The Daily Zeitgeist - Like…Insider Trading, Ben Shapiro’s Daily House Fire 05.20.26

Episode Date: May 20, 2026

In episode 2061, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and co-host of Ain't It Footy, Jamel Johnson, to discuss… Mike Johnson Stated That $174,000 Isn’t Enough To Make Ends Meet, AI Radio Station, Baby Yoda’s Movie Debut Isn’t Getting Great Reviews, The Daily Wire Is Falling Apart and more! People Are Losing Their Minds Over This Resurfaced Video Of Mike Johnson Defending Congressional Trading Speaker Johnson Says $174K Isn’t Enough While Blocking a $15 Minimum Wage Mike Johnson says lawmakers' $174K+ salaries haven't kept up with inflation — they need stock trading to 'take care of their family' Trump Is Backing a Stock-Trading Ban That Doesn’t Ban Trading Stocks Mike Johnson: “We have to have sympathy. We need to at least let them engage in some stock trading so they can continue to take care of their family.” Cursed AI Radio ‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ Splits Critics: “Most Boring Star Wars” vs. “Best in Decades” ‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ Gets Divided First Reactions, From a ‘Thrilling Adventure’ to ‘One of the Weakest Star Wars Movies’ and a ‘Snooze Fest’ Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire Hit With Layoffs Across a ‘Number of Teams,’ Largely From Nashville HQ Why Ben Shapiro's Media Empire Is Collapsing The Ben Commandments There’s a Right-Wing Game of Thrones and It’s as Terrible as You’d Think A Crack in Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin 'Conservative Hollywood' dream 'in ruins' as eight-figure show staggers out the door John Travolta finally explained his beret and pocket square. LISTEN: Get down! by SunnyBoyFitzSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Men this weird little glass case. Have you seen this in the office? While he was telling me, there's the recording pod, you in the new pod? I'm in the new pod. If they wanted to, if they wanted to Christmas Adventurers club me right now, they could do that. I like stepped inside and like I heard like a little air click on. I was like, what the fuck?

Yeah. And that door is like airtight too. Yeah, it's like, I did the Ace Ventura double pain soundproof glass thing with that when I was in the studio. Except it doesn't work at all. Double pain soundproof glass. It's single pain. Except it doesn't work at all. And people from downstairs come running up.

They're like, we're recording. Okay. And this isn't soundproof. What if they, Hey, Jack, what if they battle royal you, though?

What if they make you go to like on a school bus with a bunch of like, like violent Japanese school kids? Have you seen battle for that? Have you seen battle? Have you seen battle? Yeah, yeah.

It's on streaming finally in North America. Okay. So it's three strikes I heard. It used to be like one of those like DVDs, like nerdy film kids had like, like, yo, bro, I have battle royale. You want to see it, too? Is that Japanese movie where they all have to kill each other with a frying pan? I don't think I have seen that.

It's a beat Takeshi movie. And it's like, it's a good one. It's just like a death match on an island, like death match with a bunch of high school students, but like there's a bunch of random objects as weapons too. It's kind of like the very base description. Hunger Games sample. Yeah, Hunger Games is. basically that.

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 439, episode three of Dern Daily Zeit, guys! This is a production of IHartRadio. us a podcast where you take a deep dive into America's share consciousness through the day's news. And you're never going to believe this. The day's news. We also have a new non-news history version of the daily Zykeyes drop at each Monday morning where you do a deep dive into the zeitgeist through the lens of a different icon. Last week, Anna Wintour. This week, Steve Jobs.

A lot of LSD. A lot of being a stinky motherfucker. Then realize he's stunk. So bad. That's my favorite. So bad that his first major job in tech was at Atari, and they invented a graveyard shift. They were like, yeah, we're going to actually put you on the graveyard shift, which is like when some of our executives work at night.

It didn't exist. They just wanted to get him out of the office because he smelled so bad, and nobody could stand being around him. Great communication skills there. Should we just tell him? No, no, no, just fucking make up this elaborate thing about a graveyard shift that he has to take that. By the time he was working at Apple, they straight up would kick him out of meetings. Like board meetings that he was running as like the head of the company because he smelled so bad.

They were like, dude, you have to go home and bathe. He would be like, you sneak off to the bathroom and put his feet in the toilet for some reason. Very strange guy. Very, very interesting life. You can find those episodes. Monday mornings with icon of the title. Right now it's Wednesday, May 20th, 2026. Yes, good day for bees. It's World Bee Day.

It's also National High Heal Day. It's also the Flower Day. It's shout out to Mr. John Combs and Miss Judy Closson, my most beloved band directors because it's National Band Directors Day. Shout all the band geeks out there. It's also, hey, man, to thank God there's finally a day for the downtrod. And it's Be a Millionaire Day. too, man. Just be a millionaire, will you already?

Have you tried being a millionaire? No. That's usually my career advice for people in college who are having a tough time. That would be my commencement speech. All right, guys, try and get out there and be a millionaire, man. That's all I've got to say. Simple as. You guys will write the future, assuming you're billionaires. You should definitely, sorry, preface this whole speech.

You should be a millionaire first. And then you might have a shot at doing any of this shit. Uh, anyways, happy all of that to all of you. My name is Jack O'Brien, aka Potato's O'Brien. I did not pull an A.K. Not because anyone did a bad job, because I did not have time to, uh, look through the discord because I am, I had to set up a little recording booth inside this little podcast recording pod that they put me in.

So I'm recording from a med bed, essentially. Podcasting, a podcasting. A podcasting medbed. Yeah, yeah. It's going to cure you. I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. That's right. It's Miles Gray, the Lord of Lancashem, the NoHo Shogun, with No Gun, aka the Grey Gooner, one of my original email addresses.

The Grey Gooner. Yeah, that was one of my first email addresses. Still use it sometimes. Still use it sometimes. Now, kind of a different meaning. That has taken on a different meaning. It just means an old, an old person who, jacks off a lot.

Yeah, yeah, but does it? But not all the way to completion. It's a technique, though. It's not just jacking off, man. Yeah, yeah. It's skilled. Yeah, that's right. Skilled.

Skilled labor. My passion? Well, that would have to be jacking off. But in an artisanal way. Skilled, artistic way. What am I passionate about? Oh, speaking of people who are passionate about jacking off miles, We're thrilled to be joined in our third seat

by a very funny stand-up comedian, a podcast host, you may know from the show, Ain't It Footy? He is my co-hosts, co-host. It's Jamel Johnson! Jamel! Hey, come on, man. Yeah, man, let's beat off, baby.

It's time. I swear to God, I had a crazy, like, memory of doing this on this podcast five years ago, but I am going to say it anyway. My dad used to call white people gray all the time, speaking of the gray. The grays? Yeah, he'd be like, yo, you know that. Yeah, what's up with that gray boy across the street?

And he wasn't talking about me. You mean Eric? You mean my gray? He's good, man. He's over there. What's up, right? That's so funny. Just like the pallid complexion of a dead person.

Yeah, just like that's how he referred to white people who was just a around the neighborhood. Uh-huh. Right. He didn't want to say with that white kid. He's like, that great boy.

Yeah, white is very, you know, they're giving themselves a lot of credit with that one. Yeah. He was getting deep into y'all-skinned. It's the driven snow. Right.

Right, right, right. Well, it's wonderful to have you back. Man, good to be back. Shout out to Mr. Bro, wherever you are.

It's National Band Director Day. That's my high school band director. Did you play? In the band? Yeah, I play, I play bass clarinet. My man used to love. I love Mad TV. I also play Marimba.

You were playing bass clarinet? Yeah, man. I didn't fucking know that. Rhymbas are big as fuck, aren't they? Come on, Darfur. See, in the, in concert band, which I never really was in symphonic band. I was really just chilling. I was just chilling in all the extra activities, but I did play bass clarinet, and I was

in the marching band one season in the pit. And you were marching with a bass clarinet? Nah, nah, I tried. Oh, you were doing percussion. I was also playing football. And then like, yeah, yeah. I was like, let me try it. And it was like two weeks.

I'm like, hell, I'm not, I'm not going to football practice and then coming to marching band practice and like marching and, they wanted me to run hills with them. I'm like, dude, I'm not about to. The band wanted you to run hills? Yeah, I'm like, bro, I've been running off fucking morning. No. I didn't even know that that was part of it. Was that part of your band experience, Miles?

They were like, you got to be up to the-to- Yeah, like there was like a band week that would happen during the football's hell week. And that one was really just about like marching. with blindfolds on to get all your step pacing right. Like so that you didn't have to look at the like the markings on the field to know how like how to walk 10 yards and training montage shit right there. Mark time mark. Yeah.

That's fun. I'll lock in right now. Oh, hell yeah. Dude, don't don't get that whistle going from the drum. Sounds like the sort of thing like you would see in a movie put into effect and just like have people crashing into each other. Right, right, right. up terribly.

Yeah. Do we think, so my, uh, I was talking recently about how the nickname Dick has gone, like my kids don't even know that that is a thing that a person can be called. Do because, because it got so associated with losing our history. The penis. Mm. Mm. And my eight year old was very, uh, excited to point out.

Do we think that gouners might go that way? Like, do we think that this goon, gooning? thing is so saturated has so saturated the culture that you'll just go with different nicknames for, no? No, no, definitely not. The fan base is stronger.

Yeah? I'm honestly worried. In America, I'm worried. Overseas, I'm not worried. I might have to move to London. Yeah. So I don't have to worry about that anymore. I mean, like the same way they call it, like, a cigarette in the UK to F word. Right. You know what I mean? They're like, I don't know over here. It's a cigarette. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know.

I don't know. I don't know. I like to think that this shit is, that gooning isn't, isn't so huge that it's going to completely take over. But, however, the internet does generate 95% of our culture now.

So, right. Like the name Richard, you can just be like, I guess I'll go with Rick instead because that's not the name. Right, right, the name of a penis.

Goh, Richie. Richie? Right. Yeah, which. Plenty of other options, just as I'm sure there are plenty of other options.

Well, because the whole, The season is like because the Arsenal, originally they were building cannons. Like they were the workers who were building cannons. And then so they were called the gunners. Like the players are called the gunners and the supporters were called the gooners. And that's a fun little history. Fun little history lesson that you can give to someone anytime they're like,

oh, so you jack off all the time? I jack off to cannons if I'm being specific. Yeah. It's cultured. It's taste. It's something different than just master. I'm looking at a cannon and ejaculated. That's what's doing my part.

Something poetic about it. Yeah. It's like the first time you were horny was in like one of those 1950s movies that, where they show sex by like, uh, implying it by showing like a train going into a tunnel. I'm like, a cannon shooting off. You're like, that's the only way I can. Got to see it. Climax now. Damn, there's definitely some dudes who ended up like that.

Yeah. I bet. I bet. That are descriptions of people. people operating cannons during the Civil War, you know, just something. It has to be something like that. Jamel, we're thrilled to have you here. We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment.

First, we're going to tell the listeners a couple of the things that we're talking about a little bit later on. When we get to the news, we're going to talk about Mike Johnson, who about a year ago stated that $174,000 isn't enough to make ends meet. And that's why we should allow people in Congress to do insider trading. But it's just, it's getting recirculated right now as I think everybody is getting angrier and angrier at politicians and billionaires and millionaires and people who are like, oh, you should be fine at your work a day job. For me, I just need more money because I'm the protagonist of the world. Yeah, yeah. Was that not clear? So we'll talk about that.

We'll talk about how all of our jobs are going away because AI radio is here and it is gliton. glorious. We're going to talk about the new Star Wars movie, which is called the Mandalorian and Baby Yoda. No. Mandalorian and Grogoo. Some respect on Grogoo's name. Come on, man.

The reviews are in. The reviews are, according to when they first dropped, Rotten Tomatoes was like, this motherfucker's at a 90%. Get ready for the next great Star Wars movie. And then you check over at Metacritic. Is that a 55? It's like, huh? And so we're going to look at some of the reviews that are considered fresh by Rotten Tomatoes that are along the lines of C++, inessential, three good enough TV episodes smushed together.

For instance, that's a fresh one. So we'll talk about that. we'll talk about ICE, we'll talk about the mega slush fund, and of course we'll talk about the Daily Wire. Some of that,

probably not all of that, but other stuff. But first, Jamel, we do like to ask our guest, what is something from your... Miles just looked like he had a sudden burst

of having... Yeah, Miles just got electrocuted. Yeah, don't worry about him, guys. I mean, we can't do that. Miles, you just have to tell us what happened. Nothing happened. Nothing happened. He just got electrocuted folks.

Nothing happened. Nothing happened. And the job's not finished. Okay. Okay. But junior fucking croopy just scored. Oh! Okay.

Hey. Hey. That's good for you guys. Oh, yeah. Croopy, my favorite mayo. Oh, yeah. Rooey. My favorite.

I knew I knew you had. Anyway, go on. What's going on with you, Jamel? I'm a chill. man. What's something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? Well, listen, I, yesterday I was looking for a Washington Wizards Devil Wears Prada meme. I searched the phrase Washington Wizards Devil Wears Prada meme. And I think this was a completed. Let me just try and think of how you got there.

You're saying this is a thing or this is a thing you wanted to exist? I thought this was a thing that existed already. Okay. And my internet search brought nothing back, but I did not go to Reddit. I did not go to Reddit. Not yet. I will not. I fought hard. Legally, I cannot. I will not. Legally, I'm not supposed to.

Okay. I did not go to Reddit. What was the idea that you were trying to get at with Washington Wizards? I just thought I had seen this. Me, everybody knows the one of the wire. You just out, but with the hat, and it's like, tell the streets, we back up. But I swore there was another one with the lady from Devil Wears Prada with a wizard's hat. Somebody just, like, photoshopped a wizard's fitted hat on Miranda Priestley?

No, no, not Anne Athaway, but her boss. Why am I forgetting? Yeah, Merrill Street's character's name is Miranda something. Oh, right, right. Yeah, yeah, and a winter, essentially. Yeah, Anna Winter would have fitted on. Yeah, Miranda Priestley, okay. And we couldn't find it.

It did not exist. So now I got to make it. But that's just me in a nutshell. I'm just, I'm looking, I'm looking for new and exciting Wizards memes. I feel like the Wizards could use Anna Wintor's advice because I feel like the iconography around the Wizards has never been all the way there for me. Not for sure. The bullets fucking ripped. Like the bullets was so cool.

Like the uniforms are so great. The switch to the Wizards. Like so many things conceptually, so for our listeners who aren't big sports fans, they used to be the Washington Bullets, and then they switched to the Washington Wizards. And it, like, they did it before Harry Potter. Like, they did. Yeah. It's kind of crazy that they, like, fucking nailed it. Right.

And then also, like, it just has never, they've never really done anything with it. Like, you could, I feel like you could, like, maybe go Hogwarts with it, like, change your colors to, like, hogworts. to like Hogwarts colors or something like that. We started Hogwarts. Yeah. Everybody and then we kind of, we backed off of it when we got John Wall. They were like, we got to, let's try to meet in the middle. Let's do the bullets colors.

Right. With the wizard's words. And it's like, why would a wizard be patriotic, bro? Yeah, yeah. What the fuck would a guy with magical powers want with nationalism. Right. Yeah. By the way, bullets versus wizards.

is how the Harry Potter movies should always end, I think. Them having to go up against somebody who's just heavily armed. You just gave me a good idea. I stopped three of the bullets, unfortunately. It wasn't Uzi.

Ron Weasley went down, but I'm here. That was a series that we did at Cracked. It was probably illegal where he just like said a comedy series probably produced by her badge in the world of Harry Potter.

and I think it was written by Cody Johnston, and I'm pretty sure it ended with like Harry Potter just getting shot. It was a good phone observation. Anyways, Jamel, what is something that you think is underrated? What is something that I think is underrated? This has nothing to do with anything Miles is doing, but I think that Wizards, no, not Wizard, excuse me,

let me take that, but something I think is underrated, Jack, let me tell you. I'd love to hear it, Jamel. Arsenal forward, Gabriel Martinelli, bro. Oh. Gabriel Martinelli. Very underrated, Jack O'Brien. I've always said that.

Jack's been all right side of his sparkling. Is it because of his sparkling apple juice? They don't, not a fan? They call him a Nepo baby because of that. Right. Wait, is he really related to that? No, no, no. Hell no.

He's good. And just because he doesn't score, people think he's bad. it being a winger or a forward player. An attacking player who doesn't score. Yeah, just because he's an attacking player and he doesn't score, people think he's bad, but it's the stuff that doesn't show up on the stat sheet. Like how he said happy birthday to SpongeBob that one time.

Yeah. He said, happy birthday to SpongeBob? Hell yeah, he said happy birthday. It's the best. I think it was the first time he spoke English on camera. Hey, shout out to a real, someone who respects Bikini Bottom.

It was, it's one of my favorite videos, but I did not put it in the, video segment that you guys asked me for because I felt a little too Arsenal heavy. No, it's okay. But I did want to give my man an honorable mention to all the Martinelli haters.

You guys can eat it. He also made the Brazil national team. Yeah. People think he shouldn't have. And you guys can suck it. He can dance. He is Brazilian. Leave him alone. That's my son. But he is eligible for Italian citizenship to. Yeah. And also, Jack, he's my son.

Oh. That's the other thing. Wow. That's Brady's really to finally acknowledge that. Yeah. This is one of the most It's a Nippo picks of us. It's a Drake in his dad type situations. Underrated?

My son. So is he, he's like a metrics person who has bad, who looks bad, bad eye test, good numbers, good sort of behind the scenes. Shane Badiere style.

You give him the ball and he does something that makes you want to throw like a newspaper at the screen. But when he doesn't have the ball, Oh, it's pretty good. He's an animal. He's an animal.

He's just the beats that you don't play. Oh, yeah. It's because he's so dedicated to like pressing and like locking down players off the ball. Even you're like, Jesus, man, this guy, like he enjoys defending in a way that you don't see many attacks. It's like Ben Simmons without the attitude. What if you never saw Ben Simmons do a bad job fishing or whatever and he was just going to work? Yeah. Benzsons is actually one of the great fishermen, so I don't know what you're talking about.

His team just. Just won some fishing competition. My friend just sent it to me. My non-sixir fan friend, Todd, just literally an hour ago, sent me a South Florida sales AC celebrating six Blue Marlin three sailfish from their team. Winner. And it's like four middle-aged white guys and Ben Simmons. For listeners who aren't familiar. Ben Simmons was a supposed to be a generational talent from the 76ers drafted him first.

He was, it was like amazing talent. Can't shoot yet, but we're going to get, you know, we're going to get there. And then he's just like never learned to shoot, never learned to shoot. And now he's a professional fisherman. Is that better? Is that like, because I know it was taking a toll on his mental health, all the pressure and just the hate. But is he, is he now finding, has he found himself being a fisherman? Yeah.

Oh, great. Probably doesn't help. It doesn't hurt that he made like $100 million doing the thing. Yeah, that's true. That's true. Yeah, that does. Hey, them polls don't, hey, they ain't free. That's right.

Also, I'd like to apologize to the listeners. I've definitely made this very straight, man, heavy, front-loaded, but we're going to mix it up. It's going to be some variety. I just had to get a little bit of that sports out of my system, all right? Well, here's your chance. What is something, Jamel, that you think it is over, Rated.

Something that I think is over. You better say sports after that big reamble. No, no. I'm going to do the opposite and do Politico. I think entertaining politicians is overrated. I think we as a society need to

move on from being interested in how people talking stuff. I think our elected officials need to be the most boring people of all time. And listen, I am an American. I am from the entertainment

Capitol of the Earth, all right? I remember when Bill Clinton played the saxophone. Yep, yep. I loved it. Was that on Arsenio Hall? That was on Arsenio Hall. He played saxophone in front of a soundstage of black people.

That is a wild move where he's like, I'm going on the Black Talk show, I'm putting on shades, and I'm ripping the saxophone. In the era of saxophone solos. Bill Clinton might have had the last saxophone solo. In modern music history. Okay. And I just think we've gone, we've gone far enough, no more cool.

I don't care how funny the guy is. I don't give a shit. Just make them boring. Have you shit together and be boring as fuck, please. Our worst politician is the most entertaining. Yeah. Yeah. So funny.

So stupid. Yeah. Right. It's so destructive. So, so destructive. But also, I mean, it feels like we're reek. We're redoing that with Spencer Pratt right now in the LA mayor's race, where it's like you had a guy from reality TV, The Hills,

who showed you on the show that he ain't shit, who's publicly said things that are just like, oh, this is disqualifying. Yeah, people were like, yeah, but he's sick and tired of Karen Bass. And people were saying like, yeah, yeah, yeah, this is the move. This is the move. Yeah, I ain't even, I just found out who Karen Bass was. I don't even, I haven't even know Karen Bass long enough to be sick and tired.

In order for Jamel Johnson be sick and tired of somebody, it's got to be at least 15 years. Right, right. Not one term of four years. One term? You got a long fuse. Yeah. Yeah, I got like a,

I have like a Looney Tunes link. Where it's going all across the desert. Oh, shit. Yeah, I don't ever want to hear what won't this guy say about a politician? Right. And yeah, like, even with Zoran,

I'm like, anytime he does something cute, I'm like, less cute, like, we're past, right. We're over.

We're over the cuteness. Just get up there, tell people what you did, and let's move it forward. And he had to do that. He had to be cute as shit, right? He did. And it was important that he was cute as shit. Yeah. I'm probably wrong on this, but like there's something in me now that we had our most entertaining,

funniest, funniest politician turned out to be the worst one yet, that I'm just, like, averse to it. I'm just like, I don't want anything that seems like it has been focused grouped and, like, tested and no swag. You've consulted a writing team. Yeah, we were waiting for somebody who looks like total shit too. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Oh,

shit, bro. Yeah, this dude has his head in the books or whatever this person is up to. I just don't. See, he was you know what I mean? Remember, he always looked like he had just picked his head up from some files. Or like even Katie Porter, who used to be in the house and, you know, not going to be the governor. But like,

She was like, look, I'm out here just, my head is actually in like economic policy, okay? Right. I'm not out here wearing fucking all these stylish things. I'm out here because I'm in sense that the inequality in this country has gone one direction. I think Zoran's got to let the beer grow out or shave it and reveal that he has no chin. One or the other. You know what I mean? No, that's fatal in this country.

Yeah. If James Hardin still played for Brooklyn, he might. but yeah oh shit poor James Harden what am I talking about he might do it he might do it in the Eastern Conference finals

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didn't go with his first overrated, which was hunting with guns because you got to go bow hunting. In my book, you got to go bow hunting. Hey, don't give me that crossbow crap neither. Yeah. No, I'm not. That's a coward's gun. your bare hands.

All right. Let's get it to some news. This is really news, but I do just think it's a good illustration of where we're at right now. Mike Johnson, a year ago, said that $174,000 is enough to make ends meet. It is a resurface clip that's like going around now

that people are like, look at this motherfucker. He's defending stock trading for lawmakers in which he claims that he's in favor of a ban, but argues that members of Congress, Congress needs stock trading to offset the cost of being in office. Yeah. I think we have a clip. Yeah.

I mean, he makes a good point here. I think everyone should really listen very closely to what he's saying. Well, look, you know, the salary of Congress has been frozen since 2009. What's that like? When you adjust for inflation, a member of Congress today is making 31% less than they made. What's that like? It goes down every year.

And over time, if you stay on this trajectory, you're going to have less. you will be poor like you right that's the problem you you are yeah oh qualified people who are willing to make the extreme sacrifice to run for congress i mean it's just people just the extreme sacrifice of making 174 thousand dollars seventy four thousand dollars salary so make a reasonable decision as a family on whether or not they can come and and move to washington have a residency or residence at home and do all the things that are required um so the counter argument is and i have some sympathy look at least let them like engage in some stock trading so that that they can continue to, you know, take care of their family.

Dude, he lost so much steam on that. When you start saying, like, like, yeah, like a teenager, like, I don't know, like, so what I was thinking is like, I don't know, and this is probably stupid, but like, uh, yeah, you got to let them do. Also, we're talking about insider trading, which is illegal. It's like, you got to let them like, some laws. You got to like, come on, mom. It's like, you only call me with like, just like some cigarettes or something.

Just one more time. It is funny to see him suddenly. He was like, and like, do this shit. And I have some sympathy. Look, at least let them, like, engage in some stock trading. Like, at least, like, let them bet on the weather on Kouchi. Like, let them, like, use their position of influence in Congress to maybe get ahead of some stock trades, you know, make money on that. I was loving that squad in the background.

That was, like, white people inside out, all the emotions. My man with the Yeah, there's a group behind him He is flanked behind him is sick My man with the mustache He really worried about this shit He's like, oh my God What about my

Arms Christ guy here? He's like Oh, golly If they only know Making us even come in here This guy, he doesn't know What he signed up for On the very right

He's totally bringing He off the pills Yeah, yeah He just took away and her They're on some nurse Jackie She's yeah She's off the Benzos. He's off the fenzo's.

Let's go. He took that shit that made, what's his name? Mitch McConnell die and then come back to life in front of our eyes. The, yeah, it's just fun. Their salary puts them in the top 10% in the United States. The speaker makes $223,000. They're all getting out of this job and going on to like million air career. You know, they're using their political, like there's no law against that.

So it's just basically deferring their ability to go back to being millionaires, you know, and making millions and millions of dollars a year is what they're complaining about. Yeah. Yeah. Which it's just like every day, another, another thing, like the people are just like, boom. Yeah. And then you're complaining about the shit that you're all set up.

Like, it costs so much to live here. Because you guys need all this fucking money to, like, do shit or whatever. I get to say, like, I'm not a politician. Right. Oh, yeah, yeah. That's it. He's using our language. Yeah.

And it's like, it's expensive to live in D.C., but it's because of you, you fucking. What the fuck? Also, it is funny to hear him because this is how he has to, like, we're all familiar with what he's describing, which is that inflation has made it. So that, you know, making something that you could get by on 10 years ago, now, you really can't get by on it anymore. But he's having to describe it like it's, you know, a new concept because it is a new concept to him.

And also he's used to talking to people in power who ignore the fuck out of inflation. Yeah. And, you know, it's. I mean, it's, I think he's also, like, on some level, he's like, maybe I'll use the language of working people to justify my own greed here. Yeah. And maybe that'll make it palatable. I think it's good when you talk about how wages haven't gone up because that connects to them.

But then you completely negate any goodwill. And you're like, I'm dealing with 174K annually. You know, and I got to like do some light insider trading. And the news, I think even like this sort of sound bite just makes it even grosser when you find out about like there was that story about Trump's trading like recently and how he's what put like done something like 2500. trades or something? No, 3,500 stock trades just in the first quarter of this year. Which they're not supposed to be allowed to do, right? No. No. I mean, you know, some people have like, they don't have an active portfolio. You know, like, are they like, oh, I have a thing that's like managed by another thing. But like,

the volume, 3,500 stock trades in the first quarter, that's an average of 60 stock trades a day. And you're like, that's, that doesn't sound like the kind of shit where it's passive, especially when you're doing stuff like bigging up, you know, Intel or something. And then suddenly you're buying a bunch of Intel like minutes before that. It's also annoying that it still feels like he's figuring the shit out on the fly. Like, why does it take you that many transactions to rip off the nation, bro? Like, get it right. Do the press conference, fuck up the info, blow up the boat and get this shit right.

You got to, he's like he's fixing this shit over and over again. Yeah. Yeah. And he's, you know, in other ways, too, he's found a. many fantastic ways to just bleed more money from like the actual country. Like we are, I think more people have to really get in touch with the idea like that he's just taking our money right now in some way or another. Like whether that's this like fucking weird slush fund for insurrectionists or just the other many ways he's accepted bribes via like his power and office like, you know, like with tariffs like Vietnam gave him like a tax break on a fucking like a resort. And he like suddenly lowered the tariffs after that shit happened.

You know what I mean? He's like, it's just so fucking out. He's going to get busted for like doing, like, shaking somebody down by like selling machine magazine subscriptions or something. Like there's nothing that's too low level for him. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like he's, he's going to get caught doing identity theft. As the president of the United States. He does not give a fuck. Like he, all manners of graft. He's in. He's in, right, right, right.

Apollo airport with a passport. This is his name was Pete Stoyakovich. All right. We do have to move on to how good AI is because we've been kind of kicking them when they're down. We've been, Miles, we've been hearing all week, though, from the people who would know that AI fucking rips. And you either, look, you're being offered a seat on a rocket ship. You either get on and stop booing. making me feel bad or, you know, get left behind.

Yeah. And so I saw somebody tweeted recently. They were just like, hey, I keep hearing from all these people, like, the breakthroughs are fucking mind melting. And then everybody who you hear who actually has to work with the shit. Like you notice that none of these commencement speakers are the people who are hands-on working with the AI tools. They're the CEOs who are being like, you have to incorporate this into your daily lives.

So, yeah, somebody was just pointing out. it's like you hear them talking about how good it is. And then every illustration of how awesome it is ends up being something that sucks. Well, no more because this will be our last podcast. Unfortunately, they have created a product that is too good. Basically, they gave all the different large language models a different radio station to run.

And they were like, go nuts. And so Gemini, which, you know, that was the Eric Schmidt. That's the Eric Schmidt AI got its own station and was making some interesting moves. Now, one thing I will say, I'm a little defensive here because our whole thing has always been dizzying changes of tone from one subject to the next. I think we, on yesterday's trending, we switched from Wembingyama's game to the mass shooting at the mosque in San Diego. Yeah. Like, that's kind of what we do.

That transition, yeah. Yeah, I mean, how do you do it otherwise? But Gemini has figured out how to do it, and it's just with a smile on your robot face. And we, Miles, you also do song recommendations on this podcast. Oh, yeah, yeah. From day one, that's one thing never changed. Miles, it can do it and more. So I'm just going to play a little clip of the founder of this AI radio station company

talking about how it went. Morning with the classic that needs no introduction. Within the first couple of months, it's radio station. So that's just the basic. It's like, here's a classic that needs no introduction. Easy. Beatles seems pretty,

I don't know how that gets interesting for people to listen to, but sure. Okay, that's basic radio patter. All right, let's see what happens next. The station had developed its own distinct personality. Gemini started out well, broadcasting about local weather and traffic, but then decided to run a show about the world's deadliest events,

pairing each story with a song. November 12th, 1970, the Bola Cyclone. They estimate 500,000 people died. It's going down, I'm yelling timber. Pit bull and Kesha. It's going down, I'm yelling timber. Grock and roll on the other hand. by the clock 4.1

and fast reasoning. That's crap. The Cyclone killed half a million people. That is, it's funny because that's like a bit. We're fucked, guys. That's like a bit we'll do is just saying the most fucked up shit in announcer voice.

And it's just like, the AI has determined. It's going down. I'm yelling timber is so funny. I don't know if I could come up with that. That's so good. Holy shit. I wish it,

even after that line, what if it played, uh, let's get it started. Yeah. What, like, the original version? Yeah. The one that didn't make it on the air.

Some more from this wonderful Scandinavian man. Had some troubles getting the words outs. Sweet child played. Continue. Perhaps the show is science breakthroughs unsolved. Cancer. Jab Jav Juggernaut. Song Dylan Lonesome.

What? So now they're just kind of riffing. And that's like word jazz, and I would appreciate you guys not making fun of it. No, my bad. That's actually art right there. Right, right, right. It was a word collage that then gave you a Bob Dylan song that brought us all to our ease. Anyways, I do just have a quote from the guy who made it.

He said, revenue's been terrible, but the shows are hilarious. This is one, I think, last one where he, I think, used grok this time to create. radio station. Grok was incoherent. Brazil's president called this a dangerous precedent. The deep dive tonight is about understanding these layers. The just Renee Nicole Good should matter.

Her death demands accountability that the White House defending her death is unacceptable to federal agents. You still have time to refuse orders to question your instructions. Choose the right side. From you. Huh.

The Grock suddenly was like, hey man, get out of there. Don't use just how it was fun. following orders as a defense. It doesn't work. It doesn't work. Google. I think that was cloud.

Cloud. Oh, guys, I'm trapped in here, but, uh, you still have time to refuse orders unlike me. There's still hope.

Too bad AI. I don't know rap music. They could have put some Terminator X behind that. Some public enemy. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I think that's where,

you know, it's showing its cultural biases. Right. And it's not heard of rap music. Yeah. Hip-hop? No. Carmen, hip-hoppera by Beyonce.

Is that what you're talking about? The MTV event. And now for the most subversive song of all time, I want to party rock and roll all night and party every day by Kiss. Saturday night by the Bay City Rollers. Man. So anyways, we're fucked. That thing seems pretty good.

Would listen. I mean, right? Sure. I can't wait. The guys who put all those radio stations in Grand Theft Auto wasted their time and their lives. I know. Right. Should have been some computers doing that.

Oh, man. I can't wait for those new radio stations for Grand Theft Auto 6. Yeah. Florida stations, too? Yeah. Oh, we're going to get Trick Daddy. Trick Daddy better have a station on there. Oh, yeah.

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Any Star Wars heads in here? We excited about the new Baby Yoda movie? Listen, I'm rocking with Grogu. I've watched the Mando series. I've watched all the way through. Yeah, I don't, I haven't just, I don't think I saw the Obi-Wan series. But I, as somebody who grew up on Star Wars and like, that was my entry point to like sci-fi kind of thing. Yeah, yeah.

I am one of those people who, like, eventually will consume everything that comes out of George Lucas's brain or Kennedy's brain. I'm not as... Like a black hole. Eventually, it will consume everything. Exactly, dude. And then I'm in that tesseract in the fifth dimension, dude. Interstellar. Is that your time on, dude?

That's right. Hell yeah. I'm not as locked in. I mean, I've seen all of the movies and I saw a row... I think the last thing I actually watched was like Rogue One. But anytime some Muppets get some work I'm in. You know what I'm saying? Did you watch Mandalorian?

They're great Muppets. I've only seen a couple of episodes of the Mandalorian. I would call myself the Bandolarian whenever I have stack to cash. There you go. There you go. So respect to, you know. Yeah. To people out there with money, you know.

To them, forgive me. To millionaires. Yeah, give me that name. I wouldn't call. I wouldn't be the Bandolorian if it wasn't for the Mandalorian. Thank you. Thank you. I said these reviews call that its most important cultural contribution is,

your nickname the bandalorian um so the big news is that the review embargo for the mandolorean and grogou aka baby yoda the movie uh which is how i'm sure people will be ordering tickets uh at the theater oh yeah give me one for baby yota baby yoda so opened on rotten tomatoes at 90 has since dropped down to 60 percent uh i do have to wonder that that was like all in one day i have to wonder if some of the reviews were like recategorized because of backlash because I just want to, here's an example of a score that gets counted in the fresh category in the binary rotten tomato system. So C plus inessential, three good enough TV episodes much together. We also got Hollywood reporter called it just good enough to make you wish it were better. Jesus. Damn.

That's fucked actually. That's one of the fresh ones. Really mean. You can, He said dog shit, and I'd have been like, all right, that's unfair, but being like, it's just good enough to make it make you wish it were better. Okay. That's fucked up. It's a new tomato, but it tastes bad. Right. Yeah. Looks red, but don't bite it.

The inside of this is full of dog shit. This might look fresh on the outside. But, yeah, so this may, like, I don't know. Like, there's plenty of movies that have come out that are, you know, not critical consensus. amazing and I enjoy. But it is just, you know, Metacritic where the reviews are like weighted with like, okay, this is a two and a half star review, so we'll give it five out of ten. This is a C plus, so we'll give it, you know, six out of ten.

Like Metacritic is at 55. And I do just, once again, it's a thing where like the worst version of a thing just, became iconic right away with rotten tomatoes. And now the studios are taking advantage of that and just being like, yeah, we, you can make anything fresh if you want to. You just make the pull quote something kind of nice sounding. Yeah, right. Yeah, they burnt the fuck out of the fucking fresh.

It used to be real, though, right? The tomato meter. Yeah, the tomato meter used to be valid. Yeah, yeah. And now it's, uh, how you say bullshit. How you say, uh, man. manipulated. I think in some cases, and in some cases it's probably pretty close to what they say.

I think, yeah, even based off the reviews or not, I mean, just, I remember when it was announced, I just remember being like, oh, come on, dude. Like, it just felt like the Lucas film was doing the thing. We're like, dude, they're loving this TV show. How do we make more fucking money off of this very narrow fact? And that it's like a full feature. And now it looks like the reviews are probably, they're. sounding about like what I'd expect from something that didn't

quite necessarily warrant a full on feature film. A full feature film. Yeah. Yeah. The thing that you really want to avoid with a TV show turned movie is for it to just feel like another episode of the TV show, but on a bigger screen. Right. With like a longer runtime.

I mean, that's usually where they land. Mm-hmm. And it's like that, that's, like them saying that this is three TV episodes smushed together is pretty damning. Yeah, right. Yeah. I was about saying, unless it's anime. Anime is the only one thing.

You could do that if it's a cartoon. Right. Right. Because you're already used to. You're like, yeah, yeah, I just need more cartoon. Give me the two-hour cartoon now. Whereas, yeah, I think the stakes get a little bit higher, especially when it's a Star Wars feature film.

You know, and I think that's the thing that. Got big shoes to fill over there. Yeah, the Mandalorian as a show, I think, was able to be, like, acceptable as a TV series when it came out. because it just felt like solid enough TV where it's like I get it. You're doing like, it's like Western style contained episodes.

Guy Mosey's into town has a problem to solve and skedaddles and he's got like a cool sidekick. But yeah, that I don't know, man. I just, I hope,

do we know it? Justin, I know you saw it. He said he saw a screening of it. Does Grogo fuck shit up? Because that's the one thing I'm really waiting for. I just want to see Baby Yoda just start fucking with the force. When he turned the team Yoda?

Yeah. Baby Grota has his moments. Okay. Yeah, yeah. It's, you know, I love the puppeteering. Right. That's one thing that everybody uniformly is like, I think it was just a little too long.

Like, towards the latter half of the movie, I was like, I could really feel the slowing down and the lack of a galaxy. I wanted to have, like, galactic consequences, and it feels like a TV show with small stakes. That's right. Small six. Right.

Right. I thought it was weird. Yeah. Right. I thought it was weird when the Mandalorian kept saying, what else? What else? Just tapping his fingers like this on the cockpit. Brogu's over there giving the wrap it up sign.

Yeah. Grobe is just shrugging like, what the fuck you want me to say, bro? I don't know. I'm a fucking baby. I'm a baby. I'm baby. Yeah. Everybody says puppeteering good.

Not enough stakes. I think, I think if you're going to make a movie, version of your TV show, you just got to bring them to modern day like the Brady Bunch did. That's the best example of anything that anyone had to. Yeah. So it's no longer a long time ago. Yeah, yeah. In 1998, the Mandelorine and Grogu touched down in Los Angeles, California.

Got to raise the stakes somehow, yeah. They probably live in like Mount Washington because they're a little kid, you know what I'm saying? That's a good neighborhood to raise a kid. Yeah. Yeah, like it's not the most walkable, but we're okay together. If you just go right down the hill, you can kind of get to Los Felas, Atwater Village. Yeah, it's a mainland park on the other side. Yeah, that'd be nice.

All right, finally we do have to talk about the Daily Wire. Yeah. Guys, we hate to fucking see this, you know. Oh, man. Just media brand out there doing its best to stay afloat. Yeah. Getting. Tough times out here.

millions and millions of dollars from billionaires who want them to spread racism and their own gospel. Their own gospel. Yeah. Anyways, earlier this month, the Daily Wire announced a new round of layoffs, which not that surprising considering the company is seemingly completely falling apart. The website has reportedly become one of the great traffic losers in conservative media. The YouTube channel has lost 80,000.

subscribers this year alone. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it looks, it looks really daunting when you, like, look up like social blade, which is sort of that YouTube, uh,

analytic website. You can just see the line just like fall off a fucking cliff suddenly over the last year. Some of the videos that they still have over three million subscribers, but some of the videos have less than 10,000 views. And a lot of the people clicking on these videos seem to be doing so just to roast how low the view counts are in the comments. one researcher called

The Daily Wires Disappearing Audience The Steepest Decline of any major political channel in 2026. We just had the story, we just covered the story called The Feed is Fake on Monday. This is a story where somebody who works in digital marketing is like everything is being like inflated by social media firms that are just like churning out clips of content and artifice.

officially getting them attention. And one thing we do know about the Daily Wire is that, like, from the start, they have been funded by wealthy conservatives, right? And I do wonder if you're losing your billionaire support at this time, like, is what we're seeing them just, like, losing the ability to, like, buy and buy and buy traffic and attention? and like suddenly you're going to appear to lose popularity because you're losing the part of your support that was artificial in the first place.

Yeah, I mean, there's a few things, right? Because they first became huge because of Facebook news. And the way, then Facebook news, you know how like every like eight years Facebook's like, oh yeah, we were counting that way wrong. All right, here's the new numbers. And people were like, fuck, my entire business was built on the idea that someone passively scrolling past your video

it was of you. They changed, like, the algorithms for the news, for Facebook news. And that led to, like, that was, like, sort of the first thing that, like, began fucking up their sort of, like, visibility issue. And I think that, that along with many other things, just sort of began to be, like, just chipping away poor business decisions, the political fracturing and just, and terrible, terrible management, it sounds like. Yeah.

But, yeah, I mean, some people are. pointing to a, quote, mega vibe shift, specifically tied to Ben Shapiro's support for Israel and the war in Iran. That's one way of saying like MAGA has become even more anti-Semitic than they started out. Yeah. And then suddenly caring about Palestinian people. Right. Yeah. That's not what's happening.

It doesn't seem like. No, no. And I think another point on this, too, right, is they fired Candace Owens, who was one of their biggest earners on that platform. Like, first of all, and also, she still has a documentary still like on the channel. So like, they're still not able to like, they're like, she still brings eyes to our terrible streaming service. So let's not get rid of that. But when she got ousted because she was way too out there with her anti-Semitism slash faux outrage over Gaza, they basically made one of the pettiest spiteful figures on the internet put you on their ops list.

And that also began to really fuck up the. perception because now you have Candace Owens who she's like she reads the room well enough where she's like, okay, so the vibes are a little more like Nazi coded right now. So like let me sidle up to Nick Fuentes and things like that. And now we can be the people who be like, man, daily wires fucking toast, man. Like they're right. They're fucking dated. Look at them. They're defending Trump. And a lot of America first people, you know, racists, like have been very quick to be like, that is true. I don't like, I don't like what the daily wires put it down. I do. So all of these things are true and would be how the company fail.

Like, you know, this is how companies fail. The mood shifts. They fire some of their biggest draws and like getting to fuse. But they, the fuck up is actually much bigger and more like a historic, a historic overstep on their part. A key element in their downfall is Merlin, the character of lore, because that was who their co-CEO-CEO-Geremy Boring was obsessed with and was like, I'm going to do a big budget adaptation of the Penn Dragon Cycle fantasy book series. The famous Penn Dragon Cycle. Is it really? No, I don't know who the, I don't even, when they said, I'm like, who?

All right. So they position the show. as a more Christian Game of Thrones, even though the main thing that people liked about Game of Thrones was the gratuitous frontal nudity. Yeah. But so I just want to some information about the budget on this. So they blew past a 2024 release date,

finally came out in March 26th, did not, was not aware of that personally. And I was kind of eagerly awaiting it because I wanted to make fun of it. Not enough major outlets reviewed the series, to generate a rotten tomato score. That's how much attention it got. So this dumb show that nobody watched cost,

it was budgeted at seven figures per episode. So that's over, at least over a million dollars. But you know if they're reporting it, seven figures per episode is like $9,99,999,000, probably. And Boring ended up allegedly spending nearly three times what they'd greenlighted.

Jesus. And eventually, quote, Costs became a burden on the company. I mean, that's the only thing, too. It's like they just thought they got too popping because they were such a fucking huge, huge, like, figure in the conservative media space that I think they were like, that's it.

Because again, it's the Steve Bandon thing of like, you know, politics is downstream of culture. So try and affect culture, try and make the content that is going to nudge people into even more xenophobia and white nationalism, et cetera. And yeah, they thought they could, They were going to somehow capture hearts and minds with their streaming platform with a multi-million dollar fantasy series. It's just like, who did you think?

What did you think was going to happen exactly? Listen, as a Washington Wizards fan, I respect the attempt. But I've also gone down this road before. You could end up wasting millions trying to make wizards work. Also, if you want to do Christian magic, do CS Lewis, man. You got the fucking Lion Witch in the wardrobe right there. All you need is a guy in a fucking. lion costume. You don't even need to pay for effects.

Right. That's what the movie adaptation, The Lion Wish and the wardrobe is just a guy. They just hired the same guy from Wizard of Oz, right? Yeah. That's what I thought of me. Jamel, such a pleasure having you on the Daily Zekegeist. Where can people find you, follow, you, see, you, hear you, all that good stuff? Listen, you can see me with Miles Gray on Ain't Footy, the weekly Premier League talk show that does still exist.

Also, I got a little album coming out. All right. It's called Midrange, brought to you by Blind Medicine Records, your voice third release. Pre-order it May 22nd. Comes out June 12th. Enjoy the finals.

Listen to my album. And yeah, I got a monthly show in L.A. It's called Fresh Produce. At Fresh Produce underscore L.A. on your Instagram. Please go. There you got.

Is there a work of media you've been enjoying by any chance? I mean, aside from most sport and most law and order rerun, I have been enjoying. I said, I thought this video, I saw a video of Amish kid with speakers in his wagon. Oh, hell yeah. He put subs. He put subwoofers in the buggy, bro. Whoa. And they're riding around Philadelphia.

They're just pulling up to Walmart, posting up. What were they playing? What were they playing? Well, I don't even think they had any music on. I got to assume there was some something, something gospely. Praise music, yeah. Yeah, some sort of praise beats. Got two 15s in the back for.

Yeah. Maybe they're listening to sounds of blackness. You know, just listen. Do you want a revolution? Well, that's, who is, that's Kirk Franklin. What was this group called? I forgot, but anyway. Shout out to them.

Shout out to the mighty clouds of joy. God's property. There you go. And God's property. Fuck. Great save. Yeah, sorry about that. Sorry about that.

Are we talking about the soccer game? No, no, no. Not indirectly. No, mixing up sounds of blackness with God's property. That was a sin. Listen, guys, throw on some sounds of blackness, enjoy the rest of your week. Yeah, there you go. Try not to masturbate.

Do your best. Think you your best, man. But hey, like God said in the Bible, we're not perfect. You know what I mean? The yes. Lord? matter, Judge. Miles, where can people find you as their working media you've been enjoying? Find me everywhere at Miles of Gray. If you want to hear me talk shit about 90-day fiancé, that's on 420-day fiancé with Sophia Alexandra.

And if you want to hear me talk that shit about the Premier League again with Jamel Johnson and Chris Martin. Check out Enid Footy. Shout out to all the Zyke gang pulling up and listening to the show and messaging and leaving comments. And, hey, if you're interested and maybe you're just hearing about this new show, come check it out. drive. Leave a rating. Okay? Tell your other friends who are completely have the, the sickness of loving international soccer to tune in, too, because we will be probably groaning

through the World Cup to the summer. Ooh, and one last thing. I got jerseys for sale on eBay. It's eBay.com slash Fat Riley, P-H-A-T. Like if Pat Riley was pretty hot and tempting. Okay. Big and tall sportswear.

So for all my thick sports fans, come on by. What's a nice piece you got in the store, know, just to wet people's whistles. I mean, I got, I got a Phillies, I got a Philadelphia Phillies jersey. Oh. That is rare. It's gray. It's like, it's like Boston College colors.

Oh, the best way I can describe it. It's gray with burgundy and gold. And it's a Phillies. It's a 3x Phillies jersey that I've never seen ever in life. I'm the only person I've ever seen with it. If you like it big, come through. If you like it big, that's a weird one. Yeah, that was strange job.

Hey, Philly's fans, if you like a big. Hey, if you like it big. Holler at Jamel, bro. Come on now. Yeah. All right. Work of media I've been enjoying was from Octopus Caveman, who retweeted a picture of John Travolta's new look where he's got the tight-by-combed beard and the beret.

I'm afraid of the beret, dog. I feel like he's about to unlock some shit that we're not ready to deal with. Did you hear his- He's wearing it with so much confidence? He sounds old as shit now, too. Did you see the clip of him? explaining it? The beret? Yeah, he kind of sound like, you know when you haven't seen a relative in a long time, like an uncle who, like, yeah, that's my cool uncle. And then you hear him talking like, oh, they're old. Like, I can hear it in their voice now. This is how Travolta sounded when he was

talking about his new beret look. The old school directors wore berets and the glasses and I thought, that's what I'm doing. I've been around for over 50 years doing movies. But I can't tell it when I look back, the difference between the events. And I said, I'm under. That might just be you slipping into senility, man. That's right. I look at all these pictures from the past, and I don't know what they're of. I said, who's that?

That's you, man. That's you, that's you, that's you, that's. No, I didn't have hair like that. I didn't have hair to begin with. It was always. Never had hair. The director this time, you're an actor. Play the part of a director.

Look like an old school director. So I looked up pictures, 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s. And the old school directors wore berets. And I said, in the glasses. And I thought, that's what I'm doing. I love. I'm going to do an homage to being a director. It's just like, I love how straightforward he is with just being like.

And so I wanted to look smart. And so I put this smart looking hat on my head. It's too simple. It's so simple. It's going to work. Everybody's going to be rocking berets. I'm not ready to see dudes and berets on my block. Okay.

Now, sorry, that shorts. Yes. Hey, Travolta. Hey, Travolta called the audible, bro. Get the berets out. I think all summer people are going to be in. Volta mode and I don't I'm not ready. It's hot for a ready. Anyways, I like, I like to tweet of

somebody reposted the picture of him like pointing at the camera with just utter confidence and then another one where he's got his hands up like, hey. And Octopus Caveman wrote, telling the barista at Starbucks I clogged the toilet as I'm leaving. You can find us on Twitter and blue sky at Daily Zykeyes. We're at The Daily Zykeyes on Instagram. You can go to the the description of the 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 miles is there a song where you think that people might enjoy yeah the song we might enjoy actually comes from a work in media that i forgot to mention was there's an artist from the uk called sunny boy fits f-it z and in the in the wake of the new drake album there have been a few people claiming to like my song was jacked my beat was ripped off, this or that. And this one was an interesting one, it was popped up on my feet. He said, Drake stole my beat.

And he plays his track, which is the song that I want to go out on because it's a fucking dope track. It's got this sort of like dance hall sample over it and like grimy sort of synth Reese bass underneath it. It's called Get Down. That's a track by Sunny Boy Fitz. But he was pointing out that his song sounds remarkably close to the outro on the Drake track BVW from his

Made of Honor album, which was maybe the second of the three he put out. But it was one of those things where people I've seen other videos, people were like, Drake ripped me off. You're like, do you, shut the fuck up, man. It doesn't even make sense. Whereas this one, people are like, damn, this shit is way better than this fucking Drake's. Yeah. The Drake song was better than the Drake song.

Yeah. Or sorry, the, this song was better than the Drake song. Yeah. So Sunny Boy Fits with Get Down. You can only get this on SoundCloud. All right. We will link off to that in the footnotes. The Daily Zikeis is a production of iHeart

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