The Daily Zeitgeist - Dumb Quixote, Taylor Swift Engaged To Kansas City 08.28.25

Episode Date: August 28, 2025

In episode 1922, Jack and guest co-host Pallavi Gunalan are joined by comedian and host of Never Scene It, Kyle Ayers, to discuss… Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Are Getting Married, When It Comes To Wind Power... Trump Isn’t As Stupid As He Acts and more! Trump names Democratic-led city will be the next to be targeted in crime crackdown Trump predicts 'bad awakening' for UK as he launches bizarre conspiracy theory RFK Jr. slammed for claiming windmills kill whales after he is accused of chopping one's head off RFK JR: Wind is the most expensive energy. They have killed 160 whales in the last two years. Trump falsely claims wind turbines lead to whale deaths by making them ‘batty’ Fact-checking Donald Trump's claim that wind turbines kill whales Donald Trump sends wind farm complaint to Alex Salmond How Trump's loathing for wind turbines started with a Scottish court battle Trump Organisation wind farm advert 'misleading' The story of Donald Trump’s feud with his one true nemesis: Windmills Canceled wind project puts thousands of jobs at risk Trump Slams the Brakes on US Wind and Solar Growth Trump’s crusade against wind power is throwing an industry into turmoil States vow to fight Trump official’s stop-work order on offshore wind farm Big oil spent $445m in last election cycle to influence Trump and Congress, report says Candidate Trump Promised Oil Executives a Windfall. Now, They’re Getting It. Unmasking Dark Money: How Fossil Fuel Interests Can Undermine Clean Energy Progress The Oil and Gas Industry Is Behind Offshore Wind Misinformation The impact of climate change on whales Update on Greece: Oil exploration linked to stranding of protected whales off Corfu Marine Life: The Casualties of Offshore Drilling Catch Pallavi at the monthly Facial Recognition Comedy show! LISTEN: Beneath the Mask by LynSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The first time I ever got headshots in L.A., first of all, it was in a van, classy. Second of all. What are we defining as headshots here? Oh, no. I needed the photographer to yell at me in order for me to smile, and I'm like, this has unlocked a lot about my childhood. I couldn't smile until they... I couldn't do, like, a natural laugh unless they started, like, being...

to me, and I was like, this is hilarious. Oh, wow. You got to have him be mean to you in the van. Yeah. If someone was nice to you in a van, that would be creepy. That's suspicious. Yeah. I was just listening to something.

Oh, is a photographer who was working with Zoran Mamdani for the cover shoot of, I think he, like, a New York magazine profile. And, like, he was, like, too uptight because he's, like, a normal person. He's like, what am I doing? I'm going to be on the cover of a magazine. That's weird. And so the photographer was like, and so I did this thing that works for me where I showed him a magic trick. And it like disarmed him and enough to like get him to smile.

He's like, oh, fuck. What is that? Oh, shit. He like runs around. He's like, fuck, look, look, fuck. Jumps through a window. Like his outline is in the window like a loony tune leaving. They're like, now that you relax.

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I told you, once Miles moved into his new place, I was going to burn that shit down. That's not what happened. And I did it again. Flick, flick, flick, flick with my lighter. This is a line of joking that a mere year after you actually burned his house down. I'll never stop. I'll never stop burning Miles' house. We're doing this episode.

You're coming to us from Arkham Asylum, where you're... I don't know why we keep having her back on in a straight jacket. I'm captivating. I'm charming. And I'll do it again, too. And I'll do it again. I put Miles' house on a boat. And I said you can either sinks a boat. Yeah.

Or save Maggie Gyllenhaal. Yeah. And, yeah, he had to make up his mind. Paula, it's wonderful to see you. Oh, my gosh. Chicago. I'll see you, Jack. Chicago and August, one of my favorite locations to be anywhere at any time.

Great overlap of time and space continuum. Every time I come to Chicago, I'm like, Chicago's the best because I never come here during the winter. So it's just untouched in my mind. It's beautiful. A beautiful place with temperate climbs where everybody's always outdoors, day drinking and happy. Yeah. The river is apparently really clean right now. Oh, really?

Yeah, I think they're having some sort of event where people are going to swim in it. So it seems like they were finally like, let's maybe clean it. Let's clean the shit up, you know? Like a reverse St. Paddy's Day where they're like, instead of dyeing it, an unnatural color, let's see like if we could just like make it clean, like make it like water, you know? Yeah. What is, okay, so New York has Santa Con. Chicago has the St. Paddy's Day stuff for like a public drunken event.

What is? L.A.s cannot be Coachella. I'll be so upset if it's Coachella. I mean, New York has so much. New York has the U.S. Open currently, which is a quietly a public drunken event. I'm talking loud and sloppy. What do we got? It's getting there. I'll tell you what. These tennis commentators can't believe how drunk and rude everybody is. Are you serious? It's the Americans. It's the Americans. They've been, I mean, it's John McImore, famously loud and a rude person, but... That got him into so many movies. They keep, yeah, they keep showing fans with, like, stacked up cups.

They're, like, these souvenir cups that you can only get by ordering, like, a tumbler full of vodka, like, this vodka drink. Listen, the athletes aren't the only athletes. That's right. Yeah. Anyways, I love that New York has Santa Con that that's, like, one of the things. that we give New York. Paula V, we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat. Wonderful having you.

Thank you so much for filling him for miles while he is doing something that is not. While he burns. He's not what's happening. He's on assignment. I'm doing it again. Paul Vee, thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a very funny stand-up comedian, writer, actor, producer, creator of boast rattle, the compliment contest, and never seen it, a podcast where famous comedians, including one, Jekuse Neal,

rewrite classic movies they've never seen, can and ought to go stream his special happiness. Welcome back to the show, The Hilarious Kyle Ayers. It is good to be here and sound like Blake Wexler. I love every time I come on where people are like, sounded like Blake, and I'm like, I'm going to take that as a compliment, thought it was Blake. They don't even have a neutral, like that's like the neutral feedback. They don't even tag me.

They don't. They tag Blake. I think you should just start saying slurs then. Just do that. Do them. I think if the one thing Miles would be most disappointed in his house, burning down again would be that yet again in a Batman movie, The Joker was the villain.

I think that he was just like, I wish they would just use a different villain. Right. I think it would just please. He's come up with someone else. I've also been enjoying the U.S. Open drunk people. I think it's very fun. It is.

We used to do this thing when I was a kid where if I went to a Royals game, I grew up in Kansas City. my dad and I would stay after the game and collect collectible cups that were left behind. You could live on those things. I mean, we still have dozens of, if anyone needs a cup with Anhell Baroa on the side. I know. Rookie of the year campaign for On Hell Baroa. There's someone who has like, who has an empty spot on their shelf.

Yeah, on hell Barrow's parents. I have the U.S. Open Grey Goose Cup. I do. Oh, there you go. They're not drunk, but. Also, there's a guy, I think his last name is Casper Rude, who's like this 19-year-old tennis player who's being interviewed, and they were like, what do you think of New York? And he was like, to be honest with you, like, everywhere smells like weed. And they like started laughing.

And he's like, no, seriously, it's like really bad. And I was like, all right, I'm, I have a person to root against. Okay. I don't smoke weed. I'm like, fucking nerd. To rude against, if you will? Yeah. To rude against.

I did say fucking nerd out loud my wife was watching it the video I said fucking nerd and she goes that's exactly the first comment under the video just America collectively was like fucking nerd

but yeah don't root for the cop yeah exactly that's like what my dad says when he comes to L.A he's like it smells like marijuana everywhere but he says it approvingly

yeah my dad says it was sunglasses on and like a rosta hat. Turns to camera and says it and gets a big, like, well, lowers the sunglasses. Tell you what I like about it. It smells like weed everywhere. I marijuana a little bit for myself, the credits roll. All right, Kyle, we are going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell the listeners a couple of things we're talking about.

I mean, obviously we want to get your opinion on the big news of the year, I'd say. Probably the biggest news we have of the years, Travis Kelsey, and what's his girlfriend's name again? Taylor Swift are engaged to be wed. We talked about it on trending yesterday, but obviously, Kyle, we want to give you a chance to talk about this big news. We're going to talk about wind power. Wind power getting a bit of a raw deal from the Trump administration. They're not down with wind power with wind turbines, or as Trump calls them, Mills. The way Trump is talking about it and then it's being reacted to is like he's acting

like he's too dumb to understand. He's like, but when the wind's not blown, what happened? Okay, but that's also how I feel. So please stop me. We'll learn a lot. But basically, it's what he's doing is straight out of the fossil fuel industry playbook. All of that, plenty more. But first, Kyle, we do like to get to know our guests a little bit better and ask you, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? I just so, this is always kind of a mirror that you hold up to yourself when you do this segment. But the last thing I had searched was, are there any laws about headlights, Reddit? So I just simply don't know if there's any laws about how bright headlights are allowed to be. Is anyone allowed to do anything?

some of them are so upsettingly bright and I was just in North Carolina which is what made me search this because all the headlights there are at all the truck, it's all trucks there and it seems like people lift their truck to what I like to call a toddler blind spot

inches high and so every single truck is like they're like I just see my truck just high enough to where I could clip the top of a skull if it was learning to walk number one toddler predator yeah Dodge Ram is actually the

two verbs kids need around these trucks. And so I'm in a regular human rental car being followed by a truck and I cannot see. And so I didn't search it while driving, but I do think it's actually illegal there to not be on your phone while you're talking. Are there any laws for headlights? And did you find out? Like, are there? Because I had the thought to search this, started searching it clipped a toddler had to stop and pretend throw my phone out the window so that nobody

clipped a toddler sounds like those parents exploiting their kids clipped a toddler I thought the rule about taillights was you aren't allowed to have them or not have them if you're black like I thought that was the thing right that's right

tail lights yes yeah yeah well that part of the internet's banned in North Carolina the answers to that you're actually not allowed to access black part of the internet is too the part that could help a minority it's like Tiananmen Square in China.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. It was no definitive answer and honestly hard to read because I was in a hotel and yet again, headlights outside were so bright. I couldn't even read inside my house. I can't deal with it. What are we doing? National Lampoom's Christmas vacation. When you first started this, I was like, oh, God, we are old. Yeah. Oh, it's the oldest I've ever felt. Yeah, but it makes sense. I get really upset when restaurants are too dim now. I'm like, these fucking guys, they think that we're We can't read the menu in here.

Oh, I just ate at a restaurant down the street for me. I say just. It was a long time ago, a month ago. But the guy pulled it. It was so dim, the guy pulled his phone out to read the menu and then just never turned the flashlight off the rest of his time in the restaurant. He was trying to help the rest of the restaurant. It was like he had a little disco ball on his table at any given moment that might blind you or might help you.

Oh, you had dinner with my father. That's, uh, that must have nice. Tell them I said hi But I have no idea about headlights I still don't know the answer I don't know Can we leave that up to the states I wish we wouldn't

Because I feel like something bad is going to happen I know I don't like telling people I'm You're either pro light or pro choice but Yeah Headlights are gonna only can only be dimmed By the corpse of a child You know what I mean? You could put a windshield wiper on there

To get thin hair off of it After you run a kid over Is it's so morbid Big wheel out of a truck. I forgot how dark. I forgot how dark your company is. I don't know why I forgot. Every time I see one of these trucks,

I'm like, they're going to run over the kid from the Incredibles that was in his driveway. That's what this looks like to me. Right. I just realized I know why there aren't like creepy kids on bikes anymore. And they all are like throwbacks to the 80s because they all have been wiped out. That's why it takes so long for them to make a new season of Stranger think.

Exactly. They'd let the kids grow out of the blind spot. I know that, like, people always talk about how, yeah, but if it's, like, super bright, it's kind of like this arms race that's happening with the size of cars. And this is, like, also a part of that where, like, the size of cars, the people inside the car are safer. Is everyone outside the car that's, like, less safe because of how massive it is. Right. Once again, we're talking about Tiananmen Square. They were very safe in the tank. Inside the tank, yeah.

But historically unsafe out of it. I was always worried about the people inside the tank when I saw that. But apparently they were fine. It was that guy holding his groceries. But, yeah, and then, like, super bright lights. It's like, well, nobody's going to run into you. And it's like, well, they can't see. So they might run into other things.

And it's like, not you, though. You know what I mean? Like, it just has this, like, weird prisoners dilemma, like, zero-sum thing that's happening. It's a trolley problem where you invented the track. Right. Yeah, the troll. This is a trolley problem, except they're like, is there a way I can run over some of them back up, change direction, then run over the one guy all so I can try and save a little bit

on taxes in my mind. But yeah, trying to research this, like, headlights are too bright, but U.S. experts say they're not bright enough on Reddit, the first one. Brightness isn't the issue. I'm like, all right, well, I've checked out. It's actually the direction that you aim it. And my brain shuts down. I'm like, I can't. I don't want to hear that. How is brightness not the issue? I learned nothing and I just got a little more angry about the internet. Yes, that's right. Kyle, what is something you think is underrated? Okay, so underrated, I wrote down, just sort of sitting and thinking about something

and trying to remember it. I was in the woods. I was just in the woods for a week, and I didn't have good service, and I would get into conversations with people, and we would say stuff like, huh. You know what I mean? It was crazy.

We would say stuff like, huh? Or, oh, yeah, I think. And then you just kind of wouldn't really, for sure, kind of know entirely for a while. And maybe I have now ingrained, misinformation into my head based off of people on drugs at a music festival, but that's fine. It was kind of nice

to just sort of debate an idea. That's probably less misinformation than you get now. Oh, it definitely is. Because it's not being positively reinforced by robots. Also, I love that when you said, I was just in the woods, that's how I imagine you always

are. Like, oh, yeah, purely from a financial standpoint, I'm always minutes away. Yeah, I was just in the woods. Yeah. And it was just so fun. It was just so fun to just be like, yeah, huh. Oh, I can't remember. Let me think and see if I can make my brain go back.

Right. They can sometimes. You're trying to like scroll on the bark of a tree. You're like, how do I get information? I'm pinching to Zoom a tent. Yeah. It was really a wonderful feeling. I also wrote down libraries, which I love.

I tried to cause a phone call before. And I was like, wait, this is a human person. This is a human on the other side. Can I scrabble to the end of our, to our conversation? Yeah. Let's scrub through this. I put you at 1.5 speed. Exactly.

Do people listen to this at 1.5 speed? People told me they listen to never seen it at 1.5 speed. It makes me feel crazy. That does make me feel crazy. I would prefer not to know. I cannot listen to things at 1.5 speed. I don't want my podcasters to sound like Chipmunks. That's why I listen to Chipmunks podcast.

Exactly. I already listen to that. I don't need it from my regular podcast. That's their culture, not your costume. Jack, can we get UDL Alvin really slowly so people at one and a half speed? We'll hear it at a normal speed. So that's what I wrote out. I just remember, I loved it.

I loved sitting and thinking about stuff. He owned chipmunks that talk, too. I'd be freaking out every day. I guess that would fuck me up too. I would probably wish I would probably feel entitled to more money if I had three talking animals. Also, I feel like there'd probably be a lot of droppings everywhere they don't talk about. Oh, yeah. true you know it implies that they're housebroken but chipmunks being housebroken seems also if

i were simon and theodore i would like i would hold some resentment behind the name of the group yeah right a thousand percent it's a chipmunk and the chipmunks we are that we are we are he is also one of those who is alvin's real father right alvin and the chipmunks who are the chipmunks well Alvin of course right is what is one of the three Michael it's like Michael Jackson and the humans was the name of the Jackson five that's kind of how I viewed it that is how everyone sort of took away from it he also was the most the alien poorly behaved of the three and so you're like giving the starring role you're rewarding you're rewarding that behavior while you have like a hair trigger temper for anything that they do that

Honestly, God bless America. That is the American dream. That's right. Yeah. He was, it's like a reality star, you know? Yeah. He was like Proto the Rizzler in many ways. In this essay, I will.

Why did you saying that make my knees hurt? What is something you think is overrated, Kyle? Those, I can cuss, right? Oh, hell yes. Those fucking Jubilee videos. Oh, not that one, Kyle. I hate the Jubilee videos so much. Did you see?

I hate them. I can't tell when they're satire or not. I don't think they're helpful. Maybe I'm wrong and too closed off and too, like, pessimistic about it. But ultimately, I'm just like, who's the, it's just to me, it's like a musical chairs for a bigot. Who's the fastest bigot? Not even fastest, quickest. And then they come in and they're, every one of them is like, hey, will you ever change your mind?

And that person goes, no. And then they're like, all right, we should talk over. each other for a minute. Right. Which is pretty fun. Have you seen Yasser Lester's thing that he photoshopped him in the surrounded background and he was like one light-skinned N-word

versus a bunch of white conservatives, but they don't know I got a gun on me. See, I would watch that. I love it. I really, and it's something that I'm not happy to admit I find unhelpful because maybe it is just me closing myself off

and it feels like a very sort of like I don't know, I feel very pessimistic to be like, I find these wildly unhelpful. And I'm sure, I'm very open to being incorrect about it. But God, I have never seen a clip of them and thought this helped anyone at all, except everyone could sit at home and be like, uh-huh. Yeah, he told him, both sides are getting like, are being like, yeah, exactly. Yeah, it's another watch where everyone feels right. I think, like, I watch a lot of the, like, political commentators online.

And I think they help me with talking points. So in terms of like understanding talking points or history, then I'm like, okay, like, I didn't know about that or like this other argument or whatever. But I also think that the people involved are like very happy to debate. And I'm like unhappy to debate in that I think we shouldn't have to fucking debate human rights. You know what I mean? So I think that that's the part where I'm like, okay, this is a bit self-indulgent in that, yeah, like maybe it'll help more people like understand like the history of the talking. points like the politics of it all but also like we're not super changing any minds on there and it does give these fascists a platform like now I know some of the faces of these fascists

as a whole circle of them but people just admitting to being fascist and I find it to be like you were saying the what we have normal I hate saying stuff like normalize I hate you know what I mean you feel crazy using what we have allowed to be the normal debate is so far outside of what is like reasonable or or anything like Lincoln Hitler debates you're not debating like an allocation of taxes in a community versus near a city or something where you're like I could you know we're allowing equal footing to such there is a objectively correct and incorrect answer that we're allowing people to talk about like there isn't and it involves people being alive and then someone's monetizing it of course but it's just I I am maybe I just want to get book

on one. I don't know. I'm tired. What's overrated? This YouTube show that won't book me. They reached out on the clip of this and they're like, Kyle's been, we had to get a restraining order against Kyle. We watched it. A digital restraining order. We were like, wow, we were really unsure of which side Kyle was on this whole time. Kyle did the worm? He said, please let me. I don't know. It's one of the, it's one of the, it's one of the, It was one of the things I felt a little bit guilty about feeling is overrated, if that makes sense. But I'm just sort of like, it makes me think we are.

It doesn't feel healthy. It doesn't feel healthy. And it feels like you make, you think something is equal if you are giving it a platform like that. Yeah. Like it feels like it comes from the same place as people being like, what we don't need moderators on Reddit because like this is free speech. And then you just like get shouted down by like 30 fascists. And it's, it does, I think it helps my visual imagination for like what fascists can look like. Yes, I was going to say that.

Okay, they do have glasses like that. I'm like, it's your local NB barista. Yes, exactly. It certainly is, that has been a jarring discovery is on mute, not knowing who would believe what has been a tough thing to come to. Right. Where it used to be, you know, on mute, I know who's got a teaky torch. Right. Exactly.

They all kind of, all those teaky torch guys looked like I would expect people carrying teaky torches to look like. And now they look like. A lion? Yeah. Exactly. They wouldn't appropriate, right? They look like the stars of sitcoms that had like special, we go to Hawaii episodes from like the 1950s. Yeah.

You know, some dockers. When a producer wanted to go on vacation. We're actually having a nice story arc here. But yeah, hipsters can be fascists, too. Frequently, they are, according to Jubilee videos. That's what I've learned. I also can't tell, like,

I understand what you mean by, like, not normalizing it or, like, wanting people to have shame, but also, like, as a brown person, like, I would rather know what people actually believe in their hearts. And I've had interpersonal experiences where I, where somebody is fully switched up on me. and I'm like, okay, so that's in my neighborhood. That's good.

Like, I would rather fucking know, you know? Yeah, yeah. Sure. Do you, like, hate watch them? I have really, really tried to cut out of my life doing that with things. But it's sometimes they really, you know, a certain back and, like the one that was just the guy going, yeah, I'm a fascist. Yeah, I'm a white nationalist. You can't avoid that.

And so I saw a lot, yes, I saw a lot of clips from his, clips from his of the various people, but especially that one guy. Like telling him to go leave. Yeah. Yeah. you just are like I don't know maybe I just but I mean he kind of has a similar view because he was saying like when one of them was like yeah I'm a fashion he's like stopped he's like I don't have conversations right oh you are a fashion he just like sat there and I appreciate it I have so I commend the people who can sit there and do that and I just I think rationing oh ultimately I I feel guilt about the amount of consumption you do and what you cut out and what you're aware of and things like that all the time. And then I'm also trying to like take care of myself in a physical and manner. And you're just like, it's crazy to small picture and big picture yourself through all of this.

It's very difficult thing to balance. Yeah. I did like, and this is probably a bad thing that this is what gave me like hope was that the guy who he was like, oh, I don't debate with fascists. Are you a fascist? And he was like, yeah, you know, I'm a fascist. And like, sort of like, ugly laughing. they are all clowns yeah he got fired from his job and like i was like oh so there's like still some institutional pushback but then he started a go fund me where he raised like a fuck ton of money

for being a fascist that's true which is like that isn't that's the thing where i'm like this is encouraging people to like try to become like influencers and like make politics content and that's that's the part that i'm like if you don't fucking know or you're a bad person just stay out like there is something it seems like you that is a new it's like a quick quicker than going on a dating reality show or the bachelor or something is to go and go viral in a jubilee moment and launch yourself into something that's right i do want to like see what the process is for like putting those rooms together like do how where are they going like is it where what pool are they fishing from you know they're going to these they're going to these cities that uh

fascists and republicans love to live in that they say they hate right they'll go somewhere where they're Also, like, they're also influencers before. Like, a lot of them are, like, debaters. Like, the other people who sit? Yeah. A lot of them have either been, like, worked for Jubilee. Like, some of the people are, like, picked by Jubilee multiple times. Some of them are, like, podcast hosts or something.

Like, some of them are already, like, they'll take. Damn, Kyle, there might be a chance. Yeah. He parked up. He was like. One guy keeps trying to do movie puns. he keeps saying the wolf of Wally Street in the Jubilee video about border control

I do appreciate all it is just it's such an odd feeling for me and I don't know what it is about them that feels bad and weird and it feels terrible yeah you do but there is something to like it's just like jarring you just never thought you would see people be like

yeah dude I'm a fascist You never think you'd see someone say that. But then it's like, it's so normal now, I guess. I don't know. Yeah, I'm like honestly, I think the moment of political shock I had was the 2016 election. And like I had an experience just like that S&L moment where like Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle were like, yeah, this is what America is. And all the white people were like, what? Because I was with like my white friends and we were all freaked out.

And then I like later in the night I was like at a mic where it was like a lot of black people and they were like laughing. And they were like, yeah, this is just normal for America. So like since then I haven't. been shocked. Yeah. I haven't been shocked at anything, honestly, since then. Shock is hard to have. Yeah. You just, it's weird that I let myself continually have disappointment.

Yeah. I think that's beautiful, though. Let's stay disappointed. Yeah. Proves that there's like some hope inside. Yeah. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We've got to get to the big story. Travis and Taylor are married. We'll be right back. Jeez. Hello, it's Daniel Fischel.

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Paul Vian and I talked about it on yesterday's trending the big news on the internet. is that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey, which if their names would actually, Jason Pargin, a frequent guest on this show, cracked co-creator of mine, pointed out that their names, if you switch them, would like kind of make more sense.

Like Travis Kelsey is like kind of a sweet sounding name for like a country singer. And then like Taylor Swift is such a sick name for a football player. Anyways, they're getting married. They're going to blend their names together, possibly. Somebody said, so there was some tweet that was like, after marriage, they'll both be named Taylor Lautner. Yeah, what does a child of the two of them?

Is it just Taylor Lautner reincarnated? Do you have any thoughts? I'll give you the range. Swifties are saying, quote, I could smoke crack cocaine and it wouldn't make me as happy as this moment right now. and then the low end of the spectrum would be that Charlie Kirk is cautiously optimistic that this is going to make her a submissive trad wife. Oh, God.

I thought they were already smoking crack cocaine. Yeah, I mean, look, I'm from Kansas City. It's all been an exciting time since she entered our lives, and I'm a huge chiefs fan, and that's just been such a fun ride the entire live. I started seeing she made songs and stuff, which is very, very fun. ultimately to me it is just my favorite part of this entire thing has been the hypothetical interactions that might happen at the wedding where I saw like some tweet where someone was like it was like Phoebe Bridgers talking to the chief's defensive coordinator Steve Spagnolo and Phoebe Bridgers is like hey Steve aren't you guys running a lot of two high safeties this year and Steve Spaggola was like yes Phoebe this is what it's such an interesting you know what an interesting blend of worlds i i think it's all fun i think anyone getting into to football is fun i i think i'm ultimately pretty positive in

allowing people to feel any joy they can feel in something that kind of feels like we have bubbled off this relationship and separated it from the world right like for good and bad we hold nothing against it for its lack its lack of interaction and the world that is not going as well as it is. But we're inside the little bubble with the good, with Glinda the Good Witch, just like kind of floating through Oz right now. And so we're just sort of like enjoying whatever that is. And I think it's fun and I think it's going to, you know, it is just kind of is, I'm laughing

about it. It is, it's all ridiculous. I can't, as someone who's followed Travis Kelsey since he joined the chiefs and it was a clown when he joined the team, used to get penalties. He did like the air. jackoff thing at a ref one time pretty recently. One of my favorite motions. That's my fantasy football team

picture as a gif of that happening still from whenever that was like 2013 or 2014. He once threw a flag at a ref. This guy is a clown. That's great. They throw flags at him all the time. All of the time. He's just trying to get trying to get him. Especially before they used to rig it

for the chiefs, they used to throw flags all of them. I'm just like, this guy's a clown and it's so funny to see Honestly, he's like the Chet Hanks of football. Yes, he very much is with the worst joker impression, but he definitely is. And you're just like, oh, if you settle in, you're good. Yeah, if you just embrace it. I saw a tweet that was like Taylor Swift going down the aisle,

and it was like a private jet going down the aisle of the wedding. I mean, it's goofy, it's weird. I cannot believe it. I mean, she's just so much more. famous than a football player and that's been like a weird thing for america to like have to realize i feel like this was like the pete davidson ariana grande thing you know where he was just like skyrocketed into fame and he might be less fit Travis might be less famous than pete and she's infinitely more famous than ariana grana if that's even possible do you know what i mean the way it is like she's dating

the entire team like you know what i mean like the way it's just like the organization the entire city of Kansas City is certainly healthy for everyone. It's certainly a thing. It's certainly how we should interact with people. Swifties, don't get mad at me. It's like a white trash royal wedding. Yes. Oh, yes.

Yes. All of their, all four of their names sound like trailer companies. Taylor and Swift are two different types of semi-truck. Yeah, that's right. It is, you know, Did I think I would get a push notification about an engagement to my phone from Adam Schaefter?

No, I never thought NFL news would break on my phone about that. But it is what it is. And I'm trying to keep it separate of everything and just be like, this is kind of funny. Do I think their engagement photo was ugly? Yes. What are we doing? Where is this weird? I don't know why they went to the shire to get engaged.

He's just simply too tall. Okay, wait, that sounds sick. That sounds really sick, actually. Yeah, but not for him. And he's going to be bumping his head everywhere. Oh, man. He's the wizard. That's why he's always high.

A wizard, yeah. A Kelsey never arrives or always arrives. Too late, yeah. I don't know. That's fun. It's ridiculous. It's, this is going to be a weird. I don't know how many Kansas Chiefsian.

I am a Kansas Chiefs fan my whole life. I grew up like eight minutes from the stadium. Even before the Taylor-Switch relationship. I have two and 14 seasons, horrible quarterbacks. everything going to games in the 90s i you know i'm born in 88 been a fan since i since i i think on what i wish we could ease up a little bit on the coverage of this relationship well that's certainly going to happen now of everything every fan hopes their team will become like weirdly successful enough to like because the chiefs are always the national game always the

weird documentary always the web series always the feet i i think we could take a break I would simply love to take a break from them being the most ever over-exposed situation. Like, please, no pictures, no more pictures, please. That's why I wear my Casey Curran hat instead of Chiefs hats now. I'm a Patriots fan, and I wish I'd try not to talk about very often. But, yeah, there was a, after like the first couple Super Bowls, it was like, all right, like, I hope nobody pays any attention to them anymore.

And then Tom Brady, who was like this dorky guy, who's like his whole thing was like yeah this like late round pick who's just like kind of managing the offense turns into like a great player and like a hunk and he's like marrying jazelle and it was just like oh god damn it no i like don't want to no you're not this scrappy little team and now our team sucks it uh yeah it has an economic boom for my hometown which is an interesting thing it's that's fun it's you know it's exciting blah it's like kansas city got the olympics it really is If it got all of the Olympic sports, Americans care about, the one.

And it's not even in the Olympics. But it's ultimately, you know, fun and interesting. And people are talking about it, which is fun. And it's very funny to see, like, just a weird giant goofball shoot his shot on his own podcast. And it work in such an immense way. Amazing. That's great. Same.

Wait, do you, how do you feel about all of the, like, political commentary about, like, Mahomes and his family. I don't care. It's just, if anyone's surprised that grew up rich kids from Texas might lean right, I think that they've maybe just been lying to themselves about it the entire time. But ultimately, Mahomes, I find to be potentially the most boring person who's ever existed. He, if not for his voice, we would have never remembered a single thing he's ever said about any. He's just, come on, man.

He's just like, oh, yeah, no, actually, uh, actually, uh, I didn't see her like the picture on Instagram. Please come to my new steakhouse. It's just everything. It's so funny. Everything is, you know, this is through so many PR people. And he's just kind of a boring. The athletes at this level are psychopaths.

So the only thing that's interesting to hear him talk about is how he's actually crazy about, like, competition. Like you hear Tom Brady talk about competition. You think he's a serial killer. Yeah. Oh my God. This is like the Michael Jordan thing. I love it. Yeah, like the Michael Jordan making a documentary.

about his own good teams the year after LeBron James wins a championship is just a crazy thing to Greenlight where you're like it never goes away but appear to

have a pathological like weirdness about him in the documentary where he's like and so that thing that person probably didn't say I took that personally and let it fuel me for

a decade. I invented that this person hated me so I could ruin his life. Yes. They're all but I the politically makes some the greatest athletes of all time. You have to be.

Otherwise, you'd be a good person. That's right. And I wish, I wish, I, like, I love Jalen Hertz, the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback. Because he's like explicitly outwardly, a very good person and seems to like really, really, really, like, he's not, he doesn't really go seek out talking about political things, but he also doesn't seem to avoid it. And, um, yeah, like, recently he turned down some opportunity so that low income housing wouldn't be, like, destroyed. Yeah. And it's such an easy thing. I really like that.

I wish Mahomes would do that. He's just, it's, it's, so you get to this point. Mahomes is busy naming his children like bronze and disappointment. I absolutely hate this. I mean, you are literally named after the third place medal. I'm going to name my child Riley Games. Yeah, his fourth kid is going to be named Ribbon. Participation trophy.

They've done a lot of good things for the community in Kansas City. His wife has been a big proponent behind the women's soccer team getting a lot of funding and they actually have the only women's exclusive sports stadium in the country and it was built for the kc current who's from wearing here and they're very good and i love all of that but it's impossible to separate it from like the uh you know ultimately i know that you are so disconnected from reality that you uh just want to pay less taxes and you justify like the the abuse of lots of groups of people so you can have like a different fence right so what do I just I unhealthily compartmentalize it

they're ultimately asking what it is a different a different fence sounds like Patrick Mahomes autobiography he's like and I felt like I was on the side of a different fence you know they say the grass is always greener so I bought both yards I can't do the voice it sounds a little bit like Kermit it's a lot of bit like Kermit mixed with Kenny Powers yeah it is exactly yeah which is the nicest,

sounds like the coolest fucking person who's ever existed. I know, yeah. If his personality was also Kermit mixed with Kenny Powers would be in business, but unfortunately. Yeah.

I feel like Kenny Powers on the field, maybe. Yeah. Similar like, similar hair. Yeah, yeah. Great, great hair.

How do I do, you know, blindness, turn a blind diet, everything so I can enjoy something. Do you know what my, my guilty pleasure is, is that I don't,

this is so weird. I don't listen to problematic artists on my own. But if they're playing Michael Jackson in like a Dunkin' Donuts, I might enjoy it. You stay at that Dunkin' Donuts all day. I just stay a little bit longer. I'm like, guys, I love your playlist. And it's like, no, she's moving back in.

It looks like she's leaving. It's like quitting smoking where you're like, I won't buy it myself. I'll love it outside of bar. I just do it. I just listen to Michael Jackson socially. Yeah. It's only when I drink. I've like multiple times been around people who,

who will remind you that R. Kelly's streaming rights now go to a charity for the victims. Oh, hell, yeah. And so they're very like, it's like they're turning it up and saying that. And it's like, I know. And I can tell you're telling me because you felt weird about playing it. That's right. A thousand percent. All right.

Let's take a quick break. And we'll be right back. Hello, it's Daniel Fischel. Writer Strong and Willfordale from PodMeets World. And we're bringing you. you Viva Las Content. That's right. We are back in Las Vegas, the city of sin, and giving the people what they want. A full week of Y2K content.

Wait, we're back in Vegas? Tell me why. Well, for the Backstreet Boys residency at Sphere, of course. We sat down with Kevin Richardson and A.J. McLean just minutes before they took the stage, and our very own Wilfredel basically became the newest member of the band. Boy band, please. Plus, the man who has the longest running comedy show on the strip joins us and gets his props. It's carrot top, baby.

And finally, we all L-O-V-E-Hur, Ashley Simpson-Ross, joins us to talk about her upcoming sold-out Vegas residency. It's a full week of nostalgic interviews you don't want to miss. Listen to PodMeets World on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. December 29th. 1975, LaGuardia Airport. The holiday rush, parents hauling luggage, kids gripping their new Christmas toys. Then, at 6.33 p.m., everything changed. There's been a bombing at the TWA terminal.

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Listen to American History Hotline on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back, and what do we want to talk about? We want to talk about wind power, or do we want to talk about Gwen Stefani? Gwen Stefani, come on. Let's go. Wait, Kyle, do you have an opinion? Well, I would say, according to a lot of people, neither are very real.

So we can... All right, well, now we have to talk about wind power. Both are full of hot air. So this is the thing that Trump has been, it's been making headlines where he talks about. Yes, Donald Trump. Duck? There is an old article in this,

in the article that our writer J.M. put together where they refer to him as like American tycoon Donald Trump because it's like before he was president. It's so weird. Future television star. Donald Trump has written to Scotland's first minister Hip-hop lyric reference Donald J. Trump has written him. So he's very anti-Wind power, and the narratives that are making it through to the mainstream,

one is that he thinks that wind power is responsible for killing 160 whales annually, and RFK Jr. backed him up on that, which is funny. The RFK Jr. is like... Well, wouldn't you just say birds. I know. There's so many birds to get killed. But whales, I think they've found... This is a spoiler alert, but this whole, all the anti-wind arguments are like dark money-funded oil industry. I have a hard time believing that.

Do you think he just hated parts of Captain Planet? He was like, wind was such a bitch. Yeah, I think that could be it. But, yeah, I almost called him R-K-K-Jr-L-L-L-Y. R-F-K-E-L-L-Y. R-F-E-L-L-L-L-E is, it's. funny for him to be worried about the whales. This is the remix

to ignition. A voice like honey. It's not hot and fresh out the kitchen. It's just organic and raw out of the kitchen. It's not. No seed oils. Blue metal or whatever it is. So first of all, the whale thing's not true.

Also very funny for... I'm going to wait for the whales to confirm that. Thank you very much. Yeah. A guy who chopped off a whale's head with a chainsaw for it to be the voice. of whale conservation, but he's also asserted that Trump has also long asserted that wind turbines make whales crazy. They make them crazy. Sometimes they kill

them. There's no evidence for this. I think it's... They're just like, ugh, that fucking sound. It's driving me nuts. I really don't ever want what he says to be true, but this is one of the things that he's said that I wished was true. I would just love to see that somehow the whale going crazy. right maybe he's not free willy and he thinks that the wind power made him jump over that pier they're jumping around out there they're coming up they're blowing shit out of the top

of their head it's like just normal whale behavior but anyways these are fake statistics he's offering a whale coke through its blowhole hey oh all of the excess whale deaths are caused by we'll get to some like the main thing it's caused by but you know people hitting and then with their fucking yachts, yeah, and just like depression. The Dodge Rams of the ocean. The blind spot in Zuckerberg's yacht is just clipping a wiggle. Running over baby whales. There's also an origin story that's going around that like his hatred for wind turbines

started when he was building a golf course in Scotland and they built an offshore wind farm near his luxury golf resort. And it's too pay blue off? Yeah, exactly. He's battling it. He thought that's what was causing. He got the cause and effect backwards. He thought that the turbines were causing the wind.

He didn't realize. You can just see why he thinks stuff. He's so transparent. Someone built a wind turbine on water near something he likes. So he says that they kill what's in water. Right. Yeah. It's very child coded logic.

Yeah. So that's the thing. That's how everybody is interpreting it. The other thing that he said that like keeps kidding. repeated by conservatives is like, yeah, but like, what do you do when the wind stops blowing then like you're out of power

which is like it's not I think they're relying on people who have like their understanding of wind power is like mouse running on a thing that's like making a bicycle wheel move that's made, you know what I mean?

It's just like a one to one. Poetic thing like the day the wind dies. it's so beautiful maybe they're just they have a lot of on wheat you know oh i hope he appoints rube goldberg in charge of energy for the country exactly that's how we that's how we power this man he makes me toast in the morning it's very complicated makes me really sad that rub goldberg's first name was rub that's kind of sad his parents were his parents looked at him as a baby and we're like look at this fucking idiot we're going to be able to scam the shit out of this kid

Our other son, Bill. Right. But yeah, so more recently suggesting that your power goes off as it's not windy out. Now he's really going after wind power legislatively, a flurry of executive orders targeting wind turbines. The big beautiful bill specifically is targeting clean energy funding all over the place. And last week, his administration halted the construction of a wind farm near Rhode Island that was 80% complete. And they're just like, yeah, I don't know, we, there's problems. It's, there's some concerns, some, they actually went with, there's some security concerns

with the windmill, which who the fuck knows what that could even possibly mean. So all of this seems to be designed to suggest that he is mad because he, like when he was younger, a golf course, like, got in the way of his golf course, or that he's like too stupid to understand how windmills work. And we've talked about the strategy recently that, like, weirdly, when you go back through history, some of the biggest monsters were kind of these, like, quirky, like, Hitler had the dumb mustache and, you know, like they had, like, Mussolini had, like, some. He's still in Argentina. Yes, still has. Yeah, it's very old.

And, you know, like, he didn't shave when he hid. And so it's just how dumb he is. Yes, the same mustache. so like it throws people off the scent a little bit essentially it like makes people be like ah this is someone we make fun of it's not someone that we fear and i feel like that's something i'm noticing more and more with trump and like this strategy of just pretending to be like dumb and silly and like taking a walk on the white house roof and you know he may be suffering from some dementia but it doesn't make him like any less dangerous but i i feel like

by just, like, buying into those narratives that he, the only reason he's against wind energy is because he's dumb, it, like, suggests that it's this surface-level thing when what's really happening is, and we cover this at the time, during the election, Big Oil spent a half a billion dollars last year to explicitly, quote, influence Donald Trump and Congress. And he literally had a meeting with oil executives at Marla. Lago in 2024. Like, this was reported on at the time, we talked about it, where he promised them that he would do whatever they wanted if they helped him win.

Like, literally, that was what he said to them. I just love the concept of Donald Trump getting, like, influenced. He's like, oh, maybe I should have some of this tummy tuck tea or whatever. Yes. But in any ways, they say, I'm the ultimate influencer. But he, like, him repeating dumb shit about wind power or causing well-dum. deaths and cancer is probably because that's exactly what the oil industry like wants him to do. Fossil fuel companies are, have been shown to be behind those exact conspiracy theories.

And they use like dark money contributions to fund a nationwide misinformation campaign against clean energy. And they've been doing it for years. And so he's just, he's just a fucking, you know, megaphone for them to spread the same shit that they've been trying to. to spread. Yeah. I mean, I figured that. Look, I mean, it makes me feel better making fun of them for being dumb. And I'm sure that's exactly what they're like fine about. I'm like facing that while you're reading this. I'm like, yeah, that all makes a lot of sense. And whether or not he is smarter dumb, he is not everyone is dumb around him. Right. Exactly. He's very useful. Yeah. And by the way, the thing that is killing whales besides, you know, getting hit by yachts

is climate change and oil spills. Okay. Also that. Yeah. And. And cocaine overdoses, as you guys mentioned earlier. Too many people just giving them too much cocaine. But, yeah, the plankton are the organisms in the ocean that are first affected by temperature change. And so it's not good for the whales. I continue to think that we need to learn. Wow, so this and the windmills are killing them? That's what you're saying?

They have two double threat. One of these things we can help. and one of these things we can't. But yeah, I think we should learn the names of oil executives and, like, name our hurricanes after them. Yeah, we really, they really, their anonymity is very precious. They do a good job.

Let's keep naming hurricanes after just women. Let's keep doing that. It's a really bad one? Let's go with Katrina. These tempestuous bitches. That's right. Well, Kyle. Yeah.

Wonderful having you, as always. Yeah, good to be here. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? I'm at Kyle Ayers on most stuff in K-Y-L-E-A-Y-E-R-S. And, yeah, if you are in New York, I'm doing a show off-Broadway for the September 4th to 14th at the Soho Playhouse. I have an hour comedy show about a chronic pain disorder I have. So I have a weird little brain disease. I wrote a lot of jokes about it.

And I'll be there for 11 shows. And if it doesn't go well, the last show, I'm going to kill myself. So I hope you guys come out to the... No, I wouldn't. That's actually a regular promise from a stand-up comedian. Yeah, yeah. But just at this point, I would actually monetize that. So, yeah.

So if you guys have 2B plus, tune in for how that last show goes. But yes, it's Soho Playhouse then if you're in New York. And if you, I helped write and I'm on a show called Amy's Dead and Dreamhouse, which is streaming on Nebula. It's like Peewee's Playhouse for manic women adults. And it's very funny and very colorful starring Maggie Mayfitt. And it's really wonderful. Oh, shit.

And that is on Nebula, and you can check it out. Most of the episodes are up, but there's still a couple more to come. But, yeah, Kyler's on most things. Thank you for having me. It's fun to hear and laugh and also listen and learn. And I sound like a notes app when I say that. Yeah, you sound like, we covered. Apologize notes app.

Covering yesterday's trending about this person who just, like, had two chat GPTs, like, talking to one another. And like, they're like, just, they're like, it was great talking. to you and I really appreciate your support and it's wonderful having you and then like the other one would be like and so much it's been great hearing you and talking to you and experiencing you and they just like compliment each other but they won't let the other one have the last word yeah it's like when you said two furbies by each other yeah exactly just keeps just touch tones and you'll feel full yeah but thank you thanks for having me is there work of media that

you've been enjoying by you two uh you know i there's a singer-songwriter in los Angeles named Sharon Silva, who has some new music out, including this on People to Please, which I really like, Sharon Silva. And then I screenshot this tweet or thread from Sam Wiles a while ago, and I put it in here to say today, and it says, Zero Stars for the new Naked Gun movie was really hoping for a meditation on grief, which really made. Yeah, they did fuck that up big time. I thought it was.

I cried the whole time. Two windshields? All those cocks? Yeah. Paula Vee, where can people find you as their work in media? You've been enjoying. I'm in Chicago, baby. I am at Paula Vegan Holland, P-A-L-L-A-B-I-G-U-N-A-L-N everywhere.

Facial recognition comedy. Listen, every month I have to DM a bunch of people to come because tickets are hard to sell everywhere in this fucking city. But you should come if you're a T-D-S. Z-Head, Zike Gang on the 19th of September at 10 p.m. at the comedy store in the belly room. And a work of, I don't have you, did you guys see the like top 10, like top 25 list of influencers that came out according to Rolling Stone? And then Mr. B. Scott, like really upset. And he wrote according to this list, a guy with one million followers is more influential than me.

What did I do to piss off the Rolling Stones, which is first of all hilarious. Yeah. Like Mick Jagger through the list together. Yeah. Yeah. And so Caleb came in number six, and microplastics fracture at diabolical spuds wrote this. Mr. Beast, I cannot respond directly because you blocked me. But I wanted you to know that Caleb is a comedian who makes many laugh. And you are some sort of Willy Wonka Marionette being puppeted by the algorithm. And I was like, what a beautiful, concise way to put what Mr. Beast is. If I had the money, could you imagine, you know how not around or insecure I would be if I had his money?

I know. I mean, I assume there are plenty of people who would be sending people to a dungeon and escape and trying to get them to escape by, like, clawing their way out. But like, at least it'd be funny, you know. We have to hope that Mr. Beast never reads the cast of a Monteado, because otherwise he's going to just try and make it with people to win $6,000. He thought the Stanford prison experiment was aspirational. That's right. the instructions for how to go viral why'd they call it an experiment um you can find me on twitter at jack underscore o'brien on blue sky at jack obi the number one i just liked this potential opening for an email from lemon at no you is uh york with two k's uh i hope this email blows your head, smooth off.

Oh, I saw that one. You can find us on Twitter and blue sky at Daily Zeitgeist. You can go to the description of this episode, where the notes happen on the episode. And down below the description of what we talked about in this episode, you will find the footnotes. There's where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode. We also link off to a song that we think you might enjoy.

producer Justin Conner filling in for miles while he's out. Is there a song that you think the people might enjoy? Yeah, this is a song from a soundtrack off of a PS4 RPG, I think, from 2016, called Persona 5. I've never played it. I'm not as familiar with it as Jack is, but this track really stuck out to me. It has a- Now you're taking me back, Justin. Yeah, I know.

You're moving my head, smooth off. It has this downtempo acid jazz feel of a group like 07. If you're familiar with them, you're probably going to like this. So this is Beneath the Mask by Lynn, and you can find that in the footnotes. Footnotes. The Daily Zekeyes is a production of IHeartRadio for more podcasts from IHeartRadio visit. The IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That's going to do it for us this morning, but we are back this afternoon to tell you what is trending, and we will.

Talk to you all then. Bye. Bye. The Daily Zykeyes is executive produced by Catherine Law. Co-produced by Bay Wang. Co-produced by Victor Wright. Co-written by J.M. McNabb. Edited and engineered by Justin Connor.

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