The Daily Zeitgeist - Elon’s Kung Fu Robot! They Suck, We’ll Win! 10.07.25

Episode Date: October 7, 2025

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What's up, Chris? What's up? Thanks for having me, guys. The Duffman, it's Dauphi. Chris Dauphi. Oh, I like, it's Dauphi. Is that annoying? No, no.

I just, I'm like, do I respond to the Scottish accent? I don't even know at that point. I get a lot of Duffman, you know, the, the Simpsons character. How could you not? How could you not? I mean, I was going to give it to you before I even, I realize your last name was Duff. Just your general energy.

Yeah. It was real Duff Man. I kind of do have an animated beer character type energy, you know? That's what people are always telling me. Duffman. Everywhere you go, a party follows. You're just fucking crack and bruise. Constantly thrusting beer cans out of my pelvis.

Yeah, his whole thing was just like, oh yeah, the Duff, the Duffman. Yep. My favorite ball of them is Duffman is thrusting in the direction of the problem. A classic. I like when it gets all sad and introspective. It breaks character. You know, Benicio del Toro's character in one battle after another, loosely based on the Duffman. That's true.

That is a lot of people don't know that. It's really beautiful. Yeah. It's just, yes, Sensei. Bringing beer to the party. Always. Bring a beer to the party or the non-party. You're spilling medello on your chest with the steering wheel in hand.

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Tuesday, October 7th, 2025. Big 10-7, buddy, if that's a thing they say. We all say that. Shut out fucking, if you're Hank Hill, it's your day, it's national propane day, okay? It's national

trigeminal neural neuralgia Awareness Day. Shout out Kyle Ayers. Shout out to Kyle. One of the dear friends of the show who has been living with trigeminal neuralgia for a few years now. National chocolate covered pretzel day. National inner beauty day. National LED light day. National fray day. National Taco Day. National Food at work day.

Boom. Done. I feel like there's like 30 national taco days. Come on. I don't know. I think it all depends on which company is behind it, probably. I'm going to wish a happy chuso to Koreans out there because this is their Thanksgiving is how my in-laws put it. But it's basically, I don't think it comes with all the colonial baggage of our Thanksgiving. Yeah, when Koreans landed at Plymouth Rock. They're celebrating the first meal with the pilgrims. No, it's like their mid-autom harvest festival.

Yeah. So it's been going for like three days. The Native Americans gave us corn, and we created corn cheese, the wonderful Korean Street Food Day. That's right. Anyway, my name is Jack O'Brien, a.k. I ain't here for sex, baby, with those eight-legged freaks. Crikey, mate, throw a shrimp up on the babie. That one courtesy of David Lesser on the Discord. I don't know if he came up with it.

I think that's just a word-for-word transcription of the version of Let's Talk About Sex that was released in Australia. That's the version they got. It wasn't a song about sex positivity. is just to reiterating once again Australians are not here to fuck spiders some might be which we keep telling them we know we never said you were and they're just like well good yeah

we're not I know okay just drop it moving on then anyways thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host Mr. Miles Gray hey it's Miles Gray aka the showgun with no gun the Lord of Lancashim, you know, just out here in the nation's capital.

Just keeping an eye out on this war zone. Keep your head on a swivel out there, man. Smithsonian will be open until this weekend. So I'm going to try and take the Geist Child to go see a gigantic rock. He's, bro, this motherfucker loves a plane, loves a spaceship. Yeah. Let me tell you something. They got a place with a ton of that shit in there.

They're packed with those shit. Yeah. Oh, yeah. All up in there. A whole room of planes hanging from the ceiling. Mm-hmm. And I always take a picture of the poop bag that they had for the astronauts

and it always annoys my partner, Her Majesty, because I always go up and go, this be a cold bag. And she's like, why do you always do this? Because you always react to it. Apollo 13, one of my favorite details in Apollo 13 is when they take 20 seconds out of the film to just be like, I bet they want to see Tom Hanks

piss into space right now. And, yeah, you just get to see him P on God's universe. How much did that cost? Is there any zero G happening in that scene or no? I think that's mostly computer graphics, would be my guess. It wasn't his actual zero gravity peak.

Because you're kind of tight on his face, I think, as he's relieving. There's my picture. Fecal bag. Every time. You want to see my other one? That's from the other time I went. Fecal bag.

and really that is your we always talk about we i always talk about tom hanks's obsession with pissing on camera of being like just a thing that he fits into every movie and you always fit into every romantic exchange with a romantic partner some some manner of shitting into a bag it's always been your thing yeah what can i say what can i say you want to watch billy madison she's like are you just going to go to that scene again you know it i'm just saying like dogs have them, what if people had them too? It's that poop again, he said. Poop eggs.

Miles were thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the author of the upcoming book, Humor Me. Humor me. Which comes out on January 6th. Right. You know, I did not pick the date. I did not pick the release date. I said, I wrote a lighthearted book about how to laugh more and they said, we got the perfect

day for it. The funniest date in American history. We got you. Don't even, don't even ask. Here's what we got. 9-11 was taken. We are putting this out on January 6th. You got 9-11, January 6th or December 7th. You know, a little more obscure, but the date that does live in infamy, no less.

And they'll say that about this book. That's right. It is. And you are predicting that this is going to be the new thing that January 6 is known for. Absolutely. I'm taking it over. When they say Storm the Capitol, they'll be like the Capitol bookstore. What are they exactly?

Because I know that was the release date of the book that lives in infamy forever. Yeah, that's humor me date. You know how we all remember the release dates of our favorite books? Yeah, that's right. It's available for pre-order now. You also host the How to Be a Better Human podcast, the National Academy of Sciences, live traveling game show, wrong answers only. Please welcome back to the show.

It's Chris Daufe. Hello, hello. What a joy. What a joy to be back on the daily side, guys. I don't speak Scottish yet. Do you have any, are you able to push back at all when the publisher goes, all right, the release date is on January 6th? Well, they said, what do you think about this day? And I said, that's hilarious. You're not serious, right? Broadly, like, historically, thoughts?

Well, I was like, that's kind of famous and not for comedy. Right. And then they were like, when we said, what do you think? We were like, it's going to come out that day just so you know. And I was like, all right, here we go. Let's do it. Great. I love it. We just wanted to hear you, hear you complain about it before we told you that that was, exactly when it's going to be. Yeah, it was very much the way that they asked, like, what do you think about this in the way that I ask my toddler? Like, do you want to go home now? It's like, well, the answer is yes. You can say whatever. We're going to do that. Yeah, we're going to go home. And you may claw my face off in anger, but we have to go now. We have to go. They told you on a call and they were like, see, I told you you'd be fucking hilarious. This guy's a riot. And then there's some like other people listening and laughing.

Anyways, that's the date, Chris, excited to get it out there on the new Independence Day. That's right, the New Independence Day. And I should say, you know, I know that The Daily Zygist kind of skews politically left. Of course, my book is a far-right manifesto. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right. Yeah. We're trying to brand ourselves just as a centrist podcast in case they deem this show like some kind of anti-American propaganda outlet.

Oh, we're calling ourselves Republicans now. Yeah, we've actually changed our. angle. Barry Weiss is our new editor-in-chief. And long may she reign. We can't wait to have Bari on later. It's going to be very hard. You know, let me also just say, I did think before I came on this, there's no doubt in my mind that when I get thrown in the gulag, these episodes will be a huge piece of the trial. And I'm thrilled for that.

Chris, here's the thing. We released so many of them. Even we can't keep track. Yeah, nobody's going to know. Nobody's going to be able to find these things. Oh, to me, that's a positive. The other thing, we're not big enough, we're not big enough. Yeah, that's the other thing that we've figured out is that nobody thinks, you know, Trump's not listening as of yet. I love that being your excuse in front of the military tribunal. You're like, it really is not as popular as you're making it sound. I mean, look at these download numbers, my honor.

It's just like you're basically about to shoot us for like a meeting with a few friends that we had quietly. This is so unfucking unfair. It was like an effective ad sales machine only for like certain grants and companies. Okay, please, like, oh, no, dude, there were there were black rifle coffee ads errantly running on this show. That's got to count for something. That actually does. That absolutely does count for something.

They're like, oh, actually. Oh, wait a second. Maybe that's the filter they use. Any show that had black rifle coffee ads is considered safe. And through that error, they're like, and this is, yeah. It isn't incredibly, you know, incredibly damning indictment of the economy when you see, like, what the podcast ads are at that particular moment. Like, a couple of years ago was like, we're sending people,

mattresses and physical products. And then recently it's been like, would you be willing to advertise like an injectable brain serum that you stick straight into your skull? And I'm like, I'm probably not. And they're like, okay, well, what about like, it's powered by AI. Exactly. Oh, an AI powered injectable brain serum? Go on.

Chris, we're thrilled to have you here. We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we got to talk about these new AI products that are being sold. No, actually, we are going to talk about, I guess. a form of AI. Elon's newest invention. We're talking at least 10 trill on these bad boys. Hell yeah.

These are robots. Ben trill. 10T. We're going to 10T that shit. Yeah, there's a robot. There's a video that he posted of a robot learning kung fu that he's like, enough said. So we'll talk about that. We'll talk about the popularity of the shutdown.

We'll talk about ICE's plans for the Super Bowl. Christy Gnome is pissed talking like she's about to go to war with the Super Bowl, I guess? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And we might even talk about SNL and the version of Trump on SNL versus a version of Trump in reality.

All of that plenty more, but first, Chris, we do like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? You know, I recently went to a coffee shop in Burbank, and afterwards I Googled their name and said, is Romancing the Bean a reference to a movie or something? Because it just seemed like that had to be too sexual of a name for a coffee shop to not be a

reference for something. Yeah. That turns out it is. For Romantic Stone. Yeah. Because at first I was like, that is a, that is a sweaty coffee shop. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, Romancing the Bean. Oh, uh, big Kathleen Turner fans. What? That's right. So they were. No. What are you talking about? Yeah.

They were. We're talking about downstairs. It was great. Great coffee, though. Great coffee and great movie. Both things that I learned about. What were you doing? That's just because you're not L.A. based, are you?

Yeah, yeah, I am. Oh, you are? Okay. I thought, oh, you're just from, you're from New York, right? I'm from New York. Yeah, that's what I was getting mixed out. I'm like, because, like, you're, you're on Magnolia like that, that romantic the beach?

Wow, there's some deep poles. You know the street and you know immediately the actor. I know this is my, my, this is where I was running around on a fucking bicycle all day. Oh, incredible. Yeah, that's my most recent one. And then, you know, a deeper one is I have a newborn baby at home. So I was Googling how to make a baby smile at you because, listen, I'm desperate for approval, even from an infant that can't process language or. Yeah, who doesn't have many neurological capabilities to smile.

Yeah, trying to find hacks to be like, is this good? Is this good? Is this the baby? Not a fan? Okay. All right. We'll try something else. Hey, hey, baby. Wait, how old's your baby, Chris?

seven weeks. Oh, shit. Very new. You are up, yeah. You're in the trench. I mean, I usually kill. I was killing with my kids when they were seven weeks old. Oh, no.

Don't say this to me, Jack. Is it kidnapping? Bring the kid over here right now. Let's see, Jack. We'll get a smile. We're going to get taken down. You just said kidnapping. Oh, no.

I'm sorry, black rifle coffee, black rifle coffee, black rifle coffee. We should be getting it out. One of my deepest fears is that I'm like, I can't make my baby smile. And then I bring it over to the Zoom thing. And Jack just, like, makes one expression of the baby smiles and laughs. And I'm like, it is me. Jack says, doesn't even, he just goes, it's seven weeks of you and says, dad that.

Now that's my shit right there. What? How's he got him to say that? I don't know, man. What is something you think's underrated? You know, we're in the fall season here. And I got to say, I think pumpkin spice is underrated. I think it had a loop where it got so popular with basic annoying white people

that people then started thinking, that pumpkin spice itself wasn't good. And now I think it's great. I think it's underrated because people think it is annoying, like the people who like it. And it's quite possible that I'm one of those annoying people who like it. But it's, I also love a spice that's named after a thing that's not in it. Zero pumpkin and pumpkin spice. You got to love that.

It evokes a time of year that is associated with pumpkin. And that's basically how it came together. And I think it like also probably evokes a little bit of pumpkin pie. Also doesn't really taste like pumpkin. Well, that's like the flavoring, like the nutmeg aspect of it, right? That's right. It's like how they have Yankee candles that, like, some Yankee candles smell like what they're, like, vanilla. And then they'll have Yankee candles that will be like a winter's memory.

Yeah, yeah, your grandmother's face. Yeah. It smells like lotion. The ice cream store, the fancy ice cream store, salt and straw has a Halloween season flavor that is essence of ghost. Get the fuck out of you. Which is fucked up because it is the most kid unfriendly flavor profile. It's black licorice and whiskey. Oh, no.

Are you for real? Yeah, yeah. And my seven-year-old was like, give me a taste of that. And I'm like, first of all, like, obviously he's going to, like, essence of ghost is like, how could you get that? Yeah, that sounds fucking, it's like you're going to hand me a ghost. And then to make it, it's kind of like a fucked up prank that I kind of appreciate. Yeah.

So, wait, did he eat it in his, like, face turned it? inside out, just like, I taste it. I was like, let me just, because I could tell from the look that they were, the ice cream barista was giving me, but this was not going to go well. And so I, like, gave it a little taste. And I was like, I don't think you're going to like it. And he, you know, soldiered on, touched his tongue to it and was like, oh, fuck that. Has it smiled at me since.

The fancy ice cream story in San Francisco, Humphrey Slocum, they had a flavor, maybe they still have a flavor called Secret Breakfast that was urban and cornflakes. And that was great. That makes sense. Yeah, we've all had those two together. Absolutely. Essence of ghost? Essence of ghost.

Nah. Yeah. What is your pumpkin spice delivery system? Is it a latte or are you one of those? And I don't want to reveal where I stand on this. But are you one of those sick freaks who likes like pumpkin spice Cheerios and shit like that? Oh, no, no. I think that's a bridge too far.

Oh, no. That's disgusting. That's disgusting. And the people who like that should be executed. All right. Yeah. Now you're speaking the language of our time. I'll put it in a pie or I'll put it in a hot drink.

That's where I want my spice. Yeah, that feels bad right. I had a cookie recently that was like, but they called it false spice. I think they were trying to do a thing where like they didn't want to trigger people with the word pumpkin spice. But they said false spice. I'm like, look, this shit is orange as hell. We know what we're doing here. And it was delicious.

And I think, yeah, to Chris, your point, it feels like the bacon wave that happened like 15 years ago where everything was bacon. And people got to join that with bacon on it. Stupid. Bacon sucks. but loki were like no bacon is undefeated fucking goes you know what i get it we got annoying with it for a little bit it's that people who like a thing like that too much are annoying but the thing is still good you know yeah right it's kind of like like that's i'm not even gonna i was gonna say i think it's like a thing that people get politically too where it's like people who are annoying about like believing

in a good thing too much then they turn people off from the good thing sometimes but it's actually like the whole 90s like i was brought up to be like people who care about about shit are stupid by movies like PCU and Forrest Gump where he like goes to Washington, D.C. during like, you know, some of like Black Panther movements and stuff like that. And everybody's just like idiots walking around following lines. And like, I was just like, oh, yeah, man, this fucking, that's for the birds. We've got this shit figured out. You don't need people.

Black liberation is for the birds. Black liberation is performative. They're just performatively angry, right? Robert Zemeckis? Yeah, that's what you want me to take from this, right? These are Jack O'Brien quotes that are going straight onto a pillow, embroidered onto a pillow, both of those quotes right there. Black Rifle coffee, black rifle coffee.

You can find those in the High Heart Media store? What's, Chris, what's something you think is overrated? Overrated? You know, let's go seasonal again. I think horror movies are overrated. I don't like scary things. The world is full of scary things. Why do we need more scary things to be made?

And also, I think that this should be illegal for you to show. I think you should not, if I go to a comedy movie, you should not be able to show me a trailer for a horror movie in the comedy movie previous. I'm not there to get scared, all right? I'm there to laugh and have a good time. All of a sudden, now I got to cover my eyes because someone's face is getting ripped off and there's like a scary door that I'm going to think about all night.

That's not fair. I get it. I'm a little scaredy cat chicken boy. I get it. Scary door you're going to think about all the way. Don't make me see the door with the weird noise and the trailer. I hate it. Yeah.

They all have that. They all have the like creaking open and then it's like. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. For a while there was this like ad for the like streaming horror movie service that was on all the buses and like subways in New York City that just had like a face with like teeth all over the face. And I thought like that might ruin, that might end my life.

Just seeing that all the time. Shutter. That's right. Exactly. Shutter. I think Shutter should be, you should have to opt in to advertisements for shutter. To have to be exposed to their marketing. exactly yeah i have to answer questions about horror movie posters like the it's an event when a new

horror movie poster like there's that new monster the ed gine story that like is coming out on netflix and so a uh there there are billboards around l.a going up and my kids are immediately like okay tell me about ed gine yeah i'm like oh you know he's like a fictional character maybe who I don't know what to tell you here, man. Yeah. I am also aware that my, so far, my like, get-to-know-you section of this episode is revealing me to be like a sensitive fourth-grader. I'm like, I don't like scary movies, but I love sweet drinks.

I like Halloween, but not the scary parts, just the candy. And just the, you know, the essence of a ghost, maybe. I like the essence of a ghost. That's why I drink whiskey and black licorice. You are speaking the language of our time. Outlawing media and assassinated people who you disagree with. So I feel like, yeah. There I am.

Right in that sweet spot. I think this is actually going to help keep the Daily Zyghisai's on available. Oh, yeah, yeah, absolutely. You're about to be a late night show on CBS. That's right. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Hi there, this is Josh Clark from the Stuff You Should Know podcast.

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the cars they're still selling but the sales have like slowed down a little bit despite everyone's best efforts he's still coasting quite a bit off of like EV credits and you know tax credits

and things like that which were the things that made him rich in the first place yeah that last quarter people were like oh EV sales actually went up a little bit And they're like, it's because the Biden EV credits are about to run down. So people are, this is your last chance. Yeah, give me the money. Give me, I'm not going to leave money on the table.

Otherwise, no real upward movement for the company since Elon basically just let everyone know he's a freaky piece of shit. Yeah. You may remember, by the way, the EV credits being canceled is the reason that he actually turned against Trump. It wasn't anything to do with Epstein files. That was just like his explanation. But, yeah, he's like, this helps create a frictionless transaction if you're giving people.

Just subsidize it a little bit. But anyway, the latest grift that he's been pushing is the humanoid robot slave army optimist. And he recently said, the robots will, he just says fucking whatever, which is so funny about this guy. He said that the robots will most likely represent 80% of the company's value, like long term. And in that period, will potentially bring in $10 trillion. Because everyone is just going to be, you know, paling around with their opposite. to this robot. Makes sense to me.

These guys look cool as hell. They look like the older brother I never had. I feel like really honestly, Trump and and Musk both benefits so much from having their quotes like selected out like that. Because if you actually hear them talk, it's so incoherent. Like one time I was in a room, not like a small room, but like in a space where Elon Musk gave a speech. And at the end, I was like, I have no idea what you said. That was totally incoherent, rambling.

And then you later on see like the quotes that get pulled like that of like, it's going to be $10 trillion in value, 80%. But in reality, he's just like talking, like, I love them. They could do kung fu. Oh, my God. Like, it's, you know, if you see the future, it's like, oh, my God. He's so, it's embarrassing. And this is an embarrassing idea.

It's like, there used to be a time where technology was about creating things that had actual value for actual people and inventing things. And this one is just like, I'm a rich guy who literally is coming up with ideas while on ketamine. I have to find a way to juice the, a stock price as much as possible at any given opportunity. So I will make grandiose claims. He said they're aiming for an annual output of around 1 million units by 2030. They think they're going to do that. Right now, this guy can't even shit out 5,000 of these things. But again, to help sort of wet the whistles

of investors, Elon posted this fucking video that just says Tesla Optimus Learning Kung Fu. and learning kung fu I mean we can look at this here and I'm not a martial arts expert but I don't know if this is a kung fu lesson or just a terribly choreographed back and forth but anyway here is the robot doing kung fu so it's a we'll describe it for just the listeners

does a fun fist bump some punches some like a learned routine facing each other pretending to spark and this does it's first of I do want to say it's as boring as this sounds right now

it's incredibly boring like someone's sweeping with a robotic broom yes so it's doing the have you guys seen the videos of Steven Seagal when he's like doing kata like and he's like overweight and so the people are just selling everything

and they're like left right okay and now here he's doing his ikego yeah yeah and like he's like in a chair, but like just like kind of flipping people from a chair and they're just like selling his moves. So this like martial arts master is basically it looks like they've memorized a schoolyard handshake, you know what I mean? Where they're just like left. Right. Hocke down. Flock, roundhouse. Left foot, right foot. Turn around. High five. Well, I mean, we're only halfway through. Let's let's really see. I mean, right now they're just getting started. They're lightly tapping each other's

They're like sparring, but it looks like everybody has, like, practiced this, which is, like, what do you, we've talked before about Elon Musk when he announced that, like, he had self-driving cars eight years ago and, you know, showed a video that went viral. And then it was later revealed that they had just, like, scanned the entire thing. And there was a human driver in there. It was fake. You come to find out, that's Jet Lee inside that robot. She's truly going full mechanical turk with it. Okay, go on with this quote-unquote learning kung fu display. Okay, so they're tapping wrists.

He kind of did a kick that it blocked. He kind of pushed it and it didn't fall down. He pushed it. Oh, it did that thing from Mission Impossible. Yeah. Where you, uh, what's his name, Superman, previous Superman? Henry Cavill, like, loads his arms. They like taught it to do like a little like arm load thing.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. It's arms. Okay, go on. Duke's back up. Oh, kind of pretending to kick. The slowest kick I've ever seen. And then...

And then it's over. I would say... But it's attached by like a big, thick cord to a track on the roof. So it's like, you want to get away from someone doing Kung Fu that's tied to a track? You just like step three feet to the other side of the track. Yeah, you may recognize being tied to something above you as the same technology. they used to make Keanu Reeves and the cast of Crouching Tiger

look like they can defy the laws of physics. And in this case, it can't even, like, it just doesn't even look coordinated enough to be human. It looks like a 45-year-old guy in karate class with children. Yeah, they should make it after that whole display, then put its hands on its knees and go, oh, God, oh, God.

Jesus Christ, oh, man. You guys want to watch some anime at my house, Like, I was going to fucking kill me. He pushed me hard. That's not fair. That guy's 12. Yeah, yeah. But, yeah, many people in the field of robotics are very cautious to big up this Tesla robot because there are still so many things to figure out.

Like, one person was like, the biggest thing is replicating human touch. Like, they're like, great. They've showed that this has great limb dexterity. If we're talking about, like, just brutally like, what this is a mechanic. doing like it can it can you know sort of mimic someone doing a kick or a punch like a martial artist how uh Travis Kelsey has great limb dick uh dexterity just putting that out there but thank you um but like when you think about like the human touch thing like I feel like we've seen so many videos of like automated machines that are so rough like they don't know how to like have you

seen that video that was like that came out a few years ago of like the hot dog making machine I had not seen it until you shared it with me this morning. Yeah, this is just so funny because to me, this is exactly what they're talking about with, like, robots unable to replicate, like, the human touch. It just knows, like, movements at a certain velocity. And so this, like, video is just so funny. Welcome to the future motherfucker.

Loading a hot dog into, like, a tube bun. And then once it goes to the side, just, nope, completely thrown off now. So, yeah, I just keep shoving it in. Just keeps shoving it in, then, like, slowly, like, just assumes that it went in the thing and then, like, takes it over and just, like, hands it to the person and it's just a bare hot dog. Enjoy. Enjoy. Nothing about this three.

I said, enjoy. Yeah. Nothing about this very simple three-step process that is literally, like, the lowest rung of, like, what I could do. Like, it is the lowest rung of, like, what I could do. Like, it is the lowest rung of. job i could do well high you know it's taking hot dog putting in a tubular bun wrapping it in napkin the someone who's high could do it way better way much better because if you're getting high at your hot dog job i bet you you don't have to think too much to put a hot dog together

at all no like that you could be so high that you go to your job be like yeah watch this what you're 15 here there you go there you go come on i will bet you that that guy also does an incredible Kung Fu routine. There's no doubt of my mind. Back in the break. He's like, Rick, do you don't have to wear your karate ghee to work? We do have a uniform. All right, can I put a polo on top of the ghee? Are they going to know about my limb-dick dexterity?

That's right. Yeah, they've been trying to solve, like the, I remember reading an article about berries in the New Yorker. And they were talking about how it's like this unsolvable problem for the world of robotics to have something that has, like, a gentle enough touch to pick strawberries.

Like, they still need humans to pick strawberries and, like, Blackberries because the robot's just, like, fucking smash them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's also like, they're like, we still have to keep paying these workers. Also, the idea that it has to be like a humanoid looking robot is so weird to me because, like, no one was ever like, wow, but if only the cotton gin looked like a person when it did it.

If only my toaster had a face. Like, good machines do a thing and they do it well. And it's all these, it's all these like tech billionaires like Zuckerberg and Musk who don't have friends. So they're like, what if we solve the problem with the thing I made? It's a virtual friend. He's a robot friend. It's C3PO. Yes.

We don't need that. Yeah. Well, because a lot of these roboticists are like, people don't realize they're not going to have. legs. They're probably going to be on wheels because they don't need to have legs to function for whatever specific function it is. It's not like everything needs to be a thing that looks like a human and therefore it does all this work. Like it could be look like a fucking tripod with wheels in one arm and does a specific task a human would do. But like the idea that it's like it will be humanoid is just very sci-fi. It will be humanoid and

do kata. It will smoke weed with me and laugh. It will I mean, it's so revealing, right? Because it's always like, it's a human that obeys my every command. It literally is like, I just want slaves. Yeah, exactly. I'm all boiling down to. Do we recreate that thing they said we can't have anymore? Yeah, doesn't, I don't know.

It has like big, they just want an older brother energy. Oh, my God. To do Kung Fu with. They absolutely want that robot to be like 10 inches taller than them and to do Kung Fu and they go, wow. You're actually pretty good at. Kung Fu. I think you're pretty cool for your age. Actually, now, I will call you, Sensei.

Elon, I'm going to tell all my friends that you can ride BMX bikes with us, because you are cooler than a regular 9-year-old. Yeah, it's, uh, I, there was a display before where they had robotic bartenders at a Tesla event

that I was actually pretty impressed with, and I'm almost positive, they were using the same technology for that that they're using here. which is that there's somebody somewhere doing the job and it's just mimicking their body. So it's essentially the mechanical turk, but like, you know, no, the robot isn't using

it's like AI mind to like competently do the very simple job of like pouring champagne. There's like an under-employed commercial actor somewhere in a room wearing a full body suit and he's doing the motions to nothing and the robot is just doing it. Yeah, I think that's what we're working with here. And this is the latest in that technology, which is, like, being held up by a thing that I could look fucking so sick if they had me hanging from, you know, from a bungee cord.

And instead, it's just doing very basic. But I think it just goes to show, though, too. Like, it's always like this weird shell game with Elon Musk and Tesla. It's like, are you a car? He was like, no, we're not a car car. We're fucking AI, robot taxi, fucking shit. And now he's like, we're fucking making robot slaves, dude, that do Kung Fu. like that's that's the fucking big picture man you got to fucking zoom out dude it's not a car it's this

shit 10 trillion dollars man it's funny because like he is literally the richest person in the world or if not the richest the second richest person in the world but he operates his businesses the same way that i have done every interview whenever i'm desperate for work where they're like and can you do this and i'm like yeah yeah oh definitely i'm like sometimes i'm a comedian but i'm a writer but i also am very good at uh customer service and uh i could i could totally learn coding as well Yeah, child development. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I guess the question is like, what do you want?

Because that's what I could do. Oh, just looking for someone to sort of clean up the bar at night. No, I love clean. My passion in life is actually cleaning. I'm like, that's what I'm always telling people. I love to clean. People ask me regularly if I'm on meth. There is, like, that's how much I love cleaning.

So I'm so at it, dude. And no, I'm not. I'm not. I'm just enthusiastic. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. He has that same rapid fire meth pivot.

That's, yeah, yeah. All right. back to the world of politics and failing to sell something. It seems like the Democrat shut down is not being sold as such. People are not, don't seem to be buying it. No, no. I mean, look, they're really trying to sell this thing as, you know, the main framing from the Republicans is this is a Schumer shutdown because Democrats want to give health care to all the illegals.

And that's why we're not going to play ball. And again, this is not the fucking case. In fact, I think for starters, the messaging is not working because more people believe that the GOP is responsible for this than the Democrats, despite them pointing the finger constantly Democrats. Because they have power of all three branches of government. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly.

Yeah. And they could also. People are weird sometimes. I mean, they could also just unilaterally do it themselves in the Senate if they wanted to. Sure. But they're not. So what gives there? But again, they're going to.

continue this thing about it's it's all because they want to help illegals but i think for starters just again to be clear on why they're not negotiating with the republicans it's because they want to extend the ACA like the affordable care act subsidies to keep people's insurance affordable and if right if it gets vaporized like in the big beautiful bill nonsense then millions of people are going to be facing just like skyrocketing costs like doubling of their their premiums and some people who just want to be able to afford it at all you know matter what. And they also want to reverse like the insane cuts to Medicaid because like people shouldn't suffer more than they already do in this country is kind of I guess where they're coming

from. But the reason they latch on to this specific thing of like, well, they want to give illegals of medical care is because they're talking about this very technical part of Medicaid called emergency Medicaid that allows hospitals to be reimbursed for care they would give to someone who wouldn't be able to qualify for Medicaid or Medicare. So that would be like undocumented people or if you're awaiting a change in your immigration status. So any hospital that receives Medicare funding is obligated to provide that care as a condition.

Because like, you know, we have laws that are like, I mean, despite what you may read, you can't let people just die in the street. You know, you usually got to do something about it. So, you know, so when vice president couch copulator says things like, quote, a lot of emergency health care at hospitals that are provided to illegal aliens

that was funded by the federal government. We turned off that funding because, of course, we want American citizens to benefit from those hospital services, not to be taxed and then to have these hospital services go to illegal aliens. Again, first of all, when he says, we turned off that funding, that doesn't mean they're just kicking people out of the hospital.

Like, they're just take, what they're doing is they're taking away funding from hospitals. So hospitals then have to, yeah. You're not allowed to just let people die because fucking woke. So they have to then just spend money on that and therefore health care for everybody gets way worse. Yeah, because you're not properly funding the hospital. So when you go to like, you know, rural hospitals are already suffering the most from this kind of shit. But again, they want to give this impression, like it's some like white nationalist wet dream of human suffering.

He's like, that's actually what we're doing. It's like, no, you're not actually. you're degrading the entire health care system by taking away the funding. That's what's actually happening. And Mike Johnson went into like full spin zone on Sunday telling any news show that would have him. That again, they just want to give it to illegal cartel, narco, gangbanger, fentanyl, and that's what they're, that's who they're fighting for. Fortunately, a few anchors pushed back and kept it moving. Like, that's not true at all.

Anyway, Speaker Johnson, what about this? Also, as an aside, fun news story. Remember covenant eyes? We talk about all the time. of the porn. So this is one of the first things we learned about Mike Johnson was that he uses an app with his son that is like sort of a dead hand switch type situation

where if you jack off, your son gets a, if you jack off to porn on the internet, your son gets a report about it and vice versa. If your son jacks off to porn on the internet, you get a report on it. It's an anti-porn internet accountability software program. You know that's a one-way street. assuming his child

knows how to operate the internet and this dipshit has no idea every time he's like I just want to jerk off using a mobile phone right exactly I will log into the app

before I jerk off right but sidestepped it yeah dad I'm doing great you too I won't even act like I heard what was coming out of your laptop last night yeah yeah but again

so this whole thing was like he's like we're very chaste and we're very about like you know our purity because of porn is such a terrible thing so one of the like the co-founder this one guy, you know, he sort of had this whole anecdote about how he was like, you know,

it's for my step-sons to really, like, you know, we wanted a way to be accountable to each other. Well, one of his step-sons last, where in August, was arrested in like a to catch a predator-style sting where he thought he was going to meet a minor. And they pulled up his phone and he had, like, child sexual abuse, like, material on his phone. So we're like, God, this is the founders of the app. Yeah, his step-son. Who, like, his whole story, his anecdote was like, this is sort of the impetus for even creating this thing.

So we have accountability between my stepson and I. Well, tell you what, if there's one person who should not be looking at porn, it is that stepson. So, yeah, which you're like, what's the, like, well, how dark is this tale before? But anyway, that's what Mike Johnson, who's, you know, loves talking about the efficacy of this app, just a quick, just to check in with the people who are running that. No, nothing weird happening over there. Nothing weird at all.

just that's the kind of health care that we support is uh yeah the covenant eyes style health covenant yeah yeah it's just like porn spy but but they gave it like the creepiest fucking name like it's just like you picture a uh like the guy from the da Vinci code like the monk just like whipping himself on the back yeah played by paul bettney yeah covenant eyes a blood covenant oh between me god hitting yourself with the cat with nine tails Jesus. I mean, the other thing about the health care is like, I just, I can't, I understand that they're desperately trying to push this narrative, but it's like, I don't think there's anyone,

even if you're, even if you are really far right, who is like the thing that we need to do to fix health care in this country is have like more questions when you walk into the emergency room to sort people, right? Yes, yeah, yeah. It's so, no one wants this, right? More chaos in our emergency rooms. Exactly. Americans are asking for.

I want more people to be turned away in pain and suffering, right? Like, it's fix the problem, which is that health care is expensive and doesn't work. That's not how you fix it. If you believe that, you're wildly being misled. Yeah, they, I mean, Mike Johnson went up on Monday morning was being like, guys, the thing you don't understand is we're the Republicans, we're the ones protecting the health care. Okay? That's where we're coming from.

That's why we're standing firm on this. And it's like, said the party who's done fuck all with health care for as long as I can remember. It's like, you know, they've always just been the one opposing things that were expanding health care benefits to people. But yeah, go on. Tell us more about that, Mike Johnson. Go on. It is also the thing where, you know, the people who are going to be most hurt by this tend to be in Republican states, right? Like, this disproportionately benefits Republican districts and Republican states.

Yeah, it's like funny, too, because there are other people like Republican. are getting confronted with, like, the polls. And they're like, oh, those, those, that's a, I've seen actually the opposite in polling. And they've been asked, oh, yeah, okay, which one? And the one I made up to rhetorically be able to not be owned by you right now. The poll that my girlfriend in Canada just did. Okay. She goes to a different school.

The poll goes to a different school, guys. I do think that the fact that every government website has the, like, little banner that says, like, the radical left shut down the government is a really desperate. attempt here to make it so that people will believe that it's not the people in control of government who are shutting government down. I mean, the amount of traffic flooding to those websites at all times. I'm sure it's really hitting people hard. All right. Let's take it. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk about the Super Bowl. Hi there. This is Josh Clark from the Stuff You Should Know podcast. If you've been thinking,

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It feels like, I heard somebody say recently that, like, The left tried to use their cultural power to, like, gain political win, not the left, sorry. The Democratic Party tried to use their, like, cultural acumen and, like, you know, influence to try to win political power. And that always fails. And the right is using their political power to try to gain cultural power. And I feel like it's equally inadvizable. It doesn't work that way. Yeah.

Just like, we're going to fucking arrest you for doing a. halftime show that we don't like. Oh, that's so cool. That's so cool. They said that. Oh, man, I love that. Exactly. That's cool. These people are kind of neat. Yeah, so Christy Nome just confirmed that the Super Bowl will suck thanks to ICE because the halftime show will feature Bad Bunny. Ice is going to be all over the event, according to her, in order to make sure that attendees are, quote, law-abiding Americans who love this country, according to Nome. So fucking vague. What sort of does that mean? Like, are they, they're checking citizenship at the fucking ticket gate?

Yeah. Like, this is going to be a real problem for the people who paid $30,000 for a seat at the Super Bowl or, like, you know, are part of the Ford marketing team. Like, the people who go to the Super Bowl are celebrities, people who are on, like, a brand team and then just, like, extremely wealthy people who are fans of one of the two teams. Like that's- And there are, I mean, I know people who are unwell who are. will like spend all of their money. Like, I have friends who did that with the Dodgers World Series last year. I'm like, bro, you cannot afford to go to the World Series.

They're like, I'm going. I'm going, dude. I'm going. That's all there is. And I'm like, you, oh, okay, whatever. Like, nobody knows anything anymore. Sure. They're going to be, like, in that pit of, like, you know, how they always have, like,

a big group of, like, dancing children. Just, like, knocking children over trying to, trying to, let me see your credit. Let me see your ID. But, yeah, she said people should not attend the event, she, unless they are, quote, law-abiding Americans of love this country, said that NFL officials won't be able to sleep at night for picking bad bunny, adding that they're so weak, we'll fix it. And then they suck and we'll win, and God will bless us, and we'll stand to be proud of ourselves at the end of the day. It sounds like she's about to go to war. What is? Like, just wage a religious war.

Between this and though, you think you're really. hardcore, we're so much more hardcore than you from Stephen Miller. This is just peak loser talk again. They suck and we'll win. They suck and we'll win. Right. Are you for real? It's incredible because it's the kind of

shit talking that normally one team does against the other team and instead she's doing it against the concept of the Super Bowl. Right. Yeah. They suck and will win. Super Bowl will lose and it's like do you actually even know what you're talking about? Oh yeah.

They suck. Oh, Super Bowl never wins. They is the Super Bowl? Yeah, that's right. Mm-hmm. And all the NFL fans, they suck too. They won't sleep at night having picked bad bunny. It's like, I guarantee you those guys sleep real well enough.

I think they're fucking thrilled that you're saying what you're saying right now. More people are going to tune in. Yeah. You know how much they're going to charge for fucking advertising? That's the whole point. You know what I mean? Like you put a fucking person in the halftime show because you want. want more eyeballs on it.

And they go, what about this internationally renowned artist? That might help get some eyeballs on it. Also, every, like, roided up racist who joined ICE is thrilled that this is the next assignment. They're like, yes, flood the stadium. I can resale the tickets that I mortgaged my house for. Yeah. Yeah, I have to get rid of some Super Bowl tickets. Turns out I'm going to be there for work on an unrelated note.

but yeah incredible that now the work the work trips to the super bowl are going to be like uh white supremacist police force and the brand's marketing team for nike yeah exactly yeah yeah it's like what do you do oh our clients we we spend a lot of money with this one brand they just they gave us like a few tickets and here i do think like i don't know i think we're seeing this taken like this idea of them trying to use political power to get cultural cachet i do think we're seeing this taken to a higher level than we've ever seen. Like the, Barry Weiss, like, taking over CBS News

and then paying $150 million for a blog that, like, I don't know, not that many people went to. Whoa, whoa, whoa. The people who were fighting woke, we knew. We knew. We were on that shit from day one. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I don't think it's going to work. Like, I still think people will reject this shit. Like, I think CBS News will suck under Barrie Wyss. That's the thing. I think it's mostly just effective because it's completely dulling the,

not dulling, but it's diminishing the industry of journal, the profession of journalism to have like these outlets that used to be seen as like, oh yeah, that's probably a good journalistic outlet

now to be completely owned that they're like, oh now, yeah, you can't trust anything CBS says. You can't trust anything this news thing says because they all have some kind of MAGA, you know, content chief, like, you know, combing through the stories to tell you

what's what, that eventually, like, it's just, I think that's the whole thing is probably just to try to injure journalism as much as possible, because, like, those are, that's where people end up calling the fucking politicians that are used to, but now they have to do it from substack. You know, it's like, it's also because it's across the board, right? These are the people who, like, are the biggest, uh, opponents of DEI and of people who are unqualified for their jobs, getting hired for their jobs. And yet, like, their entire project right now is getting people who are totally unqualified

put into jobs. Yeah. So, including themselves. Right. Including themselves. Oh, every single one of them. It's just like, you don't have any relevant experience for this job. Oh, and then this is their thing.

I've never done any actual factual reporting on something. Just because I'm a pundit named Bari Weiss. I think I know something about real journalism, even though I've never actually engaged in it in my life. Exactly. I mean, this is, it's just one of it. these things where it's like that anytime they attack something, you know that it's the thing that they're trying to do, right?

Like, whatever it is that they say they're against is the thing that they're actually trying to do just in their own form. Yeah. The wild thing was that I think that quote from Christy Nome about the, they so can wheelwind was when she was hanging out with fucking Benny Johnson during like their Chicago ice raids or something. Yeah, on Friday, right? Yeah, and then he posted this video where he's like, I actually got her to like,

we were thinking about there got a new ice processing facility that they want to, you know, brutalize human beings inside of, or we call it processing illegals. And there, he said, we, we came up with a name, we workshopped it, and it's going to be called Deep Dish Deportation Depot. Oh, that's so funny. It's so, see, they are embarrassing. They are funny because Chicago has deep dish pizza. And it's alliterative.

And it's alliterative, and that is the highest form of poetry. Oh, my God, yo, they all have, they all start with D. Dang, dude. Also, you know, the fact that Benny Johnson is the like America first guy while also being funded by Russian propaganda. Yeah, right. Yeah. It's just. Why don't they let Benny Johnson do the halftime show?

You know, instead of bad bunny. Yeah. Good Benny. Oh. They did. That's it. That's it right there. Put good Benny in.

They had a good Benny. we saw the effect though because that interview happened on Friday and Bad Bunny was supposed to do I guess Saturday night live the season premiere on Saturday and they had him run him for the hill oh wait no actually he's still just hosted as

as expected yeah he's fine he did troll them in his opening monologue though because he's like yeah man he's like obviously I was announced as the Super Bowl halftime performer and everyone fucking loved it God, you guys. Even, even Fox News. Bad Bunny is my favorite musician.

And he should be the next president. Perfect. Beautiful. That funny is my favorite music and should be the next president. That was pretty good. Did you guys watch any of, did you watch the cold open? I got the, I got a few minutes into the cold open and it was too real. Yeah, some for me.

Yeah, Colin Jost, as Pete Hakeseth doing his, I thought they, you know, they made some points about how he's like, everything like needs to be de-woken, masculine. Right. You need to be hairless and hot, shredded. We need hot, shredded, man. But then, like, Trump, so James Lawson Johnson's Trump then comes out and addresses the camera directly and is like, I'm going to take SNL off the air. And it's like, when you compare it to who Trump is now, it's like the sharpest and most likeable and coherent Trump that exists currently. Right. Like, and like, I don't know, in recent weeks, he's been like, obviously attacking and harming American citizens in fucking Chicago.

The footage coming out of Chicago is fucking terrifying. But like, he also sounds completely incoherent all the time. like he that we talked about him retweeting that AI video where it was like a video of him that was generated by AI where he was like there we're going to have like put together in the same manner as that bad bunny clip we are going to have med beds and right yeah like just everyone to get their mid bed card conspiracy yeah that he then took down and when people were like what the fuck was that Caroline Levitt was like I think the president saw the video and posted it and then took it down. It's like, yeah, no, that was what we were asking. That's exactly what happened. Why did he post a video that was an AI created clip of him making an announcement? Doesn't that suggest that he's confused about reality?

Yeah. And she was like, he has the right to do that. It's his social media. He's incredibly transparent, as you all know. Like, it just sounds like there, and we heard the behind the scenes conversation of fucking covenant eyes being like, you know, when she was like, the president is unwell and unhinged.

And he was like, you are, you have people too. Oh, Mike Johnson. Yeah. Yeah. He said all, like basically you also have people like that.

It just feels, I don't know, like we're, we're reaching a point where maybe like, Trump as fun loving and coherent person doesn't totally make sense. I don't know. I, like his impression took great.

years of constant exposure to him that people are suddenly yeah i don't know is he okay i just just the like the gut feeling of after having seen like where he's fallen to and then having the same james austin johnson come out with essentially the same trump impression it's it does feel like a little bit uncanny for for him for that impression to still be as coherent as it always was and trump to be as incoherent and you know it's also like you can't necessarily like make it a fun show if trump is incoherent and like clearly dying on stage uh but it does seem to i don't know it maybe it's just worth noting that like like that's how much the drop off in his cognitive ability has been is that it just feels different now it's like no that's not quite right anymore

It feels like different. Yeah. I do think that sometimes political figures you get this huge benefit from the pop culture understanding of them being better than their actual self, right? Like Biden, I think, really benefited from the onions version of Biden being like, I'm shirtless washing my trans am on the White House lawn. That image, even long past when they were putting those articles out, people are kind of like, yeah, he's like the fun, crazy uncle.

And like with Trump, it's like, he is truly like, very difficult to follow, making wild, extremely dangerous decisions. But then, like, when you see the impressions of him, it's like, yeah, but he's kind of like a funny businessman, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's hard to square that with the reality, and a lot of people don't square with the reality. Yeah, I think that's where it's kind of happening now, because it's just becoming, like, to your point, the Caroline Levitt thing, she had to be like, I think it's great that he likes memes.

And it's like, mm, okay. Like, the question was, what's he getting at with this weird shit? you didn't have an answer for that. You had to spin because that's an uncomfortable answer to have to actually give like something sincere about. And yeah, even with Johnson when he was confronted by Madeline Dean of just being like, because essentially she was like, you wit all this shit?

And he's like, well, I mean, y'all, y'all got some weirdos too. And you're like, okay. Some weirdos, too. Just so we know. Yeah. Are you sure about that? You sure about that? But, you know, the sick of fans continue to do their sick of dance.

That's right. It's like a dance. All right. Chris Duffy, such a pleasure having you, as always, on the Daily Zeitgeist. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? You can find me at chrisduffeycom, and you can follow me at, at Chris the letter I, Duffy. There it is. And is there a work of media that you've been enjoying?

You know, we were just talking about the onion, and I feel like the onion every once in a while. I mean, actually very frequently right now, they are just nailing how. to do satire that actually doesn't empower the people in power and is really funny. So I've been really enjoying all the onion coverage, but specifically their talk of fascism, Dangerous warns Ministry of Compliance. That was one of my favorite headlines recently. That's right. Miles, where can people find you?

Is there a work of media you've been enjoying? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You find me everywhere at Miles Gray. You find me talking about 90-day fiancé on 420-day fiancé. Let's see, a work of media. There's just a lot, I mean, just Barri Weiss becoming the head of, the editor of, editor-in-chief, or whatever her head freak in charge at CBS News is fucking terrifying. A lot of posts on Blue Sky about it. First one is from Anna Merleon.com.com. Social posted, let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called official Antifa cannot be the head of a huge news organization.

Jared Jared Yates Sexton on blue dot B-B-Sky at social posted Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people

who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear. Hmm, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hmm, interesting. You can find me on Twitter

at Jack underscore O'Brien on Blue Sky at Jack O'B, the number one. I liked Pookie on Twitter at Pugge's Paradise tweeted, is there a specific post that you still think about and Brandon Snoozing retweeted just a picture

of the post from Hereditary on the side, the roadside post. I liked that. And then I also liked a thing that was being screen captain

sent around was Patrick Cosmos at very important lawyers post working on a new unified theory of American reality I'm calling

everyone is 12 now. I love those. And I want to have like 50 kids in a farm. Of course you do. You're 12. I don't want to eat vegetables. I think steak and french fries is the only meal. Hell yeah. Homie, you're 12. Maybe if there's crime, we should send the army. Bless your heart, my 12 year old buddy. Oh, man. So good. It's a pretty good read on just what the fuck everything, where this is all coming from. You can find us on Twitter and Blue Sky at Daily Zekegeist. We're at the Daily Zekegeist on Instagram. You can go to the

description of this episode wherever you're listening to it and there at the bottom you will find the footnotes which is where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode we also link off to a song that we think you might enjoy miles is there a song that you think that people might enjoy yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah i do uh it's about it's a from a track called or a band called rebounder and i think it's like a producer out of new york and the track is called tennis bracelet and it's just like just the name i was like what the fuck is this track about Why would you call me? Like, it feels like so, like 80s, like wasp, like yuppie coated, like the tennis bracelet.

And the song sounds like that. Like, it has like this sort of like, you know, nostalgic kind of yacht rocky kind of like, everything's great. And I just got my lady a tennis bracelet kind of vibes. But it's got a good, it's just like really, I like the track. I love that sort of, that's the nostalgic texture. So this is Rebounder with tennis bracelet. We will like off to that in the footnotes. the Daily Zykeyes is a production of IHeartRadio for more podcasts from My Heart Radio

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