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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.

Diarrhea Farms, AI Is For The Birds 07.22.26

In episode 2095, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and producer of the monthly Facial Recognition Comedy [https://www.instagram.com/facialrecognitioncomedy/?hl=en] show, Pallavi Gunalan [https://www.pallavigunalan.com/], to discuss… Taco Bell’s Foot Traffic Is Down Following Diarrhea News, Flock Cameras, AI Is Even Ruining Birdwatching Now and more! 1. Trump Admin Denies Colluding With Taylor Farms Over Cyclospora: ‘FAKE NEWS’ [https://www.newsweek.com/trump-admin-denies-colluding-taylor-farms-cyclospora-outbreak-12221624] 2. It Was Shoes On, No Boarding Pass Or ID. But Airport Security Forever Changed On 9/11 [https://www.npr.org/2021/09/10/1035131619/911-travel-timeline-tsa] 3. Taco Bell sees drop in foot traffic amid cyclosporiasis outbreak [https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2026/07/21/taco-bell-lettuce-cyclosporiasis-foot-traffic-data/90992089007/] 4. Not just Taco Bell: Parasite outbreak tied to lettuce dents restaurant traffic [https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/20/business/restaurant-visits-fall-cyclospora-outbreak] 5. It's not just Taco Bell. Taylor Farms supplies lettuce to many US brands [https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2026/07/20/supermarkets-restaurants-serve-taylor-farms-lettuce/90983666007/] 6. Whole Foods Offering Steep Discount on Taylor Farms Shredded Iceberg Lettuce [https://futurism.com/health-medicine/whole-foods-discount-taylor-farms-lettuce] 7. Police say Flock cameras help solve crimes, but critics call them an invasion of privacy [https://www.pbs.org/newshour/classroom/daily-news-lessons/2026/07/police-say-flock-cameras-help-solve-crimes-but-critics-call-them-an-invasion-of-privacy] 8. The Comforting Resurgence of ‘Grandma Hobbies’ [https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/18/well/grandma-hobbies-crafts-knitting-quilting.html] 9. The Screen-Free Hobbies Everyone’s Talking About — From Needlepoint to Birdwatching [https://www.today.com/shop/best-analog-activities-rcna251927] 10. Here’s Why Everyone You Know Is Suddenly Into Bird-Watching (and Why You Should Be Too) [https://www.rd.com/article/bird-watching-trend/] 11. Why birdwatching has become a favourite pastime for Gen Z [https://theweek.com/culture-life/books/birdwatching-birds-app-nature-gen-z-hobby] 12. ‘It brings you closer to the natural world’: the rise of the Merlin birdsong identifying app [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/27/merlin-ai-assisted-birdsong-identifying-app-bird-species] 13. The Sound of Merlin: Like Shazam, but for Birds [https://blog.nature.org/2022/03/07/the-sound-of-merlin-like-shazam-but-for-birds/] 14. Identify birds in photos with Merlin Bird ID [https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/photo-id/] 15. I Went Birding With the World’s First AI-Powered Binoculars [https://www.wired.com/story/swarovski-optik-ax-visio-ai-binoculars/] 16. AI-altered images on birdwatching forums putting research at risk [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/20/ai-slop-manipulated-fake-images-birds-citizen-science-aoe] 17. Can AI Ruin Something as Innocent as Birdwatching? [https://gizmodo.com/can-ai-ruin-something-as-innocent-as-birdwatching-2000787987] LISTEN: Carry Me feat. Seun Kuti & Aziza Jaye by Nubiyan Twist [https://open.spotify.com/track/6fSlRTkNKQVWXKIrwdKyZi] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

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