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Yeah, I was definitely one of those kids who had import model magazine covers on his school binder. And I drove a Honda Prelude. Oh, my God, you are like the quintessential. Yeah, yeah. Being black and Japanese, I'm like, what do who, what am I? Inside you, there are two dogs. Yeah, exactly. I'm like, do I slam my.

prelude and put it on rims or do I'm like do I just keep this prelude fucking cherry okay yeah that well I put a TV inside the the prelude that was like my one flex inside my Honda prelude but it was I had but it was not connected to anything yeah it was a cathode ray tube TV I just like zip tied to the dashboard but no I had like I remember having like 200 bucks and going to this spot like can I get a screen they're like bruh But, I mean, we could do something really cheap in here. I'm like, I just need to have a screen. I just need.

I need to be able to get by on a technicality that I have the screen in my fucking. But this shit was wild too because it blocked all of my air conditioning levers. So the hot ass L.A. Where was it? It was in the front? Yeah, it was on the front because they're like, dude, if you want us to integrate this in your dashboard, like, that's so much more work. You'd have to take the dashboard out and, like, cut it so, like, fits. I'm like, well, how much just to secure it on there?

He was like, we could drill it in. And I'm like, yeah, bro, I'm like, I'm like 18. I have nothing. Just please do that. And so I would have to like reach my hand behind the screen to turn the fucking AC on his shit. And when I was on a date, that was not a flex. No.

Yeah. Especially the way you're curling up your hand. They're like, oh, you have a TV? I'm like, yeah, that's a TV right there. Yeah. And they're like, I know. Oh, yeah. You guessed right.

I've ever seen Pimp your ride? Can you turn the AC on? I'm like, yeah, hold on one second. I'll scratches the back of my hand because I think it's so hot. Sometimes it does burst into flames. Do you mind if I can't get the thing where it cycles the air to make it colder? Just because it's really, I'm going to scratch my finger. I don't like that.

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9925, it's National Wiener Schnitzel Day, but not Wiener Schnitzel, I believe. This is the actual dish from Austria that gave way to the terrible hamburger chili dog or hot dog chain that we have to get there. I love that chain. No. Look, Kyla, I know. I love it too. Those chili dogs did a number on me. But every time I eat another hot dog, I'm like, wait, Wiener Schnitzel is bad, I think.

No, it's like the Taco Bell of hot dog. Like, it's fake, but it's its own dog. Wow, I never even thought about that. That's actually a better way for me to process that. It's also care bears, share your care day. Jack, I always think of you when I see this National Ants on a Log Day because I never, you know, immigrant mom never made. Culinary ambitions. Never made ants on a log for me.

But when I first heard of it, I'm like, what the hell is this? Okay. Is that a white person thing? Exclusively, I wonder. Yeah, celery with the peanut butter and then putting raisins on top. May raisins and shit, I feel like is a real white person. White coated, white coated, yeah, for sure. What about, what about, have you tried putting some raisins in it?

Oh, on this sandwich? No. Roast beef, roast beef and raisin on rye. Anyways, I was just talking about the origin, whether the word weiner first applied to hot dogs or dogs this morning with my seven-year-old. Wow, interesting. Yeah, and who knew? Did you get to the bottom of it? I didn't.

That's one of those things Because isn't it like Ween is like the town that it's from In Austria like Vienna Vien And then whatever That makes sense They don't make me get all

Saw the dog and we're like That looks like the food As opposed to them seeing the food And being like that looks like a dog And still choosing to eat it Which is kind of it would be kind of gross But They really are adamant

Of comparing that specific food to dogs One way or another Whether it be a wean calling it a hot dog. Anyways, my name is Jack O'Brien, a.k. My kids can't stop reading Wings of Fire. And they talk, talk, talk about their desire to watch, watch, Wings of Fire, Wings of Fire.

That one, courtesy of Snarfula on the Discord, who said my daughter's ages 9-11 are obsessed. Yeah, this is a book series my kids are obsessed with called Wings of Fire. and they make me check every day to find out if there is a show coming. The book is basically, it answers the question, what if instead of like there being humans in Game of Thrones, it was just dragons having like political intrigue and like killing each other is my sense. I don't read it.

This is not one that I read to them, but that's the sense I'm picking up. But I do have an update that after Netflix scrapped the development, and Amazon Prime has stepped in and just named a showrunner. Oh, wow. Who I've never heard of. Don't tell your kids that, though. They don't realize how slow what that means. They're like, so tomorrow.

You're like, no, no, no, no. Maybe two years. They're asking me how many days until Christmas, like on a daily basis. I have the count. Yeah. Do you have a countdown calendar? Not basically. It's a lot of a countdown timer.

Yeah, yeah. I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host. Mr. Miles Greggie. Hey, is Miles Greig, the Lord of Lancersome, I'm the showgun with no gun here to just, you know, talk about the news. Thanks for having me. I did not get a chance to really look through the AKAs. So I had to go with the classic.

I'm here. The classics, the showgun with no gun. Hey, maybe they'll make a streaming series about you on Netflix. They might, they might, they might. Yeah. Miles, we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a very talented writer who's written for the L.A. Times, Rolling Stone, the New York Times. You know, little small publications like that.

Her new book is fetishized, A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism and Beauty. Out in the world now, go by it. It's a great read. Super fascinating. Please welcome. Kyla! Yeah! Kyla!

Oh, that's such amazing opening. I was like, I need to think of a better opening introduction for myself, like a dramatic one you guys have. You can bring me wherever you're going. I'd have to just, like, be my hype man behind me. Yeah, exactly. I do try and bring a boom box wherever. Oh, that would be a big. amazing, like on your shoulder.

Yeah, exactly. Thank you for joining us. Yeah, thanks so much for having me. Now, is that, like, huge relief? Yeah. I mean, I actually got really depressed the next day. There's a thing called postpartum book publication because I went and looked online and there's a ton of articles about it.

A lot of build up and then much like having a kid, you're just like, oh, this is it. Yeah. What the fuck? My life hasn't changed overnight. That's pretty much the reaction. I mean, it's like the same thing, I think, with, like, working on political campaigns, too. That happens to people the day after election day, because everything is leading up to one day. And then you get on the other side of it and you're like, what?

Wait, but can you imagine you're on the losing side? Because if you're on the winning side, then you could be depressed, but at least we won. Yeah, but even on the winning side, you're kind of like, oh, man, I like, I like didn't talk to anyone the last two months to just get through this election or whatever. but yeah yeah yeah yeah the book is really amazing kaila jack and i are reading it over the weekend and like i was talking another in each other's lap taking turns because jack doesn't jack doesn't know about the inland empire he doesn't know about what's up in the sand gate real malice where are you from i'm from all over the east coast and midwest nobody outside of cal people in california don't even know about the inland empire no it was a fascinating learning

experience i want to learn about the inland empire i know i had to explain him what to watch Gangs, who watching gangsters were, you know what I mean? These are all very SoCal things. That's like, that's a SoCal Asian exclusively. Yeah, yeah. Not Asian knows. That's what I loved about the book. I mean, aside from like your very specific experiences, like, you know, just dealing with,

you know, the sort of gender expectations and beauty standards that come along with being not white in America. But like this stuff about just growing up in Southern California and just a little deep tails that you put in that were, I'm like, it might not be for everyone, but every single like high school is like Edewanda. Go on. Pascienda Heights. Go on. It was like hitting my brain. I was like watching. It was. It was a special time, right? I feel like all the people from that air are very nostalgic about it. Yeah. That's why you can sell one of those hondas for a hundred thousand dollars. I made me wish my, yeah. And then like working as an import model, like you've had such just, just you're, you've

touched every experience. It's a really fascinating book, and I think people should definitely check it out, especially for the obscure esoteric Asian gang references, too. I was thinking, and if you want to know everything about the import scene, which no one's ever heard of either. Yeah, right. Yeah, you learn a lot about parts of the world you might not be familiar with, and you also get incisive analysis of The Little Mermaid, so very, which I always appreciate. Yeah, I was just in Copenhagen looking at that statue. It's really underwhelming. Really? Yeah. Well, like, so many people are like, we're going to go see it.

And you're like, it's tiny, y'all. It's not like some Disney park. Yeah. No, it nearly is. Oh, really? I'm joking. Yeah, yeah, no, it's not even like. No, I think American people, they're like, little mermaid statue.

And they go. And they're like, what is this like art piece? You know what I mean? At the shore of the water. Yeah, the one thing that also really touched my brain was too, is like sort of, I think this happens, especially with, kids of color in America, especially in the late 80s and 90s, like, who do I model my life after on TV? Like, I don't have an example. And like, especially for me being black and

Japanese, like, there was certainly no like black and ease person for me to look up to. So I'd be like, so you can do karate man or you can do basketball gangster and like trying to figure out like sort of parsing through all those things and like trying to land on who you are and what, you know, like, it's like, am I who I am I this version of like, who do I select from, from the available, like, characters on TV? So who did you choose? I was like a combination of, like, Will Smith. I was mostly like Will Smith.

I think Will Smith was like, because I was like, I wasn't fooling myself. I wasn't a tough guy. So I was never like trying to put on some like tough kid persona. You weren't trying to get into watching. No, they wouldn't have me. You know, they should be like you might, you look like maybe you would be an STS, the Filipino gang. they weren't they were having me watching um but yeah like i was just like just all of these

things it's it's interesting just to see how you know universal that kind of experience it especially for like kids of immigrants or just you know like non-white kids in the u.s so um yeah just all over just really really fun read um aside from just like the very serious stuff too which i thought was really poignant yeah just all the ways that you know the gap between your like your existence as a human being with an inner life and then the way often white men will talk to you.

Oh, have you heard of the Asian fetish being a white man? Yeah, I have heard that. My wife is Korean actually. Oh, yeah. Just kidding, just kidding. Kyla talked to this man now. I've been there for many,

where are you from from questions? Oh, when you've witnessed it? Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, it's so cringy. Okay, so I have a friend of, friend who is married to a Korean woman also, and she's the first Asian he's ever dated. He definitely doesn't have an Asian fetish. And he's like, he gets like little remarks here and there, like, questions.

Like, oh, do you have an Asian? You know, like, I know. Yeah. I'm sure you probably get nudged by other pervert dudes who are like, hey, man. Hey, man. And you're like, what? My fucking wife I'm in love with since I was like a young man? No.

Yeah. It is. Yeah. It's, I mean, I think about it too. Like, I have, like, you know, my friends who are Asian women, they talk about how, like, you know, how much you have to really kind of have your head on a swivel a lot of times because dudes will just are purely there to be like, Asian, right? Okay. In that voice, too. Yeah, or like, or she'll be, like, I have one home girl.

She's like this second. She's like, I'll go on a date this. If the guy says Asian anything, I'm off this. Like, I'm not even trying to hear it. My wife literally had a policy of, like, she didn't really date people who had dated Asian women before. Same. Yeah, I don't want that to be your thing. I don't want to be, like, part of your thing for Asian women, you know?

Yeah, it just feels like not special. Yeah. Yeah. And she had hurt, like, she was like, yeah. And then sometimes they'll be like, oh, it's just like being into blondes. And I'm like, not really. But it was funny because as I was like talking to her about. the book, like all these conversations that she had had were coming up. So, yeah, super fascinating.

Yeah, some men are very weird, like the things they feel I'm very comfortable saying. Yeah, right. Yes. Yeah, they live in a consequence-free world. That's right. All right. Well, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell the listeners a couple of stories we're talking about. We're going to talk about Mike Johnson walking back his claim that Trump is like an undercover agent. for taking down Jeffrey Epstein? Like, he was going under cover as a pedophile. And that's why he might be in those files so much. We'll talk about Eric Adams.

We'll talk about women going to Turkey for limb shortening procedures. All of that, plenty more. But first, Kylo, we do like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Well, okay, my searches are pretty boring. But the most recent one, because I went scuba diving yesterday, is just Catalina boat dives versus shore dives. I mean, that's super. Don't ask me that.

I'm so boring. I just went scuba diving yesterday. It's like such an interesting hobby. It's very obscure, I feel. It's cool, though. A lot of people like get claustrophobic, which is weird. It makes sense, but weird. though, right? Because the ocean is vast. Right, right. It's because you can't get out. I mean,

I, when I did, it took me a second. I went scuba diving for the first time a few years ago. And trusting to breathe at that pace, I think was like the biggest thing I had to really stay like mindful of. Because I wanted to kind of like naturally, you kind of want to start hyperventilating or something. Like this is how I breathe like how the phone. I'm supposed to do this. Am I breathing? It's like when I smoke pot. Am I breathing normal? Is this how it's supposed to? That was like super, super difficult for me. But yeah, do you scuba dive a lot? I love it.

But it sounds like you're a lot of people just don't like it after they experience. I got into it. Like once I found my zone, then I'm like, this is dope. Because there is something really amazing about like being at the, on the floor of the ocean. It's magical. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'm meditated, if I would say. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And like, I saw a turtle and I'm like, yeah, man. This shit wasn't so expensive to do. Maybe I'd do it a lot more. I love snorkeling, but yeah, that just feel, because you're on the surface, like, or near the surface. So that just feels like you're flying. But, yeah, that's interesting of, like, feeling claustrophobic, like, further down, I guess. Because you can't go. I mean, you have nowhere to go.

Yeah, truly. I mean, if that's in your mind, you're like, I have nowhere to go, quote, unquote. It's like, you've got the whole ocean to go to. Just, I've got a bad mind. So I feel like it would be. I feel like that's exactly where my mind would go. Yeah, there's a lot to get paranoid about you on there. So you have to not be paranoid person.

Yeah. And so shore dive or boat dive better? Boat dive because there's like a marine park in, you know, you can see these giant black sea basses in California that are as big as you are. Yeah. What? It's fucking huge. It's insane and not everybody knows about it. They just look like normal fish, but they're the size of a human being.

They're fucking crazy. They happen at the California Science Center, too. Oh, they do? Okay, so they're protected. So you can see them in this marine park. So shore dives, there's just, like, prounds of people. But if you go out on a boat, it's like just you and your group. Yeah, so better.

Wow. Okay, okay. Yeah, that makes sense. I've caught them before. They're fucking... Wait, a giant sea bass? Not that size, but like a sea bass that... I caught a fish.

It was a rainbow trout. Yeah, I was used to, like, bass being a thing, like a freshwater thing. I went, like, deep sea fishing and caught sea bass, and they're like, they weren't the size of me, but they're like massive fish that are fucking so heavy and hard to pull up. They're protected, though, right? Or did you take it? I'm pretty sure they're protected. It was sea bass, and it was like late 90s. Oh, okay.

So, on the pre-laws. You're breaking the law. We're doing a lot of things that we weren't supposed to do back then. Yeah. Insider trading, insurance fraud. catching an illegal fish. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure, right. Wow.

That's through it back. All right, who am I in trial here? I'm so bad at fishing. Like, even when I go on those things or they basically, like, do everything for you. For you? Bro, never catch anything. You pick up the rod and it immediately goes off.

Yeah, yeah. It's like, you're like, no more fishing line. They're like, what happened? I'm like, where'd the fishing line go? He's like, what the fuck? I just let it go. 3,000 feet of that shit on there. What is something you think is underrated?

Well, I don't know if that has to be pop culture, but I'd say Taiwan because I'm from there. And like people are so obsessed with going to Japan, but like Taiwan's way cheaper, has like comparable food and is like a Tokyo wannabe. So you get the vibes. I want to go to Taiwan so bad. Oh, really? I love, because it's so, you know, the one of the things I did it for me was I saw the, like, a photo of the trains and I was like, this is exactly like in Japan. I was like, for a second, I was like this, at least the train car looked the same. But yeah, the food, I think, because especially right now in like L.A, I feel like there's a huge boom in like Taiwanese food being like the new kind of like Asian food that people are really into. So yeah. It's funny. Yeah. Because Japan occupied Taiwan for the period of time. And the Taiwanese were kind of like, we like it. Versus like South Koreans who are like, oh, we hate the Japanese.

So I don't know why the Taiwanese took to it semi favorably. Yeah, right. I'm like, usually colonialism, imperialism doesn't go down well with people. But yeah, I mean, what's their fucking problem? Yeah. But we hate China. Yeah. And that's why America loves Taiwan, doesn't they?

Don't they? No, we have all the chips. We have all the chips. So you cannot lose Taiwan. You better protect Taiwan. And I read about how, you know, like there's there are protocols in place to be like, if somebody, if they pull up, the whole chip industry is gone. Like, no one's having it.

Like, do you want China to have a hold of all the chips, you know, the micro, whatever chips? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Very, very, very rational way of geopolitics that we have in this world. What is something you think is overrated? Paris. I'm like tired of hearing everybody want to go to Paris. Like I thought it was okay. Did you go recently?

I've been like a couple of times. But yeah, it's been a couple of years. I would never pay to go there. I feel like I'm going to get like docks for that. To like, how dare you see? The Emily and Paris fans, yeah. Oh, I mean, that's not even a real depiction of Earth. Yeah, I know.

I know. The French are offended by that TV show. Wait, then what's your favorite place to go to? Bora Bora. Oh, shit. But that's like the ultimate diving destination. That's why. Oh, you are really out here diving, huh?

I really do like to dive, yeah. Wow. Okay. Yeah, I was like, yes, the beaches. You're like, no, the marine life. And I'm like, oh, yeah, yeah, that too. That too, that too. You're like, the luxury.

Yeah, Bora, of course. Yeah, and the scuba diving in Paris not quite as good, I've heard. No, awful there, yeah. Yeah, it's kind of nasty. Notes for Paris, just like, one note. What does Paris need to work on? One note. Let's get one note to fix everything.

I just think it's like a city. Like, why are people glamorizing the city? Okay, there's like some cool architecture. There's some cool architecture in London. And, like, I'm super not impressed with London either. The French could be nicer to Americans, you know, because we're fake nice to them. We're fake nice to them when they come here. Yeah, right.

I've always had the experience that I think I'm girding myself for like being just treated like absolute dog shit. And then everyone's like, yeah, okay. Like they're not so mean. Maybe because I'm so obsequious. Just like, uh, uh, you're like, they're like, they're submissive. Yeah. They're just like, they're unguessive. comfortable and want to get me out of there as soon as possible. So they're just like, I don't

know, man, just do it. Be nice to this person. Yeah. Really good croissants, though, yeah. Yeah, the croissants are as advertised. Great croissants, be nicer to me when I try and talk my terrible version of French. I'm trying to. Thank you. I think if you at least try to speak French, they like the effort, because I think that a lot of Americans don't even bother. They're like speaking to them in English. I feel like most of my friends who will go, and they're like, I tried speaking and they go, I speak English. And they're like, okay. They're like, they'll be like, and thank you for trying, but now we can do this transaction. This is for you more than it is for me. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk about the news. We'll be right

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But the whole pretending and code, you know, it takes a toll on you. Listen to the new season of Grasas Has Come Again as part of My Cultura Podcast Network on the IHartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. and we're back we're back and big big news at the end of last week that i don't know why we weren't treating with more reverence i mean this is huge uh obviously don't trump has been wanting to get this epstein story behind him and then at the end of last week mike johnson was he speaker Speaker of the dang house Yes he is speaker

The dang house Come out say Trump The only reason he's in All those pictures And constantly Hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein Was he was secretly

Undercover dude And like I didn't want to say anything Because it might blow up his spot But yeah man He was He was secretly an FBI informant. This quote who helped take down

Jeffrey Epstein. I'll play this quote because it's the first of all, the speed at which Mike Johnson is talking should already be concerning. Because he is of course he thinks he's because again, the reason he gets to it is because someone says like

Donald Trump keeps calling this whole thing a hoax and Mike Johnson has been trying to walk the line. He's like, of course the crimes are not a hoax. It's the attention that people are giving it's like he it's really hard needle for him to thread uh but this is him speaking on that and yes which he does basically let everyone know that trump is a fed informant but trump called it a hoax yesterday what trump is referring to is the hoax that the democrats are

using to try to attack him he has never said or suggested or implied i've talked to him about this many times, many times. He is horrified. It's been misrepresented. He's not saying that what Epstein did is a hoax. It's a terrible, unspeakable evil. He believes that himself. When he first heard the rumor, he kicked him out of Mar-a-Lago.

He was an FBI informant to try to take this stuff down. What? Oh. I'm sorry. He kicked him out of Mar-Lago. He's trying to use the FBI informer. Can't take the stuff down. Just one more time.

Unspeakable evil. He believes that himself. When he first tried him. of the rumor. He kicked him out of Marilago. He was an FBI informant to try to take this stuff down. The president knows and has great sympathy for the women. I mean, what is he really said he's an FBI informant who's trying to take this thing down, man? What a terrible, terrible bit of improv from Mike Johnson there that only, if he didn't even say that, there wouldn't be headlines. But the fact that he insisted that he's an FBI informant says a few things. I think I've seen enough TV shows to know that when you're an informant,

it's usually because you're inside the criminal organization and then you get caught up in some shit. And then the feds go, all right, here's a deal. You're going to turn informant. And we're going to give you more of a lenient. Yeah. You're going to flip on them. It's not, snitches don't get snitches because they're whistleblowers at a, like, at a restaurant. They're talking about it's like, because you was down with the whole thing.

thing, how dare you? So a very, very odd defense because I think they're still trying, I think they have to figure out a way how they explain why Trump is in these documents, why he's named. So I guess they were like all the fuck over them. Yeah. So all over the place. So obviously, I mean, he, he's the speaker of the house. You have to assume this was cleared. Like, this is a new strategy, right? Where like the Trump administration is rolling it out. Yeah. Except not at all. Like, they immediately were like, whoa. Yeah.

Actually, they tried to walk it back. They claimed that what he meant was that Trump kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago. Right. That was the thing he said before, right before he said, he was an FBI informant. He kicked him out of Mar-a-Lago. He's an FBI informant. What he meant was not that part. You didn't, let's just pretend you didn't hear the part where he said he's

FBI informant. I, again, I don't know why, where he thought this was good. I don't know if maybe they did. They're like, maybe try that. Just see if people laugh at you if you say that immediately. And the fact that everyone on the internet was like, what the fuck is that? That now it's like, no, no, no, that's not what I meant at all when I literally used the words. He was an FBI informant trying to take this whole thing down.

Okay. Well, I think back to the drawing board for them. Yeah. They just have that difficulty of, like, he keeps doing things that would suggest that he's heavily implicated in this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, man. That's like, that would be so funny. It's like you get caught with, like, cigarettes or something in high school.

And mom's like, what are these cigarettes? You're like, mom, I'm more informed me. Fuck. You look around you to make sure. The principal was like, go hang out with these kids and figure out who's smoking the cigarettes and then take this thing down from the inside. That's what I was trying to do, mother. But does anyone actually believe him? Like, everybody knows he was heavily, like, best friends with him, right?

I think it's like so, it's in such a state where they're desperate for anything, you know, that they're truly just like say it because next week, they'll just add it to the list of the crazy things we've said that we're trying to just sort of like warm our way out of this, which is just really absurd at this point. Because, again, all of his behaviors indicate someone who is terribly implicated or, for whatever reason, expending a lot of energy to protect someone. So either way, it's not a great look. This is the Q theory of the case because for his entire first administration, Q&ON was like, what could possibly explain that he's the president who we all think is like there to take? take down a cabal of, you know, Democratic perverts, and he's not doing it. And so the theory was that he is, like, working undercover as the president to take, like, you know,

spin this web to, like, catch everybody. And, like, one day he was just going to, like, everybody's going to wake up and he was going to have, you know, Hillary Clinton, the Clintons and Obama, like, you know, up against a wall, you know, because he's actually just been gathering evidence. The fact that he hasn't leaned, like, this does make me think, if he had just leaned into that and been like, sorry, guys, I can't, can't let you know, classified information.

Like the, uh, like the predator from True Lies, the Bill, uh, oh, Bill Paxton. Paxton character. Yeah. Who's just like, sorry, babe, this is top secret information. You're just going to have to trust me and have sex with me. No, you're a lying used car salesman is what you are. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's kind of the vibe that I'm getting here.

Honestly, he may at this point because we've seen, go with this. We've seen everything. And it's, I don't know, I mean, like, that's like the one thing that the, like, media should keep putting constant attention on, aside from all the fascistic nonsense he's doing, like, sort of like implying that he was going to napalm, Chicago maybe, with that Apocalypse Now reference. I'm not sure what part of the Apocalypse Now reference he was trying to get with that truth social post. Again, this is being blown out of context. Okay. What the president meant was obviously he cares very much about Chicago. Yeah.

And he's just a fan of that movie. He's not declaring war on a U.S. city. He just used that they're going to find out what war is in a— Department of War. A roundabout kind of way. So, yeah. Yeah, Mike Johnson, I would say work on the improv skills a bit, but you might as well just, you know, transparency is really the best thing at this point, rather than just kind of continuing to just string, like string everybody along. But I think they just don't know what to, I think they know, like, they're probably looking at like, okay, so it's got, if we get to the point where we release it, we have to explain why Donald Trump's name is there or why it's redacted or why it's implied.

so we need a way to explain that. And that's, I think we're seeing them audition a bunch of nonsense. Yeah, the soft launch of that theory that they're going to go with presumably. He's Donnie Brasco, dude. Donnie Trump is Donnie Brasco, I guess. That's right. But yeah, they recruited him. Yeah, it wasn't like because he was already best friends with Jeffrey Epstein.

They recruited him and asked him to befriend this. guy to make sure the white house the white house may be calling you soon i'm just saying if you got any more ideas couldn't be more obvious yeah and he was undercover so he had to partake of all the women basically look that's where it's going to get weird yeah i don't know have you ever seen a movie with like an undercover agent where they like cut the drugs and they're like do that line or i'm gonna put a bullet in your head yeah he had to do what he had to do you know that's they're probably going to say some shit like he's method he's a method actor yeah yeah exactly there's like this wasn't even an acting role uh he's an he's an fbi method actor informant dude sent from heaven okay that's

right an angel thank you yeah a lot of people were touched by an angel unfortunately great show great show one of the best uh real quick the trump administration is terrified of uh zora mom dani and they appear to be trying to conspire with Eric Adams to get him out of the race so that Cuomo can consolidate the anti-Zoran vote. And so he was reportedly offered the job to be ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Just the most corrupt thing, like seeming job. That sounds like an insult to say ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Yeah, exactly. It's like, what are you, the ambassador to Saudi Arabia? And you're like,

the most corrupt, vile person? Whose job is just like being open to corruption? All right, there we go. That's the gig for him. And then after this news spread, Eric Adams held a press conference and insisted that he's staying in the mayor's race

wouldn't comment on the ambassador job, though. Yeah, I don't do you think the sitting mayor, like that's the thing. I don't know where his ego at like does he really drop out because he's like whatever i'm protected now i'll be the ambassador to saudi arabia or is he really going to be like no i really got a shot at this i could be the i could be the man new york one more time uh but it sounds like everybody is probably is like trying to induce him dropping out of the race so everyone can get behind quomo which god i feel like

probably does eric adam i wonder if eric adam is he polling better than quomo i don't think so i think he's pulling worse than Cuomo, but he has, like, he's been dropping, like, anti-Quomo memes all over social media and stuff. So, like, I'm assuming they're going to ask him to drop out and endorse Cuomo, which will be interesting. I mean, it would almost suggest that he's a bit of a wide, bit of two-faced, if you know what I'm saying, a hypocrite, which I don't think people are ready to learn about Eric Adams. The thing with New York for me, it's too much of a city when I think of it. It's such a city when I visited. I'm not really interested in it at

all. It kind of reminds me of Paris. It's like, yeah. Too city-ish. I'd rather be scuba diving in the Hudson. That's right. The East River. I've yet to do the East River, though. I'm hearing great things around this time. Oh, my God. Did you imagine? Yeah. Yeah, the one, probably

amongst other corpses, probably. Yeah. They'd be like, oh, you went down there? I'm like, yeah, that was the only people who have ever. Scooby-dived in there. We're looking for corpses. They're part of a team. YDD.

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We're back. And so apparently Turkey, you know, hot spot for men getting new hairlines. Oh, yeah. Do they do the leg lengthening surgeries? I think they do it all. They do it all. Just one stop shop. Yeah.

But now there's a new one where people are going to get their limbs shortened in turkey. Specifically women. So we've seen over the last few years like a surge in men that have traveled abroad to get like the extendo piece put on your femur so you can finally be, you know, however tall you need to be to feel good about yourself. I get it. We live in a terrible society. But that same toxicity seems to be also affecting women because there are more and more

reports of people going to Turkey now to, again, like take down their height a few inches. Oh, well, really? Yeah. Where, again, it's the same terrible procedure where like your femur or tibia is like, like they take bone off of your most significant bone in your body and then secure it with a metal rod and you know uh one woman reportedly went from a hundred like five seven in three quarters almost five eight to five six um isn't that why would you want to be shorter than five seven i just trying to be an astronaut with the in in this like there's there's a daily mail

article and a vice article about it and like the daily male one is kind of more like you know because some where it's a little hard out there being a tall woman. That's not a tall, I mean, a tall woman is like 5-7? I'm like, it's 5.6 average? Yeah, like, if I had to guess, if I had to guess, I think they're in a relationship and the man is too scared to get the leg lengthening.

And so he's like, the only other option here, I need to bring, I need you to bring it down by a couple inches so that I don't look the same height as you. That is the most man. shit to do. It's like, I'm afraid to do that. It would hurt. I don't want to get a vasectomy. You know how I have a fear of surgery. I'm not going to get a vasectomy. You do the thing. I don't want it. I don't want leg lengthening. You should be shorter. You're a freakish 5, 7 and 3 quarters. What are we fucking talking about? They do have like, there's the like some literature like advertisements where

the clinics that are doing the surgeries have like a whole package where you can go for this procedure. So like, like this, this makes sense with like medical tourism where it's like you go and while you're recovering, like the hotels are cheaper. There's entertainment at all and it all ends up being cheaper than just buying asthma medication in the U.S. Still doesn't make sense to me. If you're going to get a leg lengthening or shortening, wouldn't you want to add like five inches, you know, not one inch? I think this is where like they're, I think in the early days, they're probably dialing in how much they can add before the recovery is just. completely untenable. But one inch is not worth any, like, no. No. No, no. But they're like,

there are dudes where I went from five, six to five, nine. Like I've seen like those kinds of posts. But then the recovery is like six months in bed, right? Oh, yeah. You are your wheelchair bound, like the physical therapy to like retrain your body's new leg length. It's, it's really fucked up. And then there's all kinds of risks involved, like nerve damage. But, bone infections, like fractures that don't heal properly. Phone infections, fuck. Yeah. And also, like, the rods that reinforce your height in either direction,

they have, like, a specific, like, weight load, like a limit that they can carry. So, like, you have to, like, you have to be mindful of all these things. Like, it's, it's not just as simple as, like, I went in, I had a, like, arcane surgery where my legs were broken and, like, lengthened. But I also now have to be mindful of the load capacity of these metal rods that reinforce my leg. So beyond that, though, like beyond, okay, so you stand up and try to walk after you're done healing and you walk like Vincent and Offrey, men in black. You have a weight limit like, like a airplane where like if you if you overpack a bag by like 10 pounds, your legs just like break when you try and pick them up. They say to start, even to be considered, you have to weigh under 165. pounds okay but it's not a weight limit that you can hold like it's a weight limit of like i mean

do you know what i mean like oh oh like on top the stress you're putting on your body yeah if you try to pick up something that's too heavy is there a chance that it's just like oh damn you just got three inches shorter yeah like you go to cost you go to costco and you got to bring in a bunch of cans and shit they're like i got all the seltzers and then like oh god no it's it's but besides those risks like what are the downsides i don't even get like what What's everybody complaining about? This sounds awesome. That sounds so good.

Oh, my, it sounds horrific. It's interesting, too, because, like, Kylie, you talk about in your book, too, about, like, metaphorically shrinking ourselves, right? Making ourselves smaller, like, to sort of conform to society on things. Like, this is now, we're talking to the literal level of, like, I'm going to become smaller through surgery now. It's really wild, wild era we're in. I really want to know the motivation against, for the,

women. If you're like a 6-3 woman, then I can see, oh, it's difficult to find, you know, my selection if you're looking for a taller guy is smaller, yeah. But if you're 5-7, you still have, like, tons of options. I mean, also, like, you could just go to another country where like, that is the average height. Right. I was, like, in Scandinavia and I was with Her Majesty, my wife, she's, she's short.

She's like 5'1. And we were laughing. We're like, I don't have seen a single lady that's a smallest. You know, the ones that are not from, are not Scandinavian. Everybody was walking around like five, eight and shit. I was like, God, damn, which makes sense. I mean, like, hey, just go. Maybe we're in the wrong place.

But yeah, this is, like, I mean, they talk about sort of like the politics of height in dating. But that's still, I don't know, like, it's still, I'm still not totally. Also, so your legs are going to be like way shorter, but then you're going to, like, have a great wings. You're going to look like an NBA player kind of. like with like big wingspan and like short you know like bigger wingspan than the rest of your body yeah i don't know there's also like in the like vice article they just like left this one sort of thing hanging there like was really interesting just said despite the absurdity it says height has been directly connected to health and you're like researchers have linked tall stature

women to conditions like increased cancer risk and i'm like well hold on like that's don't just put that in there what are you saying and i don't think it's like the egg up there. I think it's probably like things having to do with like the amount of work that your body's having to do. I don't think you can just hack that by cutting two inches off your legs. Yeah, but not because you're five, nine. You know what I mean? Like this is, it's so weird. Like, even the articles that are discussing this are very like, they don't even know what their take is on this. Like, I don't know. There's also like health risks. And they linked to a study that just said published research that showed people seem to have a higher risk of cancer, seem to have a,

That is not, that doesn't feel like unequivocal, like a scientific breakthrough that you're going to report on. We need one of those MTV documentaries, like, where they used to have in the early odds where it was like, you know, I want to look exactly like Brad Pitt. Yeah. And you like get, you just like really get to know them and like, Jack, that was called, you feel out there. It was called True Life. I want a famous face was the name of that episode. I remember that very, very. You're like, I binge that series.

Yeah. All of those two. I want really short. thighs the rest of my body. Is that the feet, which leg bone is it? It's the bone between your knee and your hip? The ephemer, yeah. Yeah. That feels

weird too. The biggest bone in your... To have that be disproportionately shorter than the rest of your body? Shorter legs, though, that's not going to look good. I think this is just like, that's what's like interesting too, because you look at sort of the amount of people that, like they said it went from

like a couple in 2023 to more in 2024 and even more in 2025. So, like, it was truly, like, only, like, two people had done it at this one clinic in Turkey. But then when you, like, look at Reddit, like, there are people talking about it, like, oh, that does seem interesting. Like, people considering it. And you're like, oh, well, look, we. Yeah, I'm sure there are people who, yeah, like you said, like who, it is, like, really a pain in the ass for them to be taller. But, man, that, that fucking sounds brutal for this to be the solution.

But I think this is kind of thing it sort of speaks to how we have these, like, sort of messages reinforced to us. societally where you're like, well, I certainly can't be a, a tall queen out here in these streets. Right. Yes. Or else I'll put off the short kings. That's your one thing. Yeah, that you're just like, fuck that you're like fixating on. And like, think of the, the, I mean, look at what LeBron James did to his scalp. You know what I mean? For LeBron James hairline still doesn't look good. No matter how many times you went to Turkey. And I get it because, you know, having hair is like a sign of virality in. Yeah. And he definitely needs like subtle signs of virility when he's like the greatest athlete we've ever seen in high definition like what the fuck man we you you don't need to like fool us Michael Jordan Michael Jordan was

like fuck that bro I'm playing basketball though look the hair I'm sure I don't know if the hair plug technology was there do you think Michael Jordan would have got hair plugs I don't know probably could have but did he ever did he ever have hair and like it was fading I feel like it felt like it was it just came off. I think the second he probably felt it wavering, he's like, no, no, no, fuck that. I cannot. I'm Michael Jordan.

And maybe he had his own internalized toxicity where he was like, don't let them see you with receding hair ever. The only image I can picture of him with hair, he has a very strong hair line, you know? Yeah. Like Jordan. Who seems hair without hair always to me? I don't remember ever seeing him with hair.

It was like the first two years of his career. He had hair. And then he went completely. bald. No, there's a, there's a couple. In 1989, he looks like Joe Pesci in Home Alone when he had that blowtorch at the top of his beanie. Oh, you know? Yeah, when he lets it grow out a little bit, it's definitely baldness. All right, Michael.

Wow. All right, Mike. Thanks for standing with us. Bald king. Shout with the bald kings out there. You know what I mean? You don't have to go to Turkey. Just love yourself, radical self. Love yourself and be one of the best athletes in the history of sport. See it. I need that, Jack. That's what I'm telling you. I need these basketball lessons. I can accept my receding hairline. Kyla, it's such a pleasure having you on the Daily Zykegeist. Where can people find you, follow you, find your book, all that good stuff? Yeah, just under my name, my name's Kyla Yu, so you can find me on all platforms. And the book is in all bookstores, but I always recommend your local independent bookstore. Yeah, yeah. Go get it. And it's called fetishized.

fetishize a reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty by K-I-L-A and then Y-U. Everybody should go check it out. Is there a work of media that you've been enjoying besides your own book? That's all I read and watch.

Over and over and over again. Not a fan of anything else. No, I've been watching the Amanda Knox on Hulu and that's been really fascinating. Have you guys followed that at all? I mean, initially when the case came, But I'm not like, I know, I have friends that are in the Knoxiverse fully who are like waiting for this to come out. And I was like, I forgot that there are people who really follow the Amanda Knox stuff closely.

But no, I mean, like, isn't it like multiple Amanda Knox things out right now? So many. But this one's like a reenact, like a dramaticized. And I think she wrote it or she was the producer and co-wrote it or something. But, yeah, obviously it's from her point of view. but it sounds like they like forced you know they did the forced uh coerced confession thing which i think it's easier to do on a 19 year old girl when there's like a bunch of men yelling at you in italian yeah fully fully the the documentary contains one of the wildest comedic characters

i've ever encountered there's a the detective who's like one of the main detectives on the case in Italy is like always smoking a pipe and he like makes these like broad declarations he's like you can tell that a woman committed this crime because it was covered up with like a blanket and women will be shamed of the crime

that they and like but his whole energy is just so unbelievable just like so so obliviously full of shit that like you can't believe that this is a real person oh wow well

I highly recommend. I'll just miss it in the pile of documentaries. Because every streamer ends up putting out a documentary about the same thing. I think there is one on every app on every show. It's like I was just talking about that earlier, like in an earlier episode about it. It's like, well, what's our version of the thing everyone's doing right now? Our version of the fire festival. Because everyone had to cover it.

Yeah. What if the Amanda Knox thing happened at the fire fest? I'm just saying, like, huh. Great. Miles, where can people find you with their work of media? You've been enjoying. Find me everywhere at Miles of Gray. You can catch me on 420 Day Fiancee. We're back this week talking about 90-day fiancé, my favorite trash reality show. That's my version of scuba diving, Kyla, where I go to that. I should have included that in my book. Yeah, 90-day fiancée is very lots of white men searching for. Oh, God. Yeah, some all-time classic. And those guys are so fucking. bad like they're not even bad at hiding it they have no self-awareness around it and they always

say the same as like well you know dating women in the UK is a bit difficult and I felt like in the Philippines the women are just nicer there and more understanding and you're like oh my god you're looking for a nurse um anyway uh that's where you can find me uh what else is I going to say uh work of media I've been joining I was reading Kyle's book over the weekend really suggest everyone to check out Kyla's book and also I've been watching the summer I turned

pretty or the summer I turned hot. What is it called? The summer I turned pretty. It's a teenager. It's a Y-A thing, yeah. So my partner, her majesty Miles is 14 years old. I don't know. I was clear to you, Kyle. Even though it was dropping references to

Asian gangs in their late 90s or the 2000, I'm actually 14 years old. Student of history. I love history. Yeah. A.P. You know, remember them. So there's, yeah, I was just like, it was one of these things where she's watching. She's like, you should watch this movie. I'm like, I don't know any, I don't relate to these fucking characters at all. She's like, don't you know someone who got hot one summer? And I'm like, I guess, but that's not, that's not how I, that's not how I get interested in something because I mean to go like, I don't like Jurassic Park because I knew someone who was to toying with DNA and created a dinosaur. I'm like, things appealed me or not. But then I found myself through osmosis.

And you're like, what happened with him? What are they saying now? Is she not going to marry him? Oh, that's crazy. And she's like, I thought you weren't watching. Wait, so it's good? It's like a, it's very, it's like a teen soap opera. You know what I mean?

So it's not like, it's not hard hitting. But it's like, it hits these tropes of your childhood that sure a lot of people get into, as Victor says, it's very messy. People are taken by it. Yeah. Yeah, that's me. So producer Victor said, this is exactly how I got roped into the show. Oh, really? Is that what you split?

Yeah. Yeah. That's what happens. See? And then I end up knowing so much about the show. I'm like, well, you know, I'm like, actually, Conrad isn't that cute to me. I think Jeremiah is cuter than Conrad. And she's like, you like Jeremiah?

That's, these are the conversations we're screaming as we try and put our child to sleep right now. The summer I turn pretty. Yeah. Your favorite show. My favorite show. My favorite show. I contain multitudes, Kyla, you know. I'm in here driving my Honda prelude with the bolted on TV screen, tears in my eyes,

watching the songwriter and pretty. Watching YA. Watching it on your bolted in TV. Work of media I've been enjoying. Coachfinstock.bysky.combe.combe.combe.combe.combe.combeau.combeck.combeck. This is actually from last season, but celebrating a Buffalo Bill's win with his giving it a thumbs up with the Bill's hat. in front of a TV that is in, like, one of those stained wood, like, media cabinets.

And he said, Wolf Blitzer celebrating a Bill's win in a room that hasn't been updated since the tower has fell. First of all, it's almost 9-11, never forget. And a modern Venus responded, this proves Jack O'Brien's theory about fame pausing your tech adoption, which, if you think about it, Wolf Blitzer peak the peak of his career, every year he's like 20 years ago I was reporting the 9-11 for CNN

so yeah his media cabinet still has a DVD player in it still appears to have a Laserdic disc player Laser Dick player Beta Max Tivo

yeah still still doing it I forgot I did have a thing a piece of media that I was like I've just it was stuck in my brain also Victor just said I'm problem if I'm Team Jeremiah. I said Jeremiah is cuter. I think Conrad looks like a rejected version of a Leonardo de Caprio wax doll.

Okay? For those that know, they know. This was the thing that Ben Collins reposted on Blue Sky. It's a Little League umpire who unfortunately just gets hit in the crotch three times during one game. Incredible run of bad luck. It feels like the, it feels like you're watching like a 90s comedy. Like that was the first one Here's another foul tip

Oh This poor up Pirates The kids literally gave The last one Folds him up to the ground Here comes Oh

That he's aiming for it Yeah Oh, Gaila you're calling it intentional Oh my God Delicious Oh I mean, he gives a full Homer Simpson dull. Yeah, yeah, shout out to that, man.

Shout out to people who may be. Volunteering for kids' sports just trying to get him like a time, and then you're out here just getting wrecked. Sorry. All right. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien on Blue Sky at Jack O'B, the number one. You can find us on Twitter and Blue Sky at Daily Zekegeist. We're at The Daily Zekegeist on Instagram.

You can go to the description of the episode wherever you're listening to it. it. And there, at the bottom, you will find the footnotes, which is where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode. We also link off to a song that we think you might enjoy. Miles, is there a song that you think the people might enjoy? Yeah, I, so I, I was watching a YouTube clip where one of my favorite producers, Fred again, uh, was making a track with this other producer named Plac Boy Max. And in this video, he was like kind of mashing up a dochi vocal sample over this beat, and people were like, oh, this, he was, it wasn't even a track he was releasing, but it was so cool.

Everyone was like, you've got to put this out, you've got to put this out. That song came out on an album that Fred again did with Skepta, and that track is called Victory Lap. And if you're a Dochi fan, he samples, like, her verse from Swamp Biches with Rico Nasty. But anyway, this is Victory Lap, Lap, Fred again, Skepta, Black Boy, Max. Check it out. And link off to it at the footnotes. The Nailie Zike is a production of I.

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