The Daily Zeitgeist - wAr iS wOn! Miles’ Romulus & Remus Joke Too Good For Jack? 05.06.26

Episode Date: May 6, 2026

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My grandfather famously, we went to this outdoor museum where the grass is maintained, just so meticulously. You think they're using fucking scissors and shit. But there's a little, there's like a little rope and stanchion about like one foot off the ground, clearly to be like, don't get on there. And I remember my grandpa, this is my mom's dad, he took his shoes and socks off and just walked right through this like big grass patch and just was like walking around. And the museum staff was there was like, sir, sir, you.

You can't stand there. He just snarled back at them. He's like, grass is meant to be walked on. That's right. And then. It's the whole reason it exists. Just snapped on them. And again, they were like, oh, shit.

Yeah, he's an elder. I don't know what else to say. He's kind of said that with his chest. Okay. Then you're giving me some ideas for my next trip to Japan. Grass is meant to be walked on. You see, see here? Terms and conditions apply.

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Have you guys heard? No. where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness through the day's news. We also have a new non-news history version of the daily Zichkeyes dropping each Monday morning, where we do a deep dive into the Zichies through the lens of a different icon. This past week, we've gone and done it, folks. We did Mr. Bean. Miles, you are out for Mr. Bean.

We've got Anna Wintour coming up just to give you a sense of the range. Of the spectrum, yeah, of icons, yeah. Miles, do you know, the year that Titanic came out and Men in Black came out, you know what the number two movie at the box office was? I'm guessing it's bean. It was Bean. Dude, they cashed that in at the perfect time. They fucking nailed it.

That's great timing. That you could actually come, we're like, obviously no one's going to touch Titanic, but you came second to Titanic and right before Men in Black. Men in Black. Unbelievable. And then they dropped. a bean sequel like I don't know over a decade later

and it did like it also did incredibly well like Mr. Bean is fucking massive around the globe and that's sort of thing you can learn on the iconograph there are the episodes on Mondays with icon in the title but right now here it is

Wednesday May 6th 2026 yeah shout out the nurses it's national nurses day shout out my mother-in-law because it's Savian Blanc Day. And also, shout out school nurse day, too. Shout out Miss Lee.

I remember very fondly from my elementary school because it was hot as fuck in the valley and everyone used to would pretend they had like impact injuries to go get ice from the, from the nurse's office that we would just eat. And Miss Lee would always be like, I hurt my knee. And then next thing, you know, I'm walking out of there just eating the ice out the back. Just crushed ice? Pebble ice? Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

The blue ice. The blue ice. This is basically like a freezy pop. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.K. I'd like to take his Jack off from the Nick Cage, John Travolta movie Jackoff. That one courtesy of Locke Rone. I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host,

Mr. Miles Gray. That's Miles Gray, the Shogun with No Gun, the Lord of Lancashire, back from Japan, with really interesting T-shirts that I got. Oh, and dreams. Fuck, I forgot to tell. You know how it is when I go out there and there's no THC.

The dreams become vivid. I had to write down a few. I'll share them throughout the week. There's someone just so fucking weird that I was like, what the fuck is my subconscious? It's weird in there, man. It gets weird. Yeah, it's weird. There was a mixture of me having a front row seat to the war in Iran.

Like, truly, like, I had, like, a theater seat. Yeah. But my friend from high school who always got me in trouble was the one who got me to to this quote unquote show and I was like dude where are we what are we looking at right and it's like dude they're about to bomb this facility and I was like wow fuck I'll tell you you know they used to do that in the Civil War they used to just go have picnics next to the battlefield yeah be like whoa this is a good one yeah I really think the underdogs are gonna pull it off this time son son get your binoculars out you're gonna like this first

volley um miles we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a comedy writer songwriter and host of the podcast that sounds like a lot. It's Matt Boucher! Matt Boucher! Thank you. Guys, what an intro. Yeah. What's going on, man?

I'm chilling. It's great to be here. Thanks for having me on. Of course, of course. Now, that sounds like a lot. I'm guessing it sounds very sympathetic, empathetic. It's just sort of like, that's what I always say, when I'm trying to be really understanding to someone. Yeah, but kind of in a dismissive way, right? You know what I mean?

Oh, no. It sounds like a lot. That sounds like a lot, man. Like, I don't know. I don't want to do with that shit. Yeah, yeah. Good luck with that, man. Yeah, that's kind of the tone we're taking with this.

So what's the show like? Show is pretty basic. We're doing episodes every Friday. You can watch them on YouTube, stream it on Apple or Spotify anywhere. But every week we're going to open with like a little three-minute monologue that I write where it's like everything that happened that week,

I'll try to make some jokes about. We record that on Thursday, so it feels very fresh and you're getting something brand new. Kind of like, you know, like NPR, up first, but like done by an idiot. And then like, yeah, yeah. We tacked on an interview with a comedian or an actor or a filmmaker or whoever's around, you know. Yeah.

So it's been a lot of fun. Yeah, we've done a few now. And personal came out last week. And, uh, yeah, thank you. Matt, I will say that sounds like just the right amount to me. Yeah. So good work on the next show. That's our new show, actually.

Yeah. That sounds like just the right amount. We just sneak in with that. Matt, we're thrilled to have you here. We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell the listener a couple of things we're talking about tonight. Tonight, I don't know when you're listening to this. Might be tonight.

We're going to talk about the hottest spectator event in Miles of the dreams, the Iran War, which we're just getting some mixed messages from our fields later on. Still. So we'll talk about that. We got word that it was, one, had been. terminated over the weekend. I don't know why Arnold Schwarzenegger had an Australia accent in that one. But he seems to be in kind of a

pickle when it comes to how he's communicating around the Iran war and what he's doing. You can only bullshit everyone. I mean, he can't even really bullshit anyone about this, but it's becoming so flimsy and nonsensical because really the only thing you can say is that was a fucking hell. and we need to stop this.

So it has to be like, no, it's actually, they need to figure. He was like, Iran needs to get it together and sign this non-nuclear deal. It's like they actually had one, but in your first administration, you know what asshole go on. Tell us more about what needs to happen. Yeah. I'm sorry. No, no.

I don't, am I allowed to talk during this public? You are definitely allowed to talk. Well, hold on. Jack, let's sidebar really quick. What do you think? You guys trying to talk? I don't want to fuck up here. I don't want to fuck up your.

intro though. I don't know if you're like this is the bar we've met. Well, no, I think the Iran war is, I think it's so infuriating because yeah, like you said, they had a deal. And now we're watching the situation where they're like, they keep changing every, like the street of Ormoos situation is driving me crazy because they're like, we're going to stop everyone going. And they're like, now we're going to watch people go. And like, now no one's allowed to go. And I'm like, what a fucking nightmare. Unless we escort you. It's like, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, I just, I don't, I'm not a, you know, I don't know how to fix this, but I just look at it and go, if all the world's economies based on this little stretch of water.

It's like, is this the best way to do things? It feels kind of insane. Seems like it was the very reason that nobody did this for a bunch of total psychopaths who've been running the United States military for three decades. Did not do this. They all walked up to the decision and we're like, yeah, but the straight. No. I'd rather not.

Anyways, we'll talk about that. And then it's drinks news. We got two drinks stories. thermos, thermos blinding people, McDonald's getting rid of their self-served soda machines. What the fuck. Yeah.

I mean, we might end up just doing all drinks news. Fuck the war, you know? I'm in design. Yeah. Big news. All of that,

plenty more. But first, Matt, we do like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? Hmm. Okay,

right now the history is all NBA playoffs. The last search was Nick's box score. I want to see how my boys were doing. And they're doing quite well. I don't know if you watched last night or if either if you care, but... Matt, I did watch. I'm a 76ers fan. Oh, no.

I'm sorry. Sure did. Sure did. And I have conspicuously... So the thing that you might not know about me is that I actually control the fit of the 76ers. I have a hat that if I wear it, they suck shit. Were you rocking it last night? I wasn't.

But what I did make the mistake of, I have been completely radio silent about the Sixers all year. They finally did the thing that I've wanted them to do my whole, just beat the Celtics. That's all I asked of. And then I mentioned that in the media on, on air podcast yesterday. And they immediately got the shit beaten out of them so profoundly. They're like, I just, I like left.

I was just like, walked out of my house muttering to myself. Are you checking out now post-Seltics series? Is it kind of like, we did it? No, I also like the Knicks, and I don't like, I'm a pretty die-easy fan. The main thing I'm in the NBA for is rooting against the Celtics. For some reason, it doesn't really make any sense. So at this point, I just love the playoffs.

Yeah. I love the Spurs, but I have a feeling, like, even before last night, I was like, I feel like the, I've talked before about how like some NBA teams have their gravitational equilibrium of like this person is always getting to this level. For Joel Embed, it seems to be the second round. Anthony Dave or Anthony Edwards is always in the Western Conference finals. Like he's like, sorry, I'm just going to be there. Yeah. He's so fun to watch them.

I'm so glad he's like doing well this year. And I'm like, they're going to keep pushing. I think they'll beat the spurs. Yeah. I'm a big Wemby fan. but it was cool that they won and he broke the like blocks record for a playoff.

Yeah, he had like 15 blocks or something crazy. I was like, God, damn. But yeah, the playoffs had been my obsession at the moment. It's just been fun to see all the personalities. I can't wait to see the Lakers just dominate the thunder. By the time this reported, that might not happen. I probably won't. Actually, why am I even saying that?

When's a Luca back? Do we know? No idea. I mean, no idea. There was like, there was a photo of him like doing squats with. weights and people like we're like, oh shit. That doesn't mean anything, dude.

There's so much drama in these like injury reports and these photos that get leaked. They're like, he's wearing different shorts. That looks like shorts you'd work out. And it's like, I don't know, man. Those speakers are for weightlifting. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. No, if he comes back, it'd be cool. But who knows? Yeah. What is something, I do just have to take my hats off to, have you guys heard about this guy, LeBron James?

No. I'm taking off of my hats to him. Yeah. He, like, just. Once again, what the fuck? Like, amazing that he put the team on his back and won that first round series, won any series with this team that seemed like,

like, I can't believe the NBA even let them, like, get that. But, like, it was like, I was worried about the entertainment quality of that series. I was like, they're going to lose by 40 every game without Reeves. And look at us now. Look at us now. Look at you. lose by 40 every game to the thunder. That's right. That I do worry about.

There was a moment in the first round where I think it was LeBron. I can't remember if it was Brony or LeBron, but one of them, Ali Upe to the other. And I was like, this is the craziest thing I've ever seen. Playoff father to son, Alley Hoop in the playoffs. It's like, it's like cartoon stuff. Yeah. It's very fun to watch. What is something you think is underrated, Matt? You know, underrated, sticking with the New York theme, the New York Public Library,

heavily underrated. I'm a big reader, and I feel like people sleep on the library as people sleep in the library too. It's fantastic. If you have a card, you can get into all these free museums. You can put books on hold and pick them up

like the next day because there's so many branches here. I'm a huge believer and supporter, so shout out the NYPL. Yeah, e-books, too. I'm sure like... E-books, yeah, yeah. That's like the best thing, too, about like a library card.

like, I don't even have to leave sometimes. Yeah. I can just beam it to the Kindle or whatever. You like audio books? Check out Libby. You know? Yeah, the Libby's there. You got that.

I got like a foreign language thing I'm using through the library. That's great. It's not going great, but I'm having fun trying to learn Italian. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, just for just trying to do stuff, you know, trying to do. You got to. You got to.

It's going to. Just give us a little taste. What are you got? I got nothing. I got nothing for you. Come on. Come on, a little something. Just a little song.

What's the thing I was saying? Oh. No, I got nothing. I got enough. You blew it, man. What the cue. You blew it. How was I transported so quickly?

New York has a lot. I think America is coasting off of a lot of things that were, like, invented in, like, a while ago, like, before the extremely wealthy took over all of our institutions, and we just, like, have them left over. New York's got a lot of them. The good public transit system, good public libraries, museums, all these sorts of things. From a gilded age when rich people still felt like they had to give people stuff to not be killed. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, the New York Public Library. There's plenty of them, too. More than one, I think, right? There's a lot of them. Yeah. Yeah. That's great. Yeah.

I had Libya's one of my potential underrated. We do our overrated underrated on Monday morning. But Libby is just audio? No, it's everything. But it's like how you manage your public library account. So you can track which books you have out. I see. Yeah.

You can also, you know, get a audio book or get an ebook as much as I was talking about. What is something you think is overrated? Okay, overrated for you. I'm going to say fandoms in general, being part of a fandom that is too obsessive is overrated. There's nothing, it's getting too toxic, I think, and too crazy. I was reading this story about, I don't watch the pit. I should watch the pics.

I'm from that area, but apparently there's some actor from the pit is in a Broadway show right now until just in time. And people were like yelling at her from the audience, about like checking her charts or something, something from the show that I don't know. And I was like, but this fandom, and I've read other things about how they get so, especially with the pit, they get so,

I don't want to say protective. What's it called when you like, you want to own this person. Propride. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. And I'm like, if you're yelling at a person during a Broadway show,

I'm like, it's getting too crazy. Like, there's nothing cool about being like a hyperfrionas. I see. The pit fandom is like WWE. Like they like can't tell the different. They don't know how. I think a lot of people have that problem. I wonder if it's like because some people don't like her character on the show too.

Like a lot of people like, oh, I don't like Santos or whatever. Is that what it is? Either way, like them or not, just I'm sure either way, you're just, you're screaming because you're insufferable and you're like, that person,

hey, that person not performing doing their job right now, I'm going to say, yeah, check the chart, intubate them. Yeah, yeah, everyone's paying like $200 to be there. You know what I mean? You're like, running the night, you're ruining her night. You're like, oh, God. Yeah, it's embarrassing. Yeah, I don't like her character.

Her character makes me mad. In no way is that her doing a good job at what she does for a living. I'm going to take that. And I took that personally. She's trying to piss me off. What? Then she's going to come in here and act like she didn't do that on the pit.

Get fucked, lady. Well, this is the first time I've heard about a toxic fandom, a fandom being shitty. So I'm going to have to look into this. Yeah. I do think sometimes fandoms function as like, what we have instead of religion.

And that is too much. Yeah. That's not, that's, yeah. Well, I think it's also kind of, also stems off from like this general thing of like,

people not knowing how to fucking behave anymore in public. You know what I mean? Like so much, so many of the norms that like I grew up with are just like completely have vanished on some levels where like people are like, usually if someone was doing that like this person's fucking drunk as fuck and needs to get out of right now where some were's like, no, sorry, I just, I just wanted to say that. Sorry, sorry. But like, I see so many videos are like people like cross a line and then people like,

you can't do that. And they're like, oh, no. Oh, really? Oh, really? Wait, you can see me? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I mean, even specifically in theater, I've noticed like, I've lived in New York for like, I guess, yeah, like 14 years now. And like, I can still, like, in the past few years post-pandemic, people will just film, like, during a Broadway show, they'll take out their phones and just film things. And I feel like that used to be like the one thing that you just, you know, you just don't take your phone out there. This is like a two-hour experience where you won't use your phone. They're performing live for you right now.

Crazy. Yeah. Like, I mean, that's just theater etiquette, I guess. But, like, I've even noticed it on the trains. And, like, there used to be kind of like this thing. You know, the doors open. You let the people off before you get on. And I've, now that I'm, like, going to shoot that sounds like a lot every week.

And I'm on the trains every week again. I'm like, there are like, there are no rules anymore for like, hey, we got to, like, function as a society. It's true. I go this way. You go that way. And we're looking up. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, I think all of all these things are just like a reflection, I'm sure, of this is how people feel that society or, you know, the, our culture at large is treating them. Our government is like, well, if no one's fucking accountable ever, then what's the fucking point? Is there a social contract? Nah, I haven't signed one.

Yeah. It's really hard to hold up. Yeah. Yeah. It's like a combination of so many things. It's all, it's a lot that everybody's having to deal with. Yeah, it sounds like a lot. Nice. Thanks, guys.

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And we're back. Ah. And good news. Mm-hmm. The Iran War is. one. Yeah, Donald Trump told us over the weekend. He said, Congress, the ceasefire has terminated the war in Iran. Oh, okay. And this was happened to be on the 60th day since he notified them of the strikes. And legally, he's supposed to receive congressional approval within 60 days to continue military operations. So in no way, was it him just checking off a box and going through the formality and being like, could you guys just leave me alone?

and let me do my war. Yeah. Yeah. It's, I mean, we're at that point now where the illegal war is in, it's like, what even is a war phase? Where we're now getting philosophical about it. It's a bad place to be. Yeah, that's what the definition of is. Yeah, you're running out of tools here if you're now going like, what even, what is a woman?

Yeah. So, I mean, obviously there was a proposal that Iran put forward on how to end this bullshit. but again, that would require concessions from the United States, which would basically be an admission that they completely fucked this up. So that doesn't seem to be happening. So it's just going to be more posturing and confusing rhetoric. Because the whole time we're like, what was this about? It's like, was it that they were going to get a nuclear weapon?

Was it regime change? Was it about the straight of Hormuz? Did Bibi convince you the sky was green? It seems to be yes. And no further questions, my honor. Yeah. So, yeah, there's not one coherent description or goal being described by the administration right now in regards to any of these attacks. Lindsay Graham was on Hannity two nights ago. Oh, good. And yeah, he kind of explains. That's like when Seinfeld would go on Carson, you know? That's a reference that is even too old for me. I don't even identify with that. It's just a thing I know from other podcasts. That was you as like a 20-year-old making boomers laugh with that reference. Like, hey, this kid knows. I did that.

enjoying it. Yeah. That's like when I would talk about good times in front of like older people. And they're like, about good times? I'm like, no, but I know how to say regurgitate things. I know how to talk like I know how to talk like you. But here's, you know, Hannity being like, so what, what is a victory exactly in Iran? And Lindsay Graham has a great answer.

Or allow to happen on his watch. He followed through on his promise. Now it's a matter of just finishing this up. How do you do, how do you now define victory as, as this seems to be in the close. closing days. Regained freedom of navigation of the Strait of Hermuz. If they continue to attack our allies like the United Arab Emirates, the UAE has been champion allies. They've done everything we've asked and more. So when Iran attacks them with missiles and drones, we need to be there for the United Arab Emirates. If they do this, yeah, it has nothing to do with them saying that they're

backing out of OPEC or like they'll start, you know, not using the dollar to trade in oil with. probably not any of that. But the thing that he said at the beginning was, I think, very important. Well, the thing he said at the beginning was regaining freedom of silence and then he started answering. Regaining freedom of navigation in the straight of Hormuz. Okay, so has anybody told him what the status quo was before we teamed up with Israel? Mm-hmm. And that's a win for us. That's, that was happening. Swish. Yeah, yeah. That was already. So you're going to guess what it's happening again? maybe.

Yeah. Foreseeing, theoretically, it could once again happen. Yeah. So you start a war to not change anything, but in the process, waste an estimated $25 billion and killing innocent people. That's the, it was already hope. Okay, sure, dude. I was going to say, it's the never-ending Trump playbook of, like, fucking something up,

but no one really asked for. And then when they pull it back and get it kind of back to where it was, It will be, like I'm looking forward to the day where they're all on the lawn being like, we did it. Yeah, yeah. And it's like, well, no, now we're just back to where we're minus. Yeah, all the money. All the, like, it's the lives.

It's just happened with the tariffs. It's like, it's the never-ending playbook, like, fucking things up. And everyone goes, whoa, whoa, whoa, what are you doing? I fixed it. I just fixed it. You guys don't want to give me any credit for fixing the tariffs. It's like, well, what? It's like, yeah, you like, you break a coffee cup and, like, you glue it back together.

But, like, a third of it is, like, like, missing and you're like, dude, look, see, nothing's wrong. It's all good, dude. Like, nothing ever happened. Just drink the coffee, it is. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's good for your insight. Yeah. Pete Hegseth is just contradicting Graham because he was asked about like the war and like now this operation in the Strait of Hormuz. He said a Tuesday. Operation, Project Freedom, Miles. Is that what you're talking about? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. We're going to help stranded ships leave the Strait of Hormuz because there's nothing wrong with launching a new military campaign in the Middle East with the word freedom in it.

I just want to say really briefly about that Operation Freedom. He made the announcement on truth social just seconds after the end of the PGA event he was watching at one of his golf clubs. And that was the PGA event where one of the Secret Service detail then went on to be caught, stalking, and then naked jacking off in the hallway of a woman's hotel room. That he was chasing. That was a secret. That's what the Secret Service was doing after. That's so, and so, like, Pete Heggseth, when he was asked about, like,

they're like, I thought the war was over, what's going on? Hebeks said, they are separate and distinct from each other. Right. So it's, that's not the war. This has nothing to do with the war in Iran, this operation freedom in the Strait of Hormuz. You're like, are you fucking for real? Like, dude. This is the transportation question.

We're going to send in the Sean Duffy to deal with this. This is something about Biden, right? This is a boat campaign. Yeah. And then White House Economic Council Chair, Kevin Hassett, he really went fucking abstract on us because he was like, you know, what is a war here? Here, this is his question.

This is when he's being asked by Margaret Brennan. Like, it sounds like an act of war. What's going on? So you said the blockade is still on. A blockade is an act of war. Are we at war with Iran? Iran shut down the straits. Iran shut down the straits.

And the only ones they were letting through were Iranian ships, and President Trump didn't think that was acceptable. So we are still at war with Iran? You know, I don't know what the definition of war is when we're not shooting and we're negotiating, and they're under a lot of pressure. So how smoke he is. I don't know. You're trying to get me to say it. You're trying to get me to say it. Nice try. And here's my reply.

I don't know what war is. Why don't you tell me what you think war is? I just did. I just did. There's a blockade. That feels like that's an act of war. Well, we're not shooting yet. I mean, we did.

By the way, what is this? The intercept? I thought I was on Fox News. Get off my ass, lady. You know? Right. Just chilling. Yeah.

So it's just now there isn't much to say. the only other thing that they're trying to contend with is obviously gas prices. Those are not going down. Flight prices are going up exponentially. Spirit Airlines, the CEO of Spirit Airlines came out and said, I don't know what the fuck Sean Duffy's talking about. There's nothing to do with Joe Biden.

It's because we got, the airline is fucked because of crazy fuel prices linked to the Iran war. So miss us with all that. And yeah, there's probably some financial mismanagement that also led to the, you know, The thing right now is the fuel prices because of the Iran war. I didn't even call them out like that.

That's pretty funny. I mean, it was just, I wasn't as forceful of a call out of him just clarifying. He's like, no, this. He only used fuck like two times. I just like, they know they're going down. They're about to. And he's like, no, no, fuck you.

You guys are going to bail us out? No, you're cool. You're also not cool. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah. So Greg Kelly on Newsmax has also run out of intellectuals steam on this one. He's trying to convince people that rising gas prices are not bad, but his reasons are just essentially like, but like America is like still like not that

much of a fucked up place to live. So like just what about that? This is him and his take on it. And I hear this panicking out there, panic about gas prices. Okay, nobody likes to pay more in gas. I get it. But the crisis mongering. right? The fear, oh my gosh, the country's going down the tubes because gas prices have gone up. And I was playing like a montage of like other people, like other, you know, like ABC and people on the street being like, like, yeah, this is really fucked up. Like gas has gone up. It's, it's really affecting my ability to live. And then this is Greg Kelly on the other side of that fear mom panic mongering package. Look, nobody likes it. And yeah, sometimes people are going to have to make some decisions. And, uh, It's rough.

Yeah, sometimes you're going to have to make decisions between, like, eating or paying electricity bills or medication and dinosaur juice for their Ford. But this is still America. And this is still a pretty good place to live. Kind of, yeah. Holy shit. I mean, like, every night of it just comes out a little. Yeah, yeah, like, that guy does not have a lot going on in terms of intellectual ability. he was purely like spirit and like to see him with his spirit sapped.

Yeah. It's just like, uh, it's still pretty good. I think kind of. But again, like calling it, it's like so disrespectful. And I think this is why the, the Republicans are really looking at the midterms now. There was a report about how like White House counsel is going around to other cabinet members just being like, this is our best practices in case you get called in for an investigation when the Democrats end up taking back Congress.

Oh, wow. There's, like, internal preparations, like, happening from a legal standpoint about, like, preserving documents, like, when what to put in writing, maybe what not to put in writing, shit like that. And, again, all tied to the fact that as this drags on and people's lives get even harder because of rising gas prices, like, the solution from the GOP looks like they're just not going to do anything. But, again, when you have Greg Kelly just sort of laughing this shit off, like, being like,

look, some people are going to have to make choices. It's, ask anyone who has to drive a car. Right. At all. This is a nailed on cost of living for so many people. This is making people's lives impossible to live. Especially if you drive, especially if you drive a lot for work,

or maybe you have to drive a long distance to your job where your wages haven't gone up, laughing off the fact that like gas prices are going up, you know, at the rate that they are, it just, again, shows this sort of total lack of care and understanding because that's, and you know, I think they're just preparing for it now being like, well, whatever, man,

that maybe we can gerrymanderinger the maps in time. I don't know, maybe not. Oh, fuck. Wait, do some corporations not give cost of living increases every month just to keep pace with? That's crazy. Terrible news for you. Yeah, yeah.

Joe, the extra hammer of it all is like that these people were like having to, their cost of living is going so high up. And there isn't even this thing in the future where you're like, well, at least we got rid of this direct threat to my life. Right. Like at least when we eliminate the all-powerful leader, now I don't have, I can sleep at night telling my kids we're not going to get killed by it. It's like that was never something you thought about. Now you've created this like generational trauma that is going to create, like make things worse for your kids.

Like at a time when the mission needs to be like a World War II style all hands-on. on deck, everybody fighting climate change. Instead, you're just creating a fucking, just shattering everything for no conceivable reason other than that you're bad at, like, telling when somebody's lying to you. We're living like we're fighting Hitler right now. Like, that's what the sacrifices we're being asked to make. Like, we're all like, we got to do it. We got to liberate.

Who are we stopping? We just can't be honest with this senile old man who's running the country. That's absolutely that. It's going to be awkward for us. He's going to yell at us. I'd have a really weird conversation. So you're going to have to make some decisions, okay? Yeah.

Oh, my God. Because I'm certainly not going to make the decision to be honest about anything. Jesus Christ, Jesus. Crazy. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back with drinks news. We'll be right back. Another podcast from some SNL late night comedy guide,

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Yeah. There's like an exhale, an exhalation. It's weird how to do it on planes all the time. My bottle ready to exhale? What the fuck? What was my bottle, Angela Bassett? Good pull. Thanks.

Wow. Anyways, this is something that I can't figure out. What am I a scientist? No, it has to do with air pressure. Sometimes it can get really bad, though, if you leave food that has decomposed or emitted gas, the pressure can build up over time, which can cause the stopper to blow off the top of a thermos.

And there have been more than 27 people who've reported injuries connected to thermos products. And three of those incidents resulted in permanent blindness. Oh, my God. From they are announcing a recall of more than 8 million food jars and bottles. Huh. I mean, thermos used to be, I do remember, like, kids having hot soup and it exploding, like, in a thermos? because they didn't, they didn't, like, properly burp it. Yeah, you got to burp that shit.

But it wasn't, like, exploding, like, these people are talking about where, like, fragments are hitting people in their eyes and affecting their vision. So the issue is linked to missing pressure relief functions in the container stoppers. When perishable food or drinks are stored inside, pressure can build up over time, causing the stopper to suddenly and forcefully eject when the container is opened. And this is, I forget what the story was that we were talking about, where it was just like, oh, everything's like getting worse. Inshittification?

Yeah, the insidification of everything. Yeah, yeah. It's like we can't even make thermases anymore without being worried that we're going to have our eyes blown out, you know? Yeah. Because like the ones for hot stuff used to have that little button you could press out like and then you could open it. But I'm getting like, what, did someone like in the engineering department?

Like, we got to find a way to make this shit cheaper. I guess if you get rid of this pressure mechanism. Yeah, yeah, yeah, fine. We're going to start working. My cousin has a stopper factory. We're going to go with him instead. He can do it for a real good price. Oh, does he make stoppers?

No, no, he was making like slammers for pogs. That was like the big heavy thing you used to do this pog pile. He hasn't been working in a while. He could really use it. But he's got like, he's got some machines. I think you probably doesn't work for. Imagine permanently blind from trying to just like have your soup for lunch at work. Like, yeah.

You'll never not be angry about that for the rest of your life. I was like, super related injury. When they're talking about like perishable food, like I wonder also too if like someone was like, oh shit, dude, I left that smoothie in my fucking car for two weeks ago. And then that thing fucking goes on. Have you ever had that? Like you leave something in the car and you go and like this thing that's supposed to be

solid is like blown out. It looks like it's gained like 15 pounds. Totally. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. And then you got to eat that shit because it has magical property. It happens all the time with my kids like food pouches.

Like he'll like, he'll just like eat like a half of applesauce thing. And then like I'll put the thing back on and you know, you're a parent. You're like, fuck it. You just throw it back. Because you're like, you got to keep your eyes on the road. And then I remember finding one that was so like in like bloated. Yeah.

From the gas that like I was like touching it very lightly because I've had those things go off on me from like being too sure-handed. You've got a hurt locker outfit all? Yeah, yeah. I should have known that this blueberry yogurt thing was going to decompose at a rate in an 85-degree car. You're asking for it with yogurt. There's all sorts of cultures and shit in there, you know?

Yeah, I get it. I get it. I never trusted yogurt. I've been saying that for years. Yeah. I can't trust that shit. I mean, it's like this happens. Like this was also happening with Walmart.

Like last. Had stainless steel water bottles that they were selling. They were like, you don't need a Walla or, you know, Stanley. Just come to us. Come to Walmart. And they had 85,000 stainless steel water bottles. 850,000. What did I say?

I don't know how numbers were. It's all right. 850,000 stainless steel water bottles recalled when similar problems emerged. It's just, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I have no idea of this.

reports of customers being injured after lids of their bottles, forcefully ejected and struck them in the face, regulators said. Yeah. Two of them suffered permanent vision loss. So this is just a thing that is happening. They're booby trapping our fucking thermoses and water bottles. You've got to open out.

They're like, whoa, what fuck are you going to do? It really, like, this is, we need Ralph Nader. Like, I was not around for the height of Ralph Nader. but like reading about him in history, I'm like, oh, there was a person whose thing was I like do stuff on behalf of the consumer. Like that's, that that is a lane that people are just waiting to have filled. Yeah, yeah, right.

Be the guy who like makes it so that these companies are like fucked when something like this. Or maybe not like one person. I think we've learned our lesson with being like, where is the exceptional one person that can handle this issue? And you're like, oh, fuck, fuck, never mind. this guy's going to need it to be one guy and I'm going to need him to wear a funny hat and a cool pair of sunglasses so he becomes iconic yeah yeah for sure for sure I have weird hair you know something

to your point it is like the one thing everyone for example like I found an old t-shirt that I got like that I had from the 90s like a starter tee like a Dodger starter shirt that my mom found in the garage because I was like you know trying to find old clothes and sapphire the quality of this shirt I was, I was like, what is, what did this shirt cost? Like, $90? Right. It was so well stitched and shit. And you, like, that's one of the things that's really becomes apparent to me with like,

just a shirt that was like given away at a Dodger game. Yeah. Like in 1995 is such a much better product than like, you know, shit people are paying like $30 for like a blank t-shirt now. I like that it's all around. I like that my t-shirts have inadvertently tear away sleeves, you know, where they can, you could just rip the sleeve. leaves off anytime you want.

It's a good effect when you sneeze. So when my sleeve blows off. Jesus, Joe. Was that rig to the line character? Nope. Just your run-of-the-mill fruit of the loom. Anyways, keep your head on a swivel when you're opening your thermoses and water bottles. Yeah.

All right. And finally, the humiliation will not end. McDonald's is scrapping their self-served soda machines. and not because they're full of fecal bacteria. Is that something they said? That is a thing that when they've tested the soda machines, they have been known to have some fecal bacteria in there. For some reason, I don't know how it's possible.

Probably just like loading the ice without washing hands, maybe. But anyway, it's being widely reported. This is actually news from 2023 that makes. McDonald's is scrapping their self-served soda machines, and the plan is for it to be, for them all to be gone by 2032, meaning that no more stealing Coke in big gas canisters, no more suckling on the phantom nozzle like a newborn when no one's looking. I'm just whizzing the juice, man. Yeah, just get along, bro.

Suck on the, yeah. Dude, that's one of my boy, I do the, I do the orange soda. He does a Mr. Pib. We call ourselves Romulus and Remus. Oh, yeah. Very cool. Very cool. And then I'm over near the

door just faking a seizure so that nobody's looking at you guys doing it. Hey, put the Alka-Seltzer tab in your mouth now, Jack. Go, go, go, go. I don't know what the McDonald's are like in L.A., but if you'd pull that off in New York, no one would bat an eye, dude. Yeah, yeah, right.

It's a lot. Rob musician remis! Yeah, that's totally acceptable behavior. Yeah, people just started complaining about it on Reddit. So they're now asking McDonald's for, like, comments on it. And McDonald's was like, no comment. Franchisees admitted that the free refills are a big draw for people,

but it was reported that the decision was due to hygiene, theft, and consumer eating habits. Fuck, wait, hold on, theft. Yeah, can't do that much. Get the fuck out of here because somebody with a water cup got, like eight ounces of sprite. I was going to say the sprite margin can't be killing McDonald's. There's no way. They're killing.

I used to work at a place that had like a soda found that I had to change the syrup bags and shit. And we always had to soak the caps and stuff overnight so that it didn't get all fucked up. I remember asking my boss, I'm like, you know, because I was like a high teenager at the time. I'm like, dude, how much you? Like, what's a box? Like the Sprite thing? The syrup cost. And it was like fucking, it was so such little money.

And I'm like, how many, like how many cups do you guys like fucking like three hundred? Like some, you know, some astronomical number. And you're like, oh, it pays for itself after like two cups. The cup costs more than the drink. The cup costs way more than the drink. The drink is like five cents, essentially. It's just the cup is the cost. But it doesn't matter.

Like, it's not about what it costs them. It's what they can charge us. Like, that's what they've learned is, like, it has no, they don't have to, they have to, like, make up a story about, like, well, you know, the costs of distribution have gone up during the pandemic. you know, whatever. But like, they are just going to charge us as much as they possibly can in order to. And the other thing they're claiming is that, you know, that it's hygiene-related, but people have tested the machines both out, like the self-service machines and the ones

behind the counter. And the ones behind the counter were found to have more fecal bacteria than the ones out where we are. That's alarm. Yeah, close the whole thing down if that's the problem. Yeah. It's just so funny when like it's so clear. It's just naked greed, but they're like, it's because of theft, kind of hygiene. You guys keep shitting in these jeans.

Might be some poop stuff. Yeah, we'll figure it out for now. How are kids going to get that seminal experience of mixing everything at the fucking fountain? What did you call that when you're going on? Yeah, yeah, I was just going to say, on Reddit this week, it's being called a tremendous loss for fans of what one person is calling super drink. Super drink, no. Which is, that is a very non-morbid name for what I was a kid, they were either called graveyards.

Or suicide, right? Yeah, we called it a suicide. Yeah, it was called suicide or swamp water. That was the two that I remember at a basketball camp. That was the first time I heard it called swamp water was when you did everything. And it tastes like shit, to be honest, when you put everything in one go. But as a kid. It's really like, it doesn't make it past the test phase.

really for anyone except. Yeah. My dad once coached with the great NBA coach, Rick Carlyle. Okay. And Rick Carlisle as a full-ass adult, like NBA head coach was still ordering suicides. No. Ordering? Ordering.

Not even being like, I'll do it myself. Don't. It's kind of stupid. Don't worry. Just don't look. But he's like, uh, yeah, I'll have a suicide. Sorry, what is that? Just go down your fountain every single thing.

Yeah, yeah. Give me a little bit of everything. Grown adult, growing adult hitting everything is insane. A grown adult being like, give me whatever you got and mix it in a big cup is incredible. Because it feels like to fucking, like it feels like a thing like to your point,

like you don't do it after 11 years old. Like even by that point, you're like, nah, I'm a Sprint guy. I'm an orange soda guy. You're like to do that as a grown man with a job and ordering it, as if that's a real drink to order is really quite interesting. Especially when your job is decision maker.

Right. Yeah, yeah. People look to you for like good ideas. He's like one of the best of all time at it. All right. Here's my starting nine tonight. Yeah. I think sometimes you just got to like burn.

You got to burn off all your bad decisions at the soda pump, you know? It's cathartic for him. But yeah, it's quickly become clear that this is about maximizing profit. funny USA Today is like coming at them and was like, whoa, what's going on? What's going on? Like USA Today asked them if it was financial or health factors. And the company told USA Today on Monday, there's no new information for them to share regarding the decision. I like that this is, even USA Today is like, wait a second. This is where we draw the fucking line. All right, LeBron. What kind of bullshit are you trying here? But yeah, it's become clear that it's about maximizing profit since they started charging for refills, even for drinks poured by workers during, you guessed it, the pandemic.

The pandemic was really, like, it was a time when they were like, and this is when we all come together. And they were just like, we can charge them whatever we want. They're desperate. They can't do shit to us. And they just got $200 in the mess. male so we can just look like it was like the entire corporate world was just like a bully who realized that a kid was like bringing lunch money to school and they could like just shake them down right like this is nobody can do he didn't even like say anything to the teachers we

can just do whatever the fuck we want i thought he's going to fucking kick my ass yeah we just got winning your covid your covid stimulus on a suicide is so bleak yeah right yeah Yeah, yeah. You're going to want that, though. McDonald's Sprite hits different. Yes, sir. But, yeah, their profit margins are between 90 and 95% on soda. Damn.

Yeah, all right. I think then we're just going to have to get creative on how we get free refills. Like, you go back, you know, I don't know. Yeah, this Coke, I think you got to switch the bag out or something. Yeah, I need a new one. Yeah. Like, you drank it all. Yeah.

And it was really fucking. up. And the whole time I was, I was really upset. Have you ever seen people try and pull that? Well, like, some shit, like at a restaurant, they didn't like, they ate the whole fucking thing. And then they're like, ah, I don't know. I'm like, look, not what I ordered. Not technically what I ordered. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And now I've realized it wasn't what I ordered. It was delicious, but that wasn't what I ordered. Okay. No, but like, I've seen, I saw somebody clean up a plate of fucking spaghetti and they were like, there was like one bite left. They're like, yeah, this, this was wasn't great.

And I'm like, come on, run it back. Like, you got it. If you're going to pull that shit, you got to have at least over half left on there. You know what I mean? Don't eat the whole thing and then try and make that move. But hey, it is what it is. One of these articles from mashed, not mashable, just a mashed potatoes. Ah, mashed.

Website, mash. It's at high profit margins on soft drinks are one of the, the reasons that fast food restaurants can afford to offer cheap options like dollar menus, while they might actually lose money on those items, they more than make up for it in soda sales. And I just want to let you know, Mashed.com. That may have been the way things worked before the pandemic. Yeah. Corporations are no longer thinking of the consumer in any way. Oh, yeah. How can we get every little piece of their money? How can we make them sign up for an app that we then used to spy on them and sell their information. Like literally everything.

They're like dollar menu. Those people need to go to hell if they're using the dollar menu. We're looking for people. The McDonald's drive-thru, I came up, came out and was like, uh, your car wheel seems loose. And then he, uh, he ran the loose car wheel scam on me. I turned around and my tires were gone. Gone, dude. Yeah. Shoot on cinder blocks. I saw an ad for the new McDonald's McChicken price, and it was like, I'm going to get it wrong, but it was not right.

It was like $3 or something, but they were doing it like in a celebratory tone. They were like, the McChicken is now only blow-blown. I was like, well, that's not right. I was like, it used to be a dollar.

There used to be like certain things you expected at these places. I'm like, there is no good fast food deal anymore. Everything is kind of like, they're trying to repack you. It's like, don't worry. It's not that different than what you used to.

I'm like, well, I only ate it because of it. No one wants to spend a lot of money on a make checkout. There used to be a dollar menu and now it's like the $4 meal deal or the under $3 menu. Yeah. They're like three.

Yeah. I mean, we lost our way. You used to be able to get two McMuffins for like fucking five bucks. I remember how we've lost our way. I think that's what I think these are the things that got for her. What was that guy who was trying to say America is still a good country and like couldn't even get to the end? I think that this is what Greg Kelly's things.

thinking about we used to be a great country and now look at us. The McMuffins used to flow. I could send my hypertension through the roof with three bites for under a dollar. Not anymore. Little meal hack from Super Producers or Victor, Chili's and Applebee is now cheaper than almost every fast food item. So why don't you go there? Hell yeah.

Eating good in the neighborhood. Because they still haven't figured out how much they could be charging us. Well, then their CEOs need to be fired. Yeah. Matt Bouchel, such a pleasure having you on the Daily Zekeist. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? Yeah, I met Matt Bouchel on Instagram and TikTok, and the show was called That Sounds Like a lot. You can follow it on YouTube. That would be really nice.

Or you can just listen to it anywhere else you want to listen to a podcast. There you go. Oh, but like and subscribe. Come on. Hit that like. Hit the bell. Hit the bell. Keep those cards going, folks. Yeah, across every plush. Matt, is there a work of media that you've been enjoying. Yes, yeah, I thought about this for a second, and I don't know if you guys will be with me on it, but I'm late to the game, but I've been listening to Olivia Dean's Man I Need on repeat lately. Do you know this song? Don't just give me something. I don't think I do.

Come be the man I need. Oh, yeah, that's one. Oh, that's good. Yeah, yeah. It's like 70 degrees every day right now in New York, and you come out of the train station, you get the song going, and you feel like you're walking through a fucking rom-com or something. It's beautiful. Everyone's happier when you're listening to that song. I was a late adapter, but yeah, there's something about it. There's magic in it. So that's the track.

It really has taken over the airwaves. It's doing great things for women with shitty boyfriends. This is not you. Yeah, and 36-year-old men that are pretty happy. Yeah, that's right. Miles, where can people find you? Is there a work of media you've been enjoying? Yeah, let's see.

Find me everywhere at Miles of Gray. You find me talking about 90-day fiancé on 420-day fiancé, and also talking about one of my favorite sports football, soccer, in Europe, on the other show, A&Footy with Jamel Johnson and Chris Martin. Check that one out. Give it a subscribe. Give it a follow. Give it a five-star.

Really appreciate everybody tuning into the show and discovering how many Zite Gang are actually also big footy fans. So that's been really nice to see. A work of media. This is from Vince Mancini on Blue Sky at Vince Mancini. At b. sky to social posted. You're telling me a ghost runs this airline. And I just, yep, I just can't get that out of my head,

even though it's so simple. So dumb. Telling me a ghost runs? Yep, man. I've been enjoying some tweets over here. Well, you guys have been busy, lazing around. I've been working my ass off enjoying in some tweets.

Kayla at Love 2 Read 13 said, having an intrusive thought and shaking my head to show the mind readers that I don't approve. I've definitely done that before. I've definitely been like, no, no, not that one.

And Martin Pilgrim wrote, you'd all be speaking German if it wasn't for me, German teacher with low self-esteem. That's good. And finally, Kirk A. Bado, BADO, re-tweeted, the news that the staff of Pablo Torre finds out has won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize. Oh shit.

For the reporting on the Los Angeles Clippers. Wow. And Kirk gave out of us said, the Clippers were finally part of a championship. Oh, that's fucked, Kirk. That's fucked up, Kirk. Come on. Come on.

There's nothing to do with them. All Pablo and the team. You can find us on Twitter. and Blue Sky at Daily Zykegeist. We're at The Daily 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.

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. Yeah. Miles, is there a song that you think the people might enjoy? Yeah, this is a little band from the 80s from Philadelphia called The Hooters. Oh, we're going with the Hooters.

Oh, yeah. It's called, oh, you zombies. It's got this like 80s, like white guys who just heard like Lee Scratch Perry dub music. And they're like, that's crazy that the bass drum is like, tic-tac-dac-d-d-dun. Yeah, that's cool. Let's do something with that. Like the lyrics are talking about like Moses, talking to the Pharaohs. Like it's like biblical, but then they're talking about song.

I don't know. It just to me sounds like the perfect like 80s white guys doing reggae that Tony Soprano would listen to. Or I feel like the music director of the Sopranos would have seen. somehow found a way for this song to be in the show. And because of that, it just, it was resonating with me. So this is all you zombies by the Hooters. All right. Great name for a song and great name for a band.

This is definitely off the normal beaten path of the stuff you usually recommend, but it is a lot of fun. It's kind of like, sometimes, I mean, look, I listen to a lot of music, but sometimes things get you in a very specific way. And I'm like, this is from Mr. Brown. Yeah, Miami-Vicey. Yeah. is fun. Miami Vicey White Reggae.

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