Weekly Zeitgeist 31 (Best of 7/2/18-7/6/18)

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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 uh NonStop
infotainment last stravaganza. Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here

(00:22):
is the Weekly Zeitgeist. All right, guys, let's get into
the cultural Uh. So Michael Cohen is out here, Uh,
switching sides, talked to George Stephanopolis. I did not look
at the interview, Miles. You watched something. I read through it. Uh.
He's definitely shifting his tone a little bit. Uh, he

(00:43):
like some you know, pull some choice quotes. The biggest
thing was that he was essentially saying I'm not loyal
to Trump. Was sort of the thesis of this entire thing. Uh.
He says, my wife, my daughter, and my son have
my first loyalty and always will I put my family
and country first. So yes, that should be a bit
of a signal to Donald Trump, because clearly Michael Cohen

(01:05):
has many receipts. Uh, and you know when they like
you know Stephanopolis over the time, like he was, he
was noting that he sort of reiterated this whole thing
of like I'm loyal to my family or not to Trump,
like in a few different ways throughout the interview. Uh,
there's another part where, uh, Stephanopolis notes when I asked
Cohen how he might respond if the President his legal
team come after him to try and discredit him and

(01:25):
the work he did for Mr Trump for the last decade,
which they will already begin starting to do already. Uh.
He sat up straight, his voice gained strength. I will
not be a punching bag as part of anyone's defense strategy,
he said emphatically. I am not a villain of this story,
and I will not allow others to try to pick
me that way. So yeah, he's it's like the kid.
He might stand up to the bully, but we'll see. Uh.

(01:47):
And even like kind of was like saying that, you know,
defending the Mueller investigation. You know. So he he hasn't
really been he hasn't been charged with anything formally yet,
but clearly the tone is shifting. Before where he was like,
you know, he said I'll take a bullet for for
Donald Trump, and now I don't know what the things
I do to you will be discussed. And now he's like, oh,

(02:07):
I gotta wipe your kids, man. Yeah, exactly. So, yeah,
it's one thing to talk with your chest out like that.
And then I think as things get real, he's starting
to say, like, you know, even when they ask, oh, well,
will you talk a little bit more about the stormy
Dann was saying, He's like, I would love to, but
against my legal council says I shouldn't right now, but
that time will come. So I don't like the term
witch hunt. You know, it's a little so that's just

(02:28):
like but then he says from that quote, that's what
he says, and then he says, quote, as an American,
I repudiate Russia's or any other foreign government's attempt to
interfere metal in our democratic process, and I would call
on all Americans to do the same. So, you know,
I don't know what he may know something about that
Trump Tower meeting. Yeah, so I don't know if he's
like are He's clearly trying to position himself as like, hey,

(02:50):
I just got caught up in some bullshit. You know,
I'm not the bad guy here. I'm just the dude
who's in the way. Well, this will be telling if
the c i A Still gets down like they did
in the six teas and fifties. Then uh, con will
get into a car accident and then not to dis
will be the second after the new Mexican president. So
we'll we'll see. Fox didn't interview with his Highness himself.

(03:14):
President Trump sat down with Maria bartar Romo. Uh and
I guess you can call it an interview. It was
pretty I mean, I guess, like she said the word
I agree too often to be anything, but like a
hype man, it was literally, you know, it would just
be real underhanders, like what about Like there was no

(03:37):
pushing back on like real issues like that, like if
the tax cuts are working or if these tariffs are damaging.
Everything was sort of like yeah, for sure, for sure basically,
so you know what, We'll play a little montage of
the main points. They talked about Rush collusion, They talk
about the tax cuts, the stock market, the you know,
the economy in general, on tariffs, those are all things
that you could ask some pretty hard hitting questions. But

(03:59):
again this is clearly you know propaganda dot com. Uh
So they just uh, I mean, just listen to their responses.
It's really not about the answers. It's just about how
just uh huh cool dude, like, how this is a
non interview. It's just like someone just helping Trump leave
his own bullshit. There's no collusion with me, there's no

(04:20):
Russia with me, there's no nothing. It's a it's honestly,
it's a disgrace. You know, they found nothing. Nobody has
found anything. I think ultimately the text cuts as they
kick in, and they're kicking in, you see the kind
of hundreds of billions of dollars brought back into the
country already. I think ultimately that's going to be something
really special, and you're seeing the result right now. I
agree with you because under President Obama, the Federal Registry

(04:42):
pages were up to nineties changes. And I will tell
you that you don't know about this, but every country
is calling every day saying, let's make a deal. Let's
make it deal. It's gonna all work out. And the
markets feel like they're trusting you at this point. I
think they trust me. The farmers trust me. They do.
I had a great company. The head of a great
company come up to me. He's very seriously affected by

(05:03):
the tariffs. He said, Mr President, it's not good for
me right now. Ultimately it is. But you're doing the
right thing on tariffs. I'm pushing back on China as well.
Most people understand that they've been stealing from us. Let's
bring up this other thing you're right about. You're right
about everything. Yeah, it was almost like, don't forget this
other thing because I feel like you're not kind enough
to yourself honestly. Also, good job on Lebron going to

(05:27):
the Lakers. Yeah, da um, this is yeah, that is
It's Fox, you know what I mean. And it's just
becoming more and more. It's like, don't like, why are
we been calling it news that it's not and it's
there's nothing new about this. I did have sort of
a moment of realization last week after the mass shooting

(05:48):
at the newspaper. We talked on Friday about how on
Sean Hannity's radio show he blamed Maxine Waters for, you know,
the rhetoric, the fact that she was telling people to
protest and you know, get in people's faces. He was like,
I mean, you know, from that to this shooting. I'm

(06:09):
not saying it caused it, but I mean, and then
would say it like next to each other, like time
after time, to the point that it was like very
clear the implication was that he was saying that Maxine
Waters telling people to protests fucking Trump officials in public
was causing this mass shooting. So I went on CNN

(06:29):
dot com and their article on this, the headline was
Hannity denies tying Maxine Waters rhetoric to shooting, so which
then you click on it, it's just quote after quote
from Hannity blaming Maxine Waters for the shooting. But the
headline they use he denies it, is that he denies it,
and it's like, yeah, he denies it, but like, that's

(06:50):
not the noteworthy thing that he denies that. The noteworthy
thing is that he did it in the first place,
and that you have quotes of him doing it. But
this kind of made me kind of put things into
perspective for me that just the left has no Fox
News equivalent, like the way it's been set up by
you know, the right and Trump. And therefore I think

(07:12):
the mainstream media has even adopted this is that Fox
News is to the right and CNN is to the left,
and that's not true. CNN aspires to journalism. They're not
great at their job all the time, as that headline suggests,
like they're missing the big point. But I think they're
reacting sometimes too, you know, disagreeing with the president and

(07:32):
sometimes to being afraid that Fox News is going to
call them left wing? Yeah, but what is the left
version of Fox News? Because if you think about it,
if if we're comparing them, Fox is just a center
for misinformation, so do we But I don't think we
necessarily need something that's to the left that misinforms people,

(07:52):
you know what I mean. It's just that more it's
that people are aggressively pursuing the truth, because that's where
I'm kind of you know, I don't know what what
is what is the version? I don't know, I don't
know what the answer is. But I'm just trying to
describe the system as I see it. And the way
I see it is that you have Fox to the
right that is just putting forth all this misinformation, and

(08:13):
then the entire mainstream media is trying to react to
that misinformation, and that pushes them right word. And but
because Fox exists, they are always going to be comparatively
to the left. And so when I put that, like
I just tweeted about this and was like, look at
this article. It's insane, Like the mainstream media doesn't have

(08:33):
a left leaning you know, mainstream media outlet. People were like,
what are you talking about? CNN and New York Times,
all those places are left, and they are left compared
to Fox News. Fox News has like created the Overton
window in which that whole spectrum is being defined, And
so yes, they look left compared to Fox News. But

(08:55):
if you if you compare our mainstream media to any
other country in the world, it's to the right, right right.
But also like if CNN they're doing ship like when
an administration officials are lying, they're like, oh, well we
have this quote right now, let's pull that and confront
you with the evidence of your deception. And they're like,
oh what, and people like see, why are they why

(09:16):
are they attacking them? It's like what they're trying to
do is not allow people to just be so deceptive
in such an aggressive way like they are. So I guess, yeah,
to the left of propaganda is truth or like trying
to have some semblance of of like reality. And that's
what I was basically, it was gonna say, it's just that, Yeah,

(09:39):
if we take Fox News at what they're claiming to be,
then yeah, we definitely don't have a left version of that.
But because Fox News is constantly lying and there's like
at least a modicum of journalistic integrity in all these places,
they appear left because they're like, well, no, that's just
a lie and there's no slant to it, it's just facts.
But because as we now live in an age where

(10:01):
anything opposing what's being said by the right, whether it
be true or not, equals equals a left slant. But
you're you're right, because I think if there truly was
a left version of what Fox News pretends to be,
you'd have someone following up on these questions because I
do get frustrated watching like CNN or MSNBC when they

(10:22):
point out a lie and just leave let it, just
let it go. They don't put it in the context
of the story, they just leave it. Because I would say,
like MSNBC is definitely of all the major ones, they're
definitely the most like left aligne but still they still
there's people like Andrew Mitchell was pretty moderate and will
still kind of like, you know, report things in a
way that's still kind of favorable to two Republicans or

(10:45):
the conservative movement or whatever. But yeah, I mean I'm
just like, so this I was just imagining because the
morning after the mass shooting, bright Bart, their headline was
all about how the left was trying to blame Trump
for this shooting that happened at the newsroom, which there
wasn't actually good evidence. There were like some people on

(11:05):
Twitter who were like saying, you know, because Trump was like,
the media is the worst, hate the media, and like
at his rallies, people were like suggesting violence towards the media.
That's a sort of one to one comparison. But nobody
was outright saying it is Trump's fault for doing this.
But bright Bart was drawing that comparison because they are
a right wing ideological, you know, outlet, and they wanted

(11:28):
to make that case, and so they made it. Whereas CNN,
who is supposed to be leftist head Hannity in quotes
saying that it was a left wing person who caused
this shooting and they didn't do anything with it. If
that had been on the right, that would have been
the number one story on Drudge, It would have been
the number one story on Fox if you had the
equivalent thing happening on the other side. But because the

(11:51):
left doesn't have that that story just never gets picked up.
But had it been, like if both sides are just
completely even the when one slips up and does something
stupid like that on the left, it's going to get
picked up and blown up and made into a running
narrative on the right, Whereas when somebody on the right
does something like that, the left just does nothing with it.

(12:12):
So you just get this unbalanced sort of mainstream media. Well, yeah,
it's just uh, it's the fear of appearing biased when
there's when the bias is just purely like self created
on the right to just to defend themselves from their
own fuccory basically exactly. We wanted to check in with
the international scene what's going on with North Korea? First

(12:35):
of all, because Mike Pompeo is traveling back to North
Korea at the end of this week, i think on Thursday,
to meet with you know, diplomats there to continue the
conversation that started a month ago between Kim Young un
and President Donald Try. Does he need to go back?
It's been settled. Donald Trump's just did the handshakes? Was

(13:00):
that not fixed? So you know, if you stopped paying
attention at that point, if you were like, hey, he said,
we don't have to pay attention anymore, So so thank you,
done and done. Uh. Every expert on the subject thinks
that President Trump is either being like willfully obtuse because
he knows that you know, just saying it's done with

(13:22):
is good for business and good for his approval ratings,
or he has like legitimately been tricked by North Korea
and people aren't sure which one it is because he
keeps referring back to the fact that like he's like
I met him, I shook his hand, I looked in
his eyes. We have like a close personal bond. I
believe him. Uh. And then you know, there was satellite

(13:44):
footage last week that shows that they have continued just
with that unimpeded to upgrade their nuclear facilities on like
both coasts. Their main nuclear facility is still like fully operational. Um,
so Pompeo is at it over there to basically ask
them to yeah, the guys, excuse me, like someone so.

(14:13):
So part of the issue is nobody really knows what
has been promised, like what Trump promised him, because they
like the meat of the deal is being carried out
like some sort of like golf course handshake thing where
he's just like I looked him in the eye. Were cool.
We understand each other, rather than the traditional way, which

(14:33):
would be you know, pouring over a document like the
incredibly important legal contract that it is. Uh So people
like don't know what each side is like as it is,
we have a you know, page and a half double
space war document full of like vaguely defined terms. One
of them is total d nuclearization of the Korean Peninsula,

(14:56):
which Trump clearly thinks means they will get rid of
their nuclear weapons. Uh but it has like every North
Korea expert is like, no, they have used that phrase
for decades every to mean that the US has to
remove their nuclear umbrella from the region that protects Japan
and South Korea. It's like it's the last thing, like
the last step on their list, and so he agreed

(15:19):
to the very last thing, like they're the biggest ask
that they had on their list. He was like, yeah, sure,
So I don't know. It's well, we'll see how the
Pompeo meeting goes. I think there's a very plausible timeline
now that you know she jimping came to mar Lago
last year. They were reportedly floored by how basic Trump's

(15:42):
understanding of international relations were. And then North Korea is
in this war of words with him at that time,
and suddenly Kim Young un was like, actually, let's be
friends and set up a meeting. And he was down
because she, jimping had basically told him, Okay, all you
have to do is like tell this guy he's like smart, yeah, yeah,

(16:03):
and he's gonna give you everything you want. Um and
so yeah, I don't know, and they really haven't given
anything up in the Americans and stuff. Korea. It's like
all small stuff where they're like, oh, they're they're they're
like ramping down the anti US propagandist stuff like stuff,
stuff like that's being removed. And I guess, I guess

(16:24):
it's the Trump like that seems like yes, he they
love us. So yeah, because he's still like operating on
the assumption that everyone is forming their policy based on
the book that was Goes written for him like years ago.
He's like, oh, the famous diplomatic text, the Art of
the Deal, and that's how and like Trump is never
gonna do a one of those reading deals. He's gonna do. Uh.

(16:45):
We made eye contact and we touched each other's skin,
and therefore I fixed the nuclear problem. What did he
say this morning? Didn't he tweet something this morning where
he's like, we would have been in a total nuclear
war if it wasn't for me. He tweeted some dumb
ship this morning. Probably that sounds that sounds like him

(17:07):
this morning. I want to just start tweeting out his demands.
Someone's Twitter account. Many good, that's what This is what
he tweeted this morning. Many good conversations with North Korea.
It is going well. In the meantime, no rocket launches
are nuclear testing in eight months. All of Asia is thrilled.
Only the opposition party, which includes the fake news, is

(17:30):
complaining if not for me, we would now be at
war with North Korea. So cool, Yeah, Fox News even
like there's an article on Fox News that's saying, how
can we be shocked that North Korea went back on
its word? North Korea has never kept its word when
it comes to on any atomic age. Like they're writing
the same thing that he that he says. The opposition

(17:52):
party is writing like everybody is in agreement. And that's
like the one thing Fox couldn't really come around, except
like Hannity and like Tucker Carlson, but like everyone else
is like, no, this did. The handshake didn't solve this problem,
and it was really foolish to even think it was. So.
In addition to the Pompeo meeting happening on the fifth

(18:12):
on Thursday, uh, this is also relevant because Trump has
a meeting with another incredibly important foreign official, one Vladimir Putin.
Where about someone with a tongue strong enough to not
get oh yeah, uh new Twitter account at Putin's tongue.

(18:37):
Uh they have. So you're saying, miles that they have
written into the schedule that there will be seven minutes
they are gonna well, basically I'm calling it Trump and
Putin doing seven minutes in heaven on July sixteenth, because
there's gonna be a face to face meeting where they
will first meet one on one man versus Cheeto in

(19:00):
with no aids, absolutely none, and then later on the
AIGs will come in, similar to the North Korea meeting.
But what's odd about this is because when there's no
aids or whatever, that there won't be an official record
of what was said, and so it'll be hard to
know what agreements were made or what deal, what was
spoken about, so it's very who knows what then they're

(19:20):
gonna talking about. It could be putting being like, hey,
my guy, ramp up the hot rhetoric because we hacked
the mid terms two thanks to Jamie loftus or whatever.
The hackers they get, we gotta get we gotta get
the hackers. But yeah, so again, this is like one
of those things too where he met with Kim Jong
un one on one. We're not quite sure what happened
there because no one was in there to know, and
no aids were present, no diplomats were there to be like, hey,

(19:42):
this is a very complex thing and they're gonna be
talking about election interference, Syria, nuclear weapons. But who knows
if that's what they talked about on their one on
one I don't know, So we don't know, but it
does seem like, for whatever reason, America's sort of international
advert series or you know, these people that we have
a lot to lose in our interactions with UH have

(20:06):
seen fit to like keep having these one on one
meetings with Trump where nobody else is around. It's probably
because he's really good at game theory and he's just them.
I just want to spend time with a really cool
guy that that's so too I mean, because there's no
there's no like version of the world in all the
infinite ways that can go that ends well for this country.

(20:29):
Like it's just nothing. Yeah I don't it's whatever you know,
brody t shirts and break out the shandies. Baby, Yeah,
we'll see what happens again. It's very anytime I see
Trump and Puttin together, it makes my skin crawl because
who knows what the I mean. One of the grossest

(20:52):
version is like Puttin is just like telling him how
to run ship. Uh. In another version, he's just playing
Donald Trump because he's like just this senile, old weirdo.
Uh so weird way to describe horny nous that your
skin crawls when you see the one thing that cures
my e d Trump and foot and shaking him. We're
gonna take a quick break. We'll be right back, and

(21:22):
we're back. But this being sort of a key point
in the summer, we wanted to check him with the
summer of Scott Scott Brewett. Baby, he is on back
at it again. Uh well, really, we're just finding more
and more out. So this weekend we got a trove
of letters and communications from a Freedom of Information Act request.

(21:43):
I think that the Sierra Club UH initiated and they're
basically a bunch of love letters to the petro gods
like Chevron and other various climate change denying earth fuckers,
or pru It is like writing sweet little nothings and
like so good to meet with you, like really had
a great time. Uh, And I mean there's nothing really

(22:04):
tremendously surprising, but it's just when you read the letters,
you're like, oh, that's exactly how I'd imagined. Scott Pruett
is talking to these people who and most other administrators
in the ap ep E in years past would have
been like not writing ship like this. Does he write
letters to his own stinky mattress? Sadly no, although one
of them is written on a mattress tag. But we

(22:26):
also found out this week that he has two schedules.
There's a public one that the public obviously that we
see that so's like his official appointments that he has,
and another one that's more private where he has his
naughty little meetups with like problematic energy producers or like
actual sex crims, like Cardinal pell who is clergy member,

(22:46):
who's I think about going to face the trial sometime
this year for sexual abuse. But so he would basically
have aids go through his public schedule and be like,
yoll com it for whatever is going to make me
look bad, basically because he even knows ship looks bad.
And yeah, I mean I guess normally that would be
a problem because I would be like falsifying records, but

(23:08):
Scott Pruitt's Google cal is open season. Yeah, he's hacked.
He's hacked our brain. Uh. And then we also found
out more because he's still trying to get short a job.
He's got his his all of his assistants full steam ahead,
trying to get his wife a job. But for no
less than two hundred thousand years. She's not a peasant, okay,
because we got fucking mortgages on all these houses. So yeah,

(23:29):
he's just demanding. Like Samantha Dravis was one of his aids.
She I think in her testimony when she was talking
to the I think uh Ethics Committee, who was also
ex girlfriend of Rob Porter, who's the one who may
or may not have like leaked the info on Rob
Porter out there because this administration is so fucking messy. Uh, Yes,
that she was confirming, like, yeah, I had to go

(23:51):
look at like the Association of Attorneys General in the
US to try and get her a job somewhere. Got
her job, but less than two K. So you know,
my hearts are with them. You know, for all the
people struggling out, they're making less than two hundred thousand,
are they to buy I don't thousand dollars worth of
Postmates every month sustainable? That's two months. What do they

(24:12):
do the other ten months? Starve? I don't think so. Um.
And then along with that, they're also really there's this
other story about how he just in general, is like
so cheap. He's trying to keep the optics of his
spending low, so he'll ask like aids to use their
personal credit cards to pay for stuff. So during the transition,
he asked an aid to put a six dollar hotel

(24:33):
room for his family on their personal card. And then
when they when they got their credit card bill. Uh,
this aid went to the chief of staff was like, hey,
I gotta he had me put six hundred dollars on
my card for this hotel room, And the chief of
staff was like, sorry, the window for transition expenses has closed.
And so yeah, they were like, well, what the funks
was I just paid for this dude's family's hotel room.

(24:54):
What the funk? And then like I guess a few
weeks later or something a month too later, like six
d dollars cash is like on her desk, right to
pay for it. But like this is the kind of
just dumb ship that this fucking kleptocrat. Again, this man
is in charge of the environmental protection Agency, not the
school scam lord whose cheapest fuck agency? And so obviously

(25:18):
people have an opinion on this man because he's completely
just letting companies do whatever they want to the earth,
uh and not looking out for a future with things
like climate change uh. So uh. He joined the prestigious
club of administrators who have been confronted in public. Recently,
he was confronted by a teacher who was holding her
child and she caught him at lunch and was like,

(25:40):
I had some few words to say that. Then someone
recorded it. Check this out, environment This is my son
animals who loves your water for the better Station Corporation,

(26:02):
you've been paying her connect while dirty SAMs Wipine deserved
some money, who actually does to protect our environment and
some of the people who can't climate change and keep
it seriously the benefit all of us. You pretting our children,
you know. Um, so I would urge you to resign

(26:25):
before your scandals out. Yeah, go fund yourself. Yeah, if
you could concise. Yeah, it's hard to hear with everything
all the talking in the restaurant, but yeah, she was
basically like, Hi, you're a fucking scumbag taking money from lobbyists.
You then approved their deals, you know, the laundry list
of things that we always bring up on the show.
And then she's like, yeah, I urge you to resign,
very politely too. And the whole time he was just

(26:47):
kind of man clumping his fingers on the table like this,
oh yeah, like it just a video, Yeah, it's a video. Yeah,
and he's just kind of not saying anything because he's
drinking oil from a Mason jars, Like he's drinking oil
out of the skull of a baby seagull or something
like that. Yeah. Right, so yeah, we'll see. I I
know that the Inspector General who handles like a lot

(27:10):
of ethics stuff at the e p A. They're clearly
investigating him, But you think at this point he would
be want to resign. But I think he's doing the
Lord's work. And by the lord, we mean you know,
the energy company. So has there ever been a scandal
where the inspector General just like can't complete it because
they keep committing crimes, Like like, well, yeah, it's just

(27:32):
too much crimes. I never Yeah, I think in a
in a yeah, right now, I guess because they're all
in the these other stories that they're reporting. Apparently they
sort of gutted the ethics department at the e p
A when he first took office by just sort of
letting people retire, transition out, and not rehiring anyone. So
at one point it was down to just one person

(27:54):
working there. And of course when that happens, you're gonna
buy tactical pants and do all that ship alright, tactical pants,
tactical polos Miles. Jessica Simpson is back in the news again.
Uh and she's she is. She is now officially a
patron saint of something here at the Daily, the Queen

(28:16):
of Postmates, the Queen of Delivery. She it has been
rumored told to Radar Online, which we're discussing. Radar Online
is still a gossip, you know, website but it's a
step above American media inc Like the Bloyd's that we
talked about on Fridays. Like they aren't written by a
close friend of Donald Trump in the voice of Donald Trump. Uh.

(28:38):
They just seem to use the same sort of journalistic
techniques where they have unnamed sources. But I feel like
stuff that they report eventually gets confirmed about half the time.
So um, and this is I think somewhat believable. This
is good. Yeah, they're reporting that she has spent one

(28:58):
thousand dollars on Postmas in one month because she does
not leave the house. And that is tight to me
because if I had my way, I would just be
sitting down and have everything brought to me constantly, like
the boy king that I believe myself to be. I
find this to be horrifying because if you have one
thousand dollars a month to spare and you're just spending

(29:21):
it on yourself and like eating, I'm getting I don't
even how do you spend a hundred thousand dollars in
a month on like food? And so this is what
they say. Insiders revealed to Radar exclusively Simpson thirty seven
and her former NFL player hubby Eric Johnson thirty eight
have quote nothing to do, that's detail. So they spend

(29:43):
all their time together with the kids drinking and eating.
Quote it's been a cycle of eating and drinking. Isn't
that just life? Though, They just don't want to leave
the well. She has so much money from her Jessica
Simpson fashion Empire, sold exclusively the Cole's Macy's wherever I
find nerd wears her pedals. I wonder she's still getting
royalties from newlyweds. Oh, I wonder, classic, I wonder how.

(30:11):
I just think that you have that much money to
spare and you're not like donating it to good causes,
and you're just like spending it all on yourself. Yes,
of course, so I use it as a joke. But
we don't know like how hungry she is. Hungry she is,
and she could also be giving money, you know, outside

(30:32):
of this A hundred k. Maybe she's doing a thousand
dollar tips every time, that's true. Yeah, maybe she's stealing
from the rich a k herself. I used to be
a posts Mace driver for a few months when I
first moved. Yeah, I mean I drove for a Postmates
And did you and did you ever make a delivery
to Jessica Simpson. I certainly did not know. You wouldn't know, though,
because I think she wears like a whole outfit to

(30:53):
try and she's got a hacker disguise. It like, it's
kind of similar to like when I'm wearing today. We
just want to talk about the fact that the world
right now is hotter than it's ever been, uh like,
at this moment basically and in all sorts of places.
Denver just tied it's all time high temperature record of

(31:14):
a hundred and five degrees, which is very hot for
their um. Actually, this is the thing that sticks with
me from all these stories about how they're setting record
high temperatures is how low some of these places high
temperatures are. Like Montreal's high temperature is ninety seven point
nine degrees. That's the highest it's ever been degrees. Yet, No,

(31:37):
that's fair enough. Yeah, that is y there on fire. Literally,
their hottest temperature ever is like colder than a healthy
human body temperature. It's crazy. Scotland is setting all time
highs at nine eight, Ireland eighty nine, but yeah, it's bad.
San Diego might hit a d and seventeen degrees. It's

(32:00):
to the point that even Drudge, who usually only reports
when it's colder than expected because he likes to throw
that back in the face of the lids who think
that global warming is happening, even he is quoting articles
from this on the front page of the Drudge Report.
You might as well be walking on the sun, right
my favorite song, which is about global warming kind of yeah, yeah, yeah,

(32:23):
Any thoughts, guys, how are you going to stay cool? I?
I mean I moved. I moved out of Texas, like
I was. The whole point was supposed to be that
I was supposed to be moving to a slightly colder
climate at least at least a breeze every once in
a while. Part of the city are you in right now?
I live in Glendale? Yeah, yeah, Well it's all concrete
over there too. It's all concrete and reflective buildings. Yeah. Yeah.

(32:46):
I I keep my temperature at like meat I mean,
I keep my apartment at meat locker temperature anymore. So
I'm probably just gonna stay inside and never leave. Although
I was gonna go to a bar and watch the
World Cup game tomorrow. So I we're supposed to be
the worst to go. It's at eleven am to So, yeah,
I'm gonna I'm gonna die probably that's my solution. My
solution is just to lay down and accept it. Locally,

(33:06):
it's supposed to hit tomorrow and I'm going to watch
them do the brokeaway air conditioner like you used to do.
Take a bath towel, wet ring it out and use
that as your blanket. Yes, oh yeah, okay, and it
keeps you cool. That's how I used to get around
the heat in the valley. I personally have a convenient
little body hack called hyper hydrosis, where my body turns

(33:30):
all clothing into a wet towel immediately. So I have
a very similar problem. So I'm with you there. Yeah,
I run really hot already, Like I get hot at
like fifty something, So I don't know what I'm gonna do. Yeah,
I do carry a hand fan with me every where
I go. There, I know, I noticed that, and that
is that was a Texas and it looks cool you
have you have, yeah coming in with the fan like

(33:54):
that like excuse like that matches your outfit? And do
you have different colored hand fans? I used to, But
I need to get a better fan merchant. The quality
of those fans were not good. They kept breaking all
the time, and so now I just kind of went
with a bulk order of these because they don't break
as much. But they also were way cheaper, so I
could just kind of like throw them around as much

(34:15):
as I need to. But right now I just kind
of have a basic order of orange. But I used
to have different colors, so I couldn't match them better
with outfits. Yeah, yeah, I try. You know, it's nice
to live in a time where people don't make fun
of me for having hand fans, because I've had these
since like elementary middle school, and it was a very
different when I was a child. Yeah, you don't say
Texas wasn't. It wasn't. Yeah, No one no. The fact

(34:38):
that you almost felt backwards when you were like I
thought it was a flex. I was like, no one's
ever said that about pulling a hand to me. I'm like,
I was like, who are you, Oscar Wild? You just
caught the vapor? Yeah, I catched the vapor is constantly.
I'm a constant vapor catcher. Miles, we are reaching an

(34:58):
important moment the Trade Wars ongoing story Sunday, Sunday Sunday.
So yeah, tomorrow the the US starts their first round
the tariffs. They're big ones, thirty four billion dollars on
important goods from China and that's not good for anybody.

(35:20):
And China's basically said, we will clap back, but we
will not fire first, but we will clap back if
you guys hit us with these tariffs. So most likely
I think China is probably gonna hit us back with
tariffs of their own. But yeah, it's not gonna be
good for anyone. Will probably be paying a little bit
more for certain goods depending on It's a lot of
supply chain disruption and like the markets are gonna go

(35:40):
a little wacky for a little bit when the two
big economic powers go basically head to head over some bullshit.
Uh and it sounds like a boxing match, it really is,
And it's like it's just a fucking, you know, stupid
political flex that would everyone is like begging Trump like, hey, hey, hey, hey,
what are you doing? This is not how you do this.
But China, you know, they have a plan too, because

(36:02):
there's an analysis in Washington Post of all the tariffs
that China's imposing and it shows that the teriff exposed
jobs are more than twice as likely to falling counties
that voted for Donald Trump in the counties won by
Hillary Clinton. So they have a very measured plan of
exerting pressure on the president because it's a lot of
agricultural goods uh and construction making, construction equipment manufacturers. So yeah,

(36:26):
and things like whiskey right in Kentucky, which that might
mean Actually, I just learned today that whiskey will suddenly
be extremely cheap, So by whiskey drinker, keep your eye
on on those store shelves, prices might be falling. Whiskey
hoarders out there, get your barrels rolling. Yeah. My favorite

(36:50):
thing about this is I don't know how much you guys.
I don't want to be that guy, but I don't
know how much you guys know about James K. Polk.
Thank god. He the one who ran on promising to
be a single term president, credibly racist. The weirdest thing
about him as he started the Mexican American War and
then also was known for like wrecking part of the
country with tariffs. And it's just like, I don't think

(37:13):
he reads, but it feels like Donald Trump's just reading
James K. Polk's biography at this point, or someone's at
least telling him to do it. Wasn't it with Canada?
Like the tariffs, it was a bunch of It was
a bunch, but it was a little bit with Canada,
but a lot of European at that time, it would
have been it. But yeah, it's wild. I don't know,
did you see that the thing about the Harley Davidson
where Trump, where Trump was sighting, is a reason for why,

(37:35):
like they're making a decision in twenty seventeen for something
that happened now. It was like, oh, they're yeah, they've
moved all the stuf in seventeen because of the terroriffs
and they're like, how did they pre empty move something? Yeah, nobody.
And then it was crazy to hear like some of
the people who worked there who were losing their jobs
and they're like, hey, man, if this is what Trump says,
we need, like we'll do it. And you're like, damn
you you're beer bo. Right. That really feels like I

(37:59):
have a time imagining people in those counties being like, well,
now I'm for the Democrats because it's just the culture
wars or haven't been like so deeply divided the country
that I feel like he can get away with this.
This is like a calculated risk where like yeah, you're
all unemployed, but you know, fun the Democrats and people

(38:20):
will you know, get on board. But yeah, I mean,
but it is gonna some people will actually be you know,
feel this. You know, like if some people, if you're
not in a in an industry that's affected by the tariff,
sure it will probably be easier to be like, well,
if we have fuck it, like I'll pay more for this.
But you know there are people like soybean farmers and stuff,
like we're the largest export of soybeans and China does
a lot of buying of our soybeans. Like those people

(38:42):
are gonna feel it a lot of And like I
was just reading like odd things from like the pork
futures are also they're worried about the hog prices to
going down because yeah, that that stuff is gonna it'll
be interesting like yeah when it hits people and they
still try and sort of rationalize the work why this
is actually good thing? Yeah, I mean, like as somebody
who has like still like some empathy you know in
general for just people and especially like for children and

(39:03):
stuff who can make decisions on their own. Uh. It
is like watching a horror movie where you're just like, no, like,
don't go in. They don't go in the room. Run
run right. They're just like, now I'm gonna still make
this really horrible decision. It's gonna ruin my life. And
then and you're just watching it slowly happen. It's not
the way you want people to sort of begin to
wise up to like maybe why this president is harmful

(39:23):
to them, like to be like, wow, you're going to
get hit directly in your wallet? Yeah. Who would have
thought you could use fearmongering to people's basis instincts in
order to get them to vote against their own injuries.
And that's got wild the feel good story that we're
all clinging to for dear life. Uh. Like some of
the characters in the story the Thai soccer team that

(39:47):
was presumed dead when they went missing inside a cave
for ten days, uh, inside a cave that flooded. Uh,
And we're found I think yesterday, um or the day
before by a diving t that was just like going,
you know, swimming around exploring this cave, seeing if they
can find anyone, you know. So they brought them food,
they brought them freshwater. Uh not food. Actually they're bringing

(40:09):
them like those gels that runners eat, because that's like, yeah,
you can't like bring a pizza underwater to them. So
they're like just bringing what wait what they eat? Just
like it's basically yeah, it's like just like calories, gel form.
It's like yeah, health, health good. Yes, it's people. Um.

(40:34):
But it's now being reported that because the caves are
so flooded and won't be unflooded for months because it's
the rainy season, they will either have to learn to
dive like the ragtag group of underdogs that they are,
or wait for the water to recede. It would be months. Yes,
for I don't this. I mean, like I said, we

(40:56):
need to option the fun out of this. Uh these
kids do. Just like they're diving classes in the little
puddle area they have, and they're like, I can't even
menage because the water visibility it's not like it's water right,
Like it's like mud. It's like brown water. And also
the question I have is if they're in a cave
where like there is no sunlight like animals that live

(41:17):
inside caves. They Yeah, they evolved to not have eyes
because you just like there's no point in having eyes
because there it's like such a complete that there's no
point just like smooth, because yet why would I have
them that that was something that I just like yesterday

(41:41):
I was I was saying, the coach kind of sucked
up by getting lost in the cave. But think about this,
for the past nine to ten days, he's been in
pitch dark with twelve kids on like this tiny patch
of sloping dirt, and he managed to keep them all
alive where like nobody could see literally anything like that.
Pretty don't know, or maybe the kids were like keeping

(42:02):
him alive and he was just like but it's still
I don't know, like when those people came up, not
only hadn't they spoken with anybody besides themselves, they hadn't
seen anything. That's just been like complete darkness. That's got
to be so disoriented. Yeah, I hope at the very least,

(42:23):
you know, just like PlayStations, Sony, like put a care
package together, bring him that PlayStation in a little light
like a living room set up. Like look, I know
it's probably a taller to get you guys to become
expert divers through low visibility water. But we got this
PS four new games got out a war that you
would think that like an expert diver would be able

(42:45):
to like hold them and swim out. But I guess,
isn't there like a small like submarine, like just like yeah,
like surely there's some Clearly I think it must be there,
Like the crevices are so small or something that they
can't That's probably why they have to bring power gel
and not you know, taco bell or whatever to them.

(43:05):
I got it again. Don't don't play in caves. That's
simple less that we all learned. Alright, we're gonna take
another quick break. We'll be right back, and we're back.
And we wanted to talk about a coming attraction, coming

(43:29):
feature uh that is being made currently in production, even
though it's also currently being funded on a like Kickstarter.
I think it's a go fund me. It's got I
think it's garnered a thousand dollars or a couple of
thousand dollars. It's it's a filmmaker by the name of
Nick Loeb, which if you don't know him as a filmmaker,

(43:52):
that's because he's never made a film before. He is
mostly known as the guy who was data Sophia Vergara
and brought his main product that he sold, onion Crunch,
which is a onion topping onion topping Hamburgers. He brought

(44:13):
that to a meeting with President Obama, like an appearance
where like Sophia Vergara was invited to the White House,
she brought her boyfriend who was like, hey, can I
get our picture taken with this can of wonderful onion Crunch?
And she was so embarrassed. Reportedly that ended their relationship.

(44:35):
But they had two frozen embryos they were thinking about
doing IVF and he is now suing her for you know,
custody of the frozen embryos. And it's just a whole mess.
But he has used this as a way to sort
of stake his claim as like Mr. Pro life kind

(44:56):
of thing and claiming that Sophia Vergara was going to
you know, destroy the fetuses without his say, so embryos, Yeah, embryos, sorry, uh.
And he's the man, so she shouldn't be able to
make decisions like that without the man involved. So when
he saw that he was getting a little keat as uh,
you know, Mr pro Life. He decided to make Roe v.

(45:19):
Wade the movie. And that's the name of the fucking movie.
It's Wade. Yeah. It's like one of the imparody movies
that they used to like Scary Movie and the movie
Superhero movie. Onion Crunch the movie. I much prefer that movie.
I want to know the history of Onion Crunch. My god,
this Onion Crunch. That fucking fight after he tried to

(45:41):
pose and it must have been epic. What the funk
were you doing? I'm sorry, man, this wouldn't really help Onion.
That Obama story is the most l A meets Washington,
d C. Story I've ever heard in my entire life.
Like that's just everyone you meet in both of those
cities combined wild. It was so on brand, it was gray.
So what's going on with this movie? Is it it's

(46:02):
in production right? Because in production quitting it left and
right right. So the reason he is the filmmaker behind
this is because the director quit after she realized what
the movie was. Um. Also, there has been multiple occasions
where production assistance people who work on the film quit

(46:23):
once they find out what the movie is. You know
you're making a good movie. When you have to actively
hide the subject of the movie from the people working
on the movie so that they don't quit. And at
one point he was walking off the set and someone
walked up to him with a headset, you know, a
p A and was like, hey, are you the director?
And he said I am, and she said go fund
yourself her headset on the ground and walked off. So

(46:47):
she was the electrician on the film. So becoming a
more dangerous place to worry. Are you the director? Go
fuck yourself? Quit? But it does have some stars in it.
It has is the whole thing is meant to be
like how this is a torrible mistake. Yes, and it
was just it's like in Harass the Wind for Rov Wade,
but if it was propaganda against him, yeah, oh man, yeah,

(47:12):
I mean the heavy hitters. Yeah in this film. So
who's who of conservative A listers like John Voight will
be appearing. Sure, Gooney's villain Robert Davy, so gross, but
a great way to introduce him to Gooney's villain. And
uh Stacy dash from also Kelsey Grammer's daughter is going

(47:34):
to be making an appearance. Yeah, it's a legal drama,
but it's going to be you know, just or League.
Oh you know he's also Forearm President SAG. But I
looked on the IMDb and also Joey Lawrence and Jamie
Kennedy are listed as well on the IMDb. Is being interesting? Yeah, which, okay,

(47:55):
it will be called WHOA. So you're saying this goes
all the way to the top, How, well, here's the problem.
Here's the problem. It's missing two major names for me,
which are Kirk Cameron and James Woods. And I'm like,
how good of a movie can it be if it
doesn't have Kirk Cameron and James Woods. And also James
Woods agent just fired him yesterday? Yeah, he was like,
he was like Independence Day, I'm going to celebrate my

(48:17):
independence by firing you, basically sen him an email U
and I'm just like, well, I mean, but how good
of an agent is he if he couldn't get James
Woods in this film? You know, James is enacting a
lot these days, and this seems like or maybe he
even he has standards like I can't even be Stacy
dash No, I thought that guy. But the campaign has

(48:38):
so it has raised a hundred and thirty four thousand,
five hundred and seventy two dollars, which is a lot
of money to raise for anything, but Miles, as somebody
who has worked in production, that money can go real
quick on a major, actual Hollywood movie. That would be
you could rent a camera rig for like one day
or like two days and cash out your hunter k

(48:59):
right there. Like there's I mean again, we don't know
what they're using the money for. These people getting paid
and like are they having McDonald's for lunch? I don't know. Uh, yeah,
that's not a lot of money. That is not that's
not that's not enough for They're shooting it in one location.
It's an abandoned warehouse, right that they've outfitted to look
like the Supreme Court, Supreme Court, and it all takes

(49:20):
It's a contained thriller in one room. It's a bottle episode.
There's also a historic we locked the doors of the
Supreme Court. We're going to get this settled today. Thousand
we can. We can afford to pay two p as
a sound guy, a makeup person and just have this
warehouse for about eight hours um. To give us an
idea of the production quality of the movie. The Indiego

(49:43):
Go campaign features a video of Alveda King, who is
Martin Luther King Jr's uh, sort of conspiracy theorist daughter. Uh.
So they have her green screened and the background that
they've chosen is a living room, so it was almost
like they wanted to make it seem like she was
on location at her home, but it's clearly green screened,

(50:06):
So they just green screened a casual location for her appearance,
and she's just saying how important this movie is. She also, uh,
you know, thinks planned parenthood is in the business of
selling baby parts and even heard that those are theories
you haven't heard about, that rat control gives women cancer.
We've all been here, lots of other yeah, you know,

(50:29):
keeping keeping the spirit of her father. Lie. My favorite
thing was that she name checked the Margaret Singer KKK
speech that she gave because Margaret Singer, who found a
plant parents, spoke to the KKK and that was a
big thing a couple of years ago that they were
trying to like disprove plant parenthood, which is again a
weird like conservative tactic that no one else ever uses,
which is hey, historical figures that you like did bad
things that disproves everything they believed, right, and it's like,

(50:53):
no I don't care. You can just throw throw her away.
I'll keep the thing I still care about though. But
the thing was that she just like spoke to anybody
would have her, and so she specifically like spoke out
against the KKK, but it was like, but I also
want to let them know about reproductive rights. And Martin
Luther King liked Margaret Singer and like accepted award from her.
So if you're gonna trade on the Martin Luther King name,
you need to at least do the research into what

(51:13):
he actually thought. But I think you were actually right
when you when you said that she was on set,
because I think that's how they're getting the hundred k,
is that the whole set is just green screen. I
think it's just a giant green screen and they're just
going to do the whole thing that way. That's how
you stretched the budget. I mean, my goodness, I would
like to see all green screen movie. The person who
has to key everything out what good for you? Good

(51:35):
for you? Guys say, just hired Andy Serkis and then
they they're gonna they're gonna layer John Voyd over him
because it's just cheaper. But they are using the supreme
Court retirement of Justice Kennedy. Uh, the on their indiego
go to raise money and you know this is right,
so uh, that's why it's in the news, so to speak.

(51:58):
But yeah, well we'll keep an eye out for that one.
They say, Supreme Court Justice Kennedy has announced his retirement
and air movie could have influence on who is picked
as the new justice, which suggests that they could finish
the movie before Monday, because announcing is now theknee on Monday. Uh.
And then I mean, with that budget, they're gonna have
to write just for craft services alone, macarony and cheese services.

(52:22):
Guys have two times now made the assumption that they're
feeding the people who work on this movie, and I
just do not believe that to be the guy. I
just look at some of the perks on the indiegog thing. Jack.
I wish if this weren't so problematic. I wish we
could pay like the money to go to for a
set visit or like the premier to see what kind
of a show. I mean, I'm sure somebody out there,

(52:43):
because aren't they filming around like New Orleans or something
like that. If you and he's like gang out there,
if you see them. Please send me some pictures. I
would love to see what this production quote unquote looks like.
If it's just like a canon in DSLR, like in
a selfie stick, I don't know if I can handle
looking at a picture of a sad John Boit like
that's just that's several different levels of just uncomfortable. All Right,

(53:05):
that's gonna do it for this week's weekly Zeite. Guys,
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