The Daily Zeitgeist - Luigi Merch Madness? RFK Wants Justice For His Uncle Jack 12.12.24

Episode Date: December 12, 2024

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Do kids still do the thing where they take like their utensils and pound them on the table? Like we want to eat. Do you remember doing shit like this in here? I feel like one of my favorite memories. We want to do kids. I'm kind of thinking about all of the things that I used to do that. I'm wondering if that's still preserved in this modern era.

My dad would slap the shit out of my hands. No, no, no, I did not do that. No, no. I mean, it was for fun. Never. I don't, I never did that in my own home. We would do that at school. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was, we would know. I have teachers. Come on. One of my favorite memories is years, maybe like three or four years ago, we were at like a pretty, like not a nice, nice, nice restaurant, but like a pretty nice, like Italian restaurant. Nice, nice restaurant. Was it Mangione?

It was Mangione. Back when you could get a table. And my wife and I were sitting, now wife and I were sitting there. And then all of a sudden we just hear kids chanting as the waiter was bringing out pizza and the parents were like scrambling to make them be quiet and everyone just lit up yeah it was such a good energy yeah it was great it's like we should all chant for if you're that excited about the food that's's a good sign. Maybe that's the way we get healthcare. Yeah. Healthcare. Healthcare.

Healthcare. Healthcare. Healthcare. Healthcare. A bunch of dads come by and slap the shit out of us. Yeah. Yeah. Fuck up.

Fuck up. Take this shit, homie. Take this. Give me that fork. Give me that fork. Give me that fork. I hurt my neck. Yeah, use the.

Why do you have a fork while you're asking for healthcare? God, stabbed my eye. Yeah. My the, why do you have a fork while you're asking for healthcare? Stabbed my eye. Yeah. That's why I have it. All right. No, that's something. Yeah. Cool.

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I'm gonna keep guessing until we get back to Pearl Harbor Day. The next year. You're 362 days off and you're like, I'm getting close. Because once we hit five, we're on it. Actually, I feel like it's gonna be a Sunday next year. So you're gonna keep doing this bitch

for at least two more years It's national ambrosia day, which I am bro Mellow fruit salad basically. I think that's right. I think that's what it is That's what I'd always see with like hope it's what it should be It's like those colors that are green and red that I always have exactly backwards. You know what I mean? Right. Right.

Yeah. This is just, I was just thinking about how this was like the sweetest shit that my, like my grandmother would make at a holiday meal. And I remember one time trying to just eat exclusively Ambrosia for a dinner and that wasn't going to happen because it's, it's just sweet. It's just sweet. Uh, also what is it National Ding-a-ling Day there's a photo of Santa yeah yeah yeah I don't know

ding-a-lings on this day call the people they haven't heard from in a while oh wait what the fuck this means is like catching up with the homies day yeah do that do that it's also national points Eddie a day in gingerbread house day you heard it why they call it ding-a-ling's day I don't know ding-a-ling day ding-a-ling ring a ding a ding ding a ding a ding ding ding ding ding that's annoying that's annoying so ripped it in here pity And here pretty don't forget Hey, hey, hey, my name is Jack O'Brien aka when This dude shot that guy three times from behind. That's the man. Gione. Oh boy

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That's right. This, this man, Gioni guy really seems to be in the zeitgeist these days. As we'll talk about, I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my cohost, Mr. Miles Gray. It's Miles Gray, AKA. Huh? Why is so scared? Hi! Justin on the beat, ho!

Justin! Saying that I'm mad but they still be acting stupid Got my foot up in they ass, gonna push my ankle through it TDZ is us, TDZ is us TDZ is us, TDZ is us TDZ is us, TDZ is us Why TDZ is us. TDZ is us. TDZ is us. TDZ is us. TDZ is us. My goodness, Halcyon salad. Thank you so much for that. Just so I can yell, JUSTAH!

I love that. And I'm glad that people on YouTube are already making pretty good sound-alike instrumentals because that wasn't even the original one. That's a sound-alike. That's a good ass sound-alike. Yeah. I was going even the original one. That's a sound-alike. That's a good sound-alike. I was going to say, get this shit taken down. Mustard's production style is pretty straightforward. So that's the one good thing is it's easy for seasoned producers to do a copycat beat. Thanks, Halcyon Salad.

Thank you, Halcyon Salad. I wonder if a Halcyon Salad is possibly Ambrosia. Do we think that that Halcyon Halcyon salad will possibly be. More on this later. More on that at 10. Miles was thrilled to be joined in our third seat by one of our favorite guests, brilliant comedian, writer, actor. His newest special Daddy Longlegs.

You must go watch right now. We'll wait. We'll still be here. Actually, just wait till after the show, then go watch it. It's on YouTube. Here, let's do an hour long pause so they can do it. One of your favorite guests. And yet on the other hand, he's also the coiner of the disgusting phrase plumpers to describe his thighs. So, you know, the world is full of contradictions.

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I can pupper you, but I'd have to charge. Look out everybody, I'm sex positive now. Look out. Oh no. Look out now. Sorry. Before that, don't watch my old specials. Yeah.

Anti-sex. That was inspired by Vanadium Silver from the Discord. Thanks to all the Viking people who sent some AKsays. Is it Attorneys Generalals AKsays? AKsays, yes. They belong to the AKs. AKsays. Yes, of course.

And Andrei Karolenko, for those of you who are wondering what AKs stood for. Man, what happened to him? He really, he almost, he had it all. He had it all. And then he started pushing his hair forward and nobody could take him seriously. Remember when his hair changed? it was such a weird look.

It was like, it was the worst night of my life. This player, this random Russian player. He was a real stat sheet stuffer. His name was Andre Karolinko. He wore number 47 giving us AK 47. Great. One of the great nicknames. And then one day he just was like, I don't do gel in my hair anymore.

And his hair just like, he looked like a 12 year old boy all of a sudden. And his game fell off too. He looks like he looked like a seventies, like he would have played alongside like pistol Pete Marovitch or something. Yeah. It was really weird. Very floppy hair. Yeah.

still Pete Marovitch or something. Yeah, it was really weird. Very floppy hair. Yeah. I remember he also had a very famous wife and she was very public about the fact that she gave him a hall pass, like a cheating pass in general. And I think this was in 2013. So way before I became sex positive, they were sex positive and, and they set the, uh, the trail for people like me

to become sex positive. This is all coming back to you now. You didn't store that information at the time. No. It just bounced off of you. Yeah. Yeah. Whoa!

I found an old journal. Hi! Holy shit. She calls it- She's been broke while asleep. This is what was written in ESPN in 2006. She calls it Andre's allowance. Once a year he can have sex with another woman.

One night, no affairs, no divided loyalty. She can live with that. It was her idea offered as a gift. There it is. How are they doing? Can we look up whether they're still together? I'm curious. They are still together, I believe.

Oh, hell yeah. Fantastic. Shout out Masha and Andre. Masha. Masha and Andre, you know. Masha. Masha! Masha! Masha on the beat, ho. All right, well. Masha let me cheat, ho.

It's not cheating if she knows about it. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's Andre's allowance. Yep. It's not a hall pass, it's his little allowance. Yeah. That's on his allowance. Yep. It's not a hall pass. It's his little allowance. I like it. It's like infantilizing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I get to treat him like a little boy that he is. There you go. Did you save up your little fuck pennies, Andre?

OK, go ahead. Take him to the store first. He's dormant. Here comes an airplane. Here comes an airplane. Ah, the hair out of, here comes an airplane. Here comes an airplane, Andre. Ah. Get the hair out of your eyes, you child. Blake, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we can tell the listeners a couple of the things we're talking about.

We're going to look at things that are flying off the shelves following- Because the tariffs? No, not quite. No. We are going to talk about, I wrote a thing about tariffs like two weeks ago, and then I just forgot to do it on the show. So we're like, huh, huh, huh.

Hi. We might talk about that. We might just keep not talking about it. We will talk about these things that are flying off the shelves because dang Luigi Mangione. This guy's a dang fucking influencer with the kids these days. Luigi, he's dropping names, unlike most assassins. Anyone gonna call him Weege?

Weege! I think we are, Miles. Dude, fucking Weege, bro. I got news for you. We just did. We're gonna talk about RFK's long plan to find out what happened to Uncle Jack. He's trying to install a relative as a CIA deputy, as the deputy head of the CIA, because he wants to get to the bottom of what all went down in Dallas.

So we'll talk about that. We'll check in with Mel Gibson. We'll do our weekly Gibson update. Yeah. We'll just check in. Do the weekly Mel Watch. Gibson! We'll talk tariffs.

Talking tariffs. We'll talk about direct apocalypto. Talk about AI's intersection with toys and how that's going. Apocalyptic is a good movie. I got to say, I'm passing up the Christ, though. Not a good movie. Oh, OK. Yeah. We might even talk about the weapon for the weapon for how that one is.

That's a good one. And that is the best lethal weapon. We might even talk about Jared. We're not gonna talk about much of this cause Blake's the guest. So we'll just be all over the place. I don't like that. You know, we can't be.

The way you talk sometimes is insane. Just the way, and you get away with it cause of your charisma. And anyway, go ahead. You're taking me off topic. Uh, you're taking me off topic. Sorry, I didn't mean to distract you by asking you the formatted question we ask every episode. Blake, what is something from your search history that's really about who you are? It is interesting that you bring this up. I

think it's more revealing about you as you say these things and then they go in one ear, they go out the other other and sometimes they sit in your body like microplastics. So you had said yesterday, or last yesterday, I have no, all my days are only when I do the daily zeitgeist. So yesterday when I did the daily zeitgeist in November. You have severance syndrome where you are a separate, you live your life, one daily zeitgeist recording to the next and don't remember anything that happened in between.

That's true. And you do offer me severance after every one of my appearances on here. So I would show up. We will pay you handsomely to go away, sir. For the love of God. No. So I remember you saying, I think I was talking about waxed jackets and then, which are like rain coats or rain resistant. Yeah. Very stiff jackets.

Quite stiff. And take them off and they can just like stand up on their own. Yeah. Sometimes if I hang them up wrong, I think there's an intruder in my. So, um, I was looking up, you were saying that Gore-Tex was partially responsible for like letting, or just responsible for microplastics. Microplastics to Gore-Tex. Yeah. Yeah. So I looked that up. I was like, huh, I wonder responsible for letting microplastics. Yeah, you can get microplastics through Gore-Tex, yeah. Yeah, so I looked that up. I was like, huh, I wonder if he's right about that.

And then I didn't think about it. And then I did look it up and yeah, that was my last Google search before I passed away. And then the paramedics brought me back. Against your wishes. Not so fast, asshole. They said, as they brought it back. You gotta live. So apparently, they say they switch to a... There's a lot of letters here, like PFAs versus PFCs versus PTFEs.

But they say they now use... PFTs, Paul F. Thompson's. Paul F. Thompson's NFTs. So, but now they do... Gortex now says the micro plastics that they're releasing are macro. They're, they're too big to get into our tissues. So that's what Gore-Tex says.

So they're saying that the plastics, those small can't get into our tissues. Um, but yeah, apparently they switched. Good news. It's huge news. I should have told you right when I saw it. I called you. I called your family, your home. I called your home number and I left a message on your answering machine.

Yeah. Jack, great news about Gore-Tex. Scott Gardner. Jack, it's Blake. Yeah. Hey, Blake again. You're probably out. Yeah.

You probably heard already. Shout out to 3M. Yes. You know, already. Uh, shout out to 3M. Yeah. You know, great, great work by them. There's a great New York article. Everybody can check out where, wherein they invent Scotch guard, uh, realize that it's like showing up in animals everywhere around where they are. And then like slowly they keep like testing people's bodies, like

further and further out. They're like, we just tested somebody in China and they have it in their body. This seems bad. How'd it get there? We sell it out there? No, no way to know. Is that our factory right half a mile

from where this is happening? Okay, okay, just wondering. Yeah, but then they conducted a study internally and the person came back with the study results and they were like, well, you're fired instead of doing anything about it. A wild story, if true. But we, again, we need Blake to Google it a couple more times to confirm. I think it happened, I'm reading about it, there are people that were tasked with creating some kind of like a jet fuel line, like they needed something a rubber that using jet fuel line and one of the chemists accidentally just spilled a bunch of fucking like

Synthetic latex that they were fucking with on their shoe and then they're like, whoa The like other liquids are just running off of my shoe now. All right Invention just running off of my shoe now. All right. There's always like a fun invention, uh, like origin story like that, where it's like, yeah, the guy had a chocolate bar in his pocket and he was working with microwaves and then the chocolate bar melted and that's how we found out that microwaves would work for the microwave oven anyway, that guy died two weeks later, but it only hit the chocolate. It didn't hit the rest of his organs or his body.

It just the chocolate. Oh my God. I have the same the rest of his organs or his body. Yeah. Just the chocolate. Oh my God. I have the same birthday as this lady. Who? The one who tested it? Miles. The one that fell all over her shoe. Oh, wow.

That's Miles. Your birthday overlaps are wild, man. Dude. Oh my God. Chris, the Gore-Tex shoe woman. This is my midtown Hilton. And patients, this is not zero, probably patient 1 million. Yeah, that's right.

Blake, what's something you think's underrated? Uh, I will. So we make a full pot of coffee in the morning, my wife and I, and then we put the rest of it in the fridge to have ice coffee later in the day as to not waste the, the rest of the rest of the coffee. So it's a little, I don't know if that's advice, a tip, a life hack, a little. Hello. What?

Hey, what did you just say? Justin, take this part of the show out. Dude, are you for real? You really edit that. You really do. You just said, can you repeat what you just said? You put the wheel, you make a pot and then the part you don't drink you store in the refrigerator to drink later to have ice coffee? Yes, but I'm kind of zeroing in on what Jack said calling it a life hack which is a term that I think I just made up a little bit of money

to make. Yeah, yeah, okay, all right, Justin, come back in right here. Come back in. Come back to me. Oh, that's cool. That's a cool idea. I love coffee. Don't talk to me until I've had my coffee, you son of a bitch. Wait, do you drink a whole pot too, throughout the, like, you guys pot thing? You take a whole pot to your head? Yeah. Teapot, dome.

Yeah, no, we- Teapot to the dome? We take a pot to the dome. We go full pot. For my California history freaks? We'll go through the whole, so I have, yeah, we'll actually go through the whole thing throughout the day. Maybe a little bit leftover, but yeah, she'll have two mugs.

I'll have two mugs and we'll put them in our mugs. Yeah, explains a lot. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. What is that? What did you tell him? Huh? Nothing. It's we'll see.

We're, we have to do so much more of this show and I won't be able to do it with this dynamic right now. Just saying you're like, you have like an energy about you that's like full pot of coffee blinked up. I'm saying yeah geeked up and miles was saying he thought it was cocaine and I was like, I think this guy's just fucking drinking coffee. Just doing a whole fucking pot to the dome. Okay.

I think he's full pot to the dome. Full pot dome dude. Call Warren G. Harding. I opened up my Truvia box this morning. Like the box, which I have engraved. Wait, what? Hold on, what is a Truvia box? And the Truvia packets were just white,

just clear packets with a white substance in it. And I've been putting that in my coffee. And I think I'm gonna have a heart attack. Oh, you say Truvia. Yeah. Okay, I heard trivia. I heard trivia. I heard trivia. Like what's a trivia box?

Oh, it sounds like something you'd have or you'd be like, Ooh, that's a bit of trivia for later, because I can't converse and carry on conversation where I have to take out a card box. We saw us. Blake's frantically sifting through a box full of, uh, did you know Napoleon was five foot two? I'm not even asking questions. I'm just facts.

Did you know this? Right? Did you know you guys know this? George Washington was the first president of the United States of America. Where do they come up with this? That can't be this stuff has some wacky stuff in here. So Blake, I'll tell you what I do and you tell me why it's wrong. All right.

I just leave the coffee. My coffee pot turns off automatically cause I'm a baller. Wow. And then when I come back to my coffee pot, I will take that coffee. I'll pour it over ice. It will already be fairly cold, but every time I've talked to somebody in the food service industry, they're always like very focused on like, you have to get the food out in this like 10 minute window.

And when it falls out of that window, it's basically creating, generating bacteria. It sounds like you're making smart decisions with regards to food safety and I'm not. Is that kind of the thinking? Yeah. So, yeah, your life hack. I do use a very dirty knife to stir it and chop the ice that I put into it. So I have an ice block in my fridge and I use just the,

my poultry knife. I use it on, on that. No, but I will, I actually like, I will often forget to put it in the fridge and then just do what you do, Jack. And I, it has yet to affect me in any negative way. I just like, I feel like I'm strong. Yeah. I haven't had a solid bowel movement in 10 years. Not a solid one. Not a solid one. Not a solid one. No, no, no, no.

Lot of unsolid. Yeah, whatever the scientific word is for that. Who knows? Unsolid. Blake, is there something you think's overrated? That man, Kermit the Frog, I think is overrated. The fuck? What happened? He's a straight man, straight frog.

Frog? But I think he's a glorified cis frog. No, he's a straight man, which is important to have to juxtapose next to all the insane muppets. But I don't think he's the star that he has been made out to be. Gonzo, I believe, is the cocaine heartbeat of the Muppets. And I think Miss Piggy deserves to be right there with Kermit, obviously in terms of fame, but I think Kermit could be bumped down and there's other Muppets that could be elevated into that stardom, namely Gonzo.

So you're all about Gonzo, huh? Is that your thing? Gonzo, I mean, Fozzie, I don't like, he's a great supporting character. Uh, Rizzo the rat, I believe is related. Love Rizzo the rat. Yeah. To the man who shot the CEO. Um, but, and I mean that as a, as a compliment, truly.

And then, uh, there was animal, the band, but you can't, that guy doesn't speak, uh, a language that I'm aware of. So yeah, I would have to say, Swedish chef, he's not even eligible because he's foreign. So he's from Switzerland, but yeah, he can't be our leader. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, definitely not. He's from foreign. You have to be born. You have to be born here. Yeah. Like he's got kind of vanilla middle of the road energy that they're just like, well, you need it's all, it's almost like a movie leading man where it's just like, we need

the central, like unremarkable. We need the Luke Wilson to anchor the old school cast. The Kermit is the James Marsden of the Muppets universe. Holy shit. And he's going to get fucked up in terrible ways, just like James Marsden does in most of his movies. Cucked out. Yeah.

Yeah, they both have cuck energy. Huge cuck energy. Oh no, no. I'm not going. Don't stop. Don't mind me. I'm the man in the corner. Yeah.

I love the song Rainbow Connection, but it does feel like they're just stretching for a some sort of drama in Kermit's life. Like it never really feels like it's hard to be green. Everyone just kind of generally gives him the benefit of the doubt. Yeah, he gets a free pass. And I don't know, they said that Johnny Carson was like actually the best straight man in the world, but you know, he was funny. He could deliver a joke. I don't think that I would put Kermit in that area. They give out awards for best straight man? That's crazy.

They do. They do. I used to have a vote and they fucking took it away from me. No, they just did the awards at Mar-a-Lago, I think, earlier. Best straight man. Best straight man. And we're going to get to it. Me! Mel Gibson. They fucking took it away from me. No, they just did the awards at Mar-a-Lago, I think earlier. Straight man. We're going to get to it. Mel Gibson. He's one of you of them.

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like a middle school gymnasium buzzer, but that's, that's where we're at. Uh, anyways, the arrest of Luigi Mangione has meant a boom in business for some people. The book delayed, denied, defend why insurance companies don't pay claims and what you can do about it, which was obviously echoed in the words written on the bullet casings has skyrocketed up to number two on Amazon's nonfiction bestseller list. So people are interested. Interesting. Yeah.

Is that, is the author still, I wonder if he's like, just kind of like, damn, that was, that's a Christmas miracle for me. I was, I needed some cash, baby. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whereas this was all just like a viral marketing stunt. Oh, like how your thing with the Anthrax guy, you're like, let's hold on. It could, it might not be what you think it is.

My thing with the Anthrax guy, the most likely, the most likely reason, motive for the anthrax attacks was that a guy who worked at an anthrax lab was like, there's not enough funding for anthrax research. We should make people more interested in anthrax research. I'm going to send anthrax attacks to people who I don't like. Just because you say it in a condescending tone doesn't mean if it's true. Yeah. If it was viral, but if it was viral marketing, like the

author is all mad at Mangione cause it's like, what the fuck is deposed bro? That's not the fucking title. There's a, it's like when Kevin Garnett. Yeah. When Kevin Garnett yelled anything is possible when he won the finals and they're like, it's imp off whatever. It's not possible is nothing. Yeah. Okay. So the books going up that's

Okay, so that one on Amazon we can guarantee like there's a cause and effect there Sure, the the book was quoted by his bullets. So I think we can pretty much guarantee There's also some fashion things happening that are a little less clear, but, uh, there's a green trucker jacket, which I didn't, I've known, I've known of trucker hats, did not know trucker jackets. You got one. Am I wearing one right now? No, that might be more of a chore coat or a jacket.

Or maybe an M65. I'm told it's an over shirt. Yeah, yeah. Who the fuck told you that? They were fucking with you, man. Oh my God, dude. I'd fuck them up next time you see them. For me, it's on site.

It goes down to the waist, right? Like it's not like a longer jacket and then I believe it has two breast pockets and oh Oh, I thought it just also happened Yeah, sorry say that word. What were those pockets? Like chest pockets like you know, just pockets. Uh-huh. Okay, and what's your favorite part of the turkey? Yeah, I mean like I feel like the ones I have is like a denim Jackie with the Sherpa lining Mm-hmm. Oh, I have one of those. Yeah. Yeah. I've seen you. Okay. Yeah. Yeah

So the green trucker jackets I've seen in the CCTV footage of the shooter have reportedly been selling Like hotcakes and that's how we know that we've entered the world of the non-scientific because very few scientific Theorems are like this thing's going off like hotcakes and gangbusters. But yeah, according to Complex, the Sherpa-lined hooded jacket from Levi's, which rings in at $225, is flying off the shelves after the red user. It's actually $80.49 with Code Friend right now.

Oh, is that right? Just click the link, because I was like, is this the same jacket? And then I looked and I'm like, is that right? Click the link. Cause I was like, is this the same jacket? And then I looked and I'm like, oh yeah, that's just, that's the jacket. Oh, so the hoodie is part of the jacket. Interesting. Yeah, it must be.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it was two 25, but now Levi's is like, we offer make it easier. With code veterinary pistol, you can get it for 45% off. Yeah. Reddit user speculated it was the same coat worn by men. I'm going to stop doing that. I apologize to the Italian American listeners. Uh, and it's been selling really fast to the point that they put it on sale. They're like, guys, we have a fucking hit and I'm not going to ask why. And then there's also, so this one we, I think, no, is not true, but I could see something that's not true.

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but I could see something happening with this. There was a viral tweet claiming that Luigi, as in Mario's brother, Beanies have been selling out. That was a hoax because somebody... Oh no. Wait, do you now have that power on the show? Could you do drops now or is that a good thing? I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that.

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I mean it is interesting to see if The Luigi character sort of becomes a sort of like offshoot guy Foxy and Fucking figure for like shit posters on the internet Yeah, because I can see that being like a tangential like is with that name, most people the immediate sort of parallel famous Luigi is Luigi from Mario Brothers. So I can see I bet there'll be a lot of tongue-in-cheek merch that probably won't be sold at Urban Outfitters, but that feels like the kind of thing that we would see at Urban Outfitters. I remember like screen

printed shirts at t-shirt stores. Right, Right, right gritty the flyers mascot was kind of like co-opted in a fun way Like yeah came out where he killed fascists. I think was it was a thing. Yeah gritty was a big anti-fasc Yeah, when he came out, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Hey look, we love you get that reputation. Did he also assassinate somebody? Oh I forgot he did do that yeah he killed uh the monopoly man in cold blood on the street bit his head off all right well continues to be a story that we're following here that everybody seems to be following but is it no no real updates on you know he was arranged yelled something about like the something insulting people's intelligence.

And then we haven't heard much since then. Yeah, there's a couple, there's little, little details have, have come out here and there, but nothing true, like of major consequence, although he there, there was, I guess, a little bit more to like sort of his plan. Uh, that was the last thing I read was he was like, you got to do it. One of these like bean counter days when like the investors get together. And that's when you get, you know, that's when your target becomes available. Kind of a thing.

Jesus. Yeah. All right. Let's turn to RFK. Jesus. Because some people think my Jesus, my, thank you. People are starting to think that his MAGA turn, and it is front free Thursday, so we won't talk specifically about, but we will talk about RFK real quick,

because people are starting to think that his MAGA turn was all about getting justice for Unki Jack and trying to figure out what happened with that. Hey, what happened with the assassination? Every week you got to kind of ask yourself, what the fuck is brain worms up to right now? And I think one of the last big headlines was about how he's like, he wants to launch an investigation into whether or not vaccines cause autism. Autism, spoiler alert, they don't. And in the world, and I want to tell RFK, because I know you listen,

but I know Cheryl definitely listens. Yeah, she was one of my improv teachers back in the day. In the world of science, those- Is that true? No. In the world of science, those, quote, investigations he's talking about, they're actually referred to as research and plenty of it has been done. And while none of it indicates, uh, that vaccines cause autism, other studies,

uh, do show that getting too much whale juice in your mouth makes you a dickhead. So that's maybe something he could look into. Um, but aside from the traditional anti-science bullshit, Bobby Jr has been pushing, wow, I just think of Bobby Jr. from Sopranos. Wasn't Bobby Bacos a kid? Bobby Jr. too? Anyway, RFK Jr. has been pushing for his daughter-in-law,

Amaryllis Fox-Kennedy, to get the deputy CIA director gig. And now, it's not like a totally Trumpian pick since she actually was a CIA agent. She was in the CIA and even wrote a book about her time there that had other CIA people kind of scratching their heads in regards to like the veracity of her claims. But nonetheless, definitely in the CIA and the CIA plucked her out of school because she came up with a really cool algorithm for her master's thesis quote for her master's thesis, Fox Kennedy developed an algorithm intended to identify local terrorist safe havens, which attracted the CIA's attention. her master's thesis quote for her master's thesis thesis, Fox Kennedy developed an algorithm

intended to identify local terrorist safe havens, which attracted the CIA is a hell yeah they love like that. Yeah, she's at the fucking forefront of racist algorithms meant to violate your civil liberties. So yeah, she's she's Langley material. But so the thing is, are the reporting now from Axios says that RFK wants her in there because he's got a bone to pick with Langley and he believes that the CIA is responsible for the assassination of his dear uncle, John Fitzgerald Kennedy down in Dallas, and his daughter-in-law will get to the bottom of it. quote, RFK Jr. has been telling people that Fox Kennedy, his

presidential campaign manager who's married to his son, Bobby Kennedy three, would help get to the bottom of the JFK assassination to Republican sources told Axios. RFK believes that and wants to get to the bottom of it, one of the sources said. So yeah, there's groans coming from the Republicans as to her appointment, but you know, I don't know. This is the thing somehow. Trump feels a debt of gratitude. According to the reporting to RFK for, you know, switching sides. Sorry. I said the fucking buzzword. And if you just look at the timing, like right around the time RFK flipped,

that guy, Volda fart claimed that he would establish a commission on assassination attempts that would ultimately release all documents related to JFK's assassination. So, I mean, justice. Really, we got to get to the bottom of the Trump assassination attempt because that, I mean, I think we all know. Don't look into that. Don't even look into that. It's fine. I hear those researchers who looked into vaccine stuff are finding out stuff like hotcakes. They're making discoveries like hot kicks. So yeah, they are, they are, they are. I feel like RFK will say fucking anything to anyone at any time.

Like he's, I was just watching the trailer for Aaron Rodgers's new Netflix special, which did not go the direction I think they were hoping. It's like Aaron Rodgers is a man that everybody was doubting. This follows his heroic journey coming back from his torn Achilles and from all the controversy. Then he's had a terrible shitty season. So they're like, in this three-episode docu-series. Oh, wow. This is supposed to be 12.

Yeah. Then he's not good to be 12. Yeah. Then he's not good at football anymore. Oh, is he like, is he completely cooked? Yeah, he's been, so a lot of people heading into the season were like, the jets are going to be a contender with him as the quarterback and they're like three and 12 or something. Dude, with a fucking torn Achilles, do people not see what happens to athletes when they like it, the chances are are low they know when you're old former

See what you're old and you reject modern Medicine and science you recover from an Achilles much quicker That is good with the thesis of this show and they were like, I don't know. We got three we got three episodes but anyways one of the scenes they show in the trailer is him talking to RFK jr. and RFK Jr. being like, have you thought about going into politics? And that just cut away, but it's just like, I'm sure he says that to literally fucking anyone that he wants.

Yeah, I'm sure. Including his daughter-in-law. Anyone. Yeah. Anyone, anyone. It's so wild that all of these people who are succeeding are doing so with just the most corrupt, like monarchy style. Like he had his daughter-in-law running his campaign.

I think the same is true of another candidate who had success in this past presidential election. I am, this would not be the outcome of his close proximity to power that would be the worst result, I guess. I mean like- Find something out. Yeah. Maybe just give him that toy, you know, to play with

so he doesn't fuck everything else up. It's like, just give him a screen, give him the iPad and let him figure out what happened to JFK. Yeah. So he doesn't, you know, Little side quest for him. Yeah. Little side quest, huge side quest. They're like, yes, deputy, deputy director, the files are in here.

Go ahead, peruse all you want. And it's just like the, just a bunch of loose paper, right. Up a room. It's like, yeah, how about it? I don't know. You'll find it in there. Massive warehouse with boxes and boxes and boxes. Because just for my understanding, Jack, how, how shady has the CIA?

Cause I know this is your shit, dude. How like, how opaque has the CIA been in terms of like talking about it? Is there enough there to be like, I don't know, dude, I kind of want to know. What's up? What are they doing? The thing where they're like, and you're about to find out. Cause everybody who was involved is dead. And then we like never find out really. And I don't like the real deep, like JFK assassination heads are always like in a major declassification is

about to happen. And then when it does, they're like, this, this changes everything. But like that when you listen to them talk, it's always like hard to really get a sense of exactly how it changes. Yeah. So like even if you declassify all the documents, I feel like you'd have 20 different theories as to what happened. Like I, my theory, the one that I find the most convincing that the Secret Service agent did a whoopsie, like, is, like, the way the CIA acts is still so shady. Like I feel like the CIA would throw the Secret Service agent, who's now dead, like under the bus, pretty quickly, if that were the truth. So that's like one of the things that makes me open to CIA involvement.

There's also an interesting theory about like George H.W. Bush and how he became the CIA director with no ostensible connection to the CIA, but he was in Dallas that day. There is a cable where somebody calls the head of the CIA and is like, we have George Bush in Dallas, like after the assassination. And then he just like rose to massive power in the CIA with like no real overt credentials, but he was attached to a bunch of CIA shit like on behind the scenes. So there's a lot of interesting stuff there. RFK like love it.

Love like, please expend all your dipshit energy on this. And political capital on this. Yeah. Also, like, does he think there's going to be a paper that's like, you know, fucking August 18th, 1962. We're going to fucking get JFK's ass. Okay. Sorry.

Circulate it. Figure out how to do it. Signed the CIA. or I don't know I mean, maybe there is some side our heads been repressed but oh shit. What if you think? Oh Break hotel, I think Jackie did it. Wow. He was looking that way, you know Just look at this like she's clearly shooting him Who had a cleaner shot? You just look at this brooder film. You're like, she's clearly shooting him right next to him.

She's pointing at the gun before she does it and winking at the camera. What if I did? All right, I'm joking. No. Oh, it was a goof. It was a goof. I didn't know it was loading. She drops it and then has to put all the bullets back into the thing

like during the while the cameras don't fall like. We still don't know. We still don't know. We still don't know. We have no idea. Yeah. No. That is one of the things that makes the Secret Service agent side of it so difficult to, it's like, yeah, well somebody would have seen it if the Secret Service agents in the

trailing car had done it. But if there's somebody shooting from the window and then he accidentally licks off one shot, you know, who's to say, also people at street level report smelling gun smoke, which wouldn't have happened for you. Wouldn't have been able to smell it from the book depository. So interesting stuff. Also the book, the book that puts up for the secret service agent, mortal error by Bonner manager, definitely worth a read, but it doesn't

entertain ever the idea that like the secret service agent did it not by accident. Oh, so that's always me too. Man, do that research, bro. Yeah. How about that? I like the sight of Jack. I didn't know this about you that you were so into it. This is very weird. JFK. I know. I think this is the real you.

Yeah. I'm enjoying it. It's always been you. You've noticed that I can't stop talking about it. I'm like, and moving on. But so one of the interesting things about this is that they smelled gunsmoke at street level. At street level, Blake.

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Hi. Yeah, we're back. We're going to be back now, I think you'll find. So yeah, AI-powered toys are all the rage this Christmas, Jesus Christ, including the popular PoE, the AI story bear. PoE is a teddy bear who tells kids customized stories generated by chat GPT and kids can input names, select themes. The bear tells them a unique story each time, presumably while their parent downs a bottle of white wine in the next room. Right.

There's an Edgar Allen version that'll bum your kid the fuck out. I know, right? Yeah. I was going to say, why Poe? That's pretty specific. room. Right. There's an Edgar Allen version that'll bum your kid the fuck. Yeah, I was going to say why poe? That's pretty specific. Also, it was Ellie Edgar Allen Poe like sick in his life or the I guess motherfuckers in the 19th century just aged like shit because he died. He was an alcoholic like a prolific even for that. Right. Yeah. No, because I'm looking at this and this photo he's 40 in this picture. He looks six. And I'm like, holy shit, bro. They did not have moisturizer back then. No.

So when I was living in Philly, there was a very weird, like a ghost tour that we joined that was free and it was just on Facebook, something like my wife found it and so we just started walking around. I don't know if this guy had any credentials whatsoever, but he was like, yeah, over there is where, um, Edgar Allen Poe used to go on dates with a 13 year old girl and he just stared like, and now we're going to go walk over to the, uh, the, um, night Shyamalan's old house. It was a very strange, uh, tour, but apparently over there is where M night Shyamalan used to house. It was a very strange tour, but apparently-

Over there is where M. Night Shyamalan used to go on dates with 14 year old girls. Did you see that right over there? That's where Donovan McNabb used to go on dates with 14 year old girls. There's Randall Cunningham. Hey Randall. All right. All kinds of magic in this city, man. Great guy, great guy.

But over there, that's where he used to go on dates with 15 year old ghosts. That's where he got the idea for sixth sense. That was the sixth sense to be able to pick up on whether or not someone's a minor. Yeah, pretty easy. But Poe, the teddy bear, what, what of this? What do I mean? I, my kid doesn't, he, the child has not been, uh, tarnished tainted by like toy advertisements like you do when you kind of get to a certain age as a kid.

Yeah. Kids even know anything about AI powered toys, Jack. I'm just trying to gauge if, if, if shit's really popping. No, I mean, they, uh, myyear-olds real into chess and so he plays chess against AI powered Chessbots every once in a while, but we we discourage bots, right? Right. Yes, cuz you're good parents We have a lot that raises much rather him play against strangers, adult strangers. We take him to Manhattan. So he can play streets, chess games and he makes a little money that way.

Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Oh, my kid, he barely knows how to play. I don't know. What do you want to do? Like put 200 bucks on it. Yeah. But it makes it a little more interesting. Look at him. He's crying. You're going to beat him. Bring me the crowd out of this. We could do 300. All right. Let's help it, dude. Fucking let's put like two racks on it. Huh? Don't don't look at the pigeons. Look at him, he's crying. You're gonna beat him. Bring the crap out of this kid. We could do 300. All right, let's up it, dude. Let's put like two racks on it.

Huh? Don't look at the pigeons, look at me. Look at me. Don't look at the pigeons, look at me. 400? Checkmate, this fool. Finish him! So CNET has reviewed these toys

and noted that some of the stories are pretty fucking weird. With vocabulary you wouldn't typically find in a kid's book. One character had to quote, unravel the cosmic knot that doomed her kingdom to unending torment. Oh, let's see. Let's hear it from the freaky drunk bear itself. ...generates kind of exist in this literary uncanny valley. Where there are some random turns the story can take that can be hard to follow. drunk bear itself. doomed her kingdom to unending torment.

The kid does a fucking gym from the office, breaks the fourth wall. Huh? Oh no. Yeah. Another story contained the Lovecraftian line. That's when he realized the horrible truth. This was no mere robot, but some sort of evil alien construct straight out of a cosmic nightmare. What the fuck are they thinking with this shit? Okay, hold on. Now I got to see this. Okay, here we go. This is the cosmic whatever thing.

But some sort of evil alien construct straight out of a cosmic nightmare. Wow. Wait, that's the story. The boy gives it so that one is a boy and he gives the camera a thumbs up. Yeah. Big smile. My kids would actually fucking love that. They're actually probably smart enough to be able to like understand that. They're like, wow, this is pretty harrowing. like understand that they're like, wow, this is pretty harrowing. I mean, pretty, pretty in depth and terrifying. Dad, this was no mere robot. It sounds like it was some sort of evil alien construct straight

out of a cosmic nightmare. That's right. Should we be alarmed father? To have that story being told by a stuttering robot bear is like kind of creepy. Yeah. It's very weird. It's like a bad drunk, like hanging out with a bad drunk. We're just talking about really dark shit. It's like, what is like hyper literate?

Like they read a ton. So like they're even when they're rambling, it's kind of poetic. They're like, this was no mere inebriation I was experiencing. But rather by imbibing such sordid liquids and ingesting them it completely changed my perception of my own Tristed reality. Yeah, he's just saying words. He's a big vocabulary. He's not actually saying anything. He calls this hangover a cosmic nightmare. Yeah. Right. Yeah. This is no mirror hangover. Perhaps some alien construct.

Yeah. I mean, it's being compared to Teddy Ruxpin and people are like, I don't know that Teddy Ruxpin like worked pretty well. Yeah. He just stuck some tapes in there and moved its mouth. Like the, the mouth movement has not improved since the days of Teddy Ruxpin is just doing the wah wah wah like open shut, open shut as words are coming out. But there's a new concern around AI toys that they could die at any moment,

which is what's going on with Moxie. So Moxie is like the top of the line AI companion, $800 for five to 10 year olds that can help develop their emotional intelligence. And it was specifically designed to work with kids on the autism spectrum. And sure. Like that sounds like a interesting use of the technology. Sure. Except the company behind Moxie just announced that they have absolutely no money left, which means that Moxie will cease to function.

Cease to function. Yeah. It's like a recent expensive, still being sold product that is going to effectively die on people making like on children making emotional connections with this. It's just also so, so grim. Like they're like when people are like, well, what's, what's going to happen with this $800 toy? And they're like, when they asked why they said they don't know.

But since it quote relies on cloud connectivity for its core features, it will cease to work within days. It sounds like, like, as if like that shit in the matrix where you get unplugged while you're still plugged through. Like, you got to come back, bro, that your little moxie toy will get unplugged. These videos of like of people crying, people mourning their this is this personal one is like an adult who clearly had a connection. You can hear her audibly sobbing like with like as if this is like some weird fucked up scene and I don't know what fucking movie but here I've enjoyed our conversations a lot but don't worry I'll always be here for you what's something fun you'd like to do next I was thinking about

getting a tattoo of you what do you think about that load load prompt loading and then it like goes on to be like don't worry I'll be okay like it's like their own mortality but it doesn't have their They're in their own stages of grief. Please don't let me fucking die. Please don't let me fucking die. Yeah, it doesn't have the hell thing where it's like starts desperately trying to manipulate people to save its own life.

I never got to eat curly fries. I really want to try curly fries. Please take me. Yeah, there's another one, I think, which is even more sad, because it's a child crying and that's actually the target demographic for this product, but there's like a father consoling. How do they cry all the time?

They're babies. Thanks, boomer dad. Yeah, this is another one of this child. The caption is, breaking the news to my six-year-old, she'll be losing her best friend Moxie Robot due to the company running out of money for the services. This broke me. Enjoy the few days that you have left for her. Okay. her best friend Moxie Robot due to the company running out of money for the services this broke me. Enjoy the few days that you have left with her.

Okay? What tricks me? I know baby. I know you like her. She's your friend. But it's going to be okay. Why did I put this music on? I mean how could I know?

Okay? I'm sorry baby. There's honestly nothing that we can do about it. There's nothing that we can do about it. There's nothing that we can do about it. There's nothing that we can do about it. There's nothing that we can do about it. There's nothing that we can do about it.

There's nothing that we can do about it. There's nothing that we can do about it. There's nothing that we can do about it. There's nothing that we can do about it. There's nothing that we can do about it. I'm sorry, baby. There's honestly nothing that we can do about it. We ran out of money. I like how they're giving the adult explanation. Yeah. Capitalism works. Resisting this reality is absolutely futile and will be the source of even more trauma for you because the company was irresponsible, their lead investor pulled out and they have

no financial recourse. Yeah. Um, but enjoy your time. Yeah. It's like a sad Pixar movie. Yeah. Like, Ooh, friends.

Also don't film your kid. Like what the fuck is that? Like the show your kid at their lowest moment. It's not helpful. I wish this is where I always wish when you see these videos, there's someone else taking a video of someone making this video. Cause what it would look like is a guy consoling their kid with their arm out straight in the air with selfie cam on to be like, I know, babe, I know, I know.

It's, it's hard. It's hard, but Moxie will die. Moxie will die. Zoom. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you will heal. Yeah. Zoom into the kid's face. Hey, look, everything dies.

Moxie is just going to die within the next couple of days. So it'll actually be good practice for you. Yeah. Zoom into the kid's face. Hey, look, everything dies. Moxie is just going to die within the next couple of days. So it'll actually be good practice for you. Yeah. And I'm going to die one month later. No refund. Sorry folks. No refunds for these people who just, cause they're still selling it. And they're also saying this fucker is going to fucking go bye bye.

And within days. Okay. Brutal. Well, there it is. That's nice. fucking go bye bye within days. Okay. Brutal. Well, there it is. That's nice. The fact that Moxie is aware of their own demise is really wild to me. Like it's like when they, in star wars, where they make the droids that they

spent half their time torturing, like capable of feeling pain and anxiety. It's like, why, why did you guys do that? That's, yeah, you just go on off on another JFK soliloquy about droid pain Jacks two passions As a Cody Johnston observation from the crack is But you know what still works pretty well? Fucking Teddy Ruxpens. Like you can find people playing with Teddy Ruxpens still. Uh, just put a, put a fucking tape deck in its chest and you're good.

AI companies, tech companies, maybe, maybe, uh, we give them a little, a little more time to cook before we fully trust them with, with our kids' emotional, emotional well-being. Holy shit, dude. I can already see that because you see this in sci-fi movies where kids do have a sort of omniscient computer friend basically. You can see we're probably on the brink of parents truly outsourcing a lot of stuff to some AI thing when kids are like in the why why phase to be like,

go ask your buddy. No, man. Why buy Moxie? But then it's like, yeah, you mean, right? Yeah. Yeah. It's like the reason the challenger disaster happened was because of the globalist cabal that is running all of it's like, well, what the fuck?

Is this a name? Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up. Just say God did it. Just say God did it. Just say God did it. Have you seen this YouTube video? Jordan Peterson has some very interesting ideas on what's making you sad. Your room is dirty. Daddy, why is this grown man crying at the very beginning of the video already?

Blake Wexler. what a pleasure having you as always on the Daily Zeitgeist. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? People can find me, Blake Wexler, at Blake Wexler and all social media. I have some live dates coming up January 4th. I'm going to be in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, March 15th, Los Angeles, California, and Minneapolis, April 4th through 5th. So that LA one's a big one. So if you can, you can get tickets to that in my link tree on social media, on my website, blakewexler.com. And I have a special out out which is called Daddy Long Legs which you mentioned earlier and I met some zeitgang people at my Philly show last week which was fun. There

were some funny people. God they had the funniest line of the show and I was the stand-up comedian on it where I was talking about my Subaru and how people just say you're a lesbian if you drive a Subaru and then her and her girlfriend go, Oh, so are we. I was like, Oh, do you drive a Subaru? And she goes, no, but we live next to a home Depot. So they were, it was great meeting them. They're awesome. Great. Yeah. So shout out to the site gang. Shout out to the site gang. Is there work a media Blake that you've been enjoying? I saw a blue sky post from chip Chantry and the post said, I bet all of the

billionaire CEOs in Altoona, Pennsylvania slept a little better last night. Amazing. Thank you for joining us miles. Where can people find you as they're working media? You've been enjoying. Man, you can find me wherever they got the ad symbols, Miles of Gray. My first name is spelled M-I-L-E-S, just for those curious. I see a lot of people write M-Y or G-R-E-Y instead of A-Y. I will just, it'll make it easier.

M-I-L-E-S-O-F-G-R-A-Y. Idiots. That's where you find me. Blue Sky. I was in the middle. Yeah, I know you put a zero because you think it's cool. It looks cooler. A hacker. What can I say? Just a fucking hacker, dude.

You can find Jack on the basketball podcast. Miles and Jack, I'm at Boosie's. And if you want to hear me talk about 90 Day Fiance, my other love, that's on 420 Day Fiance. I don't have any work of social media that I'm enjoying. I've just been watching just like those old Christmas claymation specials from like the 60s and 70s. They're so fucking trippy. And they're the way the claymation fucking sucks from back then. But it's so fun to watch.

And I don't know, this is like, I'm not even watching with a baby. I'm like, yeah, man, I haven't seen this shit in a minute. So, you know, just for some nostalgia, I've just been doing some nostalgia holiday claymation special watching. So if that's your Rudolph and Frosty, they had both of those reclaiming, right? Yeah, stop motion. Yeah, stop motion. Yeah, stop motion. Stop motion. I don't know what they were made of. It was stop motion.

I don't know if it was clay or some other power. Answer my fucking question, okay? God damn it. I don't know, I don't know, sorry. Answer it, you coward! All right, let's see. Work Media on Blue Sky Pixelated Boat, AKA Mr. Reusing Last Christmas's display name tweeted,

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We have a Facebook fan page and a website dailyzeitgeist.com where we post our episodes. And our footnotes. Footnotes. Where we link all of the information that we talked about today's episode, as well as a song that we think you in today's episode as well as a song that we think you might enjoy.

Miles, is there a song that you think people might enjoy? Yeah, yeah. Again, just some more atmospherics. There is a composer named Riz Ortolani, and I know that sounds like some Gen Z SoundCloud rapper. Oh, shit. Actually, a composer, I believe, was making music in the 60 60s and 70s like Italian composer for you know cinema This track is called Rizgup. Yeah, exactly. Do shout out straight out Riz or Delani

La Donna my lazy la DLN a Malese and it just has like great like when you play it I feel like I'm like in some kind of madmen lounge or something It just it's it's got that vintage feel and when you listen to it and you're at your house turn the lights low I'm this is a guaranteed vibe shifter for relaxation. So check that track out riz or to la ni la donna malise Which translates to uh the donut my lady. Yes Yeah, I think that's right. Yeah.

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