The Daily Zeitgeist - Trump’s Reflecting Poo, Pizza sHut 06.17.26

Episode Date: June 17, 2026

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Let's talk about that gingerbread man's ass, dude. Oh. That's this. Can you make the ass? If the ass is actual groceries, then what's the problem with eating it as such? I mean, clearly, this is for the children. So why would they not want to have a reference to eating a cookie and that cookie making reference to its ample cheats? It got me.

You hook me in. I'm not going to know. When I think of things, I want my toddler to see, I want them thinking constantly, damn, that cookie got a backside to it. They're like, ooh, as they say in the UK, mad back. Mad back. The Ting had a mad back back. Oh, she had a mad back, brough. Maddest back.

Mad back. That was so maddest back. Couldn't fit my meat rocket in it. That ain't no Kepler elf. That is less subtle meat rocket. 100%. I feel like maybe the strike file. movie it feels like it's maybe aging

with us where they're like, look, bro, we already know bro. Oh yeah. With all the Shrek with all the Shrek dick memes and shit. Yeah. I mean, like you're fucking shocked that the cookie got ass. Okay. They know they know it's going to be adults like mostly in there and adults who

were kids when the first one came out taking their kids now. Hunter go see it. What did the snowman say in the alley? Did he say do you want to date a snowman? Yeah, it was like a sex worker. For real. Okay. Like in the shadows, like they got to the big city and this busted ass. Was that supposed to be like Olaf or some shit?

Yeah, I think so. So, so Disney character is a sex worker and a DreamWorks movie. That is shots. That's not how we like to say. We like to say, Disney characters are a bunch of hoves. Okay. They are on these streets busting down. Yeah.

They're busing down. They said, yo, when-O-Bitches. Yeah. You take that shit over the magic ass. They say, pull up to DreamWork Studios. So we got something for you. I mean, Shrek is ready to PG, though. right or even PG-13 possibly

it's not rated G I don't think so they can get away with some stuff anticipated rating P-G I would love it if they get away for some stuff if they went PG-13 on this animated bro if they went to say the F word imagine if they went 80s PG-13 on it

they can still say that they can say that three times and PG-13 three times as long as it's not sexual related right right right universal lot of time I found a really interesting that that trailer was mostly Eddie Murphy. They were like, all right, I know Shrek is Mike Myers, but you ain't done shit in 20 years, bro. Like, Eddie, provide the lift, please.

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Also, have you seen the Japanese goalkeeper who's Blackenese? Zion Suzuki? I'm not. He makes it look like every Black-Nese person has to look like they're related to Rui Hachimura. Like, in a way where people are like, but you don't look like Rui? And I'm like, I'm one of those 80s blackenese people before they, you know, do the genetic settle on one. look for biracial Japanese black people. Exactly. Anyway, shout out to him, though.

Shout out to Japan, drawing with the Netherlands. We also have a new news, non-news show that comes out on Mondays. Because, you know, sometimes we need a break from the news. Sometimes we want to laugh. Sometimes you want to take a deep dive into our icons that we celebrate. We just did Jane Goodall. I wasn't on that episode. We did Amelia Earhart.

I was on that episode. We got Indiana Jones coming up. We've done Sherlock Holmes. We've done Easter Bunny. There's all kinds of ones. So look out for that one. It's got a different logo and everything, so there's no mistaking the title or show. It's the iconograph.

But what does that bring us? It brings us to today, June 17th, National Eat Your Vegetables Day. Okay? It's also Gerald Day, if your name is Gerald. It's Global Garbage Man Day. It's National Mascot Day. Shout out all the mascots out there. And World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought.

Who cares about that? What? cares about that, bro. We're good. I don't even know what you said. So I don't care. Something to do with the climate, bro. And I don't have enough mental space for climate anxiety also.

God damn. My name is Miles Gray, a.k.a. the Lord of Lancashem, the showgun with no gun. North Hollywood's very own. The proud gooner. Who was a gooner before the phrase came into fashion? Okay. Just so you know, shout out Arsenal Football Club. And I am thrilled to be joined today by my guest co-host, one of the legends of this show.

one of the legends of comedy, of improvisation, of podcasting. You may know him from comedian feud, the Fantastic Live Show, or maybe you're on the right path and you're on the right side of media and you're a fan of dropout and you've seen him on crowd control, regardless to us, to you, to him. He is Chicago's very own Jackie Steele. I see hair is sheined. Moisturized too.

I see black And it's me and you And I think to myself What's up my niggas What up me girls We back We back Hey, Sajmo, what's up with the vocal cords?

You okay? Oh man, listen, I was in New York I was in New York Yeah For the past like week and on the East Coast to a show. Shout out to some of the site guys that came up in the, or Zite gang that came up and said,

what's up to me? But, yeah, man, I'm dead right now, bro. Del Close Marathon. Plus, you're in New York, win the Knicks one. Yeah, there's a lot going on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And mom, Donnie, baby, we was doing cocaine. But he don't want to admit it.

He didn't want to admit it. And I told him I was going to say it. But he was like, you can say it. Nobody can believe you. And that's the limit. That's the dilemma. I know most of y'all are like, Jackie's joking,

but what if I'm not? But what if I'm not? And what if I'm about to be sued for defamation? That's what you don't know. That's what you don't know. Well, Jakees, it's good to see you. The voice is still buttery. You know, when you got a good voice,

even when it gets shot, it just adds like another just layer on top of it. So, you know, gravelly Jockeys, we'll take it. We'll take it. We are joined. today by a fantastic guest, someone who's been on the show many times, someone who's got a fantastic podcast,

the inner cities podcast, someone who is actually an accomplished writer, you know what I mean, as a teacher, like a professor even? I mean, what, what more can I say? What more can I?

Ooh, New York all day. It's Aza Williams. Aza Williams, AKA, I got a class to teacher in my face, so I'm on a move to New York. New York, and you know my students writing scripts, my class in New York.

New York. Teaching my students writing scripts. It's good to be back on the show with y'all. Oh, great. It's great to have you, Zell. It's great to have you, man. A-Zo with DeZelle. She's just so jealous.

Like, I wish I could have been there. I went to grad school in New York, and, like, I saw Nick's games with one of my old mentors back in the day. And I, as a native Californian, this area deserve this desperately. Like I got no hate. I got no feelings, but joy. Yeah.

To be magical. I don't know how you could hate on the Knicks winning. Like I was like I'm not a Knicks fan, but like outside of the Lakers, I have an, like, I enjoy the Knicks just because of my love of like the 90s of 90s NBA. Okay. I was thinking the same thing. Because you know what? When I was a kid and, you know, we're talking like round ball rock era of like NBC, NBA on NBC. For some reason, back in the day, everybody got Knicks games.

Yeah, right. In California, on the Sunday morning, you would see the Knicks playing the Pacers or the Knicks playing the Bull. Like, market didn't seem to matter. I think because it was New York, you know, because New York is one of the, it's the biggest city. Of course that they're going to be like, yeah, you're getting Knicks basketball. I feel like I saw more John Stockton than I did like Magic Johnson as a kid. Right. Yeah, yeah.

Or not John Starks. John Starks. John Starks. John Starks. Forgive me. You're not playing in California. Man, for John Stockholas.

I'm not Elmo. Don't treat me like that. Let me tell you. You're going to put your head on a pike, dude. As a Bulls fan from the 90s, fuck New York. But, no problem.

You're talking about, I'll see how you can hate. I'll tell you how you can hate. Be from Chicago. Okay. That's how you can hate. But I mean, like, how did they really get the best of you guys?

Still, you hate them. I don't know. That's kind of wild. those dominant fucking franchise of that decade and you're like, man, fucked up. Listen, but let me live. I get it. Let me live.

Let me live. I will. I will. But here's the thing. I wasn't rooting for the Knicks. But I really like this Knicks team. I love this next team. I love all the players on it.

It has nothing to do with the Knicks team. New York fans, let me tell you something. I'm so happy for you. The energy was great. I was happy. I was smiling. Everybody was kicking it. You know, New York is revitalized right now.

And I think that's a beautiful thing. But if y'all thought New York fans were annoying before. Oh, my God. It's going to be terrible. It's going to be horrible. I already know. They're going to have the confidence of Yankees fans. My goodness.

It is about to be one for the next 12 months. It's about to be one. I am right there with you. It's going to be wild. Like, because you, every time you learn something about this team, it's just like, you know, Cat is Dominican and he lost his mom at a young age. and he had to pull his family together. And Jose Alvarado is from New York

and his Puerto Rican and shows up at the Puerto Rican Day parade. And like everybody for some reason. That was the next morning, bro. Yeah. I was there. Did you see O.G. Anderobie on Good Morning America? He was toasted, bro.

He was cooked mentally. He was toasted. That boy was on 50 milligrams. That was like when you get caught high with your parents. And like, so what you guys do tonight? And the one homie is just fried and can't even talk. And like, don't talk to OG. Don't talk to.

He's going. or something right now. He hasn't even blinked, baby. Well, I've never seen nobody as high on television. They seem to be the best group of people. I am so happy for them and for the fans. We'll see how I feel in like three months when they're still talking about it. Oh, God, that banner is a ceremony.

Oh, you're from California, bro. With you, Lakers fan from the fucking next, bro. Suck my dick, bro. Three championships, bro. We got fucking three rings, bro. That's how it's about to be, bro. And they're going to say that. That's how it's about to me?

A Laker fan? Let me tell you sports fans. All the non-bandwagon front-running fans, like forget y'all. But like for all the actual sports fans out there, I'm happy. But in two, three, four, five, six months, these are about to be the most annoying niggers on the planet, bro. Everyone is going to be told to suck someone's dick over the Knicks being, winning the fucking shit.

But right now, y'all are beautiful. I love it. I love it. I love it. And you know what? You have the right. And honestly, there is something endearing about a new You'll suck my dick, bro. And you're like, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. Listen, you've earned it now. Like, now is warranted. Now is warranted. So now, so here's the thing. We can't say nothing. Yeah. We can't say nothing. I love it. I love it. I love it for you guys. I love it for you. Tell everybody to suck your dick from the back, okay? The time-honored tradition from New York. And let me tell you something about that. Huh? Overrating your dick from the back? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You just got to be real floppy, bro, to pull that off. Yeah, I know. I don't want nobody to suck my dick from the back. For what? Nah, bro. Do you want that? I don't want that. I don't know why that's a phrase.

I don't know why that's a phrase. I think it's just because, like, that's how fucking, how crazy you should be sucking the dick, bro, from the back. From the back? Like, fuck you. Like, suck my dick from the back, bro. Just eat my ass. Yeah. Nah, bro.

It's not about me announcing my needs and desires. Or maybe it's tough. Let's, let's break the science down. I know we got to get there. But if I got my dick from the back, now my dick is touching my ass cheeks and shit. Like, you can, you can soil dick. You're getting soil dick. You're getting soiled dick.

You're getting pink eye for sure. Okay. So I have always assumed that this phrase meant someone was sort of sliding between my legs. Oh. Like face up. But you're seeing this from a whole different angle. See, that's, I've always seen it from somebody is taking a dick and pulling it back between your cheeks. It's right.

Yeah. This is the craziest conversation. Again, New York Zygeng, let us know. Let us know, baby. We don't mean to... I'm sorry, your culture is not our costume. You know what I mean? Are you a contortionist who's also in a relationship with a contortionist?

Please, inform us how we should make... I mean, there was that show puppetry of the penis. I felt like was big in New York, like in the late 90s and shit. I've never heard of this. There's a whole show called puppetry of the penis. Yeah. And, bro, these dudes would just twist up their dicks into all kinds of. of shapes like a sailboat or a flying squirrel.

Either they had to be the longest dicks on the planet or the skinniest dicks on the planet. And that's up to you, bro. You know what? They're flexible. They're flexible. They're flexible. Oh, I guess they're actually from Australia. They're from Australia.

Shout out Melbourne. They're from Melbourne. Shout out Australian sight gang. I hope all the fans are like, yes, this is the content I wanted from three. Yeah. They're like, thank you. On a Wednesday morning. Oh, yeah, might have been caught up in a bit of genital origami, is it were.

That's what they called that shit, genital origami. Anyway, where were we? Yes, this is a new show, and we should talk about what we are going to be talking about today. First up, the Reflecting Pool in D.C. Guess what? Remember they said it's going to cost $2 million to make that shit beautiful? It actually costs $14 million. Hey, there's nothing weird about that transaction.

No need to look into that. But it already looks like shit. And Fox News, they're just extending so much grace to the president because he is a white man. And even though it's visibly the biggest L, they're saying it's actually a dub for him. So we'll talk about that. J.D. Vance went on The View. And let's just say he heard it from the hosts. Although his answers weren't great.

I was actually surprised how everyone was just like, hey, Dickhead, you know, like, you should stop being cruel. How about that? What do you think about that? Does that work? Is that on your agenda? So we'll talk about his visit to the view. We'll also talk about Pizza Hut. Well, they, young brands is apparently selling Pizza Hut, our beloved Pizza Hut for $2.7 billion.

And we're going to dig into all the fantastic decisions that were apparently made by that company. One of them includes AI. And if we have time and the appetite to munch on gingerbread cheeks, we will talk about the Shrek 5 teaser. A lot of butt jokes, actually. Not to think about it because even Donkey was talking about it, but donk. Talk about all that more, but first, Azo, what's something from your search history that's revealing about who you are or what you're into? Why is Byron Allen rich? So, like, we're all about the same age, I think, roughly in the 40s area.

And, like, for my entire life, Byron Allen has been held up as this, like, figure of, like, black, successful man, multi-millionaire, like, media mogul. And then when they canceled the late show, they replaced it with Byron Allen's comics unleashed. And I realized for the first time, I have actually never known why Byron Allen is like usually what the story is. Like usually it's like, like, think about the Johnson family. And it's just like, oh, you know, they made hair products and they grew this like thing. But it's like, Byron Allen just was there when I was a kid. Yeah. And was just like, I was told to like admire this guy.

And it wasn't until like, it wasn't until like literally. the past couple of weeks where I was like, let me just actually Google this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I found out, you know, he was a standup. Yep. And then he started making reality shows in the 90s, but like, that's a, that's a gap.

Right. Because, like, Byron Allen is the exact same age as Eddie Murphy. Like, Byron Allen, Byron Allen was on the late show, like the Tonight show, excuse me, with Johnny Carson when he was 18. Right. So, like, he and Eddie Murphy are contemporaries. And so I'm just like, you're telling me, Byron Allen.

How much is he worth? billions. He's a billion. Like at least a billion. Really? Yeah. Yeah. Like he owns the weather channel.

Yeah. Yeah, because he was, wasn't he doing shit with like syndicate early TV syndication? Wait, wait. This is the weather channel. He also sued McDonald's for $10 billion, I think, last year or something. And then they settled out of court. He finds ways. Oh, shit.

Yeah, I think he, at one point he was sort of, I could be wrong about this. I think he was once in the talks to buy CB. or something? It didn't work out. Yeah. Yeah. But like so, but here is the crazy thing. Here was the crazy thing, right?

And I have not done enough research on this, but like there was a CNN report that came out a couple weeks ago when it was announced that like he was going to be replaced in Colbert. And it was very glowing. There was no information about it. But it was just like, all it said was like, Byron Allen was the youngest standup comedian to ever to go on Johnny Carson. And then he started making reality TV shows in the 90s. And I, my brain, look, I am old enough to remember some of the 80s.

All right. You're telling me this motherfucker and like wolfie and like, yeah, all of these people. And then, and somehow in that time frame, Keenan Ivory Waynes, Robert Townsend,

like Robin Harris, like all of these people, I can tell you by name, we're stand of comedians. Mm-hmm. That never had, I'm going to buy the Weather Channel money. Yeah.

Yeah. Like, anyway, I never got an answer to the question. If anybody can find out between, is it Coke? Is it Coke? It was the 80s. I don't know, man.

Yeah, he was flipping. He was flipping bricks, for sure. It's wrong of me to disparage, my own people. But like, seriously, something happened in the 1980s to give Byron Allen. It says over the last three decades, he has built a multi-billion dollar business, Allen Media Group, which now has 2,000 employees across various media properties. In addition to creating a trove of accessible, family-friendly programs, he's taking a number of big, bold swings, buying up distressed assets that now span broadcast

cable, streaming, and film distribution? You know what I think it is? Like, real talk. Real talk. Okay. Because I feel like that wasn't an answer. I feel like that was a lot of facts, but not an answer. Here's what I think it is.

I think he did something that a lot of black creatives didn't do in like the late 80s, 90s, and things like this. Is he started buying a bunch of things and producing a bunch of things and didn't put his face on it. and when you don't put your face on something like the weather channel, niggas think it's owned by a white man. And then people start giving more, like they give more money to it. It gets more legitimacy because white people think, you know,

like things that black people own, like in living color, it was better than Saturday Night Live in the 90s. But like, you know, and living color went away in S&L's institution. And all these type of things, right? So I think like, That's a good point.

I think like him not put in his. And in the 90s, think of all the black creatives we know, especially, that even if they were like the Kenan, even like the Wayans, Kenan and Iri Wayans, that motherfucker was in his shit. He was like, nah, man, you're going to see me too, bro. Right. Like, all of them, like, not all of them. But like, he went the business route and probably like took a step back. Like, I'm going to own it. This is what he did.

I'm going to let people not know. One of the big things he did was making a low-cost syndicated shows, right? And he would go to the networks of the TV stations and he'd say, look, you can air this for free. I just want to cut of the commercials. I want the ad. I want the ad revenue money. That's smart. That's what he did.

He just said, no, I want a taste of the back end. You think they get you enough to buy a weather channel. Apparently, this success was not immediate. He said he received countless rejections, quote, my house went in and out of foreclosure probably 14 times. At one point, he said his telephone service was turned off, forcing him to use pay phones for calls. But that format established a template for what became out. Allen's highly successful business.

And so because of that, just because he was like, no, I want a different kind of deal. And you can have this shit for free. Respect to you, Byron. Yeah. And it said also, yeah, and he was and apparently linked with the Medellin cartels. Okay. So, okay, okay. It is what it is, man.

Get it how you live. Get it how you live. Interesting. I don't know. He was worth that much. Yeah. He had cool like. Because the weather channel thing was like in the last eight to 10 years, I feel like.

Well, so he just. just bought it. Oh, no, no, I think, no, I think, I feel like when I was a kid, my dad would talk about it. Like, my dad was one of those guys who was like any black man who had success, he knew. Right, right, right. It wasn't popular, but I feel like I knew it when I, like, in the, in the odds. I could be wrong, but I feel like all of my life I've been told about this guy. He acquired it, uh, in 2018. Was it 2018? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know. Why have I known about him all of my, this is the magical thing about Byron Allen. Yeah, right? And I, and I.

I think, you know, I think between both of you, you probably figured it out. And Chukese is right. If you keep your profile low, people don't even know. And everybody supports you. I think, yeah. But he feels like the kind of person who would have been in Jet magazine. Yeah. You know what I mean?

And that's how, that's how like older black family members be like, you know, Byron Allen is really successful. I read it in Jet. Yes. Shout out Jet. 100%. Sounds true. Miss Jet.

We miss Jet magazine. Man. Is Jet still? Jetmag is not as popular. It's online. It's probably. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Jetmag.com. Wait, although this looks old. This is remembering Malcolm Jamal Warner. That's the last update they had. That was a while ago. That was a while ago. The final issue was nothing happened in black news since then. Not that I can tell.

June 2014 was the final print edition. Oh, damn. And to all the people who don't know what Jet Magazine is, this is the insight you get when you have three black people hosting the Azele's Geist. Okay. There you go. Azele, what is something you think is underrated? Death. Go on. Underrated. So, and Miles, Miles knows this because I had to, I had to talk about it with somebody. So there is a game. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That is called Stranger Than Heaven. Okay.

They released a trailer about two months ago for this video game, and it had what I was calling the song of the summer. It's also called Stranger Than Heaven. It is, it is a fucking Bob and who's it by? Oh, God, I forget now. So I disassociate myself from the product, but like Snoop Dog is featured on it. It features like a Japanese singer and a somebody named Ido, Otto, Otto, like somebody named Otto who's really popular online and also like an American saying is a great song. But it made me want to play this game that is part of the Yakuza franchise and I'm not a huge Yakuza fan. The games are so long.

I've never finished the Yakuza game. Yeah, I played the third one. I was like, bro, I can't do this anymore. It goes forever and they get real weird. But I was hyped about this game. And then a couple weeks ago at the summer game fest, they brought out a one-minute trailer. And I was super hyped all through it until the very end,

where Tupac Shakur walks out of a Japanese bathhouse. You know what I said Tupac Shakur came out of an onsen? I believe you might know him as Macavel. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is he, Tupac. In the game? In the game. In the game.

In the game. Oh, he's an NPC. Yeah. He's in the game. Okay. He's in the game. Okay. In the year of our Lord, 2026.

Um, let this man rest. Yeah. I don't think, I don't think I could have been more offended if they had put an actual dead family member of mine in this. Yeah. I mean, the one time I think I wasn't against it was Coachella in 2012 when I went for the Tupac hologram. You were there? I was there. I was fucking there. I was like, oh, Tupac about to come out in a fucking hologram. This is the future. I was too high to even register that I saw Tupac. It didn't make sense. You just heard like, you said, what's so? It was just like of this weird automated voice. It was not cool. But I remember at that time, that was four. 14 years ago that people were like, oh shit.

Jesus, that was 14 years. Oh my God. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. A lot of times passed. That's what else was like, I think especially with the, because didn't Snoop come out and like co-sign it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But you know what else?

Snoop is a lot. He can make those choices. And also he's weird. He's weird as fuck. Like, when that, when Drake did that disc track and had the Tupac voice on it, he was like, yeah, it's kind of cool. And I'm like, oh, shut up. No, it's not.

Miles, can I ask a question? As a brother, so I was talking to Tucci, who's also been on the show, my podcast co-host. And we were just trying to figure out why I was so offended. And the conclusion I came to was I feel like, again, men of our age, particularly young black men in California, he was not just a rapper. He wasn't just a musical artist. He was like a scholar poet. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He was the guy who could be as hard as you could be, but also be like.

in a movie where you're the love interest. And also his lyrics could be emo as fuck too. And you're like, oh, this is kind of, wow, this is transparent and open. Yeah, yeah. Do you, I feel like this is, this is a bridge too far. Also, one other note to this, they aged up, they had put like some salt and pepper in his beard. So it looks like, sort of like what he would look like if he hadn't died. And it just is upsetting.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Justin's in the chat was saying, yeah, Snoop bought Death Row and let his son launch and run the gaming division of it. So that's how this happened. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's, it's high nepotism. His son is also in the game. Snoop son. His son is in the,

his son is all he put himself in the game? His son is in the game. His son is in the game. And he is out here caping for Sega who makes the game being like, oh, yeah, I thought this was a way to keep him alive. And it's just like, dog, this was your friend. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is your friend.

This isn't how you keep it. Like you're just exploiting his likeness for a profit. What is he doing in the game? He's just in it? Two buck or, Yeah. It's like a character. He's just a character.

What does he do? We don't know yet. We don't know yet. Apparently, so they did hire an actor. They didn't use AI to do his voice. They hired an actor to pretend to be him. But it's him. It looks like him.

It is upsetting. And he plays this magical Negro that the Yakuza character needs in his travail. I can tell you, Snoop has like, Snoop is a pivotal character in the game. He's got lines for the, like, the main characters. And his son is like a. list. His son is listed on the game as if he is like Matt Damon. Right. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm guessing that Tupac does something at that level. I just like if they said, and also starring and it just says Snoop Dog's son.

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How much trouble do you want to get in this week? I love it. Okay. Okay. Snoop's family's about to already fucking pull up. I know. I'm going to get a cease and desist from. You shouldn't even sold people you're in Fresno.

From death. I know. What am I? Yeah. I am going to go, okay, y'all do it. Democrats' commitment to black people. My people, it is. But it's thrown right in our faces.

Yeah. Yeah. It's, we need to, we need to reevaluate and to be very clear, I am obviously not talking about going for the GOP. Do not get me fucked up. But I, we are currently in the middle of primaries where I have watched this party fight all of the politicians who would do things to help us or that we support. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And what I'm not hearing is a conversation in the community that is on par with the conversation that had to happen around the Civil Rights Act, right? Like Civil Rights Act happens. Black people aren't voting Republican anymore.

Yeah. We are solidly Democrat because they support us. And we see it in a couple of places. Mom Donnie was able to do it. Mom, Donnie pulled in a lot of support from black and brown people in Bronx and in Brooklyn. But I will say, I'm not in L.A. anymore. And a lot of that is due to the affordability climate there. And Karen Bass is not my.

I've had some fights with people. I've had some fights with people about like, why am I not supporting this black woman? I know it is harder for her, but like I feel like in every single election, particularly in the primaries, when we have real choices, we have to start asking ourselves,

do these people care about us? And frankly, a lot of people in the Democratic Party, if you're willing to play games to try to get Spencer, to risk potentially having Spencer Pratt on the ballot in November, you are not to protect.

You're fooling. You're fooling around. I'm sorry. No, no, no, yeah, yeah. You're protecting your own career is what you're doing. And the status quo, which is violence. Yes. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. There's been. Yes. Yeah. Always going to be the thing that establishment Democrats care about more than anything. And, you know, capitalism, when it comes to the black community, is generally used to keep us down. because, you know,

or sequester. Yeah. It's another leg of white supremacy in a lot of ways, you know, here in the country. The other thing that's crazy is like, there have been a lot of articles where Democrats and, like, leadership has talked about, like, well, what are we going to do about, like, the black vote? Like, do we need to, like, really start turning up for them because they're an important voting block? Do we just pivot away from the fact that the Voting Rights Act was absolutely smashed? bits by the Supreme Court. And I think that's the other thing, too, is they don't actually understand how, or they're not communicating how severe that is, that Supreme Court decision

to, like, dilute black voting power. Because right now, people just think it's manifesting in a few districts that aren't majority black anymore. But that is actually going to functionally keep black people from even having a seat in terms of representation for elected office when you carve up these, these districts. And again, dilute black people. voter power. And there's like these, the fact that Democrats are even like, what do we do? Like, do we do what's fucking right and actually acknowledge that this is a, this is a severe injustice that's being committed? Or do we just kind of be like, look, man, we might be able to get away with just saying like, there's a lot of other big issues we got to talk about too that will hopefully

get them to vote for us also. And that's when, you know, I think for most people who have probably been listening to the show in the beginning, probably have had some evolution of being like, yeah, okay, well, they're the better party to then being like, okay, they're like, like they're kind of the better part. Okay, they're just the same, but just slightly less fucked up. And now, and I feel like this is a huge part for people to really think about the elected leadership that we have is truly are these people, I think this other thing I talked about is the idea of democracy, the way Democrats talk about it is so overrated where they're like,

we've got to save democracy. Because democracy got us here. Democracy got us all these problems. Democracy has kept qualified immunity on the table. for police. Democracy has not really done much. It's liberation that I'm interested in. And is your, is your, you know, is the framework for your analysis of the politician actually looking at what liberation is? Because fuck democracy. If it's not liberation, that's what people are yearning for at every single level, is to feel free, not to be like that we're in literal bondage right now, but to

have the yoke of toiling under capitalism taken off of us, the feeling that we are taking care of because we live in a society that deems everybody worthy of like medical care or an education, those are the kinds of things. And if you're out there being like, we actually need to have more credits for cities that, like, no, no, no, no. Like you're getting into that fucking techno babble bullshit and you're not talking enough about real things. On that point, Miles, like I, about people liberation and about those who are committed to it, I never lived in Mithy Rahman's district.

I lived in Hollywood and North Hollywood when I was living in LA. I ran into Nithia's volunteers everywhere. They were out there doing, like, they were canvassing for her, obviously, but they were also like part of rallies for other candidates, like to support more progressive people. I remember I got my little compost bucket from her folks in my neighborhood when my alderman, or no, my olderman, Jesus, I think about Chicago now, when my city council person wasn't, you know, providing those things that the city said we needed. We had to legally start commas.

I was a big supporter for Karen Bass, obviously, in 2022 because, you know, Rick Caruso is terrible. And then she disappeared on us. Oh, the other thing, Nithia showed up at the strikes. When I was a strike captain for the WGA, she was on a picket line with us when Karen Bass was saying, you know, oh, I hope both sides come together. And that to me is the exact example of what you're talking about. Where it's like, yeah, I, democracy to them is like, you had to say, now shut up. versus like liberation. Which would be like, yeah,

the inequities here are so trans, they're so obvious, they need to be addressed. Yeah, and that's a thing. You know, with the voting rights act and like you say,

a lot of black people are not going to have seats at the table. I think that is, because the thing about liberation is it also has to include us. Yeah, for sure. And as we've seen,

you know, like, Ivy League, educated wealthy people are not, I don't really see them as the people who are going to bring about that. No. And then also, you know, people who talk a good game when it really comes down to it, really just want themselves to be liberated. Yeah. When those faces are white, even if they are firmly on our side, when everything is white centered, you know, like it is. And I'm talking from both sides of the rainbow is everything is white centered, unfortunately. And unfortunately, you know, when black people are saying, like, we want to be liberated too. That's an extra thing that we need to be liberated from.

Right. And the connection that a lot of Democrats, a lot of white folks, a lot of non-black people don't have that we have to that ideal is a big problem. Yeah, it's a very specific thing. Yeah. It's so specific. It's a thing that ambiently that we've had to acknowledge. whether you want to or not that exists. And it's a shame that not enough politicians are like literate in that. And the ones that are, you know, credit to them because there are people who are trying to do that work. But it's not. I did stumble on a trick to this, by the way, when it comes to like the age difference.

Because younger black folks are willing to be more progressive. It's kind of, it's the aunties and uncles we got to worry about. I got my mom to vote for more progressive candidates just because I said like literally this is who Jesus would be right now. And if you have a church lady in your family, like, point out the fact that Jesus would want to take care of the sick people. Jesus would want to, like, feed people. If you have an unk in your family, who's the NBA champion right now? The Knicks. Okay.

Who's the Super Bowl champion right now? I don't know. I don't watch the football. Seattle. Seattle. Okay. What are their mayors? Socialists.

The only people win a championship from this point on. Democratic Socialists. So there, there's a secret. But what about the Dodgers? or bring in championships. Figure out who you're talking to. Yeah. Or it's like for your unc you go, they would have been Jay-Z.

Oh, okay. I remember. Yeah, reasonable. That was a great album. All right. Well, great overrated, underrated. Let's talk about the news. One thing is just so the reflecting,

I just have to touch on this. So on Tuesday, people have found maintenance crews, quote, frantically pouring gallons of bleach into the reflecting pool next to the Lincoln Memorial. And peroxide too, right? Yeah. They were also spotted pouring

hydrogen peroxide into the more than 2,000 foot long pool after National Park Service crews were also out on Monday and over the weekend attempting to clear the gigantic algae blooms. Trump, obviously the whole time he's like, it's going to look beautiful.

Obama really made a mess. He always, again, has to raise the specter of the black man that lives rent free in his melted brain. It would have never been like this. Now it's the color is freedom American flag blue. But if you look at that shit now, it looks like then I hate to age myself where Swamp Thing lived.

Yeah. I don't know how many people remember that specific reference, but that's what it looks at. I just want to play on Fox News. They are trying to spin this so hard. It's crazy. This fucking, the correspondent is at the Reflecting Pool. This shit is greener than Shrek's dick. And he's like, wow, doesn't it look beautiful?

This is Fox News on the supposed success of Donald Trump in his green algae pool. I'm here at the newly renovated reflecting pool. It's painted American flag blue. And the Democrats are going to tell you, oh, there's green algae. It looks so bad. But there's pool guys cleaning it up right now. No other president would do that. But President Trump is still cleaning it up.

How is the... What the fuck? He is literally saying, like, I, I, it is, it is, it is, this is wild. This is comedy. Yeah. It's comedy. This is comedy writing. Like, this is what you write on television.

Right. Yeah, yeah. Like, they, this is a Tina Faye show. It's insane. They, they renovated this taxpayer money, 14, what, million dollars. They said it was. They said it was two. And then it went to 14 and they're like,

this guy's never, this guy's his pool guy in Florida who got this job. And, and like, fine. First of all, why do I need the shit to reflect? I can only look one foot into, I don't need that, whatever. It doesn't fucking matter. It's literally just reflecting as a property of water.

It's a problem. But even so, you couldn't even do two weeks within not turn into ass. Like, come on, man. That's comedy. that is. The bar is so low, too, that they, again, this just shows you what happens when there's like a white man in an office on Fox.

They're like, and I mean, look at this. I mean, there's pool guys cleaning it up. Nope, other president would do that. That doesn't even make fucking sense. That's the equivalent of us coming, being like, you know, drugs are probably going to clean up the drugs. And then there's like behind them 20 people doing pounds of coke. And it's like, and the Democrats are going to tell you they're doing cocaine, but don't listen to them. Donald Trump is going to come and he's going to vacuum the cocaine off of the table.

Like, what are you? What are we talking? This is like, this is like shouting out your dog for taking a shit on the carpet. And it's like, but it tried to clean it up too. So that's worth something. But it ate it. So, you know, that's good. But you did that.

Also, I just want to point out that this idiot on Fox, he doesn't realize he's talking. He's like, hey, what do you think about the reflecting pole? I just want to point out, I'm pretty sure she's wearing a shirt that says A, B, C, D-E-F-I-E-F-I-E-F-I-E-F-I-E-E-C-E-E-C-E-C-E-C-E-C-E-C-E-E-C-E-C-E-C-E-C-E-C-E-C-E-C-E-C-E-C-E-C-E-C-E-E-C-E-C-E-C-E-C-E-E-LU-E-W-E-E-E-LU-W-E-W-E-W-E-W-E-E-W-E-E-E-L-L-W-E-E-E-T-B-W-W. This pool. He is standing in front of a green pool, telling us it's blue. fucking, I mean, it's wild, man. And, and, and here's the thing, like, the scary part for me,

the scary part for me, is not only that we're at this part of the fascism. Sure. That, obviously that's scary, but I'm black in America. Like, so, this has been our lives for a generation plus,

you know, generations. Many. Many generations. So, like, while it is scary, while it is scary, like kind of part for the course unfortunately right the scarier part for me is we thought

that as we get to this place in our lives where information is easier to receive and all of these things like you can see what you say see with your own eyes that yeah they're spouting the bullshit but the amount of people that ignore their own eyes and believe the bullshit

like is fascinating to me. Like, if this was the 90s and people were believing shit, like when social media wasn't as popular and you couldn't just reaching your phone to get, I would be like, okay, people's information is slower. I wouldn't get it, but I would understand it more. I mean, we thought Richard Gear had gerbils in his ass. Seriously? I mean, it's crazy, bro. It's crazy.

It's crazy. You know what's weird, too? It's a television studio. Change the color of the reflecting pool. It's not a live piece. Go full Stalin on them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're not even good. If you're going to lie to me, lie to me. Like, we can see. It's like that, that Cap Williams.

Green ass pool. We can see you, nigga. Like, we can see you. Yeah, yeah. Like, do you know I can see you? Like, at least be better. Be better lying. That's, but I think it just shows, goes to show you how,

how easy it's been for them to lie that that's, there's like not even those steps really taken out. I mean, obviously, they'll do other things to keep people misinformed. But like, this one's like, no, man. Because that's their talking point is that. it's like, yeah, it's green, but there's pool guys out here solving it. Yeah. Don't ask deeper questions.

Here's the thing I think, too, and I don't know if you guys agree with this, but maybe you will. It's not so much that they're dumb. And they are, but that's not all of it. It is what I keep trying to tell my white and non-black friends. It is that all of these things are acceptable to them. because they have been given the free reign to hate black people. That is what they have been given a free reign to hate gay people. They have been given a free reign to hate trans people.

They have been given the free reign to be hateful. And that is why they will vote against their interests. I'll trade that shit in for a green. That is blue. I'll trade it in for a reflecting pool. I don't give a fuck. It's insane because they have been given the free reign. to be awful, racist, homophobic, transphobic, sexist, monogynist people, and still walk through

this world without getting their face-caped in. That is the problem. Broke as they ever been, like, food more expensive than it. Gas doubled in the past three months, but you know what? I get to use the R-word again. And really, that's freedom. That's crazy, dog. And I heard Pete Hegseth, I heard Pete Hegseth wasn't promoting black people in the

to a high position. And I like that. And I like that. I like that. And I like that. And I like that. Insane. Okay.

Cool. What a trade off. Speaking of just people, kind of having to have brushes with the real world. J.D. Vance, you know, he's been ensconced in the,

the warm, soothing waters of just being around other Republicans and them giving him a big old slap on the back to like, hey, man, you're Catholic. That's really cool, man. Oh, you got this book. Awesome. Well, he went on The View on Tuesday morning.

And I'm actually, it's nice to see that the women on the View really pushed back on just some of his bullshit answers. Well, it's 60 minutes now. That's the closest thing we have to 60 minutes now. Yeah, it is the View. Yeah. Is like Whoopi Goldberg trying to sort of set up like a question and the sunny host and really just knocking it down. First, first I just want to play this one clip where Anna Navarro is like, you know, like these iced attention facilities are fucked up and terrible. and she's just really just letting him know

maybe you should go check one out before you start acting like everything is all good there here's Anna Navarro but listen over 50 people have died in ICE custody there are thousands of children 6200 that are being held in places like Dilly Detention Center

the people that have visited those detention centers I don't know if you have talk about the subhuman infrahuman conditions the lack of clean water the lack of medical attention the lack of education. I would urge you as a Christian and as a father to visit

those detention centers where the children are being held and make sure that the conditions are up to the values that we hold in this country. You guys have thrown a lot at me and I see we got 30 seconds left here. But let me say, number one.

You're the vice president. You can go long. I'd like to pick up on this theme because I think it's really important. We do have to strike a balance, of course, between enforcing our laws. He goes on just a bunch of mealy-mouth shit. And, you know, they're like, they're like, okay, great, but what about this specific thing that's happening? Another time, Sonny Hosten, because Wobie Goldberg brought it the fact he's like, she says, look, JD, like, you get it.

You're allegedly from Appalachia. You know, you know what the stakes are for, for marginalized people, like, poor people. Yeah, you seem to be okay with, like, all this anti-blackness. Like, you seem to know what the stakes are for people who are sort of living on the margins of American society. But, like, you're ripping down Emmett Till Memorial. all kinds of installations that commemorate, you know, the ending of slavery and things like that. It's like you don't give a fuck. What's going on with that?

He starts me like, well, Wooby, let me answer. Then Sunny Hosten comes around and is like, let me put it to you like this way, straight up. And this is Sunny Hosten talking to J.D. Vance about like, how do you see people of color, like, even existing in this country? Pointments of people based on skin color. I've seen a story. I'm talking about black history getting erased from public spaces. Black voter districts are being dismantled. Black leaders are being sidelined from our ranks.

Where do Americans of color fit in this vision? Because it doesn't seem like we fit. I think, Sunny, my view, let me... And if I may, since October of last year, there's been something like 6,668 refugees allowed into the country. All but three were white South Africans. So, first of all, I'm very skeptical of that number because we have a lot of different immigration pathways

in the United States of America. But let me just address whoope's point. He just starts going. Every time he's asked the thing, he's like, okay, well, I'm just going to disagree with that fact. I mean, like, we know that, like, truly, the refugees that have come into this country are white South Africans. A lot of, I was also reading stories about how a lot of them are like,

man, this country's fucked up. Yeah, someone went back. They're like, some of them went back. I saw a guy with a gun just out there. I know, no, no, no. no, send me back home. I want to go home. But yeah, he had a lot of just so much just pivoting to shit that he was just clearly not equipped to answer.

And I think, you know, I think it's just indicative of just truly that he really doesn't care. Because he kept trying to be like, I'm trying to sell a book, actually. It was like what he kept pivoting back to. It's like, motherfucker, first of all, shame on you for saying you're here on a show to sell a fucking book. You're the vice president. You're the vice president. What are you selling shit for, bro? You're there to answer for this administration that you are the fucking vice president of.

So when people are asking you straight up questions like this and being dismissive, again, I think the show goes to show there is no interest. And the best he can do is just sort of defane ignorance about it. Because he said when when Whoopi brought up the Emmett Till stuff, he's like, oh, I don't know what you're talking about. And then the audience was like what the like they started groaning. And he said like Emmett Till? Yeah, he was like I know for the Cowboys or something. Yeah, right. That's sick.

God damn. He played with Michael. Irving, right? That was a great team. That was a great team. I saw Michael at the UFC thing yesterday. Yeah, yeah, he was great. He was great. But yeah, that's just a very J.D. Vance performance there. Yeah, and I wish to God these people would just fucking decide if the view are lefty calmest gilfs who like they hate in their heart or if they actually are cool grandmas, they want to know.

because like why wasn't he weren't they complaining about not having being able to go on this show like a few months ago and like the FCC was going to look into them and it was just like yeah i mean the FCC bullied the ABC into having him on so like do you hate them or do you want their approval and if you want their approval come to the show with at least some sense of a better answer like he came to he came to this assuming this was just being there was going to be like whitewashing like the ice raids and the murdering of like Renee good and literally everything else they've done over the past year and a half

and anyone would like if you know what I think he's trying to do you know what I honestly think he thought this would be I think he thought this would be like his mom Donnie moment

where like you remember when like mom Donnie was running and he would go on Fox News and we'd go on like conservative outlets and he would just say yeah I want to make buses fast and free and I want to like fee people and he would

smile. Only the difference is he believes in those things. He doesn't need to defend those things. And they're objective goods. They're objective goods. And so like you can't expect to come on this show and just grin your way out of like detaining children. Right. Like you can't grin your way out of the fact that people are choosing between insulin and food or mortgage. Now you did that. So at least again, And this goes back to the last subject where it's like, yo, if you guys are going to lie to me, at least try to lie well. Like, this is stupid. I think also a part of it too is if we think about the type of person that this administration and people who subscribe to MAGA and streamwright or even conservatism or whatever, the type of person that they are trying to reach out and grab most of the time, besides rich. is low information, right?

Low information, racist, but low information, right? Yeah, low information first. Low information first. And then if you're racist, that's good. That's good too. That's a bonus.

But in their minds, sometimes, I think, at least, he's like, there's probably a few more that we haven't gotten to yet. So let me go on and let me smile like Monday does. Let me present myself as a, more sane. Because we know Donald Trump is crazy

grandpa, but I'm like the more sensible, I can smile, I have the balls to come and sit here with these people and let me spout off these things that just maybe, if I can get 15 to 20 people to listen and be like, hmm, maybe not that bad. Then I can like, then we can start

to siphon off a little bit more of those centrist or those like low information like voters and I don't mean that in the direct. I mean in a derogatory term for some people. But it's just a fact. But there's some other people I don't mean a derogatory. But people who don't care about politics. Exactly.

Remember that wonderful time in this country where like a month would go by and you'd have absolutely no idea what the president did? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's fucking dope. Yeah. It is. So if you get somebody from this administration, it's not going to be Trump. But so if you get the vice president to come

on this show and for all of those people who maybe don't give a shit about politics that much, they know Trump sucks, but they come and see him. then they'd be like, oh, oh. Yeah, maybe. Yeah, maybe. I mean, and that's, I think that's who they are going after with some of these, like, appearances,

because they know most of us see through it. Yeah, I think it's even more than, like, covering for the administration. Like, he's going to run for president in 2028. You know what I mean? So this is part of. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's why he has a book coming out, you know?

And it's, there's already a lot of infighting in within the administration about not having Vance be part of it. You know, like, it's definitely splintering off. Like, there's like the old school in neocons of like Hegg Seth, Rubio, who are like, this guy's fucking no, get him out of here. Like, he's fucking, like, this guy, he's fucking shit up in a way that we don't like. Like he was, we talk about the Epstein Files, like, situation room thing that happened. And J.D. Vance was like the one person who was like, this is fuck, this is fucked up. Like, we got to do something about it.

It feels like almost like, did he leak that shit to try and make sure that he looks like, He looks like he is the person that is like of all the freaks in there because they know how bad this is. He was like the one person who's like, this is actually really bad. And we need to figure out what's going to happen. Not to say like it's really bad that Trump did these things, but more like he was speaking broadly like the optics. Yeah. But I think also being like, shit, bro, did you see the fucking file? See, that's the thing that makes me think sometimes he won't run is because he's, you think he's tainted or he thinks he thinks he knows he has literally no motion.

Yeah, but that, but that is like. like so many white conservative politicians. That's like most politicians who are like, no, I got this. And you're like, no, the fuck you don't. They, they, they, I think they believe they got this even when they don't have it. For some reason, I do look, he has been really good at like, you know, eight years ago, he thought Trump was Hitler. And then he pivoted and he adjusted.

So he's good at like seeing ways to go. And I feel like this deep into it, if he were. if I were him I would maybe give it at least a term before I even think about approaching this again because like no I think you are too

reasonable of a person really Azel yeah yeah yeah get into it's credit yes this guy this person is an absolute creature who's only current he's only attracted to raw power and you can tell

because all of these people are willing to debase themselves in no way any of us talking right now would even dream of because that's not to us that's not like the end game for them it is and they're like yeah man i'll say crazy shit i'll eat my words i'll let like you know look at like all the people like yeah he insulted my wife and uh like i'm i'm still i'm still on board with this shit on board with it i think they're just it's just such a different mindset but i also think he he's already said i'm not running yeah yeah yeah he said it which means he's running uh it means that like means that he had to come out and say it because that's what they're talking about behind the scenes.

Because, Nick, go say you ain't running. Right. If they're talking about a really, if they think they're going to do this whole third term bullshit and go for that, he can't be saying that now. Because I'm like, this guy's going to be in the fucking way. It's going to be in the fucking way. Because why else what he's saying now? Why else what he's saying? I'm not thinking about running out.

That makes no sense. It means it's a conversation that's been had. He's like the optics aren't good within the MAGA base for me to say I have my eye on the throne. Yeah, let's just say it that way. Exactly. It's better that I can look like, hey, I kept my head down. I'm just like this guy. And then when the time comes, surprise, motherfucker.

Yeah. I also think, I also think, I don't think he's an intelligent person, but I don't think he's a dumb person. Those two things are mutually exclusive. And I do think, like, you know, he's a chameleon. He's a, he's fake. But he also can see what he saw. And he already saw how Trump threw away his first vice president. And he sees how people, how Trump will turn on you.

you and a dime. Yeah. And so he's doing, he's calculated. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is what he is. He's very calculated.

And he has to tow this line of being Trump's errand boy and like reaching out to the demographic that Trump wants him to reach out to while stop while still trying to keep his interests like somewhat afloat where when the time comes he can like. If you're smart. Yeah, you have to look at being Trump's vice president as like being in a car that's playing chicken, but you're not driving. But your door is unlocked, and you just got to figure out, what's the last second I could hop out before they think I wasn't down?

And then they all get fucked up in the car crash. Exactly. And he's just like, eh, hop out. There we go. Fuck, man, that was crazy. Did you see that shit? Anyway, I'm JD Vance. I'm running for president in 2028.

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Yum brands, the food conglomerate. Love Taco Bell. Love Pizza Hut. Love a combination Pizza Hut Taco Bell. But Pizza Hut is being sold by Young Brands for $2.7 billion. And it's being bought by a private equity firm, which means it's truly only a matter of time before the hut goes to live on a farm upstate with Toys R Us and all the other dead brands that private. equity has taken over. The company has been struggling for a while because of the pandemic that started when one of their biggest franchisees filed for bankruptcy in 2020. But even before that,

they made the decision to move away from their dine-in restaurants, the one that we love with the stained glass chandeliers and the kale salad bar. Yeah, exactly. A true fumble. The red, the red cups that we used to drink so enthusiastically from. And they've also gotten a lot of bad press for worker mistreatment, wage theft, you know, lack of overtime pay and things like that. So the brand hasn't been doing too great. But the decision to abandon the quote red roof, as we know, like the traditional restaurants, like may have saved money like in the short term, but clearly as a mistake, because we talked to a couple weeks ago, the company has recently been unrenovating pizza hut locations in order to appeal to people's nostalgia because they're like,

Actually, shit, people love the old stained glass pizza huts chandeliers and the red tablecloths and shit. So they're like, okay, maybe that was an L. It gets even worse, though. AI actually has something to do with this too. In 2021, Yumb Brands acquired Dragon Tail Systems Limited, a quote, provider of AI-based kitchen order management and delivery technology for $72 million. Jesus Christ. This is how it's described.

Dragon Tales platform uses AI to automate the kitchen flow, prepare for delivery, schedule drivers, manage staff and drivers, and provide real-time alerts someone other capabilities. It can also be used with third-party delivery partners, like, you know, the DoorDash and shit like that, and offers consumer-facing features allowing diners to track their orders. Huh. We have to stop this. Yeah. Why do we need this? We don't need this. They do this already.

We know. But they did this. Why? Because they're like, hey, actually, we can eliminate the delivery driver position. if we're now coordinating with these other apps to do that. But like every company that's like, yeah, we're fully embracing AI as part of our new business model. It was a fucking catastrophic L. One of their, again, largest franchisees, Chack Pizza Northeast is suing Pizza Hut for $100 million because Dragon Tail has, quote, been a disaster for their business.

According to the lawsuit, before they pivoted to AI, they said over 90% of their, deliveries arrived in under 30 minutes. But now, Dragon Tail gives DoorDash drivers pull real-time visibility into the kitchen, meaning that a lot of them are waiting around to batch multiple deliveries at once, which leads to you getting cold-ass pizza a lot later than you fucking order. Yeah. So delivery is getting worse now, man. Like, the ship's coming.

And then it'll be like, it's coming at this time. And then they'll throw four more deliveries before it gets to me because I didn't pay the $2 for priority delivery. Right, right, right. It's almost like they're purposely punishing. Right. And look, I get the environmental benefits of being like, you don't need to send a car out for every single pizza. Maybe it does help to batch it out.

But I don't know, because you're using AI, are those gains offset by the fact that you're using an AI to do any of this? I don't know. It was a magical time where I would pick up a fun. Yeah. I sound a million years old right now. I don't care. Do you?

But like, if you have not called your local restaurant, and like placed an order and just like walk to pick it up in a while give it a shot yep it's kind of fun yep you meet people you see things yeah i i remember like the like the number for my pizza hut that i would call oh my god there was two there was 505 8 000 and 505 5900 i feel like that was my drug dealers number oh for real yeah they were they were serving out of the pizza hut yeah yeah yeah I did like, hey, man, order an anchovy pizza, cheeseless. Okay, I don't know. Don't know.

I don't know. All right. You got the cocaine back there. We got the cocaine back there, everybody. Don't call it cocaine, man. I'm sorry, cheese. Jesus. Call it stuffed pizza, man.

You need an eight ball of stuffed crust pizza. Let me get an eight ball of buffalo wings. I feel like whoever decided that Red Roof was the thing that should go. Clearly it was never a child to do. divorce because like the pizza hut was pizza hut to a divorce kid is sort of like what a local pub is to the British. It is just like the place you go to have a bit of a rest bit. It's not like, it's not as busy as Chuckie cheese and doesn't have to be your birthday. But it's not as it's not as like messy as a McDonald's. Yeah. I can't tell you like how many meals I had with my dad when I was

the days I would stay with my dad at like a pizza hut because you know what maybe your pizza hut has street fighter too and you got a little bit of gaming but it's like you know what you get out of the house you can sit with the kids it's chill they'll enjoy the food and then you just go home and like that was the pizza hut might have been my first ever experience with a third place as a person yeah I think also too bro like listen everything when we were kids and we would go to these places that all had character and whimsy and joy and unique individualism to differentiate between like the brands and things like that. Capitalism has always been a thing.

But like we've figured out that we by the society has figured out that like if we could take the joy and we could take the individualism and we could take the whimsy and the fun and like now you go to all these places and everything is just. just meant for productivity and meant for quickness, in and out. Don't sit in, blah, blah, blah. That's what it's all about. Because all of them, not just pizza hut, like McDonald's used to look like McDonald's, IHops used to look like fucking houses, like all the things used to look like dope chitako

bell used to have a big ass bell. And now they all just like office buildings because capitalism has figured out. It's flattened everything out. Yeah, yeah, for sure. is make it joyless, but also we can't get anything out of this. If this fails, when it fails, when it needs to move on, we can't get anything out of this without extra work. But if we make it look like an office building, we can just take that name off. We can move in.

And that is the American dream, baby. Well, you know what you just described? You just described like investing. We used to actually invest in places. And like you make it look like a pizza hut because you want to invest in and get people to come to a pizza hut as opposed to like, let me just hedge my bet and make mediocre pizza and shove some AI. Like this story is basically exactly what's wrong with everything we're doing like now. It's the inshittification. There's the inshittification of pizza hut is what happened.

Yeah. You know, and I think it says, but it says something too that like because we, I think with pandemic lockdowns and things going to a brick and mortar place like to your point, Jackie, it's like it felt. felt like an event to leave your fucking house. Yeah. To go even eat a fucking slice of pizza at Pizza Hut. And you're like, yes, we get in the fucking car or get on the train, whatever. But like, I'm going somewhere to do a thing. And because everything's being brought to us so passively or people are just like that that sort of way of living is sort of altered a bit.

I think you're just seeing naturally the people's desire to be out in physical space and go do things, which is why you're seeing like the resurgence of like the red. roof pizza huts or even like I was just like I brought this up before how like gen Z like more Gen Z people tend to like shitty dive bars that are disgusting than the Instagramable like nightlife places because it's just like oh feels like a real place to go like people like people. Like people just want to go to a real place. Yeah man. Yeah.

Hey man bring back. Bring back fat chucky cheese. I don't need skinny chunky cheese. Oh yeah. Give me the fat mouse bro. The mouse that's even. pizza and send on their ass playing arcade games and skinny? No, man.

Bring back Chucky cheese. The one that was smoking cigars and shit. Yeah. Exactly. That guy was smoking cigars, I felt like the earliest renditions of him. He wasn't a musician, so that makes sense. Yeah, exactly. He's got to have smoke break for it. You know what it was. It's because he did that cocaine.

You know, order a large cheeseless cheese pizza and Chuckie cheese. Okay. Allegedly. Jockees, Azel has been fantastic. having you. Zelle, where do the people find you, follow you, ingest your creativity? Yes. So we had to take a little break from the podcast while Tochi writes his book. So the podcast is still up, the inner cities. It is out there. But you can find me on Instagram at Azel Will. You can find my website, azell.com with information on my works and writings. And I have a substack, azell.com, where I write a lot about like the political world that angers me. So if you're

missing me on the podcast, you can find that on the substance. All right. Is there a work of media that you're enjoying social or otherwise? Yes. So speaking of podcast, a podcast called The Children of Tendu has recently come back. It is hosted by TV writers Javier Greo Markwatch and Jose Molina. And they talk about the reality of what it is to have a TV writing career. And when I got my first job on Law and Order SVU. It really helped me a lot to understand exactly how to be an effective showrunner. And so they brought the podcast back recently because the landscape of the TV, gentlemen, I don't know if you know this, but has changed drastically. Yeah. And so they wanted to, they wanted to update people as to like what's going on. I'm teaching a writing class in the

fall and I've actually incorporated it the first couple episodes into my syllabus because I want to, I want to talk about the things, not just the technical craft writing, but like what it is to have a career in this. And so, like, they talk about things like what it's like to be a person of color in a room, which, you know, we've probably all heard, like, sometimes you'll be the only one and how that's difficult. But also, like, beyond that, like, we don't really, like, this, the industry basically isn't making many shows by, about, excuse me, cultures besides that don't fit into the yellow. own world right now. Right, right. And so they talk about how that feels particularly, because like Javier, I think Javier has been writing for like 30 years and Jose maybe has been writing for 25. And so they have seen this change from like diversity programs existing and infusing talent and people getting deals to like, oh, we don't have to do that anymore. Okay, well, we're done with that. So anyway, children of,

it sounds like children, children of Tandu. I'll send a link and you guys can put it. on the thing. The footnotes. Okay, for sure. Bam, bang. Jack East, thank you for stopping in, man. Where do the people find you, follow you? What's the work of media that you're enjoying?

Oh, I always love a stop in on the TDC. Welcome back, Miles. You know, every time I've done it recently has been with Jack. I love Jack. Yeah, yeah. I love Jack with all my heart. He's the pod daddy. But it's good to be back with you.

He had daddy things to do. Yeah, it's always good to do. He's got daddy things to do. He's got daddy things to do. It's good to be back with you. You know, You can find me. You can find me in these streets.

You can also find me at Jackie's Neal. Jackisneal.com. Canada. I'm coming to you. We sold out Vancouver. We sold out our Vancouver show in September already. Fuck, man. I got to go out to Vancouver.

But we are, but because that sold out so quickly, we were contemplating doing the Pacific Northwest tour for a community clash, my game show. But we might be going through Canada instead and figuring that out. If you're in Canada, Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, maybe a couple other places, we may be rolling through the Maple Leaf Country. Is that what they call it? Get those Montreal smoke meats. Get those, listen, I would love to go to Montreal.

I can't wait to go there. I'll also be in London with Carl Control Live this August. I'll be through Europe for the rest of the month performance. So be on the lookout. Be on the lookout. Here's something I find, here's something that's been. interesting me. I'm all, look, it's about to be a thighs out summer for me.

My thigh's about to be out. Okay. I'm going to have the Hootie Daddy short song, you know what I'm saying? My knee's going to be visible, moisturized. Good. And there's a thread that Des dot the princess wrote. And I agree with this with all my heart. And she says, normalize a little bush slipping out the bikini sides.

And I'm all for that, baby. Norman, listen, you ain't gathered. I love the armpit hair, too. Let the bush come out, man. I just want to see some strands. I just, listen, we need to. That doesn't sound good, Jackie, you're like, hey, I'm trying to check out the strands.

Let me see the strands, baby. Let me see the strands. I ain't trying to be a creep. I'm just trying to say, I want you to do you. Be free. Be free. Be free. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Let the ass cheeks out. Let the thigh. Also, all the dudes, too. Let your thigh meat out, baby. Oh, yeah. Let your thigh meat out. Get that upper leg pubic hair peeking out the side of the short. Cupid hair coming down.

Shorts, so short. Right where, like, where you used to shave and so it's a little, not as thick as the rest of the legs. That's where we know that's the pubic hair, baby. And it's, but it's drawn the eye. You're like, something happened over here. Something happened over here. Let the, let your tities out, man. Let your nipples show.

You ain't got to have abs this season, man. Let it all out, baby. Get the sun on you, you know. Unless you have, you know, you lack melan. and it's a danger to you. I feel back to you. It leaves you sunscreen. I found out the sun is white, actually.

I didn't know that. I thought the sun was yellow because I went to her school. Yeah, Jesus, Jesus looked like. Wait, the sun? The sun. The sun. Oh, yes, you. Oh, my bad.

I mean, not the sun of the Holy Ghost. Yeah, yeah. The sun in the sky is white. And now I know, like, that's why white people, that's their greatest enemy is white on white crime, baby. Look, look at it. White on white crime. That's what I saw with, like, the England national team,

training in the U.S. for the World Cup. So many of those players had sunburns like in their media photos. I was just like oh shit. I didn't fucking know man. It's a fucking different story out here. You can find me everywhere at Miles of Gray. I'm talking about 90 day fiance on 420 day fiance talking about

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known. And this shit is just so stupid. But this is what one person's confession was on this video. I pee hard to intimidate other men in public bathrooms. If you stand next to me, you can bet I'm about to bach my s'all. I do hard, b***. You're going to hear a deep thrum of my stream blow out the bottom of the bowl. You go, I go, and the whole time, you just standing there knowing you a bribus wondering who's got that fire hose blowing out that fat stream that can feel your girl to the brink. Hell yeah. That's a confidence I want all y'all to have this summer. Your shit go like, your shit go like, my shit go like, s.

Let your P streams out, baby. Let them, let the string come out. Yeah, intimidate. Intimidate with your urethral. Your urethral power. You can find us on Twitter and Blue Sky at Daily Zykeyes, for the Daily Zylaidgues on Instagram. Go to the description of the episode

wherever you're listening to right now, and at the bottom you can find the footnose. but no, which is where we link off to the information we talked about in today's episode. Also, a song that I think you might enjoy, I'm going to take it back with some Apex Twin. For all the old EDM heads, you already know about Apex Twin, one of the most goaded producers out there. But recently, like, his music has been, like, rediscovered by younger people I've noticed. Like, in Supreme did a whole collab with Apex Twin, and people were like, what's this Apex Twin? I'm like, get fucking learn about it.

This track is called Alberto Balsalm. B-A-L-S-A-L-M. And it's just like a nice little spooky beat that I really love. So check this one out. Alberto Balsam by A-Fex Twin. That's going to do it for us today. We will be back later today to tell you what's trending.

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