The Daily Zeitgeist - Dumbest Road In America! Surrounded By Stupids! 04.02.25

Episode Date: April 2, 2025

In episode 1839, Miles and guest co-host Jacquis Neal are joined by comedian, Mort Burke, to discuss… US Added To Global Human Rights Watchlist After Civil Liberties Increasingly Threatened, Abortion Advocates Get A Win In Alabama, Marine Le Pen And The Persistence Of The Far Right In Europe, The Feds Deported A Father In Maryland To El Salvador By Mistake…, Jesus Christ They Put Out Another Jubilee Video About Vaccines…, Seussical-Ass Road In Pennsylvania, Kid Rock In The White House and more! ‘Revenge is his number one motivation’: how Trump is waging war on the media Abortion Advocates Get A Win In Alabama French far-right leader Le Pen sentenced to prison and banned from office in embezzlement trial European political landscape shifts right in 2024 as far-right gains ground "RFK Jr. is a public health threat" | Doctor Mike takes on 20 anti-vaxxers in our latest episode of Surrounded (Clip) Dr. Mike vs. Anti-Vaxxer (Clip) Dr. Mike Debunks Anti-Vaxxer (Clip) Number one deadly thing? Accidents! (Clip) Neighbors are calling for change after new road design in Montgomery Township, Pennsylvania Kid Rock In The White House Kid Rock is now in the White House. (Clip) “Did Biden do news conferences like this?" (Clip) LISTEN: H.B.W. by Saya Gray WATCH: The Daily Zeitgeist on Youtube! L.A. Wildfire Relief: Displaced Black Families GoFund Me Directory See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What order do you put deodorant on? Do you put the deodorant on when you're shirtless or do you put the shirt on and then hit the armpits with the shirt on? Who the fuck does that? Which one are you talking about? The shirt and then deodorant? I'm naked already. Like, all right, let me talk.

Let me talk order. I shower. I get out the shower. Thank you for that. I shower. I shower, I get out the shower. I dry my entire body with my bath towel. Like I don't air dry, I dry my entire fucking body first. I gotta be bone dry.

And then deodorant, lotion, I lotion my entire body. I start at the bottom leg and work my way up. I work up the lotion. I work up. And then the last things I put lotion on is my feet and my balls. And then I put on my shit and then I leave. You see your balls. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, you got to expose it. Yeah, I only do my I only put my balls there. Glorious, really hydrated. You go make sure those balls are moisturized. Do you know what I should do? Is that weird? Do you not? Ocean goes nuts. I have excess lotion and then I'll kind of give it a smear.

But I'm never like, you know, I need a lotion. My nuts. Also, I mean, I never thought about my ball sack being dry either. Yeah. Your ballsack dry. Ask the ladies. No, I need to see some side by side. Like there's like, look at this desiccated dry. What's up y'all?

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turn to social media to help track down their friend's killer. Listen to my friend Daisy on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Oh, hello, the motherfucking internet and welcome to season 382, episode three of the Daily Psycaser production of iHeartRadio. This is the podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It is Wednesday, April 2nd.

You said what day it is. It's National DIY Day. It's National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day, National Walking Day, National Ferret Day, National Reconciliation Day. I hope, but make it a good kind of reconciliation day rather than just having some like republican reach out and be like can we reconcile over my racism and just can

we get over that no but healthy reconciliation is a fantastic thing my name is miles gray aka I turned off that computer how you do that I turned on that computer how you do that? I turned on that computer. How you do that? I FaceTime Steven Crowder. How you do that? I even reset the router. How you do that? Okay, shout out on the Discord. Now look, I took a couple liberties with the lyrics there, but that was from First Blood 522.

Shaggy, it wasn't me. We all know how Donald Trump is in awe of his child because he's good at computer. And he said, how you do that? When you turn it back on. Turn that laptop on. How you do that? How you do that? How you do that? It wasn't me. Okay. Normally, normally I get my servants to do that. Yes, exactly. And you my child are mine. But look, I'm thrilled to be joined by my guest co-host

today. Chicago's very own son. Wow. One of the men with, I'd say, a pristine posterior due to his embrace of the technological blessing that is the bidet, or bidet, if you will. You can catch him hoasting. Ass clean. Exactly. Ass clean, teeth clean, everything clean, sap moist, okay? You can catch him on Dropout TV, you can catch him on Comedian Clash, shit, you may have even seen him on random,

fantastic shows here and there, because that's what this man does. He is supremely talented. He has the voice of a fucking angel. Please welcome to the microphone, Mr. Jockeys Neal! Something has changed within me. The show's on video now. The show's on video now. Now you see how our blemishes are all around. Our faces are moisturized. Our teeth are clean and deep. And so I asked you save some daily zeitgeist for me

so me and my oh what up niggas how we doing how we doing Wow oh shit hit you with that wicked that was fucking wicked baby that was That was wicked. Hit you with that, Cynthia. In I'm going to fuck this black queen's name up. Hit you with that, Cynthia. It's a river. That's right. That's right. I was going to call it a seam. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You to roll. Yeah.

Fantastic. Fantastic. Man. Jackie, how have you been, man? It's been too long. Oh, man. You know, we are in the streets. We feel good. We feeling right. Yeah. I've only had to rob two or three people this year, man. It's a good time. Oh, great.

Oh, so things are going well. I love to hear that. I love to hear that. When the Robins are down, that's when things are going well. When the what? When the Robins are down. Oh, I think I for some I heard as Robin as a Batman and Robin. And I was like, where's the other part of this? When Robin is away, things are good for me. Oh, I thought I suppose I heard as Robin as a Batman and Robin Yeah, exactly Well, Jackie's let's introduce our guest today

Fantastic comedian, you know him as I mean look he's been on this show many times. He's a very hilarious guy You might know him from rebrand the pod Look, we're always blessed to have very funny people on this show. Look yourself included present company included but we are thrilled to be joined today by our guest Mr. Mark Burke. Oh, and what's up? What's up gentlemen? Thank you for having me. I'm excited to be here. Great. Yeah, unfortunately, my robins have been up this year tragically. I've been having to knock people off a bunch. So but

I'm glad other people are not, you know, I think that's the- That's good, man. You make enough for it. You make enough for it. Yeah, yeah. Do you just do the thing like where you pretend you have something under your coat

or do you actually use a weapon to- Yeah, I do it. Yeah, Warner Brothers style. Where I do it. It's a banana in a trench coat. Yeah. And it's like bending. Man, well, it's great to have everybody here.

Mort, we are going to get to know you a little bit first up top, but I'm going to do something a little bit different today. I'm just going to look. The news is always fucked up. And I know this show is meant to be a distraction, but sometimes I am also overwhelmed by the sheer volume of fuckery and nonsense and diabolical behavior that I see every day. And I want this show to really be a place of joy. Because one thing that I read over and over when I talk about resisting fascism, it's about really being connected to your joy, because that gives you a sense of being alive. And it gives you a sense of something

to live for. And henceforth, you have the power to resist things. So with that in mind, I'm just gonna I'm gonna tinker with something y'all let me know, like gang, if you prefer this, but I'm I for me, I think this is going to be good. I'm just gonna I'm just gonna rattle off some of the top headlines really quick. So we at least are informed. And if you would like to go further, there's always the footnotes for you know, go deeper, but I'm not going to subject everyone to my

outrage all the time. I will. Trust me, the outrage will continue. But I also want to be sensitive with everybody's hearts, because I also want people to come to the show and enjoy themselves. And I also want to enjoy recording the show, too. So before we get to know you more, here are the top headlines of fuckery.

Let me take a deep breath. So the US was headlines, headlines, headlines. So the US was added to global human rights watchlist after civil liberties increasingly threatened. So we were added to the civic US monitor watchlist. It's called I say civic US because I'm so America centric. Civicus monitor watch watchlist, which is basically a naughty or nice tool that checks on people that are cranking down on civil liberties and the United States has the terrible misfortune No, well the terrible dishonor of being moved So the labels go from open narrowed obstructed repressed or closed the United States has moved from open to narrowed

And you guessed it it's for things like crackdowns on pro-Palestinian protesters, the Trump administration basically dismantling the entire systems of checks and balances that we had, as well as, you know, media suppression and things like that. So there's that. Next up, we have some good news from Alabama where abortion advocates got a win. So a federal judge in Montgomery, Alabama has ruled that the Attorney General Steve Marshall, his threats to prosecute abortion advocates violate fundamental protections for free speech and the right to travel. So the Attorney General there was threatening to use a criminal conspiracy statute from 1896 to prosecute anyone who helped pregnant patients obtain an abortion in another state. These charges were potentially punishable by decades in prison.

More reporting on that from Mother Jones in the footnotes. Let's take it to Europe where the far right has taken a bit of a L. So after a nine week trial and a nearly decade of investigations, we all know Marine Le Pen as that far right French freak over there. She has been convicted in a French court of embezzling European Union funds. She and 24 other people from her political party used over 3 million euros of European Parliament funds to pay her own staff in like an embezzlement scheme. She's been sentenced to four years in prison, but it's white people prison. So it's two years on house arrest and two years suspended. But the good news is she's also

barred from seeking public office for five years starting immediately. And that's pretty good timing in terms of presidential elections in France. This is a blow to the French far right, but in 2024, European elections and polls, obviously, we saw it all over significant shift to the far right in places like Portugal, France, Belgium and Austria. And we've heard this many times before. Political science experts say this shift to the right. Same reason why white supremacy is so popping in the US right now, desperation and xenophobia

and leaders not pointing the finger at inequality and in fact just being like it's because of these other people that that's why you have no money and the oligarchs have so much money really fucked up story from Maryland a Salvadorian national who's living in Maryland legally was wrongly deported to El Salvador the Department of Justice even admitted that in court papers that were filed Monday. Aside from just being accused in court of being in a gang and just having tattoos, there's nothing to indicate that he was part of any kind of gang and has also never been convicted of any kind of gang related crime. He is currently in a terrible fucked up prison in El Salvador.

People, lawyers are saying you need to bring him back. The Trump administration in court basically said, Yeah, I mean that Yeah, maybe that was a mistake on our part. But our hands are tied. And there's not much we can do. It's pretty diabolical in terms of just merely trying to tell people upfront that they can decide who gets to stay and who doesn't. And for just any arbitrary reason. So those are some of the top fucked up headlines.

And without further ado, let's swing the focus back to our guest Mort Burke. I hope that wasn't too. That was a lot of crammed in there, but we got to eat our vegetables so we can have dessert and fuck around today. Mort Burke. We can talk about porn. Now we can talk about porn and greasing up our balls. But Mort Burke, what is something from

your search history that's revealing about who you are? Yeah. I was just looking up Carl Jung's explanation of synchronicity, just because I find that interesting and I'm noticing more synchronicities in my life. Okay. Now I only know the police album synchronicity, but I'm not much up on Jungian Theory. Yeah, you're more into like stings psychological theories. Yeah

What's what what's what what? Educate so yeah. Yeah, so he just talks about the occurrence of meaningful coincidences that seem to have no cause right? So something come for me It'll be like something will come in my life and then something will come up again or again, or I'll be thinking about something and somebody will say it. It's like this weird thing that happens. And he would talk about how that is we find it meaningful because it suggests that things are connected in a way that we can't see like it suggests patterns that are beyond our ability to understand. So it's sort of this weird, like, magical thing that happens. And if you're, if you're like a wacky, if you're spiritual dude, like I am, it can people think it suggests you're like on the right path somehow. Like if you know, it's like a bunch of synchronicities, you mean? Yeah, you're probably going in the right direction.

That's I think it's like optimists confirmation bias, you know, that's healthy, you know, I, I've noticed, you know, there was a time when I noticed like a bunch of synchronicities. And then I was like out in a cabin, like in a beach town with, uh, some family members, and I just kept noticing shit lining up, you know, it was just like kept lining up and like at night. Like I looked out my window and saw like other people who were exactly like us and they like broke into my house and Like they looked just like me and my family and they were like living underground. This is the plot of us

When you got to the part that broke in your house I was like no no this story got sad I was like huh? Look I didn't want to be like motherfucker that's us but again I wanted to honor your truth You know you never know You never know? We should have let you describe the rest of the podcast should have is you just describing What and then and then at the end of the next morning like

Holding hands across America More what is something you think is underrated? I'm really into slip on shoes right now. Oh, I feel like slip on shoes are like what you would. I love slip on shoes like Elon loves amphetamines. To me, they feel like just what you're going to wear in the future on the moon. You know, I just love not fucking with what do you do. What do you what kind of like a van slip on you strike? But you weren't I was going to say more.

I know you're a skater. I feel like you got the van slip on probably. Yeah, I'll do a van I got a pair of I got two pairs of slip on Americas right now Not my favorite company necessarily, but they make this dude Leo Romero professional skateboard had really nice all silver Every time I wear them comedians roast me for them They'll be like those look like the tin man's bowling shoes or whatever, but I love them I think they're sick, you know, I like one piece to be kind of take precedence over the whole. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. I mean, like, I am a I'm a sneaker guy.

I got a lot of shoes. I used to. But like all all my I know it's been like I've been not buying as many over the past year or so. But I have a lot of shoes, but most of my gym shoes, when I first get them, I do like the laces and shit. And like I do them mostly so I can just slip them on. Like, even if they're tight, even if they're tight, even if they're tight, they are like loose,

just loose enough where I can just slip them on. There are very few shoes that I have to like actually get down and tie. It's like I'm going to a wedding if I'm doing that kind of shit. Right. It's because I have to tie a dress because I don't wear shoes in my house. So I like always since a child, I never wore shoes in the house. So my whole thing was being able to slip shit off real quick. Yeah.

And hop right in when you need to. I feel like an elderly person, but in a good way. Like I'm limiting the amount of physical movement I need. Just like simple, out the door. You know, Martin, I don't know how old you are, but like if you are over the age of 37, we are technically middle age now. So, we're getting old, man. Based on life expectancy? Like yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's the life expectancy. Isn't that what it's based off, like the average life expectancy once you hit the middle point of your middle age? Yeah, but I think, I mean, look at us. Look how fucking beautiful we are. The other day I was like, my body was feeling old

and I was like, this is great. Like, is there, cause I'm 45. Is there a better excuse for not doing something than being like, I'm 50 years old. Yeah. You know what I mean? In five years, I'm gonna be like, I'm 45. Is there a better excuse for not doing something to being like I'm 50 years old? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, in five years, I'm going to be like, I'm not. I feel like that's a millennial. That's going to be a millennial thing where we are just like, dude, we're fucking 50, bro.

We're good, man. Just fucking leave. Yeah, like I'm trying to relax. Like every time I think about being 40, I laugh at myself. I'm like, what the fuck, bro? I'm 40. What the hell? I feel like I'm 19 mentally, which is not a good thing. I moved to LA when I was 26. I'm now 38.

I'll be 39 this year. I'm closer to 50 than I am. 26 when I moved to Los Angeles, which is math is so spooky. When you start doing this shit, we're like, I'm actually further from this point in time than I was it's you know what too much I'm is a fucking bastard. I'll tell you that More what's something you think is overrated? So I watched Scorsese's gangs of New York a little while ago, and it's got America's one of our greatest actors even though is a

From Ireland or whatever. But this movie is Daniel Day Lewis. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait This movie is the least subtle film I've ever seen in my life like he's he's English technically Yeah, he's easy. Yeah, he was born. Really he's born in London. Hmm Irish I don't know he looked we're so American like I don't know he asked Irish He's somewhere in England No, no, you're right his, his father. Somewhere in Europe, I mean. Somewhere in Europe. Okay, no, no, you're right. His father is Irish. Yeah, because he's got that whole, I'm a mystical poet thing or whatever

that the Irish love to do, you know what I mean? Which I believe in, I'm Irish. You get to do that. I relate to it. But he looks like, in this movie, he's got eyebrows and a mustache the size of like loaves of bread. Yeah, like a dildo looks like it looks like wooly

willy if you ever played that magnet thing where you like put like weird. Yeah, he looks like wooly willy. So there's this point in this movie where he throws a knife at Cameron Diaz. And it goes like right next to her head. You know, then our greatest actor turns to the camera and goes like this. Whoopsie daisy. Yeah, it's like this camera. He does that to cameras. Right, dude.

Does he break the fourth wall? He breaks the fourth wall there. Well, look, there's something he's like on stage show. He's kind of doing it to the audience, but it's directly down the barrel of the camera. So it looks like a child's version of acting. You know what I mean? Like it looks like what a nine-year-old with you put crazy makeup on it like Violent I was like, I think this movie's a hot take you guys I've never seen I've never seen Gangs of New York. It looks like what boring as fuck

The opening scene is cool because it just starts off with a wild ass battle. You got all these like weird like like Irish immigrants coming out the gutter and shit to fight these other people. It's that's what. Yes. It starts off with all these different little weird pockets of gay. But then it's like yeah, then it's three more hours of camera. Diaz trying not to look attractive. It's weird.

It is weird. Like they really try to be like, what would it? What three more hours of camera deals trying not to look attractive. It's weird. Yeah, it is weird. Like they really try to be like, what would it what would she look like if it's so hard? They're like, why not hire an unattractive woman to do it instead of taking a beautiful woman and putting like just soil on her face? That part in Gangs in New York, though, and he tells a little boy, he's like, when Liam Neeson, he's like, and who is this son? It's Saint Michael. And what did he do? He cast the devil out of paradise. I remember that. I don't know.

For whatever reason, this one line, I remember that I was like, what the fuck is I remember that in the opening, like, what the fuck are they doing? They got a lady with fucking steel claws like she's Wolverine or some shit. But like a lady that very see. And that's like they're doing too much in this movie, like obsessed with Catholicism and is weird in a way. Then you've got that Marvel superhero shit. It's like, give me one of these things.

That's an interesting Brendan Wilson is just beating the shit out of people. The stick. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, look, Scorsese loves a bit of Catholic violence, doesn't he? Like he's got it. He had to put that Saint shit and like, look, Scorsese loves a bit of Catholic violence, doesn't he? Like he's got it. He had to put that Saint shit and like, look, wasn't Liam Neeson's character called the preacher or some shit? I think like that is or I don't even think some of these are based off. Was Christian Bale in his movie, too?

No, he should have. He should have been. It feels like it's Leo. The Caprio is the Leo. That's right. That's right. That's right. And I feel like actually Bale would have been a better cast for this movie. Maybe. Yeah. You don't quite believe Leo is like this street urchin tough guy. Really? You know what I mean? Yeah. No, not at least. Is this before this is before the party, too? Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. This is before you went to Alaska and turned into like a grizzly bear man. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Alright, let's take a quick break and we're gonna come back and we will talk about some wacky shit happening on the internet right after this. Wow. Have you ever wondered if your pet is lying to you? Why is my cat not here? Can I go in and she's eating my lunch? Or if hypnotism is real?

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just saying the weirdest shit to him. He's like, No. But anyway, they've upped the stakes this time, by having social media personality and sometimes doctor this guy, Dr. Mike, who I was looking into and like he came to prominence when like BuzzFeed wrote about him 10 years ago. I've been like, you'll never, you'll never believe how fucking hot this doctor is. Um, he sat down and to talk to 20 anti-vaxxers and by talk to, I meant they kept coming at him with a bunch of nonsense. So I just want to kind of go through a couple of these clips

because there is a lot of bad stuff in here. And I'm even beginning to question like what the point of these videos are. It just feels like it's a place to just kind of keep recycling bad information. But here, let's take a look at the latest offering from Jubilee. I would just say that RFK Jr. does appeal to other experts that even if they're vaccine

skeptics they put forth legitimate studies that would be antithetical to the pro-vaccine studies. So you said earlier like misinformation, I would ask who is the author of misinformation? Who is the author of misinformation? So misinformation first off is predicated on the fact that there's a right information right information this is like that anti vet like this is that debater shit I hate when like you're not even asking a normal question you're not asking a real question who's the daddy of misinformation if there's misinformation who decide like shut the fuck

up if there's misinformation where is mr formation right And it's like, why don't you tell me? Because I'm saying you're receiving misinformation. So you tell me who authored this. Yeah. Like, where did you hear this? How am I supposed to know where you got your crazy bullshit? It's going to be predicated. Yeah, I wish like I wish and with videos like this, I wish two things. I wish that the person that was on the opposing side

was it nice? And I also wish like I wish that the person that was on the opposing side wasn't nice. And I also wish like, I also wish like DMX was still alive and he was that person. Oh my God, bro. So he could just curse them out. Like, what the fuck are you talking about, dog?

Dog, what you talking about? Shut your dumb ass up, dog. Like just- You want these kids to die? You're like, what? Roo, roo, roo, roo. Then he'd get up and punch him in the fucking fat of the neck. No, but then he'd be like, I't like just die. You're like what? Then he get up and punch him in the fucking fat. No, but he's like, I'm not a Christian. And he starts praying to shit. Let us pray.

Yeah, fuck. Please allow me not to kill this motherfucker in front of me. Okay, okay. Shit, man. I'll get the kid vaccinated. He's also he is shirtless and covered in blood. Whatever. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly. Like, that's the type of person that needs to talk to these people. Because the reason doesn't matter with them anymore. Like, reason does not matter. They're not going to.

Yeah, I see what you're saying. We is like, what's the point of these videos? Because when they first start coming out during the election, I know you got more to show. When they first start coming out during the election, it was like, OK, blah, blah, blah. This is called like the little fucking 12 year old kid who was doing it. And then, but then it gets to a point where you're like, you're not. It's just, this is just rage. On your side are on your

side and the people who are not are going to be on their side. And like we we are not reaching each other. This and this video is so clear. Like, I'll let this guy go on with his, like, if it's going to be predicated, OK, OK, with your $10 words. But what are you saying, sir? It can be predicated on the fact that there's absolute truth. Does science state absolute truth?

There's no absolute truth, period. So if there's no absolute truth within this realm, I don't know why we should completely rule out RFK Jr. and the other experts that he could appeal to. The reason I rule him out is because he takes information that is not true, like that poppers cause AIDS. Subjectively true. It's not subjectively true.

For the time being, because you just said it's provisional truth, meaning it can change the time. Oh my God. Right, but you can create any sort of statement, and in healthcare, we can't just go off of any statement because someone feels subjectively to be true. We have to do our best to do with limited information that we can do. So what? Okay, so we just admitted that there is no truth

in this realm. Like now you're debating Gandalf. Like what the fuck? Again, the video does a lot more nonsense than it does good. I will go on because that was like sort of the guy with like the real intellectual sort of way of being very contrarian. Then the I do my own research crowd pulls up and just as smug as you would expect kind of goes on to talk about why vaccine bad and also because I'm also an I'm an expert on this actually. Villains with some of the top doctors, some of the doctors that help create PCR tests, some of the doctors that have worked on vaccines have came out and said they're unsafe and we should not give this to our family and friends.

How is it that he's a villain? How are we a villain? If some of these vaccine creators and scientists are the ones saying we should not get. Is there anything I could say today that would change your mind? I'm asking you a question. Cause I actually read and study. Well, if I can't change your mind, yeah. So I would like to give you my knowledge, my experience and what I've seen in the hospital system. But if you're telling me right now, no matter what I say this and not further investigate everybody else's opinion.

Lady, you just said there's nothing you can say that will change your mind. So you are not as flexible as you claim to be. Also, the comment under that video was just he could pound me all day long. Yeah, I just had to say that. I was like, I'm not going to change my mind. I'm going to be like, I'm not going to change my mind. I'm going to be like, I'm not going to change my mind. I'm going to be like, I'm not going to change my mind. I'm going to be like, I'm not going to change your mind. So you are not as flexible as you claim to be. Also, the comment under that video was just he could pound me

all day long. Yeah. That was the the the fucking actual caption of that this video on Twitter said, hmm, Dr. Mike looking even better with the added weight. I don't know how. We're lost, bro. We are a lost society. This lady is talking about doing her own research and like, you look good with a few extra pounds. I'm like, what the fuck?

In defense of the anti-vax people, I don't need the doctors to go by their first names anymore. Go ahead and give me your last name, like a professional, like a professor. I don't need Dr. Chris, Dr. Kevin anymore. Like, I need a last name. Dr. Oz. Like you have a't need doctor. Dr. Chris. Dr. Kevin anymore. Like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Dr. Oz. You have a like you have a PhD. Yeah, they have found again just such a collection of just it

didn't even stop. This isn't this is another guy who again, that debate style where like someone tells you something that completely is counter to what you believe and you just go like, wow, that's the highest news to me. Just to like kind of keep it moving. This is exactly what this guy does again, when he sort of like insists he's like, well, how come people who have who are vaccinated are dying? Again, a very ironclad line of questioning. But here's here's this gentleman with his take on vaccines hurts my soul that he blacked. Like that vaccines cause autism. So they don't cause autism, you're saying?

Correct. At all. Correct. Well, that's news to me. Okay. That's like arguing with your partner. You know what you mean? It's like, Oh, and so, so you don't take out the trash.

Well, I mean, not, not always. And so that's news to me. That's news. Okay. But we're starting off with, oh, vaccines don't cause autism. No. Huh. Huh. Yeah, you're like these. You know, there's really like sort of a level of propaganda that we're dealing with.

Like he's he may be being fully honest, like, oh, that actually is news to me because everything the algorithm is telling me is that vaccines cause autism, which is like, first of all, I love the responsive, like, so what, maybe autism is actually not a disability. Like, maybe these are a type of person that deserves care and love and value in society. And it's hilarious that all that shit directly comes from Jenny McCarthy. Like, so much single out, look what it did to us. She's the first person I heard say that shit.

She's your thought leader. Like maybe she should just chill and love her son as he is instead of like watching this arbitrary campaign against health care. Yeah. This is, he goes on again to be like, okay, so, okay, fine. So you don't say they don't, he goes on further because this he is, Dr. Mike is talking to a genius. Okay.

What about death? Doesn't the vaccine save lives? Correct. It lowers the death rate. It doesn't prevent it a hundred percent. Okay. So why are people dying? Because it's not a hundred percent. But the reality is majority of the people who are dying were vaccinated people. Correct. Because most people were vaccinated. were vaccinated people. Correct, because most people were vaccinated. My man just had to be like, okay.

All right. Okay. Okay, Dr. Mike, there are people in these clips, like in the comments, saying this man is not a doctor. And I'll get a little bit more into his background in a second. This clip, like this whole video is full of infuriating clips. And I think that's why these aren't useful by any stretch of the imagination. And merely I'll talk. Yes, they have succeeded in enraging me. However, I'm not going to really engage with it in a much deeper level than to say this is just this.

This isn't doing anything entertainment. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. That's exactly it's supposed to be polarizing. And also, doctor, I figured it out that Dr. Mike looks like a hot Bob Saget. Oh, hot Bob Saget. I see it. I see it a little bit. Everyone with daddy issues and medical mistrust. Look, this guy offers a lot, a lot, a lot. This one is particularly fucking wild where he's asking. I think everybody listens to the show knows what the answer is to the question this guy's going to ask. But again, watch him just take a wacky left turn out of nowhere. From 2018 to 2023, if we trust the CDC, their numbers say the most deadly thing for our

children, the number one deadly thing. Do you happen to know what it is? Guns. Accidents. Oh sir. What? What? First of all it's just factual that is guns. That's yeah well I guess that's because the CDC maybe now has vaporized all I mean already they

were doing a terrible job of even using gun violence statistics as being an epidemic. So I guess in that sense, he's right. It's so funny to broaden to be like, accidents is so vague. That's like the number one cause of death is not breathing. You're like, yeah, that's what happens to everyone. Your heart stopping. Yeah. Most deaths aren't murders, which by trade make them accidents.

Yes. These kids. Yeah. When these kids accidentally shoot themselves, like, what are you fucking saying? And again, saying these videos are fucking nonsense. I like Dr. Mike. Also, there are people who are like, oh, he looks good or whatever. I'm like reading up on this guy. Very interesting.

Like, despite him advocating through like that, he's saying like child safety via vaccination. He seems to enjoy social media posts that are pro child bombing and maybe doesn't consider Palestinian children among the children that we need to consider whose safety is going on there. And he also gotten a ton of shit from his YouTube viewers because he was partying on a yacht in Miami during like, like the height of COVID lockdowns. And yeah. And they were like, what the fuck? All your content is out here about being like, we should be wearing masks. We need to be considering people's like safety. We shouldn't be like recklessly going out and like doing shit like that.

And he put this whole video was like, I was surprised with a yacht trip and I looked up all the procedures and I felt like that was a it was very, very odd. So like the more you look into these videos, like the darker they become, the darker they become. I want to see one of those 20 experts just mentally body slamming one of these other people. Yeah. Whereas like a dumb person and then a bunch of expert expert.

But even then it's going to be the same thing. And I just don't this is yeah We live in an interesting time right now. Yeah, and I don't know what it is. I don't know if it is the fact that Everything is just more visible With social media information is instant now Everybody feels like they need to have an opinion on something. I mean, we're three men on a podcast. Everybody feels like we know. So beautiful, beautiful men who are vaccinated with 14 inch penises.

But like, I really do a lot of combined, combined, combined, combined. Thank you. Bring back modesty, bring back modesty. But, but like, we live in a time where a moron really thinks he knows more than a doctor. Yeah, Yeah. And I don't. I don't. I like again, I'm only 38. So, you know, but it'll make sense in two years. Where where where did this go wrong? I think one bad thing is videos like this, it normalizes these kinds of opinions because they start like, Oh, look, it's 20 people who think like me versus a doctor.

And I, I agree with them. I think that is actually a really bad part about this is like to platform this much misinformation and then just like, and he's, and the reality, when in reality, these two people should not be talking to each other. Like they shouldn't be talking to each other. Like we talk and one should be listening. That is how it like I remember a person who is no longer with us and not because he's dead, but because like my cousin broke up with him.

But like we were talking about like acting or something like that. Never acted, blah, blah, blah. And he, and like, and he was coming at me talking, like telling me shit like, and, and like, you an actor, anybody can do this, blah, blah, blah. And like all types of shit. And at a certain point I was just like, bro, you are not qualified to breathe in front of me on this subject Like shut the fuck up. Where are you coming from? Yeah, shut up I want to know what you're talking. I went to college for this and I do it professionally

My guy you're funny to your three high school friends at the back of a Chili's fuck off. Yeah Yeah, this really is like this kind of world we live in. That's why I'm like, I'm still I'm advocating for a thing where if you are a science denier, you should be you should be made to move to the part of the earth where climate change is going to destroy everything because climate change doesn't exist. Right? Or I want to see more people. If you go to an expert, like that extra should be like, first of all, do you believe that

I know what I'm talking about? And if they're like, no, then like, then I'm not gonna help you. I'm sorry, what, there's no, I'm not gonna work on your car, I'm not gonna help like, this idea that people that expertise is completely like, I think a lot of the what's happened is, right wing media has sort of just created a hostility towards anything about like academic or whatever in general. So then people go, a doctor is just a guy who looks at a couple charts and then puts a stethoscope on you.

A teacher is just somebody who reads a book or whatever. A physicist is just somebody who just does some math stuff. Anybody can do this. I can't. Yeah. But I'll say that everyone can. What you're talking about, I think it's interesting that now that everyone have...

I use this analogy that the whole world all of a sudden has become a city because you know how when you're talking about, I think is interesting that like now that everyone have, I have this, I use this analogy that's like the whole world all of a sudden has become a city. Because you know how when you're in a city, you're like closer to people and you learn how to ignore people better and you're like, oh, that person's crazy. I'm going to, I don't need to engage with them. And all of a sudden, everybody's in this because of social media connection, everybody's in the exact same proximity as each other. So all of a sudden, everybody's voices are super, super loud and people are interacting with people that they never ever would have before, like you're saying, you know what I mean? So it's like all of a sudden, if a fucking juggling clown walked in the room,

I wouldn't know what to do. I didn't even know people acted like this. Sure, sure. Yeah, I think it's just such a real damning insight into like our deteriorating educational system and how like, again, algorithm algorithmic misinformation is just creating these wacky ass just bubbles of non fact where people believe and hold on to it as if it's real. And it appeals for people

for x, y and z. But my god, whatever, we'll see what happens from that. We'll see if there's any believers because the comments section suggests otherwise. Let's take a break. And when we come back, I do just there's some some weird ass stuff happening in a Pennsylvania town that I just don't think people have heard of how to help speeding cars. But we'll take a look at that right after this Have you ever wondered if your pet is lying to you? Why is my cat not here and I go in and she's eating my lunch or if hypnotism is real

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Speed bumps. Yeah, you speed bump smiles. Right. Or hit a kid and go to jail. Sometimes they put a kid in the middle of the street. Sometimes we put a kid in the middle of there is that There is that there is that so there's a town in Montgomery Township, Pennsylvania Grays Lane, I believe is what it's called. Or is that what it's called? Let me make sure I just like sometimes I think my own name is popping up everywhere. It's called synchronicity Yes, it is I was right right. It's a very great episode. There's apparently there's a road there where people are going so damn fast. Like we got to do something about it. Their

solution to this is I don't even understand what they're trying to do. But you tell me if this is the fucking solution to keep people from speeding down a residential street. Neighbors agree that speeding is a big problem on Grays Lane. Many also agree this new street design wasn't the best way to address it. It's wobbly. It's going like this. Yo, I love this. This is so good. I want this everywhere.

First of all, that would encourage me to drive faster. That's basically like a slalom or like autocrossing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or I would lean into it to be a dick. I'm like, OK, you want me to drive like this? Fuck like tip over my cyber truck. No, I'm not gonna do that But like even the residents are like what the fuck is this?

I don't see how this is going to possibly slow down track at all The yellow and white curved lines that run along two blocks of the road were painted on Friday The Facebook post from the police department says signage along with safety devices called delineators will follow most drivers we saw stayed within the lines, but not everybody. Mike DeLorenzo who lives nearby says the neighborhood wasn't given a heads up about the police department's plans. They were literally out here yesterday and just put it up and people come out of their houses. What's going on? What's going

on? Hey, what's going on? I mean who designed this fucking Willy Wonka? That is so good, dude. That's it's they need brain. It needs to be more like Mario Kart. You know, I mean They need ramps like it should be rainbow road where it's like you could fall through I don't know and there might not be a little turtle that's gonna lift you up and put you back onto the track on their This is great. I love this. I think it adds a whole level of whimsy to driving that I really I love. Yeah, I this is It's dr. Seuss shit. It's nonsensical the what the fucking stupid part is how the municipality is like Doubling down on it. They basically said uh that they quote doubling down on it.

They basically said that they quote our highway safety. This is from the police department on Facebook. Our highway safety officers and traffic engineers have determined that this is the best course of action for the area to ensure the safety of the local residents. What? A fucking speed bump. I don't get it. I mean, if I was on this, I would be like, I would do it, but I would speed through it to see if I could fucking make it. Like, it makes it more of a it's like Mario Kart. Like I said, it makes it more of a game.

I would have fun. I mean, I'm wondering if, like, somehow you got into some weird accident because the lanes are painted like that, then you just sue the city. You're like, I don't know, man. What the fuck is this road? What did you expect? You're basically you're weaving in and out of oncoming traffic. I love this, dude. can just sue the city. You're like, I don't know, man. What the fuck is this road? What did you expect? You're weaving in and out of oncoming traffic.

I love this, dude. I think this is great. I don't know. I think it looks very fun. It looks fun. I want there to be like also like a Warner Brothers style, like a map painting of a highway that is actually a wall. You know what I mean?

Like obstacles to drive around. Why Wiley Coyote shit. I also really do love that nobody knew that this was going on and they just woke up the next morning and walked outside and was like, why the fuck are the streets all wiggly? You know one person, someone thought their blood pressure medication was hitting weird that morning probably. Like, you know They have those things that you like it. They make you feel like you're driving drunk

This is a real life version of that real thing. Also, it's so hostile Like I guess I'm someone who rides bikes more and more and more I'm like they just said fuck you to the bike lane Yeah, they're like man get fucking run over by some asshole because we couldn't put a fucking speed bump down. Yeah. This is the people of Montgomery township vote these people out if you can. I don't know if you can, but hey, what the fuck is that? It is nonsense. Yeah.

You shouldn't let Charles Bukowski run your federal program. Like that just looks like a bad alcoholic designing some crazy bullshit. Let's get drunk before we do this. What is this straight, right? What if it was a squiggle? This is actually the best fucking solution you can do. No, it isn't. We have speed bumps for a reason. And no one's going to be like, oh, I'm going to go slow because I have to kind of go to the left and right to avoid a double yellow. You slow down because you're like, I don't want to fucking launch the back seat of my car up into the fucking air going way too fast over a speed bump. That shit is so infuriating when I go over like, you know how there's like those

kind of look smoother, moundy speed bumps. And then there's those like fucking short aggressive ones It feels like you crash your ones. Yeah, like you're going over potholes Yeah, absolutely that will stop somebody from speeding because no one wants to fucking feel that shit jolt through their car Yeah, what do I know? I'm just a fucking podcaster. We should ask dr. Mike man. I talked to Michael a dr Mike what do you think? Mike you mean to tell me this won't slow people down?

It slew me down. Slew you? It slew me down. Yeah. Oh, sir, I told you not to drink with your medication. It slew me down, bro. It slew me down, man. Slew me down to the paradise of titties,

the grass is green and titties. What? Sorry. You heard me. and titties. What? You heard me, titties. It's the blood thinners, man. The thing I shouldn't be drinking on. Just Dr. Mike in a face full of Miami cocaine. Be like, huh? I like the squiggly road.

Dr. Mike, you know, he's hitting that fucking blow, bro. He's a single. He's a YouTube doctor. When you when your whole thing is I'm a YouTube doctor, I'm'm like you you're trading off the fact that you went to medical school to because be like I'm not really trying to be fucking With people like that. I just want people to listen to me because I'm a doctor. Okay. Yeah Like maybe now now how much for an eight ball? Yeah, chalk it up Finally kid rock was in the White House because He was there to fucking he was

dressing the most ridiculous outfit I've ever seen because I think he's trying to like recreate that meeting between Nixon and Elvis. But what he is talking about was like a real thing. I think anybody who's tried to buy concert tickets recently is like tickets you can never buy a ticket for the actual tick like the face value of a ticket anymore. Like everything gets scooped up by bots or resellers. And now you're paying a fucking ridiculous premium just to see like a regular ass band. So Kid Rock was there and he was like complaining, I guess, to Donald Trump because now he's directing Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice to like really check into the ticket exchanges

like Ticketmaster to make sure they are in compliance with the IRS and relevant laws. And I'm like, you're like, this shit matters, dude. This is like the most lawless fucking like administration. But I guess this is like a low sort of low hanging fruit for Trump to be like, I'm doing something good for the regular people. Kid Rock, as he was there to talk about how important this bill is, he I can't help. But he looks like a dude who I don't know if you remember in college, there would be someone hung over, but maybe had to give a presentation and they somehow barely pulled it off. But they did.

This is what Kid Rock looks like telling, like trying to tell this press pool in the Oval Office how this is like a real much needed executive action from Donald Trump based on his outfit and also how quickly he crosses his fucking arms, like giving up posture wise. Here's Kid Rock telling us all why we need to actually look after us, the little artists, and why ticket costs are too high. The fuck is he wearing? I know. Look at this motherfucker, bro.

He's in the Oval Office looking... whatever. I want to make sure Alina Haba gets her credit too, because I know she worked very hard on this, but thank you for making this happen. Oh, honest, Cross, you're uncomfortable. For anyone who's bought a concert ticket in the last decade, maybe 20 years, no matter what your politics are, knows that it's a conundrum. You can buy a ticket for 100 bucks by the time you check out, it's 170. You don't know what you're getting charged for, but more importantly, these bots, they

come in and get all- This whole visual is blowing my mind. He's wearing a fedora with his leather, like, jingoistic salute outfit, all red, white, and blue. Arms crossed, like, yeah, I don't know. It's a conundrum, man. Anybody trying to buy a ticket? And yes, fantastic. He looks like the most, world's most embarrassing racist stepdad, where he was like, thought it was a good idea to dress proud and then got in there. I was like, this actually is pretty humiliating that I look this way. Yeah.

Like the arms crossed suggests that he kind of knows he's like, now, am I doing too much? Is this even, are people going to take me seriously when I'm dressed like some kind of like Confederate carnival clown? It's also interesting that all of a sudden regulation is a good idea now, since the predatory nature of capitalism has actually affected your industry. He does actually. He does clear that up. He's like, I'm a capitalist just for the record.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He does. So this, I just, this other part too, like he gives this long speech. It's so long winded, but there's this other moment where a NEPO journalist fucking Peter Ducey is like trying to be like, Whoa, check out this guy's outfit. And like trying to make a joke to make him and Donald Trump laugh. And it's just so fucking cringy.

Just watching this dude try and make a joke and get a laugh and kind of like sort of curry favor with the president. Just this moment too, the vibes are so desperate. If I can do this stuff, it's just like this. I don't think. No, he was ever standing next to somebody who looked like they were about to be shot out of a cannon. Let me shake your hand, man.

What the fuck. It's very odd. It's, it's wild to see just Trump continuing to do. Did Biden do this? Did he sit every time you see him now? Like you are Donald Trump. I bet this dude is always sitting down now. But hey, he's strong.

He's ready. I'm surprised Kid Rock didn't do his famous hit. Don't call my beer gay. That's the outfit. My beer loves women. Are you sure? And what's that outfit, sir? He's like, I don't know.

I kind of thought it was asexual, but all right. Maybe I just kind of went too hard on the leather again. What am I going to do? Isn't it funny too, because like didn't Republicans also get upset when like Biden tried to pass the thing to get rid of like junk fees or make like fees more More more like visible and things like that Or lower overdraft fees which like banks are begging Republicans to overturn and things like that You know which these people these people have you know half they have no moral or intellectual consistency This is the same way these are same people who are calling like electric

vehicles like fucking gay and shit. And now they're like, I'm getting me a cyber truck. Tesla's number one. It's like, y'all just don't just you're just again, they're control, surely contrary. And it's just capitalism doing capitalism. Like if you haven't noticed, the ticket fees are the exact same as all of the price gouging, all of the inflation, which is that like they will continue to pocket as much as possible because it's by its nature predatory. Right?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That out. So yeah, regulation makes sense once it touches your industry all of a sudden it needs to be looked at. Right. Exactly. And it's funny that again, he even had to qualify and he's like, don't get me. I'm all about deregulation. But like, not to the point. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, here. That is kind of funny because he has I think he also because Kid Rock. Look, he's he comes from money. He's not like he's he's he has a bit of an education. I mean, he said conundrum.

I don't know if you can do that. Wildly misused the word conundrum. But where is here? Let me just play this clip where he does have to be like, hey, I'm no fucking socialist, man. I just, I just don't want to be taken advantage of by capitalism. Also, as like a 90s hip hop fan, his fucking shift from like, cultural appropriation of like, I'm a fucking deep rap DJ into this right wing bullshit. And so I am American bad ass. The most rap shit ever.

Okay. Here, this is the part where he does. I am a capitalist. I think this is a great first step. I would love down the road if there'd be some legislation, we could actually put a cap on the resale. And I'm a capitalist and a deregulation guy, but they've tried this in some places in Europe and it seems to be the only thing that's.

I think because they're trying this like, you know, fighting capitalism shit at a bare minimum stuff in Europe. I don't know. I mean, it just it seems to work, but please, please don't let it affect my fans. I like how I think this guy is trying to I think he doesn't realize that no one's coming to his shows because nobody fucks with his music. Not because the ticket prices are so outrageous. No, brother fucker. It's because you are so fucking outrageous. But hey, we need more of that gay beer man. I can't go to no show with with with heterosexual beer. No, no, no, not not me. Oh, well well, Mort Burke, thank you so much for joining us today on the Daily Zeitgeist Man.

Where do the people find you, follow you, hear you, all that good shit? Yes. Thank you for having me, gentlemen. You can find me at Mort Burke on all the socials. I'm doing a half an hour at the Lyric Hyperion on Thursday. If you're in LA with my buddy, George McCullough, it's gonna be fun. Go watch Mythic Quest on Apple TV.

I'm on that and my wife, Shoran Sidequest, which is a spin-off, which is great. Yeah, man. And listen to rebrand our podcast. And thank you so much for having us, you guys. This is a blast, as always. Us, wow. Are you? Yeah, me and my dog, Cody guys. This is a blast, as always. Of course. Us? Wow. Are you?

Yeah, me and my dog, Cody. Oh, OK. I was going to say. You do contain multitudes, Mort. You do contain multitudes. Is there a work of media that you are enjoying? As the skateboard liaison for the podcast, the new professional skateboarder, Tom Karangelov,

who I just met in Austin when I went to a sick academic skateboard conference called Slow Impact, which was excellent. Would recommend highly. Shout out to Ryan Lay. Tom Karangelov has a new mini-doc on Followed. So go watch. Tom Karangelov has an amazing, what do you even call it? Structure and theory in which he finds skateboard spots around where movies have been filmed. It's a really, he's like a really interesting kind of an artful mind of this guy. It's a good watch.

I like him. Plus a super nice dude. That's, that's the shit I'm into right now. Oh, like that. Okay. For all the skate advocates out there. And look, we got some Tony Hawk remasters coming out this summer too. From my friends who missed three and four, three and four, baby. Pro skaters, little pro skater coming back.

Who is your, who is your Tony Hawk skater? Uh, right now I think Tyshawn Johnson's going to be in the new one. I would do him. No, I'm saying who did you always use in Tony Hawk? Yeah, I go, I go Muska, Kareem Campbell. I do it all. Reynolds. I do it all.

Alissa Steamer. There's a lot of, a lot of excellent. I was always Rooney Glifberg all the time. Oh, you're a Roon. Dude. Danish I was always Rooney Glifberg all the time. Oh, you're a room dude. Danish Burt superstar. Rude, got to do all all Christ errors all the time. Because I was his move. I was doing so I was gonna fucking 1080 Christ errors off

the fucking roofs in San Francisco, bro. I love that game. Anyway, thank you so much. Also for guest co-hosting man. Where do the people find you follow? Hear you embrace you. You know, listen, hear you, embrace you. You know, listen, it's always a pleasure.

I'll be back tomorrow. And you can find me in the streets any other time of the day, week, month and year. Also got a couple things I would like to promote if that's okay with you. Of course, that's the whole point. That's the whole point. First of all, Comedian Clash is coming to Texas for a little mini tour in June. Oh, so if you are in Texas, we are coming to Austin, Houston and Dallas in June 26, 27th, 29th.

More information we haven't officially. This is the first time I'm announcing it. So this is a did it did it did it did it so this is a breaking news breaking news right here right now here so you guys are the first ones to hear that so be on the lookout I'm gonna be announcing it more online and tickets will be sold so if you're in Texas near Texas gonna be some really dope people coming out with the show and you get a chance to play the game as well so this would be your chance. Uh, so check that out. Check out dropout TV.

You can't say much more than that. Uh, because some things are coming down a pipe on that show involving myself. So that'll be fun. And, uh, at Jockies Neil, I'm, I, I am finally starting to post more content online. I've started this week. My entire team is like Negro post more content online. I've started this week. My entire team is like Negro Postmore. So I'm going to do that.

We'll see how long it lasts. The more people engage with it, the more I'll do it. So I am entering the era of annoying social media creators. You don't have to look. That's the game. That's the game. You know, you got a lot of that. You don't have to apologize. You don't have to warn people. You know, it's have to. That's the game. You know, you got to watch that. You don't have to apologize. You don't have to warn people. You know, it's the game. It's the game, you know, I'm showing whole, I'm showing whole.

If you got to a certain and look, it took too long. It's I got there, but it took too long. So, you know, give me, give me my first, give me my first million dollar viral hit I'll show home. Is there a work of media, social or otherwise that you're liking? I am a wrestling fan. WWE WrestleMania season is upon us. The main event of WrestleMania night two is Cody Rose, the current WWE champion against a heel John Cena, who is a heel for the first time in over 20 plus years.

It's been a very fun storyline. So yesterday, Raw or WWE has been in London for the past or Europe for the past three weeks. And Raw is now a Netflix production. So it's on Netflix. Raw came out yesterday. The promo between Cody Rose and John Cena was happening. I'm going to play this because it just nobody will probably find this funny but me but it was very funny. Cody Rose and John Cena are going back and forth. John Cena is a heelish heel and Cody Rose says this

to him. John, you are still you're still my hero. But you're also a piece of shit. And I was like, I am fucking in. I am all the way in. There's like a cadence to wrestler shit talk where like you already, like that's set up so clear like you are my hero and I'm my hero. Long pause. Incredibles work with silable long pause. But you are also a piece of shit. Somebody just sent me, and I watched wrestling really since I was a kid but it was Cena now that he's like basically pointing to a right to a child in the audience who's wearing John

Cena gear looks like him and is like you especially are pathetic like to this child. Dude John Cena is on one right now. He's on one right now. It's very funny. I love it. A little post from Blue Sky. I'm liking this from at DarthBlueSky.beesky.social. Just talking about, you know, the evolution of Blue Sky posted,

cannot believe New York Times pitch bot is on Blue Sky. This place is going places. I can feel it. I'm like, yeah, just come on over. Just come on over. You can find me on everywhere at miles of gray. You can find the show at the daily zeitgeist on Instagram at daily zeitgeist everywhere else.

Uh, and also look, like I said, if you'd like to go a little bit deeper and some of the news we were talking about, just check the little episode notes right there and what app you're using right now, that's where you can find the footnotes, um, and that's we link off to all the articles we talked about as well as a song we're going to go right out on. I would like to go out on a song by speaking of Greys and people who are half Japanese. This is the artist, Sia Gray, who's a Canadian Japanese artist. She's like a really dope bass player. She started playing bass in a Jamaican Pentecostal praise band. That's how she learned bass.

And now she's just like a super duper cool fucking artist, super dope creator. This track is called HBW, and I encourage everybody to get into Cyagrey's work. Very interesting stuff there. So check that out. The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeart Radio. So for more podcasts like that, check out the iHeart Radio, Apple Podcasts, or ever get your shits for free. We will be back later today to tell you what's trending and until then, bye bye. The Daily Zite Guys is executive produced by Katherine Long. Co-produced by Bay Wang.

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