The Daily Zeitgeist - Selling Disaster, Man With Facelift = CLONE!!! 03.03.26

Episode Date: March 3, 2026

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Justin, is this place cool, though? It's amazing. Where are you? I'm going to be moving to Echo. Yeah, Echo Park. It's literally right across the street. So we'll see. And right by one of the best fish sandwiches.

Oh, you got to show me around the neighborhood. I haven't spent much died in the area. Little fish. All the local spots are so good in like the Vietnamese bakery. Tell me about it. They're baguettes. Oh my God, bro. Like pillowy crusty.

It's like if it's like a cloud got pink eye. I guess that sounds appetizing it. Do you say if a cloud got pink eye? Yeah, yeah. Walk up with pink eye because it's crusty, real crusty. But pillowy on the inside. I don't know. I do like that actually.

Cloudy. Like once you describe it, it's good, but it does because of the connotation of the pink eye coming from fecal. Yeah, getting farted directly into your eye. Yeah, and then turning into pus. Yeah. I feel like they don't want that. And yet.

Is there a crem in there? You said pus. No. No. No. Yeah. Yeah. No.

See, that's my one. Unless Tess knows another bakery. Well, I know pink eye. A delicious. Pussy crem food. Miles was like, he's like an incredibly poetic food reviewer, but all this shit is just disgusting. Disgusting.

Stop it. Your raves got her restaurant closed. Their empanadas. Remind me of. Fornier's gangrene, if I may. Don't look that up. Don't look it up because that was one of the first things when my best friend who became like a trauma nurse was like,

told me about it. She said, don't look it up. And I know you're going to look it up anyway. And did you? You did. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. This barbecue like a soldier in World War I with Swampfoot is falling off the bone. Tender. Yeah.

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He wouldn't have written half of the books. But man, he had a. get a wild run of books that were very popular that he doesn't remember writing. Yeah. I came away from that episode being like, thank God you married that lady, dude. Yeah. Because without your wife's input, you are cooked, buddy. Yes, that's right.

Anyways, it is Tuesday, March 2nd, 2026. Thank God. No, it's March 3rd, technically, if it's Tuesday. You got it, Miles. It's Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020. Six. Yeah. Three, three, two six.

Good buddy. It's a national mold wine day, which feels, I feel like you're a few months off for hot wine. Maybe do that in December. National Cold Cuts Day. National, I want you to be happy day. And now, God, forget National Anthem Day. Today's not the day for that. Anyway.

Not today. Not today. National Anthem Day. Yeah. Is it National National Anthem Day? I think it was just National Anthem Day. You know what I mean? Yeah.

So it can be any anthem. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Could be. Uptown anthem by Nottie by Nature. Exactly. Could be. Could be. Or what's the one?

What was the one? Not Players Ball. What was that one called? International Players Anthem. Yes, yes, yes, exactly. A fucking great song and the one that I wish I had pulled. But instead I pulled a naughty by nature song that is pretty forgettable. I'm being honest.

It's okay. It's all right. My name's Jack O'Brien, aka. What the fuck Improv God Kev's gun hands This mango smells like shit I said That one courtesy of First Blood

522 on the Discord That one was four miles But I got to get in there There's too much fun Kevin Sorbo Improv Kevin Sorbo Improv The Gift that keeps on giving What the fuck

What the fuck This smells like shit Okay A real thing. Kevin Sorbo is giving children improv lessons, and we couldn't help but spend 45 minutes of a recent episode imagining what that... How little improv it's going to be. It's just going to be him yelling whatever he thinks is funny and vulgar and call it improv. Yeah. No, always always pulls a gun. Pull the gun out. Oh, yeah. You got to. You got to. I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. It's Miles Gray, AKA I know you'd like to think. think sorbos improv stinks

but remember during the herald he said roses really smell like shit what the fuck these roses smell like shit that's everything that every specific that they give in the thing his his reaction is just to smell and go fuck what the fuck this smells like shit

is our idea of what Kevin Soros if the suggestion is mango this is how they're seeing starts, oh, what the fuck, this mango stinks like shit. And then leaves your improv partner very little

room to work with. But, hey, Kevin, why are you pointing a gun at me? No, it doesn't. Yeah, exactly. In the same. It does. Yes, no, it does it. Yes, it does. Seven minutes later. Why does it smell like shit?

Yeah. Miles, we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a hilarious writer and comedian who produces and co-hosts the great podcast Lady to Lady, which just launched a Dawson's Creek rewatch show on Patreon. Please

welcome back to the show. It's Tess Barker! Cuss! Cush! Cush! Oh my God, so happy to be here. You guys always happy to be here. Talking poop. Talking mold wine. I forget if I'm supposed to talk in that beginning

part because I have so many feelings about mold wine. No, you should. Let's mold them. Let's mold them together. Let's mold over it. Come on you're molder. You're exactly right. It's a December beverage. And it's one that people don't indulge in enough because it's a combination candle and wine.

Oh. It does feel like you're drinking a Yankee candle store. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Which as a basic pitch, that's like what I, that's all of the things that I like. So. Yeah.

Tell me this. Do you like cold foam on a coffee drink? No. Oh, God. Well, there you go. Yeah. Sorry. I know.

I'm going to make my. That's my basic B lifestyle. Do you like the flavored Starbucks ones? Like when they get cute? No, I just started, I have a coffee maker. I didn't realize I can make coal foam. And I said, what the fuck is this? And I made it.

And I was just like, what the fuck? This cold foam smells like shit. It tastes pretty good. It was the texture I was not ready for. And I was like, this shit's cold. No, it's exciting. And foam. Yeah.

It's like if a cloud got pink eye. Crescy. Crescy. Dead elephant could. Come on me because it's cold and anyways. Foamy? All right. Climactic.

Yeah, there we go. You saved it. You saved it. Well, Tess, we're thrilled to have you here. How's the Dawson's Creek thing going? I'm assuming you did not know that Dawson himself would be passing away as he made this decision. No, we didn't know that at all. Or did you guys cause it?

It's hard to say. We manifested. Nobody can say. Yeah. Wait, why's she on trial right now? Because I'm a woman, Miles, and when are we nut? No, it's been a lot of fun. I loved it the first time around.

I love Nottie's culture. The music has taken me back like a whiff of CK1. It's been a lot of fun. God damn, CK1. Yeah. The thing about Dawson's, like, when you watch it, like, if you're a millennial, there's a lot of culture in there that we've revisited the greatest hits, right? Like, we know about the low-rise jeans and the body glitter,

but there's like Eve's, songs that I've forgotten. And they're still in there because sometimes shows like that will just be like, here's the sound like because we lost the rights to this particular. It was only for 30 years or whatever, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, somebody in Kevin

Williamson's world is keeping the money for the music catalog alive and well. Yeah. I also have another podcast. It's my solo podcast. It's called Pop Mystery Pod where I go really deep into pop culture stuff. What's the latest mystery? What's your favorite mystery you've done? Oh, wow.

That I exce. First latest and then the greatest. Okay. What's the latest and then give a three? Well, I do, so every week I do like a real deep dive and I kind of, I do as much like firsthand reporting as I can. I just an episode about Angeline. Oh shit.

Shout out the legend. Yeah. The legend for herself. Yeah. So that one was really fun. I talked to somebody who spends a lot of time with her and got the inside tea on like what her. We were wondering what she's up to. Yeah.

Yeah. I see her in the event. Yeah. Well, there's a, this is, this is tea, but there's more than one vet and there's more than one. One, one, Angelene. Wow. I heard tell of this. I heard tell of this. Yeah. It's big time. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Good on you. Yeah. But I have a big, I do a big, I do a big, but I have an episode coming out this week where I did a deep dive on the movie Groundhog Day and how it relates to the Camus essay, the myth of Sisyfis. So I do kind of like different pop culture phenomena, deep down. That's really cool. That's right up my alley. I love both Groundhog. Hug Day. Jack's so jealous right now. I think Sisyphus is going to break through one of these days.

He's like, that's the best shit I ever heard. I could have done that shit. End this podcast. That's what I do. Fuck, man. I got to start writing this shit down. I can't wait to check it out. We do have a bit of a pop culture mystery today on the show.

We're going to get to know you a little bit better test in a moment. But first, first of all, we're going to talk about the war. The illegal war that the U.S. and Israel just launched us all into. I'm just going to check them with the right. How they handle in it all because it's a lot to throat. It's a big boot to throat. Big boot to get crammed down your mouth right there. You might get pink eye.

A lot of mental gymnastics for people who don't seem like they stretch. Yeah. Right. Yeah. That's right. So we're just going to check in with them because we're always worried about them and how everything's being sold. We'll check them with the Netflix deal that is no more.

And what exactly is happening with. David Ellison and his ability to buy everything all at once, no matter what, because the Paramount is trying to buy Warner Brothers. It seems like they're going to be able to, despite the fact that, yeah, it's a crazy story. So we'll just briefly talk about that. Long story short, the entertainment industry is not going to be ruined in the very specific way we thought it was when Netflix was going to take over and like ruin movie theaters is going to be ruined in a different specific way that's going to be even a little harder to predict.

I'm going to find out how it gets even worse. Then we're going to talk about a pop culture conspiracy, which is why did that clone go up and accept an award and claim to be Jim Carrey? Tess? I don't know if you're aware, but Jim Carrey just received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Cesar Awards in Paris.

and somebody else went up there and got it. Either he got plastic surgery or somebody else went up there and got it, got the award for him. So we're going to talk about these sorts of conspiracies where people are like, wait, what? He looked different now? Yeah, I'm excited about that. It clone.

It's got to be a clone. That's right. We're using clones only in those very specific. We're using clones in such a very specific, weird way. Yes. Only when you're the recipient of a French lifetime. Sheeven Award. Then it calls for a clone. Not even the Mark Twain Prize.

Yeah, yeah, right, exactly. So we're going to talk about that plenty more. But first, Tess, we do like to ask our guest. What is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? The Amtrak schedule. I took the surf liner this weekend. I absolutely look. I took it up to, I'm from Ventura County, so I went to see the girlies in Ventura.

Hell yeah. And I just love the surfliner. I love train travel. I am somewhat like evangelistic about it. I mean, it's just such a lovely way to spend a day. I get good riding done on the train. I love the Amtrak. Yeah, a lot of good thinking.

That was my first like long American train ride because going to Japan, like the train's way better. And I always wanted to be like, what, what's going on an American one is like, I don't know, man. I'm like, where should we go? And I remember we went up to Santa Barbara on the. surfliner and I just was my mind was blown that I could see the ocean out of the side of it. I remember as a kid. I was like, this thing's by the ocean. Yes. It is a very whimsical train.

It's romantic. It's beautiful. I mean, you can get closer to the water on the train than you can in a car. You're like right over the water. Oh, it's wonderful. And it's like I love taking the train. If I have to go downtown, I'm training it. Because I feel so superior to people who are sitting in traffic when I'm on a train. Yeah. Yeah. Right, right, right. You're just hanging out the window giving them the finger. Absolutely.

That's why. Yeah. Like the D-line subway extension and like L.A. Metro's selling shirts that says ride the D. Yeah. Yeah. Get it. I need. I need.

The orange love coaster, they're taking some of that flavor from the F line. The orange love coaster. Oh, yeah. Now it's like the purple. The ride the purple D. You're like, yo, okay. That's a little. That's a little much.

It's like pink guy. It's like pink guy, the train. You're like, all right, sorry, we're extending it. We're trying different stuff. We're not good at this. Sorry, we should have said it's just extending the access of down Wilshire Boulevard. Better, better, better. Say that.

Ride the D extension. Do you have an extension? Yeah. It's necessary. Yeah. Find a new angle. What? You know what I like about.

on the East Coast that I think is underrated, is that they are a different, they were built in a different time than the highways. And so you're like cutting through different like layers of time almost. Like you're like going through like little chunks of town that have been like abandoned and stuff. You know, you're just seeing like a cross section of the East Coast especially that like you don't see otherwise. It's just like a weird. It was like back when the train was the thoroughfare that everybody like went on and came to and that you'll just see like a little ghost town zip by as you're flying down down the east coast. I do love it. I love that. Or like some towns really do up their train station. Like you can tell like that that's the cool thing to do in town is go to the train station. I love passing through those kind of places. And I have fantasies about just like hopping off and spending an afternoon on one of those random places. Oh, yeah.

Oh, me too. But then I have to drive the rail. downtown. Yeah. I feel like, yeah, that's right. I feel like riding the rails could become cool again

as we like fall into this great depression that nobody's admitting is the economic depression. Just maybe we start riding the rails again. And we're all smoking cigarettes again. Like, just let us smoke cigarettes on the rails. Yeah.

Dude, cigarettes are so bad. It's crazy how bad cigarettes are. And I knew when Beyonce was smoking Sigs at the, at the fucking tour, the Cowboy Carter tour. I said, bro, get ready, bro.

Because if Beyonce just did, cigarettes are fucking back, bro. With those pipes, if she's smoking. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we're all smoking. Yeah, we're all smoking. She's smoking real cigarettes.

She was smoking stokes and shit. Like, she was like, she was puffing big, like maconoodos, like big ass fucking stogies and shit. It was definitely like an aesthetic, but it was one of those things. I go, that shit look cool again. That's the problem.

She reminded us. She reminded us. Like Delroy Lindo and a little bit. It was just like, I mean, smoke would be slow-mo billowing out. You know, a lot of hero, slow-mo shots of her doing that. And that alone, I was like, bro, I don't know what, the Marlboro people paid you for that. But they probably got their money's worth right there. Not enough.

Yeah. Tess, what is something you think is underrated? Underrated? I'm actually going to say, I just did an episode about Angeline. And her music is really good. I went into this researching this episode, like thinking what everyone else that she was just like that the billboard, just the that was like kind of an image. But then I started listening to her music.

And it is like gritty, almost like the runaways or like bikini kill. Like it's like the gritty 90s and 80s punk. And I'm like legitimately listening. That's not what I would expect. Yeah. I recommend people check it out. It's, uh, it's better than I was expecting. And just for people, Angeline, for people who aren't who don't know aren't familiar.

This is an icon who kind of built herself. with billboards, right? Yeah. Yeah. She's sort of like thought of as almost like the godmother of the Paris Hilton's. Right. The influencers, like she's thought of as being the first person who was famous for no reason. Right.

Basically what I found out is she was able to get this guy who made like, his business was blowing up prints of things. And she got this guy to like make the billboards for her and put them up all over town. And that's how she became famous. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. She's like an L.A. legend.

Like for L.A., like, especially when I was like a kid, too, in the 80s and 90s, those billboards were fucking everywhere. And you're always like, who is? And it was always just, it was just her with her blonde hair, pink outfit, and pink writing, Angeline. That's it. No information, no phone number, no nothing. It was just Angeline, you know what the fuck is up. Exactly. It would be the thing where like as kids would, I saw a Corvette, dude.

I saw fucking Angelina. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm still like that. I mean, do you guys think it's good luck if you see her? I never even thought of it like that. But now I'm going to have to

and now I'm going to... It's like an invincibility star once you see her. Exactly. I saw Angeline and I jumped. I ran into traffic and the car was bounced off of me. That's crazy. But I do love that asymmetrical warfare

of celebrity. Like everybody else is like, well, I'm trying to like meet somebody who can like get me an agent or something. She's like, I'm trying to meet somebody who can blow up photographs of me. Right. So I can put those photographs.

up in places so that I become like a where's Waldo in real life for the people of Los Angeles. It's brilliant. And I think it's, I find you're so inspiring because I think everyone in L.A. is like waiting for someone else to make things happen for them. And she just really took her fate into her own hands and did something that no one else had done. I mean, it's such a simple idea, but she really came up with it. So I just love her. I didn't realize she was born in Poland? Her parents were Holocaust survivors.

Her parents met in a concentration camp. Met in a concentration. Now I got to listen to your shit. Because there's also a mini series that came out recently, too. I think on, was it Hulu or something? Yeah, on Hulu or Peacock, I think. Emmy Rasm, Pekangelo, and she's excellent. Yeah, it's good.

Yeah. What is something you think is overrated? Fucking protein. Okay. Deft protein, cold foam protein. popcorn, but protein in general is overrated. Yeah. Where are we going with this?

Tell me about it. Like, I don't need it anymore. I'm drinking protein-infused water right now. So you're going to have to forgive me if I'm a little skeptical. I just put in a lip or a protein. Proteins in? Proteins in? Yeah.

Well, if you're vaping it and you're having fun, that's one thing. But I just think like we're all being, it feels like really tied to like toxic masculinity to me. Protein does. It feels like... For your gains. Exactly. For your gain.

And like, I don't know, as someone who is not given a shit about protein my entire life, every time I go to the doctor, they're like, don't change anything. So just learn from me, you guys. Yeah. They say don't change anything. They said you've hit the goddamn genetic lottery. We didn't think this was ever going to happen, but we found her. Don't do a fucking thing.

And that's my advice to everyone else. you can be like me. No, I get everything is. That emphasis of like everything being like protein enhanced is feels fucking creepy. Doesn't it? There's like a waffle that my kid likes that they're like and it's added protein. I'm like this is for kids, dude. Like this fully lifting weights.

He just wants like a yummy chocolate waffle. Like I don't give a shit of it. And I get, I think because a lot of time there's like for young parents too, like of young kids like, are they getting everything? Are they getting enough protein if they're only these other things? But it's like every time I ask that to the pediatrician, they're like, yeah, yeah, like your kids are eating fine. They're fine. He doesn't have a six pack yet. What the fuck is this? Yeah. Do you know your kid's macros or not, dude? I don't know. Yeah, is you lifting? Yeah. I don't know. I just feel like we kind of, I don't know, most people probably get a, I don't know, I'm not an nutritionist. I don't do what you're going to do.

But I just feel like, yeah, they're forcing it everywhere. It's seeing it everywhere. And it's acting as a deterrent to me in the same way that I got kind of the way they were trying to shove CBD and everything five years ago it was like or AI now yeah yeah yeah this thing's got AI you like yeah I don't need my band-aid to have AI in it oh you do test you do let me tell you why test does it miles because perfect I'm perfect doesn't need band-died but my band-aid is providing a lot of very important intelligence to me fair enough about Angeline's parents backstory Why does my Band-Aid have a take on this? Yeah.

Like, I've got to feel like the protein dusting that they're putting on the same foods that people have been eating. Like you said, protein popcorn, that shit's not working, right? Like, protein. Wait, there is protein popcorn? I know there's, like, protein Doritos and shit like that. Like, not actual Doritos, but, like, bread, like foods that are, like, protein, chips, protein pretzels, protein. Like that can't be as good as just like eating a thing of, you know, yogurt or something that like naturally has protein.

Well, yeah. Right. Like just get the food you're supposed to get from the food it's supposed to be. Yeah, I guess I also don't like when like cookies are supposed to have vegetables in them. Like I don't think when they try to mix and match. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah. I don't need my heroin to have vitamin C in it. Right. Fucking let's just get to the thing that it does. Did you know that actually the reason heroin addicts have bad teeth, scurvy? Yeah. It's scurvy, actually. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So with this vitamin C. Like a heroin addict scurvy, this delicious meal had me watering at the mouth. Falling out the gums tender. Yep, yep, yep, real good. I mean, but it's also like every, there's so many like what they call it the halo effect, right, of like just by association being like, whoa, we're just going to say it has this. Like with all the probiotic sodas. too.

Yes. We're like, oh, probiotic soda. I'm like, dude, give me a fucking break. Like, I get that it's a,

it's better. Like, having it is good or whatever. But let's not act like me drinking my probiotic fucking orange cream sickle thing with a bunch of sugar in it is like, well, thank God, had those probiotics in it too.

The only probiotics I believe in are the ones that like look like someone Haktalugi in it. Yeah, yeah, you know, like that's gross. And again, we're giving really glowing,

food reviews. Like someone's hot to luggy and you drink. Exactly. Thank you. But yeah, it's like let gross things be gross things. Like I would rather just house for like supplements and then have a Coke bread. Just be a Coke bread. We used to just drink.

I remember my dad used to was sold into Acidophilis. Like all these acid. It was like it's like a probiotic thing. I think it's in yogurt and shit. But anyway, like we had this jug that he would be. like drink your acidophilus boy and I'm like and it was just like it was like the essence of yogurt it was it was yeah you could like taste that tangy yogurt yeah had that so it wasn't like terrible like I was like oh whatever it's not painful to drink but I remember but it was so specialized

back then we used to be like come on I remember my uncle was selling tahitiannone at the time got caught up in that shit so we're like take your teheishanoni take your little dumb supplements that's the scam de jure today is that illegal teheishanonone No, no, but it's just like one of those, you know, like multi-level marketing things. Or it's like, if I start selling it, then you start selling you, hey, you got these goji berries? You know about goji berries? My parents were briefly in the multi-level marketing thing for something called Melaluka. Did you ever remember that?

Melaluka. It sounds like a cancer. Like, it's like guys, the name is sucks. Melaluka. And I think it was eucalyptus-based things like shampoo, cleaner. but then I think also like food. I remember eating something that tasted like eucalyptus. I was like, oh, man, this sucks.

Some guy just like had a bunch of eucalyptus and he's like, we just need to start an MLM. Yeah, we were just like, we were some guys downstream. Though we were like, you know, Dayton, Ohio, just trying to offload some melluluka. Oh, gosh, out to all of us. We're on downstream with somebody in an MLM. We're all downstream.

That's the real Kevin. Bacon game. Yeah. That guy was one of my downstreams. All right, Tess, let's take a quick break. We're going to come back. We're going to talk about some news. You two, Miles. We'll be right back. I'm Nancy Glass, host of the Burden of Guilt Season 2 podcast. This is a story about a horrendous lie that destroyed two families. Late one night, Bobby Gumpbright became the victim of a random crime. He pulls the gun, tells me to lie down on the ground. He identified Germain Hudson as the perpetrator. Germain was sentenced to 99 years. I'm like, Lord, this can't be real.

I thought it was a mistaken identity. The best lie is partial truth. For 22 years, only two people knew the truth, until a confession changed everything. I was a monster Listen to Burden of Guilt Season 2 on the I Heart Radio app

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And as we talked about on yesterday's episode, the United States and Israel have waged an illegal attack on Iran. You probably do about this. I'm calling it a war. It's a war. It's war. He's like, I don't know, this seems fun. Let's try this half. on.

Yeah. He's trying on a war hat. He's even done the thing where he's like, I don't even need the Nobel Peace Prize anymore. He's like, we need one for war. Yeah. He got one the way that like people trade for a Pokemon card. Yeah. Exactly.

Give me that. A bully trades for a Pokemon card. Give me that. Yeah. Yeah. That's how you know you earned it when you go, give me that. Give me that. Okay. I mean, you know, it doesn't transfer.

Okay. Yeah, no, here you go, sir. We actually think you should have it too. Thank you, sir. for not beating me up. Look at this. This is the shroud of Turin. They say this is over Jesus's head in the tomb.

Look at this. I'm wearing it now. What does that make me? Jesus, exactly. So I guess I am going to heaven. What else do you have for me? Actually, the highest honor you can get from any day. It's to be Jesus Christ.

So I've been deemed Jesus Christ by putting this on that. Ceremonio Jesus Christ. They passes from one Jesus Christ to the next. I'm telling him. I am he right now. Mm-hmm. He is I. And I am him.

We are all together. The tilted brim. Brim on 20 inches. What's my motherfucking name? Exactly. You already know. That wasn't Jigga. That was me.

Yeah. So, I don't know. The reactions have been a mixed bag, kind of. I mean, it's most, not as much criticism.

You know, it's more varying degrees of like how much have people lost their minds. Like, obviously Lindsay Graham was giddy with excitement, like a drunken hawk,

only himself could be. He was like, yeah, guess what Cuba's next? judge. And you're like, oh, Jesus Christ. And others. Citation for war, don't ask me, judge.

Don't ask me, judge. But others, a little more, like, restrained, more just being like, yes, because the president had to do, had to take action. And I'm just going to go there, not much criticism. And these are all like talking heads type people, right? Not talking heads type, talking head type people. They're not the front members of the band the talking about. No, no, they were.

That would be dope. David Byrne. Yeah. It does stop making sense. How did I get here? This is not my illegal war? Yet it is. It's all of ours now, David.

But yeah, I think there's also like a number of people, mostly those outside of Trump's good graces that have been quite vocal about how this is no good at all. Like Tucker Carlson calls it disgusting and evil. That's mostly based on his hatred for Israel, not because he has like any kind of proper framework for looking at how geopolitical strength operates. He's like, I'm against everything. Look, I'm a bit of a, I don't even know I'm whispering this. I'm an anti-Semite.

So it's shorthand for me to just like, whatever they're doing. I did the whisper hand, but I screamed it out loud. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it was just to amplify it. Yeah, sorry, sorry, for the people in the back. And, you know, Marjorie Taylor Green, she is still slow auditioning. A, still slow auditioning for a presidential run. You know, so she came out with her obligatory broken clock being right occasionally.

statement, she said, quote, your generation, the baby boomers, your families were able to thrive on single incomes. And now that's practically impossible for the vast majority of American families, let alone imagine being a single mother. Most of your baby boomer friends and supporters, I'm sure cheering you the most. But us younger generations, Gen X, mine, millennials, and especially Gen Z, hate this fucking bullshit. Because we all know that in 10 years when the baby boomers that have been in charge of all of America's disastrous decisions are retired or passed away, us younger generations will be left with no social security checks because it will have gone bankrupt.

She said, we as in you and me campaigned on America first. And this is not it. Not it. Yeah. You being, you and me being, she's speaking directly to Donald Trump there. Yep. Yeah. They're the younger generation.

Trump and MGT. Yeah. She's like, do I count? She's like, I'm just, I wonder, is she a cusp? Gen X. Yeah, it'd be so funny. I'm actually Cusp, Gen Alpha.

Gen Z. Obviously, the rest of my Jen's like, hold on, now you're going. What are you doing? That's something we say on this show is a joke. Other Maga Luminaries also shared similar disappointment.

Top pro Trump Polster wrote on X. Rich Barras. He said, nope, sorry. I don't think the regime change suddenly became good policy or politics just because Donald Trump did it. Andrew Tate. No, not Andrew Tate.

Yeah, of the Manosphere has received, You know, obviously he had Trumps back. Sexual assault, et cetera. Yeah, just sexual trafficking and then left Romania for Florida to avoid any kind of accountability. He said all caps, nobody wants this war. A producer for Charlie Kirk, Blake Neff posted, he said, his right-leaning friends were expressing outrage at the attacks. He posted a few, quote, fuck this. Quote, this is extremely depressing, quote, never voting in a national election again.

Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, I think the one thing that I think, when you see pollsters and other people in office be like, this is fuck, it's because they're looking at the enthusiasm gap going into the midterms. And they're presuming there's probably going to be a midterm election with some light fuckery or to or maybe a lot of fuckery. We don't know. Yeah. But one of these.

It might be a fuckery with some light midterm election. Yeah, exactly. Oh, yeah. A heavy bout of fuckery with some. A bit of election with your fuckery. A little election dusting. Yes, I might as well. One of the consultants, I quote, this is highly demotivating. Look at the poll number since the 12-day war. That is when the vibe shifted. The media narrative on 2024 is that this was the podcast bro election. If you accept that it was a podcast bro election, it is relevant that the podcast bros hate this. And if you say that Trump built this enormous new coalition that's going to govern for a thousand years, and then you look at political independence, and they hate it more than Democrats. And the way it's going to, and the way it's going to matter is that no one's going to show up to the polls in 2026. Republicans can legitimately

lose the Senate, which is political malpractice. He could be impeached for any of these things. I think he's like, you should be impeached for letting up the GOP lose their stranglehold on the policy. But also, you'd hope at this point, there should be more and more calls for his actual impeachment because of gestures at everything. Yeah. Yeah. Just everything. Yeah, true. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, The fact that, and I think that this is coming on the heels, like, there are still, I think, some, like, the Marjorie Taylor Greens and, like, that version of Maga that is really pissed still about the upscene of it all. Yeah. So I think the idea that this was going to brush that over, I think is going to blow up in their face. Like, I don't.

Oh, yeah. Every single thing, you know, has been such a misstep, like, and just a head scratcher of a decision. And I think also when you listen to, like, the people that they've trotted out to the Sunday morning shows this week and on the news, to like try and justify it, you're like, oh, man, dude, like, you don't have a single person who can speak coherently on this who's like not in the cabinet. And they're just got a straight up lie. Yeah. I mean, I think for like older millennials or like Gen X, like for it, it almost makes it seem quaint when we knew we were being lied to about weapons of mass destruction. Like at least they lied to us. They felt the need to. Whereas now it's just like, well, what the fuck are you going to do? We're in charge. You right. aren't going to be able to vote for at least not an opposition party that like has anything effectively like opposition to this to say so yeah get fucked yeah yeah well and i think that's

probably why this isn't going over as well because we've seen it happen and we're like you guys were lying the whole time last time and now when you're like i think people have enough awareness to go like And you're lying again. Like, and actually, you're not even lying. You just jump straight into it. And then you're trying to lie after the fact about why this was necessary. It's, yeah, I think this will potentially manifest in less enthusiasm at a minimum. But again, we don't know what the end game.

We still don't really understand. It's a real vibe killer, this one, this illegal war that they're waging where 160 of the 200 dead over the weekend were a children's school, a girl, a girl. a girl's school. It's a real. Real vibe killer. Bad look guys. Yeah. Real bummer.

I mean, I, he's, Trump is just all of them. And like, the Hexat is such a raging alcoholic. I don't get the sense that there's any kind of a narrative arc here. Like, I think this is a showtime show where like,

they maybe thought about the pilot and we'll see where we are season five. Yeah. Like, that's right. And they're playing with such crazy stakes. And it's like, God, could just one fucking person and act of consequence to these people. Like, yeah, yeah.

No. No. No. The answer to your question, Tess, is no. No. Yeah, I mean, this America. I mean, we're not even learning the fucking lessons of the second Iraq war where we're like, that you just millions of people died for fucking no reason. Because you went on this WMD lie just to fucking, you know, just really line the pockets of everybody making arms and things like that.

And now it's crazy to see like the few. GOP members of Congress that have been dumb enough to go on the air to justify this illegal war, unsurprisingly, seem to have the requisite low IQ needed to try and publicly to defend this shit. And for starters, Senator, come at me, bro, Mark Wayne Mullen. Mark Wayne. Mark Wayne has let his subconscious fly by constantly mistaking Iraq for Iran. Oh, no. Yeah, yeah.

Again, as if it weren't all just so painfully obvious. We have people out here just saying, just calling it Iraq again. But it's up to the Iraqi people, or I'm sorry, the Iranian people to choose their next leader. It's up to them to rise up and kick. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Iraqi and Iranian don't even sound the same. Like, that's, that's wild.

It's, look, again, these people don't know anything. If it's IRA, the fourth letter doesn't matter as long as it's in that region of the world. This is him again where he's just being like, yeah, Donald Trump, he can get congressional authority after the fact to declare war on Iraq. He has the ability to come back. If it doesn't fall underneath the AEMFF, he has the ability to come back and declare war and ask for Congress to declare war on Iraq. Wow. I mean, it's been 20 years. You can imagine he's getting the name. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And like, clearly no lessons learned there. No lessons learned there. At all, at all.

And what we also heard, too, was that Trump was saying that, like, what happened with Maduro is kind of, like, his template for this, like, war now? And you're like, what? Also, I mean, the way the mainstream media treated the Maduro thing, they were, like, horny for it. They were like, here's the TikTok of the episode of 24 that brought Maduro down. And so, like, well, guys, like. Yeah. And by the way, any follow up on that country that we just like still have protesters there being killed, any follow up there. Like we, that country is still phenomenally more destabilized than it was when we went in and took Maduro out.

Not that anybody is under the illusion that Maduro wasn't a dictator, but like, yeah, the fact that we just went smashed up that country, Donald Trump took that money and put it into his own personal checking account in Qatar. Yeah, well, you know, I mean, it's not mine personally. I'm just, it's over there, you know, so nobody can mess with it. Will I have access to it? Yeah. Yeah. And nobody look over there, you know, I'm not going to take it. I'm taking it.

I took it. I've already spent it. I've spent it all. I bought a bunch of nonsense. Then you have representative Anna Paulina Luna from Florida, went out here with the confidence of a white man trying to explain how these attacks were justified, like, so in over your head being like, well, they killed thousands of Americans in America.

And you're like, hold on. Like, huh? Who did? And so she was on Eamon Moyhideen's show on MS Now. And coming out with this, just swinging, he was like, huh? He's like, can you break that down for me? And that didn't go so well because she wasn't expecting a follow-up. She just thought she could say something inflammatory and then let it cook. Can you just tell me really quickly, where have they killed thousands of Americans in America? I didn't say they killed thousands of Americans in America. I said that they have been responsible. for thousands of Americans being killed. And I think that that's easily something that you can verify. I don't know, state-sponsored terrorism for starters. Are you serious right now about that whole thing?

I'm not going to list out exact, exact specific locations. Are you talking about it? Are you talking about it? Jesus. Are you serious right now about that whole thing? You're about that whole thing is so funny. You're debating like some kid in high school about this right now. Are you like serious about that?

You're asking that makes me think you're kind of a loser. Like, I actually want to help you out. Don't ask that. That actually makes you look so embarrassing. Did you really ask that? Are you serious about that whole thing? I know you are about one of my blackout forever. Yeah.

My God. Again, if you say, are you serious right now in the middle of someone asking you for to clarify your stance on something? To give like evidence behind a thing that you just said that has a lot. You've lost. You've lost the argument. And what sucks is that they're letting people like this just blur. just blurt shit out like this to try and manufacture more consent for for all we can tell is

again completely unnecessary and really benefits the goals of benjamin netanyahu more than anything because he would love to be like yeah dude i can get this like drunken attack dog in the form of america to just like go at people if i just orient it in the right direction one of the things that i remember having to deal with during the iraq war when you know being like this is bad like obviously they're just doing this, they're going forward with this without any justification. And like a thing that you used to have to deal with is people being like, well,

do you know all of the intelligence that these military leaders who go on CNN? No, no. So like you shut the fuck up. You don't know everything. And it was like a little hard. It was more you had to just be like,

well, no, just look at the overall thing. Like they said they wanted to do this before 9-11. Like you had to like use, lot of circumstantial shit. I saw someone try and use that argument this weekend on, I think it was on Twitter where, like, somebody was just like, I think Donald Trump and his military leaders know more. And it's like, you can take a quote from them last week that contradicts their decision

to do that. Like, they don't, you don't have the luxury of that, of that argument anymore. No. No. No. People, like, this is the most evidently half-assed, hurried distraction attempt. of all time. Yeah. And it's like if anything they do know, Pete Heggseth is going to be texting the editor of the Atlantic. Like they're showing their whole ass.

Right. Right, right, right. Yeah, exactly. Oh, yeah. Well, we'll see what happens. He just, Trump just gave out like a, I think, Congressional Medal of Honor

to someone just now. And he had like a weird ass, like, sore on his neck. It's just like, God, the guys like falling apart. What is? He's got a vampire bite. rope burn on his neck

to click. Wow. It looks, I don't know, it's just so, I don't even, again, there's so many question marks, but I think the biggest one too

is sort of like, this clearly is to serve a purpose for Donald Trump. And whether that's like the sort of, the easy thing is like, well, no one's going to talk about the Epstein files. It's like,

well, that could be part of it. But there's also like, there is a bloodlust that this country just suffers from when it comes to, like, terrifying people across the globe.

But then the other part is, but for him specifically, is it really about the midterms? Because it's like, if you're doing something that everyone's going, this is going to fuck up your chances in a fair one to get, uh, to get people reelected. If that's, there's no need to consider that.

Then like I'm having, I think to think like, what are they looking to do here to try and say, well, this is why we needed a little extra dash of fuckery with our election. Yeah. So chaos. Create chaos.

So there's less of a chance of a real fair election. Yeah. Well, I think it's also like not for nothing that he's getting all these bribes vis-a-vis his crypto from all these foreign entities. So any foreign policy decision he's making has been, I think we can assume, at least partially bought and paid for it through Melania coin or whatever. Yeah, sure, sure. Oh, which I just looked, I don't know if you check the box office for Melania, Jack. Not even on the charts after a month. So it's not even in the top 38 things in a theater.

You have to be in the top, I believe 38 for them to even be like, oh, yeah, we've got some numbers on that. It's not even there, which you hate to see. You hate to see because I was trying to prove everyone wrong who said this was just a synthetic campaign. It wasn't organic. Oh, shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Damn Melania coin is down also. The fuck is going on.

That American hero just can't win. Nothing makes sense anymore. God. Yeah. It's just like I think the other interesting, like, or not an interesting part, it's like, it's, it's so Trumpy too and that he also is so, so painfully aware, like of the optics around this. Like, he doesn't want people to think he's doing like a long, like this is going to be a forever war because he's been saying he's like, it's going to be quick. Like he told Axios, it could end in two or three days. He told the New York Times four to five weeks.

he's just like going up and up like every hour. He's like, okay, we got a couple of years. But, you know, Vietnam took a couple of years to win. Sir, I think we need to talk about what actually happens. I mean, that's what's like, that's what's so freaky is that like he doesn't even, like, they don't. No clue. No, I don't think they know. They don't know.

They really were just like, I don't know, we got roped into this. Let's do a drive by on Iran. Maybe like it creates a power vacuum that doesn't become worse somehow. Like, that's a lot of analysts are like, man, like, first of all, the, the, the way the Iranian government is set up, it's like they, they're meant, they're meant to absorb these kinds of like leadership losses to be able to keep functioning because they know that's what countries like the United States and Israel trying to do. So when you're doing that, you don't have a follow up plan. Then you're like, well, and then, and then what? Right. What exactly happens?

I think everything. Think bomb. uh put a draw a tunnel on the on the boulder um yeah but i think it really like the the simple issue of trump's cognitive function i think really kind of is at the nut of all of this and why like it's not just something that should be brushed off or like i don't even think it's particularly funny it's like the fact that he can't form a cogent thought or or or speak in terms of any kind of a coherent narrative thread i think is really evident in these kind of decisions and it's terrifying I truly think this is my opinion, but I think this is a man who poops his pants and barely has object permanence. Really? I mean, so that's what I think we're trying to impose meaning on something that I don't think has meaning or order to it.

Sure. Yeah, yeah. I get that. Yeah. I mean, like, I think there's like these short-term things where he's like, well, you know, like the Saudis will buy more arms from us because they're also asking that we do this. And they're like, oh, okay, okay, okay. Yeah. And also, just so you know, we're lying to you because that Maduro thing was not a success by any stretch of the imagination. But that actually went really well, boss. And now he's telling people, like, well, that went so well that we're going to just keep going. And I think, yeah, to that end, we were talking about this if you, right, maybe last week or the week before. about his information bubble is one of the most terrifying things about this. Because you know people are feeding him bullshit all the time. Like, no, dude, fucking Venezuela was such a success dog. There's no one's going to stop us, dude. I've actually seen the real polling and it says that I'm sick. I'm the best president of all time. They love me.

I never seen anything like it. I know. Well, I think the Vanity Fair, I think it was the profile that did all. They did a profile like him and all his cabinet. I believe it was in that article where they talked about how there's a woman in his office that he refers to as, quote, AI. Because when he needs something Googled, she will go Google it, print out the Google search results and bring them to him. I mean, that is truly the level of critical thought and research that are president of the United States. Yeah.

Right, right. Yeah. Everything's outsourced, you know, like just every single function of the presidency. And then I think that's what makes it scary is because then you have people like Stephen. Miller or Pete Hagsuff. He was like, and I get to do what I want with this fucking thing that was going to cost people alive. Yeah. All right.

Let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk about Netflix, Warner Brothers, Paramount, and Jim Carrey's new faith. We'll be right back. I'm Nancy Glass, host of the Burden of Guilt Season 2 podcast. This is a story about a horrendous lie that destroyed two families. Late one night, Bobby Gumpbright became the victim of a random crime. He pulls the gun, tells me to lie down on the ground.

He identified Tremaine Hudson as the perpetrator. Germain was sentenced to 99 years. I'm like, Lord, this can't be real. I thought it was a mistaken identity. The best lie is partial truth. For 22 years, only two people. knew the truth until a confession changed everything. I was a monster.

Listen to Burden of Guilt Season 2 on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Jay Shetty, host of the on-purpose podcast. I'm joined by Luke Combs, award-winning country music artist and one of the most authentic voices in music today. Luke opens up about success, self-doubt, mental health, and what it really takes to stay true to who you are when your life changes overnight. I hate fame, I hate the word celebrity, I hate those words. They make me uncomfortable. But I think when you get to a certain point,

the fame or the success or the influence, it just accentuates and exacerbates the inherent person that you are. The guy that says he's always going to be there and that will do anything to be there is the only guy that's not there. I'm in Australia when Beau was born. My whole identity is that no matter what, I'm going to prioritize my wife and my children over my job. I dread the conversation with my son.

What do you think you'd say? Listen to On Purpose with Jay Chetty on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. In 2023, a story gripped the UK, evoking horror and disbelief. A nurse who should have been in charge of cancer. caring for tiny babies is now the most prolific child killer in modern British history. Everyone thought they knew how it ended. A verdict, a villain, a nurse named Lucy Letby. Lucy Letby has been found guilty. But what if we didn't get the whole story? The moment you look at the whole picture, the case collapses.

I'm Amanda Knox, and in the new podcast, Doubt the case of Lucy Lettby, we follow the evidence and hear from the people that lived it. To ask what we... really happened when the world decided who Lucy Lettby was. No voicing of any skepticism or doubt. It'll cause so much harm at every single level of the British establishment of this is wrong. Listen to Doubt, the case of Lucy Lettby on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. China's Ministry of State Security is one of the most mysterious and powerful spy agencies in the world. But in 2017, the FBI got inside.

This is Special Agent Regal, Special Agent Bradley Hall. This MSS officer has no idea the U.S. government is on to him. But the FBI has his chats, texts, emails, even his personal diary. Hear how they got it on the Sixth Bureau podcast. I now have several terabytes of an MSS officer, no doubt, no question, of his life. And that's the unicorn. No one had ever seen anything like that. It was unbelievable.

This is a story of the inner workings of the MSS and how one man's ambition and mistakes opened its fault of secrets. Listen to the Sixth Bureau on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. We're back. And, I mean, people probably saw the Netflix update,

so I don't know how deep we need to go on this, but basically last we covered this, story. It seemed like Netflix was definitely going to buy Warner Brothers and basically kill theatrical movie going. And then Paramount came in. Paramount being

David Ellison, billionaire son, who is in Trump's good graces, came through and is like, I want to buy that one too. And it was like, well, that seems like it should be financially impossible because there are

all these things. Like, if the Netflix deal fell apart. Somebody would have to pay Netflix $2.8 billion. And he's just like, yeah, well, I'm going to pay that. That's fine. Like what Paramount Skydance is going to pay that to just fucking. Oh, just like that, huh? Yeah, just like that.

So this thing that seemed like it was going to kill the film industry might kill the entertainment industry in a whole new way because Paramount Skydance is basically getting a fucking monopoly over U.S. media. They would now, you know, this is the guy who took over CBS and was like, Barry Weiss, you are now the head of CBS News and like watching that, just be running to the ground. And now he's going to be taking over CNN, HBO, all of these things. Same guy, same general ideas. And again, it does feel similar to these people just being like, well, we can do whatever we want. Sarandos, Ted Sarandos, the head of Netflix, like met with Trump and then immediately pull out of the deal. So it's basically he was just

Trouples like, yeah, I'm going to make it so they can do whatever they want. So yeah, get the fuck out of here. Right. So they did. Hey, great time. I love the Gilded Age that we're in again. Yeah. All this shit going on. At least the art is good and not at all. Just not on TV or anything. Yeah. I'm curious to see. I mean, like, I'm really wondering like what this does. Like, it's obviously one thing to own. it and control it. And sure, they're like just as legacy media companies, like, they'll exist. But I'm wondering, like, what happens to its actual growth? Because as more and more people become aware of it, like, you have people who are like, what the fuck is going on? I think most

people won't realize, obviously. But I feel like there's also still, like, you see more, more write-ups at least, like in the media or like in the press about like, what the fuck is all this consolidation actually going to mean for them as even like a business. Right. Because I'm wondering like if no one wants to watch anything that's on CBS, aside from like the few million that love Donald Trump unconditionally, like isn't there? They are just watching Fox News.

So like it's. Right. Yeah. I'm curious like what their projections are. Like do they build in like what the attrition rate would be for people? If they're like, I'm not fucking with this anymore. If it's really just like this. And are you,

if you're like a savvy media tycoon or, like we need to create like a fucking release valve for people to build like all right i'm turning my back on these other ones because they've been bought by an oligarch how about this one by a less evil oligarch or some shit but i'm just curious like how they're looking at it because they have i'd imagine people like do this is so bad for their brand yeah there are people like rubbing their mitts on some level i don't know how or what that looks like but because like my first thing is like dude this can't be good in the long term by like losing eroding trust with view viewers. I think they don't talk to a lot of normal people. Like, they don't talk to a lot of people

who aren't in a C-suite at a company or, like, on the board of a company. I think that is partially it. I think partially they're probably just being like, you can get a lot of value right now via corruption. And like, we are the only people who have the Trump administration completely backing us. And so we can just, like, come in, you know, do a smash and grab during this administration, get all these properties underneath us, and then maybe build these things back up eventually. But it's like, at least I own it now. Yeah, this is a big opportunity because there's never been this much like open, you know,

kleptocracy happening. Yeah. And it feels like the columnation or almost like the macro version of what I feel like has been happening in media for a long time. I think, you know, I've definitely worked at a lot of places that have been bought by some venture capitalist fund where they then fire all the creative. Like, well, cool. Like, that's what made this a valuable company was the people coming up with the ideas.

Like, have fun with your parcel or whatever. So it kind of feels like this is a mindset that they're kind of familiar with. And maybe even though it's on such a big scale, I think there's a level of hubris that they're exhibiting just from pillaging and grabbing other smaller companies for so long. Because, yeah, from their perspective, it does feel like, well, if I certainly have my hands on the means of creating meaning and news for people, then. I can just whole like whole cloth recreate reality in whatever way I see fit. Yeah. And it's that simple when I'm like it. I mean, it is and it isn't.

I feel like it is simple in that like most people are going to turn on their TVs, not really think of who is behind what you're seeing and why they're saying what they're saying in the way they are. And yeah, I don't know. It's such a fucking grim period too. Yeah. Just it does feel similar. the Trump, because that is the question that I keep having is, like, how do they think they're going to get away with this? Like, they have a consumer facing business. How do they think that, like,

people are going to be cool with this in the long run? And it's the same question that, you know, I'm asking about the Trump administration. How do they think they're going to get away with, like, what they're doing in Iran? And it is that thing, you know, the thesis of hypernormalization documentary and just this idea that the people in power can get away with. And you know, They've created this system that's completely insulated. So it doesn't matter like it's a money-making machine for them. And it doesn't really, there's no functional way within the current system to like for them to see consequences. Yeah.

I mean, I wonder, you know, that's why we need the daily Zyxies. I mean, I think this, I think we will see like independent media rise more as this happens, at least in my most optimistic. I mean, definitely, right? Well, I think, like, a lot of the journalists who have left and started their own thing have been like, oh, I've actually been surprised that I've been somewhat able to be successful after leaving, like, a Washington Post or a New York Times and just like office upstack subscriptions and other kind of things. So. Yeah. I mean, I mean, I bet you Heather Cox Richardson has at least as big of a readership as WAPO at this point. You know, I think there is a big appetite for that kind of media. Like, there are critical people. out here, you know? So I think that we're not just going to go away just because this just becomes like America Donald Corpse B.S. Incorporated or whatever. So whether they react to that and want to make money off of us or not, I guess is their prerogative. Yeah. And I think that's why like,

yeah, we're kind of have to, everyone who's listening, you're going to have to kind of be the annoying person that tells people like what the fuck they're looking at. Like when you're watching them like, just so you know, can I just show you like this one family is running like 80% of what you're looking at right now? And it doesn't. And right now the effects aren't there. But I know, like, I feel like on John Oliver, he was even, he mentioned it, I think, last night about this potential Ellison takeover where it's like, guys, like, this could change a lot of shit because it's about to go through a filter of like what is acceptable discussion and debate on television, you know, based on our oligarch's wishes. I don't think that people that aren't in media are fully, I think, well, because how could they be? because they're doing that flood the zone thing.

Like, there's just so much scary stuff going on. So it's like media can be, feel kind of like dry or maybe it's not as important of an issue as some of these other really pressing things that are happening. But I have like Normie friends who weren't, who only recently became aware of the Barry Weiss thing. And to me, that was so obvious,

like what was happening at 60 minutes, just in the content that was coming out from there. But informed people are not totally, this is, I don't think this is like top of mind for a lot of people, unfortunately. Sure, sure. Because I think even if they change, I think what happens is like you, you may be able to change the sort of messenger for these things. But at the end of the day, like, you're still trying to appeal to people's sense of identity and values.

And like a lot of that's, that's a lot harder to change because I even see it with like older family members where like they catch weird shit on CNN. Like, why are they talking like this? Like, it's crazy. It sounds awful now. And I'm like, well, yeah. It's because so and so. And they're like, oh, right, right, right. So people do sense something is off when they're like suddenly hearing like a completely like antithetical worldview of being like normalized on a show.

But again, I think a lot of like most people just don't have the time or bandwidth to be like, okay, now I need to really check in on my media literacy. All right. We got to stop talking about this shit because we we do have an important story to get to. Oh, sorry, sorry. Sorry. Our pop culture detective, test barker. Oh, sorry. Yep, yep, yep, yep.

So Jim Carrey just received the lifetime achievement. award at the Sésar Awards in Paris in Polly. And no, I didn't just turn into a different person, even though I did say Paris, like a, like a French person. Some people think that wasn't really Jim Carrey. He gave the speech in French, first of all. I want to hear this because I heard this and now I need to hear it. Presque mediocre, no? Jim Carrey made a rear.

It can't be him. Yeah. That guy was speaking French. That guy was speaking French. Yep. Exactly. And a very good Jim Carrey voice. Mm-hmm.

I know. I don't get the people that are like, this wasn't his voice. Like, that's literally Jim Carrey's voice. It's a couple things probably. You know, it's because it's such a like patriarchal society that like if a man's appearance changes, it's not like, I had some work done. It's, that's a fucking clone, dude. What the fuck, man? He's like killed Jim Carrey.

Yeah. Like, what? Dude, he fucking got work done. Like, what do you say? He looks like that because of plastic surgery. That's what you're looking at. Because every, because even I was a little bit like, well, what was his speech like? And I saw a couple of screen caps of him.

I'm like, that's very, that's his expression. That's his face. Yeah. And everything looks like like him. Yeah. But also I just like, maybe it's so American like, and he's speaking France? No. Not on my watch.

Yeah. Are there subtitles? Exactly. Yeah. This just looks like Jim Carrey, and especially I think those of us too. There are some pictures that make it look more different, but like watching him in motion, it's like, oh, that's Jim Carrey. He just had a little work done. Yeah.

And I've lived in Los Angeles long enough. I know like what work, you know, like in reverse engineer. He had a bleep. He had like a little bit of a facelift. He had some filler put into his cheeks. I mean, it's like. Yeah. Yeah, you can reverse engineer it.

It's a bleep. A bleep is where they take out part of your eyelid. so that your eyes like more awake. Oh. Got it. Yeah. Shout out the Blevies. Somebody stop me.

Yeah. Somebody. A lot of people were saying somebody should have stopped him. Hello. On the internet. But like, yeah, it's a very, his eyes. Like, the one thing I did see was his, like, his eye color seemed different. But again, once you see like the whole clips of it, you're like, yeah, dude, it's just, this guy got, this guy got worked on.

He's got contacts. Contacts, Miles, I've been telling you, contacts are coming back. That's why my eyes are purple like this. That's why this eye's an eight ball, dude. But, yeah, I mean, I just, I feel like, oh, yeah, yeah, just this celebrity fears mortality and appearance and has gone under the canife, it seems. I think also, like, cloning rumors are pretty, they kind of pop back up in Popple, like, there was one about Avrilavine that's still been pretty persistent. Oh, yeah, there's a... There's a huge section of the internet

that thinks Avrilavine is a cool. Now, that I believe. I mean, I'm... Let's roll up our fucking sleeves here, Tess. What? Now, go on. First of all, she stopped wearing converse. Would the real Avrilavine do that?

Is it really? Like, shit like that? Yeah. And then... Maybe she realized she was fucking 40. I just hear the AI voice on Instagram explaining this to me. Yeah. Like, yeah.

She had... She stopped wearing converts. In Converse, Chuck Taylor, All-Stars. She was known for her alt-punk situation. Yeah, exactly. No, that's literally what it is. And then, yeah, it'll be like, maybe Avro got a little work done,

or she did her hair a little bit differently. Or also, like, all of us just kind of look different and different lighting. But I don't know. We're all like the people in Superman when, like, he puts on glasses and parts his hair on the other side. We're just like, different guy. That's can't be the same guy I was looking at a few seconds ago.

Yeah. No fucking way. It's him. Yeah. It's just, it's wild. how it just had a life of its own. It's just so odd, too, that, like, this one thing kicked off, like, a thousand conspiracy theories.

Yeah. Well, you know, he was in Truman Show, guys. So, like, what does that tell me? Oh, so, like, that was, like, he was warning that. He was sending us messages about our fake reality already in the 90s. You know, Andy Kaufman was doing stuff like that, too. Whoa! He was an Andy Kaufman guy, Andy Kaufman, Fing on the moon.

He was a own death. he became Andy Kaufman. Hello, the mask, i.e. what you would wear if you're faking being someone. We all wear masks, metaphorically speaking. Yeah. I'll never forgive him for pet detective, though. He made the noble profession of pet detection into a goddamn laughing joke. Oh, my God.

It takes years to become a good pet detective. He is either dumb or dumber. It's never really revealed in the movie, but that is the kind of ideas that these people are trafficking in are dumb ideas. It's all been laid out there for us people. It's yeah. It's funny. Yeah, go ahead.

Jim Carrey just, I think, kind of famously doesn't like the public eye. Like, he's sort of reclusive. I think that's why he's not acting much anymore. And so there's something kind of funny to me about like the one time he tries to step a toe out into the real world. They're just like, clone. Fucking clone. Yeah, you look so weird. Yeah.

Yeah. That's got to be tough. I mean, it's just, it's funny to think like, yeah, for a thing that's like a lifetime achievement award and his fucking whole family's there, it's like,

yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This is a fucking stand-in clone guy. Just going down one by one to his family members, yanking on their hair, trying to pull their wig off.

Yeah. And I mean, our writer Jam pointed out. This is a, this is a man. who's now in his 60s, whose entire stand-up act was just treating his faces

if it were silly putty that he bought at a yard sale. Like he stretched it in so many fucked up directions. Hey, I do that with storebots to silly putty too. It's not just one to get the yard sale. You don't only fuck with the second hand.

Oh, it's from a yard sale? Fuck yeah. Let me stretch this shit. Find someone else's newspaper in there? Yeah. That shit might be hanging loose on his skull where it not for a little bit of work. So, I remember there's one, I think it was like Vanity Fair, maybe Esquire magazine he did where he put a bunch of clothing pins on his like loose.

Yeah, like all the way around and was just like, everyone was like, holy shit. I remember trying to do that as a kid. It hurt so fucking bad. I started crying. Yeah. And my mom caught me and then it was like, it's stuck. And it didn't work out well. But the man's got the rubber face.

He's got the rubber face. He is. I said that like I realized at one point, I think it was like eighth grade that all my funniest friends were just doing Jim Carrey impressions the whole time. Like that was it. It was like no sense of humor of our own. It was people being like, let me show you something. It was bad, John.

Who could do it the best? Because that's what I was the same way. Like being a funny boy in like 1994 was how good could you do a Jim Carrey impersonation? That was it. Yeah. How elastic is your? own face. You know, you should, you dry your teeth off so you get your lip to stick.

You know what I mean? There's a whole method you had to do to get Fire Marshal Bill going. Or you could talk with your butt. Easy. Easy. Easy. Yeah. I'd like to ask you a few questions.

Teachers hated it. Easy money. Quick work. Tess, such a pleasure having you on the podcast. Where can people find you, follow you, hear you, all that good stuff? Yeah. On all my socials, I'm Testify Barker with two S's. Again, my podcast is Pop Mystery Pod.

If you want to, I delve into different mysteries every week. And then, of course, lady to lady, or yes, we were doing a watch-along to Dawson's Creek. I think that'll do. Yeah. Amazing. Is there a work of media you've been enjoying? Oh, yes. This was a tweet that I really enjoyed.

It's from at Chin Chin writes. And it says, due to personal reasons, I love a baked potato. And it just spoke with me. I just connected with it on a spiritual level. Because I do feel like if I'm eating a baked potato, it is often kind of alone. Yeah. I love a solitary baked potato.

That is true. It is weird. I, oh my God. I think the last time I had a baked potato was by myself also. See? I think it's because the way I have the fixings. The way I get the fixings on there,

I kind of need that to be. It's all fixings. Don't look at me. It's a fix and. They're all fakess. It's too many fixings for friends. Yeah. I went through a period where I was just putting different, like doing different slow cooker meals, like, you know, barbecue chicken or like a chili or something like that.

And then every day for dinner that week, I would just put that on a baked potato with like some cheese on top of it. And it was so good. It was like, this is, this is like Irish pizza, you know, just like a different thing. That sounds luxurious, but also of the people. Yeah. Miles, where can people find you as their work in media? You've been enjoying. Yes, find me everywhere at Miles of Gray.

I'm talking about 90-day fiancé on 420-day fiancé with Sophia Alexandra. And then I also talk about soccer, me favorite sport with Jamela Johnson and Chris Martin. So I had to say it like a lepricons sport. We need to have a lepricon icon episode. You know what I mean? Because the other day we were talking about hats. I was like, bro, a leprechaun got a hat, bro. Top of the bonnet.

And that's a thing that's flattened in time. When is St. Paddy's Day? It's coming up, right? 17th. March 17th. Fuck. We missed it. No, Jack.

Top of the morning. If you hustle, you can get that lepracon. Emergency recording. Now, Tess, go. What do you know about the leprechauns? Go, go, go, go, go, go, go. Go, go, go, go. I know there's a cereal that is the crumbase.

I remember the one leprecon in the hood. There's leprecon three when he said, a friend with weed is a friend with indeed. There is. Yeah, here we go. So you know all there is to know about Irish people. There it is. They love weed. If I know one thing, your thing of choice, weed.

Big time. A post I like is from Rax King at Rax King is dead.Biskeye. Social. It posted, because there's a lot of like, this is, okay, there's a couple. This one is at koshana.biscite. Dot black sky. Dot app. Quote posting like an NBC news thing.

It says it was supposed to be a romantic getaway for Sarah Mette and her husband. a warm winter break in Dubai away from their three young children to celebrate their 20th anniversary. But now they are stranded in the region. And she posted, rest in peace to hundreds of Iranians and one American vacation. Yeah. And at Rax King is Dead.b.combe social posted, L.O.L. at the tourists in Dubai being like, what do you mean I took my vacation at the Neiman Marcus that kills you? Oh my God.

I'm no. You can find me on Twitter Jack underscore O'Brien, Blue Sky, Jack O, B, the number one Instagram, Jack underscore O underscore Brian. I've just been watching a pluribus.

I knocked out a couple pluribai this weekend and been enjoying that. Shout out Vince Gilligan. Did you get past the, wow, okay. I think we're four in. Oh, sure. I'm in at this point.

I stalled out in the second one. I'm going to, I got to keep going. Yeah, it's an interesting one because it does feel like you're stuck inside a single episode of the Twilight Zone, but it is, they do take it in interesting directions. Okay. Is it confusing? No. No, no, not very straightforward. Okay. People, like, I heard people like early reviews for it that like really sent me off in the wrong direction. Like,

I heard someone say it's like, it's like, it's almost like a black box theater experiment or that it's like, no, very experimental. And it just feels like a really interesting thought experiment. Like, where they took a whole, yeah, a whole what if and took it an interesting direction. 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 this episode wherever you're listening to 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. Hey, Miles, is there a song you think that people might enjoy? Let me show you something. There it is. Let's say you're walking along. Funnyest guy I know. Let's say you're walking along and you need a new track to play in your Walkman. Yeah, this is a track from Black Moth Super Rainbow, band out of Pittsburgh.

They're just super, you know, they're psychedelic, like, electronic. They got a little bit of, like, hip-hop and sometimes the drum beats, but they're just, like, a really dope group. There's one track called Roller Disco that I've been listening to a lot. It's got this, like, these vintage synths. on it and just like a really nice little drum pattern and it just feels like I don't know it's it's it's just surreal I don't know I can't quite explain it but it feels like you're like in a kaleidoscope of like weird shit going on so just check it out I don't know it's it's it's really good it's really

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