The Daily Zeitgeist - Charles E. Cheese, Go Anti-Woke… Go Broke? 07.04.25

Episode Date: July 4, 2025

In episode 1891, Jack and Miles are joined by NYT best selling author and comedian Jim Tews to discuss… the Chinese tariffs messing with America's fireworks (and the switch to totally tariff-proof drone shows!), Dr. Phil turning the page… to Chapter 11, the Chuck E. Cheese for adults and much more! How Trump’s China Tariffs Are Jeopardizing America’s Fireworks Extravaganzas - The New York Times Dr. Phil’s year-old cable network files for bankruptcy, accusing broadcast partner of reneging on obligations | CNN Business New arcade chain is Chuck E. Cheese for adults - ABC News  LISTEN: Rosie by FigmoreSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Did you grow up? You didn't grow up in Canada, did you, Jim? No, Allentown, Pennsylvania. Allentown, Pennsylvania. What is growing up in Allentown like with that Billy Joel song being out there? Is it like what is the role of that song in the life of someone growing up in Allentown? It's kind of weird because it's like in your head, you're like, oh, this is a song about where I am from and I'm of the age That that song was very popular when I was like young. Yeah child and and my dad worked at the Bethlehem Steel and So did my grandfather got damn man and fucking singing your life like exactly words Exactly my damn wife is lost lost his job when they shut the factories down and my grandfather was a World War two vet

Yeah, so like yeah, I mean I was just gonna say like the song is vague enough. It's just like well We're living here in Allen town. I've never had a song specifically describe what I was doing so Aaron Allen, I've never had a song specifically describe what I was doing. So, but that shit, like even the verses are describing your life. That's why. Don't miss the you versus you podcast. Join Lex Borrero every week as he sits down with some of the biggest names in entertainment to talk about the real stuff, the struggles, the doubts, and the breakthroughs that made them who they are.

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and it is Friday, July 4th, 2025. It's what? Have we ever recorded, July 4th, 2025. It's what we ever recorded a July 4th episode. We're just like doing an episode on a holiday. Absolutely hostile towards this nation. We don't even acknowledge it. And yes, we'll just I guess is that is it more of an own that we work on a national holiday? Yeah, exactly. Bob, what's up, dog? What's up, dog?

What's up, dog? Why are we out here working on July 4th? My bad. My bad. My guy. Yeah, this is also, I mean, the big oh, they think this is a bunny. They think this is a bunny. Yep. Yep.

Winnie the fucking Pooh. Wait, where is that video clip? I was trying to cue it up because that's really the only thing worth talking about. That's the only day, that's the only thing we honor on July 4th is the It's Winnie the fucking Pooh day. There it is. Here we go. Oh, you thought this was a rabbit? They thought this was a rabbit? Oh, that's funny. That's fucking funny, bitch. It's fucking Winnie the fucking Pooh. Exactly. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. Fuck 4th of July. You heard it. I heard it. Okay. Shout out,

Hitting like Graba on TikTok for that iconic fourth. That's the only way to celebrate. You better pull it. You think this is a, you thought it was a rabbit. They thought this was a rabbit. Exactly. They thought this was a democracy. Exactly. They thought this was a democracy. OK, this was a democracy. It's the fourth fucking right. Y'all fuck the Fourth of July. And in many ways, I mean, it could be you could turn that into a political cartoon about how Chinese spies are behind everything,

you know, sure, sure. The she looks like, wait, Winnie the Pooh. You know what else it is? OK, it's also, I like this, it's National Caesar Salad Day. Wow, Caesar Salad coming through on a day when nobody is eating Caesar Salad. Exactly. This is our day. Shout out to the, I believe the chef, the person, I think it was created in Mexico. Mexico. So I think it's very, yeah, Cesar Cardini. So yeah, shout out that one.

And also it's Alice in Wonderland Day also, whatever that means. Yeah. A wedge would be the more appropriate salad or just a nice fruit salad, watermelon. You shouldn't eat a salad on 4th of July just generally. No. Isn't that sacrilege? Beef, just animal fat. Just go to like a food chemical plant and be like, can I get like seven gallons of nitrates? Trites? I don't care what kind. Can I just beer bong this thing really quick? Anyways, my name is Jack O'Brien,

AKA boo bitch, your bill is lame. Your bill is lame, bitch, your bill is lame. That one courtesy of Halcyon salad on the Discord. Just trying to give Chuck Schumer some ideas instead of just doing Being like we're not gonna call it beautiful anymore. We're gonna call it the act This would have been more fun if he just came kicked in the door. Jesus I don't think we're far off from some white liberal in Congress like performing ludicrous Oh bitch, your bill is lame. Your bill is lame

the bills out performing ludicrous in the Capitol. Your bill is lame. Your bill is lame. Oh no, the bill's out. We're about to, it's like, Jesus Christ, please sit down. I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my cohost, Mr. Miles Gray. Yes, it's getting shakier and shakier, straight out here rocking his existential dreadlocks. It's Saab Marley, AKA Miles Gray, thank you so much for having me. Existential dreadlocks of Marley.

I was just having a wild one this morning. I was like, I have weight on my soul somehow. I think this is just, again, this is just a theme in the US, but July 4th specifically, there's just something about it, it's hitting different today. Oh yeah, extra good, right? Yeah. Good. Yeah. That's what you mean. First up, just real quick, getting feedback. People are finding the show, finding it useful. So just anyone who wants to share it, rate it, review it, all that stuff. First rate podcast, ask people

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Welcome the new listeners. We're thrilled to have you. Once you realize that you've been listening to a second rate show, but hey, it's good enough. It's good enough. Anyways, yeah, thrilled to have you, everybody. Let's try getting the word out. Xoxo, Miles, we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a very funny comedian

and New York Times bestselling author, whose third album, Without Pictures, and first special, With Pictures, just dropped from Blonde Medicine, please welcome, it's Jim Toos! Thank you. What's up, Jim? Nothing, that was a good intro, I appreciate that.

Thanks, man. I don't think I made any of that up. No, you nailed it. All right, good. And you didn't make that up either, we took your word on made any of that up. No, you nailed it. All right, good. And you didn't make that up either. We took your word on a lot of that stuff. I'm not gonna lie, I did not fact check. Yeah.

I did watch the special though, which is very funny. So I guess that's fact checking. Yeah, yeah, that's for sure. The New York Times bestseller thing is true, but people don't believe it. But the qualifier is it was a it made the number 10 on the animals list. It was a parody book about humans of New York. So I have a title people because he's New York Times bestseller.

People are thinking, was this like some novel some, you know, yeah, yeah. Journalists go with novel. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I'm just go with novel. Yeah. Yeah I'm also a New York times bestseller with a huge asterisk because it's not my name. I You know co-wrote a book that had a bunch of other authors, but it made the list still counts man That's still count it. Wait, you're not out here flexing a New York Times bestseller Oh, you don't you don't't, you don't take that. I guess we haven't been in the same room for awhile. So you haven't seen my belt buckle that I have made.

The, uh, but I got on too. They all, they give them to all of us. They give them out. Oh, you got a belt buckle? The jacket, the belt buckle. It's the only, it's the only way you can use the bathroom, the employee bathroom, if you go into a Barnes and Noble, you have to show them the belt. Yeah. They're like, all right, this person's gonna be.

He's one of our kings. Yeah, he's not gonna be shooting junk in the stall. He's actually here to use the bathroom. The belt buckle would approve it. You're allowed to bring the books into the bathroom when you're a New York Times bestseller. You can read, it's a low now, you can do it. All right, Jim, we're thrilled to have you.

We're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell the listeners a couple of things we're talking about. We're talking about how tariffs are messing up our dang fireworks shows. Fuck. You know, partially just a story that the media loves to tell. Holiday adjacent shortage every year. It's Valentine's Day carts, I think. Halloween candy, candy, I think.

Halloween candy. Halloween candy. Christmas trees. Sometimes turkeys. We're running out of Christmas trees this year. Usually it's bullshit of some sort or another, but our fireworks cash, not mine, not the one that I have buried in my backyard, but America in general's firework cash

is heavily reliant on imports from China. And they're thinking it's going to be a little bit more expensive this year. And then next year, which is as we're all ready to celebrate America's 250th birthday. Oh, shit. If we make it. Yeah. You know, they're like there's not going to be any fireworks. But we'll talk about why that might not be the worst thing in the world and drones in particular.

We'll talk about Donald Trump and just his ongoing mental decline. Yeah. It's not looking good for his brain. I call this the, don't tell mom the babysitter's dead presidency. Yeah, the followup. Yeah, they're like, okay, now they're in charge. It's like, the follow-up, yeah.

They're like, okay, now they're in charge. It's like, I don't know, are they? Who is? Who is? And will there be a heartwarming story, like where Christina Applegate kind of learns how to be an adult and learns responsibility and falls in love?

Do we see that for the people who are actually running the country behind the scenes, like Stephen Miller? We'll see, I don't. Yeah, we'd love to see that for him He's gonna be love to see him go on a nice date Where he goes to a Toys R Us and bounces on the bouncy ball. Do you remember that? Yeah Yeah from home on the babysitter's dead. I just remember Remember I only remember the dishes are dishes are done. Yeah, that was the other He couldn't have possibly thought that's what she meant

Do the dishes he didn't think that's what the dishes anyways We'll talk about that. We will check in with our good friend. Dr. Phil. Yeah, we're concerned you know, we're checking in as concerned friends because He had to declare bankruptcy. Oh shit. Oh Man another Christian soldier goes down in the war against woke. That's right All that plenty more but first Jim we like to ask our guests around here What is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? I don't know. I just went, when I saw this question, I just went back and thought about

recent search histories and the most recent thing has been skateboard wheels. Okay. Um, I, I start, I mean, I've been skateboarding since I was a kid, but I was like this year, this summer, I'm going to, I'm going to get back on the board a little bit. I, I put it off last year so so then I I decided to get some new wheels and I started searching for them and then I I can't just graze the surface of anything so

I just I've just been searching for the perfect size and durometer That I'd like to to put on my board. And I found them. If anyone's curious, 58 millimeter, 93 a durometer. What kind of bearings you got on there, dude? China Reds. Oh, all right. Base level bearings. I don't like to go fast. I get it. I get it. I get it.

Durometer is a word that I'm not familiar with. That's like how hard they are. Got it. You know, I was going to I was going to be like, I think you mean diameter, Jim. But OK, I'm glad I didn't do that. I don't know if that reveals anything about who I am, but no, it reveals way. That sounds like a thing. A skateboarder would make up about the hardness because like Duro means hard in Spanish, you know, like, dude, what's a durometer on those wheels?

Probably how it came about probably not but a hardometer like yeah, that doesn't sound good enough. How about exactly? Rometer. Hell. Yeah. Hell. Yeah. What's the durometer on that hairdo man? Yeah, it's the volume on that thing. I cut a watermelon in half on those spikes or what, dude? What is something you think is underrated? Oh, I wrote I wrote down a couple of things. I'm going to say riding bikes places. Yeah. Riding bikes places is great. One of the great joys.

It's truly great. I mean, in New York, it's great as it is terrifying but it's still great. Drawing even if you're bad at it I think is underrated. I think it's good to try. Yeah. And ordering food in person. Like pick up order and pick up at Starbucks by walking in saying what you want and and then waiting in line. Not using an app to summon food. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No shade on the app, people, but I think it's, I have a theory that you have to improve your odds

of having good interactions with other humans as much as you can. So the more actual interactions you have, the better your odds that you will get good ones. Right. So you're just collecting you have, the better your odds that you will get good ones. Right. So you're just collecting good interactions. It sounds like. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah, you could look at it that way. You're greedy. Are we doing well?

Collecting interactions. You're getting a better sample size of interactions to decide whether or not people suck or people are good. Right. Right. Yeah. If you default to, ah, people fucking suck, that's what I'm going to use the app. I don't have to talk to anyone. Then. Yeah. Well, you've only talked to three people. So yeah, well, I hate my mom, dad and grandma.

Do you have a thing that you draw? Like I can draw sharks pretty well because I drew a lot of them when I was like four to seven. So that's the one thing I can still draw. You got, do you got a thing that you can draw? I'm a little bit of a shark. I'm a little bit of a shark. I'm a little bit of a shark. I'm a little bit of a shark. I'm a little bit of a shark. I'm a little bit of a shark. I'm a little bit of a shark. I'm a little bit of a shark.

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I'm a little bit of a shark. I'm a little bit of a shark. I'm a little bit of a shark. I'm a little bit of a shark. I think even if you're bad at it, you should give it a shot. Just give it a shot Yeah, that's encouraging from somebody who actually knows how to draw because I started doing like adult coloring books and shit I love I love that. Yeah, and then that's like that's led me more into like drawing and I realized like I Keep drawing faces the same way I did when I since like fifth grade with like these big bubble eyes and like the same nose And I'm like I have no other way to draw a face. Except like I was 11. Yeah, and I'm like. I can do an okay eye. And, but I just don't know like where,

like the face always comes out fucked up. You know? Yeah. You know that thing where somebody said that Lonzo Ball looks like a seventh grader trying to draw Drake. Right. Like that's kind of how like my, my version of faces, like it's just like, it's hard to say what is wrong, but something's very wrong. You know? Yeah. Yeah. I, I did recently a thing or like maybe right after the fire, her majesty and I were like, just trying to be less on the TV.

And there was like that trend going on social media where like couples would do a port, like a hand drawn portrait of each other. Like for like five minutes. Oh my God. It tested every fiber of our marriage because what I turned around, she was like, she was actually aghast with how poor my drawing skills were.

And she's like, are you even trying to draw me or you just drew like any fucking face and made like these wispy, smegle hairs on top? I'm like, those are eyebrows. Wispy, smegle hairs. Dude, I suck. I'm so fucking bad at drawing, but it was actually pretty entertaining

because she was, she's actually good at it. And I was just ashamed She nailed you drawing as much. Yeah, you're like goddamn. I've finally see myself You you got the stink lines and everything Shut up Mo Yeah, the the two things that I drew growing up is Sharks and then you know, like sharks eating people. And then I would I would always draw Michael Jordan,

but I couldn't draw his face. So I would just draw him from the back doing stuff. We get the 23. Yeah. And then you put the 23 on there. Everybody knows who it is. They're like, damn, that's actually pretty good. But yeah, you get that silhouette. Smooth, smooth back of the head so you don't have to like draw hair.

Did you get a sense of like this curvature of the skull or did it just look like a thumb from behind? No, I think I got pretty good at drawing the back of the... I'm much better at drawing the back of the head than the front. Yeah, just being like, boop, boop, and a two, three on back. Even to get the shape of the back of a head and have somebody recognize it as such. As the back of the head.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah. All right, man, head. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. All right. I'm gonna have to get back out there. And I'm thinking like drawing sharks at that age is like a really, that's like a, that's big social currency. It was pretty like that. That was what I was known as.

That was like my, my first identity was guy who likes jaws and draws jaws. So those are like two things. The little boy who cannot read, but can draw Jaws. Well, that was the part they didn't say out loud around me. Yeah. He can't speak yet, but. We think he may have some savant qualities. Oh, man.

And then, like, you know, always a leg that had been bitten off, you know, just like floating to the bottom, like in Jaws. I definitely drew some shark scenes that at one point a teacher like pulled me aside and was like, did you draw this? Like a little concerned about like how. And you're like, yeah, 15 bucks. Got it? Or what? Cash right now. The original work. Wait, you got to send us through the group chat a shark drawing Jack, because now my interest is fucking peaked. I need to see. I mean, they're not like good for an adult. They were good for a five year old. I know, but knowing you and

you coming out with like, I can draw a shark pretty good. I'm like, now I want to see the Jack O'Brien child shark drawing. Okay. yeah. I'll send. I'll send you one. That could be merch because we have no, I think we're about to not have a merch store anymore. Oh, yeah. We forgot. So maybe we reopen the merch store. Shit. If your style's consistent with the sharks,

it doesn't matter how bad they are either. If they all look like you draw them, then you're making art, then you're onto something. Yeah. I will say when my kids like first started drawing, I sat down with them and drew a shark and they were like, goddamn, like you can draw, huh? And then they asked me to draw something else

and they're like, oh, you can only draw sharks. They like saw through me immediately. That sucks. Oh, because they had that moment, they're like, daddy's a good drawer. Yeah, daddy's a good artist. Maybe we're good. Oh, fuck. He's an idiot.

Fuck. He was tricking us. Jim, what's something you think is, and also riding bikes places great, great underrated, just three great underrated right in a row. Riding bikes, like we, miles you're underrated a while back was just like swinging on a swing. Swinging, man. Swinging is just like the closest we get to flying. You know, it's just like, God, something it does to your equilibrium.

I think biking is also like that. It's like biking is just like you're kind of coasting, you know, like- Moving through space. Yeah. What a blast. It's that inner ear stimulation that you get that we haven't had since primates, apparently is what they say. It like really turns my brain like up a notch where like I used to like ride bikes a little bit like off roads you know like as a kid and like you're just like looking you know your

head's on a swivel feel like you're really present. Yeah very present would be. Yeah. Yeah. All right Jay what's something you think's overrated? Overrated retirement. I'll say planning for retirement. Video games as a lifestyle. That's me sounding old. And then and then turning your life into content in an overwhelming way.

Not the way we do it right now professional entertainers, but uh You know where it's just it's all consuming. Yeah. Yeah for sure wait So I'm guessing your life is intersecting with all three of these on some level Yeah, I haven't planned for retirement say What's the point? Right. And I mean, I guess I know there is a point I just. Right, right, right.

I'm just not. Little nihilistic about it. Yeah, for sure. Right. Video games, I do love. Same. But I've realized that I, it's like, not a serious addiction, but it's like, I can't touch that stuff, or it will consume me.

Um, I can only play like little, little puzzle games and things, you know, Oh, but something like a elder scrolls or something would take your life away. I, well, I, the last game I got obsessed with was called the long dark. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's like a survival crafting game. And I'm, and those games like really get me. And I'm like spending hours playing this game,

trying to survive in the game in a very slow drawn out way. And I'm like, this is, I need to be doing this in my life. I'm not surviving in life. Yeah. I need to be like crafting and collecting resources in real life, but I'm sitting here for retirement. Yeah. Four or five hours at a clip, like collecting sticks to build a fire in a video game. But instead you're a bush pilot in, like it was a Canada or something.

Yeah, Canada, stranded, alone. So yeah, that. And. Stranded. Alone. So yeah, that. And then turning my life into content is just one of those things. I'm that age, and with this special, it's like, okay, you gotta build up the YouTube channel, keep posting social media. And it's like, every moment you start to think, should I be filming this? Could I make this into something?

And that's the thing that nobody had to do 15 years ago. Right. And it's like, it is weird. Yeah. Should we have to do this? Yeah. I mean, it feels like it's, it's this, this thing happens too, when people do a lot on social media and then start doing a thing that is really passionate for

them and like you're like, I used to post so much on social media, but for me, I was getting jokes off or being stupid on Instagram because I didn't have a real creative outlet. Like I had a job that I fucking hated. And then once I started doing this, like I became so fulfilled from like doing this shit on mic and talking about the news and shit. My social media output just completely fell off

because my bucket became completely filled in this other direction Right, but I also see too how Like I have other friends who are always thinking about like content and i'm like that must be so fucking exhausting Like I can bear. I mean obviously record like twice a day, but to then add the what's my social media output going to be? It fucking gives me anxiety right to have no like turn off no no thing where you're like alright. I'm I'm shutting this out. I'm gonna go to the beach go ride my bike exactly right and that'd be like you know Cuz I do it tell Mike I'm gonna go for a bike ride Shit, I should probably charge my GoPro and then probably take pictures on right yeah

and then probably take pictures along the way. Yeah, yeah. Posted it. Then I'm like, yeah, super producer on a Hosni, original producer of this show is always like, like you should be like, you could have massive file numbers for like one, like one of my sons is really funny. And just like thinking about that is like, I don't know. There's I forget who the thinker is.

I know who it is, but I forget his name. The guy who like kind of speaks with a Lisp who's like Eastern European. Oh, Slaslaw Staslaw. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, he like talks about how like the, there is a huge price that we pay in capitalism to just like sell your soul, to like act excited and like commodify your own subjectivity to be like, this is good. And like try and like bend your entire like. Shizik.

Shizik. Yes. The one, the entire way that we like think about the world and like, you know, being in meetings and acting excited about a corporate thing and how that kills you slowly. That is a price that you're paying. That's not nothing. That's you're selling off your free will and subjectivity as a human being. To do that to your relationships with the people around you who you love and be like, just have that idea of selling invade your actual personal life, feels fucking crazy to me. I feel like it would break me. By the way, Ana is joking.

She's not telling me to actually do that. But no, no, no, of course not. It does. I don't know. I feel like there are families that do that and it sounds really hard. Oh, 100 percent. Or like, yeah, like, you know, going to turning a Costco trip into like this thing that becomes, you know, like the Costco guy. Yeah, exactly. They can never go to the grocery store and just pick up food again.

Right. There's so much pressure on every Costco trip. Right. One of the great joys of American life, going to Costco without an aim. Yeah, and being anonymously, it's like that guy's had so many fucking samples, he just keeps turning his hat front or back

to pretend like he just wasn't here two seconds ago. Works every time. Yeah, I miss those lunches. That's how my grandpa and I would go have lunch. Back when it was called Fedco. Fedco? It was called Fedco? There was a Costco type store called Fedco that we would go to and it was sample city, baby. And we would do Fedco lunch, me and my grandpa.

That's so cute. He's so many fucking samples. Fedco sounds like a socialist grocery store. It does. Fedco. You've been fed. That's what Zorn Mamdani, that's what Zorn Mamdani he's going to have. Zorn Mamdani. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, those are Fedco's coming to New York I heard. That's right. Oh shit. It was actually, it was the Federal Employees Distributing Company. Oh shit. It was actually it was the federal employees Distributing company. Oh a membership department store that was in Southern California in 1948 to 1999 Wow, oh shit this shit was oh it was a nonprofit consumer co-op founded by post office employees Oh, so it was like a shot on my grandpa warm, bro Taking me to the fucking people's store was like the exchange for for a military folks. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It was right there on the Plaza. I bet it sucked then, right? If it was funded by the government, it must've been fucking terrible. I don't know, man. We could go and we would get fucking fed at Fedco, okay? But the DMV, Miles, the DMV sucks. So everything that is funded by the government

must suck also forever and ever and always. And I would eat a handful of frozen meatballs and walk out of there with some ill-fitting shoes. That's right. But you had to wait in line for a couple hours, right? At gunpoint? Yeah. Under under paintings of Barack Obama. They already had them back then. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back and we'll talk about how they're still in our fucking American freedoms. Don't miss the U vs U podcast. Join Lex Borrero every week as he sits down with some of

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I'm like second generation. Listen to You Versus You as part of My Kultura podcast network. Available on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. American history is full of wise people. Well, women said something like, you know, 99.99% of war is diarrhea and 1% is glory. Those founding fathers were gossipy AF and they loved to cut each other down.

I'm Bob Crawford, host of American History Hotline, the show where you send us your questions about American history and I find the answers, including the nuggets of wisdom our history has to offer. Hamilton pauses and then he says, the greatest man that ever lived was Julius Caesar. And Jefferson writes in his diary, this proves that Hamilton is for a dictator based on corruption. My favorite line was what Neil Armstrong said, it would have been harder to fake it than to do it. Listen to American History Hotline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever

you get your podcasts. Just like great shoes, great books take you places. Through unforgettable love stories, and into conversations with characters you'll never forget. I think any good romance, it gives me this feeling of like butterflies. I'm Danielle Robay, and this is Bookmarked by Reese's Book Club, the new podcasts from Hello Sunshine and iHeart Podcasts. Every week I sit down with your favorite book lovers, authors, celebrities, book talkers,

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Listen to Bookmarked by Reese's Book Club on the iHeartRadio app. Apple podcasts are wherever you get your podcasts. This week on Dear Chelsea with me, Chelsea Handler, Sophia Bush is here. Tell me how that feels to be considered a hot lesbian. Quite an honor. You know what's funny is you do this weird math. Like if you're a woman dating men, nobody wants to talk to you about your sexuality. They just want to either say

like you're a prude or a slut. You know, if you date too much, they criticize you. If you don't date, you must be frigid, whatever. And then the thing that gets added when you're actually more fluid with your sexuality is the swing goes to you better identify exactly who you are so we can figure out what name to call you. And it's like, okay. And you know, I sort of looked around and was like, has nobody been paying attention to like all the hot girls I've been kissing on camera? You know, maybe not in front of you off camera, but hi, I've always been here. Listen to Dear Chelsea on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back and on 4th of July, no less, the tariffs are coming for our fireworks, seeing as how the

US pyrotechnics industry is, quote, heavily reliant on imports from China, people are kind of looking with foreboding at these tariffs. Because it's not, it's like one part of the economy that hasn't been taken over, but like there's not like a big Apple store like place that sells fireworks. You know, it's all still just like fucking, I don't know. I like Missouri is one of the states I've lived in where fireworks are totally, you know, sold everywhere. And it's just side of the road shops. Like it feels like you're you're you've traveled back in time when you go buying fireworks in Missouri.

Have you ever seen the big like stores in Ohio, like Phantom Fireworks? They're in like, oh, those are like Pennsylvania. So they do have the slick. They do have big box version. Oh, yeah. I mean, I don't know how slick they are. They still feel like warehouses. But yeah, I think it was called't know how slick they are. They still feel like warehouses But yeah there I think was called Phantom fireworks when you're driving from like New York to Allentown on 78 there's a big fireworks store and you see them like in Ohio and stuff too or like West Virginia or whatever. Yeah, it's called Phantom fireworks. Oh, yeah, and that's all they sell

There was also do you see like that explosion at the California? Yeah, the firework facility up in Yolo County. It's north It's one of the things from the naked gun that comes real everyone So it's one of the most unrealistic parts of the naked gun that actually is based on reality is the the fireworks Factory explosion. Yeah, those happen every once in a while, and they do not stop for a good minute. There is just a chain reaction of everything in the building going up. I'm curious. I don't know. Do you are you noticing less preemptive Fourth of July fireworks?

Because usually I feel like fireworks are happening. I mean, they're always nonstop really in LA, but usually this week before 4th of July, I hear so many more fireworks and I've heard them here and there, but I'm not sure if, I guess we might not be in this patriotic of a mood or maybe it's the fires that has people less interested

in the bang bangs in mass in their neighborhoods, but I don't know if it's also the tariffs, man. Could be the tariffs could also. So there's also just a lot of local firework displays are getting phased out. I think partially it's expensive, partially it's the fucking environmentalists. They hate our freedom.

That is like how it's covered in like some of the local news reports. I was looking at one from Hang A Mass where they were talking about the environmental repercussions of fireworks, which are not fake. There's a toxic exhaust. There's just like explosions. So it's like traumatizing both dogs and like wildlife, not just like domesticated pets, but like birds and everyone's getting the fuck out of there. I didn't realize this, that like the blue and red colors we

see in fireworks are because of copper and lithium. Like that's what's in there. It's not just like, it's not just like food dye that they're putting in the explosion. Like my brain was always just like, I don't know. It was probably they just like do a little color, put a little color in there and it makes that color. No, you have to have like weird chemical reactions happening to make those colors. That's crazy. The smoke obviously generates particulate matter, smells like a gunfight

and terrible for people with PTSD, terrible for dogs. So a lot of people are replacing them with drone shows which I have seen a couple in my time in person. They are really cool. Like I was watching one guy who's so hang on like I said left the fireworks behind for environmental reasons and now they're doing drone shows. And the guy that they were interviewing, who is the head of the company that puts on the drone show was like, we never do the same effect twice.

Like you will never come to one of our shows and see something like you've seen before. It's always gonna be different. Tough guy. Which is the exact opposite of fireworks. Yeah. Fireworks are like... Pretty predictable.

I had a feeling that's where they were going with this one. But do you even remember a firework? Like specifically, like dude, then there was that one that went... Yeah. Like we don't... Yeah, it is funny in that sense that it's like, I just want to hear the bangs and then and the flashes of light. I couldn't tell you. I'm not like, as for as many fire professional fireworks displays I've seen, I couldn't tell

you like the kinds of them. There's the ones that little cracklers. And then there's like the big fucking gigantic ones at the end. I feel like that's where my knowledge ends. Basically, it's not about the fireworks. It's about the friends you make along the way. That's right. Exactly. The fireworks show.

All of my best friends I met at various fireworks shows. Absolutely. The best. So for some reason, for me, fireworks are like always annoying and boring. If I intend to go see a fireworks show, but if I like accidentally happen upon one or like I'm driving and there's a fireworks show off to the side, like that's the best.

Like that's like, Oh my God, there's fireworks. Like it really, I think because like if you're going and sitting and watching it, it like puts it in the context of like a movie or like some sort of entertainment. And in that context, it sucks. But in the context of just like a thing that's happening in the landscape that you like typically live in, you're just like off to the side, suddenly there's like explosions happening. There's one year like before we had kids where where my wife and I forgot that it was the 4th

of July and we were doing a lot of running at that time. And so we took a run down by the beach and it was as the big Santa Monica fireworks show was going off. So we were just running by as this massive fireworks show was going off and it was really it was really cool But like so that's like the fireworks thing. I remember I never like Intend to go to a fireworks show and walk away being like ah, they've really done it this time. You know, right? I guess a drone show you do remember. She's like, oh that eagle turned into a football. Yeah I didn't yeah, like you can at least describe that rather than go, it went boom and then it was red. You get a little- It tells the story of the birth of our nation

through silhouette drawings of eagles and flags. And yeah, as Brian, the editor pointed out, and famously drones are made in America and aren't subject to Chinese tariffs at all. Because every drone you see in the sky made right here in the US of A and not, oh wait, no, no, they're most, okay, they're from... The good news is that part of their life cycle is not once you use them, they explode. So that's good. You can kind of like hang on to them for next year, hopefully.

They also don't accidentally fire off in the direction of a crowd when something gets knocked over. Right. Right. I wonder if the guy who does that drone show just has to rack his brain to figure out how he's gonna fucking up the ante every time he does a new one. Oh yeah.

Fuck man, I already did the- A marching band director trying to figure out new patterns to- He's like losing his hair in clumps. He's like, I just, I don't know. I've almost got it. I almost got it. I stopped doing acid, man, but I might have to go back.

If you look at the Guinness Book World Record, like biggest drone show ever, they're really fucking kind of mind blowing. The one thing that I was disappointed by though, you know, the one where there's the big viral, like skeleton about to step on you. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I think that one's a fake because the fuck. Yeah, because they're like, you can't actually make them move that fast.

Like that thing is moving way too fast. And also you can like tell that no, like when you look at the street shot, nobody's actually looking up. Everybody's just like walking like it's normal. So they just like pasted it over top. Is everything a fucking illusion in my life? I know, but there are real ones that are pretty crazy. I just don't think they can move quite that smoothly

as of yet. Yeah. But I mean, just look at like how New Jersey reacted to people flying drones over their state. They're like, the fucking aliens are here. So there's like something inherently impressive about it that will fill people with awe. So I don't know, Zeitgang, let us know. First of all, if we're missing some aspect of fireworks that can be, I will say like

setting up the time that I did live in Missouri and like my friend came and visited me and we got very drunk and at like three in the morning one night just like went out into a like open field and just started setting fireworks off. And that was, that was fun. I don't recommend it, but that was super fun. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Letting you know, fire. Well, it's a no fireworks show is still pretty solid. Yeah, yeah, exactly. But yeah. And then drone show, if anybody's seen a particularly good. Yeah, send a good one. Send us a good one. That's not a skeleton. Well, whatever, even if it's fake at this point, who gives a shit? Let's take a quick break. We'll come back.

at this point, who gives a shit? Let's take a quick break. We'll come back. Don't miss the you versus you podcast. Join Lex Borrero every week as he sits down with some of the biggest names in entertainment to talk about the real stuff, the struggles, the doubts and the breakthroughs that made them who they are. They go deep covering childhood trauma, family,

overcoming loss, and the moments that shape their journey. These honest conversations are meant to take the cape off our heroes with the hope that their humanity inspires you to become a better you and therefore set you free to live the life of your dreams. Here's a sneak peek. I'm trained to go compete. I'm trained to be like harder, but sometimes that mentality

stops you from stopping and smelling the flowers in your own garden. Is it wrong to want more? We migrated, our family migrated here. I'm like second generation. Listen to You Versus You as part of My Cultura podcast network, available on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. American history is full of wise people. Well women said something like, you know, 99.99% of war is diarrhea and 1% is glory. Those founding fathers were gossipy AF and they loved to cut each other down.

I'm Bob Crawford, host of American History Hotline, the show where you send us your questions about American history and I find the answers, including the nuggets of wisdom our history has to offer. Hamilton pauses and then he says, the greatest man that ever lived was Julius Caesar. And Jefferson writes in his diary, this proves that Hamilton is for a dictator based on corruption. My favorite line was what Neil Armstrong said. It would have been harder to fake it than to do it.

Listen to American history hotline on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Just like great shoes, great books take you places. Through unforgettable love stories and into conversations with characters you'll never forget. I think any good romance, it gives me this feeling of like butterflies. I'm Danielle Robay and this is Bookmarked by Reese's Book Club, the new podcast from Hello Sunshine and iHeart Podcasts.

Every week I sit down with your favorite book lovers, authors, celebrities, book talkers, and more to explore the stories that shape us, on the page and off. I've been reading every Reese's Book Club pick, deep-diving book talk theories, and obsessing over book-to-screen casts for years. And now, I get to talk theories, and obsessing over book to screen casts for years. And now I get to talk to the people making the magic. So if you've ever fallen in love with a fictional character or cried at the last chapter or passed a book to a friend saying, you have to read this, this podcast is for you. Listen to Bookmarked by Reese's Book Club on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or

wherever you get your podcasts. This week on Dear Chelsea with me, Chelsea Handler, Sophia Bush is here. Tell me how that feels to be considered a hot lesbian. Quite an honor. You know what's funny is you do this weird math. If you're a woman dating men, nobody wants to talk to you about your sexuality. They just want to either say like you're a prude or a slut, you know, if you date too much, they criticize you. If you don't date, you must be frigid, whatever. And then the thing that gets added when you're actually more fluid with your sexuality is the swing goes to you better identify exactly who you are so we can figure out what name to call you." And it's like,

okay. And, you know, I sort of looked around and was like, has nobody been paying attention to, like, all the hot girls I've been kissing on camera? You know, maybe not in front of you off camera, but hi, I've always been here. Listen to Dear Chelsea on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. We're back. And Dr. Phil also back in the news declaring bankruptcy. Yeah. I mean, he definitely, he leaned into his role

of like chief bootlicker, bootthroater slash C-list propagandist for the Trump regime, like with the televised ICE raids in like Chicago and LA. I thought he must be like looking at numbers that were like, this is what the people want from you, you know, because. I think he's just got bad rich guy instincts, basically. And he's like, and hey, what is a Nazi? Let's see, let's break it down.

Well, ICE is not wearing swastikas, so they're not Nazis. Any other questions? Let's move on. Oh, hail Trump. But yeah, when we talked about the ICE raid special like a few months ago, I mentioned that a lot of his integration with Trump and that media apparatus has been to try and prop up his own failing anti-woke entertainment network called Merit Street

Media. Again, I don't know if that's a reference to bootstrapping non-DEI shit because it's based on Merit or it's also MSM and he can laugh at them. I don't know. It's Dr. Phil. He might not even fucking know that at all. But anyway, after barely a year on the air, he's had to be, like you said, Jack, a common Michael Scott walk into the street and declare bankruptcy. But he's also suing TBN, Trinity Broadcast Network, because that's obviously the largest distributor of Jesus content on earth.

That is obvious. The unholy union that brought us Merit Street. Trinity. But Trinity is very Catholic, but I feel like this can't be Catholic, right? The Holy Trinity? No, but the triune God, you know, I think we can, well, we'll mention it, you know, we'll mention it.

Okay. Trinity Broadcasting Network. Yeah. Now he's like, he's doing this thing where it's, he's bankrupt, but now he has to sue We'll mention it. You know, we'll mention it. Okay. Trinity Broadcasting Network. Yeah. Now he's like, he's doing this thing where it's, he's bankrupt, but now he has to sue Trinity Broadcast Network because he's saying it's their, it's not his fault. They fucked me. Yeah.

He was saying, quote, the network's broadcast partner backed out of its obligations and instead quote, abused its position as the controlling shareholder. As a result, Merit Street claims it was forced to, quote, pay or incur obligations to third parties in excess of $100 million. And they're saying basically the Jesus Network fucked us and now we need to sue them. Sounds like there's nobody who watches this bullshit channel. And so he's like, I owe a lot of people a lot of money. No honor among thieves over there. I know, right? Not at all, not at all.

And I mean, I think let's be honest, trying to launch a fucking cable channel in the year of our Lord 2025. Like, are you fucking dumb? All right, we're gonna sink all, we're gonna put, move that investment, move it over to print magazines Venture here we're doing flip books now

But again, we're doing those pens where you like flip them upside down and the girls clothes come off Dr. Hey look the Batmobile silent film production company. Nickelodeon's. Yeah. Hey, that's some. Hey, man. That might be something. I don't know. But yeah, I guess we can't be surprised because he's just a millionaire hopped up on his own God complex. So of course he's going to be like, yeah, yeah, yeah. People want me to have my own channel. He said when he launched the channel that I feel like this is a channel

that you can just turn on and leave on all day because we'll have something that appeals to you throughout the day. Like Dr. Fillory runs and a bunch of non-sense Jesus content. I feel like it's just something you just turn on in a room where you're not even at. All right. You don't even have to know it's on. And then you just trick the advertisers into thinking that you're watching and we make money if that's cool. Oh, like the TV version of those Spotify songs, when those bands would be like,

just play our silent track. So we get the, just play it overnight so we get some Spotify money. I will say, if we wanna go real old media for him, just one of those traveling wagons like because he's a fake doctor. Yeah, like snake. Yeah, snake oil. Just like a covered wagon where he goes from town to town and like kind of reads the news of the world. Like in that Tom Hanks movie. Which one is that? It was called the news of the world. Not a lot of people saw it, I guess.

No, what's that from? Is that recent? That's it. You know, that was a type of entertainment back in the day where you just like kind of went from that. Tom Hanks movie. Yeah. It was called news of the world. I forget who made it. Should have been a thing, but it just like wasn't. I think it might have come out during the pandemic. Oh yeah. It came out in 2020. What the fuck? Yeah.

Yeah. This is sounding like only familiar enough to think maybe I dreamed it yeah, yeah He went in a covered wagon from town to town and read the news That was what it does Like it didn't change from one town to the next no he just like he was the guy who had a subscription to the newspaper Just like all right, here we go. It's like sharing your login. Yeah. But just like an actual snake oil road show would make sense for him, I feel like.

And steer into the curve, Dr. Phil. Just because this antiquated type of media didn't work out for you, I feel like you just keep going deeper into the past. Yeah. I'd say that or maybe try infomercials, something. But don't let your hustle end. Yeah, exactly. I mean, supplements are evergreen.

They've been selling supplements since entertainment was a guy telling you what the lamp flickers on the cave wall looked like. That one kind of looks like an elephant. God, it kind of feels like as much as I laugh at this concept, I'm like, dude, this kind of sounds like a podcaster of the reconstruction period of America. Right. It's like, hey, man, too lazy to find shit out. I'll tell you some stuff through my biased perspective. You want to take it as fact? All right, moving on.

News from the Orient coming up. All right, moving on news from the Orient. All right. Well, from one failed venture to the next, we have Chuck E. Cheese being like, what if Dave and Buster's didn't exist? The games were more shit. This is just like an idea that seems like they had to have come up with it in a locked room only like not knowing what anyway For any adults who want to visit Chuck E Cheese without kids, but don't want to be Put on some kind of a list. There's now Chuck's arcade

With multiple locations opening up in malls across America right now Catering to lifelong fans of the brand, aka old people, and it won't just feature new confusing video games. Like, what was the dark game that, Jim, you were obsessed with? The Long Dark? The Long Dark?

The Long Dark? Fuck that. How about Donkey King? Donkey King? It's weird that they thought we would want to relive the arcade portion of Chuck E. Cheese and not the concerts. Right, yeah. Well, they will have a concert.

They, there will be animatronics. They're like, we've heard you, we're bringing back the animatronics. Are they gonna be aged up? You know, like when you you go see like your favorite band from high school and they're all just kind of old and slower and down a key. Just, yeah, just moving a little bit slower.

This is so fucking sad. So they're opening Chuck E. Cheese like lights for adults in dead mall spaces. Like it just feels like this weird capitalism zombie, like infecting another host where it's like, and then the Chuck E. Cheese thing came for the old express or limited to storefront space where people, these pictures, man, I feel so bad for,

even the actors in their promotional materials look like they can't be fucking bothered to have fun in this place. Like, like the people look so young, this one guy's got a fedora on and they're playing ski ball. can't be fucking bothered to have fun in this place. Like, the people look so young, this one guy's got a fedora on, and they're playing Ski Ball, and you're like, oh, come on, buddy.

This guy, he's not even, look, he's playing, what is this fucking air hockey? He's not even looking at the puck. It's like Glide Air. Yeah, I've been out of the arcade game for a minute. I called it Donkey King, man. Yeah. Like, the... Donkey King is so minute. I called it Donkey King, man. Yeah. Like the...

Donkey King is so funny. That sounds like a new Netflix show, like Tiger King, but with like way lower stakes. That's the unlicensed ripoff of Donkey Kong, right? Right, Donkey. Donkey King, yee-haw. Yeah, this is... That's the one that's in the app store

that steals your identity. Right, right, right, right, right. Yeah, God, I just don't... just feels like such a like last-minute Gasp for Chuck E Cheese, although hey, I know there's one in the mall of Georgia in Buford, Georgia And there's one it definitely in Oklahoma City. So is that gang if have you been to one is it popping? I don't know. I can't tell I don't think I can recommend this Yeah, you can't I don't know. I can't tell. I don't think I can recommend this. Yeah, you can't? I don't think so.

I mean, at least at a regular Chuck E. Cheese, they have beer and you can watch financially stretched out parents get into fist fights. Right. Yeah. Like, I mean, it just feels like, so these are specifically not for children. Like that just feels.

Yeah, like carting at the door with Yeah, hold on. These are fakes beat it kid. Oh, there is Dave and Buster's like that is the thing that happens There's like Dave and Buster's is already a Chuck E Cheese that has a big bar in it And like people are on dates there and it is a weird like cross-section They let kids in, though, right? So the only added bonus is they have to not let kids in at all. Right. It's like children's birthday parties mixed with like people on first dates having like too much to drink.

So Chuck E. Cheese is now going to be a swingers arcade is what you're saying. I mean, I feel like the lighting is definitively bisexual lighting. Everything is like purple. Purple and blue lit. We sanitize that ball pit every night. Yeah, because we have to. I'm just like the crowd of people who are adults are like, man I want to play video games but I don't want any kids around are probably just playing video games at home. Yeah. You know what I mean? I'm not, not all of them. I'm miles. Oh yeah. I went to a year old workplace for one of my kids' birthdays,

ultra zone, ultra zone. And there was a guy who rolled up by himself, long jorts, uh, leather vests, leather glove, just a whole heap of the coins. Like they have their own like proprietary coins that the video games operate on. They're called Tobin Jack. And just posted up at one game that he really liked

and was like getting so annoyed when kids would like come over and even like watch him play and Wow Fucking character bit like it feels like a Tim Robinson character. Yes, exactly. I Know Brian that are dressed in the chat. I was gonna be like was it DDR was a dance dance revolution No, it wasn't that the jorts in the leather vest. I go this motherfucking player DDR I bet because we had so I used to work at this laser tag place and there were the DDR adults who would come in

on Friday nights and just fucking take over that section of the very narrow arcade at UltraZone, the ultimate laser tag venture. One of the best places for children's birthday parties. But yeah, this is, they're basically like, what if we just cut off that entire stream of income, the mainstream of income and instead assumed. I also don't even know if they have a bar here. Like it doesn't, it doesn't seem like they do.

They don't. They don't. So it's Chuck E. Cheese for adults without alcohol. Whereas the Chuck E. Cheese that's not for adults does have alcohol. I feel like you're leaving a vacuum for hardcore drug dealers to fill at this point. whereas the Chuck E. Cheese that's not for adults does have alcohol. Exactly. You're leaving a vacuum for a hardcore drug dealers to fill at this adult. Right. Chuck E. Cheese.

Just right there. Chuck's Arcade is where you got to get the hard stuff. If I sold mushrooms, I know where I'm going. That's right. Right, right. Exactly. They're like, you know what will make this shitty tiny arcade even better? Or some psychedelics to fill you with absolute dread when they hit. This has to be on like a top 10 list of like worst places to be on psychedelics.

It's like an arcade. Oh, the memories that would come rushing to you to be in a dead mall and have like a Chuck E. Cheese and just the vibes of the people who were there. Like, yeah. Oh, no, no, no. Just any games that you witnessed at Chuck's arcade might kill you. Like it might just be if you're on psychedelics, like you might just be like, I can't live anymore. This is too bad. We're just sitting in one of those games where you like hold the gun

and you're hunting aliens or something. And then it's like stereo stereo sounds people screaming at you and Zombies coming towards you. Yeah overwhelming. Oh, I would try that. I would absolutely try it Yeah, just have a like a sober buddy like to get you out Go go like come on Jim. Come on Jim. Come on. Jim. Let's go. We've got an extraction situation Ski ball and bring you down. You mean skull ball? They're all skulls I'm holding. OK, shit. All right. Let's go to orange.

You're playing whack a mole. And it's just like all your high school bullies and people who remain to you through your whole life. It's Scott again. God damn you. I feel like I could go either way on like being on mushrooms and playing skeeball I might just like have incredible touch or I might Like not even be able to get it up the the alley, you know, just can't get it there So weak, oh god, well Jim twos. What a pleasure having you on the daily zeitgeist

Where can people find you follow you see your special all that good stuff specials up on YouTube You could subscribe to me there at Jim twos Jim tews and that's all my social media is at Jim twos as well So Instagram and YouTube is one of the most active. Hell. Yeah, man And is there a work of media that you've been enjoying? I just watched the Minecraft movie last weekend. A Minecraft movie? A Minecraft movie.

I also watched it last weekend. I thought it was great. It was fun. I've never played Minecraft, but I really like that movie. I know it's for 11 year old boys, but I am an 11 year old boy. Yeah.

At heart. Yeah. Momoa, Momoa's character fun. Just he plays a good loser. Yeah. It was a big hit with my children and I was along for the ride. Jack Black is a delight. And then we watched school of rock has become like my kid's favorite musician

besides Imagine Dragons. Gotta show him Orange County. Yo. That's one of the best Jack Black performances. So what if he's on drugs the whole time? You can explain it to your kids. That's right. Pick a destiny.

They do ask why people do drugs. They have been asking me that. Why do people do drugs? Why do people drink alcohol? The real question is why don't you, man? You'll know soon enough. Yeah, exactly, yeah. Because Santa's not real.

Oh, fuck. Miles, where can people find you? Is there work of media you've been enjoying? Yeah, find me fucking everywhere at milesofgray. Check out the last episode of Miles and Jack Got Mad, Boosties Ever. That was last week. And also, if you wanna hear me talk about 90 day fiance catch me on 4 20 day fiance

Some works of media like uh past guest friend of the show josh gondelman at josh gondelman.beesky.social posted It's fun how every hotel room has a bunch of lights that don't make it any brighter Yes, someone who's really all these fucking switches for what for fucking what that's right Um, and then another one was I I mentioned this uh piece by uh, that was in it was an opinion piece in the guardian By v formerly eve ensler, uh, just talking about just living in the u.s Right now and how the just the energetically it feels like absolute poison, uh, but I just want to read this little Uh paragraph that my dad sent this to me. He's like he's like this is actually a pretty good moment energetically it feels like absolute poison. But I just wanna read this little paragraph that my dad sent this to me.

He's like, this is actually a pretty good moment. But I think this is just important. Quote, to live as Young said, with two existing opposite thoughts at the same time, survival right now depends on our ability to swim in this duality, to not linger in the pain, but to allow ourselves to be moved by it, to not whitewash reality,

but also not to take up lodging in the house of despair. This is the dance of our times. We must become agile and flexible to feel responsible, but not so guilty we are immobilized, to feel rage, but to learn how to direct it into action and passion and purpose, to lift ourselves to a more existential absurdist place where the fascists cannot touch us, not a disassociation or numbness, but finding the grace, energy and humor that come when we commit ourselves more deeply to one another. And I just thought that was very poignant right now to sort of hear that.

That's Young? Who said that? Just a pair to, you're the philosophy expert, but maybe this idea of being able to live. Nick Young? No, Steve, Jack, Steve Young. Steve Young, all right, my favorite philosopher. No, that was an amazing quote.

That was awesome. Work media I've been enjoying on Twitter. So Danny at Beyonce Garden tweeted, y'all my brother just woke up from a 15 year coma. Crying face and Slick at Nick Still Here tweeted, tell him Bron's still doing it. That's... I've seen that happen elsewhere

I've seen any time someone wakes up that is the piece of news that everybody urges them to I feel like that would be if I was just waking up from a 15-year coma I feel like that would be the wildest that probably not the wildest but the best news like Enduring the biggest good news. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Like wait, what the fuck do you mean? How's that how's that even possible? Anyways, you can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find me on blue sky at Jack OB the number one underscore O'Brien, you can find me on bluesky at Jack OB, the number one. You can find us on Twitter and bluesky at daily zeitgeist.

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Yeah, this is a really nice bouncy, sort of like new R&B, alt R&B track. It's called Rosie, R-O-S-I-E, great name. And it's by the band Figmore, F-I-G-M-O-R-E. Again, just some nice music to have you feeling light and joyful because yeah, just use music for that. It's good fuel for joy. So imbibe. All right. We will link off to that in the footnotes. The Daily Zyte Guys is a production

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