The Daily Zeitgeist - DayZeit Trending Time 3/9: Iran War, Military Conscription, President Pedo, New Supreme Leader

Episode Date: March 9, 2026

In this edition of DayZeit Trending Time, Jack and Miles discuss their respective weekends, the fraudulent war in Iran to distract from the fact that the US is run by predators, weirdos and scammers, ...Trump not ruling out conscription, the DOJ releasing some more incriminating files on President Pedo, Iran's new Supreme Leader and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:00:02 This is actually the first time I felt that the daylight savings might fuck my life up. It was not good. It hasn't been good. Not a good one for me. Well, there's something. It really drives home living next to a country that's fully insane where they just change the time randomly throughout the year. Well, it's at the behest of the golf. It's good for 7-11.
Starting point is 00:00:24 Yeah. It's truly like, we're at the same time, we're on the same time all year long and you fucks. Yeah, well. Wait, so you don't observe daylight savings time? He doesn't personally, philosophically. Brian doesn't. I never did, but thankfully the country I live in doesn't either. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:00:47 My kids' bodies just did not observe it this time, and they slept way late. Right, which is usually, and they're the ones, they're my alarm clock, because they get up at like fucking 5.30. Oh, is that why you're like, oh, got a late start because my shit. My meat clocks didn't wake up. My meat alarm clocks didn't wake me up. Yeah. They were like, I had to wake them up at like 7.15. So you really do rely on them because it is like clock.
Starting point is 00:01:16 Like you have that. I mean, I usually. I mean, I usually. I'm always. I think both of us. Like I think there's just something about the ambient light that's like getting into the room or something. And we both just slept right through like an hour past when we usually wake up. Damn.
Starting point is 00:01:32 Yeah. I, for some reason, like my body almost knows what the fuck, like what clock time it is. And it's like, all right, get up. Your body knew? My body doesn't know. My body knows everything, Jack. I was, I was an hour late. I snapped out of bed.
Starting point is 00:01:49 My feet hit the floor and I was like, I got to get to 7-Eleven. Got to buy some stuff. Got to buy some bullshit, man. What was going on? I thought that's how you get your kids ready for school. You're like, fuck, I got to go to 7-11. I got to get their breakfast. Get their breakfast ready at 7-11.
Starting point is 00:02:06 Spicy big bite for you, for my eldest, for my youngest. You like those little tequito rollers? Yeah, the rollers. Yeah. A couple of those, some cotton candy, chicharonnes and
Starting point is 00:02:18 all birthday and Christmas presents, purchased at lids, all meals purchased at 7-Eleven. That's how we roll on this side. Is it bad that I, that legit used to be my breakfast for, for certain periods of time? I ate 7.11 every day from like in the summers of fifth through seventh grade.
Starting point is 00:02:40 Yeah, it was the middle school thing. Yeah. I would always get a spicy big bite inundated with the garbage chili and nacho cheese. Then eat Doritos 3Ds. Remember 3D's Doritos? Uh-huh. They were like a swollen pyramid of corn. I'm actually, I don't acknowledge any other type of Doritos.
Starting point is 00:03:01 Do they make others? I don't know them three-dimensionally. There are ones that aren't 3Ds. I'm kind of like I am with Avatar films. I won't experience them not 3D, you know? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No. Yep, yep, yep, yep.
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Starting point is 00:08:15 This is the episode where we come in, Monday morning, straight off the rip. Tell you what was trending over the weekend. Yeah. What's going on this morning. My name is Jack O'Brien. That over there is Mr. Miles Gray.
Starting point is 00:08:28 Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, what is this? Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. That weekend felt, uh, that weekend felt, uh, short. That's fucked up. It was fucked up. I, uh, yeah. I feel like an in-y right now. I feel like I was just recording.
Starting point is 00:08:47 I drank. My friend got engaged, so we went to an engagement party. I had a few drinks. A few shadnash. Nothing, nothing that would have affected me the next day. But, like, I woke up, like, waking up on Sunday morning, I thought I was hungover, but it was just because my circadian rhythms were all messed up. Because of the time change.
Starting point is 00:09:08 I hate looking at the clock and being like, no. No. Spring forward is way crazier than fall back. Fall back. I'm like, ha ha, baby. Still got more time. Whereas this time, I'm like, no, no, no. It's not supposed to be fucking. That's like a drinking holiday. When you get an extra hour, you're just like, yeah, man, I can do whatever I want to. Do whatever I want, bro. I'm a god of time. In my case, say, watching movies late holiday. Yeah, I did watch an hour more of Bridgeton last night. So, yeah, you know, living. on the edge. Feeling a pretty crazy.
Starting point is 00:09:45 Yeah. We were talking before we started recording that my kids didn't, my meat alarm clocks didn't wake up because at the normal time because I think we're just affected by the like where the sun is in the sky. And we just both all, all three of us slept in. It's as if you're listening to the clock that humanity, you know, biology has given us for millions of years. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:10 Rather than the thing where 7-Eleven and golf is like, what if we stayed open a little bit? Right. Oh, it's causing car wrecks and heart attacks? Yeah. And that, you know, my wife was up at like five going into the hospital, you know, working for the man. Oh, for work. Oh, yeah, for work. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:33 So, but my boys and I were keeping it real. Hell yeah. On God's time. There you go. sleeping past the time I should have woken up being a bad father
Starting point is 00:10:47 and be like why are you guys wake me up what the heck guys good one blame it on them good one oh shit
Starting point is 00:10:59 anyways this is the episode where we tell you what was happening over the weekend what's happening this morning but first we like to tell
Starting point is 00:11:07 you a little bit about us by telling you some things we think are overrated, underrated miles, what do you think is, what do we start with? Underrated?
Starting point is 00:11:15 Under's. Under's, first one up top, quick one, vertical tabs for your web browser. Yeah, baby, where they all stack up
Starting point is 00:11:25 on like the margin. On the side, poppy. And it's so much easier because, you know, like doing this show, it's a,
Starting point is 00:11:33 it's a fucking tab day, tab royale going on. It's a tab factory. It's a tab factory, bro. It's like, over time. Brian's plug.
Starting point is 00:11:42 You know, it's a tab factory over here. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. I don't know. But like having them all on the side makes it so much more organized.
Starting point is 00:11:52 Like, oh yeah, that would then like being like three letters cut off because you've got seven billion tabs over. Like I think that's the way. I close the wrong fuck. Fuck.
Starting point is 00:12:01 Yeah. The logos of the websites are doing such heavy lifting. Yeah. Yeah. Like I think yeah. And then there's sometimes you'll get like a website that has like a black logo.
Starting point is 00:12:11 So, and I have my shit on dark mode. So I'm like, what the fuck is that? Anyway, vertical tabs. If you've got Firefox, it's on there. Not on Chrome or Safari, but don't use those anyway. So anyway, that's a quick one. The other one is underrated, how jarring it can be to see your friend after the new girlfriend glow up.
Starting point is 00:12:30 So, like I mentioned, one of my really good friends, one of my boy from preschool, We've been down since preschool, John. He's getting married for Madison and I. the other home. We all went to his engagement party. It was beautiful event. Acon and Nick Cannon were there. Unrelated. They just happened to be at this restaurant.
Starting point is 00:12:50 Did he try and be like, yeah, you're welcome, babe? I don't know. It was crazy because we got there. I was like, I didn't notice anything, but I went to the bathroom, but I was trying to leave the, I couldn't get to the other side of the restaurant where his, like, engagement party was. And I was like, what the fuck is going on? And I look,
Starting point is 00:13:07 it was Acon and Nick Cannon. these pictures and I went to the servers. I'm like, what in the 2006 is going on in here right now? Can I get back here? But anyway, my friend... Just had to crowd surf over the crowd of Acon fans. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:13:23 Yeah. But to the glow up, right? My friend, God love him. He's one of these dudes who's just such a super simple guy. Like, he would never fucked with social media. Like from the beginning was like, I don't know. It was like, I don't even care. He's just, yeah, it's just more like,
Starting point is 00:13:39 He's just so practical that he's like, I don't need like another, like, I don't care enough to go on social media. So he never had, still does have any kind of social media. Always wears basketball or soccer shorts. Okay. And he, I know this guy. His house sparsely decorated. Uh-huh. Random, random, like, triptics of like a Buddha or something.
Starting point is 00:14:04 Sure. A reed diffuser that hasn't had the oil replenish in eight years. And he's clean. It's clean, but it's just got like sort of flop house energy. Yeah. Cut to this new woman in his life. Fantastic.
Starting point is 00:14:20 She's like just such a great person. I really like her. She's like a genuine person. But she's also done the thing where she's like, I need to help you, sir. Yeah. We need to take some steps. You're not going to wear Adidas sweatpants at the engagement.
Starting point is 00:14:34 party. I pull up, this guy looked like a fucking celebrity. Like hair done, fucking outfit, clean as fuck. And me and all my friends
Starting point is 00:14:44 were like, what the fuck? Oh my God. Well, like, we were all just could not believe he had this beautiful
Starting point is 00:14:55 cream colored outfit on. And it was just like, everyone was like, this is fantastic. Clean colors? Yeah, yeah. It was like a light,
Starting point is 00:15:03 bro. He was. looking. Oh, my baby, I'm living it up. He was doing it. And it was just like, one of those things,
Starting point is 00:15:10 no hate at all. We were just like, all right, man. This is great for you. This is, because we were wondering what would happen. So anyway,
Starting point is 00:15:19 shout out how, like a good, jarring glow up. Because sometimes, you see the one where someone's like, I don't like your style and I'm going to make you
Starting point is 00:15:26 dress like a completely different person. Right. She's just like, this was done with love and subtlety. Oh, honey, you're 41.
Starting point is 00:15:34 years old and you're dressing like you're eating hot dogs at 7-Eleven still. Right. Let's just look the part a little bit more. And it's great. Fantastic. I love it. Shout out to women out there doing the hard work of, you know, raising their partners. You know, I don't like to hear it sometimes when I'm like, this look okay.
Starting point is 00:15:55 And she's like, yeah. And I'm like, all right. Ah, fuck. Fuck. I knew you were always against me. exactly but you know probably saved me from i don't know the pattern is just a little intense it's a damn flash oh my god you don't get it how many times i have to go over this stars on stripes on a plaid yeah yep um prime editor just shared a wedding picture where the person's wearing an adidas sweatsuit
Starting point is 00:16:30 the man. Some men are unreachable, you know. Yeah, and what's great about him is he's so open-minded. He's never like, she's trying, he's like, it's great, man, like, I just never knew how to buy clothes. He would, like, buy, he would do this thing where he would buy, like, two outfits
Starting point is 00:16:46 a year, and they were all fucked up. Yeah. You know what I mean? He would, he would go in or, like, someone would talk him into buying an outfit at the store, and it would talk he wasn't him. Yeah, yeah. And I was like, bro, what the fuck? You're wearing. You just don't wear that? You just go back to wearing the same two things. I'm like, dude, you should not be wearing hurley at this age right now or Vulcum.
Starting point is 00:17:06 Like, no one's wearing Vulcum anymore. Like, what the fuck is this? It's my lucky shirt. I don't know. I just liked that brand. I liked it forever. Yeah, since we were 15. That's right. 26 years ago. Um, brove. Um, yeah. All right. Uh, my underrated is just the, the, the impact of AI slop. The, the, the AI slop has escaped the internet. It has escaped containment. Someone over the weekend posted on Twitter a picture of a book they found in their doctor's office
Starting point is 00:17:37 and it's called Hispanic Heritage, the big fiesta and the kids shirts on the cover like have gibberish on the front of them. This is a children's book and the shirt just
Starting point is 00:17:53 has no like words that aren't even trying to be words. Right. Jesus. One of the kids, like, hands is, like, they're playing the drums for some reason, like Revolutionary War. Like, they're part of the Redcoat Army arriving for the Revolutionary War, playing a snare drum. Yeah, it's very rumpa-pum-pum. Rump-pum, but their fingers have, it's just a mess of, you know, many, many fingers.
Starting point is 00:18:22 One of the drumsticks has, like, a matchstick coming out of it for some reason. Right. There's a family picture inside where one of the women in the background is like a shadow monster from a horror movie. The text, I'm just going to read this. Lucky numbers everywhere. At school, Jun Soon shared his discovery. The lucky numbers are two, three, and seven. He told his classmates who gasped with wide eyes.
Starting point is 00:18:52 I don't know the context for that. I don't think it makes any sense. I tried to Google like 237 lucky number Hispanic heritage. Here's the thing that I clocked immediately. I said, what,
Starting point is 00:19:05 why, is this book just about, this was just a Hispanic, Hispanic heritage book? I think so because, yeah, because in this section, my guy is Asian.
Starting point is 00:19:20 He's Asian. He is wearing some kind of like Chinese garb. There's Chinese lanterns and noodles and shit. Yeah, it's, noodle soup and he's pointing to also the text says
Starting point is 00:19:31 he found out the lucky numbers are two, three and seven and he's pointing at the board and the numbers are one four and five yeah it's all just all fucking bullshit it's all just like an impression of humanity that breaks down and its
Starting point is 00:19:47 face starts melting off as like white blood comes out of its mouth like the robot's nail it so fucking but also like his this suddenly this kid's name is June that's like an Asian that's like you have that Korean Chinese and Japanese culture
Starting point is 00:20:02 I don't know the entire journey of Hispanic heritage the big fiesta but what happened this motherfucker he was like Hispanic Heritage Month and then he's like let me tell you about Mao Zedong like what is
Starting point is 00:20:15 and also two three and seven those are lucky numbers to Asian people that's unlike it I think it flipped it flipped somewhere in the middle of it yeah which I wouldn't doubt too because
Starting point is 00:20:26 I'm sure anyone's just like, I don't know, it looks like cool pictures. And that's all that matters. And there's words that are coherent enough. Yeah. Equals a book. One of the other, like the, I put in the doc, like one of the other people at the table with the family. Like they're, look at that just tangle of fingers with like a knife that's like grafted onto the top of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:52 It kind of looks like a cool, like, like as if she's threatening everybody at the table. look. Yeah, like she's about to, I mean, she's like, don't make me fucking set off this noisy cricket at the fucking dinner table. Like, children's books are some of my first memories. Like, it's the first art I ever consumed. And I can like still remember those books that like, I don't know. Oh yeah. Had like a real magic to them. It came from some like magical imaginary realm of someone's mind. And like you could sense that. Yeah. And then like for these kids to grow up in a world where like sometimes you get that and sometimes you get just this monstrous crazy bullshit is just so upsetting. Keep this shit away.
Starting point is 00:21:36 Yeah. I just, I don't know. I feel like even if we immediately were like, okay, stop that shit. Like we'd still be disentangling ourselves from it and like finding examples of this shit everywhere for for years. But don't put this in your doctor's office. Don't buy it. Look at the books before you buy them for the kids. That's like malpractice as a, as like a health practitioner is to put AI slop in front of a child. I know.
Starting point is 00:22:05 I'm like, no, bro, there's nothing that would indicate this is good. It was an eye doctor too. So maybe it was. Oh, my God. It was an optometrist. Yeah, it was an optometrist. Did they notice that there were shadow people in the background of that? Just bring back the sticky-ass copies of highlights.
Starting point is 00:22:27 And then that one sticky-ass toy that has like the fucking like metal wires that you just move the wooden beads and shit all around it. That's right. Yeah, yeah. That's all we need. That's all we need. There are plenty of children's books. In a fish tank.
Starting point is 00:22:41 Guess what? Nobody, like the children's books from years ago, these kids don't know about them. You can keep that. You don't need to fucking like auto-generate just, metric tonnage of children's books that suck. I remember in the heyday of like the magic eye books, almost every doctor's office I went to as a kid had a magic eye book because they were like, well, these motherfuckers are just going to stare at this shit.
Starting point is 00:23:08 Plank face. Trying to figure out what the fuck is on the page. And I'm like, this is genius actually. Right. Magic eye books. Very smart. This is also the thing that I've talked about before about how like the mainstream corporate American culture will be like, we've heard you and we are angling for more diversity.
Starting point is 00:23:32 And like in the NFL, they'll be like, and at this timeout, we're going to show for five seconds a child of color receiving an award from some local politician. From a local chick-fil-A.
Starting point is 00:23:47 Yeah, like no attempt to make it interesting. or anything, always making it obvious that it's being done begrudgingly so that the message to everyone is like, yeah, this stuff sucks, right? Like, we don't, bro. If I could do less, I would. Right, exactly. And so people get the message that it's like, this doesn't matter. Like, this is stupid.
Starting point is 00:24:09 This is, like, this is, you know, not of value. What were they painting in the end zones once? I remember that was like one year overrated once or there was some dumb, inclusive messaging in the end zone. It wasn't even visible anymore. And you're like, again, if I could do less, I would. Right. But then that sends the message to people that like this is all stupid.
Starting point is 00:24:31 And yeah, bullshit and not worth it. And like, like, this is the only way to do it. And like, yeah, here we have a book about Hispanic heritage that has just been phoned in by the AI. The AI is just like, I don't know, man. Like she's got knife hands. Is that something? What are there? And what's what's like they all have similar shirts with the slogan?
Starting point is 00:24:53 Is that like a union group there with? No, it's, oh, burgh, I think it's three. Yeah. All right. What, Miles, what's something you think is overrated? Dude. Oh, no. The, the, the, the Ghibli flea market.
Starting point is 00:25:14 The studio Ghibli flea market in little Tokyo that I went to yesterday. my child loves studio jibly shit. Okay? Loves Totoro. That means you're doing a good job as a parent. Loves Totoro. Yeah. I love Totoro.
Starting point is 00:25:30 Okay? I grew up on this shit. There's a jibblee flea market. I'm like, yeah, bro, get to walk around. He can fucking look at some stickers or, you know, whatever. Just like, you know, we're out and about. We've got extra sunlight and shit. And like, I saw this thing.
Starting point is 00:25:43 He was written about in a couple things, like parent blogs. You get hit with all these Instagram posts. It's going to be great. man, there's going to be jibly themed artisans and toy, things like that. I'm like, oh, this is fucking perfect. I tell one of the Geist Child's classmates,
Starting point is 00:25:58 one of the kids in his class, also a big jibbley head, told the parents, I'm like, we're going to hit this thing up. Maybe we should all go. I thought you told the kid directly. You're like, hey, tell your parents, bro. Tell your parents, bro, take that, take that. Yeah, take that with you. Take this flyer. You're handing it out to the kids. Yeah, yeah, like a weird
Starting point is 00:26:14 concert promoter. We go, dude. This shit was a so fucking crowded. It was unbelievable. You put it, the actual space, like the aisles that they created between stalls was so narrow that one man who had a stroller
Starting point is 00:26:30 was just stuck. I'm pretty sure for like three hours. Because it was such a bottleneck and everyone was just moving quickly around this poor bastard with a stroller. I was like, oh, fuck, bro. This is so bad. Tell me why I couldn't find barely anything that was Jibli themed at this
Starting point is 00:26:46 place. They had two Hotoro plushies? I was like, oh, maybe over there. They're like, oh, those aren't for sale. They're not for sale. What in the fuck are we? This was like the Willy Wonka Glasgow experience, the bottle, but with way lower stakes because you didn't have to pay money to go in or anything like that. It was just like, they convinced basically, like, in my estimation, every Asian person in L.A. who was like, we're going, we're going. We're fucking going. And then the Venn diagram was at, And every American person who likes Asian culture slash has been to Japan once all descended on this fucking place. The fucking parking was a nightmare all for fucking nothing.
Starting point is 00:27:30 I felt I was so, I was so angry about this. I was like, what the fuck? We were for like five minutes. I'm like, we're out of here, bro. Yeah. Can't do this shit. Can't do this shit. So again, for the people, you know what it is?
Starting point is 00:27:43 It's just like they did the thing. They baited people in with a very. like obviously a potent lure, okay, to get people to converge on this space, but then to not pay it off in any way is diabolical. Gotta say, not a fan. It was just like, it was like a farmer's market
Starting point is 00:28:05 of Ghibli, like, they were just selling like, you know, it was like, no, it was, dude, I could not find any Ghibli shit. And maybe I got there too late and all sold out, but people were selling like phone lanyards. And like, just other shit, see like at a artisanal kind of flea market kind of thing. And I'm like, don't tell me it's fucking jibbley and I get there.
Starting point is 00:28:24 And it's like all you got are some stickers thrown up places being like, uh, what? No, no. Yeah, if you hear about an event from like three independent, like independently sourced parents. Yeah. I'm like, I can't go to that thing. That thing's going to be a crush of humanity. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. So I learned my lesson.
Starting point is 00:28:46 I learned my lesson. All right. Staying on the parenting beat. I just want to say American shoe sizing for kids is overrated. Toddlers go one to 13 in some brands. And then the next one up is like one to eight in kids. But they don't, on top of like that just like starting over in the middle,
Starting point is 00:29:07 like the variety of terms like some are called baby. Some are called walkers. Some are called toddler, little kid, big kid, youth. And then some people like don't even follow this. Whereas like other countries, other countries just go from like one up to a side. You know, it's like one continuous thing.
Starting point is 00:29:26 And you just know like, oh, a baby is a one. And then once you're fully grown, you have a number that, you know, it's, I don't know why they do that. Yeah. Why don't you just start from tiny and then it's just a full spectrum on the way? Because I hate that there's like toddler youth. Then there's like fucking grade school. And I'm like, there's like, some people have a. third version in there.
Starting point is 00:29:49 They're like, we decided to get a little creative. Yeah, you go to like get your kid size for sneakers and the clerk is like, answer these questions three. Oh, your, your lad is an eight C. Right. I'm like, eight C. What the fuck is that? Until the next month when they will be a one F.
Starting point is 00:30:10 And there'll be a seven and a half. Right. Oh. I remember, do you remember when you moved out, like you moved into adult? side shoes. No, I don't at all. Oh my God. I remember.
Starting point is 00:30:21 I was fucking levitating when I went to like kids foot locker or some shit. And they're like, oh yeah, man, you actually, you might be, yeah, you actually be over there. You're a seven. I'm like, what? Me? Yeah. I'll go over there now. Where the air maxes have the full air max bubble and not the weird little window?
Starting point is 00:30:40 Because they can't support that on a child's shoe. I will have the full air max bubble now. That fucked me up. That's huge. Wouldn't it be great if that came with a higher number instead of being like, you can go back down to one now? What?
Starting point is 00:30:58 I'm a one. Because you're starting back at one. That's actually what that song's about. A lot of people don't know that. Yeah, he was a shoe salesman trying to tell somebody about kids sizing. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk about the news.
Starting point is 00:31:16 Next Monday, our 2026 iHeart podcast, awards are happening live at South by Southwest. This is the biggest night in podcasting. We'll honor the very best in podcasting from the past year and celebrate the most innovative talent and creators in the industry. And the winner is... Creativity, knowledge, and passion will all be on full display. Thank you so much.
Starting point is 00:31:37 Iheart radio. Thank you to all the other nominees. You guys are awesome. Watch live next Monday at 8 p.m. Eastern, 5 p.m. Pacific free at veeps. At vips.com or the Veeps app. In 2023, a story gripped the UK, evoking horror and disbelief. The nurse who should have been in charge of caring for tiny babies is now the most prolific child killer in modern British history. Everyone thought they knew how it ended.
Starting point is 00:32:05 A verdict? A villain. A nurse named Lucy Letby. Lucy Letby has been found guilty. But what if we didn't get the whole story? The moment you look at the whole picture, the case collapsed. I'm Amanda Knox, and in the new podcast, Doubt the case of Lucy Letby, we follow the evidence and hear from the people that lived in, to ask what really happened when the world decided who Lucy Lettby was. No voicing of any skepticism or doubt.
Starting point is 00:32:34 It'll cause so much harm at every single level of the British establishment of this is wrong. Listen to Doubt, the case of Lucy Letby on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Hi, this is Joe Winterstein, host of the Spirit Daughter podcast, where we talk about astrology, natal charts, and how to step into your most vibrant life. And I just sat down with a mini driver. The Irish traveler said when I was 16, you're going to have a terrible time with men. Actor, storyteller, and unapologetic, Aquarian visionary. Aquarius is all about freedom-loving and different perspectives.
Starting point is 00:33:14 and I find a lot of people with strong placements in Aquarius are misunderstood. A son and Venus and Aquarius in her seventh house spark her unconventional approach to partnership. He really has taught me to embrace people sleeping in different rooms on different houses and different places, but just an embracing of the isness of it all. If you're navigating your own transformation
Starting point is 00:33:35 or just want a chart-side view into how a leading artist integrates astrology, creativity, and real life, This episode is a must listen. Listen to the Spirit Daughter podcast, starting on February 24th, on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your podcast. China's Ministry of State Security is one of the most mysterious and powerful spy agencies in the world. But in 2017, the FBI got inside. This is Special Agent Regal, Special Agent Bradley Hall. This MSS officer has no idea the U.S. government is on to him.
Starting point is 00:34:12 But the FBI has his chats, texts, emails, even his personal diary. Hear how they got it on the Sixth Bureau podcast. I now have several terabytes of an MSS officer, no doubt, no question, of his life. And that's a unicorn. No one had ever seen anything like that. It was unbelievable. This is a story of the inner workings of the MSS and how one man's ambition and mistakes opened its vault of secrets.
Starting point is 00:34:45 Listen to the Sixth Bureau on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Clayton Eckerd, and in 2022, I was the lead of ABC's The Bachelor. Unfortunately, it didn't go according to plan. He became the first Bachelor to ever have his final rose rejected. The internet turned on him. If I could press a button and rewind it all I would. But what happened to Clayton after the show? made even bigger headlines.
Starting point is 00:35:14 It began as a one-night stand and ended in a courtroom with Clayton at the center of a very strange paternity scandal. The media is here. This case has gone viral. The dating contract. Agree to date me,
Starting point is 00:35:27 but I'm also suing you. Please search for it. This is unlike anything I've ever seen before. I'm Stephanie Young. This is love trapped. This season, an epic battle of He Said She Said,
Starting point is 00:35:40 and the search for accountability in a sea of lies. Listen to Love Trapped on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And Miles, it's not a fun time. No, no. A nightmare out there.
Starting point is 00:36:11 Fucking awful, dude. It gets worse and worse. Every day, every day you're like, okay, pedophiles, scumbags, run everything. Yep. There's no fucking human life is like an after. thought now. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:36:24 Just in service of like these greedy fucking people who were like, Lindsay Graham was saying like, we're going to make so much. We're going to make a ton of money when we get, when we're in Iran and Venezuela. And it's going to be China's worst nightmare. We're going to get a ton of money. He talks about, keep saying it,
Starting point is 00:36:42 we're going to a ton of money. He also like the Wall Street Journal just reported that Lindsay Graham went to Israel and the lead up to the war. Oh, yeah. He's been rah-wrying this shit behind the same. scenes. To help make the case on Iran, Graham traveled several times to Israel in recent weeks, meeting with members of the country's intelligence agency. They'll tell me things our own government won't tell me, he said. He spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu coaching him on how to
Starting point is 00:37:09 lobby the president for action. Like, that's a conspiracy. What are you talking about? And it's just a thing that he's like, yeah, it's great. We're going to make some money. Um, we did a ton of money. judge. Oh, you're going to judge me, judge. And now he's like Cuba's going to be next. Finally, I can go buy a vintage car for a cut rate when I go to Havana.
Starting point is 00:37:36 Megan Kelly is all, she's also like, bro, get this guy away from Trump. Because it's so... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Doesn't that seem like the sort of thing that should be illegal, like advising another state on how to trick your leader into going to war?
Starting point is 00:37:51 You're going to consult with foreign intelligence as a means to drag our nation into a war. But it's not really dragging it because we have this fucking appetite all the time. Anyway, it's everything. I do just want to say there was also that press conference where I think like the height, like Marco Rubio was there for sure where they were just like, yeah, well, we like went to war because we knew Israel was going to do it.
Starting point is 00:38:20 And like since they were going to do it, like we had to be ready. So like that's kind of why we got into it because you can't because we can't control these guys. Like you're some kind like you're a frat brother. He's like, oh man, dude, Brian's, Brian's rolling his sleeves up, dude. I think he's about to get in a fight, bro. That's right. We might have to fucking be able to have our heads on this. Anyway.
Starting point is 00:38:41 So while all of this is happening, you know, the stonks, the line go down. The line go down. The line go down. Oil is going up. They're saying like the average could be four bucks a gallon. by the end of the month. Trump still hasn't found a way to make this illegal oil and empire war popular. And now like over the weekend,
Starting point is 00:39:02 we're just getting the most casually fucked up and eerie sound bites from the administration. So like at the start of the weekend, there is reports that Russia is supplying Iran with intelligence to effectively target U.S. assets in the Gulf. Okay. They're like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Iran's helping or Russia's helping Iran do this. and when Caroline Levitt was asked about this,
Starting point is 00:39:26 she acted like fucking Ray J. When Speedy, like broke his unbreakable sunglasses, just so fucking casual about it. Here is Caroline Levitt being like, man, he fucking gives a shit about this. I wanted to start you off this afternoon
Starting point is 00:39:42 because we have confirmed reports from U.S. officials that Russia is providing intelligence to Iran to help it target U.S. assets in the region. I'm sure this is something that does not please the president whatsoever. Has he spoken to Putin about? Well, look, I'll leave that to the president to answer himself.
Starting point is 00:40:01 But what I will tell you, John, we don't comment on intelligence reports that are leaked to the press. Whether or not this happened, frankly, it does not really matter because President Trump and the United States military are absolutely decimating the rogue Iranian terrorist regime. Okay, like, honestly,
Starting point is 00:40:19 even if they are, like, it doesn't matter because we're winning so hard right now. Right. That's not a scandal. The guy who literally rolled out a red fucking carpet for Vladimir Putin, this guy has been like, yeah, bro, watch me fucking play these motherfuckers. Yeah. Okay.
Starting point is 00:40:37 So there's that. Say you're winning so hard one. Like it's unclear what you're trying to do other than create a bunch of news headlines to distract from the thousands of civilians. Yeah. What's your metric here? bombing a school because we also found out through a lot of open source analyses that that school that were that were there were all those little girls were killed that was from a U.S. Tomahawk missile. Yeah, which we initially suspected.
Starting point is 00:41:06 And then the U.S. came out and was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. We actually, we actually think it was Iran. They did it to themselves for some reason. But yeah, there's multiple videos showing that it was a Tomahawk missile only used by the U.S. Yeah, they're like, well, who else had it? it and everyone's like, only us. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:41:24 Uh, so, hmm. Um, anyway, so then, then again, I guess speaking of being tethered to reality,
Starting point is 00:41:31 Levitt should also probably just change her name to secretary of American reality because she's just telling, she's just saying whatever the fuck because right now it's clear Donald Trump is, he, he, like nothing makes sense even to him with how this war is unfolding. So she, whenever she's on TV,
Starting point is 00:41:47 she's always doing the things like, he's got this. He's doing such a great job unlike anything we've ever seen. It's like, again, for an audience of one, Trump kept talking about Iran needing to unconditionally surrender, despite the Iranian saying they will fight for their own sovereignty. So I don't know what the fuck. Yeah, miss me with that.
Starting point is 00:42:05 Levitt was asked what Trump even means by that since Iran is like, we are not surrendering unconditionally. And here's her really odd answer about that. What does the president mean when he calls for unconditional surrender? Is he saying that the reason? regime has to fully relinquish control. What the president means is that when he, as commander-in-chief of the U.S. armed forces determines that Iran no longer poses a threat to the United States of America
Starting point is 00:42:32 and the goals of Operation Epic Fury has been fully realized, then Iran will essentially be in a place of unconditional surrender. Whether they say it themselves or not, frankly, they don't have a lot of people to say that for them. So what does he mean by that? She's basically, basically when the Trump is, when he, determines that they've surrendered. They've surrendered.
Starting point is 00:42:55 When we've done our goals, which I'm not allowed to tell you actually, what our goals are. But when we've done them, then that's when they've surrendered. Thank you next question. Yeah. She always like starts her answers in like the full sentence format of a like child at a spelling bee.
Starting point is 00:43:15 Yes. Right. Right. What does the president mean when he says full surrender? What the president means when he says full surrender. what the president means when he says full surrender in this instance and hereetofore and so forth, therefore and word salad. The word is perspicacity.
Starting point is 00:43:31 Can you use that in a sentence, please? That's right. Yes, yes, yes. But again, just there is no definition of that. And to act as if like good, I mean, this is, this is what she's useful to Trump for, just twisting the context around to be like, unconditional surrender isn't actually a thing they're going to define. It's a thing that Donald Trump will define. And that makes no sense.
Starting point is 00:43:55 But, okay, sure. Then she was asked about all the MAGA infighting, like with all the influencers. Like, oh, Megan Kelly, Laura Lumer, like, they're clearly breaking into separate factions here. Like, what do you think about the MAGA fracture? And she's like, only Donald Trump can determine what is math. She says in this fucking answer. The influencer divide on the war. It seems like everything on X is, everybody's going at each other.
Starting point is 00:44:22 She said everything on X, everyone's going at each other. What's your message to them? I would just remind people, X is not real life. This president lives in the real world. Oh, really? President Trump is the leader of MAGA. He's the creator of the MAGA movement. And there is nothing more America first than taking out terrorists
Starting point is 00:44:40 who have maimed and killed our own servicemen and women who chant death to America. I think you're missing. what even these freaks define as America first. It's all like if you want to even go by money, right? All the money being spent, it should be spent in America first on white people, not on social safety nets, but on white people.
Starting point is 00:45:04 And if we're going to be doing harmful shit to people with our military, it should be done in America first to the non-white people. That's the priority. Yeah, yeah. It's not even. And I like how she's like, Guys, she's like, hello, don't we love a bit of Islamophobia here? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:45:21 What's going on? Nothing better than that, in my opinion. It is also, I remember this was also an approach that he took during the Epstein doc craze where people were like, this feels weird. People are not into your response to this. And he was just like, I'm mega, I'm the only one. I say, if you have questions about the Epstein doc, you're no longer mega. in that maga.
Starting point is 00:45:46 You're actually out of my club. You're actually beginning to have glimpses of reality. Yes. And I don't want that. That's actually bad for me, for the movement for America. And then finally, as if the war couldn't be less popular, it's around 38% approval right now. Levitt spoke on the possibility of reinstating the fucking draft, okay? The draft, draft conscripting young people to fight and fight.
Starting point is 00:46:15 die in Iran. In a war that nobody believes them. Yeah. She went on Maria Barteromo's show. Clearly Maria Barteromo's like, well, don't, this war is so fucking unpopular. And y'all are fucking floating around
Starting point is 00:46:31 the idea of the draft. Are you out of your fucking minds? She even posed the question to Caroline Levitt to be like, hey man, a lot of people are scared out there. Like, what are we talking about here with the draft? This isn't serious, right? Here's an underhander for you to fucking maybe settle the waters a little bit.
Starting point is 00:46:50 And this is what Caroline Levitt says. Mothers out there are worried that we're going to have a draft, that they're going to see their sons get and daughters get involved in this. What do you want to say about the president's plans for troops on the ground? As we know, it's been largely an air campaign up until now. It has been, and it will continue to be. And President Trump wisely does not remove options. off of the table. I know a lot of politicians like to do that quickly, but the president as commander
Starting point is 00:47:21 and chief wants to continue to assess the success of this military operation. It's not part of the current plan right now, but the president, again, wisely keeps his options on the table. Keeps the options on the table. We're not ruling anything out. We're not ruling out conscripting young people 18 to 25. That will not be Baron Trump. first on the ground. You need to be first on the ground. Just, yeah. Assess the success.
Starting point is 00:47:52 She's a poet. And don't you know it? And yeah, I think for her, because the American position is so weak right now against Iran, that all we have is all this bluster. It's like, well, we're not, we're not taking, you know, completely skull-fucking the earth off the table. Okay. We're not taking off the idea that we're going to force young people to fight in this war and die for nothing off the table because they don't, you know, they're trying to project as much power as possible in a moment where America has never looked weaker. And the story, the headlines still keep coming out about, hey man, you're running out of those fancy fucking expensive missiles that are meant to intercept other bang bangs in the sky.
Starting point is 00:48:34 And the White House like, no, that's not true. We've got like so many, bro. The president in his eternal wisdom has chosen to actually make a finite number of those because we're. So actually we don't care about that. Let me rewind. So Barack Obama, right? Like, that's where they're at, man. And that's where other people are also, like, even with like the gas prices and stuff,
Starting point is 00:49:04 you're seeing all kinds of weird, like brain twisting into somehow this is, like, well, Biden started this war, unfortunately. So now we're like, what? What? Huh? Huh? Yeah. As for the real reason, or at least one of the big, big reasons that suddenly the U.S. got over there, you know, centuries-long fear of ever going to war in Iran.
Starting point is 00:49:31 We've never had a president who is covering up a scandal that is this bad with regards to the Epstein files. child trafficking ring. Yeah. The DOJ released some additional files that were missing in the previous Epstein file drop, supposedly because the files had been incorrectly coded as duplicative. Oh, really? Yeah, that's all. Oh, we thought we already, we thought we already released some of the most harrowing descriptions
Starting point is 00:50:01 of the allegations against Donald Trump. Yeah, we thought we, we thought that didn't come out. the files that they thought were duplicative were multiple FBI interviews with a woman who claimed that Trump raped her when she was between 13 and 15 years old. The details are fucking horrifying. Terrifying, bro. The thing she was subjected to as a child,
Starting point is 00:50:25 and a lot of people have been like kind of lining up a lot of the stuff that she said and they're finding a lot of truth, like in terms of like other details she gave. Like one thing she said was that, Um, like she was Epstein blackmailed this little girl after the fact, after she was abused and said like with nude photos and her mom, this victim, the survivor's mother embezzled thousands of dollars from her employer to pay off Jeffrey Epstein to not release these photos. And this woman like, she, $22,000 or something. She's like cobbled together embezzling from her company to give to Jeffrey Epstein. Like, did we not already mention that? I thought we already talked about. Sorry, that's, yeah.
Starting point is 00:51:09 It's just such not a big deal that we just thought that we had already mentioned that. You blackmailed this Survivor's family. Yeah. After the, like, these people are so fucking sick. And again, yeah, this, the idea that these allegations, like, oh, yeah, we thought they had already come out. I mean, it really just for all the people who are like, it feels like he might be a child predator. Uh, yeah, like read these documents. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:51:36 Because this is someone that the FBI thought was credible enough to use in terms of their pursuit of Galane Maxwell. This isn't just like some, you know, tip line thing that was phoned in and never followed up. Yeah, they interviewed her multiple times. And meanwhile, like the way that the U.S. is going about, like the White House is posting on social media, these like propaganda videos made of clips from like Gladiator, Braveheart, Tropic Thunder. Superman, all such the Mortal Kombat theme. And like a lot of the characters
Starting point is 00:52:12 in the thing are villains. Yeah. Like they really want to equate Pete Hegseth with Walter White. Intercut real life war crimes in Iran with Kylo Ren trying to kill Luke Skywalker. The quality
Starting point is 00:52:27 always looks like shit. All the like clips that look like they're sourced from torrents of Cam Rips. like self potato quality Rips of a fucking theater Yeah there's just like the highlight tapes They were putting together with like fucking
Starting point is 00:52:44 Like you know Military footage of like installations being bombed Or that ship being torpedoed Which was on armed by the way Yeah the ship yeah we found out that the ship That they torpedoed and keep like Using the footage to be like Aha you didn't think we were
Starting point is 00:53:00 Fucking a badass military anymore that was like essentially a like a boat in a parade it was like doing military exercises it was completely unarmed and they went through blew it up and then refused to
Starting point is 00:53:17 like rescue the survivors who were in the water which is standard like the fucking Nazis rescued people who were in the water after they blew up their boat yeah yeah man they're projecting so much power
Starting point is 00:53:33 man, everything's under control. Everything's totally under control. Yeah, it's just like war crimes that they're like turning into a fucking highlight reel for the, you know, NFL draft or something. Like it's, it's horrifying. But yeah, I mean, Ben Stiller complained about the Tropic Thunder scene, but like Disney hasn't said shit about the Star Wars clip. Warner Brothers is okay with Superman being used as the mascot for this war because they're not saying shit. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:54:03 This is the point of having a openly corrupt administration is, you know, you make it so that criticizing the president is bad for business and in the U.S. That's all that matters. Everybody suddenly gets quiet. And I just, the country is, has been effectively like demoralized, you know, like demoralized in the sense of like everybody being exhausted by the Trump administration. and being like we can't beat these guys, but also just like, yeah,
Starting point is 00:54:35 and the morality has been just drilled out of these people. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, everybody's just like, I don't fucking know, man. It looks super chaotic. You know what I mean, too? Like, it doesn't, there's like one version or like, oh, man, like this is so, it feels so planned out. Like, they really had this whole thing set up.
Starting point is 00:54:54 It looks like just absolute chaos. Like they're building it as it's happened. And they don't know what to do with it. what direction it's going. And the best they can do is like, I don't know, can we maybe put some videos out that'll just get a bunch of likes and retweets
Starting point is 00:55:10 so we can show the president? You know what I mean? Like so much of that shit is built to just show the president that everything's okay. Caroline Levitt, everything she's saying out there, it's just to give the impression
Starting point is 00:55:22 that everything is okay. And it looks like, yeah, they're making it up as they go. Yeah. And I think that's what's jarring. The more they insist, they've got it all figured out.
Starting point is 00:55:31 I'm like, they are they're doing Kevin Sorbo improv, but what's right in foreign policy. And they're like, what the fuck? Israel's just, they, we didn't say we were going to go after these oil refineries. Fuck, bro. Oh. This whole thing stinks like shit. And now, yeah, it gets worse day by day.
Starting point is 00:55:52 Franz Ferdinand is at least pissed. The band, uh, who made the song, Take Me Out. That song was used in a propaganda video by Israel. they said that this makes us both nauseous and furious. So them and Ben Stiller are both you know, coming out and saying this is not
Starting point is 00:56:12 good, but, um, doing the bare minimum. That is, yeah, we're definitely, the, the, the corporate, uh, overlords are not, are not coming out. They're, they're ducking and just being like, yeah, whatever, man. Well, again, that's, that's, that's, y'all, it's called class solidarity.
Starting point is 00:56:30 That's right. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. Next Monday, our 2026 IHeart podcast awards are happening live at South by Southwest. This is the biggest night in podcasting. We'll honor the very best in podcasting from the past year and celebrate the most innovative talent and creators in the industry. And the winner is creativity, knowledge, and passion will all be on full display.
Starting point is 00:56:59 Thank you so much. IHeart Radio. Thank you to all the other nominees. You guys are awesome. Watch live next Monday at 8. P.m. Eastern 5 p.m. Pacific free at veeps.com or the Veeps app. In 2023, a story gripped the UK, evoking horror and disbelief. The nurse who should have been in charge of caring for tiny babies is now the most prolific
Starting point is 00:57:22 child killer in modern British history. Everyone thought they knew how it ended. A verdict, a villain, a nurse named Lucy Lettby. Lucy Lettby has been found guilty. But what if we didn't get the whole story. The moment you look at the whole picture, the case collapses. I'm Amanda Knox, and in the new podcast, Doubt the case of Lucy Letby, we follow the evidence and hear from the people that lived it, to ask what really happened when the world decided who Lucy Lettby was. No voicing of any skepticism or doubt.
Starting point is 00:57:57 It'll cause so much harm at every single level of the British establishment of this is wrong. Listen to Doubt, the case of Lucy Letby, on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, this is Joe Winterstein, host of the Spirit Daughter podcast, where we talk about astrology, natal charts, and how to step into your most vibrant life. And I just sat down with a mini driver. The Irish traveler said when I was 16, you're going to have a terrible time with men. Actor, storyteller, and unapologetic Aquarian visionary.
Starting point is 00:58:33 Aquarius is all about freedom. loving and different perspectives. And I find a lot of people with strong placements in Aquarius are misunderstood. A son and Venus and Aquarius in her seventh house spark her unconventional approach to partnership. He really has taught me to embrace people sleeping in different rooms on different houses and different places, but just an embracing of the isness of it all. If you're navigating your own transformation or just want to chart side view into how a leading artist integrates astrology, creativity, and real life, this episode is a must listen. Listen to the
Starting point is 00:59:09 Spirit Daughter podcast starting on February 24th on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your podcast. China's Ministry of State Security is one of the most mysterious and powerful spy agencies in the world. But in 2017, the FBI got inside. This is Special Agent Regal, Special Agent Bradley Hall. This MSS officer has no idea the U.S. government is on to him. But the FBI has his chats, texts, emails, even his personal diary. Hear how they got it on the Sixth Bureau podcast. I now have several terabytes of an MSS officer, no doubt, no question, of his life.
Starting point is 00:59:52 And that's a unicorn. No one had ever seen anything like that. It was unbelievable. This is a story of the inner workings of the MSS and how one man's ambition and mistakes opened its fault of secrets. Listen to the Sixth Bureau on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Starting point is 01:00:14 I'm Clayton Eckerd, and in 2022, I was the lead of ABC's The Bachelor. Unfortunately, it didn't go according to plan. He became the first Bachelor to ever have his final Rose rejected. The internet turned on him. If I could press a button and rewind it all I would. But what happened to Clayton after the show made even bigger headlines. It began as a one-night stand and ended in a courtroom with Clayton at the center of a very strange paternity scandal.
Starting point is 01:00:44 The media is here. This case has gone viral. The dating contract. Agree to date me, but I'm also suing you. Please search warrant. This is unlike anything I've ever seen before. I'm Stephanie Young. This is Love Trapped.
Starting point is 01:01:00 This season, an epic battle of He Said She Said, and the search for accountability in a sea of lies. Listen to Love Trapped on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And a new Supreme drop. Iran has chosen another Kamenei as the new Supreme leader. Kamenei.
Starting point is 01:01:37 Khamenei. Mostaba Kamenei. Kama'nay. Son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Because there's Khomeini, there's homine, there's, yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, I wonder where this one ranked because Trump was like, we had a lot of listed people that we thought were going to do it, but they're all dead now.
Starting point is 01:01:56 So it might just be some of the freakyest ones left. Right. Maybe. I don't know. This guy was. Everybody was, nobody is surprised by this except the U.S. That seems like. but he's been touted as a potential replacement for his father before the war and has been described as his father's gatekeeper and also like more extremist, more radical.
Starting point is 01:02:26 No way. You should not be expecting any moderation. No way the killing of the radical guy didn't de-radicalize the country that has called for the destruction of Israel and calls the U.S. the great Satan. crazy. Yeah. That that didn't work. No way. Does any of your out and your analysts know that? Oh, that you fired them all? Oh, did that one 23 year old who's like sick at call of duty? Did he know about this? Was that any of the Call of Duty games or no? No. Oh, wow. Wow. Yeah. What a mess. Just seems like there's no plan whatsoever.
Starting point is 01:03:01 No. And him being like, oh, the, when Trump said, quote, he's going to have to get approval from us when they talked about the new Supreme leaders. that if he doesn't, if he doesn't get approval from us, he's not going to last long. I'm sorry, what are you talking about? He's threatening to do a war crime and assassinate someone. Another one, but this is the other thing that, to me, indicates like he's losing his grip, not in reality.
Starting point is 01:03:25 Like, it's all this text. Yeah, it's this textbook shit narcissists do when they feel like they're losing power over someone. You know, like they start making you do like micro tasks or small gestures to keep you in compliance. because they realize they aren't as influential anymore. So it's like, you know, if you no longer can tell somebody how to live their life,
Starting point is 01:03:47 then maybe the next thing you do is like, actually, can you pick that thing up for me right now? Yeah, yeah. Can you actually go do this thing for me? You switch levels so you can still experience some form of control, even though it makes no fucking sense at this point. You're like, what, what are you fucking talking about? You're going to dictate who the Supreme Leader is?
Starting point is 01:04:05 How? On what basis? Aside from just the threat of more like war crimes. but truly like this isn't this isn't even a thing that you're able to control but again you can tell yourself that because yeah I mean I don't know because I think he went from feeling like you will fucking surrender because I said so and now it's just like well we now we're going to have to approve what you just did right yeah yeah just shut no no we've actually uh suggested the introduction of some bureaucracy and some bureaucratic uh processes into into your selection
Starting point is 01:04:39 Okay, okay, well, if you're not going to follow the threat of violence, can you follow this set of weird micro rules I just put out? Right. No? Will you change your flag color, like one of the colors, to blue? No. Can you wear a red hat? No?
Starting point is 01:04:55 Fuck. Jesus, like, it's so fucking exhausting and frightening. It's, yeah. Everybody, please take care of yourselves, too, because, you know, loss of a presumptive future, I think becomes more vivid as people are. already like what is about to happen with all of this? Like,
Starting point is 01:05:12 economically, uh, physically with the threat of violence. Just so much of that is, is so fucking exhausting. But allow us to be exhausted on your behalf. That's right. Um, and just,
Starting point is 01:05:26 but don't check out. Don't check out. Don't check out. Please don't check the fuck out because it's, it's fucking bad. There's also that report that like Hague Seth was trying to suppress a warning coming out being like, like guys, you know, this could cause violence.
Starting point is 01:05:42 Reprisals. Like backlash or reprisals. Yeah. It just feels like they're, you know, they're hoping for something like that so that they can like get more people on board with with the war. Of course. It feels like what we're what we're looking at. I mean, I think we said like, you know, it's such a terrible combination to have, you know, like baby Huey be like part of like an anti-terrorism task force. like a 23, 4-year-old person heading that up,
Starting point is 01:06:12 along with everything that's happening. And, like, you know, like, they're looking for a reason to be like, oh, that's it. We're shut it down. We can't have elections. Can't have elections because we created the environment for some kind of terrible mass casualty event to happen in the United States. Right.
Starting point is 01:06:30 Anyways, that's what's going on, unfortunately. We are back tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show. until then. Be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get your vaccines. Well, you still can. Get your flu shots. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. No, we will. Talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. Bye. The Daily Zykegeist is executive produced by Catherine Law. Co-produced by Bay Wang. Co-produced by Victor Wright.
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