The Daily Zeitgeist - Cigar Bro Hacked!? Ninja Goebbels Wobbling? 03.31.26

Episode Date: March 31, 2026

In episode 2032, Miles and guest co-host Mort Burke are joined by co-host of One of Us with Fin and Chris, Chris Renfro, to discuss… Miller, The White House’s Brand New App App Is A “Privacy Nightmare," Hackers Breached Kash Patel’s Email Account, Bob Dylan Going Electric > Bob Dylan Going AI Patreon Grift and more! White House’s Mysterious ‘Covfefe Moment’ Was Stupider Than We Imagined The White House app is just as weird and unnecessary as you'd expect White House launches mobile app, includes live feeds and ICE reporting line The White House App has OneSignal's full GPS pipeline compiled in, polling your location every 4.5 minutes, syncing your exact coordinates to a third party server. FBI director Kash Patel’s emails, photos hacked by Iran-linked group FBI confirms hackers targeted Kash Patel's personal emails Lectures from the Grave: The Dead Speak Bob Dylan's Instagram Presents: AI Aaron Burr on The Art of Survival Bob Dylan's Instagram Presents: Edgar Allen Poe Speaks from the Grave Bob Dylan Launched a Patreon for Some Reason Bob Dylan Sells His Songwriting Catalog in Blockbuster Deal LISTEN: 94' by GUCCIGARETTE feat. camo maneSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I just had a, I had a McFlurry late last night. Not proud of it. What did you do in there? Because you get to choose toppings and stuff, right? Isn't that the thing? Yeah, but they don't even mix. Half the machine that was broken. So you're just getting soft served with like a bunch of Oreo dust, like thrown on top.

And you're like, just like some teenager that's crumbling up a cookie back there. Yeah, just like with their bare hand. They're like, here you go. I'm like, dude, there was like weed stems in there. I think the dude was breaking up weed. There's a penny in this thing. What? Yeah.

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We can do this in many languages, but welcome to season 432, episode two of the Daily's Iguise, Iguise, a production of IHeart Radio. This is the podcast where we take it. deep dive into America's shared consciousness through the day's news. Also, you already know, Mondays, we got icons episodes. Okay, tap in. Okay, this is a good one because it's the memorial of the death of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ. Heard of them. Talking about the Easter bunny this week.

With Brandy Posie. King of Kings. Who also happened to be a mall Easter Bunny herself. So very good insights about the Easter Bunny from some. someone who was doing the work of being an Easter Bunny and learning many things about how stinky those suits are. So check those out. Those are every Monday.

Not tied to the news. So lighter vibes. You know what I mean? You can, you know, when we're doing the main show, no, we're going to be talking about whatever the fuck is happening. But these ones, just a nice little break where we can just laugh and say, canonically, the Easter Bunny should be a lady. And so many things would be solved.

But it's an interesting, check it out. I learned a lot about the Easter Bunny. that I did not know. Anyway, it's Tuesday, March 31st, 2026. That means it's National Crayon Day or Crayan, depending on how you pronounce it in America. I know people say Crayons or Crayon. It's National Prom Day,

national clams on the half-shell day, National Bunsen Burner. Shout out to all my pyromaniacs in a science lab doing shit. You weren't supposed to with that bang. And also National Tater Day. I love a potato. Love a fry. Love a mashed potato.

I love it in all its forms. Love a chip. Oh, love a chip. Love a chip. Which, I think we've already talked about. We already talked about a little chips. I bring it up a lot, yeah. Yeah, we talk about a lot of chips.

It's fine. I don't know as a lot of people, how much I talk about. Big chip guy on the pod today. Oh, yeah. Anyway, my name is Miles Gray, aka. Rising up off of the street, climbing out of my range rover. Roll the whip.

Now I'm back. on my feet just a tiger with the will to survive so many times it happens too fast you trade the booze for

dark web quailudes don't lose your grip on the wheel or you'll crash oh shit oh fuck I just crashed the car again DU eye of the tiger

It's the thrill of the drive Happens so much The cops are on speed dial And the last known accident nearly cost me my life but a champ goes for Gold D-U-A-U-A

All right, shout out to Hugo Boss for that one. Look, Tiger, one blazing to another, bro, stop flipping the fucking cars, get it together. I don't know what the you need help. I know when somebody's in needs help, you need help,

my guy. The Secret Service won't even let you put Donald Trump's grandchildren in danger because you're dating Donald Trump Jr.'s ex-wife, they don't even let you drive the kids. I don't know what else has to happen. You know what I mean? I don't know what else has to happen for you to wake up.

But there's so much, I'm just looking at the Discord. Shout out Hugo Vosk. Everybody looking at the Discord's like, yeah, man, there's a lot we can do with this Tiger Woods DUI. Yeah, I'm overwhelmed by the depth of that parody. Great work. Incredible.

Literatism. Dark web quailudes. Love it. Dark web quailudes. of fire. Love it. It's only way to get them. Only way to get them now. Oh, man.

Look, I'm thrilled to be joined today by my guest's co-host, a fantastic person. Doesn't always have a functioning Instagram. Is it functioning yet? Do we know? No, it's cooked.

Yeah, I'm over it. Fully cooked. Yeah, fully, fully cached. Oh, boy. All right. Well, look, don't worry about that. Fantastic comedian, podcaster,

skateboarder, I don't know how many times I can describe it, how many ways I can describe their genius, but please welcome. Also, obviously, when I say podcasting, rebrand the pod, that is the podcast. The handle on Instagram won't even mention it because this shit is cooked. Don't even work anymore. No, so follow me on it. Follow me on at rebrand the pod because that one is from my, that's my functioning, uh, functioning Instagram currently. But yours is like locked out because somebody logged into your shit like from abroad. It's a whole, it's another stupid boring. Technology does not work around me. I, yeah, I fully, and I had this truly a dude, I was trying to learn how to do podcast

stuff, and I hired a guy who is a studio producer, and he came over to my house, and he was helping, he goes, I've seen people like you before. There are people who technology just stops working around, and you're one of them. And I was like, dude, I'm telling you, I like to think that my aura is so powerful that it totally disrupts the electrical crew. That's like Jack was saying he has that kind of thing, but his mom also every camera around her breaks. Yep. Which is wild. I'm like, it's like a mutant power nobody asked for and a very expensive one.

It's just ruining your electronics constantly. Frustrating, we're the frustrated X-Men. Frustrated consumer X-Men. Well, look, Mort, we have another fantastic comedian, actor, writer, improvise, multi-hyphen it, okay? They're not just making the ha-haz live for you in your face. They're also doing it. and Tony Award winning productions.

Ever heard of Oh, Mary? Yeah, I have. Pulled up as Mary's teacher in that, okay? Also, has a fantastic podcast. One of us with Finn and Chris. Finn couldn't make it today, but Chris is here today. And all that to say that we are thrilled to be joined by our guest today.

Chris Renfro! What up, cuties. Thank you for that. Look, I'm trying. I'm trying, Chris. It's worth it. It's working. Finn Argus was supposed to be. Finn couldn't make it, but Chris is here. So we have one half of the pot here, which is fine. Yeah, well, one of us is here. There it is. We live up to the name yet again. And there's a Christian podcast named one of us because that's the one I listened to. And when I was listening to that earlier, I was like, wait, this doesn't sound like Chris and Finn. No, no, no, no, there's a fantastical Christian worship podcast by the same name. And I promise you, no matter how deep into their catalog you get, you will not be. hearing our voice.

No matter what. Okay, okay, good to know. And that's probably based off that, was it Joan Osborne who had that song? What if God was one of us? That's where the whole shit came, right? Yeah. Just a slav like one of us.

Makes you really, really think, you know. Yeah. Just an improviser, one of us. Struggling with a one word suggestion. That's not food. All right. Today's episode is very musical, isn't it? I like that.

A couple of little songbirds. Look, you know, what can we do? Chris, I know you got a song in your heart, you know? Let it out. Let it out. Well, Chris, we're going to get to know you a little bit better. First, we're going to talk about what's going on in the news. First up, Teenage Mutant Ninja Gerbils himself, Stephen Miller.

A lot of noise about him the last couple weeks. And at first, I'm like, I don't know, man. This feels like cope headlines or they're like, Stephen Miller. I don't know, maybe things are changing. But now there's like multiple articles. and I'm like, this is usually when like people, frustrated people in the White House because they can't get Trump's attention because he's so seen out. They just start leaking to the press so it creates stuff that Trump has to notice. And there's been a few people, you know, loosening up their lips to like the Wall Street Journal and Politico.

So I'm like, oh, maybe there's maybe there is some smoke. I don't know if that means Stephen Miller is out. But clearly there's a lot of probably unwanted attention on his leadership if you are Teenage MutiGerberable, Stephen Miller. So we'll talk about that. We'll talk about the new White House app that they put out. Turns out it's like not good and could be bad for your privacy? I don't know. We'll dig into that.

I'm a bit dubious. Okay. But we'll see about that. And then speaking of online privacy, over the weekend, Cash Patel, the head of the FBI, had his email hacked. And the hackers dumped a bunch of pictures and shit. And it's like, this guy is such a. fucking herb, dude.

It's upsetting to see, but sure, we'll revel in the herbaceousness of the head of the FBI. Then we will touch on Bob Dylan, because now he has switched to a distributor of AI slop, which is very odd for such a

seminal artist in American music. But I guess probably a fitting way to end up, because this is 2026 America, and somehow you just end fucking with AI slop at some point. So we'll talk about that more and talk about those stories and many other things. But first, Chris Renfro,

what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are or what you're into right now? I looked through a couple of the more recent searches on my Google and I'll spare you the boring porn searches Because once you've searched one, you've searched them all. Well, what are they?

No shade. I'm trying to know. What's you getting down with? Yeah. Underperforming college student begs professor for a better grade and finds a huge surprise waiting under his desk. I search those exact words. It's called knock on a variety. I like this underperforming.

I like that he's academically challenged. I like that's part of the fantasy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like, oh, man, especially with that. He got that, he got that academic scholarship. If he fucks up, the money's going to go poof. So what's he going to do? What's he going to do?

He's got to get a good grade and Econ 301. And his professor is so cute. I mean, how does he have that dreamy hair? And he's always wearing gray sweatpants during the lectures. Somehow, he's also the only student in this classroom today. You know, you're my worst student, I got to say. And my only student. Sorry, so if it's not that, then what?

What were the searches? The lyrics, I need six eggs from Beauty and the Beast. Oh. What part is that? That's, I'm guessing a baking scene. That's from like the number where Bella's like walking through town and you're meeting all of the people. It's so funny.

Just this random ass lyric of this woman with several kids and she is desperate. Right. You know, she's just like, I don't know, everyone's like, ooh, here, look at this fountain. Oh, we're having fun being merchants in the city. And she just comes out strong. It's like, I need six eggs. Oh, yeah. I'm looking at the meme of this. Yes. She's like seven babies in her. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Correct. I don't know why the thing is, I laughed when I was going through my Google search because I was like, why did I even look that up? can't remember. There are so many people who talk about this on like the internet who are like, what's going on with this mean? I need sick. There's an egg challenge inspired by this. What do you mean? There's an egg challenge. I have no idea. It looks like, oh no, this looks like this is improv. Yeah. No. This is definitely on a black box stage and someone is just dressed as the lady from

that. And I think they were just doing a bit rather than a legitimate earnest six eggs challenge based I like that at six eggs. She's like clearly in the middle of a recipe where she just, she's six, exactly six short. Yeah. I mean, you got one, two, three, you got the three babies. And then it's like, that's too expensive, right? It's like the follow up right after that. It's like you do kind of know the price of eggs probably. You know, like day to day prices of eggs don't fluctuate in the same style of volatility as like gas or stock stocks. You know, like give or take it's going to be the same price yeah yeah wow everybody's fucking like there's lin-manuel miranda dogma i need six what the fuck is or people post i didn't realize how seminal

i just i need six eggs is as just like a thing from beauty and the beast man it's so man it doesn't you would think that like oh okay well that's so random it's got to be a plot point maybe this plot point will come back later no simply not yeah just like no she needs to to six eggs, man. Nari to sing a more egg. They're like post credits gratefully receiving me eggs, you know?

Yeah, I got six eggs. They're not expensive after all. There are, like, I watch a lot more musicals now with,

uh, with my kid who's three. And like, I'm just picking up on those like sort of like weird odd lines too. Like there's one in Moana where they're like, we laugh and we weave our baskets.

And I'm like, like, what a weird like white gaze upon. like Pacific Islander culture. And this is where they laugh and weave their baskets. And I'm like, we laugh and we weave our baskets. How do we add more culture

to this song? How do I reach these kids? Please, Lin-Manuel, Miranda. Find something interesting. We laugh and we weave our baskets. I need six eggs. Oh, okay. Hell no, that gas's too high. Are you a musical theater diva?

I'm sort of just kind of more of a general diva, unfortunately. But I do, I've got a, I also, I do, I did some musical stuff at the annoyance theater in Chicago. So I've done, I've done my fair share of musical, actually. Okay. Oh, okay. I'll do a little sing song, you know. Okay. Well, look, we might have to figure something out then.

Because you be a little quiet. Tell me your second favorite musical. Well, that, you know, that's the thing is I'm not huge into it as a genre, but I do, I don't know if this is corny or what. I kind of like, I like the songs from Jesus Christ Superstar. there's a real like there's a there's kind of a weird passion set you know there's like a sweaty 70sness to them that I like

yeah sure sure sure sure you know did you catch it at the bowl a little bit more like what's that did you catch it at the bowl when Cynthia Revo was Miss Jesus Christ tragically no did you no no no

well I did unfortunately not and shame on both of you no I didn't I didn't I didn't tickets are too expensive. And my magic eight ball said, don't go. So I didn't. Which is my true God. Chris, what's something that you think is underrated? Ooh, something that I think is underrated is being physically affectionate with all of your

closest friends. I love to cuddle and watch a movie. I love to kiss my friends, hello, goodbye. I love to hold hands with my friends in the street as well. I love to We're walking, skipping along as we're going through the farmer's market. Can you still skip? I'm not that old dude. Yeah, I can still skip. I'm just, because I love watching those videos of old people, like, their brain short-circuiting when they try to skip. And I'm like, what the fuck?

Oh, no. Is that like a primary skill that we stand to lose? It's like a thing. If you lose wonder and joy, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a thing. Like, people, like, lose the whimsy. Oh, I shan't be losing my whimsy.

Yeah, no, no, please don't. Especially when you're talking about musicals. Like, I don't want to hear about people not, like, you better be skipping. You better be skipping. But yeah, there's like a ton of videos. They're just like, hey, let's go ahead and do some skipping. And it's always like this version. It's like a version of dancing I've never seen because they've just kind of lost the eight, like just the very basics of it.

Sorry, but so you're skipping. You're holding hands. Well, this is such a beautiful underrated. I'm going to make a pledge here to start kissing my friends just gently. on the forehead, I think. Yeah. Oh, genuinely, I do kiss a ton of my friends on the forehead.

Hello. If they're sitting... It's got to be nice, right? It's so cute. Honestly, like, if there's... If they're... Okay, imagine this scenario. Everyone is at brunch.

You are, of course, 10 or 15 minutes late. There was traffic. Who cares? So they're all sitting down already. Oh, okay. I'm wondering how you get the altitude right. Okay.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. You arrive and everyone cheers. Oh, yay. Please don't get up. Please don't get up. And you say, please don't. Yes, yes, yes. Don't get up.

Please, please, please. And slowly you go around and then you wrap your arms around them and pull their head back a little bit. Kisses on the forehead. Hello. Oh. Hello, Alicia. Go to the next person. Yeah.

Hello, Brian. And move their chin up too. Sort of like you're pouring shots like at a vacation bar, like at a beach club. You're like, tilt their head back. Yeah, just a little shot of love. I love that. love that. You got to also like when you're laughing, this is like black people are like just like when

you're laughing, you always have to touch somebody. Like something's really funny. You always got to, you got to grab somebody and shake them. Some things are inbuilt culturally. But the other side, like in Japan, oh my God, physical affections like so fucking foreign. Like when I'm always freaking my cousins out when I'm like, come here. I was, what the fuck? I haven't seen you.

Oh, that's right. That's right. Y'all do that shit over there. I imagine how things would change in America if men who are friends with either just started holding hands. I'm not saying like immediate world peace, but it's going to shift some stuff

in a really important way. Let go of that shit. Yeah, yeah. There's too much, like the rigidity of like straight guys is, it's so much that it's like, it's causing you guys health problems. It's embarrassing, dude.

And I think it's probably, yeah, I think it's totally one of the biggest issues. Just start hugging, dudes. What's the problem? Not that kind where you slap each other in the back either. I'm talking starts off. A genuine embrace. Oh, yeah.

I will put my, I'll put my chin over the shoulder. Yeah. Yeah, we're docking next today, my dude. Get ready, bro. No, I love all of my straight guy friends. They're all very affectionate. And they, a lot of them initiate cuddling with me.

And I say, great, you have been trained well. Yeah. Next, where's my next coin? What's something that you think is overrated? Okay, so this is going to immediately feel like a contradiction to kind of the last one, I think, in a way. But I think something that is overrated is generalized therapy speak. I think that as a culture, great that we, in mass, pro therapy, going to therapy, I think that we have swung the pendulum a little too far, and now people that are broken

are using therapy speak to justify their bad behavior and wrap it up in the guise of this language. It's definitely like predatory people do that. lot. You know, where, like, I see a lot with like, it's like a part of like predation of sort of like wrapping up those dark traits as being like, well, I'm, there's an awareness around that. And like, yeah, like, accept me for that. Like, what do you mean you don't want to fuck me? That's triggering, by the way. What do you mean you don't do oral on the first date? Honestly, do you know about my trauma with that? Show me your feet. Because if you don't, you're going to make my ADHD really bad.

Yeah, there's like, I think it's like one of those things too. It's like, for there's definitely a group of people who hear enough therapy talk and like, all right, that's basically like me in therapy just because I've heard about other people there. And I'm going to take some of those buzzwords and figure out how to map that on in my own life without really the work of trying to create a level of self-awareness or understanding of who I am. But I'm like, well, hear how they talk, how they're fucked up. All right.

Yeah, yeah. I think I know how to do this. Yeah, I'm in therapy too. I'm all fucked up from my childhood trauma, basically had an emotionally unavailable father figure. And that's manifested in my inability to call any person I date back after a date that I think went wrong. Yeah.

So when you experience me slapping you, you have to accept that. Right, right. And I'm broken, and I know that. And I know that. I didn't give you consent to get a restraining order on me. You have this all wrong. Oh, really?

Oh, shit. Sorry. Kind of freestyling with some shit that I heard in a couple podcasts. But Huberman Mads. Huberman Lab is pretty cool, though, huh? Check that one out. Pretty cool, pretty cool podcast. All right, let's take a quick break.

When we come back, we shall talk about Zenoos right after this. You know, Roaldol, the writer who thought up Willie Wonka, Matilda, and the BFG. But did you know he was on? also a spy? Was this before he wrote his stories? It must have been. Our new podcast series, The Secret World of Roll Doll, is a wild journey through the hidden chapters of his extraordinary, controversial life. His job was literally to seduce the wives of powerful Americans. And he was really good at it. You probably won't believe it either. Okay, I don't think that's true. I'm telling you. I was a spy. Did you know Doll got cozy with the Roosevelt's?

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Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcast. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of IHeart Women's Sports. I'm Lori Siegel, a long-time tech journalist. And consider my new podcast, mostly human, your bridge to the future. Anyone can now be an entrepreneur. Anyone can build an app. And it's very empowering. Each week, I'll speak to the people building that future.

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So there's a lot of talk about Stephen Miller out in the air right now. His like just about his deportation vision of a fucked up America that looks less cool, less diverse. And also how Trump may be starting to sour on that whole mass deportation effort. It's, again, hard to take these articles seriously all the time because there's always someone being blamed for Trump's incompetence. But this has come after like a few weeks now of White House insiders clearly leaking to the press to try to get the president's attention. So to start just with the backdrop, right, the one area where Trump was above water on polling was immigration and border security. Immigration was the first one to dip into the negatives. and just recently Trump has now dipped into the negatives on border security, meaning more people think he's not doing great job than he is.

At first, some people were like, well, he's being a terrible xenophobe that probably means border security is good, I think, but with everything going on, even that has taken a hit. And that was one of the, again, one of the, really the only place, policy place where Trump could point at, he's like, well, they trust me on this. And now that that's gone, that's where I think, maybe people are like, okay, so usually what happens is Trump starts to fail or flail, and then he inevitably finds someone to throw under the bus. And I think this is like the kind of thing that Trump cares about, because again, he felt like this was the place that he's excelling and was probably being told constantly by Stephen Miller,

and probably saw initially too when he was on the campaign trail that being like a racist demagogue was giving people like, they're going like, woo! And he's like, okay. I like to see. And that gave a little, and Stephen Miller was like, did you see, sir, I'm right. Just be more racist, please. And now it's not working. And I think that's where potentially a Stephen Miller scapegoat, Stephen Miller shaped scapegoat may come into the picture.

I don't think it, I don't, I still have trouble believing that it ends with his ousting or ouster at any point. But honestly, stranger things have fucking happened. So, like, a week before last, there was this Wall Street Journal article, talking about how Trump was beginning to like cool on mass deportations and seemingly beginning to understand that like Stephen Miller's all gas, no breaks approach to this was jeopardizing the midterms. Specifically that he's like there needs to be a new approach. And the optics around it made it really seem it's like,

oh God, it's really fucked up looking, I guess, to normal people out there who vote. And he wants to stop talking about mass deportations, quote unquote, but less and really bring the focus into like only bad guys. It's only the bad guys. It's not people dropping their kids off at school. It's not the elderly. It's only bad guys.

And I know statistically we've only gone after innocent people basically, but now we are trying to go after the bad guys. Unfortunately, like, you can't do both, right? It's like the whole thing is either Stephen Miller's version where he's telling people, it's like, we're only going after the worst, but then saying we're trying to deport like a million people a year and only getting to about like 300,000 while also just getting American citizens caught up in that.

And then Politico, this is where another Stephen Miller sort of piece comes out, reported that like Miller's just insane abusive leadership style has led to poor ICE director Todd Wyans, lions, being hospitalized for the second time in a year due to stress. Okay, they're like, this guy's so stressed out. The ICE director is so stressed out. He's going to the hospital. He's been hospitalized twice.

And they've been trying to keep this under wraps. People were telling political, I was like, no, dude, this shit happened in October. This other shit happened in December. Dude, it's fucking not well. This is from political. Violating so many people's rights, it's bad for your, it's exhausting. It's exhausting. Yeah.

And part of me was like, bro, go to go get hospitalized harder, dog. I don't give up. Like, you're like, oh, my stress. Like, what the fuck? What do you think? Like, you're supposed to be seeing rainbows and fucking clouds and beautiful sunsets? No. This is from political quote.

In a separate incident in Los Angeles over the summer, Lions became so distressed when ICE agents couldn't locate a migrant on their target list after a ride along with top administration officials that one of his bodyguards took a portable defibrillator from a nearby government office to Lyons in case he needed medical intervention, according to one current and one former official. So they're in the car. They're like, who's up next? He's like, where, it's so great to have you gentlemen or here, you know,

the people from the administration, we're going to show you how we operate. We're going to get this person's next on our list. And they're like, uh, we don't know where this person is like, fucking fun. Just imagine him, he's sweating through his suit. Oh, God. Oh, yeah. Where's that brown man? Yeah, yeah.

Seriously. Los Angeles. It's a where's Waldo. Yeah, yeah. And truly, then I'm sure that's why for them because Stephen Miller's like, I don't care. You need to get anyone. pick anybody up that it ends up truly being,

it's like, honestly, it's like, if you don't look so white, there's no question about it, you might be, you might get caught up in this bullshit. Speaking of sweating, in the political article, it goes on to say, quote, during these episodes, the current and former officials said, they saw lions break out into a full sweat

with his face turning deep red. They also attributed the source of the pressure to ramp up deportations to the White House and top advisor Stephen Miller. who yelled at Lions during morning phone calls with administration officials, according to four people who were on the calls. Other officials disputed that Miller yelled at lions

with one saying the deputy chief of staff was merely, quote, passionate. That's all it is. That's like how people describe like shitty little league coaches. They're like, dude, this isn't good for the kids. I was going to say, this sounds like a lot of people that had a lot of embarrassing times

in a subpar locker room growing up. Like trying to get out a lot of aggression that their coaches put upon them. Yeah, sure, sure, sure. Yeah, man. And a lot of angry daddies. I'm sensing a lot of, we had some real angry daddies in this room.

100%. But, like, yeah, it's like, all of this is kind of forming a picture that, like, ICE isn't operating the way that even Stephen Miller wants. But on top of that, everyone downstream of Stephen Miller is just so stressed out because he's asking for things that are unobtainable. And so far the idea that before, because Trump was crediting a lot, he's like, I think the xenophobia is really one of the things and like transphobia. Those are the things that kind of put me over the edge in 2024. So maybe I lean into those. And he got, you know, the first year was fully doing that. But even like Melania,

Trump was also like, this is an L, I think, for us. Obviously. And that is now. Hey, that's a good Melania. Yeah, it's half Bjork. I have to admit, I have to admit. I'm kind of channeling Bjork. Yeah, yeah. There's only one bierk. Okay, let's not get that fucked up. But yeah, like, it's interesting that all of these are now showing that like Susie Wiles, who's the chief of staff, is the one getting Trump's attention more on this issue and trying to be like, hey, asshole.

If you keep doing the kind of shit that the way Stephen Miller wants it, we're going to lose people. Like, we're losing more people. and if you don't want the Democrats to fucking cowabunga their way into the like a majority on a blue wave in the midterms, maybe you should change it up. But at this point, it's like, you honestly,

that ship has set sail. So I don't know how the fuck they think that's going to change anything. So good luck to you, Todd Lyons, as you sweat profusely having to work for Teenage Mutiny Ninja Gerbils. And hey,

I haven't checked the prediction markets, but I don't know if Stephen Miller's, the probabilities have gone up. in terms of him losing his job. But anyway. I will say Stephen Miller, he does look like a, like a banchi who somebody just yanked the wig off of.

Yeah. I said he looks like, he looks like, you know, like if Dr. Evil started doing a bunch of, like, started tweaking,

you know what I mean? Yeah. And got gaunt, you know what I mean, from his usual Dr. Evil vibe, you know, he's,

I don't know, it's just not, right now, the narrative seems to be with these articles that maybe questions are being asked. I don't know how. Well, it's just goes to show like it's bad. Like that level of federal racism, it's bad for your complexion.

It's bad for your mental health, your spirit. I mean, these dudes all look like they need an 11-year nap because it's hard to be that evil. Yeah. And then this guy's getting defibrillated in the car, whatever. She looks like a guy who's currently having a really bad trip around his friends, but is refusing to admit that he's panicking. No, I'm fine. I'm fine.

It's okay. But he sees... You had seven of those brownies that you didn't know were edibles. You had seven of them. I knew. I knew they were. And I did them because I knew.

Seeing Beelzebub appear. Scott a bush, will you do the fan, and those? He's like, just playing in his mind. He's like, it took me so long to realize that it was Belsabab but had the devil put aside for me.

At first, I didn't know that was the lyric until like the age of looking at lyric sheets. Because in Wayne's world, when Bohemian Rhapsody really, like, hit my young millennial brain, I was like, Beezad bit, da, bit. And I was like, that motherfucker said beelze a book. I didn't even fucking know. Okay, Freddie, I see you. Moving on within the White House.

So there was that, did you see those videos last week where people were like, what are these fucking weird cryptic social media videos that got like posted and then taken down? And one was like, like, is this launching soon? and they're like, yes. And they're like, oh. And people were like, what the? And it was like a shot of like someone's feet. And it was someone in the White House and like, are they trying to hack? Like they're like, they're like soft launching, like mystery teasing, like some kind of terrible nuclear attack or something.

And at the time, I was like, I don't know. Because if you heard the whole clip, someone's like, someone talks about and they go, oh, that's so cool. And someone goes, oh, and this is launching soon. And I was like, this sounds like a website or some shit. It doesn't sound like this isn't how people are going to talk about impending, nuclear apocalypse. Although, again, who fucking knows. But a lot of people were concerned about that. Just imagine being like, yeah, it's a, it's, oh, the nuke is launching soon. That's so cool. Oh, God, I, I love that feature. We've been asking

for that feature for so long. So then, like, everyone in the app can, like, vote to see, like, when the missile launches? That's crazy. I love that feature built in. That's such a great feature. It turns out, all of those were just dumb fucking mistakes. And the thing that's, that they were talking about, or at least we're trying to get intrigue around, was that there was a new official White House app launching. And it has launched, and it's bad. So what it does, it claims to give people a, quote,

direct line to the White House with unfiltered real-time updates straight from the source. So, you know, if you want the president's, you know, dementia-plagued brain to start firing off and that causes him to talk about like Jack Nichols' ball sack or whichever, Arnold Palmer's, like how hung Arnold Palmer was, you'll be the first to hear about it with this app. It's crazy to me when government agencies, local or federal,

put out like an app in the app store because it's like, that's the same place that I get my grinder and sniffy, the location where I talk to gay men with Crohn's disease. And you want to do a. official business here? What's sniffy? Hold on, put me on the sniffy. Don't pretend you don't know.

Come on Miles. I'm a gay boy. What's sniffy? Sniffy? Okay, so are you familiar with Grindr? Yeah, I'm familiar with Grindr. Mort, are you queer? No.

I didn't think so, but I just wanted to set that straight. It seems like you've already been set straight, though. Scared straight. We've both been scared straight, actually. I'm a fucking ally, Chris. You can't say that and shake your head in that way because that is a microaggression. And also you said your second favorite musical was Jesus Christ Superstar,

and you didn't even see Cynthia Revo as Jesus. Come on, Martin. Where does that put me, though? I don't even know. Yeah, I'm not sure where on the spectrum that leaves me, actually. So Grindr is, of course, like a devastating little app where you can send pictures of your butt hole and pole to. strangers online before you even get their name.

And Sniffies is the next logical evolution of that, wherein it's just a grid of like your area. Imagine like Google Maps, and you can see where your local gay men are. So you can, and the culture of Sniffies is that like their profile pictures instead of Grindr, where like, Yeah, it's like a little depraved or whatever, but it's like you're seeing abs and

you're seeing like cute outfits, but you're not seeing ass and cock. On sniffiers, you're only seeing ass and cock. Oh, so they turned it up on sniffies. And it's just like, you're only talking to pole. But on the map, are people just like self-doxing to being like, yeah, you can give my real-time location? My dude, that's all gay men do. It's a, it is frightening the way that, uh, horny, gay people um, I mean, yeah, it feels like what men would do though, true, too. They're like, yeah, dude, where, I'm,

I'm right here, bro. Oh, people are just straight up. Straight up. Let me see the dick. Download sniffies. It's a, a web app, um, or something in the app store. And you can, after just a couple clicks, legitimately just find someone's address, uh, address. And it'll just be like, doors open.

and so was my hole. Oh, wow. Damn. Because I remember there used to be like Craigslist posts like that. You know, when people were just like, you know, come through, this is the address. Exactly. No questions asked. And then when looking for horny signals became illegal, this is what took over.

I see. I see. Well, I'm sure that app has better data privacy somehow than the White House racism beacon that you can download to your phone. For sure. There's all, like, this app also, they're like, it also has great news. We share news, quote unquote, articles, and it's all just bullshit pumping up the Trump administration. I mean, naturally it would be. It's not going to give you, like, and here's like, this is a hit piece from the Wall Street Journal about, like, the chaos within the White House.

It's like, no, this one's like from a website you've never heard of based in Russia saying everything's super chill and Trump's doing a good job. And then there's also a feature that allows you to quote, text President Trump, which auto-populates, text with greatest president ever, with an exclamation point, and then sends it to the White House standard contact form. So you're not actually doing it. But hey, I have a genuine question. Yes. And this is only tangentially related. But with Trump, do you know what I'm talking about, Trump? We'll go on. Maybe with more context, I might be able to pick up what you're putting down. There's like so much like, I'm thinking about like the Kennedy Center and like him putting his name on and then his signature going on to the currency and the next cycle.

Like, at a certain point, I have to wonder if he slash his people around him are just leaning into the bit. Like, I can't tell how genuinely. That's the problem. You lose yourself in the bit. At this moment. Like, I can't, I genuinely cannot tell how much is just trolling at this point. It's, I think it's, it's what it is, is Trump's national. inclination is to antagonize, but also center himself and everything. So it is very trolly,

given the context of him being in office. But he's surrounded himself with sycophants who are just yes, the best people to improvise with because they are just yes anding us to fucking hell right now and being like, oh yes, Mr. President, that is great. Yes, let's do that. Let's do that. Because I've been saying this for a long time. He's so senile, right? It's truly like all these people who have their own aims within the White House, they just have to get senile grandpas buy-in to do the thing they want to do, and then they can go do it. But y'all, then you have to lie about how successful it is to keep him happy. And then I think the other part of it is, they have to keep him occupied. Right now my kid is like at home because it's spring break for his

preschool. And we have to come up with a bunch of shit every day to be like, I don't want you to have a meltdown. Let's go, let's do some finger painting, play with these stamps. You want to put some stickers on my face. Let's do all this wacky shit because I have to keep you together before you have a fucking tantrum. And I think it's the same thing. It's like, yes, Mr. President, let's go, yeah, let's try and put your money on your signature on money. Yeah, do you want to put your name on okay, we can do that. That'll be today's thing. Meanwhile, he has no idea what's happening in the Iran War. He only gets like weird video montages every day of shit blowing up. And that's, that is basically making up his entire perception of what.

what is happening in the war. And he's told people, he's like, why aren't more people seeing this to know that we're winning? Because he's just seeing out of context clips of shit blowing up. So I think for some people, they probably start off like,

oh yeah, this is really gonna own the lips. And now they're like, am I owned too? Because I am the person pushing all of this? So then also this app also has like an ice snitch line thing where you can hit a button and it'll take you to the ICE reporting

web page. It does all kinds of foul shit that nobody asked for. I don't think even MAGA people, because I think they'd rather have six eggs, okay, and not say that's too expensive, you know, maybe even 12 and move on with their day.

And it's also, again, as expected, a privacy nightmare. That quote, request user permission to access precise locations, network connections, fingerprint, and biometric data. I mean, a lot of apps do this if you really read the fine print. The ability to prevent the device from sleeping, that's kind of wild,

and even modify or delete contents of shared storage. The app shares, quote, the exact location data of its users every four and a half minutes. Is that like sniffies, probably? Yeah, that's the exact feature. Yeah, exactly. And sends that information to a third-party server. The third-party one signal is a company that, quote,

provides push notification services. So you're just giving, you're giving them all, you're giving them whatever they want. by downloading this app. And then also, the app seemingly is, quote, loading YouTube video embeds via a random GitHub user's personal page, meaning like that if that person's GitHub account

is ever compromised, then someone who had access could have just served arbitrary HTML and JavaScript to whoever has this app using that. And I know what that means. And, oh, boy. Yeah. Well, it sounds like if you could easily just like use it to send video,

send whatever you wanted to. Anybody who subscribes to that app, right? So you could just be like, yeah, you could, an innocent version of that would be to Rickroll, whatever, the million people who have that app. Yeah, because people were just like, oh, how do we get the code for this? I don't know, go on GitHub and just copy,

like, just use whatever this person put on GitHub rather than, like, probably developing itself. But anyway, I think that shouldn't surprise anyone because this whole administration is just about cutting corners and then being like, yep, done, nailed it. You see, Mr. President, the app loads. It's a privacy nightmare, but it loads. So there's that.

And speaking of privacy, FBI director, Cash Patel. Oh, man. He got his shit fucking hacked by the Handala hack team, which is self-described pro-Palestinian hacking vigilantes. Western researchers have said is linked to Iranian cyber intelligence. So they got into Cash Patel's email account, access photos, travel documents, even his resume, put a bunch of the pictures up. I don't know. Have you guys seen the Cash Patel photos? No.

Yeah, they're a little disappointing to me because they're kind of, they're like, they're not, he just seems really boring. Like he seems like a college freshman who's trying to get into a fraternity by showing that he likes shit like cigars. The pictures are the nerdiest shit. I mean, like just you can tell this guy just like, like so manosphere-pilled, like, here he is with a fucking sick stoke. Went to fucking. There's just this weird selfie. Just odd. There's another one where he's like, there's so many pictures of him just smoking cigars.

Who's he emailing this to? That's so sad. Yeah, himself, I think, right? Mm-hmm. Like he'd be like, isn't this a cool, kind of a cool, chill picture, me? That picture where he remember this moment. This one picture of him with a cigar, it was, The email was called from Bombay with love.

And then the caption was, Our boy Patel kicking it Bollywood style. Fucking loser, bro. I can't handle this shit. Yeah, so desperate for like insecure 23-year-old men to think that he's cool. Well, I mean, if you don't think he's cool, there's like pictures of him posting near like a classic car. And he's just like adjusting his shades next to it, like within sandals.

And you're like, but what the, what is this? The FBI did, they did say, look, yeah, this shit was hacked. I think a lot of people were like, this is fake news. There's no way the FBI director got hacked. Like, yeah, he got hacked. But the other thing was like, but no fucking government info was obtained or leaked. So that's more just like a personal L than, you know, a professional one on the FBI. But it's just like the amount of cigar.

like stoke holding, that's such a fucking red flag when like dudes are like way too into cigars. I'm just like, you don't have no personality. And you're like of the belief of you're like, yeah, this is shorthand for strong guy is, I bite this very phallic thing I smoke on and I'm really, I'm a tough guy. Michael Jordan does it too. Just cracking a couple cohabas. But anyway, these are the, these are the big men of the FBI running things right now. The FBI did claim they will continue to pursue the actors responsible.

And they're like, yeah. They're artists? We mean bad faith actors. Sorry. Bad faith actors, meaning those were atheists. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Are we like theater stuff or more on camera? Is it like just sort of like indies?

Like were they, did they have anything at South By? Like maybe like Sundance shorts. Are they equity or non-equity sad? Yeah. Yeah, have they, I mean, it's Cash Patel. Has he been in like any, like, diversity programs that we've known about? Or showcases? No? I guess not. I guess not.

So, yeah, there, it's just like, again, it's from the apps to the people that are like the architects of all this suffering, all of these people are just like deeply uncool, unhappy, miserable motherfuckers who are trying to put their world onto us. And I always keep on saying, they have to live in our world, okay? Especially like the super insulated cabinet people who have never met a working person in their life who are just like, oh, we're going to dictate to you what your life should be. No, no, you actually need to start knowing what it's actually like to live in this country without, you know, having the ability to just like fuck off to wherever you need to or like a military base. So you don't have to see, you know, the byproducts of your decision making. So we'll see if any more comes out. I'm sure. I wonder if like other shit got hacked and they're like, look, look.

dude, this is a warrant. Like, just so you know, we're showing this shit. But you know there's other shit in your emails, too. Right. Yeah, that's what it felt like. Like, I couldn't believe there wasn't one of him, like, flexing shirtless or something. You know, like it just feels like that was the next one.

Yeah. Hey, guys, does it look like my routine's going well? Please reply all. Yeah, right. Oh, my God. I like how then now, like, Fox News is doing stuff. It's like the hack, the FBI email hack shows why you must lock down your tech,

all boomers. It is possible. Don't have your your password the password. That's not good. That's not good at all. What are your guys as passwords? For real? Lowercase M, capital of G, than my birthday, the last

four of my social, 6671 plus Arsenal. Yeah, mine's, you're doing great today, buddy, exclamation point. Oh, gosh. A little positive thing for myself. You're logging to Porn Hub. You're doing great today, buddy.

I'm not doing right. The idea of someone having a porn hub login sent a shiver down my literal spine. There was like at one point they were saying that he had like an X tube account or like red tube thing that they were showing. I forget what it was. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're like here's his or X videos. Was that true? I don't know if that was true.

Why do you need an account to save your history? I don't know. That's the one thing. When I saw that, I'm like, what the fuck are you? I believe I've seen all the pornography and I've never. I don't need an account? Yeah. I'm not like some of, I'm not like a media historian.

You know what I mean? Get in, you get out. You know, depends. My thing about Cash Patel is like, I find the lazy eye is like a really kind of a sweetly appealing look, you know. would just like lean into the fact that he's kind of a little bit nerdy. We, you know, that's the whole thing. Like it's, well, so much is just nerds unable to, and I'm a nerd, nerds, nerds unable to accept that they're nerds.

Yeah. You're nerd. You're a nerd. And they said that his, allegedly, I still don't, I don't know if this is true. I'm probably going to err on the side of it not, but they're like, the account, his name was Spider Cash. And then I'm like, oh, that's, that, then that feels real. You know what I mean?

Spider Cash is just the word on. Cash, weaving webs, getting hacked on my emo webs. I'll work on that one. Sorry. So sorry, I'll work on that one. Oh, yeah, it's okay. We'll workshop that. We'll workshop that.

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at Bob Dylan with an AI generated poster it says lectures from the grave the dead speak starting today exclusive on Patreon $5 a month featured lectures the last testament of Frank James

Aaron Burr on the art of survival and the life and death of wild Bill Hickok another one said letters never sent from Poe to Valentino, et cetera, original short stories. And you're like, this can't be real. I'm like, I'm going to at Bob Dylan. I'm like, no, he posted that shit. What the, what? And it's his patron is Bob Dylan 180, which I'm like, I don't know if that's significant. I don't know if about Bob Dylan enough 180 significant. He's a skateboarder. He's talking about he does like front side. Oh, just hit a Bob, dude, just hit a Bob Dylan 180,

dude. Yeah. Also, this is a this is someone not, he did do a cover version of a Cole Porter song for the Reagan biopic. Wait, what were those words? Yeah. So there was a Reagan

biopic starring who was it the not Stern. Quaid, Dennis Quaid played Reagan. And on the soundtrack there's a Bob Dylan recorded for the Reagan movie soundtrack. Look man, in that old age, it gets

you. It gets you. Start doing some real stupid bullshit. He's been posting this AI necromancy bullshit on his Instagram account, like, for a while. And they're essentially just Wikipedia articles being read by AI voice. Like, this is the one of like Aaron Burr I'm going to play for you. This is like if on his account, because part of me is like, he had to have been hacked, right? It's like, no, this was posted in September of last year. This is him doing, this is Aaron Bird,

fucking AI letters being read on Bob Dylan's page. Now I will tell you what the duel was actually like. Not the headlines, not the secondhand mythology, but what it felt like to stand on that field to face a man I had known for decades. What the fuck is going on? What? Yeah. And that's like a, like a, like a,

play on that one AI voice that you would hear a lot on TikTok in the early days of those AI narration voice are like, here's the way you get out of a parking ticket. But now they just like turned up the southern drawl to like 15 and you get this. And to take part in the

grim ceremony we called honor. Okay, dude. Cool. Okay, but real talk for a second. What historical figure would you most be excited to view a lecture from. Like if it were not AI?

No, I'm gonna pretend I support AI. I'd rather believe in necromancy than I think the idea of necromancy is much more interesting. Well, of course, we would all love to believe in necromancy. And we would all love to truly believe that Beelzebub, him or herself, standing before us, is real. Yep, yeah. And perhaps they are speaking to us through the

AI. Probably. I mean, like, just for just to laugh about it, maybe like Joseph, the guy who got cucked by God. Oh, of the Mormon? Of Jesus. No, of Mary and Joseph. Of Jesus' parents. Oh, God, okay. Because we know Joseph ain't the daddy. You know what I mean? We knew that. I just like to hear if there was a lecture about like, I'm not a stepdad. I'm the dad who stepped up or so shit. I don't know what the fuck he's going to say, but like I'd love to hear an AI take on that. trying to think of who else. I don't know. I think anyone I want to hear

just someone's so absurd, like Andrew Jackson, just being just a terrible racist piece of shit so that people could be like, oh my God, this was a president? You're like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Listen up, folks.

I know, it'd be fun to, like, listen to something from Ulysses S. Grant just slurring every word. Drunk beyond belief, being like, outside the document. Yeah. I would love to hear what like William Sherman

like General Sherman sounded like what an AI depiction like was he just he looked like he was screaming all the time so if there was a version I'd be fine for that Mort do you have anyone peak your interest in terms of a dead person you want to hear speak? They sort of famously

didn't know what Lincoln's voice was I think it'd be funny if it was like a price going seven years ago you know like it was cartooning fun because that what we just heard made me feel like I was being abused by any number of frightening, again, stepdad's.

That was awful. And that thing about the grim, the grim duty of honor. Like, can you imagine the people that are walking around with that kind of shit in their ears? Like, the level of rage the most experiencing.

Then there's another one that he posted. This was in March of 2025 for people who I have not been up on Bob Dylan's AI slop escapades, but this is one called Edgar Allen Poe speaks from the grave. Yikes. I was born in Boston in the chill of January 1809 to David and Elizabeth Poe, both actors, yet fate, that cruel playwright.

He's charging $5 a month on Patreon for you to fucking just press play on some of these, like some of these videos I just played that on his Instagram. They're part of the Patreon. I'm going to be honest, his voice was kind of cute. You like that book? Yeah, why was the Andrew Jackson one so much darker than the Edgar Allan Poe voice? Aaron Povey sounded like a nice, like, intern in an office. Oh, the Aaron Burr one? Yeah.

I was taken in by John and Francis Allen of Richmond, though never truly as a son. You like, okay, so you like the tone of voice, Chris, but this has no wrist. I'm sure at a certain point you're like, oh boy. No. Does he sound a little to you? A brave one, nor a faithful one.

Born of a risk. I don't know. It doesn't sound human. Sounds a little musical theater. Yeah, I don't know. All I know is, This is what an artist is charging straight up real buckses for. He also posted an AI letter.

Again, never sent letters from Mark Twain to silent film star Rudolph Valentino. You're like, what is the point of that? And people are pointing out to like, okay, if this is for real, Valentino was only 14 years old and Mark Twain died in 1910, so this doesn't even make sense. But that's from a whole series called Letters Never Sent. And then one of the other posts on the YouTube, or on the Patreon, is just him linking to a YouTube video of like gospel legend,

Mahalia Jackson, just singing a song. But it's a YouTube video. It's like, this is the kind of stuff. Join to unlock this clip of a YouTube video you can search right now and watch for free. There are also original short stories that are probably AI generated as well. But the Patreon in the fine print, it says, a living archive of lectures from the grave. Letters never sent.

Original short stories curated by Bob Dylan. And then it says curated content by Bob Dylan, meaning this old man is probably trawling weird AI slop accounts. And he's like, yeah, that's going to be good for the Patreon. Put it on for $5. Listen to the. There's a story called The First Bull Rider. And it's about a, quote, man who seeks out a Texan rodeo to try bull riding

because he has the kind of hunger you don't fix with food. I don't, okay. Do you all want to know Rudolph Valentino's full legal name? Please. Yes, please. You got that kind of knowledge on deck? Shit, please. This is going to be, this will be tough.

Let me try to get through this. You're sitting up in your seat. Like, you're doing that meme of like the video game person leaning down to leaning forward. Okay, engaged. Okay, you ready for this? Yeah. Rudolfo Pietro

Filiberto Raphael Gugliemi di Valentina de Anton Goya Whoa Whoa Okay good job on that

Just keep it Yeah impressive articulation How many names is that? One two, three, four, five, six, seven names That's incredible No wonder he was such a star That's the most regal shit I've ever heard my life Can you imagine?

Yeah, like he started off doing all seven names and every subsequent production, he took one name off until I think I'm trying to do this. It's just Rudolph now. Rudolph. What about Rudy Valentine? I want you to say my name.

Rudolph, my same position, somebody's somebody Gugli Elmo Valentino, please. I just want to read the part of the text because this is such, it says about this first bull rider because a lot of people are like,

who wrote this? It lists someone named Marty Lombard as an author. It's seven pages long. a larger format. A lot of simile. Did Dylan write it? We don't know.

But this is like one excerpt from it. The bus coughed me out somewhere past Amarillo, dust in my teeth in a sky that stretched out so wide it felt like it was laughing at me. I had a duffel bag, two shirts, a paperback of the sea wolf with the spine cracked like an old man's knuckles. And the kind of hunger you don't fix with food. That doesn't, that feels like what AI thinks. people talk about like you don't say like i had a duffel bag that's implied you like i only had

shirts like i had a duffel bag the strap attached to the duffel bag uh the shirts within that a paperback but i don't know it just felt very i don't know just beneath bob dillon for what i know he's he's capable of doing but again this is all curated content from him incidentally he did sell his entire catalog in 2020 for an estimated 300 million dollars so hopefully he didn't burn with that. It's like, fuck, fuck. Oh shit, I got no money. All right. Uh, fuck it.

If the president's just reposting AI slop and staying in the game, so can I. But I don't know. We'll see how long it lasts. I haven't brought myself to give money to the Patreon, but it seems like just looking at his Instagram might be enough to give you an idea

what's on there. So, yeah, I've gone through like heavy Bob Dylan faces, especially in my, and I still listen to some of records like i like bob Dylan and it's true that us dylan fans are like we're the most gullible we like i'll go you got to see my cat mhm hi baby that's kevin that's kevin that's kevin hi baby kevin i love the lion cut yeah man she gets mad and she gets fine little mat so she has to get this and so kevin yeah kevin's a girl they told me kevin was a boy and then i so i named her kevin and then they and i found it was a girl and i got her and i have kevin's mom samantha and kevin uh kevin uh kevin

beats up our dog Cody and Samantha beats up Kevin so it's a psychooos. I love a she her Kevin. Yeah. She and her mom is very like feminine, but I think Kevin's definitely like non-binary. She's there, she's like sorry is she's gender Kevin.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But me, yeah, I don't know. You have to talk to her. No, we need to get those like buttons, you know how people get their animals to talk by clicking those like little yes no thing. Oh, like stamping like stomping on the ground. Yeah. Uh-huh. Yeah, we've got to get Kevin a couple of those with various pronouns.

Your body is tea. Your body is tea. Whoa, thank you. Kevin? I didn't know that. You must be sick of coffee. What do you mean? Because your body is tea.

Oh, my God. Kevin. Have patience with my gender journey. All right, Kevin, I hear you. Yeah, you're not. Absolutely. Kevin, right. An icon.

No rush. Well, Chris, thank you so much for joining us on the Daily Zyzekeyes today. where can the people find you, follow you, support you, all that good stuff. Oh, thank you for having me back. I would love to come back and terrorize any time. You can find me online on Instagram at the Meat Skeleton, M-E-A-T-Skeleton. I was a stupid, dumb little joke that I made on Twitter in 2011, and I decided to make it my entire internet presence.

There you go. I am also, if you're in Los Angeles, I'm performing in a. musical at the Mark Taper Forum called Here Lies Love until Sunday, April 5th. Okay. Okay. What is Here Lies Love? Here Lies Love is a musical by David Byrne and Fat Boy Slim about the rise and of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos.

Wow. Also, it's disco music. Oh, shit. Did Imelda Marcos have a ton of shoes? Yeah, Melda, I think. Amelda had the shoe thing. Kind of only famous for that really great at spinning PR. Everyone totally forgets about the thousands of lives lost.

Right, right. I only know about the thousands of pairs of shoes. Yes, and I'm playing. That's how they spun that. They're like, not in the focus on. Fully. Yeah, I'm playing Ferdinand Marcos. Oh, does.

The dictator. Amazing. Okay. Okay. And it's a, that's a fat boy slim and David Byrne. What a fucking. combo. I feel so uncultured that like, I'm like, I didn't even fucking know that shit was, that was a thing. Also, I am uncultured. So that makes sense.

David Byrne is like, he really, unlike Bob Dylan, he remains cool. Like David Burr, I have, for my fashion, I have an ideal, which is like middle-aged art guy. And that's, I think, David Byrne. Like, could, would David Byrne pull this off? Because he's still cool. Yeah. Well, that man remains cool. And he loves bice biking, right? Wasn't his, like, last bio about like how he rides bikes to all the cities that he visits on tour and stuff. Yes, yeah. And he has like a neck pillow that's also like an airbag situation in case he falls off the bike. Oh, he's rocking one of those things.

I've seen that shit that blows up around your head as like, not today. Satan. Yeah. Nice try. Unless you fall in like a pile of needles or something, in which case that might pop the airbag. But hey, we're rooting for you. We're rooting for you. Chris, is there a work of media, social or otherwise?

that you've been enjoying. Oh, yeah, yeah. I think I'm late to this, and I guess I'm just going to stay on the trend of being gay and dumb. But it has just finally hit my algorithm, the Russian-Turkish baths of New York. Yes.

Getting smacked up with leaves and shit and plants and stuff like that. Yeah, they're heavy. Yeah, but more specifically, there's this famous Russian-Turkish baths. in New York where their entire social media presence is capturing the

the hot guys after they've gone through the bath in various states of undress right outside the entrance and they're just kind of like talking about like yeah this was great it's a wonderful place to relax and like the the underlining

connotation of it is like oh they just they definitely just jerked off in there They've got that post Post-coital glow Yeah They have a boys only night Well, hey, I mean

The next time you're in New York Get you a bathhouse You know what I'll be Get scrub down I'll be going back in May A lot of people They like a lot of people don't know About how hard you will get exfoliated

In like Will they go to like a Korean spa or something They're like to fucking rip my skin up Like that's what we do That's the dream Have you seen what our scrubbing towels look like? It's like a fucking, it's like a microplane to just get all your fucking dead skin off. There's a whole other guy on there.

Yeah. Mort, what about you? Where do the people find you, follow you, what's where in media you're enjoying? Yeah, at rebrand the podcast. I'm publishing a book on Substack. It's a spiritual road trip story of fiction, like a psychedelic novel. So finally, this is Morton Edmund Burr. on the substack. And I put

out a special. It's called There's Beauty in It All. I think it's really good. Very few people have seen it. Google that shit. And it's on YouTube. And for my work of media, this might be an older meme too, but my wife just sent it to me recently. It's a picture of Trump and he's doing his kind of classic weird posture

where he's like the front of his body's like six inches ahead of his legs for some reason. And the person said, it looks like he's about to float towards the scent of a freshly baked pie. Fucking balloony to us. style. Oh my god. That's a good one. I like that one. You can find me everywhere at Miles of Gray. The work of media I'm liking, a few times people have come on to talk about the pit,

and I've talked about how this second season, like the amount of just heavy-handed writing with like just the very most overemphasizer of plotlines are just like, I'm just, I've become I'm very cynical about it. And Bridget Matloff on Instagram just posted this video or maybe didn't just post like a few days ago. It said the writer is on the pit making sure we don't miss the lesson

in each episode. And this is just kind of a fun bit. And she keeps kind of spiking the camera at the end with like a gym from the office look. Or maybe you should listen to your patient, Whitaker. Because women, especially women of color, are often ignored by their doctors. Look to camera.

I was in the tree of life. shooting and it was the Muslims who helped us afterwards. Spike's camera. It's just like every time. Mm-hmm. Thank you. Just letting you know, okay? This is the pit, babe.

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talked about in today's episode. We also link off to a song that we think you might enjoy. The track I want to go out on today, just another little bit of just trunk rattling funk. It's called Lost Issue 2. But I like this one because the artist is Guccigarette. It's like spelling Gucci, but then the last part is like cigarette. Gochigarette. It's fucking, I don't know. I just love the name. Oh, sorry, the track. The album was called Lost Issue 2. The track is called 94. Great time. I was I was but 10 years old. But this is a great track.

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