The Daily Zeitgeist - Qatar’s Trojan Jet? THERANOS 2.0?! 05.13.25

Episode Date: May 13, 2025

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It just said the 47 year old man from Cape Coral, Florida was hooked by the Bison's horns and lifted Sunday, but escaped with only minor injuries. I'm like, that's not how you teach a lesson bison. No, no. There's so many ways that can hurt you too. Like if they like just headbutt you that hurts like son's horn or they stomp on you. Son's horn. You never on you. Sans horn. Sans.

You never met Peter sans horn? Oh yes. From I heart Scandinavia. Yes. Something that's like shared a lot on like native TikTok and native Instagram are like specifically videos of non-native people pulling up on bison and then getting fucking go hard.

Yep. Amazing. Yeah. I was like, I'm going to ask Joey really quick about this. Yeah. It's like, it's like, it's become kind of like a, just like a meme in Indian countries. There's specifically a picture of a bison from, I was like a couple of years ago that literally has a pair of jeans right through the bra, like stuck through its horn. And it's like, oh, it like fucked somebody up. And it's like a bison with a pair of jeans straight through one of its horns through the butt is like,

it's like my mom has a picture of that. I know, I wish I was like a stencil you could graffiti. Oh, it is, it's like, it's for sure. Like there's, you can buy stickers of it. It's like, No, because I've, as someone who's like been around bison and also recently, my partner- You recently pulled up on a bison.

You recently pulled up on a bison. I've always, dude, stay the fuck away from a bison. I know they move slow, but you don't want fucking bison smoke. And anyway, there's a, this is headline, Florida man gored by bison after coming too close to the animal in Yellowstone national park. Perfect. I just send you a picture of that bison with the jeans on torn. It's also like a bison is like big as, I think a bison is the size of a

fucking SUV, like bigger than an SUV. Like something that big, even if it doesn't want to hurt you, it could fuck you up. Yeah. Just a pair of Wr it could fuck you up. Yeah. Just a pair of Wranglers around that thing. Yeah. How's it going? Yeah, Joey. Nice to meet you.

Oh yeah. Yeah, Joey, this is Blake Wexler. Jack is out today. So Jack is in. Jack's out for good. Oh no. Did he die? What?

Wait, did he fuck with a Buffalo? What happened? He's the guy. Yeah. That's how it came up. I'm missing a pair of jeans. Yeah. Yeah. I'm missing a pair of really big baggy jeans.

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I'm like, what is happening? I don't know why for me, I'm like, like something like as iconic as Apple Pie, I'm like, shouldn't that be like the 4th of July or something? I know, I know. Isn't that one of the major ones? Yeah, that's one of the major fucking pies. Anyway.

You don't have school. Hey, it's me, Miles Gray, today's host. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Guess what? This one's about to go off the fucking rails cuz you already heard that other voice Speaking but anyway miles gray aka woke Marxist Pope. I can't wait for sermons from the woke Marxist Pope Also from Chicago. He's the woke Marxist Pope God's Almighty chosen is the woke marxist pope woke marxist pope oh my god

shout out pink pony club shout out warren the werebear we're bear for that aka i've been listening a lot of uh actually pink pony club remixes i heard one that was uh mashed up with robin and it was really good i'll have to i'll have to play that for you later. It's kind of going pretty hard. Anyway, who's that? That's the Lord of Chaos himself. You know him as Daddy Longlegs, or at least you know his specialist, Daddy Longlegs. You know him as being on a recumbent bike, bragging about his cycling exploits, bragging about his Subaru, bragging about living in New Jersey. This guy sucks.

This guy has everything I want and more, okay? He's got it all. His team won the fucking Super Bowl. You know what I mean? You can't ask for deeper joys than that, unlike my football team, soccer, who has it one fuck all for a while and I'm really, it's starting to get to me.

It's fine, whatever. Welcome to today's guest host, whatever, fucking Blake Wexler. Whatever. Hi Blake Hey Don't look a gift plane in its cockpit, baby. This is Blake Wexler aka. I'm a plumper He's probably gonna plump again Jack. Forgive me Jack. Forgive me calf raises You don't understand sometimes on this recumbent bike, miles don't kill my thighs. Miles don't kill my thighs.

You can feel my boys jiggling from three time zones away. I've got my shorts that are so short. It's so tight, but today I'm yelling miles don't kill my thighs. Bars don't kill my thighs. Thank you so much. I believe that was real. Is real Chris someone on the, on the discord? Yeah, that was real. That was real, Chris.

Damn. Shout out to that. Shout out to you. Really, really honoring the source material that Kendrick Lamar track. I really appreciate you doing that. It's the least we could do. And last time I think I did Asshole by Dennis Leary, which was. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

That was great. That was a head scratcher for sure. I was like, which was, uh, yeah. That was great. That was a head scratcher for sure. I was like, is he, I loved it. I just got in my head in front of prop doing it was truly a nightmare for me. But I did anyway, but yeah, he couldn't be more of a generous person. Beholding someone doing their artistic performance. He's an artist. It's art. It's art. It's art.

That's all we have. Speaking of art, speaking of people who win awards for their art. Ooh. Yeah, unlike us, we're merely, we make up awards that our moms gave us, but we still, I hold on, Mommy's Best Little Boy Award 1994 with high regard.

It was on my 10th birthday. But our guest today- I won a Mikey last year. You did? Yeah. Wait, what's on the mic? Wait, I'm just going to object. What's a Mikey?

Yeah, what is a Mikey? It's any medium where you use a microphone to amplify your voice. So I won in the short form standup comedy, three minute category. I had a good, a good, a good story. So I won a Mikey for it. First off, congrats. Second off, I love how many awards there are. Like if you do anything, you can get a trophy for that thing.

Hell yeah. I'm about to get a Golden Globe for a podcast this next year. Hell yeah. You just wait. You might as well. By doing that, I will beg my mother. Okay. How I get all my words.

I remember when Webby's were a joke where it's like, you got a Webby and you this next year. Hell yeah. You just wait. You might as well. By doing that, I will beg my mother. Okay. How I get all my words. I remember when Webby's were a joke or it's like, you got a Webby and now it's a thing people dress up for. Oh yeah, no, like I, I went to Webby last year. I was like, I think I see a Webby behind you. Yeah. I was like, oh my God. Mostly we got a Webby right behind you. It's like, you're in the same room with like, uh, like I was in the same room with like, I was in the same room with like

governor Kristi Noem, no, not Kristi Noem, governor Gretchen Whitmer. You mean Stoltenbundführer Noem? Yay, no, no, no. I was like the good governor. Gretchen Whitmer. It's like you're basically at a party where you're in the same room as like, I don't know, Julie Elise Dreyfus, Gretchen Whitmer, also the guy that runs the AARP Twitter account. Right. It's sort of like everybody on the internet. The Wendy's Twitter account person. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're all there.

Truly. It's very fun. You should go. Well, anyway. Well, congrats to you. That voice is from one of our favorite guests. He's a comedian. He's a writer. He's a director. He's Emmy nominated. Okay. Also, as of two weeks ago, Peabody nominated. Peabody, god damn. All these awards.

Yeah, we didn't win. We didn't win All these awards. Yeah, we didn't win. We're just nominated. Bro, congratulations. That's, that's fucking impressive. Congratulations on that. We didn't win, just nominated. Joey. Mom.

Fuck you. Okay. Cause I'll never get a Peabody Award nomination. And that's fucking sick, bro. Fuck it. You're not. Hang your, hang your hat on that, man. That's fucking amazing. Uh, and I didn't mean to get aggressive. I was like, fuck sick, bro. Fuck it, you're not. Hang your hat on that, man. That's fucking amazing.

And I didn't mean to get aggressive, I'm like, fuck you, bro. No, I deserve it. You were right to do that. Anyway, the thing that he won a Webby four, gone native, created, directed, wrote, all of that. He's also a fantastic Garfield fan. I mean, we were lucky enough that this man went to the Garfield,

was that Motel 6? You know, he's done it all. He's a cat man. He's a cat daddy after all of our hearts. Please welcome to the microphone, Joey Clift. Yeah, that's right. I'm Joey Clift, AKA, Zeit Gang, you got what I need. They say I'm Joey Clift and my name is Joey Clift. Oh, I was like, can you got what I need?

This course is long. I'm just gonna keep going. They say I'm Joey Clift and my name is Joey Clift. Oh, I can't hear you. You got what I need. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you get it. And that was thank you very much to me. Five minutes before recording this and I was like, oh shit Like hosts have to do songs on this. I got like panic like there's always

We're like I basically just Google like three minutes for recording just like what is a song and I'm just like And I go through a list. I'm just like I can parody that within two seconds. There you go. Yes Rest in peace Bismarck key. Yeah. We honor him every day through this show. Every single day. Every single day. Also today is a National Nurses Day. So shout out to nurses. Oh, it's nurses week, right?

Yeah. Yes. Yes. Hey man, every day is nurses day to me. Thank you. No. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I think I'm just, I'm brave enough to say it, you know? Yep. Yep. Yep. Yeah. Someone had to be. I get it.

Oh, you know why? Because Monday. technically recording this Monday. That's why and I was don't think Tuesday. Sorry Sorry, so I like gonna play well in an audio meeting But I'm wearing a shirt right now that says fuck Garfield's on old English or fuck Monday's on in old English And that's a picture of Garfield below it. I, I, Oh, that's awesome. That's fantastic. Oh shit. Yeah. It's a great.

Yeah. I'm all about. People know what day it is. Yeah. We need like a Luigi. In my opinion it's about that day. We need a Luigi Mangione Garfield mashup tee. You know what I mean?

That would fucking do numbers. Where Garfield just shoots a calendar with the word Monday on it. Or it looks like that CCTV footage of the hit. It's just like, but as Garfield said, you're like, whoa, whoa, whoa. Anyway, here we are, the Daily Zeitgeist.

Joey, we are going to get to know you even better. Let's just give people a little, a light preview of what's to come. Yes, Trump is considering, quote unquote, considering accepting a $400 million jet from Qatar. No strings attached. Just put maybe a massive metal chain around his neck. I don't know. We'll see. We'll see how that works. Also, oh man, Brain Worms is at it again. RFK. We hit a thousand measles cases in the U.S. Meanwhile, this guy is swimming in poop water. We'll talk about that.

And Elizabeth Holmes is back in the form of her husband, or I guess partner who is now hocking a new blood testing startup, which very, very, very interesting. He swears. He's like, this is not there or knows. It's not there or knows. It's another thing. There's another thing, but it's also blood testing. And it sounds like a miracle business, but it's not that. It's not that.

So we'll, there is someone saying, well, I'm not going to do knows it's another thing. There's another thing, but it's also blood testing. And it sounds like a miracle business, but it's not that it's not that. So we'll, there is someone for everyone, you know, like you can just find love. Exactly. Exactly. You just look, you gotta be honest. You know what I mean? Stop pretending to be someone else.

If you're a blood grifter, fucking lead with that and you'll meet other blood grifters. That's all I'm saying. It's a category. Yeah. Look, I was fucking improv. I met my wife outside of UCB. You know what I mean? And that's just, that's just how it is, baby. Okay. Is she an improviser?

No, but it worked out. You want to know where you meet a, where you meet a fellow blood grifter, a mosquito convention. There's a lot of bugs around it. Okay. Miles now, now throw one out. Oh man, I remember when the DJ was playing. Oh skeet skeet. Okay. Anyway, this was the Daily Zite guys. Thank you so much for listening. Everyone. Thanks for having you. Maybe we'll just talk about Tom Cruise. Check in on this man. The Mission Impossible movies are ending and he is climbing every building

in fucking sight as like a way to maybe celebrate or prematurely cut off his life. I don't know. But Joey, let's kick off with our main question with something from your search history that's revealing about who you are. Okay. So there are two things. One is, is this city that I'm going to visit a sundown to be a with our main question was something from your search history that's revealing about who you are. Okay. So there are two things. One is, uh, is this city that I'm going to visit a sundown town.

Yeah. Basically like, uh, so a sundown town is a town with no people of color that live there. Um, my girlfriend recently discovered this, um, a trader Joe's treat that she really likes and the location of where it's made is like kind of in the general region of where I grew up. And I like recently googled just like oh maybe we could visit there you know that might be like a fun a fun thing to do is to visit the factory or whatever and then I googled is this place a sundown town and the answer came up yes so I'm like they're not going to visit that

place it's wild where sometimes there'll be like nuance because I've done this too where you're like this sounds like some sundown town I should you got to go into Wikipedia article. One where it's just immediate like, yep. Yep. Yep. The sun goes down. You do not want to be brown. Yeah, that's just an easy rhyme. Easy rhyme. Oh man, what's the candy? I mean, not to be candy,

but I don't want to look, I don't want to like, like I'm not going to give them free press, but it is very tasty and maybe we'll visit during the day. I don't know. At sunrise. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Uh, other thing in my search history is, uh, how to watch ECW on TNN. ECW, a fantastic pro wrestling organization from the nineties. And, uh, it's just a really great, like, it's a very niche product. And I've been trying to figure out how to watch it. And the answer is the WWE network. So it's gone now, right? Like it's not, because who were Dudley boys? ECW?

Yeah, the Dudley boys. Like Taz. No, 3D was their finish at the WWE Drop. In the table situation. Yeah. RDD was ECW too? Yeah, RDD. Basically, actually, yeah, y'all might appreciate this.

So yesterday, like ECW legend Sabu just passed away and, um, like after a retirement match, right? Oh yeah. Yeah. He retired like two weeks ago in a match against Joey Janela and like, there's this, uh, promo, like introducing him on the first ECW on TNN episode where it's literally just a zoom in pan over of the insane, like barbed wire match scars he has on his body

while the commentator is just listing off his injuries and it's like only in pro wrestling. Yeah, that's just like cool as hell. What was like the main ECW magazine? Did they just have their own magazine? I think it was just ECW magazine. I remember I would beg my mother to buy me that shit because I got the time I was really into like all the like every wrestling outfit basically and like ECW was that holy shit Holy shit, you know fucking not bloody nonsense And I remember there was like a cover with like RVD or one of those guys just bloodied to shit And my mom this she's like what the fuck is this? She's like I thought that was this I thought that was the rock. I'm like, what the fuck is this? She's like, I thought that was this. I thought that was the rock.

I'm like, nah, bro, the rock ain't fucking getting grimy like this. My, he got a face that he's worried about. Yeah. The rock's not cutting himself that hard. They're not doing like a cheese grater death match or something. No. Oh my God. Crazy.

That was truly like that and Jackass. All of it was like peaking at the same time. We were just like, let's break ourselves on camera. Yeah. Joey, what's something you think is underrated? I'm gonna say Little Caesar's Pizza. I think that Little Caesar's Pizza, I think that like people give it a bad rap

because it's really, it's like, you know, they're $5, $6 like large pizzas, just this thing that's like they're hot and fucking ready yeah they're hot and readies yeah yeah but like you actually have a hot and ready and it hits like nine times out of ten it's like and like you know you could buy one you could you know you bring that to a party you can feed a bunch of people it's just like little caesar's great company great pizza uh i think they're very underrated. Pizza, pizza. Yeah. Wow. Yeah.

Wow. We should get paid for that. They are a sponsor, by the way. So thank you so much to Little Caesars for sponsoring the Daily Psych guys. Go ahead, Miles. They are? Damn.

Yeah. Isn't the owner, yeah, I fuck with them because didn't the owner put Rosa Parks up for the rest of her life in her apartment? Yeah, yeah. And he did it quietly. Basically, Rosa Parks, he paid her rent for a couple of decades of her life because she was just like coming on hard times

and he didn't broadcast it. It only came out, I think after, like after he passed away, like a couple of years ago, it came out of like, Oh, here's how like good of a dude this guy is. That's like Detroit, right? Yeah. Yeah. It's hard to like hate on a brand. Like when the owner has that, meanwhile, Papa John's like this fucking crazy

Coke addict and you're like, what the fuck, dude, no. Or it's just, it's so like, it's so cool to see like little Caesar's like the hot and ready is still six bucks. Whereas like a subway $5 foot long is $70. Yeah. It's like that price pretty normal. You know, I think also I feel like and I'm not shading Little Caesar's because I fuck with Little Caesar's too.

I think it hits because you get to a point where Little Caesar's is the thing you're getting. It's not my first choice all the time, but it's late and I'm like, yo, there's a little Caesar's nearby. Maybe I've had a few drinks or something. I'm like, you get the fucking Little Caesar's. Yeah. Y'all fucking smash half that thing for me.

It's all about my local that crazy bread because I used to live by it. They would hook it up. I said, let me get a little extra seasoning in the bag. That shit. Oh, my God. Take away. And they have like one of my favorite pizzas lately is like they have this thing that's like it's like a pretzel crust where the sauce is like a melted cheese sauce. So it's like, it's truly like, it's like $7. And it's like, they only really said like once a year, it's basically like their McRib, you know, but it's like, whenever you get it, it's like, Holy

shit, like I got to fucking get a bunch of friends together and eat this. I have 6pm dinner reservations at a Little Caesar's tonight, but I also think that it's because it is six bucks. You don't feel bashful about like dumping ranch on it or like, Oh, say the cheese sauce doesn't all get on the crust. You know, like you can just do whatever you want, especially in that frame of mind you're probably in while eating it. And to your point, it feeds a lot of people.

No one's going to be like, what is, what is this doing here? And everyone's psyched for it. When I was, when I was working on campaigns and like lobbying and shit, we used to like ingratiate ourselves with like local youth groups by bringing a fuck ton of little Caesars to like a meeting. And like, that's how we would begin to like do recon on a district to be like, like, where do you guys hang out? Like, do you have any kids in life?

Do you have any siblings in the college or whatever? And then start putting on a knock on the door. Who's that? Yeah, no, like this is like awful. I guess when I used to carry on like five different business cards and risk misrepresent which five Oh one C three nonprofit I was working with, depending on the group and just all, all to get people elected. That's another story for later.

Have you talked about that part of your life at length on this show at any point? I don't think I've ever heard you talk about that. Yeah, I've probably had an anecdote here or there. It was a pretty intense period of my life because I, it was something I thought I really deeply wanted to do. And I struggled so hard because I'm like, wait, we're not actually going to help people. We're just going to make rich people richer.

I'm like, no, we're into it. So when you did that, no, I'm kidding. And how much were you drinking? Oh, I would split a fifth of Jack Daniel's every night with my roommate. And then we would make beats on the guitar. That's cute. Then go right back out there to lying to working people to vote for the Democrats. It was all very, very, very, very fun time.

I'm sure it'll be something I get into later on. Joey, what's something you think is overrated? I guess this is semi-related. I think America, just as a concept, I think America as a country is a little overrated. I think that you can look at what's happening in the news right now and think, maybe this is too much.

Yeah. We're currently just letting just thousands and thousands of people die in Gaza. We're sweeping people up off the street. My God, I was just talking about this yesterday. That clip of the woman being apprehended by ice in Massachusetts was like, the screaming of the daughter trying to get her back is something so specific. And anybody who has any relationship with another person, parental or not, you just know what that feeling is of like, I will not, I can't let this

person just be taken away right now for whatever reason, but I will not let has any relationship with another person, parental or not, you just know what that feeling is of like, I will not, I can't let this person just be taken away right now, for whatever reason this is. It's, yeah, yeah, yeah. So if that doesn't trigger empathy, it's the most human thing in the entire world. And I'm not even saying like, it's just human. If you are a human being, you should be able to feel,

like everyone has a parent. Yeah. You know? Everyone has something they love hopefully and to have that ripped away from you, it's the worst. You can't unhear or unsee that. Yeah, it's like, it's kind of like this country got off on the wrong foot a few hundred years ago.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Kind of. That's the hard bit about it. Yeah, as of now, like you look at, day, I feel like we're reading a new poll about like, yeah, the America's standing in the on, on planet earth is plummeting with everyone on earth and you're like, yeah, now everyone, now everyone's kind of seeing how really bad it is, I guess, but what else about it is overrated? Do you think just that stuff?

Just like the, yeah, I would say that like, I don't know, just as a, just holistically at this point, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The NHL. Yeah. Yeah. Flyers actually.

Yeah. Yeah. The NBA, just all the things, every organization in the sky. I don't know. It's just French toast. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, hot dogs, fuck hot just a- French toast. Yeah, yeah. Oh man. Hey, French toast.

Hot dogs. Fuck hot dogs. Fuck hot dogs. Yeah, yeah. Except for an alley dog. Except for hot dogs. Yeah. Like if it's wrapped in bacon

and being sold outside of a venue, I want meat. Okay, so wait, I take it back. America rocks. All right, thank you. It's pretty sick. Yeah. All right.

She was able to look past all of the other ways that people die at the hands of this empire. Wait a second. You know what was founded in America? Little Caesar's. Thank you. And to that I say pizza pizza. And to that, which means we'll take a quick break and we'll be right back.

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Am I like, is it like a roommate or a friend, or is this just somebody off the street? No, I mean, it's someone you know about and they're kind of, you, they're, they don't have the best, best reputation out there. Is this like a foreign government offering this to me? Sure. Let's go with that. Yeah. And they're kind of you there. They don't have the best best reputation out there. It's like a foreign government offering this to me. Sure. Let's go with that. Yeah, that's a good offering free. Yeah. Plus members. Yeah, I would at least ask follow up questions.

Yeah. What kind of guy is Qatar? Like if we know about this guy, like is he a nice guy or he said some like his uncle works at Disney. That's why he got all these free. Okay. So I'm not going to ask any questions. Anyway, I'll let's say, so over the weekend, we find out that Trump potentially will be accepting a new Boeing jet from the Qatari Royal family to replace Air Force one. It has been described as a quote flying palace fit for a, like a head of state

and only costs like $400 million. It's not bad. Yeah. That's, I don't know. I mean, don't you need to spend at least like 500 million for like one of these things? Yeah, it's cheap. So something that I think is like so funny about Trump as a person is that he will accept anything if you frame it in a way where it sounds fancy, right?

You could give him a, like an outhouse and say, like, I don't know. It's like, it's the Rolex of outhouses. He'd be like, I'm in, you know, so it's like, if, if, so being a flying palace, that feels like that's them framing it as a way to get him to say yes. No, like apparently he's like, he took a tour, all these other people, like this fucking thing is obscene. Like it's just kidded out to the fucking maximum. I know he would be like, this is an Andy Gump.

They say the Rolls Royce of shit boxes. And I've got one. I've got two actually. That's what I'm like. It only has the nicest spyware embedded in it. Yeah. The nicest hidden microphones and cameras. This is the thing. I'm like, isn't this unethical, creates a conflict of interest and or a security risk?

I wasn't referencing and or the Disney Plus, that wasn't a call back to the Disney Plus thing. The answers are yes, yes and yes. Oh no, actually no, don't worry, Miles, don't worry. I've looked into this. It's actually not against the law because they're not giving it to him. They're giving it to his presidential library.

Oh, right, right. Yeah, it's giving to his presidential library. Oh, right, right. Yeah, yeah, it's giving to his presidential library and he's gonna use it while he's president and then afterwards he's also gonna use it until he dies and then it's gonna live at his presidential library. So completely above board, don't worry about it. Yeah, yeah, because he's gonna have a library because he can. Yeah.

The first library without books in it. And they've saved all the documents. He can read. Yeah, yeah. And they've saved all relevant documents, which is which would even necessitate having a presidential library. Yeah, they're getting around this by saying it's a gift technically to the Department of Defense. Oh, right. It's not for Trump. Obviously, we're helping out there. It's that a

lot of you're saying like they were negotiating and Qatar was like, you know what, dude, just you guys just have it, man. Fuck it. It's yours to keep it. What about nothing? Nothing. Pam Bondi, who is the attorney general and former registered Qatari lobbyist. OK, she wrote a memo basically being like, yeah, it's all good. It's all good. I don't see anything. I think we can get I think we get the legalese all worked out on this

should be a totally fine. Seems like a very transparent deal. I just want to fucking just just illuminate Pam Bondi's relationship with the government of Qatar. She worked as a foreign lobbyist for the nation earning $115,000 a month in the role, which she held in 2020 and into the run up of the World Cup in 2022. In this role, she lobbied Congress on behalf of Qatari interests. So pretty, I think that's, that's seamless. I think, and I'm really happy for him that

he will get this jet. But once again, he isn't getting the jet. The department of defense is getting the jet. Thank you, Joe. Yeah, yeah, yeah. America is not cooked yet. Okay. DoD is accepting it on his behalf. What were you going to say now? Were you going to further besmirch this country's good name? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. turn a blind eye, not to mention their, you know, hostility towards anyone who is not straight.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that too. There's a lot, a lot of stuff, a lot of stuff there, a lot of stuff there. But so anyway, right now with the current Air Force ones, there's two that are in service and they've been in service since 1990 and they're constantly being rotated out for maintenance. and apparently they ordered a new one But it's being delayed till 2027 and you know, that's when the Qataris were like, what's that? I heard you guys need a plane to carry the most person the power most powerful person on earth around Do we got one for you for like free 99? Do just take it? You're gonna love it I heard this Air Force One actually has arch support.

Stupid. Yeah, I was about to say this Air Force One. So if Air Force One, the current one, has been in service since 1990, what do we think the chances of a cherry poppin' daddy's being on that plane is? Ooh. Like pretty big. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. They'll be there. They'll be there. Yeah, was Smash Mouth ever hanging on that jet? Maybe.

Yeah. Yeah. Zoot Suit Riot Mouth ever hanging on that jet? Maybe. Yeah. Zoot Suit Riot, they loved him for that song because we love the actual historical event that song based off of. Oh, Jesus. Don't Wikipedia it unless you want to know about brutalizing Mexican Americans. Anyway, that's a whole other thing.

Once again, America, overrated. America, overrated. And then we have big fucking, wait, was that big bad voodoo daddy who did Zoot Suit Riot or Cherry? Everyone was a fucking daddy. Yeah, there was like squirrel nut zippers or something like that. Yeah. So I was just thinking like, if a foreign government is giving you a vehicle to carry

the head of state who clearly has shady dealings, like as it's tied to, you know, other terrorist organizations in the region I'm like at a minimum like even with my first grade narrative brain on I'm like Aren't they like worried like that that whole plane is that shit's gonna be like mic'd up like more than like an NBA finals game And like what Howard I mean I get that then the US will do what they need to do to put in all this like security shit in there. But I'm like, is, isn't that a, is that not a concern? Or they're like, we'll find it if there's anything. And even if we find something, we'll act like this was all good.

And things where it goes, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. It turns out not everyone is pleased with this revelation on the right. Specifically, Laura Loomer, the fucking weird Trump whisperer who's emerged over the last year, who's just a violent Islamophobe. She tweeted quote, I love president Trump. I would take a bullet for him, but I have to call a spade a spade. We cannot accept a $400 million gift from jihadists in suits." Then goes on to do a bunch of jihadist stuff. Yeah, I guess like which of that sentence, which of those things do you think she's most offended by?

That's the thing. Right, exactly. Is it the money thing or the people of color thing? Her whole thing is that she hates Muslim people. So it's not a total shock that she's more upset at him transacting with the Qataris than the naked corruption of it all. But even other people are like, yeah, I mean, she's right for the wrong reasons,

but either way, it's all wrong. This reeks of bribe with wings on it. But again, the deal is still being considered. So right now, I think the White House is still figuring out how to message this bribe once it becomes official. Trump tried to explain why he got it, like some angry dad talking about how it was a couple of big screen TVs that fell off the truck or something. This is him explaining, yeah, it's fucking fine. It's fine. Here he is getting mad at ABC fake news for even asking if this was there was a fake so yeah if there's any dimension of only ABC, well, a few of you would. Let me tell you, you should be embarrassed

asking that question. They're giving us a free jet. I could say, no, no, no, don't give us, I wanna pay you a billion or 400 million or whatever it is. Or I could say, thank you very much. You know, it was an old golfer named Sam Snead. Did you ever?

Okay. You know what? That went on for 50 more minutes of him talking. the references though. He goes out and he's like, they used to be this old golfer. He said, you know, he won many, many, many tournaments. And they say, when they give you a putt, you say, thank you very much. You take the putt. Okay. A lot of stupid people, they want to pay for it.

You don't do that. Like his whole thing is like, if they want to give you a free jet, you take the jet. What do you mean? There's nothing, no, no further questions, they want to give you a free jet, you take the jet. What do you mean? There's nothing. No, no further questions, my honor. It's a free jet. Let's go, kids.

So I just, I just found this out like a couple months ago. Apparently in the early 2000s, Trump tried to start a casino with my tribe. Like he literally met with my tribe in Southern Washington state to start like a Trump cowlitz casino. Wow. There's an article in this newspaper called The Columbian about it. You can pull it up. There's literally a picture of what the Trump Cowlitz Casino would have looked like. Apparently he showed up and actually physically went to Southern Washington and met with

my tribe. We're a small tribe. There's only 5,000 people. He made all the elders of my tribe drink out of Trump branded water bottles and then wanted a lot of money to essentially just give us his name for the casino and he wanted to do no other work other than that. But it's like if you pull up the picture of the Trump cowlits casino what it would look like just search like Trump cowlits.

It looks like it looks like back to the future to Biff, like casino. It looks like rainbow road. Fucked up capitalist acid trip. These colors don't exist by the way. I'm sorry, Blake, these colors don't run. No, they don't. They do not. Here's, here's a goofy question maybe, but what, um what does, and this might be a dumb question, but Trump, doesn't he fly on his Trump plane?

Like does he fly? Is that Air Force One? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, he was like, it's not gaudy enough, but no. Yeah. Yeah. I think that he flies that he flies on that like Trump jet. I think when he was like in the 2022 from 2020 to 2024, he flew on that. But now presumably since like he's being gifted this jet after he leaves off. Department of defense gifted.

Thank you. Thank you so much for borrowing it. He's going to buy the jet. Yeah. But then it's like, he's like, he was sending another thing. He's like, why would people be mad? It's a gift to the American people. And it's like, what does that mean?

Star? Well, we get to find it too. Yeah. Oh, good. Yeah. Can you sign up? Is there a sign up sheet? Yeah.

It's the waitlist is long as shit, but we will get on it. Well, how long? And add a new work on it. Oh boy. Yeah. She like, good luck, bro. Yeah. If you really want to go check it out, you're flying out of New York Liberty.

Yeah. So we will see. I mean, this is ongoing, but it's everything like even Caroline Levitt, like when even asked on Fox or like, is there any worry that like they're going to want something in return? She's like, uh, no, everyone knows Trump does everything for the American people and not for himself. You're like, his sons are there getting so much money from all these Gulf states right

now. Trump's about to go to the Gulf states and basically do money begging to all of these people in a second. So sure, we'll see. It's all for the American people. Very quickly though, I just want to touch on Dr. Brainworms. Actually not a doctor. We'll just call him RFK Jr.

The measles outbreak in this country has hit another grim milestone over 1000 cases now mostly in Texas. This hasn't happened in 30 years since we've had anything like this because presumably we were all some most of us are on the same page that scientists and doctors know what they're talking about as it relates to, you know, preventing illnesses. Anyway, meanwhile,

RFK Jr. continues to obviously just push like fake cures and only pretend that vaccines are the actual best way to prevent your child from getting measles. Again, only pretending he'll say it, and then immediately turn around and tell you to take like so many vitamins that that that's how that's how you'll prevent everything. So over the weekend, all we got from the death czar was a quote, where he like, while all this is happening, like maybe he'll say something, he was on like a panel on Fox News, and he

basically was like, anti vaxxers are treated like fucking lepers. And it's really unfair. And he bemoaned the lack of compassion from health professionals for people who are anti vax, to be like, compassion from health professionals for people who are anti vax to be like, why are us the people who are not protecting ourselves from preventable illness being treated like people who may be carrying a preventable illness? I don't understand. It's not fair. We're just merely asking questions that I got people sick.

Blackout drunk went on a plane and was vomiting everywhere and people were frowning at me. They were like, they were saying like, you know, I was treated like shit. It was crazy. No one would sit next to me. I don't understand what it is. 21st century leper.

It's exactly what I am. That's exactly what I am. I've never heard of a bigger story of oppression, Blake. I am so sorry. I'm sorry I had to bring it up. Can we edit it out? I feel like I brought it up. I'm so sorry that you guys are allowed to continue to spread preventable illnesses.

My God. Uh, I really hate that we live in a time right now where I have to be hyper aware of what I've been vaccinated against. We're just sort of like, like I was, I was, uh, in New Zealand recently. And I was like, and when you travel, you have to like figure out your vaccine record and I'm just like, Oh, do I have to get like vaccinated again for measles? Like, I don't know polio. Am I, have I been vaccinated for that?

We're doing it again. It's like, what is, what's coming back? What's coming back that I have to like make sure I'm covered for? You gotta re-up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What do I have to re-up for?

That's like, yeah, the next doctor's visit. I'm like, Hey man, you need to re-up while you're here. Yeah. I guess so. Yeah. We're going to give you, unfortunately, we, we thought you, we only had to give you these shots when you're a child, but yeah, you will need to be coming in every six years now for these.

And then, so he also celebrated, I'm assuming he celebrated this measles milestone by going for a swim in DC's rock Creek, which if you have ever been to, you know, that is not a place to swim. It's actually technically illegal to swim in it because it is so chock full of bacteria, according to the national park service, swimming and wading are not allowed due to high bacteria levels. Swimming has been illegal in most of DC's water race since the 1970s, largely because of contamination from the aging sewer

system, though there have been recent efforts to roll back the five decade prohibition in it's rarely reinforced. So people like brain worms can go take a dip with their grandkids. But yeah, there's just saying like, even they're like, don't even let your pets in the water.

Hey, just correcting you. It's not illegal because he didn't swim in the water. The Department of Defense swam in the water. Yes, exactly. Exactly. It's not illegal because, uh, he didn't swim in the water. The department of defense swam in the water. Yes, exactly. Exactly. The health and human services. I'm not a guy.

I'm a department. Yeah. Yeah. I, I'm, it's just why I'm like, he must miss that brain worm so damn bad that he will do anything to be reunited, including forcing his grandchildren to swim in a body of water, fucking known for having way too much poop and E. coli in it. That's the way that's a love language, I guess. But I also feel like it's probably like another like a statement, obviously, because that's what all these people do. And they're like, Oh, guess what all the things they said were unsafe. Those were lies. What else were lies then I'm swimming in poop Creek. I mean, like I think he's doing the thing was like, look at what all the mean scientists say that being in water contaminated with sewage is bad, but look at me. But yeah, I don't know if that's a thing

everyday people are like dialed into just like yearning like being like, Yeah, thanks, RFK. When can I go swim in that local body of water that for generations everyone in town knows is disgusting because it's a shit cocktail? Yes, when, when? So something that Trump is doing a lot right now is he's renaming a lot of things, like the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

He's renaming Mount Denali in Alaska back to McKinley. And I really, it's very annoying, but I really wish that he would rename uh, rename things in fun ways. Like renaming that poop creek. That'd be very fun. Poop creek's great. Yeah.

Poop creek's great. I think cause it would bring, it has to either be like total revision of history kind of shit. Like for him or so America centric, like it, it, theocracy America centric. Like it'll be like, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. That thing where we'll acknowledge what the thing is actually called due to like the indigenous people that live there. No, no, no. The one of the worst presidents ever that fucked the economy up with tariffs.

William McKinley, my fucking. Yeah. That's burger mountain. Actually burger Creek. Yeah. Yeah. I guess that I want stupider names. Yeah.

Yeah. He's like Milwaukee. What about milkshake? I like that one. That. Yeah. I guess that I want stupider names. Yeah. Yeah. He's like Milwaukee. What about milkshake? I like that one. That's good. That's all good. We're taking back every name. If it was named after a Confederate, double down on it. Double down on it.

Yeah. He just renames Oregon to like the quarter pounder's date or something. Yeah. Here's like Oregon. He's like, look who was down with slavery back in the day. Maybe. I feel like you can say that about the names of most states. Yeah, that's true.

That's true. Oh man. Isn't it great? Boy named Sue city, Iowa. Once again, America, little overrated. A little bit, a little bit. Little Caesars. Perfectly rated.

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Elizabeth Holmes partner has a new blood testing startup. And then we have like a cool grownup name, his first name, like he has like a name that a grownup would have. Oh, okay. Is that good? Is that a grownup name, his first name. Like he has like a name that a grownup would have. His name's Billy. Oh, okay. Is that good? Is that a grownup name? No. Billy.

Billy Evans. That's the, he's heir to the Evans Hotel Group. Which I'm not sure what, are you, I don't know what the Evans Hotel Group is. As a Joey, I'll defend him being able to be called Billy. I'm not sure if- I put Joey in a different category. Oh, okay. But like, but I also do put Joey in a different category. Oh, okay.

But like, I also do not- Nice kid, it's like- Yeah, yeah, but I also don't run a blood testing company. So like- That's a good point. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like I write jokes for kids for a living. So like, so being Joey's fine for me.

Oh, they own like a ton. Okay, so this family owns apparently a ton of hotels, like in the San Diego area. Okay, so this makes, so this guy with the new blood grifter dropped So this family owns apparently a ton of hotels like in the San Diego area. Okay. So this makes, so this, this guy with the new blood grifter dropped and he's heir to the San Diego hotel empire, but he's Elizabeth Holmes, his partner and father of her two kids and he's got his own company. Let's not forget.

Elizabeth Holmes is currently in prison. I think doing like an 11 year bid for defrauding investors, the highest crime in the United States. The highest crime. You will go to jail if you defraud wealthy people. It's a life sentence. Yeah. Oh my god. Now if you screw poor people over and give them cancer with your bad business practices, you will get a promotion. That's just kind of, that's that's America? Oh, while you were saying that I was saluting. Yeah, you were. Not that one. Not that one, Joey. That's not the salute. Bend your elbow, bend the elbow. Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry.

Sorry, I didn't know. America's changing every fucking day. So yeah, so again, sure whole business was making false claims about what her brand or her company Theranos was capable of. Billy Evans now is pitching a startup that sounds a lot like Theranos, but this one's called Kementhus. So, it shouldn't have a TH with an us ending. You're really getting close. You're flying really close to the Theranos sun for sure.

So apparently, this is their whole testing company can make diagnoses from users blood, urine, and saliva. It can currently supposedly detect illnesses, cancer, or infections in pets with the goal being to give human users a wearable device to then know what's going on with their health. It's got, you know, pretty similar similar vibes here. It's like, we'll test your blood and we can screen for some kind of illness. That was obviously that that's that was the opening pitch for Theranos back in 2003. But like going on.

So a lot of investors, they're also kind of like, I think we're good on this one. A lot of people have passed on this genius idea. But apparently Billy Evans has said he's been able to raise almost $20 million from friends and other investors, which sounds like code for my family. Yeah. Friends and like when you're even saying friends, that means, oh, no, no, like actual like venture capital fund or anything like that is like, fuck, no, bro, we're not getting close to anyone.

Even you're literally Elizabeth Holmes partner. What do you guys talk about when she calls you on on the jail phone ideas for Hey, man, he meant this. So then there was like this picture on that the the like that was like on shared, I think for this New York Times article, which says Elizabeth Holmes partner has a new startup. It's a blood testing company with him and Elizabeth Holmes sitting next to her, sitting next to each other. And a lot of people like, is this fucking AI? Like this sounds like such a weird bizarro story. This has to be AI. No, no,

it's, it's, it's very much real. And it's not Theranos 2.0, if you ask Billy Evans. It is not that at all. Yeah, specifically he says, it's not an improvement, a different paradigm, which sounds like what you say when you're bullshitting someone. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dude, it's completely, because his whole thing is right.

They were saying that Theranos was quote, attempting to miniaturize existing tests this Completely differ we use friggin like literally friggin lasers like Dr. Evil. It's friggin laser beams and AI So pick your poison, you know you producer Producer Bay of the chat wrote they have a passion for blood testing If you look at that photo that that looks like a vampire couple. Like they, that looks like that's what they bonded over was bull. What has that like AI sheen to it?

So they do look sort of like the bizarro vampire glow. Yeah. Billy looks like he's like wrinkles in their skin. Yeah. Yeah. Billy looks like he's 250 years old for sure. Yeah. Yeah.

Behind those eyes, this man has seen a few civil wars, a few revolutions. He saw Marie Antoinette. He's, he saw that shit go down. He was there. He was like, Oh, let me eat cake. Okay. Don't mind if I do. Hey, pull up the guillotine real quick. Yeah. Yeah. We got this. Yeah. I, this whole thing is it, it's very, very, very suspicious. But again, he even had, we got this. Yeah, this whole thing is, it's very, very, very suspicious. But again, he even had to go on this and he said, quote, setting the record straight,

Elizabeth Holmes has zero involvement in him and this. We've learned from her company's mistakes, but she has no role now or the future. What does learned from her company's mistakes mean? Wasn't the mistake that it was a different paradigm. It's a different paradigm. They were lying. Yeah.

Great point. Great point. This is, I'm just saying like, why even include, we learned from their mistakes. So you were about to do it and you're like, ah, wait, that's what there, that's what there are. No, something went wrong. Okay. Let's not do that.

Let's actually, maybe this should be based in science. That's provable. It can be peer reviewed. That's the most frightening statement, I think, of all of it. He does go on to say though, our sources have said, Holmes has been providing advice to Evans about the startup. Although what that advice is, is unclear.

It'll probably just be like, hey, honey, fake it till you fucking make it. That's my thing. Then we can finally beat, oh wait, no, prisons, you know, and then we can finally beat, Oh wait, no prisons. You can't, you can't be in the lady prison. Uh, maybe not. Maybe not. Lady prison.

It truly feels like they're just barely hiding that this isn't a scam. Yeah, it's. And also like, I feel it's grifty because they're doing the thing. I just feel like pet owners are very vulnerable to overpaying for any kind of treatment. We are pet. Like forget what it costs for like a human procedure. It's like when it's a pet, you're just like, yeah, fuck it. I don't know. Is that what it costs to fucking check their blood?

Seven hundred dollars. Okay. Like there's no we have no concept of what's normal. So I could just be like a thing where it's like you could test. You can find out if your dog has an infection or cancer or whatever. And oh my God, you're going to love it for just four minutes. You got to do it every other week. You got to do it every other week for 10 years. And we do charge you $700 each time.

It's not covered by any insurance that exists. Well, that's why they say like a lot of veterinarians are in such like dire mental health shape, because like they know they're overcharging for things and seeing people overpay for things to like their own financial detriment because they all you know, like when you love your pets, like you fucking do whatever. Although I'm all like, with someone with an older pet, I'm very much getting close to that moment where I'm like, do I do the thing that everyone did when I was a kid? Or you're like, yeah, the dogs just got cancer, man. I do the thing that everyone did when I was a kid? Or are you like, yeah, the dogs just got cancer, man. Uh, end of story. Or do you pay? And then I've also seen people pay so much money to treat their animals illnesses.

And I'm like, is this, what do I do? Um, okay. So I'm going to use the service, not because I love my pets, but because I have a passion for blood tests. Thank you. Thank you. They're like, sir, nothing's coming out. We're trying to draw a sample. We're like, oh man, I've been, I've been given blood test. Thank you. Thank you. They're like, sir, nothing's coming out. We're trying to draw a sample.

You're like, oh man, I've been, I've been given blood samples, like, like a fucking Costco baby. Just handing them out. I fucking love this shit. Yeah. Tell me when I can do this again. And like to the minute. Yeah.

And please let it be today. Please let it be. Yeah. 24 hours, 36 hours. What are we talking here? What are we talking? Yeah. I'm down. I'm down, yeah, yeah. 24 hours, 36 hours, what are we talking here? What are we talking here? I'm down, I'm down, I'm down. And then last story before we wrap this thing out,

Tom Cruise, he's, okay, so he was in London to receive an honorary British Film Institute Fellowship and to sort of like sell. Joey, you have one of those as well, right? Joey was nominated for one. I'm only a nomination, I'm sorry. I understand, I'm sorry. Don't bring that shit up, like, he's gonna fucking lose it on me in an email. I didn't read the copy before, I'm sorry. I understand. I'm sorry. Don't bring that shit up.

Like he's not fucking lose it on me. I didn't read the copy before. I'm sorry. I didn't read the prep. He's it's, that's a very, it's very contentious what happened with that. So I'm sorry. I'm sorry. He brought that up.

Joey three, two, one, take it over. Oh, pizza pizza. Oh, I'm back. Okay. Thanks. Thank you. I was filled with rage and then you said that and then I I'm like, oh, red stuff. Those are smelling salts. Those are our smelling salts.

I'll go into a rage induced pass out. But if you say pizza pizza, then I'm huh? Hmm? Yeah. Also Little Caesar's has a smelling salts crust coming out in I believe October. Oh, I mean, if they did, I would buy the hell out of it. Sure.

Yeah, it's coming. It's smelling salt crusted crust. Yeah. It'll wake you up. God, have you ever smelled smelling salts for the fuck of it? Oddly, no, but that is something I would have done in my 20s. Yeah, I did that in my 20s. You're saying that like you have. Tell us.

Yeah, I have. I have. Because what was it like? I think like an unscrupulous paramedic let me take a, take a whiff of it. They're like, you sure? Yeah. I was like 16 at the time. It was like me and my friends.

I remember we were all like, ah, the fuck. It was, yeah, not I don't know why. I just I don't know. And I and I guess for me, that shows how normal I thought that was because like this paramedic is like, yeah, if you guys want to let it rip, go ahead. See what see what it fucking does to you. Like, what did it smell like? It's like ammonia, just like fucking explodes. Oh, you're just like

Like it's not a smell. It's just like a fucking skull lightning Through your nose and not in the 80s kind of way. So He got he was there to receive his fellowship and then So like he was also gonna promote the new mission impossible movie. And he stood on the roof of the BFI, like IMAX building in a tuxedo. And it just looks like a real bummer version of like the end of let it be, except there's no instruments.

And it's one guy by himself contemplating what he does now with everything. So my question is what's Tom Cruise going to do with his life when he retires from acting? Is he still going to keep jumping out of buildings and climbing stuff? He's going to have to find a replacement. You know what I mean? Because this is the last of the Mission Impossible films. His jumping off of buildings and doing

a wacky stunts era is coming to an end in terms of using this film franchise as a conduit for that. So I feel like now he's just like, fuck it. Can I get on the building man and promote the movie? Like it already came out. Yeah. Nobody's asking you to do this, Tom. No, no, not even the marketing people at this point.

They're like, I feel like we have a good proposition by saying it's the last Mission Impossible film. I mean, we even changed the name to Final Reckoning versus Dead Red. Yeah, I'm heading up. It's like when you have a toddler and it's like they just like look away for a sec and they look back and they're like, oh, he's climbing the building. Yeah. Oh, fuck. He's like, how the fuck do you do that? Yeah.

He has all that rappelling gear on too. Yeah, I don't know what he does. Like if he just. Probably it's going to probably just be another film that he's able to do that. Or he just completely pivots to like one of those extreme free climber type of things. Ooh, free climbing, maybe free climbing. Although maybe it's a James Cameron situation, but with that with like free client where he just gets into this hobby. Yeah.

And, but I guess Cameron's still making movies, but yeah, it's a weird. Where does that energy go? Yeah, man. I think that's the problem with being this rich. Like you can't just do like normal people shit, like fucking play a guitar or something and just fucking like, or even like George Bush, you know, war criminal. He got into painting. Yeah. You know, what criminal. He got into painting.

Yeah. What's your painting, Tom Cruise? Hey, when was the last time you think Tom Cruise ate Little Caesar's pizza? Oh, shit. He should start a Little Caesar's franchise. Mm-hmm, big Caesars. Do you think humongous Caesar?

Oh, shit. I wonder, I mean, yeah, is I just, I just wonder if maybe he can connect that to some kind of extreme lifestyle, maybe just high sodium intake. When you're 62, that's probably more dangerous than climate. That's true. One, one bite of pan loco and sorry, bro, that blood pressure. Shout out to your diastolic and systolic, bro, because it's going up, going up. Tom, I just pray for you that you can make peace and maybe, you know,

find out where David Miscavige's wife is. You know, if you know people are still looking for her. Maybe that'll be your swan song. Just just just free somebody that people are looking for in the clutches of Scientology, allegedly. Joey, it's been fantastic having you on The Daily Zite, guys. Where do the people find you, follow you, support you, all of that good stuff? Yeah. Thanks so much for having me. This is always so fun.

Love the Zite gang. You can follow me on Twitter, TikTok, and bluesky at joeytan, and you can follow me on Instagram and threads at Joey Clift with five or six eyes. Reason for that is that a 12 year old took Joey Clift with one eye and I just got a deal. Although I know, although this was years ago.

So I feel like he's like 25 now and I could probably fight him if I wanted to. Oh yeah, but wait, what is that? You know where he's at? You know where he's at? Yeah, does anybody know where he's at? Look, if you're that Joey Clift, DM me. So I can ask you politely to give me your hand.

Yeah, hey, actually, if you are the original Joey Clift, DM all of us. And let's just figure out an agreed upon place where we can come bring you a lump sum of cash in a bag and nothing else. No questions asked. And but we will show up with about 45 people just to make sure we're safe. It's a lot of cash. It has nothing to do with. Yeah.

Oh, yeah, for sure, for sure. And then something I'm really excited to talk about is I have a new short film currently going through the festivals called Pau. We just released our trailer, which you can watch in all of my social media accounts. It's an animated short about a young native kid trying to find a place to charge their video game console

to pow wow, kind of like a Pixar short or a Looney Tunes short, but native. We got screenings coming up in Seattle, Oklahoma, New York, Arkansas, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Palm Springs, and Los Angeles in the next month or two. I'm really proud of it. People really seem to like it. That's awesome.

We got listeners in all those places. So yeah, definitely check that out. Yeah. Are the actual festivals it's going to be at on your website or on your social media? Yeah. I'm posting all the festivals on my social media. So just follow me on the socials and I'll pop up. As those are announced, I'll post them all over the place. Perfect.

Perfect. Is there a work of media social or otherwise that you're enjoying? Okay. Specifically, I feel like y'all might dig this. Uh, if you go to, uh, X.com slash Ninja Mac one Ninja Mac is a, uh, fantastic professional wrestler who, um, recently wrestled a match in New Japan row pro wrestling where he did 11 consecutive handspring back flips, including one over the top rope outside the ring

where he was literally chasing his opponent by doing handspring backflips. You can watch the clip. It's like 20 seconds long. It is bat shit insane pro wrestling magic. Check it out. And also Ninja Mac, a fantastic wrestler. So please support that guy and follow that guy on the socials. Ninja Mac. Who is this? Right up my alley. Yeah.

Just so just so that y'all can watch this because it's nuts. I'm going to make CK. I was I was like, M.A.C. I was like, oh, like the making of the Mac, the Ninja Mac. He's Irish. Yeah. OK. OK, I'm going to drop, like the mickety mickety Mac, the ninja Mac. He's Irish. Yeah. Okay. I'm going to drop this in the chat. Just so y'all can watch this. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh shit.

Yeah. Pro wrestling rules. It's so it's, it's like basically because men weren't just down for drag balls. You know what I mean? To see drags. You just watch this because the flipping, the physical stunts, it's all there, it's all there. Like, this is so extra, this, my man did,

how many flips did he do? 11 hand spring back flips. And at a certain point- And one of them over the top rope, landing on his feet, and then without pausing, doing 15 more or something like that. Oh my God, I shout out to pro wrestling. Oh yeah, pro wrestling is amazing.

It's basically like, it's basically drag mixed with combat. Fixed with like fight choreography. I love how the dude who was on the receiving end, he was like, oh shit, I'm backing up faster than the pace of his backflips. I better slow down so I can get hit with this shit. Yeah, yeah. Probably, fantastic.

And that's what, that's called coordination. That's called choreography, okay. Well, and it's great, it's like Ninja Mac. So many pro wrestlers, back in the day of pro wrestler, you were just the toughest guy in your hometown. You drank a lot, you had a beer belly, and you were just tough. Ninja Mac, former Cirque du Soleil performer. Really?

Yeah. You just get these freak, essentially theater kids who do CrossFit doing just the craziest shit you've ever seen in your life. Yeah. He's a five-five kid from Long Island. All right. Yeah. I'm just looking in the background, a ninja Mac.

Raised in Cypress, Texas. All right. Ninja Mac. Love to see that. Ninja Mac is a unit too. I pictured a very skinny, tiny. Not this guy. No, ninja Mac packs a punch, bro. This is, I'm going to watch this for the rest of my life. I think he could, if I think maybe he's the guy who's thought

he could tap out a grizzly bear. Yes. I believe that he could. Yeah. Yeah. All right. We'll see. Get that, get that grizzlies arm in an arm lock, you know, as they're called.

Um, yeah, if you're listening, please tell us if you could tap out a grizzly beer. Thank you. Ninja Mack, call in now. Trained by Booker T. Okay. I'm in. I'm in. Blake Wexler, thank you so much for joining us. Some call you the Clyde Drexler of podcasting, but I just call you

the Blake Wexler of my heart. Where do the people find you, follow you? What's the work of media that you're enjoying? Well, to answer those questions, at Blake Wexler on all social media, my special Daddy Long Legs is still available on YouTube for free on May 17th. I do this every year. I'm biking in this. I'm doing 30 miles of a ride to raise money for autism awareness. So thank you. Yeah, I'm psyched about it. It's for the Eagles Autism Foundation. It's an amazing cause. So a bunch of Zeitgang

people already donated. Thank you. I know times are, you know, it's tough to spend money now, but if you can spare anything, that link is in my bio at Blake Wexler on social media. And then August 1st, I'm doing stand-up in Philly and then August 29th and 30th, I'm gonna be in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. And then I'll have more dates in this fall that aren't in Pennsylvania. And Wilkes-Barre spelled like Wilkes-Barre. Wilkes-Barre. That also might be how you pronounce it.

No, no, it is Wilkes-Barre. Cause I remember the first time it came up like in a story, I was like, I had never seen this fucking word before. And then we were like, Hey, Wilkes-Barre. Yeah. Down in Wilkeskes Barre. Yeah. His voice sounds. Down in Wilkes Barre. Yeah.

What's the work of the media that you're enjoying? Work of the media is Drew Majory, the guy used to run Deadspend. And or Magry, it's D- E W M A G A R Y. Oh, okay. Okay. And, uh, the tweet is in quotes. And so the Greeks send me this horse. We're talking about one of the most beautiful horses you've ever seen.

So big, so strong. Normally they keep this kind of horse for themselves, but there are such big bands, they said, sir, please take our big, wonderful horse. We didn't bring it to your house. That's perfect. It's so good. Oh, it's right there. Fuck Trojan horse.

Of course, of course, this horse is Trojan horse. Oh, shit. Trajan. Yeah, you can find me at Miles of Grey fucking everywhere. They got at symbols. You can find Jack and I talking gray fucking everywhere. They got at symbols. You can find Jack and I talking to the NBA. Miles Jack up mad boosties.

Find me talking 90 day fiance on 420 day fiance. You can find us at daily zeitgeist on Twitter at the days like us on Instagram. We also have blue sky at daily zeitgeist a work of media that I'm enjoying was this video on Tik Tok. I quite enjoyed this Tik Tok video from a group of Australian comedians, who I guess apparently a lot of South Africans are moving to Perth, which is inspiring this like trend of videos from this sketch group. But this one is just them pretending to be South Africans,

and it's just as South African names be like. And then these are these Australian guys. Hey, welcome to Durban. I'm Y de Toit. Have you been surfing much today? The waves are so up today, man. I'm Trevor Stontheltan. I work in mining in Perth. Hello, guy. My name is Bill Dong. Yeah, I work the shark dives in Perth.

Oh, hello there. I'm Yolande Duplessis. I just moved to Perth. And my son is having such a great time going to the local grammar school there. Yeah, what's popping, man? I'm Lucas Von Doom. And I came to London in the 90s.

It's a long story. I came to London in the 90s. It's a long story. That's from at mates dot rates on TikTok. They're also on Instagram, but it's just, I love South African accents. Yeah. Hey, what's popping?

Great media racks this week. Just fucking on. Ninja Mac that. Fucking point. Dude, let's look. We got, it's popping? Great media wrecks this week. Just fucking on. Ninja Mac that. Fucking point. We got, we're just in an embarrassment of riches on social media. Again, if you want to find the articles we talked about, as long as the song we're going to write out on, you can go to the description of the episode on whatever app you're listening to.

That's where you'll find the Phenomes. Thank you. And again, all the articles he talked about the song we write out on miles. Yes. What's a song you think that people enjoy going on? Oh, wow. Well, thank you for asking. This one is called Feel So Wrong by the band Mama Larky. They're currently an LA based band. Super dreamy. Like if you like war paint, like I love like the vocalist on here. She's like her vibe is very dreamy, like if you like War Paint, like I love like the vocalist on here, she's like, her vibe is very dreamy, so it's like a dreamier version of War Paint.

I think War Paint has a little more of like an edge to it. Mama Larky, this track has just, just dreamy, dreamy. Feel So Wrong is the name of the track. That is gonna do it for us today. The day is like it's the production of iHeartRadio, so for more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you're listening to your favorite shows. We'll be back later today to tell you what's trending. The Daily Zyte Guys is a production of iHeartRadio. So for more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iRadio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you're listening to your favorite shows. We'll be back later today to tell you what's trending. Until then,

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