Weekly Zeitgeist 46 (Best of 10/15/18-10/19/18)

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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 NonStop infotainment
laugh stravaganza. Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is

(00:22):
the Weekly Zeitgeist. Really, let's talk about the Arizona congressional
race between Democrat Tom O'Halloran. Yeah, Tom o'hiller, and he
is an incumbent congressman in Arizona Democrat and he's went
running against a woman named Wendy Rogers. But that's that's
not really the point here. So apparently last week at

(00:45):
Tomahoneran's campaign office, two young men came in. Uh. They
said they were college students, and they came with a
jar of money and they said they we would like
to make a donation to the Tom Ohillary campaign. Uh.
They're like, okay, cool, give us your jar of money.
They had about thirty nine bucks in it, and they're
like they're like, oh, can we get a receipt for this?
And they're like, oh yeah, sure sure. And they're like

(01:07):
we're from the Northern Arizona University Communist Party, Like young communists,
can you put that on the receipt, Like they really
wanted a receipt that basically said I take money from
communists essentially, was like something. They're like, they're like, I need,
I just need this receipt. So the second they were
like really insisting on that, they knew they could smell
some ship. They knew some dumbness was going down, and

(01:27):
the finance director for his campaign, Lindsay Coleman, was not
here for the dumbness. She took the money, drove immediately
to the local Republican like field office, and just there's
like a video of it where she's like, Hi, I
had two young men who came in. They said their
names were like something and something. Uh like, they tried
to donate money to a campaign, but I felt like

(01:47):
something was wrong. She's like, oh, wait, there he is.
And one of the guys in the campaign office like
sees the camera and goes in the door. He gave
a false name to them. They're like, oh, I think
his name was Jose or something, and and the guys like, oh,
that's Oscar, and they're like okay, Well then Oscar came
and said his name was this other thing. He's like
and that's illegal. Uh So this is kind of where

(02:08):
they're at now, where they're like resorting to the dumbest
fucking tactics to try and get any kind of advantage,
as we've seen just with voter suppression is obviously the
most aggressive one. But then it all trickles down to
ship like this where you're like, hey, make it look
like he took communist money or whatever, like are we
living in the fifties, Like do you think that's gonna

(02:29):
swing your like race? I mean, I don't know all
of the factors that are being weighed in this race
that if somehow trying him to Communism would do it,
But it just felt like really odd and a sad
attempt at trying to get one up on your opponent. Yeah,
what was her plan? Then they're like going to run
a smear campaign, need to be like money from communist
quite literally yes, And then they would be like, wait,

(02:50):
those guys work for the Republican Party and it's just
so it's really sloppy. Is so brave of them then
for pretending to be Communists when they're actually Publicans? Brave?
I think, Yeah, you're right, we're overlooking the real, the real,
the real heroes in this story. Not the finance director.
I wonder if they were addressed like like Castro era
guerrillas from like their sixties revolution. Yeah. One guy's dressed

(03:16):
like yeah, like like check a Vara, and the other
dude is like like you know, Stalin or something. And
there there is video that you can check that somehow
got out of Lindsay Coleman, the finance director, just going
in and being like, hey, we just had some going
oh there. Yeah, it's so weird. The guy immediately goes
yeah and then qualks into another room and it's so

(03:42):
bad and it's like, just you know, it's illegal. I'm
gonna probably tell the FEC and the police about this
because this is nonsensical. Yeah. The President was on sixty
Minutes last night. Came out of his Fox News hibernation
for the past couple of years where he did not
talk to the mainstream media and only appeared on you know,

(04:06):
basically Trump run media. Home field advantage, Yeah, he was
enjoying a two year home field advantage came out on
sixty Minutes, and people were kind of mixed on how
it went. TV critics that I read basically everywhere said
that like advantage Trump he used his mastery over media

(04:28):
to just and then the things he did was just
lie and you know, bully her by speaking over her
and not letting her get a word in. Edge was yeah, well,
but you know, Leslie Stall, I'll give her credit because
she definitely would press him on answers because then, like,
for example, like they were talking about climate change, and
she was like, well what about the scientists, Like well,

(04:48):
you know, they say that maybe it's not changed. He's like,
who is this they you're talking about? And he's like, people,
you know or whatever. It's like, well what about the scientist? Like,
you know, she she was definitely she she stood her ground.
But I guess because he it didn't like ship himself
during the interview. It was a flawless victory according to
some people. I don't know that. One of the most
interesting things I saw was like in the beginning of

(05:09):
the here I think at some point towards the beginning
of the interview, they're walking through the White House and
there's this photo hanging up that's Trump playing cards with
all the past yeah painting and oil painting, a gift
from darryl Isa of Trump playing cards with all like
these past Republican presidents fucking a Blincolns even in it
like looking confused. He's like, I'm sorry, what is this?

(05:32):
What is that you're drinking? And it looks like George W.
Bush might have like a Han solo type like he
might have his hand on his blaster underneath the table.
Just interesting to know that that's the kind of art
that we're putting in there, like old timey like the
dogs playing poker photo or the equivalent of the dogs
playing But yeah, they talked about all kinds of stuff.
You know, once the pleasantries ended, there was a moment

(05:54):
where you know, she was interested about talking about Kim
Jong un because he's always talking about how he is,
like over, it's not a threat anymore, but there's constant
reports coming out that's like they're actually not disarming in
any meaningful way. And then she was like, also, why
do you keep saying you love this dude? He's a
fucking monster. And this is this is one of the
exchanges about Kim John presides over a cruel kingdom of repression, gulags, starvation,

(06:22):
reports that he had his half brother assassinated slave labor,
public executions. This is a guy, I'm not a baby
but why do you love that guy? Look, look I
have I like, I get along with him, okay, and
I love him. Okay. That's it's like, you know, it's

(06:43):
like an embracing Well, let it be in a bridge,
let it be whatever it look, let it be whatever
it is. I get along with him really well. I
have a good energy with him, have a good chemistry
with him. Look at the horrible threats that were made.
No more threats, No more threats. I don't know. It's

(07:05):
so scary. It's like the guy like to me, it
just points to like there's a murder house in your neighborhood, right,
And they used to just put a bunch of signs up.
We're murdering people in here, and we love it. And
now he's like, hey, but there's no more signs in
the yard. Yeah, right right, they're still in the neighborhood.
But they came, they painted the house, got rid of

(07:25):
the car in the front. Now there's still blood curdling
screams coming from there. But you know what, they're not
advertising it. Yeah, it's it's such a weird cop out
to explain, like why his diplomacy has failed to like
just get us any results. And then when he's just
talking I love him that like well he was literally
doing he was like yeah, I mean so that exchange

(07:50):
I think illustrates one of the things people were saying that,
like it seemed like she was trying to get him
on a technicality, like well, why did you say you
love him? And he's like that it's just a figure
of speech, which I think, I don't know. I I
can see how that would be appealing to people who
already like him. Basically, there's plenty of stuff to get
him well, I think, because I think for that the

(08:12):
what they're seeing, if the optics aren't oh my god,
he just got gouted, then it's a flaw the interviews
of flawless figure. That's if he's not doing like well,
I don't well, I don't you know, because he didn't
backtrack on anything like that get up and walk out right,
which he's been and that would have probably got him
applies to he's like, oh, such an unfair and as

(08:33):
a person who loves energy and crystals and all that
kind of vibes, I'm like vibes guy to Oh. It
really just really resonated with me. When he's like I've
got a good energy with him, and I'm just like,
you know, we we haven't and I'm just like, oh,
I never can say that again. We got good vibes, man,

(08:54):
we got good vibes like, oh, don't take vibe, don't
take no. Yeah. Then uh, then inevitably the conversation had
to swing around towards Putin and again Trump, you know,
he can't say a bad word about Vladimir because whatever
he's got hanging over his head. Uh. And it was interesting.

(09:14):
It was one of those moments that was kind of
funny because normally he used to just cause headlines by
when someone like journalists pressed him about what do you
think about their meddling or these assassinations, like they never happened,
they deny it, it's fine. And this time he was
sort of like like trying to half acknowledge what all
the intelligence people have been screaming in his face for
two years. So this was another interesting sound bite regarding Vladimir. Vladimir,

(09:37):
I think I'm very tough with him personally at a
meeting with him, the two of us, Yeah, it was
a very tough meeting, and it was a very good meeting.
Do you agree that Vladimir Putin is involved in assassinations
and poisonings. Probably he is, Yeah, probably, I mean I
don't probably probably, but I rely on them. It's not
an ourcounay why but why not? They shouldn't do it.

(10:00):
This is a terrible thing. They shouldn't do it. Do
you believe that the Russians interfered in the two thousand
sixteen campaign election? Well, they meddled, But I think China
metal too, and I think Chin. Why do you say,
why don't you just Russians meddled? Because I think China
meddled also, and I think, frankly, China, this is a problem.

(10:23):
You're diverting the whole Russian thing doing anything. I'm saying Russia,
but I'm also saying China. Oh Leslie credits you for
it's just trying to be like this is a wild sir,
you're really just doing this. What about isn't ship They meddled,
They didn't interfeared, they meddled. Can you please get out

(10:45):
your dictionary? What is meddling? I do think I do
think that that's again like smart from a like just
slick appearances perspective, because meddling, for whatever reason, it reminds
me of the Democrats demanding an FBI in investigation that
they were like, okay, fine, and like three days done
on the Kavanaugh hearings. Uh. Meddling. It's like that's the

(11:08):
word the Democrats have been using from the start, and
it's like such a soft word. It's like they're just
messing around it because we're, like I think on the left,
people were not willing to full throatedly be like no,
this ship fucking happened and this is how bad it was.
So meddling felt like a safe word to you that
no one could be like, would you be meddledybody meddled?
If anything? They were tinkering around, right they tin I

(11:31):
think that's what d Yeah, you know, touched a wire, Yeah,
and that's it'll straight up be. They fucking tried to
destroy the democracy here. This is, to me is like
one of the trickiest things because at what point, as
American citizens, do we acknowledge are meddling in all of
these other countries and their elections and getting leaders appointed

(11:54):
and things like that, and then taking down leaders that
we don't find appropriate, And then all of a sudden,
we have one elect and where somebody from the outside
probably actually was successful and they're meddling and now it's
the craziest thing that's ever happened. Yeah, it's uh yeah,
we always think it's really true. How yeah, at what

(12:14):
point do you begin to have a reckoning with the
foreign policy of this country for the last what hundred
years essentially being like yeah, yeah, whatever you need, we
can obscure things. You got socialists popping up, all right,
there's some guns for Newish listeners. The the US and
the CIA in particular have been meddling with foreign elections
and in fact basically swinging them for whatever candidate they

(12:38):
wanted to win for a long time. Or do you
think about all the instability in Central America and people
like well, what was going on in the MS thirteen
is like do you know what we did El Salvador?
Like read about the google US involvement in fucking any
country and something is going to pop up, right, or
there's gonna be some dark chapter where we helped with
either arming people or trying to siddle like just get

(13:00):
in deep debt. So they did whatever we needed to.
That's just the history of this empire and how it
would such his clause around the globe one point that
the TV critic for I think The Baltimore Sun was
making is that you know, regardless of how you viewed,
the interview ratings are the main thing that matters to Trump,

(13:21):
Like that's all he cares about. That. He would constantly
brag about The Apprentice Is ratings when that shows on
the air, and his ratings have apparently been falling on
Fox News shows, like to the point where they can
no longer carry his interviews in full on Fox News,
and so the loss of primetime coverage is like really

(13:43):
bothering Trump, And in fact, he had to, like at
a recent rally, he called out the Fox News hosts
who have primetime shows by name and was like kissing
up to them because he's like so sad that they're
not covering him as much anymore. So he his base
is getting bored because he only says like five things

(14:04):
on a rotation. So he decided to well, I'm going
to go to the left, and the mainstream media was
there waiting, and I just I think that the mainstream
media needs to do better and just come a little
bit stronger, and sort of it seemed like Leslie Stall

(14:24):
was prepared for a traditional politician interview and you know,
she was interviewing a Carnival Barker reality. I feel like
there could have been an actual hog Like I don't
want people listeners to like mistake like what I'm saying,
I'm not comparing in any way like the interview I'm

(14:45):
saying like Trump would give the same interview to like
an animal sitting in a chair across froom, like he's
just gonna say exactly or am like a glass like
oh yeah, you know, like he found okay, well yeah,
it doesn't matter, like that's being asked. He's gonna say
what he wants to say and it doesn't matter, and
you need someone to really kind of come in, guns

(15:06):
a blazing on him. But unfortunately that makes him walk out.
But still I mean, but that, I mean you have
to try to I think, what's Yeah, it's weird because
Leslie Stall seems to have a kind of unique relationship
with him to where he's like normally. I feel like
if it were any female journalist from like that was
representing the mainstream, the non Fox journalist, it would have

(15:27):
been a total just argument or whatever and more talking
over where you know, she even said like it seemed
like he was enjoying the sparring and at times like
I remember she was the one who he get. He
sort of like showed his hand to her at one
point where she's like, why do you always deny these
stories or whatever? And he's like, because if if, when
I do, everybody believes it, and like he tells her
just blunt bluntly, like she's like a Trump whisper, but

(15:51):
can also be like also be like, come on, bro,
what are you talking about? Like you know, have this
sort of report with the president and then what's funny
is the way? Like towards the end of the interview,
she started pressing about all the family separation policies and
how bad that was, and it was starting to get
he was starting to bicker about it and obviously didn't
like being linked to his own policies that are so
fucked up, and then just gave her a total own

(16:14):
when he just checked in with what his job was
and what her job was. It wasn't this fucking bomb.
I I disagree that. I don't want to have that
fight with you. In the meantime, I'm president and you're
not right. Oh god, my dad's bigger than your dad.
My dad, bead we have guns at the house. I

(16:36):
wonder if that is part of the problem, is that
he did the interview with her because she speaks to
him like he's a real politician, and that's how she's
coming at it. And it's almost like when you talk
to a kid like the kid as an adult, they
kind of like that and they try to act more
like it, but the kid is ultimately a kid and

(16:56):
they're gonna behave like a kid. But maybe that's where
she gets her poor is she treats him like any
other politician. And that's what you get when you treat
Donald Trump like any other politician, you get, well, I'm
the president and your name, you're not so fuck you.
I wish somebody would photoshop Donald Trump's face on the
John Cusack standing outside the window with a boombox on
his and his hands in the rain, like just listing

(17:18):
the names of the Fox, the primetime Fox News. Like
when you said that he was listening to my names,
I was like, how desperate is this place? How good
to these people? Folks? Fox? Elizabeth Warren just more evidence
that we are all living in Trump's world now. Elizabeth
Warren took a DNA test that proves her Native American ancestry.

(17:39):
This is part of an ongoing story where you know,
she had contributed to an academic journal for minority students
and people were like, what is your claim to being
a minority student. She was like, well, my family has
Native American ancestry. And Trump ever since then has she
didn't use it to get into any schools, which is

(18:01):
part of myth that exists out there. She didn't use
it to get into any schools. She put it on
like one journal, and he ever since he's called her
pocahan and claimed that he would give a million dollars
to the charity of her choosing if she could ever
prove that she actually had Native American ancests, which is amazing.

(18:25):
So yeah, so you cut Well, first of all, I
just think it's so fucking shitty right that Elizabeth Warren
had to go to the point where she had to
prove her ancestry to prove Trump's racist. Basically, he's like
the James Randy of racism. Yeah, it's like, proved me wrong.
And if totally falls in line with his birth or
streak of just being like you're not American, you're so

(18:45):
and so or you're not a blow you're lying about
being Native American or whatever. It's just his whole tactic
or whatever. So I'm just glad that she actually got
a legit like a DNA analysis done by someone at
Stanford and it showed the six to eight generations back.
He did, in fact have a Native American ancestor, like
you're saying. Jack added rally pretty recently he said, hey,

(19:06):
million dollars if you can prove it to a charity
of your choice. I got a million dollars straight up cash.
And then so they confronted him with this information. So
let's let's hear on Wax him using actual English words
to say this out loud to people who heard it
and put it in their memory, and his denial of
it yesterday, and we will say, I will give you

(19:28):
a million dollars million to your favorite charity hate for
Black Trump if you take the test and the shows
you're an Indian. You know, Let's see what you say.
I didn't act the senator list before and releasing the
result of her DNA You no, I have one who cares. Friend.

(19:50):
He said one million dollars that you better read it again.
I read what you're saying a fucking contract. Read it again.
He's going on Ricky Henderson like talking about himself a
third person, like paid for by Trump, by Trump. I
mean part of me, I will believe it the fact
that he doesn't remember because his brain is melting. So

(20:13):
I could believe that, And I also could believe he
doesn't want to remember because where the funk is he
gonna get a million dollars? Right? I don't think he
has a million, do? I mean, I'm sure you can
put it together through weird donations and stuff. He'll be like,
send out a fundraising email. He's like, we have to
show Pocahonas that Trump is a man of his word
and pay the million dollars you're counting on you mega army.
Yeah well, I think also just the way he was like,

(20:35):
improve you're an Indian, It's like, oh god, Indian and
then met by cheers. Yeah. Well, you know, because that's
all the tactics they use, just you know, discredit and
to mean whoever has anything to say? Uh with Announcer
of Truth update on this story. Elizabeth Warren you know
named her charity, was like, hey, anyways, you said this
so that this is where the million dollars, goes Homie,

(20:57):
and he responded that he would be glad to if
he could administer the DNA test, which seems like, what
are he gonna take it to a do a polymerase
chain reaction centrifuge process to fucking get her DNA? Yeah, no,
he he would do that. Actually, he's a very principled scientist.
I would love though if he was like, Okay, how

(21:18):
we'll go to the lab and the scientist is gonna
walk me through it so I know I'm handling it
the whole time. Okay, what I do next? Trump exactly?
Here's I need a Okay, I need a micropipet. All right,
we're gonna take a quick break. We'll be right back

(21:42):
and we're back. All right, guys, let's talk about your man.
Julian A song Who's man Australia apparently the worst couch
surfer to have crashing at your place ever. Yo. There's
a die ument that was leaked from the Ecuadorian embassy

(22:02):
that was basically like a ultimatum for Julian assans, just
sort of like, Yo, we're gonna have to curb your
internet access unless you start fucking doing a couple of things.
Apparently it started getting hot when the whole Catalonian uh
secession thing was going on in Spain, and he was
being real vocal about that and just other just general
things going on around the world. He was really cheerleading

(22:24):
from the sidelines for things like that, and that was
causing problems for Ecuador because other countries are looking at like, yo,
you're housing this dude of your embassy, like what's going on?
What's good? So they're like, Okay, we're gonna have to
take away your internet access for a little bit because
we have to sort this out and it's not good
for Ecuador. So they gave him a list of things
that they were really adamant that he needs to begin

(22:44):
following through on. And these rules are fucking amazing. So
it's just real quick. Julian Assan, the founder of Wiki
Leaks and UH. He had to seek asylum in the
Ecuadorian embassy in London because he was brought up on
rape chart Riges in Sweden, right, and they were trying
to extradite him. Yeah, they were trying to extradite him.
So he's just like hiding out basically. That's where he's

(23:06):
been this whole time. Whenever you see him, he's just
basically been in this embassy cooped up, and I guess
they're starting to really get fucking like tired of the
guests are like fish, Yeah, they go bad after five
years whatever, right that. This is one of two stories
this week where it's like, yeah, embassies are basically like

(23:26):
home base where you can just like do like rules
are different or something, and like you can. It's like
international waters, like a little island of international waters in
the middle of a city. It's kind of crazy anyways. Anyway,
so they look in there and they're like, look, Julian,
we gotta talk, man, because you are messy as fun.
First is, please stop commenting on contentious political issues that

(23:49):
can make ship hot for Equador, whether that's diplomatically or
directly with Ecuador. So they're saying you can talk, but
don't start weighing in on ship, and then thinking we're gonna, like,
you know, put our chests out to protect you, and
that's where I would expect the message to yeah, of course,
like that's it, and then we're fine, we don't mind
housing you. Great. Then it was like, look, bro, starting

(24:09):
December one this year, you gotta start paying your motherfucking bills,
Like you gotta start paying for some ship. They're like,
we can't pay for everything. What are they paying for?
I think his food and things like that, and I think,
apparently it's a job. They're like, yo, exactly, They're like,
you need a job, my guy. And let me tell
you why I need a job, because the next thing
they're talking about, start taking care of your fucking cat.

(24:31):
You're not taking care of your cat. They're like, you're
doing the minimum. The hygiene is shitty. You're not grooming
this cat. The cat is just running around. Please take
care of your motherfucking cat. Then the last one clean
your motherfucking bathroom. That's another thing on the list is
please the hygiene of the bathroom must be addressed, and
the bathroom must be cleaned regularly. I mean, I can

(24:52):
imagine I was a single man in college, and I
know what my bathroom got like at certain points. I mean,
if you've been living in an embassy for years, I
can only imagine of that happens to you. You're probably
a little depressed. You're probably just letting ship slide anger
at the world. You like, literally letting ship slide yeah,
and and now step dad has to be like, look,
I appreciate you. Look, me and your mother love you

(25:14):
very much. I love your mom, and I do this
because I love your mom. But like, you gotta you
gotta take care of your pets. I wonder what's going
on with the pet that they had to like articulate
that in this document, this agreement. I'm going to guess
it's a litteral issue. Probably, yeah, he's probably not taking
care of the litter box. And then I wonder if
he just thinks, yeah, it's like a hotel. When I
was like, why did you take care of it cleaning

(25:35):
the bathroom? Like we already take care of you not
being arrested, right, how's this will work on you not
getting arrested? You clean up after your fucking cat. Oh
the cost that he has to be in pocketing up
for is his food, laundry, and any other costs relating
to his stay. Oh my god, he really is treating
this like he's living with his mom and you got
to do nothing, because yeah, these are the ultimatums you

(25:57):
hear from a parent who's tired of their parasitic child,
Like you don't clean your bathroom, your fucking I get
that times are tough and you graduated college in two
thou eight and economy is terrible, but you've been here
for ten years cats running the muck, your friends come over,
get high all day, making the place a mess. And also,
I'm not paying for your food. Yeah, the next thing
is definitely gonna be like, you also have to pay
for your own Xbox Live. Right, we're exactly stop using

(26:19):
our Netflix account. Yeah, it's messing up my algorithm and
suggesting shows I have no interest in. We made you
your own profile, Julian. Yeah, is it that easy to
hit left and then select when you launch Netflix? No,
but he's not bringing in any paychecks, is he? Like,
what's he getting paid for is supportive business or anything? Like?
It's not a thing that he charges for the Russians

(26:41):
or slide him a couple of dollars. He can just
do a go fund me. Enough people like staying for
Wiki leaks, and I'm sure you could find a way
to pay for his own laundry. You better pick up
a room or broom and start offering to clean stuff.
Another thing they're saying he must have quarterly medical checkups
and he has to pay for those two, they're like,
you need to take care of yourself too. I feel

(27:01):
like that is a very shady wave of being, like, look,
all this stuff is probably gonna get leaked. We ain't
gonna tell folks you don't take a shower, right right, right,
but we are going to tell you that you have
to go to a doctor, and whether or not you
choose to shower before that check out up to you
and will be heavily implied. Smell like that you're the
stinky kid. We're just worried about your health because we

(27:24):
assume that you shower like an adult, so it must
be something happening health wise. Could you imagine it ends
up like that? What was that story from a couple
of months ago that dude in upstate New York who
was like thirty or thirty one, and he was like
suing his parents, Oh Michael something, Yeah, like his parents
are gonna victim and then he represented himself in court
to be like, no, my honor, this bullshit. I'm working

(27:45):
on my app. Yeah. He's like, I could get a
job at six months, Are you crazy like that? Eventually,
Julian Hassan is gonna have some like weird magistrate courts
in the UK or I don't know. They would probably
govern that Ecuadorian lobby court would eever they do over
there in the embassy, Julian's like Lawrence on the couch.
It's gonna be like Julian hive on, get that man

(28:07):
a blue Best Buy shirt working on my app. Let's
move on to our second embassy story of the day,
on the darkest one in the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Turkey,
and the story about Jamal kas because we're getting now

(28:27):
more details. We still the audio hasn't been released widely,
and hopefully it is not, but now the New York
Times is reporting that, you know, it's been confirmed. You
can hear him basically, they attack him the second he
gets in, begin beating and torturing him. Uh, they cut
off his fingers. Then you know, they basically dismember him

(28:51):
while he's still alive. And you hear one of the
people say, hey, I find that it helps to listen
to music while you do this to someone outside the
room or in the room. No to the other people
dismembering him with him, like hey, when we dismember political dissidents,
I find it helps to listen to music. Yeah, I

(29:12):
listen to p O D. Right. Yeah, this whole thing
is just gets it darker by the second. And you know,
we were touched on it yesterday because Mike Pompeo went
to Riad to try and get some answers quote unquote
from Mohammed bin Salman. That wasn't gonna happen because in
the photo they were just like, yes, we're friends. And

(29:32):
then afterwards Mike Pompeo was like, look, I don't want
to talk about facts, and and the journal is like,
what do you mean. He's like, well, the Saudis really
didn't either when I asked about the disappearance. And then
he's like, that's because they want to do their own
thorough investigation into what really went down. So I guess
we're meant to believe that they don't know that they

(29:54):
I mean, I guess for the optics, they're trying to
make it seem like, oh, I don't know what happened. Yeah,
we're gonna have to get down on that. But I'm
sure them investigating themselves will render uh the truth. I
doubt that. But it gets more complicated because, like you're saying, Jack,
like those tapes and stuff come from the Turkish government
because they were the ones who had like had sources
in there to be able to get this intelligence or whatever.

(30:16):
And the more, you know, Mike Pompeo and Trump and
Mohammad been selling like, yeah, I don't know, this is
we gotta look into this, like you know, what are
we gonna do? And then Turkey always been like what
about this tape? And we have this evidence and it
comes out and it just makes it harder and harder
to buy the Saudi Arabian version of events because yeah,
then the details just get more and more gruesome. Yeah,

(30:39):
it's and one thing, UH, producer Nick Stump was pointing
out is that kau had spoken to somebody and said
that he initially was basically told to shut the funk
up by NBS. Mohammed been salmon like after he said
something negative about Trump. So it's you know, and Trump

(31:03):
is homies with NBS, and I don't know, it's not
it's not proof that Trump ordered the hit, but it's
just very I don't know, it's almost like there's no
bottom to how bad this administration goes, right, Yeah, well,
then not to mention that like the second like right
after Mike Pompeio arrives in Riad, a hundred million dollars

(31:26):
comes into US accounts from Saudi Arabia to help fight
in Syria because Trump has been complaining about how nobody
wants to pitch in on needless military excursions and things
like that. But like the state departments like, well, you know,
this isn't a tip for tach kind of thing, because
Mohammad Been someone actually committed them with this money back
in August. But everyone who was around that was saying, like,
the details are never really ironed out as to how

(31:49):
the payments would get there and when, what the timeline was.
So it's amazing that the second he pulls up, a
hundred million dollars comes in the account, and then you
have Trump and like the White House saying, well, hold on,
let's not let's not Bret Kavanaugh this guy quite yet.
You know, we need to find out the truth first. Uh.
And now we're getting like defenses from the you know,
American government or at least buying the Saudi's time to

(32:10):
figure out what their next movie is going to be.
In terms of explaining this, because it's yeah, it just
gets darker and darker and darker and more. Other governments
are just like, yo, we don't. We told y'all and
other people had many a lot There seemed to be
a lot of intelligence around this too. And even Jamal
Shogi himself was like everybody told him like, yo, don't
go in there. Yeah. I mean a lot of people

(32:32):
were very worried. They're like if you go in there, like,
don't be foolish man, Like you know that you are
you are a threat to this to Mohammed bin Salman
and walking into the Saudi consulate could be a fucking
disastrous step. And tell everybody like, do whatever you have
to do to protect yourself so you don't just no
one knows that you you don't have this appointment because
yeah he was lord in there and he was murdered yea.

(32:56):
And yeah, Sosho g had like given a speech in
Jetta where he'd given foreign policy talk lightly critical of
then President elect Trump, and then NBSS media advisor basically
reached out and said you're not you're not allowed to
tweet or write your column or give comments to foreign journalists.

(33:19):
The GOP, the Grand Old Party, is what that stands for.
The Republicans are seemed to be. I guess you can't
say they're shifting focus, but they're definitely sharpening their focus
when it comes to how they are, you know, portraying
these mid terms and their opponents. If the mid terms

(33:40):
are like a fast and furious drag race, they basically
hit the nas tanks of racism to try and get
to the finished right now, because it's fucking wild. Now,
this is content I can relate to, Yes from my
fast and furious people about there, don't blow your fucking
canisters so quick. But yeah, the rhetoric is just I mean,
we always saw since Trump, it's always been pretty racist

(34:03):
and xenophobic, but now like it's hitting every mark. So
their ads even coming out now with George Soros looking
like some like it's the most anti semitic ship where
he's like some master of puppets and he's like behind
Colin Kaepernick taking a knee, or like just people who
want healthcare and stuff and he's like just throwing money
at ship, which is a very odd thing. He's forever

(34:25):
will be the GOP's boogeyman. I guess, uh. And then
like Matt Gates, who's a congressman in Florida, I mean
he's also getting on this heat, like tweeted some video
of like these people in Honduras who were receiving like
small amounts of cash. But he was saying, like, is
this George Soros giving immigrants money to charge the border?
And it's like yeah, because they yeah, right exactly. And

(34:47):
it's like the answer is no, because yes, all these
people are just just want a couple bucks before they
endure the grueling journey on foot to go to the
border to better their lives. But there's no reason he
would do that. Or maybe it's because as the Hurricane
Michael response in his district has been laughable, you know,
like everyone you're starting to see Like to me, it
seems like this they're starting to get real about what

(35:08):
these mid terms are looking like, and they're like, Okay,
should we just pull out all the stops now, like
just do whatever at this point because our backs are
against the wall, and that's what it reeks of, because
it's getting more like even aggressive. There was some someone
who was up for like a I forget what kind
of county board position in North Carolina. He like suggested
that like if you vote for Democrats, they want to
make pedophilia legal, and like, you know, it's standard ship.

(35:32):
I'm just saying, we need to relook a let's just
make sure we're on the same page here about what
it is. Yeah, that's all we're saying. Yeah. And then
on Thursday morning, Trump got on Twitter and was going
full race war on his old phone and just putting
out this thing of I'll just read the sweet I
am watching the Democratic Party lead and then in parent

(35:53):
season because they want open borders and existing week clause
assault on our country by Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador,
whose leaders are doing little to stop the large flow
of people, including many criminals, from entering Mexico to the US,
and just sort of going on this idea that like,
essentially Democrats are leading immigrants by the hand to the border,
which he had to explain because the logic of it

(36:15):
is wild, and then going on to say like if
they don't do anything about it, then he might have
to send the military to shut down the southern border,
and he can, he'll blow up any trade deals we
have with Mexico. And again, this is I think just
to drum up some kind of you know, xenophobic fear
of like whoa look, at they're they're coming for the borders,
and Fox was so willing to just you know, go

(36:36):
full tilt on this. Uh sounds like there's a problem. Yeah,
they're like, all right, what's the play? Okay, Democrats are
leading a gent mob to the border. That's immigrant mob
from MO from the Simpsons. Anyway, these are two Fox
News clips where you're seeing them really underscore this, this
point that the Democrats are actually the ones who are
behind I guess migration. I don't know. This event issue

(37:01):
lays at the feet of the Democratic Party up on
the hill. Like I said, they've been educated what these
loopholes are, but they don't want to close the loopholes.
They want this president have a fail on this issue.
But I hope the American people are paying attention because
this isn't a president failure, This isn't the secretary failure.
This is the Democrats failure because they know the issue
and they refused to fix it. They're putting their political ambitions.

(37:24):
Had a public safety, national security, and border control as
simple as that, why would it be the Democrats fault
when they have no Republicans have all the power and
he doesn't even he can't even say failure. Right, Yeah,
that's Thomas Homan, who was the head of Ice God
who is you know, America's number one racist. And then

(37:45):
there's another one again had to come in an underline
this fact, this time from a pundit with a Hispanic
lass name. So maybe that will give some creat instance.
We're going to continue to see these caravans of people
be as we have politicians like Nancy Pelosi who encouraged
them to keep making this track. Uh huh, So Nancy

(38:06):
Pelosi is encouraging people because they're saying, I don't know,
we just want what's fair for people, or the fact
that they oppose a lot that just like brutally separates
families and gives them this really awful like option to like,
you guys can go to jail together, or you split
your kids up and then maybe you can get your
kid back. I don't know, what do you who do
you want? What do you do? This is similar to

(38:28):
a story that was happening maybe a couple of months ago,
where they were talking about a quote caravan of people
who are making their way to the United States border,
and then that just totally fizzled out, and then now
they're just doing it again every time. It's like it
reminds me of like in the eighties there was always
stories about like these waves of killer bees that were

(38:50):
coming towards the Mexico border that remember that, like it's
just whenever there's a slow news day or whenever they
need to get there. You know, remember they were African
killer bees. Yeah, and then that inspired Woutang that it
does remind me because the Democrats have no power, so

(39:10):
it's so funny for them to be like the damn
So I was gonna say, it's like when you it's
like you just robbed a store or a bank and
your dog is chained to a tree outside, and you're like,
I think the dog took all the money out of
that place. Pretty sure, you should probably look at him
this money. This is my money actually from before a
different robbery. Yeah, and I think again, like you're saying, Jack,
like they're running out of rhetorical points to actually convince

(39:33):
someone to vote Republican, that they're not just being like,
all right, let's just go after like the full on
racist base and just try and turn them out as
much as possible, because nothing there's nothing really convincing about
this unless you are, like, you respond to this fearmongering
ship and it's just like that old barbarians at the
Gate argument that has been used for centuries now. It's

(39:54):
like the oldest ship in the book and kind of
just say there are plenty of monstrous people in this world,
but Mexicans aren't one of them. They are wonderful people.
People like Tom Holman, whose looks like a guy who
would scam you outside of a carnival to change your tire.
It's like, that's who we need to avoid. I know,
but I saw you shoot my tire out. No no, no,

(40:15):
that's a failure on the tire, you know. You know,
like what all these people complaining about this stuff too
love a Mexican restaurant. I mean, just they want to
wear the hat, they want the happy Birthday song, they
want the whole thing. Yeah, which is funny even when
it's not their birthday. Guarantee, you Republicans are leading and
it's not actually my birthday, but I'm gonna say it
is in a restaurant to get free whatever. That's the

(40:35):
mentality of Republican general or they're like, hey, honey, I'm
going to propose to you take your ring off to
you and we're gonna get this fucking meal for free,
and then I'm going to sing I can show you
the world. Also also you say I'm a vet here. Yeah,
it's always doing the false valorie ship. It's the Yeah,
I mean like that the lack of moral scruples would
suggest that that would be the restaurant tactic of some

(40:57):
of these people. The other strategy they're employing is just
out write voter suppression. So there, yeah, so I mean
it seems like it's effective. Yeah. I read something even
scarier recently or yesterday, which is that as they are
getting closer to the midterms and they realize how bad
their platform has been since Trump, like for regular people,

(41:18):
they're actually starting to coop democratic ideals and say that
that's what they're gonna do when they get an office
just to get votes, because they can't go up there
and be like, we're literally taking away all your healthcare
and and giving all these corporations money. So they're like,
you know what, They're just trying to find ways to
reward what the democratic platform so that they don't look
like the monsters that they are, you know. And that's

(41:40):
even scarier because that's not that's not fair. If you're
gonna be a monster, be a damn monster exactly and
just go full monster. Yeah. But like you know, George
is one of those states where that has like a
secretary of state running for office simultaneously while like the
like they're in office holding the position of like vote
master of a state and then also running a campaign.
And in Georgia, we've talked about the before Brian Camp

(42:00):
who's a secretary of state, like I think last week
we talked about the number of registrations that were just
put on ice because of their exact match law, which
disproportionately affects voters of color. Uh. And then earlier this week,
there was a group of about forty black senior citizens
who got on a bus to take them to do
early voting by like this group called Black Votes Matter.
It's a nonpartisan group. They're not there to tell these

(42:23):
people how to vote. They're just like, we'll give you
a ride to the to the polls. You're at a
senior center, it's probably like this, we'll make it easy.
But somehow that bus just got stopped and they pulled
all the people off the bus, and like the reasoning
was really really whacked. They were just sort of saying like,
at first they thought that the Senior Center was like
they considered the activity political activity, even though there was

(42:44):
no mention of a party, but that would be a
reason why they could interfere with it, because yeah, because
like certain nonprofit groups, they can't actually put their flag
in a party or either side. They can't be partisan,
so they'll just be like, we're here to advocate just
for voter participation, will never say vote Democrat or vote
publican And so they were like, oh, this is probably
what's going on. They're like, absolutely not. There's nothing to
suggest that they were doing it. The only thing was

(43:06):
that because a Democratic Party chairwoman helped to organize it,
they were trying to use that fact to do it,
although there was no evidence that anything untoward was happening
at all. So they were like, hey, you gotta get
off the bus. Look, we can take you back to
the center, we can get you to vote. And it
was just a really transparent act of just voter intimidation.
But like luckily for these elderly people, sadly, actually not lucky. Sadly,

(43:29):
this wasn't the first time someone has probably tried to
stop them from voting. Uh, and they were very resolute.
They're like, no, we'll be back. But this was bullshit
and it was very clear what they knew what was
going on. I mean once they were like what is this?
What do you mean? Like they're just taking us to vote.
And because it's a bus that says like black voters matter,
that you're gonna be like, hold on, what's going on here?
Because I think there's Stacy Abrahams votes and not Brian

(43:50):
Kemp votes. This seems like just overall the sort of
projection we've been talking about where it's like they claim
voter for odd that is one of their issues, and
then meanwhile they're like that just seems like the move
for Republicans is yelling and pointing at the other side,

(44:10):
accusing them of doing the thing that the Republicans are
actually doing well right, because they're saying, we can't win
over voters of color with our racist rhetoric, so they're
cheating by appealing to more people or something. Is that
really what's going on. It's like you get caught sleeping
with your wife's sister and in the middle of it
and she's like, I can't believe you're doing that, and

(44:31):
you're like, you sleep with my brother right now. She's like,
you don't have a brother, and like, exactly, you always
yeah you would. Also you're not very family oriented when
you talk like the dog, and also the dog robbed
the bank, right. But yeah, it's just the one thing
though that is great is that with these mid terms,
a lot of secretaries of states are on ballots, and

(44:54):
that's one way to really curb voter suppression because a
lot of Republicans are holding these secretary of state seats.
And that's another a reason why everybody has to go
and vote in these mid terms. Don't just vote on
the big ticket. People really look at your ballot and
understand if your secretary of state or whatever office is
running the elections in your state, are people who are
regularly purging voter roles or engaging in that kind of

(45:14):
right wing factory that is meant to disenfranchise people and
exercising their constitutional right. Wait, how is that keeping them
from doing voter suppression? Because you can vote now, we
can vote in new secretaries of states, So like if
you in a state, like for example, if Chris Kolbach
was still Secretary of state and not running for governor.
Now would be a perfect time to boot someone like
him the funk out right right, because we need to

(45:35):
set his caravans back in this country. R Yeah, exactly.
Well that's the other thing. They claim that there's like
some shadowy billionaire behind the scenes paying people to like
do the liberal agenda. They are run by the Koch Brothers.
Sheldon Addlson, who was the murky Doode was actually throwing
money at everything. They're the party of shadowy billionaires, and

(45:58):
they have invented one whose name is way more recognizable.
I feel like an idiot. I still don't even know
who George sources. I've heard his name, A thousand wealthy
currency speculator who became very wealthy and is a philanthropist.
But they've used him being Jewish to like just start
all kinds of ship and he should Europe. And yet
he was giving a lot of money to like left

(46:19):
wing causes, so they're like, oh, that's let's always abuse
him as the boogeyman. Yeah, alright, we're going to take
another quick break. We'll be right back, and we're back.
Another thing that can give us power, Another animal that
can give us power. To get through dark and depressing

(46:42):
chance squirrels apparently. Yeah, okay, I mean, you know, emotional
support animals. I understand, I get it. I understand the
benefit of the e s A. But this story is
very interesting to me because last week there was a
woman who was on a Frontier Airlines flight from Orlando
to Cleveland. Okay, already know enough, uh where America's they

(47:05):
are actually love Cleveland, Love Cleveland, loved to Orlando Love
Penny Hardaway. I don't know I'm talking like Trump, but
essentially she told the airlines like, hey, I'm bringing emotional
support animal on, and they're like, okay, fine, that's fine,
we allow emotional support animals on. She pulls up to
the airport with not a dog or a cat, but
a motherfucking squirrel, an emotional support squirrel. So when she
got on the plane and they saw it, they're like,
oh ho ho, hold on, hold on, you can't bring

(47:27):
this on. She's like why, Like, we have a we
have an actual policy of like no rodents on this plane,
So I'm sorry, you may have to find another way
to get your squirrel to your destination. And she was
not having it. Made a huge scene, was like well
you have to, like I'm not getting off. Me and
the squirrel are going to Cleveland. And so they had
to clear the plane and the police had to remove

(47:49):
the woman because I think I don't know if it
was because they were like trying to like it's like, hey,
no one can shoot a camera phone while we like
rough up this squirrel honer or something anyway, uh, and
then the flight took off to our later. I just
really liked this story because I liked the idea of
a person with their emotional support squirrel who was so
right or die about their squore and they're like, I'm sorry,
we this is my squirrel. Uh. And I think a

(48:12):
squirrel would be a cool pet if you could get
it to like not ship everywhere. I had a friend
who found like a young baby squirrel that was like
abandoned in his yard and it was like so in
need of food, and he like nursed it to health
and like he had it for like four months, but
the thing was wild jump around his house and then
just ship on you. And it was so it was
a terrible pet, but like he was, the little squirrel

(48:34):
was very comfortable around humans. And then I was like,
have you taken this to a vet or anything makesure's
not round. He's like, nah, I was like, I got
to my man, this is this is not the place
for me. How does that story end? He tried to
get it onto an airplane? You know the squirrel. No,
the squirrel died because like it went outside or something
and it was too cold one night or something. It

(48:54):
was a really weird story. It could have been a
cover up. But that reminds me of yesterday when we
were at lunch and Hosnier was talking about how like
a lot of the rich Saudis like to pal around
with emotional support falcons on the point. Yeah, and then
she showed us a photo of like the dude bought
out of flight and like there were fifty falcons on
the plane with their little leather mask on so they

(49:16):
don't wild out. That's the sort of ship you learned
from super producer on a Hosnis podcast. Ethnically ambiguous is
that falcons are the dogs of the Middle East, like
the flex pet. Yeah, you've got right. How quickly can
you catch a hair? Right? Yeah? Also, falconry is dope.
We interviewed a falcon falconer back in the day it

(49:38):
cracked and they talk about like their hobby is just
being like going hunting, but with a living like gun. Right,
you've trained to like do the hunting for you. Yeah,
you probably feel like aqua man ship birdman who has
a man of the birds who was not a man
who was bitten by a radioactive one of the members

(50:01):
of the dance group. It's not bitten by them to
turn into Aquaman. Although I would watch a weird cartoon
based on that. Wait, what are the laws? Doesn't like
with emotional support animals, don't things have to like honor
people with animals like that to be able to I
think it depends on the state. I know, like in California. Right,

(50:23):
if you like, if you have an emotional support pet
and they're like, oh, we have a no pets policy,
I think you can argue that, like you should be
able to rent the unit. I'm not entirely sure. I
don't know about renters rights, but I do know that
falcons and passports according to a Geneva convention. I think
the reason the squirrel part of it seems so weird
is because, like, I don't think there's any like pet

(50:45):
store where you can buy a squirrel, like squirrel, I'd
imagine she trapped that thing. Yeah, unless like you know,
it's like someone has like a squirrel business at the
back of their house or the can domesticate them. Like
you know, if you want to squirrel, you go over
to Robert's house. Yeah, on deck for like five bucks.
I think they should have a has to be purchasable
at a standard pet pet store to be considered an

(51:08):
emotional support animal. Well, then you could buy a rat
at a pet store, right, Well, that's what I'm saying.
I wouldn't have a problem with a rat because people
have pet rats and like, but they have no rodent policy.
That's what I'm saying. Like, that's why I think they're
I think their policy needs to be adapted to just
like trainable animals more. If you have a wacky pet,
be like can do tricks. And if you can, you're like,

(51:30):
all right, yeah, we is gonna run wild and ship
like it clearly understands basic commands, right, and like I
don't want them to be able to bring emotional supports
snakes on but on the mother snake Yeah, alright, sorry
snakes people, I like them, all right, that's gonna do

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