The Daily Zeitgeist - GOP AI HULK SMASH, Sorry 4 Cat Lady Comments 06.16.26

Episode Date: June 16, 2026

In episode 2075, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian, co-author of Muddy Waters Too, and co-host of Troll Hole, Ben Katzner, to discuss… Mike Rogers LOVES AI, Some MAGA Backpedaling To Start The Week, The Kennedy Center’s De-Trumping Inspires Watch Parties, The Office Too Offensive?? Pentagon Hopes Flying Potatoes Will Distract Everybody and more! Mike Rogers on viral AI-enhanced image of himself put out by a staffer: "We may need in the Hulk in the Senate to get us back ... we need a superhero" The campaign of Trump-endorsed Senate candidate Mike Rogers posted this AI slop video to promote their candidate Vance calls his ‘childless cat ladies’ comment ‘one of the dumbest things I ever said’ Trump's name removed from Kennedy Center after court order Trump name stripped from Kennedy Center after court ruling, rain delay 50,000 people watching livestream of workers preparing to strip Trump's name from Kennedy Center The Office Too Offensive?? Pentagon UFO files include video recreations of UFO sightings New stunning UFO-related videos released by Pentagon. Mystery Potato Hovering Over Colorado Is Reported in Latest U.F.O. Files Jack's Piece of Media: Knicks fan threw a banana into the crowd and it promptly came back to him LISTEN: Puedes Amarme by Grizz & Vick VaporsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ben Hello, Ben. What's going on? Wagwan. Got too much. Wattawan. I wanted to be part of it and I failed and I'm sorry. No, no.

That was great. That was great. You just get back from the islands? I'm stopping it right there because this is being recorded and I don't want to go to prison. No, I'm good. I'm fine. Everything's great. Okay, but I'm going to do mine.

That's cool with everybody. Everybody. Give me some space to just let it. Jack-Ly goes, whoa. Sean Paul. Tom Paul can do it. He pulls one long dread from behind his back. This is usually what I fuck my avatar dragon with.

I don't know what's more problematic. You grew a dreadlock to be like avatar or to be like a roster. Both I'd be like, yo, this bro grew an avatar dreadlock. Canceled, bro. The Navi, obviously. Are you wearing like a? Blue base right now? Nope. Uh-uh. No, it's just how I look.

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This week, it is Amelia Earhart. Mm-hmm. She hearted the air. she's a pilot you see nominate nominative determinism on cranked up to 11 that heart filled with air that heart was filled with air some say but yeah i think she's a fun example of like what it would be like if johnny knoxville was alive in the early 20th century yeah plus i mean plus like the most potent form of patriarchy where they're just like this lady was on an airplane Yes. The shit that is impressing people, like the basement level bar that they were impressed with a woman clearing at first.

And she was like, all right, well, I'm going to do some amazing shit. I'd hold my beers. Yes. Fuck. Oh, my God. It's so many beers. Anyways, it is Tuesday, June 16th, 2026. Tuesday, June 16th, 20206.

So what do you say? What's that day? again, it is National Fudge Day. It's also Arborist Appreciation Day. Shout to the people who've been trees out there. If you just look up at the trees around you, yeah, beautiful stuff happening. International Waterfall Day and World Sea Turtle Day.

Damn. I love a, I love a turtle, man. A beautiful, a beautiful series of days. Do you like turtles? Do turtles rank in your top house? Yeah, I love turtles. I think they're cool as fuck. Hell yeah, good, bro, good.

snorkeling off Hawaii and seeing a turtle was one of a, like, a big ass, like human-sized turtle. It was fucking magical experience. Those things are amazing. I almost saw when the little hatchlings take off into the ocean

where I was in Costa Rica, but I was like two days, like too early and I had to leave. And I was like, do you think they're going to come out? They're like, no, it's going to be in two days. I'm like, but is there like, like maybe they're preemies that are going to come out? And they're like, no, man,

we've been doing it. this for years. It's probably not going to happen early. I was like, shit. Still waiting for that. Still waiting for that. I was walking home drunk on a beach one time and almost tripped over. I was like, why are people like shining those red lights over there? And I almost tripped

over a sea turtle. That was coming to this. Coming to shore to give birth. Yeah. Fucked up big time. It was crazy, man. I was like, whoa. Because it's very dark. What is it? What is that?

Yeah. I feel like it's a sea turtle, you piece of shit. Get out of the way. Also, there is a 666 hidden in the date. Don't let the ones and twos distract you. Wow. This is the sign of the beast today. Oh, yeah.

Hell yeah, brother. You sound like a Christian DJ or something. Don't let the ones and twos distract you, kids. 666. Beasel, be it's a book. Keep your head on a swivel, kids, because he's out there. My name is Jack. Brian, aka. Jack Obie works in the podcast store, saving his money for saline.

Miles of gray, he left a note on the door. It said, come on, let's go to the clinic. I am pumping saline can give you a giant sack, sack, sack, sack, sack, sack. You ought to know by now. That one courtesy of Johnny Davis. Okay. Short show title, Spice. Also Saline Spice, the way he's been on a tear with these ball maxing a.k.a. I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Hey, it's Miles Gray, a.k. Sitting round, docking all day, watching the earth fade away. Just sitting here connecting our bones.

Neil Armstrong never leaves us alone. Shout out Starfiela for that one because of that unprecedented docking activities description of the space mission that completely derailed me. And I'm still apologizing. And I see it just reflected in the A.K.A.s. Thank you so much for the fucking unprecedented docking A.K.A.s that have showed up. And in this fictional universe of that A.k.a. These docking activities are in no way unprecedented.

And in fact, it sounds like Buzz Aldrin and Michael Kennedy were just trying to get away and dock with one another while Neil Armstrong. was being a busy body, you know what I'm doing? Yeah, yep, yep. Heard. Anyway, heard. Not the first time I've heard that story before.

Yeah, man. I saw Disclosure Day. Yeah, I get it. What if that was what they were disclosing? They weren't talking up there on the Apollo. It's just graphic footage. Miles were thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a very funny comedian podcaster, author, whose graphic novels include,

Hello, My Name is Poop, Muddy, Wage. waters two. He's the host of the troll hole podcast. His debut special, Supple Harlot, is out. Go watch it. Please welcome back to the show. It's Ben Kastner. Ben! What's up? National Fudge Day. You brought

the Fudge Lord back to the show. There he is. They call me Fudge Lord. I want you all to call me that as well, please. Well, thank you, Fudge Lord. Fudge Lord. Fudge Lord, I was going to ask you, what is the fuck is Fudge? You know, Fudge is that. that it's more of a, it's a lifestyle.

You know what I mean? Oh, a lot of people say it. Oh, so we're talking about different things. Okay. I don't think that's true at all. I meant the food, man. Yeah, I just bought my kids' fudge yesterday for the first time. And it's going to change how they live their life.

What is the difference because it's just like shitty chocolate is kind of how I always thought of it? No. Miles. Come on. What do you mean? Say that to the Fudge Lord? On this day of all this. But Fudge Lord is talking about a lifestyle.

We don't even talk about the food. I mean, that I'm just saying, Victor said what an L take. Every time I had it, I was like, just all shit all chewy, man. Just give me some chocolate. I feel like fudge on its own is not for me, but like, you know, you put a little fudge on some other stuff.

It's like a good, it's a collaborative food. You know what I mean? But I guess, yeah. How do you, when you say, Jack, what is fudge versus chocolate? What is the difference? When you're looking at chocolate fudge versus chocolate? So fudge is, can be any flavor, first of all.

miles. Sure. Okay. Okay. So not all fudge is chocolate. Okay. Not all chocolate is fudge. Thank you for being an ally, Jack.

We appreciate it. It's about texture, I think. Yeah. It's one of the most sugar-dense foods in existence, which is a thing that I'm a fan of. It's up there with the nerds rope and, you know, nerds gummy clusters, like in terms of sugar density. Were you eating, were you smashing those in the theater? No, I was smashing.

What candy did you have? What's it called? Sour Patch Kids. Oh. Oh. Yeah. Oh, sorry. Hold up.

Just real quick, we, you two went to a movie together and the fudge lord was didn't. The fudge lord was didn't. Did I miss him? Did I miss the invite or? We hadn't even thought about it because it was pre. Forgive us, Lord. You know. Fudge Lord, we ask you for your forgiveness.

I'm a humble. ruler. I know you are kind God. I want you to have fun. So it's okay. I am hurt, but I'm not going to, I'm not going to retaliate you. That's okay. And you know, Fudge Lord, I will, I will own my mistake. Fudge, Fudge is fine. We went and saw matinee of Disclosure Day. Oh, I'm so glad. And it was, it was early enough that I didn't feel like I could do a full nerds gummy clusters, you know, so I had to go healthy and eat Sour Patch kids. I debased myself with a large peach fanta. Yeah, you did.

I don't know why. I'm a cherry Coke guy, but for whatever reason, I was like, man, this alien movie got me feeling crazy right now. Let me just drink some peach phanta. Is that all? Did you get food or just the drink? Oh, yeah, yeah. Then I put more fake butter on my popcorn than is legally allowed by AMC and also ate some like Swedish gummy candies too. I love that for you.

This is good. He had earned it because he can't, he walked up. He walked up. He walked up to the theater like, looking like a NBA player from the 1960s. Love it. Like, just his legs looked absolutely. Yeah, legs and hips. This is before they used ice in the day.

Yeah, exactly. Before they do about ice. What do you do about the fact that you just played 82 games of basketball in dress shoes? Three beers a night. That will do it. They don't get you to sleep. Yep.

But yeah, Miles had done leg days. I was walking like, his legs were smoked. You got jelly. You brought your own jelly. You brought your own fudge. Yeah,

I was 96 Michael Jordan. Just like, just a little bit, a little bit of like swag trying to cover the fact that met your legs. Fuck, though. Anyways, uh,

it was a good time of the movies. Fudge is a, fudge is a very sugar dense. It's almost like between, chocolate, milk chocolate, and icing. It's like on a continuum between them. It's like, you know, dense enough that it's not, it's not going to fall apart. I just need the right chocolate in my life,

you know. The rice fudge, you know. We got some nice fudge at the Beverly Hill Library. It was the only library that was open yesterday. My kids were really wanting to go to the library and they have a, they have a fudge shop in there. In the fucking life? What? In the library. This library is next level library. Like one of the nicest libraries I've ever

been to? I mean, I can only imagine because like Beverly Hills, they'll be like, it's not for anyone except us. And here's our fun star. That's right. Oh, so you've been there. That's the greeting. I used to work right there at the, when I worked at Playboy, it was like in the dead heart of Beverly Hills. And every day, I always used to be like, I'm going to get, I'm going to like willingly get hit by a car in the crosswalk because no one follows the laws in Beverly Hills at all. It never worked out, though. Laws aren't for them. The laws are for. No, no, no, no. They're for people coming into Beverly Hills who don't live. Exactly. Exactly. Ben, we're thrilled to have you here. We're going to get to know you a little bit

better in a moment. First, we're going to tell the listeners a couple of things we're talking about today. We are going to check in with Mike Rogers. He's that super jacked candidate from Michigan who put out that picture of himself looking like the rock from 99. Yeah. I say that specifically because that's one of the rock with like 275. Yeah, yeah. Like huge. He's just like bulging through a suit in a way that's like almost impossible. to do, look at suit, looking painted on. And it turns out that is AI and he's doubling down and just making a superhero video about himself. So we'll talk about that. We'll do some mega backpedaling. We will look at the Trump name being taken off the Kennedy Center. We will ask the question,

is the office too edgy for the modern world? According to Rain Wilson, it is. I didn't know he was like he went on Fox news and was like, the way the left is today, you could never get away with the great stuff that we were doing. The checks are drying up, baby.

Yeah. They're not giving you the, your shit is on TBS all the time, bro. What's going on? And we'll also, well, I thought he was like a, like, hippie soul pancake yoga guy.

But I guess that's a, that's a slippery slope, you know? Those are a lot of the people who were like, I mean, I just, I'm not a vaccine skeptic. I just want to know what's in there. They can't tell me what I put in my body. A lot of those people then, you know, found their way on a slippery slide down to Fox News hell.

So we'll talk about that. We'll talk about the Pentagon trying to take care of, take advantage of Disclosure Day, by issuing a big dump of stunning UFO-related videos that are artistic, recreations of sightings. Oh, great. But, like, they just put it in a dump. We're like, yeah, some of these are by artists. Don't worry about it.

All of that plenty of more. But first, Ben, we do like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Okay, something from my search history that's revealing about who I am. Very recently, I was searching party all the time by Eddie Murphy. That's what I was looking into.

Because someone was asking me, They're like, hey, does Eddie Murphy ever do any other music besides this one song? Oh, yeah. He had three albums. He had so much music. He did a reggae album. He got so bored with music. He started doing reggae for some reason.

So I was trying to. That reminds me of my impression that I do. Should I do it again? Definitely do it again. Did that get cut out? All right, never mind. No, no, hit him with your patois. It's okay.

It's a safe space. We all love it. But yeah, that was my last search was talking about, trying just to educate the masses about our guy, our friend, friend of the show, Eddie Murphy. Sure, sure. Friend of the show. You sure you don't want to do that your character bit, Jack? Haitian Jack is what you called it, right?

Yeah, yeah. And you're like, sock passe. Yeah. It's a little taste. It's okay. I think I just, I've seen like tiny clips of Eddie Murphy of party all the time. I don't think I've seen any other of his music. Oh, the reggae stuff is terrifying.

It's tough. Yeah. He's a savant when it comes to comedy. He's a natural. He's one of the biggest stars. He created like a thing that didn't, maybe this is wrong to say, but didn't exist the way that existed with him. But he is not the best singer in the world. Yeah.

He's not the best reggae artist in the world. But he's a funny guy, and I like that for him. That's the thing. It's like so many comedians are naturally inclined to music, just generally. I feel like it's just like eight out of ten. I feel like comedians are going to be like, yeah, I dabbled or like, yeah, I would have liked to have been in a band. Because, you know, it's a timing thing.

But I just think with, yeah, with him, it's just like one of those things that you get so rich that you just kind of like, bro, I can do fucking anything. Yeah, he could have been way, like, think about what the rich guys now are doing. He did, it's fine. Hey, make another reggae album. That's right. Yeah, comparatively. Thank you for just making bad music and not way worse decisions.

I think it's totally fine. I'm okay with it. Yeah, he was definitely somebody who like had it had his own house like kind of compound type shit, right? Like he had his own world. Oh, like the peak of it wasn't named like Neverland or, you know. I don't know.

I know this is, but I remember Paisley Park, but. Actually, it was. It was Paisal. He just, he just bought Prince. He's like, I'm going to have that.

There was a, there was a bit recently. I saw Jamie Loftus post from whatever standup. Yeah. He saw that too. Yeah. When she first moved to L.A., she thought the Griffith Observatory was Eddie Murphy's house. Her roommate told her that.

Yeah, that was incredible. She felt that belief to like a few years ago. That rules. That's so funny. That's where Eddie Murphy lives. Wow. Whoa. It looks like an observatory.

Well, you just lets people go in and out? That's crazy. Yeah. That giant telescope pointing out of the top of the dome? He's really into the stars. then what's something you think's underrated. Okay, I'm going to throw out this. Something I think is underrated, it's a person, it's not something.

It's my friend, my friend Elliot Rahal, okay? He's a comic book creator. He just has a new book coming out. He's so funny. He's so great at what he does. And I don't think enough people know about him. We've worked together a little bit. And I think he's an incredible, his brain is insane and I love it.

It's perfect. So check him out. That's my underrated thing of the day is Elliot Ray Hall, he's got a bunch of cool comics. Check them out on Instagram. Check them out wherever. He's great. That's underrated.

Nice. I just got my eight-year-old, some like, Brian David, I forget the name of the, like, comic artist, but famous, like, comic artist, just like a series that they did. Because I, like, heard people talking about doing, like, being into, like, a series arc. So I'll, uh, I'll check it out for. Brian Michael Bendis. Do you think it might have been?

Right, that was what it was. Yeah. I was, I was in the library looking up Bendis. Just looking fudge off your fingers. Yeah. Yeah. It was a good one. Sir, please, you're getting fudge all over the books.

I'll pay for it. How much could it be? But yeah, like just having a compilation of, you know, a seven, seven episode run or whatever you call it. Yeah. I like the, I like the Omnibon. They're like the big, like, that's how I got into like the walking dad and all that stuff. Because it's hard. Stuff is expensive.

I understand. Like, I'm not going to be this guy where it's like, when I was a kid, a comic book was $2. A nickel. Okay. I was going to go $2. Well, that's how old I am. When I was a kid, I had to make the paper for my own books. Yeah.

But they are. Stuff is expensive. So if I'm going to spend money on it, I'd rather be like, give me as much as I can. Give me as much as you got right now. And I'll buy it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I used to do the Marvel subscription thing to catch up on stuff because I was such, I used to, like, up until I was like 14 was collecting comic books all the time. But there was a period where I was like, I had just gotten an iPad and I'm like, this is how I fucking get back into it without having a lot.

This is how I win. Elliot Ray Hall, E-L-I-O-T, R-A-H-A-L. Thank you for that, yes. Marvel, Archie, Vault Comics. So go check him out. Yeah, one of the best. One of the most underrated writers out there, check them out. Please.

Also, my neighbor, so he will hurt me if I don't. Yeah, USA. Who is that in the back behind you? No one hurts the Fudge Lord. I'm really trying to make Fudge Lord stick. I know. I think tomorrow I'm going to regret it. But it's a comic book.

No, there's a comic book there. There's a company. Sure, bro. It feels like for that plug, he owes you a Fudge Lord run. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You got to give me a good fucking back. story, man. I'm thinking some like early image comics shit. You know what I mean? Like you

would have been kicking it with trencher. My father was killed by a spatula. My mother was frosted. I'm the fudge lord. Something like that. We'll figure it out. What is something you think is overrated? Okay, I love that we were talking about Disclosure Day because I'm going to throw it a hot take here. I think Stephen Spielberg

movies, except for Jurassic Park, are overrated. All except Jurassic Park. Every single one of those is overrated. It doesn't hold up. Doesn't hold up. I'm sticking to the same.

I don't care. It doesn't hold up. It's so funny. Nah, shit doesn't hold up. I understand that a lot of people would say it's like one of the best movies of all time. I totally get that. But every single Steven Spielberg movie. If you're watching Jaws right now, are you scared?

I don't think so. Oh, you're saying because it not scary anymore? I mean, that's part of it. That was the big appeal, right? It was like it was scary and it was this big thing. And if you're a real film buff, you're like, there's a lot of layers to it. But most of us are dumb people like me who saw Disclosure Day and almost fist spot someone behind me because the movie was so bad and they were annoying. And then I just had a whole thing.

So maybe the movie going experience might be the overrated thing. But I saw Disclosure Day at 1030 on a Tuesday. I thought it would be, wait, I saw it 1030 on a Saturday. And I thought the theater was mostly empty. The movie felt very empty. to me, first and foremost. But luckily, when I didn't enjoy the movie, there was one

man behind me explaining what was going on, scene by scene, to the woman who was vaping in the movie theater next to him. So I can't tell if I didn't like the movie or I just hate humanity. I blame Spielberg for that, actually. Why would he put those people in the theater?

They were plants. They were Steve's super plants. But I will say, Jurassic Park was on TV the other day, and I watched that. And I go, this still holds up. This still brings up fear. The animatronics or whatever look good. The acting is fun. I like Jurassic Park is a borderline perfect film to me.

Wow. I don't know. I don't know about some of these other ones. Did you see it? When did you first see Jurassic Park? I think I first saw it when it came out. Did it come on in 96? 93.

93. Oh, man. I must have been single digits. 93. So I think single digits is like. Yeah, because that's why I saw Jaws like too young. I never, never felt fear around. Dude, I saw that shit too young, man.

Yeah, man. It wasn't about the fear. It was about the fucking thrill, man. So, yeah, what do you like about, what do you like about Jaws? What am I missing about Jaws? Mainly that it's the best movie that's ever been made. Also, no one's ever asked him this man. And for that reason, I'm out.

That's too much for me. I don't like it. No, I just, I think it's definitely one of those. things where it's affected by the fact that I saw it at a very young age. And it is like my first experience with movie magic. I watched it a hundred times. And now it's just like, it's probably like fairly similar to hypnosis, you know, like what, what happens with hypnosis where it just like takes you to a place like that is very relaxing. Like a liminal space. Yeah, like a liminal space that, you know, it's a powerful tool movies when they're, when they're well made and when you've experienced

them a bunch of times. But I also watched it for the first time last year, having not seen it for a long time. And I think it like fucking moves incredibly quick. There's like no wasted time. And it just... Okay. So you're saying I should rewatch it before I have the

world's worst take on the movies. I think people just... I love that people have the ability to you know, disagree. You like, which I've just found myself, like, I used to be really a pin, not a pin, I was just like really analytical when I watched movies. And then I just sort of was like, man, everything kind of basically sucks most of the time.

So I'm now just like, given that reality, I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like most of the time I come out and move, I'm like, yeah, yeah, whatever. Isn't that crazy? Isn't that like, like, when I was younger, it was like, you go to a movie. It's the whole thing. You're getting obviously the popcorn and the food, whatever. And you're like, this is my weekend. This is my week.

I've been waiting so long for this. I go and just, I went into Disclosure Day. I can't be mad at any one about myself. I looked at the trailer. I'm like, I'm not going to like. I'm not going to like this. I already know what it is. And it's made for me.

I love all this stuff. I love aliens. I love sci-fi movies. I love all this stuff. But I was like, I can tell this movie is not for me. I just didn't think I knew the depth of how not for me. How not for you was.

I will say that I think being into aliens and like read in on like some of the disclosure stuff has and not in an official capacity. Just like having done internet research on this. I know. I think you said it read in like you're fucking. Yeah, yeah. I made that sound like very official. Just like knowing some stuff. Like I feel like that gave me my own idea of like how they should handle this.

And so like that probably made it not as much for me as other people. But I still thought it was all right. You know, as I was explaining to my wife at the movies behind you. She would stop vaping. Yeah. He's going to go outside. He shouldn't go outside. But he's about to go outside.

I told you he goes outside. I told you. I was like, you got to be. It was, I'm too old to be getting a fights in movie theaters, but it was about to happen. And I really, I felt my adrenaline. That was the most exciting part of the movie is that I was going to fight the guy behind. Yeah. Was it the fact that the person was talking or it's that kind, the type of person is particularly irritating?

This is a good question. You know what I mean? I'm okay with you, you know, if you go, oh, shit. Or like, you know, you're laughing. Like, it's a communal experience. I like movies alone, but we're supposed to be communal. We're supposed to enjoy. I'm right. It was the combination of literally commenting on every single thing as it's happening.

Yeah. Yeah. And then being the type of person to be like, I told you, but I'm like, you didn't predict the future. Yeah. So you're more like, you're staring at the same. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, and it was told you on a plot. It's so bad. It's crazy. And it was just loud enough where it only really bothered me. Yeah. And I could tell they were, they really, they probably weren't bad people. But like, I could tell that they just didn't realize. how loud they were. So I just was like, hey, can, can, I, I did this, okay? I go, hey, can you all chill? Can you just chill a little bit? And then the guy turned and he goes, what? I was like, oh, yeah, yeah.

And I, then I made, I had a choice to make to be like, well, am I going to have my back turn to a man who hates me for the next 45 minutes of a movie that's 45 minutes too long? Or am I going to, like, get up and leave? And begrudgingly, I watched the movie I didn't like because I didn't want to give this guy the satisfaction making him thick he made me. I can just imagine, he goes, yeah, that's Korean. Watch, watch.

See, I told you. It's Korean. Yeah, that's Russian, for sure. Yeah, see. Yep. Yeah, that was Russian. Yeah, I don't like having someone behind me who I think might punch me in the head at any second. I used to have somebody who slapped me in the back of the head in middle school in Kentucky.

Oh, no. And like, I remember that feeling where you can just like almost like feel them hitting you before they do. Yeah. you're predicting, like, here it comes, here comes, here comes. Here we go, here we go. Are you a person? What's up? Slack Jack?

Slapjack. My right eye starts twitching. Are you a person that like goes, okay, if this happens, then I'm going to do this or like, this is a question for both of you. But like, so I'm sitting there, I'm like, all right, if he doesn't respond to my asking them to be quiet, what am I going to do? And I decided that I was like, okay, you're going to ruin the movie for me. I'm just going to stand up and block the screen for you.

That's what I decided I was going to do. Betty is fuck. I'm just going to stand. Well, this is how we're watching this now. We didn't do this, but this was what was in my heart. Okay. So, like, he got a little fired up at first, but then went back to, they got quiet. It was great.

Now, do you two do that? Do you have like, okay, if this happens, I'm going to escalate this way. Oh, yeah, you got to. Am I crazy? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And it's always so stupid, my plan.

There's a sequence of combat that always has to be for thought. for planned. If I learned anything from the art of war. It's what I think of when I'm in a movie theater and someone's talking. As you should, yes. But I think the thing, in that instance, the version I wouldn't be to stand up, I would start negating what he's saying. No, that's not true.

Oh, that's good. Because that's the thing that's the most potent to him. Like I go, I'm like, what is the currency to you? The currency to you is to be right to this lady. Yeah. So if I go, no, I'm sorry, he's lying. That's totally inaccurate. And be like, what?

No. I'm like, dude, I'm just trying to help you out, man. Like, you're lying. You're going to look so foolish. You're going to look. That's so good. Bro, you're humiliating yourself in front of this person, man. I'm just trying to help you out, dude.

Anyway, this is a cool scene, right? Yeah, yeah. Because if the movie, whenever I'm coming up with my plan, I just text Miles, say, how do we get this person? And I go, all right, Jack, let's go through the process. What's the currency to them? And how do you invert the value of that currency to them in a social setting? I think I'm just going to start crying. Actually, yeah.

I think I'm just, actually, I'll be right back. Someone pissed all over my seat again. Damn it, I always choose the wrong ones. Does you guys have, does you guys see that piss on it? Just mine? This is crazy. Hey, man, you might get up? No, all right, so there's none on yours.

That's crazy. That is so weird. Wow. I think this guy pissed my pants. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. Pride is like love. You feel it in your heart.

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Yeah, yeah. He's been in the shadows. He's a former congressman. Yeah. And now a candidate, a candidate for the Senate. And I, A, did not know who he was before he started putting out pictures of himself looking like the rock. And then secondly, so I watched.

I looked at the picture last week when we covered it, where he is just like bulging through his suit. And then I laughed at it and was like, oh my God, I can't believe that. And then watched this new AI video they put out where he's like, full on slop. Yeah, like full on AI slop,

whereas like bodies like moving in weird ways, he's like a superhero. It's the same jacked version of him, but he's like can fly, but like the way he flies is like almost like a bad dream where you can fly, but you can't like really move very fast. Right, right, right.

It's like, you're like kind of floating a little bit. His version of a superhero dream is like, I'm kind of potent, but none of the stuff I'm doing makes sense physically. Like I stopped a car, but then it lifted me in the air. I slide into first base like I'm Pete Rose, and then I help a floppy building go upright.

There's just like a ton of this weird shit where it's just like him being strong for no reason and it makes no sense. He's like, well, I'm just going to rip out this random light, pole and people are going to run. It's not very hero-like. It's again, the first thing that people saw was this whole thing of like, why the fuck is there this jacked photo of him being posted? And then clearly, he's like, no, this is good because this video has made me every 63-year-old man's dream. And also,

the manner in which he's being so heroic in these like AI videos, I think proves to the world that he is able to achieve and maintain powerful erections without any pharmaceutical intervention. And so his explanation of the video is kind of just as fucking dumb. We couldn't really play the video, like, even for the sound because it's playing, I need a hero. The whole time, it's like so annoying. But he spoke to Kaylee McEnarney, the former press secretary from the first administration on her Fox show about like, what's up with this AI stuff, huh?

Like, acting like it's neat. And his explanation is, it's a, it's a. about as vapid and empty as like when they ask an NFL coach like at half time what his team needs to do in the second half. So this is the back and forth explanation of like, it's why I'm flucking with AI personally. Ask you about this. There was this viral. I'm not going to call it a scandal because it wasn't a scandal, but it was you looking very buff and everyone went nuts and this went viral. And then your campaign put out this. I just want to say in the behind him in the background looks like like these inanimate

NPC men who are just standing there. I just clocked that. It's very odd in the background. These guys like aviators not moving. Yeah, not moving. Yeah, looking in the middle distance. But okay, here we go. Let's hear it, Mike. Image of you as a superhero. I mean, have you been pumping the iron? What's going on? Well, my wife says I have six months to look like that AI generated picture. So I'm working on it. I'm

getting up earlier every day to work on that. But what started out is kind of a funny thing that one of our folks put out there. It just took off. And you know why? Michigan's ready for a fighter. Matter of fact, we may need the Hulk in the Senate to get us back. So we're going to smash high prices. We're going to smash high regulations and burdensome regulations. And we're going to make sure that the Democrats take a hiatus from Michigan for all the damage that they've done. We need a superhero back there. That's like, seriously, he really sounds, it sounds like some sports top. Yeah.

You know what I mean? Because I mean, obviously the horse racification of politics is like that. But he's like, we're going to get in there. We need to smash the inflation. Just like the most non-answer bullshit.

Yeah. And also like, I think he probably misunderstood his wife. I think she was like, I think you have six months left to live. He's like, I'm working out every day. I'm every day.

No, no, no, that's the problem. Don't. Your doctor said you cannot handle workouts like that. I got to look like this fucking guy. I still was like struck when I find. So we made fun of the AI last week, watched the AI video this week.

I was half expecting him. Like there's a part of my brain that was like, this guy's going to be jacked when I saw him in the interview. So it works. It works. He should be wearing like a Mr. Incredible type suit under his shirt. Oh,

that's like exactly. How close are we to that? That's a good question. I feel like that's on the horizon. If men are already wearing shirt. shoes that are three sizes too big for them. So they're not emasculated in front of Donald Trump. Someone's got to pull up in a goose suit.

You might as well. What's the, like he doesn't care of people take them seriously. Yeah, right. That's obvious. So you must have fun with it. And it's proven that there's like all these people who don't really care who are like, I'm going to vote for the person who make me laugh or like says crazy shit or whatever.

So you might as well, if you're trying to win, he's that guy. But his, his platform is, I'm going to kill you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think it's a joke, probably. It's a bit or something. I'm going to vote for him, though. But like the idea, he's like, we're going to, honestly, we might need to have fucking Hulk to like smash inflation.

I'm going to shut the fuck. We need fucking politicians who can, like, properly attribute the cause of rising prices to corporate greed and not just use like corporate propaganda speak to like raise the specter of inflation. Someone's got to do some amount. I think he said regulations, right? Wasn't he like kind of inflation and regulation? Yeah. You got to grab a bit of those regulations.

That's definitely what we've seen is that once you let the corporations do what they want to do, everything's going to go. They need less restraint, folks. Yeah. If you're going to make an AI video, if he's going to make an AI video, which, you know, obviously I'm against whatever this sucks. But if you're going to do it, you should make an AI video of the Hulk in government. I want to see what that's like. Not Bruce Banner. I want to see the Hulk being like, objection.

I don't know what they do in government. Mr. Banner goes to Washington. Objection, Your Honor. He's just like in like a nice suit. He's trying to go. It's Jimmy Stewart's voice, though, because you're like, do like Mr. Banner goes to Washington

mashup. They're crazy. I'm going to bust from inflation. Oh, it's inflation. Oh, my. Oh, Mary. Oh, no boss. It definitely needs to be sexual at the end.

Yeah. That wasn't sexual. That's just. He says a wonderful life. He says that. He starts saying that in the middle of this wonderful life. I'm going to bust. If I don't get out of town, I'm going to bust.

You're like, yo, relax, bro. You can get arrested. Buffalo gals, won't you come out tonight? Come out tonight. Oh, this is what they're doing, Your Honor. This is transgender for everybody. Should we talk about some mega backpedaling? Just some light backpedaling.

Light backpedaling from Dana White. Yeah. White? Just two moments of MAGA back. This is the first one from Dana White. Obviously, he was the spearheading the whole UFC White House Farse birthday party circus. That lasted well past 1 a.m. I don't think we mentioned that in the trending episode.

Oh, really? Delays, bro. Yeah, they're fucking fighting. I was waiting for, like, people to talk about what happened or, like, you know, how weird it was. Yeah, there's a few articles about that now. It's just mostly like everything is just kind of like, yeah, it's. just odd. Yeah, they just came in super late.

Like, 10 o'clock Pacific. There is the one, I don't know if I might have missed this. There was the one guy who said something insane about Michelle Obama. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was Josh Hokka. Yeah, so that's why Dana White is talking now. Okay, okay, okay. Because while there's many things being written, I feel like that seems to be the biggest

headline was when after that guy, Josh Hokit won his fight. It was like, Michelle Obama's a man, my right America? and Dana White decided to do his best, I guess, impression of someone condemning another person's comments because it didn't quite get there. But I think because there was so much outrage, like even Dave Portnoy is like, this is not good. Shane Gillis wasn't a fan. They're like, Dana White, dude, what the fuck's going on? He said, quote, I understand that the Obamas are public figures, but I'm completely against saying nasty and false things about people's families. this is what he told Time Magazine via text message.

Very professionally said, quote, everyone knows my position on free speech, but I hate that kind of nonsense. What kind of nonsense? Is it transphobia? What specifically about it? What are we saying here? Is it racism?

What is it? I don't think so. Yeah, because clearly, I mean, if you saw the fights, like everything was like, this white guy is going to beat this black guy or this white guy is going to, this white American will beat this foreigner,

except for the Brazilian guy that won. So it felt very like coordinated in that sense, like intentional in terms of like what the outcomes were going to be from the fights. But again, are any of these fights rigged? Yeah. I know you'll shoot me straight, Dana. Yeah. I know. I'm surprised Eric Trump.

He's in as Dana White. He's like, hey man, which one of these are rigged, bro? Just like, and Daddy won't give me any more money. So I got to start fucking making money on CalShia. There's got to be a sure thing. But like if it's, because it's definitely not transphobia because his all of his comments around trans, trans people are. are like a fucking Trump speech where he's like, he's like, young girls need to be protected from men competing in their sports,

um, or the like. So I don't know where what that is, but that was his sort of, uh, boilerplate pretendo condemnation of those comments. And then, uh,

the other person doing some backpedaling is J.D. Vance. Our favorite, our favorite bandwagon Catholic, who's not being subtle at all about a presidential run. And also since we're talking about Catholics, He was just shown to be very unpopular with, as I call him, the Licks. And I'm not talking about...

You do call us that. I'm not talking about the hip-hop group with Tash, okay? I'm talking about the Catholics. He has a minus 12 favorability among Catholics, whereas the Pope is like a plus 57. So anyway, he's peddling his book right now. Plus 57. That's a plus 57 on up to a verse on minus 12 because the Pope. We love him, don't we folks?

We love the Pope. Oh, also his brother. The MAGA brother was at the fight, the UFC fight. Katie Vance's? No, no, Pope Leo. Yeah, yeah, yeah. His Chicago MAGA brother was at the fight. How did I not know until right now that he had a brother?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Who's like a big, like, that's the one they keep being like, what do you think about your brother, the Pope being like, people who believe in Christ shouldn't promote war? And he's like, yeah, I don't know, man. He's like, I don't know, man. He's freaking mixed up, bro. What are you going to do?

So the... He's scared of the woke mafia. Yeah, exactly. bro. You thought the Vatican was bad, bro. So Vance is now doing a bit of a mea culpa around his infamous cat lady comments from his Senate campaign in

2021, but had been like recycled in 2024. That was 2021? Yeah, and it came out like during the presidential run. They're like, this is how this guy talks about like anyone, just so you know. Like this is his sort of rhetoric. But in his book, again,

which he's peddling hard right now, quote, one of the dumbest things I ever said came when I argued that childless cat ladies across the Democrat party were running our country into the ground the comment caused two firestorms the first when I made it the second years later during a political campaign

it was a boneheaded comment intentionally and successfully provocative rather than illuminated so I guess the closest he's getting is like I was really boneheaded for that one yeah it sounds that's a great JD Vance by the way It does sound like his only regret is that it was like strategically not a smart move.

It didn't actually work out for me. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. And that I saw consequences. And I don't like consequences. No, no, no. As a white man, I'm not familiar with consequences.

Yeah. Don't like the feeling. I like to just shirk into void. But yeah, oddly enough, before he had a book to pedal and before he was out there clearly running for president, He said he had no regrets about that shit. Yeah. Because he said, quote, I have a lot of regrets. This was in August of 2024.

But making a joke three years ago is not at the top 10 of the list. He is crushed to the clown. Hey, you got any stain cleaner for that couch in your green room? I'm all right. I feel like these guys are making the mistake of trying to be liked and not trying to avoid prison after they're done. Yeah, sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's everyone again.

everyone's trying to figure out their exit positions for this administration to try and remain intact when inevitably the Trump regime ends on some way or the other. Yeah. Because they're all just, it's just like, it's not going to be that scene in a fucking dark night or whatever when he just smashes that pool queue in half. And he's like, all right, bro, whoever makes it out of here. Yes. You guys will make it. But pretty much everyone, if you don't, you're kind of screwed. So you're either going to, you're either going to do it financially to insulate yourself from,

from any kind of consequences or rhetorically so then you can you can portray yourself as a reasonable actor when you try and get a seat at the table. And I'm sure the Democrats will be totally willing to let you back in because guys, we've got to move forward. Yeah. My big annoyance is that we won't actually have as many people in jail as I'd want. But some of these guys are going to get gut. You know what I mean? There's going to be a few very low level. Yeah, right, right. It's always going to be like the least consequence

so people get caught up. Yeah. They're going to do like community service. You're going to see them on the side of a highway being like, oh, please don't throw bottles at me. I'm like, this bottle is filled with piss and you deserve this. You're like, right, right. That's very soft.

It's made of plastic. Yeah. It's fine. It's biodegradable. Yeah. It's actually fine. It's actually, it vaporizes upon impact. So that's fine.

It's a water balloon. It's a piss balloon. Okay. I have very acidic urine. Anyway. It's really, we're at a point where we're just having to kind of sift through to find our wins. And we got one over the weekend when the Kennedy Center was dethrumped. And people had a watch party outside of the Kennedy Center as his name was removed from the

outside. There was some weather. It was supposed to be removed on Friday. And they had to wait until Saturday due to some weather. Right. You don't hear the Weather Channel talking about that. Yeah. Yep. It was such a funny thing. People are like, yes, they're going to take his name. I'm like, there's so many bigger problems than just removing metal letters from the side of a building. No, for sure. The MSNVC people need watch parties

just like Knicks fans. I was going to say, my question is, did the D-Trumping watch parties get as rowdy as the Knicks watch parties, right? Were there fights? Were people tearing down street signs and hitting people with them?

Yeah, yeah. I want the footage of that. They flipped a cab. Yeah, yeah, it's crazy. Put Elmo's head on a pike. There was a 76-year-old white woman who climbed a streetlight and was just fucking doing stunts off of it. Yeah, but watching a construction crew systematically dismantle theater signage sounds incredibly boring, but people were there for it. Yeah, yeah.

Also a giant rainbow just so popped up on the horizon. So I think we know whose side the Lucky Charms Lepricon is on. That sounds like saying, you, Pope Lee. for that one. That sounds like some 2017 Democrat shit. I know. Yeah, yeah. It's like a rainbow emerged and that's when we knew we were on the side of truth. Everything, you know, it's all coming together. Give me $5 to run for re-election. Yes. I saw a rainbow. The Kennedy Center, sorry. I just keeps thinking that the Kennedy Center script writers have lost the plot. You know what I mean? Like they're they have the NBA script writers,

they have the NFL script writers. These guys are like, what if the name comes down and then a rainbow comes over and like, yeah, sure, sure. People are going to see it in the Matrix. You can't keep doing it like this. Yeah, right, right, right. Too much. This is like too obviously true. And then what if like one of the crew members who's taking the letters off, like his work shirt kind of goes down and he has a white rabbit

tattoo on his shoulder. Oh. No, you keep doing stuff from the Matrix, man. That's in the Matrix. Yeah. All right, all right. It's homage. It's okay. This, okay, this guy who's working, his name is Cypher. Okay. And they're having a bowl of tasty wheat.

before they go to work. I like it. Yeah, yeah. Cut to a woman in the crowd with a MAGA hat going, no, like this. No, like this. All right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back.

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Yeah. Didn't seem to do much. And now he's on Fox News being like, we could never make the office today because of woke police. So, yeah. He's got the goate mustache combo. Yeah. Okay, he knew what he was doing. He's looking like some, like if, if Gavin McInnis was a neglected Barbie doll.

Yeah. After years of neglect, it would kind of look like this version of rainbows. Okay, let's, but let's hear it from Dwiggett himself. I do feel like you couldn't make the office today. I think that would be too hard to be as politically incorrect as the, the show was. It's not just because someone already made the office. Towards more what we call liberal policies.

They're willing to overlook the Platner Nazi tattoo, but if it was someone from the other side that had a tattoo that was questionable, they would be all over. Oh, interesting. So it's the hypocrisy that gets me the most. It's the hypocrisy of like both sides need to have kind of equal standards of behavior. Wow. Yeah, he's broke, boy. You are really good.

I mean, it's interesting because a lot of people from the show have said some version of this. Like, especially after in 2020, when people were like, you know, there's some weird shit about black people too in that show too. That was just sort of like, and at the time, I remember watching a show and really like enjoying it because my media analysis was more in the place of like, or even comment. at the time was more like, it's interesting because you're laughing at a racist. You're laughing at a misogynistic person. But then when you're really thinking about it, you're like, but you're also still kind of being like, you're also sort of giving it a way to be like, it's benign, man, when you mark an Asian woman's arm with a marker so you can tell which one she is from the other one.

That was the Benihana Christmas special episode. And I was like, I remember at the time of laughing, but that version of like laughter I used to do when people would say, racist shit, but I didn't know I could fucking really say some shit back. And you just had to go with it. And you're like, oh, fuck, bro, you really did that shit. Inside I'm like, what the fuck? Like, just this fucked up kind of the thing. In September of 2025, Rain Wilson said, he said, he brings up the Benihana Christmas episode even.

And he said, and it's a tricky conversation. It's like they're clueless. And in their cluelessness, they're racist and insensitive. And they're always saying the wrong thing. And that's Michael Dwight and Andy and Kevin, for that matter. He's talking, you know, Brian Baumgart's Cartagher. So it's a show based around clueless and sensitive, racist, sexist people that kind of mirrors the United States in a lot of ways. So it's interesting how he like shapeshifts this take based on who he's talking to.

So in CNN, he's sort of being aware of that take. But then with Fox, he's like, there's no way you could do this. And also like the left, the Democrats have a problem too. And you're like, what the fuck? I like that he's talking about Nazi tattoos. on the, like, having to come up with a hypothetical where someone who's important on the MAGA movement has a Nazi tattoo. Right.

The head of the Department of Defense has a Nazi tattoo. Those are white supremacist crusader tattoos that are alive. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's what they're going to fucking, that's exactly what he'd say. Yeah. But he's, yeah, it's interesting because he just, he says it goes pretty, definitely goes pretty far off if you dig deep. Could it happen a day?

I think it would have to be very, very different if it were made in this environment. that's just not true. I just don't, no one agrees with that. Also, didn't they just remake the office? I don't know if anyone, or like,

what's the paper? Has anyone watched the paper? I watched the first episode. That's the one with, what's, Donagall's son, isn't it in there? I'm going to say yes.

Brian with the Gleeson kid. Anyway. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry to leave you hanging like that. I know nothing about it other than it exists. Yeah, yeah. And I have to imagine it's roughly the same. kind of dominal dominal glisans is it brandon gleason's kid is brandon oh brendingleens's kid

oh ben oh dominole i didn't realize he was brending gleason's yes he is but it's funny i think i probably learned that before on the show and just forgotten that wait sorry what we're saying like something it's just funny to be like this could never exist again today and it's like i think it does actually yeah and it's been pointed out also that like yeah other shows that are more offensive still exist and are perfectly, and they're thriving, honestly. Yeah, it could, but also like sunny and like South Park and shows like that. Yeah, the kind of humor could be just at a different level than it is back then. And it's just like, because back then it would be like, yo, that the guy said something racist.

Oh my God. Ha, ha, ha, ha. That guy's racist. And that's weird that he said that versus like getting a few layers deeper into the actual humor of something and finding a way to skewer of that. It's not like you can't avoid talking about racist. just ignorant people in a way that's palatable in 2026. But again, it's like, it's got just got that weird, lazy edge lord analysis of like,

everyone's all fucked up and sensitive. It's like, no, man. It's just like we can do a lot better with our, like, what we consider humor and how we go about doing that. Oh, there are offensive shows now? Well, then why aren't I in that? That's essentially his take. How much bigger does this beard have to be for you to want me again?

Oh, man, you need to look like a Confederate fucking. Pernal, bro, if you want to get it longer, okay? Get those mutton chops going, too. He's three interviews away from a Fox News comedy special. I feel it. I see what's happening. I see this all the time where it's just like you go down the path. You're like, well, if you guys like this, what if I strike, what if me and Rob Schneider

do a co-headlining stand-up comedy special for you? Right, right, right. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. He's just like, maybe Jim from the office being Mr. like CIA apologist. It's really, yeah. It's tough.

He's like CIA rebrander. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And then him and Steve Carell hanging out smelling, smelling espresso. Right. Yeah. Yeah. It's just like, because he's definitely like one of those people who like, like, I remember

he went on Belmar and he's like, I voted for every party. And you're like, okay. All right. Yeah, yeah. Wait, Rayne Wilson said that. Yeah, he's like, green, Republican, Democratic, a voted for. mom. I'm independent. I'm independent, man. I'm smart enough to know that if I say I'm a Republican, they're going to know I'm racist. Yeah. So instead, I'm a free thinker. Thank you.

It tends to think a lot of racist thoughts. Yeah. That's what's so free about my thinking. Right. This is who I am, dog. I don't know what you want for me. All right. What else we got? The Pentagon threw out some, they were like disclosure day. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we'll hop on that train too and dropped a bunch of files that I don't even know. Like, I guess they're distracting from the war in Iran, which was supposed to be a distraction from the Epstein files, which, so they're just, you know, just try and shit out, seeing what sticks. And then everything's a distraction from the cost of living. Yes.

The fact that we're in a recession, but they don't call it that because AI companies are doing okay. So line go up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not a recession. It's a recession for you, fam. I like the idea of me being on the show and not knowing any of these things. We're like, wait, what? What's going on?

The Epstein, what? What the hell? All right, I'll bite. What's Epstein files? Like the X-Files? X-Tine files? Oh, no. They tried to do some UFO, some X-Files on our ass and dropped some UFO files that, like,

would be really shocking if you didn't have the kind. that the files contained artistic recreations of alleged sightings. Wait, these are artistic. So they're not saying this is the actual video. They're like, we just made a video clip to look like what some. They're not even that impressive, to be honest. Bro, if I wanted to see a fucking artistic recreation,

I'd fucking watch unsolved mysteries. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. The fuck are we doing? This video sucks. What is this? I'm even looking at it looks like a pulsing sun in the middle of the night. Single light. Yeah.

So we're shitting on this, but I'm saying at least they're giving artist jobs. Okay, we have a lot of AI talk today. But this clearly was bad enough to not be AI. So I feel like somebody did that. That was human effort. Sure, sure. Yeah, they do really go out of their way to keep being like, we got a forensic sketch artist to help with the picture. You know, that shit's AI, bro.

Yeah, yeah. During his break at Burger King, he did this slow movement. type thing pushing in. We gave him 50 bucks. We're actually kind of for the people right now, so why are you mad at us? Yeah, he was actually showing, he actually made it before we asked him to as a video he made.

He was just showing his coworkers all the time, and we're like, yeah, we'll buy that. The weirdest story involved a 22, account from an Army intelligence officer and four members of his unit at Fort Carson in Colorado describing a jet-sized flying object resembling a non-symmetrical potato made of uneven panels. And then they had a forensic sketch artist whip up the picture in, I'm guessing, 30 seconds.

It really looks like they took a picture of a landscape and then scanned a, like put a Tick-Tac in their mouth for 30 seconds and then put it on the scanner. Yeah. I'm going to go ahead and say, that's a potato. They took a stock image up and just altered the course. What the fuck is this? That's a Chipotle burrito. Yeah, that looks like foil. That's so funny.

You can still see the lettuce on the sides. It's kind of crippling. Just coming out a little bit. Also, I just love the description. Yeah, non-symmetrical potato made of uneven panels. Like, that's a technical description in any kind of conceivable way. I think uneven potato, like a non-asimetric potato, you're like, yeah, I got it. With uneven panels.

But the panels weren't even even. Yeah, you already said it's an asymmetric potato. Potato's like already, it's all bumpy and shit. Yeah, yeah, I know. I know what a potato is. Yeah, but it's like as a, it was not like the same if you cut it in a half. So you're probably picturing symmetrical when I say potato. No, man.

Most potatoes are not symmetrical just for going about the pure math of it. Yeah, all right, I'm just saying, man. So you'd say you're thinking like smooth orb type thing. Can I kind of see what you got working? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The panels were way more uneven. Way more uneven. this thing was all fucked up.

Take that dollop of of cellar cream off the top. That's not supposed to do that. That's something else, actually. That's crazy. I don't do that. Also, yeah, yeah. The potatoes only come like that at Carl's Jr.

When you get the baked potato and the little thing with the plastic top on top. Yeah, it's split on top with some chives. With a dollop of butter and chives. Didn't have the Wendy's logo. Ben, such a pleasure having you on the podcast. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? You can find me at Shaq Katzner on everything. I'm on Instagram.

I'm on TikTok, all the stuff. YouTube, follow me. I post a bunch of shows. I got a bunch of different dates coming up. Check me out. There you go. Is there a work of media that you've been enjoying? The work of media that I've been enjoying,

I've been this artist Slater. I don't know if we know Slater on the show, but she's incredible. She's like this new. I don't know, she's new to me. She's like a pop singer. She's got an incredible album title. world worst girl in America.

It's awesome. It's like dirty pop. I love it. My favorite song is gas station. Check that out. There you go. Amazing. Miles,

where can people find you as their work in media? You've been enjoying. Yeah, find me everywhere at Miles of Gray. Catch me talking about 90-day fiancé on 420-day fiancé, and I'm talking about the world of soccer, World Cup, and everything in between on Ain't It Footy with Jamel Johnson and

Chris Martin. A work in media I like is from. Slowly becoming one of my favorite creators on Instagram, Morgan Got Game. The person did one of the videos that we talked about, I think when Prop was on about how like OGs and 90s film always kept the strap low when they're running. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Super low. And when I said, I'm like, when I said I'm talking like Michael Jordan,

it's because of this Morgan Got Game video because he's just like, this is how you walk like Michael Jordan, which is so funny. And it's this, that's exactly how I was walking after Leg Day. Oh, yeah. Oh, maybe take the music out. He's like, get that. Keep one arm dangling, one arm straight. Just bop your head a little bit.

That's good. That's old legs. That his old legs. That's good. It's just the one with that leg. That's amazing. And it's just like such a weird millennial sort of like visual memory. Like, yeah, Michael Jordan, there was this like labored intensity.

to how he walked across the court, and there it is. OG Unkstrel. That's what Torin had, the OG Unkstrel. Just a little bit of flavor. One of the best Unk Scrolls of all time. Let me see.

So many Knicks posts that I was enjoying over the weekend. I'm trying to pick one. I mean, Ella Devi posted a response, in response to Elmo on June 3rd, writing, Elmo hopes both teams have fun, basketball, basketball, basketball,

basketball, emoji. And then she posted a picture. A picture of people celebrating the next win with Elmo's head on a pike. Yeah. With traitor written underneath. She said they were parading Elmo's head around on a pike last night. Just for that tweet, really appreciate that. It's just like the pike itself, too.

It wasn't just like a stick. It was like medieval. Yeah. It was like someone got their like Game of Thrones cosplay kit out or some shit. And they're like, yeah, that's how we're going to show that. New York is just built different, man. You got the nerds and the long-time New Yorkers getting together, enjoying one thing. Someone's got a pike on them.

I'm just, that's how it is. For sure. The video that we talked about on yesterday's trends of somebody throwing a banana into a crowd, and it comes right back to him, and he catches it. I'm going to link off to it. I want to get people's opinion. Is it fake? But someone who retweeted it said New York operates on a kind of magical realism

that makes things like this not only possible but commonplace from Gen Z. Superboy official. All right. So we'll link off to that in the footnotes. And you can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien Blue Sky. Jack OB, the number one. Instagram, Jack underscore O underscore Brian. You can find us on Twitter and Blue Sky at Daily Zekegeist.

We're at The Daily Zekegeist on Instagram. You can go to the description of this episode wherever you're listening to it. And there at the bottom, you will find the footnotes, which is where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode. We also link off to a song that we think you might enjoy. Miles, is there a song that you think the people might enjoy? Yeah, I was just in my Instagram scroll, I came across an account called Goth Teal.

And it's like this Latino dude. And I think he's in L.A., but just like going to like goth shit. Like just like all these goth scenes. And there's this one where he's vibing out dancing so hard to this like dark wave band called Gris and Vic Vapers. And the track was just like just it was a it was hit in my brain. and just an amazing way that only kind of dark wave music sort of can with just like dreamy vocals and dark synthesizers. This track is called P-U-E-E-D-E-E-S-A-M-A-R-M-E by Grizz and Big Vapor.

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