In episode 1865, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian behind the comedy special Recommended Based On Your Search History, Joe Kwaczala, to discuss… Oh Grok Is Now Feeding Into The White Genocide Conspiracy, You Got That 2025 Topps Pope Leo XIV Rookie Card?! Wrestling Childcare Away From Private Equity Is The Winning Issue Democrats Keep Ignoring and more!
Musk’s AI Grok bot rants about ‘white genocide’ in South Africa in unrelated chats
Trump just granted asylum to a man who posted Jews are ‘dangerous’
You Got That 2025 Topps Pope Leo XIV Rookie Card?!
What Happens When Private Equity Owns Your Kid’s Day Care
U.S. has world’s highest rate of children living in single-parent households
Child care is a ‘textbook example of a broken market.’ Where do Harris, Trump go from here?
New Polling on Child Care and the 2024 Election
Harris wants to limit child care costs to 7% of family income
Child care is a ‘textbook example of a broken market.’ Where do Harris, Trump go from here?
The “Affordability” Hustle
New Mexico Started Offering Free Childcare and Reduced the State’s Poverty Rate
Transforming the Child Care Landscape
New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120,000 people above the poverty line
Project 2025 plan calls for shifting funding for childcare to in-home care
Project 2025 Proposes Defunding Daycare
Not Just More Babies: These Republicans Want More Parents at Home
Private Equity Has Its Eyes on the Child-Care Industry
Can Child Care Be a Big Business? Private Equity Thinks So.
For-Profit Childcare Chains Showered Manchin in Cash After He Blocked Universal Care

LISTEN: Let's Ride (Soul Supreme Version) By Q-Tip

In episode 1865, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian behind the comedy special <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rOLGbrD0uI">Recommended Based On Your Search History</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/joekwa/?hl=en">Joe Kwaczala</a>, to discuss&hellip; Oh Grok Is Now Feeding Into The White Genocide Conspiracy, You Got That 2025 Topps Pope Leo XIV Rookie Card?! Wrestling Childcare Away From Private Equity Is The Winning Issue Democrats Keep Ignoring and more!
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<li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/14/elon-musk-grok-white-genocide">Musk&rsquo;s AI Grok bot rants about &lsquo;white genocide&rsquo; in South Africa in unrelated chats</a></li>
<li><a href="https://forward.com/fast-forward/720109/charl-kleinhaus-south-africa-refugee-trump-antisemitism/">Trump just granted asylum to a man who posted Jews are &lsquo;dangerous&rsquo;</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-new-popes-trading-card-is-already-outselling-lebrons/">You Got That 2025 Topps Pope Leo XIV Rookie Card?!</a></li>
<li><a href="https://jacobin.com/2025/04/private-equity-day-care-childcare">What Happens When Private Equity Owns Your Kid&rsquo;s Day Care</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/12/12/u-s-children-more-likely-than-children-in-other-countries-to-live-with-just-one-parent/">U.S. has world&rsquo;s highest rate of children living in single-parent households</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-08-22/affordable-child-care-under-harris-trump">Child care is a &lsquo;textbook example of a broken market.&rsquo; Where do Harris, Trump go from here?</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.ffyf.org/2024/05/16/new-polling-on-child-care-and-the-2024-election/">New Polling on Child Care and the 2024 Election</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/18/politics/child-care-harris-7-percent-cap/index.html">Harris wants to limit child care costs to 7% of family income</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-08-22/affordable-child-care-under-harris-trump">Child care is a &lsquo;textbook example of a broken market.&rsquo; Where do Harris, Trump go from here?</a></li>
<li><a href="https://jacobin.com/2019/02/affordability-health-care-booker-harris-democrats">The &ldquo;Affordability&rdquo; Hustle</a></li>
<li><a href="https://mymodernmet.com/new-mexico-free-childcare/">New Mexico Started Offering Free Childcare and Reduced the State&rsquo;s Poverty Rate</a></li>
<li><a href="https://pn3policy.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/PN3PIC_TransformingChildCare-ACaseStudyofNewMexico.pdf">Transforming the Child Care Landscape</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/childcare-new-mexico-poverty">New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120,000 people above the poverty line</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/08/project-2025-trump-vance-childcare">Project 2025 plan calls for shifting funding for childcare to in-home care</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/project-2025-proposes-defunding-daycare-trump-vance-1235097858/">Project 2025 Proposes Defunding Daycare</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/us/politics/republicans-parents-babies-home.html">Not Just More Babies: These Republicans Want More Parents at Home</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/private-equity-childcare/677511/">Private Equity Has Its Eyes on the Child-Care Industry</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/16/us/child-care-centers-private-equity.html">Can Child Care Be a Big Business? Private Equity Thinks So.</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/16/profit-childcare-chains-showered-manchin-cash-after-he-blocked-universal-care">For-Profit Childcare Chains Showered Manchin in Cash After He Blocked Universal Care</a></li>
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LISTEN: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/1k8pniFqN9BtIGeuqlOjzH">Let's Ride (Soul Supreme Version) By Q-Tip</a>

There’s more news and less comprehension today than any historical period that didn’t involve literal witch trials, and trying to stay on top of it all can feel like playing a game of telephone with 30 people, except everyone’s speaking at the same time and like a third of them are openly racist for some reason. From Cracked co-founder Jack O’Brien, THE DAILY ZEITGEIST is stepping into that fray with some of the funniest and smartest comedic and journalistic minds around. Jack and co-host Miles Gray spend up to an hour every weekday sorting through the events and stories driving the headlines, to help you find the signal in the noise, with a few laughs thrown in for free.

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