Leave President Grindset Alone! Artemis II Flat Earth Fallout 04.06.26

In episode 2036, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian, Lydia Popovich, to discuss… What Phase of the Trump Administration Is This? This Last Week Has Felt Different…, Past Microplastics Research May Have Been Contaminated By Latex Gloves, Gov Greg Abbott’s Media Illiteracy Strikes Again! Artemis II Photo Becomes Fuel For Flat-Earth Mockery and more!

1. In a stunning moment, Alex Jones notices Trump's brain is "not doing too hot," questioning his health, saying he “looks sick” and “babbles.”
2. An Embarrassing Mistake May Have Skewed Microplastics Research All Along
3. 'Spectacular' new Artemis II images shut down Flat Earth theory for good
4. Artemis II crew saw a life-changing view. The story of a viral photo.
5. Artemis's stunning Moon pictures - science or holiday photos?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Man Lydia, what's up? What was that Dolly Parton thing
you went to?

Speaker 2 (00:08):
I saw your stories.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
You were like in line with a bunch of fucking
people waiting for some shiit to go here Dolly speak.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
That's that's opening day of Dollywood. Baby, That's that's rope
dropping Dollywood. That's that's opening day.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Because it's no longer the winter closed months, right, that's
the deal, Like.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Oh no, they still close in the winter. They still
close in the winter, but they open up. They basically
close from like New Year's Day through March eleventh, March twelfth.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Oh and you were there for the Resurrection the new
the opening again.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
And then does.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Dolly always speak at the grand opening?

Speaker 2 (00:41):
She's always there Opening weekend, always there, without a doubt
because they do a media day, so she like has
a whole media event that takes place where she invites
you know, local media to come find out what's going
on with her. So every single year opening weekend you
can guarantee to see Dolly Parton there.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
That makes sense because I know.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
I never I never miss it. I know, I mean
I saw the septs. Yeah, exactly. It's also my most
popular day on social media. Is people like kind of
I've realized people like live for it, realized people lived
for it until.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
Probably Dolly season didn't really have an opening death.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
It's got a whole opening day, it's a whole whole vibe,
and they did it different this year and it actually ruled.
I was really excited about it.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
She really is for the people, like as a nineties
Chicago kid like Jordan won't even come to the state
of Illinois anymore, and it's fly over it.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
He makes a detour, it's hostile airspace. He's like away
from no going to Canada, going.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
To Dolly's got great pride, and she understands the power
of her brand, which is just her essence and being.
So if she wants something to crack, she shows up
and it cracks up like it goes. It goes very
very hard. So I love it. I love it.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
And during the Dolly off season, are you putting it?
Are you putting in new moves? Like are are you
thinking of like ways to change your Dolly fandom or
are you like looking at other artists just being like,
you know, I mean, ay.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Dolly's Dolly's kind of my oxygen. So I'm constantly just
in breathing and exhaling. There is no Dolly off season
for me. Certainly the park closes, but uh, you know,
much like Dolly Parton herself, she never stops working. So
she always gives you a little project. So I'm usually
just like checking out the projects, looking at the pattern,
seeing what's going to happen. You know, this is a

(02:38):
big Dolly year for us, you know, so I'm just
trying to figure out you know, well, yeah, because it's
like you can see where she's gonna pop up. She
tries to. She's smart, she's an older person. She tries
to kind of like stack her appearances, and so I
look at kind of what what the arcs are with
the projection. So like this year, for example, we know
we have the opening of the park. I know she's
going to be there, So that's a that's an absolutely

(02:58):
start of the season. She's got her hotel opening up
in Nashville in June, along with a special museum inside that,
so I know she's going to be there for that.
Ain't no way she ain't going to be there for
that some brand new venture. You best believe she's going
to be.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
You're really scanning the like you're Peyton Manning with it
where you're like no, no, You're like not lightning, lightning, lightning. Yeah,
just calling audible.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
If you If you don't think I don't already have
a room booked in that hotel which is in downtown Nashville,
thirty minutes from my house, the day before like the
very first opening weekend. You've got me all the way
fucked up because I do. Uh, They've already called me
to ask me what my preferences are and for that
hotel room, because I'm like, you better believe I'm a
special VIP. Call me, tell me how I want.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
You got it like that? Damn yeah, I got it.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
I've already got I gotta.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
Go with you to Dolly World.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Honestly, if you come to Tennessee and go to Dollywood
without me for the first time, like this friendship is,
I would that like they'll call me. They have all
of my my loved ones friends.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
And faces there here without one.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
The one uh, the one use official recognition technology that
we can all support. Yeah, yeah, just knowing if anybody's
going near Dollywood without telling you, Hey, sir, welcome to Dollywood.
Are you lost?

Speaker 1 (04:12):
I'm like, oh uh No, they're like, oh, why is
your shirt all wet?

Speaker 3 (04:16):
Huh? Video fucking told you, motherfucker. Hello the Internet, and
welcome to Season four thirty three, Episode two of Daily
zeite Geist. It's a production of iHeartRadio. It's a podcast

(04:37):
where we take a deep dive into america shared consciousness
through the day's news. They also have a new non
news history version of The Daily zeit Geist dropping each
Monday morning, where we do a deep dive into the
zeit geist through the lens of a different icon. We
did Easter Bunny last week. This week we did Lisa Frank,
which I'm learning from uh our Canadian and International zeit

(05:02):
Gang that it wasn't hidden up there. No. They were like,
this was culturally contained. We did not know about Liza Frank,
which makes sense. Well, you get to you get to
learn about an American institution if you're if you're fucking
with it. Of course, we do have one of the
great episodes in that format is the Dolly Parton episode

(05:24):
with a certain guest who we'll be getting to talk
to a little bit later. But you can find those
episodes on Mondays with icon in the title. They have
a different logo, different color scheme. It is Tuesday, April seventh,
twenty twenty six.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
Yep, that's National Student Athlete Day. It's California Poppy Day,
like the flower. Okay, not that daddy's out here. It's
also New Beer's Eve because I guess it's the eve
before prohibition was rescinded. Also Fresh Tomato Day because I
guess if tomatoes are gonna finally start hitting again.

Speaker 3 (05:59):
In National carbon Nara Day, get it in, get it
in Carbonara, New Beer's Day. So one man, what what
a what a party that must have been when they
find out he got rid of it.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
Thanks, thanks Roosevelt, exactly.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
All right. My name is Jack O'Brien aka Yo job.
Let's kick it, ice ice handsy. Oh all right, cop.
I'll spread my legs, but I'm in basketball shorts with underwear.
Miss and ice hands. Grab a hold of me tightly,
grow uping like creepers daily and nightly. Will it ever stop?

Speaker 4 (06:37):
Yo?

Speaker 3 (06:38):
I hope no. Turn off the lights and go slow.

Speaker 4 (06:41):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
That is courtesy of Snarflaw and New Chris Collabo about uh,
you know, going through TSA and just wearing basketball shorts
and putting putting a little penny in your butt so
that the alarm keeps going. With Penny, we'll set it off. Jack,
a handful of change up your butt to set the

(07:07):
alarm off so that they have to pat you down
and then you're just basketball shorts, nothing underneath.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
Upgrade and to a stainless steel soup lado.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
Look, we all have our kinks, like to just hey,
look at me, leok at me, make eye contact with
the ice ice agent. I'm thrilled to be joined. As always,
buy my co host, mister Miles Grass.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
Miles Gray aka a fiel Fee go bag. I want
to try the fecal bag. Shout out to Vanadium silver
because I did talk about with my obsession with the
Artemis toilet. Whenever I go to the Smithsonian in DC,
Theirospace Museum, I gotta look at the fecal bag from
this early space commission because it's labeled fickle bag and

(07:51):
I am immature, So thank you for that vanadium silver first.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
So it's the actual fecal bags, just like showing you astronaut.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
It didn't say it was used, but it's just sort
of like and this is what they was shitting in,
and I'm like this.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
Man, you're full of astronauts. Shit, I feel like that's
like a thing they would have said on West Wing.
You know those are like you know, veep ripoffs where
they're like I, I say, crazy swears.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
That's it right there, I'm holding it up for y'all.

Speaker 3 (08:19):
Oh look at that fecal bag. Yeah, it looks like
the people bag.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
It's really uninteresting. But again it's I'm immature, So thank you.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
I'll be on my way now. Well, Miles, We'll throw
to be joined in our third seat by a hilarious comedian.
One of our favorite guests on TDZ, our resident Dolly
Parton exper You can see her on stand up stages
near you across the country. Go look it up on
her website. It is the one the only Lydia popo.

Speaker 4 (08:49):
Hell.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
I love to be welcomed by deep discussions of butt stuff.
It's like, you guys knew I was going to be
here though. You know what, let's talk about some butt
stuff right up top sh in the news.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
Yeah? Is it a beautiful walk? Did we have to
do some work to get from ice taking over the
airports to uh me putting change up my ass to
make them have to pat me down in basketball shorts
maybe a little bit, but I'm just that's ripped from
the headlines right there, straight up. I love it.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
I think that you should take that whole look to
the streets and when someone asks you spare change, I
don't know, and then just give a little shit.

Speaker 3 (09:28):
They're like, I don't even have I just go and
then just like a handful of change just drops out
of the bottom of my just freedom.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
Finally, finally, oh, you know, we just are having erratic weather,
you know what I mean, just wildly swinging between cold
and hot and raining and not. And I'm just truly
ready for spring to start happening in a very real way,
which it kind of is it kind of is. It's happening,

(10:04):
things are blooming.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
Wow, good for you, because like in La they're just
like surprise, motherfucker, it's eighty five forever starting in February.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
And you're like, we had we had one of those.
We definitely had a day where I was like, uh,
am I wearing shorts? Should I wear shorts? And then
the next day it was like, girl, get your coat,
it's gonna rain. It was it's terrible. Welcome to Earth.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
The weather reports really are load bearing everywhere except for
Los Angeles, right, Los Angeles, you really don't need them.
But I was in New York for a week and
like from day, from one day to the next, it
was like sixty degrees and then forty degrees and windy
as fuck. My children are in shorts. Yeah. Anyways, technology

(10:47):
comparentis that is called not knowing how to do it?

Speaker 2 (10:51):
What's gonna happen with the well? I know, I'm like,
do I put a sweater on my dog? Don't? I?
You know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (10:56):
It's these big questions. You know, it's hard to be
a mom. It's difficult. It's hard out here, Laddy. We're
gonna get to know you a little bit better in
a moment. First, we're going to tell the listeners a
couple of the things we're talking about today. We're gonna
play a game called what phase of the Trump administration?

Speaker 1 (11:09):
Is this?

Speaker 3 (11:10):
M late stage feels late stage late stage Trump administration.
That would be wonderful, wouldn't it. I don't know stage.
It's hard.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
It could or it could just be the beginning of
the end for everyone.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
It's hard to know. Hard it could be late stage humanity, right, Yeah,
the final days we'll talk about Republican politicians not knowing
how to do the Internet, and just this administration not
knowing how to cover up this war. And we're gonna
talk about microplastics and the Artemis two photo and how

(11:46):
it's being received in the flatter community all crazy.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
This two dimensional photo makes it look like a circle.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
Man, dude told you it was a disc All of that,
plenty more of a first litty. We do like to
ask our guest, what is something from your search history
that is revealing about who you are?

Speaker 2 (12:08):
So I got two things. One's a quick one that
shows that I am increasingly transitioning into the most basic
bitch that's ever existed, and that is seven Brew menu,
specifically looking for the sugar free flavors. I've cut out
alcohol in my life. I've significantly reduced caffeine. I'm down

(12:30):
to basically, you know, a little mini shot of espresso
in the morning, and you know, a diet coke in
the afternoon, like a singular diet coke. Where caffeine used
to have such a choke hold on me, but now
what I've replaced it with is like a fizzy not soda.
Soda from seven Brew. They just opened one in my
little town and it's a little drive through hut just
stocked with teenagers. They're way too perky because I'm assuming

(12:52):
they're just jacked on energy drinks. And then I go
and I order something that's called like a Blue Ocean
and it's like sugar free black raspberry with you know,
sugar free coconut mixed into a fizzy water that makes
you feel like you're drinking soda, but it's not because
it doesn't have sugar. Is it have blue number twelve
or whatever? And it give me answer a thousand percent. Yeah,

(13:13):
but I don't care because it's it's one of my
Like I'm down to weed and sugar free soda. Man,
that's these are my vices. Yeah, I need them in
my life. And there's nothing more thrilling than just pulling
up that and just into ordering something new. So I'm
obsessed with ordering new things. But i can never remember
what's on the menu, so I'm constantly like sugar free menu,
it's it's seven Brewers, so it can get my little soda.

(13:35):
Nothing makes me feel older and younger at the same
time than ordering just a brightly colored drink.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
Well, yeah, I know, And you're also now kind of
in like on TikTok, you'd be in your like beverage
era too. Yeah, you know what I mean, like people
who are now who are like, I'm really off the alcohol.
But what I do now is I'm cooking up little
weird sodas at home of unknown origin.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
Literally on that side of TikTok, because I've also realized
that spending five dollars for like not squirts into water
is insanity, like literally insane. I'm like, bitch, just buy
some fucking sugar free to Rani at the house and
give lacoy and get it stopped.

Speaker 3 (14:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
Yeah, And then I have found that side of TikTok
where it's literally just like people in like seventy five
ounce cups that are like, yeah, there's seventy five ounces
of water and five squirts of this and one packet
of this and of this and this, And I'm like, yeah, God,
tell me what's up. Yeah, I'm ready to get my
quilted cozy for my cup. I'm ready, sign me up,

(14:31):
let's go, let's go.

Speaker 3 (14:32):
I wish there was such thing as a beverage eerrow.
When I quit drinking, I was I was putting away
so many so many lacroix, Like most of my exhalation
was carbon.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
It was like I was just like, I'm definitely gassier
than I've ever been. Uh, And now I Realize'm like, oh,
maybe it's the like I don't know, forty fucking ounces
of carbonated water that you're drinking, Like yeah, just so
much sand pellegrino. It's not even funny, like just where
I'm like, am I gonna get like mineral toxicity because
like I'm just all I'm drinking is this Italian water?

Speaker 3 (15:05):
But you can become a tell now, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
So basic, so basic.

Speaker 3 (15:08):
I went through a phase where I was drinking, uh,
diet sprite and chewing nicotine gum. And one of my
friends was like, are you like a divorced seventh grade
English teacher? It was like yet practicing diet sprite.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
Yeah, that's like the name of a like a funny
joke like wrap ep. Yeah, it's like dia sprite and nicorette.
And you're like, yo, remember that first mixtape Diet That
is a good name.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
Diet Sprat's freaking trash too.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
It's not really bad.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
Yeah, I hate it, Like of all the diet sodas,
it's not a good one. It's it's really Yeah, I
don't even have everything.

Speaker 3 (15:45):
Isn't a bad place. It was in a bad house
like it.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
Yeah, I was gonna say that sounds like a terrible place.
That's just like that. I hate myself, diet, You're not terrible.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
Glad you're out of there, man, Yeah, yeah, could have
you back.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
Well's something you think is underrated?

Speaker 6 (15:59):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (15:59):
Open for reality television stars, as are many of us.
I know many of us are you know who've been
doing this for years? Like, I don't want to open
for a reality star he doesn't know what they're doing.
I don't want to open for a TikToker And I say,
do it? Do it?

Speaker 3 (16:15):
Soper.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
I opened for Sarperkuvin, who is h married to a
woman named Chikainah. They are two stars from the Ninety
Day Fiance franchise. They've been on a couple of the shows.
Sarper is a man from Turkey who on the franchise
and the lore is famous for sleeping with over twenty
five hundred women.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
He does a liquor bottles to commemorate each one.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
Yeah, each each experience. He he he never not lets
you know how many women he slept with.

Speaker 3 (16:44):
Yeah, and we think he is I would apologizing.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
It's I think it's a bit of both. I don't
doubt that he was able to pull but at that level,
who knows, who knows?

Speaker 3 (16:55):
You know, you know, I believe he believes it. Yeah,
and that's what.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
Well, it's kind of enough for me.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
Yeah, he's a very truly toxic man, like he's just
but he's endearing because he's just so ridiculous. You're like,
what is this? Is this a bit? What's going on?
Like what is this personality?

Speaker 3 (17:12):
You know?

Speaker 2 (17:13):
And I truly love a well behaved and a poor
behaved man, but there's something fun about a poor behaved man,
and I wanted to see, like what's the deal, what's
the situation? What are these jokes about? And this man
is also currently touring doing ninety minutes.

Speaker 3 (17:29):
Ninety minutes just because of the symmetry with ninety day fiance,
because he has ninety minutes. I don't even oh, certainly not.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
He does not have ninety minutes.

Speaker 3 (17:38):
I will tell you that, but it's not a tight
ninety minute.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
Because Sophia Alexander, who I do the podcast, was she
saw him in Portland and was like, was live texting me.
She's like, this motherfucker's about to hit on like an
hour and thirty five minutes, and.

Speaker 3 (17:51):
I was like wow, just by himself, just being like
what else?

Speaker 2 (17:56):
What else?

Speaker 3 (17:57):
I went on?

Speaker 2 (17:57):
It was a two man show, which is unheard of,
just for Moost people. Blue maybe you have him into
a comedy show. A normal comedy show is about ninety minutes,
and that means you see a host, a feature. The
host usually does ten, your feature usually does twenty, and
then your Headlinard does sixty, and then you go nice
little ninety minutes spent. So in this scenario, I did
fifteen up top and then this man did ninety minutes.

(18:18):
So this was an extremely long show. And then there
was a meet and great afterwards and about thirty five
forty minutes, and it became very apparent that everyone was
there to get their picture taken, because I couldn't have
seen a more distracted audience.

Speaker 6 (18:33):
Just on their phones and shit, well no phones are
locked up? Oh oh right, wow yeah yeah, yeah, say
from here like Chris Rock. He's like, yeah, you just
know you actually can't share this, and he.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
Doesn't give you the gossip you want. I think people
show up or waiting to hear him just rip. Although
he did make one great joke wherein he refers to
Ed big Ed from the franchise as a neck and
it's a callback to a joke he did previous about
not understanding the term unhoused living in Los Angeles, and

(19:09):
it truly that was a great callback. It really sent
me to a place that I could not stop laughing
for quite a long time. And I had to text
a few friends to be like this got me. This
got me good, Like this, this really got me. I
had a few people that were like, you got to
tell me how this goes. You gotta tell me how
this goes.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
How was it by the time you, like, so he
does his ninety minutes, were you even able to go
back up? You're just like, all right, folks, thanks a lot.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
Yeah, Like at the end, like I did, I did
my time up top killed it because I'm a very
funny person. And then I'm an actual comedian who's done
this for years. And then he didn't, and then afterwards
he does he ends his show with like a weird
dance to a Turkish song, which is strange, right, and
then he didn't realize I was coming back on to
be like hey, guys, like thank you for coming and

(19:55):
you know, see us again soon and line up over here.
And it was funny. But yeah, that's it. I literally
closed off the shows, but I sat there. I was
like held hostage for close to two hours watching this man.
But I would have stayed anyway, Like that's why I
did it. I wanted to see what it was. And
I actually had a great time talking to him. He
was very enjoyable. I can say he loves comedy very
very much, which I found endearing. But I just don't

(20:18):
know if your first tour, going out and doing ninety
minutes in city is going to really get the side
for an audience that wants to come back.

Speaker 3 (20:26):
Do you get the sense that it's a set or
is he just up there but he's a collection of jokes.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
Yeah, it's a loose collection. Yeah, there's not a real
arc yet. I think there could be, but I don't
think he has the wherewithal. I think he's just he is.
He doesn't care if anybody's having a good time because
he's having a great time.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
Yeah, he's no clue that he's had this great I'm
on stage. I get to say wacky misogynistic stuff. People
love him because they love the show and somewhere and
then that validates me and my my first myself made
identity as stand up comedian who can do exactly.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
I was so disappointed that Chikino wasn't there, though I'd
heard all the lore that like she doesn't let them
travel and that she's with him constantly. And when I
when you walked in alone, I was like sy like,
I really wanted them to come in and offer me
a stick of butter to eat, you know what I mean,
or there's something wild, but no.

Speaker 3 (21:19):
They were sticks of butter to eat.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
That. One of the tell alls Jack because they're like
they're into like all kinds of weird Keto ship and
they were, I'm not joking, just pulling out full sticks
of butter, peeling the paper off and eating that ship
like a fucking candy park. Yes, and they're like, oh,
do you want one? They're like, here, dude, I can
unwrap you one right now.

Speaker 3 (21:35):
You probably like killed multiple people like art art disease.
You're like, you're not living if you're not living on
the Keto diet. I don't think that's good to.

Speaker 4 (21:46):
You know, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
They say it's good.

Speaker 3 (21:48):
You know what's called was it?

Speaker 2 (21:51):
I'm not trying to malign Butter in any way. Sensor
Form is a fantastic.

Speaker 3 (21:55):
I love Butter, but like eating it like that. I've
never even thought of that ship. Was it weird that
he closed his set with a Turkish dancing? You had
planned to do the same thing? Were you able to
like kind of improvise them?

Speaker 2 (22:08):
I was disappointed because I was like, God, how do
we both know this song?

Speaker 1 (22:12):
Like?

Speaker 4 (22:12):
How?

Speaker 5 (22:13):
How?

Speaker 2 (22:15):
God? And then I thought, well, at least we made
it easy for the sound guy, you know what I mean.
Those guys are always just slammed with special request. So
at least that Turkish song got a second spin, you
know what I mean. It's not just taking up taking
up time in the hard drive.

Speaker 3 (22:28):
What is something you think is overrated?

Speaker 2 (22:31):
Overrated? Absolutely overrated? Right now? Is currently produced television shows.
I just feel like TV has jumped the shark in
a major way. Like reality TV is one thing, but
like scripted television, I'm just like, what are we doing here?
There's like nine shows that are all based underground in
a bunker, Like I don't give a buck, Like what
do we you know, like everything is like post apocalyptic.

(22:52):
It's like it's just it's boring. What happened to good
old fashioned, just scripted, ridiculous TV. So it kind of
forced me into going back and I am watching Grey's
Anatomy for the first time. Like a Ray's Anatomy came out.
I was like in the streets, you know what I mean,
Like I was not watching TV. I was I was

(23:12):
out there fucking in clubs. I was sleeping during the day,
you know what I mean. I had done drugs all
night and partying, and you know, I was in my
twenties and my youth. I was not trying to sit
at home and watch TV. But now now I get
it Gray's Anatomy.

Speaker 3 (23:26):
Really, I get it.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
It never made sense to me. This shit is so nuts,
Like I forgot that this is what made Shonda rhymes
Shonder fucking rhymes. Like I'm in halfway through the second
season and so much ridiculous shit has already happened that
I keep on being like what what? Like I watched
an episode the other day that had all of these
things were plotlines. A man had accidentally lodged a bazuka

(23:51):
into his body and it had not exploded because he
had made the Bazuka shell himself at home trying to
reenact World War two. And Christina Richie Guests was the
paramedic that had her hand inside of his chest keeping
that bo chest. Yes, her whole handles of his chest.
Damn no, no, right in the middle of his chest.
And he grazed him and kind of went between his
skin and his chest, and so her hand was in

(24:13):
there just keeping it straight. And it was the old
fashioned Christina Ricci, you know what I mean, before she
got the tits taken away, like just quality, vintage Christina Ricci.
Then the other subplot lines were one of the surgeons
was about to have her baby and going into labor
and she couldn't find her husband, and she couldn't find
her husband because he got into a car accident on
the way there and was getting brain surgery by mister

(24:34):
Mick Dreamy, who was the name of a doctor. So
at the same time they had babies, bombs, and brain surgery,
which I'm like, three bees, are these writers trolling me?
What's happening? He was incredible.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
If you're only going to go deeper into the absurdity
of that show.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
Yeah, yeah, and uh, you know what I mean, nobody
died that day. I'll tell you what. That bomb went off,
that baby got born, and that man made it through
brain surgery, all wrapped up in under forty five minutes.

Speaker 3 (24:56):
Yeah exactly. The bomb went off in his chest and
he survived, oh.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
No, got carefully extrouded by the bomb squad. Yeah yeah, yeah,
but oh you know what, people did get killed. The
bomb blew up in the bomb squads. The bomb squad died.

Speaker 3 (25:10):
Yeah, but we don't care about that.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
Yeah, that's I mean, they signed up for it, right,
Like that's also the bomb squad guys carefully carrying this
live ammunition. They had like this flack jess flock like vest,
no helmet.

Speaker 3 (25:22):
Yeah yeah, you gotta, you gotta get those looks in.
Like why we got a hair budget for a reason,
you know, we gotta these people looking good.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
And it was the actor I can't remember his name,
but he was the coach from Friday Night Lights.

Speaker 3 (25:36):
Oh oh yeah, yeah yeah, Kyle Guy.

Speaker 2 (25:39):
Yeah, yeh he was. He was the head of the
bomb squad and just ate it. But yeah, man, there's
just so many like great cameos of just phenomenal actors
are on that show.

Speaker 3 (25:47):
Cameo budget, the hair budget than like those those bunker
TV shows have their entire production budget back then, you know.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
And it also reminded me how hot Isaiah Washington was,
Like it was a man.

Speaker 4 (26:02):
Yo.

Speaker 2 (26:02):
We forgot about him, and by we I mean me,
Like I the amount of time I have spent thinking
about Isaiah Washington in the past three weeks, Like he
is living rent free in my brain, that man is
fine as hell. I looked him up because I was like,
what's he look like now? That man sixty seven? He
could still get it. I would end my relationship today
to fuck Isaiah Washington like he's so hot. I was

(26:23):
just like, goddamn, whatever happened to him? Who did he
pissed off? Why is he not working?

Speaker 3 (26:27):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (26:29):
Oh I don't know.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
Oh yeah yeah yeah he was saying some wild ship?

Speaker 2 (26:32):
Was he saying wild stuff?

Speaker 3 (26:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (26:33):
He was saying wild ship on set and they're like,
get you get him out of here?

Speaker 2 (26:38):
Like was it homophobic stuff?

Speaker 3 (26:40):
Homophobic? I hate that.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
Yep, that's what happens. He's too fine, He's gone.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
Damn he didn't. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
See, I wish you and I had told me that
that sucks because.

Speaker 3 (26:54):
I just looked at pictures.

Speaker 2 (26:55):
I was.

Speaker 3 (26:56):
Remember when he said, Isaiah Washington, I saw your faces, like,
oh damn, google image search him but regular.

Speaker 2 (27:07):
One thousand percent Jack. I didn't. Yeah, image search, I said, shown, Isaiah,
watch doctor.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
Pressed in Burke. Okay, he's doctor Preston Burke. I will
separate the separate the character from the artist.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
Yes, doctor Press and Burke can get it. Yeah, Isaiah Washington,
do better.

Speaker 3 (27:24):
Miss me, do better, sir. I get this damn bomb
dislodge from my chest.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
That shit was wild.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
I could not There's so many people with ship lodged
in their chest, and like there's so many episodes that
people were like I got a whole fence poll stuck
through my chest.

Speaker 3 (27:40):
Like I have a freeway that went through my chest.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
God, I don't know what got me. There was like
I was I saw a TikTok and it was like
a clip and a woman was like, did you put
it in your vagina? And she had stuck a live
gun in her vagina and it was firing in the
er and she was shooting people from inside her body.
And I was like, yo, I'm in I don't know what.

Speaker 3 (27:57):
The first so yeah, the barrel's coming out of her vagina.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
I don't know which way it was coming out, but
she put it in there and she shot herself internally
with no exit hole, and then she shifted and then
she shot another dude and a and a gurney next
to her while she's like waiting to be treated. And
I was like, this can't be real. Is this real?
And then it was. It was real a later time
and he's like, yeah, exactly. I was like, damn, I'm

(28:23):
gonna this is my new travel travel show. It's a
good one.

Speaker 3 (28:27):
It's a South Park plot where Oprah's vagina holds a
bunch of with a hand.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
Like this is where Ryan Murphy came to figure out
how TV works. He's like, how can I be?

Speaker 1 (28:37):
I think the whole thing was she was trying to
she was like actually trying to pack that thing to
smuggle it.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
Yeah, she was. She was like trying to go see
a boyfriend or something like that. She was like, well
I could be with him.

Speaker 3 (28:47):
Was like, yeah, I got that thing on me too.
I got that thing in me in me crazy.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
That's not where you hold your gun. That is not
good gun handling speak.

Speaker 3 (28:59):
Yeah, we know, like it in the butt, like to
smuggle things sometimes, you know, with not there, I says Warmer,
let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. And

(29:27):
we're back. And I came back wondering would this whole
thing be solved? We have a new president.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (29:36):
When I came back. I was I was off for
a week and a half lydia and it's not looking good.
It's still bad. It turns out still bad administration.

Speaker 2 (29:46):
It's consistently bad.

Speaker 1 (29:49):
Yeah, I mean, it's just in like the last couple
of weeks. Right, He's fired Christie Nome, He's fired Pam Bond.

Speaker 3 (29:55):
As a Pam Bond.

Speaker 1 (29:56):
There are now rumors that Howard Lutnik Commerce secret Terry
Hs potentially on the chopping block, as is Labor Secretary
Lori Chavez Dremmer, which again, when you look at those people,
they're dealing with like the economics. Right, So he's got
like he got rid of Bondy because of the Epstein files,
got rid of Gnome because of the disastrous ice raids.

(30:19):
Rather than like being like Steven Miller, put me up
to the shit, He's like, let me fire these people
for things that I believe are making me look bad,
not because the policies are bad. So it makes sense
that you would move on to economics, and like domestic
economics with Lutnik and Chavaz Dremmer, and now the propagandists
continue to fight with each other over so many different things.

(30:40):
Is like nine different specific battles happening with right wingers,
whether it's like the Candice Owens camp versus the other people,
if it's like the never Trumper Republicans rising up, which
is giving a lot of the fold like died in
the wool Maga people. They're getting a little angry that
that group of Republicans is now elevating. It's just a
fucking mess. And he is president and his ability to

(31:01):
make things for everyone a living hell that remains, but
the buy in from other people just seems to be
diminishing a bit. And it's sort of like the lies
and projection of power can only last so long. And
the Iran War has been the closest to like the
closest we've come to sort of Emperor has no clothes
moment in that like his insistence on like I've got

(31:22):
a plan, We're winning, it's all going great, and all
of the evidence and data is.

Speaker 3 (31:26):
Just like, bro, what the fuck are you talking about?

Speaker 1 (31:28):
Like this is We're beyond now a lie you can
just tell over and over, and people on partisan lines
are going to be like, I believe that it's this
one is very has become very difficult for him to shake,
and y know, he looks weak, he looks tired, and unfortunately,
again he still has the ability to take things to
a dark, dark place. So I don't even mean to

(31:49):
say it as somebody he's about to be ran out
on a rail or anything like that, but it's just
the things around him, the pieces around him that were
holding him up, just seem to be a little bit weaker.
And I think even with the proclamations of Pete Hagseth
and Caroline Levitt saying like he is the all knowing
commander in chief, like he knows exactly what he's doing.

Speaker 3 (32:07):
It's clear.

Speaker 1 (32:08):
It's so clear he doesn't know what he is doing.
And every move that he has made is the absolute wrong,
incorrect one.

Speaker 3 (32:15):
Like wrong in a way that seventy to eighty percent
of the population could have pointed out and be like, hey,
this is bad and wrong and you're about to fuck
up if you do the thing. Oh you already did it? Okay?

Speaker 2 (32:27):
Yeah, Like do we know for sure that he is
like this just feels like he really thinks he's in
an episode of the Apprentice, Like does he realize that
this is our government and not just like a television
show that he is running Like I am concerned at
like his perception of literal reality.

Speaker 1 (32:44):
Yeah, yeah, he's like fire them, fire valid fire like
im that's what's crazy. Is like before that would be
sort of like seemingly like a joke, right, but and
then at this stage, honestly.

Speaker 2 (32:55):
He might we I literally he just says, I feel
like he's seen, Like I don't feel like he has
a grasp on reality.

Speaker 1 (33:02):
Oh no, no, no, that's all I think that that's
very much been confirmed just by his own actions and
all the reporting we get about how people are describing
the situation to him, like they're they're tailoring reports about
everything to him so he doesn't throw a fit. And
now it's really about his like like managing his anger,
which I'm like, oh wow, interesting. I've had family members
with memory issues that also get a little bit aggressive,

(33:25):
especially as they kind of come to grips with all
that I mean, now we're at a point where Ann
Coulter is saying things like quote, I wish legal experts
hadn't screened bloody murder about every little thing Trump did,
so they could speak with authority now that he's actually
committing war crimes. WHOA, everyone's got exits. I mean, let's
say everyone's got an exit strategy to you know what

(33:47):
I mean. I don't take the propagandist turning on him
to say that they see the light, but at the
very least they are seeing that it's not beneficial to
them in the same way they probably thought it was.

Speaker 3 (33:57):
So they're like, yeah, I know a war crime. I
see it. They're seeing the check engine light or possibly
the eject eject eject light, come eject there in the
plane that they're piloting, right right. I don't think that
she's quite right that this is on the legal experts,
because I don't think that the conservative the mega movement

(34:21):
would suddenly have started listening to legal experts about war
crimes if they they had just held their tongue on
the other war crimes. Yeah, but it is interesting to see,
I mean that people are are are coming to this
this moment, especially with that fucking that Easter tweet. Yeah,
that really seemed to bother people from a lot of

(34:42):
people are like, bro, has he gone? I mean again?

Speaker 1 (34:44):
Like like I said on the Trending episode yesterday, people
are mad at it for different reasons. Other people are like,
this isn't rhetorically how any president should talk about war.
From like the buttoned up Republicans, then the Christian fanatics
are like, how dare you evoke another God's name during
Easter or whatever? But Alex Jones is another one who's like,
over the last few days, I don't know if like

(35:05):
he's clearly trying to say, I don't know if he's
on the twenty fifth Amendment train or something, or what
his wallet is looking like that he's getting upset. But
he's since the end of last week been talking constantly.
This guy is a lost it. It's a mess. What's
going on. This is him just talking about just how
his brain is not doing too hot.

Speaker 4 (35:26):
When your ankles swell up three times the size they
were before, that means heart failure.

Speaker 3 (35:30):
And he does look sick.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
And he does.

Speaker 3 (35:35):
Babble and you know, sound like the brain's not doing
too hot. So the guy who keeps like pausing in
a way that makes me think that the audio is out.

Speaker 2 (35:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (35:49):
Right.

Speaker 1 (35:50):
He's also had some he had some pretty wild appears,
like on Tim Poole's podcast, like a couple of weeks ago,
totally discombobulated Alex Jones and they're like, hey man, you
should go home, like you're coughing all weird.

Speaker 3 (36:01):
Like he it was odd, but they know that he's
ever been combobulated. But yeah, that's true.

Speaker 1 (36:09):
Come Robert related and here again on Easter.

Speaker 3 (36:12):
This is him responding to the Easter tweet.

Speaker 1 (36:15):
Alex Jones just going because like Marjorie Taylor Green was like,
what the fuck is this guy talking about. Here's Alex
Jones also saying some form of like this is not good.

Speaker 4 (36:24):
That's what I'm talking about. Blade Trump's behaving way more
radic his speech. You know, it's not coherent all the time.
You can't deny this is happening. So you actually, I
gave me the good news that he didn't fire.

Speaker 3 (36:38):
He goes on.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
Then he's like at another point, he's saying this whole
thing is like a mess too. He's like, it's a
clown show. I believe as the words he uses because
he's talking about, how dude, this this Iran Wars was
so preventable, yet here he is, and he's all of
his doubling down is only causing more bad shit.

Speaker 4 (36:55):
List he rails that whole Thing's why he's on the scenes.
One to end the war went off, Rahim trying to
act strong and tough upfront everybody. It's not working. So
this is a clown show, folks. And I'm really worried.

Speaker 3 (37:08):
It's a clown show. And he's worried. I don't know
if he's talking about his own show.

Speaker 2 (37:11):
But yeah, I even love that he stopped like just
to record that in his vehicle wherever.

Speaker 3 (37:17):
He was like, yeah with the engine idling, Yeah, got correct.

Speaker 2 (37:20):
Engine idling, like just the full thing. At least his
seat belted in, and he's like, oh, this is a
cloud show. I mean, let me get buckled up. What
do we do?

Speaker 1 (37:27):
Let people know I'm gonna go to a thirty minute
rant in my driver's seat really quick. Hopefully that'll get
through to the president. But I mean, now all the
White House can do, even with like the rumors when
people are like, what's going on with his health? A
lot of people were also like, uh, one of the
like sort of TV doctors on MSNBC was just sort
of posting He's like, I don't know, uh, this all
looks like.

Speaker 3 (37:46):
The symptoms of someone with dementia to me.

Speaker 1 (37:49):
And that's caused a huge response from the White House
basically saying like, n uh, don't talk about his cognitive
decline again. It's not like they can get Trump to
do a sit down interview where he's coherent and actually
convincing the public that he isn't physically or mentally completely.

Speaker 3 (38:07):
Fucked, you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (38:08):
I mean, so all they can do is just rhetorically
just be like, that's not true. He's just quirky, Like
he'll sit down and he's gonna say a bunch of
weird shit too. That's not necessarily gonna calm things down.
It might be like, oh, he's spoken some sentences there,
But I think, like what all all like. I think
what people are seeing is he's not listening to any

(38:29):
of the input because he doesn't have anyone who's gonna
tell him different. But he's not even able to see
a problem for what it is. And I think that's
a combination of him putting sick of fans around him,
but also his like own just sort of sociopathic belief
in his like omnipotence or something.

Speaker 3 (38:45):
Yeah. I do wonder if we're gonna get like what
his moment will be the way that, like Biden was
forced to do the debate and it was, you know,
a complete disaster. I wonder if we'll get something like
that with Trump, because like, the reason Biden was able
to do the fuck up that spectacularly was because he

(39:07):
was the president and nobody could tell him shit. And
so even though everybody was like, this is gonna be
really bad, they like just you know, at a certain point,
he was like, I'm gonna get out there and my
floor with him, Jack, yeah, and give him some horse shots. Yeah, yeah,
I got this. I got this, man.

Speaker 1 (39:27):
I mean, yeah, you think they I don't know if
I wonder if they're like, I mean, the second he
starts talking about nukes, we got to do the twenty
fifth of minute. I don't know if there's like a
red line within the cabinet too, where they're like to
be you think at this point, because these like I said,
this administration is currently like six to seven people in
a Trump shaped skin bag. And then as the president collectively. Yeah,

(39:51):
and like again to that whole thing about the him
and his health. The White House responded over the weekend
to all these like, bro, he's not doing a okay,
it said, deranged liberals cook up insane conspiracy theories. When
Potus goes twelve hours without speaking to the press, they
said nothing when by Biden routinely went missing.

Speaker 3 (40:10):
Fear not.

Speaker 1 (40:11):
President Trump literally never stops working is the response to
people saying he's unwell mentally everything he does is a disaster.
What good is saying he literally never stops working If
these are the fucking results.

Speaker 3 (40:26):
He's working so hard, he's trying, you guys are being
so mean to him. Also like being like Biden went
missing a lot before, and like we saw what that. Yeah,
that was the last president and it was a wake
up call to everyone to be like, man, we should
not have people this old. Well I guess not to everyone,

(40:48):
but right well, And.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
Also like let's define what working is like once again,
Like just because you're in your office doesn't mean you're working,
Like he could be in there just fucking napping, you
know what I'm saying, Like this man, like I'm a
but he's not working, like This is a man who
thinks working is like I'm talking to my friends, I'm
having meetings, I'm ordering small children to be shipped to
Epstein Island. I'm, you know, making sure that Evanka has cocaine.

(41:10):
Like these are things that he thinks he's doing, like working.

Speaker 3 (41:13):
Well, it's hey, but that's still where he is.

Speaker 1 (41:15):
What I see because a lot of the people were
posting a picture of just a marine standing outside the
West Wing to be like that indicates the president is
working inside. You could just take a guy to stand
out there and just so for the optics, be like,
that guy's only there if the president's working.

Speaker 3 (41:31):
He's not there.

Speaker 1 (41:31):
President's taking a nap, or like you know what I
mean staring like having eating his way through a thirty
piece fucking McNugget.

Speaker 3 (41:39):
Like you know what I mean, nugget, he's doing a
nugget power hour.

Speaker 1 (41:44):
Yeah yeah, but I mean, like idea, how hard this is, folks, Yeah,
it's watch try to see Biden do this.

Speaker 3 (41:50):
He can't.

Speaker 1 (41:51):
But like again, like the bullshit can I think can
only last so long in terms of like the rhetorical
sense and narrative sense. Right, it's not that to say
that like it's gonna suddenly laps and then Trump's out.
But like, clearly his magical thinking that's been informed by
his wealth and privilege is smashing into the hard wall
of like global policy, where he is but one but

(42:14):
one of many players on a global stage. And and
again I think, but he has the capability to do
things unilaterally that could spell disaster for every fucking one.
And I think, you know, as he sees more and more,
I think that's the thing where like as the the
tweets get more frantic because he's gone to allies and
like France, will you help me?

Speaker 3 (42:34):
The UK?

Speaker 1 (42:34):
Anyone, They're like, get fucked is what they all say.
And then now his tweets are like these sick bastards
better open up in there, And you're like, yeah, because
because you've got to figure it out, right, you're not desperate,
So doesn't doesn't doesn't wreak too good of a situation.
But I think on some level, like you're just though,
the wobbling has become a lot more intense as he

(42:57):
finds himself alone with this iron situation and no Offen rampant.

Speaker 3 (43:01):
You know, yeah, let's get it done. Mainstream media or
not just any media that is knows how to ask
follow up questions like that is the one thing. This
very scary thing is that, you know, people with these
sorts of disorders are always the last to realize like
how fucked up they are. So that's very scary because

(43:22):
he's in charge of the most powerful military in the
history of the Earth. On the other hand, it does
make him susceptible to like a sit down interview with
somebody not realizing like, well, how bad he's gonna look.

Speaker 1 (43:37):
All right, I'll sit down with this what's her name,
ze way, let's see how this goes. She's probably a
low IQ weirdo.

Speaker 3 (43:46):
Ye the way you cowered, I do. I just feel
like who is standing behind him? Like once once that hits,
it feels like fewer and fewer people are standing behind him.
Like it from his base, there's always going to be

(44:07):
like a handful, but like the people who matter, like
in his cabinet, I feel like have to be wobbling.
They seem like they're wobbling, right, and so they're firing everybody,
and yeah, no one's safe, you know.

Speaker 1 (44:21):
And you can just tell by how people talk about
him how afraid they are of the acts you know
what I mean. And like the even his internal polling,
Like there's a couple I was reading, just like the
real super maga friendly pollsters. They can't even fuck with
the numbers anymore. We cooked real nice for you, boss,
just like yeah, just like, okay, where are you at?

(44:43):
You're at fifty eight percent disapproval.

Speaker 3 (44:46):
That's really good.

Speaker 1 (44:47):
The most Republican friendly poll you can fucking find that
it is even somewhat tethered to reality. And you know,
like all of those people, like the people that work
in that White House, they see these these poles, and
again it probably makes sense why they're like, fuck, dude,
this thing's this thing's burning down. Uh, maybe I'll just
find an exit position so I don't look like a

(45:08):
total piece of shit even worse when this thing completely
falls apart. But it's still hard to even envision how
it comes apart.

Speaker 2 (45:17):
You know.

Speaker 3 (45:17):
That's what I keep everything, So.

Speaker 2 (45:18):
That's what I keep struggling with. Yeah, it's like, how
does this how does this crumble without literally crumbling like oh,
or country further or other countries, you know what I mean, Like,
we've already made so many bad decisions, We've already killed
so many people. There's so many lives that have been
significantly disrupted, and I just feel like we're gonna see
something big before this man shakes, you know what I mean,

(45:41):
Because everyone's too scared and people are standing on pride,
and when it gets really scary is exactly what you said,
Mos is when people who are like so prideful about
their choices, from like individual voters to like people in
his cabinet right that are so happy to like speak
that rhetoric and are now.

Speaker 4 (45:56):
Like like.

Speaker 3 (46:03):
Scene from the end of that movie.

Speaker 2 (46:05):
Yeah, yeah, it's scary.

Speaker 1 (46:07):
That's scary, and I think I honestly, I think the
next thing is probably gonna.

Speaker 3 (46:11):
Be like ground troops on the ground, you know, yeah,
because I don't.

Speaker 1 (46:15):
Yeah, it's it's he He's been just so much, so
many threats about it. Pete Hegseth said today we'll do
the most bombing so far, like his like real tough
guy announcement. Because again, like even with Hegseth right, like
he knows, like to the point of Trump, he hires
these like incomplete broken people because he knows he can

(46:38):
fucking lord that over them. He's like, you're not fucking
you shouldn't even be in this job. So you should
thank your fucking weird crusader loving ass that I'm putting
you as the fucking top person at the Pentagon, because
there's already a ton of stories about with Pete hegg
Seth's he's losing the Pentagon rapidly, but for him, his
only way to stay in power is to just yes

(47:00):
and whatever Trump says to the detriment of the entire
fucking planet. And then you have that buttressed by the
fact that Heseth is like a subscriber to this wacky
like bring bring Jesus back kind of belief system that
these evangelicals have about war in you know, the destruction
of Israel and how Jesus will come back because of

(47:21):
all of it.

Speaker 3 (47:21):
So it's like so hard to pin any of it down.

Speaker 1 (47:24):
Because you're, like, I don't know, everyone has some weird
form of magical thinking that they think even if it's
all a disaster, it's gonna be okay because Big Jesse
is going to come back.

Speaker 2 (47:34):
You said, buttristed, Yeah, buttrist that's a good one. Buttrist.
I like that one.

Speaker 3 (47:42):
All right. Well, on that note, let's take a quick break.
We'll come back and talk about microplastics.

Speaker 2 (47:57):
And we're bad.

Speaker 3 (47:58):
We're back, and betwixt all of the Trump stuff and
the space race, the trip to the Moon, you might
have missed, uh maybe a slimmer a sliver, A slim sliver,
a slim ver of good news, which is that we

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might not be quite as fucked as we thought microplastics wise,
thanks to some very stupid researchers. So researchers from the
University of Michigan recently found that a mildly embarrassing error
that might be contributing to dramatic overestimates of microplastics content

(48:39):
across multiple studies because microplastic studies have possibly been tainted
by researchers, specifically their latex and nitril gloves, which are
coated with tiny soap like salts you know, the little
powder that's on the oh yeah, yeah, yeah, called steer rates.
Those can rub off create thousands of false positives per

(49:01):
square millimeter due to their resemblance to polyethylene.

Speaker 2 (49:07):
The Asia. We shouldn't be wearing masks, this is all.
We don't need no hand sanitizers. Bring back to straws
that nobody ever found a turtle with a straw in
its nose get out of here. Get out of here.

Speaker 1 (49:23):
That's fucking nuts. I saw that study and I was like,
surely it can't be all because of that. I don't
think it can be all because of that.

Speaker 3 (49:32):
I mean, I definitely then numbers are less crazy then,
because yeah, like whether there has to be untainted samples
where they weren't just like playing catch with the person's
lung that they were looking at, you know.

Speaker 2 (49:47):
Right, well here's my other question, right, because you said
that it looks like a resemblance to polyethylene, right, yeah,
So is this double dumb researchers that like they can't
even properly when they're looking through microscopes to like count
the number of like polyethylene molecules that they're like, oh,
these are steroids, these are polyethylene, So like, aren't they

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supposed to know the difference? Do we just have a
bunch of interns in there they're like counting up the
little things.

Speaker 3 (50:13):
Like I means, physical resemblance to polyethylene at these sizes
has proven to be close enough to fool the infrared
light based techniques used to scan samples of microplastic particulates.
Sometimes science is more art than science.

Speaker 2 (50:32):
See AI is ruining everything if they want to just
use their goddamn eyes instead of science. I'm telling you, man,
I'm going back to churn and butter, my old fashioned way.
Like we used to worry about bugs and like mice
and stuff, and now we're like microplastics, Like give me
a little mouse arm, you know what I mean. I
at least like that's organic. It's gross, but I can
I can pass that.

Speaker 1 (50:50):
Yeah, I mean, I've heard a lot of people talk
about like what's the environment they're in and all like that.
They try not to have these kinds of things happen,
but it is just it.

Speaker 3 (50:59):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (50:59):
I kind of net out to the fact that I'm like, yeah,
microplastics are definitely they abound.

Speaker 3 (51:05):
But yeah, still bad, still still abounding.

Speaker 2 (51:08):
But stuff is stuff is still bad. I mean, let
me let me just share this with you guys. I
had something incredibly humbling happened to me a couple of
weeks ago. I was eating a salad. I was using
a plastic fork or a biodegradable fork of some sort,
enjoying my salad, you know, doing work, talking to people,
doing doing two things at once, and then I realized, oh,
that was a little extra crunchy. And then I pulled

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my fork out of my mouth and I had bitten
off one of the times of that fork and had
swallowed it and eaten it. I had chomped, chomped through it.
How many microplastics is that?

Speaker 3 (51:40):
Like my micro at you know?

Speaker 2 (51:42):
Yeah, dude. I was like, Oh, I'm fucked forever now.
Like I spent a day googling like what happens when
you eat a fork, you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (51:49):
I was like, God, this is just going to pass
through leg gum right, Yeah, I mean it was incredible.

Speaker 2 (51:55):
It can barely it barely was able to pierce my fork,
I mean pierce my so like, I'm pretty sure it
just like dissolved as soon as my stomach because it
was like one of those you know, plant based you know,
as soon as it gets you know, hot, it melts
forks so.

Speaker 3 (52:12):
Made of alka seltzer.

Speaker 2 (52:13):
Yeah, exactly. Like I'm just I don't know, we're all
gonna die. I'm gona'mlad there's less microplastics and things. But
I'm pretty convinced, you know, between the amount of like
I said, you know, blue whatever I'm eating for my
fricking sodas from seven seven brew and eating forks. This
this study is no no bearing on my life. I'm
already I'm already doomed. Most of us are doomed.

Speaker 4 (52:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (52:34):
Not that we're doing a lot of blowing up of
those gloves, you know, which is fun. And now I've
inhaled all of those microplastics. I mean, I think that's
the thing.

Speaker 1 (52:45):
It's like tough because like there's clearly like we're seeing
the impacts like in physical health from like people like
for microplastics. So it's like, while I get that this study,
like for the University of Pheae's like whoops, one up,
I think there's also like I think it like the
sort of cynical side of me is like, if this

(53:06):
thing gets like pushed harder and harder and harder, it
does feel kind of like some kind of opt to
be like, dude, don't worry about the microplastics.

Speaker 2 (53:15):
Show up with a big check and be like hey, hey,
hey hey guys.

Speaker 1 (53:20):
Let's talk seriously seriously.

Speaker 2 (53:22):
Maybe you need too.

Speaker 3 (53:25):
Right, Yeah, we actually had a We actually had the
people who no longer have jobs as screenwriters write up
a line for you, and it says science is actually
more art than science sometimes, which is like, that's catchy,
that is.

Speaker 2 (53:40):
Very catchy, that's super sexy. That's right, that's some ship
you put on a college brochure to get kids into science.

Speaker 3 (53:46):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (53:47):
Put down those paint brushes and science. Xavior, we need
you to be a scientist.

Speaker 3 (53:53):
Let's check in with Greg Abbott real quick. Yea our
favorite cautionary tale in the world of media literacy. So
a few weeks ago, he shared a video of what
he thought was an Iranian fighter jet being shot down
by an American warship.

Speaker 2 (54:08):
Hilarious.

Speaker 3 (54:09):
It was a clip from a video game. It looked
pretty good, though pretty good video game. He's not he's
not up on the latest video games. Shocked to find out.

Speaker 1 (54:20):
Yeah, and it wasn't even I don't even think it
was Arma where like the all the good misinformation videos
from that game. But yeah, he he clearly he's old,
you know, and he likes to tell on himself with
his dumb ass And he did it again this weekend
when he shared a picture of what he thought was
from the rescue of a downed American pilot, which did happen.

(54:40):
A few of more than a few planes went boom
this last week, but this one required an actual rescue
in the mountains of Iran. And anyway, Governor Abbott was
like shared this photo that when you look at it,
you're like, bro, this is.

Speaker 3 (54:55):
This is a live action Norman Rockwell, like this is yeah,
the smile.

Speaker 2 (55:00):
Can you get this picture? There's nothing about this that
says genuinely taken by a photographer.

Speaker 3 (55:05):
Right, yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 1 (55:06):
But he's like he's like, wow, look he's got an
American They gave him an American flag standby.

Speaker 3 (55:11):
Yeah yeah, but he looks like it stills from one
of those like it's like a cross between one of
those Jesus gets Us ads and like a Michelo boltra
Ad aimed at like Seal Team six people who fetishized six.

Speaker 1 (55:25):
Yeah, yeah, yeah exactly. It's like, hey man, there's a
brotherhood here, man, come on in. But he posted this
picture from it again like an AI slot, but cow
just completely uncritically and just his words over the tweet
was this is so awesome, okay, and even his bug
fuck Attorney General Ken Paxton shared the image and said
shot down on Good Friday, rescued on Easter morning. God

(55:48):
is sending a message to our enemies. Now again, a
rescue did have to happen, But this sort of imagery
is just so fucking saccharin, like just trying to be like, wow, look,
even though our once mighty military is being found out
in real time, this isn't this cool, like this really
nice moment where this you know, pilot was rescued during

(56:11):
this illegal war, because I think the reality, obviously the
reality of it is fucked. The US is like bombing
civilian infrastructure, they blip bridge, They're threatening more war crimes,
and we're learning also that the Pentagon is trying to
cover up the actual toll. This has even taken on
American soldiers. So Central Command has sent out quote outdated
statements on casualty numbers meanwhile resulting in undercounts, including a

(56:34):
statement set Monday. This is from a week and a
half ago from spokesperson Captain Tim Hawkins noting that since
the start of Operation Epic Fury, approximately three hundred three
service members have been wounded. But that was again that
was an old comment, and then it excluded fifteen soldiers
that had been wounded like before he had even made
this content comment in Saudi Arabia, and then at like

(56:56):
a lot of people have asked Central Command, can we
get numbers? Central Command also would not provide account of
troops who have died in the region since the start
of the war. The Intercept has an analysis that puts
the number at no less than fifteen, and then they
go on to say, during the Biden administration, the Pentagon
provided very detailed accounting of like any kind of interaction conflict,

(57:19):
you know, firefight that ended in like wounded or dead soldiers.
Now they say the Trump's quote, the Trump said, the
Trump administration's numbers, by comparison, lack detail and clarity. The
current Sentcom casualty figures do not appear to include even
more the more than two hundred soldiers treated for smoke
inhalation or otherwise injured due to a fire that raged
aboard the USS Gerald Ford. So again, there's like a

(57:43):
ton of these things that they're just like, well, maybe
don't report that because that was like smoke inhalation from
a well, you know, like they're trying to do whatever
they can to manage the optics of this illegal war,
and it's just like an impossible task in this era
with so much open source reporting and people kind of
looking at other stuff that's out there and just be like, oh,

(58:03):
I think this is bullshit from what we're hearing. So
it's not They're not doing great even managing this part
of it. And it makes sense because now only fourteen
percent of the country think thinks that there should be
soldiers like remotely even close to being on the ground.

Speaker 3 (58:18):
Yeah, but it must feel good as a soldier too
to recognize that your government is like, yeah, if you died,
we're actually going to try and ignore that you actually
exist right out there. Yeah, we're going to move in, folks, We're.

Speaker 2 (58:30):
Going to respect you less than we already do, which
is pretty impossible. Like the way that we treat soldiers
in the way that we treat veterans in this country
is a boring like it is, so I think, like depressing.

Speaker 3 (58:43):
Yeah, those pumpkin tribuches the people in the Midwest do
when they get drunk, that's how the US military under
Trump treats soldiers. Yeah, oh my god. All right, well's
let's end on a happy note. Yes, Artemis is out there.
They're going to reach the far side of the moon.
Will will go out of contact or that I guess

(59:05):
that happened yesterday last evening, but on their way to
the dark side of the Moon and the furthest point
that humans have reached from the planet Earth, they took
a digital camera with them and took some photos that
are are Yeah, so what one could look at this

(59:27):
and be like, hmm, this seems like a globe, you know,
looks like Earth, looks like the planet Earth that we
are aware of. And you know, you can only see
one of the land masses from from where we're looking,
so that would suggest that you know, it's round and
the other land masses are on the other side. That's

(59:48):
one way to look at it. Jack.

Speaker 2 (59:49):
Yeah, I mean to me, it looks like a plate
with some crab on it. So I don't know what
you're talking about.

Speaker 3 (59:55):
Where you go with this, Einstein. After the photo was released,
there was a fresh way of people mocking flat earthers,
being like, hey, do you guys see this ship? This
is crazy. It's just I just like they're acting like
they're in a active argument with flat Earthers. Like one
of the quotes is, well, once again it appears that

(01:00:16):
the flat earth folks are really wrong. Thanks the art
of us too.

Speaker 2 (01:00:21):
It's like you're not.

Speaker 3 (01:00:22):
They're not whening losing different parts of the same argument.
They have one argument that they have lost already.

Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
Yeah, like that's I also kind of love, like as
we talked about, sometimes science is more art than science.
Sometimes science is more snark than art. Like I just
I love I love that these guys are just up there, like,
let's stick it to them one more time, dummy.

Speaker 1 (01:00:50):
Which I'm surprised because the rebuttal could just be like,
this looks flat to me, Yeah to photo, So what
are you even trying to say, looks like a coin?

Speaker 3 (01:00:59):
You could just flip it over.

Speaker 1 (01:01:00):
Although the version that they see it is the entire
Earth would be visible on this flat circle.

Speaker 3 (01:01:04):
That they want. But yeah, that doesn't that doesn't quite work.

Speaker 2 (01:01:09):
My question like, do flat earthers think that it's a
flat circle or do they think it's a flat square?
Like is it map shaped and you just walk off
the map or do they think it's circle and you
just keep walking around the edges of the earth in
a circle.

Speaker 1 (01:01:20):
There's no I think there's like an ice wall. There's
one version where there's like an ice wall all at
the edges. So if you go far, yes, I see
the ice Wall and then the Whitewater. Yes, yeah, yeah,
and that's where the Knight's Watch goes for the flowers.

Speaker 3 (01:01:35):
Correct.

Speaker 2 (01:01:35):
I was gonna say, no, you're right now, it's making sense.
Thank you. I forgot about my history.

Speaker 1 (01:01:39):
I remember, like a little over a year ago we
were talking. I think we mentioned on trends because there
was like a little bit of beef going on in
the flat earth community because one guy was like invited
to go to the like the North Pole or one
of the poles, and they're like, don't go, because like
so much of it, there's so much like mythology around it,
and like the fact that he was going to go
see it with his own eyes, like could have debunked

(01:02:02):
a ton of stuff just by the mere presence of it,
because it's like.

Speaker 3 (01:02:06):
No one can get there. And if you're like, no,
come on, we can show it to you. They should
take one. And they should take one of like whoever
their number one person is there, like the Pope of
flat earthers. They should just like have a little handgun
to his ribs and just be like you're coming with
this asshole and take him up in one of these
just be like all right, so you see. Yeah, just

(01:02:27):
keep looking out the window, keep looking out the window.

Speaker 4 (01:02:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:02:29):
Because they had a thing where there's like this is
They called it the Final Experiment.

Speaker 2 (01:02:34):
Oh my god, I say. I mean, if we are
sending Katie Perry to space for five minutes, let's send
just four flat earthers, let's just set him up there
and be like, hey, look up there.

Speaker 3 (01:02:43):
There was that guy who tried to do the stunt
to like he launched himself in a homemade rocket into
the sky to prove he liked. Some people debate how
serious he was about the flat earthers or if he
was just like kind of a backyard stunt man gone wrong, right,
but honestly did not go well.

Speaker 2 (01:03:04):
Sounds like a great episode of Gray's Anatomy. I'm into it.
Let's go get write this, Shanda, let's do it. I
love it.

Speaker 3 (01:03:10):
Anyways, I hope everybody gets back safe and they're cool
orange shit. Oh because sorry, I just have to mention.

Speaker 1 (01:03:16):
So like when they went to Antarcticle, the big thing
was that there's like, there's not going to be no
twenty four hours of straight sunlight. You're kidding me, It's
not any of the shit works.

Speaker 4 (01:03:23):
And then there was.

Speaker 1 (01:03:27):
One of the flatteries, the quote sometimes you are wrong
in life. I thought there was no twenty four hours son.
In fact, I was pretty sure of it. I realized
that I'll be called a shill just for saying that,
And you know what, if you're a shill for being honest,
so be it. I honestly believe there was no twenty
four hours son. I honestly now believe there is.

Speaker 3 (01:03:43):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:44):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:03:45):
So they really did it the final experiment and.

Speaker 1 (01:03:48):
Yeah, well, I mean that's what I'm saying. It was
really contentious because.

Speaker 3 (01:03:52):
Don't fucking don't like, don't don't break it all down
by going around Earth or shit.

Speaker 1 (01:03:57):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:03:59):
You gotta stay true.

Speaker 1 (01:04:00):
But again other people just shift the goalposts, you know
what I mean, because at the end of the day,
that's what you got to do when you're all in
on a conspiracy theory. Don't ever like, don't ever let
them catch you slipping.

Speaker 3 (01:04:09):
Super producer Victor said the Bob tread to buy a
satellite to send it into outer space to prove flat
Earth and hilarious, still still awaiting results. Uh Lydia, such
pleasure having you as always, Where can people find you
follow you, see you, hear you, all that good stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:04:28):
Uh, you can see me in person on April tenth
in Knoxville, Tennessee at the Biju Theater. I will be
there with Felipe Asparza. We're gonna have a good time.
I will be in Atlanta on April eleventh at Center Stage,
also with Felipe A. Sparsa. I've got dates back in
Nashville towards the end of the month. You can find
out more about those at Lydia Popovich dot com or

(01:04:49):
follow me on social media at hater Tuesday and uh yeah,
those are all the places that you can you can
find me.

Speaker 3 (01:04:55):
Hell yeah, is there a work of media that you've
been enjoying?

Speaker 2 (01:05:00):
So I'm a little late to this one. You know,
I am an older person. I'm not spending as much
time on social media, and my algorithm is verily finely
tuned to basically you know, dogs, diet coke, soda recipes,
so not a lot of stuff gets in, but every
once in a while something new gets in.

Speaker 3 (01:05:17):
And did you say verily finally tuned? Is this like part?
Is this like the betwixt thing? I feel like you've
gone verily verily vere.

Speaker 2 (01:05:30):
It's all good. But yeah, it's a it's a little
an Instagram reel and it's a comedian. And her name
is Mikayla Donna or Michelle A. Donna. I'm not quite
sure how to pronounce her name. She's from New York.
But she does impersonations of Badega cats. That is incredible.
It's just absolutely incredible. She's her and a little pink
fur coat with little cat gloves and little cat ears

(01:05:53):
and she comes around the corner and she's just like, yeah, like,
it's very New York. It's very Bedega cat. It's it's
on the button. The one that I've been loving is
from December of twenty five, and I think she's brilliant.
She's great, So go check her out.

Speaker 3 (01:06:06):
Amazing miles. Where can people find you as their working
media you've been enjoying?

Speaker 1 (01:06:11):
Yeah, find me everywhere at Miles of Gray. You find
me talking about ninety day Fiance on four to twenty
Day Fiance with Sophia Alexandra. You find me talking about
European soccer football on Ain't It Footy with Jamal Johnson
and Chris Martin.

Speaker 3 (01:06:26):
The Beautiful Game in Ittiful.

Speaker 1 (01:06:30):
There's a let's see a couple or one post I
like where is it?

Speaker 2 (01:06:34):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:06:34):
Yeah, and this is just one from at Hamshoes dot
beastuide As Socials put reminder if you ever see somebody
stealing food, No the fuck you didn't?

Speaker 3 (01:06:44):
There you go, that's right, mind your old This is
an old one, oldie, but a goodie for Easter. At
Imagine A guy tweeted guy who only knew Jesus professionally, Honey,
did you hear they crucified our carpenter's You can find
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to the information that we talked about in today's episode.
We also link off to a song that we think
you might enjoy. Miles, is there a song that you
think that people might enjoy?

Speaker 1 (01:07:37):
Yes, I do to buy a band called Rika's r
I k as I think they're from Europe. This track
is called Tequila Shots, and it just sounds like a
song called tequila Shots like it feels very like beachy,
just like turn your brain off warm weather music. So
I'm fucking with it.

Speaker 3 (01:07:56):
So this is Tequila Shots by Rika Rika r I
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