The Daily Zeitgeist - GOP TAKING Ls! Val Kilmer Is MY Batman 04.03.25

Episode Date: April 3, 2025

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I'd be in Reddit and I'd be in like the MIT asshole subreddit like a lot. Yep. And we are our AITA. Yep. Yeah. AITA. And then so one of the one of the Reddit questions was my wife just passed away and am I the asshole because I won't let her affair partner come to the funeral.

Um, so backstory, the wife cheated on her husband. They've been separated for about six months. She's been like fucking with the affair partner, the person she cheated with. They have two teenage children. The mother just passed away in a car crash. And he is asking, am I the asshole for not letting him come to the funeral? I think he is.

Here's the thing, there's no invited a funeral. Yeah, you just pull up, roll in and have a person. I think this is more nuanced than is the binary of is he an asshole or not. Yeah, yeah, it is kind of. I get his point of view, but I'm like, it's a funeral. And if dude wants to come, I'd be like, you can come, but I don't want to see you. But you also, I think people are not taking into account the children as well. Like if the children don't want him there,

he ain't there. Like he's not there. I get that too, because they're already dealing with the loss of a parent. They maybe don't want to compound that pain. But this is not a great cold open, I would say. Also, do you ever do you ever go on? Am I overreacting? Oh, all the time. Am I overreacting is so stupid. It's Yeah, it's like, it's like, obviously, I'm being fucked over. Am I overreacting? It's like, what? Well, it's funny, too, because there are sometimes people are getting gaslit actively, and they go to Reddit to be like,

Am I overreacting? Like, you need to get out of this fucking marriage based on what you're describing them. Oh, someone just put, Am I overreacting for thinking this is a normal group photo? But wait, hold on. This is stupid as hell. You said a normal group photo pose. Yeah, but this is like, it says I 23 male went to meet and greet some, uh, see some members of a YouTube channel called donut media.

I went to this meet and greet alone. Even though you didn't invite me. I know. Don't that. I know. Yeah. She asked how the event went and I sent her this photo not really thinking much of it. Like I had about 30 seconds,

take a photo, get some signatures. And I didn't pre plan how I was going to pose. I'm naturally kind of awkward person. So I defaulted to just having my arm around everyone's shoulder. Anyways, my significant other ghosted me out of anger slash sadness, and said that I was basically crossing the line by putting my arm around the lady to the left of me. I'm wearing the blue shirt and pose they were in leaning towards me. This is the picture. Wait, what? What? I think there's significant other saying that this guy's violating

because he put his arm around a girl. He said it's not like I put my arm around her waist or anything. He's motoroating her in the picture. Jesus. Yeah. No, you're not overreacting, bro. Yeah. Whatever. This is not a good cold open.

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Oh, you know what? It's April 3rd, 2025. It's National Film Score Day, National Burrito Day, National Chocolate Mousse Day, National Tweed Day, National Chocolate Mousse Day, National Tweed Day, National Find a Rainbow Day. So if you could wear your tweed suit. It's a good ass day. I know, I'm like, I like a film score.

I like a burrito, chocolate mousse, a rainbow, tweed. I could try some tweed. Yeah, why not? I mean, that feels like a sort of scratchy fabric, but hey, you know, it is what it is. Anyway, my name is miles gray aka I got I got I got I got bankruptcy that forcing me to sell your DNA this insolvency requires me to sell your DNA your privacy is my property when I sell your DNA the cops and pharma

companies will buy your DNA y'all if you made the mistake or the right decision to give your chromosomes to 23andMe just so you know if you missed that episode they are bankrupt and they will sell your DNA for whatever they can because that is the one asset they have. You can go to their website and say destroy my sample my saliva get rid of it so if that kind of sci-fi dystopia thing bothers you I need to do that yeah you should you should anyway beside that I have to introduce my co-host today obviously you heard him yesterday you've seen you've heard him on trends you've heard him everywhere he's brilliant he's talented he's a

host he's a voice actor he's a comedian he's an improviser he's a he does everything okay and you probably know him from, I mean, the intro's too long. Just give it up for Chicago's very own Jackie Sneal! Whoa, oh, Jackie's, Jackie's me. Mm. Ooh, T-D-Z ain't what it used to be, no. Woo! Where did Jack O'Brien go?

Where is he, he's not working for you. Oh, I would have me grows. How we doing? How we feeling? So good. We are back back to back days. We got the two black holes. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. It's funny. I love it. Monday started with Francesca. I got to honor my Asian side. Now I'm here. There you go. Now we get to honor your black side. Yeah. And then by. And then tomorrow we'll honor our white girlfriends.

I need a blazer. Yeah. My wife will come on. You will hear from Her Majesty. I don't have a white partner anymore. No, no, you don't. Not anymore. I used to for a very long time.

Anymore. Back in the day. Listen. Back in the day. Look, we're all going. Back in the day. Our lives have seasons, don't they? And speaking of seasons, this is one

of the most seasoned our guests today. One of the most seasoned podcasters, I would say, the OG, one of the OGs of the game, one of the few people who can claim a billion, okay, a billion downloads. You know what I mean? We're out here struggling trying to get to a million a month. You know what I mean? We're out scraping trying to this man has done a month. You know what I mean? We're out here scraping trying to... This man has done it all. He's a brilliant podcaster, a brilliant voice, a fantastic voice. I mean, like, not just speaking musically. He's an awesome...

Look, it should be no secret that someone this talented is so notable. And gracing our second-rate podcast with his presence, please welcome today's guest, Mr. Chuck Bryant from the show, stop, you should know. Ow, ow, ow, ow. Hey guys, thank you for accepting me and my middle-aged whiteness into the cool club. Hey, look, when Jack's here, he's keeping the quotas up. So you know what I mean?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're all, we're doing great. Filling for Jack in that respect, I guess. There we go, we need it. Chuck, how are you, man? How have you been? I'm great,. Chuck, how are you, man? How have you been? I'm great, it's good to see you, man.

It's, you know, I figure, what year is this for you guys? Eight, nine? Seven, going into eight. This is the beginning of year eight. Okay, eight years in, having me on for the first time. That seems about right, I appreciate it. Yeah. I had to ask Jack, I was like,

Jack, you know, I'm gonna talk to you in a while. You know what, it is like one of those things too, where it's like, do you think like Josh or Chuck would ever come on? And like we get all self-conscious, so I'm glad that you actually made the approach because yes, we're huge fans of you and everything you do. Thanks man,

happy to be here. Personally and professionally, man, you're such a good dude. I haven't seen you guys in a while, the LA Wildfires brought us together because that's when we connected, checking in on you guys. Yeah man. Well i'm at it you know how about having me on the show no no i know i was like i was like chuck ain't just checking on me because he wants to be

on the show i'm like chuck no no i know that obviously you're like i said you're such a good guy man and it's great having you um look since it is uh music score day, and I know you're a film buff and I know Jackie says too, uh, does everyone mind sharing a film score that is near and dear to their heart or maybe a composer of film scores that's near and dear to their heart? That's a good shock. I know. I feel like you, you probably have one preset ready to go as a lover of music

and film, but is there a score that touches you? Yeah. I mean, you know, maybe I can avoid the John Williams stuff because that's just sort of easy to go to and Danny Elfman, you know, all the, the old Hitchcock stuff. I don't, I'm not sure of the composers, but, um, you know, it's hard not to listen to something like Psycho or, and not just the, you know, the shower scene stuff, but just that great string score through the whole thing.

Bernard Herrmann. Oh, is that who it is? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I just, I looked it great string score through the whole thing. Uh, Bernard Herman. Oh, is that who it is? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I just, I looked it up. I didn't know that. That's me.

Cool. That's me doing podcaster stuff where you don't hear my keyboard typing as I Google. So you're a real pro. Yeah. Yeah. Obviously. I've been doing this.

I love that. I got, I got to that like come to mind. Uh, I really love the eternal sunshine. Well, the spotless Minds score. Oh yeah. Okay. I think it's beautiful and heartbreaking and the music and that with the movies. Oh, that's John Brian.

Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's really beautiful. And then the last like the last like 20 minutes of Zombie Land score is fantastic. Really?

Like it is so fantastic. And I like downloaded it. I downloaded all the songs just from the last 20 minutes, uh, to like listen to as part of my regular rotation, just cause I love it so much. So those are probably is the composer there. Look, I'm going to, I'm going to look it up so everybody can properly look all these up. I love anything by John Berry, like all that 007 stuff, because a lot of that is like upstream from hip hop, like a lot of those, I got really familiar with John,

John Berry's like compositions because of the samples that it was in, like sneaker pimps, six underground, like all, so many interesting songs. He also, I think most recently was from TV off by Kendrick Lamar, where it goes mustard, that horn sample is from the black hole, which is a Disney live action film. Yeah. So not a good movie. No, no, that was a weird run when Disney was like doing the live action thing.

And they're like, you know what? Maybe not. They weren't there yet. Wait a minute. The live action of the black hole, what? They were making films that weren't completely separate from sort of the universe of characters we know as like their Disney characters.

Right, right, right. Now they made something called the black hole. Yeah, it was in the 80s. Not a good movie. That's sort of their early stab at sci-fi. Gotcha. Oh yeah, cause what? Flight of the Navigator?

That was a Disney one too, wasn't it? Was it? Oh, I don't know. Anyway, at least it felt like it was Navigator that was a Disney one too, wasn't it? Oh, I don't know. Anyway, at least it felt like it was all that to say good having you, Chuck. We are going to get to know you a little bit better. But first, I'm going to do the thing I did yesterday. Just up top, we're going to eat some news vegetables so we can get to the fun things and less feeling like we live in a rapid fire dystopia. But you know, these are a little less messed up than yesterday.

But nonetheless, we should touch on the fact Eric Adams, the mayor of New York City, his corruption case has been dismissed. A federal judge dismissed the case on Wednesday, but he also denied prosecutors the ability to refile the charges after the mayoral election. Judge Dale E. Ho dismissed the case with prejudice. So basically this dismissal actually kind of helps Eric Adams from being sort of coerced by the Trump administration

because because of this, the Justice Department wouldn't be able to revive the charges if they wanted to to sort of be like, you need to play ball or else we'll revive the charges. So because it was just dismissed with prejudice, that's really not on the table. That might be to the dismay of Trump. But also, what are laws anymore? The judge did say this, though, quote, There are many reasons to be troubled by the government's decision.

Everything here smacks of a bargain. Dismissal of the indictment in exchange for immigration policy concessions. He found it disturbing. And yes, that seems to be the word of the year. And also yesterday, or as we record this is quote unquote, Trump's liberation day where we were about to find out what the tariffs exactly are. Will they bring us to an age of prosperity

unlike we have ever seen? Or will this be one of the biggest economic L's that we will witness in history? I don't know. But experts did say his tariffs would quote, royally fuck the US economy, I believe, cost the average household an extra $3,800 per year. That means if you're living check to check, you need to come up with an extra $300 a month. That's another way to put it. Things just got $300 more expensive per month. Lower income households will obviously be paying a huge percentage of their income 5.5% difference,

you know, difference compared to 1.9% for the top 10%. So we will see, we will see. But there does seem to be more and more Republicans grumbling about the fact when they realized like, wait, I'm bordering Canada. Wait, my local economy does depend on robust trade between the two nations that isn't completely off the rails. So we'll see. But again, we'll probably talk more about that.

So we'll keep our eye on that. But now Chuck Bryant, thank you for joining us. What is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are, what you're into right now? Oh, boy. Let me see here. This is something that should really interest you guys. I was looking at my search history history yesterday, and it was Bob Dylan set lists. Okay, from when?

Like specific years or like is he touring or he's not touring right now, is he? He's always touring. Is Bob Dylan not dead? He's always touring? Come on, he's constantly touring. I truly thought that, I thought he was dead. No man, he's so much alive.

I saw him twice last year. I'll do, I'll do. And I'm going to get him this summer. Yeah, he's still doing it. Because they made the movie about him. So I was like, oh, he must be dead. Oh, usually like, can't do a biopic if they're alive. I mean, yeah, usually.

Right. For black people, they don't do biopics. They're alive, yeah, yeah. People are not old, yeah. Yeah, I was looking at Bob Dylan's set list because I'm a big Dylan fan. And if you're sort of, I'm not quite like Dylan-ologist level,

that's like the super nerds. But if you're sort of a, I'm not quite like Dylan ologist level, that's the like the super nerds. But if you're into Dylan and you've seen him a bunch, it's always very interesting to see what he's gonna play. And so he started up his new tour last week. And you know, all the old middle-aged white guy nerds are like, oh, what's Bob gonna play? So I was checking out what Bob was gonna play. And are you requisite satisfied?

Yeah, yeah, you know, he pulls out a few old favorites, but you know, he's very famous for rearranging things, you know, beyond recognition, live. He's always kind of done that. So, you know, just because you see a song like, all along the watch tower, or, you know, one of his big hits, doesn't mean that you're gonna recognize it when you show up,

because he's just gonna play it in a kind of a crazy way. That's tight. I love when artists do that. When they, when they give you a little different flavor for the live performance. And then like sometimes those become like my favorite versions of the songs. They are released, you know, uh, for public consumption. So yeah, I love that. Also, do you get like, when you go see the set list, will that make you less excited about a concert and not want to go see it?

Or do you just like to be in a room? Man, I just love live music. I've been going to shows since I was 11. And 1982 was my first show. So I would volunteer Usher at the big Omni Arena in Atlanta. I was 14 years old. I looked probably nine and I was showing full grown, drunk adults to their seats and stuff. So I just wanted to get in the room.

I usually don't, if it's a, uh, a band that I really like, I won't look at the set list beforehand cause I'd just rather be surprised, but with Dylan, it's just, he's one of those guys who's like, what's Bob going to play next? Like you kind of never know where he's going to go. Yeah. Wait, what was that first concert you went never know where he's going to go. Yeah. Wait, what was that first concert you went to? Uh, the very first one. Yeah.

Uh, my first show was a cheap trick at the Fox theater in Atlanta in 1982. And my second one was Van Halen in 1983. So, yeah, my first concert, I was nine years old. Okay. And I went to see, ub-40 with us three And I was really rings such a bell. Who was here? Oh, okay. They played that song cantaloupe. That was like It was like in every commercial here

This is just for just something we'll see if we get hit with a copyright strike. As you know, we have something special down here. This is like the most 90s track recording for Blue Note Records. Oh, yeah, this one. So this was the first concert I went to and my dad took me and there were so many people smoking weed during the UB 40 part of the concert. But I was nine. I had no idea. And I was like, I was like, they can smoke cigarettes in here.

My dad's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. We should probably get out of here in a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Cover your nose. Cover your nose. I smelled weed at that cheap trick show and I never smelled that before. And I just remember thinking like, cause you know, the first time you smell it, it smells like nothing else on the planet. You've ever smelled it burns. I was like, what is that? Oh my on the planet. Yeah. You're like, huh? You've ever smelled it burns.

I was like, what is that? Oh my God. Yeah. Yeah. What a time. You guys's first concerts were like, you know, cool and fun. No, mine was pretty young. I'm I was around the 10 to 12 age.

I can't exactly remember what. Uh, but my was, my was the all that concert. Oh wow. 97, 98, somewhere around that. And like, so it was All That, they brought the sketches live, but then it was also a concert. So it was 98 Degrees and Tatiana Ali. Were like the first people I went to go see in concert.

And then my second concert was R. Kelly. So, okay. Well, you got to bounce it out. Bounce it out. No shame. Yeah. No shame.

Yeah. At the time, look, one of the, at the time Chicago's beloved, one of the Chicago's beloved artists. At the time, you know, we were stepping in the name of love. Yeah. Yeah. We were stepping in the name of love, you know. I, that's so, I miss when like, like TV shows like would do concerts and stuff. Like I remember seeing the Ninja Turtles live and shit.

It was like a whole thing. Chuck, what is something you think is underrated? Uh, naps. Oh yeah. I came out, yeah, I came out very publicly on stuff you should know. And we did a full episode on napping and, uh, I came out as a napper, a daily napper if I can. And, uh, I got a lot of email from people that, uh, not were shaming me, but just,

you know, I can't believe you can find time in the middle of your day to just to lay down and do nothing. And I'll tell them, I'm not doing nothing. I'm sleeping. You're not. Yeah. That's something. You're recharging.

Yeah. It's been great. So how fast of a nap are we talking here? How long? Uh, well they say, and this is the, you know, the stuff you should know part, like the science of it is, is that whatever your one sleep cycle, one REM cycle is, is the best nap.

So you don't want to cut it short and you don't want to go over that because both of those can make you feel sleepy. So I set my alarm for 45 minutes, but it usually ends up being like 35 to 40. I'll just sort of naturally wake up feeling good. Yeah. Yeah. It's funny when people are like,

how do you find the time? And like, meanwhile, we're scrolling on our phones for like an hour and a half straight. Yeah. Yeah. Look at that screen time number and ask about your time. Exactly. Right. What do you mean?

How do you, anybody who says that, I guarantee you does nothing for 70% of their day. Right. Because people who are actually busy know how you can find the time. Oh, you mean like when you're super ground down? Sure. Yeah. Yeah. But it all depends.

Yeah. Do you take a lunch break? Cause we actually have little blocks of time where we are in between shit that we could fucking nap. Yeah. Well, that's why, you know, we got to, I think we just have to normalize napping across the board, like at jobs and things, you know what I mean? Can I, all right, so you're a napper. I agree. I was gonna ask you, you know,

because some people, and I, like my girlfriend naps too much, like she'll take, she'll go to sleep for like two to four fucking hours. Yeah. Like that's not a nap. You're fucking yourself up. That's depression. Like you're making it worse. I mean, yes. But like, but also like, I, you know, I try to do like the set the alarm for like 20 to 40 minutes somewhere in that range, knowing it'll take me a few minutes to go to sleep and blah, blah, blah. But I also do not nap in my bed.

I only save actual sleep time for my bed. Is it just like couch or a chair napping? Yeah, I got a napping couch in my office area. So that's where I go. All right. Turn on the white noise, actually brown noise and put on the sleep mask. And wait, what's brown noise? Brown noise is like a bunch of farts.

Yeah. If white noise is this, brown noise is. Yeah. Oh, okay. Just lower, lower frequencies. Oh, brown noise is this. Oh, okay. Just lower frequencies. Oh, I like that too. There's also pink noise, I think. I've heard of.

There's a bunch of noises, Miles. Yeah, a bunch of noise out there. The noise economy is thriving right now. Chuck, what is something you think is overrated? Well, I have a whole list of people I think are both overrated and overexposed that I sort of go off about to my friends all the time. Spill that tea. I think we should get Peyton Manning, Dave Grohl, Matthew McConaughey,

Jimmy Fallon and The Rock and put them on a rocket ship and shoot them out to the ISS and tell them just to spend a couple of quality years there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm tired of all those guys. Okay. I can rock with you on except on the rocket because I'm a wrestling fan. So he'd be coming. He'd be coming back sometimes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. For the rest of the rest of the, he'd be coming back. I think that would be tolerable, right? The rock just coming back to do wrestling. It's all the other stuff. I'm like. That's fair. That's fair.

Wait, Dave Grohl? Dave Grohl. How come Dave Grohl? He's, I mean, I'm not a big Dave Grohl fan. So I should say I'm probably a little biased, but he's dialed it back a little bit since he got outed with his extramarital affair. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But before that, he was just one of those overexposed guys. He was everywhere all the time showing up, like McConaughey these days. Like I don't need to see Matthew McConaughey on the sideline of every Texas football game 15 times. Or selling me insurance. Yeah, oh God. And leaking cars.

Oh yeah, that link to that, I'm like. He does a few, he does like Hulu commercials. He be doing a lot of commercials. It was true, like Dave Grohl for a second would be like in so many like viral internet videos. Like there be doing a lot of commercials. It was true. Like Dave Grohl for a second would be like in so many like viral internet videos. Like there was a stretch. It's like Dave Grohl showed up to play with this kid's birthday. Dave Grohl's dude. And it's like sort of how Jackie said, no,

you know, it's like how John Hamm kept showing up at UCD stuff and like doing comedy stuff all the time. We're like, okay, John, we get it, bro. You like comedy. Yes, John, we get it. You have a big dick and you like comedy. We get it, John. Every character you come in, sorry John, one note for your improv, every time you come in you go,

Doctor, my penis is so big, what should I do? No. No, I know this feels, no, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no. It wouldn't surprise me. It feels like some shit though. Yeah.

Wait, so you said, okay, Fallon, yep. We said Fallon. Yes. Peyton Manning, man. Just like Eli's on the list now too, but God, I'm so tired of those guys. Yeah, they do a lot. They do a lot. Um, especially just, I mean, I do think Peyton is funny ish. Uh, like he has a natural like time. Yeah, but the bars are for athletes, but the bars are low for athletes. But the bars are low for athletes. Yeah, so that's fair.

But he is out there in these streets. Yeah, no, he's 100%. And don't they have like a whole manning of shows? Isn't like a show with all them too or something? I don't know. I mean you can watch Monday Night Football with just those two brothers as the, you know, like in their bedroom watching it or whatever. Oh, sure. Like the Manning cast. Oh, right, right, right.

Because Tom Brady is not great on mic. Put him on that rocket too. I'm tired of that guy. Yeah, yeah, him too. I'm also tired. I'm tired to touchdown Tommy. All right. Well, let's take a quick break and we'll come back because hey, the Trump administration

is finally starting to wobble. So we will take a look at that right after this. Dr. Joy here. You may know me from Therapy for Black Girls where we're celebrating 400 episodes of the podcast. That's a whole lot of girl me too moments. For years, we've had deep, thoughtful and inspiring conversations about black women's mental health. For years we've had deep, thoughtful and inspiring conversations

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yet sometimes challenging transition from girlhood to womanhood for Black Mims. Together, we explore how we navigate this transformative journey with strength and grace. Black girlhood is giggling, it's sisterhood, but it is also, I think, focusing on learning how to cope with really difficult things that are happening. With insights like these, this 400th episode celebration is one for the books. Listen to Therapy for Black Girls on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. So, you know, after a few really shitty months under Trump and Musk, we are finally starting to see some of the weaknesses emerge from this administration. And early this week, Tuesday, especially seemed to be a really bad day for Trump and the GOP at large. The first thing. So the GOP attempted to kill a proxy voting bill for new parents. Right. So the whole thing was like, hey, if you've had a new

kid, you don't have to come to DC for the first three months. You can vote by proxy. So it also doesn't completely negate your vote as a member of Congress. Now, Speaker Mike Johnson really did not want this to happen, but they overcame this when nine Republicans defected to join the Democrats on this one. And hey, they're like, yeah, maybe we should be OK with new parents still being able to cast their vote as congress people. Do you know, I think this kind of made things a little bit tough for Mike

Johnson, because he was so mad. He adjourned the house for the rest of the week, meaning, you know, well, we're not even going to vote into, we're not doing any work this week. We're done. I'm going to play this video, this clip from him where he's going to sound very like acting as if something terrible happened. But really just keep in mind all of this is because he lost soap. He just lost control of his, you know, his members so publicly. This is Mike Johnson talking about that this was, this was, this was so bad and now we can't vote anymore. 96% of House Republicans voted against proxy voting because they believe it's unconstitutional

and they agree that it would open a Pandora's box. So that's what we just saw. Let me just make this clear. That rule being brought down means that we can't have any further action on the floor this week. That means we will not be voting on the SAVE Act for election integrity. We will not be voting on the rogue judges who are attacking President Trump's agenda. We will not be taking

down these terrible Biden policies with the CRA votes. All that was just wiped off the table is very unfortunate. We'll regroup and come back and we'll have to do this again. So, sure Mike, sure Jan, as we say, and that's what happened. Now we can't do all these other things we said we were going to do. I just don't believe it. But they're really into the constitution when they're into it. Yeah, I know. Right.

Yes. When it, when it's convenient, it's really jarring to see them always like do things that are completely, uh, are, uh, so purely on its face unconstitutional, but then still try and use that rhetoric to evoke the Constitution to act like there is some kind of higher purpose to any of this. Is it that surprising, Miles? No, no, no. I guess not. I say that, but I think I've lost the capacity to be surprised or shocked by the duplicity of them.

It's very funny. It is so interesting to me too. Cause I'm like, you know, I've been wondering the, like, will we start to see the cracks like at this point or not? And like, we all know what's going on in the dangerous administration and everything like that, but like, is so. These, they don't like this man. Like when, when they thought like Trump was done after he lost the first election, they was like, this motherfucker is terrible. And they were like, damn, he's about to win again. They're like,

yeah, yeah, he's great. He's fantastic. And it's just so clear. And that's what I'm waiting for. I'm waiting for the moment when it's clear that like, all right, we're finally done with Trump's policy. Like we're moving on, blah, blah, blah. I want to see like how much in-fighting is going to happen. I mean, it's already happening. You know what I mean? It's already happening. Because there's, I think, because right now the policies are so terrible and unpopular that even like his biggest supporters are having trouble

like wrapping their heads around. Like even like the tariffs is a really good example of that. Because as much as they want to sort of be like exactly America first, they really don't realize the pain that it's going to inflict on their own constituents. And even their own donors within the state whose industries will be affected, who they need that cash to stay in office. It's, it's a very tight rope they're walking. And I think that's also why there are Republicans in the Senate who are now

considering joining the Democrats to like rebuke the Canadian tariffs to basically stop this emergency declaration that Trump made to say, like, we have to have tariffs because of fentanyl crossing the border, which is like not even a thing that even Tulsi Gabbard agrees with. She's like, no, it's not really coming in from there. And again, these are, there are small things like, it's with. She's like, no, it's not really coming in from there. And again, there are small things, like it's hard to say, like, will there be a moment where they finally just say, you know what, we're off this,

because I just don't, it's truly a cult at this point. But on some level that instinct for self-preservation as a politician, like begins to like sort of bubble up and it comes out in this kind of way. Yeah, you got to hold onto that power guys. Yeah, by any means necessary. to like sort of bubble up and it comes out in this kind of way. Yeah. You got to hold onto that power guys. Yeah. It is by any means necessary. It's a, at some point the, the, the house and the Senate though, are going to

want to actually do their jobs. I would think, uh, because they're going to want to govern and their, and their constituents are going to want them to govern and they're not doing that. So, I mean, I think that's when the cracks might start furthering a little bit. It's like, when they realized that they don't even have a job, their job is just to, they're cheerleaders at this point. Right. See, this would be a great time for SafeLight to sponsor the show.

Cause I could say, and much like when you get a little Nick on your windshield, what starts as a small star can turn into a large crack that will compromise the structural integrity of your windshield. That's why SafeLight repairs, SafeLight replace. Okay. I got you man. I'm gonna get my dad on that bro. He started, he helped start safe light. So I'm gonna get my dad on that. Really? No, I don't know my dad. Oh man, I bought that. I know this intellectually too but damn this is the dry delivery of improvisers that is very hard to deal

with sometimes in a serious news show, not serious news show, but when you're talking about the news, when you change your name from, uh, from, to Neil from safe flight, cause that was, that was, that was, that was who gave it away. Yeah. Right. Cause you know, you know, Jack Keese is like a Neppo baby, right? Yeah. His dad is just a safe flight. Yeah. That is like a Neppo baby, right? Yeah. His dad is Mr. Safe Flight.

Yeah. That's why all his glass looks so good, man. Yeah. You ever notice, you never notice has nothing, no glass is cracked around him? No, he never had no cracked glass. Not even his skin. No crash.

I saw him drop a cup and it didn't break. Yeah. Safe Flight replace? And I saw one time, yeah. Safe Flight replace? One time he did saw one time, yeah. Say play replace. One time he did, one time he dropped a wine glass and shattered someone came out the shadows, replaced it for him, just handed to him, kept it moving.

I couldn't believe it. Another one. So here, let's move on to some trouble in Musk world, because I think that's some of the most satisfying news to hear right now. To start off, right? Politico is reporting that President Trump has told members of the cabinet and other people within the white house that Elon Musk will be stepping back soon to follow his

dreams of making just the worst shit posts on Twitter. Just a month ago, officials were stating that Musk was like, they're like, he's here to stay, he's doing a great job. He's really bringing all the, these inefficiencies to light by errant leave firing people who are in charge of nuclear safety. Sure. But again, because he has a non-Senate confirmed position and is a technically temporary government employee, he can only be employed for 130 days legally.

And I say legally because what are laws anymore? But we don't still don't know, you know, what is going to happen. But you know, if he actually steps back, if he just does this shadow thing to keep the heat off of Trump, but either way, glad to see that his kid will finally be retiring as a secret service agent, you know, kids deserve to play, they don't need to be meat. She has, you know what I mean? They deserve to have fun.

So to that end, right. This brings us to the Wisconsin Supreme court race. So, eat shit, my boy. Liberal Susan Crawford won the Wisconsin Supreme court race against Brad Schimel on Tuesday. They called that race like fucking almost instantly. That's how much that's how much of a smash job this was. And how big of a fucking loss this was for Brad

Schimel, the conservative seeking that court bench position. So we all know, Elon put about $20 million of his money and associated groups that are aligned with him into this race, in an attempt to sway the election. He was like giving out, he was like giving out million dollar checks and shit. Yeah, with a big old cheesehead. He had a Wisconsin machine. He pulled up to Wisconsin with a cheesehead

hat on, giving out million dollar novelty checks, one of them to like the kid who was like the head of like the college young Republicans in the area. It's like these weren't even normal people. They're plants. Yeah. Total plants. I'm sure he's like, look, bro, I'm gonna give you this million dollar check.

Right. You can keep like 50 grand. Okay. Yeah. And let's just... Yeah. And also, man, after taxes, there's 100,000 probably gonna end up being like, you know, like 350 anyway. So like, let's just call it.

Let's just make this simple for everybody. But Crawford's win now to this bench, now established liberals as the majority on the four three court. So it's maintaining the liberal majority, which is huge because there are things like the census coming up where, you know, that has huge implications on how districts are drawn. And this is again, a very consequential thing

because again, with Wisconsin being a purple state, there are a lot of things that are going to go in front of that court that can be pushed either way, like, again, labor rights, access to abortion care, all those kinds of things. So great, fantastic. The thing that people are really starting to see now, it's like Elon truly, truly like verifiably made things worse. Brad Schiml, you know, like Crawford's data suggested that she was at an advantage, but not a 10 point blowout like that that it ended up being. So one writer in Politico sort of put it this way, just showing showing how sort of naive Musk is with his sort of showboating quote,

insisting on showing up to up to a campaign in the final weekend of the campaign was self-defeating enough. But it's hard to think of another state besides neighboring Minnesota that would be less receptive to handing out money for votes. These are high turnout, healthy civic culture states. Musk may not have known that, but why didn't any Republicans who did steer him away from like, why didn't any Republicans who did steer him away from like why didn't any Republicans steer him away from the cash gambit. I think because I know

Speaks to his arrogance. Yeah, because it wouldn't matter because he thinks you know, I mean He brought the presidency. So yeah and his mind he just like I'm the richest man on the planet I got the most power on the planet. You know, I'm an immigrant who, like, you know, Who hates immigrants. Who hates immigrants apparently. Right. Exactly.

Exactly. Yeah, of course he wouldn't listen. Right. So Miles, are you saying that Elon Musk potentially swayed this election in the wrong direction in the very next day? It was announced that he would be stepping away a little bit. Yeah. I mean, it's very strange timing. that Elon Musk potentially swayed this election in the wrong direction in the very next day, it was announced that he would be stepping away a little bit. Yeah, I mean- It's very strange timing.

The grumblings happen like that. And I also wonder if the Elon announcement is timed with the tariff stuff, because I wonder if that story leaks for people to go, okay, well, maybe the Doge stuff will finally die down and give a little bit of confidence to the market, because the tariffs aren't being announced till the fucking markets close. Yeah. Like it's very intentional. You know what I mean? Like that's one thing about Trump. He knows he's like, okay, I don't want to

have a headline about how I announced it that morning and then what it did to the stock market. I mean, now they'll just say what it did to the stock market the next day. Right. But it's gonna fucking. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, a lot of people are saying because none of the tariff stuff as of this recording has been really cemented. Like even Caroline Levitt, who's the press secretary, is like, I yeah, maybe. Like, there's no real concrete answer yet. It's all very much in this man's brain, if that's what we call that, in his skull. But I mean, like, if you look at the swing map that the New York Times put out from this congressional race,

the entire fucking state swung left after voting for Trump in the presidential election. So, you know, some of these races and some of this past election was weird, man. Not speaking, you know, progressiveness of side and how we were very disappointed and disheartened and disinterested in our own side for multiple reasons. There were so many instances of like X, Y, and Z one, but Kamala lost. Down ballot. Democrats performed well. It's so weird, man. And then like now this blowout and like, I get it. We have what month is this? February? March? April? I've been too busy.

I've been too busy. We have four months of this presidency, second term. We get it. We knew it was happening, but like, are people that dissatisfied where they're like, damn, this four months was so bad. Let's have a blowout. Or like, was that race closer than it was supposed to be? And Elon really tipped it over. I mean, there are people. And I it was supposed to be and Elon really did the whole shit. I mean, there are people-

And I hate to be like that cause I've never thought that before, but like- Plenty of people are casting aspersions on like what the materially may have happened in the election. I don't know. I definitely see how people became disinterested in this election based on the fact

that nothing was being addressed that affected working people directly. It was all this very high altitude political talk rather than telling people like, we will get you free health care. We are going to raise minimum wage. These are the exact stated policies. They were chasing the mythical Trump voter who is an independent who they might be able to pick off rather than really energizing the base.

But anyway, plenty of course mortems have happened on the presidential election. But I do think sadly, so many people went into that election so uninformed that now they see what is actually happening. And they're like, oh, no, no, no. All right, boy, what's what's happening here? But, you know, around the around the country, there were also special elections where Republicans were defending seats where like Matt Gaetz had left and others. And they did win those special elections. However, they did underperform considerably.

So I like, I think the Trump won some of these by like 30 points and then they won by 14 or 15. So that's a big dip. It's definitely, yeah, it's happening. It's a big dip. It's definitely Yeah, it's happening. It's definitely thing something is in the air for sure. But hey, let's not let's not worry about Elon. Because he is being as predictable as any thin skinned bully who just got shat on so publicly he claims that the actual thing he was spending

money on in this race where he was out here handing out million dollar checks to vote for Brad Schiml for Supreme Court. He said it was the voter ID law that got voted and approved during that election. That's actually that was a whole point. Oh, come on. So no else taken. That's the thing. He said, I expect this is what he tweeted, like last or this technically this morning. He said, I expected to lose, but there is value that losing a

piece for a positional game. I'm sorry, what is you spent 20? You spent $20 million expecting to lose? Man, he's gonna give me $10 million. Yeah, he's gonna go ahead and get me he'd give me 10 million dollars for me to play LeBron James in basketball. I'ma lose. I'ma lose. But if that's okay with him, I'll make it interesting. I'll make it interesting.

Oh yeah, you want me to dunk on LeBron? Yeah, yeah, okay. I'll make it interesting. Give me the ball. Give me the ball. Yeah, easy, easy. I can make that happen there. That first possession, boy.

I knew that was gonna happen. I can make that happen there. Yeah. First Possession Boy. I knew that was going to happen. I knew that was going to happen. But yeah, because right before this specific election for the Wisconsin State Supreme Court, he was saying this specific race could, quote, determine the future of Western civilization. But of course. But of course. That was expected.

But it was about, no, I wasn't really concerned about that. This is giving peak Ray J behavior. Chuck behavior I'm not sure if you're familiar with the very famous interaction between Ray J and speedy Ray J the entertainer he was out here hocking new sunglasses that he said were indestructible I'm gonna play the clip because it's the exact same energy when Ray J is like, I have unbreakable glasses. And they're like, you've never seen this before? Oh, man. This is basically Elon Musk saying, yeah, you're expected to lose. I just feel like you're so frivolous with your products, man. You're slapping the table. They're flying everywhere. You're

tossing the glasses. They're unbreakable. Unbreakable? They're unbreakable. Break them. Step on them right now. No, you step on them. It's your product. You step on them. What? Speedy step on them.

I can't do that. You can't. I bet you I can break these. They're unbreakable. Speedy. They're not unbreakable. Speedy. Don't tell me they're unbreakable.

Listen. Don't challenge me. Don't challenge me, Rachel. I will break them. Listen, Speedy, they're unbreakable. They cannot break. It's impossible. Bro.

I don't care. But it's. Oh man, that's amazing. Boom. I don't care. Oh my God. That's really funny. That's a classic, man.

Did no one in R&D and testing, did no one ever try to just snap him in half like that? Snap him in half. Like hand them to a four-year-old. Oh my gosh. Right, exactly. Wear them near a toddler who likes to grab at people's faces. It's breakable.

It's not breakable. I don't care. Boom. I don't care. That's really funny. Great. Thanks, Elon. You're in good company. You're in good company.

That's so funny. But yeah, I mean- Elon cracks me up, man. He, Elon is a rich white boy who was a fucking nerd. Yeah. Oligarch. We say oligarch, you know?

Rich oligarch. Oligarch is, he is a little more loathe, I think, accurate. Okay. Yeah, he's not merely rich. You know, we are rich. Yeah, we are rich in spirit, poor in cash. Who was a nerd and probably got bullied for being a fucking nerd. And which is not good.

I'm not saying that's good. That's bad. You know, tell your children to stop bullying nerds because they grow up to be Elon Musk. And then like most nerds or people like that who grow up and get money and a little power, they become the worst human beings on the planet. Uh, and then funny thing is he just still doesn't know how to do it. He doesn't know cause he's still getting, we still roast the shit out of him. I know it's hard.

It affects him so much. And it brings me measurable joy. He said something that's really telling is that he said empathy is destroying the United States. Sure. That's a thing. I've seen that, that's sort of like the, the men's rights movement. There's this, this supposed Christian empathy

is destroying our, you know, our manhood, our, and like, and then the clip I saw was one of the guys was like, you know, especially Christian women, you know, these fine Christian women are just far too empath the guys that's like, especially Christian women, these fine Christian women are just far too empathetic. It's like, man, what a world we're living in. I want those people to go, man, you know what Jesus' fucking problem was, right? Yeah, too much empathy.

Too much empathy. Are you gonna say that? I mean, they probably would, because at this point, religiosity has just been a cover to sort of excuse their totally aggressive thinking. I wish wish they would have put me up on that cross. Watch it. I would have did. Oh, I would have pulled them. You think I was going to let them nail me to the cross?

You think I would have let them nail me to the cross? I would have pulled them shits out like this. Ah, what's up? I'm the son of God. Try it. I would have vaporized them all with my laser eyes. You know, like turn y'all all the wine, baby. Turn y'all all the wine. Oh, my God. Golgotha would have been a'all all to wine, baby. Turn y'all all to wine. Oh, my God.

Golgotha would have been a pile of empty wine bottles, baby. That's what happened. But anyway, so the the other thing, too, is I think, well, that's what the Christ, too, is going to be about. I mean, I feel like we're close to some kind of completely retelling of the Bible where Jesus is some badass with no empathy who hates immigrants or something that you might read that.

Cause there's too many. Punisher t-shirt, like super white. From the Middle East, but super white somehow. Right, right, right. Thin blue line tattoo on his back or whatever. Yeah, it'll be dope. But again, I think it's important to keep in mind while the word is that Musk

may sort of publicly or formally leave Doge and we don't know what happens after that, this cannot, the media cannot let this be an optics win for Trump and allow a narrative to take hold to be like, well, now that Musk is leaving the White House, maybe the country will go back to something recognizable. No, no, no, it's not limited to Musk. And also let's understand that he is putting money behind things to keep Trump's agenda going. So even if he's out of the spotlight, he's still very much part of this.

And I don't know, we'll, we'll see how mainstream media handles this, but I just don't let up Musk. You don't have faith in the mainstream media? I forgot. Maybe, maybe, maybe have faith in the Mainstream media? I forgot. Maybe, maybe, maybe bring me back. Bring me back, guys. Don't let the Musk leaving thing become like, all right, well, he's finally cleaned house.

He still have a bunch of weird cretins in that White House. So anyway, that's some L's for the Republicans. That was a nice little thing. Let's take a break. And when we come back, just some thoughts on the passing of Val Kilmer. Dr. Joy here. You may know me from Therapy for Black Girls, where we're celebrating 400 episodes of the podcast. That's a whole lot of girl me too moments. For years we've had deep, thoughtful, and inspiring conversations about Black women's mental health. And now we're celebrating this milestone in a big way. In this special episode, Peloton Yogi Chelsea Jackson

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And we are back. So, on just Tuesday, we did have the fight out about the passing of the actor Val Kilmer. He passed away at the age of 65. He was battling cancer since 2014, but did succumb to pneumonia as we found out from one of his children. I didn't realize that he was initially hesitant to undergo medical treatment because I didn't know he was a Christian scientist. But then later he was like, no, I'm doing chemo and he had multiple tracheotomies and eventually was using a feeding tube.

But I just like, it's interesting to think about Val Kilmer because he's sort of like one of these, I feel like underrated in a way when I think about how powerful a lot of his performances are, but you don't, people don't necessarily like sort of mention him in the same breath as like some other sort of huge sort of superstar actors, but yeah, uh, gotta say Doc Holiday was one of my favorite. Like it's like one of the first times I really liked a Western was Tombstone. And I was like, oh, this is again, he's just kind of there like doing his thing.

Top Secret was another comedy that I loved. I think is super underrated, at least for people my age and who could forget Willow. But yeah, I just I just wanted to open it up because I think Val Kilmer is just kind of one of those people who have, they've sort of left it. He's left an impact on generations through like all the different kinds of roles he's at. Well, I mean, it hit me kind of hard because like I wasn't, you know, I wouldn't have listed him as like one of my favorite actors or anything like that.

But Gen X, like my Instagram with Gen Xers was just lit up with Val Kilmer tributes. And, you know, if you're my age, you know, I'm in my early fifties now. As a teenager, it's like real genius and top secret. Right. And then Willow and Top Gun and Tombstone. And then in college, he's in, he plays Jim Morrison in The Doors. And it's like, he was just always there doing these roles that weren't like Oscar winning roles, but he was in hugely popular movies from the time that, you know, if you were a Gen Xer,

from the time you were like, you know, nine, 10 years old, up through like, you know, playing Elvis in True Romance, like doing cool shit like that. So it's just one of those things. We also kind of had to mourn him twice in a way, because of the devastation of his cancer, basically making him go away and not being able to act anymore. So it's just super sad. Yeah.

Yeah. It was nice and sad to see him in the latest Top Gun. Yeah, it was awesome. Which I know that was a big deal for him. He got to act one more time. You can still see the acting chops, but he couldn't speak, obviously. But it was, I'm very happy that he got to act one more time. You can still see the acting shots, but he couldn't speak, obviously. But it was, it was, I'm very happy that he got to have that

experience before he passed away. Hey, yeah. Cancer kicked his ass the last years of his life, which, and you know, part, I don't want to talk about like his reasoning for not doing treatments at first. I mean, that's not a huge point. It's just more of like, I didn't realize that. Like, no, well, no, no, no. I mean, well, it was a huge point because people are saying people did say that that was a part of the reason why it was so devastating and they accelerated in a way it did. Yeah. But I'm gonna say something that's not a popular opinion is good for Val Cumer but I liked Batman Forever. Oh, and Val Cumer is my Batman.

I was waiting for his ass to go. No, no, no. I like Batman Forever and Val Cumer was my Batman. I loved Michael Keaton. When the original Batman came out I was three or four. So, and I do remember those original Batmans before Batman Forever which is why I wanted to go see Batman Forever Michael Keaton Batman yeah cuz I'd be keeping Batman's cuz I loved those and then the Batman animated series but like Batman Forever with Tommy Lee Jones and Jim Carrey and Val Kilmer and Drew Barrymore Nicole like the introduction of Robin and like it was like a and like the first two were very like gritty. And, and this one was very like colorful and, and like a comic book and I love Val Kilmer, I love Batman with the lisp.

Uh, in that movie and Nicole Kidman's fine ass in that movie. Like, so I've always had an affinity for Val Kilmer since Batman forever. And then like got to watch his other stuff. So I think felt like the passing of the tour, like that felt like millennial Batman, you know what I mean? Like where because it was so 90s at Joel Schumacher directed Batman Forever because so colorful to your point like in way different and yeah, I mean, I loved it.

I liked it. So I will say something that not many people say. Val Kilmer is my Batman. Whoa. Yeah. I mean, it ain't George Clooney for me. It would not even Christian Bale for me. Like I, it would be between Michael Keaton and Val Kilmer for me. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I think I'll give the edge to Michael Keaton though. That's fair. That's fair. That is the, that is the popular opinion, which is popular for a reason. Uh, because it is generally true, but I loved Val Kilmer. Did y'all see the documentary, uh, the Val Kilmer documentary a couple of years ago? I heard it was fantastic.

I did not see it. Is it good? Yeah. I heard it was good. You know, as, as it's good. Yeah. Is it just like, just sort of, is it like a retrospective on his life or just kind of where he's at or?

Yeah. Kind of all of both. Uh, it's really, just sort of, is it like a retrospective on his life or just kind of where he's at or? Yeah, kind of all of both. It's really, really well done. And his son narrates it and sounds exactly. It's almost he's, he's narrating it as his father in the first person, but his voice sounds just like him. So like, it's almost like he got his voice back, you know, for this this thing and it's really very moving. Oh man. That's beautiful. Well, Chuck, thank you so much for joining us on the Daily Zeitgeist Man. It's been an absolute pleasure and an honor. Where do the people find you, follow you, hear you, all that good stuff? Stuff you should know is we're in our 17th year

so if you can't find that show, then you need more help than I can help you with Where do you get your podcast is that they say? You can I'm on Instagram. That's the only thing I do Chuck the podcasters my Instagram handle You know want to see pictures of me and my yeah dogs and stuff like that And also your apron shout out your new apron you bought at the beginning of the year I also man. Oh geez. I can't remember the brand now. But yeah, it's good looking apron. I I'm I've been on the apron game for three years now because I

love cooking. And especially when you're like crying something sizzling I had Yeah, I would just get all something like oil pop stains on my shirts and stuff that I'm like, what am I doing? Is there a work of media social or otherwise any kind of media that you've been enjoying that you want to put people on to or just shout out generally? I'm gonna shout out a TV show that's kind of newish but I know a lot of people are watching the studio but I am way into that show. I think it's any

industry movie industry TV industry stuff is always fun for me and I think it is brilliant. I think Seth Rogen is just fucking amazing how incredibly talented that guy is. The second episode, The WONDER, is just incredible television and I like everything about it. I just started it and, Jackie, I think it's definitely requisite viewing for anyone interested who that idea appeals to you. But when you're, when you really, when you know kind of the vibe, it's, it hits in a way that is terrifyingly hilarious. And also they say Catherine Han's character is like shading someone very specific in the industry. And now I'm really curious what that is.

Have you seen it? I'll watch it. I have, I do have trouble watching things that I went up for and didn't get. Oh, but I will watch it. Cause like it did go to someone who is, I love Dwayne Perkins is fantastic. And, uh, uh, he's great. And so I love, I love Dwayne. Uh, and like, it seems like such a fun show and I've heard nothing but good things about it, so I'll I love Dwayne. And like it seems like such a fun show and I've heard

nothing but good things about it so I'll swallow my pride. Trying to bring up a pain point for you. No, it's completely fine. It's completely fine. I hear it's fantastic though. I hear it's great. People love it and there's so many good people in it too. Yeah, yeah. It's really, I was, I was taken aback. Absolutely. Jackie's where do the people find you follow you hear you all of that good stuff. Listen, you know, if you give me just 60 seconds, I'll say you can find me always in these streets. Yes. You can also find me at Jackie's Neil on

Instagram. Blue sky, whatever you are on. Also, I mentioned this yesterday. I'll mention it again. Comedian clash. We are doing a little mini Texas tour coming in June to Texas. We're doing a three city tours, Austin, Houston, Dallas. I still have not announced it. We have not fully announced it officially yet.

So these are the first things I'm announcing it. So keep your eyes out in the next like three ish weeks. We'll be announcing the tours and tickets will be going on sale and everything like that. I'm also keeping an eye on, on Dropout TV. You know, that's all I can say until things are announced. But just keep your eyes out for that. A work of media and I like it.

I just put something in the chat. Miles, have you seen this? I have seen this. And I like it. I just put something in the chat. Mm hmm. Oh, my. Trouble in Atlanta. Have you seen this? I have seen this. So this is this. Oh my hawks. There you go. This is this is.

So, you know, like during halftime when like or like timeouts or whatever where they have like little games at basketball games, they have little like things for the fans to do. This one was two fans and they had to like run to opposite ends of the court and do layups and like do multiple layups and blah, blah, blah. That's basically what the game was. Layup contest. Uh, if you started at like 13 seconds, one of the dudes who's going to do a layup like tears his ACL to the layup.

And then the woman who's the host does not know what to do. Yeah. And then I was, I was so high when I watched this last night. And I was on the fucking floor laughing. That's why I make sure if you do one of these things, look at the paperwork you're signing. Okay. I don't know. He might be SLO with that ACL surgery, but here we go.

Yeah. So they're at the half court line. They're getting warm up. sign. Okay, I don't know. He might be SLL with that ACL surgery, but here we go. So they're at the half court line. They're getting warmed up. Here we go. Oh Even his opponent is like that Tic Tac Toe. She's just in the back leg. Even his opponent is like, hey, should I? And she makes him stop doing the layups like, can you stop doing layups and come check on James with me? It is so fucking funny to me. Uh, it might not be funny. Anybody else?

I was at that game. You were at that game? I was, I didn't see that though. I was, it was, I was, you know, I was getting a game. You were at that game? I was. I didn't see that though. I was it was I was you know I was getting a beer or something. You were a little bit concessions. I wasn't in there But my buddy told me about it when I got back. I got a lot of Hawks games. So so funny. That's Also like that's also a terrible injury that's I'm like I'd like it's funny like in a comedic sense But like it is what I feel bad for him. You're like damn you did that ad hoc game for nothing. Man and then he got to have he got to he had to be taken off on the

stretcher. Also did he slip on some moisture like he slipped I don't know if he slipped because his knee gave out like Gucci's going up. Lawsuit. Oh no I don't know I'm sure he signed something where he cannot sue. Call Sweet James this would be another moment if we were sponsored by Sweet James Lawfur. You would have, this man should be suing. That's Chuck's dad right there, Sweet James. Sweet James Bryant. Oh, we, oh yeah, that's true. My dad was James actually, yeah.

Here we are. He's no, he's no Jimmy Safelight though. Oh yeah, he's no, yeah. Uh, a work of media I like is from at Janice.B.Sky.Social posted, give Hayao Miyazaki a GAT, full legal immunity and the home addresses of Open AIs Board of Directors because of the Ghibli AI stuff. It's an abomination to Ghibli fans I gotta say. At Layon B.Sky.B.Sky.Social posted, my new theory is that once you have a certain amount of money and wealth you start to go crazy and detach from reality that number is different for everyone for me it's $20. at miles of gray pretty much anywhere. You can also find this show at the Daily Zeitgeist on Twitter

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That's where we link off to the information we talked about in the episode and also the song that we are going to ride out on. I just want to say, as you probably heard on Monday's episode, I'm getting back into music because after the fire, I lost all my musical equipment and I've just been yearning to make music again. But part of that has been for me has been DJing, because I used to DJ a ton when I was in high school and college.

So I just started dipping my toe back in DJing. And I'm like so overcome by some of these old school like dance house tracks from yesteryear that just hit so hard for whatever reason. And there's just one song I just need to shout out. Everyone's heard it, but it is I think one of the best tracks. It's the bomb by the bucket heads. Okay.

Sounds moving to my mind. That track, that whole track, but the longer version has such a great build up. I just want to say put that in your stereo and have a good time because it gives me great joy and I hope it does for you, too. So that's it for today. The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit iHeartRadio, iBabble Podcasts, wherever they give these's it for today. The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeart Radio. For more podcasts from iHeart Radio, visit the iHeart Radio, i have Apple Podcasts, wherever. They give these things away for free. That's going to do it for us today or this afternoon

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