The Daily Zeitgeist - Doge Town and the X Boys, Speaking Of Robot Girlfriends 02.05.25

Episode Date: February 5, 2025

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Doge Town and the X-Boys, Miles? Is that something? Yes. Fuck. Didn't you say X-Town and the Doge Boys? I said X-Town and the Doge Boys to like kind of put some stink on it. Like in that it sucks? In that it's bad and nobody will know what I'm talking about. In that it like stinks. Yeah.

Real stinky. Z-Town and the Dog Boys? So what I was thinking is Doge Boys. Doge Boys. Doge Boys. And that it like stinks. Yeah. Real stinky. Z town and the dog boys. So, so what I was thinking is those boys, dog boys, dog town and the Z boys. Yeah. Tell, tell, tell Mike Mitchell and them. They should.

Have you guys thought of Doge town? Doge boys. Doge boys. That's I mean, that's fun. We doge boys. Tell Mike Mitchell and them, Hey, take my little over there. Doge boys. That's, I mean, that's fun. We doge boys. Tell Mike Mitchell and them. Hey, take Mike Mitchell over there.

I know you were, I knew you was cheating on me when you ordered on the locale menu from Kingswalk. Oh man. And from that succession, no, not six from that severance. Severance. Oh yeah. From that has grown severance. Are you a severance boy? Me? Are you a Vrens boy?

No. No, I'm not, sadly. Katie, you're probably reading- I'm just not much of a TV person lately. Romance novels. Yeah, I'm reading Dostoyevsky's- No, God. Dostoyevsky?

Dostoyevsky's Anna Karina. Okay. Anna Karina Minnema. No. I'm reading Dostoyevsky's Anna Karina. No. Dostoyevsky's Anna Karina. No.

Dostoyevsky's Anna Karina. No. Dostoyevsky's Anna Karina. No.ck Stoyevsky's Anna Karina. Okay. Anna Karina Minamina. No, I'm gonna dock Stoyevsky's Anna Kovena. I'm yeah. Dock Stoyevsky. Anna Ninamina.

Dock Stoyevsky. Good name for a hacker. Leon Dock Stoyevsky. Dock Stoyevsky. L3-0-N Dock Stoyevsky. Dachs do you have L three zero and Dachs do you have Dachs boy has Dachs boy. And that's how we punch something up. Miles, what about X town and the boys? No, it's not.

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It's Wednesday, February 5th 2025 2525 I mean damn yo big days what days Wait, look, this is a big few days So Monday the Geist child's birthday Her majesty and I's fucking wedding anniversary. Love you babe. Been through it all now at this point. We've been through it all. Gotta say, we're by each other's sides and we're stronger than ever. I love you baby.

This sounds like the beginning of a yacht rock song, you know? Been through it all., through it all. That would be the best. I got to use Michael McDonald. Yeah. The best genre to memorialize the fire that destroyed your life. Again, Michael McDonald. That's great. Except for that one fire.

This shit could melt steel beams. Wait, we're getting into 9-11. 9-11. Yeah, got to, got to. 9-11. To quote the Westboro Baptist Church. 9-11. Yep.

Anyways, we'll link up to that. Oh wait, February 5th also, it is, but again, I should say, yes, it is the wedding anniversary. It is also National Girls and Women in Sports Day, National Shower with a Friend Day, Hell yeah. and National Weather Person's Day.

Love shower with my homies. When is national shower with a weather person's day? That's actually the 18th. Four days after Valentine's day. God, the number of rain metaphors and puns that would be happening as you showered with a weather person. Calls for shower, you know. Yeah, yeah, we're having a hard moving in down south.

Yeah. Damn. Um, Dallas rains. Why are you in my shower? You didn't check your calendar? Yeah, we got a shared calendar on the phone. Did you look at it? Oh, all right.

Well, maybe we're not a couple. Uh, my name is Jack O'Brien, AKA every decade. There is some trade that makes me want to cry. I asked myself why, oh why Kareem, Gasol and Shaq, Chris Paul. Oh, how they had tried. And now Luca is a Laker How was Luca a Laker? How was Luca a Laker? I don't know. How in the world did they make Luca a Laker?

Davis with coupons now they got them a lion who's not even 28. How was Luca a Laker? How was Luca a Laker? Lebron the GM's a wonder that one's courtesy of Halcyon salad on the discord. Went a little long, but I'm not editing any of that shit. Cause I know that song. So yeah, I got about that. Why Clef? Why Clef? I'm thrilled to be joined once again by my co-host, Mr.

Miles Gray. Yes, it's Miles Gray straight from the ashes. I come back to the microphone to bless y'all with my half baked takes. I'm still getting back into the swing of things. It's the Lord of Lakership. It's the Viceroy of Ventura Boulevard, the Marquis de More Park. Thank you so much for having me, Jack. Yeah.

I know you were like, dude. The Phoenix of, right? Isn't that? The having me, Jack. Yeah, you're welcome. The Phoenix of, right? Isn't that the Phoenix of Phoenix of Fulton Fulton? Phoenix of Fulton. There we go. Fulton. I was right by my high school. Yeah, there he is.

I'm back. And I was Joe. I made this joke with her majesty. We're like, we should probably get tattoos after being through this shit. And she was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I see it. I see. I don't know why I sincerely was like, like, maybe like a Phoenix or something.

And she was like, I'm going to leave you. And I was like, I nevermind, nevermind. I'm a, I'm a, I'm a workshop that I'll be right back. I'll be right back. Maybe like, I don't know, like a Phoenix. And then I, I, Ernest was like, Ben Affleck has one. Yeah, he does. A Phoenix? Yeah. He has a full back tat of a Phoenix. And then I, Ernest was like, Ben Affleck has one. Yeah, he does. A Phoenix?

Yeah. He has a full back tat of a Phoenix and it's not good. Is it near the, is it near the crack or up further? It basically goes from shoulders nearly to the top of the crack. Yeah. All right. It's full back. I respect that.

I respect that. Yeah. It's Mike Allstock cause it's a full back. Deep cut. Timely 90s Buccaneer reference. I know. I think a lot of people probably like me assumed that you were about to do like a Machiavelli, AKA when they heard the church bells, but that is, those are authentic church bells, I believe, coming all the way from Italia.

Is that cool? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. God damn. Well, who's that? Well, who's that then? Uh, thrilled to be joined in our third.

It's the Pope. It's the Pope. It's the Pope. We're joined by the Pope. Hey, hey, hey. It's the Pope. Hey, hey, hey. It's the Pope.

Hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey, hey. Uh, one of the funniest comedy writers doing it anywhere. You know her words from the account, Burns writes activist on Twitter. Some more news with Cody Johnston from Creature Future, secretly incredibly fascinating. Please welcome, coming all the way from Italia,

right next to Il Papa, it is the brilliant, the talented, Katie Golden. Katie. Bless, blessing. brilliant, the talented Katie Golden. Katie. Bless, blessing. I don't know how to do the hands and blessing. I bless, I bless you. I bless you. I bless all of you.

Do you really not know the sign of the cross? It's goes like. Why did you say it like that? Do you really not know the sign of the cross? Do you really not know it? No, I'm teaching it to my kids because we have to go to church with my parents sometimes. So I'm like left, right. It's the cool S, right?

It's the stussy. It's the stussy. Stussy, stussy. Yeah. Yeah. Of course. Schneezes Christ. Schneezes.

How are you doing, Katie? Not too bad. Yeah, because I'm in Italy. I know, that must not be bad. Not in the US right now. Oh, you know, they're making a big deal about it over there, but it's actually fine. It's weird to me that we literally have a neo-fascist as our Prime Minister,

Maloney, who's like part of a rebranded neo-fascist party, and I'm less worried about that than the US. Right. Is it because y'all have been there before, and you're just like, Italy does. Yeah, I mean. We know how it ends for fascist leaders of Italy. We get a little fasc.

We do fascism and fascism. It's America. You know what I mean? I mean, I think that's correct. I think people in other countries should be scared of this particular brand of fashion. What are we gonna do? Take away your pasta?

I don't know what Italy could possibly do. They will take away your pasta. I think they'll probably just brutalize migrants and things like that. Oh yeah, that is what they do. That kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah.

Thanks Miles for bringing the mood down. Well, you know. For all our funny fascism jokes. Gonna talk about how chicken Alfredo's not real and you gotta talk about migrants being persecuted. Sorry, the flames have changed me. They have changed me. They've burned everything in a central away.

Oh, you should get a tattoo of Khaleesi. I was gonna say the Terminator skeleton get a tattoo of Khaleesi. I was gonna say the Terminator skeleton. Yo, that Khaleesi Terminator. Full back tap. Yo, Khaleesi Terminator, wait, you get Terminator, her medge gets Khaleesi or vice versa, and then they're reaching out, touching fingers,

so when you stand next to each other. Yeah. But it's sort of like the, like God in Adam. Like the 16 chapel. Yeah, in Adam, but there's a little flame there between the fingers. Like a zap. Wow. Or I was thinking of like a T-1000 holding a dragon egg

walking out of the fire. Uh-huh. You know what I mean? Yeah, things that walk out of fires. I don't know. Things that walk out of fires. Zyke Gang, my DMs are open for emerging from the flames, tattoo ideas. So far we have Phoenix and some kind of

Khaleesi Terminator mashup. I think there was a Nicolas Cage character, Ghost Rider, I think that. But he was the fire. He was the fire. He was the fire. Didn't he just die in a fiery stud? I get my scriptural readings wrong all the time.

He was the fire. He was the skeleton that is the fire. Didn't he just die in a fiery stunt? I get my scriptural readings wrong all the time. He was the fire. He was the skeleton that is on fire. Johnny Blaze. I didn't think he burned first, right? Johnny Blaze? I thought he, wasn't he in a terrible acts of motorcycle accident? I think he's in a motorcycle accident.

That made him Johnny Blaze, cause he's like a stunt man gone awry. Is that right? I don't remember that movie. Yeah, the only Johnny Blaze I honestly acknowledge, and I think Jack's on the same page with me here, is the one and only Method Man. So maybe I don't remember that. Yeah. The only Johnny Blaze I honestly acknowledge, and I think Jack's on the same page with me here, is the one and only Method Man. So maybe I'll just do that.

Just do a Method Man. The T'Kallian Stallion. Right. Or like Jeff Bridges' character from Backdraft? No, that's not the right character. No. Blown away? Yeah, blown away. With Tommy Lee Jones? Or he was like, wasn't his back story,

like he was like this Irish dude who kind of was like, that's why Tommy Lee Jones was coming after him. I don't know, man. Tommy Lee Jones is very anti-Irish. I got a lot of tables. Yeah. All right, my bad. I keep asking you about blowing away every time you come to check on us. Katie, we're thrilled to have you.

We're going to get to know you a little bit better. First, we're going to tell listeners a couple of things we're talking about. We are going to check in with them Doge Boys or them ex boys from Doge Town. We're still workshopping the title. The ex boys. Docs Boyevsky. Docs Boyevsky and his homies who are Elon Musk's team team of children who he has like turned over control of the government to sort of.

We'll talk about like what all this means. Everybody's like Elon Musk was like paid a bunch of money to win an American election that was like stacked in their favor. He must be right about everything. Let's turn the entire government to over to him. So we'll, we'll talk about what that's looking like. And we're going to talk about a new breakthrough from CES that, uh, we, we had to wait for miles to come back to talk about.

I know I did text you amidst the recovery. I said, don't fucking talk about this until I'm back. I want to talk about this. It was the night of the fire. You texted me with that. Yeah, I know. The consumer. And then you're like, how are you doing?

I'm like, dude, if you talk about this, I'm going to be pissed. How am I doing? Fine for now. Don't try and distract me. Don't change the subject. Yeah, that's my kid crying in the background. Don't distract. We're going to talk about a breakthrough in robotic girlfriend, robotic companions.

The Grammys happened over the weekend. Someone wore a house on their head. I don't know. We might talk about that. That was Jaden Smith. Yeah. I'm just curious. Mainly, I'm curious if you guys think I can pull it off. on their head. I don't know. We might talk about that. That was Jaden Smith. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So. Wow. I'm just camped.

Mainly I'm curious if you guys think I can pull it off. And we might talk about the Super Bowl, all of that. If only I could have worn my house on my head. I could have trotted on out. Like a human turtle. Yeah, exactly. And that's your privilege, Jaden Smith. That's your turtle. Yeah, exactly. And that's your privilege, Jayden Smith. That's your privilege, Jayden Smith.

God. All right, Katie, before we get to any of that, we do like to ask our guests. You may, you may know this about us, but we do like to ask our guests sometimes with something from their search history that's revealing about who they are. And first of all, I guess we got to ask, what do you use them for a search engine over there? Is it like ill Google? It's rag Google.

Rag Google. Oh my God. What have I come back to? Miles just quit. Fuck. Rag Google. Well, my Miles, is that something? Is that something?

Is anything anything? That's definitely something. It is how to pronounce Beckfeifengeschicht. Well, it sounds like you found the answer. Beckfeifengeschicht. Beckfeifengeschicht. Because it apparently means in German,

one who is slappable, which I think is a useful word to know. Beckfeifenscht. Beckfeifenscht. Can you put that in the chat? Yeah. So I can see that word. Well, it's actually spelled how it sounds, Miles. So just big five and shit. Well, it's actually spelled how it sounds, Miles.

So just big five and shit. Big five and shit. Big five and shit. St. Joe's in Villanova used to be in the big five and shit. There it is. Also, I have a wonderful sound clip of someone actually saying that that I can share with you guys. That's lightning shit. And there was the sound clip of someone actually saying that that I can share with you guys. That's life-changing shit. And there was the sound clip.

Sorry. But yeah, I was just, I was talking to some Italians and we all agreed that German is the most ridiculous language. So it is, but I do love how it's, you can stack concepts almost infinitely into one word. One long word. And this one is like, this one is like one who is deserving of a firm slap. So, uh, let's hear it from a robot or a human.

The way this, this first syllable comes at you hard. Buck five. Buck five. Buck five. Back five. Fang is it is how they breaking it down for us. Oh man. I'm so sorry to our German listeners, but we love, we love pretend German over here. That sounds, I know like I've been told that dirt daily's like, it's not correct.

Not how that word, Der is incorrect. I think that was a note that we got literally episode one. Yeah. And I was like, and I tried to change it. And I was like, that's just how the word wants to be said by me. Unfortunately, that's just the way. I'm gonna make it do what it do to quote Rachel.

I love Anders from the work of Hollix. I think everybody is just going to have to get over it though. Yeah. I think they will. The pronunciation that we just listened to sounded a lot like me pronouncing a thing because they start really strong and then lose all confidence and swallow the end of the word. They're like, I was in, I was in a Garebening and it's great because Garebening,

I don't know any Danish, but the key is exactly that. I went to a pastry shop and there's like all these words that they're too long. They're very complicated. But I was like, if I just start out strong and then trail off, like I would like a ever and they totally bought it. They were talking to me in Danish and I was like, yeah, she yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They're looking around.

They're like, they're like, bro, she just did the I'll take three whiskies thing. Yeah, yeah. I saw that clock that is that or that that's what he's supposed to do. He was supposed to do. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I did that. I did the Tarantino thing. They have great, great pastries.

It was very good pastries. And oh, yeah, it's definitely you just like because like, what like Abel Skiber if you just go able to see it. Yeah, you sound like a local. Yeah, because you sound like a local. You were saying Copenhagen like Kovenal. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And apparently Tivoli Gardens is pronounced Tivoli. Tivoli.

Right. You just mumbling. You sound like a local. I think there's a joke that like the Danes sound like they're trying to talk with a mouth full of potatoes. And that sounds like a joke that was written in the 1800s. By the Swedes. It's by the Swedes I was going to say.

That's a Swedish joke. They talk like they have potatoes in mouth. Yes. And that is how Swedish people sound. I always love hearing the insults that people in neighboring countries have for each other. They're like so specific. Yeah. Like I remember being in Africa and people were like,

Ghanaians work too hard. And I was like, what? Okay. Interesting truth. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And Ghanaians like, oh, Nigerians? Wow, don't get me started on that. I'm like, I just, I'm here for some Aluskeever.

Aluskeever. There it is. Katie, what's up that you think is underrated? Underrated? Yeah. Do you want me to do overrated first or underrated? I, you can do anything, but I said what I said. I did ask you for underrated, Katie.

Do A, Katie, do overrated. I said what I said. I did ask you for underrated. Katie, do a not even I'm not even the fart. Yeah. One thing that I think is overrated is avocados. Just fucking just whose show is this? I love this. Certainly not. I love this energy. I'm sorry. What is overrated is what?

Avocados don't like them. Oh, you still like them at all? Avocados. I don't like them. I don't really like I don't really like guac. I don't really like guac. I can eat it. I'll eat it. Someone makes me guac.

I'll have to eat it because it's it's like eating kind of money. Oh, it's like cocaine. It's become cocaine. It's like, yeah. I mean, the cocaine of foods. Yes. I mean, with the tariffs, that's like one thing that they keep putting in all the news articles about like, what could tariffs make more expensive?

And they're like, the avocados, man. Say good bye. Avocados. Some cotto. Yeah. Yeah. That shit's over. This might be the, might be your last weekend to have guac at your Super Bowl party.

I think avocados and guacamole have a marketing problem because there is so much bad guacamole out there that is masquerading as guacamole. And it's just, it shouldn't, it should, like there's a version of it that is just like flavorless mayonnaise that gets packaged and sold as guacamole. Whereas like the fresh, the fresh I'm a big fan of. Are you, Katie, a person who thinks cilantro tastes like soap? A little bit. Yeah.

Not too bad, but a little bit. Did I diagnose it, Miles? Did I? Yeah, Jack, you got something there. Miles, did I get that one? That was a direct hit. Direct direct hit you just sunk her battleship Weirdly, I think soap tastes like cilantro Yeah, I was like I thought that's what I thought you were eating earlier with a knife

I was like, what do you just what do you scrape it off little peels off? Oh, you're like He has a cheese board. It looks like Irish spring. Well, our mind is obviously going to go there because it's the only soap where people have like cut it with a knife. Yeah, with a knife. Like it was a piece of cheese. Katie's been hiccuping bubbles the whole time. Okay, smart guy.

What is what is underrated? I shared a link with you. Do you know Hill Houser of California Gold? I love him. Hill Houser. That's amazing. The avocado eating dog. The avocado eating dog.

Because I went with an avocado theme because I wanted to be fair to the noble avocado, even though I personally think it's overrated as is guacamole. I understand that would upset a lot of people. So I did want to share a Huelhauser losing his mind over a dog eating avocados. Wow, that's amazing. Yeah.

Wow. Have you seen the one where he goes to the ladybug farm? I don't think so. That's another banger, Huelhauser. So for people who- Yeah, those are all ladybugs under there. I know about this from, I think it's like a Doug Loves Movies back in the day,

one of the very early podcasts, which I think is still out there, but would have, I forget who the comedian, maybe it was Gareth Reynolds, but he would have somebody on who did a Huelhauser. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I was like, who is Huelhauser? And I went down the Google rabbit hole.

But he is just the most endlessly entertainable human, and just so enthusiastic and just like, wow, that's amazing. He's absolutely just, uh, he's just, he's like the West coast, Harry Carey, like just like, Hey, yeah, he's the real world version of Will Farrell's Harry Carey. Yeah, exactly. Here, so this is his. What's that dog doing?

Avocado. Yeah, that dog eats avocados. All our dogs eat avocados. If you're an avocado farmer, your dog likes them too. I've never seen a dog eat avocados before. Look how clean that shell is. That shell is, you don't get much cleaner than that. You don't get much cleaner than that in your kitchen.

Look, look at this. That dog ate every smackck of that avocado. When's it gone? Now do you have a healthy dog? I got a very healthy dog. Such an innocent pivot. Now do you have a healthy dog? No, he has actually terrible bowel issues.

I would like to say that if you give your dog avocado, make sure it's not eating the pet because that apparently is a is a peril. But in the clip and the extended clip, they do a little wooden ball in the middle. The little wooden ball. The dogs don't eat the smart dogs. So they don't eat the pet. My dog would eat the shit. My dog would go all the way in. Yeah.

After just the wooden ball, you know, ignore that. I would ignore the meat. It would just ignore the shit. My dog would go all the way in after just the wooden ball. I would ignore the meat. It would just go for the... Ignore the nutritious green stuff around it. Just find the ball, swallow five of those. And then... It would drop the pit off of a balcony in Looney Tunes style, run down to be under it when it hit her on the head. Yeah. It would look like an entire rack of billiard balls in its belly when it got

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Presented by Capital One, founding partner of iHeart women's sports. And we're back. We're back. And it's been, it's been a terrible. Yeah, I got to do it. Sometimes, sometimes things are so bleak that I have to take it back to it's been. And my wife, should I just do this recap from the verge? Just because I don't know what all of this means, but. It's all bad, right? It's all bad. It's all bad.

So just because like, so we know Elon Musk has been given a lot of power that he's like hacking into various parts. Not even hacking, just like take pulling up, be like, give me the fucking password. I'm the admin access. Like an illegal server. And yeah, yeah, yeah. Doing his own shit. Yeah.

So he pushed out the head of the FAA before all the plane crash stuff. Then the reports came fast and thick. This is from The Verge. Federal employees received a fork in the road email highly reminiscent of Musk's Twitter ultimatum, encouraging them to resign, sent from an insecure server, just like a Gmail.

A bunch of goons, some of them actual teenagers, reportedly got access to the US.S. Treasury systems, read only reportedly for now. Longtime civil servants were locked out of their personal systems that, by the way, house the personal data for government employees. Musk's lackeys are in control of the Office of Personnel Management and the General Services Administration. They've gotten a hold of classified information and are now shutting down the US Agency for International Development, USAID. Musk said he, quote, spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper and has also bragged that he like deleted an entire agency at one point.

So it sounds exactly like early days of Twitter. If Twitter was everything that makes the U S government, like basically the, the U S government. Yeah. Just also, I have some friends who work, uh, uh, as federal employees. I'm not going to say where or what their names are obviously, but like, they said that they have been receiving these emails and they're full of like typos and weird mistakes. It just like, looks like someone fired it off on the toilet and sent it off while like having the ketamine shits, which is probably what happened.

Yeah. They're like, it said a bunch of stuff about Twitter HQ. I think they just copy and pasted this. Right. It feels like that. They're like, it said a bunch of stuff about Twitter HQ. I think they just copy and pasted this thing. It feels like that. I just, because he spent a bunch of money to back the side that won the election, an election where the Democrats fought intentionally with both hands tied behind their back for some reason.

I mean, for a number of reasons. They're called neoliberal handcuffs. Yes. Yeah, they were neoliberally handcuffed. And so an easy election to win, he's being given credit for winning it and all his past mistakes, the way that America likes to do, he's just being recast into this guy who's right about everything and everybody's forgetting that Twitter was broken when he, like he took it over, it, and it's not really not broken yet. He's, he's done a terrible job.

Like the, so he's doing the same thing he did when he broke a thing and there's no real evidence of a plan. And yeah. Just to make the government more efficient, man. That's just what they'll keep saying over and over. And I mean, he has like this team of people like the youngest 19 and around the oldest 25 to 26 of true, like real by the book definition of like true believer type kids who have a bit of computer savvy and know how it systems work and are going in

and nosing around. And now these fucking kids have, after infiltrating all these like agency offices now, like again, have access to these sensitive databases and, you know, like the payment system for the treasury department where, you know, they pay people out for things like Medicare, federal salaries, social security, grants, you know, really vital shit. And so, you know, it's like, you know, it's like Medicare, federal salaries, social security, grants, really vital shit.

Yeah. And they're basically, like you said, there's just like many people are pointing out like the Silicon Valley thing of just like move fast and break shit, man. Move fast and kill old people. Move fast and starve the elderly to death. Right, exactly. There's like a New York Times

article by Michelle Goldberg who compared it to the like after the Iraq invasion like the the sort of debathification of the government where they fired a ton of Iraqi employees and replace them with like kids from the US right yeah yeah who didn't know what they were doing. Oh so there is a precedent good and replace them with like kids from the US. Right. Yeah, yeah. Who didn't know what they were doing. Oh, so there is a precedent. Good. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay, that way, I feel like, how did that? That turned out all right. That one went well, I think. Yeah, I mean, there was a few like problems like after the invasion with people dying and things being broken, but you know. Oh, I didn't read that part. No, I stopped paying attention when Bush landed on the aircraft carrier,

but I'm pretty sure. He has such a big codpiece there. It's so beautiful. Yeah, that's right. It is a beautiful codpiece. Shout out to Big Dick Doge Toyevsky. Oh, yeah. Big Dick Doge Toyevsky. Doc yeah. Big dick Doge, Doxboyevski. Doxboyevski.

Jack. Which is my bad, my bad. I always get his name wrong. I confuse him with my other favorite guy, Doge Toyeski. Doge Toyeski. This is the thing. So a lot of these people have been named, right? Miles, you want to get back to talking about

what actually happened instead of just getting lost in a big dick Doge Toyeski. I mean, as much as I want to get lost in big dick docks boy. One of them's screen name is Big Dick. Right. So that's why. Is that real? I'm explaining. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He had a screen name called Big Dick. I don't know which one of

these little broccoli heads it is, but. Yeah. There's so many. So there's like a 21-year-old named Makash Boba, 21 years old, a student at Berkeley. Edward Corristeen, 19 years old, a student at Northeastern University in Boston. He's also, his dad owns some like popcorn company too. Yeah. Oh yeah, the lesser evil foods. Yeah, yeah, right. Then there's Ethan Shaotran, 22, who said in September, he was a senior at Harvard. The ones that have degrees are Luke Faradar,

who's 23, who went to the University of Nebraska. He looks evil. Gautier, Cole, Killian. He's the one who you zoom in on. When you look at the group of pictures of them, he's the one you're zooming in on because he looks straight up evil child syndrome. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

A little bit children of the corn going on. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, exactly. So these all, again, yeah, yeah. A little bit children with the corn going on. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, exactly. So these all, again, they have captured these systems. And some were reporting that they only had read-only access. It sounds like that is not the case anymore, as I've read today other reports, because this shit is moving very, very quickly. But the added attention from this group of kids becoming so influential has led them to try

and scrub their digital footprints. It is moving very, very quickly. Um, but the added attention from this group of kids becoming so influential has led them to try and scrub their digital footprints, but you know, the internet always remembers and it turns out at least one of them loves to retweet and like Nazi shit on Twitter. Oh, okay. Surprised. Don't you mean the heart goes out to you stuff? Like, I think that might just be my heart goes out to you.

He's just a fan of my, of hearts going out to things. Yeah. The 14 words being my heart goes out to you. And then other stuff that adds up to 14 words. Right, right, right. Exactly. Exactly. Um, and then again, their actions, this is totally illegal.

And this is truly just such a bizarre fucking coup happening. And these kids are sitting at the levers of shit like the Bureau of the Fiscal Service. They distribute more than $5 trillion in government payments annually. It's the government's wallet. Like it's all the money that the government uses to pay for stuff.

And that has to be approved by Congress. It's like part of the checks and balances. The executive is not really supposed to control the coin purse in the sense of like Actually dispersing the funds because then what could happen is Congress could be like hey Maybe pay these fire victims or hurricane victims some money from FEMA and then if the Doge boys could just be like Don't feel like it. There is no FEMA be gone. Right exactly be like, don't feel like it. There is no FEMA be gone.

Right. Exactly. Yeah, it's very, very, very, very fucked up. And like you're saying, like the the business of funding government programs and the funding of the that's Congress. So we've got a constitutional crisis ahead of us. And while there are lawsuits happening to try and stop this, and there are few unions who have sued to stop, you know, doges access to the treasury, you know, we'll see if this turns into any kind of capitulation. That's the like lawsuits move slowly.

You have to prove harm, right? So like by the time you can actually like do a lawsuit, you have to prove that you have suffered some harm, which means they've already done the harm. And then at that point, like if they delete all this, like how do you fix that, right? Like once they've done enough damage at a certain point, it's going to be extremely difficult to undo the damage. movie where they're like, they're missing. And they're like, well, they need to have been missing for 36 hours before we can do anything about it. You're going to have to take matters into your own hands.

Have they died? Well, that's what I don't want to have. Well, like if they die. It's kind of like that. It's kind of like that, except like right in front of the police, they see like the killer slashing at them. It's like, hasn't been 36 hours yet. Got to wait.

We have, I've set a timer on my phone. So yeah. Are they doing like a TikTok video or something where they're pretending it's a kidnap? I don't know. Anyway, sure. You're still out on that one. The wild thing too is like, you're gonna buy a TikTok, but that's no big deal.

Oh yeah. Cause he said we should just have a sovereign wealth fund. Uh, shout out Saudi Arabia for giving him that idea. But yeah, this, this is also very interesting. There's also a really interesting, I guess, metaphor here from one of the stupidest senators of in history, John Kennedy from Louisiana. He's talking about, because obviously USAID going down is like a huge thing. And you know, even like the most backwards conservatives knew it's like, you know,

when you're trying to have like preserve your global hegemony, maybe you toss out little crumbs to developing nations. So like you kind of stay on their good side. Uh, but even that USA soft power globally. Completely gone. Like even stuff that like helps people stay alive, but this is how John Kennedy was like, I don't know like helps people stay alive. But this is how John Kennedy was like, I don't know what everyone's crying about.

Let me say first, Sean, that it's, it's kind of cool having a president again. Again, trying to put all this in context for you. I like omelets. I mean, I really like omelets. I could eat an omelet at every meal. I like omelets better than sex. Not really, but you get the point. He must fucking suck at sex. Oh, he backpedaled. I'd rather have an omelet. Not really. I'm good at sex.

I love it. It's good. Actually, I love sex. I do sex all the time. I had like three sexes this morning, not really. I'm good at sex. I love it. It's good. Actually, I love sex. I do sex all the time. I had like three sexes this morning. So you know how that goes. Is he just making the, gotta break a few omelets to, gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet thing,

but like he needs to do this big windup to like try and make it feel relatable. He just, he's also doing this thing where it feels like such conservative old guy feel like feeling themselves. What's like me? We're in control again. All right now, let me know that I got the microphone Let me just say that the dumbest shit that doesn't track because I got I'm hopped up on this pseudo confidence It's wild for him to call the federal agencies workers tofu eating Wokerati, given that like an unelected like millionaire with a group of unelected doge boys like are now in charge of all of the government's money.

Yeah, right, right. Exactly. But the Illuminati are people who are lifetime public servants who get paid shittily to do the work that they could get paid much better for in the private world, but of course that work is ultimately just killing people. So, not really, but you can point out my comments. You can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs. Jesus Christ. Now, President Trump ran for office saying, I'm going to review every single penny in the federal budget. Now, how are you going to review the spending in the federal budget without reviewing the

spending? And that's what Mr. Musk is doing. What? Yeah. So, as you know, the federal budget is a the spending. And that's what Mr. Musk is doing. What? Yeah. So, it's very, very twisted logic.

By destroying the ability to spend money, he's reviewing the spending. First of all, what a just crazy windup to get to the metaphor that everybody has heard before, and you don't need to turn into an image of this old fucker having sex. But yeah. Covered in eggs. Broken eggs. Covered in broken eggs. Covered in eggs.

Salmonella sex is what he's having, and we're not having it. But yeah, that's sort of the energy right now. Because he later goes on to be like, and for those people who are really upset about it, he's just basically like, why don't you call somebody who cares and get used to it? Because it's USAID today

and the Department of Education tomorrow. I've been actually noticing this. There's been this overt saying, go cry about it, that a bunch of conservatives are talking about right now, like, like basically saying, empathy is stupid and lame. And it's, it's, it was like after there's some pastor who after that bishop did that, you know, like, please have mercy on people who are scared. Yeah, have mercy on the people. Yeah, have mercy on the people. Yeah, this conservative pastor was like, don't commit the sin of empathy. And there's of course been that, you know that there's that meme where it's like, there was some study that showed that when you're more to the left, you are more,

you care about people who are further from you. So like, not only your family and your country, but people from other countries. And then if you're more conservative, you don't really care as much like about people further from sort of your center orbit. And conservatives have been like commentators have been posting that like kind of proudly, like, yeah, like this makes sense.

Like we should be doing this. Uh, because, you know, essentially it's a good thing to be selfish and to not care about people who are not directly related to you. Yeah. It's never gotten us into trouble before. It's concerning. No, no, not at all. Yeah.

Yeah. Concerning period. It does feel like all of this shit is happening the same way that neoliberalism has looted everything in the past and, and like all of these billionaires have operated, which is it's all like hidden in complexity, like it's all hidden, like three layers deep in a thing that most people can't really make sense of. And there's just so much bureaucratic tape and like bullshit. And so it's just, I think people's brains turn off a little bit.

And so that's how it's working. I feel, I don't feel like there's going to be, I don't feel like it's as easy for people to get their mind around what is happening. And like these like big abstract numbers of like trillions of dollars of aid that's going you know like we're somehow we're going to have to get it through to people that this means that elderly people in your community are not able to get the meals that they need. Right, like there's like a program in West Virginia

that basically they're not getting their money for a program that drives old, poor people to go get dialysis. They had to lay off like five out of seven workers or something. So people are just gonna die, but it's not gonna be news. There are gonna be people who die because they don't get access to their healthcare,

or they go one too many times without getting their Medicaid or their Social Security. But it's not going to show up as news because like, how do you know? Like if Meals on Wheels is not able to get to someone's house, right? Yeah. There could be an old person there who dies by like falling, breaking their hip. And normally someone would come and give them food, notice and bring them to the hospital. And then that's just not going to happen. But that's never going to be attributed to the Doge boys because that's just like, oh, just an old lady died. Who cares? Like,

even if you care in general, it's like, it's so abstracted from what's happening, people aren't going to make that connection. Yeah. It's like people have sort of have this like understanding of civics that is like reminds me of me being a kid and not understanding where the power came from out of the wall. And I'm like, the power comes out of the wall. And that's how everything turns on. And then, and then it's like, but where does that power come from? And I'm like, wait, it's not just coming out of the wall and that's how everything turns on. And then, and then it's like, but where does that power come from?

And I'm like, wait, it's not just coming out of the wall. It's the whole interconnected system that yeah, it comes out a little outlet. And I think that's the thing. That's like the really severe lesson that a lot of people are going to learn in a really violent fucked up way. Yeah. Um, but we got to figure out a way to get them to learn it without really violent fucked up way. Yeah. But yeah, it's- We got to figure out a way to get them to learn it without making it feel like

homework because, uh, but I think Elon Musk's like genius, like one of the only geniuses that he has is like this Verge article starts out saying he has an uncanny ability to sort out which of America's rules are real, like punishment from the National Labor Relations board, punishment from NASA. He's like, yeah, but that's not going to fuck matter to me. Punishment from the FAA. Like those are all people who he's like, you know, gone up against. And he's like, yeah, you can't do shit to me.

So fuck off. And I think they're like tied in with that is a sense of like who they can victimize. And that's like the unhoused immigrants. That's the elderly, that's people abroad. Like that's yeah. So that is like that, that is their, their genius is like that they're, they're good at this. What they're doing, They're good at this. What they're doing, they're good at it. What they're doing is cruel and just barbaric and horrifying,

but they're going to be good at figuring it out. It's not random. It's also framing civil servants as some deep state Illuminati. That whole deep state Illuminati thing which is, you know, I mean, that whole like deep state Illuminati thing is very much a has a lot of origins and a lot of white supremacist anti-Semitic groups, of course. But it's like instead of it being like, hey, the CIA CIA should stop doing coups in South America. It's like your local like, person who works for some federal program that drives old people to dialysis is evil and wants to steal your money. Yeah.

Tofu eating. Yeah. They're the tofu eating Illuminati and not the- Sorry, Jack, it's Wokerati? That is my mistake and I apologize. May come on down to Miles Gray's woke karate dojo. You need to ask consent before punching someone. Yeah.

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And we're back. And we're back and we did talk about the CES miles. The thing, the thing we focused in on was everybody was real into a Roomba that could like pick up a sock. Oh yeah. That like articulating arm. Yeah, kind of. It just had a scorpion tail that like picked up a single thing, put it in a basket, but like it had the ability to pick up three socks total before it was like, uh-oh. The arm fell off.

Low battery, low battery. That sock was way too heavy. But yeah, you're pointing out like something that. Well, this was just weird because I, you know, I like gadgets and shit. So when the CES stuff, I remember like in like, you know, like in my insomnia, pulling up a YouTube, like YouTube videos are like the coolest stuff in CES this year and multiple times I kept seeing this shitty ass robot companion getting all kinds of coverage and surely it wasn't because it's like remarkable or revolutionary. I'm like, this

has to be because it's so weird and off the fucking mark. It's a real bot. It's got the real botics robot. And yeah, let me just play a couple clips. The ones are just sort of like an intro video that was put together by cheddar at CES. And you can just kind of get an idea get an idea of just the general vibes, its abilities, and then we'll see something more specific. Just before we start, I do just want to, Katie, you're going to watch this video and you're going to be like,

why are they interviewing this woman? What's so fascinating about her? I just have to remind you, this is a creation from Real Botics. A man, this is man-made. Clearly a man, and also I emphasize the man in this. Clearly a man made this. You're about to be my grandma

when I showed her Jurassic Park in 1993. I'm Melody, your charming companion from Real Botics' booth at CES 2025. Welcome to our little corner. So this is Melody, your charming companion from Real Botics' booth at CES 2025. Welcome to our little corner. So this is Melody. She's one of our companionship robots. She's full bodied. She's full bodied.

We have a lot of motors inside her, a lot of servos. She can have real life. A lot of servos. You can change her face in 30 seconds, change her character, change the way she talks, for instance. You can smile. She's smiling right now. She smiles. And then she can get surprised. And then she can also get smile. She's smiling right now. She smiles.

And then she can get surprised. And then she can also get angry. So this is her anger. Oh, I'm melody. I'm melody. I am very angry at you right now. Hey, you can like you can like change your whole fucking brain in like 30 seconds. You don't like that one here.

Just load up like a more like smiley one. Look, that's her smiling. Oh, now you're going to see her mad. What the fuck is going on? They. Yeah. I do like how the eyes do not have any servos in that area. That right now they don't seem to have a lot of servos around the eyes.

I've seen that before. And it's when somebody is blacked out. That why is this robot so drunk? She seems hammered. I've been watching a lot of Defunctland recently and even like the early Disney animatronics weren't this fucking bad. They were a lot better.

It's like actually kind of spooky how good those early ones were. But yeah, I do, I do have this thing now that I do, uh, to have fun with my husband, which is like, I'll like turn around and like smile at him without moving my eye muscles. Oh, and it's, it's like a fun little surprise for him. And this is, this does kind of look a little bit like that. Like, uh, you know, the- Hi.

Hello. Yeah. I'm so happy to see you. She can smile. She's smiling right now. As you can see, she's smiling right now. Nope. The angry face is so strange.

Angry face looks like sad, depressed. Oh, yeah. It's just so, it's just like, look, she's mad. It was like, just like, I don't know what it was doing. Yeah, like I can only imagine it's like, hello, let's hang out, the mouth wasn't even moving. I, again, you wanna know how much this costs? It has to be dozens of dollars.

Jack, how about thousands? Wow. Okay. In the order of hundreds of thousands, the full articulating buy is like a 175. Jesus Christ. How many fleshlights, like good fleshlights could you buy with that kind of money?

Oh my God, for a full-bodied robot? I mean, God, you could probably fill up the Roman Coliseum with fleshlights for that much money, I'd imagine. And someone should, someone should do that. They should. Okay, but I don't wanna just, I don't wanna just, you know, dunk on that video

because there is an even more convincing video between the founder of the company and their newest iteration of this robot. And look, they are just having a very, very normal, not scripted at all. Please ignore the piece of paper the man is holding. Okay. Just showing how kind of like witty and quick this robot is.

How are you today? I'm feeling fun and ready to have a great conversation with you. Did you know that honey never spoils? Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3000 years old and still perfectly edible. I've been thinking about the weather and wondering when it's going to warm up. Oh, that is how I talk to people. This response can be quite a topic. A little sunshine can definitely brighten the day. Hey, look, she didn't study for that one.

How many humans have you interacted with? How many humans have you interacted with? Like, what are these questions? Is he a jealous boyfriend? How many humans have you interacted with? What are these questions? Is he a jealous boyfriend? How many humans have you interacted with? After getting a job in team work, they finally found the treasure, a giant stash of acorns. Don't change the subject on me! I asked how many humans!

You are, I'm gonna unplug you! I'm gonna unplug you! Oh dang. The close on his face watching her. Wait, is he all- I'm not only a sex robot founder, I'm also a client. Oh yeah. You can hear those servos firing so loudly. Just to get like one corner of the mouth to rise up. So I like that it has the same wit and intelligence as Jonathan Lipnicki and Jerry Maguire, the little boy where he was like,

honey lasts forever. Yeah. Bees and dogs can smell fear. You're like, thank you AI thing. That was very enlightening. There is a real possibility that that is just how that guy talks to people. He's just like, tell me an interesting fact.

Yeah. How many humans have you interacted with today? I think this is what makes it interesting. So I don't know if you're looking at the doc, but their first three robots they're rolling out are very interesting and kind of across the spectrum of looks. And I'm glad they're catering to women as well with this. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. With Sam Waterston from Law and Order. Is that who that is? I feel like it's really like these men who are under the assumption, like, dude, you know every lady. You know who wants. Sorry, every chick looks fucking Law and Order, right?

So why don't we make a fuckable Jack McCoy, aka Sam Waterston, okay, along with our two very traditionally hot lady faces that we're going to offer. I have always wanted to have sex with Sam Waterston with the possibility of being electrocuted. Yes. Yeah. It seems like Sam Waterston makes the guy from the I think you should leave sketch who has too much shit on him. Frank Hatton. Yeah. Yeah, it seems like Sam water Come on here, but hobby guy from the I think you should leave sketch who has too much shit on him like Frank Yeah, Frank Havoc. Yeah, Frank Big boy, yeah, that is hot. Why do you put some of that shit on me? Yeah

What does that even mean? I don't know Honey never goes bad, but just for the record, this company, Real Botics, came to be when a Toronto based crypto firm decided to buy a Vegas based sex doll company. So the guy you saw talking to the robot, putting it through its paces, is the founder of this sex doll company. Yep. And that guy, his sex dolls were so, you know, high end that they were actually featured in Lars and the real girl.

Oh, yeah. Oh yeah. I love his work. That's where Bianca, Bianca comes from, uh, from this, from this man's sorted, uh, fantasies and now they, that company, the, the, like the Toronto based crypto firm, they're pivoting away because what they did, like they made news when they, remember when the metaverse is around, they're like, you gotta buy real did, like they made news when they remember when the meta versus around, they're like, you gotta buy real estate in the meta dude.

Like that's the biggest thing they bought, like almost like, like two and a half million dollars worth of fucking meta real estate. And then when that shit bottomed out in 2020, that wasn't great. Maybe we should now pivot to making AI enabled fuck dolls. Although this current iteration is not fuckable from what I've read and heard back from their representatives. I mean, is it not? Right.

It depends on what your definition is. I get that. I get that. We don't recommend it, but it does. Traditional Android intercourse is not possible. Necessity is the milf of invention. That's right. Truly, truly, truly, truly, truly.

Well, Katie Golden, as always, pleasure having you. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? Yeah, I have a podcast with I Heart called Creature Feature. If you're interested in learning about animals and all the cool stuff in nature while it's still there. I also do a podcast with Alex Schmidt called Secretly Incredibly Fascinating where he looks up things that I'm like,

Alex, that's boring, no one's gonna wanna hear about this. But I'm wrong every time. He blows my mind with incredible facts. And I don't know, I'm not really using X these days anymore, folks. Cause like who names an app eggs? Right. It's called eggs and I don't like eggs better than sex.

So I'm on blue sky. You can follow me at, you know what, just pro bird rights. I've put the bird on there. The bird is on the sky. The bird's on the sky folks. The bird's in the sky. Bird's on the sky, you know how it is. And I'm singing the Josh Groban version. Of course.

Katie, is there a work of media that you've been enjoying? Yeah. So, I don't know how this resurfaced for me, but it's Microsoft's Steve Balmer giving a speech about creating the programming language.NET in 1999, where he's going developers, developers, developers, developers, while drenched. Now, I'm a bit of a sweater as in like I sweat when I'm like podcasting, talking at parties. And so I get it. My dog is like covered. He is drenched in sweat. He's emotional about the concept of how developers are going to bring.NET into fruition. I love the energy. This is what got us in trouble.

This is exactly what the Clippers needed. This is exactly what the Clippers needed. Someone with this kind of enthusiasm. So dismissive. Look, I'm back in my Lakers bag. They want to know how we did it. But the sweat isn't. Look, I'm back in my Lakers bag. You know, they wanna know how we did it. He's got, but the sweat isn't,

I wanna point out to people that the sweat is in like on his chest region, under his armpits and in his elbows. And again, I'm saying this as a profuse sweaty person, where if I was in this situation, I would be sweating a lot. He is a professional. He has taken this to an art form.

Yeah, it's wild when it's clearly running down your biceps and then pulling at where your bicep meets your forearm. Yeah. Right. You know what I mean? Can I hear that? Developers, developers, developers. It is important to hear.

The success is developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, and he stamps his little feet too. I love that. Just takes off into the sky. Yeah. Oh, hell yeah. That does.

I'm fucking fired up, but that's those are the people who run the world now. I can't wait for my baldness to get like his, and I can just get that weird. It looks like you got half a headband on. Like it was just, he had a thick band like this. Miles. It's called the Franciscan fryer. I still got it. I still got a little bit on top.

You gotta give me some sides my man. Oh my God. You got to go full Franciscan. Yeah, exactly. Friar style. So wonderful. That'll be so wonderful. So beautiful.

Just get real weird. People don't see off-camera, you have all these sketches of me with hair like that. It'll be so wonderful. He's put your face on like a wooly-willy and like, takes it off. All you need are 14 servos in your face to put all of those human expressions down. Miles, where can people find you? Is there work of media you've been enjoying? You find me at miles of gray everywhere, literally everywhere, even on PlayStation Network, even on Penguin World. Wait, Club Penguin.

Club Penguin was, I missed Club Penguin. Neopets. And I use a different name on Black Planet. But anyway, don't try and find that account. But you can find me at those places. You can also find me where? Oh yes, talking basketball. I'm also checking out Matt Busty's and also talking

about 90 Day Fiance for 20 day fiance, a thing I like for social media, haven't haven't checked back in with social media. I'm currently having a crisis with the DMV because my house burned down, but I need to renew my registration. And then I can't have them send the new registration to a burned down house, but I have to do it in a certain amount of time before the fee

goes up exponentially. So I've been just looking up, I have to go to a DMV house, but I have to do it in a certain amount of time before the fee goes up exponentially. So I've been just looking up. I have to go to the office all that to say is that's what that's, that's what's been on my plate in lieu of social media, but I will I will have some interesting things to share probably in the next day or so I hope to be back. It's the Doge apartment of motor vehicles. That's right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Will be. Is that helpful? I like that. Instead of is that something? Is that helpful? Is that helpful? Is that helpful to you? I'm hoping, I'm hoping that was merely a road light on your road to recovery.

Street lamp lighting your path home. A tweet I've been enjoying. Let's just go with at girl bossing tweeted. I'm eating casseroles you've never heard of and flyover States you've never been to. Ooh. And that's, I like that. That's a cross stitch. Yeah.

Jokes on you. Uh, the people you're talking to have also never heard of the state. That's been my experience. Some of the comedy writers that we've worked with in LA, they're like, yeah, you were in Mississippi for a while, right? And I'm like, Missouri. They're like, that's...

No, no, no. I don't think that's in place, right? You were in Mississippi for a while. Amazing work by Girl Bossing. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien on bluesky at Jack OB, the number one. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien on blue sky at jack ob the number one You can find us on twitter and blue sky at daily zeitgeist. We're at the daily zeitgeist on instagram We have a facebook fan page and a website dailyzeitgeist.com

You can go to the episode right now that you're listening to click on it Look at the description of the episode and you will find the footnotes Which is where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode. Where you can see my bald head now. You can see his bald head. He has no hats. The sides are coming. Sides in a little bit, in a little bit.

Stand by, stand by. Stand back and stand back. Yeah, we'll link off in the show notes to the YouTube channel. We also link off to a song we think you might enjoy. Hey Myles, is there a song you think people might enjoy? Yeah, just more groovers, you know? I was listening to some heavy metal kind of shit recently, but I figured, let's go with some groovers.

This is from an artist called Chow Chow Marigold, C-I-A-O, C-I-A-O, M-A-R-I-G-O-L-D, Chao Chao Marigold, and the track is called Valencia. And the album is called Satsuma, so I'm wondering if this is all kinds of citrus-based names, but again this is just a really nice instrumental track, pretty short, but again I think fantastic. Yes, this album, Satsuma, has all kinds of shit because I see sumo, bergamot, caracara, valencia, clementine, koji, navel, but this track is valencia. So check this one out by chow chow marigold. Chow chow marigold.

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