The Daily Zeitgeist - The Asteroid Will Not Save Us, DOGE = George Washington = SHUT UP 02.20.25

Episode Date: February 20, 2025

In episode 1816, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian, host of All Fantasy Everything, and author of T-Shirt Swim Club: Stories from Being Fat in a World of Thin People, Ian Karmel, to discuss… Stroid Watch! Don’t Freak Out About The Apocalyptic Asteroid Hurtling Towards Earth, Based On Fox’s Coverage Of DOGE It Seems Their Viewers Aren’t Convinced… and more! Stroid Watch! Chances Of ‘City Killer’ Asteroid Hitting Earth Reach Record High, NASA Says The Tunguska Event Could an asteroid really hit Earth? Odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 reach highest levels ever Odds of ‘city-killer’ asteroid hitting Earth increase again, hitting ‘historic’ milestone Neil deGrasse Tyson issues warning over 'city killer' asteroid as odds to hit Earth slashed by NASA Don't Freak Out, But the Chances of That City Killer Asteroid Hitting Earth Just Ticked Up Again 'City killer' asteroid now has 3.1% chance of hitting Earth: NASA Why “city-killer” asteroid YR4’s impact probability keeps increasing Asteroid Apophis: Will It Hit Earth? Your Questions Answered. Trump administration's funding freeze attempt could have stalled $1.2 billion in NASA spending Exclusive: Conservative think tank targeting NASA employees' communications about Musk, Trump Elon Musk’s DOGE auditing NASA: A conflict of interest with big consequences for Huntsville U.S. Asteroid Defense May Be Weakened By Musk's Budget-Slashing Despite Elon Musk’s alarmist tweet about an asteroid hitting Earth, NASA says there is no known threat NASA Confirms DART Mission Impact Changed Asteroid’s Motion in Space Jesse Watters: DOGE Is Math (Clip) LISTEN: Hino's Reggae by Terumasa Hino WATCH: Ian Karmel | Comfort Beyond God's Foresight (Full Comedy Special) WATCH: The Daily Zeitgeist on Youtube! L.A. Wildfire Relief: DONATE: Support the Kaller/Gray Family's Recovery Zeitgang Lightsaber Auction and Fundraiser Displaced Black Families GoFund Me Directory See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The hookup for what? I'm solving a mystery through sex and haven't made a private dick joke until now? Poppers? Why are there so many poppers? All roads lead to... The hookup. You think it's causing people to turn aggro? I'm gonna rip your arms off and use them to... Yeah, that's a word for it. Listen to The Hookup on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.

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Oh, Feb 2020. Feb 20. Feb 20, 2025. It's also National Leadership Day. Hey, all right. Hey, come out come out wherever you are. It's also National Comfy Day. That's actually it looks like a branded thing. National Muffin Day, that ain't a branded thing. Shout out Big Muffin. National Love Your Pet Day and shout out Warren because it's National Cherry Pie Day. Hey, would you guys be willing to call me big muffin for the duration of this big big muff big muff Yeah, also my favorite guitar pedal. Yeah Was that there's a there's a guitar pedal called a big muff. Yeah, it's a big muff

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like it's just known and then you're like, somebody ask. Somebody please ask what that is. Please ask, I don't wanna Google it. Please ask what that is. I don't wanna Google it. I'm driving 75 on the highway right now. I don't wanna Google big muff. Not again.

Got me in trouble last time. My name's Jack O'Brien, AKA. I always feel like some rich guy's fucking me. And I got no privacy. Whoa. Courtesy of Vacheroni on the Discord. I do kind of feel like that these days. Feels like there's always one rich guy or another

fucking me. Yeah. You know, slowly or fast. It's just what it feels like these days. A shout out to LaCaroni. I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! Miles Gray, gay.

Square wheels on a car. You know that ain't real. Van Vodaps and from screens. You know that a real Vanvada absent from screens you know that a real 6.8 weeks man, you know that a real it's a new day What's a I say when I ask what cheese is best? That I'm feeling good All right, Blinky, head, shut up to that one. Shout out Nina Simone.

God, we're doing real shit in the streets. Again, I only recognize the Michael Buble version. I will ask that you reference the original artist. Who's this rapper, Nina Simone? Simone? What the fuck? I think they must be AI, right? Sim one, like wasn't that the Al Pacino movie about the AI? Yes, it was. Yes. Yes.

One was replaced the I and zero. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sim one. Who plays cover? Neither.

So I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. Yeah, one was... replace the i and a zero replace the fit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sim one, god damn. Blue plays covered Nilo Simone's entire discography, right? Yeah, I mean you could put it that way. He's done every song. He's re-imagined, reinterpreted, brought new life to Ian.

The Michael Blue-Ble version of Strange Fruit, it hits. No! So different. It hits so different. Yeah. So different. It hits so different. Yeah. It's just about a funny fruit treat that he's on. It's about a mango fruit. Oh, shit.

He's like, it's the type of mango. It's a white guy seeing mangoes for the first time. No! You know the whites. They don't know about mangoes. American whites. What to do, whites? In the grocery store.

Yeah. In the grocery store. In the grocery store. We are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a hilarious standup comedian, host of the legendary podcast, All Fantasy, Everything, TV writer, acclaimed author. His new special is Comfort Beyond God's Foresight. And it's so funny. Go check it out right now, and then come back to listen to the rest of this episode.

Please welcome back to the show, Big Muffin Ian Carman! Yes sir! Big Muffin! Big Muffin! Blueberries, poppy seeds. Oh yeah. Chocolate chips. That's my shit right there.

I'm not ashamed. There I am. There we go. Why are you beating around the bush? If you're gonna have a muffin, why not, like, uh... Why not have a muffin? Yeah, I'm not about the, like, health food muffin, you know? Like, I don't need brands.

Just go, yeah. I kind of like a... This is dessert. Let's admit. I like a brand muffin as its own thing. Like, I don't mind it as its own thing, you know? But it's not what I want when I'm in the mood for, like, brand muffin as its own thing. Sure. Like I don't mind it as its own thing, you know, like, but it's not what I want when I'm in the mood for like a muffin. I'm a blueberry man from way back,

but I respect the chocolate people. Yeah. I do love that Led Zeppelin song in the mood for muffin. In the mood. That was the subtext of every Led Zeppelin song. That's true. Ian, it's great to have you back. Yeah.

Congrats on the special, super funny. Thank you very much. Available now on YouTube for free. YouTube. YouTube. The YouTube itself. Yeah, that's right. We've been known to hang out there every once in a while.

You gotta hang out. You gotta hang out on YouTube these days. Search for the video episodes. We drop them once a week on YouTube. That's right. To go back to Michael Buble really quick. You know he did a cover of Santa Baby. You know that Santa Baby?

Yeah. And he changed it to Santa Buddy. No. If he didn't want to. Come on. He was afraid of emasculating himself and saying like Santa, but Santa Buddy. How did he react to that scene in boogie nights

where Scotty showed Dirk his new car? He's still on level one, dude. Yeah, he's still on level one. He's still on, that's some beta shit and I don't recognize it. I actually, my least favorite part of boogie nights, dude. And then, I just want to see Hogs, dude. Hogs going in, Hogs coming out.

And then the other part of Buble is like on mushrooms at the NHL All-Star Game. So I don't know what the real Buble is. Yeah. I've heard tell that he is a animal, like just behind the scenes, you know, doing substances that- I like it.

Untold, the last substance that I would have assumed Michael Buble got down with. So yeah. Ivermectin. Ivermectin, yes. I thought he'd be about the vaccine, but this guy's of- Thick ropes of mectin, dude. Of mectin.

Recreational Ivermectin. Alligator tails. Dude, just chopping down gaggers of mech, dude. Just- Throw on the mech, dude. Just the stage. Throw on the mech suit. The guy who's the stage director for a show is like, hey, Michael, you got some mech in your stash, dude.

Oh, oh. Good luck. Good luck. All right, all right. You don't seem to remember the entire 18th season of The Voice, dude. He was a good guy. I didn't realize the guy's Canadian. That's very...

Oh, yeah. Yeah, Miles. You didn't. I don't realize the guy's Canadian. It's very- Oh yeah. Miles, you do. I don't know that. Yeah. All right. The goof. Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, he's also Van City Booblay. Yeah, Van City Boobs too. Okay, Van City Boobs. Van City. Like written on a van. All right, Ian, we're thrilled to have you back. We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a van. All right, Ian, we're thrilled to have you back. 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 that we're talking about. We're going to do a segment of Stroid Watch. Stroid Watch. Season one of this show, we used to do Bloid Watch where we would take a look at the tabloids. Come on, Astroids. Let's go. Let's fucking go.

So we're gonna, we're, we're just gonna check in, you know, the, the ticker keeps the percentage ticker keeps ticking upwards still like in the threes. So I love that we like get focused. We're like, it's up to 3% rather than there's a 97% chance. It doesn't hit. Nah, man, but that 3% bro we're here for it, man. They already know. It's a sickness.

All hope for a civilizational reset aside. It's a sickness. All hope for a civilizational reset aside, this story does make me actually feel more safe than I did heading into this story. Right. We'll talk about why, but mainly it's Michael Bay's fault. But yeah, we'll talk about that. We'll talk about Fox's coverage of Doge.

We'll talk about all of that plenty more. But first, Ian, we do like to ask our guests. This is something you may know about us. We'd like to ask you what's something from your search history that's revealing about who you are. Oh, yeah. So I became a father about three months ago. Congratulations. Thank you very much.

I have a lot of fatherhood related Google search things I could give you. But instead, I'm going to do something that is sort of a knock on effect of becoming a father. My most recent Google is, phono have to be so loud? Question mark. Because I have fulfilled my elder millennial from Portland, Oregon destiny, and I've gotten into vinyl records finally.

You got a high five or what? I got myself a high five, because I want my kid to grow up around as few screens as possible is the lie I'm telling everyone. And I was like, to do that, I'll just start getting into records. And in the last week, I bought a turntable and speakers off eBay and had to run the wires,

all this shit myself. I did not realize how deep like this hi-fi culture goes. And how like, kind of how technical you have to be with everything. So my last one was why do I have to have my volume so loud when I'm on phono mode coming from my turntable? And I only kind of have an answer, but yeah,

I have dove headlong into record collecting and vinyl now. Did you have like a, I mean, I feel like every millennial has some records because that kind of just was like a thing we'd buy like in the years past, but do you have, did you have like a big collection to grow or you're suddenly now you're like, I need to get everything on vinyl.

We had like a decent collection because my wife had like one of those Crosley all in one like. Yeah, with this city speaker built in. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, exactly. But much like Funko pop figurines, I think when you're a millennial,

you just accumulate records. Right, right. And I had over the years, always telling myself like, I'll get into it one day. So I had like a decent collection of stuff, Beatles, like Queen, you couple of David Bowie, like all the stuff you buy and you hope someone sees when they come back to your house,

either for sex or otherwise. You're like- And you keep pointing to it. Yeah, I just have these. I'm just the kind of guy who has these. So it's not a big deal. That's Frampton Comes Alive. Just an awkward silence in the conversation.

And you just blurt out, the sound is so much warmer. What are you talking, the record, vinyl, vinyl. Vinyl. Did you see that letter from Planned Parenthood on the kitchen table? I donate, I donate regularly. I'm in the president circle. So, but I've dove in and I love it.

I have, I think one of the things of getting older and becoming less cool and throwing off, also being a dad, is I just don't have time to care about anything except what actually makes me happy or what I feel like will make my family happy. And this makes me happy. And I don't care how much of a cliche it makes me, because it makes me the most cliche.

The most, but we were like, I brought my son out to play on his mat listening to like Father John Misty, you know, as he played on his mat. And I'm like, should I change his name to Bowie? Oh, you're gonna love this, listen to this. Jesus Christ, girl. He was actually in Fleet Foxes, he was the drummer. Yeah, he, there's kind of a song about it, two states to the south, because he lived in Washington with Fleet Foxes.

But yeah, I'm fully embracing it. I'm like, we were talking about dad shoes earlier, dad shoes, vinyl. Dad shoes out. Full blown. Full blown. Do the ASICS gels have like that gel feel in the bottom? Like, can you feel the gel? Like I had this one experience where the point guard on my high school basketball team

let me wear his Allen Iverson gel react juice shoes. Do you remember those? Yeah. I think you're talking about the question threes. Maybe the one that had DMX technology. You could like feel the technology in the shoe. And I was like, this is the coolest thing. And then like, you know, I gave him a shoes back and never felt that again.

And I've, I've always been kind of searching for that, but my brand loyalty per prevents me from searching too deep. Yeah. Is that, is that what the ASICS gels do? Well, DMX technology was, I think you're talking about the ones that had, I forget what number version of the Allen Iverson shoe, but the ones that had the DMX in the sole felt like the squishiest, I remember. But these are like, they're just comfortable.

It's not like the kind of thing where you feel gimmicky. You're just like, man, this shit is comfortable. Yeah. I'm a gimmicky. I'm a gimmicky bitch. I'm gonna feel that squash. What you do is you put a peanut butter jelly sandwich in your shoe. You put it in a plastic bag, you slide that in first.

That's where dad was in the right place. Yeah, that's right. And you got a snack in case things go south. You'll feel squashed. I got a squashed for you. It was the moment the shoe went from being the question to being the answer. Yeah. That's right.

That it became the answer to my lifelong question of, how can I feel that squarsh? Yeah. Well, how can I feel like I'm putting my foot in a gusher? Yeah, exactly. Exactly. I wanna feel like I'm walking. That would actually be a great collab.

Reebok and gushers. Yeah, but like just one overly energetic step ruins the shoot. Like, ah, dang it. Squirting at the side. Yeah, dang it. Squirting out the side. I got blue goo everywhere, blue raspberry. Shoes with a weight limit. Sticky as chew of all time.

Ian, what's something you think's underrated? Okay, hold on. I put a lot of thought. Okay, this is directly related to my recent fatherhood. The morning. The morning for my entire life has been so under, I wake up at a 6 a.m. now, whether I like it or not. Jesus Christ.

Yeah. And I just, I really, really have come to enjoy being up at six when like the world is kind of new and everything's quiet and like making a French press coffee, you know, putting some music on, or just like doing some reading while my son screams at me. Yeah. Hey.

Hey. Ah! All right, yeah. Hyperverbal. But it's just so like, it's a hyperverbal. Hey! Hey!

Hi, over here! Hi! Ha ha ha! I don't wanna listen to Art Blakey and the Jazz Messenger. I just really, I've really, really come to enjoy it. And I was someone who like, I slept until one, like until embarrassingly late in my life. And I just, I just love it.

I love the fact that when noon rolls around, I've been up for like six hours. Yeah, right, right, right. I'm very, I'm very, like, I feel like I do some of my best work that early. And even if you're not working, just the way the morning feels, I've really, really started to enjoy it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm definitely not a morning person, but parenthood forces everyone to, that's like, it doesn't matter, motherfucker. You are now like a 4 a.m. wake her up or 5 a.m., 6 a.m. to the point where now my sleep cycles have like made me a morning person, like I can no longer sleep in. Yeah.

I'm up pretty much like clockwork at like six o'clock. And I go to bed, also my body's like, hey man, you know what, we're not doing, we're not doing 1 a.m. sleep times no more. Uh-uh. Yeah, yeah. You're like, should we, you know what? We're not doing 1 a.m. sleep times, no matter. Yeah, yeah. You're like, should we stay up for SNL? Those are conversations we have now in our house. Ooh, should we stay up like 11.30, I don't know.

We had to break up that 50th anniversary special up over three days. Yeah, Miles, you were watching that shit like a novel, man. You were reading Moby Dick. You were like, all right, you got to this part. Yeah, yeah, I was like, nah, yeah, exactly. I texted you yesterday, cause I was like, oh, I got to the Paul McCartney part, bro.

Now I get what you were saying. I only saw the other fucked up old Paul performance. His voice was sounding pretty, have you guys talked about this already? Kind of rough. We just mentioned, yeah. Both Paul's voices sounded super rough and we're trying to figure out if it's just the elderly, you know, at a certain point.

Maybe it's just harder to control. Or if there was something fucked up, technically. There are theories going around online. Okay, interesting. Because they sounded rough. I saw McCartney in concert, I want to say like within the last five years. And he sounded great in concert,

but he was also probably like tuned to the way he likes to be tuned. He was also in his seventies then. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. It does have to fall off at some point. I don't think there's that much of a difference between seventies and eighties. Have we seen any example of there being a difference, a big difference between

seventies and eighties in the past? I don't know, four or five years? No, not with singing. Not with singing or anything else? People get better. Now we can entertain this. Yeah. Not with singing. Not when I was singing or anything else. People get better at judging their own abilities. That's what they just get smarter and they get better at realizing these young people don't know what the fuck they're talking about.

I got this drive straight into a fucking garage. Sir, your head's bleeding mysteriously. Oh, yeah, your head's bleeding. Your head's bleeding. What? So your head's bleeding. No, Senator McConnell, your head's bleeding. Uh, what, what is something you think is overrated?

Yeah. Mignonette sauce. Wow. Somebody's in the raw bar. All right. We went out to this place, Lonely Oyster, a few weeks ago. We had a rare date night and it's like a raw bar type place. It's a seafood place.

And they brought out the oysters. And this was the best Minionette sauce I've ever had in my life. If anyone's wanted Minionette sauce, it's that like vinegar, garlicky concoction that comes with oysters. Shallots. Shallots.

At places that are too bougie to bring you what you actually want. Which is horseradish and cocktail sauce. Exactly. And every time I go to a fancy seafood place, there's never horseradish and cocktail sauce. There's always fucking Mignonette. I always put it on the oysters and pretend I like it,

waiting for it to click one day. It has never clicked. Wow. Bring me the cocktail sauce, all right? I don't need to impress anybody. This is the chef's interpretation of a mignonette sauce. What? Yeah, there's like six different kinds of yuzu in it.

I'm like, that's great, man. I don't want it. Bring me the gutter oysters, all right? Yeah. I like, man, I gutter oysters. All right? Yeah. I like, man, I like my seafood to just like have so much horseradish that it hurts me.

I do too. Yeah. Just blows out my sinuses. I want it to be as close to Ayahuasca as you can get at a place that the health department inspects. Yeah, could you bring me a few extra horseradish and a bucket?

I wanna meet God. Right. God is a horseradish. Yeah. So I'm just over Mignonette. Like everywhere I go and I feel like it's everywhere, I'm just like, I'm done with Mignonette. I think it's overrated.

I don't understand how we all collectively decided that was the right way to eat oysters. Yeah, give me horseradish with ketchup. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, trash it. And give me that sauce. Yeah, right. I'm learning that my preferred seafood is like

shack near beach as opposed to elevated. White tablecloth. Near like expensive furniture store. Yeah. It's like, can I eat with my hands like all of this or no? No, in fact we have a fork for your fork. You have to use this fork. I'm not in fact, we have a fork for your fork. You have to use this fork.

I'm not gonna de-shell a fucking, yeah. I'm gonna have to use a fork and knife to take this exoskeleton off a fucking prawn. Like, what the fuck? Just let me rip off the legs and eat this shit. We've taught this prawn the concept of death, so you have to reason with it before you eat it, and so just sort of let it know.

Oh no. Yeah. All right. So what you do is you put it in your mouth and as you're swallowing it, you look right into its eyes. So you can see the light fading. And say, I'm sorry. The two prawns have been mated for life.

They're both alive. They're bonded. Oh yeah. Which one did you eat first? Can yeah, we only serve them, yeah. Can I get like maybe five shrimp? Oh, we only bring them in bonded pair. There's bonded pairs. So I can get you six if you'd like.

How's that sound? All right. It comes with a bag of wind from the white cliffs of Dover. Yeah, anyway, minion act. How do you prove that? I bet that wind is so salty though. It's all that's good. A nice salty wind. If you saw that on a menu, you'd be like, I got to try that.

I know. And then you're like, and then you're like, wait, how the fuck are you? A salty guard, my bag. You see some dude in the gutter standing behind like a Kia just collecting the air. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk about some news. ["SOMETHING TO BE HAPPENED"] Do you remember what you said the first night

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Santi has been missing ever since. The hookup. What is that? I'm solving a mystery through sex and haven't made a private dick joke until now? Like, no matter how hard I try, all roads lead to... The hookup. You think it's causing people to turn aggro?

I'm gonna rip your arms off and use them to- Yeah, that's a word for it. This is such terrible representation, I'm so sorry. Poppers? These aren't just any poppers. Mama always used to say, God gave me gumption in place of a gag reflex. No, not my psychiatrist didn't laugh at that one either. Listen to the hookup on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you listen to

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It's Stroid Watch. Stroid Watch. So as somebody who the day before COVID shut the world down, I think I said on this show, might be nice for the entire country to have a little snow day. I'm not going to continue with this. This would be great to give us a hard reset. I'm not going to keep saying that because it would be bad,

especially because the track that it's on seems to be headed to someplace that's not America at this point. Come on. I know, right? Can we build like giant magnets in liberal cities to try to pull us in? Straight into the oval office. Yeah. But yeah, I don't know.

I do think some of us are just, it's nice to worry about something that's just the gods of physics deciding whether or not to reset human civilization. So for people who haven't been listening every day, we mentioned a couple of weeks back, there was an asteroid headed toward earth that had like a 1% chance of striking, uh, which was I think up, up there for the highest percent chance of like a city destroying asteroid striking. The earth. And since then it has tripled the chances that it's going to hit us. It's now three point something percent chance, whereas Miles pointed out a 97%

chance that it doesn't strike us. No, no, no, come on baby. Let's focus on that three. Yeah. Optimist. Let's take an optimist point of view. Yeah. But I don't know. So just, I've been reading up on this. I don't know why I'm so fascinated by it. I will say the thing that I've come away from this whole story feeling is, I'm like, why do I feel safe reading this story?

Like, why does this make me feel better? And I think it's because the version of a large, like destructive asteroid that I had in my mind up to this point was dinosaurs who had a shitty early detection system, as far as I'm aware. And then- Yeah, their beady little fucking eyes.

Beady ass little eyes, just looking up like kind of over their shoulders. The fuck is that? Uh, and then the timeline from Armageddon was 18 days. That's like, there's a, in that movie, there's a meteor shower because big comet crashed into the asteroid belt. And that's when they're like, maybe we should like look up to see what hit all the asteroids. And that's when they realized that there's like a planet destroyer, they've got 18 days to figure this shit out. So it's making me feel a little bit better that we are detecting this thing.

Wait, 18 days? That's 18 days is what Armageddon had. You're just going to ignore the Deep Impact timeline there too, doesn't it? Does it have equal time? We're going to get an Armageddon? Because I didn't watch Deep Impact. Yeah, I don't know either. I was just trying to speak up on its behalf here. I think Deep Impact had a longer timeline and were I...

Had I watched that instead of Armageddon, I would probably have like a two year longer lifespan because I just like had less ambient stress of that like there's just a good chance that a planet destroying asteroid could be two weeks out at any given time. Yeah. I would love if Diva Impact was similar to Armageddon.

Like they also had somebody like playing with a cookie around the belly button of, you know, like the daughter of Mick Jagger style. Wow. This is very similar. Yeah. They just didn't know about the other production. Okay, this is Steve Perry's daughter?

Yeah. Okay, weird. Just a different. My grandparents are in Deep Impact. Oh, that's right. Yeah, rest in peace. Because they were like black extras who always played like non-speaking roles when they needed old black people. So Blair Underwood, who was like one of the black people in the in deep impact, there's like a scene where they're talking to their family on earth.

My grandparents in the background. Anyway, so a little bit of lore for that. Now, a deep impact podcast. Yeah, this is now a deep impact podcast. But 18 days actually makes Armageddon way less believable now. Like, I don't know why you saying they only had 18, like, what kind of stupid ass script

is it fucking 18 fucking days? Are you all for real? Doesn't it take longer to like fuel up the rocket ships and all that stuff? I guess it's. Yeah. 18 Days is pretty short. Yeah.

That's not a lot of time. No, no. Anyway. The impact scenarios sound pretty short. Yeah. That's a lot of time. No. No. Anyway. The impact scenarios sound pretty gnarly. I'm just going to read them because they're fascinating. The asteroid would create an enormous explosion. OK.

That's one scenario. That's it. And the blast wave would be astonishingly powerful. Multi-story buildings around the crater would buckle and crumple, bridges would fold over and cars, trees and people would be thrown in all directions. There's also the potential for a hot jet of asteroid vapor. Cool.

No, bro. That's just me trying to go for an Academy Award. Yeah, dude, trying to vape it up. Ooh. Full of fat vape cloud, bro. Hot cloud of asteroid vapor. Um, they would descend to the surface and incinerate everything. That's worst case scenario. Obviously there's a chance it just like splashes out in the middle of the ocean. Well, and also we don't know what it's made of.

So there's one version where it hits like a solid piece. There's other ones that could break up. It would break up above the planet in which, but like, so they think that's what happened with the Tunguska event. Oh yeah. Where there was that massive explosion in 1908 that again, like this makes me scared for the people of 1908 when I'm just like, yo, they had no idea. They were just like, everything like blew up over there. We should go check it out.

And an entire forest was leveled and they didn't, they still really haven't figured it out. This is just like a theory that an asteroid got super heated as it was entering the atmosphere. It was particularly rocky and you know, not like a solid iron core, which is kind of worst case scenario, I guess, for one of these, and it got super heated and then just exploded above the ground. And so that's why, because they never found a crater at the Tunguska, you know, ground

zero. They never found like a thing that hit. And so I think the theory is that it just got so hot that it exploded out. There's also another theory that I like, but people say is unlikely that it was a, a small black hole that just flew into the planet. It's actually super interesting. And then like in that theory, it wouldn't have like, it would have just like kept going through the earth, like a straight, like a bullet through the earth and just like come

out in the ocean somewhere and kept on its way. Through outer space? Yeah, yeah. Just came down through outer space, hit Tunguska, you know, where in Siberia, kept traveling down through the earth and out the other side like an exit wound and out into outer space. I heard that on a child's podcast. Radio Lab for Kids, highly recommend. That's a fun little dad hack that I learned way too late. Kids podcasts are great. I can't wait for the stage of fatherhood where I start getting into the unexplained.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a lot of mystery out there. I can feel it coming. What's the Voynich incident or whatever it is? What's the one in Russia where they like found people naked outside of a tent?

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Are you using that with the Voynich manuscript, which is a different mystery? Yeah. I don't think that one's Voynich, but it could be wrong. No. But yeah, there is that unexplained one where everybody,

the version that people happen, like when they found them, they discovered them, they're like tongues are all missing. They're naked in the middle of the snow. But I've read a pretty compelling explanation that it was just, it was a avalanche. And then because of exposure, like the tongue is the first thing the animals eat. But, and then like the radiation on their skin is actually just from being in the sun for so long. But that's a, that's definitely another interesting one that I did not make my kids listen to in podcast. No, no, they're the soft tissue. Yeah. The animals go for it first. They'll eat your eyes and your tongue. Like big animals, no small animals, very small animals.

A little squirrel just in there, just the very things that live around us. You know what I do, I got your nose, but it'll be like a rodent just eating away at that soft flesh on your face. Oh, okay. I will say, the other thing that's making me feel safe is that NASA did go up and move a asteroid that is bigger than this one off its course. Like because they wanted to see, like if they had the ability to do this in, in case of something exactly like this. And they were able to do it. If it does, if it, you know, the percentage ticker keeps taking up and it's like,

guys, it's coming. I feel like we will see, like, I can already see how Trump and Musk would handle it, you, it's coming. I feel like we will see. Like I can already see how Trump and Musk would handle it. You know? Oh yeah. Yeah. Like they would treat it like a fucking hostage situation for the rest of the globe, like he'd use NASA's ability to deflect it as like a bargaining chip. Like he had like a gun to every other country's head or whatever country it

was going to land on and then they'd probably fuck it up. Whoever has, if your country has a lot of lithium mines in it, get ready to have an asteroid pointed at you. You give up the mining rights. Yeah. If you can move an asteroid out of the earth's path, you can also move an asteroid into the earth's path. Tom Cruise holler at us.

Yeah. We'll write you that. Great. Yeah. You can actually. Damn, that's a great apocalypse movie scenario. Yeah, that's like we can run back Mission Impossible. This doesn't actually have to be the last one. Now we can have somebody who, and you film it in space, Tom. We need you, Ethan.

We need you. Tennessee Shalimar as Ethan Hunt. Or as the bad guy. We need you, Ethan. We need you. But I think that... Tennessee Shalime as Ethan Hunt. Or as the bad guy. It's like any bad, like bad guy storylines can go in such wild directions now that Elon Musk exists, you know? Oh, yeah, yeah. Potentially robotic penis, like that's the first character detail. So you gotta get out there. Potentially robotic penis,

insisting on like repopulating the earth via his seed. And then also just like taking over the government and like trying to take over space and would probably find a way to make this about him in some way. Yeah. Get ready for RoboCock, the series to come out. It's going to be really something. But I guess the one thing with this asteroid thing is, as much as you're saying, Jack, it's like, oh boy,

now we're going to have to fucking do some real shit. It feels like all the scientists are like, first of all, it's going up, but you need to understand that this process, we're still, scientists are still of the belief that they're like, as soon as we get enough data, it's going to precipitously drop to zero, most likely. And if not-

97% chance, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There's something nice with the way the America is right now where I think a lot of people feel like you're being bullied by this administration. It's like There's a there's this feeling of like, okay, I'm getting bullied in the middle of the street, but Just over the hill a bus crested and it's barreling down on both of us Fuck man if the bus hits the bully too It's not all bad like there is like a little bit of that feeling

where it's like there is a bigger fish, you know? There's something comforting about that. But then when you look at the projections, it feels like of cities, it could be Mumbai, Bogota, or Lagos, Nigeria, maybe it's along that plane, or the ocean. So I don't know what lessons are going to be learned. But yeah, it's true. Surf that wave if it hits the ocean. So I don't know what lessons are going to be learned, but

yeah, it's true. If they hit the ocean. Like think about all of those are Trump, like quote unquote, shithole countries. I feel like he's going to just be like, yeah, why would we do anything? We're not going to help them, but unless they want to pay for it, you know, like for a what we own Africa now, otherwise give it to, we, we own Africa now. Otherwise. Give it to me. Give it to me now. Okay.

Neil deGrasse Tyson even took a break from his busy schedule of tweeting about the scientific inaccuracies of like Aquaman or whatever, to say that this is worth, worth taking seriously. Shout out to J.M. for that description. But yeah, it's, it could be bad. I feel like actual scientists, like you said, Miles, not that worried.

Do any of those scientists have a vest with just sort of like a heavenly bodies on it, the way that Neil deGrasse Tyson does? Because he does seem worried. He does, but he's also good at media. He's good at media. And he's good at getting his name out there. Yeah. And you're like, well, I'm worried.

Yeah. You? If you need somebody to talk endlessly on your cable channel about this, I've got many vests, it's not just this once. Yeah. Let's please look, but let's look past my's please look past my sorted past and just focus on the fact that I am worried about the asteroid. So they're saying they are calling this the most hazardous object yet identified since

the invention of the Torino scale, which measures the risk of asteroids hitting Earth. But I'm assuming like, and I haven't seen this specifically said in an article, but I'm assuming we're able to spot more and more shit with better and better telescopes, right? And therefore the number of threats we learn about are going to go up while the actual danger to us because of technological advances goes down, you know? Yeah. So it's like, which is, I mean that, I think that's a good metaphor for a lot of the modern world.

Fear of crime because you now see it on social media every time a crime is committed goes up and up and up while your danger and actual crime goes down and down and down. Well, yeah. I think this is where you can tell if like a journalist actually has any kind of background in doing like science communication. Because I like the articles I've read that come from like more science centric outlets have all of this information. Like it's they're not like, hey, can fuck it like the New York Post is like, check out this fucking render of it.

Absolutely smoking Manhattan, even though it's not even close. Be employed to hit the asteroid back in and out. Yeah, exactly. What if Robinson cano didn't leave? We're like, wait, what? This is so weird now. But I think, and then other ones do just kind of like, like are very explicitly saying it's probably going to go down just so you know, there's ways to deal with it. And I'm sure like, it's just for our dumb excitement about it, there are other places like, let's just kind of like not fully tell them we're okay.

Let's just kind of keep it feeling a little bit precarious. It's the perfect story. Cause it's basically like, you know, there's a 3% chance Godzilla's real. Yeah, right. It's like that same level. Right? Yeah, that's right.

People are like, excuse me, what? Yeah, 3% chance, but it's 3% chance Godzilla's real. It's like that same level. People are like, excuse me, what? Yeah, three percent chance, but it's three percent chance Godzilla's real and he's here. 97% chance Godzilla's not real. Why is everybody freaking out? No, three percent he's real. Yeah, that's exactly right.

Like, J.M. does point out, like if there's a reason to panic, it's probably the reason we're already panicking, which is that Trump and Musk are dismantling the federal government funding network. And that will impact NASA, who are the only people who we know of that can like save us from this because they have already. It's why I like Elon Musk tweeting about this was like we have no defense against a planet destroying asteroid, which is like, shut up. Are you talking? Wait, what? We just we just fucking did it.

They just did it. Yeah, well, we did. Now we don't. Now we have no defense. Right. Yeah. Oh, sorry. I just slashed that. Yeah. Those people all work for the national parks now. Yeah. And not even because, all work for the national parks now. And not even cause I fired them for this news just came in that the, their work, cause there were about to be hugely offset NASA. Apparently they are not happening as of right now.

There's a 97% chance they're not 97% chance. So yeah, okay. Okay. All right. All right. Yeah. I mean, some people are like, they're, they're still trying to figure out if it's temporary or if someone actually convinced that like, or I guess Musk,

cause he's the president. That it's like, no, no, no, you get like, you've space tax gets fucked too. If you do this. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Because space X is so much like just, you know, sitting on top of NASA and NASA technology, which is what Tesla is also sitting on top of like all these government. If you kill daddy, he can't give you upies.

Oh, okay. No, Skye Skye. Edepis should have tried that. Yeah. Where's his dad? I don't know. I don't know which one is which. He killed his dad.

His dad. Edepis's dad should have tried that. Yeah. Edepis's dad, get with your mom, rip your eyes out. Come on. That's, that's, that's the cliff. Yep. But yeah, I am going to need China to go deflect and, you know, show that they

can go move an asteroid off its course, because I don't think anybody feels like they can count on the U S is basically the mafia at this point until further notice, like I don't think anyone in the world is like, Oh, it's okay. NASA's got us. The US is basically the mafia at this point until further notice. I don't think anyone in the world is like, oh, it's okay. NASA's got us. No, no, no, no, no, no, no nice stuff there in Lagos. I heard the Fela Kuti Museum's there. A lot of artifacts. Yeah, I think music is very familiar with the location of the Fela Kuti Museum. Yeah, I get that.

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iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back! We're back! And so we saw Donald Trump be just greeted with roaring applause at the Super Bowl. So no questions about his popularity. He's the most popular president of all time. Oh, wait, that Super Bowl was on Fox and they had that noise. But anyways, there does seem to be just even the way like the New York Times,

like everybody greets it as like as if, well, this president is very popular and you can tell because of all the crazy shit he's doing. And it's like, wait, I mean, just because he's claiming he's popular. You're also hearing these little whispers of like, meanwhile, like Lisa Murkowski's office is like, we've never had this many calls before from our constituents being like, what the fuck is happening right now? Yeah. And you know, like Republicans are saying this, like, yeah,

they're like my constituents, the people that vote for Donald Trump are. Yeah. Yeah. And you know, like Republicans are saying this like. Yeah, they're like my constituents, the people that vote for Donald Trump are, are very concerned, whether it's because they are federal employees, their family members are federal employees or people that rely on these government programs that are getting the fucking acts. So yeah, like there are, there, the last week I've seen multiple, there's just a ton of headlines about Republicans being very nervous is what they say, you know, without actually doing anything like-

And we hate that for them. No, no. It's awful. We were just a calm Republican. But they're trying to do the thing where they're like, trying not to be like, this dude is fucking up. They're trying to use like just this like very neutral language, but to also underscore that they are a bit concerned, like Don Bacon, he's

a congressmember from Nebraska, he said, bacon, before making cuts rashly, the administration should be studying and staffing to see what the consequences are. Measure twice before cutting. See, I like that is very dad folk. That's like dad core shit. Measure twice, cut once you get it. Okay. And he he said they have had to backtrack multiple times Lisa Murkowski the senator from Alaska said we all want efficiencies There is a way to do it and the way these people have been treated has been awful in many cases awful Okay, a little bit stronger. Oh All right double down on that awful

but anyway, so many other members also spoke under the condition of cowardice and have said, they don't like that the constitution is getting shitted on, but hey, what the hell are they gonna actually do about it? It's kind of the vibe right now. We have no leverage. You're Republican, right?

You're the major. We have, what do you want us to do? No, Hakeem Jeffries says that. Hakeem Jeffries. But also us, what do you want us to do? We're just see what Congress he came up with a new fucking like stupid nickname for Trump Or maybe it's Musk I believe no no he it's it's because he goes this guy's like Captain Chaos and you're like, holy

swish make a fucking swish from way downtown. The Democratic Party is died. So anyway. The Bernie, I'm going to say the Bernie video that is getting millions of views on TikTok, where he just like describes the situation as being oligarchs, felt good. It's the first thing I've seen a public figure do that just made like, yeah, what more of that? Let's just like do that for three hours a day. Just like talk to people about what is actually happening. What is oligarchy? Yeah. Because clearly I think a lot of the thing is like your

audience for all the politicians out there, the baseline for knowledge is low. You're going to have to start with what is money, okay? And how that all works. Because assuming they know what things like subsidies are or grants or social safety net, no, no, no. We have to start from the bottom and teach them. Anyway, so- You can't go camping anymore.

You can't go to these federal hunting grants. You know what I mean? It's like your grandmother won't get medicine. It's like that kind of thing. Like- What? Yeah, yeah. Not like they've cut Medicare.

We will win. Subsidies by- We will win. Yeah. Thanks, Chuck. But also there's like MAGA influencers posting on social media that these cuts are like hurting the people that love you, Mr. President.

Please reconsider. So this all happening. So it feels like people aren't totally convinced that having no job or losing benefits is winning at all. Which brings us to the propaganda arm of the regime Fox News. They spent the morning doing a full on WandaVision on their viewers to get them to believe like Musk is doing a good job and that every cent the government Spending is on woke circumcisions. So they did they covered this press conference where Trump was like, look at this

They're saying they want more equitable voting access in Africa. I don't know education in Asia. They're doing better than us I'd say so what are we doing this like only reading like very us, I'd say. So what are we doing? Like only reading like, very specific words out of a description of a program to just paint an entire thing to be like, this is about circumstances like knows a public health measure that we're talking about that does include education around that. It's not to be like, and here's our circumcision budget. So anyway, this is Fox, pretty much trying to spin all of that and

inoculating their viewers to get them to sort of decouple the idea that like government spending is good, that all government spending is actually going on woke nonsense. That is a waste of your money. All right, Laura. So in the bingo card of waste of our taxpayer dollars, I don't know if anyone could have predicted social inclusion, learning, circumcision, voter inclusion. The list goes on. But what a horrifying list that is. And thank God for Doge and President Trump now.

Yeah, and I would love to hear one person in the Democrat Party try to justify any of these line items. I mean, imagine you were a person who's been struggling the past four years, who's been trying to put food on the table, get the basics for your family. And you find out $10 million of your hard earned taxpayer money is going overseas for circumcisions. They are indefensible items.

And that is why Donald Trump is in there exposing it. You know, it's funny. I saw online. Yeah. Um, okay. It's that's not what's happening. It the, your hard earned money is actually going to oligarchs. So they no longer pay. That's where the money is actually going to oligarchs. So they no longer pay.

That's where the money's actually going. But nice try. Like again, they want to connect all of this to be like, it just goes to woke stuff and that's your money rather than your money is getting shipped upward in another mass wealth redistribution scheme that we see every fucking time. And again, unfortunately I am forced to respect any point that is made using the didn't have that on my 20, 25 bingo card. Yeah. Yeah.

Metaphor that works every time on me. I'm like, God damn that makes me think of bingo. And I feel like I have that there. The grand American tradition. Every January 1st, we sit down and we make our bingo card for the year. What the fuck is anyone talking about? Okay, the next number we're picking is I-14. Hold on. Sorry. I have $50 million for circumcisions here.

What do I put a tile here? Can I mark that? But again, these aren't fucking savings like Kristi Noem was talking about or shit to put money in your pocket. These are critical programs that keep people alive keeping our food from fucking poisoning us critical services. Though again, they just want to have their people be as ignorant as possible and intentionally ignorant about everything that's happening again, so they can get away with

this just massive theft. They also obviously need to sell Musk like as being this genius, because right now a third of Republicans believe he a third of Republicans are in the category of Musk has entirely too much influence over this White House. So they're no they're like, oh, shit, we need to get those numbers down. This is in the same segment, they go on to do this thing where they're clearly talking to old people by describing Musk's technological

genius, or is and they can code all of it, which I really think is what Musk secret sauce is. He knows something that we don't know. He knows how you can develop programs that can build products if you need it, or build software that can give us answers. Oh, wow. My god. He knows that is so fucking cynical when he go, he knows things we don't know, like acting like we're now we're using like a deification sort of logical framework of like, faith in Musk to be like, and the Lord knows how to make the programs. And we must type it into the magical computer box

and out will come the answers to our problems. And then he'll change them M to a B and it will look much more impressive. Right. What like, why, oh, why did the government think to hire someone who knew how to do computers before? Exactly. Exactly.

Like I remember when he took over Twitter and was like making all those changes and like firing everybody and then being like, come in and show me your code. And people were like, just even the questions that he's asking suggests that he like has a very like pedestrian understanding of like coding and like how any of this shit. Right. Like he's hasn't coded anything Successful in his life like that's not what he does. Yeah goes in and takes advantage of imbalances like or loopholes and laws where it can make him a bunch of money and then just repeatedly You know abuses those loopholes until he has

Millions and then just repeatedly, you know, abuses those loopholes until he has millions and then billions of dollars. That's all he does. And based on how other actual computer program programmers talk about how Elon talks about it, they're like, this dude sounds like a kid who's hanging out with older kids and going back to his like kids that are his age and be like, yo, dude, this, that, like just saying a bunch of dumb shit he overheard without a real understanding of it, just because he's around people that do. So then on top of that too, Jesse Waters, also Fox, he had to put his tiny ass brain to work. And this is the best he could come up with in terms of trying to manufacture consent for like

levels of austerity that would make Margaret Thatcher look like fucking FDR. Here is Jesse Waters convincing his viewers that Doge is also here. Just listen to this shit. What never lies besides George Washington. Math, math never lies. Math always tells the truth. Doge is math. Doge is math. Doge is math. Yes. So George Washington equals never lies. Never lies equals math.

Math equals Doge. Due to the transitive property. Doge equals George Washington. Doge equals George Washington equals slave teeth as dentures. Yeah. That's again, all that's happening. And then on top of that too, we just had that fucking Hannity interview where Musk and Doge again, with their weird ass

elder abuse rope, like romance that they're doing on TV for everyone. Trump and, Trump and Musk. And Musk. Yeah. Went on Hannity and basically like he was asked to think, and, and, uh, Trump just said the whole thing is like, well, inflation's back and that got nothing to do with it.

That's what this whole thing is now. Like completely. I mean, that is the most presidential thing about him is just completely not delivering on presidential like campaign promises. But yeah, we're there now with the inflation. You hear about this inflation is back. I had nothing to do with it. My hands are tied, folks. Just taking direct quotes from Joe Biden.

There's the ghost government. There's a ghost government controlling inflation. We got to get it under control folks. Go ghost protocol. Danny Ackroyd. Dan Ackroyd is coming in. Didn't go to the 50th. Working for Doge.

Didn't go to the 50th. I'm surprised. I'm surprised. Bill Murray was there. If Chevy Chase was there. But you know, you saw that. Bill Murray threw some shade during the weekend update thing. You know, you know. He definitely watched SNL 50. Trump? Oh yeah. Oh yeah.

He's lost some SNL 50. I thought he was going to get like in there. He's like, I didn't fucking. Are you fucking kidding me Ian what a pleasure having you on the daily zeitgeist Yeah, people find you follow you see you all that good stuff Yeah, check out my stand-up comedy special comfort beyond God's foresight. It just came out. It's on YouTube It's on great hundred pound gorillas YouTube page. You can search my name and all that. It'll come up. Follow me on Instagram, at Ian Carmel.

That's with a K. BlueSky, at Ian Carmel. I'm on YouTube. You can follow my YouTube channel, IKCoolJu. Uh. Oh. Which I set up when I was like in my 20s and now can't change it

because somebody squatted on my actual name. So IKCoolJu is my actual name. So I K cool Jew is my YouTube channel. My AIM name was a OB cool J Yeah, it was a powerful time to be And and oh check out my book t-shirt swim club, which is a National bestseller about them growing up fat, being a fat kid adult, everything I went through in that world and then losing weight, putting it back

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Oh, listen to All Fantasy Everything, my podcast where we fantasy draft the whole world. Everything. How long do you, what's over under on how long we have libraries from that? Like we got three and a half years. May. May.

May. Fuck. Is there a work of media that you've been enjoying? Yeah. I've been watching a lot of, there's this band called Telenovella from Texas who are like an indie rock country band. I hate how cliche, but like their videos,

they're on Kill Rockstars. Their videos are just super fun. Like they put a lot of time and effort into their videos. Their music is great. So I would say check out Tela Novella also on YouTube. Some of their videos, they're fun. Their music's great. Really dig them.

Nice. Yeah. Miles, where can people find you? Is there a work in media you've been enjoying? Yeah, you can find me everywhere at milesofgray. You find Jack and I on milesofjackonmadboosties. And you can find back on 420 Day Fiancé talking about season 11 of 90 Day Fiancé because the first episode just dropped.

And as I emerge from the ashes, I am ready to discuss my beloved 90 Day Fiancé. So check in on that one with Sophia, Alexandra and I. A work of media I like. This is from a big content guy, I think. Let me just make sure. Oh, I love big content guy. Yeah, dude. Big content.

Big muffin respects big content guy. Yeah, big content guy. Put this one out just saying, just first it was like a follow up to a tweet said I'm obsessed with this podcast where those dudes in like eighth grade discuss food oh yeah puts the video says just zero life experience discussing grub with the boys absolutely rules have you ever had pepperoni? Yeah, dude, like 14th. And it just, I'm so sorry what podcasts have done to this culture, but here they are.

Right, what's your favorite topping on a pizza? I'm just a, if I had to choose, it'd probably be like pepperoni, but I'm not a big, I'm not a big, I'm just a regular cheese guy. I just do cheese, I don't do, I just do cheese. I don't really like pepperoni, I know what weird tastes. I like pepper I don't do I just do cheese Weird taste Same thing like yeah, a lot of people are big pepperoni fans. I think meat lovers do have meat lovers go I'm not a fan of it. I'm not a big fan of like the sausage in general. Yeah, I've never had a meat lovers

Never had a meal never had a meat lovers. That's the funniest thing if you Never had a meat lover. That's the funniest thing. If that was a sketch, it would be the best sketch. The best sketch of all time. It's unbelievable. And it's like, how the fuck, I don't know who the fuck put these kids in the studio. They speak about it. I listened to the 20 minutes of it.

They start by ranking their favorite candies. And one of them is like, now and laters. And then the next one is like, purple now and laters. You ever put a Snickers in the freezer? was like now and laters. And then the next one was like purple now and laters. You ever put like a Snickers in the freezer? Yeah. They're discovering all of it. That's the way they speak in podcast bro language where they're like, if I had to pick, if I had to pick, right.

There's a lot of fans. There's a lot of fans out there. Then like the other person being the foe audience advocate, like out there, I'm like, there's a lot of fans out there. There's a lot of people out there than like the other person being the faux audience advocate. Like out there, I'm like, there's a lot of fans out there. There's a lot of people, a guy on the laptop. Have you had meat lovers? A lot of people are saying pineapple. Hey, Jamie, what happens when you pull out most popular pizza toppings?

Uh, so, anchovies are actually... Jamie Loftus for some reason worked for them. They have the best podcaster in the world working for them. I'm finding that it's hot now. Oh, that's hard. They have the best podcaster in the world working for them. I'm finding that it's hot now. Oh, that's all right. That's what's up. That's what's up.

It'd be so easy to fuck with them. Yes, it would be so easy to fuck with teenage children and children about food. Owl mate. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, shit. Let's see. I probably my favorite piece of social media I've ever seen is this

photograph of a public, a publicly posted like flyer, how to quote, punish my daughter. My daughter is biting hair. Exclamation point. I'm a single father. So I don't have the quote maternal instinct. I've talked about this before, uh all moms, best way to tell her this is not okay without being too harsh, please write the answer.

And then it's like seven people answering with the same advice that is feed her a stew that makes her blind. It makes her go blind for one day. Stew that blinds her for a day. Feed her a type of stew that makes her blind for one day. And then the last one is one day blinding stew. And it's, every time I see it, I laugh until I'm crying. But it's like been posted.

So this time it was posted by at goofnader on Twitter. But whoever originally wrote that shit is a fucking genius. Yeah. One day blinding Stu is one of my favorite. One day blinding Stu. That's just for the love of the game being funny too. For the love of the game just posting that in your neighborhood is unbelievable. So great.

Anyways, if anybody knows who that is, let me know in the Discord or on Twitter. I would love to. There's that person, I follow them on Instagram, but I can't remember their name right now, but they make like those, they do those like posters that they put up around. Yeah. That are like that. God. There is somebody who does it.

Nice. Somebody in the Discord. I'll look into it. Yeah. Anyways, you can find me on Twitter at jack underscore O'Brien and on blue sky at jackob, the number one. Uh, you can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist, we're at The Daily Zeitgeist.

On Instagram, we have a Facebook fan page and a website, dailyzeitgeist.com. You can go to this episode, wherever you're listening to it, check out the description and you will find the footnotes, which is where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode. We'll link off to Ian's special. We'll also link off to a song that we think you might enjoy. Hey, Miles, is there a song you think people might enjoy? Yeah, just easy listening. You just want music that puts a nice texture in the

room, nothing again. Sometimes I like stuff with lyrics. A lot of times I like instrumental music. This is from a Japanese jazz trumpet player, like one of the top dudes. His name is Hino Terumasa. And this track is called Hino's Reggae. That's what it says in Japanese. This is not a reggae track at all. This is like some straight up smooth jazz shit. But this is Hino Terumasa. Check it out. It's just very, very nice music to have. And the babies will love this shit too. So check it out. Hino's reggae. By babies, you mean like women, right? You're like talking swinger talk. Hey, the beautiful babies. All those beautiful babies. And you're like this fucking bear, man. All those beautiful babies. All those lovely little babies. Yeah, all those beautiful babies.

And you're like this fucking bear, man, with these fucking claws. The Daily Zeitgeist, the production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That's going to do it for us this morning. We are back this afternoon to tell you what is trending. And we will talk to you all then. Bye.

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