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Episode Date: April 15, 2025

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skankin Okay, shout out Charles on we fromage because yes I did reference to the fact that I was in the ska band at 15 called the lip tones And yeah, we were skankin we were doing our thing playing our fucking brass heavy tunes you know uh but thank you for that aka and also spoon man i love the sound garden i fucking love that specifically spoon man is a fucking great track for yarling do you agree andrew i hope i was gonna ask what uh what instrument did you play inet, baby? Yeah. You think my name is Miles and I'm not playing the fucking trumpet? I don't fucking know.

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is a legendary show. We all know him and love him and know him as Andrew T. If you need a guest or you need a host, guess it's Andrew T. He'll be there in three. If you need a take, hope the facts, take a chance, take a chance. Andrew, we are very thrilled and honored. You know, we like to, we get to elevate. We'd like to elevate sometimes.

It's not just all, it's not just all second rate people. It's not just a second rate podcast. Sometimes we have fantastic people on the show. Like today, you might know him as the editor of the Lefty. He's a great guy. He's a great guy. He's a great guy. He's a great guy.

He's a great guy. He's a great guy. He's so second rate people it's not just a second rate podcast sometimes we have fantastic go first show like today you might know him as the editor of the left hook sub sub stack you might know him from his show with Francesca Fiorentini America unhinged you may know him I had from countless other things maybe the co host of the democracy ish podcast we know him as Wajahd Ali. Spoon man. Oh, yes. Come together with your hands.

Woo. Me. I'm together with your plan, spoon man. That's why I'm an English major and was never part of a sky rock band. But a deep cut old school reference has to be rewarded and respected. Thank you. Thank you. Also, you're from the Bay Area. I'm surprised you didn't hit us with some Bay Area rap or something.

I am from the Bay. I'll give you a yeet-yeet. There we go. We'll do some Golden State Warriors fanning, and hopefully the angels of basketball give them a victory over the Grizzlies tonight. Yeah. Boy, that was a rough. That losszzlies. Yeah. Oh, boy. I was a roughed out dad that lost the Clippers. I was very painful.

I was surprised looking at them like the Clippers. Kawhi and James Harden take what? I mean, I know this on paper was supposed to work, but. But my clip, my L.A. Clipper friends who are fans, they're just like nihilist. And they're like, of course, wait, something bad's going to happen. Oh, yeah. I'm like, can you just take a moment to enjoy the like? No, no. Something terrible is about to happen.

And it sounds like Donald Trump for some reason, too. Yeah, right. Kawhi's knees are going to turn the point of nihilism. Yeah, truly. I mean, yeah, I mean, as an unwell Laker fan, I'm also the same. I'm like, all right. Yeah, I'm glad. I'm glad you had a little fun because he's about to get ugly, baby. But hey, look, we got our own. I mean, we're going to play the Timber Wolf. So we'll see. We'll see how that can ask you a question because all my Lakers,

you know, we're on WhatsApp chat and all my college friends, they talk mad shit whenever it's Lakers. Where's there were dead quiet yesterday because I think everyone, warriors fans, the Lakers fans were like, we don't have to face each other. Yeah. Oh, hell yeah. Of course. That was, we don't want, we all knew it was like a hidden dude code. We all knew. Don't, don't need that.

Don't need to start. And that's also the rivalry everyone else was praying for. Like let one of these teams just knock each other out and help it make it a little bit easier in the postseason, but we're having none of that anyway. Uh, we're going to get to know you a little bit better. Let's also give a preview about what we're talking about. Very quickly up top, I just want to just hit two stories before we get into the breakdown because there's so much going on and I just we have to touch on them again, but we also have

some fun times too. I know it's difficult times, but we do need to stay aware of everything that is happening. So up top, over the weekend, Governor Josh Shapiro's home was set on fire. A lot of people said home was set on fire. A man broke into the Pennsylvania governor's mansion and set a fire in there while the governor, his family and another family were sleeping. They escaped unharmed. The man later turned himself in and said that he would have attacked Shapiro with a hammer if he had the chance. Yikes. Not sure why the word assassination attempt isn't being used to describe this a little bit more.

I mean, like what you're just doing some flame based reorganizing in the halls. Like, I don't know if you saw the pictures, but like set on fire doesn't do it justice. Yeah, it's so much like burn it down with them inside it. And that's with the intent. I mean, he's being charged with attempted murder, uh, murder. Oddly enough, the attorney general, Pam Bondi, who seems to use the word antisemitism a lot when disappearing, innocent students and academics, uh, for expressing pro-Palestinian views had very little to say about this attack.

Uh, that happened as Passover began. As of this recording, still haven't heard anything from the president, but surprise, surprise. He sees Shapiro as a potential, probably, political rival in the near future. And also the president of El Salvador, Naib Bukele, visited the White House on Monday. He said that he would not be returning Kilmar Armando or Brego Garcia to the U.S. and said it would be like, quote, smuggling a terrorist back into the U.S. It's preposterous, he said. There's no evidence that this man is doing any kind of criminal gang anything. And the administration

itself admitted that he was errantly sent to El Salvador. So the logic is all over the place. We talked about this on yesterday's trending episode. I don't know if this is because they don't know where he is, or again, they're really digging in because they want to set the precedent that they can do this and they will not listen to the courts. Either way, very fucked up. And Trump followed up that answer from President Bukele

by saying he would like to see more prisons in El Salvador open up so they can maybe take American citizens as well. So keep your eyes and ears on that. Any thoughts on that before we break down the rest of the show? I just want to I feel like I see a lot of heads on it. I just want to give anybody the chance to comment on that before we get into it. It's like the purge, but only if you wear a MAGA hat and support Donald Trump.

You got to get out of jail free card if you do any crime. You can attack police officers with pepper spray and American flags and take a shit in the US Capitol and be part of a violent insurrection, then you'll get pardoned. And a little piece of news that dropped two weeks ago that Donald Trump is looking to compensating these insurrectionists. But meanwhile, I did this post on Sunday night when I found out about the governor's home that was it's a case of arson, could be potential terrorism. We were still waiting to see the facts.

I'm like, did Donald Trump tweet? And no, no, no, still not. No tweets. And then this this techno, excuse me, this Bitcoin bro, Bu Kelly, just straight up said, yeah, I'm not going to bring him back. And I think the reason is, is not only to set a precedent, but if they if he comes back, if Garcia comes back, he has a story to tell. Yeah. Yeah. It's all bad.

And that's why, like all of the darkest outcomes seem feasible. So, yeah. Anyway, I mean, listen, without without ringing the bell that I always fucking ring is we did have four years, we by we, I mean, not me, not people who think like me, but Democrats had time to nip some of this in the bud and elected in, I think largely the name of quote, decorum not to, so just saying. Yeah.

Civility. Yeah, civility. And we're now getting punched in the head with those brass knuckles. All right. So what else we're going to talk about today, we will touch on Bill Amar. Welcome to the resistance Bill Amar. What a fantastic antidote you gave on your terrible show. We'll also talk about Metta's antitrust trial starting this week or I don't know sham trial we'll see Katy Perry safely returned from space and there's a new Pixar knockoff Jesus movie that's doing okay at the box office but for very

manufactured reasons and we'll tell you why. But first, our esteemed guest, Wajahad Ali, we'd like to ask you what's something from your search history that's revealing about who you are, what you're into? I was born and raised in America to Bay Area, excuse me, Bay Area Pakistani Muslim American parents who came here thanks to the Immigration Nationality Act. And even though I was born and raised in the Bay Area, and I'm a U.S. citizen, they did not teach me English until I was, I was dropped off unceremoniously at preschool. And I learned English and ESL, English as Second Language. So thank you to DEI. Thank you to teachers.

And you know how some people say you're fresh off the boat. Other people say my parents burned the boat. My parents gave zero F's. Brought the boat inside the home, named me with Jihad in 1980 because they couldn't care less whether or not I was bullied or blended. And then when I asked them like, why don't you teach me English? And they're like, you learned. So and then we graduated with an English major from UC Berkeley and I write for a living. So there you go. There you go. Did you have any nicknames like assimilator nicknames? Oh, yeah. Yeah. So this is a true story. Also, when I was five or six, you know, when you're not white in this country, and you're going up, even though I grew up super brown, super proud, super

Muslim, super American, you read the stories and you don't see people who look like you at least in the 80s, right? We're all kind of the same age. You know, there was no one who looked like us, who was the hero of the story So you kind of unconsciously? Realized that the hero has to be white and and in quote quote American even though we were American But you see yourself as other so I remember I was six years old I went home to my mom and I'm like mother I Want I'll let you keep the W in my name But I'll give you a choice and you know

I'll get I want an American name and my mom is a South Asian immigrant immigrant parents only exist in blunt and very blunt and she's like What the hell are you talking about? And I said, you know, I need an American name that starts with W and you think I would choose like Walter or William and I chose Wilbur because Charlotte's web and my mother Because everyone liked the pig remember everyone like the pig so I'm like And my mother's like Because everyone liked the pig remember everyone like the pig so I'm like

And my mom's like your name is what you had never talked So there you go stuck man, even when I tried this similarly I was drawn in a very brown I love the idea to like you come like I want to be Wolverine. Fuck that. Call me Logan. Call me Pat. Fuck it. You call me weapon X. That's just start with a W. Let's do this. Given those items to your parents is a very immigrant kid thing that you learned. You get disabused of how well that works real quick.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, that stuff works like alcohol. I'll call nine one and they're like, go ahead. Call. We'll kill you before they come. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I remember I said I call, I'll call the nine line. And they're like, go ahead. Call. We'll kill you before they come. Yeah. Oh, yo, I remember I said, I remember saying I will call the city because they're going to take me away from you because of like, cause you're bad parents. I remember hearing about like how kids could be taken by the municipality.

It's like, I was like eight or some shit. And my mom, like she put the phone right there. She's like, go ahead. You know, the number she's like, you know, you're not going to live here anymore. Right. You're not going to see us anymore. She just let, I don't know. She's like, you know, you're not going to live here anymore. Right. You're not going to see us anymore. She just let I was like, just OK. All of us have that story because one of our white friends did it. Like it works with the whites.

And I think we saw it in the TV shows and then we tried it and only pain, only pain and trauma was visited upon us. One hundred percent, one hundred percent. What is something you think is underrated? What is something you think is underrated? Bidais. And the reason why I think bidais are underrated, I was reading some comedians talk about having hairy butts and taking a long time. I'm like, bro, the year is 2025. You survived COVID for 19 bucks. Buy a bidais, wash your ass. That's something that if you travel around South Asia, Southeast Asia, in the Middle East, we have clean asses. The funny thing is, and they call us barbarians, I'm like, maybe, Like we have clean asses. Like the funny thing is, and they call us barbarians. I'm like, maybe, but we have clean asses.

Like, bidet. What's our definition? Yeah, like Americans, Filipinos have a bidet, Asians got a bidet, South Asians got a bidet, Arabs got a bidet, just install a bidet, clean your ass. Do you think it's like some, like Americans don't wanna do it because the rest of the world is? Like we're fine just smearing it all

around our fucking assholes with paper. It's even worse, bro, it's even worse. The reason is, I don't know if do it because the rest of the world is like we're fine. Just smearing it all around our fucking assholes. It's even worse, bro. It's even worse. The reason is I don't know if I'm falling. I'm a masochist. I go deep into like the right wing ecosystem. But now apparently some young Mago bros don't wash their genitals because that's gay. Yeah, I was going to say it's Puritan homophobia.

Right. Yeah. Yeah. And they wonder like, and, and these women want nothing to do with us. Cause they're woke. It's like broke. Cause you smell like a corpse fool. Shut the fuck up. What are you talking? And your, but your ideology is backwards. Uh, yeah. Shout out to bidet. I look, I'm the second I, I started to get, well, I knew about the bidet because I'm half Japanese. So in Japan,

every toilet had a bidet. And then once I remember like that, like the tushies and like those kinds of adapters came out here, I was like, it's time baby. Cause Toto bro Toto was a game changer. Oh, the Washington. Got gentrified. Bidet's got gentrified. Yeah.

The whites. Get into it. Dude. I, so, uh, I just got a, like a Toto toilet seat and like not the whole toilet, but the seat that has like the warm seat. Cause I some color. Yeah, I lost my house in the fire So I was like give me just give me this this shit has a built-in fan So no no odor comes out of the toilet like there it's built into the seat To the point where you don't you don't need nothing, bro. I'm like damn am I eating this good?

Nothing going on. Realize it's such a game changer that some of my friends go to other friends home to take dump just so they can embrace the bidet. You're like, oh, cleans and it warms and it talks to you. And I'm like, save it up. Yeah, save it up for the visit. It's it's the father I never had. Was I singing my relationship?

Yeah. Clean, warm and communication. father I never had. It's what I'm singing in my relationship. Yeah. Clean, warm and communication. What's something you think is overrated, man? Billionaires. I hope finally- Why? What'd they do?

You know, it's one of those things where one positive of the hellscape that we're living in is people are finally seeing something that I've been saying for a while. And even like smart, even like center left,left liberal progressive folks were like, oh man, Elon Musk good, but he's really smart I'm like he really isn't this was a couple years ago and I feel I feel like you're seeing their idiocy exposed in real time and what power and money does to people makes them slightly Sociopathic and how like they would literally destroy it's like that movie Don't look up where the billionaire says we're gonna mine the Comets And then earth blows up

so I hope I hope the only one of the few positives that comes from the Wholesale destruction of the human species in the global economy in the next four eight years is maybe if we can write And I think we actually can if you can rally the majority regardless of ethnicity or politics around billionaires, some good can happen. It's, I mean, it seems like we're starting to see undulations of that with the fight oligarchy tour, my own like mother and her friends went and like, I'm, I'm personally seeing my own life, a level of like engagement that I haven't seen before. I don't know if, I don't know what's motivating that, but I think they just did one in Utah too, that brought a ton of people out.

So all like city man, Utah, rural Wyoming, West Virginia, like when they did that hands off, every country, excuse me, every state in the country, even like red counties, it was mostly white people too, old older white folks, so that's good. Yeah, yeah, I'm like, oh, oh, so you noticed. It's like four decades in. What's the matter with Kansas is like kind of taking root.

We're like, you keep voting against your economic interest. Like, yeah, yeah. Surely it'll start to matter, right? Eventually. Now, maybe in Chala one day you'll realize maybe like life without fentanyl is a better life. I don't know. We will see. All right. Let's take a quick break and we come back. We'll talk about speaking of the resistance, Bill Maher.

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wrong side of any argument. When it's the answer, the right side seems almost like in your face clear. This is Bill Maher and he should not have a TV show. But alas, here we are. So a few weeks ago, we heard from Kid Rock, of all people is like, Yeah, man, I had Bill Maher come to the White House break bread with President Trump, man, it was a really good time just smoking cigars, being guys and you know, Bill really had a good time, man. You really had a good time. And everyone's like,

Okay, sure, dude, whatever. We hadn't really heard Bill Mars version of event of events until this weekend, when he opened up opened up about it on his show. And holy shit, the gist of it was Marr was basically saying, behind closed doors. This guy is like, pretty chill. I was shocked. I'm just going to play a clip of this just so you can really hear how how much of a total I guess mar washing if that's even a thing you can do anymore. But just trying to wash the repute launder the reputation of Donald

Trump. But this is Bill Maher as he describes just a very interesting dinner with President Trump. He's really not even that bad. At one point, we were walking through his amazing it is an amazing tour of the whole house. And I don't remember exactly what we were talking about. But it must have been something with the 2020 election, because I know he used the word lost. And I distinctly remember saying, Wow, I never

thought I'd hear you say that. He didn't get mad. He's much more self-aware than he lets on in public. Look, I get it. It doesn't matter who he is at a private dinner with a comedian. It matters who he is on the world stage. I'm just taking as a positive that this person exists because everything I've ever not liked about him was, I swear to God, absent, at least on this night, with this guy. Bob, Kid Rock, told me the night before, he said, if you want to get a word in Edgewise,

you're going to have to cut him off. He'll just go on. Not at all. I've had so many conversations with prominent people who are much less connected. People who don't look you in the eye, people who don't really listen because they just want to get to their next thing. People whose response-

All right, all right, all right, all right, Bill. Enough of that. He got played like a fiddle. He got played like a fiddle. One hundred percent. I mean, part of it is like, he's just trying to be in Trump's good graces or was he really taken by this charm offensive from a serial

liar that he was like, Oh, I know. Like it's part of me is like, do you, I think Mar probably benefits because he gets to be like, well, now I'm on, I might, you know, I might be on the protective scrolls, but either way, it's so fucking nonsensical. And like, again, his audience is so unique that they were like. But either way, it's so fucking nonsensical. And again, his audience is so unique that they were like,

oh, wow, that's very interesting. Later on, one of his guests called him out and was just like on the panel, was like, dude, you were absolutely just played in a PR stunt. Like what do you say? And he appealed, you know what Trump did is he appealed to build narcissism and fickleness, which is notorious and well known in the industry. And he says, OK, I'll just be nice to this dude for like an hour.

And I know he'll go on his show and talk about how nice I am. And he'll win over the center left people. Meanwhile, as it's happening, like you just mentioned, top of the show, they literally kidnapped an innocent father, and Briego Garcia and have openly said, no, we're not going to bring them back. And they're, you know, shutting down the government and tanking the economy. But listen, he was nice to me.

Right. That's the thing. Like that's truly the gist of it. It's like, ignore everything else materially that's happening around you and to other people, because anecdotally for me, I didn't have to interrupt him during a dinner. And it's like like I'm fine every every other person in Hollywood who's defending their like me too. It's friend It's like well, you never did that to me. He's nice to me. Yeah, exactly Classic white male privilege and the one thing about Bill Maher if I can't see you know

How they say sometimes listen to people of color you don't have to agree just listen Just listen A lot of arabs black folks muslims have been on bilmar for years including myself And there was this casual acceptance of his rampant anti-arab anti-muslim bigotry his misogyny go down the list But they're like, you know what? He's an ally. He's influential and very rarely he was called out on if you just replace muslim in arab the way He talks about us. It's like straightup like genocidal. Yeah, and people are like, it's okay And now you're seeing the true colors and I remember there's two people who went on his show I won't mention their names, you know them one of them said the guy this was years ago He said the guys are stereotypical

ignorant like white American dude who thinks he's smarter than everyone else and just like shoots off the cuff I only go on a show because each time I go I can put sell books The second person went was a couple years ago two years ago. She was told by the producer before the show don't Don't correct him too much because Bill doesn't like that. Oh, so we're talking about the world's most fragile Snowflake and the reporter I think Josh, forgetting his last time, he was so nice to him. And even then you saw Bill, you see Bill like just turn on him. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's just it. Yeah. Again, thin skin. It is wild to see a lot of like, like sort of white, well-intentioned liberals

coming around now. Yeah. How could you feel more? It's like, I'm sorry. I mean, did you like to your point was I had like, did you not hear fucking anything else he's been saying? Because he's been demonstrating his lack of critical thinking skills and that he is, to put it lightly, just most regressive, like, idiot, like, ideologically so regressive out loud. He's he's like, I say way too much. He's like center left for America, but right wing for reality. Yeah, right.

Nothing that he actually believes is center or left. Yeah. But I mean, I think this is kind of what happens, especially with Americans, is marginalized people constantly are yelling like we're dying, we're getting killed, no one cares, we're getting killed. And then a thing happens where it completely intersects with like a majority white audience. And they're like, wait, he is, he likes Trump. Oh, well, hold on now.

This is a bridge too far. I can't, I really can't. Yeah. Very, very jarring. But did you all know, did you all know this? We're like, yes. Yes, we did. I'm sorry, Bill.

I'm real just tricked because his show was on HBO. That you thought like that because of its mere presence on HBO, that it's giving its giving Democrat mainstream Democrat kind of thing that they're like, well, then, because it's there, I basically watch it completely uncritically. And I assume these are normal thoughts and ideas. Yeah, yeah, Bill. Anyway, continue to just mar it up, sir. Mar your own reputation.

Real quick, he represents a lot of white folks who won't say it out loud, but have said the following. Libs have gone too woke. They lost me. I didn't lose them. And by too woke, insert person of color, woman,, LGBTQ. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, this. They're so focused on like this woke stuff. I just don't. That's why I'm so glad Target abandoned their di di initiatives. Oh, and now their foot traffic continues to dwindle as it was. Well, anyway. Yeah. 13 weeks in a row.

Meanwhile, Costco went all in with DEI, and 13 weeks in a row, their foot traffic is up. It's weird. My favorite was that era, I think it's a little bit gone where Bill Maher was held up as the left wing Tucker Carlson or whatever. Whenever all the Fox News dickheads were getting,

whatever their version of Canceled was, like they would always be like, how would you feel if they came after Bill Maher? And it's like, oh, my man. Yeah. Who do you think this is? I'm like, this guy is closer to Ann Coulter than Trump is. Who he's had on his show many times, very favorably. Yeah. And I'm like, what do you, you're not watching that?

And being like- Bro, Steve Bannon was on that episode. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And I'm like, what do you do? You're not watching that? And being like, what was on that episode? Yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly. Just sounding the third term nonsense all over again. Anyway, so hold on to your, your cigar butts as you watch that your stokes as Bill Mark continues to do stuff. The other thing though, in a normal universe, hearing about metas antitrust trial getting underway would sound like, Oh, wow, we're, we're doing something here, we looking at these big companies and maybe starting to break them

up because of all the anti competition and anti competitive practices. Their trial has finally started as of Monday. Specifically, you know, we're talking about the buying out of Instagram and WhatsApp as a way to kill any competition to Facebook. Lawyers for the FTC say it's pretty clear Zuckerberg wanted to neutralize Instagram and thinks it's easier to buy out a company rather than compete.

That's problematic. And this isn't their analysis. These are Zuckerberg's own words he used in internal emails. Like he's talking about neutralizing the threat of Instagram that I'd rather buy out. I don't want to compete. Worst case scenario for Nark Zuckerberg is that he is ordered to break up the company and sell off IG and WhatsApp. But luckily, as we've seen, as many oligarchs have over the years or last couple of years, he's been working on Trump to try and get this case to go

his way. He gave him a million dollars for the inauguration. He Suckerberg even put Dana White on the board of fucking Metta. He settled a case with Trump and paid him twenty five million dollars to settle a lawsuit because they suspended Trump's accounts after January six, rightfully anyway. Oh, and let's not forget that Mark Zuckerberg also got rid of fact checkers recently to really just let the you know, misinformation environment thrive. But yeah, this is all very I don't know,

like, it is this just a show trial? Or is this going to be like a thing where maybe he's Trump Trump is just going to try and extract more concessions out of Zuckerberg and then have the decision go whatever way he needs, because as of, as of this moment, the, there are no Democrats that serve as FTC commissioners. Like they pushed out the last two, uh, a few, like a month or two ago. And I, I don't, I don't know how this ends up in a way that, uh, is not beneficial to Mark Zuckerberg, although I don't know, maybe I,

I mean, remember Eric Adams, uh, What he tried to do with Eric Adams was Eric Adams voluntarily went and bent the knee at Mar-a-Lago and then surprise surprise within a week later You know, it was announced that there's gonna be no investigation, but Donald Trump said, you know, we'll see Lorded it. Oh, that's what people don't forget. He kind of lorded it over him that if you misbehave, I'll come after you. However, that was superseded by the judge who pretty much said no, you know, what's done is done. And now Eric Adams kind of did a play for play quick pro quo where, Hey, you get this, the justice department off my back for taking treats from Turkey. And I'll let I'll open up New York for ICE to come in and get all these undocumented. So I think the same thing is gonna happen with Zuckerberg and everyone else you know I'm gonna extract from you loyalty and money you're gonna

do what I say or else so I don't think anything's gonna happen to Zuckerberg he you know he bent the knee he pledged money to the inauguration fund he's praised Donald Trump he was at the inauguration and that's how it is this is a shakedown it's like the Godfather rules and yeah The only way to resist is to do that just resist but every every single one of them are bending the knee because they want to avoid Litigation they want to avoid being broken up. They want to avoid regulations and voila So I predict nothing's gonna happen. He'll be perfectly fine. I got a feeling about this, which I don't know. This might be the one that gets sucker-fed.

Maybe. This will be the one. I don't fucking know. I mean, I do think also, though, like even without all the knee-bending and whatnot, it's like they're fucking Republicans. They're not breaking up anyone. They're not doing any antitrust, anything ever. What are you talking about?

This is like another oligarch who's like, hey bro, break them up so I can scoop that up. Yeah. There's like no one, there's no reason they would do this anyway. So like. I mean, only if it directly impacted like a very close ally of Trump's

and they're like, oh, in this case, this is antitrust. In a specific way, yeah. Yeah, exactly. But there's just no way. Like. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ugh. But also they would have done this under fucking Reagan,

Bush, Bush, whatever. Like, this is what they do. And can we also, you know, I have heard this first time I'm on the show, but you all criticize Democrats also. Democrats allowed the rise of the brolicarchy. Democrats were hand in hand with these tech bros, and Democrats could have also put

their foot on the lever to try to hold them accountable, but they didn't. Now you have something naked and shameless in the form of Trump. Yeah, exactly. And yet you see a lot of people like still pointing the fingers at people. They're like, why did you say Joe Biden was old? This is why we have Trump. It's like, yeah, that's an interesting distillation of what happened.

But yeah, even with the Eric Adams thing, I mean, that judge with he dismissed the charges with like extreme prejudice. So that means actually Trump has no ability to sort of lord that over Eric Adams anymore because the judge was so disgusted. He's like, this is so on its face transactional, like fuck all this. Get it out of here. I'm done. I mean, the other side of it though is Trump doesn't know that.

Yeah, of course. And he can, and again, he has the DOJ so he can do fucking anything he wants. So, and that's the Eric Adams, the greatest mayor in New York, the greatest, the greatest city in America. You know what I'm saying? You could take treats from Turkey and then also have a delicious turkey sandwich at one of our esteemed delis. I love this city. I'm a Turkish delight. I mean, New York delight.

It's just so little money too. It's always a shockingly small amount. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, hey, how is democracy this cheap? It's just so little money too. It's always a shockingly small amount, guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, hey, it is.

How is democracy this cheap? It's really. I know. Elon Musk bought half of it for $290 million. Yeah. Which is like me taking my kids to the dollar store. So. Yeah. Right, yeah, exactly.

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crew, including Katy Perry, Gail King and Bezos is fiance, Lauren Sanchez, among others, went up up there into the great beyond for a little bit and came back and everyone is safe. Apparently, this is the quote first all female flight crew in more than six decades to head to space. So I didn't I didn't even realize this is wait, so what was that 60 years from right 20s in the 60s? Okay. Is this the same shit where like when they when they had the deep water horizon, like everyone all the passengers technically have to be classified as crew to get around liability? Probably. I mean, I mean, like, in what sense is Katy Perry crew? Well, hold on.

That's really unfair. Let me just tell you, she was preparing, Andrew, so please don't be flipping about this absolutely significant contribution to scientific research. Uh, in advance of the launch, Katy Perry was telling people she was preparing by reading Carl Sagan and learning about string theory, okay?

Which, I mean, she was crew for a flight that was fully automated and only lasted for 10 minutes. And she also wore an $11 setting spray to quote lock in her makeup during the flight. And she said, it truly held. Wow, see? Hell yeah. And that's a little add too. When they go, what was that? Oh, that's my brand

that I just launched into space with me baby. She also held a daisy I think to commemorate her child daisy. So she brought a daisy and look and now you went to space. Just wanted this is a quote from when she was talking about the lead up to this from Katy Perry. I think actually I'm really excited about the engineering of it all. I'm excited to learn more about STEM and just the math about what it takes to accomplish this type of thing.

I was winding down from a rehearsal the other day and I was listening, I was listening to Cosmos by Carl Sagan and reading a book on string theory. And yeah, I was like going to bed. That was definitely like helping. I was like Pythagoras, Pythagoras. It says snoring parenthetical. Uh, it goes on to say, but you know, I've always been interested in astrophysics and interested in astronomy and astrology and the stars. The first two were sciences.

Those were actual scientific. Those were bodies of scientific research. The other one, that's a more vibe based thing, but connected to the stars. And I do respect that Katy Perry that you tried to elevate astrology. I'm glad she didn't go into space X rocket because that would be a firework.

Yeah. Oh, deep cut. They said, uh, Gale King said, oddly enough that she didn't sing firework or roar because quote, according to Gale King, she didn't wanna make the moment about herself. But she did sing. She covered what a wonderful world for her literally captive audience.

Oh my God, we are being destroyed by the dumbest people on earth. It's like really frightening. My favorite evidence is, listen, and Katy Perry's an entertainer. She does not need to be a mathematician. No, just go up there and be like, yo, what's your problem?

Pythagoras is the first and often last thing that has the word theorem attached to it that Americans learn. Right. And that shit is from when you're 12 years old. Yeah, hey. She should've just said, like, seriously, that's when dumb stars try to dumb like stars try to like appear

like they're scientific and smart intellect, just be like, yo, Bezos DM me, said you want to go on a rocket? I said, dope. I said, yeah, bet. Thick. Yeah, bet. California girl in space.

That's sick, dude. You know what I mean? Remember that track I did, ET? Hell yeah. Hell yeah, I was ET for.T.? Yeah, I was E.T. for a second. Yeah, exactly. I'm extra terrestrial. I again. Great. I think. But yeah, to your point was I had like there's just you can just be like,

I don't know, man. I gave me a chance to go on a spaceship. That's cool. Rather like I was in the lab fucking looking at all these theorems string theory. I was looking at lab fucking looking at all these theorems and string theory, learning about speakers. I was looking at Pisces and school people. Yeah, exactly. Checking out what was going on with Mercury rising. You feel me? It was 10 minutes.

It was 10 minutes. Here's a question. Do you think when Katy Perry covered one wonderful world, she did it in a Louis Armstrong impression? I see, right? Oh my goodness. May, I don't know. I feel like hopefully Gale King would have shot her dagger eyes if she started doing that. She'd be like, you are out here, mother fucking.

But what is Gale Perry gonna do? She's stuck. She's gonna tell us that they're in Taggart. Do you think, I mean, like, if this is true, what the fuck is the, like, I feel bad for the other people on there. We're like, is she really like singing up here? Like, can we just, can we just all appreciate that, you know, bad for the other people on there. We're like, is she really singing up here?

Can we just all appreciate that we're killing the earth together, and we have to go back down there? But I don't know. They're all, this is exactly like Deepwater Horizon meets the Barbie movie. It's just like fake feminism, whatever connected to the most evil people on earth, Like it's just like, you know, fake feminism, whatever connected to the most evil people on earth. And it's fine. Yeah, like they knew what they were getting into. Right. It's capitalism for it. It's PR for billionaires. Exactly. They got played and used just like

Bill Maher got played by Donald Trump. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, you should just admit it. You should be like, if it was me and I went, I'd be like, yo, a rich billionaire gave me a free trip to the space or space ish. It's not really space and Jason's basically Beverly Hills. I was asymptotic to space and I would never be able to do it. And I did it. And that was dope. And I didn't fully understand the safety risks. And I am fine. Yeah. So, okay. And look, I pressed a lot of buttons when I was in there and nothing broke. and I didn't fully understand the safety risks, and I am fine. Yeah. So who cares?

And look, I pressed a lot of buttons when I was in there and nothing broke. You know I kept fucking with the service team. I mean, there's no way that those passenger seats don't have a bunch of fake buttons attached to nothing. Oh, Justin, like when you're on like a Star Wars, like you're on the Millennium Falcon drive. Yeah, it's like the Maggie Simpson driving the car

in the opening credits of Simpsons. Like it's just fake. It's fake for children. Can you imagine they're like, all right, all right, all right, Sergeant Katy Perry on my, on my mark, please hit the oxygen button. Okay, I'm ready. I'm ready. Three, two, one.

Can you hit the booster? Booster two, hit booster two, Gail King. There's no way that's not right. There's just a bunch of, there's an iPad that beeps when you touch it and it doesn't connect to anything. Yeah, I mean like, but like it's wild too, because while there is like the like the Katy Perry's and gales of it all, there's like Aisha Bo, who's like a former actual like not NASA rocket scientist and Amanda W Wins like a bio astronautics. Like, I wonder for those people, they're like, bro, I was going up there. She kept talking to me about fucking string theory.

Yeah, the fuck was that? I'm fucking legit. It might just kill them, right? Like, you might kill them as they're seeing as NASA is being destroyed and actual science programs are being dismantled that Katy Perry and Gail can get to go to space on a billionaires rocket. It's just like the pain, the pain that they must experience. Yeah, there's just got to be like a level of disrespect. Like it has to be existential, like for especially for these actual bona fide scientists, they're on this rocket with like these very wealthy people. They go up and like, wow, this is great. And they're like, you guys aren't doing nothing while they destroy science in America. Well, but I do think that the evilest middle ground is,

I don't know these people, I don't know what they thought about this, but I feel like when I've seen other people in this position, they are always rationalizing, like, yeah, they're destroying the space program, they're destroying Earth, but like, this is my chance to like change their mind. Right. And it's always like, you know, you know, maybe the fucking

AFL-CIO speaking at the RNC guy. Right. I'm just like, yeah, no, man. If Bezos gave both of you a chance to go on the rocket, we could do it. Yes. I know what I would advertise it. I got to be on with a lot of billionaires and I'm going to do it all solid up there. I know. Yeah. It sabotage it. I got to be on with a lot of billionaires and I'm going to do it all solid up there. I know. Yeah, Luigi, Luigi moment. Yeah, but I just be farting in there and they'll be on a voucher.

Luigi, yeah, I'm farting the whole time. They're not doing like, what happened? I don't know. I don't know. Miles, what was your resistance? I was stuck in so much billionaires. Yeah, so much Taco Bell. They didn't know it for two hours. They didn't know. Very, you know, they're

somehow smarter. I'm sorry for that. But yeah, we will see it 22 because like, like William Shatner went on one of those celebrities space rides in 2022. His reaction like Katy Perry said, quote, she felt super connected to love when she was up there. This is what fucking Captain Kirk said when he went up with Jeff Bezos. It was among the strongest feelings of grief I have ever encountered. The contrast between the vicious coldness of space and the warm nurturing of Earth below filled

me with overwhelming sadness. My trip to space was supposed to be a celebration. Instead, it felt like a funeral. Yeah. I interviewed him two years ago, was on his birthday for South by Southwest. I think he's in his 90s. He's an interesting guy, but he has a lot of age, a lot of wisdom.

He's a person who actually thinks deeply about life and also at this stage of his life, death. So he actually gave a profound answer and then you have Katy Perry and astrology. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, look, different strokes, y'all, for different folks. That's all we, hey, look, if you want to feel connected to love or the cold, the vicious coldness of space. I mean, there is a little bit of billionaire space washing here too,

because all this, we're going to colonize Mars. Like they are literally trying to make this to be doing. And I think that's the biggest thing that we're going to be doing. And I think that's the biggest thing that we're going to be doing. And I think that's the biggest thing that we're going to be doing. And I think that's the biggest thing that we're going to be doing. And I think that's the biggest thing that we're going to be doing. And I think that's the biggest thing that we're going to be doing. And I think that's the biggest thing that we're going to be doing.

And I think that's the biggest thing that we're going to be doing. And I think that's the biggest thing that we're going to be doing. And I think that's the biggest thing that we're going to be doing. And I think that's the biggest thing that we're going to be doing. And I think that's the biggest thing that we I mean, I don't think the engineering currently supports it, but when we're old, they're going to send some dickheads at some Bitcoin dickheads out there to try it. Oh, yeah. Oh, my God. But you know what the funny thing is? I mean, it's not funny, but it's actually if you study the

brologarchy and what they are afraid of, they've gone around taxes. When we were all growing up, we used to tell like Gen X and millennials, there's only two things guaranteed a lot of death and taxes. Yeah. But if you say that to like Gen Z or Gen Alpha, they like rich people don't pay taxes. So that's guaranteed in life is death. And they're trying their best to escape death and they get Yeah, they did that they ticked off the taxes box. Yeah, now it's the death box. Hmm.

They're trying to know I mad they're trying really are that's why they're all into AI. It's kind of humorous. Because you imagine, Arlo, there's like maybe we go to Transylvania and maybe we can meet a vampire and get turned and then we can be, you know, immortal like them. And it seems like a fucking fucked up life, but fine, dude. It's as good as any of their other schemes. Yeah, I know, right?

Like, fight a vampire just as plausible as fucking colonized Mars. Musk pivots from Mars to be like, we have to make real life vampires with immortality. And they only like they sell the vampires like there's a tear of vampire blood. They'll find a way to capitalize. Oh, yeah. Yeah. The cry are popping out saying it's actually a vampire. Yes, vampire. If we're going to say it in the proper pronunciation,

pronunciation, I prefer to be identified as vampire human. They're like, OK, sorry, my bad. Yeah, they're like, oh, you could only afford the 60 year life extension with that vampire blood. That's couldn't be me broke boy. I got I got three millennia on this one. I'm on that one. They're like, you're going to see the end of Earth.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's're going to see the end of Earth. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's going to be about the end of Earth. Yeah, actually you are too. Yeah. And then finally just with the box office, so the Minecraft movie continues to be number one. Kids are still losing their shit in the screen about baby jockey. It is now. My kids made me take him book.

My kids made me take them both. My kids made me take them and I felt so bad. I had no idea what was happening. And then I saw this happening all throughout the they just threw their popcorn. And I just said I'm like the poor underpaid. Yeah. Age usher. Yeah.

Who have to deal with this. Like, bro, you're making more work for your friends right now. And what the fuck? I mean, it's wild to see how much copycat behavior like in the realm of social media because like, yeah, so? Yeah. Turn up even more. Very surreal to watch. Anyway, around 434 million has been made globally from that. The number two movie was The King of Kings, which we have mentioned before that this was coming out. Maybe it's a CGI kids movie about a time traveling Charles Dickens visiting Jesus.

Wow. It's like an AI team who picks up. Yeah, 100 percent. Yeah, we got Pixar at home kids. It really looks bad. Yeah, it looks like shit. I hate to say that about a movie about Jesus Christ, but the film is called the King of Kings a story told by Charles Dickens.

Why didn't they just do like the biblical version of Jesus that would have been fine. The King of Kings. The story of Jesus. Yeah. I know it was the Charles Dickensian take on it. Yeah, no, I either did. I but so it was released by Angel Studios, which you might remember from 2022's Sound of Freedom. And as they say, they'd had the quote, best opening for an animated biblical movie, which seems very specific in order to give yourself a superlative achievement. But Deadline did note that I guess Prince of Egypt

that came out 27 years ago is the closest thing that they're saying, I guess that is the one they're referencing, because it did better than Prince of Egypt that came out 27 years ago is the closest thing that they're saying. I guess that is the one they're referencing. Yeah. I saw that in the theater. That was by DreamWorks. Yeah. I was like 1998.

I randomly remember I got a free screening in college. So yeah. Yeah. It took them 20, 27 to 20 years and not counting inflation to beat Prince of Egypt. Exactly. Again, the reviews are all over the place. Well, one critic pointed out that the movie's message that, quote, it's wrong to profit from religion is somewhat undercut by the fact that it's a movie that's

literally profiting from whatever. Jesus didn't know what he was talking about. I will just say, I know I keep punching, I mean punching right for me, but punching left from what people consider the center. Like every time a fucking, you know, a democratic, democrat-ish type person points out the hypocrisy of these people, it's like, dog. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. This is, they don't care. They don't care. That's not the point.

They get to say it and then most uncritical viewers of it will be like, ah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Self-awareness, not really for me. Well, like the look, you all fall that sound of freedom scandal. The dude who was inspired on apparently is like a total fraudster doing the things allegedly that he said that. Yeah. Of course.

Yeah. Like doing these like weird romance scams. Like we got to go undercover and maybe we should be intimate to make it believable that we're like, Whoa, no, no, no, this is all bad. But you know what I've been, I've been keeping an eye on angel studios for a while because I've been noticing they've been releasing these movies for a couple of years in the first week in the second week are really good. They're low budget.

They always make a big profit, right? So they have these niche movies and I'm like like, Hey, this is like if you want to actually make money in movies, you do these niche movies that appeal to either the Christian faith based audience, Latino audiences, Indian, South Asian audiences via Bollywood or horror movies. And now it's been fused with MAGA right wing politics, which is something we should keep an eye on. Like it's not separated. And if you Like it's not separated. If you think it's whack, I give you sound of freedom.

Yeah, right. Yeah. I mean, similarly to sound of freedom, a lot of people are like, wow, like a lot of people seem to have been going to see it obviously because it coincides with Easter, but again, like sound of freedom, they pulled a pay it forward ticketing gimmick where allowed people, whoever, who knows, maybe their own, like their own benefit, whatever people are buying just large sums of tickets and people can go like go to a pay it forward sort of ticket site, get a code and then buy their actual ticket without actually

paying for it. Yeah. Yeah. So the box office can be inflated by a donor. It's like the same way like that people do that with like New York Times bestseller things, like, yeah, I bought 16, I bought 16,000 copies of it. I mean, Trump Jr's bestselling book. Right.

Exactly. That is the thing that is sort of heartening about this stuff is like, cause this is all they do this thing because this is what they believe all marketing is, is simply using a lot to inflate the number. Yeah. Sure. But the reality is it's like, that just makes this movie less profitable because like all this, all this like pay it forward, all these like unused pay it forward tickets, I would bet money they are being funded by the producers of this

film. Oh, I don't. Yeah. Or they have other people. There's like a network where some people are producers and other people are like, yeah, dude, you can count me in for like a million dollars worth of tickets or I'll buy it. But like the ecosystem is not earning money because it doesn't have eyeballs and interest in humans, which is like, again, cold comfort.

But you know what they do, right? They then get to Trojan horse and quote, quote, mainstream media that we are much stronger than we appear. And the center right is forgotten by liberal media. And then, you know, look, everyone talks about how they work the culture very well in 2024 through podcasts and UFC and Barstool. Sure. But it took them all that. And this is the one positive. Donald still barely one by 1.4%.

So they're always trying to inflate, I think, their numbers and their reach more than they are. And then you see people like Bill Maher in New York Times always bend the knee. Yeah, well because- Hope's just fawning over it. Like those people are cowards, but the reality is they do not have the humans

that they. No, no, the numbers are not there. The numbers are not there. So like that again, cold comfort, but like when it's time to measure numbers of humans against another numbers of humans in opposition, I don't know what that is called. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, the other, the other thing they were doing too, is they were doing a kids go free free promotion. So like an adult could be like, Oh yeah, it's cheaper than taking my kids to Minecraft and getting popcorn in my really stylish haircut. And that's awesome too, because that just helps remind your kids that they hate you and you didn't bring them to Minecraft. Bro. I had all my friends are talking about

whether they're all showing their chicken jockey video clips turned up in the theater and they asked where mine was. And I had to show them a scene from the resurrection and shit. And everybody with tears in their eyes, the resurrection with Charles Dickinson. If I took my kids to king of Kings instead of Minecraft, I think my son would like there would be like permanent damage done. Oh yeah. He would, he would do the thing. He's like, dad, I'm gonna call the city on you. Yeah. Like I'm a good dad, I think, but this would be like, somebody's like, does dad hate me? Why?

Yeah. Why would he do that to me? He's like, well, yeah. Christian, why would he even do this to us? This is fucking, what is this? It's nonsense. It's mixed signals, dad. I understand. We were fasting for Ramadan and now you're telling me that he's the true so what the fuck I think it's a time-tap traveling prophet what you just taking me to Minecraft

that's how he knew is the best of times and the worst of times you know I mean what is the theology of Charles Dickens is Doctor Who at the fucking resurrection. The crucifixion of Christ. Is that really, are you just making it up? Because this is the first time I've actually heard it's that Charles Dickens is in this movie. Oh, yeah. Apparently, that is literally what is that. I thought maybe he wrote a story,

but it's Charles Dickens. I hear. I will read you the plot. Dickens. This is the plot. While Charles Dickens. Here, I will read you the plot. Dickens. This is the plot. While Charles Dickens is performing a stage reading of his novel, A Christmas Carol, his unruly son Walter, oh, maybe one of your pseudonyms, disrupts the performance while playing King Arthur backstage and gets scolded by his father. On the evening when Dickens returns home, he decides on the advice of his wife Catherine to use Walter's passion for kings to tell him about the life of the King of Kings. Jesus Christ. Total youth pastor,

Moses. You know who the King of Kings was, son? Jesus Christ. It has to be that they count on their audience to be literally so illiterate that Charles Dickens is the only author connected to a Christian thing in a Christmas story. I haven't even ruined it by telling you who lended their voices to this film. Do you know who played Charles Dickens? Who voiced Charles Dickens? Kenneth Branagh. Hey, Peter. You know who voiced Catherine Dickens, his wife? Uma Thurman. You know who played King Herod? Mark Hamill. You know who played Pontius Pilate? Pierceurman. You know who played King Herod? Mark Hamill. You know who played

Pontius Pilate? Pierce Brosnan. You know who played Peter? Forrest Whitaker. Oh my God. High Priest, Caiaphas, Ben Kingsley. Sir Ben Kingsley. Yeah. But listen, this is good because all this fake money that's being used to inflate the ticket sales does have to be paid as a percentage to things like residuals So like as they scam the fucking audience, they do have to pay these people Also, there is no sure sign that we are in a recession that a Lister's doing stuff. Oh, yeah Like a few money that they give right? That's that's yeah I'll get good actors and they'll throw money at them.

And these actors have no have no idea what's going to happen in the future because Netflix is just like dumbing down all the content. So like, hey, go for two days for Angel Studios and get paid to play Charles Dickens. Yeah, it is. Yeah, it is also true that like the fucking. Yeah, like it's it's just worth it for them to do this. Like they have to do it and something's keeping Hollywood afloat. I fucking love it.

If they paid you both, would you do this? And you do it depends on who I played. I would have to be I would have to be Jesus. That's the only way I'm doing. That would be my hard. That would be my bargaining chip. I'm like, to be Jesus. That's the only way I'm doing it. That would be my hard, that would be my bargaining chip. I'm like, if I'm Jesus, I would crash out before the movie came out to completely fuck it up.

But how much? Hey, if I can get one in one of these freedom cities, and be protected in one of them freedom cities, I think I'd do it. I'll do it for scale. I just love the story. Yeah, you do it for scale? Okay.

I mean, as long as it's not, if it's a U7 part, hell no. You know what I mean? How about number two rule? Charles Dickens. You don't get Jesus, but they'll give you Dickens. Oh, I imagine how much is Jesus actually in this, do you think? Ah, I mean, he's in it. I mean, it ain't just all Charles Dickens is reading a bedtime story and shit.

Jesus, I'm saying I'm saying, but he's like a like a side character. It feels like this is, oh, I forgot to tell you know who Jesus Christ was voiced by Oscar Isaac. I read that. Yeah. Oh, man. This is anyway, this rule anyway. He and look, just like Oscar Isaac, bro, He is risen. He is risen me up, dude I can't handle this. I can't handle this savior I would I would only do it if they made me beat Jesus just so when like people saw who actually voice the characters They saw a brown Muslim voicing Jesus who would just mess with them for a long time

Right, right And then they find out Muslims believe in Jesus and it would just double mess with them And then peopaxes would need to get another coffer tattoo on the other arm. Well, Jahid Ali, thank you so much for joining us on The Daily Zeitgeist. Where can people find you, follow you, support you, read you, consume all of your work, man? I co-host Emarka Unhinged with Francesca Fiorentini on Zateo's YouTube channel where we cover the first hundred days of the Donald Trump administration, where there's crises after crises.

Tuesday, Thursday, 8 p.m. Eastern Time, I co-host Democracy-ish with Danielle Moody, who would be awesome on your show as well. Monday and Friday, 12 p.m. Eastern Time. And I write for thelefthook.substack.com. It's The Left Hook, and we have started like 10 months ago, uh, no pay walls. Everything's free or pay what you can. And we have now 60,000 subscribers. Well, for me, it's big for other people.

Isn't, but no, that's big. I mean, that's big. That's big. Uh, is there a work of media social or otherwise that you are enjoying? I just finished. I binged and saw season six of Black Mirror and it was actually a very strong season. Uh, uh, I don't know if you've seen it before, like there are, there, there's a lot of heart returgers in there, but the scary part of Black Mirror,

if you just see, you know, if you see the first one is you see it and you're like, it's really sad, it's grim, but you're like, you know what, if they actually discovered this technology, which doesn't seem that far off, this is how billionaires will exploit it and bring about misery. So it's getting a little too close to like reality, which is making Black Mirror very uncomfortable for me. Yeah, yeah. I was just reading or I heard an interview with the creator of it and he was like, I'm

not trying, it'm not trying. It's not like a warning. He's like, I'm just very scared. And I just write about it through. This is how I express my fear. So, yeah, each one of them is plausible, man. Like you, we used to see Black Mirror. I haven't seen it for a while.

But like 10 years ago, even the technology wasn't there. And now with AI, you're like, yeah, right. If Elon Musk and Bezos get their hands on this, this is exactly what they would do. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. I haven't, I was, we were just talking the other day off mic, everybody that works on the show. I was like, I stopped watching after the band or snatch choose your own adventure one. Or I didn't, when that came out and I was like, I can't do all this, bro. I don't need, I can't do interactive TV like this.

And also just kind of freak me out. No. Okay. Thank you so much. What y'all hit? What about you, Andrew? Where do they find you, follow you, and what's the work of media you're enjoying? I don't know.

I deleted all the social media apps off my phone. It's on my account. It could be media. Yeah. Smart. I, you know, Andrew T, Podcasts is Yo, Is This Racist. We are thinking about doing a Pitt watch-along. I know the season is over for suboptimal pods or premium section.

I will say this, here's my hot take, and this is spoiler-free because this is what I wish the finale of the Pitt was. The Pitt is a medical drama that is, I think everyone's saying it's the most accurate depiction of medicine possible. But if that were true, the last hour of the season would have just been everyone doing paperwork in silence. Just sitting there asking what the medical code for a laryngoscope is, that kind of business. I hate the fah. This new system? Why did they switch us to this new system? Yeah, tapping the mouse a lot.

Sorry guys, we were just bought by another healthcare system and they moved us all to their software and it doesn't make any sense. I don't know why they did this. They won't let me- I feel like I hear that every time I go to the doctor, like a new healthcare system bought us a network and now, just give me one second.

Anyway. Computer. So the pit, pretty good until the finale, which again, should have been paperwork only. There we go. A work of media I'm liking is from at brendlebored.beesky.social posted, is pretty wild to think of Barack Obama sitting with someone from Central America and going, well, I think it would be a good

idea to send American citizens to your secret prisons. And the media just being like, oh, okay, that's dope, man. Anyways, how about tariffs? Uh, cause that's, yeah, that's kind of what's going on right now. Holy shit. Uh, you can find me on, uh, everywhere at miles of gray. You can find Jack and I on the basketball podcast miles and Jack got mad boosties. If you like 90 day fiance, which is way different than the news, you can

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that we are going to ride out on. And with that, the song we're going to go ride out on, as I've been ongoing on my DJ journey, I was listening to, look, Timeless Track by Brand Nubian, Slow Down. And then I was like, wait, I want to hear the actual sample that was the real track that they sampled for Slow Down by Brand Nubian.

That's What I Am by Edie Burkel and New Bohemians. That's a track we're going out of because that like that, that guitar lick, it's got something to it. And so shout out Brand Nubian for using it the way you did, but we're gonna go out on What I Am by Edie Burkel and New Bohemians for more of this look. The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. So for more of that, check out the iHeartRadio app,

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