The Daily Zeitgeist - More Media Malarkey, NO SPORTS FOR AMERICA 8.28.20
Episode Date: August 28, 2020In episode 704, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Chinedu Unaka to discuss the RNC sham, white supremacy in our country and in the Kenosha police department, Tucker Carlson's racism, the NBA and t...he WNBA strike, Dr. Fauci being under anesthesia when the CDC changed their covid-19 testing guidelines, and more!FOOTNOTES: Democrats say RNC ignores Trump record on coronavirus pandemic, economy Kenosha devolved into anarchy because the authorities abandoned the people. Those in charge, from the governor on down, refused to enforce the law. They’ve stood back and watched Kenosha burn. Are we really surprised that looting and arson accelerated to murder? KENOSHA COUNTY SHERIFF VICIOUS WORDS FOR BLACK SUSPECTS IN 2018 NBA, WNBA Players Stage Playoff Strike Days After Police Shoot Jacob Blake Fauci Says He Was Under Anesthesia When CDC Changed COVID-19 Testing Guidelines WATCH: SaiB - Nightflight Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 148, episode 5 of Dirt Daily Zeitgeist, a It's out of this world. Fuck Buck Saxon. Fuck Ben Shapiro. Fuck Tucker Carlson. Especially fuck Tucker Carlson.
I mean, Fox News, they got to, I mean, they shut the shit down now.
Shut the fucking thing down.
Like, you know, we let them scream for fucking white supremacist violence from the treetops for long enough.
It's Friday, August 28th, 2020.
My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a.
it's friday august 28th 2020 my name is jack o'brien aka where you can tell by the way i do my walk my thighs are thin and white as chalk nipples high up on my chest and when i smoke
weed i get all stressed but it's all right it's okay you can tune in every day wow i started too
high on that man yes okay I can't keep it going.
It was a good one, but, Podge, I fucked it up.
I love it.
And I apologize.
It was good efforts, though.
My band teachers say wrong and strong.
You know what I mean?
Don't back off of it.
Come in high.
And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray.
Oh, yes.
It's Miles Gray, a it's miles gray aka the experimental
belgian artist your boy kusama thank you so much for coming through today
uh and uh we're right back where we started it feels like every damn time uh we're thrilled
to be joined in our third seat by the very funny comedian Chinadu Yunaka.
Yo, yo, what's up, guys?
What's happening, man?
How you doing?
My man, Jack.
How are you?
Appreciate you guys bringing me on.
Always a pleasure.
Always a pleasure.
Just dealing with it like everybody else.
Yeah.
Dealing with, yeah, many, every day we add a little bit more to the fucking stew.
Just a little sprinkle.
Yeah.
I can't believe. It's a little bit more to the fucking stew. Just a little sprinkle. I can't believe.
Just a little more seasoning. I watched the fucking video rendering of the unsurvivable storm surge.
You know how the Weather Channel does the video?
Like, this is what a three-feet storm surge looks like in six.
That was so just freaky to me.
And I'm just adding to the visual palette of this year.
It's really
something else really really wow what i i didn't see it what is you know how like the weather
channel does like those wild ass computer renderings of like this is what a f3 tornado
looks like and a guy will be like on a green screen like a digital house just like be shredded
and they're like that's why you got to get the fuck out so with this one they're talking about
the uh the storm surge from the hurricane and they're
saying it's unsurvivable which is something you don't say often and this is why at three feet
this is what the and like you know if the guy's like superimposed on the streets right up there
he's like this is what is six feet he's like at three feet cars are moving around and they're
lifted right at six feet right they're flying around you know what i mean and then at nine feet
uh you can the whole city's under water.
Like, I mean, yeah, unless you were like in a five-story building and you can retreat to a higher floor.
But it's, yeah, like that was.
And then so at the end of that clip, the guys are like, and that is why you must escape immediately and you must evacuate.
And, you know, my thoughts are with all those people.
I'm fucking everybody on earth right now, literally.
So who isn't my heart
going out to except for the republicans it's always that one guy though thinks he could survive
the hurricane no matter what and he's usually right too yeah somehow he just it's like that
friend who like never got caught drunk driving in college and you're like i'm telling you man
it's gonna end like don't do this shit and they're like he left don't do it he took his keys
and like i don't know he fucking stole them and somehow never yeah
dies at age right exactly right and you're like how you do it how'd you do it you were
actively trying to like cut this thing short but okay facts he's like i got really good at it a
lot of yeah i had a friend no joke who had that sort of like terrible confidence about like driving
buzzed and shit and we would never drive with him but one time we we knew he was going towards an intersection that had a checkpoint and we're like
oh he's done yeah like here it comes karma baby like every he got waved through the checkpoint
and that's when we were like oh this there's he made some kind of deal with some higher power
that we don't know about yet power facts all white guy of course yeah who also you know
low-key he will used to tell people he was sean white and try and get like free drinks at bars
and shit yeah the the redheads are uh you know not not threatening looking the cops are like yeah
that was something that i always thought i was lucky that i didn't get pulled over drunk driving
but that's yeah now you're like come to find out that was some weight privilege putting everybody
at fucking risk yeah does does trump count as a redhead is he oh yeah i guess he is what is that
because i yeah because right before that i was thinking yo redheads you never hear problems from them then i was thinking oh shit is trump yeah yeah like what's that cmyk process number
like color for there like what's the pantone code for his hair i'm curious what color that
actually is don't go for his skin i guess would be similar whatever the the closest
his hair is skin yeah Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Dangerous game to play.
All right.
Chinna do.
We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment.
First,
we're going to tell our listeners a few of the things we're talking about.
We're not really going to talk about the RNC.
Fuck them.
At this point,
we are going to talk about the bullshit media coverage of the terrorist in
Wisconsin who went around shooting people with a long rifle and
just walked through the police like he was a like he was a 17 year old white kid i mean what country
are we in we'll look at uh how the media has responded to that we'll hear from the chief of
police in kenosha uh we'll talk about the NBA strike. We'll talk about the CDC.
We'll figure out what
our Netflix top 10 is, what we're going to
re-watch over the weekend.
All of that, plenty more. But first,
Chinna, do we like to ask our guests, what is something
from your search history that
is revealing about who you are?
I was trying to buy a weight bench
and spend a couple of weeks
looking at different weight
bench.
You know, the gym's been closed, and I'm trying to avoid getting too chunky.
I say you look less swole than normal.
I feel like when I first met you in person, I'm like, oh, this dude works out.
Yeah, usually my titty is popping through my shirt.
Yeah, so I just bought a weight bench and just got here.
So now I got to buy dumbbell i gotta buy dumbbells but dumbbells
are super expensive and aren't they like on back order like every motherfucker in the country is
buying dumbbells it's insane bro but you can't they're not gonna get here all the ones i found
and on top of that they're like 170 pounds it's supposed to be i think a dollar per pound but now
it's like 170 for like some 60pound dumbbells per dumbbell. 60?
I don't know.
It might take a week.
I'm over here.
Yeah.
I got some 40s, but there's kind of light.
Okay.
Light to you.
To me, I'm fucking breaking my arms trying to lift that shit.
Takes time.
There was a time I was trying to make the NBA a long time ago. Oh, yeah.
Right, right, right.
You know the economy is fucked up when we have wizardry, wizardry of, like, smartphones and those cost nothing and then dumbbells.
Like, the thing that you could come from the 1800s and be like, yeah, okay, that's what we had back then.
Right.
But, yeah, shit that would have seemed like, you know, magic.
I guess what's the alternative?
Like, you tie up a bunch of resistance bands
together to try and get like that same thing but it just doesn't doesn't hit the same just
just hella right yeah but that's annoying because my wrist is like kind of swollen a little bit
because i do so many uh so i don't know yeah damn but the weight bench is good because i was using
like this table in my living room but now it I was kind of fucking up the table after a certain amount of time.
Yeah, it's a weight bench.
I'm definitely going to go ahead and buy a weight bench, bro.
And it took forever to get here because of USPS.
It's hard to go pick it up.
They're supposed to bring it to me.
They pretend like they did, but I never left home that day.
They just left a sign that said, hey, we couldn't.
You weren't here.
No one knocked me up here.
They do that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Who can blame them right now?
Their whole fucking livelihood being fucked with.
I don't want to fucking see anyone.
Facts.
Yeah.
They're overworked.
The staff is being cut.
People should just be like, you know what?
We're cool on that stuff for a little bit.
Work on the post.
I mean, after seeing that fucking incision,
like the surgical dismantling by Ayanna Pressley
and a bunch of other people on Capitol Hill
of the Postmaster General,
like you really got to see firsthand.
I mean, we played one clip a couple of days ago
about how he didn't know how most of the postage worked.
And then when he was like asked about specific questions
about how COVID was impacting like the postal service,
he was just wholly unprepared.
It really paints a picture that
they just found some goon to go in there
and completely fuck it up. Has no idea.
Yeah, just random guy. Really. Facts.
It's more about not who's capable
of the job, but who will do it. Yeah, yeah.
Who's got the lack of soul to get the job done?
Who can I buy?
That's all it is. Who can I buy?
That's it it what is something
you think is overrated something i think is overrated probably uh a lot of things but
recently i got a lot of flack for saying uh baked beans was better than mac and cheese
and i still i still stand in that i'm not i'm not budging i never got that much that much hate in
my dmc i i think and cheese is super overrated.
I'm never upset if there's no mac and cheese at a Thanksgiving event or a barbecue.
I'm lactose intolerant, mind you, but I've had mac and cheese.
I enjoy mac and cheese.
Usually cheese doesn't bother me, so I can have it.
But I just don't understand the obsession obsession i don't understand the uh yeah the
obsession you know you know what's really good grilled chicken with some baked beans like that
combination is so fucking good also when you have like see the thing with mac and cheese and look
maybe not maybe i'll join you chinadu in the the fires of reply guy hell on twitter
but you know what i mean like i get it you know it's noodles and cheese and i love craft man i
love that shit too but it's never like a thing where i've never i've had many look i've seen i
have all kinds of mac and cheese in my life but i tend to get more surprised when i have a really
good batch of beans that someone has made
like i'm like what the fuck is this from a camp and i'm like you made this or like you go to a
barbecue restaurant and their beans like they're cooking it with like their pork and shit like
that and you're like oh my god savory all the you know you get surprised by some spices it's like
this little meat it could be oh yeah you know mac and cheese like mac and do you guys like
cheese pizza i hate cheese pizza so i think the same people that like mac and cheese are like
cheese piece of people it just feels like it's undone like oh you can expand that's why i think
like look don't get me wrong like a fray i had a fancy like mac and cheese that had smoked brisket
in it that was delicious but then we're but now we're going to somewhere different yeah it's lasagna now
but yeah i feel like the mac and cheese is one of those dishes kind of like ketchup when the more
uh skill and effort and like money is put into like trying to fancy it up the worse it is, whereas Kraft mac and cheese is pretty
fucking good. Love spirals.
Woo!
If you give me your
bespoke ketchup,
I'm not
interested. Give me Heinz.
Oh, yeah. When people come through
with that super
fancy shit, I'm like, no.
It has to be genetically modified for me to eat it
i'm sorry that's just those are the rules and i feel like with the if i put mac and cheese and
beans like on a in my buffet bracket or something and i don't and i'm not gonna say one advances
over the other but i will say this i have a greater experience being like having a good
bean baked bean like at the table then they're not being
mac and cheese yeah i mean i don't feel that pain as hard like when there's good beans i'm like
sometimes they'll be like you're just eating the beans and i'm like yeah i don't know i'm a bean
guy beans are fire beans are kind of unfuckable i haven't had too many bad baked beans in my life
yeah yeah i mean i would imagine can they smell right i mean i've been i
had a good success rate too i haven't ran into a bad fact luckily when they come from a can
they're very consistent yeah i like not a fan not a fan of refried beans you're not a fan of
refried beans oh my god i love all the black and all their forms i love black beans over refried
okay i like black beans better yeah yeah yeah but some baked beans. I like eating some baked beans in their natural environment
over a trash can fire
down by the railroad.
Yeah, yes.
With your fingerless gloves on.
Yeah, exactly.
What do they call it? Frostbite?
Yeah, exactly.
I love how much energy
you're putting into this to not be reminded
how fucked the country is right now.
I know.
I'm almost like,
yeah, love these beats.
Let me tell you about
a good beat.
It's whatever you gotta do.
It's whatever you gotta do
to get to tomorrow.
I know, I know.
I'm like realizing,
I'm like, damn,
I'm really hyped up
and I'm also like,
this is helping me forget
all this other shit right now.
Yeah, you gotta step away
so you can come back
more energized, you know yeah what is uh what's
something you think is underrated something is underrated uh man walking walking is underrated
i didn't realize i wasn't a walker till the pandemic because i got flat feet so i can't
i don't like running outside uh but i needed some kind of cardio bro so i just been walking
in the neighborhood usually when i used to see see old people walking, I'm like, man, being old.
My mom and dad used to walk back in the day a lot, all the time.
I never joined them.
But now walking is just very, it's a bit of a workout.
And I get a lot of stuff done.
I love making phone calls to friends while I walk.
I like grabbing a little Jamba juice.
Oh, what flavor?
It's actually called Jamba now, isn't it? Just J it just jamba is this jamba yeah we were covering that because they
wanted to they didn't want to pigeonhole themselves they want to corner themselves and
they didn't want you to think that it's just jamba juice there even though i couldn't tell you i mean
i know i remember i used to work by jamba juice and i'll go there on my lunch break and the
pretzels were trash so i just kept it to the fucking juices yeah the pretzels were trash, so I just kept it to the fucking juices. Yeah, the pretzels were way too rough.
The oatmeal's not bad.
But yeah, no disrespect to Jamba Juice.
I didn't realize.
My cousin told me they can't call it Jamba Juice because there's no actual juice in it.
It's like KFC, that urban legend from middle school.
They got hella fruits.
The fruits are just a disclaimer.
That's like the urban legend where it was like,
they have to call it KFC because it's not really chicken.
It's like.
It's grown in a lab.
They don't have heads.
I'm like, all right, bro.
That's like what your health store mother told you in the early 90s and shit.
Right.
Yeah, I'm more of like an acai bowl guy.
I used to be a mango go-go.
Mango go-go was my jam.
I'm a Caribbean passion guy.
Caribbean passion is nice.
That's like for special days.
You know what I'm saying?
Gotcha, gotcha.
Mango go-go is consistent.
You feel me?
That's a normal Tuesday right there.
But Caribbean passion, that's a Saturday.
That's a weekend spot.
Have some vodka in your pocket.
Oh, I like that a lot.
Oh, yeah, like jamba daiquiris
wow that would be something i would you know if like when vegas well vegas is open already
because they don't give a fuck but like when people it goes back to full like full steam
you know how like there's always like those daiquiri bars in like littered all over vegas
like if jamba just had one that they're like these will get you fucking tipped i prop they would probably have like the biggest line out the back i think
yeah 100 you know it's funny i promise you somebody at jamba corporate pitched it and it
was shut down and like he was so hyped about it too he got his rest that night woke up yeah
he's like oh he had a presentation i call it jamba after dark and they're
like for the last time we're not selling all right what about a jackery it's like no
jamboree
um yeah walking is i i think people are starting to
appreciate walking again
I mean that was a big
it was a big thing I think
throughout history like
I know Ben Franklin was like
loved to talk about walking
and like how like that was a
big revelation in his autobiography
was like and people don't
understand but walking is really good for you most people try
to avoid it but then like
the jogging craze came around
but now I think something about just
getting the fuck out of your house and
also the fact that Paul Rudd said that
the way he got into shape for Ant-Man was
walking no he didn't
walking that's what he said
he said walking was his secret
yeah I thought it was i thought
it was cg wait was he like super cut up in that movie uh just like compared to where he was before
i guess before i always just see him as just relatively paul ruddish so okay yeah i didn't
know he had that walker bod well it's because i walk in like it doesn't really count in your head doesn't count right
so you're working out again that day without even realizing it you know so i was just missing out we
don't realize like how many steps we're missing yeah during the quarantine then you know i started
putting on some weight i was like okay i gotta figure out what's going on i realized i just
hadn't been walking right it's like usually would, just doing the internship.
And so, yeah,
I would just like kind of walk around the neighborhood and like I'll find some things I can do
while I walk to kind of, you know,
be productive at the same time.
Yeah.
Podcast, reading books.
You can do a bunch of stuff.
Call people if you are an extrovert,
but I don't know.
In Jack's case,
you dial the number and you're about to hit send and you're
like ah fuck it i don't know what i'm gonna say and that's to my mom i don't know what i'll say
to her i don't know she'll think i'm an idiot uh finally what is a myth what's something people
think is true you know to be false uh let me see a myth i would say that i heard is is that is that true about the the penny
dropping a penny from the empire state building will it kill you if it lands on your head oh
right the thing was like if you dropped a penny it could go from the top of your skull like to
like out your butthole or something right like straight yeah yeah just like something some real
brain damage i don't think that's true and um don't know the science behind it. Maybe it is true. There was actually a whole
Mythbusters episode, apparently.
Yeah.
Could it actually kill you?
50 miles per hour it could reach?
It seems like the drag
would slow it down
too much. It also seems
like we would constantly be getting
killed by stuff falling into the
sky. Just all the like we would constantly be getting killed by stuff falling into the yeah
from the sky just all the yeah satellite like bird poop bird shit yeah yeah I've
been shit on by the bird wave higher up right and I got concussed yeah I couldn't
see straight I can't add no more, but it died.
There have been cases of it raining fish,
raining frogs and stuff from a weather pattern that picked up a bunch of animals in a lake somewhere
and just dropped them miles and miles away.
And you don't hear about that killing people.
No, they say just because it's all so flat,
there's just so much air resistance.
So even by the time it hits you, you just go, what the fuck? Someone throw a penny at me. Yeah. So no, they say just because it's also flat, there's just so much air resistance. So even by the time it hits you,
you just move the fuck.
Someone throw a penny at me.
Right.
The thing you don't want to get hit by is like a pole or something like that.
That was,
I remember that was like one of the,
uh,
weapons that the Nazis,
I think we're looking into during world war throwing poles out.
The plane dropping poles from space onto people wait
no way dropping poles from space yeah like just to go that high and then be like all right fuck
it dump these poles out and like let's just see what happens yes but i think i think it was supposed
to be targeted and the nazis had some big ideas yeah i remember there's like a gun the size of a
fucking mountain that like not like meth hitler thought up on one of his benders they were all on meth the whole time so
oh for sure yeah that would freak me out polls from did you yeah the sky did you ever take like
i remember i went on a like eighth grade trip to the empire state building and i was i that
shit was ringing through my head at the time i was like i could kill
someone up here yeah but then you realize but then it's all caged up you know like they have
like those nets so even if you tried to throw some shit it probably wouldn't get through
and that only furthered i'm like oh shit you could really fucking kill somebody that's why
so i never questioned it after that.
They put the nets up for kids.
Right, exactly.
And then you respect the heights.
Because then you have to take that moment where you're like, am I a cold-blooded penny killer?
And you're like, no, I'm not.
I love my mother.
Right.
You throw like a handful of coins off the top and you just, in the back of your head, you just keep checking the newspaper it has to be like like like old man finds rare coin and on like sidewalk in front of empire
state building worth fifty thousand dollars i'm like what the fuck you're you're calling like
hospitals nearby like hey was there any uh reports of pennies going through somebody a guy coming
fully splashed you know like a pocket of change just embedded in his
skull um right like who is this there was another thing where uh like a physicist was saying like
even if there was no air drag like it could probably fuck your skull up but not to the
point it's gonna drill through your body so okay just to give just so we can set the record straight
you know you're safe.
All right.
I haven't seen a penny in a very long time.
I know.
The coin shortage.
Seriously.
It's like the new fucking $100 bill.
The new dumbbells.
All right. Let's take a quick break.
We'll be right back.
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But you know, perfect, right?
Because it completely sums up what the mentality is of conservative white America,
which is we can retreat into our whiteness and ignore a lot of these things
and not mention a word about COVID, unemployment, people struggling,
fucking repeated killings and shootings of unarmed
black and brown people in this country they're just like let's just circle jerk to fucking donald
trump and do that whole thing mike pence out here just lying he's saying like an officer was killed
during the oakland riots uh by a far right boogaloo boy but you left that part out because
you need to keep this narrative going that people's quest for equality is somehow violence.
But the only thing that it's violence toward is the existing structure of white supremacy.
So that says a lot.
You know, you're afraid of the structure coming down.
But it's shit.
This is like the fucking epic battle of our times that we're witnessing is trying to have a real reckoning
with this shit and the media just fucking continues to do their thing to send people in every which
direction which direction yeah bro it's hard to keep track of like i would imagine for people
you know who just they're not that smart it's hard for them to keep track of the truth, you know, because now like misinformation is rapid, you know, it's just everywhere.
And it's hard to find out for those who just don't know who struggle with that, you know, just in school in general, like what's, and they just spew lies because it's inflammatory, and it builds up the ratings.
That's all it's about.
It's just entertainment.
And they'll put one hour of truth in there so they can still be legitimized.
And then go to the—
And the rest, 23 hours.
White power hour.
It's just bullshit.
Or white power five hours, whatever, when the opinion team kicks off yeah so it's just it's
yeah and again every fucking time right a white person kills a black person whatever it's the
same fucking playbook every damn time just this 17 year old little boy who pulled up with illegal
firearms that he shouldn't have been
in possession of or even crossed state lines with uh he was cleaning up graffiti just before he
started murdering people like that was like the new like a lot of people were showing in the new
york post the juxtaposition of their sort of coverage this young man he's he's out here
cleaning graffiti and then jacob blake he's like you know he's got his hat on there's, he's out here cleaning graffiti. And then Jacob Blake, he's like, you know, he's got his hat on.
He's at a head shop or something.
And Jacob Blake had a knife in his car.
That's why he deserves seven back shots in front of his kids
who are so traumatized by that entire ordeal at such a young age.
Yeah, like it's, man.
That graffiti thing kind of underlines
this thing that I keep coming across.
Some right-wing dude got my mentions
and was, like, showing me video of, like, a building burning
and being like, how could you, like, say that they're peaceful protesters
and, like, meanwhile, that kid who you are complaining about
is under arrest like acting
like these are two equal sides of the same coin that like destroying property and murder taking
someone's life well are the are the same side the only way you get to that that logic is if you
completely remove the dimension of white supremacy and racist oppression
in this country if you if that doesn't exist then your mind goes like well it's a level playing
field and that's what they choose to do and that's what they choose to do you know like it can't
people like that do not have the capacity to sort of really understand or see the nuance not even
nuance this shit is out in the street are getting clapped in like on camera.
And it's still like, well, I don't know.
I mean, he'd had a knife somewhere in the car.
That's not what what is like.
Again, we we're also failing to see that a lot of these cops go out there with this very biased idea or perception of black men and women to that.
Oh, this is predatory.
Black bodies are predatory.
Black bodies are disposable.
Therefore, fuck it.
This guy's going to his car. I just point blank just shoot them uh yeah and like
when i saw the video it just seemed like the dude was the cop um wanting him to go to his car he had
plenty of time to to stop him if he really wanted to he wanted a reason to shoot him and i know those
cops don't even have body cams yet. And so I'm pretty sure he
probably checked the surroundings and didn't think he was being recorded. That's the only
reason he had the confidence to shoot him so many times in the back, you know, and the reason they
shoot you so many times, cause they don't want you to be alive, to be a witness to your murder.
And so it's a lot. And I think there's too much pressure on those who aren't professionals to
act accordingly. I'm not a police officer. The
police officer job is to be able to maintain composure and de-escalate a situation. Why are
you putting all that onus on a victim or even a criminal, right? Even if you're guilty, that
necessarily means you should be murdered in the streets. You feel me? Yeah, because the punishment
doesn't feel right. And so- Because the very disingenuous track is sort of being like well then they shouldn't have been doing this it's like well hold on
are you saying that's if to be to be paralyzed from gunfire is a fitting uh like uh outcome
and that's intent to kill you shoot someone seven times like your your intent is not to
hurt them or paralyze them you are trying to kill them in front of their children.
So, I mean, along with that, you know, Tucker Carlson got on his shit and was, you know, had this whole opening monologue trying to make deify this young man.
And he said, how shocked are we?
This is a quote.
How shocked are we that 17 year olds with rifles decided they had to maintain order when no one else would?
And basically goes on to say, well, this is what happens.
It gets so lawless and you get kids out there.
Then they have guns.
It's the environment that's so bad.
And then it's not this kid.
But this idea of like.
A maintaining order.
How shocked are we that seven this statement?
maintaining order how shocked are we that seven this statement the real statement is should be are we shocked that after the non-stop uninterrupted mass murder of black and brown
people with no end in sight that people would take to the streets in solidarity to push back
against the systemic racism in this country that's what that's where the that's where there
shouldn't be surprised not about oh this i mean look what happens no no no you're you're everybody wants
to miss the point why people are in the street why people are angry and just treat this as like
you know the democratic city's running wild and like these young kids gotta now be the new police
what the fuck are y'all talking about yeah and it should also be like tucker should be speaking
to himself you know about himself like how shocked are we that a 17 year old white kid
picks up you know ak-47 when me myself tucker carson is constantly painting misrepresenting
these protesters as violent as looters as people who who are here to take over a country and just cause complete anarchy.
How shocked are we when we completely misrepresent the Black Lives Matter movement?
That's really what it's about.
You cause that young boy to grab a gun and go out there and think he was some kind of renegade.
You cause, you're a part of this.
You have blood in your hands.
Him, Donald Trump, that whole fucking crew.
Someone tweeted, I wish that was my bodyguard she's like i wish he was my president
and this is what we're saying they are calling for open violence against us in our pursuit of
equality just straight up yeah that's what that is and the fbi they've been being like hey man
white supremacist extremism we're putting that shit on the same level as ISIS. Yeah, I want to see you do that then.
Yeah, but I think Christopher Wray was saying, like,
a lot of their domestic terrorism cases have mostly been involving white supremacists.
Like, he testified to that point.
Of course.
And all of these people who have been committing mass shootings and shit too
are all of the same mindset.
And this is the fucking road we're
going down and that's why i'm like i can't believe fox you know i i at this point tucker carlson is
barely like though he made the most money thing in 2017 between 2018 and 2019 combined he didn't
even make what he made in 2017 because he was lost so much ad revenue but But the problem is Fox News, they negotiate their rates with cable providers
so hard that even if they had nearly zero ad revenue, they could still make money as a network.
That's why they're able to do this. And there was an interesting thread I was reading on Twitter that
a lot of these cable providers actually need to begin renegotiating their rates with Fox News,
because that's the only way they can begin to actually
eat into the business model where the exodus of ad revenue will affect their programming.
Because now they're just sort of like, what they do is they get their viewers all gassed up and
saying like, oh, your cable provider is trying to censor Fox News. Really, when they're just
trying to negotiate with them, be like, dude, you can't charge us this much per subscribe. No, we're not doing this. But ultimately, if you have cable,
that cost is passed on to you too. So in a way, people who actually subscribe to cable, even if
you fuck with Fox News or not, you actually help subsidize their profits even by having a cable
plan. So there are other ways to really look at this because i mean yeah the divesting
from fox movement i hope continues to grow because yeah this is just it just gets more
more aggressive until you know tucker carlson is going to say white people it's time get your guns
and just shoot anybody who doesn't agree with you because that's the only way we're going to
save this country like that's you know that's straight up like i mean yeah the white supremacy is getting
more and more open and violent and open about the violence and i don't know where like we have no
breaks in place to to stop it at this point like they're cheering on the open hunting and murder
of people demonstrating for racial justice this kid was front and center
at a trump rally recently as a staunch blue lives matter advocate uh there's a there was a very
successful go fund me uh launched for him uh until go fund me took it down like it's it's open like
it's it's happening right now.
And I don't... I mean, it just looks different, right?
Because I think we're thinking like,
oh, people are going to pull up in a field
and do it old school.
But it's the police and police sympathizers
just doing whatever the fuck they want to
and can walk off into the night
getting a high five they've been fantasizing about it for decades in their gun ads and on
fox news and you know televising talking about how uh there were intruders coming into somebody's
house and then they took care of it themselves. Those stories are overrepresented drastically on Fox News because they want people to believe in this.
They want people.
They know people want to.
It's cynical.
They know people want to believe in that.
Well, there's also this thing where Americans and America in general just has a fear of itself that most people cannot admit exists.
There's a level of self-awareness
that comes along with seeing how your country treats its own people and it's quote-unquote
enemies abroad so and i was just you know going through like reddit nba subreddit was been trashed
the last couple days going on twitter just kind of seeing like what the line of attack has been
with a lot of conservatives and it's all the same thing and it's all sort of built around this idea that they understand how inhumane this country is because
it'll say these are like just straight up replies i've seen to people with political takes on
twitter they said well if we defund the military some country will invade us and completely destroy
us oh like we do because i know you you see how the united states army and military does shit abroad
so you in some way there's a level of awareness uh or you say if the police are abolished it will
be chaos and people won't be defending us from thugs oh in the way that marginalized communities
are not defended from the police thugs um or if black people get more power they might do to us
what they've what we've been doing to
them for hundreds of years there's this deep down knowledge that they know how fucked up it is that's
why there's even the imagination to envision these scenarios in which the uh guardrails that maintain
oppressive racism like if those are lifted what could happen and the racial power structure is
inverted or even rebalanced uh and that's what's like really fascinating to me on some level because
they know the you know like they know what like what the ugliness of this country is but they
just don't want to engage with that part to make it better it's just like oh i'm gonna just use
that to freak the fuck out of myself yeah and they can't because it will make them you know hypocrites and so yeah i don't really
realize like i don't even know if like fox news truly believe in the shit that they say
i just think it's really about when they check their their numbers tucker carlson show does the
most and so others try to imitate it you know i'm saying because they just it's just it's really just about following the money yeah i think um i think they think they're pulling their
punches the stuff that they really believe they can't actually say on air but we saw tucker
carlson's head writer for the past you know i think it was like a decade uh got caught posting
like misogynistic and racist shit on online like the they feel like
well we just can't say the truth but the truth is yeah you know they're like damn just go on my
hatred on and you could really hear my takes you know what i mean but yeah i mean living this lie of white supremacy is part of every white American soul as it is.
And they can't fully acknowledge the injustice of it without,
you know,
cracking open.
They want to do everything they can to avoid that.
And they work so hard to avoid acknowledging that yeah i think there's like
there's two issues right there's one where you have like white folks who believe that they are
truly superior to others and then the other issue is that of those that believe that everything
some white folks believe that everything is already on an even playing field that there was
no you know it's this issue of systemic oppression past or present or future.
And so I think it's two crowds. Right. There's one who believe like, no, man, none of that shit exists.
All that stuff is over with as other people who truly believe in like, yes, we are superior.
Let's go overtake. Let's go do that. Let's go do that. We we deserve these things, you know.
And so it's it's it's two issues that they're that's cool yeah but
they're weighing down the same side you know what i mean it's just like that yeah it's like is there
a way to get you know people who straight up believe in their heart like you know evil racist
motherfuckers like yeah there's no there's really not much hope for anything like that but i i don't
know if there is a also one for very uncomfortable white people who don't want to you know have a
reckoning with this country's history.
Uh,
and actually understand like that's,
you know,
we,
that was,
you weren't alive then,
you know what I mean?
You weren't working for Andrew Jackson.
Don't worry.
Uh,
but at the same time,
like think about where you're living now.
And that just in general,
like we have a duty to each other to just make sure that we live in a good
place for everybody.
but unfortunately I think because the country doesn't give a fuck about most people like that that creates an
attitude of not giving a fuck about other people too because that's the that's the signal we get
from the government's like well you're poor i don't give a fuck and even if you're white you
might be like oh you're being a president i don't give a fuck the government didn't give a fuck about
me so why should i don't want why do i give a fuck about anybody else yeah it's that it's that
individualism but you know generally we have a responsibility to to those to in our past and
those in the future to make sure we leave this country a better place now i tell people all
time yes it's uncomfortable yes it's tough but i mean our responsibilities and our consequences
is a lot less than those who came before us so yeah man
there are people that literally died for this and there's people that are still dying for this
and will die but in the future yeah for sure yeah but you know but we're not asking you to go out
there and you know put your forehead on the police's gun in a protest we're just asking you
to like take care of your circle if you have friends and family members who are you know on
the wrong side of history or have wrong beliefs, talk to them.
Have those uncomfortable conversations.
If everybody takes care of their circle,
then eventually and surely things get a lot better.
So really quickly, we want to talk about the NBA strike.
Miles, as you pointed out, it's kind of a wildcat strike
because the players' union hadn't really been consulted.
It seemed like it was more of a movement
among the players that was happening in real time but the latest reporting out of the bubble uh is
that they are going to go back but there's also i think there was an ultimatum placed on the owners
to come to them with a plan to actually affect some change right which is very smart because you know the use
the billionaires the billionaires are the ones in this country who actually get shit done so
make them do something um especially when your top earners are like figure it out because we can
fuck your whole bag up if we really want to like we can fuck the whole thing up we don't give a
fuck uh when we will because i think that's the thing they don't realize is there's
this is existential fourth quarter you know what i mean uh and this the these like tokenisms and
and sort of you know little gestures to try and quell this just they aren't they aren't actually
creating the solution that we need and i also want to shout out the WNBA because they have been so about this social justice shit for since time immemorial.
And a lot of the focus has been on the NBA as well.
And like many of the other sports.
But I think it's it really that it can't be underlined enough just how dedicated the players and the actual league of the WNBA is.
I'll give that to
the players I don't know how much the league structure is but I'll I'm damn sure know those
players give a fuck and it's really uh inspiring to see and yes I feel like uh trash for not like
being more into the WNBA because at the like you know I just uh I'm always impressed and touched and moved by that dedication from them.
And yeah, the WNBA, NBA, a few major league baseball teams, MLS teams, Naomi Osaka.
Many were just like, you know what?
This this moment is really important.
And apparently you fucking didn't hear us a few months ago.
So now we got to pull the plug again and put the attention back on the issue of
police violence and racism and it's man started by the bucks yeah uh and the milwaukee bucks
miles as you were pointing out are a team that has experienced the racism obviously jacob blake's
shooting happened in wisconsin and they were the team that started off the the movement
to you know strike yeah i mean players on that team sterling brown what there was a video of him
because he was illegally parked or something he's like in a handicap waiting for somebody like late
at night to get something at a pharmacy i could could have been any i'm maybe confusing every
other video i see where black people just pulled out of their car and brutalized by police but there was a video of him being
pulled out of a car using a taser on him holding him down with their knees uh you know he wrote
about that experience the a former player back in 2015 john henson was also like racially profiled
at a jewelry store like these this franchise knows they like, damn, we got to put this city on our fucking bodies and go out there and give these people some semblance of local pride.
Yet we're living in a state where they don't give a fuck about us.
And so, yeah, when they decided to strike, they're like, we're asking that the legislature, the state legislature of Wisconsin reconvene to actually do something.
We're not just saying we don't want to play
because this bullshit they're saying please come back to make some meaningful change because this
cannot keep going uh so it's wild too and when you hear like the officials of how law enforcement
talks in wisconsin you can only uh it's it's alarming um yeah the kenosha county sheriff david beth uh you know people are
unearthing this clip of him from 2018 uh where after a retail theft uh by four black teenagers
uh he went on this long screed about how these people, quote unquote,
should be put away for good, put in a warehouse.
Listen to his words. I mean, I just want people to listen to his words because this is a person
in a position of power to run law enforcement and is at the helm of an agency that, again,
is out there to brutalize people.
Society has to come to a threshold where there's some people that aren't worth saving.
We need to build warehouses to put these people into it and lock them away for the rest of their lives.
Let's put them in jail let's let's stop them from truly at least some of these males going out and getting
10 other women pregnant and having small children let's put them away at some point
we have to stop being politically correct and i don't care what race i don't care how old they
are if there's a threshold that they cross these people have to be warehoused no recreational time
in the jails we put them away we put them away for the rest of their lives so that the rest of
us can be better that's just you know that's yeah they want to put us in concentration camps
yeah we're not human we're not human we're not you know this is and these
there has to be a threshold because that's the whole game of it you know what i mean is just that
let's just set up black people to be fully disenfranchised for centuries okay and then
get them to the point where they have to act out of self-interest and then we as oppressors can call
that crossing the line not our disenfranchisement of these people them actually trying to survive
we will call that crossing the line that's the only way these white supremacists can keep this
like fake ass moral high ground of like well these people shouldn't be out here destroying property
it's just to completely ignore the situation the country has created.
And acting like this shit happened just out of nowhere.
It's just so disingenuous.
Please, please.
I mean, like those arguments are just made to completely ignore the fact that it's not crossing.
We just need to set up a threshold.
Well, you know what?
Y'all crossed that threshold when you brought us over here in bondage and then decided to not really do anything about it once there was slavery was ended
and just find all these other ways to profit off of black bodies and black suffering
that's it but you know yeah when you don't put in the proper supports um you can't be surprised
when people you know when they act out man it's like being at a school and you know you're in a
classroom where it's overcrowded.
There's there's no textbooks. The teacher doesn't care. The teacher is checked out.
They teach from the seat. And then all of a sudden you have three kids that are, you know, ditching class, fighting the hallways and you expel them instead of realizing that that's not the issue.
You got to go to the root of the issue, which is about providing the proper supports.
that that's not the issue.
You got to go to the root of the issue,
which is about providing the proper supports.
Make sure you have,
you know,
more programs for,
for,
for all the, all the people in these communities or opportunities for jobs,
more afterschool programs,
more,
more places to release,
you know,
their frustration and therapy and all these different things.
That's why people say defunding police.
We're not talking about totally,
you know,
taking away the ability for cops to do their job.
We're just talking about don't overfund them.
Like they don't need militarized weapons and all these different things.
You can stop people from becoming criminals by giving them the things they need to become successful adults.
That's all it is, man.
And they know that.
But it's about the profit that comes from, you know, privatizing prisons and all these different things like that
with those scandals like paying
you know different judges
for kids and stuff like that
to get locked up so it's all interconnected
man and some
cops willfully know that they're
a part of the problem some are brainwashed
and they don't even know you know there's a reason
why they hire cops who aren't educated
because they don't want to deal with a brain they want to deal with a body just do as i
say and trust me right now so take this training and be reactive constantly and learn to fear this
skin color that's all and there you go just just a quick quick two-month course i'll send you on
your way yeah i've been reading uh about the rwandan genocide lately just because I'm trying to find historical precedence for what we're seeing, the beginning stages of what we're seeing. who are the people they basically tried to eradicate,
almost succeeded in eradicating,
that they would give Tootsie students
access to the good universities
and to the good high schools,
like a small number of them,
but they would only accept the ones
who had the lowest scores
so they basically created a system in which they technically could succeed and then ensured they
wouldn't to it's just the the amount of thought and effort and design that is going in to,
to that system and our system.
Yeah.
Like the,
so,
so that it's so complicated and sounds like paranoid to,
to say that stuff that that's what they're doing.
Yeah.
That's what they're doing.
Yeah.
I mean,
people like people trip about that,
that viral clip on Twitter of like the Chinese kids, like all dribbling two basketballs and then switching to like the next one. And they're doing yeah i mean people like people trip about that that viral clip on twitter of like the chinese kids like all dribbling two basketballs and then switching to like the next one and they're
like yeah that's the kind of shit you do if you want to get kids literate in how to play basketball
like if you start that that early i wouldn't be surprised if some just beast dribblers come out
of there in 15 years because this was a game you were playing as children it's the same there's a way
you can be like if you get them started early enough or if you if you begin to create the chaos
early enough that you can see it just play out just put on cruise control and just make part
of their lives yeah and then after that it just goes on like you know it's on it's on auto from
that point you know you you get the gears going and they continue itself or you could put that
money into actually helping people.
That's truly your goal.
But it's not.
Because you really want to tell people that you make sure every kid is in pre-K, you know, so they don't start two years behind when they finally get to free public school and kindergarten.
You know, it's different things like that, man.
So I think one thing that gives me hope, you know, the youth.
I think young people get it more than not.
So sadly enough, people just got to die.
Old people just got to die.
New generations got to come in.
Yeah, that will kind of fix his history as we kind of follow.
It's us.
It's people currently fighting against the wave.
But then also the people of the past kind of moving on with their old beliefs and then
new people coming in and newer people coming in you know so time time heals all and then we just
got to fight all these young racist kids that too yeah yeah because the cycle continues yeah
because social media is dope because you you get a lot of truth out there right people but what
happens to the problem with social media is that back in the day
before social media if you had someone with like these um offensive beliefs they used to express it
out loud and then they get shunned by the group and say hey that's wrong they get educated and
they have to educate themselves and understand to be able to be a part of the group but now you
don't have to do that no more social media you can find people that think just like you you find them isolated world change your handle yes facts and so
you rebuild this group and so now your negative views are cemented because you found other
ignorant motherfuckers i think like you and now all of a sudden it's a you know it's an issue
yeah it's funny because Arsenal their sponsor
is Rwanda
and the president is like a huge fan
of the club and they're like the UN was like
we gave y'all 40 million dollars in aid
and you signed a 20 million dollar
kit sponsor deal with this soccer team
Jesus
I'm reading
we wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families is the book I'm reading that's to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed
With Our Families is the book I'm reading
that's like a New Yorker
reporter who
went into Rwanda and that was actually
a note that
one person wrote to their
priest to be like hey can you help
us out because we've
been told we're gonna all be killed
tomorrow
they used their radio station
to like really yeah organize people that was their social media yeah man and like that's kind of what
trump we really gotta get trump out of office bro this is so important i don't think i don't think
america survived another four years to be honest with you uh it's gonna look drastically different
if he uh gets re-elected but uh yeah yeah because he's he just has no moral compass whatsoever you know
like he there's no guilt and so you can't you can't check him there's nothing you can do
to like slow slow him down just a lizard brain yeah i don't know yeah there's a there's a figure
who's like the head of propaganda in the rwandan, the Hutu power movement, which ends up kind of committing the genocide who they describe as like,
it sounded like they were talking about Trump because they were like,
everything you throw at him,
he turns into a weapon back against you and like uses it for his own devices.
And it's just,
it's demoralizing.
It's exhausting,
bro.
It's exhausting. Yeah's exhausting yeah yeah you know like black
people aren't any more or less mad or upset than it's been for ever which is so wild to me
throughout all this like when doc rivers was out there like crying about like how do we love this
country yet the country will not love us back yeah and it's true like so
many people have said it i feel like you know like black people have really helped embody like what
the actual american dream is like you fucking getting spit on and just demoralized constantly
yet there's this still this like belief that it can be better and that everyone can succeed yeah it's just and it's like a it's
like an abusive home where like you you have no other place to go and so you trust it and you
have to trust it you have to love it because it's family you know what i'm saying and you have really
great days and then all of a sudden boom you're getting abused again and uh yeah it's a it's a
fucked up relationship but you know there's a lot of positives to living in this country.
But that does not mean we ignore the improvements that it needs to make, man.
Because, you know, like I said, it's our responsibility.
And we, you know, as a people, we believe in it.
We wouldn't be talking about it to this extent if we didn't believe in America.
You know, that's what it comes down to.
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Let's check in real quick with the global pandemic.
So we had touched on how the CDC basically threw science out the window
to please the White House.
And we were wondering, like, how did that,
what was the process for getting that decision pushed through?
Yeah.
And we now know.
Dude, this sounds so fucked up.
This is what Sanjay Gupta said.
He was talking to Anthony Fauci,
and this is what Anthony Fauci said to Sanjay Gupta.
Quote, I was under general anesthesia in the operating room.
Last Thursday was not part of any discussion or deliberation regarding these new testing recommendations.
I'm concerned about the interpretations of these recommendations.
I'm worried that it will give people the incorrect assumption that asymptomatic spread is not of great concern.
In fact, it is.
This man was in the OR when they decided to do this shit.
But he later goes on to say he doesn't believe there was some kind of like end around B.S. nonsense.
And sure.
But I would say that, too, if I was like, you know, you had to sort of take a certain amount of hits to keep your position to try and make sure this shit doesn't completely fall apart.
make sure this shit doesn't completely fall apart.
But yeah,
like that really is,
you know,
to his point,
his biggest,
his other concern is that people are going to think,
Oh,
if you,
if you don't have symptoms and it's all good,
like,
then don't worry about it. Even if you may have been exposed,
then it's all fine.
It's okay.
So just a nice little texture to that,
to see how,
how we arrived at that point.
Yeah,
that's insane.
And it's all,
it's all about preventive measures.
So I don't understand what's people's beef with that.
I understand Trump's beef because he wants to get reelected
and the numbers don't look good.
But man, I feel bad for Dr. Fauci.
That means he probably, like last five, four months,
he couldn't take a shit until everybody left the office.
Like he just couldn't leave.
He was just throwing in so many sh so many like stomachs always hurting he's like bro are we guys done yet y'all wanna go home
trump hadn't left yet oh fuck oh shit it's like he got a he got a uti
from what this being as soon soon as he nodded off,
they just switched everything.
That's crazy, bro.
So, yeah, I mean, I think at the end of the day,
because then you have states like New York being like,
well, we completely reject what the CDC is saying because that just doesn't make sense
because we also have access to science.
Right.
And that's not what it's telling us over here.
Yeah, it's the same thing.
Yeah, Trump's so focused on it,
I think because it's easy to be like,
well, CDC guidelines, CDC guidelines. And that used to mean something i think because it's easy to be like well cdc
guidelines cdc guidelines and that used to mean something but now it's all in service of this
nonsense and you know here we go it's a nightmare yo and it's yeah that's why you have so many states
on different pages man yeah right yeah there's no leadership i mean when you read like the
i remember early on reading the kind of guidebook or sort of playbook for how you
deal with a global pandemic and it's like heads of state uh just have one very consistent
short and clear message and then they kind of get out of the way so that doctors can come in
and doctors and scientists can come in and like be the authoritative voice
and it's just almost like he read that and was like i will do the exact opposite i will do
everything to undermine that because he thrives on chaos yeah you know um well let's talk about
uh what people are watching on streaming right now.
Oh, give people their homework over the weekend.
Get your mind off of the putrid buffet of American reality.
Yep.
What is...
What's trending?
What's good?
Lucifer is number one.
Lucifer?
Lucifer.
Wasn't that like a show on Fox?
I think it was.
Is there a new season?
I think they must have new episodes or something.
And the trailer is just him getting out of the pool with...
No shirt on, probably?
No shirt on.
Yeah, okay.
Just real deep eye contact with the viewer.
Oh, with Satan himself.
As he does so.
And then taking a big swig of some dark liquor because he's a bad man,
just letting you know.
Yeah.
There's no way Satan is in shape.
You know what I'm saying?
You need AC to work out.
You know, there's –
Right.
That doesn't –
Or just so shredded up because it's like, man, I just sweat it all out.
Yeah, right.
That's a good point that's true
you ever done a hell workout
you only gotta do like
three things
before you fucking die
yeah you find a site
like Skip Bayless
that's what I imagine
just a body like Skip Bayless
you know
yeah
have you seen Skip Bayless
he's shredded dude
oh yeah
yeah
Skip and Shannon
some workout
workout at Hobbit
yeah
Hoops is trending that trending this new animated show from uh
that guy who had a show on comedy central for a while like ben something yeah isn't it yeah
it's like a failed uh high school football or basketball coach uh ben hoffman has a foul
yeah ben hoff. You remember him?
He had that show that was like
Project... I think it had Ben
in the title.
Oh, okay.
Anyways, I don't know what to think
about that yet. I'm going to let
some people whose taste I
trust watch it and then I will
decide if I'm going to watch that.
Umbrella Academy
has been
still up there. Project Power
is breaking records.
Only five other
projects have spent eight consecutive days
at number one. Did you guys
like the movie? I haven't seen it yet.
Jack watched it last week.
I thought it was cool. Not a fan?
I love the concept.
It was like Limitless, but they remixed it a little bit.
But I thought the girl was great.
I forgot her.
What's her name?
The girl that starred in it?
Yeah.
Yeah, she was amazing.
But I don't know.
I feel like it fell flat a little bit.
Fishback, yeah.
I liked Jamie Foxx a lot.
Jamie's always dope. Yeah yeah he was really dope um
uh kissing booth 2 oh no that's not on the tread that's just all one of the other ones
that's been in the that was that that's netflix recommending that for me that's just them knowing
that i love i loved kissing booth one so a million dollar beach house i don't know what that is it's Knowing that I loved Kissing Booth 1. Million Dollar Beach House.
I don't know what that is.
It's like a property shit.
Property Brothers.
Just being like, hey, you want to create solidarity with millionaires with this aspirational TV show.
You know what I mean?
It's like, oh, that would be cool, honey, wouldn't it?
That's why we should vote against capital gains taxes.
Like, what?
This one at number seven,
one BR?
Was that one bedroom?
Yes, I believe so.
I like the description.
Yeah.
Yeah, me too.
Seeking her independence,
a young woman moves to Los Angeles
and settles into a cozy apartment complex
with a disturbing sense of community.
So she must have moved in like you're a bunch of
UCB people or something.
That's right. That's what it's about.
Woman class.
The Legend of Korra, which
is in the, I think,
follow-up to The Last Airbender. It takes place in
the same universe. I started
in on The Last Airbender. It's dope,
but I'm not going to have time to
complete the series by
the time we record a drunk parents miles hanging how the fuck at number nine that shit is trash
it's the i don't know how people are whatever i guess it's really the it's like the opposite
of anything that would get you for a moment to think about anything about your life like it's
so fucking chaotic and bad that you just be like man i'm not gonna think about watching this helps you forget
about damn near everything but if you're like if you like comedy like you just get so incensed at
how bad some of the plot is but yeah i think there's a lot of parents who are becoming drunk
parents during quarantine they're like yeah that's real if you
if you want to be a good virtual school learner you know because you got to teach your own kids
now right so you need something so bad at it man i'm so bad it's a fantasy to do that man yeah
right you don't realize parents don't really hang out with their kids that much just you know
teachers really kick it with the kids they they get them ready that's one hour in the morning they come after school they have daycare till what 6 37 come home give them dinner
make them go to bed by nine that's three hours a day that's nothing that's nothing i hadn't met my
two-year-old until uh yeah you're saying god doubts that it's your son? Yeah. Now that you met him? Yeah. I don't know.
Look at his little calves.
I don't know.
That's right.
Little calves.
Look at that nose.
That's not my nose.
No thighs.
Yeah.
You got a negative thigh.
And then some honorable mentions.
The Lost Husband is apparently the most popular movie of August for some reason.
That's been in the top 10 on and off i think that's what
i'm gonna watch that's that josh dumail uh oh based on a book thing right yeah based on a like
romance novel yeah yeah uh i think i'm gonna check that out i think i'm gonna watch the horror film
based on somebody who thinks moving to la is a good idea. That sounds legit. Like, already, you've made a mistake.
Are you a horror fan?
Me? I like horror.
I hate horror.
You hate horror?
Fuck, I don't fuck. I'm too jumpy as it is.
So after I'm like, oh, fuck, god!
I'm like, ugh! I don't want to watch this shit.
I can't, like...
I don't know.
The other thing, too, is like, especially as shit, I can't, like, I don't know. The other thing, too, is, like, especially this shit, I like deep, like, fucked up psychological thrillers.
I love that one.
It's just, like, some shit that's relying on a bunch of jump scares.
I'm like, I don't like that experience.
But I like something that's a little fuck with my head.
I don't care if it's morbid, but I don't necessarily gravitate towards it all the time.
Life's scary enough.
Yeah, my problem with horrors is the opposite. I don't like them sometimes because it's not scary enough oh shit because
i can't get into kids being scary i don't care what you do to them how much makeup yeah they're
like yeah how long the hair is i'm just like yeah this is six years old they're like you're i will
fold your little ass up i can't get with that but I like horror films that could happen low key in real life
it would be really fucked up if it did
but kind of like Saw, the Saw series
I just love that, that that was great
oh just enough to
yeah just be like yo this could really fucking
I gotta watch Barbie walking
I'm not going to that hostel
fuck out of here I saw
Churistas, I'm not going to Brazil
was Churistas different than Hostel? fuck out of here i saw turistas i'm not going to bruce right right
was turistas different than uh hostile yeah man the movie they were just that was like a whole wave yeah that's funny yeah i think i watched all those the one they got attacked by a bear and the
it's like a couple this is like a scripted film but it's based on a true story it's kind of like
a horror film and they're just camping they go on like this romantic camping trip and they get
attacked by a bear it's incredible oh i gotta remember the movie it's on netflix though it's
really really good what it's something back country back country yes watch that movie mouse
i promise you bro oh no it's a thriller yeah i would count as a horror film
because they're like it fucks with you but it's it's it's it's dope oh and it's it's a this is
the description from wikipedia it's a 2014 canadian nature survival horror film yeah bro it's it's
great no canadians know about yeah it's survival and horror okay um yeah okay i'm gonna put that on my list but yeah for now
i will watch one br or one bedroom or whatever the fuck another very confusing title where i'm
not sure how to say it out loud they're gonna go with studio apartment but then they they landed
on yeah right right uh i'm gonna watch the lost husband and you know what's funny? Josh Duhamel was in Churistas.
Yeah, that's right.
2006.
Come full circle, baby.
Well, Chinadu, it's been a pleasure having you on the show.
Where can people find you and follow you?
On Twitter, you can find me at Chinadu Comedy,
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and then Instagram, Chinadu Unaka, C-H-I-N-E-D-U,
last name U-N-A-n-e-d-u last name u-n-a-k-a all right and is there a tweet or some other work of social media you've been enjoying yeah um just a random
tweet i saw the other day from my buddy let me see what it says yadoe y'all know yadoe yeah
yeah it was on like two weeks ago oh yeah yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. It's my dog. He had a tweet. He said, why the fuck they make the cars go 100 miles per hour plus if you're not supposed to do that?
And I don't know.
That tweet just kind of stuck with me for a week.
You know, I was like, yeah, that's true.
I read that one, too.
I did.
That one, I thought about that as well.
Like, logically, why?
It goes to 200, you know?
200 miles per hour, some of these cars.
It's like, why?
But then they'll have
like the governance chip on there so it'll the the speedometer will say it goes there but the
regulator will keep you from going that speed oh gotcha and then i know some like some cars i just
remember on like uh well like what's that fucking car show anyway there's certain cars it knows if
you're on a track the chip will deactivate because they're like, okay, you can be
as reckless as you want on this private track. And who knows
what happens to you at that point.
Yeah.
So yeah, that's a joke.
Miles, where can people find you and follow
you? What's a tweet you've been enjoying?
Oh man, you can find me on Twitter and
Instagram at Miles of Grey. Also
my other podcast, 420 Day Fiance.
You know, it's getting high. I'm watching 90 Day
Fiance because that's pretty
much the only other thing to do. And
let's see some tweets that I like.
First one is from Reductress. At Reductress,
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It's like, ooh, boy.
Another one is from
at Sankofa Brown
tweeting, striking and rioting are two tactics that the ruling class can't afford to have masses of people see as legitimate pathways to social change.
And that's a straight up fact.
And please remind yourself of that constantly when you watch the coverage and see what the changes we're going for.
And then one more is from at Joy Engel.
She like sort of quote tweeted a thing about Jared Kushner. And then one more is from, uh, at joy angle. Uh,
she like sort of quote tweeted a thing about,
uh,
Jared Kushner.
It was like a thing about saying how he was going to talk to LeBron James.
And he said,
what I'd love to see from the players in the NBA.
Again,
they have the luxury of taking a night off from work.
Most Americans don't.
That,
that,
that,
that,
that,
that,
that,
that,
that,
that,
And then she just tweeted friendly reminder that I once went on a date with
Kushner and it was the era when people making guac at the table was novel and I thanked
the server and he said they don't
like it when you talk to them
and I was like yeah that sounds like
I don't even know if it's real or not but
that's real bro I believe that
that sounds like it fits his face you know
yeah yeah yeah
if you're making it up you would have
if you're making it up he would have told you
not to talk to them or said like I don't like it when you address the help.
But that is, like, so specific.
Exactly.
He's saying they don't like it when you talk to them?
In that order, yeah.
Wow.
Are you an empath?
Did you sense that?
You felt this working person's likes and, oh, okay, thank you, Jared.
Tell me more. Yes, please, likes and... Oh, okay. Thank you, Jared. Tell me more.
Yes, please.
Go on.
Oh, man.
Love a dude who inherited $500 million to telling people about a hard day's work.
Table-side...
Yeah, like table-side guacamole was I'm going to fucking uranium mine or some shit.
Right.
Right.
It's a Black Mirror episode, bro.
Right.
We're living in.
A couple tweets I've been enjoying. Brody Gupta
tweeted, horses, bigger in person.
Actors, smaller in person. Next
question.
And I find that to be accurate.
Well, yep.
Jimmy
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tweeted, how do lawyers
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Just riding to the weekend with this artist, Saib, and just a beat maker, but this again called Night Flight.
It has such great textures to it, like in good live instruments being sampled.
Just a wonderful texture to just relax to on a Friday.
You know, start taking care of yourself.
Really pour some energy into yourself because a lot of times we're pouring too much energy into our phones and into our conversations and our texts take a second and i know this sounds put your energy and your attention back on to yourself
like in a good way like even put your hand on your heart take a couple breaths that even feels
soothing think of a parent or a family member's love just give yourself fucking like 20 seconds
of that please i really uh want to really put that out on people because I realize how little time I actually
put into myself and there are things I believe
I'm doing for myself when really I'm
either distracting myself from my
feelings or you know just
sit with it you know and heal yourself
so I want to say that put some nice tunes
on smoke a blunt do whatever you do eat a
pizza whatever you got to do just enjoy yourself
just a long
fucking road I'll tell you that.
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