The Daily Zeitgeist - We Welcome Our A.I. Overlords, MAGA Trash Pandas 05.24.23

Episode Date: May 24, 2023

In episode 1489, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Blake Wexler to discuss... An AI-generated image rattling the stock market, AI being used to track mass movements of people and read brain waves, MTG buying Kevin McCarthy's garbage, and much more! 1. An A.I.-Generated Picture Stokes a Stock Market Plunge - The New York Times (nytimes.com) 2. U.S. Intelligence Building System to Track Mass Movement of People Around the World 3. AI Reconstructs 'High-Quality' Video Directly from Brain Readings in Study 4. Guess who just bid $100K for McCarthy’s used chapstick LISTEN: Peg - Wibijazzin' Hit us up @DailyZeitgeist on Twitter  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me for I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and Shekinah Church. Listen to Forgive Me for I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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and it's a podcast where we take a deep dive into American shared consciousness, and it's Wednesdaynesday may 24th 2023 um oh man it's brother's day shout out to the siblings out there and you know and also to my fellow african-americans i'll also say it's brother's day also is it yeah why not i mean i don't know what the spirit of it the photograph seems to be two ca Caucasian kids. So I'm guessing it's just for the sibling brother. But I will expand that to the larger spiritual sense. Also, Aviation Maintenance Technician Day.

National Wyoming Day. National Scavenger Hunt Day. National Escargot Day. Wee-wee. Emergency Medical Services for Children Day. Is it saying, like, you're advocating for them? Like, yeah, they should also be able to access emergency medical. And National Yucatan Shrimp Day.

That sounds like some shit like El Torito fucking made up. You ever had Escargave? Escargave? Oh, hell yeah. We're talking about the many similarities between the French accent and the Philly accent. Oh, yeah. The two most sophisticated accents on the planet my name is jack o'brien aka hold on to your butts everyone buddy you're a podcaster smart man on the mic talking about the news with all your insight repping the daily

zeitgeist every single day y'all gonna bring the truth make it your own way singing miles and jack they're the hosts on the show keeping us informed making sure we all know yeah and then there's like they have like a second part of the chorus uh so this is a aka brought to you by uh chat gpt GPT said due to aka writers strike aka's are now app source to chat GPT been scabbed this thing sucks it's real exactly it's real long and like it doesn't

seem to know what the words to we will rock you are so we're gonna spend we're gonna spend a lot of this episode talking about why you should be scared of ai but i just wanted to open up with you know a reason to laugh and point at chat gpt because it's long man there's a good miles you're a funny man quick with the jokes adding laughter to the serious topic spoke and jack you're the brains bringing knowledge to the serious topics spoke and jack your the brains bringing knowledge to

the game together your duo that'll make your name okay make my name yeah we'll make all all of our names we'll make our name I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host famously of that aka

I just did Miles Gray aka come famously of that aka i just did uh it's mr miles gray yes miles gray aka although they've come to the end of the road lebron looks so old it's unnatural the mortality i don't like this oh shout out to christy yamaguchi main sweat oh roomba time we knew it was i said it in the thread after that i was like it's roomba time get out the suction vehicles whatever it's time to sweep clean up the floors the lakers went out to the Nuggets. I mean, I can't feel bad about it. They were so much better.

I can't. They were so good, man. They were so good. I can't feel bad about it. The Nuggets are really freaking good. That Jokic guy, real freaking good, man. Hey, Joker. You see that, Joker? Hey, Joker.

Give Anthony a shot at the ball. I like Joel, but that joker's i like joel but that joker is really good jokers little housekeeping up top yeah uh for the first time in the history of the show we are trying a new publication schedule for the summer something new we are going to scale back to a mere eight episodes a week oh no and we're gonna try some new episode formats out because we want to yeah um so for for you the listeners the difference will be uh one episode on friday one episode on monday uh and then tuesday morning's episode we'll be trying some different stuff out.

We'll be doing interview questions, interview episodes with experts. We might even do some mailbag episodes where we get to hear from you guys. We will do. So with that in mind, by the way, yes, first prompt to you guys. We want to hear about your job. You want to know, you know, our guests tend to be people who work in media like us. So we want to hear like something interesting about your job. What's the craziest thing that ever happened to you on your job? What's something most people misunderstand about your job?

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We are looking forward to hearing from you sick, sick motherfuckers. Hey, and Miles, speaking of sick disgusting motherfuckers um hey and miles speaking of sick disgusting motherfuckers by a brilliant comedian writer actor uh whose stand-up album the blake album stuffed boy and live from pandemic debuted at number one on itunes His album, 12 Years of Voicemails from Todd Glass to Blake Wexler, charted on Billboard. Please welcome, he is the hilarious, the chaotic. He's riding a recumbent bicycle in short shorts,

and his plumpers are pow. They're popping. Full display. It's Blake Wexler! Blake! This is Blake Wexler, a.k.a. I Crave to Zite. And Zike the Blake of Dawn,

come to miles. Because Jackie will be gone. Crave to Zite. That was Crave to Zite by Beanie Seagull Eye Cherry, which is a band I just made up. But no, I wrote that. Beanie Seagull Eye Cherry.

Wow, that was a real Ph that. Beanie Siegel. We don't need AI. Wow, that was a real Philly mashup. You went with the Broad Street bully, Beanie Siegel. Is Eagle Eye Cherry from Philadelphia? No, but there is Eagle in its name. And there's a street called Cherry Street. Okay.

Cherry's the color of Temple's uniforms. Oh my God. Eagle Eye. You know where Eagle Eye Cherry sweden sweden i didn't know cherry was swedish my bum is on the swedish it does sound like a name that was mistranslated so yeah yeah i can see it oh my god this all makes sense his half brother is in nina cherry oh buffalo stance remember buffalo stance nina cherry yeah that's his bro wow the cherries are i didn't realize they're all up in cherries are out oh wait so then he moved he's born in sweden but then by the way we talked about we're doing new formats. This is one of them where Miles just reads you.

Oh my God. Eagle Eye Cherry. Family history of the Eagle Eye Cherry. I consider myself an expert on Eagle Eye Cherry, of course. Interview expert on Eagle Eye Cherry. Blake Wexler. Yes. Last time I spoke to you

was on an episode of our sister podcast, Miles and Jack I'm Matt Boosty we were talking about the 76ers we were talking about how we weren't going to be fooled even though things were looking good for them at that point I think it was maybe like the peak of

optimism for the 76ers yes people were like I don't know these 6ers they're putting it together and you yeah people were like i don't know these sixers was on a flyer putting it together and you and i were like yeah right what are we dumb yeah idiot yeah they're gonna drop it the whole time we're like but look at the momentum they're carrying into the post this looks fantastic you're like no i know the the eventual crash is going to be hilarious is what is all i see when i see momentum, I'm like

I just hope they're wearing protective gear because it's going to be a catastrophic crash. Sure enough, it was super frustrating. They lost to a Celtics team that, as we're seeing, was beatable. The Celtics are getting

in the process. They're down 3-0 as of this recording to the miami heat yeah it could be broom time yeah but i i do think this series has made me feel better about the celdics loss because first of all second round losses is where we belong as the philadelphia 76ers and also we would have gotten rinsed by the heat. Like it would have somehow been worse than this. Like what's happening to Boston would have been more embarrassing. So thank you,

Boston for taking this one for us. And thank you, James Harden and Joel Embiid for quitting at the end of game seven to just be being like, they saw the matrix. They were like, this would be bad. So yeah,

it was good timing. I wish they just saw it. so we could have just been swept and not had to deal with any of it. Or not even made the playoff. It would have been even better. The time that we could have saved. And this team is so frustrating and so just completely void of joy.

I don't even get any... There's no I told you so that makes you feel good. Cause it's like, yeah, we saw it coming. It's like predicting a car accident. It's like, why don't people are dead in the street?

I don't feel good about it. I wish you listened to us. It was nice that they chose the like crowning failure that destroyed all of our hearts and minds. Uh, they, they saved it for Mother's Day. Yeah, that was kind.

That was cool of them. Anyways, Blake, glad we had our Philly Sports Minute up top. New sponsored segment. Yes. Sponsored by Tasty Cake. By Pat's Stakes. By Pat's King of Stakes since 1930, folks.

Cash only. We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners a couple of things we're talking about. This is going to be an AI full episode. An AI-generated image of an explosion at the Pentagon spooked the markets. AI can now read your brainwaves and turn it into video and it's being used to track mass movements and their weapons detectors stink.

So it's just all very confusing. There's a lot of information coming at us in general. So we'll just talk about the difficulty of sorting through it all. All of that, plenty more. But first, Blake, we like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history? Search history, a cheap gift.

My wife's birthday is this week. No, the actual is of Randy Johnson kills bird. Yeah. Was what it was because I think a cup, maybe it was over the weekend. Randy Johnson, by the way, famous. I'm picking up on jack's cue that i was talking about obscure philadelphia sports stuff and jack had to keep jumping and explaining

what the fuck i was talking about so i'll just do it myself randy johnson was a fame a hall of fame pitcher and this seems mathematically impossible but one time he was pitching and he threw the pitch to the plate and then a bird flew in the path of the pitch and the bird um i don't i don't know what happened to it i don't know if it survived it exploded it exploded yes yeah it's truly like there it was decimated a bird is flying and then there is just a cloud of feathers and that's it it was stunning and then it happened again over the weekend where in warm-ups there was a pitcher for the same team that randy johnson played for the arizona diamondbacks was warming up in his pitch by the way this is all accident these people aren't uh burdlers

right right and they those bloodthirsty motherfuckers. Wow. There was foul play, but I do need to go. But no, they hit... I probably should be leaving, actually. I'm feeling faint. But yeah, another pitcher hit a bird with a pitch over the weekend. Over the weekend.

Yeah. Over the weekend. Wasn't that cool? Same kind of image? It was not as cool. I know you love that that just that bird exploding sort of thing jack you don't know you like to get your your money's worth yeah but no this shot it wasn't nearly as good it was out in the outfield it was warming up

so you know yeah he didn't put much behind it but it did kill the bird also in the cleveland guardians the cleveland guardians white socks game a bird also got fucked up by like a ground ball like this over this over the weekend too i mean yeah randy johnson known as the big unit uh you can imagine what kind of heat was coming off that arm now he's just a you know he's just like a hobby photographer incredible yeah he seemed like he would like just disappear into the desert once he retired. He takes sports photos. You see him in the background of football games and shit.

On the field, like a telephoto lens. He's like, I'm just really into photography now. He gets the best shots because he's 6'11". He's out here. He just loves looking at things through the lens. He's taking concert photos. it's always fun to see he's like i think i think he

got into it in college or something and that's how just like and i just kept it going after that that's cool uh what is something you think is overrated blake overrated coffee while eating out at a restaurant and i've never for a variety of reasons and some of it like some of our listeners might and i do share these listeners with you might have a weak stomach and it's it's an away game so you're dealing with a public restroom and also i if you're specific about how your coffee's made i find out the sweeteners can often be very limited at a place like yuki you still see the sweet and low that that that pink travesty and then there's equal where i don't know nothing's less equal than when you drink that shit and splenda which

is like a nightmare as well so i also have found that depending on what breakfast place you go to i like a ratio in my coffee of sweetener milk to coffee and then these these sickos will come over and then just dump more coffee into your thing which ruins it all so you have to do the math yeah and then at night not a big espresso person after dinner. Yeah. Let me cut you off there. What's something you think is underrated? No, I'm just kidding. Moving along. Enough of that.

Yeah, more on that later, Blake. Where the fuck that came from. I don't remember the last time I broke it to a sweat so quickly that you burned me that badly just now I'm soaked it's like 61 degrees in my face I'm completely dredged

his limbic system has been hijacked if it was possible to take out my legs from underneath me you just did it and it's not possible usually because oh my god your legs those mumps stuck to the ground wait so you you are you really that incensed when the balance is thrown off like yeah you can't if you if you're a half and half person if you're like like a sugar person, you need to get the balance right and they just come in. It's very presumptuous. It's a different drink entirely.

Who's at fault here? You're saying it's the workers' fault? I'm just trying to see where you're at here. Who are you aiming this candidate? They suck, right? If you can even find one, no one wants to work anymore. These businesses, no one's there.

You serve yourself self-service kiosks are fucking everywhere so yeah it's and then you write what we're so out on the tip thing zero oh if i pay an exclamation point yeah ask joe brandon is what you write on there i i have switched to black coffee uh and it is yeah it's just better uh all around other than it tastes like shit uh what is something you think is underrated underrated yeah i hope this beats your standards it's taking a break in the middle of the day. We're taking a break in the middle of day where if you have a non-traditional office hour job, like you don't have like nine to five in the office. I've found that working remotely, it can be hard to take. If you're a workaholic, it's hard to take breaks. There's no, oh, everybody left the office. I should probably go now. So you can work super late. So with a non-traditional schedule,

I think it's good and rejuvenating, like middle of the day, read a book for 45 minutes, put on like a 40, an episode like of a drama for 45 minutes and then get back to work. And it kind of just wipes your whole, Brian said, game changing. I love it. Yeah. It completely changes the makeup of your day because you still need that rest it's just like it doesn't necessarily have to be at the end give yourself something else to do yeah yeah exactly that's like that's like when i when i had like a job when i had my own office i whenever i had lunch i'd lock the door and i would just watch like reddit video like the reddit video subreddit for fucking an hour and it didn't refresh my day at all i was

like is it fucking five yet please i keep watching these lego stop motion recreations that are quite fantastic but yeah but i get that yeah it is good to have something that's a little that mentally switches gears rather than like putting your day on pause and be like i'm holding all this mental bandwidth just for a second and then right back into it doing something like taking a walk not yeah that's kind of nice just uh something to get quick bike ride get the blood plumping and pump that plump blood and yeah hey well speaking of taking a break uh we're we're gonna take a quick one and we'll be right back with some news. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series,

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Um, and he kind of lays out a progression of the problems he thinks we're going to see. And he said his immediate concern is that the internet will be flooded with false photos, videos, and text. And the average person will not be able to know what is true anymore.

So that's his first immediate concern. And then maybe five minutes after I read that article, a news story broke that the markets all freaked out for five minutes because somebody generated an image of an explosion at the pentagon that was realistic enough that it freaked people out and they started there was like a sell-off which some people are assuming was all by design right to like you create a little dip in the market then you buy and things go back to normal and you make a little profit. But I don't know. Yeah. It's just,

it seems like everything is happening very fast. The guy issues a warning like three weeks ago. And then that thing like happens before the end of the sentence that he's speaking, warning us all. And yeah, I don't know i i'm i've begun super producer brian sent along some documents about how you know this could be used to end the world or end our species pretty quickly and i found those troubling so i'm a fan of existence personally yeah it's every every fucking headline

it's like it's either like oh that's kind of interesting or it makes you want to shit your pants in fear like yes yeah or both and you're like oh just like don't know what how to make heads or tails of it uh because come on those ai avatars i made a pixar version of me and it was accurate thank you uh no i didn't there was like an app that's like do you want to give us 40 Because come on, those AI avatars. I made a Pixar version of me and it was accurate. Thank you. So fun. No, I didn't. There was like an app that's like, do you want to give us $40 to do it? I'm like, absolutely fucking not.

Get away from me. Yeah. Do you want to give us $40 in your genetic sequencing? Okay, now we're talking. Will it make the image? Just a few pieces of biographical data. Will it make it cuter if I give you my DNA? Oh, yeah. Way cuter.

We'll nail the aisles. The thing that got the guy to quit was when Microsoft Bing launched their chat GPT interface that led Google to like start disregarding all of his warnings and all of like the AI people's warnings. Apparently Google had been like kind of holding back and trying to be responsible for the last year. And then, but the second that like someone else was first to market with an AI

product, they were like, all right, well that's out the window. And now it's just a race to like, see who can be the first and, you know, make the biggest splash with this shit.

And so, yeah, the, it just feels like barring some massive change from how the US government is organized, the profit motive, it will not allow us to keep this shit bottled up.

It's going to cause major problems sooner rather than later if they can't regulate it. But we're in a world that seems like it has decided it is beyond regulation when it comes to major corporations finding ways to make money off of things. And not to scare us even more, but it is moving incredibly quickly. I think that's the wildest part of it right now. But it's been around for a while.

Just us as the public is becoming more aware of it because chat GPT was kind of the first popular consumer facing application of AI where banks have been using this shit to like fight fraud for a very long time. And now we're just becoming aware of it where you see in the writer's strike and and whatnot which by the way i know you said you don't stand with the wga both of you said before the show yeah my mind's not made up but well allow me to they're greedy yeah it's just they just need to show a love of work as we talked about yesterday yesterday. Zaz Love, the genius behind this HBO Max rebrand to Max, he just pointed out that

these writers need to show their love of work and get back to work. That's the thing that's going to save entertainment. That's the sauce. If you don't want to write, then work somewhere else is what I've been screaming at the top of my lungs out of my car while driving by the picket lines but no one's got a gun to your head

as you drive by they just hear gun because the rest of it like no one hears the whole no i was just uh sorry i was i was siding with the business owners i'm just a very conservative fiscal ideologies i don't like guns believe it or not but yeah and then i think also we're talking about you know the race of these big tech companies where i was just reading something that all the big tech companies have had a uh a head start with this except apple for some reason i believe is just starting its generative ai department which is kind of funny where you would not expect that they would be behind on something like this right and the person who decided not to have a generative ai department that was kind of competitive with the other companies has been fired i can guarantee you

that is yeah that guy was not like a decision that was respected around the massive corporation that is apple like they're all being like what the fuck did we do we're getting killed out there different yeah fuck damn but i mean like yeah there's other like there's a couple other developments right there's one that i saw that uh this is just the headline from vice u.s intelligence building system to track mass movement of people around the world i mean intelligence is a good thing it's what i look for in a friend u.s yeah that's us u.s like my legs right yes massive movement like the bm i took this morning yes so we're all good movement's good it

keeps it keeps the blood pumping exactly exactly but um but the people that run you know that whose business it is to run u.s intelligence or big spy as we call it um have announced that this project will be able to track like what they say anomalous mass movement for our own safety obviously it says quote in an ever-increasing amount of geospatial data is created every day this is like the lead programmer of the haystack program with haystack we have the opportunity to leverage machine learning and advances in artificial intelligence to understand mobility patterns with exceptional clarity the more robustly we can model normal movements the more sharply we

can identify what is out of the ordinary and foresee a possible emergency. And things that are out of the ordinary must be stopped. Exactly. That's called horse. That picks off the things of the haystack, which is us. Yeah. Which is the people. So like other researchers and companies that are participating in this project said,

like with all the data that's just like laying around as they see it,, they're like, we can make sense of a lot of this stuff. They're like, we can figure out if someone has suffered a traumatic brain injury just from, like, the gyroscopic or, like, movement sensors in a, like, on a mobile phone. Like, they're like, yeah, we can figure that out pretty, I think, like, pretty easily with about 90% accuracy. The theme of this, like, announcement was very, like,, don't worry it's not some scary dragnet to disrupt protests, but it could definitely be used to disrupt protests or at least predict where they're going down because they're

saying like, what if like you saw a certain group of people suddenly like moving towards one area or like they don't use their phones or like certain cars are not on the, there's like not there's less traffic in a usual direction than normal, we can begin to extrapolate where the flow of people

might be moving in another direction. What are they claiming if it's not to disrupt protests? Is it to control terrorists? Do terrorists work in flash mobs? Are they? It's like anything else right like they're saying like in an event of an attack right they

could foresee like where infrastructure like if infrastructure is taken out where people most likely would go and they could foresee an emergency it's like a lot of very vague stuff but i'm starting like you're using all this cell phone and other like they're saying they're tapped into smart devices cell phones fucking set like existing sensors that, that are like set up around cities. And they're like, there's just so much data. No one's bothering to make sense of it. And if we do, then we really have an advantage on, you know, those non do gooders. And if you're like one of these people was like, I'm going off the grid, like, this is bullshit. I just want you to hear from the lead researcher, even like his perspective on the concept of going off the grid like this is bullshit i just want you to hear from the lead researcher even like his perspective on the concept of going off the grid because it's not good uh by the way

this is dr jack cooper uh no longer from darpa because that is a scary word this is from i are yeah thank god yeah so we're good it's i's IARPA. The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity. Yeah. But here's Dr. Jacques Cooper on why you can't run from this. Thinking about it is with respect to privacy. Today, you might think that privacy means going to live off the grid in the middle of nowhere. That's just not realistic in today's environment. Sensors are cheap cheap everybody's got one there's there's no such thing as as living off off the grid he says it's so matter of fact

it's like sensors are cheap like we can we can figure shit out pretty quickly if we wanted to when he says sensors are what is he saying there probably that he also appears to be like just on the verge of falling asleep at all moments. Oh yeah. And apart emotionally. Yeah. He's been, he's been,

he's on a cocktail of sedatives that the defense department has given him in order to deliver this frightening news in a, in a monotone. But I mean, I think it's just all to say that like, it's like his sales pitch version of you can, you can gather data so easily with how cheap the sensors are like specific sensors that could give you certain geospatial data right now.

They're saying like, we can't tell you exactly what we can figure out to do now, but with all the information we have, this is what they think will help with, especially through machine learning as they feed it more and more information about like certain movement patterns that like anomalous ones will come out very quickly so that's christ um also how about this ai can fucking read your mind potentially um this is another headline from a group of researchers in hong kong who are showing like

really promising results in using ai to essentially translate brain activity into understandable visuals, like use like just brain scanning combined with generative AI. So what they were doing was like to show this, they showed participants in this study video, like all kinds of different videos, like a couple walking across a bridge or like a windy plane or like a cat,

like, you know, just like walking in front of a camera. And as these people watch the videos while they were like hooked up to these like brain scanners i think it was like an mri type device they fucking transformed they just off the brain activity that the sensors were picking up they were able to translate it into somewhat accurate video depictions of what was basically going on from this brain activity so like in one of the examples you see like this striped cat and based on what the generative ai did from the person's brain activity was putting a striped cat with like very similar coat up as its version of like and this is what the brain is seeing right now even though we can't it's a cuter cat is the most concerning part like they made the

cat more adorable the eyes are bigger yeah yeah it's a much cuter cat yeah this whole like website has all kinds of like these examples and it's really wild to see like how like just like a fish would show a fish or like a group of a crowd walking through a city would also show a crowd walking in a city it obviously had it's like wonky ai kind of art like vibes to it but again as even with the other studies are saying they're like but the more we feed it though the machine learns and it gets better and better every time and i'm just like wow i can already see how how this could be used in police interrogations or some shit like i don't even know how like what

the applications are for this because we're already seeing like these parallel advancements like happening like alongside ai and while they're certainly like benign or beneficial applications the possibility for like an ai powered police state is starting to really kind of come into focus too and you're like oh man like what what? I don't, I don't see how this is used to like make our cities less polluted or food cheaper. Like I just saying my brain is saying, oh man, they're going to be so good at getting bad guys. But yeah, you think about right. Because we're in this situation where inequality is just increasing at this rate.

where inequality is just increasing at this rate and also like our ability to like surveil and clamp down on people is also like increasing too and what like it just sounds like the option of rather than solving these like existential issues like oh yeah man we got we're gonna have all these like space tools to keep these motherfuckers in check when shit really goes down uh and that's what i just i get very very scared looking at it yeah um all right let's take a quick break and we'll come back and maybe keep talking about it we'll we'll come back and talk about some different stories we'll be right back i'm jess casaveto executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series, Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church.

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actually yeah one she paid $100,000 for Kevin McCarthy's garbage like a piece of chapstick he had used, which is like, I don't know. It's like a weird work activity where it's like we're going to auction off our stuff to each other,

but where somebody's like $100,000 for the boss's chapstick. She's auctioning off her nazi gold that's what you're paying with that's where she's able to um through paypal i don't know if i wanted to associate that that poor business with what we just said of that is the paypal let me ask you a quick question i so i'm like addicted to chapstick if you were to borrow like so your partner's chapstick you wouldn't even think twice about it you would just put it right on right like you wouldn't like wipe it or anything or is that is that like using their

toothbrush do you know what i'm saying yeah i think i would i think i'd use it yeah i would direct my partner you mean like my podcast part miles yeah miles is yes yeah jack and i do a thing where he goes oops i got a little extra my my and i go oh oh bring those lips here and go smear it back on each other that is a cute thing you know what the thing that fucks me up is what can we record to just like get get the guest on our vibe yeah yeah is when i've seen like with someone like i'll use other people's chapstick because if it's fucking super like the air is dry my lips are fucked up i'll be like yeah but then like when i see like the grime on the ridges on the side i kind of get a little freaked out or i'll do the thing where i

like really rub it on the top of my hand you You know what I mean? Just to sterilize it, you know, just to get that mouth layer up. You'll use another person's, not even Her Majesty, like just another stranger? I'll not use Her Majesty's chaps. I'm saying if I'm using like just some friend. A friend? Yeah, or some guy. You'll use it. Interesting. Yeah.

If I was to use one of yours and I think that you guys have clean mouths and I do mean that sincerely, I would push it all the way up to like the side. And I would take like a piece off the side of it and then put it on as if it's like a more viscous lip balm. Wow. You know what I'm saying? I like that. I also envision you twirling the chapstick to like dispense it all the way out.

And then like corn on the cob you just roll your lips on the side part but it hasn't touched the mouth you flute the chapstick yeah great there you go I'm like dude you fucking lick I like it fucking I like the taste I'm so but I interrupted yeah

but the thing about Margie Taylor Greene that it's it's a fucking shell game. Like, it has nothing. All this is, is her moving her funds into Kevin McCarthy's fund. That's all it is. It's a fucking, it's just a leak. It's just like an FEC workaround

to be like, hey, you got a lot of cash. You want to send some to my PAC, like to my PAC or something? And it's legal to move the money like that. So all it was was facilitating a hundred thousand dollar transfer of like her donor cash to mccarthy yeah um but hey she bought but she won the chapstick i love how just so like empty where it's like you know it's like we know that this isn't what we're doing but anyway well oh you won the chapstick all right you're the,000. What do you got in your pocket right now?

Okay. We'll go with that. Yeah. Okay, folks. We have a parking receipt from Dulles International Airport. Entry time, 4.50. Exit time, two days later, 19.20. Ooh, $120.

Not cheap. All right, we're in. We're in. Not cheap. Not cheap. But you were saying, and she's in the news for other reasons too because on top of this and on top of like the craven brinksmanship

about the debt ceiling, which I mean, we'll get to that probably tomorrow talking about where that disaster is going. I feel like that's just like, I don't know.

They're incentivized to not back down, that's for sure. Yeah, they're incentivized. They want, their whole strategy for the upcoming election is they feel like they could do better

with a catastrophe and they're just going to create the catastrophe and blame it on biden they need i mean we've said like we they they need a recession to try and campaign on into 2024 and the thing with joe biden and them they fucked up so bad because they could have raised the debt ceiling during the lame duck between the election uh and they're not in like the inauguration for the incoming like new members of congress they had the votes to raise that without the fucking republicans but you know what they were doing because they think there's some 4d chess assholes is they thought oh you know we'll do we'll test pass the ball to them when they have control of congress and make that their fucking problem to deal with and we can score points off of it when they completely show how much of you

know how out of sorts they are but at the end of the day they're like they basically just gave them the fucking football to be like yeah go ahead man spike it on our heads now because democrats have no leverage they're so bad but this has been happening since, you know, since Obama in 2011 was one of the great debt ceiling crusades, um, sequestration, if you remember that phrase from that time. Um, but like, you know, Joe Biden knew better. And at the time, a lot of Democrats were like, man, we can't keep doing this thing when, with, when they have control of the house and we have the presidency or a majority or other chambers that we allow them to dictate what's going to go on with our economy and then they completely missed the point again so um good luck to them

and all of us because if if the the government defaults that's a lot of payments that stop going out um especially for people like that or get like social security veterans benefits many many other things would be affected by it but they'll get their sweet sweet fucking recession it's a normal system of government find a new angle mile yeah exactly oh so what or maybe the democrats can always use that an excuse to like cut back on social programs and bring in more austerity under the the guise of what we had to do we had to do. We had to negotiate with them over the debt limit. I mean, there's many ways to look at how, you know, many cynical ways to look at what's going on. But Marjorie Taylor Greene, right, she's dating some dude

named Brian Glenn, who was like on a morning talk show or morning news show in Dallas. And a clip surfaced of like him covering like some performance that was like a drag thing going on and he himself is in drag and if you know about the you know gop's current just violently homophobic transphobic agenda uh you're like oh really this is this is who you're with so this is just a clip of her boyfriend doing this news thing of like in drag and just having you know a fun time with these other performers that like this news story he was covering i could tell you i don't think a lot i think a lot of people up now they're all hashtag i am up of course come and check it out here starts on saturday i'm kicking these shoes off but i may keep the pantyhose on it does feel kind

of good actually i'm not gonna pee in them i promise okay well i don't know if i'd believe that part you probably should pee in them i'm not gonna pee in them i promise okay well i don't know if i'd believe that part you probably should pee in them i'm not gonna pee in them what a weird claim that sounds like someone who's about to piss in some pantyhose oh yeah like what like and also like who no one asked you that why is that a thought don't i'm not gonna pee in your pantyhose i'm what i'm sorry hey can i borrow your hat and don't worry i'm not gonna pee in your hat like what my catheter didn't fit in the pantyhose they're really tight so i'm just free but like patriot takes on twitter was like wow like look at this energy and like obviously the republicans don't they believe in nothing so even now say there's no way you can shame them on their fucking hypocrisy here actually give a fuck her response to this tweet

is so funny and it's so of like a person who's like knows like how how much of a bad look she she tweeted quote i'm literally lolling brian glenn dressed in drag for morning news in dallas years ago reporting on an upcoming local theater production and the morons over at patriot takes thinks this is an attack brian loves the throwback and is reposting laughing cry emoji. The left is so stupid. Okay, sure. They're just showing you again how wobbly everyone is with their outrage du jour, especially on the right.

But yeah, I'm literally literally lulling right now. They're so stupid. Oh, my God. you guys are so stupid I'm sure and I'm sure like many and like the replies are like it was for a news thing like what what so drag like I'm curious because if anyone in drag is

a groomer then there are there is a context in which being in drag, you're not a groomer. And if so, please explain the nuance. Because prior to this, I did not know there was any nuance. I'm just a normal, red-blooded American wearing pantyhose and promising you that I'm not going to piss in them. And I promise I did not have a good time. I promise I did not have a good time i promise i did not have a good it's like just have a good time drag shows are some of the most fun things that you can go yes allow

yourself to have a good time they're amazing very clear difference from a local news reporter dressing in drag and some somebody else uh dressing dressing in drag that's right uh the local news obviously has a carve out when it comes to uh what what when they dress in drag and have fun yes exactly oh someone like in one of the replies someone goes there's a difference between a costume and a drag show is there oh i mean interesting please go on, though, Mr. Punisher skull emoji with the red American flag. They just have this very detailed ontology.

It's wrong, but it is very thought out. The fucking flowchart is detailed. Well, Blake. Blake Wexler, such a pleasure having you. Blake Blake Wexler. Pleasure having you. Blake, Blake Wexler.

Where can people find you? Follow you? All that good stuff. People can find me. Follow me at Blake Wexler on all social media. I'm going to be in Bristol, Tennessee at a comedy club called the Blue Ridge Comedy Club, June 2nd to June 3rd.

And also I talked about that bike ride that I did earlier called the blue ridge comedy club june 2nd to june 3rd and also i talked about that bike ride that i did earlier uh called the eagles autism challenge donations are still open on that for like until the end of the week so there's a link in my bio if you want to support it's an amazing cause autism awareness autism research um those links are on my social media as as well and thanks to everyone who already already donated oh amazing and you raised six million you said that was six million yeah they raised like 6.2 million and i think it's still 3.1 per plumper per yeah i think i saw the local news actually make that yeah they're like local man willing to raise shorts to show plumpers for it's a shame because they had my photo and they had to blur out my legs which also obscured the amount of money that was right that i wrote on each leg which is a bummer but you know it's local

like the fcc they won't let my plumbers be um is there a work of media you've been enjoying yes uh at the todd glass show on tiktok very funny comedian todd glass who left me voicemails for 12 years and i released that as an album he is so funny on tiktok where he does these videos um where he pretends to be an uber driver and the people in the car like no it's todd but they're in the back of the car and he he posted one recently where he just goes uh he pulls over and he goes i can't drive when there's cars behind me i always think it might be a cop and then the guy in the back seat goes you can't drive with cars behind you and he goes yeah then he has like a big series of those that's really really funny so great if you want just good,

clean laughs. Yeah. At the Todd glass show on, on Tik TOK and Instagram. Amazing. Uh, Miles, where can people find you?

Uh, is there work media you've been enjoying? You can find me on, uh, at Twitter, Instagram at miles of gray. What? At Twitter. At Twitter. Uh, I don't know, folks. What do uh i don't know folks what are you what are you gonna

do what are you gonna do what are you gonna do uh at miles of gray where they got them uh check jack and i out on our basketball podcast but soon to be fun because the finals are coming slowly slowly slowly and also if you like 90 day fiance check sophia alexandra out uh on our 90 day podcast called 420 day fiance um let's see do i like a tweet oh this was just this was just kind of stupid uh this is from the hype it just said her oh my god your dick is so small shrink ray company ceo hell yeah thanks there it is um tweet i've been enjoying is from brody gupta who tweeted the new hbo max max uh sorry uh advertisement that says introducing max the one to watch for hbo um max.com and she tweeted drop the face just book then add

it's the site that is the Facebook it's cleaner drop the face just book that's basically what they've done here you can find me on twitter at jack underscore o'brien you can find us on Twitter at

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Miles, what song do we think people might enjoy? Oh, I'm still on this college acapella thing, and it's fucking me up, because there's just something about college acapella groups doing more mainstream songs that just kills me. I just love hearing it, because it's just so fun. And this one is from Weeby Jazzin'. I'm not sure what school they're from. Let me find out. Let me make sure. Weeby Jazzin. I'm not sure what school they're from.

Let me make sure. Weeby Jazzin? ALSU gave toygers. That's where they're from. Any guesses where Weeby Jazzin is from? BYU. Brigham Young University. Winters College. Okay.

In Toronto, I believe is where they're from. Anyway, they did a fantastic cover of Stevie Dan's... This is Stevie Dan. It's a mashup. Of Stevie Dan's Pog. You're going to love it. Of Peg by Steely Dan.

I don't know. It's funny. Whenever I listen to acapella music, I picture people smiling ear to ear. You can never picture someone being ashen-faced singing acapella. So I was like, Everyone's wide-eyed. And that's what this gives you. So this is We Be Jazzing with Peg.

Yeah. All right. We'll link off to that in the footnote. Daily Zeke is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That's going to do it for us this morning. Back this afternoon to tell you what's trending. And we'll talk to you all then.

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