Earlier this year, my friend Matt Himes (managing editor of The Blaze’s Align) lost his home in the California fires, but he didn’t lose his sense of humor or his willingness to try a lot of things he’s bad at.

It was great catching up with Matt on life after the fire, what it’s like to live out a George Carlin bit, “String Theory,” and going into the unknown of rebuilding.

On this week's Mean Age Daydream, Brian looks at New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani's idiotically failed economic ideas, and asks if New Yorkers are dumb enough to buy them. Also: Trump's rage-out against Israel, and Harvard's latest DEI scandal.

Each episode we'll dig through the top news stories in the disgusting, slimy political world and of course we'll make you laugh along the way. This week, we look at the latest in the Iran / Israel conflict, and ask whether Pres. Trump can be trusted when he announces a ceasefire and "End to the 12 Day War," after demonstrating he can be double-faced when dealing with those nations diplomatically.

Meet your heroes. Become friends with your heroes. Have your heroes on your podcast. Lou Perez with Scott Thompson and Paul Bellini of "The Kids in the Hall" and "Mouth Congress."

On this week's Mean Age Daydream, Brian examines Elon Musk hitting his breaking point, and calling Pres. Trump's Big Beautiful Bill an "Abomination." Also: Corporations massively pull back on "Pride" virtue signaling, and Ukraine (and NATO) brings us to the brink of nuclear war after the latest drone attacks on Russian bombers.