Art Of The Fail, Nike Crushes Small Businessman 2.15.19

In episode 330, Jack and Miles are joined by Yo Is This Racist's co-host Andrew Ti to discuss a Colorado store closing down after they boycotted Nike cause of Colin Kaepernick ad, Amazon canceling their plans to build an HQ in New York City, Trump calling a state of emergency over the border wall, Paul Manafort lying while under cooperation agreement, Frozen 2 trailer dropping, an absurd Newsweek story, the Oscars upsetting everyone, and more!

FOOTNOTES:

1. Colorado store that boycotted Nike after Colin Kaepernick ad will close

2. Amazon Cancels Plan For NYC Headquarter Location

3. The Art Of The Kneel: How Trump’s Tactics Kept Shrinking His Wall

4. If Trump declares a national emergency, Pelosi can jam Republicans. Here's how.

5. Fox host says if Trump supports bipartisan bill the shutdown will have been a "waste of time"

6. Document: Judge Rules Manafort Lied While Under Cooperation Agreement

7. Fox’s Andrew Napolitano: Paul Manafort lying to a grand jury means that “he’s exposed to more than 20 years in jail,” in turn meaning that “he might very well be a candidate for a pardon, and the public might accept the pardon.”

8. This clip never gets old.

9. Frozen 2 sets record for most watched animated trailer

10. SNAKE BITES MAN, MAN BITES WIFE SO THEY CAN DIE TOGETHER, WIFE SURVIVES

11. Oscar Intrigue: Did Lady Gaga Force Academy To Fix Song Snafu? Are Last Year’s Actor Winners Being Ignored As Presenters?

12. Allison Janney Will Present at the Oscars After All

13. ‘A fundamentally stupid decision’: Hollywood bashes Oscars’ move to give four awards during commercials

14. Sorry Academy, Oscars Ratings and Running Time Don’t Correlate (Opinion)

15. WATCH: Aso - Inside All Day

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to season sixty nine, episode
five of their Daily's Night Guys, the podcast where we
take a deep dive into America's share consciousness. It's Friday,
February nine. Tea, my name is Jack O'Brien. A kay,
there's a lady tea who's sure. Oh that glitters is
gold and obriight in the Stairway to Heaven courtesy Hannah Saultis.

(00:28):
And also that take all me ak was a guy
named Nick right, and I said somebody else's name My bad? Nick. Well,
I'm sure to be joined as always by my co host,
Mr Miles grig Oh, Wendy's Great Conator with a half
pound of fresh never frozen Keith name. Uh, we're talking

(00:53):
about fast food, and look if you somehow cleverly we've
Keith into it, I'll say it. That's not like you.
I mean you, I guess if you just that's just
me sort of reworking, or Christie Yamagucci Maine, in this
case reworking a slogan for the Wendy's Baconator with a
half pound fresh nup frother beef. Those two Hannah and

(01:17):
Christi Yamagucci Main are like the flick the Cold War
out here. They're very complimentary to one another, but they're
they're clearly the two great hegemonic powers. Yeah that they
like pick up that rings the other one in meeting, right,
I don't want that's right, but if it is not

(01:38):
hot enough, I will blow it off the walk. Well,
we are thrilled to be joined in our third scene
by one of the very faces on Mountain Site more.
He is Mr Andrew too, I, even less than usual,
didn't come prepared with an ak even less. I'm just
owning it this time, rather than like panicking your way

(01:59):
into Sometimes times I've like sometimes I've had one that
I sounded good in my head and I couldn't execute right. Uh.
Sometimes the first like three times I was on the show,
I did not understand how it worked somehow, and then
I feel like last time I almost had a good one,
But have you done Dr T and the women's you
have right feels like? And then we just settled into

(02:21):
low te I believe in. Maybe at the San Francisco show,
like referred to me to my face one of those,
so that's me. I guess pretty people used to call
me T one thousand in high school. Okay, there you
kill people's moms. Right there, we go lifting Brita with

(02:44):
your hand, your bare hand. That's brisk, baby, Such an
upsetting scene. I know a lot of fun though. Blood
blood in the milk is gross? Right yeah, just settled
the blood. Oh blood in the milk, but in the mild.
All right, Andrew, we're gonna get First, we're gonna take

(03:08):
our listeners through a couple of things we're talking about today.
We're gonna talk about Nike claiming a scalp in the
Culture Wars. They shut down that sporting good place. Yeah yeah, loser. Uh.
Now we'll talk about what that what I was just
talking about. Also, Amazon bailed on h Q two in

(03:31):
Long Island City. We'll talk about that. Frozen two has
become the most watched animated film trailer ever, So we'll
talk about why that's dark as fuck, it's a it's
a dark trailer, and then all sorts of politics ship.
But first, Andrew, what is something from your search history
that's revealing about who you are? I'll just say my

(03:52):
most recent search was for a just to make sure
I had the proportions right on fried bologny sandwiches. Actually
some of the hosts of the Daily z Eyegeist may
have gotten in on I already felt left out. Now
you're I know, we were just like ZM him video.

(04:16):
It's almost like a the meat is creamy. Yeah. Well
this started because I full disclosure, We hung out. Yeah. Yeah,
and you made a fried bologny sandwich that was so
decadent that I have feeling like my health insurance just
went up in retrospect. The only U side dish we
should have had is just like a candy dish full

(04:37):
of lipatore. We were it was gross. So fried bologney
is a like poor white person like country delicacy. Yeah,
there ain't nothing you can't turn around by making it
at the house in Silver Lake there. Um. Yeah, but

(05:01):
I just wasn't. I mostly wanted to make sure I
was getting the right cheese and the right like mustard
with it, so we went there's rules to that ship. No,
but I just wanted to be like sure. I wasn't
because I was like, if it's a broke boy sandwich
and you have Coleman's mustard like from the UK, I
was like, yeah, we got we got, we got nice mustard.
But the key is actually going to your grocery store

(05:21):
deli and anyone will do this. Don't get the I
mean whatever, get whatever you want. Doesn't it literally is meaningless.
But go because at the deli, if they have bologni,
which I guess they don't always do, they can cut
it any like any thickness for you. So the first
time I did the sandwich, I basically was like, can
you cut one inch discs of bologny for me? Yeah,

(05:45):
it's about the size of like the the ship we had, Yeah,
it was was two half inch rounds. So yeah, it's
basically you get like a solid hamburger Patty's worth of
bologny and then you fry that motherfucker up little mustard provolone.
And then the innovation we had was the oil that

(06:08):
we used to fry the boloni was pepperoni grease. And
the only way to get pepperoni grease is to bacon
chips pepperoni crispy pepperoni. Anyway, Miles and I are about
to die. We couldn't bring Jack in on this because
he does have a family. There's people who depend on it,
and with your wife being in medicine, healthcare would be

(06:30):
like if you eat that sue. That's it. Don't put
these children at risk anyway. So yeah, I just visits.
I just wanted to make sure I had my memory
correct on all those and it was it was delicious.
What kind of cheese? And he made a delicious cole
slawa and just the fat part of bacon, strips of bacon,

(06:54):
throw that meat away fruit salad. I did make Brodego
fruit salad. Oh, this is an actual recipe that I
didn't come up with. This someone told I literally forget who,
but someone taught me this recipe in New York. Um,
because it is the if you only have ten minutes
and you have to bring something nice ish to someone's party,

(07:16):
you can get the three ingredients for this thing at
any bodega in New York and pretty much any store.
All you need is fresh mint, dates, dried dates, and
oranges and you just combine you you like dice cube
the oranges and chop up everything else and like mix
it all together. And then the acid from the orange

(07:37):
juice like leeches out all the sugar from the dates.
It's like crazy sweet. Yeah that sounds amazing and living
like we're living like bodega kings. It really was, Yeah,
we had a real like like a bodega bodega bash
something like we might be some kind of bodega boys.
I guess never. I mean one day we can only

(07:59):
wish that was on the show time. What what what
happens with the bologney when it when it gets fried up,
it just tastes nice. And he was cutting slits in it,
so it didn't do the disc like, it didn't invert
suddenly and being cave, I think the key is it's
a little bit. Actually, I it was only Miles presence
that made me draw parallels to like Japanese Hawaiian cuisine.

(08:24):
But it is a lot like a spam matsub. It's
like that, like its processed meat, potted meat with char
on it. Yeah, it's pretty much how you bring it wrong. Yeah,
what is something you think is underrated? On that On
that note actually as a tangent to that, but it
includes fried blogney is I've been steaming meat, slightly steamed meat,

(08:47):
steamed meats because I went, you know what, this would
have been also an acceptable uh search history, But somehow
my Instagram suggestions has decided that one thing I'm very
interested in is um. You know what it must have
been from Salt Bay. But now I'm getting all kinds

(09:10):
of Turkish meats in my in my Instagram like UM
suggested feeds. I guess I don't know. Explore page. Yeah, right,
the Explore page. It's real, real wild. But basically, yeah,
for UM it must have been maybe it was Christmas.
It was the last time I saw my family, So yeah,
Christmas time. We I I was in charge of the

(09:34):
Christmas lunch slash dinner. We had a weird time and
I did like beef ribs basically like a layer of
apple side. This has become a weird cooking show. A
layer of apple cider, vinegar and soy sauce and then
veggies and then a rack and then the ribs on
top and then foil on top of that low low,

(09:54):
low heat for like eight hours. Whoa, and that ship
is so tender the bones like slide out, so tender.
Is tinder corrects and then uh, and then you just
put it in the super high heat or put on
a pan for like, you know, until there's color on
the outside. It's so good in the moment. Mother fucking meats.

(10:16):
Is there any preparation of meats that It's like you
never hear about steamed meats. Is there a steamed meat
I would have had? Uh, like in a regular I mean, well,
the reason I bring it up is Bologny I think
is basically like the way they put together the big
bologne is what the whatever? Filler and gristle and then

(10:38):
they steam that log? Got it? And that's why it's
that very unnerving texture, right. And you're saying it gets
kind of creamy when you grill it up. Yeah, well
it stays creamy, but it's you don't notice that. You
notice the creaminess because you get the texture on the
outside and the contrast things out the creamy noess. I

(11:02):
I don't know. I don't think it makes it more creamy,
right right, I don't know about meat physics. Guys, Well,
this is the first episode of Bologny Boys. What is
something you think is overrated? Pronouncing shit correctly? Yes, I
just I mean, we just had Valentine's Day day the Liberary.

(11:25):
It's all fine. Yeah, some things I don't like, like milk.
I don't mind crayon crayons, pellow crowns and that. Everything
else is fine. Just don't come around. He's a pellow
milk is kind of or milk is somewhat appropriate because
it sounds like you have a milk bubble in your

(11:48):
throat or what about both? Both like both but with
an L bothah both, Like you know, it sounds like
people saying both or multiply imuldible. I used to go
to Grosser say multiply like multiply. Yeah, I'm fine with
all that. Yeah, there's there's almost no level of community,

(12:10):
like you know, you get it. Who cares? I don't care.
I just like I guess you know what it is.
It's more than like I have just my ear picks
it up and then I just kind of get fixing both.
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, there we go. Excuse me, but
I'm just saying it's overrated this. I mean, look, all
of us are. Jack's pretty close, but ever there Ever,

(12:31):
everyone else in podcasting is like, we're you know, we
have a vested interest in busting out of that like
news broadcaster like method of speaking. So yeah, funk that ship.
Yeah my mom can't even listen. She's like, you curse
so much, like I don't even know Halfterwards, I so
we're not broadcasting, we're podcasting. I thought I was cutting

(12:54):
out the ums and ohs from my speech. And I
think I genuinely have, like since I've have been forced
to listen to myself on microphones so much, but it's
not even close to good or professional. Yea, yeah, come on,
maybe that's poast. Listening to yourself is the worst, the worst. Finally,
what is a myth? What's something people think is true

(13:16):
you know to be false. I did not realize the
number of people that thought counting cards like you do
in black check was about like literally counting every single
card that came out, like saying one to yeah, like
okayase clubs five and timons. It's that is impossible. I mean,
as I'm sure it's not actually impossible for the greats,

(13:37):
but yeah, but it's not necessary. You can gain a
statistical edge on the house just by keeping track of
the difference between the number of high cards and low
cards that have been out right. It's actually a system
for simplifying the process of knowing where you are in
the deck essentially, yeah, and then using like a memory

(13:59):
mansion or whatever, like yeah, and it's super easy. The thing, like,
I mean, it's the only thing about counting cards in
black Chack is that, like, the steaks are very high
if you funk up, because it's you're you know, it matters.
You can't be off by one or you can, but
it changes the math significantly if you're off by anything.
But really it's just like you're just going like, okay,

(14:20):
minus one plus one plus one plus one minus one
plus one plus one minus one minus one. Well, let's
you know what should do? Just let's go to Vegas.
They're thrown out of casino. I almost did last time
I was there. I wasn't actually even counting cards, but
my friend was playing a weird version of black jack
where in you have a piece of paper out and
you write out all the cards that have come out.
I mean, technically you can. It's not illegal, but um no,

(14:43):
it was. It was a version wherein like black jacks
were like extra valuable somehow or something like that. And
so obviously you can only get black jacks when there
are a lot of aces left in the deck, and
thus it makes sense to keep track of how many
aces have been played. Is this good for just single
deck or like if it's like you're in a six

(15:03):
to eight deck shoe, it's just about the proportion, Okay, yeah,
so it's you could do any number of decks. It's
hard to keep tracking well, card sharks, you hit us
up with your tips to the card counting is in movies.
It's like you see all the like numbers, like yeah,
it's one of those genius tropes from movies that aren't
actually signs of genius, like figuring out a Rubik's cube

(15:24):
really quickly. Yeah, exactly, Now, there's just a trick to that.
You don't have to do that or exactly right. It's
it's that like, I guess if you could very quickly
in the moment independently figure out the trick, that would
be a genius thing to do. I just invented card
can Yeah. Yeah, yeah, if you could independently derive card
counting and do it as if because it's just like

(15:46):
a mindless skill that you can practice that any any
fool could practice. So that's that's my challenge to the
zeke Kang. Everyone, get out there, start recording your winnings,
and whoever makes the most of Andertes method will get
a guest spot. So taking down the House did not
need to be a group of students from an Ivy
League school. It could have been a group of like

(16:07):
Arizona State students or whatever. Yeah, and Sun Devils. Dude,
come on, no shout out to Arizona State. I'm just saying,
go do it. Guess anyone could execute. I think the
idea behind that book was a little bit like, oh,
they derived the right, right, but it's not that hard. Alright,
let's talk about Nike, guess. So there was a gentleman

(16:29):
you might remember who broke into the news cycle. His
name was Stephen Martin. He saw the Nike aad featuring
cap and he decided he was going to sell off
all of his Nike inventory in his Colorado sports apparel
store and refused to sell Nike stuff going forward. So

(16:49):
that was earlier within the last calendar year. It was
like October. I October came out, Yeah, yeah, so like
four to five months ago September, and you know, he
knew it might hurt business, but he was willing to
make that sacrifice because he knew that the American people
would be on his side in the end. Because he's

(17:11):
seven and now Miles well, I mean, as he said,
people are like, yo, this is a big movie. He said, yes.
His own quote was being a sports store without Nike.
It's like being a gas station without gas. WHOA, that's
all if you knew that your business model is fucked,
my man, and even said, you don't trample all over
the men who have given Colin Kaepernick and me the
right to free speech, because again he obscured what his

(17:34):
protest was about and cut too. Now, Uh, the store
has to close because lack of business, because he's a
gas station that doesn't sell gas. Yeah, and he has
the quote that is the most satisfying quote that I've
read thus far this year. He said, as much as
I hate to admit this, perhaps there are more Colin

(17:54):
Kaepernick supporters out there than I realized. Usually, well, I mean,
but it's also like, no, it's not even that, it's that,
it's not even that it's unfortunately, there's more like people
who don't want to wear a reebok, right, And he realized,
but also it's like a thing, it's like his what

(18:16):
was it he was counting on that core like thirty
three and change percent of racists being so enthused that
he would be like, yeah, well I have to buy
some bad mitten set there, right, I mean, this is
what what he did is exactly what Howard Schultz is doing.

(18:38):
He is making a broad judgment about what the consistency
of the American public is and what they're like, likes
and dislikes are based on presumably a handful of people
he surrounds himself with, right, and so he thinks that
everybody is as mad at Nike as he is. So
he's going to, you know, get in on this busines,

(19:00):
this opportunity to like get the whole town voting with
their wallet for him and against Colin Kaepernick. And it
turns out people were not as much on his side
as he thought, Just like Howard Schultz does not have
as much support as he thought when he was on
the golf course talking to his friends, who are all

(19:21):
billion employees. He's literally a fish bowl he wore in
his head where his voice just echoed into right, Howard, Yeah,
Oh I'm doing it. I'm running. Let's talk about Amazon,
you guys, Amazon bailed HQ two. He's out. It's out
Long Island City. Now you see what you did? You
see New York. You do the nice thing and offer

(19:43):
one of the biggest companies on Earth three billion dollar
giveaway and taxes and ship and then misread the room
when locals are getting really upset about that. Yeah, so
I was not able to fully catch up on this.
How How did like, was it actually the protest? Actually, well,
there was like there was a united front of New

(20:04):
York politicians who were like, this is fucked, and they
were pushing back a lot. And I think Amazon at
one point we started testing the wine like well we
could leave all you know you for that to happen,
and they were like yeah, all right, yeah, then what
and then they're like, oh, fuck, Like this isn't gonna
this isn't gonna end. And yes, I think a lot
of people, especially activists, who were opposed to Amazon coming

(20:25):
through and wrecking the city. Uh, this is definitely a
victory for them, because I mean, going up against a multinational,
gigantic behemoth like Amazon, you're like, you think it's a
foregone conclusion. Yeah. At the same time, the way it's
being covered by the politicos of the world is Amazon
to New York, drop dead. That's the headline on the
front page of Politico. So it's like Amazon screws new

(20:48):
York is how it's being read in a lot of
the mainstream media. Dumped new York before they could get dumped.
What a fortnight for Jeff Bezos. I know exactly what
time the time to Jeff Bezos. I mean you think, right,
I don't understand still, like why it ended up in
New York when again, the whole thing was a little

(21:10):
weird when it was like, what's what city is gonna
beg us the hardest for us to come here to
save their dying town only to go to New York,
like a city that is not in the process of
deteriorating there like many other cities, I could have actually
benefited from it, right. You would think that if their
plan was to bend the city over a barrel and

(21:32):
just you know fuck them for all the money that
they possibly could, that they would have chosen somebody with
less of a a strong bargaining position than New York
City and citizens who are very aware of like the
effect of it. But that that's what I was gathering
from third hand pundits on Twitter. Was that, like because

(21:53):
it was the whole bidding process, right was I mean,
like all fake as bidding wars was just meant to
like drive up the you know, give them leverage, like
invent leverage essentially, Like what consessions because obviously no fucking
person who is like has any power or money at
Amazon wants to live anywhere besides one of four cities

(22:15):
in the United States. It's not like they're gonna hold
like open this place in Wichita or whatever. That's why
it's HQ two and main HQR. The lesser people work there.
I don't know what, I don't know, but even then
right like yeah, like it's like they're they're never gonna
go to like, you know, some some right wing tax
haven or whatever, despite you know, because it's like no

(22:36):
one fucking wants to live in those like backwards as places,
so it's always going to be someplace like New York.
So they had to pretend like we might not bring
it to New York. Well, I mean, look, Bezos could
have been the fucking King of New York if he
had been like, I don't need three billion dollars from you'll,
I'll do this anyway, and guess what, I'll bless the
m t ae like some ship and fix your subway

(22:56):
something like that, like and then get people more on board.
But instead I mean gonna be like give me this,
give me that, give me that. Oh I might make
your housing market even more impossible. Yeah, you know weird.
It's almost like tech people are just people that had
like one kind of good idea at a time when
the barrier for that was very low. But actually they're
just as shortsighted as any other type of business part

(23:18):
you become. You don't become a billionaire by having empathy
for large groups of people and deciding to do do
right by society. You become a billionaire by finding a
like huge imbalance and exploiting the ship out of it
over and over and over again until you have all
the money. And that's you know, that's what he was

(23:39):
trying to create with this whole process, and he you know,
once he had it, people were like that doesn't seem okay,
and he was like, fine, then I'm taking my ball
and going home. And you know, I'm sure the rich
are going to be like, this is just like Atlas shrugged, dude.
This is like, you know, you funk with us, You
don't let us do what ever we want, and we're

(24:01):
going to take our ball and go home, and now
we'll see how screwed you are. By the way. It's like, please, billionaires,
funck off to your gulch. Yeah, I love. I would
love to see you all leave your money behind them
who cares. But there's there's that group of millionaires and
billionaires where like, please take taxes because we know you're

(24:22):
you'll probably come for us with your pitchforks for forty years. Taxes,
like the top marginal rate of taxes is a like
not going to the guillotine payment, right right, that's what
it is, what it's for, right right, Well, you know,
chin up bezos, yeah, you know, hopefully we're covering from
this one. But yeah, AOC is now calling for the

(24:44):
abolition of billionaires, which seems like a good I mean,
we gotta draw a line somewhere. Why not make it
a billion llion? Seems like too much? Yeah, I think
I think billions too much, would be honest, millions too much,
I think. Now, but now we're negotiating, all right, and

(25:08):
now you got me to come to the table. Hey,
all right, we're gonna take a quick break and we'll
be right back. And we're back. And President deals narrowly

(25:30):
averted another shut down. There will be no shutdown because
he got all the funding for his Oh wait, no,
he got less funding than he then he initially asked
for and was granted before the first shutdown. But in
addition to signing that deal, he is also going to

(25:55):
declare a national emergency. So uh, he wins. I guess right.
I mean, look, you avert one problem and start up
a whole other one baby, because it's President fires, because
he's constantly starting him and yeah, look the government's funded. Great.
You know, when you look though at how far this
deal fell apart, you really like, even if you're Republican,

(26:17):
you have to be like, yo, this guy fucking sucks, right,
because remember in seen, Democrats were willing to give him
twenty five billion to get the dreamers a path to
citizenship on the table wall and he was like, nah,
did they do? We even what is the projection for

(26:37):
actually building this thing? It was something astronomical that didn't
even make sense, and it was a thing that wasn't
feasible anyway. But they're like, do twenty five but in
exchange help people who were brought here as children trying
to get a path to citizenship. He said, hell no.
Then he made another offer like early last year that
was really firmed. The Democrats laughed him out the room.
Then in December, what they offered him like one point

(26:59):
six after he totally lost the house, he completely burned
through the years where he had control of Congress, loses
the House. Now you have an even weaker decision. Here's
one point six billion, he says, no shutdown begins. Now
you're eating one point three seven five for slats, no concrete,
and only fifty five miles of that ship. So that's why,

(27:20):
you know, I think a lot of people, especially on Fox,
listen to how on Fox they realized too on paper.
They're like, then, why do we shut the government down
only for you to eat this tiny ass deal and
then do an end around by declaring a state of emergency.
I think he knows right now, the numbers that have
been released, the deal looks like it's stinks. It really does.
I mean a lot of people on the right are
going to be sitting there and saying, what was the

(27:40):
whole point of the shutdown? Because I think people thought
you shut down the government to try to budge the Democrats,
and if they didn't budge, your next step was going
to be declaring a national emergency. So I think now
he's unfortunately in a position where he put out there
in the very same way. He has to learn to
stop doing this. He put out there, you know, Mexico
is going to pay for the wall. Didn't work out
that way. He put out there, I'm not gonna budge,
I'm gonna dig my heels in. And then when you don't,

(28:02):
people are disappointed in you. So no matter what he
does now and now he's saying, oh, I'm gonna redirect
more other federal funds into this, So don't worry, You're
still going to get the wall. We're still going to
figure it out, even if I have to do it
by executive order. But the thing is that this shutdown,
this whole shutdown was was completely absurd and a waste
of time. If it wasn't gonna force him to kind
of say, you know what, my way or the highway,

(28:24):
because this is a national emergency. Either it's a national
emergency or it's not right. Sorry, Fred Durst to end
up being the highway, that's a good thing. He doesn't
tune into the Rachel Maddow Show because she was really
giving it to him there, Huh was that? That? Not? Who?
That was? Fox? And again that's why Fox, you know,

(28:45):
they also because they're in his ear and he just
lives through the TV and he's like, oh no, they're
mad at me. I couldn't just because the funny thing was,
he even fucked up the opportunity, right, A normal sort
of same president could pointed to the statistics that said
illegal crossings were at an all time low and just
flex and been like, combat do something about it. But

(29:09):
he didn't and instead obscured those numbers and created an
emergency that is not there since we know that, Like,
like Trump is a puppet being operated by many people,
but one of the main operators is you know, Rupert
Murdoch dictating down to Fox, Like why why aren't they
just finding the silver lining and declaring a victory on this,

(29:31):
Like clearly like someone has an interest in keeping this
going well because they're the fallout of declaring an emergency.
It sets up a lot of weird ship in the
future basics. I don't think it's like a one to one, Okay,
Murdoch speaks, everybody immediately comes like snaps two. I think
it's probably more of a situation where Murdoch has a

(29:53):
heavy hand on the scale, but they still employ a
bunch of people who consider themselves journalists. So there's going
to be a couple of days before. Yeah, there's always
like every time something happens, there's always clearly like the
like throw it at the wall period, talked about it
for like a day, and they try all the kinds

(30:14):
of different ships. Okay, that makes more because yeah, and
I think the dilemma that the Republicans faces. Okay, so
now he's done something unprecedented and is using this declaration
of an emergency too further this policy goal that is
like it's it's just it's all rhetoric that he and
he's obscuring it. This this whole emergency is manufactured and

(30:36):
a lot of people on the right, we're begging him
to not do this because they can see, well what
happens when a Democrat is president and goes, oh, guess
what climate change is an emergency and now I need
all this money and I'm doing this ship. Fuck you,
it's an emergency or behind a chance egency that would
be or gun control, right, and you can't. And then
that's what they're quaking about in their little booties, their

(30:58):
boots because this is a this is a tactic that
was not used before and again causes another problem because
what he's done is circumvented the legislative process because you know,
in literally Article one of the Constitution says that the
Congress has the powers of appropriation, they control the purse.
So by him doing this, he's now stepping on their toes.

(31:19):
And now you've got you got sole legal about it.
Except for the fact that like in the last like
fifteen years, ten for sure, probably ten ten fifteen years,
like like I feel like the left has come out
on the short end of the stick on every sort
of like asymmetric line crossing. Yes, like literally like whether

(31:41):
it be like supreme courts, and it's like the best
they can point back to his like bork, I guess,
you know, like everything else, like just every time either
the Democrats cave or like you know, hypocrisy in my
adult life has not held you know, any conservative politician back.
So there is that, Like I mean, I guess I

(32:03):
would be like, are they really quaking in their boots
because they'll just lie when it's it will have to
it will require a wholesale like see change on behalf
of the Democrats too. Now, and I don't think it's
completely unrealistic now that everybody, Like people who vote for
Democrats pay attention to politics much more closely than they

(32:23):
used to, and are you know, much less willing to budge.
But yeah, I agree, there's been both sides. Is um Like, well,
we have to work together on the side of the
Democrats because they listen to the mainstream media who are
horny for like people who crossed the aisle and right,

(32:43):
you know, whereas on the right, like they take their
marching orders from Fox News, and Fox News is just
like fucking scorched earth, man, let's take them down the
other thing, you know, speaking of, Like, well, at least
you're at the table. Like despite the fact that this
is like you know, in a ens a loss for Trump,
we're still like putting a price tag on racism and

(33:05):
people's humanity. So like, in a sense, we all lose
to like we're in the muck and like we are
just straight up debating, Well, okay, what's the value of
Like it's it's not like this is wrong and you're
a racist. It's like it's a waste of money, right,
what's the cost? What's just talking about pressing? Right? Yeah?

(33:27):
And I think inevitable but depressing. Yeah, and It's what's
tough too, is like, you know, Nancy Pelosi has a
couple of options, right, Like obviously they'll be lawsuits because
they're gonna say this is illegal and unconstitutional to move
money around, because Mick mulvany is saying things like, well,
there's actually money in some emergency like military funds for
like northern California and Puerto Rico that we can just

(33:48):
slide over here that hasn't been used yet, So that's
where the money will come from. Um. And I think
that's a very targeted thing. I mean, like because of
the wildfires and hurricane Yeah, just being like and also
those are constituencies that doesn't need to win over anyway.
And I think it's also like fuck it, like then
your money's gone. And you know with that, because of
the National Emergencies Act, there is a clause in which

(34:11):
if one chamber tries to vote to terminate this declaration
of an emergency, it would and it passes one house,
it would force the other the other chamber. So you know,
easily Nancy Pelosi could could pass that in the House,
they didn't go to the Senate, and that would force
Senate Republicans to be on record and say whether or
not they support this Emergency Act. And if you're in
Florida or other states where people are on the fence,

(34:33):
like and you're trying to defend a border wall that
is just nationally unpopular, you're gonna have a public fracturing
in the Republican party in the Senate. Now, even if
that passes, that doesn't mean they can actually terminate it
because you know anyway, legally it can't happen that way,
but it would force Republicans to go on record and
split with the president. Um, and you know that could

(34:53):
be used against them in anyone running for office. Yeah.
At the same time, like, is there what what is
the eventual news story? What once they start building the wall,
isn't it all just gonna be Fox News showing pictures
of a half built wall being like they're building the
wall and everybody like shooting their guns off in the air.
Like what, I don't see what the negative story is

(35:13):
that comes out? That really drives home what a bullshit
political cause? This is what do you mean? Like, well,
right now, it's unpopular, but it's not necessarily the sort
of thing that would you know, lose somebody in election. Sure,
I think it's just that again, it'll probably be a
thing that when a Democrat president tries to do the
same thing, they'll just cry and act as if this

(35:35):
has never happened before. But it will have set the
president where now a president with different values than them,
as a Dancy Pelosi said, could just trigger some ship
that they absolutely hate. But yeah, I Jack, I think
what you're saying to about the border wall, it's like
it's just a racist monument, right, like it it actually
also won't hurt anyone, right, you know what I mean,

(35:57):
It won't have quite the negative effect that I think
we're all think it because it's just a waste of
money and a racist monument and shoes up that sentiment,
but it doesn't actually do anything. So there is kind
of that thing, right like no one's gonna you're not
gonna see pictures of like children dying at that ra
or anything like that doesn't mean anything. Yeah, I guess

(36:19):
that's why. Like the thing that Democrats have been able
to win like run on and win on is healthcare,
because that's something where the Republican position kills people, kills
you and your family. Uh, the wall, even if it's unpopular.
It doesn't seem like it's gonna be a wedge issue
that the left can ever like fully leverage in their

(36:41):
direction other than just like, yeah, I mean, I think
if anything, you're just going to circle the wagons with
your base and might not move the many people the
other way. But I guess the other thing too, is
like even Mick mulvaney said, like the Army Corps of
Engineers is still like in a testing phase of what
they could even possibly build, So like, even then, it's
a long way off. And then when you bring in
idea of a court battle into this, of them arguing,

(37:03):
you know, can they prove that this is an emergency?
They cannot, Like all the stats say, like illegal crossings
have been on a decline since, you know, for for
years now. Why was it an emergency? Then? Yeah, why
was an emergency before? And then also the constitution, the
constitutional aspect of it is a whole other thing. I mean,
it's you know, hold onto your bucks. I guess I

(37:24):
could see one eventuality being that while the Army Corps
of Engineers is down there building that wall, the Canadians
come from the north and invade America, and you know,
we all we all know that's coming eventually. I for
one bow to our Canadian over. I mean we've been flanked,
we've been out fighting. All right, let's talk briefly about

(37:45):
the Russia stuff. Yeah, so, Andrew McCabe, I guess this
isn't technically the Russia stuff. This is more Yeah, yeah,
it's Russia t it's Russian tea, Russian tea at the
Russian team we should call you. Uh yeah. Since there's
another government former government official writing a book, that means

(38:07):
more gossip is coming out. Like every time someone has
a book, it's just a headline or two that everyone goes,
oh my god, but it's ship we already knew. So
this time it's Andrew McCabe saying that there were discussions
at d o J of using the twenty five Amendment
to remove Trump and like their conversations about okay, who
in the cabinet is on our team? Is as possible.
Rod Rosenstein's like, nah, no, that's he's He's like, no,

(38:30):
that's very inaccurate. Um, but it's you know, it's interesting
timing considering. Uh you know, Mr Barr has just been
confirmed as a new Attorney General, and we'll see what
happens there. But again, it's just more a story that
maybe people at d o J we're thinking about how
to get rid of this president, especially too when they
were looking at sort of all the evidence in front

(38:50):
of them, They're like, we need to launch an obstruction
investigation that hopefully will have enough momentum that someone can't
stop it. Um. So you know, yeah, ship, we already knew.
The thing that always bums me out about this story
is that the FBI seemed to be most up in
arms and outraged about Trump after Comey was fired, and
like me, such a schmuck, Like it's just it's hard

(39:12):
to be like, yeah, let's take him down for firing Comy,
Like what do the FBI even want? But I think
for the analysts and people who actually saw all the
evidence that they like in which they believe that Russia
helped to fuck an election, yeah, I think there's plenty
of motivation for law enforcement there, for even people who

(39:34):
are like of principle to be like, we're looking at
the facts, like we can't. How the funk are we
just going to do anything here? I mean, but I
think lots of FBI agents are like the funk, We're
gonna do is not doing anything and take a bigger budget. Right.
I mean that's clearly enough high enough proportion of FBI
people's like calculus. Yeah, and as much as where we are,

(39:56):
as much as Comey has proved himself to be kind
of a asshole, uh like narcissist it is. I totally
see why that would have been the moment where they're like, whoa,
this guy is like acting like he has something terrible
to hide, Like we should either really put the pedal

(40:16):
to the metal on this investigation or talk to the
people in his cabinet about like what they're seeing, like
how they're feeling about you know, like Paul Manaford, righty, Oh,
he's man of FUCT officially our boy. Well maybe again
all the partning, but you know, we said that Robert
Mueller was like, Yo, this guy was lying to us

(40:38):
and he breached his cooperation deal with us, and we
need to punish him for this. And so Manaford's defense
team was like, Okay, well what are you saying he
lied about? Man for our Mueller comes with five examples.
You only need to prove one to show that he
violated the cooperation agreement, and Judge Amy Burman Jackson determined
that Mueller could definitely prove that he was lying on

(41:00):
three of the five accounts of certain deceptions that he
intentionally lied to him and other investigators about his contacts
with Russian people and and some other kickback payments. But
the one that is most very juicy of all the
lies that are exposed specifically is around his contacts with
Constantin Klimnic, who, if you're not an actual journalist, just

(41:22):
be like, just do the spy. If you're journalist, you say,
someone who has connections to Russian intelligence. Uh, but we'll
just call him a quote unquote spy uh. And was
meeting up with him, you know, exchanging at a New
York cigar bar at guests where six six six Fifth Avenue,
how poetic, the old Kushner building at this Havanna Club
cigar bar or whatever it's called. And they were Manafort

(41:44):
was bringing internal internal polling data and other voter file
and information. Colimnic was giving him messages from Oldara Posca.
Rick Gates was there and that's where they discussed a
quote unquote Ukrainian piece deal, which just means yo piece
the funk out of Ukraine, so we can just annext
to ship. I don't say anything breath um and so yeah,

(42:04):
so that is that's them behaving in such a way
that it would benefit Putin. Like the central thing that
keeps coming up is that Trump and his administration and
the people working for him keep behaving as if they're
part of Vladimir Putin's administration. Yeah, or at the very
least that they have to lie about the nature of
their discussions with Russian entities about relieving sanctions. And again,

(42:30):
there are many ways that people look at it. Some
people think that like the whole Trump Tower thing was
for him to just lose and just run off to
this mega deal the second he lost the presidential election
and get that check. And then some people believe like
maybe Russia. Russia was like not, but you're gonna win, sorry,
because we need this ship and we need you in there.
So you're the president now. Either way, the quid quid
pro quo is starting to become very clear here of

(42:52):
what was going on. And now this Muller prosecutor Andrew
Weisman says in the filings, like this meeting goes to
the quote very hard of the investigation, which is the
nature of contacts with people in the Trump organization and
campaign with Russian intelligence and other entities. But yeah, this
is just again it's no matter which way you cut it, right,

(43:13):
Like you look at how Manafort was lying. It's that
he's either lying because he's he can't roll on these
oligarchs because the existential danger is amazing. The threat is insane, right,
and that's why he didn't say anything. Or another one
is because he had to protect the president, because the
alternative is right, maybe if he told the truth and cooperated,

(43:35):
the truth could be so damning to the president that
the president might not even have the ability to pardon him.
So you have to just lie, take that l and
cross your fingers hope to die that the president will
pardon you. This is judge no Politano talking about I
don't know, trying to set up some kind of logic
in which we are sympathetic to Paul Manafort going to
jail for most of his life. Yeah. Quick, what happened

(43:58):
with Paul Manaford yesterday? They found that he his his
deal blew up because he wasn't being candid, Uh with
the That's what they did with Paul Moniford I've never
heard heard of this before. They had him testified before
the same grand jury that indicted him, and that then
a federal judge found that he lied to that grand jury.
This tells me that an old count, so No. Five

(44:21):
alleged lives, she found that he committed three. This tells
me a he's exposed to more than twenty years in jail.
That is so much jail time. He might very well
be a candidate for a pardon and the public might
accept the pardon. It also tells me be Muller is
still on the hunt. Yeah. And also, this dude is
what sixty nine years old? Palm many for it? Yeah,
you might as well just get that. Ask you what

(44:42):
you one of your tombstone? Now take that? Take that
polonium T. It's polonium T five hundred big max or
jail cell for the rest of your life. Helonium T
also a dope. Yeah. Wow, here we go, like, yeah,
I mean it's it's it's getting spicy. And look again,
the president declaring this emergency took all the wind out

(45:05):
of the McCabe story and the Manafort story. Well, there
seems to be a general trend in the mainstream media
that the only thing I'm hearing about the Mueller Report
is that there might not be a report that we
ever get to see, that it might not have the
details that we're all expecting. Like it seems to be
the the mainstream media, and like if you look at
the front page of Drudge, there's a lot of links

(45:27):
about this, but there he's linking off to like ABC
News and ships like that, where they're talking about how
like the Mueller Report isn't going to be ship like
get used to it, libs. I mean, just think about this, right,
if Paul Manafort, who is one of the only people
that Trump has repeatedly been like, this guy's a patriot man,
they're fucking him over. That's because he's telling lies that
Trump is probably like, Okay, this is what we're gonna

(45:47):
tell him. Now, your boy is caught up in three
of these motherfucking lies, right, And so what does that
mean for what Trump's written testimony was or what narrative
he was going to try and pursue. The other thing
is because now this judge has determined that he violated
his cooperation agreement by lying to investigators intentionally. They that
they verified the intent of his line, it's hard for

(46:09):
him to be able to take if he has any
um conflicting testimony with people like Rick Gates, and and
the defense for other people are gonna be like, oh,
Rick Gates is a liar. I mean Paul Manaford, look,
I mean he disagrees with him. And it doesn't matter
anymore because Paul Manaford has been determined to be a liar,
so he can't even funk the party up like he
thought he could by trying to contradict other testimony, because

(46:30):
my man, you've already been stamped with the liar like,
no one's gonna use you as a defense anymore. And
just actually, before we wrap this whole Manaford thing up,
there is one clip that people on Twitter always recycle,
and on you know, news blogs, we like to recycle
this clip of when Paul Manaford was asked point blank
on the news during the campaign about Trump's connections to Russia.

(46:52):
And when you with all of this news now just
listen to this humming and hawing. Is really one of
my favorite moments of someone squirming. Mr Trump has no
financial relationships with any Russian oligarchs. That's what he said.
That's what I said, that's obviously what the our position is. Wow,

(47:16):
oh man, I know you can't convict someone for sounding
like a liar, but this is nuts. Well, that's what
That's what I said, that's what he's We're not Russian.
What if he just spontaneously broken And just from a

(47:37):
macro perspective, I feel like it's probably not the worst
thing in the world for mainstream media to start getting
people's expectations a little bit in check, because I do
think that a lot of America now, because we've you know,
spent the last two years just uh, you know, scrambling

(47:57):
over every scrap of details about the Muller investigation, that
people are expecting just a smoking gun, and it might
he might not be able to prove without I mean
I a doubt that Trump uh maybe without a like
you know, and nailed on. But I think any reasonable jury,
if this or any other case, would be like, oh yeah,

(48:18):
this thinks oh I can s yeah. But I I
worry a little bit that even if he's sort of
legally has a smoking gun, we're at the point where
he has seen enough about you know, he and his
team and the you know, Justice Department have seen enough
about how you know, the people of interest in this
case behave that like those people Trump and and cronies

(48:42):
have no problem fully taking this to the like end
of democracy. And there is a real chance that like
he may decide he has to blink because like if
he has evidence that Holy indisputably puts puts Trump, you
know in jail, Let's say, like given the composition of

(49:05):
our Supreme Court, given the composition of our Senate, like
the you know, end of society is he puts that
ship out and nothing happens, right, Like, you know, that's it.
That's a wrap on representative democracy. And arguably maybe that
was also the rap on around contract like mid look,
maybe it's better rap, but you know this will be

(49:26):
it when he puts it out there and they're like
we don't care, which McConnell's like, we don't care, and
you know, the Supreme Court's like it's good. Then what
do we do, like nothing, then we fully have a dictatorship.
That's it, Right, We're making a show about the possibility
of a second American Civil War with Robert Evans from

(49:46):
behind the masts and one of the clips in there
just it's it's amazing you have to hear it when
the show eventually comes out. It's gonna be a really
good show. But one of the clips in there has
people on the right. I think it's Alex Jones and
somebody from the n r A talking about basically like
the streets will run red with blood if Trump is impeached.

(50:09):
So yeah, on their side, they're ready to like they're
ready to go. Man. Well, I think I think it's
even potentially less, like it doesn't even have to be
a civil war though. It's like if Trump is impeached,
nothing happens, and then we shrug and we don't know
what to do. I don't even know if it's like
a piece of like, you know, outward civil war. Immediately,

(50:31):
I for one, I'm going to take to the streets
and fall down and start crying. I for one again,
our Canadian overlords, please save us. Yeah exactly. I know.
I can't. I just can't. I can't wait for Red
Army peacekeepers to finally arrive on the shores of Los
Angeles and I'm like, I'm putting like I'm giving a
bouquet of flowers to a Canadian mountie. Yeah, we need it,

(50:51):
all right, We're gonna take a quick break. We'll be
right back. And we're back. And so is the Frozen franchise.
Did I nail it? Or what? Guys? Oh, I'm so
I'm so stoked for Alsa and like Ursula Ursula Ellen,

(51:19):
you know, let us snow, let us snow an I'm sorry, Uh,
this is big. I'm so old, and I don't know
about DreamWorks or Disney things. DreamWorks. I think that's the
first time somebody went DreamWorks before. Yeah, what is up
with your brain? You know too much of the Keyno lounge.

(51:44):
They released a teaser for Frozen two. Frozen one basically
took over the world back in two thousand thirteen. It
was especially if you had children back then. That's all
you heard was only back then, back, yes, exactly, That's
all you heard was the let it go. So they

(52:09):
released the trailer for Frozen two. It immediately became the
most watched animated film trailer ever. And it's dark. Weirdly,
it looks like they're going like Empire strikes back or
you know, Harry Potter franchise that grows up with its
audience type thing. Because yeah, there's like now right, and
I think you're ready I felt like they took shots

(52:32):
from the cold open of Annihilation. Yeah, it's really influenced
by Annihilation. Seriously looks like it's so creepy. Yeah, I
mean Frozen was sporadically dark, Like it had a really
dark moment, like it had this generation's Bambi's mom getting

(52:52):
shot moment when their parents just like are in a
boat that just gets swallowed by a huge wave, and
this teaser opens with her like running into a ce
that looks very similar to that and trying to use
her ice powers to like surf on it or something. Um,
but anyways, it just seems like they're really reveling in

(53:13):
what's dark and violent about the Frozen universe, which is interesting,
trying to steal the kids for the inevitable civil war
that our country's get ready, kids, get your ice powers ready. Um,
and I wanted to check in with Newsweek real quick.

(53:34):
They need to get it fucking together. This is guy,
I don't it time to take a look at yourself
On Twitter? Read it. This just headline went viral because
when you clipped it out, it was just saying, snake
bites man, man bites wife so they can die together.
Wife survives so do you read that out loud, just

(53:55):
off the fucking headline. I'm questioning the science of and
the sas ability of a scenario in which I guess
if you love the transitive property, I'm bit by snake,
I am snake, I bite you, you are snake and
zombie movie logic or you know, right, the transitive property.
And but this article goes on right, let me just

(54:17):
read the because it's quick and it's absurd. It says
a man in India who was attacked by a poison's
steak bit his wife's risk because his final wish was
for them to die together. Shankar, right, was sleeping his
home around sixty miles north blah blah blah. He was
attacked by a serpent. By the morning, his condition had
worse than Fearing he did not have much time left,
he held his wife's hand and said he wanted them
to be united in death. He sunk his teeth into

(54:38):
a risk so the venom would kill them both, and
they fell unconscious. India Today reported witnesses described how doctors
arrived and rustum to the the hospital. Although the venom claimed
the life of Rye, his wife was rescued in time.
Rescued from what his fucking dirty ass teeth and the
bacteria on his fucking front teeth. But that's the thing.
Newsweek does not even question that. They just accept the

(55:01):
logic of this India Today's story and they're just like, okay, Also,
I guess snake bites are passed on by bite. Also,
Human Newsweek had no link to the original articles. I
had to google that ship. This article is from yes
and they just published this ship. This is like fifty
different blog spam since rolled up in one and there's

(55:23):
like like literal word for word, verbatim plagiarism happening in
this Newsweek right up to I don't know what happened.
Who's the author of the Newsweek Brendan Cole Brendan Cole,
bro we caught you cheating on your homework? Or maybe
you're just an algorithm because these fucking news sites don't
hire humans anymore, and they're just like, let's just recycle, right,

(55:47):
I just I don't. I'm hoping there's maybe a magical
snake venomous saliva or something, because even the article when
they go they turn in the article to start talking
about snakes. I'm like, okay, maybe here's the part where
they explain how this is possible. They just go, like,
the World Health Organization says, like a majority of venoms
snakes live in Southeast Asia. Oh okay, well that explains

(56:09):
what that means. I mean, I guess there's rabies, but
nobody has ever thought that snake venom is passed on
like rabies. Know what. It's just weird. It's just weird.
And I was really mesmerized by the head. I laughed
because in my mind I was like, come on, bro,
she didn't. She didn't. Also, even the line where it

(56:30):
says he sunk his teeth into her wrist so the
venom would kill them and they fell unconscious stated with
no comment. And all those videos where you see somebody
in a street fight bite someone on the wrist and
they're knocked out, right, Yeah the fuck I assumed she
was just being nice. This is made up by India Today. Well,

(56:52):
they got it from Gulf News. So then I had
to take it to the next level of the inception dream.
And it was from a website called Golf News under
their India section. And again that was even like you
could tell even the India Today was ripping this article
so this is clearly like viral marketing for scary stories
to tell in the dog I guess something I don't, Andrew,

(57:13):
I honestly think the logic of this story is too
stupid for scary stories to tell them. I honestly believe that, like,
if this happened in a children's like spooky story movie,
people would be like, wait, what the funk? Like that?
But that's not how snake bites. Worry like, this wouldn't
work in a Disney movie, even even Frozen two, which

(57:34):
is done. I think even a kids general curiosity, they
would They would probably flag this after I'd be like,
but how did the snake? How did the man become
a venom mouth? Look at somebody with kids? I found
that offensive your impression of Ye, kids are stupid, bro, Sorry,

(57:55):
but any kid is smarter than this dumbass algorithm. Seriously. Yeah,
try and find Brendon Cole on Twitter and just be like,
my man, what are you doing? Hire reporters. Zike Gang
talked to Brendan Cole, find him on Twitter, ask him.
Let's let's try and get comment from Brendon Cole about
what he was thinking. I'm sure he's gonna be like,
obviously we were doing it tongue in cheek, but no, man,

(58:18):
I also don't get out washed my hands in ten years.
To add to that super producer next stuff. The thing
he likes is that somehow the timing of the bite
was so perfect that the venom overcame the man who
was the original bite and then bit his wife in
such a way that she passed out at the same time.
Double knockouts that right, Yeah, yeah, like they bonked heads

(58:39):
together and both get knocked out, or the end of
Rocky too. Wait what he bit her and they both
immediately and honestly, I buy you, You're gonna bite the ground. Yeah,
that's right. I don't want I don't want to. I
don't want to jump to conclusions. And I'm hoping that
there's some kind of reptile ologists in this gang who goes,

(59:00):
actually there is a snake to make your a reptile. Okay,
I'm calling reptile dysfunction on this story. Okay, I hate myself,
and yes it's gang the latent bomb, the latest latent

(59:23):
bomb yet and deserved, Lisa. I mean, just you know,
a past article this this intrepid journalist has written was
tattoo is illegally split, tongue removed, nipple, and the ear. Okay,
so now we're gonna have to call all of his
work in question. I was I was going around believing
that story in my day to day life. Briefly, the
Oscars are continuing to be just a complete ship show.

(59:46):
They are trying to funk with the format so much.
First of all, as we already know, not having a host,
they were going to try to have only two of
the five nominated songs performed, and the Academy had to
walk that back when Lady Gaga said she wouldn't perform
unless all nominees were included as his customary um. And
then they were gonna not have last year's winners present

(01:00:08):
the acting categories, which again these are not things that
like I would notice, but they are things that like,
it's like, why would you, why would you choose to
go out on a limb this year when you've just
fucked everything up about this Awards show, And it seems
like they're kind of in that panic mode where they're
over correcting. They're like, we gotta get more celebrities out there.

(01:00:29):
We're gonna make it shorter, gotta make it shorter. Yeah,
that's the other thing. They're trying to make it shorter.
So they've moved cinematography, film editing, as well as makeup
and hair to the commercials, so those awards will be
given out during commercials, presumably so they can fit in more,
you know, just celebrities being celebrit and pretty instead of

(01:00:51):
you know, those ugly cinematographers. But Alfonso Karone pointed out
in a tweet, he was like, there has never been
have been films without sound, without color, without a story,
without actors, without music. No film has ever existed without
cinematography and without editing. Motherfucker. Those are the two things

(01:01:14):
that are inherent to our art form. Like, don't don't
cut those out. But that decision has not been reversed.
They better, I mean, because everyone is pissed about that.
It's like every director is like, how the fuck are you? What?
Is this the place to air out the conspiracy theory
about it? Yes? Is that? Um because it's a ABC broadcast, right?

(01:01:37):
And am I being played off being played on? Uh?
And if I recall the third hand conspiracy theory heard
is Disney, Marvel, ABC Corporation wherever the parent company is.
I guess it's Disney doesn't have nominees in those categories.
Oh so those are those are the disposal, cinmotography and editing. Evidently, huh.

(01:02:01):
I didn't verify this. I thought it was juic here man.
I thought it had to do with like Illuminati stuff.
That's Illuminati. That's just the way they do. That's low level.
I like, I was hoping something much more. Yeah, that's
that's what I heard. The bad news for all of
us is that all of our Illuminati conspiracies are true.

(01:02:23):
It's just instead of being jay Z and Beyonce, it's
fucking Disney and it's just way uglier people, way less cool.
Or is it just are they constantly causing all this
trouble to give the perceived like this about to be
a fire festival wait and see, and then so everyone

(01:02:43):
like with schadenfreude fully activated tunes in to be like
this gonna be right. They keep sucking up to keep
the Oscars in the headlines because there's no other way
to put the Oscars in the headlines, because nobody gives
this ship about the Oscars, and unless the Oscars are
sucking up is a theory that I have actually seen
put out there that might be true. I mean, it
doesn't make sense that they would be shortening it just

(01:03:04):
because they think people like shorter more. Their most popular
Academy awards, like the most watched Academy Awards ever was
where James Cameron won all of them for Titanic and
said I'm the King of the World. That was the
most watched ever and it was one of the longest
ever twenty years ago. Yeah, they haven't topped themselves in

(01:03:25):
twenty years, but that's just like the exact linear decline
of watching, right, Yeah, I mean, but it's like they
have had peaks where they were among the longest ever.
And I think the other thing people point to is
that everybody had seen the Titanic, whereas you know, last
year was the least watched and not a lot of

(01:03:46):
people had seen the Shape of Water. But it also
could be them freaking out about something that is inevitable,
which is the decline of how many people are I
hope it's an actual mess. Yeah, yeah, I mean I
also feel bad for people who will win that night,
because I don't want that memory to be marred for
them when they achieve. But pardon me is also like
I want to see this and that big of a deal.

(01:04:08):
There's still movies. You get your statue. Anyway, they're not
going to give a funk about how bad everything was
on the outside of them, except I think, I mean, like,
like most things in the TV business, it's wholly reactive
and usually one whatever the cycle is behind. So like,
since the OSCARS is on a yearly cycle or if
they want to look at it broadly, like a decade

(01:04:29):
long or whatever, like I think they're I mean, they're
obviously just trying to make it shorter because ABC wants
to give as little airtime to this fucking like lead
Pelican l Albatross. What's a bad have hanging around from
your neck? But Zeppelin? Okay? But you know what I mean, Like,

(01:04:50):
like it's ultimately it's because no one actually wants to
put it on because they could be rerunning fucking masked
singer or whatever. That's true. That's who should host it?
A masked singing that on ABC? No, I don't know,
and then it turns out as Louis c K. But

(01:05:11):
it doesn't matter. We can't get mad because we only
find out at the end of course, Yes, yes, that
is the way that we all idea and everyone forgot
the Beatles? Oh god do we have Do you have
a quick second to talk about that trailer? Were talking?
I mean I was confessed. No, go on, hot take,

(01:05:31):
go quick. I mean my hot take is like, yeah,
I finally that that movies. That music wouldn't be popular
today if everyone forgot about it, which is fine people,
it should tastes. Move on. Yeah, don't hang onto the Beatles,
baby boomers. Remember, listen to some scrill? I thought that
was the new ice cream. Yeah, some scrilling. That's actually

(01:05:55):
what the movie should be about. The guy like, that's
her dumb set and he's like, whoa, what the fox
is dub step? It would be better if it was
the entire genre of rap and right, because there is
a theory that says that if the New York City
Blackout had never happened, rap never would have been invented.
And the only reason the New York City Blackout happened

(01:06:17):
was because somebody hit the wrong key on a computer.
So it's like that split of a universe. There's probably
like out of a hundred parallel dimensions where rep does
not exist, and I invented right, but I'd be I
don't know what I mean. I'd be a duop head
still right problem and I would be on the corner

(01:06:37):
doing shoot around the trash cancer because our democracy has crumbled.
As well as my favorite part of a Bronx tale
it starts He's like it was the fifties, there was
a group on every corner. You've just seen movies set
during that time, Andrew, it's been a pleasure having you
as always. Man. Where can people find you? Most importantly? Uh,

(01:07:02):
you can find me in the Pacific Northwest in Portland,
Oregon at Revolution Hall at four thirty pm, Uh, this
Saturday tomorrow. Yeah. Come, there's there's still a couple of
tickets left. Come, it will be fun, we promise. What
are you what are you doing with there? Oh? Sorry, yeah,
we're just doing yours this Racist Live. Thank you for

(01:07:22):
getting me to actually this racist podcast I host with
Tonty Newsome. Um. Yeah, one of the great podcasts, one
of the podcasts that originally made me interested in the media.
So yeah, go check it out, guys, if you haven't already,
It's an amazing show. Uh. And is there a tweet
you've been enjoying? Yeah, this one is less comedy. But

(01:07:43):
Emily Heller a couple of days ago tweeted, is it
just me? Or should castless restaurants be super illegal? And
it kicked off so much fucking conversation. But yeah, this
cash not accepting cash classic classist and race this and
all that ship not accepting cash? Yeah that Miles, Where

(01:08:04):
can people find you? Some people don't have credit cards
of my man, and it's disproportionately people of color and
the people oh me, you find me on Twitter and
Instagram at Miles of Gray a tweet I like, let's
do a couple. One first is from Nate Fernald right
over there at Late Late Show with James Gordon. He says,

(01:08:24):
people think I'm weak when they see me dabbed the
grease off my pizza with a napkin, but then I
blow their fucking minds when I eat the dang napkin.
Can I tell you this? I almost selected that one too,
so far. The next one from Sarah Shower at s
J Shower s h a U E R. Says condoms
are single use plastics and that's why I don't use them.

(01:08:47):
Gotten pregnant six times, but hey, the oceans are now
marginally cleaner. Uh. You can find me on Twitter. Jack Underscore. Oh,
Brian tweet I've been enjoying us from Gareth Reynolds, co
host of The dollarp and director of that Godzilla movie
and monsters. Uh that's not true, uh, he tweeted. All

(01:09:08):
you can Eat pancakes is still roughly for pancakes. Not
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(01:09:30):
out on nice Today, we're gonna go out on a
bet of a j Dela esc beat here by the
artist A So A s O. And it's called inside
all Day. You know, I like that little boom bath
and also with jal is a birthday a little bit
ago last week, and I just want to shout that
beat maker out. But this, you know, inside all Day
is kind of how we're living right now in l A.

(01:09:52):
Because we're getting so much rain. Couldn't even walk my
dog without getting washed away. In the streets because I
live in a floodlin shout out to the l A
City pinners. People are feeling so sorry for us right now.
Oh the rest of the country, it was like it's
like the high it only got up to sixty nine.
I can't live like this. We did get our rain

(01:10:13):
for the year, right, Yeah, we were at eight percent
of our annual rainfall anything like last week height, which
means more brush that will dry out and create more flyers. Baby,
we love the rain. Oh but also price super boom. Right,
they'll be supertably nice for a second. Yeah, that's good
for the grand And when all these climates change and

(01:10:34):
we just like have like all of a sudden, l
A has Seattle's weather. Right, we're gonna be pretty and
like you could ski and like Griffith Park down like
nian becomes like a ski trail. Uh. All right, we're
gonna ride out on that and into the weekend. Have
a great weekend, everybody. We will be back on Tuesday,

(01:10:54):
because Monday is President's Day and we honor our presidents
every specially the current one. That's who we're really all airing,
Resident Vladimir. Yes, all right, have a great long weekend
before weekend