The Daily Zeitgeist - The Ballad Of Punch The Monkey, Kevin Sorbo Improv 02.25.26

Episode Date: February 25, 2026

In episode 2012, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and producer of the monthly Facial Recognition Comedy show, Pallavi Gunalan to discuss… Punch the Monkey, FedEx Is Suing The U.S. Government, Dean Cain And Kevin Sorbo Are In The “Using Child Labor To Rip-Off Disney” Phase Of Their Careers and more! Punch the Monkey FedEx Is Suing The U.S. Government Companies line up for refunds after U.S. Supreme Court strikes down Trump's tariffs How to Avoid a Huge Customs Bill on a Cheap Online Order You paid for tariffs — but you won’t get a slice of tariff refunds FedEx sues US government for tariff refund after Supreme Court ruling Night at the Museum of the Bible About Museum of the Bible Inside the sprawling, controversial $500m Museum of the Bible How forgers fooled the Bible museum with fake Dead Sea Scroll fragments LISTEN: Life by Brandon NembhardSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

And also like, I have to get, I have to be healthier. Like, I have to, like, I have to invest in my health. That's the only way I can do it. Because every time I'm like, I'm going to do this video. I'm like, no, I'm not. Wait, Miles, we need to be accountability partners because I'm like, I could go to the gym or I could eat this cake. Yeah, no, for real. And after seeing Connor Story's cakes, I'm like, I need to go to the gym.

What's Connor Story's cakes? Heated rivalry. Heated rivalry. bro, Jack, you better get in, bro. About fucking around. Watch you at rivalry, bro. Stop fucking around. Start fucking dudes.

Stop fucking around. Bro, again, I always, I love how jocky it is because they're calling each other by their last names when they fuck all the time. That's so, that's literally how I imagined it. Fuck, Rosanna. It's just like, like, yo, call it. Good game, bro. Call him Shane, bro.

He got a name. Stop acting like you're in the locker room. What's up, Hollander? You know what I mean? Oh, we fucking know. Yeah, I was, like, laughing so hard and I was like, what's wrong with you? I'm like, it's just so funny to me that like, it's like this depiction of these jocks fucking is they still talk like these jocks. Like they can't even put the jock shit down and embrace like the fucking love for another dude.

We're not fucking homophobic. We're jocks first. That's what I'm like, oh, fuck Hollander. You really get in the bottom right now, bro. You look at like, you look at. I say, call him shit. Look at like a playbook and it's like a sex book and it's like you go here and then I'm over here and then you're dixed in my ass. This is how I go milk the prostate.

One of them farts and he calls doorknob. Yeah, yeah, exactly. It's going to be hard for you to run away because I'm inside you right now. It's a great, it's a great again, great, great, great, great, great love story. Great love story. Great love story. That would have been terrible for me. My high school football team called me Schmitty.

And I just, I hated that name. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I was terrible. Damn, Smitty. I didn't know you had it like that. Oh, no, please. It's triggering.

God. What the fuck is that, man? It's a fucking gorilla grip on that shit. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm trying to picture my wife calling me O'Brien. I think I kind of like it. Oh, fuck, O'Brien.

It's like, call me, truly call me by my name. O'Brien. O'Brien. She does an Irish accent. Top of the penis to you. Fuck, O'Brien. Oh, fuck, no.

Fucking strapping lad, you are. Oh, and then we got 50 shades of gray over here. Yeah, yeah. I had, I remember, I, I had one girlfriend the first time we had sex. She called me, I was, I was, this was crazy. I was coaching, like a kid's soccer team. She called me coach, she called me Coach Gray in bed.

And I say, wait, why? I don't know. Was it her kid on the soccer team? No, no, no, no. She was like, she had nothing to do. She just came. I was like, oh, like, I was like, I coach kids soccer on the weekend. So like on Saturday mornings, I have games, I have practices like on, you know, two days a week.

Damn. And so she came to one of the games, and I think she was just like so like, you didn't know how much a part of it that was for her. Yeah, right? I mean, we dated for like two years. But like in the, I think she was just kind of like, oh, he's like a, like, I think it like showed something about me that she didn't realize. And then she just gets turned on by any job.

She's like, okay, plumber daddy. She's like, okay, fry cook, gray. I see you. But she was like saying, oh, coach gray. I was like, hold on. your body actually makes the record scratch so fully fully like I was like that's not I'm not into that like even the kids on a team don't call me coach everyone calls me miles you're like if you're gonna call me anything call me a doctor are we role playing or not yeah yeah exactly call me fucking like Gandalf you know like let me get into this shit you know what I Gandalf the gray yeah fuck me Gandalf the gray I'm like I shall not nut I used to be like I would get a tramp stamp that says, speak friend and enter.

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 14. 27 episode three of their daily zeitgeist. Yeah. It's a production of IHeartRadio. It's a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness through the day's news. We also have a new non-news history version of TDZ dropping each Monday morning where we do it. Deep dive into the zeitgeist through the lens of a different icon. Icon.

icons like Einstein. Erkel. Erkel. Tony Hawk. Tupac. I mean, Tony Hawk. Sherlock Holmes and Tupac was our most recent very. very fun.

You, Tupac, Sherlock, Tony Hawk. Yeah. What's good. Okay, Eminem. Yeah. Flaping around like a batkin. Tupac when they're on it's Tupac, Sherlock, oh God, Dr. Spock. Anyway.

Way too many napkins. Those episodes drop every Monday morning. There are the episodes with icon in the title. Iconograph is the logo. It is. Hopefully that's enough to indicate you. We did our best. What the fuck is this?

Which one's this one? We, this didn't, Tupac didn't just die. Yeah, imagine we're going in a time machine. Yeah, yeah, yeah. From the vault episodes. It is Wednesday, February 25th, 2026. Yeah, yeah. That's National Clam Chowda Day.

That's a bit of clam chowder. That's a great chowder. I-R-I-R-A-R-A. And also my favorite national chocolate-covered nut day. Oh, really? Yeah. I love a chocolate covered... I love a chocolate covered nuts.

Cachew. Oh, I've never had... They're chocolate-covered cashews? Yeah, I think so. I guess I've only had chocolate-covered peanuts and almonds. Oh, my... I'm like, always like... What about those monologue?

Yeah. Those are expensive, though, man. They taste so good, like, macadamian-ness, and I'll fucking eat them. Like, they don't cost 18 bucks for, like, a tiny can. Macadamia nut also sounds like something that Eminem would put, you know? Yeah. Academia. You really, like, you have to, you can have fun getting around that word.

Smoking ancient weed with the Kings of Mesopotamia chewing on macadamia. Damn, okay. Yeah, I had a failed rap career. Shia. Yeah, he's not doing too good, huh? Don't be Shia. Tell us who is your rap partner? Yeah, no, the whole element crew, Shia, Mike G, Jay Boy,

a satin on your pain. Depth Sun. Also, low pro, Lorenzo. Lorenzo Eduardo. Shout out to all of them. One at all. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.K. Potato's O'Brien, and I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Hey, it's Miles Gray, a.k.

Watch you pull out a tuna in the medieval times. Subway, while I'm eating turtles in medieval times. Shout out to Lackaroni for that one, because I love that Irish rap song. We're talking about pull up in a car in the medieval times. They don't even know what the cars are. in a medieval times. Yeah, thank you for that.

I haven't had a subway tuna in a fucking minute, though. Shit. Too long. Been too long since I had a foot long. That's right. Miles, we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a hilarious stand-up comedian, writer, actor, improviser. You can see her at her monthly shows second screens comedy

and facial recognition comedy. It's Polonium, Pahlavi Gunale. Better recognize. And I'm back to kill again. Oh, my God. Yeah, you haven't seen, what was it called? No other choice, Jack? No other choice, yeah.

No other choice, yeah. We might have to watch that. I haven't seen that, but that is my insanity defense. Right. No other choice, Your Honor. I know, but Your Honor. I had to do it to one. Capitalist insanity.

Yeah, exactly. Super Producer says it's really funny. It is. It's just like a, the. The point that it makes is like, these guys could be friends and come together and, like, start something together. But capitalism makes it so that they're just like head down every man for himself type shit. So I'm just saying, Paul of E, that like it might be worth watching and then stopping trying to kill Miles. Yeah.

You know. I don't know. That sounds like something my next victim would say. Someone's in the crosshair. Wow, that's so cute. Sounds like a victim. Just write that down. Who's about to get got?

I just got to change my rankings really quick. You go up to one. Okay. There we go. Well, we're thrilled to have you here. We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell the listeners a couple of the things. We're talking about today.

We're talking about Punch the Monkey. I'm going to cry immediately. I know, Paula V. We were going to talk about it on trends, and I was like, we got to have Paula. We got to make Polovi. against punch and I was like that's not what they would have wanted. Yes, somebody was like, fuck that little hippo and I was like, no. No, don't do that.

Why? There's room in our heart for both of these animals. Why aren't there room for two bad bitches? Why would you pit them against each other? No, it's not a Stephen King character using made up slang to describe jacking off Punch the Monkey is the latest viral sensation. And we're going to talk about it. It's like the virality comes from, like, usually it's like, this outraged me.

Look at this. Or this is so funny. Look at this. This is one where it's like, my whole heart broke open. Like the entire existence. But I still think there is an aspect of outrage. Like they're mad at the other monkeys. Yeah.

Oh, hell. Yeah. Fuck those other monkeys. So we're going to talk about that. FedEx is officially suing the U.S. government because of the illegal. tariffs and that whole ruling. So we're going to talk about that because it's interesting.

They actually didn't lose money on the whole deal we did. So that's kind of interesting that they're suing. I'm glad they're suing the government, but really maybe that money should be going back to us in medieval times. So we're going to talk about that. We're going to talk about the new Night at the Museum of the Bible movie. Oh, God. Oh, yeah. Oh, God.

If you liked Night at the Museum, and I didn't. You're going to love that actually probably, it has no bearing on how you're going to feel about night at the museum of the Bible. The only thing that's going to have bearing on it is whether your family has, like, raised you in a world that is completely devoid of any entertainment outside of, like, the Christian entertainment industry. But anyways, we're going to talk about that.

Before we get to any of that, we do like to ask our guest, Paula V. Gunalan, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? Okay, this sucks. All my search history is work-related stuff for the last two weeks. That's how we're in a recession. Recession indicator.

Okay, but also, that also tells me that the only way I find new information is scrolling on reels. So it does my search history for me. And right now... So where's you find on reels? What's your reels dominated by? Right now, it's a lot. Did you guys watch the A&M documentary?

I've seen parts of it. I haven't seen the full thing, though. So basically it's like Tyra's a sociopath, and then she drops it. She's going to be involved with season 25 at the end. So I feel like they had enough, like, drama and controversy. A&M America's Next Top Model. Yeah. Are you going to be on top?

That's from heated rivalry, actually. But, but she. You're going to be on top? Gray. She literally, like, there were so many moments in the documentary, spoiler, where they were like, oh yeah, this model's mother died from a gun, or got paralyzed from a gunshot wound. And then she had to do like a gunshot fucking a shoot the next day.

So there's all these reels of people being like, when I tell the day after I tell Tyra, my dad died from hypothermia. And it's people like posing in the snow. Or like whatever. Like even some of the former models have participated in this trend. Like I tell Tyra something traumatic. And then next day I have to do. do a photo shoot directly related to it.

That for real happened. Like her, so a model's parent had died from a gun. Not died, but like had been fully like paralyzed from the waist down by a gunshot. Gun violence. And then she had to pretend like she had been shot in the head on a photo shoot. Like in.

Like after she told Tyra. Yeah. And there were several times where like there was this one woman who claimed, uh, who didn't claim like there was this one woman who was like, hey, the sex that I had on screen that ruined my relationship and my life was actually sexual assault because I was blacked out. And the producers didn't stop it. And then she, a few years later, had gone on Tyra's show and specifically was like, I haven't watched the scene.

I don't want to see it. And then as soon as the cameras hit on Tyra's show, Tyra put up the scene and was like, so what did you think about that? Like, she's a fucking psycho. She's crazy. And now all she cares about is ice cream. And I'm like, what is she putting in the ice cream? Right. What is she doing?

Which she has like a new brand of ice cream? She lives in Australia and she like is in ice cream. And she, there's literally a clip of Tyber Banks being like what I, I feel like my work as a model in the 90s, you know, stands on its own as its own like iconic whatever. But my real, my real lasting like legendary thing will be ice cream.

This is insane. Oh my God. It's called. Smy's and Dream. And Justin said one of the former top models had started an ice cream brand before Tyra. That's also too. Also, Tyra would never let them eat ice cream on the fucking set.

Yeah, yeah. That's wild. Yeah, I feel like she feels like she owns anything that anyone who was on that show did. She's like, that's mine. I'm surprised she wasn't like going to sue people for saying, like, we were rooting for you.

We were all rooting for you. Because that was like a one clip of the thing I saw where like that model was like, Like, she was fucking with me the entire time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, so she, she, I don't think she's like the type to sue. She's not like Disney or the Kardashians. She's like the type to want more people talking about her.

So she like will take from other people and she'll put shit out there just to like get more screen. Like she wants more people to like say that and do that because it puts her in their mind's eye. She's so weird She's so insane Yeah modeling Man it's like it's as if it's As fucked up as it's always seemed and sounded

Right No one is talking about Naomi Campbell's involvement with Epstein With Epstein Yeah like all over the place All over the Epstein files There's so many people like that There's a lot There's a lot

There's a lot A lot of white men to get to first Yeah let's go with them You're right Yeah I'm surprised they haven't And I'm surprised they're right. Has it been like, well, what about Naomi Campbell?

Right. I think she knows too much. Yeah. She's like, really? They don't want to go down that path. She's like, given how terrible I've been, I'm technically a white man now. And she's like, and I learned how y'all move. So I have things.

Yeah. She's at Bohemian Grove. She's like. Yeah, right. She's know where the bodies are buried at Bohemian Grove. Yeah, exactly. Her and Harlan Crow and Clarence Thomas, like, all hanging out in the summer. are you like, this is what you fuck with now?

Yeah. Paul, what's something you think is underrated? Okay, something, oh my gosh, why do I always blank out as soon as you ask me, but I have it written down? It's okay. Have you been a neurologist? Oh, have I? No, I keep forgetting. Underrated farmers markets, I'm all about it.

We're recording everything except for our neighbors. And so let's do it. Also, I'm obsessed with free samples and all the peaches always taste delicious. Yeah, dude, I love. of a Farmar fruit sample. So good. It's like the time I only eat like I'm, so used to eating like four fruits that whenever someone's like,

hey, you want this like loquot? Have you heard of this novel fruit of a mango and a pomegranate? And you're like, mango. Yeah. What is mango? Mango. Pomegranate? No, I've not heard of this.

Is that a type of stone pomegranate? Yeah. Is that a lufa? For your feet. Is that a French potato rock? Pomegrenet? No? Okay.

Okay. Yeah, I love a farmer's market sample. It's good. Yeah. It's also like there, I know some comedians who work at farmers market, so they're just giving me free shit. Which ones? Which samples?

They give me bread. Bread is the best. Bread is like a staple. Which bakery? I don't even remember the name of a bakery. I just always go there and I'm like, hey guys. and they're like, here's our leftover everything. Thank you.

And that's my issue. Farmers markets need to work on their branding. We can't even remember what your, the name of your bakery is. Get a better logo, asshole. That's another rated, underrated thing. Yeah, I call you the bread boys. Hello, bread boys.

Yeah. I'm going to come into farmers markets and really up their capitalism game. Right. You're like madmending the farmer's market. They're like a grandma who only speaks Spanish. You're just like, lady.

We're going to lean into this. We're going to lean into this. That's another underrated thing is looking up at the stall signs. Abuela. We're going to call it abuelas. Abuela Fiesta Hut. How's that out? Abelahas Fiesta Tortilla factory.

You come out every time anyone buys something and you sing happy birthday. And you got sparklers going or Felice Cumpliangios or whatever the fuck you call it. You got sparklers going. It doesn't need to be their birthday. We're going to have to recast you. Yeah. We need a more convincing abuela. Yeah, yeah.

I just wish she was younger. Yeah. You got a granddaughter? I do. Let's bring her in. Can we swap her out real quick? Yeah. Let's look at this.

Yeah, yeah, I like this. I like this. There we go. What is something you think is overrated? Emotional intelligence. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done.

Give me an example where you're done. I don't want to learn more about where my trauma comes from or how to heal it. It's a lot of work and I'm very tired. I was a lot happier when I was undercooked. You know what I mean? When I was half baked. Yeah. It was somebody else's problem.

I'm so surprising. It's an adventure when you're underbaked. You don't know how you're going to feel that day. Or why? I don't know what's going to break, you know? It was more exciting then when I had these random bouts of like, what the fuck? Alcohol as a crutch. Oh, man, yeah.

Those were the days, huh? Yeah. I'm like so the other way. I, like, when I go to therapy, I'm fucking getting so deep where my therapist's like, okay, like, we can spread this out over a few. I'm like, no, man. Getting there, rip it out. Yeah.

Well, also, too, like realizing. the components that make us who we are, like in terms of like these strategies, we've had to like develop emotionally from childhood, like your dark shit that we carry with us into adulthood. And you've relied on that habit so much you think it's a part of you. And when you realize it doesn't work, you're like, oh, that part of me is fucked up.

And rather than being like, no, that's actually like an old weapon that I used to wield emotionally that no longer is in use. but still takes up a lot of real estate in my brain, and I just have to realize, okay, thank you for that. I'm going to put you this way. Shout out to the book, no bad parts.

Shout out to my therapist for recommending it. Oh, are you doing like the parts therapy, the relational? Well, I mean, no, not really, but my therapist is like, you should check out the book because a lot of times I'm like, I don't know why the fuck

I'm always thinking about this other thing. You know what I mean? Especially as a parent now, I'm like, I don't know what I'm so obsessed with my death. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It's because I don't know. I mean, I'm obsessed with your death, too.

I know that. I know. I'm like your side show, Bob. My passion. Well, it's funny. It's very specific. Yeah. I'm here to work on some stuff.

Yeah. Yeah. And shout out to the many therapists that are Zite gang who are like, love that you mentioned that on the show. And I was like, thank you, health, mental health professional. I'm on my own journey, too. But I think it is a really useful way to look at ourselves because we tend to just, we don't realize the compartmentalization that's happening and also that like certain things are not us either. Like there are these skills that we've developed, good or bad, that are just being like, yeah,

let's retire that. Like rather than thinking like, this is who I am and I got to excise it from my soul. Yeah. There's also, there's, there's like a part that I'm like working through now where I'm like, once you view yourself as like your inner child and that like you have all these things that you're coping with or you like understand and then you start to have more empathy towards yourself and then you have more empathy towards others, it hurts worse when other people don't view you as that child or themselves. Like they, they're still punishing that child. Do you know what I mean? Oh, sure, sure, sure. And I'm like, guys, I figured it out now. We could all just be nice. Yeah, yeah. And they're like, no, dude. This is how I see it. And you're like, oh, my child hurts

again. Yeah. But you're like aware of it as it's happening. Sure, sure, sure. I'm like, no. just I need to start doing drugs or something. I need to turn that off, please. Drugs. Why are you yelling drugs? I'm pointing at your mouth. Drugs, drugs right here. At your tongue.

On here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like I got the biggest thing that's helped me is just like not being furious at myself when I, when I do something wrong. You know, just like having a normal sense of, you know, being. normal to one cell,

like the way you would to another person. Yeah, she may. Kinder. Truly like saying, like I've said this on the show too. Like I've had to develop a practice where you have like those moments like, what the fuck was I thinking? Why did I fucking idiot? You have to really go.

You have to really go. That's the thing that happens to people. Oh, okay. All right. You have to like, you're literally be like, hold on, bro. Like, I forgive myself. Yeah. Like, I forgive you.

Now move the fuck on. Like don't. Yeah. This used to help when you were like learning how to play basketball. ball and you felt that was a motive. Yeah. And even then I'm like, I can't go left. Unless you're like Michael Jordan, like you don't really need to be that hard.

Right, right, right, right. Yeah. And even he's having second thoughts, maybe not. But anyway. I think every time he missed a basket, he was like, and I took that personally. Yeah, yeah, exactly. He stabbed the basketball. He's looking at the basketball.

You fucked me. You faked me. You faked me. You look like an asshole. Hold on. Let me take this fucker out back real quick. Tighten them up. And you're like, he's shot the basketball with a shotgun.

Or as Tyra says, realize, realize, real smile. Ah. If you think about it. If you think about it, it doesn't really make sense. And that's why I won't, because I need it to make sense. Let's take a quick break. And we're going to come back and talk about something that's going to make us all very sad and punch the monkey. We don't have to spend that much time on it, but to save people from having to watch all

videos, we can just tell you what it is. I can't. I'll do it if I describe the video, I'm going to get upset. Yeah. Anyways, we'll be back. Hi, this is Joe Winterstein, host of the Spirit Daughter podcast, where we talk about astrology, natal charts, and how to step

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and I find a lot of people with strong placements in Aquarius are misunderstood. A son and Venus and Aquarius in her seventh house spark her unconventional approach to partnership. He really has taught me to embrace people sleeping in different rooms on different houses and different places, but just an embracing of the isness of it all. If you're navigating your own transformation

or just want to chart-side view into how a leading artist integrates astrology, creativity, and real life, this episode is a must listen. Listen to the Spirit Daughter podcast starting on February 24th on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your podcast. China's Ministry of State Security is one of the most mysterious and powerful spy agencies in the world. But in 2017, the FBI got inside. This is Special Agent Regal, Special Agent. Bradley Hull.

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

and how one man's ambition and mistakes opened its fault of secrets. Listen to the Sixth Bureau on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. In 2023, a story gripped the UK, evoking horror and disbelief. The nurse who should have been in charge of caring for tiny babies is now the most prolific child killer in modern British history.

Everyone thought they knew how it ended. A verdict? A villain. A nurse named Lucy Letby. Lucy Letby has been found guilty. But what if we didn't get the whole story? The moment you look at the whole picture, the case collapses. I'm Amanda Knox, and in the new podcast, doubt the case of Lucy Letby,

we follow the evidence and hear from the people that lived in. To ask what really happened when the world, decided who Lucy Lettby was. No voicing of any skepticism or doubt. It'll cause so much harm at every single level of the British establishment of this is wrong. Listen to Doubt, the case of Lucy Lettby on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,

or wherever you get your podcasts. What if mind control is real? If you could control the behavior of anybody around you, what kind of life would you have? Can you hypnotically persuade someone to buy a car? If you look at your car, you're going to become overwhelmed with such good feelings. Can you hypnotize someone into sleeping with you? I gave her some suggestions to be sexually aroused.

Can you get someone to join your cult? NLP was used on me to access my subconscious. NLP, aka neurolinguistic programming, is a blend of hypnosis, linguistics, and psychology. Fans say it's like finally getting a user manual for your brain. It's about engineering consciousness. Mind games is the story of NLP. It's crazy cast of disciples and the fake doctor who invented it at a new age commune and sold it to guys in suits. He stood trial for murder and got acquitted.

The biggest mind game of all, NLP might actually work. This is wild. Listen to Mind Games on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back and punch the monkey. the far less fun viral sequel to the 100 men versus one gorilla it's

you know another viral primate story and I like how it is the tone oh my God I mean I'm sure people everyone has probably seen this video

or not everyone there's just a video of this young how you say is my Macacaque. Macac. Macac. Macac. The people from Chicago say it.

McCank. Hey, macaque. That's some good monkey. Like there's a, the zoo in Japan, the Ichawa Zoo. And this little, the first video I saw is this little monkey being chased around by a big older monkey getting dragged around and like just roughed up. And the monkey's so scared. It runs away and it grabs this little plushy, monkey doll and is like holding it trying to just like soothe itself after being roughed up by

these big mean bully ass monkeys and that was sort of like the beginning and then many other clips came out like there was I saw the other clip where like another monkey was like being like nice and I was like oh thank God oh we're good here so and then another video comes out and it got worse they were like hey you know that video that made you extremely sad seeing the monkey get roughed up and then like run away and take solace in an IKEA plushy. Yeah. Well, that

actually has a deeply sad philosophical backstory where his mom just rejected him. Yeah. Because they think it was possibly because he was born during a heat wave. And sometimes when the mother's body is

like under too much stress, they'll just kind of reject it to save themselves. And because the baby seems like sick or something. This is what climate change has caused. Punch the monkey. Yeah. And so they gave him a IKEA monkey plushy to give him something to cling to because the monkeys need that.

They like need the hugging. They have to cling on to something. They need to hug something to build the strength. But that's also true for like, I used to volunteer in a children's hospital and like babies need touch so badly. Like babies have every of every. species need, like, you know, touch and stuff. It's so important for their development, that connection. Yes. That maternal connection. Yeah. But that is too upsetting for people to see babies and children be abandoned. So they're just like, well, I'd rather not look at footage of

Palestine. Well, clearly, this monkey is spiritually Israeli so I can empathize with it. Let this serve as a lightning rod for my emotions that I can't pour. this white monkey, clearly. Just for me, if that monkey wasn't Japanese, I wouldn't give a shit. I'm just going to keep it real. That's true. Miles has said some awful shit about

Indian elephants. Just say you can't trust them. Sometimes they go on a rampage. And I'll never bring it. Base fuckers are out of control. Apparently, they can sense shit through the ground, their feet. That's like the most most fascinating thing about elephants.

It's like how receptive their feet are to vibrations. Anyway, the thing though that was interesting to read, though, is that like, despite that they're like, this monkey would be, like, the shit that the other monkeys are doing to this monkey would happen with or without the mother being there. Yeah, it's just normal socialization. Yeah. You ever watch kids on a playground between the age of like six and nine? Yeah. Yeah. It's like one primatologist in this Guardian article is like saying it's like because they're like these strict like matrilineal hierarchies, there are like there are families that rank higher.

than others and because of that like you're just going to be the subject of this kind of like rough housing and they're saying like so like even with the mom there it wasn't going to happen but i think there's just something that it probably immediate it's like the same reason why like bambi fucks up a bunch of people when they watch it it's like this idea of like you're a baby and you're all alone yeah and that's like that feels like some stephen king shit i know we're talking like in the stephen king icon iconograph episode talk about how like he can come on the way that's next mondays and it's a lot of on. Check it. Wait, I'm, like, definitely going to listen to that because I've been reading a lot of Stephen King lately. Yeah. Check it out. Like, it feels like he can touch on these things that are bright, like, yeah, man, people don't want to be abandoned.

You know what I mean? And I think that's like things, fears that we all, like, learn to get out of our head, you know, like, tune out so that we can just, like, get through our day to day lives. And he will, like, tap into, like, how dangerous cars are to children is like a crazy thing that if you, like, if you can't. into our society without any of the conditioning that we usually give people and be like, yeah, so we have, like, kids walking around who, like, aren't really able to stay out of the street. And then we have cars driving by 60 miles per hour, like, right next to them. Bill Ford, Tuss. Yeah, yeah. And we just kind of choose to ignore that.

Sometimes the kids get hit and killed. And he's like, I'm going to write a whole book about that fear. That's very scary thing. But, yeah, I feel like this is also tapping into that, like, tapping into. a thing that it's just like, yeah, there's this parental bond thing. And if it isn't there because of like a war or because just something is off. No, Jack, that's different if you're orphaned by war. This monkey at the zoo only has an IKEA doll. That's right. That's what I was saying before the show, I'm like, that phenomenon of how you're like people's empathy

circuits just get fried out. Yeah. Looking at an animal versus like a human being. When you're like, you know what? You know, like, because I'm sure you're going, what if I was that little monkey or like, what if that was a baby? And I'm like, well, there are actual literal babies out there that have been orphaned who are looking around.

White babies, never white babies. And even then, I'm sure a lot of times you're like, it's easier for me to just focus on these animals. But yeah, there is something. I think it's because there's an aspect of like, I can control. animals more than I can control people. So like when they grow up and they have autonomy, there is some

like, we will have disagreements or I won't approve of something or whatever. But if it's a monkey, and it grows up, I can still love that monkey because it's not going to say or do anything that's like too out of line with what I want to control. Yeah. I mean, there's a couple of things that make me feel good on the other side. A, it was a primatologist

saying like, this is normal. Like, I know it just looks sad as fuck. But this shit happens. And then the other part they're like, this dude is going to be like a full-grown monkey in like three and a half years. Yeah. So. And then they're not going to get a shoe.

And then they'll just throw you out like Moodyng. Yeah. Yeah. What's up with Moodyng right now? How's Moody? Just Moody. And like, everybody's mad because Moodying was a Trump voter. But it was really a Trump predictor.

And then as soon as that happened, Moodying like got canceled. And now they don't care about Moodying. And Moodyng has officially come out and said, I didn't vote for this on a number of a candidate. which, you know, I thought the guardrails of the Constitution would hold. Would you think was going to happen, Moodang? One of the number one questions on Google, the first question is, did

Moodyng pass away? And it's like, no, she's fine. People just dropped her out of the zeit guys. It's also one of those things, too, where it's like, it also, that thing where it's like, sometimes the thing gets like old looking and people also go, nah, nah, don't like you no more. This thing looks like a here, McCauley Calkin. Yeah, this shit looks like a frigging. hippo now. Fuck that. Yeah.

Fucking weird. There is a recent, um, article, oh, that's New York Post, never mind. But they were talking about like mootings living conditions. And that's also something that came up with Punch the Monkey is that they didn't have enough like foliage and stuff in that little area. So I'm like, I don't know. Like, I remember when, when this happened or did you see that video of like the dog that was like teaching the other dogs to subdue in like this yard?

Like there would be. there was like these these viral posts of like dogs fighting and then a third dog would come up and just be like stop it and then they would like submit and like on some level you're like is the person behind the camera like starting dog fights to get this because once one thing goes viral yeah they like they're like keep going yeah so so like that's another thing is like people are concerned about the conditions and like just the area and everything but you also don't want people to interfere too much you know Yeah, yeah, because another thing, because I saw like a lot of memes or like I saw this woman. It's like, had like this costume she was putting on. She's like, I'm on my way to go be Punch's mother and beat the shit out of the mother monkeys. I was like, totally good. I get that feeling. And then the primatologist is like, first of all, the last thing punch needs is to not be around other monkeys.

Yeah. That's just like it ain't, this isn't a Disney movie. But that's like what humans think they're like, I'm not going to like solve the animal problem. I'm just going to put myself in the story. Like that's what Andrew Tate and like his, they wanted to like, I'm like, they're going to sex traffic this monkey for sure if they take this monkey.

Oh, is they getting involved? They talked. There was a tweet and I like, quote tweet. I was like, they're going to try and sex traffic this monkey because I wanted to like buy the monkey for like $250,000 or something.

I don't know. It was crazy. And I'm like, I'm sure they know what to do with them. Yeah. I know. But that's like what happened in Palestine too. People were like,

oh, the babies are orphaned. Can I adopt? And it's like, stop funding the fucking, stop killing their parents. You know? There's ways to solve this problem where you don't get to be the hero. That parent's going to get killed one way or another. So I guess, yeah, we're going to come in there and scoop up. Parent has a bit of baby for at least like 20-something years.

Yeah, actually not that many. That would be a while if fucking Andrew Tate got punch and then punch became a full grown thing. Because like even I'm reading, they can be, like, their strength can be pretty fucking wicked. The monkeys are very strong and very, very smart. Yeah. And so, so don't be mad at us for, don't,

don't yell at us because I know there's a big. Technically, Punch is actually just a little tiny baby. And that's the technical description. Yes, that's right. But he's also a monkey. There's another thing I was reading too is like, they do a lot of testing on these monkeys too.

Yes, they are the ones that get tested on the most. It's one of those things is like, you get, it's like not even like you're zooming out. you're zooming in more and you're like, oh, God, no, God. Climate change. Jesus Christ. I mean, I knew this from being in science and working on like neural probes because like that's what they test. I didn't do it.

But like I knew that they just doing your job, huh? Just do them. I was just taking orders. Following orders. All right. Just following orders. And then we just have to take the IKEA doll away from them. And measure the stress response.

Yeah. No, but that's like they have before they have any medical. devices come out like you the protocols are like you have to test on like cells and then you have to test on like mice or rats and you have to test on non-human primates and then you have to do clinical like it goes and macaques

are like one of the I don't know if they're the most common but like macaques I think chimps like like they have testing on all these different animals and I don't know what they would do otherwise. Because they're the smartest. It's like the thing that you would think would be like oh well that should prevent

us from. They're like no they're the most like us and so therefore we can really fuck their whole shit up. Same with like, they even test stuff on like dogs and pigs and like it's just depending on how close the model is to like I heard they're even doing that to humans.

Yeah. Medical experiments. Yeah, but we don't give a shit about that. I'm talking about little monkeys. But this is a golden word we will. Yeah. Like, okay. But yeah, I don't know like, I definitely know people have like

standards of like how to do it humanely. there's protocols and stuff, but I'm also like, I've seen experiments where I'm like, this is kind of like a wasted area. Like, I don't know if I would use a monkey for this. Like, you know, right, right. Yeah. It's, it's fucked. That's why I kept, like, moving further and further away from like animal stuff throughout

my career. I was like, I can't. So I'm like, they're like, here, you love animals. Come here into this industry where we treat them like shit. Stick this in their brain. You're like, oh, fuck. All right. I'd rather just go to podcasting and try and kill a human.

that's right. Yeah. Over and over again. And in that way, Miles, you've really saved a lot of monkeys. Congratulations. I'm still doing animal testing. I am primates.

Primates. Yeah. Non-human? Primates. We'll leave it at that. We'll leave it at that. All right. Let's talk about tariffs, you guys.

FedEx is officially suing the U.S. government, presumably via legal papers that arrived, smushed after being carelessly shoved into the courthouse mailbox. But they have joined companies such as Costco, Revlon, and Bumblebee Foods, in filing lawsuits seeking refunds for tariffs that the Supreme Court recently declared to be illegal. The other companies had preemptively done it, they're like, oh, this is illegal, right?

We can get our lawsuits at the front of the line. But FedEx were the first one to do it. Costco did, right? Yeah, Costco did it preemptively. FedEx is the first to do it since the Supreme Court's ruling on the tariffs. People are pointing out how, and I do like that they're doing this, just, you know, give them hell FedEx. But they didn't pay those tariffs. And this is the thing that I think people, they probably need to get more clear in our reporting on tariffs or, you know, the mainstream media is reporting on tariffs.

All that money just went right down to us, to the consumers. They charged the recipient or the shipper. In the case of FedEx, FedEx and UPS's policy say that they try to collect custom fees from the recipient at delivery. But if the recipient doesn't pay, the shipper is responsible. So it's like one way or another, we're not paying that shit. But then they're coming through and being like, but we will sue for that extra money. Yeah. Oh, I love it.

I love it. It's so just. I mean, anytime, I remember I got like an arsenal shirt and like, I thought there weren't tariffs. And then like suddenly like they were like, hey, man, you got like, you like eight bucks. And I was like, what the fuck? And so like, you're like, oh, then I'm like, right, the tariffs and those costs end up coming out of somewhere. But the idea that we've all seen the cost of these things go up, that they, I'm really curious. Like, what exactly did they pay?

Were they absorbing some cost and then just not passing that along? The extra printing of the place where they describe how much tariffs you're being charged, how much you're extra you're being charged must have cost them some money. I don't know exactly how they're justifying it, but it does seem like refunds going to consumers would be maybe a perfect opportunity for a politician to step in and basically be like, hey, like once Trump is defeated. We're going to dismantle all the illegal

gains from all the companies that he propped up or like all the money that he stole from the country and, you know, issue a refund with all, you know, all the white-collar crime that has been going on. Not going to happen. Not going to happen. Not going to happen for 800,

Alex. I like that we're getting like a COVID paycheck but for just Trump. We're like, yeah, sorry about that. I think we should. Like, I think that would be good like I think anybody who is going to run for 2028 like I think it's going we're going to find that reparations for just the most popular thing will be first of all to like put uh you know prosecute Trump and like his administration as far as possible and also like try and you know take some of the money from the absolute robbery that they committed and like you run on this you're like bro I'm going to seize all

that money this motherfucker was stealing. And guess who's getting it? All to y'all, baby. I feel like the Democrats are going to be like, well, we did what Trump couldn't do. We finished the ballroom. And we're going to be like, what the fuck? They're like, it's awesome, dude.

And Lady Gaga is performing tonight. Come by. Well, you have to be invited or you have to donate at least. We'll do a live stream. It'll be so sick. Yeah, exactly. You're going to, you're going to love it. You're going to love it.

I just, yeah, the terror. are going to be like it's just it's still so complicated and like even like the EU's now like you just breached our agreement we signed like months ago yeah what the fuck are you supposed to do sure did so I don't know how long it sounds like it would take a very long time for these companies to get the money back but at the end of the day this was all just another dimension this all this all gave cover to companies to raise prices even more yeah and that's what they did and that's why you go to farmers markets that's right local.

There you go. They don't have my nutter butters, though. I wish they saw nutter butters at the farmer's working. I need to get more money to the Mondalez Corporation. Another Stephen King slang for fucking nutter butter. Nutter butters. They were going nutter butters on each other in the better. I was thinking they were like nutter butters like butters.

Oh. I like that too. Yeah. Yeah. Teach their own. Yeah, all the kids in It were nutter butters. Oh, my God. Yeah.

Sorry. Too much. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk about the Dean K. and Kevin Sorbo are in the using child labor to make a Disney rip-off movie phase of their career. And it looks good. I got to say, guys.

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I do. God damn it. It's like, I love that there's a post in the trailer. Okay, never mind. Well, they haven't started production on it yet because, and we'll get to why in a second. Oh, okay. But, you know, we all like to make fun of Kevin Sorbo and Dean. cane, but clearly they're doing pretty well since they're starring in the upcoming

Night at the Museum movie. Oh, wait, no, that's Night at the Museum of the Bible. We all know the phrase Museum of the Bible. You know what? Veggie Tales wasn't so bad. Yeah, I know. In retrospect, we'll allow it. That's how I learned about Nebidcanezer through a big cucumber on Veggie Tales. We had to watch so much Veggie Tales, I remember in school. I think veggie tails, I think it was too old for vegetables. We were too old when it came out and I was like, why are you subject? Like we're in sixth grade.

Where did that air? I have no idea. It was just like a Christian taste as they would play in my school. It's like God. It's everywhere, you know? I had a friend, like I once went over to a friend's house and like, you know,

second grade or something. And I just remember they had only like Christian media, you know, like they had like the, movies were all just like these like fake bootleg movies of like Christian shit and I was just like damn this feels so weird like this I never want to be back here again do you have jaws no but we have the tale of Jonah being swallowed by the whale and that's pretty that's something that was pretty cool did you guys recently get advertised that like David and Goliath I don't know if it was like a

series or something but it was like everywhere a film yeah it was a feature film that was released Yeah, but the advertising was like everywhere on my streaming services. It was just like, watch. Like, it just nonstop was like auto playing it. The AI is getting smart, Paula, they know you. They know I'm ready to convert. I'm ready to be saved. You're ready to come home.

You're ready to come home. I love that. It has made $84 million, the David movie. Oh, shit, really? Wow. Yeah, yeah. It's actually. They're better than Melania, huh?

I know, which I don't know. We're going to see. We're going to see what the money looks like after people watch it on Prime, I think. But anyways, this is their next one. They're like, yeah, oh, you thought David was good? Well, get ready until you see. So it's Dean K. and Kevin Sorbo, Lara Donaldson. Anyways, they have completely imitated the font, the poster style.

of Night at the Museum. Yeah. Everything looks like this is an official sequel tonight at the museum. Except there is like a group of inhuman-looking AI children in the background

who are seemingly the prompt was like, look, make these children look scared, which... Or maybe make these children look at the Ark of the Covenant. Yeah, they do... Faces are in different

stages of melting. These are actually just in the closet children, just terrible. of conversion camp right at the point. Dude, what a fucking wacky. Wow, okay. I think they look like they're just scared of the three adults in the film. That does appear to be what's happening.

They're like behind them. They're looking at them and they're like, oh, God. Is that really Dean Kane? He's really falling off. No, they're like, I don't know who these people are. Right. What was the AI prompt for these kids to show up? Because like, look, it's all AI.

this motherfucker got 19 fingers. Oh, yeah. That kid's got so many fingers. You know what I mean? Like Homegirl's hand is in permanent west side where her ring and middle finger have fused to one. Yeah, she does only have four fingers. That's how hard she goes. That's not like, well, because part of me is like, they're all God's children, Miles.

I know they are, but this is, this is some AI. I'm like, well, this is some AI face shit. Like, who are these people? Yeah. The one kid on the right looks like a like JFK autopsy photo. know, like his eye, like has something gone. Like, his eye has a... It's Carrie Russell and that

Mission Impossible when the thing goes off. Yeah. Their prompt was like, make white children. Now inbreed them. Yeah. That's right. Again. 15 generations.

Enhance. Enhance. Purify. Purify. Yeah. DFI. The museum of the Bible is actually a real-ish museum in Washington, D.C. Oh.

It's the $500 million dollar brain child of Hobby Lobby billionaire, Steve Green. And it features a Disney-style walk-through recreation of Nazareth. You're like, this is what it's like to be in Nazareth. A pile of blackened and charred Bibles. It's just that. Full-sized jail cell, which lets the visitors reflect on the biblical roots of the Western concept of justice. So you're saying that's good? Hold on a minute. Wait a second.

these people who are all for the prison industrial complex are like but Jesus shouldn't have been in this out. No, I think they're like this is good. No, they're just saying like the Bible is gives us the rules. The Bible says you should be we should put people in jail. So reflect on that. The Bif, the Bible gave us the Western concept of justice. Oh, did it? Hmm. I'm just thinking about what is it, Hamarabi. Hama rabbi's. That's the first one. Yeah. And, okay. Okay. I know. It's like,

no, it's based on the Bible. And they're savages and we're not. Yeah, yeah. And have you seen that Alabama documentary? Oh, not yet.

God. Yeah, I know I'm like prepping my brain for it. There's a whole section of the museum called, have you seen that Alabama document? Yeah. Trump has had removed. The museum is mostly famous for when it tried to do real museum stuff and have some parts of

the Dead Sea Scroll. it accidentally bought 16 expensive forgeries. Yes. Yeah, unfortunately. I'm back to, I'm loving it. I'm McDonald's in this bitch. So all of this bullshit is set to come to life in the upcoming movie, which is produced by J.C. films.

Is that Jesus Christ himself? Jesus Christ. And some people on social media have noticed that the movie is being made, this summer with the help of a bunch of unpaid children because it's all part of the company's teen film camp. Yeah, you can sign up. Do you guys want to sign up with me? Yeah, I think I...

You can go to the website and you can sign up and be part of the team and hear about this amazing opportunity. Shucks, Mr. Kane. I'm also a self-hating Japanese biracial. What's it like? I'm so confused about... I thought he was putting in the hours at ice. No, no.

Is he not... If he not in these streets? He couldn't pass the physical test, bro. Did he not actually pass it? I saw the video, but... He passed out trying to fucking open a door. Yeah. That is so funny.

He went up to a thing you're supposed to climb over and just like went under it. Yeah. Couldn't even do it for like the five minutes of Fox News clip. Do you think Christopher Reeve would tolerate this if he was alive?

Hell, I don't know. I don't know. I feel like no. I feel like he was pretty, pretty odd, right? He was chill. He was loved. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. This, I mean, like, what is this camp?

It says, he was Democrat. During the production of our exciting new feature film night at the Museum of the Bible, JC Film Studios thrilled to host a special teen film camp experience in Washington, D.C., right at the Museum of the Bible. Fewer ages 14 to 18 and love faith, film, creativity, and storytelling. This summer camp is for you, for the past. So every camper is cast and actively involved in a real faith-based film, learning, creating, and grow.

Okay. Do not. If a Christian asks me if I'm 14 to 18 years old, I'm going to run away. At this point? I'm going to say yes. A couple features of this opportunity. In addition to working on the movie in some vague capacity, every single camper will be enlisted to act in the film. How much are they being paid? The parents have to pay $1,600 per person. That is so funny. Also. Oh, hold on. They're, the, so. Not only is it child labor. It's, It's the pay us child labor. Yeah. It's a bringer. It's a bringer. Okay. That's right.

It's a bringer show. Yeah. Yeah. It is not all hard work. However, the camp schedule includes a whole hour of improv with Kevin Sorbo. No. Oh, no. Okay.

I have to get a wig and makeup. I'm 50 years old. The amount of accents they're going to do. Oh, my God. Oh, boy. Can I get a one word suggestion? Victor says this is a Nathan for you. you sketch for sure and a thousand percent.

I'm doing improv with Kevin noted improviser Kevin Sorboe. Wasn't he like just the guy who did Hercules? Yeah. That's it. He's I don't know him from anything else. He's navelint. I'm fucking pathetic, man. He's pathetic, man.

I got a little dick, man. I literally know. A spy piss himself. I literally know him from Hercules and then just being insane. online. Right, right, right. Yeah, exactly. With a real improviser piss himself. That's what he does when he goes up there and melts

down on stage. You said pineapple, right? We said banana, pineapple, pineapple, pineapple, I'm so fucking hungry. God damn it, I'll eat this fucking banana. What the fuck? This scene fucking sucks, dude. What are you doing?

Did you say pineapple? That sounds ethnic. Oh, shit. This mango stinks like dick. What the fuck? Where'd you get this shit? Okay, Kevin, maybe we could go with a different... Remember the rules of improv?

If we try and come out, we say where we are, who we are, and what the big day is, okay? That's what we want to do. The big day is the fucking purge and we're taking all the immigrants out of the country. What the fuck is this shit? Can't believe this Venezuelan brought this stinky. shit to my house. What the fuck? What is the what is this scene?

You sound like I think you should leave but Kevin Sorbo. What the fuck? What the fuck? It's definitely Mike from the chair company. It's like what podcast are you listening to? It's the Kevin Sorbo comedy bang bang improv podcast.

What the fuck. This shit sucks, you fucking idiot. Ah. Kevin, we don't push the children down. Yeah, Kevin, and let's allow for the other kids. It's called physical comedy. Kevin, when you tag out, you don't shove them by the face. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And don't say what the fuck was that? We're all hearing you in the taggamo. What the fuck was that? Watch this. Shut up. I got a fucking bomb. You're doing a gun hand. The bomb looks like a gun.

Shut up. We'll shove a grenade in you. It's a bomb gun. It's a gun bomb. What the fuck? All right, Mr. Sorbonlets. All right, kids. Yeah, you guys can just play with your iPads.

Yeah, yeah. There is a fee to connect to the Wi-Fi kids. It's another 40 bucks. That's right. Yeah, 40-bush. If you want the fast Wi-Fi. I'm also, in searching night at the museum of the whatever the fuck this is, there was also two years ago,

silent night at Museum of the Bible. Silent night at Museum of the Bible. Which was a music. They did the Christmas spin off of this. Yeah, this is a, so they're doing, I guess there was this musical and then they're like, oh, let's, oh, this is fucking good, bro. What the fuck? We need Kevin Sorbo in this. Merry Christmas from us and Museum of the Bible to you.

And happy, you. Yeah. Merry Christmas. Oh, so, okay, this makes sense. Museum of the Bible is always just. like, it's like saying at the Hollywood Bowl. Yeah. So this was like, silent night at Museum of the Bible.

Right. Right. So it's silent night. Everybody's wearing headphones listening to the Bible and all you hear is, what the fuck? Oh, what the fuck? Kevin Sorbo is going to improvise the book of Ezekiel for everyone. You're going to love it.

Well, Ezekiel saw the fucking wheel and it was like, what the fuck is this shit? Jobs. Is that guy named Job? Are the immigrants going to steal him? What the fuck? Kevin Sorbo Improv. Kevin Sorbo Improv is so fucking. It's such an amazing concept to even say that, look, we're having so much fun even with this dumb idea.

And this is going to be so much better. We have so many things for our guests to visit. We have Piven experience and now we have night at the museum film camp. I think we need to create day at the night of the museum. Like, we need our own version. Right. Yeah. Day of the night at the museum of the Bible.

Yeah. Oh, I'm just like watching a thing where people are like, Kevin Sorbo improvised this line. And you're like, because I was trying to see if there's anything with Kevin Sorbo doing improv. But the most I can find was just like him just saying going off script during Hercules. these things. And people were like, that was so good that he's like, crazy that he, very famous show for its amazing improvised comedy. So, uh, wait, they made a movie together in 2014. So this is like before Trump, Dean Kane and Kevin Sorbo made God's Not Dead a 2014 American Christian drama film.

Yeah. Yeah. It made $62 million. They're basically the Will Smith and Martin Lawrence of the Christian and film community, people are just like, how do we get these two back together? Yeah. They were like a Christian college student whose faith is challenged by an atheist philosophy professor Sorboe, who declares God a pre-scientific fiction.

That is so funny. There's one where he talks, there is an interview where he talks about some guy who passed away who I think worked on Hercules, and he's like, I went, I went down to Gestar in one of the roles, and Kevin and I,

wait, what the fuck? What the fuck? Oh, what the fuck? Oh, what the fuck? What the fuck? What the fuck? Fuck. He said, we went, we went out to dinner and then I went to his midnight improv show. He did a lot of sports theater or theater sports, as they call it.

Oh, a very funny guy, stand-up guy. It was like, whose line was it anyway, that type of show. And I went home and he was going to start a movie in China about two months later. That's when I heard about his passing. So he's, he saw one improv show probably. Uh-huh. And it was like, what the fuck? This shit's fucking cool, bro. And that guy died? Yeah, yeah. And that's what gives me the idea for his first.

That's the best fucking part. And so that's where he came across this idea of improv. Yeah, I think he was the guy who maybe created fucking Hercules or some shit. There's like the guy he was talking about. Who did the, he created her. What? Like the show? Yeah.

This is how the Christian. Oh, he was an actor. He was an actor. found out about improv was him just meeting this guy. That's why there's this lore. They're like, Kevin does this thing called Improve that we're just learning about in the Christian entertainment community. It's really wild. Yeah.

It's a little bit edgy. How did you find out about this crazy stuff? I was hanging with this guy who was a demon, it turns out. Yeah. He played the Greek God of War Ares in Hercules. Apparently that's who this actor was talking about was. that. Yeah, yeah. I love how this is just indicative of like where men and women are going in this country is like you have Kevin Sorbo and then like Lucy Lawless is like his like foil as like the

two people of that era who were huge in there like asina and Hercules and she's like pro-LGBQ. She's like a climate ambassador. She's like all of these more like left things. Right. And then you best fucking divorced ass dad energy, Kevin Sorbo. Right, right, right. Oh, well. I'm sure, like, being called Hercules for so many years probably did something to his pea brain. She was fucking Zina, but that's like how women take things.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, let me help. And Dean Cain's like, and I'm Superman. And like that's where they found like solace in each other's company because they're like these two failed not. Worst fucking heated rivalry episode ever. Oh, fuck Superman. Oh, what the fuck, Hercules?

You put it in my butt. What the fuck? What the fuck? Are you doing, Kane? What the fuck? How'd you know I like to be kissed to my ears like that? What the fuck, Superman?

Take a bite of this. Mango. It smells like shit. Shit. What the fuck? This is going to be one of those episodes. When my kids eventually discover this podcast, they're going to be like, hey,

I heard the Sorbo app. Oh, yeah, that was a good one. Good one, dad. Good one. You're like on your deathbed, you're like, what the fuck? What the fuck? What the fuck? This mango smells like shit, right, Tom?

They're like, I didn't know a lot about what my dad did for work, but now that he's passed, I feel like he would want me to say this at his funeral. Oh, what the fuck? This thing stinks like shit. I love you, dad. I love you, dad. You were a weird guy. Weird guy. Are you guys ever afraid that your kids will turn out like not funny at all?

Like, does that ever worry you? What do you mean? Both of my parents are not funny. So it's not like. No, but I mean like, like, like they don't like humor. Like that has a, I always am like, I don't want my kid to be like a bigot or just like the most boring person. Right. You say something funny and they're like, what do you mean?

They're like, you're embarrassing. I don't get it. Like, I mean, the embarrassing part's going to happen. Oh, yeah. Just the like, the like, I don't like that. Like, don't do that. I'm like so terrified of that happening. No, I'm not.

I think it's like anything like, I just want them to be happy. You know what I mean? Like fucking life's hard enough. That's true. And if they look, and if they're shitty at improv, that's fine. And they go, every scene ends with what the fuck this thing. That's kind of a flex. That might actually be worse.

Your kid becomes like that kind of improviser. And they're like, dude, come to my improv show, dad. I'm like, oh, cool. Yeah. Yeah. That would be my actual fear would be that they like improv too much. Like part of a bad improv team. Have you seen like that Broad City episode where she's like this model like guy,

he's so hot. And then she goes and sees his improv and she's like, oh, no. I have friends who that's happened. Yeah. Yeah. It's tough. Oh, I think most people have been on a, like, do you want to come to my improv graduation show as like a date? I've done that twice, like what else at college.

You've gone for somebody else? Gone for one time is for one was for someone. I was like dating. And the, it's just wild when you see shit like that. And you, like, when you're young, those are kinds of things you go. No, I'll never talk. I can't actually connect. I can't even see them after this.

I'm so. Right. Yeah. I can't weird it out because like. And humiliated for them. I, I feel like. like, like, I feel like dudes, like, I've seen so many guys bring their girlfriends or their dates to, like, open mics. And I'm like, the audacity for you to do that. I never see, like, women doing that, uh, comedy things. And then I also think that, like, I don't know. I feel like with, like, when guys do it, they have this, like expectation. But I, like, I feel like most guys would still, like, be with a girl that they didn't think is funny. Like, that's, like, the, like, the,

common thread, right? But for us, like, I would see like a hot dude at an open mic and I'd be like, and he opened his mouth and it blows my vagina. Goodbye. That'll be just about enough. Hey, where are you going, babe? Seth's not finished.

They haven't given me the late. I'm going to self-immolate in the parking lot. I'll be right back. The fuck was that. What the fuck was that shit? What the fuck? Your Seth stunk like shit. What the fuck?

$600 improv with Kevin's Dude, I have to... I know we're trying to get in trouble because we're like maybe... Like, gang. Oh, Blake, breaking news, right? I approached Blake to go to the Piven thing. Not the Pivot thing. Pivot thing.

Pivot. Blake Wexler. Pivot. Blake Wexler. Piven. I'm sorry. To go to Piven experience at the New Jersey, Philly border. And he already had tickets.

He's, no, he was, he said it was a very interesting thing. And maybe I shouldn't tell this, but he was like, he's like, I want to go. he's like, but also like it might be a bad look for me as a comic to go to his thing. Yeah. Like being the VIP, then come on a show and talk a bunch of shit. And I was like, and I said, Blake, I'm honored that you think people listen to this show to the point they do that. And he's like, to me, he was like, dude, I think you need to be a little less like dumb about it. People listen to the show and like comedians also do because you have comedians on all the time.

Yeah, yeah. And a lot of people like, the more I go. places and do show, like a lot of people who are tuned into comedy come to my shows and they're like, oh my God, you're on like, we're psychic. Like those are the most consistent people who attend my shows are. And pretty soon it'll be Piven, being like, guys, I love this stuff you guys are doing. I'm like, oh God, good thing we didn't do that. But maybe Jack.

To listen to all the episodes. I'm working my way back through. Jack, you got to have like a cousin like who lives out there, right? In Philadelphia. You got to have a young cousin or something. Be like, yo, we'll give you fucking. because I'll pay for the ticket, go in there. Just record a couple of voice notes, man.

Yeah, I don't know. See if they do improv. We'll have to figure that out. Otherwise, I'm going to have to take one of my nephews to D.C. to put them in this camp and be like, bro, go to FaceTime when the Impro. We're going to have to actually commit child abuse in order to get a reporter out there. I'm obsessed with what the fuck improv with Kevin Sorbo is. Hey, man.

Zips that. Oh, I thought you were naming it, what the fuck improv with Kevin Sorbo. What the fuck Improves with Kevin Sorbo? Sorbo. It's like yes and, but you're more like, what the fuck? And all you do is argue and deny the tenets of great improv. Paula Vee, such a pleasure, as always, having you on the Daily Zekegeist. Where can people find you, follow you, other than at improv with Kevin Sorboe?

Well, I'm definitely going to be there for sure. Where else? I'm at Paul L-E-N-A-B-B-I-G-U-N-A-L-N-A-L-N. everywhere. Second Street's comedy is this Saturday. It's this Saturday at the Elision at 8 p.m. We have an incredible lineup. And then also

facial recognition comedy and mermaid comedy hour with Valerie Tossi and Kadi Asad. We're doing a mashup with me, Zaza, Zara, those two from Mermaid Comedy Hour. And then we also have Sashir Zameda on March 9th at the Hollywood Improv

Main Room come through. So that's to be at 715 on March 9th. So come to that. Please. And then my improv graduation show is going to be. What if like all of that gang showed up and then I didn't graduate? They're like fail.

It's past failing. You have failed. Is there a work of media that you've been enjoying polyvue? Okay. Yes. I love, do you know Nettia Chora for? No. Oh my God. She's one of my favorite authors. She's Nigerian American. And she like incorporates like a lot of like Nigerian cultural things into her, her writing. This I think is her latest book. It's called Death of the Author. And so far it's great. And I love it. And she's she does like kind of like, I would kind of compare her like she does like kind of sometimes like magical surrealism, but like also some like sci-fi stuff. And like she kind of she kind of, she kind of

Weaves in like a myth, like Nigerian mythos and stuff into her writing. So like in this book, the main character is like a Nigerian-American person who lives in Chicago, but that person is like writing a book that's like sci-fi Nigerian robot stuff. So you get like parts of it in there. Anyways, I love her. She the best. Nice. I like that.

Such a high-brow recommendation. I know. I'm like, I need to read more. My brain is getting, I'm like, I just need to dive into a book for my mom. mental health. Books are good. Books are good. That is our official position on this podcast.

Backwards are. Toys are. That sounds like something Kevin's good. Books are good. Books are good. I believe books are good. What do you mean right now? I'll tell you one book that's good book.

There it is. There's only one good book in my book. And that is El Biblio. There you go. L. Biblioteca. Miles, where can people find you is there at work in media. You've been enjoying. Find me everywhere.

at Miles of Gray. Find me talking about 90-day fiancé on 420-day fiance. Find me talking about my favorite sport football. Fuddy. Bitter the old footie on Ain't It Fuddy. Shout out to everybody listening. Shout out to everybody subscribing. Shout out to everybody leaving a review. I appreciate it because this is a very, it's a passion project for me. And I get to do it with two very funny people, Chris Martin and Jamel Johnson. A work in media like his. I love them. Yeah, they're great. They're Oh, wait, are you saying the days you're sick? Uh-oh. You have other podcasts that I could be on.

Just saying. You're like, oh, yeah, I love the, I love the arsenal of hot spurs. When they kick that ball. Oh, boy. Oh, fuck, yeah. What the fuck? Get that ball. Kick this ball stinks like shit.

You guys see that. They're running around kicking that ball. like it stinks like shit. What was your favorite goal? Oh, that goal was, that was like, what the fuck when it went in?

So good. The show's so good. The goalie? It stinks like shit. I'll work at media. Like, this was maybe came out six days ago, but this woman,

Schmeda at Schmetta on Instagram is so fucking funny, dude. Does a lot of like music kind of based stuff. And just like, I'd imagine a comedian based on the other followers that she has. But this one, This track is called Sean Paul's synth player who insisted get busy has a spooky vibe. And if you know the sign, it's like, woman, get busy.

She's pretending to play the organ to it. With like the spookiest face. That's so funny. It's like Halloween music. Exactly. And it's like so, yeah, because that little part is very. Her face is very. Ooh.

It feels like she's like in the video. She's like an Adam's family character. Wait, her Instagram bio says 50% eyes, 50% T. True. So fucking funny. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Two fact. At Schmeda. Check that one. S-H-M-E-T-A. Schmeta. Let's see. I like to tweet from Neil Renick who said,

everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Send them a team's meeting link and finish them off. Just a little piece of advice for an assassin who I happened to know. And then HB tweeted, hasn't won a single one. Well, you can't win them all. Yeah.

I saw that too. I saw that and I was like, me with auditions. I was like, this is way too close to home when people are like, you know, it's just a numbers game. And I'm like, is that number zero? Is that the only number I know? You should use that as an opener Indies and not booking auditions. They say it's a number of games.

Is that number zero? Am I right? Anyways, here I am. What about me? Okay, Paula V. Ginalin, reading for the part of. Please just give me this fucking job. What the fuck? You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien, Blue Sky, Jack O.B.,

the number one. Instagram, Jack underscore O underscore Brian. You can find us on Twitter on Blue Sky at Daily Zekeyes. We're at the Daily Zykeyes on Instagram. You can go to the description of this episode wherever you're listening to it. And there at the bottom, you will find the footnotes.

Foot notes, which is where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode. We also link off to a song that we think you might enjoy. Hey, Miles, is there a song that you think that people might enjoy? Yeah, this is a track from a UK rapper named Brandon Nemhard. Sort of like Andrew Nemhart.

Right? Yeah. I was like, why's that name? I know, but Brandon Nemhart, N-E-M-B-H-A-R-D. The track is called Life.

And I really like the production, it sounds like 2002 Neptunes production, like Chad and Farrell up to their old tricks from that era. Like it has a very specific, the instrument has a very specific style that to me, as somebody was obsessed with the Neptunes, I'm like, they're doing the Neptunes with this one.

So check this one out. It's a fun track, Life by Brandon Nemhart. All right. We'll link off to that in the footnotes. The Daily Zykeyes is a production of IHartRadio for more podcasts from My Heart Radio. Visit the IHart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That is going to do it for us this morning. We're back this afternoon to tell you what is trending, and we will talk to y'all then.

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