The Daily Zeitgeist - Media's Nazi Salute Confusion, A.I. Time Machine? 02.26.25

Episode Date: February 26, 2025

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No one could even sniff the bit out. And then that like when it happened, it was, yeah, it blew our minds. He wrote all that. Like that was, and I did the, um, like a live blogger from the crowd too. So he wrote all that stuff. Like that was all across. That's amazing. That's great.

What a cool thing. Yeah. It was nuts. Great special. Yeah. Jack, who do you know? I don't know anybody. I don't know any of this shit, man. I don't know.

It's on you. I wasn't even born yet when this shit was happening. So I wasn't even born again yet. I hadn't accepted Christ into my life at that point. So like really not a lot of memories from back in the dark ages as me and my pastor call it. Thank you You guys are really close My pastor yeah, yeah, you gotta get yourself get yourself a pastor that looks at you like my pastor looks at me guys more into crypto than most

Almost all yeah He's got to sleep in our room because sometimes the past, the crypto deals pop up in the middle of the night because they're happening offshore. Yeah. Well, the devil's got the SEC or whatever. So he's, that's right. That's true. Instead of a collection basket, it's just an iPad that's encrypted that you can go to various coins.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, the internet and welcome to Season 377, Episode 3 of DearIRT ALES EYES! Ayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayay The seventh birthday of my youngest Oh shout out to that young man Happy birthday to that young man. Happy birthday to that young man It's not that I'm like keeping his name off for you know, privacy purposes. I just can't remember it right now It's hard to keep track. How many do you have? Yeah, when it gets up to that number, it's hard to remember. It can be tricky.

I care. The little guy. There he is. There's my buddy. Little young man. That's what I call him. My name is Jack O'Brien, AKA Cheese Drool from everything I'm nomming.

Cream, get the dairy. Dairy, nomm my meals, y'all. That one courtesy of HannahRamicView on the Discord. Also got Hentron calling me Jack, quote, eggnog pervert O'Brien. This in reference to yesterday's episode where I was talking to our young guest, Garrison Davis, and they were saying they still like fettuccine Alfredo and clam chowder. And I was like, I'm too old to eat such cream based stuff. And then realized that I still drink eggnog,

like even when it's not Christmas. Is that true? Yeah, yeah. That's a year round for you? Yeah, I fucking love eggnog you guys. I can't help myself. I remember when I was like a PA in LA, which meant like I was like a non-unionized teamster was essentially how they used us, like unloading trucks when people were looking. That sounds a lot tougher than what I believe the actuality of being a PA is.

Of my lie. Non-unionized teamster. I remember, like we would also get lunch of course, and there's a place called Bossa Nova on Sunset, I think. Which is how you have to pronounce it. Winger, Teamster. That's right. Yeah. That's right. And they had this full like bacon,

like or like fettuccine carbonara Alfredo, like that I would have for lunch in my early twenties, because, and then I would unload trucks in the heat and it made no difference whatsoever. Right, it's like drinking when you're young versus when you're old. Like hangovers now are, feel like a terminal disease. A car crash.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. They feel like you are, you are dying from something. And back then it was just something that you would like kind of get through. Right. Anyways, yeah. Cream is different. I, I guess it's worse now that I like do it knowing that it's going to give me

diarrhea, whereas back then I just, I don't think I knew I was just like, I love fettuccine Alfredo and often have, uh, diarrhea. I guess this is how people shit. This is just, this is just life, I guess. I guess everybody's loudly shitting their pants twice a week. I don't know why they got to give me the nickname about it. I'm sure it's happening to everybody else. Anyways, thrilled to be joined in our second seat by brilliant comedian, writer, actor. His special is Daddy Long Legs. He's the coiner of the disgusting phrase plumpers

to describe his thighs. It's Blake Wexler! Hey, this is Blake Wexler, aka Strep. Strep, that's what I get. Shove that wooden swab down my neck, but I've got shows to plug. That's why I'm talking to you in my office with this bugaboo. I've tested positive for strep throat. I'm the strep throat goat, but I'm fine. Everything's okay. I'm on antibiotics.

I'm pro antibiotic. And, uh, yeah, it's great. Congratulations on that. It's really going around. Our, uh, our eldest again, don't really remember his name, but I'm a big fan of the If you think you have trouble remembering who your kids are. I also want to give you the AKA Phantom of the nine 11 Memorial, uh, because you do haunt the nine 11 Memorial. We, we, you are explaining where you are in the world and you just made reference. I'm eight minutes from ground from having a heart attack from all the adnog eight minutes at any time from the World Trade Center.

Anyways, welcome to the Phantom. Thank you. I would love to know what the nutritional information is on eggnog. And we will get to that in the third break. Go ahead, Jack. It's so wild. It's like a different substance. Well, first of all, it is like kind of a non-Newtonian substance.

And that it's like neither solid nor liquid. It's like somewhere in between in that it's like neither solid nor liquid. It's like somewhere in between. But it's also like the number of calories per like thimble of that is so mind-blowing. It's like the most calorically dense food that has ever been created. It's wild. I'm pretty sure it's just like, it's like eggs and cake frosting or something. Yeah.

Basically, it is a more viscous cake frosting. It's like a cake frosting that drinks easy, basically. So easy. It drinks so easy. Not that cake frosting drink. Yeah, that's also subjective whether or not it drinks easy. It goes down easy more. Let me tell you. That's why it's also why all the, uh, method actors who gain weight for the roles. And they're like, uh, I like would just melt a pint of ice cream or I think Sylvester Stallone for Copland ate pancakes every day.

It's like, just drink fucking egg. It's like there for you. What are you doing? You're just like trying to be dramatic, but like you, all you need to do is drink a pint of eggnog a day and you're good and golden. Anyway, I've been telling them that, but they won't answer my fucking letters. No one answers. We stalking about it.

Yeah. Yeah. Blake, we are thrilled. Eggnog water balloons. Sorry. Go ahead. Try again. Blake, we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat

by a very funny comedian, actor, writer, improviser, whose special, spiritually filthy, you ought to go check out right now, one of our favorite guests on the show, old friends reunited, Blake and it's more. Yeah. What's up, dude? Yeah.

Thanks for having me sweet bros. It's good to be here. Yeah. Thanks for being here. Sweet sweet. The other name that we're considered for the podcast. Sweet and beautiful bros. Sweet, some sweet, sweet, beautiful bros.

SBBs. Uh, how are you doing more? I'm doing good, man. Yeah, apparently Blake was informing before we started that he and I met 17 years ago, because we're both 64 years old. 16 years old. Yeah, that's the worst reference.

I was on tour with David Cross. Was it in LA, Blake? It was in Boston. So I was going to Emerson, which was right across the street from that theater that you both were at. Amazing. Yeah, that's where we filmed that special.

Oh, no way. I think it was in Boston. Oh, that's cool. That makes sense. Yeah, they would film a lot there. That's great. Yeah, yeah. And yeah.

And that's special. I can see you on stage? Yeah, yeah. On a comedy tour, six months over. That's bad. Hats off to you. That must be a tough one. Yeah. I was like six months over at the time.

It crosses my idol and he had written, he'd written, I drink for a reason, which I totally read. It was like, okay, well, like, yeah, this goes. Me too. I guess I'll just pick up the sobriety thing in eight months.

Yeah. Yeah. I'll see you in a year, sobriety. Yeah. Nice. Good Lord. Good for you. Well, thrilled to have you here. Thrilled to have you both.

I'm going to be honest. Excited to have you both. We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment, Mort. First, a couple of things we're talking about. I just want to look at some of the headlines about these Nazi salutes. They seem to be gaining popularity amongst some leaders on the right. And the media seems to be like, what the heck was that thing he's doing with this? Did he? Was there a bug loose?

Was he swatting under a bug? So I just want to look at them and then look at Nick Fuentes' reaction as compared to the mainstream media's reaction. And then I want to look at these point of view, you wake up in enter historical period, ancient Rome, the Middle Ages, the Black Plague, and just test them for historical accuracy, because I feel like they're being created at a rapid pace and five million views each on some of these fucking things. I don't know if you guys have seen them. I watched one of them and it's as fucked as you'd think it would be.

I do. Somehow manages to be as fucked as you would think. That's crazy. I've got some complaints, but I've also got a rave, one very specific rave for them. So we'll talk about that. Plenty more. But first, Mort, we do like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are?

You know, as the skateboarding liaison to this podcast, what I was looking up, I was just in Arizona for the Slow Impact Gathering, which is this like kind of academic skateboard conference thing. So I was looking up the schedule for that, but it is so sick. It's put on by this dude, Ryan Lay, who's pro for New Balance and sci-fi fantasy. And so many highlights. I got to do standup for like 100 skateboarders in Macau town, skate shop out there,

which is a rad skate shop. I met some pros. Just 16 year old Mort was just thrilled with the whole thing. It was fucking great. That's pretty cool. Yeah, that's awesome. You are skateboarding as you're doing stand up and they're skateboarding along with you.

Is that correct? Yeah. Yeah. And you just have a really long. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I broke my wrist. Yeah.

Yeah. Those are closer. Nice. Slow impact. It's called slow impact. Yeah. And it's great. It's like, there's, there's a guy, a guy, the student Ted Schmidt, who's got a PhD in architecture.

And he took us around, gave us a tour of ASU, or he just talked about like, this building was built by Frank Lloyd Wright's son. And this ledge is one of the earliest flat top ledges in Arizona. Like shit like that. It was very niche and very fascinating. Yeah. Was Frank Lloyd Wright's son like a great architect and also a skater? He was not a skater. His son-in-law, but very clearly was like, Frank Lloyd Wright made a building there and it's huge. And then Frank Lloyd Wright's son-in-law has one that's kind of standing in its shadow, sort of sadly, in Edible complex way that that Ted just pointed out. Yeah, it was wow. It never ends. That's Frank Lloyd, right? I'd hate to be a flank roid wrong. Um, I also

I think bang Uh, I this no bit I think my wife read like a slightly erotic novel about frank lo Wright and I think it was called Loving Frank. If I'm off, hold on, if I'm off, Loving Frank Book. More like Frank Hornywright. There it is. Thank you.

Also really good. Thank you. Also really good, guys. Yeah, it was about an adulterous affair that he had with a woman. All right, there you go. So yeah, if you want to get horny. A woman. And you can find other steamy descriptions like that in the book. So here comes Frank Lloyd Wright and there's this woman and they're gonna get it on, I guess. I don't know. He took off whatever the hell it was she was wearing.

You described it as somewhat erotic, and then that's exactly what your description was. That is the genre, actually. It's not erotic fiction. It's somewhat erotic fiction. They tried it. They tried it. Give it a shot. Give it a shot.park. They tried it. Give it a shot.

I left a shot and it was pretty okay. They weren't sure if they were going to keep doing it, but you know, he, uh, he got bored. It got so clinical. There's some wild, uh, wild stuff. I went and saw, uh, falling water. I think that's the big famous house outside of Pittsburgh that Frank Lloyd Wright made. And there's a story from his past that I don't have in front of me. It's basically like this horrible horror movie style massacre that happened at his house to

his family while he was out of town that is is a little known story that I don't know. Worth looking up. I'll give you a little Wikipedia wreck if you want to look up. Wait, Frank Lloyd Wright's family? Frank Lloyd Wright's family. Whoa. What? It's fucking wild. Yeah, like this beautiful house that he had built. Then one of the people who worked there just went wild with an ax one day on the whole family.

It's a crazy story. Holy moly. Beth, that's not in your little erotic fiction book, Blake. Yeah. I like it. This is a comedy podcast. I'm really sorry. I said Frank Horny, right? Yeah, Jesus. Guy was horny though. I think really sorry. I said Frank horny, right? Yeah, Jesus. Guy was horny though. I think he was out of account on an affair. So, you know, I have one more story that I think is interesting from this skate

weekend, which is that okay, there's this pro named Tom Carrangelo. He's sick. He's pro for New Balance. And he's he's like an interesting artful dude, which skateboarding is an art form, whether you recognize it or not. So he had this interview where he was talking about, he goes like- Not on this podcast, not on this podcast. I'll tell you that much.

You can say whatever you want, but- You guys are pro cop, I know that. You guys don't, you hate the props. All cops are beautiful. Why can't you listen to them? When they say no skating here, why can't you listen to them? Yeah.

So this dude does this, did this thing where he's a cinephile. So he goes to all these different places and looks for skate spots and he's super into John Carpenter. So there's just, there's this whole thing where they follow him around like all of Pasadena to all these different parts where they filmed Halloween and he's like skating spots around there. And my wife is friends with John Carpenter, kind of like, he's a big gamer

and she is in the gaming industry. She does voice. She's like the head of a franchise. She does video game voices. And I sent, I had her send John Carpenter this interview with this skateboarder. And then he responded so that I was able to tell Tom Karangelo of like, Hey, John Carpenter this interview with this skateboarder, and then he responded so that I was able to tell Tom Karangelov, like, hey, John Carpenter saw that video. I know that for sure.

He was like, dude, that made my life. Thank you so much. He was so hyped to hear this. It was just a true life highlight for me. Yeah, that's such a fun epilogue to a career. John Carpenter, great, one of the great filmmakers, maybe the greatest of like the eighties. And people are like, why doesn't he make movies anymore? Did he pass away?

It was like, no, he just like discovered video games. And he was like, holy shit, these are so fucking fun. This is sick. Just doesn't make movies anymore. People are like, why don't you make movies? Like, ah, video games are really fun. Like, yeah, he's just like to get high and watch video games. Like an angsty teen in his basement.

He's like, I don't want to work. Yeah, basically. And he any place he we went and saw him at the Palladium and it's pretty sick. He has a band that just plays John Carpenter style music and there's like smoke effects and it's like pretty dark. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. He made so cool. He made a lot of music for his movies. Yeah.

What is more something you think's underrated? Underrated. This is a very personal one. I'm going sunscreen. Okay. Yeah. I'm under, I'm a fairer gentleman. I'm on the fair side of the complexion and just being in Arizona this weekend, I

realized like, dude, if I wasn't constantly shellacking myself with like 70 SPF, which is basically glue, like if you use that shit, it just stays on white. There's no rubbing it in. Yeah, no. You're just wearing it. Yeah, it's like wearing a weird- It's just what color you are now. Yeah.

It's like a suit or something, right? Because that guy, bright white. But if I wasn't having that, I would look like I just got out of like a skin graft surgery. I would be bright red and like peeling and stuff, you know, totally lifesaver. Yeah. There you go. Yeah. We were talking about like getting older where it's like, oh, you can't drink as much.

You can't have as much cream based products. But it is like I do find myself not caring. What? But how you look at all, you know, yeah, like whatever, whatever. Now I have a sun shirt. So I have a sun shirt now. For the beach. Yeah, yeah, yeah. For the beach, no, for my living room.

And. Like in the shower. We have a skylight that has been decimating my skin. I have stage four skin cancer from the skylight in my living room. Is this just saying, literally turning into like a middle-aged health tips podcast? Yeah, it might be. That's all right with me. Smoke weed and pick up video games. You'll be great. We also offer retirement advice. What is something you think is overrated?

I'm going to go with a nice cold take here and say social media guys. Come on. What? I know. But like, what are we do? What the fuck? It's first of all, it was we're all working for Metta for free every single day. That's all we do is raise money for Metta. And it's, you know, initially it's just like connect artists to their audience. And you can have lots of followers, and they will never see your posts because of the way the algorithm works.

It's terrible for mental wellness. It's fucking every like we share all this important political information. And yet somehow the country seems to continue. It doesn't get more progressive. You know, the only the only thing I think we should all just like fucking gently delete our apps, put the phone down, walk away, unless you are on TikTok and your algorithm is like my wife's, which is just like a kitten yawning so loud it scares itself. Like if that's your algorithm, that's good for mental health.

Just put your wife in charge of all social media. She's like, all right, this one is, I can't see how it's going for mental health. Just put your wife in charge of all social media. She's like, all right, this one is, I can't see how it's going to be harmful. And then in three years, we have a kitten Hitler that is like, killing. Well, that's the thing, like, you think it's gonna get, like, you know, every day if I watch a duck that can play the piano,

like, I just have a better afternoon. Yeah, for sure. That being said, follow me on at the word for. Where can people follow you more? Yeah, where can people find you? It does feel like, yeah. I think like part of it is that we used to have

church or bowling leagues or like places to actually connect with other people like through all the things that, you know, there's nothing wrong with what you said, but it was church or bowling league. Those are the only two. That's it. Well, there's like also other things that I'm drawing up like, I don't like lions clubs or clubs.

Yeah. You know, these things that like to exist that don't really... American region halls. Yeah, we were all in the army. I don't know. Like, people just had these things that they did with each other when they were done working. And you would interact, you would see people with your eyes and pick up all the subtle clues of their body language like just have this social experience that like the human organism was like designed for.

And now that shit all went away and it's being replaced by social media, which is like hacked into the circuitry. That's like around that. And I think it's probably best if we just view it as a brain parasite. It's probably best if we just view it as a brain parasite. That is like, when you look at what it has done to Elon Musk, what it has done to like Mark, like these are people who like start out as like, you know, quiet nerds who are like left leaning and then like, you know, what, whatever it just seemed for whatever reason, it seems to like take the human brain down this one specific direction.

Yeah. Until you're in that, like wielding a chainsaw on stage in the middle of the day. Yeah. Middle of the day. I thought for a while, like there, there's this thing that they used to talk about in philosophy that was like the singularity when robots come and like they're so much smarter than us that like they called it AI back then. So like that's this whole AI movement was picking up on that. But the idea was like that there will be a point where like there's going to be this

organism that comes and can like take over control of like humankind. And I've thought for a while that like that is the internet. The internet like has done this to us. It's like taken over control. It is like, you know, controlling us. It's such a weird thing to say to be like the internet is the hive, but it's like this hive mind that is like powered by us individually or like collectively that but like nobody has control over. And it like changes how people behave in like a really profound way that seems to be like bent on our destruction. If you like view it as a whole, like from a distance.

So I would, I would second your overrated. Altered. And it's like, they spend millions upon millions to make it hyper addictive. And the thing about addiction is it is progressive. So like you get sicker and sicker and you don't realize that's happening because part of the thing is self-denial.

So then all of a sudden you're like ignoring your children. You know what I mean? Then all of a sudden you're like screaming, I am become meme. Yeah. And you're 56 or whatever. Right. When you should, you know what I mean?

When you should be like being good to your grandchildren at that point, you know? Like gently settling back into the like, the sundowning of your life, you know? Dying, you should be dying. Yeah! Not whatever the should be dying. Yeah! Not whatever the fuck this is. Yeah.

Not killing people. Yeah, rage, rage, rage. Yeah. All right, let's take a quick break. And enough of that shit. We'll be right back. Shut up. Shut up, you guys.

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I always I'm calling that right. Yeah. CPAC, not I get those two confusing my brain. I don't know why I so there were a couple Nazi salutes, namely, you know, Steve Bannon did one that the crowd seemed to respond positively to. And so what took him so long? Like, how has that not been his 80th that he's done? You know, at this point, right sack of shit, such a sack of shit, like openly for so long, like, it's like, I guess it's free rate.

Like he wouldn't even have done it. It's wild. The people that like are evil and look evil, you know? That's what I, evil people are like really hot. So it's hard to, you know what I mean? But he is, this is very superficial, but he's melting from the inside. Yeah. Yes.

Yes. Yeah. There's a thing like nominative determinism where people with the name Dennis are more likely to be dentists and it's like so stupid that it's like hard to even like talk about because people are like, so he should be Stotsi Vanden. Right. But I'm saying like there, I feel like there's a appearance determinism. Genocide Steve.

Yeah. Right. Like he looks evil and therefore like something in him is like gravitating in that direction. He's like, I might as well, right? Yeah. But I just, the way the media in the US in particular seems to be responding to these things, I guess I don't know what I want them to do, but like, calling it, like phrasing it as a question, I guess is getting on my nerves.

We have this headline here. Did Steve Bannon flash a Nazi salute at CPAC? Like that's what you get if you just Google Steve Bannon Nazi salute, it's Steve Bannon. Is it a legal thing? Right. And if so, can someone, can we please have that go through the court so we can start calling it a Nazi salute, please? Right. Yeah. Because that's the only thing I can think of is that, oh, we don't want to be sued

for saying it's a Nazi salute, and then it would have to be decided by this wonderfully progressive Supreme Court. Right. Is it a, a Roman salute fucked, fucked argument or a Nazi salute? Yeah. So is it because like there, there is a headline like right next to it in the doc. Like I took a screen cap of just the results and like right next to it is banning gives Nazi salute at CPAC. Uh, and that one's from like a website that has the extension dot CZ so I think you know a

Non-american website feels comfortable. I thought that was a comedy sports website with The political arm of of comedy sports is strong. There's a suggestion of your least favorite political leader. Yeah, there's a tweet from like Balsack Sports. Have you seen these like the handle at Balsack Sports? And they're like, he's a fucking Nazi. You got like for like somebody who like tweets like random sports shit all the time, just like woke up, I guess, yesterday was just like, what the fuck?

These guys are fucking Nazis. What's happening? Well, it's scary parody anymore. Now it's like, yeah, the you know, and I don't believe anybody can tell the future. And I also think we need to be very aware of what's happening. It's like the progression, the frightening possibility for progression is like, are is there something wrong with these internment camps? You're like, can we fucking call it what it is? Yes, exactly. So, you know, I think people have seen the video by now, but, uh, like

I also, I just want to play this clip of Nick Fuentes, who is like the go-to, like open Nazi, like he's a Nazi, like he's like, yeah, I'm a Nazi. Like I like Hitler. And he has responded to both the Elon Musk salute and the Steve Bannon salute in the same way, which is like kind of, so like kind of weird that he's like the one person who seems to be clear on this. And I wonder if it's just because like he recognizes like, Oh yeah, there's like nothing bad is going to come of this for me now, like my side has one. I can like speak openly about what this is, but let me just play this clip real quick.

Bannon gets up there and says, I think Trump's going to run in 28. He goes, we want Trump. And then he throws up a straight up Roman salute. It's, it's getting a little uncomfortable even for me. Even I'm starting to feel like that guy in the picture that wouldn't hail Hitler. We all know that reference. Uh, all right. So, and then, I mean, he had the same reaction to the Elon Musk one, which again, the media

was like, we got to give the guy the benefit of the doubt. Elon Musk. Like that was a serious Roman. It wasn't even like a, like a subtle, like a wave, like one of these, like a Laura Ingraham number one, Laura Ingraham did that. That was a straight up like Sig Heil, like loving Hitler energy. Yeah. So I don't know that. So that's the guy who seems like he knows so much about Nazi salutes that he has like references to. He's like, I feel like the guy in that one picture we've all seen where like everybody's given the Hitler salute and like,

he's not, you know, this guy, he has like a historical knowledge. He wrote, he worked on Kanye's political campaign and was like writing Hitler based ideas into Kanye's presidential campaign. Remember that was the thing. He's a bit of an expert in like all the worst fucking possible ways. Uh, he seems to be pretty clear on like what's going on here. It's just so weird to me that the U S media is still framing it as a question or saying he's being accused of doing something that in the article, like right above it,

there's a video of him doing the thing that he's being accused of. Yeah, especially when everything else is so clickbaity. You know what I mean? Like, I guess it maybe is the possibility of a defamation suit or whatever, but why is this the one thing that they're avoiding using the most sensationalistic terms to describe?

Yeah. Yeah. It must be like legally defensive. I don't know. What were you saying? And when you watch these pieces of shit do it too, like it's almost like watching a kid, like they know they just did a bad,

like they did something naughty, you know? Even like a fucking melt face, Elon, like when he was doing it, he looked around afterwards and be like, hey, what is about to happen now that I just did that? And even Bannon, who looks like a guy who just says hello to people that way on the street. But even after he did it, it was like, he kind of paused a little bit.

There was a little bit of a hitch before, because they're like, I can't believe I'm about to do this thing. Even the worst people in the entire world are like, uh-oh, what's about to happen after I do this thing? It's like when I gave somebody the middle finger for the first time when I was like six years old. And then I'm just like, ooh, you know, like kind of. I'm fucked, I'm fucked.

Yeah, or that thing where you like throw a ball at somebody and you somehow are like, oh no, it's accidentally headed right for their face. You know? And so you turn around and pretend it wasn't you. Yeah. Yeah. And you blame your friend because you're a coward.

Right. But like, and it's amazing that even Fuentes is a parent, it looks like he's having a bit of a dark night of the soul in the same kind of way where it's like, oh, wait, you're actually allowing us to try to do this. Like it's one thing to troll and pretend like, wasn't the Holocaust kind of cool, dude? You know what I mean?

And then all of a sudden you're in a position of power. There's gotta be some part of your human soul that is like Starting to recognize the terror a little bit, right? Yeah. Yeah, I think that's I think that's how I don't know I think he is having fun with like this moment where everybody's like looking to him as the Nazi to be like wait that was You you would tell us if that was Nazi salute, right? Right. Right. But yeah, I think like he's able to, I guess, because he is an open and avowed Nazi, just say what it is, which like I think anybody with eyes can see that. Yes. It's like if the fucking teens from 4chan all of a sudden were like the vice

president, you know what I mean? Like, yeah, you know, they'd be like, uh, whoops. Right. One of the leaders, like the France has a lot of like really scary far right parties and one of the leaders was scheduled to speak at CPAC and like canceled his appearance after that. Cause even he was like, Oh, that was like a straight up, we can't do that. Right. Cause even he was like, Oh, that was like a straight up, we can't do that.

Right. But I guess like it just, it feels like whatever the forces are on high that are like, you know, affecting, you know, how Americans society operates, it's just like America is the place where like that is okay and like France and you know, Germany and England are places like there, there are these like protests, like pieces of protest art that are going up over overseas that there's a poster that says, uh, goes from zero to 1939 in three seconds, the Tesla swastika that is fun that went up, I think in the UK. That's great.

are that is fun that went up, I think in the UK. That's great. But like, I, I feel like people are either like too scared to call it out in America or they're just like, don't care. I don't, I don't know, but it's like, it's starting with the media, the media being like, uh, allegations are flying that this thing happened in this video that we're about to show you. It's just like, it's not allegations at that point, is it? And I just don't get the Nazi thing too, where it's like, all right, if you hate groups of people,

like I'm speaking very analytically right now, but it's like, all right, if you hate Jews, you can just hate Jews. You know, like, there's there. It's not a cool team that you're associating with, or it's like, they lost, he, you know, they lost, they got their ass kicked in a war. Like he was dumb and a drug addict, you know? So it's like, all right. So there's no cool Nazi for a reason, you know? So it's, it's just such an odd thing where, you know, these people are supposed to love America and it's like, so do you watch Saving Private Ryan the first part

and then just boo Tom Hanks every time he comes on? Is your boo fucker? Hank is maybe that's where all that we've been talking about how how much Tom Hanks hatred there is. And like speculating maybe it was because he was like patient, like the person who caught Covid and everyone was like, oh no, dad has Covid. Like, this is real. But maybe it's that maybe they everyone was like, oh no, dad has COVID, like this is real. But maybe it's that, maybe they're just like,

watching Saving Private Ryan being like, this movie focuses on the bad guy the whole time. Yeah. It's still, it's almost kind of not, it's similar to the way they hate Mr. Rogers. You know what I mean? Like if you watch that Mr. Rogers documentary, which is beautiful and heartbreaking,

there's like footage of Fox News just base, calling him effectively a pussy. Like it's enough. You know what I mean? And so there's this like group of men in America, there's a type of masculinity in America that is so lost and so feels so unworthy and they're so desperate to feel superior.

So desperate to have any kind of power that they're like, oh yeah, the guy in the jackboots, he had it together at least, at least he had a sharp outfit. You know what I mean? It's truly bizarre. Yeah. The only way that he expressed power was in overt acts of violence and weird hand gestures and that's what speaks to me at this moment in history. That cyanide pill had horse cock in it. You know, he was a big strong...

You little big feerer. He was a huge feerer. I was a thick boy. It doesn't make any sense. Yeah. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right... Sorry. What on that cyanide pill had a horse cock in it. The horse cock in it, yep. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. Sorry, what the fuck was that? On that cyanide pill, had a horse cock in it. Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. Print that.

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And have you guys seen these, have you seen this, you heard about this? Have you seen these POV, you wake up in historical period videos. They're going viral on TikTok. We've got the underscore POV underscore lab. Uh, yes. So they are AI generated. So first of all, I just want to, uh, I'm going to have some complaints about these videos in a little bit. I do want to say. I hope those complaints are somewhat humorous.

That's what I'm, that's what I'm holding on to. I'm with Lorde on this one. I do have a compliment that is in no way humorous. Uh, this is the first time I've seen POV used correctly on TikTok ever. Is it like these videos are from the point of view of some, a character who is waking up like that. He looks down and he sees his feet. Yeah.

Like AI is, it's nerdy enough to get the, to get the perspective correct. Yes. Well, as opposed to like POV, you just saw like this happen. And like that, that is a thing that is used all over TikTok and they never know what POV means. Yeah. Like you can see your own nose or your teeth in it. Right. Like, no, this isn't the... You can just like, just see yourself. It's just, it means nothing.

You're looking at something, right. On the other hand, it's basically like a movie of the week level commitment to historical accuracy. And this is not shocking because not only do they use AI to generate the videos. Like that makes, that's what I assumed it meant when it was like AI videos, they're, they're using AI and like blending together all this different source material to get these videos that ostensibly look like they take place in ancient Egypt or during the Black

Plague. But the person also uses AI to do all the research. He just asks chat GPT to research a time period and then asks for information about like what people would have looked like and done. And as we've seen chat GPT and AI fucking sucks at answering questions like that, Google asked it for cheese facts for their Superbowl commercial. And the cheese fact it came back with that they featured in their Superbowl commercial was a Gouda is I think responsible for like 60% of cheese consumption in the world. Like some, some fact that is like so obviously false that like any of us could have-

So why can you show that, but not say this is a Nazi salute? Right? Exactly. What the fuck is going on? We're trying to destroy truth. So you have, when you have a thing that is about facts and is saying things definitively, you want it to be not true. So that when something definitively horrible happens, that you can be like,

we don't know. I mean, fucking Google says Gouda is responsible for most cheese consumption. Obviously that's not true, but you know, what is truth anymore? Thank you. We'll be right back. You're listening to iHeartRadio on 96.6, the sixth. Wait, 96.6 is called the sixth? Yeah.

What a weird choice by them. I don't know what6 is called the six? Yeah. What a weird choice by them. I don't know what they were doing over there. Yeah. But let's take quick looks at some of these videos. POV, you're a famous painter during the Renaissance. Is that? I don't want to watch this one.

All right. So this one's during the Black Plague. A lot of horrible shit happening. Real quick, you see a rat that is also a cat walk by. Ah, that's what that was. Yes. This person is, you're buying bread off the filthiest person ever, giving the bread to another person.

And your hands, the hands are always visible. That must be like something that the AI dictates. Then you give the medicine to an old sick man. So there's a story. They're not just trying to tell you about history. They are storytellers. And then the person falls over dead. So it's like, you dumb ass, you shouldn't have given that medicine to an old sick person. Can I just say on that, those like, the uncanny valley thing there

is like perfectly executed, because the eyes of the people suffering from the Black Plague are the most haunted eyes I've ever seen. Yeah. Like, that is horrifying. But they all like kind of have beautiful eyes. They are kind of hot. As would be the case as you're dying from plague,

you would be, everybody would be kind of hot and look like they're in like a perfume commercial about the Black Death. Yeah, they all kind of look like Winona Ryder a little bit. Right. Your skin is covered in dirt, but it's gorgeous. Because all they're doing is like mixing all the faces from media. And so like it's mostly actors, presumably. And so you just have like hot people looking a little gaunt. All right.

This one, we're getting to see Pompeii on the day of the eruption. That part is weird. I think it's just a glitch of the AI. The guy's like holding his hand out and then opens his mouth, but nothing is said. Well, you know how all the Renaissance painters were like, hey, like and subscribe to my work before they drew it on the ceiling.

Right, exactly. Wilt thou match thy like button? Right, so, but all of this like feels like, I don't know, could be somewhat realistic boy realistic ish. You know what's coming next this month Mount Vesuvius. A piece of pottery just like flies up for no reason. Where is hand where are the hands how am I supposed to understand what's happening if there's no hands.

Yeah POV this person is pretty chill for being in a POV. Look at that one. Did you guys see that one? Where are they running towards it? They're running towards it. What the fuck? It just goes full roll in EmRick. It immediately becomes a river of fire.

A river of fire. And then there's like a fire laser beam coming down the street. Like it's the fucking the aliens from Independence Day are attacking. It's like AI Red save the cat. You know, where they're like with the cat in the tree, but it doesn't understand like that it can very easily go too far or it's no longer entertaining at all. It's just a nightmare. Right.

This might be the strep talking, but this is the most relaxed I've been in weeks watching that video. I don't know what it is. It really soothed me watching something soothing about it. I will say like there is just the rhythm of the videos. There's like a slow mo like you feel. You feel like you're in a dream. Like that has always been the coolest. I think whoever ultimately harnesses what is good about AI will dig into the fact

that they just feel like a fucking, the wildest dream you've ever had, you know? Like they feel like an acid trip mixed with just a dream that you remember vividly. Is it because it's like because it's so real, but it's detached from reality in the same way that dreams are? Yeah, it's like there's no narrative logic to the images. You have to harness it and press as hard as you can on both sides. Just keep it on the rails a little bit. There are some great ones where they don't do that,

and it's just like person in a laundromat turns into a rocket that is flying through the air, turns into an amazing tropical fish, turns into all these wild, beautiful visuals. I wish they all did end like that. It was like, POV, you're an 80s musician in a synth band, but it just ends with like a volcano and fire Yeah Producer Bay dropped one of the chat that says waking up in North Korea and it's it's the dumbest video You have to watch it they totally it they totally mailed it in on this one.

It's like also shorter, like there's so much they could have done with it. They always, so I feel like they're just like, they've skinned one video and then just replace details around it. It seems to be the thing. Man, even AI is cutting corners. That's tragic. Even AI, that is basically all AI does is cutting corners. That's tragic. Even AI. That is basically all AI does. It's cut corners.

It's all these participation trophies we gave AI when it was here. So wake up North Korea in 2025. Looks like an apartment in the Lower East Side, but okay. Okay. Actually, it doesn't look bad. Wait, that's not where he was before. And that's the video. And now you've learned everything you need to know about AI, uh, about North Korea and AI learning about our leader.

Finally, I like, I like that the paper that they're writing on looks like somebody wiped their ass with it for some reason. Like they can't, they can't have paper. Got to, you got to reuse your toilet paper for writing down notes about dear leader. The details that his, so they, the BBC, cause they're good at content, had historians watch these videos. Because these videos are blowing up. They have like five million views.

And the historians were pointing out, like some of the stuff was a little pedantic, a little Neil deGrasse Tyson-ish, where it was like, they're reading the hieroglyphics from left to right, and actually it should be right to left. But some of the things they point out is just like, Oh, that would have like made the video so much more interesting. Like they point out, like they did a Chernobyl one and they were saying they like made the technology shittier than it actually was and like the technology in Chernobyl and in the Soviet Union at that time was actually like pretty

impressive and advanced, which is like not what you would expect. So, and that's what is interesting about it. Like the, uh, they point out that like the bread, you may have noticed that every story like focuses on a person holding a piece of bread in front of the camera for some reason, that's because I don't know that worked for them in one video, so they added it to all the rest of their videos. Just a person holding out bread as we do. I hope everyone starts to turn into bread

in the cars with bread. You're a piece of bread. You're a bread man now. They start hiring editors because it's become such a big business, and it's like, where the fuck is the bread in this video? Where's the bread in the JFK assassination? It's the shooter who holds up a piece of bread.

He's firing. He shoots through a bread silencer, like a baguette silencer at the end of the rifle. Dude, a bunch of butter comes out of the back of his head. Yeah, that's now we're thinking like, yeah, yeah. But they were putting out that like the bread didn't look like that. Crumbs all over. What did it look like? Yeah, yeah. Sorry.

It is. JFK is just a gingerbread man. She has her hair in a bun. A big bun. Why? Yeah. Oh, you didn't. Yeah, there's a croissant driving the limo. It just gets lazier. Anyways, this is... I think if you actually used a human to do the research before making these videos, they

could be cool, but they instead... Cooler. Cooler. Instead, they have just farmed everything out to chat GPT, which are you guys encountering people in your lives being like, Hey, I just like stuck this into chat GPT. Like I used AI to fill out this thing for, uh, for us. Like that's so, so there you go. It's like this fucking sucks.

I am bad every time. Yeah. I found it's either people who are being very lazy. And I think that's the best version of it. If I don't feel like doing this, I'm going to do a JEP GPT or they have no creative bone in their body whatsoever. And, and they're dumb. And I actually, that sounded mean. Um, I mean, I mean,

any other way. I think, but I think it's like for a lot of people, it's a, uh, it's like a thing to brag about. It's like, remember when like people first had iPhones and they're like, look, this iPhone can like do a lightsaber. Yeah. It's like a fart noise. Like, yeah, yeah. Like, it's just a thing to be like,

I have this thing and I do, I know how to use it, even though the thing that it does is fucking stupid. Yeah, that's a good point. I think that's a better point where it's almost like a shiny new toy, basically. Yeah.

Hey, look at this cool new toy that you don't know how to use or don't have or have chosen not to use. And I'm using it. But then it's like, that's not a good toy. That toy sucks. But there's other toys. These people all think this will swear up and down.

This is the future. And like everything is going to run by AI. Which is I'm having this experience. I don't know why, but I was using it. It seemed like it was better like a year ago. I don't, I'm not like, you know, whatever, like in my day, AI, but like I basically learned how to do this kind of podcast studio I have in my room, almost exclusively from AI,

cause I'm not like very technologically gifted or whatever. But now it's like, yeah, it seems like it's gotten way worse. Oh wow, I don't know. I think, I think it has, isn't there something about it's like, now it's also drawing from AI. So it's like this sort of like this right.

Right. Yeah. This misinformation loop that that's probably why that Gouda thing happened. You know, right. Yeah. Yeah. Just inevitable, like devolving. Yeah. It's pulling on itself. Yeah. And this isn't this isn't very

fantastic. This isn't like a funny take, but I really think my thing is like, I don't actually think AI is the problem. I think capitalism is the problem. Like AI is just a tool. You know what I mean? Like if it's a great tool, an artist will use an actor,

whoever will utilize it properly. But the problem is, is that we're all almost facing eviction all the time, so we can't afford to lose any fucking jobs. Whereas if that wasn't the problem, we could just use this shit to make things easier for us, you know? No, not you, not you. You can't use it for that. The companies can use it for that. Well, that's, you understand what I'm saying.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. And the companies own their properties, so they're not going to be affected. They paid off their mortgages, but yeah, that's, they can use it to this point. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, the, the most thoroughly pointless one, they made a Titanic one, like POV, you're a person on the Titanic as if the movie that the movie Titanic doesn't exist. Uh, but then I think they realized that they like, yeah, I think they realized it's pointless because halfway through that video like as the hallways are like flooding with seawater The camera like dips below the water and a shark is coming

Coming down the hallway. I think they were just like that You know what the one way we could have made Titanic better is if there had been fucking sharks on the boat I think I has a little pieces of bread on the boat. I think everyone's floating on pieces of bread. Big loaves. A mother holding its child but it's a it's a bread. It's a bread loaf. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's not like AI has a fucking anxiety disorder. Like every it's feels like it's having intrusive catastrophizing thoughts. Like no matter what it can only discuss like terrible catastrophes. Yeah. I think it also, yeah, it just averages out things that have come before and then also does what you, what it thinks you want it to do. Yeah. And so it's just building into expectations.

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rebrand the podcast on Instagram. We got like 18 episodes out. We just did one with Beth May of Dungeons and Daddies where we rebranded the Oscars. Every episode, like we there's an episode we rebranded Ghost, not Ghost, the movie, that'd be sick, we should do that. We rebranded Ghosts, we rebranded Men, the first one is Bagel Bites. So anyway, it's super funny, we're really proud of it. Check out rebrand.

That's great. And also watch Mythic Quest on Apple TV. I'll be popping up in an episode in a couple of months here, I think. Oh, that's awesome. Rebrand ghosts, the sequel to the movie ghost. The James Cameron one where he walked into this office, ghost S dollar signs. It's just a threeple. So it's like two ghosts on Patrick Swayze. When is there a work of media that you've been enjoying?

I was looking, I always want to go, like the, the, the internet is always like here and gone, here and gone. So I always like reading old Rob Delaney tweets, because he was such a hilarious like he was so funny on tweets and everybody immediately forgets about it all the time. So here's one from twenty twenty three. Rob Delaney, my wife wanted to make love tonight, had to take a rain check. I'm still so fucking angry about the Chinese spy balloon. I've never known rage or fear like this. That one. Wow.

I just like it was huge and then we forgot about it. Like I love the Don't Taze Me Bro guy. I just like how quickly we move on. I like turtles. So many good things. I love the I like turtles. I thought you were just saying you like turtles. Yeah. I do. I am like that kid on the internet. I love turtles. You can't argue. I love turtles.

Blake, where can people find you? Is there a work of media you've been enjoying? People can find me at Blake Wexler on all social media. I have some live dates coming up. March 13th, I'm at the Comedy Fort in Fort Collins, Colorado. And then March 15th, this is a big one. If there's any zeitgang in LA, I'm headlining the Ice House in Pasadena. Those tickets are

available. It's a Saturday at seven. It's very reasonable. So March 15th, Ice House in Pasadena, and then April 4th through 5th, I'll be at Sisyphus in Minneapolis. And that LA show is going to have some fun special guests on it. Not that you need them. I'm enough. And the work of social media that has been kind of torturing me in a both. I don't know if it's, I mean, it's bad. It's speaking of these AI videos. I don't know why they get sent to me, maybe because I can't stop watching them, but what's called vibe generator official and they make the most fucked up like it's like what if countries were animals but all the animals are like jacked and shirtless for some reason. I know.

Do you know what I'm talking about? And then there's like I'm okay with it. I've seen it like where they cast various things and they're like the, the movie, and then it's like different actors playing various roles. But they're all very like buff and like, and then there was one called, sorry, Tidy World Police. And it's like, basically, they have like young boys from each country next to one of these beasts, like from the country. It's crazy.

So if you want to lose your goddamn mind, don't watch, like honestly, don't watch these. Don't watch these, edit this all out. It's crazy. It's the most, it's worse than those POV. Those POV videos are like Oscar bait compared to whatever the fuck these things are. It's crazy. So if you want to see jacked animals for some reason, check out these videos.

I never know. If you want to be turned into a furry, like if you want to be forced to have a fetish. Yeah, it's a very specific one. Force fed a fetish. Work of media I've been enjoying presumably that is right. When we get off this call, I just, this is a little news item that we missed, but, uh, this is from NBA sent, uh, sent tell.

Wait, oh, is this going to be fake? Nevermind. I think Jack, did you read that the Mavericks organization announced they will ban fans from wearing Luka Donsich jerseys? Oh, that's funny. No, but that's for sure not real. I'm telling you, this is now a middle-aged self-help podcast. Hey, guys, can you help me?

Is this real? This one's fake. I've just been enjoying this onion headline from a couple of years ago. Happy person must either be stupid or evil. That's great. I think it's really good for the moment. Then the body of the article, there's a twist at the end.

He just got some ketamine and that's why he's happy. He's clarified that he will be unhappy again later. There's a third option. That's right. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find me on blue sky at Jack OB, the number one on blue sky. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at the Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram.

We have a Facebook fan page and a website, dailyzeitgeist.com. You can go to the episode wherever you're listening to this and check out the description and there 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. Song. When Miles is out, Super Producer Justin comes through with the recommendation. Super Producer Justin, is there a song that you think people might enjoy? Yeah, so I found this song on

SoundCloud the other day and after our recording yesterday, Myles and Bae and I just stayed behind and jammed out to this and this is a re-edit of a popular song, System of a Down's Chop Suey, but it's reimagined as a Jersey Club style dance track. And that description might turn off some of you, but I promise you're missing out. It's so fun. You know what? Whoever that turns off, let them. I don't want you to listen to this podcast. You should, but it's not for you.

It's not for you. Fuck off. I don't know how to pronounce the name of these artists because I just found out about them yesterday, but this is Chop Suey, Aasive, O-S-I-V-E, and Think Pink. There's no I's in either of those words. And this is their re-edit, and you can find that song in the footnotes. Footnotes? Yeah, go find them in the footnotes after this.

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