The Daily Zeitgeist - Weektrend Zeitgeist 9/29: Bad Bunny, War with Portland, Comey Indictment

Episode Date: September 29, 2025

In this edition of the Weektrend Zeitgeist, Jack and Miles discuss Bad Bunny performing at the Super Bowl, Trump beginning a war with Portland, James Comey being indicted, and much more!See omnystudio....com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 This is an I-Heart podcast. The murder of an 18-year-old girl in Graves County, Kentucky, went unsolved for years, until a local housewife, a journalist, and a handful of girls, came forward with a story. America, y'all better work the hell up. Bad things happens to good people in small towns. Listen to Graves County on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. And to binge the entire season ad-free, subscribe to Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. Hi there, this is Josh Clark from the Stuff You Should Know podcast.
Starting point is 00:00:50 If you've been thinking, man alive, I could go for some good true crime podcast episodes, then have we got good news for you? Stuff You Should Know just released a playlist of 12 of our best true crime episode. episodes of all time. There's a shootout in broad daylight, people using axes in really terrible ways, disappearances, legendary heists, the whole nine yards. So check out the stuff you should know true crime playlist on the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I just normally do straight stand-up, but this is a bit different. What do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? Answer, a new podcast called Wisecrack, where a comedian finds himself at the center of a chilling true crime story.
Starting point is 00:01:31 Does anyone know what show they've come to see? It's a story. It's about the scariest night of my life. This is Wisecrack, available now. Listen to Wisecrack on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Let's start with a quick puzzle. The answer is Ken Jennings' appearance on The Puzzler with A.J. Jacobs. The question is, what is the most.
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Starting point is 00:03:09 mine looks like i if that's what you're implying does not look like peppa pigs i wasn't even trying to go there does not have little googly eyes but now i'm gonna be staring every next time i see you i'm gonna give it a gander you're getting down there um What? All I know is what I've been told, and that's a half-truth is a whole lie. For almost a decade, the murder of an 18-year-old girl from a small town in Graves County, Kentucky, went unsolved, until a local homemaker, a journalist, and a handful of girls, came forward with a story. I'm telling you, we know Quincy killed her. We know. A story that law enforcement used to convict six people, and that got the citizen investigator on national TV.
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Starting point is 00:04:40 This is Graves County A show about just how far Our legal system will go In order to find someone to blame America y'all better work the hell up Bad things happens to good people in small towns. Listen to Graves County in the Bone Valley feed
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Starting point is 00:05:43 you should know true crime playlist on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. My name is Ed. Everyone say hello, Ed. from a very rural background myself my dad is a farmer and my mom is a cousin so like it's not like what do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club
Starting point is 00:06:02 I know it sounds like the start of a bad joke but that really was my reality nine years ago I just normally do straight stand-up but this is a bit different on stage stood a comedian with a story that no one expected to hear 22nd of July 2015 a 23 year old man
Starting point is 00:06:21 had killed his family. And then he came to my house. So what do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? A new podcast called Wisecrack, where stand-up comedy and murder takes center stage. Available now. Listen to Wisecrack on the IHeart Radio app,
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Starting point is 00:07:36 Production of IHeartRadio. This is the episode where we tell you what was trending over the weekend was trending this Monday morning. My name's Jack O'Brien. That over there is Mr. Miles Graham. It's time. Did you see the thing over the weekend? NSPM 7?
Starting point is 00:07:55 They're using counterterrorism to go after people who are anti-capitalist, anti-American, anti-traditional views, have extreme views on gender, extreme views on immigration. Yeah, yeah, yeah, very, very, very, very interesting things happen. Yeah, huh? Yeah. Yeah, it's almost an insult at this point
Starting point is 00:08:15 that, like, they haven't come after. us it's like damn i think it's just one of those things this is the thing though with all of these oh again if you're anti-fascism uh you're also you're apparently these are indicators as they say for terrorist terroristic activity um but i mean i think you just look at again all authoritarian are very thin-skinned and weak so like so much of the stuff that you hear is like oh yeah now i'm banning this and now i'm doing this i mean it's not a law technically but but but I can cause issues with it. Yeah, and business leaders are always trying to get ahead of whatever's going on, right?
Starting point is 00:08:53 So they're going to, you know, try and... Well, we'll see, man, you know, because it makes... It takes money to make money. That's right. That's right, that's right, Miles. Yeah, guys, if you just see the catalog vanish suddenly, just know we've activated ghost protocols. Yeah, yeah, yeah, find us over on Patreon. Find us on Patreon.
Starting point is 00:09:14 We're going to vanish. You're playing us on Patreon. All right. So this is the episode where you tell you was trending. But we also in our hearts. Let you get to know us a little bit better. But yeah, telling you what's trending in our hearts and our minds. Miles, we do that by doing an overrated, underrated.
Starting point is 00:09:36 It's something we do with our guests on regular episodes, just in case you forgot about this. So it's something we do ourselves on these. Monday morning episodes, Miles, what is something that you think is underrated? God. Well, and like the guests, I'm going to not prepare for this at all and just make something up right now that I can hopefully recover on the other end. It's kind of like throwing a frisbee up in the air and trying to chase it down yourself. No, a thing that I think is an underrated. As a child, I feel like that's a reference that hits really hard with you. I'm picturing you planned frisbee.
Starting point is 00:10:13 Fucking it. And just laying the fuck out for him. Like, you see that, dad? That's right. He's not there. Oh, right. And I slid in dog shit laying out for that brisbee. Then I didn't even fucking catch.
Starting point is 00:10:27 Oh, it was human shit? Well, welcome to L.A. Welcome to Tuesday, 1995. Miles out is 11-year-old. Underrated. Friends that make you feel like a terrible person, I think, are underrated. Oh, no. Let me expand on this.
Starting point is 00:10:44 People in your lives who are such pure-hearted angels that you cannot fathom how pure of heart they are, that you cannot help when you are in their presence but feel like absolute human detritus. Oh, my God. Now, I think that's underrated. I think you need these people in your lives. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:11:06 I have a few people like this in my life. we all know people who are like in a way like you think they're like almost sociopathically kind or gentle you know what I mean we're thinking of Alex Schmitz here we're thinking to their dandals you know what I mean just people you're like how the fuck are you so sweet
Starting point is 00:11:23 yeah where is this coming from you must have a brain imbalance of some sort like a white guy thing huh or anything like this but no like just people who Kermit yeah look hey man shout out the Kermits out there shout out to the Kermits man
Starting point is 00:11:37 no but like truly like Like people, and I, my description is flippant just for a laugh, but like people who are so kind that they actually inspire you to be better because you're like, you're not faking this. You're so genuinely wired to help people. Case in point, a friend of ours had a birthday. And this guy was like, guys, I don't want to do anything. I just want people to come over. Let's have some dinner.
Starting point is 00:12:06 Bring something off this list of supplies because we're going to. put, like, bags together for, like, the unhoused to give to people who, like, could look like they could use some help. Oh, fuck you. I was like, oh, fuck you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm like, God damn it. I said, let's go eat at a restaurant I really liked.
Starting point is 00:12:23 Yeah. But, I mean, but in this way, though. And buy me some NFTs. Yeah. Buy me some fucking crypto. Buy my shit coin, guys. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:31 And then I want you to, I want you to write a book of poems for me, but I want them to be all written by AI. Exactly. They all have to be about how I'm a pervert. But it was just so, like, nice because in this, in this gathering of people, everyone also began talking about how what's of a great, like, activity this was. Because a lot of people in this friend group are very, like, active and generous people to begin with. Damn, man. But, like, this, like, this sort of way to do it.
Starting point is 00:13:02 Everyone's like, man, this is actually what I should be doing, too, like, when I have moments to gather people. it's like we can all hang out and do something to help better the community around us and it doesn't have to feel like you know like you're doing it alone it's like it's fun um so afterwards her majesty and i were driving home we're like god damn it man this he's such a fucking angel what a good fucking guy and the way he also put it too is like i'm just so grateful to have all of all of you guys in my life i just i also just want to be able to find a way to sort of like have that gratitude resonate outwardly too and i was like you're fucking algorithm, man. Not only is he making you feel like a terrible person. I don't even know
Starting point is 00:13:43 this motherfucker. He's making me feel like a terrible person. That's called. I'm not going to, I'm not going to call them out by name, but I just, I'm just saying you're an angel. These people in our lives, I'm actually very grateful for these kinds of people too, because they, you realize too, even with all the shit you have going on, there are ways for you to kind of focus the gratitude you have in your life in a way that's like outwardly beneficial. So for that, again, again, again, what I mean to say are friends that inspire you to do better and they do it and they do it so easily. They do it so easily. There's also no fictional corollary for this person. So like viewing them at a distant, you know them. You're like, you have a personal relationship with them. So you're
Starting point is 00:14:25 like, oh, I know this person. They have texture. But like, hearing that story, I, the only narrative direction my brain can go is just wait for the other shoe to drop. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, because we don't have any he's not he teaches children like musical instruments like volunteers he's uh he has a he has a fucking amazing head of hair oh fuck you one party one guy at the party was like dude if you had a six pack we'd have to kill you and he just like and he uh involuntarily just like pushed his shirt down because he does and he doesn't want anybody you see no for real for real he's like no I don't. It's like a four pack. Yeah, it's actually really messy down there. I mean, my oblique definition isn't that great. I had a six pack, but then I did, I felt like it was shaming my friends who didn't. And so I did the raging bull thing where I just started drinking milkshakes instead of water. But in a way, he covered it up a little bit. That act, he'd find a way for that activity to be beneficial to mankind. He's like, there was a bunch of milk that was going to go bad. But I drank it to intercept it from children to.
Starting point is 00:15:37 I don't know. It's like, he'd still find a way to be like, well, I got rid of my six-pack and also helped people in need at the same time. It is tough to hear about this person at a distance. Like, it's, we do need, we need more fictional corollaries. We need more people who are just good people in fiction. Like, there's got to be a way to do it. Yeah. Because, yeah, my brain can only be like, what's their fucking angle?
Starting point is 00:16:07 What is this shit? Or it's like, or it feels like in that movie Just Friends, Chris Klein's character, Dusty, Dinkleman. Yeah. They're just like, oh my God. Like, you know, it's so cheery or whatever. Like, they always have these characters like as a foil. Yes.
Starting point is 00:16:22 For your like main character. Right. This guy is the main character. Is the main character. You know what I mean? Yeah. And it's not like a gimmick. You're just like, God damn, man.
Starting point is 00:16:32 I'm like, and we all know people like this. I'm just grateful that these people exist in our world. Because I'm like maybe 70% good. We got to check on this person in five years, miles. I need to hear a update when they've like. He's going to be like, he's so, he's so happy. I can already tell you, he's happy. And you know what?
Starting point is 00:16:54 He's finding a way to get through it with his community intact. Fuck, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. My underrated was having your friends do an AI book of poetry for you. Fuck. Uh, how do I audible here? Um, now mine is, uh, seven year old hypothetical questions. Um, my seven year old like from seven years ago. Oh. Yeah, yeah. Exactly. Now my seven year old is just at, you know, at a place with a very curious about the world. And, uh, I'm not going to lie to you, a lot of what
Starting point is 00:17:28 comes out of, uh, their mouths. You know, my kids is, uh, garbage content. Uh, and I'm like, Like, come on, give me, I cannot monetize this. But when I have the patience and just like listen, like they, so he gave me this one this, this weekend, which I want to ask other people, would you, at first he just did his hand like this and was like, how big is this, which is like, I was like three, four inches. He was like, all right, would you rather be that big or 45 feet tall? I was like, neither. but he was like no you got to pick one uh like you can't shut this down dad we're this no we got a yes
Starting point is 00:18:13 and this one um and i was like all right so if you're 45 feet tall the government would come for you yeah yeah they're like it maybe why would they come for you do you think they would care that much yes your extreme size would be seen as somehow could be weaponized right if you're super tiny Is that just movies? Like, because I would suck shit as a weapon. Like, I would be the worst weapon. I mean, are you just 45 feet tall and you got like Marfan syndrome? Just like the same size, but like 45 feet tall.
Starting point is 00:18:47 Just proportionally the same size. Yeah, I mean, at least there's doll clothes you can wear. Like, there's no, there's no like immediate place to get clothes. Yeah, just clothing yourself would be tough. Yeah, or your dick's going to be out the whole time. And then when you got like a 13 foot dick. Yeah, which is kind of cool. but you're not talking about your
Starting point is 00:19:06 This is your internal monologue Hmm 45 feet I've got a 13 foot dick What are you thinking dad Hold on one second one second Yeah I was like I was like you can't hide from anyone Essentially
Starting point is 00:19:19 Meaning like you would never be able to like Not be perceived like you would just be constantly On display always no matter where you were And he was like oh yeah you would suck at hide and seek I was like well yeah Yeah I guess that's true True. I guess like that is the main one right now. Yeah. Like you could
Starting point is 00:19:38 like you could find your own Skull Island I guess but if you're playing hide and seek you would suck shit. Um and then four inches which as you pointed out doll clothes like there are certain conveniences of that. Right.
Starting point is 00:19:54 You would probably be lonely. Oh yeah. You're lonely either way. But like you're constantly surrounded by people when you're 40 feet, 45 feet. I'm not being noticed. right it's they're just two extremes one is that you will you are you'll never be alone people will always be gawking at you because you're 45 feet tall or you're so small you can disappear but you can disappear and have like nobody notice you know yeah sure sure sure which so I was also
Starting point is 00:20:21 thinking you got to take the big because you know you could again you could always uh hide away but you'd be like I don't know I feel like I would just disappear in like withdrawal completely. And also if you're that small, you could get eaten by a bird, which I feel like would happen to be. At least you're an apex predator at 45 feet tall. Exactly. That's the thing.
Starting point is 00:20:44 Like you got to consider the food chain. You got to go back to the very basics. I could throw a hippopotamus across the Atlantic Ocean. Right. That's what I'm picturing. Just like a fucking trebushet. Just like, fucking get out of here. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:58 Which would be so fun. Like I would be doing that all the time. They're like, this guy's a, he's a hurt. hurting animals just throwing like elephants and things because he can so yeah that that was one he's asking what age i'd choose to be in heaven after i was like oh god after i was like uh dude heaven's not real what are you talking about yeah um and did you go how do you go you go how do you know this is in hell right now buddhism drop some buddism on his ass just saying you know what i mean that's what's what my parents did to me and i was like what the fuck so
Starting point is 00:21:34 So I eventually went with, like, 20, do you, how, what age would you be? Why do we have to pick an age? Is it because, like, you're frozen in time at that age? Yeah, you just, like, go up there and you're an age. You're some version of yourself. What age would it be? In heaven? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:21:50 Or just, like, in any scenario where you just exist perpetually in that state. What age are you going? Oh, like right now, I'm good. I'm chilling. 41. 41's cool. So I said my 20s. I said my late 20s.
Starting point is 00:22:03 and they were like which it was really touching they were like aw but like we wouldn't recognize you like that's not the age we like we didn't never knew you at that age why would you do that and I was like ah fuck I was like all right uh I'll go with what I am now nine years old I'll be in your guys level I'll go 45 and then they were like 40 oh let's go let's go let's go 43 so basically they were like letting me know that I peaked two years ago essentially They're like, we can't even recognize you now, dad. Yeah, exactly.
Starting point is 00:22:37 Look at you. Look at what you've become. Oh, shit. So anyways, uh, shout out to conversations. I do like, you know, I have to sometimes just like make myself engage and be like, my, I don't have anywhere to go. Like, let's just imagine that I, like, there's nothing else going on and just sit there and like be with them.
Starting point is 00:22:56 And when I do, uh, very rewarding experience. Yeah. Uh, that I learned from you. Well, it's great too because you, everyone offers. each other their perspective like they're gonna say shit that you're like I didn't even really think about that because it's such an interesting way of like thinking as a child like with your innocence intact and then you're gonna say some shit to them that will clearly split open their heads with like yeah like some kind of you know revelation to them that they're like whoa yeah you think
Starting point is 00:23:22 you could be lonely and tiny and lonely and big yeah i i kept it pretty uh on the surface level with that I didn't want to get too deep into loneliness. You don't want to go full daddy gray on him as my father would have. But anyways, also shout out to the game, 20 questions, which we play a lot. And I feel like great way of passing the time. And seven and nine-year-olds are big fans. What's something you think is overrated, Miles? Overrated comedians.
Starting point is 00:23:56 Oh, come on. They're the new philosophers, dog. They're the new rock stars. They're the new philosophers. Yeah, by these people, I mean, all the people who are taking that money to go to the Riyadh comedy festival in Saudi Arabia, like, there's clearly, you have people like, past guest, Atsko, Okatska, she, she posted the email where she was invited to the, yeah, to the festival. And it was like, look at what it says. Like, there's rules. And, like, I just couldn't get behind it considering that, like, they just disliked.
Starting point is 00:24:33 appear people for like being gay or a journalist or whatever like this is kind of wacky y'all um and you know and seeing and the way she put it was like and just seeing all like the you can't say anything anymore comedians just like just dying to take this money to do that when you're they're literally handed a list of things you can't say while you're there um it's really something and i think just generally i think with the wave that i feel like is waning of like the rogan the brogan sphere version of comedy. These people have just completely lost the art. They don't understand what the art of comedy even is.
Starting point is 00:25:11 And I think because they were they were sort of formed in this era where views were being rewarded with money rather than like, and I mean like the number of clicks, impressions, views, not your actual views like as a person that allowed for this very like just dark version of quote unquote comedy to emerge which wasn't ironic which was all punching down which is all antithetical to I'm sure all of these comedians like who exist in that world they will always name other comedians that are like legends as like their inspirations yeah and most of those people were not the kind who were just being like yeah freaking gay people you're that duck that punching down take money from fascist countries like these
Starting point is 00:25:57 Like a lot of these people were saying things in an era where you couldn't express yourself and had to face the consequences because of like decency laws. Like, you know what I mean? And just to see those people completely lose that message and be like, yeah, comedy is just about saying like the most caustic shit out loud. But maybe if you present it in a funny way and get away with it, then ha ha, I'm fucking goaded. right um it's just like it's i don't know i just look at i'm like y'all are fucking so dumb you're so bad at this yeah you're telling on yourselves in such a way that you've have your worldviews completely fucked up like i saw who was it i think it's jim jeffreys or something equivocating and he's like yeah took the mind they're gonna say oh yeah they disappeared they're journalists or whatever
Starting point is 00:26:46 like you don't think journalists are getting killed here and you're like oh so so what like what is So what's your, what's your viewpoint? It's fine then, because it's happening everywhere. Yeah. So, you know, I'm sure they'll take their money and then they'll cry about it when they get home. About how they got canceled for going to Riyadh to do some like comedy washing for the kingdom's human rights record. But yeah, just like that, these people just don't even understand what comedy is or good comedy. And like the real shit, the things that have you, uh, that keep you in people's memories are like the,
Starting point is 00:27:24 the truths that you spoke that resonated through your art form of actually speaking truth to power rather than being co-opted by power and making half-truths. I agree with a lot of this. I would say that you're talking like someone who hasn't watched the latest Rogan special Burn the Boats and like real, but all right, you watch it, but did you really watch it? Like, did you really watch it, dog? Yeah, yeah. He talks about getting...
Starting point is 00:27:49 His flopsulet became too much to, became a distraction from the show. Part where the cattle prod, like, he talks about the cattle prod going up your ass. And his prostate? Yeah, yeah, yeah. All that physical comedy, dude. That is a classic. You're right. And I didn't, I missed that whole part about how that was a commentary on Pol Pot's rise to power.
Starting point is 00:28:12 Oh, man. Did you hear Carlin's Pol Pot set where he went to perform for Pol Pot? Pull Pot, getting a taser up his ass, right, in his prostate. he's coming so hard Pol Pot loved loved that shit all right my
Starting point is 00:28:32 over rate the ability to feel someone is watching you is my overrated you know like in novels they're always admitting you have a superpower
Starting point is 00:28:42 right now no I'm saying everybody ascribes humans with this superpower especially in novels it's like mainly novels where like they love to be like they could sense
Starting point is 00:28:53 someone's eyes on them and turned around and like they're always right you know it's never like me after a horror movie being like I had this ineffable sense that someone was in the room with me and it turned out it was fine I just like fell asleep and turned out I just I had a hoodie on it was yeah but yeah I don't know I've I've sensed someone was in the room with me before because I like you know heard someone move or something and but that probably like broke through to my like unconscious mind that I and then it registered as like some spitey sense. I've also sensed like I said someone was in the room with me just because I was scared and I've been wrong. You know? Yeah. So I meditate. I was thinking about that I meditate in a
Starting point is 00:29:43 place in my yard. It's like my side yard where I can like see people walking by on the street. And I'm always like worried that someone's just going to turn and, like, see me there and be like, what the fuck? You know, like, there's just somebody standing completely still. I do like a standing meditation in the mornings. And I would, like, they would. And you're looking out into the street. Yeah, because that's the direction the sun's coming from.
Starting point is 00:30:11 I'm trying to get a little sun beans. So, okay, let me just paint the picture. So you're fully nude. You're facing the street. Sunshine on my shoulder makes me happy. And it can't be through a t-shirt, man. Yeah, yeah. It's got to be bare.
Starting point is 00:30:24 But yeah, it would be a weird thing if anybody ever noticed it. Nobody ever has like. I'm driving by your house in the morning now. Yeah, yeah. Just keep an eye out. Because I'm standing in the shadow. Like, you would have to really look for it. And nobody ever does.
Starting point is 00:30:39 And that's the only way I get off is because you have to really look for me. Another day being unperceived. Yeah, I mean, I'm not, I have my eyes close for most of the time. but like people would like notice and freak out and they they just don't because I'm not moving and there's nothing there this is not a real sense that people know it's true yeah you only know because you have an idea somebody's probably looking yeah like there's part yeah we we are incredibly intuitive like our unconscious mind I think is incredibly powerful and so there's all these things that we're we ascribe to being like a sixth sense and it's just like like
Starting point is 00:31:21 like it's your unconscious mind like putting together a shitload of data that like it's constantly working it's this powerful computer that's working behind the scenes that in a way that like your conscious mind is not aware of and then it'll like let you know every once in a while but it's not because of like some extra sensory ability to sense somebody's eyes on you it's just uh your your brain is being an amazing an amazing machine yeah the one time i was like oh i can feel someone watching me is because I knew they were watching me in the creepiest way possible. And I told this story before. It was Dr.
Starting point is 00:31:57 Dre when I was doing, when I worked at the laser tag place, I was 17 or 18 years old. Yeah. And this is like a birthday place where like they do birthdays every hour and a half. So like the second you have a chance to clean up a room for the next party to come in, like you have to be doing it. I was doing it. Dr. Drake came in the room when I was chain like cleaning up the pizza plates and cake and shit and
Starting point is 00:32:19 the fucking table claws and throwing him away and he just sat in a fucking chair and watched me clean up, didn't say shit the whole time. Not on his phone. Not on his phone, no. And I've talked about it's just weird as hell. And I was like cleaning up and I'm like, it feels like this motherfucker watching me.
Starting point is 00:32:34 And I turned around, he was just staring at me. You turn around and he's naked like me when I meditate? No, he wasn't. He wasn't. He was like, this was right around like his like big body build. Like when he started really being like big and bodybuilding. You know what I mean? Yeah. He was just resting because he needed to get his macros.
Starting point is 00:32:52 Dude, it was so weird. I always tell this story. And I remember, there was, the only way I could break the ice was like, hey, man, I'm a really big fan. And he just went, yeah. And I was like, this shit is too much, bro. I'm fucking 18 and 17. I got to get out of here. I got to get out of here.
Starting point is 00:33:08 Yeah. Anyways, novelists, you need to come clean. This isn't real. Maybe it is a real ability. And I just like, don't have it. Yeah, I'm just so oblivious. They're like, that guy was following you the whole time. Like, really?
Starting point is 00:33:23 D. I thought I liked my shoes. I mean, but like scientists say it's not a real ability. Like, they're like, you're probably, I needed. You're probably perceiving something out of your peripheral vision or like hearing something. Or like you said, we have like pretty good intuition and can figure things out before we actually see them. Yeah. And the third example scientists give or Dr.
Starting point is 00:33:46 Dr. Dre being weird. Sometimes it's just. Dr. Jay's being really weird. Yeah. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. All I know is what I've been told and that's a half truth is a whole lie. For almost a decade, the murder of an 18-year-old girl from a small town in Graves County, Kentucky, went unsolved.
Starting point is 00:34:17 until a local homemaker, a journalist, and a handful of girls came forward with a story. I'm telling you, we know Quincy killed her. We know. A story that law enforcement used to convict six people, and that got the citizen investigator on national TV. Through sheer persistence and nerve, this Kentucky housewife helped give justice to Jessica Curran. My name is Maggie Freeling. I'm a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, producer, And I wouldn't be here if the truth were that easy to find. I did not know her and I did not kill her, or rape or burn or any of that other stuff that y'all said. They literally made me say that I took a match and struck and threw it on her.
Starting point is 00:35:01 They made me say that I poured gas on her. From Lava for Good, this is Graves County, a show about just how far our legal system will go in order to find someone to blame. America, y'all better work the hell up. Bad things happens to good people in small towns. Listen to Graves County in the Bone Valley feed on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And to binge the entire season ad-free, subscribe to Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. Hi there, this is Josh Clark from the Stuff You Should Know podcast. If you've been thinking, man alive, I could go for some good true crime podcast episodes,
Starting point is 00:35:54 then have we got good news for you. Stuff You Should Know just released a playlist of 12 of our best true crime episodes of all time. There's a shootout in broad daylight, people using axes in really terrible ways, disappearances, legendary heists, the whole nine yards. So check out the Stuff You Should Know true crime playlist. On the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. My name is Ed. Everyone say, hello Ed.
Starting point is 00:36:19 I'm from a very rural background myself. My dad is a farmer and my mom is a cousin. So, like, it's not like... What do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? I know it sounds like the start of a bad joke, but that really was my reality nine years ago. I just normally do straight stand-up, but this is a bit different.
Starting point is 00:36:38 On stage stood a comedian with a story that no one expected to hear. Well, 22nd of July 2015, a 23-year-old man had killed his family. And then he came to my house. So what do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? A new podcast called Wisecrack, where stand-up comedy and murder takes center stage. Available now. Listen to Wisecrack on the IHeart Radio app, couple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
Starting point is 00:37:16 Hey, this is Matt Jones. I'm Drew Franklin. And this is NFL Cover Zero. We're just here to try to give you an NFL perspective a little bit different. Did you see the Colts Pretzel? That was my other big takeaway from that game. What was that? Oh, my.
Starting point is 00:37:32 We think NFL coverage should be informative and entertaining. And twice a week, that is exactly what you're going to get. Listen to NFL Cover Zero with Matt Jones and Drew Franklin on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Toyota, the official automotive partner of the NFL. Visit Toyota.com slash NFL now to learn more. And we're back. Big news on the Super Bowl halftime show is going to be bad bunny.
Starting point is 00:38:08 He has recovered from his knee injury that made me feel a little bit less. old. I don't know. Did you see that where he was like dancing? I didn't I didn't actually see the knee injury. He's just like dancing very slowly on stage and then his knee just like does a weird like side wobble thing. No. He just like kind of limps off. Which just made me feel like both seen and also like man this could happen to fucking anybody. Hold on now I got to watch this. Oh and he's got that fun shorts on. He's got the fun shorts. He's doing like little bunny hop thing and then it turns out, as somebody said on Twitter, he is really bad at being a bunny.
Starting point is 00:38:48 Oh, oh, no. Yeah. Oh, Benito. No. No. That shit was so casual. I know it was so casual. It reminds me of that.
Starting point is 00:38:59 Have you ever seen a clip of the guy who it's like at a gamer conference and they're like, can you like do a dance to win this, you know, whatever they're giving away? And he's like jumping. And then he just breaks his leg from just jumping in place. It's just like, damn, man. It's like, sorry, I haven't really stood up much. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:39:21 Anyways, this is, you know, pretty innocuous news that is, of course, being politicized right away. Yeah, yeah. Republicans, they're loving it, actually. I was surprised. I was surprised because none of these people want to completely ignore the fact that Puerto Rico is part of the United States. Just all of these people Like from fucking You know
Starting point is 00:39:44 Our favorite lying ass Motherfucker Benny Johnson Had had something to say Obviously I don't want to let him I just want to remind people What happened to his family When he was living in D.C. Keep this in my war zone guys
Starting point is 00:39:58 My infant nearly died Uh huh Thank you That's the wrong one And that's okay In a drug fire Uh huh After mass shootings
Starting point is 00:40:08 Okay one more time time. My infant nearly died. Right. In a drug fire. In a drug fire. Who set the fire? After mass shootings.
Starting point is 00:40:16 Oh, it's after the mess. We're moving on to, yeah, it was probably a celebratory drug fire that they do in D.C. After mass shootings. His take was massive Trump hater, anti-ice activist, no songs in English. The NFL is self-destructing year after year. I think the numbers got their ass. I think they're doing okay. Another person said, this is from a.
Starting point is 00:40:39 conservative radio host, well, Bad Bunny said two weeks ago he won't perform in the U.S. because he's scared ICE agents would deport his fans. Turns out his business sense far outweighs his moral convictions. Damn. This is a liberal radio host? No, no, no, no. So he's not actually worried about him. Another person from the Heritage Foundation said he's pushing left-wing social issues. I mean, like, you know, credit to Bad Bunny, he was like, I'm avoiding the U.S. on this tour because I don't want my shows to become some kind of focal point for
Starting point is 00:41:15 ice rates. Yeah. If you want Americans, y'all are free to come to Puerto Rico. It's actually part of the United States. Come on down. Check it out. Or maybe any other part of them. But sadly, I do think of the people that support me and I know that there's a diaspora
Starting point is 00:41:31 that the fucking feds are deeming completely illegal no matter what you've done. Just looking like them is illegal in the United And I'm sure for them, they're going to be like, if you're at a bad bunny concert, you're probably, you're, you fit the criteria for ice harassment. Right. So, yeah. I mean, I think it's be, it'll be dope.
Starting point is 00:41:49 I'm, and I'm glad. Like, shout out to them for putting on somebody that all these are like, he doesn't even have songs in English. Right. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Yeah. I mean, you can listen. He does, he does say things in English, but go ahead.
Starting point is 00:42:00 It's probably between him and like Morgan Whalen. So, yeah, I'm glad that. Wallin. Wallin. Wallen. I like, yeah, just don't even put any respect on it. I got no idea how to pronounce that motherfucker's name, but whatever. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:42:12 I'm glad they chose bed bunny. All right. Donald Trump is now invading Portland. Yeah. I thought that said Poland for a second. I was like, that's too on the nose, man. That's a different guy. It's a different guy that he, I do wonder if there's some part of it, speaking of the unconscious mind, if he's like, what was, how did he kick off his whole shit?
Starting point is 00:42:36 Ah. Right. Maybe we do that. So, he's calling it the Blitzkrieg. He famously loves peace and hates war, if you ask his supporters and him. And yet he just can't quit invading U.S. cities, specifically ones that don't vote Republican. After the ice shooting in Dallas, he naturally ordered the military to Portland to, quote, protect war-ravaged Portland and any of our ice facilities under siege. From attack by Antifa and other domestic terrorists.
Starting point is 00:43:13 Protect war ravaged Portland. Guys. Come on now. You know, even your own voters live in the area. They're not going to be like, this place is war ravaged. They're going to just be like, there's too many homeless people. I don't like it. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:43:30 That's their, that's the sort of talking point. And not because the fucking city skyline bears the scars of artillery fire or something. like that. I know they were talking about invading Chicago and like Memphis and are those happening and like not being reported. No, no, no. The thing with Chicago was that he was pump faking for weeks. Be like, we're coming through. We're going to do it. Oh, prepare yourself. You're going to feel war. They just, it's this weekend is when they just started operating in Chicago. Jesus. So, yeah, now there's like, you know, there's clips of just armed goons, just roaming downtown Chicago
Starting point is 00:44:14 and you're like, what the fuck? What, are you going to catch people at the fucking at the art museum? Right. Yeah, yeah. They just like go to the places where people, where they've like, the places from Ferris Bueller, because that's what they know as Chicago. Exactly. You know? When they did that dance number to
Starting point is 00:44:32 twist and shout, I thought it was pretty good. They didn't, they nailed the choreography from that scene in Ferris Bueller. Yeah. When, when the ICE agents did that. Yeah, and then even the little dances, they were doing all. I was like, shit, y'all love Ferris Bueller.
Starting point is 00:44:47 Okay. Okay. That would be something that we would see eventually. It would. If they gave enough of a shit. In this era of like weird ass law enforcement propaganda.
Starting point is 00:44:58 Right. Like you... I feel like that was more 2020. Maybe. Now they just... It's just bad. Beat the shit out of people. Said I'm directing
Starting point is 00:45:07 Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to provide all necessary troops to protect war ravaged Portland and any of our ice facilities under siege from attack by Antifa and other domestic terrorists. I am also authorizing full force if necessary which people are like
Starting point is 00:45:23 uh oh what the fuck does that mean they did not provide additional comment when reached by CNN for clarification on what he meant by full force. It's rhetorical but I think what we all know is that he's hoping that these kinds confrontations
Starting point is 00:45:39 lead to something that allows him to declare martial law like that's the point of all this how can I incite something and he does fight back in Portland
Starting point is 00:45:50 we know that like there's the people yeah and the things I saw was that they just had donuts on fishing poles so when the cops were running at them it looked like they were fishing
Starting point is 00:45:59 for cops with donuts but yeah I mean this is you know we've seen we've fucking seen this many times times now, at least three times where Trump
Starting point is 00:46:09 good, this place is out again, Joe, they did, did it's Portland in particular, yeah, since 2020, he's referred to it as a hellhole, a mess, 2025, his inaugural address, he talked, he called Portland a place where they killed people and destroy the city.
Starting point is 00:46:25 No, I've been there. Yeah. Many times. It's fine. You know? Yeah. They got food trucks. They got good food trucks. They do have food trucks. They got this one Thai place that's like a Thai, like Thai food and barbecue fusion place
Starting point is 00:46:39 with the best, like, smoked brisket curry I've ever had in my fucking life. They fucking love the Blazers there, man. They love the Blazers. Turns out, they love, turns out the Pacific Northwest, loves their teams. Loves their teams, man. No joke. Man, you should,
Starting point is 00:46:55 you should really be pulling up there like fucking John Snow or some shit. I mean? Just, they're like, you know what the fuck I am, bro? Let me, give me a fucking, let me have a free book from Powell's bookstore. If this show disappears, you will find Miles and I on Patreon and you will find my ass in Portland being like, I could coach the Blazers.
Starting point is 00:47:17 I don't know. Look, kid, just because someone in your family, it doesn't mean you can't. But I could, I feel like you could. But wouldn't that be sick? Have you guys seen Eddie? Like, what if I'm just saying? Most of my pitches start with. Have you guys seen Eddie?
Starting point is 00:47:34 Yeah, I think didn't get fired last week? No, the, sorry, the whoopee. Goldberg sports comedy, Eddie. The plan would call 200 members of the Oregon National Guard into federal service for a 60-day deployment. Yeah, and Oregon's suing them. Yeah, and the state of Oregon is suing the Trump administration because there's absolutely no reason for this. I mean, there's just all the other terrible things that the administration is doing that, you know, again, they're flooding the zone in so many ways. physically, metaphorically, newswise, just to be like, what, what's the bad thing again
Starting point is 00:48:14 that he did, that he got caught doing, that he's in the process of denying, and also in the process of, yeah, it's, it's a lot. It's a lot. And I just think, I, every time this happens, I'm always like, I feel so sorry for everybody who, like, lives in their city peacefully. And you have to be thrown into the, your place is fucked. And I have to save you bullshit act that's just going to disrupt your town that's going to fucking have a chilling effect on people going outside and just living normally because it fucking sucks
Starting point is 00:48:44 recreate the pandemic with fascism. All right. Speaking of that, it's only been a week since he seemed to accidentally tweet a text to Pam Bondi
Starting point is 00:48:58 urging her to use the DOJ to go after his enemies, including James Comey. He's specifically named Comey. And now Comey has been in on criminal charges and faces up to five years in prison for their claiming he lied under oath misled Congress by claiming he had not authorized anyone else to be an anonymous source
Starting point is 00:49:18 in news reporting about an FBI investigation and sounds ironclad man these political prosecutions they're usually so ironclad that it's they got him dead to rights he's done but they may have been tripping over themselves so yeah yeah he that the said tweet um might have actually saved comies ass um one legal expert pointed out that um there's a reason that prosecutors traditionally speak about cases soberly
Starting point is 00:49:52 and only in court or through court filings and don't don't like spike the football and be like you got to go after this guy i hate him um and i'm the president go after him yeah uh that's yeah that's Yeah, that's, if it seems like you're on his enemies list and that's why you're being prosecuted, that is a pretty strong built-in defense. Your Honor, this is a, this is a political fucking hatchet job against me. Exhibit A, he's pressuring the fucking attorney general to do something. Yeah. It wasn't a text.
Starting point is 00:50:28 It was a truth post. Which he then pulled down. Right. Yeah, exactly. Right. And the other thing, too. is like this whole thing, all of their political prosecutions, they've completely fucked up on their own.
Starting point is 00:50:42 Like Tulsi Gabbard is trying to go after which fucking John Brennan of the CIA. But like in the process was like taking away people's security clearances, which actually make it harder for prosecutors to get testimony from them when they have no security clearance anymore. Like they're self-owning in these dumb ways because they are just so, again, all these people are just in positions to please whatever Trump's desire is regardless of like how mechanically
Starting point is 00:51:10 it has to work. Right. Because you'd imagine for like any normal, any normal authoritarian regime would have already completely captured the judicial system where evidence is meaningless because all you have to do is be like, you're on trial, you're guilty, done deal,
Starting point is 00:51:27 next. But you have to go through the process of going to a grand jury and securing these indictments and even this fucking noob U.S. attorney Lindsey Halligan who was on fucking woke watch at the Smithsonian prior to this.
Starting point is 00:51:41 Like she could, there were a few, there was one charge that the grand jury was like, nah, come on now. Like, we're not going to give you everything here. Like, you've got to have some evidence. Yeah. I mean, there's a political strategy called engineered incompetence
Starting point is 00:51:54 where you bring in people who have no business being in the position that you're appointing them to. And that makes them super, super loyal and willing to do whatever the fuck you tell them to. But, you know, to your earlier point about like Tulsi Gabbard, everybody who he has appointed to like these major positions seems to be in over their head, you know? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:52:18 And this isn't like a situation. So that leads to incompetence, incompetence. Yeah, yeah. Like, see, you bringing me on the show, that's engineered incompetence. That's right. You know what I mean? And I have nowhere to go now. Yeah, exactly.
Starting point is 00:52:30 And I'll say whatever, you know, I don't even like, I don't even like basketball or Arsenal. Jack just created this character for me to do on Mike. But like, yeah, to your point with these other people, they're incompetent, but also have Dunning Kruger to the max, where they're like, I'm actually very competent. I'm actually the
Starting point is 00:52:47 best person for this job. So they're also not like, well, I owe it to him. They're like, yeah, goddamn right, I'm here. That's right. And I suck. Whoops. Oh. She is a 36-year-old former White House aide. We've talked about her before because she is the one who's like,
Starting point is 00:53:03 The Smithsonian shouldn't mention slavery. It's like too much of a bummer. And before this, she was a Florida insurance lawyer. Great. No prosecutorial experience whatsoever. Yep. And that's going to be great when you're prosecuting the former head of the FBI who's going to have lawyers on his side that are like actual fucking lawyers.
Starting point is 00:53:26 And the other thing is like I, the whole, everything I've read about this process is like at the DOJ. no one wanted to sign on to this prosecution because they're like this is fucking flimsy man like I'm not going to go up there and like because you know even in the evidence that Halligan is presenting to a grand jury there's like not one there's not even a quote from James Comey that they're like and that's the lie that he said that we're getting him on right they're all just talking around the events to then be like and he lied rather than being like these are the words that he uttered in front of Congress that now amount to this kind of lie that we're saying and that we're trying to
Starting point is 00:54:09 prosecute on. It's just very. And like, and credit to her. She's only in this position because she was the first sycophant to show up at Mar-a-Lago when the feds raided looking for the documents. And that's how it's done, baby. That's why she's at Trump's side, baby. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. All I know is what I've been told, and that's a half-truth is a whole lie. For almost a decade, the murder of an 18-year-old girl from a small town in Graves County, Kentucky, went unsolved, until a local homemaker, a journalist, and a handful of girls came forward with a story. I'm telling you, we know Quincy killed her. We know.
Starting point is 00:55:00 A story that law enforcement used to convict six people and that got the citizen investigator on national TV. Through sheer persistence and nerve, this Kentucky housewife helped give justice to Jessica Curran. My name is Maggie Freeling. I'm a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, producer, and I wouldn't be here if the truth were that easy to find. I did not know her and I did not kill her.
Starting point is 00:55:27 Or rape or burn or any of that other stuff. that y'all said it. They literally made me say that I took a match and struck and threw it on her. They made me say that I poured gas on her. From Lava for Good, this is Graves County, a show about just how far our legal system will go in order to find someone to blame. America, y'all better work the hell up. Bad things happens to good people in small towns.
Starting point is 00:55:56 Listen to Graves County in the Bone Valley feed on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And to binge the entire season ad-free, subscribe to Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. Then have we got good news for you. Stuff You Should Know just released a playlist of 12 of our best true crime episodes of all time. There's a shootout in broad daylight, people using axes in really terrible ways, disappearances, legendary heists, the whole nine yards. So check out the Stuff You Should Know true crime playlist on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. My name is Ed. Everyone say hello, Ed. I'm from a very rural background myself.
Starting point is 00:56:54 My dad is a farmer. and my mom is a cousin, so like, it's not like... What do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? I know it sounds like the start of a bad joke, but that really was my reality nine years ago. I just normally do straight stand-up, but this is a bit different. On stage stood a comedian with a story that no one expected to hear.
Starting point is 00:57:17 On 22nd of July 2015, a 23-year-old man had killed his family. And then he came to my house. So what do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? A new podcast called Wisecrack, where stand-up comedy and murder takes center stage. Available now. Listen to Wisecrack on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,
Starting point is 00:57:47 or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, this is Matt Jones. I'm Drew Franklin. And this is NFL Cover Zero. We're just here to try to give you an NFL perspective a little bit different. Did you see the Colts Pretzel? That was my other big takeaway from that game. What was that?
Starting point is 00:58:04 Oh, my. We think NFL coverage should be informative and entertaining. And twice a week, that is exactly what you're going to get. Listen to NFL Cover Zero with Matt Jones and Drew Franklin on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Toyota, the official automotive partner of the NFL. Toyota.com slash NFL now to learn more. And we're back. We're back.
Starting point is 00:58:35 You know, there's been a lot of questions of like, is violence left wing? Is it right wing? They are ignoring like all these mass shooting about, you know, there were, again, two mass shootings over the weekend. Yeah. A man in Michigan drove his car.
Starting point is 00:58:52 Probably more. I mean, to be honest. Yeah. Like two that like, broke through the news cycle, a guy in Michigan drove his car into a LDS church and opened fire and set fire to the building. And then in North Carolina, another man opened fire on an outdoor restaurant and music venue, killing three and wounding five.
Starting point is 00:59:11 Yeah. And again, they're all like, is it left or is it right? It seems like the guy in Michigan seemed to have a lot of Trumpy stuff going on according to their social media posts. And like, but the scorekeeping of this like left, right, binary is really. it's counterproductive because like let's face it 99% of people in general
Starting point is 00:59:31 regardless of how backwards their beliefs are aren't looking to go out and kill a bunch of people. Right. You know what I mean? Like there's a certain profile you have to fit to be like and that's why I'm taking lives now. And by doing this left wing
Starting point is 00:59:47 or right wing thing, you completely conveniently leave out the discussion of whether or not we're having simultaneous mental health and gun accessible. crisis. Yeah. Yeah. They don't seem to want to talk about that. And like, really nobody seems to want to talk about the gun availability crises. No. And also, these two guys were veterans. Yeah. That's a whole other thing. We read story after story about the lack of support veterans get and what being in combat does to your mental health, the trauma that's inflicted on them. And then
Starting point is 01:00:18 you have no support on the other side. And then you're left to be exposed to a bunch of algorithms. Yeah. They're going to give you fucking weird. ass, like, worldviews and takes on, on, you know, the stakes of our fucking society. Yeah, it's fucking all bad news. Yeah. And so many of the problems, it's just like, well, they defunded, they started defunding mental health care. They closed all the hospitals.
Starting point is 01:00:41 They, you know, like, that's. And you see all the arguments, too, or they're like, I thought, that's, you say it's a right wing problem. It's actually a mental health problem. Then fucking do something about it. Because, first of all, just throwing everyone in jail. because they're they voted for Obama isn't a fucking solution right it's not people don't go out there and they're not like stabbing people with an Obama lawn sign right yeah just it's just like
Starting point is 01:01:09 yeah it's it's sad though to how like sort of normal it becomes yeah where it's immediately like a thing of like oh god who who did this one and how are they going to weaponize this one and that's that's what's fucked up is like we're we had like it's always being talked about through this left wing right wing prism because I get obviously like what the rhetorically what the what comes out of the right wing news and things like that is their fomenting violence right but yeah I that also it we lose the fact that we're like you're focused on that because the Republicans are trying to use any fucking rationalization to completely close up shop on people's personal liberties yeah
Starting point is 01:01:54 under the guise of well this is left wing or you know like this is political violence right all right finally we do on this weekend trending like to take a look at the weekend box office this was the weekend that one battle after another the new Paul Thomas Anderson movie
Starting point is 01:02:11 dropped being hailed as a masterpiece by a lot of critics I'm certainly excited to see it but did not have a chance because I was too busy debating my seven year old on the merits of being 45 feet tall. Should have took them to fucking one battle after another. I know. They're like,
Starting point is 01:02:28 let's put a pin in this. You want to see a relationship, a parental relationship. Here we go. It has a 96 on Rotten Tomatoes, which doesn't really mean anything, but it does have a 95 on Metacritic, which is kind of unprecedentedly
Starting point is 01:02:42 strong metacritic score. And so it made $22 million in North America during its first weekend, which, you know, would be good for, like that's the most of Paul Thomas Anderson movie I think has made
Starting point is 01:02:57 but it costs $130 million to produce and another $70 million to market and so people are saying well actually so Variety isn't saying it's a bomb because it wasn't made by Ryan Coogler
Starting point is 01:03:14 so they're just like you know this one might have legs you'd hope they were just holding out all is it seemed to be hoping against hope that sinners was going to be a bomb even after like the first two weeks it was like it's getting stronger as it goes this is wild what's this now yeah um but uh it did receive uh so one battle after another did receive an a cinema score with audiences who saw it
Starting point is 01:03:42 uh which should be a good sign for you know longevity uh continuing to do well uh it's going to be an awards contender so a lot of people are going to probably see it over the next several months um you'd think you'd think it is a movie about uh fascism you know it did it did really like comparatively it did really well overseas um and i wonder if like america might not be the best place to make a movie that is telling some harsh harsh truths about america and fascism like we might even with leonardo decaprio right in it uh in it It might be uniquely ill-suited to understand our own situation at the moment. I totally get that.
Starting point is 01:04:30 I mean, like, it's just from, I was talking to Joelle, Monique, you know, who sees every film. Great film critic. Yeah. And I was, I was, I saw her over the weekend and I was asking her about it. And she, like, she was like, do you want me to tell you a little bit about the movie? I'm like, no, I'm like, I told her, I said, please leave some meat on the bone for me. But you just said, and I'm not going to spoil it, but like the open.
Starting point is 01:04:53 scene is just something that will immediately resonate with American people. Like, it's not, it's just something that feels like that's happening in America right now. Like, and yeah, I'm just going to say that. I, I think people probably don't, it's probably very uncomfortable right now because you have a ton of people who are either completely exhausted at the dawn of fascism. Right. And then you have a bunch of people who are completely exhausted. trying to hope a way
Starting point is 01:05:25 that we're not at the dawn of it. Sure. And so like, it's like, yeah, I mean, I'm like, I'll go see it.
Starting point is 01:05:33 Like I fuck it. I want to see this, but I totally get to how some people have been like, I don't know, like what's, you tell them what it's about and they're like, uh, okay,
Starting point is 01:05:43 maybe I'll go see that movie where the killer doll kills those people or something. Yeah, the conjuring, the final whatever is doing really well. Um, yeah, sometimes things resonate too much with people. Like when a cartoon cat is holding a tuning fork and like the tuning fork makes them start shaking. I'm the resonant frequency.
Starting point is 01:06:08 Yeah, yeah. But also, you know, Gabby's dollhouse underperformed. And I think also a film about fascism that, uh, yeah, you know, might have been too real for audiences. Absolutely. Big news for a cat video fest 2025 It made $6,000 on five screens And it has now made over
Starting point is 01:06:27 One million dollars I don't know if you're Fucking amazing This is just a highlight reel of the best Cat videos of 2025 Basically That is You know in a way
Starting point is 01:06:40 Great You know Do something with these screens That are going to bring people together Made a million dollars Just slapping together a highlight tape of cat videos. Artistically assembling a highlight reel.
Starting point is 01:06:53 An achievement for the franchise launched in 2016 by filmmaker Will Braden, who apparently does a darn good job curating the best cat videos from across global social media. And this guy is putting, I'm curious what the percentage is, but like money does go to animal shelters. Yeah. I would have. I'm like, bro, come on now. Keep all that fucking money. All these fucking do-goaters out here making me look bad.
Starting point is 01:07:17 just getting people on social media to sign some like flimsy release you're probably not compensating them for right they're like but guess what your clip will be in cat fest and i will make you know i'll make a little bit of money too but hey do it would you is there anything you'd go to a something would you go to bird fest you like bird watching if someone's like dude here's an hour of the best bird videos of the year yeah i would do that i would absolutely do that birds fucking rule they're they're interesting they have like weird weird behaviors uh there's probably like some gnarly ones like i'm sure cat fest doesn't have a ton of like cats killing yeah prey but like birds are man it's i think it's like it's kind of a great idea because
Starting point is 01:08:00 you're basically taking something that would be a youtube video that would get millions of views just like brain bleach the movie let me put in a theater really quick yeah yeah and get a little bit of money because like i'm just thinking i'm like what would i watch and i'm in my mind i'm naming fucking youtube videos like i would be like the sickest basketball good ball crossovers of 2025. Crossover Fest 2025. You know what I mean? Like just people get the sign of the cross, baby.
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