The Daily Zeitgeist - Bezos ISN’T The Problem? Iran War x Michael Bay 05.22.26

Episode Date: May 22, 2026

In episode 2063, Jack and Miles are joined by actor. writer. and stand-up comedian, Marcella Arguello, to discuss… Bezos Is Really Into Guillotines, Judge Rules The White House Can’t Ignore Presidential Records Act, Of Course Michael Bay Is Making “Operation Epic Fury: The Movie” and more! Bezos on CNBC: "You could double the taxes I pay, and it's not gonna help that teacher in Queens. I promise you." SpaceX confirms plans for an IPO that could make Elon Musk a trillionaire Judge Orders White House to Preserve Officials’ Text Messages 'Established a substantial risk': Federal judge orders White House to comply with 'modest constraint' on Trump 'validly enacted' after Watergate Michael Bay to Direct Operation Epic Fury Rescue Movie for Universal The US military storm Hollywood WATCH: Secret Service Drops a Super Bowl Ad Directed By Michael Bay — Complete With Photo of Assassination Attempt on Trump The Biggest Conservative Dog Whistles in Michael Bay’s Benghazi Movie 13 Hours Michael Bay’s 13 Hours promotes some of the worst Benghazi conspiracy theories Michael Bay's Benghazi movie could hit Hillary Clinton's campaign Michael Bay: Hollywood’s Conservative Hero? How michael bay met obama How Michael Bay’s ‘The Rock’ Was Used to Justify War in Iraq LISTEN: Dum Dums - Remix (feat. J Sina & TOBISWAG) by CPskiSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I didn't know what I was doing. I was just excited to. Just vibe them. Just vibing. I'm so excited to be back. I haven't been on the show and I'm very long time. Been too long. Getting my vocal chords ready to be mean to jack.

Yeah. Get them ready. Get him ready. Fucking your ear. Loser. Loser. Loser. Loser.

Loser. He's like, Bibbibbh, bid, bish. Scrub. Oh. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Already. He's like,

oh, damn. Scrub. I wasn't ready for that one. I wasn't ready for scrub. I was preparing for all of them, but I wasn't ready for scrub. You can't predict what I'm going to say, Jack. That's what makes us exciting. That's what keeps your little, be moving a little during this.

Why are you texting me right now, Jack? Am I really a scrub? I don't know. I don't know what that means. I don't know what is that even mean. Oh, there's that TLC song. Let me just read it. Jack is not a scrub.

So you mean a buster? Oh, a scrub. Also known as a buster. Also known as a buster. I used to think it was bus stop when I first heard it. I was a scrub-ass thought to have. I know. I was like,

I mean, I didn't think too bad. And I was known as a bus stop. And I was like, hmm, no. Because it's like an old. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. That's like an old timey like, uh, when they'd be like you, you're the neighborhood bicycle. Everybody's had a ride. Yeah.

This guy is a fucking bus stop. There was that. Everybody stops. Yeah. There was a misogynistic clap back from the rap group's sporty thieves. No, I remember that one. Yeah, no pigeons.

A pigeon is a girl who thinks she finds you find. It's like crazy. It is funny. It's such in-cell energy. To respond to that to scrub this like number one hit song and feel like so specifically called out. Yeah. You're like,

Oh yeah. Fuck you. It is funny though. I recently used as an insult to one of my home girls. I forget what she did. I was like, damn, you're a pigeon. Pige and ass. Fucking birds.

And I'm glad. My friends are my age. For real. Yeah. It was great. My red-up blue brand new sparkling five. Her feet hurt so you know she wants to ride. But she fron't like she can't say hi.

What? Uh-oh. Oh, my God. They say fronting like she can't say hi. Yo, the crazy part is, uh-oh. Y'all chicks ain't getting out of. Uh-oh. Your pussy ain't worth the Ramada.

Wow. That was, and I remember being like, this is fucking my favorite song. By being like, they won't even. I was like in fucking ninth grade. I was like, yo. This shit is fronting like they can't say hi. Yeah, that song is the original.

Fuck you bitch. Yeah. You should smile more. Specifically as me. All the lyrics are very like in cell. So like, we're at the Ramada. Anyway, your friend looks hotter. It's like, oh, she's like, yeah.

Your friend looks hotter anyway. Just trying all of them. I didn't want you anyways. Hey girl. What the fuck? I didn't holler at me after you're insult to my friend. What do you think? How do you think?

works. Yeah, that song is going to work. This is going to go really well. In-cell energy. Trick Ronalds, you ain't worth the McDonald's. That's another way he said. Trick Ronalds.

I just like that he's admitting how broke he is in the song. Yeah, he's like, oh, I can only afford the Ramada, and you're not even worth your dad. You're not even worth that.

Right. Which is my highest limit. I don't think so, no. Well, hold up. He's in a rimmed up brand new sparkling five.

Okay. And she's front and like she can't say hi. I know. It's fun like you can't say hi. What? You loved it, apparently. It was like, oh my God.

I mean, I'm like 14. I'm a fucking idiot. And I'm like, yo, it's crazy. Like, and this felt like just one of those weird. Do they clap back to TLC? And like, I fucking love. I had fan mail. Like, I own that album.

Yeah, yeah. Silly ho was one of my favorite songs on that album. Miles was hanging out of the passenger side of his best friend's ride. Yeah. When he first heard the song, Scrubs. Slowly retreating from my best friends. Oh.

This is about slow motion? Is this about me? Hey, what's up, girl? Hey, you can't say hot? A scrub is a guy and thinks he's fine. Oh, shit. Oh, no. Oh, no.

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He's just kind of speaking in a little whisper. Just hanging. We also have a new non-news history version of TDZ dropping each Monday morning where we do a deep dive into the Zikey's through the lens of a different icon. Last week, Anna Wintor. This week, Steve Jobs. Next week, nothing, because we're off for Memorial Day. But the week after that, Bob Dillian, man.

Oh, shit, man. Hey, man. Do the whole episode like that. I did a Zansari, man. That is a little too, Aziz. It's Friday, May 22nd,

2026. 2026. Ooh, God, go on. And I'm ready to burn. Wow, there's a fuck ton of things

I don't want to fucking shout out. There's one I do want to shout out. Canadian Immigrants Day. How about this one? Oh, Harvey Milk Day. National Cooler Day. You know, shout out the humble cooler.

for which without we would have very tepid drinks. Sherlock Holmes Day. Shout out injecting a 7.7% cocaine solution in your veins. The 7% solution. Shout out my God. Because it's World Goth Day. Okay. And also, you know, for people expecting children, it was World Preeclampsia Day.

Remember, be careful out there. Be careful out there. Let's go dance under a bridge. The one I didn't want to say. This one fucking special industry is called Bitcoin Pizza Day. I don't know what the fuck. I'm like, yo, fucking eat shit. Yeah.

Yeah. I'm personally very excited that it's Bitcoin, National Bitcoin Pizza. It's a good one. It's a good one. Sorry, guys. I love pizza and I'm still waiting to find out more. I'm still open to learning about Bitcoin. Oh, this is about because some guy who used paid for two Papa John's pizzas with 10,000 bitcoins in 2010.

Now they're like, uh, you don't want to know what that's worth now. Biddy, buddy, buddy. Yeah, where's the only reason? Papa Johns is still in business. Yeah, bro, we have 10,000 fucking Bitcoins. Well, they probably got more

because that guy put him on. Yeah. My name's Jack O'Brien, aka Escape from New Jersey starring Snake Piskin. That one courtesy of smooth parts, just a good old fashion piss-based, AKA.

About the time I didn't piss my pants on the Jersey Shore. I'm thrilled to be joined, as always. By my. co-host Mr. Miles Gray. Hey, now that Man City is officially a second place, I can sing this one.

Why did the world McConaughey save when Casey Afflex aged up Shalemay? Where were you when Damon didn't want to die? Gassie slowly aging on the ship. Cicentars, they fucking rip. Now Ann Hathaway is who you gotta find.

Finally saw this movie. From 2014, Miles saw interstellar, now he cries. Someday you will find him. Caught inside a love Tesseract. Because Miles saw Interstellar. Miles saw interstellar. Now he cries.

Shout out to Ambers on the Discord server. I had to wait. I had to wait until I was singing that one. And now the time has come. So thank you for that one. You had to just, like, get the arsenal out of your system. I was long. I had to fully get it up.

That was long. Any notes? Sorry, did it? Yeah. One. You ready? You have your not pad out? Yep.

Got it out. Ready? You're a scrub. Oh, fuck. Wow. And I just, I love the attention. This is really good for me. Yeah, Miles.

Yeah, I immediately. In a minute. In a minute. Have you seen that, like, meme format on Instagram where it's like when you're getting cooked by the friend group and that one friend who's in a terrible marriage is laughing a little too hard and you're like

it's just like one guy looking over at the guy like nervously laughing at him like you sure Jack? Yeah. Marcella, do this asshole. Do him right now. Do them right now. Yeah. Oh. Scrub ass motherfucker. Wait, what?

See, he does it to himself. See how I've done it now. He's abusing himself. He's self scrubbing. Miles. We are thrilled to be joined in our third seat, but one of our favorite guests, one of your favorite guests, a writer, actor,

one of the funniest stand-up comedians doing it. Fuck, yes. An incredible stand-up special called Bitch Grow Up that everybody, you should have seen it by now. Go watch it again on HBO Max. Now that they brought the HBO back. You can also see her at a stage near you.

Go check her website. It's the hilarious, the talented. Marcel Arguez. Marcella Arguez. It's me, Marcelarguo. A.K.A. Aquequef Latina, aka taller than your dad. Bring your dad to the show.

Bring him. I'm on tour. Here we go again, tour. I got merch, I got merch, you got merch, I got merch, I got stickers. I got new material. I got a new impression. Ooh, C40. I already posted it.

If you even care, if you even care, most people do me below, I gave 40, all right. Wow, wait. You got a new impression of the Z40? Yeah, I can do it right now. I don't care. Let me hear her play, boy. I say, um, I say, um, um, I say, um, um, Oh, it's Incell's time to shine.

For those who don't know, Insel is short for involuntarily celibate, which sounds like a phrase E40 would use in a song, involuntarily celibate. Invulentarily celibate, got to get him a fellowship. I said log off and talk talking shit. Get you some pussy relationship. Ew. Damn.

These boys out here involuntarily celibate, and you're like, oh. I just think the unks, the unk rappers need to clean up for all the damage that Drake has done over the years. Yeah, right? For real. Drake has, like, created in cells for no reason except he is not good with women.

Yeah, right. I mean, the scariest thing about Drake is all the gifts he's buying for the wife that will never exist. You know? And I'm like,

oh, boy. When he finally marries a girl, if he does, he'll be like, what the fuck? I don't want this. Wait, so, yeah, he's like buying

all these bags for his eventual life is like his, that's so, And then he ends up giving him out to strippers and shit. Like, yeah. He like, he like crashes out every now and then. He's like, yeah, I probably went to the strip club and just handed out Birkins. He's such a scrub.

I mean, talk about a rich scrub. I mean, that man, he is both a scrub and a pigeon. Okay. And a buster. And a buster. And a buster. And a buster. And a buster.

And a buster. Yeah, a lot of bitches have rid of that ride for free. Mm-hmm. Marcella, we're thrilled to have you here. 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 things we're talking about. We're just checking with Jeff Bezos and the very wealthiest people in the world, what they think about how much taxes they're paying. We're going to talk about the White House Presidential Records Act, which apparently says that like every text that is sent by this administration they're supposed to be hanging on to.

Or else what? Yeah, but that's the problem. Can you imagine the shit they're saying in text messages? Oh, yeah. Look at the shit they're saying on Maine. I know. You know? Holy shit.

Anyways, we're going to talk about that because they, it just got upheld. They were like, actually, we don't want to do that. And a judge was like, what, that's not a legal argument. Yeah. That you don't want to do that. No, I don't want to. I don't want to. And we're going to talk about Michael Bay.

Mm-hmm. He's agreed to make a movie Operation Epic Fury. About a war that's not even. fucking over. Yeah. You're already being like, yeah, let's be prop the band. He actually, he went into production on it before they even attacked in the first place. All of that, plenty more.

But first, Marcella, something about us around here is we do like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Oh, wow, you're doing this all out of order, huh? Fuck. I wasn't expecting that. Search history. That's usually what we open up with. Oh, isn't I haven't been here.

I just was trying to bite myself time, you fucking asshole. You kind of threw jackdocks too. Coming at me here. Okay, here's something that I Google search. Guys, this is real. I don't go on. I don't over-prepared like some of your, the people you listen to on a regular basis. Nerds.

I have the perfect answer. Every time one of our guests comes on, all prepared for these, I act happy, but deep down, I'm like, look at this fucking nerd. Nerd, yeah. Jack's calling them a nerd? I mean, can you imagine? Oh. So I was watching, I love American Dad. I don't know if everybody likes American Dad.

People have a lot of strong feelings about American Dad. I think it's one of the funniest animated American cartoons. Animated cartoons, that's right. You heard it here first. And you know it's American because it says it in the damn title. It's so funny. Roger is an icon. Roger is the Lion Walker. Yeah.

Roger is basically Karen Walker. If you don't watch Will and Grace anymore because Deborah Messings up fucking Zionist Cunt, you can watch American Dad and get your Karen Walker fix from Roger. He says ridiculous shit all the time. It's the best. And he's a slut.

It's the best. But anyways, the last thing I googled for real, for real, is trying to figure out the voice. I'm always really good at clocking someone's voice, like a character, you know, an extra character. And they had an episode where it was like this Italian, like, mafia style.

Older guy that was, like, teaching the son, Jeff, how to be a man. It was a very hilarious episode. It sent me on the school search because I thought I knew who it was. I was like, is this a voice I heard on Seinfeld back in the day? Or where is this voice row? But I mixed up my voices.

So I just went on this, on this deep dive on Joe. I can't even pronounce his name. And now it's not coming up. Mangioleon? Man to, to, I can't even say it, I meant to,

Joe, meant to, I can't even, oh, Montalina. Mantegna, Mantingia, yes. Oh, Joe Montana?

Joe Montana. Joe Montana, yeah. There's a joke. And that was a joke I learned. Joe Montana. Was about him. So that was the last one I did, because I thought his,

I couldn't figure out his voice was from, but he was, he did. That is who was voicing it? Or that's just who you thought it was. That's who was voicing, that's who was voicing it, but it's not who I thought it was.

Got it was. I thought it was, because there was an episode of Seinfeld, who I know as a Zionist, but I was obsessed with the show as a kid. Oh, Seinfeld was a great show. It was a great show. And I can't watch it anymore, but because that dude is so Zionist. I can't watch it anymore because I'm too busy watching Unfrosted. Oh, classic. Classic movie.

His work of historical fiction that. You know who loves unfrosted Pop Tarts, pigeons. Birds. Birds. Bird ass. I thought it was, there was an episode of Seinfeld where the, who somebody gets their haircut. Oh, Jerry gets his haircut.

And then he starts going to the other guy because he's better and hipper. And I thought it was one of their, one of those guys's voices, the barbers. One of the barbers? One of the barbers. Because they just kind of had an over-the-top Italian voice that was like, this is silly. That's not how they really talk. Didn't they both have like wild ass that, like they were like just big Italian caricature, right? Yeah, they were.

It was like, Gino and Enzo or some shit. Yeah, that was exactly right. Gino and Anzo. And they were like obsessed with Edward Cisorhands because of the heading of the with the hair. Yeah. That's great. So Joe Montagna voices Fat Tony on the Simpsons. So that's what it made me realize was I knew the voice because of the Simpsons, but I thought it was Seinfeld.

Your wires got crossed. My racist Italian stereotype wires got crossed. And we will allow. They're all tapping into the same silly caricature voice. Yeah, yeah. That is an amazing skill to have. Like, that's a skill that I'm surprised literally every time that I find out who is voicing a character. I like, I Google it and I'm like, oh.

Oh, so you never know. I don't even have a guess. Oh, that's me. I'm very good at it. I have quite the year. I'm very good at it. You have, well, yeah, you're great of voices and stuff like that. So you've got to have a good year for that.

Yeah, but it's just funny because it's like, it turns into an obsession, but I always try to see if I can figure it out by the end of the episode. And this was the first time I was like, I have no. And I don't even think I just caught the name, like, when it was coming up, because I didn't know who it was. I didn't know any of those actors' names. So it's just crack me up. So I'm like, man, it's always fun to, like, figure out who's doing the voice on a, on a show.

Right. There it is. That was my last Google search. Do you guys do that? I do. Listeners, not you guys. I don't care what you think, Jack. Who me?

Yeah. Oh my God. Thank you so much for asking. Can you believe him, Marcel? That's crazy. He's so dumb, just like you, Miles. What the fuck? Don't think you're in good now.

May on your toes. Marcel, what is something you think is underrated? Okay, well, I always like to do the same, same, what is the same coin, two sides? I don't know. Guys, my words are not all here today, but we're getting there. I think I got a little too high when I was taking a shower. I was in there like, what out?

In the shower? Yeah. Oh, are you like a joint or like a vape? Yeah, like a joint. Wait, so what do you like, you just kind of, you keep it outside the shower? No, you bring it in. How do you not get this shit wet? Dude, come on.

Tall. She's tall. She's standing above the head. What's a sloppy? What's a sloppy? You don't have to take the joint and run it through the water to bring it into the shower. I just let the shower hit me right on the top of the head. And I try and smoke like a,

oh, but. It's stupid. Unless you're in one of the, and I mean, even then you could still do it, but I wasn't saying if you're one of those like tall stalls, but no,

you can put it totally. I mean, I also have a long limbs, you know, so I'm like a, can kind of position myself in the shower. You're like, webbing yelma in the shower.

You're just like got the thing. Oh, you're holding the joint out the window while you're taking a shower. Yeah. And remember, I'm tall. So the shower had literally, never touches my head. I have to always bend down.

Yeah, right. Yeah, yeah. It's safe. And so anyways, I got to hide or in the shower. Do you lean back? In those instances to get to make sure I get the water hitting your head, are you a, do you got to lean back in or do you do? Yeah, I do. I do. I do. I usually lean back. And then, and then kind of crouched down, lean back. But sometimes if I'm like, if I'm making sure I got more volume in my hair, I'll go forward to rinse up the conditioner. Okay. I got to do what you got to do sometimes. You do? That's a really good point. what is something that you think is two sides of the same coin two sides of the same coin you're underrated and overrated two coins of the same side of two coins of the same coins

so it's a cross-rayed coins okay I think that it's underrated to have high self-esteem it's overrated to have low self-esteem people I don't I can't do it with anybody anymore because people I can't connect with people anymore because everyone has fucking low self-esteem everyone I talk to hates their body, hates their whatever, hates where they're at. And I'm like, I can't do with this. You guys need to have some fucking, fucking stand up straight. Puff your chest up.

Dude, do you see the people right in this country? Do you see walking proud and tall and ignorant as hell and ugly as all fuck? Yeah. And I know women, like some most interesting, beautiful talented women that are just like, I don't know. I just don't think I can do this. I just don't have it. I'm like, bitch, are you insane?

Gestures broadly around. Look at this. Look who's on stage right now. Look who we're opening for. He's tipping over. Yeah, he's tipping over. And you fucking don't like your boobs. Get out of here, bitch.

What are you talking about? I'm just tired of people having low self-esteem. What's your biggest? What's your tip? Because, Marcella, you have an incredible amount of self-assuredness. What do you? What's the, what's the, you know, be Tony Robbins real quick for me. is don't wait until you're old as fuck to realize that you wasted your whole life.

Worrying about the dumb shit. Worrying about the stupidest shit. Worrying about, because every woman I talk to, not me, but every woman I talk to is like, oh my God, I look at old pictures and I'm like,

I'll never be that thin again. I'm like, yeah, bitch, so love the body today. Because in 10 years, you're also not going to look like how you look today. I don't understand why you're so hard on yourself right now. And also,

if you want to look better, put a little effort. Just make a little, make a little make that change you know and i'm just really frustrated that people really are like spending i just read christina apple gates biography you guys know christina applegate oh yeah comedy legend tv movie comedy lege lege okay a lodger's kelly bundy loved her on the sweetest thing anchor man dead to me i mean she's an icon um don't tell mom the babysitters said get out of here i loved everything i read her book. The bitch had low self-esteem her whole fucking life. The whole fucking time.

We're out here like Kelly Bundy. The whole time she was Christina Apple. The Christina Apple. Yeah. The Kelly Bundy. The like, I mean, to read how bad her self-esteem was and then to get to where she is now, which she has totally fucked her up. She's, she's on these steroids that have fucked her, these her, her words, not mine, but she's fucked up her face and her body is how she sees. And now she's just upset that she spent her whole life feeling bad and ugly and now she's her face has changed because of the steroids and now she's like I don't even look like myself I was so mean to that other version and now the remaining life that I have I don't even look like myself and I hate the way that I look now and it's like bitch you will never relax if you fucking spend your whole life having most self-esteem

I think there's non-stop symbols coming at like I definitely sympathize with it I think there's nonstop symbols coming at us that, like, tell us that our discomfort is our fault and, like, that there's, like, something spiritually wrong with you if you aren't, like, doing great. And so, like, I think people are existing in a system that, like, reinforces the, the low self-esteem. And also, I sympathize with you because it's got to be hard to, not very fun to bully people who have low self-esteem. And they're just like, I know, I fucking suck. But that's the thing is that like if the system is telling you that you ain't shit, but also the system needs you to pay your taxes,

the system needs you to provide babies, the system needs you to provide so much for our society. Yeah. Like you have value. You are value even, yeah, you have value even in the- You are shit. You are shit. And I hear what you're saying.

Like, I get it that it is, we're living in a tough, tough world and everyone is telling you how, I mean, but I guess that's the other fucked up thing, especially when I think about Christina Obligate, because I'm like, she was Kelly Bundy. She was the standard. She was like, I'm fat, you know?

Like, that's crazy to me. She was the one making us feel bad and she doesn't even feel good. That's so... I think goes to the show, yeah, yeah, yeah, too, that so much of the stuff that we think is, depends on that, like, external is actually just dictated by the internal. And I think that mastery is so important. Like, the system that we exist in is...

like one of the engines that you can give yourself, like we're doing these icon episodes, we keep running into these people who are fucking miserable and believe horrible things about themselves. Like one of the engines for extreme success is like manufactured discontent with yourself to just be like. And I never forgot that thing that that total stranger said to me that I might be misinterpreting.

Oh my God. It drove me through life and made me, you know, think that I was a piece of shit so that I woke up every morning and attained like amazing success. And it's like that like that's what I mean. It's not it's not just like, oh, don't read magazines. Don't look at social media.

It's like the whole system is meant to be like only work if you are like, I need to do more. I need more. And if I don't buy into that, then I'm fucking up. So self-love is radical. It is. Self-love is radical. Just remember that.

Yeah, fucking radical. Yeah. Be radical. man. Be radical, man. Be nautical, man. Be gnarly, man. Get stoked. Dude, that's your life. Like, I'm begging people not to spend their whole life looking back and realize they spent their whole life. They wasted so much energy hating themselves. Jack, I'm talking to you. Okay.

Now, love myself. I'm the best. No, I love myself. I'm really good. I'm the best. Because all you do, especially if you have kids, you pass that shit down to your kids. Those kids pets. That's your generational trauma just fucking living forever.

And you know, it's fucked up too because when I was reading when there's a chapter talking about her grandparents and it's a fucked up, you know, situation that they had.

And it's like, oh yeah, no wonder they all, you know, just generational. It's perpetual. It just never ends, but somebody's got to break the cycle.

That's right. And I'm just begging people to stop having low self-esteem. Look at what's out there. Look what's on TV. Like, everything is so terrible and not good and you're like you're looking at it going like I'm not good enough it's like they're not

yeah yeah absolutely everyone else isn't good enough damn everyone else isn't good enough yeah be a really good no one is good enough yeah what's wrong with you sit down look at this show let's watch a show what's your favorite show let's put it on man this motherfucker got you feeling bad and fuck that uh let us take a quick break and we're going to come back and talk about somebody who should, I think, really make everybody feel good about themselves. And that's one Jeff Bezos. Oh. I mean, you look at this.

Like, he's supposed to be the Uber Mench, the best. Yeah. The best of us. That's another one. You should, look at him. Look at him. Look at him. We'll be right back.

Hey, it's us, the Jonas brothers. And guess what? We have some big news. What's the news, new? Huge news. We created our own podcast called, Hey, Jonas. We invented a podcast?

Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed. The first people to do podcasts. Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts throughout there. But this one's extra special. So how did we actually come up with a name, Hey Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember. I think it was on a call about what we should call it.

Oh, we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band. Before Jonas Brothers was... This is how you guys remember it going down? Yes. I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast. for people could call in and say, hey Jonas, and then I wrote down on my little notepad,

Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title for the podcast. But thanks for remembering that, guys. Listen to Hey Jonas on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Just listen. We don't care where you hear it. Another podcast from some SNL, late-night comedy guy, not quite. Unhumor me with Robert Smygel and friends.

Me and hilarious guests from Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman helped make you funnier. This week, my guest, S&L's Mikey Day and head writer Streeter Seidel help an a cappella band with their between songs banter. Where does your group perform? We do some retirement homes. Those people are starving for banter.

Listen to humor me with Robert Smigel and friends on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Keith Giamanka seemed like a mild-mannered suburban dad, but secretly he became someone else, a master of disguise who went on a crime spree. At the time, did it seem like a crazy idea? It seemed very crazy.

But I felt so desperate that I felt it was the quickest, easiest way out. Did you allow yourself to think about how it could go wrong and what that might look like? No. I didn't want to manifest that. I was trying to manifest success. Every family has its secrets. But what happens when you discover that your dad has a lot. and living a double life. That is not the look of an innocent man. This is going to change my life and my family dynamic forever

because everything that had existed prior in my reality is now untrue. Listen to Deep Cover the Family Man on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can have opinions, you can have like a strong stance. and then there's your body having its own program. I'm Dr. Maya Shunker, a cognitive scientist and hosts of the podcast, a slight change of plans, a show about who we are and who we become when life makes other plans.

We share stories and scientific insights to help us all better navigate these periods of turbulence and transformation. There is one finding that is consistent, and that is that our resilience rests on our relationship. I wish that I hadn't resisted for so long the need to change. We have to be willing to live with a kind of uncertainty that none of us likes. Listen to a slight change of plans on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. And we're back. We're back. And we got two billionaire-related stories.

One quick one is that... One better be Rihanna. No, this one's fucking annoying. a billionaire news might have to start including trillionaire news because Elon Musk is doing an IPO of SpaceX. Where, yeah, everyone in the financial world is just giddy about the fact that like once he takes SpaceX, SpiceX public, it's going to be the biggest IPO of all time and it'll make him a trillionaire. Oh, fuck yeah, man. Why are other people excited about this? Like, it's going to be the biggest thing ever.

Because they're going to like get rich, I guess a bunch of people are going to get rich. I guess a bunch of people are going to get rich. People like to watch. People like to watch. Yeah, right. Yeah, yeah. He is, I think, a great example of what you're talking about of just like, oh, you feel bad about yourself? Look at this person who's about to be the richest person in the history of the world.

And like adjusted for inflation. Like, yeah, so you see this picture of him and he looks like shit. Now watch him in motion. And you've like never seen a person. Like he looks like he's being operating. by somebody who's never seen a human being moved before. It's no wonder they want robots everywhere. Right.

Because it makes them look more normal. Everyone's always like he's on like so many weird drugs, right? I'm like, I think that's the most generous interpretation of what's going on with him. Yeah. Yeah. Anyways, we also have Jeff Bezos. Seems like he's just horny for the guillotine. Yeah.

He's rich. That boy. He's challenging everyone. He's really tested. He put his head in. He said, no, no, no,

this is a little too. Let's see. What else you got? So, yeah, he, I guess what he's like, the third or second richest man on earth ever.

I don't know, I don't know what the billionaire dick measuring chart looks like right now. But he is really not into the whole tax, the rich thing. And he's out here now

doing fucking TV interviews of CNBC, trying to tell the masses that raising his taxes isn't going to do shit. Okay? Don't even fucking try it. Teacher in the Bronx, nah.

She don't matter. She don't need my tax money. Crazy, crazy work here. So here he is being asked, you know, around a bunch of fucking spaceships because it was like at his blue origin company. So this guy's literally surrounded by spaceships. And he's talking about his taxes. It's like no point in raising my taxes.

Who's that going to help? I think he's made in reference to you and others are able to pay a lower tax rate. Even though you're paying an enormous sum in taxes, a lower tax rate, then maybe I am. These people sometimes say that, you know, I don't pay over. Also, the voice, all right. Yeah. If you're doing therapy with Marcella, like, bro, listen to his nasly voice. They sound bawling.

You make me feel better about myself, Marcella, by describing Jeff Bays. Real quick. No. Why would I do that for you? Sometimes say that, you know, I don't pay taxes. So true, I pay billions of dollars in taxes. And it's a perfect, again, if people want me to pay more billions, then let's have that debate. Yeah, we're having that debate right now.

We've been asking you to pay more billions of dollars. We want you to pay more billion and more. That's even more billions. Until you have like $100 million maybe. He has so much filler he has a lisp. That's what that sound is. That's what that is. I don't know this.

When you have so much filler, when you have that much filler in your face, you get a lisp. It happens also with women who get too much lip filler. They get a lisp. It's the funny shit ever. Completely affects just the physiology around. It's so full.

I was wondering what was going on with this voice. That's what it is. The lisp is filler. Filler list. Again, rich people live in their own world. A killer-based speech impediment. Yeah. It's a fucking funny shit.

when people, I'm just like, you have too much filler, you have lists. You have a list. It's also wild and like, I dissolve the filler and you're like, oh, shit. Okay. Damn, this, man, this. I want people to have to talk with more, like, this dude doesn't even have any confidence in his speaking. And he's still up there like, no, I know what I'm talking about. Just lying with his eyes closed.

But here he is. Sure, if you want me to pay more. we can have that debate that we've been having for the last few decades. But go on, Jeff. Let's have that debate, but don't pretend, you know, that that's going to solve the problem. You could, you could double the taxes I pay, and it's not going to help that teacher in Queens. I promise you. Which one? Does she already have, like, billions of dollars, the teacher in Queens? That one teacher in Queens who won the power ball a few years ago.

She's fine. Geez, it's, wait, okay, sorry, who are you talking about? Um, because really quick here, let me just do some things. So Jeff Bezos, you know, you said you're not, you're not really, let me crass some numbers here. Uh, his, his effective tax rate is around 1%, okay? The average for working people is around 14 and a half percent. Okay, so, okay, so you go 100, one percent. Okay, they don't let me, because you wonder how this happens, right?

Well, he only takes a salary of about $82,000 from Amazon, um, because. Hero. Yeah, hero, dude. Thank you, sir. Because when you're that wealthy, the name of the game is all about stock gains, honey, and he is a massive holder of Amazon stock as its founder. And the gains on the increase in value on that stock price is how he pays for she.

He borrows against that stock. And that's what's going on. Because you don't owe money on the increased value of your stock prices until you sell them. Right? So these are unrealized gains. And there's no, the way our tax system works is there's no window for anybody to be able to tax that shit until you sell it. I'm actually very poor. I'm actually very poor.

Yeah, I'm actually very poor. Not very liquid. I got this filler on a coupon actually, you know. The actually didn't work out too well. So, I mean, like, the money he would owe is if he sells it again, because all he does is just borrow against that. So for all the talk of like, well, pay, like, sure, maybe as a quantity. effectively of what you're worth is and the amount of money that you are generating, you're not paying. You're paying, fuck all, baby. Right. And so to then be like,

that's not going to solve the problem is, like, he's doing his best to do billionaire. What is the problem do we think? What does he think the problem is? If inequality is not driven by him having all the money and nobody else having the money. What is driving? He was basically saying that, like, uh, the bottom half of earners shouldn't pay taxes at all. Was just sort of his thing. But that's him just being like, well, what if, what if you guys didn't pay taxes either? Didn't he also say his government regulations was the problem? Because they do love to, well, small government. And also the other thing he said, we don't have a revenue problem.

We have a spending problem. And I tell that to all the programs that are being cut left and right. Tell that to, you know, like things like Medicaid or Social Security or USA. I mean, I do appreciate his manipulation tactic of trying to appeal to the lower bottom. half. Like, that's a really smart way to trick people into supporting him. That's trickery. There was a point where he was exploring a run for president. So he's thinking about things. He just doesn't probably have any way of understanding how unpopular he would be in a room full of other people. His instincts are exactly wrong. Yeah. Well, it's just funny too. Again, even for all that

talk of like, well, they shouldn't pay, like, they did the bottom. bottom earner shouldn't really have to own anything either. It's like, again, you are, you're not even paying money on your shit. That's really the big deal. It's like, we have all these, the way the tax system is set up is you can go out there and say, yes, I'm paying taxes, but you're not acknowledging all the ways, all of the tactics that the wealthy have to not actually have to pay on that stuff. And that's, that's why this, that's why we are having this debate on what changes we need to our system so that your ass who made what $127 billion or some shit

like between his wealth increased from $127 billion just from 2006 to 2018 but he's just like I only made about $5.6 billion Because again the way the tax system is set up he can just get away with all that shit And why is it set up like that?

What a weird what a weird figment of the system what a weird little trick of the system I wonder if it's because they've been spending billions and billions of dollars lobbying to make it Because again, they don't take fucking money. All these motherfuckers, the reason they're so obsessed with the stock market is,

that's how they get the tangible monies. Right. You know what I mean? But it's an easy fix to make to the system. It's just a fix that the American government is refusing to make because it is run by these people and heavily influenced by these people. It's also crazy thinking about the numbers that is ex-wife, how much money she's made. I saw that story what last week where it was like,

She's donated so much, so many billions, and she's just made more billions just sitting around. Just that's crazy. Yeah. And she earned it, you know? Seven billion dollars in philanthropy. But that's what's crazy is that she's still making money and she is donating as much as she can as quickly as she can. And for him, it's like, oh, no, but I have to keep this to make more, but I don't even really have this. So it's like, I can't even make more because technically it's not real.

It's like, dude, what the fuck are you talking about? McKenzie Scott has donated more than $26 billion since 2020. Jeff Bezos and Fox 11 News his very own Lauren Sanchez have only donated $4.7 billion. Wow. It's like what a normal person who isn't hell bent on taking all the money from the world does with the money is they're like, oh, this feels weird. Like, I shouldn't have this money. Like, get this away from it. And then because you already have so much, it just makes money on itself.

Like, that's what you fucked up about it? It's not real. They're just reading, she owns 4% of Amazon stock, right? Yeah. And so she's like, bro, I need to just, I can take little shavings off of this and keep giving people bills. Yeah. It's crazy. And then meanwhile, you have this guy who's just like, I don't know, I pay so much.

I need to, I don't need to pay more billions, even though I have so many billions and no human can use billions. And this is how these fucking people talk. Money actually wouldn't help you. Money wouldn't solve. your problem. Yes, it's fucking would. As a 100 billionaire, I've actually discovered

that money's empty. Money doesn't fix anything. Yeah. And then it just goes off in a jetpack. Yeah. How bad you guys think it has to get here for people to finally rise up, start burning more shit down?

Because I think Luigi really started setting a trend with, you know, what he did and now with all those warehouses that have been burned down. The internet has to go down for two days straight. Two days straight. Okay. I don't know.

There's some like, yeah, there's like a shutdown or something. I mean, the issue is that there's still like too busy trying to stay alive. Trying to survive. Trying to survive. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think people's material existences are already in such dire things. It's just that it's a tipping point of mathematically how many people are hanging dangling on the edge like that. But yeah.

It's hard to know, hard to know. But they, do a good job, you know, feeding people distractions and saying it's this, that, and the other. When meanwhile, you have fucking evil doers straight up on, in 4K telling you, bro, you don't need my money. You don't want this money.

Like, it's honestly, it feels like they are trying to Jedi mind trick you. It's just like, you don't want this money. Is it daily Zikeis a distraction man? Like, what we're doing a distraction man? Yeah, I mean, I guess, I guess. Actually, Jeff Bezos said it is. He said that, like,

you talking about how much money I have, actually is part of the problem. Did he really say that? Yeah, yeah. He left a comment. It was a two-star review. So thanks for the two. From Jay Bezos.

Yeah, Jay Bezos. You guys talk too much about how much money I have. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. Hey, it's us, the Jonas Brothers. And guess what? We have some big news. What's the news,

huge news? We created our own podcast called, Hey, Jonas. We invented a podcast? Well, we didn't invent it. We just continue. We're the first people to do podcasts. Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts throughout there.

But this one's extra special. So how did we actually come up with a name, Hey Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember. I think it was on a call about what we should call it. Well, we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band before Jonas Brothers. This is how you guys remember it going down? Yes. I have a very different memory of this.

We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast. podcast for people could call in and say, Hey Jonas. And then I wrote down on my little notepad, Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title for the podcast. But thanks for remembering that, guys. Listen to Hey Jonas on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Just listen.

We don't care where you hear it. Another podcast from some SNL late night comedy guy, not quite. Unhumor me with Robert Smygel and friends. Me and hilarious guests from Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman help make you funnier. This week, my guest. guest, S&L's Mikey Day and headwriter, Streeter Seidel, help an a cappella band with their between songs banter. Where does your group perform?

We do some retirement homes. Those people are starving for banter. Listen to humor me with Robert Smigel and friends on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can have opinions. You can have like a strong stance. And then there's your body having its own program. I'm Dr.

Maya Shunker, a cognitive scientist and hosts of the podcast a slight change of plans, a show about who we are and who we become when life makes other plans. We share stories and scientific insights to help us all better navigate these periods of turbulence and transformation. There is one finding that is consistent, and that is that our resilience rests on our relationships. I wish that I hadn't resisted for so long the need to change. We have to be. We have to be, be willing to live with a kind of uncertainty that none of us likes. Listen to a slight change of plans on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Keith Gianmanca seemed like a mild-mannered suburban dad, but secretly, he became someone else, a master of disguise who went on a crime spree. At the time, did it seem like a crazy idea? It seemed very crazy. but I felt so desperate that I felt it was the quickest, easiest way out. Did you allow yourself to think about how it could go wrong on what that might look like? No, I didn't want to manifest that. I was trying to manifest success. Every family has its secrets.

But what happens when you discover that your dad has been living a double life? That is not the look of an innocent man. This is going to change my life and my family dynamic forever because everything that had existed prior in my reality is now untrue. Listen to Deep Cover the Family Man on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Now we're back. Nice. Always bring us back so fast. I'm back, you're back.

He's back to. We're all back. life. Remember that song? Yeah, of course. So, come on. Back to back to back to back to you. I don't remember that song. How about that? How about that though? Do you remember that? Let's talk about the White House Presidential Records Act is a thing that this administration is doing their best to ignore. In April, the Department of Justice declared the White House doesn't have to comply with the Presidential Records Act, which is the 1978. law that was enacted after Watergate when they were like, yeah, like, it's too easy for a president.

It's too easy for a president to do illegal shit. So instead, we are going to create this law where they have to leave a paper trail. Everything they do is on is on the record. So at least they will be hemmed in by shame, essentially. It's like what it is. So you can't just like openly do the crimes. And for some reason, this administration doesn't love that. Yeah, yeah. I don't feel like you need to see all that stuff. You want fuckery receipts? So, yeah, a federal judge has ruled that the White House must preserve all presidential records,

including text messages exchange among its top officials, which they don't like. But I'm just like. I'm so fucking cynical because, yeah, judge can say that. But in my mind, I know at the white, I was going on, what the fuck are they going to do? Right. What the fuck are they going to go out to Park Avenue and shoot someone and no one's going to, what was the quote he said? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, he's basically right. He's like, I can go out there completely not know who my own son is on the weekend of his wedding. And people aren't going to say that I shouldn't be. Oh, yeah. What happened with that? This motherfucker was asked about if he is going to his own son's wedding this weekend because Doju is getting married. this weekend. And he was asked at an oval office thing,

I'll play this answer. It's just asking you go, hey, are you going to your son's wedding? And the way he wraps it up is very interesting. You're having your son's wedding this weekend? He'd like me to go, but it's going to be just a small little private affair. And I'm going to try and make it.

I'm in the midst. I said, you know, this is not good timing for me. I have a thing. Already true to form asshole dad. It's funny. You know what I hear in that? Because he always says the backwards. He always says the opposite of what he means.

I mean, it's a small wedding because they're trying to find a way to not invite him. He is like, they scheduled it so that he couldn't go. And they're like, how do we keep this just 20 people? Oh, but he flips his answer to sound like, you know,

because he's balding right now. No, this is not good timing for me. I have a thing called Iran and other things. That's one I can't win on. If I do attend, I get killed. If I don't attend, I get killed. By the fake news, of course, I'm talking about now. But he's got a very person I've known for a long time.

Wait. Yeah. He's got a very person I've known for a long time. I want to hear that last part. One more time. One more time. Got a very person who I've known for a long time. And hopefully they're going to have a great marriage.

Oh, is he talking about his wife? I think he's talking about the wife person who's known for a very long time. time, yeah. I know. We wanted it to be a son. We did. We both wanted it. That's why I had to play back. I was like, four me a joke. He's got a very, uh, oh, he's trying to find wife. He's got a very person I've known for a long time. He's also trying to, like he was going to say,

very beautiful, but then like cut stopped himself. He's like, that's great. That's why you're not invited. Do you think he's not invited to the wedding? Because I think he's not invited to the wedding. No, do, Donald Trump Jr. is going. to he's a pig for the he is he is apoplectic right now no the way that he described

the wife person I've known for a very long time she does not want him there she might not that's fair that's what I'm saying he has assaulted her and she does not want him there oh that's my that's my theory because the way he just said he's got a person I've known for a very long time

something at the beginning where it's like it's going to be small private yeah yeah because they were like hey that is what you tell people who aren't invited to your wedding. That's what you're talking about. You're ready. It's going to be small. It's actually a small family thing.

You don't need to. Because Malai, you don't want to go. She don't want to go. It's just so funny, though, too, and it's like, Dad,

I don't know if it's good to have you there. It's going to be a small thing. He's like, well, it's not good timing for me either. Yeah. Not good timing anyway. Oh, perfect. That's exactly.

I've got a little thing called Iran that you're not dealing with. Motherfucker, you're golfing all the time. Yeah. He seems so busy. Talk about bad time. just has no, like, he thinks he's going to get in trouble for going to his own son's wedding.

That's how you know he's bullshitting. He knows that's not true. That is not true. He loves a party. Come on. He's at all the parties. He will go to any party. The night of he, like, throws a competing party, like, down the street.

He might. This guy sucks. This is my new son. He's a fucking loser. The real Donald Jr. Kid Rock come out. I just, if, in a world where, like, I guarantee they're not going to want to leave the files and the digital record behind. I also think they're probably not savvy enough to not.

You know, these are the, this is the administration that like accidentally joins the WhatsApp group and or like invites a reporter to the WhatsApp group. Yeah. Right. They're like, there's going to be entire like Trump administration studies departments that are just like digital forensics and history, like history departments just combined to just, like, looking at what how many water gates they were averaging a week like i i bet they were putting up at least like three water gates a day in terms of yeah maybe a day a minute yeah just like non-stop i mean just

like even like i'm i would love to see what kind of communications there were to his fucking stock person the person managing his stock portfolio with the trades yeah you're gonna have to sell that right away or someone to an intermediary like he's like i got a big call coming up which one happened from the NVIDIA meeting. Yeah, yeah. He's Loki texting. He's like, sell, sell, sell. Bye, bye, bye.

I can't wait for these records to be revealed and for nothing to happen. Or if they're even preserved. That's the thing. And I mean, like, that's where you think about, like, the Democrats, what they're doing. It's like, you know, like, people are seeing this shit and they're wondering if someone's going to be like, we're not going to let these motherfuckers get away with this shit. But that's, no one's going to say that. That's out of their purview at the moment.

They're like, what do you mean? I didn't even know the text message. Get away with what? Yeah. What the? All right. How do we feel about Michael Bay? We're all big fans.

We can just move on from the store. Huge. Huge. Love them. Love this guy. My favorite movie, Transformers. Which one is he? What have he done?

Top two. So he's done. He's a real one. He started, he started off. I had a spark when he started, but now it shit's garbage. You know, he had Armageddon, the rock he probably peaked with. and then from there it's been what he do? He did Pearl Harbor. He did the island.

He did a bunch of forgettable shit. But he also has kind of a history of making movies that are basically, like people are going to be writing their term papers on them. Like people who aren't that good at looking at the symbolism, the political content of things. Right. Like in the way that everybody wrote, term paper about how Rocky 4 was secretly about the Cold War.

You know, it's like, yeah, yeah, no, pretty obviously. Because his first big hit was bad boys. Bad boys is, yeah. So bad boys he kind of eat with, like for like bad boys, bad boys too. Which it's so different from the other stuff, which tells me he stole the idea from someone. Well, he was doing music videos before. And then he also did that got milk commercial with that Aaron. That's a Michael Bay joint.

Okay, okay. But then, yeah, because then his run was the bad boys, the rock, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, bad boys to the island Transformers, Transformers, Revenge of the Fallen, Transformers, Transformers, Dark of the Moon, Pain and Game. None of this type of shit. Yeah, Transformers, Age of Extention, 13 hours. And that's the one where he was really, like, okay, we see what you're doing now. So that was the Benghazi movie where they were, he was like, he was like,

Like, I'm just trying to make a political movie, but, you know, it basically takes every, like, takes into a kind of, like, everything that, like, Fox News would have said about Benghazi. Like, it's, it's all Obama admit. Like, even though the movie doesn't say the Obama administration fucked up, it's like the people in charge keep making terrible decisions that fuck them up. Yeah. And the whole, the whole narrative prior to that was just Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, and laying that at the feet of Hillary Clinton. So then when the film came out. people were like in the election year. Oh, I do remember that. That I remember. Yes, yes, yes.

Oh, yeah. The timing was horrifying. Yeah. Anyways, he's got a new movie coming out. How exciting. Yeah. That's about Operation Epic Fury and specifically the rescue of that downed American pilot in April. It's based on a book that comes out in 2027.

So they're getting a jump on it. How greedy are these motherfuckers? Like, hey, man, who got the rights of this news story? They're like, yeah. But crazy that the book isn't even out. I was like, yeah, we're adapting this. I don't know. It's going to make an action film that makes the U.S.

look like they're the good guys. He also directed a Secret Service recruitment Super Bowl ad that featured like a bombastic photo of the Trump assassination attempt to be like, this could be you, hero. You could be part of an amazing photo op too. Yeah. I'm glad I've never watched any of his movies, except bad boy. I know I watched that.

Bad boys, bad boys, yeah. What's America's obsession with these types of movies? What do you guys think? It's like the most. I mean, probably it helps that there's like an American flag blowing in the wind every like 15 seconds. I'm rock hard looking at the American flag. Exactly. I mean, I think because also his films do reinforce this idea of like American might and exceptionalism and, you know, like Armageddon.

It's like these fucking oil rig guys got to fucking save Earth. out to these, like, these, you know, blue-collar American guys. And I think, what was it, what was the question Ben Affleck asked him that, like, pissed him off about them film? Yeah, so the movie Armageddon is, like, Jack's been waiting to talk about this.

Right wing. Well, because I remember Jack told me, let's call it a little bit of a setup. But I remember when you first told me, it was like, this is so fucking funny because it reveals a really dumb plot hole. During the, it's just fun to watch Jack come alive when it's a certain topic.

Jack, what was that thing, Ben Affleck said to Michael Bay? So during the producer, like director's commentary for Armageddon, Ben Affleck got a little drunk and was talking cash shit about the movie

and was like, you know, one time I asked Michael, hey, wait a second, wouldn't it be easier to teach astronauts how to drill for oil than it would be to teach oil drillers how to be astronauts? And Michael Bay's response

was Ben, shut the fuck up. Oh, wow. God bless Ben. Because again, he loves it. That's like another thing where like expertise is overshadowed by just like the brawn. You got to get muskly guys. That's who's really tough. The learning curve, you're kind of doing it the hardest way possible.

Right. This goes back to what Jack was saying earlier about the system is set up to provide you with low self-esteem. when in reality all this shit is bullshit and people actually watch that and they feel dumb or ugly or like they're not good enough and oh my God. Yeah.

His one outlier politically is probably The Rock is the one moot because Which one is the rock? With Nicholas Cage and Sean Conry they go to Alcatraz and the guys are holding all those people hostage by terrorists. It's an amazing.

It's just not, I'm click. Nothing. Nothing for me. Man, that's how I know you've, you see, if you dated more, ain't shit men. You really have kept scrubs out of your life.

God damn, you've got great self-esteem. You've never heard of The Rock. You've never been in some man's tiny bed. He's like, put T&T on. The Rock's probably on. The Rock is just always on. Burritos. I could never.

These movies you're really saying, I'm just like, what? I'm honestly, I'm so impressed that you're like, The Rock. It's also funny, too, because Nicholas Cage is a Nepo baby. So, like, there's so much. of like going back to the system that's built to be straight up bullshit

because it's like okay we have this terrible movie idea let's get a Nepo baby because no one else will cast him even though Nicholas Cage is great but still some of the movies he picked over the years it's like bro what the fuck you're not that desperate are you but once he hit with leaving Las Vegas he was like bro I'm done bro I can do whatever

the fuck I want there's some people who just can't stop you know like who just cannot stop doing it like fully addicted to the game yeah we're doing the I'm doing the research for the Bob Dylan episode right now. He's been on tour since like 88. His mother friend who just cannot stop touring. It's crazy.

You know what it is? It's somebody who doesn't want to be in the house. Yeah. He just can't be alone with their thoughts or their partner or their kids. Yeah. And they got to be out in the world because they got to dip into that pigeon lifestyle, you know? There you go. He also negligence is not great with his money.

He has gone into debt a number of times buying like T-Rex skeletons and shit. Yeah. Right, right. Nicholas Cage's film after winning the Oscar for leaving Las Vegas was The Rock. That's right. So he knew it. Yeah, yeah. He's like, all right, I want to do something that kicks ass.

But yeah, I mean, there's like all these little like political, like in Bad Boys 2, there's a shot of like Will Smith and his love interest like make out in front of Guantanamo Bay. Romance. The second transformer, like, they name check Obama. It's like they're like, what's Obama? going to have us do. And like, he makes the dumbest decision possible. They, like, engage in diplomacy with the decepticons. And Earth is, like, barely saved because of his dumb shit decision. Uh, the rock is the one where it's like, it's specifically about the blowback from

illegal American covert operations overseas. And, like, it's a brainy nerd. Nicholas Cage plays like a smart guy. And then, you know, Sean Connery is from Scotland. I'm assuming. I stopped. I stopped paying attention to your description. This is the easiest way for me not to even know anything about it. Do not engage. But this is just a crazy anecdote of history is that Britain, when they were making their case for the, like, invading Iraq in the run up to the, you know, false invasion into Iraq. British intelligence used the plot of the rock. They said that they had valuable intelligence that they were, Saddam Hussein was producing chemical weapons stored in linked hollow glass spheres.

which is very specifically like this one visual that everybody remembers from the movie The Rock. Yeah. And people are like, wait, that's just the movie The Rock. And everybody just ignored that person who said that until now years late. Like in 2016, 13 years after the disastrous war that cost millions of lives, it was eventually revealed that the source was a fabricator who had lied from the outset, which you probably should have known when they were just stealing the weapon from the movie The Rock.

Yeah, I mean, like, that person should have, like, the biggest, yo, we really fucked up, bro, metal for the person who's like, this is from the rock, guys. Like, man, shut the fuck up, okay? This is from a respected intelligence source. That's right. I'm just saying, right. Maybe when they said, this is just from the rock. They thought they meant the wrestler. It's the rock.

And they're like, shut up, bitch. I thought it was ho. It's the rock. Yo, they're like, hey, come on. It's probably a woman who brought it up. So people were like, we can't listen to her. Yeah. Why is she talking about the wrestler of the rock right now?

Go down a few lines in the paragraph. They talk about Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel. That's Ed Harris's fucking character from the rock. That's not a real person. She's being so crazy right now. Dramatic. This is what I'm saying, guys. No pigeons in the meetings, man.

That's right. All right. Marcella, such a pleasure having you, as always on the day. Zitegeist. I had an okay time. I had an okay time. I'll be honest. She's better, better.

We'll do better. We'll do better. We'll do better. Where can people find you, follow you, see you, hear you, all that good stuff? You can find me at Marcellacomney.combe. On my social media is Marcella Comedy. I'm on tour. Here we go again, tour. I'm coming to Houston, Irving, Texas. I'm coming to Detroit. Headlining there for the first time. I have a Philly date coming as well. Look out for that. I forget. I'm Chicago, Washington. Oh. Chandler, Arizona. Oh. So come and see me. Come see me live.

And very soon I'm going to have a don't tell comedy set, guys. Oh, nice. Which means I'm going to be too big to come back on here. Okay. Nice well lasted. Yeah, but I'm really excited for that to come out. This is a really good 10 minutes set that I'm really proud of. And so if you can't see me live,

follow me so you can watch that nice 10 minutes set on Don't Tell's YouTube page. Truly one of the best doing it. We're always love having you. Is there a work of... And you can catch me on Abbott Elementary if you guys. There's a lot of people that still don't know I'm on Abbott Elementary, but I'm the school therapist at Abbott Elementary. So check me out on there.

There it is. Is there a work of media that you've been enjoying? There is a comedian I've been enjoying online. His name is Akeem Woods. It's a really funny comic. I don't know if you've ever been on here. He hasn't. He would kill it on here.

Oh, yeah. Okay. You guys should have him. He's a really great comic. And he's also on tour. I know he's coming to Chicago soon. Hello, my friends. I'm so many of my God.

You're already watching porn. He can't even let me plug someone. It was a gooning how to video. Yeah. It's not porn exactly. Oh, my God. I was trying to find my work in media. Sorry.

Okay, well, you found it. Anyways, I've been enjoying, Akeem Woods. He's been talking a lot of, he's gay, so he shares. He's gay. So he shares all these like, he's single. And so he shares all these wild hookup stories after shows. So also if you're a gay man who wants the hookup, he probably will fuck you.

Okay, you just got to be hot. He has standards. So he's a piece of social media I'm appreciating. And he goes live on Instagram. He's just fun. I'm just like, I'm just saying like one, I don't know what it's called. It's just the clip is titled White People Nightmares. Come on.

Bold. Bold. Tell me what they are. Miles. Where can people find you as their work of media you've been enjoying? Find me everywhere at Miles of Gray, talking shit about 90-day fiancé on 420-day fiancé, and also talking about European football on A&Footie with Jamel Johnson and Chris Martin.

A work of media I like. This is because producer editor Justin has been, cannot stop talking about this documentary series, Dark Wizard. I'm like on the second episode. This dude is out of his fucking mind. and just like free climber. And I didn't realize how much this free climber Dean Potter, like, lost his shit when that guy Alex Honnold, like, hit the scene.

It's, and it gets, the crazy thing is people like, whatever's your on. They're like, that's not even crazy yet. And I'm like, the shit I'm seeing is so crazy right now that I'm like, how the fuck are going to escalate? And everyone keeps saying, just wait, just wait, just wait. And I love a documentary like that where seemingly you think it's about one thing. And then it really just kind of gets bigger and bigger as it goes. So I'm liking that dark wizard.

there you go. Noise. Jack O'Brien, where can people find you? And there are piece of media that you? You would never ask me. You can find me, Jack, underscore O'Brien, Blue Sky, Jack, I'll be the number one. Instagram, Jack underscore O underscore Brian. Where comedian I've been enjoying?

Go watch Abbott Elementary with Marcel Arquillo. Oh, yeah. Just an all-around delight. I love it. My family loves it. You can watch it with the whole fam. Isn't it crazy to watch a show with the kids that... That everybody, yeah.

They're laughing at the same stuff. I have learned that so many of my friends' children are so pumped that I'm on Abbott Elementary. It's been the most heartwarming part of being on that show is like how many of my friends' kids are like, we are so excited. Oh my gosh, we saw you. They get annoyed when I keep being like, I know. They're like, yeah, you said that. You know how to picture with her so we can't even know if that's true. Could I just actually screencap this?

No. You can find us on Twitter and Blue Sky. at Daily Zytegeist. We're at The Daily Zytegeist on Instagram. You can go to the description of this episode, wherever it is, and there at the bottom, you will find the footnotes. Foot notes.

Which is where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode. We also link off to a song that we think you might enjoy. Miles, is there a song that you think that people might enjoy? Yes, as I continue to celebrate the Arsenal win, I'm getting so much UK rap in my feed now. And this one is a track called Dum Dum's Ream. remix.

And it's got it's by, I don't even know these rappers are C-P-S-S-E-S-E-S-E-N-A, and J-C-S-I-N-A, and it's got a Kendrick sample in there. But it's got like a little bit more of like a UK beat to it.

So it's fun. Dum-D-U-N-U-N-S. Hey. It's a lot of fun fun. What are they? Tim Prudence is that dude and reach the face on you. And he's a dog-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-.

Yeah. They're doing dumb-dums. Mm-hmm. No, Dumb Dumb Dumb, Dumb, down to the stick. You're like, yeah, yeah. Jack, where's your impression of UK rapper? Go ahead. Go, three, two, one.

Three, two, one. Three, two, one, mate. There we go. Man done. Miles, you see why he keeps going? Because you approve that. You said, yeah, that's good. Why would you say that to him?

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