The Daily Zeitgeist - That's Gonna Brocc Up Real Zeit 9/8: White House Oligarchy Dinner, Venezuelan "Drug Boat", Trump @ the U.S. Open, Showrunner AI

Episode Date: September 8, 2025

In this edition of That's Gonna Brocc Up Real Zeit, Jack and Miles discuss their respective weekends, the oligarch dinner @ the White House, more on that Venezuelan "drug boat" full of "terrorists" that the U.S. military blew up, Trump @ the U.S. Open, RFK Jr. blaming Tylenol for autism now, Showrunner AI trying to recreate the destroyed 43 minutes of Orson Welles' "The Magnificent Ambersons" and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

the male archetype i'm either screaming violence or crying or sad or both at the same time yeah mostly mostly angry because that was me when i would get when i got taken over like i was never able to just be straight up angry like i was crying you know what i mean oh yeah i know kids we were like fuck you but i was like oh yeah yeah yeah it took puberty for me to like really push the sadness down and just get angry I realize they're like, you can actually turn on, get angry. I don't get mad. I get weepy.

The new Liam Neeson movie. Fuck you. I fucking hate you. That would be great. Yeah, it would be impossible to mask because your voice would start breaking. Yeah. I know that's funny too because I see like, uh, my friends like older kids who are like in that era and like I hear crack and I'm like,

Oh, boy, I know that. I know that shit. You can't, you can't quite get. It's puberty. It's just that I'm so horny. That's why my voice is cracking. It's like that I'm good bro meme. God, my kid said something, bro.

What? They called Chewbacca, a hairy bro yesterday. I was like, fuck. Jack, I didn't want to say this, but you've lost your kids, man. Yeah, it's over. They're going to be fucking asking for gold chains. You send them over to Uncle Miles When they're ready for a chain

I'll get them I'll get them set up I'll get them sorted out real good Actually because like Outside the T-shirt All these chains that I got The When my house burned down

I like hit them up I was like hey can I get You didn't get a discount Like I bought a lot of shit from you They just replaced every single thing I bought So if your kids need a Lucy bro I got on my on deck. Hell yeah. They should

do. I could, oh man, your kids already need to be wearing chains. They're going to be having poofy Gen Z hair. Oh, Jack, you can have a couple of fucking broccoli heads. Oh, but they have straight up. They have the straight black hair. Asian hair. Great. Yeah. And they're going to start getting perms. A perm like Asian. Start. Come on. You've already got it. You've already got them in the, in the chair three hours with

iPad in front of them, you know. With the big. The big bubble dryer thing. Oh, yeah, but you got the other ones where you got to pull them through, like, the rubber cap. So you really get that curl on it. Yeah. We actually did try it with my nine-year-old. My wife was like, I want, I want volume because his hair is just, she was like, she was very focused.

I want, I want to go. I want his hair closer to God. And his, they were like, not even God can help this kid's hair. It was straight within like a week. It was just. I remember, yeah. That's interesting because you, you kind of naturally have the broccoli head. Like, I do naturally have a little bit of a broccoli head.

Like, you could broccoli the fuck out of that hair. Oh, that'll brock up real. Oh, yeah. Guy just walks up to me. Every morning, Jack, is like, looking for the broccoli. Look in the mirror. Yeah, the fact that broccoli hair is popular right now is a real godsend to me, not ever having to do anything with my hair.

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Too loud for the morning. I'm sniffing your ear hole. Mark Zuckerberg. Because I'm giving you the rear naked show right now. That's nice. Oh, man. Yeah. Great times.

Great times. Mark Zuckerberg. Oh, my God. Our boy. Our boy. That's going to brought my number one guy. Real nice. Oh, man.

Where were we? Yeah, we did that. So this is the episode where you tell you what was trending over the weekend. What's trending on this Monday morning? I know. I've been in the cold open. They don't even know what we're, yeah who knows who can say we don't even know to be honest so i was just doing my impression of hans gruber's

impression of a american before we started oh god oh no you're gonna shoot me oh geez do your kids know that one do kids know that they haven't watched die hard yet no but uh it's coming i watched die hard at eight i'm realizing like i watched it when i was younger than my oldest kid dude i was watching whatever was on TV from four years old. Yeah. My friend, I went to, I slept over at my friend's house and they just had that shit on like the blue, you know, the blank VHS. Oh, we watched that shit.

Oh my God. Yeah. I was like, this is the greatest thing I've ever seen. My friend had, my one friend had that like naughty VHS tape where whenever he knew there was going to be boobies on the TV, he were recorded. So he had this like 45. minute long VHS tape with like the most ill-timed like recordings like he would miss it

having it. You'd be like watching it and you would just see somebody like the end of a sex scene and he's like I missed that one. He's like I forgot about that one. That's great. Yeah. We used to have to fucking record shit off the radio. That was like a big for me and my older sister when we got like a tape deck with a radio and you can just hit record and like catch the last 30 seconds of a song you like. There was nothing better though than when you caught that shit clean.

Yes. Like there were times I remember I was trying to download Aaliyah's try again. God, that song's so good. Because at the time, this was really pre-internet where you knew anything and they weren't like, unless you heard the DJ kick the song off, you didn't know what it was. And I would always hear it in the middle. I'm like, what the fuck is this Aaliyah song? I tried calling the radio.

They would never tell me or never answered. And I just one of those days, I was at my tape deck. And I was like, the next song is going to be try again. And I fucking, it like, you hit it. I've never. No whammy, no whammy. Bang. Boom.

You know what, Miles? It's been a long time, long time. I was like, fuck. What? Yeah. Woo. I mean, that, that shows that you were taking the message of the song to heart. You didn't succeed at first.

Exactly. Pick yourself right back up and recorded that shit. I can dust it off and try. again, this cassette tape. All right. So we tell you what's trending. We also let you get to know us a little bit better by telling you some stuff that we think is overrated, some stuff we think is underrated, Miles. You want to kick us off with, I started with overrated, which I don't think we usually do.

What's something you think is overrated? It gives us shit, man. We're fucking, fucking tears. I don't get a shit, what you call it. War crimes are overrated or underrated, so we'll get to that. streaming the development style that we find ourselves in in the streaming war so development of like the shows that these networks choose to make and put in front of us and say this is the new shit y'all are going to fucking slop up yeah because i just saw like so shogun huge hit you know every boomer man had that book i feel like when i went into some of my friend's dad's like office or bookshelf like Like the thick ass paperback. Oh, yeah.

Curling, it was so thick. Dude, just tattered. And then so many dads being like, hey, Miles, you're Japanese. You know about this? Right. I'm like, no, I don't. But anyway, I'm just here to smoke weed in your garage. Miles, here to smoke weed in your garage.

Don't ask me about Japanese shit, please. Please, fuck. Okay. Like you're a handy man who just comes by. Yeah. Hey, don't worry. It's just miles. I'm just here to smoke weed in your garage.

Just here to smoke weed, man. Just keep doing your, you know, hide your affair, sloppily. Have you right? Shogun. Sorry about my dad. Still haven't. Still haven't. All good.

So anyway, Shogun, big hit, awards darling to boot. I just saw an announcement for Netflix is basically like, oh, so y'all like Japanese shit?

Because they are releasing their own feudal Japan Samurai show called Last Samurai Standing, which unfortunately is not a reality competition show. Is it starring Tim, uh,

what's isn't, Tim the Toolman Taylor. No, but I think Eliza Schlesinger wins in it. Wasn't she on Last Comic Standing? Anyway, I don't even know who was on that. All that to say is, I was like, great. Like, topically, when you look at it, you're like, this just is, it reads like Shogun, except this is more action-based because it's based on, like, an existing, like,

series of books and manga that actually does, like, the story is about a, competition with samurai where like they get a point for killing each other is sort of like the gist of it but when I saw this I was just the thing I just wanted is like oh so Netflix needed their own show gun thing and then I'm like

why not just make every I say this all the time it's just so disheartening to see just them being like what other IP is there that hasn't been tapped that's like show gun that we can make here's the thing I read in a book once yeah let's go with that it always has it's like the

the style is always just like, oh, what was popping one year ago? Okay, make our version of that. So it takes a long time to get this shit together. Yeah, I mean, it's coming out in November. So you know probably the second they announced Shogun, they're like, where the fuck is our Shogun? Yeah. I mean, you can, because everything is based on data points for them, you, like, I'm almost positive because they had, they have a hit, like, right wing show with Last Man Standing, or at

Tim Allen did. I don't know where that shit airs. Right. They're like, okay, things we know work. Japanese shit. Last blank standing as a title format fucking squid game. So we mash

those up, put Squid Game in feudal Japan, give it the title format of Last Man Standing or Last Comic Standing, and also steal that Tom Cruise movie, Last Samurai. exactly last samurai standing starring dat fan season one winner of last comic standing

there is this is and he's asian guys this fucking i mean i'm so glad i went to burning man this year although i got in a weird argument with this russian guy wouldn't fucking leave me alone and then i blacked out for a little bit and i woke up with blood everywhere so yeah uh this this is this is perfect but again it's just like funny to just see how predictable the this whole the thought process is from these people. Yeah. All right. I got two overrated. One is just a phrase that I heard this weekend that I'm like, oh, this is going to be everywhere and I hate it.

From the comfort of your own phone. What? I just heard that phrase. What the fuck is that? So they've taken from the comfort of your own home. Wait, where? Really, our home is, I think it was on a podcast ad. It's just like stuck in my brain. I was just like, oh, no.

That is going to. Oh, wait, that's our new ad. That's right. That's our ad copy. I mean, yeah, I will probably have to say this at some point. It makes perfect sense, like, from a marketing perspective, where it's just like, yes, yes, slide into this slipstream of media consumption and, like, capitalism and retail therapy. This is your new home. I mean, but it just, like, represents a world that I'm just like, fuck. I feel like so many of us are aware that the phone is the cause.

of and solution to all of life's problems. Yeah, we're addicted. Like, it's just an addiction. But I guess I don't like the idea that they're like, yeah, go to your phone, where it's like home. Come to your phone. I'm actively like looking at the shit, like being like, dude, can get away from me.

Fuck you. Fuck you phone. Yeah. I've heard of your own phone. And then my other is golf courses. Just there's, you know, we're seeing a lot, we're getting a lot of these medical studies, you know, that are like in various

stages and various sizes from RFK, you know, being like, you know, cherry picking individual studies. Sure, sure. And being like, we got, we got to look into this and therefore, uh, no more vaccines for children. Um, there's a study that came out earlier this year from the journal of the American Medical Association, um, pretty, pretty reputable.

That's like one of the big ones. Um, so the JAMA network has a study that finds that, people who live near golf courses are like 120% more likely to get Parkinson's. And specifically, it's related to the drinking, like if you share your water source with the golf course. And so the idea is basically that if you ever fly over Los Angeles, you'll see these little islands of like perfect green wands that are all golf courses and everything. Nothing else looks like that. And it's because they are just fucking dousing that shit with chemicals to... Oh, to keep it like popping green, basically.

Yeah, popping green and like keep the, you know, it's a bunch of pesticides. And this is the working theory anyways. It just feels like one of those things that would be a much bigger deal if the entire like US power structure and like old boys network would, like didn't just fucking. golf every day like hang out on golf courses and like you all got Parkinson's there's a denial about it yeah yeah just don't fucking don't blame the golf course yeah just that's fucking wild i mean before i remember like when we were talking about how basically their government protected facilities essentially that don't pay taxes and they should be green spaces for everyone to enjoy but yeah they're little like roaming fields for uh the wealthy it's paid for frequently especially

in Los Angeles it's paid for with taxpayer dollars and then you have to pay like $350,000 in Los Angeles to belong to one of these things to even get inside and like you have to be accepted in some you know weird social ritual that who the fuck knows like what how they're making those decisions no you put a golf tea in your dick hole and then the guy has to drive a ball off of it that's right but yeah so like there's so many things wrong with it like these are green spaces right in the middle of, especially in Los Angeles, that like could be used for public works and, uh, you know, public parks and, uh, a bunch of the best public parks in Los Angeles are just like cordoned off and only available to a handful of rich people.

Yeah. I mean, it is interesting, though, because when you think about the neighborhoods around golf courses, those are, that's not, those are usually wealthy areas. Like, so wouldn't though, I mean, so I'd imagine a lot of the. victims or most in that instance would be people who are like these landed landowning freaks who yeah damn yeah i remember my friends solution is just like getting water delivered to them or whatever they already knew they're like oh we've known honey for 50 years don't oh yeah god i feel so sorry for you don't have your own cistern oh honey welcome to hell but yeah anyways i i continue

to think this is for whatever the political party that form in the future that is like, you know, the answer to fascism. I feel like invading golf courses would be, would continue to be a great platform. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's where you do like your Bain style, like, you know, summary executions,

like in a golf course. Yeah, or just like, I don't know, fun parties for the neighborhood, neighborhood block party type things. Competing visions of the future, sorry. Jack, we don't have our block parties without our summary executions of the oligarchs, though.

That's true. What's something, Miles, you think, is underrated? Underrated. The fucking number of ways to cook bacon. I thought I knew them all, which was in a pan, or roasting them off in an oven. Like, if you want to do a huge amount, do that. And then you got them on, you put them all in trays. Air fryers, good for that, too.

Yeah, air fryers, like, sure, put in certain device. I've even heard people who ride for microwave bacon. which I have not tried. Yeah, I'm not. I mean, if you like it's super crispy, so I saw on God's cursed internet, the boiling method. And it's basically,

I don't even know what that would look like. You put bacon in a cold pan or even like in a pot. So you have like raised walls so you don't get the splash everywhere. Sure. And you put water in enough to just cover it. Uh-huh.

And then you bring it to a boil on high. Yeah. And then once it boils, you crank it down to medium. And then the water, like helps render the fat better without drying it. And you kind of get this like tender, tendery, meaty bacon. Interesting.

I don't, like I can't even imagine like does it swell up a little bit? Like is it a little bigger than? No, like the water. In your mind, you're like fucking putting it in water. But it has no like you would never, if I told you like I did the boiling method, it's not like you're actually really boiling it. It just seems like normal bacon. I'm picturing a dead body that's been floating in a lake for two weeks.

You know, sometimes, like, you get, like, a good BLT and, like, it's not all crackery, crispy. It's, like, got a, it's got just enough that it breaks. It's delicate. It's not all rubbery. You know what I mean? Right. Yeah, yeah. Just that right middle porcelot.

Damn. I was fucking around a few different. I'm still dialing it in. You can, anyone just searches boiling bacon, bacon method. It's just, like, so good. It's, yeah. It's like, I got real excited about a pizza reheating method, like, years ago on the show. Like reheating in a pan with a little bit of water.

And like it's good. But then like I was like it's also a bit of a pain in the ass. And like just pizza. I think what I'm really getting excited about is how good pizza is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. How easy it is to reheat pizza and make it fucking awesome. It's like, it's like me with weed. It's like, I could smoke it.

I could put it in a ball. Yeah. Like it's like, I don't know. Maybe I just like it a lot. I don't know. I think I just like weed. is it's delicious. I don't know.

It doesn't matter. I just want to be eating. And now that the guy's child is now like, he likes bait. He's fucking with bacon now. So now I'm like really kind of like trying new shit out because we get to kind of like, you know, experiment in the kitchen and stuff. Although it's a fun age, Miles, it's a fun age. It is so like, I'm like, oh, this is he's so cute. I'll be like, okay, so you want to help me make bake?

He goes, course. Of course, daddy. And then of course. And then we go in the fucking kitchen. This man can't pay attention for three seconds. He's like, okay, you got this motherfucker? All right. I'm watching some shit.

There's so many moments like that where I'm like, you know, we, I'm planning things. I'm like, we're about to have like a moment. And then they're just like, dude, what the fuck is it? You thought, man. I think I've told the story before about taking them to see Indiana Jones, like the age that I saw Indiana Jones. but it was at the, like there's a cemetery around here, Hollywood Forever Cemetery that like shows the movies.

Oh, you went to Snespea? Yeah, we went to Snesia. Started noticing I was in trouble when I like looked around. There were no other kids there. And like the movie didn't start till pretty late. And right away there was like, it was just obvious that it was way too much for them.

Oh, I do remember this. Yeah. I had to like carry them out like under my arms. like stepping through all these people on picnic blankets who were not cool with it. They were not like, no, it's fine, man. You've got kids. They were like, what the fuck did you bring kids here for, dude?

You stepped all over my charcutory board, you fucking prick. Yeah, it was definitely a charcutory board. Yeah, you're kicking a charcuttery board if you try and walk through that crowd. Yeah. So I got to do VIP, man. But yeah, you know, big plans and then took them fishing at a, at a park. And like, he was just like, I don't know, man.

I'm kind of interested in these sticks over here. Yeah, they're like, I liked the idea better than in practice. And now I realize. Yeah, then the fun moments happen when you're planning other shit, you know? Yeah, yeah. All right. Um, so I'm going to come out and say something that's going to surprise a lot of people. Uh, but I think AI is bad.

I think it's like, uh, I was just noticing at. Wait, seriously? Okay. Yeah, I know. I know, I'll listen. Go ahead. Big rug pull. as the term goes.

No, I was just noticing that, like, so at the, like, US Open coverage was using, I think it was like a Microsoft AI to, like, predict the matches. And you'd think, or maybe it was IBM. It was like one of those ones that's like, oh, you're trying, you're getting in on this too, huh? Mm-hmm.

But you know that they put a ton of time and effort into this because it's like, first of all, a thing that, like, I think the way the world thinks about AI, they would expect AI to be good at this, you know? They're like, yeah, I mean, like, you should be able to, it should be better than humans that, like, picking things. And it's, like, on main, you know, they're, like, showing it on the broadcast. And they kept, like, picking things that were, like, obviously wrong.

They would, like, pick the player that, like, obviously, like, didn't have momentum or, like, wasn't playing that well. Like, almost every time that I saw it come up. And, like, sometimes they would show it after a set where, like, that person was getting their ass kicked to all. and like, you knew. Yes. It's just like, I don't know.

This is match point. Now they got this. They're going to turn this thing around. Yeah, just anecdotally, like, they suck shit. I'm just hoping people are like seeing enough of these things to be like, oh, yeah, this is, this thing does not, is not able to do what it purports to do. There's, I mean, and that's the thing. You can't optimize further watching sports.

Yeah. You're just there to stare at the. people compete. I don't need fucking I don't need other data points. Like I said I've seen there's like

I saw a similar thing with like using like stat metrics for like a soccer match where there's like expected goals and things like this and like based on what's happening this team has the best chance to win. It's like I don't give a shit.

I'm watching. I'm not I'm not yeah. God what's the computer going to say? Who's going to win? You watch to fucking let it unfold. It's meaningless who you think is going to win. It's not impressive even if it like And the fact that it's wrong is actually even more upsetting.

They're like, all right, we got, we kind of fucked that one up, but yeah, just over and like all three of the AI engines all predicted sinner. And like, I think a lot of people were predicting Alcorac, like the tennis expert on air, like all predicted Alcarez. I thought Alcarez was going to win. But like Chad GPT and all that shit, like all picked Sinner. It's just, but like, even like in the earlier rounds, it just seemed to like pick whoever had. the lower seed basically which I don't know like they could have

it would be so easy for them to just like mechanical turk it and just like ask the experts but they they that's the scary thing they believe in the technology too and the technology anecdotally sucks shit wait were the were the picks laid out before

the match started they would yeah they would like this has to be like inside job gambling shit right you know what I mean like that's what you would think. Give a bunch of bad info. And then people bet the loser and then no, but I'm saying like for a gambling company,

they're like put that out and then watch, I'm gonna fucking take all these people's money because they trusted what the stupid computer said. I just think, no, no, it wasn't from like draft kings. It was from a company that was like putting their name on it.

I get that. I don't think it could have possibly been like them fucking it up on purpose. Like it was a big swing for the company to be like, and our AI. predicts this to happen and just be fucking wrong over and over and over again. So I don't know. That and then billionaires that we talked last week about the Balmer thing, the owner of the Clippers using.

And it's really looking like $48 million now. That was sent to Kauai potentially. So he basically used this other company that he had invested in allegedly, based on this reporting, it seems like he was using it to circumvent the salary cap, which is like one like cardinal sins of like sports ownership. And it was revealed on this podcast, Pablo Tori finds out. And then, you know, where he did like original reporting. And then the follow up episode to that was just Mark Cuban had reacted to it.

It was great. No way, man. No way. This is not true. Balmer's way too smart. And the whole episode was just Cuban finding out the evidence that he had first of all. So I guess he hadn't like actually fully absorbed to the episode that he was claiming wasn't true.

and then also just repeatedly, his only piece of evidence was like, Balmer's the richest guy in the world. He's way too smart to do that. Yeah, exactly. But also, he's too stupid to actually know about the inner workings of his own company that he was investing in. It's like a nice combination. It was a really good microcosm of like the like way that billionaires are given the,

you know, assumption of brilliance. But then they're allowed to just be like above it all and not involved in the actual fucking like scandals that are caused by their companies. Well, he was trying to have it both ways. Like, because I remember, I saw that, I saw that follow up too. I watched most of it. I couldn't believe how much I was just listening to Mark Cuban fucking blather on. But when he was like, Pablo, look, if I'm wrong and you're right about this, then Steve

Balmer's really dumb. Yeah. And you're like, yeah, or greedy or single-minded and that clouds his judgment or he lives in a world free of consequence. So he operates as such. Exactly. Maybe it's that. You fucking weird?

Like, what are you saying? Really great. Like, the thing that animates billionaires, I think we find out repeatedly is not that they're particularly brilliant. They are good at exploiting loopholes, which it seems like he was trying to do here. They are single-minded and like hyper, hyper-competitive and have just like unending amounts of energy. And then they are able to exploit like people looking the other way.

And like, you know, just they have it. They're treated like. like fucking celebrities and like those three things make this make perfect sense but cuban was just like no i'm he was like too bought in on the great man theory of american capitalism like i do deals all the time pablo where i'm investing companies do i know every single thing that's where i have like i have my due diligence teams do that and paul was like you've put 50 million dollars into a company and you knew nothing about it he was oh steve's a lot rich of the man yeah but do you remember how he really took a second because he was like how am i going to explain this like how am i going to explain this

like Mark Cuban was acting like he was accessing his memories like well maybe maybe maybe it's like relative. It's like relative though. It's relative. Right. Yeah. All right. But anyways. Interesting to see where that story goes. Yeah. Being a billionaire is about fucking cheating people. Yes. It's about being the best at cheating. You only get there by fucking cheating. So to be to be like the fucking the famous cheater, he's not cheating. No way. Would he cheat? He's too smart for that. Fuck out of here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk some news. My name is Ed.

Everyone say, hello, Ed. Hello, Ed. I'm from a very rural background myself. My dad is a farmer. And my mom is a cousin. So, like, it's not like... What do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club?

I know it sounds like the start of a bad joke, but that really was my reality nine years ago. I just normally do straight stuff. stand up, but this is a bit different. On stage stood a comedian with a story that no one expected to hear. On 22nd of July 2015, a 23-year-old man had killed his family. And then he came to my house. So what do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club?

A new podcast called Wisecrack, where stand-up comedy and murder Take Center Stage. Available now. Listen to Wisecrack on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Imagine that you're on an airplane and all of a sudden you hear this. Attention passengers. The pilot is having an emergency and we need someone, anyone, to land this plane. Think you could do it?

It turns out that nearly 50% of men think that they could land the plane with the help of air traffic control. And they're saying like, okay, pull this, pull that, turn this. It's just, I can do it my eyes close. I'm Mani. I'm Noah. This is Devin.

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Listen to no such thing on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I had this overwhelming sensation that I had to call it right then. And I just hit call. I said, you know, hey, I'm Jacob Schick. I'm the CEO of One Tribe Foundation. And I just wanted to call on and let her know there's a lot of people battling some of the very same things you're battling.

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Now it's a personal mission. Don't want to have to go to any more funerals, you know. I got blown up on a React mission. I ended up having amputation below the knee of my right leg. a traumatic brain injury because I landed on my head. Welcome to Season 2 of the Good Stuff. Listen to the Good Stuff podcast on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What would you do if one bad decision forced you to choose between a maximum security prison

or the most brutal boot camp designed to be hell on earth? Unfortunately for Mark Lombardo, this was the choice he faced. He said, you are a number, a New York State number, and we own you. Shock incarceration, also known as boot camps, are short-term, highly regimented correctional programs that mimic military basic training. These programs aim to provide a shock of prison life, emphasizing strict discipline, physical training, hard labor, and rehabilitation programs. Mark had one chance to complete this program and had no idea of the hell awaiting him the next six months. The first night was so overwhelming. and you don't know who's next to you.

And we didn't know what to expect in the morning. Nobody tells you anything. Listen to shock incarceration on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. And we're back. And I saw this little media event where Mark Zuckerberg and a bunch of Silicon Valley people were sitting next to the president. It was like an oligarch fest. Yeah, it was an oligarch glaze fest. Yeah.

What was the purported purpose of it? It was just a gathering of the tech people. Really, the subtext is all of these people want the brakes completely cut off any regulation as it relates to AI. That's really like, that's why all of these people are there to be like, please, because this is the next thing that's not going to fucking work. And we're all just going to end up fucking suffering. But yeah, like it was just, it was just a moment for all.

all these people to also say numbers out loud of money they're investing in the companies or Trump can be like, he kept going like, and how much money are you investing and how much money? So he could also be like, look how much investment I'm bringing to America. It's like just so abstract. But for Trump, who just thinks like by getting a bunch of oligarchs to say billions of dollars are being spent, that means somehow it's going into our pockets. Just AI development? Or do just, um, because wasn't you like, what are you investing in America? Like, we're just like, We're a company in America. So, like, how much money are we spending?

It's kind of a weird, vague question. It was truly just for people to say numbers. So at least there could be, I think in his mind, he's like, that's a headline. Look how many million billions are being spent. And they say the economy's fucked. No. Yeah, yeah. Like my CEOs love to be like, I created this job.

There's a lot of families out there that are my children because that person worked for me. And they wouldn't have had a job otherwise. It's like, no, that's not true. You just happened to be in the position that could be easily filled by somebody else. Exactly. And everyone was there from Silicon Valley, like fucking Bill Gates, Sam Altman. Pretty much everyone except for K-Hole Nazi Elon Musk, who's still persona non-grata at the moment. But the moment that got the most attention, for better or worse, was like when actual

Metaverse robot Mark Zuckerberg was asked by Trump, how much money he'd, be investing in the country or whatever, just open-ended question. How much are you? Zuckerberg's, here, I'll play it, but he gets caught on the other side of this quote, um, apologizing to Donald Trump about not knowing what number he should have said, but anyway. What the fuck he was talking about? Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

How much are you spending, uh, would you say over the next few years? Oh gosh. Um, I mean, I think it's probably going to be something like, I don't know, at least 600 billion dollars through 28 in the U.S. Yeah. This sounds like a like a Tim Robinson bit. That is brutal. That just brings me back to every

bad, like every moment where you're just like, what, what was the question? Yeah, exactly. Not let. Oh, gosh. Me? Who me? Oh, gosh.

Oh, gosh. I would have to say. His robot. Say huge number. Say a huge number. Say 600. $600, $100 billion? It was like that scene in Arrested Development when Carl Weathers is talking,

like the fight breaks out at the restaurant and the news is talking to him. And he's like, I'm looking at $50,000 in medical bills. And he holds up a foil-wrapped swan. That's one of my favorite arrest. Anyway, we'll play this again. He's coming up with a number and you'll understand what he means when he follows this up. Because he didn't realize the mics were on. He thought the focus was elsewhere, but we get to hear it.

$600 billion. through 28 in the U.S. Yeah. It's a lot. No, it's not. It's significant. That's a lot. Thank you, Mark.

It's great to have you. I wasn't sure what number you wanted to go in. I wasn't sure what number you wanted me to say. Because it's all bullshit. Like, that's what's so wild to me. Yeah, yeah. Because it's all bullshit. Because I didn't know what you were talking about.

Because saying how much money am I going to spend, doesn't make any sense. Sorry, I don't know if you know. You're senile, so the, just the context of the question didn't even make sense, given the conversations we had earlier. I didn't know what you wanted me to say. I just wanted you to like me. I didn't even know you're going to call out of me.

You should have told me, I would have said a different number. Which one do you want me to go with deal leader? So, and it was just wild, like how, like, you know, right after January 6th. Deal leader is fun, by the deal leader. that instead of dear leader. Sometimes you stumble upon something in a typo and it ends up being real good.

But yeah, like just think about when Zuckerberg kicked Trump off Facebook like after the 2020 election and like Trump was threatening him with jail. You know what I mean? But like he's done his best to get on his good side. I mean like he settled an old lawsuit with Trump for fucking

25 million. He donated a million dollars to his inauguration. He fucking he skull fucked all content moderation on Facebook and it's just generally rolling over for Trump but yeah it's strange how history always rhymes a bit how the capitalists end up rolling out the red carpet for fascists yeah yeah I mean yeah they wanted they wanted to join the fascist movement in the 20s as we've talked about before there was a bunch of business leaders who tried to overthrow the u.s. government when fDR was president uh they just like you know hired the wrong general like

World War II general who, or I guess World War I, because it was pre-World War II. And the guy was just like, what? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll do all that. And then, like, exposed to the plot. And those guys all went to jail and, uh, you know, oh, sorry, no, they were business leaders. So they were just like, fine. They're just fine. They're committing fucking treason.

Anyways, uh, I do like Trump's response to it was like he turns to the person sitting on his other side. And he's like, he said that he didn't know what number he wanted me to say, because, like, that is what is cool about it to him is that it implies corruption, you know? It's like most, like, other presidents prior to, like, you know, 10 years ago, a president hearing someone say, sorry, I didn't know what number you wanted me to say, would immediately know, like, oh, that's, like, bad. Yeah. That makes both of us look like shit because it makes it look like we're just, like, making the stuff up.

But, like, for Trump, that's kind of the point is that we're, like, making. making this up and like I can just get these guys to say whatever the fuck I want you know and shows how how much control he has over this too it's like yeah you're dictating what the whatever I mean like it this is this is this is where we're at but yeah cool man Mark Zuckerberg it also looked like after he said that like in a room full of like other billionaires like I wonder how many of them like what the fuck is this guy talking about 600 billion over the next till 2028 really like even like the number I was going to take it back He really looked around the room after he said 600 billion because people were like,

bro, what does you say? I wonder if anyone gave him a sarcastic thumbs up from across the room. They probably did the blowjob thing. They went like, oh. The fucking sucker break. They're like,

yeah, all right, fool. Yeah, good job, man. If billionaires were cool. Yeah.

Um, yeah. You probably sent an animated emoji or something over their neural link. They just sent them the animated fist bump. that old people love dissent. They love it. All right. Well, speaking of this is where we are,

the Trump administration announced that they blew up a drug-carrying boat off the coast of Venezuela, killed 11 people, which everybody immediately pointed out, is illegal and a war crime. Like, you can't just blow up a boat. We'll get into the specifics. But yeah, Marco Rubio proudly told reporters that we blew it up, adding,

happen again. Maybe it's happening right now. Every time a bell rings, the U.S. military blows up a boat full of Venezueling civilians. He did say that. Or do you not say that? Yeah, that last part was editorial. That was subtext. Yeah, yeah, felt like it the way he was saying it. Maybe it's happening right now. He did say. It sounds like a fucking, like, abusive partner's like, man, maybe I'm cheating on you right now. Yeah, who knows? What do you want? What are you going to do about it? I can do it right now to this room. What the fuck you on this room? But yeah,

it's intentionally targeting non-military civilians and killing them without due process as a war crime. J.D. Vance defended the move said blowing up drug smugglers was the best use of the military. So fuck you

to World War II veterans, I guess. Wow. Yeah. That's, oh man. Yeah. I think one of the Krasensteins like on Twitter was like, this is a war crime and then he like replied to that one he said quote I don't give a shit

what you call it oh boy I mean this is what happens when you let countries get away with war crimes all the time nothing's a war crime anymore they're like oh sure killing civilians is a war crime have you seen what we're fucking

sponsoring in the Middle East right now tell me more about that yeah it's really wild to see especially for something like this where they're and use a flimsiest logic where they're like a drug, the mere presence of a boat that they say has drugs on it is somehow in a full frontal attack that requires a militaristic response.

Yeah. Rand Paul used to kill a mockingbird as an example for why the military shouldn't randomly murder people. I might use the 70% of the people they arrest like right now. like, you know, kidnap with their newfound ice powers, like have no criminal record at all and are innocent of anything besides being brown. And now the Supreme Court has just upheld their ability to do that. But yeah, 70% wrong when it comes to detaining people.

I mean, it's not even wrong. And this is who we're trusting to, right. But this is who we're trusting to like, just be like, I am the law and fucking kill people. Yeah, it's like, no, there isn't. Stop even pretending you're an out of, control war criminal. I mean, I mean, that's, that's the U.S. government for you. But in this like total mask off sense, and you have Rand Paul trying to act like a

fucking junior high literature teacher to be like, guys, do you remember in Harper Lees to kill a mockingbird? That's the only literature I've read. I know. Did he quote, did he ever wonder what might happen if the accused were immediately executed without trial or representation? You're talking to a bunch of white supremacists. I don't think they loved to kill a mockingbird.

I don't think that was there. You think they opened up to kill a mockingbird? Yeah. They did. And they were like, they were happy at the end. They were like, get that guy.

That Boo Radley, though. Could have been a cooler guy. Could have been a way cooler character. I thought Boo Radley was a cuck, man. Yeah. So this is just, you know, some bullshit.

But it's also a weird trend in his administration. He went to the U.S. Open. The U.S. Open Final happened over the weekend. Alcarez versus Sinner, which it's like always, it's been for the past like five finals. They're like the two best players, highly anticipated match that was delayed by I think 45 minutes because he decided to come to it. And they weren't prepared to like screen everybody. Like everybody had to go through the equivalent of like TSA airport security to get in.

So they like delayed the match by 45 minutes. and even then when it started, it was like half full. Yeah, I saw the photos from the outside when I'm like, is there was just like a riot gathering? It's like, no, these are people who are trying to get in. Right. They just had massive security processes to get through. This is also like a trend in his administration where instead of like,

he doesn't do like appearances that have anything to do with policy. He just goes to sporting events. Yeah. Like a, you know, like a celebrity. She doesn't work. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He has no idea what it means to be president. So he's just like, yeah, I do events.

I go to events. Like, I remember during his first administration, he would still, like, it was weird how he would, like, go on all these, like, campaign rallies. Like, it was like, he never stopped campaigning. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And, like, now he's just like, no, I just, like, go to fucking USC fights. It's sick. He's a deflated balloon now.

Yeah. He doesn't have the energy for that shit anymore. So, like, you know. he's just it so and i think that's why he likes doing going to these events or these championships or final matches or whatever because it's like all this attention it's happening in the u.s and then he's there to lord over it to be like and there's me the most powerful man of the country yeah this is my job i usually goes to ufc fights where there's a big approval um for him in the in that audience but uh at the u.s open not so much he got booed a little bit which

we'll talk about it in a second, but just back to the point of, uh, there's this article talking about how, um, Trump having built the bulk of his second terms domestic travel around attending major sports events, rather than hitting the road to make policy announcements or address the kind of large rallies he's so relished as a candidate. Since returning to the White House in January and prior to Sunday's U.S. open swing, Trump has gone to the Super Bowl, the Daytona 500, uh, UFC fights in Miami and Newark. Great ones. NCAA wrestling championship in Philadelphia and then the FIFA Club World Cup final.

And now this, I mean, yeah, good, great, great. Just keep wasting everyone's fucking time. It's funny too, because also at the end of last week, there was a huge gathering of like Arkansas soybean farmers who were like, um, we're like fucked. Yeah. Like, we're supposed to export like a huge amount of this harvest to China and there's no deals in place,

which is alarming for the entire business. And they're like, what do we do, Trump? He's like, I'm going to go to the U.S. Open and do a flyover. Yeah. He appeared to fall asleep during the match. There's also a moment where he, like, showed a blue thing between his teeth that is hard to make out. So people can't figure out if it was like a Benzo or a brown hat. People said it was a blue chew hat.

Yeah, I'm about to get, about to get wet over here. You know what I'm saying? Jesus Christ. But, yeah, somebody leaked an email from the U.S. US Tennis Association about like how these appearances are handled because you know I remember during the Super Bowl they showed him and there was like a loud like kind of fake sounding like crowd roar came up and so there were you could hear booze but you could also hear like ah yeah yeah and I was always suspicious of that similar thing happened in this of course the crowd was like half not there

because they were all waiting outside because he was there. But this is the text from the USDA email that this website bounces allegedly got leaked to them. With respect to broadcast coverage, the president will be shown on the world feed and the Ashcourt feed during the opening anthem ceremony. We ask all broadcasters to refrain from showcasing any disruptions or reactions in response to the president's attendance in any capacity. So not showcasing any reactions in response to the president's attendance in any capacity. God. I mean, he's like treating people's displeasure with him like you would a streaker. You just like, overt you guys.

Don't get my attention. Don't get my attention. I mean, I'm sure, you know, I get that for the Super Bowl because enough of his people were watching the Super Bowl. So like maybe you don't want them to be like, wow, people really don't like the president, huh? The U.S. Open, bro, minds are made up.

And also, no one is making their judgment about Donald Trump based on how many booze they hear at a fucking UFC fight. Right, right. It's everything else that's happening to people every day. That makes up the bulk of why people respond like that. But yeah, I mean, yeah. Part of me that's like morbidly curious and just like, are, is everybody else seeing this? Like, isn't everybody, is it just the soybean farmers?

Isn't everybody else fucking outraged? Yeah, yeah. Well, think about it now like with tariffs, man. too like you see people who have like you know little like interests where they are hobbies or like they buy things from outside of the country like everyone's like no one's safe from the policies at this point not to say that it's existential for everyone because clearly uh people of color and and people who are not like cis het you know christian people are always going to be under the threat of this regime but like just people who are like trying to buy a thing from somewhere else are

And I'm like, the tariffs. What hell? Why do I got to pay $20 on this thing that's, that's only 60 bucks? This doesn't make any sense. But I don't know. We'll see. Maybe the booze will inspire something. My Nazi dining plate set is so much more expensive now.

Oh, fuck. Now I have to triangulate it and send it through Vietnam to get it. Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. My name is Ed. Everyone say, hello, Ed. Hello, Ed. I'm from a very rural background myself. My dad is a farmer, and my mom is a cousin.

So, like, it's not... What do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? I know it sounds like the start of a bad joke, but that really was my reality nine years ago. I just normally do straight stand-up, but this is a bit different. On stage stood a comedian with a story that no one expected to hear. Well, 22nd of July 2015, a 23-year-old man had killed his family.

And then he came to my house. So what do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? A new podcast called Wisecrack, where stand-up comedy and murder takes center stage. Available now. Listen to Wisecrack on the IHeart Radio app, podcast or wherever you get your podcasts. Imagine that you're on an airplane and all of a sudden you hear this. Attention passengers.

The pilot is having an emergency and we need someone, anyone, to land this plane. Think you could do it? It turns out that nearly 50% of men think that they could land the plane with the help of air traffic control. And they're saying like, okay, pull this, do this, pull that, turn this. It's just, I can do my eyes close. I'm Mani. I'm Noah.

This is Devin. And on our new show, No Such Thing, we get to the bottom of questions like these. Join us as we talk to the leading expert on overconfidence. Those who lack expertise lack the expertise they need to recognize that they lack expertise. And then, as we try the whole thing out for real. Wait, what? Oh, that's the run right. I'm looking at this thing.

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designed to be hell on earth. Unfortunately for Mark Lombardo, this was the choice he faced. He said, you are a number, a New York State number, and we own you. Shock incarceration, also known as boot camps, are short-term, highly regimented correctional programs that mimic military basic training. These programs aim to provide a shock of prison life, emphasizing strict discipline, physical training, hard labor, and rehabilitation programs. Mark had one chance to complete this program and had no idea of the hell awaiting him the next six months. The first night was so overwhelming, and you don't know who's next to you. And we didn't know what to expect in the morning.

Nobody tells you anything. Listen to shock incarceration on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. and we're back it remains to be seen whether or not the Department of Health and Human Services upcoming report will recommend the use of leeches or exorcisms but according to the Wall Street Journal

it will suggest that the use of Tylenol by pregnant women may potentially lead to autism and children. They're just throwing out they got lots of theories here they said this was just speculation but they also claimed that they're quote, using gold standard science to get to the bottom of America's unprecedented rise in autism rates, which kind of makes it sound like they're just going to announce it and then probably got their

info from like the Google AI and asking Jeeves. Why the fuck? I don't even know. Like, what are we going to fucking do? Everyone's going to have to eat rocks and shit? I got a tummy ache and eat rocks. everything. It's just wild how truly like the logic is like

I don't know, just say it causes autism. Yeah. That's the policy. Oh yeah. And even if we just think it might we got to call it out. And then who are we going to put on the case? People with no real bona fide medical training. Yeah, yeah. We're just going on five. We got to fire those motherfuckers. Oh, you know what causes autism, bona fide medical training?

So get them off that. Smaller studies that actually have suggested an association between fetal exposure to acetametaphim, the active ingredient in Tylenol, and subsequent risk of diagnosis with autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. But the largest study to date found no increased risk. And also, that's like such a massive, like everybody uses Tylenol. It's so that's going to be really hard to, hard to. also importantly untreated fever during pregnancy increases the risk of miscarriage birth defects and premature birth and untreated pain can lead to maternal depression anxiety and high blood pressure so yeah all all of these things that they're just like kind of coming out and throwing bombs about you know just being like yeah well you know what might like the way that like they they use all the care and scientific examinations. of somebody sending an email forward, it seems like. And so, like, no thinking it through just, you know,

whether it seems interesting and compelling to him. No. And then, like, passes. Yeah. The whole, the whole health and human services arm of the government is now just the correlation is causation crew. Right. And that's, that's it.

Which feels like, can't somebody, like, at this point, like, just, play dirty and cook up a study about like something that would get RFK freaking out about himself. They're like, I don't know if you've seen this new study, man, about like touching dead bears and getting whale juice on your, on your fucking hands. Yeah,

whatever fucking steroids he's taking like. Oh, right, exactly. What about TRT, man? Do you read about that? You know about that?

You know about that RFK? I don't know. We'll see. The overuse of acetamapentin is super dangerous, but. Oh, yeah. I'm glad I grew up in a house with an immigrant, mom who said I didn't need it all the time fucking all the time we didn't have

you're just trying to get attention is that the no I wasn't even that no my mom no she wasn't she wasn't fucking with me like that she she had the ethos of just like a world war two hardened boomer right who was like you don't need it and I was like but my but like my head hurts she's like it's fine but like you're you're still talking you can get through it and I was like, ugh. And then I remember when I had like Osgood Schlotters, like joint pain from growing like growth spurts and stuff, like my knees would kill. And she would be like, no, he's just use some ice or whatever. I mean, that did work. That did help. But like, I guess my mom also. Old world treatments. I feel like sometimes they work. She was also like of the thing where she's like, I don't want you to get momentum going that when you come up against a hardship that there's a just just take a pill for it. A pill for that. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm like, well, that's, I mean, And that's a little, that cuts both ways. Like, there are certain instances where you absolutely do you need medication or to be medicated for something.

Yeah. But, hey, I get it, mom. I get it. You're building up a real tough kid who just crying in his room with knee pain. Crying over his damn knees over there. All right. And finally, there's this Amazon backed company called Showrunner. They made those terrible South Park videos where they were like, we can AI a South Park episode.

I created these entire episodes of South Park that are unwatchable. I really recommend people just like, again, if you have any doubt about like the level of delusion that people have over AI and like what is actually possible versus like what is being promised, like just watch these episodes of South Park because they think they're good. They're like, look at this. This is incredible. and it's just fucking like they just do plot exposition over and over again and they just and they make themselves

like some of the executives become like characters in this in the episode yeah it sucks shit they claim that they're going to be the Netflix of AI I don't know what that could pot like I guess that they're just going to like make tons of streaming content with AI

that's just the new stupid buzzy pitch the blank of AI oh we're the fucking Adidas of AI. Oh, okay. So they're taking, there's a famous, uh, unfinished project.

Uh, Orson Wells's, the magnificent Ambersons. Uh, it's kind of like the royal tent, tenant bombs. Um, like it's,

you know, a talented family. Uh, he turned it into the studio. They added it to under 90 minutes without his permission. And we love that. The unused footage. They burned it?

They're like the fuck out of here. Uh, Yeah, I mean, Citizen Kane wasn't, like, it didn't win the Oscar when it was made. It was like, you know, people, no, no, but I just, I just, I just, I just, I just, I just, I just love the fucking fuck you factor about being like, yeah, yeah, they're like, well, what about my other foot? Oh, we burn that shit, bro. That shit's gone. So that's, so get over it. Oh, did you think you had final cut?

Yeah. Dude, get the fuck over it, Orson, okay? It's burned. We burned it. It's so fucking violent. It's like the thing that happens. at the end of Citizen Kane they're like

yeah we actually thought we saw your last masterpiece loved at the end when something was irrevocably lost to time the key answer in a fire and so we decided to burn your 43 minutes anyways so they're

claiming like we're going to take those 43 minutes and recreate them with AI with just like dead eyed versions of the actors that already exist, which I think is just a dry run for making feature length AI slop. They haven't even obtained the rights to do this. They're just, you know, like they did with the South Park thing.

They didn't obtain. Yeah. Like, I'm sure this won't be quite as absurd as the South Park thing because I don't think you can rewrite. Like, they, AI just can't do comedy. Can't, like, at least these guys using AI can't do comedy. I mean, he clearly can't do. drama either with like all the fucking robot still people in the background yeah yeah so i don't know

we'll we'll see um claiming that it won't they won't be commercializing it and it's purely for academic value but hopefully uh part of that is to uh you know release it to everybody so that we can see what they come up with yeah oh god and everyone's going to be like wow this movie i've never fucking heard of yeah thank god you guys resurrected it like it's it's like even the worst thing to even drum up excitement for this project. I can think of many other things you could probably do. But again, those creators are probably still alive and are litigious. So you don't want to go out here saying, we're going to release the Snyder cut with AI.

Yeah. A script must exist, right? They're not just going to be like, we just are guessing. So I'm sure they're working off a script. Even better. Yeah. They're like, I don't know. This is just like has Citizen Kane vibes.

We fed it with a 90 minute cut. and we're like, hey, man, add 43 minutes. It's just a post-credit scene where various new magnificent Ambersons are introduced. There's a skivety toilet in it too somehow. It's very interesting, very interesting. God. Man, it's, I mean, the excitement like you say,

it's the same thing like I had as a kid when I was quote unquote cooking, like at four years old. Yeah. I put shit in a pot that was edible. And then I go, look, I made a sauce for the food. And my parents go, oh, wow. And in my mind, I'm motherfucking chef Ludo or fucking Gordon Ramsey or some shit. And they're like, this ain't fucking cooking. It's spray-based turkey.

Yeah, exactly. Okay. Thanks, man. These people who aren't artists get the thing to shit out something that resembles human expression. And they go, look, look what I did. Look what I did. It's the thing. It's art. I did art with the machine. no you did um you made a fucking you made a sauce that four-year-old miles did and you're calling it cooking anyways we we've learned today that uh copyright infringement uh causing diseases with your hobby and uh war crimes are only a problem if you're not a billionaire there you go and also cheating at the cheating at basketball just fuck the cba man you know what i

mean yeah exactly finally i'm gonna say that because it's getting a billionaire in trouble Did you see? I think there was a thing where Mark Cuban who's even like, that's not even in the CBA and Pablo's like, it is. He's like, well, sure, maybe. And it's like, see, this is how y'all think.

Look, I'm not here to argue what's in the CBA. That was the other thing that was really, just to get back on that thing where, what was the thing called? Not a firm. A spy aspiration. Aspiration. When Mark Cuban was like,

maybe they wanted to pay Kauai 50 million on their own because they know it helps to be. the sponsor of a team that has Kauai Leonard on it. So they have their own motivation to do that. Like Mark Cuban, shut the front door. Yeah. All right. Those are some of the things that are trending on this Monday morning.

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