The Daily Zeitgeist - Happy Life Hidden Wife, Dumbest Trump Son? 07.10.26

Episode Date: July 10, 2026

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The full shirt is, don't bother me. I'm high as hell. And it's just a crab. Is a crab smoking anything? Nope. It's just a crab. This is. That's a good shirt.

I'm not going to lie. Well, so I agree. I like it. It's one of my favorite, like, dumb. I like the hefty caveat. You're like, okay. I'm just, okay. I'm high as hell crab shirt.

Here's what I will say. On one level. Well, that, this is, I think this is a world we live in now, which is that this is like an Instagram shirt. I just bought it. Because, like, I, you know, like, because your highest hell, don't bother me. Yeah, I love, I love, I love, I love, I love, I love, I love, the message. My,

my point though is that, like, I feel like there's a reasonable chance. This shirt in particular, this has all the trappings of some AI generated shit. We'll allow it. We'll allow it. We'll allow it for this one. You know what I mean? Like, because the idea is so weird? I'm just saying it could be. And

I don't know. I like that. You're like, you're like, I don't know, it could be AI, but that shit slaps, bro, I'm kidding that. I just didn't, I didn't, like, think it through. This is from just, this is before the era of, I, I don't know. The answer is I don't know. I like crabs as a high seeming animal. I've never really thought about that, but they do

just, like, kind of chill there. They have no facial expressions, so it's easy to project. You're like, dude, that crab is high as fuck. Well, they have slight facial expressions because their eyes can move. So they can. Their eyes are like, right.

Yeah, hey, their eyes are up here. Hey, hey, hey, my eyes are all the way up here. I know I'm high, bro, not being paranoid, but my eyes are up here. Have you ever seen the spider web experience? Yeah. The spider web. Yeah, I feel like I'm much tougher. You ever seen the spider on weed?

Yeah, wasn't one of them cocaine? And it was like all jagged. It was, it was the, it was a control group, LSD, cannabis, sleeping pills, caffeine, and benzatein. They gave them a whole sleeping pills? Just a whole one. It won't swallow the dang thing. I just want to see a spider holding onto a one pill.

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I sit down each week with a special guest and we discuss the absolute best of things. It's that and then there's everything else. Dude, his whole life has sounded like the first drop of a roller coaster. I mean, I can't even tell you Paul how crazy he was. It was insane. Listen to Paul's best podcast on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The World Cup is underway and it's been incredible. On our podcast, The Away End with Daniel Alarcon and John Green,

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as the field is whittled down to one World Cup champion on July 19th. Listen to the away end with Danielle Alarcon and John Green on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 446, episode 5 of DirtyEzykies! It's a production of IHeartRadio as a podcast where we take a deep dive into American Share Consciousness through the day's news. We also have a new non-news history version of the Daily Zykeyes dropping each Monday, more. It's about six months old. Maybe I can take new out of there.

More, we do a deep dive into the zeitgeist through the lens of a different icon. Have you, have you guys heard? of these. You've seen these? This past week we re-ran one of our best episodes about Sherlock Holmes with one Andrew T. T-I. T-I. Uh-oh. We also recently talked about

Uncle Sam. And we got Bjorke. Bejork. Beir. That's a fun one. It's like, it's not even fun. It's like, I think it's the one where we have always been like, this is so fuck, she's so fucking dope. So cool, man.

Everybody just fanning out. They're like Conan in that video. Everybody should watch is amazing. I'm so good. I might listen to the shit. I will say this. Bjork has got to be the most famous ice blander, right? Yes. It's her and King Harold Bluetooth, probably.

I thought he was Finnish. Oh, King Harold Bluetooth? Oh, maybe. I thought that's why Nokia named it after, named Bluetooth after. Oh, yeah, shit. Never mind. It's her in a lot of like strongest man in the world competition. But that's what I'm saying.

She's the most famous, but is maybe the least emblematic Icelander. Every other Icelander I've ever seen is not like Bjork. Right. No. Every other human being I've ever seen. Well, yes. Also not like Bjork. Right.

I put her as a first ballot Hall of Famer in the category of people we'd be least surprised to find out they were aliens the whole time. Right. Yeah. Like she's got to be way up there. I used to say like Andre 3000, but not anymore once he did that shaving app. But with, I mean, I feel like if we had access to like, especially in the 90s, like Icelandic domestic TV, I bet you could see some Bjork ads that would really have taken the eye of it. No. She's been weird the whole time.

No, she wouldn't have done that. She turned down a record deal as a child because she's like, I'm about to heart. The least weird thing she ever did was at 11, she recorded an album. like covers of famous songs, but in Icelandic, and like she did like full on a hill, like a Beatles song. But then they were like, all right, now do some more square shit. She was like, fuck that. I'm, I'm into punk now. And she's 11. And she's like joining bands that are like spit and snot rocket fuck. Yeah. So she did a square thing and then immediately was like, fuck, dude. Just inhaling a lot of, uh, voluble. Just inhaling a lot of, uh,

volcanic vapor. Yeah. Yeah. She was saying, she's 30% volcano. I saw a thing, we didn't mention on the show, but she was like,

I sing like this because of the geography of Iceland. She's like, she's got lots of theories. She'll be like, I will sing small because I'm on the hill, but then I have to go up. And then I have to use a louder voice to hear myself. She's like,

she just says she was singing. I'm, anyway, the god. This is, this is great. Yeah, a voice that can communicate with the whales.

Bo do do do do. It's Friday, July 10th, 2026. Hey, guess what? That's National French Friday, National Pena Colada Day, National Kittin Day. It's all spoke, what else is it, National Wyoming Day, Pink Blueberries Day. And hey, for us, you know, we're going to be recording actually from the Bahamas. The Bahamas. So shout out to the Bahamas because it's also Bahamas Independence Day, July 10th.

so look at you. Look at you. I know this is coming too late, but we can't be celebrating National French Friday because Belgian is just... Oh, mm. Well, that's what I got a French. They're Belgian freets, man.

Those are just French fried potatoes. All right. By the way... But also, Belgian... I mean, we deserve to get this shit kicked. Oh, my God. So it's such a fitting in... Oh, yeah.

Let's do it right now because I'm, what are you saying? What are you going to say, Andrew? I did not, two things. I did not realize how, like, thoroughly I was against the United States until Belgium scored, Belgium scored the second one. I was like, oh, my God. Yeah. You're like, hell you.

Usually, like my personal politics or feelings. I truly was like, no, seriously, fuck this team, fuck these guys in a way that. Because oftentimes in a big, like, tournament like this. I'll like eventually sigh and realize in my heart of hearts. Yeah, the year of the United States. Yeah, and this time I genuinely wasn't. It was truly my fucking guy, too.

I guess so. Yeah. At the red card. I went on for like 20 minutes on Monday or Tuesday morning about how I really think that they felt that too. They were like, well, fuck us. You know, like what, what? Like, how do you get up for a game when you are like,

your rich daddy is cheating and like get, like putting his thumb on it like you you feel you look like you should be ashamed of yourself it's different like because at that point you don't have the psychological edge to be like man we're going to have to overcome this yeah yeah yeah powerhouse in belgium exactly the opposite yeah and now you like fuck this oh fuck also they're gonna kick this out of us aren't they any good player is getting texts from their european teammates on a club level being like fuck you how you like that I like that. By the way, Wyoming, the least populous U.S. state with 58,000 people.

And the reason I know that is because it is still more populous than Iceland, which is 402,000 people. I was going to say, yeah, that means like each senator from Wyoming basically is like half of L.A. City Council in terms of sole. Right. Yeah, yeah, constituency for sure. Not power, actually. Just, yeah, the way more power. More powerful, but. Way more people.

But all that grass and all those rocks and shit that they preside over. Anyways, my name's, wow, we're still in the name. My name is Jack O'Brien, AK. I am Mitchell McConnell, and my brain is a goner. I went hard in the paint for nigh on four decades. I'm a pain in the ass of every. working class person and I wouldn't have it any

other way. Yeah. Yeah, that one courtesy of Christyamaguchi man on the Discord. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Hey, it's Miles Gray. The leader of the Islamic Republic

of Japan, aka the Hyatola Bromani. Shout out to Donald Trump, I've never even thought of the Islamic Republic of Japan. Yeah. It's crazy.

That's when your brain is really off that shit. Like, and the Islamic Republic of Japan. It's just like the sort of shit I say to my kids when I'm like so tired that I like, you just can't keep your like it. You say the Islamic Republic of Japan fired 11. I would say that if I was like literally like had one foot in consciousness, you know. Yeah.

Oh, those are. are the best when you do that like half asleep mumbling. Yeah. I do a lot of time in her match, she's like, what the fuck did you just say? I'm like, why? I didn't actually say anything. You just imagine that. I don't think I said anything.

Yeah. I have actually did, wasn't asleep. It's like kind of a unique set of ignorances. Yeah. To say something. It's actually like pretty thrilling. Like, how do you even get there? Like, amazing stuff.

I'm impressed, actually. Yeah. Miles was thrilled to be joined in our third seat by one of our very favorite guests. the hilarious and brilliant producer, TV writer. You know him, of course, from the EOSIS Races podcast and the new starter track podcast. It's Andrew T. Hey. Andrew T.

I got less than nothing as far as AKAs this week. I'm sorry. Hey, it's okay. I actually didn't even have time to look at the discord for a shitty one. We reached out to you T minus five minutes before we started recording. Andrew T minus five minutes before recording. There it is. There's your A.k. I thrilled to have you here.

Thank you. Who are you rooting for in the World Cup? You anti-American hater ass. It's always the colonized. So, Morocco gets to go up against their former colonizer. Yeah. Yeah, in France. I don't know how that's, I don't know how that's going to work out.

Well, I know they have the nobody believes in us. They have, if God be on our side, then who can be against them? They met in the 2022 World Cup in the later stages. And yeah, gave them a good fight. So yeah, Morocco is good. But I mean, without getting to my some other World Cup thoughts, I mean, I think the, some of the officiating, maybe if we watch Egypt and Argentina, pretty, we'll call it at minimum fairly anti-African. Yes.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that doesn't seem to be a trend that we're seeing. So, yeah. That shit was crazy. Yeah, that was awful. Yeah, yeah. Anyways, Andrew, 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 the things we're talking about. We've got a very specific type of white supremacy cropping up on the mega side. And that is white supremacist, mega politician who is ashamed of his beautiful Indian wife. That's a trend. We're seeing it. Yeah. Hey, you know that's saying happy wife or wait, no, happy life, hidden wife. That's right.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hidden wife? Happy life. Happy life. As a Maga Grifter. We're going to talk about meta data centers, which have kindly donated fecal bacteria to a local community. We're going to talk about Eric Trump's Bitcoin venture being down.

Let me see if I have this right. $600 million. That's good. Incredible. That's good. Incredible. Shares have plummeted more than 95%. 95%, brother. Then we're going to check him with the Glad just released their annual where we are in film study, previously known as the Studio Responsibility Index, and we're going to talk about

the results. There is one genre of movie that's doing okay. and the rest, well, you'll see. Not so good. And then we'll talk about how movies are released these days in the context of The Odyssey. And when critics are allowed to review it versus I Show Speed or, you know, Mr. Beast's review, all of that plenty more.

But first, Andrew, we do like to ask our guests. What is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Oh man, I searched a guy trying to live forever because I couldn't remember the name of Brian Johnson. That creep who like, you know, among other things, it's like blood bagging his son. Yeah. Blood bagging my son just like Brian Johnson. There's he, what he's the dude who measures his boners?

There's semen stuff involved. Oh, yeah, boner strength stuff. Yeah. Anyway, obviously, you know, like the creepiest version of. biohacker. And the problem is, so apparently he, there was just like enough, like, I don't know, like he has some sort of autoimmune disease, but it probably he's just making a big deal about it anyway. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, we were, that was, that was, I think a lot of people's theories of like, when you come out and all the headlines, you're like, I have an incurable autoimmune disease.

People were like, oh my God, what? And then like, then you have to like read like a comment from a gastroenterologist. She's like, this is a, this is an autoimmune disease. Yes, it is man. I mean, incurable autoimmune disease is also hay fever. So, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So he's got it. But look, that's a good. And I was like, this is a good angle to set up your next grift, which is like, and I had an incurable autoimmune disease, which the doctors say barely is showing any kind of symptoms.

Because you're managing them, which is, those are true. Anyway, give me your boner blood. Anyway, I need the blood directly from your boner. It's different. 18. You're not going to get it, dude. You don't get it. It's a different kind of blood, totally. I'm just glad I don't know this guy's name. I know like who he is, but I know that is kind of a brag that you didn't know his name. I was just like, I mean, I, I, I knew who he was. So I can't tell if this is good or bad about me. Right. I'm not someone living in the blissful, like,

I don't know if the fuck any of these Twitter people are talking about Realm. Right. But I am not so in it that I like absolutely know who this fucker is. So right. Yeah. So that's, A hell of a name, too. His name sucks. Bad name, bro. Everything, I mean, obviously, everything about him sucks, but like, should have been Brian Bonerblood. BV.

Zordox. That should have been in the name. Zordox. Yeah, something like that, you know. He, because I think he wants to give sci-fi, you know? Yeah. And he wants to give. He's giving Brian Johnson.

Zordos. It really is like converging. I, like, this, he is a little bit why, like, he obviously has no problem with the AI aesthetic. because he is actively creating the AI aesthetic on his real face. I want to be smooth and uncanny looking. Smooth and glassy. Yeah, just very unpleasant.

Anyway, I didn't know who that guy was, and I'm sad to hear he doesn't have a real disease. He's going to come out. I was like, my new name, Zardaz. Remember that Sean Connery movie? Yeah, that was a good one. That was all about. Is that the one where he's wearing the leather?

Yeah, the leather kind of the borat costume? Yeah, yeah, with like a bikini bottom and like thigh-high boots, actually. Yeah. I remember about the power of the penis. Like there's, it's like a future society where they're like, the penis is more powerful than the gun or something like that. The penis mightier. Yeah.

Really? Yeah, it has like, it's like a weird futuristic post-apocalyptic thing where they talk speak very specifically about the penis. This guy's got a nice red bandoliers on with a nice. like Japanese Fundoci rap at the bottom Yeah

Heavy junk bro heavy That shit look heavy That's a lot That's a lot going on Regular just a regular ass revolver Yeah

I know I know for the future Like I We'd have a lot of budget To make a futuristic gun Yeah Just a handgun from 1935

Yeah What is something you think is underrated Oh, I did write this down. Okay, underrated. Oh, yes. Kitchen scissors. Specifically, just fucking not doing the kitchen prep you needed to do

and instead dumping it in the pan or the pot. Cisorne it up. Just fucking cut it up in the pan or pot. Wow. Yep. Just fucking chop it in there. I feel like I learned that from like Korean people. That was the first time I saw people straight.

I think it's a Korean thing. Just straight up in the pan. I'm like, that shit is efficient as fuck. Because I'm spent all this time with trying to do my knife work. Yeah. We got a lot of kitchen scissors and I'm often being yelled at for, because I always know where the kitchen scissors are. I don't know often where the non-kitchen scissors are.

And so I'm using kitchen scissors for non-kitchen scissors. For non-kitchen business and getting in trouble. Getting salmonella all over the kid's permission slips. Yeah, I agree. Getting wrapping paper all over my lentil stew. Yeah. That's why people, when they go to KBQ, go to the Korean barbecue, use them scissors. They give you scissors at the Korean Barbecue.

I remember, like, that was when I first was like, huh? I'm like, why there's scissors? They're like, look, look at his meat. Boom, there you go. Now fucking eat. I'm like, oh, I'm stupid. What is something you think is overrated, Andrew Tee? I think at this point, we got to say, I'm sure you guys talked about this already, but like, and this is a tweet that somewhere along the line I saw yesterday or today before, but like, how the fuck does TMZ DC, how the fuck are they not cracked whether Mitch McConnell is alive?

Yeah. Anyone, any journalist. Like, what is, where are they keeping him that you can't get in there, that you can't talk to the people? He has a secret service detail, like, stationed, right? I mean, I can understand that, but he still has, like, nurses. Yeah, there's still people who don't, who are the workers that you can be like, hey, bro, what's going on in there, bro? How much you want? Three grand, five grand? Four bucks? Yeah.

Yeah. I guess it's true. I guess, I guess, I guess, as producer Catherine started pointing out, he could easily be in a place where he actually doesn't need much attending to. Except from a mortician. Right. Right. We may have focused his needs down to a single, a single need. But on a little makeup, makeup.

Yeah, I'm just like, though, I mean, come on. Like, I go, guys. I cannot believe the discipline in this, in all honesty. Right. I'm genuinely a little surprised. It's tough. Yeah, it's hard to say. We used to be a country.

Yeah. We used to be able to find out about the president. Dude, getting a blowjob from an intern. People knew. Can't even find out if those motherfucker's dead. People who died found out they died before they died from TMZ. That's right. And somehow this is like the most.

This says I'm dead. Opaic black box in American history that we can't fucking get any idea about. It's just fucking odd. I mean, I guess the one thing is it's like compared to Trump, like McConnell actually did seem to know what he was doing. His machine seems to be actually competent. So maybe that's what's happening is they actually. are unlocked. They've been ready for this.

They've had, you know, a whole medical staff swore to secrecy ready to go. But, yeah, I don't know.

I don't know. I'm just surprised. I'm just surprised that we don't know one way or the other for real. Right, because, like, also it's not just

Democrats who would need, would like to know if he was incapacitated. Like, also the mega wing is trying to get somebody in there to replace him

with somebody who's like far, far, right? So there's multiple, interests who want to find this shit out. And this motherfucker is just... He's just on it.

On it to the end. Almost a shell of protection. Maybe he'll be the first senator to upload his consciousness to an AI and continue to be an office. Phil's kind of in line. He comes out as just one of those iPads on a segue. Exactly. Moving forward.

But still like blanking out when being asked questions and falling over. It's like, it's the same consciousness. Yeah, I can see that. I mean, I think that's maybe what it is. He's uploaded, but it's still like current gen AI. So like it's maybe like a wee bit more liberal. We need like five more months to dial this thing in, man. Yeah.

He's still like into the idea of like parity and equity. Yeah, we need training data. It's more of a training data issue than a, he's not enough of a Nazi somehow. Yeah. And we tried. We had all the information. We fed it all kinds of wacky shit, man. But it's the entire internet.

regular Twitter. And he's still not as much of a Nazi as he actually is. I don't know. I'm just saying, I'm, you know, whether to put it in under or over. I'm surprised. It is reflective of TMZ not, like being off there. Like that is who is holding the L on this one. I feel like a really good con man could find out.

Yeah. You know what I'm saying? It just doesn't feel like you're breaking into Norris. or some shit or Area 51. It's like, dude, put on a fucking smock. Get a fake badge. You're doing your rounds. Sorry, I'm just doing the rounds.

Yeah, I'm actually, I'm the new intern. Just like, oh, who's in this room? Oh, sorry, I didn't know you're in there. And then be like, he did. This is so doable. This is more doable than almost anything. And the reason I'm singling out TMZ is like, they just have no compunction. Like, there's no ethical line for them.

No, no, no. So like, as they proved as a past. They'll be like, hey, you want to see their death, like the room they died in? Here's a photos, dude. There's a whole full 3D video. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, I'm just going in there.

I'm in a blue smock. I've got one of those metal cans that they spray for pests with. Yeah. And I'm just going all around his body. Sorry, just here to spray for pests. Spraying for ants. You just got a fucking, you got a gop. You got those meta glasses on.

They're just blinking. Yeah. What's their glasses, buddy? They protect my eyes from the fumigation stuff. That's right. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk about a new type of asshole.

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Just basically appears to be your run of the mill. white nationalist congressman. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Acts like he has more than three racist thoughts in his limp dick brain. He loves to scream about Muslim people being subhuman or like, all cultures are not equal, actually.

Some are far superior. And also likes to do that like racist thing where he pretends to be like offended to the point of passing out over like seeing South Asian people eat rice with their hands. When he's like, oh my God, disgusting. Look at these people. They eat with their hands.

How do I eat fried chicken? With a fork and knife. Spoon. Yeah, because that's because they think that it's not manly to wash your hands after you take a poop. Yeah, exactly. I've had a lot of tummy aches after that. But, like, his brand is, like, I am racist white guy who has, like, a Timo Clark Kent haircut. Yeah, he's straight up.

He's got the super. He said, give me the superman. He's going for Superman. Give me the fucking Clark can't curl. He's got that little ass curl in the middle of his head. He calls a Clark Kent curl with three Ks, though. That's how he spells it. So he recently posted this on Twitter.

He said, calling us racist doesn't work anymore. Quote, the left is one debate tactic. Call you a racist and pray you shut up. I never will. That last part is true. Yeah, but also calling us racist doesn't work anymore. I don't think it ever worked, to be honest. Yeah. I never stopped you fuckers.

Just like, I mean, maybe for the people who had a shred of like, who are somewhat scrupulous, they were like, yeah, it's like, I can't really be going out there with this shit all the time. But yeah, if you're an actual racist and you're like, yeah, man, I got all, that's my opinion is right. That's not going to stop your dumb ass. Yeah. And then, so then he like, then posted a picture with his two children, his two seemingly white children. So he could use them as props for another dumb. propaganda fundraising email. It's like him holding his two kids who look

kind of terrified and he's like, you can call me any name you want. I just want my children to grow up in a country that they recognize every parent and grandparent needs to read this. And this is read full message for fundraising. He wants his children to grow up in a country that they recognize.

So are white people. What's their I just mean what's these fucking kids look like they're under three. What's their basis for comparison for them to be able to recognize the country? I'm just, I'm getting a little bit of a country that has mobiles everywhere. Little cars, yeah, are little tight cars. All the toilets are made of little plastic that have like a little wash basin you can take out to then empty into the toilet.

And they have eyes on them. Yeah. Yeah. It's sort of everything's like. I want the toilet to look like it's eating my poop. I want our person to be cocoa melons. Everything's either a brown shape or a slightly less brown. Right, depending on their age.

Honestly, I don't know if that newborn can recognize your fucking face, sir. Yeah. But anyway, the picture, again, is just him and his kids. So you go, what of the mother? Did she pass away, like, tragically? Is he a single father? Is a single dad? I can see why he'd be so angry. Man, did you rescue these white children from a war zone where you were a sniper?

And you pulled them out from the rubble and you're like, I'll raise these white kids as my own. Or is she not in the picture? It's Army Hammer's next movie, by the way. The Brandon Gill store. Yeah, they're Brandon picking up, picking kids up out of their rubble and raising them as your own. He's like, oh, these ones are white. But for one reason, white kids on his back. Yeah, for one reason, he's like, yeah, they're like, wog you children.

He's like, yeah, man, I just like feed them. You just find them on the ground. Yeah, just spit beer into their coat, give them massages and helps the marbling. But yeah, I think maybe it could be the third. This reason could be why there is no wife. Is it because she is Indian? Jesus. Not white.

Here's the deal. Brandon Gill is married to Danielle DeSuzza, the daughter of MAGA propagandist Dinesh DeSuzza. Wow. So this is a fucking union made in MAGA hell. And, you know, when he isn't humiliated by her mud blood, he posts highly filtered images of her that seem to be doctored for the purpose of making her, like, more white passing. Like, there's one picture that isn't as doctored. And you're like, okay, whatever. Like, she's just very attractive.

Like, you're like, oh, wow. Yeah, pretty well. Good for you, man. Then there's like this other picture. If you look at this, like, filtered one, it's like this, it looks like that Kardashian's mobile game. Yeah. They're like somewhat animated. And you're like, is this a real fucking face?

I mean, it might not be. The thing that looks the most fake that might just be a contrast thing, but it does look like her head is, our face is pasted on a different body. Yeah, there's a lot of, a lot of, a lot of, a lot of, a lot of, a lot. going on. Either way, he's very gaugy about posting her, which is just like a general thing. And anyway, it's just like a lot of people pointed out, they're like, are you, are you,

are you like, are you like, are you like slight? You're just a little bit like, you're kind of like J.D. Vance or J.D. Vance, like, obviously he's out there with Usha, but he's like, God, I'd wish you'd just lay off the fucking non-Christian bullshit and just like, come to the Lord and fucking be saved. But you know, that's,

and that's why it works. That's why that's why I let her have her religion, you know? I should know this, I guess. who Chavans is not Catholic also? No, no, no, she's Hindu. Oh, Hindu? Yeah. Is she, oh, wow.

Yeah. Yeah, she's so fucking wild. Yeah, she's like a practicing. And so he, and he talks, like, he was lamenting this at a turning point event, like last year, where he was like, God, she's like into this fucking other, just hind. I don't even know what the fuck it is, dude. They don't even have Christmas. He's like, like other people in mixed faith relationships, I'm just going to be patient and hope she comes to the Lord. Yeah.

Yeah, right. Like, I need not know that. I, because I would just assume she would play her part in the grift, which was, I genuinely, like, I feel like a previous generation would, you know, of Ushah Vance would have converted to Catholicism, made a big deal about how this is the one true thing. And I finally thought of a lie, blah, blah, blah. Yeah. Again, we used to be a country. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's to be a goddamn country.

But then I think it speaks to, like, who J.D. Vance probably was before he became, like, went for the right-wing grift. was like, he was like, yeah, this is my wife. She, I don't care if she's Hindu or whatever. And he's like, okay, I need to convert to Catholicism. Yeah, he fucked up. And now he's like pressing, just making her. You got married before the grift. Yeah, exactly.

Well, he just didn't know what the grift was. He thought the grift was going to be centrist, send her right. Yeah, I'm the, I'm the good one. Right, right, right. So I know we talked about you changing your last name when we got married. I'm also going to need you to change your first name, girl. Yeah, it's going to need to be Marsha Vance. A godly woman does change her first name.

Yeah, exactly. Something a little more like, what about like usher? Usher bands. You do this dance for me? You know? You put all these. Or usher. Whatever you want.

I don't know. It just, it is what it is. But yeah, it's just like the GOP also has the weirdest relationship like with Indian people. Like, they'll be like, oh, yeah, we got Vivek Ramoswami, these other people. And then immediately they, they are just tossed under the bus. This guy. Well, the second they're like, I'm not totally. I don't think that.

throw out, I don't think the GOP has, I think these right-wing Indians have a week. Sure, okay. Sure. Sure. With their own Bram. Yeah, there's definitely a lot of that internalized racism. But I think it's also interesting too, because the thing you see the most, like, they always attack South Asians for eating with their hands.

Yeah, like across the board, it just becomes just like generalized attack to be like, they're not decent because they're eating with their hands. Yeah. And it's like, you mean like your wife? Yeah. Which is also crazy because he's posting that shit and it's like, whatever. I mean, I get it.

I mean, I think more than Usha Vance, like Dinesh DeSuzza's kid, I think is obviously way more comfortable was raised. This is how she was raised. So, like, I think she's got to be like, you know, like, I'm not, you know, I'm one of the good ones, blah, blah, blah. I'm assimilated.

Like, Usha Vance trying to pretend like, oh, I'm just, I'm just a harmless, like, you know, second lady doing reading stuff. Like, get the fuck out of here. Literally no one who voted for you literally knows how to read. What are you talking about?

Graduate from Dartmouth College. Congratulations, Dartmouth College. Yeah. Danielle. Yeah, yeah. But it's like, it's a lot of these guys, it's like, I wonder if someone will ever divorce their non-white partner to like really fucking like reinforce their bonafides as, you know, racist, ethno-nationalist.

You're like, yeah, I can't. I don't know what I would. is thinking, guys. But see, I think none of that is necessary as the thing. No, surely not. Because people, because there's enough people who are conservatives who are, are interracial marriages. But it's just funny.

Like, I just feel like there's something so performative to that it just feels like some weird escalation some guy's going to do. Yeah. And I had to do that, man. You know what I mean? Because it's just, it's just not right, man. It's not right. But also it's like, like, turn white.

It's like, well, I mean, that's sort of the like internalized racism is like, you know, Danielle is also like, I would turn white if I could. In a second. Are you kidding me? I went to fucking Dartmouth. I think she is. I think she might be biracial, too. Oh, yeah.

You think Dinesh just who's married to anything but a white lady. Oh, let's see. Or no, actually, maybe's partner. I don't know who that. Dixby, Dixie Brewbaker. Oh, that could be, that could be anyways. Dick. Dixie Brubeckery.

I don't know, man. Dixie Brewbaker. Is she a fucking prospector? Crazy. Your name's fucking Dixie, too. Dixie Brufaker. You made an old fucking Yeah.

Old gold miner from the gold russ. The saloon is clean when she's around. Right. Oh yeah. Because he, dude, he dated. That's great. Dude, his fucking body count is insane. Denech.

He used to date Laura Ingram and Ann Coulter. I think there it is. That's sort of like the secret dating pool though, too. But it's also like the inverse of like Brandon Gill where they're like, I don't know, this didn't ask. He's got some flavor and he's racist like me. I think I could fuck with this a little bit. You know what I mean? And then be denied we ever hooked up.

It's good for my cred actually. Yeah. It makes it seem. But I think that's what it is. It's like, oh, how could we be white nationalists when we have an Indian friend? Right. Right, right, right. I dated a Nazi when I'm dating this brown Nazi.

Yeah. All right. Two other quick pieces of news. Yeah. Data centers are now literally shitting on us. Yeah. So they're expected to use as much water as 1.3 billion people by 2030. So in that way, they are fucking us in the future.

But they're also dumping all their shit into the water we still have. It was just determined that construction on META's data center in Wyoming, Wyoming Day, baby, was responsible for contaminating the local water supply with Gardia, bacteria that can cause severe lung and blood infections, which, you know, those aren't that important, your lunging or blood, and can even lead to sepsis, which, okay, that's not good. Not ideal. The Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities has since permanently revoked Meta's ability to discharge its construction wastewater into its system and adopted new policies that ban wastewater discharge from certain types of data centers. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Great, great, great. It's, I mean, really one of the most popular things in the U.S. if you poll voters.

It's like, it's like one of the few things, one of like those issues now that like has bipartisan hatred. Yeah. It's like AI data centers. Because for people that live near them, they're like, what the fuck is that, dude? Yeah. It's making noise constantly. I mean, I guess what is this water? This is already, it's already in the water, obviously, because it's not presumably.

It's in the input water. Presumably, maybe it's how human like these intelligences are. I know. I know. There's a part of me that's like, oh, AI is, oh, we've, we've, we're at a. singularity where it does have a digestive system. Right. But yeah, I mean, this is meta's whole business model, do things at massive scale,

that they have no ability to control or monitor and then eat the fines because the massive scale is making them enough money to just overlook it. I mean, for now. Yeah. They are phasing lawsuits that total up to their entire network. And their scale is like, you know, diminishing returns on the effectiveness of their product and worth worth. I mean, that's why they tried to create a new world.

Yeah. The metaverse. And that didn't work. Two big swings. But yeah, I mean, like, the only thing Facebook really has is just their advertising business. And Facebook Marketplace, which, by the way, stopped using that shit, everyone. Like, I know everyone's like, oh, that's the one good thing.

Don't do shit that gives them money. Is that the Instagram? Like, when people buy shit on Instagram? No, Facebook Marketplace is, it's like Craigslist, basically. It does, like, almost exactly what Craigslist used to do. Yeah. Yeah. There's a, I mean, there's like also like offer up. Like you can use.

Yeah, there's other places. Like if you need. There's other ways to do it. Zuckerberg, Richard. It's like, oh yeah, wait, no, that's open. I wonder who owns that. But the, yeah, just the thing with like the data centers, like, even like, you even have like Byron Donald's who's running for governor in, in Florida.

And he's even like, he's even said, like, part of his campaign website, he said he pledges to quote, protect Florida's families and communities from data centers. We were just like, oh boy. Like when a Republican running for office in Florida is like, damn, bro, like, I think, I think they kind of need to hear this. You guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, it's, it's a hard one.

And also, I think it falls in line with just sort of more, it's like another, it's like a physical manifestation for people of how oligarchs will do whatever the fuck they want. And if it eats up your water and pollutes your air and ruins your peace of where you live, get fucked, bro. Like, we do what we want. And I think that's fighting, like trying to cape or protect and, you know, support the expansion of data centers just puts you on the side of like the oligarchy, which is kind of a tough sell optically. And also like just diminishing returns everywhere. Like it's not worth it.

The processing power is not worth it. The thing that it's doing, the way that it's doing is not worth it. Like it's not going to make anyone money once like the rug gets pulled on the stock market. I'm just surprised that people are like, like right wing politicians or politicians of any kind are like actually reading these tea leaves. Yeah. It's just like, okay.

I mean, I think people, just like for everybody listening, just know what's probably going to happen is the AI bubble will fucking pop threaten the entire economy and then we're going to pay for it. We're going to have to bail these fuckers out because they've been nuzzling up to Trump this whole fucking time and Congress. And just so you know, when even more of the money that was supposed to be in our pockets,

it's going to go to keep fucking Sam Altman, you know, liquid. Yeah, I do. I do worry about Sam. I'm glad that he has that golden parachute. Yeah. He's so worried about AI. All right, let's do a little bit of good news. Eric Trump's American Bitcoin Corp has reportedly cost the Trump family more than $600 million

as its shares have plummeted more than 95% since their peak last year. basically while other Bitcoin companies survived by renting their computing power to AI companies, the American Bitcoin Corps instead gambled that trusting in Bitcoin would pay off. It's like stay in the course. Hold, bro. Hold, bro. Let that shit go to the moon, fam. Don't even look at the momentum of investment that is rapidly going away from Bitcoin.

It's also perfect. like, how the hell did Eric Trump get on the right wing grift on the wrong time? Other than just being Eric Trump. They're just so dumb. Like, they can't, they're just like, you know, they're just playing with house money,

literally. And yeah, they can, and they'll continue to fail upward. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I'd hire the guy, you know? Yeah. It seems like he's got a good head on his shoulder. He just needs the right setup, man. It's the right project. This just been unlucky, man. He's been unlucky.

He's got hard, man. He's got hard. I always wondered because, like, SNL immediately was like, okay, Eric is the dumb one. And we're going to, like, portray him as the really stupid one. And Mikey Day will play a version of Donald Trump Jr.

That is, like, at least seems aware of the world around him. And Eric is, like, very dumb. I was like, where is that coming from? Because Donald Trump Jr. looks so stupid. Doofy. And appears to be so dumb. But I think they might have, might have known.

I think, I don't know. I mean, I guess it's, it's just aura. Like, yeah, he just has, he has a dumbass's aura. Yeah. But they both do. I don't know, I think that's the eyes of a doll. He's got a dollar of a dumb ass. They, like, they do have the perfect, like, Beavis and Butthead dynamic.

Yeah, they do. Like, you can just tell that Don Jr. is 3% smarter than Eric Trump. He's just there. I'm not saying either of them are smart. I'm just saying you can just tell. Whatever dumbass. They say that to each other so much. You know they do,

you know, you know they do like the saddest brother fights too, probably. Yeah. It's probably like in Detroiters with like Tim Robinson and Connor. Yeah. It feels like the kind of shit where like they, it's like so ineffectual and then one of them will say something like horrifyingly personal.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. But it's, I bet the cutting thing would be to talk about like their, like Ivana Trump's dad who is like their beloved. grandfather. He was like, you know, Pop Pop didn't even fucking love you. That's why I don't know

the hunting chase. And he's like, you fuck, don't say that. Man, that would be another, another assignment for the investigative

reporter journalists out there. Like, just get us inside that family. It has to be so fucking funny in there, you know? Not that hard. Yeah.

No. You think they've got good opposite. Yeah. Just these guys. Any hot person that's willing to do cocaine at the White House can get the fucking inside scoop.

Just someone's got to have a substack worth fucking reading. That's right. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk about what's going on in Hollywood with regards to the LGBTQ plus community and representation.

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And so glad just released their annual where we are in film study and found that the number of LGBTQ characters in feature films has. declined for the third year in a row. Jesus. Of the 225 movies released in 2025 by major distributors, 46 contained LGBTQ characters. There were zero trans characters. Wow, in film, completely.

Wow. Just completely. In American film. They also discovered that there were no LGBTQ characters in the 19 films categorized as animated family films rated PG and under, not even an open, an openly gay character, bravely kissing someone for 0.5 seconds in the distant background of a Pixar movie.

Oh, I watched that Buzzlight Your movie. And I was like, oh, there, they almost. No, they went. Oh, wait, wait. Sorry, the door closed. Don't know what happened behind that door. Don't know what happened behind that door. Move on, Childs. That's what that movie tanked. And it had nothing to do. That's what. It had nothing to do with the fact that it was the story of the man that the toy was based on from Toy Story.

it was, wait, so it was the movie that somebody had watched that had then caused them to create the fictional character Buzz Light Year. Yes. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. That is a good premise for a movie that is going to make a million dollars. Oh, wait, is a million dollars not that much?

It's going to make a billion dollars usually. I think it probably did make a million dollars. If it wasn't for woke. That's what's also crazy. Well, it's also in that study, they also found characters of color also decreased 36% from 2024's data. Yeah. New Hollywood. Yeah.

Or new Hollywood. They're trying to do. They're trying to do an 80s. Yeah. No, I mean, that's what it definitely feels like is if they're saying like from around the time, it's the third straight year,

it's that they did it. They put on a good face for like two years after 2020. Yeah. And then completely lost the appetite. And we're like, this isn't worth doing to us. So back to Z. The deal.

It's also that, like, they're not, like, half of Hollywood is an active propaganda arm that doesn't need to make money. Yeah, true. That's true. Like, because, like, it doesn't, like, if it was just money, you would realize that, like, a fast and furious, like, you know, like, black people and Latino people are going to movies and higher percentages than white people, things like that, like, more women are going to movies than men as a, you know, whatever.

So if it was catering to that, you know, whatever. So if it was catering to that. audience because your goal was to make money, you would do that. The problem is that most of these shits like just flood the zone with your propaganda. Yeah, they don't need to make money. So who cares? Yeah. So why cater to an audience?

So what is their model? Exactly. I mean, it doesn't, I don't know. Like, well, it's like, it's the same way with like how a lot of conservative podcasts and influencers in the Biden era. It is that. They're getting money dumped on them by. They're getting money dumped on them by.

They're getting money. jumped on them to create culture because it's all that sort of bright, Bart philosophy of politics is downstream of culture. So if you control the culture, then you can control politics. CBS News doesn't clearly, like, the mandate is not like, don't worry about the money.

Like on a different level, like, God, you know, whatever. Like Amazon Studios, like, doesn't really have to make money.

No. Yeah, not just Apple. They just have to make movies about the president's wife. So he looks on. them favorably. Yeah. You know,

the web of profit comes from a different area. Right. Yeah, yeah, exactly. It's basically like, well, this is an expense

for our global thing over. Yeah, this is a marketing expense or this is a, this is a lobbying expense. Because that's also why like, you know, a lot of analysis on like sort of like the rise of like the right wing talkosphere is just based on a lot of wealthy people,

not caring if it was profitable, but to merely just be like, how do I just make this like the most content out there is this shit? Yeah. Right. So, so that, but then that look pretty directly explains like, yeah, why, why would, you know, a organization whose primary goal seems to be right-wing propaganda? Why would they put gay or black characters in a, right? Unless they're the bad guy. Yeah, the media ecosystem being completely taken over by the, yeah, well, just the incentives are not like, yeah, right, right, like it's not, it's just not profit. Smart business, you know, yeah, yeah, exactly. The one bright spot. for significant inclusion was the horror genre, thanks to movies like,

I know what you did last summer, the reboot, and weapons. Horror has historically been a bit of a mixed bag for LGBTQ characters with notable heroes, but also victims,

villain roles. But yeah, to your point, Andrew, every theatrically released LGBTQ inclusive horror film made back over double the film's production budget.

Speaking of, this is a wreck, I actually haven't seen the movie yet. but I'm going to soon, but I've heard Leviticus is incredible. Is it a horror movie? The book of the Bible? Yeah, yes, that's what.

Well, one of the reasons I didn't see it initially is I was just scrolling. I hadn't read about it. And I was just like, oh, the, you know, this is one of these weird Christian movies, but it is not. It is very loosely a horror movie about a gay couple, a young gay couple who get sent to like a super national, conversion therapy and a demon is after them.

Oh, she who takes the form of the other one. Oh, shit. It's very scary. I've heard people say, don't call it gay it follows, but I think as a log line to like sell what's happening here, that seems to make sense. But I don't know, but I've heard it's amazing. Wow.

Well, there you go. What are you hearing? Are you one of the influencers who got sent to see The Odyssey? The embargo is lifted. You can tell us how. that it was, there was a banger. Miles is not lifted yet. Oh, fuck, fuck, fuck.

I'm, can I just say I, I, I, I'm not excited. I thought really. Same. I'm going to see it, but I'm just like, eh. I don't know if I'm an Odyssey head. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm illy at all the way, bro. Oh, that's why. I can't be, I'm not, I'm not boats.

I'm just, yeah, me, I'm a Homer Simpson guy. Yeah, this is completely, like, way, off for me. The one part that looked cool as hell is the Giants. Or those big ass knights? Weren't those like big?

Yeah, they're like big ass knights that are like throwing people through trees. Like throwing people so hard, they snap trees in half. It's funny that I'm like. But it also is a thing we saw in Game of Thrones. Yeah, yeah. But I guess part of me is like,

I don't know about this movie. And like, I'm like, the one part looked cool, the guy through the guy through the tree. Yeah. As if I'm like some connoisseur of high-minded cinema. I'm like, yeah, yeah, that part. I'll go for that when the guy threw the dude through the tree trunk. Yeah, yeah.

I think the other thing is it's like, look, people have a, you know, the Odyssey is, you know, a great book of canon or whatever. But it's like, it has a reputation because, like, you had to read it in school. It was the first. Yeah. It's not like that difficult, like, kind of. concept wise. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, there's historical significance,

but I'm just saying, like, I don't know, this is not like the art that it doesn't have to be art. Well, it is just like monsters and people throwing other people. I'll be transparent. We're trying to get into more of these influencer screening. So I'm going to say, dude, this shit is fucking tight. We got to go to exactly one.

We got to go to one for F1. They sent us to F1. And they were like, these fuckers didn't even tweet about how amazing our movie was. They're like, hey, hey, why are you taking a selfie video in the theater right now. We're like, what? Yeah, yeah. I mean, I think that's a thing. It's like, what, you, you don't want the invite, you don't want, like, you can't glaze a movie hard enough. Like, you two constitutionally are not capable of glazing it in the right way. In the way that they would be us to. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. I can, we are officially on the list of like, don't, don't bother with these ass. Yeah. Yeah, we've got a doll's eyes, as they say in the marketing terms. We're not selling shit with these dolls.

Dead, lifeless eyes, the doll's eyes. Yeah, so Universal is making headlines by saying, hey, look, we're not doing the blogger and influencer thing. We're actually not doing screenings that are exclusively for bloggers and influencers. Right. And instead, they are letting critics see it. And then the critics saw it, but they're still an embargo. But they, so I guess they're allowed to do like a tweet that, like,

teases their review. So David Al Rick, who's like famously a cranky critic, said that there's some clunkiness to the storytelling, but it pays off in the end. I will say, such a massive story. In terms of what you were saying, like, this isn't high art.

There's a part of the story, because my kids are really into Greek mythology, there's a part of the story, and I'm sure they've changed this, but he tricks a cyclot. So there's a giant cyclops monster that he has to trick. And he tells the cyclops, his name is nobody. Or no man.

And then stabs it in the eye. And then when his cyclops friends are like, hey, what happened? Did you get hurt? And he's like, yeah, someone stabbed me in the eye. And they're like, who? And he says, nobody. And they're like, oh, you're crazy. Yeah.

That's the level of like cleverness that we're, working with here, guys. Yeah, the other side was like, well, I guess you heard him. You said, nobody. So I guess that's that. Can you just imagine on set, you know, or like the next one is just like Christopher Nolan's who's on first? Yeah.

Indeed is on first. Our most humorless director, and I do like his movies quite a bit, but he is humorless and incapable of writing normal relationships between. women. You know, like the Cyclops' his buddies roll up and like they're like rubbing their temple, which I guess on a cyclops is... Yeah, their eye. Yeah. They're using both hands to

rub their one eye. He said, this motherfucker said nobody. Come on. Come on. He's lying, bro. Let's get out of here. See, he'd be hurting himself to get attention, bro. Let's get out of here. It's, yeah. I will just say also, though, I think it's like a little bit the studios

sort of realizing or like brass taxing the like diminishing returns on some of this digital shit. Because it's like, it doesn't matter if like an influencer who literally does not know anything about whether a movie is good or not says they had a great time at your screening. Right. Like it's not like, like, just like connecting that to like, oh, people will buy movie tickets because of this. is like it's absurd when you say it out loud and I think they're finally being like it's not worth it. It doesn't do anything.

Yeah. So here's the thing. They said that. But all of a sudden, all these influencers are coming out being like, I have seen the audits. Wow. So people are pointing out that basically what they meant by being like,

we're not doing influencer blogger screenings. Is that we're not doing influencer blogger exclusive screenings. We will allow critics to see. Whereas like, what was it? Disclosure Day? They let, they let bloggers and influencers in to see it like weeks in advance. And then they,

and then they let critics see it the day before the reviews were allowed. Yeah, we're allowed to go public. So it's like a slightly more friendly, they'll allow the reviewers to actually write, like have some time. Or they'd be like, Dude, let the people who don't know fuck about movies see it first. Don't fucking show the critics.

Yeah, bro. They're going to fucking review that shit, too, or so just right before. And then enough time will pass with people buy their tickets. Yo, that's the only, 50% of these reviews so far are just, yo. Just saw the Odyssey, bruh. And, hey. But yeah, and then the other, the problem isn't just influence.

Vince Mancini, a friend of the show, frequent guest, had a good substack pointing out that, like, they do a two-tiered system of film critics where, like, movies are shown first to entertainment journalists who are given access to stars, and, like, that is what their job is based on? And then they are like, and what did you think of our movie?

Right, right. Like, he did that once, and was like, I thought it, like, gave an honest review of the movie, and they were like, well, you're fired. Yeah, right. Like, well, you're never allowed to do that, which is basically how all of capitalism works.

You, like, grant access to people and get granted access based on, like, whether you're willing to say the thing that is going to be helpful for selling shit. Yeah. That's it. And there's no objectivity anywhere to be found. Yeah. The marketplace of ideas is, like, way down on the list.

of marketplaces that matter in this account. Right. Yeah. Yeah. They're not, we're not letting you in. Oh, man. I just, it was funny, though, because I remember, like,

in J.M., who was, like, writing this piece, like was mentioned, you know, like in the 90s where a movie would come out, and, like, the version of influencer marketing was just people who just saw the movie, and they're like,

soul food! And they're like, we loved it. Yeah, yeah. That shit was, you're like, those people are regular. And they, with it. That was kind of like effective. I will always remember the

three black women after the soul food for the soul food commercial. They were like, soul food was like one of the first. Just saying the time. Just saying it enthusiastically. And the other people were like, I loved it. But yeah, I guess like now the people just aren't that enthusiastic anymore. Like could you imagine doing that now like to catch people after a movie? Like what do you

think? And they're like, yeah, yeah. Yeah. It's like, I don't know, dog. Well, it would also have to be like, what do you think of the movie and like, what's your body? count. What did you think of the movie? And what's like a deal breaker for you in a relationship?

It's on that influencer, Mike. Red flag? You want to pop your balloon after seeing that or no? All right, cool. I know I'm old, but what the fuck is wrong with the kids today? They're great. They're doing great. They're just growing up in a fucked up world that we have

the privilege of already being mostly formed mentally. They're being asked to answer those questions without a I'd like to see you try and do that. I did see one. I had to block this account because I was like, I just can never see this again. But it was just a guy on the street handing people moderately,

like sentences with a few words that were more than three syllables. Oh, yeah. You're like, read this. Can you read this? Right. Can you read this sentence? Right. It was crazy.

Not successful. I mean, the fact that it's just one of those things, like the fact that you even have to ask already. Like, I refuse to engage with this on a premise level because this is so depressing. Yeah. Anyways, Super Producer has reminded me to let people know to go check out Exilerating Edge of Your Seat action film F1. F1, whenever where it's now streaming at a theater near you.

Andrew, such a pleasure having you, as always, on The Daily Zike. Where can people find you, follow you, see you, hear you, all that good stuff? We're doing Star Trek as a podcast, but also as a YouTube show. It's me, Tani Newsom, and Jesse Gender is our producer. It's been really fun. I'm just watching a lot of Star Trek for either the first time or certainly the first time not stoned. So, yeah, I don't know.

It's fun. It's been a little bit of an antidote to doing the relentless grind of racism. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we got one of those, too. That's been nice. Yeah, it's been great for my hair loss. That sounds great, man. Is there a work of media that you've been enjoying?

Oh, um, did I say The Furious already on a previous show? The prequel to Fasten the Furious? Oh, I already did. Okay, well, fuck you. No, I actually don't know. What is the Furious? The Furious is a Kung Fu movie that is, it's probably just out of it. Okay, all right, all right.

In that case, it was. was a tweet that I'm not going to, it's a tweet that I'm not going to be able to find that was just like, I'm not saying that a game was, that each of was robbed, but that game is hanging in the National Museum in London. I think that was Kyle Ayers, actually. Is that really?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was a Kyle Ayers tweet. Kyle Ayers joint. So funny. One of the fun. Miles, where can people find you as their working media? You've been enjoying. Yeah, find me everywhere at Miles of Gray.

I'm talking about 90-day fiancé on 420-day fiancé and check me out talking about football on Ain't It Footy for a limited time. Yeah, that was Kyle Ayers. Not saying that the game was stolen from Egypt, but it's now on display at a museum in London. Shout out of Kyle. A work of media, I like, this is YouTube Reels video show from this young creator,

this kid named Motion at Motion MXT, and it's just said NFL athletes as soon as they're successful. It's just a good sentiment about like, what, what's, you got it all, but why are you acting like this? I can't believe I finally made it to the lead. I'm going to beat the shit out, my wife. I can't believe I finally made it. I'm going to buy a supercar and crash that bitch. I'm finally successful.

Where little kids are? Oh, my God. It's just dark, bro. But it feels like, why? What is it about? From our perspective, it's like, you've got it all. Why are you? What is happening?

Anyway, that's my dark, dark humor for the way. I mean, CTE is the answer to all those questions, right? A lot of them, yeah, yeah. Yeah, depending on the position. I like to tweet from Martin Odegaard's ankle, who tweeted, Chewing on a free loaf of bread. How could this day get any better? someone hands me a ticket to the circus.

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