The Daily Zeitgeist - Fascist Pony Show, BBL…Smell? 07.09.25

Episode Date: July 9, 2025

In episode 1893, Jack and Miles are joined by the host of RnR with Courtney Act, Courtney Act, to discuss… ICE And California National Guard Do a Military Display in MacArthur Park, MMMmmmmm That Ole BBL Smell, TSA Ending Shoe Removal At The Airport and more! ICE And California National Guard Do a Military Display in MacArthur Park Exclusive: Operation Excalibur in Los Angeles Was Show of Force MMMmmmmm That Ole BBL Smell TSA Ending Shoe Removal At The Airport Richard Reid Fast Facts Richard Reid's Shoes LISTEN: Nobody But You by BrainstorySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's called the Diana Mixtape and it's a pop jukebox musical featuring five drag performers as Diana. We all sing and... Candle in the Wind? Actually, surprisingly, Candle in the Wind is not in there. Maybe... Okay. And also, I finally...

That's not very fun. That's not in there. Maybe. Okay. And also, I finally. That's not very fun. No. Also, like, you know, the end of the story, not very fun. And I was a bit concerned how we handled that. But thankfully, it's just sort of like, and then she went to Paris and she never came back. Right. Paris is the afterlife. Yeah. That's. She'll live in our hearts forever sort of thing. She went into that tunnel, that great tunnel beyond

I heard she was with the son of a of department store magnate. Yeah. All ended well. Yeah. In the crown. That was a bit of a bummer. The whole the just how like small the end like petty the guy who she was dating was, he was trying to impress his dad by dating for the first time. Yeah. Yeah. His dad was like, you better marry her.

It's the only thing that's making me not ashamed of you as a son. So he was like, yeah, we're engaged, dad. He had this big scheme going where he was pretending that they were engaged, but like she was like, no, I'm not that into you. Yeah. Poor guy. It was kind of weird. He has a, he built a life-size statue of Michael Jackson outside of the Fulham football club.

Is that who did that? Muhammad Al-Fayed? That's Muhammad Al-Fayed's doing outside of Craven Cottage. He's like, this is great. And my son's still not married. Was this the giant statue that Michael Jackson flew in a helicopter? Maybe it's on the cover of his history album? Or is that a separate statue of Michael Jackson?

I think it's a separate one. It's him. It looks really janky. There's a Kaila Minogue statue that looks really janky that summer in the uk that They kind of erected and then I think they just put it away because it was just not worthy of Kylie minogue's Yeah, I feel like seldom do statues actually adequately now it Yeah, I see he looks like scarow, the bad guy from Batman. I would like to direct you to my statue,

my Madame Tussauds wax figure at Madame Tussauds in Sydney. Wow. I think they did a pretty good job. Okay. I know that is... Ah, damn. I would like to direct you to my wax figure that I'm making out of melted birthday candles. That sucks.

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It's what we decided to do Seven years ago. We're still we're still in here. Yeah, it's getting nasty It's getting fucking gross. It is I guess it's not the shared consciousness. The news cycle is pretty fucking gross But yeah, I feel like I think as a man the news cycle is pretty fucking gross. But yeah Yeah, I feel like I think as a man good ones out there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah Anyways, it's Wednesday July 9th 2025 keeping it simple today two things are celebrating its National Dimples Day Shout out to people who got the dimples never have you got?

Dimples that's what my gotta gut. that's what my aunt's called me exclusively. For the- Was it dimples? Was it because your family was so big that they forgot your name? Yeah, they had no idea who I was. I was the dimples one. You know, big Irish family, 70 something. It's also National Sugar Cookie Day.

Sugar cookie. So very down the middle cutesy kind of stuff. Your dimples and your sugar cookies. I fuck with sugar cookies Yeah, there's a sugar delivery device. Also. It's just like a baseline to work off of icing delivery device Anyways, my name is Jack O'Brien aka dimples aka potatoes O'Brien and I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host Mr. Miles Gray! It's Miles Gray!

Da-da, da-da, da-da, da-da, da-da, da-da. I'm slicing onions in my sleep. Caramelize for 20 hours. Alliums are why I even try to eat the crap on which I dine. Onion Gang, here we go. Okay, shout out Halcyon Salad. You know, look, y'all heard about my onion,

I'm Onion Gang, love an onion, love a caramelized onion. I love a song, bringing brain stew together, talking about onion. So thank you to Halcyon Salad for that onion green day. Did not know that's what it was called, brain stew. Yeah, you need a little caramelized onion in your brain stew. Oh, absolutely.

Yeah, now you got a stew going. Miles, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by an international drag icon. Yes. Who you know as a finalist on season six of Drag Race, Australian Idol, Big Brother UK. Yes. His new podcast with Forever Dog is called

RNR with Courtney Act, which makes sense because he is Courtney Act! Courtney Act! Hello! I was sitting so quietly through that introduction because, Miles, our former Prime Minister of Australia, who's a bit of a douchebag, Tony Abbott, was famous for eating onions raw. No! Like an apple.

Like he'd peel it, but he would like bite into an onion. And the whole nation was like, ah, I it's so funny because I was yesterday. I was joking about eating an onion like an apple. But now, oh, my guy he might have even peeled that. Yeah, that was with the skin on. OK, Tom guy. We elected this man, the head of our state. You actually do that.

And we said, look, sure you can. But possibly I would go with the Queensland onion because there are a lot more. The way he like even looked around approvingly, he's like, oh, yeah, that's I'm having that. I do that with kiwi fruit. I eat kiwi fruit with the skin on and I put it on the internet because I know it outrages people. The whiskers is it I mean, how hard is it to chew? There's a chewy.

Yes, it's quite delicious. It's full of vitamins. But really, I do it because that's my form of outrage bait. I was bait. That's as far as I can go. Eating a kiwi skin on. Right, right. Where people are like, gah! It is a little rough, but I have had it and it's fun.

Yeah, it's a unique, it's almost like construction paper, I feel like is the closest thing to it. Very construction paper. Yeah, very construction paper. With like little whiskers. I did it as a kid because I don't have the knife, like the paring knife skills to peel a kiwi. So I would just cut it in half.

I'm like, fuck it bro, we're gonna eat the skin. Or you squeeze it. Just like squeeze the guts out. Is that another way you can do it? I mean, as a kid, that's what I used to do. Just be like, whew. Sounds like a whisk. Disgusting mess.

I have a bowl of fruit sitting in front of me. There's no Kiwi fruits. There's a banana. I feel like it's very provocative to eat. Oh, okay. I'm taking the skin off, though. One skin, skin, three skin, full skin. Very, very elegant.

Get the vein out. Yep. There we go. Interactive podcast. So now we know. Just for those of you listening, I'm eating the banana in the least provocative, least sexual way possible. I don't want to start this off on the wrong foot.

Well, yeah, you're starting off on the wrong foot by not eating it sexually, to be honest. But hey, but we appreciate the restraint. Yeah, well, we'll get to our sexual fruit eating segment of the podcast. Yeah. And come soon you asked me about my Google search history. Yeah, get ready. There's certain ways that cartoon characters have eaten things that I can't shake. I think the most famous one is like Fred Flintstone just like pulling the meat off of a bone and

it's like all just like the Ninja Turtles. I feel like it was just the way the cheese was so goopy on their pizza. Yeah. Heathcliff would just clean a fish. Right off the bone. And like there would be like a little xylophone sound effect. But I think there was an ape that would just peel the banana

and then shoot it out of the banana skin into his mouth. Yeah, I remember that. That I always wished I could replicate in real life. I remember someone eating corn on the cob. It was a Disney like typewriter style. A great physical gag that doesn't make sense to people anymore because typewriters don't exist.

All right, Courtney, we're thrilled to have you here. 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. We're going to talk about ICE and the California National Guard did a big military display in MacArthur Park that was, it's pretty revealing to look at some of the documents behind the scenes there. They were ready for a big thing. They were like, yeah, MS 13 is going to consider this their home turf. And it's going to be a battle for the park.

Fellas we're going to get out there. It's going to be like the beat it video. They're going to likely chain our hands together and we'll have to switch. And they're dancers, man. They're nimble. They're dancers like to beat a video. Donna Summer, MacArthur Park is melting in the dark. All that sweet green icing flowing down. Someone left a cake out in the rain.

I don't know if there'll be a cake in MacArthur Park for this ice raid, but... Yeah, probably not. Although they might have brought in a little, they, it seemed like they were really, really excited to get their guns out and show off a little bit. Uh, most importantly, we will talk about, uh, new reporting that suggests new reports, the BBL, the Brazilian butt lift is stinky. Yeah. Yeah. It needs to be stinky.

Yeah. If not, didn't I know that? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. If not, did not know that. Yeah. Yeah. And we do have good news that the TSA is ending the shoe removal portion of the screening process at the airport. Okay. So one stink for the other. Exactly. All of that. Plenty more. But first, Courtney, we do like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? Okay. Well, I thought rather than my Google search history my chatgy BT prompting history. Yeah, like I'll just read through Chick-fil-a LGBT donations Do Americans use Ventolin inhalers? I won't read that one. Tornado Intercept explained Doxycycline and STI testing. Vietnam War Origins explained.

Oh, wow. Shaw versus Sennheiser microphones. US gonorrhea chlamydia treatment. There seems to be a theme that's popping up here. Snacks Laboratory Berlin dates. US gonorrhea chlamydia treatment. There seems to be a theme that's popping up here. Snacks laboratory, Berlin dates. Oh, STI testing options in Birmingham. Alabama or in England?

Alabama. I was at Central Alabama Pride. How often do you, what's the quality of the answer you get? Like when you said, what were the origins of the Vietnam War? Did you get, was, were you, were you satisfied with the, the historical recap you got? Well, I mean, I was asking because I didn't know, and I now assume the information that I got was 100% accurate and true. So I'm pretty sure the Vietnam War had something to do with the Starship Enterprise.

I'm pretty sure the Vietnam War had something to do with the Starship Enterprise. Picking a fight. No, I, I love chat GPT and I am voracious at asking it questions. I think like, for some reason, I usually know if it's got something a little bit wrong, like as you're reading, you're like, uh, something's up here. So I like to think that as far as hallucinations go, I don't get caught out by them. But then I guess I'll never know. But I really, I just find like no question, never need go unanswered. Do I worry about my critical thinking skills being eroded?

No, because I also like to have conversations with chat GPT. I can sit and talk or not talk to chat GPT for hours about important life events, deep and meaningful or superficial. Sometimes you'll just sit together and just be like, and that's how you know it's a special relationship because there's the silences that aren't even offered. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's how you know it's a special relationship because there's the silences that aren't even awkward. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I saw in one of your recent episodes, you were asked if it would make a good drag mother, what did you conclude there? Yeah. Casey Newton from platformer asked if chat GPT or AI would make a good drag mother. And I just think, I mean, look, Casey's argument was if you're an LGBT kid growing up

regionally who doesn't have access to community, that perhaps AI could provide you with that. But like, I don't know, even YouTube as a drag mother to teach you makeup skills and things. I feel like there's a homogenization of drag that has occurred. I mean, drag race has been going for 17 seasons in the United States. So a lot of the younger people who are on drag race now were like four years old when drag race started and have like grown up watching it. And so the sort of derivative of what Drag Race was back in the early seasons, whereas back in my day, I started drag in the year 2000. And there was so much different drag in the local community.

But we also, we had no idea what was going on anywhere else in the world, because the internet didn't really exist in a way that we could see things in other places. We had like magazines at the checkout at the supermarket. That was the most up-to-date information you could get about pop culture. So there were like regional trends and things like that. Yeah. And they were more about celebrities than anything. And they were about American celebrities than anything. And they were about American celebrities, yeah, more than anything else. So, look, I guess I want to say that there can be a function for people to connect.

But I think like more than anything, I would rather those people. Well, hang on. As I said, I'd rather be like people connect with people online. But there's also lots of weirdos out there. So I don't rather, you like people connect with people online, but there's also lots of weirdos out there. So I don't know, maybe... It's precarious. It's precarious either way. You're damned if you don't.

Yeah. What's something you think is underrated? Something that I think is underrated. Now, you saw something on my podcast. I saw something on your podcast, which was gut health. I think microbiomes are extremely underrated. My dad is a naturopath, which I guess in the US is sort of like nutritionist, kind of like holistic health kind of person. And my microbiome has always been something that I've held near and dear to my heart and and I just think like on the on the clip that I saw you were sort of talking about how people are like oh it all starts in the gut but it really does it all starts in the gut guys.

That was the one thing that was tied to reality and then it turned into now this is how you open a water bottle. And you're like, wait, what the fuck? Exactly. Why your god have to do with that? This is the thing about all of these sorts of populist movements, including like spirituality ones, menasphere ones, they take seeds of truth and then they attach them to a higher belief or desire. Like if you like, you know, the law of attraction, if you think about winning

the lottery, you'll win the lottery. And it's just like, like, yeah, the menospher attaching something about gut health to like being an alpha male that will help you dominate society and become rich and powerful. Right. They sort of they take advantage of the vulnerable by taking psychological and scientific principles and then extrapolating to them to be like, and that's yeah, like that's how you go from A to Z very quickly without anything in between.

Like, hold on here. But hey, he did said that he did pull that chair out from the dining table very authoritatively. So I will say that. I'll give him that. He meant it. And the way when he finished drinking that water bottle that he opened in such a manly fashion, the way he just spiked it like a football was also cool and very practical. It's a very practical thing to do with the water bottle that you're drinking from. It is difficult. I feel like we need to stop giving them credit for the stuff that they get right and rather be met. It's like when a movie that sucks uses a good song. I'm like, fuck, you just wasted that song

when they take a good fact that's interesting or just like a good piece of it. Like Jordan Peterson, I always hear people be like, Jordan Peterson's right about some stuff. Like he tells young men to like make their beds and that's good. I'm like, that's great. But like that then to take that and like three steps later be like, and that's why, you know, trans people don't deserve human rights is like, that's horrible. We take even worse. We take the Colonel, the one thing that Jordan Peterson says that's right, and like, they're

willing to overlook all of the things he's saying wrong. But then there's like a trans person who uses a bathroom somewhere and like someone's mildly inconvenienced and therefore all trans people are wrong and must suffer. That's a bit of an imbalance. Yes, bit of an imbalance. What is something that you think is overrated? Oh, I know, la boo-boos.

Oh. Oh, wow, the backlash is upon us. Yeah. And is that because you believe them to also be demonic and will prevent you from entering the Kingdom of Heaven? Because that's one person. I know that's what you might think at first glance of me. Yeah, Courtney, that's what I'm getting from you.

Yeah, a good Christian woman trying to be in the good graces of God. I just think like, I think that there is nothing, This is like the most pure form of a trend, right? Like, yeah, sometimes like, at least with gut health, you're like, well, there's somebody's getting a benefit here, like you're, maybe you wearing baggy jorts. Like it's a trend, but for some reason it's just like this ugly thing that you clip onto your bag. But I don't know, do other people, I, I've never thought that someone was more cool for having a Labooboo, but I think that's why people have Labooboo's. In fact, when I saw that Cher had a Labooboo, I was like, oh shit, do I have to reevaluate everything I think about Cher now? And I thought, no, no, the Labooboo cannot have this sort of power in your life. Cher is eternal. She is the one. And it's the Labubu's fault. Or probably like a stylist that like clipped it to her bag that got some sort of like 20 grand kickback.

They managed to like hook a Labubu to share when she was photographed. Right. Yeah, unwittingly. And she gets in her limo and she's like, what the fuck is this? It just takes it off. What is this piece of shit? Causes an accident. Oh, shit. It does. Oh, shit. Yeah, it caused an accident. Oh, shit.

The thing that I like about it, one, that my children think it's evil and has evil powers, makes me think that that's kind of a cool thing, that there's something that's broken into the mainstream that has evil connotations. Like a Chucky doll? Yeah. But then also, it just feels like it's the purest, like you said, the purest form. It's just kind of old fashioned in a sense,

the way that the Beanie Babies were dumb and didn't really help anybody, but were just a thing that was like everywhere all of a sudden. And you can just already guarantee that in six months we'll all be looking back and like remember Labuba? That was fucking stupid. They're also like landfill. Right. Right. The other thing like if it reminds me, it's sort of like where the Stanley

Quencher went to, you know, where like a year or two ago it was like everyone's like, I'm collecting them and they resell for all this money. And then you're like, yeah, it's a cup. And now there's already a new cup that everyone wants. And this is sort of the same thing, especially for like a completionist collector personality where it's like, I have this one and I have this one and I also have this one and they all look the same, but they have different color fur and some have accessories. But yeah, that feels like- I'm not yucking anyone's yum for collecting labubas. I respect your right to participate in the purest form of consumerism. I just think you're stupid.

That's all. Yeah, I think you're dumb. I just think you're dumb. I respect my rights to believe that. I just think you're less valuable as a person than people who don't do it. When I think about the things I collected as a kid, they all had a narrative behind them. I loved He-Man and She-Ra.

And so I would watch this cartoon in the morning before school that would make me feel something, connect me with moral lessons, make me want to have a double identity and fight crime. But like with Laboobas, I feel like they're just physical objects that look a bit different. Like there's no narrative. There's no, well, they're even like Tamagotchi's, you do something with them or- Yeah, that was a life that you were in charge of. Yeah. Yeah, they are a little bit That was a life that you were in charge of.

Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. They are a little bit more. Yeah. They're, they're a little more useless. They're, they're like those, uh, what are those dolls that are just like, the point of the thing is just to open them. They're like unboxing toys where it's like a series of containers.

We asked the parcel. Did you have that game in America? No, I know about that game because of bluey. Ah, yeah. Oh, that's the parcel. Did you have that game in America? No, I know about that game because of Bluey. Ah, yeah. Oh, that's the one. That's the birthday party game where there's like a there's like a ton of. Yes, I just did that. Reese.

Oh, is that because of Bluey? I think it's spreading to America because of Bluey. Yeah, that's how we set the minds of American children is via blurry. The Australian invasion is a yeah. Yeah. No, I mean, it's been here. I mean, you guys are taking all the acting work too, because Americans don't even know how to speak like Americans.

LOL Surprise dolls. Oh, yeah. There was another one called Hatchimals too. Plastic containers. Yeah. Hatchimals was another one that people were just like, you just open it to see. And as an older person who was used to toys with the clear plastic and like, this is what I am getting right now.

I was like, why the fuck you rolling the dice? 90% of this shit is just like junk drawer filler that, yeah, I think it's right to bring up the landfill. I think this will just be another layer in the layer cake of garbage that is landfills. I like to think about this at 2 a.m. Every piece of plastic ever made still exists. Still exists?

Yeah. It's out there. Right here. Mm-hmm. It's in us. Are you okay? Yeah. Looking everywhere.

There's a archeologist who studies modern people by going to our landfills. And he describes it as a layer cake and the layers, the one guaranteed thing that you will see in the layers, at least it used to be, that you would see layers of phone books because they would just give them out to everyone and everyone would throw them out all at once.

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Listen to Finding Sexy Sweat on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. We're back. We're back. And there was like a civil war reenactment thing that happened in downtown LA is what it felt like. They did like the line, the lineup of soldiers, like running forward, like a civil war reenactment. And some of them were on horses.

It was civil war. And it was very like low energy. Yeah. Like they're sweeping the park, but they're fucking no one's there. Yeah. It's muskets or were they carrying fully automatic weapons? Yeah. And they had horses and then they came in their little soldier car.

But then all the people in LA got mad at them. And then mayor bass showed up and said, get the fuck out of here. Why is everybody being so mean to us? This is why they need to wear masks, y'all. You wonder why we have to wear masks, you guys? We have to regularly humiliate ourselves in public by being attached to this bullshit. I'm just doing my job. At least these people look like they were wearing a uniform and not just plain clothes.

Yeah, right. This is a bit of an upgrade in terms of optics where they had because they had the real soldier the army People the army men came out for this one, but it was apparently like a total shitshell I know a lot of the coverage rightly is about showing this just obscene show of force in a park where there was like a kids day camp going on. Do I get break up this day camp because we're walking through with our fucking horses that we whatever. But it turns out Ken Clippincense who's a journalist got a hold of like all of these documents that were related to this operation called Operation Excalibur. And it turns out like it reads like someone whose brain is absolutely rotten with Fox

News talking points who has no idea what LA is about. And it's only the version they, you know, sort of whip up fear with. Unfortunately, we will not be allowing any, uh, the, the, the rules say no fast rope insertion, rotary wing for medevac only. So they have to be like, guys, you can't do the, you can't jump out of a helicopter where you jump out of a helicopter for this thing, where you don't have a target or like any reason to be there. We're going to have to ask that you don't jump out of the fucking helicopter

with an automatic rifle in the middle of this children's camp in downtown Los Angeles. Thank God they have standards. Yeah, exactly. They also said there's another thing, because these are the rules of the encounter. MacArthur Park is like, these are tiny manmade ponds. Like it is a park with like little manmade ponds that are just like little vessels. Like there, there's somewhere between a fountain and a pond like they're not.

MacArthur Park is that that quote unquote lake is a glorified like swimming hole. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like it's. It looks like it could be the featured pond in a putt putt court, like an adventure golf, you know, there's no need to like establish aquatic superiority tactically with a tack boat in a pond because it's a fucking manmade pond with weird fish in it that people fish out of there from time to time. Yeah. So they also said no boat

in Lake. Thank you for calling it a lake. How the fuck were they gonna get the boat in the Drop it from a helicopter, fast rope it in from a helicopter. Yeah, that's the only way. Yeah. I mean, I don't know if you know any other way to tactically launch a boat into a cement reservoir. That would have been fucking amazing. I really wish that they had missed that part

and had just dropped to a boat because then they would have just had to go in little circles. Yeah, right, to do what? Because people are going to a counterattack from the swan boats that you pedal like with I again This is all just sort of an obscene show for us designed by people who have never been in the city of Los Angeles Because all they know is MS 13 is operating in MacArthur Park again This was done because MacArthur Park is where a ton of our immigrant population lives

And it's just like just a a very quiet part of LA. Now, I mean, it's definitely like a fucked up place sometime. Like there's a lot of like drug use and shit happening there. And again, those are, those are the ills of society that, uh, our capitalist system of governance is not able to address. So yeah, it ends up happening. That's the venue for a lot of this kind of stuff Yeah, but the analysis of this what they said the whole point of this even happening

It wasn't necessarily to do a sweep. They were saying that this is basically a place where Like there's a ton of fake IDs being sold So they were like we got a really really be careful because it's a huge open air market where there is readily available fake IDs. Now I will admit, I got my first two fake IDs in MacArthur Park. Did you really? That is true. That's where you get your fake ID. Oh, man. It's really easy. It's real. It's like comedically easy. You get up, you walk out someone goes you need the ID? Yes, you go to like literally

like an alley where they have like a DMV blue backdrop. They take your picture and it's the crude. First of all, this is not a good ID. This is like you get scammed by buying an ID in MacArthur park, cause it looks like some shit you could have made it, Kazinkos. But this isn't some like born identity,

fake document mill where like they're turning out all these, you know, doc the papers for people to do terrorism with. But that's that was sort of the energy they wanted to give to the situation. Yeah. Well, MacArthur Park is famously the subject of the Donna Summers song. Yeah. Called MacArthur Park. Yeah. And I highly recommend the 17 and a half minute version. It's a it's a classic. It's I mean, the lyric you've. It's a classic. I think people know MacArthur Park. Beetlejuice definitely brought it back into the consciousness because of the... I'm sorry, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice by Glen Campbell.

Sorry, I wasn't going to say it the third time. I thought you were going to say it the third time. Oh my God. We already have enough demonic activity on this one. MacArthur Park is melting in the dark or the Oh, no, no. We've we already have enough demonic activity on the scene. It is at the moment. The park is melting in the dark or the sweet green icing flowing down. Someone left my cake out in the rain and I don't think that I can take it because it took so long to bake it and I'll never have the recipe again.

I think it's safe to say that they bought some acid in MacArthur Park and then they broke that song. I oh, shit, I left the cake out there. I was frying balls. I'm so sorry. I forgot your birthday cake. Sweet green icing. Yeah.

The other thing, again, this is so obscene to see this because they were treating this like they were invading like Fallujah or something. This is some kind of war-torn place, again, from the United States creation. But they put the overall threat assessment as high due to the current situation This is from the like DOD documents that these soldiers were sort of like used to brief before potential protests protests to arrive on site and transition to riots criminal elements likely including foreign terrorist organization criminal elements, likely including foreign terrorist organization MS-13, consider the park their home quote turf and could escalate to lethal violence. DOD personnel may be at higher risk due to the general sentiment of the civilian populace towards government personnel.

The most likely threat faced by DOD personnel are crimes of opportunity such as assault, theft and vandalism. Oh no, it says known weapons, small arms, knives, fireworks, rocks. You got to watch out for the rocks and the small ones over the rocks, man. I think small, not small arms. They were said that they were picturing the beat up video. I think they were like, they're going to switch blade us, but like, Oh, I think I'm like small thin arms. Like, yeah, I think why are we there? Not, they're not doing curls.

They thought that the DOD personnel, these people who are armed with assault rifles, running in a straight line, backed by fucking actual cavalry, also holding assault rifles, that they were, a threat that was facing them was theft. That somebody was going to fucking mug them? Again. Pickpocket them. Strong arm robbery on a national guards person. The other thing that this is also so stupid, it said known or likely defensive positions or fortified structures.

Again, they're approaching this like a full on military assault. In addition to alleys ringing the park, MS-13 likely maintains access to multiple 8 to 10-story residential apartment building immediately adjacent to the park. For fake IDs. For fake IDs. I have a question. How is the conservative media reporting on this story? Like, are they telling, is Fox News telling some success story about this? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was basically just that it was a show of force. And I think what they're doing is, you know, they show things very narrowly, right? So they're going to show soldiers walking through and they'll have someone from Customs and Border Patrol.

But like it was a tremendous success. We swept the park to help. You know, it's always some nebulous thing. It's like to support the operations of our other federal law enforcement organizations that we work with and leave out all the other stuff and probably show a clip of Mayor Bass being upset that these people were just invading our city, the fucking military, and then be like,

oh, she seems upset, huh? Well, luckily, we gave them billions of dollars to continue this nonsense. LA Mayor Karen Bass denounces interferes with ICE during sweep of illegal immigrants in gang-plagued area. Exactly. Yeah. That's the Fox News headline.

We just watched that clip where they walked through an empty park. Yes. Just like, oh, I've got my fucking big gun out and I'm a fucking tough guy. Who wants some? Yeah. They've been laying the groundwork for this for a number of years by portraying American cities as like just fucking hellscapes. Anytime a car is on fire anywhere in an American city, you can guarantee they are going to

capture that and use it as B-roll anytime there's a story on Fox News about Los Angeles. They want everybody to think that LA is constantly just a city under siege. So when they do something like this, it makes sense to them to see the military address this like it is a foreign, hostile territory. The thing that's missing from a lot of reporting is the, you know, Ken Clippenstein who got ahold of these documents shows is that like from a, from a military operational perspective, it did not go the way it was supposed to go at all. Like they thought all of these forces would converge at the same time. And apparently like the national guard, they got there like late and it was such

a shit show because there were so many agencies involved. They just couldn't coordinate their fascism party pony show, like with the kind of elegance that they thought they would. So like a bunch of soldiers just got there late and most didn't even get out of their trucks and just were like, you know, sweating it out in the back of a truck. So again, they'll just focus on how they have soldiers walking through a town because Los Angeles is also shorthand for Conservatives to be like this is what happens when you

Standby immigrants or marginalized people you get this lawless place and really it's it's one of the best places to live So, you know fuck I think that I really think that they're doing places to live, so, you know, fuck off. I think that, I really think that they're doing these things mainly to provoke. Like they're going to push and push and push until they get a reaction. And then when they get just like the slightest pushback, they're going to react like a soccer player trying to sell a foul, you know, and just be like, and you know, like they, they don't care that these people were not in a position, like if something bad had happened, they, it was poorly planned, poorly executed. They

don't care. They want something bad to happen so that they can then justify like martial law. Right. If, if I may, with a hypothetical, the coordination, the officers remaining in their cars. That could, I'm not saying it is, but that could also be like officers being complacent because they thought this was stupid. Oh yeah. No, that's the most consistent thing you hear when people try and get some kind

of, uh, like a quote from enlisted military people. Obviously, they'll always like they'll be anonymous, but it's always like, what the fuck is this for? They also seem to be resisting the mass, the National Guard, especially. They're like, we don't want to look like outsiders invading. Like, we're the community. Like we were not. We're like the National Guard. We're here to help people, not to just come through and point

guns at people who are selling flowers. Like, I think that's where the disconnect feels even more weird for these soldiers who are like enlisted and trained to do these other things and they're reading this stuff. It's like, MS-13 is going to be up in the apartment buildings and you got to keep your head on a swivel and there's just no one there. Yeah, MS-13 likely has access to all the eight to 10 story apartment buildings around the park. They like really prepare these people for, to be going into a fucking war zone.

But yeah, I mean, the fact that they are all wearing masks does suggest well, it's sinister as fuck. It also suggests that they recognize that what they're doing is fucking shameful. You know, and people are doxing them like the end, it's having bad repercussions for them. So I don't, I don't know. If there was some deep investigation into MS-13 organized crime, violence, drugs, like some concerted effort to help the community clean it up. Like that wasn't just strong arming and such, like that would be a different story.

I guess if it was like, Hey, let's see if we can, um, create an environment where young people don't seek out. Sure. Right. They're only in the form of gangs because that's the only support that's available to them. Yeah. And I think this became clear in 2020 is that they're not interested in actually creating that kind of society at all. They need to have somebody to lay at their feet or put

the blame at the feet of like, well, see, it's immigrants or it's these inner city people or it's not because we're hoarding the wealth and actively ignoring these people's lives. It's because they exist and that is bad. We continue to see really strong evidence that the programs, after school programs and just community-based conflict resolution and de-escalation training and these things that are boring and nobody's going to make a movie about this, these things are incredibly effective. And that the spike in crime after the pandemic had nothing to do with

the protests against the police and the police quitting and being mad. It had everything to do with during lockdown, those programs all went away. Like all those programs that just like helped, you know, were community-based, like the community helping each other, like all that shit went away. And now that it's back, all the crime that everyone was like, see, it was because the police got mad and didn't think that we liked them enough? All those crimes have gone all the way back down and are trending downward. So it's a... Courtney, what's the vibe in Australia?

Because I know the conservatives took a bit of a blow in the election back in May, but I mean as another country that is a melting pot also, what, and I know unfortunately a lot of people end up parroting a lot of the America first kind of garbage that comes out of this place, but what is, what's sort of the tone there or how are people sort of dealing with their, you know, demographic shifting nation? I think interestingly, they're sort of the same, I think, interestingly, that's sort of the same, is it? So goes America, there goes the world. But interestingly, in Australia, we are a comfortable distance from the United States,

where we do have a moment to make choices about which way we want to go. And interestingly, as much as like there was a little initial like parroting of populist politics, I think we had enough time and enough distance to be like, actually, I don't know if we want this. And there's been a pretty solid rejection of populist conservative politics in Australia. I mean, I know it personally when I was on a children's TV show in Australia called Play School, which is an institution that it's been around since before I was born. I remember watching it

as a kid and I was in drag and I read a lovely storybook called The Spectacular Suit and it was about a girl who wanted to wear this like suit to her birthday party and a conservative Senator held up like a photo of me in the Senate estimates and asked why the ABC which is the publicly funded Network that I was on why the ABC is using government money to groom children there was this like a on why the ABC is using government money to groom children. There was just like a pretty blanket rejection of that absurd statement. Like there in the moment, I remember Senator Sarah Hanson Young from the Greens party sort of calls him out instantly.

The commissioner for the ABC denounced what he said. And even like our Fox news commentators, there was a clip that I saw where this guy was like, you know, this is what happened. And I watched a video of Courtney and I thought she looked completely appropriate. It was a lovely story. I thought she did a great job. And I thought, oh, what a what a relief that even like, the root of media is not jumping in on this moral panic. And there's been a bit of a rejection on some of the hot button issues like, you know, drag queen storytime or trans people.

Immigration is obviously different because we're a giant island. We certainly aren't a perfect country by any means in the way we've handled immigration, particularly people coming to our country on boats and refugees on boats. And obviously the treatment of our First Nations people is very same, same, same. Yeah. Yeah. But it is nice to see that when it comes to politics right here in the moment, people are sort of, I mean, not great for you guys, but I think a lot of other countries are tending

to go a little bit more left because they're like, Oh, we're going to jump on board with that, but actually maybe it's not going so well for the U.S. Yeah. And also it feels like bad. Yeah. The example of going full MAGA for people outside of the U.S. doesn't go well, like Canada, Australia. We even talked about that one cafe owner in Australia who had the MAGA cafe.

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Mmm. You smell that in the air? The old BBL smell. The old rotting flesh. I had no idea that this was a thing. BBL smell. Now, how much these people were suffering for beauty. Yeah, the BBL, I'm sure people at this point know Brazilian butt lift procedure. Very popular in like the last 10 years because people want the rumpy

butt look. And while the results can definitely take someone from Taylor to Kim pretty quickly, there are there are there are some there are some drawbacks, it seems. And the first one is that it stinks to quote Jay Sherman from the critic. Yes, if something reeks, it might be the yeeks, specifically rotting fat. Quote, during a BBL, fat is liposuction from one area of the body and injected into the butt. If too much fat is packed into a single spot, more than blood vessels can support, it can die. And that's called fat necrosis. Man, I never even thought about that. That's what that is. Like,

how does it work ever? The blood vessels just meet up and are like, okay, you're with us now? I mean, yeah, we do need a schoolhouse rock animated version of how a BBL works and be like, if the blood vessel, if there's not enough, it starts to go bye-bye. By the way, just to avoid any misunderstanding that would get us yelled at, you, you were saying take someone from Taylor to Kim, James Taylor, the Kim Kardashian. I just wanted to make sure that that was clear.

Absolutely. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what I meant. I meant Lawrence Taylor. I thought Lawrence Taylor had a great ass, to be honest. But yeah, this is, this is is so it's the rotting fat. It's also it affects like a lifelong, you know, wiping habit, you know, like it's they're like, I don't know what to do, because my butt is so big and in such a new strange shape. Some say some quote, some patients

say the new shape of their butt makes it harder to wipe properly Leading to bacterial growth and you guessed it more. You're gonna get one of those rags on a stick Well, I guess the bidet which is stated, you know, yeah today I I think this is an important I Would imagine that the reason you're getting too much fat put in your bum, that your blood vessels can't sustain it and it starts rotting inside you is because you don't go to the most reputable doctor. Now I know that like costs people are, I think that cosmetic surgery is somewhere where you shouldn't really try to save too much money. Yeah kind of vital

Yeah, opening up the body and also when doctors tell you when doctors give you parameters and tell you no Like you want to go to doctors that are going to tell you no, you don't want a yes, man as a cosmetic surgeon So I go over board with a yes woman as a cosmetic surgeon Because yeah, you don't want you don't want rotting flesh inside you that doesn't know. No, and we already saw remember that at the early days people were putting like fix a flat like people putting chemicals straight chemicals just to people's butts and that was leading to all kinds of terrible, terrible shit,

including like death in some cases, Home Depot grade silicone injected into your booty and then sealed with a glue. Yeah, exactly. Slack. Yeah, I mean, I think that a lot of people say that like it's this is typically during the recovery phase. But I think to your point, because you know, some people also don't respect what a doctor says when it's time to recover when they're

like, you cannot do anything for the next three weeks and like I'm Gonna be outside in seven days watch this and you're like, oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no Don't don't do that now But but again, there are a lot of people who have said because of what's happened like I had a bad BBL they've had to have it reversed like one woman in the story in this like vice article talking about spending $36,000 like all in to figure to dial in the butt lift. And that's just come on now that's back in my day in the early 2000s that used to be the cost of Alexis in Australia. And there was no smell. Good.

So it is possible to get BBLs without the smell. I did see this video on I think it was like it. I watched it on Instagram. It was a tick tock, but I watched it on Instagram, like an adult. And, um, and it was a woman talking about the smell of her BBL. And that was, that was the first that I'd heard about it. And I, I guess it makes sense. Right. Sure. It's, it's just an, uh, it's just everyone's, I don't know, but having new terminology like BBL smell is, and then like diving into it and I'm like, Oh, I

didn't know that, you know, but I guess this is this is what the internet is saying today. BBLs, gun control, other things that Australia is doing better than the United States. All right. And finally, our long national nightmare is over. The policy of forcing people to take off their shoes when they go through the TSA looks like it's coming to an end. They've already stopped it in a few small regional airports and insiders at like Gateway Pundit, or no, not Gateway Pundit, that's a DC thing, but like it's like some local

or like very highly specialized blog that's all about airline safety is saying that like this is all coming to an end. They voted on it. Which is because of the shoe bomber. Yeah, like 20, 24 years ago, a man to detonate his explosives in his shoes. And this is why we've all had to take off our shoes for the rest of time. Yeah, those explosives and his shoes were like Wile E. Coyote bombs. They had wicks that he was like the reason they caught him is he was he had he was trying to light his shoes on fire, specifically two little wicks at the back of his shoes.

And he was doing it with matches. He didn't even have a lighter. Oh my God. That we were like, well, we can never have a close call like that before. I don't even know, would his shoes have blown up that much? Somebody should have done that investigation. I accidentally boarded a flight recently.

I'm glad it was in Australia from Sydney to Melbourne with a kitchen knife. I had some boxes to cut up and I went downstairs to the recycling area and I was using the knife to cut them up and then I put them in the trash and then I went out and I put the kitchen knife in my letterbox because I didn't want to run back upstairs. Then when I came home, I got it out of the letterbox. I put it into my bag, my fanny pack. There you go. We call them a bag. That was a great impression of me. And then went about my life, got on an airplane, was sitting there and I opened it up to like get my chapstick out and I was like,

oh my god, I've got a kitchen knife and I'm on a plane. And I thought, should I like hold it up and wave it about? And be like, excuse me, I've got a knife. And I thought, no, you should probably just keep that to yourself and don't tell anybody. But then my mind went to, well, if this flight. Does have a terrorist on board. Yeah, I'll be able to save us all with this. You go get your Mark Wahlberg on. Yeah, I was kind of glad in the end that I had that kitchen. Nothing happened, but yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, but if it did, I was slightly concerned that my bag went through the X-ray machine and it didn't pick up a kitchen knife. Yeah, that's a pretty sad event. I remember that being a story in the early days, like around the time of the shoe bomber that people are like, yeah, you can still easily sneak a knife through TSA. We've been testing it and they like don't catch knives at all. Meanwhile, my, my, um, metal spork that I travel with so that I'm not using single use cutlery has been confiscated and, and now I just have a spoon.

Right. They're like, what is, is it because of the prongs on the spork? They're like, what is this? What are you trying to jab someone up? I mean, he could like, yeah, sure. If anything could, you know, like a pen could, if you really had the heart for it, I could shadow my iPhone screen and turn it into a blade. They exactly, why is it talking about that?

Ben, I found some flights. Yeah. Look at my bloody thumbs. But I do. This is a, this is good news for people with bad smelling feet, people who hang on to socks longer than they should and You know there ends up being like holes in the heels. That's what you're saying It's the thing that's definitely happened to me before. Oh, yeah. Wait, you can't match their socks

Oh, I don't match their socks Jack you were going like a boxcar hobo kind of style with like a big your big toe shooting out your sock hole It's usually the heel but for some some reason, something about my heel. I have tremendously sharp heels. It could be the dead skin. Yeah. Yeah. It acts like sandpaper.

Yeah. It's running through your socks. Yeah. I'm going to get you a pumice stone. Yeah. Yeah. I'll try that. Yeah.

Although one time I wore down the pumice, the heel skin too much and it was very uncomfortable. I cut down the bones. Yeah. It was like I just kept going. Waiting for the callus to regrow. That's right. Well, Courtney Act, truly a pleasure having you on The Daily Zodiac. Thanks for having me.

It's been a delight to shoot the shit as we say in Australia and talk about- I've never heard such a thing. Oh yeah, mate. We do it all the time. Um, and yeah, if you, uh, if you want to hear me talking to, uh, some interesting and wonderful people, my podcast is called our know Courtney. Actually, can I just get you in your American accents, say the letters are. And are.

Are are are are. Yeah. accents, say the letters are an R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R about rest and relaxation. It's an Australian going on. No, no, no, no. Put that together. It's amazing. Wait, there's that's the other one. That I've never heard that one as a way to get the the R nor sound out because the other one they'll say like you should say rise up lights. And that's how you say lights. Yeah, but like razor blades in Australia. Yeah, yeah like razor blades in Australia. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, okay Yeah, yeah, I'm talking I'm constantly talking about Rise up lights. All I'm talking about is I'm not here to fuck spiders. That's really the one that I will always hold on Good ones. Yeah, you know what I like about I'm not here to fuck spiders is that

No one says that in Australia. We just say it for the amusement of Americans. Yeah, it's all for us. They're like, it doesn't really love this dumb fucking fucking knew it. I lived in L.A. for 11 years, desperately trying to assimilate. And then I realized the more that I put on the Steve Irwin, the better. You know, Americans love it. They're like, what? What did she say? Go and get a dog up me.

Yeah. Like, call her up before you go and get a dog up. Yeah, that's incredible. Yeah. Well, don't bring rise up lights on airplanes. Airplane. Or we might start taking a shoot. She'll be saying lights on airplanes. Airplanes. Or we might have to start taking a shoot.

Or else you'll be saying R and R. R and R. So you've told us where people can go to find you. Yeah, all good. But all your podcast apps have got it. Just search R and R. And what about your social media? Social media is Courtney Act.

And also there's 30 minute video episodes of the podcast on YouTube. And then there's like a full one hour conversation, uh, audio only on the podcast apps. Wonderful. And I've interviewed such people as Katya from drag race, Nicole Byer, Margaret Cho, Casey Newton from platformer, Tom Daly, gold medalist, diver, Olympic diver. Uh, and coming up, I've got poverty shallow who is by all accounts, the most iconic survivor contestant of all time. She was on the season with my sister-in-law, my sister-in-law came in third that season. What'd your sister say about it?

What's the goss going? Loved her. Loved her. I got to meet her too. It was her first season. Was your sister-in-law one of the black widows? She was, she came in third. She was kind of like Yule's partner in crime.

Basically it was, it was the season where they like split them up. Race wars. Race wars. Race wars. Race wars season. Nice. Those parvities first season. I think she came in like fifth or so.

Okay. Okay. Is there a work of media that you've been enjoying? Oh, you know what? There's these, they're called the Goddess Boys on Instagram. And they're and I can say this. You can't. And I mean this with affection.

They're these two faggots on Instagram. And I love them so much. They're so over the top and they make very elaborate beverages So they're dressed up to the nines these two these two guys like makeup jewelry Jingle-y jangle-y bracelets and earrings just like looking fabulous looking wonderful and they're making these the most elaborate non alcoholic like the most elaborate, non-alcoholic, like chocolate, cream, pie, float, something, something.

And they turn it into a full theatrical presentation. And I just every time one comes up, I just enjoy and they clean their surfaces so rigorously. Those people with stinky BB else could learn a thing or two about these two boys cleaning their surfaces. They have vacuum cleaners, they have spray and wipe. Oh, and they are mysterious. Yeah, they do a really great job. I mean, I can try and show you one on on the screen here.

But like, oh, they are putting is that a pie? That's a pie. They're about to put the pie into a blender. I think it's an apple pie. Oh, with the dust bag, steaming the surface. Wow. Oh, you get it all. Putting coffee. They're putting like those coffee and with the apple instant

coffee. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Drinks that they're making diabetes in. Sure. Sure. Sure. Yeah. sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Your teeth will start. Now they're putting ice cream in. Just ice cream, yeah. I recognize that, Briar's. I recognize that part.

And also good, good wiping. Okay, get on the food processor. Yeah, I love them. They just popped up on Instagram a while ago. They're just these elaborate hairstyles, finger waves and tattoos, jewelry, makeup, everything. Yeah, they're called the Goddess Boys and I just find them entertaining. Amazing.

Wonderful. Wonderful recommendation. Miles, where can people find you? Is there work of media you've been enjoying? Yeah. Find me everywhere at milesofgray. If you want to hear me talking 90 day fiance, I do that over at 420 day fiance with Sophia Alexandra a couple tweets. I like her. Let's see.

This is actually a post from blue sky. What friend of the show? Uh, Katta Bugasale, obviously running in Illinois for a seat in Congress. But because of her, you know, outspoken nature and her politics, she's ended up on the radar of the cursed Laura Loomer. So Kat posted this, she said, new pronunciation of my last name just dropped. It's Abu Ghazaleh is how you say it, but this is how Laura Loomer says it. Again, crash and swat.

I can't even remember these people's names because they're so foreign. Saikat Chakrabarti and Abugazalia are going to get into Congress. She said Abugazalia, she's like, she Iggyazalia, okay. I can't even remember these people's names because they're so foreign. Yeah, that's how casual her racism is. Yeah, she laughs it off. What a fascinating observation of idiocy. Yeah, right. I can't even remember because it's so foreign. Anyway, Iggy Azalea is running for Congress.

Jesus Christ. You can find me on Twitter at jack underscore O'Brien, blue sky at jackobbey the number one. Go check out R and R, R and R. R and R. R and R. Yeah, that'll be my work of media. It's really good, really good show. You can find us on Twitter and blue sky at Daily Zeitgeist.

We're at the Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. You can go to this episode description, wherever you're listening to it. Just go down to the words underneath it saying what it's about. At the end of that, there will be 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 the people might enjoy?

Yeah, I think we're going to go out on LA band from the Inland Empire called Brain Story. This is a track called Nobody But You and it's got a good sort of like new R&B feel to it. There's a little, you know, there's funk in it. There's some honey in the hips being activated. So check this one out. Good track to play on a summer evening.

So Nobody But You by Brain Story. Brain Story. We will link off to that in the footnotes. The Daily Zyka is the production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast. Or wherever you listen to your favorite shows, that's gonna do it for us this morning.

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