Shapiro’s Pro-ICE Film Leaked, PropagandaLand 10.02.26

0:05 I got to find a way to get my hands on this full Ben Shapiro script.

0:11 Oh, my God.

0:12 Just so many people are so many outlets have are claiming they have their hands on the full script. I'm like, come on, Internet. Leak this fucking thing.

0:21 Yeah, I want to read that bad.

0:23 People do a fundraiser table read or something with this nonsense.

0:26 That would be so cool. I'm in. I'm in for that.

0:29 Come on, hackers. I'm going to call in all hackers. Get me that script. Anonymous, we haven't reached out to you for a long time. We've been respecting your anonymity, but come.

0:43 On, guys.

0:43 But Terry... I need that script.

0:45 I hate using your name, Terry, but Terry, make with the fucking script, guy.

0:49 Let's go.

0:49 Man, he does work hard. You gotta give him that.

0:54 Anonymous or Ben Shapiro?

0:55 Shapiro, it's like, how do you have the time to do that?

0:59 He's got a motor. He's got a motor. I wish he didn't.

1:04 It's always the case.

1:06 It's always the case.

1:08 Well, see, Jack, you've experienced some success with your creative endeavors, unlike him. So, you know, you're coming from a different place than just the fires of regret that are powering Ben Shapiro.

1:19 Wakes up in a cold sweat every morning. No, I just... The next one's going to be a hit, babe. I'm telling you, this is.

1:27 I can only strike out so many times.

1:30 This has to be the one.

1:31 It's hard being a dim-witted liberal piece of scum.

1:37 It's not easy. Oh, man.

1:40 It's hard being a dim-witted liberal.

1:42 I know, man.

1:43 It's all this blue hair dye is getting to my brain.

1:45 Yeah. Oh, God. I just am having trouble breathing through our matching COVID masks. Hello, the Internet, and welcome to Season 458, Episode 5 of Der Daily Zeitgeist! Yeah! This is a production of iHeartRadio. It's a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness through the day's news. We also have a new non-news history version of the Daily Zeitgeist dropping each Monday morning called The Iconograph, where we do a deep dive into the Zeitgeist through the lens of a different... icon on monday we dropped uh selena before that we dropped oprah you get an episode you get an episode if you yeah you can all get it you we don't run out we don't fake run out of episodes like do you guys use

2:41 the libby app The what? Libby is like the... The fruit company's app? The public library app. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

2:49 Oh, no.

2:50 And they do false scarcity of their audiobooks where they're like, sorry, we're out of this audiobook. You've got to wait for the other person to return the audiobook. I'm like, come on, Libby. They do that with e-books, though, right? I guess they got to, yeah.

3:04 It's a rights issue.

3:04 It's insane.

3:05 I know.

3:06 But we should start doing that with this podcast. Just 10 episodes can be listened to at a time.

3:13 Be awesome the hack that people do though is like they throw their like you know e-reader on airplane mode so it never actually connects to the internet and then the font like the the book it just stays there and then you can read it as long as you want without having to renew and it doesn't affect like the next person borrowing it because once that window hits it becomes available for the next person so.

3:35 It never tells you it's expired yeah so i'm told Do.

3:39 You think you've got to keep your phone on airplane mode the whole time just to read the book? I don't know. Interesting. I don't know. Doesn't sound foolproof to me. Anyways, those episodes drop on Monday with Icon of the title. Right now, right here, it's Friday, October 2nd, 2026.

3:55 Yep, it's International Day of Nonviolence. You hear that, President Trump? Try that for a second.

4:02 We could use that.

4:02 Maybe stop warring around. It's World Smile Day. It's Kids Music Day. National Name Your Car Day. I never did that.

4:11 And shout out all the custodians. It's National Custodian Day.

4:14 That's a good one.

4:15 Yeah.

4:16 Yeah. Shout out to the custodians. I'm going to give a reserved shout out to kids music. If it's music by children, specifically for like the people they know, I will not give a shout out to music for children because kids bop is a personal hell.

4:34 Wow.

4:35 You got to stop.

4:36 You got to stop doing the kids bop, man. I'm telling you, you should listen to the original albums. But the original albums are way better, dude.

4:42 I don't know why. The original kids bop albums?

4:44 No, like the songs are based on, you always listen to the kids bop versions for some reason and base your opinion on that. Listen to the real Kendrick Lamar songs.

4:52 Nah, kids bop's actually better. Love the kids bop, not like us. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Potatoes O'Brien. Shout out to the member of the Discord who just took another picture of a frozen bag of Potatoes O'Brien in the grocery store. Thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Oh, hey, it's Miles Gray, a.k.a.

5:18 Fielder Conjures. Distortion reality.

5:23 He always seems to be running us a sordid scam.

5:28 His kink is twisting all of our psychology.

5:33 Oh, if fielders around, airplanes stay off the ground.

5:37 Whoa!

5:38 Okay, shout out to Snarkula for that one. I was just getting real, real, I was in reminiscing mode over the Jamiroquai VMA performance that happened in the late 90s and saying, that's when they peaked. Thank you to Snarfila for that one.

5:52 That's when we peaked, man. The Jamiroquai VMA performance.

5:56 Just as a you and I personally or.

5:58 As a collective? As a species. I feel like Nathan Fielder. I could really see him rocking a Jamiroquai head at some point. You know, just try to get in the mindset of mystery. There's probably a picture already.

6:13 Yeah.

6:14 Miles. Yes. We're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a very funny actor, comedian, podcast host, streamer, one of our very favorite guests, You know him from so many things. Son of Zorn, Superstore, 21 and 22 Jumps Street, Twitch. You can catch him on stand-up stages near you. Check his website. A bunch of comedy live dates coming up. You can find out about all of them on johnnypemberton.dog, which is a good name for his website because he is the brilliant, the talented Johnny Pemberton! Pemberton!

6:50 Who let the pimp in? I did not. Who let Pemberton in? Zoom did. It did.

6:59 Oh, hell yeah. There it is, man.

7:02 That was really good. That was really good.

7:04 Zoom.

7:05 Zoom.

7:06 That's better.

7:07 Anyone calling you Victor Pembinyama yet?

7:10 Oh, my God. No, I wish.

7:11 Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm just Pemby.

7:13 Because I think we're saying we refer to you as Pemby, and then we're like, dude, Pembinyama, bro.

7:18 I like Pembignana. Pembignana. It's a Pembignana.

7:21 Pembignana.

7:24 It's the circle of John. Okay.

7:28 Guys, check out johnnypemberton.dog so you can see that live.

7:33 That's what I do. It's an hour of that. It's an hour of Lion King covers.

7:37 Just chanting. They're like, you're going to tell jokes?

7:39 No, he does Scar, and then he does Pumbaa the next night. And then I do... Yeah, people come to all of the shows.

7:46 Yeah, yeah.

7:47 Every character in The Lion King, every show is different from a different perspective. I was at the Timon show. Oh, you were at the Timon show. Timon is my favorite.

7:54 Can I say that?

7:55 Timon is my favorite, yeah.

7:56 Hell yeah. Nina Timon. We'll allow it. We'll allow it.

8:01 Nina Timon. It sounds like a guy from New Zealand. Oh, I love Nina Timon.

8:06 Nina Timon. Nina Timon.

8:08 Nina. Nina Timon.

8:10 Yeah.

8:11 Absolutely. Absolutely.

8:14 Piumba and Timon. Piumba. I feel like for that live show, you would have to come up from the back of the audience, right? And come forward.

8:21 That's my style. Where is he? Here he is.

8:24 Where is he? He's amongst us. Walking down the road.

8:26 He's amongst us.

8:27 Lightly touching the backs of the ears of the people in the crowd as you walk.

8:32 Oh. Johnny, we're thrilled to have you here. Yeah. Happy to be. All the way from Toronto. Toronto.

8:41 I know.

8:41 Toronto, Canada.

8:43 Yeah.

8:43 Doing some shows here.

8:45 They're going to let you stay or they're going to kick you out? I don't know.

8:48 You know, it remains to be seen.

8:49 Yeah.

8:50 We'll find out.

8:51 Yeah. Yeah. Let us know. Let us know.

8:53 I mean, I wouldn't mind staying here for a while, but also nice to go home.

8:58 Yeah. Sure. There's that too. There's that too. Yeah. Miles and I were in Toronto. We were saying before we started recording, last TDZ live show. Yeah. Toronto. So a live show so off the chain, it started COVID.

9:14 Yeah.

9:14 Sorry about that.

9:15 Yeah. Yeah.

9:15 And we are sorry for that. But we're thrilled to have you here. We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell the listeners a couple of the things that we're talking about. New Shapiro just dropped. What? A new movie script leaked from Ben Shapiro. From his Daily Wire outfit.

9:33 We just got eyes on Run, Hide, Fight.

9:36 Mm-hmm.

9:36 Infidels. Infidels, yeah. We just got RHFI, sorry. All right, so yeah. RHF Infidels, as we're all calling it.

9:44 It should be just called Run, Hide, Fight. That's a good name. But Run, Hide, Fight Infidels?

9:48 That's the first one. So this is the sequel, Johnny. The first one.

9:52 Are you serious? Yeah.

9:53 The first one was a movie that was independently produced about a girl during a school shooting. who has to fight back.

10:03 Wait a minute, you're telling me this is independently produced?

10:05 Yeah, the first one was independent. It was not a studio film. And the Daily Wire was like, this kind of fits with our whole shit. And so they went and put their name on that one. It didn't do very well. And then they were like, this is a franchise, actually, and made Run High Flight Infidels. And we got to see what. It looks like when they write a movie from scratch and now we're getting to see what the followup to that looks like. It is truly amazing. Like for people who are like, we're all about free enterprise, that they exist in this world where they don't have to make any money. They just have billionaires just donating money to them nonstop all the time. And they're like, yeah, you, you guys want socialism. That's bad. It's like you live in,

10:52 a bubble of just like state funding where the state is billionaires. But anyways, they've got a new project coming. Apparently it's being shot right now. And so we're going to give you some little snippets. It's about ice. And apparently the way they got the community to agree to it was by being like, it's a movie about ice.

11:12 And everyone was like, well, clearly it's an anti movie. And they were, people seem surprised to find out what the.

11:22 Did you guys see the first one?

11:25 I've seen clips of it, yeah. We saw the clips that everybody else. Have you seen any of the clips?

11:29 I think I have, but it's sort of like I'm now kind of slowly re-remembering that was a thing. It was a little while ago, right?

11:36 Yeah, it was probably like four weeks. Oh, the first one came out?

11:38 Are you talking about Infidels?

11:40 Or the first Run Hyde fight was 2020, I think.

11:43 Oh, okay. Yeah, that was a while ago. Yeah.

11:45 Yeah, yeah. And then Infidels just came out. Like, Treat Williams was in it? Oh, really?

11:51 Yeah, and that guy, Oli Sholokhan, who played Carlton in the new Bel-Air.

11:55 He was in the Fresh Prince reboot.

11:57 There's people who were in there who were like, why are you in this?

11:59 Wait, what?

12:00 Yeah, I think it was one of those things, too, where they're like, I guess the Daily Wire will distribute it.

12:05 And then people are like, wait, what the fuck? I thought I was in a regular propaganda movie.

12:09 Is it on YouTube now or something, or is it just nowhere?

12:13 It's on Daily Wire +.

12:15 Oh, my God. So it doesn't exist. Basically, it doesn't exist.

12:18 How dare you? How dare you?

12:20 As a longtime subscriber, it's right there for anyone.

12:23 It's right at your fingertips for anybody who wants to get it.

12:25 Wow, that's hilarious.

12:27 One at a time. They are using Libby rules. You can watch it one at a time. All right. We're going to talk about that. We're going to talk about... So Obsession, the movie that took the box office by storm over the summer, is being submitted in the musical or comedy category of the Golden Globes, which some people are confused by that. I think it's good that it's being submitted there. Or I think it's instructive and that it means that we should create awards for that. horror movies and like movies that are genre movies it should they should have like a category so we have a place to honor these movies instead of having to be like there's actually parts that when you go and see it like people laugh nervously so uh we'll talk about

13:18 that we'll talk about the america's new propaganda theme park uh which is not happening because it is a Massive scam. And just generally, like, if you're in the market for pulling off a massive scam and just, like, creating a slush fund, I got to tell you, failed theme parks is the way to go.

13:39 Really?

13:39 Yeah. Oh, yeah. Like there's a, you know, we've been doing these icon episodes and every icon has a failed theme park. Like there's a Garfield one in Indiana that people invested like tens of millions of dollars in. I don't think ever broke ground. There's a Dracula one always in development in Romania that has never broken ground. I think I just revealed what our next icon is, but there's, yeah, there's a bunch of them. Oh, I want it. I mean, I also did say, this next icon wants to suck your blood. So people might have figured out who the icon was.

14:16 Peter Thiel?

14:17 Yes, Peter Thiel. Then we'll talk about a new Tombstone pizza that is going to have candy corn on it. Probably the most upsetting story of the day. All of that, plenty more. But first, Johnny, we do like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are?

14:36 Okay, this was a tough one because I feel like I don't search for anything but the most boring things ever. Yeah. Yeah, I look so much. I was trying to find out if a city council person in my neighborhood is, is Republican or not. It's like, that's all I'm trying to do is find out if someone like who I see yard signs of what their party affiliation is, but it's so hard to find now because they, they want you to not know because technically it's not a political position, right? Like the council people aren't supposed to be considered that. Right.

15:10 This political office I'm running to hold does not entitle you to know what my politics are. it's funny yeah yeah.

15:19 Otherwise god i i honestly forgot about forgot about this one i think mostly i've been looking at stuff about florida because i was in florida for about a week and all these little small towns trying to find what the um you know this this is what i've been looking up the most actually this is actually interesting is a recipe to make a milk wash tequila punch Milk wash?

15:41 Yeah.

15:41 It's a punch. So do you know about, is it a clarified, clarified milk punch?

15:46 Yeah, it's clarified. But you take this, you take the cocktail and you run it through, you don't run it through, you mix it with a bunch of whole milk and it coagulates and curdles and the curdles grab all the impurities of everything. And if, after you run it through like three or four times, you have like this clear or almost clear beverage that is like, oof, it's good.

16:06 It's like velvet. So I've been Googling like crazy, like, you know, the proportions and everything. So I'm trying to make one for my friend's birthday this weekend.

16:13 So has that, is that a thing you've tried? Margarita milk up like cocktail before? Cause I've had a clarified milk punch cocktails and I'm like, I love for the same reason. There's like that fat, there's like a little bit of decadence from the milk. That's like, that's nice on a cocktail.

16:29 Cool.

16:29 The curdled shit out. Yeah.

16:32 Well, what happens is, is you filter it. So you have, when you mix the alcohol and all the juices with the milk, it curdles it, but you run it through like a, like a tea towel, like a mesh strainer.

16:43 Sure.

16:43 And it drips out real slowly. But after you run it through about three, four times, it, It's perfectly clear because all the impurities and stuff get attached on to the milk proteins. You know what it is? It's a scientific thing. It's a chemical process that I don't fully understand.

17:02 It's a little science experiment for yourself. Milk wash is also just like a fun combination of words.

17:08 It is.

17:08 It also sounds kind of gross to a lot of people if you say like a milk wash rum punch.

17:14 Try to wash my clothes. It's a milk wash.

17:16 The other term is like fat washing cocktail.

17:19 Fat washing.

17:19 And that's also another version.

17:20 I don't like that at all.

17:21 Yeah, it sounds gross.

17:22 Let's go back to milk wash.

17:24 Milk wash.

17:25 That thing needs a milk wash if I've ever seen it.

17:27 You can do it with like baking grease and stuff, which I'm not doing that. I'm not putting that cocktail through baking grease.

17:33 That was like the original big fat washing trend where it's like, dude, you.

17:36 Got a fat wash bourbon, dude? You put baking, fat wash, bourbon.

17:40 Yeah.

17:42 Now I got my two favorite things, bacon and bourbon.

17:46 Maple bourbon, honey brown glazed bourbon bacon ball, special bourbon whiskey glazed bacon, honey glazed maple.

17:58 I actually bourbon washed this bacon and then bacon washed this bourbon.

18:03 Oh, you're going to love this. I McGriddle washed this gin.

18:07 It's fucking delicious.

18:08 This is McGriddle washed gin? The worst of both worlds.

18:14 Yeah, that sounds incredible, though.

18:19 I can't wait to try. I'm going to try it out on Saturday.

18:22 Yeah, I'm very curious how that goes.

18:25 You know who also is curious?

18:26 Me.

18:27 Yeah.

18:28 Are you going to blame someone if it goes south? You're like, I don't know what happened. This guy's ice is all messed up.

18:33 I blame you guys.

18:34 Yeah, that's fine. we're not there. You know what I think I like about milk? Uh, there, there's a part in Charlotte's web where they give the pig a buttermilk bath. And there's something that's always appealed to me about that to just be like, how is that? How does that, how's that a thing that would like work? I guess it would like make your skin all soft. You mean marinated? Yeah, exactly.

18:55 But it's just how they clean them off.

18:57 Don't tell her.

18:58 Oh yeah. Sorry. We're just cleaning you off.

19:00 It's a, it's a pepper salt scrub. It's a scrub.

19:03 It's exfoliating.

19:03 Yeah. Yeah.

19:04 Yeah.

19:06 A little bit of mint.

19:07 Let's bourbon wash this fucker too, huh?

19:11 Let's soup wash this chicken.

19:15 Soup washed.

19:17 What's something you think is underrated?

19:20 Underrated. What did I write down here? Underrated. This is a kind of revelation for me. Slow down songs.

19:29 Oh, sure.

19:30 I was doing this for years. Like back when I was in college, it would slow down by the 33 and slow it down. Or I'd take by a 45 and slow it down to 33. Yeah, sure. And I'd play that on the radio. Sometimes I'd get yelled at. But man, it makes a song sound so good. Now all the Gen Z kids are doing this with like every song.

19:46 Yeah.

19:47 If you have a favorite song, chances are someone who... slowed it down perfectly and add a reverb to it right the best one is like billy idol eyes without a face that one is fucking hot man that one's like it just sounds so good.

20:01 Slow yeah The OG is, for me, the Jolene.

20:04 Jolene is the... Have you heard that one? I haven't heard that one.

20:11 The drum groove is so much funkier, like slowed down, but yeah, it's funny because so many singles now, you'll see like the regular single and then parenthetical slowed plus reverb.

20:20 Are you serious? That's crazy. Man, I can't believe how popular this is now. I feel like so ahead of the time because I used to slow down. I had a whole mix I made probably in 2005.

20:30 Wow.

20:30 Slow down.

20:32 Before any of these fuckers were born.

20:35 It was called Wrongful 33.

20:38 Wow.

20:39 And the best one I think I remember the most is Green Eye Lady. That one's really good. Slow down. It's that old psych song. I think it's by Bubble Puppy or something like that. I can't remember who it's by.

20:51 Wow.

20:53 And you almost did it before DJ Screw from Houston.

20:56 Oh, yeah.

20:57 Well, Screw, that was a little different.

20:59 But also.

21:01 He's got a whole bunch of stuff going on that I.

21:03 Did not have going on.

21:05 Yeah. That's a whole other thing.

21:09 It is uninteresting because the boomers were crazy about sped up songs with the chipmunks.

21:14 Yeah.

21:15 You know?

21:15 Chipmunks.

21:16 They couldn't get enough of that shit. Yeah. They sound like they're chipmunks when you play it at this beat. Isn't that neat?

21:23 Yeah.

21:23 And now we've come full circle.

21:25 Now we're slowing down again.

21:27 Slow plus reverb. I've always wondered... So I've never done lean, but they say that lean is very influenced by the chopped and screwed thing. And I've always wondered, when you're on lean, do things sound like that? Does it just sound cool?

21:42 I think it's the other way around, right? Because screw dropped his turntables and they would mess up and slow down sometimes by accident. So he just leaned into it. Oh, I just said lean. I didn't even miss. That was accidental. I mean, once at Disneyland, it was a very bad experience.

21:59 Yeah.

22:00 It was the worst.

22:01 Well, because Mickey Mouse's voice just sounded like a normal voice to you. What's up, Johnny? Welcome to Disneyland, old man. What's up, bro? What's up, bro? Ha ha, ha ha, ha ha. What the fuck?

22:12 Ha ha, Pirates of the Caribbean is closed.

22:18 What is something you think is overrated?

22:20 Walking fast as you're leaving the airport.

22:22 Hmm.

22:24 I'm sick of that shit.

22:26 I'm sick of this shit. I really am.

22:29 There's people, when you're leaving the airport, I travel so much now. Like, I get if you're late to your flight, that's one thing. But as you're leaving, it's like, just fucking stop lapping me. You're sure. Where are you going?

22:40 Wow.

22:41 These people who are like doing that thing, they got the four wheel suitcase, the business casual look, and they're just walking as fast as they possibly can. So just chill out, man. Just like fucking chill.

22:53 The worst are like when people are just trying to get off the plane faster than anyone with no regard for like, look, you're three rows behind me. Stop trying to elbow your way up to me right now. Like I'm getting a fucking bag down.

23:06 I got a kid.

23:07 We're all getting off this same thing at the same time.

23:09 Relax. Yeah.

23:10 If you're in a hurry, you know what's awesome?

23:12 Is running.

23:14 Running is the best. Yeah, when you look at the backpack and stuff and you're fucking running, like trucking to the airport, I respect that. I'm like, okay, get out of the way. But you're just like doing that passive aggressive, very fast walk.

23:27 Right, right, right. Just cruising through the terminal. You know what the worst is?

23:30 When you're on the moving walk, And you're walking on the walk side and someone like burns up behind you walking faster than you're walking.

23:38 That's me. That's me. I'm sorry, Johnny. But if someone's blocking, then I stop.

23:45 I'm not blocking. I'm walking. Oh, yeah.

23:47 If someone's walking, then I walk at pace. But if people are standing on the side and they're like not blocking, I scoot on by. I'm never trying to make it a thing with whoever's slower than me, though.

23:58 I don't even do movie walks anymore.

23:59 I'm done with it. I'm fully done.

24:01 No more escalators, upstairs only.

24:03 Good. That's where the margins are at, man. Yeah. That's how you're going to live to 99. Miles and I were just talking about it. We were in the office together. That's where the margins are right there. We were in the office together and we were both saying we never got in the habit of always taking the stairs. And now we will enter the office with somebody who's taking the elevator and then take the stairs. It's awkward sometimes.

24:23 Even though it's awkward, I just have it in me that I'm like, got to take the stairs always.

24:28 Yeah.

24:28 And the stairways also, we go in the stairway, it's always cool acoustics. There's nobody in there.

24:34 Yeah, it's like behind the scenes of the building. Nobody was supposed to see this.

24:40 If you want to scream, you can go ahead and scream in there. No problem.

24:43 Maybe not at an airport, but yeah.

24:47 Yeah, but usually not a private stairwell in an airport. But from the hotel, I'm going to belt one out. I'm going to fucking scream.

24:55 They thought Janet and Michael were in there.

24:57 Practicing.

24:58 Yeah. Scream video reference. Yeah, yeah. No, I got it. Directed by Mark Romanek. Ah! Those were not convincing screams to me. Because it was, ah! Yeah, yeah. Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson screams in the Scream video. I would have thought, you know, they gambled the whole song on Scream. No, didn't do it. Anyways, shout out to Michael Jackson. I don't know if you guys saw the biopic, but it turns out he was a really good guy. Fucking really good guy.

25:30 Yeah. They did a really good job at making him really just... I mean, I honestly did. I feel like, man, you really just took out all the bad stuff.

25:41 That's the sequel. All right. Let's take a quick break, and we'll be right back. And we're back. We're back. So I don't usually like when I have like a favorite filmmaker, I'm usually thinking of the director. You know, I rarely am like this is an auteur who I will follow anywhere. Kevin Feige, maybe. Yes, of course. You know, Marvel Cinematic Universe. But generally, it's not just whoever's behind the movie until now. Ben Shapiro has taken Hollywood by storm, and the libs in Hollyweird are getting worried, is what I'm hearing.

26:34 They're very worried.

26:35 You can't stop them.

26:36 Just because his movie has barely 20% on Rotten Tomatoes, he just knows that means 80% of the country doesn't know what the fuck they're talking about. Look, so now we have found out that the follow-up to Run, Hide, Fight, Infidels... It has begun. Production has begun. And it's a pro ice film being shot in Montana. And locals have confirmed, as well as journalists who are asking around, that this is a Daily Wire Ben Shapiro joint with the working title Pawn Shop. And it's about a pawn shop that's under siege from Antifa because they kidnapped one of their neighbors or wait. An MS-13 leader. Oh, got your ass, Antifa.

27:26 Who are you fucking trying to protect, man? Because these people are bad. The best thing, though, is that a few outlets have got their hands on the shooting script. And the bulwark so far has given us the most detail into what the fuck is even going on in this film. Just allow me to just read their description of this film. Quote, as pawn shop opens, two ICE agents in Minneapolis arrest the Latino man later revealed to be an MS-13 boss. Dim-witted liberal activists film and scuffle with the agents as they try to take their suspect away.

27:59 Then also, this is where it gets fucking really disgusting. Then the film's Renee Good stand-in enters, slamming her Subaru into the ICE van, described with the subtlety of a brick as disgusting. melanie 40 a fat.

28:14 Blue hair a fat blue hair character description again because everything's a blue hair uh the woman hair is a name for like old people from yeah but.

28:24 It's it's now become the name for you know uh someone who's um likes to shop at um multi-colored sign coffee shops.

28:33 Yeah yeah or or believes in their own rights because like you even see like you'll see interviews where They'll ask like conservatives like, how do you know how to spot a liberal? And so many of them go, they probably got dyed hair.

28:42 Right.

28:43 They're like, you like you? Like, aren't you too old to have no gray hair? What are we talking about?

28:48 What exactly?

28:48 What's the what's the line here? Creative expression with your hair color.

28:52 And then it goes on.

28:53 It says the woman blasting NPR revs up again and fatally hits ICE agent Juan with her car. Then his partner, quote, Mike. shoots her in a justifiable killing.

29:07 I love rolling, rolling around my liberal neighborhood, blasting all things considered. With your blue hair.

29:14 With the windows down.

29:27 Fuck Warren G. I'm fucking with Warren all of me, motherfucker.

29:30 Yo, Steve Inskeep and I are coming back for you, motherfucker.

29:34 You do have to blast it because these fuckers are whispering. You can't hear what they're saying.

29:38 Kyle Rizdahl and I are coming for your kids.

29:40 Oh, hell yeah. Kyle Rizdahl, bro. Thank you.

29:44 So, again, this is from the script. And this is a disturbing depiction of a shooting. This is how they're trying to make it feel like this was a justifiable killing with ICE agents. It says Melanie reacts to the drawn gun with panic. She mashes on the gas as she throws the car into reverse, accidentally slamming Juan out of the way. He goes flying into the gutter, bleeding.

30:06 And as the car reverses, Mike fires twice through the windshield. The first shot hits Melanie in the neck below her COVID mask, the second above her COVID mask.

30:16 Oh my god.

30:17 This is too good.

30:18 It's crazy. Blood spatters on her passenger's parenthetical 40s female overweight forehead and matching COVID mask. This is what's fucking written in the script.

30:30 Yeah, this is just all... This is like anti-propaganda. This is the kind of thing where, like, this is so bad. The only people who are going to watch this are, like, people who are going to have a watch party in a blue hair watch party in Portland to watch this trap.

30:47 You watch it while we dye your hair blue and run a NPR donation drive. Yeah, yeah.

30:54 Just all along that Oregon-Idaho border. You know, a lot of people are going to be really loving it. So it goes on. From there, the ICE agent drags his suspect into the pawn shop with an Antifa mob hot on their heels. The stage is now set for a siege during which numerous Molotov cocktails will be thrown and shotgun shells will fly. Rest assured that no liberal piety will survive. Yeah, so pretty... I think, again, to your point, this...

31:22 this is for people who get blood lust from watching ice, you know, uh, to be violent in the streets, like essentially. And so there's also, they also have characters that conservatives love from the LA riots, AKA rooftop Koreans. Uh, again, this is a group of shop owners who during the LA riots were like, had guns protecting like their store.

31:46 And then a lot of conservatives like this because they like to reinforce the idea that you should be shooting looters.

31:51 Uh, And that's really what it's all about, baby. When the looting starts, the shooting starts.

31:57 Quote, a Korean grocery store joining the pawn shop introduces the idea, beloved by very online conservatives, of a rooftop Korean that will figure prominently in the film. In an apparent nod to Shapiro's ongoing struggles with more bigoted elements on the right, a treacherous heroin addict trapped in the shop is also a racist who calls a more enlightened conservative character a cuck.

32:20 A cuck. That was like one of those words.

32:24 Yeah.

32:25 A treacherous heroin addict.

32:29 So you got two conservatives in there. One being the stand-in for probably like the Groypers, who, you know, like the Nick Fuenteses of the world. And... And so they are calling the enlightened conservative or Ben Shapiro a cuck because that's all he hears now.

32:45 And he's like, no, I'm a chud. I'm not a cuck.

32:48 And actually, you're on heroin.

32:51 So you're a treacherous heroin addict who shouldn't be acknowledged at all.

32:57 So, yeah.

32:58 This has led to locals having a mixture of confusion and outrage to what's going on. One woman said she saw a bunch of dudes in tack gear in the street and there was no camera crew around. And she's like, what the fuck's going on? They're like, we're shooting a movie.

33:11 It's rehearsal. And you're like, uh, okay.

33:14 Yeah, it says, quote, Livingston resident Keegan Nashawn, a political organizer and reproductive health care access advocate, spent five hours shouting, Ben Shapiro is a cuck. Into a megaphone to the melody of London Bridge is falling down on the second day of filming. Nishan said people initially thought the film was anti-ice and the production has every right to do with their money as they see fit, as I have every right to protest with my time as I see fit.

33:38 It is clear this is a pro-ice film.

33:40 Yeah.

33:41 He said running his hand through his bright blue hair. Yeah.

33:44 Clutching his NPR tote bag.

33:46 Over the strains of NPR. Yeah. Blasting from his car stair, from the subwoofers, blasting out of the crook of his car.

33:55 Then he said, I must get back to my socialist commune and check on my sourdough starter.

34:01 Yeah.

34:01 Wearing his rap music jacket.

34:05 I do just love... The detail slamming Juan out of the way. He goes flying into the gutter bleeding. Yeah. He goes flying into the gutter is such good writing. Goes flying.

34:19 Yeah.

34:19 I'm sure that's in a lot of... As an actor, I'm sure you're used to reading that phrase.

34:23 Oh, yeah. It's a typical director thing. So this is the part where you go flying and then Melanie, she's going to go flying into you. So you guys collide in the middle. Vin Diesel, he goes flying, but he's in a car. everyone goes flying but we're all flying so we don't you don't you're all relatively flying so it's like anime where we're flying like ah.

34:44 You know yeah he usually goes flying yeah.

34:48 And then he just does narito run into one and he goes flying.

34:53 Right everyone's flying everyone's flying uh and you're all watching wearing matching covid masks npr covid masks.

35:00 Gripping in blue dye you know, this is the version that they want it, right. That they told everybody that the person like attacked someone with their car and they were, you know, in, in the hospital clinging to life until the video was released. It was like, the person looked like they were inconvenienced, you know, they stepped to the side and then fired the shots.

35:22 Yeah.

35:22 They have to have this kind of thing to help justify whatever's happening, but they're doing it in such a heavy handed way. Like Johnny, to your point, like, I don't even like, This isn't going to move the needle for anyone. Certainly people are going to watch this and go, you're right, Ben Shapiro. I should be more suspicious of the blue hair NPR people out here.

35:41 You can't get people to watch a good movie. You can't. It's impossible. Unless you have like $ 20 million to promote something, no one even knows anything is even happening anymore.

35:54 It's impossible.

35:55 This is something where it's just like... like an act of a, what do you call it? Like the action of doing it is the art.

36:03 Right, right, right.

36:04 Exactly.

36:04 This is performance art.

36:06 It's basically a form of, yes, conservative performance art.

36:09 There's a couple other details. It said like inside the pawn shop, we meet it's grizzled Hispanic owner and his son newly back from college and majoring in Chicano studies much to his father's chagrin. The son is dressed in a Che Guevara shirt and quote, listening to a pop song unfitting for a man, end quote.

36:26 What the fuck does that mean?

36:29 Again, because everyone's like, you don't even know if these people are straight or gay or whatever.

36:35 They listen to girl music. What the fuck is this?

36:38 What's going on here? I feel like this is like.

36:41 Upon shop security guard quips, they're lucky the boy didn't get a sex change. In case this instance of conservative humor. Oops, got a sex change. Yeah.

36:50 I like to get one in the morning and then switch back just before we record just to wake me up. Yeah, sure, sure. That's how quickly it happens.

36:58 They also describe, quote, an overweight liberal in a mobility scooter, quote, bellows as only one with morbid obesity can. Posing as an innocent laborer, the MS-13 member begs other characters to protect him. So again, anyone who's innocent is actually MS-13. And then every phobia, fatphobic, transphobic, whatever, xenophobic, all flavors just pushed into this, into one neat sloppy package.

37:26 All right. Should we talk about category fraud? I don't really care about category fraud, but this does seem like a new interesting level of it where obsession is being submitted to the musical or comedy category of the Golden Globes. Because I think it's just becoming sort of a genre category. Yeah.

37:45 The Martian, I think, really changed things.

37:48 Well, now you're talking about my favorite comedy. Yeah.

37:51 Was that when something as a comedy?

37:54 Yeah, that one for Best Comedy or Musical. Yeah, yeah.

37:57 Weird.

37:58 Begonia was submitted as a musical or comedy.

38:02 Right, yeah.

38:03 So... I just feel like maybe that because so the Oscars last year, we're like, we're going to do a thing where popular movies can be nominated in this like achievement in what is it? Box office arts or something.

38:18 Yeah.

38:18 And it's, it kind of sucks. It's like demeaning. It's, I do think like maybe we just do a category for genre movies the same way that like an animated movie can be nominated for like best animated movie. Um, But then it could also be like a Best Picture nominee if you want it to be. So like have a genre category for horror, comedy, so that those movies can like get in the mix a little bit. And then I feel like if you did that, the thing that...

38:48 would scare them the most is that if you're if you're just splitting out like the drama movies in the main category like that that would become the niche category that like nobody would pay attention to and everybody.

39:01 That's true though yeah i mean i'm kind of my counterpoint is that i think they it's cool that a lot of horror movies don't get awards because it's like the words are so slanted and tilt tilted in a way where they really are not representative whatsoever of what people like that.

39:18 Yeah.

39:19 To have them included is like not really, it's just, they already have their award of being like super popular among people who like movies so you know it's like yeah like they don't need the whole the award scene is such a it's just so screwy Yeah.

39:36 I mean, I wonder if that would help studios make more comedies if they knew they could get an Academy Award for making a comedy.

39:42 Yeah, and, like, get attention to comedies and horror movies and stuff like that. I mean, yeah, you don't really need it for horror movies because they already are just, like, making so many of those anyways. But comedy, it would be neat.

39:53 Look at, like, Terrifier, right? Like, Terrifier made a significant amount of money, and it'll never win any kind of award. But it's made, what do you call it, per capita or whatever, per... per budget, like more than almost any movie ever.

40:07 Yeah.

40:07 And they, they, all those award places probably hate that movie because it's kind of, you know, it's kind of trashy in a way. It's like a, but it's, I think it's fun and awesome, but it's like, it's not like elite.

40:19 It's not like that.

40:20 It doesn't have actors in it who are people who would be on good morning America.

40:25 Right.

40:26 I get your point too, Johnny.

40:27 Like people aren't being like, well, did the Academy say this was a good movie for something like that? It's like, At this point, it's like asking like what someone's like boomer grandfather thought of like, The GNX album by Kendrick Lamar.

40:38 I was like, I don't give a fuck what you do.

40:40 Yeah, who cares at all? All that stuff is... I remember the best thing ever was when Bong... Is it Bong Joon-ho? Is that the name of the director for Parasite?

40:47 Yeah, Parasite.

40:48 When he won that... When he won the Academy Award, he's like, it's so nice to win this American Award.

40:55 Yeah, this regional award.

40:56 Yeah, regional award.

40:57 I was like, oh, that's just like.

41:00 That was the most... That was just dripping.

41:03 I've won a lot of awards. Nice to win this regional award.

41:07 Thank you for this regional award.

41:10 Hats off, man. Is this just the true cap to your career as a filmmaker? And he was like, no. Why would this be that important to me?

41:22 The first thing is making the films. And then it's watching them. Then it's making more films. And then somewhere like seven or eight steps down the line is Oh, you won an award? That's cool.

41:32 That's fine.

41:33 Yeah, that's nice.

41:34 It's good.

41:35 Up there is resonance with the audience, I would say.

41:39 Or like, what's that like? Yeah. Anyways. Let's take a quick break and we'll talk a little bit about theme parks. We'll be right back. And we're back. We're back. And so the New York Times just published an article about a history-themed amusement park that is clearly just far-right propaganda. It's coming soon to the UK. It's being accused of weaponizing history to popularize the values of its founder, who is a right-wing person. And in the context of that, people are talking about this, a similar theme park that was attempted in America that was like similar scale. And it fell apart because the person who was funding it was just a guy, just one guy who made a bunch of money.

42:38 An old man with Pizza Hut franchise money.

42:42 Who made his money by just spreading pizza, a Johnny Appleseed of Pizza Huts in the 90s. And he was going to make an American history theme park. With a Americana theme. So it just it didn't seem like they had really done a lot of thinking about it beyond the like a one sheet that they had created. Right.

43:06 The elevator pitch line, the log line for it. Yeah, it's like an American Heartland theme park.

43:11 So what's the like kind of aesthetic going to be? Like Disneyland?

43:16 Yeah, Disneyland. That's Disneyland.

43:19 Right, yeah, yeah. Disneyland has American history themed sections. Yeah, imagine if that was everything, dude.

43:25 It's like a shitty, unrealized Disneyland with no vision and less work put into it with a core of the staff.

43:35 But there's something about this pitch that appeals to people that people are like, well, what if there's a, what if there's a Disneyland, but for me, like what, what if instead of Walt Disney, it was like shit that I like, you know? And like, as mentioned of top, like there's always theme parks being made. Like, This came up recently in the Field of Dreams story where the people who like built the baseball field on the where they shot Field of Dreams in Iowa have been like working on this massive like baseball theme park. Complex. Baseball complex.

44:13 It's just been like draining money, like just get bilking investors for years and years. Similarly, there was a Garfield one. There's a Dracula one. People are just like, oh yeah, what about a theme park that has a theme?

44:29 The fact that conservatives want this like it's again it's like in the way conservatives think where they're like well we need our own version of this thing that's very popular and it's like it's not popular because you need your own version you completely fail to understand the appeal of it it's not that well if we build a racist disneyland then we can shift culture it's like you don't you're not even actually tapped into what disneyland or a theme park does for people rather than you'd be like we can rewrite history in native american street or whatever they have to completely just Erase the history of indigenous American people.

45:04 They do have a Charlotte's Web theme for some reason.

45:07 Charlotte's Web?

45:08 Maybe you can take a buttermilk bath. I don't know. You might be able to. Yeah.

45:12 Or like, yeah, it's sort of like Nickelodeon where you get slimed or something.

45:16 Go get under the buttermilk bath bucket.

45:20 Isn't this kind of like, what's it called? Raystar? What's the.

45:23 Waystar Royco?

45:24 Yeah, it sort of feels a little bit like that.

45:27 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

45:29 So it fell apart in 2025 when the guy, the founder or the funder, sued his business partners, accusing them of concocting a predatory conspiracy of psychological manipulation to convince him that God himself was commanding him to pay for the project. And the way they did that is these businessmen created a fake nun named Sister Catherine, who, speaking for God, instructed him to pay for this theme park with his own money. And then he had to, like, all the money was in a trust for his five children and 45 grandchildren. And he, like. had a lawyer dig in to like try and claw that money back because he thought a nun was telling him he was going to go to hell if he didn't do that.

46:18 This is, this sounds beyond fiction.

46:21 This is truly, but that's where we live now. This is, it's all scams.

46:26 This guy, this guy who got built, he's 93 years old. So, you know, these guys were rubbing their mitts being like, yeah, do watch this tech fucking text him this shit.

46:35 What did it say?

46:35 One of, one of these fake texts was, uh, this, this is today's devotion. Today's world awake, my child. This is a day of great decision and urgency. I've spoken to you so very long preparing you for this juncture in time, but today you must finally make a crucial decision. The mission will not tolerate anything but absolute obedience and absolute cliff diving faith from the highest mount.

46:59 Above the sea. So can we get 60 million really quick? How's that sound?

47:05 That's the great thing about all this stuff is people are so dumb that it's like nothing will ever happen.

47:11 Yeah, sure.

47:12 You could give them a thousand years and they wouldn't be able to figure out building a fucking outhouse.

47:17 Right it's just people scamming each other back and forth yeah it's like what the where we're at in the american economy nobody's actually doing anything everyone's just scamming each other back and forth but it so he apparently wrote a book called the personal side of god the holy spirit speaks to a businessman the old guy which was made and published in 2021 so Either he was like talking about these fake messages from God that he was getting or they probably my guess is they used that.

47:48 They were like chat GPT ingest all of the shit that he says in this book about his personal relationship with God and then create a nun character to like, you know, appeal to his psychological.

48:00 Well, it was it was published by the or sold by the same company that's building the theme park.

48:06 Yeah.

48:06 You know what I mean? Oh yeah. Let's make that book. Gene. That sounds real good. So God was talking to you, right? We're going to love this.

48:15 We're going to publish your book. We're going to put it out.

48:18 Really? The one where sister Catherine was.

48:21 Yeah.

48:22 The same one, dude. God was talking to you. We got to get the word out, man. We got it. And then the people who were taking, like trying to get the money from him and who like that, they said that they like got millions of dollars from, And the only thing they did with the money was, like, spend it on themselves and their families. But they did, like, make a picture with them at, like, a roadside, like, breaking ground on a thing. So they, like, created a fake, like, groundbreaking ceremony. But they've come out and been like, we were actually scared of him. So it was his idea to do the God thing, which....

49:00 I mean, that one person's their defense is so fucking flimsy and terrible. He said, quote, it was a horrible situation for me because I shouldn't have done it. But the reality is he demanded it and then would threaten me. And I didn't know whether it was against he would hurt me or have someone hurt my family. I didn't know that because he. would he would constantly make references to like the godfather and stuff and i'm thinking man i'm italian and i said you know it scares me wow that's actually a pretty good defense you know Hey, you.

49:35 Know, I'm Italian, so it scares me. That's what I always say.

49:39 I don't know, because, you know, I'm like Italian defense.

49:44 I am Italian, so this scares me.

49:47 They also, lawyers on that side, got caught using chat GPT, like filing their legal briefs. They were like, oh yeah, these are all AI generated.

49:57 This entire thing sounds AI generated.

49:59 Yeah, it does. It really feels like you can just, this is... Where we're headed with AI, which is just like one person can do conduct the scam that 100 people would have been required to do before.

50:12 It seems like a parallel story to how like people are like navigating Trump in office, who's similarly a senile old person where people are trying to get whatever they can out of him. Like, oh, yeah, man, we're just going to tell him fucking lies to get stuff done.

50:26 Uh, but I do feel like a multimillion dollar grift involving Christianity is probably the most fitting tribute to America that you could come up with, you know, probably more fitting than what, what the theme park was going to do. Sure. Sure. Sure.

50:39 Add some pumpkins.

50:41 Yeah. A couple of them.

50:43 Yeah.

50:44 Why not? What about candy corn? How do we feel about candy corn? Uh, I hate it. And I've always said that. I think it's disgusting. Yeah.

50:50 I think you're kind of notorious against it, aren't you? Yeah.

50:53 I feel like Johnny, you've been on.

50:55 Yes. I remember this now.

50:57 I remember now. This was a while. This is a long time ago.

51:00 I don't, I don't like that. It looks appealing to me. And then I eat and I go to And I was like, I like it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't think the look is even like one of the better parts of it. Like, I don't think it looks good necessarily to me. It looks like little.

51:13 I think it looks inviting because it's such a part of like the visual aesthetic of Halloween that I'm like, this shit's got to bang.

51:22 Yeah.

51:22 I'm thinking about right now. I'm getting I'm getting I want it.

51:26 More than those Skittles? More than those tropical Skittles?

51:28 Of course not. But that's like, you know.

51:30 Okay, just making sure. Making sure you haven't lost the plot.

51:32 Skittles are like intergalactic, like, you know, witchcraft. And Candy Corn walked so Skittles could run.

51:40 Thank you. I'm a fan of icing. And Candy Corn has always felt like eating little pieces of icing. Sure. Which I'm here for.

51:51 But is that a pizza topping?

51:55 No. It could be. It could be, apparently. So in the right hands, but I don't think Tombstone is necessarily the right hands. Tombstone is releasing a pizza that comes with optional candy corn pizza toppings, one with pepperoni, one with five cheese pizza, creating a creamy combination of five premium cheeses. That perfectly compliments, or is perfectly complimented by the candy corn's surprising sweetness. Never been surprised by the sweetness of candy corn.

52:25 Whoa, that's sweet. Is this candy?

52:27 Is this candy?

52:28 What the heck is this?

52:29 I thought this was what actual corn looked like.

52:32 I thought this was cheese. Why is this sweet?

52:37 Yeah, I don't. I'm not against sweet. I don't mind having the occasional pizza with pepperoni.

52:47 Pineapple.

52:48 That's great. I was trying to say pineapple and I kept saying pepperoni. That's where I'm at personally. Still getting those texts from that nun? She's really scaring me, man. I would try it. I'll just say that. I would try it.

53:05 Comes in a frozen pizza?

53:07 Comes in a frozen pizza. I would try it maybe on a different... I would maybe order a good piece of pepperoni pizza and then sprinkle some candy corn on it.

53:14 Who wouldn't do that?

53:16 Me.

53:17 I feel like Miles. I feel like many people wouldn't.

53:19 If you wanted the candy corn on your pizza, you're going to be like, hmm, should I just buy.

53:24 This pizza that has the frozen.

53:25 Candy corn or can I just toss a couple candy corns on there, you know?

53:30 I'll do it to.

53:32 just to see if it, if it actually, if it fucks or not.

53:35 I don't know if it does. It is being sold as a specialty item online for barely more than a dollar per pie, which makes me somewhat suspicious of the non-candy corn ingredients.

53:46 Oh, this is not good. This is bad. This is bad, guys. This is some sort of a candy corn wash. This is a classic. This is a classic grip here.

53:56 A classic candy corn washing. Candy corn wash, yeah. Yeah, they have candy corn wash. Why are you falling victim to that?

54:01 My God. Not me. This is just one horror after another here.

54:05 I know.

54:06 And the company's called, why are they called Tombstone?

54:09 Oh, because like, that's, it's a good question. It's a classic, it is a classic, uh, frozen pizza brand that I'd never stopped to ask. Hey, that's a weird, that's a weird reason. It's like, what if you bought.

54:21 Mini hamburgers from a company called graveyard? Graveyard. We have a graveyard cheeseburger.

54:28 Yeah.

54:28 Yeah.

54:28 Like what the fuck is Tombstone?

54:31 So it happened because, uh, one of the founders, uh, were yeah they owned a place called the.

54:38 Tombstone they were like well we have to go with this.

54:42 They owned a bar a tavern that was across the street from a cemetery oh okay so that's how that's how it initially started and then it is a.

54:51 Good name for a bar i think tombstone's a fine name for a.

54:53 Bar yeah i was thinking that i was thinking they had like um the person who made tombstones also had a brick oven they made out of the same stones as the tombstones. They cooked pizzas.

55:04 That's pretty metal. Yeah, you're cooking up some lore that I could get behind. Imagine having a pizza.

55:09 Cooked on Edgar Allan Poe's stolen headstone or something like that.

55:15 Get this pepperoni poza.

55:17 Edgar Allan Roney.

55:22 Johnny Pemberton, such a pleasure having you as always on the show.

55:25 Thank you for having me.

55:26 Always.

55:27 Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff?

55:30 You can come see me live in Honolulu on the 6th of October. And you can go see me live in Pittsburgh, I think, the 15th and 16th of October, Bottle Rocket. And I'll be in New York City at the Bell House on the 18th of October. And you can find more stuff all at johnnypemberton.dog.

55:54 Johnny is your dog okay nervous mumbler dog yep i know those she also just breathes just dog that dog peace y'all.

56:13 I've got that dog in me but it's a dog that needs to wear a thunder vest to just relax a little bit you know don't don't we all Is there a work of media you've been enjoying, Tony?

56:23 Oh, yeah.

56:24 So this is this guy, you know, Mr.

56:25 Bao.

56:26 This is like a TikTok thing.

56:28 No. Okay.

56:30 This is produced by the country of China. And it's sort of like a rural guy who like makes stuff. He lives in like the rural China. He always wears this little hat. And it's like probably like 40 or 50 accounts who plays this guy's videos. And it's like a real big trend on TikTok. And the really cool thing about it is this like sort of this TikTok lore where once you see a mystery about video, it's time to go to sleep.

56:54 Yeah.

56:55 So the comments are filled like, oh, it's 1 p.m., but rules are rules.

57:00 Wait, and after a certain point of scrolling, if Mr. Biao shows up, then you're like, all right, pack it up.

57:07 But they're also super relaxing. It's very innocent, super wholesome content. Anything like Homesteady, I love that shit.

57:15 Oh, like process-based kind of thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

57:18 Yeah, yeah, I get that.

57:19 And this guy is just the ultimate, but I feel like I don't know anyone else in my life personally, who knows about them. I feel like it's only people who have the same TikTok algorithm as I do, but it's a great one to have, you know?

57:34 Yeah. Oh, no.

57:35 Producer Victor knows. He's the best, and he only shows up at 1 a.m.

57:38 For some reason.

57:38 Because he's trying to tell you to go to bed, because it's a nice, relaxing video. It's usually about a minute and a half long. You get to watch him make some sort of hot flakes or some crap, or kimchi. He's making all this stuff at home with rural implements and stuff. It could be state Chinese propaganda, for all I know, but it feels like it's good propaganda.

57:59 Yeah, I'm with it.

58:01 But I watch it.

58:02 Does he know you can just buy that stuff at the store though?

58:05 Well, he lives, he lives in the middle of nowhere, I think. So he has to make it for himself.

58:09 See, he'd love America because you can just go to a store and buy all this stuff.

58:13 I could see some real conservatives being like meeting, you know, what's the horseshoe theory, whatever it's called.

58:19 Right. Right.

58:20 Like Mr.

58:20 Bow.

58:21 And they find out later, like appeals to all. Yeah. Wait a minute. He was communist. Oh man.

58:27 And even then it's like, so what?

58:30 He's a homesteader. It's like, yeah.

58:34 Yeah. Oops.

58:36 Mm hmm. Miles, where can people find you? Is there a work of media you've been enjoying?

58:40 Yeah.

58:40 Find me everywhere at miles of gray. You like 90 day fiance, the reality show. Then listen to my other podcast for 20 day fiance.

58:49 Get it. No, we'll check it out.

58:52 And you might also, you like.

58:54 English football, the premier league talking about soccer.

58:58 Then check out the other show, Ain't It Footy, with Jamel Johnson and Chris Martin. A work of media I like. uh, you know, a lot of people, uh, Senator Eric Schmidt just created a meme template without even fucking knowing it. Um, and one of the best tweets I saw was from at K F Peters, uh, on Twitter, uh, And again, everyone is just kind of doing their own version of Eric Schmidt trying to press Jack Smith about.

59:23 Will you get that Atlanta Hawks game? Hawkeyes, shit.

59:27 So this one reads, Schmidt, how much involvement did you have in planning 9-11?

59:32 Smith, none. Schmidt, let's jog your memory, scumbag.

59:38 Lifts lifts panel shows text bubble i can't wait to see the jets kill the patriots uh yeah.

59:45 That's good that's really good well done.

59:48 Let's jog your memory scum that was his energy going into that no he essentially communicated that with his body language and Whole energy. His whole shit.

1:00:03 I bet you didn't know we had all this stuff, did you? So I'll let you take a second to process it so you don't purge yourself, is what he said.

1:00:11 Wow, look at his face. He's looking confused. Like he doesn't know how we got all this good stuff on him.

1:00:17 Oh, yeah.

1:00:18 Go ahead, scumbag.

1:00:20 I like the tweet by Brooks Otterlake who said, Oh, good. They're sending a bunch of guys up a staircase to get born. Looks like this is the end for old Borny. That's what I think every time I'm watching one of the Bourne movies. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien, Blue Sky at Jack OB, the number one Instagram, Jack underscore O underscore Brian. You can find us on Twitter and Blue Sky at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. You can go to the description of this episode, wherever you're listening to it, and there at the bottom, you will find the footnotes, which is where we link off to the information we talked about in today's episode, as well as a song

1:00:55 we think you might enjoy. Miles, is there a song you think people might enjoy?

1:01:00 Yeah, just some nice... solid, dreamy, instrumental music, like soul, R & B, modern. This is from Micaiah McRaven, who people call a beat scientist. But this is like, the track is called Dream Another, and it feels like perfect, like sunrise, early morning music, just to kind of play in the background, or whatever time resonates with you. But it's just a fantastic, fantastic track called Dream Another by Micaiah McRaven.

1:01:30 M-C-C-R-A-V-E-N. All right. We are going to link off to that in the footnotes. The Daily Zeitgeist, a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That is going to do it for us this week. We are back on Monday morning with a new podcast. Iconograph, the first spooky one of the spookiest month of the year. Yes.

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