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The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 221, episode 3 of Dirt Daily Psych-Ace! The production of iHeartRadio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It is Wednesday, January 26, 2022, which of course means, Miles, that it is National... Green Juice Day. National... Green Juice Day.

that it is National Green Juice Day, National Peanut Brittle Day, National Spouses Day, and Library Shelfie Day. Library Shelfie Day? Yeah. I guess, is that like you take a selfie by a library shelf? Yeah, or just like

take a picture of your library and then post it. Yeah. It says arrange your collection. Oh, so just anything. Look, if you're in a small library or maybe you're a true bibliophile, arrange your collection on a shelf and take a picture. Yeah, yeah. Cool. Nothing goes together quite like green juice and peanut brittle.

And a library shelfie. And a library shelfie. And a spouse. Love my spouse. Spouse day. My spouse. Love my spouse. Spouse day. My spouse. Well, my name is Jack O'Brien, and I would do anything for love,

but I won't get vaxxed. All right. That is courtesy of Gold John Ion. He asked too soon. Maybe. Definitely too late for any number of people he might have exposed to COVID. And I'm

thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! Oh, NFTs. NFTs. NFTs. NFTs. Wasted my life savings on Papa Jones's NFTs.

Shout out to me because I'm just, that's all I can do when I wake up in the middle of the night is just get inspired by half words that will fit into a song because that's what I do in my twilight sleep. There you go. Yeah. That one hit you in the middle of the night? It did.

I was like, because I kept thinking about pop. I don't know. I keep laughing about Popeye Jones and this feud that I'm trying to start with him. And then it all just kind of, Paul McCartney, Mother Mary visited me and told me. Well, we are thrilled, Miles, to be joined by a very funny comedian and activist. She's the host of the great award-winning podcast, Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, Dearly Departed, but a great show. The senior fellow on comedy at the Pop Culture Collab. She's written in the New York Times, wrote and performed a piece on NPR's Fresh Air. Yep.

Some lady named Terry Gross? Terry Gross. I think it's Air. Yep. Some lady named Terry Gross. Terry Gross. I think it's Gross. Okay. She listens. Anyways, she's just one of our favorite guests here on TDZ. She is the hilarious and talented Zara Norbach! Zara!

What's up? Okay, you ready? Hit it. Here we go. Mashallah. Mashallah. Mashallah. You're fantastic. You're fantastic and amazing, ZyGang.

What's up? Hell yeah. Mashallah. Look at all these good Muslims. Yeah. What's new, Zara? How are we doing? Are we surviving? Yeah, surviving.

Always thinking about you as things are destabilized. Destabilized. Remember that conversation? I think it was one of your first appearances, and I'll never forget that conversation. I'm like, right. Destabilization. It's all around. Civil Cold War. I'm like, right. Destabilization. It's all around. Civil Cold War.

That's what's happening. What's going on with you? What's new? All right. So my mother-in-law had two hip surgeries. I went to two funerals. Oh, no. And I still have my Christmas tree.

I am now calling it a valentine's tree and that's just what it is are you are you like normally someone who takes it like do you normally have a tree and you keep it up late or what's going on what's there's the trees just kind of like it's an afterthought given yeah the many things we're all going through. I'm a Gemini, ADHD. I'm not so good with time as it is. And in the times where I rarely leave my house and don't see people as a live performer, I'm just going to probably have a St. Patrick's tree also is what's going to happen. Yeah, we've got the Cinco cinco de mayo tree you guys are loving it there's gonna be uh what dad's and grad's tree i get it you can there's there's always something

to celebrate you know for for folks out there who is who are as physical as i am it turns out that so much of our sense of like time organization memory is linked and logged by our physical memory and our ability to like gross motor move in the world spatially and in acres not just like around the house got you and now and look and i was just thinking too it could be a noroose tree for the for the new year you got it yeah there's so many things that's actually kind of a good challenge now that i'm thinking about it it's just to keep your tree up and always contextualize it. Well, now that you say that, I'm wondering why I don't keep it and then set it on fire and jump over it. And jump over it.

Right. For the new year. Oh, my God. Okay. Hell yeah. Keep that thing. Because look, now you can keep that thing until March, right? Done.

You know why else? Because it celebrates wildfire season. Right. done you know why else because it celebrates wildfire season right best way to commemorate wildfire season is light a tree on fire there you go yeah and then jump over it thus symbolizing our mastery over uh wildfires is it like a good transition into mad max times to say that that's just my nod to the planet. Yeah. Because we're not even trying to save the planet anymore. We just have nods.

Just acknowledging, hey, I see you. I see you out there. I see you, baby. Just on fire. Just letting them know when he sees you. Let me just keep recycling and then also get the new iPhone every six months. Sorry. So we just had to do a stop down because my,

I was only hearing like every other word, but I think I got everything that you're an arsonist and you're planning on starting a bunch of forest fires for the new year. No, I like Arsenal and her favorite TV show is The Wire. Yeah. What's wrong with you? Jack, you get your ears checked out, man. Oh, my goodness.

Get that earwax out of there. People still say that? Destabilized ears. My kid came home with like a real pro earwax take from school. We're like, it actually keeps bugs from getting in there and it keeps you from getting sick so i mean yeah to a point but you don't want to be that person who when you offer your headphone to everyone's like i remember yo and i used to do a lot of digital video i worked with an editor who would like edit on his laptop and like you know we'd be in the field

like having to just turn cuts around and get them uploaded to make those sweet digital ad bucks for our overlords and i remember one time he's like yeah man you want to check this cut out and he took his ear butt out and i kid you not i don't it it was so engrossed in wax it almost like it was as if it was threading out of his ear when he was like no and he handed it to me. And I was in this impossible situation where I would be like, man, don't give me that nasty shit. Oh, you should have. Which I should have.

Yeah, you would have been doing her a favor. See, the Japanese part of me didn't want to, I got very self-conscious. I got embarrassed for this person, so I said, I will take on the discomfort. But I did not put that shit in my ear. I held it very far from my ear hole. Yeah.

And I think he knew what was up because nobody does that. And I was like, I'm not going to say it, but when I hand this back to you, you will see why I didn't put it in my ear. It's like, no, they all look like that, right? They all got that little, little like brown, orange gemstone that is attached. You gotta swap microbiomes, folks. Yeah. And also like different earwax. My mom would always be like,

you have American people earwax. What does that mean? What the fuck does that mean? She's saying the texture is different. It's more waxy. She's like... Wetter? American people have wetter earwax?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And she was like, you know, like it's not like Japanese, like Asian earwax.'m like okay here we go my own mother flake here my my boys have uh the dryer flake ear japanese earwax yeah see and i got and i got goop yeah yeah does yours taste like high fructose corn syrup oh yeah of course i'm american All of my excretions taste like high fructose corn syrup. Mine tastes like... I'm glad we all taste them. Have you ever tasted the thing in a box of ramen? No.

Like the liquidy thing? No. The little packet? You just drink that? That's what mine tastes like. The MSG? Just straight up? That's how you die!

I mean, it's flavor town, but you're a blood pressure fan. Yeah. Just all of the liquid in your body just immediately. I don't taste things on my body, just for the record. I just don't taste my body. Oh. Oh. Oh, okay.

All right. Well, okay. Fair enough. You know. All right, Zara, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners a couple of things we're talking about. are we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners a couple of things we're talking about. We are talking about the fact that Biden called Steve Doocy a stupid son of a bitch. Best thing he's done as a president, as far as I can

tell. So we'll talk about that, whether that legitimized his presidency, whether this needs to be his new MO moving forward. We're going to talk about Laura Ingraham's impression of Kate McKinnon's impression of Laura Ingraham. We are going to talk about Elon Musk's Neuralink. We might even talk about Rudy Giuliani's autographed 9-11 commemorative T-shirt for sale for the low, low price of $911. Legit, like straight up, that's a real thing. All of that, plenty more.

But first, Zara, we do like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history? All right. In my search history is how to shoot a dick. How to shoot. How to shoot a dick. With a gun. Okay. How do you shoot a dick just aim right how to shoot a dick off like so okay apparently aspirin pill off a dick what are we talking here like some william pell type stuff i was looking this up shit the dick off oh right just blow that

thing one you would think there'd be more how to. And I was looking it up for a friend's, like, I'm in a writer's group. And I was looking it up for their script. And then I came across a whole Facebook group. About what? About shooting your dick off. What? Yeah. What is the confusion?

I think it's pretty straightforward. And this is just, you know, me being a guy thinking I know everything, but I have a pretty clear idea of how to shoot my dick off. Wait, are you, is that more like how does someone shoot their own dick off? Or you're saying, how do I, I'm interested in the act of shooting someone's dick off. How do I do that? More like in all the ways that there is to shoot at your dick. Right. There are good ones and bad ones.

So we're talking about self-owning with a firearm? Yes. Okay, got it. And you're saying you found a Facebook group of people who had blown away their phalluses with firearms? And you found a Facebook group of people who had blown away their phalluses with firearms? No, just a group of people who were intrigued by the idea of shooting their dick. And the guy who started it accidentally shot his own dick while doing a demonstration. And that brought the group together even closer. While doing a demonstration for the group.

Wow. We're just talking about it, but Brett lives this stuff the group. Wow. We're just talking about it, but Brett lives this stuff, man. Damn. He's talking the talk, man, and walking it. I would assume that how not to shoot a dick or how not to shoot your dick off would be the more popular search term. One would think. It's interesting times. Then again, the easiest way to not shoot your dick is to not shoot your dick.

It's to not fuck up being stupid with firearms. Don't point a gun there. I feel like there are so many videos like that where like there are cops doing like demonstrations with their firearms and just hitting like thying themselves constantly trying to like holster their weapon or whatever. And you're like, what the fuck? You just shot yourself in a classroom. Like, what the fuck is this? It'd be a huge problem if cops had bigger dicks. Fortunately.

Hey, that was a lot of room. I'm here all week, Boston. Hey, Cabin in the Morning. What's new, folks? Well, that's cool I can't wait to read or see that movie

the whatever they're writing writing about who did that Robocop edit where Summer of Tears

was it Summer of Tears I think it was Summer of Tears have you seen that Zara no okay I don't know if you're familiar with RoboCop,

but someone gets. Oh yeah. D shot in there, but there's a cut where. RoboCop I know. Yeah. Where they extend that out and it becomes like a, a carnival of people getting shot in the penis.

Oh my God. That's amazing. And it's just like, and it goes for so long. You can't believe someone bothered to like fund this production. Cause it's, it's amazing. And it's just like, and it goes for so long, you can't believe someone bothered to, like, fund this production because it's done very cinematically. I want to share that with my friends in this group. Oh, yeah, they would love it.

I knew it would help me. Yeah. So it was, like, a thing where people, like, different sketch comedy groups did a shot-for-shot remake. Like, everybody got a different scene to do a shot for shot remake of robocop and the person who was in charge of the dick shooting scene just had robocop just shooting so many dicks off by fatal farm fatal farm they're the best yeah that's right and i haven't thought of them. Damn, man.

I haven't thought about those guys in a minute. Also, really, really good. What is something you think is overrated, Zara? I'm going to say getting rid of your Christmas tree, folks. I think I've made the case. Hold on. Do you have a real one? Yes, I have a real one.

I keep it, and I am keeping it until Tim Cook stops. Wow. It stops what? Putting out more iPhones? Yes. Stop it. This one has four cameras on the back now. You see?

I need that fourth one. My bad. The one that sees into my earwax. I forgot I needed it. Yeah. wax i forgot i needed it yeah this um the tree thing i definitely i when i used to have like an old tree or a real tree i would keep it up man there are times i had that shit up until like mid-february okay as a muslim kid how do you even get rid of it chop it up you break it up put it. Bathtubs full of lye.

You know. Yeah, just get rid of it. But I mean, also too, like in LA, you can, at a certain point, people just like put them on the curb and then like, you know. Yeah, 3-1-1. If you're outside of the normal

like Christmas tree pickup era or, you know, week span when most people are putting it out, you can always 3-1-1 it. Yeah, but when I was a kid, that's when I would score it. Right, right. I would run out and be like, we can get a Christmas tree now, Mom!

Dad! Come on, Bubba, let's go! It's right here! It's free! Who knows how much it costs? No, they're free! You can just take it! I don't know.

Plus, it's always a little waterlogged, which gets rid of the main problem with Christmas trees, which is that they dry out and cause fires. So there you go. Got it with a little garbage juice in there. Hopefully not kerosene. I've mentioned this before, I think, on the show, but you've never seen somebody set a car on fire by putting a Christmas tree underneath it and then setting the tree on fire? Oh, right, that. All right, never mind. put that in your little script yeah put that in your little skit uh why don't you put that in your little humor magazine i remember i saw that in i was at a party at like in santa

barbara ucsb on in isla vista and people did that shit and i was like what the fuck is going on here like they literally just torched that car with a tree. Was it a celebration of something? Or that was just how hard the party was going? No, it was some just wild project act. Some fuck shit going down. Maybe they were cold.

Yeah, right. Maybe the car was cold. I thought you were like, maybe they were cool, Jack. I never thought about that. Maybe they were just fucking rad, okay? Yeah, man, commit felonious arson with us. What is something you think is underrated? Mental health. I'm doing great, guys.

Go on, what's that mean? Okay, I'll bite. What is this mental health stuff? What do you speak of? You got me. You know, sometimes you're sad, you know? What is this mental health stuff? You got me. You know, sometimes you're sad, you know, and it's compounded for the planet, for the people, for your friends that are passing or, you know, humanity at large. And then also just existential wondering why you're a comedian if you can't go perform without making people sick. Right.

And then you just bottle it up and you shove a Christmas tree under a car and you light it up, baby. And you've got meaning now. Yeah, that's how it works. How are you? I mean, how are you taking care? I mean, because I know you're you're very on top of things like mental health and you like to share, you know, ways to be more positive and things like that. How do you and I know you're able to articulate the angst and the emotional experience that you're having. But how do you I mean, I get that.

Sure. We all got to burn a car up with a Christmas tree. But when there are no more Christmas trees, what would you do? Which I was right about, by the way, you are. street but when there are no more christmas trees what would you do which i was right about by the way you are man you know it in all seriousness it's really hard i cry spontaneously i feel totally numb and then sometimes i am overwhelmed with my own feelings and i've had such a hard time getting out of bed after the passing of one of my childhood friends that I had to ask different friends to call me at different times to make sure that I got out of bed, you know, come like one o'clock, two o'clock. Yeah. It's, it's just a hard,

hard ass time. And I think the thing that's gotten me through it the most is that I'm in the arts and I, and I can talk about it freely like this with you here right and I and I have room for that to exist side by side with everything else that I do and I can kind of move through it yeah and and it can mean as much as I'm as I need it to mean you know what I mean yeah yeah it's so important especially when you lose people like you come up with because it's it's it creates such a hole inside of you and like you know you we always envision like how our lives will be especially when you two you grow up like yeah man we're gonna see this this that and the other and when things are cut short yeah it's

it's definitely trying and yeah i i like even you know there's there's been all kinds of loss that i've experienced too in the last year and and just all many trials and tribulations but the thing that I try to you know do at least for myself is to be able to express whatever that it is I'm feeling because before that I probably wouldn't I would just try and ignore it or say I'm fine and then it would like manifest into me like getting like catastrophically drunk and embarrassing myself or, you know, completely fucking up some other thing that's like disconnected. So it's important to,

yeah, to get your feelings out and shit. Sometimes I just find myself too. I'm I'll get so emotional. I'll watch like one inch, like one funny clip. And I'm like, it's so beautiful,

man. Like the way they were, they synchronize the backflips with those. And I'm like, yeah, let it out. Oh man. all the dicks let it out oh man all the dicks were blown off you know what is a movie that is so good for grief talk about underrated jaws yeah for grief it is great go on because there's like the ocean you know and then

like in the middle of the movie like robert shaw's character i feel like just like embodies the like i'm shoving it down shut up and leave me alone fine but it comes up at the end there it's i know and then you watch the monster just like eat him in half and it's like yeah one for grief yeah i'm working through the fact that like i don't know what i'm feeling a lot of the time because of like i think i like pin a lot of it on toxic masculinity and the fact that like when i'm feeling something it just like gets either like pushed down or like turned into anger but i i think that's like generally like especially like today in the modern western world where it's just like you gotta move on you gotta like get through get

through the work day and get moving while we're all like living through a fucking global pandemic where like our loved ones are dying like it's yeah it's not it's not just toxic masculinity it's toxic western you know hustle toxicity period yeah when really like it should be y'all feel like shit yeah i'm like i feel like crying then you fucking do that get your shit out like you know like it's the worst shit is to ignore what you're going through and what you're experiencing because then you're unable to like actually address your needs because you're just going to kind of be like working with this skewed perspective of what you're going through how rad would it be if it flipped and people like it was like toxic

you're like why aren't you crying bro hey man this motherfucker not crying, man. Where's your tears, bitch? Oh, wow. Look at you. Not crying like a little bitch. All right. On that note, let's take a quick break.

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are articulating their distaste for the president did we do the like origin of let's go brandon like wasn't it from the nascar it was from nascar yeah did we talk about that on on this show i know i heard it somewhere touched on it maybe in a trending episode, but, you know, essentially at a NASCAR race, they were saying, fuck Joe Biden. It's not like they're saying, let's go, Brandon. Like, they're not. You know better. Just let it cook. You know where we're at.

It's 2021. This is the U.S. of A. And, you know, I think those little sort of outbursts have been the little blankie that keep conservatives warm at night as they shiver in the cold reality of Donald Trump not being the actual president. So, you know, get your jollies off. But on Monday, when Joe Biden called Peter Doocy a stupid SOB, like he was Gabbo from The Simpsons, he thought the fucking heavens came down based on the conservative reactions. And I will play. Let me just will play it so everyone can hear what was going on. He was being asked, you know, what about inflation and blah, blah, blah, blah.

And Joe Biden's just like, the press conference was over at this point. And journalists were still trying to get one last question in. Peter Doocy's asking about inflation. Do you think inflation is a political lie? Do you think inflation is a political lie? More inflation. What a stupid son of a bitch. Wait, so this was a... Why is he calling him a...

Because Doocy's out here. He's asking. He's saying, do you think inflation? He's just trying to get him, like, sort of bring up the idea of inflation, how that is like a, that's going to tank any kind of midterm momentum because of inflation. You know, like, because that's, that's a huge thing. Yeah, because he said more inflation. Yeah, that the right, you know, the conservative media is like, all this inflation because inflation because of Joe Biden Like that's the narrative that they want to keep Moving along So I think with him asking that to be like

Are you like this non thing Are you scared of it He's like what a stupid son of a bitch Just like he's like I'm off this This guy's still asking Saying it to the other people in the room Yeah it was like He kind of i don't know

whatever it was the right-wing media has lost it you're seeing all kinds of takes things of like quote this is how he talks about conservative when he thinks no one is looking pay attention okay josh holly mr send in the fucking army i know know that was Tom Cotton. The other one. But Josh Hawley, who is also just a terrible senator from Missouri, said very presidential. And then another person said, I don't care that Biden called Doocy a name. I do care that the president of the United States lacks the cognitive ability to know what to say into a microphone. That's kind of a kind of a big deal. Oh, they want to talk about cognitive ability and a president, do they? Right.

But here's my thing. I'm like, oh, so he is your president. Ah, motherfuckers. Got your ass. Because otherwise you'd be like, man, see, look at this trash old man, fake ass president. Everything is like, president should not act like this. You know he's in the shower every day just being like, I should have said fake ass president. Oh like he should not act like this you know he's in the shower every day just being like i should have said fake ass president oh god right come on cernovich

got this but yeah it just so it kind of just struck me that i like that the people that challenge the very legitimacy of this presidency are using presidential decorum as like a barb to attack him and you know i don't know i guess if we're using trump as some kind of metric for how a president should behave then yeah joe biden is president yeah so let's let's get folks and people are pulling pulling out people's responses like responses to trump calling someone a son of a bitch and being like well you didn't like it when he did it and that's definitely true. That, that just kind of highlights the people whose main argument with Trump was

that he was rude and not like the white supremacy and the fucking racism and all that. So the worst thing being people over here being like, this guy's an ethno nationalist wannabe fascist who's trying to destroy everything for everyone and the conservative media is like he's he's so foul-mouthed and he doesn't know how to use a microphone like that's fucking bad everyone like the comparison here is is really something else and yeah a lot of people have pointed to many of trump's quotes and you know jacob jake tapper was like you know to be

honest you shouldn't be doing that shit and that's's true. Like if we have, if we're trying to have some idea of like, you know, what is, what, what's a, an even handed leader look like he can, he knows how to keep his mouth shut, but whatever that, I mean, this is, this is, I think he's just merely, he's having commentary on the situation. He finds himself as president. That's the thing too, you know, Commentary on the situation he finds himself as president. That's the thing, too. You know, OK, so in communications coaching, I learned that you got to first identify your value system. Otherwise, you're going to come into conflict at every single milestone. And that is so true because everything is such shit right now that just hearing him say the stupid son of a bit like just it made me feel

like everything was just a little more real i felt like a little less gaslit by this government anyway you know this government that's like we're canceling your student loans just kidding you don't have to go to work yes you do you know like we'll just change what the CDC says now, you know, to hear him actually like have some kind of reaction to just exhaustion by stupidity was like a relief for me. Right. But we're so pocketed in our value systems, in our news media and in the values that we judge a president by, like, so astronomically divided. Right. Right. Yeah.

What is the temperature right now on the midterms? I mean, the Democrats are going to lose. Because I'm like, you know, my buddy Jack O'Brien, he's real smart. Like, I bet, you know, he's a white guy. You guys might like him over there. The racist ass. Oh, also, hey, what? I got to's a white guy. You guys might like him over there. The racist ass. Oh, also, hey, what? I got to say a shout out to the Zeitgang in Alabama.

What? I met Alabama Zeitgang homies, Tori, what up? At the dog park. And I promised a shout out. Oh, really? Okay. I did. Yeah.

And I almost had the racist ass out. And I remembered hearing shout out. Oh, really? Okay. I did. Yeah. And I almost had the racist ass out. And I remembered hearing from them. Hey, we're listening out there. Yeah. Hell yeah. Zeitgang, we're internationally known, locally respected. Everybody knows that. I was not surprised that we have Zeitgang in Alabama.

I just do not like them. So I was surprised to hear you shouting to them. No, I'm just joking. He loves them. He loves you. Yeah, but this is, you know, like you're saying, it's all part of the current climate that we're in. You know, Jen Psaki has also numerous times been like, what are you talking

about, Peter? What are you saying up there, sir? Like, he's been a constant bringer of nonsense, but yeah, all that to say is, hey, man, I'd love to be president. So I can say stuff like that. Is Peter Doocy related to Steve Doocy? Is it his boy? OK, OK. I mean, I will not remember which one is which. I did call him Steve Doocyy up top, and that's fine. That's fine with me. I will refer to them indiscriminately. Peter, I'm sorry, Peter, Peter is the kid, Steve is daddy. Steve is on the fence. Right, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Peter looks, I would be shocked if it was the other way around. That's my son. Steve looks like shit. All right. Speaking of the right not knowing how to react to anything,

All right. Speaking of the right not knowing how to react to anything, Laura Ingram. So there was a cold open on SNL over the weekend where Kate McKinnon did a Laura Ingram impression and then through two interviews with Ted Cruz and Candace Owens, as played by Igo Woden and Djokovic played by pete davidson and it was like it was good kate mckinnon's very funny and laura ingram then did her impression of kate mckinnon's impression of her and it just like seemed like she was doing like drunk person in improv one or something yeah i mean let's roll the tape and we can analyze it on the other side. But yes, without further ado, here is Ingram's, McKinnon's Ingram. For a reason, I like Kate McKinnon. I have so much respect for her as a talent. She's so even handed in their political commentary. But seriously, think of all the low-hanging fruit provided by Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi. Little Petey B and the squad on a near daily basis. I mean, I think this is kind of comedy gold, don't you?

No. What I'm seeing is not comedy gold. It's also funny because they are doing picture in picture, right? So they have Kate McKinnon's impression of her over her shoulder right and then she's doing the impression and kate mckinnon like just kind of leans to one side like laura ingram does like nailing her and then laura ingram like adds all this like wobbling back and forth like just it it's a transparently a bad impression of an impression of a good impression. I mean, definitely one of the more meta

comedy performances we've seen on broadcast television, for sure. But she's a fucking odd one, Ingram, aside from the obvious reasons. Is that really how she sounds? Was she doing like an exaggerated impression

of herself? Oh, okay. She was doing exaggerated impression of herself? Oh, okay. She was doing an impression of Kate McKinnon's impression of her. And it didn't sound anything. She just like added a whole bunch of drunk lady and like, yeah, weird, like dizzy, cartoon dizzy person. With all the low-hanging fruit in DC. It's like a but this is a thing all of the impressions she just has like a weird penchant for like doing

these bits like remember when she was doing the you thing and i legit it was so dry i was like is she is she serious or is this oh my god because she's like who on what show you, it was on you. And it's like me. I said something about vaccines. No, you and my show. And it was like this who's on first thing where Jack very quickly was like, this is a bit. And I'm like,

she's so bad at this. I don't know what she's doing ever. Like part and parcel of her brain. Yeah. No, it was a written bit that they were like so laura we think we have a new angle for you like you're the funny one on fox news like people people think you're a real cut up and they think you're funny so let's go with that and then uh

candace owens said she's funnier and prettier than ego. Which, like, even her supporters, I don't, like, I looked at the comments underneath and it was funny because all her supporters were like, went with the same, SNL still on the air? I haven't seen that in 25 years. Yeah.

Joke. And nobody was like, yeah, that's right, you are prettier and funnier. Than this very talented comedic performer. Yeah. Are all these people just failed improvisers and stand-ups? Is that really, like, you know, like, did Laura Ingraham try to be in the Groundlings, like, in the early 90s or something?

And they're like, sorry, Laura, like, you can't keep doing your, like, these character bits. They're really offensive. She's like, what? I don't understand. I mean, it's either that or Toastmasters. Right. Wait, what is Toastmasters? I just laughed. Toastmasters is another nationwide speakers program

to boost your confidence and give you sort of like hacks on speaking and they also have like competitions got it okay so it's like get ready for the toast at your daughter's wedding or whatever it's like the speech and debate to improv type yeah so she never got out of toast masters huh i think she got kicked out probably like that was a comedic performance that would have made like that sometimes you'll see somebody like on Fox do something that you're like that would have brought down the house at like a midwestern wedding I feel like Laura Ingram would have made everybody very fucking uncomfortable everybody would have been like which i just want her to stop yeah that was like she had

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autographed 9-11 themed t-shirts for $911, which is both offensive and just an incredible ripoff. Like, yeah, you could buy 911 copies of the book, but loving unicorn on amazon for that much which is actually how i just make all my purchases is kind of equating it back to but loving unicorn it's an amateur novel about the erotic tension between a handsome unicorn named sullivan horsepower and a studly velociraptor named rapt Raptor McCoy. Oh, this is sexy. Yeah, it's pretty hot.

Yeah, actually, let's get... I'd rather... Honestly, I'm more interested in... What was the guy? Studly McCoy? Raptor McCoy and Sullivan Horsepower. Sullivan Horsepower? Sullivan Horsepower is a great name. Like that...

Like they took that off the discard pile at Pixar for Cars 4. Like, that's pretty fucking good. Vote him for president. Yeah. So, Sullivan Horsepower. Yeah, I'm fine. I get it. Rudy is so broke.

He has to completely tarnish the memory of people who lost their lives to get his lawyer fees together. Yeah. it was interesting because he like straight up denied the story like people that he didn't do it he was like so people were like hey this seems like it's in really poor taste and he tweeted i am not selling 9-11 shirts he said on twitter i'm not selling 9-11 shirts again and said on Twitter. I'm not selling 9-11 shirts again. And people pointed out that as he was tweeting that and still at this moment, I believe the link is still up. You can still buy a collectible autographed by Rudy Giuliani 9-11 20th anniversary t-shirt limited quantity blue Monody Blue for $911 on the WABC radio store. So it's not like it's just some, you know, this is on WABC, the radio, like ABC's radio

station, which he hosts his show on, like their website is making this limited time offer, probably very limited, like by the time this episode posts, it will have been taken down. Is it still there? If we go? Let's look. Just go really quickly. Yeah, baby.

Get it in now, folks, while you can. Never forget. They only have XL and XXL. Yeah. It's got Rudy, George W. Bush, and who is that? Is that Bloomberg? Who the fuck is this other guy? That guy's way too tall to be Bloomberg.

Who the fuck? Some non-factor. But what does he have on this radio station where they're like, yeah, man, we'll buy in on this. We'll let you completely bring us down with you. I can only imagine what that conversation is like. Hey, man, can I sell these on the website, please? Oh, yeah. This was 100% something that not only had to be his idea, but he had to fight for.

Oh, my God. But yeah, as Miles pointed out, he's pretty much broke after spending millions in legal fees. Right. Yeah. Yeah. This has been part of the many sort of acts of financial desperation we've seen from him. Cameo was probably one of my favorites. Like that's when I was like, oh, it's Cameo bad.

Okay. But now I guess we're saying, oh, it's we're selling autographed 9-11 T-shirts for 9-11 bad. What? Yeah. He tried to. So he also launched a crowdfunding campaign for the, quote, Rudy Giuliani Legal Defense Fund with a five million dollar goal. And it raised 10 grand before it got taken down. Oh, man, that man is a mess he also launched a youtube channel where he will teach you gender studies for some reason juliani's gonna teach me gender studies yeah the guy who was smearing his peepee in the Borat movie is going to is going to be OK. Sure. Professor. And also doing commercials on his YouTube channel for cigars and gold coins.

Yeah. Is that do you think that most of this money is just like folks wanting to see a train wreck? I don't think there's much money, to be honest. Like, that's what I'm surprised by is like, because you would have expected like that is a lot of him, like having the president's back on Maine for like a very popular president, a president who I don't know if you heard, got more votes than any sitting president in the history of America. the history of america but there's got a lot of fans donald trump and rudy was like the face of his you know attempt to coup the nation in the courts and everybody's just like nah fuck that guy like right away which is pretty remarkable i mean because trump like threw him under the bus but you know that is just what donald trump does But it's pretty wild that he just has just been relegated to the realms of like, no, fuck that guy by every every single side at this point. Right. Well, especially to because it's all what they do is they they got a grift. They got to be like, hey, you want my attention or you want to be part of my club where you can buy this thing? hey, you want my attention or you want to be part of my club where you can buy this thing?

And then it'll never be the product that they promise it is. Because you look at his cameo reviews. I just love how these people are so angry. Already it was huge amounts of money, like over 300 bucks for him to even talk into his cell phone. And one review said, we would like a do-over without the pitch to go to your website or podcast. It ruined the birthday wish. Another one, he said, the review is, he didn't actually mention any of the intended recipients by name. That's the whole point of a fucking champion. He stole your fucking money.

To do an ad for himself. Hey, it's hard to get this guy to stay on message as yeah as the trump's learned you know hey i just want to wish you a happy birthday you know because the mainstream media is completely smearing me you got to go to rudy giuliani.com for the truth patriots god bless you it's like what okay i guess one tenth of a birthday wish. Also, what is leaking out of his head? That is not a sentence in the cameo review, but it, you know, I'm sure. Oh, you mean his scalp ink?

Yeah, his scalp ink. His hairline is strong. weeks before he embarrassed himself by inadvertently recording a video praising the activists who protested against Venezuelan businessman Alejandro Bentecourt, who happens to be one of his former clients. So that was a big no-no. I feel like, you know, J.M. is speculating, like, what is next? If this trajectory continues, like, where does, what is his next money-making scheme? Like, where does what is his next money making scheme? Like, J.M.'s guess is he's just going to go door to door and let kids whip Nerf products at his balls for 50 bucks a pop. There's a good Facebook group for that. Yeah, exactly. If he wants some technique.

How to shoot Rudy Giuliani in the balls with a Nerf case. Yeah, I guess a reality show. Yeah. He needs it because if you're thinking, right, like you need a check. You need a good check. You can't clearly like nickel and diamond on cameo and stuff isn't putting together the money.

So he's probably looking for a deal. But at this point point every like broadcasting outlet is like you're toxic get the fuck away from me whereas I don't know I think like we need someone with like a reality show that's it would be such so humiliating to him

but when he does the math he's like it was worth it right that's good money like I would root anything for love it was worth it. Right. That's good money. Like, I would root anything for love. They just switch it over. They're like, look, all right, meatloaf's gone. How about I would root anything for love? Yeah.

Except he wouldn't have the, but I won't do that because he would do literally. He would do anything. Yo, the real thing, you grift on 9-11 truthers. Wow. That's your play, Rudy. Yeah, you should just have his own. I know shit none of y'all know. You should just have his own Alex Jones show.

I mean, isn't he like a, well, didn't they take him off because he was like such a liability? Because I remember when he was like on Fox News once and they were asking him about blackmail. And he just admitted that he was being blackmailed and they just like cut away because like he started to divulge too much. It seemed. Yeah. Yeah. He was like that. There was a time.

I don't know if this is the one you're referring to where he was just like, and I could drop a lot of facts. Yes! Like, come on, slip me. He's like, I've got a dead hand switch, so... Right. If you shoot me, everyone goes! Like, that sort of thing. Like, the thing that the Joker yells at the cops as they're like...

Right. You know, five snipers have their guns trained on them. All right, let's talk about Elon Musk real quick, because his Neuralink product company is back in the news. He announced towards the end of last year, 2021, that he was planning on starting human trials in 2022. Sign me up yeah just put that shit right in my brain apparently they've added a job posting for a clinical trial director okay which includes health benefits dental flexible time off but seeing as the job entails convincing actual human beings to let the guy who just fucked up half a million cars and thinks aliens built the pyramids to surgically jam a computer in your brain. Yeah, I don't know.

Probably not worth it. Zyking, you'll let me convince you, right? Right, right. I'm gonna apply. I need dental. Yeah. Once somebody pointed out that this posting was made, Black Mirror started trending on Twitter.

So JM, our writer, dug into like, what exactly is Neuralink? Like, what's the point of it? It's a debit card, isn't it? It's like those like credit cards that scam people out of money. People out of money. So it was founded in 2017 by Musk and some actual neuroscientists claiming that their brain implant was going to help people with brain brain injuries or you know are disabled but then it became clear that he was like trying to turn this into a consumer-facing product that acts as and this is a direct quote a wizard hat for your brain that will connect your mind to the cloud. Oh, no. Oh, my God.

A wizard hat for the brain? Yeah. I'm sold! Fuck. A wizard hat for your brain. Like, that is such a fucking thing that he said out loud, being like, it's like a wizard hat for your brain. I'm sorry. What does that even mean is the hat the thing that bestows the powers upon your brain or huh yeah so that was earlier on in the development

in 2020 uh he kept ramping them up claimed uh that there were going to be possible medical benefits, including curing blindness and paralysis, but also the possibility that you could one day use it to drive your Tesla or even save and replay memories, which is literally the plot of a Black Mirror episode. You could ultimately download them into a new

body or a robot body. He doesn't think small. He's like eternal life is what I'm pitching here. My dude. I don't know if, you know, you go get your new Apple product, but I'm pitching eternal life over here. Go fuck yourself. OK, that Black Mirror episode is the reason why I never got one of those apps that lets

you see who follows and unfollows you? Right. We don't need to know all this. It was such a good fable. Yeah. I was like, lesson learned. I see it. Thank you, Black Mirror.

I don't need to know. I love his boyish idea of what the future is like or his own mortality was like and then when this physical body rots to death i'll just download my dumb fuckery into a robot body and continue the shit show yeah he like seems to be acquainted with like a lot of the big ideas from like sci-fi and philosophy from like the past 30 years like there there is a respected respected ish like futurist who thought that like right within our lifetimes we'd be able to do that and he's just like a lot of people are now like that's absolute horseshit. And like, do you,

do you think that investors like they, do you, do you think that they're that stupid? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. All right. Yeah. It turns out.

Yeah. Yeah. And he, he tells a good story. I mean, he is like, people are like, he's Tony Stark in real life.

He's P.T. Barnum. Like, that's what he is. He will go down as like one of our great liars in American history, who's just like very good at telling the lie that people want to believe at that moment. Right. And he's gotten, you know, he's done he's done some things, but that's just based on the work of like the massive amount of you know like labor that he employs to get those like things done like spacex or those other things but yeah it's i mean how like these fucking i feel like right now the latest thing is like what about all you cyber truck uh people who don't still don't have your fucking metal lunchbox car

yeah that was being promised constantly and right. I am disappointed about that because I actually thought that looked cool. Oh, you wanted the Cybertruck? I wanted the Cybertruck. Aw. That looks like what RoboCop should have hopped out of before blowing away all those dicks. You know what? I'm going to have a Cybertruck for you

underneath my Valentine's tree. Oh. Just a little tiny one. Yeah. That's cool. Wow, come on. Jack, be grateful. It's a gift. Holy shit. I'm so sorry about that, Zara. No, no, no. little tiny one. Yeah, that's cool. Wow. Come on, Jack. Be grateful. It's a gift.

Holy shit. I'm so sorry. No, that's great. Whatever. No. Oh, cool. It's not like the real thing. I said I wanted a real.

It's a toy. Oh, my God. You think people would be over bullshit by now? You know what I mean? There's like all the respectability politic, the bullshitting, the like, you think that we'd be in a state where people would be like,

say what you mean and prove it. Right. Yeah. But it's like the opposite. It's the opposite. He had me with those roof tiles that were like solar panels. Like what he, when he like debuted those at some tesla

thing a while back i i think it was like eight ten years ago i was like that's a great idea and like he it was a good like presentation those still aren't on the market like those still right are not really a thing that any ordinary person can get. But yeah, basically, so the big sort of smart showmanship from this year is that they showed Neuralink being used by a monkey to play Pong using only his mind, which if you don't listen to Radiolab, is pretty mind-blowing. But Radiolab's been talking about scientists doing this for like a long, a long time. That's, yeah, it's neuroscientists have been implanting BCIs very similar to Neuralink since the early 2000s. And basically his claim is that he's going to

make this, make it available to everyday Americans, which is like he's kind of getting there with the tesla car but even then when he tried to do that like the car like he couldn't manufacture at that scale like it just like his vision for that broke down when it came to labor laws i mean yeah allowed to do a workforce the second that apple tv was able to have a remote with a chip in it so that it knows when you pause and what you pause on you know and it has all that data like that's all it wanted like as soon as it had a remote control then it switched up to have a chip in it so like for a mass amount of americans to have a brain chip like i don't think that we're being all 1984 wondering if it's just another way to like control our lives with our brains right and to just be like fully like you just become a data

point like fully where it's like no i mean we are already right like even more yeah the phones are bad enough but yeah i like but also the other part of it is is this going to be like a lasik type procedure because you're talking about implanting a fucking microchip in your brain like right you just go in for it oh yeah i forgot about my skull you definitely want to make sure that they clean it before they put it in there. Yeah. I'll clean it. Wow.

We got it. Look, I'm rubbed it off on my shirt. All right. Now, put the nostril expanders on him so he can fucking shoot this thing straight in his skull. Yeah, total recall style. Yeah. Oh, man.

Like, when they pull that thing out of his brain through his nostril and total recall. My brain has never been the same since then. But like so like I said up top, though, they are doing amazing shit with like neural implants and like people who suffered a stroke and were incapable of speech. And now they've figured out how to let them speak again, or allowing a blind woman to see letters into certain objects. But neuroscientists who are involved in that sort of thing have been pretty critical. They're like, you're trying to take credit for work that a lot of people have been doing for a lot of years we've been implanting wireless devices in monkeys since 2014 weird brag but like okay oh man i'm putting shit monkey's brains since we've been implanting wireless devices in monkeys since 2014 so don't you even try mr musk yeah yeah all right all right you Mr. Musk. Yeah. All right. All right. Yeah. Brain, brain implant hipster. Like, Jesus.

Excuse me. Brain brag. And then so the neuroscientist who founded it with him has recently been demoted. This guy, Hodak, has been demoted. And Musk is like taking on a bigger role because. I mean, he was on SNL. Right. I mean, he was on SNL.

The stuff that you can accomplish with this technology that is amazing doesn't really match with Elon Musk's brand. That's what always didn't make sense to me. with disabilities or at least like addresses the problems of people who want a part of their disability like aided or changed is is really cool but like david eagleman does a lot of really cool shit with that at stanford but it's like that's not what elon musk does elon musk like wants to promise cool futuristic shit to like everyday people you know like he wants to be the person who like allows you to drive your car without touching anything you know he doesn't he's not in it

for the helping people who weren't able to walk before like that just doesn't fit I always knew it was ridiculous but when you frame it so plainly, it's really sad. We fixed cars. You can drive in them.

Same size and same disturbance. But you don't have to touch anything. You can be on your phone. Jan thinks it's not going to be a scary dystopian technology. It's all about replacing video game controllers, like NVR helmets so that you can just like close your eyes and have a VR experience. So the Pentagon is like,

hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Last month, Elon Musk did an interview with the Babylon B.

Oh, yeah. The website that's like the onion. If it wasn't funny and run by right-wing hacks, but Elon Musk is a fan, not surprisingly. Oh. And so he did an interview with them and specifically hyped Neuralink

as a virtual reality alternative to the metaverse. So again, the metaverse, the most underwhelming new tech development I think we've ever seen as a as an america like nobody's ever been like all right everybody get ready and then like the thing they're revealing is something that was like old seven years ago but that like even even with the segue when people are like this is gonna change everything

like it would have if people if it didn't look so stupid and people were willing to adopt it as much as they wanted them to

but it's not like it was like alright everybody like get ready and then the thing they were like revealing

was the escalator you know side note Babylon B Babylon Middle East that's And the thing they were like revealing was the escalator. Side note, Babylon B, Babylon, Middle East. That's Muslim. Claiming it. Creeping Sharia. Tally.

Yeah, there it is. Got to the bottom. I found my way. Anyways, fuck Elon Musk is the moral of the story well zara as always truly truly a pleasure having you on tdz such a pleasure to be here and you are throwing your hands up in victory which i appreciate and a peck stretch okay get it out yeah where can people find you and follow you yo i'm putting up some workshops you can come work with me folks uh they're gonna be up everywhere that you can follow me at zara comedy zara z-a-h-r-a comedy.com

tuesday nights thursday nights saturday nights i've got different workshops going on in stand-up solo and uh what's that other one I do? Storytelling. Oh, just storytelling. Just storytelling. The number one language of the human soul. Yeah. Oh. Just that. Brain brag.

Is there a tweet or some of the work of social media you've been enjoying? Yes, there is. And I'm glad you asked, Jack. Okay. Here it is. My favorite tweet comes last night via the guardian fight club gets a new ending in china and the authorities win oh yeah that's did you see this actually yes it's so wild how the it just ends with a card

it's just a card that says, with typing in white font, Through the clue provided by Tyler, the police rapidly figured out the whole plan and arrested all criminals, successfully preventing the bomb from exploding. After the trial, Tyler was sent to a lunatic asylum receiving psychological treatment. He was discharged from the hospital in 2012. The end. It's done. 2012. He's out, Tyler. Wow. I mean, that's a better ending, right? psychological treatment he was discharged from the hospital in 2012 the end it's done 2012 he's out tyler wow i mean that's a better ending right that's pretty good it's all up there that's pretty you don't see them looking out the window with the buildings exploding it's just

and boom hey tyler went to jail but he's out don't worry yeah where do they cut it off like do they even reveal that he yeah i guess because tyler and. Where do they cut it off? Like, do they even reveal that he. Yeah, I guess because Tyler. Yeah. Yeah. They cut it off. As a. The explosions are cut out. That's what happens.

Like the explosions. Yeah. You don't see. You don't. You don't get to see Marla and, you know, Ed Norton be like. As a. As an Iranian. Exploding buildings are cute.

Familiar with the South War weaponry. I appreciate the sufficiency. You know, in the United States, we go all out with our fake endings and our Disney history. We really give it a lot of money, millions and millions of dollars. And this is just, this is fast. It's clear. Just lop it right off. Memable. Boom.

Beautiful. Miles, where can people find you? What's a tweet you've been enjoying? Find me on Twitter and Instagram at milesofgray. And also, if you like reality shows like 90 Day or Married at First Sight, check out 420 Day Fiance with myself and Sophia Alexandra. Some tweets I like. First one's from Molly Lambert. sophia alexandra uh some tweets i like first one's from molly lambert at molly lambert the valley homie tweeted we've got to be so close to an entourage reboot and i feel like it's so it would

be so terrible because the show like can't exist anymore but feasible because the lack of creativity from people just like green lighting projects like yeah yeah yeah let's check back in with the boys see there's gotta be like a mathematical equation that's related to both like how popular the show was and how little the cast is currently doing like right elsewhere in their career and i feel like that ticks the boxes and then another one is from ben collins uh who is at one underscore and then an underscore. Very clever tweet. He just tweeted, not sure what to even say. And he's basically quote tweeting Cheryl Hines, who she came out with a statement where she said, my husband's opinions are not a reflection of my own.

While we love each other, we differ. We differ on many current issues. And in his quote tweet, he said, here's Cheryl Hines commenting on her husband, RFK Jr.'s comparison between anti-vaxxers and Jewss in world war ii cheryl hines replies to this and said i assure you that's not what i was commenting on and he's like huh and then someone else quote tweets her replies and he's like you know we can see the replies that you know this right because someone said in another like another tweet they they tagged her and said you need to make a statement and she said the other thing of like

while we love each other we differ on many other topics and then cheryl hynde says yeah i know you can see so you can see what i'm replying to right nothing about world war ii and he's like when do you think the holocaust Like, what is this? And then she posted some other thing today that was like, you know, what he said is like absolutely unacceptable. We're not even acceptable. It just basically said, yeah, I'm fine with him fucking like being flippant about the Holocaust. That's why our marriage works. Right. Is what it seemed to.

Yeah. Seemed to. Yeah. Power couple. Power cuckold. There you go. Letem to. Yeah. Power couple. Power cuckold. There you go. Let's see. Some tweets I've been enjoying.

Heartbreaker, B-R-E-C-H-E-R, tweeted, Catch me in the CVS buying an ungodly amount of Valentine's candy and chocolate and saying it's for my classroom. It's just a good life hack. That's what I will be doing this year oh and then jenny hogan just asked is tv getting better or is literally every doing literally anything else getting worse something you gotta ask yourself deep thoughts you can find me on twitter at jack underscore o'brien you can find us on twitter at daily zeitgeist we're at the daily zeitgeist on instagram and we have a facebook fan page and a website dailyzeitgeist.com where we post our episodes and our footnotes

we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode as well as a song that we think you might enjoy miles what song do we think people might enjoy um we're gonna go out on this like dancey disco track that i just heard like the an algorithm just said hey check this track out you might like it uh by a group called candido and the track is called thousand fingered man and it's just got this is a really danceable track i know yeah eyebrows are raised when you hear the thousand fingered man but it's actually a fun track so uh weird title aside just you know, put the honey in your hips and just let it move you

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