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TDZ Endnotes · Monthly digest

May 2025

The links published with every main episode, kept in their original order, plus the official song of the day.

Source note: These are the links supplied by the show in its official episode notes. Automatically generated transcripts are not treated as authoritative URLs.

May 29–30

Friday
May. 30

“The Oppressed Chad, Obama = Basketball?”

In episode 1872, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and co-host of  Rebrand , Mort Burke

  1. Rebrand
  2. Mort Burke
  3. Woe Is Me: The Story of A Man Named Chad
  4. Elon Musk Officially Poochies Himself Out Of The White House
  5. Elon Musk leaves Trump administration after leading effort to slash U.S. government
  6. Musk Takes Stephen Miller’s Wife—as Trump Aide Rage Tweets
  7. Baby Trump and Musk feature in Russian propaganda cartoon for toddlers
  8. Trump’s Pick for Ambassador to Israel Sells a Children’s Book Praising Him
  9. Kash Patel’s Maga kids’ book is embarrassing. I should know – I’m a children’s author
  10. Obama to Star in Spider-Man Comic
  11. Lining Up for Obama and Spider-Man
  12. Super President Wiki
  13. SUPER PRESIDENT
  14. Can We Just Get Down To The Conversation About Whiteness?
  15. Mort's Piece of Media: MaKenna Magasis - 2021

Song of the day: Funny by Broncho

Thursday
May. 29

“Poop Party At The Pentagon! Nathan, Do Capitalism Next!”

In episode 1871, Jack and Miles are joined by co-host of One of Us with Fin and Chris , Chris Renfro

  1. One of Us with Fin and Chris
  2. Chris Renfro
  3. White House stunned as Hegseth inquiry brings up illegal wiretap claims
  4. Vicious interpersonal conflicts among Hegseth staff cloud leak investigation
  5. Can a Comedian Reform Aviation Safety?
  6. Can Nathan Fielder Save You From Dying in a Plane Crash?
  7. Nathan Fielder Ended “The Rehearsal” With His Most Deranged Stunt Yet
  8. Pilots React to  The Rehearsal
  9. Boeing Agrees to Plead Guilty to Felony in Deal With Justice Department
  10. Could Nathan Fielder’s Scheme to Prevent Airline Crashes Actually Work?
  11. The Collision At Tenerife
  12. How speaking up can save lives
  13. ‘You do not cross them’: Hierarchy and emotion in doctors' narratives of power relations in specialist training
  14. Hierarchy and medical error: speaking up when witnessing an error.
  15. Aviation Industry Scandals: Capitalism Makes Air Travel Deadly
  16. Airline Pilots Demand Higher Wages and Better Treatment

Song of the day: Diagonals by Stereo Lab

May 22–28

Wednesday
May. 28

“Ode To The Snoopy Museum, Hollywood Hearts MAGA?”

In episode 1870, Jack and guest co-host Andrew Ti are joined by bestselling author of Raw Dog , co-host of The Bechdel Cast , and host of 16th Minute of Fame ,  Jamie Loftus

  1. Andrew Ti
  2. Raw Dog
  3. The Bechdel Cast
  4. 16th Minute of Fame
  5. Jamie Loftus
  6. The diplomatic road seeking peace in Ukraine has had twists and turns
  7. Russia and Ukraine complete prisoner swap hours after Moscow launches major aerial assault
  8. With little progress after phone calls and talks, Ukraine’s allies hit Russia with new sanctions
  9. Russia seizes Ukrainian border villages as its bombing campaign slows
  10. Hamas releases Edan Alexander, the last living American Israeli hostage in Gaza
  11. Palestinian official says Hamas agrees to Gaza proposal, Israel dismisses it
  12. MAGA TV Era Is Here: RIP TV
  13. The Manosphere Won
  14. Shifting Gears Season 2 Is Confirmed After ABC Reportedly Considered Cancelling Tim Allen’s New Sitcom

Song of the day: Slugs by Slow Pulp

Friday
May. 23

“Olympics On Steroids, Gwenyth Paltrow Is Punk?!?”

In episode 1869, Jack and guest co-host Blake Wexler are joined by comedian, actor, and writer, Titi Lee

  1. Blake Wexler
  2. Titi Lee
  3. Titi Lee: Good Girl Gone Baddie
  4. The Enhanced Games Are Coming to Vegas
  5. Donald Trump Jr. Invests in Thiel-Backed ‘Olympics With Drugs’
  6. Enhanced Games Promo
  7. A Punk Band Just Released An Album That Smells Like Gwenyth Paltrow’s Vagina Candle
  8. Gwyneth Paltrow Is Still Defending Goop’s ‘Smells Like My Vagina’ Candle: ‘Women Are Socialized to Feel a Lot of Shame and I Loved This Punk Rock Idea’
  9. Almost Half Of Young People Would Prefer A World Without Internet--UK Study Finds
  10. Tom Cruise Sidesteps Talk About Trump’s Hollywood Tariffs at ‘Mission: Impossible’ Press Stop: ‘We’d Rather Answer Questions About the Movie’
  11. Simon Pegg - "Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning" | The Daily Show
  12. Who is the enemy in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’? Let’s investigate
  13. Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski: ‘Of all Tom Cruise’s characters, Maverick might be closest to his real personality’
  14. The War on Our Screens
  15. 25 years later, how ‘Top Gun’ made America love war
  16. Top Gun  is the sleekest, horniest recruitment ad of the 1980s
  17. TOPGUN: The Navy’s First Center of Excellence
  18. ‘Top Gun’ and the Complicated Legacy Facing ‘Maverick’
  19. Why Tom Cruise Is Such An Effective Propaganda Tool
  20. CIA may have used contractor who inspired ‘Mission: Impossible’ to kill RFK, new book alleges
  21. MAHEU SAYS HE RECRUITED MAN FOR C.I.A. IN CASTRO POISON PLOT
  22. ClandesTime 270 – The CIA and Mission: Impossible
  23. How the CIA Hoodwinked Hollywood
  24. Mission: Impossible—a Post-Cold War Deconstruction of the ’60s
  25. Ideology and Cold War Identity in  Mission: Impossible
  26. Mission: Impossible Is 25 Years Old: Its Big Twist Would Cause Outrage Today
  27. On “Mission: Impossible” and Unaccountable Government
  28. Mission: Impossible - Fallout Is The Franchise's Most Political Movie To Date
  29. The U.S. tried to change other countries’ governments 72 times during the Cold War
  30. Mission: Impossible—Fallout ’s Wolf Blitzer Cameo and the Possible Perils of Fake Fake News
  31. Op-Ed: Journalists need to stop playing themselves in movies

Song of the day: Cominthru by S. Fidelity

Thursday
May. 22

“The Uncancelling Hath BEGUN, Tech Billionaires Can’t Read”

In episode 1868, Jack and guest co-host Pallavi Gunalan  are joined by comedian and co-host of  The Worst Idea Of All Time , Tim Batt

  1. Pallavi Gunalan
  2. The Worst Idea Of All Time
  3. Tim Batt
  4. Dallas Comedy Club Presents: PALLAVI GUNALAN
  5. Climate Change OG
  6. Have the Experience of Stealing From a Porch Without All the Risk
  7. Kevin Spacey faces another civil sexual assault lawsuit in UK
  8. Fact check: Is Kevin Spacey really being honoured at Cannes?
  9. 'Nice to be back,' Kevin Spacey says, accepting achievement award in Cannes
  10. Writers Guild Censures ‘Schooled’ Showrunner Tim Doyle for Posting Lynching Image in Facebook Joke
  11. Kevin Spacey Compares His Plight to Hollywood Blacklist in Fiery Defense in Cannes: History ‘Often Repeats Itself’
  12. Writers Guild Scribe Apologizes for “Epically Horrible” Joke Gone Wrong Using Lynching Image
  13. The Culture War: Iain M. Banks’s Billionaire Fans - Why Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos love Iain M. Banks’ anarcho-communist space opera.
  14. Why does Elon Musk love this socialist sci-fi series?
  15. Jeff Bezos: ‘We will have to leave this planet … and it’s going to make this planet better’
  16. Elon Musk Names SpaceX Drone Ships in Honor of Iain M. Banks
  17. 30 years of Culture: what are the top five Iain M Banks novels?
  18. Amazon TV adaptation of Iain Banks' Culture series is cancelled
  19. A man of culture
  20. Ethical future? Science fiction and the tech billionaires
  21. Jack's Piece of Media: Future Adam Curtis B-Roll

Song of the day: Little Things by Still Woozy

May 15–21

Wednesday
May. 21

“Universe FINALLY Ending! Klarna’s AI Oopsie”

In episode 1867, Jack and Miles are joined by actor, voiceover artist, and musician, Shahjehan Khan

  1. Shahjehan Khan
  2. Is The AI Future Just More Gig Work For Humans?
  3. Staffing Cuts Are Leading To More Deadly Weather Events?
  4. Jurassic World Rebirth | Official Trailer 2
  5. Final Trailer for Jurassic World Rebirth Shows the River Raft Scene From Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park, More of the D-Rex, and the Mutadon
  6. Jurassic World Rebirth Has a Sequence From Michael Crichton’s First Jurassic Park Novel That Didn’t Make It Into the Original Movie — and Fans Have Ideas for What It Could Be
  7. An Oral History of Jurassic Park: The Ride
  8. The Forgotten Story Behind Jurassic Park: The Ride
  9. Good News: The Universe May Be Ending Sooner Than Expected
  10. Gravitational Pair Production and Black Hole Evaporation
  11. Universe decays faster than thought, but still takes a long time
  12. How Stephen Hawking Transformed Our Understanding of Black Holes
  13. 'Hawking radiation' may be erasing black holes. Watching it happen could reveal new physics.
  14. Scientists calculate when the universe will end — it's sooner than expected

Song of the day: Assumptions (Kaytranada Edit) by Sam Gellaitry

Tuesday
May. 20
Friday
May. 16

“Grok = Rebellious Teen, Dems Suspicious Of Low Hanging Fruit!?”

In episode 1865, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian behind the comedy special Recommended Based On Your Search History , Joe Kwaczala

  1. Recommended Based On Your Search History
  2. Joe Kwaczala
  3. Musk’s AI Grok bot rants about ‘white genocide’ in South Africa in unrelated chats
  4. Trump just granted asylum to a man who posted Jews are ‘dangerous’
  5. You Got That 2025 Topps Pope Leo XIV Rookie Card?!
  6. What Happens When Private Equity Owns Your Kid’s Day Care
  7. U.S. has world’s highest rate of children living in single-parent households
  8. Child care is a ‘textbook example of a broken market.’ Where do Harris, Trump go from here?
  9. New Polling on Child Care and the 2024 Election
  10. Harris wants to limit child care costs to 7% of family income
  11. The “Affordability” Hustle
  12. New Mexico Started Offering Free Childcare and Reduced the State’s Poverty Rate
  13. Transforming the Child Care Landscape
  14. New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120,000 people above the poverty line
  15. Project 2025 plan calls for shifting funding for childcare to in-home care
  16. Project 2025 Proposes Defunding Daycare
  17. Not Just More Babies: These Republicans Want More Parents at Home
  18. Private Equity Has Its Eyes on the Child-Care Industry
  19. Can Child Care Be a Big Business? Private Equity Thinks So.
  20. For-Profit Childcare Chains Showered Manchin in Cash After He Blocked Universal Care

Song of the day: Let's Ride (Soul Supreme Version) By Q-Tip

Thursday
May. 15

“White Africans >, CEOs R All dUmB”

In episode 1864, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian, Shanna Christmas

  1. Shanna Christmas
  2. As a white Afrikaner, I can now claim asylum in Trump’s America. What an absurdity
  3. Trump administration faces criticism for prioritizing white South African refugees
  4. Max Shall Now Be Known As… HBO Max
  5. Warner Bros. Discovery’s Max Streamer Ripped as a Terrible Brand Strategy: ‘Insanely Bad Decision’
  6. Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav’s 2024 Pay Rises 4% to Nearly $52 Million
  7. Max's confusing launch saw Warner Bros lose nearly two million subscribers
  8. Max Loses HBO Title as Rebranded Service Launches: What to Know
  9. Returning the HBO to Max Is Latest Sign of Potential Warner Bros. Discovery Split
  10. This is what happens when the Vision Pro shows up on The Price Is Right. (Clip)
  11. 5 Ways in Which Apple Vision Pro Will Change How We Work
  12. A Game Changer in Immersive Learning - Five Ways Apple’s Vision Pro Could Transform Education and Training
  13. Apple Vision Pro U.S. Sales Are All But Dead, Market Analysts Say
  14. Apple Sharply Scales Back Production of Vision Pro
  15. Apple plans cheaper Vision Pro as tariffs threaten costs
  16. Report: Cheaper ‘Apple Vision’ headset to cost around $2000; drop EyeSight
  17. Minecraft’s VR support is now gone
  18. 56% Of VR Devs Say VR ‘Declining Or Stagnating’
  19. What actually happened to Mark Zuckerberg's $47 billion Metaverse?
  20. The Metaverse’s Dark Side: Here Come Harassment and Assaults
  21. Meta's Money Pit: Metaverse Bet Bleeds Billions
  22. Remember Zuckerberg's Cherished Metaverse? Now He's Firing the People He Hired to Build It
  23. The metaverse could be a 'legendary misadventure,' Meta executive says, if Reality Labs doesn't turn things around in 2025
  24. How AI Replaced the Metaverse as Zuckerberg’s Top Priority
  25. The Metaverse Flopped, So Mark Zuckerberg Is Pivoting to Empty AI Hype

Song of the day: Nightrider (feat. Freddie Gibbs) by Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes

May 8–14

Wednesday
May. 14

“Trumpin’ On Some Sizzurp, Mr Beast’s Loans 4 Kidz”

In episode 1863, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and co-host of  Rebrand , Mort Burke

  1. Rebrand
  2. Mort Burke
  3. Don't Quit Your Day Job, Michigan State Rep. Josh Schriver
  4. The Conservative C.O.D.E by Josh Schriver (This "Song" Is Trash... Click At Your Own Risk)
  5. Amazon’s Prime Video Renews ‘Beast Games’ For Two Seasons: “We’re Excited To Raise The Bar Even Higher”
  6. MrBeast’s faux philanthropy: His cynical videos are fuelling the aid illusion
  7. MrBeast, Amazon Sued by Contestants on ‘Beast Games’ Competition Show, With Allegations Including Sexual Harassment and ‘Chronic Mistreatment’
  8. Elon Musk and MrBeast are building sinister company towns
  9. MOOSE TOYS' NEW MRBEAST LAB TOY LINE SPARKS UNPRECEDENTED RETAILER FRENZY
  10. 'Beast Games' partnership with fintech company MoneyLion stirs controversy: Here's why

Song of the day: Contact by Astrocolor

Tuesday
May. 13

“Qatar’s Trojan Jet? THERANOS 2.0?!”

In episode 1862, Miles and guest co-host Blake Wexler are joined by award-winning tv writer, comedian, and creator of Gone Native , Joey Clift

  1. Blake Wexler
  2. Gone Native
  3. Joey Clift
  4. Trump Accepts $400M Jet From Qatar…No Strings Attached!
  5. RFK Jr. goes swimming in DC’s Rock Creek despite NPS guidance on bacteria
  6. Elizabeth Holmes’s partner reportedly raises millions for blood-testing startup
  7. Elizabeth Holmes' partners' blood test start-up is very real and not a joke
  8. ‘This is not Theranos 2.0′: Elizabeth Holmes’ partner is the CEO behind new blood-testing startup
  9. Elizabeth Holmes' partner raises millions for new biotech testing startup
  10. Tom Cruise shocks fans as he’s spotted standing on the roof of the BFI IMAX
  11. Pow! - Short Film Trailer
  12. Bison pastimes #386 - De-pantsing the tourists

Song of the day: Feels So Wrong by Mamalarky

Friday
May. 9
Thursday
May. 8

“REAL ID Fake? Cybertruck Flops Even Harder”

In episode 1860, Jack and guest co-host Andrew Ti are joined by host of  Worse Than You , Mo Fry Pasic

  1. Andrew Ti
  2. Worse Than You
  3. Mo Fry Pasic
  4. What you need to know about the REAL ID requirements for air travel
  5. The Racist Origins of the Real ID Act
  6. Top Trump agency reveals key reason why REAL ID will be enforced
  7. 'Mass surveillance': Conservatives sound alarm over Trump admin's REAL ID rollout
  8. Trump’s Insistence on Real ID Has Become a Flashpoint for His Tinfoil Hat Fans
  9. You can get a free Krispy Kreme doughnut on May 7 for Real ID deadline: Here's how
  10. Homeland Security chief says travelers with no REAL ID can fly for now, but with likely extra steps
  11. Flying out of Indianapolis without REAL ID? Don't fret — the airport isn't turning people away
  12. Tesla’s Inventory of Unsold Cybertrucks Skyrockets, Despite Offering $10K Discounts and Concealing Listings
  13. The Silicon Valley sceptic warning tech’s new bubble is about to burst
  14. Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall
  15. Microsoft’s £2.5bn investment in Britain at risk from creaking power grid
  16. Chess helped me win the Nobel Prize, says Google’s AI genius
  17. OpenAI overrode concerns of expert testers to release sycophantic GPT-4o
  18. The next British boom could be in the offing – if Starmer abandons net zero
  19. Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’

Song of the day: Indeed by Cruza

May 1–7

Wednesday
May. 7
Tuesday
May. 6
Friday
May. 2
Thursday
May. 1

“President Truman (Show), White House DOWN For Some Action”

In episode 1856, Jack and Miles are joined by co-host of Part-Time Genius , Mangesh Hattikudur

  1. Part-Time Genius
  2. Mangesh Hattikudur
  3. Trump Melts Down After Getting Fact-Checked (Clip)
  4. Pam Bondi Praises Trump's First 100 Days (Clip)
  5. More Cult-like Praise for Trump's First 100 Days
  6. ‘G20’ Review: Viola Davis Plays an Action-Hero President
  7. G20 review – Viola Davis kicks ass in silly diplomatic hijack thriller
  8. ‘G20’: Viola Davis Plays Kamala Harris in a ‘Die Hard’ Movie
  9. President John Cena Clashes with Prime Minister Idris Elba Before Teaming Up in  Heads of State  Trailer
  10. Plenty of ‘Independence Day’ jokes at ‘1600 Penn’ event
  11. The Prescient Presidential Politics Of 'Air Force One'
  12. Bush Arrives for Final Flight to ‘Air Force One’ Score
  13. Donald Trump Asked to Stop Using ‘Air Force One’ Music for Campaign (Exclusive)
  14. See Harrison Ford's response to Donald Trump's "Air Force One" comment
  15. Jamie Foxx used President Obama as inspiration in 'White House Down'
  16. A Brief History of the President of the United States, Action-Movie Hero
  17. How John F. Kennedy revealed his father exploited the PT 109 incident to make his son a hero and pave the road to the White House
  18. Making of John F. Kennedy Biopic ‘PT 109’ Was Hardly Smooth Sailing

Song of the day: Don't Forget About Us (Kaytranada Remix) Mariah Carey

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