The Daily Zeitgeist - Ahoy! False Flag Ahead?! Truth Is A “Genre”? 02.14.25

Episode Date: February 14, 2025

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Shit shit shit. Okay, um, well I guess I don't need to read the calendar today, maybe I should have done Shit shit. Okay Well, I guess I don't need to read the calendar today Maybe I should have done that at least a day ago, but I guess I'll be going to Rite Aid for some gifts But hey, it is February 14th. That also means it's national cream filled chocolate day is Valem times day national ferris wheel day Oh, did y'all have like did y'all ever have that like weird, like movie eighties, seventies movie informed idea that like you would get a kiss on a Ferris wheel? Cause I did. Like at a carnival, I remember being like,

y'all about to go on this Ferris wheel. I was like 12, any shit happened. Cause I didn't know, I didn't know what the fuck was going on anyway. I think my carnival scene from movies that informed me. No, it was big. Big, where he let goes and gets just... That was...

And he's just real nervous and acting weird around the 12-year-old who he tries to... Who he gets big to seduce. Very weird movie. Anyways, happy Valentine's Day to all. Happy Valentine's Day, yes. who are, you know, all the lovers, all the people who don't fuck with Valentine's Day. It's fine. It's all fine.

It's just a fake holiday to get us through the worst time of year. My name is Jack O'Brien, AKA. What's the world's favorite cheese? It's not mozzarella, cheddar, or brie. Around the world and the seven seas, everybody's pounding that gouda. That one courtesy of Blinky Hack on the Discord, in reference to the ad I can't leave alone for the Super Bowl ad for Google's AI research tool that had just a blatantly false fact at the center of it.

The one thing, like if a car ad had like square wheels on the car, they're like, oh no, that's incorrect. That wouldn't do the thing we said it does at all. But I feel like it's all we need to know is that they are turning everything over to AI and not even bothering to check. It's easy, man. It's easy. It's easy.

Automatically. It's just automatically that shit. Pretty soon guys, Jack and I are going to figure out AI and we are just going to hit the button and you won't even know the difference. Yeah. Hey, and we're going to get into that in a little bit. I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my cohost, Mr. Miles Gray.

Oh, me? It's Miles Gray, AKA. Gulf of America. Google is tripping now. Google is tripping now. I'm whipping raw milk now Gulf of America Okay, shout out to Kristy Yamaguchi, man on the discord

Yes, the fuck man, the fucking bendings of all the needs to the nonsense Oh yeah Which is wild because the AP, they got kicked out of the Oval Office because they are not acknowledging the Gulf of America. And I'm hoping other journalists are standing in solidarity with them for not going along with maybe not. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.

Okay. Okay. How did journalists do last year when it was like about, you know, standing in solidarity with Palestinian people and, you know, which, which body is a lie. Yeah. Independent. Yeah. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no? Oh, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no.

No solidarity there. No. Solidarity with shareholder profits though. That's right. Miles, we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a very funny comedian and activist, the host of the great and award-winning podcast, Good Muslim, Bad Muslim. Yeah. Senior fellow of comedy at the Pop Culture Collaborative.

She's written in the New York Times, wrote and performed a piece on NPR's Fresh Air. It's the hilarious, the talented Zara Norba. Zara. What up? What up, Zara? Happy Valentine's Day. Happy Valentine's Day.

Yeah. You guys doing anything with your sweeties? We're gonna be having rabid, hard sex tonight. Hard sex? Yeah. That's the thing, right? Yeah, I heard that. Hard, hard.

Rabid, hard sex. Just pounding away. Pound town? Like pound town. Whoa, pound town? They should just call it pound town day See that video of a mom being like I heard you took my daughter to pound town last night He's like who told you that and she like lowers her sunglasses and then that her husband's like

Everybody could hear it in the entire courtyard, man. Might as well be a story about me. Because. The histogram. Pound Town. That's right. That's where it's headed. I'm going to be in Legoland for our six-year-old's birthday celebration. The opposite of Pound Town.

Yeah, the very opposite of pound town. Damn. Sharing a bed made of Legos. I mean. Comfortable. Yeah, exactly. Well look, yeah, I mean, you won't be, but you will still be thugging with your rounds. That's right.

Hot. Yes. And that's what's important. Now what we like to do is just let all the neighbors know. We just knock on the doors. Yeah. So you know. Like when you're having a party, when a neighbor's having a party and they go, hey, just so you know, we're having a party.

We don't want you to stay up. So maybe like plan to be listening to music or something. It's going to be a little loud. It's going to get nasty. Do you also, some neighbors will invite people to the party when they do that. Do you invite everyone is invited. Hey y'all, it's Pat. Yeah, right. It's let me guess.

It's our, it's pound town tonight. Yeah, but no, we're, we're busy. Thank you. Thanks for the invite though. It's a standing, yeah, we know it's a standing invitation. Yep. Yep. You can come by anytime.

You don't have to stay late. It's okay. Yeah. We're a little bit anything. We're pound town out actually this week. Oh really? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. Well, how about you, you know't have to stay late. It's OK. Yeah, we're a little bit anything. We're pound town out actually this week. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. Well, how about next week? Oh, come back around.

Let me know. All right. Again, tell her I haven't shit right since the last pound town. Pulled a muscle in my back. Spinach. All right, Zara, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell the listeners a couple of the things that we're talking about. Not good.

It's not good. Good. It's it's bad. It's bad. What's that? Michael Buffer's brother's catchphrase is time. It's time. Ours is bad. What's that Michael Buffer's brothers catchphrase? It's time. It's time. It's bad.

Yeah, we're just like being reminded a little bit of like when Putin bombed those apartments to consolidate power, because Donald Trump has basically kicked the important intelligence experts out of the daily, this is the biggest threat the country is facing today, meetings. Almost like he's intentionally trying to sabotage our safety. Oh boy. And led in a big attack. But what could you even do after that?

He's going to have to be like, Oh no, I messed up. That's usually what happens, right? Yeah, yeah, no, he would not blame it on an entire racial group. He'll probably just be cool about it and recognize the error of his ways. Yeah. Which is a good time to. Isn't he the guy who the day of 9-11 was talking about how it was good for him because now he had the tallest building in Manhattan.

Yep. Yep. Yep. Oh my God. Did he really say that? He said that like on the news, like called into a radio show, I think. Yeah.

Or maybe it was a TV show. It's really a tragedy, although just FYI. And we'll look at how AI is reshaping the world of true crime. Of true crime. True crime. Yeah. True crime, question mark? It's goodifying the world of true crime. True crime. Yeah. True crime? Question mark? It's, it's goodifying the world of true crime.

All of that. Plenty more. But first, Zara, we do like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? You mean other than Pound Town? Other than Pound Town. You had to look that up. You had to search Pound Town.

Well, I just wanted to see, you know, if the population was indeed just your husband. It was a next door search. I just wanted to know. Pound Town population one. You. Population. Who else is there? OK, I have started piano lessons.

Oh, I started taking piano lessons. I didn't grow up with music. Wait, I was going to say it again, because all immigrant kids supposed to play piano. Like at birth. How? Yeah, you don't have your fingers glued to a piano. No, all my siblings did. Oh, are you the oldest? Yeah.

What did you even have to. I know. I mean, that's why I was. That's why I led with that. Oh, you're the I should have said, oh, are you said, oh, you you the oldest? Yeah. What did you even have to ask? I mean, that's why I led with that. Oh, you're the, I should have said, oh, Arya said, oh, you're the oldest. Have you looked at my finances? Do you think I have a retirement?

Do I have any kind of plan? I had my first kid of 43. Yeah. Yes, I'm the oldest. I am the fly by the seat of our pants. Let's see how this goes. Yeah, and then we'll, now we can refine the process on the subsequent children. Wait, so how come,

what inspired you to get into the piano lessons? So I've always wanted to do piano. I sort of taught myself some chords during pandemic. Okay. And then, you know, my daughter is one and a half now, and I'm just like thinking that, like, they're just like learning machines. Yeah. Yeah. So good. There are wild learning machines.

They learn. It's so annoying. Right today. Oh, are you furious about it? You like, oh, I love it. You think I'd like to stop showing off? Yeah. Yeah. Really? I am an immigrant. I'm not white, so I appreciate education, Jack. But that you get kicked, dude.

Yeah, well, my son gets a question. Right. I don't immediately get thrown off and and concerned for my own stability when someone else's education surpasses mine. It doesn't rock my world. That's, that's, that's a huge problem because for me, it's easy. Okay. I play my kid in chess when he wins like 95% of the time. I'm like, dude, you're going to get your ass kicked in school with nerd shit like

that. And then when I win, I get to really spike the football. So it's a win win. You should try it sometime. Checkmate, bitch. Whoa. I let you win because you keep telling me I'm going to get my ass kicked. Oh, no, you won. What?

Now you don't have health care. Oh, shit. Yeah. Look at that. I took your voting right. All gone. My eight year old does play the piano and asks me frequently like why I don't, in a way that's like, but like why wouldn't,

I don't understand, like music is the language of love, like why would you not do this? Oh, like as if it's like brushing your teeth? Yeah, yeah. It's like, but how come you don't play piano? Yeah. It's fucking. do you hate mommy? Do you not have love in your heart, daddy?

Oh, no, dad. Valentine's Day. It's pound town day, man. It seems like you just like watching this basketball that has no benefits to you. Well, I'm over here. Just tickle the ivories, huh? That's weird. So I could probably I may.

I mean, there's definitely the potential I could probably, I may, I mean, there's definitely the potential for me to get to Carnegie Hall with what I'm doing, but is there like a Carnegie Hall for you crying in a six years hat? About the 70s. Okay, wait, along those lines, here's what I can't, this,

and maybe Zay Gang can help me figure this out. Like I plan to be a Sully airy. I can't be Mozart. I can't be Mozart. I can't be Mozart. I have too much jealousy. Uh huh. Uh huh. Uh huh. But I I I'm in this for the long haul. Yeah, how I see myself, I can get I can move my parents like nine thousand dollar Baldwin piano.

Into our house is like a permanent fixture of our home. Or I can maybe do the sensible thing and get a keyboard to see if this sticks. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm all for making rash decisions that would eat up the floor space in your abode. I will say some keyboards have a setting on them where you just press one button and it like starts rocking out and That my daughter loves it. She couldn't yeah Has a little toddler piano if she plays like two notes and then she's like, oh wait, fuck this and then I take Yeah, I saw that video. You just sent me she was like playing with her feet like Ray Manzarek in the door

Her stepping stool right now, yeah reach things. That's so cute. But so, my search history, I looked up how to play Parallel Universe on piano. What's that? I don't think I know Parallel Universe. It's Red Hot Chili Peppers. Okay.

What? On piano? It's gorgeous. Wait, is that- It's absolutely delightful! It's like da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da Don't stop addicted to the bad dance! No, this is Parallel Universe! There it is!

Wait, so are you going to play this on one note? Like on a piano? No, listen to it! Okay, look it up! Search it right now! Parallel Universe on piano. No, listen to it. Okay, look it up. Search it right now. Parallel universe on piano. Okay, parallel universe piano.

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Sorry, what is something you think's underrated? Okay Resistance bands. Oh shit. You put that out quick. Damn ready Then see we're the new I'm not familiar. Is this the new pussy hat? Oh, yeah, I listen to rage against the machine. You're talking resistance, band, the workout thing. Yeah. Physical therapy regimens. Yeah. Get your shit tight.

Get your shit tight. Yeah, it's pound town, baby. It's pound town, baby. We got pound town, baby. We gotta get ready. We gotta. It's pound town tonight. Pound town tonight. Get your shit tight. Pound town. Do your rest.

Wait, what are you? Get your shoulders in there, socket. What are you rehabbing with your resistance band? OK, so check this out. I'm a writer. I write. OK. OK.

So I'm always in front of the computer, and my shoulders are just coming more and more forward. Oh, OK. Always in front of the computer and my shoulders are just coming more and more forward. Oh, yeah. I use this band. Yeah. To to get my shoulders into their sockets. And I feel like a million bucks. Really? Yeah. And it's a dollar. You use it threateningly kind of you like snap it like a belt. That goodwill hunting dad is about to use on him.

Everything I do is a little bit threatening because I'm a bossy bottom. Bossy bottom. Bossy bottom from the mean streets of pound town. But it all comes with love. Yeah. Hey, bossy bottom girls. You make the rockin world go round. Hey.

What is something you think is overrated? OK, I'll tell you what. Cults. Cults? Yeah. Joined one wasn't for me. Told you, Miles. Told you.

We've been wasting our time with this one. What's next? Too much of a mind of our own. We are currently looking for a nanny. Our last nanny joined a cult. Wow. And I think they're overrated. Surely it's not going well for her.

So, okay, we have this amazing nanny that we shared with a friend of mine. She came two days a week and she was like, you know, I can't come these certain days and times because I have to go to church five days a week. Yep. Okay. And I was like, all right, you know, whatever. Like I'm like, are you a Catholic grandmother from Easter? Right. Right. Okay. So you're my dad. All right. Okay. Community friendship. I get it. You know, she's got kids. Yeah. Okay. Community, friendship. I get it. You know, she's got kids. Okay.

And then she was like, I can't because I can't do these certain times because I need to take a class on this, a writing, a Christian writing class on evangelizing for my church. And I was like, all right. And then I can't come this other day. So now seven days a week, we're at church because I got to work for my church. I got to do this for my. So now seven days a week, we're at church because I got to work for my church. I got to do this for my chair. Okay, all right.

And then she said, I am going to have to leave both y'all. My husband thinks I should find something closer to the church. Closer to the church. Physically. And we're like, all right, physically closer. And then I looked up one of her videos and it's her and her husband out on the street with like an amp and a mic. Yeah talking about how

Where pants are from the devil now, I don't understand that because pants What? No, we're from the devil because we're trying to be men and we're not doing our job. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. Being there in the home and it's causing the collapse of society. But then could you have a job and wear a skirt and then be okay?

Yes, skirt. Long skirt. Long skirt. Like you can be an independent woman, just do not wear pants. Just don't wear pants. But if you're walking and it had recently rained, that shit better be getting wet. That's all I'm saying.

Okay. If it's not too short. This is why I say cults are overrated. Yeah. And you're wrong. That's wild. But you just haven't found the right cult. I think, I mean, honestly, yeah.

Yeah. I was hoping she was gonna be like one good one I just can't make it today because the there's a comet coming around that we're just we really gotta yeah Gotta keep our eye on. Hey miles. We have an update speaking of uh, oh, yeah the astro bodies the asteroid What what so we were? Oh the asteroid. Oh man, can it get here sooner? No, sorry.

It's not until Trump is running for his third consecutive term that the asteroid may hit us. But yeah, so we talked a couple of weeks ago about how they thought that there might be a chance that it would strike Earth. They would have further calculations like as more data came in. They were like, but you know what, like chances are it's just going to be

going down and down like 2% chance. We'll turn into like a 1% chance the next day and then like further and further down and instead it's going up, going in the wrong direction. So it really is coming. It's, I mean, now it's a 3% chance. So it's, so you, now it's a 3% chance. So it's. It's fantastic. So you're saying there's a chance. Everyone's got slightly different measurements,

but it definitely went up since the last time we talked about it. Yeah. I was like, uh-oh. Yeah. That's not the direction I was expecting that to go. Do you know what? The chances of us getting hit by an asteroid are the same as the chances of my getting pregnant via IVF right now. Okay.

So then you're saying there's a chance. I'm saying there's a chance. That's yeah, it's a, well, hopefully this one hits the ocean rather than being a city destroyer, but. Well, yes, it would be a city destroyer if it hit a city based on the size. But in the olden times when we had like government programs and like NASA was fully funded. They used to be able to like land on an asteroid

and explode so that it like moved enough off course that it wouldn't kill a bunch of people. I feel less confident in our ability to do that these days for some reason. Yeah, can it just hit four people? Yeah. Yeah. Four really specific people.

It just, it broke apart so small. Just hit the oval office. That's so weird. Very weird. Can we call it the Luigi asteroid? The Weege. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.

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That's the beginning of the show. And we're back. Nope. Nope. One of the first things that we talked a lot about on this show was that, I think it was when Putin kept coming up for some reason on the show, back when he was a major- For some reason.

Oh, wait, he's still out there. But the fact that he consolidated power via bombing a bunch of apartment buildings. Like it's kind of known now that this is what happened. Yeah. Bunch of false flag attacks in Russia that allowed him to then be like, we need to consolidate power. Everyone got scared. We need to consolidate power under me.

And we were like, huh, let's put a pin in that. Cause that for some reason that's like resonating with like where we are as Americans right now under Donald Trump. Like it feels like the sort of thing he would view not as like a horrible tragedy and like very scary, but as like a sick move, sick move by Putin. I w I wish I was baller like that. That was a bar. Yeah.

And you know, nine 11 was you. Well, whatever your beliefs are around nine 11, you know, Jack's barred me from speaking my beliefs on this podcast. I'll have listeners now, but just check out loose range, but whatever your, whatever your beliefs are, it was all Reebok. It was, uh, it was used to strip away our civil liberties. Dumenize an entire segment of the Earth's population. Yes.

Now, we have an administration that seems really focused on stripping away whatever is left of the rights of people who aren't billionaires or corporations. It used to be cis-het white guys, but now even they are in trouble because they're not oligarchs. But yeah, so there's a disturbing report in the Washington Post about how the Trump regime is now excluding intelligence experts from the, like you said, daily, hey, what are the big threats that we're looking at today, meetings?

Oh, boy. And this daily meeting has been happening, as you can imagine, for decades under numerous presidential administrations, where the people tasked with national security and identifying threats to our safety. It's now just become a clown show about immigration. This is from the article, quote, the top national security deputies from justice are gone, transferred from the post they have held for years to undefined roles dealing with immigration enforcement and quote sanctuary cities.

The heads of the FBI's criminal division and international terrorism division were also pushed out. A long time deputy in justice's criminal division focused on international affairs was transferred to sanctuary cities but opted to retire instead. And even the people that have been moved over to immigration, they're like saying like we don't even have any orders. They're just saying that's what we're tasked with, but we have no tasks. So essentially like we are inert, like we have nothing we can do or contribute to anything. So again, I don't know if you remember, but when the former FBI director,

Christopher Wray, was on his way out in his resignation, he was meant to say, yeah, so just so you know, the country is currently facing a fuck ton of threats right now. Anyway, y'all should be good. I think everything's okay. I think when we talk about a story like this, one read is that Trump

is being just like this shit brain loser that he's always been. But the more sinister read and more likely read here is that they don't care if there's a terror attack. And in fact, a major event like that would help him further erode rights and make people more willing to give up these rights in service of quote unquote safety, which they are doing fuck all about right now it sounds like and also for Ken all those notes. Why can't he be a total idiot and also be like, Oh, yeah, added bonus terror attack then I went to sure that's all out there. But as our it's funny that like this

story comes up when you're here because I'm reminded of your first appearance on the show way back in 2018. I believe destabilization was the word. That's the word. Yep. Ning, ning, ning, ning, ning, ning, ning, ning, ning. Yep. There we are.

Destabilizing a nation so that it is ripe for foreign takeover. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Who, who would have ever heard of such a thing? I mean, who's teaching Donald Trump about this? That's not an American. That doesn't sound like us.

It's the American Playbook. Based on my American education, that doesn't sound like us. It's also the Russian Playbook. Yeah. Hey, that boomerang's coming back over here. You seen that boomerang? Yes, you all seen that boomerangs coming back over here. He's seen that boomerang. Yeah, you'll see that boomerang.

I threw like 60 years ago. There are so many Iranian friends of mine and relatives that all see are seeing the revolution really differently. Yeah. Like folks back home, not Iranians here, because they clearly see the revolution differently. No question there. But folks back home, and I don't mean differently like with regrets. I mean, different because everyone who's ever had a revolution regrets it.

I still don't know anyone who had a revolution who's like, yeah, is always like, oh. It took us a long time to regret the American revolution, but I think we're there now. I think we're like, yeah, maybe the British were onto something. Maybe that would have bring the premier league to America. And I, it's just looking so bad, but, uh, I remember the first time that Trump won. This is like burned into my brain and I can't remember if I talked about this before, like I walked in on my dad watching this interview of the Shah.

Mike Wallace was interviewing the Shah, and this was like eight years before the revolution. And he was talking about how the British folks were complaining about oil prices being so high. And he says, you know, what do you have to tell the British people? And the Shah says, make more money. And then Mike Wallace says, so is it a case of the brown eyes now telling the blue eyes what to do? Wow. Wow. Right. You say it around the eyes and not the skin.

It's OK, actually. That makes it better. Brown eyes is like so offended. Right. And yes, yes. Yeah. Eight years later, right? And he goes, yes. Yeah. Eight years later, the man's out. Right. Yeah.

By the way, that is how Jackson, that song, Brown Eyed Girl, was originally Brown Skinned Girl. And then he was like, oh, I guess this is a confirmation. Brown skinned girl. Yeah, yeah. So that is a strategy. Wait, really? We'll do racism With eye color.

I'm pretty sure that's right. Do you remember when we could say the N word? Damn, man. Yeah, I mean, this is just very, you know, obviously. These playbooks, right? Yeah. It's like, oh, shit, it's half like this is a thing. And when you're in it, there's all this nuance. But like it's destabilization. You're just that they're right.

Coming at you from every scene. Yeah. And if you're completely off balance and just in a state of some some level of panic, then any solution would be like, yeah, what will it stop? OK, because you shaking the fucking bed doesn't feel good. So whatever it takes to stop and I'm sure that's, you know, what they have their eyes on eventually, depending on whatever comes of this. But again, the White House, they're they're like, they're saying like, no, no, no. I'm like, no, we we definitely are fine.

Like we've got a lot of experts there. It's just like some of these people, these career intelligence people, you know, with the real understanding and context around everything that's happening. We just got rid of that. There's got to be that. There are reports that like some of the people that they elevated to be in here kind of have their shit together enough that they're like insisted that they were bringing assistance along who knew the material so they don't just walk,

walk into these meetings being like, I don't know, dude. But the reports are from these meetings that they're just getting off on talking about immigration. Like it's barely touching on real national. It becomes a racism pep rally instead of a thing that was like a load bearing security meeting. I guess. I don't know. I don't know how much to trust the intelligence infrastructure of the United States, but does feel like the sort of thing you want to just, it's like the, one of those things we'd like to keep an eye on. By the way, you said you shaking the bed doesn't feel good unless you're floating.

I do just want to. Unless you're floating. Thank you. Thank you for having me. I just wanted to make sure. You know, we corrected that. Unless it's Valentine's day and it's pound town tonight town town city.

Yeah. I will like, I don't know the whole like they're stupid thing. I just don't know because it's so, so reflexively how the mainstream media reacts to Republicans and Trump in general. I do feel like now, now they might've like swung a little bit the other way, but like assuming that like what they're doing is incompetent, it feels like we've got to just stop that and be like this, whether it's intentional or not. Like it feels like this is super intentional. Yeah. And they're

succeeding, you know, like it's a broken system and they know exactly how it's broken. They did get rich. Like the one thing that they are good at is exploiting this very broken system. Right. Like that. I mean, Elon Musk made, you know, billions and billions of dollars exploiting like government contracts and shit. Like he's that, that is what he knows how to do. He knows how to take a system that is broken and exploit it over and

over again to his benefit. Trump knows how to, you know, exploit things and take advantage of people and bully people. I don't know that it matters that much. I do just, I feel like this is like one of those things where him not having these meetings could be like, if that's the mainstream media's read, and then there's like 9-11 tomorrow. Like they're not going to be prepared to be like, he did this on purpose.

You know, he is like, he is that, he's the bad guy. Like he is evil. He's not stupid. He's evil. Like he's doing these things on purpose. I mean, it doesn't matter in de-stabilization, right? Right. Yeah, I guess that's right.

It doesn't matter. It's just the effect on everyone. Yeah. I guess just getting people ready for what is coming. Like every time people have, like, I feel like a lot of the coverage of Trump over the, like, as things have gone, like from him being a candidate who nobody took seriously to him. Right. The president.

The people were like, well, this guy doesn't know what the fuck he's doing to him being like, you know, staging a coup and being like, well, now he's really fucked to like now he's. This is this is what it looks like. I mean, it's bizarre for me to watch this unfold as an Iranian, because like this is the shit that happens in Iranian politics. You have to like make sure everyone in your family gets like gets pardoned ahead of time. Right. You have to make sure everybody gets pardoned ahead of time because like the next person that

comes in it's never it's no more a peaceful transference of power. Right. Like everything is party politics. Everything is thuggery. Everything is like who has the best thugs. Yeah. You know, it's all like brute force and power and influence by brute force. And the stability that people have is what scares me.

You know, like ISIS hiring, ISIS offering benefits. And when you start to have more and more families wholly dependent on fully corrupt aspects of government, and when more and more folks aren't able to divest because their families rely on it, how are we gonna navigate that? What's the movement we're gonna look like there? How do we make sure that we don't say yes to,

that folks aren't, Americans don't say yes to the folks aren't Americans aren't saying yes to jobs that are unlawful, illegal in their actions? Right. Yeah. Well, yep. Yeah. Yeah. Is this like, I think this is just going to be a long process.

I think the, the, the best thing right now, uh, most people can do, or I mean, one thing I'm really trying to do and like telling other people, family or whatever is to psychologically prepare for these things, you know what I mean? Because that's to, if it hits you out of nowhere, then the full on effect of this shit is going, it's going to have the intended effect the full on effect of this shit is going to, it's going to have the intended effect that people like Elon Musk and Donald Trump wanted to have. I'm just going to go along with it. You know, it's like, it's really scary. And like, I don't know. Rather than be like, no, this, they're going to fucking pull some shit. Yeah. And when they do

just know that that is to either explain away the terrible situation, like their terrible way of governing or explain away why we now must all walk through body scanners and whatever fucking content, whatever draconian nonsense they throw at us. But I think that's the other part too, is like as worrying as it is, it's kind of like, I'm trying to feel like I just want to intellectually make sure that's at least on the table in my mind of things that are potential outcomes, because ignoring it feels like just totally perilous, not to say I'm going to be out there. I'm prepping, y'all. But just to know that there is a playbook.

America wrote 60 percent of it, 70 percent of it. And, you know, the you I would say the UK is even more infamous. Yeah, but we turned it up a little bit. We turned it up. I'm not going to say we don't. Yeah. That's why I say 60 percent. I'll give it up to the Old Testament, which is British colonialism.

Then we wrote the New Testament. That's right. We can be everywhere all at once. Right. Yeah. Holy Spirit. It's just really weird too how internationally, right? Like everywhere else is it, everywhere else is like voting and leaning toward reform except North America.

Yeah. Right? Isn't that right? Not everywhere. I mean, I think there was a lot of, I think there was a lot of like backlash votes around the world, but Mexico certainly seemed to get it right. Yeah.

I mean, there was definitely, yeah. The neoliberals definitely, they got served across the globe in the last couple years. Neoliberals did get served. I guess I'm thinking of it more as things moving right seems to be the trend, except in Mexico, where they have had a consolidated, like, this is how you have to deal with neoliberalism. You have to have a daily press briefing that is three hours long and it's just you, the president, talking directly to the people because the mainstream media will fuck up whatever you're trying to say and make shit up about you because they're part of this addiction to neoliberalism. So you need to be thinking so far outside of what the American Democratic Party mainstream media apparatus would have you thinking. mainstream media apparatus would have you thinking.

And yeah, it's, it, it feels precarious right now, feels, feels bad. And like, I, I do just feel like trying to stay laser focused on their strategy is make things worse for people through damaging policies, through like straight up ignoring threats. And then use the crisis that results, whether it be plane crashes, whether it be, you know, a terror attack, whether it be prices going out of control to consolidate power and attack your enemies. And because there is no second party that is fighting back right now in any consolidated way, it's a, it's a winning strategy for, from now until I don't know,

until someone else comes along and is like, this is fucking bullshit. Yeah. Cause I feel like the way like Democrats in the mainstream media look at Trump, like to your point of like, look at, look at these dummies. I mean, obviously we say it too, but like it more as like gallows humor. But like that thrust, it's almost like how like if there was like a bunch of auto mechanics and Trump came in and they're like, dude, he's cutting the brakes on these police cars. Like this guy doesn't know how to fix brakes.

Right. Yeah. He's trying to cut the fucking brakes. You idiots. It's because he's coming from a completely different perspective than you are. And you're looking at it through that framework rather than shifting gears and like, Oh, we totally fucked up and let this aspiring fascist in. And that's, and now look at all of those moves through that context, rather than

like the guy with the bad toupee comb over hair doesn't know how to do government. Cause now he's gooned up with the other people who've just been in their basements, fucking writing their fantasy playbook of project 2025. And they, you know, they're the ones who've been thinking on it. He's just again, the meat vessel for it. That's right. All right. I think, I think Elon Musk's son called him a meat vessel and that

goat base lot. Bro, that was the scariest shit. He meat vessel. That was the scariest part actually to me. That was omen shit, bro. Yeah. Of that press conference. And we talked about it in the trending episode yesterday.

You're not the president. You need to go away. If he got assassinated today, after that kid was just straight up being like, you need to disappear, motherfucker. fucker, that kid, yo, like Elon Musk's spawn. I don't understand that kid. What's he saying? What's he saying? And what's that kid overhearing when he's like, yo, little motherfucker,

you ain't the president, you ain't the president bitch. Like, you just shut the fuck up. He like zeroed in on the subtext of the press conference. The press conference was people being like, is Trump even the president? Or is it Elon Musk? And Elon Musk brings his son and then has his son whispering Trump's here. You ain't the president bitch. You need to fucking disappear. You need to go away. My dad could whoop your ass. Yeah. No, hey, little mama, come over here.

Hey, little mama, let me whisper in your ear. You ain't the fucking president. You shouldn't be here. And then he picked his nose and made it. Yeah, picked his nose and wiped it on the fucking desk on Trump's desk. Like just straight up gangster. I mean, go ahead. Yeah, I'm I'm absolutely here for it.

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Yeah. Now, it does help. You don't know true crime case files? Oh, I'm a big true crime case files YouTube fan. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm a subscriber. I'm not only a media commentator, I'm also a member. A subscriber.

A subscriber. Of true crime case files. This is a YouTube channel. I love true crime. That dropped. Oh, you're going to love this. A couple of documentaries last year that got like hundreds of thousands of views. There was of course, uh, the horrific story about a Littleton, Colorado man

murdered by his stepson with whom he'd had a sexual relationship. And people started to notice that they had used AI generated photos of the supposed murderers and victims. And that some of the names of the attorneys appeared to be invented and that they were just like basic facts about the cities that were wrong. And if you look at the picture of like some of the people, they look like a yeah, like they're a Ken doll come to life, like just straight up. Real weird skin. Real weird skin.

Real weird plastic. Rumpel smooth skin, I believe is what makes a lot would have said it. That's because all of it was created by AI. The cases were totally fake. Wow. 404 media tracked down the guy behind the channel, which has now been shut down because he, I don't know why he was like, yeah. And then like the guy was having sexual relationship with his son who was a child. Like, but he, he went for it and got shut down by YouTube because they were like,

that's violates all sorts of terms of service. You creep. But he revealed the videos were made using chat GPT and an AI image service with some human edits. Folks folks and just pay for fiction. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But I want to know that like the actual child abuse is real. That's part of that part of it for me.

Oh, gross. The title reads how AI thinks it looks like a mix between Pornhub and a podcast, because the title of that video is, Husband's Secret Gay Love Affair with Stepson Ends in Grizzly Murder, Parenthetical True Crime Documentary. Yeah. Damn. I know they're crawling YouTube, but do you think like chat GBT is also crawling Pornhub? I'm sure on some, like the things you can probably gather, like the

information you can learn about the human psyche from like what's titillating to people on some level. I'd hope that would make sense. I'd hope. I don't know why I'm like, I'd hope they're looking at Pornhub. That's a big blind spot for them if they don't. But he did want to emphasize, so this person who made this channel did want to emphasize, he should be considered a filmmaker

based on the fact that he spends a whole two and a half hours to quote, crank out a documentary. Wow. Sound like you're gooning dude. Yeah. Two and a half hours of cranking. And so yeah, like a filmmaker, he puts to it, puts the average runtime of a feature film into making the film.

The videos didn't divulge that they're AI, but their maker defends the true crime label because I do love this genre. This excuse, true crime is a genre. Okay. Oh, that's very smart. Well, I can call it true crime because true crime genre. Because genre. Because true crime genre. Okay. So you can make up a story about Andrew Jackson and how he used to have sex with tree stumps and call that historical nonfiction because genre.

Yeah. I mean, I'm down for Andrew Jackson slander, obviously, but I mean, just like that idea is like, well, I can, I can make lies even though it's indicating that it's not fiction because it's a genre. So I think it under really reveals just how stupid people are that were like rely on AI to have any kind of career or make a contribution is that like they're like the logic is so skewed. It's like, well, it's fine.

Cause that's just a genre. Yeah. How does that make any sense? It does. Oh my God. Money off of it. I looked myself up on Chad GPT. Looked yourself up.

Yeah. Asked who you were. Yeah. Because I teach comedy classes, right. And I was like, oh, can I get a list of like a partner? One liners, you know, and I got this whole list. And I was like, oh, and then I asked for Pallavi one liners. And I got this whole list. And I was like, I wonder if I'm on there. And I got this whole list of one liners and I was like,

I never said these jokes, not a single one. I never said these. And then I wrote to I don't think Zara Norbax ever said these jokes. And it was like, yes, she did. And I was like, well, I'm Zara Norbax. Now what? And then it said, oh, Zara, welcome. Damn, what a pleasure to have you.

Yes, as an AI, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I write what humor you may have said. Jokes that are inspired by things that you may have said. But at first was like, yes, you did. But yeah, the fuck you talk. Yeah. but at first was like yes, she did Yeah, the fuck you talk. Yeah, and then I was like, but wait You said that I did say these and it said I am AI and so I have no recollection of what I said I just asked I just as deep seek to give me some czar nor box one. What did you say? One as an Iranian American. I'm bilingual Farsi and explaining why I'm not a terrorist

Iranian American, I'm bilingual, Farsi and explaining why I'm not a terrorist. My mom's this is another one too. My mom's idea of a pep talk in Iran. You wouldn't even have this opportunity to fail. Damn deep six kind of good. The I'm not number three. I'm not saying my family's traditional, but my dad still thinks VPN stands for very Persian network. All right, that was kind of what that was.

That's pretty good. I'll just say I said that. I'll just say I said that. I never said that. That's so wild. And then when I pressed it, like it just said, it said I am an entertainment app. Right.

They just had a Super Bowl ad claiming or at least Google did claiming that they could write the copy for your marketing campaign using like their research and then like this is the what the Gouda reference was of time. They had a thing, a fact in their Super Bowl ad where this dairy farmer who is like, I'm all thumbs when it comes to writing copy, but Google AI helps me with that. The copy contained to the fact that Gouda comprises 50 to 60% of cheese consumption worldwide, which like any human brain knows is inc...

Like that Gouda is not that fucking popular. But it's when you call Chad GPT out or like any of these out, they are confident they'll deny, deny, and then they'll be like, I'm fucking so sorry. I'm just, I don't know what I was doing. I'm just entertainment. This is what Fox News did and how Fox News got away with their shit. They say they're entertainment and that they're not real information. Yeah. shit. They say they're entertainment and that they're not real information.

Yeah. But then write like really self-critically and cogently about why they got it wrong. Well, and then companies use them. You know what I'm saying? There's no quality control on this. Like companies just use them. People just use them. Yeah. As real information and then apologize later. Yeah.

So this person's first attempt at using AI to just like shit out some content was AI generated Hallmark Christmas movies and nobody watched those. Fucking stupid ass. This is a horrible indictment of true crime that like they tried Hallmark Christmas movies and people were like, we can tell that this sucks. I was watching some of the the the the the

the the the the the the the the

the the the the the the the the

the the the the the Well, nobody wanted the stepson, gay romcom Hallmark movie that is gonna murder. Maybe make that a true crime documentary, Chad GPTing? Like yes. Promotion. But it still has to be stepson stepdad stuff. That's my only thing. It's my only thing.

My only stipulation. They didn't like it as a holiday movie. Oh, but they like it as true crime. Princess meets fisherman, romance and reindeer. Can I just randomly complain that incest headlines have really ruined porn for me? Yeah, great porn out there. And I'm like, why? Why do we have to be related? It got to be. Yeah, I can't.

What is I mean? We've we always talk about the weird step son, daughter, step child shit that's always happening. What is that? I'm like it just it has to be just like the scars of the in just like unfathomable divorce rates of like the 90s and 80s or something. Right, right, right. And like everyone had having like going into blended families or something.

Why can't you be like my parents be alone? Okay, don't mess me up with those step kids stuff. Yeah. What is that? Yeah. He has argued that his videos are more ethical than other true crime products because he's not exploiting any real victims. And that is so sticky though. All of us? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm exploiting the viewer, but so is true crime. The DA of the Littleton, Colorado, where the story supposedly took place, was annoyed and claimed the fake video will sow distrust of the carceral system.

So, I don't know. Again. We certainly don't want to undermine our belief in the carceral system and our criminal punishment system. Good Lord. What if? Our writer, J.M., was pointing out that this is obviously just the beginning and will probably extend to AI videos about real cases, which is probably going to be way worse because

true crime documentaries are telling a story that already happened, so AI can crank out a video with minimal human involvement. He actually found there's this channel, True Crime Cases Studio, that throws together 20-minute documentaries using AI-generated narration and six or seven photos tops. They just find the victim's photo, find the perpetrator's photo,

and then just like tell the story while like cutting between their faces and then the house where the crime took place. And I watched one of these that has over a million views. And it is so good. No, it's terrible. But it's like, it's wild how, yeah, they just were like, shit one of these out. And I see how it delivers the thing that people are looking for from true crime. It's just like a slow retelling of a real horrific crime, again, that involved underage sex. that involved like, you know, underage sex. Like this one was like a real story where like a neighbor, I don't need to tell the details, but anyways, it was a fucking horrifying

killing that involved like somebody walking in on his wife and a neighbor child. You're telling it. You're telling it now. All right. Sorry. I can't stop. It's just that AI is infected my brain. I can't tell it, but it's like about this guy. Here's a detailed rundown of the plot. All right. Here's the log line first. Yeah. But it's just, it feels like this is what AI, this is like a use of AI that is probably

going to be successful. You know? Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, cause there's, there's opportunity in it too. I think that's, that's when it gets really dark is when people are like, Oh, I can benefit from this rather than just like my usual sewing chaos.

Like, Oh, I might be able to get some ads, Google ads, send some money from this. Right. Right. That's the thing. It favors chaos. Any semblance of artistry in favor of injecting raw, grisly details directly into people's brains over photographs of people. Yeah. And instead, just watch.

Guys, if you're on YouTube, check out the Daily Zyke Guys video episodes. That's just as disturbing. Equally grisly. Equally grisly. Rife with stepson. Tension. Stepson shit. Yeah. You'll love it Equally grisly. Equally grisly, rife with stepson tension. Stepson shit. Yeah. You love it. You love it.

Also, I feel like this is the beginning of a whole other subgenre of the Daily Zike Ice. I feel like obviously we need to just generate as much true crime. Yes. Little AI true crime stuff. Yes. I feel like we just need to get that out there. The latest AI true crime stuff. Yes. I feel like we just need to get that out there. The latest AI true crime hits. We just become a rewatch podcast for the latest AI true crime.

Holy shit. Well, Zara, what a pleasure having you. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? I've been working on some Elon Musk and Trump steps on porn. Okay. Yeah. Sort of alternate reality where Trump is Elon Musk's stepson. Trump is Elon Musk's stepson.

Yeah. And they sort of dead. What are you doing here? I would ask you the same thing. Wait, I thought. Wait. Okay, never mind. I don't even want to. I don't even access that part of my brain. I won't even improvise on that one.

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Yeah. You know what? I stopped saving people. I'm nobody's savior. Good for you. I get that's savior. That's right. Good for you. I get that. Hey.

Bizarre, is there work in media you've been enjoying? Okay. Thoroughly. I just want to double plug Year of the Tiger by Alice Wong. Hijabi Butch Blues, Hijab Butch Blues by Lamia H. Pseudonym. And Feminist Killjoy handbook by Sarah Ahmed. Because everybody's out there talking about Joy, Joy, Joy. And I just love that she's like feminist killjoy.

I'm like, yeah, here for it. Phenomenal book. Phenomenal book. Go check it out. God damn trying fucking reading as I'm trying smart smarto over here. I'm trying. And other than that, a lot of X files over here. Just dip my head in the 90s. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I'll be the smoking man. Right. Miles, where can people find you? Is there work in media you've been enjoying?

Find me at Miles of Gray everywhere. You can also find Jack on 420 day fiance where I talk 90 day fiance. A little work of social media I like is from at action cookbook.com on blue sky. And they said, looking back, ALL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just, yeah. And then I was like, oh, I'm going to go to the gym.

I'm going to go to the gym. I'm going to go to the gym. I'm going to go to the gym. I'm going to go to the gym. I'm going to go to the gym. Um, and they said, looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just knock it off. Anything over that? Knock it off. Knock it off.

Knock it off. Hey, knock it off. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien and on blue sky at Jack OB, the number one work of media I've been enjoying. Jack Obey, the number one work of media I've been enjoying. Aura, a at a U R a O N X on Twitter tweeted stages of plant ownership. I'm going to take such good care of you. Next.

Oh no. Oh no. One, I'm going to take such good care of you too. Oh no. Accurate. Oh no. One, I'm gonna take such good care of you. Two, oh no. That's the only times I perceive plants. Mm-hmm. Well, very confident. I'm about to be a gardener up in this bitch and then it's a disaster.

Folks, happy Pound Town Day. Happy Pound Town Day to everybody. We hope you're out there finding love, experiencing love, get your flowers from corner vendors. true crime videos. Yeah. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist

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If you need a Pound Town soundtrack tonight, I highly suggest Quincy Jones is a walking in space album. It's fantastic. It's Quincy Jones, obviously is one of the greats when it comes to these compositions, arrangements, uh, and this track is called love and peace, which is great, a great thing for something on pound on pound town How sound Eve or? The night of pound town

So yes check this one out love and peace by Quincy Jones. It's just nice Beautiful instrumental music beautifully arranged. It feels like love and peace which is something we're lacking lacking It feels like love and peace, which is something we're lacking. Lacking. All right. We will link off to that in the footnotes. The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio for more podcasts from iHeartRadio. Visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That is going to do it for us this morning and for this week. We're back on Monday with a whole last episode of the show to tell you what was trending

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