The Daily Zeitgeist - FBI x UFC!!! Operation Epic Fail! 03.13.26

Episode Date: March 13, 2026

In episode 2022, Jack and Miles are joined by Social Media Editor at The Onion, and co-host of Kill the Computer and Ill Conceived, June Sternbach, to discuss… EVERYONE IS F**KIN 12, Trump Endorses Logan Paul And DJs A Medical Emergency During Rally, This Is What War Looks Like When You Have Dementia… and more! Kash Patel Confirms UFC Fighters Will Train FBI Agents This Week, Calling It A “Historic Opportunity” In Massie's Kentucky district, Trump attacks GOP congressman as 'disloyal to America' Jake Paul gets on stage at the Trump rally and has the nastiest pit stains I've ever seen Did Donald Trump really endorse Jake Paul? Woman faints during President Donald Trump's Kentucky rally Trump, 79, Plays DJ After Supporter Faints Behind Him Trump Speech Interrupted by Woman Collapsing Before He Summons Dr. Oz to Step in and Help President Trump on U.S. strikes on Iran: "We've won. Let me tell you, we've won. You know, you never like to say too early you won. We won. We won the bet—In the first hour, it was over." LISTEN: STAMPEDE by Genesis OwusuSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I always like when people get banned on Facebook for whatever reason, always right-wingers. But I just, I think it's really, really goofy to be posting to that degree on specifically Facebook. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, that's where family is. That's where, like, your grandmother is. How, what are you saying on Facebook that your grandma is seeing? That's crazy to me. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, exactly. Too hard for Facebook. Right. Sorry, grandma. Sorry, grandma. I go too hard for your delicate sensibilities. Too racist for grandparents? I got kicked out of a cheesecake factory for talking like this.

And you're like, what fuck were you saying in there? Right? You eat food there. What do you mean? What are you making a point about? What do you go for cheesecake factory for? You know why. You know why.

The Santa Fe Egg rolls, they fail to deliver, okay? Southwest Egg rolls. Just say a slur. Yeah. You don't get it. You don't get it because you are one. Oh, God. This is also why I don't go to Cheesecake Factory anymore.

Also, too much salt in the food. Yeah. Oh, come on. Just the right amount of too much salt. You got to start being careful. I look. Also, too, in my family's history with that kind of shit, I had like, just generally. I'm, because it's crazy, you look at a thing and it's like, this is 60% of your daily salt intake.

I'm like one chip. Right. There should be visible sodium flakes on that at that point. Yeah, yeah, exactly. They work some food science magic. You like dip it in water and it drinks the entire glass of water. It dries up. This is an I-Heart podcast.

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 429, episode five of Darnaley zeitgeist! This is a production of iHeartRadio. It's a podcast where we take a deep dab into America's share consciousness through the day's news. We also have a new history version of daily

zeitgeist dropping each Monday morning where we do a deep death into the zeitgeist through the lens of a different icon. Last week, we did Stephen King this week. We did The Grays, the famous iconic alien face with Jason Pargin. And we've got a seasonal one coming up on Monday. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. You're going to love it. They're going to love it, aren't you? It is Friday. March 13th, 2026. Friday the 13th. Oh, shit.

Dude, holy shit. Holy shit, bro. Guess what? It's National Coconut Tort Day. If you like a coconut cake, I guess. Tom Cruise. National Good Samaritan Day. All right, Tom Cruise.

I'm going to keep saying. All right, Tom Cruise. All right. How about this one? Do it for this one. It's National Open an umbrella indoors day. All right. Tom Cruise.

Maybe Mission Impossible. Yeah, I can see like they have a poison thing and he used an umbrella to like, you know, back off. Or it's like bulletproof. Like that's a 007. Right. All right. Tom. I will confidently say, all right, Tom Cruise for all three of those.

All right. And it's also National Earmuff Day. So I don't know how you Tom Cruise that one. Nah. Yeah. Sorry. Yeah. It's okay.

They're not all winners. I mean, you know what? You know how I do it? All right. So I'm walking around with my baby, one of my children. And I happen to be walking past the set of his movie as he's cursing out everybody. As he's doing Tropic Thunder, less grossment monologues.

Remember when he cursed out everybody for, for like not wearing masks on the side of one of Mission Impossible. Yeah, yeah. And I have to do earmuffs to cover up. All right. All right. All right. All right.

You've maintained custody of your children. The coconut cake is, that's like the cake that he gives out, right? Like if you get on the list, it's like a Hollywood legend. You get on the list. You get an annual Christmas present of like supposedly the best coconut cake in the world. Yeah. Powered by Thetons. Powered by the

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Watch him as he goes. Ah, what the fuck? Shout out to Warren the Ware Bear Bear for that. Yeah, I'm sorry that we're still upset. with the Kevin Sorbo Improv. Kevin Sorbo Improv. We don't know. Also, Kevin Sorbo Improv.

I do need to correct yesterday. I think it was yesterday when I did the stand-up by Ludacris when I sneeze, you sneeze, AKA or Mave and before. That was from Natty Nat and I didn't give the proper attributes. So there you go. Yeah. I'm not an A.k.a. Yeah.

So thank you for that Natty. And thank you Warren the Wear Bear for these A.K.A.s. Miles, we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat. It's a brilliant podcaster. one of the hosts of Ill-conceived. She's the social media editor of the Onion.

One of our finest posters, shit posters. It's real posters. June Sternberg! June! Hey, how's it going? Oh, you know, you know.

How is America, you know, as good as it could potential. Yeah. Yeah. No, thank you for having me. I'm so happy to be here. Oh, no, June, you honor us.

You honor us again. True. We're almost quite almost literally a year to the day where Jack and I met you in Austin. Is that Juniper? Yeah, I was fucking starstruck. Starstruck. I was like, I love you from Twitter. It was such a bummer that Jack could host last time.

But yeah, now we are all here. It's weird how often I get that for like not post in my face, really. Like I, you know, I, I've posted my face a couple times. but the amount of times just in the last like two years, people will be like, are you? You're the one from Twitter and I'm like, yeah. Yeah, that is me. Are you putting a person? It's kind of embarrassing.

It's very embarrassing to be known as the person from Twitter. How embarrassing is that? But it's great at the time. But at least you post like really funny thought-provoking shit that is like, it's better than being like, you follow that one account that just like finds like, you know, things. Yeah. Like imagine being captured and being recognized. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then someone would be like, Hey, wait, cat turd, right? You know, you post so many dope laugh emojis, dude, shit. Are you that person who I always retweet and then I'm informed immediately that I, you stole that post from somebody else?

Oh, man, I'm such a fan of your work. Wait, you're to do that ran over your dog with a lawnmower? That's crazy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that was me. That's cool. So you like, so you like find a work. Yeah. The dude who complained about driving through a snowman and there was a brick hidden inside.

Cinderblock inside. You're the dude that doesn't eat fiber and had to go to the hospital over it. Shit. No, I guess it could always be worse. Yeah. Yeah. They're fans of your art. Yeah.

June, 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. talking about. We're just going to kick off with a quick. Everyone is fucking 12 years old with regards to the new announcement that the FBI and the UFC are teaming up. Hell yeah, dude. We're going to talk about the Donald Trump rally in Kentucky featuring Logan Paul and a new approach to the war in Iran. We'll also talk about DJ Tanner, Candice Cameron Burr. Burr-Barray, Jack. Burr. Really to class that.

up. No, I refuse. Well, because she married to Pavel Burray. You know the hockey player. Is she really? Yeah, yeah, that's where the Brer is. Is that French? That's like a French name. Beret. The only way to make the French unclassy is to have them be hockey players.

Is Russia. Russia. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyways, Pav and DJ visited a demonic sex party. We like to check in with her every once in a while because she's got her finger on pulse of what's going on with demonology in these United States. I can't believe I missed that party. That would have been.

I know. That sounds really fucking cool. Really, like, I am truly jealous. Right, right, right. If true, she got to go to, like, a weird sex party before, like, I accidentally went to one, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, sorry, I had that wrong.

It's a different Russian hockey player. It's Valerie Beret, not the great Pavel Barre. Okay. It's Valerie Bure, yes. That makes me feel better. It's still Russian hockey. That's, I got that part right. All of that, plenty more.

But first, Jim, we do like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? So my most recent search from last night, I was hanging out with a friend. And she's sort of low-key gotten me into Pokemon cards, not like the whole marketplace. Like, I'm curious.

I don't know if you guys know about the weird optioning. You weren't just ripping over packs? Yeah, yeah. So I was looking over with her a lot of my old cards, the ones that I had since I was like a kid. Oh, sure. I'm like teen years, early college years. And I just searched TCG online Ryehorn. I had a really nice Ryehorn that I wanted to see the market value for that just to see what it was.

So I've just been like sort of looking back at all my Pokemon cards recently. I don't really search for things. I mostly grok these days. So if you include a rock, I would have a much wider pool. What's your emotional relationship with Grock is going to be our new. It's the latest chat you had with Grock that made you cry. I'm always asking it what fruit and vegetables are healthy. Before I eat anything, I'm like, do pairs have fiber?

That's the sort of thing I need to know. And what does Grock say? I don't fucking know. It usually says like Hile Hitler or something like that. Yeah, yeah. Dude, you don't actually need fiber. Fiber. Yeah, exactly.

Don't need it. That's like a lib myth, dude. That's right. Yeah, don't worry about your colon, man. Don't worry about it. Useless. Restigial. Don't even acknowledge your colon, dude, because that's getting into like

Suss territory, to be honest. We're going to have a NERA link that replaces that one day. Don't even worry about it. We're going to replace your colon with AI. I feel like it's something. We're close to people saying that, especially after Alex Carp. Do you say that latest thing he was saying about he's like, oh, yeah, AI is going to like disenfranchise women and like Democrats.

Voters and shit. It's so wild. What? Alex Carp is the squirmy. Palantir guy, yeah. Yeah. He is the most coaked up dude of all time. It's kind of inspiring.

It's so inspiring to me. I kind of love that. The most evil company is fronted by the most insane looking man. Like, I think it's perfect. There's no other way. Like, it's a perfect movie villain. He looks like he wakes up screaming, God damn it. What the fuck, man?

Like, it's just always every morning is so chaotic. He's, barely getting a suit on. He's like, fuck, dude, I got to go to a fucking CNBC fucking round. Fuck, fuck, fuck.

Okay, so here's what's going to happen with, like, and then he just switches gears to this fucking bad guy. Yeah, he says, this technology disrupts humanity's trained, largely Democratic voters,

and makes their economic power less and increases the economic power of vocationally trained working class, often male voters. Yeah. Yeah. I don't even understand how,

what the logic is there. What does he mean? It disrupts the Democrats because AI because it hates women or something. Because I think maybe it's trying to be like white collar voters are all Democrats or something. So therefore this will be the rise of the worker trying to be like pro worker. But I mean, look, this is so crazy. Because if you like look at anti-AI movements, it's just like random Joe Shmos in like rural towns. Like so many AI data centers have been shut down in like no name flyover city. just because everyone, everyone hates it. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So I don't know, man. I think this again, this is the kind of shit you have to say, probably when a lot of your investments that are coming from the Gulf states might be a little wobbly right now and you really want to keep reinforcing the perception that AI actually quite effective.

You still want to stay in this shit, bro. You still want to stay here. People like Alex Carp are just salesmen at the end of the day. Yeah, they will say anything. Yeah, exactly. I was thinking recently, because I do want to get back to Pokemon,

cards and how they are as an investment because I'm pretty, pretty heavily over leveraged in Pokemon cards. No, I was, my, my kids were asking me, they were like, we need to save pennies because now that pennies aren't a thing in three years, these pennies are going to be worth hundreds of dollars. I was like, that's not how that works. Oh, babe. And I was like, that's how I thought about baseball cards when I was a kid, though.

I was like, you know, I get this card three years. It sky rockets in value like the Honest Wagner and every other kid in the world is thinking the exact same thing. But you're talking about a paper rectangle and at least they're talking about a metal that could functionally maybe be used for something else. You know what I mean? Like I can get the child logic like, if there's no more penny. Yeah. Then we got all the pennies. And it's like, no, and then I was like, why do you think that they were like, so that we can melt them down into bullets in the water wars, dad?

Oh, yeah. Mike. You just don't. They're going to make iron blocks. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly. That's right. But how is the Pokemon card value holding up? So, so generally the market.

So I'm mostly just fascinated by the market as like an anthropological thing because it's sort of like, you know, it's a little, it's a little game for kids. and babies, which I love them. I love games for children and babies. I love Pokemon. I still do as an adult. But the weird thing about them is it's like, you know, you buy these cards and people will take these cards, and some of them will be worth like thousands of dollars,

get them graded. And it's like, it turns people and especially children. Like there is a huge content mill these days, especially because of people like Logan Paul, who I believe will be talking about his brother today, Jake Paul. I think that was Jake Paul later on. But like Logan Paul in particular has really sort of, sort of turned this into a grind set sort of life thing. Yeah.

So a lot of kids will have like basically what amounts to like running small businesses and like getting them on this like grind set life very young. And it's very, very weird that they're like, I this like 12 year old is like I'm not buying this to play with it. I am buying this because it's an asset. And it's like this is sort of like the grind setification of like everything, you know, like Nike shoes. This happened with like Nike shoes back a couple of years ago. It happens with like every physical thing. Yeah, there's always a resale market. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

This one versus. It's bleak. Such a huge consumer base too, because it's like, what about all children on the internet? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like sneakers are like, were you a millennial, I'm guessing,

who maybe wasn't able to buy the sneakers you wanted as a kid? And now that pendulum's swinging fucking so hard the other way. You don't know what to do. You've lost your mind, me. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. But with the cards, too. Like, because I even see like my younger, like nephew just like acting like a business person and

thinking about that. It's like, oh, yeah, that's actually worth this. That's worth this. I'm like, it used to be cool just to be like, I have this Alan Iverson card. Right. You know, and sure, maybe. It was just a cool thing to have. It was just something you liked looking at or playing with, which like, sure.

Yeah. Maybe there's not like a lot of real value there, but there is like that dopamine hit of like having something like that. But now it's, yeah, it's even further where it's like, I will become the next million because Logan Paul will buy this from me or something like that. And I think it just sort of speaks to the economic nihilism that's spreading, and it's now gotten to children because they are now thinking of like what assets they have. Lemonade stands are not good enough for them anymore.

Yeah. Oh, man. They want margins are razor thin on a lemonade stand. Yeah. Unless you have a lemon tree and you're on your own sugar cane and water. Do it. No. Forget that.

They don't have access. Well, maybe by getting in the Pokemon, card market, they could get assets like a sugar cane farm. Right. They're thinking multiple steps that had. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. I think you're right. It is, it is, like, very bleak that it is, like, children now have to think, like,

children realize that upward mobility is just not a thing and you have to, like, children are being sold the get rich quick sort of like that adults in the past had been sold, yeah. Because, yeah, it's like that thing. It's like, these kids are probably growing up, like, actually, I think I'm going to have, I'm going to have, oh, I'm going to have it worse than my parents did. Everyone I think just thinks that, yeah. Yeah.

Well, I tell them that every day. Your children? You're raising the bride. You don't respect me? You're going to be worse than me. Yeah. So what do you think about that? Say a prayer to St. Logan Paul before you start ripping open these foil packs, all right?

That's right. June, what is something you think is underrated? I think, I think, uh, hating is a little underrated. You know, it's so cathartic. It's so cathartic to hate on something, to see something that you think is like tearing the shreds of society apart, like AI or like, you know, the commodification markets of Pokemon cards, for example. I think it's very, very underrated. I think hating is very good for the soul. I think it's just, like, when you can ruin someone's day with like a this you or something like

that, perfectly placed a dis you, like, there nothing feels better than ruining someone's day. You know, hating is just like a very powerful thing. It's very powerful. It fuels the soul in the nihilistic world that we live in. And maybe that's a part of it. Maybe maybe the hating it fuels the nihilism. But I think it's important. I love, I love righteous hatred too. Yeah. That's what it is. Like that's when it feels you're like, oh, this isn't even hating, bro. This is called putting the, like the eye of God upon you. And now you are ashamed. Because like there's a guy on Instagram, like Liam Nissan, this black guy, he makes a ton of funny videos. But like a lot of times, videos blow up and racist white people get in the comments and say racist shit. And he, he starts playing

the dexter he'll do a post where he starts playing the dexter music like and he'll just go go deep on one racist person's comment and just like fucking docks the fuck out of that with all this shit it's always like this you and it's haunting and I'm like I will I will never understand why people I saw one just earlier today where some like older man was like flirting or saying some insane thing about how a woman is like oh yeah this woman probably gets some has some like good sex or like it's just something crazy like I want to fuck that woman. And then it's like the profile picture for that man is a wedding photo of him and his wife. And it's like, why this is your real name and a real wedding photo?

What are you doing here? I don't know. You can see me? Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. You saw that? I will, I will never understand that. It's very goofy. I think it's like one of the best, the biggest blessing with like Gen X and Boomer people posting on the internet.

They have no concept. If it works, and you're like, oh, my God, you're self-owning in the best ways. Thank you, actually. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for your contributions. Yeah. Thank you for your ignorance. Salute with a picture of your wedding. As you're like, yeah, she can get it. Yeah. Right, boys? You're a 70-year-old man. I'm tagging in for that. Because the last post was about your 50th wedding anniversary. Could you imagine though you dig into that person and they're like, it's AI. I don't even have a wife.

Right. Yeah. Oh, Jesus. It's Grock. Yeah. Good morning, Grock. June, what's something you think is overrated? I think oil is very overrated. I don't think we need it.

I think, I think, you know, I think what Iran is doing to our oil prices, they're basically doing what amounts to the Green New Deal. Our politicians were not brave enough to actually do the Green New Deal. And the Ayatollah, he said, I will sacrifice myself for the greater good. of our future for the future of the globe. And I think, you know, he's showing us what real bravery can be when you're willing to plant mines in the Strait of Hormuz. I think it's very brave. And I think he is right.

Oil is overrated. I think that's what he's always saying, and I stand by him in that effort. When we had him on the show, his overrated was also oil. Oil. That and the pit. The pit. Yeah, he said the pit is basically torture porn.

Yeah. is it. I've never watched. I'll take his word for it, though. He said, it's kind of little too on the nose for him. Yeah. Very preachy. But yeah, no, I mean, it's, God, it's funny, though, too, like that, yeah, we really, like, we need to get off fucking dinosaur goo as our fuel source. But, like, seeing all these Republicans scramble to try and still, like, fucking be the flag bears of oil good and we need for everything to that, the other point we're like, dude, hire oil. prices is good for us, dude. Just the immediate switch around.

For fucking who? Like, even Trump just yesterday was like, yeah, when prices go up, it's good for us. It's like, oh, I'm glad he's not concerned about that. Right. I'm glad that the president is not all the way. There's a lot of stuff that affects us. I mean, yeah. I'm glad it benefits him personally.

I was most worried about that. It benefits us. And by that, I mean, U.S.-based oil and gas extractors who don't have to to funnel their product out of the Persian Gulf. Right. Yeah. They're having a fucking laugh right now. They're like, oh, shit, 20% of the world's oil supply just went,

well, guess the shit we got is now way more expensive. It does seem like he's so insulated from anybody who's not, like, in his inner circle and part of the kleptocracy. They're like, he does sometimes say stuff like that where it's just like, oh, he just, like, exists in a universe where the only thing that matters is, like, him and, like, Nothing else is real. Like, yeah, five other predator billionaires he's on a group chat with. Hey, yeah, good job, man.

It's actually good for us. What? What? Well, unless he was saying, because now we can transition to cleaner fuels, but I have a feeling that wasn't what he had in mind. No, it's always just open-ended. It's like, it's just, please accept the take that higher prices is good. Do not ask a follow-up to that.

I will also just never understand how he will just straight up be like, this is really good for me and my family. Like my my bank account has never been juicier. And everyone will stand behind him still. I just, you know, it's, it baffles my mind. We stand a successful billionaire, sir. Yeah. This is the people like, sorry, there was on fucking, I forget it.

It was on. Oh, Carl Higby on Newsmax was like, hey, but in this short term, I'm just asking you, like, to his audience, just to trust this, trust the man, okay? Trump. Trust the system. Let him cook. Hold on for like two to three tanks of gas. for like it'll be an extra 10 to 12 bucks a tank while Trump wraps this up. It's like wraps it up.

Trust the plan. Everything is Q and on now. Yeah. We'll get into, we'll get into why that's fucking impossible, even if the war ends yesterday. In a bit. I don't know what you're talking about.

I have, I have 20 canisters in my mudroom, in my closet, just all just from the gas station. You should really seal the tops of those. $3,000. I wouldn't just have the vapors just filling your, house like that. Yeah, they're uncapped.

Me and my roommates, we are, we're feeling great right now, I gotta say. We filled up like six kitty pools with this shit. Yeah, just put kitty pool in the back to the pickup truck and drove off with it sloshing out the slide. That was a real video, wasn't it? Dude,

there's always, you always see people doing the wacky shit. I saw a video of this woman filling up gas canisters, not even like outside of her car. Just, they were in the trunk of her car and she was bringing the nozzle. just into the trunk of her car, just spilling it.

And I was like, oh, my God, guys. Has anyone never gotten to like a kiddie pool? Like, kitty pool in the back of a trunk, poured the oil in the kitty pool? Yeah, there's a video of that. It's incredible. Somebody's, like, making a turn and, like, you just see it all slosh out the side.

It's really, like, meth, you know, meth-driven thinking. No, no, surely that person was in the right frame of mind. That person works in the oil industry. Yeah. All I got to say is, don't get the same high, like an oil, open oil field high, that, that, the way that affects your brain is way better than meth or crack or cocaine or weed. It's just way better. So they're

on the right stuff. Yeah, they need to do more like PR trips. Like, have you been in an oil field while it's burning? Yeah. It's exhilarating. And it's better than that. It does some cool things. Than that reefer you're smoking on. Yeah. If you're feeling too much anxiety, just fill up a bucket of some nice guzzaline and put your head over it. Yeah. Take it in. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back.

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Was it AI, Jack? I don't think so. Okay, good. We know sometimes. I do fall for that. You remember that one, right? I don't know. I feel like I said it too because it feels like a thing.

It just feels like an American thing to fill a kitty pool up with gasoline. It's like they got there. They got there at the end. Like the things that made me believe it is like they got there at the end of the person filling it up. And they were like, look at this motherfucker. Which is like how you would discover it. It's like, you're just like, oh my God, the guy over there just filling it up. And then like you see the person drive off and it just like slosh all out the side of the thing.

Anyways. That is the most Kentucky ass bullshit I've ever heard. So Kentucky. Yeah, Jack, did you just not see it when you lived in Kentucky? Yeah, that could be it. Remember that video? I'm like, no, Jack, that might have been when you just were living in Kentucky. It was me trying to figure out how to save some gas.

All right. Briefly, in a recurring beat that we have called everyone as fucking 12 years old, we have new news from the FBI. A new collabo between the FBI and UFC. Dude, just check this out. This is straight from Cash Patel's mouth. Quote, I'm thrilled to announce the historic seminar between the FBI and the UFC at Quantico. This is a tremendous opportunity for our FBI agents to learn and train with some of the greatest athletes on Earth.

Helping the world. He is doing a kata as he says this. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. Helping the world's premier law enforcement. agency be even better prepared to protect the American people. Dana White has changed the game in the mixed martial arts industry, and we're extremely honored to be partnered with him, the professionals and the UFC.

We are grateful for their shared love of our nation so that we can better defend her. This is insane. You know, I don't quite care for this club. What I really want is the FBI and Sanrio collab. I want like a Hello Kitty themed FBI age. That's more up my sensibilities. Yeah, you have KKK, KKKKKKKeropi, Batsmaru, the person who's trying to entrap a group of Muslim men and some kind of terror plot.

Yeah, yeah, I can see all the same Rio collapse for sure. It writes itself, yeah, they're working on that one. Yeah. But also announced that the Department of the Interior is partnering with Mensa to turn all the water fountains into soda. Oh, that water fountains are going to have soda now. Yeah. Perfect for that one. Perfect.

We don't need guns. Did you guys invent that when you're a kid? I invented that one. What, water fountains have soda come out? Yeah, all right. I'm a bit of an inventor. Shoes that grow with your feet and water fountain that have soda come out. That first one.

That first one feels like something like a cash strapped parent would invent out of necessity. There actually, no, there is an invention like that. My wife and I both invented, like invented that for school science projects. Wow. Yeah. Really? I've seen that in Africa. I remember there was a child who invented, like, using tires and it would just extend as the foot grew. It's a child. Child invention, like child science fair invention, I feel like along with Woodif Water Fountain Head soda come out of it. Honestly, the most, the worst part of being a kid is thinking about getting new shoes, honestly. That's probably the highest priority in your life as like a five-year-old or a 10-year-old.

or however, yeah. I don't have a kid. I was a kid, but I don't remember what that was like too long ago. Me either. Too damn long.

But is that, aren't they still doing the, like, UFC or like wrestling? Yeah, at the White House? When is that happening? It's the 4th of July.

It's supposed to be for the, oh, God. 2.50, for big 250. However, a lot of the UFC fans are pissed because the card sucks. Like, they, it's like one of the weakest cards for something that was supposed to be like,

this is going to honor the nation. People were like, you couldn't fucking get anybody. good for this clowns show? I feel like every UFC fighter is like a crazy right wing person. Like why can they get better? There's a ton. I'm sure those guys are fighting. But like the ones people want to see. I mean like Connor McGregor is just too on cocaine to fight anymore. But I'm sure they could be like, hey man, there's like fucking three ounces of coke up for grabs for the winter. You know, we can up it to a quarter pound if you're if you're fucking down to have a heart attack

in the octagon. But is it breathing so fast? He's like hovering an inch off the ground. Yeah, it's just like everything, it's just, everything's just falling apart. And even the UFC, it's like that line is trending down too under Dana White's leadership. So it's just, it's like a bunch of dying brands. You do hate to see it, Miles. Yeah, he has to see it. I'll never understand how on the right, they boasted about winning the White House. They boasted about winning in 2024 because everyone was just so dang sick and tired of politics,

infiltrating every part of our lives and entertainment and sports. And then they won. And they were like, what if actually hold on guys? What if sports, entertainment, everything, everything you enjoy, television movies, everything was our politics instead. Right. And then, like, turns out no one really likes that either. Yeah, exactly.

But hey, look. The Daily Wire is making some movies that have Hollywood scared. Oh, laughing. Sorry, has Hollywood laughing. They're really bad. They suck shit. You're laughing so hard. They're laughing so hard.

Like the sinners spin off or whatever, they're like, this is a, the, this is a, this Daily Wires sinners attempt. This is our response to the sinners movie. Sainters. What fuck is that? Because it ain't sinners, bro. It is just such a great illustration of like, they really were like, and in a free marketplace of ideas,

we're going to win this one. And they tried. No, but it did not go. It's crazy how just like everything, like, Right-wingers will never have a cultural dominance because everything that they do hinges upon it being a backlash response to like a leftist or left liberal or even just neutral, like cultural moment.

Like nothing that they would do would exist if it wasn't a reaction to something else that already happened. The 80s was as close as they got, I think. The 80s, they really had like everybody on board with Reagan and like they look at some of those movies. It was very like Reaganite. And, but, like, I think that's, I, I was heading into this administration,

I was like, are the 80s going to come back? But no, they suck too. They're too bad at making close. Yeah, that's right. Also the 30s, maybe. Yeah, yeah, we're definitely guilty. We're in the gilded age for sure. Yeah, yeah.

All right, let's talk about. So I believe if my sources are correct, this was Logan Paul, sweating through, clear through his suit at a Donald Trump rally. It was Logan Paul. I don't know the difference between these guys. No, it's Jake.

It's Jake. That's Jake Paul. That's the one who got the shit kicked in. I don't know the difference between them. They're basically the same. They're just like one, which is Jake Paul, is just slightly more evil in a different way than the other one. Yeah. They're both covering their receding hair lines by overgrowing the back portion of their hair and bringing it all to the front.

Yeah. One has a curlier version. One has just a more stringy one. Logan Paul will forever be the dude who went to the Japanese forest and kicked off the wave of like nuisance people, nuisance Westerners entering Japan to make content. But yeah, Jake Paul is the boxer who, you know, Anthony Joshua completely rearranged his face in the recent boxing match. All right. Agree to disagree on this one. Okay. I think it's Logan Paul. We will have to fact check this one. This will be going to the editor. So we're still actually looking into this. No one is sure quite yet. Still not sure. So he tried to do it.

The ostensible thesis statement of this rally was for Trump to shit on Thomas Massey. Right? Like it was just all about how Thomas Massey is a loser. We got to get rid of this loser. This guy is bad. He's disloyal to the Republican Party He's disloyal to the people of Kentucky And most importantly

He's disloyal to I swear to God I thought he was gonna be like To me because of Epstein shit But he said to the United States of America So like how so fucking transparent That he's just like I don't tell you who I don't like The guy who revealed my pedophilic sex ring

Sex ring friends and me. At the thing too, because he's endorsing his primary opponent, right? The way Trump even talked about it, it couldn't be more like, honestly, I don't even give a fuck who it is. Like, this is what he said when he was like trying to big up the opponent for Massey. The little rally and Rand votes against us all the time too, but at least he's okay. I wouldn't say the greatest. And now Thomas Massey is attacking a group.

Navy SEAL hero. This is a real hero. Ed Galrine. Who's running against him in the primary. You know why? Because he's not doing right for our president. He didn't want to run for office. He's a hero. He's a farmer. Hero. He's a tremendous warrior. But he's a farmer right here. He's like a farmer casting. I said, this is the guy I'm looking. I wanted to, I want to just give me somebody with a warm body to beat Massey. I got somebody with a warm body, but. Okay. So that was, that was the, those are the standards.

Are they alive? Yeah, yeah, get them in there. Get them in there. They have a pulse. Okay. Yeah, they have a pulse, warm body, great. And then that guy who's going to speak couldn't be like less charismatic, Ed Galerite. This is him afterwards trying to get the fucking people pumped up at the rally.

Fake news gets this. Tom Massey stands with the ladies of the view. Tom Massey stands with the ladies of the view. Oh, doubling it up. Mr. President, we stand with you. Fight, fight, fight. I didn't know you could have a voice crack at that age of like 60. That's crazy.

I've never seen that before. St. The lady's in the Z. He doubled up. That's too. That's too on the nose for like a southern.

I think that's why Trump was like This guy's like from central casting. He's like one of these real life Kentucky people. I didn't even know. I see him in the movies.

Yeah. Wow. He's a real hasty. He's a war hero, farmer hero. I do like that right wingers have their own version of standpoint epistemology.

And it's just like if you're a war hero, if you are a military guy, you can't say anything about that guy. He's too good. Unless he's above the rest. You're Donald Trump. Yeah.

In which case, you could be like the guy was a loser. You get shot. That's losing in wars. Yeah. Yeah. We don't like losers. Yeah, exactly.

Oh my God. I love this. I love. And there was that one point in that in Trump's part where he's like, he's not, he's not loyal to the president. But he like didn't say the president. He like stopped himself halfway through saying like the president.

Yeah. obvious. Oh my God, dude. So wild. He's just like, I'll tell you, wow, this guy made me mad for reasons we're not going to get into. She also introduced one of the Paul brothers to hear which one to

no applause. Really? Yeah. No applause. He came out and he just like, he looked like someone had like spun him around and like pushed him through a door two seconds before he got on on camera. Yeah. Yeah.

But you know what? It showed lots of courage. Come here, Jake. There's a couple of weeks. Yeah, what Mr. Trump has taught me is courage. You know, we never back down from a fight, even if... Yeah, or deodorant. He's also sweating clear through it.

The flop sweats are in tense. Oh, my God. It's really the flop sweats. I'm... What do you got to do? Let's throw some diapers in there? That's what my grandfather famously, a sweaty man,

basketball coach who was a sweaty man, would sweat through his suits, occasionally would wear diapers under his arms to just keep from this happening. Yeah, was this an indoor event? Was it warm? Why is he so moist?

Why is he humid? You can see the sweat on his face. It's part of me is like, is it his conscience? I'm like, no, he has no soul. Some light cocaine. It's uppers, probably. Yeah, yeah.

He's flying usually, as far as I can tell. Yeah. I don't know. I love that that's the future of the Republican Party is like someone who scams children online. And like, yeah, fights, I guess. And have you guys watched the Paul brothers, like, documentary on Amazon? They put like a multi-episode, like, short, like documentary about them.

I don't know. I remember when it's authorized or unauthorized, right? It's their, it's their version of events. It's like theirs, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I saw clips. I know a bit about it because every time something pops up like that

Pokemon card Logan was selling, that was like, you know. Oh, yeah, the scam that he ran. Yeah, the dubious card. And he's like, everybody owns a part of this card, except you don't, assholes. Thank you for your money. I sold it. And now I have the money. But what is your overall takeaway from the documentary, the docu series?

Just that they truly believe that they are like the greatest people of all time and that there is like nothing that they can't get away with, right? They have run scam after scam after scam after scam after scam after scam for nearly a decade now. And they just keep failing upwards. I mean, Jake Paul's with Donald Trump being endorsed, I guess. Like that's the thing here. Is he endorsed him for public office? He's running.

Then says, I'm going to make a prediction that you will be in the not too distant future running for political office. Oh, interesting. Don't you live in Puerto Rico? He does. Yeah. I do really like the idea that they were like planning this for a while and they planned on having Charlie Kirk up there. And they're like, who's the next best like weirdo podcaster guy?

It's Paul brothers. It's Jake Paul or Logan Paul depending on, obviously that will be edited correctly depending on which one it is determined to be. We still don't know. We still don't know. It looks like Jake stinks like Jake. Could be Logan though. We don't know. We don't know.

But then somebody in the background, you know how. how like the background of his shot is always a crowd of people. Looking at the back of his head, which has to be weird, they always look like kind of a little confused and like very bored. And it makes sense because they're just looking at the back of his head as he gives a speech. One of them couldn't take it anymore and passed out. And like, you know, it was a two-hour speech. It was apparently fucking sweltering or not.

Maybe she was on that same shit that the Paul brothers. Or she could be like one of the millions of Americans who's rationing their medication due to affordability issues and maybe had some kind of a who know. I mean, it could be a number of things. It's all on the table. So collapsed during the two-hour speech. Trump lazily asked if there's a doctor in the house and then said, take your time, take your time multiple times into the mic. Take your time. You know, when you see the ambulance driving down a road, it's like, hey, you can pull off if you.

Take your time. Chill out. You can keep going. Oh, they've got good boiled peanuts over here. You should try this, actually, if you've never had them. He then, like, spiked to the camera. He did, like, a gym from the office look at the camera while the woman was on the ground awaiting medical attention.

He was like, no. And then after four minutes of waiting, he asked the audience if they wanted him to play a song and then asked the organizers backstage to play Ave Maria. Well, backstage, you're listening to me? How about Abe Maria? Well, because this is going to be okay.

How about putting it in right now, Ave Maria, if they are listening. Ave Maria by Abe Maria. One of the like 20 songs. He knows. I love that.

I love this so much. He's like he wanted this guy to die. As the angels. Is this angel? him as the angels guide his soul lovingly to the gates. The healing in St. Peter, which I don't even think I'll be there. So good for him. This is a sacrifice I was willing to make.

This will happen to many of you going forward. This is just the beginning. Sort of like a saw villain. This is like a saw rally. Right, right, right. He is chigsaw here. You're getting out of here until you solved my puzzle. The door is locked after this guy.

Hey, do you want to play a game? We're playing a game. People love it. Look at them. They love it. This is great for the ratings. Taking my new makeup. Just like Jigsaw.

Film accurate. Oh, no. No, this was, I saw this. I saw this happen. Like, I, I just got off the bus. I was walking around. I, like, I pulled up my phone as I was getting. I genuinely laughed out loud.

I cannot speak. I genuinely laughed out loud at this shit. This fucking killed me. I was crying. I'm still crying over the. I'm crying over this right now. It's maybe one of the funniest things I've seen this year so far. He's like, play Ave Maria.

Guys, wouldn't we love that? We all would love Ave Maria. Wouldn't we love it? We love Ave Maria. It feels like the same like in that Will Ferrell, like worst boss SNL sketch where he's like beating the shit out of Chris Parnell. Targaryen. Yeah. And everyone's like, oh my God.

And then after he beats him, he goes, hey. And just like tries to just switch the mood up by doing a little dance. That's like him being like, let's get a little music. in here. How about the somber song of A. Maria? The one about dead people. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk about what he had to say about the war during that because we did get some policy stuff as well as DJ Tanner's visit to a demonic sex party. We'll be right back. You know Roald Dahl, the writer who thought up Willie Wonka, Matilda, and the BFG. But did you know he was also a spy? Was this before he wrote his stories?

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and start listening on the free IHeartRadio app today. And we're back. We're back. And we're back, folks. We're back. Yikes. And we kind of had this feeling at the outside of the war that he was going to get bored. Within like a day, probably.

It was my over under. Not even bored. Forget. Yeah, kind of forget about it. The second he starts facing negative consequences, just be like, I never said that. I never said we would stay in the war and just kind of try to back out. Yeah. And that seems like where we're headed.

He thought the bombing operation strikes was like a metaphorical one. He was like, yeah, I just dropped some harsh words on Iran. That's what he thought. Yeah. You know what I mean? You know what I mean? That's what we do over here, the White House, just drive by decapitations. And then hope everything just goes back to normal once we scare the shit out of people.

And we've talked about this again. He has, there was no plan. for this. It's clear, it's evident with just the way he talks about it, the way Pete Hegseth talks about it with the way Marco Rubio talks about. There's like no common threat here aside from maybe Lindsay Graham be like, yeah, do it, man, do it, do it, man. Fuck yeah, bro. It's going to be sick, bro. Bebees on our side, man, fucking go. I think my favorite part of all of this in the last two weeks has been a lot of these different figures like Hegseth coming, like doing a speech and being like, this war will be, will be doing this and this and the war and then a reporter will be like, oh, so it's a war.

And then he's like, no, no, limited operation. It's a limited operation. But you just said war, though. I didn't. You did. You did. Yeah. Well, then that was a misspoke.

Yeah. That was a misspoke. That was a misspoke. That was a misspoke if I did that. They're so careful. The Iranians psychically planted that in my mind. Yeah. Have you seen an inception?

I was kind of like that. So it's a decision operation there at the top of the U.S. government. Trump is definitely starting to make, we drop the bombs. We can win. We won now mode. I mean, did we actually win? Or did Trump bite off way more than his fucking dentures could chew? And had no one telling him to reconsider because everyone is afraid of racist grandpa?

I think that's what's happening to you. Sure. People are just telling you shit because from the beginning it was clear it's like, he is in such a weird information bubble of just things that will keep him from having a tantrum that they just lie straight up to his face about everything. Like he's being like, this straight of her moves. is fine. It's totally okay. Travel it. Yeah. Go ahead.

Feel free. Go in. Just power through like a brave oil tanker through a very precarious straight where you can be fired upon from the shore. It's okay. Go through there. And at the rally, at that same rally in Kentucky, he was like talking about how he was like falling asleep as the generals were trying to tell him, like,

what do you want to name us? He's like, yeah, I don't know. I'm filing this. They put these things around. But Operation Epicure. it's great, huh? And well, now that the... Is that him, like, being like, that one wasn't me?

Like, I didn't like the name? No, he loves it. Because he's getting made fun of. No, no, no. We'll get to it. He fucking loves that name. And in fact, it's so good, he's proclaimed that that's why we've won because of the name alone.

So, you know, now that, like, the Hornet's Nest has been fully kicked, Trump is just acting confused over, like, the sudden, quote, unquote, sudden leverage Iran has by shutting down the straight of horse. moves. The thing that every president knew said everyone was like, this is why you don't do this. They'll have you by the oil balls. Okay. Yeah.

By shutting down the straight. Like, if this was possible, Dick Cheney would have done it. Like, this would have been, this would have been wrapped a lot ago. The fact that Dick Cheney looked at this and said, no. Was, yeah, like, you know how badly he wanted to do this? Yeah. They all did. All these fucking freaks did. Every fucking fiber

of his being. The fact that he was able to like it's that just demonstrating what a terrible idea it is what do you mean so darth vader was afraid of fighting this guy why Darth Vader no certainly not right watch this shit oh fuck yeah so like one oil as much as I do well um right what's that I love it I fucking love it but so like you know now Iran they know how to fight back they're hitting oil infrastructure civilian infrastructure they're just they're like well we don't need to fucking do a ton of crazy shit. We can just strategically hit certain things and completely disrupt the energy market. And we know that, and everyone knows Trump's God is money. So there's

nothing more existential for him than to be seen as like being at the helm when money line is going down. Right. You know, we talked about him. He's like like, like, you know, relaxing sanctions on Russian oil and things like that. But again, with the oil and gas stuff specifically, right, this industry is not used to shit like oil tankers being fucked. fucking hit by missiles or depots. Has that happened at all in the last like 70 years, really? And maybe not, like, not to this extent, not to this extent, right? Especially for a region where 20% of the like world's oil is coming from.

And, you know, I think we also just saw a strike on a U.S. owned oil tanker. Like those visuals for the like, like oil industry is like, what the fuck, bro? You think I'm going to find a crew who's going to want to send a boat through there when Iran's like, dude, we're going to fucking fire on you if you get, if you even dare to come through here, it's not going to happen. And I think even with the talk of like, well, America's a net oil producer, their strategic reserves, that's like a, that's like a band-a. That's like a thing you do like real quick. That's not a long-term solution because right now oil fields are being shut down because they're already filling up their stores. And the oil has nowhere to fucking go. So like, oh, we have to shut down extraction because we have nowhere to send this oil. Starting that back up isn't going to be as easy as going like, okay, everyone decided to stop back to normal. And I think that's the thing he's not realizing at all. You've put the Iranian government in an existential corner,

and you thought that just doing a drive-by real quick being like, yeah, now they know what's up and it's over? No, no. And now you have a real problem. It's been one of those things right now, too, where it's been interesting seeing a lot of the visuals of a lot of these tankers being destroyed and attacked. Meanwhile, Trump and a lot of people in his administration and close circle are sort of like, yeah, the war is about over.

We won. We won. So it's like this, it's been this weird battle of seeing things with our eyes and then listening to things that Donald Trump says and watching the oil prices sort of fluctuate go up and down, up and down, up and down. Yeah. Very volatile. But like, I don't know how long Trump just saying bullshit will work especially because the fact that I feel like we have released the reserves. I think we released some of it, not all of it, like 100 million of the barrels or something like. that prices went up when that was decided upon and a lot of people are like, why would that be the

case? Why is that, why would prices go up with the reserves? That's more in the market. And it's like, I feel like that's because everyone's sort of realizing if we're releasing reserves, we're going to be here for a couple of months. That's sort of an admission that this is not about over. This is not, the war is not over. Trump is just saying bullshit to manipulate the markets, basically. And now they're in, so, so, so, so. So the New York Times was put out a story that is so far, I mean, as predicted, it's a clown show in there. It said, in this story, it concluded that Trump and his advisors, quote, misjudged how Iran would respond to a conflict that Tehran sees as an existential threat.

What the fuck? Secretary of War Pete Hankseth, however, told reporters that, quote, I can't say that we anticipated necessarily that's exactly how they would react. But we knew it was a possibility. I didn't know I couldn't do that. I didn't know they could do that. He said, I think it was just a demonstration of the desperation of the desperation of the regime. Like he's trying to frame

there's like the fact that... Which regime? Yours? Yeah. Well, who are we talking about right now? Like you backed them into a fucking corner and you just thought it would just be a cute them. You killed their leader. What did you think? You made a martyr of their leader. There's also like nearly 100

million people in this country. That's like probably the biggest enemy we have made since World War II. Like the fact that they were like, well, you know, they're one third our size, but we can take them. We'll be fine. Yeah, yeah. We'll get through it. Yeah. And so this is Trump at that same rally again, where he's trying to be like, oh my gosh, everything's, isn't Operation Epic Fury so sick? Like, we already won. This is what he said yet on a Wednesday in Kentucky. And as we take decisive action to stop the threat posed by the terrorist regime in Iran with Operation Epic Fury.

He loves it. He loves the name. We love it, don't we, folks? Epic series That was Dean's screen Is that a great name? No It's only good if you win You know you can only And we've won

Let me say we've won Oh You know you never like to say Too early you won We won the bet In the first hour it was over We won the bet We won the bet

But they gave me to say too early you won We won we won the bet In the first Yeah I mean could be him saying also Like the best We won the best You know

It's hard to just Who knows? He could have been trading on Kalshi also for this. That's right. Oh, certainly he was. So we won that one. And, yeah, again, like in the New York Times, it's crazy now that people are like, from the administration are being like, it wasn't us. We tried to tell him.

We tried to tell him. Okay? Okay, maybe we never tried to tell him. This is from the same New York Times piece. Quote, inside the administration, some officials are growing pessimistic about the lack of a clear strategy to finish the war. But they have been careful not to express that directly to the press. who was repeatedly declared that the military operation is a complete success.

I love that everyone just has to lie to him all the time. Yeah. That's just, that's what this entire thing is. Into disaster, into calamity. Like, this is the worst case scenario is actually playing out right now where you're starting a hot war. And you're lying to the decision maker constantly like, everything's fine, dude. Everything's fine.

Everything's fine. We're winning. Yeah. Can I tell you guys my conspiracy as part of why. I think this so easily happened after Venezuela. I don't think, because after the whole thing where they went into Venezuela, took Maduro and brought him to U.S. prison in New York, I feel like at first it was like,

this is crazy. This is going to be like a huge ass war. And then it settled pretty quickly. And I think it was one of those things where it was like they clearly made a deal with the ruling party there. Maduro took the fall. They got money. They got something.

It was just sort of like an agreement with the U.S. and Venezuela. That's so clearly what happened. But I genuinely don't think Trump realized that. I think a lot of the people around him, like, Hexeth included, were like, we went in there. We did some America type shit. We went, rah, rah, we went in there. We took care of it.

We did. We have an syndrome. Yeah. Yeah. Like, he genuinely doesn't know that there was like a deal is, like, part of why I think he was so willing to just do Iran because he was like, you know what we did in Venezuela? We're going to do that to Iran. Right.

And like, that's not clearly what happened at all here. People at the Pentagon are looking around like, bro, did you tell him how we did that shit? Right. Because it's like, no one's brave enough. Yeah. Typical rich kid shit or it's like, I went on my hunting trip and I got this, I shot this buck. It's like, no, the guy killed it already. And you just fired at it.

And we said, good hit, sir. Great hit. See, I'm the best. It's sleeping. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I also just think you, you mentioned like King, Military or King the Hornets Nest. I do just think it's interesting, like the detail that all of these members.

members of the administration are moving on to military bases as this is happening. Yeah. Really strikes me as like, I don't know. It's, they kicked the hornets nest while wearing one of those like beekeeper suits, you know? And then they're like, man, these hornets seem pissed, you guys, like, looking at the wrist of us. Like, yeah.

It, it just feels like they are so insulated from consequences. And in fact, that, you know, like, it's, I feel crazy being like that a false flag, attack or like they but like it does feel like they're just make creating as much chaos as possible and then you know the if there are consequences from the violence that they do then like all the better for them then they can like suspend the elections you know and they'll be they'll be lit sitting pretty on those lobster rich military bases just bringing the crash oh yeah yeah i think and then but now we're at the point too where you know uh the new Ayatollah is like, bro, revenge is coming just so you know.

This shit ain't over. And then, but also the foreign minister of Iran, or it was also saying, too, like, well, there are conditions now if you want to end this. It's like, you knock this shit off now. There's reparations and future guarantees that there will be no more aggression directed at this country. It's crazy that they didn't expect that was coming. Like, it was so obvious. like in Iran's response that it was not just going to be like, oh, oopsie dopsy, now we're friends,

I think, right? I mean, they said since like the beginning that like there will be consequences. And I feel like there was just like a lot of expectations that nothing ever happens. And wow, look, look, something happens. Something's happening. Yeah. And I think Iran is correct to ask for reparations. I think correct to ask for a guarantee to never be attacked like this again.

I mean, all of what's been happening is a war crime. against Iran and it's people and children. Yeah, especially when you think about how like, you know, like oil enrichment facilities are blown up near Tehran and you just saw that like black plume of smoke. Like as somebody who just was, you know, in California, you had a massive structure fire, wildfire and people were like worried about the particulates coming down. For what's they're facing over there, that is a straight up fucking disaster too, like in terms of air quality and shit raining down on people. Horrible for the environment and the people that live there. Yeah. And, but then Trump's like, right, they'll be fine, I think.

We can just stop this. It's called Epic Fury. Yeah, it's called Epic Fury. It's called Epic Fail. That's what we'll be calling. And now, yeah, and I, and like, that's where we're at. And, like, all these fucking cowards that work in the administration, they're, like, acting like, like, these kids running out of an abandoned house they were playing with matches inside of. And we're like, I don't even know what happened in there.

It's like crazy. Who's his idea? Who's his? It wasn't me. That their only recourse now is to leak to the press. It's not even to tell the president. It's just like they're telling the New York sound like, dude, we can't even tell him nothing. Right.

Oh, I wonder who's going to be mad at me. Yeah. Yeah, it's the part where like the kids are turning on each other being like, my parents are going to be even more mad at me. You tell them. I told him the last time. Yeah. Parents are fucking dead. Something I'm curious about is like you brought up earlier the fact that a lot of these people are moving on to

military bases outside of the White House. And it's like Iran, we know, does not have the capability to attack the United States in any way possible. So it's like, it's very clear that it just will straight up be a false flag if anything happens, right? Like, I'm not crazy for thinking that. I feel like I'm crazy a lot these days, but I feel like that's not crazy to assume. That's what I've been saying. And like also the stuff with the drones, I feel like might give them plausible deniability because like there's the sense that like drones make it possible for like people to attack places that they didn't used to be able to attack. So, like, they're, the fact that they're like, it's, they're really mad at California.

They're going to go after California, we think, is like, oh, Caroline Leavitt. They're going to strike open AI. Caroline Leavitt actually came out to push back against that. And she was like, she's like, this is incorrect. This was based on one tip. And she's like, America is never actually at risk from Iran. She had to come back to like sort of clean that up. So why did we attack them then?

if we're never under threat. June, stop. Oh, my fucking God, dude. Stop acting like a common journalist over here and ask some fucking questions about why. Because it's just all, it's such a fucking disaster. And like that's what you'd hope that these people who voted from realize, like, this is the fucking hell you're bringing down on everyone because of this. But, yeah, well. Doesn't matter.

Doesn't matter? Doesn't matter? We got Epic Fury, folks. Isn't that a great name? It's a great name. Don't look at the thing about the Zorro Ranch in New Mexico that have. had maybe dead bodies there have victims who were killed

God, could you remember? If we do get blown up over this, like what a dumb fucking way to go. I mean, think about already, the Pentagonaries admitted what, 140 casualties? US casualties? Yeah, or at least injuries. I think

just injuries, I think eight confirmed deaths, maybe nine. I think it's way more than that, for sure. Exactly. Because they at first, they told us the four people who died and then they're like, when it was they didn't tell us the other two. And yeah, of course. Are these all friendly fire also?

Yeah, right. Because it wasn't that the way? Like they, again, they just like don't like to admit that they've ever been punched. Yeah. Did you guys see the one where it was an NYPD account on Twitter posted that an NYPD officer, like police officer that just happened to be in like, I think Dubai or one of the countries that was being bombed by Iran died because of a medical episode. he died

medical episode like yeah I guess when wars happen you will have a medical episode every once in a while yeah

yeah yeah speaking of the pit that's a medical episode June I'm so sorry that we didn't have time to get to

the DJ Tanner visiting a demonic sex party I'll do I'll do my own research I'll find it for myself I'll go there next time

I'll do on the ground reporting don't even worry about it yeah that's right Miles and Jack, I'm here at the demonic sector. They're really fucking this time. Yeah. They've got like Oni masks on.

Yeah. Wow. Some sort of sacrifice. Yeah. Go to Tsushima in here. Tune in for that on Monday. June, where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? So you can find me.

I have two podcasts. I have Kill the Computer, which is just a podcast about how. politics and the internet sort of intermingle sort of like how that culture influences each other. You know, everyone is online now, especially this administration. And we started to talk about that and just like tech, general techie related things. And then I have another show called Ill Conceived. It's a show about analyzing right-wing natalism. So basically we take a look at different figures in the right-wing sphere.

People like James Dobson, we sort of dig deep into them as people, their idealism. sort of see how that influences the culture or politics around that. We've talked about tradwives. We've talked about abstinence-only sex education. It's sort of a more research-heavy show compared to kill the computer, but I'm very proud of both of them, and I would appreciate if anyone check those out. And then I also work at The Onion, so read The Onion, support The Onion.

I love The Onion. Now I've heard of this. The Onion. The Onion, yeah. It's this little thing called satire, comedy. Hey. Yeah. Yeah, no. Wonderful place. I'm biased. I work there. Yeah, one of these days you'll get around to it.

But yeah, you can follow me at those places. Some of these headlines seem like real life, June. Are we sure? What's going on here? How does it feel just reporting the news these days? Thank you so much for having me on. Is there a work of media that you've been enjoying? So I found out recently that the, I don't know if you've guys have ever seen it, but it's that interaction that Matt Walsh, about a decade ago, put out a post.

Let me, hold on. I have it. Let me read it out loud. I can't quote it. So Matt Walsh, it's almost the 10-year anniversary of this post. Matt Walsh says, I would kill every ape in the world to save one human because humans are more important. This is a very simple concept, folks. And then the very iconic reply, would you suck every ape's dick to save one human?

And I just think it's very important to recognize that we have been very online posting some bullshit for nearly a decade. Or longer, of course. Yeah. But like, yeah, some of these iconic posts are nearly teenagers. And that's very upsetting to me. Salute to the shit poster. Who came with that one? Yeah, that's all.

Let me see who it was. It's, it's, it's, uh, K Thor Jensen. I think they're just on blue sky these days. Right, Kthor. Great post. Yeah. Amazing. Miles, where can people find you?

Is there a work of media? You've been enjoying. Yeah, find me everywhere at Miles of Gray. You can find me talking about 90-day fiancé on 420-day fiancé. I'm talking about European soccer on Aint Footy with Jamel Johnson and Chris Martin. Not of Coldplay. Not from Coldplay, Jack. You got me sensitive about that now because people are like,

you really got the guy from Coldplay? Yeah, I did. Did they really? No, no, no. And there's a couple of posts I like. These are very, like, millennial. coded Instagram reels. This one is just,

it's just saying POV, how motherfuckers were genuinely moving when they had a five-page essay due before 1159 PM and started working on it at 10 p.m. Parenthetical pre-chat GPT era. And it's just doing at front of his computer like LeBron,

got his hands on his knees being like, we're locking in. There really was some shit. You didn't have fun. There was no way to cheat, Except I was so guilty of this in college. I would wait till the fucking last minute doing shit all night because I just had terrible time management skills. And sorry, that post was from Joe dot underscore Arthur.

And then one more is just funny. As somebody who worked at a car dealership just resonated with me, it's from Auntie. Dotia official. It says regular cars at dealerships, but it's just a dude on all fours. And then they're about to cut to the Jeep Wrangler. dude on a rock it's such a visual thing but then you say you know when you see a Jeep

Wrangler at a dealership and always has to be on a rock it's like mid off road shoots that's really good how did they figure that out so good why did they like I'm so

interesting now because that's so true yeah like they were just like okay and this one comes with a a boulder that we're going to need you to this is on three wheel Sam. Yeah. And the doors come on.

Comes with dirt pre-installed on the truck. Exactly. I'm checking out this place The Onion.com. Yeah. And there's some good stuff on there. Have headlines such as

Exhausted Nation Lex strength to form opinion on Donald Glover being voice of Yoshi. And respectful song addresses DJ as Mr. DJ. Yeah. Just class.

Great. One of the greats. It's a classic satire. Some of the classics. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien on Blue Sky, Jack O, B, the number one on Instagram, Jack underscore O underscore Brian. You can find us on Twitter on Blue Sky at Daily Zekegeist.

We're at The Daily Zykegeist on Instagram. You can go to the description of this episode wherever you're listening to it, and there at the bottom you will find the footnotes, which is where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode. We also link off to a song that we think you might enjoy. Miles, is there a song you think to people might enjoy it? Yeah, yeah, another track from the Ghanayan Australian artist, Genesis Owusu. We did, one of the tracks you went on was Death Cult Zombie, and he's just kind of talking about, like, right-wing culture.

This one's called Stampede. It's just, his, like, vocal style is dope, just super fun, rocky kind of music. So check this one out. This is Stampede by Genesis Owusu. Like, d-t-da-n-n-da-da-da-dun. Is that what you mean, rocky kind of music? I know, Jack, you only believe rock. Anytime you hear rock, something, it's got to be Rocky Bell Bow.

Yeah, you know what? You said Rocky kind of music. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I meant like rock or chase. No, no, I meant Rocky Balbo. Yeah. Rock there is. Oh, now I get it.

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