The Daily Zeitgeist - Fentanyl Ghost Protocol, I Can Speech For Free? 09.17.25

Episode Date: September 17, 2025

In episode 1932, Miles and guest co-host Blake Wexler are joined by host of Next We Have and co-host of The Dollop, Gareth Reynolds, to discuss… Trump Wants You To Think Fentanyl Will Make You A Spooky Blue Ghost, Jesus We Are In Dark Waters - Pam Bondi Just Making Up Laws Now, Google Is Being Sued Over Its Janky AI Overview, Social Media Companies Are Fine With Graphic Murder Videos... Apparently and more! Drug deaths plummet among young Americans as fentanyl carnage eases Pam Bondi Forced to Backtrack After Bonkers “Hate Speech” Comments Google AI Overviews Says It’s Still 2024 People reading AI summaries on Google search instead of news stories, media experts warn Rolling Stone, Billboard owner Penske sues Google over AI overviews Rolling Stone Publisher Sues Google Over AI Overview Summaries Widespread availability of graphic Charlie Kirk shooting video shows content moderation challenges Charlie Kirk Was Shot and Killed in a Post-Content-Moderation World Meta apologises over flood of gore, violence and dead bodies on Instagram Digital Occupation: Pixelated Propaganda, Censored Platforms and the Battle for Narrative in Gaza LISTEN: Fón Póca (feat. Travy) by Interplanetary CriminalSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Free? Yeah, yeah, yeah, free. Remember 106 in Park, AJ and free? I don't, I'm a great show, May on BET. Oh, yeah, right, right, British Entertainment Television. These characters don't know what BET is, are you kidding? BET. Go and down me might's flat to watch a bit of B,

T later. British Entertainment Television Channel 4. Yeah, love it, mate. Yeah. It's great, mate. You've been well, yeah. Been all right, then? Yeah, been well, yeah. Just excited with you.

You've got a good turnover now. That's nice. That's right, yeah. You know Blake as well? Yeah, of course, yeah. Yeah, no, Blake. Yeah. We went to university, yeah.

Yeah, Wexie. Wex is a bit younger than me, but he's still all right. Oh, Wexie. Oh, Wexe. Oh, Wexe. Oh, Wexe. Yeah. Oh, right.

Talk to that in confidence, mate. He's on the Wexie, Waxie, Waxie, Waxie, Waxie, Waxie, Waxie, is our boy, yay. Yeah, they used to call him Blazah. All right, Blazah. You got to say that. No, that was the old me, mate. Gaza and Gaza, Gaza. It's Gaza and Blazor today on the Daily Zah guys, isn't it?

The Zaza. Zaza Gabor, Zaza Gabor. Zaza Gabor. Oh, Zaza Gabor. The Gaborz are here. Come on, we've got Zaza. The Gaborz, a game called the Gaborgs. Come on, Gaborz.

That's out with the Gaborz. Oh, fuck me. The Gaborz are here. You fuck with the wrong group. Oh, shit, mate. The ops is here. Oh, yeah, my ops is here. The Gabor's just bloody pulled up.

Ah, great. Close your tab. The Gabor's just rolled in. So I'll glass him again. I got my pint glass here. No, I'll even be, mate. It's the Gabor's the Gabor's. Oh, glass you, you're fucker.

No. Have you ever, man, I ever. You've ever seen somebody get hit with a pint glass for a fun? Dude, it's really violent. They're harder than you think. I've never been hit. But also, like, those are calling it getting glassed is like, so, like, just terrible to be that comfortable with that happening where you call it glass. It's like a hammer.

You might as well be using a hammer. They got clasped. You got closed, my game. The bloody gables showed up, and I got it brought him right in the temple, mate. Al and Tipper Gabor. Al Tipper Gabor. Al Tipper Gabor. Al Tipper Gabor to pay me to bore.

That's a footy. Oh, yeah. Holy shit. Gabor don't like them. Fuck the Tottenham. Fuck the Tottenham. All right, man. Here we go.

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or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Hello, the Internet, and welcome to season 406, episode three of the Daily, podcast, so we take a deep dive into America's shared fucking consciousness. And guess what? It's September 17th. And you say, what national holiday is that? It's National Professional House Cleaners Day.

National Monty. Oh, Monty Crystal sandwich. I love a fucking Monty Crystal. Deep fried fucking sandwich with powdered sugar on top. Yes. National Apple Dumpling Day. And ironically, Constitution Day and Citizenship Day. While those things are being basically ripped apart and also made out.

The last one. The final one. Yeah. The final citizenship day. Here we are. My name is Miles Gray, aka, aha, hush their foes. Miles shit is paint us at the back of the bus. Gonna hang them up so they form across.

We, the type of people make a club get stung. Again, that was for people who were just tuning in. We were talking about how people put their jeans in the freezer to clean them rather than washing them. And then I just talk about how I shit my jeans all the time. It's whatever. That didn't matter. Anyway, I'm thrilled to be joined today by my guest co-host.

You see, you're hearing me because Jack, had had to go do something and which means I had to assemble some kind of weird crew and I said get Wexler here now. That's not a great intro but guess what my co-host is the one and only Blake Wexler. Hey

This is Blake Wexler A.k.a. Oh, alma mater, dear thy name We praise our voices love inspired to thee we raise and we will cherish the days to come and think lovingly of Emerson. What the fuck?

That is apparently the song of my alma mater, Emerson College, and the alma mater of our goddamn guest as well, if I can, if I can cuss. Wait, really? You guys went to the same school? Oh, yes. Wow. Because we're power brokers. Well, guess what? Our guest today is a fucking power broker.

We went to the Ted Sarando's school. Let me fucking finish. Sorry. God, I'm hosting today, Blake. This is not a good working environment. I never get to fucking do this. I don't care because I want to introduce our guest today. He is a fantastic gentleman, a scholar, a podcaster.

You may have heard of his wildly fantastic podcast, The Dollop. Maybe you've seen him do stand-up. Maybe you heard him on other shows, like this one, maybe once or twice, or will you accept this rose a bunch of times? So just fucking everywhere, because the man's funny. Okay? and he likes a bit of an accent as well. Please welcome to the microphone.

Mr. Gareth Redo! Thank you. Thank you. Doing a lot of podcasts is not a barometer for being funny. I appreciate it. Oh, yeah. Ten years ago, maybe. Yeah, my mom was like, well, you do so many podcasts, you must be funny.

And I'm like, right? Used to be. Right? Yeah. That used to be the way. I have so many podcasts now that people are like, are you, what's going on? You okay? Yeah.

It is a problem. I agree, though. People don't know, I might be doing a couple more shows, too, in the coming future. And I don't want people to be like, are you okay? And then I get to say, well, my house fucking burned down. So no. Yeah, that's the, my house burned down when I was in high school. And what an excuse for everything.

It was just for four or five years, I'd be like, sorry, did your house burn down? Because that's what I dealt with. Your house burned down in high school? Yeah. Oh, shit. How? Not fully, but mostly. Sorry, I was playing with firecrackers on the side of the house.

and I burned the door. It was Wisconsin. It was how you got a new house. I had you both beat. My dad got sick in high school. So I was just like, oh, yeah, sorry, I have a sick dad.

He ended up living, but barely. So I remember telling someone that. What kind of show is this? And she goes, oh, yeah, well, my house burnt down.

And I'm like, that's not the fucking game we're playing here. Yeah. Oh, I don't like that. I will say on behalf of Miles and I, since your dad pulled through,

yeah, I do think we. I have a seat. Well, what's a dead house versus a barely living? He lives. What's the currency exchange? How was his rebound? Was he okay?

Okay? I would say it wasn't, I mean, he's fine. There's such a, two ways I could take this. Or I could lie. Aren't there? You want to do the on-air version, Blake, we're recording my guy. My dad's fine. I'm going to co-host the podcast with him coming up.

It's called Failing Sideways with the Wetzler's. And it's being Larry. Yeah, no, he's doing. I love Laird. I'm sorry to hear about your home. Miles wins. Yeah. I win.

Thank you. Any other questions? Did it think so? I also had Osgood Schlaughters when I was 14 from Grumpy. Yeah. Yeah. Gareth, it's great to have you, man. Always good to see you.

Always good to have a bit of a laugh with you as well. A bit of a giggle. Yeah. Well, wait, let me say I've got my new 18th podcast called Next We Have, which Everyone must go listen to. What's that about? What is it about? It's about an hour.

No, it's basically, it's like, it's like a lot of games with people. We do weird interviews. It's like three to four segments a show that are just kind of hodge, podge, popery, random, but it keeps the attention span. I mean, it's like scrolling, but on a podcast. Nice. Wow. I love that.

It's out? It's out. It's out, Blake. So I don't know. It's out. I'm just going through here. I don't see any of our names here. I don't know.

It's new. Press. It's new. There's not a lot of press. I'm breaking the news here. When does it come out? What days? Fridays.

Great. Nice try. Nice try. You thought I was trying to trick you? He almost got me. Rachel Wilson? She went to my high school. Yeah, Rachel Wilson.

Ann Arden. Wow, Bobby Lee. Fantastic four milk. Brooks Wheeling. Okay. You got frigging Dave, Dave Antony, Scott Ackerman, Brennan Lee Mulligan for your D20 dropout heads out there. Wow.

Oh, Raca. Also? Repeatedly. Who? Yeah. Raco, great. Yeah, man. Dropouts got some fucking, they got some time.

Dropouts the spot. They got it. I mean, I'm like, God. I heard you guys are making money over there, huh? I know. It sounds pretty good to me. It's always a shame where, so I remember, like, you know, Barry Katz, like the manager who sounds like he's on nitrous.

Who reped and was fired by every comedian who's ever... Yeah, he's repped every comedian. Yeah. I remember literally 20 years ago, I was doing this, like, prank show in New York, and he was represented someone, and we were in the back of the car, and he was like, you have to start a podcast. And I was just like, what? And he was like, you got it?

And I was like, all right, man. And then it was like 10 years later, I was like, God damn, he was so right. I just like, the doubt's been around for a while, but I was like, wow, he really... Yeah. He did see that one. That spooky guy was on to something. Spooky guy. Oh, man.

He looks spooky. I'm just looking at his pictures. He looks like, he looks like the most fashionable white walker. He's a haunting. That's a nice compliment. That is. Yeah,

that's a great way. Does that make sense? Like, if I say that, like he looks like a white walker with his shit together. Like he could get a job, like a VP. Is it this guy right here? He looks like a White Lives Matter Walker.

Yeah. Yeah. No, he is. Yeah, he's represented everyone. Wow, except for me. Not me either. Probably I'm not doing so hot. He was the guy who made Dane Cook large.

Really? Did he invent the Superfinger, too? No, no, stop. Oh, no, no, no. That's all the same, right? That was Thomas Edison created that. Dude, remember that? Did you ever do the Superfinger earnestly?

No. Dude, I tried to, and that's what burnt my house down. It's the force, the force of the Superfinger. Yeah. You can only do it on the night Dane has a show. Otherwise, you do get a curse. Yeah, and insurance will not cover that. And then you date someone of a questionable age.

Okay. Sorry, the America I like, you can groom at 15 and bang at 18. That's allowed. Thank you, everybody. Jesus Christ, we're back, aren't we? All right, well, Gareth, we're going to get to know you even better. But first, we're just going to take a trip down the dock here to let people know what we're going to talk about. Trump wants you to think fentanyl will make you a spooky blue ghost, according to these new P.S.

essays. They're not quite on the Aronovsky level of the meth ads from like the aughts, if you remember those that like the Montana meth ads that were like jarring. Yeah. These are like they're like an old grandpa's like dare like lecture about drugs. It's like okay, well, this isn't resonating with me generationally. We'll talk about that. We'll look at one or maybe two of those. We'll also just catch catch up with the attorney general. Pam Bondi's just making up laws now um in the wake of that thing that happened in utah with that guy there's been a huge uptick in authoritarian talk of jailing people who are speaking ill of said guy uh and she's now just being like there there's hate speech and there's hater speech and being a hater is also

hate speech which is also not free well it's very convoluted so she can't make laws that's not part of her uh part of her jurisdiction i mean honestly it's it's kind of like a choose your own adventure I think when you work in this administration. Like, you can kind of be like, yeah, I'm pretty sure I can do this until, you know, someone's going to say anything. No one's going to say anything. The courts will back me. So why not?

Why don't I call this to this Tuesday is actually Brze? And that's now ordained. That's not a good joke. And then we're going to talk about social media, uh, companies like also just like the amount of graphic violent content that's on social media now. I was mentioning this last week. I'm like, we're at peak. just watching awful shit on our phones for some reason.

No warning. No warning at all. And I think it's got to do with these algorithms and the oligarchs who control all of our fucking social media. It's the oligarism. The oligarded. Exactly. The oligar. Thank you.

When you're here, you're fucked. Oh, my God. That Olga's got rhythm, doesn't she? All right. Let's get into it. Gareth. What's something from your search history that's really about who you are, what you're into right now? You know, I saw, you know when sometimes you'll be on,

like you'll be watching something on Instagram or like TikTok from a random. And then it'll scroll, refresh. And then you're like, what, where? No, my thing. I liked it. Yeah, what was the account? So I saw this thing about a guy breaking the record for running backwards and high heels. It was like the most feel goody, like, it felt like how the news used to end itself.

like we'd be like, and also a man broke the record. Right. And so I searched that this morning and watched that and actually was like, see, good things are still happening. Because he's flying backwards in his high heels. And yes, a man had to do it, ladies. I know you're sorry. This guy's fucking legs. His legs are, dare I say.

Holy shit. This guy's a fucking hot. Let me see them. Oh, those are nothing. Those are nothing. Stop. you gotta see this look at those oh my god this motherfucker's cooking also can he play cornerback or free safety only in heels oh yeah he's going backwards yeah he's like i will have i don't know and then he does

do that he takes him off right away he's like that hurt yeah i can't wear these for another second and he just blows him like a smoking gun barrel like yeah baby he's got his heel holsters on on his hips yeah so that was uh that was my favorite search uh of research uh of recent So their record was 100 meters in 16.5 seconds. The last one was 20. Damn. I think I could do it. Do you think you can do this?

Nothing. I would love to see you start to pursue the record. Backwards high heel sprinting? Yes. Bro, I might have to come for this guy's record. I would love that. Now, could you engineer the high heel to wear it facing the way that you're going? Or is that against?

No, you know what I'm saying? No, you can't do that. can't. I think it's fine because if you really think about it, no, absolutely not. You can, you just stay on your toes the whole time. No, I'd like you guys to actually, look, I brought up something fun and you're kind of rude. Like, no, it's a pure sport. We're not going to start. Well, we're just asking questions, Gareth. Well, yeah, but I think it's time to move on. So, what is someone else's search history? Because I'm not even going to do this anymore. That's not how this works, Gareth. No, tell me. No, what's, um, something, what's something overrated since I'm sure you have

no opinions on that as well. This part of the show. Okay, fine. What's something underrated, God, damn it. This is a fucking disaster. I don't need you to fucking tell me that, Blake. I'm sorry. You're fucking humiliating me in front of Gary. Pause the recording. Let's hold on.

Let's run that recording. And we're back. We're back. Welcome back. Zihart Radio, 933. Damn it, Blake. Let me ask the questions. I don't get to host all the time.

You don't give me any guidelines. Okay, fine. You get to do this one. You get to ask this one. Go. Welcome back, everybody. We are listening to overrated, underrated on the I-HartMedia Studio Network. We're having a hell of a lot.

We are cookey and we are crazy. Pam Bondi's doing something over there. Lord knows what it is. Let her cook. The chef is in. Gareth, what is something overrated? Hong Kong. Hello.

Part of me. I, you know, I'm going to say it. And I still like to drink. But it feels like as a society, we've really started to slow down on drinking. Yeah. I am now finally, I think I'll, alcohol's overrated. Every time I drink, I'm like, this, I, it might be age, but like certain things just kind of come in and out of society. There's some things you have to force.

Yeah, yeah. But then there are some of the things that just sort of flow in and out, like, and it feels like alcohol's a little on the way out, and I had a couple drinks on Saturday, and I was like, I don't, every time I do it now, I'm like, is this, do I enjoy this? Yeah, like, Or sometimes it's like, oh, it's this ritual that we like partake in culturally. And I'm like, I'm literally just going through the motions of swallowing alcohol. And I'm like, I don't know if I want this actually. It's really weird when you are like when you actually go like, this is just like a fun poison. You know, and it's like, I get it.

I get it. It's not that I'm done doing it, but on the level where I used to, I look back, I'm like, what was my plan? Yeah. Yeah, we were just talking about that. You don't drink, right, Blake? No, I actually love it so much. But I'm in a similar way where I've now, because I can still tolerate it. Well, I also drink way less where now it's like, oh, what's the least amount of alcohol in the drink that I could have?

And now it's like, oh, I'll have a regular drink and they'll have an NA drink and then I'll have another. So now it is just weaning off, I think. Age is part of it. And then also having things to do. You know, where it's like, am I going to pay for an Uber, like especially in L.A., like, You know, when I live there, it's $70. You got $60 to go up the street. It's nuts.

It's not working yet. You fucking kidding? No, no, that wasn't the story. Fuck out of it. As a matter of fact, I'm going to start an Uber and I only drive it drunk. I'm going to make profits from drunk driving. How about that? I'm firing up the Uber.

Watch this. Who knows tech? Where do you want to go? I'm not going to that part of town. We're going home. What? We're going to Jack in the box. You have the alipino.

poppers they're underrated under friggin' rated the poppers of jack in the box I'm telling you I forget there's a guy in the back he scares the shit out of me every single fucking time if there was like if Uber like when you're ordering it that's $80 to go like

12 miles and then they're like or you can do Uber drunk and it's 41 I'd be like let's see how bad this guy is yeah yeah I mean like I'm not a proud of it but I've been in the car with drunk drivers many times in my youth and like there were times and I've been like, you know what, I can't take this.

Oh, yeah. I'm getting out. And I don't know if that makes, probably a better person to have been like, and I have to take your keys, but I was like, off you go, I won't be on this one. But take your keys with a drunk person, they make that seem like a way easier debate to be like, give your keys. It's like, it's not like that. The guy's not like, cool.

The guy's like, fuck you talking about. Yeah. The other version I remember when you take keys was someone to be like so passionate out, like you could just take them out of their pocket while they were talking. and they're like, where my kids go? And you're like, I don't fucking know, man. He's like, shit, dude. I got to look for him.

I'm like, why don't you take a seat on the couch, man? We'll find him in the fucking three days from now when you wake up. Here they are. Oh, thank you. I was so fucked up. I couldn't even find my keys. I missed my kid's baptism again. This was the third time with the schedule because I've been fucking it up so bad.

I have the most religious kid who keeps getting baptized. Don't feel it over again. Jesus freak. God, lunatic. Weirdo. Yeah. The other thing is, too, like, fuck it, the hangover. As I just get older, like, my body just can't do it anymore.

Like, and... Well, you know what? I got one of these fucking aura rings, too. And I don't know. Apparently, like, the Department of Defense is tracking my health care and stuff. Whatever. It's all over anyway, so who gives a shit? But alcohol in your system sleep, it's so dramatically worse.

Oh, with your, like, heart rate being all elevated and shit? Yeah. Like, you wake up and your little apps just like, are you okay? Call your dad. You know? What? Well, how'd you know I dreamed about him? Yeah, whereas like sober, sleep becomes the drug, the older you get.

You're like, dad, it was, I slept so much last night. You're like, I slept eight hours. You don't even want to, no, I don't know. What did I do? Goddeth, what is something you think is underrated? I, you know, travel so much, and the maids in hotels are underrated. I always, the way that they have to operate their lives, the way, the nightmares of what they walk into, and then the fact that I stayed at a Hampton Inn recently, Hampton Inn, yeah, yeah, shithole. Not shithole, but like, right, that's my basement, really, for whatever.

And they had folded towel swans. Oh, my God. Yeah, and I was like, someone needs to alert the staff. That's AI. That's AI. It was AI. Yeah. It was AI.

Yeah. It was Sims. But I don't know. I always am like, that job seems fucking horrendous. Oh, yeah. I mean, imagine what they see. Like, you know, you've left ho-ed. I always leave a very good tip, which used to be my way of saying, don't tell people I smoked

weed in here. But now I don't even smoke weed, and I still leave the tip. And it's just my way of being like, yeah, there's some pee on the floor. I didn't know where it was in the night. There's Fritos in the bed. I'm a monster. and I'm sorry for what I do. Yeah, I definitely, I mean, I think the pandemic's made it a lot harder.

Like, I even tip more now because they have done this thing where it's like, to be more like eco-conscious, put this up and no one comes into, then I'm like, that's actually a, that's like when people generate their tips, too, is to go and do housekeeping. And I get if you don't want them in there. Like, I'm also, when I go to a place, I have all my shit all over the floor and I don't ever want someone to like see that and I'm like now trust me you know no no need to come in here but I do leave a tip as if they you know like trying to get my five bucks a day or something like that because you've accrued like the five days worth of filth over that time I love the way they put

that on the hotel where they're like we want to like save earth so don't make us do as much laundry yeah yeah no we want to cut our employees hours actually is what we want to yeah that's what it feels like also I'm like I got and like trust me when they come in here there's a lot of raising canes empties in here. Good for you. The canes were raised. I'm a caniac, bro. What can I say?

I was in a hotel. And I wish every hotel did this where they had a QR code so you could tip on the app, like, so you didn't have to have cash on you. Because I think that's, like I will plan my trip around tipping these people. Yeah, go out, get cash. I will clean the place like I work there.

I do too. Yeah. There's definitely a scrub that goes on. I just had that. Remember when we met up in Jersey, like in the fall, Blake, when I was out there. That's the best day of my life. And that hotel I was at, that was the first time I saw the QR code for tipping. I was like, this is great because usually I'm like being like, before checkout, I'd

like jog up the street to an ATM or something to get cash. Because I don't like the karma. Somebody who like had a job where you got tipped out. Like, you know, when you do that, you have a deeper appreciation for people who get tips and you want to fucking. I do fully believe in the karma, too. I think it is, it's a full on, you know, you have to do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Damn, a fucking swan at a hampton.

Also, the folding of the toilet paper, it's a whole, like, what are they, it's a lot. Have you ever done that at your, I did that once before a date came over. That's crazy. Whoa. What are we going for here? I've never used it. Yeah, well, no, I thought, I thought, with that. This is new.

I thought it would excuse the fact. that I hadn't cleaned to the sink in like seven months and I'm like well if I fold the end of the toilet paper

in a triangle maybe they won't throw her off the scent yeah like the literal scent literally mold yeah

it's a white swan and there's mold did you see the triangle that looks new I think that's new I think that might be new have you been here before because I don't think this was

there last time you know about new Whoa. It smells horrible in here. I don't think anyone's used this before us. Whoa. I think that might be new. Whoa.

What the fuck, get in here, lady. You don't even know their name yet. Look how new this is. This looks like halfway used, but there's no way. This thing is screaming be our guest. No Lumiere from Beauty and Beach. That looks pretty new. I don't know.

Yeah. Anyway. We'd love to talk to the owner, but this looks. fresh. Yeah, those are a bunch of my pubs on the shower wall.

Yeah. Look at this, huh? Whoa. What about this bathroom cost? Must be pretty nice.

Don't you live here? Didn't you say your rent was like $6.50 a month? I'll tell you what. I'm not even ready to answer a lot of those.

Oh, shit. This guy deserves his dick and something. You know what I'm saying? I mean, that's a fucking

branch bacon new. The toilet paper's folded in a triangle. I really fucking thought that was, God, That is... Do you mind if I bring it to dinner with us?

It's just so new. The wake her up. Did you use this? Hey. This is square now. How did you get into my apartment? Last night, this was new. What the fuck?

I had a great time, by the way. Now it's ruined. I noticed you took a long time to reply to the text. I just want to make sure your phone didn't die and you had it plugged in. I have something I need to tell you. That role had been used. in order to make it appear new I folded it into a triangle

I was embarrassed about pooping I knew you'd figure it out when you realized how close we were to the cardboard center it became pretty apparent from our dinner conversation that you had realized that that role was not new

and I continued to keep the rules up throughout the meal and that was where I misstepped in retrospect a mistake. What is he? Andrew Cuomo? It had been used before.

I'm sorry for raising my voice in the dinner. I'm not a yeller. I shouldn't have made you pay. Sorry, I was watching Serpico. It kind of gets in me when I watched Serpico because he likes to scream. You know what I mean? I'm a sponge.

What can I say? All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back and maybe we'll talk about the news. I don't even fucking know anymore. We'll be right back. This is a tape-recorded statement. The person being interviewed is Krista Gail Pike.

This is in regards to the death of a Colleen slimmer. She started going off on me, and I hit her. I just hit her and hit her and hit her and hit her. On a cold January day in 1995, 18-year-old Krista Pike killed 19-year-old. Colleen Slemmer in the woods of Knoxville, Tennessee. Since her conviction, Krista has been sitting on death row. The state has asked for an execution date for Krista. We let people languish in prison for decades, raising questions about who we consider fundamentally unrestorable.

How does someone prove that they deserve to live? We are starting the recording now. Please state your first and last name. Krista Pike. Listen to Unrestorable Season 2, Proof of Life, on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. My name is Ed. Everyone say hello, Ed. I'm from a very rural background myself. My dad is a farmer, and my mom is a cousin. So, like, it's not like... What do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? I know it sounds like the start of a bad joke, but that really was my reality nine years ago.

I just normally do straight stand-up, but this is a bit different. On stage stood a comedian with a story that no one expected to hear. The 22nd of July 2015, a 23-year-old man had killed his family. And then he came to my house. So what do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? A new podcast called Wisecrack, where stand-up comedy and murder take center stage. Available now.

Listen to Wisecrack on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What would you do if one bad decision forced you to choose between a maximum security prison or the most brutal boot camp designed to be hell on earth? Unfortunately for Mark Lombardo, this was the choice he faced. He said, you are a number, a New York State number, and we own you.

Shock incarceration, also known as boot camps, are short-term, highly regimented correctional programs that mimic military basic training. These programs aim to provide a shock of prison life, emphasizing strict discipline, physical training, hard labor, and rehabilitation programs. Mark had one chance to complete this program and had no idea of the hell awaiting him the next six months.

The first night was so overwhelming. and you don't know who's next to you. And we didn't know what to expect in the morning. Nobody tells you anything. Listen to shock incarceration on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I had this, like, overwhelming sensation that I had to call it right then. And I just hit call. I said, you know, hey, I'm Jacob Schick.

I'm the CEO of One Tribe Foundation. And I just want to call on and let her know there's a lot of people battling some of the very same things you're battling. And there is help out there. Good Stuff Podcast Season 2 takes a deep look into One Tribe Foundation, a non-profit fighting suicide in the veteran community. September is National Suicide Prevention Month, so join host Jacob and Ashley Schick as they bring you to the front lines of One Tribe's mission. I was married to a combat army veteran, and he actually took his own life to suicide. One Tribe saved my life twice. There's a lot of love that flows through this place, and it's sincere.

Now it's a personal mission. I wouldn't have to go to any more funerals, you know. I got blown up on a React mission. And I ended up having amputation below the knee of my right leg and a traumatic brain injury because I landed on my head. Welcome to Season 2 of The Good Stuff. Listen to the Good Stuff podcast on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. And we're back. So there's a new ad campaign hitting the friggin airwaves from a group called Make America.

fentanyl free. And apparently this comes from a... Math? Yeah, math. Math. Quick. It's math, I believe, too. Is how you say that?

Not free. Yeah, make America fentanyl free. Apparently after the 2024 election, Trump had an idea. He's like, I would have to do something about fentanyl. And because the only language he knows is sensational television, it was going to come in the form of these scare ads that are really, really more confusing.

Like, when I see them, I'm like, wait, what is fentanyl? Do you feel like you're on fentanyl when you watch it? No, because then I would have been nodding off and dissociating probably as more than just like the abject confusion I was experiencing while being very coherent. By the way, I mean, I know you're pushing back. I'm not a drug guy. I wouldn't know what you guys are talking about him. The fentanyl is great.

By the way. Yeah, yeah. I mean, they had them in the patches back then, the lollipops. The lollipops, man. I had a classmate in high school who would raid his parents' drug cabinet, and that was my entry point into trying every prescription drug under the sun. And that was like, that was, it's 2002, and I had my first fentanyl lollipop. Oh.

Yeah. Was a bad AP European history lecture. America's awesome in so many ways. Yeah, yeah. We really are just like, it's a dreamland. We have loose death chemicals in every bathroom. Like, it's, it's, it's shocking we have buildings. I know.

It's like shocking. Yeah, truly. You can get this shit literally anywhere. But anyway, these ads have now hit the airwaves in markets like West Virginia, D.C. and Philadelphia. And let's just, let's just check one of these out. This first one is called, there's not even a title. Like, they're all just called Make America Fentanyl Free.com. No need for a title.

This one, I believe, is one. where a guy becomes some kind of spooky blue-skinned ghost, because fentanyl. I got hooked on fentanyl. No, it's a white guy. Yeah. In the mirror. Whoa.

First, my teeth started to rot. He looks like shit. My skin turned blue. Okay. Your skin turns blue when you do fentanyl? Yeah, that's why the side effects are smurf. Yeah, you don't want to get smurfed. Yeah.

He should have bought his vent from Gargamel. I started to age very rapid. I lost my hair It looks like Trump And every friend And I will only be remembered As that drug use Oh my God

Take fentanyl Because if you do You'll be dead Like me Oh my fucking God Oh my fucking God He just activated Ghost fucking protocols on our asses right there

He said you'll be dead Like me And then he disappeared Yeah Because he's dead That's Yes He's bad like him

So many more questions. Like, I searched fentanyl hair loss and nothing came up. It was more like about how drug abuse can impact your hair on some level, like it can be found. But not a thing where it's like, here are the things that fentanyl does. Your hair comes out. You have blue skin. I've only read that in like in relation to like an overdose or something. But this one wants you to think like your hair going to fall out, your teeth turning their fucking caramels and then your skin blue and you die. It's very funny that in this day and age, the reason to not do things is what it externally does to you. Internally.

Like, none of that is about Oregon failure or lifespan shortening or any actual thing that would ruin. I mean, the guy died, obviously. We never really had time to get into that. But it's just teeth, skin, hair, friends. Right. And the friends probably stopped because they're like, we can't get late with Barry. Yeah, yeah. Do you want to look like a three?

Yeah, I didn't think so. I became a three. Yeah, I became a three. A blue three. Make America three free. Yes. We want to be three of the threes. Three of them.

Great show. Okay. I think they heard you on that point about what it does to you because here's another one. They had a one minute long out. I can't, I couldn't bear to get through the whole thing. I mean, I did watch it, but I won't subject you to the full minute. But Josh Blue? Here's the last 20 seconds where they show the last, like they show three people.

The first one, I think, was a girl who smoked weed at a club. And it had fentanyl. She's done for it. Yeah. They're all dead. The thing about these commercials. Because he, his Trump's whole thing was he wanted ghosts. He wanted basically the voices of the dead, like some fucking weird, you know, what's that Charles

Dickens thing, Christmas character? type shit to happen where it's like you know there's something about when a ghost talks to you that it really you know Marley was on fentany and Marley

Marley and Marley he lost Jacob wouldn't hang out with him because he was ugly on fentanyl I do give it up to Tiny Tim though he had that he had that injury

and he didn't touch the fentanyl despite having a little crush skin was a little bluer and his hair fell out a little more he might look normal correct I think that would offset The penalties of his body.

My help a little bit. Yeah. Here's the last 20 seconds of the one where I think this guy's trying to get a little bit more into the health rather than you just will look like shit approach. I was immediately addicted to fentanyl exactly like the drug dealers wanted. My skin turned blue. I aged rapidly. Okay, maybe not. No, he said my or is.

It seems pretty similar. Payfully deteriorated. But again, they're leading. My skewering is like, okay. I mean, bluing is for doing laundry with your whites. Yeah. If your whites are looking dingy, add bluing to your laundry. I turned blue.

Yeah. I shouldn't have gone on, I shouldn't have gone on that tour of that chocolate factory and ate that candy. I was just going to say, it's so wanka. Yeah, this is the most wanka-coated shit. Okay, one more time from the top. I aged rapidly. Uh-huh. My organs painfully deteriorated.

Then I died alone. Fentanyl kills Damn Join President Trump's fight To end the fentanyl crisis Wow Why does it have to be Trump Like can't you just be like

We're trying to stop this If we're trying to stop it He's the only one It's because his idea And I think again He's obsessed with cable news And commercials Well you said the other day

340 million Americans died From like Oh yeah yeah Last year Last year No 300 Leaving There's 30

Yeah Remaining 40 million We are the remaining 40 million Waiting to die Oh my tooth Oh my teeth My hairless Blue

Hairless blue Toothless Threes We used to be a nation of sixes Yeah Now a nation of threes Due to the scourge of fentanyl I wouldn't even fuck anyone

Yeah But like now like So this dark It's a dark money group So we don't know where the money Like is actually coming from But we know it's obviously Aligned with Trump

Because he's the one who even dick these commercials happen and his like team is working on them but they're spending millions to like hammer home trump's message you know they like essentially they have to it's like twofold right like you got to keep the fentanyl panic going because that helps justify like increased police activity or like blowing up people in boats yeah you know what i mean like or saying like we have we're into crisis with our borders because the fentanyl and also it creates the optics that he's actually doing something because he has a commercial and I'm like oh did you see that I think I'm he's fighting for it yep yeah no it's amazing because most fent like the most fentanyl is

from like ports it's like legally shipped into this country so this again I'm not that reality has any connection to action obviously but it is just he is it's just all invented boogeymen and yeah you know the thing I was thinking about like because obviously they're trying to tie everything to like this trans shooting nightmare which god it's just enough with the shooting from the trans people i mean it's been five already over uh six thousand shootings but it it that men competing in women's sports really got this sort of brainworm cooking for people so that now you're hoping you can make the shift into the you know they they it's just being the starter never mattered,

and then, of course, you go to, you know, Wonka Town by the end. Yeah, you just need to loose threads to kind of connect, and you're like, and that's logical, and correlation is causation, and that's all you need to know. But the thing is, fentanyl deaths have been declining

pretty rapidly for the last two years, which is great. And it's more to do with, like, the past year is what matters. Yeah, it's better, it's like more to do like better just like education for people, like parents of like people who have overdosed and like family members like becoming like getting into activism and like shit like Narcan. Yeah. But you know like the thing is like again, this is what's so

funny is like Trump just thinks of like a drug like a wave of drug addicts or a drug addiction to be like okay and you can stop that by going, I don't do that. You're going to turn blue and that's how you scare them off of it rather than like actually like addressing drug addiction. You know like that's that's how you get people off drugs. It's like you create, it make it easy for people to get treatment also. It's like we have people living on the streets we should just euthanize them.

Yeah, as Brian Kill Me. He's not a root cause guy. Yeah, it's just how to, I got to clean up Park Avenue. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's more of like, somebody brush this dandruff off my shoulders. I need a better dandruff brush for my I mowed the lawn and the grass keeps growing back.

Every now then you hear like a seed of a plan where you go, oh, real? Like, there are, like, there's talk of mental health care and all this stuff, but it's just, it never actually comes to any kind of fruition. No, he goes off the fucking rails. Yeah. It goes in a direction you can't even imagine it going.

Yeah, he says it all, yeah. Yeah. Well, speaking of the attorney, well, I don't know what the, I don't even know how to fucking segue into this. Pam Bondi? Speaking of hell. Um, hey, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's float. on the river sticks a little bit more, shall we?

And really check it all out. Because Pam Bondi is now, like, because of people who aren't doing, like, glowing eulogies of Charlie Kirk, she's now taking that to be hate speech, basically. It's like the new take from the regime. I'm just going to play this clip where she kind of lays out her tortured logic here as to why, I don't know. I mean, like, well, just listen, listen to the attorney general. There's free speech, and then there's hate speech.

And there is no place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie, in our society. Do you see more... Oh, this is Stephen Miller's wife, by the way, yeah. This is Stephen Miller's wife's podcast, which has given us... What a great conversation we're about to ship fires right by. Look how big her note card is. You know what I mean?

It's like... There's a lot of great thoughts on there. All of the words she's saying for the entire podcast are on their card. It's a hate menu. Well, it's the swastika logos take up half the card. Yeah, yeah. But at least they're in the corners. So it is a aesthetic.

No, it is nice. Go on. And in the center and yeah. Yeah. Go on, Katie. Enforcement going after these groups who are using hate speech. She's asking if law enforcement are going to be arresting people. So we show them that some action is better than no action.

We will absolutely target you. Oh, okay. Go after you if you are targeting anyone with hate speech. Wait, hold on. Hold on. Anyone? Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. What's that? What's that? You, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech, anything. And that's a point.

Anyone? Nice. Nice sound. Anyone? Anyone? This, this quote, well, whites. This is it so funny. This quote, like, guys, fucking riled up the right. Just from Pam Bond, because they already hate her because woman. Abstained as well. But, like, I think, like, first of all, for starters, I think, Most of us in the U.S. know by now, especially after the last decade, that hate speech is protected under the First Amendment. That's why they go around doing this shit in public. Yeah. Right. Just so you know, that is.

So when you go, there's free speech and there's hate speech, well, according to the- What Charlie Kirk did was free speech. What you're saying about Charlie Kirk is hate speech. There's not even a legal definition for it. Well, you know, that's for me to figure out. A.G. I'm on a podcast. What do you want? Yeah. Yeah. What do you want to do? Like, say facts. Liberals like obviously pointing out that this is just like illegal intimidation and the A.G should probably know the laws of the land. But again, like I said, the right, like they're

fucking act. They're like calling her a moron because they know better than anyone that hate speech is their favorite form of free speech. Yeah. And it was wild to see like conservative like Twitter fucking influencers on their right be like quote tweeting this thing and be like just so you know this is a slippery slope this can be weaponized against us when you see that like wow what we keep like

finding ourselves like I keep going like now look I loath this lunatic all right guy but that part is yes I agree with that part of what he's not why but that part is right

as you know like right they kind keep doing that where it's like if you watch abysmal piece of shit nick fuentes talked about charlie kirk you're like kind kind of yeah huh kind of yeah uh series search griper wars yeah so and and they keep doing this like like like and they very clearly don't have a grasp of the law not even that the law is relevant for us anyway right But they are now saying these quiet parts out loud more and more. Oh, yeah. And it just shows you the level of confidence that they have to not to be idiots.

I mean, Cash Patel right now, too, like, they're. He's getting grilled. As he should. I mean, I'm going to start a go fummy to get him eyelids. He just looks so gone. Yeah. They can't even fake it. I know.

His face is permanently set to, I'm so. out of my depth right now. Yeah. This is what happens when you have the dumbest guy in the world appointing people to positions based off no credibility or anything whatsoever. And he didn't even do it. The first term that fucking moron had, at least some of them had some,

like they're morons, but had some sort of background. Now it's just like, yeah, he learned that first time was like, they like to fucking like uphold norms and shit. I need a freak of these guys. Rex Tillerson, you were like,

yeah, I agree with this oil magnate. Right, right, right, right. He has a Chevron tattoo on his neck. Yeah. I love it. He has one of those cool. It's right behind his ear. It's really cool.

Barging in charge. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know, but she really, you know, I think they are also still very sore over the Epstein thing, which, again, is another thing that draws us, you know, we're strange bedfellows when we're all going. going like Epstein files now, yeah, let's go. Yeah, I mean, you know, I agree with this Patriot front guy. Marjorie Taylor Green. There's times where I'm like, yeah, I've been waiting.

I'm like, when is she going to drop the act? You know what I mean? I'm like, yeah, this has to be in service of some other thing. Like you have, you must have some ulterior motive. And like, like, even Nancy Mace. I mean, Nancy Mace has already revealed herself to be very duplicitous because she was already, like, talking shit about the Epstein survivors after she walked out of that meeting in tears. But, like, with Marjorie Taylor Green, like, it's starting to actually affect her, like, strain her relationship with the White House. But I'm like, is, do you actually, are you that hopped up on the Facebook memes that you're about it? I don't know. It's very hard to be able to detect it.

And you have to be suspicious, but there are times where you are just like, if, I mean, yeah, like insiders stock trading and pedophilia. or, you know, Israel, they're all starting to be, like, things where you're like, we're kind of, yeah, same page and a little. I think with, like, the, like, anti-Israel stuff, there are a lot of people who get into it for from the absolute opposite end of the spectrum. They're like, what did you say? It's like, Jewish people, and you're like, you're like, yeah, we should stop finding Israelis because the Jews are, and you're like, yeah, pull up, pull up, pull up, pull up, pull up, pull up.

Cockpit warning. Oh shit, shit, shit, shit. Pull up. So, yeah, that's where we're at. But again, so like, after this backlash, Pam Bondi, like, had to clarify. She was like, she's like, look, according to this coach, quote, you cannot call for someone's murder. You cannot swat a member of Congress. You cannot docks a conservative family and think it will be brushed off as, quote, free speech.

These acts are punishable crimes. and every single threat will be met with the full force of the law. This inspired many people on Twitter to just be like, hey, okay, based on what you just said about like calling for someone's murder, like doxing people or attacking members of Congress, how do these statements add up, according to this new sort of perspective you have? Like, quote, we have to beat the hell out of the radical left lunatics, Donald Trump. Quote, just kill him.

Brian Kilmead. Quote, we should be posting protesters exact names and addresses online. Docs the people, Greg Gutfeld. They are at war with us. We're going to avenge Charlie Kirk's death, Jesse Waters. I don't think it's, I think she'll be like, I don't know. She's like, that's, well, that's not hate. That's, that's dislike speech.

Yeah. Yeah. That's protecting, that's protecting Charlie Kirk, who practice. There's hate speech, and then there's just like thumbs down speech. Yeah. You're just kind of don't like a thing. Okay. But if you're a hater, we also, like, have been trying to find the line on, you know,

when you are endangering the lives of people who need representation. We've been talking about that for ages, and they have been, there is no gray area. You can say whatever the fuck you want. I mean, that is the, we right now are kind of legislating the world

that they dragged us into, and then having to go, well, yeah, we've been saying a lot of this stuff that there are difficult conversation. Like I think with the Charlie Kirk thing, it's just like it's just weird to see them upset about a shooting it's like we're not used to you actually being pissed about a fucking shooting so we're trying to figure out how to tell you that

this is inconsistent with what you've been saying i think that's the hard part is because they're not interested in anything that's like logical or you know uh intellectually sound it's purely like this desire for them to have absolute power culturally and like governmentally and dominate just a country with like with their viewpoint. So they use the language as if they are into democracy. But everything they do and say is completely antithetical to that. And I think that's the, that's what the Democrats are up against. They think they're playing against somebody who's like, well, we have rules, right?

It's like, no, they're just trying to squeeze the air out of the country. That's what they're trying to do. So there's no air repercussions. Like they're babies. So it's like a spanking where, you know, like obviously. basically the Charlie Kirk thing's one thing. But even before that with quote unquote cancel culture, it's like, oh, I was canceled. It's like, yeah, because you were at a job and you used a racial slur.

You know, like you're not allowed to do that. Like they don't like rules. They don't like repercussions. And then when the rules don't suit them, then. And also when, you know, like Bondi was like, oh, hey, actually you can't do hate speech. Like Garrett said, it's like, oh, now we're all on the same. Yeah. Hold on.

Hold on. Some things do. I mean, we do need some form of free speech. So what is hate speech then? Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it's whatever they would hate to hear them, someone call them. Yes. It's how that works.

And I think that's really instructive in this new era we're in, because, like, if that's how they're playing, then you have to also play that game. Like, they're not here to, like, compromise in any way. And I think a lot of this stuff going in the opposition sense, you have to understand that you're working, you're up against. someone who's not willing to compromise at all we we have been playing their version of the game for so i mean fighting against it but you know you you can't there's you have you cannot physically be like we are going to take guns out of our society because again we rue in the fucking

world that you created so and then they are now trying to fight this version of this and again they want to do it in the way that is illegal that is immoral all that stuff, but you, I, I lose faith every two months and everything over again and making, where are we at in that cycle, by the way, are we getting close to? Yeah, I, I, I, there is no bottom, but this shooting being connected to trans people is another bottom where I go, how, how? I don't even, I wouldn't even know where to start arguing that, really, because. Because if you're engaging in that, that person, you can't logic your way out of that. No, no, they're just being like, I'm, I just need to hear the buzzwords thrown out to justify my hatred for the group.

And it doesn't matter if it's true or not, but that's just how they're conditioned to perceive the world. And that's why they're so easily, you know, they're, they're malleable. Yeah. And be like, no, now let's foment hate over here. And just because I'm going to say, uh, this thing and this other thing, yeah, that's all you need to say to each. other to justify your hatred it was a trans person yeah it's a person they've never fucking met by the way none of these people have ever been around a trans person and it's it's hatred for the sake of hatred i i think they the white white men people they really always

operate as the minority that's under attack and you really are always shocked at how they can keep finding ways to do it i mean If you look at the structure of power in this country right now, how you could be like, it's, all right, white people are in the cross-hairs. It's crazy. That's why you're like, I don't even know how to have the argument. But that's how, I mean, that's how you keep that sort of like white supremacist ideology alive is because if it's always at stake and it's always, you're always in the crosshairs

and you're so marginalized and you're constant victim. You got to put a fucking flag on your car. Yeah. And you like there were people in fucking like Huntington Beach or somewhere. I saw it was hunting to be. Yeah, like a bunch of fucking Nazis out there. I mean,

imagine walking through Huntington Beach being like, give whites rights. Yeah. Like what? Where the fuck do you live? Have you been here? You just, you just protested by six Froyo places. Yeah, exactly. I'm like, also have you looked around like fucking people of color don't want to go to

Huntington Beach? No. You've got your little place. Stay there. What are you marching for? Jesus Christ. Anyway, so great country we've got here. Let's take a quick break.

And we'll be right back. This is a tape recorded statement. The person being interviewed is Krista Gail Pike. This is in regards to the death of a Colleen Slimmer. started going off on me and I hit her. And I just hit her and hit her and hit her and hit her. On a cold January day in 1995, 18-year-old Krista Pike killed 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in the woods of Knoxville, Tennessee.

Since her conviction, Krista has been sitting on death row. The state has asked for an execution date for Krista. We let people languish in prison for decades, raising questions about who we consider fundamentally unrestorable. How does someone prove that they deserve to live? We are starting the recording now. Please state your first and last name. Krista Pike.

Listen to Unrestorable Season 2, Proof of Life, on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. My name is Ed. Everyone say hello, Ed. Hello, Ed. I'm from a very rural background myself. my dad is a farmer and my mom is a cousin, so like, it's not like... What do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club?

I know it sounds like the start of a bad joke, but that really was my reality nine years ago. I just normally do straight stand-up, but this is a bit different. On stage stood a comedian with a story that no one expected to hear. On 22nd of July 2015, a 23-year-old man had killed his family. And then he came to my house. So what do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? A new podcast called Wisecrack,

where stand-up comedy and murder takes center stage. Available now. Listen to Wisecrack on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. In early 1988, Federal agents raced to track down the gang they suspect of importing millions of dollars worth of heroin into New York from Asia. We had 30 agents ready to go with shotguns and rifles and you name it. But what they find is not what they expected.

Basically, your stay-at-home moms were picking up these large amounts of heroin. They go, is this your daughter? I said yes. They go, oh, you may not see her for like 25 years. Caught between a federal investigation and the violent gang who recruited them, the women must decide who they're willing to protect and who they dare to betray. Once I saw the gun, I tried to take his hand and I saw the flash of light. Listen to the Chinatown Stang on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or anywhere you get your podcasts. What would you do if one bad decision forced you to choose between a maximum

security prison or the most brutal boot camp designed to be hell on earth. Unfortunately for Mark Lombardo, this was the choice he faced. He said, you are a number, a New York State number, and we own you. Shock incarceration, also known as boot camps, are short-term, highly regimented correctional programs that mimic military basic training. These programs aim to provide a shock a prison life, emphasizing strict discipline, physical training, hard labor, and rehabilitation programs. Mark had one chance to complete this program and had no idea of the hell awaiting him the next six months. The first night was so overwhelming and you don't know who's next to you. And we didn't know what to expect in the morning. Nobody tells you anything. Listen to shock incarceration on the IHeart

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that's AI folks AI the radical left wants you to believe Miles Davis was a black He's a white His immigrant father Kilometers Davis He changed they changed it at Ellis Island

They changed it Be very confusing And we're back We were supposed to talk about another story But we just did that thing you heard Right now Talking about Miles Davis being blue Um, kind of, anyway, uh, one last story on the way out. Um, I don't know if you remember, like, using Google is just like so awful now with the AI overview thing that's like at the top of every single search. Um, so. And people are using it. People fucking, it's, it's, it's, some people probably don't know. I mean, the other thing is that like, if you're, I, like, when they started doing it, we talked about how they were talking about putting glue on pizzas and shit. Like, they're like, yeah, it's a great topping. Like, it just didn't know anything and was saying, like, put glue.

on a pizza um and then like up until like glue yeah double-de-d-d-d-di-d-di-dai he's eating a glue pizza my man should you bea-bye he went below he was blue-d-glu-d-d-d-bibbibati it's my glue pizza pie gabwo di d'i ambassador elmer you've been unbelievable you were a great racehorse I remember you You almost beat secretariat That's like You're gonna be a fucking Oval Office meeting

Where he's talking to an Elmer's glue bottle You see this adhesive Smarty Jones Elmer's been amazing Elmer what are the job numbers You had those other It's just a fucking bottle On the desk He's putting the Congressional Medal of Freedom

Around the Orange Barre you've earned this this is great this is a great moment for america actually to to be recognizing the elmer's glue bottle i mean this is putting the glue under his eyes like miss lippy to keep them open yeah with a lily glue glue glue this is leglue glow shout out that billy forty thousand dollars okay i google fuck i don't know man they're getting whatever This one thing is just funny that like in May of 2025, someone was just asking it, what's the, like, please confirm the date and the year? And it says it's 2024. It is May 28th, 2024.

The tests are on May 29th, 2025. It's like, it can't even fucking layup. We gave you a layup. Just look around, man. Look at the upper right corner of your computer screen. Google. It's got you. Journalism.

Oh, my. Yeah, exactly. No, they don't, they don't have the, it's going to blow a fucking hole in our whole society how much we have let them put AI, put our destiny in the hands of their dumb AI that is fucking stupid. Like, Grock is the best one and it was created by must because the amount of times that it's like, it is a genocide. Yeah, exactly. And then on the other side, but then Twitter is also just now like 4chan come alive with like all this shit that you have. You're like, what the fuck this stuff? Like, you had to endeavor to see shit like this.

And now it's just like, hey, this is for you. Yeah, no. For you is so funny. But again, the other thing is also like you were saying, like just with those summations, the AI ones, news publishers are like, well, people don't even click on articles because they just read the fucking hallucinatory fucking summation that the AI came up with. A Pew Research Center study this year found that, quote, Users was less likely to click on a link when their search resulted in an AI summary.

That, I think, is like a skill people need to really develop in this age, is fucking ignore whatever the fuck the summary is. Like, remember the olden days when he, like, read the fucking article? Like when your misinformation was like the top search instead of just an AI overview. Yeah. Is Miles Davis White? Google was already like, you know, a fucking monopolistic nightmare, such, like, it's not like we had it good before, but I mean, for the love of God, can we not, I mean, we have scroll skills. Can you not scroll a touch more with that fucking fat muscle thumb of yours now? It's wild, too.

Like, even when you look at the summary, like, in the, like, disclaimer, it just basically says AI responses may include mistakes. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. We know. And they said, well, this study also said, well, users clicked on a link 15% of the time in response to a traditional search result. They only clicked on a link 8% of the time if an AI summary was included.

So, you know, journalism, fucking, they've had it way too good for too long. Yeah, no, we were getting really valuable information for the past 25 years. Don't need it anymore in this post. In fact era we live in. And now, Penske Media, yeah, the same Penske who has those trucks. They own Rolling Stone, Bill, board and variety, they're suing Google because they're being like, the AI summaries, they're reducing traffic to our websites.

But Google says that the AI summaries create, quote, new opportunities for content to be discovered. Which you haven't died of the least human thing I've ever heard anyone fucking say. As long as you haven't died from glue poisoning, this feature will still be available to you. So, yeah, it's just a fucking very slippery slope. And now it's, it's, it now is so fast. like it felt like again it's this clip of a slide feels and we've been saying for 10 years

this is not sustainable to be devolving at this speed yeah it's also funny too because like the main the reason the Penske empire exists is because of roger penske who has been huge i mean he've received one of those fucking presidential freedom medals from trump but i'm like but i wonder if like that Google people are like trying to get in good with Trump so Trump's friend doesn't sue them for all the AI shit. I don't know. It's very messy. Well, they just had, you know, that monopoly suit and they won it. I mean, they're, you know, they, you see fucking Tim Cook going to the White House and presenting Donald Trump with a non-existent award. You know, it's like. Also the smartest move I think you could do too. You're like, yes, without question.

In the short term. He loves this shit. In the short term. But eventually, and I might not even be in my lifetime. But, you know, Tim Cook's kids are going to get the shit beaten out of them by some generation of us because of Tim Cook giving him that prize. Does Tim Cook have kids? Let's see. No, I don't know. I'm not suggesting he does. No, no, I'm not suggesting that they do. You would never say something. Like, let me speak for Gareth. He would never suggest that Tim Cook has kids. And that's something else. He's gay. He can. Yeah, he went to Auburn. He went to Auburn. He's a tiger. He's a little blue, to be honest with you. The more I look at Tim Cook, He looks a little blue.

A little blue. He's a gluey, bluey. Oh, well. Oh, well. Oh, well. We tried. We tried. We tried.

I think we did something. Gareth Reynolds, thank you so much for joining us on the Daily Zeitgeist. Thank you for having me. You got some shows. You got some new shows coming out. How do people keep this ride going? I just don't get off. It's a nightmare.

You can follow me at Reynolds, Gareth, on all the bullshit. I am taping my special in Chicago on October 4th. I have a lot of dates leading up to that kind of through the Midwest. You can go to garethreth Reynolds.com for those. And listen to next we have, which is my new guy, listen to the dollop, and also listen to We're here to help, which is the show I do with Jake Johnson. No, my chip head.

I got to go. Uh-oh, it fell over. It fell over. It fell over. Gareth, where else do they find you? And is there a work of media, social media that you're liking? I really like Katie Halper. She's a friend of mine

and I watch more and more of her on YouTube. So she's awesome. You know, just don't fucking just try harder to find people who are good. Yeah, please. Yeah. Please try harder, please. Katie Halper's great.

Blake. What about you? Where do the people find you? Where do they follow you? And what's like some shit that you're into on the internet? Well, I'm not one of these good people that Gareth is talking about.

But if you want to stay in your in the lane. September 27th, that's the final date. I'm going to be there in Asheville. Those tickets are on sale right now. October 2nd through 4th, Big Diamond Comedy Festival in Arkansas, in Bantonville. And then November 7th, Boston, all those tickets are on sale. And then December 7th, I'm going to be in Chicago.

And just cleaning up the incredible wake of the amazing show that Gareth has done from October when he's used a special. Picking up the pieces, as it were. Yes. Thank you. And then at Blake Wex on on social media, the thing that I like, Meredith Dietz, who is a very funny comedian at Deets.m on Instagram, had a funny post where she said, I did subway takes, and I said, I deserve to live. And he said 100% disagree and started chasing me. Both of us on all fours. I'm sending this from a moment of respite in the secret crevasse I found at 14th.

street union square but i know i can't run forever so that's her post beautiful beautiful yeah boomer beautiful folks uh you can find me everywhere at miles of gray you can find me talking 90 day fiancee on 420 day fiancee with sophia alexandra uh a thing i like uh emma roller at emerala dot b's kind of social uh posted just going to pretend the flags at half-matched are for Robert Redford. Yeah, I like, like I said, my favorite movie? Sneakers.

Great movie. His one, and I was telling Blake earlier, I was like, that was my entry point into knowing who Robert Redford was. Kind of me too. I was like,

this kid's pretty good. Who is he? 92. Who's this young jock? Who's this kid? Remember Whistler? Oh, dude. Yes.

Wow. That is a pull. Nice. Yes. Who, uh, was that? Who played Whistler? I can't remember his name. David Strathern, that's who it was.

And yeah, wow, way to go. And then Sidney Poitier was also in it. And I remember that's why I remember my dad being like, you should watch this, this Sydney Poitier. Like, you should know about that. And I'm like, okay, see, I'm getting culture now. It was. That was a good movie.

I should rewatch that movie. Yeah, River Phoenix is also in it too. Yeah. Very, very. It's a winner. Yeah, that's before he passed away. Anyway, I think it was after. What do you mean?

The posthumist release. Oh, oh. Oh, I mean, I guess, yeah, that's what I meant. Yeah, sure. I was like, how can he be in it if it was after? I'm what they call stupid. You're blue. You're, you're, you're blue.

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