The Daily Zeitgeist - Oligarchs VS Zohran, Conjuring Up The Movie Rights 09.11.25

Episode Date: September 11, 2025

In episode 1929, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian, Blair Socci, to discuss… CLASS WAR! Cuomo Gathers Landlords And Developers To Plot Against Mamdani, Zohran Is Taking On FIFA’s Dynamic Pricing, Charlie Kirk Is Shot At Event, The Conjuring Franchise Continues Its Legacy Of Exploitation And Fraud and more! FIFA to use dynamic pricing for World Cup 2026 tickets; prices range from $60 to more than $6,000 Zohran Mamdani calls on FIFA to abandon dynamic pricing plan for World Cup tickets Box Office: ‘Conjuring: Last Rites’ Overtakes ‘It’ as Biggest Horror Movie Opening With $194 Million Globally The Annabelle Popcorn Bucket for ‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’ May or May Not Include a Demonic Spirit The Conjuring: Last Rites Annabelle Popcorn Bucket | PRE-ORDER The Conjuring: Last Rites True Story: Inside the Real Demonic Haunting That Inspired the Franchise's Final Movie Where Is the Smurl Family Now? Here’s What Happened to The Conjuring: Last Rites Subjects After Their Horrifying Paranormal Experiences ‘Demon in home’ grabs our attention All the Chilling Details of the Real Haunting That Inspired The Conjuring: Last Rites The real story behind the infamous Amityville Horror house The demons in 'The Conjuring' movies may not be real — but the family tragedies are Is The Conjuring: Last Rites the End of the Conjuring Universe? The Franchise’s Future, Explained LISTEN: Honestly, I Haven't Danced In Decades by BlockheadSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Are you in bed? No, I'm not in bed. I'm on my couch, but I put a sheet over it, like a true Italian, because it's white. Oh, you don't want to get it. Oh, yeah, you can't mess that up. If I have guests over, I take the sheet off. If you trust them. Have you ever had a guest come in and you're like, you know, I might have to put the sheet off?

You take the sheet off, you look them up and down and put the sheet back on? Let me get a bigger sheet. I do want to I will be honest with my OCD and stuff I do want to keep the sheet on when others come but I take it off wow is it a little unsettling though too like a hundred percent unsettling no no the whole time I'm like twitching slightly yeah some guy with like dirty jeans on you I don't actually wash my jeans I put them in the freezer yeah surrendering that you know you don't have to wash jeans right like salvaged denim You put them in the freezer. Except I get shit on my pants all the time from just eating my pants. The freezer tree does not work, okay? Those actual shit on your pants.

Yeah, all right. Well, fine. All right, you guys got me there. Yeah, but like when you put them in the freezer, then you just like chip the, you know, mustard off with an ice pick. You're chipping your shit jeans. Blair, I don't know what to tell you. Otherwise, you're, you're,

Your jeans aren't going to be fucking rigid. I don't know what. The people who are like, I never wash my jeans. That like fucks up the feeling after a while. Yeah, I like jeans after they've been washed. They're like softer. I don't want a hard, you know, sausage casing gene. Like I need a leash gene.

Yeah. I think also too, like that's for people who buy like nice ass like denim. Like that's why I was here from. Like, well, Japanese so much. Oh, yeah, I'm Japanese and I'm not, I don't have time for this. I need to wash these shits because I shit them all the time. Because you can't stop with your shit jeans. I like my jeans to stand up straight after I step out of them.

That's what exactly. I need to put the counter add out to the American Eagle one where I got, I got shitty jeans. You should do that. I get up from the white back drops and just poo smear underneath. Jains are passed down from generation to generation. I got my shitty jeans from my shitty dad. My jeans suck shit. My jeans stink like shit because I have shitty jeans.

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Get up there, but I don't think I'm quite there. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. Mm-hmm. It's nasty in here. It's Thursday, September 11th, 2025. Never forget. Happy 9-11 to you. September 11th. Yeah, yeah. Dude, 9-11, dude. It's Patriot Day and National Day and National Day of Service and Remembrance.

It's National Make Your Bed Day. It's National School Picture Day. It's National Hot Cross Bunn's Day. Wait, I just love that Hot Cross Buns Day is on 9-11. Fucking read the room, National Hot Cross Buns Day. No, I think. You think it proceeded? Yeah.

Oh, it had to have been. And then they didn't change it? They were just like, we were here first, man. Whatever the Saudis decided to do, that's all. On them. That's right. We are Hot Cross Buns Day through and through. Yeah.

I didn't even know what a hot cross bun was, to be honest. Have you even, have you ate a Hot Cross Bun? I just know it from learning the recorder as a child. Isn't it the same as three blind mice? Sorry, Justin, you're going to have to change that because we're going to get a takedown notice from Hot Cross Bunn's. Catherine, in with the Christian thing. Yes, it's an Easter thing.

Yes, what I traditionally eaten at the end of Lent. so we'll all look forward to that so it's just fucking a cross in the bread dude get out of here man yeah they just do a little cross on the top of the bun christians you got to come up with more fun shit than a bun with a plus sign on it you know what I mean an AI I think that was just history I think it was just at a time when like we didn't have shit we just like they're like and this is the day that you get your hot cross buns buns yes thank you'll be looking forward to this for 40 days of starvation during length. I've been abstaining from buns for 40 days, mother.

May I have my hot cross bun how the lent has ceased? Yes. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k. Potatoes O'Brien, and I'm thrilled to be joined as well by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. It's Miles Gray, aka, what would you do to get the tune? What would you press? Recurface play? Would you give up or try again if you miss a song today?

Could you persist and call the DJ Tell all your boys That you're close If you miss again Or keep it gone Or play it off like it's a game of First you don't record Dust off the boom box and try again

Dust it off and try again Shout out to New Chris I kind of fucked that up But look I was too I was too in my Oliya zone To really get the syllables right Since you heard that song Actually not a long time

Since I Yesterday it hadn't been a long time Since they left you No, I have no excuses. Without a dope beat to step, two, step, step, step, step, step, two, step, two. Miles was thrilled to be joined in our third seat by one of the very faces on Mount Zightmore, a TDZ Hall of Famer, brilliant stand-up comedian, you know, from MTV, Comedy Central NBC, True TV, E. Same all. Say them all.

Same one. Heard on Bob's Burgers, her hour special live from the Big Dog is amazing. Please welcome back to this show. The Brilliant. The Hilarious. Blair Saki! Yay! Oh, what's up, Zike Gang?

What we're getting into today? What are we getting into on this 9-11? Wow, 9-11, honey. Okay, let's remember. Let's converge. I like to bring us. I didn't think I could talk then because I hadn't been introduced, but hot cross buns. You can always talk.

Oh, yeah. What's your experience with hot cross buns? I don't know shit about hot cross buns, but I can't say I do find the name intriguing. Like, that's a good selling point. Like, if I hear hot cross buns, I think, hmm, I want to check that out. And they are all about selling. I mean, the song goes, hot cross buns, hot cross buns, one, a penny to a penny, hot cross buns. See how they run.

Sorry, I'm mixing up on my record. That was the remix, bro. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think it's the hot. It's the term hot that makes you go, hmm. You say, I got cross buns. You're like, what the fuck is that, bro? I got hot cross buns.

When you hear buns and cross together and hot, not a lot. And I went to Catholic night school. Not enough. And I went to Catholic school for years, baby. I was in that CCD. I was trying to learn. CCD. Shout out CCD.

Shout out 9-11. The devil was trying to chase me down, and I never heard a word about hot cross buns. Okay. Where were you on 9-11? Do you remember? I do. I remember exactly. Your child, baby.

Yeah. Actually, my mom was driving me to detention early in the way. Wait, you had early morning detention? Early morning detention before school, my mom was driving me to detention. I forgot what I did. Probably popped off at a physics teacher or something. And, um, or was just. By saying something bad is going to happen.

Nobody will listen to me. America's not ready. And in my mom, I still has a nasty habit of listening to AM radio, which I still love. Like, the sound truly is horrible in my physiological body abhorrent. But, yeah, and they were explaining that a plane had driven into the tower. And it was like at that time, and it was so early in the morning. And we were, like, confused. We were like, was it an accident or something?

And it was, like, right as it happened. But until, like, you know, hours later, they were like, oh, it's a terrorist. attack. Right, right, right. Yeah. I remember you were reading that book to the children when somebody came up and told you about it. What? Yeah, Miles, were you, you were in high school? I was a, I was a junior in high school. Yeah, yeah. And I just remember I watched on Good Day, LA, the Fox morning news show, but they were in the TV or you were at a point where every, no, no, because I, because at that point, I didn't have to, I didn't have to get to school to like 745. Oh, right. On the West Coast, it happened super early.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I woke up. I'm eating my fucking, like, to 9-11. Yeah, I'm like, I remember because I made my little breakfast burrito in the microwave. I went back to my room to, like, just put the morning news on and, like, put my uniform, you know, I'd get ready for school and shit. Damn, you watched the morning news like a fucking adult. Well, no, Good Day, L.A. was like a joke morning. Like, it was, they're like goofy. You know what I mean? Like, they were having fun. So it wasn't like, it's still the news, but it was still them, like, fucking around. Oh, yeah, wasn't my girl, Gillian Barbary on there?

Gillian Barbary, you know what I mean? Yeah, my mom used to love Good Day L.A., yeah, for sure. And she was so hot when I was a child, I thought she was so hot. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And then she, I remember she had, she went through a few name changes. I remember she got married. That was like a whole thing.

I was like, what happened to Gillian Barbary? Anyway, uh, yeah, it's, what a show, what a show. But anyway, and then I went to school and then I remember my APUS history teacher said, oh, guys, the world is going to be completely different after today, just so you know. And I was like, you're just saying that because you're history. He was way off. Yeah, that was crazy. Did you guys watch it at school or they like just kind of tried to keep it moving?

I look back on and think is really weird. Like we watched it all day at school and I'm like, was that good for us? Yeah. Like we were just in school watching it in every class for the whole day. At ours it was like a very briefly like it was on the TVs. And then, like, once the towers were down, they're like, all right, enough of this. And then they had like a, we had a, like a school, like an all hands meeting in the jam about it. And then I remember I called my mom because then a bunch of kids started leaving school, like, because their parents are like, you know, who knows what the fuck is going to happen.

And I had a, speaking to physics, I had a fucking physics test that day. I told my mom, like, you need to pick me up, bro, because I didn't not study for this shit. I don't care what the frame of mind to take this. No, I straight up was like, mom, I will fucking fail. It's just like, did you know you had the test? I'm like, yes. I do, yes. I kind of had a feeling something was going to happen today.

And so I was just like, I don't know, I was all over the place, Mom. Exactly, exactly. All right. Anyways, moving along to this 9-11. Ah, yes. 2025. Blair, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. Oh, wow.

Thank you. You're welcome. We're very excited. We appreciate you letting us get to know you. First, we're going to tell the listeners a couple of things. We're talking about, we're going to talk about two sides of the class war. We've got Cuomo gathering landlords and developers to plot against Mamdani. And then we've got Zora and Mamdani taking on FIFA's dynamic pricing when it comes to the price of tickets for the FIFA World Cup.

Basically, they're like, we can charge you whatever the fuck we want. Truly. We're doing Uber prices, baby. It's a surge. FIFA is a crime syndicate. Yeah. So we'll talk about that. We'll talk about the Conjuring franchise, number one at the box office, and just the background of that show and where it seems to be headed, that movie, because this is supposed to be the last one.

But we don't think it is all of that plenty more. But first, Blair, we do like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Wow, that's so kind of you to ask, Jack. Oh, my God. You're so grateful. Funny that you bring that up because my actual last Google search was, what is the newest research about octopuses being sentient? And so then I got in a deep dive on that,

and I will be publishing a substack later today with... On your findings? On some of it, yeah. Yeah. Do you like eating octopus? Well, I was raised on it, my whole life. I was going to say. I come from a...

Blair is housing octopus right now, everybody. A live one. There's ink all over her face. No, it's something I've come to that's all very sad, confusing, sort of reckoning that I have to be honest with myself about because I come from a diving family. So I've eaten it my whole life quite a bit. Diving, not like competitive pool diving, but like diving. No, diving in the ocean.

Like, capture diving, spearfishing, all that. No, actually, Jack, I'm very sorry to correct you, but the correct nomenclature at this time has been changed back to octopuses, not like octopi, like when we were taught, when we were young. Well, I'll just correct both of you. I said catching octopus. I said octopi. Like catching fish instead of fishes.

So you're both wrong. No, I can see where you were going with that one. Is fish is a word? No. I mean, fishes in terms of the present tense. Yeah. Look, man. I got a lot of table.

It's 9-11, all right? Yeah, you're right. You got to give me a break. But you can't blame it all on 9-11, Jack. You can't blame it all on 9-11, but it certainly didn't help, Miles. Wait, so then are you, so now you're a little bit, because I feel the same way, because every time you see a documentary or something about an octopus, you're like, oh, my God, they're fucking, they know, they know too much.

Well, apparently, they're sentient, and they can recognize faces, they're extremely intelligent, they can edit their own RNA, which is the precursor to editing their own DNA. And so, like, you know, there's all this new research coming out about it. And it's basically to me, I'm like, oh, my God, it's like eating a dog. And I just don't feel like it's ethical, even though, you know, I eat cows, which I do feel guilty about every day as well, even though I don't foresee stopping. But you're an athletic specimen. You got to keep, you got to pack in the protein. Thank you. I am a carnivore, but I'm deciding, I'm making an executive decision. I think to stop eating octopus going forward.

Yeah, octopus is so prevalent in like Japanese food too that like I was raised eating like takoyaki, which is like the octopus ball thing or like taco wasa, which is like what like wasabi root with like raw octopus. It's like a really good little side thing. And yeah, every time I like see that it is just sort of like, oh, fuck. But then I noticed a stirring of guilt inside me like the last year or so.

And, you know, I am very, very addicted to TikTok. So I'm really in taking a lot of info at all times. Good, good. And so I just had to make the decision. Yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, they sound more advanced than like the DNA RNA. Yeah. Like that sounds, I don't like I've tried that before.

It hasn't totally worked out the ability to edit my own DNA and RNA just with sheer tyranny of will. So that's pretty, pretty impressive. they don't they don't live long lives i've long had this theory that octopi octopuses octopices octopyses would be way more advanced if like they they would run the globe and be like waging wars or not you know just being cool but like they we would work for octopuses if they just had longer lifespans. Well, there also have been discovering new species and are saying that there are many other octopus species that we haven't even discovered yet, and that they are possibly linked to

our own evolutionary. Like we're all octopuses. Maybe, I don't know. Or extraterrestrial. We'll see. At the risk of the Ziking listeners thinking I'm a total quack. Yeah. They would never.

They would never. No, no, you're goaded. You're goaded. With the sauce. Like, I have some odd special. I only found out of an autistic six months ago, but it explains a lot. Like, I mean, I like, my whole life really makes sense now.

Like, I mean, I'm like, I complain how I have so much stuff to do. And then I spent, like, all morning, like, just researching about octopus. Why? I don't know. No, say, that's the info you needed. That's what I needed, I guess. what is something that you think is underrated? Underrated.

Look, I could catch some heat for this, but look, I'm no stranger to that, huh? I'm a true teller, baby. You're so cowlady. I'm going to have to go, Lady Gaga. Absolutely 17 years. I'm fucking stupid. I know.

I know. I'm so controversial, but Lady Gaga is 17 years in and she's still at the top of her game. Never stop innovating once. I just love her so much. And many people say, Many people say, how can she be underrated?

But I so think she is because the level that she's at, no one's there. She's incredible. She's an all-time generational talent. And I'm so proud of her. And I love watching her, incredible VMA appearance. Just like, just her new music, incredible. And I'm going to go see her on tour. I love her.

Blair's our number one VMA correspondent. You tell us what happened to the VMAs with Lady Vigah. What did she do? She just came out with her new song. And, of course, had incredible, like, Camp Goth, production value. and it's just like so impressive and everyone was talking about Tate McRae and look I'm proud of you, Tate McRae,

I love to see the young guns coming in doing great but for Lady Gaga to be 17 years in and just absolutely fucking still hammering. I'm so, it just gets me pumped. Such a jock way to describe Lady Guy.

It just gets a fucking pound in the zone, dude. I mean, I'm proud. I'm proud. So yeah, that's what I think is underrated and people should probably give a look to. Yeah.

Is that the song that she performed? I saw that Tim Burton directed her latest music video. Is that what that's for? Damn. Now we're talking. That guy's twisted. I'm not sure. But I feel like her whole vibe right now is like very goth,

Tim Burton. Yeah. I mean, like that makes dead dance. I think is the video that he directed. It's so good. And then, well,

like she did a cameo on Wednesday, which I also feel is a very well done show. I can't imagine that Miles or Jack have taken the time to watch it, but... Wednesday with Jenna Ortega. I did the show that I really love, so... And she had a cameo in it at the end of the season, which was just so excellent and incredible. And she made a song for it, yeah. We're an Adam's family family in this household.

In this household, we still ride to the Adam's family. We haven't broken into Wednesday yet, but it's probably coming. Oh, it's excellent. very well done. Yeah. What is something, Blair, that you think is overrated? Thank you for asking, Jack. And it's going to have to be loboos.

I don't want a stuffed animal attached to my purse. Stop it. I'm not falling victim to your beanie-baby-ass-craze reboot. Okay, I don't like reboots in general, and I don't give a shit about loboos, and I think they're weird, even though I love stuffed animals. So it doesn't make sense. Oh, you love stuffed animals? Yeah, and the privacy of my own goddamn cave.

Like, I'm not walking around. Wait, hold on. Stuffed animal cage. Wait, you really fuck with stuffed animals like that? No, I have, no, okay. If I'm going to be, I've already revealed so much on this show over the last decade. I have one weighted, like six pound bear that is sort of like a weighted blanket that I sleep with. And then I have one stuffed animal from my childhood named Gorilli that I have recently brought from my parents' house up to here because it was like a thing with me and my brother.

So that's like a little comfort thing So at current moment I have two in my home I thought you were like low key Like you really into stuffies and shit No Miles that'd be freaky Okay just because I research octopuses For several hours doesn't mean I had like

Not freaking to me at all Doesn't have some like I'm some freak adult Stuffy house a freaky ass I camera turns around And just a room full of stuff to animals Just watching Blair She has them all set up like it looks like a comedy club audience.

They're all how they have drinks and food in there. Little flickering candle. That would actually be really funny to do a special to that. Maybe I should do that. I'll credit you. I'll give you a writing credit. You don't even have to. Just invite us.

Okay. Well, but we would have to like hide behind. Is this a life? Is this a life size? No, you'd have to be inside stage. Yeah. Okay, that's my backstage. I'll wait and the wings going with my hands.

Yes, Blair, you're doing it. You're doing it. I don't be put in a hospital if I did that problem. My God. Wait, do you know, do you have contemporaries that are fucking with lububoos? Oh, yeah, a lot of them. And actually, like, a few of my favorite people. So no shade to them.

If they listen to this, I support you in your freaky-ass, like, endeavors. But I think they're weird, and I would never participate, no matter what. And they should be ashamed of themselves. The weighted stuffed bear that kind of acts as a weight of blanket. Does it lay on you face down or face up? Oh, my God, Jack. I'm just trying to picture getting at here. Jack, what kind of thing is this?

Jack, what kind of perverted-ass question was that? Like a face down or face-up? Which way my weighted bear is facing? I don't know. I'm just like picturing a bear like laying face down lifeless. This is by asking us, is it north to south? What are we talking? That's not what I mean.

It's on my chest, usually, or in my, or I'm cradling it, you know. But a six pound, I feel like that's, like, I get a blanket because that weight is distributed pretty easily. That's just, I'm trying to, like, get an image of contact of like, is it big enough? I just put it on my chest and it's like, yeah. Okay. All right. When I'm snuggling watching TV, you're going to bed. I was just trying to, like, get a sense of, like, where.

I was just joking. That's where Jack's particular things come out to. I was just having a laugh with you. Come on a wharf. He's nervously texting me right now. He's saying, did I fuck this up? Did I fuck this up? Is Blair mad at me?

Do you think? Cut this out. Cut this out. Cut this out. Why are you texting me this? I just think it's a funny visual image, a bear lying either face down on top of you or face up on top of you. I know. That's just me. You have no idea how weird again.

I guess I'm a weirdo. The face-to-face is like you're hugging the bear. That makes sense. Yeah. And then outwardly also feels more like a display hug. You know what I mean? And you tell the bear, I'm fin to grab you by the waist. Yeah.

Does it say that sometimes? It doesn't speak if you can believe it. Oh, okay. I don't know what your money's on, but. So you're just a nervous system tool. That's kind of cozy. Yeah, help your limbic system out. Yeah, absolutely.

Calm down that amygdala. Exactly. You know what I mean? Be firing. Got to calm it down. Shout out Tara Brock. Why does it make me laugh so hard every time you bring out

Terra the God? You got to bring up Tara the God, you know what I mean? You know what I mean? If we're not doing rain, what's it all about, baby? What's it all about? How are we going to navigate these emotional trials and tribulations? I love when you bring up right. Jack, you know about this?

No, I don't know about this at all. Recognize, allow, investigate, nurture. It's Tara Brock's like this, like, therapist. spiritual woman who like broadcast i think from like dc virginia maryland area somewhere in the dmv but like my dad i remember he's like i've been listening to this terra brock lady her voice is so soothing and she just has like these like sort of long form talks about like you know our emotions and things like that yeah she's a meditation teacher and um yeah her voice is like just very like almost hypnotizing relaxing it's like the it's like the goaded npr voice right it's like

in the amygdala and takes a little walk around. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. If we're going goaded NPR voices, it's Tara Brock, Terry Gross, Lairsock. When I used to lead some online breathwork glasses, I'd always be like, I wonder how this. What the vibes like. It's sounding for them. Are you doing, how would you do it?

Are you doing really soft? Are you projecting? Is it more like ASMO? I can't remember. Give us a sample. No, I can't. I don't know. It's so long.

long ago. I just need to breathe in. Sometimes people will come up to me and be at the show and be like, I took one of your breathwork classes and I'm always like, wow, that's so weird. Oh, after you do stand up? Yeah. Like, I mean, like, wow, you've seen so many different sides of me.

Yeah. Cross genre. Yeah, it doesn't matter. We love you. Have you hit the Blair Socky triple crown? That's right. Oh, very weird, Carl. Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.

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Now it's a personal mission. Don't have to go to any more funerals, you know. I got blown up on a lot. a React mission. I ended up having amputation below the knee of my right leg and a traumatic brain injury because I landed on my head. Welcome to Season 2 of the Good Stuff. Listen to the Good Stuff podcast on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. And we're back. And during that break, so we were recording this on Wednesday around noon and just found out that Charlie Kirk was shot.

We, that's really all we know at this point. Yeah, at an event in Utah. Yeah, that it was in Utah. I mean, at this point,

by the time you guys hear this, I'm sure a lot more, you know more than we do. We may sound a little caught off guard here. Yeah, because we're just like, what the fuck? Yeah.

Obviously, the gun situation, America is fucking horrifying. And yeah, this is really bad. Ooh. Anyway, um,

what else? Yeah. what else i just like i mean like what a fucking i don't know without knowing what's happening like we're on such a fucking crazy trajectory right now as a country where i i yeah i don't even know i don't know where i don't know where this goes um i mean we have talked about trump wanting a thing to happen that will allow them to like consolidate power like be more you know yeah but i think that happening in utah of all

States is a little bit different than it. I'm sure he would have loved something that, like that happened in Illinois or something. Anyway, don't look online ever at things after a grisly event. My jaw is on the floor right now. Like, we were literally just talking in depth about octopuses and now. Yeah. And now we get that news. And it's just so scary and obviously not a fan of that man at all.

But, I mean, this stuff just cannot be. happening and it's just like shootings every freaking day in this country and it just makes me sick yeah yeah yeah one it's the same thing too like even when you talk about the con like the chicago you know that sort of like loaded mention of chicago all the time that conservatives use all you're really talking about too is just our gun problem in this country yeah it's not although they like to just have it be coated for people of color but like ultimately these are all the fucking ills that we suffer because what is it like one and a half guns per person in the

United States or something like that? Like the ratio of guns to people in the United States? Yeah. In my opinion, it's legalized school shootings, which is just like unforgivable. The fact that it just happens weekly and it's just a thing where you just never know, you know? 1.2 guns per person.

It's just, it's so sad. And for them to even talk about safety or anything, it's just ridiculous. Yeah, I mean, RFK Jr. is, My number one enemy. You'd think he would be maxed out on bad takes for the month, but he recently said during a press event that school shootings weren't a problem when he was a kid and then suggested that the real problem was over-medicating children.

Right. These fucking boomer idiots, dude. It made me so mad. And also, you know what? That concept of medication is such a generational thing. like that older generation really has no knowledge about mental health and medication. Like I, I mean, Prozac to me saved saves my life. Like I'm a complete, it changed my life overnight.

And I, when I saw him say that that was the reason for an elementary Catholic school shooting was anti-depressants, I was just like, how is this idiot like involved in anything? Like we're, we're in chaos right now. Yeah. One, I think a lot of thing that that generation fails to understand is, like, the relative, like, the stability that people had then, too. Like, there was still the ability to have, like, a minimum wage job and, like, raise a family. And, like, those kinds of pressures are completely different for people now, along with social media and everything else that's happening, to just be like, it's the pills. It's like, maybe it's your brainworm and the lead for you, buddy. Yeah. But also, you know. The big difference between when he was a kid and now is that guns are so much more prevalent. There are twice as many guns per capita. There were twice as many guns per capita in 2016 than there were in 1968. And that's risen sharply since then. So do you guys ever have any hope of there ever being gun control?

I don't know. Yeah, I do. It seems so obvious, like such an obvious idea. I do think that when you look back over the history of, you know, how we've seen progress, there are these, like, things that are terrible ideas that everybody just assumes are hopeless, you know, just horrible situations that everyone's like, well, but they're never getting rid of that. And then slowly, there's just like a slowly, slowly, and then all of the sudden things shift. but I mean it's been 25 years since like I don't think in our lifetime Yeah I don't think it'll be any time

And there's not even slight changes Like you know I my first thought is always like How is it easier than getting a driver's license Driver's license you have to pass multiple tests You have to study like you have to take class Like you know you have to be approved Like it should be way harder than getting a driver's license And you should be have to do like mental wellness

checks and like all this stuff to be given a license to have a gun right yeah yeah i mean this administration's already done a lot to try and like remember when they they took mel gipsons they were like revoked his license and then that person got fired right being like what are you enforcing our laws it's i don't know i mean it's just everything every regulatory body has been captured by the industry that it's meant to regulate so yeah anyway like comparatively they have really high levels of psych med prescriptions and consumptions in Australia, like similar to the United States. And they don't have mass shootings.

Yeah. I feel like once they got rid of their guns. They had one and they took care of it immediately, nipped that in the butt. And now their children are safe when they just try to go to school. Yeah. It's hard to explain. It's that onion headline where it's like, you know,

the incomprehensible or like no way to prevent this says only nation where this regularly happens yeah yeah yeah all right well one thing that does give me hope is the success of zoramamdani in new york city the idea that like somebody could break through with pretty like straightforward forward policies that, again, like, I think you asked people before he ran and they would be like, no, like, that can't work. And now he's dominating. Like, it's not just that he like, eeked out a victory. He is absolutely dominating the mayoral race in a city that is the capital of capitalism. And that's a problem for the billionaires. The, The latest polling has Cuomo down 15 points against Zoran Mamdani.

Yeah. Yeah. It's, I mean, it's, it's getting pretty grim right now. Yeah. And I think, you know, Zoran has basically been unstoppable since the primary. And there's nothing that nipple, nipple clamps Cuomo can do to kind of stop that. And, you know, so there's that picture of him where there's like something going on under his shirt. Do we know, has he ever, like, been asked about that?

about the important has anyone bothered to ask the important questions i mean i'm surprised he hasn't brought that up it it's like you know looks like he got he got straight up bar bills through them shits yeah i don't know maybe he's got maybe he runs a lot and he's got those little guards that you put up so you can keep the chafing away but it bunched up i don't know but we don't know the thing we do know is that uh andrew quomo certainly has the backing of landlords and land development in Manhattan. Oh, thank God. Yeah, because Cuomo basically lit up, like, the landlord signal, like, into the Manhattan

sky, like some fucking shitty Batman thing to gather the city's biggest landlords and developers to coordinate how to get him in office. And we've already seen, like, the White House dangle, like, an ambassadorship in front of Eric Adams to, like, induce him to, like, drop out, induce a dropout from him in the race. Yeah. We still don't know if that's successful because Eric Adams is like, like, I'm in it, I'm in to the end unless you know they he's probably negotiating something right now if he's you know all these people are craven tit for tat sort of transactional people um but this from the new york

times reporting quote on tuesday morning at roughly the same time the president trump was opining on the radio about eric adams bottom of the barrel poll numbers a group of real estate leaders and business people gathered at the pool room an exclusive event space in the seagram building in midtown Manhattan uh to meet with former governor andrew komo to help plot his path to city hall The event took place less than 14 hours after Jeff Blow, arguably Manhattan's biggest developer and his wife, Lisa, an investor, sent an email blast to members of their exclusive circle. What a fucking euphemism for oligarch circle jerk, saying that if they did not take immediate action to support Cuomo, the election in November would assuredly won by Assemblyman Mamdani.

This is from the email, quote, sorry for the late notice, but there's no more time for delay, discussion, or dithering. We must act decisively to ensure that the next mayor of New York is. Andrew Cuomo. The only viable candidate with the experience support and gravitas to defeat Zoran Mamdani is Andrew Cuomo. So they're in a full-on panic,

it seems like, right now. That also sounds like the time for discussion is over. I think maybe because they're like, who do we get behind? Because that's the thing, a lot of people are like, where's all the big, who's, where's the big money going to like get behind? Is it going to be? You mean the big

money that was behind Cuomo already in the first place? Yeah, but I think Now they're really trying to be like, well, who's going to win and what's a waste of money? And I guess that's where now that this email goes on and say, quote, the time to act is now. If we fail to mobilize the financial capital of the world risks being handed over to a socialist this November. We cannot and will not let that happen. Like that is just villain shit. Yeah, 100%.

Straight up like, that's the thing you hear the villain say before they cut to like a, a giant plot to fucking kill Mumdani or something. Like, what the fuck? Yeah. So, yeah, it's just very, I mean, I think, again, this is what class solidarity looks like,

you know, these people know in this landowning, landowner developer class that like the, the whole thing hinges on preventing people from getting into office that are going to do things like, be like, we need like rent freezes. And we need to actually have affordable housing where the rent is fully controlled.

So people actually have like a, you know, a consistent place to live or they're not getting gouged every year like things are now. And it looks like right now Trump advisors are also trying to find a position to offer Curtis Sliwa to also get him to drop out. So they're just basically doing everything they can to be like, guys, the only choice now is Cuomo or Zoran. If you have money, you are duty bound by class to vote for Cuomo. Right. Meanwhile, Zorin keeps doing things that sound like they were, you know, thought up at a meeting where someone was like, ooh, that'd be neat. So like

the latest thing is trying to get FIFA to set aside some tickets so that people from host cities of the World Cup could actually like afford tickets to go there as opposed to the way that it's set up right now is it sounds like

it's like an unlimited surge pricing where it's just like, I don't know if there's a lot of people who want that ticket, the sky is the limit to how expensive it could be. Yeah, bidding war. basically yeah i mean it's remember when wendy's tried to do that they're like we're going to roll out dynamic pricing because like sometimes when maybe like when business is slow will lower prices to get more people who come in really no your whole thing was it's good to charge people

more fucking money and as someone who is a rabid soccer fan and knowing that the world cup will be played in like la their fucking website is like all just completely unusable it's like crashing and like the process is so convoluted it's like you can enter a drawing to then be potentially selected for a pre-sale and then you may get your it's i don't even know what's going on there will be a golden ticket hidden in five chocolate bars and yeah yeah so he released a video talking about how we need to push back against this and also doing like a couple little soccer move like it feels like he was like i also like want to do this video because I'm kind of nice with it with the soccer ball

sometimes you know a team you know what team he supports I would venture to guess it's Arsenal it's you damn right you damn right it is damn right it is there's something about Arsenal man like you know I think Alex Carrickusannis is also an yeah oh yeah see all you talked about when he came on we had to record a second episode because all you talked up the whole time when he came on his Arsenal it happens People with high intellects. I don't know what to say. Oh, you like Arsenal, Miles?

Yeah, if it wasn't clear from my background where... I'll just guess in, yeah. I don't know. Miles' background is Arsenal. He was just kissing his wrists because he has an arsenal. This is Blair going on a blind date with me. So you like Arsenal? Yeah.

Oh, did you know about that? I don't know, dude. You're just wearing a fucking the whole uniform. You like Arsenal too? What? No, it's just you're wearing head-to-to-arssonal, including soccer cleats. They're like clacking on the ground as you walk up.

up to the table. I lost my turf shoes, which are more sneaker-like, so I had to just wear my soft ground cleat plate. Sorry. I do admire the soccer fandom because you would never catch my ass waking up in the middle of the night to watch a game. Are you kidding me? That is crazy. Do you even, do you get activated for the World Cup? Like, do you get, does your Italian heritage come through and you support the Azzouti? Um, I was in Italy when they won the world. 2006. Yes. And that was pretty much the peak.

It's been downhill from there. I enjoyed the way the city celebrated very much and the culture, the wine, and the streets. But I haven't been super involved. But the game's not really. I like if it's in the daytime, someone I know is passionate about it. I always support people's passions. But I can't say that I myself am wrapped up into it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I do like the women's soccer, the U.S. women's soccer. Yeah, it's the one U.S. team that actually does well. Unrelated to, you know, your interest, but. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no. We like a winner, don't we, folks? We do. We do. Yeah.

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And I'd kind of miss this. I knew they had a conjuring movie coming out that was supposed to be the final one. Came out last weekend? Blair, are you a conjuring fan? Um, well, funny that you asked that, Jack. I actually don't have a nervous system equipped for horror movies. I already have enough horror in my head

as it is. So no, I don't watch those. Are you? No. No, no, no, no. But they're shockingly popular. No. No, no, no, no, no. Do you, Miles? No, no, no, no. I'll, like, occasionally, I just be like, okay, what's the fuss about with this, like, certain franchise? And then I'm like, It just personality-wise, I think I'm just naturally an anxious person. So it's not entertainment for me to be caught in like a fight or flight sort of thing, like even for fun. Same with me, not even slightly. Also, I live alone. And I often pop a five-milly gummy gummy to sleep at night.

So you can imagine the combination. I'm not trying to combine with the conjuring. I'll be crying out for the Lord, you know, in minutes. Yeah. I think that's part of it. I think the, the, like, deep Christian roots of America is part of, like, why people are so upset. Like, yeah, I kind of view horror movies more anthropologically than anything where I'm just, like, it's so interesting what people are so into. I will say that one anthropological conclusion I have come to is that all my sober friends, because, you know, for the rest of you civilians out there, a lot of comedians have extreme. alcohol and drug problems, it has to become sober.

So many, many of my friends are sober, and they all love horror movies because it gives them, like, an adrenaline rush. Oh, interesting. Like, they all, they all go to the movies and, like, watch them, all these, like, sober comedians, they get, like, a thrill from it. They really like it. I really, uh, once I got sober, I started really liking roller coasters again. Really?

Like, fuck, this is great. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, like, I liked them when I was a kid, and then I was like, man, this is so fun. But, so the Conjuring franchise, I think, is interesting. I think it has two of the, like, key ingredients for a horror movie to, like, do really well in America. One is that it has, like, some claim, like, the Blair Witch thing, where it has, like, some claim to reality. And these are, like, based, as we'll, you know, talk about in a second, heavy quotes based on a true story.

but they and then there's also a haunted doll which I think we're obsessed with creepy haunted dolls oh Annabel Annabelle Annabelle is the source is the demon center of the conjuring universe like when I say that to people who are conjuring fans are like well I mean yeah kind of but I never seen any of the conjuring franchise

but I will say Annabel's been coming up a lot of my TikTok on witch talk Okay, a lot of rumblings about Annabelle. I was telling this out of the side of her mouth. I know. Like, yeah, you didn't hear in here first, but, uh, why it called me a hayseed? Wait, what do you? Wait, in what context is that Annabel? You said on witch talk?

Well, I always do reveal so much about myself. That's fine. I mean, I saw an article about someone was paying Etsy witches to put a curse on the president, but. Really? Oh, yeah. I think that's like a really popular thing. It's part of girlhood now. But I just saw rumblings about it there because, you know, I have been in a medium phase since my dearly departed brother. I've been really seeing the mediums lately trying to get a convo in. And so I'm on medium TikTok, you know, which bleeds into which TikTok.

And, you know, there's a lot of fright, a lot of hullabaloo going on about Annabelle right now prior even to the movie coming out. sense that they're like she's anna this doll is a bona fide conduit to the demon world or something no there well yes there was a guy like taking anabel around the country yeah and he died and then and then all the sudden he died yeah we talked about that and then i won't even bring up bat rice like buying the house and then they're all worried like all the mediums and witches are saying that um because he wants to turn it into like uh Airbnb and all the witches are like no no you can't do that like they were the couple that lived there were trying to contain the evil inside the house and now it's going to be let out.

Oh, is it a couple that, oh, is that Ed and. Oh, that's like Ed and Lorraine. All right. So, yeah, yeah, let's get into them. So, first of all, I do just want to say they, so the movie came out, it made $194 million worldwide in the first weekend, which broke the record for a horror movie opening set by it in 2017. That also doesn't include the $45 popcorn buckets shaped like Annabelle, the curse like Annabelle's sitting

with like a... Yeah, I don't want that. I don't want that. You don't want that? No, but it just... Add it to your stuffy collection? Just have Annabelle's sitting directly across from this whole recording. But that insane

like box office money and success I really speak to like how people just want to feel any other horror besides what's happening right now. You know, that's crazy. It's like a different horror. It's a different horror bone, yeah.

But, yeah, so the Warrens are not great. The people who the movie is based on, they're played by Vera Fermiga and Patrick something or other, Patrick Wilson and, yeah, Vera Farmiga. And the real couple were basically con artists. Yeah. This movie opens with based on a true story, in this case, the Warren's final case,

which involved the small. the Smurl family who's West Pittston Pennsylvania duplex duplex is like I feel like that fucks up the haunted house It's a haunted duplex The unit next door is haunted

But this part of the duplex is actually Completely spirit free They chose only one of the units Of the duplex Look this spirit isn't that powerful I can't haunt a fucking whole duplex Yeah It was a unit of it

Well it's interesting You mentioned that because the spirit has some very specific preferences and I think the spirit is unionized because yeah so it only is haunting like I guess one part of the duplex and what it would do is like kind of very specific lights on and off stole items from them according to Jack Smurrell he was sexually assaulted in the night by the by the by the by the spirit and Ed war and that really sucks It's hard enough to get a human one of those fuckers in jail Try and get justice from a ghost

God, you're fucked Jesus Ed Warren said it was a succubist But that did that But before the Warrens got involved The Smurals had reached out to the Catholic Church As one does when they're facing this problem Who found nothing wrong with the house

Which is like, the Catholic Church is not Like they'll do an extra All right, I'll bite. Yeah, yeah. One priest spent two nights in the house and nothing unusual happened. They performed three exorcisms, just like, I didn't even know they did precautionary exorcisms. Can you do another one? They're like, I already did two.

Okay, just maybe three for the Trinity, maybe? The Smurals argued that the demons ducked out during the exorcism. Fuck you. Ducked out. This is the problem with this shit not being real science because the rules to ghost haunting things are just too fucking malleable. Like, they're like, oh, yeah, man, the ghosts are fucking around here, bro. And, like, I haven't seen anything.

He's like, well, you know, they just, they fucked off while you were here because they didn't want to get caught, dude. Oh, actually, so they did say that the ghosts actually avoided the exorcisms by traveling back and forth between the double block home. So they were, they were, they were using the duplex aspect of it. They were even, and this is kind of weird, they were visited by the actor who played a priest in The Exorcist, so not an exorcist, but an actor

who played a priest in the Exorcist. He was also like, I, look, man, like, I go to Cannes for, like, a living, like, and even I don't believe this? I met you at that horror fan fest a few weeks ago.

I mean, it must be, I wonder, too, because it works kind of slow. They're like, yeah, bro, sometimes you just got to go where the money's at. Yeah, absolutely. I don't, I don't blame him. I respect his the fact that he showed up and was like, yeah, you guys are full of shit. Ducees! Thank you.

I don't even want to laugh and say this shit's not real. Because I feel the same way about ghosts as I do aliens. It's like, it's not that I believe in them, but I don't not believe in them. Yeah. You know, like, I don't know for sure that they're not. Like rationally, logically, in the cold light of day, I'm like, this is stupid.

And then like, if I'm like talking about ghosts, of light flickers, I will run so fast out of that room. Like, you know, it's just, uh, like you saw hot sauce cross somebody up on the animal mix tape tour. Yeah, yeah, I do it like I, like I just somebody.

I got me, I'm not going there without my hot cross buns. There you go. Keep you protected. One of the best. I guess that's a thing. On mixtape moves, the hot cross fun. Culturally in Japan, very ghost

posy, ghost positive culture in Japan. Yeah. And I'm just one of those people. was like, I need the empirical evidence in front of me. Like, I need to get haunted for me to be like, oh, yeah. Because I had one of my aunts, she's, like, she's talking about being fucking visited and shit all the time.

And I'm like, but that's you, you know what I mean? Like, that's kind of your thing in the family is you, you're really adamant about insisting about these ghosts and like, how come they don't visit me? Why isn't my confirmation bias set properly? Ghost is like a really, I don't know, cinematic way of saying it. Because now that my brother died, who I was, like, so, so, so close with. And I know, like, his every thought, like, what he thinks about everything. It's, like, sometimes I really can feel him.

I don't see a ghost or something. But it's like, there's like, I do believe in spirits. And I do think that as shit speeds up, like, information-wise and our planet and everything, that the veil is thinning a bit. Like my hair. Does your displeasure with Lububoos have anything to do with just, like any sort of do you feel because that is what one of the criticisms that has been lobbed at luboos is that they've like got some demonic influences oh really that they can be vessels for um for demons um that hasn't crossed my mind at all I that's also the word on the

elementary school playground is that they yeah yeah according to my seven year old that they will turn their head and like give you a creepy look sometimes whoa that's crazy But, like, little kids are tapped into shit. I don't know. Yeah, I'm just saying. You can't say. Got a regular Haley Joel Osmond. Everyone's going to think I'm literally off my goddamn rocker after this episode.

I need to get off TikTok. No, I mean, I fuck with the spirit thing, too, because especially after, like, I've had relatives pass away, close family, whether or not it's your confirmation bias, but you do see, like, these things do feel like you're being communicated with. Like, my mom has this one plant that doesn't, like, it doesn't, like, it doesn't, it doesn't, blooms like a very specific time a year and it's like very like it's at night and then it's like done and when my cousin passed away like on the one year anniversary of her of her passing the thing like a lot like bloomed like sort of right at the time that she passed away and it was super fucking wild and for me I'm like I feel like to me I'm like those that feels connected

in some way or another provable or not right well I think when someone close to you dies you're searching for everything to be assigned but what I've noticed I noticed in this short time, like, the last five months is, like, there are a few times where I'm like, I just know. Like, it's very odd feeling. It's not even like logical. There's no logic to it, but you're like, oh, whoa, that was you, you know? And then other times you're like, oh, is that Butterfly you? I hope it's you, you know.

All right. Back to the Smurls. Oh, sorry, yes. Because, so they've got a problem. Their name looks way too much like the Smurfs. It's really hard to, like, keep reading it and not reference that fact, but they'd gone to everyone. They went to an exorcist who's like, uh-huh, yeah, no, I did three exercises and there's nothing here. Went to an actor who played an exorcist, and he was like, I also don't believe you.

And then he went to the Warrens and they were like, ooh, yeah. So apparently what they would do is they would like show up to people's hauntings and get them to like sign the movie rights. like get them to sign the rights of their story over to them. And then that's, hence this entire movie franchise. So they showed up and they said, yum, yum, yum, yum, yom, yom, gimme, give me, gimme, give me. And Ed claimed that the demon threw him back 10 feet. Oh, yeah. And that's why you got to sign the rights to your story over to me because I understand what's going on.

Wait, so the Warrens are the like create the genesis of this series. Yeah. So they would go. never knew that they go to a haunted they're also the amityville horror which like it's now been shown that the amityville horror like the whole story was like concocted over glasses of wine like when as they were like trying like the people who came up with a story with them in the first place were like yeah we were drunk and like did it as a bit like but that doesn't anyways uh the warrens then profited from the story co-authorized

throwing a successful book on The Haunting with the Smurals and a reporter, which was later turned into a Fox TV movie, and then now they just have this massive movie franchise. Wow. That is supposed to be coming to an end, but people have their doubts because it ends with them being like, and we're going to pass this on to the next generation of investigators, and it like turns to their kids who are like famous actors who've been there the whole time.

Yeah, The Amityville horror case, which was later revealed to have been invented by the house's owners over several bottles of wine. That was also what happened. They showed up over several bottles of wine. Yeah. So the house owners were like, got drunk. We're like, we can't sell this house. Maybe we pretend like make it a like a big deal by claiming it's haunted, got so drunk that that seemed like a good idea.

And then like the Warrens showed up and we're like, okay, just sell the rights over to us. We have this publicity machine. and the rest is history. I wonder if, is the new, the next generation, that lady from that Nathan for you sketch, Sue, who was the ghost realtor? Yeah, that's right. You know?

I wonder. I wonder. I wonder. Horror author, Grady Hendricks, pointed out that so many of the Warren's cases involved, people who are in genuine distress, but sought the help of people who have no training and no clinical background who show up, tell you it's a DM in a walk away with book and movie,

contracts because like like this isn't going to be shocking but jack smurl was believed to have been like delusional and like had to have surgery to remove water from his brain in 1983 like right after this happened so jesus oh because he had meningitis it looks wow yeah so like he had a lot going on mentally and they came through and were like how do we we just basically yes and people in distress and then get the movie rights to their story that's right oh yeah yeah it definitely It placed to send me back 10 feet, brother. Sign this. Sign this.

You will not see a dime of this fucking Fox film. That's right. Blair Socky, always a pleasure having with you. The pleasure is all mine, fellas. Always a pleasure having with you. Always a pleasure having you on the show. This episode, obviously, a bit of a mind fuck. Wild ride it was.

Yeah, yeah. But we got through it together. We did. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? Oh, thank you so much for asking. If you'd like to follow me, my name on all social media platforms, Blair Socki, B-L-A-I-R, S-O-C-C-I, and then I need to tell you about two very important shows

that I would love to see the Zykei and come out for. The first is Wilmington, North Carolina, Dead Coat Comedy Club. Yes, and that will be in nine days, September 19th, and 20th. And I haven't been there and perform there in five years. So tell everyone you know around there. Then I'd love to see you. You know, it makes me so happy when I see the Zite King and you guys come up to me at my shows. And then the next one is that I want to tell you about is October 7th in New York at the Bell House in Brooklyn.

That will be my first time headlining in New York in four years. I'm going to have my best friend Rosebud Baker on the show with me and lots of other famous people. So you really want to buy your tickets. Her husband? Maybe. An Arsenal fan. Isn't Andy an Arsenal fan? Yeah, he loves Arsenal.

He's like a big soccer head like you, Miles. And then, yeah, I always say the nicest thing you can do for a comedian is buy tickets early because then we don't have to stress out. Stress, right? A little weeks leading up to the show and could just focus on comedy and giving you a great show. There you go. Yeah, come through. Come through, Wilmington.

I know you're out there. I love you guys. do. Yeah. Wonderful. Is there a work of media Blair that you've been enjoying?

A work of media that I've been enjoying. Oh shit. You really caught me off guard here. No. Good.

All right. Is there a Brock talk that you like? Oh, oh, actually, I completely lied. I'm so sorry. I said,

no, it's just like I froze right there. But I want to say the Monica Lewinsky podcast. I have an obsession with Monica Lewinsky. Just how she is,

like made a comeback through being such a humiliated young woman through across an entire nation from just disgusting adults as our whole culture. And now she's just thriving and she has a podcast called Reclaiming and she does a bunch of like amazing work. And I'm just such a big fan of her. So that's what I'm, that's my media recommendation. Great podcasts. Miles, where can people find you as there are work of media you've been enjoying? Yes, yes. Let's see. Let's see. You can find me everywhere at Miles of Gray. You can also find me. I'm 90-day fiancé.

I'm a 420-day fiancé with Sophia Alexandra. So work immediate, man. This fucking, the summer I turned pretty is taken over my house. And, like, a new episode dropped the night before Her Majesty. It's like, it drops at midnight. She's like, I'm going to watch it. And, like, people fucking came over and shit. It was, I was like, well, I need to go to sleep.

So I know I'm probably going to be watching the latest episode. So that's just kind of, I'm in the, it's taken over my entire home. So I'm just along for the ride. Love a bit of young adult romance. Don't we all, don't we all my other 40-year-old dudes out there? We love a bit of Y-A. And then I was actually shamed for me saying that I thought Jeremiah was cuter than whatever the other, Conrad.

Anyway, doesn't matter. That's where I'm at. And I think, did I have a tweet? Let's see, a post that I liked, was there one? Nope, I already did the one. about yep no that's it that's it that's me just the summer i deserve to turn to be pretty man um you can find me on twitter at jack underscore brian on blue sky at jack obi the number one i enjoyed a tweet by meredith at di et z underscore meredith tweeted i did subway takes and i said

i deserve to live and he said 100 percent disagree and started chasing me both of us on all fours i'm sending this from from a moment of respite in a secret crevasse i found at 14th Street Union Square, but I know I can't run forever. That's hilarious. I need to follow her. Yeah. You can find us on Twitter and Blue Sky at Daily Zykegeist. We're at The Daily Zytegeist on Instagram. You can go to the description of this episode wherever you're listening to it. And there at the bottom, you can 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? you think the people might enjoy. Yeah, there's a track by the producer, artist Blockhead. If you like

Aesop Rock, that rapper, you know, from back in the day, he produced a lot of his beats. I think most of them actually. Just put out a new track called, honestly, I haven't danced in decades, is what it's called. And it's like, it's a cool. It's like a five-minute track. And like the vibes of it shift throughout it. And it feels, I don't know, like the title just feels like it's an apt. It's an apt description of what the song is giving. So this is honestly, I haven't danced in decades by Blockhead. All right. We will link off to that in the footnotes. The Daily Zykeyes is a production of IHeartRadio. For more podcasts from IHeartRadio, visit the IHeartRadio app, Apple podcast, wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That's going to do it for us this morning back this

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