The Daily Zeitgeist - Food Based Racism, Normalest Swaggy Agency 09.17.24
Episode Date: September 17, 2024In episode 1743, Jack and Miles are joined by writer and podcaster Molly Lambert to discuss… Laura Loomer and Donald Trump being inseparable, JD Vance doubling down on Loomer's racist comments, Eric... Adams tweeting that an NYPD officer was shot (while failing to mention that it was a "friendly fire" incident), the NSA's new podcast hosted by totally normal and cool people and much more! Trump allies worry his ties to far-right activist Laura Loomer could cost him Georgia and North Carolina JD Vance Downplays Laura Loomer’s Racist Comments, Doubles Down On Immigrant Conspiracy Officer and 3 Others Injured by Police Gunfire in Subway Station Clash - The New York Times (nytimes.com) The NSA Has a Podcast—Here's How to Decode It  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcript
Discussion (0)
Didn't you say your dad would take you out of school for the first two days of the NCAA
tournament?
March Madness, right?
Yeah.
I remember when kids got taken out of school to do non-school shit.
I thought that was the sickest shit that could ever happen to you.
I'm like, what are you going?
Are you going to dentist appointment?
They're like, nah, dude, I'm going to WrestleMania.
I'm like, you motherfucker.
Wow.
I mean, even though that shit was. I'm like, you motherfucker.
I mean, even though that shit was on a Sunday, but you know what I mean? Like there were kids that would go to like, yeah, we're going to the Laker game,
but we're going to go have like, we're going to go to Phillips or something for I'm like, this is
you don't do that for your kids though, Jack. You don't spread that.
Same. I took my kid to Disneyland on his birthday one time.
Oh, that's dope. And it was like a Wednesday and that was tight because it's like less crowded and shit. And yeah, it was fun. Would your dad ever do like frivolously be
like, nah, man, I had to go to, I had to go to fucking Duncan, man. I just wanted to go with
somebody. I mean, the first couple of days of the NCAA tournament is kind of frivolous. Like we
weren't always going to the game. We were just like, oh, watching that shit on TV. Oh, that's even.
Oh, wow. Hold on, bro. bro i'm sorry i'm so off my shit
i don't have any of my shits together oh yeah so off my shit i don't have any of my shits together
i got that is a little thing that people probably should know about the show is that before we
hit record man i got none of my shits together miles talks about not having any of his shits together.
And I sing the entourage, the beginning of the entourage theme to just get everybody
in the right.
Oh yeah.
Just make sure everybody is in the right mind frame.
For a limited time, switch to Shopify point of Sale and you could save up to 20% and improve
your bottom line.
We're so serious about savings, we've made this ad 20% shorter.
That means you get 6 seconds back.
Just enough time to visit Shopify.com slash POS20.
Now that's an efficient ad.
Eligibility requirements apply.
See Shopify.com slash POS20 for details.
Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist
who on October 16th, 2017, was murdered.
There are crooks everywhere you look now.
The situation is desperate.
My name is Manuel de Lilla. I am one of the hosts of Crooks Everywhere, a podcast that
unearths the plot to murder a one-woman WikiLeaks.
Tephany exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country into
a mafia state. And she paid the ultimate price.
Listen to Crooks Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your
podcasts.
To listen to new episodes one week early and 100% ad free, subscribe to the iHeart True Crime Plus channel,
available exclusively on Apple podcasts. I have a proposal for you. Come up here and document my project. All you need to do is record everything like you always do.
One session, 24 hours.
BPM 110, 120, she's terrified.
Should we wake her up?
Absolutely not.
What was that?
You didn't figure it out?
I think I need to hear you say it.
That was live audio of a woman's nightmare.
This machine is approved and everything?
You're allowed to be doing this?
We passed the review board a year ago.
We're not hurting people.
There's nothing dangerous about what you're doing.
They're just dreams.
Dream Sequence is a new horror thriller from Blumhouse
Television, iHeartRadio, and Realm.
Listen to Dream Sequence on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your
podcasts.
When you think of Mexican culture, you think of avocado, mariachi, delicious cuisine, and
of course, lucha libre.
It doesn't get more Mexican than this.
Lucha libre is known globally because it is much more than just a sport and much more than just entertainment.
Lucha Libre is a type of storytelling. It's a dance. Its tradition is culture.
This is Lucha Libre Behind the Mask, a 12-episode podcast in both English and Spanish about the history and cultural richness of Lucha Libre.
And I'm your host host Santos Escobar,
the emperor of lucha libre and a WWE superstar.
Santos! Santos!
Join me as we learn more about the history
behind this spectacular sport from its inception
in the United States to how it became a global symbol
of Mexican culture.
We'll learn more about some of the most iconic heroes
in the ring.
This is lucha libre behind the mask. Listen is Lucha Libre Behind the Mask.
Listen to Lucha Libre Behind the Mask
as part of my Cultura podcast network
on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts,
or wherever you stream podcasts.
I'm Dr. Lari Santos, host of the Happiness Lab podcast.
As the US elections approach,
it can feel like we're angrier and more divided than ever.
But in a new hopeful season of my podcast, I'll share with the science really shows that we're surprisingly more united than most people think.
We all know something is wrong in our culture, in our politics, and that we need to do better
and that we can do better.
With the help of Stanford psychologist Jamil Zaki.
It's really tragic.
If cynicism were a pill, it'd be a poison.
we'll see that our fellow humans, even those we disagree
with, are more generous than we assume.
My assumption, my feeling, my hunch,
is that a lot of us are actually looking for a way
to disagree and still be in a relationship with each other.
All that on the Happiness Lab.
Listen on the
iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.
Hello, the internet and welcome to season 356, episode two of Dirt Daily's iKeyes,
a production of my heart radio
This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness and it is America's only decided
undecided podcasts were
By and for people who are still undecided voters heading into the upcoming election
Just don't know just look I need more viewing parties where the New York Times buys me snacks.
Yeah, exactly. Oh, man. Were the snacks good? Did they describe what the snacks were?
They're just like, and we offered them loose chips.
Some snack that she was like, oh, I can't find the red kind.
You found the red kind. I've been looking for those.
Thank you. No, it wasn't Starburst. It was like a I think maybe like talkies or
Is that possible the blue talkies? I mean, I feel like the blue talkies are more sought after these days
Yeah, I don't know man, or maybe they're looking for cigarettes like marlboro's and like oh you got the reds. Oh, yeah
Um anyways great, uh new y York Times podcast called The Run Up.
Give us a look into how they reviewed the last debate with an undecided voter and it
involved flying to their house and buying them a bunch of snacks to reward them for
their racism.
Anyways, it's Tuesday, September 17th, 2024.
Did we say that yet? Did we?
I don't think so.
What does that mean?
Can you tell me?
Oh, shit, that's on me.
Look, I've been sick, man.
You know, I'm off my shit.
You know what?
It's National Professional House Cleaners Day, National Apple Dumpling Day.
Remember, what was the Apple Dumpling Gang?
Was that like what the fuck was that? Was it a show or a book or a thing?
I think I don't even know that word, right? Wasn't it with a alfalfa?
Was that apple dumping game? That's little rascals. That's little rascal.
Yeah. Anyway,
apple dumpling gang is what the constitution day and citizenship day,
national voter registration day, national IT professionals day and shout out to all my
Homies who like to have their sandwiches dusted and I don't mean problematically
I mean with a little powdered sugar because it's national Monte Cristo day. I love a Monte Cristo
Oh, is that what a Monte Cristo is?
Fried ham and cheese sandwich a little bit of powdered sugar on it could only could only be American
Apple dumpling gang is a film from
1975 a
Comedy Western film starring Don Knotts. All right a movie for
Disney
Who oh that's like love knots they do?
They do they love that ways
They do.
They do.
They love that base.
Uh, my name is Jack O'Brien AK.
If I purse my lips, then will you still call me Superman? S O U P.
If I drink from a straw, will Jesse waters misunderstand?
I'll teach you all the ways they mask their fraud.
Jill, the fuck the right.
That is courtesy of the one the only hamburger time
On the discord yummy, and I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host
Mr.. Miles Gray
Gray back from a long delay
I'm still the shogun with no gun or the shogun with no buns the lord of non-existent
Nalgaz the man whose backside is flatter than Kyrie's earth
Shout-out steaming Chuck on the discord because yeah, talk about my how my just my glutes are suffering from podcasts
Although look part of getting on my my health kickback. I'm on that bike. I'm working these glutes. They're gonna be plump. Oh, yeah
Yeah on that flat ass That while you do that.
Yeah, that's true.
It's just my 40 year old ass.
I'm like looking at him like, well, you need to hit this bike.
Just like, you know, indentation. Yeah.
Yeah. It's the shape of my chair as if like it's like Plato
and it's absorbed the chair.
Compare a normal human body today to the Greek sculptures and
The ass is gonna jump out at you. They had ass. Yeah
Yeah, they did well miles
As was mentioned on yesterday's trending episode a great big a happy birthday to you
No, thank you. Thank you and also a great big happy birthday to our guests.
Oh, a brilliant, talented writer, podcaster, producer who's written for publications like
the New York Times, the New Yorker was a producer on Everybody's in LA.
One of my favorite things that happened on TV in the last year was a cohost of the legendary
podcast Girls in Hoodies and Night Call, the writer, creator and host of the wonderful podcast, Heidi World,
the Heidi Fleiss story and creator and host of the legendary
podcast, Jenna world. Please welcome back to the show.
Molly Lambert.
I was just like, you had to hold me back there when you were talking about what
the Apple dumpling gang is. I'm just like you had to hold me back there when you were talking about what the Apple dumpling gang is. I'm
Just your big job
Like it's a it's a Disney movie children's movie
Yeah, I was like I just hell no that went on Molly's face when I said, oh, that's the one with elf alpha, right?
Yeah, it was like
Taking everything in my in my power not to go
rascals Taking everything in my in my power not to go
We didn't them weren't in that Apple dumpling gay I'm just trying to remember what I feel like it was gangs of children Yeah, and they should go to war that one. Oh, yeah, it was bad for the streets
Oh, yeah, it was I remember the blood in the streets that year in 72
But I just remember it up though. It was one of those, it was one of those things,
I think I only remember it because it felt like,
like the videos you would watch on a rainy day at school,
like it would be on the cart and they'd be like,
all right, we've got Goonies, Apple Dumpling Gang,
or the second tape from Roots.
And we're like, all right, Goonies, I guess.
And I was like, what the fuck is Apple Dumpling Gang?
Why the fuck do they have Roots? Yeah, and Miles is like, I would like to watch the Apple dumpling gang.
He told me Apple dumpling gang for me, miss.
Pops a big giant lollipop in his mouth.
Oh, my watch with my propeller hat.
Coming back, baby.
They're coming back.
They're coming back.
Molly was recently your birthday as well as Miles birthday.
Shall we have a birthday off?
Yeah.
Virgo gang.
Yeah.
One of us is the little rascals and who's the Apple dumpling gang?
I'm Apple dumpling gang.
Yeah.
I'm ADG.
You know what I mean?
I do read for the little rascals.
They were all like, you know about the curse?
No.
How about the evil in the show? Like, oh God, yeah. Bad things happen to like all,
almost all of them. I think it's kind of like,
not so much that it's a curse is that they were all child actors
at a time when there was zero accountability for powerful people.
Yeah. Yeah. And then invented the law. Yeah. One of them, Jackie Kugin,
they like invented the law to protect child actors because of him.
That's why you need a Kugogan account to make money as a child actor.
Wow.
Yeah, he's a little rascal and then he became Uncle Fester.
Oh shit, he was on your way.
He was yo hold on.
So this is the kind of way this is contemporary gossip I bring to what the fuck did you just
say he was uncle?
Which which rascal was he?
He was like a like a lesser rascal.
OK, you know, slimy or something.
You know, slimy, the Irish one.
You're like, he's also the kid in Charlie Chaplin's The Kid.
Oh, maybe that's what I'm thinking.
Maybe he wasn't even a little rascal
and I am feeding you false information, but he was.
Oh no, okay.
Yeah, no, you're right.
He was a little rascal.
He was not a rascal, it turns out.
Was a little rascal, but just in the full appeal sense.
He was a little rascal.
Yeah.
A little fucking rascal.
And there is the problem.
I couldn't even stop myself from saying
fuck in front of this child. Yeah, well, they're rascals
That's what they do. Yeah, exactly. So fuck them. Let's get go back in on this. Um, all right, Molly
We're thrilled to have you here. We're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment first
We're gonna tell the listeners a couple of the things we're talking about today
We're talking about Laura Loomer being a problem for Trump allies
and Trump supporters. Allegedly, we'll see. You know, Trump doesn't seem to be too
worried about her presence around his campaign. But no, he seems quite excited.
The others seem okay with it. Talk about Eric Adams just generally killing it his
His mayoral office is falling apart around him
But we'll we'll also talk about this news story about a shooting
I'll just read NYPD officer three others shot during showdown with armed fair beater at Brooklyn L
Subway station you're never gonna guess who did the shooting guys it's not what that headline would
know no we'll talk about MTG we'll talk about of course we don't like to
acknowledge other podcasts on the show we're insecure yeah I will acknowledge a
good podcast for children
about bugs because there's very little overlap.
You're like, dude, there's shit in there for us too though,
dude.
It's actually like really smart and like-
Three billion bugs, dude, flying overhead.
I have the mind of a child.
I want- No, that is a mind blowing fact.
That is a mind blowing fact.
And thank you, Miles.
But so there is a podcast that's coming for us and we're a little worried
about it. So we just want to get ahead of it and tell you why it's no good.
It is, of course, the no such podcast, which is a cute
title for the NSA's official podcast.
There they launched a podcast is called No Such Podcast.
It ran out.
Yeah, it's launched, baby.
It's out.
And it's well, I guess that means I didn't get the job.
Yeah.
Well, actually, you had to.
They kept it internal for some reason.
So you had to work for that essay to even like work on or host this show.
So did Wanda Sykes? Is Wanda Sykes hosting? Can't be a one-time NSA analyst. It has to
be an active NSA analyst. Wanda would have been great. Internal talent search. Can you
imagine? The whole thing just reads like a fucking corporate communication from HR, but
The whole thing just reads like a fucking corporate communication from HR, but it is pretty wild that they've stooped to our level and that they...
Budget cuts, man.
The reason why, yeah, it's budget cuts and it's something else.
They're kind of victims of their own success in a way.
We'll talk about that, plenty more. But but first Molly Lambert, we do like to
ask our guests, what is something from your search history?
Oh God, I didn't think about it this time.
How amazing.
Last time I looked, the Molly Lambert.
Find it, find it, find it, find it, find it.
You want to come back in and we'll do underrated, overrated?
No, no, she's looking.
Oh, you thought you think I came with an underrated, overrated?
I'm asking chat GPT right now.
Oh, I was reading, okay, I was reading about Perry Farrell and Dave Navarro getting in
a fistfight.
Yo, what happened?
Yeah.
They just announced the tour is canceled, the world tour.
Okay.
So for people who don't know, like over the weekend, there was a clip of Perry Farrell
like mid song marching up to Dave Navarro, like pushing him and then like having like
the most extreme locked up like anger face and then started really getting in his face
and then crew came out of the wings to like separate them.
Dave Navarro puts his guitar down. guitar down like, I'm fucking off this. And I know as a band, they've all like, there's so
much infighting in Jane's Addiction. Is who we're talking to? Talking about, of course.
Wait, so then what? I'm not a Jane's Addiction fan at all, but I am fascinated by interband fights.
Yeah. Yeah. Anything, is there anything?
Do we know anything?
Yeah, it sounds like they did.
And they just put out a statement today
that the tour is canceled now.
No, but like what it was over,
like is it just cause Perry Farrell like obviously
he's struck drugs?
Oh, it's because Perry Farrell was drunk.
He was drunk.
Oh, he was drunk.
He's apparently getting really drunk on the tour
and like rambling into the mic.
And so he was really drunk,
was like going off on some monologue.
And then Dave Navarro started playing guitar
to kind of be like,
hey, back to the music that we are playing.
And Perry Currell got so mad.
I'm watching my political campaign here, Dave.
Holy shit.
He's like, no soap boxing, Perry.
We talked about this.
Yeah, Perry Currell came over. Got in his face, bro.
That look in his face was wild.
Dave Navarro seems like he's dealt with a lot of big personalities in his life.
Yeah.
You know?
To say the least.
I mean, the shit is like, the fight is, yeah, he looks like an elderly drunk man, you know,
Perifero.
Yeah. Like the way he's coming at an Adam kind of like has his chest up.
You know, when people like talk about getting your chest up,
you don't really actually see people do that until this video.
But you like really like sticks his chest out like, yeah, it looks like it's like a pigeon.
Yeah, yeah. It looks like a pigeon trying to fight another pigeon.
Dave Nevarro's is like, oh, man, he fucking he's got that
well-worn of this fucking guy attitude.
This made me think of an underrated, overrated, underrated.
And I knew you would. Underrated possums.
Underrated possums. Underrated possums.
Oh, fuck. Yeah, I love that.
Go on. I've been just seeing possums a lot recently and being like, wow, they are cool.
That's it. Hey, you know what? They are cool. They're cool by me. They're cool by me.
I like dropped some fruit in my yard and one like truly came out of a bush and like took
the fruit and then like disappeared back into the bush. And I was like, wow.
And you could choose to
be completely freaked out by that or a okay with it and I love that you chose an a okay.
You know I was a okay with that okay that's what I'm saying it's like we're freaked out by possums
overrated squirrels why are squirrels okay possums everybody's yes why are squirrels like oh cute
yeah that's right uh miles i'm actually reading
from the terminix page uh if you've recently come across a possum uh rabies might be on your mind
these scavengers are notorious for going through garbage blah blah blah um any mammal can get
rabies but generally okay rare but it's very rare for them.
Yeah, because they have such low body temperature.
Look, you know, prepared.
My mom is a card carrying member, like literally of like the American opossum society, because she fucking I'm not joking, ride or die.
I thought you said you thought possums are cool because maybe you caught it reading like a Eve Babbitt's book or something.
You're like, you know, I've kind of fuck with that possum.
She got the possum together.
I think there there's the one that lives in my yard is like so big.
I can't believe it. Oh yeah.
Yeah. I've seen one walk across my yard that is like having trouble.
Like it's having great success in the food chain.
Eating it is eat.. It's just eating.
It is out here eating, girl.
Right, right.
That's what I mean.
For something that's sort of blind and kind of big.
Looks blind as hell.
Even if it's not blind, that shit looks blind as hell.
Well, it's because their sounds are all fucked up because they literally lead with their
face into untold danger because they're like what's going on and they're like
Like they're weird pointy faces look like that from Beetlejuice. Yeah
That's when Alec Baldwin does his like stretched out face. Yeah
Just being Alec Baldwin
And then squirrels yeah, they're not native like they 100 years ago.
Oh, easy, Jack.
I'm just saying they don't belong here.
No. Are you a birther?
I just remember squirrels
hearing a podcast where they were like, yeah, there were no squirrels in cities
along it like very recently.
And like if you took somebody from the past to the present,
the first thing they'd notice is they'd be like, wow, what the fuck?
Wait, so where did they come from?
But they'd also be like, where did all the rats go?
Yeah, exactly.
Why don't you all have rats on your shoulders?
Yeah. Why did the rats that, you know,
populate every city and run through the streets at night?
Where they go? Yeah. One of the scariest things that you can have, one of the scariest animal interactions
you can have is when a squirrel comes at you instead of running away, when it's just like,
nah, I don't do it. I actually, this is a lot about you, bro. They pull up on you like
that. Yeah. They don't respect. No, that's my space. That's why I'm going to say they're overrated.
Starting ship with
a constantly.
They can tell you don't respect them, so they're
getting up in your face.
Wait, so where does this thing about they're not from?
I'm reading about native squirrel species to California.
Wait, what are we talking about?
Squirrels were purposely introduced to American cities.
I see.
To do what?
According to National Geographic,
those nutty neighbors were once seen
as a benefit to urban living.
I don't know why because this is behind a paywall,
but National Geographic. So the knowledge ends there. Yeah. because this is behind a paywall, but national geographic.
So the knowledge ends there.
Yeah.
Why were squirrels introduced to cities?
Urban reformers who thought of the squirrel
as a rural mascot wanted to bring the animal
into places like Manhattan Central Park
in order to create a bucolic atmosphere
that was entertaining and lightening and a-up word, salubrious. In 1847, three squirrels were
released in Philadelphia's Franklin Square Park and the rest is history. The rest is fucking
history. Oh, okay. So I get, okay. So that seems maybe more of like an East coast thing because
I'm like, there's, I see like two types of squirrels like gray squirrels and like brown ground squirrels all the time. Oh yeah. In LA. They are thriving
and they want me to know it. And they love to store those fucking acorns in the weirdest spots.
Now we had a squirrel get loose in my house and like it's a squirrel that lives in our backyard
and is just you know not scared of anybody in our household at this point is just like so and
It was it was very good experience. I just we left the back door open and he ran out
but he at one point like was standing on a
On the dinner table just like looking at everyone and then
Fucking terrifying.
Yeah. I think their lack of fear of humans freaks me out.
Like possums, no. Possums are just like,
like if you see a possum and it clocks that you see it,
it's kind of like, no, you didn't.
Like, yeah, it'll be like, no, I'm dead.
Stop looking at me, I'm hideous.
I'm actually dead. I'm actually dead. I'm not here.
Scrolls do the thing where they like make full eye contact and they're like, yeah, that's
right. I'm eating your food.
And on their hind legs and shit, they're like, what's up, mother fucker.
Which I respect.
They're going to do shit. No, don't run. They're going to do shit.
Frank the Rosary.
Squirrels going to steal your lunch money.
Yeah.
Steal your girlfriend.
Yeah. Yeah, Mr. Steal Your Squirrel.
All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back.
Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th 2017 was murdered.
There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate.
My name is Manuel de Liya. I am one of the hosts of Crooks Everywhere,
a podcast that unearths the plot to murder a one-woman WikiLeaks.
Daphne exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country into
a mafia state.
And she paid the ultimate price.
Listen to Crooks Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your
podcasts. To listen to new episodes one week early and 100% ad free, subscribe to the iHeart True
Crime Plus channel, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. I want you back in my life. It's too late for that. I have a proposal for you.
Come up here and document my project.
All you need to do is record everything like you always do.
One session.
24 hours.
EPM 110,
120.
She's terrified.
Should we wake her up? Absolutely not.
What was that? You didn't figure it out?
I think I need to hear you say it.
That was live audio of a woman's nightmare.
This machine is approved and everything?
You're allowed to be doing this?
We passed the review board a year ago.
We're not hurting people.
There's nothing dangerous about what you're doing.
They're just dreams.
Nothing dangerous about what you're doing. They're just dreams.
Dream Sequence is a new horror thriller from Blumhouse Television, iHeartRadio, and Realm.
Listen to Dream Sequence on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your
podcasts.
When you think of Mexican culture, you think of avocado, mariachi, delicious cuisine, and
of course, lucha libre.
It doesn't get more Mexican than this.
Lucha libre is known globally
because it is much more than just a sport
and much more than just entertainment.
Lucha libre is a type of storytelling.
It's a dance, it's tradition, it's culture.
This is Lucha Libre Behind the Mask,
a 12 episode podcast in both English and Spanish
about the history and
cultural richness of lucha libre.
And I'm your host Santos Escobar, the emperor of lucha libre and a WWE superstar.
Join me as we learn more about the history behind this spectacular sport from its inception
in the United States to how it became a global symbol of Mexican culture.
We'll learn more about some of the most iconic heroes in the ring.
This is Lucha Libre Behind the Mask.
Listen to Lucha Libre Behind the Mask as part of my cultura podcast network on
the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you stream podcasts.
I'm Dr.
Lari Santos, host of the Happy to Slap podcast.
As the U.S.
elections approach, it can feel like we're angrier and more divided than ever.
But in a new, hopeful season of my podcast, I'll share what the science really shows,
that we're surprisingly more united than most people think.
We all know something is wrong in our culture, in our politics, and that we need to do better,
and that we can do better.
With the help of Stanford psychologist Jamil Zaki,
It's really tragic.
If cynicism were a pill, it'd be a poison.
we'll see that our fellow humans, even those we disagree with, are more generous than we
assume.
My assumption, my feeling, my hunch is that a lot of us are actually looking for a way
to disagree and still be in relationships with each
other. All that on the Happiness Lab. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever
you listen to podcasts. In 1982, Atari players had one thing on their minds.
Sword Quest.
This wasn't just a new game.
Atari promised 150 grand in prizes to four finalists.
But the prizes disappeared.
And what started as a video game promotion became one of the most controversial moments in 80s pop culture.
I just don't believe they exist.
I would feel my reaction shock and awe.
That sword was amazing.
It was so beautiful.
I'm Jamie Loftus.
Join me this spring for The Legend of Sword Quest,
a podcast about the fall of
Atari and the disappearing Sword Quest prizes.
We'll follow the quest for
lost treasure across four decades.
It's almost like a metaphor for the industry and
Atari itself in a way. Listen to the legend of Sword Quest on the iHeart radio app,
Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.
And we're back. And with a plum. Yeah, with the little plum. That's what that means and with a plum yeah
Plum like a squirrel so Donald Trump and Laura Loomer suddenly in separate bowl
and She so Laura Loomer I
Had trouble if I'm being honest. I had trouble
differentiating between Laura Loomer and other right wing,
like who's the Colorado one?
Bobert.
Bobert.
I had trouble like, you know, even though she's like an elected official.
I know.
They've all got funny names.
Yes.
Loomer, Bobert.
Hey, Bober, Loomer.
Yeah, I get it.
But Laura Loomer is the most mask off racist of them all.
Yeah, they all seem like they're the villain in the Apple dumpling gang.
Oh, yeah, I could definitely see that.
Oh, man, don't go against them.
I mean, yeah. So she's been around Trump a lot.
Apparently, Trump has tried to hire her in the past.
All the campaign officials are like, absolutely fucking no way you can have this person
near the campaign it's gonna it's gonna be all bad news but apparently he's getting his way because
like no i want her as much as part of my crew even though she has like no i guess as i say there's
no official unofficial role she's just a travel person like someone who travels with the president
that's kind of her position but recently she's been making things very, very hot
because she's so visible with Trump.
A lot of people are like,
yo, what the fuck is she,
what kind of wild ass shit is she tweeting?
Like for example, she was talking about how like
if Kamala Harris is voted into the White House,
the White House will smell like curry.
And everyone's like, Jesus fucking Christ.
Which is a good thing by the way. but that that's not she also goes further and
Says horrible thing. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean she has all kinds of fucked it
So when she said that like it's interesting to see how certain Republicans came out and they're like, ah, come on
We've Laura Lumer. You can't do that like Marjorie Taylor. Now they're gonna know we're racist
Yeah, and I was like Marjorie Taylor green needs to fall all the way back because you dabble in this shit, too
You're just mad that Laura Loomer is now the person who's truly sitting at the right hand of the maga throne at the moment
Or at least visibly it seems that way and has Trump's ear
But yeah, it's just been a whole bunch of denials of like, we don't know her,
she's bad, she needs to get away. And then her clapping back at people like Marjorie Taylor
Green being like, you're like you cheated on your husband. I think she called her a hooker or
something. She's told was questioning Lindsey Graham's sexuality. I think she called him
closeted gay or something. It was all just a whole moment of chaos They like journalists asked the Trump camp like yo
What's your take on her beefing with people who are like allies of yours like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lindsey Graham?
And they're like, we're gonna we don't we're we're staying out of it and it's like, oh, I wonder if Trump
Oh that they I that sounds like something like don't don't weigh in on that
Let her do a thing. Shut the fuck up about you know what happens. You know, it's good for you. Yeah
I just like people are speculating like Milo.
Yiannopoulos was like I heard she said that or that Trump said it was the best blow job he ever had.
Like it overestimates how difficult this man is to manipulate.
Like all it takes is flattery.
Like just someone who is willing to stand around him and tell him
that what he's saying is
smart and right and like tell him what he wants to hear.
Yeah. If you're good at pretending someone just said some mind blowing shit, you could
ascend the magnet movement pretty quickly. Like, yo, what did you just say, Donald? I'm
sorry, Mr. President, that was that was so genius. I can't believe you were even able
to articulate something like that.
Also, they really think that?
They really think what?
That Trump is like killing it with his thoughts.
I think some do and I think other people are just purely driven by the grift that, you
know, they just they just adapt to their surroundings and just know how to mirror and do whatever
they want.
Well, it seems like everyone in politics is driven by the grift.
That's why it is also like people seem like their opinions are whoever's paying them.
Yeah, I think she's, I don't think she is
some cunning manipulator, by the way.
I think that, like she's been saying,
she's called herself a white advocate behind the scenes.
Like, or she's called herself openly a white advocate.
A white advocate?
A white advocate.
Such a weird way to say white advocate? A white advocate.
Such a weird way to say it.
Think you're racist.
I'm a racist, yeah.
I advocate for whites.
Yeah, she's like just a hardcore right-wing white supremacist and her only focus for the
past like number of years has been like, did you read that there? I was trying to find this profile, Molly, maybe as someone who reads magazine
profiles every once in a while, did you read the profile of her where she is?
It's just like behind the scenes with her and all she's doing is trying to like
get a meeting, like get on his calendar.
No, I actually don't read profiles.
I just, I just write them.
You just write them.
Good.
And it shows your profiles are way better than everyone else's.
She's got, it's crazy to me too, though, like the white, the vocal white supremacists always look
like they were forgotten by God. Like,
Forgotten by God.
It's always like the, like, you're like, you're supposed to, people are supposed to be like
you?
You want people to look like you and act like you?
Like you seem.
Hate does some, I just think hate does a number on you.
You know what I mean?
Or maybe they-
It's just crazy.
If I were so unbaked, I'd be like, maybe white people not the best.
Yeah. So I think it's just her time has come because all the people who surround
Trump right now, who are whose full time job it is to tell him what to do, are
telling him to stop doing what he's doing.
And so he needs to find someone who's going to stand beside him and be like, actually,
you're killing it.
Oh, let's bring, let's bring Steve Bannon back.
Yeah, but I think the old gang, I think Steve Bannon even would be like, not quite.
No, it seems like you have to be a certain type of sycophant.
Yeah, to be, you know, who you can't ever contradict him and tell him, oh, maybe that's not a great idea.
It's like, you gotta be, Trump likes a yes,
a yes man or woman.
Yeah. Yeah.
All you have to do is just keep it,
like you just have to indulge the ideas.
The second you present an obstacle,
that's when he's like, look at this, fuck,
they're saying I shouldn't be saying racism out loud.
And then if you're like, no, babe,
you should be saying racism. That's actually how you're gonna win people if you're like, no, babe, you should be saying racism
That's actually how you're gonna win people is like exactly. That's why I like you. Thank you loomer
It's just whoever lines up with what his instincts are telling him to do at that moment
I feel like if he gets reelected the form like the people who are going to
write the best content about like what his
the people who are going to write the best content about like what his next administration is going to be like are like the experts in Louis the 14th, like royal court, you know,
like Cardinal Risha Lou type shit straight like experts in royal court intrigue because
that just feels like what we already have going.
Yeah, she's yeah, like, like you said, her 9-11 truth or shit, she said,
she said, this is a quote,
Kamala is a quote, drug-using prostitute,
and also say, quote, I'm willing to bet
she's had so many abortions that she damaged her uterus
in terms of an explanation
why she doesn't have biological children.
So that's where she's at.
And again, the quote about this, what
the White House smelling like curry this race is bullshit. So JD Vance, right? His wife
Usha is also Indian American. He was pressed about this recently on Sunday, like, hey,
you know, like your fucking boss is like best friend, you know, travel partners saying some
pretty flagrant shit. Any comment
about this? And here JD Vance, like as usual, like clockwork, absolutely fails the moment
to be able to maybe defend, I don't know, his wife's dignity, his family's dignity,
just not completely, you know, cape for racist comments. But here he is being pressed about
that specific tweet that Laura Loomer sent.
She recently said that Kamala Harris, whose mother was Indian, if she wins in November,
quote, the White House will smell like curry.
Senator, you are married to an Indian American woman.
What was your reaction to hearing those comments specifically?
Geez, just that setup makes me so nervous because I'm like, you know, he's not gonna fucking nail this right now
Like your own wife the mother of your children. This is someone describing disrespectfully talking about her culture
What is your answer to this JD? Take it away?
Well, Kristen, I want to go back to what you said about Haitian migrants to begin with
because you didn't give me a chance.
Okay, we don't blame the Haitian migrants for coming to Springfield.
We blame Kamala Harris for opening the American southern border.
I'm 20,000 people to get ahead.
Laura Loomer is not affiliated with the Trump campaign.
She said something about curry in the White House that I first read about this morning
actually because I knew that you would ask me about it. Look, Kristen, I make a mean
chicken curry. I don't think that insulting for anybody to talk about their dietary preferences
or what they want to do in the White House. I think what Laura said about Kamala Harris
is not what we should be focused on. We should be focused on the policy and on the issues.
And look, so yeah, do I agree with what Laura Loomer said about Kamala Harris? No, I don't
I also don't think that this is actually an issue of national import is Laura Loomer running for president
No, Kamala Harris is running for president and whether you're eating curry at your chicken at your dinner table or fried chicken
Wait, what things have gotten more more expensive thanks to her policies.
Let's talk about this.
We said fried chicken.
Get the fuck out of here, JD.
What?
Every time you know, every time you talk,
I hear the Benny Hill music in the background.
It's just like, yeah, right.
He cannot.
He cannot nail it.
No.
Was that is that is that what he was trying to say there?
Like he's being double racist.
Yeah, just doubling, tripling down on the race or fried chicken.
So get it.
What's up, racist?
He was like, no, no, no, we don't hurry.
We don't have racist opinions about food. Oh, wait, no, we don't hurry. We don't have racist opinions about food. Oh wait. No, we have double down
Double down racism. Yeah
Double down racism
New at kfc. Um, what's that marriage like i'm still wondering what is happening?
What's over under on usha vance filing for divorce?
I think she you know, look a lot of people have said, but I think she might be exactly where she wants to be.
You know?
Sure.
Like women can be evil too, guys.
Women can be evil and racist and self-hating.
No, no, absolutely.
I'm just thinking, cause like, it's funny,
cause when you're like the profiles about their life
before was sort of like, she didn't necessarily
wasn't interested in dabbling in the, in national politics
because of the scrutiny. And I just feel like at that point,
I'm like, cause I can empathize with someone who's, you know,
just in terms of being like, okay, this person's into politics. Like,
please don't like make me get out there and have to like glad hand with people.
And now you do. I'm just wondering what that's like, because also he's also just,
we've seen in the other clips too,
the second he has to answer for something he wants to do.
He just like wiggles out of it like a fucking bratty kid.
Also, is he always coming to us from China?
Like, why is he always on the longest tape delay?
Like every time he's asked a question, there is five seconds of dead air.
Like, is that just him?
I'm like, yeah, theuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh eyeliner. I don't think it's eyeliner. I think he has gorgeous eyelashes. You know what I mean?
Also his other way of wiggling out is always, I just read about that like right before I came on
here. So like, yeah, yeah, I'm not up on things because I'm a busy boy and I don't read no,
I don't read the damn newspaper. Yeah, she's gonna, in the hollow.
In the hollow, we didn't have no newspapers.
No, but he would be like, in the hollows.
But yeah, that is a good point.
I just read it and I don't know,
even if you said out loud to me that sentence,
I need more time to process if it's bad.
So I can't really give you an answer.
I don't know on its face that that is bad.
Cause hey, I make a mean chicken curry
You know, he should have stopped after I make a mean chicken curry
Yeah, I think he's I think that's his big problem is he doesn't know when to stop
So he keeps talking and then he always little soups on of extra racism at the end
Yeah, right little sprinkle as a topper. He, uh, he is also historic, like all polling, everything.
Anytime someone is asked what they think of him, they like,
there's a new category in the polling, like next to favorable,
unfavorable is just like spits on the ground where they're standing like that.
And that seems to be the largest contingent.
Like people hate him so much. It's kind of wild.
Like I just spit on the ground.
I don't like him either.
But like he is so hated,
like at a historic level.
Do you think he's helping Trump by being
so much worse at doing the thing Trump does?
Then it's not like it's not even like
like comparable, like where he shifts the
Overton window where it's like, well, at
least he's not as bad as what J.D. Vance is saying. It's like he's just like comparable, like where he shifts the Overton window, where it's like, well, at least he's not as bad as what JD Vance is saying. It's like, he's just like overall,
you can't believe he comes off so insincere. He's like has no sense of humor. He doesn't know how
to interact normally that you're just like, dude, this looks like one of those dudes I just don't
fucking trust or want to be around. So I don't know if it helps. But again, because it's obviously
the play there was to try and bring like Silicon Valley more in alignment
with the GOP by bringing him in.
But yeah, I don't know.
I don't know how any of this is actually panning out
at this point.
Yeah.
I did do a hillbilly elegy costume for Halloween
a few years ago when the movie came out.
How was it?
What'd you go with?
I didn't see the movie.
I just addressed his Amy Adams in some overalls
Nice, you're like, all right. Yep. I'm having that I was like, yeah, I could do that my friend
Justine was Glenn Glenn Close as as mama. Oh my god
I'm just now realizing how bad the fucking couch costumes are gonna be this year. Oh no
Yeah, just like glove to couch cushions.
That's all you need.
The urge. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
I don't know.
Do do what you need to do, I guess.
I'm like, I'm like feverishly like now panning my costume.
My house is like just pans to a couch costume.
He's been working on those.
I don't know, dude. Some fucking guy is like been working on those. I don't know dude
Some fucking guy is like making this for me. I don't know. It's like I don't like it
Why are you nailing rivet?
Don't worry about it
To fold out it's tough did all right Eric Adams. We just wanted to check in with him
Yeah, he tweeted earlier today, one of our officers was shot
while protecting our subway system.
I am relieved to report he is in good condition now.
We have arrested the suspect
who put so many lives in danger.
I cannot thank these officers enough for their bravery.
The New York Daily News also had the story,
NYPD officer, three others shot during showdown
with armed fair beater at Brooklyn
L subway station and then just moving a little bit further down.
So that was 19 hours ago, 10 hours ago, ABC reported NYPD says officer shot in friendly
fire as police saw do fair evader.
Someone who's trying to get a free subway ride and they just opened fire on a group of people on a subway
Platform and many were struck
Yeah, man had his head fucking grazed by a bullet and another woman got shot in the leg
Then a cop got shot because of all the fucking friendly fire
Are there just the amount of bullets that were flying and then the suspect was shot in the stomach a bunch of times and apparently everyone is meant to recover but all that for what a $2.90 fare.
Yeah, that's right. The officer in question was shot by the readers added context, which is yes, the X despite itself.
This is like the officers in question was shot by a fellow NYPD officer.
NYPD officers also shot two bystanders and the fare evasion suspect.
Yep. Got him. Got him.
Yeah. There's a reason Keystone cops don't have guns.
Like, you know, if they did, it would have been...
They would kill the little rascals.
They would be killing so many little rascals all the time.
Yeah.
But yeah, there's a reason they only had little like nightsticks that they
waggled around at people because, uh, that's really what this feels like at
this point.
Yeah.
And just this whole fair evasion policy, like what, what good is it doing you?
Like, okay, we have a zero tolerance fair evasion.
Yeah.
That that like, cause first they tried to tase the guy and that didn't work.
And like just the escalation of, and then he he I guess he brandished a knife and that's like
alright that's it everybody's getting hit on this platform.
Sorry there's nothing we can do. Yeah we have to turn this person who's a threat
to himself and somebody within like seven feet we have to turn it into a
live-fire situation that is a risk to him and everyone else who happens to not be standing behind a metal
barrier at this point. And just a couple months ago, people were like, you know, the conservatives
like we need more. We need a national guard on the in like the subway systems of New York because
it's becoming so dangerous. There's like armed people. And then meanwhile, the you're this
fucking incident is really at the hands of the NYPD. But yes, great system.
But yeah, that his whole administration is in absolute.
Just disintegrating.
It's falling apart around him like a Boeing 737
being flown by Wiley Coyote. Oh, whoa, babe. OK, babe.
Yeah, there are two of his top officials have resigned over the weekend.
One was expected the New York police chief, I think, Yeah, there are two of his top officials have resigned over the weekend.
One was expected the New York police chief, I think, and the police commissioner.
And then the other was his like chief legal advisor who resigned just because she was
like, I can't with this fucking guy thing, you know, which is always a good sign.
So more to come on Eric Adams, who has superpowers.
Watch this. Watch this space. Should we take another quick break and come back and talk about
the only other podcast that we're aware of besides our own? Yeah. All right. We'll be right back.
Definitely Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th 2017 was murdered. There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate.
My name is Manuel De Liga. I am one of the hosts of Crooks Everywhere, a podcast that
unearths the plot to murder a one-woman WikiLeaks.
Daphne exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country into
a mafia state. And she paid the ultimate price.
Listen to Crooks Everywhere on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you
get your podcasts.
To listen to new episodes one week early and 100% ad-free, subscribe to the iHeart True
Crime Plus channel, available exclusively on Apple podcasts. 24 hours. EPM 110, 120. She's terrified.
Should we wake her up?
Absolutely not.
What was that?
You didn't figure it out?
I think I need to hear you say it.
That was live audio of a woman's nightmare.
This machine is approved and everything?
You're allowed to be doing this?
We passed the review board a year ago. We're not hurting
people.
There's nothing dangerous about what you're doing.
They're just dreams.
Dream Sequence is a new horror thriller from Blumhouse
Television, iHeartRadio and Realm. Listen to Dream Sequence
on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get
your podcasts.
When you think of Mexican culture, you think of avocado, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. and much more than just entertainment. Lucha Libre is a type of storytelling. It's a dance. Its tradition is culture. This is Lucha Libre Behind the Mask,
a 12 episode podcast in both English and Spanish
about the history and cultural richness of lucha libre.
And I'm your host, Santos Escobar,
the emperor of lucha libre and a WWE superstar.
Santos!
Santos!
Join me as we learn more about the history
behind this spectacular sport
from its inception in the United States to how it became a global symbol of Mexican culture.
We learn more about some of the most iconic heroes in the ring. This is Lucha Libre Behind
the Mask. Listen to Lucha Libre Behind the Mask as part of my cultura podcast network
on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you stream podcasts.
I'm Dr. Laurie Santos, host of the Happiness Lab podcast. As the US elections approach,
it can feel like we're angrier and more divided than ever.
But in a new hopeful season of my podcast, I'll share with the science really shows
that we're surprisingly more united than most people think.
We all know something is wrong in our culture, in our politics, and that we need to do better and that we can do better.
With the help of Stanford psychologist Jamil Zaki,
It's really tragic. If cynicism were a pill, it'd be a poison.
we'll see that our fellow humans, even those we disagree with, are more generous than we assume.
My assumption, my feeling, my hunch is that a lot of us are actually looking for a way to
disagree and still be in a relationship with each other.
All that on the Happiness Lab. Listen on the iHeart Radio app,
Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.
or wherever you listen to podcasts.
MUSIC
I'm Kari Champion, and this is Season 4 of Naked Sports,
where we live at the intersection of sports and culture.
Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry,
Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese.
I know I'll go down to history.
People are talking about women's basketball
just because of one single game. Every great player needs a foil.
I ain't really hear them voice.
I just come here to play basketball every single day,
and that's what I focus on.
From college to the pros, Clark and Reese
have changed the way we consume women's sports.
Angel Reese is a joy to watch.
She is unapologetically Black.
I love her.
What exactly ignited this fire?
Why has it been so good for the game?
And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained?
This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better.
This new season will cover all things sports and culture.
Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network,
iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. The black effect podcast network is sponsored by diet Coke.
And we're back.
We're back.
And a few weeks ago, the NSA officially launched a podcast called, and this is
cute.
Okay.
It's cute.
I'm just letting you know ahead of time.
So if you feel weird or like a creepy,
like chill come over you,
you shouldn't because it's just cute.
The podcast is called No Such Podcast,
which is a cheeky reference to the fact that the NSA
went under the name No Such Agency
back when it was classified because it worked better
when nobody knows it exists and that's how you know what they're doing is good.
And they've so they've gone from hiding their existence to producing content for people
to listen to while they're doing the dishes and being like kind of
Spicy and self-referential about it. Mmm. I love that. I love that
I love you and what so what's the podcast about just like the hottest trends in mass surveillance? Yeah, basically
It sounds like a very compelling
Listen, first of all, they did an internal talent search
for employees with broadcasting skills,
which I'm pretty sure meant that they just eavesdropped
on all their employees and like picked the ones
who were the most entertaining.
They're like, we've been watching you,
watching you through Zooms.
Yeah, we've seen your Twitch streams, man.
Even though you got a mask on, we know it's you, man.
We love, we think those voices, they've seen your Twitch streams, man. Even though you got a mask on, we know it's you, man.
We love, we think those voices, they might work really good on our podcast.
Think about it.
Um, I just want to read the, in the very first episode, guest speaker, Natalie Lang, the
NSA's director of operations speaks at length about how the NSA limits itself to information
relevant to national security and similar imperatives.
A quote, compliance is our number one of focus, she says.
It just, that sounds so much like a corporate communication to employees. Like, yeah,
that's so boring. Like, it speaks at length about how the NSA limits itself to information relevant.
Like we get it like, dude, we're not like listening to everything.
We do a really good job, like just edging full blown invasion of privacy.
What the fuck is that?
But to the earlier point about how they
probably were just listening in on their employees, you have to assume like the NSA
is out here pitching a podcast trying to like brainstorm
what the best podcast is.
It's purely like internal.
They have to have at one point just at least spitballed the idea of taking the wildest
shit they hear in their surveillance and like doing America's funniest
like violations of...
No, that's a good idea.
That's true, that's funny.
Yo, you wanna hear what Trump said?
That was incredible.
Yo, he did say that shit about Laura.
I'm just saying, we got the call right here.
Yeah.
So it's basically, they're bragging that the show will,
in addition to endlessly talking about how in line with compliance they are
The show will allow them to show off the work they do which has been obscured by public controversies
I'm not aware of any public controversies. I don't know what what there was ollie north
Never heard of that. Do you have anything to do with this ages? I don't know.
I don't know anything. This is what that's just such a fucking dystopian vibe where it's
like it's like the same thing because they're cops, you know, they could be like, and cops
talk about how often they resist the urge to fully violate people's rights. And they
really just do it like, you know, only when it's relevant. I don't know how they think this is like a fun show or something people want to listen to.
I guess it's like PR slash. Yeah, it's good. Isn't there like a CIA one too?
Like there is there's CIA and I think also FBI and when they're like talking about the
FBI and when they're like talking about the process for making the show
They like get credit in this article about the thing for like doing they're like they did endless research in in addition to
Including listening to popular podcasts and also listening to the CIA and FBI podcasts to see what a podcast is
Like damn guys. No, no, oh god is. Like, damn guys, really? Oh no.
Holy shit.
Anyway, they're probably listening now, but hey.
How'd you find time to spy on me with that level of rigor?
I think it's time for the NSA to take some credit
for things like the Bin Laden raid,
which is the subject of the first episode.
Cool, cool.
So in addition to rehabbing their public image and countering critics,
the main thing that this seems to be aimed at is helping them with recruitment.
Yeah.
One source told Wires that the agent podcasting.
Exactly.
That's if we need help.
As is, yeah, we're we're false.
A generation we got to do it.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's what this country needs is more podcasters.
Yo, this is definitely an op.
Yeah.
For every one person, there should be a podcast made for them.
You know, we need I will not rest until there are 350 million podcasts.
In the future, you're just going to get a feed with your birth certificate.
That's right.
All right.
Yeah.
You're born, start posting.
There you go.
Start making content.
But yeah, one source told Wired that the agency is, quote, hoping that by showcasing the work
we do here and the real people on the show who work here, listeners might say, quote, hoping that by showcasing the work we do here and the real
people on the show who work here, listeners might say, oh, that sounds like a really cool
job and that person seems pretty normal, right?
No fucking way.
I love that.
And that person seems pretty normal.
When you're having to be like, hey, I'm a normal person over here.
That's like that's what people say to get children to come into their van.
Like just a normal guy here.
Like also a little bit with JD Vance feels like he's like, hey,
I'm just saying normal things that we all think. And then he a crazy thing. No one's ever thought right? Yeah, right
Yeah, I mean I get it look they said they're they failed to meet their hiring objectives due to quote competition with the private
So this is my favorite detail of this whole story. Yeah, just
Snowden leaks
Cybersecurity has become
massive in Silicon Valley because people are afraid of being spied on
by the NSA.
And so people, the private companies can sell security back to people.
And now the private companies are paying way better.
You get to go live on some utopian commune where everybody has
like shitty Google glasses or whatever and like just get fed sushi without like having
to stop typing.
Hell yeah. Rather than being a bureaucrat.
Yeah, rather than being a bureaucrat. They just by spying on their own people, they created
a massive industry of people being scared of data security and that industry just like drank up all their talent.
You fucking you hate to see it, folks.
Holy shit. The fact that they had to stress seemed like this.
And this person seems pretty normal. Right.
And that's like pie in the sky dream version of what this does.
Makes me look normal.
They're not leading with the problematic shit that would get people like, you know what
I mean?
Like people want to be cops because they feel like they are omnipotent and above the law
and could do whatever the fuck they want to because they are police.
If you turned it into like wrote the NSA, you can fucking spy on all your enemies, man.
You do petty shit at the NSA, bro.
You can bring up their fucking you could tap their grandma's phone tonight
That's why i think then people will be like president trump wants to be president so they can tap tap some everyone's phones
No, he will yeah
He's like there was this one this one girl from middle school. I wonder what she's up to and you're like dude what?
Yeah, pretty much
He's talking about erin sorgen's gonna make the trump movie where it's all like
He's talking about Aaron Sorkin is going to make the Trump movie where it's all like draws it back to like some girl who broke up with him and he's just like doing all of this to like impress her.
Yeah. Yeah, I do feel like if they wanted to accomplish like what Top Gun did for the Air Force, they would have made a fictional film where people just an NSA person like uses the power of spying to be awesome in some way. Yes. Isn't that Mission Impossible? It is. Yeah. Maybe, maybe that's what I'm thinking.
But you can't get into the Impossible Missions Force. You know what I mean? Yeah, that's true.
Yeah, but that's the, you can get into the NSA. Yeah, that's true. But yeah, I mean, hey, look,
we all got dreams of illegally legally obtaining
evidence somehow. So let's do that altogether.
Yeah. Brian, that editor points out they just need to remake enemy of the state. But like
from their perspective, like, who will speak for the shadowy government?
Yeah, exactly. Exactly. They came for the shadowy government and I said nothing
I love being a stormtrooper guys and this podcast really helped me embrace that it really did so
For a number of years now, I think since the 90s
Yeah
since the 90s the NSA has been running recruiting programs out of universities across the country with minimal push back from
administrations because they
and they get away with it because they just like essentially bribe schools.
They have like this NSA's national centers of academic excellence designation that raises
a school's profile and gets them funding from the federal government.
And so in schools, even though they have like billion dollar
Endowments are just they they need that money need that bump. You got to get that NSA bump, man
Once you get a billion dollars, you're not like I'm good at a billion dollars
You just become that much hungrier for your next billion dollars as I referenced earlier Wanda Sykes is an alumna
Okay, yeah of the NSA.
Get her to fucking talk about it.
And people are like on her show.
That's also mass surveillance, that ring camera show that she fucking knows.
It's a very interesting circle that people end up in, but yeah.
Uh, maybe she can speak to like the perks of working there.
Although she says she was administrative staff.
Obviously she wasn't illegally monitoring
people's communications.
She didn't have to take anybody out.
She just had to give somebody who took someone out
a positive performance review at the end of the year.
Yeah.
So, I don't know.
I really do think that they are going to eventually
soft launch a show where they get to use the stuff that they're spying
I mean, maybe that I haven't listened to this show. Maybe they are like being like and here's the first hand source
Here's a primary source of like bin Laden sounding like a little bitch on the phone, right?
It you really do need shit like that like you you'd be like, listen to Michael Jordan placing bets on basketball.
Like here it is. You know what I mean?
Like just shit. You're like, yo, what do they have?
I mean, that's what cops was essentially was like this horrible, like malevolent,
malevolent force, malevolent force,
fucking be like just showing people doing wacky bloopers around them while
they like fucked people up because they were like scared of them.
Right.
Yeah.
Anyway, try a reality show podcast.
I'm just saying podcast.
Guys, I'm going to listen to this NSA podcast now.
I got to hear it.
Yeah.
Damn.
We are now officially certified as an NSA,. And we we've got the NSA is national center of academic excellence has given us
their official designation, designation, FYI.
Like that it has nothing to do with the story that we just did that just made
this show sound awesome. But we are now,
we are now receiving questions. Yeah. We're just asking questions. Yeah, we're just asking questions.
And all the questions came out making this show look sick as hell.
And I think leftists are ruining this country.
I don't know about you guys, but that's just where that's just where my head's at recently.
Yeah, I think I think you're dead on miles.
Thank you so much, Colonel.
I mean, Jack O'Brien.
miles. Thank you so much, Colonel. I mean, Jack O'Brien. Molly Lambert, what a pleasure having you. Where can people find you, follow you, all
that good stuff? You can find me at molly underscore Lambert
on Instagram and yeah, check out Heidi world very soon, very soon, next year, but soon there will be a
new podcast from me called Jenna World about Jenna Jameson and the history of the porn
industry in the San Fernando Valley.
Keep an eye out for that.
And of course you can hear me every week on the NSA podcast.
Obviously.
And using my real name, which is, what was that person's name?
Henry Kissinger. Henry Anna Kissinger. And using my real name, which is
Henry and a Kissinger I feel like it wouldn't be surprising to find out like Henry Kissinger does great like voice work
He's just like that kind of evil that he's just been doing a character this whole time. Oh, yeah Henry is just one of his characters
Molly is there work a media you've been enjoying? Yeah, absolutely
I've been watching? Yeah, absolutely.
I've been watching the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives on Hulu.
Oh, shit.
And you guys got to get into it.
You know about this show?
I've heard about it. I've heard about it.
A lot of people are talking about it.
I'm like, do I? Yeah, yeah.
You got to watch.
I thought it was going to be a ripoff of Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, but it's like its own different insane thing. It's about a group of moms,
a group of Mormon moms who started a TikTok thing called Mom Talk, which was like, even
though we're Mormon wives, we can dance. We are allowed to do TikTok dances.
All right. It's 2024. Um,
and then they all got into what they call soft swinging, which is where,
they all, uh,
consensually had sexual stuff go on with each other and each
other's husbands, but not penetration, which is what makes it soft.
Oh, Soft swinging.
Yeah.
Victor says, do they soak?
I just learned about soaking.
I don't know if you do soaking.
Penetration, right?
I mean, that's penetration.
Yeah.
It doesn't count,
because you don't move it back and forth,
it doesn't count.
That's what soaking is.
Sure.
So what I'm saying, you think they're soaking?
We cover soaking in depth on this.
They float? They float? We cover soaking in depth on this show. They float?
We get it.
Floating might, hmm.
Floating is similar though.
Isn't floating just another word for soaking?
I think floating's also soaking.
And then the homie jumps on the bed.
The show's not even about the swinging scandal.
It's like the aftermath.
It's like following all these women.
Oh, wow.
After the swinging scandal almost destroyed mom talk, the one thing that brings them all
joy.
Yeah.
Super salacious though.
It's worth watching.
I mean, I like, I'm interested in it.
It's a bunch of weird, extremely weird white women with names, you know, like Kaylee,
Mailey.
Right. Miles. Yes. Where can people find you? men with names, you know, like Kaylee, Mailey.
Right.
Miles.
Yes.
Where can people find you? Is there work media you've been enjoying?
Find me on Twitter and Instagram at miles of gray.
Find Jack and I on the basketball podcast.
Miles and Jack got bad.
I said bad boosty, mad boosties.
Also find me on 420 day fiance with Sophia Alexandra.
A tweet I like. No, I'm just just gonna keep telling people you gotta check out dream cleaning, Australia
My favorite YouTube channel where this guy is just screaming over his like jet washer trying to break up
clogs and
Blockages and all kinds of drains in Western Australia, and I just can't get enough of it
So that's what I'm gonna keep to drain cleaning Australia.
You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien,
the artist formerly known as Bill at Rower underscore two
retweeted a old BBC article,
Ticketmaster makes huge step for disabled music fans
and wrote surely a ramp would be better.
And I thought that was a pretty funny response.
You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist.
We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram.
We have a Facebook fan page and a website, dailyzeitgeist.com
where we post our episodes and our footnotes.
Where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode
as well as a song that we think you might enjoy.
Miles, is there a song that you think people might enjoy?
Yeah, it's that one.
I recommended a track of Nick Waterhouse's,
I think the week before last.
He's the guy who like records all analog
and like his voice kind of sounds like Eric Burton
or Van Morrison.
Nick Waterhouse, this track is called Medicine. Again, it's
like another sort of retro feeling track, but this is a dude who's younger than me, like
most people on earth at this point, where yeah, it's just a wonderful tune. So ride
out this late summer. We're still in summer, right? Isn't the solstice like in like a few
days?
Yeah.
Oh, it's fall, baby.
Is it technically fall now?
In my mind. Oh, oh yeah. No. Is it technically fall now? In my mind.
Oh yeah, no.
I mean in LA, like it's been so overcast and like the weather just shifted like 25 degrees
very quickly.
Thank you, Victor.
On the 22nd, it will officially be fall.
So let's take this last little bit of late summer with this track, Medicine from Nick
Waterhouse.
I love Medicine.
All right.
We will link off to that in the footnotes.
Very good.
You'll be great on the NSA podcast. I love Medicine. I love medicine. All right. We will link off to that in the book notes.
Very good.
You'll be great on the NSA podcast.
I love medicine.
I love medicine, sir.
Daily Zeitgeist is a productive iHeartRadio.
For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts.
Wherever you listen to your favorite shows, that's going to do it for us this morning.
We're back this afternoon to tell you what is trending, and we'll talk to you all then.
Bye.
Bye. Bye. plot to murder a one-woman WikiLeaks. She exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country into
a Mafia state. new episodes one week early and 100% ad free, subscribe to the iHeartTrueCrime Plus channel,
available exclusively on Apple podcasts. Hey, I'm Jay Shetty and I'm the host of On Purpose.
This week, I had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Andrew Huberman. Dr. Huberman is a neuroscientist
and professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, known for his research on brain function,
behavior and neuroplasticity, the brain's ability to adapt and rewire itself.
The expectation on us is not perfection, being able to toggle between these different states.
Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeart Radio app,
Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Trust me, you won't want to miss this one.
Kay hasn't heard from her sister in seven years.
I have a proposal for you.
Come up here and document my project.
All you need to do is record everything like you always do.
What was that?
That was live audio of a woman's nightmare.
Can Kay trust her sister or is history repeating itself?
There's nothing dangerous about what you're doing.
They're just dreams.
Dream Sequence is a new horror thriller
from Blumhouse Television, iHeartRadio, and Realm. Listen to Dream Sequence is a new horror thriller from Blumhouse
Television, iHeartRadio, and Realm. Listen to Dream Sequence
on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get
your podcasts.
Curious about queer sexuality, cruising and expanding your
horizons? Hit play on the sex positive and deeply entertaining
podcast, Sniffy's Cruising Confessions. Join hosts Gabe
Gonzalez and Chris Patterson Rosso as they explore queer sex,
cruising, relationships and culture in the new iHeart podcast,
Sniffy's Cruising Confessions. Sniffy's Cruising Confessions will broaden minds
and help you pursue your true goals. You can listen to Sniffy's Cruising
Confessions, sponsored by Gilead, now on the iHeart Radio app or wherever you get
your podcasts. New episodes every Thursday. In California during the summer
of 1975, within the span of 17 days and less than 90 miles,
two women did something no other woman had done before, try to assassinate the President of the
United States. One was the protege of Charles Manson, 26 year old Lynette Fromm, nicknamed
Squeaky. The other a middle-aged housewife working undercover for the FBI. Identified by police as Sarah Jean Moore.
The story of one strange and violent summer, this season on the new podcast, Rip Current.
Hear episodes of Rip Current early and completely ad-free and receive exclusive bonus content
by subscribing to iHeart True Crime Plus, only on Apple Podcasts.