The Daily Zeitgeist - Whisky D***khead, Travolta’s Hot Mom 05.08.26

Episode Date: May 8, 2026

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Hello, Holly. Hello, Govnaz. Yeah, how you doing, Oli? That's my favorite intro. Thank you so much. British. British. It's English, you know.

We don't like to say British, you know, like a big landmass, Britain that is. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's basically English. Yeah, yeah, mate. You've been good, yeah. I'm in good. I don't know much British slang. I'm actually going to London for the first time in two weeks.

So I'm going to back. Going to London the first time. I know, I know. Hey, you're going to love it, mate. You're going to love it. It's mental out there. With the tattoos. You've got people going to love the tattoos.

Tattoes. You've got the tattoos on. You've got the spectacles on as well. Spectacles. Oh, please keep going. What else do you know? Are the spectacles, are they prescription lenses or they just feel like the show? They're prescription, bro.

All right, bro. Well, you got astigmatism, is it? I got a lazy eye. Wow. Pretty gnarly. I have a thing called... I have a thing called... I have a thing called Dwayne syndrome.

Have you ever heard of it? Was that one? No. I like to tell people that The Rock has it. He doesn't, but they don't need to know. And that it's on my left eye... It's named after Duane the Rock, Johnson. I love to...

I mean, hey, it's named after a guy named Dwayne. I need to rebrand this. Is it the chewing thing? It's a... In my left eye, I'm slowly going blind. Which, hey, I know. So fun, right? I really took a detour here.

But it, gives me this cool, lazy eye because I can't look to my left at all. Whoa. To the left, to the left. Okay. Sorry, I didn't mean to bring Beyonce into the conversation. This is an I-Heart podcast, guaranteed human. Another podcast from some SNL late-night comedy guy, not quite,

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the day's news. We also have a new non-news history version of the Daily Zykeyes dropping each Monday morning where we do a deep dive into the zeitgeist through the lens of a different icon. Mm-hmm. Icom. Mm-hmm. We just did Mr. Bean. Yes.

This past Monday, we got Anna Wintour coming up. Miss Cerulean herself. Oh, yeah. Put the devil and the devil wears profit. Devil wears property. There you go. Is that good? Yeah, yeah.

That's good, right? Just as you rehearsed it. It's Friday, May 8th, 2026. Uh, yeah. May the 8th. Yeah, may the 8th be with you. It's like a pot dealer day? May this.

eight to be with you. Oh, wow. Could that be something? Okay. Yeah, we're calling it pot, though. So that might be cop-coded. You like grass or what? Do you like grass or pot or dope? And I got an eighth of dope for you. Are you a Philadelphia cop? Let's see. We've got National Provider Appreciation Day, National Maria Day, if your name is Maria. It's also National Coconut Cream Pie Day. It's National Animal Disaster Preparedness Day. Hey, that Somebody who's had to flee with their pets from a disaster important that you know how to get your pets and bug the fuck out in an orderly manner. Okay. I thought we were talking about the diarrhea that my dog just had.

No, Jack. It's also no socks day. Shout out to me. I hate wearing socks. And also my shoes don't stink. Yeah. You don't have sweaty feet. So I sweat, but luckily I lack the thing that makes the shoes just go off.

Go soggy on you? Yeah. Or I'm in total denial about it. And Her Majesty just being a good sport about it. She's putting on a brave face. Yeah. It's also World Donkey Day. So, he-ha to all the donkeys out there.

Yaha. And he-ha-to-you. And he-ha-to-you-h. His mercy and earth reference. My name is Jack O'Brien, A.K. Yo-Been. Yo-been. Yo-been.

I'm begging of you. Please don't take my man. That one, courtesy of David Lesser on the Discord. Oh, yeah. In reference to the fact that we learned in the Mr. Bean episode and then even more so in the aftermath from Christy Amaguchi, man, that Mr. Bean, aka Mr. Steel Your Girl, this dude was out here, just exuding sexual magnetism at a very powerful level. I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Hey, it's Miles Gray, aka Bean, Bean, Bean, Bean, Jane, Jane, Jane, Jane, Jane, This took my lady.

Also from David Lesser. Sorry James A. Caster. The story's out. I mean, he told it on stage. Yeah, but either way, it's just got to keep, I'm going to keep touching on it because it's the best thing I've ever heard. It is a funny clip. You can go watch it, but he's like,

do you have any idea how hard this was for me to not say, like, for the past year and a half? Because he didn't talk about it for the first year. could maybe to keep from crying. He's like, the funniest thing that's ever happened to me. It was also like completely heartbreaking. I got left for Mr. Bean. It is what it is.

Anyways, we're thrilled Miles to be joined in our third seat by a very funny comedian and artist who has performed on stages and at festivals across this great land. You can see her at her sold-out monthly show, Salty as Fuck at the Hollywood Improv. You hear her on her new podcast. Podcast. Everyone knows but me. Please welcome back to the show. It's Holly Bray! Holly! Hello! Oh my God, Beanheads. I'm so happy to meet you guys tonight. Today, tonight. Do you see what time it is for me? It's... Yeah. So I'm working at all hours. I told you guys I'm so busy. I don't know what time is.

You're in the UK. Yes, I'm prepping myself. Meeting a certain someone. I was yes. Don't tell my husband. Let's call him R. Atkinson. No, that's too obvious. Rowan A. I actually do know what time it is, Holly, because I can see the light in the background. It looks like it's daytime for you. Yeah, you got me. Okay.

Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Yeah, I just wanted to point that out. You been good? I've been great. I've been so busy, but I'm so good. And I've been learning a lot about Mr. Bean this week.

Something that's big on my radar today, I listened. Hey, I didn't go into this life expecting that I was going to, the most, fascinating person that I would learn about in 2026 would be Mr. Bean. But, God damn, if that hasn't been the case. It stopped me in my tracks when you, this isn't being related, which I like that alone, being related, just being a thing. But this isn't being related, but the fact that Gilligan's Island was on for three seasons? Three.

That blew my mind. Oh, wow. You actually listened to the episode. Wow. Look at you. Oh, yeah. Slatter us. That just blew my mind.

It made me think of so many other old sitcoms or shows that might have been on for way less time than we thought they were. Yeah. Well, the Brady Bunch is another one. It was like only on for three seasons when it first ran. And then it was just in syndication. And also the number of episodes per season back then was such that it had 100 episodes.

Yeah. But yeah, Gilgans Island. I feel like Gilligan's Island, they like shot that out in like three weeks, the entire run of Gilgan's Island. They're just like, I don't know. Bob, can you come in and we'll shoot you on this soundstage with a fake pile of sand? I mean, they had the same story. It wasn't like Marianne and, you know, the same storylines were repeating over and over.

So they just had to go tweak minor things and then pick that camera back up. That's right. Good for them. Anyways, what does everyone know but you? Holly? Well, listen, I hate to correct, but everybody knows. Everybody knows. Everybody knows, not everyone.

And I apologize. No, no, no. Honestly, most people say everyone when I, so it's like, note to self. Everyone's saying everyone. But the reason it's partly called, partly the reason it's called Everybody Knows But Me is it's heavily sitcom inspired by sitcoms from the 90s. And so I'm trying to think of ways people could think of the show as like, everybody loves Raymond, everybody knows but me. Everybody hates Chris. Exactly.

Exactly, little Easter eggs in the title alone to help people remember the sitcom connection. Yeah, you got Easter eggs in your title. Yeah. Yeah, but everybody knows about me. Thanks for, you know, having me on and I'm excited to talk about news, but I've been in deep sitcom lore for about a year and a half now, 90s sitcom lore specifically, because my show, while it is about my very normal, aka traumatic, upbringing.

It's all told through the lens of 90s sitcoms because my dad worked on the entire run of the show, Frazier. Oh, wow. Yeah. Are you a fan? Are you a big... Dr. Frazier Crane? I heard of...

I know. I have a Niles tattoo. He's my favorite character of all time. You don't have a Nile's tattoo for real? Sherry Niles. Oh, wow. Okay. I will say I did meet a man once who his tattoo was... was a actual head of a crane on a crane,

like the instrument of a crane on a crane and it was paced with the Seattle skyline behind it. And I was like, damn it, that's way better. But you got it first and I can't get that tattoo. Yeah. Oh, man. So I opted for, you know, one that I think Niles would have appreciated. But yeah, my dad worked on the show. And so analyzing my childhood that I so wished was like a sitcom through a sitcom lens

has shown me, you know, because I feel like we all think our lives are more normal than we actually realize until we're an adult. And then when you look back on them, you're like, oh, shit. Like, I wanted my life to be like this so bad that I almost convinced myself it was. Yeah. And it's not. But I've been deep in sitcoms for a year and a half. I've been rewatching.

That's why when you said Gilligan's Island and all these other sitcom-esque things, I'm just like, what the fuck? How did I not learn this in my research? I can go deep enough into this whole. Yeah. We did also do an icon episode about Urkel. Oh, did you? Yeah.

That was a lot of fun to find. Like, I particularly enjoyed the episodes where he would, like, break into the world of other TGIF sitcoms. Oh, I miss that so much. I go to a dance with one of the daughters from step by step. Right. Yes. Yeah. I still remember the feeling of watching television and, like, feeling both this warm sort of glow of, like, being, like,

in the womb again, but also, like, having a vague sense of, it's like, it reminds me of, like, Sunday afternoon where you're like, it's the weekend, ah, but it's about to not be the weekend. And like, there's like just this little edge of stress. Like, that, that is my experience with TV growing up that I was like, this is an introduction to anxiety. But I also love it. Like, it's so lovely and also, ah, fuck. It speaks to how much we watch TV on the weekend, you know, like Friday night and then Saturday night probably too. Then Sunday for, you know, Saturday morning cartoons. Like that was.

Snick. That was snick at night. You know, you was snick on Saturday night. Yeah. Yeah. I miss those days. Yeah. That was like truly you got together.

I remember being like, we have a sleepover because we go watch. Are you afraid of the dark at Roundhouse? Yeah. You know. Shout out Roundhouse. Everyone talks about all that, but nobody's talking about Roundhouse. Well, I don't even know what Roundhouse is. You're going to kill me.

That was like another like sort of kid. sketch comedy show that was on Nickelodeon. Yeah. Are you fucking kidding me? I would have loved that. I'm like retroactively pissed that I didn't watch a show. What the hell? Yeah.

That could have been part of my personality. Damn it. Oh, yeah. Because I remember being like, oh, my God. Because, you know, it felt like you're like SNL for kids basically. Right. Yeah. That one's for the real heads.

Mm-hmm. That's like SCTV. It's like, oh, you think you like SNL? Yeah. Try. Round pals. The kids in the hall version of. Yeah, exactly.

I love that. Holly, we're thrilled to have you here. We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First we're going to tell the listeners. A couple of things we're talking about. The Atlantic has clapped back at Cash Patel's clap back at them. Just another sad story about Cash Patel. Pathetic.

Pathetic. Let's not say sad. I don't want people to think that this is tragic. I mean, it's tragic that the shit that he thinks is cool is cool. That's true. So we'll talk about that. We'll talk about Kim Kardashian. And I'm just waiting.

I've got a lot of legal issues piling up, but I've been waiting for Kim to pass the bar so that I can, you know, reach out. Your vision for your murder trial is that she's your lawyer in the defense. Yeah. That's right. And we'll talk about John Travolta's new movie that's coming up that is very strange. People are kind of obsessed with it. They just dropped a trailer. and it's just

it's unlike anything I've ever really seen. There's no plot to it, so to speak. It's called Hartman. We'll talk about it. We'll talk about it. All of that plenty more.

But first, Holly, we do like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Okay. I don't know. You're not going to believe this, but I listened to the Bean episode this morning.

I thought about my search history stuff last night. This is unrelated to knowing that you covered Mr. Bean. Wow. But I, like I said, I've been really entrenched in 90s culture, and I needed to rewatch an iconic 90s commercial. And so my latest search history was,

roll that beautiful bean footage. Wait, what is that? You guys don't, okay, this is, I'm so happy. I'm so blessed to get to show you this. Bush's baked beans had a slogan in the 90s, and every time they would, start their commercial, the owner of Bush's Big Bean would say, roll that beautiful bean

footage. And it, I can't. So producer Justin does remember this. Oh, that's right. Because he always had the dog with him. Yes. Duke, the dog. Yes.

Yes. Wow. Roll that beautiful bean footage is so weird. I can't get it out of my head. I keep saying roll that beautiful bean footage at all times. Yeah. Roll that beautiful bean footage. Some think it's our.

Roll that beautiful bean footage. And it's just glamor shots of like their beans, just vats of beans. With like a very gray poop on everything. Whereas like, why is this for fancy culture, but it's rolled out beautiful bean footage? I just can't get over it. I feel like I'm going to see like a woman wearing a fascinator or roll down the window of a limousine. It'd be like, do you have any beans? I just love the idea.

I think 90s had a lot of good catchphrases and a lot of good slogans. And I feel like we need to bring that back. And roll that beautiful bean footage is where I'm starting. Do you remember Tom Bodette? I will leave the light on for you. Motel 6. Motel 6. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He wasn't. I just assumed he was the owner of Motel 6. He was just like a writer ad copy guy, I think, who just was like here. And so here's what it'll be. And they're like, we like your voice. Yeah. You're going to do it for us. Damn. That'll never happen again.

I know. Like the idea of like putting your CEO in the commercial. I mean, especially. after all the TikTok, like McDonald's guy calling the burger a product. Like, that's never happening again. Yeah. I wonder, he said he was in a lawsuit. He filed a lawsuit against Motel 6 for $1.2 million claiming the hotel chain missed the annual payment he has been receiving since 1986. Damn.

Motel 6 is still using his voice in tagline on their national phone reservation system. Wow. But they're still, yeah, yeah. Good on him. Lucky guy. I do just wonder how they can't, like that. This feels like when the advertising industry, like, discovered drugs or something. Like, it's such a weird.

They're like, all right. So the CEO is going to just be sitting there in a recliner saying, roll that beautiful bean footage. And, like, that's going to magically make people want to eat our beans. And, like, presumably it worked. It worked. I thought about it all these years later. And then I looked at, obviously, I googled the commercial.

I just, you know, the comments were pretty great of people because the dog, it spends some time so we can assume the dog is no longer with us. Don't say that. Still a lot. And just all the comments were like, you know, rest in beans, Duke, rest in beans. Rest in beans. And I just, and then there was all comments that were like RIP Duke. And then there was one comment that was, is Don Draper responsible for this?

And I was like, you know what? I love these people that they're coming to this specific video to leave these comments. Yeah. I could honestly watch a mad. men about every era of advertising. It is just a very interesting subject. Mid-80s to mid-90, like 85 to 95, fire it up, dude. Like, what the fuck were they thinking?

Being about, like, kids' 90s commercials where it's just like a child's, we're telling a child to eat something that is so unhealthy for that. Don't put me. Push a push pop. Push a fucking push pop. We're both solving. but solving the bullying crisis and creating the obesity childhood obesity. Whatever it is.

Or we need a Mad Men one for Hillary Duff's Don't Say Gay commercial. I want that episode of Madman. How did that commercial come to be? Was it Hillary's idea? Because I think it was. Milk mustaches, an episode about the catastrophic Dan and Dave Reebok commercials. You remember that where they like hyped up these two guys who like didn't. Pace McContes also.

Didn't even make it. Pace McContes. New York City. The Don Draper comes in and it's like, what if we added a part where they murder him at the end of the ad? I'm sorry, hang him. Sorry,

I meant hang him. Yeah, because I mean, yeah, that was cocaine error. The amount of cocaine just like going through that place on a conveyor belt. All of our visions, especially with the icons episode,

we realize a lot of the pretty creative people were doing a lot of blow cane in the 80s. Turns out. Yeah, 80s or 90s. So like, I really do, we always joke about it, I really do want to see like this ad agency like 86.

Like yeah, he's got a fucking dog, right? The Bush guy. All right. People fucking love dogs. Okay, we eat the dog in the commercial like,

no, dude, what? Roll the beautiful bean footage. Roll that beautiful bean footage. See, good luck. Good luck not saying that at some point later. Roll that beautiful bean footage.

I think it's, I think it's going to say probably at least one more time this episode. No, I don't get vocal stems. What is something you think is underrated? So on the train of 90s, I am going to say live action talking animal films, I think are underrated. Like Homeward Bound?

Homeward Bound, we've got... Milo and Otis. I watched Gordy for the first time. Has anyone seen Gordy? This was the movie about a pig that came out right before Babe. And so Babe totally eclipsed it, but it was the first technically the first talking pig movie. And it was, you know, like, I love those eras of like, let's, pigs are hot right now.

Quick, quick, pump this movie out. Yeah, yeah. And so I watched Gordy. It was absolutely fucking insane, but I felt like this level of comfort having a talking animal. And then it just reminded me of all the talking animal movies I loved growing up and how it felt like, again, going back to such a simple time when all I cared about was, you know, when I was amazed by Eddie Murphy talking to a goose one day and a tiger the next. That's all I want in life. Yeah. Come on.

Stuart Little, I mean. Gordy. What a cultural imprint on us. Remember Pauley? I totally missed Gordy. Where wasn't Jay Moore the voice of the bird? There was like a little parakeet movie where Jay Moore was the voice. It was called Polly.

Is that an insult to be picked as a voice of a bird named Polly? Jay Moore is somehow doing all right despite everything. I think it's a little less. I think it's a little less. I think so. Yeah. He's out here. He's out here.

Gordy, the poster is a pig with a necktie and sunglasses on. Gordy, the little pig who hit it big. Oh, so good. The only, by the way, distributed by Miramax. So they were like, this is going to win an Oscar. The only quote from the critics on this is, four stars exclamation point, roll over Beethoven. See you, Simba.

This is the year of the. pig exclamation point. So I like that even this quote that they clearly paid for probably, it's in font I can't, I've zoomed in as much as I can. I can't see who the publication is. That's how small they've written. Yeah, there's no way.

The attribution. But I do, it's funny that even them, they're not like, this is a great pig movie. They're like, pigs are really doing it this year. Am I right? With this. And babe, we all love pigs. Don't we? This one,

wear sunglasses. It was so bad, but I love, it was so fun to watch. Like, I don't think I've seen a movie that bad, but fun to watch in a while. Highly recommend it's only, but also, you know it's bad because it is not available to watch anywhere, except for YouTube. Physical media. Oh, wow. That's the fucked up part with like, there are all these things like that I think about

from my childhood. Yeah. It's like, I may have the last remaining videotape of this obscure action film because it's nowhere to be found. Yeah. Also, look who's talking now. That was another talking pet. Talking animal movie. Dan Namedo and Diane Keaton were the voices of the animals. There are some big actors talking to animals back in the day and I miss that. Probably an easy check too or their managers. They're like, give me like a talking animal movie, man. I can't own my camera. But like, I need a check. These are talking babies or animals or like just not an adult. I'll be a toilet. I don't care. I don't want to go. I don't want to be on set.

and they all take place in a world a universe where people can't hear them talking right okay except Stuart little that was an outlier that Stuart little they can hear him poly could talk to well well you're talking yeah that would be weird the bird's like what the fuck I don't understand what the bird is saying but that is a good like Charlotte's Webb is like children can hear the animals talk. It's a fun. And then like toy story,

they have to hide the fact that they're like alive and could talk. Yeah. I like I just, it just reminds me of such simpler times. And I miss. Also, I just felt like I went fucking berserk for Eddie Murphy as, oh my God,

why am I forget his, Dr. Doolittle. Like that movie lit me on fire. I was amazed. I was like, I was like, this guy's the coolest guy ever met. Like,

nothing is better than Eddie Murphy as, Dr. Doolittle. Have I watched it? When you were a child or you just watched it again like a couple days? Have not watched it again. I'm terrified of this opinion

right now. I'm gonna, I will be following Gordy up with an actual award-winning film. Actually, did not win awards one. It was nominated. Probably.

Yeah, Doolittle had to have been nominated. Babe was definitely nominated. Well, Babe was, yeah. Monster. Babe was George Miller. Oh, no, that was Babe too. Babe was,

George Miller, George Miller had a weird relationship to Babe where he like helped develop it then like produced it and gave it to a different director and then was like so mad that he had given it to a different director that he like kind of was a dick about it and sort of took a lot of credit for it I believe it babe great movie babe great movie and my review every time me and my wife go see a movie what is something you think is overrated I would say When the internet, honestly, dude, I was really debating on this one because I like can't really think of a ton of stuff that feels overrated right now.

But then I did, I feel like the internet really recently went nuts over Josie and the pussycats, the movie. Like they actually, like now the capitalism is falling. Everyone's like, wait a minute. Did we sleep on this? Yeah. And so I don't know if this is necessarily overrated, but it just makes me so annoyed when that stuff happens or it's just like, oh, now you get that this movie is fucking incredible. Like, you know, talk to me later. Don't come at me with mystery men as good now because you understand the subtext.

Right. Like, it just everyone goes nuts. And then I feel guilty. Then I want them to get the praise. I want them to get the whatever residuals are possible. But it just pisses me the fuck off that it takes people, you know, losing everything to realize Josie and the pussycats is good. Yeah, yeah. Put some respect.

People didn't know. People didn't know a good thing when it was right in front of them. Right in front of them. Best soundtrack of all times. I was such a Rachel Lee Cook, like, Stan at the time that it, I just because I was in love with her, I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I love Rosario Dawson. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. And she didn't even, is she that awkward girl with glasses from Rachel Lee Cook?

Yeah, are you talking about the nerd? You were in love with the nerd? Dude, fucking Lainey Boggs. Her name is Lainey Boggs, Jack. I just watched the first act. of that and I was like, this is a movie about a nerd. I forgot that her last name was Boggs. They really went hard with a nerd name.

They're like, I don't know, give her Boggs. Fucking Laney Boggs. Lainy Boggs. And then Kieran Colkin, was her little brother. Right. Yes. I mean, Paul Walker. That's maybe, not that.

Paul Walker, who else is in that? Freddie Prince, what a? Freddie Prince Jr. Matthew Lillard. Matthew Lillard. Oh, really showing us that. MTV's spring break wasn't all it chopped up to be. Yeah, right.

Matthew Lillard on the list of people, Quentin Tarantino was just like, yeah, he was the one, yeah. And like, luckily everyone was like, dude, shut the fuck up, man. He's chill. Like, leave him the fuck alone. That's how out of touch Quentin is, is that like, everyone loves Matthew Lillard. Like, he is publicly beloved for being a good dude and you are, you don't know that, so you're going to come out and say this.

What did he say? He was something about he's like a, he's like a fucking coward or something. So he called Paul Dano the limpest dick in Hollywood. Oh, right, right, right. But then Matthew Lillard just, like, caught strays. Like, as he was going through, he was like, yeah, you know, you're talking about, like, Matthew Lillard, people like that who just suck shit. Like, worst actors of all time. And it's just like, and like, Matthew Lillard's whole thing.

And, like, he wasn't he, oh, yeah, he wasn't scream, which. Yeah. I think I was speculating he's jealous of scream because it is like a very Tarantino-ish. horror like if tarantino made a horror movie and so he's like mad at the people who made that i don't know it is just a weird a weird he's a nice guy doing him and freddie prince junior were in that movie summer catch the baseball movie oh my god they did all their sports training like their baseball training at my high school and so like we and like him and freddie prince junior were like signing whatever like for all the high school kids are like especially all the girls in my school they're like

Freddy, like at the gates of our baseball field, he'd come through. It was like, fucking tight underarmor shirt on. And they're like, ah, I remember this so vividly. And I just remember also being like, dude, these guys are pretty fucking nice about it. I served. Freddie Prince Jr. was a regular at one of the bars I worked at. And he was so fucking nice. And one time, like, he always requested a certain server.

And then he kept me one time because that server was gone. And I was so nervous because I'm such a big Buffy fan that I was just like by proxy insanely nervous and vibrating with fear. And I completely butchered his order. Like, there was not a single thing right on his order. And I bring it over. I bring it over. And I know this as I'm bringing the food over. I'm like, I don't know what's happening. I'm out of my body. I put the plate in front of him. We both look at each other because he gets the same food every time. We both looked at each other. And I was like, I know. And he's like, it's okay. And he just ate it anyway. And he just ate it anyway. And he tipped me so well. Despite his allergy.

Right. Exactly. Had to be wheeled at. He's like, I get it. Nobody's ever got my order right. It's all right. Everybody's brains are scrambled by how hot I am. Just hit me in the thigh with this epinephrine if I started getting a little clammy.

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I love it. And with the Atlantic. Yeah. So we talked about how they were the first ones to, they broke the story about how like, this guy is drunk a lot. And everyone at the FBI is worried about the. FBI because the director goes missing because he drinks a ton. He went missing in his office and had the door locked and they had to use one of those

battering rams to do a wellness check on again, the director of the FBI. Yeah, yeah. Normally that's, you know, that's losing your job territory. That's intervention territory. That's you walk into a room and a bunch of your friends and family are unfolding chairs and a circle with one empty seat and a guy you've never met goes, hey, my name James Jeff Van Vondering. I just want to tell you all these people are really crazy about you.

And they're really worried about you, too. Wow. That sounds so specific. Let's have a seat. And, you know, they just kind of want to tell you how much they love you. Is that okay? Is that the real name of the guy from intervention? Jeff Van Vondering is one of the-

Wow. You pulled that out. That was impressive. I thought you were pulling that from something more personal. No, Jack. It was fine. My first wife just left me without explanation. I'll have you know.

There was no intervention. But anyway, so that story came out. He was suing the journalist for defamation. Then we found out that the FBI's internal threats team was also looking into this journalist for what? Because, again, these are just words and rumors from people. This isn't classified information she's reporting on. She basically said, this guy drinks a lot, says all his coworkers. So it's hard to see how that's.

Well, that's just like your opinion, man. Yeah. So after that story comes out a few days ago, the same journalist, she just published another. Just put another fucking... Another one. Another one on Cash Patel's headpiece. This time it's about his love of branded bottles of Woodford Reserve whiskey. I have a picture here in the dock.

They're like, it has the official FBI seal on it says, Director Cash Patel, but it's spelled with the dollar sign as the S, because that's his preferred way of spelling his name. Yes, please respect. That's a cultural thing, Jack. Okay. What culture?

Oh, he's a fuck boy. Oh, okay. And that's the culture that he's. So this is from the Atlantic Art who said, quote, I heard from people in Patel's orbit and people he has met at public functions who told me that it is not unusual for him to travel with a supply of personal branded bourbon. Surrounding the shield is a band of text featuring his director title and his favorite spelling of his first name, KA. cash or dollar sign H. Patel has given out bottles of his personalized whiskey to FBI staff as well as civilians he encounters in his duties, according to eight people. people, including current and former FBI and Department of Justice employees. Patel has distributed his self-branded bottles while an official business, including during

at least one FBI event, he and his team have transported the whiskey using a DOJ plane, including when he went to Milan during the Olympics in February, where one of the bottles was left behind in a locker room. And someone took a picture of it. The Atlantic bought one of these bottles on eBay, just to be like, is this for real? this guy is signing his name plus number nine because he's like the ninth director um that's like his whole thing it's like cash number nine uh this is a signed bottle of alcohol and if you remember we talked about how like there was that like he had like ufc dudes coming to quonico to the fbi headquarters to like train people on how to be badass you know right you got you got you got you got you got to learn from these fucking these hard ass dudes with cTE how to take a punch i guess He brought a bunch of bottles to that event. And this is what's so funny.

Shit was cool until one of his little babas went missing. Quote, at one point, at least one bottle went missing, which caused the director to, quote, lose his mind. This is according to clients of Kurt Sousdak, a retired agent who has assisted FBI agents, including whistleblowers with legal issues. Sousdak told me that multiple agents contacted him for legal guidance after Patel began threatening to polygraph and prosecute his staff over the missing bottle. Quote, it turned into a shit show. Other attorneys told me they received similar calls from FBI employees regarding concerns about Patel's bottles. About the concerns about his bottles. Your fucking babas.

Yeah. Are they branded like from the factory or are these like Etsy bottles that you buy for your husband last minute because you don't know what to get them for, you know, fathers? Yeah. They, okay. So this is they because the, you know, this. journalist. Sarah Fitzpatrick, you know, it went all, we're out through all channels. She reached out to Woodford Reserve and said, hey, you fuckers making this stuff? And they were like, no. They're like, people do buy stuff and then have it etched. They said, however, wait, I just

want to get, I just want to get Woodford Reserves quote here. They said, Elizabeth Conway, the director for external communication, said, quote, these engravings occur after the point of purchase. So someone, someone's bottle engraving business is doing a real good business right now just off of Cache Patel's love of personalized liquor. This is the sort of thing that like somebody would have in their like man cave next to like it, it's like the scene in the big Lobowski where he's like got all the pictures on his wall and then the time person of the year mirror thing. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's like just cheap bullshit that is impressive to fools. It's the other thing that they, in this article has pointed out, quote, Patel's affection

for bourbon is longstanding during the first Trump administration. He and his colleagues at the National Security Council kept a barrel of it on hand to celebrate successful hostage negotiations and rescues. Oh my God. A barrel? Yeah. I mean, that's how you know he was never invited to parties. Like, just get a keg. Just a barrel.

Yeah. And also just like the mentality, too, is like, do you got a barrel whiskey? You got a fucking barrel of it. It also does make sense of like some of the, because his whole thing, one of his major problems has been jumping to declare victory too soon. When he's like, we found the shooter, we've got him in custody. And then it turns out he doesn't. Yeah. But if he, if there's a barrel of whiskey at the other end of that victory,

Maybe that's where he's just, like, you know, giving him, he's been giving himself credit. Like, he gets off the phone, off the phone with, like, customer service for the place that etches the bottles of whiskey and is, like, another successful negotiation, gentlemen. Pop up in the barrel. Get the crowbar. I mean, yeah, I get that little bit of, like, you got a vice. You're motivating yourself at the end of a workday. Like, when I was working at the laser tag place doing kids' birthdays, I couldn't be high there. But I remember I would roll a blunt in my car before my shift started and I would leave it right there and be like, I'll see you after my shift.

And you celebrate, you know. Give it a little kiss. Yeah. Be good. Be good. Laser tag to FBI pipeline. Feels like actually that tracks. Someone hears this.

I get a call from the FBI. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You might have the right stuff, my guy. And I'm like, oh, really. It is also wild that he flipped out and was threatening to make people. take polygraph tests about a missing bottle. And then when he went to Milan, like, he left one behind. So he's clearly not keeping as close a tabs on this as he thinks he is, which sounds

like the sort of person who might have a drink. Well, do you remember that time? There was another thing where he, like, tried to give these people in New Zealand, like a gun as like a gift. And it was like a 3D printed gun. But again, that was because of his fucking just weird obsession with having brand. landed swag to give out all the time. He has like, they said there's just so much shit that he has, like that like merch he's generating.

And also merch he wants the FBI to generate because he's not in law enforcement. He's just like a guy who there's a he had custom made Jordans created. Right. Oh my God. Does he know Patreon exists? Yeah. You go on Etsy. You know what I mean?

But like here here like these Jordan. First of all, Jordan Lowe's fools. Who weren't Jordan Lowe's? Those are skips, bro. Anyway, with the number nine on. it and everything. He has like... They look like absolute shit. Pins with a punisher skull

and like dueling pistols. Again, you have to project, you know, your masculinity at every avenue possible. And didn't he say that he, like he didn't deny drinking. He didn't, it was marriage, like, I can neither confirm nor deny that I am drunk right now.

It was more like, I don't have a drinking problem. Right. It was like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Meanwhile, the barrel of whiskey is in the room with everybody there. And also like, I don't have a drinking problem. It was more. It was more. It was more. It was like we saw the clips of you in the locker room after the Olympic hockey gold medal match. You were fucking down. You were spraying bottles of beer down your neck because you were so fucking.

Usually people when they're celebrating the victory spray the beer on each other. And he was just like, get that in here. Right now. Leaping on top of bottles that people are spraying on each other. Hey, clear out that massage table. I'll booth two right now simultaneously. Get me up there. Watch this shit.

Call this shit. Jima. I know. The, yeah, but the missing bottle caper is reminding me of, like, alcoholics who are like, someone keeps moving my car. Oh, wow.

Yeah, right. Yeah. Maybe he's saying he didn't drink because it didn't go through his mouth. Right. Right. I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm not starting any rumors over here. I'm just saying there's other ways to get drunk. And they actually work faster.

Oh, if I had heroin, I'd have track marks all over my arms. It's because I shoot up between my toes. Yeah, let me see. Nope, nope. Uh-uh. Okay, you're not going to get me with that one. Can't prophylize my asshole. What?

We can feel sobriety test. I don't know, man. I'm just, it smells like a broken distillery behind you. So in a way, maybe we can. When they reached out. Up here in the facial region. But back into the left. Yeah.

The thing that when they reached, when Sarah Fitzpatrick reached out to the FBI about the bottle thing, they didn't deny it. And they were like, this is totally normal. And then she followed up with other career FBI people. And they're like, what the fuck are you talking about? Nobody was making branded booze to hand out the civilians. I was a little bit like this is, you know, this is more where there's smoke, there's fire. And the first story was like about a raging inferno. But it does like the more details you get, the aspect of him losing the bottom.

and then like being like, you're all fired if I didn't find my bottle is very funny. Yeah. Anyways, let's also just check in with another one of our favorite crime fighters, and that is Kim Kardashian, who we do just like to keep tabs on this. Yeah. She announced that she was going to be a lawyer, not via going to law school, but just doing the, like, read all the law school books method and take the bar. And she did that, and she did.

not succeed. She's failed at the bar, I think, twice. I think it's more than that. Yeah, maybe more. What was the one where she was like, Chad GPT burned me at last? So her last attempt, she did blame on ChatGPT. She was like, I asked ChatGPT the questions and it does, sometimes it hallucinates wrong answers. So she's cheating? I was counting on this. This is like literally, she was having a conversation with Tiana Taylor for GQ, or Vanity Fair. I think it's the one where they hook you up to a lie detector, which is fucking crazy. Also, legally dubious. Crazy for that one.

Hey, we started that when I worked at Condé Nass. I mean, it's great content. We did the Kiki Palmer one when she's like, and I'm sorry to that man. That is one of the great pieces of internet content of our lives. but she was talking about her use of chat GPT. She said, I use it for legal advice. And Tiana Taylor quickly responded, so you're cheating.

I'll take a picture and snap it and put it in there. So when I'm needing to know the answer to a question, it's like, yeah. And then she was like, I don't know because I use chat GPT to study and I flunked the shit out of this test. It's just, so anyways, the update is that she doesn't appear to be

taking the bar this time around. She did it like a number of times in a row and is like, how many years has she spent not going to law school but trying to pass the bar? There's a reason law school exists, I think. I've not been, so I can't, I can't say for sure. Yeah, that's what you dare have an opinion on that, Jack. To try to goodwill, try to goodwill hunting your way through law school and becoming a lawyer when it might not be your strong suit. Yeah, I feel like it should be more rigorous. Like you can't like how a doctor is like you got to go to med school if you want to even get I read the books. Yeah.

Well, hold on. Well, give me the test and let's see. Give me the test and let's see. She's got a friend named Miranda. She's like, I'm good. Okay. Miranda's going to tell me everything. I also like did she study acting from chat GPT too?

Like is she just using it for all of her knowledge because that makes a lot of sense. Could you imagine? She's running lines with chat. Yeah, exactly. trying to get like notes on her line reads. What do you think? It's funny that the other thing that happened. You're killing it, sweetie.

Yeah, you're killing it. A little more robotic. The only thing that's happened since the last time she took the bar is that she was in a lawyer, she played a lawyer on a TV show. So I think she got the thing that she found interesting about being a lawyer out of her system maybe. Oh, right, right, right. Oh, shit. Yeah.

Just needed to cosplay a little bit. Yeah. I don't know. I wouldn't be a podcaster if I just got to play one on TV. get that out of my system. The glamour of being a podcaster, you know? It reminds me of like, because she's like doing other stuff, obviously, you know,

she's going to the Met Gala, she's doing these other things. And it just reminds me of like a teenager that's like you have two choices in front of you. It's like your career or the boyfriend. And she's choosing the boyfriend. Or like, I mean, this might be deep cut, but the hills, did you watch the hills at all?

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I did, yeah. Remember when Lauren Conrad chose Jason overgoing to Paris? Yeah, that was big. That was huge. This feels like a moment where she's like, you know, I'm not going to do any of the work. I'm going to choose all this other fun stuff that I want to do in my life. Yeah.

I will just say when we were starting cracked and like we were just going out to people and asking it, like anybody who had like been published in like McSweeney's or any of them, I was just like emailing being like, hey, would you want to write for us? So many of the people were lawyers who were like, what do I want to do I want to do? do literally anything but being a lawyer. Being a lawyer sucks. There's so many writers. I know I know two writers who because of just the industry collapsing have switched to law. Yeah. I think it's, I'm in law school and I'm like, what? You're such a funny writer. And they're like, yeah, but I'm also, I think I can do this really well also. And I'm like, shit. Hats off to you. I think I get it, especially like a trial lawyer. You craft a good punchline.

You want to craft a good ending to your argument. Yeah. Oh, I can do a monologue. My honor. Check this shit out. The other thing is like, I remember she was saying like Robert Kardashian her dad was like one of the reasons she was really interested in law. And I'm like, right. That makes sense. I wonder if like the her playing a lawyer and dressing up as a lawyer in a fake court helped her feel better. Maybe Kanye can get another hologram of her dead father to be like, hey Kim, it's me, dad, you are a great lawyer. Now I am happy. Don't worry about it. Just work on your skims brand, please. I mean, she is like a billionaire.

What do you? Do you remember that, though? Yeah, the fake hologram for her 40th birthday. That was diabolical. That was very strange. That's what happens when you're married to Kanye was. I think we need to do it. I regret to inform you.

I think we need to do a Kim Kardashian iconograph. Yeah. Absolutely. What a life. Oh, yeah. Should we take a quick break? We'll be right back. Another podcast from some SNL late night comedy guide,

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Me. Is there anything to the idea that because you're from Harvard, uh, you only got in because your parents made a huge donation. The yard birds, right? That's the name. The Harvard Yard. They're open. Do you have a name suggestion?

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All of a sudden, I'd had hanginess happening on my own. I was like, what the hell is that? I was married when I had her, so I didn't even consider how empty that mess was going to be. Mood swings, night sweats, fupas, sex drive. Wait, what sex? dating at 45. How hard can it be getting naked at 50 with the new guy? That one's kind of hard.

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A flutter. A flutter. It's called propeller one-way night trip. One-way night coach. Sorry. Propelor one-way night coach. Ah. It's so stupid.

Which makes more sense. Now it makes sense. Propeller one-way night coach. And the way, because it's such a big, unwieldy title, it looks like propeller is the title. and then your tagline is one way night coach. It seems like they've done random generic. Like it's like propeller is the movie and then it would be like one way one mission. One way night coach.

Yeah, on a plane. And like that's the place you would go for the part to make sense of the movie. And instead it's just one way night coach. Yeah. I'm sorry. I think there's a typo on your movie poster. Anyways, it is based on a children's book that John Travolta wrote in the 90s, and we'll stream on Apple TV not long after playing at Kong of the film festival.

So I got entered into Khan. It is about a young plane enthusiast named Jeff, who takes a flight with his mom. And that's it. That's the entire plot. Jeff takes a flight with his mom. The trailer was so dull. that somehow, like usually like my children's book, you're like, oh, I mean, I'm, I read my kid books all the time. Oh, yeah.

And if this was a kid's book, I'm like, this motherfucker is just on the plane? Does he turn into a plane? Like, at least I got a book about a kid who turns into a fire truck and that shit is interesting. I think my son would be like, oh, fuck on it. He took one trip, I ate a hot dog at 60,000 feet. It is the type of book that is for, like, there's that book Snow Day, you know, that is about a kid. And it's like, he goes out. And he plays in the snow.

And then he like stands up on a fence. And then he, you know, like describing things. It's like for a barely developing mind. But then it's weird because the movie also or the book also contains like kind of sexual things. Of course it does. Travolta originally wrote the story. When he originally wrote the story,

it contains descriptions of his mom's figure and how she fooled around. with male passengers. Wait, what the fuck? My mother was about 49 years old and quite attractive. Blue eyes, black hair, and a good figure for her age, she told me. By the time I got back to my seat, mom was on her second drink and already getting very touchy with her new friend Harry. This is my baby boy, Jeff, and this is Harry. Harry lives in Pittsburgh, honey.

He's a lawyer and knows some of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Isn't that wild? Wow. Oh my God. Another celebrity processing trauma through a shitty film. This sounds like if we're going to be like, what was the truth here? Were his parents together? Or is this how his mom was able to cheat on his dad? Oh, I don't think his parents were together would be my guess. Okay. That'd be funny where she's like, we're going to take another plane ride, honey.

Oh, Harry's on board again. Isn't that crazy? He knows one of the. He knows Terry Bradshaw. Do you want to meet him later? I don't know. Anyway, that's in the book. Wow. I looked it up. The book has 2.9 stars on Goodreads.

I don't know who's reviewing if it's the children giving the reviews to the parents and put it up there if the parents are. But 2.9 stars on Goodreys out of almost 250 reviews. The trailer. And yet they made it into a movie. Yeah. Makes total sense. They being a very specific thing. John Travolta made his own book into a movie.

insisted that it have the same title as the book, which doesn't really make sense. Two people, the newly released, the trailer does brag that it is based on John Travolta's beloved book, which is technically true because he clearly loves it. But it's just literally a kid riding an airplane. At no point does a plot kick in. It's just him and his mom, he's like, oh my gosh, a hot dog. And also he's narrating it, but then he's also the captain at the end. like he's narrating it as if he's the child?

Yes. And then he's also the captain at the end of the film. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Okay. All right. Fulfilling all the dreams he came. Yeah, a little foreshadowing.

That little boy grew up to be a pilot with a hair transplant. This doesn't make any sense, right? Like as a movie, as a thing that exists in any way, like, that said people spent like millions of dollars on. It doesn't make any sense. The fact that it is like the origin story of. John Travolta the pilot is so, like, the thing that nobody knows him as other

than big John Travolta fans. Or like, oh, yeah, he also has an interest in flying. Right. Is so funny. That, like, he's just like, yeah. I would sooner watch a movie solely about George Bush's paintings than I would. Right. Yeah, somehow. There's something, I'm actually

interested in my, how does this guy who destroyed a quarter of the earth? How does he do it still through painting? I don't understand. And the acting, it sounds terrible. Oh my God. Like, what? Even, I guess John Travolta didn't want to be upstaged, but he doesn't have to worry about that because like across the board, not to offend a child, but like, stale as hell, kid. Come on. Yeah. You don't have a, you don't have a career kid. It is also, it is a little infuriating, too, to just see how nice air travel was back then, though, too. That does seem to, like, that is plenty to me, actually, just to see. Yeah.

Have you ever been to the TWA? Because they have like sort of a living museum, the TWA. In New York, right? Yeah, hotel in New York. Like they made the old TWA, what's the thing called? The terminal building? Yeah, yeah. They made the TWA terminal into a hotel that you can go to and like feel, remember a time when corporations weren't just like hostile and like attacking a tagging for every last thing.

That's an Erosauranin designed building for people who are really big into, like, that design. It's a beautiful. He's like a Finnish, you know, Finnish architect who a lot of people are like, oh, like, it is a work of art. But, God damn, they were eating chicken cordon blue on the fight. I know. What a time. Delta just took away our snacks and they're just going to, Apple TV is going to throw this in our face. Rude.

How, I'm guessing, like, what children's books are like at most, what maybe like 20. pages, 30 pages. Yeah, yeah. How did they stretch that out into a two-hour feature film? Miles, it clocks in at a brisk 61 minutes.

What the fuck is this? You know they tried. You know they tried. They shot like three hours worth of shit. They're like, John, no. There's literally the, no, but what about the like B plot

where they're making the chicken cordonbleau? In the back, yeah, right, exactly. Or one where they're talking about the racial background of a passenger and how they speculate that he might be miscegenated. Do we know? Was that still in the film? What a fucking time. Oh, man. It is the latest offering from Travolta's JTP films, which gave us Battlefield Earth.

Okay. The movie past collaboration, Godi, which are two of, like, the most legendary bad movies that we've got. Right. Godi and Battlefield Earth are both like arguable for the Mount Rushmore of like cursed films. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then three movies that nobody's ever seen. But I think we might have a new, a new entrant from this, from this studio. Do you think your kids would like, I'm like, who is this for exactly?

Because I know, I don't know, like, do you think your kids would watch it, Jack? Is like having kids are like 10, seven, no? No, they would not. they would not be for this one bit. They would be extremely bored. Yeah. Yeah. This is boring.

Like I have to, just like anything from the 90s, like I need to like hold them down. And then like five minutes in, they're like, okay, I'm on board. You got to do clockwork orange Luritico method. You do because it's like the pace is just a little slower than like modern movies. I keep telling you. Show them the rock, dude. They're going to be smoking in from the gym. jump, man, when that VX gas gets that first dude.

That is going to be a movie that like when they're the right age. Like we're going to have a really good time. We're going to have a very fun movie night. Just so you know, son, this was playing every day on TNT when I was due to my 20s. Somebody needs to make money just selling the TNT edits to, you know, like so the swear words and stuff because those are also entertaining. Oh, yeah. Big Lobowski TV cut.

This is what happens when you meet a stranger in the Alps. That's right. Anyways, eagerly anticipated. Can't wait to see this one come out on Apple TV. Holly, such a pleasure having you, as always on the Daily Zike. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? You can follow me and check out to my comedy at Holly Brown Comedy on Instagram, but you can also see stuff about the show at Holly Brown Comedy on Instagram,

or our social channels on YouTube and Instagram, everybody knows but me. So check out the podcast if you like dark comedy. There you go. 90 sitcoms and my dying father's deathbed confession. Hey. That's a big one. It's a sick bend diagram.

It's a big one. Yeah. Do you like all these things? You fucking bring. Hey, hey, are you a complete sicko? No, it's really cool. We were looking for a name to call our listeners.

So thank you. going to call them complete sickos. Complete fucking sickos. I mean, but it's relevant because I feel like, especially in the age of 23 and me, I know more than a few people who have had a bit of a family secret come out suddenly. They're like, holy shit, dude, I have like two older siblings I didn't know about. It's like a great equalizer. I tell one person and then they're frothing at the mouth to tell me about like, oh, my uncle,

how to seek her family or my dad, how to secret family. It's always the men, of course, because the women would be too impressive if they did that. Right, right, right. It's so common. Like, it's wild. But it's also weird. So it doesn't feel common. Like I have a friend who was like conceived through a sperm donor and didn't know anything about that until someone reached out.

And they're like, yeah, there's like 23 of us. Whoa. Wait, they thought that they were conceived by. No, no, no. They knew that part. But they just didn't know how. how prolific this dough was. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And it was sort of like, oh, wow, like to the point where, you know, it's, it's been like sort of life affirming for them. But it is interesting how like the genetic, like this information now being here is like suddenly been like people who thought maybe they were isolated have like much bigger connections than they thought. And it rocks your world to see somebody that looks just like you or your parent or something like that. And you're just like, I like, I don't know. We haven't, don't have the language to process it yet. We're learning it right now. Right, for sure. Yeah.

Amazing. Is there a work in media you've been enjoying? I just rewatched Magnolia. And I don't, Tom Cruise in that movie, I can't stop the, I mean, I always loved him in that movie, but I haven't watched it since I was probably too young to even understand it. And I just think he's fucking incredible. Not that it's a current work of media, but feels like his character in that film is, like, shockingly relevant to now being this.

like, you know, almost the game-esque, you know, pick-up artist type guy, Coltman. So just really interesting to watch that with a different lens, modernized. I liked that character at first, but then he, yeah, you know, he changed. I didn't like him so much at the end. Frank, when he had some actual humility. Oh, no. Yeah, no, that was those weeks off. Come on, man.

Miles, where can people find you as their work in media? You've been enjoying. Find me. Everywhere at Miles of Gray. Check me out talking about 90-day fiancé on 420-day fiancé. I'm also talking about English football as well as the Champions League on 9th foot with Jamel Johnson and Chris Martin. A couple of there's just a ton of like the people right now, the Hanta virus shit posts are fucking everywhere. And I don't even know how to pick one.

There's one where it just said, me coming back from my cruise from Argentina, and it's just the godfather scene where he gets shot in the toll booth, just stuff like that. There's just so many things like that. So I'm really, I'm going down a dark humor rabbit hole with the hanta virus things. That's the only way I'm able to manage my stress. All right. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien, Blue Sky, the number one, Instagram, Jack, O, underscore Brian. I like to tweet from Pierre LeFoe, who tweeted, hate when your browser asks if you want to save a password that you entered wrong.

Read the room. I fucking hate that. And then Carter Hambly said, driving barefoot feels like when they connect their hair to the dragon and Avatar, there's something so strange about driving barefoot. You never felt more intimately connected to my phone. I'll do that like in the middle of, like, Like, I remember when I, there would be street cleaning.

Yeah. And I'd be like, fuck, this fucking street clean. I'm just running out barefoot. It feels so weird, doesn't it? Yeah, and I would always run my big toe on the ridges of the pedals and be like, there's ridges on this fucking thing. Wow. Anyways, they should be smooth and slippery. That's right.

Yeah, that sounds smart. You can find us on Twitter and Blue Sky at Daily Zekegeist. We're at The Daily Zekegeist on Instagram. You can go to the description of this episode. you're listening to it and there at the bottom you will find the footnotes, which is where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode. We also link off to a song that we think you might enjoy. Yeah. Miles, is there a song that you think that people might enjoy? Yeah, look, just some more funk, P-H-O-N-K to blast out your speakers. That's just dark European,

just hip-hop beats over grainy, dirty South acapella raps. This one's no different. This one's called 42 Paranoid by Judgment. G. So check this one out. And these are like out of Moscow a lot of the time? A lot of the this genre really came out of like Russia and like Ukraine. Like a lot of yeah like former

Soviet bloc countries are like the people really putting funk on our radar. So it's just it's interesting to just see like the conversation of like early three six mafia freestyles and this like really spooky form of like hip hop

instrumentals kind of coming together and it's just, I don't know, it works really well. I really love it. So anyway, 42 Paranoid, Judgment G. All right, we will link off to that in the footnotes. The daily Zikeyes is a production of IHeartRadio for more podcasts from IHartRadio. Visit the IHeartRadio Appel podcast or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That's going to do it for us this week. We are back tomorrow with the weekly Zichkees with a cutdown of the highlights from this week's episodes.

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