The Daily Zeitgeist - Is Roseanne #DEEPSTATE? Your Local News Is Compromised 4.2.18

Episode Date: April 2, 2018

In episode 117, Jack & Miles are joined by comedian Josh Androsky to discuss what banks really do with your money, Sinclair Media's script for all local news stations, Andy Richter retweeting tweets about Hollywood satanic rituals, Roseanne Barr's problematic twitter feed & her asking QAnon to DM her, Trump's tweet storm over the weekend about DACA, the teachers strike in Oklahoma & Kentucky, & more!  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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got that. And we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat no no no by the hilarious stand up comedian and podcast host Josh Androsky what's up man? Hello I also totally definitely got that reference and was not immediately taken out

and wondered if I was having a stroke by the way that you were talking did I just suddenly go into an esoteric reference like that? No no no, no, no. It was, yes, it was very sudden. Oh, okay. Yeah, I'm sorry. It hurt my brain.

I hit people with AKs without warning. Josh, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are as a human being or just some shit you were curious about in the past 24 hours? I think it's pretty revealing

that in the past 24 hours, I Google searched Jock Peterson round face no chin. Uh-huh. Because he's my roundest faced baseball boy. And he's a boy of dingers. And I really like him. He's a boy of dingers? He's a boy of dingers.

He's like 24 years old and he hits home runs or nothing at all. Right. And that's what I like about him. He's a real... He reminds me of me. It's either the greatest thing you've ever heard some of the time or most of the time, just the worst thing. Just striking out.

Embarrassingly. You should get hit by a car. A judge should bang a gavel and you should get hit by a car. But yeah, that's... So he is a Dodger? Yes, he is a Los Angeles Dodger. And the baseball season just started up again. And I'm really trying hard to get into baseball because I just want to quit football so bad.

I want to stop liking football for literally everything football does. Every decision football makes seems like it's made like in a lab to upset me josh androsky what is it about football that's so upsetting um what i if you get past the fact that they're killing themselves quite literally every day uh and the horrible politics the racism the general you know southern billionaire doing whatever he wants with black bodies uh and all of that it's been pretty boring right so all of it have you have you noticed though that like uh the diversity has been shrinking it by way of like african-american participation in baseball too over the years just because it's so traditional right so is there i

mean i feel like for someone of your ilk right or uh philosophical standing and points of views that baseball would also kind of be like not that it's like problematic but it's just like well no effort look it's a boring sport a full 99.9 of all white baseball players are named like chip truck-a-thon or fucking steve harley or whatever and they absolutely voted for trump because they think the immigrants are going to shut down their dad's factory that only makes aggressive car decals like yeah dude like i get it like uh but i love yassiel puig a lot yeah well see there's so many there's so many good stories of people coming from other countries and right making their way in baseball yeah and but also magic johnson in los angeles

is trying to get a lot of like uh he's like part of like a program to get a lot more black youth into baseball yeah because it's it's crazy to look on a chart how it's fallen off like really hard over the last few years but also you look at a chart that says where the guaranteed money is in sports. Right. And here's a game that doesn't destroy your brain. Like football's gotten cooler. You know, obviously basketball is the best sport and coolest sport. Basketball number one.

Basketball number one. Soccer number one also. I mean, worldwide. Soccer number one. Yeah, soccer number one. Football number one. Football number one. Football number one.

Calcio number one. Fuchibol number one. Football numero uno. But basketball number one. Basketball number one. Football number one. Football number one. Calcio number one. Fuchiball number one. Football numero uno. But basketball number one. Basketball number one too. And yeah, so Magic Johnson's like, hey children, stop hurting your brains. Yeah.

Like do me a huge favor real quick and like don't destroy your brains. Hi, I'm Magic Johnson. I know something about making a whoopsie and destroying my body. Don't do the same thing. Look at these wholly out-of-shape athletes. They're professional athletes. Yeah, exactly. Reach for the stars, guys.

Look at these Fred Flintstones over here on the mound. You can do whatever you want. Yeah, it's amazing, though. That's one of the things, as I even just say stuff like, oh, what about baseball? But the thing that I love is that I love that you don't necessarily have to be a top performing athlete physically to be able to be a great baseball player. I feel like Bartolo Cologne's doctor is Donald Trump's doctor. He's just like,

perfect. You're nailing it. You got it. Tremendous. You have amazing impeccable body fat. You're what? You're exactly one pound below obese. He just wants to make sure they could make it through a tough winter.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah. You guys just had a very enlightened conversation about sports, and I'm still on this dude's face being round and kind of chubby and no chinny, which there is just that face that it doesn't matter what your body is like or how in shape you are you just have that round face that it's kind of just the the shape of your face implies that you're a little soft body that you're a cheeto fan right yeah we were talking upstairs wesley matthews is another

example nba player where you know you look at his headshot and you're like, oh, he's trying to create the illusion of a chin with a beard. He's got synthetic chin, as Miles said. A simulated neck. But then you see him in a basketball jersey and he's absolutely ripped and a better athlete than I've ever met. What's more unfortunate if we're talking about just like bad facial like situations? Is it to be a person with like zero chin so that you have to do the George Lucas fake neck with a beard thing?

Right, the lineup, right. Right. Or is it to be a person with way too many gums, like way too much gum surface area compared to teeth surface area? What would you prefer on Hell Island? Small teeth, big gums. Small teeth, big gums or no chin? God, I think I would, because I can't grow facial hair, I will go with the no chin so I could experience a beard.

Oh, okay. Yeah. Well, what if you have your current facial hair situation? Oh, my God. Yeah. Why did you think a good thing would come out of it? I called it Hell Island. If it's Hell Island, what of it? I called it Hell Island.

I mean, yeah, if it's Hell Island, uh... I don't know which one of my friends to offend right now. Old Tiny Teeth or No Chin. They're both great. Yes, exactly. Not getting in any trouble with anybody. Josh, what is something that is underrated? I think the movie Death of Stalin is underrated. I'm hearing great things about it.

It's underrated because I'm not hearing enough about it. And I think that it's the funniest political comedy movie, which when you think about it as a genre, doesn't have that many really great movies. People still talk about Bullworth like it was good. Not that it was just weird. They're just interesting. They're remembering the soundtrack.

Right. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. I did buy the soundtrack and have never seen the movie. Right. Right. And that was my first.

Wag the Dog got its own name. Yeah. People should make more like comedic political movies because every time they do it's a big deal and right like they're they haven't been that great no wag the dog people are still like is it a wag the dog effect right exactly and what i couldn't tell you one moment from that movie right i just remember the stage where the little girl was running around to simulate a war zone that's the only thing i can remember from that film if you asked me what the film was about i was like i think they faked some war footage right i'm pretty sure that's war zone. That's the only thing I can remember from that film. If you asked me what the film was about, I was like,

I think they faked some war footage. Right. I'm pretty sure that's what it's about. I think that's the basis, but that's all I remember too. Right. I couldn't tell you anything else. But Death of Stalin,

it's Armando Iannucci who did Veep. He created and wrote like the first three seasons of Veep. Yeah. And Thick of It and- Dude, related to Gino Iannucci, the skateboarder? Almost definitely. All right. Yeah. I would assume that they are the same person. Dude, related to Gino Iannucci, the skateboarder? Almost definitely.

Yeah, I would assume that they are the same person. Oh, me too, me too. He just kickflips on his way onto the set. Right. But no, it's a tremendous movie that, like, it did something really weird that I really liked. It made a very strong choice to not have any of the actors even fake a Russian accent.

Right, right. Which immediately is like, okay, this is not about historical accuracy, which I fucking loved. Right. Because basically, when Stalin dies, you've got this society

that is built on the myth of this secret government and nobody trusts anybody. Right. And everybody has to just continually justify lies secret government and nobody trusts anybody right and everybody has to just like continually uh justify lies right forever that once it's over for that brief moment there's the desperate scramble for power uh and everybody's so serious about the most insane things and so it really uh

it was one of the funniest movies i've seen in a very long time. Yeah, I saw a clip from it where they get to the end of a concert and like an orchestral performance. And then Stalin's office calls and is like, Stalin would like a recording of tonight's performance. And so the guy like hangs up the phone and they're like, did we record it? And they're like, no. And so he runs back and makes everybody sit back down and just redo the whole performance so that Stalin doesn't know that they didn't record it. Right.

Because that's what living in a dictatorship was like. It was just like, everyone existed for this one person's like shitty whims. Yeah. Oh, they, and like half the audience had already left. So they just brought in people on the street with just like big sacks of turnips, and they're like, what the fuck is going on?

Clap. Yeah, clap right now. Clap, motherfucker. You enjoyed this Mozart. I mean, we're not far off from that, right? Imagine if Fox & Friends didn't air, and Trump's like, where's today's Fox & Friends? Right. And they're like, fuck, calling Fox.

Well, yeah. Can y'all just do, I don't know, just read it really quick? We need something for him that presupposes a really insane theory that trump is not sitting and watching live every episode of fox well he has it on dvr so if it's not in his dvr right sure he'll be like oh man wait a second so wait on the one day that he's like has to meet with like i don't know like the premier of ecuador and he's like i just want to watch fox and friends that's all i want to do and he just talks to whoever's in charge of ecuador he's like, I just want to watch Fox and Friends. That's all I want to do. And he just talks to whoever's in charge of Ecuador. He's like, I think that I'm one of the friends in Fox and Friends.

I like to think of myself as one of them. I don't know. Do you watch it every day? I feel like I'm just a fly on the wall in their conversation. I love it. I think you say I'm the Chandler of Fox and Friends. Of all the friends, I'm the Chandler. Yeah, we'll talk a little bit later about how it's just, you know,

our national news media is determined by what was on Fox & Friends that morning and who he hung out with that weekend. All right, what's something that's overrated, Josh? I'm going to go back to the world of movies and say Isle of Dogs. Isle of Dogs. I love dogs. I love dogs. I'll. Oh,

of. Oh, dogs. Okay. I thought you just said, I love dogs. I love dogs. What is overrated?

Nothing about dogs except this movie. So the Wes Anderson film, I'll Island of Dogs. It's overrated. Overrated. I know. Yeah. I mean,

I haven't heard a lot of, I haven't seen it. My mom saw it and she was like, I like that it's overrated overrated I know yeah I mean I haven't heard a lot of I haven't seen it my mom saw it and she was like I like that it's in Japan and I'm like is that it and she's like

I'll have to watch it again and I'm like okay well she's a film critic so that's not just well my mom has if anything is like Japan adjacent she's like

oh this is great and I'm like what about all the white people doing the voices and she's like but they're dogs I'm like okay but they're not doing Japanese voices are they no but like okay

but she's like but the humans are Japanese I'm like okay well all right do you mom but like with the death of Stalin thing I agree with the point that let's just stop doing like in history everybody spoke like that like with a like vague British accent and it's just like no just talk like yourself like yeah whatever Hamilton like made it so we're allowed to just ignore certain parts of like that, like with a vague British accent, and it's just like, no, just talk like yourself. Yeah, whatever. Hamilton made it, so we're allowed to just ignore certain parts of historical accuracy. The facts remain the same, the accents maybe not. Right, right.

So Isle of Dogs is getting good reviews, but it's also catching some heat for being shot through with cultural appropriation. See, that's not the problem with Isle of Dogs. I mean, granted, this is a white dude talking, so shocker, I'm not, I don't care about the cultural appropriation. See, that's not the problem with Isle of Dogs. I mean, granted, this is a white dude talking. So shocker, I'm not, I don't care about the cultural appropriation. It's just a bad movie.

And it's not egregious cultural appropriation as far as like, you know, having Emma Stone play an Asian woman. No, I don't think it's at that level either. I think it's one of those things where people just had to find like those flaws and just jump on immediately. Which is not the way to jump on this movie. The problem with this movie, if anything, is that

I've never seen somebody work so hard and make such an intricate, delicate movie that says nothing. They put in so much work to say nothing. Not every movie has to make a point or you know take a stand or whatever but this movie i mean if anything it appropriates

resistance it's all about like resistance and like you know fighting oppression or whatever uh and then when it has a chance to say something like and it and it brings in, like, there's a trash island. Oh, you think there might be something about, like, climate change or, you know, like, oh, there's this, this could be, like, some sort of muted, like, allegory to the treatment of, like, immigrants that we don't want,

that we're pushing them. No, it's just about fucking dogs on a trash island. It's just about dogs on a trash island. And then the worst part is that do you mind a mild spoiler? Well, let's do this. Spoiler alert for I love dogs. At the end, the kid

is put in a position of power. The kid that's been trying to get his dog back, the protagonist. And this group of kids is put in power. And they come very close to creating capital punishment for people that are mean to dogs. So they're just like, okay.

And if you don't agree with us, we'll kill you. Which is like, what is this lesson? And that's not even treated as like a bad thing or something. It's just like cute. It's a cute moment where like when I get just like, I don't know. Off with his head. Yeah. No, we'll just do, we'll have them do forced labor is where they stand.

Oh, yeah. Tight. Yeah. So it's like, oh, okay. So you're just punitive liberalism. It's like all you could think. And then you're like, yeah, I guess Wes Anderson. It's just, he like heroically avoided making a point.

He just like took out a golden and fl flannel like twee shovel right dug himself a hole and buried his head in it like an ostrich now do you feel that way about his other movies like that he just generally avoids making a point well they make a point about people right you know like rush more i like the whole like he's very good at creating um you know very funny moments of like sort of disaffected upper middle class on we right right you know and that's great and and there's a lot of desperation and funny shit that comes out of these entanglements that were you know your relational stakes are your entire life because you have no material wants yeah you know. But like his last few movies, I really hated the hotel one. Did you?

Yeah. I thought it was just a dollhouse. Yeah. You just made a dollhouse. It's a very pretty dollhouse. Right. I like your dollhouse, Wes. It's very pretty.

Yeah. Don't make me spend an hour and a half looking at your fucking dollhouse. Yeah. Make it 20 minutes. If Isle of Dogs was 20 minutes, it would have been perfect. The perfect film. Yeah. The perfect 20 minute sitcom episode. All. The perfect 20-minute sitcom episode.

All right. Let's get into your myth. What is a myth? What is something people believe to be true that you know to be false? Okay. My myth is that when you put your money in the bank, it just kind of like sits in a vault a la Scrooge McDuck. It doesn't?

I'd like to tell you that your world is a lie. What? Yeah. First there's no hell, now there's no big guy. Now there is sort of hell and it's called Wells Fargo. Hells Fargo. Basically, and a lot of people that are listening know this, but it's something that

a lot of people don't really think about what happens to their money after they put it in the bank. But what happens is it all is used to fund the worst parts of our society. And I think we, on a conscious or subconscious level, understand that banks fund really bad shit. And Wall Street banks are bad. But what happens in your city, if you live in a big city and you're listening to this, But what happens in your city, if you live in a big city and you're listening to this, your electric bill, when you pay that, that just doesn't go immediately to fill a pothole. It's been tagged and earmarked to fill that pothole, but it sits there for a year. If your city uses a private bank, then that money, your electric bill payment that you have to pay to your city in order to keep your lights on goes to, in the case of Los Angeles, everything from Philip Morris cigarettes to Honeywell. That's guns to, you know, Raytheon.

That's guns that kill brown people overseas. Not ones here. Future guns. Future guns. Laser guns. that's guns that kill brown people overseas not ones here future guns future guns laser guns uh it goes to uh private prisons where um you know our neighbors are being rounded up by the new gestapo ice and and you know they're being held at private fucking prisons right um it goes to uh pipelines that destroy native land. Right.

And all this horrible, bad shit. Not exclusively, but these are among the things that it goes to. Right. And yes, a big portion of it does go directly into the pocket of a banker. Right. So, yes. I just wanted to make sure that important things like bankers' pockets are being funded. Right. Because, yeah, the way the city works is rather than having –

we are the bank of L.A. They give their money to Wells Fargo and be like, hey, handle our shit. And because of that, the banks can gamble with it on the stock market, fund shit like that. And, yeah, sure, our money is sitting there. But it seems like, yeah, we're not in control of what we're invested in. I'm part of a group that's the California Public Banking Alliance through Public Bank Los Angeles where we are trying to make that not happen anymore because that's billions of dollars a year that can stay in your city. Like it's money that we're all being forced to pay through taxes and fees and shit like that.

Like it's money that we're all being forced to pay through taxes and fees and shit like that. Like anytime a bridge is built, anytime we, I don't know, try to update our power grid so that we're – yeah, so that we don't sink into the ocean. Half of that money just goes directly to some banker. And so basically we're trying to stop that. So if you're interested, check out the California Public Banking Alliance, Public Bank LA, or talk to – there's a lot of DSA chapters around the country that are – Democratic Socialists of America. Yes, Democratic Socialists of America chapters around the country that are doing great work with public banking. Essentially, what we want to do is create a network of municipal public banks that are similar to what is going on right now in Germany, the Spockhausen model. And yeah, you know,

they're only the best economy in the world. Yeah, right, right. So you just figure, let's borrow a couple of their good ideas. Yeah, right. Like what's happened recently is through the work of Public Bank Los Angeles, there's a disqualification of Wells Fargo.

Right. Wells Fargo can no longer hold the city's money because Wells Fargo routinely is super racist. Yeah, they love redlining. Yeah, they love redlining. They target people of color and just fucking jack up their interest rates. And so that means that people of color

can't start a small business or own a home without being completely enslaved to the financial complex. And so what we want to do is create a bank where that won't happen because we have a degree of democracy. We have a big syringe full of democracy that we want to inject into the horrible, gross, awful banking system and fix it. horrible, gross, awful banking system and fix it. I think it's worth looking into and a very worthy thing because, yeah, we're

throwing much money away by doing business with people who don't give a fuck and we live or die. The Wells Fargo thing, where was that discovered? Was that exposed during the scandal? They just basically opened up the new accounts. The racial profiling was in the

2008 financial crash. That came out then, that they were, like, targeting really, really risky mortgages to people of color and giving, like, incentives to their employees for every, like,

one of these risky accounts or risky loans to a person of color that they would, like, get. Really? Yeah, they would incentivize it. But yeah, this kind of thing has been going on. But yeah, but, like, redlining, the practice of redlining of thing has been going on. But yeah, but like redlining,

the practice of redlining in general has been going on for decades. We should do a whole segment on redlining. Probably will because yeah, like what they do is basically outline whole neighborhoods where they're like, oh, this property isn't worth much

or it's risky, AKA inner city or people of color live there. And also if you live in one of those areas and you're trying to get a home loan, they'll be like, oh, you're coming from a high risk area. That means your interest rate is like 12%.

Who knows what kind of crazy fucking shit it is. Yeah. That'll be an upcoming topic we'll definitely have to get into. All right. Let's take a quick break, and we'll be right back with the news. When you think of Mexican culture, you think of avocado, mariachi, delicious cuisine, and of course, lucha libre. It doesn't get more Mexican than this. Lucha libre is known globally because it is much more than just a sport and much more than just entertainment.

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Broadcasting Group, they own right now about like 173 affiliate stations around the country. Right. And there's a merger right now that they're trying to get pushed through, which would combine them with Tribune Media. And that would mean that seven out of 10 households in this country would be served by a Sinclair station in some form. So I guess the way to think of it is because Sinclair owns all these local news stations, they can tell all these news stations what to say during their broadcast. It's not ABC or NBC or CBS or whatever. It's the affiliate stations. The ownership is the ones that are giving these directives straight down to the anchors.

And a lot of anchors were very uncomfortable with having to do what they call these must read segments. And this was a must read coming from on high from Sinclair, which is a right leaning Trump friendly media group. So right leaning. Yeah, right. Yeah, exactly. So you'll see when they're vampires, they're literal vampires that live in coffins. Yeah. And then they're basically trying to gaslight the entire country. So basically, this is a super cut of one of the scary messages about fake news that's out there. But when you cut them all together and realize they're all lockstep saying the same thing, it's fucking scary. So check this out. I am Fox San Antonio's Jessica Headley.

And I'm Ryan Wolf. Our greatest responsibility is to serve our Treasure Valley communities. The El Paso Las Cruces communities. Eastern Iowa communities. Mid-Michigan communities. We are extremely proud of the quality, balanced journalism that CBS 4 News produces. But we are concerned about the trouble that China is responsible for. One-sided news stories plaguing our country.

Plaguing our country. The sharing of biased and false news has become all too common on social media. More alarming, some media outlets publish these same fake stories without checking facts first. The sharing of biased and false news has become all too common on social media. More alarming, some media outlets publish these same fake stories without checking facts first. Unfortunately, some members of the media use their platforms to push their own personal bias and agenda to control exactly what people think. And this is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. When's the beat going to drop? This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. Yeah, so that is extremely dangerous to our democracy this is extremely dangerous to our democracy this is extremely dangerous to our democracy yeah so that is extremely dangerous jesus christ uh yeah so

basically right now so imagine if this merger goes through they will control 215 stations and tribune media also holds a lot of stations in swing states like pennsylvania north carolina ohio and also massive markets like New York, Chicago, and LA. So more than likely, all you American zeitgang people out there probably live in a Sinclair market. And most people get their news still from their local news because they still feel they can trust it because they're like, oh, these are people from my town. They're not getting their fucking orders from somewhere else. That is rapidly changing. When we focus on news bias, we tend to focus on national news, Fox News versus, you know,

the right focuses on CNN. But yeah, local news is wildly biased in some cases. And, you know, when you look at, for instance, the number of how they report on crime, there's a huge bias towards reporting crimes by people of color. Like 40% of the crimes they put on the local news will be people of color, and only like 10% of the crimes committed

are people of color. Right, and I mean, this is a logical evolution from the traditional conservative media strategy, which is they have the money. The right always has more money. So you saw this happen in talk radio. Right. When's the last time you heard a left voice on the radio? Yeah. Yeah. Because we're on podcasting. Exactly. It's true. I think people got into podcasting and podcasting is partially growing because there wasn't a left alternative to right uh you know local talk radio and you're

seeing this now like luckily right like our generation and the generation that comes after us uh doesn't watch local news which is good like this strategy as terrifying as that video was to hear and it was really scary like oh yeah it's like some fucking orwellian it really was but the thing to remember is just like okay don't watch uh local news right wait you don't already great keep not watching local news well i think it's important though too because most people will have to interact at some point with someone who watches this right takes it for reality and what's crazy is a few people like info wars types dudes were retweeting it with no context being like check this out and the response from a lot of people on the right was like yeah see

check out the mainstream media they're all fucking brainwashed and then like other people in the Twitter threads would be like yo this is owned by a conservative guy and it's pro-Trump propaganda arm and they're weaponizing your local news and they, well, all I'm seeing is CBS, ABC, and NBC. Tell me how this is like right-leaning. They're all against Trump. And a lot of people, you have to understand. They don't get it. Affiliate news stations are independently owned.

But they just have an agreement with CBS. They'd be like, OK, I fuck with you. We'll air your shows. But we'll do the local news. We'll put the CBS logo on it. But you don't tell us what to run. Because that's just part of keeping CBS from controlling all the local news. We'll put the CBS logo on it. But you don't tell us what to run because that's just part of, you know, keeping CBS from controlling all the news everywhere. So with these independent stations, they actually do get their marching orders from Sinclair, which is why they post shit.

Like the other must runs have been stuff like the Me Too movement is getting out of control. And like, yeah. Or just like mentioning stories that are in another state. Like you'll be in Tulsa and they'll be talking about someone in St. Louis who got their job taken away because they were conservative. Right. But the silver lining on this is that the people watching local news are dying because they are really dumb and have gutted our healthcare system. Sure. So it's only old people, and they're dying at a rapid rate.

The death rate is going up uh and people aren't going to live as long as they did before so i think we're in the clear if we all die we don't have to deal with this problem unfortunately there was a report released uh last week that says that news that is fake travels way faster and way further on twitter and social media essentially uh because it allows people. Is that real? That's real. God damn it.

That is an actual study by MIT. It was basically two guys who experienced the Boston bombing living in Boston and were like, you know, the only place you could get reports was on social media. So they saw like, you know, that 90% of what they read was fake. So they basically ingested all of Twitter from 2006 to 2016. And then they killed themselves. Exactly. And they found that stories that were fake traveled faster, got more retweets, got more likes. And they were like, yeah, it kind of makes sense because fake stories are able to say whatever the fuck they want to right yeah so it's just wish fulfillment right so i think this is a problem in any medium that that's the thing about this particular story that they did the

illustration about because it could go either way they're talking about fake news which is something the right also talks about right so that's why i think they're able to be like, well, maybe they're talking about CNN or maybe they're talking about Fox News. We won't say Pizzagate, but we'll misinform you. Right. Right. Well, and then some of these guys have done Pizzagate stories. Right. Yeah.

Some of these affiliates, like I remember last year there was a story where one of these like guys on the local news was very plainly alt right and just reporting on Pizzagate as though it was a real thing. Yes. Sinclair executive forced their stations to run pro Trump and anti Clinton segments during their evening and morning local news programs. It's just that this was the one that they sent out that was a word-for-word script that they had to read sort of you know casting aspersions on the National news that people got which you know Yeah And a lot of anchors have problem with it because they're like this is not fucking German like you know what I mean like right The few people that are left that are like this is fucked like we can't just be wholesale

Yeah, we're be wholesale yeah we're counting on our we're counting on our local ron burgundy's yeah like be the voice of reason the edward r murrow's to stand up that's amazing yeah i cannot wait for that like i want to see them march i want to see their strike right i want to see them form a union right more at 10 yeah we're hell no we won't go yeah we'll see if we're gonna have a sick and tired and not gonna take it anymore moment coming out of one of these broadcasts in december kushner uh bragged that the trump campaign had struck a deal with sinclair executives to provide exclusive interviews during the primaries and presidential campaign and Sinclair agreed to run them as is without any commentary

cool so yeah so that's one-sided there's one side for you if nothing else that shows the power of Sinclair media that clip and yeah uh based on what they've done in the past it's clearly going to be a problem for democracy as long as the Trump I want to see it go as far right as it can go i want to see some fucking you know dude named like uh chuck mcgonigal just be like now more with the weather here's a jew and it's just like a guy dressed like a rabbi like that's like my rabbi for my bar mitzvah he's like uh you know i i'm feeling because i can control it i'm feeling a rain tomorrow chemtrails tell us about the chemtrail report. Oh, well, we're putting them out there and we're making them make you gay.

So good luck. So that's a stay indoors warning from Weather Rabbi. The weather Jew. All right. I wanted to talk about another trend I was seeing over the weekend on Twitter. Boogie boarding. Yeah. How about it? It's back. Boogie boarding. Yeah. How about it, guys?

It's back, baby. So Andy Richter retweeted someone over the weekend talking about how they had heard that those of us in Hollywood are involved in satanic rituals to further our careers. And I then searched for satanic ritual abuse on Twitter, and there are just so many tweets about satanic ritual abuse. And this kind of coincides with the Roseanne story

that we were talking about last week. So we talked about, Roseanne got huge ratings and people were calling it the white people's Black Panther. So Roseanne, the story as of last week was that her character was a, you know, conservative and there was a conservative voice in mainstream media and people were treating it as, OK, this is like a balancing thing. And people were treating it as, okay, this is like a balancing thing. But Roseanne has come out and her Twitter is really problematic. And she has kind of supported a lot of these sort of crazy conspiracy theories, including that Hollywood elites sacrifice children to Satan. Wait, Roseanne Barr said this? I know. Can you believe it? Not Roseanne Arquette.

Wow, I would have thought. Roseanne Carter Cash? No? No, it is the Roseanne. The Roseanne. Wow. But yeah, so she- Shocker.

Was she tweeting over the weekend about his impressive numbers fighting pedophile rings? Yeah, he was basically making stuff up about how many pedophiles Trump has straight up pwned since he was Roseanne was. Yeah. And she was saying Trump's impressive numbers fighting pedophile rings, possibly controlled by Hollywood and politicians with hashtag pedogate. So and then she also did pizza gate. Right. And then that's crazy. So yeah,

a lot of this is, she's just on board with this cute guy, this whole QAnon. QAnon. So what is QAnon? Cause I've been seeing that around these stories. Yeah. Explain it to me.

Cause I know that it's a conservative conspiracy theory, but I haven't found out the juicy details. Yeah, so the gist of it is that this Q person is basically like part of the deep state. Yeah, he makes the cool pen bombs for James Bond. Yeah, exactly. That Q. But he's pivoted into a right-wing conspiracy or a fact, depending on what you believe. So he went on the 4chan forums.

He's so old and British. I'm Q. And I have a Q-level clearance. And basically, it's like the fairy godmother of alt-right conspiracy theories saying, don't worry, the Mueller probe isn't actually about Donald Trump. It's actually about Obama and Hillary Clinton and even John McCain, because they are the ones doing the Russia collusion.

And Trump is playing nine dimensional chess and he is just pretending to be nice to Russia and give the appearance to attract Robert Mueller's investigation to then have like a knock on effect of finding the true traitors. And that is Obama and Hillary. So therefore, worry not. Obama and Hillary are already under arrest or like there are versions where they already are under arrest and are about to be indicted. That's why you haven't seen Obama's ankles in a while, because he has an ankle bracelet that is tracking him because he's under house arrest. There's some shit like that, too. Yeah, it's it's it sucks. that is tracking him because he's under house arrest. Yeah, there's some shit like that too.

It sucks. It's really itchy when he's jet skiing with Richard Branson instead of doing anything to help America. It's really itchy on him. Exactly. Yeah, so they have secret ankle monitors. They even said some shit about the Vegas massacre was like an inside job with the Saudi Clinton cabal.

There's a comment for everything. And we will actually get much deeper in this with our boy Jared Holt from Right Wing Watch, who's an expert on this whole fiasco. Because this conspiracy theory over time has evolved in so many different ways and caused problems. But yes, for Roseanne to then being like, yo, Q, DM me. Like, I want the hot goss.

She did do that. No, she straight up was like, yeah, was like asking Q to DM her. Right. That's amazing so q just to put it in my show q is just somebody in a forum who once claimed that they are like a secret agent spy which if you've ever spent time on a forum on the internet you know that it's just full of you know 12 year old children who are like yeah yeah, yeah, I'm a CIA agent, and show me your boobs. Right, exactly.

It's a matter of national security. I'm a female body inspector. FBI. I've got class double D clearance. I'm definitely not 14 years old. But that's crazy that this whole scaffolding of conspiracy theories and you know intrigue has been built on a single person who is just anonymously claiming that he has access to like uh top level security information on a forum like yeah that's that's really sad it's old people that are believing this

so they weren't around when even young few i mean because the 4chan crew is not old people but i feel like it's being propagated by people who've never seen a message board before yeah So they weren't around. And even young people. I mean, because the 4chan crew is not old people. But I feel like it's being propagated by people who have never seen a message board before. It starts on 4chan, then it gets on Twitter, and then your grandma sees it. Right. And she's like, well, you know, Q's telling me the storm is coming. And that's what's so great about it is there's this whole infrastructure of old ladies like Roseanne who are just like. Yeah, they get wind of it. What they do is they put the messages on some sort of board,

and what, are they going to lie in them? How do they get it on the board if it's a lie? Right, right, right. Yeah. Yeah, so just some of these tweets from Andy Richter, I watched a video about how nearly every celebrity is involved in satanic ritual abuse in order to further their fame.

It's really rampant in Hollywood and Soros and HRC. Many more were mentioned as taking part too. Someone was like, oh God, a couple of weeks ago, I saw something about cannibalism being a thing out there. Did not want to believe it. What? And then a young woman, Ella Cruz, tweeted, cannibal club in Los Angeles offers young, healthy human meat to elites and Hollywood filmmakers.

And then links off to this. What are they talking about? The Kogi truck. Yeah. It's the danger dogs. They sell outside. And it's just like a poorly designed web post that they're pointing to being right.

See, see, it must be, it's on this angel fire page, right? Because it's called cannibal club. It must mean that. And also, you know, it's only appealing to old Christian conservative people because

they want to drag Satanists into it. People who worship Satan, like as if like, oh, Satan equals they eat babies. Well, the 80s was, you know, shot through with this conspiracy theory about that, you know, ritualistic, satanic abuse was taking place. Most of it came from people, quote, recovering memories. And that was basically a debunked form of psychotherapy where they would put people under hypnotism and, like, basically put them under and then have them...

Lie. Lie. Yeah, they'd be like, and then have them lie why yeah they'd be like and then what happened and like guide them on these like deep meditations where uh they would come up with things that they had forced themselves to forget and it's like no you actually didn't remember that because it never happened um the fucked up thing about all this is that all of these conspiracy theories there's a real thing that's like not as crazy that's like a little less sensationalistic that's happening like brian singer is like a real guy who allegedly uh like and i use extreme air quotes around allegedly, has ritually abused a lot of young men.

These people exist in Hollywood. They exist in athletics with Larry Nassar. All this shit is happening all throughout all of British politics. I think in any industry, in any segment, there are these predatory people who exist. But we're also in the midst of the big unburdening of the victims of this era of horrible abuse. The Me Too era is the casting the light upon the shadowy thing. And these things that were conspiracy theories are now proven to be fact.

But it's just not enough for some people, I guess. Right. It's like the, I've always thought of it as the person who lives in the city that's being fracked and complains about chemtrails. Right. Where it's like, no,

it's below your feet. It's not in the sky. It's happening. Like, like look the right, I just wish you could put blinders on all these people and have them go after, you know, Larry Nassar or the next, you know, whatever, you know, look the right i just wish you could put blinders on all these people and have them go after you know larry nasser or the next you know whatever uh you know dan schneider from nickelodeon or

harvey weinstein because in the end all of these conspiracies are only there to serve to like a way to make sense of their political reality they want to live in because it has nothing to do with the child victims it's's just, wait, what's the score versus liberals versus conservatives? Oh, liberals are Satan-worshipping child eaters? Uh-oh, uh-oh. So if you see anything about ritualistic satanic abuse or RSA, if you see anything about QAnon, there's all these different things that are tied together where people are connecting everything to. If you see something about Trump catching sexual predators and how sexual predator and sexual abuse arrests shot up in the first month of his presidency,

that's based on this same conspiracy theory where some right-wing conspiracy theorist reported that he made a staggering 1,500 plus arrests on sex trafficking in his first 30 days and first of all, they were like referring to arrests that were made by Local law enforcement that like had been in office and planning these since well into the Obama administration And well, no, it makes sense that Trump would do this You know what? I mean, like it makes sense that he would like go undercover as a dude who brags about,

you know, boning Mary Kay Letourneau or like whoever, like whatever, like, you know, Tracy Bingham in 1992 would then leak purposefully. He grabs women by the pussy.

Right. He would leak that purposefully to get the sexual predators to think that he was their friend. One of them. Yeah. And then the whole time, he's Snape. Right. Trump is Snape.

Yeah. Trump is Snape. Hashtag Trump is Snape. Trump is Snape. We just added a new one for you guys. Trump is Snape. Two and on. Yeah.

Trump is Snape. He's been posing as this guy who's horrible to women and constantly demeans and abuses them. Right. In order to get rid of the guys who actually do it, folks. The real Satan pedophile child eaters. Folks. Folks. All right.

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The president spent his Easter weekend. Chief of Staff John Kelly spent it with his family. The other people who are supposedly adults spent the holiday with their family. But Trump spent the holiday down at Mar-a-Lago with senior policy advisor Stephen Miller. They golfed together. And then he golfed with Sean Hannity on Saturday. So that's family. But this is what I'm talking about, the similarity to the Death of Stalin movie and some of the things you see happening in that movie. Is that it's just whatever's on his calendar right now affects the future of our country. Like dramatically.

Right, right. Exactly. And it rules. Right? And that's awesome awesome and that's fucking crazy which is cool right uh and there was a story based on a buzz feed news article that ran last week about this uh they call it a caravan of immigrants coming from Central America and walking up to the Mexico border. And, you know, they claimed that it was all part of DACA, I guess, or that's how the president chose to interpret it because he went on this huge tweet storm about how, you know, this was an example of people trying to take advantage of daca uh right the program that only benefits people who came under the age of 18 before 2007 right yeah so these immigrants have a fucking time machine right in their caravan in which they

i've actually that's a distraction my man because that's a smoke screen For them They actually try I'm traveling And they're in 2006 Coming over So we need Jean-Claude Van Damme The time cop On this To stop these immigrants Boom case solved

Folks the only way We're gonna stop these immigrants Is with a time cop With time travel There's only There's only one way Okay folks We're gonna get him

He's gonna kick him Back into the 21st century That's how it's gonna work We're gonna make them Hug each other In the same space time continuum They will melt into each other like Ron Silver's character

did in Time Cop. I'm a very good friend of Dennis Rodman. He knows Jean-Claude Van Damme. We're on it, folks. They were in double team. All right, so let's just map how this tweet worked,

how he came to this misunderstanding. So there is a caravan of over a thousand people coming up from Central America. This is an annual pilgrimage, I guess. And these are people who are seeking asylum. They're trying to get to America because they feel like they're in danger in their home countries or escaping just debilitating poverty or any of those things.

So thousands of them are coming up. Fox News catches wind of this, puts it on, because it is their audience's just fever dream. Or a nightmare, right. A caravan of brown people looking to enter the U.S. Right. So he hears caravan, and he hears, maybe he hears asylum, and because DACA has the word asylum associated with it, that's, I guess, I think it's just the idea is brown people looking to get into the country.

And in his mind, DACA was a way for illegal people or people who came undocumented as minors to get a path to citizenship or just to stay. He's conflating the two, which makes again, it makes no sense because it's not like they're going to get to the border and they're going to say asylum and everyone gets in. Like there is a process you have to undergo. There's an immigration court that is going to determine, OK, you actually are in danger if we send you back. So we're going to let you stay. And, you know, some of the time they find that people aren't in enough danger and do send them back. Which is sad because I think if you saw John Oliver yesterday, they played a snippet of what one of those hearings goes like. Oh, really? Yeah, it was like basically saying like everyone's being killed

and they're just like, okay, I'm sorry. Like you're going to have to go back. Like it's killed, killed or, you know. And then it's said because he highlights a bunch of people who were saying, oh, if I go back, I'm probably not going to be in good shape. And sadly, a few of them were, you know, killed. Yeah. So in summation, he spends the weekend with

hannity stephen miller they're in his ear they're saying you know we're hearing from your base that uh they're worried they think you're soft on immigrants because of daca presumably and so he then sees the fox and friends uh story about the caravan of Browns coming up. And those two things combine and come out as this tweet that he kind of finds out there. Of the caravans are coming, so no more DACA deal. But DACA has nothing to do with these people. And it's a buzzword that gets his base real riled up. And then caravans makes him scared.

Right. And on top of that all, there is no daca deal to begin with because daca is the program that he ended uh and was like well you figure something out and then when the congress did figure out a bipartisan way to address it he was like no i don't want to hear it there's no deal anyway so there was never going to be a fucking deal right it's such a weird double-edged sword because he's so insecure in what he knows that if you are seemingly more intelligent than he is and you say something that makes sense to him, he'll agree with you left or right. So we got to take their guns. Yeah, right. He's like, oh yeah, more aggressive bound.

Just take the guns. Due process later. And they're like, what the fuck are you saying, bro? Oh no. Okay. Sorry. Round up the immigrants. This caravan's coming.

It's like, Jesus Christ. Fuck the NRA. I met with the NRA and we're good. The Saudis did 9-11. By the way, have you seen their orb? It's tremendous. I love them. I the NRA. I met with the NRA and we're good. The Saudis did 9-11. By the way, have you seen their orb? It's tremendous. I love them. I got the orb.

Melania, plug the orb in. Yeah. Show them how it lights up. Yeah, she looked fucking angry this weekend. By the way. By the way. Melania. So as Trump was ranting about this,

like as he was walking into some Easter event, Melania was standing next to him and just looked. She looked like a Terminator. She looked just straight up stone-faced, almost intentionally stone-faced with her sunglasses on. I want somebody to try and look into the fake Melania. The Melania doubles conspiracy theory. Come on, guys. Come on, left.

We need our own conspiracy theories, Zeitgang. You're thinking it's fake Melania? I think it might be fake Melania,. Conspiracy theory. Come on, guys. Come on, left. We need our own conspiracy theories, Zeitgang. You thinking it's fake Melania? I think it might be fake Melania, you guys. I think at the very least she is contractually obligated to hold his hand for a certain number of seconds in public because she's standing there stone-faced holding his hand while he rants about immigrants and how DACA has no chance. And then they turn and walk and she's just like, get the fuck off me, B. The cameras are off. Well, yeah, when he was up on a balcony talking some other crazy shit when he was

ranting uh like the easter bunny next to him i think it was right after before but like he's not with the easter bunny the same event and like she is so sullen standing next to him she looks like if if it was like a rap show she looked like the hype man that's about to quit like the entourage like because she just was like and he's like he was hyping up the crowd she almost looked like the hype man that's about to quit the entourage. Because she just was like, and he was hyping up the crowd. She almost looked like if someone's face, not saying anything, could say, fuck you, it was this face. I think she was mad because this is the first year that Sean Spicer hasn't been the Easter Bunny. Yeah. RIP Spicey, dude.

Yeah. From that moment that you're talking about, Tiffany Trump also walked into the shot. And she's like, oh, shit, am I crossing the camera the camera yeah right i should get out of here i'm too close to my dad yeah he hates me i don't want them to think i'm his daughter uh and finally uh we wanted to update on the story of teacher strikes that are happening they are they are they yo so west virginia man inspired many other teachers to take their futures into their hands because they saw what happens when you demonstrate and you get bodies out there. So right now in Oklahoma, they have begun the strike because they want more money. Because I think right now in 2016, Oklahoma ranked 49th in the nation for teacher salaries just behind West Virginia and just before Mississippi.

Virginia and just before Mississippi. So they are there basically making sure that, you know, they don't have to go into their own pockets to fund their classrooms and to get what is fair, because I think there are some districts that are on four day school weeks and other places don't even have like heating in the classrooms, much like, you know, all over there, many places in the country that the school districts are like that, like in Baltimore, et cetera. But yeah, so these teachers want $200 million more in education funding and then pay for the raises of about $10,000 over three years and $5,000 for other school staff. So these teachers are not fucking around. And they realize that, you know, I think for the longest time, a lot of people in legislatures, state legislatures, things like that said, oh, we cut the little bit of funding.

And they know that teachers are so dedicated. It's like, well, they'll just figure it out. And now you're at a point where, you know, there are many teachers in Oklahoma who have to leave the state to find work because it is no longer sustainable to be a teacher. And now it's time to put up or shut up. And, yeah, in Kentucky, they're also they are gathering to, to like pick it outside the capital because i think the governor vetoed i don't know they want the governor to veto an overhaul to their pension plan because there's more fuckery going on there josh weren't you saying that the health care that the west virginia teachers were objecting to was just like a crazy black mirror app where like you have to take a certain number of steps if you want

health care? Exactly. I'm trying to look up the exact article, but I know it was in Jacobin where they interviewed a teacher. And I believe on Chapo Trapas they had an interview with a teacher as well where they talked about – I want to say it was called Go365. Yeah, that's what it's called. Yeah, and it's insane. So you're a teacher you're already working 12 hours a day and dipping into your own pocket to you know get supplies and grading papers

and doing all this shit and you're a state employee so your your health care uh it basically comes with this fit bit that destroys your life um so if you don't reach a certain level of activity, your insurance premiums skyrocket. So it's this weird, punitive, like almost like, yeah, black mirror. This is a quote from the New York Times from a teacher in West Virginia. They implemented Go365, which is an app that I'm supposed to download on my phone to track my steps to earn points through this app. If I don't earn enough points and if I choose supposed to download on my phone to track my steps, to earn points through this app. If I don't earn enough points and if I choose not to use the app, then I'm penalized $500.

$500 fucking dollars? You're charging teachers? For not walking enough steps. They're fucking exhausted by the end of the day. Oh, God. They're just like adding that to their deductible or something? Is that how it works? Or not their deductible, to their premiums, I think. Right, right.

Yeah. And so, like, I can. Right, right. Yeah, and so like, I can't imagine making a teacher work 12 hours and then only getting, you know, four hours of free time

before they have to go to fucking sleep and then in those four hours, by the way, you have to run a marathon. Right. Sorry, sorry,

or you have to pay $500 which you don't make because you're a teacher and you suck. Ha ha, yeah, what you gonna do? Fucking strike?

Oh shit, you did? Okay. Well, maybe we'll change it around. That's the other thing that's like really, really big about this. That's the really important thing about this teacher strike. And I think it's hopefully, you know, it remains to be seen what the outcome is of this movement because so many other states are being inspired and into collective action.

But in a lot of these places, most of these, if not all, are right-to-work states where there's a lot of, basically, there's situations wherein it's not legal for people to strike. And so the unions won't call a strike. The workers will call the strike. And that's what's known as a wildcat strike. Right. And that's what's so huge about this is we haven't seen big wildcat strikes since the turn of the last century, really, like since 100 years ago, when that was the last time that the labor relations in this country were as precarious as they are now.

Right. The gig economy is just a fancy word for, you know, the same shit that's been happening since the 1800s. Right. You know? Yeah. There are a lot of parallels with late 19th century, early 20th century.

Yeah. With, you know, giant monopolies that need to be regulated. Like at first people loved like the rockefellers they were like john d rockefeller he's a he's a hero that andrew carnegie you know that thanks for the museum boys and i think we're still in that period with big tech but i think we're headed to the point where public sentiment's gonna be like yeah because not so much that mark zuckerberg is

a motherfucker right it's starting to happen now. But it's just starting to happen. For a while, Google's motto was don't be evil. And we were like, yeah, that's right. Don't be evil. Thanks, Google. And then you find out what they're doing. They're just taking

all of our information and selling it to whoever wants it. Thanks, Motherfuckerberg. Yeah. Y'all like that? Put that on wants it. Thanks, Motherfuckerberg. Yeah. Ooh, y'all like that? Put that on a t-shirt. Motherfuckerberg. Alright, Motherfuckerberg, come see me. Josh, it's been a pleasure. Where can people find you, follow you? You can follow me at

ShutUpAndrosky. I have a show that I am doing in Los Angeles if you live in LA. We did our first one last month and it's called Democracy Dies After Dark it is a

it's like a political talk show that's my most favorite parts of all the sort of political comedy talk shows and I put them all together we had Chapo Trapas as the first guest our next show is Thursday, April 26th at 10 p.m.

And the guests are The Dollops, Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds. Whoa. Super funny dudes. Do you record those? Yeah, we recorded the first one.

We're going to record the next one. Nice. That sounds great. We'll be putting it out online. I also run a podcast called Left Coast with Sara June.

Yeah. Another favorite of our show. Zyke gang favorite. Gia, Miles, where can people find you? Find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Great. You can find me at Jack underscore O'Brien on Twitter. You can find us at Daily Zyke Geist on Twitter.

We're at The Daily Zyke Geist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZykeGeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes. Footnotes. Where we link off to the articles containing the information that we talked about on today's episode. That is going to do it for today's show, Miles. Can we get a song to write out on? Yeah, yeah, look.

Let's play a nice old track by Tom Scott and the California Dreamers called Today. Now, this is a very important track because a great song sampled it. I won't tell you which one. You can figure it out when you listen to it. It should be clear if you're really about hip-hop. But this is just otherwise just a nice relaxing song. Let's start off the week positively, Today. So that song is called Today.

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