Like…Insider Trading, Ben Shapiro’s Daily House Fire 05.20.26
The Daily Zeitgeist
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4.5 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
In episode 2061, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and co-host of Ain't It Footy, Jamel Johnson, to discuss… Mike Johnson Stated That $174,000 Isn’t Enough To Make Ends Meet, AI Radio Station, Baby Yoda’s Movie Debut Isn’t Getting Great Reviews, The Daily Wire Is Falling Apart and more!
- People Are Losing Their Minds Over This Resurfaced Video Of Mike Johnson Defending Congressional Trading
- Speaker Johnson Says $174K Isn’t Enough While Blocking a $15 Minimum Wage
- Mike Johnson says lawmakers' $174K+ salaries haven't kept up with inflation — they need stock trading to 'take care of their family'
- Trump Is Backing a Stock-Trading Ban That Doesn’t Ban Trading Stocks
- Mike Johnson: “We have to have sympathy. We need to at least let them engage in some stock trading so they can continue to take care of their family.”
- Cursed AI Radio
- ‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ Splits Critics: “Most Boring Star Wars” vs. “Best in Decades”
- ‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ Gets Divided First Reactions, From a ‘Thrilling Adventure’ to ‘One of the Weakest Star Wars Movies’ and a ‘Snooze Fest’
- Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire Hit With Layoffs Across a ‘Number of Teams,’ Largely From Nashville HQ
- Why Ben Shapiro's Media Empire Is Collapsing
- The Ben Commandments
- There’s a Right-Wing Game of Thrones and It’s as Terrible as You’d Think
- A Crack in Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire
- The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin
- 'Conservative Hollywood' dream 'in ruins' as eight-figure show staggers out the door
- John Travolta finally explained his beret and pocket square.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm in this weird little, like, glass case. |
| 0:07.9 | Have you seen this in the office? |
| 0:09.5 | While he was telling me, there's the recording pod, you in the new pod? |
| 0:12.8 | I'm in the new pod. |
| 0:14.4 | If they wanted to, if they wanted to Christmas Adventurers club me right now, |
| 0:19.5 | oh yeah. |
| 0:20.1 | They could do that. |
| 1:12.9 | I, like, stepped inside and, like, I heard, like, a little air click on. I was like, what the fuck? Yeah. And that door is, like, airtight, too. Yeah, it's like. I did the Ace Ventura double pain soundproof glass thing with that when I was in the studio that day. Except it doesn't work at all. Double pain soundproof glass. It's single pain. Except it doesn't work at all and people from downstairs come running up. They're like, we're recording. They're like, okay. And this isn't soundproof. What if they, hey Jack, what if they battle royal you, though? What if they make you go to, like, on a school bus with a bunch of, like, violent Japanese school kids? Have you seen Battle for that by the whole life? Yeah, yeah. It's on streaming finally in North America. Okay. So it's three strikes I heard. It used to be like one of those like DVDs, like nerdy film kids had like, |
| 1:17.5 | yo, bro, I have battle royale. You want to see it too? Is that Japanese movie where they all have to kill each other with a frying pan? |
| 1:17.5 | I don't think I have seen that. |
| 1:20.1 | It's a beat Takeshi movie and it's like |
| 1:21.8 | Yeah, it's a good one. |
| 1:22.7 | It's just like a death match on an island. |
| 1:25.5 | Like death match with a bunch of high school students, |
| 1:27.3 | but like there's a bunch of random objects as weapons too. |
| 1:30.1 | It was kind of like the... a death match on an island, like death match with a bunch of high school students, but like there's a bunch of random objects as weapons, too. |
| 1:32.6 | It's kind of like the very base description. |
| 1:33.5 | Hunger Games sample. |
| 1:35.2 | Yeah, Hunger Games is basically that. |
| 1:37.2 | And I saw the good version. |
| 1:38.4 | I saw the hunger game, |
| 1:40.1 | so I don't really need to watch that shit. |
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