The Daily Zeitgeist - Gianni Trendfantino 7/6: July 4th, AI, JD Vance, World Cup

Episode Date: July 6, 2026

In this edition of Gianni Trendfantino, Miles and special guest co-host Blake Wexler discuss… the 4th (and sometimes 5th) of July "festivities", AI bubble could be… bad?, JD Vance winning the game of thrones?, Trump's red card reversal and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You ever just like, you ever slip down a step? Like, you go one step too soon. Like, you're not looking. Yes. And somehow by the grace of God, you haven't just bent your foot in half behind your whole shit. It's crazy. Yeah. I did that last night twice, like off tired as shit.

I forgot to like lock like a back door or some shit. And I, I fucking almost folded my whole leg in half. And it just, luckily I just stabilized myself and it didn't happen. And I'm like, any other dimension, that's broken everything. Did I remember when I was visiting, when my now wife and I were just dating, like, early on, we were staying at her parents' house. And, like, we were out having some drinks. And I was, I slipped. We were, like, going up to her room to go to bed in her parents' house.

I slipped on the chair, like stairs at, like, 1 a.m. I was trying to fall to not make noise and fell in such an unattractive way where I just slowly. slipped down the steps slowly and like my shirt was like riding up on me. It was like, he got caught on the steps. Just like someone with no core strength whatsoever falling down to flight of stairs at like one inch per hour. Your clothing just being peeled back. I like the idea that like your fucking your pants are being ridden up so you have a terrible

moose knuckle and then you're just. belly's just out from your t-shirt riding up and they're like what the fuck is this yeah slow-mo you don't like this this isn't hot for anyone it's like no is this guy can't provide yeah look at this fucking guy yeah they're like oh that's sad as shit they're like no dude i would rather do that than do the what you did with the step because it's such an awkward it's jarring it's very jar it's like what my foot doesn't work my foot's not i've done it holding my kid And I'm like, oh. And I always think about it.

I'm like, all right, if that happens, I'm just going to have to turn and then just take the whole staircase to my fucking body and save. Like, you know, like the reflex used to have like with a beer like when you fell. Yes. Yes. And I won't spill it. Right. Right. Saved now that that is my human child.

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And I'm Baba Wawa, and this is 2020. We used to say that shit. So, we loved saying that shit in 1998, screaming. 2020. And our teachers hated it. this is still the opening, and yes, you are listening to the right show. Welcome to this Monday, July 6th edition of the Daily Za. You guys are production of High Heart Radio.

This is the episode where we just kind of let you know. There's not a bit of that going on over the weekend. You know what I mean? Not too much. What are you going to do? Not too much. You're taking the weekend? Let's take it to the weekend.

All right, fuck it. It's time for the weekend. It's July 6. What happened over the weekend? You already know what it is. already said it's Miles, it's Blake. Here we are. Jack is on assignment trying to get bit by a shark on the East Coast. Although I did see it. Did you see someone did get bit by a shark in the East coast? Oh yeah. Shark. They got footed. Which is that what happened? Yeah, they got footied. Ain't

they footied or whatever the name of that? That's what the sharks are saying. Ain't it footy that bite? Ain't it footy that you just had? A swimmer injured at Jones Beach in possible shark attack. Damn, son. Possible. And it wasn't Jack. It could have been a rabid turtle. Or the thing that does that. It could be the thing that does that. It could have been that, or they scrape their foot on a bit of coral. And we're like, right. Oh, shit.

You're so dramatic, Bill. In the ocean. Yeah. And you somehow broke it with your foot. Anyway, it's July 6th. What's trending? You already know who we are. But we're going to tell you what's trending with us, what we think is going on in our minds.

What we think is going on in our minds. There's no way to know for sure. But this is our best, our best. guesses. Our best and final offer in terms of what we think is going on in our minds. Blake, that's right. How are you doing with the sleep? You sleep and okay?

We don't talk about it. That's okay. It's getting better. You know what? We are going to have to touch more on the absolute fucking heroes odyssey that you and your wife had to go through over health care. Maybe we'll talk about that tomorrow. because I feel like I've just been in passing talking about what's been going on,

but I haven't had you able to address the people about it. Yes. Yes. And they've been knocking on my door and it's been freaking my dog out. You mean, United Healthcare looking for their money? Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah.

And they've now, they've come underground. We've been hearing digging underneath our building and I'm pretty sure it's them. I'm almost positive. They're snaking through the ground. Yeah. There's like a sinkhole underneath our kids' cribs. It's really fucking strange. Anyway, Blake, what's something you think is underrated?

What's new and underrated with you? Underrated? I'm going to say minor league baseball is underrated, where you and I, we're passionate sports fans. I know what's the time we talked, you were gallivanting around Europe because you just won, you'd won a league. You came very close to winning a championship.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And there's only so many leagues one can win in a year. I think you won enough. So many. I'm also a passionate sports fan. But with minor league baseball, you don't have to be passionate about it because the games don't matter. So you can just go.

It's very cheap or relatively inexpensive. And they do, it's fun. They just randomly change the team name from, you know, like the sharks to whatever regional delicacy is over there. Yeah. Yeah. for sure. You can get cheese steak hats.

Yeah, just because of the day. Just for merch. And it's, uh, I went to some games in Charleston, South Carolina. Bill Murray co-co owns the team. Shout out the river dogs. You just go on the field. So river dogs, right? You river dogs?

Yeah, River dogs. Very good. Single ice. I used to have that hat. I used to have that hat as a kid. It's a great hat. I was so into minor league baseball hats. I had like a Portland C dogs hat, a Charleston River Dogs hat, a Durham Bulls hat.

and Albuquerque Duke's hat a few different ones anyway sorry I did they have they have a cool alter like the Peros Santos they have a cool hat this is turquoise it's so sick and Bill Murray co-owns the team

we'll just pop on the field and do bits you know just do skit like just during the game yeah we'll just go on the field Bill Murray will hop on the field and do a bit live in front of a captive audience of spectators and it's like some of these guys

are like I saw Aaron Judge play that Some of these guys become big stars, but it's minor league baseball. It's fun. It's fun. It's fun. You can just do silly things. So I think it's fun. And it's like a cool thing to go. And like, you know, if you're in a smaller town, pop them through, stop by, go to minor league game.

I was in Des Moines, Iowa last summer. And I saw an Iowa Cubs game. That's fun. I actually still have my beer cozy right here from the game. Oh, it is right there. It's right there. I like that logo. It's just cool.

You know, tall can of beer was like, like fucking three bucks. I was like, yeah, this is what I'm talking about. A fucking hot dog. Hot dog that instantly just like destroyed my insides. Fucking like a nickel.

Perfect. I love it. I love it. I love it. Great. I love that for you. You got one? Me?

No. I just wanted to ask you. Yeah. That's fine. It's not about me. It's about you right now. No. Really is.

All right. I guess if I had to give one, underrated is I've noticed now that the guy's child is three, I am, I don't know if this is a scientific law that I can prove or just me with with parent glasses on. But my child's ability to pick a timeless show. Like I use my kids, uh, interest to gauge if a show actually can, like, stand the test of time. Because something, interesting.

He, he, like some, he like, like, he kind of, not really into bluey. Like, he knows about bluey because other kids around him are into it. Paw Patrol he's not really fucking with. Thank God. But he likes... But he like... He fucks with like the 1980s, early 80s Spider-Man cartoon. Wow.

Where it's like Spider-Man. Spider-Man. Like that shit. He's fucking with that. He's like, damn, this is fucking legit. I tried to show him like Spidey and friends. Like the new kids were... He's like, no, no, no, no, no.

No, no, no. I want to see fucking 1980s. He likes that. He fucks with Ninja. of turtles. Great. From the 80s. He's fucking with that.

He wasn't really a fan of the newer stuff. I think it could be like the pacing thing. And then recently he really gravitated towards Rugrats. And I was like,

dude, Rugrats is a fucking, that's a fucking classic right there. Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo on the theme song. You know what I mean? Are you aware of Rugrats?

Do you know about this show? Rugrats, have you heard of it? I'm well aware of Rugrats. I think the issue now is the new one all the kids are named after. Tommy, I think, is Palantir now. They've renamed all the children. Yeah, Tommy Pickles is now

Tommy Palantir. Yeah. There's Chuck E Raytheon. Phil and Lil north of Brumman. Yeah, yeah. It's not. Angelica's just. just a white nationalist.

It's all very, yeah, it's trouble. Same name. Yeah, Key more Kays than there. I just remember, like me liking it as a kid

and me liking it longer. Like, I felt like I was into Rugrats longer than maybe was age appropriate. I was just like, man, it's something about it. But the Claskey Supo animation style is fantastic.

The God Eiji Daily. Okay, the voice of Tommy Pickles. I love EG. Daily because I love Peewee's big adventure. Mm-hmm. And she was Dottie. Okay.

I'm a lone. or Dotty a rebel. Oh, come on, P.W. Dude, are you for real? Oh, I didn't even know that she did that. That's awesome. You just changed. Yeah, you just changed everything.

And obviously, she's, like, goaded as, like, a vocal artist. We all know. But anyway, I was just, I was interesting to be, like, the shit that I really like, my kid likes. And it's not like, I'm like, you need to like, this shit is dope, man. I don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Because I tried to show him Dragon Ball.

He was not fucking with Dragon Ball at all. Yeah, you can't have it all. I granted it's a little bit above his pay grade as a three year old but I just thought the animation style would speak to him he wasn't into it so you'll you'll see something like oh I like this so it's interesting I'm like taking mental notes so it'll be like okay this is what kids like now I'm gonna show my kid this also I'm gonna mix in some things that I like just to kind of see yeah yeah because I'm I am trying to be aware like I don't want him to be just like watching a shit ton of TV and like also the stuff that he watches important like I try and do it if like it's gonna make him help him be bilingual because you know I'm by I'm by bilingual, so like, we watch a lot of stuff dubbed in Japanese. But, like, there is just shit that's like, the editing is so fast. I'm like, oh, no, no, no, this is, this is not good. Like, you need to watch something else. Like, an old shitty cartoon from the 80s that makes no sense and probably has

some problematic stereotypes in it. But yeah, we'll combat that at home. It starts in the home. It all starts at home. So anyway, yeah, it all starts. Kids know. Kids fucking know. Kids fucking know.

Blake, they get it. What's fucking, what's something you think is fucking over? rated right now. Go. Overrated? Yeah. The concept that, the concept, shit, hold on.

All my notes just fell on the ground. Oh, my coins. Oh, my coins. Why do you have coins on top of your papers again? I don't know. Sometimes I mix up my coins with my marbles. I'm so fuck. I call them tiny paper weights.

They're terrible. They just, they aren't heavy enough. Sorry. Brian goes my life saving. Your life saving is a bunch of loose coins. That's a pile of papers. Yeah.

I want a golden paper. United Healthcare got their eye on that shit. They really did. Yeah, yeah. So a United Health Care COO just reached through my floor and grabbed a quarter off the ground. I think I heard 47 cents just drop on the ground. Get it, get it, get it, get it, get it, get it, get it, get it. Just pushing a child to the ground to grab the money off.

I would say overrated the concept that you love your dog less when you have kids. A lot of people told me they're like, oh, you're not going to care about your dog. It's not a conscious thing. Do you think people are like, where people framed you like, dude, you're gonna hate your dog after your kid's born.

Like your dog, you're gonna get jealous of your dog. Yeah, your dog, you're gonna get really, really jealous of your dog. Oh, you get to sleep all fucking day.

Wow. Look at you. Look at you. Look at your four legs, huh? I only have two. What I would do with four. Yeah.

What I would do with four legs? Doing a lot more than you. A lot more than you. A lot more than you. I'll tell you that. Mm-hmm. You know these kids, they don't want to work anymore.

You give them four legs. They do a little bit worse. I just want to lay down. They want to watch a dragon ball secrets. They want to drug rats and shit. Yeah. Yeah. But no, I, uh, yeah, I love my dog more than ever.

Yeah, love my kids. Love my dog. Wow. Yeah, don't love them any less, if anything, I love him more. So why do you love your dog more? What made you love your dog more? So I think because he, you know, he has his own health insurance. And he's also, he has united as well.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, no, he's, yeah, he's the best. It's just like, I don't know, I feel like there's just so much love. You're almost like the, your love governor has my, or I'll speak for myself, my governor of love, the governor switch that like, your love is how much love I can feel.

My love her. Yeah. Has been just broken where it's like, I love my baby so much. I love this. I love my dog. Even more, like, it's just lots of, yeah, lots of good stuff. Oh, wow. That's really nice.

Yeah, look at it. I just had a sincere moment. and that will have to be edited out. Yeah. Wow. Well, right after my... Shout out to the Lovener. Mikey Sherrill.

You know? If that's where you live, if that's your... Or Josh Shapiro. Yeah, that's who I call her. Lovener, Josh Shapiro. Oh, and we love the Lovener. Don't be... That sounds like some shit Trump's gonna somehow say.

Yeah, I love your dog, too. Never met... Thank you. Never met the fucking thing. But I love it. Oh, you'd love him. You'd love him. Would I?

Yeah. Your tricks? God, yeah, he's... Can you do tricks? You can do tricks. Really? Yeah. Don't fucking lie, dude.

People claim tricks and then they, and then you're like, all I do one, and then they like, they can just sit and stay laid out. I mean, he can't write a whole novel, but he could write like a pamph-full, like a treatise, you know? Oh. Yeah. You can put pen to pad, a manifesto even. Penda paw pad. Oh, okay.

Yeah, a dog a padad. I love that. We love that. And we love that, don't we folks? We love a dog that can write its own white nationalist manifesto. We love it. overrated. The thing that I think is overrated, this is such a specific thing, but the physics of a truck, like a big truck in a moon, is the way they act like a garbage truck could go through an entire fucking city block of impact. And not have the cab absolutely crumpled up like an empty beer can. I just fucking emptied in a fucking beer bong in 2006. Get the fucking.

out of here. I was just playing, there's a James Bond, new James Bond game called First Light. Hell yeah. There's a scene where you have to make a getaway

in a garbage truck, okay? And you fucking just drive through the fucking streets. You go through multiple cars, you drive through a fucking brick wall. And I'm like, hold on,

bro. This is, I'm sorry, if you went head on into a brick wall in a garbage truck, the cab would collapse and you will die.

I get the idea that the mass of a truck is really what's going to do the damage. Like obviously, yes, something with that kind of mass will blow through there. But to say that the driver will be completely protected from everything because truck, I think is we really need to rethink this. Because I just watched a video of a fucking like a garbage truck hitting like a steel traffic ballard that came out of the ground. The shit fucking crumpled on the end. like it fucking cave. So in my mind, I'm like, we're doing a,

we give trucks so much credit in movies. It's like, yeah, dude, it's get the fuck out of the way. This thing is an armored view. No, it's not. It's not. And I'm tired of this. And I'm worried that I'm worried about the fucking reality that I'm raising my child in where he is raised to believe

a fucking garbage truck can drive through multiple brick walls with no damage to the cab, not even crack the windshield. No. No. I picture you having this same conversation in a public place standing wildly gesticulate. You're waiting in line for a passport.

Yeah, yeah, screaming. You have someone by their collar. They can't, because you're strong. They can't get away. I also, Blake, first of all, I told you, when you took that video of me, I said delete it and don't fucking upload it. And now who you are. I can describe it in detail.

What never fucking happened, according to me. Okay. So shut the fuck up. Okay. Okay. Maybe I did scream in the lobby of a federal building about this. Okay, but they let me go because they knew I was really going through some shit. Yeah.

And that's when government works. And that's government at its best. I was parted by the Loviner. Because I do remember that is a major plot point of some where I feel like during dark night, like that was the thing where the Joker was being protected by like a trash truck. Like, you know, it was. I get it. It's like one of these massive, like, if it's more than like a Peter built or Mac truck.

Yes. If it's some kind of like, it's made structurally to be like, this is like an armored via. Like, yes, this thing is reinforced steel. It will just go through a fucking cinder block wall because it weighs 40 tons or whatever. This shit, what is that? Is it because it looks like a tank? Like, because you're right, there's no practical reason for a trash truck. to be protected.

To protect the trash or at all. I don't even think the sides are that. If you're going in reverse and the fucking dump part was hitting everything, I'm like, yeah, it's a big steel battering ram from the back. But the front? Yeah. No. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

No, no, no, no, no, no. A turtle has a shell, yes, but it still has that juicy soft head inside. Yeah, exactly. You think in Mario Kart, when you're launching those shells, The turtles okay after the impact? No. You think his head's sticking out now? Fucking heads all smashed in.

That delicious, juicy, delicious, juicy, delicious gummy head of theirs. Yumma, yuma, yuma. It's what everyone's after. That's why they need those shells. Everyone wants that head. Hell yeah, bro.

Hell yeah. Wait, well, okay. Anyway, trash truck, physics. Do better. Do better. Do better. And I just don't like that.

As I was playing this video game, I'm like, this isn't realistic. I'm playing a fucking video game where my wristwatch blew up a fucking barrel of oil. And I'm like, ah, but they're trash truck. Fuck, I don't know about this.

Anyway, it's... Some things... Belief can be suspended sometimes and sometimes it can. You know what it was that bothered me? It was like, I was all fine. I'm like, I get it. I'm playing a video game.

Big truck. Get the fuck out of my way. It's like, and this is just sort of like a very, like, on the rails level where it's like, you just have to accelerate. Like, there's no way you can just, like fuck up. But it was like

at the end, James Bond gets out of the trash truck. The window is completely, like there's no damage to the front of the truck. I'm like, this is fucking stupid. Come on. That's too much. I'm fucking 41 years old out here and you think I'm just going to fucking buy this shit? No. Not here. Do better. All right.

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So, for the July, do you do anything? I remember you were showing me that like fireworks thing, you swore was going to be able to lift your kids up into the air if you attached enough fireworks to them. They were going to be lifted up and be able to, like, fly. But did that end up working out? So the lift was not an issue. It was finding where they landed was what ended up being in the problem.

Everyone's fine. Yeah, everyone's fine. Yeah, well, it was really breezy. There were storms in the East Coast. So there was, yeah, it was, there was a, I'm not a doctor, but there was a, a Benjamin Franklin Key situation, if that makes sense. You know, whatever. For lightning. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, for the key being a child. But, no, we ended up, so I live right near the, uh, no, we ended up taping. We ended up duct-taping Apple air tags to the bottoms of their feet, just to make sure we knew where they landed. Sorry, what did you say you did? Where were you going with this? And they slid that when they landed on their feet, they slid it like skates. I love the idea of someone being like, ah, this baby's going to go up.

How are we going to find it? Give me that air tag, just violently duct-taping it to their leg. Tape, tape, hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, we're on a schedule. We're losing win. We're losing win. We can't glue it to the kids' feet. It's going to take minutes. Come on.

I'm not a monster. This needs to be done now. Now. I, I, I shuffled down, you know, kids took an app, wife was, wife wasn't interested in seeing this because she has taste. So I went down to the Hudson and I watched the tall, they had a big parade of tall ships in New York. And, but before that, they did a, I don't want to know how much this cost, and money that could be going to health care or making people's lives better in this country. So we decided to fly a ton of planes.

warplanes over the tall ships. Yeah. And, you know, the eras didn't match up. But yeah, just, uh, fucking stealth bombers, some, some, some A10 wart hogs, which I know is your favorite. Oh, love it. Yeah. Yeah.

I actually, I have fractured my wrist doing this, doing the hang loose line. Yeah, I got so sick. Dude, let me see your shock. Let me see your shock. Yeah. How's this? Yeah. This is go.

My other hand, I can't use because you're going to, you're going to, it's decimated. Way looser, bro. Way. Way looser. Way looser. Hold it up. Just stop shaking. Let me just see it once.

I can't. No, howly. No, no. You, that's, bro. No, dude. How loose. Show me how to do it. Right there.

That's, boom. No, this is. That's how you do it. I don't even know what you're doing. Don't fucking clock you, bro. I remember a friend of mine from Hawaii. I was like, I was doing he. Yeah.

He was like, no, dude. Like, they're doing shit like this. They're like, no, bro, you're from out of town. Yeah. And I'm like, how do you do it? I would never do that. Well, it's just kind of like a greeting. But I was like, I was like, he's like, no, bro.

When you're local, it's like this. And I'm like, you're barely doing it. He's like, exactly, dog. That's got to be loose. The Shaka's got to be loose, doggy. Way too rigid. Way too rigid with the fingers. Anyway, fourth of July happened.

The day was filled with fucked up weather in D.C. Storm warnings. People evacuated. It had it all. And, you know, again, people, there's like multiple ambulances. is called for people at the state fair because, you know, he had people going down in 100 plus degree weather. So, you know, also we had fun groups visiting the city,

like the white nationalist group Patriot Front. They had a little white pride parade through the streets after not knowing how to use metro cards to navigate the DC metro system. I just want to play a couple of clips. This is, this is them, there's all these dipshits and masks trying to get like use tap cards

the clipper card I think is what it's called to get through the fucking turnstiles and they it's like it looks like a fucking like a like a third grade field trip where kids are learning how to use tap cards for the first time and one of the leaders

Thomas Rousseau is like yelling he's like touch it fully on then wait and then go this is them trying to to get through the metro gates. They're all just tapping it. Two huge bottleneck. Just give it a minute and try it.

Get out of line. Give it a minute. Give it a minute. Give it a minute. Who needs a card? Who needs a card? Go, go, go. There's later on in the clip, they're like,

let these other people through. Like, these people, like, they're also just, like, embarrassed that they're holding up locals from getting out. If you don't know what you're doing, move aside. These people have to get through. Do you need another metro card? Tap it.

No, hold it down to the whole thing. God damn it. Yes, Brian just said this is like the clan scene in DeJango. It's exactly, just bumbling fucking racist, just the least intimidating people in the world. It's like, you know,

these people, like, we're going to get you, unless you put a turn style in between us and what we're trying to accomplish. Don't put a metro card in between them and their white nationalism. Like, hold of this is another clip with this. the leader of the group, he's like hands-on hips frustrated because like everyone's just like irritated with how they don't know how to get through the turnstiles. Come on. Okay, they've got a little flow going.

How many metro cards did you all buy today? As many as we needed and a few extras. How many is that? A lot. A lot. I don't know. I don't know. Then once they got through having a little bit of trouble with getting all the dipshits onto the trains themselves. This is then being like, hold the doors. Open them so they can get on. Oh, it opened. Now they're all like, rushing it.

Hold the doors, go. Oh, my God. These guys are so stupid. And I don't know if you saw that. The dumbest people. That one clip of like the black woman who's sitting on the metro train, like surrounded by all these. It was just a very poignant image of just like,

here's America for you. but yeah so they got on then they left pretty quickly uh then came the big event trump's speech truly absolutely nothing noteworthy here just yelled about like you can guess and you can imagine what it was yeah he did elections america great he's he's definitely feeling the for whatever reason with like all these S DSA candidates, you know, beating incumbents in the primaries, he really took a huge block to be like, and the communists are coming. The Marxists rebels, they love that.

They hate us. And we will be a baby. That was about it. I really couldn't be bothered to watch more than a few clips because it's just so like one note at this point. It's the same shit. Yeah. So he gave the speech.

He got on just after a, that was after a like over three hour delay because of the inclement weather. And he was even like, he was making it sound. He's like, when they said they were going to cancel it, I decided I overruled it. And you're like, that's not a thing. Okay. I overruled the weather. The weather was going to happen.

And I said no. I called Johnny Infantino and I said, Balagan has been overruled. I'm giving the speech. I called Jonathan Antantino. John Wilkes, Infant, Infant, Infant, that's his American name. But anyway, like, gave the speech. And then he claimed there was about 422,000 people there. Not, everyone's like, I don't know where those numbers are at.

Also, there were 422 people. Yeah, the Park Service doesn't give numbers ever since Trump. was like, don't fucking tell them how many people actually got here. Don't even record it. Let me make up something arbitrarily. So we had half a million people there waiting to see his speech. And then he said then it went down to about 150,000. I mean, people definitely were there to see the fireworks show.

Yeah. Which was interesting because, you know, the whole thing was like, this is going to be the largest anyone has ever seen. It's going to be a Guinness World Record. They were saying like it was going to be like probably beat the world record by like 50,000 firework shells that had been launched previously in Manila, like about 10 years ago. But the thing is, Miles, that's such a good point. People were 100% there for the fireworks.

Like, that would be like if I was at last, like, if I was at the England-Mexico World Cup game at Azteca Stadium and I just started doing a comedian. Not even. I just started telling jokes in my seat with no microphone whatsoever. Like, yeah, sold out, sold out 82,000 people. It's like, they're not here to see you. They're here to see the cool thing. Yeah, it's like, you also paid to get in, too.

What are you talking? You're not even from it. No, I canceled it. I canceled the stories. I performed and they loved it. Actually, it was fantastic. Yes. So the fireworks show happened.

It was just a huge, just boom, boom, nonstop, real no narrative. Not a lot of narrative to it. When I saw it, I was like, Jesus, like, it was just more, most of like just being overwhelmed by the sheer volume of it. But the thing that is really hilarious to me, me is all this talk of it being the Guinness World Record, there is no official any kind of recorded anything implying or even acknowledging that this was some kind of world record setting fireworks this money.

No. It's all just fucking talk. And they're like, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's going to be the greatest thing you've ever seen. Don't have the people who actually adjudicate these kinds of things to be able to verify these claims. There's any veracity to my grandiose claims. No word on that.

just a code red air quality alert that they did get although temporarily that's high yeah yeah um so there it was and then Sunday Trump was just back on his bullshit

just firing off like over a hundred weird truth social posts just a AI shit getting mad at a judge who ruled against him uh AI pictures of like the Obama's

on a jet that had like graffiti so out of touch with what graffiti looks like like that it made like this shit you saw in the opening of fresh prince of Bel Air seemed like a fucking I don't even know Banksy I don't even know what it was just so like it looked like the Fresh Prince of Bel Air Graffiti was on they did like an Air Force one picture with like the Obama's on it and had this like Black Lives Matter graffiti that was just so anyway whatever that's what he did yeah looks real that's what he did that's what he

did the fun thing though did you see the guy who fucking crashed into the tent doing the American Flag Skydive. They say a comedy is subjective. That's not. There's nothing subjective about that. It's objectively the funniest thing. So the way

fucking slammed it's like he speeds up somehow. I'm going to describe this, but you guys have to just go look in the footnotes. We will have this clip because it's hilarious. Because also

So the guy was totally fine. So as this was happening over the weekend, people saw this clip. This was actually from like the end of last, which I think it was Thursday at the Folsom Pro Rodeo in Northern California. And this guy who miraculously was not injured on Thursday, he felt better. Dude, hurling down from the sky with like an American flag parachute and like an American flag attached to his leg, which I think may have caused some issues since he got snagged in a tree and just kind of like trebushade him into the ground.

Dude, anyway, just so you know, I'm laughing because this guy was so okay, he did it again Friday and Saturday. The crowd is like the 180 that they do emotionally where they're like, oh yeah, oh shit. Oh, fuck. There's reactions of people who are like looking away.

They're like, oh, that was fucked. So here's the clip from Thursday when the guy absolutely fucking slammed in. into like an awning or like one of those little temporary shade tents that people put up tent like a pop-up tent. The sound is amazing. And just so you know, this person was so not injured that they did it two more times after this. So let the laughs commence. Here he comes.

Oh my God, dude. Jesus Christ. He's coming down. It's so good. That flag gets caught in a tree. and I think that's like basically it becomes like a fulcrum lever kind of thing where it sounds like

oh well now you're at the end you are now going to be slammed into the ground just one more time oh look at this guy right here oh oh brother so anyway it's amazing it's so good

just watch it in any mood it just watch it's perfect it's like something out of like a like a Todd Phillips early odds comedy you know what I mean? We're just the gnarliest weird fucking

wrecked out moment. Really great physical comedy. Fantastic. It looks like a just something from jackass from like the second movie, you know? But somehow more violent. Yeah. Yeah.

And like you said, he's fine somehow. I love that like no one knows who like this guy is. It just said, the jumper seemingly hit the structure hard, but a spokesperson for the rodeo, Adam Frick tells TMZ, TMZ, the tent actually helped cushion the jumpers fall. The skydiver

who Frick calls Ross was totally fine. His real last name's fuck. We're just editing it for that. Adam Fogg. I just like that they're like, we have no idea. He's like, yeah, Ross is fine. Hey, can we get a comment? Dude, that was Ross. He's all good, man.

He dusted it off. He actually's doing it again Friday and then Saturday. And apparently he did it fine. No incident after that. So shout out, Ross. How sick would it be to be refer to as the jumper, you know, not Miles, not podcaster, not comedian, not just, the jumper. Yeah. The jumper.

Listen, I'm a jumper first, a husband's second, and a father, a distant third. Yeah. Oh, my God. Anyway, let's just see. Let's just see. What else do we have here? AI. Let's talk about this.

Yeah. An internal treasury department document has revealed that the country's own analysts think that the AI bubble could be terrible for the U.S. economy. Interesting. How so? A draft report inside the Treasury Department is set to warn of the risks posed by the artificial intelligence market, likening key aspects of it to the dot-com bubble that upended the U.S. economy when it burst in the early 2000s. The document the existence and contents of which

have not been previously reported but was obtained by not us is a significant departure from the Trump administration's public tone, which has focused on encouraging unrelenting investment to unlock exponential growth. Career treasury analysts found that AI firms are more deeply entrenched in the U.S. economy than their dot-com predecessors and pose significant risk to the entire system if financial conditions change, check, productivity goals are mixed, check, or various choke points, stymie growth. Check, check, check, check, check. Um, cool. I'm glad that they're like, okay, just so you know, right? Like, we all know this is going to end pretty fucked up, right?

Or we're going to have to bail them out again? I don't know. Do we, are we seeing this? Are we talking about this? No? Just wish there's some sort of like layman's term with like eggs or something and how you should put them in a basket or don't put them in one basket, you know, like a term that's been around for centuries and centuries to warn us against something like this. Like should you put all your eggs in one basket? Is that what you should do? Is that just the advice that you would get? I don't know shit about finance. I know you don't put all of your investments in one thing.

Because what happens if the thing goes bad, then you're fucked. Then it's called Adios, motherfucker. Ovo. I mean, that's a big thing, right? It's like so many people's retirement funds are tied up in things like this or like SpaceX. And, I mean, just like happened in 2008. Yeah.

Big sector of the economy goes down. That has a knock on effect for many people. Crazy. I wish I had financial advice to give. But I don't know anything. So I'm going to say it's bad. And if I was going to invest my own money in something, I don't know if it would be the AI companies.

Because again, like we were saying too, it's like we, most people would be like, yeah, we're in a recession if you're looking at the economy outside of like the six tech companies that are propping up the stock market with AI spent. Like it's just, it's an illusion, folks. It's an illusion. But also, this is against a backdrop where,

the AI job apocalypse is like waning like you know before AI CEOs are like it's gonna fucking take everyone's fucking job get fucking ready now invest in this shit now they're like oh yeah actually it might not be taking everyone's jobs actually Sam Altman

Open AI chief said you know he's always been like it's gonna fucking kill your career sorry assholes get in or get out now he said during a recent commerce quote we've been roughly right on technological predictions and pretty wrong on the social and economic implications. Yikes.

Who could have seen that coming, by the way, that that's what they would get wrong. Yeah. The social and economic. That's kind of a big part of it, dipshit. He then told CBS, quote, our industry underestimated how much we're going to be able to keep people at the center of everything.

Oh, wow. Isn't that nice? The anthropic CEO, Dario Amode, again, always like, it's going to kill entry level jobs, has now reasoned to say, quote, they can do the same thing now with less resources. And that leads to things like layoffs or they can do more with the same amount of resources. But that requires creativity. So wow, a little positive outlook there.

Mark Zuckerberg also said similar things as well. And this is also too, while like last week there's a report about how companies, this is 404 media reporting that a lot of companies have been telling their employees to use AI less because it's costing too much. This is from 404. Coop companies across tech, entertainment, banking, and many other industries are throttling their employees' use of AI and pleading with workers to use less powerful models to stop AI costs from spiraling out of control. This is according to leaked Slackchats screenshots of internal dashboards from companies, including Atlassie and Adobe and Amazon. In at least one case, AI spending has tripled to more than $15 million a month. Jesus.

So again, this is all part. This is sort of just the back and forth of companies. We've got to embrace the AI. And now fuck, use it less. We're going fucking broke, you fucks, please. So, you know, we'll see where we end up. We will see where we end up. Let's take a quick break.

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I mean, I say that Axios is MAGA-friendly because they will do whatever it takes for an exclusive or like a leak. So this may be more like strategic leaking from Vance's camp to try and like create a narrative that like people are like think he's the best. It kind of reminds me of arrested development when Tobias was going out for like acting works like, you heard about this Fuenke? Wow. It's Tobias Funke.

Huh? He's like the next hot thing. Although Trump hasn't really made this like proclamation publicly. Insiders are saying that Trump has been pitting Vance against Rubio constantly. And like as he was trying to make his decision, but has recently been impressed with J.D. Vance and, you know, some of his, his recent victories.

Um, like, you know, uh, his killing the Pope. Yeah, killing the Pope or, more so that like,

he's been like impressed with his like fundraising halls and also the non-ceasefire. He kind of helped Steve Whitkoff and Jared Kushner broker as, being like, oh, this kid's got it. He's got it. Wow. This is what Axios said, quote, JD is earning it and Trump sees it. This is what makes me feel like someone from Vance's camp is saying that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And Trump sees it. He can't ignore it. Yeah. It's right in front of him.

He wants to fuck it. Oh, he loves it. Oh, my God. Oh, he fucking, yo, he can't get enough of that. Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum. Um, a senior Trump advisor said, adding that Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the other top Trump aide seen as a potential air, quote, wasn't planning to run anyway. And he'd be even less likely to do so now. That feels like, dude, I just give up, dude. It's already fucking over.

Quote's isn't asking, JD or Marco anymore, said one insider. He's no longer asking, how's JD doing? He's now saying, JD looks great, right? Okay. So that's kind of how they're saying JD looks great. I don't know in what way, but he does not. I feel like just having Trump's buy-in isn't going to be enough to carry him to like a frictionless White House run. Like they're, I'd imagine there will be primary.

I don't know. Maybe there won't be. But he has to balance way too many factions of like a party that is just filled with nothing but climbers who are just waiting for their moment to like for Trump to be out of the picture to be like, all right, now that this fucker is out of the fucking way. I can now stake my claim as the one who will guide the party to true ethno-nationalism. So yeah, this is so fucking stupid on so many levels. First of all, Trump does not care what happens to anyone who takes over for him. He doesn't care. All he cares about is himself.

So in his mind, he's not passing off a legacy. He doesn't even fucking want to give a legacy to his own stupid children. He doesn't care about shady fans. He doesn't give a shit. He's going to totally forget you as ever president unless he has to bring it up at dinner. parties. The one thing that he does need is someone in office, he does need someone in office that will be friendly to him to protect him from all of his misdeeds. That's the only, that's really, of course, to pardon him. He needs a partner in chief. And also to take it. I love it. He needs a

top shelf. Love it. Yes. And he also, the whole reason why Trump war is because of his, it's so hard to use the word with him with his charisma. And you have J.D. Vance and Rubio, or the two least charismatic people in the entire world. So you're going to hand them this fucking unwieldy box of just rabid dogs in a racist. They can't carry that of rabid racist dogs. They can't carry that. So the whole movement I think is going to check.

Like to think that you can pass this movement off onto anyone else but him is completely insane. So you'll pick up some of the MAGA people. There'll be some even further right candidate that's going to scoop up a ton of them. That's the problem. too is like, yeah, one of Vance's friends, Tucker Carlson, he's been screaming for the last two weeks about starting a third party for disaffected conservative anti-Semites. So could that harm Vance? Or is that a setup move for Tucker to be like, hey man, I'll fucking, I'll back off

if you give me like some position in a new cabinet or something. I don't, I don't fucking know. Who fucking knows? Everyone's a fucking con artist freak. And then also like, you currently have everyone on the right screaming about that birthright citizenship decision. And now they're like, we need to actually be testing women if they're pregnant before they enter the United States so no one can have a baby here. And maybe we need to just ban all women who are of childbearing age. It's like, so these are all the, these are all the kinds of worldviews that J.D. Vance is going to have to make palatable for a presidential run. It's a little. Yeah. I mean, I don't know. And again, I feel like that's where like the voter suppression is like really the one way like you can run like that and be like and we won or we'll just fucking cheat like in the craziest way possible. So yeah we'll see. Speaking of cheating.

Oh. Or not. Or not. Maybe just a concern citizen. Maybe it's a misunderstanding. Maybe it was just a misunderstanding. A great misunderstanding. Obviously. So over the weekend, the United States played Bosnia and Herzegovina. They beat them. 2-0. Fuller and Balagoons scored a goal. And look, it was a great match. I think that was when Malik Tillman scored a free kick in that one as well. Which is awesome. Which was great. Shout out to America embracing the... Again, you wouldn't like this Donald Trump. Malik Tilman is mother German. Okay? That's why we're good actually because we need these kids who played ball in Europe. Come here and bring up the level. Okay.

Fuller in Balagoon, anchor baby. You might not like that. His mother was trying to leave New York to go give birth in London where they're from. And she was deemed too pregnant to fly. So he was born here. It's just so funny that this story is so bizarre because you have someone who isn't American by birthright, okay, but has grown up in London. Like really knows nothing about the U.S. outside of like, you know, being born. born here. He's fully like an

like an English kid. Isn't he part Nigerian? And Nigerian too. He played for Nigeria. Yeah. Yeah. And anyway, and now has become like one of the shining stars on the U.S. national team scoring great goals and stuff like that. So he got a red card, right? For people that don't know, that was a foul he committed that got him sent off.

So the U.S. played with one less man for the rest of the match. And everyone was like, oh, shit. Because of that, he's going to miss the next match. which is going to be against Belgium, he's going to miss that next, a very consequential knockout match for the U.S. And because of that, people are like,

well, this isn't great for the U.S., then suddenly it was announced that FIFA had overturned the red card that was given, which is, now I will say the red card was soft. It didn't feel like he was trying to actually,

like, rake the guy's ankle with his studs like that. They were falling. It was definitely unfortunate, but I've definitely seen that red card given. And all you can do normally is go, fuck. I mean, like, that sucks. You see it.

You see it and you're like, it happens. And now you've got to take it on the chin and just fucking figure it out for the next round. Not us. Not us in the U.S. No fucking way. Not the trust fund kids. Yeah. So, yeah, apparently what we've heard is that Trump called Gianni Infantino asking FIFA to review the fucking red card.

Just so you know in normal circumstances, when a red card is like that, you cannot appeal it. It's done. It's done. That's it. Fucking accept reality. You're out of the game. You've been suspended for one match.

This guy fucking calls Johnny Infantino. Apparently it was like a combination of Johnny Infantino or of like, what's his name? Fucking. I don't always said this, but Johnny Infantino is the head of FIFA, which is, uh, yeah, yeah, yeah, which is run, who runs the World Cup basically. Yes. And who gave Trump that, uh, piece metal, if you remember.

But it was like a bunch of like these maggot people got on the phone, put a pressure campaign, trying to figure out what they were going to do. They said, okay, we're using Article 27 to overrule the thing. Basically what they're saying is he did get a red card, but he doesn't have to serve the suspension. They're suspending the suspension. Yeah. Yeah. He can do it when it doesn't matter.

Which is like, and you know, like, this looks. bad because it is. It actually was recently used for Cristiano Ronaldo because he got a red card at the end of last year in a qualifier, which would have had him miss some of the group stage matches. So the first two matches, I think, of the World Cup. Yeah. So FIFA was like, which hurts money. This is all about money. Yeah. Yeah. And in this case, it's all about infantino pleasing Donald but anyway, so Cristiano Ronaldo had, he was able to play because they did a similar thing. So not a great look. Belgium is also appealing this overturned red card.

You had UEFA who is like the governing body of like European soccer. Like FIFA is like global soccer. And then UEFA governs European soccer. They were like, this is an abomination. Like sport has to be played on a level playing field where the rules apply equally across the board. If it becomes inconsistent, now it becomes a farce. And yeah, I feel bad. Apparently Trump called the.

Maricio Pocitino, who's the manager of the U.S. national team, and it was like, good luck to you, boys. And then Pachitino came out. Just so you know, like, the players aren't the bad guys here, man. We didn't do anything. Please. It's so fuck, because this should be a nice story. And to your point, it's like, this is just bad luck.

You know, like, should that have been a red card? Probably not. But you do see it. So, like, it is. But it is what it is. So it is what it is. Yeah. And he just, he just ruins everything.

It's unbelievable. Even fun thing. So like obviously he's ruining people's lives. He's ruining immigrants right. He's the worst guy in the entire fucking world, Trump is. And then, but now the funds, like even when the U.S. team won the fucking, won the gold medal in hockey, beating Canada, should be a nice story. You know, like, is there a couple maggie guys on the hockey team? Of course it is.

They're hockey players. Yeah. But most of them are not that. But then the guy calls them after they went. Trump calls them. Makes a misogynist joke. Most of the players are fucking nervous because they're talking to the president. So they nervously laugh.

They look like pieces of shit. He just everything. He's just so fucking the head of the FBI. It's doing blow in the corner of the fucking locker room for some reason. It's insane. So now with this, it's like it puts the U.S. team in back. Because like, this doesn't feel good. You want to win on merit, not because daddy called.

And I think also to your point, why it sucks with sports, sports are so cool because you don't know what's going to happen. You have an idea. But once you, that's why these you hear about. these gambling um scandals that happen and how serious the leagues take that

because once it seems like the game is being you know pushed in one direction over the other that whole fairness gets thrown out the window and it's like oh well then I'll just watch some bullshit on that like why am I watching this thing I can just watch some bullshit

TV show that's also scripted I'll watch marble runs on YouTube live where people are sending marbles down a hill at least that shit seems fucking objective in terms of gravity. Yeah. They said that one marble

was goose. They said they had added weight. You hate to see it, folks. They were like trying to even do a thing where they were trying to bring up like that referee. They're like, you know, he's made some weird calls

in the past and they're like, there's no proof of that either. No. And Gianni and Fantino just further, further putting the tournament into ill repute. Sad though, I wish Mexico

beat England. That would have been great. Because it's been really fun. It's been so, dude, it's been so great in L.A. just every time Mexico plays, I was so ready because the fireworks was like a normal, normal fireworks. Okay.

And then like on Sunday, I was like, here's where everybody's also holding theirs in case Mexico beats England today. But I love though, too, even with Mexico losing, dude, the people were just sending them up, even in a celebratory way, because it was a great, great tournament appearance from Mexico.

But yeah, better luck next time. My friend and I were talking about how funny it would have been for Trump to have to give the trophy to Mexico. And then like, oh,

it also would have been really funny if he had to give it to Canada. Oh, it also would have been really funny. We're like, oh, he's wrong to every single country in the world.

Yeah. You know, like there wouldn't be one country we would be like, oh, could you imagine, like, in Trump's senility,

like, he's so invested in the U.S. winning the World Cup. Like he goes even further than being like, that red card has to be taken away. He's like, all the goals Belgium scored, they actually have to be rescinded. Because I don't like Leandro Trussard. He doesn't look good.

He's anti-American. And actually, that should be one goal added to the U.S. So the, you know what? The U.S. won the World Cup. We don't even need to play. I've seen enough. I've seen enough. Do it, Johnny.

Shit. All right. Well, that's going to do it for us. Recapping the weekend. We'll be back tomorrow with a whole new episode, wonderful episode. Tune in because we don't worry, we will get into one of the main stories of the weekend that affected America, which was the Swift-Helcy wedding. Yes. We obviously didn't talk about that.

I know you were like, why aren't they, you cowards? Sorry. There's just way too much other shit. going on. We will get to that tomorrow. And many other things. So until then, take care yourselves, take care each other. Don't do anything about white supremacy. Like, don't be passive. Okay. When you see these, not.

When you see these Patriot front fucking loser, just fucking scream at them, something, at least. Please, guys. Take their metro cards. And it'll love to take their cards. And until then, we'll see you later. Bye-bye. Bye. The Daily Zykeyes is executive

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