The Daily Zeitgeist - Like Snatching A Hat From A Baby, The Wizard Of Ughhhs 09.03.25

Episode Date: September 3, 2025

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I get annoyed when there's Kim's with K.Y.M. It's like, yeah, you're special. We get it. There are K.Y. K.Y. Kim's out here? Oh, yeah. K.W.I. Kim sounds like a fucking terrible nickname. That sounds like, yeah, you get bullied. Yeah, yeah, that's a bully. High school mean girls.

Definitely called someone K.Y. Kim at some point. I know at least one that deserved it. Hmm. Yeah. Is it just because her name was spelled K.Y.M. Is that one? Yeah. She was special. She was also very slippery. Yeah, she was slippery. She's just naturally so slippery.

She's just greasy. It was weird. She looks like a seal at all times. Just shiny and greasy. Kim is. Have you ever had a person that you work with that had the hyperhydrosis handshake? Here we go. No, or I don't know. What is that? You guys ever had that? You ever met somebody with hyperhydrosis? You ever has somebody that you work with

that you co-host a show with for seven years? You ever know somebody for a long time, but every time you dapp them up, even their knuckles are wet. That is usually like my go-to. If my hands are sweaty, I just dab people up. What's up,

but sometimes. Squosh. What the fuck? You make the far noise. Your knuckles wet. It was like I punched a water balloon. This is an I-Heart podcast. My boyfriend's professor is way too friendly, and now I'm seriously suspicious.

Wait a minute, Sam. Maybe her boyfriend's just looking for extra credit. Well, Dakota, luckily, it's back to school week on the OK Storytime podcast, so we'll find out soon. This person writes, my boyfriend's been hanging out with his young professor a lot. He doesn't think it's a problem, but I don't trust her. Now he's insisting we get to know each other, but I'm I just want her gone. Oh, hold up.

Isn't that against school policy? That seems inappropriate. Maybe find out how it ends by listening to the OK Storytime podcast and the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Jennifer Lopez. And in the new season of the Overcomfit Podcast, I'm even more honest, more vulnerable, and more real than ever. Am I ready to enter this new part of my life?

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Listen to Brown Ambition on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 404 episode two of DirtyEley's Light Geis. It's a production of IHeart Radio. The Dean's Scream is back. Yeah. In a still echoey room, I'm still dialing in the acoustic. of this recording airspace men but yeah was your was your dean scream yeah you know the dean screen right him they're gonna watch you see to take back the white house i was like i gotta tell

the people dude oh yeah this is a podcast where we take a deep dive into a marriage share consciousness i guess i bet they were wondering i bet there is a real there was real wait what is this shit what is this what if i stumbled what is it who's this guy and i say uh it's wednesday September 3rd, 2025. Mm-hmm. That seems wrong. That's too far in the future. Do you say December 25th?

I thought I said September, but it's entirely possible I said December. Yeah, yeah, yeah. September 3rd, 2025. Ah, yes. Yes, it is September 3rd. Have I been saying days wrong? Oh, God, Jack. It's national, it's U.S. Bowling League Day.

Hell yeah. I'd do that once, but I'd suck and then I'd fucking probably rage quit. No, I'd, I'd, it's, I just had the revelation that, like, in the same way that movies is a word that is just, like, they made a picture move, and they were like, we'll call those movies. Bowling is just a sport where you bowl thing, you knock things over. So it's just called bowling. Like, you just bowl things over. Anyways, that's what I'm up to over here.

Think about fun stuff. Hold on. It's also, it's also, it's also, national Welsh rare bit day. And if you don't know what that is, it's basically cheesy. toast. It's a tongue-in-cheek, I guess, way, because there's no rabbit in the meal. So anyway, cheese toast and bowling leagues. It's your day.

Congratulations. Have a little cheese toast at your bowling league. Yes, exactly. Well, the last time you watched Big Lobowski, we were talking about this last week, most. Ooh, pre-pandemic, for sure. Are you a fan? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I watched it. I just re-watched it, and I'm like, all of these lines are, like, I remember every single part of this. and, like, think about those lines and the line delivers every day. Like, I didn't realize how just in there it was. Yeah, yeah. Oh, it's great. I had the fucking, like, commemorative edition that was, like, in a bowling ball.

Oh, shit. That's dope. Lobowski I was in. And I feel like people know, because we quote that movie, like, pretty fucking insufferably. I don't, I think what I realize is I don't know that I'm quoting it. Every time you say I'll have the Lingenberry pancake. Yeah, exactly. No, man. It's coming out of me.

Which also Fargo, the other one that is in there really hard-coated and also has a, I want to go to Pancakes House. It's a line that I think about all the time, even though I rarely want to go to Pancakes House. Anyways, my name's

Jack O'Brien, aka all vaccines are dumb. Why am I this way? Why am I this way? I went for a walk, went for a walk an airport delay I see swollen

kids they look rotten today they look rotten today mitochondria dreaming mitochondria dream why am I this way that one courtesy of snarfula on the discord who said

I can't find a way to get mitochondria dreaming down to six syllables you did great I think it's fun when the syllables don't fit. But that, of course, in reference to last week when RFK Jr., while in Austin signing a Make America Healthy Again Bill, said, quote, I'm looking at kids as I walk through the airports today as I walk down the streets and I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges. With inflammation, you can tell from their faces. He's just walking around being like, ugh, look at his little uggo piece of shit when he sees our kids.

He looks like something's wrong with him. Mitochondrially, it's not right. It's not working out. Meanwhile, like, I don't know, man. Like, you look at him and you're like, what? Sure, man. You sit and have a conversation with him or the president who appears to be like melting into a puddle of goop, uh, fucking what's his name style?

Jabba the Hutt style. Oh, pizza the hut style even. Yeah, pizza the hut even. I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Hey, it's Miles Gray. Let's keep the RFK theme going with, I believe all the lies. I believe I killed a bear one night.

I drink raw cows milk every night and day. Make vaccines a crime I may. I believe in whale gold. Dripping on the kids To my open door Shut up Snarfila for that one R.F. Kelly, yeah. We created the character R.F. Kelly, I think, last week.

Oh, wow. Well, combination. Problematic combo. This all makes sense now with the remix to ignition. Sorry. Okay, okay. I did that one last week. I was, yeah, I was a, I did not know.

But I love, Look, we had, we had, damn, we could do RFCPK, RFCK, and RF Kelly. Yeah, it's never ending. Okay, okay. Miles, we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the creator of red dot comics. You can go to Patreon right now to support and gain access to her tastefully inappropriate work. Please welcome. It's Kim Winder!

Keele! A.K.A. It's a small plug after all. That's all I got. How is Gary? He's working. Yeah, working. Yeah, working hard. Working for a living.

It's funny on Reddit, there's a subreddit called What Is This? Where people are just like, find something like, I found this in my kids backpack. And it's like, it's a fucking weed baggie. You fucking loser. Cocaine. Handgun. So often people don't know what butt plugs are. They're like, I found this in my Airbnb under the bed.

And everyone's like, usually people just be like, wash your hands immediately. They have it right up to their face. It smells fine. Here, my nose for scale. Why is it? It would have to be your nose. A terrible thing you use for scale. Your nose could be so many different sizes.

All right, fine. Here's my mouth. I'm going to open real wide. Can get all the way back to my youth feel like? Yeah, tongue for scale. Oh, man. Anyway. Anyway, just thinking about plugs.

Because Kim's here. Sorry. You don't know where that came from. Hey, I'm just glad when you say it, you think of me. Yeah, hey, you've done, I mean, look, I think I even, it's Gary even, you know what I mean? It's not even just a butt plug. Yeah, he's a whole personality, an inner moral compass. Thank you, thank you.

Yeah. What is his moral compass like? What is he like? Point south. Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah. So.

Interesting. He gives me the worst, best ideas. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. It's funny when you search Gary, butt plug, there is someone made a Gary Busey butt plug where it's a butt plug, but the handle

end of this picture of Gary Bucy. I was going to say teeth like are so that is so fucking wild. Teeth are so prominent in my image of Gary Bucy and teeth are not something I necessarily wanted my butt plug. Well, necessarily you can have the both. You can have the feeling the image of teeth without the

sensation in my mind. That would be a wonderful surprise. Just first time going at it, bent over, poof, Gary Busey. Screaming Gary Buse. I don't know what I would. I just want to show you this before he goes there. This is very specific.

My friend. Yeah. Well, Kim, we're thrilled to have you. We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell the listeners a couple of the things we're talking about. We have a, did Trump have the, I don't know. We still haven't really seen footage from his press conference, but he appears to be alive.

And it seems like his press conference is like kind of some bullshit. He's just like announcing that they're changing the location of like the start. Space Command, which seems like-Alabama, I think. Seems like an excuse for like them to just get him out there in front of people, you know. Like the party and weekend at Bernies where they're like, we need to bring people around. I mean, it's he, as of this record, it's, it's way past the time they said he would do it, but I don't, I don't expect him to be on time for anything. He's a rockstone, you know, it's like a fucking Lauren Hill concert.

Oh, wait, no, it happened, it started seven minutes ago. All right, great. Well, we'll be giving you live updates of something that happened yesterday, but it appears like, I don't know, we've heard multiple, like, interviews now with him, and he sounds like shit, sounds ragged as hell. So we'll talk about that. We'll talk about that yet another CEO going viral. This time it was a Polish CEO who stole a hat from a child.

It was like clearly being handed to the child. An adult CEO comes in, swoops it, does like a no look pass to his partner in crime. To the extent that like I thought they were like a grifting, I thought they were like a pick pocket team like the way that they like were so fast with like he like he took it handed it off you know it was like he didn't even hand it off I'm pretty sure he just stuffed it

in his wife's bag yeah yeah it was just like that as the kid was holding its hand out like dude what the hell with like a oh but I wanted that look on his face anyways we'll talk about that we'll talk about the genocide experts have weighed in finally

and but they are in fact confirming that what is what Israel is doing is, in fact, genocide. So we'll talk about that. And we will, of course, talk about the sphere. We covered the run-up, the big news that they were taking a cinema classic and expanding it with the help of AI. And some of the things that we thought could possibly be potentially a problem is that, like,

AI people, when you add AI people, they just are robots that don't know where to look. And so they're having to expand the frame of this movie to fit an entire, like, universe, like an entire 360 universe. So a lot of AI, the reviews are in, and they're pretty entertaining. So we'll talk about that plenty more. But first, Kim, we do like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Why is my period showing up early when I have plans? Yeah. It always seems to happen.

and it's a universal experience. Like, I was in L.A. last week. Period wasn't supposed to show up until this week. And she came along with me. She's like, I want to come. I want to go. Pretty much. Yeah.

But what did Grock say the answer was to that? Grock had no good input. Something about Nazis. But, yeah. Wait, so what kind of plans you have, if you don't mind me asking? Oh, sure. I just went down to see a show and hang out with friends. So nothing real big.

But it's a longer drive, and you don't want to sit there all crampy and stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Especially when it surprises you. Like, I brought white pants. What am I supposed to do with those? Yeah, after Labor Day. Well, in LA, it's fine, Miles. Yeah.

Okay, you guys can say that. I'm not going to 80 double hockey sticks. Not doing that. Is that one of the, is that what, is that a Catholic thing that you're not allowed to wear a white pants after? No, it's like, it's like an American cultural taboo of not wearing white after only the pope gets. to wear white after labor dead.

Popin is white khakis. That's right. Wait, let's see. What is the reason? Would that be technically a sin if you started wearing that ridiculous big Pope hat around? I feel like he would get really good. Is it because, oh, because it was so dirty?

Like, it's like, well, we can wear white when we're in the Hamptons, but when we come back to gross Manhattan, don't wear your white. Oh, that would check out. Of course, it's bougie non-term. sense. Yeah, it's classist. Not just white after Liberdae. Well, then I guess I can't wear white now.

My God. Oh, Trump looks like shit, though. I just saw a still photo of him. He looks like guys. Was he wearing white? No, no. He was not wearing white. But his comb over looks real bad.

He's doing a lot of, there's magic happening. Yeah. Yeah. They did just make it so that women are allowed to wear not all white at Wimbledon and at least partially to make room for people's menstrual cycle. Amen. So that's cool. Yeah.

Feminism. We've done it. Thank you. And they're going to be like, don't ask us for shit again after. Yeah, that's it. That is our one concession that we give you one every 100 years. I think that's fair. That's fair.

Yeah. I think that does happen. It's just like, yeah, I'm coming to. The period wants to be involved. Period wants to go on vacation. Yeah, the consensus was it's just like stress and other factors. So really it could be anything, just like your period symptoms are almost exactly the same as pregnancy systems. It's just a fuck-all.

Your body just wants you to suffer. Right. As you guys know. As we don't know. As that long pause suggested, I was actually just thinking of the response. Yeah. No, I was just reading about how just generally the lack of, oh, no, we also had a guest on here talking. talking about, too, just the lack of urgent scientific research, like around cramps and things

like that where they just go, and those are cramps. And they're like, well, some people feel like they're getting knifed in the gut. And it's like, yeah, that's a scale. But we call them cramps. Anyway, you're being hysterical. You're being hysterical. And that's what we said. You're being hysterical and you need to chill out. Well, they just made a birth control pill for men that takes away the nausea, the bloating, the headaches. And it's just like, oh, we got that for men first. Okay. Okay.

Let's maybe think about us. Wait, what is this? There's, I think it's a pill. And a few years ago, a trial was out for men's birth control. Oh, okay. And they didn't like it because it gave them the normal side effects. They took it back, and now it's just back out to testing that got rid of all those side effects.

Oh, man. But, you know, it's fair. We got the Wimbledon wearing white. So it's your turn. We are doing things for you. We're working so hard for you. And you're going to make me poison my guys down there? My bros, dude?

Nah. Not today. That's a very delicate balance down there. Just like equal scales. Do you just measure which nut? Exactly. Got to know what's hanging lower. And then I have a balancing.

sheet that I actually deploy down there to keep them level. What is something you think is underrated? Underrated deer crossing signs. Oh, yeah. The little sign with the little deer doing a little hop hop. Yeah, my husband hit a deer on his way home from work on Sunday. Why would the deer say to him? Fuck you, bitch.

Wow. Wait, oh, in his car? Yeah. Oh, okay. So, yeah, it was late at night. No deer crossing signs, even though it definitely not. needs it for the area we're in, but came out of nowhere, did damage left, and... The jeer's okay?

We didn't find the body. We're not sure. Exchange information and check in afterwards. Yeah. Hey, where are you going? I'm pretty sure that deer didn't have insurance. And that's what to see. The way he fucking ran out of there.

I don't want to... Oh, God. I mean, I know this show's, you know, trying to be progressive, but that's... I feel like all deer, no deer has insurance every time. every time they don't have insurance. And I don't like to paint everyone with the same brush, but they never have insurance, ever. Dude.

Well, I have to register to kill a deer. So why don't they have to register for existing? Yeah. See, this is, God, we need someone to take this shit seriously. You need a registry for all dears. How fucked up did the car get? Not great. We're having it towed either today or tomorrow. Oh, shit.

Like, couldn't be driven any further. Yeah. But it was fortunate. It was very close to. for our house. So, and my husband's fine all that, but we don't know about the car just yet. Damn, it took us a long time to ask if your husband's fine. Yeah, my husband's alive.

To the extent that we didn't even do it. I made a joke about how he punched a deer. Whoops. I will say the deer crossing sign, like if you're going to have a sign representing deer, like they have to be happy with that one. That is like the Michael Jordan silhouette, like the Jordan silhouette of, like it is so. It's no athletic and majestic. It's like springing forward in a way that, like, I feel like they have to be like, yeah, that's right.

And I'm pretty sure, like, their antler size, they were very gracious with antler sizes. Yeah. Yeah. They were. See, this is, why are they getting all the preferential treatment in society? This is what I'm, now I'm thinking. Also, like, if you look at the moose crossing, like, I'm looking at a moose crossing one, it's all, like, hunched over. It looks drunk.

Whereas, like, the deer is like, bring. I think I've seen like elk. Elk one is pretty majestic looking. Is it? Yeah. Because there's a lot of elk towards here. Oh, yeah, the elk. Yo, the antlers.

But I wouldn't want to be fucked up by an elk. That would take out most cars. Yeah, my rankings. I still like deer, then elk moose. But a moose is like, it looks like, it evoked. It evokes moose. It definitely evokes moose. It communicates.

I guess it just like tells us what we think of moose. Like it looks like, yeah, I'm seeing some that are a little bit better. But the one I'm first looking at, it just looks drunk. Like it just looks like the, watch out for this drunk asshole. Let me find out. Most moose are pretty hammered. You can just assume. They're angry too.

Yeah. Oh. But I rather have like these instead of like impressionist paintings. of animals for crossing because you have no idea what you're going to get. Oh, yeah, for sure. Too much. There's too much that someone can interpret a different way. It's like, I don't know.

Could be a whimsical. It kind of a horse. Yeah, whimsical horse with some kind of hairdo. Or a hunchback horse. Right. Yeah. I feel like they should give like the, when it's like the walking cross sign, like you can walk now, that'd be cool if like they made us look athletic and cool as hell.

Yeah. Instead of just like, you know, like very... Yeah, just the very stiff. We don't get a neck. I don't get a little swag. What do you want? I'm not the artist here. I'm just saying,

Tom Cruise and the Pelican brief? Yeah. Or was it? Was he the Pelican Brief? Yeah. Yeah, he's, no, he's not Pelican Brief. He's the firm. What's the one?

The firm. Yeah, the firm. He's like running a little bit with a briefcase. Yeah, exactly. Just, now there goes a man. I want the woman, like, on the truck flaps. Like, the woman that's, It's like side profile.

I want that, yeah. Yeah. And what's that communicating? Ladies, you can now lay in the crosswalk with your sexy bodies. You want an insurance payment? Just lay here. But not near a deer because they don't have insurance. No, no.

They'll trample you. Fuck Bambi. And the child, the slow children sign, that child looks like he's up to something. He's like, there's a slow children thing. That's not just like a far side thing. There is slow children at play. yeah oh sorry i'm thinking of the word play is good yeah yeah slow chill i do remember that was i truly was like slow children whoa that's so mean what that means

what are they all in one area slow children but they're strong okay they've got good they've got good leaping ability why does what is that sorry there's one for like the girl-coded figure for a slow children to play, but the head of like the girl and has like a ponytail, but it looks like just one of those like Japanese Kandama things like right here. Oh. Yeah. Anyway. That's a very short skirt.

She's like a George Washington ribbon. Well, she's also like being dragged by the boy one. Yeah. Come on, come on, come on. We'll make it. We'll make it. Go. Go. Oh, fuck. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. K.Y. Kim. Her hand was so slippery.

I'm so sorry. dragging her into traffic. One less K.Y. Kim out there. Shover and at play dragging each other into traffic. What is something, Kim, that you think is overrated? The month of September. Oh, fuck. It's hot.

We're all just waiting for fall. And you just, there's no in between. It's like L.A. It's super hot for the rest of the month. For the rest of the world or cooler climates, it's still fucking hot. And you're just waiting for October. and then holidays. Wow.

We could just skip this month. It's the Wednesday of months. Yes. It's like, what the fuck, man? I get you're here, but let's get to the other good days, like Friday,

Saturday. Just dragging it out. Wake me up when September ends. Oh, wow. That's what that song is about. And that's what the song's about. Back to school, which when you're a kid,

like, but when you're a parent, you're like, Oh, that's true. Okay, Staples commercial. Remember that was the Staples, Andy Williams track. Oh, it's the most wonder if the mom's like buying on that shit and staples and the kids are like, what the fuck, kill me. Back with commercials were good.

Yeah. Mm-hmm. Back to football, which I do enjoy football. Yeah, for me, a footie, yeah. A little bit of footie. I have a bit of footy in it. Yeah. Isn't that technically August or is that preseason?

that's pretty seen technically it's August for the NFL still hasn't started yet okay did college football start this weekend college football started this weekend and bill bellich got rocked oh where's he in North Carolina is it North Carolina now and everyone's like man like professional football coaches like they they work so much harder they understand the game so much better he's going to come in here and just like dominate whereas like college football coaches are like just basically used car salesmen like they're all just like energetic, like, used car salesman. And everyone was like, so he's just going to, like, kill these people with chess moves.

And then, like, he just came and, like, got destroyed in his first game. And I, which when they were saying that, I was like, I think there's probably a reason that those people gravitate to that role. Like, I think it must work for whatever reason. Like, children, the children your coaching respond to that energy, you know. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Anyways. It's children energy. Children energy.

exactly dragging each other around as they're want to do when they're at play anyways i i like september but i respect your uh your right to not like september i agree and my birthday is this month i don't really don't really don't say that to be like how could you i'm sorry i fucking hated going back to fucking school like i fucking hated it and when i i remember one year my school my school started, like, the last day of August, and I was, like, complaining to my mom. I was like, this isn't right. Like, summer's supposed to be until September, and I don't want to go to this school anymore. It's crazy.

For some reason, down south, they start, like, at the beginning of August. It's crazy. How early they get you back to school. And, like, Kentucky, I was like, what do you mean? Do they, yeah, do they let them out in May? I think you get out earlier, yeah, but it's very strange. Yeah, I don't have. kids and I'm not huge as to football.

So September's been May. The agricultural calendar apparently. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Farm shit. I should know that. Yeah, man. Farm shit. Farm shit.

New farm shit. Just dropped. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back and we'll talk about some news. My boyfriend's professor is way too friendly and now I'm seriously suspicious. Well, wait a minute, Sam, maybe her boyfriend's just looking for extra credit. Well, Dakota, it's back to school week on the OK Storytime podcast, so we'll find out soon.

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Trump's speech or his press conference happened. It feels like the import of what he was announcing was not commensurate with like the attention people were paying to it. But it also feels like he didn't really have anything. So he might have just been like, they think I look like shit. Oh, yeah. Well, watch this. And he like came out and actually. He really looked like he actually looked like he was melting.

He looked like, oh, no. Yeah, his comb over is not looking good. His makeup is looking like it was still alive, though, y'all. Sorry. He is still alive. So nice try assholes. There is a clip, though. I think he has COVID because there's a clip.

He sounds bad. And there's a clip from Scott Jennings, who's like that freaky right wing piece of shit. You see on CNN a lot. He released a snippet of a combo with Trump. And this, it sounds like it's, he just sounds like he has a cold or something. Yeah, this is him here just talking about Putin. And now he's like, I'm so disappointed in Putin. Dude, you're going to keep saying that shit.

I'm very disappointed in him. He and I always had a great relationship. Very disappointed. Thousands of people are dying. They're not Americans that are dying, but they're Russians and the Ukrainians. Yeah, he's gravelly. Yeah, definitely nasally. I think it's COVID.

And I think they didn't want to. do a new, I think they didn't want to give Twitter another moment to be like, Trump got COVID. They were too happy. Yeah. You know he's like keeping that on the bulletin board. Like all the tweets from when. Oh yeah. I was like, yo. Black Twitter, black Twitter absolutely cooked me. They fucking roasted me. Never again. Don't fucking tell them. Don't tell black Twitter. Don't tell black Twitter. Don't tell black Twitter. I got COVID. Make up something about Space Force. So I look strong. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Say I'm dead. Actually, say I'm dead. I did love on Reddit

Everyone was posting Like their bottles of champagne That they're saving for when it happens The big beautiful obituary Yeah 30 years from now We'll still be waiting I know

The evil ones always live They always His dad lived till 93 Fuck Although his dad wasn't eating McDonald's and shit all day I mean his dad looked like shit Oh yeah yeah His dad looked like a Tim Burton

Character Like a bad guy in a Tim Burton movie. His mom looked like Gary Oldman and Bram Stoker's Dracula. Yeah. That's exactly what his mom

looks like. And they procreated. They made that. Yeah. That's what they want you to think. That story, I don't know if it's real, but the story where he's in the backyard

and like the neighbor left their baby in a playpen in the backyard and they'd come out and like four-year-old Donald Trump is throwing rocks at the baby. Like, it's just in it. He's had it in him from the start. Yeah. All right.

We got another millionaire CEO going viral. But this time, so I mean, part of me was like, you know, the, okay, like, we've talked before, like the CEO at the Coldplay concert went viral. But this time, like, he went viral before we knew he was a CEO. So, like, my thesis that, like, we're in. enjoying these because everybody hates CEOs. Like, it seems like there also might be some CEOs are used to getting away with doing whatever the fuck they want, whenever the fuck they want it. But I think your theory still stands.

Yeah. Yeah. I think this probably picked up some steam once we found out he was the CEO. But also, this is just, this would go viral regardless. Yeah, this would go viral. That's what I'm saying. Well, I guess the CEO thing, I think people wouldn't have piled on so much. It was the hiding that exacerbated the CEO kiss.

The CEO kiss. Yeah, or the cold play. Yeah, if they played it cool. They have a CEO stealing a piece of memorabilia from the outstretched hands of a child. I don't know. Maybe people knew right away, but I'm pretty sure, like, people identified the kid before they found out who this guy was. I want to say there was another incident with baseball. Like some asshole took a baseball from a kid's hand.

Not a CEO that I'm aware of it. It reminded me of that situation because that got pretty viral. At least a few times a season where there's some guy who like a kid like biffs catching a home run ball and a guy like, fuck it, it's mine. And then that's right. Nice try. Asshole. Exactly. So this Polish tennis star who's not ranked, but he had just beat like the ninth ranked player at the U.S. Open was like over giving autographs.

People were super excited. And this guy. So he takes off his hat and just hands it. to this, you know, tow-headed child who reaches out for it, but it gets yoint. Like, literally, you can hear a yoink in the

video from him, like, by the CEO who then just, like, stuffs it, like, does, like, kind of a no look, like, puts it behind his back and, like, stuffs it in his wife's bag to to a degree that I was like, is this, like, is this a criminal? Like, is it, you know what I mean?

Like, is this somebody who, like, because there are these, like, memorabilia grifters who like go and like just re-send money and they send kids to get stuff signed exactly they will send kids to go get stuff signed and then yeah and he yeah it felt like he was like part of a pick pocket crew the way he just like you went to this put it like to his other hand and then like there you go disappeared you know hit it away like put it in his wife's bag and the fact that he was that systematic about it and was a millionaire who apparently he like sponsors that tennis player right like

because, you know, it's expensive and you don't make that much money being an unranked tennis player. So, like, he's connected. He's connected to him. Could probably get a hat any fucking time. Oh, fuck this guy. So much. That's where at first I was like, I can see how he would be like, oh, I sponsored this fucker all the way here and he just beat someone who was ranked. I'm having that hat.

Not to justify it, but I think maybe that was what he thought. I think that's probably what was at least partially going on. Yeah, that I think so entitled. The way that CEOs, anytime somebody who is unhappy at their offices, like, I created your job. Like, I own you. You wouldn't even, like, be here if it wasn't for me. Like, as if they have, you know, like, like God in the painting,

like created this whole thing. Not that it's just a fucking thing that would be happening anyways. Because without you. But yeah, I could see that. that, like, he's like, I made this guy's career. I thought, like, the opposite where, yeah, he's still an asshole taking from a kid, but maybe he just was excited and grabbed it in the moment and didn't realize how much of a dick he was. He grabbed it in a way where the kid didn't even exist because from jump, he's like, well, this shit is mine.

So he grabbed it as if the kid didn't exist, but then he hid it, like he knew what he just did was back. Because the kid is protesting. Yeah. Like, that's a, it's a pretty sad. screens cap where like the kid is just going like this oh sir like my cat and he's like out of here i did this shit i mean this is a pretty fucking bad look for this dude because dude you never no one ever in the history of ever looks good stealing something out of the hands of a child like unless it's like a fucking knife because they're going to hurt himself or something like that i'm sorry this is not this is not

a thing where you're like, and I feel justified, which makes, I mean, I don't know. Miles. Yes. Okay. Okay. Uh, first of all, he has kids too. As the father of children. Okay, hold on.

I didn't know that. I have kids. And he said, I had kids. I was getting it for my kids, dude. So like, yeah, so fuck that kid. But he owns him. If it's my kid. Yeah, yeah.

And I also own this player. So everybody should just be. I have a kid. I own this player. This is my hat. Fuck that little boy. Okay, you guys want anything else? To quote Michael Jordan, fuck them kids.

Fuck them kids, bro. Michael Jordan is allowed to say that because he is Michael Jordan and that competitive drive got us like some of the most entertaining moments in the history of the zeitgeist. When you're a Polish fucking millionaire, a CEO of a paving company, I think people treat you like your Michael Jordan. and but you don't actually outside of that bubble you can't get away with that you can't just like hide the hat away and it becomes okay because everyone just moves past it because you're richer than them and they like want you to keep funding them or like you can't just fade under the bleacher seats to have your affair not have been revealed like that it's just it only works that way in your little CEO rich guy bubble it doesn't work that way Yeah, when the rest of us are watching, you look like an asshole. That's what's so entertaining is like watching these people and like what they normally can just get away with, you know? So he did come out and give the statement that like I was doing it for my kids. He came out late though, man.

Like they had already found that kid and like given him merch the next morning before he came out and made a speech, made a statement. And also there were like three, you know, three. apocryphal statements attributed to him by that time. So he, like, had to come out and give a statement. So I'm just saying, if he was really, like, not guilty and not, like, doing a fucked up thing, I think he would have come out immediately and been like, I'm, guys, I'm so sorry. Like, I didn't see the kid or something like that.

But he really went for the first one being like, sorry, yo, that little hoe was too slow. Yeah. And then people were like... If you were faster, you would have had the hat. I saw that quote. No, that was not really him. That was a fake quote. Yeah, that was a fake quote.

Oh, really? Yeah, yeah. That was like the CEO publishing that. Yeah. No, so that was his, his quote was like, this was like a moment of confusion and it's been very humbling and any statement up to this point was not actually made by him. I don't have like sourcing to specifically say like, and the first statement was definitely not him.

I just know that he has made a statement that has been. That sounds like an apology. Yeah, that sounds like an apology. and that he at least wants that first statement not to be him recognized that that would be a bad look. I like, yeah, because his first one, I would like to unequivocally apologize to the young boy, his family, all the fans, and the player himself. I take full responsibility for my extremely poor judgment and hurtful actions. I got caught up in the heat of the moment and the joy of the victory, mistakenly thinking that my Shrach, the player, was handing the hat to me to give to my sons. Regardless of what I believe was happening, my actions caused hurt to the young boy and disappointed.

of the fans. I like you then said he's going to auction the hat off and then give the money to charity. I just give it to the fucking kid. Because then it's not a tax write off. Exactly. You can't actually put a YouTube video on your taxes. I look, it doesn't work as a tax write off. Damn it.

You actually see this shit a lot. Like people's hunger for memorabilia at sporting events or like any events is, is truly wild. Like, I have seen, when I was at the U.S. Open, like, last week, I did this same thing to a child. Yeah, I just, I, Iismend a baby out of the way and got a, got a onesie, which I can't use, because my kids are too old for it. But it's, it's going to be worth something and, like, the value on eBay.

No, like, I did you tear one of the shirts off the ball boys? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't get that. Mine. What the fuck? I want me. It's like, I don't, I don't know what it is. It's just, it's such a good metaphor for fucking, like, we don't need zombie movies about, like, the evils of capitalism.

Like, just show the fucking jumbotron footage of people when you shoot a t-shirt cannon into the crowd as they, like, scramble and, like, push each other out of the way to, like, like steal a fucking home run ball from a fucking child. I mean, I feel like the urge to get free shit at a sporting event begins to diminish as you get old. Once you start drinking alcohol at a sporting event, once you're at that age, you're like, bro, I don't give a fuck about my t-shirt. That brings you right back, man. The effects of the alcohol bring you right back where you're like, yo, this is very important

to me. I remember almost breaking my neck, like laying fully out for like a t-shirt that was launched in like the LA sports arena at a clipper game when I was like a kid. And over time, I think I have never caught a foul ball. I never caught a home run ball or anything like that. And after a while, like, well, who gives? I don't like, maybe my, I just became frustrated. And I was like, I don't, I'll never get anything.

I don't even care anymore. And maybe that's what happened. The light is gone behind my eyes in terms of getting supreme. My thought is I'd never wear it. Like, yeah, I got it. But it's just going to go in the back and be clothes. You'd wear the baseball. Oh, yeah.

I just tape it to the top of my hand. tape it to the under my chin that's always my fear is that a baseball gets hit to me and I just like get the catch yeah because that is a thing catch it right in the head you know when you

oh you know when you watch like I feel like at any like anytime I go to a Dodger game and there's a fly ball you're like I want to see somebody catch it and then people always groan when some person doesn't bear hand it like seamlessly to like

oh yeah I saw a lady get a hockey puck to the forehead at a Kings game and it was brutal like there's no way I'm going lower on the ice just from that experience

she'll never look the same again no she won't that is a serious injury that is a serious unfixable lifelong injury with a puck a fucking hockey puck that's just like a piece of fucking shrapnel flying through the air it's part of a 45 kilogram lifting plate that got like a weight

plate that they just cut into circles is that right yeah no i mean that's like the density of it just yeah yeah yeah i believe it you're like throw another fucking 45 on they're like there's a bunch of holes cut out they they use the puck hole uh let's take a quick break and we'll come back my boyfriend's professor is way too friendly and now i'm seriously suspicious oh wait a minute sam maybe her boyfriend's just looking for extra credit well dakota it's back to school week on the okay story time podcast So, we'll find out soon.

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A new podcast called Wisecrack, where Stan up comedy and murder takes center stage available now listen to wisecrack on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts what would you do if one bad decision forced you to choose between a maximum security prison or the most brutal boot camp designed to be hell on earth unfortunately for mark lombardo this was the choice he faced he said you are a number a new york state number, and we own you. Shock incarceration, also known as boot camps, are short-term, highly regimented correctional programs that mimic military basic training.

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And we're back. And we're back. And we're back. And look, Vegas is out here fighting for its life. They got fucking mosquitoes. They've got the fact that they're mostly built on gambling and nobody has any money anymore because the economy fucking sucks shit. Hotel rooms cost like, oh, you got money? Rates right now?

Yeah. Although they are doing a lot of giveaways. They're like, please come. We'll give you three meals of chips and a show if you can. I got a couple from Mandalay Bay recently. And I was like, sorry, I didn't even pay. for my stay that one time. It's not worth it.

I'm not Vegas local, but it's just not worth it. I know. It's not really the show. It's really about the shows. And I'm like, every time I hear Vegas talked about in a good light, it would be like

the back street boys thing that happened at like this sphere. That looked dope. Yeah. And I was like, yeah, the sphere is the big thing that is bringing people in.

But by the way, I will just say, like any of the like, you know, great shows and great restaurants is essentially, like if like all great like TV shows and movies were still sponsored by like Marlboro it's just like an addictive thing that they're just like using to you know they're like using their thing to expose people

to an addictive thing that they know will ultimately make them a ton of money but anyways so the sphere yes i saw some wild pictures from that backstreet boys show it sounded like it was super it was like One long, do you follow that account, like, tasteful, like perfect execution, horrible taste or whatever? Oh, you're talking about it on Reddit? Awful taste, but great. Awful taste, great execution. Yeah, yeah. It looked like it was that.

It looked like it was produced by the good people of awful taste, great execution. It was just amazing. There's like a Mount Rushmore. They were like performing on the faces of a Mount Rushmore with their faces carved into it. It was very 90s coded. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, Y2K for the youth. The real way that they're going to make their money back on this giant, I went and saw a nature documentary there.

I thought it was pretty cool. You did? Yeah. When? Yeah, when we went to, like, last Christmas or something? You went to the sphere? Yeah, the Darren Aronofsky nature documentary that he shot specifically for the sphere.

That sounds amazing. That sounds like a lot of fun. fun. It was fun. The kids really had a blast. You lied to me. I did. I thought I told you. He's hurt. He didn't get to go. Yeah. You guys were both in Vegas. I'd be hurt. You said we'd see it together. It's wild, though. Like, you take a video and it looks like you're outside, like with your phone. You take a video, it looks like you're just outside. Oh, it's like that same technology that like they shoot at like the, a lot of the Star Wars stuff on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But anyways, that is like, that's where they're going to make their money. If they can always have, a movie that they're showing that they can charge concert prices for, which is what, you know, I did. I went and saw a nature documentary and paid like fucking concert ticket prices for, but it was a fun thing. My kids were into it.

So their new one is they took the Wizard of Oz and re-formatted it. Re-fucked it? For a screen that was like, you know, a thousand, times bigger and, like, you know, different shaped than they were expecting it to be. And so we were talking about their decision to do this because a lot of how they're doing it is AI, where they're just like, you know, we used AI technology to expand and, like, add details. And we had some theories as to how that might go, specifically, like, when you add AI humans to anything, they, like, don't seem to know where to look.

And they just like nail about soullessly. They figured out the shape of people. But not the behaviors are like, and this shape will leave the door. Yeah, that is true. The hands and then the Will Smith controversy, that video we put out last week. Oh, my God. Where people's faces were still kind of effed up in the back. What a fucking loser move, Will Smith.

I know. That was pretty. Absolute loser behavior. So I do think what happened, we talked about that one. I think what happened there is that they were taking. photographs and animating them into videos. Because when you look at footage of the concert, it was actually sold at. Like, he didn't just add a bunch of people to the thing.

No, but did the people have those signs? You help me beat cancer or something. The signs did look like shit. The signs, I don't know. The signs were like what? For me, it was the signs. It wasn't necessarily like the, I'm like, I don't doubt that he could sell out a crowd somewhere. But it was more just like, these messages were like, thank you so much, Will Smith.

All of my life's ills were corrected by listening. listening to your music and therefore I owe you. It's like, well, it's like, well, he's not a fucking Messiah figure. And so many M-Dashes in the signs. That's so weird. I haven't seen people use M-Dashes on concert signs. So let's talk about the good first because it just debuted.

They finally blow shit at you during the tornado scene. So during, you know, as there's a tornado on screen, there's like a little bit of wind being blown at you. There's, I, what did they just, like, throw a bunch of trash and then turn these fans on? I don't like that you can see the fans that are right here. Yeah, that makes it away. They've got fans at the bottom. I will say they also blow air at you during the Darren Aronofsky nature documentary, and it is the worst part.

It's like, okay, why the fuck is this happening? Was it as intense? Because this looked like they're, no, no, yeah. This looks intense. This looks like they just put, they have a leaf blower for every person in the audience. All the ushers just. Yeah. Yeah.

They're like, why don't it have to be gas powered inside? So again, we're still on the good, by the way. That's one of the things that people are like, that's something. And then during the flying monkeys scene, they have like plastic flying monkeys flying through the thing, but they're just like lifeless things that are moving very slowly. Yeah, this is, it looks like, oh my God. for the amount of money they're spending. Exactly. If they put a little bit more thought in it or just a little bit more work.

Also, it's one of those things, too, I'm like, I wouldn't have like been like, ah, well, I wish I had flying lifeless monkeys around two after I'm seeing something in the sphere. Like the sphere itself, I think it's such a, it's so overwhelming visually to be like, okay, yeah, I get like about eight to nine just little rigid monkey dolls kind of flapping their wings half hard. Yeah, yeah. And I'm sure with the seats, it would be, like, kind of fucked up. Like, in Soren over California, like, if you're on the bottom tier and you can see

people's feet, do you see the wires for the monkeys? Like, it would just detract. Thank you for bringing up for. It's like, I don't know, the whole thing. Like, when you see the flying monkey scene and you see what's on screen with the things coming at you, that's like, oh, that actually looked pretty, like the scale of it, at least is something. But then you see these just, like, dead monkeys.

monkeys flying through the thing, just like with their arms in one position. It just looks like it looks like a mid-tier Halloween decoration. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's the juxtaposition of the frantic nature of the actual scene where the flying monkeys are flying around and the actual Wizard of Oz. And then you just have like these stiff things that are like moving at half speed compared to that. Yeah, yeah.

Get these fucking out of here. All right. So we're done with the good stuff. Those are the things that got the positive. So the New York Times reviewed it, said that the New York Times movie has been considerably edited, losing whole scenes and even songs, like the cowardly lines, if I were King of the Forest. They liken the experience to watching a movie on 1.25 speed.

Oh, God. Another review claimed that it was like Google AI mode summarized the Wizard of Oz for you. It's just like, they're like, yeah, yeah, move it along. And then this happens, and then this happens. what how the fuck I mean like I don't know the Wizard of Oz that well because I've only seen it like a handful of times but like I even know that that's like a song where it's like if I were kidding of the fullest isn't that isn't that that shit yeah yeah they took that shit at that one part I fucking knew I would have been like yo did I am I hallucinating it was that an actual song in this right what the fuck so and then we get to the AI stuff they say the extras stare into space for minutes on and and act in automaton-like loops. So like a Disney ride.

Yeah, this is exactly what we said. Like, I saw one shot where they were like, and you'll see here that like over on the edge, you can see the uncle in this shot, but he wasn't in the original shot. And it shows the uncle, and like they're all talking to Dorothy, who just like woke up and is like,

oh my God, this was crazy. You know, the most wild shit ever. she just woke up from a fucking coma that they thought they'd lost her and he's just in the doorway staring down at his dick like just like looking down or it's just like maybe it's saying something to him maybe he's tripping yeah yeah he's tripping balls like hey uncle henry down here like something's up no shut up not right now uh to bring it back to CEOs I did read that the CEO of MGM and the CEO of the sphere got their faces imposed on two munchkins.

You bet they did. Two of our most hated figures on this show, ironically. David Zazlov and James Dolan. They were like, here's a fun little extra. And it's not even that AI. Yeah, it was blurry

background characters, and they were like, we used the wonders of AI to sharpen their characteristics and put our faces on it. So that's fun. What is fucking... CEOs, man. I can't imagine how people like the Wizard of Oz I know has fucking rabid fans like there is an entire fandom devoted to it and you can see that just with like wicked and everything that like spins off of this like it is such a cultural touchstone to take a 102 minute film in its original form and cut it down to 75 and expect the people who are going to pay good money to see this like do they really think they're being like I thought it was great it didn't have to.

one of my favorite songs in it. There were whole scenes missing, and I had toilet paper blown into my face. It was great. Inadvertently, actually, that was just on somebody's shoe. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I accidentally got kicked up.

They're like, where'd that trash come from? They're like, there wasn't trash in my screening of it. Oh, no. But this is, by the way, the same James Dolan who was, you know, has a blues band who, as the owner of Madison Square Garden, uses his position to have his blues band open for bands like the Eagles. Yeah. Oh, my God.

Yeah, he uses his position of being the CEO, which he inherited from his father, to ruin other people's art is essentially what he does, jamming his face in there. I just want to read some of these excerpts from some of the reviews. The big swooping shot revealing colorful Munchkin Lamb was jittery. The actor's faces are altered, too. Dorothy now appears to have a poor, have poor free skin with drawn on freckles, almost exactly like certain TikTok filters. Wow. This other.

Does she not? So there's no, she doesn't have freckles. So they just let that shit sneak in? I don't remember if she has freckles. She's not country enough. Yeah, yeah. She doesn't look like she's from Kansas. The original wasn't really communicating the way that, uh, what, what we needed to communicate.

this other reporter said, I'm not opposed to it being used on AI. I'm not opposed to it being used responsibly and was prepared to be wowed by the Wizard of Oz. Instead, I found it creepy, applied to over-existing footage in a way that clearly interferes with the

humanity of the underlying performances. Techniques are even more distracting in crowd scenes where unblinking munchkin extras stare into space for minutes on end. Where the citizens of Oz act in autonomaton-like loops, when some AI engine starts to make decisions on behalf of a performer,

it's no surprise, that lands us smack dab in the uncanny Valley. And then you can't move the camera because they're trying to. So it's just like stationary because they're just like using the camera movement to like build out the giant space that you're supposed to be inhabiting. But the nature documentary that I saw like the camera movement was like some of the best stuff. Wow. Oh, so they like to have like just these like locked off shots. So then people are just kind of moving like on a fixed plane on the screen.

Yeah, to adapt the thing that was already happening. Like they just would use any camera movement to like flesh out the 360 view that you're getting and then make it seem. Yeah. Like Dorothy's living room where Uncle Henry leans zombie like against the right hand wall where I where he'd previously stood out of frame. They don't mention for some reason him staring at his own dick, which. is a mistake. Yeah. Damn,

the shit's on a Saturday. It's a $184. Absolutely not. Yeah. Like to see a cinema classic ruined. Yeah. If they actually put care into it, instead of like AI,

they hired actors to flesh it out. Like if they actually tried a little bit, I wouldn't be opposed to it as much. Sure, sure. But all those short cuts. Yeah. Because Wicked 2 comes out, what in two months or something like

that? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think they should, I think as someone who loves Star Wars, I want them to do this to Star Wars just to see how people fucking lose their minds. Like, there were no Asians in Star Wars. And they're going to

be like, what the fuck? Consolo's looking at his dick this whole scene. Vader's just in the corner, like stroking his lights like, wait, what's he doing? Dude, he's pinching his Yes. Okay. It actually reveals what I've always suspected that when I'm not looking at people, they're powered down, like robots.

Oh, thank you. Thank you. Yeah, perfect for my acid. All right. Well, Kim, such a pleasure having you, as always, on the podcast. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? All the big social media platforms, Instagram, Reddit, X, Blue Sky, Facebook, and Patreon for more adult content.

and yeah. Oh, YouTube and TikTok too. I do that stuff. Hell yeah. Is there a work of media that you've been enjoying? Yeah. So the show that I went to last week was actually a comedy show put on by Disney Dan. He's a YouTuber that talks about Disney history and theatrics and costuming, just a perspective of Disney. I haven't really heard before. And I love his stuff. So he's on YouTube, Disney Dan, and he did it with Ed Larson from the last podcast, people. And it was just a great time. So Disney Dan, last podcast, very fun.

Sweet. Amazing. Miles, where can people find you? Is there a working media you've been enjoying? Yeah, find me everywhere at Miles of Gray. Obviously, you can find me here and also talking 90-day fiancé or 20-day fiancé. We will be back because now I have a proper place to record from. Let's see.

Did I like a work of media? Oh, yes, I did. This was talking, you know, a lot of people were talking about the CEO, Hat Snatcher at Andy. DotRustlejoi.com posted. I just saw an article that said, a CEO that stole a hat

from a kid at a tennis event was the most hated man in America. I feel like that's forgetting someone. And yeah, that is the most hated man in America. And that's like, guys, people are like, they're like shipping like funeral homes and the White House to be like, I don't know. Maybe this will work.

Maybe. Ooh, I have one more thing to promote. Yeah. Sorry. Webcomiccon next week, the 12th and 13th of September at the Ferndale Market in Detroit. So a whole bunch of web comic artists are going to be there and it's going to be like, I'm very excited. I'm tongue-tied just thinking about it. Yeah.

So all big ones. What are you going to do? What can people pull up? You got to, you doing signings? Yeah, signings, panels. Everyone's going to have a booth. So like Sarah Scribbles, Beatle Moses, Perry Bible Fellowship, some of the guys from Side Night and Happiness, just a whole bunch of shit.

It's on my Instagram if anyone's interested with more info. There you go. Sounds great. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien on Blue Sky at Jack O'B., the number one. I'm trying to think. What did I watch this weekend? And what did I like? What did I like?

What did I like? Man, the K-pop Demon Hunters really said that soundtrack goes hard. Oh, it does. It's all we listen to. Oh, yeah? You did the sing-along too? We didn't get to the sing-along. I fucked up.

Come into the spear. I took my kids to see Superman this weekend, and it is fine. For them. Yeah, yeah, it was great for them. Not for me. And I will fuck with Superman as a superhero. What about soda pop? Do you like singing soda pop, too?

I do. Okay. A little like whistle thing. It's in my head all that. You can find us on Twitter and Blue Sky at Daily Zike Ice. We're at The Daily Zikeist on Instagram. You can go to the description of this episode wherever you're listening to it. And underneath the show description, you will find the foot notes.

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. Miles, is there a song that you think the people might enjoy? Yeah, well, you know, I don't know if everyone's going to enjoy it, but I surely enjoyed this drum and bass track over the weekend.

It's just light, not too heavy, but it's got, it's ethereal, and I like that. It's called blushing skies, and the artist is Thing, T-H-I-N-G. For my DMB, you know, fans, you'll probably dig it. And if not, try it out, you know, it might make you feel like you're inside of a 90s video game. And that is D.M.B.

Dave Matthews band. All right. Well, we'll link off to that in the footnotes. The Daily Zykeyes is a production of IHeartRadio from our podcast from IHeartRadio. Visit the IHeartRadio Apple podcast or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That is going to do it for us this morning. Back this afternoon to tell you what is trending. And we will talk to you all then.

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