The Daily Zeitgeist - Trump’s Words Have Power, Egg McMuffins On Steroids 10.25.18

Episode Date: October 25, 2018

In episode 260, Miles and special guest co-host Culture King Jacquis Neal are joined by actor and activist Behzad Dabu to discuss Megyn Kelly's apology for her blackface comments, the homemade bombs s...ent to Obama, Clintons, and others, the caravan coming to scare the GOP, out of control robocalls, McDonalds new breakfast menu items, updates on the WWE Crown Jewel in Saudi Arabia, the Titanic II going to set sail by 2022, a lonely boy's birthday, and more! FOOTNOTES: 1. "I want to begin with two words, I'm sorry..The country feels so divided and I have no wish to add to that pain and offense. I believe this is a time for more understanding, more love, more sensitivity and honor..Thank you for listening and for helping me listen too." Megyn Kelly2. Homemade bombs sent to Obama, Clinton and CNN offices, officials say3. CNN 'bomb' - live: At least six suspicious packages sent to Obama, Clintons and news media organisations across US4. A Wave of Misinformation About the Migrant Caravan Is Spreading on Social Media5. Forget Trump Hysteria, Here’s How the Migrant Caravan ‘Crisis’ Really Began6. September 2018 Nationwide Robocall Data7. McDonald’s announces new monster-sized breakfast sandwich/hangover cure8. Latest Update On WWE Crown Jewel Plans9. WWE CROWN JEWEL RUMORED TO BE RELOCATED TO AMERICAN CITY10. Titanic II could sail as soon as 202211. Arizona boy's heartbreaking birthday party prompts surprise invite from Phoenix Suns12. WATCH: Zion I - Kale Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:02:36 The presence of Jacky's is Neal. The presence of Jacky's is Neal. I feel it in the atmosphere. The presence of Jaquese is new. I feel it in the atmosphere. The presence of Jaquese is new. The presence of Jaquese is new. Oh!
Starting point is 00:02:58 Woo! Shout out. Shout out to Atloadassbron. Yo, somebody hit me up yesterday and was like, yo, you are acting like this is a test that you're cramming for tomorrow. And I was like, hit me some eight. Which was true. I was like, oh, damn, I meant to do this two days ago.
Starting point is 00:03:17 Yeah, well, you know, we had to set Jack out to pasture and evolve the show a little bit. He's been banned. Yeah, he's been banned. He's been banned. We'll see if he banned. He's the official House of Horseman. We'll see if he comes back tomorrow. I don't know. Maybe he will be.
Starting point is 00:03:28 Chances are that he will and is. But, yes, let's move on. And I am thrilled for us to be joined in our third seat. A guest that you and I both love, the Zeitgang, has come to know and love. Listeners of your show have come to know and love. The actor, the comedian, the energetic man himself, Mr. Bayzad Dabu. Hi. I want to – I got to do one.
Starting point is 00:03:50 I'm going to improvise one. Down by the Bayzad. Sitting on the dock of the Bayzad. There you go. Who is that? Who is that? Sitting on the dockside. There you go. Who is that? Who is that? I know the song. You got to say who it is, though.
Starting point is 00:04:11 Sitting on the morning sun. It's Otis Redding. It's Otis Redding. Otis Redding. He was a big man. You know, when you look at those photos of him, he's a gigantic man. Well, look, Bayside. I'm just sitting here in this chair, everybody's singing songs, introducing themselves, and
Starting point is 00:04:22 I was like, Bayside, taboo. And I am Bayzad. We will get to know you a little bit better, Bayzad, but first we got to let people know what we do on the Daily Zeitgeist. You know, we're just taking the temperature of the global consciousness. No, the national consciousness, because sometimes they get mad when we say global. And sometimes we do capture the global consciousness, but yeah, we do everything. We look at social media, we look at articles, we look at box office reports and things of that nature to make sure that we're giving you the most up-to-date stories that we think are important. Sometimes
Starting point is 00:04:53 they're good, sometimes they're bad. But keep in mind, this is a Second Ray podcast. And so today we're going to be looking at a couple things like, you know, Megyn Kelly. Apparently she just found out that blackface was bad. Just found out. Yeah, she just found out. 12 hours ago.. Just found out. Yeah, she just found out. 12 hours ago. Exactly. Very important announcement for McDonald's fans out there.
Starting point is 00:05:08 I don't want to say what it is quite yet, but if you like McDonald's and you fuck with the breakfast, hold on to your butts. And boy, does your boy fuck with McDonald's breakfast. I'm excited about this because I also fuck with McDonald's. Well, everyone does. Then we're going to talk about someone taking the president's words very seriously and starting to send explosive packages around to some of Trump's political critics and enemies. That is getting like a pretty hot story.
Starting point is 00:05:32 Some more disinformation around the migrant caravan. We'll get an update on that WWE event in Saudi Arabia and talk about a few other things that will get your attention. But first... I'm excited to talk about all those things. Hell yeah. Mr. Bezod. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:05:47 Friend of Jack Heese. You're from Chicago, right? Long time friend. We've been friends for over 12 years now. 2005 we met. Oh, that's worked out. 13 years? Beautifully.
Starting point is 00:05:56 I'm not from Chicago, but I lived in Chicago for like 10 years. I'm actually from upstate New York. There you go. Syracuse. Syracuse. All right. Well, let's get to know you, Bezod. Okay. What is something from your search history that
Starting point is 00:06:07 lets us know a little bit more about who you is? Who you is? Oh, wow. I'm gonna click my Google search. We gotta know. I looked up... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5... I'm gonna just list my last five. Okay, sure.
Starting point is 00:06:25 Ramona Singer Trump because somebody told me that Ramona Singer from Real Housewives of either Beverly Hills or Orange County. No, Ramona's from New York. Oh, that's right. That's right. That's right. Ramona's from New York. You know Miles knows. That's right.
Starting point is 00:06:36 I fuck with Roni. I fuck with Roni. No, I actually watch a lot of the Real Housewives. But yeah, Ramona Singer, someone told me was like a Trump supporter. So I Googled that because I want to make sure that was true. Then I Googled Disney makeup Aladdin because I heard that the Walt Disney, did you guys hear about this? No.
Starting point is 00:06:50 That like Disney was accused that on their set of their, of Aladdin right now, they have a bunch of white extras putting on brown face in the back. And when they got called out, they said there was like hundreds of people and they only did it to 20. Totally. And Cal Penn, who tweeted about it, it was not involved in the movie cal penn was like but why 20 at all because there's literally bollywood that has right like five million brown actors like go hire them yeah another another thing they're like oh well some of these people have special skills like they ride horses and things like that and they're like oh because brown people don't ride full horses.
Starting point is 00:07:25 Yeah, brown people don't ride horses, okay. They just found out that brown faces are bad. Brown faces are bad, yeah. And then the last thing I Googled was last night, actually about like six, I said late night cafes to ride in. I was at Bourgeois Pig last night until like three in the morning.
Starting point is 00:07:36 Oh, wow. Why? What are you working on? Your anti-government manifesto? Please don't do that. Ethically ambiguous already got me in trouble. I said all kinds of shit. No, I am creating
Starting point is 00:07:47 content right now. I am trying to bring an Indian American family story to television because surprisingly that's never been done. Yeah. We have the success
Starting point is 00:07:56 of Crazy Rich Asians and Black Panther and Black-ish and all these things but the Indian American story or the Middle Eastern American story has never actually really been told
Starting point is 00:08:04 in a real way. We have some of these characters, but the Indian American story or the Middle Eastern American story has never actually really been told in a real way. We have some of these characters sometimes, but usually it involves them marrying white people and then getting their perspective. So I'm trying to tell that Indian American story. We often see the Indian story, like saris and accents and
Starting point is 00:08:19 arranged marriages and all that, but we don't get to see an honest, true telling. So I'm currently creating that. I'm pitching it. I have a writing partner. I have producers. It's a lot of work. I'm surprised any TV show ever gets to TV with how much work it is and how much fires there are to put out. But last night, I just... You went off.
Starting point is 00:08:36 I can't work at home. I can't write at home, rather. Oh, too many distractions. I just end up listening to music, laying on my couch, falling asleep. I'll do it tomorrow. Watching NBA highlights. Watching NBA highlights. Exactly right. I got to sit and feel like I'm in a place.
Starting point is 00:08:49 Wait, so why were you searching Ramona Singer? Because obviously when I look at Ramona, I was like, yo, she is one of those can I speak to the manager type white women. Is she like a John and K plus 8 type mom? I don't know. I don't watch. She doesn't have that hairstyle, but her energy is like this New York woman who sort of is really condescending all the time. Yeah. That's really good.
Starting point is 00:09:08 Oh, my God. That is a really good real housewife. Her like turtle time vibe is like, ugh. I'm offended. I'm like, oh, God. That's a really good one to sing her. I watch a lot of Real Housewives and not like religiously, but I'll catch episodes. And someone had said on Twitter.
Starting point is 00:09:22 Oh, someone on Twitter had said something about like, oh, I know what it was. Trump had just done that thing about the trans thing. He had like tried to erase trans from the definition or whatever. And someone had said, are you happy, Ramona? Like happy Ramona singer on Twitter. And I was like, oh, I was like, did Ramona like support that? So that's what I was Googling. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:09:41 Did she? So apparently one of the housewives, I forget which one, a huge hillary supporter and had a hillary like dinner like one of those like you know fancy dinners where they do like a fundraising yeah exactly and didn't invite ramona and when they asked her later like why didn't you invite ramona and she was like let's just say ramona wouldn't have come and that like sort of started it and then like ramona when they asked andy straight up asked like andy whatever his name is straight up asked like what did who did you vote for and ramona pled the fifth and i was like you plead the fifth that means you voted for trump yeah yeah yeah plead the fifth means you voted for trump unless she
Starting point is 00:10:18 voted for gary johnson which is voted for trump which is voted for Trump. Oh, my goodness. Bayzad, what is something that you think is overrated? New Year's Eve. Okay. New Year's Eve is so overrated. You mean just the gravitas? The pomp and circumstance of New Year's Eve. The $300 dinners.
Starting point is 00:10:41 They basically include a flute of champagne. I've never had fun on New Year's. The idea that we're supposed to have the greatest night of our lives to bring in the New Year. But technically, today is the New Year. You know what I'm saying? Oh, okay. Technically, today is the first day of the New Year for the rest of your life. I just think it's so funny.
Starting point is 00:11:01 What if yesterday was the first day of my New Year? What's today then? Is today the second? I don't know if I've ever had I just think it's so funny. What if yesterday was the first day of my New Year? What's today, then? Is today the second? I don't know if I've ever had fun on New Year's Eve. I seriously... What you're describing, like, the shitty over-the-top ones, which I would never go to, where it's like, pay $400 to have all you can drink. I feel like there's nothing else to ever do.
Starting point is 00:11:17 Getting fucked up at your house. Yeah, so... Yelling at the TV. You gotta be alone. But I'm a dude who's been single on New Year's for the last, like, six years, so it's like, you don't want to just sit watch other people make out there's sort of like a pressure to do something to like have fun yeah for sure and like i agree with you like so if you don't want to do the fancy spend 300 on a dinner with a champagne and no one wants to reckless but i feel like every restaurant closes for that like i feel like there's nothing else you can do yeah you
Starting point is 00:11:44 gotta have to have friends who are doing parties you gotta have friends who are doing parties yeah i i've never had a good new year's either but well i had one a few years ago uh ucb threw a free party for all their members okay and it was also the last one they threw because some shit went down because it was free alcohol all night long oh it got uh it got fucking wild it went into the wilderness it went and let's just say some people lost their time's up pins uh and that's and it was like we can't do this anymore yeah there's like there's so much pressure on new year's it's like you gotta get a kiss at new year's yeah you gotta get dressed and then i in chicago i remember i think you were already out. You've been out here a lot longer than me.
Starting point is 00:12:25 But in Chicago, New Year's is often like a terrible weather day. It's cold. Right. And so all these people, we get dressed up in suits and we get dresses. I remember, I'll tell you one. I'm going to throw them under the bus because I think, I don't know. I don't think they ever ran their shit well anyway. There's a theater called Red Moon Theater Company in Chicago.
Starting point is 00:12:43 And Red Moon had this big blast, like this huge gathering at their warehouse space in a neighborhood called Pilsen in Chicago. Which is also some nice ass places. And they had this huge warehouse. And so they have this party. And of course, everyone's Ubering or zip carring because in Chicago, we know we ain't car culture. So everyone's getting down there. And we're all dressed up for this bash, and we all have
Starting point is 00:13:06 heavy jackets and sweaters and gloves and hats and scarves. They didn't have a coat check. They didn't have no- How dare you? No, but real talk, that's actually a thing, because- Right. Where do you- There was 2,000 people in there with nowhere to put coats.
Starting point is 00:13:21 Oh, I didn't realize that. It's a warehouse. I mean- Wow, okay. The warehouses in that neighborhood are, they're party spaces. Right. I know it sounds crazy, but like. Well, I'm just showing my LA ass because I don't wear jackets.
Starting point is 00:13:32 But where do you put 2,000 jackets? Yeah. I mean, that's, yeah, dude, you just find a couch. I'm going through 2,000 pockets. But the thing, it's a warehouse. There's a warehouse. So now you have, I remember this because I was with like, this woman had this like really nice, like, I had a top coat on with my suit.
Starting point is 00:13:44 We were all dressed up. I'm not putting my top coat on the ground in a warehouse with snowy, slushy shoes. I was just like, New Year's sucks. Yeah, get your shit together right now. Everyone's holding their jackets all night. In Indian culture, what's New Year's like? Well, it depends on the religion. So India has so many religions.
Starting point is 00:14:01 So I'm Zoroastrian. Zoroastrian New Year's in August. It's called Kord Dat Sal Mubarak, which is actually, it's funny, our New Year is like the birth of our prophet. And then there's something
Starting point is 00:14:09 in like Iranian Zoroastrian culture, it's Poteti Mubarak or Navarose Mubarak. And so that's in August, I think. I don't know. And then there is, Hindu has Diwali, which is coming up.
Starting point is 00:14:19 Yeah. And then Islam has their own and I don't want to speak on it because I don't know when it is. But what's the vibe? It's more ceremonial. It's about getting together with your family and things like that? It's more ceremonial because it's more religious.
Starting point is 00:14:31 Yeah, it's more religious. Our New Year's here in America is just the turn of the calendar year. Get fucked off your face. Yeah, whereas a lot of other New Year's is... It has religious aspects. Yeah, this is the rebirth of our spiritual beings. Yeah, Japan is kind of like that too especially there's more of an emphasis of like yo for the first like week just don't do
Starting point is 00:14:49 shit like you cook all this food and just keep it chilling at the house so you don't have to leave and just watch tv all day right and they do the most of the wild japanese specials you see when like look at this japanese game show it's usually around new year's when they put those shits out because everybody's at home right uh so i love the idea of going to watch the ball drop in times square live sounds so miserable to me you got to get there at like 2 p.m right to get a spot that's not in a side street and chill there for 10 hours in the freezing cold in new york as it gets more and more and more and more crap what if you have have to pee? Pee on yourself. We both just right away, piss yourself.
Starting point is 00:15:28 Haven't we talked about that before? We piss ourselves at concerts. We piss ourselves at concerts. Are you serious? Well, it depends. Well, look, some shows are too big and you're too close to the stage. You're not going to go to the bathroom. Some shows, you don't want to go to the bathroom. You just piss yourself and smell like ass the rest of the time?
Starting point is 00:15:42 Yeah. Yo, I would not be comfortable pissing myself. I didn't piss myself. I pissed in the cup. I went to the- Oh, okay. That's better. Ali and AJ from the Disney Channel.
Starting point is 00:15:48 I went to one of their shows at the House of Blues. Pissed myself there. Dope show. Bayzad, what's something that's underrated? What's underrated is that in good songs, I don't mean like hip hop R&B. I mean more like rock and roll, 90s kind of like alternative music. In good songs, the drums are underrated. Oh, wow.
Starting point is 00:16:06 People don't give enough respect to the drums. That's such a specific thing. I guess what I'm trying to say in a way that I don't know how to say it is that the drums can really make or break a song. Oh, the rhythm section itself. Yeah. That's the foundation. But I'm thinking of certain – okay, so I used to play the drums in high school. I was never really good, but I listened for rhythm a lot.
Starting point is 00:16:25 And like a lot of times there's like what the drums could do is like the bare minimum. They hold the rhythm, right? Right. They play four-four time. They keep the time. Every four to eight measures, they fill in a little do-ga-do-ga-do-ga-do-ga-do-ga-do-ga-do-ga and call it a day. Rock-oom-king-king.
Starting point is 00:16:39 But then there's some drummers that are like creative. Yeah. Like the drummer for No Doubt, Carter Buford, the drummer for Dave Matthews' band. Like drummers that are creative and they do things that are like creative yeah like the drummer for no doubt carter buford the drummer for dave matthews band like drummers that are creative and they do things that are like oh i did not think you would call out those two bands off top to be like creative drummers like from i can give you examples of those but like but like they do things that are like it's not that they're hard or difficult no yeah any like eighth grade drummer could do them but it's creative it's the idea and i was like like if you think crashing to me is like dave matthews band's biggest song they got that cool snare kind of like march happening in the back.
Starting point is 00:17:06 Nine out of ten bands would just have like, you got your ball, you got your... And this guy's like... It's like this march happening in the back and it's dope and it makes the song great. Yeah. And no doubt, listen to Sunday Morning. There's parts where the drummer could just be holding it, but he's like fucking with time. Like, bop, bop, like syncopating things for no reason in like a normal rock song where most drummers would just like hold time.
Starting point is 00:17:30 Right. See, I feel like more people care about the guitar and then also the piano. Yeah, for sure. But, and you said this, in hip hop though, it is about the drums. For sure. Oh, yeah. So for me, when I hear that, I'm like, dude, all we care about is the drums for sure oh yeah so for me when i hear that i'm like dude all we care about is the truck right exactly uh because that is there's a chapelle sketch where they come in with the guitar and right like all the people in the barbershop are just sitting there and then he hit the drums
Starting point is 00:17:54 yeah and then everybody starts oh i haven't seen that one i gotta see that you've never seen that sketch no i i sounds like it's right up my i mean you think about tracks like grinding by the clips You know, when you think about tracks like Grinding by The Clips, the whole beat was just the drum. I mean, boom, drum. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:05 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:07 Yeah. Oh, man. That snap. A lot of people don't catch that snap. Yeah. I feel like with the drums things, I agree with you, it's underrated, but in certain communities. And Back That Ass Up Juvenile, people miss at the very end, there's a cowbell.
Starting point is 00:18:21 Oh, really? And it's dope. Okay. It's like, girl, you look good once you back that ass. I'm used to finding it. And it's like, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, Little cowbell action, huh? Okay.
Starting point is 00:18:33 It's in the back. Next time you listen to Back That Ass Up, you're going to pick me up. Put your headphones on. For different reasons. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. All right. What's a myth? I don't want to get too deep down in the sports thing,
Starting point is 00:18:45 but these are both going to be sports things. Okay. Basketball things specifically. Two, two-parter. Okay. Part one, when people try to tell me that college basketball or college teams, A, play harder, play smarter, work better, the best college team could beat the worst NBA.
Starting point is 00:19:08 That is such garbage nonsense. It's not true. When people say to me, oh, in college they play defense, in the NBA they don't. Yeah, right. And then when they say things like, oh, well, in college they're playing for the right reasons and in the NBA they're just playing for money. No, in college they're playing to get to the NBA to make money. To get money, yeah.
Starting point is 00:19:23 What are you talking about? Half of them kids don't want to even be in the NBA. And the ones that are going to the NBA are they're just playing for money. No, in college, they're playing to get to the NBA to make money. To get money, yeah. What are you talking about? Half of them kids don't want to even be in the NBA. And the ones that are going to the NBA are already getting paid. All right, well, let's get into the stories of the day. Yesterday, we were talking a little bit about Megyn Kelly's super fire take on blackface. I'm like, wait, how is that racist? What? Maybe she just really likes Diana Ross.
Starting point is 00:19:41 Well, another real housewife. Actually, that was Luann. Luann de Lesseps. Yeah. And she was like, I don't get it. And then, yeah, come Wednesday morning, she had to kind of splain herself because I think the internet was like, I'm sorry, this is not 1902. I guess we have to explain to you what's going on with blackface.
Starting point is 00:19:58 So she started her show off today with a very, very heart-wrenching apology. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the show. I'm Megyn Kelly, and I want to begin with two words. I'm sorry. You may have heard that yesterday we had a discussion here about political correctness and Halloween costumes, and that conversation turned to whether it is ever okay for a person of one race to dress up as another. A black person making their face lighter or a white person making theirs darker to make a costume complete. I defended the idea, saying as long as it was respectful and part of a Halloween costume, it seemed okay.
Starting point is 00:20:38 Well, I was wrong, and I am sorry. One of the great parts of sitting in this chair each day is getting to discuss different points of view. Sometimes I talk and sometimes I listen. And yesterday I learned. I learned that given the history of blackface being used in awful ways by racists in this country. Racists. It is not okay.
Starting point is 00:21:00 Okay, just stop it. Just stop it. Racists. She said, I learned yesterday. I learned yesterday. Get the fuck out of here. What are you, time traveling yesterday. I learned yesterday. Get the fuck out of here. What are you, time travel with Bill Russell? Like, you know what was bad?
Starting point is 00:21:10 You know what pissed me off? When she led with black people dressing like white. Oh, yeah. Come after Marlon and Sean Wayans for the white girls. Like, you're leading with that. That's not what we're talking about. I have a lot to say about this because I do a lot. I think I might have mentioned this in the last one, but I'm a founding member of a group called the Chicago Inclusion Project.
Starting point is 00:21:30 And what we do is seek to level the playing field for women and people of color and LGBTQ on the stages in Chicago. I just did that when I was living there. And we get a lot of messages about people putting brown face on in their productions of Bollywood Pippin or Aladdin or anything goes with the two Asians. They do this all the time. And it's like a lot of times the other side will say, well, acting is acting. It's just makeup. They got to look like the person.
Starting point is 00:21:54 Acting is acting. And I'm like, that's true if we don't have a history in this country where black and brown people could not tell their stories. So white people were creating stories about black people and then playing those black people by putting blackface and denying them the ability to tell their own stories. That horrible minstrel show, Racist History, and movies like Birth of a Nation is why we can't have blackface now because there's context there. Context there. If for 300 years, every judge, every control of the media, every police officer, every president, if we have 44 straight black presidents over the course of 300 years and there was a time where we enslaved white people, then in 2522, I'm willing to hear you talk about why black people shouldn't have a white face well yeah and I think just missing the whole mark of how blackface is just about the dehumanization of people of color like just missing that point entirely and just being like hey if you like Diana
Starting point is 00:22:52 Ross like what's the problem right yeah if you like because that's the thing if you go watch black I don't think enough people have watched those old blackface clips it's disgusting even more than that I was watching a couple clips today and not only did they put on blackface and. Yeah, right, right, right. It was disgusting. Even more than that, I was watching a couple clips today and not only did they put on blackface
Starting point is 00:23:07 and you were saying they couldn't tell their stories, those weren't their stories either. Right. They were, you know, they were, well, you know, ha, I'm gonna go ahead
Starting point is 00:23:16 and ha, eat some fried chicken and ha, put my toes in the dirt, ha, and I'm like- You sound like a robocall in Arkansas.
Starting point is 00:23:24 Actually, worse than that, it was even like, I even like, I can't not rape these white women. It's like, I can't not steal shit. It was worse than that. And we're about to see it. I mean, today's the 24th. So starting this week, we're going to see all kinds of white kids at fraternities doing gangster parties and being thugs for Halloween and doing that kind of stuff. And the thing is, oh, you want to put on that culture for
Starting point is 00:23:48 a day and then take it off. Oh, hell yeah. And that's a convenience you have. Yeah. Why don't you keep that blackface on and drive around town? Yeah. And then get pulled over by a white cop. Go to Compton.
Starting point is 00:23:56 Yeah. Yeah. Because you want to like be able to like experience the culture for a day in the way you think you can and then like take off the skin. They're tourists. People of color can't exactly. Yeah. And that's, I think that's missing the point of that uh the ability to just be like and then i
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Starting point is 00:28:30 Well, the Secret Service had intercepted some explosive devices that were addressed to the Obamas, the Clintons, the CNN studios in New York. And they say these are nearly identical devices to the ones that was mailed to George Soros, the liberal boogeyman that the right loves to portray all the time. And then this list kind of got longer. So on the last few days, suspicious, potentially explosive packages have been sent to those people, in addition to ex-CIA Director John Brennan, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who's the ex-DNC chair, ex-Attorney General Eric Holder, Kamala Harris, Maxine Waters. Really?
Starting point is 00:29:08 Just to name many. And wow. They went to Kamala and Maxine as well? Yeah. And I'm trying to think how, like, what's the connect? Like, what do all these things have in common? And I couldn't quite figure it out. And I was like, wait a second.
Starting point is 00:29:20 That's right these are all people who are on the receiving end of the president's violent rhetoric about attacking his enemies political enemies his locker up rhetoric when it comes to hillary clinton his journalists are the enemy of the people rhetoric and now obama is not american yeah we're seeing this play out because again people like oh well he's just that's what he says that's what he says they're just words are says. They're just words. They're just words. But guess what? These words have a direct impact on people. And there's clearly someone or a group of people who have clearly taken his words to heart because now they're acting on it in potentially violent ways. I mean, luckily, no one was hurt. And you still wonder.
Starting point is 00:29:58 I mean, like, the people I named are probably, like, the front row of Trump's, like, hater team. The people I named are probably the front row of Trump's hater team, but there are so many other people who have been on the receiving end of that that you wonder how many other people could be at risk and what this can't be. People like Jameel Hill and Colin Kaepernick don't have secret service. Well, here's the thing to the other people, right? For instance, Ted Cruz ran this political ad today where he's walking through a grocery store and people are yelling at him like get out of here we don't like you blah blah blah and then he ends it with texas tough right and there's this whole rhetoric and and and dialogue
Starting point is 00:30:39 about you know the democrats and the left yeah they're just yelling us the violent left and the flip side to that like that's what y'all want to worry about fine if y'all can't take some people saying hey we don't want you in our restaurant that's violent to you fine the flip side that we have to worry about is people taking our lives and that is what the flip side is uh whether it is people killing black people because on the train stations or people sending bombs to Democrats and people who are getting hit by cars. And that and in the fact that that is not even something that they are willing to talk about. Well, they know that's their shame. That's the shame of this whole game. They said they were going to burn crosses in black districts on the way to voting. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:31:27 And two things to that. One is like I was on Twitter looking about this in the little morning just looking at responses from people. And what's crazy about the far right to me is that there wasn't like a, hey, we obviously disagree with these people, but we shouldn't be throwing bombs to them. shouldn't be throwing bombs to them. It was immediate jump to conspiracy theories. And it was like, the Dems are doing this on purpose to make it look like we're doing it, which means that they're trying to get out the vote
Starting point is 00:31:50 because they're trying to suppress the vote for our side. I was like, you're just jumping to a conspiracy theory that some democratic person is doing this to like, it's a conspiracy theory. And it's like, why is the far right so prone to conspiracy theories? Pizzagate and shit like that.
Starting point is 00:32:02 Well, I think they're unable to own the flaws of some of the people that support them and all of the platform that they're built on is just built on hatred. One senator even said this is probably a Dem who's doing this to Dems. It is a conspiracy theory, but that's not the root of it.
Starting point is 00:32:18 The root of it is the fact that they don't want to have the real conversation. It's like, oh, yeah, the Dems are doing this. Instead of, no, we are creating this rhetoric and this platform. You have responsibility. There's blood on your hands.
Starting point is 00:32:34 There's blood on our hands. Right. That's why you'll never hear pundits on the right. Even on Fox News, they were at first like, okay, we'll look into this. And sometimes, like on Drudge, they were saying like, oh, the White House even got sent one to try and make it seem like, hey, everybody was getting it. But that was debunked, or at least they were saying that that report wasn't actually verified.
Starting point is 00:32:54 And yeah, when you look at some of the conservative pundits now in the aftermath of all these explosive devices showing up, they're saying shit like this is an anti-false flag attack or that this is like anti-false flag attack, or that this is like all the other fake hate crimes that they say that the right is behind. And they'll be like, and they're all fake, just so you know. And then even Rush Limbaugh is out here doing the same thing, too, of saying like, this is a fake attack, or just saying like, of course they're doing this to make us look
Starting point is 00:33:19 bad because they're trying to drum up support for midterms. How? Ridiculous. I mean, that is just the height of absurdity. It's a disregard for life. Yep. And, you know, nobody's saying when a Democrat yells at, or somebody on the left yells at a public office person at a restaurant, they're not saying, oh, that's stage.
Starting point is 00:33:40 Because that doesn't affect life. That affects comfort, right? because that doesn't affect life. That affects comfort, right? And this, threatening to kill people, that affects life. And they don't care about that. It's about power. It's about money.
Starting point is 00:33:55 It's about staying in office. It's about fear of being second. And that is the problem. Well, yeah, Now they're making that existential threat of lost status is now turning into them creating an existential threat of like violence to their lives now. And that's the entire game plan, which is like you say, the people who are morally outraged, who are expressing their moral outrage of policies, they're weaponizing that to say they're violent. See what they're doing to us without acknowledging what provoked this moral outrage of policies, they're weaponizing that to say they're violent. See what they're doing to us without acknowledging what provoked this moral outrage. And another thing, too, is that's now just being like, OK, we need to vilify and dehumanize our political rivals to begin for people to even seeing them as not human, which leads to behavior like this where they're like, oh, well, I'm willing to make an attempt to
Starting point is 00:34:43 harm or injure somebody because this is the diet I'm on, the rhetoric I'm consuming all the time. And I really feel like, you know, places like Fox and, you know, other middle or not that other Fox's middle of the road and, you know, more centrist news outlets really have to begin analyzing what the president's words like have been on a continuum and looking at that and say, this is how we're getting here. Because all he's feeding his base is, hey, we've got to lock her up. Or these people, they're animals. We've got to do something about them. Yeah, when you say that over and over, they're going to get ideas.
Starting point is 00:35:19 They're not calling lies lies. They're saying president claims. Like, no, you know it's a lie. So you've got to say president lies. President lies because that's what he did. He lied. So when president says this and this and this happens and they're all lies, the media keeps saying president makes this claim. No, he lied.
Starting point is 00:35:35 Say that he lied. And I want to bring this up. It's kind of different but kind of the same. You brought up Ted Cruz. This thing's been on my mind so much. I can't understand like the blatant hypocrisy that just gets – Ted and Trump right now are on this campaign to make fun of how Beto's name is not actually Beto. Right. When his name is Raphael.
Starting point is 00:35:52 Yeah. But Ted's name is Raphael and he goes by Ted. Right. To sound more Texas. Yeah. I don't understand how you can be at a Ted Cruz rally and cheer for the line where Ted Cruz makes fun of Beto going by a nickname. I can't understand it. How can you cheer for that and not go, oh, well, the guy we're watching is doing the same thing?
Starting point is 00:36:12 Yeah. Well, here's the thing with that, and it goes to even connected to this with the violence and that. It's one side or the other thing, right? If we do it, it's okay. If you do it, it's wrong type thing, right? So if you do it, if you it's okay if you're doing this wrong type thing right so if you do it if you change your name you're doing it for nefarious reasons if i do it i'm doing it for love and because i want to relate and all this stuff like that the same with you know donald trump and the far right saying oh if they yell in our faces they're violent left
Starting point is 00:36:42 they're the violent left but then at a rally last week, when the journalist body slammed somebody, huh, wasn't that great? Hey, you don't want to wrestle him. Right. You know, because if we do it, it's for a reason. That's for patriotism and country.
Starting point is 00:36:56 Yeah, that was back in 2016. Yeah. Greg Gianforte body slammed. Yeah, but he talked. Yeah, he brought it up to be like, I like that guy. Exactly. But if we yell in your face, we're violent.
Starting point is 00:37:06 Well, again, it's because they have to absolve themselves of any guilt or any responsibility in this. It's always like, I don't know what's going on. They're wilding out. I don't know. I'm just doing my thing. and fear campaign that they use to just sort of unify their base, it bleeds into also this migrant caravan that's coming up through Central America and Mexico towards the U.S. border. Filled with MS-13. Yeah, where, again, it's the same tactics where it's trying to obscure
Starting point is 00:37:38 what the reality is to the point to begin to see these people as not human beings but as violent people who are hell-bent on your destruction. As a Middle Eastern and brown person and Indian person, it bothers me that even the left is saying things that they're trying to defend, but it's just insidious racism. I saw a lot of things today that were like, even when they're saying, oh, there's clearly no Middle Easterners in that thing, it's like a disparaging term. It's like... As if, oh, there's clearly no Middle Easterners in that thing. Right. It's like a disparaging term.
Starting point is 00:38:06 It's like. As if, yeah, like it's. It's like no Trump. It's coded language. There's no Middle Easterners coming in. And then I saw one that was like, why is everyone so mad that this migrant caravan is coming in? They're the ones that are going to cut your lawns and clean your dishes and do your thing. And I'm like.
Starting point is 00:38:21 Or they can teach your kids. Yeah. And I was like, get i get your point but that's pretty insidiously racist as well but like well you know the amount of like you're saying like one of the claims has been that it's filled with middle eastern people coming in here and isis members who are part of this caravan because they're doing like a trojan horse type thing and again that is that all came out of uh of the Guatemalan president last week just said, oh, we arrested like 100 people who we saw were connected with ISIS.
Starting point is 00:38:50 That was before this caravan story started to gain traction. And that was, but that claim was totally unfounded and unverified. But again, they heard this person. They said, oh, well, okay, Guatemala said ISIS. That means people are coming from what okay we can lump that together and conflate the story like isis needs to come through mexico the 9-11 hijackers had passports from saudi arabia i don't understand why we are they flew here right they got on airplanes and they flew here from your ally country mr trump sure saudi arabia mr that's the country
Starting point is 00:39:24 you love so much. And how come when we did the whole Muslim, like that whole, what's it called, where they blacked out certain countries of Muslim people to come here? Saudi Arabia was not on that list. Yeah, of course not. It was not on that list. And they had 16 out of the 18 hijackers. So what are you talking about? They flew here.
Starting point is 00:39:39 They don't need to come here to Mexico. But we can't get too outraged by this because this is such a predictable game plan yeah it's just you know it's not surprising we can we can sit here and poke poke holes in the logic of all their arguments all day because everything is illogical and only appeals to people's just base fears and just it's the worst in people and again and we have to and the problem is right that these shitty, like this misinformation campaign or these lies, because they gain traction with the right, other media outlets have to report on them because so many people are talking about it that it begins to like lend an air of credibility to it because CNN has to be like, well, they're saying there's lies and that's not true. And sadly, it pulls the coverage in a direction that is completely ridiculous. Like, again, even Pence, like two days ago, said, oh, I spoke to the Honduran president, and he said basically that this was being funded by the Venezuelans and organized by leftist groups.
Starting point is 00:40:37 Now, the organizer of the caravan is a former Honduran lawmaker, Bartola Fuentes. a former Honduran lawmaker, Bartola Fuentes. And he's like, yo, this has nothing to do with Venezuela because let me tell you something, the Honduran president, he can't be real about why people are leaving at a rate of like 300 a day. It's because of the rampant violence and corruption that's happening under his watch. And you think he's going to be there and be like, hey, I'm a shitty president, so everybody wants to get the fuck out. And the U.S. government is propping me up because there are military installations here.
Starting point is 00:41:09 That's why it's so clear why then you just have to pivot to okay let's make this thing look as evil as possible so people can just hop on board with the xenophobic agenda and obscure the fact that these are human beings who are fleeing their countries you don't these i don't doubt any of these people want to leave especially if there was an if their countries were stable i don't think they were like oh i would love to leave, especially if their countries were stable. I don't think they were like, oh, I would love to leave my home. Yeah. I would love to leave my family. Yeah, but the situation is untenable, and we're not – like, I guess on the right, they don't even acknowledge that sort of basic human urge to avoid pain and seek prosperity.
Starting point is 00:41:42 It's the fear thing, you know? It is. Let's care about – this is why you need us in office because we can protect you from this but there's nothing to i don't want to say there's nothing to protect us from because there are obviously things to protect us from yeah like like white guys with guns or people sending motherfucking bombs to people yeah let's worry about that well again and that's why the other reason to the, you have people on the right like Rush Limbaugh. He's like, well, this had to have been the Democrats. And his argument was because our people don't do stuff like that.
Starting point is 00:42:11 And you're like, okay, so y'all are in full-on delusion. Who shot up those churches in South Carolina? Right. Who shot up Las Vegas? I mean, look, this is, again, this is what happens when they begin to see their power slip a little bit. And you have to do everything you can to try and get people. I mean, you know, look, I get it. I get it.
Starting point is 00:42:32 You know, I used to play a little basketball based on how we played basketball before. And, you know, back when I found out my jump shot was slipping a little bit. Start to foul most of it. You know, and, you know, start to foul most of it. Started mailing people bombs. You know, and then before we started playing, you know, I would be talking up a game like, ha, y'all want this jumper, man? Ha, ha, jump 11 feet, you know, knowing I can't jump.
Starting point is 00:42:53 Right, right. And just so people would think, like, oh, let's keep him out the paint. You know, and then. Trying to add to the perception. Trying to add to the perception. Well, we'll see. Maybe we'll have to see you on the court. Yeah, smallest dogs bark the loudest.
Starting point is 00:43:07 Exactly. Well, again, you know, this is just all the year of our Lord 2018 and the things that are happening. Another thing I want to talk about is I don't know if you guys get wild fucking amounts of robocalls or just calls that you get the scam likely show up on your phone. And mine's the worst because, you know, they call from your area code. Yeah. And my area code's New York. I live in L.A. now. It's three hours.
Starting point is 00:43:27 So they're calling me at 7 a.m. thinking it's 10. Oh, really? And I'm like, yo. They can get in trouble for that. Well, no, because they think it's 10. But they're still supposed to do it based on your area. But my area code's 315. That's right.
Starting point is 00:43:39 So they're like, it's 10. I'm like, no, I'm in L.A. It's 7. I hate you. Right. I block them all. The reason i bring this up is that there was like a study done of like robocalling and it is up like nearly double from last year like the amount of calls people get whether it's for political stuff or like reminders for things
Starting point is 00:43:57 mine's like insurance on my back or something see that's where the other ones come in where it's like they're just finesse scams where they're trying to be like you owe the irs nine thousand dollars give us gift cards to pay off your debt yeah or other ones come in where it's like they're just finesse scams where they're trying to be like, you owe the IRS $9,000. Give us gift cards to pay off your debt. Or other ones would be like, we want to save you on a new solar thing investment. So I get so many to the point that, like, if you listen to the show, I'm sure there are times you can hear my phone go off, and usually it's a fucking robocall. But they were putting it in the context. So right now there was a record of 4.4 billion robocalls received in September.
Starting point is 00:44:26 So that breaks down to 1,700 robocalls a second, okay? Or 147 million calls per day. There's only 300 million Americans. Yeah. They're calling people multiple times. Yeah, they got you. That's crazy. And like, if you have, we did this on Culture Kings where I picked up the phone and called them back and did a whole segment talking to the IRS. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:44:49 It is wild. Just how. How some of those scams operate. How some of those scares operate and how obvious it is. Well, yeah, but that's the thing. They're usually preying on like elderly people. Yeah. Who don't have the savvy to question the technology or the methodology.
Starting point is 00:45:07 I always know it's an Indian dude because they say my name correctly. Oh, really? They'll be like, may I speak to Mr. Beza Dabu? And I'm like, oh, you're calling from Good Rock. You're like, what's going on? You are not calling from Kentucky. Because if it's Kentucky, Beza? No, they're like, hello, I'd like to speak to Mr. Beza Dabu.
Starting point is 00:45:22 And I'm like, oh, wow. That's good. But they also did an analysis of the areas that are getting the most calls. And some make sense. There are bigger areas like LA and New York. But then other ones are like Atlanta has by far the most robocalls in terms of area code stats. 404 is the hottest area code for robocalls, which I get because – Which is so weird.
Starting point is 00:45:45 Well, I wonder. It's ludicrous. It's because of ludicrous. Literally, yeah, it's ludicrous. They call it Fodum Holes in the area code. Yeah, he was like, 404. Matter of fact, 315. 214.
Starting point is 00:45:58 678. Matter of fact, 301. But this, oh, 301 called Maryland? Too much green. Too much fun. You know, like, I think for Atlanta it could make sense because there's a huge governor's race there, and there could be money pouring in for elections. Then Dallas and Houston, that could also be because elections are very important in that state.
Starting point is 00:46:17 But then it starts to trickle down, and then you see Miami, also another big state going on with governor race. Then it's L.A., New York, Dallas. But you can look up your area code just to see how litty your area code is. And yeah, I mean, people are getting- Every single one of those cities has a lot of English as a second language too. Yeah. Miami, a lot of ESL.
Starting point is 00:46:35 I think you might be able to get someone with ESL. I don't understand. And IRS is calling me. Yeah, because the share of it is it's basically payment reminders are 22%. Then telemarketing is about 20% someone to sell you something. Scams are 40%. Yeah. So it's mostly the scams.
Starting point is 00:46:51 And their lies be too big, man. Their lies be too big. First of all, I hate what I hate about it. They're coming to arrest you. Yeah, they're coming to arrest you. Oh, shit. They're always going to arrest you. I called back and it was like, you owe us $940 million.
Starting point is 00:47:03 Or $1,000. I was like, come on, man. I haven't even made that much money in my life. Right. That lie is too big. That lie is too big for me to even contemplate believing it. Your papers are wrong. Didn't they say something to you like, bring cash, but also give us your bank account so we can check?
Starting point is 00:47:18 Bring cash, but can you give us your bank account now so we can check you have the money? Yeah, well, I don't. I was like, this is ridiculous. ridiculous also you know what i hate i hate that they use your own area code because i'm a paranoid dude yeah i think it's my and i think it's my mom or the hospital and saying like yo somebody's dead right now yeah and sometimes i do answer my area code and it is something i you know like hey this is one time my mother's office had called because they wanted to surprise her for her birthday. If I thought that was a robocall, I wouldn't have had that. Like, my mom's office called me.
Starting point is 00:47:48 Also, get an email, man. Don't be calling people. That shit is scary. Yeah, I agree. Get an email. We're in a world that if you call me, I think something happened. Yeah, don't nobody call people anymore. So if you call me, I'm thinking, like, somebody has fell off the 15th floor of a building.
Starting point is 00:48:03 I was on a date a couple days ago. All right. It was like 10 p.m. Oh, shit. Oh, a building I was on a date a couple days ago and alright it was like 10pm oh shit oh a 10pm date it was at 10pm and I got a call from a Chicago friend
Starting point is 00:48:11 and she called and I was like I think I gotta answer this so I answered it and she goes hey hun what's up and just like
Starting point is 00:48:16 shooting the shit and I was like who was it I can't answer this I can't talk right now and she goes oh well why'd you answer I was like
Starting point is 00:48:24 cause you called I answered cause you like i thought you were dead like you had something but if you had nothing to talk about i gotta go yeah was somebody i know no okay okay it's just a regular shoot the shit call well you can get messy after the break definitely caruana galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16, 2017, was murdered. There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate. My name is Manuel Delia.
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Starting point is 00:52:52 They just have announced, they're briefing up the breakfast selection. Now, I don't know about, I think we all realized as we were talking about this story that we love McDonald's breakfast. I would give up regular McDonald's. I could eat McDonald's breakfast. That hands down, if I had to choose between the two, I'm picking breakfast. How long have you been? When I moved to LA in October 2012, on the way here, I got a double cheeseburger.
Starting point is 00:53:13 And that was the last time I've had McDonald's. Regular menu. Like regular menu. Wow. I've only done their breakfast. Only done their breakfast. Well, you're going to love this because now they're basically dropping something called the triple breakfast stacks. Hallelujah!
Starting point is 00:53:28 When you look at these photos, they look like double cheeseburgers. They say, now this is from McDonald's, the triple breakfast stacks come with two slices of melty American cheese between two savory hot sausage patties. They're topped with crispy thick cut bacon and an egg. Guests can opt for their choice of a toasted McMuffin bun, biscuit, or sweet and savory McGriddle cakes. Now, apparently this was all born out of customers on their own just hacking the menu and being like, just let me stack these on my own because the sandwiches aren't enough. Similar to the McSurfin' Turf, which I've brought up on this show before.
Starting point is 00:54:00 Wait, what is that? Oh, that's where you get a Filet-O-Fish sandwich and a double-quarter pounder with cheese, and you put the fish patty in between the double quarter pounder and there's your McSurfing time. Wait, the person has to order both and do that themselves or they do it? Yes, yes, yes. No, no, you have to order. Sometimes they'll oblige
Starting point is 00:54:16 you. I've been to one where they would be like, okay, I can make you a McSurfing time. What neighborhood? This is in North Hollywood. That makes sense. Yeah, you're not gonna get that in Sherman Oaks or something likeaks. Yeah, that makes sense. Wait, is Sherman Oaks bougie? I mean, I grew up here. It can be.
Starting point is 00:54:29 Is Sherman Oaks McDonald's? I'm about to say, I think bougie. I think like Calabasas. Well, I guess relative to me being a Valley scum kid, like going to North Hollywood, I'm like, oh, Sherman Oaks is the closest, nicer place. Wait, so what's the hierarchy of the Valley? The hierarchy of the Valley? Is it like- There is none. I'm from the Valley, and I just hate all this the closest, nicer place. Wait, so what's the hierarchy of the Valley? The hierarchy of the Valley? Is it like-
Starting point is 00:54:45 There is none. I'm from the Valley, and I just hate all this fucking Valley hater shit. But is it like Reseda is worse than Encino is worse than Van Nuys is worse than Studios City is worse than Glendale? I would say that the more affluent areas of the Valley are like your Encinos, Calabasas, parts of Woodland Hills. I mean, there's also parts of Woodland Hills that are a little less- Is Studio City considered the Valley?
Starting point is 00:55:04 Yeah, Studio City is a valley. Studio City is a very nice part of the valley, too. Glendale, too. Yeah, Glendale's got nice parts. Burbank, the bank. Yeah, Burbank,
Starting point is 00:55:10 very conservative and basically half-owned and ran by Disney, that entire city. Hey. But yeah, I mean, there's everything else. To me, it's all valley to me.
Starting point is 00:55:19 Yeah. But I guess, yeah, just think of this. If it's in the hills near the valley, those are typically the nice parts. But do people in the valley, are they like, people, if you live in Reseda, are you like, fuck Van Nu this. If it's in the hills near the valley, those are typically the nice ones. But do people in the valley, are they like, people, if you live in Reseda, are you like, fuck Van Nuys?
Starting point is 00:55:29 If you live in Van Nuys, are you like, screw Studio City? I mean, people might based off their high school, but I grew up partying all over the valley. So I was never like, I'm not going to Van Nuys. I'm like, is there a fucking party there? Like, let's go. Got it, got it, got it. Okay. Anyway, so yes, bottom line.
Starting point is 00:55:44 Are you loving this, Phil? Are you loving this? I'm ba-da-ba-ba-ba. I'm in diarrhea-ya to this menu because my God. When is this releasing? When is this? Did it say when this is releasing? I think it's soon.
Starting point is 00:55:56 It's upon us. When this releases, let's both get one and let's do a review on one of our shows. I mean, yeah, fine. We could do it right now. Let me figure out when it – Yeah. I did a McDonald's commercial a couple years ago, a Chicken McNuggets commercial, if you guys want to YouTube it. It's called Chicken McNuggets A to Z.
Starting point is 00:56:15 I thought it was the buttermilk chicken sandwich. I did that too. Oh, okay. But I did this one, which was a – it's called Chicken McNuggets A to Z. And it was like when you're eating Chicken McNuggets with friends, you have to create an order so that everyone gets a fair share. So you have to start with Alex, then go to Brian, then go to, you know what I mean? Right, right. And it was like, but today, your friend William cannot go by Bob.
Starting point is 00:56:38 Wow. That was the commercial. Or Bill. So I was doing the commercial, and we shot all day. And they were like, we have a spit bucket for you. And I was just eating Chicken McNuggets all day long. And they were like, we have a spit bucket for you. And I was just eating Chicken McNuggets all day long. And they were like, we have a spit bucket for you. And I'm like, I don't need that spit bucket.
Starting point is 00:56:49 I was like, I eat Chicken McNuggets all day long. So I just kept eating them, eating them, eating them, eating them. And then they go, all right, we're breaking for lunch. So we break for lunch. I'm full as hell off like 40 Chicken McNuggets. They had this amazing catered lobster, shrimp, steak meal and I couldn't eat any of it because I had eaten 40 chicken McNuggets.
Starting point is 00:57:10 That's why they got the spit bucket, man. We had a spit bucket and I was just watching people eat crab legs and lobster bisque and I'm like, oh! I'm filled with chicken product. Yeah, man, that was a commercial rookie mistake. You knew. I've had that before, too. I was a commercial rookie mistake. Pink goo.
Starting point is 00:57:26 You knew. I've had that before too. I was chewing. I did a seafood commercial and I don't eat seafood anyway so I would have spit it out anyway. But man, every bite right in that bucket.
Starting point is 00:57:37 Every bite right in that bucket, dude. Well, the triple stack breakfast, it will come out November 1st. Everywhere? So get ready. Everywhere?
Starting point is 00:57:46 That's a week. Well, I mean, that's when they say. I'd imagine. But that doesn't mean just like prime locations. I figure they already have the ingredients. All they got to be is like, yo, just throw a fucking other patty on this shit and bake it. Do you know how they determine when they're doing the McRib? Well, first of all, it's not a chain wide thing.
Starting point is 00:58:02 You can do like an owner of a McDonald's can say, I want to do the McRib whenever they want. Like franchise owners can do that. But it's literally based on the price of chicken versus the price of pork. So when the price of chickens go up for whatever reason, then they go like, oh, we got the McRibs back. Because they can like buy more pork because usually the price of chicken and pork are inverse to each other. Okay. So they're looking into pork futures and chicken futures. Good to know.
Starting point is 00:58:24 All right. Well, let's move on to another thing. Should we? Yes, I think we should. I love the day that's like this. We've talked about everything. We've talked about basketball, music, we've talked about politics, McDonald's. Because last week, I think it was last week, our guest
Starting point is 00:58:38 Danielle Redford was on and she is a huge wrestling fan and as the Jamal Khashoggi thing was going down with his murder, we were asking about the WWE doing a lot of events there and what the future is like. At first, we were asking her as a fan what she thought, but, Jaquese, you're saying now more and more is happening. More and more is happening, yeah.
Starting point is 00:59:02 It's been a crazy week for the WWE. So they have Crown Jewel coming up, which is in Saudi. That's the event. That's the pay-per-view. And WWE has a 10-year multi-million dollar deal with Saudi Arabia. Okay. And they had one earlier this year, Greatest War Rumble. This one was this year, right?
Starting point is 00:59:22 And then the whole thing started happening. They started getting pressure. So the first thing they did was they stopped mentioning that it was in Saudi Arabia. Because they had already started running the propaganda commercials like, the beautiful Saudi Arabia, the ever-progressive, and then that stopped. Oh, so the commercial was just like, hey, crown jewel coming soon. Exactly. Without the word Saudi Arabia.
Starting point is 00:59:40 Because it used to be where it was going to be at. Saudi Arabia was in the title. And now on programming, they have not mentioned it at all. So that was the first step. Tickets were supposed to go on sale last week. Tickets are not on sale yet. John Cena has pulled out. John Cena is the biggest star WWE has.
Starting point is 00:59:58 And he looked foolish at the last event when he was thanking everybody in the kingdom. He's like, thank you so much for this beautiful country of freedom. And you're like, whoo. Because he's the face of the company. Because he's the face in the kingdom. He's like, thank you so much to this beautiful country of freedom. And you're like, whoo. Because he's the face of the company. Yeah. Because he's the face of the company. Yeah, of course. He's a movie star, too. So you get John Cena saying that, that's a big deal.
Starting point is 01:00:13 But you get John Cena pulling out saying, I'm not going there. Right. That's a big deal. Daniel Bryan is another wrestler who pulled out who is one of the biggest stars and in the championship match. Oh, okay. At Crown Jewel. So the Crown the championship match at Crown Jewel. So the crown jewel of the crown jewel. Yeah, he is literally in one of the marquee matches of the event, and he's pulling out.
Starting point is 01:00:32 And then also this week, and I can't go too far without saying this, the biggest star in the company right now, Roman Reigns, who just announced on Monday Night Raw that he has leukemia, which is very sad. So shout out to Roman Reigns. But obviously he can't go for obvious reasons, and he was in the other championship match. So all of that together,
Starting point is 01:00:54 plus they're getting pressure from the U.S. government. They're getting pressure from businesses who do things with WWE. And John Cena, Daniel Bryan, they have the stock to say, I'm not going and let it be known in the news. But other wrestlers are also saying, I don't want to go either. Well, that's good. The wrestlers are starting to pull out and rumor is
Starting point is 01:01:16 today or within the next couple of days that an announcement is coming. They are looking for new cities. They're either going to cancel it altogether or They are looking for new cities. They're either going to cancel it altogether or they're looking for new cities, possibly in the USA. New York City was one of the things.
Starting point is 01:01:33 It's so crazy how important money is. This deal shouldn't have been made in the first place, but it is. We're not going to talk about that. We can't talk about the past. But yeah, dude, I hope they pull out of it. I think, like, eventually, all the optics around this, it's just going to be too much,
Starting point is 01:01:51 and it's going to be radioactive for them. I mean, word on the street is this is about to be canceled. Well, you know what another word on the street is? What? The Titanic is about to come back. Titanic 2, I saw that. Titanic 2, starring Kate Winslet. Kate Winslet and...
Starting point is 01:02:05 And Ryan Gosling. Ryan Gosling. But no, there's... It'll be Timothee Chalamet. This Australian guy, he was behind the project. At first, it stalled out a little bit, but now he's come back and said, yo, the maiden voyage is happening 2022,
Starting point is 01:02:18 going from not the original maiden voyage, going from Southampton, England to New York, but from Dubai to New York. How are you not going to trace it exactly? If you're going to do it, you've got to trace it exactly. I think they probably have more people interested to pay the money to do that from there, I'd imagine. Flying from Dubai to Southampton, you've got to do
Starting point is 01:02:36 it exactly. Well, they will. After the maiden voyage, then you will be able to do the actual voyage. Are they not doing the actual original route in this maiden voyages. Are they not doing the actual original route in this maiden voyage? The maiden voyage, no, because I mean, oh, I don't know. It would probably be
Starting point is 01:02:51 wildly inefficient to go from Dubai and then triangle up to... I feel like you gotta fly everybody from Dubai. You gotta do the thing, and then where they hit the iceberg, you gotta stop. You gotta do a moment of silence. You gotta have, like, a reenactment. Oh, you want it like that? That would be dope. I would fuck with that. We watch reenactments of the Civil War, and that shit thousands of peoplement. Oh, you want it like that? Right ahead. That would be dope. I would fuck with that. We watch reenactments
Starting point is 01:03:06 of the Civil War and that shit, a thousand people die. Oh, interesting. Okay, so let me tell a little bit, a few details before we talk about
Starting point is 01:03:13 how we can turn this trip up. So the new ship is essentially, it's an identical copy. It's like a fucking to scale replica of the original Titanic which sang in 1912
Starting point is 01:03:22 as we all know. But this time they're obviously, they're upgrading it a little bit. The hull itself will be welded together to avoid any damage. And obviously, modern navigation, radar equipment, things like that. But they will have first, second, and third class tickets you can buy. So I'm curious if there really is a legit steerage area where Leonardo DiCaprio was. Yeah, and you go down, the wild European immigrants are playing violin
Starting point is 01:03:45 and you're like, yo, this is way better than the stuffy tuxedo up top. They gotta period piece it. You gotta. You kinda have to. You gotta have that one van with Kate Winslet's hand or I'm just gonna go on a regular ass cruise. If you're not gonna period piece it, then what's the point? So would you go, first of all? And if you go, would you
Starting point is 01:04:02 go, would you create yourself a backstory and say my name is whatever, I'm coming from Italy or whatever. I'm not into all that like cosplay type stuff but i'll say this if i had buckets of money yeah why not i'm not against it sure i'm not against going like i'm not i never really did the like dress up as a thing and do a thing but i would do it and i can i can see the market but i don't understand the point of it if it's not going to period piece it because otherwise you're just on a carnival cruise. Well, I'm sure the people will be dressed like the same or whatever. But I want the chandeliers to look like that. I think it will.
Starting point is 01:04:31 They are. It will. Everything inside will look exactly the same. Even that staircase from the movie that you saw is the same. But then you've got to go. You've got to do the exact route. And then at the spot where it sank, you've got to like stop there and have like a moment of silence. You've got to like.
Starting point is 01:04:46 Have the dude scream iceberg right ahead. You have the iceberg right ahead! You gotta have some dude fall from the top of the boat and hit that rudder. Hit that rudder. Flip a couple times. You got ragdolled. That is the most iconic part of that movie. Not the Leo spread.
Starting point is 01:05:01 Not the basketball court size thing. She was on a plank the size of a basketball court. Not that. Right. But just the dunk, and then he goes the other way. Yeah. And my aunt was so mad when I laughed at that in the theater. Oh, really?
Starting point is 01:05:15 You're like, oh, shit. When that movie came out, I was like 12 or 13, so I was bored as hell. Right. But when that part happened, I'm the only one in the theater laughing, and my aunt was like, stop laughing. Right, right, right. It was funny. Have some respect. Me and you'm the only one in the theater laughing. And my aunt was like, stop laughing. Right, right, right. Because it was funny. Have some respect.
Starting point is 01:05:27 Me and you are cruise people. I love a cruise. We're cruise people. I will go on the fucking Titanic. I will go on this. And that shit could sink, too, because they added more lifeboats, too. They added more lifeboats. So I kind of want it to sink.
Starting point is 01:05:39 Damn. If we do, I'm going to look in the underground and steer it. I'm going to look for that old couple that's holding each other as the water rushes through. Yeah. That part fucked me up. I'm not going to lie. You know what else I'm going to look in the underground and steer as I'm looking for that old couple that's holding each other as the water rushes through. That part fucked me up. I'm not going to lie. You know what else I'm going to look for? You know what else I'm going to look for? If it does hit another iceberg and sinks, I want to see if the crew or those people playing the music actually will stay this time.
Starting point is 01:05:56 I love that Steve Harvey bit. He was like, you know the band was white. He was like, no black band would keep playing while the ship's in. He said, cool and the gang would be unplugging shit. It goes, the band played on while the ship sank. It was an honor playing with
Starting point is 01:06:13 you gentlemen tonight. I would have been off that boat. I would have took Kate Winslet and Leonardo off that damn door and swam my ass to shore. He said that they would have turned over the dining room table, kicked off a leg, used it as a rower, had a dinner napkin,
Starting point is 01:06:30 blown in it like a sail. Very funny, dude. That Steve Harvey bit is hilarious. And, god, lastly, I just want to end on a heart warmer, or maybe it's not a heart warmer. I don't know if it's a heart warmer. There was a picture on Twitter that kind of went viral of a little boy in Arizona
Starting point is 01:06:45 who was at a pizza party and he was the only damn kid at his own birthday. Have you seen this picture, Bezot? No, let me see it. Oh, that's poor. It's like he's what, eight years old or something? He's a young kid and all you see is all these plates set up at like a Chuck E. Cheese type place.
Starting point is 01:07:02 The pizza trays are full. All the plates have not been disturbed at all and you just see this kid with a look in his eyes that Isn't that fucked up? It's almost a meme. Yo, I don't feel bad at all and I'm going to tell you why I don't feel bad at all. We always find out. We always feel
Starting point is 01:07:22 bad for these people. Then we find out he's probably a bully. He's probably an asshole and nobody likes him. That out he's probably a bully he's probably an asshole and nobody likes him that's why nobody showed up because he's probably an asshole and I don't know nothing about that kid
Starting point is 01:07:29 but we always feel bad for these people and we go actually I found out it takes a lot of work to be the only motherfucker at your own birthday but then
Starting point is 01:07:37 Jakeez you're saying that because of that video some people did you know did hook him up because they felt bad they hooked him up so not only
Starting point is 01:07:43 he's probably a bully he got hooked up. The Phoenix Sun saw it. And they offered him tickets. They offered him tickets to a Suns versus Lakers game. That's coming up on Wednesday. Seven seconds or less. Yeah, right.
Starting point is 01:07:56 And then also he got tickets to a Phoenix soccer club playoff game. Phoenix Rising. He'll be the only one there, too. He will be. He will be the only one there, too. He will be. He will be the only one there. Who watches soccer in Arizona? In Phoenix. He'll be the only one at another event. We're about to get so many
Starting point is 01:08:13 people like, actually, I watch soccer all the time. It's too damn hot to play soccer. It's the most popular sport in the world. See, we were talking about this. I think it's so easy. Something's going on with the mom. Yeah. This is a parent's thing.
Starting point is 01:08:26 This ain't a kid's thing. Of course. Big little lies. Big little lies in Phoenix. You said it was kindergarten, right? He's in kindergarten or something? He's in kindergarten. Yeah, so how the fuck are you fucking, like, clearly the parents are like, yo, that mom
Starting point is 01:08:39 is, I don't want to hear that. The invitation had the wrong date on it. He, early to his own birthday, the invitation probably had the wrong date on it. Or, the other thing is, why take a photo of your child in their saddest moment like that and then post that shit? Because you're going to get Phoenix Suns tickets. Right. But that's where these things always begin to fall apart.
Starting point is 01:08:55 Where at first you're like, oh, that's dope. But just like much like there was that other kid who was getting bullied and his video went viral of him crying and his mom was just like videoing him. And then it turned out she had some interesting problematic facebook exactly there's always someone you always have to look at the parents be like are you yeah maybe maybe that kid and the mom personally had the birthday at the same time and day as another person's birthday and all the other parents banded together was like well we're gonna go to the original birthday and we're all yeah you know what i mean it's all some big little lie shit, but the Phoenix version.
Starting point is 01:09:25 So it's a little like Chuck E. Cheesy instead of, you know. Yeah, going to the Philharmonic or something. Exactly. Yeah. I mean, that's honestly, that's what I think it is. And this ain't going to help the kid. Of course not. They're going to beat his ass when he gets to school.
Starting point is 01:09:40 They'll be like, oh, you got to go to a Lakers game? You snitch. Five knuckleses Five knuckles Five knuckles These kindergartners All got finstas They're all gonna destroy him On finsta
Starting point is 01:09:52 Yeah dude Thank god there was no Social media when we were kids Alright well Bezod Thank you so much Thanks for having me guys For joining me today Jaquese thank you so much
Starting point is 01:09:58 For helping me host this Damn thing Can I say one thing Well yeah sure Or I'll get to you You can say your piece. But Bezod, where can people find
Starting point is 01:10:08 you and follow you, support you? My Instagram and my Twitter are the same, but I'm going to spell it for you because of my name. Wow, look at you. Bars, baby. That's your AKA? It's at B-E-H-Z-A-D D-A-B-U
Starting point is 01:10:23 Bezod.boo. And that's Instagram. And Twitter. On my Instagram, you'll find a lot of lip sync videos and funny videos of me in the car. And on Twitter, you'll see my political takes. Hot takes. There you go. There you go.
Starting point is 01:10:34 You were just in Chicago recently, too. Is there a tweet that you like, Bezod, that you want to call out, let people know? Something you like, you mess with? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Get it. Oh, my God. I got to read it. It was so funny.
Starting point is 01:10:46 It was this tweet I saw. This tweet is from a tag called ArtFucker1996. Okay. So it has the Charles Bukowski quote. Okay. And the Charles Bukowski quote is, people run from the rain but sit in bathtubs full of water. Wow.
Starting point is 01:11:03 Okay. And then underneath it, ArtFucker1996 says, wow, Bukowski, so profound. Do you also bathe fully clothed, you dickhead? Oh, isn't it funny that a person will eat when they're hungry but will duck if you throw an apple at their face? Just tearing him apart. I love that. Like, that quote makes no sense.
Starting point is 01:11:19 You run from the rain because you're wearing clothes. Yeah, well. You sit in a bathtub full of water because you're not. You know, people got up here deep. So dumb. That's my favorite tweet. What about you, Jekese? Time for you.
Starting point is 01:11:30 Say your piece. Where can people find you, though, first? As always, in these streets. You can find me in these streets. You can also find me at JekeseNeil on everything. I'm not going to tell you how to spell my name. Figure it out. Okay, well, it's J-A-C-Q-U-I-S-N-E-A-L.
Starting point is 01:11:47 Thank you, Miles. Thank you. But also, for those of you who don't know, I am on the podcast called Culture Kings right here on the HowStuffWorks Network. For those of you who do know, and for those of you who are living in Los Angeles, we have Culture Kings Live coming up. Yes.
Starting point is 01:12:01 Friday at the UCB Sunset Theater. Guys, tickets are only $7. $7. $7. It's 1030 at night. Let me tell you something. This ain't going to be just an old podcast where we just sit in a couple of chairs and talk to you.
Starting point is 01:12:15 We got some stand-up coming to open the show. We got two musical guests at our show. And you got me and your boy, Edgar. You've heard Edgar on the pod before. Yes, the low energy guy. The low energy guy. We're going to bring it to you guys. Tickets are on sale right now.
Starting point is 01:12:31 You got a quick turnaround. If you live in Los Angeles and you just want to come to a good show, forget just saying, you know, I want to listen to a podcast live. You just want to come to a good show. Come to it. Tickets on sale at UCBtheater.com. It is at the UCB Sunset Theater just follow the schedule
Starting point is 01:12:48 follow all the links Culture Kings Live Friday October 26 2018 10.30pm and for all my Chicago people I'm coming home
Starting point is 01:12:56 November 29th which is a Thursday one week after Thanksgiving me and Edgar are bringing Culture Kings Live there as well Daily Zeitgeist is going to be on it.
Starting point is 01:13:06 Where are you guys doing that? What venue? Chicago Theater Works. We're coming, guys. November 29th is Culture Kings Live. Get tickets for that as well. There you go. Boom.
Starting point is 01:13:15 What's the tweet you like? Tweet I like. All right. My tweet. My tweet. The tweet that made me laugh so hard. So we all know LeBron is on the Lakers now, right? Yes.
Starting point is 01:13:24 And LeBron and the Lakers just played the San Antonio Spurs. He missed two free throws, then missed a game winner. And Lakers Nation went off that night. It was the whole Kobe versus LeBron thing. And, you know, NBA Twitter is one of the best Twitters around. Best Twitter ever. So somebody at World Wide Wobb. Oh, that's World Wide. World Wide Wobb is the best Twitter around. So somebody at World Wide Wob.
Starting point is 01:13:47 World Wide Wob is the best NBA Twitter Hall of Fame. He's so funny, dude. He made if Kobe was in attendance, a gift version. So he had LeBron shooting the free throw, missing it. And you know that gif of Kobe with his family walking off the court? Man, that shit.
Starting point is 01:14:05 That brought all the Kobe stands up. You guys know how I love Kobe and I love LeBron and I love the Lakers, but it's so funny because as a person who really knows, Kobe has missed
Starting point is 01:14:13 so many free throws to lose games. That man has missed, and I love Kobe, but he has missed so many free throws to lose games. People only remember
Starting point is 01:14:19 when he busted his Achilles and took those free throws. Exactly. They were like, Kobe would have never missed. I was like, well, like 20 times he missed free throws
Starting point is 01:14:24 to lose regular season games. That tweet got me, though. You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at milesofgray. A tweet that I like is actually from Bridget over from Stuff Mom Never Told You at Bridget Marie. She said, there is no greater bliss than going out to dinner and telling the person you're with, I know the owner.
Starting point is 01:14:47 And it's true. That feels like such a flex. If I even know the fucking bartender at a place, I'm like, yo, I know the bartender. I think we can get,
Starting point is 01:14:54 we can make this a double for free. And yeah, you can find us at the Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We are at Daily Zeitgeist on Twitter.
Starting point is 01:15:03 We have a Facebook fan page. We got a website, thedailyzeitgeist.com where we post all of the episodes and our footnotes. Footnotes. There you go. And also, you can check out all kinds of links and stuff in the show description. I'm not good at doing this part because
Starting point is 01:15:16 usually Jack does, so bear with me. But yeah, even more of our footnotes are also available in the show notes in the episode description where we also link off to the song that we ride out on. Also, i want to let you know that if you want to get that t public merch we have a very special promotion going on you can get 30 off all of your zeit gear i just saw them the t-shirts are dope yeah you go just put in the promo code zeitgang yes z-e-i-t-g-a-n-g-E-S, and you can get 30% off all that swag-amente.
Starting point is 01:15:47 And for the song we write out on, Super Producer Anna Hosnier, what is the vibration we are writing on? Hey, I completely forgot I was doing this. I'm thinking... Thank you. So, you know, I grew up with... Okay, I don't have my headphones on.
Starting point is 01:16:02 I don't know what's going on. Yeah, it was... He got you. It's hilarious know what's going on. Yeah, it was sick. He got you. He got you. That's a classic Nick. Uh-huh. Bomb drop.
Starting point is 01:16:12 Real Nick move. Topical. Anyway, yeah, so I grew up listening to Zion Eye. They're like, you know, my local band. I like calling them a band. So, you know, this song that's on their most recent album, which title I cannot remember off the top of my head for some reason, but this song is called Kale by Zion. I, it's a great song.
Starting point is 01:16:33 You know, it's, it's a funny song because it's like Zion. I comes into the new age and they're rapping about like kale. So, you know, it's one of those, what do you say? Your big toes. It gets to rumping and a tumping and it will make your big toe shoot up in your boot. Yeah, and then the rest of your body will also be shooting up and down because it's a jammer. Yeah, is that what they call it up in the East Bay?
Starting point is 01:16:59 It's a bop. It's not, yeah. Is it a slap? It's a bopper. Does it slap? Yeah, does it slap? It's a slapping, bopping,. Yeah. It's a slap. It's a bopper. Ah, it doesn't slap. Does it slap? It's a slapper, slapping,
Starting point is 01:17:07 bopping, jamming, rumping and tumping, rumping and tumping. I can't wait to hear it. I don't know this. I don't know this. Kale by Zion.
Starting point is 01:17:12 I, there you go. Well, fantastic. And so keep that, listen to that. And we'll see you tomorrow. Cause the daily show later.
Starting point is 01:17:20 Oh my God. I've been on my jail. I'm moving back and forth, stacking green like kale. With squad, don't get kale. Turn the line when we need make mail. Oh my God, I've been on my jail. I move back and forth, stacking green like kale.
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