The Daily Zeitgeist - Your Own Personal (AI) Jesus, New Oprah “Doctor” Just Dropped 11.22.24

Episode Date: November 22, 2024

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You know, some Canadians don't like rush because it's a taste and people freak out, right? It is something that divides people a lot. Oh man, that sucks. Not all Canadians like rush. Yeah, not all Canadians like anything. Don't paint us with that broad br- uh, rush. How many Canadians like Nickelback? Oh, I think all- you know what?

They don't. I love Nickelback. They don't, but they will do this thing where they're like, Nickelback sucks! And then a tune will come on and they'll be like, but I like this one. Yeah, okay. Look at this phone! Nickelback sucks. Look at this phone!

How are they sounding out stadiums for 20 years if everyone hates them? I don't know how that- Nah, that shit hits, bro. I don't care what anyone says. I feel it's a conundrum to me. Everyone claims to hate them and yet they still- Prison gates won't open up for me. The number one Canadian band that is like, there is no Canadian that does not like the

tragically hip. I mean, decades of selling out stadiums. I mean, like huge, never made it in the States. Have you ever heard? Nope. I've heard of who? I've heard the band's name. I've never heard a song or have no, I have no aesthetic sound, nothing to associate them with.

Like Canadian royalty. Wow. Nobody knows them outside of Canada. And they would try to break into the US market. The lead singer since died, but they tried to break into the US market. He died trying to break into the US market? Basically, he died of a brain tumor. Very tragic of a brain tumor.

Oh, all that said. The stress, yeah, the stress of trying to break into the American market. The tumor. But they would throw, you know, like in LA, they would go to like markets where they were like, there's gotta be something here. And because a lot of Canadians live in LA, all the Canadians would buy the tickets

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I feel like sick my sick voice sounds like Crofton a little bit up top shout out to the great Chris Crofton Yeah, always in my head I think I'm channel always in my head. Yeah, always in my head and in my heart This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. We now have a YouTube channel at Daily Zeitgeist Pod where you can go see us recording one of these episodes every week. Usually the Tuesday episode this week's dropping today. You can go see the Jamie Loftus app, right? That was the video app this week.

It's Friday, November 22nd, 2024 miles. Yeah. Want to know what that is? Friday, November 22nd, 2024. Oh, thank you so much. And shout out to everybody who took this C-Best qualification. Cause it's substitute teachers day. Uh, cause I was, that was my fallback plan was to be a substitute teacher for a

little bit right. I got, but I forgot at college. It's also national cranberry relish day and that's it and that's it that's two things substitutes and cranberry relish it's your day yeah the International Day committee was like we got a lot of tables man I don't know yeah we got there's a lot of days we you know who's born today come there's some oh wow what a concentration of weird I've been also looking at who's born today? Oh wow, what a concentration of weird people. I've been also looking at who's born.

Yeah, well, I'm going to say Papa John. It's Papa John's birthday. Oh shit! National holiday around these parts. Yeah. Do some cocaine in solidarity with the founder of Papa John. That's right. My name is Jack O'Brien, aka,

Leno got his ass kicked by a mountain coming from the Hampton into E. You can say there's no such thing as karma but as for me and Conan we believe. That one courtesy of Snarfula on the Discord. Shout out Snarfula. Shout out to the QAnon level of conspiracy community that has risen up around Jay Leno's face, bruise, and eye patch. They refused. They want to believe. What exactly they want to believe in is unclear.

But anyways, I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Yes, it's Miles Gray. The Lord of Lankersham, the Shogun with no gun currently hit me up on Blue Sky for just different, I need some Thanksgiving dish recommendations. I have the usual things worked out, but I'm looking for something different. And Psyking, if you have something, please reach out to me, milesofgrey.bisc got that social And let me know I already contacted American butcher who's a listener who knows all about meat I need to find a prime rib substitute

Anyway, look, I'm just I'm just here for the cooking tip. So please hit me up. No song today. Just a just a Just a request for help. Yeah Just a request. Just a cry for help. Yeah. Miles, we're thrilled to be joined by a very funny stand-up comic currently performing all over Aruba, Alabama, Nashville. Aruba, Alabama. Ooh, don't have a rhyme here.

Nashville. She's a writer, actor, host of the podcast. Parenting is a joke. It's Ophira Eisenberg! The cranberry relish of stand-up comedy. How does that factor in for you? Because I feel like it's a matter of taste. Some people love it and it's divisive for some people. Right, exactly. You're like, this should be sweet and then you're like a little sour,

unexpected. Do Canadians do cranberry relish? Uh, like cranberry sauce. Yeah. I'm trying to like, yeah, what is cranberry relish? Is it just cranberry sauce? I think. The cranberry sauce with chunks.

Like I'm assuming the cranberry gelatinous can shaped mold thing is not considered cranberry relish because this looks like a full on dish now. Deleted in New England. Yeah, it's just I don't know. They're just talking like the shit that is made with cranberries. It's like the mashgut shit, I feel like. When I picture cranberry relish, it's the cranberry sauce that I don't like that has like the cranberry skin in it Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I prefer okay

Cranberries I I like it like in like I want to be able to see the ridges of the Okay, this looks like real like this looks like you know where it came from I do like the canned gelatinous Yeah, molded thing and you know obviously my favorite part is when you're just trying to bang it out of that can and then it makes that sound. That sound that... That's called true love. That's the sound of true love. I am grateful.

Just shit that thing out of that can. You can hear the process. Yeah. Mm. Mm. Give it a little, if you give a little pierce on the backside, it'll come out a lot easier. But then you don't get that violent back.

Yeah. So then you don't get the, Yeah, you gotta work at it. So when it comes out, you're like, You don't need science in here, dude. We gotta do it with the caveman, where you're like angry at it, and then you get the sound.

Yeah. No, I'm a communist. That's why I suggested that. I'm a godless communist. Me too, baby. He talked about relieving the air pressure on the opposite side of the cave. Get him. Get him.

Why? Fluid dynamics, loving ass. Do not mess with tradition. How dare you? We were talking about the power of whoever names the airport call letters before we started recording Yeah, because yeah, we so we were trying to figure out why so many of the big Canadian ones start with why? Yeah, they all start with why they all do so you want to know why I just googled it Okay, why it dates back to the way?

Morse code railway stations along the Canadian National Railway, which had two letter identifiers. The code for the station in Montmartre, Ontario was YZ, which is where Pearson sits today. Hence YYZ. Oh, you do know, you know how with terrestrial radio. YYZ in case. YYZ. Thank you.

Oh, I didn't know what the fuck you were talking about. Sorry, I forgot about the Commonwealth. You know how we say these things, yes. It is pretty funny that I grew up, you know, and as everyone in Canada and the UK, you go, the alphabet song at the end is like XYZ. It's very different for the song. And then you hear the American one, you're like, oh yeah, it's got a little bit of a better tune. Yeah, it's like QR for the song and then you hear the American one. You're like a little bit of a better tune

Yeah, it's not qrx w ved Or why they say qrx dude Look I'm American No, actually we pronounce v-ved. Okay, they just like had to cover up so it does Actually, it's not weird. How we do it. What's wrong with you? But I knew that I just found out like not that long ago that the Mississippi Is the dividing line of how terrestrial radio is either a Q? terrestrial radio station

296 right yeah Q96 or a K. Right. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Or isn't it like W's too? Like for TV's?

Oh no, I think that's kind of cool. Wow, I don't know, where are the W's? Yeah, yeah. Oh boy. Nevermind. Nevermind. We don't have time for all these Googles. We don't have time.

No, no, no. I feel like the explanation for these things are like the Morse code thing. It's like, why is the QWERTY one that way? It's because they didn't want you to be able to like the, the arrangement of the keys that we all have learned to type on and will never change because we've all learned it is only that way because they didn't like want us to be able to type too fast because it was hard for the like mechanical typewriters to deal with people being able to type very fast. Oh, it's too much like one of the striker arms I'm reading.

Exactly, too much like and they were like if you had the good keys too close together that people were using. Oh, they would all be jammed. Yeah, they would all be like jamming up together. They'd be knocking knees and the keys would get stuck. Have you been on someone's phone? Or like this happens occasionally when I take a Uber where they just want, sorry, it would be a cab where they want you to input your address.

Uber obviously it's already in there, but a cab they'll want you to just input their address so they can follow the GPS and the person will have their keyboard set up, not QWERTY. Yeah, I have seen that. And it's just like, I'm like, this will take me nine hours. Like I cannot get my brain around it. It's like an alphabetical layout. It is.

I've definitely seen alphabetical before. I was just. Isn't that the other one? Zerte. That's the word. That's what I'm looking at. It's actually brought to you by Zyrtec. Oh, right.

It's for the people with allergies to QWERTY. Uh, okay. That would be great if the big pharma was just competing. The sky Rizzi arrangement of letters. Afira, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. Are you in Aruba right now? I am. I am in Aruba.

That fucking rules. All right. It's hilarious. It's hilarious. It's hilarious. It rained all day, so part of Aruba is now flooded because it's not supposed to rain this much. So, you know, just, it's fun to escape somewhere where there is no escape. There's no escaping everybody, but I'm doing shows here, so I'm working.

Okay. Yeah. Zite Gang, if you're out there on, I don't know if you're like on a sailboat or something and you're in Aruba. Sail on in. Yeah, come on in baby. I do feel like we have a new era of the eighties coming. And I think a lot of like the fun stuff from the eighties has floated to the

top, some of like the best music and like some of the silliest cheesy movies and stuff, but one thing I would just ask people to keep in mind is, I cannot hear the word Aruba without my brain going into the Satanic song that is Kokomo. It's just there forever. It's the worst thing of all time. I think it is the culmination of everything having to do with the 80s, where Mike Love wrestled control of the beach boys from like the talented guy and like made this song that is just the is just about like yuppies going on vacation.

It's like the worst fucking thing possible. So anyways, just keep that in mind for what we're about to go into. It's not going to be. Yeah. I think because of that, like Aruba sounds like a punchline. It doesn't even sound like a real place. You say to someone, I'm in Aruba. They're like, yeah, sure you are.

What, where are you? Yeah. Chicago, where are you? Oh yeah, Aruba, Jamaica. Okay, cool. There we go. There we go. We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment.

Sure, sure. First, we're going to tell the listeners you a little bit better in a moment. Sure. First, we're going to tell the listeners a couple of things we're talking about. We've got a couple AI updates. We've got an AI Jesus that is being a pop-up at a church over, where is this church, Miles? It's in Lucerne, Switzerland. Switzerland.

Yeah. So Jesus is making appearances at a church in Switzerland. And then you could also have a phone call with an AI Santa Claus. So, we're going to just check out some reviews of that. Our two gods. Yes. Checking in with them. We'll talk about the latest doctor that Oprah has platformed and all the good things she has to say.

And Christmas has come super early this year. I know it always comes early and I know that's kind of a boring complaint to have. But we just want to look at why Christmas is so early this year? Why the sales start in July? All of that. Plenty more. But first, Ophira, we do like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are?

By search history? Okay. I'll, I'll be honest since I'm in Aruba and I now, when I travel around, Aruba is a little bit of a different case, but let's say America, I like to do a little thing to ingratiate myself to an audience. So, uh, sometimes I would walk around a place and just be like, oh, okay, maybe I'll write a joke about this, local, whatever, just to start things off.

But now what I like doing, and I find it so fun, is that I look up the best things to do in their, like, attractions, parks, museums, whatever. And then I scour through the one-star reviews. Oh, yeah. And I find the ones that, you know, then I scour through the one star reviews. And I find the ones that, you know, cause I feel like one star reviews for the most part, it's a lot about, obviously once complaints about parking and prices, but there's a lot that are just based on the person's soul.

Like a five star review is never based on someone's soul. A one star review is based on someone's soul. There's a deep history of this person not being seen or heard. And they are finally, they found a little channel to settle the score of so many things. Yeah. And so like the literal last thing I was looking at that was making me crack up was some one-star reviews of a butterfly farm, which is right beside the hotel that I'm staying at. And there was a one-star review of someone being like,

it's really small, there's only like 20 butterflies here, but there are some iguanas. And although we did see an iguana jump out of nowhere and catch one of the butterflies, so now there are about 19 butterflies here. Oh, man. I was like. So it's a good Iguana stunt show. It's a great, I don't, I was like, you gave that a one star.

That to me would be, I would give it five. You gotta go. You gotta go. They're eating them in front of you. Got to see the circle of life. It's murder. Do you like what, do you want to see murder at the butterfly farm? Yeah, the one star review.

Those are like, I think, like you say, it is the windows to the soul for sure. You can understand a lot about a person based on what their one star review is. But most of the time, and I don't write them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It is just someone, for whatever reason, everything that has gone

wrong in their day culminates in this one star review for like one business. I've always noticed something like that. Yeah. There was, there was someone talking about like the butterflies didn't land on me. Why they landed on other people. It's like, wow, dude, like, I don't know. Yeah.

Why is it always them? Whoa. Okay. It doesn't gotta be about the butterflies. Right, right. Yeah, it was the butterflies. The butterflies think I'm ugly, just like my wife does. Hold on, what?

Wait a second. We're lucky if that person has a wife. Yeah. And someone else was like, it's rather cold in there, and I didn't bring a jacket. Right, one star. One star. Like they... You know?

I didn't bring a jacket for, I'm in Aruba. I shouldn't need a jacket ever. Exactly. I should be able to wear bikini briefs everywhere I go. So this is my new source of entertainment. That sounds great. People's complaints through one star reviews. That sounds great.

Found comedy. And also painful and bad for your soul. So. There you go, there you go. What's something you think is underrated. All right. So this is underrated for me. I think this has a fine place in the world, but I finally, I've always been like, screw

this. And now I've joined the team. So I've, I've, uh, you know, I went a little sideways with this one. Okay. Guess what guys, I've been working out. Okay. I'm now a workout person. All right. And I've always been the person Okay. I'm now a workout person. All right.

And I've always been the person that's like, you don't have to buy stupid, expensive workout clothes, just wear whatever ratty shirt you have and whatever dumb pair of shorts you have and just who cares what you look like. But now that I've been working out, someone gifted me, cause I would never spend this kind of money, the classic basic bitch,

Lululemon leggings. And I put them on. Yeah. I cannot believe how good I look. I don't know what they put in that magic material, but I was like, that's how I could, it's like getting professional makeup done for a TV thing, and then you look in the mirror and you're like, that's how I could, it's like getting professional makeup done for a TV thing and then you look in the mirror and you're like, it's possible?

This is possible? Oh, where did this come from? There must have been some magic in those Lulu honey leggings. So I think people say that people have very divided feelings on that brand in particular because it's pretty expensive and whatever. And the racism. And the racism. Yeah.

That's the other part. I couldn't believe it. When I read that thing about why they named it, and it was a good joke, because I thought it'd be funny to hear Japanese people try to say lululemon. Is that for real? Yeah, look it up.

No, I thought you were joking. No. I remember that was- Oh, now I'm lighting them on fire. I'm gonna light them on fire, these leggings. They'll probably burn fast. Yeah, it's a, there's a lot of, you can just search lululemon Japanese pronunciation.

I remember learning that too, like, what did that kid- Horrified. Yeah. Said it was, because it was quote, funny to watch Japanese people try to say it. Not Australians. Yeah. I feel like for a while people were, I don't know.

Yeah. I get, they didn't become like workout clothes didn't become a thing that people wear all times of the day, even when they're not working out by accident. Like they have made adjustments to make them look good. They're like somewhere between work, like what used to be workout clothes and like future, the clothes from the future of like movies. You know, like sci-fi movies.

And it's literally astronaut wear. They have done good work. Like they have, like I get why they've taken over. Yeah. I go between working out in like they have, like I get why they've taken over. Yeah. I go between working out in like some workout, like actual workout clothes that I've like purchased for the purposes of working out and like feel like, Hey, that looks okay. And then sometimes I just work out and close like clothes that are in the

category in the drawer of like things I sleep in and I definitely feel better when I'm in the ones that like are for working out and actually look good. I feel like it's probably not dissimilar from, you know how Gatorade, they're like, yeah, this shit doesn't actually have chemicals in it that are helping you, but it tastes good and that makes you feel good. Right. So that makes it easier to exercise. And there's an absolute easier to exercise. Yeah.

You get to picture yourself as Michael Jordan, like having glowing sweat. Yeah. And I also think because Gatorade tastes so good, you buy one of those, you know, whatever, 750 milliliter bottles, which is, you know, it's a lot of liquid and it tastes so good you just go, glug, glug, glug. And so you do hydrate because you're drinking more than you would. This is actually making me live longer. Although I will tell you that my kid, this was actually last, last year, right around Thanksgiving, he was not feeling well, little kid. And so he requested Gatorade and I was like, yeah, that's probably good, hydrate you.

And so he likes the red one, which I think most kids like that free punch or whatever, and he downed a bottle and then he puked and he just vomited everywhere that day glow red. Yeah. That was very hard to get out. Yeah. It was out of furniture and your mind. Looks like furniture.

Or you go over. TV remotes. So those were forever gone. Yeah. The button stick now. Yeah. My kids call Gatorade sports good. And sports good. Yeah.

Which I feel like that's all you need to know. Sports good. Yeah. Let me get some sports good. The, let me get some sports good. The one thing I will say is the guy Chip Wilson who started, he stepped down from the company. Oh yeah. The Lululemon? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's funny because it came up in this, he said it's like, I had a skating brand called Homeless and the Japanese people, I think they liked it because there was an L in it. So I thought the next time I start a brand, I'm going to have L's in it because L's aren't in there. It's like this very like weird exoticized Orientalism take on like Japanese people. Wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good that guy.

Yeah, I know the guy with Chip Wilson. It's like, that is the biggest, that's a comic book villain. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, but the pants, they do look, I'm not going to lie. They look good. They look great. I don't know what that weave is. They. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, but the pants they do look, I'm not gonna lie. They look good. They look great. I don't know what that weave is. Yeah. Yeah. It's like a, it's a little bit of, I don't know, it's probably all really, really just terrible for the entire planet. It's like, you know, synthetic. Yeah, but it's the microplastic. It's the microplastic. Chip wouldn't do something bad for the planet. Not Chip, baby. Not Chip, man.

Yeah. 90% of all Lululemon clothing that you wear ends up somewhere in your bloodstream at some point. Yeah. Well, they say that even with stuff like Gore-Tex, even Gore-Tex treated stuff, that's a huge... You get your exposure to microplastics is huge with stuff that like waterproof treated

Oh, where do you read that sounds like the bad robot from a 70s? Yeah Did you read the thing about all kitchen utensils like you know, that are black or whatever black yeah Yes, just basically whatever old old stereo that's been melted down. Right, exactly. That old box you had from the 90s, that's your spatula. Exactly. Sorry, say it again?

I actually didn't see this. Yeah, although utensils that are black, the plastic kind of black things that, yeah, you got to throw them away. You got to get rid of them because they are basically made from recycled electronics and are harmful to your health, full of curse engines. Bad, bad, bad. Just flipping it into your food. Yeah, that seems bad. While it's raw.

Yeah. I think I talked on this show about how I had an ice cream scooper that started turning the ice cream that we would scoop like a bright silver color every time you would do it was like shedding onto the ice cream. What? Oh my god. The chrome or whatever? The chrome was like shedding onto the ice cream and I ate the ice cream more times than I would care to admit.

Yeah. You're like whatever. It made the inside of my mouth look really cool. I look like Jaws. All right. We should take a quick break and we'll come back. Yeah. You're like, whatever. The inside of my mouth look really cool. I look like Jaws. All right. We should take a quick break and we'll come back. We'll do an overrated and we'll get into some news. We'll be right back. Hey guys, I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs,

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So listen to Still the Place on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. podcast. And we're back. We're back. And Ophira, we do like to ask our guests, what is something that you think is overrated? FaceTimes. I'm sick of them. I don't want them anymore. FaceTimes with kids are useless,

by the way. Anyone who travels that is like, just FaceTime with your kid every night. Useless. Garbage. I don't like them. They never work out. Usually if it's a little kid, they're just looking at their own face and they want to screw around with that and put poop emojis over your face. Like it's not a real thing. It is just an opportunity to put poop emoji. It is an exercise in poop emojis over your face. Like it's not a real thing. It is just an opportunity to put poop emoji. It is an exercise in poop emojis. That is absolutely true. Or like turn into an octopus, turn into a this

because you can, you know, change, change. Daddy's on the phone. Daddy's. Say hi to daddy. And I feel like it's just garbage communication. I don't, I think we could, we just go back to the phone. Yeah. Just go back to a nice audio situation that is boring and low key.

And that is how we communicate until you see the person in person. Yeah. I feel like it was right. It's definitely like, uh, it's good for the adults to get to see the little kids. But even like with my babies almost too, he just looks at himself the whole time. And he's like, oh yeah. He's like, yo, what? And I'm like, no, this is-

But let me throw this by you. Do you not look at yourself when you're on a face-to-face? With everybody except my children? Yeah, that's right. All the time. I'm always like, ah. Right? How that's always like, how am I coming to self view on? Yeah, right. What is that? We it's the black utensils of communication.

I don't think this is good for us. Yeah, yeah, right. Because the phone, yeah, phone was I saw like an article, I think it was like a business insider recently where someone was like, like, it was like an op ed or someone was kind of like, I'm done with texting. And I realized the phone call is actually the best thing about talking to a friend. And yeah, we kind of forget, especially

for people of a certain age, when that was the only mode of communication, how everything was built on that. Yeah. And now how quickly just like, I don't know, man, I like, I guess I like instant messenger in my pocket. And I'll just do that all day. Yeah, slack. Did you ever have to slack? I'm so glad. Oh, for too many jobs.

Yeah. Oh, God. I feel like that is the bane. I mean, and people get a little too cavalier with slack. So in some ways, people have been fired and jobs based on their dumb slacks. Yeah. They cut themselves too much. Yeah. I forgot what the word would be for that. Yeah, baby.

The one good thing about FaceTime with kids, when I'm on the road and I FaceTime with my kids, and I have this image, I'm remembering all the good times and I'm like, God, I just miss them. I just wish I was right here with them. Then I get on and just have the experience of them ignoring me. I'm like, oh yeah.

Amazing. Oh yeah, nothing. This is what this is. Hey, hey, how you doing? How was school? Where did he go? Where did he go? The phone's just facing the ceiling as they're somewhere else in the house.

You nailed it. You nailed it because, okay, again, I know that life doesn't replicate commercials, but the commercial aspect or imagery is, I forget what it's for, but there's a mom. There's a mom, she's a traveling working mom, I know, crazy and she's on some hotel bed and it's like, oh my God, I can't wait to see you.

And the kid's like, I can't wait to see you. Look at my stuffy. And it's adorable. And that is now what happens. It's garbage communication. And you're right. Oh, I'm always like, oh my god, I miss you. I should check in. And then I'm like, wow, you, no one gives two craps about me at that household. All right. Bye bye. I've done with like other younger family members where they look at their parent, they're like, can I go now? Yes, yes.

Like, they're like, have I fulfilled that? Like, I'm like, I'm right here. I'm talking to this fuck. Can I go now? Oh my God, there's nothing better than walking. You're walking, you're walking people out of your own FaceTime. Right.

Yeah, yeah. It's hard to compete with poop emojis though, to be fair. You're walking people out of your own FaceTime. Right. Yeah, yeah. Like, how do I? It's hard to compete with poop emojis, though, to be fair. I know, but for 30 seconds, they're hilarious. And then I'm like, OK, we're done. We're done. All right. Well, let's get into some news.

And let's get into the FaceTime equivalent of prayer, I guess. Yeah. And that is, we now have the opportunity to interact with Jesus via AI technology. It's finally happened. And I feel bad because we've been always shitting on AI, but now that Christ is available to us at a moment's notice. Maybe it's not that bad. So this chapel in Lucerne, Switzerland, it's an experimental art installation. They call it Deus in Machina, okay? Machina, okay, not Deus ex, but in.

Okay, the ghost is in the machine now. Wait, isn't that what Deus ex Machina meant? Is God from the machine. Oh, okay. But I guess they're saying in now. He're saying in the machine. Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever. But it basically it's an AI Jesus in a confessional booth. So it's a screen with a Jesus on it hooked up to a computer that you can confess to. Although the church was clear, this is not an actual sign. This is not the sacrament of confession. So, you know, just for all you Catholics out there, just so you know. Is this a Catholic church? This feels very much like a thing the Catholic church would be like.

Yeah. Well, I think it, I mean, I don't know that they had a confessional booth in there. So, I don't know how they're, I mean, clearly they're playing fast and loose with're playing fast and loose with the Bible anyway, to even not my Catholic Church. Yeah. My Pope. I don't think yeah, most people would be like a depiction of our savior. I don't know. Is this a very bad, some like 32 year old actor with a beard? Yeah. I mean, how are you my child? But once you go in the booth, a disclaimer pops up. This is quote, I think that Jesus says, do not disclose personal information under any circumstance. Jesus literally does the disclaimer.

Yeah. That is wild to me. Yeah. Use this service at your own risk. Now press the button if you accept and he's kind of doing it in a way that's like urgent, like do not, do not disclose personal information under any circumstances. Cause we'll both get burned. What are you going to do with my information?

Jesus. Yeah. What is it going into the cloud? Like why, why is it? Yeah. Why is it? It's just the Christ cloud. Yeah.

I mean, is it because they don't want to have to deal with the legal ramifications of someone admitting a crime? Like what is the actual issue? I'm sure someone who has better understanding of the technology than I could explain, but I don't know if like, maybe it does somehow get internalized and then repeated in some way. My guess would be, so this is an art installation. This is not like from Google.

They do not have the technology to ensure the information security of what is being shared. And so they're like, hey, don't tell us shit. Don't, bro. Jeff Bezos owns that, if you do. Oh, AI Jesus. AI Jesus, I'd just like to open up with my social security number. Go ahead, my child.

And your date of birth? Uh-uh. And look, I only ask as a joke because obviously I know, but for the record, let's reiterate. For the record, what is your password mask? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

No, so I mean, I guess the point is to apparently give people a tangible experience with AI to sort of spur conversations around the limitations and uses of the technology. The theologian who works at the church explained why he agreed to having this thing in there. He said, quote, what we're doing here is an experiment. We wanted to launch the discussion by letting people have a very concrete experience with AI. That way we have a foundation for talking about it and discussing it with one another.

He also said that there are some positives to AI Jesus, which is, quote, he's accessible 24 hours a day, so has the abilities that pastors don't. So, yes. Okay, pastors. And you can also be sure he's not jacking off in there, which is more than we can say for the pastors. Yeah, right. Okay, I just want to throw, this is not, pastors who listen are going to be mad at me right now, but let's not pretend pastors are the same thing as Jesus.

A, yeah. Okay? Right, right, right. B, this is what my mother would say about anyone who was a religious figure. She would just say, oh, they're just people who don't want to work. So that's... I love your mom. Those are the real bums.

God. Freaking leaning on this magic show. Yeah. So now they say they talk to God. Yeah. My parents, they don't want to eat it. Those are the real bums. God. Freaking leaning on this magic show. Yeah. Great stance. So now they say they talk to God.

Yeah. My parents wanted me to be a priest. Wow. Yeah, yeah, they did. My dad thought I was going to be a priest. How does you lean on a kid to be a priest? Like, what did they see in you that they're like, Jack, you might be a man of God. He told me after the fact. He was like, I thought maybe you were going to head down

that path. I was like, damn. He wasn't like, hey, put that skateboard down and pick up this crucifix. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, okay. Were you, did you ever say anything as a kid that you can remember about having a conversation like being able to speak to God? Yeah, my dad's very religious. And so I I talked to him about religion stuff because that's what he wanted to talk about.

And also I just always wore a black shirt buttoned all the way up with a little white thing on it. Yeah, that was it. Just keep cutting out construction paper. Yeah. Well, I mean, there might be advantages to this AI Jesus, because at least this one like actually can hear you and respond. So it definitely has the advantage over the current ghost stories Jesus that's mostly wise. Come on, just do it in your head. What happened

to creativity? That's what you're supposed to do in your head. You're supposed to ask Jesus. I know. We're outsourcing thinking too. Yeah. Well, I mean- Ask Jesus for something and then the you know, the answer appears because you just think about it all the time and then it comes to you and you go, Jesus, thank you. Yeah. But now, yeah, come on now. The one thing we've seen people repeatedly enjoy about AI, there's like the scientific breakthroughs, the decoding of like protein.

So like, I think there are going to be very specific scientific uses for AI that are going to be great. And then I think AI is going to be fun for people to play with. And that's what this feels like. It's like a one-on-one toy to play with. Like people really rushed into the like AI therapist thing. And that has like some very real problems. But with like religion, you know, what do you think they're going to do with this though?

Some people have replaced actual, you know, mental wellness with a religion too. That's true. It just like leaves a little bit more to like, cause he's just going to be like, why don't you pray on it? That seems to be his, his advice, like looking at what people are saying. Like I got so much out of it. That seems to be his advice, like looking at what people are saying. Like I got so much out of it. He just like told me that it's kind of up to me and I just need to pray on it and be nice to people.

Right. Right. I mean, if that's what they need. And I just somehow got a $25 gift certificate to Amazon. Right. Wow. How did that work? To your point, Miles, though, you are correct, because social services are so unavailable

to so many people, they go to the church and a lot of pastors and ministers are finding that they are social workers. They are social workers. Yeah, for sure. Really? And it feels like a slippery slope. I listen to Joe Biden. I use the cops for that, personally. I'm having a crisis, I call 911.

He said, we don't need to defund the police, we need to fund them more. There are therapists, there are marriage counselors, there are daddy, and so I just leaned all the way in. I'm calling 911 being like, yep, she said it again. Yeah, said what? She's being so rude, officer. Officer O'Malley, do you think,

do you think I should have to find his glasses? What do you think? What do you think? Officer Paul George hyper-extended his knee again. What am I? I'm not ready. I'm not ready. Sorry, sorry.

But no, I did it. I will say two and 12. Go ahead. I was just going to say when I use chat, I use chat GBT. I do use chat GBT pretty regularly. I don't pay for it. I use the, just the open and what do I use it for? Mostly writing marketing documents.

Cause I hate doing that. So I'll be like, Hey, can you like write me a description of a live show that involves blah, blah, blah, and then we'll write something and then I'll, I'll change it. It's like perfect first draft instead of just staring at nothing and being like, I hate this. But I'm always weirdly polite to chat GBT. I thank it. Thank you.

This is so great. Because I am like, as this thing grows, I want it to think that we're friends. You want to be on the protective scrolls. Yes. Yes, of course. I get that. I don't treat it like a machine.

I treat it purposefully. Like a future oppressor. Yeah. Exactly. Just in case. Just in case. Just in case. MSNBC is treating the Trump administration. Just in case. I'm just going to lay down now.

We think we should open some lines of dialogue. What a great analogy. What a great analogy. He could be nice to us. You know, we might it's the protective scrolls. He could be nice to us. You know, we might be on the protective scrolls, you never know. You never know. Yeah, I mean, actually, that has always been my least favorite thing anyone has ever said about that when you're like, I can't believe this person, I hate them, I can't believe they

fucking do that to me. And they're like, they've always been nice to me. I've always hate that person, die. Yeah, I just think, again, as someone who went to like Lutheran and Catholic schools for their childhood, it feels like a slippery slope to the toy of the gamification of Jesus. Like if this is more widespread, because you could see some, we've seen versions of like AI priests and other things kind of people fucking around with that. I just, I wonder if like this actually just brings full-on atheism to people. Like, I don't know, dude, Jesus is actually an AI on my phone, dude. I don't know. Oh, no, hybrid churches. It's

starting. No one goes to the office. Nobody's going to go to church. They're just going to do it from their home. Whenever I want. And then, yeah. And then someone's going to buy up all those buildings and turn them into multimillion dollar luxury condos. Good job, everybody. Pray to your AI Jesus as they take everything away from you. Do you hear me? Yeah. Anyways, in news that's totally unrelated to that, we got AI Santa.

The company is selling phone calls with an AI Santa Claus for the children, presumably, because the real Santa is too busy, I guess. Obviously. So for $15 a pop, you can pay this company to just run a program that will seem like it knows who you are. Yeah. Oh, too, you mean not real? No. Oh, too. The marketing material. You mean not real?

No, no, no. None of it. I just even like this marketing material, this like depiction of it for their like branding. It's like AI's slop art too. It is. It's wild. I'm sorry. Your chimney is also a bell tower on your home?

What form of architecture is this again? And why does Santa only have three fingers on his right hand? Right. Exactly. Yeah, I do just want to describe it. So it says, give a live call from, get a live call from Santa. Like Myles said, it's a house, like very Christmassy. There's snow on the roof.

There's smoke coming out of like the roof where the chimney would be, but no chimney. And then there is where the chimney would be is a bell tower. Yeah. Yeah. And then again, this is the thing that we've noticed now, two episodes in a row. Cause we talked yesterday about how Coca-Cola redid their holidays are coming at and it opens with the trucks breathing. Like the trucks have smoke coming out of their grill.

The grill, yeah. Yeah. Breath. Gosh. Because, and now we have, uh, the house has like chimney smoke coming out of just like the corner next to where the chimney is. And then, yeah, like you said, a bell tower. Also, the image is Santa Claus approaching the house on foot while a giant, like the iron giant

sized Santa Claus is standing next to the house. So two Santas, one normal size, one that is the size of the iron giant, standing next to the house on a phone. It's kind of a phone call. It's a, it's a, it's a God. He's omnipresent. Right. I think taken slightly in a different context, it looks like this house is on fire and it's

a warning thing. See, there's one Santa that's running towards it to try to save the person that's in the window. And it's also reminding you to evil giant Santa is calling 911. Okay. Who is in the window? Norman Bates' mother? What is this thing?

What is this the window? That's what's going on. Norman Bates' mother? What is this thing? What is this aberration? And also the window frame apparently goes behind the person. Like it's not an actual frame of the window. Oh yeah. I think that I got to point out the typo. Get a live call from Santa. Create a memory that lasts forever.

Create a memory that lasts forever. Everything is good. Again, so the Jesus reviews were actually like pretty, I was surprised it was so easy. Though it's a machine, it gave me so much advice. I liked weighing advice based on the poundage. The volume, yeah. High volume advice. I like my advice by the pound. I like it in grams, personally.

I'm more of a gram person. Okay, sorry. But in this case, we have a reviewer who did the deal. I'm actually kind of impressed with how well the call went and it didn't go well. But like, so they told them what they wanted for Christmas. They told them for a personal thing about themselves, they were like, hey, I just had a pet fish that passed away, which very easily could be,

the things that I think my kids would tell Santa before a call, might be like their pet fish that died and a couple of things they wanted. Phone rings, it says Santa Claus on your phone, and he's calling from Maine for some reason. Of course he is. It's probably high up North, yeah. Is this Steffi? This is Santa calling from the North Pole in Maine.

I couldn't wait to talk to you. How are you, my friend? So the writer's voice was booming jolly. Did it sound real? Not quite human-like, but realistic enough that it threw me off my guard. They're like, I'm good, Santa, how are you? I'm doing wonderfully. Thank you for asking, Steffi.

The North Pole is bustling with excitement as the elves and I prepare for Christmas. Tell me, do you still have your pet catch up? How are they doing? The one thing they were told, the one thing Santa was told was fucking that this fish had died immediately is like, Hey, how's your pet? How are they physically? Like, how are they doing? Child?

Like this is supposed to be a conversation happening with the child. I hope that this, they get better on that because you don't want that AI Santa to be like how's your dad yeah exactly Santa you fucking asshole wait I want to hear it because that writer at the Daily Beast who did it uploaded the actual audio from the oh yeah just so we can kind of get a feel for this thing. He died I told him. I'm so sorry to hear that Steffi. I know that Ketchup was a special part of your family and he surely and then the audio cut.

Here it is. Tell me, do you still have your pet Ketchup? Oh that sounds like shit bro. Wow. No he died. Oh, I'm so sorry to hear that, Steffi. I know ketchup was a special part of your family. And he surely just cuts out. He surely surely what Santa ketchup was such a special part of

your family. And I know he brought you lots of joy. I hope you have fond memories to hold on to. Would you like to share one of your favorite memories with ketchup? It's just like, yo, this sounds like a fucking speaking spell. This sounds like shit. It sounds like a Home Depot lawn ornament that has like vocal, like sounds coming out of it. It's like, hello, child. Wow. This is way worse than I thought.

Yeah. I mean, I got to say when you were just doing your dramatic reading, Jack, I was like, yeah, forget about being a preacher. You got a Santa career happening right now. Yeah. Right. Pretty good. this guy sucks. So even more, you can hire me to call your kids $15 an hour. Oh my God. Get ready to make some cash. But yeah, it like, dude, would you like to share a message of your dead pet that I just asked you about is like such a,, like it really feels like you're in a fucking phone tree,

you know, like where it's like. I'm sure he was special. In a few words, can you tell us what your problem is? Do you care to describe the day Ketchup passed away in great detail to Santa? It's kind of my kink. What? When he was flushed down, did you say goodbye?

Right. And then it just cuts off. Yeah, just then immediately cuts off. So anyway, AI, you know, magical people all around. Learning, it's learning now. The one thing that this has. All of these mistakes. The one thing this has is like, I mean, it's not inexhaustible time because obviously as we know, it's burning down like chunks of the rainforest every time

you use something like this, but like, I would assume the thing is like, yeah, but we can just like, the kids can talk and like the thing will interact and like it's a fun toy to play with, but like the toy or the the Santa was trying to get them off the line. They were like, all right, better go. Better get going now. And they're like, wait, don't you want to ask what I want for Christmas? No, I'm good.

That's the sort of thing. But if he's like, I'm all right. No, I'm good on that. No, you're good on that. He spent so much of the call apologizing. Yeah. For this one. I'm so sorry, Stephie. I definitely want to know, what do you want for Christmas this year? Oh, oh. A new fish, Santa Claus, a new fish. And then, so the author says,

I'd like, then I heard nothing but the dial tone. Santa had hung up. Yeah, yeah, no, I definitely want to hear what you want for Christmas. I'm so sorry, Stephie. I definitely want to know, what do you want for Christmas this year? Oh, oh. And then so the author says I'd like then I heard nothing but the dial tone Yeah, yeah, no, I definitely want to hear what you want because why don't you tell me hang up more on that later

We're on that later asshole This is just so man. This is 15 bucks is such a racket cuz this is some shit you can do for free 15 bucks is such a racket because this is some shit you can do for free. But you just absolutely you have a fucking wacky friend who likes to do bits. Just have a fucking call and they can do it. They can say whatever the. So you're going to some dying mall. Go to a dying mall. Yes. Go see that Santa.

I think I don't know if you know this, but I as a Jew, as a Jew, I wanted to see the mall, Santa. And my mom wouldn't let me because that was just not part of our tradition. And I begged her because all of my friends were going, begged her and begged her and she finally said fine. And I was so excited, but I was afraid. And then when I got in there and Santa was like, what would you like for Christmas little girl? I just went, I'm Jewish.

Like I could not handle the pressure. And he said, that's okay. So am I. Yeah. She's the greatest ever. The greatest ever. Hell yeah. Best small Santa ever. Hey, I wouldn't come over that shit. You know what, hey, I would have said, I'm so sorry Ophira. Yeah, what? Would you like to talk about how hard it is to be Jewish?

I gotta go. Gotta go. Better go. I thought your mom was gonna tell you that mall Santas are also people who didn't want a real job. Like, you know what? No, you know what she told me when I told her that Santa was Jewish?

She told me, she said, well, of course he is. Who else do you think works on Christmas? That's what she told me. God damn, your mom has some great bars. Holy shit, two eaters. Yeah, you know, JC was a Jew too, so. There you go. Yeah, when I told my friends Santa was Jewish, they were mad.

You got some calls from your mom, got some calls from some other angry parents. What did you fear just tell my daughter about Santa? All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk about some other bullshit. We'll be right back. Hey guys, I'm Kate Max.

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Oprah platform just dropped. Yeah. I just generally, I think we have to just start treating any quote unquote doctor that Oprah platforms as a total nonce that should be ignored. Because obviously Oprah's had a huge hand in like

blighting the earth with the platforming of doctors Phil and Oz, who are both dangerously stupid. And at this rate, they both may have cabinet positions in the Trump administration. So I will actually I want to be on the protective scroll. So Dr. Phil, big fan, big fan, man. Big fan. Love everything you say. So we've talked about their shortcomings at length, but there's another person that I

just saw on TMZ. I'm like, what the fuck is this person going on about Dr. Laura Berman, who is on has a show on the own network, been on Oprah talks a lot about relationships, sex, things like that. She was recently on TMZ talking about how the new Netflix romcom hot frosty is gonna help more men have sex this holiday season. This is what she said.

She said to talks about this is from TMZ. He's right. They said the seasonal flick will likely help guys get laid during the winter months, which is a notorious time for dry spells. As the doc tells it, hot frosty could cure this season's cock block as it's a hyper-sexualized version of a Hallmark movie. I just want to play this clip of her talking about, like... First, she's like, oh, yeah, people get so revved up, you know, over rom-coms and things like that,

but this is her sort of, like, asserting that people do not have sex during the holidays, and I'll just want to let her sort of articulate this. You're combining basically women's two favorite things, rom-coms and Christmas movies, you know, with a little bit of, you know, especially with a hot frosty in the middle of it. Um, you know, I think this is the version of women's porn, you know, most women really like, uh, some context to their sexy stories, you know?

So if there's a little bit of romance, there's a little bit of buildup, there's humor and there's a hot guy, you know, that's exciting for a lot of women. Was this her professional opinion as a doctor or like an exit interview from a movie, like in a movie trailer. There just cause she starts off talking about why she thinks this is like a potent combination because as she says, this is every woman's two favorite things. I know as a woman, I was just immediately was so mad. I was like, I did a Christmas movie at rom-coms.

No. And first of all, I don't understand what makes hot Frosty. We're talking to the snowman and this is hot Frosty. So he's super hot. Like what are we fucking his nose? What are we doing? Yeah, yeah, well kind of, yeah. So I watched this movie and he becomes a six-packed

like white guy when a woman puts a magical scarf on a snowman in the town square. And then she develops a relationship with him. And all it is like, disgusting. And like, you know, she's, I get that, you know, there's, there may be evidence about like holiday stress leads to some people having like

decreased sex drives and you know, all you have to do is, I think, to sort of negate that, all you really need to do is look at what like when the most births happen. And it's typically August that August, October window the holiday. Yeah, because based on that, just that evidence, I would say people, people are in fact fucking during the holidays, I get those other stress factors might be limited to like parts of America, or like Western

culture. But again, like her insistence on being like, you know, because no one has like the way it was presented was like, no one has sex during the holidays. But if you throw on hot frosty, this is actually women's pornography. Full stop. Thank you. Right. Women are gonna get hot. And they're all gonna finally fuck their husband. I love that a doctor is coming on to be like,

you know what, I've just been trying to think about how we're going to solve the problem of men having sex. How can we solve this? It's an epidemic around the holiday season, everybody. I'm a doctor and my specialty is tricking your wife into fucking you. I think we found out that Laura gets off on Christmas movies and rom-coms. I think that Laura is ready to suck off a snowman about right now. And so I don't know why she's making her own personal fascination with this, a doctor certified. Wow. Yeah. Wow. I think, yeah.

Just cleaning the carrot. It had some dirt on it. Just cleaning the carrot. We need a new carrot. Yeah. No. Wait. What happened to the cold? You know what? I don't want to know. Yeah. I don't want to hear about your anal cold beads. Yeah.

Right. Yeah. I think this one's steamed. I don't think this one about your anal cold beads. I think this one's steamed. I don't think this one's raw anymore, honey. Also the implication that women aren't allowed to watch porn. Pornography? Yeah, yeah. Women had never heard of such a thing. And I like context, everybody. If I want to see someone getting laid, I need to know a story, okay?

Because that's the way my little girl brain works. Okay? Like I need to know like, how are they doing? Why do they have the pizza delivery job? They're paying off a student loan? Yeah, they try to get to chef school. Right, right. Exactly. I think they're there. They have back rent that to do. It's really hard to tell. Back rent would be a good way to segue into the conversation. I would see that porn, back rent. Back rent. God. All the landlords,

they're like, this is literally our porn. I love seeing this stuff. Ophira, this is something we've been talking about in the context of Hot Frosty. Why do you think people are so into movies where somebody is hot and has the brain of a eight-year-old? Yeah. Easy, because you won't attach to them. Seriously, it's like the, yeah, it's like the blow up doll version.

Right. Right. It's like there's no emotional attachment. You don't have to worry about how they're feeling, what they need, needs, wants, desires. Now it's just one dimensional. Perfect. There you go. They, yeah, a listener on Blue Sky reached out and they're like, the trope is actually called Born Sexy Yesterday.

Yeah, Born Sexy Yesterday. Oh, I love that. Elf, big. Oh, yeah. Splash. Splash. Yeah, just dumb. And I will say that, you know, there are times when I've thought,

I generally, you know, whatever, I generally hang out with smart people, but there are times that I think of like a big, dumb, good-looking guy, and you're like, that sounds like fun. Yes, it does. It sounds like a lot of fun. Right. Totally. Because yeah, this is just reaffirming male dominance to be like, yeah.

Right. Yeah. It's like, oh, I'm intellectually. Hot robot. Hot robot. Yeah. But not so dumb that they don't know how like toilet paper works or something. You know what I mean?

Like it's not- And you make it fun. Right. That's how you make it a comedy. And still kind. Doesn't know how clothes work. They're still kind. Right.

So kind. Oh my God. They're so nice. They're like a little puppy. Yeah. But I have to dress and feed them. And they have a vacant look in their eyes and their mouth hangs open.

And that's what's hot. And that's what women want this Christmas. What if that's what she had gone into? I mean, it combines women's two favorite things, taking care of somebody who seems like they've had head trauma and six pack abs. Yeah. And then you just go shh, shh, shh, shh.

Quiet, right here, right here, just with the finger right to the mouth. Wait, what do we do when we do this? I'd be quiet. Exactly, exactly. You're smart, you're smart, Snowman. Oh, God, you're so good to me. Oh my God, you're such a good learner.

Pay me my background. Ophira, what a pleasure having you as always. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? I'm on all the socials at Ophira E-O-P-H-I-R-A-E. Except for TikTok. I'm Ophira NYC, strangely. Mm. Okay. Someone beat you to that one, huh?

They did. They totally did. I get that. Uh-huh. And can you imagine there is another Ophira E? She's an astrologer. Oh, okay. So there you go.

A very famous astrologer. Oh, okay. She also has a better social media team. Okay. Well, I mean, you beat her on all the other ones. So yeah, she's like, she's got like a tweet to send you. She's like, Oh, look who came in second today. You asshole.

Oh, when Venmo came out, I ran as fast as I could to just get Ophira. I'm like, I'm beating that woman at least one game. Yeah. Yeah. Is there a work of media that you've been enjoying? I'm going to go and be very typically female right now and just say, I'm going to say two things. One, I've been watching makeup videos for women over 40 and on Instagram and I love them. I love them so much.

I had no idea that this is my new pastime. But B, I am a little bit maybe like you. I mean, your job is to look at news all the time, but I get a little bit burnt out by the catas-tro-fizing, that's a lot of syllables, catas-tro-fizing, yes, of the news. So I've been going, as I've been traveling a lot and reading legacy, local papers. Oh shit.

And they're great. I mean, they're going to have some headlines, but also you get to find out, I mean, just great things, people that are doing good things in the community, hot balloon failures. You get some real nitty gritty local stuff that's going on. Someone that won a contest, someone else that won a local political race, you've never heard of what their thing is. It's great. It makes me feel like there is happiness, good people, and life in the world.

You just sit down, you don't look at your phone, and you read a paper for about half an hour. That's all it takes. Yeah, you can just blast through those. Yeah, it's great. Highly recommend. And we should keep those local papers alive, everybody, because guess what?

Even like, you also, it's young journalists usually. So it's a lot of, you see typos, you see some mistakes. It's like very, very close to the human touch. Yeah, but they gotta start somewhere. By the way, you see typos and mistakes on the Washington Post and the New York Times now. Oh my God, that's so true. Sometimes they completely wrong opinion

on those things too. It's wild, I don't know how they do it, but yeah. Yeah. Great. Miles, where can people find you? Is there work media? You've been in. Yeah, wherever they got the ad symbols, but really I want to encourage people to

follow over on blue sky miles of gray. It's miles of gray everywhere. So bub.beesky.social all that. Again, I can't keep telling people how much I enjoy interacting there. And it's all with Zeitgang. So appreciate everybody reaching out and talking and entertaining my dumb questions and commentary. Let's see. A work of media.

I like, oh, you know what? There was actually, I guess I do. Here it is. Hold on. Oh, yes. This is from Zippo, at Zippo dot B sky dot social. It is a like cat like looking like it's exploding out of like a cardboard Amazon. Oh my God. And it just says, I'm alive.

Fuck you. It's a great comment. Right. The energy of this cat coming out of the bottom of the box is fucking goaded. So yeah, so good. Wonderful. So good. You can find me at jackob1, the number one dot beast guy dot social, uh, jack underscore O'Brien on Twitter, Emily at M Kawe K A W E dot beast guy dot social

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from this Japanese artist named Rio Fukui, R-Y-O-F-U-K-U-I. The track is called Early Summer. It's just nice, you know? I like instrumental music as the weather gets colder and just stuff that, you know, just creates a nice atmosphere. I don't know why, like jazz piano, I always feel like I'm in the lobby

of like a very expensive hotel that I wouldn't normally be able to stay at. It's nice, it's like relaxing. Yeah, you're like, oh shit, somebody's playing live piano Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, so I have a dollar for this fine person. Yeah, and they're like, oh, no, please don't that's very good. I'm paid Well, you don't need to cash to me

But yeah early summer by you'll quickly check it out. It's it's great. Just you know set the mood for you Great, we will link off to that in the footnotes. The Daily Zyke Guys. Oh, and you can also go check out our YouTube channel. Check out what we look like. Well, saying words like this. We'll link off to the song and the YouTube channel in the footnotes. Daily Zyke Guys is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app output podcast or wherever you get your shows. That's gonna do it for us this week. We are back over the weekend with a cut down

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