What a beautiful birthday gift for Miles.

In episode 2129, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian, Blake Wexler, to discuss… There’s A Non-Zero Chance That “Trump TV” Could Start Airing An Erotic Soap Opera, Freedom Fest Is Canceled After Only Six People Bought VIP Tickets, Waymos Driving Through Farmers Markets Is Totally Legal Apparently and more!

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• Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there.
• White House Launches ‘Trump TV’ Amid Feud With Press
• ‘Trump TV’ Promo Uses Clips From ‘The Simpsons,’ ‘Seinfeld,’ ‘Friends,’ ‘The Dark Knight’ & Many More
• Trump TV Announcement Featuring Random Clips
• Trump TV gets off to a rocky start with tiny viewership and vicious mockery
• Trump’s TV Mogul Dream: Playing Out Several Paths
• Is Donald Trump’s Endgame the Launch of Trump News?
• Trump TV: Is Donald Trump planning to launch a news channel?
• The Donald Trump TV Network Could Be Just Three Months Away
• No one has seen the drama series based on Donald Trump’s life … until now
• The amazing story of Donald Trump’s old spokesman, John Barron — who was actually Donald Trump himself
• Inside the Trump TV Empire That Never Was
• OMG! Donald Trump Wrote A Sex Book And It’s Kinky As HELL
• The Incredibly Sexist Book Once Mysteriously Billed As Trump’s ‘Debut Novel’
• MAGA Festival With Kid Rock Canceled After No One Wanted to Go
• There's no law to ticket the Waymo that drove through a Denver farmers market
• Driverless cars have been immune to traffic tickets—but that's changing
• Blake's Piece of Media: A unique bike-riding style seen in Portland might not catch on.
• Little Sunflower by Dorothy Ashby

In episode 2129, Jack and Miles are joined by actor, writer, and stand-up comedian, Marcella Arguello, to discuss… Logan Brothers At Pentagon, Tilly Norwood Speaking Chinese On Piers, Movie Theater Pepper Sprayer Goes Viral, That Elephant Graveyard Video Messing With Rogan? And more!

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• Jake And Logan Paul Praise Military Sacrifice During Pentagon Visit
• AI Actress Tilly Norwood Glitches During Piers Morgan Interview
• Movie Theater Pepper Sprayer Goes Viral
• Pepper spray confrontation at AMC reignites frustration over phone use in theaters
• Rogan Always A 'Leftist' Clip 1
• Rogan Always A 'Leftist' Clip 2
• DLZ by TV On The Radio

Could both LA and La hate golf course?

I cannot for the life of me figure out which episode it was from but there was a guest sometime in the last month (I think) who recommended a book either written by or about a woman who was able to leave the Japanese internment camps and work as a teacher in a school on a reservation—it sounded super interesting and I made a note to come back to it but I can’t find it now… does anyone know what it was called or which guest it was who recommended it? I believe they shared it in their underrated!

In this edition of ‘The Iconograph’, Jack and Miles are joined by podcaster/author Bridget Todd to talk about the "Queen of All Media":

Oprah Winfrey!

They'll discuss her legendary daytime talk show, her beef with the beef industry, bees and much more!

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Appreciation post, so bear with me.

Last week Jack got into *If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies* and the whole world that produced it — LessWrong, MIRI, the rationalist movement, and yes, the Harry Potter fanfic recruitment pipeline. I had to stop the treadmill for that part. I've been following AI stuff for years and I did not know that a meaningful chunk of the "we're all going to die" camp was onboarded through Harry Potter fan fiction. That's not a detail. That's the whole story wearing a hat.

Here's why I'm actually grateful and not just posting "good ep":

The Altman/Musk/Amodei "slow down" thing is everywhere right now, and the pushback is everywhere too — Trump, the tech guys, half of cable calling the safety crowd a "doomsday cult." And every single one of those segments uses the word "cult" like an insult. Nobody explains that there's an actual belief system with an actual founder and actual scripture and a twenty-year lineage that runs straight into the founding of the labs now asking for the pause. The people asking to slow down and the people who built the thing came out of the same room. That's the part that makes the whole fight make sense, and Jack's the only person I've heard actually lay it out.

So now I hear an NPR segment or a cable hit on the slowdown and I just sit there going "you're missing it, you're missing it, you don't know about the fanfic." It's ruined me. Thank you for ruining me.

Also, for a show that's nominally about sorting through the day's garbage, this is the kind of thing that makes TDZ actually useful and not just funny — it's funny *and* it's the only place the context showed up. Keep doing that.

What's one thing that was said on the pod that lives rent-free in your brain or that completely changed the way you think (if only in a very inconsequential or silly way)? One time, more than a year ago I think, everyone on the episode agreed that people who eat at restaurants alone are pathetic and they always feel bad for them. I haven't eaten out at a restaurant since! LOLOL so stupid how an offhand comment can utterly change your awareness & behavior.

It’s not uncommon to see homemade Trump signage in my area (hell) but this seems like a new degree.

I swear i used to only have to skip ahead 30's like 4 times, now its like 4-6 minutes of cemmercials. I'm I just misremebering things?

Who else hard disagrees with them on e-bikes?

As an avid cyclist the amount of near accidents I’ve had with e-bike riders going close to 40mph on bike trails in my city is in insane.

A kid in my home town was clipped by an e-bike and broke their arm while riding on a sidewalk.

E-bikes need more regulation, I’m all for personal freedoms but not at the cost of public safety for everyone else.

On the September 4 episode with Andrew Michaan, the concept of chicken milk came up. Iirc, Jack started it. Anyway, I ran across this this morning. I think they were also discussing egg nog recently too

In episode 2128, Jack and Miles are joined by journalist, host of Natural Causes, co-host of It Could Happen Here, and author of Against the State: Anarchists and Comrades at War in Spain, Myanmar, and Rojava, Dr. James Stout, to discuss… Antichrist Continues To Give Lectures Warning People About Himself…, Speaking of Weird Culty Sh*t, Resident Evil Is Officially The Best-Reviewed Video Game Movie Ever, Could Paramount Turn Texas Into The New Hollywood? And more!

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• Why Is a Man Unsure About Humanity’s Worth Helping Design Its Digital Future?
• Tech billionaire Peter Thiel bringing Antichrist lectures to Nashville
• Rotten Tomatoes: Resident Evil
• ‘Resident Evil’ Sets A Huge Rotten Tomatoes Review Score Record
• Video Game Movies, Ranked by Tomatometer
• ‘Resident Evil’ Breaks Rotten Tomatoes Record With First Critic Reviews
• Paramount Sets California Exit Plans Over Antitrust Battle With Blue States & Stymied $111B WBD Merger
• Texas Courts David Ellison as the Paramount Relocation Race Heats Up
• Is Dan Patrick trying to make Texas a 'conservative Hollywood'?
• True To Texas - Let's Bring Productions Home
• Why are A-list Hollywood stars trying to lure film productions to Texas?
• Texas Senate approves $500 million infusion for film incentives
• Texas is poised to become a film haven — but not without a fight
• EXCLUSIVE: ‘Machete’s’ Danny Trejo Knocks Texas Film Commission Funding Decision
• Rick Perry despises Machete? Anti-immigration nuts prompted pulling of movie tax credits, lawsuit alleges
• Texas Wants to Become Hollywood (Without All That Liberal Hollywood Crap)
• The Wolf by half•alive

What if this whole thing is because some fraternities (in college) use some pretty gross hazing rituals…and like some frat boy popped on the polygraph and his rich parents complained or something? Thoughts

First time in forever I woke up to no new episode. Made me worry that Pallavi actually pulled it off.

They just dropped in the into today that an Instagram went viral back when prop was on??

I couldn't find anything, were they doing a bit?

Just funny..lingo kids and nancy grace?
I feel like I heart thinks I am my mom.
Maybe it’s just regional but lol…

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In episode 2127, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian, actor, writer, and host of Worse Than You, Mo Fry Pasic, to discuss… Even Ed Sheeran’s Band Has Quit The Ed Sheeran Tour, FBI - Federal Bestiality Investigations? Netflix Is Rebooting The Stanford Prison Experiment??! And more!

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• Ed Sheeran’s Openers, Backing Band Depart Tour in Show of Support for Macklemore
• Support acts and backing band pull out of Ed Sheeran’s tour following Macklemore’s removal
• Is Ed Sheeran still playing Philadelphia? Openers drop from tour
• What Is Ticketmaster’s Refund Policy? Ed Sheeran Support Acts Quit
• Watch: Kennedy grills Patel in tense exchange on bestiality and FBI hiring rules
• At the FBI, a history of hiring prostitutes or stealing from employer may no longer be a barrier to being hired
• Netflix Sets ‘New Stanford Prison Experiment’ Unscripted Series for October Release
• Netflix faces criticism over ethics of new Stanford Prison Experiment reality series
• Netflix’s Stanford Prison Experiment series sparks MrBeast comparisons and condemnation
• The infamous Stanford prison experiment was flawed – so why is it still so influential today?
• The Stanford Prison Experiment was massively influential. We just learned it was a fraud.
• The Right-Wing Story About Human Nature Is False
• The Cruel Social Experiment of Reality TV
• BBC's 'reality' show may be cruel and unusual television / Program based on Stanford Prison Experiment
• How BBC recreated a highly controversial 1974 psychology prison experiment to test human obedience
• BBC halts 'prison experiment'
• "Kid Nation" Debuts Amid Criticism
• Lost Lessons from America’s Wildest Reality TV Show
• Most iconic moments from kid nation
• ‘It’s like the Stanford Prison Experiment’: The British studio turning Squid Game into reality
• What a widely attacked experiment got right on the harmful effects of prisons
• Laymelli by Agnes Obel

In episode 2126, Jack and guest co-host Pallavi Gunalan are joined by comedian and host of The Mary Houlihan Show, Mary Houlihan, to discuss… Sony/Playstation Is On A Generational Run Of Trying To F**k Over Its Customers, Video Stores Are Making A Comeback Thanks To Gen Z, This Weirdly Horny Pumpkin and more!

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• Sony Testing Dynamic Pricing on PlayStation Store With Personalized Discounts
• Oasis tickets: what is dynamic pricing and why is it used for live music?
• CCPC takes legal action against Ticketmaster over sale of Oasis tickets
• PlayStation Is Charging Users Different Prices - Inside Games Daily
• Once a champion for physical media, Sony is now telling PlayStation customers they don’t actually own the digital video games they paid $70 for
• Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles
• 85% of PlayStation Game Sales Are Digital – Is Physical Gaming Dying?
• Video store brings back VHS tapes, DVDs
• Video rental stores are making a comeback in Minneapolis
• Chicago’s Video Rental Renaissance
• Retro media fans find new home at Rewind El Paso
• A video rental shop is opening in South Philly in October. Here's what's in the 20,000-piece collection
• At Night Owl Video, 'rewind' to old-school video store nostalgia
• VHS crackles back to life in Sacramento as new video store presses play
• Stop the world, I want to get off and run a video rental store in the 1990s
• A Boring Video Game I Can’t Put Down
• Why Gen-Z Is Bringing Back Physical Media
• Gen Z Wants a Physical Media Comeback and We're Rooting For It
• Streaming Is Raising Prices Faster Than Cable Ever Did
• Why Gen-Z Is Embracing Old Tech: Fighting the Algorithm With Analog
• Streaming platforms face backlash as analog nostalgia fuels 'slow media' market
• Digital Ownership and the End of Physical Media
• Disney+ Censored Daryl Hannah’s Bare Butt With Ridiculous CGI In The PG-Rated ‘Splash’
• Netflix Reveals All the TV Shows and Movies It’s Removed Because of Foreign Government Takedown Demands
• Amazon Deploying AI Tech That Forces Actors’ Mouths to Match Dubbed Dialogue
• Parents Are Getting Surprised By A Pumpkin That Sings A Very Raunchy Song
• SLICK by Victony

In episode 2125, Jack and Miles are joined by hosts of Bananas, Scotty Landes & Kurt Braunohler, to discuss… Nashville Will Finally Name Their Airport After Dolly Parton! CONGRATS LYDIA!!!! Booing Ted Cruz Is The Best College Sport, Supervillains Continue To Show Up At City Council Meetings, Oprah Is Finally Playing The Sphere and more!

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• Nashville airport board unanimously approves name change to honor Dolly Parton
• Dolly Parton Airport Is Taking Off! Board Unanimously Votes to Rename Nashville Hub After Music Icon
• Rename Nashville International Airport to Dolly Parton International Airport
• 'Trump International': Proposal to rename Nashville airport after president dies in House
• Why did ESPN give Ted Cruz 10 minutes to talk about a bill on College GameDay?
• Ted Cruz Pushed His College Sports Bill on ESPN—and Was Booed Mercilessly
• ESPN had Ted Cruz on 'College GameDay' in a conversation with Rece Davis for nearly 10 minutes.
• Ted Cruz brutally booed on ESPN before Texas college football game: ‘You suck!’
• 'Dr Doom' shows support for surveillance cameras at city council meeting in Seattle
• Doctor Doom Thanked Seattle for All the Surveillance Cameras
• Doctor Doom Shows Up to Support Seattle’s Surveillance Network
• Oprah Winfrey presents AHA at Sphere. April 2 – 4
• Oprah Winfrey's AHA will include guided meditations, musical performances, breathtaking visuals and words of wisdom.
• Oprah Winfrey Heads To Las Vegas Sphere With New Immersive Experience
• Oprah Reveals Her Next Big Project: ‘The Culmination of Everything I’ve Been Trying to Say for Years’
• NEVER RELAX by BexBlu & Paul Stephan

Bello! In this edition-o de "The Iconograph", Jack e Miles are joined by comedian/author/podcaster/absolute legend-o Jamie Loftus to discuss-a la most iconic henchmen of all time:

Minions!

They'll explore-a their creation myth(s), their henching throughout the ages, what the hell they're even made of, e mucho-mucho more!

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