Zac Amico’s Morning Zoo – Episode 0069

Guests: Sonia Z. (Yo That’s Weird podcast) and Miguel Silva (Dork Court podcast)
Release Date: December 12, 2025
Network: GaS Digital Network

Episode Overview

This lively and distinctly unfiltered morning show delivers its trademark “twisted takes” on the week’s strangest news, raucous stories, and unpredictable comedic chemistry. This episode, Zac is joined by guests Sonia Z. and Miguel Silva, and together they riff through celebrity meltdowns, chaotic family histories, bodily disasters, cartoon conspiracies, and delightfully grotesque personal anecdotes. Listeners can expect shameless, sometimes crude, but always sharply funny banter that veers from the absurdities of American pop culture to the too-real foibles of daily life.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Tara Reid's Hotel Incident

Segment Start: [04:18]

• Zac brings an update to a previous story about Tara Reid being stretchered out of a hotel after claiming she was drugged.
• Discussion reveals CCTV showed her drinking multiple glasses of wine rather than the single glass she claimed.
• The panel jokes about the "hotel bar drunk," sharing stories about their own experiences.
• Notable quote:
  • Zac: “Hotel bar drunk is its own category of drunk. Especially when you’re going, ‘I just need to make it to the elevator.’” [07:58]

2. Family Drama & the Rule of Threes

Segment Start: [09:10]

• The conversation veers into stories about back-in-the-day stand-up comedy, old crowd work bits, and their own chaotic family trees.
• Discussion of comedian Jackie Vernon (voice of Frosty the Snowman) and his multiple families—naming sons in each relationship ‘Ralph.’
• Sonia and Zac contribute their real-life “rule of threes” stories—Sonia sharing how she found out about a secret sibling, Zac on parental marital history.
• Notable quotes:
  • Zac: “There’s just confused young men all over going, ‘Why does Frosty sound like my only memory of my father?’” [18:37]
  • Sonia: “You don’t have to be anybody to have a secret family. My dad was a used car salesman.” [19:38]

3. The Batman Effect: Social Experiments in Kindness

Segment Start: [23:35]

• A study found that people offer seats to pregnant women on trains more often if someone dressed as Batman is present, even if they don’t ‘notice’ Batman consciously.
• The group jokes about increasing social order by flooding public transit with Batmans, while noting the comic possibility of inadvertent supervillains.
• Notable quote:
  • Miguel: “Every cop should dress up as Batman. Just have mad Batmans everywhere.” [26:12]

4. Baby Born in a Clothing Store

Segment Start: [27:40]

• The crew reacts viscerally to a viral video of a woman giving birth in a baby clothing store. Sonia and Zac share stories of friends having unceremonious, store-bought labor.
• Real talk on the bodily fluids and casualness of fifth-child labor.
• Jokes abound about naming the child after the store or the flooring: “Linoleum.”
• Memorable Moment:
  • Entire cast’s horrified/amazed reaction to the speed and messiness of the birth on tile—"Smashed its head on the tile!” – Sonia [28:11]

5. Bathroom Habits, Anal Fissures, and Gross-outs

Segment Start: [30:29]

• The crassly honest segment where Zac and friends discuss bowel habits triggered by coffee, books, Walmart trips, and airplanes.
• Zac details the perils of butt injuries, fissures, and the over-sharing of bodily trauma among friends—bleak but hilarious.
• Notable quotes:
  • Zac: “Toxic masculinity is bleeding out of your ass and then blaming someone else.” [33:14]
  • Sonia: “Every gay guy I know has had anal fissures.” [33:42]

6. Cartoon & Cultural Conspiracies

Segment Start: [34:57]

• Zac floats (and Shannon fact-checks) the internet theory that “Popeye wasn’t eating spinach, he was taking meth/amphetamines or cocaine.” Ultimately debunked—he was eating spinach, but the can resembled certain vintage pharmaceutical packaging.
• Secondary tangent on blackface roots of cartoon gloves and mannerisms.
• Notable quote:
  • Zac: “It’s one of those things where Zach read something on the Internet and I’m about to present it as a fact...” [35:18]

7. Wild & Morbid Crime Stories

Segment Start: [41:18]

• News of a man who stabbed his parents in their Long Island deli, possibly while under the influence or mental duress; sparks guests to share true crime-adjacent personal stories.
• Miguel relates a shocking tale of a former teammate stabbing his own mother.
• Panel discusses how many deceased sexual partners they've had, with Sonia quipping about outrageous exes and a boyfriend who "liked to drink pee" and possibly suffered a cellphone-induced brain tumor.
• Notable quotes:
  • Miguel: “Now that she’s dead, I feel like I could have done her a service...” [43:58]
  • Sonia: “I have two (exes) that I know are dead... One drank pee and slept with his iPhone under his pillow every night.” [45:22]

8. Butt Stories: Piercings, Lost Jewelry, MRI Disasters

Segment Start: [53:04]

• Zac regales the group with his (apocryphal) Prince Albert piercing origin story to woo women, debunked as pure myth.
• Delights in disastrous stories of lost genital jewelry, including a ball bearing left inside his partner post-coitus and staged ‘rescue missions’ to retrieve it.
• Group discusses MRI safety warnings, sharing the infamous true story of a woman’s “all-silicone” butt plug with a metal core being shot through her body during an MRI.
• Memorable quote:
  • Zac: “You really gotta have a talk with the Lord if your butt plug schedule is so full that you went—‘Hey, listen, I gotta get an MRI today, but I don’t wanna lose my progress.’” [61:05]

9. How to Poop in the Morning

Segment Start: [64:49]

• Shannon presents standard health advice for morning regularity—fiber, hydration, movement, and yoga.
• Zac, Miguel, and Sonia offer their own “solutions” (nicotine, caffeine, vapes), and debate whether this applies to consistency or urgency.
• Notable Moment:
  • Sonia: “If you don’t cop to it, it might seem gay, because every gay guy I know has had anal fissures.” [33:42] (carried thread from earlier bodily function chat)

Standout Quotes (with Timestamps)

• “Hotel bar drunk is its own category of drunk… It’s like getting drunk in bed. Practically.”
  – Zac Amico [07:58]
• “There’s just confused young men all over going, ‘Why does Frosty sound like my only memory of my father?’”
  – Zac Amico [18:37]
• “You don’t have to be anybody to have a secret family. My dad was a used car salesman.”
  – Sonia Z. [19:38]
• “Every cop should dress up as Batman. Just have mad Batmans everywhere.”
  – Miguel Silva [26:12]
• “Toxic masculinity is bleeding out of your ass and then blaming someone else.”
  – Zac Amico [33:14]
• “You really gotta have a talk with the Lord if your butt plug schedule is so full that you went—‘Hey, listen, I gotta get an MRI today, but I don’t wanna lose my progress.’”
  – Zac Amico [61:05]

Notable & Memorable Moments

• The cacophonous, grossed-out laughter over the “It just comes out!” video clip of a baby born in a clothing store. [28:00-29:00]
• The recurring “rule of threes”—both in comedy and in their families’ bizarre marital/relationship histories. [14:44–18:00]
• Zac’s confession to having fabricated origin stories for his penis piercing as an excuse to talk about his junk—with a deadpan delivery that blurs the line between prank and folklore. [53:04–54:00]
• A horrifying discussion of what happens when you become “that friend who stabs their mom,” interwoven with true stories from the hosts’ acquaintances. [43:40–44:23]

Important Segment Timestamps

• [04:18] — Tara Reid’s hotel ordeal & hotel bar drunks
• [09:10] — Family drama, stepmoms, secret siblings, and the “rule of threes”
• [16:09] — The secret triple life of Frosty the Snowman’s voice actor
• [23:35] — The Batman Effect (kindness in public acts)
• [27:40] — Woman gives birth in a baby clothing store (with video)
• [30:29] — Bowel habits, airplane dumps, fissures (“toxic masculinity” bit)
• [34:57] — Popeye the methhead conspiracy & cartoon blackface origins
• [41:18] — News: Son stabs parents in Long Island deli; guests’ adjacent true crime stories
• [53:04] — Piercing tall tales, genital jewelry mishaps & MRI disasters
• [64:49] — How to poop in the morning (and why)

Summary Tone

The episode maintains Zac Amico’s signature chaotic, gleefully inappropriate, and freewheeling morning show energy. Guests riff unfiltered, embracing oversharing and grotesque realness, while deploying sharp comic timing throughout. Despite the gross-outs and taboos, camaraderie and good humor keep the mood light. This installment brims with bizarre anecdotes and off-kilter “life advice” underscored by the hosts’ willingness to find the absurd in anything—from hotel bar drinking culture to generational family dysfunction, cartoon lore, and the shared indignities of the human body.

For Anyone Who Missed This Episode:
Tune in for hilarious true stories and hot takes you wouldn’t hear on corporate morning radio—a potent mix of pop culture deconstruction, bodily horror, and personal chaos that’s as gross as it is addictive.