and like Drake, who's usually pretty savvy about stuff like that,
wouldn't have like remembered this existed and scrubbed it, although
that might have been worse obviously to scrub it if
it had come back up, you know, And he's got
to find a way to own it. But what's funny
is like pushing t I think he called him the
Breakfast Club up and was like he needs to explain
this photo. I mean, like his blackness is in question.
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I'm like, my guy, you were working with Kanye West yea,
as our boy said in Philadelphia, find another angle that
color is normal, and you are with one of the
most problematic black people right now. So I don't know.
My whole thing is I honestly feel like Kanye may
have been uh, you know, Emperor palpatineing this thing all
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from the back, because if you think about it, Drake
took over Kanye's spot, and he even admitted that he's like,
you know, I've been gone for a while, and now
Drake is just like that top guy in hip hop.
He's like the big hit king. And we then find
you know, later on, like we find out Drake wrote
a few songs on Pablo, some things that weren't even credited. Uh,
and now to know that Drake is coming onto Adidas.
(14:45):
I feel like it was activating all those Kanye insecurities
and I feel like they definitely had some coordination. So
much fight isn't even necessarily between the people it's between
because it's like it's also about like the real issue
was that like push a tea and like Wayne, we're
fighting about who wore babe first, and that's how Push
it to you like inherited the fight with Drake. Yeah,
(15:09):
it's all it's like a hip hop proxy war. Uh.
I am entertained. Yeah, It's been a while since there
have been like the trading of like you know, freestyles
like this has happened where you're like, like, I mean
the last time I really felt I mean, the Drake
Meek millstuff was fine, but it felt a little one sided.
(15:29):
But you know, like I guess the fifty cent jar
rule thing was. It was like the last time someone
was just sort of consistently getting smashed to bits in distracts.
But yeah, I like it. It's getting messy. The funniest thing, too,
is thinking about, like Drake and Kanye living next to
each other in Calabasas also right now, Like are they
going to run into each other getting the newspaper? How
(15:52):
can you not in Calabasas? You mean it by that? Yeah?
Or wasn't there a competition? More like one of them
heard about the size of the pool the other and
was like, Okay, I gotta go bab and right, I
gotta put a lake in my house. Look like a
resorting side. Right where I reside looked like a resorting side. Grotto, Yeah, exactly.
(16:12):
Let's talks about the grotto. Yeah, yeah, if I had
a grotto, I talked constantly about my grotto me too. Yeah,
I might not even be able to get baited into
disworce because I would be like, I'm going to my grotto.
This is a very important I think a note or
this is a lesson. I think Drake could become a
cautionary tale for people who you know, like, this was
clearly a good move. I pushed you to bring in
one of the biggest names of hip hop to now
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put his focus on you and now look at all
your mentions. Because again, I feel like this was really
well thought out planned because I think he already knew
what he had on Drake, and that's why in the
interview after the Duppy freestyle, was like, we will be
dealing in truths, so like very ominous. Yeah, we were.
We were like, he seems like he doesn't know what
he's talking about. It's just rambling. And it was actually
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him just like dropping like cryptic into how he was
gonna because then he and this is his truth. This
is Drake's truth, right, Okay, well, uh yeah, I mean
Drake is at this point, any anyone he responds to
it's going to be punching down. But the Meek Mill
thing kind of worked out for him, although because he
had a beef with Meek Mill last year two years ago,
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and like Meek Mill, it seemed like everybody agreed took
a huge ol on that but then meek Mill six
months later was like a legend. Everybody was just Nek
Mill was like, Drake is like not that hard. So
when he tries to be really hard, that's like where
his weakness is. When you've come in here, like you
don't know what I'm talking because he's gonna be talking
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about clapping, push a tea up or anything like that,
He's gonna be like, it's just gonna be no. It's
like I got shot by Rick in the hallway and
then I was in a wheelchair. It's guys, now, I
want to talk a little bit about art in the
alt right world, in the in the very hyper conservative world,
in the white nationalist world, because we're seeing all kinds
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of offerings in the realms of film and music and writing. Recently,
J M McNab, one of our writers, brought our attention
to a story about a film that is coming up
called The Trump Prophecy. I think it's based off a
book written by a man named Mark Taylor, who was
a retired firefighter who claims that one day, while watching TV,
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Trump came on and then God told him that Trump
will be president. And this was back in eleven and
you know, it was a very powerful moment. You know.
From there he was like trying to tell people, you know,
this guy would be president. You should listen up. I
have it on good authority, my hallucinations, uh that he
will be president and any like out of work arrested
development writer could have made that same prediction or the
(18:42):
Simpsons years ago, right yeah, yeah yeah. Um So then
he basically co author this book, The Trump Prophecies, The
Astonishing true Story of the Man who Saw Tomorrow and
what he says is coming next. So basically that he said,
there's a really nice part where he just this is
just from the book. In November, team the world witnessed
the impossible. Nearly every household in America was tuned in
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to the election feeds, and every update pointed to the
loss for the Republican Party. But when the map of
the states flipped red in the final hour, there was
a select few who weren't surprised. They had always known
Trump was going to win. He was chosen for such
a time as this. The prophecy had said, So this prophet,
this reserved man of God, was a retired firefighter, Mark Taylor.
The word given by Holy Spirit was delivered on a
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two thousand eleven in the middle of the most debilitating
sickness a man could ever experience. Now, you know, despite
the fact that you know, he basically admitted that his
prediction was for election, Uh, you know, for marketing purposes,
he was going to extend that. I also called this too,
so you know, it still stands dumb as nostradaminance. Seriously,
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but when what comes next? Though? He was also saying
that he Trump will win a second term. Uh, and
then he will release the secret cures for Alzheimer's and cancer. Uh,
because you know, why blow it all in the first term?
Why why why do your grand ending in the first term.
So wait that Trump is going to reveal the cure
(20:06):
to Alzheimer's by just and by so it's like performance
are that he's just demonstrating perhaps having Alzheimer's himself in
his first term. And then at the end it's like,
I actually know how to Benjamin buttonists well, the reasoning being,
the logic being that he will basically come after big
Pharma because they hold the secrets to solving these diseases,
(20:27):
because they profit off of people being sick, which I
agree with. I mean, I get that part of it
that we've seen that kind of ship before. I agree
with all of it. Yeah, but then he'll say once
he comes after Big Farm and is that corruption, then
they will release the antidotes. Now, honestly, I hope that
there is something like that because that would be great.
But again I'm not too you know, I don't know,
(20:48):
I don't know how optimistic. Here's what it is. Here's
what it is, guys, And again, please, you guys are
supposed to be basically journalists, and I'm trying to help.
I never said I'm a journalist. How says he's a
journalist all day time. He texts at night, I'm a journalist.
The only time Miles never came to one of my
UCB shows was to get up on stage and interrupt
(21:09):
the whole thing to say, I'm a German. He's done. Yeah. Yeah,
that's why when we met the first time, you're like, wait,
I know you. Yeah. Nist Um Soma did something very
very similar where in his two thousand and eight term
he was pro gay marriage, but he never said it
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because he didn't want to alienate his black Christian base,
so he waited until the twelve election when he knew
he had them in the bag to say it. Donald
Trump is doing the same thing here, okay with cancer patients,
that's right, And he knows that that's a big part
of his bass and he doesn't want to alienate them.
So he wants to do all the work now so
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that in twelve he can be like, yo, guess what
I'm for this, and then they'll I'll hop on the
train because they're already on the train. It's the same thing.
But we want to crucify Donald Trump for doing the
things that Barack did. And I'm tired of it. You're
really gonna have some crazy people coming at you your
mentions after this one. Uh So let's move on. Because
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another thing that he also said was that he also
said that Megan Kelly fell ill. I don't know if
you remember this, right before the one of the first
Republican primary debates. She couldn't do it because she fell ill.
And he claims that that was God sending her a
quote warning shot to let her know that she should
not try to harm his anointed candidate, Donald Trump. So
this guy is going all in. So now this is
(22:31):
going to be a full on film that's coming out
in October. Called the Trump Prophecy because I guess they
couldn't call it based off the book The Trump Prophecies.
They just kind of made it just like the one
maybe that he'll be president. And anyway, this is being
made by Liberty University, which is a Christian school founded
by Jerry Folwell, and they have a film department, and
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they have a program where students instead of making sort
of like a bunch of shorts, they contribute to making
one feature film. And they did this before with a
film called extra Ordinary, starring guests who Kurt Cameron, you know,
are are Christian. Yeah, he's amazing. M my favorite, Jerry Seinfeld.
So now they're they're what they're working up the Trump Prophecy,
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dropping October, just in time for the mid terms, to
get people to really wake the funk up and realize,
you know, Trump is anointed by God. But the thing is,
which makes sense, is that there are people there who
aren't really quite thrilled about like this Trump Prophecy film
at the school, because you know, you had a Christian school.
There's a lot of things that Trump does. It contradicts
Christian dogma, not something that would be considered a good
(23:34):
Christian thing to do. Yeah. Yeah, so you know, people
still actually read the Bible and follow it. So I
think when they see what Trump's doing, they're like, I
think that, like one of the best bad press you
can get is having a student film made about you.
I think this is actually gonna work in the world's
favorite I'm a connoisseur of bad student films. Yeah, and
(23:56):
here's what I have to say. Those students who are
unhappy about it, I know exactly who they are. They're
the kind of students who pitched a movie that they
didn't get picked up, and they're upset that it's not
their movie. And that's what you think. That's about what
I think, that's what you want to give a student
film record. Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's my favorite one. It
came out in two thousand nine. I had to go
into the backlogs to find it. But it's called Love
(24:18):
Boccardi Boston. It's really good. You can watch it on vimeo.
I do some screenings of it sometimes. You know, No,
it was before I went to college, but it was
like a legendary thing on campus. Are like, oh, this
is if you can get this file, it's the worst
thing you'll ever see you in your love is it
like love Love period, but Cardio period, Boston period. It's
(24:42):
it's just you put this up on your Twitter please yes,
I will absolutely. Um, yeah, you gotta watch Love Boccardi Boston.
The screening of it to night. Oh you are like
legitimately in l A. Yeah, they're doing. There's like a
few annual screenings of it and people come out and
they bring their lb BE gear. It's like shot. It's
(25:02):
like shot on a cam cord. It's one of those
things like when you're in your freshman in film school,
you're supposed to make like a five minute short. This
is forty five minutes long, autobiographical, just some real masterful
work from shout out to the director Dane Shubert, who
still interacts with because he's like he's like almost thirty
now and still dealing with this thing he made when
(25:24):
he was eighteen. What about Carti Boston He still works
in like a videography and stuff. I think him. Yeah,
well localty be stuck with it about a man just
smashed off Dakari's all day. It's so much more than that.
Oh really, okay, well I'm gonna assume that's what that
is all right, We're gonna take a quick break, we'll
be right back. And we're back, and there's a fucking
(25:54):
crazy story out of I guess the Ukraine. Yeah, Ukraine, Yeah,
some miles. Why do you tell us about? Okay? So
this guy was a Russian journalist, which already puts him
at risk because he reports on news and he's Russian.
His name is ar Katie Babchenko, and he basically was
in a plot to fake his own death to foil
a murder plot. So what happened was this guy Babchenko,
(26:17):
he reports on all manners of Russian career. Specifically, his
reporting on the annexation of Crimea put him in some
hot water. And he's a very vocal, putent critic, and
he had to flee Russia and like February seventeen because
he's getting death threats and and his family, and then
like I think, at a certain point, his like information
he was docked, so all of his addresses and his
(26:38):
phone numbers were released on social media. And this is
all because you know, he was basically shining light on
the actions of the Kremlin. So this is where the
drama kicks in. On Tuesday, yesterday, the Ukrainian police were like,
he has been killed. He was shot to death in
his apartment. And then today the head of the Ukrainian
Security Service announcing a news conference that basically they have
(27:00):
solved his murder, and then but called it was like
we've solved it. The next day and he's like, why
don't you come out our Katie Babchenko. He comes out
and was like and like people like applauding and he's
and he literally like, yes, I am alive, and it's
like the most it was, like the most dramatic. Was
like also sorry to people who were like morning, but
(27:21):
I kind of had to do this because things were
getting hot for me. Um. So what had happened was
the investigators identified a Ukrainian citizen who had been recruited
and paid forty grand by the Russian Security Service to
organize this hit and carry it out. And then that
guy went and uh found an acquaintance of his who
had fought in like the separatist war in Eastern Ukraine
(27:42):
to be like the actual trigger man for this. They
basically got you this guy, and it was like just
a huge thing because they're like, oh, see what happens.
And then the Kremlin at first after his murder was announced,
like we'll look into this, because they were saying, they're like,
he was probably killed because of his investigating into like
the annexation of crime and other things going on to
the Kremlin. And then the next day after they come
(28:04):
out with this, Russia said, oh, well, you know, we'll
look into it, but you know that kind of stuff
happens a lot in Ukraine, so you might have to
look at that. So then cut to today where they're
getting real petty. They're like, well, look, I got receipts.
It's it's just getting crazy. But it was specifically like
the Russian government paying the hit man, right, Yeah, they
have the receipt They were saying that, yes, this man
was recruited by the Russia security service to basically carry
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this hit out across the border. I mean, is that
as good of evidence as we have, because we know
Putin kills people like on the regular, but because it's
like somebody who Putin has threatened to kill then gets
shot mysteriously and the cops just like don't look into
it or whatever, that's the first time we have like receipts.
I don't know, I mean I feel like there are
plenty of receipts for other people like live Venenko and
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and even like the dude who just got hit with
the VX nerve agent in the park with his daughter,
Like I mean, you can see these sort of lines
of sight to the Kremlin or whatever, but I mean, yeah,
sure he's I don't know. I just feel like nothing
that the Kremlin would do. Anyone's going to be like,
ah ha, we got you. You know what I mean.
But this seems pretty much like an episode of Matlock
(29:09):
where they like the guys just like ah, you got me,
and then they played the fun music. I can't believe
he only stayed fake dead for I think it seems
very tempting to Juicy be worried he'll be real dead.
Very That's what I would be worried about. To be continued,
who knows. I mean, it's funny he came out in
a hoodie too, Like he didn't give like he was like, yeah,
(29:32):
I'm alive, and showing up at the press conference about
your own death is like the Ballers, Yeah you know,
hoodie and then being like yeah, I'm alive. And then
also just kind of they were saying other people who
they had talked to like other members of the government
in Russia who had fled because if they're like outspoken
criticisms of Putin were like trying to warn him, and
they were saying, like for a long time, this guy
(29:52):
Babchenko was just like not really phazed by the threats.
He was just like whatever, like that he wasn't taking
him seriously. And then they were like, hold up, someone
is trying to do something. Maybe he's like unkillable though
maybe he's like a Rasputin. It would be amazing. Oh yeah,
like he actually was shot, but I'm a lot say
like he was like knifed in the back and he
just chilled. I'm just reading. I mean, he would explain
(30:16):
the hoodie padding, all the padding, you gotta get those
extra layers in Just a weird note. I always anytime
there's a Russia story that clearly makes Russia look bad,
I like to follow it on the front page of
Drudge because I really believe that he has like some
deal with the Kremlin because of the way he covers
(30:36):
these stories. Uh So, all of yesterday was reported that
this guy had been killed and the way that the
Kremlin was reporting it, and then this morning they for
a moment had faked his own death question mark, And
then now it's Ukraine admits faking death of anti Kremlin journalist,
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almost like the Ukraine did a bad thing, like the
way they've phrased it, which I don't know. I've just
always noticed that Drudge tends to like link off to
you know, Russia Today and Pravada articles more than other journalists.
And there was like a story where basically the only
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people in the world who were siding with the Kremlin
was the front page of Drudge Report and Art and
they were just link off. I think it was when
they shot down the airliner and they were like, no,
I don't know, it wasn't us. Yeah, like airliner accidentally explodes, yeah, yeah,
and Drudge just reported that unquestioningly. So yeah, it's funny
(31:38):
that Ukraine admits faking death of anti Kremlin journalists sentence
structure there. They did not in American papers too, though
absolutely a bunch of Palestinians happened ran into some sniper
bullets or when they do this stuff recently with all
the like the racially charged racial waters waited into I
(32:03):
was down like racist, do you mean racist? But yeah,
we we talked a little bit before about how Drudge
gets more traffic than the New York Times and Washington
Post in the US. So that's why it matters, even
though I think a lot of people have stopped checking
Drudge stories. Good too, because it's like, you know, journalism
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spent under attack so much everything. The image of a
journalist like getting fake killed and then coming back just
to his own funeral, it's kind of inspiring. Is an
action movie happened? I can't kill journalism literally. Speaking of Boston,
there was a Harvard study that's, you know, horrifying, but
(32:48):
confirms what I think we have speculated that here on
the Daily ZYKEI. So they looked into the number of
deaths that are attributable to Hurricane Maria and Puerto Rico
and have come up with a number slightly above the
sixty four that the Trump administration had thrown out there. Uh,
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they were already about like seventy five times off. Yes,
it's four thousand, six hundred is the number of deaths
that Harvard is saying over. Four thousand, six hundred is
the number of deaths that Harvard uh says are attributable
to the hurricane. So just to put that in perspective,
because I think in the aftermath of a lot of
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these superstorms, people were referring back to Katrina and saying,
you know, at least this isn't as bad as Katrina. Uh.
And the death toll of Katrina was one thousand, eight
hundred and thirty three across all the states, and uh,
Puerto Rico, they're they're thinking four thousand, six hundred UM.
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And that dropped Bush's approval rating into like the twenties. UH.
Caused Kanye West to say something really smart. UH. And
the fact that it's in more slow motion this time,
and that, like with Katrina, it was like five days
of just the government fucking up, and here it's been
(34:12):
months and months of of complete neglect. Uh. And also
presumably the fact that it's brown people who speak a
different language, who can't vote right, who can't vote. But
clearly that is something is making a difference, because Uh,
this is not the defining story of the year like
Katrina was, or maybe the country is more racist than
(34:34):
it was back then. But I think we're just not
really treating this as a story of Americans are being
left to perish in an unnecessary way, like when you
look at it, a third of those deaths were preventable
in the sense that people perish because of the layter
interrupted medical care. So that's people who have had medical
treatments that to get hospitals or diabetics or things like that.
(34:54):
Like those are just things like as your infrastructure crumbles
and you don't address those, people are very vulnerable and
they yeah, they would naturally be at risk to to
die unnecessarily, do you And also it's an island. Do
you think if the same thing happened to Hawaii? You know,
is say, what the Lavas situation gets way way worse
and there's that many deaths, and why do you think
(35:15):
this government would have the same I don't give a
ship because people can vote in elections. Those people can
vote for president, but they always vote Democrat. Yeah well yeah,
but I'm sure at the same time, I don't think
they're calculus is just is that blatant We're like, oh, well,
they can't vote, they don't care. I think it's just
sort of less of a priority for the people who
are putting in the aid. I'd imagine that any bona
(35:36):
fide state would get proper response from the government, And
I think because uh, Puerto Rico is a commonwealth, they
just feel like it. It's sort of like people just
have this weird thing. I think a lot of people
were reminded, especially an immediate aftermath of the hurricane, that
they're like, remember, Puerto Ricans are American citizens who are
like that need to be treated with the same dignity
(35:58):
that we care for people in Louise, Anna, or Florida,
or Hawaii, California, what have you. So I think that's
what makes it exceptionally, you know, troubling, because it seems like,
for the longest time, the people on the ground in
Puerto Rico were waving their hands saying hello, like we
have real problems here. And I think, yeah, because they're
on an island too, I think it's even easier for
people in the media, for us here on the mainland
(36:20):
or whatever, to sort of be like, oh, yeah, that's
right Puerto Rico. But I think this is something, hopefully
that will spur some kind of change. I mean, I
know there are a lot of people going over there
from Congress to try and like talk to the people
and say like, hey, we care about you. I don'
don't I don't represent you. But I want you to
know I'm trying to do something for you despite the
utter lack of effective response, because I was I was
(36:42):
just kind of looking and comparing the two sort of
responses and scandals Katrina and Maria. And you know, Bush
at the time told FEMA they did a good job,
and that was a huge scandal because they obviously clearly
fucked it up, and you know, he backed away from that,
and that was considered a huge blunder. Trump, like in
(37:04):
the immediate aftermath of Maria, was telling people of Puerto
Rico that the responders can't stay there forever and that
they like created a terrible financial situation for themselves. And
just like I wonder if there's like a shamelessness, like
he almost steers into the swerve like so much that
it's just like you can't even fucking comprehend of how
(37:28):
horrible like it is, and it's just it just explodes
like sort of paint by numbers, Neo like conservative like
thinking is brown people who need help are leeches on
the system. Yes, So it's like, oh, yeah, look we can't,
we can't be here the whole time to help you
get back on your feet. Him at some point, those
bootstraps gotta kick in, and yourself probably wants to put
(37:50):
a wall around Puerto Rican. He just wants to take
a couple of slick jump shots with the paper towels,
get the photo of and then be like, all right,
mission Saul, Mission mission accomplished. We also as a nation
may have had uh like catastrophe fatigue under the Bush administration.
We're nine eleven, which was preventable, and Katrina, which was
(38:11):
not preventable, but definitely we could have done a much
better job. Some kind of barrier has been broken, and
now we're like, oh, this thing happens to us every year. Maybe.
And also I think right from the election, Trump fort
or more of the population was so unacceptable that this
is just the thing where you like Jesus Christ. Whereas
(38:34):
Bush was you know, people were infuriated that he that
the Supreme Court gave him the election, but at least
he was like, well, he was a governor and we
know his dad, and so he seemed a lot more legitimate.
So when he kept the second term of screw ups,
it maybe turned the five percent of the population that
was like, well, what can he do? What harm can
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he do? I think people just need to take the
immutable truth of it all is Aerican people died and
there was a terrible response, and many of those deaths
were preventable. And I think that's the conversation. I think
that's a conversation that needs to be had more of
sort of like we need to look at FEMA, We
need to look at the government's response and like really
ask for like real answers here, like there needs to
(39:15):
be like investigation and whole people accounting in Puerto Rican
needs to have a voice in Congress. Absolutely they don't.
There's some Puerto weecand American congress people, but they don't
represent Puerto Rico. They don't. Yeah, there's also the fact
that they have politicized literally everything to the point that
I'm sure they're going to look at this report and
(39:36):
be like, oh, that's just you know, the liberal media,
because I mean, uh, in the aftermath of the hurricane,
the way the media was covering it, being like, man,
there's really a lot of people without power. He was like, Oh,
that's just the liberal media trying to It's a combination
of things. But I also think it is that things
have just become so politicized that part of the Trump
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administration's overall goal has been too create a world and
this is exactly Russia's propaganda strategy. Create a world where
there are no objective truths, so that you can't never
you can't be wrong because there are no objective truth
Some people's minds are just exhausted. And I think it's worked.
(40:17):
But yeah, people need to think. If you're getting so
up in arms about people fucking taking a need to
draw attention to police violence as they're disrespecting the flag,
well what about the disrespect to these American citizens. They're
not inanimate objects, you know, they're human beings too. Now,
I'd like to talk about what's going on with al
right white nationalist music, because you know that's they're on
(40:38):
a wave right now. Uh. There's a new song out
by one of the members of this group called the
White Art Collectives Calling, and it's just basically group of
no talent Nazis whack that they see whack And it's
just they have a terrible website where they share their
non art. I love that, Like Wick Beta site, it's
(41:01):
so cute. It's really really something else. Uh. And the
latest is a certified banger song in the summer called
It's Okay to Be White. It's just a fucking terrible
song with awful lyrics. The music video itself is wacky.
It's just a guy hand drawing images that eventually like
morph into stock photos. Yeah, he's just free handing, and
(41:25):
then it fades into an image. He certainly has not
paid to you, no, no, no no, And if he
has good on him, then that means there's a little
budget for this. That mean I mean, well, there it
is not water marked to his credit. Um so let
me just let me just play a little bit of
the track and we talk about it. This is It's
Okay to Be White. H get into vibes, a little
(41:52):
bit of tame and paula. Yeah, it's goth night. It's
goth night. The satellite baby j is fench like, like
heavenly blades birthing at the surface, the sound of children's voices. Rey.
(42:24):
I like the part of the music video where he
draws a butt badly. Okay, here comes the chorus, though,
here comes the chorus though, guys, okay to all right, hey, hey, okay, okay, okay,
(42:48):
crazy okay. So yeah, that was a big polo try.
Thank you for featuring my boyfriend's music on that. Really
appreciate it. I'll be in fakes all being fake as
right now. If that thing, if the chorus lad went,
I hey the traffic like that song is great. That's
(43:15):
the most derivative garbage song I've ever heard. The name
of the singer is Bryn Yeah, so I mean to me,
it sounds like a rip off of that song the
promise by when in Rome, like just from like the
Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo. I think it's at the
end of Napoleon Dynamite. Actually when they play that, that
(43:37):
is like kind of the exact rip off. And the
reason why his voice is like that is because he's
actually a UK based racist named Bryn Dolman on Wan Catt.
They did a little digging, they found his LinkedIn profile.
We found out he manages a coffee shop and he's
a life coach. So yeah, I know this. He's my
international boyfriend Jesus Christ. So yeah, I don't know. I
(44:01):
don't know what it is, you know, like manager, he's
the manager of Yeah, that's got to be embarrassing, right,
Like when they come like yo, I heard your track,
Like he heard your Rais song boss. Yeah, oh no,
that that wasn't me. He plays it in the shop. Bang.
He's a barista who's will always trying to let you
(44:21):
know what they really got going on. Yeah yeah, right now.
But check them a mixtape if you want to check
this out. Hey, you look white. He's gonna grab somebody
who's not. But I mean there's some you know, I
don't know what it is about. Like, you know, like
art inherently, like to be a good artist, you have
to you have to have an ounce of empathy and
(44:43):
be willing to challenge yourself right like personally and like
the way you think philosophically. Like that's how you like
really have genuine self expressive art that that connects with people.
And I guess it's no you know, there's no surprise
that people who have the mentality of that very xenophobic, racist,
whatever what have you just hating their heart can't really
get the art to flow. But who is the person
(45:05):
who's hating right now, Miles, let's be honest with ourselves.
Who's really hating? I think that you guys are hating
on this very again, that beat goes hard. I'm not
even joking right now. That beat goes and I since
that beat, I was like, yeah, I kind of want
to flow over this beat, like okay, we'll find we'll
try to get you remix, okay to be what you
(45:26):
should just still do the same course. Yeah you look like, yeah,
you look like you'll let's take a lot of heat
off a drake. Alright, alright, let's take a quick break
and we'll be right back. And we're back. This is
(45:48):
kind of a tricky one. Brian Colangelo, who is the
GM of the seventy sixers technically my dad's boss, has
done something somewhat embarrassing. Uh. The Rare dropped an article
last night that put out a theory that Brian Colangelo,
the GM of, is been using five different burner accounts
(46:11):
to leak classified information about players they were trying to
trade and talk shit about players who were just like
angering him and the GM he replaced in the GM
who replaced him, and just really messy, petty shit. And
it's just very old white male, toxic narcissism vibe to it,
(46:33):
Like his pros is very Trumpian. The way he tweets
is like very just protecting his ego from everything. And
also at one point he defends Donald Trump from a
criticism from Gabrielle Union. But so he has five fake
Twitter accounts, five fake Twitter I'm kind of surprised he
can handle like switching back and forth between the five
(46:54):
fake Twitter account He did not do a good job.
It's very like, very little differentiation. And other than that,
Eric Jr. Was the one that talked the most spicy,
And there are some Reddit theories going around that that
is actually his father, whose name is col Angelo senor, yes,
(47:14):
col Angelo Senior because it is an anagram. I bet
there's a whole world of fake Burner accounts. Yeah, yeah,
I mean we found out that Kevin Durant had one earlier,
but this one's just I think a little bit more
problematic because of him talking about Joel Embiid, who is
his franchise center. Probably not the best thing to antagonize
(47:37):
the guy who is the future of your franchise. Hey
trust the process though, well so that is a reference
to the previous GM and anytime somebody says that he
just like burns up inside apparently because he just spend
the whole time defending himself and like tearing down Sam Hanky.
Does he talk about his his big callers. So this
(47:58):
is people are wondering how the anonymous source who tipped
the Ringer off to this, how they figured this out.
The Their explanation is that they're an AI person who
like noticed similarities in the way they were tweeting. But
you had to have been like looking at these accounts
in the first place to have put all that together.
(48:19):
So my theory is the most transparent thing that one
of the Burner accounts did that would suggest that's Brian
Colangelo is somebody made fun of Brian Colangelo's obsession with
big collars. He always whereas like big collars, And one
of the Burner accounts was like, it's a normal collar.
He said, that's a normal collar. Find another angle, which
(48:43):
there's just no no way that's anybody except him who
defends of another person. Yeah, it's like not a real
dig at someone like, oh those collars, it's fine once
you let it go. That's just such a very specific
They're really big, Yeah, they are, they're huge. I looked
(49:03):
it up because I didn't know who this guy was,
and I looked it up and I was like, those
are some big callers. Are they like stand up victorians?
They're like seventies like just big lapels. Okay, oh I see,
I mean this is a more exaggerated It goes to
show you what I think people are thinking about his
(49:24):
his big collar game. Yeah. Has anyone suggested that maybe
this is like a rival team trying to like frame
Colangelo some four D chess right there? That would be amazing.
I will suggest that right now, because fuck everybody, who's
not the seventies six Who are the seventy sixers biggest rival?
That would I could totally see Danny Ainge doing this
for the Celtics. Oh yeah, there goes Jack his anti
(49:48):
Boston angle. Uh no, I like the city, just not
a fan of that's right, Okay, okay, we got it.
But yeah. He also talked about Faults, who is the
player he picked with the first pick in the NBA draft,
and like was leaking information about how he thought it
was a mental thing, how he wasn't shooting well and right,
because that was like a big saga. Yeah so he Yeah,
(50:09):
it was basically like ask his quote father figure why
he had to like restructure his shot and all this
ship like that was very petty and specific. It was
like it seems like you might have some information and
also a vendetta to make it seem like Brian Colangelo
is totally innocent of making a terrible draft. Pick Uh,
(50:30):
someone show these old people how to use fake accounts please.
I know. I think how to use them is to
not make them. Yes, that seems like you got to
have one, But if you want to get messy, you know,
I'm just saying, if you if people are going to
find out, you know, yeah, no matter, especially if you're
like like waving around a trail just being like, don't
look here. Yeah, like his head just look at the collar.
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Image was like a comparison of collars. It's actually normal.
All the collars follow the college. All right, that's gonna
do it for this week's weekly Zeite. Guys, please like
and review the show. If you like the show, Uh
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I hope you're having a great weekend and I will
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Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The
Weekly Zeitgeist. 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 breaking news when we're recording this, presumably
not when you're listening to it. ABC this morning canceled
Roseanne after they looked up racism in the dictionary and
they're like, oh, this, this matches. I guess So what
(00:42):
what did Roseanne? Well? This morning she went on like
a rip. First, she came at Chelsea Clinton for like
suggesting that maybe she was related to a family member
of George Soros, like that old right wing uh, the
boogeyman that they loved to to conjure. I didn't know
a single liberal who's ever met George Soros. The only
time I hear of him is via Fox News and
people with conspiracy here. Yeah, he's so I don't even
(01:06):
know if he exists. But again, sure, dude, he's from
the Holocaust. I just don't know you've met liberals who
have met I've met I've only met actors exactly. So, yeah,
she came at him and Chelsea Clinton was like, just
for your information, my middle name is not Sorrows, it's Victoria.
(01:27):
Like it was very kind, It's like, but thank you.
And then Rosanne was like, well, you don't know during
the Holocaust, like he was selling out Jewics. So that
the beginning. Then there was like a thing someone who
tweeted something about Valery Jared was a former Obama aide.
And underneath this Twitter threat, she replied Muslim brotherhood and
Planet of the Apes had a baby equals v J,
which Valery Jared's initials. So she did the time honored
(01:51):
anti black racist thing of comparing black people to apes, uh,
and then some and then throwing some Islamophobia in there,
just just to top it off. And then afterwards, I
think clearly because the Internet blew up at her and
was like what the fun is going on? ABC? Everyone
was telling ABC to cancel it. She had like an
apology where she said, oh, it was like a joke
and bad taste, and I regret talking about her politics
(02:11):
and her looks, and sure, but for someone who thinks
they're so smart that they can see the deep state
and comment ping pong and all these other q and
on and all these deep conspiracies. You don't you can't
even tell the difference between racism and a bad joke. Also,
I regret commenting on her looks is like suggesting that
I don't know. It's not like I regret evoking the
(02:32):
deep seated racism of you know, just horrible white supremacy.
It's like, yeah, my bad for being superficial in my
comments that were wild racist annoys me that she used
the construct of a great roast joke is where you
are you know, A plus B yeah, yeah, and then
(02:53):
she just picked imagery that was very racist and went
that way and and then it's like, oh, it's just
a bad joke, and yes, it was a very bad
It was a lazy joke and a racist joke, and
to not understand the history behind right and but that's
where you go. You know, that was racist because you
(03:14):
were you were you were making a racist comment to
get your fellow racists excited about your quote unquote joke,
and we all know what's going on. So afterwards, everyone
was like criticizing ABC because they had really not said anything.
And then a few hours later they said, okay, Season
three canceled. Wanted Psykes tweeted pretty quickly, it's like, I
will not be returning to the Roseanne Show as I
think she's a consulting producer. So she did that first
(03:37):
and then ABC canceled. Yeah yeah, I mean I think
this is going to create a lot of debate because
Roseanne was very popular, and you know, the right mega
heads like are going to say this is PC culture,
run them off. I would just say that I think
ABC should keep the show. They need to valerie this ship.
(04:01):
There was an eight sitcom called Valerie, and the lead actress,
the titular Valerie, went into negotiations in the off season
and was Valerie Harper, right, I think so yeah from
Mary Telly More Yes, And they were like, oh, you
are going to be difficult with us, Well, screw you,
(04:23):
We're gonna just kill your character off. And the next
season it became The Hogan Family and the first episode
was I remember this because it was Jason Bateman was
one of the sons, and he came in with like
a piece of burnt metal from her car that she
had died in and made a joke about the he's
already recovered from his greef. Well, they're already doing sitcom
(04:46):
jokes about mom being dead and then they just moved
on without skipping a beat. And uh, she came after
Valerie Jarrett. Why not valid just Valerie this ship? When
rose and said said VJ. Now if she had meant
Victoria Jackson, would we all be having this comment now?
We'd be like, you know what, and I'd be like,
(05:08):
what's wrong with your eyes? Right? Is so blond and
white looking that I'm sorry, do we do we have
a disconnect on what looks like? Yeah, but it's also
this is just capitalism and that's it. Yeah. And it's
a shame too, because I think the woman who is
the head of programming ABC is a woman of color
to even signed off on Roseanne coming Back and things
(05:28):
like that. So I think, yeah, put in a very
tough spot because I think most people were like, you
have to do something if you're ABC, your Disney, like
is this what Disney believes to? But yeah, Again, the
other thing that I noticed too on I forget what
webs I think think progress sort of aggregated how many
media outlets just sort of obscured the fact that it
was racist by describing it in every single way except
(05:49):
using the word racism or racist comments like her tweet
or the show, no this tweet, this specific moment this
morning about her tweets at Valerie Jarrett. They were like
some people were like, she waded into racial waters, was one.
Fox News tweeted. Rosambara quits Twitter after offending with statements
about Chelsea Clinton, former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett. That was
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just it, just offending them. Washington posts had racially charged Well, so,
you know, again, I think this kind of speaks to
the culture that we're in now, where a lot of
conservatives get up in arms when racism is described for
what it is and they're like, just again, the PC
culture runn a muck thing. And the same thing too,
when people sort of begin to fear the backlash of
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you know, actually calling out bad ideas for what they
are and the right maybe spinning it as, oh, this
is suppression of thought or whatever. I mean, if yeah,
you made a terribly racist comment, let's call that racism.
When I say waited into racial waters, like yeah, yeah,
I mean, I'm sure it's in her contract that she's
not allowed to be racist on Twitter. Of course, Yeah,
it's gotta be. They they must have thought about this,
(06:54):
and she was just you know, uh, thinking she was
big enough and the show had done well and that
she could just do this. But I'm honestly not even
kidding about the Valerie thing. There's so much talent involved
with that show that's not her. And so you're saying,
if Roseanne were to die and from opioid addiction, exactly,
because she they already set up her opoid addiction. It's
(07:17):
great to have a show about a you know, socio
economic bracket that is like rarely depicted in mainstream pop culture. Uh,
And yeah, a lot of those people are dealing with
opioid addiction and people passing away from opioid addiction, and
you know, maybe they could use some laughs. You could
call it instead of Roseanne, you could call it Roseanne
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I p R I p R. And also exactly and
also would be mocking her that, like we have your
I P now, Yeah, we have your name property. Yeah.
We we have an update on a story that we
mentioned yesterday. We were hailing Drake's cold blooded takedown and
(07:59):
push a t uh and things have escalated a little bit,
things have gone They've gone next level. I've always hated
push the tease ad lib the Yeah, it's just I
don't know. It seems forced and annoying. It's one of
my least favorite. What about the ad libs? I mean
there's or or or two chains, oh god, or kill
(08:23):
take that take that. Yeah, it's still my least what
to cap you go? Yeah, I mean there's many, there's
many hip hopes. Shut the funk up. Oh that's juicy.
J oh yeah, he's just it's so crazy. It's not
even an ad lib. It's like a weird ethic. I
don't even know what it is. Take that, take that,
take that, take that, take that take But yeah, man,
(08:48):
this so uh. Push it T dropped a rebuttal yesterday
called adi Dan that wasn't the tail of a based
on the story, huh, and I didn't know what that was,
but you're gonna explain what it was. So okay, let's
just start from the beginning, because we just talked about
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their beef. The beef between the two of them has
always been about Drake use a ghost rider and push
it T didn't really sell the drugs like he acts
like he does in his lyrics. So then an infrared
push the tas I use a ghost rider, and then
so Drake's response was, yeah, so what you're not that
popping and uh, it turns out that you actually grew
up middle class and you didn't really saw that cocaine
(09:28):
and then pushing old and you're old, then push your
T response with uh, your dad abandoned you, your mom
is a loser, your boy has MS and is about
to die. You've bounced out on your illegitimate love child,
and I'm about to kneecap your deal with Adidas. I
mean like he took the nuclear option, which is you know,
I like hip hop beef because now we've gone from
I'm gonna kill you to push your T basically being
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like you're a terrible father, my guy, if you if
you distill it down to that. Personally, I didn't like
the shot he took at ov O forty with his
m S because that's like, that's kind of next level
ship and it's a little tasteless to me. But yeah,
I couldn't believe how in he was going. So yes,
he talks about everything from his uh baby moms, who
(10:13):
is French? Who has this child Adonis? And what's really
interesting is that allegedly, you know, we've seen Drake wearing
Adidas recently, and he's been had to deal with the
Jordan brand, like there have been a whole line of
O V O Jordan's and things like that, and then
recently started wearing Adidas, and everyone like, what's going on?
Is that deal about to follow through? And from what
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we understand is that yes, he does in fact have
something going on with Adidas, and the line is called Adidon,
named after his son Adonis, and that's how he's gonna
like sort of let people know about his son is
along with this, so pushes He's like, shame on you
for first of all, I'm not really supporting your child,
and then like using this like Adidas marketing thing to
announce you have a kid to sell stuff like what's
(10:53):
going on? Uh? And it possibly like what it's going
to happen. A lot of people speculated is that's sort
of like by a tag watching this, Uh, the name
of this distract to the thing that's coming out that's
going to really kind of mess things up from marketing
standpoint for this new apparel line. Not to mention that
the cover art for this freestyle is Drake in blackface
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wearing like a Jim Crow hoodie and a Jim Crow
T shirt. And that's like not photoshopped, Like that is
an actual photo that he took and push it T
linked to this photographer's website that it came from. Uh,
it's I mean clearly push it T did some actual
APO research that went into this is impressive. Well, that's
what I was wondering. What do you think somebody brought
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this information to push it? Somebody showed him the Burner
account or whatever up like for like two days everything.
Do you think someone brought him that info though about
the sun and all that stuff. Well, there was speculation
about it before, like because he started following this woman
and like he was building a crib at his house,
so people knew these things. Everybody on Lipstick Alley knew
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what was happening. Actually, I just picture to push It
to like reading Lipstick Out. I honestly think Push it
T this has been the plant since the beginning. That's
what I'm saying. Do you think he like bated Drake
Venus trapped in he Admiral Akbar It's a trap. Got
this dude to you know, I'm going to talk a
little bit about you in this track to get you
to say something. But what you don't know is I
have a preloaded response basically that is just like a
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scot Start campaign. Do you guys think Drake can come
back from this? Yeah, I think he can. He's gonna
need to do a lot of research. I mean, look,
Meek Mill came back from basically being ethered by Drake,
so you know, we'll see. And also I think Drake's
appeal is so big. Like I was talking to my
friend who works at hip hop station out here. They're saying,
the kids don't even know who push it t is right,
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But do you think that like this, like well we'll
damage Drake's like nice guy image. Well that's the thing
is that to come back from this and just have
to go so hard, Like I feel like, look for him,
that is gonna that doesn't agree with his personality. I
guess yeah, his dis track will be like, yes, I
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was a bad dad. I'm real sad. Sorry, guys, and
your sensitive, your sensitive. Somebody was saying he should like
wrap over the Degrassi beat and just own it. And
where did the black face photo come from? Like that
streetwear lines? Yeah, I think the company is called two
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Black Guys. It's a like a. You know, other rappers
had done photo shoots for this. Somebody was saying that,
like in the Instagram comments, the guy took the photograph
said it was Drake's idea, and then people were saying
it was because Drake was really in a Little Brother
at the time, which was a Little Brother was doing
like the era and it. But all the people were saying, like,
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it's crazy that this was still up on the internet,
and like Drake, who's usually pretty savvy about stuff like that,
wouldn't have like remembered this existed and scrubbed it, although
that might have been worse obviously to scrub it if
it had come back up, you know, And he's got
to find a way to own it. But what's funny
is like pushing t I think he called him the
Breakfast Club up and was like he needs to explain
this photo. I mean, like his blackness is in question.
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I'm like, my guy, you were working with Kanye West yea,
as our boy said in Philadelphia, find another angle that
color is normal, and you are with one of the
most problematic black people right now. So I don't know.
My whole thing is I honestly feel like Kanye may
have been uh, you know, Emperor palpatineing this thing all
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from the back, because if you think about it, Drake
took over Kanye's spot, and he even admitted that he's like,
you know, I've been gone for a while, and now
Drake is just like that top guy in hip hop.
He's like the big hit king. And we then find
you know, later on, like we find out Drake wrote
a few songs on Pablo, some things that weren't even credited. Uh,
and now to know that Drake is coming onto Adidas.
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I feel like it was activating all those Kanye insecurities
and I feel like they definitely had some coordination. So
much fight isn't even necessarily between the people it's between
because it's like it's also about like the real issue
was that like push a tea and like Wayne, we're
fighting about who wore babe first, and that's how Push
it to you like inherited the fight with Drake. Yeah,
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it's all it's like a hip hop proxy war. Uh.
I am entertained. Yeah, It's been a while since there
have been like the trading of like you know, freestyles
like this has happened where you're like, like, I mean
the last time I really felt I mean, the Drake
Meek millstuff was fine, but it felt a little one sided.
(15:29):
But you know, like I guess the fifty cent jar
rule thing was. It was like the last time someone
was just sort of consistently getting smashed to bits in distracts.
But yeah, I like it. It's getting messy. The funniest thing, too,
is thinking about, like Drake and Kanye living next to
each other in Calabasas also right now, Like are they
going to run into each other getting the newspaper? How
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can you not in Calabasas? You mean it by that? Yeah?
Or wasn't there a competition? More like one of them
heard about the size of the pool the other and
was like, Okay, I gotta go bab and right, I
gotta put a lake in my house. Look like a
resorting side. Right where I reside looked like a resorting side. Grotto, Yeah, exactly.
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Let's talks about the grotto. Yeah, yeah, if I had
a grotto, I talked constantly about my grotto me too. Yeah,
I might not even be able to get baited into
disworce because I would be like, I'm going to my grotto.
This is a very important I think a note or
this is a lesson. I think Drake could become a
cautionary tale for people who you know, like, this was
clearly a good move. I pushed you to bring in
one of the biggest names of hip hop to now
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put his focus on you and now look at all
your mentions. Because again, I feel like this was really
well thought out planned because I think he already knew
what he had on Drake, and that's why in the
interview after the Duppy freestyle, was like, we will be
dealing in truths, so like very ominous. Yeah, we were.
We were like, he seems like he doesn't know what
he's talking about. It's just rambling. And it was actually
(16:55):
him just like dropping like cryptic into how he was
gonna because then he and this is his truth. This
is Drake's truth, right, Okay, well, uh yeah, I mean
Drake is at this point, any anyone he responds to
it's going to be punching down. But the Meek Mill
thing kind of worked out for him, although because he
had a beef with Meek Mill last year two years ago,
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and like Meek Mill, it seemed like everybody agreed took
a huge ol on that but then meek Mill six
months later was like a legend. Everybody was just Nek
Mill was like, Drake is like not that hard. So
when he tries to be really hard, that's like where
his weakness is. When you've come in here, like you
don't know what I'm talking because he's gonna be talking
(17:37):
about clapping, push a tea up or anything like that,
He's gonna be like, it's just gonna be no. It's
like I got shot by Rick in the hallway and
then I was in a wheelchair. It's guys, now, I
want to talk a little bit about art in the
alt right world, in the in the very hyper conservative world,
in the white nationalist world, because we're seeing all kinds
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of offerings in the realms of film and music and writing. Recently,
J M McNab, one of our writers, brought our attention
to a story about a film that is coming up
called The Trump Prophecy. I think it's based off a
book written by a man named Mark Taylor, who was
a retired firefighter who claims that one day, while watching TV,
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Trump came on and then God told him that Trump
will be president. And this was back in eleven and
you know, it was a very powerful moment. You know.
From there he was like trying to tell people, you know,
this guy would be president. You should listen up. I
have it on good authority, my hallucinations, uh that he
will be president and any like out of work arrested
development writer could have made that same prediction or the
(18:42):
Simpsons years ago, right yeah, yeah yeah. Um So then
he basically co author this book, The Trump Prophecies, The
Astonishing true Story of the Man who Saw Tomorrow and
what he says is coming next. So basically that he said,
there's a really nice part where he just this is
just from the book. In November, team the world witnessed
the impossible. Nearly every household in America was tuned in
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to the election feeds, and every update pointed to the
loss for the Republican Party. But when the map of
the states flipped red in the final hour, there was
a select few who weren't surprised. They had always known
Trump was going to win. He was chosen for such
a time as this. The prophecy had said, So this prophet,
this reserved man of God, was a retired firefighter, Mark Taylor.
The word given by Holy Spirit was delivered on a
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two thousand eleven in the middle of the most debilitating
sickness a man could ever experience. Now, you know, despite
the fact that you know, he basically admitted that his
prediction was for election, Uh, you know, for marketing purposes,
he was going to extend that. I also called this too,
so you know, it still stands dumb as nostradaminance. Seriously,
(19:45):
but when what comes next? Though? He was also saying
that he Trump will win a second term. Uh, and
then he will release the secret cures for Alzheimer's and cancer. Uh,
because you know, why blow it all in the first term?
Why why why do your grand ending in the first term.
So wait that Trump is going to reveal the cure
(20:06):
to Alzheimer's by just and by so it's like performance
are that he's just demonstrating perhaps having Alzheimer's himself in
his first term. And then at the end it's like,
I actually know how to Benjamin buttonists well, the reasoning being,
the logic being that he will basically come after big
Pharma because they hold the secrets to solving these diseases,
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because they profit off of people being sick, which I
agree with. I mean, I get that part of it
that we've seen that kind of ship before. I agree
with all of it. Yeah, but then he'll say once
he comes after Big Farm and is that corruption, then
they will release the antidotes. Now, honestly, I hope that
there is something like that because that would be great.
But again I'm not too you know, I don't know,
(20:48):
I don't know how optimistic. Here's what it is. Here's
what it is, guys, And again, please, you guys are
supposed to be basically journalists, and I'm trying to help.
I never said I'm a journalist. How says he's a
journalist all day time. He texts at night, I'm a journalist.
The only time Miles never came to one of my
UCB shows was to get up on stage and interrupt
(21:09):
the whole thing to say, I'm a German. He's done. Yeah. Yeah,
that's why when we met the first time, you're like, wait,
I know you. Yeah. Nist Um Soma did something very
very similar where in his two thousand and eight term
he was pro gay marriage, but he never said it
(21:30):
because he didn't want to alienate his black Christian base,
so he waited until the twelve election when he knew
he had them in the bag to say it. Donald
Trump is doing the same thing here, okay with cancer patients,
that's right, And he knows that that's a big part
of his bass and he doesn't want to alienate them.
So he wants to do all the work now so
(21:51):
that in twelve he can be like, yo, guess what
I'm for this, and then they'll I'll hop on the
train because they're already on the train. It's the same thing.
But we want to crucify Donald Trump for doing the
things that Barack did. And I'm tired of it. You're
really gonna have some crazy people coming at you your
mentions after this one. Uh So let's move on. Because
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another thing that he also said was that he also
said that Megan Kelly fell ill. I don't know if
you remember this, right before the one of the first
Republican primary debates. She couldn't do it because she fell ill.
And he claims that that was God sending her a
quote warning shot to let her know that she should
not try to harm his anointed candidate, Donald Trump. So
this guy is going all in. So now this is
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going to be a full on film that's coming out
in October. Called the Trump Prophecy because I guess they
couldn't call it based off the book The Trump Prophecies.
They just kind of made it just like the one
maybe that he'll be president. And anyway, this is being
made by Liberty University, which is a Christian school founded
by Jerry Folwell, and they have a film department, and
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they have a program where students instead of making sort
of like a bunch of shorts, they contribute to making
one feature film. And they did this before with a
film called extra Ordinary, starring guests who Kurt Cameron, you know,
are are Christian. Yeah, he's amazing. M my favorite, Jerry Seinfeld.
So now they're they're what they're working up the Trump Prophecy,
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dropping October, just in time for the mid terms, to
get people to really wake the funk up and realize,
you know, Trump is anointed by God. But the thing is,
which makes sense, is that there are people there who
aren't really quite thrilled about like this Trump Prophecy film
at the school, because you know, you had a Christian school.
There's a lot of things that Trump does. It contradicts
Christian dogma, not something that would be considered a good
(23:34):
Christian thing to do. Yeah. Yeah, so you know, people
still actually read the Bible and follow it. So I
think when they see what Trump's doing, they're like, I
think that, like one of the best bad press you
can get is having a student film made about you.
I think this is actually gonna work in the world's
favorite I'm a connoisseur of bad student films. Yeah, and
(23:56):
here's what I have to say. Those students who are
unhappy about it, I know exactly who they are. They're
the kind of students who pitched a movie that they
didn't get picked up, and they're upset that it's not
their movie. And that's what you think. That's about what
I think, that's what you want to give a student
film record. Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's my favorite one. It
came out in two thousand nine. I had to go
into the backlogs to find it. But it's called Love
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Boccardi Boston. It's really good. You can watch it on vimeo.
I do some screenings of it sometimes. You know, No,
it was before I went to college, but it was
like a legendary thing on campus. Are like, oh, this
is if you can get this file, it's the worst
thing you'll ever see you in your love is it
like love Love period, but Cardio period, Boston period. It's
(24:42):
it's just you put this up on your Twitter please yes,
I will absolutely. Um, yeah, you gotta watch Love Boccardi Boston.
The screening of it to night. Oh you are like
legitimately in l A. Yeah, they're doing. There's like a
few annual screenings of it and people come out and
they bring their lb BE gear. It's like shot. It's
(25:02):
like shot on a cam cord. It's one of those
things like when you're in your freshman in film school,
you're supposed to make like a five minute short. This
is forty five minutes long, autobiographical, just some real masterful
work from shout out to the director Dane Shubert, who
still interacts with because he's like he's like almost thirty
now and still dealing with this thing he made when
(25:24):
he was eighteen. What about Carti Boston He still works
in like a videography and stuff. I think him. Yeah,
well localty be stuck with it about a man just
smashed off Dakari's all day. It's so much more than that.
Oh really, okay, well I'm gonna assume that's what that
is all right, We're gonna take a quick break, we'll
be right back. And we're back, and there's a fucking
(25:54):
crazy story out of I guess the Ukraine. Yeah, Ukraine, Yeah,
some miles. Why do you tell us about? Okay? So
this guy was a Russian journalist, which already puts him
at risk because he reports on news and he's Russian.
His name is ar Katie Babchenko, and he basically was
in a plot to fake his own death to foil
a murder plot. So what happened was this guy Babchenko,
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he reports on all manners of Russian career. Specifically, his
reporting on the annexation of Crimea put him in some
hot water. And he's a very vocal, putent critic, and
he had to flee Russia and like February seventeen because
he's getting death threats and and his family, and then
like I think, at a certain point, his like information
he was docked, so all of his addresses and his
(26:38):
phone numbers were released on social media. And this is
all because you know, he was basically shining light on
the actions of the Kremlin. So this is where the
drama kicks in. On Tuesday, yesterday, the Ukrainian police were like,
he has been killed. He was shot to death in
his apartment. And then today the head of the Ukrainian
Security Service announcing a news conference that basically they have
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solved his murder, and then but called it was like
we've solved it. The next day and he's like, why
don't you come out our Katie Babchenko. He comes out
and was like and like people like applauding and he's
and he literally like, yes, I am alive, and it's
like the most it was, like the most dramatic. Was
like also sorry to people who were like morning, but
(27:21):
I kind of had to do this because things were
getting hot for me. Um. So what had happened was
the investigators identified a Ukrainian citizen who had been recruited
and paid forty grand by the Russian Security Service to
organize this hit and carry it out. And then that
guy went and uh found an acquaintance of his who
had fought in like the separatist war in Eastern Ukraine
(27:42):
to be like the actual trigger man for this. They
basically got you this guy, and it was like just
a huge thing because they're like, oh, see what happens.
And then the Kremlin at first after his murder was announced,
like we'll look into this, because they were saying, they're like,
he was probably killed because of his investigating into like
the annexation of crime and other things going on to
the Kremlin. And then the next day after they come
(28:04):
out with this, Russia said, oh, well, you know, we'll
look into it, but you know that kind of stuff
happens a lot in Ukraine, so you might have to
look at that. So then cut to today where they're
getting real petty. They're like, well, look, I got receipts.
It's it's just getting crazy. But it was specifically like
the Russian government paying the hit man, right, Yeah, they
have the receipt They were saying that, yes, this man
was recruited by the Russia security service to basically carry
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this hit out across the border. I mean, is that
as good of evidence as we have, because we know
Putin kills people like on the regular, but because it's
like somebody who Putin has threatened to kill then gets
shot mysteriously and the cops just like don't look into
it or whatever, that's the first time we have like receipts.
I don't know, I mean I feel like there are
plenty of receipts for other people like live Venenko and
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and even like the dude who just got hit with
the VX nerve agent in the park with his daughter,
Like I mean, you can see these sort of lines
of sight to the Kremlin or whatever, but I mean, yeah,
sure he's I don't know. I just feel like nothing
that the Kremlin would do. Anyone's going to be like,
ah ha, we got you. You know what I mean.
But this seems pretty much like an episode of Matlock
(29:09):
where they like the guys just like ah, you got me,
and then they played the fun music. I can't believe
he only stayed fake dead for I think it seems
very tempting to Juicy be worried he'll be real dead.
Very That's what I would be worried about. To be continued,
who knows. I mean, it's funny he came out in
a hoodie too, Like he didn't give like he was like, yeah,
(29:32):
I'm alive, and showing up at the press conference about
your own death is like the Ballers, Yeah you know,
hoodie and then being like yeah, I'm alive. And then
also just kind of they were saying other people who
they had talked to like other members of the government
in Russia who had fled because if they're like outspoken
criticisms of Putin were like trying to warn him, and
they were saying, like for a long time, this guy
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Babchenko was just like not really phazed by the threats.
He was just like whatever, like that he wasn't taking
him seriously. And then they were like, hold up, someone
is trying to do something. Maybe he's like unkillable though
maybe he's like a Rasputin. It would be amazing. Oh yeah,
like he actually was shot, but I'm a lot say
like he was like knifed in the back and he
just chilled. I'm just reading. I mean, he would explain
(30:16):
the hoodie padding, all the padding, you gotta get those
extra layers in Just a weird note. I always anytime
there's a Russia story that clearly makes Russia look bad,
I like to follow it on the front page of
Drudge because I really believe that he has like some
deal with the Kremlin because of the way he covers
(30:36):
these stories. Uh So, all of yesterday was reported that
this guy had been killed and the way that the
Kremlin was reporting it, and then this morning they for
a moment had faked his own death question mark, And
then now it's Ukraine admits faking death of anti Kremlin journalist,
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almost like the Ukraine did a bad thing, like the
way they've phrased it, which I don't know. I've just
always noticed that Drudge tends to like link off to
you know, Russia Today and Pravada articles more than other journalists.
And there was like a story where basically the only
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people in the world who were siding with the Kremlin
was the front page of Drudge Report and Art and
they were just link off. I think it was when
they shot down the airliner and they were like, no,
I don't know, it wasn't us. Yeah, like airliner accidentally explodes, yeah, yeah,
and Drudge just reported that unquestioningly. So yeah, it's funny
(31:38):
that Ukraine admits faking death of anti Kremlin journalists sentence
structure there. They did not in American papers too, though
absolutely a bunch of Palestinians happened ran into some sniper
bullets or when they do this stuff recently with all
the like the racially charged racial waters waited into I
(32:03):
was down like racist, do you mean racist? But yeah,
we we talked a little bit before about how Drudge
gets more traffic than the New York Times and Washington
Post in the US. So that's why it matters, even
though I think a lot of people have stopped checking
Drudge stories. Good too, because it's like, you know, journalism
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spent under attack so much everything. The image of a
journalist like getting fake killed and then coming back just
to his own funeral, it's kind of inspiring. Is an
action movie happened? I can't kill journalism literally. Speaking of Boston,
there was a Harvard study that's, you know, horrifying, but
(32:48):
confirms what I think we have speculated that here on
the Daily ZYKEI. So they looked into the number of
deaths that are attributable to Hurricane Maria and Puerto Rico
and have come up with a number slightly above the
sixty four that the Trump administration had thrown out there. Uh,
(33:08):
they were already about like seventy five times off. Yes,
it's four thousand, six hundred is the number of deaths
that Harvard is saying over. Four thousand, six hundred is
the number of deaths that Harvard uh says are attributable
to the hurricane. So just to put that in perspective,
because I think in the aftermath of a lot of
(33:31):
these superstorms, people were referring back to Katrina and saying,
you know, at least this isn't as bad as Katrina. Uh.
And the death toll of Katrina was one thousand, eight
hundred and thirty three across all the states, and uh,
Puerto Rico, they're they're thinking four thousand, six hundred UM.
(33:51):
And that dropped Bush's approval rating into like the twenties. UH.
Caused Kanye West to say something really smart. UH. And
the fact that it's in more slow motion this time,
and that, like with Katrina, it was like five days
of just the government fucking up, and here it's been
(34:12):
months and months of of complete neglect. Uh. And also
presumably the fact that it's brown people who speak a
different language, who can't vote right, who can't vote. But
clearly that is something is making a difference, because Uh,
this is not the defining story of the year like
Katrina was, or maybe the country is more racist than
(34:34):
it was back then. But I think we're just not
really treating this as a story of Americans are being
left to perish in an unnecessary way, like when you
look at it, a third of those deaths were preventable
in the sense that people perish because of the layter
interrupted medical care. So that's people who have had medical
treatments that to get hospitals or diabetics or things like that.
(34:54):
Like those are just things like as your infrastructure crumbles
and you don't address those, people are very vulnerable and
they yeah, they would naturally be at risk to to
die unnecessarily, do you And also it's an island. Do
you think if the same thing happened to Hawaii? You know,
is say, what the Lavas situation gets way way worse
and there's that many deaths, and why do you think
(35:15):
this government would have the same I don't give a
ship because people can vote in elections. Those people can
vote for president, but they always vote Democrat. Yeah well yeah,
but I'm sure at the same time, I don't think
they're calculus is just is that blatant We're like, oh, well,
they can't vote, they don't care. I think it's just
sort of less of a priority for the people who
are putting in the aid. I'd imagine that any bona
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fide state would get proper response from the government, And
I think because uh, Puerto Rico is a commonwealth, they
just feel like it. It's sort of like people just
have this weird thing. I think a lot of people
were reminded, especially an immediate aftermath of the hurricane, that
they're like, remember, Puerto Ricans are American citizens who are
like that need to be treated with the same dignity
(35:58):
that we care for people in Louise, Anna, or Florida,
or Hawaii, California, what have you. So I think that's
what makes it exceptionally, you know, troubling, because it seems like,
for the longest time, the people on the ground in
Puerto Rico were waving their hands saying hello, like we
have real problems here. And I think, yeah, because they're
on an island too, I think it's even easier for
people in the media, for us here on the mainland
(36:20):
or whatever, to sort of be like, oh, yeah, that's
right Puerto Rico. But I think this is something, hopefully
that will spur some kind of change. I mean, I
know there are a lot of people going over there
from Congress to try and like talk to the people
and say like, hey, we care about you. I don'
don't I don't represent you. But I want you to
know I'm trying to do something for you despite the
utter lack of effective response, because I was I was
(36:42):
just kind of looking and comparing the two sort of
responses and scandals Katrina and Maria. And you know, Bush
at the time told FEMA they did a good job,
and that was a huge scandal because they obviously clearly
fucked it up, and you know, he backed away from that,
and that was considered a huge blunder. Trump, like in
(37:04):
the immediate aftermath of Maria, was telling people of Puerto
Rico that the responders can't stay there forever and that
they like created a terrible financial situation for themselves. And
just like I wonder if there's like a shamelessness, like
he almost steers into the swerve like so much that
it's just like you can't even fucking comprehend of how
(37:28):
horrible like it is, and it's just it just explodes
like sort of paint by numbers, Neo like conservative like
thinking is brown people who need help are leeches on
the system. Yes, So it's like, oh, yeah, look we can't,
we can't be here the whole time to help you
get back on your feet. Him at some point, those
bootstraps gotta kick in, and yourself probably wants to put
(37:50):
a wall around Puerto Rican. He just wants to take
a couple of slick jump shots with the paper towels,
get the photo of and then be like, all right,
mission Saul, Mission mission accomplished. We also as a nation
may have had uh like catastrophe fatigue under the Bush administration.
We're nine eleven, which was preventable, and Katrina, which was
(38:11):
not preventable, but definitely we could have done a much
better job. Some kind of barrier has been broken, and
now we're like, oh, this thing happens to us every year. Maybe.
And also I think right from the election, Trump fort
or more of the population was so unacceptable that this
is just the thing where you like Jesus Christ. Whereas
(38:34):
Bush was you know, people were infuriated that he that
the Supreme Court gave him the election, but at least
he was like, well, he was a governor and we
know his dad, and so he seemed a lot more legitimate.
So when he kept the second term of screw ups,
it maybe turned the five percent of the population that
was like, well, what can he do? What harm can
(38:55):
he do? I think people just need to take the
immutable truth of it all is Aerican people died and
there was a terrible response, and many of those deaths
were preventable. And I think that's the conversation. I think
that's a conversation that needs to be had more of
sort of like we need to look at FEMA, We
need to look at the government's response and like really
ask for like real answers here, like there needs to
(39:15):
be like investigation and whole people accounting in Puerto Rican
needs to have a voice in Congress. Absolutely they don't.
There's some Puerto weecand American congress people, but they don't
represent Puerto Rico. They don't. Yeah, there's also the fact
that they have politicized literally everything to the point that
I'm sure they're going to look at this report and
(39:36):
be like, oh, that's just you know, the liberal media,
because I mean, uh, in the aftermath of the hurricane,
the way the media was covering it, being like, man,
there's really a lot of people without power. He was like, Oh,
that's just the liberal media trying to It's a combination
of things. But I also think it is that things
have just become so politicized that part of the Trump
(39:57):
administration's overall goal has been too create a world and
this is exactly Russia's propaganda strategy. Create a world where
there are no objective truths, so that you can't never
you can't be wrong because there are no objective truth
Some people's minds are just exhausted. And I think it's worked.
(40:17):
But yeah, people need to think. If you're getting so
up in arms about people fucking taking a need to
draw attention to police violence as they're disrespecting the flag,
well what about the disrespect to these American citizens. They're
not inanimate objects, you know, they're human beings too. Now,
I'd like to talk about what's going on with al
right white nationalist music, because you know that's they're on
(40:38):
a wave right now. Uh. There's a new song out
by one of the members of this group called the
White Art Collectives Calling, and it's just basically group of
no talent Nazis whack that they see whack And it's
just they have a terrible website where they share their
non art. I love that, Like Wick Beta site, it's
(41:01):
so cute. It's really really something else. Uh. And the
latest is a certified banger song in the summer called
It's Okay to Be White. It's just a fucking terrible
song with awful lyrics. The music video itself is wacky.
It's just a guy hand drawing images that eventually like
morph into stock photos. Yeah, he's just free handing, and
(41:25):
then it fades into an image. He certainly has not
paid to you, no, no, no no, And if he
has good on him, then that means there's a little
budget for this. That mean I mean, well, there it
is not water marked to his credit. Um so let
me just let me just play a little bit of
the track and we talk about it. This is It's
Okay to Be White. H get into vibes, a little
(41:52):
bit of tame and paula. Yeah, it's goth night. It's
goth night. The satellite baby j is fench like, like
heavenly blades birthing at the surface, the sound of children's voices. Rey.
(42:24):
I like the part of the music video where he
draws a butt badly. Okay, here comes the chorus, though,
here comes the chorus though, guys, okay to all right, hey, hey, okay, okay, okay,
(42:48):
crazy okay. So yeah, that was a big polo try.
Thank you for featuring my boyfriend's music on that. Really
appreciate it. I'll be in fakes all being fake as
right now. If that thing, if the chorus lad went,
I hey the traffic like that song is great. That's
(43:15):
the most derivative garbage song I've ever heard. The name
of the singer is Bryn Yeah, so I mean to me,
it sounds like a rip off of that song the
promise by when in Rome, like just from like the
Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo. I think it's at the
end of Napoleon Dynamite. Actually when they play that, that
(43:37):
is like kind of the exact rip off. And the
reason why his voice is like that is because he's
actually a UK based racist named Bryn Dolman on Wan Catt.
They did a little digging, they found his LinkedIn profile.
We found out he manages a coffee shop and he's
a life coach. So yeah, I know this. He's my
international boyfriend Jesus Christ. So yeah, I don't know. I
(44:01):
don't know what it is, you know, like manager, he's
the manager of Yeah, that's got to be embarrassing, right,
Like when they come like yo, I heard your track,
Like he heard your Rais song boss. Yeah, oh no,
that that wasn't me. He plays it in the shop. Bang.
He's a barista who's will always trying to let you
(44:21):
know what they really got going on. Yeah yeah, right now.
But check them a mixtape if you want to check
this out. Hey, you look white. He's gonna grab somebody
who's not. But I mean there's some you know, I
don't know what it is about. Like, you know, like
art inherently, like to be a good artist, you have
to you have to have an ounce of empathy and
(44:43):
be willing to challenge yourself right like personally and like
the way you think philosophically. Like that's how you like
really have genuine self expressive art that that connects with people.
And I guess it's no you know, there's no surprise
that people who have the mentality of that very xenophobic, racist,
whatever what have you just hating their heart can't really
get the art to flow. But who is the person
(45:05):
who's hating right now, Miles, let's be honest with ourselves.
Who's really hating? I think that you guys are hating
on this very again, that beat goes hard. I'm not
even joking right now. That beat goes and I since
that beat, I was like, yeah, I kind of want
to flow over this beat, like okay, we'll find we'll
try to get you remix, okay to be what you
(45:26):
should just still do the same course. Yeah you look like, yeah,
you look like you'll let's take a lot of heat
off a drake. Alright, alright, let's take a quick break
and we'll be right back. And we're back. This is
(45:48):
kind of a tricky one. Brian Colangelo, who is the
GM of the seventy sixers technically my dad's boss, has
done something somewhat embarrassing. Uh. The Rare dropped an article
last night that put out a theory that Brian Colangelo,
the GM of, is been using five different burner accounts
(46:11):
to leak classified information about players they were trying to
trade and talk shit about players who were just like
angering him and the GM he replaced in the GM
who replaced him, and just really messy, petty shit. And
it's just very old white male, toxic narcissism vibe to it,
(46:33):
Like his pros is very Trumpian. The way he tweets
is like very just protecting his ego from everything. And
also at one point he defends Donald Trump from a
criticism from Gabrielle Union. But so he has five fake
Twitter accounts, five fake Twitter I'm kind of surprised he
can handle like switching back and forth between the five
(46:54):
fake Twitter account He did not do a good job.
It's very like, very little differentiation. And other than that,
Eric Jr. Was the one that talked the most spicy,
And there are some Reddit theories going around that that
is actually his father, whose name is col Angelo senor, yes,
(47:14):
col Angelo Senior because it is an anagram. I bet
there's a whole world of fake Burner accounts. Yeah, yeah,
I mean we found out that Kevin Durant had one earlier,
but this one's just I think a little bit more
problematic because of him talking about Joel Embiid, who is
his franchise center. Probably not the best thing to antagonize
(47:37):
the guy who is the future of your franchise. Hey
trust the process though, well so that is a reference
to the previous GM and anytime somebody says that he
just like burns up inside apparently because he just spend
the whole time defending himself and like tearing down Sam Hanky.
Does he talk about his his big callers. So this
(47:58):
is people are wondering how the anonymous source who tipped
the Ringer off to this, how they figured this out.
The Their explanation is that they're an AI person who
like noticed similarities in the way they were tweeting. But
you had to have been like looking at these accounts
in the first place to have put all that together.
(48:19):
So my theory is the most transparent thing that one
of the Burner accounts did that would suggest that's Brian
Colangelo is somebody made fun of Brian Colangelo's obsession with
big collars. He always whereas like big collars, And one
of the Burner accounts was like, it's a normal collar.
He said, that's a normal collar. Find another angle, which
(48:43):
there's just no no way that's anybody except him who
defends of another person. Yeah, it's like not a real
dig at someone like, oh those collars, it's fine once
you let it go. That's just such a very specific
They're really big, Yeah, they are, they're huge. I looked
(49:03):
it up because I didn't know who this guy was,
and I looked it up and I was like, those
are some big callers. Are they like stand up victorians?
They're like seventies like just big lapels. Okay, oh I see,
I mean this is a more exaggerated It goes to
show you what I think people are thinking about his
(49:24):
his big collar game. Yeah. Has anyone suggested that maybe
this is like a rival team trying to like frame
Colangelo some four D chess right there? That would be amazing.
I will suggest that right now, because fuck everybody, who's
not the seventies six Who are the seventy sixers biggest rival?
That would I could totally see Danny Ainge doing this
for the Celtics. Oh yeah, there goes Jack his anti
(49:48):
Boston angle. Uh no, I like the city, just not
a fan of that's right, Okay, okay, we got it.
But yeah. He also talked about Faults, who is the
player he picked with the first pick in the NBA draft,
and like was leaking information about how he thought it
was a mental thing, how he wasn't shooting well and right,
because that was like a big saga. Yeah so he Yeah,
(50:09):
it was basically like ask his quote father figure why
he had to like restructure his shot and all this
ship like that was very petty and specific. It was
like it seems like you might have some information and
also a vendetta to make it seem like Brian Colangelo
is totally innocent of making a terrible draft. Pick Uh,
(50:30):
someone show these old people how to use fake accounts please.
I know. I think how to use them is to
not make them. Yes, that seems like you got to
have one, But if you want to get messy, you know,
I'm just saying, if you if people are going to
find out, you know, yeah, no matter, especially if you're
like like waving around a trail just being like, don't
look here. Yeah, like his head just look at the collar.
(50:54):
Image was like a comparison of collars. It's actually normal.
All the collars follow the college. All right, that's gonna
do it for this week's weekly Zeite. Guys, please like
and review the show. If you like the show, Uh
means the world to Miles. He needs your validation, folks.
(51:17):
I hope you're having a great weekend and I will
talk to him Monday. By m BA
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