The Daily Zeitgeist - YUNG WASHINGTREND 6/25: Celebrate 250, War Powers Resolution, Military Flu Outbreak, Meta

Episode Date: June 25, 2026

In this edition of YUNG WASHINGTREND, Jack and Miles discuss Kash Patel's GF's big day at 'Celebrate 250', the Senate war powers resolution, the huge flu outbreak in the armed forces (thanks to Pete Hegseth), Zuck's latest late-to-the-party trend-chasing L and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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You got me sounding like the throat goat. Hello the internet and welcome to this episode of Young Washing Friend. And that one courtesy of First Blood 522. We have 522 people with the name First Blood in our Discord. I keep saying. That's how much we love Rambo in this Discord. You can find an original name, but people love the First Blood. Toss another number on there.

You know, the name of the film, the first Rambo film is First Blood. And I have to assume that Young Washington is just going to be a, remake. He's just kidding. What if it was like hyper violent, like that Santa sketch? I think you should leave. Oh, yeah.

The movie. It's, did you see the trailer? No. It's, I mean, there's like, violence, but the guy who's playing young Washington, he's like, kind of like weak. So there's like, I just, there's a scene of him. I don't know if he's like

chopping a guy's head off or chopping a cherry tree down. He's swinging an axe. But the way he was swinging it, I'm like, bro, yo, yo, you can hurt yourself. It's like watching Tim Robbins. try and pitch in Bull Durham. Yeah, exactly. You're like, ooh, okay, Young Washington. That's why my hope is that deep down,

it's hopefully just like the beginning is sort of like a dream about this guy being George Washington, and then it's about an aspiring sound cloud rapper named Young Washington. Young Washington, Y-U-N-G. Thank you, yeah. Anyways, that's coming out on July 3rd, so you'll have plenty of time to watch it and enjoy it.

Yeah, yeah. for our nation. Or get a free ticket. You know what I mean? Because it's Angel Studios. Oh, yeah, yeah. It's just, they're just, just,

you just ask, go to your local church and they'll give you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. To get to Young Washington for some reason. I do think he should be setting up booby traps.

Like Rambo, you know, like the red coats are coming after him and he's like got a spiked tree trunk that's like flying down and just disbowing people. Four days on one booby traps. setup that would maybe get two people. Yeah, yeah, good return on your time.

This is how we won the Revolutionary War. There does seem to be pretty, I don't, I don't, because it takes place during the French and Indian War, so I don't know, we'll see how Angel Studios deals with. Pre-revolutionary. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's why he was young. That's why he's nude armed. He's not all ripped after getting the Super Soldier serum.

Young money. Young Washington. Mm-hmm. I mean, he's on our money. I'll tell you that much. Low bill, though. You know what I mean? just a quarter and a single, bro.

How did they determine that? Like, is that ranking? We're like, yo, Ben Franklin, bro, that's, he's going a hundred. Yeah. That's, there must have been some lobbying in the founding fathers. Or back then they're like, George Washington, number one, our first president, dollar bill. And this one will never go out of style. Oh, wait, the rising cost of things makes it.

So this is an insult. Absolute. Um, obsolete. my name is Jack O'Brien. That over there is Mr. Miles Gray. It is Thursday, June 25th as we record this. And this is the episode where we tell you what is trending in the world. Let's see.

We got the opening. We got the opening to the big 250 celebration. No, not the actual good concert that's happening in Los Angeles. but the one that's happening in D.C. where they could get fucking anyone. Yeah, we'll actually talk about that on tomorrow's episode. Oh, great. Let me know.

There's a, they, like, can't fucking get anyone for this thing. So Trump was like, fuck it. I'll do it. We'll do it live. But they did, we did get Hatch Patel's girlfriend opening with the national anthem. Just a very, like, basic. Like, she was, she was focusing.

all her energy, like her hands are like touching the notes a little bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She does she had to do. Yeah, she's the most serviceable basic presentation of the National Anthem. I got to say, I, she fucking killed it, dude. Yeah. You know what I mean? I was blown away by her talent, her ability to stay on pitch, fantastic.

Yeah. Ended the National Anthem with a flourish of holding one note that would have brought Prime Whitney to her years. One note. Perfectly, honestly, perfectly down the middle performance. She's ball. Yeah, yeah.

I was like, ah, all right. Yeah. Good for you. Uh, here. Let's just get that last flourish,

because this is where she really brings it home. She can listen to the breath control. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, again, Whitney, you've been,

you're on notice, Whitney, Whitney, Houston. That's right. Oh, it keeps going. It keeps going.

Okay. she's doing kind of a thing with her hands like an elderly white guy on a dance floor at a wedding where they're like kind of keeping time with their finger you know oh okay yeah yeah snapping along to the beat you know or like yeah like how flappers I feel like in like pictures of video old-timey like flapper people just like w w w wimbing that finger Yeah, so she did that. She did that. It was one of those, like, if this is happening at your local, you know,

AAA baseball game, you know, minor league baseball game. And it's like a 12-year-old. You're, like, really blown away. Honestly, I can't say really anything negative about it. You hit the notes. That's really the most important thing as a singer. You hit the fucking notes. You weren't too pitchy.

As much as I wanted to be on my. numbers. It's a no for me, dog. It's a yes for me, Alexis. You're going to Hollywood. Welcome to Hollywood,

babe. So then she, like, get signed and immediately dumps his ass. She's like, I got signed to SoundCloud cash. Welcome to Hollywood.

Yeah, welcome. Oh, who's that? Is that, is that the, the hound from Game of Thrones? No,

no, it's just how Simon looks with all the Ozempic now. Yeah. He looks wild. Dude, when that... My man... When you got no fat,

like, the fat kind of keeps your shit looking plump a little bit, a little juicy. When that all goes away, oh boy. Anyway, he just... He really, like, there is a certain type of,

like, level of plastic surgery where you look like you're being drawn by an increasingly younger person. And like now, he just looks, because there's nothing on the face except eyes,

you know what I mean? So, right, right, right. It's just, it really looks like a poor drawing of Simon Cowell's face at this point. Yeah. Well,

hey, look, he's got, I'm sure, maybe, is he, no, he's not a billionaire, but he has, he's got enough money to, he's doing fine. Just,

I was worried about that, but I looked into it, and he is doing fine. He's got enough money. He's got enough money, and you got enough money to shoot margarine into the gaps or whatever people do to pump their faces up.

Shoot margarine into the gaps. Sounds like the least sexy person trying to describe sex. Yeah, I was shooting some margarine into the gaps. Jeffs. What do you? What?

Trump got up there and honestly there's a lot of clips of what he was saying but it all boils down to the same shit. He's lying and just making shit up. So that's what he did. He got up there. He was saying stuff about

oh, we got it right. It's there to kick off this thing. He's like Iran's nuclear capabedibes. I completely decimated. Okay. and we got answers. He started to say ancestors and said answers.

I'm just giving you the rundown without having to hear his voice. Then he said some more dumb shit about the reflecting pool, then claimed America's back. Spoiler alert, were not. What do you say with a reflecting pool?

Just that it's been... Just like going on about the vandalism. Like just keeping that shit going. Anyway, so then he did announce the Patriot games, which had a few people being like, huh? What's that?

Patriot games with Harrison Ford? Yes, exactly. With the one Jack Ryan. No, this was, he was saying this is like basically where we're going to have the student athletes from across the nation compete in a games to end the debate on racial supremacy or something. It's basically, it sounded like sort of like whatever the prequel was to full-blown hunger games. Right. Where they're like, what?

We're just like giving you a fun contest. And the losers will eventually die. Yeah. Yeah, and then they're like, no, but if you want to live, you have to kill the other children. Yeah. Go. And then you get, like, as much food as you want. So, yeah.

I don't know, dude. And you can get a sick outfit and hang out with, uh, fucking Woody Harrelson. Sounds like a cool night to me. Oh, Woody Harrelson is in that movie. Yeah, I just remember. I've, I recently saw like one of the first ones. I was like, what the fuck is this shit? Um, anyway, so then one part that is just kind of interesting was Trump was talking about, like, he's like, wait, do you see?

He's like, deferred the job. life celebrations would be so beautiful. Please come. And also please come. I'll be there. Make sure you. Please. Please. I'm begging you. Please visit me. It's lonely here in the home. He's on some Jeb Bush shit.

It is interesting to like have this version of him where like he's saying the like in the past, we would cover what he's saying and be like, how are people buying this shit? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Nobody's buying it anymore. No, not at all. So this is what he said. He goes, you got to come through for the fourth of because he's like a fucking military flyovers, dude. We're going to have shit way better than that. So from today through July 10th, this event will showcase all 56 states and territories. There will be no military flyovers.

And I want to tell you something because they're going to be beyond flyovers. There'll be something like you've never seen. You get just a little tiny glimpse of it tonight. By the way, how good is our Air Force? How good is our... How good is our... How good is our air? They are serious planes.

When the bad guys see those planes come and they say we give up. When the bad guy see the plane, they say we give up. Unless it's Iran. In which case, we give up. Then we give up because we don't have the medal for this. The way he was like, oh, the flyover, like nothing you've ever seen. What you got was like a taste. It felt like a like a Batman villain who was like teasing.

Yeah, it feels like the beginning, like Joker. When Joker decides to kill everyone in Gotham and he's like. Come, come watch my parade. Come seeing it. I'm going to gas and kill you all. Beyond flyover. Oh, wait, do you see it? Like nothing you've ever seen.

Avert your eyes, children. So, anyway, uh, not much there, except for those things. So salute to America's birthday. Almost there. Two-fifty. Please come. Please. It's going to be amazing.

What could a, beyond a flyover even mean? Like, I'm, honestly, it felt like, I don't know. You're going to drop physical bombs on people. Yeah. I'm telling you, if you've never seen something like this, full-on-on-slop-blums. We're going to have 8-10 ward hogs doing full-on strafing runs on the mall. You're going to hear, bha-b-b-b-b-b-bing.

And people are going to try and run away and will, bing, bing, laser-guided, bing. Exactly. Have you heard of Vulcanon, folks? You're just going to hear. That was 7,000 rounds right there, folks. What else? What else is Donald Trump up to? Republicans are passing a war powers resolution. Then not.

Right. Yeah. It truly feels like to pass this or come close to passing this after the war is allegedly an L. Yeah. Yeah. Is truly like doing the like fake punch thing after somebody walked away like three minutes ago. Like right behind him.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I thought. But, like, it's not right behind them. And they're like, what did you say? Nothing. Nothing. Yeah, yeah.

Like, you do it like the door closed. Like, that's what I thought, bitch. And then the door opens like, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I forgot my keys. Sorry. Yeah, yeah. What were you saying?

Nothing. I'm sorry. You don't mean it. But yeah, earlier this week, four Republicans joined Democratic senators and passing a war powers resolution to remind Trump, he has to get approval from Congress to start wars. The resolution, quote, directs the president to remove United States, armed forces from hostilities against the Islamic Republic of Iran.

A little late for the, okay, whatever. Again, this doesn't really have any kind of enforcement mechanism, very symbolic. But given the House passed a similar bill like earlier this month, it does at least show the White House that Congress won't just fall in line unless your Senator Bill Cassidy, who, first of all, he's on his way. He's one of these people who's on their way out because Trump just backed his primary. opponent and that person won. And Cassie's like, I'm not going to get bullied. And he voted for this. Then Trump lost his mind on him and like went off on him.

And then he came back and he's like, okay, I'm actually changing my vote. So then the- Wait, you can do that? Well, they took another vote. And they, he was like, actually, we need to take another vote on this. This is where I'm at. And it's interesting because Bill Cassidy was one of the few Republicans that joined Democrats.

You know there was one Democrat that didn't vote for the War Powers Resolution and joined the GOP? You want to guess who that could have been? You know, fucking Carhart hoodie

wearing fuck bag? That could have been. Anyway. Federman. And so yeah, they got the, on paper now that this resolution

didn't pass. So Trump's like, wow, this is a real, this puts Iran on notice. It's like that you had a fucking tantrum and they changed

the vote. to something on a bill that had no whatever dude so he also stepped on his own mushroom yesterday too when he refused to sign a fucking affordable housing bill that passed with bipartisan support

you know because affordable housing is like a huge issue why because he was like rich people aren't gonna like it they've no we can't do this to them people got their houses now we can't just make that stuff cheap now no no no no no no no

Fair. Not fair. But really, the broad strokes of it was he wants this, the House to, like, basically, he just wants Congress to nuke the filibuster and pass the voter suppression save act. Is what it all boiled down to. Like he said, it was like, he gave all these other reasons, but really he's like, no, I don't want this until we sign the voting cheating bill. Right, right.

Which is so wacky because, A, you're going to shit. Like, if you're worried about midterms, why shit on a bill? that your party can actually somewhat point to as like a net positive. Because, oh, right, because you're a narcissist. Yeah, he just wants it. He wants the reason for winning to be his idea. He wants it to be his. I did the Save Act and we can cheat and do the thing.

Well, but it's weirder too because it's like he doesn't, it's like the afford, like obviously Republicans are like, what the fuck? What is he doing? Like, we got this thing past because we kept saying we need something to be able to campaign on that. We're doing something about affordability, like the thing right now. that we're getting killed in in terms of support. And so saying fuck all and we need to steal this thing is one of the most backwards idea because he knows affordability is tanking popularity,

but he acts like it isn't a problem because then he would have to acknowledge that he could be doing more. So then the solution is to cheat, but he doesn't want to call it cheating, but he knows that's what it is. Right. But I think he's not interested winning elections at this point. be like on political merits, right? He just wants to win. He just wants to win by cheating.

Like that's, he's fucked. He's in my authority with that too. He's in a minority with that too. He's just like, yeah, no, none of this matters if they're actually counting votes. But then the problem is too, the way the Save Act is worded, like, you know, this voter suppression bill, there's like some of the provisions in that, like, it would, some of the voter ID stuff is so strict that

it would almost be like, the only thing you could bring is like a fucking passport to vote. Yeah. And then like, that's not going to help your fucking voters, dude. It'll just like make it so like 20, like a couple dozen people vote. Yeah, like 14 Democrats swing every election because they had a fucking passport. It's like, anyway, not even that is well thought out because I think this has been told to Trump many times. It's like we don't need to like, if we can just get a couple things going, maybe we can win on the merits. No, you probably won't. But

here they are. Yeah. And he's also, you know, he has the most important thing to him is the election that he lost to Biden. And so he just wants to fix that to go back and win that election. Gotta win it. Gotta win. Anyways, uh, let's take a quick break.

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We're back. And I told you we weren't going to talk about Trump. So Pete Hegseth. Ah. Young Washington. Young Washington himself. I don't like his legs. Miles, I don't like the legs on Pete Hags,

watching him do, watching him try and bench press, looking like a Muppet. Can you match he bench pressing? He breaks his femur somehow? Like, oh, fuck. So back in April,

he announced that the U.S. military would no longer require the annual flu vaccine for troops, um, aka American warriors. Hell yeah. He said it was, uh,

the flu shot rules are absurd overreaching mandates. that only weaken our war fighting capabilities somehow. Like, I don't know. What are you by weak in? What's weak about preventing an illness? What does he think? Like, I can't even understand where, like, he thinks he's coming from on this one. The only way this makes sense is if the flu actually gives you superpowers when you have

the flu. Right. In which case, you're like, yeah, but no, we want everybody with the flu. Yeah. experts have pointed out in the understatement of the year that Hegstaff's decision was a serious lapse in judgment that would make people sick and weaken the military's capability. No way. A guy with whiskey demons and compromised judgment?

Okay. I think this guy's got, I'm going to say it. I think his judgment is not great on this one. So the Army, Navy, and Air Force have, so that happened in April. Um, it recently seems as though the Army, Navy, and Air Force have quietly started requiring flu shots for basic trainees again. Um, and if, in case they want America. Because, yes, they've decided they hate, oh, wait, no, there's a massive flu outbreak in the Air Force right now. Oh, right, right, right, right. Well, just because people were taking the flu vaccine. Right. About, uh, 40% of new trainees at joint base San Antonio.

had flu vaccination. So 60% didn't. And a June outbreak began right away. So far, 222 recruits have gotten sick or were hospitalized. One person's died, although unclear if the cause of death was flu or not. But it was a cause of death was not enough flu is what

not enough flu. This guy was weak. So stupid. Like, it's one of the most, it's just so again it makes sense because these people have no there's no foresight to anything it's purely just like the idea of destroying whatever they see is the status quo that they don't like anymore and being like and that's good once you destabilize things because that's not there rather

being like what happens if I kick out this structural support post right yeah yeah it's like they love saying fuck around and find out but like fuck around implies a certain uh you know, Genesee qua, like a certain, like, I don't know, like fun to it.

Like, we're throwing caution to the wind. This is like, this isn't even fucking around. It's like pressing the button labeled, this will cause a flu outbreak that all the experts about the flu say,

will cause a flu outbreak. And then finding out that it causes a flu outbreak. It's like, yeah. No, it's so childish. It's like childish rebellion where it's like, you're going to burn your hand if you touch that.

Yes. Uh-huh. Yeah. Watch this. I bet their Jenga strategy is crazy. You imagine playing Jenga with his motherfucker? Yeah. No, he also said that this is crazy that they're not preventing against the flu for a bunch of people who their full-time job is shouting into each other's mouths. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, good, good, good. It's good to have the place where... I feel like like the...

Space Force, Air Force, like a lot of pilots all sort of end up in that same, that, the same Air Force base. So it's like, you're like fucking over multiple branches, like at the same time by having them all there and being like, yeah, 60% of the people who are just going raw, no vaccine. That's crazy that that many people aren't doing the, aren't doing flu shots. I mean, I guess that's probably not that far from general population numbers, but get your flu shots, y'all.

It's, you're not just protecting yourself. You're protecting anybody who's older who you come into contact with. I remember it wasn't until like we started doing this show was when I started regularly getting my flu shot. Yeah. Like in 20s or it's probably around 2016. Once you think about it, you're like, oh, yeah. It's not throwing caution to the wind for yourself. It's like throwing caution to the wind for other children and the elderly.

Yeah, exactly. other people who are immunocompromised. The longest time, like, I never get the flu. Why the fuck do I need the flu vaccine? I never get it. I'm like in my 20s. I'm good over here.

It's just weird. Like, I'll go to like a party and then everyone around me gets it after. It's weird. I don't know. Maybe I got some sick-ass jeans, but yeah. Yeah. You got to keep each other safe. But I guess that's Mary.

I like that even just for the Air Force. Like, you know, like the military about keeping America safe. They don't even want to keep themselves fucking safe. safe from anything. That shit's weak, bro. That's it only, you had only thought you if you believe in. Yeah.

That was like my cousin when he said with condoms, like when he was in college, he was like, bro, I'm not worried. He's like, he's like,

if you worry about shit, you're going to get something. That's definitely true. And I'm like, bro, you are fit to be this secretary of defense with that kind of mindset.

That shit, STDs come from worrying about STDs. I mean, that is the most 19 year old shit my cousin said at the time. he's a he'd be he's a responsible mind over body bro yeah but he definitely i i lord that over him all the

time i'm like bro whenever he's like it shows his intelligence now i'm like you know you used to say some dumb fucking shit right they must hate to see you coming um should we talk about narcsucker nerd oh man dude what's going on why is everybody hating on my man's his idea because his ideas fucking suck He's not good at ideas anymore. I mean, I don't know. Like a lot of the headlines recently was like, I think it was one of the,

someone in the C-suite at Meta was like, dude, this is the lowest morale has been, I think, like, ever. Or one of the lowest times it's ever been at the company, just generally with the state of things. They said the last time it was as bad was when the Cambridge Analytica scandal came out, or not scared, just like it was known to people, uh, what,

how Facebook was collecting our psychographic data. And then it could be packaged to, you know, like manipulate people, like through social media posts and things like that. It feels like they average a story a month that is just like, oh, they had all the evidence. Like, it's like, you know, tobacco executive caliber just being like, oh, look at these graphs of what it says our product does to people. How do we cover that up and keep doing it? So based on this, like, line just keep going up when we're saying like this is kind of like

the fallout from our. product. What's happening like further down the graph that we can't see? Is it go down eventually? No, no, no, no. Keeps going up. Keeps going up forever. Oh, okay. Cool. Well, yeah, there's also like stuff about like they're like they're going to stop their employee surveillance program. But it just feels like he's stopped innovating and just been chasing the fucking dragon to keep up with the tech world. And I think ever since the Metaverse, he's been dabbling in like AI, many other things, not very successfully, even though the commercials are like, or even when you're on Instagram, like, do you want to use AI?

Meta AI? No. No, I'm just trying to. Hey, can we offer you some AI? No, I'm just trying to send someone a Discord link in a DM, man. The fuck do I need AI for it. The fuck out of my face. I was just on Chapo talking about how like AI is now transitioning to this model of like tokens

where they're going to be like start trying to charge people for AI for the thing that like people have been kind of using up to this point. And like their whole case. Gotta go well. Their whole case is like built on like things like Uber and Amazon Web Service where like they spent a lot of money in the beginning to, you know, build something that then people became reliant on. Right. And they just like haven't bothered to build something people became reliant on. So they spent all that money.

It's like way more than any other product in history. Like way more than Amazon Web Service, way more than Uber. Then Uber merely being like, download this app and you drive your own fucking car. Yeah, now it's just, they've like spent all this money to be like, the future is amazing. And then they don't have anything to show for it. And they're already at the point where they're like, we're going to have to start charging people for this thing that they already don't use or like that much. Yeah. And we like have to force people.

Like that is one of the things that people, the morale problem at Facebook and a lot of tech companies, that the employees are being forced to use AI and it's just like not, it doesn't work that well. A lot of people who like do a job well before AI and like this is making it harder for me. Yeah. But yeah.

The other apps, they did the right thing. They had like a drug dealer's perspective, right? Like usually, have you seen a movie about hustling? Bro, you let the fiends get the first one for free. Right. And then they're like, well, I fucking need that. and then they come in like, oh, you're hooked now. Okay, here are the prices now.

Because I have you addicted to my substance. Now they're just like, hey, you want to. You want to eat a rat shit pie? No. All right, well, it's 50 bucks for a bite. Right. You know all that rat shit we've been giving you for free? Yeah, kind of.

My boss said I was supposed to be eating it, but I've just like kind of been pretending to. It's not that helpful. It makes me feel sick. Oh, yeah? Well, now it's 50 bucks. Oh. Boom.

What's up, bro? I'll see you in Dubai, baby. All right. Well, anyway, Sucker Nerd has a new idea. Okay? Something fucking genius, something cutting edge. I'm just going to read this excerpt. Mr. Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta,

recently dispatched a small team at his company to create a smartphone app similar to Polly Market in Kalshi. Oh, okay. Two employees with knowledge of the matter. Yeah. Users would not wage your money. Oh, new idea. And the app would probably,

would probably rely on a video game-like point system instead, though the company had not ruled out the eventual use of real money, Betty. Jesus. So you're coming up with just baby Kalshi? Yeah, yeah. Like, you're fucking, co-che for kids. Yeah, yeah. That is even, that's like worse.

When you're just being like, what about a shittier version of another thing? is where the meta ideation is right now. It's, um, his career since the social network has really validated the Winklevost twins. Like, that he's just a person who like takes people's ideas and like he got, he got one good one when he was at Harvard.

Yeah, he got the good one at that when he was, did the Facebook. But since then he's, he came out. like, all right, I got the next one, guys. And it was fucking a cartoon version of yourself floating around in a space, not doing shit. His career is like Jha rules.

and then like around the metaverse is when 50 cent started beefing with Jarl. and completely ended Jarlow's career. So like, yeah, meta, like just like with Jarlowl, he was like, halla, halla. And he's like doing his songs with J-Lo. And he's like, ah, are you really? And then once 50 cent was like,

I'm, exposing you you're a fucking herb his stock went down except in this case he himself is 50 cent also he's the one exposing himself he created 50 cents so he's jar rule who then created 50 cent in a lab to then own him with his own idea and now he can't get yeah well he can't get back up so i don't know man good luck uh good luck sir we're all rooting for you um those are some of the things that are trending on this Thursday, June 25th. We are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show. Until then,

be kind to each other. Be kind to yourself. Yep. Get your vaccines. While you still can, get your flu shots. Naval, Air Force. In your naval. In your naval. Oh. I remind you that fucking scene in the Matrix.

You start giving us shots in our asses again, I think. I think that's, that would get more people in more. A, uh, doc. You're like, what? Because then you also don't have to look at it, you know? And also there's like a little king. Hey, do you mind if I look back at it? What do you do?

Hey, man, give me that hand mirror real quick. Okay. All right. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. We will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. The Daily Zykeyes is executive produced by Catherine Law.

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