The Daily Zeitgeist - Capitalism Crash Out, Dems Cancel 'Woke' Words 09.10.25
Episode Date: September 10, 2025In episode 1928, Jack and Miles are joined by award-winning tv writer, comedian, and creator of Gone Native, Joey Clift, to discuss… Capitalism Popularity At A New All Time Low, Do NOT Say Thes...e WOKE WORDS If You Are A Democrat Running For Office…, AI Art Turning The Bible Into An Action Movie and more! Image of Capitalism Slips to 54% in U.S. The ‘woke’ words Democrats should cut from their vocabulary Fantasy or faith? One company's AI-generated Bible content stirs controversy LISTEN: End Of Summer by Tame ImpalaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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it was like talking to people who had traveled to the future.
Dude, I would come back with mechanical pencils
that made my teachers, like,
have some kind of existential crisis
because they'd never seen some shit like this.
A mechanical pencil?
Yes.
We didn't have mechanical pencil technology?
No, not like everyone had the bick,
like the plastic big mechanical pencil.
That's another level.
I don't think I've seen the next
step in the evolution
of mechanical pencil.
What are you talking?
Bro, I would either do
like 0.5 millimeter or
0.7 millimeter lead.
I had different lads that I would come through with.
Is that thinner or thicker than that?
It's like a revolver
where you like press a button in it like the cycles
to the next level or something.
No, no, it's like each pen because you could see like
oh, this is a 0.5 millimeter.
I like I like to write with a 0.7s
because I press harder.
tips per in a single pen.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, because like the lead that I think I came out of a bick is like a point five
millimeter.
Anyway, this is a dirty pencil top.
I got to say if that was giving your teacher an existential crisis, they probably had some
other stuff going.
Yeah, yeah.
That's it.
No, Mrs. Lowe was going through a terrible divorce.
That's it.
I'm going to start drinking at school.
Because she's not wearing her wedding ring.
Yeah.
Oh, you noticed that she wasn't wearing her wedding ring?
Yeah, you know what I was going to hear a shit.
You're like,
Oh, where's your wedding ring?
She's like, um, students, that's something in my life.
They're like, all right.
Oh, shit.
It's like a tear as well.
The very first day she doesn't wear it in.
Why are you crying?
Because you lost your ring?
She looks troubled.
And look, she's not wearing her wedding ring.
Did you lose your ring?
Yeah.
I think it's the mechanical pencil that made her do this.
Yeah.
I told you all she never seen some shit like this.
Have no life perspective.
You're super intuitive when it comes.
to emotions, but you're also a dumb kid.
So you're like,
she looks troubled and she's not wearing
her wedding ring. I bet she
lost her wedding ring.
Yeah, exactly.
Oh.
Well, it's up.
Forgetful.
What is? You lost your wedding ring?
Or is this pencil blowing your fucking mind,
American?
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Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 405, episode three of Darnedalie Zeitgeist.
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It's a podcast where you take a deep dive into America's sharing consciousness.
What are we doing?
It's Seinfeld.
It's Wednesday.
September 10th, 2025, 9-10-25, baby.
Uh-huh. Uh-huh. You know what that means. One more day till 9-11.
Happy birthday. It's national TV dinner.
National TV dinner day. Okay. Shout out to, I remember I used to eat these weird out. I begged my mom for TV dinner that had like the grossest brownie in it.
That he had to take out. It was disgusting. But I see.
on TV and I want it. It's also national swap ideas day. The picture is a little menacing because
it's a white man speaking to a black woman and it feels like anyone who's worked in a corporation,
this guy's stealing her ideas probably at work. You know what I mean? And here's the thing.
Swap ideas. Yes. Swap ideas. Let's swap ideas. What does that even mean? I get to take your
ideas. You get to take mine. So I get to explain some shit to you and I get to steal your ideas.
I'm going to say about a creative problem I'm having.
You're going to offer something back.
I will steal that and present that as my own idea to get a raise.
Have you had, what's, have you ever had a blatant idea rip from you?
Like, rip from you.
A blatant idea ripped from me.
I had it when I went to Condé Nast.
Bro, that place was cutthroat.
Like, you'd say shit and people go in a meeting and act like they came up with the whole shit.
I do have, uh, I don't remember this super well, but when I was like a desk assistant at A.B.
News I helped with the pitch for that thing the show that ended up becoming it was I when I was
working on it was a segment that was basically like a moral candid camera what would you
would you would yeah and it ended up being like a whole ass show what would you do like after I left
ABC News wait I don't know moral candid camera you have to explain this further it's it's like
hidden camera and you put people in like moral quandries yeah see how they
Like a lost child with no adult around.
Yeah, yeah.
And see, like, who comes up and steps up and is a hero.
And then it's like, whoa, there are like good people doing stuff around us.
But I don't think it always was that.
Instead of jokes, it just makes you thick.
Makes you say.
There was also, it's funny because there was also the Nickelodeon show, what would you do?
Yeah, yeah.
What would you do?
That was a game show.
That's right.
Anyways, I don't think they like stole my ideas.
I think I just, you know, as a.
I had I had somebody steal my idea and then at a like an all hands meeting the idea like this series that I did got props and this motherfucker stood up and took the credit was like clasping their hands like on the side like thank you obviously when I came up with that I'm like just because I work for you does not mean you came up with that shit oh for sure there were some day like early days of cracked there were some executives who we would sit in these meetings and
and watch them just be like,
we're fucking killing it out here.
Who like,
we hadn't talked to in like months.
Yeah.
Yeah, very interesting.
Anyway.
Anyways,
but it was just an idea swap.
It's an idea swap,
man.
Swap and ideas.
You give me your idea and I give you nothing.
And I get,
you give me your idea.
I take the credit and then give you a pat on the back without saying any words that can
incriminate me.
Yeah, yeah.
The way that I get around.
on that is I just pitch bad ideas.
That's smart.
Yeah, that's smart.
Oh, just like, just to see if someone takes and we're like, yeah, go, go ahead with that one.
No, just in general, all my ideas are bad.
It reminds you that.
So the smartest people I've ever worked with were really good at, like, letting you know.
They wouldn't, they wouldn't turn down a project.
They would do bad work on the project that they, like, didn't want to do.
And then you're just like, oh, okay.
Yeah.
All right.
That makes sense because this person, like, they just aren't interested.
in doing it.
So that's good advice for people, you know?
Don't be like, I don't really have the,
just do bad work on that one
and then do amazing work on the one
that you actually want to do.
Smart, smart, smart.
All right.
My name is Jack O'Brien, aka drug fire,
infant caught up in the drug fire,
mass shooting I made up.
Drug fire, drug fire.
My voice couldn't do it.
Damn.
My voice couldn't do it.
You got it.
Nick SEPR, Taranus, on the Discord.
Yeah.
So you guys started talking about the drug fire thing, the Benny Johnson story.
Oh, you don't think D.C. is bad?
Mm-hmm.
My infant almost died.
Nearly died.
Mm-hmm.
In a drug fire after mass shooting.
Mm-hmm.
Did you see the New York Times article about him that came out after that?
Yeah.
Like, just like a famous non-stop lot.
every place he's gone.
First of all, they were like, okay, about those.
He claims that, like, there were multiple murders caught on his ring camera.
And, like, the...
They didn't fuck all about?
Yeah, there was zero evidence that there's been any murders, like, in his neighborhood
in the past, like, two decades.
And, like, yeah.
Yeah.
Jack, it's not funny, man.
Like, listen to himself.
My infant nearly died in a drug fire.
Yes.
After mass shootings.
Okay.
Thank you.
That sequence, it happens all the time.
And this happens every day in Washington, D.C. until Donald Trump came and installed the National Guard as gardeners.
Yeah, but it's literally, like, it's kind of funny to just, like, read his career where it's like, he was at BuzzFeed for some reason.
And, like, immediately they were like, oh, all 45 articles you wrote were plagiarized.
And then he, like, went to some right wing think tank.
And they were like, oh, yeah, he's also plagiarizing everything here.
And then he, yeah, just nonstop over and over.
Yeah.
Can't stop lying.
I was rooting for him, too, this whole time.
We were all rooting for you, Benny Dowell's.
All rooting for you.
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And at one point, he just breaks into doing Popeye talk.
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Solid bit, solid bit.
You remember when Jim Carrey did Vanilla Ice?
Yeah.
That was, fucking blew my mind.
Hey, remember?
I remember that?
Yeah, I remember.
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Oh, damn, it took in a living guy.
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Fuck, man.
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Oh, man.
Well, you picked the right one.
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Uh-huh.
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That's right. I'm Joey Cliff,
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Shout out to me
coming up with that in a panic 30 seconds ago
when I realized, oh shit, we do something to see here.
That's a very AYSO coded.
We are proud of you.
Say we are proud of you.
Oh, thanks.
Isn't that what they do?
That one?
That was like a thing I remember at our school, like after a game, like you got through,
like you walked through a thing and they say, wait, oh, proud of you.
For a second, I thought that was you saying that you were proud of me and I was so touched by that.
I'm like, oh, thank you.
I am.
I am.
I am.
So to speak.
Yeah, sorry.
I didn't get that a pop culture reference from your high school, Miles.
No, you never heard that.
That was like a cheerleader.
Wait, where did you come up with the construction for the Zyg Yang Zichu up?
Uh, it was, uh, Uptown fuck.
Oh.
Uptown funk you up, say uptown funk you up.
Okay, look, I will be vindicated because I know people in Zite gang have heard, look, we are proud of you, said we are proud of you.
Yeah, shout out because that was uptown fun.
That was pre uptown funk.
It's pre uptown funk.
Actually, this is before Uptown funk.
So they probably stole it from my junior high or something.
Uptown funk downstream from your high school.
They weren't stealing it.
They were just ideas of Brunow.
Yeah.
Just swapping ideas of Bruno.
Just swap ideas.
Let's do it.
Hey, it's free idea swap day, everybody.
Anyways, Joey, we're thrilled you're here.
Yeah.
We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment.
First, we're going to tell the listeners a couple of the things we're talking about.
We got a new Gallup poll that's saying, capitalism, not so popular anymore.
The popularity of capitalism is going down.
I want to talk about that in the context of just everything.
everything else that's happening, the Democratic Party's reaction, they're positioned to be the
alternative to just the Terminator skeleton of capitalism that is the Republican, this current
administration. It's just like all the human flesh is melted off, no more, and pretending to be
nice. This is a, that is a reference from Matt Christman. He's like, eventually it's just
going to be the Terminator
skeleton with the red eyes. They're not even
going to pretend to be nice. And I think
we're at that point where they're like, yeah,
Department of War, everything is
a fucking... It's just going to be...
Yeah, Department of killing people.
Yeah, exactly. I thought that was also
a reference to Miles High School, to be fair.
That was. That's right.
Anyways,
so the Democratic Party is the alternative.
There are only...
They're John Connor.
And they're on the job.
Don't worry, guys.
They're on the job.
And, of course, the new AI versions of scenes from the Bible that are basically turning the Bible into an action movie.
A lot of fun.
Who knows what we'll have time to get to.
One thing I do know we'll have time to get to is to ask our guest, Joey, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are?
Okay, so a recent thing for my search history is, did Christopher Columbus have sex with a manatee?
So there's apparently, like, they have all of his journals from his, like, kind of travels around the world.
And there's, like, a specific entry where he talks about how he thinks he saw a bunch of mermaids.
And then he says, like, they're not quite as beautiful as I thought as they would be.
They're a little lumpy.
And it's like, clearly there were manatees.
So my question is, why isn't that in a prager, are you short?
You know, I feel like it's just right there.
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
Wondering, just chin stroking, they aren't, like, from afar.
Yeah.
It's like, not horrifying.
It's just like, look, I thought they'd be a 10, but they're like an 8.
So, the other guy who's been at sea for like three months, just, you know, debilitatingly horny.
It's that, if you've seen that movie, The Lighthouse, where a big plot point is that Robert Pattinson, like, carves a name.
naked woman out of a piece of rock and then like keeps jacking off to it, like, becomes enchanted
by it. I really think that is, I think that's what we were dealing with for the majority of human
history. People whose brains were broken by their unbelievable horniness.
When to answer the question, did Christopher Columbus have sex with a manatee? The answer is,
yeah, probably. Yeah. Those have a lot of research. It's like,
you know, chances are, you know.
Just him being like, they're not as pretty as I thought.
Has me think that, that's doing a lot for me.
There's a dot, dot, dot at the end of that sentence for sure.
Yeah, but.
It's like, but he like scratched it out.
Nothing.
Nothing, Bobadilla.
Leave me alone.
I'm writing my journals.
Came to realize all at once that they weren't as beautiful as they seemed at first.
Yeah.
I don't know what it was that changed.
But we were in close quarters.
and suddenly I was rocketed.
I understood the beauty.
Wow.
That is, I mean, I feel like, yeah, if we can't get enough people to cancel the idea of Christopher Columbus for the era of untold, you know, colonialism that he ushered in with his explorations, maybe it's him fucking a manatee that can get some people.
Like, oh, he fucked a manatee?
No.
He was writing that in his journal while riding on the back of.
No.
I said he fucked.
humanity. Right.
I got to say, okay, so I'm, you know, as a native person, I'm obviously very for indigenous
people's day. But I got to say, after reading this, I'm not opposed to Columbus Day being a holiday.
I just think instead of it being in October, it should be January 10th, which is the date in his journal
where he may be had sex with the main. We have the date. Wait, and why this day, young man?
Yeah, yeah. Well, you see. What is something you think is underrated?
Honestly, singing in a movie theater, I went to the K-pop Demon Hunters sing-along screening.
I had the most fun in my life.
Also, I got to say, this was at 10 a.m. on a Saturday screening, and nobody else was singing.
So I felt the need to really bring it.
Oh, no.
Delts it out.
Yeah, yeah.
I was just, look, I was just trying to close the Han moon myself, you know?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, that is, like, there's a real, they want you to sing.
The plot of that movie as such.
and we're almost all the way through.
We watched it until bedtime the other night,
and now I have 20 minutes left.
It's so good.
It is really fun,
and they do really want you to sing along
because otherwise the devil will win.
It is also just so funny,
because I feel like I was in a sold-out screening.
It was at the Alamo Draft House,
and I feel like everybody there wanted to,
they were just like, we're watching the movie,
showed up.
The lyrics are at the bottom of the screen.
It is literally a,
sing a long show.
Yeah, I mean, it was like the first 20 minutes of a middle school dance in there where
everyone's just like, I don't know.
Yeah, well, that's, that was like, and I was like, sarcasticly.
When I was, I was like getting that impression.
So I was like, oh, I'm going to sing louder.
So everybody else has like the bravery to sing.
But then I realized that made everybody sing less.
And then I was like, well, I'm just committed to screaming.
Well, now I'm the guy who's going to sing, I guess.
Yeah.
That's fucked up.
I mean, that feels, that makes me actually like, feel.
worse for society than I already do.
It's like, you know, y'all, y'all can't even go to the sing-along screening and just
fucking get down?
I'm screaming in my house.
I think every movie should be a sing-along screening.
I want to go to weapons and I want the, I want the script to be at the bottom of the
screen so I could yell the words along with the movie.
This goes to see any, like, original trilogy screening of Star Wars.
You got people talking the fucking, I remember, like, years ago going to something like that,
And people are, like, whispering the lines.
They're like, these aren't the droids you're looking for.
I'm like, shut the fuck.
I'd be like, no, say it proud.
Say it.
Be proud of yourself.
Yeah.
But they're saying the wrong lines instead of these aren't the droids going for.
They're like, the droids are looking for you.
Fuck.
These are the, these are droids you're not looking for.
Okay.
Can we rewind it?
Next time you do the sing-along, bring, you can bring my seven and nine-year-old and they will back you up.
Oh, good.
We watched the, and they were singing at the top.
I just need somebody to meet my enthusiasm level, you know?
That's right.
Yeah.
I just like yelling in public, and this was my opportunity to do that.
Yeah.
So much singing and fighting at the same time.
Yeah.
Underrated combo that movies haven't been using.
Like, I feel like a lot of fight choreography, like, dance fighting has been West Side Story style dance fighting.
But this is their, they could have made this a PG-3.
13 thing that would have been like really gnarly like a lot of the things they do to the
demons fortunately the for like young children the demons like they
explode into glitter yeah yeah there's like poof glitter yeah but if they had just
been like oh and they get disembowed when they cut them in half uh it would have been and it's real
painful yeah it's they do not like it i mean they did stick that in star wars where like the
droids are experiencing pain for no reason.
They're just like, yeah, I don't know.
We thought it'd be funny.
What, the kids don't like that?
What's something you think is overrated?
This droid has anxiety.
What's something you think is overrated?
Okay, so something that I think is overrated.
The song, Just Keep Watching by Tate McRae off of the F1 soundtrack,
because it won Song of the Summer at the MTV Music Video Awards over golden from
K-pop Demon Hunters.
I mean, yeah, like, what the F?
Like, you're not seeing kids going to sold-out screenings of F-1
and screaming a tape McRae song.
The F-1 single-like, like the president's not trying to meet the director of F-1.
There's not laser light shows for F-1 over major cities.
Like, what the F are you thinking?
What the fuck, man?
I didn't realize that.
I mean, is it?
Yeah, this was just over the weekend and truly wild, truly a wild choice.
God. It was funny, too, when the other day, Jack, I was talking about K-pop Demon Hunters, and I liked the song, and you were like, yeah, the number one song in the country, and I was like, it is?
Yeah. You thought you had discovered it. Jack, I don't know if you heard about this. You have this little indie jam.
Dude, you got that thing Netflix, Jack? You probably don't even have that, but yeah. So, all right, I know that probably doesn't make sense to you. It's internet flicks, which is a word for movies.
And get this flicks, not spelled CK, ended with a different letter.
Man, they're on some other shit, and they make a lot of cool Korean stuff, man.
This one's no exception.
They're really cutting edge.
I was trying to find the Apple Music list to see if it's still the number one song.
But who cares?
I mean, there was a time within the past two weeks where I think the entire soundtrack was like seven of the songs in the Billboard top ten were songs from the K-pop demon Hunter's soundtrack.
Yeah.
It's absurd.
It's like a cultural moment.
Only like four of the songs off the F1 soundtrack.
We're in there.
All right.
Let's take a quick break.
We'll be right back.
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And then they were like, and fucking, why not ask,
what do you think of socialism?
And back then, 36% of people approved of socialism.
So since then, capitalism has slid seven percentage points.
Socialism has gone up.
three percentage points. Socialism's
fighting a fucking tough uphill
battle in the United States, but
I do feel... One way to put that
tough uphill battle against the most
propagandized people on the
I do
like just think this is worth
noting. Like we're bombarded with
news and daily
realities that make it seem like
this version of capitalism is like
unceasing and unbeatable
and we'll be here forever. But I do
think that's at least partially, it feels
that way because we're inside the propaganda machine for capitalism, you know?
They will cover, like, the local news covers, like, door buster sales, like,
their sporting events.
And then they, like, won't cover the fact that, like, a local corporation or, like,
a local country club has been caught poisoning your water supply.
Yeah, no, no.
How long has that one lady been in line for PlayStation?
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, you see black Friday videos of, like, an old,
lady getting stabbed over a PS5
as like the person who did the stabbing to the hero.
Yeah.
Look how crazy.
These people are about deals.
Rangers will be like,
my kid's been talking about that too.
I mean,
I get it.
I get it.
You're like,
what about the poisoned water?
One thing I just want to highlight that you brought up is like,
it is so 2010,
the positive ratings for capitalism was 61%.
Now it's 54%.
That means that since 2010,
after multiple financial collapses,
record high unemployment, price increases,
CEOs having so much money that they're literally building
multi-million dollar doomsday bunkers.
Only 7% of people have been like, wait a second.
Capitalism's given me second thoughts.
I mean, I think that's where the people's probably definite,
they probably don't even, like, the people are asking,
like, I don't even know the definition of capitalism.
That's true.
It's like what we do here?
Like, what do you think of water?
It's just, yeah, yeah.
And they're like, love it?
Sure.
Do I love it or just like it?
Yeah. I don't know. Like, is it bad?
They're like asking the pollster. Is it bad?
Well, no, I'm asking you that. Oh.
But even like the people who don't know to be like, I'm slightly less enthusiastic about capitalism.
Like I feel like we're seeing these little things like the Zoran story, which it's, you know, not the story, the actual event, which has the story of the event of his like, you know, shocking.
political win has been like, this guy might be a very talented politician.
It's like treated as like a lightning bolt out of the clear blue sky.
Oh, yeah.
Instead of exactly what you would expect to happen if, you know, you live in a world where
every fucking day there's more news about the devastating consequences of this current
system that we live in.
So, I don't know, it's not like major progress.
But I do feel like there is a thing happening that, like, you know, people just like, why the feeling in their bones is telling them that, like, something is wrong around them.
They might not know the exact wording for it, but I do feel like there is progress being made.
Yeah.
So it's like in the animatrix when, like, when the runner is just like, wait a second, I can see a couple of numbers ahead of me or something like that.
Exactly.
Yeah, yeah.
It's like, what's that?
Like, there's this, have you seen this VH1 video that is making the rounds that's like,
I don't know exactly what, like, it's a lifestyles of the rich and famous.
Yeah, it's the fabulous life of.
The fabulous life of.
And it's a segment about this New York billionaire that, I don't know if Miles, you can,
you can play it for a second here.
But this is like where we're coming from that I just want to play for you.
Oh, man, I totally remember this like intro.
Yeah.
Wow.
This guy seems cool.
I wonder who he could be.
Yeah.
Financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Whoa.
Jeff was a high school math teacher until he traded his blackboard for the big board in 1976.
He eventually launching his own exclusive finance firm for billionaire clients.
But he just couldn't keep out of the classroom.
Uh-oh.
Dude.
that line that line we just couldn't keep that one of the classroom it's just so jarring to see
his story over like the VH one behind the music like record scratch and then he did this other thing
yeah exactly right do do do do for the big board yeah a new house he bought himself an entire
schoolhouse and transformed it into the largest single residence in all of Manhattan
Hopping 51,000 square feet.
Hey, somebody should look into this guy.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Sample?
What the fuck?
But that's where we're coming from where, like, that was deep.
Like, later there's like a guy from like paper magazine,
which was like a, you know, hipster magazine that is just like, man, this guy,
I mean, when you got three planes, your life's going to be pretty cool.
Talking about his trip to Africa with Bill Clinton and Kevin Spacey.
Yeah, hanging out with the bigwigs.
Like Bill Clinton and Kevin Spacey.
Football Space Man.
And a Boeing 727 with, of course, an in-flight trading room.
He has a Boeing 727.
I'm just wondering now, what do you need a commercial five airliner for?
Good question.
Uh-huh.
It comes in handy when you've got power.
powerful friends to fly around.
Oh.
When Bill Clinton organized a week-long...
This is so fucking disturbing.
...personal in his personal 727.
Wow, wow, wow, wow.
So that's where we're coming from.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
So we're making progress.
I think everybody, like, from that point of view,
where, like, that was just the steady buzz in the background
was just like, this guy is cool.
He's a billionaire to, like, now we get to see what
actually goes on behind the scenes of somebody like that.
I do got to say,
I think that this video is showing me
what Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein have done together
and that's,
they're just trading ideas, guys.
It's just swapping ideas.
Just idea swap.
Idea swap day, man,
on a fucking commercial jetliner.
Ideas swap up,
who needs a plane that size, size, size,
go dig a little fucking deeper, please.
Why do you buy a school?
I know, it's like funny that they like kind of,
they're all these like question.
I mean, there's no way, like, during the research for the segment,
didn't encounter, for instance, that one of those planes was nicknamed the Lolita Express, right?
Yeah, named the Lorlita Express.
I wonder what was going on there.
Yeah, or just answering that question.
Like, why does he need a plane that big?
Anyway, moving on.
So those just things that people can't deny that they're seeing with their own eyes are, you know.
He was charged a year before this episode.
Is that real charge?
He had criminal charges in Palm Beach in 2006.
This shit came out in 2007.
But hey, look, he's got money.
I mean, and that's the same thing.
Like, it wouldn't have even mattered because that shows like this were just purely focused on,
we look at all the money.
Look at what money do.
That, of course, they're like, I don't know, freaking ignore the charges.
He's Bill Clinton's friend.
He's got a jet.
Yeah.
So I feel like that's not too far from where our current, even, mainstream media,
would like to keep things.
Like that's where they're just like, yeah, you know, it's fun.
They're billionaires.
Man, who knows what goes on there.
And then when somebody like is actually like, capitalism might be bad, we should like do
some things to push back against it.
They're like, shock election result.
What the, these people must be watching, must be brainwashed by the new Jurassic Park
movie as we talked about.
Those are reaction.
I am brainwashed by the new Jurassic Park movie.
So, yeah, that is fair.
Those are explanation for the Zora and Mumdani win.
was, uh, all these people must be, you know, it's from watching all these Hollywood movies
with socialist messaging. They were like, they think he's a velociraptor. Right. I better vote for
him. I don't want him to attack me. He's a raptor. But yeah, I mean, like, this goes along with like,
you know, in the U.S. now, our rights are just rapidly eroding. And we have an administration
that is just hell bent on redefining what freedom even means in like any context for every
person and luckily we have an ill-equipped naive and frightened opposition party in the democrats
to essentially piss themselves as they pray for some kind of well-timed blood clot to happen
i think that's all they've got right now oh currently the mainstream you know who i think is
going to solve all this chris quomo oh yeah chris quomo get you get the younger quomo yeah
cooler one um but yeah they're currently the democratic party is just ever since election day they have
just been chugging terrible advice on being more centrist as a way to fight back and win voters
and it's essentially operating on the same like bullshit idea that like fighting for people's rights
forcefully was too woke and not even forcefully i shouldn't even say that that merely talking about
the lack of rights people have in this country was too woke and cost them the election um and
they're saying that look we just need to go back to the status quote talking points in language so
in politico they got this memo that was shared that was being circulated amongst democratic circles
from this you know centrist democrat think tank the third way um and they're just a terrible
organization and they they their their whole thing is like they put out a list of 45 word quote 45 words
and phrases they want democrats to avoid using alleging the term is wild a quote wall between us and
everyday people of all races, religions, and ethnicities.
It's a set of words that the third way suggests, quote,
people simply do not say, yet they hear them from Democrats.
Right.
These terms.
It's all messaging, man.
It's got to be messaging.
It can't be the thing that they're saying.
It has to be how they're saying it.
Yeah, I just think it's funny that essentially what they're saying is like, look, you can talk
about whatever you want, we just think it'd be really make middle America more open to your
ideas if you sprinkled a few slurs in.
Yeah.
How about that? Or some F-bombs.
A lot of these terms just sound like things that wealthy people who are in control of things are tired of hearing about is what it sounds like.
Yeah.
And I mean, some of it like stakeholders.
I wouldn't mind if people stopped saying stakeholders all the time.
But like, you know.
I think it's the only thing my friends are talking about.
Yeah.
That's like business speak.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, that's like CEO talk.
Here are some of the terms, okay, privilege, violence, as in environmental violence, dialogue.
So just like the things that they have, that they're being accused of.
Yeah.
Triggering othering, microaggression, holding space, body shaming, subverting norms.
What subverting norms?
Systems of oppression.
Yeah, what is that?
What do you shut up about that?
Dude, cultural appropriation.
We got to shut up to fuck off.
Overton window, existential threat to the climate, democracy, economy, radical transparency, stakeholders, the unhoused food insecurity, housing insecurity, people, person who immigrated, birthing person, cisgender, dead naming, heteronormative, patriarchy, LGBTQIA plus, bipac, allyship, incarcerated people in voluntary confinement.
That's just a little sample of what they're talking about.
It sounds like also a lot of these things are tied to, you know,
societal ills that we're trying to, to, to, right.
Yeah, I think that that's, like, part of my issue is, like,
is it, is it that they don't like the word usage or are they just, like,
stop talking about LGBTQ issues in Bipak people, you know?
Right.
It depends on your flavor.
You know what I mean?
Like, this is one of the third way executives said, quote,
we are doing our best to get Democrats to talk like normal people and stop talking like
they're leading a seminar at Antioch.
Right.
We think language is one of the more of the,
of the central problems we face with normie voters signaling that we are out of touch with how
they live, think, and talk. Okay, first of all, they offer no alternate options for how to speak.
So what are you fucking saying? Also, let's be more direct and actually address the problems that
are facing these things. Maybe I could get behind that. Just use normal words to do it. Because I do
think like in some way, in the same way we talk about like obscure language being used to like make it
so that economic shit is, like, confusing and you can't understand what's going on.
I do feel like sometimes people use, like, obscure language to address these things.
Yeah, academic things, academic language to address these things that are actually, like,
problems that they don't plan on addressing, you know?
Yeah.
Yeah, it seems like basically what they're asking for is instead of saying the unhoused have food
insecurity, you should say bums be hungry.
Yeah, exactly.
It's truly like, they're basically freaked out by people.
saying trans people deserve rights and like that we stopped again calling unhoused people
bums and hobos or some shit right um and i look i agree there is something cringe about
hearing certain democrats evoke kind of like this language but it's not because like i don't
think this is a uh this isn't a vernacular issue okay this is like a fucking authenticity issue
because when the people bring stuff up like food insecurity or inequality housing inequality
I think the fact that they're not even putting forward policies that even remotely address these things.
Yeah.
It just sounds hollow.
So more than that, people are like, they say stuff like that's bullshit.
People are just tired of hearing them say shit.
They don't actually follow through on because plenty of people, if you said, we need, you know, we need to make houses cheaper or address housing insecurity or food.
People are like, yeah, that's intersecting with my life.
And again, I think the times are in right now, it calls.
for, like, a radical departure from the status quo, which, again, is something this party is
fatally committed to.
Yeah.
I mean, it does feel like there is something to the idea of, like, being, like, you know,
being a little bit more relatable and how that you talk, you know, like, that's why, like,
one of the reasons people love Tim Walls so much is that, like, he seems like a dude.
But it's like, it doesn't feel like the purpose of this is that.
It feels like the purpose of this is just like stop talking about trans rights, you know,
like.
Yeah.
Well, what they're doing is, because you hear all the time the talk about, quote, the
groups is how the establishment
Democratic Party talks about. They talk about
activism and they say the groups.
They're getting up our ass about
fucking not defending the environment
or climate degradation
or you know addressing
unhoused people. It's like oh my gosh
they're so noisy. So this is basically
saying get rid of
and these are all the groups. The people
who are talking about radical transparency
in our government. That's an activist group.
There's an activist block talking about
systems of oppression.
that's group talk cultural appropriate that i'm tired of hearing from people of color about this
let's we don't like let's exclude them and that's how this reads it's not about actually addressing
any of this shit like with policy because yeah you can i can totally see how you can say let's stop
saying housing insecurity let's say affordable housing or like hey let's make shit cheaper to talk about
inflation expensive yeah right and you know like there's a tweet where some centrist dem was like crying over
the fact that progressives had like a charismatic candidate in zoran momdani and like they're like we're like
we're like why can't we have someone that captures the public's imagination like zorrin does but for centrism
they said that shit like they do andrew quomo andrew homo whenever i think of his ideas i'm like
wow thanks for painting a picture dude yeah wow centrism fucking sucks yeah fair and to that person the picture is
not good yeah like hey fuck what read the fucking room people aren't following momdani because he's like
Riz Khalifa out here just
captivating people's like
it's because he's passionate about talking
about fucking inequality
and some of the policy prescriptions
people can actually connect in their
brains to how it will affect their own lives
rather than be like, can we find somebody with the
suave charisma of Bernie Sanders
what are you talking about?
It's just he just says
the thing that people
want to be said.
Yeah, yeah. It doesn't matter how he
fucking says it he's just saying the thing yeah there's just like there there's even like another quote
from one of these think tank people where they're just like you know like the so much of it is
essentially like the way to push back against republicans is to first agree with their flawed
premise that they're putting out to debate over agree with that and then debate within that
flawed premise or that context that's exactly right actually speaking truth to power like that's
their whole thing. So like, for example, the federal siege of D.C., they're like, well,
we don't want people. People are going to get the idea that Democrats don't care about crime if
they're against what Trump is saying, because Trump is saying they're going in because of the
crime. It's like, but that's bullshit. That's not why he's there. Should be very easy to point that
out. Exactly. I would say that they're shifting the Overton window, but I don't want the Democratic
police to arrest me. It's so wild too. It's like, yeah, we're going to police speech as a way to
Yeah, right.
Recapture our voice that's more realistic in the line.
It's like, do they really think, too,
that people who don't live in, like, metropolitan areas or, like, larger cities
aren't being affected by things like housing insecurity or food insecurity?
I don't know what either of those things mean.
Like, that's just city talk or some shit?
Joey, could you translate that for me?
Yeah, hobos be hungy.
Okay, thank you.
The boat, sorry, Bose be hung.
Oh, that's a Republican thing now, actually.
I think, yeah.
Wait, wait.
are you running for Senate?
Because I could,
you got my vote.
This guy tells it like it is.
It's just like so fucking wild.
And again,
like we talk all the time about crime.
It's like conceding this idea or seating this idea like crime is just a thing like people
of color do in cities rather than being like,
you know,
this is like the result of having no financial recourse or stability in your community.
Like you have to resort to like extra legal options to do things.
Like that that's one thing.
But again,
that's a headier idea to wrap your head.
head around. And I think that's what they're also trying to like avoid generally. It's like,
we can't, we can't just stop. We can't keep explaining these kinds of things. Fine. But you can
still, you can still espouse these same values in a way that maybe doesn't sound as academic to
just say like stop talking about this at all. I think just really sort of reveals that their
whole thing is like, we're, we're trying to halt all progress here. We're trying to literally
need to go back to like 1988. You've had the charismatic people for,
You had, you know, Barack Obama.
He was so charismatic.
He used the language of the left with, like, hope and change and, you know, just had the
energy of somebody that was actually going to change things.
And then he laundered that energy into fucking, you know, centristism that didn't go anywhere.
So now, like, it's, it's like, you know, people who have had, we've had that before and now
were inoculated against it and it doesn't fucking work anymore yeah so like that's why there's
no more like everybody lived through that there's like a major financial crisis he swept to power
with like language of like hope and change and like you know then proceeded to bail out big banks
and now people are like kind of inoculated against that so that there's your fucking problem
and now you actually have to do the fucking change uh and less less on
the hope. Yeah, I think
I've got an answer to all of
this, and that's getting the endorsement of Megan
McCain. Thank you.
Yeah. Yeah. Triangulation.
Yeah, yeah. Guys, if Megan McCain
likes it. Yeah, yeah.
Fuck Megan McCain. Oh.
How hard do you think
they're lobbying Barack Obama to run again
in the next election?
I feel like... Just to be like, fuck it all bets
are off. You know they're talking about that. Yeah. Yeah.
Do it. Why don't you do it?
Yeah. I feel like that's
probably where we're headed, like, if they have their way.
Obviously, I couldn't imagine.
Howard, do you think they're lobbying for Joe Biden to run again?
He only got one term.
He can get another one.
Look, he still got it.
I'm just saying.
With Obama as vice president.
Oh, there we go.
That way we're looking to the future.
Then Obama's your Manchurian candidate.
If Biden goes down, that you get Obama again.
If Biden goes down.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, Obama might have had two terms as president.
He said zero terms as vice president.
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and it's not just my favorite artists
who are utilizing AI tools
to create great stuff on the internet
we talked recently
about those adorable fat cats
having terrible things happen to them
in slideshows
that are just ways
to, you know, machines using their machine learning to juice our human empathy out of us,
like a, you know, milking machine in a, in a milking factory, a fake calf mouth.
Milking factory.
It's just a dairy.
Milking factory, that's what I call them.
Hell yeah.
But what about religion?
And if evangelicals are getting in on the act, they're using.
AI to recreate scenes from the Bible, specifically the ones that lend themselves to, like, having
300 vibes. The one that I watched was a scene from the Bible that I think I was like vaguely familiar
with, but it was one of the many times that the people who like, this is in an era, when God is
like regularly talking to people, like doing fucking miracles all over the place, speaking from a
cloud to people. And they're like, wait, I think that was Cretos from God of War.
Yeah, one of the scenes is Cretos. They, like, because all of these are just recycled scenes
from other movies and shit. Right. But, uh, so at, at this point in the, in human history,
according to the Bible, everyone's like, yeah, there's like a powerful booming voice coming
from the sky and like, uh, bushes bursting into flame when it, that talked to,
us. But I think I'm going to go with this guy who's, like, got a golden bull over here. I think
that's what we're going to worship. So it's another one of those situations. And they're like,
all right, here's the deal. I'm a real prophet. You're the guy with the golden bull. We're going to do
a contest where, like, we both slaughter a bull. And if your bull burst into flames, your God's the
real one. If my bull burst into flames, my God's the real one, which seems like kind of
arbitrary. It seems like a thing where you'd be like, wait, do you have like some bull that
burst into flames or something? No. No. It's a fair. It's a total. It's not, it's not a goose
bull. This isn't, this thing is a goose. I feel like this bull is goose, man. He's got a goose suit.
If I was there, I would have just stuffed my bowl with dynamite as a bit. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
That thing's not just going to burst into flames. It's going to blow up.
We're going to blow up, dude, and then we got kebabs.
So back then God was way less subtle than God is now.
Like, now God's, the evidence of God, if you talk to people who, like, are really
into God or like a sunset, man.
Look at the beauty of that sunset.
That's God's work.
Back then, they did a contest, and God literally just, like, dropped a straight up fire
tornado out of the sky onto the bull that was like, he was like, fire will, the bull will
catch on fire, and God was like,
who bha!
And yeah, so really easy to have
faith in those circumstances.
But that's one of the stories
that they tell us with
the help of AI.
Some theologians are concerned
because the company doing it
is talking about doing
an entire Marvel cinematic
universe of the Bible.
Hell yeah. When Moses shows up,
what a pop.
Oh, yeah. I can't wait.
It really gets good after Moses.
And, yeah, you know, Iron Man will be appearing every once in a while.
But that's, you know, that's artistic license.
Yeah, not on purpose, not on purpose.
That's just they're training it off of, you know, an Avengers movie.
Endgame, yeah, yeah.
You know, they don't know how to remove that.
You know, when Christ emerged from the portals, you know, that battle against Thanos after the third day after the crucifixion, you're like, wait, what?
I mean, that would be sick.
There is a screencap of Jesus on a golden throne.
I think this must be Jesus.
Okay.
On a golden throne in a like half toga, just fucking shredded.
He looks like fucking the rock in that fucking smashing machine trailer.
One thing I absolutely love about this photo is that if you look at it, Jesus does not have a seat on the throne.
No.
So he's just holding a squat for all eternity.
That's what toilets were back then, man.
Hell yeah.
Just like kind of squatted in between two pillars.
Some elbow rests.
Yeah.
Also, the people who are.
making this stuff. They're very specific in this interview saying, it's not slop, okay.
Yeah. It's not, it's telling a story that has clearly been trained on a bunch of those, like, post-9-11 action movies that took place in the Middle East.
Yeah. Right. You know, like, where everything's like yellow to establish that it's happening in the Middle East and like, you know, there's like prayer calls and like music that sounds like,
their interpretation of the Middle East.
So a couple of things about this.
I love that a lot of these videos are just
cyberpunk for no reason.
It's just like you'll cut to a shot of a guy that's got like,
I don't know, like a tricorder over his eyes or something like that.
Yeah, exactly.
Also, skimming through one of them, there's a guy sleeping on a bed
with way too many pillows on his belly.
Yeah, yeah, it's like, that's not enough.
That's clearly AI.
There's also, in this article,
there's an AI video of Jesus recording a podcast with the Easter Bunny.
And Jesus is wearing a podcast headset over his crown of thorns.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Which would be way too crinkly for your audio.
I mean, look, I've tried it before.
Yeah, yeah.
We're wearing crowns of thorns.
And it's like, we make it work.
But Jesus, I don't buy it in that picture.
It's like, I get that like there's, you can pretend you're trying to do this for like
some kind of Christian motivation.
But clearly that they're just fully in the AI slot for profit like field here.
Like, hoping they're going to make a ton of money.
Because like, do they honestly?
For a second, if their aims are sincere, are you going to be compelled to become a Christian because you saw a guy with a fucking, like, janky Final Fantasy broadsword, fight a dragon that you probably saw from Game of Thrones?
Yes.
Oh, I'm actually very easily swayed.
Hold on.
What religion is this?
Yeah, I'm being baptized right now.
It's the whole like get them in the door thing that I feel like is also the logic behind every Christian.
rock band or you know like when people are like yeah i play uh in my band of my church uh we're actually
like not like that sounds you know it's not organs and stuff i actually play an electric guitar
it's just like uh-huh yeah when you all were kids and you like trick or treated did you ever
get those like comics strips from some houses or they'd be like we don't have candy but we have
a comic book for you and the front page would say like good news on it or something like that
and there'd be just a comic where like jesus is saving a bunch of kids or something like that
No, I've gotten those, like, outside of sporting events and stuff like that before.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like, this feels like it's the, this is the modern equivalent of that for sure.
Oh, God, right?
They're like, hey, you guys like TikTok?
They're like, tracts or something.
They're like, a comic book.
I know what you're talking about.
Yeah, and they'd be like, you love comic books.
Here's a comic book.
And then it's like, it's just like, you're going to burn in hell.
Yeah, pretty much.
Oh, you ate candy?
Good luck, fucker.
Being down there with Satan bitch.
you're like, what the fuck is this?
I just asked if they had
Kid Cat. All I'm saying is that the Democratic
establishment talked more like that, people
would be voting for them. Thank you.
The Democrats need to start calling kids
bitches more, man. That's the problem. I mean, that would make
me vote for them more.
Look at these little bitches out here.
That would work. Somehow,
you're like, I don't know.
I mean, yeah, them bitches
were tripping. Doesn't leave a lot of room
for the, uh, turn
the other cheek type
cuck stuff that
Jesus was always talking.
So I'm assuming this will like
kind of whittle down
the message of Christianity.
One that has more to do with
just like prosperity
and
violently defeating your enemies.
Which seems like it was kind of the opposite
of the point. Yeah. Want to see a buffed Jesus
kill a dragon with a bazooka?
Right. It's like I mean, yes.
Hell yeah.
Oh man, I can't wait until they get to
Mary Magdalent and what the AI slop does to the image of Mary Magdalene.
You could actually find that stuff already on certain websites.
If you're interested in Jesus and Mary Magdalene, you go on a couple websites you can't access in the state of Florida.
Joey, such a pleasure having you, as always, on the Daily Zykeyes.
Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff?
Yeah, thanks so much for having me.
I always love chatting with y'all on the Zygang and all that.
You can find me on Instagram and threads at Joey Clift with five or six eyes because a 12-year-old took Joey Clift with one eye and I just have to deal.
Also, I've said that for so long.
He's probably like 20 right now.
So I could probably just fight him if I wanted to do.
Yeah, that's what I was going to say.
I mean, like, Joey, we could, let's find him.
Yeah, we should just offer to like you guys, one of you slaughter is a bull.
The other one slaughters a bull.
You see which one burst in the flames.
I'm just asking for an idea trade.
And by that, I mean, give me my handle please.
Give me your shit back, man.
And then you can find me on a blue sky, TikTok, and X slash Twitter at Joey Tainment.
And you can watch Gone Native at gonnative.com.
And then a couple of things I definitely wanted to shout out and promote.
Got an animated short film called Pow that's currently going through the film festival circuit.
It's a really cool film about a young native kid trying to find a place to charge their video game console of Pow Wow.
It's kind of like Reservation Dogs meets Looney Tunes.
And we're winning a bunch of awards.
It'll be online soon.
So if you follow me on socials, you'll find out how to watch that.
And then I'm really excited.
about this, September 24th, I'm a writer on a show called Rubble and Crew, which is in the
Greater Paw Patrol universe. We're introducing the first native character in the history of the
Paw Patrol universe on the show. Rubble and Crew September 24th, watched on Nickelodeon. I'm really
excited about that. And other than that... Rubble is my favorite of the Paw Patrol. Yeah,
he's a dog who works in a construction company. And Rubble and Cruz, what if he had a construction
company with his whole family, you know? It's very cute, very fun. And listen to the Daily Zike
Guys. This is a fantastic podcast. Oh, my God.
And don't use any of those 45 words.
The Democrats say it's bad.
Do not.
Read that article.
I will always say existential threat.
I will never stop saying existential threat.
Wonderful.
So those are the works of media that you've been enjoying, I'm assuming.
Anything else you want to shout out?
Yeah.
Okay, so a work of media that I've really been enjoying.
Okay, so there's a Twitter account slash ex far side fix that just posts old
Far Side Comics.
And they posted one that I really love.
It's from November 24th, 1982.
It's a picture of like a lady opening up a can of dog food and there are two hungry
dogs behind her that are going, oh boy, it's dog food again.
Very funny.
Also, quick story.
So I went to the same college as Gary Larson.
He's an alumni of WSU.
And after he graduated, you know, years and years before me.
After I graduated, I emailed his publisher basically to say like, hey, I'd love to just like
let him know that he's a big reason that I want to pursue comedy. I'd love to, you know,
get on a Zoom with him or just, you know, send him a thank you. And they got back to me immediately
and then said, Gary Larson would have no interest in that interaction.
Thanks, man. All right, cool. Yeah, wasn't it thanks. It was just Gary Larson does not care.
Holy shit. Gary Larson does not care about this interaction.
All right. Well, shout out to Gary Larson. He doesn't want people to find out that he has a tiny head
in a giant body.
all those characters
Miles
where can people find you
is there a work in media
you've been enjoying me
everywhere at Miles
of Gray
we're back with 420 day fiancé
talking 90 day fiance
Sophia and I so check that out
and yeah what else
something I like yes
here's one as somebody
who is about to have school
photos day for their little
one at cjohn.com
online on blue sky posted, yeah, I love to gamble, pay $100 for a school photo
package and hope my kid remembers to look normal.
And then, I've gotten some of the wildest, like one time my kid just, you looked like
the part in airplane where the guy's like, bad day to quit sniffing glue.
Like he just looked so fucking high and like his hair was like going in all these different
directions it was incredible work by him they is that the one you used for the yearbook where you
wish i wish we they actually were willing to they have like retake days because sometimes they
fuck things up so bad and they were like yeah man this one's on us we'll take this one again at the
preschool my kid goes to they they did two looks for him because one was like he looked like
like like a apostle of the unabomber or something just like wacky
and he has this looker, he's like, he's like, he-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h. And then another one, he's like, very
normal, yeah, and we're like, but Hermazstein and I were like, we like the Unabomber one.
We kind of like that's like that. That's where it's at.
And another one I like is at L-E-Y-A-W-N-L-L-E-N-L-Ey-N-Solk.
Curbep episode where Larry gets dragged to a birthday party for a guy he doesn't know
and decides to write something funny in the guest book.
Cut to present-day, Larry's at home watching the evening news.
Comedian Larry David wrote,
Happy Birthday, I know your little secret in Jeffrey Epstein's book.
Look.
Work of media, I've been enjoying Molly Knight on Blue Sky, Molly K-N-I-G-H-T, wrote,
What a humiliating way for Don Jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards, which I thought was fucked up.
Damn.
To imagine.
Damn.
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You can find me on Twitter at Jack.
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Which is where we link off to the information
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We also like to link off to a song
that we think you might enjoy.
Hey, Miles, is there a song
that you think that people might enjoy it?
A little song called Golden.
Yeah.
I don't know if you guys have fucking heard.
But, you know, I guess they say Labor Day is like the last day of summer, but there's also, I'm a big Kevin Parker, Tame Impala fan, and he's got a new album on its way out.
It's called Deadbeat.
It's not out yet, I think it comes out in October.
But one of the first singles off that is called End of Summer.
And if you like Tame and Pala, like, you'll definitely, it's got that sort of Kevin Parker aesthetic, but it sounds like this album is more dancey a little bit.
But it's just a fun track to listen to.
so this is tame Impala end of summer check it out all right we will link off to that in the footnot
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