The Daily Zeitgeist - 11.13.25

Episode Date: November 13, 2025

In episode 1964, Jack and guest co-host Pallavi Gunalan, are joined by actor, writer, improvisor, host of the Bad Drag Race comedy show, Drag Her, and We Love Trash, Mano Agapion, to discuss… Newly-Released Epstein Emails Reveals Trump Knew About “The Girls”, THIS IS THE GREATEST UNVEILING OF AN AI HUMANOID ROBOT EVER and more! House Democrats release new Epstein emails referencing Trump Trump knew about Epstein’s conduct, newly released emails suggest Furious White House reveals Jeffrey Epstein victim who ‘spent hours’ with Trump — and she always said he never did anything wrong Trump says he doesn't know why Epstein took young women from Mar-a-Lago Xpeng team is trying so hard to prove this thing is real because so many people doubt them right now. Must be a great feeling, they nailed it Joke of the day from Moscow: Russia tried to unveil its first humanoid AI robot, Aidol. Check out the Facial Recognition Comedy Show here! LISTEN: Louphoria (with Cruza) by SminoSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I went to Palm Springs for Palm Springs pride. That was ridiculous and stupid. Fun. Oh, isn't that like an epic thing? Yeah, kind of. Yeah, it was, it was, I meant, Eric thing. No, Tom Springs is notoriously gay.

Yeah, it's like the best. Very gay. Oh, their pride is much better than ours. Our pride is garbage. I bet their pride doesn't even have cops. it did have like a few cops but but it was like sexy cops they were like the cops were gay

and so I think that's why people were like the cops are like gay they're yeah they weren't before but now yeah they got too close to the other gays and caught it with the gay wand but their pants became

a rip off all of a sudden magically but I met characters I met, yeah, I met a man with a bionic penis. Oh, amazing. I keep hearing about these. Like, I think we mainly through the Elon Musk stuff, but like, he has a bionic? Wait, do you think the bionic, that's the word on the street? Do you think the bionic penis is like Elon Musk's robots where he's pretending it works on his own, but really a man in India is fanning it?

That's really funny. I mean, he allegedly has a bionic penis. I buy it. But there's a lot of bionic penis rumors out there. I've heard Sylvester Stallone. I believe that. Women have different gossip

and I'm kind of regretting it. I know. We have such fun gossip. All right. Who's new on the list of people with bionic penises? That was just a rumor that was floating around that I can either confirm nor deny about it.

God, no, it's real. No, it's real. Wasn't there an NFL player who got divorced because his dick was like three Coke cans or something? His X-W-Said? I did see that story somewhere

where they were like, it was just too big and crazy. Yeah, is that a bionic penis? Oh, maybe. Or what? Maybe. I wonder if that was like a part of the divorce where he was like, all right, I can, I will give you this if you say that the reason we're getting divorced is because my penis is three

Coke cans. I think what actually happens is she's, she's like three Coke cans, BDS, you know what I mean? And she was like, I have to boycott this. That is so funny. BDS on the Coke cans. That's right This is an IHeart podcast In the heat of battle

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What up, y'all? It's your boy, Kevin on stage. I want to tell you about my new podcast called Not My Best Moment, where I talk to artists, athletes, entertainers, creators, friends, people I admire who had massive success about their massive failures. What did they mess up on? What is their heartbreak? And what did they learn from you? I got judged horribly.

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I mean, it sounds like we're counting over here. I'm not going to look up what National Day is it is. A, ah, ah, a. National count day. It should be, if it's not. Hey, that could be the next six, seven. Right. I mean, guys. So many possibilities of consecutive numbers that these kids just, they're just scratching the surface.

That's just us trying to figure out how to teach them after they were in COVID the whole time. We're just trying to catch up on numbers. Yeah. We're like, all right, on to eight, nine. That was the wrong date, but we like to talking about the count, so we're leaving it in. Ah, ah, ah, ah. My name is Jack O'Brien, aka scrubby, scrubby, y'all, scrubby, yeah, scrubby, yeah. Toss me that bar, I'll rub my shit all day because, ooh, baby, I use soap raw.

Yeah, baby, I use soap raw. that one courtesy of snarf you on the discord in reference to we had an episode early this week where we were talking about showering habits and I was talking about you know showering is the thing that we all have our private habits of what we do and one time when I was I think like 12 I was at basketball camp and I was going to the shower in the dorms and one of the kids was like where's your washcloth I was like oh I just like soap my hands and you know, just use the bar, rub the bar on my body. And my friend said, so how do you wash your penis? And then made a jack off hand motion. And everyone laughed. And then he asked if there was like a little divot in the bar of soap from where I had been washing my penis. And everyone like really laughed at that. And that was the day that I started using a washcloth. See, this is a metaphor for America. And like you could have been radicalized into never washing again, but you chose to be more progressive about it and to better your circumstances.

The easier, softer way of just being like, oh, because I'd used a watchcloth when I was young, and then I just thought, like, I don't know, I think the Irish Springs commercial or something, I was like, I should be like just rubbing a bar of soap, like just a bar of soap and a knife. Yeah, exactly. That's one step away from the proud boys. That would be like, at the end of times, it would be a good way to separate, uh, the, you know, like the people of color from everyone else. They'll know because the washcloth will happen or it won't happen. It'll be like hanging outside our jungle bathrooms.

They're like, that's an ally. And I'll just be with a knife and an Irish Springs bar under a cold waterfall. Because, God, it's so painful. Why must I do this? I'm thrilled to be joined in our second seat by a very special guest co-host, a hilarious stand-of-comedian, writer, actor, improviser. You can catch her at the monthly facial recognition comedy show, which she also produces.

Check the footnotes. Footnot. It's Pallavi, Gunala. Hello. How you doing? I'm just radio DJ. What's going on? How you doing?

It's Holly. I'm like, it's KCRW. KSRW, the one channel that doesn't do funny voices. fucking tote bag. Yeah. God, I need, I just need more totes. LA is supported on the tote bag economy. I have so many toots.

Stop. I think this is a millennial issue. We turn totes into like regular bags. We're just like, this is my purse now and fuck it. I don't know if I should be talking yet, but no totes. I'm going to have spacious room in my tote. Too many tots. And sometimes I'll like find an old tote that I haven't used in five years because we have

too many totes, and there will be something in there that I've been missing for, like, oh, that's where that thing was. Polavi, it's wonderful to have you here. Thank you so much for guest co-hosting. We are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a hilarious actor, writer, improviser, podcaster who hosts the hilarious podcast. We Love Trash on Patreon. You've seen him retelling the story of the famous poodle masterpiece on drunk history and on the TV

show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, one of Google's top suggestions when you put his name into hilarious. Mono Agapia and boyfriend. Hilarious. I've been the one Googling that. Okay, wait. Stop.

That is so dumb. Bad drag race is having its finale this Saturday at 10.30 p.m. At Dynasty typewriter. Link in the footnotes. Please welcome back to the show. It's been way too long. Been too long. Yes, it's me.

Mom Elagabia! Oh, I'm here. I'm sorry. I could not stop screaming before you introduced me. I hate toots. I hate toots. They don't hold anything. Just one big pocket.

They hold nothing. They slide off your shoulder. Have you ever tried to put your shoes on while you have a tote on your shoulder? It's hell on earth. Okay. I can tell you, before you even said anything. It's like a chaplain routine. It is.

It is. It is. It is. It is. hate them, hat falls off. I can tell you hated them by how like your closet is organized by color, by like shade of blue

shirt and then it's all stacked. Cotes are not a stackable entity. They're a hanged on the door knob type of material. They're not organizational outside of outside. But you can't put groceries in them.

I don't get why the Trader Joe's ones are so popular. You can fit one box of cereal in them and it's full. So I don't understand. You can't take a Trader Joe's toot to Costco? What are you doing? You know what I mean? It just doesn't make sense to me, and I don't like the way they feel on my shoulder.

I don't like it. It's very precarious. They're good at precariously hang on. How do you feel about like the cinch bag backpacks where it's like to draw string? Better, much better. Interesting. Still just one big pocket. We're still going to kangaroo level technology.

Way more reliable than a tote. Yeah. Really? I always feel like they're like so close to snap. you know and in that way like me but still the weight the weight on the shoulders is intense with those jaw strings you're talking about the ones that are shoe string yeah yeah that's too much I'm like I feel like I'm being and then the material is so light and then you put in two things and then it breaks off of one of those strings yeah yeah yeah but I feel like it holds in the sack

is closed right you want to be able to tie off the sack open flapping at the top and then about to fall off your shoulders and just scatter Grocery down the street. What about those fancy like zippable totes? Like the custom ones, you know, now? That is a new piece of tote technology. The last tote that I was given did have a zipper on the top, and I did appreciate that.

Well, then just get a backpack. Now we're at backpack. Exactly. And also, I can't have a baguette floating, like poking out of that, which is the whole point of a tote. I think that's the real allure. The allure is the baguette, the flume of celery.

You know, when you buy celery with the... Or a bouquet. Carrot flowers. With the wig. Yes. When you buy carrots with a wig, which who are buying those... But also...

Carried carrot. I feel like this is erasure of your girlfriend who has everything in her bag. I feel like that's... That's me... Like, I put everything in the tote and then I root around for 10 minutes. You can have a lot of loose shit at the box.

Yeah. Yes. Yes, you have a box this series. and a thing of celery, and that's it. But there's also just like loose shit down there at the bottom. I love a good loose shit. So much pocket litter. So just junk door, detritus down there at the bottom.

Nature Valley bars just grabbed up. Detritus. I pre-ground them up before I put them in the bag. Then it's just cereal again. That's right. Yeah. And that's how you fit cereal in your throat raw. That's the only way.

It's the only way detritus. I'm glad I got to hear that word. word today. Yeah. And you're a word of the day. Is detritus. Oh, I used a word yesterday. I can't remember.

But I was like, oh, I feel so excited I got to use that word. And it was a weird one. Oh, I can't remember what it was, but it's gone. It was a weird one. And you only get one per day. Tomorrow we'll forget detritus. All right. I also used Garrett earlier and I didn't, I couldn't remember if I used it correctly.

But that is correct. I was like, that's Brad Garrett's last name. but also the thing you use to choke people in mobster movies, right? Oh, oh, a garot. A garot, fuck. A garot. It's a little different. But, yeah, garot.

I grew up watching a lot of mafia movies. Donnie Brasco, underrated. Really underrated, really sad, but, like, also a lot of fun. But, you know? It's great. They really, like, make it poignant there at the end. Yeah. That is the most I've ever felt a mafia hit is when Al Pacino's, like,

Donnie, if you're a rat, Donnie, that's in my brain. That's a lot about chosen family. You know what? I have never seen it. Oh, yeah. That makes it the gayest mafia movie because it's about chosen family. And they all dress nice. That's true.

Yeah. So were you going to say? What? I didn't know what this movie was. And I would have guessed Al Pacino was a critical role in it. I would have guessed that. And that's me. Donnie brass.

They were just sharing the mafia movies, but like it was him, Joe Pett. De Niro. They were just kind of interchangeably passing it back and forth. Yeah. Yeah. All right. We do have important news today. We have fun, you know, it's a big news that we got to get to. We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment, Mono. But first, there's some emails that just dropped from Jeffrey Epstein. I don't know if you guys have heard about this guy. It's bad news. Holy fucking shit. Yeah. I just hired him as a teacher at my life. Lovell? Jeff Epstein? The New York math teacher? You're even behind that comedy bit.

But yeah, House Democrats just released three emails related to Jeffrey Epstein that don't look good for Donald Trump. No. We mentioned it on yesterday's trending, but we're going to go on a little bit more here because it is, it's that news story that causes me to go to Fox News immediately to be like, How are they doing? What are they doing with this? We love those stories. How are they dismissing this one? As of this recording, no mention.

Every other news site is just like 20 point font about this. And they're like, I don't know, people are mad at Michelle Obama for wearing a weird outfit. That's literally one of their top stories right now. Zoro Mom Tommy is turning New York into Moscow. Frankenstein is woke. Wow, great. Now, Frankenstein's woke now. Jesus Christ.

So we'll talk about that. We'll talk about the greatest unveiling of an AI humanoid robot ever. We've been enjoying these. Elon, you know, had his where it looked like an elderly person learning karate, but he was like, this is basically like Neo in the Matrix.

But there's, so there's two new ones. There's one from China. that in keeping with how things have been going, all reports from China are that they are roboted the fuck up. They got the robots that are generations ahead of what we got. So they revealed one where everyone was like, could you unzip the back of that? Because I'm pretty sure there's a person in there.

And then we got Russia's version, which is Miles wrote that this is the greatest unveiling of an AI humanoid robot ever. it is so wild. Is it the one that fell down? Yeah, it's the one that fell down and then they like tried to cover it up with like a blanket

but like the even that they fucked up like the blanket was like kind of tangled up. That is so funny. It's amazing. They should have like played it off like a top like it's a robot toddler which is why. Yes, that's what it feels like.

It's walking, it's crawling, it's learning the way we learned. That's why it fell. Yes. I don't know. They should have, so they should have played Sesame Street music

when it came out. Instead, they played Rocky 4 music. Robot going down. Yeah, because it was just a bionic penis and that's why it fell over. That's right. It fell over because of the weight of its robotic penis. Don't get me started. Don't even get me started.

That's the new slogan. The robotic bionic woman. Put some respect on Gene Darcy. A forgotten SNL character. God. There's people die. Everybody should go back and look up Gene Darcy, the stand-up

comedian who's like at a retirement home. She's doing like really hacky, 80 stand-up bits as people are dying. Yes, it's so funny. I probably know like six comedians who actually do that. Don't get me started. Don't even get me started.

Molly, Shannon, a true ledge. She's going to get her Oscar. She's going to get her Oscar. It's coming. I'm calling it. I agree. She's so great. So all of that, plenty more. But first, Mono, we do like to ask our guests. Yes. What is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are?

Okay. There's some pretty fucking weird ones. I looked yesterday, and I was like, huh. Oh, you know what I'm a, I did Alpha Zombie Naked. Did you watch 28 years later? I didn't, but I've been hearing of the hog on the Alpha Zombie. Yeah, and what makes me laugh is that the gay internet has completely lost like the meaning of the film. film is actually surprisingly kind of beautiful and complicated and all the gay websites are like

did you see the fucking slanger did you see that fucking hunks the meat missile like all the gays have just lost their mind over the zombie and they've kind of lost the plot on what it was what it's been really about that and what just real quick like does does that come into like does it Is it just, it happens to be there and massive and nothing else is really mentioned? Yeah. Or is, are people, does anyone ever react in the moment, in the movie, to the fact that this naked zombie has a massive hug? No. Just there.

It's just there. But, I mean, obviously that you see it a lot. You see it slapping his thighs from a lot of the film. But it's just, I don't know, maybe it's there to say something. it's there to say something about toxic masculinity that even when you die, you're still beholden to toxic masculinity. Because the other zombies follow him.

They're like, I don't know. He has a big fucking cock. Let's do what he says. It's crazy. So he is an alpha. So like that it is important. It's an important piece of Misen scene. And it's also not during the zombie renaissance,

in which case the smaller dick would have been considered more beautiful. Oh, yes. A sign of truth. civility. Yes. But no, he's a barbarian. He's a barbarian. Could you imagine if the Renaissance paintings had just massive hogs? Like the David had a massive, like had an alpha zombie day. If you think I haven't been imagining that my whole life. That would have been a boost. I'm sure. I'm talking about, yeah, yeah. That would have been a boost. Talked before about how Jesus, like, you know, there's a lot of paintings and sculptures. Maybe the most, most painted sculpted guy, most

painted and sculpted penis and like what if somebody was just like not my lord, my lord's got a big old thing. Thank you. That would be weird. I feel like they did that with his abs. You know what I mean? Exactly. Yeah. But have you seen that's just the opposite? A lot of satanic

figures and sculptures were depicted with giant members. Because that just by the same rule, they were like well, big penises are equated with evil and bad Which was a genius marketing campaign that some guy with a small dick started, just to be like, you can't date him, he's satanic. Look at that 12-in-jure. Everything you need to know about Christianity right there.

They're like, big dicks should be feared. They're evil and can't be trusted. And people were like, well, we might as well go to hell. Honestly, sign it. Hell seems more fun. Hell seems like a lot more fun. Right? and then the other only part of my search history was Sylvia Brown

because I'm obsessed. Have you all been getting the Sylvia Brown videos in your algorithm? Do you know who the hell that is? She's this old psychic lady who used to be on the Montel show. Oh my God. And like maybe Mari too, but she would just like show up and do bad psychic predictions and people are kind of replaying them now in TikToks.

There's a picture of her that looks like she was like the in, this is so mean, that looks like she was the in. inspiration for the makeup for weapons for the old... Oh my God, she's on Gladys. She is on Gladys. Her Wikipedia...

Yeah, her Wikipedia photo. Yeah, I'm getting, like, also the Brazil faces. You know how the Brazil, like, in the movie, Brazil, the faces are, like, kind of stretched out and, like, weirdly proportioned. Yes. I'm getting a little bit of that. She's having a renaissance.

She has passed, unfortunately, years ago. But her very... So she's speaking to us from the beyond the grave. Yes, her very... Let's just call it, whatever. it is. Her very bullshitty psychic readings are having a moment where they're now being

seen through the lens of today's world and being like, wait a second. She's just bullshitting these people who are actually looking for some sort of comfort for something that they don't have an answer to. It's fantastic. It's not like, wait, she was right about that. It's just more like cold takes exposed. Wait, I think I have been seeing this.

You have. I think I have, yes. It's a big piece of internet. It's a big thing. She just makes like grand gestures, like, in very specific ways, and you're like, this is manipulation, very obviously. Because she'll just say, like, well, that's not right. Or like, that's not how, this is what we meant, you know.

Someone's like, I want to, I don't know who my father is and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And she just shuts her, my mom, like, you don't want to know. Yeah. She's like, it's not him. You don't want to know your father. And she's like, okay, thank you. Oh, I guess I don't want to know. Like, looking back, we talk a lot about how.

dumb our culture is and you know the six seven stuff and kids what's wrong with the kids you look back at the culture of the yeah and that shit is dumb so dumb i'm researching urkel for an episode of this show that we have coming up okay and it it like i've been watching episodes of family matters where like steve urkel has like a haunted doll that like comes back and it's just it's kind of of mind blowing. Like, it's like, wow, we've, we have progressed. Like, we, it's in weird ways. Like, I, I, I've talked before about, like, there's this thing called the Flynn effect where they have to, like, zero out the IQ tests every decade because people just keep getting smarter. And so, like, a IQ test from the 1930s, if you took it today and, like, let's say

your IQ by today's standards was 100, you would get, like, a 130 on that. Because they've had to like make it harder and harder because people I and I think it like has to do with media and just the fact that we're like consuming more and more complex media faster and faster are allowed to read yeah yeah yeah yeah I think it's all all those things but things get like launched on a stage I feel like in a way that they didn't before there were just like pockets of world you didn't see back then but now everyone can see like every dumb thing is out yeah yeah yeah and and get goes viral but yeah mm-hmm Shout on Sylvia Brown.

Shout out to her. How far we've come. Now we don't have scammers doing obvious shit to scam us. They've targeted the elderly. What's something you think's underrated? Cereal. As you could tell, I'm excited.

I have cereals on the brain. I'm so excited by cereal, you guys. Like, right now, let me tell you about the one I'm most excited about right now. There is a new cereal. Kellogg's is doing a promotion. A new one. Oh, my God.

They be dropping new cereals every day, every week. This is huge. This is big. This is big because, like, yeah, we hadn't had a new candy that really, like, made a huge indent, and then everybody's like, oh, nerds gummy clusters are actually the best thing, and they were not wrong. Nerds gummy clusters are fucking awesome.

They actually are the best new candy, gummy clusters. They really went hard on that one. But I haven't, like, paid attention to the newest innovations in the cereal game. Okay. So this one I'm super excited about, I'm almost. like sad to open the gates on this cereal

I'm trying to gate keep there is a collab before anybody else did we'll acknowledge that yeah there's a collab there's a collab with Kellogg's

and Stranger Things and they're no collab collab yeah I said collab I said collab yeah I said

yeah oh okay yeah yeah they released a serial called Google it Demogorgin crunch

Dema Gorgon crush. I just can't. Is it like, does it taste like way older than it should be? You have to eat it upside down. Oh my God. Of all the things we didn't need, I know you're excited about it. But the strain collapse, sorry. No, I love it.

Well, this is how they distract it. This is how capitalism gets us. They're like, no health care, but get this. Demogorgon Crunch. It is so goofy. If you Google the box, it literally has the, demigorgian creature posing on it as if he's a serial mascot.

Yeah, like fun. He's smiling. He's smiling. It's funny. Yes. It's deeply, I kind of do need this. You know what I'm saying?

Wait, so is it honeycombs and lucky charms? Is that basically the vibe? I think they're ego. They used to make little ego cereals, like little, they're like waffly, syrupy tasting. And they have a stranger thing marshmallows inside.

I think it does remind me of like a simpler time for my childhood. When like serial was like there was like we needs, like with Olympians. You know, like it was a bigger deal to have these cereal boxes be something special. Yes. And the design is definitely doing that. Like the design, the cereal box looks old. Like it looks like my child's. Yeah.

Absolutely. They're leaning into that sort of retro thing that Stranger Things does. They're having fun. Hey, Demogorgon crunches for kids. it's also funny to me that this beast that is killed I haven't followed

all of those stranger things but killed people like murder so many children he's like I don't want some

some Demogorgon crunch She's like Drinks the blood of children is now being like Come on Demagorgan Give us those marshalos

We're going to have like the clown from it do a crossover with Captain Crunch It's It's deeply absurd And I'm here for it Is it good

You've had it? I haven't had it yet. I just bought it yesterday and I had to go hunting for it. I'm sick. I hunt for like these rare serials. Are you on like the new serial forums or something? Yes.

I follow a couple of the serial blogs. There's one called serialistly. There's a couple of others. Very well done. What is your favorite classic cereal? Favorite classic. Do you, if you, I hope, hmm, are you going to count this as,

okay, classic? Yeah. No, classic. Go with anything that's like not. I'm going to go classic. Demogorgon crunch before that. Cinnamon toast crunch. Cinnamon toast crunch.

That sounds good. They really figured it out with that one. But there's a couple I love. How about y'all? What cereal do you like? There was meth in it, but, you know, it's... I thought that that was, like, the most sugar that I could pack into a spoonful of cereal. And then I had Raisin Brand Crunch.

And Raisin Brand Crunch is so sweet. And, like, just right, exactly. Like, it is, it, you know, the best sweetened cereal is, like, sort of border somewhere between, like, food and dessert. And, like, this one just, like, blew through that wall. It is dessert. Which is why, burst through. I was obsessed with Reese's puff cereal.

Yeah, it's delicious. It, like, becomes cake. Once you pour milk on it, it becomes a cake. It's so good. And then you cut it open, it falls open. And you're like, no cake the whole time. The whole time. time. We don't have serial culture anymore. We don't have like Saturday morning cartoons. We

can't mail things in from the cereal box. We don't do the puzzles on the back. I used to read the cereal boxes. It's the best thing to read. Oh, I'm such a boomer. I could still read cereal boxes. Oh, good. And the content has gotten worse. I got to say. Oh, really? It's pretty boring. They're not even trying to like give them bad ideas or anything. Yeah. I just like like the trivia and stuff, you know? There's got to be a crossword. Must be a crossword. There's got to be, find all the blanks, like find all the apples or whatever.

You've got to have some hidden images. That should be a law. That should be a law. Yeah, we should be governing the content on the back of cereal boxes. A maze. We need a maze. Yes. Like, come on. Yeah. Fuck the adequacy of our meats. What's going on with the cereal boxes?

Again, I will let go of health care if the back of cereal boxes are great. That's fine. Were you referencing Elon Musk when you were talking about adequacy of the meats? Yeah. Or the alpha zombie? Bionic.

Let me see what that demigorgon. Let me see what that demigorgon do. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll do overrated and get into the news. In the heat of battle, your squad relies on you. Don't let them down. Unlock Elite Gaming Tech at Lenovo.com.

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That's part of the MyCultura podcast network available on the IHartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. And we're back. And Mono, we do like to ask our guests. What is something you think is overrated? You're going to gag. I mean, there's so many things. I literally, the thing I wrote before coming in was Toots. But don't worry, there's, so it blew my mind when you brought up Toots.

But don't worry, there's other things I think are. overrated. You know what I think is kind of overrated? Uh-oh. Uh-oh. No, I think you're going to go with me on this. I think. I think you're going to go with me on this. Are you going to go with me? I'm going

with you, wherever you go. This isn't going to be good. Okay, I'm going to sound like such a tired gay man. But, um, sports. Sports. I, I, that's so crazy because I sound like a lesbian.

because I've been getting, like, really into them lately. Yeah. That's, I can, someone help me, help me get there because I just, the games are too long. Of course. The games are too long. Everything is reality TV. If you view things from everything is reality TV and you understand, like, there's, like, real life drama behind the shit that's happening.

Okay, now I'm literally in almost immediately. Yeah, and also, some sports are very gay. WNBA, there was, like, recently someone dunked on their wife or something, it was crazy. Like, it's nuts. And then the men, even if they're straight, the rivalries are gay.

Do you know what I mean? Yeah, I'm into that. Hit talking. So this is why I watch, I don't know why, but like basketball documentaries like really inspire me. And I think it's because they're so fucking petty. I'm like, yeah, spite will drive me.

Giselle was married to... Tom Brady. And she left him for their... I was thinking of real housewives. And didn't she live? like leave him for her like martial art instructor. That's okay that's okay that kind of stuff

fun. Yeah. Yeah. Super fun. Yeah. And maybe that also happens when their players are getting traded and stuff like that. Maybe that's also the drama. Yeah, there is like there is a lot of drama like that. One, um, one example is like, I don't know if you saw on a meme of like Tyrese Halliburton doing like the choke thing. Okay. So he like he made a basket in a very critical game. He's on an impossible heater. Like the type of heater that is like

something supernatural is going on here. This guy is playing completely out of his mind and keeps hitting game-winning shots. Meeting leagues. Even though everyone on the team knows. So he kept making amazing shots and he like wins this game in this most incredible way.

Like buzzer-beater makes the basket and he does this choke symbol and a drama behind it, which was so like amazing in that moment, is he did that because like 30 years ago, Reggie Miller did the same fucking shit to Spike Lee, right?

Yeah, to the Knicks. Same team playing at the same place. Same team at 30 years different. And then Reggie Miller was in the room like commentating on that game. So like it was like a throwback to like basketball history. You know what I mean? Almost incredibly embarrassing because he thought he had won it

with that shot. foot was on the line so they actually had to go to overtime so it was almost like a huge embarrassment but then they ended up winning there is also a seven foot six player in the NBA this year that is like just it's worth seven foot six who plays like a point guard and it's just worth watching for like it's almost like looking at an optical illusion we're sure it's not three children we're sure we've looked down the back and yeah there's no children in there yeah wendy Wait, also, you should watch the Jordan documentary, The Last Dance, because he is a petty bitch, and it is amazing. Okay, I've heard this is amazing.

I've heard this is unbelievable. I'll watch it with you. I love, it's my favorite movie. Okay. I've heard it spellbinding. I have more of that. Yeah, you just pick your spots and only watch highlights and things that have been predigested for you. Yeah, I think the tough thing with sports is there is a lot of, like, men take a lot of.

it too seriously whereas like for us it's like camp you know what i mean like when we watch reality tv and stuff but for like men they're like this is my livelihood in my career and these are heroes and villains and blah blah and you're and for me i'm like oh my god spicy that's crazy watching games is like trying to follow politics by watching C-SPAN like you if you're like really into it then yeah like you're you have to know all the players all the history. You know, like, the sport, like, hardcore sports fans, like,

usually need to have, like, money on it to find the games themselves interesting to, like, watch the law. Wait, there were two players recently who were, like, accused of, like, gambling. Yeah, there's all sorts of gambling shit. Yeah. It's like, both in basketball and baseball.

And, like, it's fun to them. Like, again, like, this is predigested stuff. Like, it's, you wouldn't pick this up while you're watching, but you go back. and watch them play in the game when they're trying to lose. And they're like fucking up on purpose. I should say,

I also went to a college where I saw firsthand the way athletes got pushed through academic programs. I went to Chapel Hill, which like famously got in huge trouble for pushing jocks through. I was, yeah, so I've seen it firsthand. I literally was in a class during a final, a geology final where a teacher was just giving Tyler Hansbro answers.

And just to get him through. Remember Tyler Hansbro? Yeah. Old school. Yeah. He, uh, known as Psycho T. Uh, that was his like, the nickname that he proudly. He looks like he gave himself that nickname from the shirt.

He's like an 80s movie villain come to life. Yeah. Um, I think a feeder thing into sports is wrestling because it is camp. Yeah. But it also has like championships and athleticism. So that's kind of like a feeder into, like, the more serious sports or whatever. Yeah. It just blows my mind.

I know I'm wrong, but when I'm watching it on TV, it feels like we're watching an ant farm. You know what I mean? Like, when you don't know what's happening, you're just like, they're dots. Oh, look, they lifted that thing up above their head and they're carrying it. Yeah. There's like a lot of shorthand and you have to, like, know, like, everybody. And then the camera guys will also be petty and they'll cut to, like, key players on the team that's losing but you have to like know and you're like oh my god yeah who are like pissed at their

teammates because they're benched or whatever and i should own i mean gay has had their own sports obviously drag race has become the gay sport right right right just as stupid and fickle and idiosyncratic and like knowing the history helps you watch it on different levels so i get it and there's talent that's like undeniable you know in both things yeah yeah yeah all right we got it we got to get to the new because this is one of the bigger news stories uh that we've had in a little while. The New York Times just published some newly released email. So the lockdown is over.

One of the narratives about why the lockdown was happening was that they were trying to keep Congress from meeting because then we were going to possibly get the Epstein files. And Donald Trump didn't want that for some reason. And we're not sure what that could be. How crazy. Yeah. It was so wild.

The way he went from release the file, we're going to, like, you know, release everything and, like, get people the information they want. And then, like, the next day was like, why are you guys still talking about this? You're being weird. Who cares? That guy's dead, okay? Like, he's dead. What are you guys even talking about? It was so just, like, cartoonishly guilty.

It's how the Republicans operate on, like, every level of, like, not thinking long-term. Yes. And then there were a hoax. And then that was like the, so it was like every tactic, which of course is the biggest tell of a liar when it's like, wait,

you can't have three different excuses. You like have, you have to have one story. A, we're going to release them. Two, we're not going to release them and you shouldn't care about it. And three,

it's a massive hoax. Yeah. Which is it? Yeah. So in this case, I can't believe it. Feels like it might not be a hoax. So they released three emails

from a trove of 23,000 documents. Mm-hmm. And they recently received these from the Epstein estate in response to a subpoena. And one email from Epstein in 2011 referred to Trump as, that dog that hasn't barked because a redacted victim spent hours at my house with him, and he's never once been mentioned by police chief, et cetera. So for I just I just want to I want you to realize so this this is what the email says I want you to realize that dog that hasn't barked is Trump so it's like he was using

code language before in the emails to be like and don't let's not even mention that dog that doesn't barked so in this email he's writing to Gilane uh Jeffrey Epstein saying I want you to realize that dog that hasn't barked is Trump victim redacted spent hours at my house with him. He has never once been mentioned. Police chief, et cetera. And then, I don't know, he says I'm 75% there because I think it was edging. But that's like the Trump admin at, that's like the Trump admin with everything. They have to be like blatantly obvious, least stupid. Like putting, that's like the signal chat of the email. Christ. So they, and by the way, this is in 2011. So just to like read the subtext. And Steam was like, man,

I can't believe they're not all over Trump. He was all, you know, it's just kind of a crazy one to come back from. Like, he's like, I can't believe they're not all over him. He was, like, with me and, like, did all sorts of bad shit. This is, like, the ringleader saying this. Like, what would the theory of the case of a Trump defender be at this point? That he sent this email in 2011. At this point, talking about, like, he,

he's being like, huh, interesting. They haven't mentioned Trump yet. He did all these crimes. And this is before he was a powerful political figure, so he, like, doesn't have anything to gain from it. He's not saying, like, man, crazy, he's not being mentioned. He's the future president of the United States.

He's saying, man, this guy who hosts a reality show and did a lot of crimes with me isn't being mentioned. That will probably happen eventually. Also, I don't understand why, like, pedophile lawyers in their 40s and 50s are sending emails like high school me who thinks that nothing will ever be traced

back to me. You know what I mean? It was 2011. It was a simpler time. Like, you're a grown fucking man, and you should know how technology is, but you're like painting the dots for no reason, like connecting them for no reason. It's insane how they... And people don't care. And that's what's really awful about the year 2025.

People have pretty much said, well what are you going to do and like some one famous really bad lady azalia banks who continues to be awful publicly said like in some people's defense it didn't used to be creepy to be into 14 year old girls like right yeah which is great take from her unfathomable to say out loud okay azalea dershowitz like awful awful then there's a 2015 email from trump biographer michael wolf to Epstein, wherein, I'm assuming this had to be, like, translated from parcel tongue because he's just, like, so fucking, like, he's just like, yes, yes, let him, uh, I think you should let him hang himself. If he says he hasn't been on the plane or to the house, then that

gives you a valuable PR and political currency. You can hang him in a way that potentially generates a positive benefit for you, or if it really looks like he could win, this is before he won the presidency, you could save him generating a debt. Of course, it is possible that when asked, he'll say Jeffrey is a great guy and has gotten a raw deal and is a victim of political correctness, which is to be outlawed in a Trump regime. So just straight up, little finger. Yeah. Oh, my God. Just Veris being like, all right. But again, this entire email is starting from the premise that Donald Trump is guilty of. the crimes that Epstein is associated with. Yes. They're just like, that is a given. They're not like, so do we, how do we say this, you know? And anyone with a single brain cell knows this, but what's interesting is people are just

so deeply in his call. It's like, people will just be like, conspiracy, conspiracy, conspiracy, no matter what amount of evidence is shown. Right. It's like so stomach churning for those children, like those victims. Like, yeah, I can't imagine having the, like, the most annoying fucking. precedent in the world you were on an island just even if nothing happened but he was talking like I can't imagine yeah shocking yes I do think that this one like cuts in a different

direct like I as much as they've been able to dismiss everything up to this point like I think there's a reason that like he is so dismissive and like that like it it does seem to strike at, like, a core part of, like, who he is. Whereas, like, in the past, the things that people have been pointing out, and, like, he's been getting caught on is, like, being a corrupt businessman. And the people who support him are, like, yeah, that's, like, what, like, we want him to just, like, get shit done no matter what. This one, though, like, he got elected by people who, like,

concocted a weird death cult around him where he was there to stop, child predators. And, like, if even, like, a small portion of them, like, let in all of the, like, evidence that's starting to pile up about this, I do think it affects him a little bit differently than some of the past stuff. Also, like, a lot of his base is, like, anti-Semitic. And so it was easy for them to be, like, Mattadepstein, even if they would be hypocritical with anyone else who was a pedophile.

But now his association with, someone that they're like Epstein bad because of a combination of things that's like i think that's the part like if he was a pedophile not on the island they don't i don't think they would care as much which he has been you know what i mean like i think it's the association of that and and how that's been in the zeitgeist for so long you know it's i feel like it's like that's in stone now. Yes. It's going to be wild to see if this has an effect. And especially it's, it's scary to see like how vocally anti-pedo, like, they hold the whole faction of mag or whatever you want to call it was. They were very anti-that, anti-that. And that has gone quiet. Yeah.

Has just like quiet. This is like, um, like when people are seeing more of the destruction of Gaza and then like some of the Zionists got quiet, just like pretended like it wasn't happening. Right. It's so crazy. Yeah. And then finally, we have a 2019 email. So less than seven months before Epstein's death, like, Donald Trump was like, we kicked him out of Mar-a-Lago. I had no idea what was going on. And Epstein specifically says, you know, victim Mar-a-Lago.

Trump said he asked me to resign. I was never a member there. Of course, he knew about the girls as he asked Gilein to stop. So he knew what was happening. That's coming from Epstein. himself. They're just going to say he was like a whistleblower and he was trying to stop it. Like they're going to be like

if he did kill him, which he didn't, it was a good thing, you know, like what they do with every like contradiction in their minds. Yeah. So we talked a little bit on yesterday. Yesterday's trending about how the Republicans are trying to spin this. But it just

the details seem pretty damning and yet you go to Fox News and the lead story is Red State University staff caught on hidden camera spilling plan to hide DEI. And the New York Post is focusing on Jack Schlossberg, the JFK's grandson, trying to imitate his uncle, JFK Jr's enthusiasm for bicycling. So it's, you know, I mean, equally big stories. Equally big stories. What are the senators who are blocking the vote on the release of Epstein files? Like, what are they saying when, after

someone asked, why did you vote no? What are they saying? What are they saying? Why do you not want that released? 48, 52 senators? What, tell give me anything. Why? That's why I love those videos where people like accost them in public and are like,

answer my question and they're like, then Mitch McConnell falls down or whatever, you know? Like, I think that should happen at every fucking, every fucking second of their lives. Because like they don't, it's, our system is so corrupt. are just so...

Deeply corrupt. Deeply corrupt. We have breaking news. Fox News has started reporting on this. They announced that White House slams Dems, bad faith, Epstein, Doc releases, demand for files intensifies. So it's just in the context of what the White House is saying,

which is bad faith. It's bad faith. Like, why are you doing things in bad faith? Why can't you believe people aren't pedophiles? Like we have always said. Yeah. Like I tell you. Just let me tell you that I'm not a pedophile and then ignore these mountains of evidence.

Let's take a quick break, and then we have to get to this reveal of an AI humanoid robot. We'll be right back. It's going to be me. In the heat of battle, your squad relies on you. Don't let them down. Unlock elite gaming tech at Lenovo.com. Dominate every match with next level speed, seamless streaming, and performance that won't quit. Push your gameplay beyond performance with Intel,

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business history about the best ideas and people and businesses in history and some of the worst people horrible ideas and destructive companies in the history of business having a genius idea without a need for it is nothing it's like not having it at all it's a very simple elegant lesson make something people want first episode how southwest airlines use cheap seats and free whiskey to fight its way into the airline business the most texas story of There's a lot of mavericks in that story. We're going to have mavericks on the show. We're going to have plenty of robber barons.

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and how we carry his legacy today. Listen to starring Desi Arnaz and Wilmer Valderrama. That's part of the MyCultura podcast network available on the IHartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. And we're back, and, you know, we talked to yesterday's trending about how the number one country song, according to Billboard, I think, on digital streams is this, like, fully AI country song that for some reason is not in any, like the Apple top hundred streaming in America, but for some reason, let's just trust. Is that why they wanted to have a separate category for Beyonce? Because they were like, and the other category is going to be AI.

His best good old robot boy. Yes. What is this? Raced on a farm, American red-blooded robot boy. But this is like kind of the new arms race where everybody, all the different countries are trying to like out, you know, piss one another in terms of like the best, revealing the best robots. Yeah. Elon revealed his a couple weeks ago. We made fun of it just because it just looked like a very old man who's very unlawful.

unsteady on his feet, trying to do kung fu and, like, doing it, like, very slowly and, like, carefully and looking like they were about to fall over. Chinese company X-Pang just unveiled their humanoid robot, and it's walking around looking pretty smooth. They had to cut open the outer fabric to show people that it wasn't a person inside, which we can play a little bit of that here. People had to do that to me when I was repressed. people thought you were too perfect they're like this girl she's got everything together she's so together here we go wow so they start the video with the probably doesn't need to be

that loud since it's just really loud room tone wow they start it you see that it's like a bunch of wires and stuff I like how they gave her a rack okay sure I know and like a Cameltoe a little bit. Yeah. Cameltoe and like so it starts to move forward. It starts to walk away. Wow. Music starts.

Oh my God. I better move. They're going to be so smooth. Oh, my God. Oh, she got the hip swing. She's got the hips and ass. That's a lot of ass for a robot. This is my point.

She's picked up on a Thursday afternoon. This is my point. Exactly what they're doing. The movement is smooth, but the thing that's driving me to need the reveal of, like, are you sure there's not a real person in there, is why did they need to give it all that ass? But also, like, the movement, the movement is very, like, sexual. Have you seen, there's, like, a clip online of, like, Batman, Arkham Asylum or, like, some video game where they switch the dynamics of movement between Batman and Catwoman.

Yes. So, like, he ends up moving super sleepy. Real sexy. Yeah. It's crazy. He slinking it sounds. Just like you asked boss. Yeah. Exactly. But that's what it looks like that robot is doing. They just like took the catwoman programming. Missing credible levels of ass. I feel like, but that's what they gave her. I think that's what they're doing to combat us like killing the robots. Like the ones on the street that we knock over, you know. It'll encourage a lot of alone lead CEOs to be like, well, we have to buy this. I don't. We have to. Our company needs these sexy, beautiful, sexy robots. You can't slap a robot on me. Sorry, you just said sexy like three times in a sentence.

No, I get it. Shut up. You're fired. Sexy, sex robot fucking. I will place you with this sexy beautiful titty robot. You can't slap a lady robot on the ass anymore. I don't know. Times are changed.

That is true. They can harass the hell out of these cyborgs until they fight back. She looks like they were like and make sure she looks like she can balance a book on her head. and make me horny at the same time. Jesus. Impossible beauty standards for me, a human woman. I would say, if your head could have sort of that clear purple plastic on it, you'd be a lot prettier.

What? You could just see. Sorry. If you could see into the glowing mainframe that's inside, like behind your eyes. I've been trying to get like beautiful mesh with wires in my back for years. I'm saving up, honestly, for the surgery. the beautiful back BBM

The BBM Beautiful back mess All right And then So Russia was like Oh yeah Well guess what We're also a world power

Love that And so they released their They're very competitive They're very competitive Boys in Russia And so they wanted to kind of let everybody know that they had, what they had going on.

So I'm going to share their similar robot reveal. I don't think, so they don't do the part where they like have to unzip the back to make sure that you know that it's a person. But I don't think you're going to, I don't think there's anything inside you that's going to be like, wait, are you sure that's not a person?

Let's take a quick look here. I can't wait. I can't wait. It's pretty good. It's pretty good. Can you guys hear that? Yeah. Okay. I'm playing the Rocky. theme music, which Russia, I think, feels like insecure that they...

Right. Ever since Ivan, the... What was his name? Ivan Drago. Ivan Drago. Yeah. So, here we go. Funny. Funny little steps.

He's doing funny little steps. Funny little steps. It is, it is like a baby. Looks like he's holding in a shit. But, uh-oh. Baby drunk. Like, baby might have like something. A knife in its back?

and then big time fall over. It just like fell apart, it looks like. But why is that, why is that sexier than the other robot? Why did that make me so horny? Why am I so horny? They just immediately drag this thing up, but they even fuck that part up too.

They even fuck up the dragging of the black curtain. You know, behind that, someone fucking died. Like someone, yeah, there's no way they're happy about that. No. And did he fall on, he must have not fell on the test run. Yeah. Right? Like, wow. I think sometimes you're against a deadline. Right. You're just like, we got to go out there with this one. It's made it one out of every 10 times. That's like the meta, the meadow debut thing, where they were like using AI to do a recipe or some shit. And then it just wasn't responding properly. And the guys said, well, back to you. Well, Mark, it seems like the internet's down over here. Back to you.

And everyone laughed. Apple intelligence was such a joke. Did y'all like ever have that on your phones? Like the Apple intelligence AI assistant? I never fucking tried. It was a joke. It was so unbelievably bad. But they just rolled it out because they knew it like made the new one sound cool.

You know what I mean? Got to buy another one, you assholes. Yeah. It is a really messy rollout for something like the song that we, The country song that we talked about, like, I don't know all the details of, like, how they made that. But it is possible to, like, juice the number. Like, that's what, like, the Drake lawsuits back and forth are about is, like, people are like, Drake was, like, the number one artist for a long time because he was doing a lot of the shit that he's accusing Kendrick of doing,

where, like, juicing the numbers and, like, getting to the top of the charts and, uh, allegedly. Yeah. That makes sense. Like, I feel like we're going to see more and more. of that where like AI companies are just doing whatever they can to make it seem like they can do art with this shit because like it's just like such the media just wants it the media like wants to believe that it's like actually going to work and they have like billions of dollars at stake but like the fact that they still like do shit like this is so is so funny to me that they like have so much at stake and they just like bring it out it takes five steps looks truly at shit-faced and it falls over and like breaks apart like it's like a you know a 1,000 piece of Lego set and then they have to like put a black curtain across and can't even do that correctly it's just yeah we're in this late stage

capitalism game where it's just all about inflating stock making the stockholders happy creating impossible high numbers for the stock market to go up forever and they don't care how it gets there. They just want the number to go up. And it's just not realistic. I think it's like really disconnecting the working person from like money being real and like all of these tech things. The more you remove buttons from technology, the less people are going to be invested in your stocks actually doing well or like an indicator of the economy. So I feel like it's going to like backfire for them hard.

For sure. So many people I know are in credit card debt and are just like, it's not real. Like, I'm like, yeah, it's fine. What are they going to do? Kill me. I'm already dying, you know? And they don't understand that they're making, they want more money, they need more money, but they're pricing out all their customers.

They're out, like, they don't understand, because they live in a world where they don't know what groceries are. So they don't understand that they can't, you can't raise the prices every year forever because eventually the people like us do not have that money. You are effing yourself by just insisting that. By starving us to death. Yes, you're killing your customers. But they're not looking to anywhere beyond, like, the next, like, five years or whatever.

Like, all they care about is getting their money and getting the fuck out. Yeah. Make line you off until the next quarter. Yeah. Good system. It's a good system. It's cool. I like it.

I like it here. I'm glad we ended things on a upnote mona. It's such a pleasure having you. Where can people find you, follow you. all that good stuff. Oh, at Mono Agapion on Instagram. Follow my,

I have another podcast called Drag Her. We cover Drag Her. If you are a drag race fanatic like me and my co-host, Oscar Montoya, come. I love him. We love Oscar. So listen to that.

We drop episodes every week. We have a Patreon. And this weekend, come to Bad Drag Race. We're, me and Oscar, also hosting LA's crunchiest drag competition. We're looking for the next

best, worst drag performance. former in all of Los Angeles. And it's always so, so funny. Co-hosting with Nicole Beyer. Get your tickets where we sell out. She's a dream. It is a big, dumb, crunchy drag competition dedicated to all things funny and never polish. So, yeah, do that. Sounds great. Is there a work of media that you've been enjoying? A work of media. Oh, it was, okay, so like, okay. It could be a tweet. It can be, you know, something on Instagram. Again, it could be a film. So serendipitously connected, I am loving all's fair.

But I do- Oh, my God. Is that the Kim Kardashian? Yes, I started watching it. And then I was like, I don't know if I can handle seeing Sarah Polson do this to herself. It's the new and just like that. Now that and just like that left us. It's the new one. But I do need to tell you about this tweet I saw.

That was fantastic. And it's so on the money with what we're talking about. It said, America is. like a streaming service that keeps raising the subscription price and taking away features every year. Yes. That's exactly right. Holy hell. That's what it is right now. It's just like it's the most expensive country to live in and we don't have anything to show for it. Yeah. Slowly taking away, just shitting up everything. So it's okay. We're going to rise up and take it back. That's right. Woo!

Amazing. Paul of you, where can people find you as their working media you've been enjoying? I'm at Pullivigan, all N-L-N-A-L-A-V-I-G-U-N-A-N, everywhere except Blue Sky, where I got Pullaby. I have facial recognition comedy at the Comedy Store on November 21st at 10 p.m. in the belly room. You should get your ticket and support brown people because you should, and everything is an indication of your politics. And I also am starting a new show with my friends, Madison Shepard, and Brandy Posey. It's called Second Screens. It's going to be at the Elysian skunk room on December 1st. And the whole idea is that we want all the ADHD heads to come out.

And you can scroll on your phones. You could bring a Nintendo. You could bring a projector. And we're not going to yell at you or put it in a bag. You could roll out one of those substitute teacher TVs. We don't give a shit. Just come through, be on your second screen, the anti-comedy store. That is.

The two genders of comedy. hilarious. Maybe people can watch all as fair while you guys are doing your show. Will you guys be on your phones also? We're going to have some things going on. Yeah, we're probably going to be on our phones a lot. I don't know if we'll remember to host, honestly.

We'll probably just be like, oh, shit, we've got to get back on stage. And then the works of media are two equally important and compelling works of media. I just watched, I binge watched all her fault on Peacock starring Sarah Snook, A.k.a. Missing child thing. Yeah. And it is fucking crazy.

Sarah Snook is your snooky. She's my snooky. She, like, I am obsessed with anything she does. She's magic. And her, I just love her so much. But also, like, every, like, it's the weirdest thriller in that you find out, like, the weirdest shit. Like, it just gets crazier and crazier every episode. But it's one of those things where it's, like, there is some action, but it's mostly people talking. And you're just like, what the? Mono, you would love this. I'm in.

Crazy family history stuff. I'm in. Yeah. I love mentally ill families. Yes. And then, so that is an amazing work of art. And then also, I've been, in my head has been stuck that TikTok song. My name is Mamdani.

M-A-M-D-A-N-I. Like with the bananas. Some music playing the background. I haven't heard this yet. Oh, my God. So many people are like doing the remand. and dancing to it. And they're like, his name is

Montani. M-A-E-M-A-E. It's the recording from his debate with Cuomo. Yeah. So both, both I've watched, I've binge-watched both of those names. Vinay has done some great videos of him, of, like, Cuomo, his impression of Cuomo trying to say his name

versus, like, being able to say. Oh, it's so funny. It's so funny. It's like, Zorro Rob Zombie. Like, they are so fucking off. And I love that another tweet pointed out, they're like, oh, you learn just fine how to say DeNarius Targaryen.

But you don't want to learn a brown name. Go fuck yourself. Also, did you see the pictures of Cuomo from his fucking party? He's like literally, there's like really gross black and white photographs of him like sexually harassing women, like being too close to their faces and stuff. He's like, all right, pressure's off.

He's like, you'll never change me. American politics. He was like, hey, I'm a daily. I'm going to be Italian, no matter what. I speak with my hands. Insane. See with my hands. I was going to say.

And greet with my tongue. Disgusting. A couple tweets I liked. People continuing on the, I think Elon Musk, an attempt to prove that Joyce Carol Oates is wrong, mentioned the Iliad, and at rat limit said Elon only knows what the Iliad is because at some point he Googled. Epic poems. Rain won't miss, tweeted, Dear Apple at no point,

will I ever text someone heal, yeah? I know. What the fuck? How have they not gotten the message that that's not what we're saying? And then, smiling ghost on Twitter tweeted,

if the Burger King took a bite of what is being served at his restaurant, he would be even more disgusted than we are, but his advisors tell lies and hide the truth from him. Amazing. Amazing. You can find me on Twitter

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that we talked about in today's episode. We'll also link off to Mono's show and Pahlavi's show. We also link off to a song that we think you might enjoy. With Miles at, we like to ask super producer, Justin Connor. Justin, is there a song that you think the people might enjoy? Yeah, this song is called Luforia. It's an interesting blend of alt-rock instrumentals that have been flipped into like a slow jam by a hip-hop artist named Smino. This is featuring a band called Cruza that Miles and I have both recommended songs for in the past.

And I really can't put my finger on why I like this song so much, but it became an earworm for me pretty quickly. So that song, again, is Lou Foria by Smino, featuring Cruza, and you can find that in the footnotes. Footnotes, Lou Foria. All right. I like that title, and the song sounds great. The Daily Zekeyes is a production of IHartRadio for more podcasts from IHartRadio Visit. The IHart Radio app, Apple Podcast, wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That is going to do it for us on this Thursday.

We're actually off tomorrow for like a training thing that we have to do for our parent company. Okay, just tell them about it. about the robots, the high-in-hard robots. You got to get in the robot soon. Pretend to be a robot. Yeah, to fight a robot at the robot dojo. And Polly's getting her BBM. We will have a oops, all overrated, underrated for you guys to listen to tomorrow.

And then we'll be back on Monday with the regular trending episode. We'll also be dropping the first episode of our new series on icons. Episode one is about, well, God, nine. Stein. I don't know you ever heard about him. But it's a really fun episode, really fun new format that we hope you guys enjoy. That'll be dropping first thing on Monday morning. And we will talk to y'all then. Have a great weekend, everyone. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. The Daily Zykeyes is executive produced by Catherine Law. Co-produced by Bay Way. Co-produced by Victor Wright. Co-written by J.M. McNap. Edited and engineered by Justin Conner. In the heat of battle, your squad relies on you. Don't let them down. Unlock elite gaming tech at Lenovo.com.

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