The Daily Zeitgeist - Stop The Steal: LA Edition, GuyAnon Fieri 06.10.26

Episode Date: June 10, 2026

In episode 2072, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and host of Parenting Is A Joke, Ophira Eisenberg, to discuss… LA Mayoral Election The New Stop The Steal? GOP Is Too Used To Getting Away With BSing People, Guy Fieri Is An Internet Conspiracy Theory Magnet and more! JD Vance says it's "shady" for California to count all of the legally cast ballots MIKE JOHNSON: Look, some of these efforts are so diabolical and so far upstream it's impossible to prove. But I think everybody knows instinctively that something is wrong here. Kyle Clark to Victor Marx: ...Either had one of the most extraordinary lives in human history or he’s a liar and a fraud. Guy Fieri blasted over accusations he doesn’t swallow food on his show An Investigation: Does Guy Fieri Swallow? Guy Fieri Investigation Part 4: Invisible Food This Streamer Has Convinced the Internet Guy Fieri Never Swallows Food on TV Conspiracy Corner: Guy Fieri, the bloke from Smash Mouth, and Violent J are the same person Smash Mouth Prove Their Singer + Guy Fieri Aren’t the Same Person COMET PIZZA on Food Channel Pizzagate Conspiracy Theorists Think Guy Fieri Is Involved in Their Imaginary Satanic Pedophilia Cult “Pizzagate” conspiracy theorists question how no one has noticed Guy Fieri is an Illuminati wizard LISTEN: In My Face by DVYNSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

By the way, I got to tell you that I'm originally from Canada as a quick refresh. And most of the Golden Knights players still, I think, I should probably fact check this. But I think still are Canadians because, you know, that's how it goes. And I guess they, you know, while they're playing, they date ladies in Vegas, some of them who are like showgirls and work in Vegas. And then those showgirls get real mad because as soon as the offseason happens, all these hockey players go back to, you know, usually like the farms and smaller towns that they're from in Canada. Going back to Regina Saskatchewan.

Exactly. Cool. Exactly. Where is my favorite video from Elle's Cafe in Regina Saskatchewan? Oh, can I tell you a little Regina joke? Yeah. That's out of reality. Supposedly, I don't know.

I think it was about five or six years ago. Regina was trying, you know, the tourism board was trying to figure out ways to come up with like fun tourism ads and slogans for Regina. So they put it out to the people. Uh-huh. And the one that won, but they couldn't go with it because they were too prudish was genius. And it was Regina, the city that rhymes with fun. That's good. That's so good.

They did good work. They did a great work. But they didn't go with it because they were like, that's too dirty. Oh, come on. It's perfect. Yeah. I know. I think some of the runners up were like, Regina, come already.

Right. I think that was in there. I don't have it. I'm trying to, all right, whatever. I'll find it later. You'll find it. No, just like this woman who is just like her, her Saskatchewan deep Regina accent, is like the internet's like, what the fuck is she saying?

They're like, what is, what language is this? Oh, that's funny. Oh, here it is. Okay, let's hear. I'm Alfa Males cafe and it's an absolutely beautiful day here in the Arizona of Saskatchewan. Come get an ice cream cone. Maybe take one of them scooters out for a rip. I'm Alvin Males.

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 442, episode 3 of Dirtailies Ice Guys. is a production of iHeartRadio. It's a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness through the day's news. We also have a new non-news history version of the Daily Zichai's Trapping each morning, where we do a deep dive into the zeit guys through the lens of a different icon. We've done, what are some of the ones we've done recently? Steve Jobs. We done Bob Dylan.

We did Jane Goodall this week. Love him. Very successful, brilliant. scientist. She kind of brought an artistic heart to the scientists to a world of science that was run by men who are like, you can't name the chimps. They have to have numbers for their names. And she's like, this one's David Grabeard. They're going to get attached. Yes. But she was just like, no, that's like, that's my boy. And was therefore able to witness all sorts of things. things that other scientists were not able to witness, also a Bigfoot agnostic.

That's a good strategy when you go, no, treat them as numbers. Yeah, yeah, exactly. We'll always, we'll always yield the exact results. Put them in an empty room, put them in a board room, and then see how they act. And that is the objective reality of how they act. And she's like, I'm going to go hang with them where they are. Anyways, it's a good episode. Go check it out.

Those episodes drop on Monday. They have icon in the title. But right here, it's Wednesday, June 10th, 2026. It's National iced tea day, not the rapper iced tea, but for the iced beverage, iced tea, it's your day. It's National Bedbug Prevention Day. I've never had bedbucks, but for the people that I know that have, sounds like the worst fucking shit ever. I don't know how you prevent them because half the time they were like, I went to a bar downtown and I got bedbugs. National Egg Roll Day

National Herbs and Spices Day Herbs and Spices Miles you a Herbs guy or a Spices guy I'm mostly a herbs man I'm an herb over here I like things a little spicy Okay me myself I don't mind a little black pepper

Oh okay The spiciest thing that I can take As a wane evil My name's Jack O'Brien A.K. This shit is effective S-A-L-I-N-E shots. This shit is effective. S-A-L-I-N-E shots.

Few times I've shot up my sack with a hodgepodge of goopy chem like crap. That one courtesy of lacquerone on the Discord. In reference to Ball Maxing, the less than about that, I think, the better. Yeah. It's a trend. The body modification world. Don't want to horrify our guest before we really even start talking. We don't want to keep doing this.

Yeah. I don't want to have to keep talking about that. A.k.a.s are so good. Shooting their ball sacks up with saline. I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Miles Gray, aka, ain't nobody's lap like me. I got so much saline. So much saline, lean.

Ain't no sacks as big as me. I got so much saline. So much sain, lean. Okay, shout out to Johnny Davis for that one, too. The saline. The leaders of saline. Outcast saline tear in the Discord. It's crazy.

It's crazy. Leave the saline alone, y'all. Miles, we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a very funny stand-up comic. Whose New Special is I Used to Be nicer, available on Veeps. A writer, actor, host of the podcast Parenting is a joke. It's Ophira Heisenberg. Ophira! Hey!

What's wrong with saline? Saline. All y'all, the things you can do with saline. I know. I love to. just knowing there's another. It's big in the body modification community. There are people also realizing people just want to make parts of their

tummies really big too. It wasn't just ball maxing. People were like tummy maxing with it. It's just big little fluid ball like out here. Not just like creating like little abs. I don't know if you can do that little pockets of saline. This looks more like terrible edema. That could be trendy.

Who knows? Yeah, exactly. They're like, you might not want to actually have that. But hey, sure. If you think your body will pass the saline after 48 hours, go right ahead. Adema Manzel. I did that. My character.

Starring in Saline the musical that I just heard two classic showstoppers from. That's right. How are you doing, Ophira? I'm all right. You know, every day. Back in New York. I was just in Vegas. Oh, the hotbed of gambling and,

Good choices. And hockey, baby. Yeah, yeah, hockey. Real big hockey town, Las Vegas. Oh, my God. And it's 100 degrees. I mean, it's literally 100 degrees that right now. It's the craziest time to go for hockey.

I mean, I can't. Maybe it's a relief to be in a stadium right now. Does it like kind of melt your brain as a Canadian? You're like, it's 100 degrees outside. And there's hot. Honestly, I was like looking at the schedule because I was like, June. Why are we playing this in June?

Yeah, you can't do that. What is going on? Yeah. Vegas feels like a future, like a preview of a future dystopia where it's like you can't go outside. Yeah, yeah. So you have to walk through hallways that are air conditioned. And, you know, yeah, they've been saying this for years, but it's getting really, because there's also just been so many days in a row without rain.

Like, so it's hot and there's no rain. And there's, of course, a Bellagio fountain. You know, that's a very famous fountain. A lot of water there. But I guess the water is evaporating. You know, usually with found these... Yeah, yeah. Yeah, because the air is so dry.

Exactly. So, I mean, when you stand by, you're getting the most humid version of Vegas that you can get. But they have to pump more water into it, and they don't know where to get this water. So the cost of the Blasio fountain has tripled. I don't exactly know who is paying that bill, but I guess it's the Bellagio. Mr. Bellagio. And it's full of toilet water. That's how they get.

Where do you walk by there? You will get a nasty eye infection. We're thrilled to have you here. We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell the listeners a couple of things we're talking about. We are going to talk about the L.A. mayoral election, which seems like it's the new Stop the Steel. It's the boutique, the bi-local version of the Stop the Steel conspiracy. Except all the outrage isn't local.

Right. Outrage is coming from Elon Musk. Yeah. People who don't know L.A. Yeah. So we'll talk about that. We will talk about this guy who we featured him before. He's like a debate moderator who.

Was a journalist. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like a journalist who comes in and is just like so I'm going to take as long as I need to to fact check these motherfuckers. Yeah. And he does great work. Kyle Clark, yeah.

Kyle Clark. So we'll talk about that. And then we'll look at the fascinating world of Guy Fierry Internet conspiracy theories. All of that plenty more. But first, Ophira, we do like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? I got to say, all day, I guess it's entertainment. Is it? Yeah.

I have been just searching to find new videos or. videos, different videos of Trump being booed and sleeping at the next game. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Any ones that were sort of outside of the mainstream that you found, they're like, ooh, this is a good one. It's not getting the love it deserves. Oh, yeah. I mean, well, the one that kind of started at, which I will just say is, you know, I think really good as AOC reposted one, but it's really good because the daughter, the granddaughter is there. So it's Trump. And then. the owner and then the grand yeah and they're both like literally passed out it's so clear and she

because she's animated and she's looking like so you can see it so starkly right what's going on here otherwise you would think it's like oh the tv the feed has glitched and we're just seeing a still but then she's moving or maybe just that part of the screen is frozen probably or you know to be fair, sometimes there are angles where you go, is it just sleeping or is like, are you looking at a name? You know, there are ways to just sort of misinterpret. But this one is just perfect. It finds his own lap so interesting.

There's something just below his solar plexus that he's looking at with his chin down. It is so funny that the owner dude is also sleeping. Just, you know. Yeah. I mean, you know, he's in a pod. They're good friends. A good time. Yeah, yeah.

Meanwhile, yeah, New York mayor, Mom Dommy is like, yeah. I wish Trump also had a shitty band, you know, like James Dolan does, you know. He's a DJ. He's a shitty DJ. Every billionaire needs their own, they have their own job.

Artistic pursuit. I mean, everyone has a secret. I wish I was an artist pursuit, you know, 100%. But Trump, I think, truly it. That part of his soul is completely cauterized. There's another creative bone in his body. Who is it?

Like, there's a lot of, I'm thinking men of note in retirement that become like oil painters. George Bush, yeah. Yeah. Oil painters. Yeah. They're painting. Yeah.

They're like, I've always had this artistic. Were George Bush's paintings any good? I can't remember. Kind of. They were kind of, right? Yeah. Yeah. Are we saying better than Hitler's?

Hitler was water colors mainly, right? Yep. Water color. Yeah. Hitler's, I didn't think were good at all. Like, they just seemed like very mid-tier, like, the sort of thing that would be hanging on the wall of a, like... Sanagogue? Right.

That's exactly what I was going to say. Like a, like, low-level hotel, you know? Right. It's just... Right. Shitty cheap. I mean, there is something odd about the George Bush paintings. They're very strange, you know?

Oh, yeah. It's just weird because he has a style, you know? Yeah, right, right. His style is four-year-old closing their eyes and trying to remember what Vladimir Putin looks like. It is very much like, you know, I'm going to try, just replicating a picture. Like it's, you know, entry-level portrait stuff. Yeah. I mean, yeah, but what's up with the, yeah, he likes doing eyes.

He likes doing eyes. It's, hey, the windows to the soul, as he famously said. As George Bush famously said, came up with him. There's so many good sleeping videos, so many good getting booed videos, the loudest and most enthusiastic booze were not in the stadium, which we had predicted because the types of people who had, like, the level of wealthy you had to be to get in the stadium, you know. I mean, it's mostly very rich people. Yeah, I was thinking, but there is definitely, it's mostly wealthy people. And then there is that, like, small percentage of people who are being absolutely reckless with their money because they have to. see it happen with their own eyes.

Like, I remember when the Dodgers first got back to the World Series, like my friends were spending so much money. Yeah, yeah, for sure. You can't do that with your income and you're like, when it's going to be the next time? Obviously, it wasn't exclusively millionaires because of the boos that we heard. Well, that was just going to say, like, you got to think about it, like the amount of people who did have money in that stadium,

who classically would be Republicans, because they're like, I love the fiscal policies. That was as good as it gets for him. Was that response? Yeah, exactly. Exactly. There's a, yeah, there's a $5,000 cover charge to boo Donald Trump. You mean?

Maybe. Maybe. You mean to his face? Maybe. What's something you think is underrated? Okay. You know what? I was thinking a lot about this.

And I'm just going to go with this because I'm on this right now. I'm in a, not an original concept. But I'm in a buying on thing. I do the consumption because I'm bored because I love the dopamine. I think I scroll through, you know, whatever online that I'm interested in buying as a break. Maybe like people used to scroll through catalogs or magazines in the past. Now I just do it through products. And I have lived in a small apartment.

I've accumulated too much stuff. As you know, because we've talked to those before, like we all have. kids. I have a kid that's his stuff is just taken over everything. Too much stuff. And I don't want one more thing. I want nothing. Right. And when I started looking at my world from the point of view of like, do I need another purse? Do I need that crescent shaped shoulder bag? Or do I have three purses that are totally fine? Like just, which is not my mentality. I get a little in the trends. And you know what? Once you start, it's like stopping smoking. or something. No, bad, bad one. Stopping heroin. No, also impossible. Stopping sugar.

I can't have my morning heroin. You don't want to see me without my morning heroin. Don't talk to me until I have my heroin. I haven't had my morning cheap. It's good. Once you start, you don't want to stop. Right. Once you start not buying stuff. Yeah. You don't want to stop. Oh, because it's crazy what, almost everything is available in a buy nothing group. You know That too. You start getting mad when you think, like, I was buying this shit. Like every year, Easter eggs for the Easter egg hunt for the kids, buy nothing group.

There's always someone's like, I have 7,000 plastic Easter eggs. I have to get rid of you. You're like, perfect, perfect. I found that my neighbors just leave Easter eggs all over their yard. So I just go and grab those. But their kids are really mad when they're gone in the morning. They're pretty upset. Kids are crying every year because they wanted to keep them.

I get it. Parents did. Like I got like a stool for like a like a step ladder for, you know, my kid to wash his hands at the sink. Oh yeah. And there's so many things, especially for kids stuff where you always think you like, oh, my kid's going to love this. Cut to they fucking hate it. And you're like, man, I have to get rid of this shit. Yeah.

Or they like it literally for a week. That is so common in our situation, one week. And then it just kind of sits there. Yeah. You know, and I hate the gathering dust. of like that's I'm like these things in our life and I live with a collector

and kids are often collector so I have two collectors love that euphemism congratulations of the word yeah yeah that's what that was my favorite show the show collectors where they would go visit those people

they were fine collectors colon buried a lot buried a lot I mean I swear if I wasn't here it would turn from collectors to the next stage I'm the one that's like pushing back the rolling tide, basically. What kind of stuff are we pushing back against collection-wise?

What kind of collections are you up against? Mostly books, and by that, I mean graphic novels and comic books. Uh-huh, yep. But given free reign, it would be, like, when I met my husband, he had this huge stack of ID cards. I mean, like a security passes, like, you know, when you go into a corporate building? Did he stole from people? No, that when you, they take your photo and they give you a little badge,

and he would collect them and he had this huge stack and I was like, what is that for? And he's like, oh, it's every time I go to whatever,

like 30 rock. And I was like, why are you keeping them? And that, like, because you keep them. Because you do it. Because why ever give it away?

Throw that in that car. See? Yeah. We're all scrapbookers in some very specific part of our lives. I did. And then I remember I went back to my mom's house

or had them all in a shoebox and all the ink had just like deteriorate like they were just ineligible. And I'm like, oh fuck. Yeah. pieces of paper is like, why did she do this in disappearing ink? What the fun? This was from Fight Club. I went to the movie to see this.

It's so, you know, and I get it. Like, I have part of that too. And the only, I've never actually collected anything except for clothes, I will say, you know, but that's what I'm working against. But, uh, I had a snow globe collection when I was in my 20s. Like it just started. I had like 10 snow globes. And then all of a sudden I decided it was a collection. And then, With that particular collection, it was kind of amazing because snow globes were a very small purchase. You know, usually they were max 10 bucks. And people loved the idea of traveling somewhere and buying a snow globe. So I was just constantly being gifted.

They're like, oh, a fair collect snow. So then all of a sudden I had this massive collection and I was, you know, yeah, I'm going to moving all over the, yeah. And I had to move and I box them all up and I put them into storage because, you know, small apartments can't really house this collection. and I opened it up. I think this was, you know, right before I moved to New York. And they just were all dry. Yeah. Yeah, they all just dry.

And then they look so crappy. Yeah, yeah. Is you taking them to Vegas? What's going on? I left them on the street. Yeah, they left them on the street. They're like, no, that's our water now. Long to us.

Yeah, they all evaporate. You can't refill them. I tried in the faucet. It does not work. I went to college. with somebody who had been, like, we found in his dorm room freshman year that he had a bunch of people's IDs, like, on his closet wall, just, like, taped up. And I was like, that's the weirdest thing. And then I think, I think John Mullaney also has a bit about, like, finding somebody who had,

like, a bunch of IDs that they had stolen. And it's just, like, such a haunting weird thing. Wow. I think there are secretly people. That's why I asked if your husband stole people. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Not because I thought he was a serial killer. It's so interesting.

Like stealing someone's identity, you know, as we know through the internet, is just, I mean, it's an awful experience. I know people that have had into. But actually stealing people's IDs is creepy. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. What is wrong with you? Because when you get caught with them, you look like a fucking maniac. Yeah, yeah.

He was proud. He wasn't like caught. He was like, is he one of those drunk kleptos? Because I have friends, like, when they get drunk, they turn into straight up clefts. They just want to steal anything. I used to do that. But I would only steal from chain restaurants. Like salt and pepper shakers?

Yes. Yes. Ah, yeah. Hot sauce. And I would just be laughing my ass off when I got home. All the way home. Oh, my bro, look at the fucking hot sauce I took again. You're like, check out this spoon.

Yeah. They're like, all right, dude. Whatever. It reminds me of the Mullaney bit is that. his friend stole people's family photos at parties because it's the one thing you can't replace. Oh, God, that is so demonic. It's very dark.

What is something you think is overrated? Smashburger. I've decided I am against the smashburger trend. I don't know why they're everywhere. You like a thick boy? You like a meatball in there? You know what I think? I think Smashburger is just a capitalist efficiency.

That's conspiracy theory coming in right now. Coming in right now. It is for people who cannot cook, basically, because there's no... You're just mushing the fuck out of that. It's burnt and crispy. And it's thin, right? So it's like you can't cook. There's no like, you know, basically taking care of the meat.

There's no such thing as a juicy, delicious smash burger. It's just fast. It's like fast, but it's not a gross McDonald's patty. So it's just thin. So I also think it's a way to stretch the meat and get churge you more. shrinkflation shrink yeah

stretch the meat and also worse meat you know like you don't you don't need it to be as good of meat

because there's nothing in yeah yeah it's just like one of those things there's always a burger

trend you know like before this it was like what umami burger brought on our civilization it's like

oh you ever have goat cheese on a burger and you're like yeah and then that got old after a while and I feel like

we're hitting peak smash burger where it's like all right, this is fine. And some places, I like the crusty part. I do too, actually. Yeah, sure. At the end of the day, it's just like sort of,

it feels like the thing that is going to just end up dying off because there's so many places doing smash burgers. It's hard not to find, like, it's hard to find place that does not do smash burger. Yeah. I'm like, give me a well-formed burger, medium rare. I want to be able to cut it open and see that. Yeah, yeah. What about a carbon, burnt carbon disc with some cheese on?

with vague meat flavoring and basted in its own fat vague meat flavoring now we're talking yeah that's welcome to smash flation welcome to Vogue

where the meat flavor is vague it evokes meat flavor that's the future yep that is the future it's like the LeCroi of meat flavor

essence of the essence the memory of what once was It's like someone described me a cocktail with a light wink of vermouth. Like the light wink of beef. Oh, that's, you know, I will say, I do like when you're talking about a martini. I do like what I usually say is a whisper of a bit. Yeah, that's what I meant.

I like a whisper of a moose. Well, you're going to love whispers of meat. My new smash burger place. I always actually thought Impossible Burger was poorly named because, you know, it's like, guess what? It is possible. Like, there's just that. But no food should be called impossible. Like, I don't want to eat impossible.

Yeah. I mean, it's funny too because I remember I was eating a lot of impossible burgers. And the best way to get that tasty was to kind of do the smash burger thing. It's like you want to get the tar on the outside that mimicked something of a burger. But I still miss the meaty. I find fast. I mean, Impossible burgers are, of course, they are grown in a lab more or less, right? And the one thing that supposedly made them super tasty was that if you cut into an impossible burger, it would bleed.

It mimicked. Right, right, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Which I always found, you know, it's very funny because, you know, all the vegetarians, vegans, I don't know so much, but vegetarians I've known over the years, you know, they have been very strongly about how meat is murder. And yet, the only thing that makes it taste good is when it bleeds. Make it bleed. Make it bleed.

Yeah. Yeah. Be civilized. Bring your own blood. and put it on. Thank you. Don't put that labor on the impossible, Patty, please. I want to hear these mushrooms scream.

And yet I say that I want a doll that bleeds when you cut it, and they think that's weird, you know? All right, go back to collecting your ideas there. Get those ideas on the wall. What else you got, man? All right. Kids play set filled with strangers' drivers licenses. What? Yeah, let's go back to the bleeding doll idea.

Their eyes are all erased out. Their eyes are all crossed out. Oh, okay. Oh, they were just prototypes for my bleeding doll. Murder dolls. Now on sale. They come with their own ID. Let's take a quick break before we keep giving away these brilliant ideas,

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Have you heard of Los Angeles, though? I sure have. Okay. I sure have. This is going to save the episode. Oh, my God. I was so worried. We were going to spend so much time talking about it.

It's near Hawaii, right? It's near Hawaii. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll take that. We'll take that. Yeah, okay. So we just had our mayoral primary. And I was worried because when the polls closed,

first results showed Spencer Pratt ahead of our progressive candidate. Nithia Raman by eight points. And I was like, hot damn, that's a lot of points. You're like, stop the count. Stop. Yeah, yeah. Miles was like, I don't think that's actually that bad. I was talking to Hollywood Handbook hosts, an L.A. political guy.

He's Davenport. And he went so far as to say, when it came in only 8% ahead, he was like, oh, that's a rat. Like she won. Oh, yeah. Yeah. usually breaks at least 10 points. Yeah. And it literally happens every single time.

With Caruso and Bass, the same thing happened. Caruso was up 10 points. People are, huh? Right. And it's like, first of all, you keep forgetting how people vote in California,

especially where everyone gets a mail-in ballot. Most people are just dropping their ballots off. Although I'm like one of the old school people. I like to go to the polling place. It just feels, I don't know. I do too. I feel like I was like the,

yeah. like 18 again. I'm like, I'm going to vote. And I like to go there and see the other people. I'm like, we're doing the thing. But yeah, everyone votes by mail. And on top of that, especially with this election, progressives and a lot of Democrats were holding on to their ballots to literally election day to figure out who they were going to back to keep Spencer Pratt out of the race. Right. And because of that, there's a, obviously you can get through the ballots that are cast in person fairly quickly. But then there's an entire backlog of people who have dropped them off within like a day or two of the election.

And that creates a bit of a bottleneck to count. And of course, because Republicans are plagued by this false notion that they are somehow representing the majority of the nation because they're like, yeah, our policies are what people want. So when they see data that shows that they are in fact not in the majority, especially in a place like L.A. that's blue. They're like, oh, it's fucking fraud.

It's rigged. Cognitive dissonance activated. And we have this now. Yeah. It's like the same thing. like, oh, she didn't go out with you because she's a lesbian dude. Like, it's the same. It's like the oldest trick in the book.

Oh, that's why. Yeah, that makes sense. That makes sense. So, yeah, now that, you know, I think, again, case in point, the L.A. mayoral primary where these idiots on the right were so gassed up on the idea that infamous dickhead Spencer Pratt somehow had a shot at becoming mayor. When that came tumbling down and he was pushed out of contention, now that Nithia has solidly came in second, meaning it's just going to be bass and ramen in November,

they are now trying to make this out to be some kind of rigged election. Delicious meal, by the way. Bass and ramen. Oh, Oh, Chilean sea bass and ramen. Okay. Oh,

yeah, I like that. Yeah. So, you know, now everyone- She's going to win by like many points to, like, it's not like by a point. She's going to win by, I think, like, three or four percentage points, too.

Oh, yeah, over Pratt. Yeah. So it wasn't even close. And now we just have people from at a federal level just trying to cast doubt over an L.A. mayoral election where we aren't voting in Republicans at all, but somehow this is rigged. This is what they do. Yeah. So this is Mike Johnson, old Mr. Jesus jerk off eyes, who uses the app to monitor his son's masturbatory habits and his son is able to monitor his. he's talking about dude man

vibes are just all off I don't have I don't have evidence but it's all bad I'm not saying it's rigged I'm saying it stinks to high heaven and everybody knows that let's let's remove

the appearance of impropriety let's have what a concept let's have votes on an election the day of the election that's what many states are able to do I think California is playing around with us but what evidence is there to prove

that there was this rate I don't some of these efforts are so diabolical and so far upstream it is impossible to prove. But I think everybody knows instinctively something is wrong here. And that's a concern. We need people to believe in the integrity of our election system.

Yeah, yeah. So what's your election? What's your evidence? Oh, man. It's so bad. You can't prove it. But you feel it, right? Yeah, deep inside, right?

Like, it's a mood. It's a mood of lack of integrity. Right. Right. Yeah. The vibes are lack of integrity. Dude, you felt it, right? Dude, that stripper was hitting on me, dude.

See, I think, oh, yeah, it's all the delusion. It's all the delusion. And the use of the word everyone and stuff like that is part of like the wizardry of this kind of wording. Diabolical. Diabolical. It stinks to high heaven, Ophira. It stinks to high heaven. That's how stinky it is.

How does it stick to high heaven and the devil's involved? There's a lot going on here. Exactly. And that's why like your heads in the game, Ophira, your head's in the game. you're not going to let one get over on you. So yeah, that's the fucking speaker of the house talking of just vaguely being like, oh, something's off because. P.U.

Someone who's stinky. Dude, okay, we'll get to why this is all just so far off the charts. But JD Vance also went on Fox News saying nonsense as well. His dumb fuck logic here was that, well, on election night, Bass was first, proud was second, and Rahman was third. So then the mail-in ballots, should reflect that basically. Here's J.D. Vance.

I can't believe you're subjecting me to this. Yeah, I'm so sorry. Welcome to the Vance cast, O'Fier. Fundamentally the problem here with this whole thing is, how is it that you had, Karen Bouse was in first place, Spencer Pratt was in second place, and then this other woman was in third place,

you would expect these mail-in ballots to kind of meet that same basic pattern and where, you know, number one would get the most votes, number two would get the second most votes and so on. But somehow we find ourselves in a situation where, number one, they're still receiving ballots, not just counting ballots, Jesse. They're still receiving ballots. And number two, the way that they're coming in just so happens to work out

such that the Republican is getting kicked out of the final two, so it's a Democrat versus Democrat runoff. That seems pretty shady to me, especially when you add on top of the fact that in California, you were prohibited from asking for somebody's identification. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's pretty shady that they take the votes that are cast and then count them over time. And I just don't know how that's work.

I mean, I just find it weird that the counting is different than what I wanted it to be. I also find it weird that they don't just, yeah, they just don't read the first name and go, well, that's who won. I mean, yeah. Isn't that how it goes? I just like that everything's so linear. Like the miracle on ice where the U.S. hockey team beat the Soviet Union, they were down three, two, going into the third period. And you would expect that that trend would have followed,

yet the American scored two goals in the third period to make it four three. Where'd those two goals come from? I just don't understand, Jesse. What are you talking about? I just love that he didn't even bother to learn the names of the three candidates. and the other woman. Like, what? Yeah.

I mean, yeah. You want to get that together? I'm sure that's how he talks about his wife, too. And then that other woman that I'm married to, sure. He is so psyched that anyone wants to talk to him on camera. He'll make any appearance. Like I said, you know, L.A. was never going to elect Spencer Pratt, no matter how you look at it. So put that aside, right?

There are two million more Democrats registered to vote than Republicans in L.A. Okay. And then people would have fucking held their noses to vote for Bass a second time. They'd be like, yeah, fuck it, man. I guess Spencer Pratt's going to be the fucking mayor. No. And also, if you look at the polling numbers, Pratt was underwater with L.A. voters, like, by 35 points or something. And Bass was like maybe underwater like 15 or something points.

Nithia Rahman had like a plus four or five point favorability rating already. So it's like, okay, you're going someone who people in L.A. despise where someone people in L.A. are familiar with and feel positive about. So, yeah, the math is actually mathing, not to mention Karen Bass, if she went up against Spencer Pratt, the polling showed that she would have blown him out by like 20 points, 18 points or something like that. And that's what an establishment Democrat loves to have is to just merely juxtapose himself against someone on the right.

Yeah. So if it was going to be rigged, it would have been to like, yeah, have the guy there that's not going to fucking challenge me from the left. and I can just win just on my back. So now... Everything's rigged. Yeah. Everything's rigged.

It's interesting how all the same people think everything was rigged. I mean, I just love other stuff to be rigged. I just, you know, let's get it. Let's have everyone talking about it, but it's always the same people talking about it being rigged. Well, I mean, it's like the one way you're able to explain a way, like, what the losses actually mean, rather than like, no, this, this platform that we run on is a loser. It's repulsive to people that they won't vote for it. But you can't cop to that. So everything's got to be vote rigging.

You yourself start fucking with the maps. You do everything you can rather than accept the sort of conclusion that most people arrive at, which is like, yeah, man, everything the fuck your party stands for is, luckily for you, it's only mostly repulsive. There's still a sizable group of people that will vote for this. But a lot of people aren't. Yeah. And you can mess with people when they show up, right?

You can make it hard to find polling. places. You can do all kinds of things to mess with people that way. And then you can mess with the mail, which has happened, right? The postal service has been radically reduced. It takes so long. It's very inefficient. There's no personnel. But the drop-off is very hard to mess with. Yeah. Right. And so then that is, that's why that's the focus. That's right. Right. Of course. They're dropping off their own ballots? Like, who does that? That's crazy. It does that. Yeah. Way second. Shady, man. Shady. Shady. I would never give the power to the people. No, no, no, no, no.

What a mess. This is what they're going to do with it. You got Spencer Pratt from the hills, guys. Do you remember him on the hills? How terrible of a person he was that we all got to see. And at the time, 720 HD, not even 1080. He was pixelated and terrible. We knew then without it being full HD.

I think the Democrats, I mean, the Republicans hate Gavin Newsom. Like, I think this is some shrapnel, too, because they hate him so. much. Yeah, sure. Yeah. Well, don't worry. He'll, he'll be out and he'll be probably putting out his little hat for presidential donations soon enough. I assume so. It would be funny if it was a little cute hat. Oh, can I have, can I has $5 million from your pack? Let's talk about, so Colorado had the Republican gubernatorial debates and Oh, God. This is just a trend that I want to, like, I want this guy to be the new face of all media.

Right. Like, so he's just, we've highlighted his work before during debates where he just, like, actually live fact checks people. And like, we've, we've seen attempts at live fact checking before where people are like, well, so we actually look that up. That's not true. This is not true. And they do it like kind of in a list way that it's just like, there's doubt about

that. There's not about that. There's not about this other thing that you said. And it's like not put in any like real terms. It's almost like they're doing it like a statistician would. And he just like kind of really takes his time. It's like, okay, so here's what you said. And then here is why it's demonstrably not true. Yeah. So yeah, this guy is a journalist from like the local news in Denver, Kyle Clark. And yeah, every time we've talked about him, it's because he just puts people's feet to the fire. Even before the debate, I just want to play. He did an interview with this guy, Victor Marks, who's like, he's like, I was a fucking Navy SEAL and I fought Satan in the fucking this big circle out. Just says the wildest shit.

There's just like, this is one part he said. He said he killed a man when he was seven years old. I just want to, like, just so you get a taste before he gets confronted on the debate stage. And again, he had the honor of being interviewed by Kyle Clark who just like, let me just check that real quick. Your claim that your abusive stepfather forced you to kill a man when you were seven years old. Is that the only person you've ever killed? Let me think. She's really taking a beat here.

This is not paused. He's thinking on it. Well, I would say as a child, yes. I mean, without question. but I've been in other situations where, you know, possibly people... Okay, so that's the flow of him in the line. Okay. This is another time where he said he performs exorcisms?

You perform exorcisms. Commanding demons to come out of people. Can you explain to me how that works? I don't command the demons to come out of someone. I think of them as assignments or attachments to people. and we identify the demon like Jesus did. We asked what their name is, and then we give them commands, and they very frequently typically will answer.

Through the person's mind, they'll tell us what they hear, and then we destroy them, banish them to perfect judgment from Christ. Okay, okay, great. So we find their phone number, we use Palantir technology to identify them. them, that we identify them, and then we bring them to justice at a war tribunal. So, yeah. And they're very happy to talk. They're very happy to talk.

They're chatty. They're actually kind of chatty. They've been cooped up in there. That's why they come out and they're like, you know, they just have a lot of like, easy, breathe up energy. Right. They forget. So they're speaking backwards, but yeah.

They've got a lot of big feelings. Just take a breath, man. We got time. We got time. Start from the beginning, pal. Just start from the beginning, one word of time. Why are you? possessing this lady.

So on the debate stage, again, so Kyle Clark, clearly he's like, bro, I can rattle off all your bullshit claims. And he does it in such a way that it's just like, it sounds like a junior high liar's worst nightmare to be confronted like this, because this is how Kyle Clark does him on the debate stage. You claim that you've been all around the world armed to the teeth rescuing women and children from captivity, that you've stopped human smugglers at the Mexico border and made them pay a price, that you as a civilian called in a U.S. military airstrike that killed 70 ISIS fighters, that you were the first American into Gaza during the war with Israel. They let civilians do that?

That you've done 150 high-risk missions, and everyone has been a success. You told me last week that it's all true and that you don't need to prove it to anyone. But you're talking to voters now. How should voters decide whether you've lived one of the most extraordinary lives in human history or whether you're a liar and a fraud. What a beautiful way. To be like, okay, so if true, you have actually, you're the most interesting human being

to have ever lived. Right. Or you're full of shit. And you've done the most good of anyone. And it's never been documented. Only by you. It's only been documented by you. So interesting.

And we've seen how swift he is with his thinking. So here's his answer right after that. All right. We're going to need to come up with something to talk about for 15 minutes. Well, he's trying to think of what to say. Okay. Can we back up to her for one second?

He's gesturing to another candidate. Can we back up to her? I'll make a little informal complaint. The folks in home don't want to hear about her past and what she did. That's not going to make a lick of difference. So he's just pivoting. Wow. He's like, luckily, Kyle Clark's like, dude, do you have evidence or not?

Yeah. That's what's being asked of you right now. Can you back up all these claims or are you a fraud? What is it? Well, speaking of backup, could we back up to the beginning of this where you... The book of Genesis. What? I'm still thinking from the first minute of this entire thing.

Whoa, whoa, wait, you're talking to me? Oh, wait, what did you say, I said? So he is a Marine Corps veteran. He has a faith-based non-price. This guy's name is Victor Marx. Faith-based nonprofit called All Things Possible Ministries. And he focuses on international humanitarian aid and freeing women and children from sex trafficking in high-risk war-torn countries primarily in the Middle East and South Asia. He's never held public office.

And when he's asked about- He was busy. When people ask, you have no experience, he said, quote, people ask me, what about your experience? You don't have experience as a politician. And I don't know whether to say you're welcome, but it is what's resonating with people right now or true outsider, someone who has proven leadership in the real world, not proven and not real. No.

And yeah, and I think we are, no, no one wants an outsider anymore. They're like, could someone get a job done? Right. That knows what they're doing. Yeah. This feels like one of the, when one of the first pathological liars, butted up against the internet age suddenly. They're like,

I used to just go talk to a bunch of like senile veterans and lie my ass off. And you're like, uh-huh, yeah, yeah. And now this guy's fucking asking fucking proof. What the fuck am I supposed to do. It seems like the level of fact-checking he's used to dealing with is that of like a early 20th century like fishing boat captain. Like, you know, we're just, you're like, well,

Who fuck is this guy? Why is he Keefe? Yeah, to me it just sounds like the kind of stuff, you know, you get the guy who's like three pints in at the bar. Just going on about. You're noticing I did. You're like, all right, cut them on. You're not called in an airstrag against ISIS, right?

Sure, you did. All right. They let you do that. Yeah, they do. This is my friend. I should go to his house. Let me do an air strike now. Okay.

And then we put the jet strike. Everybody. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Ring a bell. On me. I mean, I think, again, that's sort of just the level of grift that all these people, especially, like, you know, like liberals will lie about other stuff.

Like, they give a fuck about working people or people of color or things like that. Whereas, like, Republicans have this, like, myth building about being, like, a great man or somehow having, like, insider military knowledge or, like, you're a fucking Stephen Seagall character or some shit. And that's the currency that they deal in. But again, it's not great when then you're asking, oh, okay, well, can't show me the evidence of that. You were in, so you were the first American in Gaza. First is so funny, too. It's just like, what does that even mean? You were the first?

The first. I was like, maybe let me in there, man. Let me in, man. Let me in there. Yeah, just a fucking one man army. But, yeah. And he also has a dog that goes on stage with him, like that he has so many props. Like his other thing is like a dog wearing a tactical vest.

He's like, this dog was in Syria. You're going to fucking say this dog wasn't in Syria? You say this dog's lying? I wonder if some of these candidates should like, I think they just got routed in the wrong way. We got to reroute them to America's Got Talent. That's where they belong. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like a whole show here.

He should be doing a stunt show with his combat dog or something. You know what I mean? It's like, watch a dog take a part of an assault rifle blindfolded. dog in a tactical jacket? I'm kind of in. This is kind of funny when he does bring up the dog. I spend of his book because he brings up the dog service record. On a stage running for governor, Reagan.

I said I was going to talk about you. Come, seats. The dog. This little dog, she's going to go bite you right now, Kyle. She was in Syria and Iraq. So is she lying too? Well, the dog's not running for governor. You're running for governor.

And you spent first little time answering the question other than to say. She kind of is. Oh, my gosh. I'm going to run everything by her. I ask her what to do. What do I do, Reagan? What do I think? Oh, boy.

I mean, it's one step away from him just holding keys in the air going like, shiny. Look over here, everybody. Shiny. I was joking when I said that he was going to do that. You call him this dog a liar thing, and he literally did that shit. This dog was a Syrian R. 100% 100%

Yeah, it feels almost like, well, yeah, I don't know. He's like he's evidently drunk on stage or something's wrong with his brain. But anyway, maybe it's another one of those wonderful parasites. How many parasites and brains are there? We don't know.

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We're back. And I was not aware that Guy Fierry was such an internet conspiracy theory magnet. I think I knew that there were some people on the right who thought he was Illuminati. Right. Oh. Yeah. Clearly. You know, like what better disguise for somebody in the Illumina?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Trying to look like an every man. Yeah. I would just like to pose that man does not look like. and every man. We're all wearing frosted tips with a goatee from the year 1990.

Hey, I've been wearing my glasses on the back of my head since 88. That's right. I was the first person the U.S. military sent to put glasses on the back of the head. I was the first got to fight Saddam. So the big new conspiracy theory is from a Twitch streamer named. Do I even have to say this? You guys know. Dr. Spaghetti.

Yeah. Who has gone viral for following up on a commenter's theory that the diners, drive-ins, and dives host doesn't actually swallow the food he's tasting on the show. So good. And he's done a super cut where he's like, you cannot find a single shot of him swallow. Like always, always, always they cut away.

Like he puts the food into his mouth. He's also pointed out that like there are, clips where he puts food in his mouth and he like sticks his tongue out like a like a baby he's like he really goes big when it comes to communicating i'm eating over here and he also claims to have found a clip of him eating with a pair of chopsticks where there's nothing on them i don't think that's actually accurate like i think the clip that he's showing has been run reversed from like his mouth so it's looking like he's, which is an amazing amount of work

to put into prove that Guy Fierry is not actually eating food on his show. Okay, and what does that prove exactly? We're still figuring it out. Him not swallow the food. Just huge if true. That's what that's as far

as we've got. Huge if true. I would just like to say it proves that what this is is television. What do you think? What do you think? I mean, I know I think we understand what a reality show is.

I think we understand what a reality competition show is. I think we understand that if you told me right now that that guy hasn't eaten one bite of food at any of these places and we just all know how to make a show about that. Would you just go? Oh, yeah, right. Yeah. No, that makes sense. Yeah. But also, you don't see Guy Fierre shitted out.

So how do you know? No, no, no. No, no, no, no, not today. I'm not here to argue with, I'm not here to argue with a medical professional like Dr. Spaghetti, but there are two possible alternate theories. One is that watching people swallow food is fucking gross looking. On television?

They're like, all right, they saw it, get put in their mouth. We can, like, kind of move it along. We don't need to watch him chew and swallow. Good point. Good point. And the other. would be that they have to do multiple takes. And this is going to fuck some people like Dr. Spaghetti up,

but actors usually do any eating scene with a spit bucket nearby. Because after a certain point, you don't want it to be evident. Like when you're on your eighth take of eating a piece of food, you don't want it to be evident that you're like dreading, putting the food in your mouth. You're trying to pretend like you still want to. eat the food. I mean, yeah. And also just like you think the food that they show in the glamor shots is actually the food? No, it's like glazed over in plasticity. It's not edible.

Do you think that, uh, do you think people on television and film are actually smoking? No. I mean, every once in a while, there's probably someone that's like, I could really use a cigarette. Yeah. Someone's like, oh, you're ripping that dart. Yeah. Uh, super producer Victor says I sound like a fed by claiming that this is, this theory is made up. I'm just saying, I'm trying to be part of the debate, you know? I'm not saying one way or another because if he's not eating the food, fuck. Like what? What is true then?

Right. You're right. I understand. Maybe these elections are. Yeah. And if that's true. Then what of California's ballots? Yeah.

People who have worked with him on shows. actually the thing that I noticed that was weird is that he eats everything. A chef who competed on a show hosted by him. They were like, I've filmed like a lot of shows with him. He eats everything. That is the way I would do it. I would go the other way. I would be like, I think he eats too much.

That's totally the way I would go if I was hiding this. Do you remember that show Man versus Food with Adam Richmond? Yeah, sure. And he like, it fucked his life up because he was actually eating it. Everything. Like, he's, he's like, fine. Going, doing all those food challenges across the fucking country wasn't good for me. I guess, but that one, you have to prove your swallowing. But I feel like most people who do food shows, they like food, so they will eat it. And Guy Fierry's reactions are of someone who's genuinely excited about eating a, like, a good bite of

of food. He does seem to be enjoying the food. He's like, oh, yeah. I just love that the B-roll or the, the shit you don't see that hits the cutting room floor. He's like, oh, this is, this is bomb. Hey, man, pound it up. Yeah. What the fuck, man? I can't keep doing this shit. Away from me. Another fucking burger, dude, I'm gonna fucking lose it, man.

He has a British accent. He's very, like, into fancy, refined food. Blimey, this was rubbish. The place where Dr. Spaghetti's theory does start to get me is he's like, all right, granted, I will take all of that. However, I'm going to Gordon Ramsey's, like shows. and I will show you multiple clear swallows that he's done on camera.

Guy Fieri, no clear swallows. I will go to diners, dive-ins, drive-ins, and dives. I will show you Guy Fieri's son doing a clear swallow. Guy Fierry, no swallows. Maybe the way Guy Fierry swallows is, like, maybe he's a bad swallor.

Everyone's like, you know what, that is not your angle. Trump makes a weird farting sound. But this is just the late. Back in 2018, there are claims that Guy Fieri, the singer from Smashmouth, and Violent J. from insane clown posse were all the same person. My favorite. My favorite.

I love same person conspiracy. I love that. Smash Mouse even felt the need to post to their account, a photograph of Guy Fierry and their lead singer. side by side. Oh, yeah, I don't know, man. That could be AI. Yeah, deep fakes.

Not even deep fakes, medium fakes. Side by side, you're like, do they look fucking nothing? They look in nothing alike. I think it's so funny. Aside from like annoying facial hair. Maybe if you're not, you don't have your contacts in, you're like, yeah. Terrible fashion sense and ties to TGI Fridays is one thing that they do all have in common.

Okay. And I will say that when I'm hearing a smash mouth song, I am picturing Guy Fierry singing it for some reason. That's not that, like, so they, I think they've like, I think they've like connected something in the unconscious mind. Yeah. Well, I think there's something about, you know, this, about the term smash mouth for someone who doesn't put anything in his mouth.

It's very interesting. Now I see new levels. Oh, shit. Oh, there it is. Huh. Huh. We're back. I gave you all the clues, Mr. Policeman. I've cracked the case. My mouth actually can't chew. It can only smash.

That's right. That's why I have to do all spit buckets. Sooner or later, the rest of the world will see the clues that my entire lifetime has laid out for you. I just, you know, I always just wish that we were all masterminds, like we make out all these other people. to be in conspiracy theories. It's just like it would be great if people were like so multi-talented and such so manipulative.

I think it would be wonderful. But they're just boring people. I know. Such a bummer. He was also tied to ping pong pizza. Oh, yeah. So, like, I mean, that, obviously,

he's, I think that's open and shut. He's part of the Illamination. For sure. But I think he swallows this food. So I just pizza gate. It's funny like when you, you just need something to be like to prove everything.

You're like if he's not chewing his food and I can prove that. I've got to be right about every other fucking thing I believe. I am finally going to win an argument. You will see. Makes no sense. Like my daughter will talk to me again. Right. I will just say tangentially,

I have a friend who I, discovered, like she was always full of pretty wild conspiracy theories, totally believed in Pizza Gate, 100% believed in Pizza Gate. And, you know, so we would just like navigate through conversation because a lot of it, and a lot of it was based on these pedophile rings. And then during COVID, the way that she would talk to me, I was like, oh, you're QAnon. I just didn't know the word for it. Right. Right, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then when the Epstein files, and that, you know, really hasn't come to pass, but it's at least out there on some level. You know, I realized that a bunch of her theories and were right.

They had the wrong facts, but they were right. You're in the right neighborhood. Yeah, yeah. The right neighborhood. I mean, that's where conspiracy theories come from. You know, they're like works of fiction written by people about, like, in the same way that works of fiction, like, reflect things that are actually happening. And, like, sometimes they, like,

guess correctly. Like, yeah, conspiracy theories are getting at things that are actually happening. They're just like getting the specifics wrong a lot of the time. Okay, so wait a thing. Do you think it's like they have a thread of the truth, they just get the specific wrong? Or do you think it's more like a broken clock is right twice a day? I think they're channeling something that's actually there. But they just are channeling it through their minds that are like warped by like wanting to believe very specific things.

Right. So it just allows this whole other train of thought. Yeah. Yeah. There are powerful people abusing the weak and children and the like. But it's not John Podesta and Hillary Clinton. Right. And just right. You're almost there. Just now look at the evidence that will actually back up what you're almost there. You're almost there. You're almost there. But unfortunately, you need it to be this like hyperpartisan thing to be like. Yeah. And it's also like. boring, like the lack of clues in the real conspiracies is what's boring because they don't actually lay out, like here's a paragraph from one of the Guy Fieri comet pin-pon conspiracies. As usual, good way to open. As usual, add up any numbers in the articles to see their significance.

This one is one plus eight equals nine. Nine is the family number assigned to gray aliens. We already knew Fieri was both a gray and a pizza. because Jimmy Comet told us in this article, Ferry also did a video story of Comet Pizza discussed in this post, where a patron called Comet's Pizza to die for. There are no coincidences with these vicious Pizagate Illuminati players. Wow.

It's just, so they like, I get it. I get it now. I see it. They want people to speak in coat. They want people to be leaving a trail of numerical, coded evidence for them to puzzle their way through. This is why the Da Vinci Code was so brilliant. It was like, what if Leonardo da Vinci was leaving secret messages in his paintings and in his work?

And even though he's a generational genius, what if the level of complexity of those puzzles was that of a USA Today word jumble? I know, I was just going to say, like, you know, we can go with the premise that Leonardo da Vinci was brilliant. But in a lot of these, it's like we have to go with the idea that a lot of people can do simple arithmetic. And I'm not sure they can. I'm not sure they can. You know, just because Dr. Spaghetti's girlfriend doesn't swallow doesn't mean Guy Fiery isn't. That might be what he's channeling. Right, exactly.

He's like, I've met other people that don't swallow. Wait a second. She must be Illuminati too. She's a fan of the show. So he's a little bit. I know what's warping her mind. Ophira, it's such a pleasure having you as always. Oh, my God.

Thank you so much. You guys are the best. Where can people find you, follow you, see you? All those things. You can obviously go to my website for all my dates, which is Ophiraezenberg. And I'm at. I'm at.

I'm at Ophira E. I couldn't get my words around the different little things. I, I, I, I'm on. At sign. At, at. I think that was my problem. which is, you know, a scary thing in Star Wars. Yes, it is.

At Ophira E on the socials. There we give. I did it. There you go. You nailed it. Is there a work of media you've been enjoying social or otherwise? A work of media that I, you know what? On television, I don't think I'm late to this game.

I think I'm right on time. I fell in love with shrinking. Shrinking. Okay. And I will admit, how did I, do I love all the people in it? Yes. Am I, like, technically a Harrison Ford fan from Raiders the Lost Dark and Star Wars? For sure. Did I think that he would be acting and maybe his best role ever? No. He's so good. They're all so good. They're all so good. And it is that kind of, I mean, maybe Ted Lasso-esque kind of structure where there's many things that are, there's a lot of kindness and there's many things that go right and then many things that go right. And then many things that. go wrong in kind of equal measure every episode. And actually, it obviously has some Ted Laso crossover because what's his name is the

executive. That's right. Yeah. There you go. I've been enjoying the Ted Lassow Walmart ads. Oh, yeah. That's so weird. He doesn't have the accent.

They've gone in such a weird direction of Walmart. They were like, uh, Walton Goggins. And like a weird like half sedacus, half lasso as their spokesman. Yeah, they're like, keep the branded mustache. Just talk like an American. Just talk like an American. We can't get the rights cleared from Apple.

So you just talk like Jason. So funny. Miles, is there working media you've been enjoying? Yeah, find me everywhere at Miles of Gray. I'm talking about 90-day fiancé on 420-day fiancé. I'm talking about soccer, especially the big tournament, that no one is going to in the United States. I'm just reading a thing that there's like 180,000 tickets still,

like on the market for matches in the U.S. Yeah, I don't know what they thought was going to happen with this administration and an organization as corrupt as FIFA. But yeah, we'll talk about all that wacky stuff on Enit Footy. Work at Media I'm liking. There's a couple first. I've been playing this new James Bond game first light. I'm enjoying it more than I thought.

It's like it's well, it feels like prestige TV. Like the way I'm playing, it feels like a new take on 007, like new backstory. And it's actually pretty good. So, yeah, that's what I've been playing. And then for my, a post I've been liking, oh, there it is. It's got to be Elle from Elle's Cafe in Regina Saskatchewan, the ice cream shop, because this video has been just doing numbers. I just love that she's trying to get her, like, ice cream store, just more attention. And she does that thing where you know, like, on the internet, it's like, you have to do something interesting for.

people to watch. So in this video, she's about to pull up on a scooter and does a cartwheel while plugging her ice cream. She's holding an ice cream. Just flawless perfection. And here's L's Cafe. I'm Al from L's Cafe. And it's an absolutely beautiful day here to

Andrew John of Saskatchewan. Come get an ice cream cone. One hand truck wheel. Do you take one of them to see scooters out for a rip? Take one of them see scooters out for a rip. I will. I'm so convinced that was one take wonder. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. She doesn't, she's like, she's like Jayzy, one take hold.

13 people were killed for, to get that clip. 40 scooters were ruined. Yeah. She is also ripping on a lime scooter or whatever, you know, one of those electric scooters, like in sleet. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. It's like completely ridiculous the weather. They're built different. The weather that, the weather that doesn't look appropriate for ripping around on one of those fancy scooters

or ice cream. No, that is not ice cream weather. Hey, but it's a beautiful day here in Regina Saskatchewan

and she said you love it and I believe it and shout out to all the, I know there's a ton of Zygian so that was for you too.

Oh. Shout out to y'all. I love my Saskatchewaners. Mm. Skechuaners. They did that shot in a

Saskatchewoner. Oh. Ha! Nice. Okay. Uh, Workimedia. I've been enjoying

uh, Worm, parentheses, extra wormy, tweeted, drinking $1,200 worth of cappuccino at the dealership to cancel out the repair costs on my car. That is the mentality you have to have. Well, I'm taking this then. Take them down somehow. That's like that drunk klepto again coming back. Yeah. You can find me on Twitter, Jack underscore Brian Blue Sky.

Jack O.B. number one. Instagram, Jack underscore O. underscore Brian. You can find us on Twitter and blue sky at Daily Zytegeist. We're at the Daily Zykeist 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. Miles, is there a song that you think that people might enjoy? Yeah, this is some independent

an artist named Devin, D-V-Y-N. It's very soulful, like R&B, jazzy, also kind of like show-tuning. I don't know. There's just something about it. A little bit different. I really like it. This track is called In My Face. And, yeah, it's really interesting production.

I like the lyrics. So check this one out, In My Face by Devon, D-V-Y-N. All right. We will link off to that in the footnotes. The Daily Zikey's the production of Eye Heart Radio for more podcasts from My Heart Radio. Visit the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, wherever you listen to your favorite shows. that's going to do it for us this morning. We're back this afternoon to tell you what is trending, and we will talk to you all then.

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