The Daily Zeitgeist - Dr Rando’s Open Heart Surgery, Secret To Immortality Revealed! 05.15.26

Episode Date: May 15, 2026

In episode 2059, Jack and Miles are joined by producer and beauty influencer, Carmen Laurent, to discuss… Daddy Bloodbag’s Secrets to Eternal Life Have Dropped, Rudy Giuliani saw everything BUT God, Please Keep RFK Jr Away From Heart Surgeries, OpenAI’s Children’s Movie/Investor Bait Is For Sale At Cannes and more! Carmen's Piece of Media: "Just give me a fan!" Bryan Johnson's list of 41 things he's learned while 'spending millions' on longevity Giuliani Reveals ‘Spiritual Experience’ While in Coma Fact Check: Did RFK Jr Perform Heart Surgery on a Live Patient in Ohio? RFK Jr. Sits in on Open Heart Surgery in Bonkers Move Thierry Frémaux Talks New Oscar Rules, “Feminist Washing” ‘Thelma & Louise’ Poster Charge; Berlinale Backlash, AI, Red Carpet Selfies & Hollywood Film industry cannot fight rise of artificial intelligence, says Demi Moore AGC Launches Open AI-Produced Animated Family Film ‘Critterz’ For Cannes Market IMDB: Critterz ‘Critterz’ First Look: New Tech Behind AI Animated Feature Unveiled as Vertigo and Federation Form New AI Production Company “This future looking like a nightmare”: OpenAI announces feature-length AI-generated film, “Critterz,” and nobody wants this OpenAI Backs AI-Made Animated Feature Film If making a movie with AI still costs 30 MILLION then AI-generated “art” is an objective failure. French Filmmaking Organizations Condemn OpenAI-Backed Animated Feature Aiming For Cannes LISTEN: sleeptalkin by Black Light AnimalsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

She's too mean to be in Atlanta. Like, and I mean that in the nicest way. Like, you know what I mean? No, Atlanta's a mean fucking place. Is everybody mean to? I guess it's maybe that southern veneer that is sort of all over everything that makes it feel like less agro. Yeah. Yeah, we're mean in like a very nice way, I think.

Well, that's what they say like, right? They say like New Yorkers aren't nice but kind and people everywhere else. And people in L.A. are nice but not kind. Yeah. Mm-hmm. You know what I mean? Sure. That's kind of, I think that's kind of like also in the South.

Yeah, the South. It's a lot of like, bless your heart. Bless your heart. Fuck you. That means fuck you. Bless your heart, which hasn't been saved by Jesus Christ. Exactly. You're going directly to hell.

Bless your heart. I'm getting off on the thought of you burning an eternal hellfire right this moment. I'll pray for you. I'll come at night. Just thinking about you. Burning in hell. I can't wait for you. for your skin to flake off like a rotissory chicken that's been in too long.

But I'm praying for you. I surely am. I won't say for what. This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. Another podcast from some SNL late-night comedy guy, not quite. Unhumor me with Robert Smygel and friends. Me and hilarious guests from Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman help make you funnier.

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Yeah! It's a production of I-HeartRadio was a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's share consciousness through the day's news. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. We also have a new non-news history version of the daily Zykeyes that drops each Monday morning.

Where you do a deep dive into the Zykeyes through the lens of a different icon. Okay. Mm-hmm. Okay. Okay. Pass two of been Mr. Bean and Anna Wintor. Yeah.

Okay. Okay. You're happy? Are you happy? Mr. Bean. Mr. Bean episode was wild. Wild ride. Mr. Bean, folks.

Keep saying that about the episode I'm not on, dude. I know, man. I'm sorry. Type of lay about the dude, you got it. Like, we finally found our stride in that episode. We found our stride a couple of times. Oh, yeah. Anyways, it is Friday, May 15th, 2026.

We're halfway there, y'all. We're halfway there. Bless your heart. We're halfway through my. Hey, man. It's Shades Day. It's fucking bike to school day. Shut up, biking to school.

I saw it. Yeah, like wearing sunglasses. Shout out of sunglasses. You know what I mean? I thought it was like your blinds. Oh, yeah, because you mentioned. Brought to you by Shades Incorporated. It's also National Chocolate Chip Day.

Okay. God, yeah, I love a chocolate chip. And also, shout out to all the people who are like, what does my government want me to do? No, I'm not signing up for that because it's also international conscientious objectors day. Hell the fuck. Set your arms down. Set your arms down, please.

Yep. I became a conscientious objector the day I transitioned. There you go. Can you become a... Is there other ways to be an objector? Can you be like not conscientious? Like a pissed off objector. Yeah.

You can get the bones spurs. Cowardly objector. You can be. Yeah, exactly. Fortunate son. Caterly and angry. Yeah. Bicycling was something I learned.

in the research for our upcoming icon episode, the Steve Job. Have you heard of this guy? Yeah, yeah. You're finally saying it correctly, too. That one of his pitches in the early days was that when they invented the bicycle, it was like merely a tool. But what they didn't realize is it immediately made man the most efficient, like, species on the planet, the bicycle, like, because of the amount of work you have to put in versus

the speed you pick up. and this computer is going to do it to the brain. He wanted to call one of his computers like the bicycle. And everyone was like, that sucks shit. He has a lot of bad ideas. There's another one where his company that he started after he got ousted from Apple, he wanted to call it two. And they're like, no, dude, that has like the connotation of like it being second best.

He's like, fuck, all right. I'm a well-genious marketer. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. You know, he had his moments, as we all do. Thanks to acid. Yeah. Shout out to acid.

Yeah, this one didn't have a lot of cocaine in it. I was surprised. Not a lot of cocaine, very LSD heavy. Very LSD, yeah. The Mind Expander. Exactly. My name is Jack O'Brien, AK. Don't sell me solar.

I want coffee. Your sales pitch will never work on me. I found it there at the end. There you go. Daughter by Pearl Jam, collab with New Chris and Snarfila. Don't sell me solar. I want coffee.

Yeah. I don't know. Try another time. Don't sell me solar. I want the voice. You got the voice. You'll say this will never work on me. Don't go.

Me, this is the episode. We're just going to be trying to remember how that song goes. Try and guess how bad the news is based on how much we're just going to waste time up top family. Can we just avoid the news the whole dark? That's a collabo between New Chris and Snorffula. Now you know you're in trouble. Those two on the same track? Come on.

I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Miles Gray, aka falling asleep in fucking AP. US history because I got stick on eyes. Teach looks at me, but I'm in disguise. I've got stick on eyes. I'm fast asleep that's between you and I. Shout out snarfiela for that one. Yes, I would draw a picture of an eye, tap into my closed eyelid,

then put my other eye like this and have a nap in class. And yes, I did get a four on my APUS history test. Bang. So find a new angle. Mr. Willery. Find a new angle, asshole. Can't believe that's part of the son by Eric Cartman.

Eric, yeah, Eric Carmen, right? I think is his name. Yeah. What a bad name. Yeah,

I'm going to be the next pop idol. My name is Eric Carmen. Okay. Cool. Cool, man. You sure you don't want to go with, no, okay.

Miles, speaking of Carmen. Hi. Hi. We're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a podcast, producer, beauty influencer, who hosted the Great Beauty Translated podcast that celebrated the trans experience and had a lot of fun along the way. Co-host of the podcast, Divit Down, please welcome back to the show.

Oh, DeVit Down is defunct. I'm sorry to tell you. Co-host of the Earthsqwild podcast, DeVit Down. Please welcome back to the show. Carmen LaRome! Carmen! Thank you. And I have my cute little dog specs here with me, too.

What a beauty. Yeah. Thank you guys for having me. I know. So well-lived. Specks? Why? Does he wear spectacles?

Because he has little specks. Oh, okay. You see his little specs that he wears? Yeah. He's got little brown specks. Oh. Look at that.

Dog glasses would be an amazing. Dog glasses. Yeah. Just like, like Ben Franklin glasses is kind of what I'm picturing. Oh, like little frameless. Why people are going to start doing it? You know, they're doing braces.

I know. Are we doing dog braces? I didn't go to the last meeting of the whites. No, it's even happening in Japan. When I was in Japan, I saw people who had dogs with braces. They bro, the amount of money people throw wearing their dogs in Japan is fucking crazy. So many times you're like, oh my gosh, that person's got a bit. No, it's three dogs.

White people look in Japan with such envy. They're on new levels of whiteness that we haven't even conceived of yet. I'm leaving everything that he's. dog. Yeah. Carmen, we're thrilled to have you here. We're going to get to know you a little bit better in the moment, maybe even Mr. Spex. But first, we're going to tell the listener to a couple of things we're talking about.

We've got a lot to get to. We got Daddy Blood Bag's Secret to Eternal Life, Brian Johnson, fellow beauty influencer, Brian Johnson, the man who manages to look 47. How old is he? He's 48. He's 48. He does not look good for his age. No. He looks good for a 65 year old.

He does not look good for his age. Yeah, yeah. For 48, I'm like, I don't know. Yeah, that's what you look like, dude. How to look exactly 48. Anyways, we'll talk about him. We'll talk about another medical miracle coming from the right. Rudy Giuliani is back.

Back, baby. He's fucking podcasting again. I honestly thought we did. Back on the mic. I thought we did the story where he died. Well, I mean, the fucking priest read in his last rights. And you're like, oh, shit. Well, that was a weird run by that guy.

And then nah, he's it. The weird run continues. It's the power of prayer, Jack. Power of pride. That's what everyone's saying on fucking Twitter. Like all the right wingers are like, exactly. It's the miraculous power of prayer.

We love you, Rudy. They do. The worst people do really tend to just live. live forever. They don't look good doing it. They look terrible. They look like they're rotting from the inside out, but there's something that keeps them going.

I'm still shocked. Wait, is Dick Cheney still alive? No, he's gone. Oh, okay. Never mind. Yeah. Cut that. He died a couple times.

He died. Then took that guy's heart, kept living for another like 30 years. We're going to talk about RFK. He's dead, right? Miles. That's not incorrect. RFK.

Which one? Dick Chaney. Dick Chaney. Dick Cheney is alive. Dick Cheney is alive. What? Didn't he, wait, did he die recently?

No, Dick Cheney died. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, fine. Shaney. Oh, that's right. No, yeah, dude, whatever. You know. He's alive in our hearts.

He's alive in our hearts. Let's just put it that way. He's alive in our hearts. But Rudy, he's not making it out of 2026. I guarantee you that. All right. Dick Cheney, when he died, he tried to take my heart. He was like, hey, let me get that.

You had to fight off a fucking ghost. reaching into your chest. He's like, what the fuck is this? He's like, I need your fucking heart. Get the fuck off of me. His medical team came and talked to my family. We're going to talk about, speaking of medical teams,

RFK Jr. Just sat down, tried to fuck around and perform heart surgery. Kind of, not really. This is kind of a bullshit news story. But anyways,

I could see him doing it. Welcome to this bullshit story. He dabbles. We'll ask the question. Has Hakeem Jeffrey's been hit in the head? And we'll check in with the new fully AI movie that they tried to debut at con and is not happening. But hey, happy con season to everybody.

Yeah. Because this is, this is now when we get to start talking about how long different standing ovations are. It's one of the stupidest things in culture. Just, they got a 25 minute standing ovation. Like, were they at gunpoint? What do you mean? Why? Nobody, I've never felt that good about any. one anything. It's standing for 25 minutes. Don't they have to go to the bathroom? Anyways. And then we're also talking about how America is trying to ruin the World Cup.

Even more so. Yeah, even more so. Oh, wow, wow. Okay. Yeah, yeah. Did you know about the halftime thing? With like Madonna and Shikira? They're going to try and do like a super long half time show.

And BTS. And BTS. Damn. I mean, that's a lot of fucking Star Power. That's a good show. 15 minutes, too, you got. Madonna's back, y'all. They're gonna, well, we're just talking about this.

This has been two episodes in a row that have been Madonna appreciation episodes. Okay, well, that brings me to my point for Pride Month. Y'all need to get on that Madonna history episode. Okay. Madonna iconography. I mean, yeah, I was bringing up, too, like in the biopic, I want to see the moment she saw Paris is burning.

And she's like, I'm stealing this. Well, slash working with, you know, them too, but also. She was always open about it. No, for sure, for sure. I'm being facetious. Because, yeah, Willy Ninja was a little bit, was a part of that too.

Oh, yeah, he was a part of it, yeah, but... All right. But before we get to any of that bullshit, Carmen, we do like to ask our guests,

what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? Okay, my search history is half, like me Googling things for my job, which is, you know, a producer,

so I'm Googling celebrity names a lot. Mm-hmm. But for my personal, it's actually kind of funny that all of the things that I have been Googling for myself personally are related to Vivian Westwood. Because in the fall of the American Empire and how everything is just burning down around us, I kind of feel like this is not just a me thing. I'm kind of noticing that everybody else is doing this too. But I am just buying fashion and I'm just building up a collection of, designer labels in my closet. And that's how I'm dealing with the impending doom. And those labels will protect you from the everything that will, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I guess. I have that feeling too. Yeah. That's what I've told myself. But yeah, these hats will protect me from everything. Right. Exactly. But no, I'm also like, I'm also

like, well, I can't keep buying things that have no resale value. So, Oh, wow. Look at you. Now everything's investment. So I'm only buying designer clothes now, which means I'm not buying very many clothes, but I'm spending a lot of money. And I'm only buying Vivian Westwood. And I'm buying old stuff and buying new stuff. I'm kind of all over the place. But a lot of my search history is related to me just trying to find old archival fashion pieces. So those are like, so if you get your hands on a piece for a good price, you're like, and when I get tired of it, I can actually, I'm, actually not going to lose money on this. Yeah, exactly.

Like, is everything appreciating or just kind of holding its value? Ah, well, it's all depends on who wants to, who wants to appreciate it. Yeah, exactly. But I think it kind of holds its value. But like, you know, I can't sell any of my shitty clothes from like Target and anything for any value. But I can absolutely turn around a nice designer bag or a dress or something like that and get myself out of the country if I need to.

There you go. Oh, so, okay. So you do have an end game. You're like, okay. And what shit hits the fan? That's what I'm telling myself. Yeah, right, right, right. Okay, that's the lie I'm telling myself.

Right. Well, then that's why you got to get out in time because you don't want to end up being like, how much is back? I'm like, ain't nobody got money for that shit right now. I'm not fully up on the resale market. How much do Nike socks that are a little worn out on the heel? they're pink though so they're fun because they were washed with red with a red shirt

no no my I'm a pink sock boy I love pink socks okay pink sock on depop somebody would be trying to sell those for like five dollars I'm not even kidding like they will list anything on some of these like fashion resale websites it's actually quite funny they're a little crusty I'll just say you didn't have to you know you didn't have to say that you didn't have to admit that in the listing The right listener might buy them for a lot. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. Whatever that website is where people say their underwear and shit, that's where you need to be going on. Okay. You know? All right. See? And that's why I invest in pink socks from Nike. Pink crusty socks from Nike.

What is something? How did they get crusty again? Don't worry. No comment. Okay. I invest in them. Look, there's a lot of salt in my sweat. Okay.

And it crystallizes. It grows barnacles on it. It's like, see what is something you think is underrated? I'm going to pull something crazy out of my ass. Okay. And I'm going to say. As you're underrated or you're just saying you're just described me. In my underrated.

That's my underrated. Get ready. The album American Life released by Madonna in 2003 is a criminally underrated album. Okay. American Life. What's on that one? Let's see. Well, American Life. I'm drinking a soy latte. I get a double Shate, it goes right through my body and you know I'm satisfied. That's the lyric? Is this the one where she looks like Che Guevara and shit on the album cover?

Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay. So it is for the world that we're living in today. Still, in my view, extremely relevant, extremely, like, it's a album that is almost 25 years old at this point, but it still hits. You know what I mean?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And when it came out, it was trashed critically. It was critically, like, you know, everybody hated it. Panned. But for me, in 2003, that was, I was 10 years old. That was the Madonna that, like, opened my eyes to the world. And I think that was when I became politically aware, you know? Right, right, right.

Just watching the American Life music video and all of that. So, you know what? Totally out of left field, but that's my underrated for today. What is the American Life music video? What was happening in that? Well, funny you should ask, it's actually been banned. What? And there's actually two different versions of the American Life music video.

So the version that was released after it was banned is just Madonna front to camera in a military uniform with a bunch of, with the world flags flashing behind her. But before that, but the band version is Madonna basically host. hosting a, it's like a fashion show, a war fashion show. And it's like she drives a tank out onto the runway, and she's like throwing grenades. And it's all very commentary on the war in Iraq. And just like, it's all commentary on that, basically. And kind of like pushing back at that. There, she flies a plane into the World Trade Center in that. Does she really? No. I was like, wait. 2003. But she actually has two band music videos from that album.

The Die Another Day music video was banned because it depicts her being waterboarded by North Korean official. Die Another Day the Bond song? Yes. One of the worst James Bond theme songs ever, but my favorite James Bond theme song. Yeah. Shut up. That's just wild. Do you listen to that album consistently, or when was the last time you listened to that album?

I listened to it this morning. Oh, okay. Does it transport you to that time, or is it just been such a mainstay in your listening that, like, it kind of doesn't? Because I recently listened to something I listened to a lot when I was 13, and they fucking sent me back. What was it? What was it? It was actually not 13. It was maybe I was 14, 15.

It was the high tech. the producer of high technology album. Specifically, this one track by common called Sun God. And I used to listen to shit all the time when I was in the summer when I was in Japan. Like, because I had a CD player and I would just by myself be kind of like independent, young teenager walking around. And recently when I just gone back, I had a moment. And I was like, I haven't walked around and just listen to music walking around Tokyo like I used to when I was a kid.

And I put that song back on. And I had to like stop because I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm time traveling. I'm time traveling. Oh my God. And I really love that about music. So I wasn't sure if that, if it had that same quality. Because some things we listen to so much, it's just like part of who we are.

You know, I haven't had the intense, that quite of an intense one. But when I do listen to die another day, I am transported back to me being like 10 years old in my parents' living room, pretending I'm Madonna, like running around like with a gun, like, you know, like pretending I'm like a spy because that was very my, my tea when I was 10 listening to Madonna. and I love to, like, you know, dance around and pretend I was her. So, yeah, that, but maybe not the whole album. I think the album, as I've gotten older, has, like, the meaning for it has, like, evolved over time. Because I'm like, oh, I get what she's talking a lot about aging and stuff like that and becoming older and regretting your past and regretting burning bridges with people and stuff like that. Right. And I'm like, oh, I know what that means now.

But when I was 10, I had no fucking clue what she was talking about. But I wanted to. I wanted to know what that shit meant. I was like, yeah. I get it. Right. I get it, Madonna. What is something you think is overrated?

Health insurance in this country? I don't know. I know that's like a tired point. I am a big fan of health insurance in this country. Convince me otherwise. All right, let's go to bat on this one, Jack. I think it's cool that they make it. So it's a product that's one.

the most important products. It's there for you at a time when you're like extremely, like, going through something very difficult. Really need it. Really need it. And they, it's the product that is most designed to be impossible to use. I think that's good.

Proofing you're wrong. Counterpoint. Maybe it's appropriately rated. But I think now it is, at least anyway. I still think like it's, like, yes, the Luigi Mangione thing is, is wild that that happened.

But like, truly the fact that somebody murdered in cold blood, a CEO of a health insurance company, and everyone was like, no notes. Like the public opinion was just like, yeah, I don't know. And they went, they turned around and started overturning some of their denials after that. Yeah, they got scared. I actually have a friend who, going through, I'm going through a lot of insurance denials with an important surgery that I'm having in. literally two weeks that I don't know if I'm having or not.

And yeah, like, she told me that the same thing happened to her, but as soon as Luigi did his thing, the denial was overturned. And I'm like, well, why does it have to come to that? But you know what? Right. If it has to come to that. I don't know. Does it have to come to that?

Let's just ask the medical, the health care insurance. Allegedly theoretically? Is that what has to come to? It shouldn't have to come to this, right? We don't want it to have to come to this, do we? Did you hear what? Did you hear a question for you guys, not for us? Right.

I don't know. We're the paying customers, right? Customers are always right. Yeah. It is funny. We're like, yeah, basically like for all that time, like the media was like, it's this, this, this was so bad. And like, all the comments on news sites were basically like, fuck around, find out. Fuck you.

All right. Like, I don't think we've fully grappled with how wild that is that that happened. And like, it's still just like. out there, you know. Well, Fox News, I remember when they played their, like, the fan cam edit of Luigi, as if it was, like, the most, they were like deplore. And it was like, it just made him look so much cooler, you know. Like, every time they tried to make him look like a piece of shit,

everyone was just like, oh, my God, we love you. Oh, my God. What's his body fat percentage? Yeah. All right. Let's take a quick break, and then we'll come back and talk about body fat percentage. And whether that's on the list. of the 41, 42 things, 41 plus zero things that can make you look exactly your ageing or late 40s.

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Open your free, IHeartRadio app. Search Learn the Hardway and listen now. And we're back. Back, baby, baby. Brian Johnson. My favorite beach boy. My favorite subject. Is Brian Johnson really one of your favorite subjects? I mean, the way you lit up when before we started recording, I was talking about Brian Johnson, I was like, okay, I know Carmen's had an eye on this fool. I think we all have, right? Because, I mean, this is a guy for people who don't know.

He is the man who is known for spending millions upon millions of dollars trying to not look like a 48-year-old white guy. And he's done a great job Because like Jack to your point He's done a great job of spending millions of dollars To most onlookers They would think he's probably 47 You know what I mean? Not a day above 47

Or the other thing that I look at There's like recent pictures With his haircut He also looks like His plasticy face Makes him look like Woody from Toy Story Like if you started listening It does

Fuff Boy Manosphere podcast Yeah It's like you gotta know about females It's like yo Woody What the fuck? He just has that glassy skin that looks like he's had a lot of plastic surgery.

Yeah, 100%. Yeah, yeah. Not pulling it off. It's the Botox. It's the Botox, baby. Too tight. Too tight. Too tight.

Too reflective. But anyway, after taking his son's blood or psychedelics or monitoring his son's boners, right? With him like a nocturnal boner data set. Miles, he had to monitor his son's boners because he and his son have boner competitions. Sleep boner competition. He has to make sure that he, his boner boner. his penis boner is the same age as his sons or whatever. My boner age is actually 22, which I have you know.

26 years. I've reversed the clock by 26 years. So, you know, he's taking like psychedelics on live streams just to have like the most like lukewarm realizations, epiphanies. And like, what the fuck is this guy doing? So he's now come out with this tweet. He's like, I just want to share everybody the things that I've learned over the course of my pursuit of longevity.

and here are my 41 secrets. The shit that he's done, like we said, boner monitoring, using Sun as blood bag. He's done some wild shit. He also takes, I don't know if you guys know this,

but this is especially interesting to me, but he, like, micro doses estrogen to, like, even out his testosterone and estrogen levels more. And he, like, in some of my favorite pictures of him, he, like, is wearing nail polish.

So it's almost like, He comes from a very Mormon background. Right, right, right. And I'm just like, I just want him to personally just go ahead and crack the egg and transition already. Yeah, we see it. We see it. Yeah, there was just like the nighttime erection things is. Then he was like talking about like his own semen health.

Yeah. All kinds of weird shit. So you're expecting this list to be full of just the wildest shit. Right, right, right. You know, I swallow, every morning I wake up, I take a glass of cold water and I swallow one earbud from my apple. One air pod gate. Exactly. And then it travels through my digestive system, cleanses me of all.

Like, that's the sort of thing that I was expecting, like, to be just like next level weird shit. Yeah, yeah. So keep in mind, this guy has spent like annually on average about $2 million to look maybe $7,000. months younger. Right. He made a bunch of money off of like some bullshit tech thing that will never make anyone's life any better. Yeah, I think it was like some VOIP kind of like Skypey kind of business. But anyway, here are his keys to a long life, all 41 of them. It starts off with number zero, which I'm already like, okay, this is not good. Number zero. This guy, I love the way this guy's brain works. That's crazy, dude. Sleep is the world's most powerful drug.

is the first. Yo, don't fucking, don't give this shit away for free, dog. Let's go further down the list. Miles, can I just go to the very next one is be in your bed for eight hours? Yeah, dude. And you mean the universally accepted amount of time you're supposed to sleep for? Exactly, dude. Exactly.

How about this one? No screens one hour before bed? What the fuck? Wow. You're fucking welcome. You're fucking welcome. Number six. Can we back up to calm foods?

What exactly is a calm food? No fucking idea, but the word sound cool on a list. It also just sounds like someone who was raised on, you know, Mormonism, like a very white thing where it's like, I can't have pepper. I can't have spicy food. Yeah, yeah. A glass of milk. Yeah, yeah. It's a dinner roll and tepid water.

Yeah, I don't mean? Like, that's a calm meal before bed. Calm. No screens one hour before bed. Okay. Avoid added sugar. Yeah, we fucking know that. Number seven, avoid all things in an American convenience store.

Japanese convenience stores is the way to go. Avoid fried foods. Okay. Number nine, shoes off at the door. So we're getting more into the Japanese lifestyle. Yeah, yeah. I feel like he has like, he, when, Went one time to Japan.

Right. Guys, guys, guys, you're not going to believe this. Number nine or number ten, number ten is hang at minimum 14 Fujoshi posters throughout your home. He goes on, just like walk a little bit, get your heart rate high routinely, lift things, stretch day. That's one thing I do agree. Stretch daily. Yeah, lift heavy things. Okay.

So all of, okay. So this is what he discovered from doing psychedelics. Spending $2 million? I don't know. Again. Okay. Just in his research. Yes.

Water pick, floss, brush, tongue scrape, morning and night. Thanks, dentist. Right. Make an effort to drink water. Okay. Sure. We, of course, dude. Yeah, water.

It's the element that gives life. I thought it stopped. Oh my God. There's so many things on this list. Oh, my God. It just keeps going in each one more boring than the last. then that exactly. Yeah.

Number 19, stand up straight. Right. What the fuck? Stand up straight, boy. Yeah. What? Pull up those pants.

Uh, okay. Pull up the, why is 32, pull up those pants. Wait, wait, wait, uh,

see at least what, number 20, see at least one friend once a week. That says a lot about this guy. How fucking lonely, this motherfucker must be. Yeah. Truly.

See one friend once it. I've got to get my daily, my weekly friend interaction. And they're all people that like follow him around and record stuff for him. Your actual, your service providers also do count as friends. That's what I call my staff. Right, right. You also, yeah, go to the dentist number 24. Thanks, dude.

God damn. Go to the fucking dentist. You guys on some next level shit. Again, in the words of my grandmother, circulate some air in this room. It's stuffy in here. Okay. It's a mixture of,

it's a mixture of like very obvious, like things everybody knows. Anybody who's like just been, like gone on Google and been like, how do I be healthy? Yeah. And then it's old, old people shit.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Circulate air at the room. He goes. goes on to say, avoid sitting for long times.

Uh-huh. Protect number one thing that every doctor tells you these days. Protect your hearing. Yeah, thanks, grandma. I will. Alcohol is bad for you. Yeah, we've seen the studies. No.

We know. Then he goes on, sleep. This is the one that is from biohacking. Sleep in a cold room. That is something I hear a lot from like biohacker. That's the first one that is flirted with being interesting. Yeah. That's the first, like, kind of new thing on.

I mean, not even new, but just like, yeah. Yeah. Another one straight from grandma's mouth, texting while driving is dangerous. I mean, definitely true. Great work. He figured that out. This has to be from like AI.

Right. You know what I mean? Like, you can't be this fucking dumb and think up. But it's an AI that he modeled after his own like brain thinking patterns. So that, you know, it would. Where do you think he's going to come down? on social media use. For it or against it?

I think it's okay in limited doses, would be my guess for him. Exactly. And not before bedtime. Limit social media use. Wow. And it should only be limited

to watching his content. Exactly. On Instagram and YouTube. Don't smoke anything. Okay. That's true. Don't smoke anything. Dark.

Anything? Yeah. Don't smoke like styrofoam. Anything. But this stuff. Smoke only the kindest, kindest cleanest. Weed.

Just like other shit. Like one hour before bed, have a calm wind down routine. Bath, read, like walk, listen to music. Like,

this is from like a fucking BuzzFeed listicle from like 2012. Wow. Avoid long distance travel where you can. That's, I'm also like, huh? Tell me about that.

Oh, that is actually a thing that he is, that is one of the interesting things that he is super, against. Long distance travel. Any sort of long distance travel, he believes that, like, ever. Like, he.

Because it fucks with his sleep schedule and he's so, like, oh, regimented. And his owner-testered, like, doesn't work in different time zones. And his sleep schedule is so regimented. And so it has to be eight hours and yada-a-di-a-ya. And jet lag is, you know, it's the killer or whatever. So, yeah, he was very obsessed with, like, not traveling. I love that.

Then the last two. steps first incorporate new things slowly and then the final one i like that one that one makes sense to me yeah and you know not not so obvious okay uh and then his final uh tip for life for life 41 do less most things don't work oh oh so you're depressed what shit doesn't work do those those friends they always let you down okay so yeah i mean again millions of dollars to sound like a grandmother or just like a doctor just being like, yeah, are you doing these basic things for life? Thank you. Thank you. All that to look marginally the same. Yeah. Wow. I truly like I'm not being a hater. If I saw him,

I would not think he was any younger than 48 years old. Like this is one of my favorite, like, I think lately a lot of people have been doing this on the internet as, like rage bait. You know, rage bait is like the new favorite form of engagement. And like there's these people that will post like, I'm, I'm turning 50 tomorrow, but I don't look a day over 21 or something like that. And or it's like, you know, this guy, this guy actually turned out to be like a groomer, like a child groomer. But he was like, his whole thing was like, I'm a 38 year old who looks like he's like 16 and is that dude's a 38 year old with like a blippy hat

as like looking stupid as well it's not that guy who's like I'm a male model and I'm 38 but like on TikTok that dude who looks old as hell when you see him just because you have frosted tips doesn't mean you look 16 fam so that guy turned out unsurprisingly to be a groomer and now he's like being investigated in his country for like grooming of children so But yeah, I just, I think... Jack, this is the person we're talking about.

Yeah. Oh. Wait, that 16-year-old? Yeah. This motherfucker. Yeah. Anyway, so that's what we got right there. God.

It's just like... But he really buys it. You know, he really, he really buys his delusion. There's also another, like, great time lapse of Brian Johnson. Of, like, him across the years. And somebody's, like, get a quote tweeting it and being like, wow. it's like he's aged

it's like he's aged exactly 20 years you know he actually he looks he looks younger in 20 you know in 1996 or whatever and it's like well yeah

because anyway I mean I'll say like white people don't age that well so like maybe maybe he's fending things up maybe he would look like total shit if he didn't

if he wasn't doing all this stuff sure but and like now in the era of like no one like people just have, especially in America, like the terrible relationship with mortality that like so many people are just so bought into like, how do I never die ever again? Well, and an obsession with youth as well. Yeah, that too.

What do you think if you asked him like set your over under for like how old do you think you'll be when you die, you think he's like, he's going to say like 115. You know, he'll be modest and say 115. Yeah. Uh-huh. He thinks he's extending his life by spinning. every waking moment of his life trying to extend his life. Well, he wasted a lot of money because as Rudy Giuliani has showed us,

all you need is prayer and to be evil. About seven scotches before lunch every day. Yeah. Before you get on your podcast and start coughing into the mic. This guy was in critical condition, had his last rights read to him. He was like, extubated. Like, everyone was like, he had a breathing tube put in. and he is out and about and back,

he's back on the fucking air, which to me I'm like, dude, there's no way you're recovering from fucking pneumonia. And you've somehow, like you're back on there. But here he is talking. This is how he sounds right after getting out from the hospital.

Yeah, a week in a few days. I, I had pneumonia. I was in the hospital. I'm going to tell you all about it, not right away. spill it out a little of the time.

It's got a tease. Yep. In the middle of making a very, very full and complete recovery. Today, I did physical exercise and walked up and downstairs. Yeah, and having boners on camera and stuff like that. He's doing it all. So apparently, we'll get to the part where he said, and I were going to let happen. He said he was like in a coma, basically, and he had fucking visions.

He saw everything but God in there. Quote, I also had a very, very significant spiritual experience at a time in which I was in a state of like out of it. I would equate it to a dream of my being online headed for, I can't say headed for heaven, headed for a trial by St. Peter. There was a very significant intervention by my Peter. I have my own Peter, Peter J. Powers, my friend of my lifetime. He's talking about like a friend who passed away in like 2016 who was like with him at this thing. in his whatever prophetic vision was during a coma, he's half dead.

Like, this is, this doesn't. Like, his mouth is working. His mouth is going, but like, this shit doesn't make it. This doesn't make it. And I saw Peter, and then I was going to see St. Peter, and I was powered by Peter J. Powers, my power friend from the friend of my life. And then Peter Peter, Peter, Pumpkin eater was there. Lights are out.

Yeah. But mouth's still going. Well, like I said, you know, on right wing, I don't even right wing Twitter. sounds redundant at this point. On Twitter, they are celebrating. And I am too. You know? They're like, he looks great. He looks better than before. And I'm like, okay. Look, look. He does. He does look better than before. He didn't look good before, I will say. Yeah. Wow. But to come through critical condition and be back looking good, shout out to this man. Shout out to the evil doers. He needs to be telling us what his secret is.

I'm pretty sure it's just be like a vile evil scumback. Like that's everything. Like alcohol and like alcoholism. How did George H.W. Bush live that long? Fucking Kissinger. Like all these people are like, there's no fucking way, bro. It's like it just your body becomes like this one cancerous evil tumor that just won't die.

Right. Yeah. I do also wonder if like they're powered to keep living by all the. ghosts rattling with chains that visit them at night, you know? And there's like, oh, fuck. This is going to be so bad, you know? So they're just like, keep going. Whereas other people are like, I had this warm sensation and I was called towards a

light where I saw all of my loved ones. Right. And they're just like, oh, my God, they're going to drag me to hell. I better not die. Get me out of here. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back.

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Yeah. All right. I like that you notice that I just wrote Critical Condish. Yeah. I like that. Let me take a note while Miles is talking. Critical condition. I can't wait to watch this one.

Breathe. All right. Wouldn't it be critical condition, dude? Crick condition. I like it critical condition for some reason. Just taking one syllable. Yeah, one syllable. I like to be efficient.

RFK Jr. visited Ohio as part of his cross-country. Take back your health. tour and, you know, if they hit some animals with their tour bus and get to boil their dicks to make a new stew, all the better. So we don't know that that's happened yet. But he popped by the Cleveland Clinic, which is in Cleveland, I believe, and was given extraordinary access to a patient who was splayed open for heart surgery. And at one point, he was seen fiddling with the controls of a robotic arm in the operating room. The robotic hands were disconnected from the patient.

They had to come out and note that. But I just feel like what better metaphor like this guy just coming in, no, like maybe being the least trustworthy person to oversee the health care system and just immediately like sitting down at the controls of a robotic operating room. for your chest ripper robot. What a fucking, and also, that's wild too. Like, if you wake up from surgery, they're like, bro, you'll never guess what happened when we were doing open heart surgery.

I'm like, I'm suing everybody. I would, yes, I would be immediately filing a lawsuit. Why was he there? Yeah. He sneezed into your chest cavity. Yeah, and now I have brainworms. Or a chest burster. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Just fiddling around is so. wild that it's just like, hey, dude, you want to give it a shot, man? This robot that's doing open-heart surgery? Hey, you want to see where we got this guy cut open back there? I feel even RFK would be like, is this okay? And they're like, yeah, dude, he'll be fine.

Dude, we can fuck around for at least like five more minutes before it gets fucking critical here. Where he's in crick and dish. Yeah, just push you around. I request all of my surgeons to record my surgeries because. You never know. You never know. You never know. Yeah. Yeah.

God, or could you imagine it's like little part? look his right hand starts blowing up. Right. One of those like, you know, those nightmare stories you hear about people who were like, just not under anesthesia enough where like they couldn't move.

I felt everything. But was paralyzed, basically. That would be probably the nightmare. Like, hey, oh, RFK is here? Yeah, yeah, yeah, man. You want to hop behind the controls and you're just like, fuck, no, fuck, no, fuck no, fuck no.

I mean, this also is like just, I'm again thinking about the patient in this situation because I'm just, I know that this is supposed to be funny, but oh my God, could you imagine? Like, we have only recently passed laws that were like, you can't do like colorectal exams or cervical exams on patients while they're under anesthesia. But now we need a law that says you can't have. Randos popping in.

Any, yeah. And even rando. Yeah. We need a fucking bill for anti-rando medical interventions. Where you get, dude, yeah, bro, you want to test it out in the middle of a procedure? Fuck that. Catholic said there's a terrifying podcast about being awake during IVF operations because a nurse was stealing the meds. No.

Oh, my God. Nurse, you do see a lot of nurses. I sound there's Jackie. In the rooms. Yeah. It's a tough. And the doctors, too. I saw the pit.

Yeah. They get access to the good shit, you know? Yeah. Were they doing that thing where they were like just skimming off like a vial basically? Yeah, I think so. Probably. Oh, that's crazy. And then like, yeah, I thought it was a full dose cut to this person.

It's like, I'm fucking feeling everything. I'm awake. God. Replacing it with saline is what Catherine just said. Fuck all that. No way. So my thing was I was addicted to saline. I was mainlining saline.

Stay hydrated. Yeah. You know. Hakeem Jeffrey's talking big game. I'm kind of into it. I don't know. Like, what if this dude just like, I, like, there are those stories about historical, like, politicians who are just, like, not particularly good.

And then they get put in, like, a crazy situation. And suddenly they're just like, I've arrived. Yeah. I don't think that's him, but he did, said, so like in response to all of the, you know, systematized white supremacy that is going on in response to the Supreme Court overturning the Voting Rights Act, he said, we will beat the far right extremists. We're going to win in November, which is the same shit we've heard before. And he said, and then we're going to crush their souls as it relates to the extremism that they are trying to unleash on the American people.

Whoa. Fuck yeah, dog. Soul crushing their souls. Yeah. And then there's skulls. Like that's kind of what I want to hear from. Yeah. I mean, I'm like, are you okay, Hakeem?

Did you bump your head or something? This isn't the rhetoric I'm used to hearing out of the minority leader. DJ rhetoric. But yeah, I mean, thank you. But I mean, like, he's not alone. Clearly like all the Democrats are like, Yeah, we're just going to have to finally realize that, like, fighting fire with fire is the thing to do rather than being like, when they cheat, we just follow the rules harder.

That doesn't seem to be the thing. Like, Ted Liu has also said some version of that. There's, like, other Democratic politicians who have said things, like, we also need to think about how we can kneecap the Supreme Court with, like, term limits or these other things. So they're saying a bunch of shit, but the thing is, I'm like, do anything. Let me see it. Now, you're talking big. Like soul crushing is, that's big for Hakeem Jeffries. Soul crushing?

But anyway, right now they have laid out plans this week to basically begin the redistricting fight before 2028 and then also after the census. But like New York, New Jersey, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington are states where they're like, yeah, we have the power to do these things. But they can't do it immediately because it's too close to the midterms yet. Apparently it's not too close if you're totally craving. Yeah, yeah, if you're in like Mississippi or Louisiana or Florida or whatever. But that's that they are. They're saying, we hear you. We need to do something and we're going to do something.

We're going to. Rudy Giuliani's going to be riding up an escalator to what he thinks is a meeting with St. Peter. And it's going to be a team Jeffries and a Terminator mex suit. Bring that soul. Give me that soul. What that soul do. Going to crush your soul.

All right. Let's talk about Open AI because they've got a movie at Cannes. The Cannes Film Festival is happening. The standing ovations are about to be clocked with a stopwatch. Well, luckily, this wasn't at the actual festival because that would have been a true abomination. Although it feels like maybe we're only like one year away from there being a full-blown AI-generated film at Ken. Demi Moore, I didn't realize, though. Yes, Demi Moore, big. AI proponent.

Yeah. Her and Reese, of course, you know. Why? Y'all know about Reese? What did Reese? Wetherspoon? Yes, Reese Winterspoon.

She got money in the... Yeah, they're all just... They're just invested, right? Yeah, exactly. About a week ago, Reese Whitherspoon was quoted being like, women need to embrace AI and so that they don't get left behind

like from the new, like, from like a feminist standpoint. And then Demi Moore. And, you know, come to find out, like, they're all probably invested. There's no way you're saying this shit and not invested. If you are, that's actually the worst kind of person.

You can be like, oh, you're done. You're not just greedy. AI is here. And so to fight to fight it is to fight something that is a battle that we will lose. Would you sound like the fucking Terminator now? Yeah, yeah. Okay, cool. You would lose immediately.

It is inevitable. Don't get the fuck out of you. Just embrace the shitty movies. Yeah, this movie that was. shown at the industry market, critters. Cridors with Z. That's how you know it's cute. And also that title must have been completely shot out by AI.

Yeah. Everything seems shout out by AI. It's like the characters. What do you think the prompt was for these characters? It was like, give me a children's movie that will make a billion dollars. And, yeah, it's still in the brain. animals. Yeah, yeah. Someone like not even

knowing about animals. That's how dumb they it's like, give me a thing that's like for kids. That's just going to look cool. Yeah, about this. Talking animals. Yeah, this looks like a kitten, puppy, and ox with horns. It's like Muppet babies for where the wild things are.

Creatures. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It feels like what, like, it's like what the, how they started out, but it also like popples, that might have been before you guys' time, but there used to be these stuffed animals that like you would roll up and like they would pop out. Oh, Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's written by two screenwriters from Paddington and Peru. Okay. It was produced by OpenAI's creative strategist, Chad Nelson. Oh, hell, yeah. Does that mean he is the prompt? The guy entered the prompt. Yeah, you know it was. Okay.

You know he. Nelson for this one? Hell yeah. Hey, what are you working on in there? Oh, just cramming away at this kid's movie, man. I'm going to get it right. I'm going to get it right. Oh, man.

It's a while that he really is the, like, I guess the writer and director, or he made a short film. It was an AI-generated short film written and directed by him was the source material, and then they hired two screenwriters, the ones behind Paddington, Peru, to like... Make a feature. Yeah, exactly. Okay. The feature-length version is directed by Nick Cleverov. that sounds made up. Totally made up name.

AI generated. He's the... He's the director of... Do you remember that AI Toys R.S. commercial? Oh, yeah. Where the, yeah, it looked like shit. That was his proving ground

to direct this. Was that Toys R Us commercial that looked like absolute shit, but just like made film executives' eyes turn into dollar signs. Oh, but he also worked on that... Yeah, but it's interesting.

This guy also previously worked on the title sequence for like narcos. So he was doing shit before AI. Right. But then it was like, he was like, yeah, the thing is, I relied on other creative people to help me with that. Now I can just fucking cut them out of it and ask my robot friend. Like Andy Role.

Yeah. Yeah. The, this film was announced where all important films are announced in the Wall Street Journal. But yeah. Where all inevitable products are announced. Yeah. in the Wall Street Journal.

Like, so what? You use fucking AI to make this very, like, generic looking kids film. The benefits are either it cost like three bucks to make. Or... No, Miles.

It costs $30 million to make this. That's fucking nonsense. Yeah. They had to pay Chad Nelson and the screenwriter. That was Chad. That's Chad Nelson's salary. Yeah, yeah.

You don't get a Chad Nelson without spending's 30. $30 million. $28 million for me and the writers. Do the rest for two. That's 30 million. I mean, their plan is to get some, you know, appeal to the fans. And the fans are a buzz quoted one person said on Twitter, this is obvious investor bait

and will suck unbelievable amounts of shit. I like that. You got to put that on. What are they going to do, right? Because presumably they think it's going to be. be like a moment when they're like the first AI generated children's film in theaters. Yeah, they think it's going to be like the Wizard of Oz when it was like the first color film or whatever, you know. But if kids don't like see, like what they see in a trailer or whatever,

they're not going to be like, oh, dad, take me to the monumental cinema event where the entire industry fell in that moment by distributing this nonsense. Like, I don't know. I, I'm, that's where I'm a little of it because I get for investors, they're like, you want to get in on this, man. It's a fucking AI kids film. But play that out a few more stuff. They'll lower that. So for instance, the filmmakers said they were

aiming to premiere this film at Cannes, which didn't happen, but it is screening at Khan for industry members in the market. So like it's you know, like in a place down the street from where the actual films are not related to Con. Yeah.

When people are like, oh, I'm actually doing something for New York Fashion Week, it's actually a warehouse in New Jersey. But it's happening during New York Fashion Week. That's right. Yeah. So, I mean, but that's kind of what AI does is it opens with like big promises. And then it's like, yeah, you know, it's kind of a your version of that once you like pay attention and actually see how much we're actually like killing people. So, yeah. Oh, man.

I'm there I you know whenever that movie comes out you know it's gonna suck unbelievable amounts of shit suck unbelievable amounts of shit can't argue with that and I genuinely believe the the animal farm has to be better than than whatever this critters movie oh the new animal farm the new animal farm which does feel AI-ish it does yeah but not as bad as this but yeah isn't it like Seth Rowe Rogan voicing. It's got a crazy lineup. It has Seth Rogan. It has like Merrill Streep.

It has like Leverne Cox. Yeah. It's got so many crazy. Woody Erilsson. Gatton. Mataroso. Yeah. Mataroso.

Yeah. Right now it's doing came out already. Yeah. Oh shit. Yeah. The animal farm movie came out on May 1st. Oh. Oh.

With like the craziest cast. in the world. Ever. 27% right now. It looks like a fever dream. Wow. But how much money did it make? Domestic?

$5 million. No fucking way, really? Wow. What was the budget? 35 million dollar budget. Wow, they definitely use AI. Oh, they did. Yeah, that can't.

Well, no, because like you can't only spend 30, like animated movies cost a shitload of money to me. That is true. Oh, it was released. by Angel Studios. How did they get fucking Seth Rogen to be in an angel

studios? Because it was probably one of those things where they made it and they couldn't find a distributor and then someone goes, we'll do it. Yeah. That is.

What a fucking L. Marketed as Animal Farm a cautionary tale. You said it. Brother, you said it. I mean, I remember when we saw the trailer and it felt like this might,

actually be completely missing the point of the actual book. Miles. Yeah. I think it was. I think it was. I think it might have Miles. I think it might have. Carmen, such a pleasure having you on the show. Thank you. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? I'm on Instagram at the Carmen LeRont, and I am a private account, but if you request to follow me and you don't look like a weirdo, I will more than likely approve the request. How would one go about not looking like a weirdo? Oh, well, I'm always looking for like creepy, like creepy men with no profile picture, you know.

Oh, sure, sure. Like that whole vibe. I'm not going to approve that. But if you look like a real personal. Right, right, right. Yeah. Not like a jack-o-lantern. Right.

It says your profile pick. Yeah, yeah. Yes. But, yeah. And wait, what was the next question? Work of media. Oh, yes, work of social media. Oh, yeah.

I do have one. Do you? Oh, I do have one for this. I have been really enjoying this guy on Instagram lately. He makes some really funny reels. So it's this guy named Nick Cisnero on Instagram, Nick Cisnero. And his whole thing is he's like a gay guy who has a TV in the background. He has a format, basically.

It's like half of his face in the camera. The TV is on in the background. And then there's like, he has like gold like confetti streamer on his walls. Love the decor. But his whole thing is, is that he, a lot of it is Madonna and Courtney Love interviews and videos that he does.

But he will like take a random clip from a Courtney Love or a Madonna interview and just do like a perfect like impression of it. word for word, all of the facial expressions. He's doing all of the facial expressions. He's doing everything, like, perfectly. And my favorite one is Madonna, when she was on her American Life press tour, she is a famous interview of her. I think she's in Germany in this interview,

and she is, like, hot, and she's, like, screaming at the people in the room to turn the air conditioning on. And so he does his play-through of this. The fact that there's no air in here and I'm going to die. Open the door now. I'm suffocating. Crease, you have no idea. I can't take it.

Just give me a fan. It's unbelievable. I mean, I can't even think to answer a question. Oh, yeah, these blew up. Yeah, so he's funny. Really, really funny. And so he takes, yeah, like basically any hilarious, like, diva interview and just does, like, nails it. Nails it.

Nice. We'll link off to one of that. Yeah. There's some people to do that. Yeah. And there's, like, these, I forget the creators of these two. The two girls. Yeah, the two black girls who kill it every fucking time.

When they do Dr. Kumar, they do fucking all. kinds of shit. Yeah. Or Dr. Umar. Yeah, they do all kinds of just like pop culture shit. They'll do like viral videos like, you know, just every. It's it's when people like, obsessed over a clip enough that they don't even need to see it and they become it. I'm like, that is a life skill and I will so. Yeah. It is. Yeah. So I love that. Um, anyone that's good at that, just kudos to you. Mm-hmm. Amazing. We will link off to that in the footnote. Miles where can people find you Is there work in media?

You've been enjoying. Oh, hold on, hold. I know who they are. Let me just, I'm going to tell you who these girls are because. Uh, yeah, they are at Jade and Jada, J-A-D-E. Jade and J-A-H.

And they both just graduated from Howard. Howard. Congratulations to you. They're hilarious. Congratulations. That's a grad season, baby. We're here. We're here.

We're proud of you. We're proud of you. Find me everywhere at Miles of Gray. You can find me talking shit about 90-day fiancé on 420-day fiancé. You can also find me chatting shit about European soccer, football, and Ain't It Footy, the new show. So if you haven't checked it out, please check it out. And you might actually, you might, you'll begin to understand why I have such an unhealthy relationship with this specific version of sports ball. I'll work at me down liking the new, just like I have.

thought the new season of 90 day fiancee just old school 90 day fiancee it's delivering it's delivering okay it's sloppy these people are trashy and i love it and in the juxtaposition of them makes me feel really good about my life okay that's why i like to watch that shit nice it's good it's a good one it's one of our better ones huh oh yeah it's just new couples you know what i mean that's the thing we always talk about it's fans like they they recycle the same like just dysfunctional people that you just hate to see on TV. And they're finally like, hey, no, we got a whole new crop of people who you won't believe actually exist.

And yet they do. And you can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien, Blue Sky, Jack O'B1, Instagram, Jack underscore O underscore Brian. I like to work immediately. I like to tweet from Thomas Gorton from November 6th, 2016, but someone just retweeted it. And I love it so much. Attenborough has no respect for crabs. always gives them ridiculous music.

They are gestures to him. I've never noticed that. Wow. They're always... Can you imagine that guy when he watches? He's like, God damn it. Respect these crimes. They're gestures to him.

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Miles, is there a song that you think that people might enjoy it? Yes, there is. This is a psychedelic soul band from Kansas City called Blacklight Animals. This track is called Sleep Talking. And it's fucking, it's like got this haunted sort of like souly, motowny kind of vibe to it. It just feels like back. when people, bad people remember the sound in Capitol Records, how the drums sounded in that studio.

It's kind of just got this, like, very haunted, ethereal feel to it, which I love when, like, modern artists are like, there's something about making something sound spooky and of the time and recording on tape and things like that. So this is a great track for that. It's called Sleep Talk in One Word by Blacklight Animals. All right. We will link off to that in the footnotes. The Daily Zike is a production of IHeart Radio for more podcasts for My Heart Radio.

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