The Daily Zeitgeist - St. PaTrends Day 3/17: Chuck Schumer, Alien Enemies Act, Canada/Pornhub, Tesla Cybertruck, Conan O'Brien

Episode Date: March 17, 2025

In this edition of St. PaTrends Day, Jack and Miles discuss their respective weekends, Chuck Schumer caving to non-existent pressure, Trump invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, Canada's 'secret weapon' in the trade war, Tesla halting Cybertruck deliveries (because they are falling apart), Conan O'Brien getting tapped for the Oscars again and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There was a thing where someone was isolating how Trump kept saying Tesla Tesla. Was he saying Tesla? Everything's computer. Wow. And this is so nice. Everything is computer. I love Tesla. Wow. It seems so. It reminds me of the dental plan.

Dental plan. I love Tesla. Dental plan. I love Tesla. Dental plan. That's from the system. So this is one of those

acts that doesn't make any sense to me. Like, Boston makes sense to me because it's just lazy. It's like instead of ours are hard to say. So you just say pack instead of park. Yeah, there are lists. Yeah, there are lists. And that makes sense because like our you know, it's just easier. Your mouth is doing less work. It's going to say I was like, I don't Robert, whoa, the way these motherfuckers are are

list. But adding an R to the end of Tesla is so much extra work. Yeah, because it's just not her and so are in my Tesla. It's like, well, but that's where I think those are the connections from British English that carried over because they they do that in the UK, too. Most of Britain is our list. Like, but you go to like the West country and they start adding ours to stuff. Mm hmm. Make up your mind about ours.

New York and England. Fucking you know, it reminds me like, yeah, Magda. I was going to say it reminds me Magda. Yeah, Magda. I was going to say it reminds me of Magda. Yeah, Magda. Who is this? A woman, a woman named Magda. But the guy was like Magda. Well, I started doing that.

This guy had a New York accent and he had a Czech wife called Magda. But I slowly just turned into Magda. Magda. Magda, I like Tesla. I love Tesla. That'll land. I love Tesla. I love Tesla. That'll land. I love Tesla. There's your cold fucking open. Hey, it's a Martinez. The news can feel like a lot on any given day,

but you can't just ignore las noticias when important world changing events events are happening. That is where the Up First podcast comes in. Every single morning in under 15 minutes, we take the news and boil it down to three essential stories so you can keep up without feeling stressed out. Listen up first from NPR on the iHeart Radio app or wherever you get your podcasts. There's a type of soil in Mississippi called Yazoo clay. It's thick, burnt orange, and it's got a reputation. It's terrible, terrible dirt. Yazoo clay eats everything, so things that get buried there tend to stay buried.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Prohibition. It's no secret that banning alcohol didn't stop people from living it up in the 1920s. When we're five years into prohibition, the government is starting to go, OK, this isn't working. In fact, you might even say it backfired spectacularly. I'm Ed Helms. And on season three of my podcast my podcast snafu we're taking you back to the 1920s and the tale of Formula 6 because what you probably don't know about prohibition is that American citizens were dying in Massive numbers due to poisoned liquor and all along an unlikely duo was trying desperately to stop the corruption behind it They were like superhero crusaders turning the page on a system that didn't work, wasn't fair, and was corrupt.

So how did prohibitions' war on alcohol go so off the rails that the government wound up poisoning its own people? To find out, listen and subscribe to Snafu on the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. black hole. Black holes could be a consequence of the way that we understand the universe. Well, we have answers for you in the new iHeart Original Podcast, Science Stuff. Join me, Jorge Cham, as we tackle questions you've always wanted to know the answer to about animals, space, our brains, and our bodies. Questions like, can you survive being cryogenically frozen? This is experimental. This means never work for you. What's a quantum computer? It's not just a faster computer. It performs in a fundamentally different way. Do you really have to wait 30 minutes after eating before you can go swimming? It's not really a safety issue. It's more of a comfort issue

We'll talk to experts break it down and give you easy to understand explanations to fascinating scientific questions So give yourself permission to be a science geek and listen to science stuff on the iHeart video app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast And we're back We're not back We never left Hello the internet and welcome It was a 17 minute cold open

My name is Jack O'Brien that over there is Miles Gray Did I say hello the internet and welcome to this episode of Dair Dailies. Hi guys. Yeah. Yeah. Hi. It's St. Paddy's Day, Miles. Hi.

Hi. You're doing a tip of the cap and a top of the iron and top of the morning. Yeah. And a seat cap. It's your time to shine, Jack. St. Patrick's Day. St. Jackd Saint Patrick's Day. Ah, and I Jack Drake's Day. I have an extra little twinkle in my eye

because I'm drunk this morning. No. Happy. Happy St. Patrick's Day. It is really always I realize that St. Patrick's Day, the morning of St. Patrick's Day. Sage. And then have to like dig through

my kid's closet for like something that's even vaguely green We do not have any green. It's my favorite color. I don't have green clothes my kids I I'm wearing the t-shirt that like is Moth bitten like the collar is like coming apart. Yeah, just cuz it's green and you got a green hat on I don't know all of these bro. Yeah. Yeah Shout out like on it's a kink So this is also a time for me to really shine when I when I pull up

in all black everywhere. Yeah. But today this morning, we also had the same realization because like, you know, we record the show early. So I was working on the show and her majesty goes to drop off the kid at daycare and get the text. Oh, right. Today, St. Patrick's Day, the text I got. And I was like, his pants are kind of Irish.

His pants are kind of like made of like tartan-y flannel, like just a pattern. Yeah, kind of traditional. But yeah, I forget that, like as a kid, it's like, yeah, dude, you fucking better pull up in all green, bro. Where's your green? Yeah. They just if y'all pinch my two year old is fucking ugly. Leave him alone. Very pinchable cheeks, too.

So it's not easy, but you are demanded, you are asked not to not to pinch Miles's two year old. Yeah. Future HR employees, like people who work in HR are the ones who are running around middle schools. You're like, where's your green? Why are you wearing green? It's St. Patrick's Day.

Now I get to pinch you or deny you benefits, whichever it is down the road for me. All right, this is the episode where we tell you what was trending over the weekend and a little bit about us by telling you something we think's underrated, something we think's overrated. Miles, you wanna kick us off?

What do you wanna do, underrated, overrated? Let's go under let's go under underrated swing sets Yes, they're just fucking Fucking swings y'all this is cue the sentimental music. Yes, the swing set is I Fucking sleep on the swing set so much, but now guys child is full-grown playground age swing set so much. But now Geist Child is full grown playground age. Play on the playground, swing on the monkey bars, swing on the swing set. And more often than not, I find myself like, I'm like, all right, he's chilling over there. And I'm kind of laying leaning on the swing. Yeah, I just started. I'm like, okay, I got my legs. Yeah. And I start swinging on that shit.

Next thing I know, there is a line behind me of children who want to use the swing. OK, first of all, it's because you're like taking so long. But second of all, it's because of how much you're enjoying it. That is a communicable disease. They're like, God damn, they're like, that guy's fucking flying over there. That washed old motherfucker likes that. Hold on. Forty something guys. And that's bringing a tear to his eye. Maybe I should try that as a four year old on a playground waiting my turn. fucker likes that? Hold on. 40 something guys saying weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

likes flight and it's like soothing as kids and then I started looking into it too. It like stimulates our inner ear on three axes vertical, horizontal and diagonally. And there's a sensation in your inner ear that you're also experiencing that is like kind of part of it and that kind of stimulation, we don't get that all the time. And then I got deeper and motherfuckers are drawing a line because that is our evolutionary pipeline back to primate swinging. That that was the last time we were regularly getting that kind of stimulation in the inner ear. So there is like this evolutionary thing potentially I'm a little bit hesitant that way. And it's probably true because goddamn I fucking love the fucking swing.

It's so feeling. Yeah, I just had the fucking swing. And it's so peaceful. Yeah. I just had, as a child, every day, and then not until I was like, you know, 35 and had a kid that I was like hanging out on the playground, exactly like you said, leaning back on it. And I'm like, what would happen if I lifted my legs up? Whoa. Uh-oh. Whoa, who's this?

This is just as fun as it was when I was a kid. Yeah, there's something there's so fun There's something here. Yeah, so I recommend, you know if there's an empty playground or fuck it, you know Just do it wait in line like everybody else and use the swing set. Yeah. Yeah. All right great underrated miles I fully agree everybody go go swing, you know, there's all these like adult like dodgeball leagues and stuff I don't know. I've not gotten into the adult dodgeball leagues But that's like not a it's not a sense memory that I have from childhood like other than getting beaned But I don't balls and being like bad at it, but swinging just try just do one swing just stand back

Let it go dare you you can't do one. You can't do just one. It's yeah. It's like the pringles Yeah, all right. Mine is a kind of You can't do one. You can't do just one. You can't do one. Hell no. It's like the Pringles of a... Pringles maybe? Yeah. Um, all right. My, mine is a kind of inexplicable and very specific typecasting. Um, I talk a lot about typecast, like just, you know, there's a certain type of typecasting where the person clearly just thinks they look good doing a thing. And so they like always do that thing over and over in movies.

Like the John Cusack knows he looks good in the rain. And so his character always find themselves in rainstorms. Good in the rain. Right. Right. Tom Cruise thinks he looks good running. Yeah. His characters always seem to have to run around. Uh, the Tom Hanks one is probably the most inexplicable in this area because he, it doesn't make sense that he thinks he looks good peeing But he loves having but he loves his characters

Like it's clearly coming from the actor being like I don't know what the just a note here Robert Zemeckis What if for a said he had to go pee it no Okay, yeah, I mean the Black Panther scene drink the Black Panther scene, so I gotta get one somewhere I gotta pee somewhere What if he had to pee multiple times in this movie? Probably did the director's cut is actually just every answer every historical person he meets I have to pee the speech at the fucking reflecting pool Scene ends with him feeling like, and I got to go. That's what he's just running because he's looking for a bathroom.

But so then there are the ones that clearly aren't the actors idea. We've mentioned James Marsden and Jason Clark being like two actors who just always like seem to get cucked or like at least had a run, like James Marsden had a run in the aughts where he was just, you know, getting cucked by Superman, getting cucked by Wolverine, starred in Straw Dogs, a remake of this like horrifying movie that is, yeah, like that. It's just there's a lot of that in his career. Jason Clark, similarly, the blank check podcast has pointed out that he is also

somebody who just always seems there's something about Hollywood that looks at these guys and they're like, man, I could fuck that guy's wife. I kind of should. Right. He's perfect. And then. All right. So there's a weird one and it's not, there's only two instances, but it's so specific on HBO right now. Are you watching the third season of a white Lotus? I haven't finished the first episode, but we are, we're in the process of so Walton Goggins himself, a tremendous tooth actor, keeps being cast as someone with a younger girlfriend who has terrible teeth or you know, right notably

different non-american capped teeth Yeah, exactly and it's only two so far but like his uncle baby Billy and righteous gemstones and in that one it like makes sense Because he's like dating someone from the holler. And like, I think that they're like meant to communicate something. But in this one, it's just a very pretty woman whose trademark is like having weird, weird front teeth. Basically, yeah, well, I think more because it's just like the sense that our our perception of teeth is so fucked up from movies where like, you're like,

that person has like non Or the don't believe perfected teeth that you're like, what the fuck they let in normal teeth for once and it's like What is happening? I saw some like things that were like it's a revolution For her really with that like this is gonna start coming and or just generally the revolution Walton Goggins tip of the spear, you know Yeah, yeah. Yeah, but more just to be like but what a Walton Goggins teeth look like pre you know what I mean? Oh, yeah gigantic teeth. He's got it. Yeah. He's got some big old chompas Yeah, but I know I mean, but yeah, I totally get that because I've definitely That's been something that I've just seen being written up about her teeth specifically and yeah people like I mean

I think it's yeah, I think it is great to like normalize, you know, people with not the same people. Yeah, exactly. But yeah, it's so specific. And if anybody's I'm not familiar with this full body of work, like injustified, I guess it would make sense if it happened injustified because that's all about like Kentucky. But I don't know. Let me know.

Are there other instances of this in the Goggins Uvra? Yeah. Yeah. It's pretty, it's pretty weird. I hope he's not always like, but it's like, yeah, cause he always dates younger women who don't have perfect teeth. And then his bank is like getting their teeth fixed. He's like, it's like the Lorne Michaels of Predatory Groomers. Yeah, Walden Goggins has dated every woman on their first season of SNL. That's his thing.

What is something, Miles, that you think is overrated? Oh, man. Overrated. God, bro. The consultant class. So I was talking with some old friends from my political days over the weekend at a function. Naturally, we all got to talking about, yo, what the fuck is wrong with these people? What are they fucking doing?

And one of my OGs, like my mentors in all of this, just was like, he was kind of confused by my question because I was like is it that like I'm just Guessing it's just all of this These habits that are just unbreakable and the consultants are the ones that enable everything is like yeah, right? Yeah. Yeah, man Was happening and basically, you know, it's that the consultants they do not have an ideology aside from working on the next You know, it's that the consultants they do not have an ideology aside from working on the next campaign and getting that money They're like fucking seasonal workers. They're like all Santa's political consultants, especially ones that work on campaigns They're just looking for what's the next crisis?

What are donors gonna try and turn the money hose on and how do I get in front of that money hose? It doesn't matter what the fucking politics of it are How do I let the money hose touch me? Um, and when you look at races like across California, too there's like a well-defined number of like consulting firms that do a bulk of the campaign work and messaging and things all that and They've been using the same playbook for decades now So like not only are they inflexible what they're thinking like if and like, you know They just look at again campaign season as money making season. That means also when you're used to doing shit over and over

way and you don't change anything, you start cutting corners in the way that like 20 candidates have the exact same looking website and flyers and even TV ads. But because they're in different races, people aren't going to realize that you're just doing the same thing for people and just like swapping out a candidate for your bit, just very generic messaging being like, and that's how we'll win, because it's California. But I think it's really interesting to see that the way,

we, I think a lot of in America, there's this exaltation of the political class in a way that people think that these are like, these people are eons smarter and doing a job that no one else can. But again, it's like any job, any sales job, anything where you're sort of oriented towards finding where the money comes in, you do whatever you can to get the money. That means saying yes to their bad ideas.

That means showing them polls or whatever your own data that helps them feel better. So they always like, yeah, you know, I like working with that firm. I'll give them more and more and more money. It's just a very like entrenched way of doing things. And I think it's just better that we begin to realize there's nothing special about these politicians and we'll get to what happened over the weekend. But you know, anyone can do this.

Yeah. That's the point. Anyone can do this. They're now like those people who are involved in politics, I feel like are at a disadvantage because they're so embedded in this. There's like a narrative happening on the New York Times side with like Ezra Klein and Matthew Iglesias where they're like talking about how the groups are the problem with the Democratic Party. But like when they talk about the groups, it seems like they mean progressive

politics, like they they always like tie them to progressive policies and like being like the groups is synonymous when they talk about it with standing up for trans rights and, you know, viewing trans people as actual people. Like that's what the groups means to them. And I think what- Oh, the groups are getting all upset that people need healthcare. It's like, I can't wait to how they broaden out

what the groups are in terms of what we think of, what we deserve as people. There's a truth there that there is a thing that's broken in the system and this is it. It's the consultants. It's the people whose job it is to take polls and tell you where to change your positions to, you know, keep in line. And just like the ones who are like playing it like a game

that disconnects it from anybody's real lives. I think you're absolutely right that, like like there's it's really a thing with like education and like all these people like went to, you know, Ivy League schools or whatever. And they are like they when they talk about populism. So they're in an industry that's supposed to be like about getting votes and they like use the word populism derisively, like, like synonymous with racism, like in a lot of cases, it's like, what the fuck are you talking about? That's not pop populism is just like trying to appeal to people. It's not, it shouldn't be a bad word for what you're doing, but they need this. I was thinking about this over the weekend with regards to like also the Luka trade.

Because like I was thinking about Nico Harris is like, like thinking and like I think probably what happened is behind the scenes, like after they lost the championship, he like started telling this narrative to people around him. Like we actually can't win with Luca like Lucas. He's a bad defender. He's the groups. Yeah. So he got this like take that people were like, oh, that's actually like kind of an interesting, counterintuitive take.

Right. Like that's what we want from like a GM. So that's like cool and interesting. And he just like got so gassed up on this take that he made the worst decision in the history of basketball because of like this just insider shit that goes on where like you have to justify that you are you have your job for a reason. You know what I mean? You're so fucking you're so outside the paradigm that you can see the whole matrix. Because if you if everybody else is right, that Luca, you just have a

generational talent and the smartest thing you can do is shut the fuck up and not build him and just like hope that everything comes together. Then like you're not important. But like I don't think he's like waking up being like, how do I make myself feel important? But I think that is like what misled him and that's what misleads the democratic party so much. Cause you're used to winning for so long. You think you're like, Oh bro, this is it. This is the formula and I don't really need to change much here. And it's rewriting the history of, you know, like Obama winning,

Clinton winning, Biden winning. Those had nothing to do with these consult... Dallas getting to the finals had nothing to do with Nico Harris, but they want to rewrite that history so it is about them. And so they take, they make these like, you know, counterintuitive, interesting to say over cocktails, deductions that are just complete, complete bullshit. It's the groups? You mean like the base? Yeah. There's this poll from NBC over the weekend that just 7% of people say they have

a very positive view of the Democratic Party, which is like an all time low. Yeah, the lowest ever. When you dig into like what they want from them, like back in April 2017, people asked like, what do you want Democrats in Congress to do? Back in April 2017, it was 60% wanted them to make compromises with President Trump to gain consensus on legislation. That was the time when like people were out in the streets. And like, you know, now, March 2025, it's 32% want them to make compromises with Trump, 65% want them to stick to their positions, even if this means not getting things done in Washington. But they don't do it like it's, I think it's exactly what you're talking about.

Like they just want them to believe in something and stick to the thing that they believe in. Yeah. And for that thing to have something that is related to what life is. The Democrats, they're seasonal holiday workers. Right. Oh, I'm Santa this time of year, then I'm the Easter bunny this time of year,

then I'm a leprechaun, then I'm a jack-o-lantern, whatever I need to do to court the money. And not to say that you're ideologically fucked up for being a season, but that's what it feels feels like and I think the other difference is all of us who are regular people who are not You know coming from dynastic wealth or obscene wealth that we are forced to live in a principled way No matter how we live like we don't have the ability to just kind of like fucking like just live life like this Like we are beholden to being like, no, I need healthcare all the time.

I need my rights all the time because I can always get touched by the state or by bad actors and things like that. But you look at your representatives and they're not standing on the same shit consistently. Like, what the fuck is this? Like, how does this make sense to me? A person who is at the will of this system,

but the people that were quote unquote, electing to represent that are there and just been like, I don't know, man, it's getting too hot for me. So like, fuck everything I said on the campaign trail. I got to stay in office and I don't want to own a shutdown. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We'll talk about that after the break. All right. My overrated is the versatility of the song

shipping up to Boston, the Dropkick Murphy Murphy song. Oh, that's what it's called. I think so. Yeah. It's just so funny. Cause when I saw you, I didn't know that at all. And at first when I read your take, they said the versatility of Shipping Up to Boston, I was like, is he? No, I first thought you were talking about mailing something to Boston. Like mailing things to Boston is overrated.

It's actually pretty, it's not his versatility. No, you can't get stuff there. But yeah, that's the dropkick Murphys. Yeah. Every Guinness ad, every Sam Adams ad. Every St. Patrick's Day thing. Like it's, it's become the fucking like jingle bells of St. Patrick's Day of like anything having to do with Irish culture.

And I don't like my kids this morning asked Alexa for a St. Patrick's Day song because they're still in that age where it's like, this is a holiday. This is a thing to celebrate at school. And that was the first thing that came on. And it's just like a little aggressive for like, that song does go hard. Like I don't, I like that song in the right circumstances, but I feel like it's just so, so specifically like such a specific energy to just be like, and this is our St. Patrick's day anthem. Like they're like, there's like screaming.

It just feels weird to have like a holiday for people who are like fun loving. And I don't know, you know, they fight sometimes, but they'll fight their gah every once in a while. But I think because like we, the worst habit we have in America is flattening whole cultures based on the most popping movie that like intersected with that group

Yeah, all Irish people are the departed exactly That's it pal Everything's that if you're Irish, it's the departed or the town maybe but it's still the departed It's gotta be the departed because it's the padded huge in the departed. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sick part where they're like all driving to like this is this is Irish Boston shit. That's right. It's so funny. I was like, yeah, yeah, that's Irish. That's Irish.

I mean, we got you to we got the cranberries. We got Sinead O'Connor, you know. Well, yeah, there's plenty. But but the problem is that that's the only one that has that like Irish fiddle, like taking a walk all over the place. But again, it goes back to the idea that like as consumers were so influx, so that's all I got. Hey, where's that classic Irish fiddle? This ain't Irish.

Yeah. Like, all right. This is the most Irish band you're listening to right now. I don't know. It's just such ass kicking music to be the like number one song associated with a holiday. Hell, yeah. That's why I got Conor McGregor at the White House.

I know. I feel like this is the fact that that is the song that came on when my kids are like, let's listen to St. Patrick's Day music is a sign that Conor McGregor has won. Then you turn the news on and you see literally literally Connor McGregor at a White House podium. Yeah, exactly. Screaming, xenophobic shit, trying to get the MAGA movement kickstarted in Ireland. Jesus Christ, Connor. Or the Myra movement, I guess.

Make Ireland, MIGA, MIGA. Make Ireland great again. Ireland great again. MIGA. Yeah. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll come back. We'll check in with Washington, D.C. and other less shitty things. We'll be right back.

Hey, it's a Martinez. The news can feel like a lot on any given day, but you can't just ignore las noticias when important world changing events are happening. That is where the Up First podcast comes in. Every single morning in under 15 minutes, we take the news and boil it down to three essential stories so you can keep up without feeling stressed out. Listen up first from NPR on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. There's a type of soil in Mississippi called Yazoo clay. It's thick, burnt orange, and

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It was my family's mystery. But in this corner of the South, it's not just the soil that keeps secrets. Nobody talks about it. Nobody has any information. When you peel back the layers of Mississippi's Yazoo Clay, nothing's ever as simple as you think. The story is much more complicated and nuanced than that. I'm Larysen Campbell.

Listen to Under Yazoo Clay on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Have you ever wondered if your pet is lying to you? Why is my cat not here? And I go in and she's eating my lunch. Or if hypnotism is real? You will use this suggestion in order to enhance your cognitive control. What's inside a black hole? Black holes could be a consequence of the way that we understand the universe.

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We'll talk to experts, break it down, and give you easy-to-understand explanations to fascinating scientific questions. So give yourself permission to be a science geek and listen to Science Stuff on the iHeart Video app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Prohibition. It's no secret that banning alcohol didn't stop people from living it up in the 1920s. When we're five years into Prohibition, the government is starting to go, okay, this isn't working. In fact, you might even say it backfired spectacularly. I'm Ed Helms, and on season three of my podcast, Snafu, we're taking you back to the 1920s

and the tale of Formula 6. Because what you probably don't know about Prohibition is that American citizens were dying in massive numbers due to poisoned liquor and all along an unlikely duo was trying desperately to stop the corruption behind it. They were like superhero crusaders turning the page on a system that didn't work, wasn't fair, and was corrupt. So how did prohibitions' war on alcohol go so off the rails that the government wound up poisoning its own people?

To find out, listen and subscribe to Snafu on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. We're back. And the Dropkick Murphys are from Quincy, Massachusetts, bro. Quincy Mash, bro. They shipping up to Boston for real though. I did a, when I used to work artist hospitality for concerts

I did a show this was crazy So there was a Call of Duty game that was coming out like we'll call duty like anything's modern warfare 2 And there's a huge fucking thing where they paid Kanye West and the dropkick Murphy's to perform at this thing And I was in charge of setting up both of the their dressing rooms And I was in charge of setting up both of their dressing rooms. Oh, my God. Dressing room. We had to get like a stress dream. Dude, it's so so fucked up. You had to get an interior designer to get the right.

Like he had all this shit like it had to be the right fabrics. He couldn't see drywall. It had to be all fabrics around him. Then he wanted like cold pressed juice from Australia that we tried to fed it. Like he at the last was like like I need this shit tomorrow. We're like it's only available in Australia. We called this company Australia like there's no even if we send somebody on a plane right now wouldn't get there in time.

So we had to navigate that. Conversely the dropkick Murphy's their writer was just like some Miller High Life some sandwich stuff. The only interesting thing was cold cuts. Yeah truly. some Sandwich stuff. The only interesting thing was cold cuts. Yeah, truly like mayonnaise, bread, mustard, and one bad action movie on DVD. Like there's like the kind you would find in a bin on your way to check out at Best Buy. And they like that was up to you. Dealers choice. Just some bad action movies.

That's fun, man. That was the only specific thing I was like, yeah, that to you guys for being like our weird thing is like we want to see a shitty action movie and sandwiches rather than fabrics oh only metal straws for fucking Nazi West also Wow yeah very very very stupid anyway sorry and I do want to shout out the you're saying there's a clip where somebody wore mega shit at a dropkick Murphy show and they call them out. So, yeah, again, nothing wrong with that song.

Just I feel like we need another one. Like I think it used to be Sunday Bloody Sunday, like the U2 song. So like that one just sounds like a U2 song. It's just like jangly guitars, you know. Right. So like you we yeah, like you said we just need that that Irish fiddle taking a walk Yeah, Irish like pub music is a blast you ever go over there. That's just like there's always gonna be people just fucking around on Three fucking around a fiddle. There's a group on every corner. That's right. Yeah, it is literally like what they ask us to believe about do

op groups in the 50s. But it's like every pub has just like some people just fucking ripping. Yeah. My mother-in-law, she's a big fiddler. Oh, yeah. That's like her goat activity is to like every couple of years. She's like, I'll go to Ireland to get down on fiddle because legit on fiddle. It's a blast. Yeah. All right. Miles, let's check in with Washington, D.C. Last last time. Last time on Dawson's Creek.

Washington, D.C. So Schumer caved. You probably heard this guy was saying he wasn't interested in this Republican spending bill, but then did a fucking Vince Carter 180 and gave the Republicans the support to pass the continuing resolution in the Senate, so weee! There was your moment to maybe stop things up

and apply pressure, do something drastic in the face of drastic illegal activity from the Trump administration, but again. The thing that everybody seems to be asking for right now. Exactly, you co-signed. pressure, do something drastic in the face of drastic illegal activity from the Trump administration. The thing that everybody seems to be asking for right now. You co-signed it. One argument again was like, well, we don't want to own a shutdown. Polling came out that a majority of voters were like, bro, this is not on the Democrats.

It's on the Republicans and Trump. Like the people could see what was happening. Now the arguments can be made for why a shutdown could potentially make Trump more powerful as then he could maybe abuse the shutdown to truly be like, here's who's essential and here's who's unessential. And not do maximum pain because the government shut down. But also at the same time, that would be something Trump would wholly own and would only create more outrage for what Trump is doing and potentially get people in the fucking

streets. But I think people are upset about and the reason people, it would have been popular, like that people are asking for this is like, it feels like this thing is fucking veering off the rails and nobody is hitting the brakes. Do you guys want knife slow or knife fast? Right. And then it was like, slow, slow, slow, slow, slow, slow. I want to feel every fiber of my chest break down

as this serrated blade fucking stabs me. Right. Rather than let's get to it and now let's figure out what the fuck we're doing. Anyway, so there's a lot of debating now, like what could have happened and there's infighting because clearly the House Democrats are like, do not just fucking shut this shit down dude

This is already fucked up But we will see but it's just really hard Again, I think I think we were right to really hang on that clip of Chuck Schumer Leaning that protest outside of the Treasury building like early on in the administration He's like we will win and you're like we will win. Yeah, sure. And here we are so much winning So yes, there are there your Senate Democrats folks and then Trump defied another judge. So the courts we were though. Yeah, we thought I thought Trump deported hundreds of Venezuelans that he alleged were

Tren de Aragua gang members by invoking the fucking Alien Enemies Act of 1798. Okay. This is what we did to fucking intern Japanese people, Germans, like, you know, this is a war time type thing, but he just basically used that because it allows him very broad powers to be able to do executive actions that speed up specifically mass deportations. A judge was like, what the fuck are you talking about? No, absolutely not. This is like, bring these people back. And Trump basically was like, oh, sorry, the planes can't turn around because when the decision came, the planes were in the air. Trump basically claimed that they were in quote international airspace so it

wasn't possible. He was doing the international waters argument? Yeah and everyone's like that's not even a fucking thing asshole. You're the administration we're telling you to reverse an action through a legal court order and you're like oh but it's an international airspace. Take out of my hands now. Yeah, truly. So this is, again, another constitutional crisis moment. And you have Dan Bongino, also the guy who's the deputy director of the FBI and his fucking podcast talking about.

I was like, who's going to fucking enforce this? Trump owns the Marshalls. So what's the problem? Yeah, that is the, I mean, we're going to talk to Alec Karakatsiannis on tomorrow's episode, but that is a thing that kept coming up for me as we were talking about you know the his new book is awesome Copaganda. Yeah, but it really feels like yeah I mean he does own own the cops and they're ready. They're on standby. They're fucking ready to do that.

At the very least do their jobs the way they'd like to do them. Right. And then let the chips fall where they may. But yeah, it's fucking... anyway, constitutional crisis, entry number 413. Yeah. All right. Wanted to check in with JD Vance. He went to the Kennedy Center prior to Thursday night's performance by the National Symphony Orchestra him and his crew filed in and people booed them lustily like Seconds people were shouting you ruined this place You know it's sort of like when you hear a symphony warm-up

And you get to hear them dial in their their stringed instruments This booing is so great and watching him and Usha try and cope with it to like smile it off to each Other like look at this. Look at us. Honey. What here's the chorus of booze Here it comes he sat down here like wait what they start up you're realizing who just sat down. Oh Drinking his red wine He's waving. He's getting some thumbs downs. I bet. Yeah. Was that honey? Haters are going to hate, aren't they honey? Haters are going to hate.

It's just a sign of how cool we are. Yeah. Some people were shouting, you ruined this place. He just kind of smiled and waved to the crowd. But yeah, I mean, this is this is what like he turned the Met crowd into a bunch of like Mets fans. They're like, you're a fucking bomb, Vance. Yeah. One is like, fuck you, Soto. They're like, wait, hold on. Yankees, this why the oh, sorry.

Yeah, fuck you, Vance. Go? Why the, oh sorry, yeah, fuck you Vance. Go back to Ohio, you couch fucking douche. It was the sentiment, they didn't quite say that. Yeah, it was still the Kennedy Center. You ruined this place. How dare you? Which still, fantastic, because let it be known. Let it be, don't let these people have a fucking second

of fucking peace. Let them fucking stay at Mar-a-Lago and insulate yourself because you are not welcome out here, right? Yeah, refusing to give them the social credit that they do all this shit for you know Like the social credit they never got and their normal lives because they're fucking losers like Elon Musk should not be allowed in polite society without people going full, you know, drunk Yankees outfields. Stan, the guy who tried to catch the fucking foul ball. Yeah, yeah, those guys.

Like that kind of shit. Where are they at? They're all out. They're actually, they're, they're Elon's bodyguards now. Those guys. But these are deeply uncool people who are desperate to be cool. Yeah. And it feels like it's surprisingly effective

to attack them on the level of a high school mean girl. Oh yeah, yeah, sadly. But we just have to go back to the thing that made them hateful people probably. You don't think this made a mark. The interim president of the Kennedy Center, who was appointed by Trump, Richard Grinnell, called for more diversity and inclusion,

but only in regards to, you know, making room for people with opposing political views. Ah, okay, okay. We're actually into DEI just as long as it's in the service of insulating powerful people from fleeting moments of discomfort caused by their own actions. That is when, that's what DEI is really about in the end.

The diversity of, you know, you wanna be able to have wealthy people and also like really wealthy people in the same room, so. It was wild to me. Rick Grinnell has had such a fucking weird, he's like one of these like gay conservative guys who's Had all these different roles. He used to work in national security like the last administration he was hired on the Romney campaign in like

Back in 2012 and all of these hate groups are like you hired a gay guy and then he got fired He's like, oh my god He's had all these like this fucking wild ass career and then to land on we need more diversity. He's like, I love that we're Muslim and Jewish and agnostic and black and white and Asian, but also and gay, but also no drag shows at all. No anti-American nothing here anymore. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Intolerance towards people who are politically different is just an unacceptable is just as No anti-American nothing here anymore. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah Intolerance towards people who are politically different is just an unacceptable is just as unacceptable as intolerance in other areas

Yeah, what what other areas do you think intolerance is? unacceptable because it's a nothing from your actions seems to have anything he Has previously criticized the Equality Act and railed against transgender youth rights. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Cool guy. Dude, he's sick and I can't wait to see Sebastian Gorka's spoken word poetry jam

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Yeah. But now it was being rumored that they were going to go with the nuclear option in the trade war and take away Pornhub because apparently Pornhub is a Canadian website. This is a bullshit story, however. We're going to do the service for you here, telling you this is bullshit. It's wild when you see that and you're like, oh, damn, that would, I mean, yeah,

but American people love their pornography and the biggest provider of pornography being shut up would be an interesting arrow in their quiver. But again, I think this is, it's just funny that this becomes a headline and then when you really go back to it, it's basically, this story should be called how Twitter clips become headlines for clicks that aren't actual news.

I mean, and they are going to, you know, Trump's policies are going to eventually take porn away from people eventually with like all the like age gating and shit. Like I think it's already in Utah, right? Like the, and it's going to be like spreading around the country where like you have to give like scan your license to get, to like go on a porn website. So, you know, it will be taken away, but this is probably not how it's going to be taken away.

It's owned by a Canadian private equity group that took over after Pornhub became the target of a number of lawsuits over sexual exploitation, was the subject of a Netflix documentary that was unflattering. And so, you know, private equity is the place that extracts wealth while creating so many shell companies that you can't be legally liable for anything. They just get tired of chasing you through like layers and layers of shell companies. But the whole reason that this became a thing was there was a New York Post article which noted that it called Pornhub Canada's nuclear weapon in the trade war.

This quote exclusive article as it was titled about an interview with a Toronto based stand up comedian who floated the idea on in an Instagram video. Oh my God. who floated the idea on in an Instagram video. Yeah. So, I mean, maybe getting at a deeper truth, but if this is what they need to understand that the Trump administration is coming for their porn, if they have to blame Canada to do that, then, you know, and hats off. I wonder if like also like that's like the New York Post trying to like soft push stories that make you feel like

let's not fuck with Canada guys because it's fucking up everyone's back right now. Yeah, yeah. Just fucking just say that they could do that. It's if they have a nuclear weapon or a porn. Right. But yeah, I mean, I'm sure like with all the fucking data they have on Americans, couldn't they fucking turn that

into something a little more useful? Yeah. I bet Trump doesn't look at internet porn. I bet he's like Eminem in that. Like he has a bunch of DVDs. He's like, look at this eight millimeter film I've got. And it's like, Oh God. What's written on that film canister says Peliculas de snuff. Yeah. I was going to say it looks like the fucking there's like people wearing stag heads and shit. It's like the black and white videos from from the first season of True Detective.

You think he's got that shit? Oh, fuck. All right. In real news, Tesla has had to halt Cybertruck deliveries because, and this is apparent, like I'm no car industry expert, but this is apparently bad. The Cybertrucks are literally falling apart. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's that's right. That's right. We've seen various videos where like, you know, the pedal falls off like the gas

pedal falls or like get stuck in it and you're like, by like something else that fell off. And now like the bumpers are falling off the like various panels. So like the Cybertruck is just glued together, essentially. Yeah. Yes. So they're being put on a what's called a containment hold while they try and figure out like better glue to use, I guess. Ah, yes, glue.

No need rivets or anything like that. Yeah. I don't know how other shit's made or welding technology. But yeah, I remember so many early videos where people were like, bro, like, look, I can just take off this window trim in the interior like this. Yeah. Just peeling it off. Yeah. It was a fucking sticker.

Yeah. Like it's like a cheap, you know, like trinket that you get at. I don't know. Like I'm thinking of like, you know, little like things that you would win at like a church carnival or something. Right. And you like pull on one thing and it all just like comes apart. Like that's to dust some. I like what the fuck it like transitioned to a different state of matter. Just very loosely assembled and mostly with like not very strong glue. Yeah.

Poor guy. There was already a recall last summer due to improperly adhered trunk bed trim sale applique, applique. But a recent viral post highlighted just how terrible and dangerous the problem is with just like stuff falling off the front of the car, falling off the back. It's like wild too, because I regularly look at the like Tesla Cope sort of posts because you know, I've read it as a place for aggregating that stuff. And there's like a couple of posts cuz there's like certain like these engineer type guys and like car people on YouTube

Who are like reviewing the car and like dude this thing fucking sucks Like they're like this can't even tow anything another guy who's like this former NASA engineer He's like this camera system is fucking not good at all Like when you think about the technology that's out there like it might be interesting to people who don't know what other Technologies exist or like the advantages of like LIDAR and things and people like these people shouldn't be posting this this is like they're trying to create an agenda Against the truck. It's like motherfucker. This guy worked on technology. Those use on the fucking space shuttle, right? I think he I think his opinion holds a little bit of weight when he's analyzing this thing and very matter-of-fact

They've been like, ooh, this feels like analyzing this thing and very matter of fact, they've been like, Ooh, this feels like smoking Murray. Like it works, but is not the best by any stretch. Yeah. And yeah, a lot of people are so, I mean, you know, the brand has become toxic. There was that story from last week where like a bunch of cars, the Teslas had their wheels stolen. Like got a lot. They were all on cinder blocks and shit. I don't know. Bad out there. What changed you guys? What's wrong?

Yeah. 40 wheels were stolen. Brian, the editor, this paragraph, I guess I didn't because you, you do see cyber trucks around LA in particular. And like we saw some down in, but not as many in Austin as you see in LA I feel like is there maybe the and probably San Francisco But there's this paragraph from a fortune article from a few days ago that according to Cox automotive sales failed to top 39,000 last year even though Tesla had installed capacity to build over 125,000 so like that the thing that had made it through to me for some reason was that

like they were like just not able to make that many. But they could have made more if people wanted to fucking buy them. But nobody does. Yeah. The Fortune article goes on to say the Cybertruck can be considered a flop already, given its lofty expectations. Musk said demand was so far off the hook you like can't even see the hook and uh and also claimed that reservations were taken for almost two million trucks. He sold 39,000 and like they can't sell anymore. Yeah, no. Wow. I mean, it's that's that sucks. And it's interesting

to think of what the states are that had the highest purchasing intensity for Tesla. It's all blue states, man. Yeah, yeah. That's what happened. And now look at look at what happened. Yeah. But also just it all went downhill when you called that that guy who's trying to rescue them kids in the Thai cave a pedophile. Yeah, that's when you started really showing your like those when that's where that's when we first started seeing the signs I think I think the thing that really made his car uncool Oh, yeah, and is this the Seag Highling the Seag Highling really hurts and you know, I'll give you that I'll give you that It might be that it might be that Why did they start doing swastikas on all the cars now?

It's probably the time. It could be his leadership style. I think with Doge. Yeah. Yeah. Leadership, uh, price cuts. I think a job guy. That's what people are objecting to. Um, oh, also the person most associated with any car brand in the world is out here doing say, hi, Ling. Yeah. Somehow Henry Ford who was a Nazi managed to fucking You know ducking right ducking dodge Was next to eat off Hitler's work desk

Yeah, wasn't he putting the protocols in the fucking glove box of cars in the glove box? Yeah, somehow that guy spun it better. Yeah in the glove box. Yeah. Somehow that guy spun it better. Yeah. Motherfucking Elon Musk who just seek highlight on stage. There is like you still read like he was the Elon Musk of his time. Like people were just like, as Henry Ford would say, like in books from that time, that people just, you know, America just loves to create a fucking uber genius

who is like all knowing and like did it all himself. He's so smart. It's like, no, he learned how to like exploit the labor better with the assembly line. Right. It was an efficiency so he could make more money. Yeah. And like Elon Musk, what he does, he's not like good at creating products.

He's not good at creating technology. Like his space. Keep blowing up spectacularly. This car is a piece of shit that like nobody seems to want to buy at the price that he can make it for. He's just he hypes the shit out of products and just himself uses his popularity with a very specific type of person who falls for that shit and then like pretends to just be a genius and and then he lies you know he realized like the fact that you can say you have two

million reservations and then you only sell 50,000 like that he just knows what people won't pay attention to like this sort of lies Yeah Well, and again all of these people they operate under a different set of laws than regular people do we can't we can't do at our Job over promise some shit and then be like, oh actually use them the supply chain No, you can't do that. Same way the Trump administration or just even companies will be like, yeah, dude All these wake wage garnishing we did. Oh, we have to pay that back. Okay, we don't go to jail But we just have to we can just always be like, oh fuck it

We didn't get away with it like that's kind of the mentality and I think he knows he knows how to manipulate the markets because someone put together how The consecutive times he's been promising full self auto drive for like the for the for the Tesla and years is like 26 it'll probably be next year then they show the next year I think we're within in the next 18 months just every fucking time and he was just like damn these people are so fucking dumb that they let this guy keep kicking the promise down the road of full self drive never delivering and still sending the value

of the company up. And I think that also has to do with a lot of the fact that a lot of huge, like so many people's retired, like a lot of these, like people are buying Tesla stock too and making them part of like 401ks and things like that. So like a lot of people are kind of stuck in this sort of circus of how Tesla is gonna go up and up and up and up.

But yeah, it sounds like hard times. A good thing that Malcolm Gladwell wrote was a New Yorker article about studying how people become uber wealthy. And it just comes down to their ability to be predatory, find deals that benefit them and screw over the other person and then just like hammer that over and over and over until they're like so that's that's all it is it's just predatory opportunism is what he's good yeah and yeah like with regards to like making a ton of money it's nothing besides that

but because we worship money so much we're just like he's actually tech Jesus right and Actually, he's tech cheese us in video game parlance. We call that cheesing You know fighting games when you had there was a move that you could just lock somebody up in the corner Like for example Mortal Kombat you can use sub-zero you could freeze a motherfucker then trip them and freeze them They don't have a they can't get a move out. And you're like, yeah, I won that shit. And they're like, yo, you're fucking cheesing, bro.

That's all you're doing. And that's the same thing that these billionaires are, they cheese the economy. They have one move, and then they go back and rewrite their career to make it seem like they were actually geniuses. No, you're sub zero, you're freezing and tripping. Philosophies.

But yeah, I'm glad we're putting him in a position to totally fuck over everyone in the US if it enriches him. We'll see if he chooses to do that or not. Be interesting. And finally, some good news for the Irish, finally. So Conan O'Brien has been announced as the host of the 2026 Oscars already Wow Wow Set the ratings up

Sky-high I bet from announcing so early Well, so okay. That's Nikki Glaser for the Golden Globes last week, too So I wonder if that has yeah, they're really locking it in early. I mean, they both nailed it. I think that one people know, it's going to be worth watching next year. Just so you know, we're giving you a year or like nine months to just so you know, you're going to want to watch it.

So Nielsen updated the total streaming numbers based on and on the Oscars. And it was a billion. Sorry, no, it wasn't. It was a 19.69 million. But it, it did top last year's telecast, which was surprising because like, as, as mentioned, you know, the year before was Oppenheimer and Barbie, two movies that like everybody saw, but this one had more people watching it and interacting with it on social media. So I do think that's a testament to the fact that people are you know, the movies are open again, baby

People want to go back to the cinema and also he did a good job cinema Cinemar. Yes, exactly. I do want to thank the Academy for making a pot of gold reference because Conan O'Brien is Irish. In their tweet announcing him, they said, forget the pot of gold. This St. Patrick's Day,

we're giving you something even better. Conan O'Brien is officially returning to host the 98th Oscars. And then him against a green background holding an Oscar. I guess it's much easier to reduce Irish culture to a pot of gold than also a pot of gold. Some of the cool parts that are like standing up for fucking social justice and equity, like a strong tradition of that.

Now, we can't really identify with that. We can identify with pots of gold. Pot of gold. Yeah, we love gold. And greedily guarding pots of gold. That's kind of the thing that us Americans appreciate about. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. But I like that part. I just got to say me and Conan have to put up with so much databases

not knowing what to do with the apostrophe and our last name. Yeah, that fucking sucks, dog. Yeah, dude, I get it. I get it, bro. What are you I get it. I get it, bro. What are you saying to me? I get it, bro. I know what it's like to be a person of color. What it's like to be discriminated against. You know, the Irish were slaves to.

Here's this Photoshopped picture of a sign that says Irish need not apply. Anyways, Conan said that the only reason I'm hosting the Oscars next year is that I want to hear Adrian Broad. He finishes speech because his speech was really long. And that is the joke. Anyways, there you go. Happy St. Patrick's Day, America. Irish guy.

Yeah. Enjoy. Enjoy. Enjoy. You can have Conor McGregor or look, there are two genders in America. Are you for Conor McGregor or, look, there are two genders in America. Are you for Conor McGregor or are you for Conan O'Brien? Conan O'Brien, yeah. Fuck, dude, that Conor McGregor thing is frightening.

I gotta see it. So he just went up and was just, what was, he was just talking about how- I can play a clip. Ireland's being taken over. It's basically he's trying to do the exact sort of like you know America first type agenda by blaming like saying like ireland is sending giving too much money to immigrants and not enough on the Irish people.

But it's funny this the way this video shot it almost looks like he just got up there and started talking because the camera work is as shaky as his speech....the voices of the people of Ireland and it's high time that America is made aware of what is going on in Ireland. What is going on in Ireland is a travesty. Our government is the government of zero action with zero accountability. You know, our money is being spent on overseas... No, your money is being spent on cocaine abuse. Connor McGregor. I'm not. He's also getting Barry Bond's head.

I feel like, you know, his head is changing shape. Yeah, he's on HGH, you think? I don't know. I don't know exactly what he's on, but. I don't know. Yeah, but the head is getting bigger. The head is. It could just be like post. He's not in fighting weight. So it's like as he gains weight, it just he just looks rounder.

So maybe his head looks bigger. I think he goes pretty hard. It would seem they've done it goes hard on the The street done anything having to do any any publicity he did for Roadhouse Yeah, yeah, just go what's going on in the cocaine in America's got a rattle in it It's got a bit of a rattle in it. I feel like you got down mechanic All right, those are things that are happening on this Monday. St. Patrick's Day morning. We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get your vaccines while you still can, Get your flu shot. Don't do nothing about white supremacy.

And we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. Hey, it's Amartines. The news can feel like a lot on any given day, but you can't just ignore las noticias when important world changing events are happening. That is where the Up First podcast comes in. Every single morning in under 15 minutes,

we take the news and boil it down to three essential stories so you can keep up without feeling stressed out. Listen up first from NPR on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. In Mississippi, Yazoo Clay keeps secrets. Seven thousand bodies out there or more. A forgotten asylum cemetery. It was my family's mystery.

Shame, guilt, propriety, something keeps it all buried deep until it's not. I'm Larysen Campbell and this is Under Yazoo Clay. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Prohibition is synonymous with speakeasies, jazz, flappers, and of course, failure. I'm Ed Helms, and on season three of my podcast, Snafu, there's a story I couldn't wait to tell you.

It's about an unlikely duo in the 1920s who tried to warn the public that prohibition was going to backfire so badly it just might leave thousands dead from poison. Listen and subscribe to Snafu on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Have you ever wondered if your pet is lying to you? Why is my cat not here? Am I going and she's eating my lunch? Or if your pet is lying to you? Why is my cat not here? Am I going and she's eating my lunch? Or if hypnotism is real?

You will use a suggestion in order to enhance your cognitive control. But what's inside a black hole? Black holes could be a consequence of the way that we understand the universe. Well, we have answers for you in the new iHeart original podcast, Science Stuff. Join me, or Hitcham, as we answer questions about animals, space, our brains, and our bodies. So give yourself permission to be a science geek and listen to Science Stuff on the iHeart Video app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.