The Daily Zeitgeist - MAGA Value Meals, Why Nicki Minaj At UN? 11.19.25

Episode Date: November 19, 2025

In episode 1966, Jack and Miles are joined by journalist and author of Becoming Baba: Fatherhood, Faith, and Finding Meaning in America, Aymann Ismail, to discuss… Trump Kicks Off Affordability Tour? White House Posts Then Deletes MAGA Grimace, Can’t Get Past Inflation, Corruption And The Epstein Files? HOW ABOUT A BRIBE? LAPD Continues to Protect Us (From Accurate Statistics About How Bad They Are At Their Job), Bill Maher’s Racist Bullshit Just Domino Effected Nicki Minaj To The United Nations and more! Exclusive: Trump to talk affordability at McDonald's summit White House pivots to affordability as President Trump confronts voter discontent POTUS: "Everybody loves something at McDonald's. I like the fish. I like it. You could do a little bit more tartar sauce though please, seriously." Trump ‘Knew He’d Win’ 2024 Election After McDonald’s Campaign Stunt As He Addresses Affordability Trump, 79, Makes Weird Noise as He Whines About McDonald’s White House McDonald's Arches Post LAPD Continues to Protect Us (From Accurate Statistics About How They Are At Their Job) COMPSTAT Plus Bill Maher’s Racist Bullshit Just Domino Effected Nicki Minaj To The United Nations Nicki Minaj to spotlight plight of Nigerian Christians in UN speech arranged by White House Nicki Minaj Slammed After Thanking Trump for Nigeria Threats Trump tells military to prepare for 'action' against Islamist militants in Nigeria Are Christians being persecuted in Nigeria as Trump claims? Is there a Christian genocide in Nigeria? Evidence shows all faiths are under attack by terrorists Ted Cruz blames Nigeria for ‘mass murder’ of Christians: What’s the truth? No, Bill Maher, there is no ‘Christian genocide’ in Nigeria A US senator claims ‘Christian mass murder’ is occurring in Nigeria. The data disagrees LISTEN: $AD BOYZ II by Junior HSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

how's the weather over there in new jersey brick yeah it's cold man i was there for like two days i have one of these like newly renovated homes and they just do not give a shit about craft these days and so they don't even insulate anything oh just hand you a coat when they're done they just you know what the guy said actually he said you could put a carpet down i was like bro here are some things we've seen work just like start a fire in the middle of you're living yeah oh you know try oven heat oh that's dangerous i like to warm my hands over the toaster as i'm making my bagel in the morning you know you just put your hands in the bread in the toaster just stay you have to have very steady hands but i do have a blanket though let me let me go

fashion wow you're getting you're getting really you got to get the blanket on okay There we go. Oh, that looks fun. Don't say anything racist. No. Put the blank, the towel. Oh,

it's so hard. Oh, fuck. God, which way do I go with this? I have a thousand photos of my dad doing exactly this. Just like, just getting bundled.

Pretending to be a sheikh. Oh, really? Lawrence of Arabia style. Yeah, yeah. It's a good look. It's funny.

There's like a really amazing school for religious scholars in Egypt. It's called, Oswald University and my dad took like a class there for a day and ever since then he's like yeah I've been to Oswald yeah yep yep and he'll do this

he'll just do this throw it over his head is he funny guy oh he's hilarious I didn't real so I thought he was always just kind of mean and like you know like a lot of dad just keeps kids at arms distance yeah I didn't realize until after I wrote my memoir

and I was like asking him questions that he was actually a comedic genius he's actually really really really funny He was killing stand-up. Oh, my God. He told me this one story. So I sat down and I was interviewing him for the book, and I was asking him how he, why doesn't have any hair beneath his neckline at all?

So straight from here, down, nothing. Nothing. No arm hair, no leg hair, no chest, there, nothing. All the way down? That's probably not a question you want to ask your dad. I'll answer it, but I mean. Like he's been dipped. Leave that curiosity aside, Jack, really.

That's what he was going to say. That's what he said. He said, you know, I come from a part of Egypt where we celebrate the first. first born son by dipping them in milk when they're born. And I was like, well, it's really fascinating. I'm taking notes. I'm writing it down. I wrote it into the chapter. And then when I was reading it out loud to my brother for a fact check, he was like, that doesn't sound right? So he brought it up. That went to my dad. He was like, I've never heard that before. The fuck kind of milk was this. And my dad starts cracking up. And he was like, you believe that? He's like, that's a least of

milk. You think we just have milk like that where we could just like dip babies in there? And then would throw it out? I was like... Good, okay, yeah. He's like, you didn't know that my interview style was two truths and a lie? Every paragraph? Oh, I hit a lie in there?

Oh, you're the fuck with you? My bad, bro. You know I'm not your dad, right? This has gone too long. But he gave me so many stories like that, you know? He told me the other story about how when he got married, he was driving a taxi cab in the city in the 70s. It's when he got married,

he told his wife, my mom, that he would take her to a a nice Italian dinner. And so they got in the cab. They drove up to Joe's pizza on Fifth Ave. And it's literally just a big pizza oven in a window. And I don't know if it's real or not. Because I don't know if he's just making fun of me or not. I'm choosing to believe that is real.

This fucking kid will believe anything. Thank God. What's this one? This is an I-Heart podcast. A decade ago, I was on the trail of one of the country's most elusive serial killers, but it wasn't until 2023 when he was finally caught. The answers were there, hidden in plain sight. So why did it take so long to catch him?

I'm Josh Zeman, and this is Monster, hunting the Long Island serial killer, the investigation into the most notorious killer in New York, since the son of Sam, available now. Listen for free on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, wherever you get your podcasts. On an all-new episode of IHeartRadios Las Culturistas, Emmy, Golden Globe and Tony Award winner, Sarah Paulson, spills on red carpet hacks. We saw these pictures and you're like, what is the story with this? She gets real about the inspiration behind her roles. Oh, no, there is no end to how people will behave.

And she puts host Matt Rogers and Bowen-Yag on notice. I don't think so, honey. I feel very, very triggered by this. Open your free IHeart Radio app. Search Las Culturistas. And listen to the full podcast now. On this week's episode of the next chapter, I, D.D. Jakes, get to sit down with Oprah Winfrey,

a media mogul, philanthropist, and global trailblazer. I could feel inside myself at four or five years old, looking through the screen on the back porch, that this is not going to be my life. Listen to the next chapter on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast, episodes drop weekly. Hey, I'm Jay Shetty and I'm the host of the On Purpose podcast.

Recently, I had the honor of sitting down with the iconic Chris Jenner. Even if one of your children has been through something really difficult with their partner or an ex-partner, you still love them as part of the unit and the family. These are the fathers of my grandchildren. And that love doesn't go away when we experience really challenging times with them. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 415, episode three of Dernay-Liesait, guys! It was a production of iHeartRadio.

It's a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It's Wednesday, November 19th, 2025. There's a couple of things here that it's like Play Monopoly Day or whatever. This is the one, Jack. This one's for you, my guy, because it's National Carbonated Beverage with Caffeine Day. Yeah. You know what I mean? Have you just heard people call it?

A little American do. Have you heard that referred to as a fridge cigarette? Oh, yeah. I didn't know. See, I was just like, Diet Coke's or fridge six. I was just around a bunch of Diet Coke-brained people in New York. And they were like, I need a fridge sick. And I was like, what the fuck?

And they're like, oh, yeah, give me one too. And then I was like, it's the new six, seven among middle-aged people in New York. If you're a white business professional. Yeah. Uh, yeah, hit that fridge sink. So, yeah, rip a fridge dart, eh? I'm going to rip a fridge dart this afternoon in honor of my national day. Hell yeah.

And, uh, Mountain Dew is fridge meth. I have a fridge crank, yeah. Depends, man. You know, because some people, uh, cigarettes come in all kinds of intensities. So I feel like, well, I can't, you know, the sodas. Doesn't it be fridge meth, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a fridge filterless camel red. Exactly.

Yeah. Yeah. What's a Marlboro, you think? A Marlboro light would be a Diet Coke, I think. I think that's what the type of person. To me, it strikes me as a parliament. A parliament is, I think, well, I think those are all in the same range of cigarette. It's like the cigarette for people who are like, oh, I don't smoke, but them bum cigarettes.

Right, right. Well, because parliaments to me were like the first cigarette, all the white girls in my high school smoked. And then when they're like, oh, you could do drugs out the recess filter. I was like, yeah, this is the new... This is for me. Yeah, yeah. No, would a black and mild be like a ducted pepper? Black and mild, see, that's...

Yeah, why not? It's one that's only a mixer, you know? Like, whichever soda is, like, best as a mixer, because I think it's black and mild, like, you use it for blunts. I mean, you can't. I mean, usually you want to use a actual cigar. So maybe that's just a Coke heavy, you know? But do people do take out the inner paper inside the black and mild

so it hits a little bit less harsh. So it is in a way, it's like you wouldn't just hit it straight out the fucking pack like that unless you've got some lungs. Anyway, we've done our duty for the cigarette industry. Anyways,

the whole episode is just this. Which one takes you to flavor a country the most? Let's talk about our favorite drag. If A. Lincoln was a cigarette, which cigarette would Aim Lincoln be? Do you remember your first drag off a cigarette?

I was like, this smells. so good and tastes like dirt air. Well, the first cigarette I smoked was one of my, was a butt, you know, that my family members left around. I never, the first time I sparked out the pack, new fresh cigarette, I was probably 15 in Japan. Yeah.

And I was surprised how smooth that first drag was. I was like, I was like, yo, I might be able to do this. He was used to butts. Yeah, exactly. You were used to smoke. I was used to butts. Yeah, exactly. Just down there like half the filter I'm smoking.

They're like, sir. That's not tobacco. My name's Jack O'Brien. Oh, yes. Potatoes, O'Brien. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Hey, it's Miles Gray, aka, come on. Look at who led capitulation.

Turk goat dams betrayed the nation. Now, A.C.A. go raise premiums. Blame those octogenarium bums. Okay, shout out to less than zero on the Discord. That's, oh, no, Faro Manch. Most deaf, Nate Dogg. One for the treble, two for the base, three for the incredible paper chase. I think is what most deaf said, aka Yassine Bay, for people who really follow his career.

Anyway, thanks for that one. Lesson zero. Thanks. I wrote two, too. Let me go. Amen is smart. You're about to go. Hold on.

Hold on. You've been here before. I was going to jump the gun for this one. Don't act brand new, Amy. Don't act. Come on. We're thrilled to be joined by an award-winning Slate magazine staff writer, one of our favorite guests.

Yes. You might have seen his work on a couple places like, I don't know, CNN, the New York Times, NPR, GQ, heard of it, the Columbia Journalism Review, which is just a couple local, periodical, such as that. It's Amyne Ismael! Assalamu al-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-fleo-fish-a-a-a-a-fileo-Fish, no relation. Bubba on the beat does get to the theory that Miles and I have positive from the start

that everyone's mentioned in Bill Clinton there's the horse theory Natalie what about Bubba Sparks what about Bubba Sparks you know that would be just so weird

Has anyone asked Bubba Sparks Has anyone reached Bubba Sparks for a comment I feel like this is a time I feel like this is a time for every person they Bubba to be like

just so you know bro it got nothing to do with me It's not Bubba Wallace. It's not Bubba Sparks. It's not Bubba Smith from Police Academy, even though he passed away many years ago. The timing probably doesn't work out for it to be Bubba Gump. Bubba from Forrest Gump. Yeah.

Because I think he passed away. And he, you know, they would have met in the war. Trump hadn't dodged the draft. Oh, you mean, you mean the actual Bubba, not the actor, Michael T. Williamson. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. I'm just saying, I don't know. I don't know. My brain doesn't work.

Bubba Wallace. Damn. Michael T. Williams is 68 years old now, the guy who played Bubba? That's fucking wild to me. I mean, I guess that's not that wild.

I feel like a dismissive asshole like Mark Epstein would probably refer to him as Bubba. Yeah. Yeah, you never know. Let's leave no leaf unturned here because he is approaching this like a bridge troll in a riddle being like, I cannot tell you who it is,

but I will tell you who it is not. Oh, okay. Like your dad when he's being interviewed. One of us can only tell the truth. One of us can only tell lies. You have three questions. Amen, it's great to have you back. How have you been?

Oh, man. I'm feeling pretty good. I'm feeling pretty good. Getting a lot of writing done. Getting a lot of pieces done. I spent some time at the UVU campus where Charlie Kirk made his last debate. Got to learn some things from talking to those kids directly. Yeah, man.

It's been good. It's been good. How are you guys? Yeah, wait, is that a piece you're working on right now or does that? Is that something you wrote already? It published, yeah. Oh, it did. Oh, I have to check that out.

I was just reading a lot of your coverage about Zoran's election, like in the buildup and aftermath, but I miss that Kirk piece. Oh, dude, I'm so excited about Zeron. It feels like we've already like woken up in a whole new America. Does it? I mean, it definitely gave everybody the, just a light air of positivity, although now we're like, okay, so how are the billionaires? they're all now scheming to be like,

how do we make this not do anything? You're like, yeah. You know what it felt like? It felt like that moment in Syria when Bashar, I said, finally got deposed. And then all the prisons were being released.

And everything was just opening up and people were coming back to Syria for the first time and forever. That's what this feels like. If we finally saw a democracy do what it was supposed to do, it wasn't just like somebody cheating or some election

fraud something. It just felt like he won by more than 50%. It worked. His campaigning worked. Right, right, right. I feel like we haven't seen that in a while. No. No. Not at almost like... I mean, in local race, I feel like it's usually at the like

city, state level where you're going to see that kind of like big D democracy kind of stuff really go down. Once you get to the federal level, it's just money games. Yes, we can? Yes, we can. May we? Amy, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment.

First, we're going to tell the listeners a couple of things we're talking about. We're going to talk about what Donald Trump is up to with his affordability tour, his McDonald's franchisee speech that had a weird, speaking of Police Academy, had a weird, like, little Michael Winslow moment where it was like, did he just start, did he turn into a walkie-talkie there for a second? I have a theory on what he was going for, so we'll talk about that. We'll talk about his plan for getting people distracted from Epstein Files, which is a bribe, you know, just which of all the policies like this, you know,

I'll take that, send some money directly to people. Yeah, that's never been a bad thing. Now, will it solve everything? I don't know about that, but yeah, go ahead. Support people, right? We're square. You're going to stop asking about the Epstein fires. All right, you're off that now, right?

Just, I don't want to hear it ever again, okay? You can take the car out to me, but I don't want to hear about it anymore. Yeah, he's like, da, da, that, that, that, that, that. And only take it if you're done talking about the Epstein files. We'll talk about the LAPD who are continuing to protect us. Hell yeah, bro. From aggregate statistics about how they are at their job. The worst.

Most obviously guilty shit I've seen the LAPD do. This is pretty wild because they are on some, always on some like guilty shit. But this is pretty bad. And then we'll talk about, so Nikki Minaj is addressing the UN today. And it all starts with Bill Maher. being full of shit. We'll talk about how that train of misinformation happened around the subject of Nigeria and, you know, a right-wing plot to fabricate the idea that, oh, you think, you think Israel is

committing genocide? Actually, it's Nigerians who are doing to Christians. Oh, interesting. So all of that, plenty more. Yeah, that's sad, man. It is. I mean, look, Bill Amar, this amazing way you can do in your Islamophob with an H-Boh. show. You can affect the business

at the UN. Right. All that plenty more, but first, Amin, we do like to ask our guests. What is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Okay. This morning, it was like big news in my circle of friends that the Legends of Zelda

movie that we're finally against our first looks. Oh, really? I'm a big Zelda nerd. I've played all those games to death. It's the only game I can really play. I'm a big dungeon freak. And, yeah, Me and my circle of friends, we love that shit. And so, yeah, there's like the first images.

Dungeon Freak sounds so much nastier than what it is. I got to really, yeah, we did try to my whole vocabulary. Oh, yeah, he's like, when I say D&D. People are really going to be looking for my name in the files. Okay, so first looks, I'm looking at something that looks like the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings. Yeah, it's pretty much it. Yeah, it's a lot of green flowing fields. It's still pretty exciting.

So shit that is like Hollywood's promise to New Zealand that we will boost your tourism industry once every decade. It feels like what's what we're seeing here. That's cool. It's live action. You know, that'll be interesting.

They said, oh, wow. They're describing it West. The director said they're aiming for something, quote, akin to a live action Miyazaki, which, okay. Who's directing? There's a lot of opportunities. Yeah, is it?

Hayao Miyazaki, no, but, you know, the vibrations, we're going to copy. I used to hate, like, video game adaptations, and then I saw that movie Uncharted with Tom Holland. And I was actually, this is, this feels like a meal. Like, this feels like a whole meal. I really enjoyed that one. Are you one of like, Super Mario and stuff? I was like, man. Well, yeah.

I mean, I get like the animated version. They're just trying to keep it, like, to very video gamey kind of stuff because it wasn't the John Liguizamo Bob Hoskins live action, uh, Mario brothers. we got in the 90s. I mean, that was so good. Are the fans, how are the, because obviously, I mean, I feel like Nintendo fans are less toxic than, like, console or PC gaming fans. Are there people enthusiastic about this casting?

Yeah, pretty happy, man. I think everybody just didn't want it to be, like, some big name celebrity where they were going to just try to force it like they did. Oh, yeah. Because they continuously do. How are they going to get Chris Pratt to do the voice, though? Is he just overdubbing that? like in VL afterwards.

All right. I'm going to give you the directors. Mama Mia. Right. And I'm going to give you the director's filmography. And you're going to do a bit of a Britney Brosky face, Miles, where it's like, ugh. Okay.

All right. Yes. The kombucha face. So he is best known for directing the Maze Runner film trilogy. But then he made the fourth kingdom of the planet, fifth or fourth planet of the ape's reboot. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, which I've heard is like interesting, at least. Yeah, I see that.

And it's all right? Yeah, I don't look, bro, I don't, do whatever the fuck you're going to do. You never know, because I know directing movies is, you might make a whole bunch of shitty ones and then suddenly make a good one. So off of this and Amon's excitement, I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to say really positive about this. I do really like the no-name performer, so. It's a perfect pairing, man, if you think about it, because all the monsters in Zelda are. like non-humanoid, they're like pig ape thing, creatures. And so it actually

kind of makes sense. It actually makes me more excited now that he did the film. Yeah. I'm just waiting for when they're going to, because I know right now they say this woman Bo Braggison is playing Zelda, but I know they're going to put Sidney Sweeney in that role eventually. Oh, God. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you know what else it is? I haven't been excited about anything, like, in movies for so long. And so I'm just really allowing myself, I kind of

forcing myself to be really excited about this one. I love that. May it not be a Disappointment made it. What was the last time you got really hyped over a movie? I was pretty psyched about one battle after another. I was really psyched over weapons and I never saw it. You still have seen weapons? No, I've had time.

You got to see weapons, right? I know. I was just like, I remember seeing the trailer. I'm like, yo, this shit fucking goes. And then cut to like, you know, life, lifeing. So. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I'm glad also.

It seems like it's aimed at theaters, right? this is going to be a theatrical release. They're not just going to be like, now on Amazon Prime. No, no, no, okay,

that's good, that's good. No, no, no, I think I heard, I was really excited about the, uh,

Miss Piggy movie. And then I think I heard that it's going to be a streaming thing, which is crazy. Like you need to put that on, you need to put that on, on, you know, out on theater.

That's fine because I just showed my kid the Muppets Christmas Carol. He was fucking love, he normally doesn't like seeing like live action shit. He likes animated shit. He was, feeling. Oh, nice. Yeah. Is this going to be like a live action Miss Piggy? Live action Miss Piggy?

Yeah, yeah. I haven't even heard about this. Emma Stone and Jennifer Lawrence and Miss Piggy. This might be relevant to one of our upcoming icon episodes, so stay tuned for those. Emma Stone. Yeah, yeah. All right, Amen, what is something you think's underrated?

Hmm. Underrated? I'm going to say Tomicatchez. They're back. They are. They're back. They're back. Yeah, I just bought one. I'm going to give them to my wife. I'm really excited.

Do you know what the tomogachi sorry? Do you know what I'm talking about? Oh, yeah. The little cartridges with a little screen on it. And you give it food and you clean up its poo and you see them get bigger and they laugh and they cry and they're just so happy. And you can't neglect them to the point that they could die. Yeah, they could die. Yeah.

And when they die, do they die forever? That has a question that my seven-year-old asked me about people recently. I don't remember. That would be crazy if you have to, like, if it's to throw it away if it dies, that'd be crazy. I feel like the original Japanese version probably would have been like, yeah, bro, it's gone. Welcome to life.

And then for American consumers, they're like, you got maybe just take the battery out and put it back in. Oh, they respawn. Thank you, Catherine. They respawn. Jesus. Well, that's a little scary, actually. Yeah, yeah.

All right. Yeah, this totally missed me. Well, yeah, because you were, what, your four-year, yeah, you would have been like driving, like a driving, high schooler by the time this would really hit in fever pitch for me. How old are you? I'm in my mid-50s. Yeah.

Dude, that looks good on you. You still have all your hair. I'm 40 years older than miles. He's 32, bro. No, no, no. You'll be 45. Shit, I'm 41. Yep. Uh-huh.

God damn. Look at us. Yeah. Old as fuck. So are you seeing this? Like, is it coming back in the sense that you can get one on eBay? Or you're seeing this as a trend? They have like a whole new.

line of them. Wow. You know, but yeah, so I think it's just kind of like a fun little toy that you can just keep in your pocket and then every once in a while it rings and you can pull it out and you can play

with it. And it's something that's not your phone. I think that's like the bigger draw. Exactly. Something that's not an app. Something that's not, you know, because I feel like so much of my life and my wife's life and everything is just going from like big screen to little screen to the back to big screen, the back to little screen.

Yeah. And just life has gotten so repetitive with having kids. I mean, dude, I love having kids. I like being a dad. But we end up doing the same things over and over again, and the days are really running away from us. So I wanted to do something different for this year's holidays and year holidays.

It's funny because we're Muslim, we don't even do that stuff, but I still wanted to get her a gift so that she wouldn't feel left out. And I was looking around and I just like, I wanted to get her like a gadget, something that was small. But she's not really into gadgets. She doesn't want like a watch or anything like that. Yeah. She kind of likes things that are like not a dummy,

like a dumb phone, you know? So I I was looking at that and I was like, she really used to like that stuff back in the days. I remember I used to like that stuff too. Let me just get her on. Yeah. Nice. I can't wait till next time you're on.

We need to get the report because my gut would be that having kids and then having a thing that replicates having kids. Oh, no. I didn't even think of that. Did you worst a kamagachi? I got to feed one of them and I can't remember which one it is. This one's got stink lines coming off of it. It's funny, though, too.

of that, like, Amy, you bring it up because when this shit was popping, it's because we didn't have cell phones as kids. It's like, oh, bro, I got this little Tamagachi I'm fucking around on during class. Yeah, we had anything. No, tamagachis. And you just think of all the things.

We used to just, like, the phone has your place. Like, I'm seeing like a fucking yo-yo. You know what I mean? Or it's like, bro, you got nothing to do. Get that yo-yo out of your pocket. A yo-yo phase. Oh, big yo-yo face. Kids were rocking beepers.

I didn't have enough people calling me. Oh, but we didn't do that. Did you put it in your hat, too? Did you clip the beeper to your hat? No, I never did the, I never did the beeper. I think I got a, like, type of candy that came in a beeper-shaped box. Oh. For those of us who didn't have bustling enough social lives to work a beeper.

I was in the streets. Like, pretend, what if you pretended that you had shit going on? There's, uh, Jack, there's bubblegum spilling out of your beeper. Oh, shit. Oh, yeah, she's calling again. All right. Yeah, I better take this. My, my dukes is tripping.

You know how it is. I pretend my mom is calling. Dude, that's so funny. The best I can imagine. I have really overprotective parents. Did you guys have beepers when everybody else had a cell phone? I had a beeper in 95. So people mostly, people still had beepers.

And it was like the beeper era when I had a beeper. Sick. I had a beeper because I couldn't afford a phone. And so I would just get a beep and then borrow someone's phone to call them out. Yeah. I had the beeper for a long time, though, because I also didn't, like, the phones are so big. I still was just so into the idea because, like, rappers would put, like, nine beepers on their waistband. Yeah.

I was just kind of like, I had two, like, at one point I had two beepers. One was a broken one, but I just had two to just stunt on people at the mall. That's like, if you got a lot going on and you want to look like Batman, you need like a utility belt. Just all beepers, yeah. So many beepers. Beeper Batman. Doctors still kind of use them, right? Or they all using Apple watches and shit?

I think the Apple watch. Yeah, they got phones. Ah. My wife works in a hospital and she has a beeper. She does? I feel like, I feel like that's like the last point. She gets pages. Right.

I feel like that's the last place where they're still used like in a regular way. Right. So it's, I mean, yeah. So I think my wife has like a work phone that is only like for work calls that she knows if she's going to call on that. It's within the hospital. Yeah, yeah, it's important. Yeah.

But yeah, I guess beepers do make sense. like for that so because yeah dude i was i was showing miles yesterday i got nine spam calls yesterday like during the course of our recording just an hour and a half yeah hour and a half nine spam phone calls it's they have made it completely fucking useless like if i was a doctor i'd be fucked or i'd be like getting scammed so much yeah oh hold on sir i got to oh i got to leave this surgery i'm getting another call no that's spam doctor I don't know. I don't know. You kind of like sanitize your hands all over again. Like, got to be sure. It's the same area code as my hometown. It makes me think maybe it's

someone I know trying to call me from a new phone, which is a thing. I got like the AT&T spam detection thing. And like it's just taken off since then. And now it never says scam likely. I'm like, what the fuck AT&T? Anyways, what's something, I mean, that you think is overrated? Um, laptops. Uh-huh. I feel like we're, we're finally. We're finally. at the point now where you could just do everything on your phone and so when I see somebody like pull out a laptop on a train because you know like I'm in the city and everything and somebody's like it's like a busy

train and somebody like has to do their work and they gotta like do it's like dude it could wait right do it later yeah trying to make a big production of the fact that you have work yeah you take up space can you write an entire article on your phone have you done that I've done that before damn it's not

you're a great you're a great fun typeer yeah because I need I need my full keyboard like to really crank shit out. But you could also hook up like a keyboard to a phone now. You can get like a dunk. That is the wildest look though.

You imagine you're taking the train and somebody just takes their phone out and then a fucking keyboard and they're like, right, let me just type this shit up on my cell phone. That's so much easier to carry than a whole laptop. And it's something about it just makes me,

just drives me nuts. Because I see it all the time. I see people pulling out laptops and doing work somewhere where they're not supposed to. And I'm like, dude, look around you're stressing us out read the room yeah read the room i'm trying to have a sandwich and you're trying to use this cafe as your office yeah yeah dude like your slack sounds are fucking

upsetting me that i can hear ambiently in this office yeah yeah and it's like they they sometimes give you a dirty look if you're dragging a chair across because i'm interrupting no work this happened the other day my son was pushing a chair in a cafe and somebody was gave him a look he was interrupting his flow yeah you're in a public place i would have grabbed three fucking chairs my bad man I'm expecting some people man you're using this chair in front of you actually it wouldn't bother me so much if like I didn't see it all the time you know

and it just feels like you can't leave the house without somebody making whatever space their office you know I take my case in the library a lot again just people just posted up making it their workspace and I'm like it's not that important even though it's a peaceful place to do your work We'll do that shit somewhere else. Or just so, you know,

be better at time management. If your problem is that you have to do work on the way that, like on the way to where you're going, maybe you should have woke it up a little bit earlier. That's right. They tell me to lift themselves up by their bootstraps and get it together. Thank you. Oh, you're getting crushed by your job?

I don't want to see it in front of me. You know, the article that I did fully write on my phone was the January 6th article when I went to the Capitol building. Oh, okay, I'll give you. I needed to file literally right then. And so I just typed out everything as it happened. Just went and published lit in a couple hours. And it was read like one of Jeffrey Epstein's emails.

It was just like no capitalizations, punctuation just scattered throughout. Luckily you got a good editor, so yeah, it worked out. All right. We're going to take a quick break. Then we're going to come back and talk about some news. We'll be right back. A decade ago, I was on the trail of one of the country's most elusive serial killers, but it wasn't until 2023 when he was finally caught.

The answers were there, hidden in plain sight. So why did it take so long to catch him? I'm Josh Zeman, and this is Monster, hunting the Long Island serial killer, the investigation into the most notorious killer in New York, since the son of Sam, available now. Listen for free on the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, wherever you get your podcasts. Hey there, Dr. Jesse Mills here.

I'm the director of the men's clinic at UCLA Health. And I want to tell you about my new podcast called The Mailroom. And I'm Jordan, the show's producer. And like a lot of guys, I haven't been to the doctor in many years. I'll be asking the questions we probably should be asking, but aren't. Because guys usually don't go to the doctor unless a piece of their face is hanging off or they've broken a bone. Depends which bone.

Well, that's true. Every week, we're breaking down the unique world of men's health from to testosterone and fitness to diets and fertility, and things that happen in the bedroom. You mean sleep? Yeah, something like that, Jordan. We'll talk science without the jargon and get you real answers to the stuff you actually wonder about. It's going to be fun, whether you're 27, 97, or somewhere in between. Men's health is about more than six packs and supplements.

It's about energy, confidence, and connection. We don't just want you to live longer. We want you to live better. so check out the mailroom on the iHeart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your favorite shows on an all new episode of iHeart radios las cultureistas emmy golden clove and tony award winner sarah paulson spills on red carpet hacks we saw these pictures and you're like what is the story with this she gets real about the inspiration behind her roles oh no there is no end to how people will behave and she puts host matt rogers and bow and yag on notice i don't think so honey i feel very very

triggered by this. Open your free IHeart Radio app. Search less cultureista. And listen to the full podcast now. On this week's episode of the next chapter, I, D.D. Jakes, get to sit down with Oprah Winfrey, a media mogul philanthropist, and global trailblazer. My life, although it may look like an anomaly,

it has only been possible because I was obedient to the calls. This episode dies deep into how Oprah turned pain into purpose and what it really means to evolve with everybody watching. Every decision I have ever made has come from sitting with the spirit and asking God, what would you have me do first? Whether you're rebuilding, reimagining, or just trying to hold it together, this one will speak directly to you. Listen to the next chapter on the iHeart Radio at Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast. Episodes drop weekly. And we're back. We're back.

And somebody told Trump about this affordability thing. This crisis? It really must be hard for him who has never, you know, needed to affordability. anything in his life, never had any sort of lack in his life. And also doesn't seem to be able to hear people who aren't billionaires, like, you know, like fully take them in as humans. Yeah. So this is probably news to him. Some people are like having trouble. Yeah. Well, when you're that wealthy, all your wealth is just like built on exploiting people's like labor. So at that point, you truly don't see them as people. You're like, yeah, these are my fucking smurfs that I

squeeze dollars out of the what the fuck are they complaining about but yeah the Trump is having a summit or had one already with McDonald's franchisees about affordability and I guess rather than like I don't know introducing like legislation that would bar companies from profiting

excessively he'd rather just yell at a bunch of McDonald's people about it but he lower the prices like that was basically a thing right yeah I mean well when you read cheap for a day or something do a sale when you read the comments you're like this feels like somebody's leaning on you, McDonald's.

But so people, we've talked about how he was going to go on a speaking tour to address the affordability crisis and just not a listening tour. Yeah, yeah. No, no, no, no. You will hear me, you will hear me again, and he said he was just going to go around not offering solutions, but merely pointing to his past accomplishments to be like, how are you going to say I'm not doing anything for working people? I'm doing no tax on tips, no tax on overtime.

Now, don't look too deeply into that and see if that's actually beneficial to those people. but it sounds good and that's what I deal in. So yeah, he continued this and they got the people who are asking about like, what's going to be going on at the McDonald's Summit? It says a key message at the McDonald's Summit will be that value and affordability or quote, so important to consumers and elected officials that our franchisees and company are co-investing to bring extra value and affordability to our customers. And I'm like, wait, hold on.

affordability is so important to elected officials that franchisees are investing their own this sounds like legislators like you need to fucking help us so whatever you need to bring the fucking cost down we'll help you do that shit yeah it's like we put money in your pocket now it's time to make me look good right 100% like this isn't because we've talked about I mean over the like the last since we've been doing this show it's always been like how fucking expensive fast food is getting to the point where it's not even some shit where you're like, bro, I can't have, like, I can eat fast food for cheap at least. Now it's like, I got to count the coins in my pocket before I go to like McDonald's or

some shit. Axios did report that McDonald's is, quote, taking the rare step of footing part of the bill for its new extra value meals to win back cash strap diners. Hell yeah. Okay. And there's probably no quid pro quo where, you know, the FDA looks the other way as they like Just add an extra pound of sawdust to all of their products. It's 100% beef dust.

Extra pound of sawdust is gnarly. But it just feels like, so the greed is causing such bad optics for this administration. They're begging slash coercing McDonald's into bringing prices down as a smokescreen. Because we have heard McDonald's be like, our customers can't even afford our product. Like that is being talked about within the boardrooms. Again, that means, are you willing to make less profits? Are you willing to take that extreme step to make less money?

And I will say the McDonald's is franchisee-legged-based, so you can put the pressure downward. So you're not asking billionaires to take a pay cut. You're asking them to put pressure on the, you know, people who own the individual outlets. Right, right. So it's that that's a way of doing this that doesn't require you. to put pressure on corporate America in any way.

It's really beautiful. It's like a beautiful trick they've done. But yeah, this administration has been throwing out all kinds of ideas, how to bring prices down. And Trump has even gone up, like gone back on being like, Biden started the high prices,

but I will fix it. And but now they're finding themselves and being like, okay, so how? And they're like, ask them to lower the prices. Yeah, because you like, hey, y'all. Anyone tried asking them?

Yeah, it requires them to do things that are antithetical to their entire worldview. So, like, don't write socialist checks, your capitalist ass can't cash. Yeah. You know, that's what he's trying to do. Yeah.

You know, this is going to work so beautifully for them, and that sort of drives me nuts. Because I think for like the past, it's not like a Republican or Democrat issue. I think, like, the way that it's been working for the past decade is that the top one percent, Bernie Sanders has been talking about this forever, the top one percent

has been just siphoning money from the middle class and the lower class like crazy. And now that all of the money has already floated to the top, they're going to trickle just a little drop back down and they're going to act like they're actually doing something. Right. And the way that it's been working in Trump

world where they're just desperate for anything, any sign of life in the Trump administration that they're going to actually turn this into a win. And I hate to say it, it's going to work. And, you know, I saw a little bit of the video of him, like, going up and, like, talking about it. And just the laughs that he got in the room when he was like, you know, I'm the first president that have been elected who was formerly a fry cook at McDonald's. I think the way that the room erupted in laughter, I think tells you everything about how this is going to play out. Yeah.

Is that because he did that one photo up as a fry cook? Or is he taking a shot at Kamala? No, he's just making fun of himself. And I think the fact that people are just, it's a party and everybody. It's like a big birthday celebration more than it is any policy movement. It's just going to work out. His life is just one long

birthday party for him. You know, and I think the way that he photoshopped like the McDonald's double arches on top of the White House or not Photoshop that they always did the AI. And they put grimace in a maga hat. I think it's sort of the same pattern of trying to create this

idealized version of the success, trying to show Trump as somebody who is actually solving problems. As long as they can continue to manufacture that image, their base is going to think of it as a success. And we're not talking to them. They're not talking to us anyways. And so there really is no room for somebody to say, actually, is this actually going to make

a difference? No, they're going to do. Oh, no. Look, Trump actually did lower the prices. He did what he said he was going to do. Well, I think that's where they're trying to find the thing where they're like, clearly the, you know, voted Trump three times people are, they don't need to be convinced. It's like all the people they kind of siphoned off in the presidential that they're like,

ah, fuck, like we're losing everybody too because they would tell everybody else who they think's going to vote for a Democrat, like just eat shit. We don't give a fuck. But I think there is like that group, because especially with the number of like Latino voters who are now just like the inversion of that coalition or the lack of support now, they're like, uh, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. Why was their problem? What are they mad about?

Oh, you know, just the kidnappings. Should we just look at this clip where he talks about? Yeah, we should talk about this because he is. He does kind of have them eating out of his hand, and then he does something that's like, I don't know what really happens here, but I just, as, you know, not just as a politician, but as a person, it's worth watching this as a person. Doing honest, beautiful, hard work and happy family sitting down to a really great meal. Because no matter who you are, everyone loves something at McDonald's.

There's always something to have. I like the fish. I like it. What? You could do a little bit more tartar sauce someplace. Seriously. I hate one. I said, do you have any tortoises?

Do you understand that? Yes, they have. The fish. Wait, okay. Was he shifting gears? The fish. And he like pushes his hand down a little bit. So, all right.

My first impression is it seems like a clear attempt at a Homer Simpson audibly drooling thing. Like a, you know what I mean? Oh, okay. But he like doesn't. So he's just like, but what's the hand doing? Because he's like, I like the fish. And it looks like he's shifting into third gear, maybe. Isn't he doing like a crunching sound?

Like a, he's simulating the roof of his mouth coming down on the fish. Oh, okay. He has a bit of an oral fixation, it feels like, the last year. Yeah, I mean, it is, it's weird, like, maybe he has something in his throat. I don't want to bring that up, couldn't you? That has nothing to do with anything that's happening elsewhere in the news. I'm just wondering if he had something in his throat. It was a horse, okay?

I wouldn't be surprised. Find a new fucking angle. It was a fucking horse, all right? The fact that he goes, I like the. fish makes me wonder if he just like doesn't know where fish come from and he's just like doing he's just like he thinks they're like created by a robot or something yeah i don't know he makes like a 90 degree angle with this either way that's what he's trying to do he's getting them to talk about anything but whatever's happening right now i i am curious though like how quickly

it like so prices will go down at macdonald's maybe for how long yeah but what about everywhere else because everybody also has bills to put like utility bills to pay they have phone bills to pay they've got grocery costs that you know the one thing now he's like they're trying to knock eliminate the tariffs on things like coffee

and like tropical fruit and certain things to just to give the illusion like oh some things are coming down but I don't I think he also misunderstands that this is it this is a like a fucking all encompassing crisis of affordability it's not just McDonald's became to

pricey but again to your point right that that's the they eat this shit right we'll go they're the same shit as me but that's him too it's wages yeah and that's the other thing too and i think rather than addressing any of those things it's easier to be like we're going to be cutting people of two thousand dollars checks folks just to be like you know how about my wages go up how about my health care costs you do something about the no no here's two thousand that's you know don't look into the analysis of what happened in the lockdown it did contribute a bit to inflation although Yeah, that would require buy-in at a very high level from, like, the C-suite, and that's not what he's requiring here. Here, he's asking franchisees to make less money so that, you know, and franchises are not, like, C-suite millionaires.

There are people who own a single McDonald's franchise or, you know, a group of McDonald's. If you got multiples, I hope you're- Yeah, yeah. I mean, there's some McDonald's franchisee kingpins for sure out here. And also, he did tweet out that MAGA hat. an image AI slop, essentially, of Grimmis wearing a MAGA hat, and then they immediately deleted it. So I feel like McDonald's was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, yeah. They're like, don't, yeah, we don't. That makes it even funnier, I'm not going to like.

Yeah. Well, like the first one, they, they, they, they, they, I think they vetoed the one where it had a swastika armband on. Right. And then they're like, maybe this one. Like all this, the AI slot that they've done, there was panic on the Trump side. We're like, oh, that's too far. That's too far. take that down

but that's also dropping poop on protesters in Chicago right right what's also just funny to me is like that McDonald's has enough sway they're like hey man

take that shit down and they're like sorry sorry yeah I guess we got too much white nationalist dip on our chip there sorry about that McDonald's we will remove the post

at once let's talk real quick about the LAPD who we've been on a pretty steady the police and human caging system in America is inhumane

doesn't work to make people safer and it seems like the people in charge of running that system might be catching onto that fact too. Crazy. Because in L.A. We spend billions of dollars in tax money to keep LAPD and fast cars and new

guns. The finest guns. We keep our police in the finest guns and hells. Tearing through the sky and helicopters nobody has really explained the purpose of Oh, paying lawsuit settlements for their illegal behavior. A lot of that. That's actually a huge burden on the city.

The helicopters, man. I feel like we got a, I feel like we could take over the golf courses. If Mom Doni can get elected, we can get rid of the LAPD helicopters and take over the golf courses. LAPD helicopters, like, don't, once you just like take a second

to think about it, you're like, so that's just for car chases? Like, that's why the fuck do they need to be? Why does the sky need to be constantly, swarming with helicopters. It's to also... Also, had they heard of drones. Right.

Oh, you know they have. I've seen the budgets. They're like, we need us a few of those. But also, I'm sure they're like, but we also need the helicopters so we can just keep a low-grade stress, like just a nice low-grade stress for low-income areas of the cities. You're being watched. Yeah, just buzzing down through neighborhoods to keep them alive. You know, you're going to keep them awake.

You know, they have multiple purposes. So on the question of what the money is being spent on and how... It's working. The LAPD is just like, we're not telling. Just trust us. It's for your own good. That's essentially what they've gone with. Right.

Because we used to have a crime map that you could look at at any time that was basically like, here's the crime data website. You can go look to your neighborhood. You can just see there's records of like locations of crimes, use of force, number of other, like all kinds of data. Just like what the cops are up to. And it was somewhat transparent. By long.

There's a law, the public transparency law, that for years, the LAPD has had to maintain records to improve inspection and accountability, and then abruptly this year, they were like, you actually can't see it. And when asked why, they said that the information, quote, has the potential to lead to misguided public policy discussions or unjustified public panic. which I believe the first one is their concern that they're like, oh, man, you guys are going to cut our funding if you know what's actually going on. But the idea that it would lead to public panic, they love some statistics that make them look like they are necessary and make their job look dangerous and make it look like they're having to fight things and crimes out of control. When there's a crime, they're the first ones to tell you about that. So I have to assume at this time of, like, rapidly dropping violent crime across American cities that their problem is not. We don't want to show you guys because you can be too scared. You're going to be too scared.

You're going to need us too much. Yeah, we don't want you to see how much. They think everyone is so dumb, man. They think everyone is as dumb as them. It's so patronizing to be like, oh, you guys wouldn't even wrap your head around this data that shows we're doing fuck all. and wasting money because then you're going to know you don't even want to you're going to fucking panic or some shit dude because it sounds like you that data is going to be so incriminating in terms of the just just total waste of money that we pay these people who most of them don't even live in the

fucking city they're out of towners who come in to just fucking bad up the actual people who live in the city yeah that right now there's a lot of back and forth trying to get this information out the mayor's office has not even returned to any hasn't given any kind of comment on this because yeah how are you going to defend this like You don't want to be transparent with the data about what you're up to. Then tell your story. If you're so concerned about what people are going to get from this data, then why don't you release it and you give whatever your analysis is

and then allow people to look through the raw data themselves. That's all. It's like a kid just being like, I got to tell you something, but you're going to be mad at me. I can't tell you. You're going to be so mad at me. Do you promise you're not going to be mad at me? Then I'm not telling you.

You're going to get mad? Well, did you do something bad? I don't know. Were you going to get mad? Are you going to be mad? I don't, I mean, I'm protecting you from this information because you're going to be so mad. You're going to be so mad. Oh, do you want to tell you.

This is what I didn't tell you nothing. Shout on to that way is for this report. You can almost imagine how that meeting went where they were just like, wait, why are we even giving this to people on the, why? So they could be mad at us? This is so dumb. I'm sure. Some poor low-level person had to go on the website and scroll. Right. Or I'm sure some person who's in charge of that was like, whatever, you just always post it.

And so I'm like, don't fucking post this one. Don't fucking post this one. They're like, what, what, what? It's just the day. It's like, oh, no. But what if we didn't? Yeah. No, no. There's a law. But what if there wasn't? Yeah. But there is. Who's going to enforce the law? We're the police. Yeah, exactly. 100%. But yeah, I mean, like, because also like in 2015, the LA Times, like, they, you know, did an investigation show. that the LAPD was involved with all kinds of misclassification errors that were artificially lowering the city's crime levels. So we're just messy.

We're just messy, guys. We're like loose cannons. Did you ever see Riggs or John McLean doing fucking paperwork? Hell no, dude. They hated it. Beating the shit out of people. Aren't you guys happy, though?

Look at the numbers. This is what you wanted. They're lower than ever. Yeah, I mean, I think I think the biggest thing is really for people to understand how much tax revenue that like L.A. County generates or even just even L.A. City does. And you look at the services we have. And then you just look at how much of that money goes to police overtime and settling these lawsuits for their fucking actions of impropriety to put it lightly. Yeah. It's it would, it's mind numbing. And people are like, damn, why the streets look like this? I'm like, because of LAPD. Right. You say, why do the streets? It looks like this as a helicopter flies over your head. It's like gunship.

It drives me nuts because in New York we're having this whole news cycle discussion about what Zoran means when he meant when he said defunded the police like 10 years ago. And it's so easy for people to just explain it, right? It's simple. You take some of the budget that's out like that's being wasted, that's actually not being used for good police work, and you spend it on services so that the police aren't being overwhelmed with non-stop calls for every little thing.

It just makes sense when you hear it said out loud, but then it just, it doesn't even matter. You take these things. What you're saying is, oh, so you want crime? Oh, are you pro-crime then? Oh, so you want people to kill you? Yes, look at me. I'm pro-crime.

Look at me. I've lost my mind and I'm pro-crime. And my fantasy is to get fucking robbed every time I leave the house. That's my dream, right? Because that's what a reasonable person says, no. Like, to your point, it's like, we take all the money they fucking waste. Like, we don't be spending $4,000 a minute on helicopters, and putting that into the social safety net programs that, like, to your point, you know, lead to actually less pride. And because we live in a democracy, it all hinges on whether or not this group and that group can have a conversation.

And it just, we so clearly can't. All of our policies are being based off of what slogan sounds better in. how much a happy meal will now cost I mean like I wonder if there even is a way to tell these cops like look guys y'all are making a lot of money all right yeah we're gonna take a little we're taking some money away okay and you still get to drive your gigantic truck

yeah wouldn't it be nice to like not respond to everything yeah right right it's like but we gotta work this out baby this ain't this isn't just some shit that you can just bleed the city dry with all your fucking overtime shit you talk to the cops and like a lot of them are like yeah i don't like that there are no mental health resources in the city. That's bad for us.

Yeah, even then they're in elegant way. You can't fix everything with a cop. You can just throw a cop, I didn't expect it to work out. Not according to Joe Biden who gave that speech. It's like, what, you want to defund the police? The police are our psychiatrists. There are doctors. Our lovers.

There are lovers. Does anyone ask corn pop if he knows who Bob is? That's a great question. We need to find out. I don't even think, I don't even know if corn pop knows who corn pop, that they are corn pop. Joe Pied, I just think some random black dude he shook hands with like 70 years ago. And he's like, yeah, corn pop was a bad guy. You're like, okay, sir.

How don't you fat? What? If corn pop in the Fccene files? You never know? Has that been searched? That's your job as a journalist to tell us. Yeah. I got to Google this.

Yeah. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. A decade ago, I was on the trail of one of the country's most elusive serial killers, but it wasn't until 2023 when he was finally caught. The answers were there, hidden in plain sight. So why did it take so long to catch him? I'm Josh Zeman, and this is Monster, hunting the Long Island serial killer,

the investigation into the most notorious killer in New York, since the son of Sam, available now. Listen for free on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, wherever you get your podcasts. Hey there, Dr. Jesse Mills here. I'm the director of the men's clinic at UCLA Health, and I want to tell you about my new podcast called The Mailroom. And I'm Jordan, the show's producer. And like a lot of guys, I haven't been to the doctor in many years. I'll be asking the questions we probably should be asking, but aren't.

Because guys usually don't go to the doctor unless a piece of their face is hanging off or they've broken a bone. Depends which bone. Well, that's true. Every week, we're breaking down the unique world of men's health, from testosterone and fitness to diets and fertility, and things that happen in the bedroom. You mean sleep? Yeah, something like that, Jordan.

We'll talk science without the jargon and get you real answers to the stuff you actually wonder about. It's going to be fun, whether you're 27, 97, or somewhere in between. Men's Health is about more than six packs and supplements. It's about energy, confidence, and connection. We don't just want you to live longer. We want you to live better. so check out the mailroom on the iHeart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your favorite shows on an all new episode of iHeart radios las cultureistas emmy golden globe and tony award winner sarah paulson

spills on red carpet hacks we saw these pictures and you're like what is the story with this she gets real about the inspiration behind her roles oh no there is no end to how people will behave and she puts host matt rogers and bowen yag on notice i don't think so honey i feel very very triggered by this. Open your free IHeart Radio app. Search Lust Cultureista. And listen to the full podcast now. On this week's episode of the next chapter,

I, D.D. Jakes, get to sit down with Oprah Winfrey, a media mogul philanthropist, and global trailblazer. My life, although it may look like an anomaly, it has only been possible because I was obedient to the calls. This episode dies deep into how Oprah turned pain into purpose and what it really means to evolve with everybody watching. Every decision I have ever made has come from sitting with the spirit and asking God, what would you have me do first? Whether you're rebuilding, reimagining, or just trying to hold it together, this one will speak directly to you. Listen to the next chapter on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast, episodes drop weekly.

And we're back. We're back. And let's talk about, first of all, why Nikki Minaj is addressing the UN. Addressed the UN yesterday. Her involvement was arranged by the Trump administration. She tweeted. Thank you, Minaj, couldn't address the UN just off the strength of her and the Barbes? I know.

You would think so. Okay. But writing in a post, Ambassador, I am so grateful to be entrusted with an opportunity of this magnitude. I do not take it for granted. It means more than you know, the Barbes and I will never stand down in the face of injustice. We've been given our influence by God. There must be a bigger purpose. What about your husband?

Trump media advisor, Alex Bruce Witts, who's also expected to speak at the event. And this was to highlight claims of Christian. persecution in Nigeria, which, first of all, I do just want to say, now we've got two of the three people on Monster now fully aligned with the right. Only Jay-Z's our last holdout. I mean, I'd say he's low-key, you know, as a billionaire. Yeah, yeah. He's part of that set.

But, yeah, he's not, he hasn't openly. He hasn't fully, like, become a part of the Trump administration. Did you imagine? He's like, and he has who better than Sean Carter as my liaison for housing and urban development?

He said the streets is watching and he knew. It's kind of nice when people like this get involved and they do like want to take a position. I think it's really cool. It's just Nikki Minajave of all people.

I don't think I ever got over once she talked about how the COVID vaccine will make your testicle swollen. Yeah. Remember that cousin? Was her cousin? Yeah.

Oh, that's famous cousin. Called off because they took up the COVID vaccine. It's like, yeah, it's good. We should want people to, like, take stances and be political, you know, politically involved. Yeah, but like, don't get your politics online. Yeah. Don't get your politics. Don't get charged up off a Bill Maher segment. Yeah. So that's rule one. This is what happened. Earlier this month, she praised Trump for threatening military action against Nigeria over the slaughter of Christians. Trump alleged air quotes for slaughter. I think it's important to say. Yeah, yeah. over the quote-unquote slaughter of Christians. He ordered the military to prepare for action in Nigeria to tackle Islamist militant groups because the government is failing to protect Christians and promise to do things to Nigeria that Nigeria is not going to be happy about.

He always does shit like that like he's flirting. And, you know, obviously he doesn't give a fuck about Nigerians, but this gives conservatives an excuse to paint Christians as the real victims in our world. They're so horny to be, like, persecuted. Gosh, yeah. You know? And in 2020, he similarly stated the government of Nigeria was not doing enough to protect the safety of Nigerians, especially Christians. And there's been, like, Ted Cruz has recently come out and been like 50,000 Christians have been killed since 2009 by armed Islamist groups in Nigeria.

Of course, he did not cite sources for the information. And we think, like this really got going. a week before Cruz's tweet because Bill Maher on his show is it still what the fuck's the real time or whatever the fuck I don't know yeah real time real talk real whatever the fuck racist self-hating loser show he used his HBO show to claim that Islamists

Boko Haram are systematically killing the Christians in Nigeria okay this is new rules new rule this is so much much more of a genocide attempt than what is going on in Gaza. They're literally attempting to wipe out the Christian population of an entire country. His sources, according to people who are actual journalists, say that it's largely fabricated claims and manipulated images from unverified outlets. But of course, that segment was later picked up by Fox News, which is how it gets to Trump and Ted Cruz, which is how it then gets to Nikki Minaj. Wonderful.

Love that. Love that pipeline. The Bill Amar to Nikki Minaj UN pipeline, really, really impressive. And I mean, God, do people, don't people know Bill Maher? Like, I don't even know how the fuck he's still on HBO. This guy has such a sordid record of Islamophobic bullshit that he says on his show for fucking decades. Yes. That any time he mentions anything outside of him wanting to have sex with, like, video vixons from the, like, 2000s. Oh, my brother, this is some fucking bullshit.

This is some lie. Yeah, and just to think that it goes from there to now this whole sort of narrative that they're really trying to get going of like, let's, we, honestly, we need to protect Christians everywhere. And maybe that's a justification for increased militarism around the world. I don't know, maybe. Or just to change the optics a bit. Yeah, turn it into a religious war. That's the right to be what they're going for. Yeah, they want to be able to like clap back at the accusations of the genocide. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, he dropped that report around the time that Nigeria's voice support for a two-state solution to the Palestinian conflict at the 2025 U.N. General Assembly. So he went and like cherry-picked fake sources from across the internet and then, you know, put together a segment basically being like, oh, interesting. That's rich coming from you, Nigeria. Right. Well, they're also using the shorthand. Islamist group means the crucible. sades against Christian people. It's like, do you know anything about Boko Haram?

Yeah. You read about it? Boko Haram has positioned itself against the Nigerian state as an apostate entity, not against any single religious group. There's no one motive behind the attacks. Not only is it not a genocide against Christians, but the majority of victims of the armed group are Muslims. Yeah, it's sad, man.

No, Boko Haram is a real problem to him. And it's like one of many of the victims. these kinds of paramilitary groups that feed off of young kids and they go in these places they kid up to kids and they raise them up to be fighters and it's fucking awful. And it's just really sad that this only comes up in the context of, oh, well, you thought that what we were doing was bad. How come I don't hear you talking about this? And the same thing goes for what's happening in Sudan, man.

It's devastating. It's devastating if you're keeping up with what's happening over there. But I only ever see it being talked about online in the context of like, oh, well, how come we're not protesting against this. Yes. I just need, I only find out about this stuff when it's brought up by a major pop diva. I need that. Yeah, with questionable marital choices, yeah.

Yeah. I need Lady Gaga to weigh in on Sudan before. I'm sitting, I'm sitting on my, keeping my powder dry till Lady Gaga and Olivia Rodriguez chiming. Olivia Rodriguez would be very interested to hear what she has to say. I mean, she's younger. I feel like she probably has something to say. I feel like the younger ones definitely aren't. What is Sabrina Carpenter said about that?

Serena Carpenter would be also interesting. I think she probably prefers to stay uninvolved. For some reason, I can't not picture her as young Hillary Clinton anymore. What I saw that side by side? I was just like, damn. Oh, I haven't seen that yet. I'm going to look at all. You know what, Miles?

I'm going to stick with my original stance because one thing's for sure is that absently and without information accusing pop divas of things never backfires on the internet. Yeah. Taylor Swift fans are pretty cool and reasonable. And don't get mad if you, if you're just like, I don't know. They seem like kind of a weird couple.

They're like, fuck you. Amen, such a pleasure having you as always. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? Mostly on Instagram,

posting dumb stuff. Usually my articles. And yeah, I'm in the middle of my book tour. So please check in. to see where I'm going to be next. I'm going to be in Miami next week and then Seattle two weeks after that. So yeah,

I'm being all over talking about becoming Bubba talking about my journalism. There you go. Saying yes to everything. There it is. Is there a work of media that you've been enjoying? You know, I've been really enjoying the Daily Zeitgeist, I think.

Oh, shit. Have you guys heard that show? It's so crazy. Hey, for the listeners, I don't know if y'all heard this show. I was on board until they were fucking rude about Sabrina Carpenter. Jack clearly has an anti-Sabrina Carpenter. They're not nice to tell us with fans, I've heard. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. That's, yeah, yeah. But they are asking the real questions.

Yeah, like, like, why aren't they buying our crypto coins? Yeah, exactly, exactly. Or a horse. No, seriously, I love coming on the show. I love talking to you guys. I love listening. I listen as often as I can. You guys are literally doing the real work out here, man. Oh, no. Oh, thank so much, man. You says the guy who. Coming from somebody who's actually doing the...

Who hand-typed a January 6th journalist. From the front lines of an actual insurrection. I would say we're about 20 levels lower, but we're on the same tree. We appreciate that. I love you guys. Just don't never let me catch you with a laptop on the train. No, never, never. On a train?

I mean, not on the subway, right? No, on the subway, you see it all the time. Oh, the subway is fine, but like... He's not talking to Amtrak. He's talking to New York train. Yeah, you can do Amtrak, though. I mean, that's what the Amtrak's for. No, Amtrak is nice.

It's like every seat is like its own little room. Yeah. All right. All right. Miles, we had to let Amon go to, you know, go get his kid from school. So. To the transparency there, yep. I just want the transparency.

At this school, if you want to meet him there. It's in New Jersey. But I do, I'm dying to ask you. Where can people find you? And is there a work in media you've been enjoying it? You know, after all these. these years it still feels sincere jack i gotta say uh you can find me everywhere at miles of gray you find me talking about 90 day fiance on 420 day fiance that's the show i do with

sophia alexandra um let's see a work of media i like no okay oh i can give you one you know what we have a new uh format of the daily zeitgeist in case you missed it Evergreen episodes drop in Monday morning, the first episode of this new format about icons, deep dives into icons about Einstein, dropped on Monday morning. You can go back in the feed and find it.

And then, yeah, these are going to be dropping weekly for a little while. Just so, you know, we want to, I think, we've talked about it before. It's like, we want to keep talking, but also not talk about the creeping fat news. Or not even creeping, whatever, ever-present. Yeah, ever-present.

Yeah, ever-present. oppressive fascism. It's a fun one. It's a, you know, when the photographer's like, do a silly one just for us. That's what these are, yep. Yeah, that's what these are. I don't like a muster up is sticking my tongue out. Like Einstein.

Yeah, there you go. Was that what you were going to say? Or you had something else? No, I was just thinking about what I was watching yesterday, and I don't want to admit that I was watching below deck as much as I was. And you haven't. And the good thing is, you haven't admitted that.

The thing is, I was lying when I just said that out loud. In addition to our new format, Evergreen Daily Zika's on Monday morning, about icons. I've been enjoying a couple tweets. Mia Chateau tweeted the worst part of being a good listener is that people get creeped out by the information I've retained about them just from listening.

Have you ever had that? Where you're like, oh, yeah, you were in Texas, like last year? and they're like wow good memory but like they get kind of freaked out or like I feel like it's like a competition where they're like fuck I don't know where this guy was last year at all yeah yeah yeah I have I have a memory like that it helps definitely in like uh business settings because they're like yeah god this guy you are my name man shit you're not a business man you're a business man now let me handle my business now uh so I was enjoying that I was enjoying uh so there was a newswire report Newswire underscore U.S. Trump, I wasn't with Epstein all the time at all. And I hit you unemployed flop, Andrew Cuomo, retweeted that and said, Tim Robinson-ass syntax.

Oh, my God. I wasn't with Epstein all the time at all. All the time at all. Wow. And then No Context Humans tweeted a video with the tagline. It's the simple things. It's just these kids throwing an apple. They're like around a, a light pole that has like a point on the top of the light and they're just throwing an apple and trying to stick it onto the point on the top and then they get it and just the pure joy like that they feel again this goes this goes with the things we've been talking about about just like pure mind numbing like doing shit just to do stuff I like those little challenges that you can set for yourself oh yeah you can find me on twitter at jack underscore o'brien you can find me on Blue Sky at Jack O.B. the number one. You can find us on Twitter and Blue Sky at Daily Zekegeist.

We're at The Daily Zekegeist on Instagram. You can go to this episode wherever you're listening to it. And in the description, 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 that you think that people might enjoy? Yes, there is, I was just listening. TikTok serves you all kinds of music

And there's like you know This is a genre of like Coritos that are called trap Coritos and this artist Junior H is like fucking You know up there And I think I've just realized too Because I listen to all kinds of music I'll listen to a lot of electronic music And then you kind of need to hear people playing instruments

And really just like kind of singing and shit This is called Sad Boys 2 dollar sign for the for the S and Sad Boys I-I like Boys to Men but yeah this is junior h most people have probably heard this song but if you haven't just just familiarize yourself with a new genre of music that maybe you don't listen to as much because they're not singing in english so this is junior h hs with sad boys too All right, we will link off to that in the footnotes. The Daily Zekeyes is a production of IHeartRadio for more podcasts for My Heart Radio visit. The IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows that is going to do it for us this morning. But we are back this afternoon to tell you what is trending.

And we'll talk to you all then. Bye. Bye. The Daily Zykeyes is executive produced by Catherine Law. Co-produced by Bay Wang. Co-produced by Victor Wright. Co-written by J.M. McNap. Edited and engineered by Justin Conner

A decade ago, I was on the trail of one of the country's most elusive serial killers, but it wasn't until 2023 when he was finally caught. The answers were there, hidden in plain sight, so why did it take so long to catch him? I'm Josh Zeman, and this is Monster, hunting the Long Island serial killer, the investigation into the most notorious killer in New York, since the son of Sam, now listen for free on the iHeart radio app apple podcast wherever you get your podcasts on an all new episode of iHeart radios las cultureistas emmy golden globe and tony award winner sarah paulson spills on red carpet hacks we saw these pictures and you're like what is the story with this she gets

real about the inspiration behind her roles oh no there is no end to how people will behave and she puts host matt rogers and bow and yag on notice i don't think so honey i feel very very triggered by this. Open your free IHeart Radio app. Search Lust Cultureista. And listen to the full podcast now. On this week's episode of the next chapter, I, D.D. Jakes, get to sit down with Oprah Winfrey,

a media mogul philanthropist, and global trailblazer. I could feel inside myself at four or five years old, looking through the screen on the back porch, that this is not going to be my life. Listen to the next chapter on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast, episodes drop weekly. Hey, I'm Jay Shetty and I'm the host of the On Purpose podcast. Recently, I had the honor of sitting down with the iconic Chris Jenner. Even if one of your children has been through something really difficult with their partner or an ex-partner,

you still love them as part of the unit and the family. These are the fathers of my grandchildren. And that love doesn't go away when we experience really challenging times with them. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is an IHeart podcast.