The Daily Zeitgeist - Jackie Chan Unpaid Intern? Peak War Profiteering 04.29.26

Episode Date: April 29, 2026

In episode 2049, Jack and guest co-host Jacquis Neal are joined by comedian and host of Pod Yourself A Gun and Bad Hasbara, Matt Lieb, to discuss… BP’s Profits More Than Doubled During Iran War, Why Gavin Newsom Is Definitely Not The Answer, Rush Hour 4 Hasn’t Locked Down Jackie Chan And Chris Tucker and more! U.S. Gas Prices Hit Highest Level Since Beginning of War in Iran BP profits more than double as Iran war sends oil prices higher BP slammed over ‘astronomical’ profits amid oil price spike caused by Iran war Why Gavin Newsom Is Definitely Not The Answer 'Rush Hour 4' Suffers Disappointing Setback Due to Reported Pay Disputes Chris & Jackie's Salary Demands Will Be Sorted Out LISTEN: Keeping You Close by HalogenixSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A lot of people don't know that breakfast was originally called break fast because they're taking a break from recording podcasts. Oh, breakcast. Breakcast is what it originally started as. Well, let's start a new podcast called breakcast. Breakcast. This is your favorite morning breakfast podcast. We're going to eat eggs into the back of whom. Eggs, not the worst.

I've experimented with different worst things that you can possibly eat into the microphone. And by that, Super Producer Justin has experimented with editing around them. Rips? Oh, my God. It's actually crunchy fruit and vegetables not good in my experience. It's like wet and crunchy, you know?

The squelching sound of a rib, though, especially when you don't know what you're hearing and then someone says, it's ribs. Like, you might vomit. Sorry, guys. Let me just have one more bite of my breakfast here. Let me have each ribs. I got breakfast ribs. Can I get the breakfast ribs, please?

Nothing like three mic ribs in the morning to get gone. So, Matt, you said your favorite Pop-Tart is the iced cherry. Yeah, I think so. It's either that or it's a tie, I think, between that and, like, the strawberry. The strawberry with all the multi-colored. Yeah, multi-colored sprinkies on it and then the white frosting. I don't know if it's my favorite. I think it is the food that is most plused up by how good it looks.

Yeah. The strawberry pop-tart. Those sprinkies are really doing a lot of heavy lifting. They make me love them. I don't think I've ever looked at a pop-tart. It was like, that looks good. Oh, yeah. No, I feel you, Jack.

It's like, especially the sprinkles on it. It's like, the sprinkles on the strawberry for whatever. Interesting. Have you ever seen a Fabrije egg? Yeah. I've seen them on TV. I've seen them on TV at least.

Yeah, I've only seen them on TV. But when you see them, you're like, oh, yeah, I would love to own a really a jewel-encrusted egg. This is like, it's a jewel-encrusted. It's a Faberjie tart. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah.

But I do think the most delicious. So I'd say my favorite pop to. just from a fandom perspective is the strawberry, I frosted strawberry, because I just love the way it looks. But I think my favorite one is that brown sugar one, because it really, it is packing in the processed food game,

I think it is packing more butteriness than anything with the possible exception of Ritz Cracker, which is Ritz Cracker very buttery. A Ritch Cracker I'll get tired of quick. Unless I got some meat or cheese. So I'm just eating like raw ritz crackers. Raw ritz? If I'm having a raw ritz.

Going in raw on those rits. I am the egg men. I am the raw ritz. No. Coochoochoo! I don't know. I don't like ritz. I was the best I could do.

You like writs at all? Not at all. Not even a little. It's, uh, I used to have them as like a kid. It would be like, hey, there's, you know, there's some snacks in here. And then it would be these like orange disgusting. and I would put them in. Orange circles.

Yeah, and they just never, I was like, it's not really a cheese flavor. I don't understand what the flavor is. I think it's butter. It's buttery. It's kind of butter, but dry. Like, give me a club cracker over a ritz cracker. Absolutely.

Salteen over it. All day. Salteen are very good. Salteen is good. Salteen is good in soup and shit. I can't eat a saltine by itself either. Well, not by itself. But a ritz cracker is terrible in anything else but by itself.

So it's not a good cracker. Yeah, I agree. Exactly. That makes it useless as a cracker pretty much. That's a chip. That's a chip. It's a too thick chip. That's right.

Next on breakcast, is a cracker a chip or is it a cracker? Ritz Cracker time. Can I get one of your breakfast ritz crackers, please? For Ritz on the menu when you were sick, because I think Ritz were deemed too buttery for sickness, and so it had to be a saltine when I was sitting. No, man, I grew up black. We had all types of shit that was... We had Robitussing and Ginger Ale when we were sick.

Yeah, Gingerill is one of them. Ginger ale. But it's just funny that there's, like, certain foods that are just, like, on the list of, like, that's okay to eat when you're sick. Like, Gatorade ginger ale. Coke, I think, at one point, and then, like, that went away. Three-four of cigarettes. Sorry, I grew up. What?

What's that? My American spirits. Three-fow cigarettes. Yeah, start smoking your healthy cigarettes. And jello were the ones that I would. Yeah, there's always stuff that were like, this will settle your stomach. Yeah.

Yeah, usually I was just like, I bet you I'd do fine with a hamburger. Yeah. Yeah, I'm hungry. McDonald's burger. Yeah, exactly. You don't know, settle my stomach, a large side of fries. How about that, mom?

How about a happy meal with a toy? That's right. Two toys. That'll settle my stomach. You were one of the de bears guys when you were a kid, right? I was from Chicago when I was a kid. Hey, I'd tell you one thing next to settle my stomach. A couple of bears.

Yeah, yeah, a couple, drink some bruskees and some cocaine. That'll settle my stomach, ma. How about that? This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed human. A win is a win. A win is a win. I don't care what you're saying.

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Couldn't be any more Wednesday, April 29th. My name is Jack O'Brien, aka, I like getting touched and I cannot lie. TSA can't deny. Because when I walk in with some itty-bitty pants And these plumbers through the gate, they snap gloves. Ooh, see this pale skin. You say to go through again? Well, cue me, cue me, waiting in line for Group B.

Some knuckleheads try to diss. Say this water ice stain was piss. Had some coins and I chose to hide them to get groped at infinitum. Jackie likes touch. That one courtesy of New Chris, in reference to the fact that I go through TSA. I resist TSA and ice a little different. I go through with basketball shorts on, no underwear,

and a handful of change up my ass to set off the metal detectors. So I can get that good pat down. You know what I'm saying? Not going to lie. Didn't love the word plumpers. Plumper's is what Blake Waxler calls his thighs. Calls his thighs plumpers? Calls his thighs plumpers.

Oh, I hate it. Yeah, it's really gross. I don't love it. I've tried to have him banned from the show multiple times, and the listeners love him for some reason. You can't figure it out, and he's a real sicko. Anyways, I'm thrilled to be joined in our second seat by today's guest co-host. He's also the host of the truly great live show comedian Clash,

a host of Crowd Control on Dropout, which might just have a season two coming up. Oh, it does. It's Jakees, Neal! I want some more Jackies now. Ha ha. What up, niggas? How we're doing?

How we're doing? Yes, yes. Get a little, you brought up some brown sugar earlier. I had to get a little DeAngelo in there for everybody. Yeah. You were singing a song about the Pop Tarts. Yeah. Yeah, I was singing about the Pop Tarts.

I do wonder. Are there any songs like that that we assume are some sort of double entendre? And it was actually just. Somebody singing about like brown sugar. Yeah. Pour some sugar on me is about rice crispy. Yeah. So good.

Not sweet enough. Pour some sugar on me. That's right. One of the best voices in the game. Incredible. I should also mention that. Well, speaking of one of the best voices in the game, we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a very funny comedian.

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It is Matt Leib. Wow. Yeah, April 29, 2026. There was a white boy named Matt Leeb with an eight inch dick. What's up, guys? How we doing? Congratulations. Good for you, man.

I just, you know, it was April 29th. As soon as you said it, I said, oh, that's it. I can talk about my dick now. I just talk about my dick. And you know what, you should. Listen, if I had an eight-inch dick and ladies, I don't. All you have to do, though. I would talk about it all the time.

It depends where you measure from. Let's just, we all know that. You know what I found out? I did find this out when the measurement for the, average is, what do they call it, the pressed? Yeah. You're supposed to press the ruler into the pubic bone. Sure.

Like, and that's where does zero, you're not, because a lot of people just started where you see the end, but, you know, for us that are of chunky persuasion like myself, we got a little fat right there. So you push in a little bit. You push it. They get an extra couple. To goose the numbers a little bit.

They give you a little extra edge. Because I'll tell you, it gives you an edge. Because when you pump in, when you give them the premium pumps, Yes. You actually, that's, you, that, that's scary. That's right. The four, women listeners have all abandoned the show. We're just, we're talking about science.

We're talking about important things. And also, you know, I think anyone can be into a conversation about what, what, how big dicks are. The point is, is you got to measure from, uh, the center of the butthole to just, just out in front of the end of it. Yeah. Just out in front of the tip. Yeah. Which point? Where the foreskin would be if it was still there.

If it was still there. Then in that case, I guess I do have eight. The, one of my favorite dick-size brags is when corrupt said goblin and swell in the whole nine and a half because it's so specific that it's like that you, why would he lie? Who? Who for that? One of the members of Dogpound said Goblo and Swellon the whole nine and a half.

And good for him. Yeah, yeah. Kind of gross, actually, to be honest with you. This whole conversation is probably a little bit gross. I mean, it depends on, you know, what you want to listen to in the morning. Matt, we have an update on leprechauns. Oh, good. Yes, because you were the guest on our leprechaun.

I was. I love how you were talking about that podcast and you're like, you know, we have had some great icons. We talked about Frida. We thought we're going to talk about. Terry Fisher. And I was sitting there going, didn't I do an episode just about leprechauns? You did. Who got Frida? Who got Frida? Why not me? Matt, we started. Our first episode was Einstein. Our second episode, our second episode was Urkel.

And that's what I want everybody to understand the spread. And our second episode, co-hosted by Jukes Neil. Me. Oh, okay. They didn't have me on an Einstein one. I thought you were going to say Julio White. That would have been very fun. That would have been said.

The Oracle episode. Pretty fucking fun. Every time I tell people about the iconograph episodes, they're like, oh, so when are you interviewing Anna Wintor? I'm like, I'm not interviewing Anna Wintour like that. Why would I do? No. Why not?

She's an icon. Whitney Houston would have been a tough, would have been a tough get. Our booking department isn't that good. She's going to be on my show next week. Nice. Congratulations, man. That's great. A lot of people don't know.

She's still here. Update on Lepricones. Yes. On yesterday's trending, we found out about a type of magic mushroom that makes you hallucinate tiny people. Yep. What?

And like everybody who takes it. Everybody gets the same hallucination. Tiny people specifically? Tiny people specifically? That are climbing up your walls and shit. Jumping under your door. The, and I went under my door.

Coming under your door. that at all. And it also lasts, like they said, like one to like seven days. Yes. People are like in the hospital. What is this? This is the worst mushroom. I know.

People aren't taking it on purpose. It's a mushroom that is like used in cuisine in China. And just like if you don't cook it well enough, you get these hallucinations. And so there's just like, I think the mushroom's undercooked. Why? It's like, oh, because a little guy just entered my ear, starting. my brain. Another little guy just in my urethra right now, climbing through.

All right. Matt, 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 that we're talking about today. We do like to, we're always concerned about our corporate overlords, specifically the oil companies. How are they doing now that, you know, the war in Iran is how. happening. You know, I was personally very concerned about banks when the war kicked off. I was like, are they going to be okay? Or a little fellers. And both banks and oil companies are actually having record. Record profits right now. Wow. So like all those prices going extra super duper high. You might remember this from the from from the pandemic when they were like, ah, these dams supply chain. issues have forced us to raise prices. And then it came time for them to report profits. And it was like the highest ever in the history of capitalism. We just, it turns out, charged you way, way,

way, way more and didn't need to. And now we're very rich and it's worked out great for us. So we'll talk about that. We'll talk about there's this article in the New York Times about Sergei Bryn, the Google co-founder and billionaire and his like mega influencer girlfriend. but it has a really good little anecdote in there about our man, the presumptive Democratic nominee, Gavin Newsom, that I just want to just put in people's brains because I think it's a great illustration of exactly why he is not going to do it. He's not going to be it for us, folks.

He's not the right guy. All of that plenty more. But first, Matt Leab, we do like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Oh, man. Well, I'll give you something from my search history. You can decide whether or not it's revealing of who I am. But I did Google. On April 14th, I googled, is there a way to pay less taxes if you really, really don't want to pay? Like a conscientious objector? Yeah, or like, you know, just a legal way of saying, guys, I don't want to. I don't want to. Right. I agree. I want to know what you should.

found because I'm a firm believer of leave us thousandaires alone. That's what I say. Leave us alone. That's what I say. As us self-employed people, we, you know, we get tax at a really ridiculously high rate. And I was like, okay, but I don't want to. And that's what I kept telling our tax person. Bartleby the Scrivener tax break.

I would prefer not to. Yeah. Yeah. If there's a way in order for me to get whatever tax break that people get, when they have like, they're like, oh, I'm going to put it in the Caymans.

Like, I don't know what that is. I know Cayman is a small alligator. So I assume they're putting their money in a small alligator. I don't know how it works. I want to put my money in Cayman's. I don't know how to do it.

So I Googled, is there a way to pay? And the answer was a resounding no. Yeah. A resounding. There was a few people said, you can lie. Yeah.

And hope you don't get caught. And I was like, well, that's scared. That's scary. Also, this is how you know the billionaires on the internet because the answer is yes, because they do it all the time. They do it all the time. They do it all the time.

They do it all the time. They're putting their money in Caymans. They're putting their money in fucking crocodile. They're like, I don't know. Money's in a casino, dirty money, just laundering. They sent, they ship their money overseas and then the money somehow doesn't get taxed. I want to do what they do, but for a very, very small amount. Yeah.

You Google it and it opens a portal into a room where a billionaire's on a bed about to be blown by a guy in a bear costume. Yeah. And he's just like, you're out of your, you're out of your depths. Get the fuck it and then pushes the camera away. The bear guy. That's exactly where I want to put my money. Yeah. That's exactly.

I want to put my money. My money right now is onshore. I want my money offshore. I want it offshore. I want it offshore. Can you go to a Swiss bank and be like, can I open a checking account? please. Right.

Will that work? And you're like, I have $500. I would just put in this account. I wonder, I just wonder. I wonder what I can do. Because the answer seems to be from everybody. No, you can't do anything. Stop asking.

You're going to go to jail. You just get, like, once you get a certain amount of money, you enter this club where they're like, all right, now everything's free. And this is how to get everything for free. You have to, like, pay this certain amount that only we can afford to pay. I don't like that. To people who, like, know how to do things. And then we're good.

And we, we never have to pay. Super unfair. Super unfair. I don't like it. I also, but at least I can rest, you know, I can sleep at night knowing that my money is going, um, towards a good cause. Yeah. Yeah. The ballroom, the White House ballroom.

White House ballroom. Presidents will be safe. Yeah, presidents will be safe. That's why you got to have a ballroom. Two hours a year. Fabulous. Yes. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Fabulous for two hours a year. Thank God for that. When they're in that ballroom. What is something, Matthew, you think is underrated? Um,

the, the TV show, Piki Blinders. Oh, never seen it. It's been pushed on me many times. Yeah. It rules.

By the Netflix algorithm. It rules. But I've never, I'm like, not this time, asshole. You were the first live living, non-alorithmic person

who has told me to watch this shit. So, What's it about? Okay, so Piki Blinders suffers from having a name that's too British. Yeah, sounds crazy. No one, no one's interested in it

because it's like, ooh, Picky Blinders, it's about Piqui Blinders, yeah? No, it's about like these early 20th century like Romani gangsters in Birmingham, England.

And they, it's, you stars Killian Murphy and a bunch of, A bunch of other awesome, awesome actors. Nobody's ever called him Seamurf. Yeah. He said maybe like his gym teacher. And C-Merve, get over here.

Yeah, I mean, he's Irish. There's too many Seamurfs. It'd be Seamurf one, Seamurf two. That's right. But yeah, like, it just, it rules. It's really well done. The only issue I have with it is like the music is overbearing. It was at a time when everyone was like,

you know who's cool? Jack White and Nick Cave in the Bad Seeds. It's like that kind of music. You know, it's like the intro song to every true crime podcast, you know, that kind of like. I know exactly what you mean. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like dark, folksy, you know, like cowboyish. Too much of that shit.

Other than that, though, it's awesome. Everybody's great. It's a drama. And I'm assuming because you said it's in the era. So, like, it's been either on for a long time or it's over. Well, so the show ended, but then they just came out with like a standalone movie. And the movie, I haven't seen yet because I was like, oh, you know what, maybe I'll just watch this peeky blinders thing. And I'm telling you guys, it's amazing.

Everyone's all British. They're all just like, oh, I know the entire time. And like there's so many. Just off the charts, British. Off the charts British. Everyone is doing it. And everyone has different accents. So at first I'm like, you know, I'm like, oh, hello.

I'm Thomas Shelby, but then an actual cockney guy from London will show up in Birmingham. I'm like, oh, no, that's the voice I'm doing. I don't know what accent this guy has. You just, it's fascinating and awesome, and it's, it's well written and it's fun. And, you know, I like me some, like pure drama gangster shit. Like that, I like that, where it's like, almost no jokes. Just make it bleak. That's what I say.

Yeah, yeah. I've heard good thing. People have said that it's a good show that C-Merve 2 is really great in it. C-Mirf is fantastic. One of our best C-Murfs. Everyone's good in it. Sam Neal's in it for a bit.

It's great. It's great. So, Picky Blinders. Did you say it's Charlie Murphy is the star? The star is Charlie Murphy? That C-Merve-1. That's C-Merve-1. Sorry, sorry.

That C-Merve-1. Yeah, yeah. What is something you think is overrated? I don't know. I think like socialism, communism, leftism, I just think it's over. I think it's done. I think it's had its day. Yeah.

It was a flash in the pan. A flash in the pan. I get it. We all used to be like, oh, you know, class consciousness or whatever. I think those days are done. We thought it was cute. We thought it was cute back then. But now that there is a country club near my house that's semi-a-fouriercing.

I think I'm going to join that and I'm kind of tired of all this left is some stuff. Yeah. And once you can get inside that secret club, man. Well, that's the thing. It's like, it's open to the public. But it's over to the public, but it's still beautiful. But it's still beautiful. It's still the accoutrements of a high-end country club.

You're going to get in there. You're going to get on the board and you're going to work to make it not open to the public anymore. That's what I want to do. I want to make it a real country club where it's like the members have to reach a, you know, be a certain. type, you know, let's say. I just want a certain type of membership. All black. Yeah.

Right. And I just only black Jews. That's all I want. That's all I want. And we listen to Sammy Davis Jr. All day. Eventually we'll open, you know, the roles to black Hebrew Israelites, even though there's a specific offshoot.

But, yeah. No, just listen. Let me tell you, I agree with you, man. Like when I mean, I know we're being maybe facetious, but I agree that like when you get, when you get a hold of something that rich people do and you get a chance to do it, there is that one second where you're like, man, this shit is nice. It's always better than you expect it to be. It's always, it's like, oh, that's why they are trying to have us all kill. Right. They're like, I know I would also kill children to protect this.

Right. It's true. I would also let nations starve. Right. But yeah, God, damn, this caviar is delicious. Who can I kill? I just, you know, it's like if there's, listen, there's an affordable country club nearby. And I'm like, love it.

I'm doing the math, right? And I'm like, technically, I could afford this. It's like, you know, it'd be like having a $400 a month. gym membership, which is a lot. But I'm also like, well, what could I not like, you know, I could stop Netflix maybe. Yeah. And then also, I feel like that's where you go to find out how I can't

not pay taxes. Right, right. That's right. That is where. That's who I'm going to tell you. I'll sit on a life cycle next to a very old man. And I'll go, hey, what's what the people who pay their own taxes, right? That's stupid.

And then maybe they'll be like. be like, oh, yeah, this guy knows. This guy can't say. Let me tell you something about Cayman. Country clubs specifically know how not to pay their own taxes because they don't. They get huge tax breaks to exist because they are. Yeah, yeah. We pay the taxes on country clubs essentially because they get massive tax breaks.

So we, the people who aren't allowed into the country clubs get to pay the taxes on them. Because, yeah, so they're smart. Exactly. And this is why. They would know. They would know how I can, so I can pay less taxes. All I have to do is pay them $400 a month. That's right.

And that'll save you thousands of dollars. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. It's like you got to spend money and make money, guys. You got to spend money to make money. I do think everything is getting, because like the New York Times is very adamant that this is, like, they just had a headline that was like, leftism has reached its high watermark or something. I forget, it's apex as as leftist.

Oh, really? Yeah. They said that earnestly. Yeah, they were like, all right, guys, it's over. Thank you, New York Times. They were like, Mumdani had like something good happen and the local doorman union is thinking about striking as socialist, socialist popularity reaches it. the apex or the popularity. Oh, no, not the doorman. I do think it has worked in the past because everything, like what we were talking about, where it's like, man, like once the 100,000 heirs and the like one millionaires, like, get a taste of the good life, they're like, oh, I'm going to protect this with my life.

I'm going to just fuck everybody else. But, like, I feel like everything has gotten bad for everyone. You know, it's just the billionaires now. Right. Like, they've, they fucked up. They, they didn't build the opera houses. They didn't build, like, uh, cool train stations. They or whatever the equivalent of that is now.

There was a whole middle class that existed, like, very specifically to, uh, be like, don't worry, rich people. We got you. Yeah. And then like, you know, vote in favor of, you know, lowering rich people's taxes and voting in favor of, you know, homeowners associations and, you know, local homeowners who would just only vote for things that made sure that their neighborhood stayed, you know, redlined and, uh, and, and whatnot. And now even people who are, you know,

considered middle class, now even, everything's shitty for that. Yeah, the middle class is getting fucked too. Upper middle class is damn near lower class in some. places. Because you started living at that mean. And then like that shit gets like and they like, man, I can't afford the shit I've been affording. The whole government used to be those people, you know? Right.

The whole government used to be people who were making like, you know, hundreds of thousands of dollars a year and like protecting the billionaires and, you know, hoping to become billionaires. And now like they all got fired and Trump is just like only hiring people who have a hundred million dollars in the bank. And they're just like. like raiding the whole thing. So I do think that the New York Times might be wrong for the first time about this being

the end, the high water. Breaking news. New York Times wrong. When Hashmounds and McDonald's start being $3, that's when shit started getting crazy. Fucked up. Doritos hit $7. Crazy, bro. It's like Bitcoin.

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or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. It's time for the news, Jack. Time for some news. Here, let me read the news. The, you know, as Americans, we're all primarily worried about how are corporations doing.

How does this affect corporation? And, of course, we got some good news. I know it was a big relief to me. A couple weeks back, it was reported that, like, Chase Bank, all of the banks that, do like investment banking and like profit off of like trading volume on Wall Street have had like record great profits because when there's volatility like the war in Iran,

that like every everything is, you know, on hyper drive and everybody's making a lot of trades and they're just making so much money off of this war. But I was still worried because I go to the gas pump. And look, I will happily go into debt paying for a tank full of gas in order for... To help America win. To help America win. I'll do anything and make America win. This war doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

But like what, like if they're charging me that much money, the corporations must be hurting. Like, hurt people, hurt people. Oh, that's so true. That's so true. The gas, what about the gas companies? What about the oil companies? Yeah. You have to come for the emotional labor that they are putting in at the gas company.

I was worried. Yesterday, I was filling my tank with gas yesterday. And the motherfucking pump dropped out of the goddamn car and gas starts spilling all over the floor. And the first thought I had was, I'm wasting the corporation's gas money. You started putting it in your mouth to make sure you're like, I can't waste this. Come on. Yeah. It's so.

expensive. I'm going quarter tanks at certain points. I'm like, surely this is going to go down at some point. And we're just going to go quarter tanks for a little bit here. I have a hybrid and I do that thing where it's like, you know, if you drive it real slow. Yeah. That shit is in an E mode. Oh, I got my eye on that RPM. I'm like, we're not going over to. That's right. That's right. You keep that shit at a nice, slow pace. And then you see a hill and you're like, fuck. No. It's going to be $5. My girl, my girl be in the car, I'd be like, it's hot. I would like, don't you turn their air to shit. And keep the windows up. Put your head out the window like a dog. What do you think I'm made of money?

I need this gas money to go into the country club that I want. That's right. To pay for a shrimp cocktail. That's $40. So I'm breathing a sigh of relief today as it was announced that BP's profits have more than doubled during the Iran War. So I don't know how that's possible. We're great again.

I thought that they were charging the higher prices because of the war making things difficult for them. But it turns out they are charging those higher prices because the narrative that the war is making things difficult allows them to do it. And people won't be surprised. Are you saying they're tricking us? You may remember this from the pandemic. I don't. Supply chain issues were happening.

Supply chain issues, in quotes. And it made everything more expensive. And it made everything more expensive on us. And then the companies were like, we're barely holding on over here. We're going to die. Oh, I'm just poor old McDonald's. And then the quarterly profit statements came out. they're like, guys, we are

fucking killing it. We got to be, we got to pretend to die more often. Yeah, this is fucking great. So I love that. Like everything is just a GoFund me scam now. The whole the entire economy runs as a GoFundMe scam.

It's just people going like, oh, I have a cancer and a bullet in my skull and I have and the bullet is made of something That's carcinogenic. That's right.

That's probably going to give me double cancer. Yeah. So just give me your money, please. Just give me your money. It's the same thing. It's just BP saying like, oh my God, I've got cancer again. We're in so much trouble. When we had to clean that oil out of the ocean, it really fucked us.

It really hurt us. Howie. It sucks. It's so terrible, man. It's so frustrating. It's so terrible. Yeah. Their profits for the first.

first three months of the year have more than doubled following a surge in oil prices since the beginning of the Iran war. So, hmm. Yeah, because you see what they did is like the oil prices went up. And then they were like, oh, we got to buy more oil. But don't worry, we'll be able to survive this if we just make everyone's gas more expensive and make everyone else pay for it instead of us. And that's what they did. And good, good on them. Because I always like it when America wins. That's right. British Petroleum. A British Petroleum, America's favorite company. That's right.

But yeah, anytime there's movement, anytime there's anything that, like, allows them to hide a price increase and hide profits in, they will do it. So, yay. You know, you could make money off it by being one of the stock people. If you go into the stock market and you buy stocks, then that's, that. one way. So if any savvy investors out there, if you're listening, buy some stocks. Yes, good, good call. This is sound advice right here. Yeah. So stocks are like a little bit of a company. So if you buy a little bit of a company that's doing lies good, then you'll make money off those lies with them. Yes. And you're co-signing it and that's good. And that's fine.

And that's good to make everybody part of. of the horrible thing. Everyone should be complicit. Yes. I saw something about those stocks in that movie, Wolf of Wall Street. So it's like that, right? Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. So they were buying stocks and I don't remember the moral of the story, but buy stocks. By stocks. Exactly. That's the only moral of the story. Not bonds. Bonds are for bitches.

Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Bonds is for people who in jail. That's right. Exactly. Only bailers get bonds. Let's talk about Gavin News because so it does seem like people are coming around to the fact that some of the stuff bad that the system that has currently set up is kleptocracy that's harming everybody and there's a very small chance that the New York Times might be wrong and that this might be more than just a tiny little flash in the pan thing, a little fad.

This isn't going to be, there's a chance that this might not be like slapped bracelets. Sure, sure. People's kind of slow move towards socialism, might not just be a fun little fad that everybody's getting on board with. So there's probably going to be an opportunity for the Democrats to run someone in 2028 who has a chance. And we already kind of have a sense that one of the people they're really going to be trying to do. get us on board with is a guy by the name of Gavin Newsom. Have you seen this fella? Pretty handsome guy. I've heard of him. Surf's up.

Yeah, baby. That's me, Gavin. Actually. He's changed his voice. You know what's some bullshit? This is why I don't like Gavin Newsom. One of many reasons. One is because his name is fucking Gavin. And he's not like,

Hey, what's up guys? So I'm going to be fucking president soon. And shit out there is really sketch. And I'm running on a campaign. Yeah, that's the only way Gavin's being able to talk. Yeah, instead he talks like fucking Batman. Like he's got the like shitty, gravelly voice where he's like, well, guys, I mean, that's the thing. You know, it's like he's got RFK's voice, but like pitch shifted and corrected.

Like, he's a really good editor. It's a really good editor. editor fucked with his voice. You'd be like, oh, that's Gavin Newsom's voice. I put his voice in Pro Tools. Yeah, you put some filters on it, you know, cut out. Put the Alex Jones Will Arnett filter on it. Yes, exactly.

You know, just a little, I mean, listen, you do a low pass, you do a high pass, you do a little de-Sing. And you get all those like bleeps and bloops out of there. And this guy's got a Gavin Newsom voice. All I'm saying is this voice should be different. And instead, it's not. I hate that. It should be, so Gavin. I said, yeah, you're right.

Gavin. That was the only issue that I had with him prior to this story. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. I was, my first, my only complaint was the incongruity between his name and his vibe. Yeah. But then I read this story. So this is just a New York Times article ostensibly about Sergei Bryn, the Google co-founder, billionaire.

So he came to a very surprise. realizing realization. He was like one of these tech billionaires who was liberal. And then he found out, after years of being liberal, that he was wrong the whole time and that after years of spending time and money around only billionaires and 100 millionaires, the correct views actually happen to be the ones that benefit billionaires. That's crazy, dude. Yeah. Well, it's called growing up, Jack. That's right. You should try doing it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I mean, think about it. When you was only making like three figures and then you start hanging out with people who made four or five and six figures, you change Jack. That's so true. That's so true. You stop caring about people. You stop caring about people when that happened. Yeah. Eventually, I'd like to make so much money that I'm like, you know, I've had a sort of a political reawakening around the whole concept of, uh,

Arabs. Right. Muslims, you know, I just, I don't know, something changed in me. And now I'm like, um, trans? No, thanks. Around, how about no? Somewhere, somewhere around, somewhere around like 2021, I had this realization like, maybe we should use ER instead of A, you know?

That's right. That's right. Why can't I say it? Why can't? Maybe, maybe, maybe people can't. Jack, you've been. asking for years. I've been asking

to be it. Oh my God. Is it finally that day? I think today is finally the day, Jack. Because you know how I always do it with the A when we're out for course. But, yeah, when can I do this? I want to do the hard E.R.

You get rich enough and they're just like, you can just say it now. Around us? What's going to happen? We're going to cancel you? Yeah, what are we going to do? It's just, what's his name? The Supreme Court Justice and handing out the pass

for all your parents. Clarence Thomas. Clareth Thomas. New law. Every white man gets five of them. That's like the Pope giving out a blessing to like a room full of them. Five for year.

You have all been granted and your wives. They don't roll over, though. So you got to use up. ball five. A New Year's Eve is a terrible day for Blackbe. Yeah. Just listen to one DMX song and, you know, don't waste it all once. But yeah, so he's come to, he's found out the secret information that you only find out when you're a billionaire. That making billionaires pay taxes like they used to when the country was actually functional would actually ruin the economy. So true. So true.

a fortuitous confluence of events for him and his fellow billionaires. Well, that's a coincidence. So the article is about an attractive young mega influencer who he started dating around the time that he decided that a kleptocracy under Trump was actually good for the U.S. actually. Turns out, I should have all the power. And this is so weird. Like, what a, this is so crazy that I found this out.

But in this article, there's just a brief anecdote where we find out that he Googles Sergey Brin, Google co-founder, one of the world's richest people, is a longtime friend of Gavin Newsom, the California governor. Oh, cool. Both men attended each other's weddings. Oh, I love that. But now Mr. Brin pulled Mr. Newsom aside to a different part of the property. they're at a party at this point for a serious talk. So they're at a party and he's like,

I need to use the east wing of your house to talk to my friend. Gavin, Mr. Brin told Mr. Newsom that he could not stand the state's proposed billionaire tax. I can't stand it. They were soon joined by Mr. Brin's girlfriend, Jerylind Gilbert Sato, a Trump-loving gut health influencer. Oh, good. Gut health. That's truly what's important.

Racism overrated. That's right. Very important. Even as she tried to diffuse the tension, joking that she would let Mr. Newsom's bad policy slide through because he was handsome, she argued that the measure would wreck California's economy. Yeah. Mr. Newsom, who had never seemed inclined to support the tax, came out the next month and pledged to defeat it. He declined to comment on the interaction with his good friend who is a billionaire. took place at a party thrown by the billionaire Chris Larson

and was recounted by three people briefed on it and reflected Mr. Brin's new war footing. And I do think that's appropriate language. Like this is a war that they are waging on all of us. Yes. They are waging a class war on all of us. They are, you know, nonstop working around the clock to defeat a bill that would just ask them to pay a little extra in tax.

It's so crazy to me because like, like the amount I pay in taxes is crazy. You know, I'm not going to lie. Like I pay more in taxes now as I've gotten mildly more successful than like I used to pay. Then I used to make before, which is insane. Yeah. Because like, like I'm still hurting. Like, I'm still hurting. And then I look at these and then and then this isn't rooted in anything because it's not rooted in numbers.

There are no statistical numbers that shows that not raising taxes on billionaires helps the economy. Like every statistical number shows that's not the case. And so I don't understand because they want to line their own pockets. But it's not even a good argument because we have numbers that can say this is wrong. Every time we do this or every time we do that, like the economy gets better. We have to dig the economy out of the hole. And then when y'all niggas get into the office or when y'all people who like don't care about tax breaks except for the billionaires, the economy undoubtedly gets worse. And it's just so frustrated.

Every single fucking time. It gets worse when they come into office. Every time. And it's because their measurement of economy is completely based on how their personal. personal stock portfolios are doing. That's the whole thing. So with them, they all argue about how great the economy is under conservatives, but it's only for them.

Everything else gets passed down to the consumers. So consumers are paying more, working longer hours and getting paid less, and their money is worth less. And it's like, you know, we're constantly stuck in this cycle of, you know, chasing that cheese or, you know, the carrot in front of us. And eventually you just, you know, at some point you're just like, oh, do we have to kill these guys to eat that carrot? Is that what we're going to have to do?

Now, listen, I, of course, I'm against all sorts of violence in every single, you know, form. But I don't, it'd be so easy to stop, like, the bleeding for, so easy. For, like, you know, a huge portion of Americans. and yet there's like an active choice to not do that. Yes. It's crazy. It's crazy to me because I'm like, well, well, maybe they're right in one sense,

which is like, well, what are you going to do about it? And it's like the answer so far has been not much. Yes. Their solution is vote for Gavin News. Like that's really going to be one of the only solutions we have. And just like this is when during the. Biden administration, Biden would, like, throw up his hands and say, look, man, I wish I could, like, divest from, like, all of Israeli shit.

I wish I could. Or, like, I wish I could forgive your, you know, student debt. Student debts. Wow, sentiment parliamentarian said, no. Yeah, yeah. Like, that's what he's taught. You're like, politically, that doesn't make sense. You have the ability to do something.

What is this dark matter that is preventing you from doing anything? when you're throwing up your hands and being like they, it's just not happening. This is it. This is what it is. The Democratic Party is a machine that is lubed and fueled by the extremely wealthy and corporations. And like Newsom couldn't be more of a function of that machine. A hundred percent. And, you know, the arguments against it, you're making an excellent.

point, which is like the arguments are so stupid. Right. Like to try and sit and make the argument that like the being taxed at the rate, that people, that billionaires were taxed, like not even that long, like during Reagan to try

and make the argument that, oh no, that crushes the economy or whatnot. We all know as nonsense and also would be laughed that by anyone if it was said in an audience at a debate. The problem is that you've got this political machine in the Democratic Party that when someone is there fighting that propaganda,

when someone like a Bernie Sanders, for example, is fighting it, they are actively being shot down, you know, rhetorically or like money-wise by the Democratic Party establishment, who's like, no, we kind of, we require. We actually do like billions. We like billionaires. Yeah. And so, so it is this constant, you know, we're constantly stuck in this position. of being like, all right, well, instead of Bernie,

we got someone who's going to be real sad about the fact that they can't do anything. Does that help? Right. Yeah. It all leads back to people voting for Trump because, you know, people on that side of the aisle are, are dumb enough to believe, because he'll lie to them. He'll lie straight to their face and be like, yeah,

you'll all get like a golden balloon. Right. And everyone's like, I want a golden balloon. That's how I was fucking sick, dude. Yeah. No war in Iran and a golden balloon. And then, of course, he does. weren't run doesn't give you a golden balloon.

That's what happens. I think just as we get closer and closer to the election, it's worth keeping in mind, like why he is going to be the presumptive nominee. I do think it's going to be a, like, he's not going to be pot. Like,

it'll be somewhat akin to like when Mike Pence, everybody was like, watch out for Pence in the 20, 24 election. Yeah, I don't see him getting through a primary. Yeah, I don't think people are going to,

like him, but like that's, it's just instructive to know this is this is who he is. They're going to shove him down everyone's throat and he just does not have the juice. He doesn't have the RIS and he's not likable enough. His name, I mean, he is

another example of a guy in a political system or a person of political system who is like very a political or a body politic that has become increasingly cynical about politicians. And if they look and sound too much like politicians, they are not winning shit.

Right. Okay? Biden was able to eke out a victory during COVID, during a pandemic, because he had gotten so old that people were like, well, say what you will about him, but he does seem like genuinely to be a shaky old man. And that's all he's presenting himself to be. So people believed him, you know what I mean? Like it was he did he seemed like a real person if he had been if his brain had been a little bit

Like if he had had had the same cognitive ability that he had in like say 2016 or you know 2012 or 2008 I don't think he would have been he wouldn't have got past a primary right which he just didn't Which yeah which is why he did it yeah and so I I feel like Gavin Newsom is an example of someone who sounds and looks like a politician, acts like a politician, is a, he's, the vibe is liar. Yeah. I don't, I don't think he has a chance.

I hope not. I hope. From your lips. Yeah. For your lips. Any, anybody giving us any positive vibes out there? Any, any hope? Right now?

Yeah. I don't know, man. I'm like, I'm afraid. That is also the problem. That is the problem. We don't know anybody else right now that we probably, I mean, I honestly think that I think if AOC were able to

try to I would like she's like having the conversations with people about that. You know, I'd be, here's the thing. With the AOC strikes me as at least a genuine like populist. And like, yeah. So I think

I think that's what we need. I think that's kind of our only hope. Right. I think with her there is also the problem of sometimes it is a little bit hard to tell whether or not she's serious or lying. She's just like saying whatever needs to be said. But I think I trust her enough, you know, I trust her more than I trust, you know, Gavin. But at the same time, I mean, who knows, dude? I'm not excited about anyone. I feel bad for that. But I also, I also feel like... I don't think we should feel bad.

Well, it's not my job to make myself excited for someone. It's the job of a politician to make you excited for them. That's the thing. Exactly. That's the thing. Exactly.

Speaking of being excited for a thing, let's take a quick break. We're going to come back and we're going to talk about rush hour for. Hell yes. 2%. That is the number of people who take the size.

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You think Canada has a president? You think China has a president? You think China has a president? Does law a russet. God, I love that thing. I use it all the time. I wrap it in a blanket and sing to it at light. It's like the old Polish saying, not my monkeys, not my circus.

Yep. It's a good one. I like that saying. It is an actual Polish saying. It is an actual Polish saying. Better version of Play Stupid Games, win stupid prizes. Yes. Which, by the way, wasn't Taylor Swift who said that for the first time.

I actually thought it was. I got that wrong. Listen to the Nick Dick and Poll show on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. podcasts. And we're back. Hell yeah. I just got a little newsome on that. Yeah, we're back.

Let me put that through Pro Tools. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Go ahead. Say it again. Can you give me the Newsome on this one? Can you give me the RFK? I want to drink all of my gum. What is happening?

Didn't you guys read his like letters to that, that girl that he was, seeing you just didn't read sexual letters? I did. Yeah. Your body is like a feel that I want to plant my seed and

she was like she was like irresistible. Yeah. She was like, how the fuck am I supposed to say no to that? Yeah.

There is that, RFK is legitimately the most unhealthy person I've ever heard. The motherfucker looks like hamburger meat. Yeah. Like sentient hamburger meat.

It's, wild. It's like someone put a curse on some hamburger meat and it's like, now I can talk. He is a men and black alien right now. He sounds like that roach for men and black. A hundred percent. Yeah. All right.

Well, speaking of movies. Speaking of the movies. Hell yeah. From the 90s. First rush hour is late 90s, right? Yeah, absolutely. It's like 96, 97. 96 is going to be that year. rush hour four was announced a while back i i forget what it was about it was like kind of in line

with that billionaire's son taking over one of the one of the companies i think the sky dance acquisition of paramount yeah and they were like it's a done deal like we've got rush hour four happening turns out they've been uh having trouble getting jacky and Chris Tucker to sign on because they've offered them $8 million each to return, despite the fact that they made $20 million each for rush hour three. Damn, they're trying to lowball the literal stars of the movie. They're trying to lowball Jackie Chan. If you read any interviews at Jackie Chan, he is a deity.

He walks around surrounded by like a just cloud of beautiful women who like do everything for him. And he's just like, Jackie Chan is not of this earth. And you're going to be like, all right, we'll give you an extra $100,000. I love the idea that Chris Tucker probably got a call from Jackie Chan. It was like, can you believe this? They're trying to offer us $8 million. And Chris Tucker was like, yeah, that's low.

Yeah, I'm mad about that too. I definitely am worth more than that still. Chris Tucker, I may more than a million in a minute. Chris Tucker's calling Jackie Chan. She's like, why are you fucking this up for me, dude? Whatever. Hey, Jackie. Jackie. I can use $8 million, Jackie.

I ain't disbitching you, Jackie. I ain't got women like you, Jackie. Taxes is high over here, Jackie. Rush Hour 3. Jackie Chan was paid about $20 million. Chris Tucker was paid even more. That's, that's... Shout out to Chris Tucker's agents.

Rush Hour 3 was, you know, but Rush Hour 1 and 2? Those 2001 were great. Yeah. Like, Chris Tucker was a star. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. He was a star.

Yeah. Still one of my favorite jokes in movies, because, like, Chris Tucker is, like, a taller dude. And in the first movie, when Jackie Tan, like, jumps up and, like, starts scaling the building, and then he, like, lowers a ladder, but it's not low enough. and Chris Tucker's trying to jump. He's like, come on, man, I ain't Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. It just kills me every time he says that.

He's so funny, man. He is great. Also on that, Steen Flatlogs, but we'll tell you about another time. I feel like he, I think he was just like, I think it was just there. He was on a trip to, yeah, they were on a trip to Africa. He's one of the, I'm just, I don't know what it is about Chris Tucker, but I'm just like, I just, I think he was there and was just like, this is cool. I'm flying with Bill Clinton.

It's what I've been saying about Kevin Spacey for years. Wow. The Space Man. The Space Man. Just there for the snorkeling. Victor Wright says. I mean, beautiful snorkels. Dude, beautiful snorkels.

Some of the most beautiful. Everything snorkel. It's funny that they announced that they were making this movie while being that far part. Like they, yeah, you haven't decided to make rush hour for. You've decided that it would be cool if you could make rush hour for essentially is like what you were announcing back then. And the truth of it is they have the power to do it. They can do it. Yeah, they can't between the president. The president was like, we're going to make this happen. He's the one who announced rush hour for. Yeah. I thought that was the case. Yeah. I thought I remember him

like tweeting it like, we're going to make rush hour for. Straight up, he was the one who was saying that, you know, after, you know, Skydance bought, whatever the fuck it bought. And he was sweetened about it. He's like, we're going to get Brett Ratner out of hiding out of his little rat hole. And he's going to come out. He's very sorry for all the me-toeing. No, he's going to come out. Matt, it's important to note.

The company is facing, this is from the movie web article. The company is also facing major heat for moving forward with Ratner's reported involvement, even though he continues to. to deny any misconduct. He's not even, he's not willing to apologize. He didn't do anything wrong. And if he did, he's sorry. And he's not because he didn't do anything wrong.

But it's like they literally could get this done. They have all the pieces in place. But what they don't have is the ability to not cheap out on the two literal stars of the film. And that is hilarious. That's hilarious. Because you can't rush hour is like one of those movies where if you're going to bring it back, you cannot bring it back without those two. It's like when they did men in black

without fucking Timely Jones and Will Smith. Like nobody wanted to see it. It was an ass movie. And like nobody wanted to see it. You got to have them. And it's just like. Oh yeah, they did do a man and black without them. It was like a four or some.

It was like a site. Man and black international. Yeah. Yeah. It's just no one was interested in it. And it's, you know, it's because it's like people don't watch men and black movies for the lore. No.

We watch it for the stars. stars. Exactly. Underrated movie, Men and Black 3. I think Men and Black 3 is pretty good. I love Men and Black. Miniback 3 was good.

I thought it was good. And the way they tied it up was like fucking crazy. I thought it was a perfect. Yeah. I love it. Listen, put a bow on it.

Well, Smith can slap as many people as he want. That's how I feel. I'm going to always be a fan. I want him to slap me. So I just want to read this part from the story also. A source with direct knowledge tells TMZ

negotiations with the stars are ongoing, and this is all a completely normal part of the movie-making business. We're told confidence is high that an agreement will be reached, and Chris and Jackie will be kicking back into action. Sure. That's from the article. Sounds like you guys have a real source there who is in no way part of the publicity and marketing team in the studio.

Yeah. Normal people say stuff like, guys, Chris and Jackie will be kicking back into action and conversation, like in a conversational way. Sounds real. Yeah, sounds real. Yeah, sounds real to me. Although we know a rush hour four will be kind of like how bad boys four was, where they're like, they're kind of too old to be doing this and can barely kick anymore. Yeah, half of the jokes are going to be about how old they are.

Yeah. Martin Lawrence, he's another, like, national treasure that I think doesn't get his just, what do you call it? Like, pray. He just hurt? His just do, yeah. Because, like, he is, he's, like Chris Tucker, there's an era in which every Martin Lawrence movie was a banger. And upon rewatch is also a banger. Like, still hit.

Still hits. And Martin is my favorite TV show of all time. And that was like, it was a time when there were Friends was on the air. Seinfeld was on the air. Like, these are like the who's who of multi-cam sitcoms. But Martin goes toe to toe to toll with all of those sitcoms. It is so funny. People don't even know.

And Martin's had a long career. Like, he's a long career in Chris Tucker. Yeah, no, man. He just turned 61. I saw him live last year at the comedy or maybe two years ago at the comedy store. How was it? He wasn't doing too great. But like, but it was still great.

But I think he's doing much better now. Good. I've seen him now. He's lost a lot of weight. He feels like he's like. you know, moving well and like mentally all there. Good. But even if he wasn't doing that great, I still had some big laughs in there.

He's still just, he's one of those dudes where like, funny is going to be funny. Yeah. No matter what. So he may not have, you know, the, and you're a stand-up, Matt. You know, when people like dudes, sometimes you lose it. 100%. A hundred percent. Sometimes you lose it.

Matt cannot stand to lose anything physically because he is out there, humping the stool. That's right. I've been humping stool since day one. I'll die on stage hump of that stool. But no, people do, they, I mean, you know, like, all due respect to Dave Chappelle,

but Dave Chappelle is like a perfect example of someone who, you know, yeah, it's just not, not, yeah, you watch his new specials and you're like, you know, he's still doing the transphobic thing and still sticking to that. Still sticking to that. And then the jokes that aren't about that are like,

fine, but you're like, no, there's a spark that's just gone. And I think that just comes with time. But the era of Martin Lawrence was like, that was just one of the best eras. And people should look back at him the way they look at like Seinfeld. That's what I say. In fact, even better, because I don't think he ever dated a high schooler. He did not. And to my knowledge, he isn't a Zionist.

Yeah, so win-win. Just replace your Seinfeld memes. Martin Lawrence memes. That's what I'm saying. Bring him back in the zeitgeist. Let's do it. Yeah. Anyways. Anyways, Matt Leeb. Such a pleasure having you on the Daily Zykeast. So, so happy to be back. Love this show. Love y'all. Great, great time I had with you. What a beautiful time.

Great, great time I had with you. Matt, is there a work of me? First of all, where can people find you? First of all, we got to talk about that. You can find me. I mean, listen, if you like TV rewatch podcasts, I do a podcast called Pod Yourself a Gun, and you just search that, and you'll find us talking about madmen,

talking about The Wire, talking about Sopranos. It's a lot of fun. And if you want to talk about Israeli propaganda, if you like us making fun of Israeli propaganda, check out Bad Hasbara, the world's most moral podcast, wherever you get your podcast. Is there a work of media that you've been enjoying?

I just want to read a tweet that I really liked, and I'm sure you've seen it because I think it went like mega viral, but it was at Kovie underscore 93. He wrote, new shell casings from the alleged shooter released by Cash Patel, and this was after the White House Correspondence Dinner almost event, you know. And the picture is of, five machine gun shell casings and over it, it says, I hate ballroom.

Because you know how like, now everyone's like, oh, the shooter, he wrote, they wrote their manifesto in the bullets. Yeah, yeah, they love to do that. He wrote, I hate ballroom. That's great. Oh, room is so good.

That's so good. Yeah. I love it. I love it. Anyways. Jakeas, where can people find you? Is there a work in media you've been enjoying? Well, you know, you can always find me in the streets.

Find me in the streets or at jakeesneal.com at jacchiseneal on the socials. Carc control season, too, it is coming. It is coming. So be on the lookout. We got some dope-ass people on it this season. And I am, and also it's going to be a fun wardrobe season for me. Fun wardrobe season. Just keep that in mind.

there is a work of art that I'm finding funny and I don't know how to explain it well I do know how to explain it but I want to show it I want, we can link in in the footnotes because you got to hear it and see it at the same time but it is a woman who is making ground beef

of course it's a white woman and like it's in like the ground beef is in this like contraption that's like spinning the ground beef around and she's like seasoning it but she's put in like barely any seasoning in it at all

and it's only going on the spinner so it's not going on any of the fucking meat the very little she's like actually doing and like and so the comments went crazy and somebody made a cut of the comments and spliced it together as a dope-ass song

where it's just basically like it's the basically what did you say you ain't season the damn thing she's seasoning it with the concept of season it and it's just like all types of like shit it's so funny it's so brilliant i'm gonna send it to you guys so people can like go check it out if they want to see it because it's very funny amazing you can find me on twitter at jack underscore o'brien blue sky jack obi the number one instagram jack underscore

oh underscore brian uh what have i been enjoying you guys. You ever see them, John boy? What? The John boy is this guy who like just watches primarily baseball clips and just... Oh, yes, yes, yes. Says the words. Like, he basically does lip reading. He says the words. Yeah. He's great.

It like seemed like it was just going to be this one-off. He's been doing it for like a decade. I feel like and it seemed like it was going to be this one-off thing. And now it's like, this is the only way I want to watch sport from now. It's like being able to have somebody tell you exactly what they're saying and like going

back over the clips and highlights and be like, all right, so then and this is this guy being like, hey, fuck you. Go home and like all of the just like weird you know, anger that's flying between baseball players. It feels like the future of sports entertainment.

So I highly recommend some of that. Van Lathan Jr. just shared out one that was said these are some of my favorite videos on the internet. that I'll share the link to. You can find us on Twitter and Blue Sky at Daily Zykeyes. We're at The Daily Zykeyes on Instagram. You can go to the description of this episode wherever you're listening to it.

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that sounds like it's from a different era or genre of music, but it really like ties everything together. So this song again is called Keeping You Close by Hallow Genics, and you can find that in the Footnotes. Foot notes. Put notes. The Daily Zike is a production of IHartRadio for more podcasts from My Heart Radio Visit, the IHartRadio App Apple Podcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows, that's going to do it for us.

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