The Daily Zeitgeist - Ketamine Cop Cars, Safest Hellholes 11.05.25

Episode Date: November 5, 2025

In episode 1959, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian, Blake Wexler, to discuss… Hellhole Cities Suffering From Precipitous DROP IN CRIME YOU F**KWITS, Coke Is Using AI To Ruin Christmas Yet Again, Cybertruck Cop Cars Are Here and more! Coke Is Using AI To Ruin Christmas Yet Again Coca-Cola Reimagined Its Iconic 1995 Christmas Ad With AI And The Internet Is Outraged: ‘Actual Abomination’ Coca-Cola Doubles Down on AI Holiday Ads Despite Backlash Coca-Cola Is Trying Another AI Holiday Ad. Executives Say This Time Is Different Coca-Cola’s new AI holiday ad is a sloppy eyesore Coca-Cola | Holidays Are Coming The company says they used even fewer people to make it — “We need to keep moving forward and pushing the envelope… The genie is out of the bottle, and you’re not going to put it back in” Cybertruck Cop Cars Are Here A California police department spent $153,000 on a Cybertruck for school anti-drug events A police dept. bought a $153K Cybertruck. It won’t be used for patrols. Tesla Cybertruck Police Cars Are Here, And Of Course They're Going To Vegas First How a Silicon Valley billionaire’s gift brought Cybertruck police vehicles to Las Vegas A Tesla Cybertruck driver tried to find out just how bulletproof it is WATCH LIVE! Elon Musk presents the new Tesla Cybertruck Launch Tesla Cybertruck Isn’t Nearly as Bulletproof as Elon Musk Wants You to Think Is your car spying on you? Tesla data helped police after Las Vegas truck explosion, but experts have privacy concerns Metro’s ‘mystery’ Cybertruck donor revealed Ben Horowitz donates Cybertruck fleet to the Las Vegas police Ben Horowitz’s cozy relationship with the Las Vegas Police Department aided a16z portfolio company Skydio The Police Have A Dark Money Slush Fund LISTEN: SUNSHINE BRIGHT ON ME(CUB) by KANGAROOSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oh, hey, it's Blake. You guys talking about how funny you are? Yeah. How funny your jokes are. When Blake Wexler's on, you know, it can be distracted. Did you know, Blake, that usually our producers don't have to turn off their cameras during the recording, but only when you're on, we're like, you'd better turn it off. It gets distracting. We hate seeing people puke in their hands.

I'm blushing. You guys got me. Can you guys please turn off your cameras? We're trying to record a show. Stop puking in your hands. This is unprofessional. The ultimate sign of laughter. Puking in your hands.

Yeah. Laughing sword. But the S&L style when it's up their sleeve. Yeah. Wait, let me puke. Hey, let me puke. You know me, puking. You know me puking.

I just put my You know how we do I puke from my profile puke Yeah I'll be in New York Next week Blake If you're really

Yeah Maybe we can hang up Really catch up I'd love to see you Oh you don't You're lying God I'm not I would love to see you I'm not going to New Jersey

I'm telling you that I'm not going to New Jersey I'll cross the river Thank you I mean out of that guy wins I won't cross that fucking rear I'll cross it if Cuomo wins I'm not crossing it if Sliwa

If Slewa wins I'm there President Sleewa wins, I will go over there. If President Sleewa wins, you fuck. If Zeran wins, you're going to be crossing it, like, Washington with a boat full of militia members, right? That's right. Yeah. Standing, like, at the tip of it, like, very visible.

I feel like he wasn't, he wasn't really on the law. He was, like, you know. He was very prominent. Really leaving himself open to getting shot. It's weird, too, because, like, the Revolutionary War, they didn't have a lot of resources the Americans, but they did have a portrait boat that would go parallel to Washington so they could paint him going over the river. Like the news guy, the news film. Did you get that? Did you get that? Washington was known to always be like, did you get that? Here, let me see,

let me see. All right, all right, back to one. We're going to someone who asked you to take their picture and that immediately runs up and looks at the picture. All right, we're going back to the other side of the Delaware. Come on. He didn't get it. He didn't get it. This is an I-Heart podcast. On the podcast health stuff, we are tackling all the health questions that keep you up at night. I'm Dr. Priyanko Wally, a double board certified physician. And I'm Hurricane de Bolo, a comedian and someone who once Googled, do I have scurvy at 3 a.m. And on our show, we're talking about health in a different way, like our episode where we look at diabetes.

In the United States, I mean, 50% of Americans are pre-diabetic. How preventable is type 2? Extremely. Listen to health stuff on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And she said, Johnny, the kids didn't come home last night. Along the Central Texas Plains, teens are dying, suicides that don't make sense, strange accidents, and brutal murders. In what seems to be, a plot ripped straight out of Breaking Bad.

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And some of the worst. people, horrible ideas, and destructive companies in the history of business. First episode, how Southwest Airlines use cheap seats and free whiskey to fight its way into the airline business. The most Texas story ever. Listen to business history on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Cal Penn. And on my new podcast, here we go again. We'll take today's trends and headlines and ask, why does history keep repeating itself? Each week, I'm calling up my friends, like Bill Nye, Lily. Singh and Pete Buttigieg to talk about everything from the space race to movie remakes to

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It is one of those days when we don't, you know more than us in terms of what happened in the elections last night. We're recording this before the polls close. It is Wednesday, November 5th,

2025, when this episode is releasing Tuesday, November 4th, 2025 as we're recording it. Wow, full transparency. Let's celebrate. We've got to do the full Transparen't. You got to.

You got to. We got to do it because on these days, we're going to sound like fucking idiots. Oh, about not knowing what happened with Prop 50 or the governor's races or the mayoral race or other mayoral races. Well, we do know this. It is National Stress Awareness Day. Tell you one goddamn thing. It's National Stress Awareness Day. Hell yeah.

And it's also National Donut Day. All right. Donut. All right. Let's all be aware of our stress. Is it helpful to be aware of your stress? I guess. I mean, it is good because...

In the sense that you can be like, I'm going to go take a walk. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Because for me... We're doing our Otani impressions. Midwest Otani. I just think it would be so great if, like, you know,

he was just like, I just got to perfect it. And then he started talking and it was like Minnesota. That would have been funnier if like he played for the brewers and like learned English and like Milwaukee because that happens a lot to other sports. I was like, you're like, why? He's got like a Philly accent. Yeah, somehow. I was thinking like it'd be funny if he just spoke perfect TV.

Like, just came out and was like, okay, and now I do this perfectly. I speak perfect TV Midwestern newscaster English. But then when I said Midwestern, I thought it would be funny. If it was Minnesota. Anyways, that was my thought process there. That's a little bit about how my crazy brain works. My name's Jack O'Brien, aka one hit wonder from the 60s, biggest hit happy to get. Daily Zeitgeist hosts forgot us.

We're not just voice actors. Turtles glower. That is courtesy of Bank 625 on the Discord who said, I think Chuck Lorry was referring to the 60s band, The Turtles. I got multiple posts from people being like, hey, light nudge to you dummies over there. There's a band called The Turtles. They didn't ask literal turtles to write the Ninja Turtles theme song.

Sorry, that's what I heard. Okay, even dumber. asking the band the turtles who sang happy together. Like that feels like a weird, I don't know. Oh, it doesn't. That's the, remember me and you. That's not the vibe.

It's not the vibe of the turtles. The turtles are not maud. They're not chilling. They're fucking extreme as hell dog. And now we're ninjas. No, that would be the shit. You need whatever happens to come out sounding like it should end with like a electric guitar sting, not that shit.

Which I love that song, by the way, but it's, it is in no way as a song that makes sense inside the turtle universe. But that, that makes sense when he said, actually, they were originally asking the original turtles, but still, I don't know, I prefer our answer that they either asked the characters or, uh, or a, or, I like, it's a room of turtles. They put an eight ball of cocaine down and gave them a little piece of paper and a pen and go, We'll be back in a few hours and see what you come up with. We're already talking about the story that Chuck Lurie,

the guy from Two and Half Men and Big Bang Theory wrote the Ninja Turtles theme song, as if everybody knows that. But yeah, that was breaking news that we covered yesterday. I had to. Sorry. Hey, you complain to me. I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Hi, it's Miles Gray, aka, and son, we've come.

to the poo episodes Shorty please Oh no It's unnatural Who goes in party Oh son I'm begging you Shout out just an arcula for that Boys to Men inspired aka

Shout out to Zygang who's already been giving me tips Put the onesie on backwards Put the onesie on backwards Then he can't take the diaper off bro And get Jackson Pollack with it. You know what I mean? No. But that's less coverage for when there's a blowout. You know what I mean? He's past, he's past the blowouts. Honestly, we didn't have, I was, I kind of ducked the whole blowout thing. We never had one like a true like up the back ones I've

seen. Yeah. Not once. Not once. Well, congratulations. This is payback. This is carmic retribution for you. Yeah. At some point. Yeah. Thank you. Miles. By the way, Snarfila on a fucking heater. Norfield has had like A.Ks on... Yoshinobu Yamamoto of AKAs or no. That's right. Miles, we're thrilled to be joined in our second seat by a... Our third seat.

Let's go with our third seat. Miles, we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a brilliant comedian writer and actor. Writing, most notably, his writing of the phrase plumpers to describe his jacked thighs. That's the only reason we've had him on. I don't know what us to do you. I'm not familiar with his other word.

Autocrect keeps trying to change the word to plumbers every time I write it because Autocrect knows that the word plumpers shouldn't exist. Please welcome the brilliant, the hilarious, the riding a recumbent bicycle and short shirts. It's Blake Waxler! Hey! Hey, this is Blake Wexler, aka, all my pants look like tights with these plump thick thighs. The sound of chafing. ever subsides plump thick thighs thin legs are tragic there's something i despise that is from

chuck at icius it's either isis or iciest i hope it's the second one e y-e-ce-e-e-c-e-c-i-us there is a you in iis whatever you want i'm saying it whatever you want it's great to see you guys hello thank you for having me it's been too long have you it's wonderful to be here it's wonderful to be A few days. I feel like you were here last week, aren't you? Yeah, but since then I voted, I've gotten all the vaccines that one can get. I've been a good citizen this past week. I got COVID vaccine, flu vacs, shot, I guess, is what we call it in the industry. A flu shot.

Yeah, and voted. Yeah, by mail. There you go. By mail, huh? Yeah, I don't shove it up the Trump administration's ass with that. I am. I always do. And how do you feel, do you feel like you got the Sliwa?

side is going to win it or where how are you feeling uh at this point yeah so i am unfortunately i am a uh new jersey voter so right i voted uh in the gubernatorial election but i did uh cross out mikey sherrill's name and i did write slywa for that one so you're all right i did find a way to still vote slyla and a land for our god yeah all right good well it's wonderful to have you here blake uh we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment first we're going to tell the listeners a couple of things we're talking about we're going to check in with the cities you know as as uh our relatives from them yeah if you if you live in a city you're kind of constantly being checked in on by relatives who watch fox news being like is it okay are you okay

did you did you hear that a car caught on fire somewhere in your city fox news is doing live round the clock coverage of of the car anyways we just want to see how like what's actually going on statistically in these cities because I'm telling you man it can't be good okay this will be good for you guys just for for Thanksgiving you can drop some little stats on your relatives

that won't care about the stats to be yeah they won't care about the stats they'll be like they're made up yeah but anyways you can feel good knowing that they're wrong it turns out we're going to talk about so Coke last year made an AI generated Coca-Cola reinterpretation of their past commercials and everyone was like these the humans in this look

like they're about to transform like they look like the shot in a movie where they like show a character who up to that point has looked human and then there's like a little glimmer and you're like oh wait oh yeah that's an alien or that like they're they're possessed by something but that was just like what the what the people looked like kind of otherworldly and their faces were like kind of subtly shifting. And people were like, that, that was bad. And so they've doubled down and they've made a new one. But you'll be glad to know they've done it with even fewer people this year.

That's their bragging point is like not really, we've fixed all the problems. It's like we've fixed a main problem that last year took 50 people and this year we only used 20. So we'll talk about that. and AI ads coming for us on meta. And then we're going to talk about the big new arrival on American streets, cyber truck cop cars. Woo! Triple C.

Hell yeah. Ow! What is the gutfeld crowd? Yeah, yeah. That's right. So we'll talk about that. Our writer jam did a great deep dive on this new trend. The video where they premiered it at the Irvine.

Police Department and it looks on honestly it looks like they're announcing the invention of cars because they just like they just show a video of it driving like 30 miles per hour in a straight line whoa look at the handling yet all of that plenty more but first Blake we do like to ask our guest what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are plenty more uh as i mentioned i do not wait in lines anymore and it is ballot box uh jersey city where i live because i believe election day it's bet either you shouldn't mail it in through the mail or it's just best just put it in a specific ballot box because that way you know it will be counted that day so yeah look that up went to the ballot box dropped it off and uh it gets counted

Even if you mail it, you know? I mean, it's not like it doesn't get counted if it's mailed. No, I think it was more. I don't know what it is where I remember it in one of the states that I've lived in. If you're mailing it day of, or maybe this was a few elections ago, that you need to put it in a ballot box was one of the states. I don't know if that was like, interesting. But that's only if you're doing it last second. Sure, sure, sure.

They have been known to shift the rules around the mail. Yeah, you never know. Yeah. I like it. You won't be able to mail it at all. and sorry. Right, exactly. Exactly.

What's something you think's underrated? Underrated, I have written down Paul Garaventa. So everyone talks about the Christy, you know, Yamaguchi's of the world, the snorffulas, the belatian silvers. Paul Garaventa not talked about enough, so I believe he belongs in that echelon. First of all, I'm not laughing at the sentence. No, no, no. I fully agree Paul Garaventa is great. This is for more casual.

listeners we're talking about the folks the artists in era aka not subreddit discord where the songs the wonderful songs that we sing at the top of the show are written and you know there there are some heavy hitters in there yeah what led you to what led you to evoke paul garaventa's good name well i also am realizing that everybody has a pseudonym that we just named except paul who's used his full name. Yeah, sure, sure. There's a lot of people, yeah, who've got full names on there.

No, I have like, maybe not. No. No. Christy Amaguchi main is not his full name. David Lesser, I see, that's his wife's maiden name. Is that like a, yeah, yeah, yeah. I took my wife's name. Yeah, yeah, yes, please. Anyway, shout out Paul Bear Venta.

Also, loyal, loyal boosties listener. Paul and I have created like a, like a parasocial relationship where he would play, I used to have a podcast called Blake's takes, for God's Sakes, that ended not soon enough, but I would have a intro song of my name being chanted over and over again, and he would play it for his kid, and his kid as a baby would bounce along to the song, which was a very sweet thing to send. So we'll be posting a video of Paul's children on me. No, I'm totally kidding.

But no, he's a great dude, and shout out, shout out. I wanted to see how you guys would react. I do think this is the first underrated that's just been a private citizen and their full first and last name. I stand by it. Hey, PG, you're DZ famous now. Yeah. It's true. Let's all give a shout out to a private citizen who we like.

Miles, you got to like it. I'm going to go my good friend, John Edwards, not the politician, just a TV writer who's a good friend of mine. I'll say. Have a lot of fun conversations with them. Shout out to John Edwards. For me, I would say Judy Closson. Judy Closson. Yep.

Big Judy Closson. No, not much else to say, but Big J.C. Shout out to you. She was actually my first music teacher in elementary school. Oh, no way. Oh, wow. Yeah, Ms. Claussen. It's great.

I credit me sticking through music because of Judy Closson. Shout out Judy Closson. Speaking of music real quick, we got notification yesterday from my second grader school that they are doing a tryout. based variety show. It's like a talent show, but like not a winner, but just like, if you've got talent, you can try out for it. Okay.

And he came home and was like, dad, I'm going to do the drums, which would have been great if he played the drums. And he was like, I need to get lessons stacked. Like, we need to start. Trial are on Friday. He's like, get me in front of a full. drum kit and was absolutely unwavering in his decision. I was like, you've got so many, you're so great, like you could do so many things. Like they even said, like, do, you know,

a skit or something like that. This is like what he does. He's like very funny. He's like, he's like, no, like being funny and like, you know, uh, doing magic and stuff. Those are my private skills. But drumming is really like what I've, I'm born to do. And that's dope. I'm navigating that. We're trying to find a drum set where we can get him a lesson and then he's going to learn the hard one. You need to get him.

I need lessons yesterday, Dad. Yeah, like literally. Does he think this is like the Matrix where you can be like, yeah, hold on. And he's like, I need drum lessons right now. And he's about to find that out, I think. Unless he's like some phenome. And he just like gets out there.

But I mean, what he's going to be, I think it's, you know, he's going to learn a lesson about. Does he want to keep playing drums? Like, you think this is the beginning of that? He wants to start playing. He hasn't even started. We're going to find out at his first drum lesson, Miles.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, okay. Oh, no, this isn't for me at all. I hate this. He played drums for three days during the summer at School of Rock. Oh, okay. So he had a taste. Never again showed no interest after that until this late breaking announcement.

And now he's like, I'm going to, I'm going to, like, I would love to just, I would love to just get a, get a, video of like what's going what his image of how it's going to go in his mind it's going to be because it's got to be so awesome it's probably the beginnings of his his weird malformed male confidence or he's like yeah dude I'm gonna fucking kill it up there no practice cut to what the fuck is oh shit I guess he's this is the talent evaluators have never heard the drums before in their entire life they're also equally unfamiliar with drums when I was a kid

at his age in fact I wanted to be play the electric guitar took like lessons was bad at it went to a mall where they would make a video of you like lip syncing along to

me and my good friend Scott Seltzer another full name shout out for a private citizen did a video to a sweet child of mine and looked back at the tape and did not like what I saw. No.

He's like, this is such a fucking L. Yeah, such an L. But like, he doesn't even listen to rock music.

Like, back then I was like, be steeped on a lifetime of like MTV. Like, he, he hasn't watched a person drum, let alone. Right.

You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. It's going to be interesting. It's going to lay out a drum set. He's like, what the fuck are these? What am I looking at right now?

I said a drum kit What is something Blake do you think is overrated? Marsupials I have been digging into them and it seems like the pouch is I would say more of a concern So you're literally digging into a marsupials pouch?

Sure, sure, sure, sure, sure. So yeah, there's a stop and frisk in Australia where it only applies to the pockets on the front of these beasts. But, no, I think that it's doing a lot of work for their PR and making them sound more interesting than they are with the pockets. I don't think a kangaroo really, if you get past the fact that they let these things hang out in their pouches, are that interesting of an animal.

And I think the same goes for, I mean, like, possums are a disaster. Like, there's just so many animals. Wombats are cute on their own. No one mentions the pouch for them. So I just think that the marsup. People are maybe... It's a crutch for like the... Yeah.

Yeah, it doesn't have to be your whole personality, I guess, is my point, where you can just have one and not bring it up. I would prefer if they'd stop bringing it up, I think is actually what the issue is. I personally find kangaroos to be like shot, you know, if you can just, like, clear your mind of all knowledge that you've ever learned and then, like, look at the world with fresh eyes, like, the fact that there are deer-sized rabbit things that just jump around, like, huge and will beat the shit out of you and not to mention have a little pouch that they carry their babies and I find it pretty amazing but you you say fuck all that I would say upsetting yeah

I think it's because your parents forced you to leave the house when you're 18 probably right right right my mom was like you say as long as you want honey this is a more soup feel pouch you know and I say they until then they made me sleep in the mailbox in front of the couch or at front of the house, which I believe in front of the couch. And our mailbox was in our living room. It's a big mailbox. What kind of mailbox you got there? Slept on top of it, like Snoopy, just eyes to the stars.

One question I've had that I think I've asked on this and maybe had answered and forgot the answer. Marsupials are the pouch dry? Or are the pouch like the inside of a mouth? The teets are in there, but, you know, from what I understand, it's... If I had a pouch, it would be disgusting. Like if I had a pouch on my body? Like, what do you keep in there? Yeah, that's the, I believe there are, uh, and you do ask this constantly, Jack,

and it's not a good faith. And I was, I refused to learn the answer. You go to, you just go to, hey, hey, pss, is it wet in there? You're like, sir, you're talking to the kangaroos. I just sorry, I needed to know. The baby, the baby, shish, shh, not you, not you. Is it like wet or dry in there? Yeah.

All right, never mind. I believe they can nurse in there. I believe. It is. It's got to be a little moist in there. If there's spillage, of course, and there will be spillage, especially if that thing's hopping around. Imagine trying to suckle from a teat as your mother bounces up and down.

Sounds like a fucking nightmare, you know? Blake, you just killed yourself with that fucking jug. Imagine trying to seek. Imagine trying to suckle from a teat as your mom bounces upside down. Yeah, that's what Blake wants you to imagine. Fold of skin with a single, opening that covers the teats inside the pouch, the blind offspring attaches itself to one of the

mother's teeth and remains attached for as long as it takes to grow and to develop to a juvenile stage. Yeah. So, yeah, marsupials are awesome. I find them very interesting. Like, I also think they're like kind of an alternate, like in the world of, you know,

like sort of parallel evolution where they like sort of evolved separately on that Godforsaken continent down there. But they like kind of look the same except they got like weird little, like, feature, you know? Like, some of the, like, we don't have our own version of kangaroos, obviously, but, you know, a lot of the marsupials are, like, similar to what we've got up here, but just completely

different and, like, got that way all on their own just by reacting to the elements, which I find very interesting. Well, Australia has kangaroos, and we have frogs. It's essentially a one-to-one. Yeah, yeah, exactly. All right. Well, thanks for that, Blake. We're going to take it.

My pleasure. And sorry to the audience for giving out completely incorrect information about animals right now. Well, I'm mad. Kangaroo are a frog. I'm a little emotional. Kangaroo is frog. Is it wet in there? We'll be right back.

Is it wet in there, though? Like, did we get an answer on that? I mean, based on the pictures, not really. Not really. I mean, it's like driving. I mean, I got. something that says a kangaroo pouch is often damp, slimy, and sometimes smelly due to a mix of milk, saliva, waste from the Joey, and natural skin oil.

Yeah, that's what I thought. And that's what I thought. Hit us up at Waste from thejoey.com slash TDZ. Ah, she'd a bit of Waste from the Jory. On the podcast Health Stuff, we are tackling all the health questions that keep you up at night. Yes. Dr. Priyanka Wally, a double board certified physician. And I'm Hurricane Dibolu, a comedian and

someone who once Googled, do I have scurvy at 3 a.m. On health stuff, we're talking about health in a different way. It's not only about what we can do to improve our health, but also what our health says about us and the way we're living. Like our episode where we look at diabetes. In the United States, I mean, 50% of Americans are pre-diabetic. How preventable is type 2? Extremely. Or our in-depth analysis of how incredible mangoes are. Oh, it's hard to explain to the rest of the world that, like, your mangoes are fine because mangoes are incredible, but, like, you don't even know. You don't know.

You don't know. It's going to be a fun ride. So tune in. Listen to health stuff on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. She said, Johnny, the kids didn't come home last night. Along the central Texas plains, teens are dying, suicides that don't make sense, strange accidents, and brutal murders. In what seems to be, a plot ripped straight out of breaking bad. Drugs, alcohol, trafficking of people.

There are people out there that absolutely know what happened. Listen to paper ghosts, the Texas teen murders, on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you. you get your podcasts. I'm Robert Smith, and this is Jacob Goldstein, and we used to host a show called Planet Money. And now we're back making this new podcast called Business History about the best ideas and people and businesses in history and some of the worst people, horrible ideas, and destructive companies in the history of business. Having a genius idea without a need for it is nothing.

It's like not having it at all. It's a very simple, elegant lesson. make something people want. First episode, how Southwest Airlines use cheap seats and free whiskey to fight its way

into the airline business. The most Texas story ever. There's a lot of mavericks in that story. We're going to have mavericks on the show. We're going to have plenty of robber barons. So many robber barons. And you know what?

They're not all bad. And we'll talk about some of the classic great moments of famous business geniuses along with some of the darker moments that often get overlooked. Like Thomas Edison

and the electric chair. Listen to business history on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. In the new podcast, Hell in Heaven, two young Americans moved to the Costa Rican jungle to start over. But one will end up dead. The other tried for murder. Not once. People went wild.

Not twice. Stunned. But three times. John and Andrew. Bender are rich and attractive, and they're devoted to each other. They create a nature reserve and build a spectacular, circular home high on the top of a hill. But little by little, their dream starts to crumble, and our couple retreat from reality. They lose it. They actually lose it. They sort of went nuts. Until one night, everything spins out of control.

Listen to Hell in Heaven on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. We're back. And we're going to check in with the cities. You know, we know that there's a, I think, better than average, over 50% chance that America's biggest city. is about to just fall into ruin. Yeah. They're going to do a 9-11 all over on themselves. Like every building, they're going to do it, too.

That's what it sounds like. If you believe the ads, that's exactly what happens. If you will vote for somebody who is Muslim, it means a nine. I mean, again, just like the obscene overt Islamophagus, like, yeah, Muslim 9-11, you're like, wow, wow, wow, wow. Is that going to help? Bro. Did you see they're going to do 9-11?

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But anyways, so New York down, but let's check it with other cities. How is everything, if you ask the average Fox News viewer, American cities are the worst they've ever been, I would have to assume, is based on what they, just like falling apart, what is happening. Like, how do you, how do you live there is kind of the overall thesis from Fox News viewers? It's a broad bath. Yeah, I mean, I live, I live there. I know. How do we, how do we do it? And why am I so lucky that I don't see all, all of the horrendous crime and, you know, burying buildings and cars everywhere?

The answer is simple. The answer simple. You aren't seeing crime because it's going fucking down. Okay. It's going down for real. Do you mean? Like, it's going down for real. Yeah, yeah. No, I don't, no, I don't mean like that. I mean, like this crime statistics. the homicide rates are plunging, precipitously. Like a knife into a chest. No, not, no, no, not exactly. Okay, no. They're a knife into someone's chest. I mean, we've talked about like when this first whole, you know, obviously they had to manufacture consent for the federal invasion of cities with like dumb fucking lies, like one

of our favorites, which is, um, my infant nearly died. Uh-huh. In a drug fire. Uh-huh. After mass shootings. And they're like, what the foe? Oh, my God. Yeah, I guess send them in.

That sounds like three bad things all on top of each other. And prior to that, we were like, if you look on a continuum, crime's been going down. Well, Axis did an analysis on just the first nine months of 2025, okay? Not even like long term. Like even since the beginning of this year, from the beginning of this year to September, it has been going down. And we're talking about like significantly going down. For example, 40% decline. Over 40% declines in homicides in places like Buffalo, New York, Denver, Orlando, and Seattle, Atlanta, Baltimore, and Chicago and Las Vegas were also among cities that had drops of 25% or more in homicides. Portland, again, who we've heard is like, it's like living in hell, the line for voodoo donuts, still long. You'd think people have gotten over it, but no, it's unbelievable. 39% decrease in homicides in the first 90s.

months of this year. Memphis, where there's currently back and forth about National Guard deployment, 19% drop over the first nine months of the year. Chicago is actually, it led the nation with a 22.1% drop in overall violent crime during the first nine months. So please tell us about these hellholes and why you need to send in the National Guard. Oh, that's right. You don't because this is all bullshit. And you just, again, we've talked about this 100 times. But this is the facts are like so aggressively not in their favor but I don't know but at this point anyone who had deigned to ask a question like that

to the administration probably doesn't have access anymore to White House so we'll have to ask. Hopefully maybe Laura Lumer will ask this question because I just read she now is part of the Pentagon press people just to give you an idea of who they're letting in there now congrats Laura. It's

a huge shout out. I think there's another shout out first. Huge shout out. Underrated. That is even scarier that like the fuck that he's up to, that they're sending troops into these cities where he could just claim that as a political victory, I took office and therefore crime dropped. And that's how hellbound he is on creating an authoritarian regime, that that's not enough anymore.

Also, there's no correlation between, you know, like those things. But that is something that normally they would try to make, you know, take credit for it. His first administration, he was like, oh, I did that. They're like, no, you didn't. not enough anymore that's that's that's needn't do any of this but yeah I think again it just goes to show that there this go around there is no interest and even having a thing that says I fixed this thing it's like well no the the guards are there to be able to declare martial law at some point um and fully clamped down on the country but yeah so this this all started with so is it couldn't it just be that everybody's scared because Trump can be so tough on crime like this is a sudden drop after years of crime going up and up and up in these things in these cities, isn't that right? No, no, it's been going down. What?

Yeah, it's been going down. It's been going down? Yeah. That's not, no, because I've been hearing about how bad it is for a really, really, really long time. And, again, I don't see it living in the cities, but it has to be around. It has to be. It has to be around. You see how bad it's getting out there?

I know. Aren't you guys on Neighborhood, Neighborwatch or whatever the fuck, those apps are? I love Neighbor Watch. I mean, I have a gold star on Neighborwatch. I go around dressed as the guy from the neighborhood watch sign with like a big collar on and like a downward facing fedor. You know, Peter the Pervert. Yeah, Peter the Pervert. I go around dressed like that and that's the reason I go around dress like that.

No other reason that people have suggested just to make sure that neighborhood watches full, in full effect. Yeah, to keep watch. And because that is how criminals dress these days. Just as an aside though, or not just in a different. additional fact. Like New York and L.A., also two big cities that have been dealing with federal bullshit. New York, the homicide rate dropped 17%. L.A. dropped 23%. Huh. And this has been part of a steady trend. Yeah, since the last two years of Biden's administration. Huh. Uh, yeah, yeah. But I'm sure they'll find a way to say, wait, what? Because there are, okay, like, for example,

there's an outlier where they're like Columbus, Ohio actually had of like an uptick in violent crime so then maybe they'll be like in Columbus Ohio is that well hmm that's no maybe that's a red state fuck yeah yeah yeah hmm so uh I mean not that this will stop anything but I think it's just important for people because it's easy to get caught up in the idea when you hear ambiently just a bunch of bullshit all the time about how dangerous shit is getting and guys it's so bad it's so bad for murderers right now it's so bad for murderers the burner business is down right now homicides are down. But yeah, the homicides are down. And the one thing that went away during the pandemic, the police did not go away, even though they pretended like their feelings were hurt and they

weren't, they were there. They were still, you know, doing a bad job of solving crimes. The one thing that went away are the programs, like the things that don't get written about and people are like, oh, you know, this is soft crime prevention shit, like, you know, keeping people off the streets by giving them, you know, community-based programs. That's the thing that went away. That's when crime went up. And when those programs came back after the shutdown, crime started going back down.

Yeah. I mean, there was like a surge in the beginning, like of murders, I remember. Yeah, yeah. No, there was. And it was when everything shut down. And there wasn't like all of the community-based programs that work on crime that are not police-based.

That's the thing that is the thing that completely and definitively went away, and that's when we saw the rise in crime. And once those came back, we saw a drop in crime. The police never went away. The police were still there. They just were acting mad. Are you trying to say like they don't,

they're not actually preventing crime? It's almost as if, and I would never say that. I'm just saying there's a weird, careful. There's a weird optical illusion. Jack, you're walking a thin blue line here, buddy. There's a weird optical illusion happening that I have to assume is some part of Zora Mamdani's, you know, conspiracy to make it look like the police don't actually self-crown. I'm surprised that, yeah, you think the cops would be like, oh, look what we did? Yeah, we did that. We did that.

That's us. Can you give us more money so we can bankrupt the city with settlement lawsuits like L.A. is experiencing right now? Yeah. Or lawsuit settlements rather. All right. Let's talk about, let's talk about Christmas. It's that time, baby. Mariah made it easy. There's been a war on a day. No, that's another one. No, Trump, I ended that war as well. He won. War on Christmas. Over. Give me my Nobel Peace pipe. I mean, peace, whatever. You know what it. Yeah. Whatever is. My noble peace pipe. My noble peace. I'm like, he's going to say that eventually.

So as mentioned, Coke last year, uh, mid-nay, I generated commercial with some weird, like, inhuman, soulless abominations that, according to, to fans of Coke commercials looked like shit. Yeah. That's a direct quote. No one said, this is great. That's for sure. Yes.

Coca-Cola Corporation listened to those concerns and decided to, we'll do it again. And so they've doubled down and released more AI holiday ads this year. They hired the exact same AI company as last year. This time, though, they used even fewer employees

to crank out these new cheap-ass videos. Great. It's, this is, again, like, we're looking at them turning down opportunities, like on the techs or on the, you know, cop side, we're looking at them, like, turned down the opportunity to be like, we did it. We solved crime. Like, yay for us, because they can't make it seem like it's any less dangerous out there. They need to keep everything seeming like it's, like, the early part of Robocop in every city. And here, I feel, like we have a very instructive example where like the AI companies could fake it. They could be like, okay, we actually hired like a filmmaker to help with these, like make it look good.

And instead, like they've made another shitty, shitty AI video where like the animals like morph between like realistic animals and then like cartoon animals. Santa has an extra finger. The only thing that they are bragging about is how few people it puts them to do it. That's the thing where your ears need to, you know, pop up for that one. The product is actually job elimination. That's all they care about.

It's not to make a better product. To create one of the ads, five AI specialists were needed to prompt turnout and refine more than 70,000 video clips. Yeah. But it's just like there's no. coherent, like, style. It's just, like, various...

Like, did you see it? It's, like, a collage. It's like a collage, which is... This is what you would expect if something was just pulling shit from the internet. Like, just be like, all right, we'll take an animal from there.

Like, take a Santa from there. Right. One's like, is this Polar Express, like, trying to be hyper-realistic? And I was like, yeah, remember these ones from, uh, fucking penguins of Madagascar? Right. There's those fuckers.

It's like, what, yeah, what is... There's not even a coherent animation sound. And also, like, I don't understand why there's all these animals. Like, and here's the Hawaiian animals. And here are the animals in Japan. And I'm like, what's it? I'm like, oh, thank God a fucking otter is drinking Coca-Cola. Now the holly, this is what I always wanted.

That's what I always wanted. So we took 70,000 girls and made them two girls who look almost identical to one another. And that's, we took the best of the 70,000 girls. And we made them two different girls. Their faces do seem to be trying to turn into one another. Correct. Just morphing back and forth. And that's actually part of the style and we think it looks good.

But like Steve Job, famous tech guy. Steve's job. Steve's job. He, like when he introduced the iPhone, like it wasn't done yet. And so he just like made it look like it was done. Yeah, great a showman type shit. Yeah, just like, yeah, exactly. Like the shit didn't work.

But he was like, just make these three buttons do a thing. do these specific things and people will be impressed. Like, it would be so easy to fake this and make it seem like the industry is progressing and they just don't even give enough of a shit to do that. Jack, I think they're lying even. I don't even, you know,

they could be totally lying about this. Like, dude, last year looked like deep fried dog shit. Yeah. Now we'd double the fucking people that make this shit better. And it's like it still looks like shit. Because you know, the whole push for AI is like what you're talking about.

It's Steve Jobs up there trying to act like this thing is doing more than it actually does, like on a sort of larger scale when we're talking about how this is being rolled out and presented to us. But like when you read the full like quotes from the people at Disney, like, again, they're like patting themselves on the back. It's like rather than 50, we only use 20 people. This is the other thing. He said, quote, last year we decided to go all in and it worked out well for us. I noted that consumer engagement was very high.

Yes, some parts of the industry were not pleased. we were using a 100% generative AI film, but that's part and parcel of doing something pioneering. We understand that concern, but we need to keep moving forward and pushing the envelope. Then it goes on to say, the genie is out of the bottle, and you're not going to put

it back in. That is exactly how these people are talking, like, in the C-sweets and trying to feel it's like, well, we, dude, we've got to make it work. We're not going to suddenly be like, it's actually sucks. That's like what, that's also what the Ghostbusters say after the ghosts get it.

Like, it's a thing that people say at the part of the movie when something very bad has happened. It needs to be fixed immediately. Or New York dies. When does anyone ever said the genie's out of the bottle? And you're like, yay! Aladdin. Thank God.

Right. Well, this ain't Robin Williams. Okay. But yeah. It's always. With the Steve Jobs analogy, it's like, at least with the iPhone, I don't know how it works. You know what I mean? When you first introduced, it's like, I don't know what these chips do.

I have no idea. But when you show anyone a commercial, I know that's bad. Like, I've seen other things that I like. I don't know how that shot, but I know it's better than whatever the fuck this is. Like, it just looks bad. Yeah. It looks weird. It looks soulless.

It's just pulling things from it. It's just a collage, pulling different things from other people's creations. And then it just like, you know, that's also how artists work, right? They like pull inspiration from other places. Everything is a remiss. But then they, like, bring it inside. And then it, like, they digest it and then they create their own thing. And it just doesn't, it doesn't do that last part.

It's just pulling that shit and just putting it right on the screen. And so it just looks like a bunch of shit. It just a collage of other, a collage of shit they found on the internet, much like this podcast. Yeah. I would never, I would never say that. Never, ever say that. You just say it under your breath all the time. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, whatever. This good luck with the AI. It's not going to work. It's their, like every single thing that they're putting out, like they would have to be like, you know that movie weapons that came out? That was all AI.

Right. Then people might be like, what the fuck? Yeah, like, that's a really interesting idea and story. But this is, again,

I'm looking at a thing that looks like a fucking weird slapped together montage of like digital and digitally animated anthropomorphized fuckers were in Hawaiian shirts. And I'm like, wow.

holy shit, yeah, burn the forest down for this nonsense. Yeah. But I think this also goes to show that because they don't have the kinds of like consumer facing applications that they thought everyone was going to start throwing their money at on a consumer level,

that this is really the only place that they think they can like eke out these like quote unquote wins and be like, look at this the fucking commercial that we made. Yeah. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back to talk about the cyber truck

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We're back. I think one of our first thoughts upon seeing the cyber truck is that they kind of looked like the shitty cop cars from the Robocop universe, you know, like they're just like kind of rusty metal looking things. And also they look like they were designed by someone trying to design the future in the year, 1987. And now the idea of cyber truck cop cars is here. May seem a little on the nose dystopian, but, you know, that is where we're at. So last October, Irvine in California bragged that they spent over $150,000 on a modded cyber truck. And I believe that's not even factoring in the budget that they had to put together for this promotional video where they announced the cyber truck was here. And I just want to watch it for listeners. We'll kind of describe what's happening. You'll also be able to hear some, I'm assuming not rights cleared music. So maybe we have to keep the volume down.

But it's just, it's a turn of our music. Oh, Jack, before you play this, can I put on a less expensive shirt? Because I know I'm going to tear my shirt off while watching this. So just give me one second. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Cheaper than the one you got on? Oh, that's not nice.

I told you that in confidence. Okay, go ahead. I told you in confidence this is a one cent shirt. All right. Yeah, this is cool. Lightning strikes. So lightning strikes off the top. And then we see a. cyber truck that has police lights on it.

Oh, dude, how fast is that going? Yeah, it's rolling about five miles per hour. It's getting up to speeds topping 25 miles per hour. Wait, it's doing the Terminator theme? It's doing the Terminator theme. Dude, it just drove over water. It's driving past a fountain.

In downtown Irvine, dude. At least. Oh, shit. Dude, they put a camera on the road and it drove over it and didn't crush it. So it can drive and it can stop is what we just learned because it just showed it driving a straight line. Why is it smoking?

They've got a fog machine. Oh, okay. Oh, just to make accent the lights a bit. Okay. And then, uh,

yeah. Oh, it's just there on the side. Oh, man, that program that got me to do drugs. Yeah. And then the police stand out and stand next to it.

And it says Irvine police cyber truck written in fucking lightning dog. Uh, that's it. That's the, that's the video. What the fuck is that? Again, it looks like a promo video for announcing

the invention of trucks. Yeah, of a police car or something. Yeah, like they play crazy dramatic music and then it just drives in a straight line for a hundred yards at like 25 miles per hour and then the cops get out like, yeah, we just did that. And that's what cars do.

That's what all cars do. They go and they stop. It didn't even do a turn. It didn't even do a turn. It may not be able to turn. That might be one of the mods of it. It was intentionally left out. I just love how police have such insane budgets that they have to,

it's like a fucking challenge for them to spend as much money as possible. We're going to get to the funding in a bit because the whole fleet that just dropped in Vegas is not coming from their police budget and it's actually more dystopian that. So the Irvine one was actually, as you noted, eagle-eyed Miles noted that my favorite early 90s musician, Eagle-Eye Miles. Eagle-eyed mine. It's a dare on it. What about eagle-eyed Barry or eagle-eye Larry?

Yeah, there it is. Never mind. I'll go. It was a trick to try and get children engaging with cops around the DARE anti-drug program because nothing says don't do drugs quite like rolling up to school in a truck conceived and designed entirely by the drug ketamine. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Truly. And the power of K. This is apparently, like, they used to have PT cruisers for, some reason, but also just like straight up monster trucks that were like, you know, sheriff department with like dare on the side and just giant cartoonish big wheels. Anyways, it's a silly idea, but they were like, we're going to kids might be into this. And then the Las Vegas PD has officially unveiled the nation's first fully operational cyber truck patrol fleet.

Dude. That's right. Hell yeah. Dude what? Oh, you're just saying dude because you just saw it. you're basking in the glory of the new LVM, LV Metropolitan Police Department. Yeah. So the sheriff flat out admitted the point was to look kind of cool, not even really cool,

just kind of cool, and use the cars as a recruiting tool and defended the expensive vehicles by pointing out that they're bulletproof. Also, that quote is amazing. When he said, the cyber trucks are quote, this is the sheriff quote, heck of a recruiting tool. These trucks are high performance and they're built tough. That's Ford. to handle everything from Fremont Street to Red Rock Canyon.

And then this is the part. Cops are going to look kind of cool in them too, right? Right. Right. Right. You guys like me, right? No, you're going to look like a fucking loser who decided to be a cop in a fucking shitty ketamine car. Yeah.

He did, though, defend that, okay, so, oh, you don't think they look cool? Well, they're bulletproof. Did anybody mention that? Except, really? Who said that? Yeah. Musk said that. at the same presentation

where he was like the glasses absolutely 100% bulletproof watch we're going to drop a ball on it the easiest way to prove that something's bulletproof and then even throwing a ball at the window broke the window yeah that was one of the best parts was the ball made a bullet

was it a bullet ball? It was not a bullet ball it was just a metal ball if it wasn't it broke though see that wasn't a bullet ball it didn't care because when he threw it and it broke the window. He said, oh, my fucking gosh. And then said, well, maybe that was a little too hard.

It didn't go through, though. That's the plus side. So I think we can assume that if an electrical engineer throwing a metal ball at a window didn't go through, it's probably bulletproof. There's also a YouTube person who was like, people keep saying these are bulletproof. So they shot a 50 caliber round at the cyber truck. And to quote a recap of the video, the 50 caliber round will cut through the cyber trucks bodywork like butter.

Yeah, I mean, that's a significant. Not even like it's supposed to be bulletproof. It's a bullet conductor. It passes the bullet through it. Yeah, makes it speed up. Yeah. Wait, there. Hold on this is everybody throws it.

Sure? You sure? Oh, my fucking God. All right. Oh, my fucking God. Well, engineers have infamously strong throwing arms. That guy looked like he had never thrown a baseball in his life. He looked like he was trying to be like, let me not fuck this thing up and pretend I'm throwing.

He's like, bro, this shit. Maybe that was a little too hard. That was as soft as it could have been while still technically being thrown overhand. He should have just painted a tennis ball like chrome and be like, boing, see that. Look at that as shit go. to producer victor's point i remember when we were talking about what it produced to say when it first came out he said um you should wear a better hat he said that actually um you remember when they first came out and it when you couldn't drive them in the rain oh you're like car wash mode

was like car washes were also fucking them up too they're like we didn't have it in car wash mode you're exactly so this is bulletproof now they went from can't drive it in water falling from the sky can't wash it at a car wash. It is not worthy that Las Vegas is the only place it's doing at a place where it almost never rains. So that has been baked into this. That's called 4D chess,

dude. 4D chess. You know what I mean? So Irvine just has the one? It's just that one truck. Just the one. It's like a, but now Vegas is like yeah. Hold my beer. Bad guys are running scared. Wait, so

if the Irvine one is obviously paid with the whatever city funds, the cop budget, you said the Vegas one is not, that's not coming out of the, okay. So people, there are some concerns, uh, ranging from excessive police militarization to privacy issues. Sure, sure. Does this mean that Tesla will be able to surveil law enforcement in Vegas? And then people were like, also, where did you get the money for seven cyber trucks, which are like the most overpriced car on the market? It was not paid for by the public. They reassured, don't worry, you guys. You didn't, you didn't pay for it. It was actually paid for by a billionaire private citizen, which more alarming.

No, no, that's much better. Ben Horowitz. At first they were like, it's anonymous. Don't worry about it. It's like Bruce Wayne, you know, like you don't have to know everything that goes on. And then people are like, we kind of do. And reporters found out it was Ben Horowitz, co-founder of the Silicon Valley venture capital firm known as Andresen Horowitz, who was also among the investors.

who backed Elon Musk's bid to take over Twitter. Yep, yep. So they're, like, on board with Elon Musk taking over shit. He absolutely should not take over. And, you know, remember we were talking about those, like, billionaire fucking, like, telegram groups where they all exchange ideas and Mark Andreessen is always talking wacky shit, like, of Andresen Horowitz. Like, these are the same guys who are, like, you know, if they're like, their whole thing is, like, they believe in, like, a full-on tech oligarchy.

Yeah. So it makes sense that he's like, yeah, yeah, here. Look, what do you need? More fucking cyber trucks? Because, well, I'm going to need some protection in my bunker. Right. Horowitz has acted as middleman between the Las Vegas municipal police department and venture capital firms to secure new tech.

And he has donated at least $7.6 million to fund police department purchases over the last few years. Again, these guys are not, he's not just a fan of the Las Vegas police department. No. I don't think. I think the people at that level are very purposeful about, like, where they're putting their money. And, like, when you try and think of what the end game is of a billionaire, trying to be a early investor in, like, police departments getting more militaristic, seems weird. This was not surprisingly horrifying to ethics watchdogs, since it allows cops to, quote, bypass the typical procurement process that can include, bullshit like public meetings

a city approved budget potential bidding period to give competition a chance yeah fuck all that yeah I mean I just want to be able to buy a gun and give it to a cop like a cool gun and I'm not in what am I not allowed to do that with my private money yeah

here you go officer you want a rail gun gun this is so much better than yours here on me it's on me you want to trade yeah um thanks for the work you do man i really appreciate it what are they fucking thinking i mean it is a good idea though for anybody who thinks that's a good idea i think you should buy a cop a gun and i think you should run up to them with it to surprise it make sure it's surprising to steal steal the jay candy while yelling this is not registered yeah and it never

will be this is for you hey copper this is for you the this is actually a trend. Police foundations all over the country are basically dark money slush funds for contributions from private corporate donors who secretly finance specialized weapons and technology with little public oversight. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, this is, again, this is like the boomerang people that I talk about. It's like all these like weird technologies that we let other authoritarian regimes, like, you know, like what we've seen in Gaza and things like that, they come back to the United States in the form of law enforcement technology. Yeah. And

yeah. And it makes perfect sense that pretty soon. Someone's going to be like, yeah, and we gifted the Frisco, Texas Sheriff Department, three Reaper drones. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Like, this is, this is a good one because they've given them shitty technology.

Right, right. That can't work. Right. Like, you can take it down with a super soaker, you know? Right, right. Oh, my fucking God. Oh, my fucking God. Oh, shit. Do you. Don't fly in the rain. I guess you sprayed that one too much. Stop.

Cops are supposed to know about car wash mode. Anyways. But yeah, like once, like, I'm sure it's not all going to be ineffectual Elon Musk ketamine pipe dreams. Yeah, yeah, we'll see. Hey. Hey, a boy can dream, though. On the other hand, Robocop is, you know, looking more and more realistic. So that's fun.

Yeah, especially the shooting. Not the cool Robocop part, but more. the uh shooting people in the dick part yeah no i don't think i don't think they're gonna be good at shooting people in the day we we've seen ice just fire randomly yeah but i think they're gonna be uh we're gonna get the early part and the uh i'd buy that for a dollar like the bad tv ads right i mean we're already there yeah blake waxler jake oh yes james jack because we're talking about cops you called I'm a Jake. Is that a term?

Yeah. Jake. I do remember that from, no bit. Yeah, a bunch of jakes. That's like a very hip-hop. Yeah, the jakes, man. No goofs.

It's from Jake and the fat man, I think, is what, where that term comes from. Blake Wexler, what a pleasure having you on the daily. Like I says always, where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? Thank you so much for asking. I'm at Blake Wexler on all social media. I'm doing, I have a bunch of live shows coming up. This Friday, I'm going to be in Boston and Fanual Hall.

And then December 7. Fanual Hall. Fanual Hall. And these are all these cities I'm going to be in that are, you know, overrun. Antifa may not come to any of these. I have a huge Antifa crowd, but right now, just pass on it. It's too hot right now. December 7th, Chicago.

And then in January 16th, I'm doing Littlefield in Brooklyn. It's the biggest venue I've ever headlined. and first time I've headlined in New York. So if you can make that one on January 16th, Littlefield in Brooklyn. Littlefield, more like biggest venue I've ever headlined. That's my social copy. I got so emotional trying to get that joke out. You got a little of a clump.

Thank you. You got a little of a clumpth. You know, it's just, he's all grown up. All grown up. I just want a drum set. All I want is a drum set. Is there a work of media that you've been enjoying? The Prime Mutton is the name of this guy on Instagram, and he reviews Guinness across the world.

And he has, and I'm saying this is a compliment. It reminds me almost of Great British Baking Competition, where it's so pure and so sincere. Is that the off brand? Is that an off brand show? It's not the Great British Bake Off? Did I get something wrong? The Great British Bake Off. Have some respect, please. Great British Bankoff, that it's so sincere and, like, not ironic and, like, so sweet and positive, where, like, he sincerely reviews Guinnesses, but he's, he's not one of these polished influencers.

Like, he starts all these videos off where, why he was late, and that transportation wasn't running on time. He's not doing it to be funny. He just is late. And he reviews these Guinnesses and from a range of a creamer to an absolute creamer is how he refers to them. he's great and if you it's just a pure everyone loves him

it's great so anyway if you drink in us if you don't drink in us I highly recommend his page the prime mutton and he's a city supporter

yeah I think we've I think we've watched we've witnessed his work before and it is wonderful thank God he's wonderful I know I wouldn't be able to handle it

if I was just finding out about this for the first time no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no I lack the tongue dexterity. That's merch. Do a n-

n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n- I can do it as shana-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-meas. That's to be an a... Yeah, you're using your whole jaw, man. You're not a ventriloquist dummy. Use the tongue, man. Let it just hit the top. Twista is an amazing

the-na-na-na-na-no-n-goy. Yeah, he's pretty fast with it. Miles where people find you? Is there a work in media you've been enjoying. Yeah, find me everywhere at Miles of Gray. me talking about 90-day fiancé on 4.20-day fiancé. I work in media. I just stumbled upon this Instagram reel or video, whatever the fuck they call it over there. It's from Mamma Cita. It's a little girl in Ireland because they opened a Taco Bell in Ireland, and it's her trying Taco Bell for the first time in Ireland.

And again, we love Taco Bell and we love Ireland on this show, don't we folks? Oh, so this is, hold on, let me just play this. Talk about in Ireland, we'll all be the judge of that. We got so many new American followers. So this one's for you, straight from the heart. And you know what? I'm going to be honest, because it's nice to be honest. I are you.

So then they're in line. There's a fucking line. And she's like, trying to be like, you think they're going to have Baja blast? And this line fucking kills me. I'm thinking about getting the chicken tenders and chips to be safe. Okay, don't know. Come on the corner.

Excuse me, we're not to talk a long. Okay, I'm going to try to. Baja blast. Like, I think so because every talk about America has, every talk about America has. I'm going to have the Baja blast. You better, you better.

Spoiler alert, she gets to the soda found. They don't have fucking Baja blast. And I think it's the biggest tragedy. So I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry to you, child. Poor kid. That's fucked up. Yeah.

So sorry. It's fucked up. We've let him down. A dream deferred. A dream deferred. Let him down. She does end the video by fighting her da. So it's just.

She does. And I can say that, and I can say that. That laugh from Blake. You used your old chest for that one. Yeah, right up my alley. Anti-Irish raisin. A joke that doesn't need to be made. Also, does.

She does fight her da. Shout out to Matt Lee, who would always. I just saw him on Friday. day and I was like, I was like, dude, the Fight Me Da thing came back up and he he's like, what? He was like, Jack's kid is saying it now. He's like, oh, no, I'm sorry. It's like, it's Jack's fault.

Yeah, it is. It's one of my favorite things that anyone's ever said. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien on Blue Sky at Jack Obey, the number one. A couple works of media I've been enjoying. Eli Uden tweeted, can't tell if my antidepressants aren't working or if they just weren't built for this. Like Zoloft was introduced in the 90s.

I barely needed to work then. If you got said, you could just buy a house. It's not built for this. It's just not built for this shit. That's great. You can find us on Twitter and Blue Sky at Daily Zykeist. We're at the Daily Zykegeist 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 you think that people might enjoy? Yeah, it's funny because all this kangaroo talk, there is a Japanese, like, 80s fusion band called Kangaroo. And I was like, oh, we should do a song by that. And if you like sort of, I know on TikTok, it should a lot of people love, like 80s, 70s, Japanese like city pop and fusion music from back then,

This song is called Sunshine Bright on Me, parenthetical cub. And it's by Kangaroo, the Japanese band from yesterday. So put this in your ears. But shout out the marsupials in their stinky pouches. The Daily Zike is a production of IHeart Radio for more podcasts from IHart Radio. Visit the IHart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows, that is going to do it for us this morning.

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