The Daily Zeitgeist - Muffin But Net, James Cameron: Face Stealer 05.12.26

Episode Date: May 12, 2026

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Who's that on your t-shirt? Bjork. Oh, lovely. I was like, I thought it was a really bad Michael Jackson. I thought it was Michael Jackson. I was like, that's a really bad Michael Jackson. Yeah. That is the picture Michael Jackson gave to a surgeon.

That is 100% like. That is, yeah, it's because Michael Jackson was slowly trying to make himself look like Bjork and he failed just before. I do think could have been an Icelandic. Don't you think like he might have given that to his surgeon? This, his face predates this. It's like, when you show the hairdresser, can you like me look like this guy? He's like, can he make me look like her? Oh, do you think Bjork took Michael?

No, Michael took that picture of Bjork and was like, make me look like one of your French girls. I don't want to be so pedantic, but this album was. It doesn't make sense from a time perspective. Unless he's a time traveler, Jack. Michael Jackson could not have taken this photo to his plastic surgeon. All right. I'm sorry.

Do you deal with this shit on your show? Awesome. Is it this bad? No, sure, actually. Don't talk to you. I feel like this is,

don't talk to him. I feel like this is like, you're like his regular, like partner and then we're the fun side piece. You're the side piece, yeah. It's great. Oh,

so we don't have fun anymore? It's a grind. You know, I mean, it's like we're best friends, you know, like we don't even have to ask each other how we're doing it.

Roommates more like. Dead bedrooms, dude. Dead bedrooms. There's a Reddit thing. There's a Reddit called dead bedroom. Yeah, you tell me about it. And it's fucking grim.

What? It's all like, it's always, it's mostly men posting in there. And it's always just some shit about like, we had the kids. We just kind of exist in the same house now. Dead bedrooms. But like it's, yeah, the name of it is way, like, freakier than like just reading pretty normal stories about couples. It's kind of like falling out of love.

Yeah. But like dead, like when it's like dead bedrooms where people gather to talk about it, it's a little. Sounds like a Bravo show. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Could be. Flip this dead bedroom. Yeah.

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Holy shit. Yeah. I haven't done that without headphones on. It's loud. Very loud. Oh, we had headphones on last time with Henry. Yeah, yeah, we did. Why were we having headphones when we had Henry?

I don't know. I think it was old habit. It's also to just let people know that we're a podcast. Yeah. Oh, yeah, right. Exactly. How do you know? It's important to, for the internet, to see the headphones. You ever do it?

I've, like, taken meetings right after we record this. I'm like, I still have the headphones on. People are, oh, oh, you are a podcaster. Yeah. And you're like, fuck. Just walk around our town with those sheds on. Unplugged. Just trailing behind me.

Welcome to Season 438 episode two. We already did that, right? Yep. The Daily Zikey. production of iHeart radio. This is a podcast where you take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness through the days. Yeah, that's what we do on this week. We also have a new non-news history version of the daily Zykeyes dropping each Monday morning,

where we do a deep dive into the Zikeis through the lens of a different icon. Never heard about these things, icon? We just did Anna Wintor. Fellow compatriot. Yeah. Anna Wintor. We're on a bit of a UK kick. Do you know her?

Yeah. Do you know Mr. Bean? Oh, yeah. So he did Bean, Wintor. He's pretty quiet on the WhatsApp. Yeah. Yeah, he's just... He just keeps trying to put emojis like minds and stuff.

I do. He's grunts. But he is fucking everybody, at least according to our research. He's Mr. Bean, a bit of a lady. Yeah. Oh, well, yeah.

He famously stole James Akhan. Yeah, yeah. I was with James when he... Yeah, I have... I was very first-hand with that information. Yeah. What do you mean? Like, you...

No, I just... He got a text and he's like, oh. You know what? I got it in, no, I was with him in New Zealand. He'd broken up with his misses at the time. And we were doing like a tour of different stand-up comedians around there. And then he was pretty broken. So I'm not going to make fun of him.

But then I was like, oh, I feel so bad for him. And then he was saying, yeah, it's weird. Anyway, then like a year later, I found out. It was in the paper. She was a mystery. Yep. Roll the bean footage. Honestly, I'd be pretty psyched.

Like the anecdote that you guys. get out of that. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's like, I get to tell Mr. his stand-up routine about it is very funny. Very funny. But it's funny. People always go,

well, you've got a good routine out of it. I think he'd probably rather not have had his heart broken. Yeah, but his heart was already broken. Year later, he finds out. He's like, well, re-broken. Free gift from the universe. That's the most American outlook on that. That's right.

We're very optimistic. It works out great for everyone. You're going to make money off of this, brother, and that's what really matters. It is Tuesday, May 12th, 2026. Is that right? Yeah. That sounds about right. Yeah, that is.

What day is that? Well, let me say it's international myelgic encephalomyelitis awareness. We knew that. Yeah, but is there anything else? International Nurses Day. Okay. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Day. Okay.

International Day of Plant Health Day. Hey, if your name's Antony, it's National Antony Day. And if you're a tampon, it's National Tampon Day also. So shout out all that. Yeah. A little bit of both. National Plant Health Day National. Like, I feel like they.

named that one incorrectly. International Day of Plant Health. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now you're back on board. Now I'm back on board. My name is Jack O'Brien, A.K., hello,

is it Bean you're looking for? That one courtesy of Snarf your law on the Discord in reference to the fact that we all want to fuck Mr. Bean. I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. It's Miles Gray, Miles Dreams are made of

sharing them all on TDZ. He travels the world without THC. What do they mean? Well, they gotta mean something. Why am I waking up on this bluff mattress? Okay, shout out to Smitty-Wurbin-Yagermansson. Yeagerman Jensen. Smiti-Wurgin-Mager-Mansion.

Hey, Smitty-Wurban-Jegerman Jensen. Thank you for that, aka, thank you for acknowledging my THC-List dreams in their intensity. What's the latest? You got anything? From the Dream Journal? I have one. So for new listeners, Miles traveled to Japan, did not bring THC.

And has, I will go to jail. Don't do that. Yeah. Has been experiencing extremely vivid dreams. Okay. So this is a weird. And I said, I was at a party and this dude was teaching me a handshake when suddenly another guy noticed and came up to us and basically said it was on site and they were going to go

get that bang. from his car. Because of your handshake. Yeah. And it wasn't like a gang handshake. It was like cool. He was like fuck that. It was like stupid like kid and play like grab your ankle type of shit.

Which we did on stage. Yeah. And someone was like it's fucking honest. They're like, oh, for real. And they're like, stay here. And I was like, what the fuck was that about? And it ended. So anyway, I'm fine.

Oh man. I'm fine. Yeah, you seem like you're doing well. Miles, we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a very funny standup comedian, and comedy writer who is on the globe dominating podcast, Ain't It Footy. My co-host, co-host is my enemy. No, your lover. It's my friend.

My lover. It's Chris Martin! Chris Martin, aka, do I have to do one? Yeah, yeah. Big up the mandem. Oh, big up the UK mandem. Big up the man, Chris, Chris, thank you for joining us. Thanks, ma'am.

And he was all mellow. Yeah, get the jokes in now. Get him in. I had to do it all. You've never heard that before. Get him in. Get him in. Get it off your chest.

Do you like being named Chris Martin? I mean, I don't know. I just sort of should have changed. I should have changed it. I should have changed it. I did try to. Isn't it for three? This is true.

It's pretty common name. Very common name. Yeah. Like many years ago when I was much new, I was like, this guy's, this guy's cramping my style. So I'll go on as Chris John Martin. Mm-hmm. And then I found out his middle name, also John. No.

You literally have. Oh, you can't escape. No. No. No. No. So it's a prison. I'm happy to carry on. In my head, I arrogantly feel at some point, like, I'll surpass him. And this is, you got him. This is step one on the ladder, baby. It is. All right. Let's step one of take down Chris Martin. It's called SEO, man. That's right. I mean, come on the daily's like guys. He's never been on until you. Exactly. Yeah. One nothing. This person. I'm worried. He's a coward. Yeah. You know. Does he go to the Ralph's on Hollywood and Weston? Out of it? No. Is that the Chris Martin they talk about when they say is Chris Martin in Old Four? No. Crying again?

No. It's me. With hot dogs in his hands? Clutching two back. Yeah, he's crying then. Chris, we're thrilled to have you here. We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, a couple of things we're talking about.

We're going to do a World Cup date. Yeah. That was the thing. We had that segment about four years ago, I guess. Yeah, yeah. During the World Cup. And even four years before that, too. Some may say.

We're going to talk about the White House, just more fallout from the ballroom, which some people are like, you think that's a ballroom? Did you see that threat? No. They're like, you think that's a ballroom. That's a bunker, brother. Oh, sure, sure. He's digging in and he's going to kill us all. And then anyways, they're using that somehow to try and build a new golf course in Washington.

So we're going to, holy shit. Miles just took a sip from this. an Arizona iced tea that the it's nothing man height it is it's too big a

it's too big a can let's be honest that's not how many ounces we look we look at 22 that's 22 that's 22 fluid ounces right gas station did you stop out to get that from

that's a gas station exclusive yeah yeah you can sell them anywhere no you can only get cans that big yeah yeah you're going to get them at 711 they're still 99 cents you know they didn't have mucho mango though

that's my that's my that's my zone Of choice. What kind of Zona you got? Do you mean? Yeah, a dog town of Z boys? That's what I call my crew of friends. You're just going to watch Arizona next thing. They should have an Arizona.

Like they have the Apple store. They should have an Arizona iced tea store. I'm sure. I've got a tejevant. Is that like a fancy one? Am I like a, am I the bougie iced tea drinker? That ain't, I don't even kind of.

It's got what that crap is, bro. Why is it leaking? Oh, oh yeah. Oh, no, because I opened it and I forgot. I thought you just had a sorted, like, a general fault with this type of good. Lord, you drink in that? The selling, the selling point is it just slightly leaps. So it keeps you on the edge of the C? Yeah, you're like, ooh, I got a good one.

Pre-come. Yeah, that's kind of what we do over here. Pre-team. We'll talk about James Cameron being a face stealer and do a leap of getting her face stolen in a separate incident. Face Steelers all around, Chris. But before you get to any of that bullshit, we do like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history

that's revealing about who you are? I did look up. I said the most recent thing. Yeah, it can be that. Or something funnier than that. Go with that. No, I'm joking. I don't know.

I don't know. How to spell dessert versus desert. No, how long is a toddler, how long should you leave a toddler asleep for in your car before you can carry them into your house and they stay asleep. Yeah. Yeah. That was, I tried, I tried the transfer yesterday. Yeah. And when you're shaking your head. I was like, I literally was like the internet lie, dude, because I was like, if you go too early when they're asleep, when they hit like over two, they're kind of not really sleep. And I waited,

said 15 to 20, that's deep sleep. Yeah. 20 to 30. I wait 30. Door open. He's like, what's going on? Oh, shit. No. You said, That, right in his face. You feel back to sleep immediately. It's my weird bedtime return. He was sleeping. But no, disaster. You know, when you, when you, as a parent who has a child that still naps, you think you've got

this two hours locked in. Yeah, the cigarette break of parenting. Yeah, they fall asleep one minute before you get home. You're like, this is crafty. Yeah. This crafty cat. Oh, yeah. He's trying to mess with my golden time.

They're very smart or very stupid. She's gone under the boat. That's a jaws reference. I don't know why. Um, yeah, is your child a violent waker-upper? Uh, oh, he, um, he wakes up and just says, no, daddy, no. Oh, yeah, yeah. Daddy, no.

Yeah, not you. It's always. It's always. Literally, and I'm like, I, mom's out. No. Yeah. Oh, don't accept that. I have a cowl.

That's a callback tomorrow of the podcast. Fine. Yeah. He couldn't, like, seeing me when he wakes up from a nap, it's like, His worst nightmare. It's like a killer's walked into the room. Yeah. Well, well, well.

It flip-flops between Her Majesty and I. Sometimes, like, he'll see Her Majesty and it'll be like, Where's Daddy? Yeah. And other times, he'll see me. And he'll, one time he just looked at me and then went back to bed. Didn't even tell. And I knew, and I was like,

you know how hard I tried. Yeah, rolled over. Yeah. I put you the breakfast show this morning. Yeah, exactly. I put vanilla. in it like you like. Yeah.

My, my oldest used to have night tears and then my second, if you caught him, like sometimes he's fine. Sometimes he wakes off cycle. And it's like, I understand why they believed

in demon possession for like a long time. I'm like, that's the only way to explain the shit that is coming out of his mouth that's like being cussed out by like a 35 year old. Oh, he's like tapping into like a deeper,

yeah, like just like a, different like plane of existence just telling me how. Hey, you fucking coward. You're like, what the fuck? You Judas? You think you better than me? You called me a Judas.

That was what I've told the story before. He came to our bedroom door when we we got tired of the abuse. So we started locking our door just to see if that would like make him go back to his bed. And he just spent like 30 minutes berating us and being like, why can't why aren't you answering?

the door. Do you not hear me? Or are you stupid? Oh, I get it. You're stupid. Okay. Mommy and Daddy, you're stupid. No, we're not. I was like, he's four. I was like, what the fuck is going on here? I majored in philosophy, dumb shit.

He started showing him your credentials. Check out of the CV, little men. Sliding them under the door, though. That's Daddy's diploma from Georgetown. He will slide. You're trying to betrayee or something. You like, wake up, go do an IQ. test in town come back of the results?

Yeah. We snuck out the window. Someone stupid wake up looking at test. You got an online doctorate. You've printed it out. I got this too just now while I was hiding in here. Give me a riddle. Give me any riddle right now.

Your riddles always suck. The doctor is a whole woman. It was the mom the whole time. That is a good one. That is a great one. Fucking mind fuck. Did you know that doctors? Oh yeah.

I can't operate. Yeah. I still don't get that. one. Yeah. I don't think. That's the most unrealistic riddle of it. Yeah, yeah. I remember at the time as a kid, I was like, that really fucked me up. I remember really thinking like, holy shit. I'm blind. Like I just thought and it's crazy because my pediatrician was like a woman too at the time when I was like, what the fuck am I? I was really ashamed to myself at eight years old. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You got to work on yourself, man. I do. Man. I'm still, I'm still, I'm a still piece of shit, but whatever. Also,

she's pretty stoic because her husband just died in a car accident. Right. And she's like, I cannot operate on this boy for it is my son. Yeah. It's like, why are you sound like Jesus doing like the parables? She must hate her husband and his son. She was like, hell yeah. She's like, oh, he died?

All right. And him? Yeah, not going to operate on him. That's my son. I need to know the tone in which that was said in that. Did she suck her teeth? She sucked her teeth before she said. Yeah, not.

I'm not operating on him. That's my son, for me. You know what he's putting me sure. You read my contract. You read my contract, guys. No, daddy. I've changed her, change that motherfucker's diapers too many times to operate on him.

He called me stupid. He called me stupid. He called me stupid. He told me I was stupid. Yeah. Who's stupid now, bitch? Yeah, exactly. He's stupid now.

Now you need Mommy's medical degree. Oh, yeah. Oh, look who can, look, look who comes crying back to mom. Yeah. Oh, that's cool. At least you got donor marked on your driver's license. I help somebody up in this life. Chris, what's something you think is underrated?

Having kids really young. And my reasoning for this is I had mine at 37. And my parents are too old and British to help in any way. So I was in a, like, they don't, they can't do it. They're British baby boomers. They like their diet is like pies and lukewarm beer. So they can't. I leave him.

If I'm back home, right, I'm like, it's, nothing good happens with him. They can only, the only game he can play is count how many different pills. They need to stay alive right now.

But, because I was in Scotland where my wife's from, and I was chatting to this guy of his kids. And I was like, oh, how old are you? Not my kid, actually. I'm his granddad. I go,

how old are you? He goes, 38. I was like, oh, my fucking way. I was like, your daughter crushed it, dude.

It's younger than Lebron. She's got, like, a prime. age, flipping, this guy can be in the NBA. And he's a granddad, he can do so much. Spray grandparents. Spry grandparents.

And then the great-grandparents, they're like in their fifth. I mean, this whole family is crushing it in terms of young people who can help with the child rearing. Right, right, right. Mine is just, it's just a little-ed sword, yeah. Me and my wife, it's just, what are we doing? You got to pay a babysitter $400 a night to do anything, and they're not even babysitting. They're just watching the TV. My friends found a baby.

babysitter who's like a rich kid. Oh, who has truly no concept of money. Oh, that's the best. Absolute zero fucking concept of money. She's, what could a banana cost?

No, truly. Yeah, yeah, so when they're like, hey, we need a babysitter. She's like 16.

And she's like, oh, sure. And they're like, what do you, what's the rate, you know? And she was like,

oh, I don't know. That's amazing. It's like, I don't know, like maybe 10 bucks. For the whole thing? For the whole thing?

For the whole, whole thing for like three hours. Like, I'm honestly mad at you that you didn't tell me about this person until just now. It's one of the best kept secrets in LA. Jesus Christ. Because this kid. I don't know like 10. And I'm like, there's, she has to know what money, like, what does she, like, is she

wearing homespun clothing or her parents treating her? Like, it's like the village or whatever. She just like frame it and put it on a whole like. What we suspect is that parents just are like, here's your credit card. Right. And Apple pay. Do what you. Go live.

Do what you will. So there's no, you have to have a job. She's never had any friction to be like, oh, what's this cost? What's it worth? What's my time worth? She's like, I don't know everything. Like in this other weird way, she has everything she wants to the point where she's like, I don't know.

Like they said I can, it's probably like, they said I can spend more money on the credit card if I just do this for something. Amazing. Yeah. She said $10 for three hours. $10. Three hours. Yeah.

And I don't know if that was also from her coming from a place of like, oh, well, I'm so rich. Like, what could these people post? possibly afford 10 bucks. No, but yeah, for me, it comes off. I think she probably saw like adventures and babysitting or like something from the 80s. Yeah, it was like, uh, like $10. Yeah, she's like, look, I'm going to be real. I'm going to be on my phone the whole time.

Right. And I only microwave stuff, which is fine. But I will keep them alive. Oh, hell yeah. And it's 10 bucks. Well worth it. It's funny when you first start looking for someone to look up to your kid and I need the references.

Oh, yeah. Are they first, do they understand? Could they, could they stop them choking? Yeah, do they know. And then the closer to, like a deadline of needing one you get, you're like, hey! Hey! Yeah, yeah. You, no, anyway, guys sleep on the floor right there. Can you sit in my house for three hours? Babe, this is Miles. I met him at the pub. Yeah, yeah. He's in love just to say, watch the kids, yeah.

He's British. He's British. I'm not, I'm just so drunk. My voice goes British, love. Oh, no. He calls everyone love. It felt nice. I feel like the ultimate move of new parenting is when you have the fire department install the car seat in the car. Oh, yeah, yeah, classic. And then by the end, you're just like, throwing it in the back seat and just be like, I don't know, just wear a bunch of it in there.

Just wear, like, one of those, like, beach life preserver tubes. That's fine. What is something you think is overrated? Muffins. Oh, muffin. Why are you looking dead at me? I don't know why.

Yeah, what the fuck? You know how you're always trying to sell me muffins? Yeah, I'm like, dude, I think they're good. It's my own recipe. Stop trying to sell me. muffins. I'm just saying you're wasting money on the store-bought shit, man. Do you know the muffin, man? Sorry, go ahead. No, I don't know the muffin.

I don't know that shit. That's America. Lives on Drurylandland. I don't have the muffin man. I've canceled all mentioned. I'd say to my wife, don't even mention muffin. Any of muffin. I don't want to go about muffins. I just find a muffin. You always think this is going to be weird. And then it's too dense.

The way it's constructed the handle. The handle. Come on. Like, when you get to the, I've hit the mic, I'm so animated. You eat the top part of the muffin, which is the best bit. And then you've got to finish on the handle, which is. The handle. That's the holding device. The moment handle.

That's like eating the sort of wooden skewer on the cab. You're like, what are we doing at the end? You get the good bit already. My wife and me were discussing it. She actually made a point. If you're going to eat a muffin, actually the most sensible way to eat it is turn upside down, peel it. Eat that bit first. And then give yourself dessert and then give yourself a dessert that way around.

And she said that and I was like, and then you just made me like muffins. That's a clever way. But most food. I was like, dude. Most handle they, like pizza crust is the handle. And do you hate pizza? Have I, have I won?

Whoa, wow. Do you know what? I don't know we're on Jubilee right now. One muffin hater versus that equivocation. That equivocation, what's the word? Equivalence. Yeah, I can't even say that. Anyway, you just got me with that.

I was just, I wanted, I was like, right, dude, get him out of here. Dude, this guy, your son doesn't know how lucky he is to have such a smart dad, all right? Dude. I mean, I could have brought up ice cream talking about, like, I just like thinking of it as like now like a mushroom. It's like the cap and the stem. You go stem first, dude.

Then you finish with the cap. Yeah, that's right to end. Exactly. A muffin cap. That does, well, whatever. You have the pizza argument. locked and loaded. That's not your first time you've had muffins.

I used to eat the crust off first. Off first. Yeah, yeah. Because I didn't want to waste the, I hated eating crust, but I also, like,

there was a time when, like, everyone was eating the bones. Yeah. Crest. And I was like, fuck, I'm the one kid who got a plate up.

All it took was one parent being like, you left all your bones on the thing. And that fucked me up to the point where I started eating. I was like, fuck, get through the fucking crust. So then it's all smooth sailing after that. Now I don't give fun.

Just to come back to you, Jack, and it's nothing like a debate where you think of your response seven minutes later. Obviously, if a pizza, you don't eat the cross-fills because then you're holding the wet contents whereas there's a muffin, you don't have that issue. Flip up, is it out? I mean, it's just, if anything, the thing you're holding, if you didn't have the paper around it, you'd be like, this is much, this is much loose. It's a less stable holding device, whereas if you hold the other thing, fits nice in the palm of your hand.

By all means, if you see some. Oh, yes! Now you got my ass. I mean, it's definitely Gertil once said. You can just like Gertito. Hold it like that. But can we get Jack's son on the phone instead of what a dumb fuck his dad is right up?

I'm thinking about like how you eat muffins because everybody just peels the top off, right? And he eats it like a cookie with like a little left over handle? No? How do you eat the, how do you eat muffins? First of all, I don't fuck with muffins. So how dare you? And if I did, I've always eaten it like how I eat a cupcake. You take the bottom off and then...

Hell no. You keep the wrapper on. Keep the wrapper. And I just munch off the top. Okay. By bite. And then you got this part. And then I start peeling.

Okay. Yeah. And then you eat the butt. I don't pre-set a muffin butt. Yeah. That's like somebody who peels a whole banana and eats it without using the skin of the... You know the people who just did a whole naked banana? And we're like, what are you doing?

You've got to, that's nature's handle you've discarded right. Yeah. It's obscene. I'd hate to see how they did a donner kebab. Yeah. Just spiral it off. I actually go cone first on an ice cream. It must get so fucked up.

That last bite of. Oh, fuck. Just let grab me work for you. That would. be a fun, a fun weekend to be everything. Everything in reverse. Yeah, yeah, yeah. See if you can get any trends going.

No, this is how I do it. This is how I do it. I don't know. I saw my parents have my whole life. Yeah. All right. You must be from the East Coast, don't? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a British thing. Yeah. Let's take a quick break, should we?

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Presented by Capital One, founding partner of IHeart Women's Sports. And we're back. We're back. this is recording, right? I feel weird without the headphones. I have no idea, Jack. And I'm just,

I'm just trying to let go and let God. All right. I think, let us take the wheel. It does feel weird like the Ron Bergeny thing with a teleprompter where it's like, am I saying anything

there's no prompter? Is this a podcast if I can't hear my own voice? I can't hear my, who am I? This is disoriented. If I can't hear my own voice. Anyway, we're recording, right?

Okay. We got thumbs up from Javier. Justin, Justin, we're recording. Are you going to need dogs or anything for the rest of the Xil? No, I don't think we have any clips. Okay, cool. Clipless, clippless.

I feel naked like that. You didn't think I was good enough guests have clips? Sorry. Yeah. That's basically how we, how we structure the episode. Yeah, yeah. It's just Chris Martin. It's not burn this.

Yeah. This is how Jack knows it. This is how we let us know it's a bad episode. Jack goes, are we recording this? And then we go, oh, shit. It's your safe work. It's your safe work. Yeah.

Okay. Yeah. This isn't going to be clips at all. He's just used to the pizza, the pizza muffin gate. He's gone to the guy. He's lifted the leg on the tail. He's on the guzzeted trousers. Those are nice trousers.

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Ain't it? World Cup. Is it? Coming up. Okay. It is happening. I remember in 1994 how excited I was when the World Cup came to the United States. Yeah.

Because it felt like probably like the equivalent of like the world's fair or something like in the early 20th century. Like now the world will come to our doorstep. participate in this global phenomenon. It was my first experience really with the sport, like in terms of like engaging with it. And I remember the final between Italy and Brazil. And that was like, that made me a fan from that point. Cut to now in 2026. And I barely remember it's happening because just America is just such a fucked up place that I'm like, we don't deserve anything good. At least anything that would bring like the government, any sort of pride. I feel like the people and all the people who come from other countries,

is we do deserve to have a World Cup here where you could finally maybe see your home country play. And because from all soccer fans, the World Cup is like the thing you want to be at. And it's crazy that I talk to myself, other fans I know, everyone's kind of like, fuck, dude, like I'm going to go to Mexico, I think, to watch, like, or I'm going to go to Canada. Like, I don't know if I can, I don't even want to watch it here. For a few reasons. One being the ticket prices.

Because right now, it will cost you. almost $3,000 to see the U.S.'s first match against Paraguay at SoFi Stadium in L.A. $3,000. There's a lot. I actually don't know. I get paid $10 per babysitting. And that's good, right? 3,000.

Again, because of FIFA's dynamic pricing scheme that they have, which is like a euphemistic description, dynamic pricing. I know, sounds so exciting. It sounds too cool. It could go down. But it probably won't because what this is called is, fuck you, I'm greedy pricing. Right. And FIFA even takes a 15% cut if you try and resell your tickets.

They used to not do that. They used to be like, yeah, get people there. Now they're like, we're going to take a 15% cut of you sell. Yeah. How are they doing that? Huh? How are they doing that? Because it's all the fucking game.

They're the official reset. They've got their own resale platform. Right. You can read. They want you to resell. Yeah. Which is like, they're like, we don't want anyone to be, uh, we don't the scalps.

We want to be the scalpers. We want to be the platform. We saw what we were doing with pokey main cards. And then scalper is just like all, you try and scalp a ticket and you just like get swept up by a AI robot. Like one of those Boston dynamics. I want to do that's the floor. Yeah, yeah.

It's like a giant one. It comes into your house and just like sweeps you. Like, I mean, because like there's four categories of tickets, category one being obviously like the most expensive. Sure. Just for it. In 2022, the last World Cup, for the opening match, the highest tier ticket, a category one ticket, was only $618. I mean, I'm saying that as, it's crazy.

The Overton window is so fucked. I'm like, it was only $618. The lowest ticket was $55. Yeah. Even for, and then group matches, the lowest. Like a sporting event. Yeah. Yeah, like you would have tickets to a sporting event.

So anyone can enjoy. Sure. Some seats might be higher up. Others might be closer. But, hey, we're giving an opportunity for people. During the group major groups phase, it was $11 at the lowest level. You compare that to right now. Group matches about like four months ago when people started looking at tickets prices

were like the lowest one you can get 100. Now it's like 5x that. So there's not even any affordable option for people to go just because they want to see anything. Did you see how smaller period like section of the. Yeah. They're $60 tickets. And then you have to zoom. in on the map and it was the tiniest little green slither.

It's like literally it's like one guy's like I got a $60 ticket. It was like enough, I think truly like enough to be like, well we offered it. We offered cheap tickets. Now don't ask how many. There were four. Yeah. You get the golden ticket and you get to pay $50 to for a seat. But other than that, you have to be a millionaire.

Yeah. And then now for the final, the World Cup final. So at last, like when again, people were first seeing these tickets. It's a category one final match ticket was $6,370.70. It's now over $30,000 for the highest tier ticket. Where's that going to be? In New York. Yeah.

Heard of it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And not to mention, like, all the people now, especially Europeans who are, like, used to being like, oh, the World Cup is in this country. I'll take a train and we'll follow the team across places. They're like, most people are like, wait, what the fuck is the distance between

Philadelphia and Dallas? Right. You know, like, people are also like, this makes no sense. Also, our, you know, our transit system isn't great for that kind of stuff unless you're flying everywhere. Take the high speed rail from Philly to Dallas. Didn't I read on what, like, every, say everyone's getting, it's like, everyone's like price gouging. It's like the summer of price gouging. So some of the, like, places where you'd get the Skytrain or something from the airport to the stadium, which are normally like 10 bucks, they're 100 now.

Oh, they're literally, they're raising their price. They're like, everyone's just like, yeah, you just, just. just exploiting fans love of the games. Yeah. Well, the other thing, too, is like national teams, they get to buy seats. Like, they'll, they'll get access to a block of seats because they have guests of the national team set up, the players, their families that they have access tickets for.

They're now being quoted like $2,000 a ticket up to $3,000 a ticket. And they're like, what the fuck? These used to be way cheaper. Right. Like, we're going to burn half our budget just getting tickets for people. Yeah. Because, again, Gianni Infantino. We're only going to be able to afford the top half.

of our uniform. The shorts will just be like basketball short, just like whatever you want. But we're going to be wearing dark color shorts today, as long as they're dark colored. But then like to their point too about everybody wanting to like get in on like the excitement, hotel like hotels were cranking up prices too because they were also told

this is going to be like such a huge boon to the city and all like all the traffic. Quote, nearly 80% of U.S. hoteliers in 11 World Cup host cities say bookings are tracking. below original forecast was some describing the tournament as a quote non-event. Some are saying that it's lower in years where there was nothing even going on. So it's like terms of overall traffic. They've made it.

No one's even book. They've made it too expensive. Yeah. You got to. I don't even know what they're going to do. Like I guess are they eventually going to just panic and then drop the prices? I think I reckon like week of use all the prices is going to come down. Who the hell is going to spend like 100?

hundreds of dollars to watch like, just pick two random teams. Right, right, right. Especially ones that requires people from those countries to come support them, too. If they're not even there, then you're like relying that there was like a diasporic community somewhere in that city that would have enough people to give it the same environment. It's just going to be crazy. So another, this article goes on, quote, the US Metro's hosting World Cup games will, quote,

generate some GDP growth this summer, concentrated in leisure and hospitality sectors, but those, quote, will not have a more. material impact on overall jobs and economic gains this year. So there's nothing, all of this like financial economic fantasy world shit about like, this is how the World Cup's going to be so great. It's been overtaken by greed to the point where now they have lost the ability to even attract people to even make anything of it. So, yeah, I'm not sure, you know.

Yeah, this isn't how capitalism is supposed to work, right? It's supposed to be like a thing where the prices are fluid. and they go up and then people like don't buy it and so they come down. But yeah, we keep being told, well, you like don't understand. There's like complicated forces that work. Well, think of like Trump's thing with the gold card visa where he's like, I'm going to charge people a million dollars and they're going to love it. They're like, no.

Because that sounds a lot, like Dr. Evil style just because that sounds like a lot of money. They're like, actually, I could, with 500,000, I could probably get into the U.S. You know, realistically or something. But I guess the other thing, too, if the situation in the stadiums isn't going enough or bad enough. Just outside, I do want to warn people if you are watching any matches in Texas. Now, this is what I'm excited. Just know that the Southern Baptists. Yes. Are rubbing their midst right now being like, oh, this is a good opportunity for us to spread the word of God to those who may not have been fortunate enough to be colonized by a Western European

nation early in its history. They are basically all they're thinking of like, we can convert people. This is our time. All these people are going to be here. These many soccer theme tactics, but one that isn't is what they call a tellgate, where they, quote, using the time-honored tactic of speaking to the heart by appealing to the belly. They're urging evangelists to host a tellgate door-to-door evangelism strategy where a team can purchase a grill to walk through a neighborhood and grill hot dogs for the community. As the team moves down the street, they can stop it to each house to offer free hot dogs, share the gospel, pray with the residents, and invite them to church. this is a great way to get to know your community while also having gospel conversations. Have you ever wanted a free door-to-door hot dog

from a person who's telling you you're going to hell? It starts to make sense. Yeah, it does a little bit. Where you're like, tailgate, you go to a tailgate and then you like push the gospel. Why are they out in neighborhoods recreating? That's where it's not like tellgate at all. It's basically door-to-door harassment

with the promise of a free undercooked hot dog. The free food, though, and so, I mean, I'm not a Southern Baptist, this, but you're not. No, no, but you didn't make it up there. Stage one of getting me on board is a free snack. Is a free hot dog? Because some of the religion, some people will just shout you in the street.

Yeah. And they're not offering snacks. Yeah. So you've got to give them, is it hot dogs. At my university in England, there's like you the Christian community. You get, there's like cakes and sandwiches. Like you are just like, what's the deal? How do I?

What's the catch? I go, listen to. And then, you know, if you're strong-willed enough, you go, well, I'll listen to you for 10 minutes. Yeah. That's not terrible. Like a timeshare pitch. Yeah. If you're not terrible, free jets,

if you're confident enough, you can get out of there, you know. With a free hot dog. I just think they have some interesting things to say in my experience. Well, this is the thing, too, is like going to hot dogs. Americans door to door and being like, hey, I got some hot dogs if you want a hot dog. I would just be like, this is a different grub hub. I'm good. I'm good.

I'm God, actually. Leave me alone. There's another one. So funny. Another suggested evangelism method is the e-ball soccer strategy. Which uses familiar soccer concepts to communicate principles found in scripture. Using a multicolored evangelism soccer ball or e-ball, participants use dribbling, shooting, and other drills to help explain the gospel message.

That does sound like that would be really effective. And I bet they're really good. Yeah, really good football players. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm sure. There's a guy who can do like, a lot of toe kicking. Oh, I see someone do it. If I see someone do a toe punt, I'm like, hey, you lost me. Yeah.

I was so on board. everything, but use your toes. You guys sandals on? Oh, yeah. You must have broke your toe. What are you doing? Like my man, J.C. Exactly.

Sandals. The first cleats out there were woven sandals upon Christ feet. Someone say these are the Adidas copas. The crossbar of the goal is just to crucifix. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It extends out further. It is a crucifix. It is a crucifix.

And just can you hit the... Can you hit the man on the crucifix? Yeah, yeah. That's a handball, Jesus. He hit his hand. It's a joke. It's a joke. You almost knock the nails out.

Yeah, they usually have a good sense of humor. Then the other one was this is just so stupid was the yellow card initiative. They said under the yellow card initiative, FIFA World Cup themed yellow and red cards are used to, quote, illustrate sin and how it can cause us eternal separation from God if we don't repent and give our lives to him. So, yeah. These are good. How did you get a red card? Interfaith marriage, interracial marriage. Yeah, yeah.

You wore something that resembled a rainbow, therefore they would think. You support the LGBTQ plus community. Those are all red car defenses. Yeah. I guess smoking in a cigarette. I don't know. I don't know. Whatever you want.

Whatever you want. But that's, again, everything's going to do a VAR rule. And they just go and look at the internet and go, actually, no, that's fine. That was good. We were mistaken. That was good. Okay. You know what?

I got it in my ear. I had to go to the monitor and you are vindicated. But like everything just does feel like a version of it's always going to be you're going to hell. Mm-hmm. Like, you need a better marketing strategy than. You're going to hell, dude. You want a hot dog?

Yeah. I was recruited in a similar way. When I was in Kentucky, there was, like, one good basketball pickup game on, like, Tuesday nights. And it was at a fellowship of Christian athletes. You'd go play in the game, and then they would make you. They were like, all, everybody to the other room where we're going to, like, preach. And what everyone's, like, sweating after a game, basically. It's all sweaty.

I think there might have been snacks. but you just, the only thing it taught me was how fucking weird like some of the religion is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so I was in a car accident with my sister. She was next to me and she died

and I know she's in hell because she wasn't saved. And so you just need to. You're like, I thought losing the game was bad. I know, yeah. Dude, I just put up a double double. What fuck is this? So anyway, guys, you in now? Right.

You guys want to go to hell or not? This is a great way of spreading the gospel of hell, fucking weird Southern Baptist churches. I mean, I just remember, you know, going to, like, religious, like, Lutheran and Catholic school from my whole, like, school till high school. And every time they talked about the hell stuff, I was just like, dude, shut up. Like, I was just like, what is the point of this? Because I think if you're not really, if you're not raised in that, it just sounds crazy. Yeah. And you're not going to, like, that's just not appealing to be like, well, first.

First of all, you haven't convinced me I'm going to hell. Right. And now then I have to hang out with all you guys and like your like lukewarm hot dogs and shit. Yeah. No, I'm good. I'm good. But what if they put that messaging in the form of a soccer ball? Uh-huh.

Go on. Hello. Because that is the thing you guys like is just the pattern on the side of the ball, right? Just the power. That's what my two-year-old. I'll read through a football program and I'll be like, this play is the ball. Yeah. Yeah.

They're like, you like Arsenal, right, young man? Uh, yeah, I do. What about the Arsenal of Christ? That's how they always get you though The first like three things You're like, yeah Yeah, yeah And you think like

Good people should be rewarded But yeah, yeah, that's a cool thing And you think that anyone that like does that Should be burnt at this, whoa Whoa, hey buddy Tell your best friend who you think might be gay You can't be friends anymore We'll leave you alone

What? I don't Do I still get I was getting a free football out of this You're getting a free hot dog Okay And now And that's even iffy at this point.

Oh, really? All this talk back. I don't like it. Welcome to America, the World Cup. Yeah. Yeah. All the highlights. Man, that 1994 World Cup, like that Colombian players' hair is the one thing.

Oh, yeah. Blond. Yeah, yeah. Well, then there was also, did Heita play in that World Cup, too, the Keeper? But yeah, Carlos Valderrama definitely. Then after that, because then he came to MLS. And everyone was like, we got the curly, curly Carlos Waldroma hair guy. Baggio with his little pony.

detail at the back. His little Padawan braid from Star Wars. Is that the first celebration? Babetto, we had a baby. I think so.

The baby celebration. Oh, yeah. Let's go back. Let's time travel back. I was collecting Coca-Cola bottles, I remember.

Right. That had like different flags. And I was like, I got the Brazil one. That was good capitalism battle. Yeah, this is what we used to be good at. Yeah.

We used to be like, we'll make a Super Bowl out of anything, you know, and now it's fucking, it's over. They're like, I don't want a promotional

can even do this blood soup, sure. But it's baby's blood soup. It's the big sponsor. You don't like this? Here's the thing, though, as a football fan. Yeah.

There's a lot of problems with it, the pricing. But if someone said to you, do you want free tickets to that game? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We've still got it again. Free tickets. That's the thing. And I think that's what's so vile about, like, the tournament as it is now. It's because they take something that is so sacred to people and are now just being like,

how much, how many dollars can I squeeze out of every single person to the point where they don't realize like you're, what's at stake is the sacredness of it. Yeah. Or now, even for me, someone who's been, I remember five years ago being like,

dude, when it's, when it's fucking here, I'm going to fucking New York. I'll go to Canada. I can't wait to be traveling around for the World Cup. I've always dreamed of doing this shit. And now,

like, they've completely, they've yucked my, for lack of a better word. And now it just like, it just feels fucking gross, inaccessible, like the magic of having all these people

being able to, that's the thing they don't realize is like the fun is being around a ton of other people who it's just as sacred to them rather than this gate, you know, filtering out people. They're like, can you afford $3,000 to watch 90 minutes of a sport? I've always wanted to watch a soccer game in Elysium, the thing. Yeah. Everyone's rich. What's funny is like, it's they're raising all the prices. And as a British person, when I go to a sports game in this country, I'm like, I think you guys have already nailed that. Like, you've already completed overpriced sports.

He's getting a beer is like $22. It's $21. Yeah, all right. And you're like in the UK, even to go like the Premier League game, if you said someone, 21 pounds for a beer. It would be right. I'm like, you have it a bubble? Yeah.

You have it a bubble? It's crazy. So the fact is going to be even more expensive. That's the sad thing. You have these people, I want to go watch our team. And someone's like, do you want to go for a beer? Sorry, dude. I'm not a millionaire.

I can't have a beer after the game. I'm just going to shoot heroin in the bathroom. Yeah, I'm just going to go. Just for my money on that. All right. Yeah. Give me the free hot dogs. It's the one thing that I can afford.

I don't care the price you have to pay. Right. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. Another podcast from some SNL, late-night comedy guy, not quite. Unhumor me with Robert Smygel and friends. Me and hilarious guests from Jim Gaffigan to Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman,

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It is the best flavor. It's just Snapple peach iced tea, Lipton peach ice. If it's piece iced, I'm bringing it. Mm-hmm. Okay. Even though he's got no tea. I've gone for the answer. I mean, I've gone for the healthier option.

Still, and I'm sad. It's still, yeah, it's the selling point. It leaks a little bit when I sip it. I'm alive and well. It's how I stay. It's still in the ball in the podcast. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah.

You're just sitting there as confident. Your liquid's going to stay in your receptacle for the whole thing. People don't know. I don't know how to drink from my can. Trick cans. Yeah, I got my dad one of those back in the day. That's like a trick, a trick pint glass? Yeah, just funny.

Wait, there's a thing in a thing in a, in the East Anglia in the UK called the biggest joke shop in Britain. When I was a kid, I was like, this place, it's got fake turds and stuff. And then I got a pint glass with a little tiny hole in it. My dad would, we went back to the cottage where we were staying and he would have a drink. He thought, I can't drink today. And it would be, he-he-he-he. Oh, you guys, bad.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like, maybe you should have realized, Papa, when I came back from the biggest joke shop in Britain. Yeah, yeah. You thought it'd bring a normal bite glass back from that place? He brought you China from the biggest job in China. Do you think he knew or he was being a good dad? He's a bit of a joker. I think he was pretty drunk and I'm not.

God damn. I'm picturing that joke shop with like somebody behind the desk looking at a piece of fake poop with like a jewelers loop. Yeah. Ah, yes. This is good. I'll give you 50 pounds for it. Okay. Let's talk about James Cameron.

I don't have really any way to get from fake poop to. Speaking of the biggest joke. I mean, I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah. Yeah. He made Terminator.

I love the guy. I know. He does good work. Unfortunately, he also talks about his good work. Yeah. And also thinks he's still fully in on AI too. Thinks. Well, no, he's like in and out.

He's like AI is going to be shitty the way these people are going to use it. But the way I would use it, which is to just give it access to all our nuclear weapons. Right, right, right, right. Just let them. Like a sky net kind of thing. I actually thought of this idea a long time ago. I'm glad I came together. So he and Disney are being sued over the Avatar franchise,

but not by the screenwriters of Ferngoly, which I think was a lot of people's first guess. Indigenous actress Corianka Kilcher is suing them both because Cameron used her likeness without consent for the design of the avatar character Natiri. That's like the main character. The main character. Is her face?

She looks like Nateri. I'm going to say, I've never seen a person that looks like this alien. So he was like, so this is a thing that happens to James Cameron every once in a while. He also got sued for Terminator because he, like, in an interview, was just like, yeah, I just like ripped off these episodes of like outer limits. And that's how I came up with the idea. Like, he just like, he's very casual. And so in this case, he, like, sent her a letter and was like, I, like, you were the inspiration for this.

and like maybe you can be in the Avatar franchise in the future. And she was like, oh, he's like being nice. And then a documentary was released where he was like, we literally took her face and like put it onto this character. I mean, also getting a note, it's a smoking gun to when the note to the actors is, quote, your beauty was my early inspiration for Natiri. Too bad you were shooting another movie next time.

All right, fuck boy. Yeah. I feel like a very like, like, mailed. sort of creators, painters, and they always sort of, a woman is a muse, you know. You never really get a woman going. I was just so inspired by your receding hairline. Nick Arfman's face. I just had to doodle it on the back of a napkin.

Yeah. You're like, what? All right, Shelley. Not great because one of the widely criticized aspects of the franchise is that it appropriates indigenous stories while featuring little to no indigenous representation. Yeah, yeah. And just being like, hey, sorry, Indigenous actress. Yeah, that's your face.

Yeah. And also that's all my inspiration. You just get a nice note, though, from me. It's also kind of fucked up because she played, I think, Pocahontas in... I forget which movie was. Yeah, the New World, I think. Yeah, yeah. And she was like 14 at the time.

And, like, he was like, here's the face we're going to build this on. And, like, she has to be hot. Like was, Yikes. His plan going into the character design. So that is like wild, just the meta message of this story about a planet and indigenous beings on there

and the guy coming to be part of that. It is very Pocahontas. It is. So a lot of people could sue James Cameron. The Smurfs. Yeah. Yeah. Smurfs are like,

where'd you get the color idea from? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I was living in a forest You just saw the color blue On top of your head? I don't know

Were you looking at Papa Smurf a little bit too much? Yeah, this one's called Papa Navi Not buying it, not buying it And Gargamel was this guy? It's also fucked up that he wrote the note Being like, you know, sorry I missed you, maybe next time And then there's been three movies in the franchise And she was never contacted

It wasn't even interest It was like, it's passive aggressive, like This could be us, but you plan. Yeah, exactly. That was what that, they said. The future was sending the text of this message, sure. It's a cruel world, you know? Yeah, I don't know.

I mean, like, because then what's the, what's his defense even to this? Like, does he even have one? Because it's clear, it's like, you're saying this on wax. This is the face inspiration. I don't know what else you could say, right? Yeah, I don't know. Having, no comment from him as far as I know at this time. But wait, and then also you said she was 14.

at the time. Jesus Christ. You're exploiting exploiting children for everything and all you get is there was no compensation and I'm guessing that's why

just in the form of a nope saying to a 14 year old this could be us what you playing. I mean, yeah, there's compensation in the sense that she got that still from the movie with his note on it. Money comes and goes

but hammered and notes. Honestly, in this day and age what could that be worth having your face be? What can it be worth having your face be, for a multi-billion-dollar film franchise.

Right. $10? I think, I don't know exactly how much she's suing for, but it's a lot. This America is going to be a lot. Yeah, I think it's a lot. Oh, yeah. The amounts that people sue for in this country, yeah, always. It feels a bit, like, a bit, right?

Yeah. You did this? I'm going to see for $250 million. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because here it's like, they're like, well, it's a lot harder to murder you. So maybe I'll use lawfare to just. bleed you dry for everything you have. And then in other instances, some people are just super litigious because they're like,

this is my ticket. Yeah. Of like, I mean, I remember like this kid got hit by like a city bus and like broke his leg and he obviously you, you are owed money at that point. But like the lawyer he had got him so much money. He was like a legend. Really? For like teenage kids across like the city.

Dude, how much that fucking kid kid kid? Go stand on the corner. Yeah, everyone's putting their leg out. They've been hopping. Just a little clip. Yeah, yeah. Just come on, bro. Let this be a.

a couple Nintendo 64s for me. In other face-stealing news, Duelipa is suing Samsung for at least $15 million because the company used her face on the box for one of its TVs without her permission. James Cameron's style. Oh, so they're just being like, hey, look.

But who's like, you know, I see what she means, but who's buying a TV like that? Who's like, do you, does she come with this? Let me see the box. She comes with the TV, right? Yeah. I get, she lives in the TV. Most people don't choose the size of the TV.

So this is the Duelipa TV, where Duelipa's on this one. This is it? All right. All right, yeah. This is cool. So does she come in like at the same time as TV? Or does she come in straight after? No, wait, I'm sorry.

We have a misunderstanding. What do you think is happening? Do you know what? I'll just take the Duelipa. You guys can keep the TV. I don't really, I just want. There's no, this is a TV. This is a box for a TV.

Doa Lipa does not come with this. Nothing to do a TV. with this, to be honest. This is where the stupidity of social media actually comes in handy. The lawsuit argues that Samsung had financially benefited from giving the appearance of her endorsement since a number of fans stated on social media that they were willing to buy the TV because Duolipa is on it. Oh, really?

Okay, there again. They're there. But just like randomly? Or someone was like, I just saw this Duolipa TV. There's a new Duolipa TV. I mean, people really vote with their wallets, you know? That's true. I mean, if I saw Tierra on.

I don't even like Taylor Swift's new album, but because I'm a Taylor Swift fan, I'm just going to leave it on silent playing in the background. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Dual Lip, I mean, she's got fans. But the other thing, too, is, like, I would also argue it's like, no one goes, when you buy a TV,

you're never, like, rifling through the boxes. Yeah, yeah, that's true. There's just always some fucking bequeath display wall, and you're like, what's this one? What's this one? It's so true. How much is this one? That's so true.

You never like, oh, duelipa's on the box of this TV. that's, when you buy sneakers, you're like, what's the book? Let me see the box first. Fuck the part that I'm using. I don't care. I don't care. It's full of holes in the shoe itself.

I want to see the part I'm going to throw away. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like a status thing because you can never like, they're always too big to put in your bin. So you do that kind of dumb thing where you like, you shove it in like the top of your blue bin and it's like 90% sticking out. And it was like, maybe this is, maybe this is going to go to the recycling. Yeah, yeah.

But then if you see D. It's the, it's like the, it's like the, the, this guy's pretty cool. He's got a Deolip TV. I also get it like in the age of like craven corporate greed where they would just be like, fuck it, just put her face on there. And get away with it. Look, this is at least 10 free TVs for Dual Leap, I'd say.

It's still not the most surprising incident involving a celebrity's likeness popping up on a product without permission. That would be the time Nicholas Cage and Holly Hunter's raising Arizona characters were printed on the cover of a Serbian biology textbook. What you actually don't know is that was actually John Travolta pretending to be Nicholas Cage. Yeah, that's right. Most people don't know. That's crazy.

I mean, they moved. They moved Serbian textbooks that year. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everyone was buying that one. That's right. The Raising Arizona one. Wow. That's so funny.

The Cohen brothers suing for that? Who's the one who ratted them out on that? Because that's not a lot of them. It can't be a huge Nicholas Cage. I bet it had to have, like, just come to light years after the fact. Yeah, it's hard to know. I mean, like, is this, I feel like on the internet, you always see things where, like, random people are on, like, random products.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or, like, Paul Walker will be, like, on a spool of, like, rewritable CDs, like in India or some shit. I don't know, man. Paul Walker's selling these rewritable CDs. High fidelity. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Chris, such a pleasure having you, man.

Mate, it's been a pleasure to be. To be on the on the on the on the on the on the day. Thank you. Can I call it that? No. Sorry. That's another fucked up podcast. Yeah.

They came around after us. Yeah. Years after they just took. Hey. Barbaro. Have you been suing those guys? Exactly. They just cut Zygai stuff at the end of,

lawyers keep saying we don't have a case. Yeah. You should still sue them for four billion dollars. We tried and they said you still need money to file that. Right. So it's the thing you need money to do the suing. Yeah. I slid them ten dollars across the table.

How much could this cost? Possibly. Yeah. Where can people find you? Follow you here, you see you, all that good stuff. My website, I think, A-Christmartin.com. That's funny. Chris M.

You're doing it to be like, I'm just a. I'm a-Christmartin. I'm a-Christmartin. We are Legion. Yeah. I'm just a Chris Martin. I have two. I'm doing, I'm in D.C. this month.

I'm in, I'm in D.C. I'm in Seattle. And I think I'm in Chicago. I'm in some cities over the next three months. Amazing. We're doing stand-up comedy. doing stand-up comedy. I'm standing up and I'm doing comedy guys.

There it is. Mr. Bean said the comedy starts from the left. I've not been, I'm not stood up once. This is made a half power, guys. Yeah. Seattle's eight gang, come out, you know. Come to see Chris.

Bring him some dicks driving, French fries. Have you had dicks driving? No, I've not had dicks driving French fries. Do you like soft french fries? Soft. What are you talking about soft? Versus like too crispy. Oh, I like it.

Like a floppy. Oh, they do them floppy? Yeah. I don't like the way you said that. I made me like them until it comes with a side of Miles' creepiness. I actually would prefer a little crunch to my French fries, so I don't know. But will this convert? I told you the scouting asshole.

It's the only right answer, by the way. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Miles is. You're sort of one step away from just having mashed potatoes at that point, aren't we? Yeah, that's right. The worst type of potato. Is that the worst? It's the worst way of delivering. a potato, yeah. You got fries.

You got roast potatoes. I'd put boiled. Probably. You're sick. No, no, no, no, no. Your most beloved delicious, have a mashed potato topping. Your honor, I retract. But mashed is only just about boiled.

You don't like cottage pie, shepherd's pie? Yeah, yeah, I'll eat one of those. Oh. But again, it's, you know. Powered. But if you offer me a shepherd's pie with fries on top, I'd be less better than. That would look insane. You're like a shepherd's pie.

Especially if you eat it upside down. I eat shepherd's pie from the bottom up. I eat the meat and the peas first. I got on the burns on his windpipe. So real men are you? Does there work of media you've been enjoying it? Oh, yeah. Do you know what?

I was this guy on my algorithm. I need to get his name because it, have you seen this? You see everything on the internet. It's the guy in the UK who interview, because people think, because I'm British, British people are intelligent. But what you guys in this country don't realize is we have just as many more as in your country.

But we have a bigger percentage. You just have more people here. So just volume-wise, you've got more. Dumb-dums, yeah. But there's this guy called E-Man, e-man.R-TM on like Instagram, and he just does man on the street. And he'll ask like, what's seven plus seven? And then the British population, it's sort of, I'm sad and I find it funny but sad at the same time. Well done.

You wouldn't make it. But the length of the time you see you to get that. You have your phone out of the garage. But this guy, he'll just ask people, basic stuff. Is that the one we asked the guy's like, he's talking to the scowser? And he's like, why he's talking like that? Because I'm from Liverpool.

And then all he does is, and someone says something stupid, and he just looks at the camera like, just stares it down. And it's the same thing he does every time, but I'll just find myself. Always works. Yeah. People being dumb people being done on the internet. It's tried and tested.

Yeah. Truly. How about you, Miles? Where can be able to find you? Find me everywhere at Miles of Gray. You find Chris. Jamel Johnson and I talking about football. Foote.

Foothie. A bit of footy. I'm talking about 90-day fiancé on 420-day fiancé, a work of media. Like, is just, I was asking you about this earlier in the recording for the trending episode about how, like, sports punditry can go upside down when people hate a team. Right now, we are experiencing a version of that because our story. is two matches away from winning the league for the first time, potentially. It's a big if, what can go wrong.

Even talking about it. I know, I know. It's too much. Sounds like some shit who, we had a fucking match. He's about to curse their team, you know what I'm saying? No, no, no. Don't even, where are they?

I've got a Tigers Eye Crystal with fun. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And I bought crystals to help my team win the league. We all have our own weird things. Yeah, we all have our weird things. I just discovered, because I didn't wear the Sixers hat the whole postseason. Yeah, yeah.

And they beat the Celtics. my dream and then got swept in the most embarrassing fashion. We're going to get swept too, Jack. Yeah, yeah. Okay. By that I meant the Lakers. Sorry.

We're not playing a series against anyone. But anyway, I've just been loving all of, just seeing people's biases come on in the ways that are really debasing for them where, like, people just have lost all objectivity. Yeah. Because they do not, there's just this thing. We're the most hated team.

We're the most hated team. For what reason, I don't know. I have reasons that I think are rooted in white supremacy too. That's a much larger issue too. But there is something about watching all of the people meltdown that I've just been enjoying because it was a very stressful weekend. So that wasn't a specific thing.

That was a much broader thing. But I do- Just watching Arsenal. The Adam Cleary, the Adam Cleary football channel on YouTube, though, has a great video because there was a call about a penalty in the box on our goalkeeper. And he has a fucking spine and said, that was the right call. And this is why all of you are wrong.

you say that that wasn't a foul or the goal should have said. So shout out Adam Cleary. I love that guy. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien, Blue Sky, Jack OB, the number one. Instagram at yet another handle, Jack underscore O underscore Brian. I like to keep you guys on your toes. Thanks, man. I work of media.

I just watched Send Help. Sam Ramey. Did you watch it? No, I haven't, but I've heard of him. Did you watch Drag Me to Hell? I did. Yeah. It's worth watching.

If you like Drag Me to Hell. Okay. It's like a good, just like one off, good time at the movies. Okay. I need that. Just showed up on Disney, which is crazy. Disney Plus. Disney Plus.

It is always weird to realize how much IP that they could control because it'll be right next to like bluey. Yeah, yeah. My kids, the reason I saw that it was out was I was like, you know, show my kids whatever they were watching and send help was right there on their thing. Like under their profile. You guys check this out? Real good bloody time at the movies You can find us on Twitter and Blue Sky at Daily Zykeyes. We're at The Daily Zygeist on Instagram.

You can go to the description of 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 that we talked about in today's episode. We also link off to a song that we think you might enjoy. Miles, is there a song that you think that people might enjoy? Yes, there is a song that I think people will enjoy them. just make sure it is this. Oh, thank God.

Every, we've done this 2,000 times. I'm always worried. He's going to drop the bull this time. Yeah, I go. No, me alone. Different song every time. No repeat. Okay, yeah, this one is from, okay,

this is from the Italian duo called New Genia, G-E-N-E-A. It's called S-C-I-A-L-L-A. It just got like this sort of their pills. Dancing, yeah. I forgot my Siala Well, singular when I just take one But the track is very like Summary, like Latin feel

You know, the weather is already getting Insanely hot in L.A. already Because we didn't have winter. We never do, but we really didn't have a fucking winter this year. So it just felt like the mood is right. So this is Siala by New Genia. All right. We will link off to that in the footnotes. The Daily Zykeyes is a production of

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