The Daily Zeitgeist - OOPS! Your Rights Got Glitched! Flying Car Distraction 10.20.26

Episode Date: October 20, 2026

In episode 2144, Miles and guest co-host Blake Wexler are joined by comedian, Chris Crofton, to discuss… Elon Musk Unveils Tesla’s New Flying Car/Distraction, Convenient Arguments to Justify Censorship And Voter Suppression, Return of Apu…, Bigfoot Tape and more! Musk approached Trump to slow down Starlink in Ukraine ‘Musk’ TikTok Ad Account Temporarily Suspended Ahead of Documentary’s Wide Release Tesla unveils what it says is a flying car Elon Musk unveils flying car at Tesla Roadster event. Elon Musk reveals ‘world’s first flying car’ at Tesla event Will The Flying Tesla Roadster Be Street Legal? Nope. Explained: Here’s How the Tesla Roadster Flies, Flips, and Sucks Tesla's flying Roadster requires a $50,000 deposit — but even Musk isn't sure it's street-legal 3 fine-print disclaimers from Musk and Tesla about the new flying Roadster you should probably know about Meta Weakly Defends Blocking No Kings Instagram in the Middle of Event ‘The Simpsons’ Surprise: Apu Is Heard for the First Time in Nearly a Decade, as Sunil Malhotra Takes Over for Hank Azaria ‘The Simpsons’ Boss Al Jean: Michael Jackson Used the Show to ‘Groom Boys Blake's Piece of Media: "What is a woman?" Jim Haggerty gets to the question liberals refuse to ask. LISTEN: Kiss You Forever by PoolsideSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I like to think Chris writes his own cold opens the way actors do their own stunts. You know, it's like, do you or Chris? Crofton writes his own cold opens to shows? I got a good one. I got a whole file cold opens. Cold open. You know me. You know me.

I'm not leaving anything to chance. I know that. It's a paper file. Yeah. It's physical. Yeah. It's right next to my birth certificate. And my next of kin documents.

I run out of the house during like earthquakes, holding my cold opens. Cold open birth certificate social security card. Don't forget my cold opens. People love them. You can't go in there. It's a three alarm fire. My cold opens are in there.

We got to get the cold opens. It's the only thing the oligarchs like. Oh, fuck. Why did you say something sooner? Get him in there. His cold opens are burning. We can trade these cold opens for food. It could have kept me warm at night.

Oh, my God. What would you grab from your house if it was other than your cold? So you have your cold opens. You left this in your car. What else would you grab from your house? It was burning down for us. I wouldn't realize that I had my Instagram already on my phone. But I'd like, get my Instagram.

No, you don't understand. My Instagram's in there. No, because everywhere your phone goes. Oh, thank God. What about the one that's on at home? It's all. Yeah, what about the one that's on the computer on the desk? You know what, man?

Why don't you go ahead? Go run back in there, man. Exactly. See you later. Have fun looking for your Instagram. Jesus Christ. You come out somehow. You've retrieved it.

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Yes, it's us October 20th, 20, 26. It's World osteoporosis Day. Oh, shit. Okay. For those of us with ailing, aging parents, please, please. Please encourage them to do some kind of resistance training so their bone density can be helped. It's also International Chef Day, National Day on writing, National Youth Confidence Day, and shout out statistics and all the statisticians. It's World Statistics Day.

For all the number crunchers that work on basketball teams, baseball teams and things like that, hey, we love you statisticians. And those who do stuff, too, that's actually meaningful for keeping the world going. So anyway, that's Tuesday, October 26. Me, I am still Miles Gray, aka. A.K.A. the Shogun with Nogun, the Lord of Lancashim. I'm stepping into the main post role because Jack is on assignment. So that means I am joined today by my guest co-host, one of my fellow Philadelphians, as the algorithm has dubbed me a Delco native. The guy who gave us plumbers. The guy who gave us daddy long legs. The guy who's given us constant laughs. Please welcome.

One of my favorites and yours, Blake Waxler! Hey, this is Blake Waxer, A.K. Blake Ulla Hexler. And thank you to Snorffiola for that. So this is a new tick that I have. You could have been Blackula, but that's good. No, I couldn't have. I don't know if that made it from the cold open where you may have been one of the clumps, but you weren't.

Now you have to find the picture of that costume where you wrapped yourself and bubble wrap and almost had like heat stress. because I need to see what it was all for. I would love to be able to find that. Yeah. Anyway, that's, that's, that was before photography, I believe,

but I think it was a painting was made. Yeah, yes, very still as the man did the sulfur flash or whatever, they made that shit out of anyway. Like, we're thrilled to be joined by another fucking legend of the show. What?

One of our favorite favorites. Look, you might know him from advice king. You might know him from Cold Brew got me like, you might know him as one of the greatest musicians to ever grace this show. But to us, he's the man with esoteric interests who's putting us on to new YouTube videos constantly. And the man who has the caffeine jitters, please welcome Chris Crofton. Even Chris Crofton thoughts arrive like Chris Croftons.

Hell yeah. But he don't know. So he chases Chris Crofton away. Hey. Hell yeah. I'm guessing you hated Pearl Jam, right? I fucking love Pearl Jam. Oh, you like Pearl Jam? Wow.

It was one or the other. Okay. I mean, I loved them for a minute there, man. If you watched their 1993 video music awards performance. Okay. When they perform with Neil Young. Oh, keep on rocking in the free world, right? And they smashed all their instruments, man.

As much as I was like a Jesus Lizard fan and a snob and everything, I'm all about somebody who gives a shit. And for that moment, even though Eddie unfortunately morphed into sort of what he raged against, uh, he was for a moment, like really trying,

you know? That was when they did keep on rocking in the free world. Yeah, he did, they did Animal, which was the first song off of, uh, first single off of verses,

you know, and, uh, that was like a pretty raging song for Pearl Jam. I mean, like they, that was like, uh,

I thought Pearl Jam was going to be like, um, you know, some kind of noise band or something. Like for a minute, I was like, oh, my God, Roll Jam's going my direction. They didn't go all the way. Yeah.

But they did make a few great records. And I'm like not, it's not popular among my music snob friends to say that you like Pearl Jam at all. Because there's a lot of people are like, fuck Pearl Jam. Yeah, I don't know. The yarling of Eddie Vedder, I think, is just,

we have to, we have to bow and be prostrate before that. And say, thank you for such a y'erl. I mean, he meant it. It was fun when he meant it. Like he was trying to be Fugazi, which I just thought was also kind of cute. You know, I also found Eddie kind of cute at that time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's a very little, little man.

He's a little tiny man, and he's extremely mad for a bunch of reasons I'm sure that we don't know about, like just mostly just being really small. And he just decided to sing his little big, actually his big ass lungs out about it. And I enjoyed it for a little while. Look, and it's pretty much up to us all. Like, I like, picture his big old lungs. And his little body cavity. If he was a different century, he would have been in a freak show for people with huge lungs. Watch me blow up this gigantic balloon with one breath.

Exactly, because that guy makes more noise. Yeah. People that small aren't designed to make that much noise usually. Yeah. Well, Chris, good to see you. We're going to give a quick preview of some of the stories we're talking about today. Elon Musk, kind of look, usually when he's unveiling some wacky new thing, it's because he's desperate. So he must be desperate because this dude just unveiled a fucking fly.

car. So we're at flying car level bad of distraction for Elon Musk. We'll also talk a little bit about a new convenient argument. I've noticed that would justify censorship or voter suppression, which is like, just blame a computer glitch. Because this has happened twice now in the last week where I'm seeing something like this. And I think it's probably going to be the new normal way that we will see rights rolled back or increased censorship. Then we will check in. Apu From The Simpsons made his first appearance since 2017 on The Simpsons on Sunday. I just want to touch on that because that was like a story, like something we talked about in the very early days of this show. And it's been that long in Hapu has made an appearance.

And then finally, we will check in with one of our favorite cryptids because I know Chris, you know a little bit about the Bigfoot culture. And there's some news about the very famous, I believe, 1967 Robert Patterson film, like, the hell. Oh, you mean like my home movies? You know, the most famous big foot clip. Yes. You were the first assistant director on that, right? I was, yeah, yeah, yeah. His spirit.

He's unit production manager on that one. So we'll talk about that and a new revelation that you will not believe. Apparently it was fake, but now there's like real. Man, I'm so mad about that. I know about it. Yeah, yeah. Real nailed on shit. All of a sudden they found some footage of people putting on the suit or whatever.

Get the fuck out of here. He's real. Fuck it. Before any of that, Chris Croftone, what's something from your search history that's revealing about who you are, which you're into right now? Okay, well, there's two things.

There's one thing that's serious, and we'll take up too much time, but I'll bring it up anyway, but just that'll be, I'll bring it up and we'll do it short, but that's depressing. I mean, not depressing. It's relatable, but it's pretty annoying.

And that's about a new antidepressant I'm on. So if you go on a new antidepressant, then you have to Google that. Like, you have to go on Reddit, and you read about it, because the doctor will say, you know, this is good. You should try it.

And then you're like, wait a minute. You go on Reddit. They're like, my eyeballs fell out. So, like, I'm going through that. But I've been also just doing my podcast and Colbrook got me like. And when we have a break in the podcast, I usually put up a stick in a vintage coffee commercial. And I've been using, um, that's awesome. Bionic Disco is the, is the YouTube channel that just to have.

as like collected vintage coffee commercials. I don't understand where they get them. I don't know if their uncle worked at the TV station or I don't know if people mail them 16 millimeter film, like, you know, like, you know, like reels that they, I just don't know where they get all these commercials. But, dude, this is like a gold mine. Yeah. And like, I just want to know who's doing it. But so this is all this play one that I just used. And this is for, I usually use a coffee commercial.

And it's also a lot like ties into, to, um, Elon's flying car. and stuff. Like, there's never been a time where people aren't like, the future is now because of something bullshit. And so U-Ban coffee announced the future because they had freeze-dried coffee. And they basically had an ominous dystopian ad being like, coffee has changed forever and you have to accept it. You know, like an ominous, like, don't try and fight it. It's freeze-dried now. Wow. And it was like, which one is it? I'll play it.

Well, that's U-Ban. I don't know where that one is. That's a U-Ban. They have too many U-Ban commercials, but this coffee-rich commercial is pretty funny because it's a creamer, but it's just worth it. I'll play it real quick. Oh, here, I'll play it on the thing. Okay, coffee-rich commercial with Ed McMahon. If you're old, you know, real old, Ed McMahon was for the kids listening to the show. Holy shit. It's just, uh... He's like doing a whole presenter's feel. Okay, so here, let's... Anyway, this, this product sounds amazing. It's still on the market, but no one markets it this

way anymore than I know of. That's because Ed McMahon's that. Crazyest thing I've ever said, no one markets it this way as I know of. As I know of. I'm not. I'm not. Now, Coffee Rich presents that master of magic and good taste, the great Gormondo! Ladies and gentlemen, I've got something that'll do wonders. So a guy just pulled up to a nice little magician's table and he's got a tap top hat in a magic wand. Tap the hat. Coffee Rich. Pour it in coffee to let more coffee flavor come through. Pour on fruit, blueberries.

Strawberry on fruit. Use it in muffin batter and watch those muffins disappear. Slight miscalculation, my dear. Oh, they both disappear. From Ed McMahon, when it comes to taste, coffee rich really pours it on. Okay. What the fuck? So he just said that cream could make coffee taste more like coffee.

Yeah, I was like what kind of thing? Which I like a lot. I like that claim because it can't be true. Yeah, that sounds exactly what you want. It's like, well, yeah, I want my coffee to taste more like coffee. And this milk does that? Yeah, and then you get bored on berries. He doesn't claim that it makes berries taste more like berries, but one can only assume.

It's funny too because the 70s was like peak bullshit. food too where it's like yeah man i have a bowl of berries and i just pour a whole thing a half and half on it it's my fucking breakfast every day um right and they're like berries taste better with half and half on them and it's like yeah because you like the taste of half and half you're like fat yeah yeah you're just like milk fat all let me guess you also like butter oh i love this stuff yeah yeah love eating it you want to you know you know it really brings out the taste of broccoli huge amount of cream this this channel is fucking amazing chris it's got 36,000 subscribers, and they have so many fucking commercials from the 70s.

Yeah, I really don't understand where they get them, because you can't get them out of thin air. I mean, if I had to go find a 1974 coffee-rich commercial, I wouldn't know where to look if it wasn't for bionic disco. This is impressive. So, yeah, you've been one, you can find it on my most recent podcast. This is sort of funny because it's just this sort of like, there's no turning back. Coffee's freeze-dried now.

There's a commercial. They say it in the commercial. Yeah, like, don't find AI. But think about how much better it was when we had, you know, like now it's the same message about AI. Like, don't even bother. It's a given. AI is here.

Yeah, yeah, right, right. And that's the way they announced freeze dried coffee. But we didn't now, and I'm sure there are people who are like, freeze dried coffees are, that's too far. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, this is, I'm going to burn the factory down if that's what we're doing with our technology. Except they weren't doing. Which part is freeze dried?

Dried. Is it like the beans? Is it the liquid? Like, what is being the ground? Is it not clear? Yeah, like whatever you're. I still don't know what freeze dried is. People are.

I don't know either. They're like, yeah, well, we dried out to the freezing process. Yeah, I guess. I don't know. Look, that's three idiots trying to fucking figure it out right now on this show. We'll just say it's fucking tight and there's no use resisting it except it. Chris, what's something you think is underrated? Underrated?

I was going to say, well, I asked my roommate for fun. I was like, what's something underrated and overrated? For overrated, she said car wash is overrated. Or no, underrated, she said a car wash. Like a drive-through one? And I said, why? Yeah, drive-to-one. And I said, why?

And she said, because they're fun. That's true. It's like a ride, you know? But you don't really get an experience like that. Yeah. That was all I got. I was going on this podcast where they asked me what's underrated and overrated. She said, underrated car washes because they're fun, overrated,

teaky drinks. And she did not elaborate why. And then she left. I think it's true too. Spot on. Tiki drinks are also like not. Is she running for office? I could really get behind someone with this kind of world view.

Yeah. So, but back to overrated, like, I guess I'll switch, whatever it is now, underrated? Underrated? There's no one to know for sure. Underrated is like, underrated is not being able to say the first thing you said, because you forgot, you went on too long about Bionic Chicken or whatever that YouTube account is. Bionic disco. So, yeah, just back to the antidepressant thing, just in case.

Yeah. Like, if you're on Vibrid, I'm trying V-I-I-B-R-Y-D, and it's got me awake. Like, I'm less likely to take a nap. Oh, yeah. Because sometimes they can make you sleepy. Or, you know, then people need other medication to, like, keep their energy up at the same time. I've been sleeping my whole life. You know, just I've always been, like,

like, I wish I could sneak away and take a nap. Now I'm woke for you're nice. Hell yeah. So, a hybrid. But, like, it does make me awake, but I can't figure out if I'm anxious a little bit from it. And a little bit too, I don't know, a little edgy. But then I can't also, I could be edgy just because I'm not used to being awake.

Yeah. But I'm also crying at, like, stuff that, like, maybe I don't usually cry. Like, I would cry. I was watching last night I watched over and over David Bowie and Annie Lennox's performance of under pressure by Queen at the live aid. And I just kept crying. So I think that's probably, I'm like, I don't know if that's like. Right, right, right. But I'm not sure if Vibert is making me care about that more than I should.

Or maybe it's revealing something deep-seated that you really were moved by Annie Lennox's performance. But no, I am. That felt like a nice cry, right? Yeah. It was incredible. I recommend watching that. Annie Lennox, like, steals the fucking show. I'm all about Annie Lennox lately.

Any Lennox, man, I'll tell you about her later. Underrated. Now, I got another thing later, a piece of media. Okay, yeah, fuck it. Thank you, Miles, for helping you with this format. I've only been on this show 70 times. Seven thousand. I just still can't do it.

I can't unpack this format. I don't understand it at all. Underrated. Annie Lennox. The song, Why? I sang that at my show the other night, and I felt better than I've ever felt my whole life. Wow. Just from singing that song.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, like, that's beautiful. Yeah, and Annie Lennox, like the story of Annie Lennox, which, of course, is the story of this performance on Live Aid is going around on Instagram, which is fucking so annoying. Sometimes you find out stuff that's actually interesting on Instagram, which is just as humiliating as looking at someone in a bikini. It's all humiliating for some reason. Like finding it out through Instagram just ruins it, even if it's a good thing. Like capitalism is bad.

I found it out from Instagram, so I feel worse. But anyway, on Instagram, there was this, like, an interview they showed, I guess from recently with that Channel 2 news guy who interviews the musicians and he's all dead serious. Like it's maybe like CBS this morning or something, you know. And CBS, of course, is a fascist.

It's been taken over. But the music division is still like the same. It's like just some white guy being like, what was it like to work with David Bowie? Right. You know, just like fucking holding his face like totally still after he says that for like 10 minutes. And as if that's like the most important thing going right now is finding out what it's like to work with. What was it like this guy who died? Well, that's only time for.

Yeah. Well, we're going to be doing this. All right. Well, more on that later, Annie. We're going to have to go to a break. So Annie Lennox just told the story of doing that performance at Live Aid. like and uh just it's a great story so look it up i mean the guy who interviews are interviews are is a fucking idiot i mean um but uh because he's like not interested in like the art of it like

he's just kind of asking boilerplate questions or or is it you're like i should have been asking it this is i should have looked this up but he's the guy who does the interviews on i think it's cbs this morning where they have him asked people questions in a dead serious manner and they it's supposed to be a fancy academic he's just a he just a he just Is that Bob Woodward? Bob Woodward? The guys who rolled the Watergate scandal? Better not be.

That would be interesting. Oh, please don't say. That'd be nice. He'd be trying to him. He'd be more aggressive. Hopefully. But anyway, it doesn't matter. Any Lennox, yeah.

She just got this dress because David Bowie was like, what are you going to wear? She's like, I hadn't thought about it. He told her to go to this expensive designer, and she picked this expensive dress that she wouldn't have ever gotten. But she was like, David Bowie told me to. She was like, in awe. She loved David Bowie.

So she was just so thrilled to be doing this show. So David Bowie's like, go get this dress from this designer. Oh, yeah. That's like $8,000 dress. And then she gave herself backstage without telling David Bowie or anybody. She gave herself the makeup from Blade Runner that Daryl Hannah's, you know. Oh, right. Yeah.

So she gave herself the black eyes of, and she said it was modeled on Blade Runner, which was out around then. And she just came out. And she just fucking killed it, like, in a way that's, just so beautiful. And she grabbed David Bowie and like, embraced him and, and, like, put her lips up right against his face. And, like, none of that was planned.

And she was like, I was so nervous to do it, but she's like, this is a once in a lifetime thing. I'm just going to go after it. Like, she's like, I didn't even really plan it. I just grabbed him. And she was rubbing his shoulder. And she had his face right up against his face and saying, under pressure, because that song's also just such an incredible song.

Yeah. And she's saying under pressure. And he's got her lips like right next to his lips. And he's just standing there. straight looking ahead and then they part at the very end and it's just like the crowd goes apeshit for something you're supposed to go ape shit not for uh you know some idiot politicians saying transgender people shouldn't be in sports or whatever i mean it's just like seeing someone cheer for the right shit you know for like yeah a moment of genuine artistic expression

enjoyed by thousands of people simultaneously in a in a in a moment of organic effervescence it's worth watching and any lennox is just a monster artist and I just had never thought about her until recently. I started doing the show and we were trying to figure out songs to play during the show and we decided to do why. And it was my roommate plays keys. So he had it all dialed in so it sounded exactly like the keys on that song. And I was wearing white makeup. I'll get into it later.

But like I sang that with like makeup on wearing like in this crazy show I started. And I got to sing that song dead seriously. And it was just like the most art man still will make you. you forget all about these flying cars, man. And it's like any Linux, man. No, I mean, it's true. That's like the thing about music. Like I also find myself,

I was like moved watching a performance of just like these kids jamming together where like they, it was just like this moment where like they figured out they were making something. Like they had figured out something like together like just jamming. And there was like this spark you can see in their eyes. And I was kind of like, damn, bro, I remember when I was doing that shit all like, that was all I was playing music for was like to chase that feeling.

of like making something with other people and clicking and be like fuck dude we just fucking made magic because we're just out here expressing ourselves on instruments maybe we don't know how to express ourselves the best way in other ways but like when we're in here shit clicks and yeah i totally get that i i do wonder if that's going to be like a byproduct of like all the fucking shittification of society with like AI and like algorithms and all that shit is that more often you're just going to be walking out in public and stumble upon like a true human moment and then just burst into fucking tears, like uncontrollably, you know?

Yeah. Just whether it's like, like, to your, like, whether it's kids doing something completely innocent and human or, you know, like, whatever it is, I do wonder if that's something, because I even feel that every once in one. I'm like, fuck, I'm getting like really choked up right now. Everything feels so synthetic too, you know. Yeah.

You got to get on, uh, creation. Got to get on, uh, Reddit and find out if it's the vibrant or the Annie Lennox. Yeah. It's a new subreddit. That's a subreddit. R. Vibrid or Annie Lennox, you have to go. I couldn't sleep either from the Vibrin at first, like at all. Like, I mean, I didn't just have trouble sleeping.

I couldn't. Yeah. The worst integrated marketing of all times. It's like so inappropriate. Anyway, so I'm just trying. I don't think a pill will fix it. I'm not trying to look for, you know, because I know people are like, maybe you're just need to. Yeah, it's a balance of things for sure.

But I've got, my family's full. people who have problems with their brains. It's a thing about genetics. Sometimes those things are passed down. And they're mostly like, they don't hurt people, the people from my tribe that have problems with their brains,

they usually end up hurting themselves, you know, so I'm trying not to, I'm trying to like, you know, make sure I take care of myself because I want to be here to fight for this, for Annie Lennox over Peter Thiel, you know. Well, I was also reading, too, like there's a lot of people

have been talking about, you know, what's happening with France and like the protests there. And a lot of times people are like, you know, like this older activist was talking about it's like at a certain point, like you have to realize when like the energy is like with younger people and think about like, is it is it as much as like what you're doing with your generation or how your generation sort of synergizes with what younger people are doing to find that thing to keep pushing? Because a lot of people will just be like, oh man, like what do what do I do or whatever? And it's like you might you might have to be out there, like, helping these kids or talking to these kids or just understanding

what their whole perspective is on what they're going after and, like, figuring out how to sort of support that without sort of, like, the sort of framework you might have had from your generation on how change is supposed to come. But it's a very interesting time right now. Right. And also, like, getting to the, getting, finding out or figuring out or thinking about maybe that version of things, even it seems frightening, but maybe being out in the street with a bunch of people half your age will feel better than being in your room scrolling through. Instagram. You know, I mean, so you always feel like whatever is different is going to be bad.

One, just while you mentioned France, this guy named the other Darius put on threads. Someone wrote, why the fuck can't, why the fuck can't America have balls and be like France? And he wrote, they will dead ass blow us the fuck up. Yeah. Well, and I think also, like, there's this, like a lot of the times, I find myself doing it too. Like, we fetishize. We're like, damn, bro, the fucking French, man, they fucking get out there. but also we have to realize too

like when again there's there are certain sparks that occur over people's outrage over how they're oppressed and like knowing when those moments come and how to support that I think is also the name of the game too because it's we're we're fresh are always rioting they rioted about freeze dried coffee

yeah yeah they once they heard about that it makes the fucking coffee taste more like they know what's up they're like what you ban get Ed McMahon's ass fucking now freeze dry coffee is the future I don't fucking think so there goes another belfry. All right, let's take a quick break when we come back. Flying cars that are totally not a distraction from one's own personal failures as an oligarch

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And I'm Lisa Di Giulio, the old one, which means. means we have wildly different references, occasionally different opinions, and at this point in my 50s, I've lived it all. I'm not gonna get anyone fighting. That is wild. I learned that about you today. Now in my 30s, being the founder of new shoes,

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Obviously, I would do what I think I could do to fight the fight, but there's only so much fight I can fight. Don't lie to me. Don't lie to me. Don't lie to me. Don't lie to me. Don't lie to me. Liar.

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Those are the very people who I always say vote against their own economic interest, and they complain about the very thing they're receiving. It's raw. I knew that the issue of transgender athletes was not going well with a lot of black men. Roland Martin unfiltered. I went off, I said, this is exactly what I'm talking about. Y'all going to scream as you. But you don't want to see a black luxury company in the same vein.

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And we're back. Elon Musk, because, you know, he's always in the news, whether it's giving untold hundreds of millions, basically to try and keep the Senate in the hands of the GOP, or maybe recently he was talking about slowing down Starlink in Ukraine. There's all kinds of things going on. He blamed the White House.

He also has a documentary that's coming out that many people are wondering, like, first, will David Ellison, you know, be the leader of, of Paramount Skydance, HBO, Warner, whatever discovery this new fucking conglomerate is, will he actually play Alex Gibney's Musk documentary on HBO because it is an HBO documentary, or will he just back up the oligarch homie and Elon Musk? And then we found out his dad, his dad owns TikTok, Larry Ellison, permanently suspended the Musk account on TikTok. So that was, yeah, just some oligarch news.

And I believe that it was restored after a few people were like, what the fuck are you doing? Again, I think we're going to see more things like this happen and people give bullshit excuses. Like, oh, that was actually like a mistake or something. Just had to reinstate that. Yeah, a lot's happening. But with Elon Musk specifically, he's looking for something to get the Tesla stock going, to get people to believe that he's not just a total liar who has an affinity for doing

Heil Hitler salutes in the middle of America. So now he's given us the new Tesla Roadster, which apparently has space X jets built into them. He did like a whole fucking demonstration where a car basically went up like a fucking half pipe and then used like air jets to completely land itself. So if this one was it's driving up vertically like vertically on a wall, then it's inverted driving up. It's like a half loop.

And then the car, it's, I don't know, it's stupid. It's, you know, to describe this. Like,

this is the music playing. It's just going up a wall, like stuck to a wall. And you're like, oh shit, the future is now. The thing was able to stick to a wall. And here comes the coup de grah.

It goes up the wall. How do you get invited to this? It goes up the ramp, turns around, and then lands with a bunch of, of air brakes. So that is distracting. I will give them that.

That did distract the shit out of me. I don't know what's going on in the world after seeing that. This was at a Tesla at their test facility in Texas. It's the new roadster. It's a two-person sports car that not only can go from zero to 60 in less than a second, so beyond record time, but he said it used suction underneath the car to climb up the steep ramp. hang upside down before spinning, flipping, and using air jets to land was sort of like the technical description from the Tesla people.

It is weird that they made it a two-seater because anyone who would drive something like this has no friends. There's no reason for that extra seat. Or you just, yeah, or that's the only thing. Your entire personality is like, hey, get in my Tesla Roadster. You want to drive up a wall and flip? Yeah. Even before you finish that sentence, no one's going to get in.

because they know you're like a creep. When you said get in my Tesla. Yeah, get in my Tesla. That's the end of that conversation. No, thank you. Are we about to, you know, go do some dirt? I have no fucking clue. Get in my Tesla and allow me to mansplain everything.

So this is actually air suction tanks from Elon Musk's space. You're not going to fucking believe this. He can take me a long. It's going to take me a long time to tell you how this works. Yeah. You don't got anything to do after this, right? Yeah, you just drink that white cloth. All right, good.

All right, so here, let me pull up a video really quick. This is from Jordan Peterson. You're going to fuck this. Hey, come back. I've played the video. Come back. It hasn't even flipped yet. And then he presses the button and the whole fucking roof rips off and they end up in a mud puddle.

He says, this is, I meant swamp. Mud puddle. I like mud puddle. You're not wrong. You know what I mean? Like the way he makes these cars, when he presses the flip button, God knows what's going to happen to the people on that car. Like, I'm surprised that it didn't explode. Again, it's using ultra high,

pressure air tanks, according to him, to move through the air and land on the ground. He says production, it's going to go into production in 2028, which we all know is a fucking lie because everything Elon Musk talks, any Elon Musk talks about, it doesn't come to fruition 99.9% of the time. Roadsters in the mail. At the end of the fucking demo, someone in the audience was like, hey, man, so like, is this car like street legal? Like, is this some shit I'll be able to?

And Elon Musk's response was, yeah, this quote, depends on your street, but it'll be a viable car. And he just like muttered on, like, just kind of under his breath about, yeah, it'll be viable. The Tesla's own. A viable car. I better hope so. It will be sea worthy. What? It's a boat.

Viable car. The roaster product page for like Tesla's own product page, it contains a disclaimer specifying that the vehicle, quote, is not approved for public road use. And that the, quote, rocket model, which is presumably what we saw on the display during the event, is invite only, describing it as, quote, air ready with seating for one. So, Blake, actually to your point. Oh, my God, it's seating for one. Yeah. And the reason is the air tanks that the rocket fucking version used to do like the kickflip over the other cars were occupying the passenger seat space. So it's like it doesn't even, it's going to, it's only going to be one person if you needed to do.

I want to just have a terrible accident in front of a group of on-looking teenagers at a fucking Walmart parking lot. You know, they name cars, you know, like, you know, whatever they are, the Nissan Armada or whatever. Like, there's always new names, you know, more and more dystopian, you know, like the Toyota Destroyer or whatever, you're next to it in traffic, and it's like a 700-foot-truck and you're driving a Honda Fit and you're like. Yeah, I'm in my Honda Fit. Oh, well, I'm in a fucking Mazda fucking, what's the, what's the, it? The Shabby Genghis Khan. Yeah. The name of the roadsters, the name of the Tesla Roosters, the name of the Tesla Roaster is going

to be the male loneliness epidemic. True. I mean, it's definitely shorthand. The rocket version only has one seat. That's so funny. 600 liter pressure capacity. Like the little tanks they use, 600 liter capacity. A total of 250 kilos of air.

That's why there's no passenger seat. Again, the company doesn't care if this is realistic. or even going to work or even legal because they've already begun courting down payments for a massive quarter million dollars for a reservation deposit. Or you can make a $50,000 down payment. That's $5,000 up front and then $45,000 due within 10 days of the first payment. You know, just like, we get it. You're going to have to liquidate your retirement to buy this.

Someone do a documentary where they interview every single person who pre-orders those and it'll be a great documentary. my God, yeah. Like, I need Nathan Fielder to do that. Like the, the fucking, the pre-sale Tesla people. That's a great idea. Well, you know the story, you're probably still going on the thing, but you know about the, you know, that it wasn't, it was hollowed out. You're right, yeah, yeah. No, no, no, I mean, you're still telling the story. So go ahead. Like, I mean, probably, you know, there's really nothing else really to say. Like, just that it was hollowed out. And what I really liked about the story was as a fan of car jumps and a fan of the devil at your heels and

Ken Carter and all that stuff. Like, Carnies came out and we're like, yeah, we've been doing this trick since the 70s. Like this pressurized gas, the whole thing. Oh, interesting. This is a fucking middle of the high school football game stunt show trick. Wait, so what do the Carnies do? They use that to get it more of like velocity and distance, basically. It's the same thing.

They're like, this is the old car flip gag where you use pressurized gas. I mean, it's like a fucking thing that's been done for like, decades by, by, as a, as part of it. Tricksters, yeah. Like, like, you know, like, it'd be like, Elon Musk opens up a fire wallet next. Then it's like, for 80 grand, you're too going to have fire shoot out of your yeah, you're not going to believe this.

You can buy a human cannonball kit, a Tesla human cannonball. All you need is a net, a helmet. Yeah. A complete lack of judgment. You have to be really lonely. You just like the kind of people want the, right. Right. It's definitely like mechanic, like the mechanical Turk in the same way.

That's been around for centuries. We're still doing things where we're saying robots are doing stuff only to find out it's a call center with human beings doing the fucking quote-unquote AI work. But you hear these people who I guess are on like whatever, just like some probably drugs. Like if you go to that demonstration, you know what I mean? You probably take mushrooms or something. I mean, the kind of people who would go to a Tesla like invite only like we're going to show you our new roadster. Every kind of bro who goes to that is going to be like, let's fucking take, you know, let's roll. We're going to be rolling when we see that.

That's going to be awesome. Let's take ecstasy. Let's take whatever. So yeah, you see like a stunt, like a car stunt on ecstasy. Your judgment about it is like, it's magic. Right, right, right. Yeah, sure, sure. Because you're going to be like, no, I was there, man.

And it was way fucking cooler. Like, also, again, tell me how a car that does a fucking hard flip off a fucking vert ramp is in any way helping society in any measurable way outside of just, again, dumb fucking parlor trick for rich people to be like, you want to see my. Again, I just think this is probably. I was just going to lead to some Darwin effect where people are going to be like, yeah, like the first three people to try and flip their cars, they fucking died terribly. Yes. On their tennis court outside.

Yeah. On their tennis court, they're like, listen, let's go out to my tennis court. And I'm going to show you this fucking Tesla flip. And then you see like four charred bodies. Right, right, right. Yeah, yeah. Next to a family is still sitting. The car is fine and still sitting still in a normal position.

The car's laughing. It's like sentiently laughing. We don't even understand how they got burned up. You fucking idiot. What did you fucking think what happened? Carl looks young. Oh, yeah, the car just licked its lips. What is that?

Spider caught a fly. What was that car? Nothing. What was that to a flip, I mean, beep, beep. I mean, now we're getting somewhere. All right, let's also keep talking about. That one down.

Put in the roll of this. Also just want to talk about the, again, And convenient arguments I think we're going to be seeing to justify censorship and voter suppression. Last week we talked about a story how the state of Texas failed to send out around 600,000 ballots to voters. Obviously, this is in the midst of early voting beginning and Texas being one of the, it is based on spend, the most consequential Senate race happening in the U.S. right now. The millions are being poured into the Senate race between Ken Paxton and James Tala Rico. And so having 600,000 people not being able to vote probably helps when we're talking about margins in the maybe tens of thousands potentially. Who knows how close is it's going to be.

But again, their explanation was, oh, is it a glitch in the voter registration portal. That's crazy because we're not trying to fucking obviously suppress votes. This damn glitch in the portal is to blame. So we're getting on it. We're fixing it. And again, they just claimed, oopsie. And hoping that now... Yeah, the glitch in Ukraine.

Same thing. They're like, oh, yeah, I don't know. We don't know why Starlink went down. Crazy. It's just glitches all over, it seems. A similar incident happened over the weekend with the No Kings Rally Instagram account. So there's no Kings of, you know, protests happening across the country this weekend. And it was shut down on Saturday, again, when this, in the midst of this nationwide action happening,

and the administrators of the, you know, No Kings Coalition, they couldn't access the account. for hours. This is what meta had to say was their explanation. Quote, this is again very techno babble bullshit, but it'll make sense on the other side. Quote, our engineering team discovered that the spike that triggered the incorrect enforcement was primarily in the account's reading

behavior, specifically our network security systems detected the use of a clodd tool, AI, reading profiles, posts, and hashtags the rate of which sharply increased in intense bursts. These abrupt high volume sequential requests in a short period resembled automated

bot traffic rather than an ordinary human. This activity caused our automated protections to incorrectly take the No King's Instagram account offline. An automated re-review of the removal action an hour later recognized that shouldn't have happened and restored the account. It unfortunately took an additional time for us to straighten out the situation with admin access to the IG account and we want to reiterate our sincere apology for the error. So we'll just do a new rally then. We'll just reorganize that humongously impressive, coordinated rally now that

the account is back online. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sure, sure. I mean, again, for them, they're just like, whoops, the dang computer glitch. Did that, it, uh, did, it definitely wasn't us, the company that is in bed with the administration, who is the aforementioned king that we are

saying no to. It couldn't be that. It's just a fucking glitch and that's what's happening. We're not trying to roll back people's rights or censor them. Uh, the reason. reasons meta gave, though, for the shutdown don't make much sense to the No Kings people. They said, quote, in the 24 hours before our account was shut down, we posted only a handful of times and live streamed to thousands. Meta's, quote, high frequency excuse doesn't add up.

Beyond shutting down our Instagram, we've received reports that hashtag No Kings and early voting content was inaccessible, restricted, or seemed suppressed across meta platforms. So, yeah, this is. There's so many things in there that could be discussed before we leave, I just want to mention, because you said James Tala Rico, I just want to tell you, like, does anyone else not think that James Talafrico, who thinks there's six genders, makes him sound like the most badass candidate of all time? Yeah, everything that's back. Everything's backfired when they're like, I'm like, holy shit, sign me up for the fucking. I mean, it's also just funny to see them just flailing to be like, I don't know, man.

Let's try and up the attacks that we used in 2024 about like transphobia and be like, but nobody thinks six genders. Nobody thinks six genders sounds bad. That sounds fucking cool. I'm like, and people are like, you know, I'm actually, I'm open to hearing more. Even the Tesla motherfuckers are probably like, listen, I'm ready for fucking six genders, flipping cars. Yeah. We've got a car that goes upside down.

We got six genders. It's 2026 genders, bro. Let's fucking go, James Talafrico. Go. But the thing about that excuse that meta used, it's so funny because they basically admit that if their excuse was true, which it's not, it would still be like an argument against AI because they're like, yeah, AI made it impossible. It broke it and then it made it hard for us to fix it, which is everyone's experience

with AI. Anyway, it's just part of this inevitability argument where they're just like, yeah, well, we can't get rid of AI, even though it's like the whole reason this happened allegedly. I mean, it's just so complicated. I think it allows for the actions of these people like Mark Zuckerberg, so they don't have to be completely painted with the point. I mean, obviously, it's clear to us, but like outwardly, if they go, oh, it was a computer glitch, then it doesn't have to be.

Mark Zuckerberg helps Donald Trump by suppressing no king's rally account on the day of the no king's rally because Trump is the king and doesn't want that kind of information to be spread on the internet that he's basically bought with access to the law. White House. So then it's easy to be like, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a techno glitch. It's some technical stuff. We obviously, it's not us. It's a technology. And to your point, Chris, that means, well, then it sounds like this shit sucks. Yeah. It fucking sucks. And this is the issue with like dependent, because it's not just like a shitty company that is like there aren't impacts that doesn't have impact on people. Like when you have an algorithm that's run by

AI and businesses, like you see like a business account or like a personal account that like people depend on for income get locked out of meta, you know, because an AI bot accident, or say it even was a mistake, which this clearly fucking wasn't. So say even when they're operating at their best, when they're not being devious little fucks and

the algorithm just blows and it isn't good, then a business's account can be shut down. They can't get income from it. You know, and by a business, I mean like a mom and pop. By a business, I mean, you know, like Nabisco. No, like a mom and pop business. By Procter & Gamble. Yeah.

Yes, they're proctor P&G. So, but it is disgusting where it's like, so you have a bad company. They don't treat it with the gravity that it deserves, I think, is what makes me so fucking mad about it. Sure. You built this monster that people fucking depend on. And now you're, you got all the human beings cut out of it who can actually like resolve an issue right away. Why did it take you an hour to get the account back online? Yeah.

You've, it's a bajillion dollar fucking company. just flip a switch, put it back online. I think that's where we have to kind of like took an hour. Yeah, well, I mean, I think that's where like we're fully in this era now where it's like, these people aren't, they don't give a fuck. They're saying everything's become, well, I've created this kingdom where I control social media. And I can now, I can, I have more access to power because I can tell the powers that be, I can fucking flip the switch and get this account gone because I can, I control that part of people's reality right now.

I can freeze your bank accounts. Yeah, exactly. It's not really about, like, are we making the best product? It's how much control can I exert with my business? And how do I leverage that for my own profit, access to power, etc? And I think it's really hard to come, like, look at these people in any other light than that. Yeah. And there's no fucking help either. It's not like, oh, I'm going to call customers. There's no customer service anymore. It's all shit chat bots. Yeah, it's like, hey, just hopefully you'll quit before what, you sue us and then we'll, you know, it'll cost you all this money and legal feet. Like, it's just a fucking total nightmare. Sorry. It's a nightmare. Yeah. Oh, no.

No, it's, I mean, I, I, um, I just can't believe like we're, we're seeing this. I never understand like what the joy is for these people. I mean, I know, I guess, like just the joy of control, but and the joy of control, the joy of the power, you know, that's all. But, but, but I mean, like, oh, I mean, are, do you mean the fans of these people? The fans of these people are just desperately like, that's basically a breath. headline. These people who just want to be close to these people because they just want to be perceived as on their side.

So when they're passing out the food rations, they get some too. I mean, I think, you know, I mean, I don't think they see it that way. They see it themselves as fans, but it's much different. It's much more a dystopian than that. We're not seeing fandom of these people because these people are objectively stealing everyone's livelihood. And if you're a fan of them, you know, you're not thinking straight. But you think you are. You're like, oh, yeah, like, I'm down with this.

I mean, it's just being down. with your oppressor because you just are hoping you'll be the exception. You'll be on the, your name will be on the protective scrolls. They won't freeze your bank account. Your name won't. Yeah. Because it's really like now they can show a picture to a drone and that drone can, you know,

decide whether it wants to fucking shoot you or turn off your bank account or obviously a drone wouldn't have to be involved in turning off your bank account. No, no, they have those drones now. Or give you tickets to the next Metallica concert. We were in here. We had our drone that turns off and on and no king's account. and it was flying around, and we had it set on just fly around, but it went on its own and it shut it off.

And then by the time we got it untangled from a ceiling fan, it just took us a while. So we did get it back on. Yeah. Holy shit. All right. Nice life. You're like, weir,

right. Nice fucking life, you guys have created for us. Yeah. Yeah, we're living in your fucking dumb nightmare. And for yourselves. Like, I mean, that's really, what's the joy in it for anybody? I mean, and you look at Elon Muskies. He's obviously miserable.

I mean, on a top, you pick a lineup of people who's happy and who's miserable. Elon Musk is not happy. Number one at the top. All right, let's take a break. When we come back, let's catch up with some pop culture things because a few things happened. We'll be right back. The music you love. Your favorite radio stations.

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We're two best friends, 22 years apart, but so close. at heart. And I'm Lisa Di Giulio, the old one, which means we have wildly different references, occasionally different opinions, and at this point in my 50s, I've lived it all. I'm not going to get anyone fighting. That is wild. I learned that about you today. Now in my 30s, being the founder of new shoes, good taste is my business, and I've always got something to say. If men were just honest about this, there would be so much more peace in the world. We're going to talk about dating, relationships, beauty, getting older, and a little wiser.

We're best friends, but we don't always agree. Because you told us how accommodating you are. Obviously, I would do what I think I could do to fight the fight, but there's only so much fight I can fight. Don't lie to me. Don't lie to me. Don't lie to me. Don't lie to me. Don't lie to me. Don't lie to me. Liar.

Listen on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I don't really care. Didn't catch the latest Roland Martin unfiltered podcast? Here's what you missed. And the argument is, do you want to win? If you don't win, you have no power. It's real. Those are the very people who I always say vote against their own economic interest

and they complain about the very thing to receive. It's raw. I knew that the issue of transgender athletes was not going well with a lot of black men. Roland Martin Unfiltered. I went off, I said, this is exactly what I'm talking about. Y'all going to scream at Chanel, but you don't want to see a black luxury company in the same vein. Catch Roland Martin's daily commentary on the Black Information Network. 12 seats, those are moving south.

So you Democrats, you don't wait to 2030. You better be hitting the ground going hard in the South now. And download Roland Martin Unfiltered on the IHart Radio app, Apple Podcasts. wherever you get your podcasts. A decade ago, the ethanol kingpin of Iowa became the king of corn in Brazil. So we met with a lot of larger farmers, went from Bahia to Tokatines to Madagroso.

And he brought a team of executives. They were going to help the country get in on a gold rush. Carbon and its derivatives are going to be really the next great commodity that the globe's going to trade. But back home in Iowa, trouble was brewing. If you live in Iowa, your land, your water, and your voice could all be at risk thanks to a man named Bruce Rastetter. Now, people are questioning if his climate solutions have anything to do with climate at all.

You got to give Bruce and the guy's credit. They're Republican kids. They don't give a shit about it. It's now. On this season of Drilled, Carbon Cowboys, the story of how the ethanol kingpin of Iowa became the king of corn in Brazil and what it tells us about the limits of technology and markets to solve the climate crisis. Listen on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Vampires, minotars, 12-foot skeletons, and apartment doors? Believe it or not, we're talking about romance. It's a monster romance extravaganza on Radio 831, a romance podcast.

So join me, Sanjana Basker, and my co-host Tyler McCall as we dive into the strange, horny, and wonderfully thoughtful world of falling for something not quite human. I give Tyler a crash course in monster romance, and the villain edit author Rosie Dannen joins to talk vampires, blood play, and finding tenderness in a monstrous love interest. Then, Sentient Object Romance expert Racy Delgado takes us even deeper into the genre. Finally, I assigned Tyler some homework to read Ciennes Costas Morning Glory Milking Farm. And it's a doozy, but spoiler alert, Tyler emerges ready for more monster tales. Because sometimes non-human romances can tell us the most about our desire, our fantasy, and what we actually want.

Listen to Radio 831, a romance podcast on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. A quick thing I just wanted to point out, Apu from the Simpsons made his first appearance on the show after almost a decade. That was also like, so 2017 was around the time Azaria, we were like, why the fuck is Hank Azari doing Apu's voice in that documentary

from Hari Kondo Balu, really like open the conversation up to be like, uh, what's up, bro? And Azaria since then, he's like, I should not be doing this voice at all. Uh, you know, because I, he said he apologizes, like,

constantly to like South Asian people, Indian Americans he sees because he's like, I'm not, I'm sorry that I created a stereotype that is, he's going to echo into eternity. Um, I should not be doing the role anymore. Um,

so after a nearly a decade, uh, he's returned, uh, being voiced by a voice actor, Sinil Mahalal, Malhotra. and he said, this is what he said too,

about getting the role as quote, when my agent called me about a Simpsons audition, I knew exactly what role it was for, and the idea actually made my stomach sink. But admittedly, part of me was also curious. It had been eight, nine years since Apu had spoken on the show, and it got me thinking, did the writer's room look different now? Could they bring him back in a way that acknowledged

and apologized for past mistakes? Could I make the character my own and reclaim him in some way? And could they achieve all of that in an unmistakably Simpsons way that didn't disappoint fans. He said he didn't want to be the butt of the joke and only would consider the role if you met some of the showrunners and said, quote,

it was the beginning of a deeply collaborative experience that I hope it was equally satisfying for longtime fans of The Simpsons and for other South Asian kids who, like me, stopped watching at some point along the way. I saw, like, a little bit of the episode, and seeing Apu speak again, my first reaction was it sounded like right, like accurate.

It wasn't like this version of Apu. I was like, it kind of was like, Oh, yeah, it sounded like Apu got his groove back or something. Like, it wasn't the kind of thing where I feel like a lot of the sort of dim-witted fans are just like, it's not going to be the same without the white guy doing the voice. That wasn't the experience. That's what I liked about it. Yeah, yeah.

That's the one thing I like. Only reason I watch The Simpsons is to know that Hank Azaria is offending people. That's the whole engine that drives the Simpsons as a creative property. But yeah, it was like, it was interesting. And like the whole, the way the episode unplayed, it was like, he, basically Apu comes back. He's like he becomes a serial killer because he was banished to the island of forgotten garbage,

which has like other Simpsons castoffs like Dr. Nick and also had Leon the character that Michael Jackson voiced in that one episode where he's singing in the song. Oh my God. Like just kind of like lurking in the background and you're like, oh, that's so funny. Shit.

So it was, you know, I think an interesting moment where they kind of acknowledge it. But yeah, Apu is back. I still haven't watched the show with any regularity since maybe season 13 or 14. But I'm glad that it continues because it was a show that brought me a lot of joy, the very least of the kids. Oh, man.

Yeah, those early. It is interesting. Yeah. Like when these comedies show, because obviously comedy can age very, very, very, very, very poorly. And I think I remember,

I haven't seen the episode in forever, but like with South Park, they had the character token, you know, and I think they updated to be like, no, it's token. like, you know, J.R.R. Token, like, we wouldn't have it be a play on the token.

We wouldn't have that. The way they handled it was like, all right, we admitted that we were wrong. We folded it in. You know, like, this is a little bit different, but always sunny. I remember, always sunny. And in our, you know, Miles is obviously from the area in Philadelphia. Yeah, yeah. Totally. Totally. They, when I went back to watch old episodes, like some things were bleeped, but it wasn't like, they would say, so they used maybe like 20 years ago, like the homophobic slur, the F word there. And there was a sentence where they, so they bleep that, but they didn't bleep fuck. And it's like, okay, at least they are showing, it was just an interesting.

I'm not saying that's a good thing or a bad thing. I'm saying it's interesting how. There's some acknowledgement that you don't want to. That's not how. This is the bad word. The bad word is the homophobic term. The bad word's not fuck, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's slurs. There's a difference. It's interesting how shows handle that right around. And finally, before we go, I just want to touch, because in March, when this story came out, I was not talking about it on the show. But I always, I like to know about cryptids, okay? Those mythical creatures that are out there creating an entire industry of content creators. Like, oh my God, dude, you got to cover yourself in Yeti piss and get out there. You might be able to catch a fucking glimpse of this fucker.

That's correct. So in March, it was, the word came out about this new documentary called capturing Bigfoot and how they did find this moment of the famous Robert Patterson film from the late 60s, which is the most iconic depiction, supposed capturing or on film moment of Bigfoot, just truly like walking like fucking John Travolta and Saturday Night Fever. Like he's just like, doesn't seem like how a cryptid cruise is. it looks like he's just like, yeah, bro, what's up, man? I'm kicking it by my creek, bet.

So now that the documentary is out, people have seen some of the, you know, the main thing that kind of debunks the whole sort of myth around this specific piece of footage. And apparently the year before this clip came out, there is some film that is in the documentary that shows like kind of a rehearsal where there's a friend of Robert Patterson's who's doing,

like who walks pretty much exactly like the dopey, big, in that video. Not that I think people needed to know this to know that the video was bullshit, but I think now if, you know, for I'm sure there are many people out there who are the Robert Patterson truthers of that video, probably disappointed today. That is not actually the real thing. So just rest of, I want to put my thoughts in prayers to the Squatch community. Chris, your official thoughts.

Come on now. Wait, I was busy looking up proof of Sasquatch while you were saying all that. So I didn't really hear what you said and you're like case closed. Like that was not long enough. Whatever you just said, Miles, which I was like looking up something. I don't know what it was, but it was not long enough to debunk one of the greatest. One of my real dad is Sasquatch. So you're not going to say whatever these three paragraphs you said while I was Googling one thing,

whatever that was was not enough to just prove that my real dad exists. So what did you say? Nothing. They caught somebody try on an outfit. Like, that's what they say? No, your daddy loves you and your daddy's real. Oh, my God. Not a man in a suit at all.

I've heard about this. There's some, but why they say they caught, they got, somehow they've been sitting on this footage of someone trying on the suit. That's what it is, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And doing like a dry run for that moment. Oh, and just now. What?

Just now? Where is it been? Anyway, that's what I got to say about that. Just now, all of a sudden they found the biggest smoking gun since. I mean, what do you think that does for the Sasquatch community? Like, how many of the. There's good. No, right.

Do a lot of those guys, Chris, like look at, like, point to that film or a lot of those guys even out on that? They're like, no, that ain't the real thing. Like, I'm looking for the real thing. And Chris, feel free to say we when you answer this question. We, no, I just know Chris is up on a lot of stuff like that. Yeah. We are at the center. Of course, I'm talking to you from the mountains of Montana at my center.

Oh, my God. There's so many centers for Bigfoot research, which are just like a trailer with some nut job in it. But I mean, like, I'm fully backing that. Like, get off the grid, you know, and go fucking... Find it. Live your best life, dreaming of your hairy daddy. Start a center. But, no, I think, like, a lot of people think that that video's fake.

And I think it's really funny how many scientists have weighed in and said it's real and how many say it's not real. And, of course, my favorite is the episode of Trailer Park Boys where they have the Sam Squanch. and like they've got um what's his name you know um not is it ricky anyway he's just like explaining why the sam squinch is real because he's like no there's no way anyone's ever walked you can't walk that way like you can't you can't tell no one has ever walked that way and just love that it's so good it's such a brief take down to the entire just like fucking ricky from trail talk that way he just takes away the whole, it makes the entire thing seem absurd.

But like, I think there's a lot of evidence that there are soft squatches. I mean, whatever they are, aside from that film. And I think there is a chance that film's a fake. I mean, it seems like there's a very good chance it's fake. But for some reason, Bob Gimlin, one of the two dudes who lived for a long time and gave a lot of interviews, refused to back off this thing to a point where you just were like, why are you still doing this? Like, the other guy's dead.

you're not making any money. So that was what made it believable. This guy Bob Gimlin refused to take it back. And he was like a pretty believable guy. He was like, he was the more believable guy because the guy who actually, the Patterson, the name Patterson,

that guy seemed like a scam artist. So I mean, like when there's a scam artist, he made a lot of money off of it. When there's a scam artist even close to something like that, you've got to figure it's a scam. But then Bob Gimlin screwed that up because Bob Gimlin was there. It was like, I was there. I'm a guide.

I'm not a fucking Hollywood guy. it was real, you know. I'd be open to seeing an outfit being put on, but I also am like, you know, the impetus or what do you say, the, uh, I guess this is why this, I think this vibrates taking away my words and that's all I have. I do you know, not your words, your precious words. I can I say impetus.

But like the, the incentive, that's the word I was looking for, the incentive to come up with some lost footage at this moment is like, and the ease of which you could fucking just make lost footage with AI or whatever. I would, it's, whatever. I like Bigfoot. I'm a fan. I think, I think I just, it's a fan too.

It gives me hope that, not even hope. It gives me, it gives me realistic, a realistic reminder that even in, like, some part of Canada or like, just the whole of Canada, there's like, I don't know what it is. You know, 250 million acres or something that they've never explored. Right. So it's like, I just think. It's a nice antidote or it's just something that feels good. It's a good standing for the mystery. Where you're just dealing with these other guys fucking saying life is about achievement and productivity and we're about to shift our bodies into robots.

And just check out the flip this car does. Yeah. Humans are just bootloaders for AI and the planet's cooked and all this shit. And it's like, fuck you, you. There's something sincere about that because it's still like even with the cryptid stuff, it's sort of like at its base, it's talking about how our inability to truly understand the next. natural world. And there's something about that versus like these guys like with Tesla would like, we figured everything out. Just car does a flip. And I think that part is like, yeah, cut two, Bigfoot kicking fucking Elon Musk through the fucking uprights. God, God willing. But that's

the thing too is that it doesn't mall anybody. You know, like, I want to live in a world where there is a Sasquatch that isn't just ripping everybody's head off. He's just hanging out, dude. He's just hanging out. He's hairy as hell. He's like us where we're like, dude, I'm swatner. I'm not trying to be fucking bothered by you fucking people, dude. I'm just trying to do my own fucking thing and chill, fucking eat my acorns and shit, eat a couple squirrels, whatever. Look at my gate. Look at how I stroll.

Dude, I got back issues, dude. Do you think I walk this slow because I'm chilling, bro? It's fucking painful, man. Oh, hello, Linda. Are you having fun eating your gorp, Linda? Hello! Can I have some? You selfish fuck?

No one's going to believe this, Linda. Have a nice day. Bye. And sometimes they talk, too. Like, I mean, people say all kinds of stuff. I don't believe they talk. I have, like, rules about Bigfoot. Yeah, yeah, no, they can't talk.

That's a fair rule. There's this thing called the Sierra Sounds if anyone wants to look into it. It's probably the most believable recording of big feet ever playing fast and loose with the plural there. Yeah, yeah, the Nomenclature. But it's a pretty interesting recording of what they say was big beat across the river from these guys camping. And it's called the Sierra Sounds. And it was recorded by this guy named Ron Moorhead. So listen to that shit.

And you'll be able to find, if you go on YouTube and look up Sierra sounds with Ron Moorhead or whatever, not with Ron Morhead. But he became like a celebrity, you know, because I love that. Like Bob Gimlin, you know, just getting interviewed over and over again by people who are just like just desperate for meaning. Did that come out around the time Pet Sounds came out? Or he's like Pet Sounds, dude. Check out Sierra Sounds. In my world, Ron Moorhead, Sierra Sounds is more important than Pet Sounds. That sounds.

Oh, shit. Real quick, the Bigfoot Sierra sounds finally translated by a Navy linguist. Is a YouTube video. Hell yeah. Okay, we're doing that. Well, Chris, thanks so much for joining us on The Daily Zekegeist. Where do the people find you, follow you, and what's the work in media you've been enjoying? Currently, they can find me up in my bedroom sweating.

And that's why I keep tallying my head off. But in general, I have a show now in Nashville. It's live every Monday, and you guys got to come. And I would not normally say that my shows are worth traveling for. I'd say so. But not at least long distances. I'd say I'd drive 45 minutes for a show by me, but I'm not usually recommending. I think people should be flying in for this shit.

In a flipping car. Yes. That's right. So every Monday night at this bar in Nashville called Strego, which is owned by a friend of mine named Matt Bell, and it's a great bar, and he's made it, like, inclusive and fun. and not like just, I don't know, like, good people. They have jazz and poetry and, like, they have, like, a courtyard.

It's just, like, sort of a laid-back. It's, like, LGBTQ-friendly in a big way. And it's just a cool place. And he has this upstairs, like, room that's kind of vibey. I think you're supposed to go up there and make out or whatever, you know, or whatever we're talking about. Sure, sure, sure, sure. They're supposed to.

Yeah. Well, it's, like, set up for, like, kissing, I think. But it's instead. It's like a bunch of little seats facing each other. Instead of it, it's like a couch and shit. It's to go up there and you'd be like, listen, do you like this or whatever? I like that or whatever. Do you know about you paying attention to all the news?

Shut the fuck up. Don't say the news. But it's called the belfry because it's upstairs. So I'm like, I'm booking people that people are like, you know, lucky to get to see them in a small tiny place, you know? And they're basically doing it because there's a favor to me to do it. But it's like, anyway, it's special. It's every Monday.

at 7 o'clock at this bar called Strega. And then besides that, just go listen to Coldbrugami Lake. Boom. Hell yeah. My podcast. Blake, what about you? Where do the people find you, follow you? What's working media you enjoy?

Good God. The people who can find me are all of you and where they can find me is what I've had to say, is I'm doing a little bit of stand-up coming up. November 21st, I'm going to be in Cape Charles, Virginia. November 27th, I'm going to be at Claude's Comedy Club in Philadelphia. Those tickets are on sale. January 15th, I'm going to be an Empire Comedy Club in Portland, Maine.

Those two, I don't know what the fuck I have to do to get those tickets online, but that is not yet happened. Put it in your calendar and then I'll let you know when the tickets are out for the love of fucking God. And then January 16th, the hideout in Boston, I'm going to be there, a piece of media that I've been enjoying. The Info Wars shit

that the Onion is doing is just consuming my life. It's been making me laugh so hard. Yeah. And there's this one video where they have a guy who, I just wasn't familiar with him before. He looks like Steve Bann. And like it's a video where he's doing it. It's like, you know, a like far right conservative style video.

I just dropped the link into the, into the chat. And it is, I've watched. He's like, what is a woman? Yeah. What he's asking a little boy? What is a woman? He's smoking in front of a boy. It's, yeah, yeah.

Fuck. Or my aunt. Or my mom. See, it's not that hard, people. Oh, you know, the more I talk to you, the more I'd vote for you. He's good looking. He's charismatic. He loves guns. He's a triple threat. There's like even a new show with, uh, there's so many good, like new shows that like are really funny.

Like there's, uh, what's the other one? I think Patty Henderson, I think also has a show. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. They've nailed it. It's really impressive. Like, tonally, they've nailed, like satir. critically. Patty, sorry, Patty, I said Henderson. Patty Harrison is on, like, one of the newer ones, too, that's like a tech show that's super funny and absurd. That's just, yeah, they've nailed the vibe of giving you that info worship. And the one with Tim Heidecker, too, that feels very Rogan-esque, where like just stupid people agreeing about the dumbest fucking fake science shit is, it's unsubes. I'm, yeah, I'm down with any Joe Rogan parody, it's like so easy to fucking make him look stupid. Yeah, you should check it out. It's great. Dude, you love it. Yeah. You can find me everywhere at Miles of Gray. I'm talking about 90-day fiancé. I'm 420-day fiancé talking about footie. Soccer on A&Footty with Jamel Johnson.

What else? What else are you going to find me? You said, Miles of Gray. Oh, okay, look, you want to know working media? I encourage everyone to see you can see everything. The Nathan Fielder documentary, it's really a fucking, it's a ride. An amazing one, too. I want to see it.

I'm going to see it as soon as possible. Check it out. It's fucking worth it. It's sold out like crazy in Nashville here. Yeah, even like in L.A., like it was pretty much sold out nearly every show is trying to get into. Yeah, so check that out. That is definitely my piece of media.

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in the episode, as well as a song. I think you might enjoy today's song because we got warm weather. I wanted it to be cooler, but it feels like just pool weather. So that's why we're going to go out on that band, Pool Side, which feels like very 80s, like cocaine pool music. The track's called Kiss You Forever. So, yeah, just get jittery to this one.

Real quick, go to see Ken Russell's The Devils, which is a 1971 film about True Story. But he directed Tommy by The Who, and it's out. It's a director's cut, and it's the most deranged movie and beautiful movie you'll ever see. It's just, I saw it the other night. It's just, anyway, I just had to throw it in because it's out right now. It's called The Devils. It's from 1971. It's remastered and it's fucking, it'll knock you on your ass in a million different ways.

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