The Daily Zeitgeist - Woke 1.0 vs Woke 2, Zuckerberg = Late Stage Elvis 08.12.26

Episode Date: August 12, 2026

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I go back to the days of Denzel Washington as the greatest actor of all time period. Now you're talking. You know what you're talking about. Oh, man. That was a classic. Great, great podcast. Del Rolinda told me I need to bring it back. Oh, really?

You might need to. He was like, well, what if it was about me? When I first told him about it, I was like, he might walk out of the interview when I say. I mean, he hasn't stopped being the greatest actor of all time. No, he hasn't. I mean, he's just sort of, you know, he's maybe just the grand master of greatest actor of all time now. No, for sure. Where do you stand on Equalizer?

You know, if that was all he ever did, we would not be calling him the greatest actor of all time period. Let's be clear about that. He's so good at that, though. But it's also like he could have just been, you know, he could have just been that guy. He could have just been like, it's what he could have been a high-level Stephen Seagall. Yeah. Yeah. He's great.

He's great in it. And I like the fact he waited until he was old to do those things because it's like, you know, it would have been a waste of his young talent. Right. Yeah. So I sort of feel like him and Antoine Fuqua clearly have a deal. We'll do some of these. They make, they actually make money all over the world. And then I'll go do other things like directing August Wilson's plays.

So I think it's clearly a, he really approaches the business like a, he really approaches. he's not thinking about Pete. He understands the business. I guess I'll say that. Right, right. Yeah, yeah. He's like,

I'm not going to get pigeonhole that early on. I need to let people know first. I'm the greatest actor. And then we can do some frivolous action man shit. That shit was like squarely targeted on my dad. No, it's old man. Equalizer.

It is such. It's old man. We call it, we were on the podcast, we called it his old man action era because it was. Oh, yeah. Magnificent Seven.

Oh, yeah. And even, you know, just a bunch of like, once he got, we broke it up into errors. And once he got past like that man on fire, like, look, I can do anything. He just got into his old man action bag of just like, I just want to show up to set.

Right, right, right, right. I'll read the pages on the car on the way there. Yeah, yeah, he's like, what I'd like you to be wearing my sides on your chest? Yes, exactly. He's acting opposite me. Yeah, and also, and Antoine Fouca directs all of them because he's just, he knows how to, he knows how to do it. Him or Tony, man. It's my two boys.

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It is Wednesday, August 12th, 2026. It's August 12th, this International Youth Day. It's IBMPC Day. It's Jack, it's your day. It's Middle Child Day. Shout out the Middle Child Day. Oh, shit. National Vinyl Record Day.

Shout out all the vinyl record collectors out there because, look, digital, physical media is all we have left. And when the solar flares take out the memory on your iPod, are you going to have his vinyl records, baby? I've thought about this. I think about this. That's why I have certain albums on vinyl still. Also, National Julianne Fries Day.

Shout out to my fans of thin fries and World Colligraphy Day. Boom. Celebrate. Yeah, fans of soft, thin fries. Yeah, I love them. Love them. Sicko. You're a sick person.

Sickle mode on the fries. It's an hour a minute and out. A couple minutes trying to figure out what kind of irritable bowel syndrome, IBM PC was referring to, but now I got it. I figured it out. My name's Jack O'Brien, aka, let's see. Oh, yeah, in reference to Weird Al. My, my, this here, Jack O'Brien.

Maybe Vader someday later, now he's just a pod guy. Left his home and said it's wood or ice on my thighs, saying soon I'm going to be an O'Brien. That one courtesy of Hanaramic View. Coming back. Yeah. To drop some heat on all of us. On the Discord.

I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. It's Miles Gray, straight off Lancashim Boulevard, the Lord of Lancashim, the showgun with no gun, the no-ho's finest. Miles Gray, thank you for having me. I'm here. You're welcome, man. Good to have me here. Hey, it's great to have me, man. Thanks, man.

We are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a very funny comedian TV host, podcaster. you know from United Shades of America, stand-up stages around the world. Go check his site for dates. He's got some coming up. His classic podcast, Denzel Washington is the greatest actor of all time period and his new podcast,

who's with me? It's W. Camel Bell! Camel! What's up, man? You know, nothing, everything, all of it. Yeah. Too much, not enough. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

How do you balance it all? with everything happening all at once. Are you supposed to balance it? Is that what the- I don't know. I guess how do you look? I mean, you know, I appreciate the work you do. I see the way you speak on topics and issues.

And I know, like, you know, having to balance awareness with outrage, with parenting, with life. You know, like there's, everyone has, I feel like a different calculus or how they derive there. So I'm always curious to hear from. I mean, I think the ultimate way that I sort of check in is like, do my kids still know my name? and are they happy to see me when I'm around? Because I think that if you do too much work, then even if you make a lot of money, you come home and your kids are like,

I'm sorry, what was your name again? That doesn't know. Or the man is home, mom. Yeah, yeah, he's here. Your husband's here. My biological father, Jack O'Brien, is home. Your kids are like, your dad's here. No, he's your dad.

Yeah, he's your dad. I don't know that man. Or if you're around and your kids, are like, huh, whatever, man. So, like, I feel like, not engaging.

Yeah, not engaged. And I still, I even have a 15 year, I got three daughters, 15, 11, and 8. And they're all happy to see me when I'm around. We had a great experience recently

all, just very recently, this is a big deal for me. My kids all sort of have all clocked into comic book movies finally. Like, they've all, like, like, you know, comic movies aren't really marketed towards girls generally.

It doesn't mean they can't like them, but, you know, my girls were like not fans of violence. And so comic movies were sort of over there. That's their problem. Not fans of violence. I don't know it's weird.

Have you shown them enback? It's weird. I will. I'll get an old boy. We're starting to start with old with old boy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just the hammer scene over and over. You used to not be afraid of hammers, but now.

Except to look at them and make people go, okay. Yeah. So, but it's funny, my, I'm in Oakland, as I said. So my oldest daughter knows Zendaya's from Oakland. So she got into the Spider-Man movies through Zendaya. Okay, got it. It was not the Spider-Man movie. It was because Zendaya comes back to Oakland sometimes.

And so my daughter actually met Zendaya one time. And that made her be like, who's this Sunday? So she followed all of Zendaya's projects, which led her to Spider-Man. Then somehow my middle kid was like, what are you guys doing over there? And then she got into it. And then my 8-year-old really is into it now. And so we all went and saw Spider-Man brand-new day, which I never thought I would do with my kids. And it was the greatest, one of the greatest days of parenting I've ever had is seeing Spider-Man.

brand new day with all three of my daughters. Oh, that's nice. And they know I'm the expert, so they feel like I have expertise in superheroing. Oh, right, right, right. Did they ever lean over? Like, Dad, what's that? Well, that's the funny about when I watch Brand, the first, the Tom Holland first trilogy, with my wife, my daughter, they didn't see any of the Avengers, Iron Man.

So every few seconds, they're like, who's that guy? Right, right, right. Come on. Why is he mad? How loud you're saying, come on. Inside you're like, yeah, that's right. You need me. Well, that's Tony Stark.

He's basically Spider-Man's dad. It's like you have to really like, you know. Yeah, yeah. No, Jarvis isn't a person. Okay, you're not talking about. Jarvis is like Siri, but really good at it instead of seeing, yeah. Brand new day? I'd say a fun time of the movies.

I saw that with my whole family. Yeah, no, I got nothing. I thought that Tom Holland knows what he's doing. I think the fact they seem to shoot it like on sets instead of just on, on the green screens really made a different. A green Omnidome thing. Yeah. And, you know, Tom Holland knows what he's doing. And Zendaya, I think, yeah, they did a good job.

And I really like, I don't know if they, I like the fact that the whole film was basically like, here's how you solve the male loneliness epidemic. Try being a good person. What about that? Try helping your community. That's what Spider, he's lonely and he's sad, but he decides to help his community. My takeaway was I should be more like the Punisher. Oh.

I should make some horrible decisions. No, that's helping your community with guns. That's just the guns way. Yeah, that's a how do I solve the male loneliness problem with guns. With guns and tacky. But yeah, the Tom Holland's end day, you know, will they won't they, is so powerful that they just bent the laws of, they did. They did the same thing that the Superman franchise did in the 70s where they were just like, what, what if they will they, they won't they again? Like, we'll take it all the way back by bending the laws of.

reality. Yeah. And they didn't know who you are. And they did in real life. Tom Hollins and dad, they actually, they did. They did. They will be. They will be. All right. Well, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, a couple of things we're talking about. We're just going to talk about where we're at with progressives winning these elections, leftist candidates winning these elections and how the mainstream media is is dealing with that reality and how the how the establishment is dealing with that reality. They've invented something called woke one that they, everybody shitting on and spitting on and kicking.

So we'll talk about what that means. We'll talk about some real old manship, but this is something I've been noticing. As an old man, weather forecasts have kind of become a human centipede of AI bullshit. So we'll talk about that. We'll check in with Mark Zuckerberg. We'll check in with the Trump administration trying to do, make good with the gamers that they keep scapegoating for mass shootings?

They're like, what if you helped us solve the air travel crisis? And we might even check them with AI music. All of that, plenty more. But first, Camel, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Just this morning, I searched, what caused the Big Bang theory? Because my eight-year-old was like, you never told me what caused the Big Bang theory. Like, she had asked me a long time ago, and I didn't. know. And so she thought I was going to go do research on it, apparently. And I didn't. And so this morning

over breakfast, she was like, you never, till like I was holding the information from her. Right. You're going to fuck up where they like, you're like, well, they're going to forget about that. Yeah. Yeah. On your ass. That's like, and I was like, I didn't realize that was supposed to be figuring that out. I thought you asked one day. And we've, there's been probably 40, 100 days since you asked that day. And now you're asking again, but you've been waiting like every day like, you're like, all right, honey, let me see what the Google AI. says so Chuck Lorry approached CBS in the fall

of 2006 and I don't know Is that good enough? That is the Big Bang Day She's referred to How did this show happen? I don't understand. It's so good.

It's clearly a rip off of friends. I don't understand how they were allowed to do this. It's the white nerdy living single. How do they keep iterating on this? What the fuck? And then Young Sheldon. Oh, dad. Oh, yeah.

Young Sheldon goes hard in my household. That is one of those big philosophical questions. I feel like that's a sign of a good mind that it's like, but what about before the Big Bang Theory? What about where space ends? Yeah, more space, okay, but then after that, what is it? That's what I get that for my eight-year-old. And I'm just like, man, that's why you got to do the thing my dad told me about

when I asked about what it was like to die. It's like, bro, close your eyes and do some sensory deprivation in the bathtub. That's fucked me up. Your dad experienced what infinity is. That's what my dad told me. How old are you? Like, fucking six. Oh, Jesus.

Yeah. He's an artist. And you're recommending us. He's an acclaimed artist. Yeah, he's a trippy artist. His art deals a lot with like, you know, black culture and colonialism. And then he'll be like, all right, son, you want to learn a little bit about that? Okay.

Dead your senses. Feel infinity. And I'm like, what's infinity? The idea of being like, death is just a sensory deprivation tank for eternity. Fucked me up. I did not like that. I don't like your dad's theory of what death is like. Well, the bigger thing, though, as like he said, the best thing was, do you remember before you were born?

That's the one. That's the one that makes me feel better. And then I'm like, no, he's like, the time before you were born. He's like, he's like, don't worry about after that. Yeah, exactly. You're not going to notice that either. Yeah, he's like, the only, the fucked up thing is I use that on my eight-year-old. And my eight-year-old is fucked up about the time.

He gets really sad when we tell him about stuff that my wife and I did before he was born. He's like, where was I? I'm like, I don't know. He's like, what the fuck you mean? Nowhere. Yeah. Why wasn't I there at the party when I was 22? Yeah.

I don't know, man. He doesn't like that shit at all. What is something that you think is underrated? Come out. Well, this is what this connects to what I'm saying. Actually using the internet just as a thing to find out basic things. Yeah, right. Like not trying to find out complex, not trying to figure out your opinion on a,

you know on the iran war not trying to fight but just like show me a five minute video that explains the big bang theory right from a vetted source that's important but just using it like as a way to go like I want to cook a chicken breast

but I don't know how and so I've just my main hack for being a dad who cooks is just right instead of writing chicken breast recipe you put the word easy before it easy chicken breast that is hack. That's the dad hacked to all the dad. And then instead of the one that's like, you won't get the Alton Brown recipes,

you know, Alton Brown. You won't get any of it. Because his are all like, first, you have to raise a chick. No, no, no, no. Right. Right. No, no. It's like, prepare three gallons with salted water for your brine. No, yeah, exactly. And you need this, and you need a specific salt that you have to only get if you go to the Himalayas. Yeah. And how long does this step take?

Five minutes. What? No, no, no, no. Exactly. What's superhero? How do I render salt from sea water in five minutes of recipes. Now I'm talking about the recipe that knows you don't have, but

that you're lucky if you have garlic garlic in your house. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like if you don't have garlic, just it's fun. So easy blank recipe is like my ultimate, like, I think for, especially for people who don't cook, but I'm speaking to the dads because that's how. I'm not

a cook, but if I'm going to cook you something, my kids, I need the easy recipe. Also, the easy recipe doesn't have the things that kids don't like, well, you're going to use a pound of chili pot, hold on. Right, right, right. Yeah. It's like dice some fennel.

You're like, fennel. No. No, no, no. I think the internet is distorts just for how to do specific. For like one level deep information. One level deep information. We do the synthesis. Internet gives us the facts.

Yeah, yes. But too many people just use it as a synthesis machine. Yes. What do I think about this subject? Right. Here's what you think about this subject. Yeah, let me hop on my brain synthesizer like Herbie Han, And just see what it's still.

I just Googled easy big bang theory explanation. See? What is the big bang? NASASpaceplace.gov. Easy 1619 project explanation. White people bad. Oh, good. Okay.

What is something you think is overrated? I mean, I'm sure you've heard this a lot and I'm sure we're going to keep saying this until. But I just think it should be clear right now that that AI, is overrated. It should be very clear that it's not doing any of the things that we were told when it was on its way. Come out, man. How invested are you, man, in the space? Sounds like you're not. You don't have enough. Sounds like you don't know. You're talking like some guy who's not over there. That's what I really saying is I got in late. That's what I'm really trying to say is I got in late. I'm still, I'm still on the,

what of the, I can't even remember the name. I'm still heavily invested in the pictures of the monkeys. NFTs. Yeah, board a, board api yacla. I'm still, I'm still waiting for that.

I'm still, I held on to all of that. Yeah, it's coming back. It's coming back. I bought all of Dumbo in Brooklyn and the Metaverse. Because I was told I could then lease,

then I could lease that property out in my digital version of Dumbo and Brooklyn for events. I invested in digital pants because when Mark Zuckerberg invented the legs on metaverse, I was like, people didn't need these different hands. That's one. It all comes together.

It's all comes around. True capitalist. I love it. Oh, man. I mean, you've all seen this. Like, it blows my mind when I'm walking around like my city and I see a restaurant that has a clear AI. AI. And I'm like, first of all, why do you need a new sign?

You've been here for 10 years. But also, and then you're going to, and it's clearly like, it's something is always fucked up about it. Wait, what is the sign say? I don't think I've experienced this. Like, no, just like a restaurant will have like their menu or. signs, like just the sandwich board signs outside of it, but they're all AI, like not all of them, but many of the reasons. They're AI generated. Yeah, they're AI generated. And you can tell because they look weird. The food always looks like it's like part, like it's alive. Like it's just going to suddenly turn to like 30 milipedes.

Yeah, yeah. Or it looks like a hamburger, ate a hamburger and then threw up a hamburger and that's a hamburger. It just doesn't look like it. Yeah. And so there's a lot of like just air out in the world, which I get that it's cheap, but it's just, I, again, it's. not doing what you think it's doing. You have food inside your restaurant. It's right there. It's inside. Just take a picture of that and put it outside the restaurant. Yeah, there's like a, I see it a lot of like, like LA social media posts. Like people are always flaming restaurants that'll be like coming soon with like such a blatant AI graphic.

It's just really, it's so lazy. And I don't know why they, it's, I think it's really only impressive to someone who doesn't know how to make anything. It's like, oh, shit, well, I just made that thing. Yeah. And it just stresses me out having to engage in some kind of creative project. but now I can just be like, yeah, man, I fucking sign for my hamburger restaurant. Great. But then I just, then there was a documentary someone was doing about like one of the last sign painters in New York.

This like dude who's like in his late 70s, he's been doing it for like, like, since he was like 17. And he was just talking. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And he was even saying he's like, bro, he's taking my fucking job. He's like, luckily there are people in New York that still understand that a hand painted sign. There's just something about it that is, feels human that feels like earth. that we live on where other people are just helping each other out, providing their skills to other people.

But yeah, it is a, it's definitely a shit- It's just created like new ways for things to suck. That's all that AI has done. And new and quicker ways for things to suck, which I think that's the other part. It's like,

it's quicker, lazier suckage. Right. Yeah. It's just like it's not, like sometimes you'll see a hand-painted sign that is actually has a typo in it. And that's kind of adorable. Like it's like,

Like, damn, yeah. It's kind of adorable. Like, sometimes you'll see like air condittening. Oh, yeah. We didn't, we didn't know spell air conditioning. Hell yeah. But it's like somebody did. Somebody messed that up.

Somebody messed that up over time. Right, right. Exactly. But it's supposed to like the AI just going. I think is what a burger looks like. I'd rather see that hand paint inside it says hambuggers. Hambuggers? Hey, we've all been there.

Yeah, I mean, we were just talking about AI music because that's the latest. wave now is Phoenix flexing. Yeah. And like Tyga has a whole new album with that, which is I don't know if we're going to get to that. Like, we'll either pretend like it's not or like with that Phoenix Flex and something.

Like that's not your voice. You've never sounded like that. Yeah. And then telling people, you're like, no, I didn't use AI. And you're like, bro, come on. Like the crazy part was too, a lot of people noticed that the first time he uploaded that song, he left the tag of the AI software on from the file it spit out in the upload.

So they're like, bro, the first upload had the name of the AI software using, he's like, no. And then when the company was like, oh, yeah, yeah, we ran it through our thing. Yeah, that's definitely one of our, like, creations. He was like, all right, well, I mean, yeah, maybe I used it a little bit.

The song doesn't sound good. Like, I still am suspicious when everyone's like, oh, there's this new AI work of art that is going crazy on the charts. And then, like, I went and looked on the, you know, like Apple Music has just the account of like what is the most, the 100 most played songs in America and like the way, the way that industry like outlets are writing about this,

I would have expected it to be in like the top 10 or something. In June, in June, I think it hit its highest on Billboard, like, like 58th or something. And then it's, then it's just been a fall off since then. Yeah, it's like no, it's not really anywhere. And like, you know. But I think it's more interesting because now you have Spotify saying like, they're going to label AI music just to like just to create trust with listeners.

But to me, I'm like, it just, it feels like they're fully normal. Like they've normalized it. Like, it's not a thing that should be shunned. It's like, well, no, it's accepted, but we'll label it. But I think casual listeners are like, probably don't give a fuck. They're like, bro, that shit goes. I kind of fuck with it. I don't know.

Like, I don't understand what it goes into making music. So I'm not really going to feel any sense of loss around the process that was used to create this thing. I'm listening to. And I think that's where it gets like, that's where I'm like, oh, yeah, we're fully there now. Like if it's just now just going to be like, there's music and AI music, but if you can fuck with whatever you want, then it's the slope gets slippery. Yeah.

I do wonder how much, like, there's so much money tied up in AI being like the future of art that I do just wonder how much of it is some massive digital payola scam where it's just like, yeah. I mean, yeah. People are really fucking with this. You don't have to worry about that. That's true. True of everything.

Yeah. The music industry's always been built on payola. And I think once music became essentially free or a thing that you didn't have to like, you know, streaming services where maybe you're paying a monthly fee, but you're not paying for that song. And also then once you get to the thing of like the radio thing where it's like, I just want songs in the style of this, then they can just, you know, they can flood that with AI. So the minute the music becomes. has become more, it's become more disposable throughout my lifetime. Right. It's funny, like, I talked to my kids about, like, there used to be a thing called a record store.

Right. That was actually a really cool place to go because you would, your eyes were the algorithm. You're like, what is the cover of this? I've never, this looks cool. Like, I used to buy things off of this looks cool. Yeah. Now, I bought some things I really wouldn't. I hadn't. No offense, Fred Durst, but actually some offense. Fred Dirt does look pretty cool. The first album, look at it, it's all graffiti. But, yeah, like, it's the idea of that once you start to, the music just starts to wash over you in a way that, like, where you're not even worried. And it's also all, so much of entertainment and now is about being second screened.

Right. Like, you've heard the thing, like, on Netflix tells filmmakers, make sure that your characters are repeating the plot every so often. Right, right, right. Hammer it in their, like, attention deficit-addled brains. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And also make sure everybody that your characters are saying what they're saying. saying, look, over there, it's a car. We should cross, like, so that people who are not paying attention know what's happening

on screen. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yeah, it's a, I remember, I bought, like, speaking to album covers, I got into no limit, like, records because of the album covers. Like, I remember a skull duggery. I don't know if you were skull duggery, bro. It was fucking early, no limit. And I just remember being like, what?

He had, like, a pit, like a fucking dog with diamond eyes on it. And I was like, I don't know what this is. and I'm buying it. I'm buying it. And I have no way to listen to it until I get home, but fuck it. And there's a magic in that. But yeah, everything, that whole process people are missing out on. And I think music becomes more of like this texture that exists in your environment than like a thing to like engage in and like listen to.

Ah, you know, just wash punk takes right now from me. Music is a thing I'm willing to accept is going to be effective. I'm going to get tricked by AI music at some point. I'm not some expert. I don't know if I like a song until three listens. And I've, you know, like there are songs from the fucking like boy band era that if they come on, I'm going to sing along to them. You know, and that shit was basically written by algorithms.

So like I accept that like at some point they're going to be able to like create a super simple AI song that I'm going to be like this is humble. Oh. The amount of money that's being poured into it. It's kind of shocking how little, how few AI hits there are with the amount of money that they're pouring into trying to make this a thing. Right. Yeah. They've got rubbers and that's it.

But I think you're also, you understand that artists will be using AI in ways that you don't know about. Yeah. Because they might use the AI as a part, as a tool of way to make the music. Right. By the time you get to it, it's so embedded in the music that you're done. not you can't really tell it it's there. I think that's the thing that is likely to happen is that, I think the problem with like rubbers is that,

dude, at least use your own voice. Yeah. Sounds like K's on that. Just lip sync a whole creation. Yeah, yeah. Like, I mean, Millie Vanilli is somewhere like, wait, and we got in trouble. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You were mad at us? Like, I don't know, so at least that was real people we were lip syncing. Yeah, yeah, right. You know, but also, I would say this, it's also just about entertainment as a whole, but specifically the music industry has always tried to rip off everybody at every turn.

So AI is just a new way to do that. You know, I think there's great stories about Fats Domino from back in the birth of rock and roll. He would sell the same song three and four different times because he knew you're ripping me off anyway. So I might as well sell the same song to a whole bunch of different record companies. They're like 35 versions of the twist. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Because I know that you're ripping me off. So I think that's the other thing is that when the whole system, It's not like the music industry was totally equitable and then AI screwed it up. Right. Yeah, exactly. This is what they do. This is what they do. Yeah.

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The definition of what is a movie has kind of changed anywhere too, right? What do you think it is now? It's images and words being spoken, captured by some sort of technology. Danny McBride. He loves Nova. Oh, that's fantastic. Can you make it on, you make your own? That's great.

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The establishment is definitely taking a victory lap on this because I've noticed a few mainstream outlets have latched on. to a comment that AOC made to ABC News on Sunday where she was talking about her own, like, political aspirations and, like, reflecting on what has come to become known as woke one. And that era was like the era that started in 2014 and culminated, like, with all the protests in 2020. She was talking about, like, this one tweet from New York City Council member, she said, I have a local city councilman that was, that has this saying,

quote, woke one was crazy. And the way she was talking was about how the rest. rhetoric that was used then may have been too radical for the lips and how it's changed a bit. I'm not a fan of this summation of that time period because the problems that we were contending with are and were still very real and not crazy, but I'm not surprised by this since many elected progressives have shifted the emphasis. So again, they're like, I'm trying to get in office. It's part of the bargain of getting into higher office, it seems.

But places like the Atlantic, you're seeing in like New York Times, Washington Post. It's like wild how they're taking this quote and be like, look, they admit it. It was bad. You see, these people were so wrong about defunding the police and made everything about systemic oppression. And then they ended up becoming full on anti-Semites. And you're like, whoa, whoa, what the fuck is this now? They're immediately, whenever a progressive or leftist candidate wins anything, they're immediately trying to get you to do like some centrist purity test where they're like, oh, well, what do you think about this, the craziest idea that I could possibly come up with that might be the logical extension of a thing that you said once, you know? Yeah.

It's not surprising. But I think you're saying, like this a moment, this moment with like the progressive, like left wing of the Democratic Party being ascendant, they're just trying to find anything they can to sort of pick apart. They're like, well, yeah, maybe. But there's also all this other bad stuff that is actually, it means it's not as good as what they're saying. Also, woke one was crazy as not a good saying. That's not even a saying. That's just... Woke one's not even a good name for that area.

I know. It sucks. I feel like the whole thing, throw the whole thing away. I don't know what any of that meant. And I live in Oakland, so I would assume that we were like pre-woke one. I don't know what I told me. We were pro-woke. Yeah.

Proto-wo. Pro-wo. Yeah, pro-wo. We were pro-wo. I think the idea, I mean, this happens all the time. The idea that like things got too radical. is if things don't get radical, things don't change. Right.

As I said, I sit here in Oakland, the home of the Black Panther Party. You thought, you thought, one was radical. Wait until I introduce you to Huey P. Newton and Erica Huggins and Angela Davis. Right. Let me introduce you to, you thought some hashtags were a radical. And the idea for me as a, you know, I always go back to slavery. The idea of like free the slaves was woke. You know what I mean?

Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Like that every time black people are like, hey, can we vote? Is that? Whoa. Whoa.

Wow. We had to fight over bus seats. Hey. And look, I think there's some good stuff in what you're saying, but the voters, the voters are not going to like that. We don't know. So we just can't even. You're actually not allowed to say that. I'm sorry.

You can not say that. The idea that, and so I think I get that like, if you're Abdul El-Said, that now that you're like running for like proper Senate, I'm, I get my, he's running for Senate, right? Yeah, yeah. It's funny. I don't generally want to pay attention to races around the country because it's like, because it's like, I got enough going on here.

But anyway, I get these going to have to like figure out how to do this Michigan dance of like, because Michigan is the state of Michigan, it has all the extremes. Yeah, it contains truly all of the multitudes. Yeah. If you go to the Upper Peninsula, you're basically in another country. So I get that he's going to have to figure out how to, like, dance with all these different people. But I also think that at the end of the day, those people often come around to like, oh, wait, my health care is too expensive. And the cost of living is too high.

They understand that stuff that we, that some people would call woke. Well, now they're calling that woke to. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because, again, they look at it dropped the point O, you know, that was the thing. that the tech industry gave us that everything was point one. I mean, it depends. I've seen some articles written as

woke two and woke 2.0. Oh, God, damn. There isn't an agreed upon naming convention. I'm going back to on steroids. I like when everything was on steroids. Yeah, yeah. This is woke on steroids.

Or on crack. On crack. Yeah, yeah. And then people were like, oh, that's kind of problematic to talk about the crack. Okay, so it's on steroids. It's on steroids. But yeah, so like now, like with, you know,

recent wins from people like Zoron, showed like the emphasis on affordability, inequality, you know, Palestine, those seem to be more palatable, like in a general election. But that has led like activists and other leaders to wonder, like, how do you continue to push progressive ideas forward around the issues that scare liberals, but are also vital to a larger vision of like what liberation looks like? Is there a balance? Is it just merely like, like, siloing people into like, well, these are the people who are the vote getters to be able to get the votes in Congress. Then you have the other people that need to actually message these things to

create the environment for more of these people to get in. Again, everyone has very diverging opinions on it, like what the best way is to do that. But it's interesting. It's like when the Atlantic New York Times, Washington Post, they start running these stories or op-eds. It feels like they're more like, oh, the coverage, the way your guys are talking. I think really we're talking about the establishment losing their grip on reality. That seems like that would be the story.

Right? That, man, all the voters seem to be gravitating towards this messaging. And instead, it's become all about, like, how far is too far immediately. And it's like, I don't know. It doesn't seem like we've got there yet because they keep winning elections. I mean, it's also about CNN, I didn't watch the thing, but CNN did a story a couple weeks ago called the left insurgency. Oh, yeah. But then it's about who gets defined as the left. And it was like, it was the, it was. Nancy Pelosi. Exactly.

Yeah. And people in San Francisco go like, it's crazy that they think she's the left. People who live in her district are like, she's not the left. She's not the. She's a Democrat. She's the, yeah. But, and it was like the Pod Save America guys. And it was like, and Ezra Klein was mentioned. What?

As the left? Yeah. And also was like as progressives, as progressive. Wow. And I was like, well, they're not right. And then Hassan Piker was thrown in, which was like, okay, now where. But it was like, the fact that you put all those people in. in one group called the left or progressives,

you're not, you actually have missed the story. Have not, right, right, right. Yeah, exactly. And on a basic level, you've missed a story because aside from Asan, who is white presenting,

this is all white guys. It's all guys, first of all. But it's all white guys. And Hassan could change his name to Harry Piker. His life changes a little bit. But I'm not trying to, you know, I'm just saying like he's a light-skinned, a brown guy.

But it's, but none of it's, like, like, there's no, there was no black leader. There's no black people on the left. there was no women. There was no LGBTQ plus. And it was just like, that's what they're trying to tell you. We want the party.

And they also checked in with James Carville as like, do you think the left? Absolutely. So to me, it's like you're guiding the conversation in a very specific way and claiming that this is the parameters of the conversation. Right. And that's not where we're at when Zara and Mamdani exists. It's like. Right. And for us to define the left, we asked James Carvel.

Exactly. That's a problem. You see, all these people, I don't want them in my party. You see, if they all going to define. say the Democrats and against Israel. Okay. That's not going to work for me. Although it was funny too because he was on Fox and he was kind of half defending

Abdul El-Said because he was sort of like, well, shit, I mean, like, I'm on Fox and I can't. Yeah. What's a boy to do? I mean, I saw somebody tweeted out today or thread it out. How do you say it? And he said, they said that like, I don't know, said that Bill Maher said he might vote for the GOP for the first time in his life or something like that. And the idea of like the left.

I don't know what I do then. Yeah, exactly. You're telling me Bill Maher. You got about for that? We lost Mark. We lost. And again, the fact that we would, that somebody's trying to convince me that Bill Mar is the left or on the left.

Because to me, voting is crazy. What you are is not just what, who you vote for. It's how you live, who you support, who you don't support, who you associate with. And by that metric, Bill Maher's been a Republican. Right. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I don't need to see his voting record. He dated.

He dated Superhead. Yeah. And I people point to that I don't know man Bill Maher date his super head back in the day What the fuck does that do it? He's an Islamophobic fucking racist freak Bro, he's nothing to me

Give a fuck if he's put off by what the Democratic Party looks like There's a lot of things we add into Who you sleep with is a part of the metric But it's not the only metric Yeah, yeah, no, not at all Just who you were on. Ginny Thomas sleeps with a black guy every night Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly

Well, she has the opportunity to I don't know what they. Yeah, we don't know what. They probably have like, I love Lucy beds, two twin beds in a room. He probably sleeps in that RV every night. That Harlan Crow got him. He's like, yeah, man, I'm just chilling in here, man. That's kind of my bro cave I got in here.

But I think, again, a lot of people are also sort of like looking at like, what's the sauce that's like progressives or DSA candidates had? And again, it's just so many of these pieces are written from like this entrenched mentality of the establishment that they can't actually do the analysis to say like, Well, the difference being kind of like, you know, a lot of these progressives, DSA candidates, their policies are rooted in like hearing people out and what they're clamoring for and then providing a policy prescription for that. Whereas the establishment have it backwards. They go, all right, what's the legislation we need to get through? Okay, how do we sell that to them and be patronizing and tell them this is actually what they need

and not the thing that they are clamoring for? That this sort of neoliberal solution is actually the way, it's like slightly liberal. type oriented stuff. And that should be good enough. And I think then now, and they're looking at Aaron, they're like, what the fuck's the problem, man? Like they're only listening to the people who are saying they're hearing them out. He used to not be like this.

And I think that like now that we've seen we're like, you know, we're still, I don't know, are we Zeron 1 or Zor on 2 yet? I don't know. But anyway, we're. I think he was popular because he's got a nice smile. That's where I land on him. He's got a nice smile and he's a talented politician. Yeah.

That which is why they fucking hate the Abdul El-Sahed, like, win so much because now they're like, wait a second. Is this a trend? Exactly. But just the idea that like, and then he got in there and he, and, you know, New York seems to be happy with him. He even got the next to him. So, I mean, the idea that he hasn't come in there and done the things that politicians in New York. First of all, I think New York mayor is probably one of the worst jobs in the world. So hard.

But he had like some early winds. Like even when he was like, it's snowing. I'm going to hire people to shovel the snow. Like that is such a basic. Yeah. Like thing to do that other mayors would just be like, I don't know. What do we do? But it's such a like a social media thing to see people out there like, I'm making $30 an hour shoveling snow.

Yeah. That you get some. He doesn't have to do the laundering that Miles was talking about. He doesn't have to be focused full on like full time on like, okay, I'm taking this policy. That's good for corporations. and put it, like, how do I spin it into something that makes people? Instead, he's just like, all right, what are people saying today? What is their problem?

How do we help them solve that? And I would be clear, I'm not saying he's perfect. I know people have close. Sure, sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. believe that like he he he talked a big game and he seems to be interested in walking a big like he just had the thing yesterday where he's going to like they're going after amazon for not uh for not covering the amazon drivers and the amazon cars and the amazon trucks like they're going after you know so when you go i'm going after jeff bezos it's like he's walking the walk yeah yeah people and it's easy stuff that people point to and go yep i can see how that could affect my life yeah rather than like this obscure tax credit that will give you if you're qualified you're like what do you jump to this now 13 Hoops, you might be able to get this.

Yeah. I mean, like, even like, I mean, obviously, as, as we record this, we don't know what's happening in, uh, the, like, the governor's race. Yeah, in Wisconsin with, uh, Francesco Hong running. But, you know, she's, she's looking like a front runner. And like, you even hear articles like that are written by like the Atlantic or the Washington Post. Like, she's getting a lot of heat for tweets she wrote, the tweets she wrote, where she said, Thanksgiving should be anti- Thanksgiving. And the police should be defunded. When I, like, and then when you read the least, Backs down from her harsh Thanksgiving state.

And you're like, I don't know. I mean, like, I agree with the take. I mean, I know what she's saying. She's like, yeah, bro, we're celebrating the colonial history of this country. It's actually like, it was like the death knell for indigenous people in this country. So that's why some people look at it differently. I'm like, you can't argue with that. But I get how she'd be like, yeah, I'm not trying to say no one can celebrate the excuse.

I'm just saying, don't have a meal with your family. I'm just saying, fuck Thanksgiving, bro. That's what I'm saying. Fuck that shit. And trying to use that to be like, oh, my. God, without really contending with, like, all the other things that a lot of these candidates stand for, which have a lot of appeal. But she should just have one word response, pedophiles. Yeah.

What about them? What's y'all doing about them? Yeah. Does that bother you? Yeah. Is that anything about the Epstein files? No? Yeah, I think I just feel like we have to, we've really gotten.

I think every now he was like, okay, where, okay, fine, you're mad at that tweet. Where should that be on your list of things you're upset about currently going in the country? Can we rank these? Let's just rank it. Let's just rank it so we can figure out. Here, I brought it. There's a poster board with Velcro tabs. You can just go ahead. You place them where you think that should be. I got petapiles and I got my Thanksgiving tweet.

Now, show people. You feel free to put that above. Okay. There's a New York Times, folks. There they are. Putting that above everything else. Let's take one more break. We'll be right back. IHart Radio invites you front row for IHart Live at the Horsesu. With Brent Smith and Zach Myers of Shinedown.

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You fully improvised, not just words, but a song, a melody. Well, I thought he was going to write. I thought you were all going to write a song. I remember you thinking that. Listen to Podlandia. Ayo rewatch on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Hey, this is Hayes Davenport. And Sean Clements. We host the podcast Hollywood Handbook. Every episode we're trying to help our guests improve their careers by mainly focusing on how they can help us improve our careers. The show is famously super accessible so you can easily jump into any of our 650 episodes and understand what's going on. We recommend some of our recent episodes with Ben Stillard. The definition of what is a movie has kind of changed anywhere too, right? What do you think it is now?

It's images and words being spoken, captured by some sort of. technology. Danny McBride. He loves Oh, that's fantastic. And you make it on, you make your own. That's great. I call him tarot Reed. It's a good name. They're all named after cast members of American Pie. Yeah, I call, I don't, I never looked up if she was in this, but I call him Leachie Sobieski. Yeah, I don't think she was an American Pie, but I still like that. Haven't looked it up, haven't looked it up. She was prominent around the same time.

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Oh, no. I'm Julie Pinheiro, and I travel by myself because it's a rare space where I can say yes without asking anyone else first. I'm on a mission to reclaim the word solita, trading the pity for possibility. Every time I tried to be alone, I kept meeting people, and they were like, you smiled at us. Not a lot of people smile around here. I can wait four hours for the next bus, or this random dude is offering me a ride on his motorcycle. It's when you're alone that you're. you're most receptive to the world as it is and not the lies you're sold about it.

So whether you're a solo travel veteran or you're too nervous to book your first trip, I hope you listen to Solita on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. We're back. This is something I just noticed being on the East Coast where they have something called weather. I don't know if you guys have heard of this. No, I'm from California. Like storms that come in all of the sudden.

Sounds messy. It's scary. What's it, my father? Big, big raindrops, the size of. Rain drops? No. Yeah, the size of water droplets, but, you know, it's, it's uncomfortable and surprising. I just took my kids to Alabama visit my dad, and my kids would just stand out the window, like, watching the rain.

Watching lightning. Like, and the thunder would hit. They're like, whoa, what happens next? Where's this plot going? Thunder followed by lightning? They keep looking at you for cues. Are you like, Is that the bad thunder?

Yeah, right. When do we get in the car? And one thing that I noticed while I was there is that the weather app that I have on my phone, first of all, the predictions are different than the predictions that other people, like who have other weather apps have. and all of them are wrong. Like, they're not right anymore.

Well, wait, for you in, like, in New Jersey, what was it, like rain when they were supposed to be no rain? Yeah, there was a day of rain that was a day that was like the one day of the week that was like, this one, you're good. You can make plans to be on the beach today. And it was the one day that it rained the whole day. They were just, like, exactly wrong. And according to experts, that's because weather apps are,

quote, quite bad. Weather forecasts basically involved taking data from government sources, like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Weather Service, and then inputting that data into weather prediction models that simulate the physics of the atmosphere. And people who are experts say, that's not how that data is meant to be used.

So it's a thing that is supposed to be given to people who then, you know, there's an art to the predicting. And instead they have like a cheap app that just has fully automated and used algorithms to make models that experts say aren't sufficiently dynamic. And this is yet another example of what we were talking about up top that a new way AI has found to make things a new type of shitty. because they pretty much all these apps have now incorporated AI methods in their predictions. And this is all happening while the federal government has been attempting to dismantle the NOAA and leave parts of the job of data collection to private companies who are using, you guessed it, AI. And so it's just a auriboros of AI bullshit, a snake. sucking its own dick, I think is the phrase that we've said on.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I like a turduckin. Yeah, a turduckin of bullshit. But the weather is also, so as this is happening, and this is like not an accident, this is happening as the weather is getting harder to predict because of climate change. And like one of the reasons that I feel like, you know, the powers that be want to dismantle something like the NOAA is because they have all this pesky data that suggests that things are going in a really bad direction.

Jesus. I can only imagine what this will look like with the El Nino happening in this next year and whatever wild, inaccurate predictions are going to be. But I mean, I know already people like in California. I mean, it's already like off the charts literally. It's so humid, like LA's humid. L.A. is humid as hell. I've lived here my whole life, bro.

Humidity in L.A. is like, I'm like, yeah, man. The earth is earthing. My app didn't warn me. It says humidity is zero. Well, before we went to Alabama, my kids, so it's funny because young kids, they have all their devices. And so they were like checking the weather app, the weather in Alabama. But it was stressing them out because they're like, it's going to,

because they were just looking to be like, it'd be a rain thing every day. Like, it's going to rain the whole time. time we're there. I'm like, no, no, no. That means it will rain at some point. At some point. It doesn't mean that it's going to rain. And then it will stop raining. And it'll stop raining. And it may rain for 10 minutes. And you may be watching TV and not even know it rained. It will rain because it is the time it is the time we're at rains there. But the fact that they said that, and again, to go to your point about, it's not showing the information in a dynamic way.

It just looks like it's going to rain for seven days in a row. Like the, like the flood is coming. And it's right. So my kids are stressed. And I was like, oh, we may we shouldn't have gone. And I was like, it's not that. Don't worry. And then we got there. And it rained for 10 minutes one day. And one day it rained for 20 minutes.

And it was just like, and yes, but the rest of time you can go outside. So yeah. I think the, although I was really hoping in your story, because I believe this is all the fault of Byron Allen buying the Weather Channel. I think that's where it all. It's all downstream when Byron. Yeah. Yeah. Because now he's too focused on his comics unleashed being after taking over Stephen Colbert.

And so he's not focused enough on on keeping us informed. throughout the weather. Distracted. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we're still covering. This is an ongoing story. So it could become a major plot point.

Yeah, yeah. It could be all about Byron Allen. And he may be the architect of global warming if we zoom out even more. I'm not saying he's not. Right, right. I was curious, so, too, in Alabama, would, I remember, like, the first time I traveled out of California and, like, going into places that had, like, sort of wide expanses. I saw fireflies for the first time.

But, like, my partner who grew up in Maryland, she's, she pointed out something, too, because we went recently in the summer, she's like, man, the amount of fireflies has diminished in a way that is terrifying. And I was curious, did you know, like, did you, were there fireflies out there in Alabama? Did your kids see him? I don't know if that's even fireflies. No, no, I don't, I don't, I don't remember as a kid growing up seeing a lot of fireflies, maybe dragonflies, but not, like, yeah, like, yeah, but it was super hot and he was the whole time we were there, which is no surprise. But, yeah, I didn't see, we didn't see a lot of fire. I didn't see.

All I heard about was the size of the bugs. I was like, yeah, it's different out here. Like my kids would see like, you know, roaches that would be like, excuse me, I'm trying to go over here. Yeah, yeah. Oh, sorry, sorry. They're like, excuse me, young man. And you're like, what?

Do you need a ride? Excuse me, brother. Hey, young man. All right, young buck. All right, what the fuck? I see you, unc. Yeah, it's roach sunned me. He's all right, man.

Hey, looking good, looking good. Come out. I'll see you. Exactly. He knew my fucking name that roach. and he had a cane and he had church shoes on. I did see lightning bugs when I was in Tennessee for a week. My kids were kind of...

That's a trip you a shit for California kids. They were like, whoa. There are bugs that glow. Then I, like, caught one in my hand, and they're like, wow. And then I let it go and a bird fucking swooped in and eat it, like, right over our head. And I was like, and that's why you don't tell people where you are, you know? That's a design flaw in the body. It's why humans don't glow in the door.

Yeah, stop going live on IG with your location on. That's how you get touched, kids. That's how you get touched. Let's talk about Mark Zuckerberg real quick. Just a few quick updates. One is just a clip of him going full Elvis Presley karate demonstration. Elvis Putin, if you will. Yeah, Vladimir Putin, hockey.

demonstration. Stephen Segal. Seated. Cated karate demonstrated. It's Iquito. Seated Akito where he's got the people running at him and he's just like

flipping them off to the sides. He had a professional M.MA fighter on a floating ring in the ocean. So he's prepared. He's prepared for global climate change. Yeah. This guy,

this enemy fighter, Mara Rob, DeVosch, that's a real fighter. That's a real fighter. He's really fighting. He's really holding back. And the guys,

he's obviously going on like, I'm not going to fuck up this billionaire, bro, and lose my fucking gig. Yeah, I'll go easy on them. It's just so wild to see Mark Zuckerberg play fighting on a floating ring. Oh, my God. What is this setting? The setting of the M.MA fighter? Like easy mode?

Oh, you mean the setting of the fight? Yeah. They seem to have set the M.A fighter to don't attack when he drops his guard. Don't punch your boss. have zero defense whatsoever, Mark Zuckerberg. But yeah, the setting, the film, the, did you see that kick? Yeah.

The fight is like, what a double leg take down. In the middle of the, in the middle of an ocean. Or like Fuget Sound or something. It looks like very Pacific Northwestia on one side. But again, it's like the dystopian nature of like, this billionaire has to fight on a floating fucking ring in a body of water so the plebs can't get to him while he's doing his training. That guy's a UFC fighter.

and Zuckerberg, one of the UFC venues, is named after meta, like the meta apex. So that guy can't, he can't see. There's nothing he can do there. Yeah, yeah. If you play the clip to the end, he, Mark, like, pretends to be throw, to kick him into the water. And it's really. Yeah. Oh, my God.

It gives him a, this is Sparta kind of. This is Sparta. Leonidas, but like, weak as fuck. He was like, whoa, did you see that? Yeah. I hope that guy got like a heavy handshake from Dana White after that. Here's a few dollars. Because that guy's like an actual contender.

He's like, that's part of the gig. That's going to be a Mark Zuckerberg's funeral. And then there was a time that Mark beat up an MMA fighter. Did you guys see that memory? He kicked a shit out of him. He blew off the fucking rim. Every, every meta meeting starts with that video.

Right, right, right. Yeah. Whether Mark's in the room or not, just to sort of go, here's our leader. The problem with his plan is that, MMA fighters aren't great actors and there's a part at the end where he's like, Mark, how did you beat me so bad? And it's like, oh, bro.

Who is this for? Because it's not convincing us. Just for Mark. It's just for him, but we have to see it. It's such a weird stage that these people go into where it's like the fake martial arts prove my virility with staged demonstrations part. I mean, you know, there's nothing.

And also the ability to sort of summon anybody that you want to sort of train with. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Quotes that you have the ability to fly. And also the relationships are good. Dana White, send me a fighter who doesn't mind me pretending to beat him up. Okay, I got a guy for you. Do you think he knows, like with Putin, I think he, like, part of it, because he's out there playing against, like, professional hockey players.

And he's like, I just got another hat trick, you guys. Like, I don't think he's fooled by that. I think part of it is, like, him being like, look at eye humiliating. I humiliate them. I think he knows. He's G. Putin, I think, Putin, I think he knows that he's,

he knows he's playing, he's playing chess. I think Mark Zuckerberg, much like Kim Jong-un is playing checkers. It's like, this is like, oh, it's like Trump who just, oh, he won the club championship.

Another home one, sir. Only at his club can he win the club championship. I think Zuckerberg might be like, no, I think I could have, you know, I know he's holding back, but I think Zuckerberg has it in his head that like,

this is also another, just another thing. I'm good at because my mind is so powerful. Right. Also, I invented these creepy glasses that women are being harassed. All the homies love them. All the homies love my glasses. The pervert glasses, by the way, are being banned in bars and other popular, popular social

venues in the UK. I mean, we went through this with Google glasses. Remember in the Bayer? Like, Google had glasses like this year's ago. It barely made it out of the Bay Area. You look like a guy. You look truly like a dickhead. Like, you're like, yo, I'm going to have to rob you because the way you look at these glasses.

You're a fucking rob people. You, I will have to rob. Yeah. They started fights in every sandwich. All the hipster sandwichical bars ended up in fistfights with the Google glasses. But somehow Zuckerberg thought he could pull it off. And then the idea that he would get, yeah, it's just it's, it is absolutely just a bunch of dofuses. I hate to say.

It's just like, it's like there's, like, Mark Zuckerberg is his, his lack of popularity in high school is ruining the world. Right. Yeah. I think they're, they might be in a little bit of trouble here because the, There's that story about his super yacht, the launch pad. Great name. Being in the general vicinity of a small skiff that ran out of fuel in Alaska and issued a radio call for help.

And they ended up having to be towed by a cruise ship, even though the launch pad was close by because the launch pad was apparently ignoring their calls and repeatedly refused to respond. Yeah, this was a big story earlier. A billionaire yacht ignores calls for help? There was, so as this was happening, the crew aboard the cruise ship was actually like coming over and making announcements being like, we're actually being diverted because Mark Zuckerberg has repeatedly refused to respond and there was unanimous booing when the captain announced this. So I just think that they're in a worse position than they might realize they are.

Or maybe they realize it. Maybe that's why he's having to fight people in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. no songs up for sure that's they wouldn't be they wouldn't be playing hidey hole with their bunkers yeah what you heard about Zuckerberg's houses houses in paloato yeah that he like bought up entire blocks yeah like also because he couldn't buy up the whole block neighbors were just sort of surrounded by all of his ad hoc compound so they right neighbors couldn't park his people couldn't park in front of their own houses sometimes because Zuckerberg had his private security out front going no no no not today.

I live there. No, not, do you hear what I said? Narc Zuckerberg is in there. Yeah. Yeah. And the neighbors would complain it was too loud.

And so they would give all the neighbors, uh, noise cancelling headphones. I mean, because that's his whole thing too. Like even with, in Hawaii, he's like,

yeah, just buy up a fuck ton of this island. Yeah. I don't give a fuck. I just can't have poor people near me. Cause then I can get God or in my mind, I've created something where I don't need to live with the guilt or the pangs of self-awareness

about what my work may be doing to the world. I don't fucking know. Someone fight this fucking MMA guy on a floating octagon in Puget Sound, beat the fuck out of him, and fucking just chill out with my gold chains on. Okay. I wouldn't be surprised if...

And continue with my midlife crisis. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I wouldn't be surprised if his super yacht has a standing order to ignore distress calls because, like, we've talked before about how people who, like, go to these conferences with like Silicon Valley billionaires are like, oh yeah, all they talk about is like,

okay, hypothetical. You've got the pilot who you hired to fly your family to the island bunker during the apocalypse. Do you shoot the pilot? Like, that's the sorts of conversations that they're having. So he's not going to like go out of his way to help a skiff. It could be a trap.

Oh, you know. It sounds like peak, like scared people. She's like, no, no, no, that person, they're trying to set you up that person's right. Don't help them. Well, it's also about like just knowing that they can pay whatever fine. is to get out. I remember Sean Parker years ago had a wedding in, like in the Redwoods in California.

Yeah. And they told him, yes, you can do it, but don't do this, this and this. And he went in and did this, this, this, and then paid the fine. So it's like, I don't think he actually, they know, oh, yeah, they need help. That's a legit distress call. We don't want to do it. Yeah, yeah. And we'll pay some sort of fine. It'll be fine. Oh, Captain, I remind you, this isn't a broke boy yacht. Exactly. You know, those fines are for broke people. Exactly. Right through that shit.

Ignore those drowning people. Broke people. I answer distress calls. Yeah, that's right. You're right. Help? Empathy? That's for the broke.

Sounds like you're broke. Oh, you need help? No, no, no. I already have a foundation that does all my, all the help that I do. I don't help like this. I've done carbon offsets of answering people. Thank you.

Please for help. Now, if you don't mind, I'll be taking my boat. up the SS bootstraps to port. Good day to you. Steve Jobs used to drive around without a license plate and park in handicapped spots. And I was just like, I don't want to find me. You're going to find me. Oh, no.

All right. I'm like the want to be a billionaire makes you a sociopath. I don't know. Almost. It's the want to be a billionaire and the follow through. To be like, I've got $500 million. and I still want to crush everyone around to me. Now let me put my feet in this toilet bowl to relax.

Steve Jobs did. It's so weird. Kamal, such a pleasure having you on the podcast. Where can people find you, follow you, see you all that good stuff? Just my podcast who's with me, available in all the podcast platforms, including IHeartMedia. There you is. And also you can, my subsect is also called Who's With Me.

And that's where you can really keep up with my goings on. and then I make fun of my enemies on my Instagram. So follow me out at W.combele on Instagram, and I'm on tour. You can hear about that at W.combele.com. I like that you make fun of your enemies. I do. I really enjoy making fun of my enemies and creating new enemies on my Instagram.

It's how I'm handling my midlife crisis. Is there a work of media that you've been enjoying? Work of media that I've been enjoying. I'm a big fan of of like a lot of people, I take most of my content in through YouTube. Yeah.

And so there are a lot of YouTube creators that I admire a lot. But I'm sure I'm going to shout out Mr. Sunday movies on YouTube. Mr. Sunday movies. It's an Australian podcast, two Australians talking about, mostly about movies in American media.

And they are really, really good at it in a way that it's funny that I don't know how I came across two Australians who talk about and make fun of American media. but they do movie reviews. So I love to, like, hear them review movies. I don't know if it's because they're Australian. It sounds, but the way they get to, like, make fun of America because we're crumbling

and they feel like they're on the other side of the planet. They don't have to be as afraid of our crumble. So it makes me feel good to be like, Australia will be fine. They're good. They're good over there. Crumble on. Miles, where can people find you? Is there working media?

You've been enjoying. Yeah, find me everywhere at Miles of Gray. I'm talking about 90-day fiancé on 420-day fiancé. If you're a fan of soccer, English soccer, you're. European soccer, check out the new show, Ain't It Footy. Please subscribe to that feed because it's not dropping in this feed anymore. So if you can go over there, subscribe to that show, it would be fantastic to have your support. Fantastic. While Jamel Johnson, Chris Martin and I get to talk about the best support, the beautiful game on that on Ait Footy.

Work at Media, like, it's actually also the song we're going to go out on, which is rare. But I came across, there's like, kid was blowing up on Instagram. It's like 16 year old from Liverpool just like video taping himself, playing acoustic guitar, like doing some very, very mature singer song. Like when I heard it,

I was fucking blown away by like the chord choices, the way he, like he, the way he composes his melodies. And he's just like, just a kid like with a fucking, with his phone. But you can see like there's a bunch of like label hawks like circulating,

like circling in his comments like, hey, you know, there's no reason to give this away for free. You should hit it. us up and blah over our partnership. But it's like so pure, but it's just like so nice to see. And I think

just on the heels of us talking about AI, like to see that people are still cultivating that love of music and learning music, learning an instrument and finding a way to just like pour their soul out in a song. This kid's 16 years old. The account is

at Todd's Antlers. But we'll, I'll link off to this in the footnotes. But he has a song that he was just like, he doesn't even have a title. for. But it's got like a million views already. And like so many artists are in the comments being like, holy shit kid. Like what the

where did you come from? So we will play that from the artist. His name is Todd Crozier at the end. We'll go out on that. He hasn't even hit Google AI overview. At Todd Crozier. And it said Todd's antlers most

commonly refers to outdoor and hunting personalities. Just making up stuff. Just making up stuff. fucking know. Confidently. Just confidently being like, you're thinking of Todd's antlers,

the hunting guy. Yeah, that's what you're thinking about. That's what you're thinking about. You got to, if you search Todd Crozier, you will see a guitar world just with, like, had a piece last week. He said, Steve Vi, Dave Navarro, champion 16-year-old folk guitarist.

It's a beautiful song, beautiful song. Beautiful song. This wish the samples. This switch the samples. You can find me on Twitter. Jack underscore O'Bee, Jack O, underscore Brian. I like to tweet,

from Miles at miles.gov. It's a whole damn, God, damn, who's that? Tweeted Elon Musk setting up a family guy cutaway gag. You know, Peter, this is worse. I mean, that's what, so, like, this is worse. I mean, like, this is even worse than, like. Obviously. Obviously, this is, obviously.

You can find us on Twitter and blue sky at Daily Zekeist. We're at the Daily Zekeist on Instagram. You can go to the description of this episode wherever you're listening to it. And there at the bottom, you will find the footnotes. Foot notes, 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, which is going to be at Todd's Antlers. Todd Crozier as Miles. Todd Crozier. I'm telling you, if anyone, like, even if you don't like folk music,

I'm telling you, there's something very captivating about this kid's performance. And he has like all these other songs where he's like, I just wrote this. this song and I'm like, this could be like a radio head B-side. Wow.

What the fuck is this? Yeah. Well, we will link off to that in the footnot. The Daily Zykeyes is a production of IHeartRadio for more podcasts from IHartRadio. Visit the IHartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That's going to do it for us this morning. But we're back this afternoon to tell you what is trending. And we will talk to you all then. Bye.

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