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I'll just pan over to my cat in my cat tower. Oh. There you go. What's your cat called? I just took my eyes. His name is tea. Uh, wait, is that tea or coffee? That's tea.

We got these two twins. We got these two twins last year because we lost our 19-year-old Momo. Oh, baby. So we just got these two brothers from the meet from Pittsburgh, Massachusetts. How long do cats live for? Like my cat, my childhood cat went to 18. They can live to be like 20. if they don't have like kidney issues tends to be like their biggest limiting factor.

If they're outdoor cats, their lifespans can be reduced to like two years, which is insane. But there's a new vaccination coming out of Japan that's helping with kidney issues. And so it could extend their lifetimes to 30 years. And it should be out in like 20, 27. Yeah. If there's any country that is about extending the life of a cat, it is Japan. I told my friend, I told my friend, I was like, oh my God, you have a cat. there's this vaccine that it's coming out. And she's like, nah.

I was like, I don't need him to live longer. Oh, she's like, no, no. She's like, let go and let God. Yeah. Wow. I was like, what? Give me your cat. How old is a cat?

It's not that old, but she's just like, nah, it's going to be done. My cat's just turned 10. So, yeah, we got a minute. You're friends like my cat, my cat's not an outdoor cat, but I'm going to make it an outdoor cat anyway. I'm just thinking of it. Blankito is like almost, he'll be six this year, I guess.

I don't know. And then Cosita, she's 12. She's my foster, but she's been with me so long. I'm like, she might end up. At what point does the foster just become your child? That's my baby. That's my tiny little baby. Yeah.

You're not the foster mother. I'm a mother fostered up. Yeah. You're a mother foster. Yeah, you mother foster. You mother foster. This is an I-heart podcast. Guaranteed human.

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deep into the zeitgeist through the the lens of a different icon. This week, we had none other than Uncle Samuel of the United States, not the guy that was masturbating at the Great American State Fair that we just read about over the weekend, the man wearing an Uncle Sam costume who was allegedly masturbating while vaping and recording the acrobats that were performing for free. No, we're talking about the real or fake mythic figure of Uncle Sam. That was with Robert Evans. Sorry, have to shake out of that. That was crazy good. You just drop right into that.

I purport to act, but I mean, that was very impressive. I only have a good ear. I'm not a good actor. I got a great ear, though. As a musician, it's just like, and I love an accent. I got to say, ashamedly, it was Christopher Lilly's work that really got me into the Australian accent. And then you're like, oh, he's doing a lot of blackfish. Oh, fuck, fuck.

Oh, that's who that is. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. From summer high time for a second. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I wasn't going to do that thing. where I pretend like I know. Yeah, yeah, no, it's okay. That's okay.

I do that for a profession. Don't worry. Leave that to me. Today is Tuesday, June 30th, 2026. It's International Asteroid Day. Come on, baby. Come free us.

Come free us, baby. Come free us, baby. Come on, baby. We're ready. We're fucking ready. It's also National Meteor Watch Day. I wonder what's going on today. Everyone's like media.

Wait, social media. No, no. Oh, media. Not meteor. No. Sorry, mate. I meant National Meteor. Oh, meteor.

Yeah, Meteor. National Meteor Day. It's also a Philippine Spanish friendship day. It's also Social Media Day. I don't know what the fuck is. Wait, why are they trying to make a colonized and colonizer friends? Yeah, very hard to know. Very hard to know.

It also is. Congo Independence Day, very important, because that's what Congo said. We're getting up the fuck out from under Belgian rule. Anyway, here we are. What a day. June 30th. There it is. My name is Miles Gray, aka, that's me in the corner.

That's me and the zeit guys causing a great jism, trying to work out of schism. And I don't know if I can do it. no, I've said too much. My nipples have snaked enough. That was sung as James Carville, all right, who I famously said. Oh, I was wondering why. Yes, yes, yes. Who said, we need a, we want to need to somehow negotiate the terms of a schism with these Democratic

Socialists getting into party. They're taking over. We've got to get rid of them. These people are not Democrats. I've never experienced a man with chew in his mouth constantly as much as James Carb. That's the thing. With him, man, it's not stop. It's not stop.

Anyway, shout out to Lockerone for that, AKA, and I am thrilled to be joined today in my guest co-host position, fantastic comedian, actor, activist, bio, what was it, biomedicine? Biomedical engineer. Biomedical engineer who had to put that shit aside for the comedy career. Went from engineer to comedy career, okay? They got facial recognition comedy coming up July 31st at the comedy store. Second screens.

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Don't treat me like a stranger. No. If you don't book me on Zite, I'll burn down your new house. That is from brute impact on blue sky. They know I'm not in the Discord and I'll never be in the discourse. So they started tagging me on social media. And I accept.

Yeah, reach out. Reach out. Reach out. Holler at your girl. Please. God. What a fucking wonderful thing the Internet is where people can just reach out to you and get all this stuff out. Now, who do we have here today in our guest co-hosts?

seat, or not guest go host seat, our guest seat, our third seat. I don't know. Ambie and Webby nominated podcaster, Earphones Award winning narrator. In a band playing the guitar, okay, an actor, and just like a great Bostonian from everything I've heard. Please welcome to the microphone. Saja Hancock!

I'll sing too. Hey, Mega, Lomaniac, you're no Jesus. Yeah, you're. Oh, no fucking hell this. Hey, hell yeah. Hell yeah. That's a, wait, who's, what song is that again? That's a song called Megalomaniac by the Bandicibis.

Yeah, I was going to say. Teasing a little portion of your show later. Because I did my homework, you know, and I did the things I was supposed to. Good, good, good, good, good. Because all of you, do you do the, you don't do the prep. I don't do shit. But you're transparent about it. I'm busy trying to, like, lights and twigs on fire at the edge of your house.

That's my breath. Trying to burn down the house miles. You're like, this shit is concrete. That's not going to work. No, just wait. If I do it enough. My brother wasn't Boy Scouts. I got this.

You're rubbing your hands together. No, that's the twigs. I got the twigs in between. Oh, my damn. Thank God. I think they teach you that before Boy Scouts because I made it all the way through Cubscouts, but I was not officially a Boy Scout. And you learned about Twig, Twiggy, Twiggy Fire mission?

Twiggy, the model? Twiggy Ramirez? From Maryland Manson. Yeah, I had a fire. is that a problem let's be real. Oh, I did too. I love the flame. I'm just trying to help you.

I'm trying to help you. I used to soap newspaper and like WD-40 or like gasoline and then hit that shit with the fucking magnifying glass because my mom... You remember cab guns? I used to disassemble with cats one by one.

Yeah. And then put them inside a hacky sacks. Yeah. And then I would like that shit on fire. And then I would film it with my dad's beta camp. I did a lot of illegal stuff in college. But those people,

people have real jobs. So let's move on. Well, Shah Jahan, we are going to get to know you even better. But first, we got to walk people through what we're talking about today. First up, just with all of the primaries that happened in the last couple weeks, the establishment Democrats are very like, we got a tea party on our hands. They're going to rip us apart, as my AKA alluded to. So we're going to talk a little bit about just the descriptions of what's happening, the analysis from the mainstream, like, what could be powering this insurgent attack from the left against the establishment Democratic Party? What could it be?

So we'll look at their analysis. We'll also check in with Jonathan Majors. We've been talking about this new movie he did for the Daily Wire where he's been injured on set. Well, we've actually now have a sneak peek at what this is. and the daily wire is, I get why they're cooked, just generally as a brand platform now. Because it's positing,

what if Die Hard was on a pro-Palestinian campus rally? And who's the bad guy in that? You'll find out who when we go through that little doozy of a trailer. And then finally, Vanilla Ice did not, He was not able to perform over the weekend. He was saying he was going to. However, the fine folks at the Atlantic, for whatever fucking reason, did a whole profile on him last week. And when you read it, it feels like a Christopher guest like mockumentary.

Just like the little details as they just describe his surroundings and what he's saying. It's quite comedic. So we'll take a look at that as well. And plenty more. But first, Shahjahan, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? I was recently searching for how to remove a header from a Squarespace page that I made, and I was unsuccessful in my attempt to inject this code into the whatever HTML, CSS portion of the Squarespace page, which makes me pretty much, you know, question my worth as a human being.

And do you have answers? Do you know? No, I don't. Yeah, yeah. This question brought to you by Casper Mattress. I did exactly what the fucking, you do the type the question in and they tell you in the little automatic AI, whatever, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It didn't work. Don't do that.

Yeah. Turns out, it doesn't know what it's doing. It turns out. Doesn't know what the fuck it's talking about. Hey, Zykegeng. Help Shajahon out. Please. How are we getting rid of that shit?

Please. They help me with my planner fasciitis. Shout out to Zike. Yeah. Wait, did that help? They all sent me emails and DMs and stuff. Wow. I'm like, you guys are great.

Who needs a doctor? You know what I mean? Who needs health insurance? Yeah, it's all about community building. I know. I counsel so much stuff from Ziking. I'll be on the Discord. Like, hey, my cat got diarrhea, man.

What I got to do? And then I still think about it. It's like a few years ago. Your cat is like, dear God, please help. Yeah, I was just like, this is great. Because I have two cats and they're sisters, but one cat is just completely responds differently to the pet food. And then so my cat needed like raw.

whatever, there's something. Anyway, my cat has healthy bowel movements. It's on the RFK diet. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Well, the answer is different depending on where the listeners were from. Like where the South Asians, like, hey, you should try Cilium Husk, aka all of them.

All of them were like vapor rub and Jadryl. Windex, Windex, Windex. Just Windex. Just give him Windex. What just sprayed. Shout out to all my Greek listeners out there. I know. Trajan, what some of you think is underrated? as I alluded to

in my introductory song I think the Incubis album A Crow Left of the Murder is quite underrated. I recently started listening to it from start to finish and I must say it's pretty fucking good. When did that come out? I think it came out like 2003

because the Megalomaniac he's referring to is George Bush. Ah, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Yeah. Also, what a sick-ass band name. That's a great name. Oh, yeah, for sure. You're not fucking with Incubis?

What are you or not? I do. I just appreciate their name. Oh, okay. I was making a shirt. Like, you really fucking with InCubis though? Yeah. I watch that man shirtless in every music video.

Brian Boyd. Is that his name? Brandon. Brandon Boyd. Dude, my friends. Are you fucking with InCubis, my dude, I went to high school, his older sister was dating him. And I was like legendary in SoCal.

That's crazy. To be like with fucking Brendan Boyd from Incubis. I was like, I was more into, what's the album like probably the maybe it was just the first album Make yourself Fungus Amongus Science

What's the one that has What's the album that has interstellar on it? Or stellar rather Yeah Oh stellar Stellar That's make yourself That's make yourself

I can still fucking play that riff man In college So that shit was on rock band That was on guitar hero too And I used to Fuck that shit up on expert every time with a blunt in my mouth and because I was so fucked up over the

first lyric was just, meet me in outer space. I was like, that is a fucking bar. Meet me in fucking outer space. That's me getting, that was me being so like into the idea of that's what we would call hitting like the volcano vaporizer.

See, if I was with you in college, you would have been like that episode of, yeah, it would have been like that episode of South Park where, who was it, Stan's dad's like, no, no, but I can really play. the song. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like, no, what's crazy is, though, that led me to start playing bass. Like, and, like, because I was killing it on there. And I always played trumpet. I tried playing guitar, but I realized because trumpet's like a single voice instrument. I was like, oh, I'm playing a lot of melodies, like bass lines on guitar. And my dad used to play bass. So I was like, it was like all just fate. I just went to my garage and started a better guitar player.

I recently, I think bass is just so cool. I just bought a bass. It's so fun. And plus, I don't need the dexterity to be playing all those chords like I would on guitar. Anyway, love a chord, though. Love a great chord. Shah Jahan, what's something you think is underrated? Sorry, overrated.

Home ownership. We're currently dealing with 10 years of a 10 years worth of pranks. You call me a homeowner? Yeah, man. Sometimes it sucks. And that is currently what I'm dealing with. Wait, I've heard this from a lot of homeowners, how they're like, oh, no, we're in charge now. Oh, no, it burned down.

My friend burned it down. Oh, it burned down. No, we basically. You fucking aggressively ironed at that shit. Oh, it fucking burned down. What I give? What I give to know? I had friends cool enough to burn my whole shit down.

Sorry. No, it's okay. This is much more. It's a lot of history. The my boring-ass story. No, we just got tricked. We bought a place and the person who sold it to us knew the plane schedule because I lived near Logan Airport. And we actually moved in a plane through, right? Five times we saw this shit.

No issues. And then the day we moved in, this fucking plane flies right over the house. So for the last year and a half. It parked on your house. I mean, it may as well. It's not every day, but the days that it's bad, man. Like, today is one of them. so apologies in advance.

5 a.m. to like 11 p.m. That's crazy. Oh, good. And then we've had a raccoon family was living up there and one of the babies died in the fucking wall. Aw. I know it's so sad.

And then we had different kinds of fly plagues. We had a bed bug outbreak because we had to get into... I feel like this may not be the homeowner. I think you're plagued by like the Bible or some shit. Yeah, I think I've been... It's just because I'm like, it's been a bad Muslim or something. Yeah. What'd you do?

Yeah, what'd you do? Yeah. Yeah, I married a white chick basically. Oh, well, that's it. And she married a brown guy, so from both sides. That's dual, that's dual bad. That's bad juju from both sides. Yeah.

Exactly. Yeah. That's so crazy that you have multiple fly plagues. Is this so. Oh, my God. And, like, one kind of fly and then like a bigger fly. Like, do you think the planes bother them? Are they like, oh, we got tricked?

They're like, we should have found a new place to play. Yeah. Like when the raccoons are like camped up there and like they're trying to like give. They're like what the hell? Right. Yeah, definitely. Somehow you get a, you get served some kind of legal document. The flies are suing you.

Yeah. As our landlord. They're like, excuse and sir. What kind of conditions are you expecting us to exist? Like a little raccoon stamp. Yeah, yeah. Aw. From a notary.

Yeah. The raccoon notary. From a notary. It's the raccoon notary. Look, I love it. I love it. All right. Great overs and unders. That's full-time. Japan lost two-one.

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That's a very optimistic view, is that the grip is starting to loosen as they're wondering, how the fuck are we getting ousted on all these primaries by these people to the left of us? Specifically, New York was like, hasn't gotten all the attention. I think mostly because people just sort of align all of this with Zeramam Dani. And then also D.C., they also, Janice, she is going in as the pick for mayor and ran a very enthusiastic ground campaign with many volunteers and copy. people's attention with stuff like not like saying things like we got to protect democracy it's like

we need affordability we need to make sure if you're a working person you don't die on the street for nothing so i think there's just a an interesting moment as we see in the media too because they're also scratching their heads and like well that's weird the usual playbook of just outspending a challenger who's on the fringe isn't working like it normally does and dsa candidates have proven they have a much stronger ground game and general increased enthusiasm for their candidates since they are willing to acknowledge how much more we can be doing for working people as a country, as a government. And the articles from the mainstream have been a mix of fear, fascination, hesitation. This is just one line from this Axios article that said, quote, Some Democrats now believe the party is poised for a Trump-esque figure to take it over in 2028, someone who will offer an outlet for their.

anger. That is... You've been saying that. That's spooky and that is just spooky as fuck. What is, who is this person? Like a demagogue? Is that what they're saying? A demagogue who will absolutely just run roughshod on all the norms?

We need our own fascist. Unless... We need our own kid rock, man. Yeah. Or it's like someone who is just, you know, they're like, socialist. They're like, they're going to destroy everything we know like Donald Trump and make things equitable, potentially. No. Fuck. I mean, in this one, Axios articles, they're trying to be like, we think we understand how this anger built up over the last 10 years. And it's like, this is my summation of it. But this is basically what they're saying, quote, like, we think it all started when the DNC stacked the deck against Bernie Sanders to keep, to get Hillary the nomination and then did it again in 2020 and then lied to voters about Biden's condition and had no primary in 2024. That made.

be feeding the anger. They're like sort of like out of a minute. It's all the stuff we told you about. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like, right. As it was happening, we were like, hey, don't do this. It could be that these voices felt frozen out of the process and then started building

power outside of the establishment and then came back with their own little torches and pitch for pitchforks and came to the gates demanding better for working people. And this article says, quote, against that backdrop, left wing outsider and democratic socialist candidates have racked up victories and races from coast to coast

during Trump's second term against that backdrop is such an interesting description. I think it's also the fact that in like keeping progressives out of the party, the Democrats did fuck all to help working people while like inequality just went off the charts. So it's like, yeah, in the fact, in not acknowledging the policies that people to the left of the establishment have been screaming about and not embracing those, that's also the, coincided with the absolute degradation of the party. But yeah, yeah, yeah. Also the fact that they're like so beholden to APEC and they won't.

100%. Yeah. And I think there was there was a whole analysis too with like the wins in New York that they're like, I mean, like for a lot of Democrats that get pulled, they don't they don't see like falling in line with whatever APEC says to be like a strength of a candidate. In fact, they feel that that makes them weaker and untrustworthy, just generally if, like, their moral compass can be reoriented to whatever a donor says. Yeah. I'm about to go to New York in like three hours. I'll definitely report back to you guys and let you know how much of a terrified hellhole. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what they call it a comic corridor.

That's what fucking James Carver said. Why is he still around? Yeah, he called it the comic corridor. That's a comic corridor. I'm 81 years old. He said he didn't want to be in the same. party as like Darleisa, right? Wasn't it her?

But like, but he's in the same party as like all of these other assholes. I want to be in a party with Bill Clinton. And my wife, who is a Republican. Exactly. Bill Gates and Bill Gates. Bill Clinton, Bill Gates.

Bill all right. And other people. Dara Lisa, what even is like? Alan Dershowitz. Just a lot of people that got a bum rat from the Epstein Files. That's my, that's my big thing. F-Steen files. F-C-E-F-F-Sin F-F-F-F-F-F-E F-F-F.

F-S-C-F-C-F-C-F-Row. I do it, he's not Faw-Wing Leg-Wing. No, it sounds like a little bit further if you tweak it up. I'll say, I'll say. You've got to be a little more in your chest for Faw-Wing-Leggorn, but he's all here in front of his mouth. He sounds like a Walton-Goggins character.

Yeah, yes. It is like Uncle Baby Billy. He often wears a hat, kind of like you're wearing now, Miles. I think the impression really is working out. I'm taking it all in right now, basically. And I just, I look the other way when good ideas about governance come my way because I would rather just retreat into the confidence of self-delusion over my entire career thinking I was all on the right side of history. But anyway, in just sort of, I think the other thing is a lot of people on the Democrats just generally, no one addresses the big elephant in the room, which I like to call capitalism. Okay.

What's that? That's a huge part of it too, right? it's not just that like the insider democratic politics keep progressive out it's the neoliberal boot throating of capitalism like they cannot let their baby go okay they're like you can't tell me anything's wrong with my baby capitalism no you guys are haters that's really preventing anything from being done to rebalance the scales for workers uh that's that's that's that's that's a huge piece of it some democrats like are trying to get ahead of it like chris murphy right after the 2024 election, he came out and was being like, you know, capitalism is really not working for

people. And like, I get why like the Democrats lost this. Like, we got a huge issue with how the economy is running and it's not benefiting everyone. It's only benefit. Like he's so he's doing like the sort of 10,000 foot view version of inequality. And after the primaries, he came back out. He's also promoting a book. So this is what he came on, he came to say on NBC News. Yeah. This is what he said on NBC News trying to sort of like, this is like, I'm just, I'll tell you what's centers are saying, but like this is, I think, the best the establishment can do at acknowledging the gigantic donkey in the room. Quote, I want us to be a big tent party. I mean, I've been saying this for years. I think that it's actually a sign of a party that is alive and growing

when there's a contest of ideas inside the party. So I'm not a Democratic socialist, but I do believe that the Democratic Party has been historically way too timid in taking on corporate power. I think our party should have bigger ideas than he goes on. This version, this version is of capitalism isn't working. Now, I make the argument in the book, my book, Jesus Christ, that we should embrace, you know, what I call common good capitalism, a capitalism where we have more shared prosperity, where we want more millionaires and less trillionaires. Some sort of communist type capitalism. A capitalism where we own the means of production. Exactly. Still, and we own the media and we can also put out whatever narratives we need politically to keep our party in good

standing. What I call a common good, like, it's not even like people want to be millionaires. Like, that's not even, he's still like, like, appealing to this weird idea that people want to be, everyone wants to be like super wealthy rather than. Right. Which I'm fine with. I think we all could be. Sure. I guess we could. Maybe if there were less billionaires, we could have more millionaires. Or one less trillionaires. Yeah, or just a vision of like, you know, a country that works that you're able to get a home. Now, what's that like?

I don't know. I'm just describing a fantasy world. I just picture that scene, that scene in a sicko in that Michael Moore documentary where he's like talking to like a doctor in the UK who's like, I make a million pounds a year. Right. But, you know, and he's like, oh, but, oh, okay. But like, you don't have like, he's like, but I don't need two houses. I don't need two BMWs. Right.

Just the home is fine and the car. I don't need any other stuff. I need a plane to fly over my house as well. Yeah, yeah, of course. Yeah, we'll come over to Winthrop Massachusetts. We all do. We all do. But like on the establishment centrist end of the spectrum, there is a group called, there's like a group of House, moderate House Democrats where they read a letter called the promise to America.

Actually, let me just, I should actually just pull this up because I was just going to read a part of it. Okay, this is this is the promise to America from the sentence. Democrats. America is stronger than our politics. Politics forces false choices between extremes on right and left. We reject them. Too many Americans have not benefited from the last century or half century of economic growth. Americans want an economy that lowers cost, expands opportunity and rewards the people who work hard every day. Americans want safe communities, institutions that solve problems. We believe in building more to lower costs and expand opportunity. We believe Democrats succeed when we speak to the whole country and value persuasion over purity.

It says, we are capitalist, not socialist. It's one of the biggest lines. We believe in a growth. So they, where is it? It says economic permitting and tax policy should expand opportunity and lower costs for workers, families, and entrepreneurs and those striving to join the middle class, not disproportionately favor those already at the top. So again, they're trying to still speak the language.

of like the scales need to be balanced but still be like but that's capitalism actually where yeah I don't think people are going to keep falling for that the DSA especially like in places like New York people are fucking done yeah people are done with the semantics argument right yeah it's like and LA is like interesting because it's split right because there's a ton of fucking wealthy people who live in like less dense areas and then the people who live in like more densely populated LA totally understand like the need for affordable housing the need for different zones zoning laws and things like that. But it's interesting just to see

these like these primaries and like the reaction to it kind of remind me of like the buildup to Zoran's like election because people first like laugh it off. We're like, look at this guy. He thinks he's going to beat the mainstream candidate here. Then they try like their tired ass attacks like they did with Mumdani where they're like, you know, first it's like, he's a socialist. And people were like, yeah, go on.

What else? Or when they like when they describe Kamala or like any of these centrists or even right-wing like Democrats as socialists. We were like, yeah, I fucking wish. Yeah, right. Yeah, exactly. They're like, get the fuck out of here. No, you are not.

And then it was like, he's Muslim? And people are like, and? And they're like, fuck. So am I likeam al-a-a-a-am, brother. Usually you got to just say either Muslim or socialist, and that was enough to get a Democratic candidate like, look the other way.

These people say these are good things. now. Like, we're fucking cook. It's just interesting to see that like those attacks that just end up ineffective because I guess the stakes are just so completely different from that era when those attacks actually worked. But now voters

are just too aware of like their material conditions to be like, yeah, I don't give a fuck up. Like, I'm talking about the substance of what they're arguing for on their platform. And yes, we need affordability. We need some, we need increased financial equity. We need a more just world.

How is this a hard thing to wrap your head around? Gosh, next thing you know, he's going to jump into a swimming pool with a suit on. Yeah, exactly. Ruin it. I will never forget, like, I went to a pro-Palestine protest, like, pretty soon after October 7th. And, like, I remember, like, we're all just marching. And I look over, and there's this one white lady who was just so shocked. Like, her mouth was literally, like, on the floor just watching us.

And I was like, oh, she never thought. anyone cared about these people and she hasn't caught up to the fact that like we all give a shit about each other. Yeah. And that's what it feels like with like centrist Democrats. They're like, no, no, we're still on this grift. Like they haven't caught up yet. They haven't. Yeah.

The masses aren't reading. And it's like DSA is putting in the fucking work. Like you guys were being left behind. That's what's scary though. Like right now, it just feels like it's, it's truly like this power is up for grabs and it's who's going to get to it first to capture the imagination of American people who are. willing to be like, man, what the fuck are we doing with like this? Like, they're like, I'm our Democrat versus like, dude, we need health care. Like, we need an educational system or those things.

Because you can see how like there's right wing grifters do it, but it's still so couched in like this like ethno nationalism that it's like, it's not, it's pretty repellent. But you can, I can see that like with the Democrats looking at this too, they're like, we got to fucking start like we got to start talking like this is normal to us. But obviously like you're the opposite in practice. They also, like, it is, I don't know, it's just like so kind of like crazy to me how, like, there's still like Kamala's campaign with like the military lethality was not too long ago. Right.

And so they're, they're all like feeling so shocked from it. So they kind of have to grit their teeth and be like, this is okay. Like I remember seeing like a Hakeem Jeffrey's comment about it. where he like very much evaded the question whereas like last year he i think they're still trying to go on this run of like these people aren't real democrats and it's like well then who the fuck are the voters are they not real democrats to you so they they they're attempt to kind of silo democrats into like real democrats and not real democrats are going to cost them their own party yeah it's like it's gonna backfire so bad it's like you're talking about it tainted brand it's

like yeah this is this is this is round up by montanto y'all love that right you like glyphosate you're like that over there that's not real glyphosate that's some fake ass glyphosate over there you love you love coconut oil have you thought of oil spills in the ocean right but you love that it's like that's the off-brand version of a carcinogenic party you don't want this like yeah nobody wants the real thing or a lot of people don't not that not quite a tipping point yet but like that idea that that is going to be like oh they're not real Oh, okay. Who are the real ones? Tell me. Tell me, DNC. Not going to be too effective. I'm just like, every day, there's just like something, there's some new angle coming out, new analysis. Some were just like, it's going to be fine. Look at Richie Torres. He was able to win. Like, Richie Torres is one of the most backed by APAC, you know, members of Congress. And it, like, pointed to that shit's holding. Did you see that Hussein Piker straight to chat, Richie Torres moment from dark. Daraliza had her, like, party.

And I don't know if, like, Hassan was drunk or something, but somebody, like, commented about how he looked like Shug Nike because he was like, he was like, I'm coming for you, Richie Torres, two years. That's all you got left. He does not look like Shug Nite at all. I was about to say. No, no, no, no. Just like the way he was like, I'm fucking coming for you like that.

Like, he had that like 90s like you're not going to. There are many analogies I would make, but Shugnoy is not one of them. Well, to be fair, he's holding. holding Richie Torres out of a balcony. No, I'm kidding. Yeah, yeah. By his ankle. Yeah.

But yeah. At the Soros Awards. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He said come join death row records. He, like, they, they, I feel like there's like an energy particularly on the East Coast that's like, we're not going to fucking be civil anymore. And I love it. Yeah. I fucking love it.

I think they're, they're catching the, I mean, like, that's when I like, I look at L.A. And there's like, this city is just way to. We have to put in the work. We have to put in the work. We got to do it. So many, like, very comfortable, wealthy liberals that live in, like, live in L.A. Like, I'm sure. Like, any major city. But, like, when you look at that mayoral election and people were like, huh? I think, I think part of the issue is, like, the geography of the city. Like,

whenever I'm in New York, you are surrounded by, like, the people. And so you know what, like, the power is going to. It's going to, like, your neighbors and your, you know, your community. Whereas I do feel like, L.A. is. is very segregated and it is easier to be like isolated and kind of in your own bubble. The car, the car of it all is you rarely, like you are in your car until you are at the place you intend to be at to go do a thing. You know what I mean? If you're not taking public transport and walking or whatever, just shit like that, it's very easy to be like, the world exists in the version that I just have in my head that I see outside of my window that I don't interact with.

And yeah, you get shit like. It's also like I was in New York when the Knicks won and like at every, that night at every stop everyone was cheering whoever got on the subway like they were all like every time the doors opened it was like yeah I'm sure people are coming on cheering too

everybody was like hype it was so great it was amazing and like there's no way to like recreate that in this city just because of like even if there's like a protest in one area it's so far away from another you know what I mean like it's it's tough but like that's why we have to do

the extra work I think got to before you mentioned pro-Palestinian rallies and that's actually a very good way to segue to our next story because the new Jonathan Major's Daily Wire movie is about that. Bro, how quickly he has fallen? How am I not getting these auditions, man? I know. I'm trying to be in this shit, dude.

Well, I'll tell you why. I mean, you may have gotten a part in this film. So this is the film that like back in April, like there was like footage leaking of like him as co-star like falling out of a window and like there was a lot of production was like there's a lot of safety concerns here like there's really no oversight in terms of keeping the crew safe well the teaser trailer just dropped for the movie and it's called run hide fight infidels i'm gonna is chef's kiss um it is so brilliant we i we're about to watch it for the first time i'm gonna watch it for the first time and we're gonna watch it for the first time and we're

And we'll come back right on the other side of this to tell you what the fuck we just watched. Here we go. Yo, okay, this is the most, this is some over-the-top Islamophobic bullshit. The whole trailer, the whole quote-unquote teaser doesn't even show the fucking film. It's just a nonstop like fucking montage of like terrorism. There's people in the streets. Some are just completely out of context clips of just crowds. and they're like terrorism.

There's Muslims here. Blah, blah, blah. We stopped a terrorist attack. There's pro-Palestinian rallies on campus. Then they zoom in on like an ISIS flag, just like blowing in the wind. And they slowly just zoom out to reveal that that's actually the flagpole and the quad of an American university in Virginia. And then the title comes up. Wait, no.

Then they do the call to prayer. Oh, sorry. The call to prayer comes. Can't forget the Azon. People are just straight up coming. They're like, oh, yep, yep. They're fucking praying to God? But they were doing like, as Miles pointed out, as Miles pointed out,

they were not all standing in a line and they were praying in different directions. So I'm saying, I'm here. I'm your Muslim consultant. Yeah, yeah. I even know enough. I'm like, y'all ain't doing this right. Yeah. This ain't not right.

And they were doing like the Wayne's world like, we're not worthy. We're not worthy. I'm like, bro. It's like one straight into it. Yeah. I was like, they're like, Wayne's world. It's like, inshallah. We are worthy.

Bismalah. You're like, yo, he said a business laptop. Okay, all right. The thing is, so then it says, it said, run, hide fight, infidels. And then it said, coming soon. I stopped the, I just stopped the teaser because I saw it. I saw it over.

Shah Jahan's like, no, let it keep going. He said, coming soon. Then a beat hits and then says, or is it already here? Holy shit. Now, what, now, what does any of that have to do with Jonathan Majors? Because we didn't see his dusty ass at all. One bit in that movie, teaser. Well, we now know what it's about.

In it, quote, radical Islamic terrorists hijack a liberal colleges pro-Palestine encampment to enforce barbaric Sharia law on students and execute infidels in a makeshift caliphate. Fighting against them is a, quote, security guard, tired of Uncle Tom smears. It's the barbaric Sharia law. It's not that smooth shit. No, no, no, no. It ain't that refined, that velvet Sharia law. Not Mumbana sand, Sharia law. It's the chunky, not the smooth. Yeah, exactly, exactly.

Very chunky. Okay, so I'm guessing that's who Jonathan Majors is, a security guard, tired of uncle. What is also, what is he doing to be called an Uncle Tom? More like Jonathan Miners and Megan Bad, am I right? Yeah, shmears on a bagel, you know. What is? So I guess it's like Paul Blart Ballot-Balka. for Sharia law.

But he's beating up the students for protesting Israel. Instead of a segue, he's riding a magic carpet. Yeah. If you remember, one of the first movies, The Daily Wire put out was called Run, Hide, Fight, which was like an action film. But it was like, again, if Die Hard took place during a mass shooting at a high school. And, you know, like, that's already a wild premise. It's also so fucked up because they're the reason mass shootings happen. Sure, yeah, yeah.

And also just like this kind of propaganda that's really not doing anything except to like fear monger, not actually offer people like an idea of like you don't come away. I think gun control, we need gun control to like protect our children. It's like, no, you need a fucking mall cop to fucking blast everybody. You need for every bad mall cop, you need a good mall cop with a gun. You need a security guard who's tired of the Uncle Tom smears. okay, who's ready to shoot a bunch of, I don't even know. Okay, so the other thing, though, too, is the producer, yeah, which is, wow,

the producer of that first one, he was accused of, like, sexually assaulting a minor. And now, and now from that, they're like, yeah, yeah, that guy got a little baggage around that. Is he allowed on college campuses? Who knows? They're just so, like, now they're just like, all right, we're just going to, like, make this a franchise. So I guess the only sort of relevant narrative point you need is like, does it take place at a school? Okay, great. So then my other thing is like, does the plot fall apart immediately when a group of terrorists can run a caliphate in the middle of Virginia on a school campus?

And there's no, I feel like I've seen what the government does. I've seen them drop bombs on their own people in Philadelphia. Are they like at the club fair, this caliphate? Yeah, right. You like, you guys should really join up. Yeah, yeah. It's like they're on the same. campus is pitch perfect.

It's in the same universe. Right. And like, yeah, like young Republicans. They're like next to the young Republicans. They're like, oh,

did you check out their booth? What's like the, the Pongara movie that Hassanman Hodge is doing? Oh, he's doing one? Best of the best or something. Yeah. Yeah.

I think this just means we made it. I think, you know, I think Muslims have made it, dude. It's so fucking just, it, the low effort,

Islamophobia, it's really crazy. Like, that they merely just think it's like, We're in a trailer. We're going to show a 9-11 clip, someone wearing a Kaffia, the ISIS flag, and pretty much you get, you get how fucking scary this is. I saw like a recent, I think it was like a recent Jubilee video or something where like one of the women was like they're trying to have Muslims here. I see them in New York praying.

Like that is enough for those people to be like, oh, like that prayer image is enough for people. is enough for people who are already in that mindset to be like, this is terrorism. Being on your knees submitting to God is terrorism. So then I'm guessing like do all the students who are against genocide in Gaza, are they recruited by the caliphate to then fight for the caliphate against the one security guard? And then so the security guard is still justified in killing those students if they cross them. I'm just, I'm trying to figure out like, I think that's logically correct, Miles. Yeah, like if it's a video game, right? It's like they become, oh, they were now they're bad guy.

Like, it's just a blackening of it. There's zombie Muslims. They've been bitten. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Yeah, I just, I have no idea. Apparently, it's this security guard and also a Delta Force vet must arm up to save their clueless peers and keep America from surrendering to the end on its own soil. Holy shit. Thank you for bringing this into my life.

I was unaware of this until I did my research. Jonathan Majors, you are. And I've already forward this to many friends that might. Yeah. I can only just wait till this shit comes out and they're like, we need everybody to buy 45 tickets and give them away so we can show the radical left that we have people that will just throw their money away to inflate box office numbers. Please, please, please. So, yeah.

Dude, the fall off of Jonathan Majors, I just can't. Didn't he like host SNL at one point? Yeah. Yep, yep, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Incredible. Incredible work. All right. Let's take a quick break. Let's take a quick break. Let's just let our limbic system just settle a little bit after that panic.

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Unless we get word that there might be scattered rain in the area, and in which case we will completely cancel the concert. So vanilla ice. It's just the fucks with my hair. What hair? It's, well, it's fake hair that I spray on, but it dissolves in rain. Yeah, it's made out of canned cheese, actually. Or you know, like, those environmental...

It gets in the way of that first ding in the TV. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Yeah, ding, exactly. So he wasn't able to perform. But in the buildup to that, for whatever reason, I'm not sure. The Atlantic did an article, a little profile piece on Rob Van Winkle. Let's not forget his real leading name. That's an insane name.

Yeah, yeah. You're almost ripped Van Winkle. You're Rob Van Winkle. You're like so close to being Rip Van Winkle. You're actually, yeah, you're just two letters away. But you're Rob. He was the one that was like super old, right? rip in what co-reminding.

Yeah, yeah. The fair tale. Wasn't he always going to sleep or some shit? What was your family? He was always going to sleep and then waking up hundreds of years later. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I would love that job, actually. Wait, that sounds hell of tight.

Well, it's basically like having Vanilla Ice's career because he must have fell asleep. Yeah. He fell asleep. He's like, yeah, I'm still popping, right? And then he can't even perform with his fucking friend. Yeah, I'm like, is it 1999? Uh, yes? No, it's 2026.

Get your fucking head out. So I do want to point out that there, Stop, evaporate and listen. Stop. My career stopped. Evaporate. Now listen. So there is like actually of like a, there is the non-profit or sort of non-partisan, um, 250th committee that was put together by Congress a decade ago.

Or yeah, like that was called America 250. That is actually out there like trying to plan stuff. In L.A., there is a concert at the, at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum with like smashing Pumpkins and Chris Stapleton and Queen Latifah is like the host. Why did Smashing Pumpkins and Billy Corkin just keep finding ways to like ruin

high school shot John? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Why is that? Billy's now, he's off the alt-right thing now, right? Is he still kind of, is he still kind of dabbling in it? I remember he was kind of like saying stuff that I was like, oh, Billy. I don't know. I just remember you know. Oh, Billy.

Yeah. As a fellow bald person, you know, I, yeah. I just want him to be better. Yeah, do better. Yeah. He describes, oh, he's a, I think he's, he's like a free market libertarian or some shit, which are always like, oh, you're a coward racist. You want to, you want to, you want to, just say the slurs, you coward. We know what you want to do.

He is doing all that stuff now where he's like apologizing to his old bandmates for like, you know, keeping all the, the song royalties and publishing. He's like, yeah, you know, if I could go back in time, I probably would have done that differently and everybody. Wait. Like Darcy and like James Iha did this shit? Yeah, yeah. I'm, I would have to double check this, but I'm pretty sure in an interview he was like, you know, do you have any regrets or something? He's like, yeah, like, I wish I had made it more of a democratic, you know, whatever after the fact. So I didn't make all the billions of dollars.

So then give them money now. Yeah. Right. Wow. Redistribute your wealth, bitch. Like, hook James I. Uh-huh up, full. Okay.

Get my girl. Darcy, right. I was in love with Darcy. I remember when they were like melancholy and the infinite sadness came out. I mean, I was in love with Billy Corgan's guitar sound, but, you know. Man, remember bodies? Love is suicide. Oh, my gosh. I used to listen to that shit.

Yeah, it's fuck you. I used to listen to that shit like during a breakup. I was like, yeah. Cast the pearls outside. Wait, is this one? we have like we need this music back so that all the red-pilled in cells can get their emotions out. Yeah, exactly. I was, they are boring.

They are boring this year for Melancholy's three years. I was listening to bodies crying in my Honda prelude to that shit. Nobody ever knew. It was a Ford Winster for me. Oh, hell yeah. You got to have that car that you were getting mad sad. That is, I thought you were going to say something else. That you were getting wetting.

wedding from your tears from those tears you would get mad sad crying to that you were smoking mad weed and mad tenterball yeah exactly mad and mad sad in that thing listen to Billy Corgan saying nobody's

ever now dude I'm feeling sad I was in there just like on the 405 being like man it's a fucking bar bro She really got me fucked up, bro. Like, she don't know me, bro.

I'm actually a good guy. I'm a good guy, bro. She didn't even bother to really know that part about me. Why didn't you, Darcy, mail me a letter back, bro? Yo, I tweeted once that my dream partner visually is a combination of James, Iha, and Darcy. And then smashing pumpkins, like, retweeted and started following me. And I was like, but this was like so early that I was like, I thought Darcy. or James Ihole.

Yeah, then you realize Billy Corgan's probably running their account anyway, you don't want that ball. And he's like, you know who my dream person is? I don't know why I'm talking like Billy Corgan the way he sings in bodies. It sounds like he's beavis or butt head.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, dude. Love is suicide. So anyway. Nobody's ever new. You know, and cast the pearls outside. So, anyway, back to the Atlantic piece on vanilla ice.

I didn't even where the fuck we got. Oh, because Smashing Pumpkins is performing the LA version of the Los Angeles. So the Atlantic's profile piece is just so funny. They went to his home in Florida. That is the godiest fucking place I've ever seen. It looks like AI slop Versailles. The article, like they really,

they're like doing a lot of lifting saying that not only is Vanilla Ice a patriot, but he has also lived the American dream. It says that Van Winkle is a patriot there can be no doubt. certainly he's lived the American dream in all of its neon splendor. I'm just going to read. I don't even want to describe. I just want to read from this piece because it sounds crazy. Quote, this is a description of his home, right, where he has a 9-11 memorial.

Quote, walk past the elevator in the gold-guided living room, past the mural of Spanish galleons seeking the fountain of youth. Oh my God. I just hit my brain crazy. All right, pause daily on. Um, it's okay, so let me just pass the span, the mural of Spanish galleons seeking the Fountains of Youth, pass the Mortal Kombat console. Step outside and there, just by the lazy river, you'll find Vanilla Ice's 9-11 memorial.

What? The fuck? Kind of jumble a word is this shit? First of all, you got to walk through his like weird fucking conquistador like porn mural. Then obviously the Mortal Kombat console. Got to have more combat. about that personally. Lazy River and 9-11 Memorial.

By your lazy rivers crazy. This is the description. Quote, we stopped at a shiny pole standing on the back patio. Before I could make any assumptions about what it was for, he explained that it had come from a fire station whose workers responded during the destruction of the World Trade Center. A wall plaque commemorated the 343 firefighters lost that day.

Wait, what kind of fire station has a lazy river in it? Oh, no, the pole. The pole. The pole. The pole. This lady's river came from the firehouse search. So then he goes on, never forget, he said, before bringing me to his red cushioned movie theater. Cool.

Thanks. One of the really wild parts was that this is his sort of interesting description of being a white kid who was able to culture vulture his way into having a rap career. I faced a lot of adversity, probably more than any person to ever play a record or become a musician. position. Oh. Okay. Okay. Sure, man. Sure. You're, you're stealing another culture's art form to profit from. And because you're like that, I hope that's his like play on. And he stole his. Yeah. Yeah. And under pressure by Queen and David Bowie. Like before he gets on stage, I hope there's just like, everything goes dim and it just goes, I face a lot of adversity. Probably more than any person. Anyone. But then while. that's happening, they're showing pictures of like Harriet Tubman, Nina Simone, uh, Fred Hampton, shit like that, like more than anybody, man. James Carville. I've been up against it, man. More than James Coggle. He said, he told journalists that he'd feel

like he'd felt like a quote sellout who'd been marketing as marketed as a pretty face simpleton when he really was a survivor from the streets. That's cool. Then they, like, it's interesting, the Atlantic, I like the person who wrote this got a little shady and asked about his terrible flop of a movie Cool as Ice. That was a rom-com. This is from the Atlanta quote. I asked him how he felt about the fact that cool as ice, the surprisingly lovely 1991 rom-com he starred in,

flopped at the box office, leaving theaters after less than three weeks. Quote, there's no flop at all, bro. What are you even talking about? The fact that he's like a caricature of himself is insane. Yeah. This is how I would expect him to show up on like The Simpsons.

Yeah, right, exactly. And how did he get that, Versailles' house. Well, obviously, if people know he did have that, like, he killed MC Hammer. There was the Vanilla Ice Project, which was him house flipping that was on for like nine seasons from like 2010. And again, he was like, he said he developed a hobby for accumulating distressed U.S. assets. This is from the Atlantic quote, so began a decades long career in construction and home flipping. After the 2008 financial crisis, he developed a hobby of going online to bid on distressed U.S. assets held by speculators in India. Many acquisitions, he's never visited or fixed up.

Letting houses, quote, marinate, depreciate for tax purposes, is a smart business, he said. Cool, cool. Oh, my God. Then he was just saying that he met the Trump family because his company was hired to do Donald Trump Jr.'s countertops, cabinets, and fireplace. That's how he met him. He said, in the thing, he said, quote, Don Jr. is a big vanilla ice fan, Van Winkle said. and the two hit it off, parenthetical, Don Jr. did not reply to a request for comments. I can neither confirm.

Then when they talk about how they're like this, like, you know, this concert with Trump's kind of controversial, you know, like you're, you into this. He said he's happy to do it. But he's like, he's like, I've never fucking shied away from a show. This is quote, another quote from a quote. Speaking with TMZ, he said he'd happily play for Vladimir Putin or in Iran. When I asked him whether he was, was serious about that comment. He doubled down and began talking about the unsavory associations he's had in the past. He repeated his highly publicized claim that he'd once been friends with Pablo Escobar. I'm sure there's a parenthetical there. Pablo Escobar could not be reached for a comment. He told me he'd performed for the Taiwan. Yeah. It's true. Yeah, it was a banger. He told me he'd performed for the Taiwanese mafia. He believes he's even played for the Taliban, though he didn't realize

who they were at the time. Quote, they're dancing around, man. All the women have the ninja suits. He said, all the women have the ninja suits, I call them on. Is that the last scene of the infidels movie? Yeah, I think so. Yeah, it's ice. It's just him playing for them. Jonathan Majors

breaks into the auditorium. Y'all ready for some smooth? It's women in like fake, fake burkas, and it just says ninja suit on it. You ready for some smooth Sharia law guys? Yeah. DJ player. Doon, do do do do. Um, yeah.

So, I love for her. He said on the subject of people using Ice Ice Baby for Pro Ice Videos, which obviously caused a spike in digital song sales, he seemed perfectly happy about it stating, quote, you can use it for hate, you can use it for whatever if you want to, whatever you want to use it for. Some people are so fucking stupid.

Yeah, they're just like a meat suit of a human. Like, what are you? I don't, that's not fair, Paul of you because he's actually, I think, of skilled orator.

are in rhetorician because I do want to leave you with this one. Are you saying he's a meat ninja suit of a human policy? Do you see what I did there? Yeah, there you go. Hello. He's, they're like, you know, they're like, he has apparently become a, quote, master of changing topics. This is what he says?

Given his work in an industry construction, that's forced labor shortages because of ICE's activities, I thought he might have some sort of viewpoint on the immigration debate. He told me that he's, quote, become a master of changing. topics when such tricky subjects come on. Like what human dignity, you fucking loser? Quote, when it's politics or religion, I go, man, dude, you hear about that new motocross bike coming out tomorrow? I'd already notice this superpower of his, of his whenever I tried to ask for a detail about,

say, his supposed time with the Taliban, quote, my opinion means nothing, he said, I'm an entertainer. Why would you ever base anything off of my opinion? Again, very brave. very brave. And yet, he survived so much, overcome so much as an entertainer. Hey, man, that's so crazy. Someone's like, hey, I don't know if you heard, you know, like one of our construction form and got swept up in an ice raid. And like, you know, he's a U.S. citizen. We've got to try and help. Man, did you hear about the new motocross bike coming out?

Oh, sick. Oh, which one? I don't know. There's a new one coming out. It's sick, though, dude. Anyway, do, do, do do do do. Right. All right, man, I got to go, dude. This is from 9-11. in this poll. All right, never forget, bro. Bail the race never. Never forget. What fuck is this shit? Was there one musician in the towers that he's willing to admit maybe had it harder

than him? No. No, no, no, no. He'll never, he'll never. Dude, like, a white dude like that who's just got that self-victim complex, that's, that ain't coming down anytime soon. He's devoted all of his mental energy to that. And again, I call that brave.

And I just do want to leave you with one of his lyrics. Because even though he says he doesn't weigh in on politics, in the song Ninja Rap 2, if you remember, this was a sequel to his Ninja Turtle song in 2005. Go, Ninja Go. Yes, there's lyrics about Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, who famously are a part of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the movie. This is, these are the lyrics quote, now I live in an underground blasted, dark-sized soldier hauling people who were plastic. Like Bill Clinton, you never inhaled, messing around with Monica and polished up his bell. And with that... From the Ninja Turtles.

Go Ninja, go, ninja, go. Shaja Han Khan. Clever rhyme scheme. Yeah. Wait, so he was pro Sharia because of the ninja suits. He's still working out. He's still working shit out. He might do...

Who knows? The soundtrack for Run, Hyde Fight, Infidels might have a titular song from Vanilla Ice. If things go well for him. Shaja Hong Kong. Thank you so much. Yeah, exactly. As you and Anne Hathaway say.

Yeah. I think she said that about Arsenal winning, too. I think it's when she said is one of the times she used it. And all the Arsenal fans were like, okay, okay, Ann. Shajah Khan Khan, thank you so much for joining us on the Daily Zikegai Smell.

Where do people find you, follow you, intake and work? Thank you so much. You can find me on Instagram at Shajasthan, S-H-A-A-A-A-A. J-I-S-T-A-N and on your television on the Hulu network on a show called Deli Boys. We just came out with the second season. Season two.

Please watch it. We need the streams. We love a third season. Please. My boy edited some of the episodes from season. I think he might be on season two. Yes. Is there a work of media that you're enjoying, social or otherwise?

I just started. We actually, we finished Widows Bay, which was. I love Whittlese. Oh, so good. And, you know, Massachusetts, you know, it's about my, yeah, it gets the small-timing Massachusetts. A bunch of my friends are on it. Yeah.

Tim Balt is on it. So good. He is. He is. Yeah, yeah. He's also on Delhi boys. Love that. Yeah.

Love that. Paula V. Thank you so much for guest hosting today. Where the people if I do follow you? What's the working media that you're enjoying? Hi, Matt, Paula Vig-G-U-N-A-V-N-A-L-N. I have facial recognition comedy and second screens comedy. Both monthly shows.

Go to my Instagram to find them. And then I also, please listen to my millennial mood board podcast. It is so fun. Our latest episode was on the whole Napster takedown and how quickly that happened and all of the impacts of it. And it was very, very interesting to learn about. And it was super fun and funny with my co-host,

Jasmine Ellis and Valerie Tossi. I also loved Widows Bay. I'm currently reading, and don't worry, I didn't buy it because I don't necessarily support her. But I'm currently reading Lena Dunham's book, Famsick, just for the T. I'm just like, what happened with her and Jack? It is, she's like, stop calling me a Nepo baby. She's like, I'm like, you're not, it's, I'm understanding part of your perspective, but also, I don't think you understand how easy it was for, she's basically like,

there's some feelings of the vanilla ice. Like, I've had it really hard situation going on. But it is fast. I do think she's a good writer, so it is compelling to, like, keep reading. Yeah. But I'm also, but she's not the most likeful person to me. Sure, sure, sure. You look with a morbid curiosity.

I'm reading it in public and shaking my head to show people that I don't agree with it, you know? Odell Beckham Jr. walks by you and you're like, oh, my God. You remember her. Well, you are very brave, I was told. Yeah, exactly. Brave, brave, brave. A work of media I'm enjoying is actually from one of my family friends. This is like some of our aunts watching the Japan-Brazil match.

And this is when Gabriel Martinelli scores. And they're like watching processing that Japan has basically lost the World Cup. So my work in media is watching my aunts take in the Japan L for the World Cup. because growing up, like, a lot of time in the summer, I would be in Japan. So a lot of my memories of the World Cup are watching the World Cup in Japan, like the wackiest hours growing up. So it's just nice, a bit of just some insight to my family watching Japan lose, where they're sort of like processing it, but all they can do is go, ah, ah, as they lose.

Yeah, da, like, I don't like it. Please no. They're watching the replay and going, ah, every time it goes in. I don't know. My other aunt. She's like, I got the nampum. She's like, how much time's left? It's like, that was at the very end. That was at the very end. Yoko. I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. You can find me talking about 90-day fiancé on 420-day fiancé. I'm talking about footy, football on Aina Footie with Jamel Johnson and Chris Martin. You find me everywhere at Miles of Gray. You can find us on Twitter, Blue Sky at Daily Zikex. We're at the Daily Zakeykex on Instagram. you can go to the description of the episode wherever you're listening right now go to the bottom scroll now and that's you're going to find the footnotes footnotes thank you uh and that's where you're going to find the link to the information we've talked about as well as a song i think you're going to enjoy uh i just i came like i was a huge black on both sides that most deaf album from nineteen ninety five nineteen ninety nine fan uh and i just heard this he's this new track uh ish track it's an album that came out last year or two years ago uh from the hypnotic brass ensemble

And it's him. He's not, he's not, he's now Yassine Bay. He's not most deaf. So this is hypnotic brass ensemble with Yassine Bay called space. But the tracks called space. And it just feels, I don't know, when I heard it, it just made me, it reminded me of when I was listening to Black on both sides, which is like a very specific music memory for me. And I really enjoyed it because he's kind of singing in like the productions like funky with brass. Really cool.

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