The Daily Zeitgeist - Markwayne IS NOT LYING! DHS Might Follow The Law? 03.19.26

Episode Date: March 19, 2026

In episode 2025, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian, Ben Palmer, to discuss… DHS Still Not Funded, WH Makes INSANE Concessions To Get The Money Going Again, Markwayne Mullin Is On Some Stolen Valor Sh*t, Government Registers Aliens.Gov Domain Name and more! Jack's Piece of Media: ‘Plantman & Blondie: A Dress Up Gang Film’ Review (SXSW 2026) Jack's Piece of Media 2: The Dress Up Gang - This House is Cute AF Trump, 79, Makes Ludicrous Promise to Halt Shutdown Markwayne Mullin: "War is ugly. It smells bad. If anybody has ever been there and been able to smell the war and taste it, and feel it in your nostrils, it's something you'll never forget. PETERS: So where did you 'smell war'? MULLIN: I just said -- it's classified Markwayne Mullin's responses to questions about his supposedly "classified" foreign trips (that he didn't disclose to the committee) are bizarrely evasive Government Registers Aliens.Gov Domain LISTEN: My Country by tUnE-yArDs Where Should Ben Move? Vote Now at BenPalmerIsMoving.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Yours. Dilla time? Yes, that's correct. Yeah. I still have not read it, but I got the first couple. Yeah. I'm like 40 pages through it too. Yeah.

Part of me is like, I'll listen to all the music, bro. I know everything. And then you read the book. You're like, what the fuck? Yeah. I'm ignorant as shit. Right, right. Because it starts going through like the history of like Detroit.

Yeah. Way back in the day. And then it's like, wait, how's, just going to tie back into Jay Dillon later on. Yeah. And it does. A very thick book with small text, too. So I was like, kind of overwhelming. You're like, oh, I can have to read a lot.

I know. Part of me, like, when I read, like, rap books, I'm like, this will be, this will be a fun read. And then sometimes they're, like, really dense and well-written. And the guy is like, Finnegan's Wake. Yeah, yeah. Exactly. But you get through it and then they're, yeah, they're always really good.

Yeah. I just read two changes. This new book. That's a good one. Oh. That one of those, like, you know, easier to read. Yeah, I'm sure. This J. Bidela one.

That would be wild if it was like Shakespearean English. I mean, he has a, he has a graduate degree of business, doesn't he? Yeah, he's like a master's in business. Yeah, too much is smart for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He went to a school on a basketball scholarship. He was supposed to go to, like, a D1 school, but he got in trouble for selling weed at his high school. Like, right when they were recruiting him.

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March 19. 319, 319, good buddy. It's, uh, I don't know what the, there's so many branded it. National backyard day. We'll take that. You got a backyard or have been in one. Remember it. Honor it.

And also National Certified Nurses Day. National Let's Laugh Day, National Chocolate Caramel Day. Hey. And for all y'all who like some meat on the bone, National Poultry Day. National Let's Laugh Day, I feel like, is probably honored by the worst people at every office. Yeah, right?

Yeah, yeah. It feels like something that... I don't know. I just like to laugh. You guys take yourself too seriously, and that's what we do around here. We like to laugh, you know, people who say that a lot. Right, right, right. It feels definitely like what Jim Downey's character in the chair company is all about, you know?

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Did you do the Kevin Sorbo Sweet Caroline one? No. I did not. I did the one that you did. I did the same one that you did when I was out. And this is why we can't miss two days in a row. Parallot thinking.

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Appreciate you having me. Thanks. Yeah. Coming in with the real AKA, we're not going to say what it is, but you've got your fake name on the Zoom coming in. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Man of many identities. Different identities have been Rob, Brian, Jack.

Oh, oh, hey. I mean, it's not my real name either. You've seen them all. I haven't done Miles yet. I have to do Miles. It's a good one. Yeah, yeah, it's a good one. People might think you're from England.

Yeah. Well, I like a, I like a name also. I started off doing as Jackie. I like a name where it could be. You don't know who is it. Yeah. You know who you're going to get. Exactly.

And so then let them imagine who you are. Sure, sure. Blanks. I kind of like that. So it's like when you're coming up with a fake name, you don't want it to be like Josh or Ryan or like one of those names that is just like you want it to have a little bit of character so they can like hang a story on it sort of. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's a good strategy.

I mean, I don't always follow it. But I think, I don't know. It sounds kind of fun. Yeah. I don't know if it matters, but maybe. Yeah. You can use anything. Any little tricky that'll help.

help you. Right. Yeah, yeah. Dude, like, you've been doing, like, troll shit for a long time, right? Like, you were, were you also, like, the people's court, you're doing shit like that, like judge shows and stuff, too? Yes. The people's court specifically told me never to call them again. How do you go from, like, doing, I get the, they're like, yeah, let's go get a people's court. You fucking sue me. Let's fucking have fun. We'll have a laugh. How does that escalate to, like, let's congressman Ted Yoho a little bit or like set up a fake ice hotline so we can I can just kind of fuck with some like the worst people in our country right now yeah the the Ted Yoho politician thing kind of happened because I have you know like the body of work or like the

social media channels where I'm showing people the things that I'm doing and that happened because a fan reached out and said hey I did something kind of similar to what you do I made this fake website making fun of this company And I thought maybe you could do something with it. And so that's when I was like, yeah, sure. I'm always down to try something. And then he was like, okay, cool, I'll let you know if we get anything good here, that people that fill out the form thinking that the site's real, you know?

I'm like, all right. And then nothing happened. Then a year and a half later, he says, hey, that actual congressperson left his phone number with me on this site. Do you want to call him? What was the purpose of the website? Yeah, it was the social media app parlor. Right.

Yeah, yeah, right. Right. Right. Yeah. He just made a, he bought the domain name parlor dot social. So it somehow started getting ranked high in like duck, duck go searches. So if you would search for the social media at parlor and duck, dot, dot go,

his website would come up. And so I think that's how it ended up getting a real congressperson to sign up on the, on the site, leaving his phone number being like, hey, guys, call me. I want to work with you. Say less. Say less. Big fan of your work. Let's just, you know, a broad blanket sense. Let's work together.

Yeah. That's how I ended up doing that bit. But mostly the other ones, I kind of just set, you know, little traps or Honeypot websites or, you know, just try to keep doing something different. Right, right, right. It's a real look into the dark night of the American soul, you know? You really see people at their worst, which is, it's entertaining. I don't know another place where I can go to just see Americans, like, be as bad as I suspect they are in a lot of cases. Yeah, yeah.

Just shamelessly being like, my neighbor doesn't like me, and therefore I think they should probably be deported. I can't see into their house. I think something's going on. And it's like, what? It's interesting to see how, like, such loose facts they use to basically formulate an opinion on somebody. but then also at the same time, like a lot of the times when you're like, all right, then so you want this person deported, they're also like kind of like some people have a reckoning with their own conscience. Like over it. They're like, oh, well, you know, like, I don't want to know it's me, but like I'm not saying I want this six year old deported. And we're like, well, that's exactly what you're doing. Exactly. You're not, you don't want it said exactly like that. Right. It's a, it does kind of put into perspective the reason that law enforcement is always like, at this point.

The individual eventuated a, you know, like they put it in these terms so that you don't have to like think about what is happening. Like you, but you, when they call you, you're just like, so just to run this back to you and then put it like very straightforward language, what they're doing. And they don't always like that. The cops like, yeah, the individual discharge you liquid onto my foot. And it's like, well, you peed on your leg. It's charged. I don't want to say it like that. I don't want to say it like that.

Yeah. No, that's what often happens. So when I start asking the questions and I go, yeah. All right. So this is what's going to happen if what you're calling for happens. Like what you're actually calling for ends up happening. Here's what it sounds like.

This is how these people will suffer. Yeah. So the grocery store, when I go, so now we're going to throw her in a van. She couldn't, she couldn't speak good enough English and she helped you find the water in the grocery store where she works at Publix. Now you want her thrown into a van. and driven across the border. She's like, well, wait.

She's like, well, when you say like that, it makes me sound like a bad person. Don't go guns blazing. Yeah. Don't go guns blazing. Well, that, that's actually what will happen. Yeah. Have you seen the news?

See the ice agents. They are guns blazing. Does seem to be their strategy. It does seem to be how they like to enter. Yeah. How they introduce themselves. She's like, I just, you know, I'm just doing my part. Just leaving the tip.

And then I don't want to, I don't want any part of it after that. But my thing is going, here's some part of it. Yeah, yeah. Just so you know, it's not as simple as like, I called the thing and I don't have to deal with the human fallout from my snake. No, I don't have to think about that. Right. Right. Amazing.

Well, we're thrilled to have you here. We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell the listeners a couple of things we're talking about. We are going to talk about DHS. Yeah. They're not funded. This is leading to TSA shortages and the Trump administration. making some huge concessions.

Unbelievable concessions. Like willing to follow the law type concessions. So it's pretty crazy. We'll talk about Mark Wayne, Mullen, who is being questioned right now for his appointment as the head of DHS. And he's not doing so well. Nah, no, it turns out.

He's got a little stolen valor in the old background. I never said military. So it's not that I said military, but also I've been I've been downrange. I don't want to talk about it. Down range. Down range. For sure.

For sure. Keep it vague. Keep a vague. Mark Wayne. We're going to talk about the government registering aliens.gov, the domain name, which I don't know exactly. I was going to say, I have a similar. They're a similar domain name, actually. The office of the president just registered.

registered the They got a The executive office of the president Got your eyes So we'll talk about that What to expect there Whether it's going to be a big It's really a tough time

For people who want disclosure Because literally anything He discloses at this point Would be impossible to believe I feel like Right He could come out with like an alien body He's like look guys

It's right here It's look at it Ooh Anybody that's bullshit I'm a fucking lie. All of that, plenty more. But first, Ben, we do like to ask our guests. What is something from your search history?

Am I impersonating a federal officer? Maybe that. Yeah, I don't know. Am I? That's more of like my chat chabit history. I don't search as much anymore as ask questions to chat chabit. And then I have to be like, well, is chatypte hallucinating right now with this answer? And I'm like, yeah, I don't want to know.

Yeah, I'm satisfied. Hallucinations are not. I'm going with this answer. Right, right, right. Let that guide my life now. What's the, what's like the line there when you're like, okay, I'm not impersonating anybody? I'm just saying, I'm just saying, hey, what's up?

You got something? Like, it's like as long as you're not saying, I'm so-and-so with this agency. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I never actually say an official agency. And I definitely don't say them with ice. And when they bring that up, I always just kind of start rambling and just sounding

as professional as I can, probably not making any sense at all. But I've found that you really don't need to make much sense as long as you sound like you know what you're talking about. Which is exactly why these people ended up voting for Trump. Yeah. He sounds coherent. Yeah.

That's enough for me. Right. Yeah. Just using, you know, like buzzwords here and there, sounding confident. So sometimes I'll throw him up on in front of me on the screen. So I'd be like, okay, I can say that and that and that. Then just, you know.

or just kind of riff it. But yeah, no, I don't know. There's a big difference between pretending to be a police officer where you're just dressing up as a cop for Halloween. You make a social media account, parody of a cop, and then actually going out and pulling people over and writing their tickets or handcuffing them. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

All right, I got to stop doing that. It's like, yeah, just because people make their own assumptions that you're this thing, that doesn't make it. Right, right, right. Impersonating, you know, so I try to set them up where they're making those assumptions. Yeah, playing that space. They do all the work.

They do all the work. You're doing all the work here, pal. Are you noticing, like, in terms of the rate of reportage, like the rate of, like, people coming to you and being like, hey, could you get rid of this person who just walked their dog past my house? They looked brown. How, are you seeing it slow down? or slow down yeah like are people reporting less or is it still uh just as kind of coming in

as fast as it's always been it's consistent it's just as consistent as it's always been now mind you you know i do things a little differently i'm more like uh kind of you're like a top boss restaurant you do things a little differently around small plates yeah yeah yeah small plates have you done with us before yeah yeah you how do you do things I just try to, I'm kind of the one that's looking for them, so to speak. So it's not like I have some number that's getting 100 calls a day. Like, I'll find the people that I'm looking for that are. So they're posting on social media being like, I have this situation and then you're reaching out to them.

Is that kind of how it's happening? Something like that. I don't know. You don't want to. All right, all right. Well, a little Mark Wayne Mullin. Yeah, like so if everybody in the world knew about the site that people would know it's a joke, then people are calling it. Oh, got it, got it, got it.

And just messing around with it. And then it's not that I'm just playing games with people who know it's a joke. Right. Right, right, right. I see. So that's all I'm saying is like, I don't know how to say whether things are more or less because I'm only just dealing with the things, the people that I get. You can. Yeah, you go.

Yeah, right. Yeah, yeah. But I can assure you that it's, it's just as strong people. People are just as bad as they've been. A huge variety of people, you know, people wanting their ex-lovers deported or the person they got cheated on with. It's gotten very personal. All races, you know, races telling on their own races, it's not all white people, but a lot of it is white people. Right.

Now, I find that hard to believe. That seems unlike. We won't have this slender on our show. Yeah. I haven't seen too many O'Brien's. So the Irish, thankfully not so, yeah. I'm a quarter Irish, starting not saying. Hey, congratulations.

Good company. What's something you think is underrated? Oh, yeah. Oh, I guess, I don't know, this has nothing to do with anything, but I was on a road trip recently, and I ate at Skyline Chili, which has spaghetti and then pour chili on top of it, which I thought it was really good.

Yeah. It could also be quite disgusting to many. people out there, but I don't know. I thought it was awesome. No. Did you get the big, like, kind of pub mound of cheese? You know how, like, it's like, so the way they grate the cheese is so fine that it becomes just like a cloud or a tuft of pubic hair is kind of how I always thought of it. A cheddar murchin.

Yeah, I lived there when I was like 11. So, like, you know. There's tons of cheese on there, yeah. Yeah, they just drop a fucking cloud. a cheese on that shit and then it just like melts down into it. I like it. Yeah. Or sometimes not. The first time I had like a coney, like a Cincinnati cony, I couldn't see the fucking, I couldn't see the hot dogs because of the fucking cheese. Because of the cheese. I was like, is there hot dog under this mound of cheese? And I don't care because I love it. It's nice to be spoiled with cheese. Yeah. Look. Yeah. I'm never mad with too much cheese truly.

Like I've never, I've never had an experience where I was like, this is too much. cheese and I don't know what to do with it. Yeah, right. Our rights may be trampled on, but not our access to finally shredded cheese. That's right. That might be the problem. Yeah. That'll be when the revolution starts when they stop overwhelming.

Getting cheap on the cheese, are we? Yeah. They never will. They never will. They know exactly what they're doing. What is something you think is overrated? Skyline chili also. After you eat the skyline chili, you're like, what did I?

do that. Well, what just happened here? It's really good, but then you're like, holy shit. Like, now I'm digesting this year. Yeah, I guess. I don't know. I'm trying to, you know, publicly display all the things I hate too much. So, you know, just going back to Skyline, Chile.

If you guys have anything overrated, did you? Just listen on Mondays, man. Yeah, we got to come up with one once a week. So, yeah, I hoard those. Yeah, I got a little note tap. but it's like, oh, is this something? Is it something? Yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure.

Did you try Gold Star chili or only Skyline? No. Yeah, because those are like the competing Cincinnati chili brands that always like, that I've always found myself caught in the middle of because the people who introduced me to it were Gold Star chili people. And everyone was like, why the fuck are you eating Gold Star? It's all Skyline. And I'm like, I think it tastes the same. Does Gold Star have their own restaurant?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And, like, they sell, like, the packets of the chili mix and stuff. So you can have terrible digestive issues at home in any state. So now maybe Skyline Chili really is overrated because this Gold Star who is underrated, who did not get a mention on this podcast until you brought that up. No, no, it's fine. That's like, you know, when someone talks about their favorite comedian, and they're like, they only know one comedian, and you're like, well, there's this other guy who's really good.

They're like, that I've never heard of him. I'm like, what? Yeah. Because you only know about Skyline Chilene Chish, and they're like, well, because you only know about Skyline chill, you don't know about Gold Star. George Carlin? What do you mean? What's that? George Carlin. I said, Larry the cable guy.

I got sick. You did cars also. Exactly. Are you working podcasting? Like Joe Rogan? Yeah, I actually just like Joe Rogan. Exactly like Joe Rogan. Yeah. Right. Have you heard Joe Rogan before? Yeah, yeah. Sometimes the real heads will be like, oh, like smartless. Like, yeah. Oh. That's, wow. Yeah. All right. Well,

shout out to and fuck skyline chili uh both of the same time no disrespect to gold star that's right oh they're the other ones exist too other ones exist too i do think we're being like brainwashed by cheese though i think there's something to that like they're just like keep giving them cheese well yeah i mean wasn't the 80s yeah in the 80s they decided like once skim milk became a thing they didn't know what to do with all the milk fat that they were skimming off of the top of milk So they just had like a cave full of milk. Caves. And they were like, what do we do with this?

And the dairy industry was like, we got it. Just dump cheese on everything. Yeah. That's how delicious. We got an obesity epidemic. Yeah. Cheese and cocaine. Nutritional value.

It's more just like, oh, this feels and tastes good in the moment. Yes. Yeah, yeah. That's right. You don't be like, oh, I've been sick lately. Have you been trying to eat more cheese? No, actually. trying to pick up more cheese in my diet.

Here, take a bite off of my block. There you go. I pulled my calf the other day. Oh, you got to get your cheese up. Let me get, let me take a look. Let me take a look at what's, let me guess what's not in your fridge right now. Cheese.

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We're back. and I got pulled into the, so I was in Austin for South by Southwest for work stuff and everybody was like, dude, what time are you getting to the airport? What are you going down in Austin? Like the buzz of South by Southwest had nothing to do with art that was being done there.

It was all about like, I heard somebody went three hours early and they didn't even make their flight. They were a skeleton by the time they got to the front of the line. Yeah. So you might have noticed me misplaced. words on yesterday's podcast because I had woken up at like one o'clock in the morning to get to the airport on time for a flight that I then just went through TSA in like 15 minutes.

And it was when you texted that morning, it was like four in the morning, like I might be late to this thing. And I was like, oh my God, dude. Why are you up this early? And you're stressing about a flight. But yeah, I think a lot of people have been a lot of anecdotal evidence, pictures, people just telling you, I was at the airport and it's fucked up right now because of the partial shutdown because TSA staff are not being paid because this is where Democrats, you know, refuse to fund DHS because of, you know, all the illegal shit. Well, it happened. Yeah, we'll get to that later.

I'll catch you up after the recording. I did my hard reset yesterday with the Theragun. The Therogun to my temple. Yeah, yeah, just to forget about it. Once a month. Then just to not. Keep things clean. Yeah, yeah, yeah, just to get the memories out.

But, you know, one of the few times you've seen Democrats use their leverage for something, but it's become an issue for Trump because he needs a way to explain the shutdown other than, like, we can't get DHS funding unless we stop brutalizing people with DHS money and not being accountable to anyone. So he's right now going with the line of, um, dams want to shut down local airports and make your travel miserable because they love immigrants and communism. He said radical left. These lunatics are being totally unreasonable

in their radical left asks. Okay, so maybe what are those things? Yeah. I was going to say, I kind of want to start opening up sentences. Like, hey, I got a quick radical left ask for you. Yeah, yeah.

That's how you preface every question. In an email. Yeah, yeah. Can you not? Can you not? So this, I think the tactic isn't going well because Trump is just whining like this. And it's made clear by the fact that the White House came to the negotiating table the last few days over getting the funding back. And again, you're going to be blown away by what the White House is offering in terms of trying to scrape back DHS funding.

They included, quote, wider use of body cameras, limits on some civil immigration actions at sensitive locations like schools, courthouses, churches, hospitals. Um, more detention oversight, which hard to define that when it looks like there's none. Yeah. Going from zero to some. And then some is just like in one location once and only once. Uh, visible officer identification and a promise to stick to existing law and practice by not deporting any U.S. citizen. Um, oh, wait. The officer identification, would that mean that they can't wear masks or that?

That's just like they have to have some, like a code number of some sort. Sometimes it's probably a name, something a little less fucked up than like their like Confederate Scooby-Doo patch on a tag vest or something. So who knows? But I think, again, they're like, okay, we're willing to meet you there. But yeah, it also said the administration will quote, codify a policy of not knowingly detaining a U.S. citizen except where that person is otherwise subject to arrest under state or federal law. So I don't know. It's like, I don't know if we can accept, quote, willing to follow the law. law is any kind of concession here is like willing to consider stop breaking the law yeah yeah is the

big concession that they're saying that they're willing to consider and these radical left asks like you know like you can't deport a citizen apparently it was like a supreme court decision that said you'd have to like be stripped of your citizenship and like formally before you could do anything like that to a u.s citizen but again they're saying we promise that we will follow the law but we were winking and have our fingers crossed behind our backs. Again, Democrats, I think at the time, people were like, you guys could be going a lot harder considering they're just murdering people in broad daylight. And the conditions in these detention centers are fucking just unfathomable.

But they were like, how about judicial warrants for home entries rather than like vibe warrants, which they're currently using? A ban on masks for agents. Stricter limits on raids at schools and hospitals. Again, just like the bare minimum of like a, Few outlets asked the White House. Like, why the fuck did you even have to write that you won't deport U.S. citizens? That's like literally the law.

And they replied essentially, well, Democrats asked for us to say that in writing that we wouldn't do that. So that was like why we put that in the letter as part of our negotiations because the Democrats like, no, motherfucker. Like, right in writing put that shit. Because it's even absurd that we're even having to say that. But I guess that's what that's the state of the negotiations right now. Chuck Schumer was like, okay, yeah, they're going to have to get fucking serious before we really even talk about this. Like, this is, so they're not going to be like, sounds good. Who knows? I mean, again, this is another thing where Trump is trying to make the impact that people like travel, like the chaos of travel, trying to be like, this is the America Democrats want.

But also like, these TSA workers haven't been paid in a fucking month. So there's a ton of people like 300 people have already quit. there's, you know, around, they're saying in some of the worst cases in airports, like 10% a day are calling in sick, which just cuts down to really, really bare bones numbers. And, you know, there's like some, a lot of people are like, if it gets worse, I mean, like, we're going to have to just shut down, like, regional airports because there won't even be enough people to do the checks and, like, we'll see what happens then. But again, I don't think like the bargaining chip is like, well, you're not going to be able to travel when

the other side of it is like, eh, we're not, we're not actually respecting any, like, laws here. Right. Yeah. It might be one of those things that people have to endure. Unlike the high gas prices, they're telling people we have to endure because of the Iran war. Yeah. No, they'll figure that out. It seems like he's got a he's got a good plan in place. Yeah, depending on who you ask, sounds like it. Everybody keeps being like, I can't believe he didn't have a plan for that. What plan would he, like, there is no plan that would have gotten around attacking Iran who is controlled? I mean, there was a, like, Tulsi Gabbard right now is also having to, you know, she has a hearing in front of the Senate. And they're like, as D and I, like, you guys have been saying that this would happen, right? Right.

And she's like, she's like, so what changed? Did you suddenly say this wouldn't happen? And that's why Trump did this? Or you've been telling him that? And she was like, oh, how do I answer this? Because if I say we did, then that makes him look worse and then I'll be fired. and I can't say we change it. It was just a very uneventful exchange.

But again, I think just shows truly how no one is thinking and no one is pushing back at all because it's what he wants. I feel like they're like, it's like this magical thinking. Like, AI will figure it out. Like there's got to be some like smart AI strategy or something for dealing with this. Yeah, yeah. It's like, no, we're fucked. It's bad for all the reasons that we expected it to be bad.

There's no magical like thinking. trick that you're going to use to get around those consequences. He runs this administration like scam companies run. They're like just fire. It's a higher turnover rate. It's crazy. So then there's only just really just one person who's ultimately in power because everyone else keeps getting fired.

And then the new person is scrambling to please this guy and has, you know, less of a reason to, more of a reason to give a shit than the predecessor. Right. Yeah, yeah. It's like, yeah, you can see this now, like, just with, we're going from Christine Nome to Mark Wayne Mullen. Yeah. And, like, this guy doesn't give a fuck. Like, he is.

Sloppy as hell right now. He's trying to fight somebody in, like, Congress in the middle of the session they were having, like, wanted to fistfight them. Yeah, yeah. He's like, clearly. You want to do this right now, dude? Yeah. Yeah. And somebody who wants to fight in the middle of Congress, like, how easy is that person to manipulate?

like, and now this person's in charge. I mean, not only that, like, he was talking, like, he was talking about, like, dueling and shit. And, like, Rand Paul's, like, dueling's been, like, gone for, like, 170 years. What the fuck you talking about? Like, if you think that's a way to resolve shit, you shouldn't be fucking head of DHS. Yeah, let's talk about him. Because he, uh, yesterday was being, like, speaking in front of senators for, you know, confirmation for the role of Uber deportation, fuel.

Yeah, I think is what the, I think, I think that's what is in the job description or secretary of Homeland Security. I don't know. It depends on who's in office. It is also just on the scam company thing. It's like just three people that he's just moving around to different positions where he's just like, all right. She's out. Lewandowski used to be like his campaign secretary. Then Lewandowski was like a big up. And now like he got removed from that position. So I'm sure he'll get moved into some other position. But it's just like he's. shuffling things around. Yeah, or not. Or like, you know, because Trump also likes to do the thing where he's like, I don't know if I fire someone, then maybe people will think that I think it's bad and that'll help me with the optics when it's really just, I'm just throwing somebody into the fucking cinder, incinerator. But yeah, like this whole, the whole confirmation hearing started off pretty tense already because Rand Paul is the chair of the Homeland Security Committee. And he also fucking hates Mark, Mark Wayne Mullen. Because at the time when, when, when, remember, when Rand Paul got the shit beat out of him by his neighbor and what the fuck was going on and he was like hospitalized and like what was that? Do we ever get answers on that? It was

he mowed his lawn. It was just spewed over like the lawn like the property line. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. You don't mow another guy's lawn. Yeah. Isn't that usually like a like metaphor for fucking someone's life? Yeah. Yeah. Why fight somebody over that when you just call the deportation

hotline on that? Thank you. I think this Rand Paul, what a weird name, huh? What do you think It's kind of random. So is that what it's short for? Random Paul. Random Paul. But like he kicked off his time basically saying he like erred out his grievances with Mark

Wayne Mullen. He's like, you know, when I was injured, you were out here saying, well, yeah, well, a snake like that. I'm not surprised. Or like he deserved it. And he's like, and you never apologized. Like this is how this hearing started. I'll play like just a clip of him right now because he, this is him.

Everywhere he goes, like, the energy, just energy follows him that is like a fucking, it's truly like a middle school. Yeah. So way personal, too. Oh, yeah. Forget Homeland Security. Let's talk about this dispute we had. How dare you?

You need to say sorry. Now who's in a position of power. No, that's pretty much how this is happening. This is how it's unfolding. So here's a clip of him getting into it. He's like, do you want to apologize? And it gets Mark Wayne, he's a shit. kidhead, so he just, he's not, he's not, he's, he's fighting back.

I heard the word apologize, haven't heard the word regret, haven't heard I misspoke, and it was heated and I made a mistake. I haven't heard any of those words. Sir, actually it wasn't heated, and I'm not apologizing for pointing after your character. Good. So you're, you're jolly, well, fine, and you want the American public, and the people up here to vote, that may or may not vote for you, to know that you supported the felonious violent attack on me from behind. I did not say I supported it. I said,

that understood it. He's doing the Chris Rock bit about OJ. I'm not saying he's not guilty, but I understand the fucking tag. This is how it's starting off, okay? So already you have a guy who's, you know, the chairperson of this committee already,

again, like to your point, Ben, it's kind of about you and me right now. And I'll let the other people ask fucking questions. but and other senators did and it was really fucking frightening like they came out with a better angle than you were mean to me and like you see and you never said sorry that's crazy yeah yeah they did they're like will you that was what he brought to the thing and you're gonna sit here and say in front of everybody that you're not sorry for being mean to me is that right people who have to vote for you just so you know okay say it go ahead I didn't say I supported it I said I understood it I mean because at the end of the day like they're gonna fucking confront this guy. You know what I mean? Like it's like the same thing when afterwards like Christy Nome's character. I can't believe you did all this. I'm like look at your fucking vote. You

confirmed her. Don't act now suddenly. You're like, oh, what the heck happened? So here he is. He's being wishy-washy on all kinds of stuff like will you carry out illegal orders, you know, what happened in the 2020 election, just all kinds of things. You're like, oh, this guy is going to just do whatever the fuck Donald Trump wants. And it's of course, because otherwise he wouldn't get the nomination. But then a lot of people want to know. like, a lot of questions have been about his quote unquote military experience because a lot of people don't know what the fuck he was talking about on Fox News right after the U.S. and Israel began their attacks on Iran, or he like really came out on some like tough guy shit about what it's like to be in the fucking, you know, in the trenches.

Here's, here he is talking on Fox News right after the attacks began on Iran. War is ugly. It smells bad. And if anybody's ever been there and been able to smell the, the, the, the war that's happened around you and taste it and fill it in your nostrils and hear it. It's something that you'll never forget. So people were like, damn, dude, I didn't know he was in that shit like that. In your strills, bro? For real.

He went to the war, the war warehouse and had a sampling. Yeah, it was a Costco. Someone had a war. Would you like to see, this is Fallujah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure, sure. I'll try that on. Oh, shit. That's free?

Does it get out of your nostrils or does it stay in here like this? It stays in there, sir. Welcome. It's pretty fucking ugly, isn't it? And again, he's just like talking like a common Robert Duval in Apocalypse Now or some shit. And he's been saying all kinds of shit that have teased his so-called battlefield experience for years.

Like, in Axios, they said, like, the senator has privately hinted to colleagues that he was involved in dangerous private security work in Middle East War. zones before running for Congress in 2012. I was in January 6th, on January 7th, 2021, right after January 6th, where there was the riot happening. Mullen said, quote, some people there got nervous. There's a lot of members that was in that chamber that never dealt with a situation like that.

And I'll tell you, I never dealt with a situation like that on U.S. soil. And you're like, oh. Never dealt with a situation like that on U.S. soil. On U.S. soil. Hmm. I don't know if you know what the implication is from that. I'm not implying anything, but. Then he also said when he was asked on C-SPAN about what was going on, like what were the police, like, were the capital police tactics sound to protect everyone?

He said, quote, I've been in these situations before. Similar, not exactly the same. And I also just want to remind people, this famous image of Mark Wayne Mullen on January 6 in the fucking in the chambers. Being scared. Hiding. But you were talking all this shit. Oh, man, I'm a fucking tough guy. So other senators definitely want to know, hey man, what the fuck are you talking about when you claim all this shit?

And you may be shocked to hear that he sounds like he might be lying when trying to explain this. So he's being asked here by Gary Peters. Like, you know, every time Mark Wayne Mullen is asked about these trips, he starts obfuscating and he's saying stuff like, well, it's classified. And they're like, what do you mean? Like, who put this together? He's like, it's an assignment from Congress. And they're like, okay, what agency is like, oh, he gets super cagey. So this is when Gary Peters was asking, again, just so you know, in the lead-up to this,

he's being super cagey. He's like, why didn't list that in my papers? Because it said I didn't have to list, like, certain things and it's classified or whatever. And then Gary Peters just kind of gets to it being like, hold on, what the fuck you're talking about here? And asked the same questions. We talked about doing mission work. We talked about doing mentorship. but they said official duties that was in your official capacity does not have to be talked about.

So where did you smell war? Sir, I just said that this was classified. And the dates, locations, and admission, I've never spoke specifically details about. Well, we can get that information. That's fine. You're welcome. Okay, well, okay, bet, motherfucker. You know, we're also in Congress, right?

We can get your smell history. Yeah. You know, I'm also a fucking senator, right? Just like you. Where did you smell war? Yeah. I was just like, yeah, so where was it, dude? Where'd you smell that at?

That sounded, that sounded stinky. Yeah. Was that tough? Then, so then. You see, you never, like, he's out there, like, rambling, like, rambling, like, fucking Colonel Kurtz and, like, apocalypse. Yeah, 100%. So then after this, Rand Paul comes back.

He's like, look, dude, if this is classified, like, there's a skiff we can go into. You know what I mean? Like those secure, like tents where you can talk about shit that, like, you can't be listened in on or anything. It's like a secured listening area. It's like, we can go in there and you can just fucking tell us, dude, right? Because it could be that easy, you know, like since this all happened. And this is him saying like, hey, we can get this done. Or otherwise, people might want to cancel the fucking confirmation vote because this is getting so weird about you saying stuff's classified.

So here's Rand Paul offering him, too. He's like, look, dude, I bet you're telling the truth, doggy. So like, why don't we just go in a skiff? You tell us it'll be all over and we can just make a vote, huh? But you've now mentioned today that you have activities you've done. And so I think it would be easy. And I'm still willing to have the vote tomorrow, but I can cancel the vote tomorrow. I'm still willing to have the vote, get this done and get it over with. But I think that just to make clear, and it doesn't sound like it's a secret. You're too concerned. about divulging, if you would to spend an hour and go to the SIF for 30 minutes and just tell both the ranking member and the other, and it would be private and it won't be revealed. I think it would get this over with, and we wouldn't have a complaint about going ahead with the vote tomorrow. I have no issue with that if you guys get cleared on it, because the way my understanding was is there's only four people right in it, and it was a special program inside the house. Just like, I wasn't on Intel at the time. I'm not saying I was. but I have no issue with that at all.

I would welcome being brought up. It's very unique and it was fun. That would be on you. We're not going to try to figure out who the four people are and whether we can have approval to it. And if you're doing something that important, really it probably ought to be revealed and discussed. Sir, Senator, I don't, or chairman,

it's not on me to, I don't have the authority to do that. This is, and this is why I said I was, See, he now he's doing the thing. He's like, well, dude, I told you my dad got me a gun for my birthday. All right, let me see it. Dude, I can't just show it. I got to ask my dad first if I can show somebody. I don't even know if I should have told you that I got this for my birthday, dude.

So everything is so, like, it's the same thing. He definitely has more of a your honor energy in this part than he did before. I said I understood. And I think that's why they'd be. beat your ass. I think that's where Rand Paul was like, I got your little ass right now. Fuck is squirming right now.

So should we just like cancel it then? It sounds like maybe. No, dude. I can't. It's just that it's fucking like classified. You have to find the four people who can give me permission to answer it. But they're. So the problem is that they're classified.

So like I can't even tell you the four people are who can tell me that I can tell you. And it's crazy because he's lying to other people who work in the fucking government. and understand how all this shit works. It might be one thing when you go say this shit at a bar. Right. You know what I mean? This feels like some shit.

He had really workshopped over like some beers with some people who were just like, damn, that's cool that Mark Wayne was in the military. Was in the shit, man. I didn't know that. He probably didn't know about the skiffs either. He's probably like, oh, I could have invited someone in there to fight. Yeah. Exactly.

You want some of this? Let's go on the skiff right now. Let's go on this skiff. You don't think I did it? Meet me in the skiff, Rand. Let's see what happens, man. I might break another couple ribs, man. You get a top secret ass weapon.

Yeah, it's just a very, I think it's like, it's so revealing about just kind of like the mentality of this dude. Like he's, he's like living a line multiple levels. Like he's a nepo plumber, wannabe MMA fighter slash mil sim larper. Like everything, there's so much, like just all of these facades put up to get him here and I think now it's all kind of falling apart. I don't know what will come of this. I don't know if this is going to be the thing that prevents him.

It's probably just a humiliation that they just want him to go through. Yeah. Because you're fucking lying, right? Just so you know, dude. We all know you've been fucking done shit, dude. You ain't done nothing. So you just want to state on the record that you haven't done shit, period, point blank, and you were talking a lot of bullshit.

Is that something that you're willing to now admit? Yeah, yeah. You're engaged in capping of the highest order. Is that what we're going to say here? Yeah, we'll see. You're George Santos. Yeah, George Santos somehow is even more direct than him. But yeah, this is, we will see.

I mean, there's still more to come from this confirmation hearing. But I feel like all the things that people thought about Mark Lane Mullen, it sounds like they feel like they're true. Feels like they might be. Feels like they might be true. Yeah. My secret mission doesn't actually go to this government. It's actually

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He saw the, like, hit of attention and energy that the Obama thing got when Obama was like, aliens are real, but they're not under Area 51. And everyone was like, oh, my God, He admitted it. And then he was like, well, no, just like mathematically speaking, they're probably real. And Trump was like, you know, after I talked about that on Air Force One, I got so much attention that now I'm going to make this a thing. Maybe this file disclosure could distract from the last file disclosure, which has not been good for me. You think he's just like panicked? Like, guys, I need some files to disclose anything.

Give me anything. But they don't know. Any X files? I think he saw the attention that it was getting from the sorts of people who probably are also interested in the Epstein files and was like, all right, maybe I can do like a little quid pro quo. I just closed the alien stuff to the X files, freaks. And they leave me alone about the Epstein stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we'll see.

We'll be monitoring aliens. dot gov. I also just know like with his ego like he he wants to be like the first to do so much shit. You know what I mean? That's really scary when it comes to nuclear weapons by the way. Yeah, but I think he has such a fear

of confrontation like you can already tell like he because like just all the reporting from inside the White House with this. He's like he's like getting angry at everyone that no one told him this was going to be a fucking disaster. So like Iran. Yeah, yeah. So he's like, what the fuck? So I think for him,

always he never wants to be like the total he never wants the responsibility of a blunder fully resting with him but i think being able to be the president who's like and i gave them aliens i think that might be i could see him that could be a carrot he's chase his ego chasing to be like because he's already saying stuff he's like and i might be the one to to get cuba i might have the honor of getting cuba i think he said that on tuesday or monday so he's always like he always He's always thinking in these sort of yearbook superlative terms. You know what I mean? The president who got Cuba the most.

Yeah. Yeah. This is random, but I went to a grocery store a couple weeks ago. And like the weather was really, really weird that day. And I was making small talk with the cashier. And he's like, yeah. I was like, man, it's a strange weather out today. He was like, yeah, you know what?

You know what else is weird? And I was like, what? He's like, there's 10 terabytes of files that have been deleted for the Epstein files. Whoa. I was like, whoa. All right, brother. Hell yeah. So, like, it's definitely like a thing, you know, people know about those Epstein files.

They really do. I was like, damn, I was like out of left field comment, but I like it. I'm here for it. I felt like we, like, removed ourselves from like the small talk matrix that we were in. Like, let's talk about the Epstein files. No more weather. Let's go Epstein. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's the new weather. Yeah. I am seeing that, too. Like, I've definitely seen people just, like, kind of bring it up out of nowhere. I feel like there's like an evangelical. evangelism that's happening, right? with like Epstein files where people are like, everybody needs to know.

Yeah. Well, it's bipartisan. This is the good part. Everyone's come together and been like, no, no, we all need to know about these Epstein files. And it's like brought about like this level of class consciousness too. Yeah. Where people are like the other side of the like, you know,

if it's a partisan obsession you have, the other part of it is that you do, you do come to grips. They're all in that. Like the wealthy get to like, Because even when you hear conservatives, they say this thing's like, the elite believe that they can do anything and start wars and do whatever they want and victimize people just because they're the elite. And that has to end.

And you're like, okay. Yeah. Not wrong. Yeah. And then they're like, but the thing with Jewish people, you're like, okay, hold on. Wait a second. Wait a second. You were fucking almost there.

You were almost fucking there. It's like Tucker was saying just the other day. Yeah. Yeah. It's like an antidote to divide versus conquer, you know, by Yonker. Like all of a sudden now we're working together to be like, you can get that's the problem. That's right.

But luckily, yeah, there's still enough, like, odious shit that like the anti-Semitic people are like, and I'm here for the anti-Semitic people are like, and I'm here for the class. Hey, what do you guys here for? I'm here for, I'm here for, also anti-Semitism. Yeah. Yeah, I could see that for it. I came in on the anti-Semitism bus. Yeah, yeah, that's what dropped us off here. Right.

Right. But yeah, cool. I didn't think I'd see you in the same place as me. All right. Yeah. The other thing that this 404 media article points out is this Wall Street Journal article from last year that points out, like, so Wall Street Journal did an investigation into the report that was filed by the Pentagon that was like, we have not found definitive evidence one way or the other, essentially. But this Wall Street Journal report basically said that they left out some things that made it seem like there is an intentional Pentagon disinformation campaign that has been seeding. like a lot of information

that leads to UFO conspiracy theories. Also like a Pentagon hazing ritual is like tied up in it. But I will say like there's definitely some stuff in that like they went to a bar and like we're like here are some

files that are like pictures of like alien spacecraft that we have at Area 51. And like they have been like doing some very low level like conspiracy theory seeding. I will say I don't have an explanation. Like the one that I still need an explanation for is the USS Nimitz, where like the fighter planes, the fighter jets were like scrambled and saw both with radar and then with the naked eye, like the tic-tac like flying around it in ways that seem like impossible from the naked eye.

But I don't know. Ben, do you think like is that because there's part of me that's like, fighter pilots wouldn't lie about that. But am I giving them too much credit that that's the sort of thing that they would just make up, do you think? You're asking him in his capacity as a fighter pilot? In your capacity as somebody who's seen. What do you think about fire pilots? Are they honest?

Yeah. Yeah. But what do you, where do you fall in the whole UAP, UFO stuff? Honestly, I don't know. I've seen one documentary and it sounded good. The music was good. You know, the sound effects. Music got my ass.

I kept going like this. I kept going, oh, oh, my God. Oh, my God. And then the documentary ended and then I turned a basketball game on. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, if you had asked me 10 years ago about aliens, I said, no, it's made up. Now it's like, no, it's not made up. So I don't know.

Yeah, I'm open. You know what I mean? I'm, I'm ET curious, for sure. It's pretty cool. I've always wanted, I've always wanted aliens to exist too, but I've always been, like, I remember I had a family member who was always feeding me, like, the worst alien information.

Like, I don't even want to say, I don't even want to be specific in my family, but this person would constantly get me fucking charged up on alien shit. Right. And then as I got older, and I would tell other people, like, bro, what the fuck are you talking about? Like, this is like the, the wacky. as shit I've ever heard backed up by nothing that it cooled like that sort of desire to know the truth cooled a little bit until this like latest batch of like the tick-tac images and things like that because I've always been of the belief I'm like there's like it's so egotistical

and self-centered to believe that we are the place we're the one place where it's all happening whether or not again they're able to reach here with via spacecraft or whatever is a whole other thing but like I'm like no come on baby just give me some Something, man. Give me something. Although I will say, I knew a kid who I grew up with who ended up going to like Annapolis to like Top Guns Fighter Pilot School. And he was kind of like a like a hyperbolic kid.

But that I don't think. But again, I'm not going to apply that to everyone. But I'm just saying my own personal thing. I'm like, I bet I can see this dude. Be like, you know what I saw. Because you're also. He was crazy shit. He was like also one of these kids in the neighborhood was younger.

So he'd always want to hang out with like the older kids. But I was like, bro, you're fucking too. Like you can't like. Right. Yeah, yeah. We're doing like, we're doing that like 12 year old shit right now. And he'd be like, oh, well, I go above your pay grade. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And he would always be like, well, my house, I've got all this other cool stuff actually that I'm going to play with. My dad has an original Millennium Falcon toy that was made from the 70s. I'm going to play with that. Oh, fuck. It's in Canada. Yeah, yeah. I left it. Yeah. My girlfriend's house in Canada. You're too. It's classified.

He's like, you should go to business school and get your undergrad. It's like, no, I'm going to go to study aliens and shit. know. Right, right, right. I got better stuff to do. Yeah. Apparently the, like, the strategy was to create some UFO craze and like, keep it, like, stoke the fire a little bit at the time that they were developing, like, the stealth bomber and stuff like that, because they, if anybody saw that, they were like, they're going to think that was really weird. And we don't want Russia to, like, find out about, like, this technology that we've been developing. So they were, like, actively. stoking those conspiracy theories in the 80s, but I don't know where that leaves us with like Tic Tacs and stuff like that. Yeah, but also, I guess also with House Trump's seen how his senility works, if he knows, he's saying it.

He's definitely saying it. He has no impulse control. Ask him, I think everyone around 8 p.m. every night, a journalist should ask him about aliens. Right. Just keep going until. Every night, just consists of keep picking away at that because he'll either,

you'll either find out there's really nothing there. him like, oh, thank God you asked. Thank you so much for asking. And you know that this is actually, I'm the type of person who would know this stuff. Exactly. If you want to go in here, check this specimen I've got. That's an Alf stuffed animal.

Is it? That's what they gave me. That's what they gave me. So, mm. All right. Well, anyways, the truth is still out there, I guess. Ben Palmer, such a pleasure having you on the Daily Zycheist. Where can people find you?

follow you, all that good stuff. If you want to come see me on tour, which is starting soon, you can sign up to be notified when I move to your city, quote, unquote. I like to tell people instead of saying that I'm going to tour or do a show in their city, I just say I'm moving there. You're moving there, yeah.

And then I'm going to move back after the show. After one week. Yeah, so if you go to Ben Palmer'smoving.com, throw your phone number in, and I'll text you when I come, move to your city. Nice. But yeah, I appreciate you all having me. Thank you.

Yeah, thanks for doing. Is there a work of media you've been enjoying? I don't know if the NBA counts. Yeah. Who's your team? Well, I'm a LeBron fan, but they're starting to do better the Lakers, but I've kind of given up hope. But you've got to see Wembe, man, and San Antonio.

Yeah, it's like every game you turn on, you're going to see some things. Speaking of aliens. This dude is doing things. and the NBA that have not been done before. And the team around him is really good. And the playoffs are coming. And he's only 22, but, like, they have a chance at going very deep,

maybe winning it all. He's an unprecedented type of player. So I'm like, who knows what can happen with this run. I just can't believe that they are fully just breathing down the neck of of OKC at this point. They're not scared of them either. They have the mental advantage. They beat them, what, three times in the regular season?

Three or four times. Yeah. So, yeah, MBA's in full swing right now. It's like a month before the playoffs start. It's my favorite, my favorite time. I can't believe the way. Media, you know, shrinking's very good. If you need some wholesome, like, feel good humor that's not, you know, too heavy.

Also, it makes you think and feel lovey and happy. Shrinking. It's a good wholesome show. Jason Segal, Harrison Ford, you know, those people. Yeah. Great. Miles, where can people find you as there? Where can media you've been enjoying?

me? Oh, yeah, man. Yeah, bro. You can find me everywhere. You can find me everywhere at Miles of Gray. I'm talking about 90-day fiancé on 420-day fiancé. I'm talking about English soccer football, the Premier League Champions League on A-Nit footy with Jamel Johnson and Chris Martin. A work of media I like, oh, man, wait, where's my Instagram likes? There's just this one. It's so stupid. It's, on TikTok. If you're on TikTok a lot, you may have seen like the Honeybun lady. It's this woman who's like trying to not eat honey buns at work. But just the progression of her journey trying to not eat honey buns is just so funny. It's a short video, but I just love the progression here. One of not eating a honey bun at work. Day one of not eating a honey bun at work. I didn't go to work today. So we are all to a good start.

I've been eating them. I've been eating them. I've been eating them. Not every day, but I've been eating them. It's my favorite. I've been eating them. Just their resignation in her voice. That was from Medusa Blingada.

I like that name. Good one. Medusa Blangada. Thank you for that, Honey Bun, lady. Amazing. You can find me on Twitter, Jack underscore O'Brien,

on Blue Sky, Jack O.B., the number one on Instagram, Jack underscore O underscore Brian. Work of Media. I actually got to see a movie down when I was at Southby. A friend of mine produced this movie

called Plant Man and Blondie, a dress-up gang film. You know, dress-up gang with like Frankie Kinyones. Yeah. It's really good. Highly, highly recommend. Yeah, debuted down in South by, but hopefully coming to a theater near you in the not too distant future. But dress-up gang is so funny.

You can check out some of their sketches online. It's a blast. It's a blast, guys. That's a rave for me. You can find us on Twitter and Blue Scenes. guy at Daily Zykeyes. We're at the Daily Zykeyes on Instagram. You can go to the description to this episode wherever you're listening to it and there at the bottom you will find the footnotes, which is where we link off to the information we talked about in today's episode.

We also link off to a song we think you might enjoy. Miles, is there a song you think that people might enjoy? Yes, I was actually just the Mark Wayne Mullen thing, just with him lying up there. It made me think of, remember tune yards, amazing artist. Actually was like doing scoring for like What was the fucking last movie? Sorry to bother you. Many other things. Great indie artists. From the first album,

Who Killed? The first track on that was probably one of the first hits I heard from Tune Yards. It's called My Country. But there's a line in it that makes me think of Mark Wayne Mullen. Because right before the chorus, the lyric is, the worst thing about living a lie is just wondering when they'll find out. And they're just like, oh, that feels like it's really someone up this guy's

moment right now. So this is Toon Yards from the album Who Kill is called My Country. I'm actually not allowed to go into the skiff with you. I got to, hold on, I got to call my mom real quick. She's got to, she actually like, I'm not allowed to do any like medical stuff. Well, if I had to know, it's my mom first. So. Medical stuff. Tune Yards was in Austin at South by and their concert was winded out. Had to be moved because of the wind. It's a real weird weather down there. The Daily Zykeyes, the production of IHeartRadio for more podcasts from my heart radio visit the IHeartRadio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That is going to do it for us this Thursday.

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