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Hello the internet and welcome to season 397, episode four of Dirty Daily Zeitgeist. A production of iHeartRadio. It's a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness and it is Thursday, July 17th, 2025. Yep, it's July 1st, 7th, it's National Dole Whip Day, shout out Dole Whip. Okay, Dole.

Hey, it's Get to Know Your Customers Day. Alright, hey, put her there. Nice to meet you. National Lottery Day, National Tattoo Day, World Emoji Day. Sorry, I'm getting all shaky because I have a coffee burp. No, it was a coffee burp. That was coming up. You get really emotional about the lottery, I guess. Yeah.

I just think it's nice, you know, like all of these national days, you can find something that's like fucked up. Yeah. You know, some bad backstory. But with Dole Whip, you know, the Dole Company, Disney, like two companies that are beyond reproach, and there's nothing bad to do with Dole. No, what could go wrong? It's fruit. Ignore, ignore specifically the high pineapple plantations in Hawaii. Just let's focus on the word the dole and the word

with any fascist overthrows of governments that forget it yeah they were behind the deorchestration of uh how you talk about kidnapping someone's queen and being like give me that give me that. Give me that. What the? Was the how the annexation of what happened. Anyway. Anyways, happy that to you. My name's Jack O'Brien, aka, look at the files. Look how they expose you and everything you do. Yeah, they were all pedos. That was courtesy of DMT on the Discord about the Epstein files. Do yeah, they were all pedos

About the Epstein files, I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host mr. Miles Wake on up I fixed the project it came to me while I was hypnotic They wake up I fixed the project. My sleep. Okay. Anyway, shout out to Cleo. Universe for that one. Wake me up. I think right before you go go.

Unless I go go. Yeah, actually, no, you did write that in the description. So that is exactly what it is. But shout out to the hypnagogic problem solving state. Uh, I had something last night and I totally forgot it, which is when I'm like, that's why you got to write them down. You gotta write them down and, and then think about, write them down and don't just be turned away by the fact that it doesn't make any sense.

Yeah. Yeah. But go back, find that place. Maybe this world, maybe this waking mind doesn't make sense. And that mind is the one that makes sense. Miles were thrilled to be joined. I need you to write them down so you can bring them on the podcast. I will.

I will. Is your assignment. My hypnagogic diaries. Hypnagogic diaries is a new segment. The other one I thought of is like where to put the cat litter box. And I'm like, in enclosure for it. So it stays out of sight. These are also things a Google search would accomplish

of like what to do with cat litter box out of sight. But in my bed, I'm like, an enclosure for it. Snap awake. Yeah. Like sit bolt upright. The ideas aren't fucking great. We didn't have to sit. Put it in a box.

Miles, we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by one of our favorite guests, the very funny comedian, actor, writer, improviser. You know him from Mythic Quest Drunk History. He's the cohost of the very funny podcast Rebrand. His special spiritual filthy, spiritually filthy is very funny. You ought to go check it out right now. Please welcome back to the show. It's Mort Burke.

Mort Burke. Hello dudes. Hello. Hello. What's up man. What's up bro. Good to see you guys. Thanks for having me.

Yeah. It's great to have you. Great to have you. I said it first. Mort short for mortuary. Yeah, actually. Mortisho. Middle name is a little.

It's mortisho. Mortisho. Mortisho. It's the masculine version of mortisho, actually. Okay. Morticia. Middle name is Morticia. Morticia. Last name home. Morticia. It's the masculine version of Morticia, Adam. Morticia. Mort, it's great to have you back. We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell the

listeners a couple of the things that we're talking about today. I don't know. There's a story that keeps coming up on here, even though I've been told that you're only interested if you're a bad person. By our president, by my president. He's told me, if you're still interested in this,

you might be a deadbeat. Yeah. I don't know what it's. You get a scram. But anyways, it keeps showing up on here. So we're going to talk about the Epstein flailing the you know, Trump What is your fucking problem, man? Why are you so obsessed with this Epstein guy? he's

dead He's been dead a long time. He was never a big factor in terms of life. In terms of life is an Alzheimer. Which is insane. He was a big factor in a lot of people's lives actually. In a really negative way. Really bad way. Never a big factor in terms of life. We'll talk about that. We'll talk about Stephen King.

Oh my God. Dropping in with a banger. Maybe his finest writing work since Maximum Overdrive. Yeah. So we'll talk about that. We have some uptick in dog adoptions thanks to crypto, Superman's doggy, Superman's best friend. All of that, plenty more. But first, more, we do like to ask our guests What's something from your search history that's revealing about who you are guys in keeping with my more brand on? The Daily Zank guys, which I'm looking at both skateboarding and used cars. I'm gonna go

I'm driving to Chino today to check out a 2002 and be Miata. Guys, this might be the one. 2002 Miata. Yeah, man. I want a little convertible I can learn how to work on. I'm an adult man now and I want to emphasize a healthy masculinity in my life. So I'm going to start wrenching. Hell yeah, dude. Yeah. Just got a spot for it to tinker in that, to grow that thing.

Yeah. We got a little garage over here and we're going to, yeah, we're going to get into some, me and a friend of mine, he's going to bring his tools over. It's just going to be a bunch of hot shirtless dudes glistening in the sunshine. The way you said that, it just sounds like dudes who are smoking meth, who are about to just take a car apart. Hey, my boys about to come over for some tools and get under the hood of this mead. It's like, you guys don't know what you're doing. Yeah. Yeah, my boys about to come over for some tools and get under the hood of this Miata.

It's like, you guys don't know what you're doing? Yeah, but we got tools, man. We'll figure it out. Yeah, you're like meth, too. Everybody's gonna come over. We got VCR that we're just gonna take apart, kinda. You got a few projects you and your buddy been working on, right?

Yeah, we're still figuring out the cathode ray tube TV. Still figuring out how that works. Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna go hang out in this porta potty for a while. You guys cool? Gonna watch a ton of porn hang on this porta potty for a while. You guys cool. Get to watch a ton of porn and take this Miata apart with our hands. Wait, so what makes cathode ray TVs so heavy and what makes the cathode ray tube stink when you crack it open so bad?

What, wait, what, why the Miata? Is there like, is there a specific reason why you, you got your eyes on the Miata? They're affordable. They're relatively reliable. They're easy to work on. And I want a little convertible while I live in, California. Hell. Yeah Like I feel like it would be something you'll be looking like something that the Beach Boys would sing about by the end of that You know, just a little Miata. Yeah top down down Yeah, top down. Top down. Just a middle-aged man in a viada.

Just a middle-aged man in a viada. Just a middle-aged man in a viada. Just a middle-aged man in a viada. Just a middle-aged man in a viada. Just a middle-aged man in a viada. Just a middle-aged man in a viada. Just a middle-aged man in a viada. Just a middle-aged man in a viada.

Just a middle-aged man in a viada. Just a middle-aged man in a viada. Just a middle-aged man in a viada. and his skeleton hurts. What is something you think is underrated? Underrated? I don't know if anyone's doing this, but my wife and I realized, dude, we do this thing where we make up words. Not enough people are doing it. Last night, Cody, our pit bull,

he wouldn't stop loudly licking his foot. And Ashley, my wife, goes, Cody, stop slurping. And he immediately stopped doing it. Yeah. That word is too correct not to listen to that Marping is the perfect word for what he was doing. So I will know minutes. So next time I'm leaving I leave a party I'm gonna go. All right, I'm gonna I'm gonna jerk

Jerking. Yep. I'm gonna jerk and then just leave it. It'll be like you're falling out I guess a whole new word for leaving jerking. You want to jerk, dude? I guess it's a cool new word for leaving. Jerping. You want to jerk, dude? Uh, yes. This party's cashed. Let's jerk. Oh hell yeah, dude.

What's that? Jerking off in the Jeep outside. Could get you in trouble if you're, if you're just assuming, you know, what other people mean. Yeah, that's like, yeah, brother. I found a jerk. That's how meth heads leave, they jerk. Cause they jack off as they leave.

I'm going to jerk on out of here. Jerk out of here. My God, he's jacking off. You guys can look. Sorry, I do want to go back to the 2002 Miata because I do. I am just curious how you select because looking at the picture of the 2002 Miata, I'm realizing this is a car I see all all over the road. They made a ton of them. Yeah. Is that what happened? Is it? They made the road. They made a ton of them. Yeah.

Is that what happened? Is it they made a ton and, or is it like, I'm curious what the Darwinian survival of the fittest thing is that happens where a car just lasts? Yeah. Well, Japanese engineering primarily. So they're like super reliable. All the parts are affordable so a lot of people the NA is the first generation tons of people took those and like Autocross them track them like put crazy stances like okay put insane spoilers on them So they had that too, but they sold so many that there's still a lot better like functioning That makes sense. The body looks like I'm trying to say it looks like a Jetsons car a little bit. I feel like it's the closest that we've come to like the flying Jetsons car.

Yeah. It's like round and like kind of torpedo shaped a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. I like it. Cause it's that you're right. It does. It looks like what they thought the future was going to be in 1997.

Right. Yeah. A beautiful future. All right. What is something you think is overrated? It's funny that you guys said fruit earlier because I'm legitimately excited about, oh wait, overrated. Yeah. I always screw it up.

You can reverse it. I always have shit like fucking like underrated basically. If you got a fruit that you're excited about, just pick a different fruit that's overrated compared to it. Yeah. That's a little pro tip. Yeah. I'm going to, I'm going to say this one for myself so that I start eating better, more,

you know, it's overrated popcorn. You know what's underrated fruit. Please eat some goddamn fruit. Yeah. I, uh, but I will say my body is starting to fucking, uh, turn to my body is starting to crave fruit, which has never happened before. It's always just been like eat more chips eat more chips Yeah, so yeah, so I'm excited

Sounds like your body is a begging for vitamins Craving this thing I never fuck with Please drink some water. Does that happen to you guys? Dude, what's going on my body dude used to be fine with Pepsi And I Delivered pizza with the pizzas with a guy only drank Mountain Dew and he had four kidney stones a year Oh Jesus, only drank Mountain Dew. Yeah was like this is this is a personal policy. Yeah, dude from Brazil I think he did end up quitting but he and he wasn't I feel like that's a move like a 22 year old would do this guy

Was 39 you're like you can't be doing brother that uh Mountain Dew was my first like addiction that I had to kick that was like difficult to kick I was like had a high school class. There was like study halls. It was downtime and I had a high school class that was like study hall, so it was downtime. And me and a few people had a little breakfast club situation where we would sit there and get into trouble. And I had every one of those classes. Were you the Molly Ringwald?

Who were you? I was definitely Molly Ringwald. Sick. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I was the one who you could shake their head and dandruff would fall out. Oh, that was cool.

Yeah. shake their head and dandruff would fall out. But it was when I went school in Kentucky, we had just a full, full like Pepsi machine in the cafeteria. And I had a Mountain Dew every single day. And once I was like, maybe this is bad. Cause I like leave this class, like feeling bad about myself or like angry all the time. And so I stopped and I like started getting headaches immediately.

I started like feeling like spiritually bad. I was like, Oh, fuck this is, uh, still love Mountain Dew, but you got a bad batch, man. That's what I'd say. Yeah. The mix was off that year. They were stepping all over that shit that year. Just 20 ounces of Mountain Dew a day.

You too can start questioning your life decisions as a 16-year-old. Hey, I do 40 and get all the kidney stones you want. We were talking about this the other day, which is if they should do this for adults now, or they have La Croix, but it's like Mountain Dew flavored. They have like Surge, La Croix. Yeah. Can you imagine what this-

Leave the caffeine. I don't know. Leave the caffeine. Just take all the other chemicals out. Mountain Dew flavored, they have like surge, La Croix, you know? Yeah. Oh, can you imagine what- Leave the caffeine. Like, I don't know, leave the caffeine, just take all the other chemicals out. But imagine how bad that actual flavor is without the sugar. Oh, yeah. It'll probably taste like the inside of a balloon or something. You're like, what the fuck is this? I bet it would taste like if you've ever had Mountain Dew after eating like

birthday cake or like something that has too much sugar in it. Oh, too much sugar. Yeah. And then it's just, or yeah, yeah. Or like the Mountain Dew after the syrup runs dry. And it's just like a tiny remnant of the memory of Mountain Dew and soda water. The memory of you. The memory of Dew. The memory of Dew. Which fruit has got you sprung like this all in it yeah you know I'm really I'm doing peaches lately I'm doing an orange

love orange I was gonna be like is it a citrus is the scurvy coming yeah I'm just trying to keep the shingles at bay. My teeth are way less loose. You know how your teeth are always sort of loose? Loose, yeah. Hey, Miles, I didn't know I was dealing with a nutritionist here. I don't care if you're on a diet. Yeah, I live like a pirate. All right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Peaches are good, though. This is the time for peaches. Peach. Yeah, peach. I mean, being in California, the fruit out here is so good. Yeah. It tastes like the sunshine. It's so great. Yeah.

Yeah. We got it all. Yeah. It's absurd how easy it is to just like grow stuff here. It's literally like what I thought planting something would be when I was getting like you like spit an apple seed out and then like an apple tree, like sprint springs up that afternoon. Like that's kind of how it is in Southern California. If you think about it objectively, the fact that things that we can

eat grow from the ground, it sounds like a weird Japanese video game. Like that doesn't sound like you do need the fertilizer. That's important. That's why I eat all my fruits whole and then shit directly into the ground where I want them to. It is wild though because I've tried to plant stuff in Boston, in Missouri, and it's so much easier. I almost feel like the West were like, they must've felt like the people who like expanded West must've been like, Oh, there was like, there's like a treat at the end. There's like a thing that was like the thing that we've always been hoping for. Obviously with a bunch of. We just had to kill a bunch of people. Yeah.

A bunch of murder. I like you said, expanding the West, like they were just adding addition to their property. Yeah. A bunch of murder. Like you said, expanding the West. Like they were just adding addition to their property. Next, nice little ADU. Yeah. I mean, they weren't doing nothing with it. There should be ours. That's manifest destiny. But that they got a little treat for the manifest destiny when they got out to

the West coast came out to California. This is a magical land where everything grows by accident. How lucky they were. How lucky. How lucky they were, those settlers. Let's take a quick break and we'll come back and we'll talk about a complete non-story. A hoax. A hoax and non-entity that we're going to be calling the Abstain Hoax.

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Boring. Oh my God. This guy is dead. I love that being the- Bill Gates tried that one the day after he died. They were like, you've been rumored to be on the flight logs. What do you think about the passing of Jeffrey Epstein? And he his response was, well, he's dead.

So no further questions. It ends there. Mean girl being dismissive of someone like he's whatever he's fucking dead. Like fucking get over it. How smart could he be? Oh, my God. Smart. We were nobody even cares about him. What that's not

We're not saying he's cool. No, you are this is the thing they're trying They're trying to make it seem like people are into it because they're not It seems to be true. To call him boring, like one thing the dude was not was boring. You know? It's like all this- He was a vile predator that has captured the imagination of our entire fucking country of curiosity because of his connections to the powerful that you're like, this ain't going away, bro.

This ain't going away. It was like three days ago, Trump called him a creep, which is not nearly harsh enough. Like, you know what I mean? He's like, he's a real, he's a real yucky guy. You're like, no, he's the most prolific child predator of all time. Okay. Well, what does, what does that make you, Mr. President? You were palling around with him.

I was trying to tell him, I was trying to tell him to knock it off, dude. That's what I was there for. I was trying to convince him. There's another way to follow Christ, Follow the word of Christ, dude. Do you feel like this is now the time for the media and the Democratic party to, like, there are a lot of things people have been pushing past, right? Like Trump, like those videos of him are obviously like recirculating. There's also quotes where he's like, you know, Jeff Epstein is a really interesting

guy. Some say he likes young women. Some say that he likes them almost as much as me. Like, yeah, you should like that that there's just so much there that these people I feel like had, I don't know, been actively ignoring that now I feel like it's time to be like, Hey, this is not nothing. Well, that's all that's all dependent on whether it comes through their propaganda machine of Fox News, right? It's all just different information streams. So if like Newsmax starts talking about that shit, then they will receive it.

Hopefully. And they are. Or who thinks he's a national hero? I know. So unless something happens like you're talking about where they're like, maybe I will try to look into places that are slightly more objective. And then yes, they might have their minds fucking blown. I've seen replies on Twitter and on Reddit

where conservatives are talking about it and someone is just posting all the links to evidence to be like, here, you guys should check this out. Here, you guys should check this out. You guys should check this out because they're like, you guys are talking about it. Here's some court documents. Look at them, read them,

if you wanna do your own research as you like to do. But anyway, the questions about Epstein are not stopping from voters and the press. And again, like you're saying, Trump is trying like every kind of way to spin this thing from like, oh, no, he's dead or like, you're not cool. Or now it's you're not even my real friend. If you believe this. Yeah. This is what he posted on Tuesday, the truth social. He goes on to basically say like the radical left Democrats have hit pay dirt

again. And he lifts, he lists like 700 quote unquote hoaxes. Steal dossier, reshare, reshare, reshare. The laptop from hell. Laptop. Okay, dude. Like you think he just run down the greatest hits and people go, oh yeah, yeah. Well, anyway, so he's like, they're no good at governing. And then this is what he said. Their new scam.

I mean, no lies detected there. He says they're no good at governing, no good at policy and no good at picking winning candidates. I mean, checks, check, check. And sort of same for you dummy. But anyway, he goes on and say, quote, their new scam is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein hoax. And my past supporters have gone into this

bullsh- quote-unquote bullshit. Hold on, let's be unequivocal here, Mr. Donald. Is it bullshit or are we- is it- is it what? The truly illiterate use quotation marks to indicate emphasis. That's what's so frustrating. Well, yeah. So he nails it earlier because he says the line 51 quote unquote intelligence agents. So calling into question, the veracity.

You've been roasted intelligence agents because you're technically intelligence agent, but you're not intelligent. I think, I think those are Freudian scare quotes. Right. Because he's like, it's not bullshit. So I'm going to have to. How do you get there? Who put that there? He said, the part of the body to this quote of good bullshit hook, line and sinker. They haven't learned their lesson and probably never will.

Even after being caught by the lunatic left for eight long years, I have had more success in six months than perhaps any president of countries. And all these people want to talk about was strong prod caught by the lunatic left for eight long years. I have had more success in six months than perhaps any president in our country's history. And all these people want to talk about was strong prodding by the fake news and the success, six star Dems is a Jeffrey Epstein hoax. Let these weaklings. So now he's calling MAGA the base. Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work.

Don't even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success. Whatever goes on. Because I don't want think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, whatever goes on. Because I don't want their support anymore. Thank you for your attention to this. He tells them not to talk about all the success they're having because he doesn't want their support anymore. If you talk about Epstein, I don't want you anymore. He's reached the point in the relationship of the abuser who's like, all right I no longer have to do any pretending that I am like kind or thoughtful or value you now It's just like actually fuck everybody. Yeah, you know, it's tearing everything down. It's melting everything down So again, he posted that it was our real quick

Was that the one where he said quote, quote, my boys and girls? No, that was yesterday. That was the day after. Or Monday. So this is. And sometimes I think so. And he said, and sometimes gals, like is that supposed to infantile like infantilize people?

What is happening? I don't even know what this sometimes is. Maybe subconsciously he knows he's repellent to women. Repellent to women and like his numbers go up and down. My boys got me. But and sometimes gals who are fucking with who are fucking with the culture if you are. Good to have you here. I'm wondering like why he says my and then also boys and like what you know what I mean? It's very strange not to select them for people as children. Right. Very strange approach when you're denying pedophile accusation. Yeah.

Is to take on the role of daddy, who's going to tell you what to do. But yeah, because you remember there was that whole daddy's home fucking branding they did a couple of weeks ago where he was daddy and everyone was like, I love daddy. Trump's coming home and America needs a good spanking. Yeah.

Yeah. And I get that like the over comparison to Hitler thing, but they, you know, it's off, it's, but he didn't think he was the Fuhrer. You know what I mean? It's just so yucky. Like the whole thing is like daddy issue gross. You know, this ranks five yuckies on the yucky scale on the daily zeitgeist yucky scale.

Here's, so here's a moment where he was on the tarmac again, obviously being asked about Epstein, because that's like, what the fuck is going on with this? And this is where he gives, again, just all over the place answer, because he doesn't know what to fucking say. I've been so interested in the Epstein story. I'm so upset about how it's been handled. I don't understand why they would be so about how it's been handled. I don't understand it. Why they would be so interested in. He's dead for a long time. Yes.

He was never a big factor in terms of life. Yes. What? I don't understand it. I don't like just the willful misunderstanding of what is happening here. Yeah. I don't understand why of what is happening here. Yeah. I don't understand why anybody's interested in this.

He's dead. Doesn't make it, actually made it way more suspicious the way he died. So to keep her acting like it's weird that people are interested in this guy who's dead. Why are we even talking about him? Not even a big factor in terms of like life? It sounds like that sounds like like the way I wrote like an essay in high school Hi Oh, yeah

Just like just trying to make a sentence sound more important like that person didn't matter to this Sort of specific moment in history like and that person not even like a factor in terms of life So therefore it shall be noted that this was inconsequential. He goes on, he goes on. I don't understand what the interest or what the fascination is. Wow. I really don't. And the credible information has been given.

Don't forget, we went through years of the Mueller witch hunt and all. All right, and then he does the whole thing, the Mueller, the Steele dossier. But again, he's just like, I just, he goes on to say that only bad people are the ones that want to keep it alive. And then he sort of implies it's the press and other people. So you are, but also you are bad. He literally says, you, if you're interested in this, I don't know, I guess you're probably, they're probably bad people. Yeah. It's like his, his instinct for division is unparalleled.

His instinct for division is unparalleled. Like everything he talks about is it always has the dynamic of polarization. It's always divide and conquer. It's always us versus them. I think this is another example though of how disconnected you become from reality when you are this powerful, because he's like, I don't understand what everyone's fascination is

with this prolific sexual predator who seem to intersect with all these wealthy, powerful people, because it's not like we live in a world where the wealthy seem to just be able to do evil shit without consequence. And I don't see how this Epstein case is a branch off of that tree that is kind of, you know, the underpinnings of what people think is wrong with America. It's like, I think the wealthy and powerful might be bad. I don't think he's more disconnected than he's ever. I think he just always is manipulating the narrative and reality by his, you know what I mean?

He's like, sure, sure. I didn't want to lose the election. We didn't lose. I want people to be interested in this guy. Everybody's bored by this guy. You know what I mean? I think he doesn't realize though, the thing that is powering people's fascination with Epstein on the left or the right, again,

is this idea that these fucking people do whatever the fuck they want and don't give a fuck about people's safety, the laws, whatever. And I think he because for him, he's like, I don't know. This is how we do shit. But from everyone else's perspective, you're like, no, like this seems like this could really be a huge inflection point in like, like how like where power lies in this country. Again, I don't know if it would have the kind of reckoning that we'd hope it would.

But that's I think what people are super, super into. And then sadly for Mr. Donald, he's used this Epstein case and like the conspiracies around it to get people to think that the entire Democratic Party's existence hinges on these files being secret and in the dark. Yeah. So his audience is like, bro, kick the fucking leg out. Let's go. Let's send Obama to Gitmo for being on the like. That's what these people fucking think is there. What they were for. They were promised since like 2016 was all the QAnon shit and all that stuff.

Like, and he doesn't understand how much groundswell there was related to this kind of thing exactly. So they were promised like, all right, should the sheriff's in town, all of a sudden there's going to become a day where all this is exposed. So many of them cared about that. Yeah. He's been able to just kind of keep it moving, attack, divide, conquer with everything. But I feel like this story in particular, like gets at two flaws at the heart of like, or two like contradictions at the heart of him, like first he's, he talks like he's a populist, but he's actually powerful and just pretending to be a man of

the people while ruling completely as an oligarch. Him protecting powerful people and his own interests and covering this up cuts at the very heart of that. But then he's also a sexual predator who's like that, that aspect of him is just something that people have been able to overlook, but not if it's not if he's a pedophile, like people will not overlook that. And he just, he thinks they will. We don't care about adult women or their rights in America. Right. Yeah, exactly. They just, they won't push past that. Like it's been such a key part of like powering

his appeal to this point. And so that's like, he is just using the same tactic that has worked for him over and over and over again and like refusing to learn the lesson that this is different or like why this is different. And he's just like just like, it's confusing to me. I don't know, maybe they're bad people. I just want to see all the brains break. I doubt we'll ever get to this moment where it's revealed what his connection is to Epstein fully in documentation and if his followers go, oh well, he was probably nice for something.

Just some rationalization because we've seen little white children die in the floods. And there's no, the sanctity of the life of children is not even really a thing in this country either. So it's like, I don't, again, I'd love to think that it would, but I think I've just become so cynical because over and over you have all these examples. However, the difference being is that now the media apparatus is in fighting. You have Fox who is apparently just- His media apparatus.

Yeah, the Republican Party's media apparatus. That's how they screwed up, is they use the propaganda machine to promise Epstein exposure exclusively. They did all those publicity stuff so then they're edging these people right and they're like just waiting for fucking D-Day where it's like a tornado of arrests yeah yeah you know and he's like ah never mind we're not doing us they're like wait the TV with the American flag and Amazing Grace playing so loud they promised promised us. Right. Yeah. So on, on Newsmax, they're taking shots now at Fox News being like, huh, they're all scared over there and they haven't talked about Epstein suddenly to try and

be like, who is the now I think like, cause now they're trying to be like, who's, who's the one that really has your back? Yeah. Like we're even farther, right? Probably. Yeah. This is, and again, Newsmax is like for the, you know, terminally hopeless MAGA brained people

because like it's just, it's pure nonsense over there. But this is Newsmax taking shots at Fox about their coverage of Epstein. Pressure appears to be working. We're hearing things sounding pretty good. Again, this is what MAGA voters voted for, a government for the people. Were the rich and the powerful get the same justice

as the rest of us. You may have noticed the Epstein story was almost nowhere to be found though on Fox News these last couple of days. After months of very consistent coverage, and over the weekend, Turning Point founder, Charlie Kirk and Megyn Kelly spent a lot of time talking about Epstein at the TPUSA event in Florida. It sounded like this.

Now we covered that bit, but he goes on to basically say like, like Laura Ingraham isn't talking about it. Brett Baier barely talks about it. Huh. Maybe the, and he's like, maybe the pressure, clearly somebody's putting pressure on them and trying to be like, and taking up the mantle. It's like, and we are the people that will give you pure unadulterated bullshit every day. So maybe you should switch the channel. And then they were, you know, the comments from the right, they refuse to believe initially that, and probably still do that. Trump had clearly set down the order to kill this.

They're all blaming Pam Bondi, right? Which is the usual move. Just throw her under the bus and move on. But like, no, no, no, he doesn't want this exposed. So he can't do that. You know, he has to continually support her because it was directly his idea. Yeah. Do we think, because he has pulled a 180 on this from being like, we're going to

reveal Epstein stuff to like now being like, what is anybody care? Do we think it's just that he didn't read the files and then just like somebody had to finally be like, Hey man, you're in here. Like he just like, didn't know before that he was in there and that's where the 180s coming from. I think his instinct for appealing to his populist base is like pretty unparalleled to the point that he'll just do that without any forethought of like, if there is any, it's like, well, I'll just make that not true when I get there. Like that's what he's doing right now. He's just, he's just believed for every bullshit thing he says for so long. He's trying to do that again. Yeah. Yeah. I w I mean, it is, there is a world where he is so seen now. He's like, what, who?

Jeffrey Epstein, Donald, whatever. What did the guy who died, the guy who you were like best for, are you for real bro? You are serious right now. He's got like a cucumber. He's like, let's talk to Pam Bondi or whatever. Yeah, you're like, oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, boy. Give me my ankle socks. So yeah, it's all.

Just assumed you knew you were on there. Yeah. I what? I'm who? Who? No. But yeah, I mean, nobody cares about that anyways. Yeah, exactly.

It's OK. Yeah, yes, sir. Like, just like like what did that conversation go like behind the scenes? I don't know. I think the other thing I'm curious about is they're going to have to give up somebody. I feel like that is- It's going to be Bondi for sure. Yeah, but I mean, but they also, but I don't think, I don't know if her sort of sacrifice at the altar will be enough to replace you mean like a Epstein client. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yes, and I think that's where it probably gets slippery where they're like, okay

Do do a liberal person and then that person's gonna be like, are you fucking kidding me? I'm like, let's let's bring it all out then if I'm going all y'all motherfuckers coming with me. Do Matt Groening. Yeah. Fuck the Simpsons. Was he on there? He was on the flight logs. Do Chris Tucker. Do Chris Tucker.

Yeah. I mean, Rush Hour was a mess anyway, in retrospect. Stephen King. I mean, let's just say he came out with a surprising take. He said, he told, he told the Epstein client list is real. So is the tooth fairy and Santa Claus. Oh, is that right, sir? Because I remember right after Epstein died in jail,

you quote, quote, a lot of powerful people are breathing a sigh of relief over Epstein's suicide. Interesting. That's so weird that you tweeted that when he died, and then now you're like, okay, so you're telling yourself. I feel like when he died,

an email went out amongst the Illuminati being like, guys, it's over. We're on a long night. He's over, the guy's dead. We don't have to worry about this at all anymore. If anybody brings it up again, just say he's been erased. Holy shit. Yeah.

Also like don't again, just a note to both Stephen King and Donald Trump. Like don't mash up Epstein stuff with like children's stuff. Like don't combine Epstein client list and Santa Claus. That's weird. All Stephen King's telling on himself, man. Yeah. A lot of people are like, Hmm, okay. This is a weird, like even if this is a real take and he's just like, I don't think there's a physical list. Right.

That's what I'm trying to look at is referring to that, which like very well may be true. It may be true. It may be more of a thing of like, there's a database of people that flew on those planes and you know, that he had information about and there's a lot of smoke there. But if that's the case, what a weird hill to die on. Like what the fuck are you talking about? Well, but even then, even if they go, there's, they to be like, there's no list and people like, yeah, fine. Who the fuck was involved?

I don't care what capacity that's raised in. Who the fuck are we taking? Who are we dealing with here? It's a semantic issue. Who gives a shit? Yeah, because that wasn't enough for people to be like, all right, fine. They're still they're saying, okay, the files then the testimony of victims, like that kind of shit. They're like, that's what their that's what their base is clamoring for. And they're like, guys, you don't look, you don't want to read it because a bunch of us are going to go down.

Okay. Are you happy? Is that what you wanted to hear? Oh my God. What they're like, you guys are. We all did it. It was exactly like that scene in eyes wide shut. We were all there.

Yeah. He followed up by saying, boy, I had a nerve with that Epstein post. Eyes squeezed tightly, crying, laughing emoji. Instant tell. The quote, list is like UFOs. Everyone knows someone who's seen one. Again, that same crying, laughing emoji.

Is there a more load-bearing emoji for people who are in really uncomfortable situations. Right. I'm actually laughing so hard. That's actually what's happening. It's not panic. What's that one line you always quote about, it's a guy who's panicking,

can you not write down that I'm totally panicking right now? That kind of vibe. Wait, do you know what I'm talking about? No. It's just how of like how, like when you see these like interviews with someone, they're clearly frazzled in the interview and then like, do you mind actually not writing down that I'm so transparently frazzled right now? Like those emojis. Yeah.

Those emojis are such a fucking tell. And then the list is like UFO. So everyone knows someone who has seen the Epstein list. Yeah, I don't quite. Who do you hang out with? Stephen King? I mean, I feel like he's hanging out with Oprah at best. Yeah.

Oprah at best. And that ain't, that ain't a good, that's not a good look either. When I found out that like Larry David and, uh and Alan Dershowitz were homies who hung out on Martha's Vineyard, I was like, this is so revealing. And then Larry David did have the humanity to be like, oh, this guy sucks shit eventually. But the fact that they were friends in the first place is so wild to me. It is revealing about like where these tweets that are coming down to us like are just like little scraps of overheard conversation from inside this

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Did you see there's several gifts and videos of them rubber banding a skateboard to the bottom of a turtle and the turtle moves really fast and very much seems to be enjoying the ability to go really fast on a fingerboard. Yeah, it's pretty great. Oh, man. So it's a little fingerboard. Wow. Yeah.

So their legs can like, yeah, little turtle legs are like really going nuts. And that's like, they're used to moving through water like that. So fucking move in water. Yeah, that's true. Yep. Turtles can fucking move. Turtles can fucking move. Oh, you think they're slow?

Dude. Well, fucking with a tortoise, dude. It's like a Dodge Challenger Hellcat, brother. Yeah, wouldn't be me. What else was on the list besides the Miata 2002 Miata? Give me one other. I was looking at Z3s for a while, which is another small convertible. But it's a BMW.

It's a part of the more expensive. Yeah, that's less reliable. That was I remember doing that James Bond movie. I think it was Goldeneye or one after that that that was first featured in Man anyway, hey well speaking of dogs There's a new one who just rocketed up the fucking cue charts or whatever the Star meter I feel like on this dog has to be fucking doing great. So it's crypto with a K, Superman's dog.

A lot of people are calling him, a lot of people are calling him the breakout star of the new Superman movie. That's what Trump should have been doing. He should be hosting a late night show, interviewing crypto, the the super power dog. Yeah. Absolutely.

God, we all would have laughed. Yeah. What a fool. What a fool. What a fool. But, uh, yeah, he's, I think cute. I don't know. Everybody sees him like him because cause a lot of havoc for Superman.

So it's not just like a lassie situation. He's, you know, a real, real firecracker. This crypto. I think that's not a good sign if the best thing about the Superman movie is the dog. You know, I haven't seen it yet. I do. This is now two strikes against me being able to bring my kids to it because if I brought them, they would definitely want a dog more than they already do, which is a lot. There's also a Russian roulette scene and they hated when I showed them deer hunters. I'm serious.

I don't think anybody would want to do this one. You'll love this, son. But yeah, so crypto has apparently caused a huge surge in interest in dog adoption and specifically searches for adopta schnauze, which is the type of dog. I mean, he, okay. He's an unnamed Kryptonian breed, but thank you, Jack, for respecting the cannon. Yeah. Schnauze or Kryptonian Twitter.

Yeah. Google searches for adopted dog near me jumped 513% after the movie came out last weekend. A rescued dog adoption near me rose 163%, which is a lot. And James Gunn is like, this is the best, this is the best news because I wrote crypto under the thing after my own adopted dog and I get it. Like it is good. And there's a thing called Dalmatian Syndrome

that's named after whenever Disney would re-release 101 Dalmatians in theaters, which is like used to be the only way to see it. You know, they used to like have the vault and they wouldn't like release movies on VHS. So 101 Dalmatians would come out in theaters. I think they released it in like 85 and 91. And you could just like chart the nut, like a huge leap in the number of Dalmatians that would be showing up at kennels and humane societies. Because people like that, I think they said that the number of Dalmatian puppies that were registered in America went from like 8,000 to 42,000 in a single year. Mm.

Mm. And so that obviously leads to a lot of bad situations for the dogs. Dalmatians in particular don't like children. Ha ha. Look at them. Oh, yeah. And so they're known to like kind of snap and sometimes bite And so the bad fit of like

adorable Movie character and target audience just like didn't didn't go well That's I don't like children is a hilarious characteristic for like WC fields dog. It's like This is this hits hard because I I suffered from Dalmatian derangement syndrome in 1991. We bought a Dalmatian. Did you really? Yes. Lucky from 91 in 1991.

You were part of the craze. We were fucking. I look, bro, when I said I was there in the 90s, I was fucking there. You were all over it. Even named the motherfucker lucky because that was one of the the Dalmatians in 101 Dalmatians. Lucky. This is why I'm this is when I first learned about inbreeding because we went to this place where the puppies were being bred.

It is like out in like fucking like San Fernando or some shit. And it was like there were so many dogs, a couple of them. Like we were like, let's sort through these and get the best one. Like, because there are a couple oddball like dogs, behaviorally speaking. And I was like, there was one that I was like, Dad, this one's great. And it was just laying down. And I was like, it's so nice and floppy. But no, no, no, no, no, no.

What about this one that is upright and eating and drinking and I was like why I want this one and my dad's like I'll tell you about in the car and I was like how come we couldn't take the other one he's like well because I think a lot of these dogs are inbred and I'm like what do you mean like so the the brothers have sex with the sisters or the child with the mother to create the thing and I was like, I'm fucking seven years old. Telling you about the incest taboo and why it's genetically necessary. And he's like, and you know, he went on to be like, he's like, and I was like, oh my God, he's like, the people like royalty did that in Europe.

Yeah, that's true. He also hit me with these European devils were also fucking each other too, because I'm on the truth. My dad shit. Well, I mean, yeah. So lucky she was so fucking hyper and had so much energy. She wasn't actually bad with me. The only time she bit me was because I was stupid and I tried to eat from her dog bull while she was eating from her dog, which you learn you're like, my dad was like, the fuck were you thinking?

Yeah. I was like, look, he nipped at my ear. And he was like, were you, you had your head in the dog's bowl while the dog was eating? And I was like, yeah, I was just pretending. And he was like, okay, well, you deserve these. Like, I don't know what you want me to say. Like that's what a dog's going to do. This is a big important lessons that you learned. Incest and don't go after the dog. You know what you want me to say. Like that's what a dog's gonna do. This is a big important lessons that you learn.

You know what's sad? You know how old I was? I was 12. I was way too old to be trying to do that shit. And I remember my dad was like, God damn it. So he took me to see Independence Day that day. I remember because I was off like fucking sad. He's like, let's go to the movies now. Well, I I was at the dog park with Cody the other day and there were two Dalmatians and I was talking to the lady about it and she was like, these dogs get a bad rap. But the thing is, is they have so much energy that they need to be like ran a lot. Or else they do misbehave, especially when they're young.

There's a lot of dogs like that, I think. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We go to the park and man, the amount of time we spent throwing this tennis ball. It was like unbelievable. Like falling off. Oh, yeah. Tommy John surgery when I was eight because I was throwing the fucking ball so fucking hard constantly. That really got me.

I just can't get in time. I was hopeful that this would not be the case for Superman because, again, this surge is being driven by a movie featuring a Russian roulette scene. So presumably not a ton of children in diapers being like, oh, can we get it? But there's an example from the history of Dalmatian syndrome that suggests that I'm too hopeful about adults because one of the worst ones was legally blonde leading to an increase in abandoned Chihuahuas. And that movie is not for kids.

Those are adults who are like, this is the hottest new fashion accessory. And, uh, yeah, it was bad. So adults are just bad and really, really bad at it. Like the, one of the biggest worst examples of this was fucking. Uh, Nemo leading to clownfish. Uh, like being just like extinct from like certain parts of the ocean that it used to like, that they used to flourish in because there was such a massive demand for clownfish. That whole fucking movie, the whole point of that movie is to like leave them there and like they're rescuing Nemo from an aquarium and trying to bring him back to the fucking reef and

yeah they were like yeah it led to more than 1 million clownfish are taken from reefs for home aquariums each year more than 1 million I feel like people are so weird that they're like he probably really sounds like Ellen DeGeneres give me nine of them yeah we to put a little microphone in there. I'm also do you think it's all legally blonde because also let's not forget the Yo quiero taco bell chihuahua from 1997. You were there in the 90s. I was there. I'm just thinking like because I remember that I was even like man we need to get a chihuahua and my mom and dad are like you already got this inbred ass Dalmatian who has the energy of a fucking freak, dude, we're

not we don't need another doc. Well, that's I feel dogs are really there to teach us about unconditional love. That's you know, which is great. Like, I love this dog so psychotic, we can shit in the house. I don't it doesn't matter to me. You know what I mean? And like, that's the goal. In my mind, that's what they're there for. But it's very different than you're like, I want this thing to go in my purse so I can go to the mall with it.

Look at it. It's like, it's not. I want this magical owl from a movie. It's like. Yeah, that was another one. That's another like really all time bad one. Like granted owls are like hard to come by. And so, but there was.

They're real hard to come by. Yeah. The, back then you got to understand. I can get you an owl though. It was a different time. You couldn't get an owl in every corner. The Harry Potter series created an owl black market and just a lot of unhappy people because owls are, they're not, whereas a parrot is a vegetarian animal

and its shit is pretty manageable. Al shit is just meat and they're crushing bones into pellets and then just having the nastiest meat shits out the other side. It's a wild nocturnal animal. You don't want that. It's just all night screaming and shitting. You don't want that. It's just up all night screaming and shitting. You don't want that in your house How yeah, and they poop a lot according to this article from the spruce pets I do we have we have an owl near why I live and it's he just have it outside. It's amazing I love it. It's like you see it every once in a while, you know, it's we somebody owns it or it's just like

There's like an owl we have there's like a bunch of trees around here on the local wildlife. Yeah, and it's like lives. There's like an owl. We had, there's like a bunch of trees around here. It's on the local wildlife. Yeah. And it's like, there's so, humans, Westerners really need to learn that nature can be allowed to be without owning it. You know? I disagree. I have to control every living being that I cashed my gaze upon to reinforce my theory

that I am God. Yeah. You're like, oh, all I did was own that orangutan that could rip a car door off. I didn't think anything would be fun. But it wasn't my car door. Yeah, it's gotta be great. So when he attacked my husband, I was very surprised. He can do that? Wow. That felt strong. The one success story is animal rights groups were really worried about a lot of Great Danes being produced and just huge Great Dane puppy factories after the movie Marmaduke came out.

And then nobody went and saw that. So it was not even a blip. It went down actually. They're like, oh no. Was there an uptick in people adopting office workers when Dilbert really blew up? Yeah. I think there must be. I did have the question of like if movies like Jerry Maguire with a cute kid,

like drove more people to have children that they shouldn't have had. You know? Oh wow. We want our own Jonathan Lipnicki at home. I want a little Lipnicki. Yeah. Anyway, Mort, such a pleasure having you on the podcast as always. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff?

Yes, at Mort Burke on the socials. The we just did a great episode. There's an episode of rebrand that drops Wednesday, which is today right now. I don't know when this is Aaron, but with River Butcher, it's real good. He's a fucking tremendous stand up. Also, I just recorded a new special that is going to come out in a couple of months. It's going to be called Cool Nerd. Oh, hell yeah. Yeah, because that's what I am. And yeah, I'm excited about it. And that's it, I think. Yeah, thanks for having me, you guys. Super fun. Oh, thanks for doing it. Is there a it, I think. Yeah, thanks for having me, you guys.

Super. Oh, thanks for doing it. Is there work of media that you've been enjoying? Yeah, you know what? I'm really into right now. Shout out to my friend Mike Giegrich, who sent me this amazing. It's a meme, I suppose, but it's really a tweet. This guy tweeted me drunkenly throwing my arm around Yoda's neck. You know, you're fucking cool in my book, you little green bastard. Yoda, Yoda spilling vodka all over himself. Good to drive, I am. Good time out with the boys, you know?

Oh, yeah, dude. Yeah, I love that Yoda does. Nobody asks him if he's good to drive. Yeah. He's offering it. You would just assume that he is. Miles, where can people find you as their work in media you've been enjoying Yeah, you can find me everywhere at miles of gray You can also find me talking about 90 day fiance on 420 day fiance with Sophia Alexandra There are a couple of posts. I like there's this one

I love like again as like a kid, like band geek kid in school. I always there was like music teachers were so seminal to like me. I don't know, just being like a complete person, I feel like, and understanding that, like, had all these numerous ways to express myself. So there's this there are all these I always find these accounts that are like music teachers who are just putting their students on to like music and like getting them to play it and have fun. This is an account. It's called Tim Lorelli. And he's like a music teacher somewhere in the US.

But he is he's got his kids playing like everything in its right place by Radiohead. And it's so fucking good. This is also the song that we should write out on, because I really just check out this guy's account because all of his students are so talented and like they're like wonky at playing instruments, but it gives it like this such like a swag quality like that is really dope. I just want to play a little bit of these kids playing everything in its right place. It's because it's amazing.

These are like 10 year kids, 10 year old kids. They're just fucking vibing with this shit. Yeah. He's got three kids on drums in this video. He has all this like all these keyboards set up just for these kids to fuck around. I think it's just it's fantastic when the damn this little beat maker, dude. What the fuck? These kids are killing it anyway. It's really dope. It's like that heartening kind of content you need to see to make yourself feel like,

yeah, man, we've got some of these kids, man. You've got to pull up for these kids. Amazing. You can find me on blueskyatjackob, the number one on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. A tweet I liked, Tanner or T star NNER at Mulholland underscore drive tweeted, I low key believe Jennifer Garner when she talks about Capital One. I do. Can't, can't help myself. Something about it. Yeah. She wouldn't lie. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist.

We're also on Blue Sky at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. And you can go to this episode, go to the description where we describe the episode, and down below there, you will find the footnotes. Footnotes. Which is where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode. Sources. We also link off to a song that we think you might enjoy and Miles has already introduced

that. Sounds great. Yeah. I'll put the link in the footnotes because these kids I think are just... Got a little build to it. Oh my god, dude, this is just so fucking good. Dude, it sounds like Portishead or something. Yeah, and it's just like, and it's just, I just, they're like these, they're just having

fun, you know, that's what it's all about. Dude, and those kids will love music for the rest of their lives. Exactly. That's so impactful. Yeah, yeah. My kids did that band camp, School of Rock camp for like the first week of their summer break and now are obsessed with music. Unfortunately, it's Imagine Dragons and like some other band that sounds like Imagine Dragons. AWOL Nation. The Score, I think is the name of the band. They're like, do you like this though?

And I'm like, you know, so I like that part right there. That part was cool. Trying not to yelp there, yelp at all. Yeah, that's part of being a parent, I have to imagine. It was being like, you got to find a way to love whatever very childlike. I would be like, oh, you fucking with the score? I'd be like, boodoodoodoodoo,? I'd be like, You like the Fuji's? You like Fuji?

That's the motherfucking score. Yeah. Anyways, the Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio for more podcasts from iHeartRadio. Visit the iHeartRadio app Apple podcast or wherever you listen to your favorite shows that is going to do it for us this morning. Back this afternoon to tell you what is trending and we will talk to you all then. Bye. Bye. Bye. Peace.

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