The Daily Zeitgeist - DNC Smoke Bomb, K-9mm 05.28.26

Episode Date: May 28, 2026

In episode 2065, Jack and Miles are joined by author of Cry For Me, Argentina: My Life As A Failed Child Star, Tamara Yajia, to discuss… Now That The Brand Is In Freefall Grifters Are Grifting Harder, DNC Finally Releases The 2024 Post Mortem…They Are Cooked, Shotgun-Wielding Dog Injures Woman In Nebraska, School Buses Are Being Turned Into AI-Powered Narcmobiles and more! Megyn Kelly: “I didn’t expect the corruption to be quite as widespread as it has been." DNC’s 2024 Autopsy Is Out—and It Completely Misses the Point Dog shoots woman with shotgun at Nebraska convenience store Pennsylvania man says he was shot by his dog In the past five years, at least six Americans have been shot by dogs ‘BusPatrol’ Put AI Cameras in Tens of Thousands of School Buses. Now They Want to Give Cops Access BusPatrol.com Buffalo school bus stop-arm cameras boost safety, bring in millions from 52,000 tickets Police Tech Giant Axon Is Concealing Its Political Spending Districts nationwide continue to face school bus driver shortages School Bus Drivers Make School Possible. They Deserve Better. Trump’s Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy Puts Safety First, Finalizes Rule to Stop Unqualified Foreign Drivers from Driving Big Rigs on American Roadways Trump anti-migrant agenda costs bus, subway drivers and truckers jobs LISTEN: sweet talk by nomi.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Did the mom die? I don't know. I think so. I think she did. His face is fucked. It's horrifying. Are we getting this for the cold open? God, you guys saying this to a pregnant woman.

I know, Jesus Christ. What the fuck? Anyways. I'm just saying, like, if you should, when you're at, like, the mommy and me classes, the birthing classes, just like give their tummy a little pet. You know, you got to make sure they're not. fucking around. Yeah.

But yeah, like, so she... Miles. No, no, I don't care. I don't care. This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed human. A little too relaxed during yoga? That's embarrassing.

You know what's not? Debt. Consolidate your debt with a loan from FIG. No early repayment fees and low interest rates. So you can pay off your debt faster. Borrow better with FIG. Visit fig.ca. Hey, guys, it's us. The Jonas Brothers.

I'm Joe. Kevin. And I'm Nick. And guess what? We created our own podcast called Hey Jonas. We invented a podcast. Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to it. We're the first people to do podcasts. We get to ask other people questions because we're sick and tired of being asked questions. Well, sick and tired is a strong way to put it, but, you know, tired and sick. Tired and sick. Listen to Hey Jonas on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Just listen. We don't care where you hear it. Another podcast from some SNL, late night comedy guy, not.

Quite unhumored me with Robert Smygel and friends, me and hilarious guests from Jim Gaffigan to Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman help make you funnier. This week, my guest, SNL's Mikey Day and head writer Streeter Seidel, help an acapella band with their between songs banter. There's that worst singer in the group? The worst? Yeah. Me. Is there anything to the idea that because you're from Harvard, you only got in because your parents made a huge donation. The yard herds, right?

That's the name. The Harvard Yard, but they're open. Do you have a name suggestion? We're open. Since you guys are middle-aged, one erection. Listen to humor me with Robert Smigel and Friends on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Humor me. I need some jokes to make me seem funny.

There are times when the mind. becomes a difficult place to live. This is David Eagleman with the Inner Cosmos podcast, and for Mental Health Awareness Month, we'll talk with singer-songwriter Jewel about anxiety. I started living in my car, and then my car got stolen. I was having panic attacks. I was agoraphobic.

This is a month of deeply personal and honest conversations about what happens when the brain goes off course. Listen to Inner Cosmos on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 440, episode three of their daily zeitgeist. It's a production of iHeartRadio. It's a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. You guys heard about this?

Yeah. Through the day's news is how we usually do it. We also have a new non-news history version of the daily zeitgeist dropping each Monday morning where we do a deep dive into the zeitgeist through the lens of a different icon. We've recently done, I don't know, Mr. Bean? Fuck, I missed that one of our guests. With our guests today. Yeah.

We've recently done Steve Jobs. Who was a smelly man. It was very mean. But also, you know, give us the iPhone. He thought different. He did think different. He thought different. Whereas Brian, the editor, put it in the title.

He stink different. Stink different, too. Those episodes drop Monday with icon in the title and a different logo. But right here, right now, it is Thursday, May 28th, 2026. Yes, that means it's National Brisket Day. For all you smoke meat lovers out there, it's National Hamburger Day. Damn, all right, guys. It's also International Burger Day. It's also, shout out the Philippines, National Flag Day for all my Panoi Zite Gang listeners, Mabuhai, and World Hunger Day as well. Boom. Does I feel like those all good together? World Hunger Day and then so hungry. Hungry.

They eat all that smoked meat and burger. Bro, you will not go hungry in a Filipino house, though. I'll tell you that. Definitely not. You will eat force-fed food, which is my favorite kind of hospitality culturally. When it's like there's more food than your brain can actually conceive of now, let's all eat it. Yeah, yeah. It's too much.

Yeah. Yesterday on the Daily Zikev was unofficially National Hot Dog Day. And now it's National Hamburger Day. My name is Jack O'Brien, AK. Morning Raised Inside Gang, USA. They call me Jacko. Brian I rock akas. I think lemons are limes and limes are really lemons.

And I sit my graveyards with all the ice in them. That one courtesy of Snarfula on the Discord, a little no sleep till Brooklyn. In reference to, what was it in reference to? The fact that I think limes are secretly just young lemons. Yeah. And nobody can get this. Your first rapper. Young lemon.

Young lemon. I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. It's Miles Gray A.k. Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun Horse! Champions of the Premier League

Da-da-da-da-dun Dun-Dun-Dun-Tun-Tun-Tun-Tun-Tun-Tunthin-Turth. It's a miracle. Shout out to bird turgler. Bird turgler. You're just out there. You're out there turgling them birds. Turgling.

Thank God you're not burgling them turds. There's a bird turgler on the loose. Yeah. Thanks for that one. Any, any ars like a, will be welcomed with open arms as I prepare for my sojourn to learn. Easy, light work for the AKA writers right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Sometimes there's just a run. That and only fans, people are getting in on the arsenal shit. Oh, good for them. So many people posting with uniforms on, but like super thirst trap-y photos. And like in like the Arsenal subreddit, they'll be like, I'm so happy we won. And you're like, this person is impossibly thick. Right. And then, and then like, but then low-key everyone was like, we get it.

We saw your profile. Only fans, but it's funny because a lot of the fans are like, stop promoting your only fans. We want to be just a bunch of sports guys celebrating. But anyway, hey, get your hustle on. You're reading the algorithms. And right now, Arsenal content is being served up. Got to get my mom to.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. On her guest mom is a only fan. If she needs a shirt, she could borrow one. You know what I mean? Yeah. Okay. I figured out.

Is that why you asked me to borrow $2,000? The Only Fans. Nope. Dars and only fans. No overlap. Nope. It's, you know what? It's shameless is what it is.

I think it's art. Miles were thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a comedian, actress, musician, writer, author behind poems I wrote while taking a shit. I will always mention that one. And the book, Cry for Me, Argentina. My Life is a Failed Child Star. Please welcome back to the show. One of our very favorite guests, the hilarious and talented. Tomorrow you hear!

Damn! Hey! Damn, damn! Hey, yes, my mom is on only fans. That's why I mentioned that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's thriving more than ever, you guys. Her only fans is?

Yes. I'm sure for World Cup, though, I know you got Argentina jersey. You know what I mean? Literally. I mean, this isn't the jersey, but I'm repping. And I just found out that I'm going to Texas for the opening of the World Cup. I mean, I don't... What do you just found out?

Like, you won a prize or something? My husband's band is playing some small. smaller show around the opening. And I was like, I'm coming. Okay. But I know Argentina is playing in Texas. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we shall see.

I can get into one of the games. I'll be Celeste, you know. Yes. Exactly. And that's the name for the national team. Right. Yeah. Yeah.

No, I know. I don't think we're going to win again. Uh-huh. Which someone got mad at me for saying that. But the Dodgers won twice in a row. So anything can happen. Anything can happen. It's just about Messies.

Perennial favorites. We all know he's too. It's not good. He's too old. He's too old. He did the thing. He did the thing. He did the thing.

He did the thing. And the ankles are hanging on by like a thread. Yeah, like rubber bands. Yeah. Is that way? I heard they implanted rubber bands into his ankles.

That's what. Yeah. A lot of people are like, you should use real tendons or some kind of donor material. Nah, fan. He's like, whatever's quick, man.

Just get him in there. Yeah. He was sipping the bombia. He was like, bro, get that shit. I really want much. And I really want to try that. Oh, my God, I should have brought next time.

You drink that a lot? Not that I'm pregnant now because it's too caffeinated, but I used to. It makes you shit and it's great. Jack, have you tried it? What is it? I'm going to bring it next time. It's like an herb that you drink out of a gourd with like a straw, like a metal straw. Yeah.

Yeah, it's called Yerbamante. But this is like the pure kind. Yeah, the OG, where they got the straw with a filter. Oh, Yerba mater? Yerba mate. Yeah, Yerba mate. I love Yerba mate. I like that stuff.

I'm trying to get off coffee. Coffee made. I'm trying to get off a Starbucks. I was off coffee made. I do Yerba mate. But no, when you get it, when you do it straight with the straw with the filter and just the fucking herbs in there, that's what I'm trying. It's like a Marlboro light. Kind of I smoked a joint of Yervamate before.

It's bad. That sounds like a bad. It's like a tea. Yeah. Sounds like something I would have done when I was like eight and already trying to get high. Doesn't everyone experiment with rolling up a tea bag to start? And you're like, I need some kind of... I didn't do tea bag.

That was the first thing. It was around some banana peel. I had my mother. She showed me, she didn't really show me how to roll a joint, but I was asking her if she knew how to roll a joint because one time she interviewed Bob Marley. And she was like, no. And she's like, but I tried to practice in the 70s. And I was like, and she's like with tea.

And I was like, light bulb. And she's like, who's been messing with my tea? And I'm like, I'm fine. That is a good impression of your mom, by the way. Yeah, yeah. Hey. She talks like Sinbad. Hey.

Hey, man. Who's messing with my tea? That's my mother from Japan. Yeah, yeah. She loves a big sin bat fan. I did sit in high school all the time practicing rolling joints. You did? And I'm like, what did I think I was doing?

Like, everybody would have, like, my teachers would have known that because I didn't really smoke weed. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, like, I was just trying to, I don't know, be ready, be prepared. You were just, like, in the back, just, like, twisting up. They're like, and the fact that I didn't get in trouble suggested I'm such a dork. Yeah. They're just like, he doesn't have any friends. And he thinks this is going to make them happen.

Yeah. Do you guys ever smoke salvia? I did once. Yeah. I did too. Yeah. What is that? It was like the moon looked bigger.

Oh, when I smoked salvia, I turned into a two-dimensional object. Oh, it worked for you? It was crazy, dude. I went, I smoked it and I turned into Mario Brothers. Right. And I was like this. And I was like so disoriented. Yeah, everyone's trip is different.

And then there was a knock at the door at my apartment in college and I opened the door. There was a man in a suit with my doppelganger. Stop it. Yes. And my doppelganger went into my apartment and just started kicking it with my friends. And the man in the suit told me to come with him. That's crazy, dude. That that happened while you smoked salvia?

Like, what a mine trip. No. For that to happen at the same. No. And cut to. Wait, I don't know how drugs work. But this is a crazy part. I was like, oh, this is how this is supposed to work.

Right. The doppelganger comes and like, I guess this is. This is what it is. So I go with him. And the second I crossed the threshold, my roommate goes, Miles, Miles. Yeah. And I'm like, he goes, your peas are ready. Oh, my God.

I had started microwaving a bowl of frozen peas before I started, before I hit the salvia. And I, because that's how broke I was. I was eating frozen peas for dinner. And then I was on my knees in my own room with two pillows. I was holding two pillows on my knees like this. And the whole time I thought I was in my, like all this other shit was going on. Oh, wow. Yeah, it wasn't great.

And it was legal. It still is. I don't know. I mean. Or maybe not anymore. That doesn't stop. That doesn't stop anybody. No.

You guys, you know Kratom? Have you heard of Kratom? I was just going to say. I was addicted to it. Like, I had to go get rehab for it. Really? Yeah. Cratom is, I know a lot of people in recovery who go out on Kratum because like.

Yeah, it's like, buy kid. Available. It's like you can get it anywhere. Yeah. And it gives you like the same withdrawals as like opiates. I was like a heroin addict, like shaking in bed. It was. But it's natural, man.

But it's natural. And I was like, I started taking one pill. And by the end of my addiction, I was taking 20 pills. Oh, my God. I didn't even know. I know. And now it's just like, get you right. It wasn't even really doing it anymore.

Well, right. It stops. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sounds good. Anyway. Sounds like a good one.

Sounds like one to invest in. And this was well before your pregnancy. Yeah. This is a couple weeks ago. I just got out of rehab, man. For Craido. Crazy. Yeah.

Tim, we're thrilled to have you here. We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell the listeners a couple of the things we're talking about. Megan Kelly's starting to sound like she's... Real Lib. On zeitgeist. She's not a fan of this president. She's like, what the fuck is even the deal with this guy? Oh, really? You're man?

Yeah, sure, man. We're going to talk about the DNC post-mortem, which I think that came out last week, but there's... Yeah, we didn't really touch on it. It's mainly a story about what's not in there, which is everything. We're going to talk about yet another dog shot someone this time outside of a convenience store. When are we going to learn? Stop arming dogs. It's crazy that dogs, like there's so many guns in this country.

Yes. That motherfucking dogs can just somehow lick a shot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like Legos in my house. Like, you're just going to eventually step more because there's Legos fucking everywhere. Eventually your dog will shoot a gun. Your dog is going to shoot a gun. Yeah.

It's like the, and it hits someone. A million monkeys in a room on typewriter. It's just that with guns instead. Yeah, think about all the dogs that are licking off shots and not hitting anyone on a daily basis. Like, I told you to lock the gun up. Right. Anyways, we'll talk about that. We'll talk about school buses turning into AI-powered narc mobiles, all of that, plenty more.

But first, Tam, we do like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Okay, it's not revealing, but it is the truth. All right. My last search history was Donal Logue. Oh, yeah. Because I had dinner with him last night. And then afterwards, I looked up who he was. And I was like, oh, shit.

What was his show called on Fox? I just, he did the Tao of Steve and something taxed. Terriers, right? Grounded for life was the first Donal Logue show that I remember. Yeah, the Tao, Dow of Steve, Sons of Annes. He's on Sons of Anarchy for a little bit, Vikings. Wait, so you had dinner with him. You don't know who he is at all.

He just had dinner and you're like, let me figure out who this guy was. I knew he was someone famous and he's great. He was like the funniest guy ever. But then I was like, but who is he really? Were you like, I'm going to look this up. I feel like this guy's got something. I want to tell him to like maybe give this thing a shot. Stick with it, don't know.

And then also I realized he wrote Danny Trejo's autobiography. He wrote Danny Trejo's best friend. Yeah. He's cool as a. Joe's best friend. Yeah. I'm glad I researched all of this after because if not, I would have been starstruck. Right.

So I got to be really cool around him. Right. So that's my realistic. And before that, my search history was dead babies. Jesus Christ. Just the concept? I wanted to know if your baby dies in your womb, do you know that they're dead? Oh, God.

So it was more like fetus dead inside was the search history. Just really bombing out the audience. That how well, hey, I had something about what we were talking about before. Well, but that was talking about a true crime documentary. It's not that we just brought it up out of nowhere. Justin, who has a impeccable track record for recommending documentaries, brought it up. And I just yes and it and concluded it.

While we were talking about the fact that Tim's six months pregnant. I'm six months pregnant. Well, hey. It is interesting, though, too, because I remember when Her Majesty was pregnant, it just gets like morbid a little bit. Yeah. I mean, how could it not? She always watched Gray's Anatomy, but like the pregnancy episodes was like,

this woman was impaled. Right. Like this pregnant woman and she's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You want to know the worst case scenarios. Yeah, sure, sure. I didn't cut my toenails for the first three months because I was scared if I cut my toenails, the baby would die. So I just had like daggers on my toes.

I'm sorry. So, and that was based off of what medical journal. Okay, okay, okay, okay. I was going to make sure. You're like, you've got to check this website. It's RFK Jr. recommended it. And do your toenails grow faster? Because you were saying your hair grows faster.

It all grows faster. Everything grows faster. My pubs. My inus hair, which is pubs too. Yeah, yeah. My husband's got a, we got a ball hair trimmer and he's going to clip it for me. There you go. Yeah.

Yeah. Because otherwise, it's just getting out of it. I can't reach anymore. It's amazing. There you go. Beautiful. Beautiful things are happening. Beautiful things are happening.

What is something that you think is underrated? Underrated is the smell. What's going on? I'm going to go. Yeah, yeah. I love it, Tam. Go ahead. The smell of cowshit manure.

Isn't it? Yeah, like nobody is like, I love it. And they should be because I love it. Maybe it's a pregnancy thing. I know. Do you not think it's. At all. Don't you think it's like kind of intoxicating in a good way?

Oh, like that good stink? Yes. Oh, interesting. I know what you're saying. I'm not turned off by it. I'm like, oh, it's not like manure. Yeah. It's not like, fuck, man, there's manure here.

Exactly. It's like, I'm not saying we should have perfume that smells like that. But like, I'm into it. Yeah. I could handle more if it was around. I could handle more is the weird. I could, come on, I could fucking handle more, you pussy. Give me more manure.

I'm not stuck in here with the smell of manure. Yeah. Stunk in here with me. Shrinking it up. I have the same feeling about horseshit, to be honest with you. You like it. I kind of like it because it reminds me of New York in the winter when you like smell, you know, the carriage horses. Totally.

Yeah, yeah. It's intoxicated. So for you, it's a sense memory. Yeah, I think so. But I think that's also the same thing with the cow shit. Is it? Or you're just like, no, no, I don't think of anything. For me, because I'm also not offended by cow shit.

But it's the least. The least offensive shit It's evoking cold New York Yeah For me And what's manure evoking for you? Just pleasure I'm trying to help you

Did you grow up visiting a farm? No No In the middle of Buenos Aires No farms around Just a freaky neighbor It's just It's just a nice smell

Yeah Like roses Like roses Yeah Okay So you just like naturally It hits you Like, as long as you remember.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. For as long as I remember. I mean, when you say that, I'm like, every time I smell manure, it reminds me of, like, the new school year where they were, like, making sure, like, the big field that we played on, like, wasn't all fucked up. Right. Like, it was, like, a remnant of, like, the summer rehab of the playground.

Yeah. But, yeah, I don't, I definitely, I'm not, I'm not, like, gross manure. So. Yeah. Fertilizer sometimes sucks, I would say. But, like, when it's pure, pure. Pure cow sheds. Pure uncut cow shit.

Well, you grew up around that kind of shit. I've been, yeah, I've spent some time on fun. Out here in the field. Exactly. Looking for mushrooms. We played with cow shit. What's something you think is overrated? What kind of shit smell?

It's not smell related. I think being productive is overrated. Like now that I'm not productive, I'm like, ah, this rules. We should all be lazy pieces of shit. were you before the pregnancy, like such a busy body? Oh my God, like working on a book and a screenplay and like, it's just like, what for? Yeah.

Oh, now you're like, mm-mm. What for? Fuck all that. Does that giving you like a new like philosophical view or you're just more kind of like, I can't beat myself up out of quote unquote productivity because I am gestated. Well, I think that's what it is. I think now I get to not do anything and I'm like, our bodies, okay, I'm doing triple the work right now because I'm growing a human, but even

not when not, you're just like, this resting is beautiful. We don't need to, we don't need to do so much. And will you take this with you? Once the child is here. No. You're right back to busy. That baby is on a fucking spreadsheet the second

it comes out. It's not hitting its mark, it's one week markers. Yeah, they've got apps for that. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. By the way, I don't know if you checked out the Pope's encyclical. But kind of about this. The Pope is also making this is overrated for the day.

You're kidding me. Productivity. The Pope just wrote a big thing about anti-AI thing. And like one of the things he was like, everybody trying to optimize humans makes us less human. It like makes us be like into. Or the concept that we need, there's a need for optimization would already begin to say that like, oh, so we are starting at the point. The basic assumption is like that humanity is flawed because. it's not productive enough.

And that takes us to this AI bullshit. Well, I'm in tune with the Pope. He's cool right. I guess. He's fine. I just think that everything's gotten so bad and like so concentrated. It's like this black hole of fucking, you know, billionaires and like AI people and shit that are just like all condensed over here. And everyone else is just over here describing it and being like it sucks.

Wow. Totally. And so like now we're all on the same side with the Pope now. The Pope kind of ate with that one. The Pope had like sort of, yeah, bars spin truth. Yeah. It's a weird world. What's he said about gay people, though?

You know, that's when he's really going to be spinning that fire. Okay, okay. He said sorry for slavery. I said sorry for slavery. Oh my God. One thing at a time. Okay, he said he welcomes everybody, but he's like, it's highly unlikely that church teaching on it will change.

Okay. All right. Last Pope said, who am I to judge? See, I like... Yeah. Who am I to judge? Thank you. Oh, the Pope, that's right. You're going to hell. Oh, my bad. I forgot.

That's why I... I'll leave that up to one of the saints. I wrote a little scene the other day about the Pope committing suicide in the Sistine Chapel. Oh. And I read... This is just part of your project too? I was being pregnant. Again, I'm just saying...

like what's coming through the baby. Like we might have an omen situation. Maybe cut this part out. Just love that. Just like guide my fingers. Oh, child, oh,

my fingers, Damien. You open your eyes and there's just a detailed scene. You wake up, honey, your peas are done. Huh?

My frozen peas. What have I written? Oh, Jesus. Let's take a quick. quick break and we'll be right back to talk about some news. Sending a spicy picture to your work chat instead of your significant other? That's so embarrassing.

You know what's not? Debt? Consolidate your debt with a loan from FIG. No hassle, no judgment. Borrow better with FIG. Visit fig.ca. Hey, it's us, the Jonas brothers. And guess what? We have some big news.

What's the news? Huge news. We created our own podcast called, Hey Jonas. We invented a podcast? Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to it. We're the first people to do podcasts.

Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts throughout there. But this one's extra special. So how do we actually come up with a name, Hey Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember. I think it was on a call about what we should call it. Well, we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band. Before Jonas Brothers was... This is how you guys remember it going down?

Yes. I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast, where people could call in and say, hey, Jonas. And then I wrote down on my little notepad, Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title for the podcast. But thanks for remembering that, guys. Listen to Hey Jonas on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,

or wherever you get your podcast. Just listen. We don't care where you hear it. Another podcast from some SNL late night comedy guy, not quite. Unhumor me with Robert Smygel and friends, me and hilarious guests from Jim Gaffigan to Bob Oden, to David Letterman help make you funnier. This week, my guest, SNL's Mikey Day and headwriters, Streeter Seidel,

help an acapella band with their between songs banter. There's that worst singer in the group? The worst? Yeah. Me. Is there anything to the idea that because you're from Harvard, you only got in because your parents made a huge donation. The group.

The yard herds, right? That's the name. The Harvard yard, but they're open. Do you have a name suggestion? We're open. Since you guys are middle-aged, one erection. Listen to humor me with Robert Smigel and Friends on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Humor me.

I need some jokes to make me seem funny. Here's something that should not be as complicated as it is. Getting a racist statue removed. And here's something that should be a whole lot easier than it is. getting a new one put up in its place. As long as there's a politics of race in America, there's going to be a politics of remembering the Civil War. To get to school, I had to go down Robert Lee Boulevard.

Get to the grocery store, I had to go down Jefferson Davis Parkway. If you're an historian and you leave out half of what the history is, you're not doing your job. I'm Akila Hughes, and Rebel Spirit Season 2 goes deep on both of those things, the fights, the politics, the people who won, and my personal campaign to add something to the Kentucky State House that's actually worth the wall space. We are more than our bodies.

We contain essence. We contain spirit. How do you represent that? They are just fueling a fire that is really catching. You'll see what I mean. Listen to Rebel Spirit Season 2 on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back.

We're back. And Meg, Kelly. Mm-hmm. Meg. My girl. Yeah, Meg. Meg is a really. real, a real, Philly thing.

Yeah. Oh, Meg. Is it? Meg. Yeah. A lot of Meggins. A lot of Meggins. Megins or Megan's?

Well, Megan's. Oh, shit. Yeah, Meg. Yeah. Meg. Kelly is one of the right wing people who seems to be like kind of coming around to be in like, this seems bad and how do I position myself? Yeah, yeah.

To pretend like I was not part of it. Coming around to how, what's my exit strategy right now? She's like, I'm over here. I've been over here with the Pope. The whole time. That's what I'm saying. Getting the hot dog suit. We're all trying to figure out what the fuck is going on with this guy.

Who was rooting for this asshole? Yeah. It wasn't me. It wasn't me. Don't look at past episodes of anything I've ever said. No. But yeah, I think,

you know, we talked about how Trump's polling is now at its, lowest. He's even besting his polling right after January 6th when it was, it's absolutely lowest. Wow. Worsting it. He's worsening it.

Yeah, yeah. And I think, you know, and we also hear about how Trump, no energy to shore up the Republican Party going into midterms. Like, he's just like, it's all transgender for everyone. And, uh, Iran and I don't care about poor people gas and like, gas is peanuts.

Everyone is like, I don't know how cars work. I really legitimately think it's peanuts. And a lot of the Republicans are just basic. They're like, we're fucked because this guy won't even, he won't even give us a thing we can lie that was to say we're doing something. And that's really what he's always been about. Yeah, yeah, yeah. helping us lie.

So she recently was doing her show with the Sunkin Place Twins or Hodge Twins or whatever the fuck they're called. And she's acting now like this corrupt self-dealing administration is some kind of a shocker. So here's Megan Kelly with the Sunkin Place Twins talking about, dude, like, this guy's a fucking, this guy sucks. This is so corrupt, huh? I have to be honest, I didn't expect the corruption to be quite as, you know, widespread as it's been and like the self-dealing and the lining of his and his family's pockets. Like that's been a little shocking. I just didn't expect Trump to be so disrespectful of his base.

Right. Right. Well, you know what, Megan? I got to push back a little bit because, you know, you know, Trump didn't take a salary while he's president. So I don't know what you're talking about. Bit of a humor joke. I mean, you look at like across the board of the Trump family. I've never seen a family get so rich off.

of a presidency. And it happened at the same time as we now have a Supreme Court ruling that basically says any official act he takes while in the White House is protected. And those two things seem to be giving him some sort of a hall pass that could very much get abused. I don't want to, you know. Could very much get abused? I don't know. We're all waiting to say. That's where she's a little mealy mouth. She's like, he could abuse it, even though he is. I say he's crossed the line legally because I actually haven't taken a close look at that, but he's probably fine. He's done a lot that pushes it right up to the line. And over it.

I just don't think we want our presidents or their families getting rich off of the presidency. Crazy. Okay. Like a hole with a mouth. Yeah. I mean, this is, I think, again, we see it from Tucker Carlson. More and more people are just sort of on that whole thing of like, this isn't good for. us, we were the people that ushered this administration in. Now we need to find a way to

make, not have everything laid at our feet. Because it, let's be real. Like, yeah, it is people like Megan Kelly who were normalizing all of this. And then now the most she could do is like, I haven't taken a close look at it in that because if I even look in that general, general direction, it is so objectively fucked up that. It's hard to say. Really. It's hard to say. I haven't really taken a good look. Here, here's, here's an article about it. Ah, it's just The thing of these people is you get it, like, Lindsay Graham talked bad about him too, and you get kind of excited. Like, I hate to admit that I get a little happy when they turn on him. And then, like, in two weeks, they're back to sucky his dick.

And it's like. It's not, yeah, it's not ever actual, like an actual reckoning that's happened within them. Because all these people are just, they're creatures that are like one-celled organisms that have to figure out how to survive. And they're like, well, this isn't working. What's the new thing? because it's not based on her values. I'm surprised she had two people of color on her show, given her propensity to defend blackface and things like that.

But anyway, that's Megan Kelly in 2026. It was just a Halloween costume. But I think it's indicative of like what she even thinks her audience is trying to hear. Because when she thinks the base is up for the rah, ra, maga shit, she does it. Right. And now she's like, oh, this guy's fucking corrupt. Yeah. I'm saying it in a way that's.

like, yeah, that's a good idea. Like, we've always all agreed with that. Yeah, sure. And it's like, what? You were fine with it? Yeah, yeah. This is, and self-evidently, this is very bad. It's like, wait, you, you are the person who.

That's my take. I'm good. I don't want it. I don't want to help it possible. Anyways, welcome to the team, the Pope and Megan Kelly. Pope Leo, yeah, man. White Sox fans welcome. That's right.

let's talk about the DNC. Yeah. Because we didn't get to talk about this last week. Yeah, yeah. Because he still, I just get choked up when I talk about the DMC. I know. He still has his hold over the Republican Party, I think, because the Republican base, or sorry, the old school, like, regular Republicans are still very objectionable to people,

as is the old school regular Democrats. And so Trump is still, like, out there being, like, I don't know, to a different. option being like able to be like this whole thing is fucked right right and so we saw that he was able to like pull his side through on the republican primary in texas the dnc is like dead in the water but they like don't realize it they think they don't realize how i mean i don't know they do or they don't but they're so ideologically rigid that you're like you guys there's an entire lane waiting to be moved into but they won't because right that's what that party is.

But after months of like hand-wringing and terrible PR from the DNC chair, Ken Martin, like we saw that clip when he was on Pod Save America and they're like, what's in the 2024 analysis of the election of what went wrong? He's like, there's no smoking gun. Okay. And he kept talking about there's no smoking gun. Okay.

You're not going to find something in there that's going to like, we're just trying to learn the lessons and focus ahead. And he was like, how are you going to learn lessons if you don't actually have a like a full-fledged analysis of what went wrong? How do you learn anything? And he's like, there's no smoking gun in there, okay? Okay, just shut the fuck up. And it finally has come out.

This was put together by a respected Democrat operative. And you can tell he is respected by the party because this thing is fucking terrible. And like at actually being real and honest and open about what went wrong. It does concede that the party lost momentum. with Latinos, rural voters, and men. Okay. So those seem like more results of like the fit. So that's the thing we all saw.

Yeah, yeah. And that we did do that. And that happened. Sure. We do concede that we lost the election. Yeah, yeah. So after taking a long look at the election, we lost. What about why?

How did you lose them? I don't know. So what our numbers are telling us is that we definitely did lose them. This is so, this is, first of all, this is how the release of this document was announced from Ken Martin. Quote, after last November's massive Democratic wins, I didn't want to create a distraction. But by not putting the report out,

I ended up creating even a bigger distraction. For that, I sincerely apologize. For full transparency, I am releasing the report as we received it in its entirety, unedited and unabridged. It does not meet my standards and it won't meet your standards. Great. But I'm doing this because people need to be able to trust the Democratic Party and trust our word. I'm prefacing this report with, it fucking sucks, you guys, is a good setup.

For the report, that is exactly that. It fucking sucks. It's nonsense. There's typos in it. They're getting people's fucking names wrong. But what's important is what's not in the fucking thing. But also just in terms of what is in the report, he's acting like, and this came to me,

like completely out of my control. And I only had the opportunity to order one report from these one group of people. It's like, no, your job is to like figure out what the fuck happened. Like, why are you acting like, why are you? This guy under a bus. He's like, this guy made it. It fucking sucks. I don't know what you're saying to say.

I'm not even correcting his spelling errors. It's fucking. That's how fucking bad this shit is. Yeah, yeah. What is this guy? This is the chair. The guy who's talking about is Ken Martin, who is the chair of the Democratic, the party. And was he in charge during Kamala's?

Yes. So that nothing was changed. No. Yeah, no. Like, I think, let me just, I feel. When did he, he was, he was vice chair. until 2021. And then he was part of a sort of takeover in 2025 to be like, we got to do something different.

However, he is still part of that machinery that has led up to like the same problems that have been in the Democratic Party. So he wasn't really, they're like, we need to kind of switch things up. It's like, this guy is he's not switching anything up. Right. But the thing is, right? He said, yeah, we did lose these voters. But how?

And what is it? What's not in there? So this is from the New Republic quote, the report doesn't examine many of the major criticisms of the Democratic Party's 2024 campaign from President Biden's initial decision to run for re-election

to the impact of Israel's brutal war in Gaza, which the Biden administration failed to stop. Another glaring omission was the impact of Vice President Kamala Harris becoming the Democratic nominee

for president late in 2024 without anything close to a primary or electoral process. Those are the four like main ones, right? Those are pretty big. Those are the big ones. Yeah. Like anybody with eyes

who is paying attention would be like, okay, so these are the things that caused it. I would have been, we could have thrown in the tacking to the right to try and pinch off like Republican voters. That was another stupid-ass move.

Yeah. Do they acknowledge that? No. I mean, they may have a slight thing, but again, everything was trying to be done just like very technical terms. Like, and this happened and this didn't go well. But like those are the things that people in a lot of polling told you, these were things that affected their vote.

They're like, there was no primary process. We were just told to vote for this person. Also, there was a ton of policy. things that left the party completely vulnerable to people just being like, oh, these people don't give a fuck about anyone. Yeah. So maybe I'll try MAGA out. Right.

That's, I really think that the thing that we're all seeing happen is that the mainstream Democratic and Republican parties are being fully rejected by the American voting population. And whoever will offer an alternative is going to win. The first to articulate a thing that we're like, we're not them. And I know there's Green Party and there's other parties like that, but there's still, like, certain parties have baggage for voters just on a perception level. Yeah. And I think, like, if someone just truly came out and was like, hey, man, it's fucking vibes party. Somehow, be like, I'm listening.

Right. It's not this other thing. But yeah, and I think that's why there's also this huge fight on the right for who's going to take up that mantle if it's like the old guard conservatives, like the neocons are like this new crop of like right wing America first frees. I think it's going to be them. Yeah, I mean, they're younger and they have more energy. And who do you think for the left? Do you have any speculations? I mean, I haven't been watching the news since this pregnancy because, because.

Because you're Googling dead baby. Yeah, that's enough. But is there speculating Gavin Newsom or what's the deal? I mean, he's going to run. It's going to be Gavin Newsom. It's going to be like who the media puts out. And then once people have to vote for him, I think that's going to fade pretty quickly. Yeah.

I think AOC maybe has the most energy. But she is definitely doing a lot of things. Like she's going out to endorse candidates in national races. Like she was speaking in Alabama. Like after the Voting Rights Act shit went down with the Supreme Court, she's like she's making, she's being, she's appearing in places that you think someone who's gearing up for a presidential run.

She's definitely gearing up. I don't. It also feels like she's being advised by the same people, like by these people. And some of the things that she says just feel. like safe and center tagging and stuff like that which is very frustrating but um and again like I think she's also

in a position where she could then just be like all right you know what fuck it I'm gonna like tell the truth we'll see you never know it's hard to know once you get an office and once you really become part of that machinery like how much independence you have ideologically but of the people like

please don't fucking throw Gavin Newsom at the and you know they're going because you're like so good on Twitter but he sucks on as a leader and on policy. Yeah. Like, and if that's what they think,

again, this election is purely about who's going to, like, have, like, cooler shit posts on Twitter. Also, cool, like,

please. Yeah. Ugh. Anything cool makes, like, gives me a fucking allergic reaction. You just want somebody who's going to show up and be honest with them.

Like, dude, shit fucking sucks, guys, right? Yes. And everyone's going to go, yes. Yeah,

yeah. Shit fucking sucks. Right. So here the, here the main areas that I think fucking stuff. Healthcare. Mm-hmm. Shit's way too expensive.

We can do a lot there. There's too many fucking oligarchs siphoning up money. They got them. Like all the things we need to pay for the shit that we've identified as sucking, we can take their money and pay for that. Because the reason, see, we're taken from them, to quote Tupac, because for years they've been taken from me. And that's what we're going to do with this party.

For some reason, your body language is giving neck brace. But otherwise, you have my- Michael Keaton, Michael Keaton, Batman. Michael Keaton, Batman. Just all trunk rotation, no neck. No neck independence. And that's how they slammed me from the center. This guy's got no neck independence. He's like Michael Keaton's Batman.

You're going to vote for this guy? Look at Gavin Newsom. Dude. You see that video he posted like this? He was in the black or white video, Gavin Newsom. His W. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I realized Tyra Banks was in there.

Yeah. And that one dude, and that one Jamaican guy who was always like the Jamaican guy in moving in the Navy's. Yeah. He was in Only the Strong, I remember. Oh, the epic video. What a video. Yeah. When he's dancing with the fucking Native American people, he's got so much going on. There's

the best is when George went, just like the video starts and George went crashing and like the Kalahari on his recliner has been blasted off here. McCauley Colkin killed George Went at the beginning of that video. He was a lot, no. He landed safely in Africa. Yeah, he was safe. I think. Oh, thank God. I met McCauley Culkin at a wedding a couple

months ago. Did you call him Mike Collie Colkin? What the fuck is that? What's not Mike? If it isn't, Mike Holly Holkin. He introduced himself as Mac. Yeah. That's cool. Okay. He's cool. That is cool. Shut up, McCulley. That's a cooler name.

Mac. What's up? Mac. Was he dancing? He wasn't dancing. He was drinking. Oh. But he was super. He wasn't dancing. Or maybe he wasn't drinking. Sure. Maybe I was drinking. Those two in my experience have gone together in the past.

Unless you're doing such serious. You want to dance drinking? No, I'm just drinking it. Nah, you guys have a good time. I better not. I'm drinking. You don't want Daddy Mac Mac to come out. That's right.

Or Mac Daddy. Make it a, make it a Mac, Daddy. Shout out of Chris Cross. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. Sending a spicy picture to your work chat instead of your significant other? That's so embarrassing. You know what's not?

Debt? Consolidate your debt with a loan from fig. No hassle, no judgment. Borrow Better with FIG. Visit fig.ca. Hey, it's us, the Jonas Brothers, and guess what? We have some big news. What's the news, new? Huge news.

We created our own podcast called Hey Jonas. We invented a podcast? Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to a... We're the first people to do podcasts. Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts throughout there. But this one's extra special. So how do we actually come up with a name Hey Jonas, guys?

I honestly don't remember. I think it was on a call about what we should call it. And we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band before Jonas Brothers. This is how you guys remember it going down? Yes. I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast, where people could call in and say, hey, Jonas. And then I wrote down on my little notepad, Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title for the podcast.

But thanks for remembering that, guys. Listen to Hey Jonas on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Just listen. We don't care where you hear it. Another podcast from some SNL late night comedy guide. Not quite. Unhumor me with Robert Smygel and friends. Me and hilarious guests from Jim Gaffigan to Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman help make you funnier. This week, my guest, SNL's Mikey Day and head writer Streeter Seidel help an Acapella band with their between songs banter. There's that worst singer in the group? The worst? Yeah. Me. Is there anything to the idea that

because you're from Harvard. You only got in because your parents made a huge donation. The group. The yard birds, right? That's the name. The Harvard Yardt. They're open. Do you have a name suggestion?

We're open. Since you guys are middle-aged. One erection. Listen to humor me with Robert Smigel and Friends on the I-Heart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. You know me. I need some jokes to make me seem funny. Keith Giamanka seemed like a mild-mannered suburban dad,

but secretly he became someone else, a master of disguise who went on a crime spree. At the time, did it seem like a crazy idea? It seemed very crazy, but I felt so desperate that I felt it was the quickest, easiest way out. Did you allow yourself to think about how it could go wrong and what that might look like? No. I didn't want to manifest that. I was trying to manifest success.

Every family has its secrets. But what happens when you discover that your dad has been living a double life? That is not the look of an innocent man. This is going to change my life and my family dynamic forever, because everything that had existed prior in my reality, is now untrue. Listen to Deep Cover the Family Man on the Iheart Radio app,

Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. We're back. And yeah, another dog shot somebody. I don't know. Another dog. About this. No big deal.

Yeah, so there's a new story about a shooting outside of Nebraska convenience store that has gone viral because gun violence is so uncommon. in the United States that people can't. No, that's not why. The reason is because the shooter was a dog. Mm-hmm.

Breed? Thank you. Sorry. Please don't be a German Shepherd. Please don't be a German Shepherd. I don't have the breed, actually. Pam, I need to know. Let's see.

I mean, not to put you on the spot, but it's like, was it a Pomeranian? That would be fucking crazy. Because you feel like you would kind of need small little hands to get in. the trigger, you know? Oh, interesting. Right.

Yeah, I instantly assumed it was a big one, but. Yeah. Actually, let me try and, I'm sure there's like a local news piece on this. And I think that's, that'll give us something. It's like, if it's going to happen, let it be a weaner dog or something funny. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, you know? I like a palm hand.

Or like a pug. Yeah. Yeah. Just like, one I go in this way, the other, I go on that way. That fucker. You look up with your arm, like, wounded. It's just laughing at you. panting. Okay, here's a

news report on it. Here we go. Cots Bluff police are investigating an accidental shotgun discharge at a convenience store. Please say officers were called just afternoon Saturday to the short stop on Avenue I first reported as a BB gun

shooting but later confirmed to involve a shotgun. Oh my. I say the owner of a pickup with a camper had stopped to shop when a dog in the back seat moved and apparently triggered a loaded shotgun firing into the passenger side door panel. One pellet struck a woman who was stopped at a nearby light with her arm out of the window, please say her injury is not believed to be life-threatening, and she was taken to regional

West Medical Center. Please also remind the public it's illegal under Nebraska law to travel with a loaded shotgun in a vehicle. Loaded and cocked shotgun? What the fuck? Sad, I want a mug shot. Yeah, right. We deserve that. We deserve that. I mean, for local news, we always get to see the person who's the bad guy. Right. I feel like even a stock image of like a golden retriever would have just added some like levity to the story. But I've seen pets and pets united.

I don't think, I don't think this was an accident. Oh. I think this dog, you know. Interesting. You think. Had hate in its heart. Oh, yeah. Absolutely.

Huh? Come on. It's just crazy. It too. Like when it said the guy was in his car and he got out and then the dog just just blew the door. just shot through the fucking door. Can you imagine how confusing that would be?

Did he just basically have everyone involved? Does he ride with a loaded shotgun on his lap? In shotgun. Yeah. I think. Oh, wow. Oh, truly like it's a little stage coach. That's what I thought.

That's what I thought. That's what I thought. Hey, buddy, my dog, you're your shotgun now. So if there's any bandits, I need you to be able to, you know, repel them with this shotgun. Dog shooting people happens with some regularity in the U.S. Unfortunately. This is not a first.

last November, a guy in Pennsylvania said his dog shot him after he was cleaning a shotgun and put it down on his bed, which I'm no expert, but shouldn't you not have a loaded gun? Like, you're not supposed to be like, all right, time to clean the gun. Let me just load it up and cock it real quick. I mean, most people, it sounds like people's gun safety habits are really bad in this country. Yeah, it's just so many loaded guns that aren't kept away. Like, people have just, yeah, it's not surprising. I'm surprised there aren't more dogs shooting people. It's that Simpson's scene where he kept, keep stepping on rakes.

But it's just shotguns everywhere. Just, yeah, yeah. As long as they don't shoot themselves. That's all I care about. That's all I ask for. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Everybody else deserves it. Yeah.

Not everybody else, but the people that have the loaded gun and the dog on the bed. Like your baby is speaking through you again. Yeah. Everybody. Everybody. Your eyes are rolling. I'm so sorry. We do have...

Oh, it's the wicked shoppers. You're like, oh, my God. Okay, easy, easy. In 2015, the Washington Post reported on this trend after a chocolate lab, we have a breed. Why do we know that it's the brown dog? That's the only one. That's their specific.

All the other ones were golden retrievers. Yeah, exactly. A beautiful snow-white husky would never do this. Right, exactly. Blue-eyed. But chocolate lab. A chocolate lab appropriately named Trigger accidentally shot an Indiana woman in the foot during a hunting trip.

They found that at least 10 other Americans have been shot by dogs between 2004 and 2015. Yeah, I mean, then you add to that, you go up a level. It's like, you know, just any, like so many kids accidentally shooting guns off in their homes. Yeah, yeah. And injuring each other. But yeah, just more justice for chocolate labs. This feels like. That feels like it feels

Trigger. You know what I mean? That rhymes with a questionable word. I don't like where this is going. But justice for justice for trigger. Yeah. You know, anyways.

Just another thing to worry about as you're walking around the streets of the United States. Yeah, yeah. This is a little bit more of a concern than the toenails to him. And the lady who he shot, he was had her hand sticking out the window. You know she was ripping a sig. Yeah, yeah.

Sad. Well, wait, I guess it would be left-handed. It could be like an anti-smoking PSA. Yeah. So what happens when you have your arm hanging out of a car door? You're going to get shot by a dog with some buckshot. Oh, you don't think? You don't think so?

And that was your smoking hand that got hit. She's going to have to learn how to smoke all over again. He's smoking like like fucking Andrew Dice Clay and shit. I wouldn't recommend that with your neck condition, Miles. No, I'm John McCain, but with the neck. He wasn't going like. like this and you're not going to catch me doing this. Should we talk about school buses?

Yes. Good. Good. Good. Because that's what I wanted to. Pivot. A company called Bus Patrol is selling itself as... Well, no, wait, wait, give it a moment.

Selling itself as an advanced AI power. I already hate it. School bus safety program. Oh, you guys hate school bus safety. I didn't say anything. You tried to get me there. Try to get me there. Interesting, Megan Kelly.

Don't try to flip me up before my presidential run. Yeah. I'm, my first, if we were just spitballing in here, what would be your first pitch for how to make school buses safer? Not AI. Not AI. The seats are death traps. The seats are death traps without seat belts.

Oh, yeah, they don't have seat belts. I've never worn a seatbelt. You're just loose in there. It's 100%. You're just loose. Like, we would have fun with that. Like, when you'd go over a ball. you would like jump to the top of the thing.

And you know, I feel like I could summon about 10 videos on YouTube that are like a bus interior camera of like a bus going over shit and there's kids just getting fucking launched inside there. And then the driver comes back and is yelling at them, but the car is still moving forward. Anyways, so the, what it does, the safety feature is a camera that detects when vehicles illegally pass. well, the stop arm is extended. Okay. Which. Oh, that's the... Yeah.

No. Okay, so this is more for the kids that are crossing, not inside. Yeah, which we don't give a fuck about them. We don't. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Kids are just get out of the bus and run right across the street. It's not my problem anymore once they're outside.

And also, it's not stopping the cars that are coming from the other direct. I guess they can see the kids better. Anyways, I, look, I'm all for getting people to not speed past school buses when the stop sign is out. Perfect. Great. According to the company, more than 40,000 buses across 24 states have bus patrol cameras. And school buses adopting this costly technology has been framed as a big win in the press because it boosts safety and brings in millions in revenue from people who endanger children. I'm not going to go any further in this story. I think this is a win-win. I don't. I even hear the AI part. Yeah, yeah. That's great. The camera, it's the there's not even a solution. It's just a.

camera. It's a camera. So they get run over, the kids get run over, and it just gets filmed. So that's what it was. And then sold for millions. That company sells it to juke and media. That's right. That used to license viral clips. So this is a win for cops who get fed information that allows them to issue tickets without doing anything. And a recent Bloomberg investigation into one county's use of the tech found no evidence of a decline in collisions near-stopped school buses, despite the fact that they shelled out tens of million dollars for the technology. Now, 404 media

is reporting that there are plans for bus patrol to partner even more closely with law enforcement handing over all their data, not just the plate numbers of apparent offenders to the cops, likely without a warrant, which would basically turn school buses into roaming surveillance vehicles. And that's where the AI comes up.

Gotcha. Oh, to be like their own flock camera network of like school bus surveillance. Batman at the end of Dark Night. Just you got eyes everywhere. I don't watch those Batman's because I didn't like how much he moved his neck. I'm a Keaton guy. Yeah, so they'd be capturing the location of every vehicle.

The buses drive past and giving that data to law enforcement, which is a significant change because like the AI cameras, the ALPR cameras are up to this point in fixed positions. It sounds like it's like evolving from a thing that was an actually good idea. Right. And then because of the AI hell world we're in, it's more like, well, what else can it do? And they're like, well, I mean, it's really just about like identifying when a car comes out to keep kids crap. Like when they're crossing, they're safe.

It's like, yeah, but then can it store everyone's data? Right. And then that's another thing you can package and sell. Miles. It's almost like you've been doing a podcast that covers the news for a number of years in this, telescope that we live in because this shift to AI capturing all information is all about revenue. An investment firm put $300 million into Bus Patrol and has been pushing the company to find alternate revenue streams.

How are we going to monetize these children's deaths? I mean, we can't make enough YouTube revenue off the collision videos we post. They keep taking down our damn videos. I don't want to say this, but I'm going to. Blame the baby. Blame the baby. Line up. This is how awful you might have to cut it because like the lawyers will say no.

Line up all of the AI execs. And we know what you don't have to even finish it because we know what we want to do with them. It involves a dog. Give them high five. It involves a dog. Jesus. I actually didn't go both ways. Oh.

Oh, yeah, yeah. Right. Yeah. Oh, I was thinking of the Aussie way. Yeah, yeah. Give them a light pellet to the arm. This is what we're talking about. I thought of a thing.

Go and get a dog up, yeah. Bus Patrol has already taken steps to share the collected data with law enforcement contracting entity. Axon. Oh, again. It's always a good, like, whether it's Exxon or Axon, Axon, body spray on. It's all good. The company that actively benefits from police militarization and expanding ice. Yeah, they got, we're just talking about them getting a huge taser contract recently?

Yeah, they got a big taser contract. and Donald Trump invested in them right before they even knew they were going to get it. He was like, I don't know, I've got a good feeling about this company that I'm about to give a $3 billion. Give him a contract. Yeah. Let it go. Damn. Damn, you're smart, sir.

My dad got stopped by ICE the other day. Did he? Really? Yeah. It's like, I like to tell it because it feels amorphous until you're like, yeah, no, they stopped him. And he has, luckily, we're immigrants. And he's been going around with a picture of his passport on his phone, on the, like his phone screened.

And he said it was like five dudes with like masks screaming things at him and he like nearly shed his pants. Yeah. But they let him go once he showed that picture. Right. But in downtown LA. Yeah. Jesus crazy.

I mean so many parts of LA like it's their whole ice is new strategy is like they're just trying to like laser focus and be as low key as possible because like when they were growing pulling up in groups and stuff, people are just so out there that I mean now they're like using different cars. There's so many dirty. tactics. In Minneapolis, they were like, they were like, we got a fucking dress like we're in Minnesota. Right. Like, that's what we need to look like. Car parts and like

stop with the tax shit. Like, first just blend in and then do fuckery from that. And start going to protests. Yeah. And being like, I don't know. I think these guys are pretty all right. They're getting a bad rap. Yeah. Also, just a just an idea. And this is crazy. But if you want to make school buses safer and you

don't want to put seatbelts on them because that would be fucked. That would really the whole point. All the fun of school buses. Maybe pay school bus drivers well. All right, you convent. So there's a massive shortage of school bus drivers in the U.S. They're around 21,200 fewer drivers on the road than before the pandemic. And local governments have been saving money by outsourcing school transit to private contractors, which has led to a significant drop in pay and benefits for drivers. School, like, when I was young, I'm pretty sure the school bus driver that drove me to school

was a full-time bus driver. Like, that was what they did. Shout out of Marcus. That was our bus driver. We had a different one every day and year. We were a bad room, man. Yeah. My friend, during college, I had a friend who drove a school bus for disabled kids and

took rooms every day. Yeah, as it should be. Like, auto from the sims. Like, he was literally auto. He was like, hey, I'm not doing kids. Whoa, you see in these trails? They're like, he's just waving his hand in front of his face the whole time. But yeah, now it's like getting an Uber driver essentially is like you're going to have a different one every day because they're just kind of patchworking it together based on people like doing side hustles.

That's just so fucking. Like, it's just everything that's about kids safety. Like it's always like, no, no, no, no, no. fucking don't pay them. Oh, do they teach them? They're not, nah, no, no. They fucking driving them. Give them shrooms or something.

Yeah. Well, more loose guns in there, too. Yeah. Can we just throw a handful of guns like their jacks? Yeah. That's a fun game. Kids still play, right? Oh, yeah.

With the Super Bowl? Yeah, yeah. How many can you pick up? Do you still call a Superball? That's what my dad called it as a kid. I always called a bouncy ball. I think in the 50s that, like one of the first rubber balls was like a super ball or something. And it's like clean-ax.

It's good marketing. Yeah. But then you sound like a. boomer to your friends. This ball has superpowers. They're like, Jesus, no, it doesn't. 1964, the Super Bowl is created 1964 by Whammo. Wamo! So, shout out Super Bowl. Shout out the Super Bowl, would own everything right now. They had the Super Bowl, they had the Frisbee. They had. Oh, wow. Whammo did? I think so. God damn, Wamo. Wamo is running shit.

My husband loves the Frisbee and it kind of depresses me a little bit. There's a boring. It's boring. You just throw a thing and then you throw it back. Can you really launch that thing? Yeah, he's good at it. He's good. Yeah. It's kind of sexy. Oh, okay.

No, now I'm coming around. Now that I'm thinking about it. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. He does the X steps. That's how you know he's serious. I come on this podcast to like work out my kinks. Yeah, yeah.

Like, now you're like, I'm actually really in the frizzy play. Launches that thing to the horizon. Oh, the hula hoop. They also had that. The hula hoop. Yeah. Whammo. All round things.

New WAMO just dropped, you guys. Everybody was just waiting. They sold a limbo kit in 1967, in 1962. That's awesome. Did they have the, um, in front of it falling into a wood chipper? Did they have the hoop with stick? No, no.

Okay. Um, yeah, there was another one. They also, hey, Jackie, like this, when the movie Jaws was released, they sold plastic shark teeth. And I think that's one that the fall off really started for them. That sucks, actually, WAMO. Now, if you had done the fake shark fin Where you're freaking everybody out

Oh, fucking wait, dude, this is crazy Slipp and Slide? Yeah, Whammo like was really What were you, silly string? They did. How are they not Disney today? Sad. Yeah.

They deserve more. It's probably like some white supremacists Like owned it, who knows what happened. Or just like, Whammo! The toy industry, complex toys. Oh, you know what? They just didn't modernize.

They're just like, nope. We've got a mom. model and we're sticking to it. They're like, dude, shit has batteries in it now and lights up. They're like, no, kids like plastic circle. And you're like, all right, WAMO. They don't. They like fucking ninja turtles now. It stands for white ammo. That's the one thing they believe in. More ammo for whites. For white dogs. Tam, such a pleasure having you as always. Oh, the best.

Where can people find you, follow you, see, you, hear you, all that good stuff? You can buy my book. It's a memoir called Cry for Me, Argentina, and it's about my immigrant story. And you can find me on Instagram, Tamara, Yahia, Y-A-J-I-A. Chillin for the next handful. A little bit, you know? Unproductive. Unproductive. Got to optimize that with AI. We'll talk about it later. Yeah. You get to be doing a lot even while you're sitting down. You're surprised how much work you can be doing. Totally. Writing scenes about. Yeah, exactly. Is there a work of media that you've been enjoying? I'm loving the TV show, Widows Bay.

I highly recommend it. Widows Bay. Widows Bay. It's on Apple. It's like kind of horror. I'm into horror lately. It's like kind of horror. Why?

I'm going on. You guys, what is happening? I'm scared. I like horror. I like just seeing people be dismembered. Like the Pope hanging himself. You just describe a scene. Well,

I'll talk to you in a couple years. I'm just suddenly into fucking horror. Oh my God. I can love that shit, man. And I never was, but for real. I hated anything like gore-related. Now I'm carrying the Antichrist. You guys fuck with Takashi Miki?

It's crazy. You've seen audition? Ichi the killer. Amazing. That sounds good. Widows Bay. Widows Bay on Apple. But they should be paying me for this.

They should be. Miles, yes. They're where can media you've been enjoying and where can people find you? You can find me everywhere at Miles Gray. You can find me talking about 90-day fiancé on 420-day fiancé with Sophia Alexandra. And if you want to hear me talk about football and the upcoming tournament this summer for all of us just tortured fans of the sport, check out Ain't It Footie, the new show. Leave a little rating there. Give it a five stars, will you? Leave a comment.

Give it a five stars. Talk about how you like it. Okay. A work of media, like, I'm still just, I'm just still constantly scrolling just all this arsenal content. So I wish I could show you something. But there was, there was a picture of Zaraan Mamdani who said, Aid Mubarak. He was just there.

He's like, as we honor the prophet, Ibrahim, he's out here at this, you know, this, what am I, like, like, ceremony for Eid. And he's got a full on arsenal, like, like, guys. down on. And it's fucking, I, I just, I just love that this guy's a fucking mayor and he's still 100% a fan. He's probably entering one of the most crazy years for him as a sports fan. Arsenal won the league after 22 years and the Knicks are now in the finals. And I just know, every New Yorker I know is losing their minds right now. And everyone's like, winner Jesus and Merrill going to get back together. The Knicks on the fucking finals. We'll see.

They need this very special episode, you know. I know. We need the art. Yeah, there was a good speech he was giving where he was like, for years, people have looked to New York to learn that we can accomplish things, build skyscrapers to the sky, have a team come back from 22 points down with six minutes to go. Hell yeah. You know how to rally him. Oh, there was one clip I want to play of, I think there's Olivia Rodriguez. I forget what show show. I think, I don't know, Olivia Rodriguez. Miles' feet is all Olivia Rodriguez.

No. Fuck it. I can't find it anymore. There's just a clip of her where she was saying like, stop saying, like, I'm sick of hearing people say that New York smells like piss. Start saying that your piss smells like the greatest city on her. Amazing. That's right. That's right.

That's true. You can buy me on Twitter, Jack underscore Brian Blue Sky, Jack Obey, the number one. Instagram, Jack underscore O underscore Brian. Work of media, I've been enjoying Saturn 3,000. TAR. Oh, Saturn 3 Tar. Saturn 3 Tar. Of course.

What is that? I don't know. Somebody on Twitter. At Saturn 3. Oh, I thought it was a video game. No, no. I was just saying that. Saturn 3 Tar.

I've been enjoying. Sega Saturn 3 Tar. What? You guys playing that? They tweeted, was what we had real or cake? Oh, wow. Damn, girl, was what we had

real or cake? The cake was real. Mikey Day is asking that to his X. You can find me on Twitter. No, we already said that. You can find us on Twitter and Blue Sky at Daily Zytheistkeist. We're at the Daily Zykegeist on Instagram. You can go to the description of this episode where we're listening to it and there at the bottom you will find the foot notes, which is where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode. We also link off to a song that we think you might enjoy. Miles, is there a song that you think that people might enjoy. Yeah, this is a new artist. I just kind of stumbled on called No. Drink. and yeah called dracae what fuck is this is crazy dude

he's like from Canada but this is no me N-O-M-I the track is called sweet talk and it has like for fans of like the Neptunes and that production sound from the early aughts this track is like

it feels like it's branching off of that tree so it sounds very familiar but the productions like the rhythmically it's a little bit wonkier like the Neptunes definitely were more like on a grid drumwise This has a little more swing, a little more grit to it. And it's a great track.

So sweet talk by NoMe. And we will link off to that in the foot notes. The Daily Zykeyes is a production of IHeartRadio for more podcasts from IHeartRadio visit, the IHeart Radio app, Apple podcast to wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That's going to do it for us this morning. We're back this afternoon to tell you what is trending, and we will talk to you all then. Bye. The Daily Zykeyes is executive produced by Catherine Law.

Co-produced by Victor Wright. Co-written by J.M. McNaap. Edited and engineered by Justin Conner. Hey guys, it's us. The Jonas Brothers. I'm Joe. I'm Kevin.

And I'm Nick. And guess what? We created our own podcast called, Hey Jonas. Nice. We invented a podcast? Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to it. We get to ask other people to do podcasts.

We get to ask other people questions because we're sick and tired of being asked questions. Well, sick and tired is a strong way to put it. But, you know, tired and sick. Tired and sick. Listen to Hey Jonas on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Just listen. We don't care where you hear it. Another podcast from some SNL late night comedy guy. Not quite. Unhumor me with Robert Smygel and friends. Me and hilarious guests from Jim Gaffigan to Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman

help make you funnier. This week, my guest, SNL's Mikey Day and head writer Streeter Seidel help an a cappella band with their between songs banter. There's the worst singer in the group. The worst? Yeah. Me. Is there anything to the idea that because you're from hard Harvard, you only got in because your parents made a huge donation. The group. The yard birds, right? That's the name. The Harvard yard.

They're open. Do you have a name suggestion? We're open. Since you guys are middle-aged. One erection. Listen to humor me with Robert Smigel and Friends on the I-Heart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Humor me. I need something to tell you.

to make me seem funny. There are times when the mind becomes a difficult place to live. This is David Eagleman with the Inner Cosmos podcast, and for Mental Health Awareness Month, we'll talk with singer-songwriter Jewel about anxiety. I started living in my car, and then my car got stolen. I was having panic attacks.

I was agoraphobic. This is a month of deeply personal and honest conversations about what happens when the brain goes off course. Listen to Inner Cosmos on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This week on Crimless, Rory and I welcome a very special guest. When I did a podcast, I wear my sleep masks.

I like where this is going. So if you guys will indulge me. That's right, the incredibly talented and hilarious Will Ferrell on an episode dedicated to crimes committed by people named Will Ferrell. You're good for 300 crimes? Yeah. We've got two. I'm ready to go right up to present day. Listen to Crimless on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

This is an IHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human.