The Daily Zeitgeist - King Of The Baby Filter, Pelosi Not Drunk But Deserves To Be 5.28.19
Episode Date: May 28, 2019In episode 400, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and activist Derrick Lemos to discuss the Sonic the Hedgehog film being pushed back, the new Between Two Ferns film, more on Tony Robbins shady be...havior, Trump and his team coming for Nancy Pelosi, William Barr investigating the investigators, what the dudes having been enjoying, the new National Enquirer museum, and more! FOOTNOTES:1. ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ Movie Release Pushed to 2020 in Attempt to Fix Horrifying Lead Character2. Netflix drops a release date and plot details for the Between Two Ferns movie 3. Tony Robbins Was Filmed Using Racial Slurs4. WATCH: NIKE: #KOBESYSTEM - LEVEL 4 EXPLOSION5. Faked Pelosi videos, slowed to make her appear drunk, spread across social media6. 'ivesssapology for a video': Rudy Giuliani tweets bizarre slurred non-apology to Nancy Pelosi for tweeting fake video of her appearing incoherent then demands SHE withdraw demand for 'intervention' on Trump7. Barr Is Investigating The Investigators: Will He Find Wrongdoing Or Political Fuel?8. WATCH: Eminem Rapping9. Stephen A. with the baby filter (via TW/_therealders_)10. WATCH: 'ORIGINAL' NBA on NBC Theme - Roundball Rock - John Tesh 11. National Enquirer Live attraction set to open Friday in Pigeon Forge12. National Enquirer Live! Theme Park Turns Princess Diana’s Death Into Attraction13. National Enquirer opens museum with exhibits on O.J. Simpson, Michael Jackson and Princess Di14. National Enquirer Live! Inside the theme park that turns Princess Diana's death into a tasteless attraction with a computer model of her last moments, has a replica of the O.J. Simpson crime scene and an exhibit on Michael Jackson's balcony photo15. WATCH: Flying Lotus - Black Balloons Reprise (feat. Denzel Curry) [Official Audio] Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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This is the 400th episode of a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared
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It's Tuesday, May 28, 2019.
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I had a dream I could find my way to heaven.
When I awoke, I spent that on McBreakfast.
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In terms of
Artery cloggingness
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What would you say?
Oh, yeah, probably the same shit.
I feel like I'm basically eating a salad when I'm eating the Egg McMuffin.
Oh, in your mind?
Because breakfast can't be bad for you.
Even if I'm eating that double stack where it's just like three sausage patties, two eggs, nine pieces of cheese.
I mean, shit.
Salt is good for you, right?
Yeah, salt is good.
I like my diet to be comprised, you know, at least 65% of sodium.
Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a returning guest, the hilarious comedian and activist, Mr. Derek Lemos.
Oh, hello, guys, gals, and non-binary pals.
How are you?
Oh, I love it.
I'm solid.
Thank you for having me back.
This is like a three-peat.
Congratulations on the 400th episode.
Thank you.
Something like that.
We could be off by two.
We don't do it like those other podcasts where they make a big deal and get a special guest.
We kind of like on the morning, Anno go, I think this might be 400.
We're like, oh, all right. Oh, cool. Cool. Wow. Or 402. We kind of like on the morning, and I'll go, I think this might be 400. We're like, oh,
all right.
Oh,
cool.
Cool.
Wow.
Or 402.
We don't know.
You know,
it doesn't matter
because we're not keeping score.
Score is about the equality
around the world
and that score is not even yet.
We're the Kawhi Leonard's
of this podcast shit.
We just put up numbers
and don't make a big deal about it.
Very workmanlike.
I love that.
Because like after every,
every sport event,
like it doesn't matter what it is.
I don't know why we're still doing post interviews with athletes.
So can you tell me a little bit about the game?
Like it's the same.
The interview with Kawhi Leonard at the end of the game at the end of last week was the
like, yes, they're all really bad, but that was the worst.
He's just like, she was like, so what do you, what are you thinking going in?
Your one went away from the finals.
He's like, I don't know, man.
I haven't even been back to the locker room.
I was like, yeah, we just saw you play the game.
Yeah, it was like, you know, we just try to have a really good game out there and just
play hard, give 110%.
It's like, you're never going to get anything different.
It's amazing that they can go from doing something so ingenious and high energy
to then getting in front of the camera and just being the least interesting,
most bored human beings in the history of television.
You could probably do – remember when Sinclair Broadcasting made all those anchors say the same thing?
Yeah.
Like, just do all these post-game things and the overlapping moments are like –
Yeah, I mean, we just had to work as a team on that one.
Right.
You know, we had to grind it out in the fourth quarter, but I think in the end moments are like, yeah, we just had to work as a team on that one. We had to grind it out
in the fourth quarter, but I think in the end
we came through. Our shooting improved
a lot. I do admire
Kawhi Leonard, though, because he is
the norm core of that interview.
He goes out of his way. He doesn't even put those
talking points together. He's just like,
what's a word that I
can say here? How's that?
You should just go like, you saw the game, right?
Right.
Can I shower and then I'll come talk to you?
Does that work?
Or even when somebody does say something interesting,
it's just like, I'm just here so I don't get a fine.
Like, that is the realest, truest shit ever.
That is the best.
Shout out to Beast Mode.
Yeah.
All right.
We are going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment, Derek.
First, we're going to take our listeners
through a couple of things we're talking about today.
The fans declare
victory in the Sonic
Wars.
Yeah, Sonic is back to... The hedgehog,
not the driver. Right.
They are pushing the release
so that they can make a Sonic that
makes everybody happy. Yeah, fine.
We just found out about a movie that I'm very excited about
that we'll talk about, the Between Two Ferns film.
We're going to talk about another peek behind the curtain
of a Tony Robbins motivational seminar.
We are going to talk about the president's going just full rogue,
loose cannon, Mel Gibson and lethal weapon on uh his quest to investigate
the investigators you know fascist autocrat right yeah yeah uh and nancy pelosi being made to look
drunk at the end of last week and rudy giuliani being actually drunk uh we're gonna have a special
segment that we're calling what we're fucking with
just stupid shit that we're talking about
and enjoying around the office or just things
we won't stop playing over and over
and laughing and people like jokes that
are stuck in our head
and then we're gonna talk about the National Enquirer
Museum which is a
waking nightmare
yeah but
first Derek we like to ask our guests,
what is something from your search history that's revealing
about who you are or where you are?
I had to look up a YouTube history,
and it's just full of John Malkovich clips.
Okay.
Like, Interview with the Vampire, being John Malkovich.
It doesn't matter what character he's playing. It's always just him being John Malkovich. It doesn't matter what character he's playing.
It's always just him being John Malkovich.
I feel like anyone who writes a script, they just know it's like, this is Malkovich, basically.
And he has the most spot on inflection and diction.
Yes.
And he speaks very slowly and it's just like oh i love
it but i hate it at the same time right he sounds like a dude who's gonna have like a fit at a
mcdonald's order encounter right like just his cadence is like that of a person's like trying
to keep it together i was told that the cutoff time for breakfast was 10.30.
It is 10.28
and you are refusing to serve me a
McGriddle. Do you know what this is?
I would like to speak with a manager.
A manager now. I have a plastic
gun that I
snuck past security.
That was his thing in the line of fire.
I remember being very confused as a kid.
I was like, that's a gun?
Yeah, man.
But hey, you know, just need that firing mechanism.
What is something you think is overrated?
Civility, I think.
Okay.
Just like this idea that it's like, oh, guys, we have to keep everything calm.
Things are crazy and out of control.
And the more we just acknowledge that, like that in itself is being like, no, no, no, we're not going to make this be normal.
Like, you know, six migrant kids have died.
Like there are plenty of victims of Nazis and fascists.
And we're still desperately trying to like, no, no, no, everything's fine.
Everything's fine.
Everything's fine.
And it's like, no, it's not OK, guys.
You can say that and you're not being inflammatory.
You're not being dramatic.
Like you're observing.
We are all living in this hellscape and it's OK to be like, hey, this is this is crazy.
Right.
I'm not alone in this.
Right.
Yeah.
Well, civility is sort of like the defense mechanism conservatives like to deploy when they're being taken to task over their support of this president
or the party or the policies
and that them being like,
how could you support them? Like, can we just
be a little more civil about this?
Can we just really have a civil conversation?
That's Meghan McCain's blood type is
civility. Because she's on the view being
like, I just think it's really unfair.
It's like, no, motherfucker, because you
aligned yourself with this bullshit, so this is what comes with it well i think it's unfair that you haven't accomplished
anything but yet you're given a platform yeah right hey but you know it's it's look dc is just
like hollywood baby yeah true story nepotism baby all around but i think also but civility i think
if we're talking about civility how about we're treating people with civility right you know what
i mean other human beings yeah just letting them if we're really about civility then let's look at these policies and you tell me where
the civility is do we look are we operating like a civilized society absolutely does banning abortion
is that civil to people who can be pregnant like no right and the the i think the broader point is
too just like you can it makes people uncomfortable like, hey, look, this is not cool. And we all, I would hope, we're not all, you know, narcissists.
We're laying in bed at night just like thinking about all the mistakes that we've made and all like, oh, man, that was a really dumb thing that I did.
Or, oh, man, I was such an idiot.
When I was seven.
Yeah.
Or even like four years ago, I still think about all the dumb shit that I did.
Yeah, yeah.
All the gross things that you know like
i believe and it's like you know i am capable of doing better and it makes me want to do better
because it's like when you lose friendships or people like hold you accountable to things it's
like no dude you you're better than this come on you know better right it really implants that seed
in somebody else's brain it's like well am i am? This person I know and trust and love thinks I'm being an asshole.
Maybe I'm being an asshole.
We can all be better.
Yeah.
Just trying to, seeking comfort and being, I mean, it's perfectly natural, but it's not,
we don't all deserve comfort.
And if shit is going wrong in your in your society like just
being like god i just can't take this news cycle and stopping paying attention yeah is not the move
so that news cycle shows up at your door right uh what is something you think is underrated uh
this is a new this is a new development milkshakes yeah yeah delicious delicious snack and also a
tool to fight fascism yeah i love it yeah there
was some twitter poll that was like who's done more to fight fascism liberals or milkshakes
yeah you know a lot of people don't especially i mean like like i guess true sort of neoliberal
type people who are like i guess fashion i'm not dealing with that yet. Yeah. I'm looking at this other version.
Yeah.
Of what is fucked up.
But yeah, the milkshakes have people shook.
After Nigel Farage got hit that first time, he had another bus stop he had to do.
And the man had to hide in his bus.
And the way that it was framed was so funny.
It's like, Nigel Farage is being held hostage by milkshakes.
Like, that should be carved into his headstone.
Right.
Held hostage by milkshakes.
Yeah.
It makes you look like you just got shit on by the biggest bird in existence.
Unless you're extremely lactose intolerant where you will just explode if milk touches your skin.
Right.
Like, you are not being held hostage by milkshakes.
Yeah.
No, you are being held hostage by the threat of you looking like a skin. Right. Like you're not being held hostage by milkshakes. Yeah. No, you are being held hostage
by the threat of you looking like a fool.
Yes.
And that's your ego is actually holding you hostage.
A writer, J.M. McNabb,
looked into the origins of the milkshake attack
and found that it was just sort of a spur of the moment thing
where some hateful politician in the UK,
do you remember that dude's name?
Oh.
Like far right. Tommy, what's his face? Was harassing a...
Tommy Robinson, I think, right?
Yeah, was harassing an Islamic guy, and the guy happened to be holding a milkshake and
just was like...
Here, have that.
Here, have a sip.
Because he was physically threatening him, so it was like a defense, because he was physically threatening him so i mean it was it was like a
a defense and he started trying to like punch the guy and beat him up but he just kind of walked
away yeah um and then later that day somebody else threw a milkshake in the air it was just
like so perfect that people were like oh yeah this is yeah it was like if you're not gonna
throw a molotov throw a milkshake yes. We'll get to Molotovs eventually.
But right now milkshakes are fine.
And, you know, milkshake 2020.
Yeah.
And also people might not realize this, but McDonald's milkshakes are extremely flammable.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's not milk in that one.
That's basically petroleum.
It's all the preservatives.
Right.
It's napalm, basically.
What is a myth?
What's something that people think is true you know to be false?
And I know I'm bringing this up because my mom does it a lot where she's like, you know, you know, son, like you need to respect everybody's opinion.
I'm like, no, you don't.
Right.
No, you don't.
Because like if I like that James Baldwin quote, it's like we can have differences of opinion.
But if your opinion is rooted in my oppression or dehumanization,
then no.
And that is fundamentally what I believe.
Like it is fine.
We can disagree about whether pineapple belongs on pizza.
It does.
Uh,
or whether,
or whether cake or pie is better.
Those are fine.
Or what sports team,
uh,
you know,
as I'm getting older, I have more of an appreciation for pie just because cake is – It was more fun as a kid.
Cake.
Yeah.
Every time.
It's like art.
You know what I mean?
I've been like – I respect the pie more now, you know, as I get older as well.
You know, these are interesting times.
Back to – not to take the steam out of what you're saying, which is a very good point.
Yeah.
Like little characteristics in the things we enjoy are fine but fundamental differences
in whether or not you think somebody deserves equal rights is like is not okay right and you
don't have to respect that yeah and this i i feel like usually white men tend to use this as a as
an opportunity to be like, yeah, then
why can't I say the jokes that I think are funny?
Or why do you guys have to look at Green Book and criticize it?
That is an example of where your ideals, in a way that might not be evident to you, are
enforcing oppression.
You're kind of communicating oppression in a way that isn't
evident to you, but it's evident to people around you. Yeah, absolutely. Or even more recently,
like the abortion debate, you know, a lot of dudes were like, well, I thought it was no,
no uterus, no opinion. It's like, okay, look, you can have an opinion, but is your opinion
helping or hurting the people who are most impacted by these laws?
And if they're hurting, then you need to shut up.
Well, it's hurting those clumps of cells that I've defined as a sovereign citizen of the United States.
Who are the most important people to me.
Yeah, companies can be citizens.
Zygos can be citizens.
Right.
Black people and migrants, not so much.
Trans people, no. Not so much No Trans people
No
Not so much
Gay people
No
Hmm
Hmm
I wonder if there's something to that
No
And that's racist
Right
Is that my other favorite thing
And we'll get to some other
Interesting defenses too
Now that's racist
No that's racist
That's racist
That's reverse racism
Right
Reverse racism
I'm
You know
Shout out to Twitter
For people realizing
That old one doesn't work They found new ways To describe reverse racism But I remember to Twitter for people realizing that old one doesn't work. They found new ways
to describe reverse racism. But I remember
in the 90s and early
2000s, that was the cool debating
tactic. Well, that's like reverse racism.
What about white chicks,
dude? What about white chicks?
Why can't I?
If they did that, what about white chicks?
I'm in the process of talking to the Wayans Brothers now,
so we can figure out how to square that away.
Guys, let's get into equally important news.
They have decided to push back the release of Sonic.
It was supposed to be this summer?
Yeah, or sometime this year.
I forget.
Sometime this year.
I blacked out watching it.
Now it is one of those giant culture-changing moments that's going to happen in the year 2020.
They have pushed it back to February 2020.
We'll all be in the thick of the election.
And, yeah, we'll also be paying attention to Sonic the Hedgehog.
I guess, yeah, the director was tweeting, just like, look, I hear you.
You're upset by the design.
We are going to do better.
And that was at the beginning of the month.
And then today, it was a hand-drawn sign of clearly Sonic holding a thing that's like,
February 2020.
We'll get rid of the wacky teeth and make the eyes nice.
What are his eyes going to look like?
Probably more like that big goggle eye.
Right.
Everyone was like, why the fuck isn't it just like Sonic looked?
One eye, two pupils.
Yes.
Motherfucker.
I know Sonic's thing is supposed to be, you gotta go fast, but the creators went too fast.
Right.
Yes.
Yeah, yeah.
Way too fast.
Just pump the brakes and get the look right.
When it first came out, I wasn't as upset because I never had Sega Genesis, so I didn't
have the same affection for the character that some people do.
Were you ascending us?
Yeah, yeah.
And when I asked my mom if I had Genesis, she's like, you have Super Nintendo.
And I'm like, yeah, but see, the X-Men game isn't on that shit, and I want that because I want to play it as Gambit.
Are you hearing me?
And she basically threw the Mario Paint mouse
on the floor. She was like, that's your new game.
Mario Paint was not that good, but look,
I made it work. Well, at least you didn't
have to deal with the
terror of Sonic 2
in the underwater levels
and running out of air.
Yes, I remember that. Okay, so my
neighbor had it. Yeah.
Boy. And I only played it because you
know miles tails right so but yeah you when you couldn't find one of those air bubbles man whoo
yeah that's when you learned what true terror was because i was method about that i would hold my
breath while he couldn't breathe you know oh that's why you take a breath oh yeah because
you have that scar on your forehead yeah when you down in front of your TV. Yeah, that scar.
I appreciate you acting like there's only one.
The ones that are numbered, I remember.
So we've also learned about another coming attraction.
Between Two Ferns is going to be a movie somehow.
I mean, yeah. The last time, the last time, uh,
there was a work of comedy that I was confused how they were going to
translate it into a movie.
Uh,
it was MacGruber and it ended up being one of my favorite movies.
Uh,
so I'm excited about this because you have to get inventive to turn a
format into a feature length.
Especially something that's so rigid. Right.
Where it's like, this is what this thing, this bit is just, it's just literally between
two ferns going off the rails.
But, and it already sounds like it's meta, meta, meta, meta version of it.
The description as Netflix has released it says, Zach Galifianakis dreamed of becoming
a star, but when Will Ferrell discovered his public access TV show,
Between Two Ferns, and uploaded it to Funny or Die,
Zach became a viral laughing stock.
Now Zach and his crew are taking a road trip
to complete a series of high-profile celebrity interviews
and restore his reputation.
Directed by Scott Ackerman, Between Two Ferns,
the movie is a laugh out loud comedy.
Anyway.
Never heard of the director, but it sounds like it's going to be good.
Yo.
Whoa, whoa. Shots fired here, Wolf. Anyway, so- Never heard of the director, but it sounds like it's going to be good. So- Yo. Whoa, whoa.
Shots fired, Earwolf.
Now he's never going to come on the show.
It's okay.
We have agents infiltrating Earwolf.
Yeah, yeah.
Anyway, so the deal is I think the show, I think the movie will just be a lot of cool
between two ferns bits with connective tissue of stuff before and after the recordings,
maybe?
I guess.
Seems like that's what it's going to be.
Would it just be funny if it was just one after
another, like an anthology?
Or just a 90-minute
interview.
Long-form interview.
With Mark Maron.
With a three-minute silent pause
for awkwardness.
It was the funniest moment.
They were just exchanging looks for three minutes.
I couldn't believe it.
But as you said, Miles, all hail deficit spending.
Yeah.
Because, man, Netflix spending that cheese.
It's like they know money doesn't matter.
Right.
Yeah.
And I think that's good because things are going to get approved that wouldn't normally get approved.
Yeah.
That we're going to get approved that wouldn't normally get approved. Yeah, yeah.
That we're going to see some new ground broken.
Also, Netflix, fucking holler at us.
Yeah, dude. I mean, at this point, where the fuck is our TV show?
Daily Zeitgeist.
Yeah, I mean, Desus and Mero have one.
Right.
You guys deserve one.
Well, Desus and Mero, they deserve it.
I'm the biggest Bodega Hive fan.
They're great.
If you haven't heard constantly me referencing all their drops.
But yes, they're great. And I love that their show's not twice a week but i need showtime so i'm watching
like uh you know i'm finding ways on mega upload things like that yeah we gotta get the system
i gotta get the uh showtime plug-in or the showtime login we got the plug i know super
producer anahose is like i had it but when we were first talking about it you were silent yeah
you didn't you didn't uh those cars close to the chest because there's also the wu-tang
of mics and men which yes uh is such a bad title that i i actually love it if if it were like of
mice and men which wu-tang member would be lenny i mean it would be odb right huh well i guess well
let's think about i mean i guess then we have to take apart
how we saw lenny right and then is odb was he someone who was simple-minded did not understand
his true power yeah i i think so i think he was just like pure primary process just like you're
seeing the inside of somebody's so completely unselfconscious uh you can't help but love him like doesn't understand
how amazing
he is
what about who would be Curly
Curly? yeah
probably RZA
didn't Curly have the gloves with the Vaseline he slept in
yeah
Curly was the dude who was running the shit
and then there's Curly's wife
right right
who would be Method Man, Cur shit oh there's curly's wife right right and george
would be method man curly's wife curly's okay i'm just saying very and that's the t uh what about
who would be george uh that that's who i was thinking of yeah yeah okay i fuck with that
yeah uh or you would have uh george and lenny being uh ray and Ghost because they're like the duo
that are actually super tight.
That makes sense.
And then I would say Ghostface would be Lenny
because his flows are way more stream of...
I don't know.
He's on some next shit.
I'm constantly on Rome. I'm Sprint or some shit.
I remember. Call me Sprint because I'm always on Rome.
Something was like a line.
Yeah. That would be amazing if I finally get the Showtime login
and it's just them reenacting of Mice and Men.
But I've heard that's not what it is.
It's a really dope documentary.
Anyway.
Or even if they use that as a drop-in, like,
teach me about the rabbits, George.
Boom, boom, boom, boom.
Steinbecks, enter the 36 chambers yeah all right we're gonna take a quick
break we'll be right back
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And we're back, and I kind of admire what
BuzzFeed is doing in their
battle with Tony Robbins, because every time
he's like, they're just flat
making stuff up.
They're just like, okay, we're going to release another thing that is going to make you look real bad.
Let me go through my wallet really quick.
Oh, here's a receipt.
the n-word 10 times in like a minute in a story about how he won over a audience of black men who were like mad and thought he was being racist because all his examples of
success were white people and he was like so i told using the N-word and he literally uses it and then explains how, like, by doing that and forcing them to confront their anger about racism, he brought them around.
Yeah.
This is so humiliating.
So he's really using that Candace Owens victim.
And he's like, and guess what?
I'm going to call you the N word.
Yes.
Because, and that's not you being offended or me bringing up years of oppression and
racism.
Right.
That's you.
That's you actually taking on a victim mentality.
Right.
That's just your mentality.
You're letting that word control you.
Oh, okay.
And therefore.
Yes.
And by the end, guys, wait. So you think that he's not on the right track. And by the end guys wait.
So you think that he's not on the right track,
but by the end he wins them over.
That's what he says.
Yeah.
Wow.
Yeah.
Okay.
So he read until that,
uh,
to the producers of green book,
turn that into a feature.
Yeah,
exactly.
It's just that seminar.
They stress that 10 minute clip into a 90 minute film.
So it's,
or they play that 10 minute clip nine times.
Or I'm sorry, we just have to pitch this film it would
be like uh slumdog millionaire with each instance he calls one of these black men the n-word we
then flash back into that person's mind and see his backstory and then come back and then watch
him confront that in real time move on to his next iteration guys it writes itself give me the academy
award i have to go boom so johnny robbins's lawyer who has been kind of his partner in just responding to this in a uh in the worst way possible uh i'm just gonna imagine
so his lawyer said in a statement that the presentation was positive and was accepted
in the context in which it was conducted a passionate discussion about racism and how to rise above it. And then this is maybe my favorite example of,
wait,
but one of my friends that I've ever heard and by favorite,
I mean the most infuriating,
they added any suggestion that Mr.
Robbins is somehow racist or insensitive to the African American community
is absurd and false.
Indeed,
American community is absurd and false.
Indeed, one of Mr. Robbins' event partners for 25 plus years is an African American.
Is an African American.
Is an African American. One of Mr. Robbins' event partners, which is a made up phrase that doesn't mean anything.
What's an event partner?
The dude who drives the truck when you stage on it?
It could be anything.
Somebody he has met once at an event.
An event partner.
Yeah.
The man who brings me my Diet Cokes.
Yeah.
Right.
His event partner, Sambo, has worked with him for 25 plus years.
He shines his shoes.
Right.
That's like the...
Oh my goodness.
Again, I love the defense against claims of being racist is if I'm so racist, allow me to direct your attention at this black body.
Right. Exactly. That exists. Usually the claim is one of my best friends. This time it's one of my event partners.
We can be more vague. And then he had to say, is an African.
Yes.
That even.
Wow.
But yeah.
So, I mean, this is basically what we talked about with him.
You know, he in light of, you know, that defense and that clip, the idea that he's insensitive to the experience of being a person of color or a woman uh is just
completely indisputable um and i think he is you like his whole philosophy is that any disadvantage
that you have is just you letting that disadvantage control you so he's his whole like mindset is like you know about overcoming anything that
makes you feel bad which is a great way for a you know white guy who's tall and gorgeous as I
mentioned yesterday milkshake them yeah for him to you know overlook the fact that not everybody
walks into a room and immediately gets the benefit of the doubt. Yeah.
Also, while we were reading about this last week,
super producer Sophie Lichterman raised this series of Kobe commercials
that we went back and watched.
Yeah, the Kobe system.
It's now pretty mind-bending for...
They would cut to a new person and it's like,
Oh, shit.
Let me play a clip really quick.
Okay, yeah, yeah.
It's a matter of fast and strong.
That's Kobe.
Tony Robbins, this is your last question.
Tony Robbins.
Listen, I'd just like to add what Mr. Bryant was saying here about explosiveness.
If you really want to change your life, then you've got to take massive action.
You've got to immerse yourself.
You've got to really understand that problems are really your gifts.
Are you done?
Yes, sir.
Apologize to Kanye West for the $15 million of his time.
I'm sorry, Kanye.
And not only that, there's a moment where Aziz Ansari is also in it.
Yeah, there's another ad with Aziz.
And he's like, what kind of tips?
And Kobe Bryant is telling Aziz to be more aggressive.
Yes.
Just go after it and they wow like somebody just had an
eye for like the most problematic i'm someone put that on twitter man because wow yeah the wow
wowie um yeah so shout out to also we were trying to figure out who wrote those whoever wrote those
they're actually very funny at the time time, not knowing what was going on,
you're like, there's actually some good lines in there.
But you did know Kobe, so it's almost like...
Kobe, you had to put that in the back of your mind.
Right, so they put that in the back of their mind.
They were like, you know who else would fit in this?
Tony Robbins.
Problematic motherfuckers like Tony Robbins, Kanye West, and Zee.
What's funny is when Tony Robbins is talking, he sat next to Serena Williams.
Shout out to her, powerful black woman, because she's rolling her eyes at him.
I know.
So you know what?
Serena tried to tell us.
Yeah.
Let's talk about.
Always listen to black women.
Yeah, exactly.
There it is.
Let's talk about the president of these United States.
Unless it's Candace Owens.
Right.
She's the exception.
I was just going down mine. I was like, hold on.
They're the top three. And Omarosa.
So there was a little
bit of a tit for tat
as I've heard it referred to
in the media constantly
going on between President Trump
and Nancy Pelosi and their respective
camps. Actually, nobody really
had Nancy's back, but Trump's people
came for Nancy. No one needs to have her back because she's all right she's not insecure
and she's just sort of like i'm the speaker and when kellyanne conway's like trying to talk she's
like i'm trying to talk to the president yes not some assistant excuse me um so anyways we just
pulling the ultimate i need to speak with your manager yeah right and she said oh i don't know
her right uh so we we talked at the end of last week
about how uh you know they were supposed to have the infrastructure meeting trump stormed out in a
pure spur of the moment storming out that happened to have visuals uh pre-printed a well choreographed
right yes uh so that he could go out and then ramble. And he hadn't written anything ahead of time because he rambled incoherently for a while.
And then, so I guess like Trump supporters slowed down a clip of Nancy Pelosi making it seem like she was drunk.
Yeah, but this was like one of the last shots in the back and forth so he
stormed out right then was like oh you know i can't believe what they did they they need to
stop these investigations there's no infrastructure pelosi was like i'm praying for the president
very petty but just like i'm praying for him right um and because he was saying like he just seemed
so off red state people understand that that's the equivalent of bless your heart yeah exactly but just being very uh what do we call that um patronizing i guess with it um
and then trump started name calling i think called her crazy nancy or some shit she was like saying
he's villainous that's more that's not name calling that's a description um and then was
also saying like you know uh imploring the Trump family and staff to have an intervention.
That really fucked him up.
Yeah.
And someone's like, well, what are you trying to say?
She's like, oh, I can be clear.
I'm talking about the 25th Amendment.
Woo!
So she's like, hold that.
Yeah.
Now what do you got?
Then we start seeing all these fucking weird videos come out.
Then he's like, oh, I'm unfit?
Right.
Check out these doctored videos of Nancy Pelosi.
Because the president's number one source of intelligence is just some memes he sees on fucking Twitter.
Yeah.
On Stormfront.
Yes.
Boy.
That's not happening anymore, right?
I think they got shut down.
Oh, yeah, okay.
Yeah, yeah.
GoDaddy pulled their license.
Oh, yeah.
GoDaddy.
Yes, yes, yes.
Go on, Daddy.
So, yeah.
So then we got these altered videos.
One was like, you know, it's just trying to make her have like as if her speech is slurred.
The old gin goblin Rudy Giuliani then tweeted a similar video.
Not the same one as Trump, but another one that was clearly just someone playing a video of her at like half speed.
So her sentence was more like this rather than I'm giving the president the
opportunity.
It's like,
I'm giving the president.
Right.
And it,
most people,
if you slow anyone down,
it just makes them sound real fucked up.
yeah.
I mean,
people have done it to us before.
They did that to me in court that one time.
Right.
I'm telling you that was Dr.
Video.
Yeah.
And then also with trump too i think
is when it first began right the one with trump actually makes him more coherent because you can
actually hear like his brain pinging between like the things that it's like really just you can see
the path that his mind is taking as opposed to it seeming just kind of incoherent and rambling. I mean, it still is. But you see sort of the Adderall, Addle, you know, path that it's taking.
Yeah.
Well, and again, these are like, I think these are only going to keep increasing, you know,
because this was straight, like in 2016, it was all about trying to put up clips of Hillary,
like she was dying of some new wild disease we never heard of or you know her brain is falling
out her nose yeah she she falls
all the time because the tumor is so big
she can't even see and also it's so
easy for them because the people
who they're getting this to go viral with
are all in their 60s and they
don't have good eyes for detail like
the second you look at this video you
see her hair is moving in slow motion
it's like, yo.
Also, there aren't enough frames for the movement to be smooth at all.
Right.
Oh, right.
So you're watching a video in slow motion.
You all realize that, right?
Nope.
Look, quick tipsy off.
If you really want to do it and slow it down, shoot it at 120 frames per second.
Then you can give us some semblance of it looking like 30 frames per second.
Yeah.
Carlos Maza, a gay wonk on Twitter, actually had a really good explanation about that.
He was basically talking about how, you know, like Fox News, we obviously know, is a talking,
is a propaganda machine for right-wing politics.
And most media outlets, like, if they make enough noise, they pick up on it.
And that's why, like, the Hillary thing, oh, she's sick.
Oh, what's going on with her health? it's like no it's dumb like use your good judgment that you
sometimes have but if they make enough noise it automatically gets picked up and that's exactly
what's happening in this case with nancy pelosi it's like well what's going on with her what's
it's like uh it's like that episode of doctor who where he's like i can take down your your
administration with six words you know and uh don't you think she looks tired?
Like that, it's just planting the seed.
Yeah.
And like that's an episode of Doctor Who?
It is.
Really?
With the mom from Shaun of the Dead.
Huh.
She becomes the prime minister and with David Tennant.
And then he just says, don't you think she looks tired?
Yeah.
He whispers.
He was like, I could ruin your administration
with five words.
And then he goes,
no, six words.
And she's like,
go ahead, try it.
It's very confrontational
because she has basically
gone full paranoia
and wants to start
this space defense force.
And Doctor Who is just like,
no, that's a terrible idea
because you're basically inviting conflict by doing that.
So don't do that.
So then he whispers to her assistant,
don't you think she looks tired?
And within the next scene,
everybody's talking about,
is her health okay?
Is she doing all right?
And she resigns.
Wow.
And was that after Hillary?
This was David Tennant years. So this was this was david tennant
year so this was like 2012 wow all right everyone doesn't he look tired doesn't he look tired
doesn't he look tired nah we've we're way past nuance no i'm for trump that that would work so
i'm not tired because he looks like he is having trouble but i mean again this is this is another
example of republicans and their followers suffering from this very specific type of cognitive dissonance that requires them to immediately
accuse the person criticizing them of the thing they're guilty of. So they put out a video of
Nancy Pelosi to make her look drunk after Trump goes up and has this completely incoherent speech in the Rose Garden,
and then his drunkest ally, Rudy Giuliani, goes out and tweets that video,
and literally drunkenly...
Well, do you think he's drunk when he tweeted that?
What?
The apology tweet?
You don't think he was drunk?
I mean, I don't know.
I guess I'm making the mistake of acting like we're journalists.
Okay.
Do we know he's drunk? Yeah, motherfucker's drunk. I'm calling him the gin goblin. I don't know why was drunk i mean i don't know i guess i'm making the mistake of acting like we're journalists okay do we know he's drunk yeah motherfucker's drunk i'm calling him the gin goblin i don't know why the fuck i love it hey well hold on jack we don't know we don't want to
compromise our journalistic integrity all i know is that trump didn't want to give him a job in the
first place the reason it took trump a year to hire him is because trump had heard his drinking
had gotten out of control he has admitted to going on TV drunk in the past couple years.
And people say that he's frequently drinking during the day.
And then he tweeted something that just reminds me of an email
I would have sent when I was blacked out.
When he tweeted that video, everyone was like,
take this shit down.
So he did.
And then this is literally what the –
I'm just going to spell out the first word of this tweet.
Yeah.
It's I-V-E-S-S-S-A-P-O-L-O-G-Y.
So Ives apology.
Ives apology.
And then I'll just read the rest.
I'm going to read it like this.
Ives apology for a video
which allegedly is a caricature
of an otherwise halting speech pattern.
She should first stop
and apologize for saying
the president needs a quote
and revenge.
R.
And then a gif of the Timberwolves
celebrating.
Or the Hawks, I guess, versus the Timberwolves.
The only thing that would completely seal the deal is just, it's closed off with R.
A-R-E.
They ran out of characters.
Are you mad at me?
Are you mad at me?
Is that what it is?
Every drunk person.
This ain't even coming at 280.
Every drunk person ever.
This isn't even clocking in at 230, these characters.
Are you mad at me?
Are you... Anyway.
He retweeted...
He didn't take that down.
This shit is still up.
That is still up.
Or as of this recording.
Right.
As of the end of last week.
But he then tweeted what he meant to say,
and instead of R, he tweeted,
people who live in Glass House shouldn't throw stones,
and did not tweet a Timberwolves gif.
But that seems like it's directed at himself, a drunk person saying.
And that gif, though, it doesn't even make sense.
Right, because the gif.
Basketball players celebrating?
I'm confused why that is even a gif in the first place because it's not a good celebration.
It's just somebody putting their hands up.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And one dude is like tying his shorts.
Yeah.
Okay.
Look, Rudy, Gingabi, somebody help you out.
Gingabi.
Somebody help Gingabi.
Let's talk about real quick the 20.
Oh, wait.
Just one last thing.
Right.
Then I just want to add the last piece of this escalating war was when Trump basically just unilaterally said,
I'm giving Bill Barr just the blanket authority to declassify information, like just from all these intelligence agencies, to, quote, investigate the investigators of the Russia scandal.
Right.
of the Russia scandal.
Right.
So essentially saying,
I now bless you, Bill Barr,
fucker of information,
to now manufacture new scandals by declassifying sensitive information.
Yeah.
Not to mention that it would also affect information,
I think, that we've gathered
through the Five Eyes Agreement,
like with other countries,
like the UK and Canada.
Now that potentially means,
guess who's not getting any more of that intel?
The United States. Right. Because you've just been like, hey, why don't you, Mark Meadows and Devin
Nunes, just drum up some shit and try and create some new Benghazi type shit. Uranium one thing
out of declassified memos will selectively redact shit and we can hopefully shift the focus away
from the president's actual crimes. Right. Yeah. And this is exactly why the Democrats need to
move to impeachment, even if, you know, it's not practical or whatever, like they still have a majority in the House,
like the motion itself is what's important because they constantly talk about how we need to take
down Trump and use it as a as to fundraise. But then when the time comes to actually do something
that would limit him, hinder him in any kind of practical way, they drop the ball.
Right. Yeah. And I think, you know, it seems like the Pelosi plan is to just slowly bleed
the president out, like let all these documents come out, let the scandals keep piling up and
piling up because she's saying it seems like the calculus that the president is using is,
yeah, impeach me. You'll get it out of the the house we'll then do a sham fucking trial in the senate where i control all the levers you know they will
unanimously be like oh not guilty uh with r kelly featuring jay-z um and that and then they're going
to use they'll campaign off of that look what they tried to do and we still won and i think that's
the only thing they don't want to do is somehow give the optics win
of getting past the impeachment thing
to try and be like, you see, it's all good.
He got through impeachment.
Because this shit couldn't stick.
But at the same time, when you look,
that's where I'm also like,
I understand the political calculus,
but the existential threats are far too real
and pronounced for too many people that I can't,
like, it's hard for me to square that with like, what about all this other shit that is happening in real time? Yeah, sometimes people that I can't like it's hard for me to square that
with like what about all this other shit that is happening in real time yeah so we can't get
control exactly sometimes you have you can't worry about political strategy and you just have to do
the what's right yeah and I don't think look at the end of the day I don't know who's going to be
really affected by seeing Trump getting through an impeachment process right saying like oh now
I'm going to vote for him.
I was on the fence. I think a lot of this is the lessons learned from the Clinton impeachment,
the fact that he got impeached by the House, but then got through the Senate. And people are like,
well, that's what happened then. And people rallied to Bill Clinton's side, but they didn't
have shit. It's just underestimating the intelligence of the American people.
It's assuming that, well, they're always going to follow this rule of if you can't fully impeach him and if he only gets impeached.
But this is a totally different instance where he has done a lot of really, really bad shit.
Whereas the Clinton thing, they were shaming a person for a for perjury.
Right. And for an extramarital affair.
That's what they really focused in on.
Absolutely.
And it was, you know, that's just some shit that America's like, all right, we get it.
But that doesn't have anything to do with like the running of the country.
Yeah, that's not a real impeachable offense.
Right.
So, yeah, they just, they did overextend themselves on that one.
But I don't think anybody's going to feel necessarily like this is overextend themselves on that one, but I don't think anybody's going to feel necessarily
like this is overextending themselves
if he has in fact done all the things
that by all evidence it seems like he has done.
And this is also an indication that if you don't do that,
he's going to do it right back
and try and find a way to make his followers think this.
Which is what that whole,
that announcement of being like,
I now pronounce Barr master of propaganda.
Yes.
You know?
Or even, you know,
just the deal that he wanted to make
with Nancy Pelosi for infrastructure.
I mean, that's not a deal.
I mean, walking away is not deal making.
Yeah, it was all pre-planned though.
It was like an ambush
that he really thought he had them. Because a lot of the
reporting was like, they were like,
that doesn't make sense. It's going to be great.
And I don't even put a chair there.
Because I'm going to go in and I'm just going to stand and be like,
fuck you guys. And then I'm out.
And then they'll see.
The real question on everybody's mind, though,
this is on the front page of FoxNews.com.
Can Trump prove
he's the ultimate deal maker
can he prove it I mean he's
like we all know it's true but can he prove
it what anyways
how I think we all get that
alright let's move on to multiple
bankruptcies are proof of
just how good you are at business
can he prove it he
sure he's lost more money
than any American during the years
that we were looking at. What's the text even? What are they even suggesting would prove that,
that he could get something done with Democrats? Because every other president who was going
through any kind of investigations, they were still able to govern. I think they were trying
to kind of push him in the direction. I think Fox News gets that they're the only source of information that he listens
to, so they're trying to nudge him in the right
direction. Like, hey, we'd think you're the ultimate
dealmaker if you just stop making a complete
fucking mockery. This would just be like new
medical research shows
making deals with opposition
increases hand and dick size.
Yeah. Uh-huh.
Just do that.
Alright, we're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. dick size. Just do that. All right.
We're going to take a quick break.
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Up first, I explore
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I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about
women's basketball just because of one
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I ain't really near them.
Why is that?
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and that's what I focus on.
From college to the pros,
Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports.
Angel Reese is a joy to watch.
She is unapologetically black.
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What exactly ignited this fire?
Why has it been so good for the game?
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where we live at the intersection of sports and culture.
Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry,
Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese.
I know I'll go down in history.
People are talking about women's basketball
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Every great player needs a foil.
I ain't really hear them voice.
I just come here to play basketball every single day, and that's what I focus on.
From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports.
Angel Reese is a joy to watch.
She is braggadocious.
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Why has it been so good for the game?
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a good time yeah because normally Oh, that was it playing.
Sorry.
Normally, you know, we always hear guests,
what's happening in their world.
Right, their search history.
Yes, and we also want to let everybody know,
here at the Daily Zeitgeist,
we are also stupid people
who laugh at really dumb shit on the internet.
Often, frequently, and for over and over the same thing yes
uh recently i was playing a track by logic featuring eminem called homicide in the office
and at the very end there was a soundbite of this dude trying to pretend to be eminem like
trying to copy eminem's like rap god super fast flow style right um and i didn't know what it was
and dj dan goes is that that chris d'alia eminem thing i was I didn't know what it was. And DJ Dan goes, is that that Chris D'Elia Eminem thing?
I was like, what?
And then apparently it was just from a YouTube video of Chris D'Elia in his car trying to
rap like Eminem.
Should we just play the clip?
Yeah, let's just play the clip.
Here, this is something we regularly laugh at.
I'm in a cabana chanting on a standard banner.
Well, you don't got the stamina, you're lacking the stamina.
You're lacking the stamina while you're divorcing Harrison Ford andkins and flapping around like a babkin have become probably the. You're using way too many napkins and flapping around like a babkin
have become probably
the most frequently said things
in the office.
Yeah, I think we greet each other with that.
Yeah.
We'll just, apropos of nothing,
we'll just say it.
Flapping around like a babkin.
I'm sorry.
You're using way too many napkins.
At lunch, we deploy that too
when we're eating.
I'll look at someone and be like,
you're using way too many napkins.
And then leave it there.
I mean, I'm DeForest Harrison Ford and the portion of the floorboards.
That one I think is the most accurate to Eminem because it's a combination.
It's like a scene he's setting that makes no fucking sense.
It has the phonetics.
But you're using way too many napkins.
I'm sorry, guys, if you're now hearing this and go, wow.
The fucking idiots. But hey, we're just like're now hearing this and go, wow. Yeah.
The fucking idiots.
But hey, we're just like y'all.
This is who you listen to.
Yeah.
Idiots.
I'm a mom.
The next one, I just want to tell people to check it out.
Stephen A. Smith, Baby Filter.
It's actually not the one.
He already looks like a baby.
Yeah.
That's why it makes it even better when you put the baby filter on.
And so there's one that's like a minute long where it's just a bunch of different clips
of him and they actually have the voice altered.
And that doesn't work as well for me as this.
There's this one on Complex Instagram where they just have an actual quote from him, but
like where his voice isn't altered.
But he looks like a baby and it's incredible because it's just the most Stephen A. Smith
thing that Stephen A. Smith has ever said.
Right.
28 seconds.
You want to just play it real quick?
For people who don't know Stephen A. Smith, he's a commentator, a pundit for sports, and always has just the wildest takes.
And a lot of people hate him.
A lot of people also love him.
A lot of people are kind of me.
I just like to watch and just laugh at him.
I hate him, but this clip makes me have to respect him.
So we'll play this clip.
Derek, if you haven't seen it, just watch this.
Oh, my God.
You have to watch the video, though, because I'm sorry.
This is more of a visual-based one.
Right.
But it's so good.
Every first move as the executive was to sign Lamar Odom, who was on crack.
Sign Lamar Odom, who is on crack? That's a Lamar Odom, who is on crack?
Which, like, for the listeners, that's just an actual Stephen A. Smith book.
Right, yeah.
It looks like a baby.
It's amazing when it looks like a baby.
It's also amazing that that guy has a job.
That's his take.
Who is on crack.
What else?
What else?
And then I think our number one, let's pretend this is a countdown, even though the Chris
DeLeon thing is probably the thing.
We spend the most time talking about this video that we recently discovered.
How did we end up on this video?
For some reason, I think I was asking about john tesh and then super producer
nick stump was like yeah when i was doing road trips with the band like john tesh is kind of
that talk radio that shows up when you're searching for shit on the on the airwaves right and then uh
nick was like saying yo he actually like composes like jingles and stuff yeah and then we come to
find out he wrote the NBA on NBC theme song.
He did.
He's not just a dude from, was it Entertainment Tonight or whatever,
where he got his start?
Yeah.
I think that's the only thing he's done other than.
He toured with Rafi.
Oh, no, no.
With Yanni.
I'm sorry.
Yanni, Yanni, Yanni.
As a touring keyboardist.
So if you don't remember, for people who listen to the show,
I know a lot of you do fuck with 90s basketball,
and you know this song.
Okay, so y'all know that. Okay, so we found a clip where John Tesh is having a fucking concert
and he like one of the pieces he's doing is like all this patters like I actually came up for the
thing on a jog and I left myself a voice note. So what we're about to play is this clip of John Tesh
playing a voicemail to himself with the idea for it.
Live at the Red Rocks.
Yeah.
Sold out crowd, it sounds like.
People are going nuts.
He's wearing, by the way, he's dressed in a,
he's dressed like he's going to the prom.
He's got like a tuxedo vest.
Oh, yeah.
It looks like a prom after party.
Yes.
Because the jacket is gone, the collar's undone a bit, but he's still got the vest on.
Very silky.
He is feeling himself as much as anybody has ever felt themselves.
Prom after party or 90s R&B group.
Yes.
Yeah, exactly.
Definitely a boys to men opening group on tour.
I just found out the Red Rocks thing is mislabeled.
This was actually at the Avalon Ballroom on Catalina Island.
So it's like the Catalina Island wine mixer, basically.
Because the audience looks like it's Coachella for people who don't season their food.
So Coachella.
Yes.
So this one, I'm just going to play you from the voice note.
And then there's a moment you're going to hear a bass drum.
He pantomimes dribbling a basketball and then plays the thing on his keyboard so majestically.
Just here we go. This is just, we'll check out John TZ. Here we go. It's your machine
So here now the original demo tape for this particular song for pro basketball
Is a message for me about the NBA theme here's an idea it goes like this. Boom. Ba-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da he's pant oh and he looks like he does not know how to dribble a ball no he's running to the keyboard about to rip this shit get ready
yeah it's
the violin players that have choreography y'all have to watch this.
He looks like he's coming into the keyboard a little bit at one point
because he's just feeling it so much.
He's so hot.
Wow.
So, y'all, again, that's what we're fucking with.
That is what we're fucking with, guys.
Please look at those.
And you will see those links in the footnotes.
Footnotes?
That John Tash video needs to be seen to be believed
because his version of dribbling a basketball, Footnotes. Footnotes? That John Tash video needs to be seen to be believed. Yeah.
Because his version of dribbling a basketball,
you'd think a tall man like him would have picked up a basketball once or twice in his life.
But he is dribbling like they made a Broadway musical about basketball.
And the actors are doing a dribbling thing.
Yeah, or it's like a lead up to a song.
Right. Yeah, like if Stomp dribbling thing. Yeah, or it's like a lead up to a song. Right.
Yeah, like if Stomp did a basketball thing.
Exactly.
Because it's like very rhythmic,
but it's not like how you dribble a ball.
It looks like he's patting very violently a child's head.
Yeah.
Life is like a free throw.
It's just you and the ball.
But there's a journey to the line
Also written by someone who's never played or watched basketball
Taking a free throw dunk
Doing shots from the ark
From the ark?
What?
Of the Covenant?
Oh, there we go
A Christian-themed basketball musical
There you go
Alright, let's talk about
what pigeon forge tennessee is fucking with there is a new museum that no one asked for
except for me but really that's not we should go actually out of respect i would definitely
definitely go i want to see what the gift shop's like but anyways Forge is a tourist trap haven. There is the Titanic Museum, the Alcatraz East Crime Museum, and of course, Dollywood.
Shout out to Dolly the God.
It's just funny that the Titanic Museum is in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.
And also the Alcatraz East.
In case you can't get to San Francisco, come to pigeon forest tennessee you can knock out titanic
you can knock out alcatraz what did that one plate at that museum dolly dolly parton's uh stampede
used to be dolly parton's dixie stampede uh which is basically medieval times but reenacting the
civil war we've talked about it before on the show i think uh. The audience gets divided into North and South. The South will occasionally win the Civil War.
Slavery is never mentioned.
Yeah, because we're trying to be civil.
Right.
It's about civility there.
Anyways, Pigeon Ford is home to a new attraction,
which opened last week.
It's called National Enquirer Live.
It's a museum dedicated to the national inquire yeah
i mean for all the boy watch fans uh we should definitely pull up a group trip
maybe we need to go to tennessee man yeah because what why wouldn't you choose now to celebrate
the famed tabloid that's been revealed to have allegedly blackmailed jeff bezos and used catch and kill
tactics to bury scandals that could damage the worst president and countless other powerful men
yes yeah i mean the exhibits are fucking lame as fuck and they spent 15 million on this they spent
15 million and they are advertising the shit out of it as a family-friendly attraction, which is weird.
That makes sense from a business perspective.
Yeah.
But the attractions they have are like one of the things they have is a 3D computer model of the car crash that killed Princess Diana.
Oh, God.
And you get to follow her route
as she's chased by the paparazzi.
And then at the end,
after the car crash has destroyed her body
and she's no longer alive,
they ask families to vote
on which conspiracy theory they think is more likely,
that the queen killed her,
that she was pregnant?
Who do you think was involved?
Were the royals even involved?
You know those fun conversations you like to have with your kids?
Yeah.
I'm imagining they have, it's almost like the wax museum where you take your photo and then they put you up on a fake National Enquirer.
Right.
Like local man.
Killed Princess Diana.
Right.
Because she was pregnant with his
baby and they didn't want islamophobia well speaking of uh wax museums they had a i think
the visionary behind this whoever it may be had a dream of a wax museum but they were also like
suffering from a terrible fever because they have a room where you get to see different
Michael Jackson photos recreated in like wax figure form, but he looks like he's like
melting or like it's like a mummified dead body in a lot of them.
It's like a brown face with a curly hair wig on it.
There's nothing Michael Jackson about the fucking thing.
In one, they have a recreation of a photograph of him sleeping in a hyperbaric chamber,
but it doesn't look like him, like Miles said,
and he has a big curly Afro wig on,
but his eyes are yellow, and he turns to you,
and then closes his eyes and rolls back over, back to sleep.
But they gave him thriller eyes, the yellow eyes, which is-
Because they're trying to show maybe he's a monster.
Another fun exhibit for the whole family to enjoy.
A recreation of Nicole Brown Simpson's condo where she was murdered,
complete with her chalk outline.
Oh, boy.
Yeah.
Look, it's like the recreation of the front steps.
Oh, my God.
Like, so what?
And what, this is all supposed to be grammable?
Yeah.
So like, yeah, yeah, yeah, go pose like Nicole.
No, you can't even get there, though.
See, if they wanted it to be successful,
they would charge and ask,
you'd have to show how many Instagram followers you have to be able to get in.
Right. Anyways.
That makes sense. Your kids will thank you.
Oh, sorry, not your kids. Your kids'
therapists will thank you.
Yeah, that is the worst thing. Dad, are we going
to Busch Gardens? Are we going to Disneyland?
No, we're going to the site
where Nicole Brown was murdered.
No, we're going to find out how
Princess Diana really died.
Who's Princess Diana?
Shut up.
Shut the fuck up.
I think it was the royals because they didn't like Dodi Al-Fayed.
There's also a room full of celebrity portraits that will follow you around the room just for extra.
So that entire place is just built of nightmares.
Yeah, it's built of what a bad trip would be.
They're like, how do we make sure that anybody coming here on a hallucinogen will lose their
mind?
If you're Zeitgang and you're in the Pigeon Forge area.
Yeah.
Go on mushrooms.
If you go, hit me up and maybe we'll talk to you to get a firsthand account of what
the fuck that was like.
That would be amazing.
Because I'm only reading the descriptions and I'm weirded the fuck out.
So please, if you are in the Pigeon Forge area, contact me at MilesOfGrey on Twitter, and let's try and figure something out.
Yeah, I mean, the only way we could get any worse, any more nightmares, is that at the end of the tour, they asked you, like, would you like to give a skin donation?
Right.
It was like, we build all of our sculptures from donations.
Right.
It's like, here, swab your cheek with this Q-tip.
Find out.
Learn about your alleles.
Well, Derek, it's been a pleasure having you, man.
Thank you, guys.
This is, I think, I'm punching my third.
Punching third.
Yeah, punching your third stamp.
Third stamp.
Yeah, next one you get a free coffee.
Oh, I love it.
I love it. Sorry I made you pay for that one today, but hot your third stamp. Third stamp. Fourth one's free. Yeah, next one you get a free coffee. Oh, I love it. I love it.
Sorry I made you pay for that one today, but hot water's expensive.
It is, and it's only going to get more expensive because climate change.
Where can people find you?
So I actually just launched a podcast myself about patriarchy and masculinity, if you're
into that thing.
It's just interviewing some guys, some gals, and some non-binary pals about identity, sexuality, patriarchy and masculinity if you're into that thing it's just uh interviewing some guys some gals and some non-binary pals about uh identity sexuality uh patriarchy obviously i scheduled
scheduled miles for this summer a couple months ago yeah jack if you want to you want to jump in
on that too i'd love to uh so that is called mansplain yourself because of course it is
it's on itunes soundcloud you can find me on Twitter at my first and last name, Derek Lemos, or on Insta.
I'm talking a lot of shit, so just strap in and be mindful of that.
I will talk all of the shit.
How are you spelling Lemos?
L-E-M-O-S.
Oh, so you changed it up.
Like lemons, but no N.
There you go.
And D-E-R-R-I-C-K.
Yeah, I'm using the oil Derek spelling.
There you go.
There you go. There you go.
And is there a tweet you've been enjoying?
There's several tweets that I've been enjoying.
There was one the other day.
It was what brought up the milkshake thing.
You know, she is a, I think she's a good journalist.
I honestly don't remember.
I think she's a good journalist.
I honestly don't remember.
But she had a really nice tweet thread about what embarrassment does to these guys.
Because, like you were saying, their egos are ginormous and they really want to present strong and fierce and we're not afraid of anything.
But getting dunked on by a milkshake, you can't look tough.
And if you beat somebody up over a milkshake,'s like dude you're a fucking asshole so it is kind
of the perfect tool to
combat what they are presenting
because it just breaks everything
right
welcome up
find me on twitter and instagram
at miles of
gray you can find
me on playstation network also too you know psyching we're trying
to get this raid done if your gear score is not 500 don't fuck around okay we're trying to get
this raid done also don't even start min maxing your shit okay now i know what that means it's
all good go ahead it's all good man two tweets i like one from dan white at at dan white please
donate to my crowd rise fundraising campaign
this november i'm running the new york city marathon to raise money for jp morgan chase
and then jamie lofty tweeted this fucking image dude of when i watch tv shows i don't really see
the commercials but apparently jack had seen it it was like this thing for shake hydro silk
with this like anthropomorphized razor for women uh and it's just really odd
looking and jamie tweeted i think i finally figured out which character in the mcu i'd like
to play razor bitch a couple tweets i've been enjoying at drill tweeted having to spell the
word lunch instead of saying it so the boys don't get too excited, uh,
which is something for parents out there.
And it implies that they're not feeding their kids.
Uh,
and Joel Kim booster tweeted,
uh,
if I had a nickel for every time someone wrote,
we get it.
You're gay.
In response to one of my standup clips,
it wouldn't really move the needle for me financially as I'm already very
successful and rich.
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We link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as the song we read out on.
Miles, what's that going to be?
This is a new track from Flying Lotus and Denzel Curry, one of my favorite MCs.
And you know what?
It's not like typical Fly Low
production. He's coming back on some boom bap
sample bass hip hop type shit,
which I like because I
am old and I am stuck in
1997 musically.
Thank you. I don't know. I've never heard
that sound and I don't like it. It sounds like a weird
trumpet and I don't know what it is. But this one's called
Black Balloons Reprise, Flying Lotus, Denzel
Curry off the new album, La Magra.
Oh, are there references to the
Goo Goo Dolls in there? Because Baby's Black
Balloon is an amazing
song. I'll have to look on the Genius
for the lyrics to see if they're talking about
heroin. Did you know it's really about
drugs? Oh, you just said that. I just said that.
Never mind. And I was also there when...
You didn't know that though, right? I did not know that.
Because I was 12 when that song came out.
I just said that.
Right.
Miles, did you know?
Yeah, bro.
I just said that shit.
That's your producer, Anna.
She knows what the Goo Goo Dolls song is about.
Uh-oh.
Wow.
She literally rolled...
She just walked out of the room.
She just rolled her eyes so hard at you, she warped.
My new favorite thing. Alright, we're gonna
ride out on that. We will be back tomorrow because
of this daily podcast, and we'll talk to you guys then.
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Shattered and lost, chattering soft, blabbering off
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