The Daily Zeitgeist - The Purge But Horny, Donald Trump Jr: Charisma Void 05.01.26

Episode Date: May 1, 2026

In episode 2051, Jack and guest co-host Pallavi Gunalan are joined by the hosts of Soccer Moms, Holly Laurent & Katie Rich, to discuss… We Don’t Have To Imagine What A Terrible TV Host Donald Trump Jr. Would Be, “The Purge, But Horny” Is The Premise Of A New Rom-Com? Scientology Calls TikTok Speed Runs “Hate Crimes” and more! Michael Wolff Suggests Trump Team Floated a Don Jr. Outdoors Show as a Way for Warners to Curry Favor With White House Donald Trump Jr. guests hosts on 21st Century TV Donald Trump Jr. Once Hosted an Entire Season of His Own Unbelievably Dull TV Show Donald Trump Jr. hosting TechnoTutor The Purge but for sex? One Night Only might be the year’s strangest romcom ‘One Night Only’ Trailer: Callum Turner and Monica Barbaro Charm Their Way Through a Rom-Com Twist on ‘The Purge’ One Night Only | Official Trailer The world is a horny, repressed nightmare in One Night Only trailer Callum Turner and Monica Barbaro have One Night Only to get it on in a world where premarital sex is illegal Scientology speedrunning The Guy Who Started the ‘Scientology Run’ TikTok Trend Says It’s Time to Stop Jesus is taking over Scientology building Three Scientology buildings on Hollywood blvd have removed their door handles. 'Speed running’ Scientology: TikTok trend causes havoc, church alleges ‘hate crimes’ Scientology Spied on Leader’s Father, Police Report Says CHURCH IN CYBERSPACE LISTEN: Awoken by Arlo & Sirius by The Allen Parsons ProjectSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Thank you for having us. Thank you guys so much for doing it. We're so excited. Holly and I matched backgrounds on purpose. Always. We wanted to be middle-aged gray together. Millennial gray. Yeah, millennial gray together.

Everything's like, they're like, you do the millennial, you know, pause before speaking. I'm like, how that's everybody, isn't it? Yeah. I don't think that that's anything. or the Gen Z stare. I'm like, I don't think that's a thing. I'm going to give myself a better background. Whoa, look at that.

Wait, that's better. What are we looking at? I'm sure. I need a better background. Oh, oh. How do you feel about this, Katie? The matching background, it's changing. What do we?

I feel betrayed. I feel so. Now she's got a millennial mob situation happening and I don't appreciate it. Whatever it is, it's fucking millennial. I'll tell you what. The millennial urge to change backgrounds. I'm under such bad light. I figured I'm under such bad lighting.

I might as well give myself a pop. Well, I'm furious. It looks great. It does look good. It really does look good. That's better. I don't know if I can continue this podcast. That looks so good.

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Take it from the top. We are not doing it live. Still one of my favorite flipouts of all time. Same. My name is Jack O'Brien, A.K. Reading ads for the spam. I feel the tremble in my pants. Big Dog getting hungry.

That one courtesy of First Blood 522 on the Discord in reference to our uncomfortably horny spam ad. Everybody was like, wait, why? We did it. We did a spam ad. Totally forgot about it. Didn't think we were being abnormally horny, and then the ad started running, and everyone was like, what? Could you, could you fucking stop?

Why do you sound so horny for the spam? I don't know. It was just something that was coming through my body at the time. Honey for the spam. That's right. Anyways, I'm thrilled to be joined in our second seat by a hilarious stand-up comedian, writer, actor, improviser. You can see her at the Netflix is a joke comedy festival.

I think people, I think Netflix needs to be nicer to itself. Don't talk about my friend that way Netflix. One of our favorite and most common podcast guest co-hosts because she's not above Poisoning Miles. It's Polonium, Pallaby Gunale! Don't stop newsin. Hold on to that podcast, zeit gang, people love. Wow, aggressive.

I love it. You nailed it. Like going for... My singing is aggressive. No, your singing is I love the ambition of going for that very specific... Part of the song. Yeah, sometimes our listeners will write an A.K.A. for me. And I'm just like, guys, you've heard me try to sing.

Like, this is not something that I can pull up. You nailed it. You nailed it. You nailed it. You know. But it was wonderful. Thank you, Pallavi, for being here. And Pallavi, we...

We are thrilled, blessed even to be joined. Anointed. Anointed in our third and fourth seats by two hilarious improvisers. We've been performing together for years. They're new, fully improvised, truly hilarious comedy podcast, soccer moms. A real treat. They just had an amazing philosophical conversation in character about the spiritual dysfunction caused by the Fave Reds Starburst,

which I can't recommend enough. I think it's the most recent episode. You can check it out now on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network, which is just everywhere podcasts, are given away for free. Welcome to the show, Holly Laurent and Katie Rich.

Thank you. If any of us, Holly should sing, I should not sing. I can't sing. And Holly is the voice of a freaking angel. I wish we could come out to the Bulls music, Katie. We should. The Alan Parsons project.

Yeah, that's what feels right. It does feel right. Should I take it from the top and be doing that the whole time? Can we know? I encourage listeners to perhaps put that on in the background. Mentally. Yes. Yes, exactly.

Turn out all the lights in your room. Just go pitch black. Pretend you're from North Carolina. Nothing was more electric. than those moments right before. Can I tell you something? My accent isn't as bad as it used to be. I've worked on this if you can believe it.

Someone's good. Thank you so much. Thank you for talking about your friend like that. But I will say that there have been times where to get myself pumped up, I will watch YouTube compilations of the Bulls intro from the 90s. That's brilliant.

And then like I can't sleep. It's like, it's truly like cocaine. It's, it's, so I encourage you all to, if you need to get pumped up. If you ever need to run a marathon, watch the last dance. Oh, yeah. Oh, my God. Yeah. And then take it personally.

And then you take it personally. Take everything personally. Two things that are true of my life is I, and I took that personally and fuck them kids. My two favorite Michael Jordan quotes. And Republicans buy shoes too. That's also what inspires me. Jack just shoved the kids out the door. Kick them out.

It's wonderful to have you both, and I do really, the Fave Reds conversation really hit home with me. Yeah. Your characters are talking about this new version, this new presentation of Starburst, because it's not even new flavors. It's just the same old flavors, but without the, that lemon, without orange. Is that it? Is that the only ones that got kicked out, lemon and orange? I think so, because the pink, the red, but now you can get up. pinks too. You can go out too. So yeah, they're just trying to load us up on what we love. The oombalberification of America. We eat pinks on Tuesdays, Tuesdays. Wednesdays. Yeah, I don't know. But the distillation of the conversation is that that's actually bad for us that we should suffer through the flavors that we don't like because we're denying ourselves of excitement when we see the flavors we like. The specialness of seeing. Oh, I have a read.

Something, something segregation. Well put, Paul. You're welcome. Pauli, Pauli co-hosts this show like an entertainment executive and is just like, you just joke that in later. Throw this in there, you know. Just improvise that in there later. Anyways, Holly and Katie, we're thrilled to have you here. We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment.

First, a couple of things that we may be talking about later on. We talked on yesterday's trending episode about Amazon wanting their latest scheme to bribe the Trump administration is to bring back the apprentice with Donald Trump Jr. as the host. Did you hate the first guy? Well, wait until you hate the second one. First of all, I say let them. I agree. Mel Robbins, let them, please. And also, we now have some evidence that writer jam went and found.

these clips from a time that they were trying out, they were like, what if Donald Trump Jr. had charisma? And so they tried him out as a TV host in the like early teens. And it's, it's wild. He is getting blown off the stage by people who've never been on camera before. Just about the lack of charisma is startling. So we might look at that. We might look at another Amazon.

It's an all Amazon act to. Oops, all Amazon. Upsal Amazon, which is the exact opposite of Oopsall Bairies. But they also have a plan where they're going to create a little podcast, an AI podcast, that summarizes the reviews on a product for you. Do you like serial but want to hear serial numbers? Right. To this AI, recite a series of numbers. We're just solving problems that don't exist.

Exactly. God, I wish I could hear robots talk about the research. views on this thing. You can read it. Looking, no, but my eyes, they get so tired from reading two words. Let's just let cancer go. Let's let it happen. You need robots to read a review.

That's right. About my gummy bears. That's right. There's a new rom-com called One Night Only that just dropped a trailer. It's kind of got a strange premise, whereas, like, it's a fairly straightforward rom-com in tone. But then they're like, oh, yes, but in this universe, you can only have sex one day a year. It's like The Purge, but for sex. It's very strange.

It seems like it has like a, it's not like a weird, you know, be like, or like it's not made by like Angel Studios or something. You know, it's a real movie that they were just like, what if this took place in the world of the purge for sex? Yes, but what I don't love is that it does feel like. there might be Chick-fil-A network vibes about it because it's it's premarital sex. Right. That's right. Which I love. Also, what I don't like is that some women could die from having premarital sex.

Like, what do you mean? This is in a world. Right. Yeah. That's a risk we always take. I know. It's very, it's very, it's very, the tone is very strange. So we might take a look at that trailer.

we might look at Scientology's reaction to the people running into the Scientology. It's so loving it. Doing Scientology runs. I'll have that plenty more. But first, Holly, Katie, we do like to ask our guests. What is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? My honest to God last search on my search history was Defined Trubidor. Oh, wait, that's so actually valid.

That was? Yeah. Oh my God. It's like a person, a place, you know, a thing. But that is so Holly. Holly is like the embodiment. Like her whole life, she's just like a walking, beautiful poem that like is inviting everyone to participate in life. And like the fact that she was like Googling troubadours, that couldn't be more Holly.

You already know Holly now. Katie, I got to kiss her on the mouth now. Okay. Sorry, we're going to do that. Okay, we're back. I was wanting to know if... Excuse me, Jack, why'd you cut away while we were kissing on the mat? Do you hate WLWs?

One night a year, he gets to look at... Yeah, sorry, I can't allow myself that. Women kissing down. Pre-marital sapphic kissing. Pre-marital sapphic kissing. But what I learned was it said something about, like, a poet, a musician, but what I was really looking for was is it intrinsic in the definition that they're traveling

because I'm currently nomadic. And I thought to be a troubadour kind of meant that you're a traveling artist or entertainer. But you don't have to be? When I looked up, I kept looking and it said nothing about, and I kept trying to get away from the AI generated answer because I didn't want to use two bottles of water. And so I put it in, defined Trubidor minus AI.

And it kept giving me the Gemini stuff and all that everything anyway. but it didn't say anything about travel. It just said poetry and music. It says on Wikipedia, the original AI, it does say that many did travel sojourning at one court and then another, but it's not necessarily a, it doesn't necessitate, necessitate that. Necessitate.

Necessitate. I like necessitate. Thank you. Thank you very much, because I also love that word sojourn. That's a beautiful word. I know. Look at it. Look at this fucking, the language.

on this podcast just stepped up to a level. What is this, a Mariah Carey song? Shakespeare. We're learning all sorts of words here. Shakespeare. Up next to whistletones. Trubidor, not inherently road dogs. That's, that's cool.

I like, I like Trubed. Bard is a bard? Oh, I love the word. I think a bard is like it's traveling. I think you have to add a, what was it? It's, what is the improv. what did it come from? It came from Comedy Del Arte, which is unemployed, unemployed traveling trust fund people, I guess.

Why did I look up Bard and Google Gemini came up? What? See? I hate this. It's so annoying. Oh, because Google Gemini is everywhere. Evil a day. Katie, how about you? What's something? Mine is not. Mine is also very indicative of me because mine was literally, how old is Craig Counsel, who is the manager of the Cubs.

And he's double nickels. He's 55. Double nickels. Double nickels. Because as you get older, if you're a sports person, you get devastated at the ages of people. Right. You also get devastated. And all these children playing our favorite games.

So I was like, oh, good. That's why LeBron has to play forever. Correct. Correct. For us. You have to keep making players to pass to. Yes. Yeah.

So I was happy. He's, he's 50. He's substantially older than me. Nice. Have you crossed the threshold yet where you've walked into a doctor's appointment and your doctor's younger than you? Yeah. That's a real doozy, man. That's a real doozy.

Have you ever had a therapist or psychiatrist who was younger than you? Oh, yeah. That's gnarly. But honestly, I feel like they're healthier than me. So, fam. How are you feeling today? Yeah. Kind of they aren't.

Don't worry about that guy. He's chopped, don't. calling me unk yeah yeah that's it's no good it's no good I'm still older than LeBron

that's how old I am which is such a bummer I didn't know that was possible damn that's not LeBron though has been playing basketball for 72 years

like that's the other thing it's like yeah so young he started so young yeah and honestly looks pretty bad he looked pretty good

Yeah. I look like the very first second after the guys see the Grail in Raiders of the Law Star. You know, like not more than like three or four frames in. I think you look like Jared Leto if I would let my daughter around him. Oh, wow. Like you look like a safe letto. If we were playing this game with me, I would be devastating. immediately

Jack is stronger than our soldiers and Jack just say you're older than Brani also true also true guys I need your help that's really true

you are older than Brony you're older than Brony but we all are I don't know I'm pretty young and beautiful that is true that is true yeah

what is something you guys think is underrated Katie you want to start us I do, and I have a very simple one that I think is going to be a nice gift for everyone. Cutting up your banana. Oh, that is good. If you're going to put a banana on a yogurt or a cereal or a situation, just take a few seconds. Cut that up with a knife and you are going to have a fancy, fancy day.

South Indian drunk food, yogurt rice and banana cut up on top. So good. Oh, so good. My best friend in junior high And then we went to college together too She was South Indian And her mother would always send us The greatest food to college

And it was always like And she would put like hot sauce on ice cream Oh that's wild Yeah And it was like I get it She was like I gotta taste something The salt and straw method Correct, correct

So I encourage you all to Take that moment to just cut up your banana And you will feel so fancy and you will save $12 for the, you know, cut up plate of food that you would have bought. It's also, yeah, it's an investment in your self-worth. You deserve a cut-up banana. Correct.

Yep. You just need a butter knife. It's my, like, butter knife. Butter knife. Butter knife. Butter knife. I hardly know her.

I wanted to give you the space to say that. I knew it was coming, and I just wanted to help you get it out. Jack, we know each other too well. I find ice cream without hot sauce on it too spicy. So I don't know what you guys are talking about. He has to actually add mayo to his ice cream. Just to cool it down a little bit.

It's a little too much for me. The skim milk is hot. I love sliced up banana on my cereal. That is one of my favorite little treats in the world. Please, I urge you all. The one thing that those cereal boxes were not lying about was, you know, the little sliced up. I feel like Cheerios maybe for a while.

The yellow Cheerios box had sliced up a banana on it at one point. Holly, how about you? What's something you think is underrated? Room temperature butter. Keeping it on the counter. Wow. So it spreads so easy and it melts so fast. I've started buttering both sides in my toast because, you know what, we're all going to die.

And the under part is where your tongue is. you know what I mean? Yes. Can I tell you something fucked up from my life? If you didn't, I'd be devastated.

Completely unrelated to that. I killed a man. I hit a guy on the way this recording. Yeah, it's fine. He jumped in front of the car. No. Anyway,

the apprentice reboot isn't happening because it was Todd Juner. Oh, man. I, okay, I take roles and sometimes I don't, this is so fucked up. Guys,

please don't think less of me. me. I think I'm going to love this. And then I don't cut them. I slather butter on the side and I just bite into it. And then I keep doing that in front of the bite. Because I don't fucking, I don't fucking slice it. I just take a whole roll,

slather butter on the side. On the outside. Add more butter. Chomp. Add more butter. Butter as you go. Hell yes. Butter as you go, baby. Yeah, absolutely.

Jack does seem like it. It just, I'm trying to figure out what bothers me about it. And I think it's the, I think it's the, fact that I'm worried the butter is going to fall off. It won't. It won't. Not if you do it right.

Then we're good here. Halleus and I were the same. Yeah. Surprise. Surprise. My grandmother would never refrigerate butter. That was not a thing that she had, she was like, no, you don't want. And milk is supposed to be raw.

Am I right? Guys. The eggs too. And so it's not supposed to be in the fridge either. So eggs that are actually like fresh from the bird. Yeah, real eggs are allowed to, yeah, you don't refrigerate them. I'm going to need to talk to people in my tropical places. Please don't listen to this podcast.

This is for white environments only. People in the tropical place have never heard of refrigerating eggs because they don't have to. There's like something weird. I think that's right, that there's something weird. that is done to eggs by like, you know, factories, egg factories that. Oh, you stop calling me that, Jack. I've asked you a million times. I am a woman.

You know what I mean. You know what I mean. You're broad. All right. Holly, what is something you think is overrated? Well, does everyone say this every time? Crude oil? I were kind of fans on this podcast.

I was going to guess in and out fries because that is what everyone says every time. Well, they're not wrong. In and out fries are, those are a conspiracy to make you think the burgers are better. They are the yellow starburst of In-N-Out burger. They really are.

They're there to just make you appreciate what is good at In-N-Out. She said crude oil. Crude oil. Like an oil. with a vulgar attitude. Yeah. Crip just sounds like rude.

Yeah, that's crude. Take your shoes off oil. When they named it. Or like the animation, the Cruz. Yeah, I want sunshine, man. That's free. And a clothes line.

I'm going, I'm going back to Little House on the Prairie, which is now coming out, a remake. Wait, what? Nice. Yeah. They're rebooting.

Okay, my theory is they're trying to tradwife us and this is how. Mm-hmm. These are your two options. Little House on the Prairie or sex one night a year. About the two genders. How much sex do they have on the prairie? That's my first question.

How much sex do they have one night? Too much. Also, that feels so painful. Well, it's also like, what if I don't want to have sex that day? Right. Yeah. Like, that's why I won't go to a really fancy. What if girls are on their fucking period?

You're definitely going to have your period that one day. Yes, of course. Everybody has their period that one day. Everybody. Oh, brother. These egg factories, am I right, fellas? No shit. Yeah, I think we can get on board with crude oil being overrated.

Yeah. Perhaps the most overrated thing in the history of humanity. Okay, good. Yeah. Yeah, I got, wow. Yeah. you're like, do you want me to answer this seriously? Because I'll give you the best answer in history of humanity.

Yeah, it's crude oil. What about you, Katie? It's going to be tough to follow that. There you go. I was going to say, Maslow's hierarchy of needs. It is completely overrated. There was no empirical study done on it. It is dated.

Talk about something that was made for white culture. Oh, yeah. that does not apply to collectivist cultures. And it also is not true. Your needs change. You can't just because something is met, you jump to the next thing. I think that this idea that we can reach a certain point and be authentic and be happy is what's killing us all.

And it is such a capitalistic way to look at life and existence. So I don't think it's actually his fault. I don't think it's Abraham Maslow's fault. I think people took it to mean something else. But I think we should, much like the food pyramid, abandon that one. Yeah, preach, baby. I agree because the top of my, like, hierarchy of needs is looks maxing. And so I agree with you that that is incorrect.

So underneath is like hammers. Yeah, it's like hammers. Some sort of weird meds that I should not be on. Kind of mean. Yeah. I don't even know the names of what they're doing. That's how fucking stupid I am. You're not stupid.

You have friends. Okay, boomer. You don't know what ketamine is. Fucking loser. I also feel like it allows you to be mean to people by being like, I was hungry. I didn't have my basic physiological need met. So obviously, I can't be a good person. But also it implies that if you don't have a home, then you won't, you can't make.

art or like, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. Right. Like, that's insane to say. So I, I think it's really overrated. You guys really brought it. That's a good one, babe. That's a good.

I mean, I can't compete with Halleys. Deeply true. Hally's is like why everything is wrong. Thoreau. Thoroughly. So I can't afford a plane ticket. Yeah. All right.

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Open your free iHeartRadio app. Search Learn the Hardway and listen now. And we're back. We're back. Baby, we're back. Any kind of fool can see. We are back. And it turns out we don't have to imagine what a bad TV host, Donald Trump Jr. would be because we have, there's some clips. from 21st century television. That was the name of a show that they went with. That is not great. He's hosting.

It feels like very infomercial vibe. It looks at 700 Club, too. It does have, yeah, yeah. There's like a religious twinge to it. Okay, I'm in. She's in on a Twitter. One me back. She's in a home.

701 club. I know, those guys are purve. So I just want to share with you a little bit of his charisma and how he's doing as a host. They keep calling him a guest host, but it seems like he's the only host of this particular show. So we're going to play it. And then I just want to get your honest reactions. No wrong answers, but we do hope that you're fans because we really think Donald Trump, Jr. could be a really incredible host.

okay, here we go. And just give him a chance. He's his first job. His chin has gotten smaller as he's gotten older. His chin has gotten gone away. His chin recedes like LeBron's early. From the grinding of his teeth. Or is he doing that thing where he hammers his face bones to restructure his

opposite of that? Yeah, it seems like he might have given Ivanka his chin bone because she has gotten more of a chance. as she's gotten older. Yeah, I think she's gone rife and he's gone left. He's gone syphilis. He's definitely gone syphilis.

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We have partners. Wow. I've already started a book in those two seconds of... That was the good take. Yeah. I've never been like, you know what? I'm glad he started doing cocaine. Because he needed something. He needed a boost.

That's his personality. This is clearly pre-cocaine. Yeah. From the energy that we're getting. He does, it's a bit of a catch-22 because he is one of the, like, he has a complete inability to hide when he's on cocaine. He's the most evidently on cocaine person I've seen, I think, in my life. Do you know people who can hide it? Because in my experience, it's a very hard drug to hide that you're on.

In your experience, Katie. And I, visually, visual experience of looking at people, not. his eyes like get real bloodshot and like kind of glassy, but then he's also like kind of grinding a little bit. Yeah, that's just me reading the news. It's not like a subtle drug. But after seeing that clip, I'm like, give him more. Give him cocaine.

He's way more fun with Coke. Give him whatever they gave Trump after he got COVID. Yeah, give him those shots, those like crazy shots where he was, oh, man. That clip honestly looks like if it was a high. high school mock, you know, television show. And he was the, like, you know, 15-year-old kid who, you know, he's like, trying really hard. You know, we would all be like, good job, buddy, good job. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And actually, that's why he does everything he does is so that someone who loves him will say, good job. Yeah. And it's never happened. And it's never going to have.

Never happening. And that the outcome of him taking over the apprentice would, of course, be the show bombing and his dad. And it's never going to be. And it's never going to be. And it. And it's never going to be. And it. And it's like ruthlessly mocking him for like failing. Yeah, we know that story of him like punching him in the face. They were going to go to a baseball game and he was like, put on a suit and punch him in the face. I don't know. Oh, like Donald Trump punched Jr. in the face so hard that he fell to the ground

because he had had he was going to wear a Yankees jersey to a Yankees game. And his dad smacked him to the ground and said put on a suit. Honestly, hilarious. That's hilarious. I do love that that happened to him. I mean, you can't deny that Donald Trump is so fun to watch. And yet every single one of his offspring is the biggest dud on the planet. Did you see that clip of him talking about the person in the Oval Office who he was like, he's a great listener.

Look at those ears. And the guy has fucking huge. massive years. And it's the head of like NASA. Yeah. And he just had to sit there and take it. They don't understand that like that's the only reason he has, like that we are where we are is his he's fun to watch and people are like, oh, this is fun. Like he, it's like watching, it's like a nation of bullies watching a bully like hold a nerd's head in the toilet, like over and over again.

And like, they're like, watch him tell this NASA guy's ears look like shit. And it is funny. It is funny. But it's not because he's like, if he should just have a show. He should, again,

like, he should just have a reality show. He should be a housewife. Yes, he should be in prison and have a camera. And I would watch every second of it. And it'd be great. I think we should just Truman show his prison. Like I know it's going to be very expensive.

Yes. I'm in my let them phase of do it. give Donald Trump Jr. this show, like, do whatever that's going to fail miserably and be a huge embarrassment for them. I think we need to put him in a Truman show where he still thinks he's president, Donald Trump, Sr., and just like let him, like, press buttons, but also, like, give him a show where he reviews theater and, you know, talks about the real housewives of New Jersey. It's like when you give a child a phone that doesn't work. Yeah.

To make them feel like they have a phone. But we would watch the shit out of the end. I'm in a different phase entirely that I cannot say in any recorded form. I will say this. I'm so, I just, they keep trying to make his kids happen and they're just not. And I'll never forget when he hosted Saturday Night Live, there was a sketch that, you know, there's cameos and sketches. And it's very like, Robert Loja. You know, it's very like, wow.

And he was like, I don't know, let's ask my daughter. And Ivanka came out and the whole audience. was like, it was truly like a please clap moment. And it was jarring to both of them because they were like, what? This should be,

this is like getting Michael Jordan to get, you know, like Elon Musk getting booed at the Chappelle show. Yes. Yeah. That I thought was unfair. I thought that was unfair. The people should have given him a chance.

I wanted to see where he was going with his material. It is him asking Grock to tell jokes, but it is. Five minutes. But is there any way that this is a good idea for him to bring back the apprentice because it'll get Trump's eye up and he'll be like, I got to take it over. And he has plenty of time to come take it over because he doesn't rebreeves. He has time in his schedule. He could be like, I'm stepping back in and I'm taking it over.

I'm going to hit my dumb son to the ground and take over. and take over what he can't do correctly. And then we get like Succession meets the apprentice. Yeah, I don't mind it. Also, speaking of Succession, I will say there was Carrie vibes in him if you've watched Succession. And when Carrie tries to host the news, Logan's girlfriend, spoiler. Yeah. Yeah.

Wait, that's so true. That was that kind of vibes. Yeah. It's also way, way, way, way, way worse than that. A great performer doing an amazing job of being a person who should not be hosting a TV show, like does not come close to this motherfucker actually trying to host a TV show. It's just like not being able to do it in any ways. So consensus is we want it?

So badly. Thumbs up. Like I wanted it before just because of the humiliation and because like it would involve, you know, Donald Trump humiliating his son and like yelling at, like yelling at him and we just nobody has ever like been more hateable than Donald Trump Jr. I feel like just on a

gut level. But now with Holly's pitch that like it also might have some practical applications for like what, for the future of the country and him just like being like, I don't know guys. I think I got to take it back. Yeah, that was more fun anyway. I got tons

of time. That's what's ruining our family name. That's right. Right. That's right. There was that, I think it was like as Trump was running for president the first time, they did try to bring the apprentice back with Arnold Schwarzenegger and it didn't do well. And Trump couldn't, like, he stopped his campaign just to talk shit about Arnold Schwarzenegger and like how bad it was doing. Just like he couldn't let it go. He's like, we need to do like, we need to do a reboot of Hum Alone too just for that scene and have somebody in it that he hates. Like put Obama in there See what he says Just recast everything he's been in Obama could They should have Obama host the apprentice

And then yes Would immediately like start Would take it back Yeah You'd just arrest him He would arrest everybody He cares more about Obama than his son Oh yeah yeah

But he like Hates his son At a deep deep level He's like the joker with Obama He like loves to hate to Yes Yes He needs him.

He needs him. Yes. Yeah. Right. He's secretly in love with, like, some of the people that he hates. But his son is not one of those. His son, he's just like, he's getting me nothing. He's total zero, total dud.

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We're back. We're back. And yeah. So the movie is called One Night Only. Mm-hmm. Starring Callum Turner and Monica Barbaro. Okay. Do we know who they?

Yeah. Absolute babes. I feel like they're famous, right? Like, they're people who would be in a... Dude, Callum is dating Duelipa. Yeah. Like, that's the energy that I'm getting. Yeah, this isn't just like a random,

This is like a real, a real movie. Yeah. And like everything about it seems like a real movie. Like the, they got one of the Please Don't Destroy, like one of the SNL cast members is just like a fun friend, the tall redheaded guy, just like pops in. He's in everything, Ben.

He's in everything. But like that's, you know, it's like that type of movie where you like, oh, the comedy guy right now shows up for like five seconds of the trailer. It's not like his movie or anything. Like it's that level of movie. and it's just like randomly halfway through the trailer they're just like on the one night a week

or the one day a year that you're allowed to have sex and just like breeze past it. That's just marriage. I was going to say I'm an Indian household. Right? Like I do, it is directed by, I think Will Gluck also wrote it and I know him and I do trust him. And I think that this will be weirder in a good way.

Right. Like they're not just going to yada yada past it the way the trailer does. I think this is going to be weird in a good way. And it's not Christian propaganda? It is not. But it seems like it is. But I wonder if they lean into that. But I do feel that, look, I want rom-coms to come back. And so I don't know. I trust the gluck. I trust the gluck. Okay. Good word. Do you think maybe the message is punishing people for premarital sex will be bad?

No. Couldn't be. No. Wait, I've never seen the purge. The purge is just like you can't One day a year you can do anything you want. Yeah. And so do people just take the whole year to

fortify their homes for the one day? You got it. Yeah, everybody is. So then is that what you do? You like get hot for like this one day to fuck people? I think well so like the day, in the trailer they are like she's watching.

down the street, everybody's, like, making out hardcore. And it's just, like, everybody's all over each other. And her and her friend are, like, we are going to be very intentional about this as we, like, go through this day. And then, like, five seconds later, her friend's like, hey, I'm leaving with this guy I met in line for the bathroom. So, yeah, that's, I think the dissonance that people are having with this is, like, it seems like a very, like, fun, straightforward rom-com that is written by, like,

funny people with like funny sensibilities. And then they kind of like address the thing, but they're not like, and this is fucked up, right? But like I think that's, it almost seems like now that I know that it's written by somebody that you trust. It feels like they're just like, how do you make a movie about fascism? And make it like a thing that people want to watch. And it just happened in the background.

Like EZA is a very sneaky. sneaky great movie. And so I don't know. I think there's probably another layer going on here. Yeah. That makes me want to watch it. And for any of those evangelicals or Christo-fascists out there, I just have to point out that if you never get married.

In attendance. I just, I would have to point out the obvious that if you never get married, then it wasn't premarital sex. Just don't get married, folks. Yeah. And then you're just having. You know what I mean?

That's crazy. Because marriage is overrated as well. What if it's just a hard fingering? Does that count? Oh, hard. Yeah, where do we stand on hard fingering? I figure you don't want a gentle fingering if you only get it once. Right.

Make it count. It's, you know. What is what counts as sex? I wonder how much. Is it just heterosex? Okay, Bill. What's the definition of is, you know? What's the definition of is?

definition of purge. What's the definition of troubadour? There's so many there's so many guys with like fedoras who are dying to answer that question for you. Oh my God. No kidding.

And what of them's my husband? I do wonder will we get a couple scenes in the Bureau of like pre-hert, you know? Yeah. Will there be police actions?

happening in the background as the day, as the time runs out. Well, there has to be a government reason for it, right? Like, isn't the purge actually, it benefits wealthy people somehow? Yeah, I think so. Or overpopulation or something? Yeah, so, like, this must have some, there must be some sort of nefarious reason. Yeah. Why this happened.

Yeah, like where Republican conventions, like, you know, then Grindr crashes. Right. Right. Right. Yeah, interesting. I am very, now that I know that it's made by smart people, he's a good guy, I don't know. I'll see it.

Also, I'll watch anything that guy does. I watched that stupid rowing movie he was in that I couldn't, it was terrible. It was like Green Book, but boats. Oh, the Boys in the Boat? God, did that suck? Did it? Oh. Woof.

Okay, good to me. I know, it was a good book. I got the boys in the boat. And because my husband actually was a rower. And he was like, this book is great and the movie was so bad. But he was the lead in it. And he was also in that one where they die and go to heaven. He's like the first husband.

And she has to. Oh, we never saw that. Yeah. With Miles Teller. Yeah. That was weird. It seems like they're just like, we got, we got to revive the. Eternity.

We got to revive the rom-com somehow. Let's go with like the biggest craziest. We don't. We don't need a high concept. Yeah. We don't need a high concept rom-com, I don't think. I think we can just, I like the simpleness of it of like, I'm in love with my brother's friend. Yeah, it's very comforting.

Yeah. We don't need all that. Or J-Lo's a maid. That is kind of high concept. It's very high concept. Although, like, the idea of being like, well, people, the, like, the sorts of people who need. to see it, aren't going to go out of their way to watch The Handmaid's Tale. But if you do a rom-com that takes place in the universe of The Handmaid's Tale,

like, maybe you get some people who are like, huh. The Handmaid's Tale is a rough watch game. I know. I couldn't do it. I could not do it. But what about all the cute couples that are, like, doing dating during that? That's a rough watch. It's torture porn.

Yeah. Yeah. But I have a hard time watching any, like, stressful birthing scene in like any movie. It feels like, trigger warning, it feels like, you know, when they like, when male directors or whatever, just like insert like rape scenes for no reason?

To give a female character or a backstory. Yeah. That's actually all of our origin stories. Some people get bit by spiders and women get raped. How does she get her superpowers? Exactly. Yep. How does she get her spite?

But yeah, it feels like that sometimes where there's a really traumatic birthing scene. I'm like, that is such a visceral, painful feeling. I'm just like, I don't, I can't. No, thank you. Bye. Yeah. Yeah. And it's not usually done well because if it's done correctly, it's more horrifying than I think anyone cares to admit.

Yeah. Yeah, there's usually a racist nurse. And, or if it's a period piece, racist midwife. And somebody's intestines are on the table and they shove them back in and it's just so, I don't know. Anyway, I will see this movie. I think that it'll be interesting. I want to see how they do it. Yeah, me too.

Seeing people back themselves into a corner from a writing standpoint. Yeah. And it feels like they wouldn't have backed themselves into that corner unless they had an idea of how to get out. Not the gluck. Not the gluck. Not the gluck. You fucking kidding me over here with this guy. All right.

Let's talk about Scientology. Oh, always. Let's move on to something fun. Sexy. Please. This is actually fun. There's a TikTok trend where people are running into Scientology centers and like seeing how deep they can make it.

And they have little gopros on their heads. I fucking love this. So they like see what it looks like in there. This is from one of the. comments on the Reddit posts that helped spawn the story. Somebody said, I love getting to see the interiors of a big secret place. Why do they have a fake old-timey newsstand and faux theater front? I can't wait to see more of these. That is what's kind of fun about these videos. It's like just going in there and you expect it's like a fucking volcano layer. And it's just like

they're making bad design decisions. And it's just a... It's just like abandoned corporate real estate in Clearwater, Florida. Right. Like it's not, you know what I mean? I love this. I love it. I would, I've wanted, I would love to do this in a Mormon church. I think we should, you know.

I'm in Utah. Get my girl pro. Really? Like, truly do it. Like, like, I think, I think, because like. We're not, I didn't get approved by the bishop, though. Is that going to be an issue? Oh, okay.

Then no, that don't do it. Definitely not. Yeah, yeah. I don't want to be against the rules. They're my elders. I'm running through. They're ripping clothes off of me. You just see the Mormon underwear.

They keep ripping. There's more layers. It's still there. So many layers. But both Scientologists and Mormons, they'll kill you, won't they? I mean, they've... Have you read that Sherlock Holmes mystery? Wait, really?

Yeah, one of the Sherlock Holmes stories... The first Sherlock Holmes novel. The first time Sherlock Holmes appeared, this is from an iconograph episode about Sherlock Holmes. he the first story is just like about a murder in the room yeah and like Brigham Young as a character and it's like the first one is standard Sherlock Holmes mystery and the second one is just this weird story that like takes place in Utah and like if I had the confidence when I was growing up that I have now I would have brought that to seminary

and been like hey so what the hell is this I already asked too many questions when my friends took me to church But what are the repercussions for these people that do the roadrunnering? It does feel like... Property. Inside the video, they usually get away. And the Mormon church just like is standing, or the Scientology security people are like standing in the back. Because they're all fucking weak. Because they're doing undue labor.

You kids, you're like, it is really wild. like the, the, like, a lot of the videos, the kids, like, run past them and, like, do a juke move. And it's almost like the Scientologists are, like, in on it because they're like, whoa. Like, they're, like, fall. Like, their legs get twisted up and shit. It's kind of amazing. They're reduced to being the old man and Scooby-Doo. Like, you kids.

Yeah. Damn it. Exactly. I love this. I wish I had done more things like this before my skull hardened. like before I was a very damn. I did a bunch of stupid shit when I was in my 20s, many of which I cannot talk about. But I went to Caltech and there's a Pasadena Scientology Center

and Caltech students are banned from it because we go in and ask too many annoying questions. Like we just go in and fuck with them. So any vaguely nerdy person that goes in there, they're like, you can't be here. Not very church-like. Only chads. I know. They don't like churches don't like when you ask questions. Tom Cruise or like they aspire to look like Tom Cruise.

We only want hymboes in here. I also know that if I had moved to L.A. in my 20s, I would a thousand percent of become a Scientologist. Yeah. I say, you know, I'm not susceptible to Colts and I am dating. Yes, you are. And I am dating an improviser. See? You know?

Oh, my God. Holly and I were in it when it, like, we were in improv when there was still just like one girl on a team. Yeah. Like, it was bad. Did she make the sandwiches? Was that what her job was? No, she was a prostitute or a mom. Yeah.

But never the, never both. Never both. At least that would have been interesting. If Will Gluck wrote it, he would have been the prostitute. So some of the stuff they're doing, to answer your question in response to this trend, one of the things is very funny.

They're taking the handles off the doors. that the people are using to pull open the doors. They're just like, yes. The churches so that they won't pull it open. Yeah, so they won't open it. There's also, there's also an Instagram account of this guy who like literally stands outside the Scientology Center in Hollywood, I believe. And as they're trying to, like, recruit people, he, like, knows all the names of the

Scientologists. He's like, hey, George, you're trying to bring people in today. And then they, like, scutter away from him. and he like gets people to not buy into their stuff. He's like, don't talk to them. They're a cult. They do these things. Blah, blah, blah.

And his videos are very entertaining because he knows all the people who work there. And they try not to break. Like, they try not to laugh when he says funny shit. And they like, they have to like hide and close the door. See, this is what happens when there's no, no third spaces. Right. Yeah. Right.

There's no third spaces. So you're, I don't know. I like this. You want to go hang out outside the Scientology Center guys? That's kind of. This is no, no harm, no foul. This is fun mischief. This is great.

This is exactly in my mind. Because a lot of these are like, a lot of these are like what I would probably consider annoying white teens. Yes. But this is like TMZ being sicked on politicians. It's like using your annoying qualities for good. This is exactly. You just have to target the right people. Yes.

It's like as a big old white lady, sometimes you have to use that for good. and to step in when you see, you know, the cops. So I don't know. I like it. I think it's, I say, good job. Good job, gang. Good job, broccoli-headed teens. I used to always marvel at the Scientology Center in Los Angeles when I would drive by,

because they have a huge cross on top of it. And it's kind of like, why is there a cross? Like the symbol of like the crucifixion, like a piece of like, you know. That has nothing to do with it. Nothing to do it. But also it's funny. It's science is in their name. because there's no science in there.

But I guess there's no Christ and Christianity either. Yeah. Oh, no Christ in Christianity. That is really weird. That is, I never thought about that. Where the cross come from? Yeah. I bet.

I always think about science because I'm a fucking nerd and I get really pissed when they use our branding. Right. What did you go to school for? I did bioengineering and English. Yeah, I majored in going clear. That's so awesome. I wanted to be, originally I wanted to be a genetics counselor. Oh.

And then I hated chemistry so much that I didn't do it. What's a genetics counselor? Like, if you have a baby? You smash it. So it's kind of like science meets therapy. So you like, you like smash up genes and you say, here, this is what it, it's not genetic engineering. It's not like making a perfect child. It's more of just like.

Explaining why your child isn't perfect. Yeah, it's more of like this is one. You smash together your genitals and I'll smash together your jeans. Yeah, exactly. But if you're Christian, you're just smashing together jeans. Just denim rubbing on denim. You gotta. You gotta.

The church is officially decrying these incidents as hate crimes. That is the troubling part of it. Scientology is saying it's a hate crime. That's the only church. When I say the church, I mean Scientology. Everyone should know that. the, they're,

which does feel like they're laying the groundwork for doing something like fucking horrific because right now they're just letting the people go. But that is, I don't see how that's a hate crime.

No. But they're not always. They're not a protected class, right? Or Scientology. I guess religion is technically. They are. That's kind of, that's the trick.

This one trick, the doctors don't want you to know about is just. To not pay taxes and claim hate They truly, like that, what they did is they, you know, blackmailed the head of the IRS and made it so that the head of the IRS, like, couldn't say no to them. They got religious status and now they have so much money because they don't have to pay taxes. Yeah. But it is interesting for them to call this a hate crime when, like, they routinely spy on their critics.

There's a crazy story about, like, David Muscavage, their, I guess, Scientology Pope. guy. When his dad left the church. He is the short king. He is the short king. He is the shortest. The one short king we do not stand. And that's it.

Where is Shelley? Where is she? That's the other thing. That's a hate crime. She's still missing. Yeah. She's in Lake Arrowhead. I think that's the, she's in one of those cabins.

They have these cabins, these like rehabilitation cabins in there and that she's being kept in there. Which honestly, I could use a break. She's at a writer's retreat. into fucking Lake Arrowhead Scientology cabin. She's working at her spec script. Next thing we see, it's going to be these guys like parkouring into the cabin.

Okay, sorry. Jack had something to say that we didn't. That is, like, the buildings that they're running through, if you read the book, going clear, like there are rooms in there that sometimes are holding people who are having troubles with the teachings and are getting into trouble, you know.

So. Yeah. So they need to be rescue missions. There's prisons in there, yeah. Yeah. But they, for. a prison in Eagles Stadium. That's true.

For people who aren't sufficiently who aren't sufficiently on board with the Eagles. There's definitely Eagles jail. Is it like Disney jail? No, it's a real jail. Does Mickey Mouse come in and be? There's cruise ship jail, yeah. There's cruise ship. There's a, there's a

judge and you can go to Eagles court. That's so crazy. It's like the military has its own court system. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So does Philadelphia. you. They shouldn't allow that. Now that seems like too much. I think they should actually.

Let them sort it out how they want to sort it out. Katie, Holly, such a pleasure having you both on. Oh, delightful. This was so fun. Yeah. Where can people find you guys, follow you guys. Here your wonderful show,

Soccer Mops. You can listen to Soccer Moms anywhere you get your podcast. You can follow us at BFF Soccer Moms on Instagram. And it's in soccer. Her mom's is so fun and we have great guests and we laugh a lot and we want you to come warm yourself by the fire of our friendship. Oh my goodness. We got some really cool folks coming up too that I won't spoil, but one might be Shelley Biscarvich. We're going to Arrowhead with our dear kit.

That's where you find out what she's been up to who's on an improv. That would be what a scoop. Actually, how would you know? Like you wouldn't know, it wasn't her. We should just have someone be her. Yes, have somebody who player? This is actually a great idea. Yeah.

Maybe if somebody pretended to be here, we could find out if, like, the identity theft was real, because then it would have to come out and, like, court documents if she was alive or not, right? They sue us for portraying her, and then you have to, yeah, yeah. That's crazy. Yeah, that's actually really smart. It's the same thing as, like, Holly's saying that Donald Jr. trying anything is what could lure Trump out of the presidency. Yeah. If we say like, no, that's Shelly, that's her.

It can't be because she's dead. Yeah. Oh, dang. Oh, no. Oh, fuck. I fucked up. Oh, boy. Is there a work of media you guys have been enjoying?

Yes. Very much so. Can I give a big one and a little one? Oh, yes. Nice. The comeback? I have nothing to do with it. I wish I did.

I did audition for it. I did not get it. But the comeback. I got me too. I found out a white man got my part. Oh, cool. Classic. Unheard of. I was like, how are we both up for this role?

No, I love it. I think it's doing an excellent job. I think the hardest thing with comedy is to have your characters evolve because you don't want them to lose what makes them so funny and why you love them in the first place, but you also have to keep them interesting. And I think the comeback has done such an excellent job of having that character evolve in a way that's true to her and preserves what you enjoyed about her. I've heard it's really good. Is that your big one or little one? That's my big one. My little one is there's this guy called Al Scorch. That's literally his name.

He's on Instagram. And he has the Chicago accent that I worked really hard to get rid of. He sounds like all of my cousins. He sounds like every. He talks about talk pointing. and he talks about stuff like that. And I think he's so funny and he's just such a beautiful piece of Chicago.

And it's like my version of ASMR. It's just like this big guy talking about how people need to plowder on lots. I mean, it's true. Facts, people do need to plowder on lots. Yeah, miss your accent, Katie. It's a bad one. Don't let me drink.

All I got to do is get one vodka soda in her and it's right back. If you had that voice and you were like a nail artist, you would be a million followers immediately. You know what I mean? I do have that voice, though. It takes a lot for me to talk like a human and not talk like that. Go back to that fucking voice. What are you doing?

What are you ruining yourself? Millennial voice? Come on. It's like when people change their names because they don't want to be too ethnic. It's like, oh, no, I got rid of my... Hello, I'm Paul Breer. Anyway, Hal, what about you or what you get? Mine is, so the Washington Post has an advice columnist named Carolyn Hacks, and I love her.

And I can't any more recommend the Washington Post. I mean, they used to be such an incredible, you know, journalistic source. And now, like, the top story on the Washington Post, owned by Jeff Bezos, the top story on the post will be like, which juggings should you be wearing. That's like their top story at this point. But they still have this amazing woman named Carolyn Hacks. And she's their advice columnist there. And I love her.

She is funny. She's one of the best writers ever. And she's so clear and direct. And most times people are writing to her being like, how do I address this thing in my life? And she's like, if you want me to give you the words, here they are. And it's just teaching people how to speak directly because we've all been like people pleasing and all this shit.

Who needs Chad GPT when you have Carolyn Hacks? Carolyn Hacks. She is so good. And I read her every single day without fail. And it has, I can't afford therapy right now. So it has been a substitution for therapy. And she's incredible, funny, delightful, best advice ever. And I feel like she's made me a better person.

H-A-X. H-A-X. H-A-X. She's the best. What a name. She's the best. She's so wonderful. And she goes off. You know how sometimes somebody will ask a question and you're like, this dip shit. And I'm like, oh, here, Carolyn's going to get him.

Carolyn's coming. She actually is like, fuck you. She does. She's like, I can't hit my forehead into my keyboard enough just listening to this. Stop right now. And a lot of times she'll just be like, leave him, period. Amazing. She looks like what I think I've looked like since I was 14.

Yeah, I love her. She's the best. She's the best. And I've sent her a few questions and she's never answered them. You're not, yeah. By probably teaching you something in that itself. You need to be a worse person. Yeah.

You got it. Amazing. Paul of the, where can people find you as their work in media? You've been enjoying. Paula Vig-A-L-A-V-I-G-U-N-A-N-L-A-N. Netflix is a joke. May 4th, please come to my facial recognition. comedy show at the hotel cafe at 10 p.m. Please.

Otherwise you're racist. You're gonna fucking kill me. Please. The hotel cafe is such a good venue. That's all. We're in the second room. We're in the like the smaller room, which is fun. Intimate. I love it. Okay. I'm gonna read what the tweet is and then what it's quote tweeting. Okay, ready? From Grace Camille. In May of 2014, a woman confessed to me that she was a sole witness to a murder committed by a high ranking music exec. She showed me muddy clothes from assisting in the burial of the body.

One month later, all about that base hit the radio waves. I recognized her instantly. And it's a quote tweet of Megan Trainor has released the music video for Shimmer. And then the follow-up tweet underneath it, this is from Grace Camille underscore. To be clear, I am not suicidal. I have never been suicidal. That's fantastic. That's great.

A lot of good Megan Trainers stuff happening. What about you, Jack? Oh, work of media I've been enjoying. There's a Twitter account called Future Adam Curtis B-roll, the documentary maker, always has just like these really weird, surreal behind the scenes moments from history. And they just like take videos from the news and put them out there. And one of their recent ones at the White House, First Lady, Melania Trump hosts Queen Camilia and, children participating in a cross-cultural education program using meta VR headsets. It's just Melania and the Queen Camilla standing next to each other, looking at an iPad,

while children like wander in front of them with VR headsets on. Oh, my God. Just it's very... Those people should not be around children at all. No. They're great at finding strange moments. They also had Kid Rock speaking at the Pentagon podium. as one of their moments.

But it's just, it's been interesting to see as our entire world has just turned into this, this Twitter feed, this future Adam Curtis B-roll. It's like, oh, everything is a future

Adam Curtis B-roll now. But I highly recommend that Twitter account. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien, Blue Sky. Jack O'B the number one. You can find us on Twitter

and Blue Sky at Daily Zykeyes. We're at The Daily Zyke. on Instagram. You can go to the description of this episode wherever you're listening to it and there at the bottom you will find the footnotes. Which is where we link off to the information that we talked about it in today's episode. We also link off to a song

that we think you might enjoy. And when Miles is out, Superdister Justin comes in and tells us a song that he thinks you might enjoy and he always does such a great job of describing it. Justin, is there a song that you think that people might enjoy? Yeah, I usually only have one, but Uh-oh. You got me thinking about serious by the Alan Parsons project earlier.

Thank you. Oh, I thought you were going to say Megan Trainor and everything. Oh, no, I'm not familiar. You got me thinking about Megan trainer. Not familiar with her work. But yeah, that's a great track if you want to get yourself pumped up for the weekend.

Uh, onto my other recommendation, uh, I tend to like songs that are in like a B flat minor or like a relative key because it can have this really dreamy atmosphere. And, uh, this song fits snugly into that description.

It's called, Awoken by Arlo. And this track starts off with the soft melody with like a very ethereal chord progression. Then it comes with these really clean vocals with some amazing runs that lift up the energy. And then it quickly becomes an all-out, fast-paced bop that you can really get into, especially if you're into dance music. So that song again is called Awoken by Arlo, and you can find that in the footnot. Foot Notes.

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