The Daily Zeitgeist - Epstein? Files? Astroworld The Comedy! 05.21.26

Episode Date: May 21, 2026

In episode 2062, Jack and Miles are joined by award-winning tv writer, comedian, creator of Gone Native, and author of We've Been Here the Whole Time!: A Not So Sacred Guide to All Things Native America, Joey Clift, to discuss… Give It Away Give It Away Give It Away Give It Away Now,  Everyone Is Suddenly Remembering That Elon Musk Canceled “Ebola Prevention”, Robot’s Moonwalk Fail Goes Viral, Who Put Travis Scott In A Music Festival Comedy? And more! Blanche: "I don't understand what 'Epstein investigation' means. As for Jeffrey Epstein himself? Yes, he's dead." BLANCHE: Anybody in this country is eligible to apply if they believe they are a victim of weaponization VAN HOLLEN: An individual who was pardoned by Trump went on to molest 2 children... Can you commit to not making that person eligible for a payout? BLANCHE: You're obviously lying Epstein files? ‘Perfect Storm’: How Trump’s Aid Cuts Are Fueling the Ebola Outbreak Here is Elon Musk bragging about how he "accidentally" canceled all Ebola prevention efforts Clip of Elon Musk admitting DOGE cancelled Ebola aid funding goes viral as cases surge Musk says DOGE ‘restored’ Ebola prevention effort. Officials say that’s not true. Trump Self Dealing Is Kind of Insane Robot’s Moonwalk Fail Goes Viral Watch the moment a dancing robot collapses mid-performance - before its body is dragged off stage Travis Scott Praises Owen Wilson’s ‘Superhero, Super Father S–t’ in ‘Rolling Loud’ Movie Trailer Owen Wilson Loses His Son at a Music Festival and Befriends Travis Scott in Rolling Loud Trailer Rolling Loud The Movie (Teaser) Opinion: “A Star Is Born” Is A Very Good Movie Produced By A Very Bad Company Movie about Rolling Loud festival faces backlash over Travis Scott casting in light of Astroworld tragedy No Escape Plan: How missed warning signs at Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival led to one of the worst U.S. concert tragedies Rapper Travis Scott avoids charges over fatal crowd crush at his 2021 Astroworld Festival Travis Scott and Live Nation Settle Almost All Wrongful Death Suits Stemming From Astroworld Festival in Houston Family of Youngest Astroworld Victim Settles Last Remaining Wrongful Death Lawsuit The Astroworld Tragedy Examines the Fatal Concert Through Survivors’ Eyes LISTEN: Don't Break by ZEPSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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It's like just the day before you go to the dentist to trick him. I used to do that and my dentist was like, oh, great. Yeah. Then hold on, bro. If I'm being honest with you. Wait, I can cram for this? I can cram for dentist appointments. You can cram for dentist appointments.

You can cram for doctor's appointments. Just like eat a salad the day beforehand. And they'll be like, oh, your cholesterol's looking swollen, dude. Amazing. I did learn a breathing technique for your blood pressure, though. Oh. Which is good because you want to fool that. Yeah, for sure.

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through the day's news. We also have a new non-news history version of TDZ, Drapedish Monday morning where we do a deep dive into the zeitgeist through the lens of a different icon. Last week we did Anna Wintor in line with, what's it called, devilware prodigua? Devil Wear Papa 2 and New York Fashion Weeks. Yeah, Metro, the Metropolitan Gala.

Oh, yeah, that's what I know. The Metropolitan Galavent. Yeah, I went there. Did you go to the Metropolitan Galvan? Actually, I was boycott. Yeah, we boycotted. Yeah, we boycotted. This year we had to boycott the Metropolitan Galavant.

Sorry, A. That's what we call in a windmill. And, uh, and W, we call it root beer. This week we did Steve Prabahos, who is a smelly, mean, man who gave us the iPhone. Have you heard about this guy? You seen this guy? No, but I'm interested to know more. Kind of interesting.

Anyways, those episodes drop on Monday with icon in the title. Got a little bit of a different logo. It is currently Thursday, May 21st, 2026th. A good day this is. Because it's apparently talk like Yoda Day, so I'm down with that. Because I believe this is the anniversary of Empire Strikes Back. Being released, good blow this is. It's also national.

strawberries and cream day Shardin Day Global Accessibility Awareness Day and National Weight Staff Day Damn kind of undefeated Didn't feel like anything snuck in there That was like And now respect your there's a few I didn't mention

Respect your CFO day There's a few I didn't mention Pick one of them Pick one of them Give us one One of them was where was it I need a patch for that day I don't know what the fuck that is

That's a good day Okay Maybe, but usually these ones are always going to end up being brought to you by big patch. Oh, right, right. But I'm like, not I. When was the last time you're like, I need a patch for that? Like, isn't that, doesn't it feel like a bygone problem for our era? No, I mean, it's like patches for a jacket or something like that.

Like, that's cool. You think that's what it is? No, it looks like it's just patching shit up. Like tech-wise. It was created by Thomas and Ruth Roy of Wellcat holidays and herbs. Yeah, a bunch of herbs you are. It's a day of imagination and creativity, day to think of all the fun ways in which patches can be used in our everyday lives.

Oh, the physical patches. It's high and otherwise. Though it's pretty cut and dried, what patches are often used for, this holiday encourages us to think outside the box and chart new paths. Outside the box and put a patch on it. I like my national days that encourage me to think outside the box. Got to. You know?

We do things a little bit differently here. A little bit differently. Have you dined with us before? Did you see that video that Johnny Pemberton put up where he's like auditioning for the role of a server at a like a restaurant he goes to be honest the burger actually the burger

and he's just like 70 different line reads of contemplating going you know what the burger actually the burger he did not book that my name is Jack O'Brien a.k.a. shoebox full of poo

where are you my uncle Barry wants the proof now that one courtesy of David Lesser in the district chord in reference to the fact that I think my dad would love me to stop ringing up. But the fact that when he was a youngster grown up in tiny apartment, seven brothers and sisters, they would compete to see who had the biggest poop and save the big, the big ones in a shoebox to show one another. And that was before we had cell phone.

Was it like the same shoebox? I don't know. I think it only, I think it only happened to one. Once. My dad, like when I, I knew that I remembered this legend from childhood and like talked about it on the show. And then my dad was, he was like, your uncle did that. And he only did it once. Which is so funny that he's like, one time your uncle saves a giant log. And now his whole identity. Yeah. Yeah. So this is a competition. Look, if you took an impressive shit today, tag this alien. Yeah, yeah. Hit us up. Actually, no, thanks. I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host, Mr. Miles. Miles Gray! Champions Champion! Oh, ale! Shout out Arsenal Football Club, okay?

I'm not going to stop talking about it. You're not going to keep talking about it. 22 fucking years I've waited for us to lift the Premier League trophy. We haven't done that yet. We're going to do that Sunday against Crystal Palace. It's all hers park.

When did your fandom start? 2002, 2003. Okay. So you were here for the last one. I was watching the last season, which was 0304. that was my freshman year of college. Got you on the bandwagon. Got me fully hooked at that point.

Two years later, I have this now very blurry tattoo from 2006. Very blown out. Did not know you had to put sunscreen on a tattoo that got a lot of stuff. You did it like that on purpose. Yeah,

you said, give me the blurry one. I want to look like you're drunk when you look at my tattoo. That's how blown out this thing has become. And then it's just been, like I said, on the trending episode yesterday,

just a, this is the, I think the best thing, though, is I'm a fan of the late who have won pretty frequently. Being a Dodger fan also recently become very spoiled. Titles hit differently when you've waited.

Yeah, when your teen fucking sucks and gets laughed at and is a joke for like many years. And then we've just, we had to trust the process, Jack. I know nothing about either of those things. I know, I know, but we trusted the process and here we are. So anyway, congratulations, man. I love to see the process work out for someone. Let it all work.

Miles were thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a brilliant TV writer, performer, enrolled member of the Calut's Indian tribe who's written on shows for Nickelodeon Cartoon Network, DreamWorks, and the Netflix animated series, Spirit Rangers, the creator of the brilliant web series, Gone Native, creator of the LA Underground Cat Network,

a 40,000 member-strong online community for Los Angeles comedians who share cute pictures of their cats. I think it actually has 60,000 members now. Oh, fuck, yeah. No, there were that many comedians. Also, let's not forget his work in the Garfield space. That's right. One of our foremost Garfield philosophers.

Please welcome back to the show, The Hilarious, the Talented, the soon to be a best-selling author. Joey Cliff! Joey! That's right. I'm Joey Cliff, aka I'm Joey Cliff on the Daisy Geist. I'm Joey Cliff on DeLy's a Geist. And that's special thanks to you. me because every time I guest on this show

I forget that there's a song that we have to do. You don't have to, but I like that you feel. I have done it every time. So it's like literally while I was driving here, I was just like, oh shit, what's what's a song? You had a tub thumping your heart. Yeah, yeah, that was just, it was that's why the lyrics were never good. It's always

panic three seconds before we go on here. I thought those were really good. Oh, thanks man. I appreciate it. Yeah, it was that guys. Joey, how are you doing? Joey, how are you doing? I'm doing. Okay, so yeah, I'm doing so good. Like I just mentioned to you off air, but I got a book coming out in October.

That's right. We just sent it out to the printers a little bit of go. And writing a book is hard work, y'all. It's like way longer than a tweet, you know? It's like 224 pages. It took so long to write. And once you got to 224, did it start to like turn red and say you were over the character limit? No.

By like, way over the 16 characters. No, at 224, I just stopped typing mid-sentence. I was like, and to the editor, done. Send. That's a book, right? Yeah, for sure. Amazing. Well, I've only said soon to be bestselling author once before, those with Jamie Loftus when a raw dog was coming out and it happened. I got a good feeling about this one. Listeners, it's called We've Been Here the Whole Time. Go Pre-Order. Is it available for pre-ord? Oh, yeah, yeah, thanks. Yeah, it's called, we've been here the whole time, a not-so-sacred guide to all things day to America. Thanks for holding up these bookmarks. It's like a comedy history book about all the Native history, it's kind of like if the Onion or the Daily Show wrote a book about Indian Country comes out October 6th, but you can pre-door it now. And something I feel like a lot of not a lot of authors say is that like pre-orders matter so much in the book world. Like if you pre-order copies, it tells the publisher to promote the book. So please, it's $20. It's the cost of movie ticket. Pre-order it. Yeah. What's the, give me, give me like a taste of some of the, you know, some of the fun

learnings that we can expect. Oh, yeah, for sure. There's an entire runner of just a list of people who are not invited to the powwow, including hits like Christopher Columbus, John Lane, Andrew Jackson. Andrew Jackson actually is there. Yeah, he's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. I actually have a fun, like that chapter. I visited Andrew Jackson's like the house that he lived in in Nashville a couple years ago when researching for the book and they tell you not to take a picture of the bed that he died in and there's like

a lot of signs saying like to respect him you should not take this picture and let's just say I took a picture of the bed and died in it's in the book that guy yeah I pissed on the bed he'd actually did a Captain Morgan stuff fuck your bed just like dirty ass boots on

yeah yeah for sure for sure and then got it dude oh hell yeah thanks dude done yeah thanks and sorry just while you were talking on my phone I felt like it was for a good cost. If it gets a book sale, I'm down with it. And the book looks awesome too. You're also a visual artist. Oh, thanks. It looks great. Yeah, and I'm putting together the book tour right now. So if you, if you want to bring me out to your college, if you want to bring me out to your company, if you want to have me,

like, I don't know, just like yell about Christopher Columbus in the parking lot of your job. Hit me up. I'll totally do it. Let's do it. There we go. All right. Well, congratulations on that. And we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell the listeners a couple of things we're talking about today. We are going to talk about the slash fund for friends of Trump who have been... Friends of the insurrectionists. Love it, love it, love it.

Who've been targeted unfairly. Sons and daughters of the insurrection. That's what they call their organization. We'll talk about that. We'll talk about the fact that everyone's suddenly remembering that Elon Musk canceled Ebola prevention. We remember that?

For some reason, that's coming up again. So we're going to talk about that. We do just have to check back in with Donald Trump's self-dealing as he... I don't know. They just revealed this thing that's kind of wild about, like, trades that he made ahead of, you know, privileged information. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think we, like, mentioned it offhandedly, but it's just so...

We mentioned that there were 3,500 stock trades in the first quarter alone. It's so wild. Yeah. Hey, if you knew that info, you'd like, you'd do that, right? If it was legal and nobody was ever going to do anything. I'd imagine if I wanted to be the president, I'm already fucked in the head. Yeah, that's just right. Yeah, bro, I'm fucking making...

Hell yeah. One of the most important details are, like, stories to put him into context. The two that I always come back to. One is, like, when his neighbor, when he was like seven, left their baby in the backyard and came out and was like, why is the baby crying? And he was throwing rocks at the baby from the other room. And instead of like, as a seven-year-old, they're like, who would do that? And then the other one is the spy magazine sent all the millionaires in New York City,

a check for like $100 and then $50, $25. down to one penny and the only person who was the only millionaire who checked it all the way, cashed the check all the way down to one penny was Donald Trump. And I feel like that is important to keep in mind because it's like why would he keep, why would he keep doing just basic garden variety scams? And it's because he doesn't give a fuck, whether it's making him a penny or a billion dollars. He's doing the Bilbo Baggins when he found the ring. He's like, Hmm, why shouldn't I keep it? He does that with any amount of money.

Yeah, that's right. After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it? Hey, why not? Why shouldn't I throw rocks in this baby? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Why shouldn't I? We're going to learn that he has, like, ice doing graveyard shifts,

just like cleaning out wishing wells for like. That's why they drain the reflecting pool. Those belong to President Trump. Yeah, yeah, he was like, oh, there's dollars in there was $87 in pennies in there. Yeah. So we'll talk about that, and then we'll laugh at a robot failing to dance to Michael Jackson. I've seen that video. I love it. So good.

God. It's crazy because it's also so good at dancing. You know what I mean? Yeah. I mean, for a robot. But I got to say, I think because I'm always thinking of like the shitty robots we're cranking out the U.S. to me, which is the real indicator that we are in a country in decline. Yeah. Like in the dancing robot wars, dude, we're putting out jokes.

The CIA, the CIA put those steps there to be like, we can't. We can't let's. Steps right there before. All of that plenty more. But first, Joe, we do like to ask our guest, what is something from you? your search history that's revealing about who you are. So something from my search history that reveals who I am is, what's Daria Morgendorfer from MTV's Darya up to?

Like in real life or was it Ginny Groff? No, no, no, okay. It was a woman named Tracy Grandstaff. She was like a writer for a lot of MTV shows in the 90s. And basically like MTV animation was just like really cheap at the time. So like Mike Judge voiced pretty much every character on Beavis and Butthead. not because, like, he wanted to, but just to save money. But they just, like, needed somebody to voice, like, a female character.

And they were like, Tracy, you're in the office. Get in there, you know. And she does a great job. Yeah. Yeah. Her performance is, like, so dead-fant. Well, I think that's just how she talks. Yeah.

But, yeah, so I- She does a great job talking how she talks. Yeah, for sure, for sure. That's kind of my whole thing is. Oh, yeah. As a voice actor, I have one mode, and that mode is me. Yeah. But, yeah, no, so at first it was just like, I guess sort of what this, what this, who voice that

character and all that stuff. Yeah. It turns out that in the mid-2000s, she just became like an exec at Comedy Central. And now she's like still a very high-level, like, vice president at Comedy Central. It's so interesting. And like, that kind of got me thinking about, like, I, um, like, I get flown out to, like, talk to a lot of, like, schools and kids and stuff. And they were, like, these kids at this one school a little bit ago that asked me, like, oh, have you ever felt like starstruck talking to a celebrity? And, like, usually the answer is no. But, like, if I was on a call and I heard Darius voice, I would, like, kind of die. Yeah. Yeah. You're like, wait, what the fuck?

Would you be like, I'm sorry, this is going to sound crazy. Are you Daria? Could you say Mondays am I right again? Because you just sounded like Daria. Hey, can you say the sentence, Mystic Spiral? It's interesting. Comedy Central had interesting taste. Like, they would hire talented people, like frequent guest, Andrew T.

He wasn't a Comedy Central exec for a little while. Oh, really? The head of Comedy Central was the guy who, Kent Alterman, the guy who directed a semi-pro, was like the lead of Comedy Central for like a long time. They were just like, I don't know, are you funny and like

creative? Right. You're an executive now. I mean, that's kind of a, that's a good business model. I know. We're running a comedy company. When they were doing, just fucking killing it. Yeah, they're like, yeah. Yeah, this is all about like having a good eye for comedy.

So where did you get your MBA? Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Harvard finance got it. Perfect. Yeah, yeah. Numbers are hilarious. Did you read The Lampoon? The what? That was a trick question.

You nailed it. What is something you think is underrated, Joey? Okay, so originally I was going to say Little Caesar's Pizza, but we started talking about this before recording. So I'm going to say lifting weights. Oh, hell yeah. Yeah, yeah, we were talking. I started lifting weights with a trainer like three years ago. I'm in the middle of like a cut now, but like, you know, this is an audio medium.

If you're not watching the video, I'm jacked shit. My frame is just my muscles. It's crazy. Bill like a spatula of this walking guy. We're having your neck. It's gone. It's gone. Traps.

I had the remove it and replace it with HGH. Dude, your jaw hinge is melting into your traps. It's crazy. I talk like that. Just poor protein in there. But yeah, I don't know. Like lifting weights is like, look, I was somebody who probably didn't do any more exercise other than like lifting up my phone to do and scroll up and

really recently. And it's like, lifting weights is this really cool, nice thing. Because it's like, I feel like it's one of the few things that you can kind of like control in life, which is just sort of like, oh, the number goes up. Yeah, lifting a thing. Yeah. You lifted a thing. You did more than last week or, you know, like, or just like, oh, you like look a little like more cut or whatever. So it's like, it's just a good, like to be a well-rounded person, you know. Yeah, Miles just started working out. He's looking cut as shit. His jaw is also attached to his last. It's terrible muscle spasms I'm frozen. I mean, but it's also like one of those things.

Like so many like studies after study after studies like, you know, like it's like actually lifting weights is good for your long term health. Like not in like a bodybuilder way, like just the practice of like lifting. Yeah. I'm trying to get my mom to do it because it helps with like osteoporosis. Yeah. Yeah, I said that right. Yeah, right?

I feel like for a long time cardio was like the only thing that people really like paid attention to was like going if you wanted to get into. shape you like, you know, ran or like, which has its own benefits. But like, I feel like weightlifting was just for Arnold Schwarzenegger. You know, it was just like for people who went, went to the gym. And now I do feel like, yeah, we're starting to properly rate. Still underrated, I agree.

But yeah, I definitely switched to lifting weights. And your elderly parents, I'm telling you, because I'm sure we all have parents that are a fucking broken hip away from life being drastically different. Look, my mom is jacked. There's no way, dude, the floor, there's no way anything can even get to her hip bone because of all the muscle we've packed on around that. But I mean, like, that's the thing. Like, it's really good for, like, restoring bone.

Like, that's a thing I keep trying to tell my mom because my grandmother broke her hip. Yeah. And it was, like, very complicated. I'm like, please, like, I know you're active. She's like, I garden all the time. And that's good. Yeah. But, like, just add, just an add this other thing.

Yeah, get like a five pound weight and just do like lateral. Yeah. I was like, I'll get you a resistance band. I'll get you really hard, really heavy gardening tools. Exactly. They just get a little bit heavier every week. Yeah, and some steroids. Yeah, that's right.

Yeah, of course. Well, one thing I love about way lifting too that like I didn't really expect is like, I'm not a very well-rounded person. I'm some, I play video games. I love Garfield. I watch pro wrestling. But like weightlifting, it gives me something to talk to just other random people about. So it's like, there are times where like, I'll go to a party and I'll just like,

see a group of bros who are bro-in out and then like somebody will mention, like, somebody will offer me a snack and I'll be like, oh, I'm sorry I'm on a cut or like, oh, I'm like watching my macros. Then all of a sudden, like, everybody's eyes light up and they were just like, oh, how many how many pull-ups are you do? Yeah, yeah, for sure. You are. Yeah, no, truly, truly. It's just like, oh, what protein shakes does everybody do?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's definitely like sports similar. Like, it's just like having like dumb shit to talk to people about. Yeah, right. It's like really, really helpful. It's the same way like people I know who like run long distance.

They see other long distance runners and all. I was running and I'm like, my brain turns off because that's my nightmare scenario, running for more than 10 minutes. I couldn't help but notice that you're in need of a knee replacement surgery. Do you also run long distances? Yeah, right. What is something, Joey, that you think is overrated? Something I think is overrated. I'm going to say the sun.

I think the sun. Yeah, finally. Yeah, I know. The sun's been up there all high and mighty for a really long time. Yeah, I don't know. I think that like my girlfriend gets mad at me about this. I don't like doing a lot of stuff during the day because I like sunburn very easily.

So like I'm always like whenever I like want to go for like a walk around the block or ever I want to like go on a date, it's always just like oh let's do it at like 7 p.m. Right. After the sun goes down. Yeah, yeah, after the sun goes down. Just because it's like cooler, more relaxing. Also, I might be part vampire, who knows?

Sure. Yeah, yeah. That is true. You didn't like the when I pulled out that bulb of garlic earlier. Oh, yeah. That I eat for my eyes. Oh, yeah. My eyes turn red and then I grew up.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we all remember that. And I didn't want to ask. I don't want to be incensitive. Yeah. And how like a cultural thing. Yeah. Yeah. Like the ending of sinners, I was really bummed out. Because like, yeah, you know, it was just like, boo. Yeah. Yeah. I think the sun's had it too good for too long. Yeah. Yeah. What about the morning sun? You know, that's a good. That's good for your morning sun. That's less strong. Ah, still the sun. Oh, yeah. You know, you're like, I'm not trying to see that motherfucker. Oh, yeah. If I see the sun, it ain't a good day. Do you have any UV shirts? You wear UV shirts? No, I don't have any UV shirts. I do have a UV hoodie, though. Oh.

I'm hearing a lot of excuses. And you got all the answers. Yeah, yeah. I also have a black and red cloak I wear places. Yeah, yeah, sure, sure. Got this bed that blocks out all light by having just a fully sealed top to it. Kicking it with my boy, Spike and Angel. Yeah, real worried about both.

If Willow shows up, I'm going to be scared. I'm screwed, dude. Yeah, I got no defense. Yeah, yeah, don't attack me when I'm sleeping. Please don't. It was weird. I was like, man, you're looking pretty buffing. You're like, what?

Buffy? Sorry, no, no. Summers? Yeah. Let's take a quick break. And we'll be right back. Hey, it's us, the Jonas brothers. And guess what?

We have some big news. What's the news, huge news? We created our own podcast called, Hey, Jonas. We invented a podcast? Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to a time. People to Do Podcasts.

Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts. We're starting a trend. But this one's extra special. So how did we actually come up with a name, Hey Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember. I think it was on a call about what we should call it. Well, we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band before Jonas Brothers. This is how you guys remember it going down?

Yes. I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast. We could call in and say, hey Jonas, and then I wrote down on my little notepad, Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title for the podcast. But thanks for remembering that, guys. Listen to Hey Jonas on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Just listen. We don't care where you hear it. Another podcast from some SNL late night comedy guy, not quite.

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Give it away, give it away, give it away, give it away now. Giving it all away now. I don't know if I'm a criminal or a winner. So, yeah, we talked about the DOJ's January. six sweepstakes fund that they're setting up in the name of, quote, anti-weaponization. Or essentially like anyone that was pursued for crimes they committed in the name of Trump or eligible for a payout, you know. Like, what do they think that means?

Because they're saying it's unfair that you would go after like former cabinet officials that were a party to trying to overturn election results or some shit. Okay, you weren't doing physically, but there was, there was some quote marks in that, damn at home. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

For them, again, it's just as, because it's hard to try and wrap your mind around it, like, how could you have

a legal argument for this? They fucking don't. It's just nakedly corrupt. Accus everybody else of doing the thing that they're doing, right? Yeah,

absolutely. And then I'm also like, can people who got like, you know, beat up and batted up by DHS agents and stuff? Can they also? Because I felt like political weaponization.

Oh, no, they get double jail. That's not, that's not weaponization at all. No, they just got hit with a weaponization. That's very different.

So again, it's corrupt. It's a bad scheme. And acting attorney general Todd Blanche has managed a way to tell the Senate about this bullshit with a straight face acting like it's not total nonsense. So here is Todd Blanche giving a few, answering a few questions for the members of the Senate who are asking like, hey, like, so do people who like attack cops get like, are they eligible? And I think you can guess what his answer was. Here's Chris Van Hollen from Maryland. Will individuals who assaulted Capitol Hill police officers be eligible for this fund? Well, as it makes plain, anybody is...

Just let me know if they're eligible for the fund. As was made plain yesterday, anybody in this country is eligible to apply if they believe they're a victim weaponization. Mr. Attorney General, let me ask you this. Are there going to be rules that say that if you've assaulted... a Capitol Hill police officer or committed a violent crime, you will not be eligible? Why not make that a rule? I expect that, well, because I'm not one of the commissioners setting up the rules. I expect that there will be-

Four of the five members, aren't you. So he's like, I'm not making those like, you're appointing four of the five members. Yes, you are. In charge of the whole thing? Yeah. Rules are kind of sticky subject around here, you know, do we need them? I think that one thing that this has made me think about is what's stopping all of us from applying for this fund?

Right. Yeah. I mean, that's, again, he said anybody is eligible. Yeah. Anybody is eligible. So, I mean, could the people who the Biden administration arrested for protesting on behalf of the Palestinian people apply for? Look, again, anybody eligible to apply. The U.S. government took a lot of native land.

Could I, could I get some of that? Yeah. I mean, I feel like Neil Gorsuch would find a way to actually side with you. That is like his one moral consistent. Oh, yeah. Actually, I shout him out in my book, like, specifically, like, Neil Gorsuch would get a front-ro seat at any powwow in the country. Somehow, yeah. Even though you're, you're blaring a lot of other rights. You've managed to be really consistent on this point. Oh, yeah, for sure. It's one of those things where it's like across the board, like, yeah, probably one of the most people. But that one thing, he writes, like, poetry about, like, why Native people should get rid of more stuff. It's like James Cameron. Yeah, yeah. So then there was a follow-up. You know, Chris Van Hollen, rightfully asked, like, what about, about? Well, like there's a guy who has pardoned by Trump for the insurrection who's actually went on to molest two children. Sounds like weaponization to me.

What about him? Is he eligible to get money even if he uses that to maybe buy the silence of his victims? Not a great answer here from Todd Blanche. Let me go back to this slush fund because there's also an individual who, after being pardoned by the president, went on to molest two children. And that person actually tried to buy the silence of these children by saying that he would pay them some of the funds that he was hoping to get from your search fund. Can you commit to making the rule so that that person is not eligible? This is such an easy one, Todd.

Todd. It's such an easy one, dude. Such an easy one. Pay out under this fund? Well, you're obviously lying in your question because there's no way. way that this person committed to that, the slush fund, as you call it, which is not, didn't exist.

I'm sure, but I can commit. Mr. Attorney General, don't ever do that again. I am reporting what he said. He said on the expectation that he hoped to get some of the funds from a payout. He's been hearing the slush fund, Senator. And that didn't.

Well, you're talking about the slush fund. He's talking about a general payout that Trump was going to engineer on behalf of insurrections. Also, he's referring to it as the slush fund. Yeah. No, you were talking about the slush fund, which it's not, by the way. So you agree. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, it doesn't get, it actually gets worse, you know. Oh, great. I love it. Since he's also the acting attorney general, he was asking him like, hey, man, just back on that whole thing about the Epstein files. Just also, do we know, like, if you're, can you just commit that you're not going to pardon anybody from the Epstein files? and again, stellar answer if you are here to be an absolute shill for the president. Can I ask you to commit that the Justice Department will not recommend a pardon for anyone named in the Epstein files?

Can you repeat that question? I'm sorry. I didn't hear you commit that the Justice Department, you, the acting Attorney General, will not recommend a pardon for people named in the Epstein files. When you say people named, I have no, there's tens of people names. What could that possibly mean. What is a file? Depends on what the- Zoom out. What is a file? I think he should have stuck with his first route, which was, I'm sorry, I didn't

hear the quote. I'm sorry, you're talking like you got fucking marbles in your mouth. I can't understand. Let's do one word that you were saying. Let's do one word out of time. Well, it looks like you're out of time, center. Yeah, crazy, crazy. Could you actually repeat that?

Run that back? Sorry. He really just said, Epstein files? The name. I'm just fucking English right now. Yeah, yeah. Epstein, the financier.

He's looking back at like the crowd behind him. He's like, I can't be the only one. Right. Yeah, it does look like in this screen cap, his face is very much just like, are you sporeal? Yeah, yeah, just like, am I right? Yeah. This is crazy.

And then again, the Epstein files come up once again. This time he's being asked a question from Senator Jeff Merkley saying, hey, man, like, these files, what's going on? Like, what's going on with this investigation? We have all this shit we know, but it feels like there's no action. And God damn, Blanche acts like he's went full memento on our asses, being like, huh? What? I want to go on to the Epstein investigation. Is it closed?

Merck. When you say the Epstein investigation, what are you referring to? Well, the FBI said in the last year in July that it had closed the EPSC investigation. So I'm just using their words. Is it open or closed? I don't believe the FBI said that. Well, and if you're referring to... Your head of the Department of Justice is the Epstein investigation open or closed.

But I guess I don't understand what Epsine investigation means. Well, let me put it different. Jeffey Epstein himself? Yes, he's dead. Any investigation into potential other bad guys will always be open if we have evidence that supports It's in any way, shape, or form that we can make a case. But we don't. No, we're not.

Yeah. I like that, like, reading between the lines, he's basically saying, like, that's an investigation. We're not investigating that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's so, and it's, this is what exactly what Trump wanted, right? Pam Bondi was still, like, half a lawyer and kind of was struggling with just fully just being totally out there with it.

He's found an abse, just a creature, you know? I don't even know what the fuck you're talking about right now. It feels like a Tim Robinson. I'm going to have to read up on this. The Epstein investigation. Dude, I'm sorry, I don't know what you're talking, but it's crazy. Like, this is the stonewalling he's putting up right now. It's just truly being like, oh, I don't know.

Like, he's dead, dude. I don't know what you want me to say. Yeah. Yeah, we actually did do an investigation. He's dead. It turns out. Yeah, I'll do an investigation right now. He's dead.

It was a suicide. Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, this is, this is, you know, this is how this. this administration is going to continue to evolve because this is exactly how Trump is going to protect himself and others of this class, the Epstein class.

Flip his own with shit. And just put someone out there who's just so willing to just straight up, truly act completely ignorant about everything, just to waste people's time. I mean, I guess what I wonder is like, are they literally just like putting these guys through improv classes or something like that to like, here's a reaction whenever

a Democrat asks any question, you know? Like, to what level of people being coached? I think it's just, it's, they're being coached by their surrounding environment and their upbringings where there are no boundaries. They've been able, they're always able to get away with shit. So you just build this skill, be like, I don't

know, dude. Like, you know what this guy's talking about? Yeah. I was drunk and I hit a guy in my car. No, dude, there's not even evidence. It's 1993. There's no way can improve this, dude. Give me out of here. Like, there's, it's that kind of shit. I just think Trump has this ability to also find other people who

are fully just invertebrates who know how to just slither their way in and out of shit. Yeah. And he's like, yeah, this guy doesn't give a fuck. He has no moral scruples. He'll go up there straight face to the Senate panel and be like, I don't know. I don't know.

Yeah, it feels like his entire like basis of picking people is basically like, are you going to make me look bad on camera? And it's like it kind of feels like that guy's just trying to avoid a soundbite that makes anybody look bad. But like through doing that, he gets all these weird sound bites where he's just like Epstein investigation, you know? But I think at the end of the day, like if that blunts the momentum of. of any investigation, then that's probably number one.

It's just too frustrating to just keep asking questions of people who are like, how don't even like? Comparatively, right? Like, Pam Bondi couldn't handle getting grilled. Right. And she was like, the Dow Jones is up five, like 50th. Like you're like, holy shit. Like that's when it was sort of untenable for Trump.

I think he doesn't care if the guy's just being a total asshole about it because that's, oh yeah, for sure. It's like he wants that. I mean, I think like Christine Ome is such a great example of like, oh yeah, you said all this crazy shit and did all. all this horrible monster stuff, but you didn't get fired until people started being like, hey, this is embarrassing, you know.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He made the guy who's last name as a golden girl. I like him. Right. Todd Blanche. Yeah, right. Always a fan of her work. Well, speaking of invertebrates

that are friends of the Trump administration, Ebola is spreading and people are recalling the time when the Trump administration cuts to foreign aid and global health organizations happened. And I think, I think Elon Musk proudly bragged that Doge accidentally canceled Ebola prevention. Yeah. He then said it was promptly restored.

But that turned out to be bullshit, as was reported at the time, USAID's teams and contractors that would be deployed to fight an Ebola outbreak were dismantled. Hmm. And that was something that he was just like, well, if you see this novel teacher, he grew up, he grew up just being able to say, no, I put it back. I put it back. I didn't take it. Right. And then you just fuck off and you continue to wreak havoc on the world. Well, what's like wild to me about that is like there are so many people who, like,

the amount of people that worked in the Ebola response team was probably, I don't know, blind guess making it up, like at least several hundred people or something like that. Right. And it's like those people were kind of in that like, you know, a internet startup bubble of like, did our company collapse? Should I like apply for a new job or something like that? And it's just like it's not only the, it's to me not only the like, oh, the ability to detect this horrible disease thing.

It's also the like, oh, now you've got all these people that have worked there for decades that are just like, should I go back to college? Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I was talking about that on yesterday's trending because we were talking about a nonprofit that like looks at children's entertainment to make sure that they aren't being like advertised to. Oh, really marketed to.

Yeah, yeah. And like that children's content and like it was a story about a, uh, educational game that is like for every math question, the children are exposed to like four ads. I was just like, man, it's wild how any sort of like moral work for something that's like not making money is just people are just like, why the fuck would you do that?

Are you fucking dumb? Yeah. How are you going to get your paper up? How you get to Lambo from there? Yeah, for sure. Well, I mean, there's stuff like, I mean, you could look at like the, the like the like the like the defunding of PBS is a really great example of like I mean speaking

to somebody who's like worked on a couple of PBS shows like you know these are people that like don't make great money no but they like do the work because they're so passionate about it and then you know they do this work because like especially in rural areas there are a lot of kids that just don't have access to like you know like great schooling and stuff like that so have something like Sesame Street that's just teaching kids how to read yeah that feels like that should just be like a net good that that costs the amount of like one missile, you know? Right, yeah, yeah. Or it's like, I'm sure that like, this costs a quarter of what that, like, insurrection slush fund is for their entire budget for the year. For sure. And it, like,

legitimately helps people. And it's like, we're losing that. And instead it's being replaced by like, you know, chat GPT or whatever. Yeah. And I think also because all of these people are so craven and like these single-celled organisms that only think about themselves, they don't understand that so much of the infrastructure of the world is being held up by people who, like, are doing the work. Yeah. Like this. And so to them, they're like, prevention of Ebola. Because it's just been invisible or actively, like, advertised as like, look at this

asshole. Yeah, wait, wait. Was Ebola at the insurrection? Was, okay, it was? Oh, fun, hell out of that. So is it eligible for a payout? Yeah. Under the slush fund, yes, it is.

Anything is eligible for a payoff. Yes, everything is. Here's this, here's that clip of Elon bragging about the Ebola prevention cancellation. So, for example, with USAID, one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was our Ebola prevention. I think we all want the Ebola prevention. So we restored the Ebola prevention immediately, and there was no interruption. But we do need to move quickly if we're to achieve a trillion dollars.

Yeah, okay, yeah, anyway, to achieve a trillion dollars of cuts. That's epic to me. Nonprofits working in the DRC say that, quote, basic medical equipment like masks and hand sanitizers plus components, necessary for testing are in short supply due to funding cuts. Turns out they did move aggressively on getting those funding cuts. All right. And now there's something like six Americans that have been exposed to bowl there too.

But that won't matter. That won't matter. They'd be like, what were they doing in the Congo? Should be fine. I mean, like six plus the amount of people in this room. That's right. I have a bullet. Yeah.

There we go. I was surprised. I wouldn't go to the Congo, not without, not without Amy with her sign. language glove so she could talk to the other apes. Yeah, now without her mining laser.

Exactly. That could just sheer a limb straight off one of those feral apes that they had a movie. I was so excited for that movie. When they had the auto turret, I was telling my fourth grade friends. You thought Jurassic Park was good?

Wait to hear Amy want rain drop drink. That's a gin martini. I just love that like it's so insane that that movie ends with a fucking laser rifle fight. Yeah. Like, yeah.

And like, They're like, fuck, I think it's a laser saw. We got a lot of saw a bunch of apes in half, you know. Oh, my God. Oh, thank God they did, you know. Yeah. Tim Curry, great in that movie. Yeah.

Herkima Hermokka, Formia of Romania. And then Delaware, Delo Lindo says, stop eating my sesame cake. It's a great line. Any other lines? That's one of the names of Ernie Hudson's crew. Wow. There's one guy called Cahega that he always calls. He's like, Cahiga, and the guy shows up.

There is. I got other ones. Yeah. You could keep going. You could keep going. Okay. Should we take a quick break? We'll be right back.

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When do you think he's going to start calling people like broke boys? Yeah. like broke for complaint. He's like, that sounds like a bunch of broke talk to me. And shit to me, bro.

Yeah. I mean, if he'd already been saying that, I would not be surprised. Do you think he's ever actually pumped gas at a gas pump? Yeah,

probably like, twice. I feel like I've never seen him drive. Like, remember when he got behind the wheel of that big truck? Yeah.

And he was just like, hmm, like it was like a five-year-old getting behind a car. Like, you didn't know. Yeah. And then he got in the Tesla.

In the Tesla. In the Tesla. Like everything's computer. Yeah. No, I was thinking about that too. Like whenever he, whenever there are photos of him in the driver's seat of a car, he looks so confused. So it's like, yeah, not only is he probably never pumped his own gas, he's also probably never driven a car. I feel like he probably did it once for like the thrill of being a poor person. Sure.

You know. I mean, I know a lot of people who grew up in New York never, never drove, you know. Oh, I guess that. Yeah, I didn't. I never thought about that. Yeah, I'm only thinking my, the most car centric city ever that I've grown up in in L.A., which I get, it's like right. Of course he drives. He drove to work every day. Did you ever smoke a blunt at the pump? All right.

Let's laugh at robots, shall we? I love it. Oh, I don't know. Our only recourse at this point is to point and laugh. There's another video of a robot embarrassing itself that has gone viral. This time during an event at the Future Era Robot Store in Sheshu, Sheshuan? Shenzhen, yeah. Shenzhen, China.

You say it's Seshwai. Seshwana. close the robot is dancing around to Michael Jackson's Billy Jean so they were really setting expectations like okay this is going to be one of the best

dance routines of all time yeah yeah is there a more iconic moment if you just hear that drumbeat boots guts doots guts guts doots if I'm ever in a club and I hear that beat I get off the floor

because I'm like there's no way who's got the fucking gall to get down to Billy Jean right now like they're five years old. I get off the floor and I stare down whoever gets on the floor. Oh, you have it? Oh, you got it? Okay, let's see, asshole.

You're going to do the smooth criminal lien? Oh, shit. He has a fedora. Oh, shit. He just did the smooth criminal lien. Oh, God. He just pulled his hair out of a bun and it's now like the sort of sweaty Michael Jackson long hair from a bad video.

Yeah, right. Yeah, so here's the fucking rope. Dude, this, this robot, I got to say, it's killing it at the beginning. the gliding, I was like, that boy glided. Here we go. All right, now it hits a step. Oh, shit. Oh, shit.

Recover, recover. Recover. Okay, got it. It's recovering again. I forgot about the stumble. Ooh. Oh. Now, can it go up the stairs?

Oh, shit. Oh. And now it's just fully laid out. Which is what I would do at that point, I think. Oh, to act like, you meant to do this? No, act like I'm dead. And then now. Yeah.

there's been a medical emergency the only way I'm getting out of here is on a stretcher look at this dude just look that's right into my high school prom I tried dancing didn't go well so I just played dead for 30 minutes and waited for the ambulances to come

I had to own it I had to own it oh shit yeah I love that that guy just took off with the with the fucking robot like it was showtime at the Apollo and they're like doing yeah

so for people who aren't watching it's a robot that is doing a decent job hits a stare and then is the perfect physical embodiment of any time you've ever like some like lost caught yourself or seen a cat do so like I've never seen a human move their limbs

as quickly as that robot did to try and it. Yeah I think do you think they fucked up with the starting point like they started with the robot too you'd think that this robot knows where a fucking stairs are and we're just jackass It was very confident because the last move,

it was approaching the steps. It was about to... It had to... Yeah, it feels like it was trying to climb the steps. Yeah. Oh, man. The first one, it was just like, it caught an errant step.

Right. The second one, it was like, and now to confidently walk up the... Whop, whoop, whoop, who, yeah. Such a guilty pleasure of me nowadays is like, I'll just Google, like,

robot fails. Right. Just, like, watch videos with like a robot trying to climb stairs and then falling off the stairs and smashing its head open. And it's like, it's so good because like we saw in this video, you know, the guy comes out and like very sadly drags

the lifeless robot away. But it's like that's how all of those videos end. Is that or somebody pulls up a tarp or something? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just like don't look at the broken road. That happened with that like rush in one where they just put a sheet like it was a murder. Oh yeah, when it was the final countdown? Or was it Rocky? It's Rocky Ford.

Yeah, yeah. And they put the tarp up in a way, such a way that it wasn't covering anything up. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it always feels like they're dragging a dead body. Yeah, totally. But I don't know why it feels so good. Because, yes, I really, it feels too good.

Like, it, I think the same thing that makes me love the commencement speech is getting booed. Oh, I love that. Like, making me love this, where it's just like, I think I've just been fucked up by everyone in tech, being evil and fucking up our world for the past decade and now I'm just

like please fucking just right into my veins anytime they're fucking up or like you know encountering how wildly unpopular they are. You like seeing the robots fail for that reason. Oh yeah. Yeah. I'm like a child who's like

man our robots can't do that. Our robots can't die. Yeah and I feel like that's like when like my kid will realize like we live in a failed, like, that's when he'll realize we're in a failed state. He's like, the robots from the other countries are way better than the shit we got down. Yeah, all ours can do is have guns attached to them. Yeah, yeah, and then explode randomly.

Right, because they're not, they don't got honey in their hips. Unlimited funding for those type of robots. Yeah, right. The killer robots, which is good and seems like a good way to run a society. What you were saying earlier about, like, watching people getting Buddha convincing speeches, like, it is so interesting in the film world. Like, I have a, like, a short film that's been going through festivals. And every once, a while. Not very often, but it's like an AI generated animated short film will like kind of screen

in the same block as mine. And it's like usually when that happens, if the filmmaker's there and they're doing like a Q&A afterwards, the audience will like boo them to the point that they can't talk. And the look on their face is always just like, wait, I'm the villain? Right. They're in a bubble

where everybody, have you ever like there's this quote or I think it was like an op-ed article where someone was like, I went to I went to Manhattan and like nobody was coding. Like they were out on dates, like talking to each other instead of coding AI. Like, I feel like the bubble in San Francisco is just like not all AI, nonstop.

Everyone's just like, this is our future now. This is the only way to move forward in history. Remember that one clip of the AI CEO freestyle rapping to like his employees. And people thought that shit was cool. I mean, probably just because their jobs depended on it. But the fact that the guy had the nerve to be like, you know what? I'm going to spit a fucking hot 16 about AI right now. It was written for me by AI and so it sucks shit.

Yeah. Unbuilding. It's wild. If you're in the Bay Area, they'll have straight up things where it's just like, oh, you'll pass a strip club and it'll say like, free lap dances if you're an AI exec.

So like it really does feel like. No. Yeah, yeah. Wait, what? Yeah, legit. Why? I don't know.

It's like, I think it's just, that's the new thing. Like, I think that the Bay Area, like, I visit there every once in a while. Left the fucking planet.

Yeah. It's just sort of like, Well, it's like, I'm sure it was NFTs. Like, if you work for an NFT company, you get a free Starbucks latte or whatever, you know? And it's just like that's the new version of that. But it is, it does feel like it's another world of like, oh, yeah, this is a world where nobody's been, like, cussed out for firing their workers and replacing them to the AI, you know?

Yeah. Yeah. It really just, like, I feel like we're moving towards the world of demolition man. Miles, you've been saying this for a long time. The Demolition Man is. Wait till the franchise war start, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Taco Bell will be the only food that we get to eat.

And I'll die for it. Classical music will be jingles. We'll be like scurrying up out of sewers to like, you know, and it's just. With Dennis Leary. Yeah. Okay. So when the franchise were a start, which, which brand would y'all die for? Yum brands.

Yum brands? Is Mountain Dew affiliated with Young brands? They're the ones that sell Pepsi out of there. I feel like I would, I look, I know they're not going to win, but I'm going to go down with Little Caesars. Little Caesars is cheap, delicious. It's like the Everyman pizza. I'd take a bullet. Kept Rose of Parks in her home.

Yeah. Yeah, and kept it secret because he was such a good dude. Yeah. So I dig a bullet for a little season. And that's good, and you made a good ethical choice. Yeah. I will die with my corporate overlord. Sorry.

I like Kentucky fried chicken. You say that as you're throwing a rock at a baby. Oh, yeah. Curry. I'm a Papa John's man myself. I'm a Coke addict. Yeah. Why doesn't Coca-Cola call their fans that?

What am a Coke addict? All right. Let's talk about there's a new music festival comedy that I don't know how it happened. See, like I just want to, I'm going to describe it to you

and then I just want to game out how the conversation happened. So I've already got movies based on toys, theme park rides, sneakers. They've all been fucking awesome. Hollywood has decided to make a movie called Rolling,

Loud the movie, Rolling Loud, the music festival. I used to go all the time when I worked at the radio station. Yeah. Like, I, yeah. I can see a movie set at Coachella, like that, like, where there's like some background thing, but like Rolling Loud. It's like also there's a heist of some kind. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Coachella Heist, if there's anything to heist in Coachella Valley. And Rolling Loud used to have like huge acts. Now it feels like like they like any huge festival. it just becomes super corporate and they have a bunch of stages. And like sometimes, I guess the other thing too is like as hip hop ages, I'm aging poorly along with hip hop.

Or like I look at the lineups and I'm like, who the fuck are these kids? Right. Yeah, I guess I'm just like thinking as a movie exact, like you would think that they would go with the one that is like the most popular. But yeah, Rolling Loud is like obviously like has had some great moments.

Right. Very cool festival. They might have also paid them. you know. Oh, just wait. Just you wait. Just you. It started Oam Wilson as a dad who panics about losing his son. Wow. In the sea of 60,000 sweaty teens and millennials outside Hard Rock Stadium. And it was inspired by the director's real life experience at Rolling Loud with his teenager,

which is kind of like saying that Battleship was inspired by the time the director played Battleship. But it's just it is exactly what you would think. a big commercial for the festival. It is being produced by Live Nation's movie division. I love it. I didn't realize, did you know Live Nation produced Bradley Cooper's A Star is Born? And that's how they got like all those, all that concert footage. I mean, that makes sense that all these companies are just getting together and be like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Well, who can you bring? What can you do? Yeah, yeah. Let's do that. Let's make a ton of money. I mean, Chick-fil-A, their streaming service is still killing it in my book. I forgot about that. Okay, so the weirdest decision that's been made, like the decision to make the movie, it's like, okay, I can kind of see that is that they've, it's starring Travis Scott as himself.

Okay, Travis Scott, live concert, comedy. Yeah, that's a, I see that logic track. Yeah, yeah. What was the last thing that I remember about Travis Scott live music? The site of one of the deadliest concert disasters in U.S. history. Jesus. Yeah. Have you seen that documentary?

No. Oh my God. But that's what people are like, did they do this because the documentary came out and they had to just be like, how do you like put a happy spin on that? They were like, that documentary was so funny. They're like, dude, have you seen this? Yeah. We should make this a movie, dude. Yeah, yeah.

But a comedy. I'm unreal. I got to say, I love, I love Travis Scott because he ruined about a year of WWE storylines. Really? Yeah, if y'all didn't follow this. A big story in WWE last year is that John Sina was on his kind of retirement run. He retired in December, and he turned heel at WrestleMania last year, which is the first time in like 25 years that he'd ever been a bad guy. And something the fans have been clamoring for.

Did he grow a shitty beard, like, Paul Kogan? No, no, no, no, no, that would be. He, like, he shaved a horseshoe in his hair. But, no, basically what happened was, like, the way that they turned him heel is they had the rock kind of, like, give him a wink. and they had Travis Scott come out and like punch Cody Roads in the dick or whatever at mania. Yeah. And it was supposed to set up for like some kind of like John Sina, Travis Scott and like Logan Paul match or something. Like them as a team against somebody else.

But Travis Scott just like did it once and then was like, nah, I don't like falling in the ring and just stop showing up. So they had to like retcon and rewrite like John Sina's final retirement run because Travis Scott was like, yeah, I don't want to do this anymore. Yeah. I like it if I get to win. Yeah. Just be awesome. Because we do one where I have like superpowers. It's something about like being crushed against another human body.

Jesus Christ. It's also funny because he didn't work out at all. And Travis Scott, I assume weighs like 150 pounds or something. Yes, with with 50 pounds of soaking wet canvas cloth on. But like because he didn't like put on any weight, like all the big like, you know, six foot five wrestlers had to like sell for him. Like they had to like get punched by him to pretend like it hurt. Yeah.

And he was like, nah, I don't like this. Yeah, this isn't cool. Yeah, yeah. Live Nation was, like, the producer of the show where the disaster happened. Live Nation settled 10 wrongful death lawsuits for unspecified amounts. Do you remember, like, right after, I remember right after Travis Scott and, like, Live Nation, like, we've teamed up with better help. Right. To, like, give you guys therapy for the traumatic event.

Yeah, and you're like, this is the best you can fucking do? Yeah. When does it come out? Yeah, we're all going to see. It was in the next year. Yeah, it's just been announced, but soon. Dude, LaFleam and fucking Owen Wilson. It's real.

Yeah, some people think that they did this for SEO to like cover up. Like anytime Travis Scott Live Nation is... Travis Scott concert. Dude, hilarious comedy with Owen Wilson. It's like the Disney Frozen theory that Disney made Frozen because they wanted to stop people, stop the theory that Walt Disney's head is frozen. Right, right, right. Yeah, Walt Disney's Frozen.

Yeah, yeah. But yeah, it's coming just a year after Netflix released a documentary about the tragedy. It's really cool how dystopian our society is. Isn't it fun? Yeah, I love it. But we still can laugh at the robots when they trip on a stair. Joey, such a pleasure having you, as always on the Daily Zykegeist. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff?

Oh, yeah, thanks so much for having me. Definitely love the Zykegist. gang, so I appreciate always being on the show. You can find me on Twitter slash X, Blue Sky, and TikTok at Joey Tainment. You can follow me on Instagram and threads at Joey Cliff with five or six eyes. That's because a 12-year-old took Joey Cliff with one eye, so I just have to deal. And you can check out all my stuff at Joeycliff.com. And then we talked about it earlier, but definitely check out my book. We've been here the whole time, a not-so-sacred guide to all things Native America. It's available October 6th, but you can pre-order it now.

And pre-orders really help me as far as, like, promoting the book and stuff like that. So definitely do that if you can. And then also, I'm on the upcoming season of Smarty Pants on Dropout. So if you're a Dropout fan, check that out. Hey. Hey. We love Dropout. Hell yeah.

We love Dropout. I love it. Dropped out of school myself. Have us on, Sam, you coward. Coward. I'm surprised y'all be so good on Dropout. Yeah, we just don't. We don't have the same audiences.

I mean, not the same. We don't have the size of an audience. What are you talking about, Miles? Don't say that. I'm just dumb. No, we actually fucking suck. We stay, Joey. You know it.

Miles. Y'all are great. Y'all are looking at least. You should be on the biggest comedy streaming platform. I don't disagree. We should be. I'm like, Jakee, Jane, what the fuck? What the fuck?

Miles, where can people find you? Is there work in media? You've been enjoying. Yeah, find me everywhere at Miles of Gray. I'm talking shit about 90-day fiancé on 420-day fiancé, and I'm loving the English Premier League on my other show, Ain't It Footy with Jamel Johnson and Chris Martin. Oh, my God.

I don't know where to start. A work in media I like? Yeah, there's one. There's so many. There's one that I was talking about the one that made me cry, cry when Arson Venger starts off talking about how we've done it. I could play that one. I think one that is really worth that that I love hearing is the group,

like the sort of mass catharsis of North London when the final whistle blows and we have been crowned champions. This was posted on Instagram by Ultras clips. And this was just says the sound of 22 years of waiting coming to an absolute end. And I just want people to know, okay? This is what it's all fucking about. This is what it's about. So here, let me just play this audio for you.

This guy is my guy. So people are waiting because they're like just, asking the referee like, blow the whistle. And there we go. I love that just like a blitz siren is going off. Guess it! You say kiss it? I think he said, maybe said, get it.

Maybe get in, I don't know, whatever it was. Oh, if you guys see some fun memes, send them my way. Oh, and also, if you're looking for a Discord invite, hit me up again. I have the wherewithal and mental capacity to start inviting people to the Discord server again. you know where to find me. I will hear your prayers. Miles was superstitioning his team to victory. So you have to understand. He had a lot. There's actually, I'm not joking. There's a champagne supernova, a.k.a. I was going to do. But I didn't want to sing an Oasis song because Oasis, the, like the Gallagher brothers are fans of Man City who are chasing us in second place. Oh, so I didn't want to give any energy. And my apologies to the person wrote that, he was great. I will sing it now,

though, that the title is done and dusted. What if I had sung it? You would. have been like, no. That's fine. Because it's not you giving your spirit, your energy to acknowledge. Fair, fair, fair, I'm not putting that out there. I had to keep my vibrations.

I'm just glad I didn't, because I could have swung the whole leak. Wait, I just realized I didn't shout out my work in media. Should I wait, should I do that now? Do it now? Okay, so, yeah, yeah, I was going to try to find a super funny in a webcomic or something like that to share with y'all, but instead I figured, you know, the primaries are coming up,

elections are coming up soon. I'm going to shout out a bunch of native candidates who are running for different positions. Hell, you vote for. Do it. Okay, so if you live in New Mexico, vote Deb Holland for governor. She's the former secretary of the interior and she's cool as shit. I have a chapter of my book about how dope she is. So check that out. If you live in Minnesota, Peggy Flanagan's running for Senate. She's the current lieutenant governor of Minnesota. She's native and she's native. Arizona, if you live in the second congressional district, vote Jonathan Nez. He's the former president of the Navajo Nation. He's cool as shit. And then if you're in Michigan for the fourth congressional district, Sean McCann is a great local politician and he's native. So let's get some fucking native candidates. Let's get it. Let's go. Let's go. Let's fucking go. Let's go. And do they lift any of these candidates? I think Peggy Flanagan lifts. I think Peggy Flanagan and Deb Holland lift. The other candidates, you know, I mean. Deb Holland seems like she's got a good head on her shoulders. I'm thinking about her health.

Yeah, yeah. And what you don't want, you you want your head to actually connect to your shoulders. Not on my politicians. Which is a little bit crazy because she also has the same last name spelling of Erling Holland, who is the Norwegian striker who is Man City's main attack. didn't even have to say that. She taught him everything he knows. I didn't want to bring that up because her name was the exact same. My work of media is the NBA playoffs have been very good. Oh, fuck. The Knicks coming back from nothing and also Victor Wemeyama, just ascending. There's a great picture of him looking off into the crouch that Josh R.R. Jokian tweeted

and said, The Hobbit's cheering for Gandalf after he sets off another round of firework. because he is taller than all of his NBA teams who are all six-sixth and above. Can you show it? Can you show me this picture? That rocks. I love that. Yeah, he had a moment where he just stood there in front of them and looked off like he was posing for a sculptor. And everybody was eating it up.

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ZEP and I feel like this dude plate is like self-producing so he's playing everything you're hearing on the track and it's just kind of got like an electronic rocky field that I like and I'm hearing to sound like that in a minute

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