The Daily Zeitgeist - Jealousy To Rule Venezuela? Thinnest Blood Ever! 01.06.26

Episode Date: January 6, 2026

In episode 1984, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and host of Rebrand, Mort Burke, to discuss… Trump: People Say I’m Jealous But My Kink Is Just Karma, Benny Johnson: Venezuela Rigge...d The 2020 Election! So Yeah! Trump Health? John Krasinski Laid The Groundwork For Venezuela Attack and more! U.S. plan to ‘run’ Venezuela clouded in confusion Benny Johnson: Venezuela Rigged The 2020 Election! So Yeah! Trump Health? John Krasinski Laid The Groundwork For Venezuela Attack Jack Ryan clip about Venezuela gets viral amid capture of Nicolàs Maduro. Did ‘Jack Ryan’ Predict U.S.’ Venezuela Intervention? Co-Creator Carlton Cuse Reacts To Season 2 Clip Going Viral, Shares Hopes For “Stability And Peace” Amazon's 'Jack Ryan' TV series lambasted for promoting Venezuela 'invasion' Jack Ryan is the Latest TV Show to Film at CIA Headquarters How Does Amazon's 'Jack Ryan' Compare to Real Life at the CIA? LISTEN: 4 Raws by EsDeeKidSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 I slogged through Stranger Things over the way. What are you talking about? We're just talking about just shows you're watching. Yeah, but yeah. I would say Stranger Things is worse than Plurubis. Stranger Things, I was getting angry at my wife about it. Yeah. She's like, oh, I like it.
Starting point is 00:00:21 That's a reaction to all entertainment. Yeah. Oh, for sure. What the fuck is this shit? but that shit was bad that was really bad get in here when she wasn't even watching it yeah no she was because she was the driving force
Starting point is 00:00:38 and I was like dude I'm off this and she's like but we already watched like we've seen everything up until this point I'm like fine and it was just I don't know man people hated the ending I know yeah it didn't end is it over yeah it's over whole epilogue and everything I think also seeing when them as kids like because they had flashed back to the first season I'm like oh that's this is why the show was so good
Starting point is 00:00:58 because it was about these kids. Uh-huh. And then I think I realized, I'm like, you guys kept coming back to the well and they got older and older and older that it really lost the sort of magic of like these little kids figuring out something much bigger than they were.
Starting point is 00:01:11 And I think that was like, I think I was sort of like, God, this show was so good. And then they became old teenagers and shit, and I just don't even think that shit is interesting anymore. It's like all that mystery box shit, too, it was just like, well, like once you find out what the answer actually is,
Starting point is 00:01:28 It's just like, oh, yeah. I was like, what? The first season was cool when they cut that kid open and he was like a pillow on the inside. I was like, fuck, yeah, that's cool. But then, yeah, it's all just like. Demogorgans. Is it a mind flare or a demigorgian?
Starting point is 00:01:46 I don't know, man. You're a fuck. Who's in charge? God damn it. My Heart Podcast. Guaranteed Human. Hi, I'm Dr. Priyanko Wally. And I'm Hurricane Dabolu.
Starting point is 00:02:05 It's a new year. And on the podcast, Health Stuff, we're resetting the way we talk about our health. Which means being honest about what we know, what we don't know, and how messy it can all be. I like to sleep in late and sleep early. Is there a chronotype for that,
Starting point is 00:02:19 or am I just depressed? Health stuff is about learning, laughing, and feeling a little less alone. Listen on the I Heart Radio. Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, everybody, it's Michelle Williams, host of checking in on the Black Effect Podcast Network. You know, we always say New Year, New Me, but real change starts on the inside. It starts with giving your mind and your spirit the same attention you give your goals.
Starting point is 00:02:47 And on my podcast, we talk mental health, healing, growth, and everything you need to step into your next season, whole and empowered. New Year, Real You. Listen to checking in with Michelle Williams from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Are you desperately hoping for change in 2026, but feeling stuck? I'm Dr. Lari Santos, and in a new year series of my show, The Happiness Lab, I'm going to look at the science of getting, well, unstuck, unstuck at work, unstuck in your relationships, and even unstuck inside your mind.
Starting point is 00:03:26 I am the absolute worst culprit when it comes to getting into these ruminative loops and just driving myself crazy. Listen to the Happiness Lab on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your shows. Who would you call if the unthinkable happened? My sister shot 22 times. A police officer, right? But what do you do when the monster is the man in blue? This dude is the devil. He hurt you. This is the story of a detective who thought he was above the law, until we came to.
Starting point is 00:03:56 together to take him down. I said, you're going to see my face to the day that you die. Listen to the girlfriends, untouchable, on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 420, man. episode two of Do you daily sight guys! Dude, get the cough in.
Starting point is 00:04:29 It gets you even a higher. Dude, coughing harder, dog. Yeah, dude. Dude, here, spray this oseum on. Your stepmom won't even know. Blow into this tube with dryer sheets. Blow it into the toilet, dude. My first use of dryer sheets was
Starting point is 00:04:46 to clean up the smell of pot smoke. It's a production of iHeartRadio is a podcast where you take deep dab into America's shared consciousness through the day's news we also have a new weekly history version of the show dropping each Monday morning where we deep dive into a different icon we've done this piggy Arnold Schwarzenegger we covered Santa very controversial episode before the uh before before the Christmas uh you can look for those episodes on Mondays our next one will be coming out this upcoming Monday but right now it is Tuesday January 6th 2020
Starting point is 00:05:23 When the Patriots fucking did something. Thank you. It's also National Cuddle Up Day. It looks like you just cuddle up with a pet. Maybe that's what they were up to down there. Maybe. Maybe. They were just celebrating National Cuddle Up Day.
Starting point is 00:05:36 National Technology Day. That doesn't sound good at all anymore to hear. National Tech. No fucking way. It's also National Shortbread Day. And also, shout out the legumes because it's National Bean Day. Get it in with your favorite bean. oh man i ate so many black eyed peas what are you guys doing to celebrate january 6th me uh i'm gonna
Starting point is 00:05:59 storm the capital yeah yeah i got my horns i got my horns going and my apology ready yeah i wouldn't it'll ever be like the way there's civil war reenactors yes there'll ever be january 6th rate actors i don't know it's god it's so hard it just storm like a library it'll probably be like yeah in some i guess not an alternate universe like if this regime just runs this whole country in the ground for decades to come, that probably will be a thing. I mean, that was, you know, that was a turning port. Yeah. We stormed.
Starting point is 00:06:28 Well, it'll, like, this regime will go down in history and be, like, looked down upon I have to hope. And then, yeah, the way that people are about the Confederates, they'll be about the Jan 6th. But see, like, they already kind of are. For sure. But, like, the reason people cling to the Confederacy
Starting point is 00:06:45 still, too, a lot of it has to do with, like, General Sherman absolutely destroying the South. And like that anger still being there for generations, where is our general Sherman? I know. We need one. Where's our William Ticomsa Sherman? I just think we got to let it ride, you know?
Starting point is 00:07:05 Let them be. Yeah, yeah, yeah. My name is Jack O'Brien, aka Jizz Jaws jackal sauce, courtesy of Wacharoni in the Discord, hard at work over the break, giving me a personalized version of Chris Cross Applesauce. For me, a guy who likes Jaws and Jizz, I guess. It's like if Dr. Seuss was a high school bully. Right. Why don't you sit down Jizz, Jaws, Jackal sauce style?
Starting point is 00:07:32 Man, remember that, that was that tweet as like, crisscross applesauce might be the greatest rebranding of a problematic thing ever. They nailed that one. Yeah. That's like so much, like that's an example of where they like did something woke and absolutely fucking pulled up from the logo. and nailed it. It's so often
Starting point is 00:07:53 their version of like we're going to do something to acknowledge that there are people of color in this country and that will be them getting a photo op with a football coach
Starting point is 00:08:05 at half time of the football game for 15 seconds that just interrupts the game and makes people annoyed and it's like yeah or you could do you can like try and make it good
Starting point is 00:08:17 so that people don't resent it I don't know Maybe that's an idea. Hire the people who came up with crisscross applesauce, is what I say. I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Hey, it's Miles Gray back from his digital hibernation. It's good to see everybody. Shout out some Zygeng I ran into on the streets.
Starting point is 00:08:41 That was a wonderful moment at the butcher shop, bro. I was out here. At the butcher shop? Yo, I walked in. I think your name is Cyrus. Forgive me if I misremembered your name. my fellow Zike Gang member. But I came in and somebody pulled up and go, hey, you Miles Gray?
Starting point is 00:08:57 And I said, yeah, they're like, I heard your voice, dude. And I thought you were in the store. And I was, I felt, I felt touched. And then everybody was like, who the fuck is this guy? He smells. I had a like, I'm stressed sweating. I regret too much for him. Look, if I'm going to be totally transparent, I do wear a shirt that says, I'm Miles Gray from the podcast.
Starting point is 00:09:15 From Dave, he's like, ask me about it. Yeah. And then on the back, there was a QR code. It's really obnoxious. You're like, bait me. You're loudly announcing, you're announcing like news topics. AKA the Lord of Lancashim, the showgoon with no gun, the proud gunner sitting top of the table because Arsenalers.
Starting point is 00:09:31 Wow. Six points clear, baby. I did notice that. Usually I check in on Arsenal. It's not so hot. But this time, I was very happy. I was like, yay. We've been at the top of the table during this period.
Starting point is 00:09:46 This is like now the fifth time and we've never gone on to win the league. despite having that. It's happening. Come on, boys. Let's do it. As a 76ers fan, I see you. Yeah. I'm behind you.
Starting point is 00:09:59 I have the same thing where it's like, it's just gonna, we're gonna go out in the second round. Yeah. I'm ashamed of myself. Don't support them. Miles, we're still to be joined in our third seat by a very funny comedian, actor, writer, Improvisor, one of our favorite guests.
Starting point is 00:10:17 His podcast is rebrand. He's got a very, funny special called spiritually filthy up on YouTube. He just pulled jammed into the Zoom. It's Moore! What's up you beautiful geniuses? I've started referring to my wife as part of the Zite gang and she's like, I don't think, I mean, I don't like that at all. Please stop. Well, you like me. I kind of, I have other fandoms. I like to acknowledge first probably. Yeah, you're not number one. I tried to vary it up from nose grind with a with a with, with, pole jam. I like a pole jam.
Starting point is 00:10:51 Yeah. It sounds both like very sexually suggestive and also powerful. It's a yeah, on what's called a Philly bar because those came out of Philadelphia because people would, they would back their cars into the bars to slant them so people could 50 up off them and stuff. That's what you did to just get into the
Starting point is 00:11:11 Zoom. Yeah, that's how I get into my office. It looked awesome. Yeah. More it is of course our skateboarding correspondent, our special skateboarding correspondent. Yep. Skateboarding pastor. Hey kids.
Starting point is 00:11:24 Have you heard the good news? Yeah. Watch this. Jesus inspired kickflip. Oh, man. What do you think the skateboarding pastor would think of like the Christ air move? They would love it. You think they would do that or would they call something else?
Starting point is 00:11:36 They'd be like, we don't want to say it. So we call it like this a savior grab. Oh. I feel like they're pretty, uh, I feel like they're pretty, uh, good with just invoking Christ at at anything, comparing anything. Maybe. You know, they're desperate for Christianity's to be cool. So they're like, you know, Jesus is a lot like Tupac.
Starting point is 00:11:55 And you're like, I don't think. Right, right, right. I was at a white elephant and we got like a Jesus plushy that you could either put in the freezer or in a microwave as like a heating pad. And it's like very comedic. And we brought it back. And the guy's child saw it and thought like, was like, oh, it's a toy for me. And I'm like, what the fuck am I going to say about this shit? So we call it Jesse.
Starting point is 00:12:16 I'm like, oh, that's Jesse. he's like that's a Jesse doll and he's like oh Jesse doll and then we were at another place and he saw Jesus somewhere he's like it's Jesse I'm like yeah there's Jesse everywhere I love that as a nickname
Starting point is 00:12:28 Jesse is all over man you know you're Jesse you know there are times yeah Jesse is a lot of pressure being me can we just go by Jesse call me or Jess dude the G man
Starting point is 00:12:39 how like sort of realistic looking as this doll is it kind of cartoony or is it like cartoonish it looks like the buddy Christ from dogma you know it's like Basically, where the stigmata go, it's little hearts on the palms. So it has like a red sash.
Starting point is 00:12:55 It's very cartooning. That's like in that Simpsons episode when Homer, he's on acid or something, and he's shaving and he cuts his face, but a rainbow spouts out of it. It's like instead of blood is his heart? Yeah. We're thrilled to have you here. We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment.
Starting point is 00:13:10 You are our first guest of the year 2026. on honor, which we have a good feeling about it. We haven't asked you yet, but I feel like this is going to be a good one just based on how it's kicking off. Good momentum. Seems like bringing some good momentum. We're nose grinding some good momentum into this. I'm overdoing it. I apologize. All right. We'll get to know you a bit a lit better in a moment. First, a couple of things we're talking about. We're going to talk about how Donald Trump chose who is going to run Venezuela. It's petty and vindictive. as you would expect. I'm assuming it's Papa John. We'll see. Shockingly not. It is Shaq. They considered Papa John
Starting point is 00:13:53 and then went with Shaq the same way that Papa John said. I like Shaq. We're going to talk about the fact that Venezuela rigged the 2020 election. They're trying out different. Again, they're just trying
Starting point is 00:14:03 different things out, different explanations for why they're in there. And then we will, of course, check in with our dear leader's health because there were some questions circulating over the break. May he stay strong.
Starting point is 00:14:13 May he stay as, strong as he always has been, and not go out like Stan Sharra. Yeah. May he go against his mortal doctor's recommendations to find the higher medical truth only guaranteed to him as a conduit of God's salvation. Thank you. As he has been, apparently, for the entirety of his adult life. So we'll talk about that. Don't trust the elite friends. Do you guys remember who Stan Sharra is? No. That was the guy during COVID, when he got COVID, his friend Stan Sharra had just passed away. And he was like, I just, I don't want to go out like Stan Sharra. Oh, wow. Yikes. So I feel like that's the Marley or whoever the ghost, the chain rattling
Starting point is 00:14:57 ghost is. Marley and Marley. Marley and me. For now for the Muppets. We're going to talk about more Venezuela stuff. We can't get it up. John Krasinski, long time CIA, up, who's always just being like, guys, you don't understand how bad it would be for you without the CIA. He's like literally said that in interviews. But we're going to talk about one of his, I don't know why we even need to summarize it. It's one of the Jack Ryan shows that he did that we all watched on Amazon Prime. Obviously, eyes glued. And that basically laid the entire groundwork and justification for invading Venezuela.
Starting point is 00:15:38 Yeah, in the most one-dimensional way, just similar to how this administration is doing. Yeah. It's not complex at all. We're going to flatten it to a one-dimensional issue and then manufacture consent. It's good guys and bad guys. And if we're good guy, they bad guy. We good guy day bad guy. So we'll talk about that.
Starting point is 00:15:55 Plenty more. But first, more, we do like to ask our guest. What is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Guys, I have two that I think really illustrate who I am in moderately embarrassing ways. First one, chakra realignment exercises. Because you know, you guys know. how it is when your sacral's a little bit of out of balance. Hell yeah, bro.
Starting point is 00:16:16 You haven't been doing your yoga as much because of the holidays and stuff. You guys get it. Hell yeah. And then the second one is images of stacks of cash for my vision board. Wait, you even added for my vision board? No, no, no, that was for you guys for you guys for you guys for you guys for my vision board. Yeah, yeah, I need the ones that have magic on them for vision boards. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:16:41 Oh, that's your problem. That's not a vision board specific image you put on there. But we have to support it, guys, because now I've exposed it to you and all the listeners and stuff. So I need everybody to really, I need you guys to believe, don't make fun of it. This is called Manifesting. Yes, thank you. Everybody needs to look it up.
Starting point is 00:16:57 Thank you. And speaking of 2026 and being the skateboard correspondent, my Grail T-shirt today, I found that is on eBay, nobody buy it. I'm not going to say what it is, but it's the exact amount of money I have on gift, left over on gift cards. If that isn't manifesto, wow. I don't know what I was. Well, may your chakras be aligned.
Starting point is 00:17:15 May your stacks of cash be not Googled, but actually physically manifesting themselves. What is something you think is underrated? You know, they say romance is dead, you guys. And I agree because what is underrated is the thing that no one's doing anymore, which is where when men would very romantically kiss women from like their hands all the way up to their biceps and back down. Yeah, they don't like that. anymore. No, consensually, we need to bring that back. Oh, you think the gals don't like it? I think they're, I think they're like, where did that go? Yeah, no, you're talking Pepe LaPue style.
Starting point is 00:17:52 Oh, no. Yeah, you're talking Gomez Adams. Yeah, yeah, I'm talking Goose. Peak, Raul Julia. Classic. Cartoonish. Yeah. Yeah. Is there anything more romantic than, yeah, rather than, yeah, you're just like, I'm just going to kiss closer to the thing I ultimately want. Is that cool? I'm not going to say it. You start down here. Yeah. The neck miles. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:15 Yeah. Man, so many smooches. That guy was averaging on average. Dang, bro. I just realized I'm going to have to tell Her Majesty, we got, we got work to do. Yeah, you got to get those. I haven't been loving you the right way. Loving you.
Starting point is 00:18:35 Yeah. I think I think you're right about that. I think that's a good, you know, a good move that I'm going to try with my wife. I mean, yeah, don't, you know, give me a little credit when your love life really explodes. She did like I got chapstick all over clothes. Yeah, she's going to, at first she's going to be like, what? I hate this. And then it's, she's, the animal lust between you will be undeniable.
Starting point is 00:18:57 Undeniable, yeah. It's actually big, messy swirls of Vaseline around my mouth because I've got real dry lips. Just wanted to be sure, babe. I wanted every kiss to be pleasant. Yeah. What is something more that you think is overrated? All right, look, this is not a hot take on this podcast, but I have a reason for it specifically.
Starting point is 00:19:18 I'm saying AI. Here's the thing. Everybody's acting like AI is going to replace all artists. I think the only thing it would replace is 90s shock rock videos like Marilyn Manson and stuff because the only art it ever is able to create. It's trying to make the most beautiful stuff it can. And it's like, watch this baby transform into a rat with a snake body and human arms. It's the only stuff
Starting point is 00:19:41 It creates this like pure nightmare And I think that's because Some part in us recognizes that Something and something there does not have a soul Yeah, yeah For sure, for sure It's I mean because like there are videos that are purely Like I'll come across it on like Instagram or something
Starting point is 00:19:58 Where it's purely just some violent Transformation of like a person on the street Who's like a human then like a bloody blob It turns of a dolphin and you're like What the fuck? It's so. crazy. My friend, shout out to my buddy Jeff. He was saying this, another, he heard
Starting point is 00:20:13 this thing, somebody's, what's up, Jeff? Keep it him anonymous. But I, he was like, a friend of mine was like, it's like when the microwave came out, everybody thought it was going to replace stoves, but it's just like a little tool. Right. You know? Yeah. Yeah. And even then, not even as you know, not as good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:30 Microwave. Microwave popcorn. So you can, everybody, you can stop investing trillions because I just, I just fucking pile drives. A certain point we're going to realize it's only good for like three things. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:43 Soup, popcorn, and pasta. I think it does a pretty good job with pasta. Yeah. Let's take a quick break. Come back and we'll talk about the news. Hi, I'm Dr. Priyankawali. And I'm Hurricane DeVolu. It's a new year.
Starting point is 00:21:01 And on the podcast's Health Stuff, we're resetting the way we talk about our health. Which means being honest about what we know, what we don't know, and how messy it can all be. I like to sleep in late and sleep early. Is there a chronotype for that, or am I just depressed? We talk to experts who share real experiences and insight. You just really need to find where it is that you can have an impact in your own life and to start doing that. We break down the topics you want to know more about. Sleep, stress, mental health, and how the world around us affects our overall health.
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Starting point is 00:22:20 ruminative loops and just driving myself crazy. We'll look at ways to reignite your sense of purpose, rediscover your values, and get more creative. We'll also explore how to design a life that feels more fulfilling. It's sort of like the game of life. I don't know if you ever played that game. Oh my gosh, yes. You take the car along and you try and get money and you try and get degrees and you I and get to the end where either you have a mansion or a ranch or a shack. And once you get to retirement, you're done. What about the whole path along the way? So join me to get unstuck in 2026.
Starting point is 00:22:51 Listen to the Happiness Lab on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your shows. You know, we always say New Year, New Me, but real change starts on the inside. It starts with giving your mind and your spirit the same attention you give your goals. Hey, everybody, it's Michelle Williams, host of checking in on. on the Black Effect Podcast Network. And on my podcast, we talk mental health, healing, growth and everything you need to step into
Starting point is 00:23:17 your next season, whole and empowered. New Year, real you. Listen to checking in with Michelle Williams from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Starting point is 00:23:33 Who would you call if the unthinkable happened? I just fail and started screaming. If you lost someone you loved in the most horrific way I said through you got 22 times The police, right? But what if the person you're supposed to go to for help is the one you're the most afraid of?
Starting point is 00:23:52 This dude is the devil. He's a snake. He'll hurt you. I'm Nikki Richardson, and this is The Girlfriends, Untouchable. Detective Roger Goulopsy spent decades intimidating and sexually abusing black women across Kansas City, using his police badge to scare them into silence. This is the story of a detective who seemed above the law until we came together to take him down. I told Roger Galuski, I said,
Starting point is 00:24:25 you're going to see my face till the day that you die. Listen to the girlfriends, Untouchable, on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. and we're back and we got to figure out now that now that it's been a clean changeover and uh the the trouble administration came in an illegally kidnapped leader of venezuela and his wife no outcry flawless flawless flawless no no notes people are like so you you clearly have a successor lined up yes sir yeah right you thought about this
Starting point is 00:25:15 and what are we hearing what do we hear enough i mean the loudest voice is marco rubio but then people are like he's kind of got his hands full with like all the regime change shit happening so maybe we'll kick it down to teenage mutant ninja gerbils himself stephen miller who seems to love to be the puppet master of human life. So very charismatic. So good choice of a leader for a democratically elected position. But even then, that's not a, that's not even a thing that they can even really get behind. It sounds the most actual, the most sort of consistent reporting you here is that they don't
Starting point is 00:25:55 know what they're doing at all. So they basically, look, Jack, the dog caught the car again. And there is no real strategy. post Maduro kidnapping. They're just telling me that the decision he made because he thought that the guy dancing was annoying wasn't fully thought through. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
Starting point is 00:26:15 They just, and now, just to say things like, well, now we're going to run it, but Maduro's allies are still empowered. They aren't bowing to Trump. So what do you mean by quote unquote, run a country, like remotely? How do you do any of this? It's just a sentiment.
Starting point is 00:26:30 You know what I mean? It's like kind of run. Yeah, you're just like, you know, he's making up the guy, We run it now because that's how easy it works. It's like playing football manager. You just signed with a new club now. And now I run that one.
Starting point is 00:26:40 It's that easy. Yeah, you sit in an office and you're kind of mean to people on the phone. That's how you run. That's how you run. Right. But no mention of how. You request Diet Coke. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:48 Right. People bring it to it. Again, for the complexity of an entire government, they're just saying we run it. And then, like, most of the media is like, oh, okay. So then we're going to run it. But here's the thing. One person that absolutely will not be running things is Nobel Peace Prize winner. Maria Karina Machado.
Starting point is 00:27:06 So despite her streak of imperial bootlicking, you know, like she's always like, oh my God, the U.S. is great. Israel can do nothing wrong. Please, like everything is fine. I love it. She did not impress Trump. And I wonder why, you know, because she's down. She said she's clearly down to do whatever the U.S. wants.
Starting point is 00:27:24 But, wait, it couldn't be the Nobel Peace Prize, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was the one that he was like kind of, kind of had his eye on. Yeah, he was really into. Trump has said about her, quote, it'd be very tough for her to be the leader, saying that she doesn't have the support or the respect within the country.
Starting point is 00:27:43 This article goes on from the Washington Post, quote, two people close to the White House said that president's lack of interest in boosting Machado, despite her recent efforts to flatter Trump, stem from her decision to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, an award the president has openly coveted. Although Machado ultimately said she was dedicating the award to Trump, her acceptance of the prize.
Starting point is 00:28:00 That's on real. Yeah, yeah. Her acceptance of the prize was, quote, an ultimate sin, said one of the people, quote, if she had turned it down and said, I can't accept it because it's Donald Trump's, she'd be the president of Venezuela today. Oh, you could have been president of this mockery of a regime change. That's being reported in the Washington Post, who are like basically captured. Like, they knew about the attack before.
Starting point is 00:28:25 Well, yeah. If you think, do you think that he thinks that he misheard it and he thinks it's the Nobel Beef Prize and it's you get like 30 Big Macs maybe like why that's a really good question more yeah you know Nobel Feast Prize I'm just trying to figure out why he wants it right right right right he just didn't get him to heaven yeah there is dude he's he's knock knock knock knocking on here and he is absolutely I mean the amount of like mortality topics that pop into his mind is definitely he's been fundraising off of stuff like that he's like please get me to happen And you're like, what the fuck? So it's very... He's going to build a golden elevator from the White House. What's wild is like this Washington Post, like article where this comes from, it just says U.S. plan to quote run Venezuela clouded in confusion. Yeah, no shit, obviously.
Starting point is 00:29:17 But like that line about Machado comes like so deep in the article when that's, that really illustrates how this entire the president's weird worldview due to his senility, which is like, you know, people say, I'm jealous, but my kink is karma is how the chapel Roan said it. And I agree. Like, that's how he's, that's how he's overseeing the overthrow of a government and regime change based on like his hurt ego. And that is like, again, this is more, more and more evidence how unsurious and how just God awful this whole thing is. Just, yeah.
Starting point is 00:29:54 Yeah. And it seems like she won the award for being such a good handpicked successor for a CIA coup. She was the head of the opposition party who was like got a lot of votes and it just seems like and his dedicated the
Starting point is 00:30:13 award to Donald Trump. That shit is wild. I did not realize how pathetic the ass kisserry was. Yeah. And when the like Faustian bargain doesn't work, that's got to feel a million times worse when you're like, yeah, when you go
Starting point is 00:30:29 when you prostrate and humiliate yourself in front everybody and they're still like, no, you don't get it. I actually don't like her anymore. Yeah, she's not cool. Yeah. You know, I want to say two things. This is affecting real people, you know. And I just think that's important to remember.
Starting point is 00:30:43 And also, Stephen Miller looks like E.T. If he was pale. Yeah. He does. Oh. Like E.T. mixed with Voldemort, I feel like. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:51 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, man. Be great. Send him off on a little, little vacation, a little trip down there to just, I don't Just be the governor, as they used to call it in that era of colonization, to be the governor of Venezuela or whatever the fuck. He's got a good head on the show. Of like Arco Chevronville or whatever they want to rename it.
Starting point is 00:31:13 It's just like, wow, because then along with that, right, it's on its surface, in illegal kidnapping of a nation's leader on the weirdest. Like, it's actually like narco arms charges or bringing them up. This is a law enforcement action. That's like, because that's how they're trying to find the sort of like legal framework to make this all work. We get all this like manufactured consent because everyone's like, this is, sounds absolutely just off the rails. What are you talking about? So intro, please come in, Benny Johnson. My man.
Starting point is 00:31:45 Dude, the man who, when they had to do the federal siege of D.C., and everyone's like, why the fuck? Why would you come here for any of this? He gave us, obviously, this great bit of. My infant nearly died in a drug fire after mass shootings. as that's why the government has to come in my infant mine my infant now don't fact check any of that because it will crumble under just the slightest bit of interest or investigation this is his new thing now because i guess obviously this is so illegal and so unpopular and trump basically was like coming out being like no more wars we got to stop wasting money on this crap it seems like
Starting point is 00:32:25 this will be unpopular with his yeah well yeah most are kind of falling in line uh sort of expectedly. But Benny Johnson, I think he's really going for it because he's trying to connect Venezuela to another popular MAGA grievance, which is the 2020 election. Ladies and gentlemen, Smartmatic and Dominion voting systems were the voting systems being used at this time and in these states. And all around the world, they are Venezuelan by design. Well, cut it over to Maduro. They're Venezuelan by design. Okay. Huh?
Starting point is 00:33:02 Go on. By systems and storage facilities and through their actual technology, these systems, I have on extremely good authority, can and do rig elections around the world. Oh. Now, how does this lead us to the arrest of Nicholas Maduro? Yes. How? Nicolas Maduro knows where all the bodies are buried. Venezuela is effectively just a proxy state that was being run by Russia and China and Iran.
Starting point is 00:33:29 They were running operations here against America using, yes, the election rigging technology, also using chemical warfare, this in the form of fentanyl, and biological warfare in the form of flooding our nation with third world criminal aliens. He was going to say shit hole. Mm-hmm. She's a third world. So, again, just, I don't know if you remember. There were lawsuits from Dominion. He was pretty airtight miles. that one of the designers
Starting point is 00:33:57 of the designers of the voting machine was from Venezuela. It's Venezuelan in design and technology. It's inextricably Venezuelan all around. But I'm sorry,
Starting point is 00:34:08 he knows or the bodies are buried. So we're actually, we're arresting him because of his involvement in election ringing because that'd be interesting. But also, the Venezuela rigged the 2020 election
Starting point is 00:34:20 and then sat out the 2024 election. When the person who would be rigging it. So they rigged the one when Trump was in office. So that's, I always have trouble with their version of things where there is a vast conspiracy by the most powerful people in the country while they're in power. Yeah. And I'm shocked. I never heard this. You'd think Trump would be talking about this if he knew that Venezuela was behind the
Starting point is 00:34:54 2020 election ring. I feel like we were heard this age is coming. Miles, the storm is coming. Okay, he can't divulge everything. Yeah. Yeah, this is 44 DHS. We're looking at it now.
Starting point is 00:35:06 Truly, truly, truly. So, yeah, right now, they are really firing on all cylinders to try and get people to be like, to completely lose their critical thinking skills and be like, what? This is bad. This sounds like a total reversal
Starting point is 00:35:21 on policy that you said, happen although that's he's in his entire administration is that kind of thing but you know i mean we should never be surprised when they attach through just bizarre imagination and leaps of logic attached the worst things in the world to brown people that's it it's the same yeah fucking play over and you know you know biological warfare when like brown people move here you're like what yeah my white infant son and like dude also the fact using the word infant to describe your own child is no who's like my human son it's very weird oh it's definitely a modifier to try and make it more extreme nearly die yeah yeah infant son so bizarre dude darling bring the infant in
Starting point is 00:36:06 nobody's ever referred to their own child as an infant and where's the infant i'd like to apply affection to our son yeah my infant nearly die where's my infant give me back my infant also usually they don't refer to it as a drug fire because more that's not a thing that's not really a thing that's ever been I mean I guess it is like I mean a meth lab caught fire yeah yeah but meth lab fire again infant son drug fire you got to put the it's the little modifiers I give a little bit more sauce and it's and it's and it's it the subtext is always you see why I'm a victim here you get it poor you know Venezuela's been so hard on us.
Starting point is 00:36:52 Oh, where we've been so victimized by Venezuela. It's so wild how powerful they were and we didn't even realize it. Yeah. Crazy. We'll get to that part because Krasinski was trying to warn us. He's been warning us. All those knowing looks who was shooting at us during the office as Jim. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:37:10 He was trying to tell us something about Venezuela. Zoomed on his eyes. Pam spelled backwards map. What is Venezuela on a map? Map. Thank you. Yep. He's always after Pam.
Starting point is 00:37:20 It's always after Pam Sounds like My grandfather describing the plot of the office That James always after Pam, huh? I guess Always after Pam. All right. Well, we do, of course, want to check in
Starting point is 00:37:38 with the health of Donald Trump. That was the story over the break That people continue to speculate About, you know, how's he doing? Speculate. What's that going on with his? hand there. Why can he seem to move right?
Starting point is 00:37:55 Yeah. Why he keep falling asleep? Yeah. He is, uh, why is he, why does he keep having to go to the hospital and get full batteries of medical tests like every couple weeks? Hell yeah, dude. Why does he so strong? They're trying to figure out how is he so powerful.
Starting point is 00:38:11 Yeah. Why do they, uh, give him cognitive exams like, uh, like, uh, that he's acing every time he brushes his teeth. Twice a day, they're hitting him with the, is your brain still working, a cognitive test? And his explanation that he's created for himself is that they're giving it because they've never seen anyone do so good. That's so sad. That is like, anyways, these are all, this is all hater shit. Okay, this is all haters shit about his health.
Starting point is 00:38:44 He's beating the accusations with a little R&R and a little maverick advice from his advice. This is from an article in The Guardian. Trump said he acted on the advice of his staff to slow his pace, including spending roughly two weeks at Moralago, aka the Winter White House, over Christmas and New Year. They have also counseled him to try to keep his eyes open during public events. What? So he can listen to bullshit? He's thinking he's formulating. He's using his incredible cognitive concept.
Starting point is 00:39:20 If somebody brings that up again, they're fired. I'm fucking thinking, I'm cooking. I'm in the lab. I'm in the fucking lab when my eyes are closed. But this is like from a Wall Street Journal interview about his health where he just is like, yeah, they've been, they let me take two weeks off, which was really nice. He sounds like Josh Faskin writing home and big. They're really nice to me here. They let me take two weeks off.
Starting point is 00:39:49 they also told me to try to keep my eyes open during public events like that doesn't reflect poorly on your ability to just like be awake another tip they said look more look more vital is what they said that looks that's a good one be more spry yeah the just that being counseled to try to keep your eyes open is so funny like counseled rather than being like dude keep your fucking eyes i mean no one's talking to him like that but i i imagine you got to keep your fucking eyes open out there, dude. Yeah. I'm fucking serious, man. This whole thing's going to come apart, okay? You've got to keep your fucking eyes open. Eyes open. Eyes open.
Starting point is 00:40:26 Eyes open. Eyes open. Eyes open. They love to, like, blame people rising to positions of power on DEI or whatever. And like, the reality is this is how easy it is for this dude to become president of the laugh. They're like, hey, man, can you just stay awake, please? He's like, I don't think so, actually. Well, you think about it.
Starting point is 00:40:45 They need the vessel of Donald Trump to be able to be able to. to like magawash and get the support of people because Trump says it's happening. The second Trump is no longer saying what these things are and it becomes another leader, that's when shit's going to begin to wobble because he still commands enough attention to be like, we need him. Look, because like I've said before, he's like the elderly, like the kid who lives with his elderly grandpa who you go over to their house because you can get away with doing whatever because he's up in his room watching TV all day and you can lie to his face. What are you guys doing?
Starting point is 00:41:18 Oh, we're just building a car. Oh, okay. You're building a meth lab. Okay. And yeah, this helps for like, it's like Dave. You know what I mean? Where they're like, we got to have the vessel present to get all this other stuff done, except it's not a comedy.
Starting point is 00:41:34 They have to be looking into a Dave situation. They have to be looking to see if they can get somebody who looks enough like Donald Trump, who is 71 and like still has their wits about them. Dude, they're probably going to ship in a beloved mega actor John Voigt with a wig. Yeah, this is Trump. Yeah, people would believe they're like, but Voight is so good as Trump, people will buy it. They're like, but they know it's John Voight. Just fucking try it, man.
Starting point is 00:42:03 Transformational. We've got our backs to the wall. He's also, and this is giving a lot of people, concerns, we'll call them. Because we all just want to make sure he's healthy and strong boy. people are concerned about this revelation that he's taking way more aspirin than his doctors won him to so this is this was always something that I found kind of interesting is that like he's probably abusing Adderall but for most of the 80s and 90s he was just like abusing Sudafed like he was taking over the counter Sudafed as his speed just for the like
Starting point is 00:42:41 a Fedron yeah yeah just to like you use that as a speed, allegedly, but there's pretty good reporting that suggests that he has been popin pseudopheds as like his way of like, instead of like cocaine or any pep pills. He's like, you know how Elvis was like, I don't do street drugs, but I take like all the prescription. Yeah. So like suitcases, hockey bags of prescription medication. It was formulated in a German lab. It's not a drug. I feel like Trump is like one step first. where he's like, well, they wouldn't be able to sell it over the counter if it wasn't safe. And so in keeping with how he treats Sudafet, he's taking so much ass for it because he's like, I want my blood to be like water.
Starting point is 00:43:30 He said, quote, I want, quote, I want nice, thin blood pouring through my heart. I want nice, thin blood. I mean, he doesn't listen to fucking anybody. So it is kind of, we'll say, consistent. to hear that he is that way with doctors as well. And in his defense, he is in such terrible shape that his blood hurts. So, yeah. Oh, oh.
Starting point is 00:43:57 My blood hurts. Make it smoother. It's too thick. It's too thick. Thin it out. This is also, this is from CNN just talking about generally the use of aspirin. Quote, aspirin used to be widely prescribed as a preventative for cardiovascular disease,
Starting point is 00:44:09 but that is shifted. In 2019, medical experts advised against routine aspirin use unless a person has a heart condition or other health risk, citing the heightened risk of internal bleeding. When they do recommend, yeah, I can't see it. Thin blood pouring all over the inside of my body. Yeah. When they do recommend preventative aspirin, doctors typically advise an 81 milligram dose. Trump told the journal that he takes 325 milligram dose.
Starting point is 00:44:36 About four times as much. Okay. This is from another doctor talking about the use of aspirin, quote, Typically speaking, we do not recommend the full dose aspirin. The full dose aspirin has a lot more risk factors associated with it. And for the most part, those are GI risk factors. People who take full dose aspirin are more prone to having GI bleeding, especially if they have ulcers and things like that.
Starting point is 00:44:59 And so internal bleeding would be associated with like easy bruising, right, which is what we're kind of seeing with his hand, like all the stuff where he's having to like wear loads of makeup on random spots on his hand, where he's like, just shook three people's hands today and damn it if my hands aren't covered in bruises. But then remember if he used over the break, it switched to his left hand. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:45:24 And people were like, so what is it now? Is it Uchi Wally or is it one mic? Is it these handshakes or are you, is it the circulation is dying. Yeah. I don't know. Couldn't be circulation. I've got the thinnest blood in Washington, D.C.
Starting point is 00:45:38 Yeah. It's like tap water. My shit is thinner than peak Kate Moss, fam. Oh, he must have left Kate Moss. They called that heroin she. Up to a certain age. She was, yeah. All right.
Starting point is 00:45:51 That is a while. Wait, why are you saying that people were like doctors are wildly speculating on the internet? Like there is, there are people who have like created a cottage industry of being like, I'm a doctor. This is what his health is looking like. I have not checked their medical credentials. Sure.
Starting point is 00:46:09 There is one who is suddenly gaining a lot of attention who's like, Motherfugger's got three months tops. He looks bad, showing all the signs that he's on his last legs. I just, man, our next icon has me researching a lot about, like, death conspiracies and, like, when people react poorly to somebody's death. And I can't imagine what is going to happen when he finally passes on, like, with his followers. They're not going to. to believe, like, he could, like, slip and fall off a building in front of everybody while saying, whoops, into a microphone.
Starting point is 00:46:50 Whoops, it's me. And there would be so many conspiracy theories before he hit the fucking ground, you know? Like, it's wild. So any, like, vague. W-H-O-P-S, White House, oppression. Yeah, there's a whole thing. We got to. He was trying to tell us.
Starting point is 00:47:06 He was trying to tell us. They created conspiracy theories when they didn't kill him, when the, when the, when the shot missed. Right, right. Anyways. Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. Hi, I'm Dr. Priyankowali. And I'm Hurricane DeVolu. It's a new year. And on the podcast's Health Stuff, we're resetting the way we talk about our health. Which means being honest about what we know, what we don't know, and how messy it can all be. I like to sleep in late and sleep early. Is there a chronotype for that or am I just depressed?
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Starting point is 00:51:01 or wherever you get your podcast. and we're back and we're back and hey we're just talking prestige TV over the over the break yeah my favorite i think everyone's favorite prestige tv shows are all on amazon prime yeah yeah yeah yeah right yeah they made that billion dollar lord of the rings thing the like three people made it all the way to the end of. Oh, I fucking forgot. That was even a thing. I taped it on VHS.
Starting point is 00:51:40 That's how much I wrote. Oh, wow. Good, good, good, good. I wanted to rewatch it. And then buried the tapes in your backyard. But another Amazon Prime prestige TV show that basically doesn't exist is John Krasinski as Jack Ryan inheriting the role of Harrison Ford. and I don't know I for 100% forgot that this show ever happened but I do remember this happening at the time that I think we covered it in our story about how John Krasinski is a fucking op who is just like openly stands the CIA right when he like played the role of Jack Ryan he did a bunch of interviews just being like basically recreating the Jack Nicholson scene from a few good men being like you want to want them on that wall. You need them on that wall. So not long after the attack on Venezuela, a clip from that show of John Krasinski addressing a classroom of students in the show.
Starting point is 00:52:48 It went viral in which he argues that the most major threat to the U.S. is not Russia. It's not North Korea. Oh, you thought it was North Korea. That's cute. Oh, you thought they thought it was a Winnie the fucking pooh. It's 4th of July. Venezuela. So, stupid. He's like,
Starting point is 00:53:07 who do you take the biggest dangerous to the United States? And they're all like, Russia? China? You idiot. North Korea. Get your head in the game. Children.
Starting point is 00:53:19 Fools. All of you. That's what the mainstream media wants you to believe. And then he lists off a bunch of reasons why Venezuela is the main strategic risk to the United States in the monologue. He says that it's a failed state that's within a 30-minute range from the U.S. of next-gen nuclear missiles. Oh. Yeah. So that's a threat? Yeah, that's the thing that is interesting. Yo, we can bomb them in 30 minutes. They're a threat. Do they have? Are they armed with nuclear weapons? Also, failed state, how, are you going to mention how like crippling sanctions or
Starting point is 00:53:58 economic warfare being waged. They've been crippled by an unsubled by an unsubal Maduro surrogate, President Nicholas Reyes. Oh, oh, still named Nicholas, though. Not Maduro, Nicholas Reyes. Okay, we... For sure, what happened is like Trump fell asleep watching Fox News and then accidentally woke up to this.
Starting point is 00:54:20 And because Fox News is indistinguishable from a mediocre action plot was like, this is the, I guess this is a new, uh, uh, whatever, whatever program where John Prasinski tells me what what politics are. Right. Oh, my gosh. He also says, and this for some reason makes them a threat, he says the country has the largest oil reserves on the planet, which I didn't realize that's wild. Congratulations, Venezuela. You've won an invasion. And also he says, and more gold deposits than all the countries in Africa combined, which is not proven, but that is how colonial powers used to get.
Starting point is 00:54:58 people to invade like places in the Americas they would be like they've got more gold there's gold there's the damn streets of gold
Starting point is 00:55:07 it's the city of gold in there Eldorado's got to be in all right Europe now Venezuela all right
Starting point is 00:55:12 Europe put your worst fucking people on a boat and send them over now right that's wild that that's among
Starting point is 00:55:19 his reasons why they're a threat you're saying much good stuff that we want yeah exactly you're like yo she a threat
Starting point is 00:55:26 bro you see her beautiful hair, shit, bro. You see that waist of hip ratio, fam, and legs that don't quit. Oh, she's trouble. And you're like, what are you? You're coveting your neighbor's wife right now.
Starting point is 00:55:39 What is this? What are you talking about? He then describes a fictional Venezuelan president who rose to power on a wave of nationalist pride. Like, that is the worst thing that can possibly happen and has crippled the national economy by half. By the way, we've been specific. crippled the Venezuelan economy by making sure they're not allowed to do business anywhere.
Starting point is 00:56:03 No, no, no, Jack, it was it was Bernie Sanders and hip socialist hippie. It was probably, all right, it was probably like mostly Bernie Sanders. Yeah, now we're back on track. Now we're back on track. Now we're back on track. People have pointed out that in reality, intercontinental ballistic missiles launched from China or Russia at the U.S. would land with infant. a 30 minute time frame and those are countries that have next gen intercontinental they got 5 gene nuclear missiles
Starting point is 00:56:35 yeah oh you guys have LTE oh my god the whole second season is basically about battling Venezuela and in the finale Jack Ryan and a squad of CIA operatives literally fly a helicopter into the presidential palace
Starting point is 00:56:51 murder a bunch of guards check check these are all things that happened. And then just when Jack Ryan is about to shoot the president in the head, one of his fellow agents convinces him not to do it because they lack the authority. Which is that whole of the time to start thinking
Starting point is 00:57:07 about authority. Is that right now? Okay. Okay. No, Jack. We don't, it says, well, I told you, we don't have the authority. Oh, damn it, we don't. We have the scene right here. Let him go. No fucking way.
Starting point is 00:57:23 I told you we don't have the authority. Ah, you win this round. You win this round. Stand down, Jack Ryan. What the fuck? This is so fucking disturbing. Just like this all like this is the media always does this. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:57:40 And especially in films because that's that's like the first point of attack for this kind of propaganda. It's like you flatten an entire nation and its people into a one dimensional bad guy. And, you know, and well, and then do you go with the sort of logic of, oh, well, the CIA says they're bad. I guess I'm going to put out of my mind the millions of people that live there. And how to fuck all to do with anything the government is doing it? And the billions of dollars that the government and, you know, their business associates stand to make the same extremely wealthy power structure of people that is currently being protected by the withholding of the Epstein documents. Yeah. And beautiful, strong white Johns Krasinski comes in on a helicopter.
Starting point is 00:58:19 I can't wait till fucking next week when Trump's like, the Yakutomi building is under attack. We got to send in. All the National Guard. Get me, McLean. Get me McLean. I need him. That's just so wild the idea that it's like the whole idea with Jack Ryan is trying to paint this like benevolent United States of like, man, I could have fucking topped your
Starting point is 00:58:40 ass right here. But I answer to a higher power. So I won't. And I'm a good guy. Even though I just came in here and marked half the fucking people in this building. Don't fucking worry about me. And I'm saying absolute lies on here. You know who else?
Starting point is 00:58:53 played Jack Ryan and didn't turn into like a CIA show Harrison Ford. He played he played Jack Ryan much better and is just a pothead with now that's how you play the CIA that's how you do the CIA man because he was so goofy
Starting point is 00:59:09 in like Fair and Present Danger and uh, what's the other one Patriot Games like where he was just sort of like truly like an analyst you know rather than like this badass that was the whole point. Yeah yeah he's like I'm mixed up in this crap But here you are getting fucking
Starting point is 00:59:25 Zooka in Columbia. I sit at a desk usually. That's why when I try and throw a punch, I fall over forward and my jacket flies up over my back. Dang it. I always think about that scene in clear and present danger and he's running from the explosion. So goofy.
Starting point is 00:59:40 Like when the suburban gets hit with a rocket and he's like, and his sleeves all messed up. As a kid, I couldn't shake that. I'm like, bro, you look awkward as fuck. Harrison Ford. He's great. We were talking about Leonardo DiCaprio and his tooth acting. he's great at rumpled jacket acting
Starting point is 00:59:55 and Harrison Ford you know he's always doing great work with a nice rumpled jacket yeah I need yeah you're I need way more of these action stars on like a ton of edibles all the time to mellow them out and get look a little more frumpy and a little more relatable you know what I mean
Starting point is 01:00:10 oh yeah there's a great anecdote about Harrison Ford where there was like one day when he was on the set of one of the Indiana Joneses or I think it was Indiana Jones well maybe it was one of the star warses but he had to go to set and he had run out of rolling papers and so he like and like he couldn't do he couldn't do his job high uh or not high like that was not an option so he like pulled up to the limo that was like waiting to take him to set
Starting point is 01:00:44 with like a saucepan with a lid on it and then he like got in and like lifted the lid and just all the smoke dillow out of it. And he just lit the weed on fire in a saucepan. It was just taking massive, like, goblet. It's like if in Star Wars, he used one of the lightsabers to, like, light a bong. Yeah. Right, right, right. It's like one of those car, one of those car, like, 70s car cigarette lighters.
Starting point is 01:01:13 Yeah. Right. Just touch the hot tip end to it. Yeah. There's just, I mean, the listeners aren't going to be able to see it, but this is just, that part where like the suburban gets hit by a rocket and it's it's peak harrison forward not being like get out of there harrison port oh here comes get your man's out of there come on oh oh no it's like he was trying to hold his sleeve or something he does this move and i'm like bro yeah but you know what
Starting point is 01:01:39 that's that taught me as a kid the cia is not fucking cool yeah no and i don't need them to be i don't need any of these people ever to be cool ever we don't need to be cool ever we don't need the assassins of the empire to be cool things. Because you're not. You're not. Guess what? You're in power.
Starting point is 01:01:55 That's not cool. You get to be in power. That's enough. You don't also get to be fucking cool. That's for a cool. You know, it's cool. Lighten a fucking bong with a lightsaber. That's cool.
Starting point is 01:02:04 Work on that. Work on that shit. The Jack Ryan, John Cresensky version claimed in the credits of the CIA has not approved or endorsed the content of the show. Even though the production clearly
Starting point is 01:02:19 collaborated with agency. They were allowed to film at the actual CIA headquarters, which is a telltale sign. It's like, you know, top gun wasn't getting those fucking aircraft carriers if they had a subversive message. No.
Starting point is 01:02:33 Yeah. And they got to, I mean, CIA headquarters, nobody knows what the fuck that looks like. You could easily recreate that. But they were like, no, sir, we would like to film there, sir. What do you think of our script, sir? Yeah. Yeah. Very good. Yes. Thank you. They had nothing to do with this because obviously
Starting point is 01:02:49 filming at the CIA headquarters it's like open to anyone like you shoot an independent film in there dude they don't even charge you anything like it's super super super super cool yeah they have a nice black box theater in there yeah yeah I'm sorry did I misunderstand
Starting point is 01:03:00 what that blacked out room was oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah dark site I thought I thought it was a black box theater my bad hey you guys like guns and roses huh you're that blaring through the place well more such a pleasure having you as always yeah thanks dudes happy 2026 everybody
Starting point is 01:03:18 and it's gonna be a happy one we stand by our prediction this is this year is gonna fucking rule is there uh or where can people find you follow you see you all the good stuff yeah thanks uh i'm doing stand up uh tuesday which will be tonight at flappers i'm doing uh yeah i'm doing stand up in san diego friday and saturday at comedy heights come out there if you haven't live out there come see it'll be a fun show and uh yeah our podcast uh with my wife ashley burke just called rebrand and i'm at mort burke i'm putting up uh sketches and stuff on instagram okay rub rub rebrand rebrand amazing yeah is there a work of media that you've been enjoyed uh yeah you know as the um skateboarding liaison of the show i really like this new
Starting point is 01:04:10 jordan trehan part that just came out with theories of atlantic go check it out. It's sick. He's a, he floats this guy, like a fucking, he's like a tall, uh, powerful hummingbird. Oh. We love, we love hummingbirds around here. We love tall, powerful hummingbirds. I love a hummingbird. What a, hummingbird? That's amazing. And this is just a, this is a, like you just look it up on YouTube and there will be
Starting point is 01:04:35 a bunch of clips of him being awesome. Yeah, yeah, Jordan Trehan. Yeah, theories of Atlanta. I feel what's, there's a name for the part, uh, maybe dial tone or something, I think. It's sick. Nice. Miles, where can people find you? Is there a working media you've been enjoying? Find me everywhere at Miles of Gray. More importantly, come check out the new football podcast.
Starting point is 01:04:55 And by football, I mean soccer called Ain't It Footy with Jamel Johnson and Chris Martin out of cold play. I'll say that every time where we're just talking shit about our favorite sport, the English Premier League and European soccer at large. It's super fun. We were like on our fourth episode. to come out. So just come check it out, you know, see if you like the vibes. If I don't worry about it. Hell yeah. Chris Martin's a great standup, dude. He's a great guy. And also an Arsenal fan. When we were coming up with this show, I was like, okay, I need a collection of the most interesting Arsenal fans. So I got Jamel Johnson representing DC, Virginia, and Chris Martin
Starting point is 01:05:31 representing, like, I needed an actual English person to legitimize our bullshit. And that's what Chris does being an Englishman. He's super goddamn British. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. And have you guys figured out if it's hooty if it's footy yet not yet okay we're still figuring out man still figuring out the second we do the show's over so we're gonna it's like it's like jim chasing pam all the time you know we're just chasing is it is it footy or not you can find me on twitter at jack underscore o'b blue sky at jack o b the number one uh instagram jack underscore o underscore brian try and keep it as as different as possible you know like to tweet from a couple from Ross Sayers.
Starting point is 01:06:16 He tweeted, Hi, mate, I'm a street photographer and I love your look. Can I take some picks of you? Great. Yeah, you can look me up on Insta. I'm losers getting their steps in. All one of the people. And then yells us.
Starting point is 01:06:30 Oh, well, the thing is, when I said we would circle back to this in the new year, you have to understand that I genuinely thought that this day would never come. I thought holiday forever. Oh. Experience a little bit of that right now. Oh, yeah. You can find us on Twitter and Blue Sky at Daily Zykeyes.
Starting point is 01:06:50 We're at the Daily Zykeyes on Instagram. You can go to the description of this episode wherever you're listening to it. And there at the bottom, you will find the footnotes. Which is where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode. We also link off to a song that we think you might enjoy. Hey, Miles, is there a song that you think people might be doing? Oh, yeah, your old millennial uncle just heard what the youth are listening to. and I kind of like it.
Starting point is 01:07:12 I talked about it. This was my overrated when I wrongly said that music conspiracy theories were like not as great as they were in my age and we just said out I'm from the worst era
Starting point is 01:07:26 ever of humanity. But there's this rapper from Liverpool named S.D. Kid who people thought was Timothy Shalameh. It's not Timothy Shalame. It's a guy from Liverpool. We just don't know who he is exactly. I'm still reserving judgment.
Starting point is 01:07:38 Yeah. The track is called for Rob. And for me, it's like one of those just earworm tracks because his accent is like, I'm for sipping, handy to sipping on babin. And you're like bourbon, but he said babin. I mean, it's a babin. I got four lads in the jamming. Okay.
Starting point is 01:07:55 I just love the accent. And the beat is pretty fucking heavy. So this is four raws by S-D-K-K-I-D. All right. We will link off to that in the footnotes. The Daily Zikey is a production of I-HeartRadio from our podcast. my heart radio visit the iheart radio app apple podcast or wherever you listen to your favorite shows that is going to do it for us this morning we're back this afternoon to tell you what is
Starting point is 01:08:19 trending and we will talk to y'all then bye bye bye the daily zeit guys is executive produced by katherine law co-produced by bay way co-produced by victor wright co-written by jm mcnap edited and engineered by Justin Conner. Hi, I'm Dr. Priyankawali. And I'm Hurricane Dabolu. It's a new year. And on the podcast, Health Stuff, we're resetting the way we talk about our health.
Starting point is 01:08:47 Which means being honest about what we know, what we don't know, and how messy it can all be. I like to sleep in late and sleep early. Is there a chronotype for that, or am I just depressed? Health stuff is about learning, laughing, and feeling a little less,
Starting point is 01:09:03 Listen on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, everybody, it's Michelle Williams, host of checking in on the Black Effect Podcast Network. You know, we always say New Year, New Me, but real change starts on the inside. It starts with giving your mind and your spirit the same attention you give your goals. And on my podcast, we talk mental health, healing, growth, and everything you need to step into your next season, whole and... and empowered. New Year, real you. Listen to checking in with Michelle Williams from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Starting point is 01:09:46 Are you desperately hoping for change in 2026, but feeling stuck? I'm Dr. Lari Santos. And in a new year series of my show, The Happiness Lab, I'm going to look at the science of getting, well, unstuck. Unstuck at work, unstuck in your relationships, and even unstuck inside your mind. I am the absolute worst culprit when it comes to getting into these ruminative loops and just driving myself crazy. Listen to the Happiness Lab on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your shows. Who would you call if the unthinkable happened? My sister shot 22 times. A police officer, right?
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