Worst People In Charge Of Everything, Sam Altman Gets Ronan Farrow-ed 04.08.26
The Daily Zeitgeist
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🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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In episode 2037, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and actor who you can see in the new film Mermaid, Johnny Pemberton, to discuss… More Mixed Reactions From The Right, Are Vance/Rubio Leaking To The Press? Sam Altman Just Got Ronan Farrow-ed and more!
- Mixed Reactions From The Right
- Even MORE Mixed Reactions From The Right
- All about OpenAI's dramatic firing and rehiring of CEO and why it could mean greater scrutiny
- Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?
- Johnny Pemberton's Piece of Media: Philly Street Art: Is This What They Call A Social Circle?
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| 0:00.0 | Johnny, anything you want me to call out when... |
| 0:09.5 | Like, promote sort of thing? |
| 0:10.8 | Yes, sir. |
| 0:11.8 | Definitely this movie Mermaid that comes out, I guess, comes out, sneak previews come out April 8th, |
| 0:17.0 | and then it's going to be in other theaters later. |
| 0:20.6 | But we're also going to be in Florida touring the movie. Called mermaid? Called mermaid. Straight up mermaid, no S. Mermaid. A lot of people say mermaids, but that is because of that show. Won't do it. Won't do it. Yeah, because people want multiple mermaids, you know, you want that. I was thinking it was greedy. They get greedy when they said. Splash was enough for me. Well, this is the 30 years later you can dip back in again. It's very different than Splash, though. Yeah. Are you buying a mermaid? No, I find a mermaid. It's like, it's not, it's not a pretty mermaid. It's a creature. |
| 0:54.8 | It's like a, like a shape of water kind of thing. It's like shape of water sort of meets Lars and the real girl. That's what I would describe. Are we doing one of these? Like in shape of water? Um, no. This guy is like, how do you have sex? well i don't think there's not that |
| 1:10.8 | on on |
| 1:11.3 | oh good |
| 1:12.5 | yeah good |
| 1:13.5 | yeah that's good |
| 1:14.2 | and that's good |
| 1:14.8 | because This guy is like... How do you have sex? Well, I don't think there's none of that going on. |
| 1:11.4 | Oh, good. |
| 1:12.2 | Yeah, good. |
| 1:13.6 | Yeah, that's good. |
| 1:14.2 | And that's good because that's not what I was thinking. Yeah, but that's what you should be thinking. Everyone does think that. No, I'm not into weird cryptid stuff. You got to establish that right up top. Yeah. But it's definitely on the table. I wasn't establishing that. |
| 1:24.6 | I just felt like |
| 1:25.2 | probably need to be said. |
| 1:26.0 | I am not fucking this mermaid. |
| 1:27.7 | You direct to can't. |
| 1:29.2 | Like the way Tom Cruise introduces |
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