The Daily Zeitgeist - Trump = Information Bubble Boy, Billionaires Tax (Not) Controversial 02.24.26

Episode Date: February 24, 2026

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Did you really interview Martin Screlli? Yeah. Oh, shit. How'd go? It was weird. Right. Okay. That sounds about right.

We had such mean questions. But we warmed him up by being sweetie. And dare I say, flirty. Oh, okay. And so I thought as soon as we started being mean, that he would be like, oh, my God, I can't believe. What happened? Yeah. He just like never left.

It was almost like we had to tell him like, okay, you have to leave now. Really? Oh. He seemed to be like, but you were nice to me. We're all dogs. They're messing with me because we're good friends. Wow.

So I mean, it worked, kind of. That approach. Someone, I remember someone tweeted, like a fan of his, very cool. Shrellyhead. A fan of his tweeted like, she's ugly. And he,

was like, lay off. Like he genuinely thought that we were going to be friends, I guess. Wow. I thought you were going steady. Yes. He's like, when you asked me about my cool Wu-Tang album, I thought you meant it. Exactly. Well, that's how we got him to agree.

I said, like, that's so awesome. You know you're hip-hop stuff. Oh, no, you did not. Oh, oh, God. So he was excited to talk. And he was like, yeah, I know. He's picturing him saying game, recognized game and giving you like a pound. Hey, throw your W up real quick.

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We also have a new non-news history version of TDZ dropping each Monday morning where we do a deep dive into the zeitgeist through the lens of a different icon. A couple weeks ago, we did Tony Hawley. Last week we did Sherlock Holmes with Andrew T. And this week we got Tupac with Molly, our favorite California historian, Molly Lambert. Yeah, L.A. L.A. In the building.

Truly, we addressed the optical illusion that it seems like he was alive for 78 years and just the amount of work and news he created. It was a wild five-year run. Like four-year run, yeah. There are things that happen in his life in like a three-month span that I was like, oh, I thought that was like across a couple decades. But obviously it couldn't have been.

Nope. Anyways, those episodes drop on Monday. They have icon in the title. It's Tuesday, February 24th, 2026. Oh my gosh. I forgot to pull that up. And I was going to pretend to stretch, but I'm owning it. It's actually, it's National Trading Card Day.

and National Tortilla Chip Day. Oh, okay, I have those things. I have trading card. I have Tokyo. Congratulations. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. You're doing great.

Hey, I wish the Damon Stademeyer rookie card was still worth something, though. They just, I saw a trading card news story recently. Like the Honest Wagner. They, like, discovered a new mint honus Wagner that sold for like $5 million or some shit. And I remembered. a time when like honus wagner was like a religion like i didn't even know who that was but just like knowing that that card was so goaded yeah well now it's the uh illustrators Pikachu card that one of the paul brothers was trying to sell and that became like the most valuable trading card but it's

a bit dubious that title four million dollars for real oh yeah oh yeah they love the pokey mains most money i can conceive of miles that's because we're poor jack We're not billionaires. I don't have that Lambo mentality, unfortunately. My name is Jack O'Brien, aka Potato's O'Brien, and I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. It's Miles Gray, aka the Lord of Lakership of the Shogun with no gun, aka, and look, someone got really excited about the Bad Bunny, aka,

and just wanted to hear it one more time. And you know what? I'm not going to, I'm not going to, I'm not going to withhold that. So this is the guy who just heard Bad Bunny for the first time and said, Hey, Titi may pergunto si Tengo Much novia. Mucha no one, Otrera, A, baro no I boda. All right. Thank you to Typhius Locksmith, who's just saying, I just kind of wanted to hear that again.

It's fun saying, speaking in Spanish, like a person who's just learning Spanish. Like Blake Shelton? Yeah, exactly. Hey, Titi may Fergunto? Blake Shelton. covering, Bad Bunny, the cover, the mashup, we all knew that we needed. Exactly. Shout out.

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Too many threats to count. They call people triple threats. Too many damn threats to count on this one. The quad god. Mary Hulahen! Mary! Hey, guys. Happy Trojan-day.

Sorry, I got milk-sroated in the middle of shouting your name. Stop drinking milk before the recording, yeah. Let me just house down some of this whole milk before I say your name. Sorry, I stepped on. You were saying, happy what? Happy tortilla chip. Yes, yes, yes. Big fan?

Mary? Oh, yeah, of chips. For the record? Okay. Yeah. And also the Eric Estrada show, the Eric Estrada show, chips also? Yes, yes, of course. A cab doesn't include chips, weirdly.

Yeah, we do. For some reason. It's the one cop that we're given a pass to. Why were they given a pass? No, surely. I'm joking. They're the most cop people possible. And people think that show was them never doing cop shit.

They're just on bikes being like, yeah, dude, we're on bike. They were skunks working it or skunk working it, where they're just like being bad at being cops. And the only way to be bad at being cops that's actually good is like just sucking at your job and interfering with other people. Yeah, sure, sure. Anyways, Mary, we're thrilled to have you back. We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell the listener a couple of things that we're talking about today.

We're going to talk about just the little information bubble that Donald Trump lives in. It's one of the least adorable bubbles, I got to say. It's kind of, it's a shitty bubble. We'll talk about misinformation coming out of this White House and Laura Lumer about Mexico. We'll talk about a new controversial billionaire tax where they're going to tax billionaires,

and it's controversial with billionaires, I guess. Oh, yes, yes. With 214 people. But Mary, before we get to any of that shit, we do like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Oh, my God.

It's bad. Uh-oh. Okay. Mike Huckabee says Israel can take the entire Middle East. I just want to make sure that's exactly what he said. Yeah. So I looked bad up. Due to a biblical right, I think he said.

That is what he said. Yes, that the Bible gives them the right for that. So legally can take it, not like in a pro wrestling way. From the top of Ibrac down to Egypt, they can take it if they want. It's fair right. Biblically, yeah, biblically, yeah. All they have to do is start a war. Then it would be fair.

That's what he said. Start a war. And then you go, hey, why are you doing that? And go, a Bible. I'm calling Bible rights. Sorry. The rule book of ghost stories says, This is mine and online.

Calling double Bible rights, no backsies. You actually have to give it to me now. I think he didn't he have to clarify because pretty much the rest of the world was like, are you fucking out of your mind, dude? What the fuck are you talking about? He said it was taken out of context. Oh, my God. That's not what I was saying.

You said Israel had the biblical right to the entire Middle East. dude what do you mean yeah he said it would be i don't know i don't know why what he means that it was taken out of context it's hard to know what in what context that it's i was lying it's bullshit yeah it's just like a nonsense saying that people use it doesn't really mean anything yeah because again it's like people are mad at me and so i'm gonna say is taken out of context what context of my entire life yeah the context of who i am and again offers no actual context in which it may made any kind of sense or wasn't offensive or homicidal. But then also, Mike Huckabee is one of those, like,

start bringing, bring Jesus back by having war in Israel guy. So it makes sense coming from him. Which makes sense, you know, because he's pro-life and wants everyone to die. Yeah, but that's different. If you lose life in the process of bringing Christ back, then we're all going to be together in heaven anyway. That's right. Yeah.

A couple broken eggs. Yeah, exactly. A couple billion broken bodies. It's so weird for me to, like, hear this stuff coming out of Mike Huckabee, because, like, I first knew him as just a musician that I really fucked with. The bass playing. Yeah. Michael Huckabee?

The bass player? Yeah. That's my guy. Are you serious? I remember when he had the bass player from corn on and when he had his talk show and they were jamming together and it was the saddest fucking just thing I've ever seen. But anyway. Oh, yeah.

Catherine points out, don't check out their, his collaboration with us, with our company, I heart Huckabees. That's terrible, Catherine. I'm sorry,

I'm sorry for giving you credit for that. But what is, Mary, something that you think is underrated? Okay, I have two. Which one do you think is better? Let's hear them both.

Yeah. The PBS Passport app. Mm-hmm. or NASCAR. Okay. We, I think we've gotten the PBS passport app before, or at least I have in my life.

I mean, everyone knows it's good. It doesn't take much. Right. Wait, wait, what is the PBS passport? Wait,

wait, hold on. Yeah, I don't know. What is the PBS passport app? Oh, it's like their streaming app. Oh, shit, okay.

Oh, I have like the kid version of that. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I mostly watch Finding Your Roots, Nova, Nature, any of the Ken Burns docks. Yeah. You have global access to Ken Burns documentaries. That's right.

Yeah. I mean, come on. I love. That happens so many times and I'm like, but surely you can get them somewhere else, right? Right. Right. With Ken Burns' documentaries, what is it? For the Elvis Icon's episode, I wanted to watch an episode about the country music,

Ben Burns presents country music. Oh, it's so good. You got to go to PBS. You got to go to the source. I remember when like the Civil War came out. I was like, the only sound of the Civil War is someone playing a fiddle. Oh,

sadly. Yeah, it's someone reading a letter and a fiddle in the background. I'm like, and that was the antebellum period. You know, and during the Civil War. I remember when the Civil War dropped.

Yeah, that was dope. Like, was that also like a, like, Like ultimate boomer dad gift was buying them. Any Ken Burns like 10 tape fucking set? I remember like the baseball one was like required purchases for fathers like white American fathers on Father's Day. That's right.

And here is your Ken Burns baseball documentary. Here's your Ken Burns baseball with the side of Mike Lupica. Okay. So what, tell me about NASCAR though. Okay. Well, Yeah, this is new. I don't think we've gotten an underrated on NASCAR.

I didn't know anything about NASCAR until yesterday. My friend posted on his Insta story that he was watching NASCAR and to come through. And so I went and all the people there were from the South and they were teaching me about NASCAR. And it's almost like wrestling. Like the drivers have personality. some of them are super racist. Some of them are super woke. And there's good guys and bad guys. I didn't know about that second category of NASCAR drive, to be honest with you. Oh, Michael Jordan owns a bunch of cars. Did you know that? Did you see last? Did you see why? Mary, this is something that we recently found out about, unfortunately, because of a video clip of him celebrating his Daytona 500 win by pinching the butt, grabbing the butt, treating the butt of a, of the, you know, young child of the winning driver, like it was a napkins dispenser.

Yeah. Well, no comment. Because for us two, we were like, oh, shit, Michael's doing it. And we're like, what are you doing Michael Jordan? You're drunk and on camera. Yeah, so there were just a ton of cutaways to Michael Jordan during NASCAR. And that's like just not what I thought NASCAR was. And it was pretty interesting.

Nice. Were you confused why during the cutoffways they were like, and there's Michael Jordan very far from grabbing any child's butt, like a napkin's dispenser. It said not currently touching a child's butt, also the owner of cars 23, 45, and 35. Yeah, all right, here we go, Mary. Because I do need to get your take on this. It's just hard to. No.

Yeah. Yeah. You can't. Yeah. What do we think he thought he was doing? is like really the question that we're at now. Some people have speculated that there was ice down the kid's back maybe, but it's like even that is hard to believe based on.

It's very, it's very strange. I think the only answer to that is, it's definitely a note for me, dog. Yeah. Unfortunately. Yeah, it's definitely,

it's going to be an note for me. Yeah. Wait, so did you come away after that, like with a, now you like, you've learned a little bit. Now you've got a team or a driver or,

aspect of NASCAR that appeals to you now? Or you're just more like, that was a nice experience. Thank you for that education. I think I'm rooting for all of Michael Jordan's cars, basically. He has multiple cars? Yep, yep. He has three cars. One of them is a black driver.

One of them is a white short king with a beautiful black wife. Wow. The third car I don't know about because they came in really left. It sounds like the beginning of a joke. A black NASCAR driver, a short NASCAR driver, and a priest walking to a bar. He was on the Epstein list like 17 times. Which isn't that many. Yeah, yeah, compared to the president.

Yeah. He set the bar so high. You know, that is one thing that we can say about this president. The thing for me about NASCAR is when you're watching it, there's not, I mean, it's kind of like almost almost all the time, it's like watching a blowout NBA game or something, where it's just like, there's never that moment of like huge drama where it's like, it all comes down to this moment. Like a close race, it's still, you know, like I guess there are close races,

but they're not. Well, the Daytona 500 ended pretty spectacularly from where I read. I think the NBA is actually such a perfect analogy because it's kind of like you can half watch and then the final two minutes, you're like, oh my God. Sure, sure, yeah, yeah, yeah. There we go. All right. Maybe I need to give it another shot.

Maybe I just seem to start watching the last three laps of NASCAR. Oh, and also something I learned is some of the drivers, if they win, their sponsors will give out free chicken nuggets. Oh, okay. Oh, so depending on which fast food chain you're aligned with? Yes. So there was a Wendy's car yesterday, and if he had won. Wendy's would have given out free chicken tenders today. Oh, damn.

And I heard that in the past, sometimes drivers get really emotional and cry and say, you know, that they wish that they could have given everyone free chicken. I mean, given the state of this economy, I would imagine that. It's like,

I'm sorry we weren't able to distribute food to people. I know, right. There are children going hungry because of your loss. How does that make you feel? Oh, God. Quick word. Can't that be on someone else? I mean, yeah, we could talk about the government or like all of regards. Nah. That's on you, sir. It's on you driver. Should it a little harder. Yeah. What is something Mary you think is overrated?

Okay. So I had trouble picking one. If I get any pushback, I'm going to immediately say that I was taken out of context. I think Sabrina Carpenter is overrated. go on she's she's good but whatever i feel that yeah i was just talking uh i was i was doing my first gym session uh with my trainer miles is so proud of this gym session telephone came the the the gaga biance collab came on and we were both saying i was like when was the last time pop stars bridged the gap like this in a way that was like yo the two of them and we brought up sabrina carpenter doing people or other pop stars. I'm like, it's just not the same. It's just not the same. And I'm, and I'm sure it's generational too because I see, I feel like I see so many younger

people in like are getting an aesthetic inspiration from Sabrina Carpenter. I feel like I see a lot of Sabrina Carpenter, the vibe coming out and how people dress and stuff, but Miles is looking at me right now. That's right. Yeah. Well, people haven't seen you with that blonde wig on. Yeah. It's pretty cute. No, it's convincing. It's what's voluminousy cheeks. A lot of rosy cheeks going around out there in the world of pop. Oh, everyone loves them. I know. I think I'm just kind of bored by pop stars in general.

Even the ones that people like, I think I would like musicians to be more like La Russell, where they just talk all the time about how much everything costs and have shows in their backyard. I would like pop stars to be more down to earth. It's so cool to see La Russell, like, really blow up, too, because I just have shows in their backyard. just remember early on, I was just watching TikTok videos of all those backyard concerts. And I was like, okay. I like whatever this is. And now it's so wholesome. Yeah, yeah. That's cool. We need more regular people. Yeah. Because I just love, that's my favorite line, espresso. It's like, I'm working late because I'm a singer. And I'm like, hell yeah.

I'm like, fuck yeah. You know what? Yeah, you're working late because you're a singer. We've all been there. Yeah, man. Yeah. Yeah. And Shoo Joe. Yeah, I've got to go Shoo Joe. Ah, my girlfriend, Sabrina's, isn't off work yet. She's a singer. Oh, okay. Like she's not off work. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, that's something your friend says. And you're like, oh, my God, they're totally cheating on them. Oh, no.

Yeah, yeah. Oh, they're working like, because they're a singer. Oh. It's crazy. Like, they're either cheating or they made that person up. Like, yeah, this is the third birthday party in a row for you they haven't been at. I know. He's a singer. Yeah, he's a singer.

What are you going to do? All right. Life on the road. It's crazy, man. It's so expensive, man. I'm like half supporting her career, all of them Venmo stuff. Oh, no. It's crazy.

Wait, hold on, hold on, hold on. Guys, I didn't know hair extensions were so expensive. So Sabrina Carpenter, overrated. And if you, if that means you feel any sort of way, that was taking of someone else. You're going. I'm not taken out of contact. Full armadillo. Full armadillo take. I will go into my protective armor and roll back into the bushes. And I won't protect you, but Martin Scralli might come through and have a word to say.

So leave Mary. You know who does have my back? Leave Mary out of this. Right. Yeah. Music takes our. surprisingly very very controversial. We're having such a weird long tail on this thing. From our 2000th episode, we went back and talked about Quincy Jones talking shit about the Beatles, and we lifted a clip from that for social.

And it is going off. The thread is crazy. All you have to do is tell some middle-aged white dudes the Beatles weren't that popping, and it's fucking like red alert time in the car. Well, that was a great interview. He said, like, basically none of them could play instruments in general. Right.

We'd all heard that Ringo couldn't play. Yeah. Paul? Paul? He could. He could. It's like, all right, relax, dude. It's funny because it's Quincy Jones just saying a bunch of wild stuff.

Talking cash shit. It's not asserting that your sacred Beatles were a bunch of non-playing motherfuckers, as he said. A bunch of non-plained motherfuckers. It's such a good one. Yeah, exactly. like I don't care if the stuff Cat Williams says about Kevin Hart is true or not. I like it either way. It's funny to hear.

I'm not taking that as gospel truth. It's called funny things to hear. Ah, shit. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk about some news. We'll be right back.

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Going to get us all killed, baby. I, it's terrifying. You know, like, we- really wild. We touched on just the, like, the senility of it all constantly, like, when last week, it was, or, yeah, it was last week when he said, like, and this man's, said, president, I want to kiss you. And you're like, what the fuck?

Why is that even a thing to say? It's like, oh, of course, because your brain circuitry is completely smashed the bits. Big strong man, steel magnate. Yeah. Yeah. He's going Biden mode. Yeah. For Biden mode.

I feel like maybe rhetorically, that's what needs to be said. So like MAGA people start freaking out more. They're like, dude, dude, this guy looks like Biden. Oh, fuck, dude. He's Biden maxing. Yeah. He's Biden maxing, dude. Dude, you're getting sent-

to Biden. Sinility mugged right now by Biden-maxing. But yeah, dude, the cortisol spikes are fucking humiliating. Anyway, so I think, you know, we've obviously posited, as many people have many times that he's in an alternate reality. And not just due to like the cognitive decline or like the acute narcissism, but also because he's more than likely. It's almost, it is actually guaranteed that he is being shielded from the truth by his. aides who don't who as a way of like personality management because like look we see it all the time there's like the regular sycophant boot licking meetings that we'll talk about we're just like everyone sits at a table and it's like show and tell of sycophants being yeah the telephized ones where they're like and sir i've created this cheer for you and i've brought in the Alabama rolled tide marching band to like they just all like have prepared remand marks about how cool he is.

This is a scroll on papyrus where I have listed all of your many great achievements, sir. I've overwritten the Dead Sea Scrolls. Yeah. Why did it all out? But like we see that, right? And like there's the cancellations of public appearances. Like he didn't want to go to the Super Bowl, but it was like I was too tired. But really they were saying it's like, no, because he was going to get booed.

And like we don't like he's, he doesn't handle that well. These are little pinpricks to the outside world. Right. Like, you can't let Truman out to do a walkabout after, you know, from the Truman show. You got to keep them in his bubble. Exactly. And also, like, the polling. He always talks about poles like that.

Like, we see the polls and they're like, yeah, yeah, people are not really into this. But he's like, they all, the polls are always wrong. I've seen the real polls. And you're like, what? What do you mean? I'm sure someone just writing shit down and telling you that's a poll. I'm pretty sure that's what it is. So like now I'm just sort of like, this is putting us at increasing risk for something truly catastrophic to happen based on whatever alter, like obviously with all the dangers he presents already, that to add to that fake information to create a worldview where he's actually more powerful or more potent than he actually is or has more support for something than he actually does.

I'm like, it's getting worse and worse, especially as we hear about Iran. And he was just speaking at an event on Monday. and it's even clear that he's being shown alternate numbers all the time. So, like, he talked about the economy and, like, the thing that he said he could fix, but that was never going to happen. He loves to, again, claim that this is like, there's nothing to see here. This is actually the greatest economy anyone has ever seen. Right. Look at the stock market.

Yeah, exactly. The Dow is 50, like, oh, God, that's all because that's what he needs to hear. So here's just a clip of him, again, a certain. that the economy where by all, you know, measurable, all measurable data, it seems to indicate this is not a great economy for working people. By the way, this does feel like he, this speech is when a comedian is going to, like, do a big event or, like, host the Oscars and they, like, go out on the road to, like, you know, test material and test.

Oh, for the state of the union? Yeah, this feels like he's just doing state of the union shit, like to be like, how's this going to go over? What do people think? Am I getting, are the laughs at the right place? I mean, yeah, it's a joke in that you're saying the economy is good. Right. It's a setup and punchline in of itself.

But yeah, we have the greatest economy ever, apparently. We have a country that's now doing well. We have the greatest economy we've ever had. We have the most activity we've ever had. I'm making a speech tomorrow night, and you'll be hearing me say that. I mean, it's going to be a long speech because we have so much to talk about. Oh, he seems quite convinced by that. What a tease, by the way.

He almost fell asleep, but while saying when he had a speech coming up. I'm just what it is, you know, apparently. Okay, so then this is also very interesting, right? It's like the polling. There's the latest polling that was just even shown on CNN, was showing how he went from 41% approval with Latinos in February of last year to now 22%. 45% approval with voters under 45 in February of last year to now 27%.

41% of independence approved a year ago to now 26%. It's those are, I'm no political expert, Miles. You know that. Those numbers are bad. They seem low personally. Again, not an expert. I wouldn't want that. I know podcast numbers.

And if my downloads were going, I'd be like, oh, something's different there. Half? Yeah. Yeah. Go halfsies on those numbers. Yeah, yeah, right. And again, this is at the same event talking that extra special shit about how, you know what, the polls say this, but I've actually seen something different. And I'm sure he literally has been shown something different. Polls are tough. You know, when you get a fake poll, I get them today. I saw one today that I'm at 40%. 40%. I'm not at 40%. I'm at much higher. I mean, I'd love to run against them. Higher? The real polls say you kill everybody. It wouldn't even be close. I believe that, right?

The real polls say, like, that they're showing, like, sir, those are all wrong. Look at these. You're locked in. And they're like, fuck, how do we fuck the rat fuck the election to make this happen? Because it ain't happening electorally or through any kind of democratic process. I hope he believes that so that he does. doesn't break the election. Like, you know, steal the election.

I'm sure they know they have to. You know what I mean? Like even if he doesn't. But I'm sure this is part of him being like, dude, if he really gets, he's going to start lashing out at everyone. We've already have all this, all these messes we have to clean up,

barely keeping this fucking circus together. But again, it's like if he's being shown things that are saying, dude, you're not as wildly unpopular as you are. No need to change course. The economy that you said you'd fix is actually looking worse and worse and worse, the amount of debt that is being added is catastrophic.

Then I'm like, then what are they telling him about Iran right now? You know, as like we're seeing all this like buildup and rhetorical, you know, sort of setting of the table to try and manufacture consent for some kind of armed conflict over there. Yeah, I think they can get them to do whatever they want. Yeah. I think that like AI video of him winning gold for the U.S. Oh my God. And it was probably something they actually showed them. They're like, sir, you blacked out again and check it out.

Look what you did. Oh, that's crazy. So the referees also have sticks and have a puck while I play? Yeah, yeah. That's how good you are, man. The refs had to get in there against you and also have their own puck. Did I shit on some people again? No, not this time, sir.

No, no. In a manner of speaking, you did. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Look here, stick work. Look at. Canadians are scarce, sir. that look of determination. But yeah, just like even, I think everything we could just get just an even darker and darker and darker as you have things like again, an Epstein scandal that they're trying so hard to just put their heads in the ground and act like isn't there to now whatever they think they're going to get some kind of like wartime bump in approvals like some common George Bush.

Right. And I'm like, this is a completely different era. Like people are fully soured on like military intervention abroad for no fucking reason. So that you think this is people are going to suddenly be like, oh, thank God, we're going to Iran for no reason. And more people can die for no fucking reason. Yeah. Also, was Georgia Bush's popularity? Like, I feel like it was really strong in the aftermath of 9-11.

And then he went to Iraq and it started taking a shit, right? Like once it became clear that. like the whole thing was a lie. And, you know, like, I feel like that, I don't know, maybe those numbers aren't reaching Trump. But like, I'm pretty sure that that was in the end, not good for his popularity. Right.

Because, yeah, there was, nobody really thought it. I think people got on board in the run up because they thought it was going to be like the first one. Right. Yeah. Yeah, nobody thinks that anymore. It was just getting it up to because I think right before, the invasion it got up to like 64%.

And then approval. Yeah, like it was going up. They saw it was going up with the saber rattling. Yeah, yeah. And they're like, oh, yeah, yeah. So we're going to do a little bit of that. But again, the problems, like that was, that was, those are, that was, that was like an era of relative peace for Americans.

And the context is completely different, especially now when you have things like the economy crushing people and being like, what the fuck? Like, I'm getting priced out of milk. Yeah. that if you're not addressing those things and thinking merely people go, I don't need food or a job. I need to feel good that we're going to bomb Iran. Like my favorite NASCAR racers probably going to win.

I don't need food. Right. You know, right, exactly. Get free nuggies. Dude, I'm sitting pretty with these tendies, man. But yeah. And I think this goes to show like that the absolute clowns are in this cabinet now and have no idea how anything goes.

And it's just sort of like, well, we know we can at least get the wartime profit. We get the military industrial machine humming again, and those people will get money, and we'll just invest in that and we'll just kind of keep moving our money around until we walk out of here with money so big, we can hide forever. Yeah, it's generally not good when people aren't telling you the truth and you're not working with actual information. And like, seriously. Well, people are so extremely pissed about the Epstein files. Like, it cannot be overstated, regular people left and right. Everyone is so angry about this. They're going to lose their minds if we bomb Iran.

A fucking 21-year-old MAGA supporter pulled up to Mara Lago armed and got killed by the Secret Service because of the fucking Epstein files. Yeah. Like there are such huge fucking issues that have to be addressed. And again, this just goes to show like the people who are running things have just such a perverse understanding or intentional misunderstanding of how it all works. to be like, no, man, line goes up. We get our money.

We get out. And if we have more money, we can protect ourselves from poor people with violence. And that's, that's true. Yeah, I think they just truly don't get it because, like, when do these people interact with, like, poor middle class people ever? No. I've always said, like, we're helping our friends make money. Like, we're good guys. What's going on?

Why are you mad at us? I can't release the files. Some of my very good friends are going to get hurt with his exclamation. Exactly. Exactly. But MTG was that's what he told her. Right. Some of my very good friends are in there.

Did he not know he was? Like, I'm just like, is that one of the pieces of information that they were withholding from him that he was also? I don't know. I mean, because the way, again, because you also hear it in his rhetoric around the Epstein files. He goes, like, I've been told. I've been totally exonerated. He's always like, I've been told. Yes.

And you're like, and I believe it. And I, because you know they're not going to be like, sir, man. you're all over this shit, man. Like, what the fuck was going on? Looks bad. You need to figure out what you're going to say. He's like, Jeffrey's fine. He's living somewhere.

Jelaine is fine. They got a body double in prison. I'll be fine too. Chill out, everybody. Oh, my God. Have you heard yourselves? It was, that was the first one where it was like, oh, he's like not getting any information.

Like, he was literally like, why don't people just move on? Like, we're all moving on. And if you ask questions about that, you're actually not my friend anymore. Yeah. Like, that was literally like the energy he brought into it. Yeah. That's the energy he brought into the Epstein files.

Yeah. Months ago. He's like, you're a bad person if you keep talking about it. Yeah. Definitely not a Republican. And you're like, okay. And you're not coming to my birthday party either. Not with that.

Keep that up. It really, but yeah, it does remind you of like the end of downfall. Like that meme that. that has been so popular for so long of like when they finally come clean with Hitler and are like about the Soviets surrounding Berlin. Yeah, that they're losing the war and they just like haven't told them to that point because everyone's so scared of him. And so they like tell him and he just like flips out.

Like that's kind of what you hear about like how Trump reacts when things go badly. Yeah, because that whole thing too was like in the in that scene, right, he believes there's a whole other army regiment coming to support the defense of Berlin. And they're like, uh, Steiner's not going to make it here with his men. Yeah. And it's like,

so we're cooked, bro. Yeah. It's, uh, you can only imagine. You can only imagine. And then like, you know, Pete Higsep is now saying shit like, oh,

we're going to be ordering pizzas like all kinds of ways to throw you guys off from the pizza tracker at the Pentagon. Oh, good. So he's, he's invested in Cal She, he gets that that's how we want to follow stories now. Yeah. Will they won't they?

Will people die needlessly based on the amount of pizzas being ordered? Please tell me. Please tell me. All right. Let's talk Mexico. Yeah. Because big things are happening over the weekend on Sunday. El Mentiono, leader of the Holiscoe New Generation cartel was killed in a military operation conducted by the Mexican government with help from the U.S.

U.S. government. Intelligence wise. That's, I think a lot of people will have you thinking that it's like, the U.S. did that shit. It's like, they were probably like, here's some. They used the Havana syndrome weapon to give everybody nosebleeds. Yeah. Everybody got a

Havana syndrome gun down there and they used it. But yeah, it was like, it just the subsequent power vacuum caused all kinds of panic. Cartel members were rioting, setting fire to cars, gas stations, buildings, like a prosecutor or got killed.

Like some of his, like, henchmen were also killed in the, the, uh, operate the mission, I don't know, the hit job, whatever you, whatever it's called when the state takes your life. And, you know, the videos. Military action. Military action. Yeah. The videos were involved. Officer involved.

Officer involved. Yeah. It becomes, like such just like, defy, like uniquely spaced words. Yeah. Blameless. Yeah. When the government put a hit out. Like if the government's also a gang, they put a hit.

out and then their goons clapped them. But yeah, so like the videos are all over. I mean, like all over the internet was just shit on fire. People are running like in just like there's like so much chaos happening in airports. And but then there are people being like, there's gunmen in the airports. And when I say people, people most likely looking at Laura Loomer's fucking Twitter account where somehow her prox, because she has a fucking Pentagon press pass now. Yes.

That it gives an air of. of legitimacy to the nonsense that she tweets, especially when she's like, the U.S. has helped conduct this operation, da, da, da, da, da. But again. Or Lomaru handcuffed herself to the Twitter headquarters when she thought she was being shadow banned.

Yes, right? Yes. Normal alert. And then last year during the election was like kind of people thought they were having an affair. Like people thought they were having an affair. She was spending a lot of time with Trump. I think she, based on his memory,

she was probably just trying to remind him constantly that she existed. Right. Yeah, yeah. They're like, no, it's like, people think it's an affair. He's so senile. It's like you need a fair levels of interaction to stay in his mind. But yeah, she said, again, tourists were being taken hostage, like, out of their hotels by armed gunmen. Planes were on fire.

Just sensational nonsense. And it got to the point where the Mexican embassy had to put a, like, a statement out to directly address her lies. There's not like, it's false that attacks against civilians took place at the Guadalajara airport. It's false that attacks were carried out against the general population in Halisco. It's false that members of organized crime were holding U.S. tourists hostage. There's a fake photograph of a plane on fire in Guadalajara that was used. Guadalajara that was used. False that government took over the facilities of the Guadalajara airport.

It's false that the U.S. military personnel participated in the arrest of El Mancho in Mexico. So again, this is like sort of nothing could have gone wrong when you kick out actual journalists from the Pentagon on and you give it to these like weird grifters online. Just online shit posters. Yeah, for sure. And I think saying this shit obviously serves two purposes. The first that it helps like paint Trump as a strong man, you know, because let's be real, he was basically this happened because he was demanding Mexico do something about

the cartels or else I'm going to fucking conduct military operations in your country. And second, it helps keep the perception. that Mexico is a very bad place. And by comparison, America is actually great. Please stop reading the news about how it's not. Those are lies. Look at the three video clips of a gas station on fire. You don't need news.

Just watch Sicario. That's all the news. Yeah, the documentary Sicario. And I think that second sort of benefit was what, like, Utah Senator Mike Lee clearly thought he was doing. because he posted a like CCTV camera of these guys, these mask guys setting a gas station on fire. And he posted cartel hitmen wear masks.

Leftists aren't complaining. Damn. That's actually, fuck, I don't think I can oppose ICE anymore. He did get my ass on that one because the bad guys wear masks. Yeah. I'm going to write a letter to the cartels and let them know. my disappointment. Show yourselves, cowards.

What are you hiding from the law? COVID didn't go away. Okay, Cartel. Yeah, exactly. Are those N95s? Oh my God.

Okay. But, you know, like this, like everyone, even Chuck Schumer, like people were just poning him on Twitter.

When Chuck Schumer is even getting you, it said, yes, Cartel hit men wear masks. That's why I shouldn't. And like, everyone just started, like,

hopping on it. He ended up. That's actually not why. That's not the logic. What do you mean? Those are two separate things. Christopher Murphy from Cadetics said, oh, dear, Mike,

I literally couldn't make our argument better than you do. The bad guys wear masks. The good guys don't. Well, all right. I mean, I guess. We're actually just learning that cartel hit men wear masks, and that is why ICE shouldn't. It's like, what?

Right. So ICE is the cartels. Yeah. In many ways. So, yeah, that tweet, went bye-bye pretty quickly. But, yeah. Oh, Mike.

Yeah. Yeah. Because that's from his personal account. Yeah. Based Mike Lee. It's not his like official Senator Lee account. It's his other one that he shit posts from. Wait, really?

Yeah, yeah. It is at based Mikely. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. That's what he posts from. Yep. Yep. Yep.

Yeah. Anyway. Because, yeah, you got old. Old dudes thinking their 23 year old shit posters. I'm like, yeah, do them based Mike Lee. It's like, dude, you're fucking just get the fuck out of here. Uh-huh. Yeah. Is this based? Can I get a, can I get any feedback from the interns if this is based, if this is living up to my base reputation? Pepe, the frog meme, cool. No, all right, all right. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.

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they call it a controversial pro-billionaire or billionaire tax, which is, I keep seeing it referred to as such. God, don't look at who owns those outlets. Right. I know. The whole thing that they always say is like, well, all the billionaires are going to move. And it's like, not really. California is kind of sick. Why would they move?

Yeah, where are you going to go? What do you mean? I mean, they was like, we'll go to Florida. We'll go to Florida. All right, go. Yeah. The very first sentence here is the labor union pushing forward the highly controversial billionaire's wealth tax is launching its first TV ad during the Olympics this weekend.

SFGate has learned. First of all, great scoop. They're running an ad. But we watched a commercial. But yeah, I was, this seems like a political winner to me on the level that the mainstream Democratic Party could not possibly get behind it because it's just like so obviously going to be very popular. So I was like, where are we getting this highly controversial element of this bill from?

So at the very end of the article, they say, The idea has received national support, including a notable endorsement from Senator Bernie Sanders. And you can hear the writer doing a cuckoo sign with their finger. You guys hear those Tweety birds? Yeah. You might be able to, actually. An independent from Vermont, who was in California this week for a rally. Sanders spoke to supporters on Wednesday evening in Los Angeles, ridiculing the grotesque level of wealth inequality that exists in this country.

Now they're doing the jack-off hand motion at that part. Meanwhile, a growing opposition campaign has also surfaced several former and current tech executives, including Google co-founder, Sergei Brin, and venture capitalist and owner of the San Francisco standard Michael Moritz are helping bankroll building a better California, a nonpartisan group that plans to fund various ballot measure campaigns, including the wealth tax. but oh, you think it's just them? Try again, asshole, because Governor Gavin Newsom has also come out in opposition to the tax. Warning that the state could lose those residents and, by extension, valuable tax dollars. That's interesting because I know they're trying to amend the bill where they're like, guess what, asshole? Even if you left before this thing popped off, you're still on the hook for the bill. So don't even think that's even a fucking tactic to try and move the needle the other.

way. Like, yeah. The SEIU is the fucking union, okay, that's telling people like, hey, man, we're the, we're the service employees international union, you know, like, fucking health care. We do like, we do the fucking work. We do the stuff. We do the work that keep shit going, not fucking guys who are, you know, trying to, you know, really dial in the, the best parts of an AI chat bot that will convince you, like you're a fucking chill guy who people want to talk to. Um, they're the ones. They're the ones. saying like, dude, we need more fucking funds

to be able to pay for health care and things like that. It's not some scare tactic. We need this. In order to like keep hospitals open. They're trying to scare people. That seems. It's so stupid. I just don't buy that anyone is leaving.

Like, just save your money like on trying to tell us that this will never work because no one is moving. We know no one's moving. They did the same thing with Zorin, you know, like, where they're like, Zoran, Momdani is going, all the, all the wealthy people are going to leave New York. And it's the same thing. Like, uh-huh. No, they're not. It's like, I think this is probably one of those things where you could also, you know, the people are like, there's always those Twitter accounts that post like a history of kids these days don't want to work. And they show headlines from like centuries ago. It's, I'm sure this is the same playbook of like, well, we're going to take our wealthy bucks and leave you guys all alone to where is my favorite coffee place. I thought a headline last week that was like, Stephen Spielberg, comma, multimillionaire, comma, is leaving California.

And it's like, these are two separate things. What are you talking about? He's moving. He's just like going on vacation. Seen at the airport, fleeing this billionaire tax. Yeah. I mean. Also rallying in opposition to the tax was a group of 20-something pro-silicon Valley

residents who organized a pro-billionaire rally in San Francisco this month, which was like a couple dozen people and then a bunch of people like gawking at them. No, it was like a dozen, maybe. Yeah, yeah. Like, and it was truly other people being like, oh, this is for real. We thought this was satire. Yeah. Yeah. Jesus. I mean, like, God, every time I tell every like normal or I say normal, like every sort of non-in, people that aren't into the news as much as I know the list. are please start poisoning the well for people thinking Gavin Newsom is a viable candidate in 28 or anything. I think he might have just done that himself. I don't know. But there's still, every headline from like the Washington Post, the New York Times, the L.A. Times completely

avoids how much of an establishment Democrat Gavin Newsom is. And just they want to focus on his like Twitter shit talking to be like, this guy's different. And you're like, I'm sorry, on Israel on affordable housing, on progressive taxes, on these on on on the unhoused. He is not different at all. And he's actually less different worse in many other ways. Yeah. And it's they're going to fucking try and cram the shit down people's throat. But it's like, no, dude, this guy is unless you're like clavicular who's like, yeah,

dude, I've like, I'm like, I'm not even a Democrat. But obviously I'm, if it's against like J.D. Vance and like this like Chad, Gavin Newsom, like that's where I'm at. guys, that's not the vote that you need to be chasing. Okay. Yeah. Anyways, the person who organized the pro Silicon Valley thing, like, again, like, you can, you can tell a astroturfed campaign when you see one, you know, it was like the fucking tea party guys all those years ago. Like, this is just being funded by billionaires. Look at the press, look at the press to protester ratio. Okay. Typically, when a new group is out there doing something and you get, there's the press out numbers,

the actual people participating, that can be a red flag. Not saying all the time, because there are small movements that grow out of like a few people. But like something as that stinks like shit, like working people who want a cape for billionaires. Like yeah, uh-huh, uh-huh, cool. Well, yeah, it's just like think of how many demonstrations of this size happen like literally every day that are politically to the left.

And no one ever writes about them. Nobody even notices them. Yeah. No one's actually that thing that you're always wondering, like, are other people, like, worried that, like, I feel like the government isn't being ran properly and, like, it's making life harder for me and, like, shouldn't my tax dollars be doing something to benefit me? Yeah, yeah. That's fringe.

No, that's crazy, dude. You know somebody said that? Are you okay? Are you in Tweety birds right now? You hearing some tweeting birds? Are you Bernie Sanders? Are you Bernie Sanders? What?

No. I'm your brother. I don't know. Yank it. Your face. little bit to make sure you're not burning Sanders in a mask. Like, like Robin Williams and Hook when he finally goes, oh, there you are, Bernie. I got a haircut on Thursday and the person who cut my hair said, said, you're back.

After I got my hair. I love that. And it gave me real, there you are. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, you're back. Was it the, was it like the reveal? Like, after you've had your haircut, looking at one. last look in the mirror and like, oh, and you're back.

Welcome back. Welcome home. There you are. That's what Bradley Cooper also said to Lady Gaga when he took off her makeup. He said, go wipe that stuff off your face. And she came back to do the Star is Born thing. He said, there you are. Wait, is that from the movie or that's real life? No, that's from the like behind the scenes lore of the making. The making of it. Wow.

And I feel like I got Bradley Cooper. lady gaga a little bit. Did it feel good? It felt great. I walked out of there with a fucking pep in myself. Yeah. As you walk out, the barbers in jerk off motion. I believe this guy.

I'm a idiot. Yeah, yeah, see you soon. Oh, my God. What a fucking idiot. Shit. Mary, such a pleasure having you, as always, on the Daily Zekeist. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff?

I'm on all the social media, but most importantly, check out my YouTube, the Mary Hulahan show. I interview lefty comedians, grassroots candidates, and independent journalists, and just try to combat some media bias, but to make it funny and digestible. There you go. I heard that. I want to go super viral. So if you guys could please follow and share and all that kind of stuff, I would love you. You're going to have clavicular on? No, unfortunately, I have some morals and won't interview just anybody.

Yeah, we got clavicular on later today. Yeah. If you talk to clavicular. Oh, my God. Yeah. These people don't need an audience. Yeah, no, it's crazy that they do. And it's odd, though, too, like how a significant portion are just hate watchers, too.

Yes. When I'm like, that's also deeply unhealthy. I mean, that's exactly what happened in 2016, everyone being like, get a load of Trump. It's so weird. He's running for president. Nothing bad will happen from us giving him attention. Shout on to emperor. He's my new god.

Emperor Trump. Amazing. Is there a work of media you've been enjoying? TikTok videos of people singing. Yeah. Singing what? Well, I saw one of someone singing open arms by journey the other day. And I was like, this is a good song.

I forgot. Was it just someone like just belting it out, a cappella to karaoke? Wow. I like when, I like that that's your happy content. It's just like people just belting out tracks. It's like talented people and you're like, whoa.

Mine is still so much dancing. My happy, the algorithm's like, this person needs to see people dancing to feel good. And I'm like, yes, yes. I like dancing vids too. I like line dancing. Oh, okay, culture.

Amazing. Miles, where can people find you? Is there a work in media you've been enjoying? Yeah, you can find me everywhere at Miles of Gray. You can catch me talking about 90-day fiancé on 420-day fiancé, and I'm talking about the English Premier League and European soccer on Ain't It Footy with Jamel Johnson and Chris Martin. Tune into that.

It's a good time. A work of media I like is, it's more like an entire account. And it was one of my favorite producers, Pete Rock, okay? The who, you know, who produced one of the greatest tracks they reminisce over you with C.L. smooth. Pete Rock has become such an old-ass boomer in his takes since COVID. Oh, it's the most disappointing shit.

Pete Rock is so gone, saying all kinds of wacky conspiracy theories. But ever since like AI slop videos have come out, he posts so many earnestly. And it's partially, I mean, I got so bummed out. And part of me is like, I need to actually keep an eye on this just to know, like, just to keep the pulse of the people who think AI slop is real. Because like the latest one he posted was like some dude just like digging a gigantic studio like in his backyard or like building a big pit.

That's like impossible. Like I was like using a shovel and it's like a time lapse. And you're like, this would have to be done mechanically. to see this. Yeah. This is, they said Rome wasn't built in a day, but,

oh, yeah. Look at this guy. You can kind of see it. Yeah. He's building some kind of pit. Okay. It keeps going.

It's one man. He's bearing this. There's grass that's going to be built over it. And then wait to the reveal. So now he's down in here, doing all this framing. And it becomes like this fucking luxury apartment. Yeah.

Yeah. And then he, and Pete Rock just. put, yeah, he did that. Pete Rock, God damn, bro. Anyway, so shield yourself from that, but I think for hip-hop fans, if you, if you haven't checked in on Pete Rock, it's, it's no, see, nobody's telling him the truth either. And you can tell by what he's supposed to.

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, uh, work of media. I finally saw No Other Choice, which is the Park Jam Wook movie, director of Old Boy, Decision to Leave, Handmaiden, one of the best directors currently working, got a new banger called No Other Choice, which sounds like a John Claude Van Damme movie, but is actually amazing dark comedy about modern capitalism. But I highly recommend people check out. I don't think he got nominated for anything in the Academy Award.

because... Well, I just didn't get what he was trying to say. Yeah, exactly. What's this guy's problem? Oh, my gosh, you're a director. Are things really that bad? Yeah. But it's like, you know, he's very different, but it does have, like, kind of parasite

energy. Right. Like, he's very different. What's it called again? No other choice. No other choice. The premise is that a guy gets fired and decides to start killing the people who, who would be up for the job that he wants.

And so they have no other choice. But then it takes on many different meanings. It's really good movie. All right. Wow, it sounds like the Paula Viganalan story. That's right. You can't take me down, Pala V. I wouldn't.

I don't know if I like that for you, Miles. I don't either. I don't either. She tends to be an achiever. You can find us on Twitter and Blue Sky at Daily Zykeyes for at The Daily Zythe Zykeist on Instagram You can go to the description of this episode

Wherever you're listening to it And there at the bottom you will find the footnotes Which is where we link off to the information That we talked about in today's episode We also link off to a song that we think you might enjoy Miles is there a song that you think that people might enjoy Yes The new Baby Keam album came out last week

Called Casino And there's one track on it that I enjoy It's called I'm not a lyricist. And I just like it because it kind of, it feels like he's channeling Andre 3000 a little bit, just like with his flow. And also you realize Baby Kim has like seven different voices he uses to rap, and it's disorienting at times.

And I'm like, who's feature? Oh, this is all Baby Keem. Okay, that's range. So anyway, this track is called. Features on his own track. Yeah. It's called I am not a lyricist, baby Keem. Check it out.

If you miss hearing Andre 3000 adjacent rhyme schemes, I think this is something that you, just kind of enjoy. So check it up. All right. We will link off to that in the footnotes. The Daily Zikeyes is a production of IHeartRadio for more podcasts from IHartRadio for my heart radio visit. The IHeartRadio app, Apple podcast, wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That's going to do it for us. Yep.

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