September 30, 2025 • 27 mins
In this edition of No More Fat Trenderals, Jack and Miles discuss Eric Adams dropping out of the New York mayoral race, Trump being upset that he can't use the word "Nuclear", and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of No
More Fat Trender Rolls.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Oh Man.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
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see clean shaven, handsome faces. I want to see some
of the most beautiful men coming up to me, tears
in their.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Eyes, tears in their eyes. I don't care about biceps.
It's all about triceps now, tries for the guys.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
That's right, that over there is mister Miles Gray. Uh, we're,
of course referring to Over the weekend end of last week,
the bat signal went out for the generals, America's top
military brass from around the world to convene in Washington.
(00:49):
Location Locations mark Defense Strategy. Yeah, it's the It's like
the beginning, right before the inciting incident for like a
Gerard Butler movie. You know, all of.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
The most powerful military men in one location.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
What could fucking go wrong? It does seem like that
sort of thing that Trump should be aware of, because
I do feel like that dude has to love some
Gerar Butler.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I think we're at the point where no, like, not
even a sane person who used to be like, sorry,
that's actually terrible for operational security, right. I think those
people are completely gone. So now it's just like, yeah, great,
So where do you want them to stay? Should they
should be? Can they should they fly economy? Do they
do they stay at the bases? Do we get the.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Exact Star Force style? We talked yesterday about an idea
called engineered incompetence, where a dictatorial leader and authoritarian will
put people into positions of power who aren't able to
do the job, but are loyal to them, and the
idea is that they'll just do whatever you say, because
(01:59):
this is they know they don't have the ability to
do that where they're over their head. However, that makes
it possible for you to just like get them to
do whatever you want. We were talking to talking about
it in reference to the Comy indictment, because Trump's like
Buddy white House aide he made put in a huge
(02:22):
position of power to indict James Comy, and the case
just like does not look solid at all. This is
somebody somebody he met at mar A Lago at a party,
I think, and she she's the one who got him
on his like fuck the Smithsonian kick And also yeah,
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and she has like a major prosecutorial position despite the
fact that I think before she was an insurance lawyer,
never prosecuted. So anyway, the big example of this that
I mean, it's easy to lose track of because there's
so many things that are ridiculous about this guy, but
is Pete hag Seth is just a Fox News talking
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head who like looks good in a suit essentially, which
is as we'll get to, is a major concern for
Trump and he is in way over his head. And
so he called everybody together. Everyone's like, oh, are they
about to declare the Third World War? And what they
(03:23):
did instead was have like a very standard like corporate
pep rally type deal, get all the managers in here,
get all the managers in and introduce some ideas that
are going to be unpopular because they're stupid as fuck.
But everyone's anyone who's worked at a at a company
(03:45):
that has like big all hands kind of things, you've
experienced this where they'll be like, man, all right, guys,
get in here.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
We got some really cool stuff coming on. And everybody
who does the work in the in the call is like, yeah, okay,
how exactly, Yes, ok, maybe this works This was basically
the military equivalent of Pete Haggs's been like, and we're
doing all this shit. That's way different, man. Yeah, and
it's just crickets in there.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Things are about to change around here, and I I
got it. It would be so wonderful to just like
have a sense of like if there's any video of
them practicing this where he's like, because oh, like a rehearsal,
you can just tell his idea of how this was
going to go was very different from how it actually went.
(04:33):
He like, there are built in like applause break type
things that are absolute, Like he wishes there were fucking
crickets because at least it would break up the They
also had like terrible sound equipment and so there's like
a buzz and so the silence is like.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
It's just anyone who's heard an ungrounded cable buzzing, that's
what you were getting. Yeah, it was really something. I mean, like,
I'll just this is a this is a clip to
where Haig said is really trying to be like again,
this is like a yanky, fash ted talk that he did.
And I think what he was maybe watching before for
(05:14):
inspiration was maybe patent because he's pacing back and forth
gigantic American flag because we know.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
It wasn't Chris Rock's first stand up special, because that
would be the other option, the way he's pacing it
would be yeah, yeah, but we know he wasn't watching
that ship.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Without Yeah, we're not even a fucking shred of George C.
Scott's charisma. But this is like, this was supposed to
This was supposed to be like a moment you could
tell where he was like kicking this thing off, because
the way it sort of framed is like, look, man,
the fucking the break is off. You guys do whatever
you need to do to start kicking ass out there,
(05:50):
all right, and we're done with the woke shit.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
And this is the other thing that's giving patent is
the fact that he's backed by like one of the
flags that take up an entire football field. Yeah. Yeah,
like they just had that behind him. Yeah. A few
months ago, I was at the White House when President
Trump announced his Liberation Day for America's trade policy. It
was a landmark day.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Today is another libation day, the liberation of America's warriors
in name, indeed and inauthorities.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
You kill people and break things for a living. Oh now,
this is where you're not politically correct, don't necessarily belong
always in polite society, right, silence. This is not an
empty room. This is a room full of his his
gap people who kill people, the people who answer to him,
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and they're just sitting there like.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Dude, what you guys kill people and break shit? You're
actually the worst dinner guess a person could ever fucking imagine.
All right, you're animals, am I?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Right?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Boys?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
All right?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Nothing?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Fuck?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
All right?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
How about this one?
Speaker 1 (07:03):
These are general these are career like generals and admirals
and like people who have serious careers. And he's like
getting up there like he's fucking talking to a frat
party or like, I feel like the the speech he
saw before this to like get ready was probably Trump's
speech to the what was it West Point where he
(07:25):
was like speaking to all the yelling him like they
apparently like got him drunk beforehand. Because that's fine where you.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Got a bunch of drunk ass kids and you put
the most enthusiastic ones, like you order them to be
enthusiastic behind the president.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Motherfucker is dying up there.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Yeah, it's bad. And then Trump went so anyway, there's
all kinds of shit.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Dude just went like a lot of the things he
was talking about, like that they're this is scary because
they're trying to like get the main military leadership on
board with invading US city and you know the potentially Yeah,
they're hyper aggressive, you know, foreign policy stances. But Trump
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got off there and was like, damn, damn, son, I've
never heard a room were silent.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
I think this is why it's genius that the cables
were buzzing, because it really underlines how awkward this whole
room is. Grant like remindment just ourmind people. Trump, you know,
he's a fucking a draft dodger. So you go and
you were dresser. He obviously we know about his disdain
for the military. That comes from his like he because
(08:36):
he knows that these people look at him and go, bro,
you ain't shit. Yeah, so funk what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
We know about his disdain for the military. They know
about his disdain for the military.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Yeah, his disdain for fucking people who've been killed in combat.
He's just like a generally he's pretty anti military in
the sense that he's anti the people in the military. Yeah,
so This is him being like, ohh Basically he's like, wella.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Tough room in here, tough craft.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
You got to hear. He is saying, I've never walked
into a room so silent before.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
I've never walked into a room so silent before. This
is very Don't laugh, don't lif if you're not allowed
to do that, you know what, just have a good time.
And if you want to applaud, you applaud. And if
you want to do anything you want, you can do
anything you want. And if you don't like what I'm saying,
you can leave the room. Of course, they goes your rank,
there goes to your future.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Oh boy, that's uh, that's one way to warm up
a crowd. You're like, yeah, you got you guys can laugh,
please please please laugh, Please clap. So there's a little
bit of Jeb Bush. Please clap. Uh. There's also I'm
fucking threatening you if you if you're not on board
with this shit, like you you're out, So you better
(09:47):
you better get lively real fast, dude.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Then he just started talking about the Gulf of America
like two minutes in. It's just like it's it's rambling.
Then he said something about like the bad Democrats out there,
a lot of bad people. The Democrats right then just said, well,
we want war because we want to have no wars,
but you have to be there, and you know, sometimes
you have. It's better if I read it, because then
(10:10):
you realize how incoherent is because sometimes you have to
do it. I'm settled. So I've settled so many wars
since we're here. We're here almost nine months and I've settled,
and yesterday we might have settled the biggest of them
all though I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
How are they not on their fucking feet from that?
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yeah, bro, go easy on them. Yeah, And then the
N word thing came up.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Yeah. So I think one of the big headlines coming
out of this is, you know, as he's addressing hundreds
of US generals and admirals, he complained that there are
now two N words and you can't use either of them,
referring to nuclear.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yeah, it's it.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Was really a stupid person that works for I mentioned
the word nuclear. I moved a submarine or two.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
I won't say about the two what over to the
coast of Russia, just to be careful, because we can't
let people throw around that word. I call it the
N word. There are two ND words, and you can't
use either of them.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Crickets them and you can laugh, guys, just a reminder,
you can laugh if it does.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Get to use.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
We have more than anybody else.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
It's interesting when Trump he's such a like a vibe player,
you know what I mean, Like he if the energy
in the room is good, he can be animated. If
it's not, he fucking it's just he dies.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
He's dying up there. Yeah. Anyways, I think they might
be silent because again, these are career military people who
you know, understand the consequences probably of you know, bringing
up nuclear weapons. And he's like joking about it again,
kind of like a Chris Rock special, Like yeah, he's
(12:05):
trying to be you know, doing doing N word material.
Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
He's like, you know, there's a difference. There's black people
and then there's nuclear people.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
You know that famous bid? All right, all right, Christ, Look,
I'm not saying OJ didn't do it, but I understand,
but I understand it wasn't that any.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Great special folks. Anyways, Trengineered incompetence, that's the new.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Title of me maybe, Yeah, a little bit of both.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Yeah, I feel like we're probably seeing matter. It'll be
interesting to see where they go from here, because it
doesn't doesn't feel like they've got a lot to build
on there, you know, like.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
That would have I would have terrified me that if
there was raucous applause or even generally applause outside of
like the uncomfortable oh god, I'm gonna laugh at my
boss's joke type shit.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Yeah. Yeah, So the only times when he threatened to
take their take their jobs, if they do exactly essentially.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
And I wonder if them there, but I wonder if
they laughed, because they're like, yeah, okay, let's let's yeah,
come and try that.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Yeah, like if that's yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
But this is like after you know, Pete Hegseth has
been on a rampage like firing everybody who he doesn't
think is on board. So this is like his you know,
these are his guys, at least partially, you know.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
And there's a lot of reports. I mean, like I
don't I don't think we talked about it, like a
few weeks ago. He's like making journalists like sign like
fucking pledges that they were going to like you know,
only report the truth or they're going to get their
credentials taken away. And then there's also a thing where
like journalists I don't think are really allowed to walk
on without a chaperone, basically through the Pentagon. So he's
(13:50):
really like trying to lock it down. And then there
was another report recently about just how erratic that Pete
HeiG Seth has become since Charlie Kirk died. He said, uh,
this is from the Daily Milk. They said, Hexead is
becoming increasingly quote obsessed with his own security and exhibits
frenzied behaviors such as fidgeting and pacing during meetings. Quote
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there's a manic quality about him, or let me rephrase,
rephrase an even more manic quality, which is really saying something.
Dude is crawling out of his skin. Another source sighted, which.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
He always looks to be like ever since, he always
looks wildly uncomfortable in his own skin, much like you know,
I would say that described me when I was drinking
and didn't have a drink in me. I'm just saying, yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I mean, let's not forget. Famously they call him the
Dui Higher because not only were there like you know,
sexual assault allegations against him. There's a lot of talk
about how just fucking wasted he would get. And we
saw it, like it's on there's video of it on
Fox of him drinking, but you know, he was like,
oh no, no, I'm not gonna have a drink. Man,
if this job's serious, I wouldn't. I'm never going to
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touch this stuff. A lot of people you know who
are like, were in recovery and things were like called
dry drunk.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Yeah, there's a thing called dry drunk, and it was
it's worse than drunk drunk in many cases because you're
not uh you know, you've got the addressing the issue.
You're crawling out of your skin is a phrase I've
heard quite a bit from people in recovery.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Anyways. Oh that's like a way to describe it, Like,
is that because it's like this sort of mortal discomfort
of Yeah, you're just uncomfortable in your own skin.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
You constantly are just like fucking make it stop, and
it being just like existence, you know, just existing as yourself.
So I don't know, don't want to speculate on that.
He does seem to be just uh not the.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Guy for the job again, without even speculating on that,
I can say this, he seems wholly unqualified and should
not be in that position, regardless of whatever he's gone
through in his personal life, just on the basis of
what I've seen, what I saw.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
In that one video, and I've seen a lot, but
just if you're just taking that one video.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Oh there is a video that people. It's funny that
people started reposting this video when he was on Fox
and Friends where he fucking he was trying to like
flip a skateboard up like with like by stomping on
it and just dings himself.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
In the nuts.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
That it's look, I mean, we all need a little treat.
Like there he goes, he goes, watch this, He's gonna Oh.
His face is even like, oh yeah, yeah, I got it.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
All right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back,
and we're back.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
We're back.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Eric Adams has dropped out of the New York mayoral
race that he was still somehow in. I do love
to check in with the New York mayoral race. One
of the last things giving me hope in this cruel,
dark winter of their discontent where they've let somebody with
(17:13):
actual economically left policies run in a race.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
At this point, it's like economically sane. This isn't even
like radical to be like, ah, maybe don't charge people
whatever for fucking food.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
I was so anyway, we'll talk. Eric Adams announced over
the weekend he was dropping out. He made it in
fitting form, in a baffling announcement where he sat down
next to a he descended stairs with the song my
Way playing, because being ending your failed campaign after being
(17:54):
indicted for a corruption is doing it my way.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Yeah, I didn't follow the rules, baby.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
He also sat on the stairs next to a blown
up portrait of his deceased mother, and uh, yeah, I
don't like it's just he said, I was wrongfully charged
because I fought for this city. If I had to
do it again, I would fight for New York again.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
No, I think they're good. I think they're good man.
You're right.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
I don't think that's why you were fuck I don't.
I can't be sure. I don't know all the ins
and outs of of the case, but I'm pretty sure
it was your stealing money.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
A lot of self dealing going on, not just from
you before, all kinds of people like let's not even
forget it. Like a couple, like less than a month ago,
one of your people who are allied with your campaign
just handing out bags of cash.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Yeah, the plan to make Trump, to make him Trump's
ambassador to Saudi Arabia. That is coming from a billionaire
developer who's working for the Bally's Corporation. And they want
to build a casino on a city owned Bronx golf
course and Adams Uh, Basically, a city council decision eliminated
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this corporation from the licensing competition, and Adams, in a
wholly unprecedented move vetoed that city council decision, so kept
him in, kept him, kept him alive to build a
fucking casino in the Bronx just like es how nakedly
(19:29):
corrupt can you get?
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Make it a fucking park? Please? Anyway? So I do.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
The one thing that I do keep hearing is Trump
be and like, don't even vote for Mamdani because we're
I'm gonna cut off all funding for New York City
and you'll be fucked. I don't know how much of
New York City's budget is funded by the federal government.
Is that you know they have that dangerous.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
I mean, look, New York is, you know, has the
distinction of being a donor state, which is one of
the states that gives me more to the federal government
than they received. So I don't think they're gonna miss
that money because you know, along with what like eighteen
other states, those are the ones who get to be like, sorry, assholes,
we give you more than we're taking right now. So
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like miss us with these threats.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
So we'll just keep this then we won't give you
all the money that he's tried this before and and
lost in courts.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
And be like, I'm not giving Steff the sanctuary cities,
Like that's that's Congress's You can say that, but Congress
is the one that ultimately does that. And courts have
already smacked this shit down. So again big jerk off
motion from Donald Trunk there on what you know, Sure, yeah,
you'll defund it. You'll you'll not give the money back
that they gave you.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Yeah, it is. It continues to be. It's like when
we take a few days break from this mayoral race
and then I just look at it again. It continues
to be that like kind of hard to wrap your
head around. How the Democratic already is respond responding to
the Mom Donnie candidacy, Like it's still they still continue
(21:06):
to just ignore the shit out of him.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
They like the Kamala Harris thing last week where she
was like so big grudging about saying that she would
endorse him, Like it's is their only excuse that they
think he's like his ideas are unreally like the Cuomo
Oh yeah, and what's next free pizza for lunch?
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Like yeah, is that their only thing is that they
think it's unrealistic.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Uh, I don't know, man, it's it's.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
It's so Wild's like all of their means tested programs
that they like pay themselves like millions of dollars to
come up with, and like you know, pay fucking consultants
millions of dollars. Like those don't work. Those never fucking work.
They just they have that added benefit of like making
them and the people who fund their campaigns a shitload
of money. But they don't have any reason, Like it's
(22:01):
just this big gaping like that you want to understand.
I remember, I forget the New York writer who wrote
the book on dark money. Maybe it was Jill Lapour,
but she always talks about how dark money like is
this thing. She compares it to like dark matter in
the universe, because it's this thing where you see the
effects of it.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Oh is it, Jane Mayor?
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Oh yeah, maybe yeah, Jane Mayor, that's right, and you
see like things moving, but you actually don't see the money.
And like this is this is the best example I
can think of of like how all you need to
know about how politics actually works is the Democratic Party
has the path forward for them staring them in the face, right,
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and they are doing they are closing their eyes, they're
plugging up their ears, and they're just like humming as
loud as they possibly can.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Yeah. I was sort of struck. In the New York Times,
I think yesterday there was an op ed. It was
an op ed. It wasn't like the New York Times
saying it, but this professor from George Washington University is
basically saying, like, looks like the Democrats one path forward
is eat the rich populism.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
I don't know, just just just take care.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Just looking around and seeing some shit out there. Like
there's another candidate I think in Nebraska maybe who also
like outperformed Kamala Harris Dan Osborne. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so
like and they're pointing to him and Zoron being like
these two people they don't I mean, like because Osborne
(23:32):
and like, I mean, we're talking about social issues. He's
pretty conservative, not like like backwards, but he's conservative, Like
you know, he's not saying like there should be an
abortion band. He doesn't believe in that. But he's also like, hey,
you need guns, you need to zip up the border,
that kind of stuff. But also but he's when he asked,
he's like, I'm not here to talk about social issues, man,
I'm here to talk about the fucking millionaires and billionaires
(23:53):
who have no fucking idea what it's like to work
for a living. Yeah, that's what that's the Those are
the policies I'm interested in. And in this OpEd, they're like,
guys like this is you need a well defined villain
and political narrative, and this is one that speaks to
such a plurality of the idea that the elites are
(24:13):
siphoning up every dollar you have, not that it's it's abstract,
and then like what happened to my bank account? It's
coming in the form of what your gas prices are,
your electricity prices are I think of who you pay
money to to fucking live, like not you know what
I mean? Like who do you give your money for
for food, for shelter? These are the things that are
fucking squeezing people dry. Yeah, and those that's and they're like,
(24:36):
this is the fucking message all I don't.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
But seems to be working. Why it's amazing that you
are not using it?
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Yeah, just right there, but I get it. But he
was sort of also righting. He's like, but you know
what I mean, Like this the last paragraph was just
sort of saying like where is it? Uh? Oh okay,
It says turning Democrats into the vehicle for this coalition
will take a struggle, a bruising, messy contest to seize
the rains from a party establishment that will be scrambling
for its life. But working people fight much harder battles.
(25:06):
Working people fight much harder battles every day. It's about
time they had somebody in their corner sort of.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Like damn, maybe get the fuck out the way fucking bars.
Another thing that we've talked about before, the like the
Democratic Party always wants to turn somebody's success into being
Like he's just a gifted politician like Bill Clinton and
Barack Obama. The cover of Vanity Fair is the legend
(25:31):
of Zoran? Is this the man of the future? Is
this man the future of American politics? So they are
going to try and like turn it into like, Nah,
this guy's just fucking there's something ineffable about his riz.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
It's not the content of his words, Nope, it's the riz.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
He obviously would be the very first person to be like, no,
it's not, it's just.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
I mean, of course you would have to do that,
because you're just gonna be like, oh, it's anomalous, right,
So everyone can do It's that anyone can speak to
this lived, shared experience that fucking ninety nine percent of
Americans have, which is, what the fuck is going on? Bro?
Why does my dollar not get me anything?
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:12):
That part, that part is.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
That part, right, anyone can say it. Not so much
over here or right here, but right here here, that
part feels like.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
I knew it.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
All right, nice little Tommy Boy reference for the elder inside.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Yeah, we're that movie came out thirty years ago.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Jesus all right. Those are some of the things that
are trending on this Tuesday September thirtieth. We are back
tomorrow with the whole ass episode of the show. Until then,
be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Oh Man.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
That one courtesy of Vanadium Server on the discord. Yes, sure,
only arms that look like Christmas hands. I want to
see clean shaven, handsome faces. I want to see some
of the most beautiful men coming up to me, tears
in their.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Eyes, tears in their eyes. I don't care about biceps.
It's all about triceps now, tries for the guys.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
That's right, that over there is mister Miles Gray. Uh, we're,
of course referring to Over the weekend end of last week,
the bat signal went out for the generals, America's top
military brass from around the world to convene in Washington.
(00:49):
Location Locations mark Defense Strategy. Yeah, it's the It's like
the beginning, right before the inciting incident for like a
Gerard Butler movie. You know, all of.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
The most powerful military men in one location.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
What could fucking go wrong? It does seem like that
sort of thing that Trump should be aware of, because
I do feel like that dude has to love some
Gerar Butler.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I think we're at the point where no, like, not
even a sane person who used to be like, sorry,
that's actually terrible for operational security, right. I think those
people are completely gone. So now it's just like, yeah, great,
So where do you want them to stay? Should they
should be? Can they should they fly economy? Do they
do they stay at the bases? Do we get the.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Exact Star Force style? We talked yesterday about an idea
called engineered incompetence, where a dictatorial leader and authoritarian will
put people into positions of power who aren't able to
do the job, but are loyal to them, and the
idea is that they'll just do whatever you say, because
(01:59):
this is they know they don't have the ability to
do that where they're over their head. However, that makes
it possible for you to just like get them to
do whatever you want. We were talking to talking about
it in reference to the Comy indictment, because Trump's like
Buddy white House aide he made put in a huge
(02:22):
position of power to indict James Comy, and the case
just like does not look solid at all. This is
somebody somebody he met at mar A Lago at a party,
I think, and she she's the one who got him
on his like fuck the Smithsonian kick And also yeah,
(02:42):
and she has like a major prosecutorial position despite the
fact that I think before she was an insurance lawyer,
never prosecuted. So anyway, the big example of this that
I mean, it's easy to lose track of because there's
so many things that are ridiculous about this guy, but
is Pete hag Seth is just a Fox News talking
(03:03):
head who like looks good in a suit essentially, which
is as we'll get to, is a major concern for
Trump and he is in way over his head. And
so he called everybody together. Everyone's like, oh, are they
about to declare the Third World War? And what they
(03:23):
did instead was have like a very standard like corporate
pep rally type deal, get all the managers in here,
get all the managers in and introduce some ideas that
are going to be unpopular because they're stupid as fuck.
But everyone's anyone who's worked at a at a company
(03:45):
that has like big all hands kind of things, you've
experienced this where they'll be like, man, all right, guys,
get in here.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
We got some really cool stuff coming on. And everybody
who does the work in the in the call is like, yeah, okay,
how exactly, Yes, ok, maybe this works This was basically
the military equivalent of Pete Haggs's been like, and we're
doing all this shit. That's way different, man. Yeah, and
it's just crickets in there.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Things are about to change around here, and I I
got it. It would be so wonderful to just like
have a sense of like if there's any video of
them practicing this where he's like, because oh, like a rehearsal,
you can just tell his idea of how this was
going to go was very different from how it actually went.
(04:33):
He like, there are built in like applause break type
things that are absolute, Like he wishes there were fucking
crickets because at least it would break up the They
also had like terrible sound equipment and so there's like
a buzz and so the silence is like.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
It's just anyone who's heard an ungrounded cable buzzing, that's
what you were getting. Yeah, it was really something. I mean, like,
I'll just this is a this is a clip to
where Haig said is really trying to be like again,
this is like a yanky, fash ted talk that he did.
And I think what he was maybe watching before for
(05:14):
inspiration was maybe patent because he's pacing back and forth
gigantic American flag because we know.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
It wasn't Chris Rock's first stand up special, because that
would be the other option, the way he's pacing it
would be yeah, yeah, but we know he wasn't watching
that ship.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Without Yeah, we're not even a fucking shred of George C.
Scott's charisma. But this is like, this was supposed to
This was supposed to be like a moment you could
tell where he was like kicking this thing off, because
the way it sort of framed is like, look, man,
the fucking the break is off. You guys do whatever
you need to do to start kicking ass out there,
(05:50):
all right, and we're done with the woke shit.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
And this is the other thing that's giving patent is
the fact that he's backed by like one of the
flags that take up an entire football field. Yeah. Yeah,
like they just had that behind him. Yeah. A few
months ago, I was at the White House when President
Trump announced his Liberation Day for America's trade policy. It
was a landmark day.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Today is another libation day, the liberation of America's warriors
in name, indeed and inauthorities.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
You kill people and break things for a living. Oh now,
this is where you're not politically correct, don't necessarily belong
always in polite society, right, silence. This is not an
empty room. This is a room full of his his
gap people who kill people, the people who answer to him,
(06:44):
and they're just sitting there like.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Dude, what you guys kill people and break shit? You're
actually the worst dinner guess a person could ever fucking imagine.
All right, you're animals, am I?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Right?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Boys?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
All right?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Nothing?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Fuck?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
All right?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
How about this one?
Speaker 1 (07:03):
These are general these are career like generals and admirals
and like people who have serious careers. And he's like
getting up there like he's fucking talking to a frat
party or like, I feel like the the speech he
saw before this to like get ready was probably Trump's
speech to the what was it West Point where he
(07:25):
was like speaking to all the yelling him like they
apparently like got him drunk beforehand. Because that's fine where you.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Got a bunch of drunk ass kids and you put
the most enthusiastic ones, like you order them to be
enthusiastic behind the president.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Motherfucker is dying up there.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Yeah, it's bad. And then Trump went so anyway, there's
all kinds of shit.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Dude just went like a lot of the things he
was talking about, like that they're this is scary because
they're trying to like get the main military leadership on
board with invading US city and you know the potentially Yeah,
they're hyper aggressive, you know, foreign policy stances. But Trump
(08:10):
got off there and was like, damn, damn, son, I've
never heard a room were silent.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
I think this is why it's genius that the cables
were buzzing, because it really underlines how awkward this whole
room is. Grant like remindment just ourmind people. Trump, you know,
he's a fucking a draft dodger. So you go and
you were dresser. He obviously we know about his disdain
for the military. That comes from his like he because
(08:36):
he knows that these people look at him and go, bro,
you ain't shit. Yeah, so funk what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
We know about his disdain for the military. They know
about his disdain for the military.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Yeah, his disdain for fucking people who've been killed in combat.
He's just like a generally he's pretty anti military in
the sense that he's anti the people in the military. Yeah,
so This is him being like, ohh Basically he's like, wella.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Tough room in here, tough craft.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
You got to hear. He is saying, I've never walked
into a room so silent before.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
I've never walked into a room so silent before. This
is very Don't laugh, don't lif if you're not allowed
to do that, you know what, just have a good time.
And if you want to applaud, you applaud. And if
you want to do anything you want, you can do
anything you want. And if you don't like what I'm saying,
you can leave the room. Of course, they goes your rank,
there goes to your future.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Oh boy, that's uh, that's one way to warm up
a crowd. You're like, yeah, you got you guys can laugh,
please please please laugh, Please clap. So there's a little
bit of Jeb Bush. Please clap. Uh. There's also I'm
fucking threatening you if you if you're not on board
with this shit, like you you're out, So you better
(09:47):
you better get lively real fast, dude.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Then he just started talking about the Gulf of America
like two minutes in. It's just like it's it's rambling.
Then he said something about like the bad Democrats out there,
a lot of bad people. The Democrats right then just said, well,
we want war because we want to have no wars,
but you have to be there, and you know, sometimes
you have. It's better if I read it, because then
(10:10):
you realize how incoherent is because sometimes you have to
do it. I'm settled. So I've settled so many wars
since we're here. We're here almost nine months and I've settled,
and yesterday we might have settled the biggest of them
all though I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
How are they not on their fucking feet from that?
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yeah, bro, go easy on them. Yeah, And then the
N word thing came up.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Yeah. So I think one of the big headlines coming
out of this is, you know, as he's addressing hundreds
of US generals and admirals, he complained that there are
now two N words and you can't use either of them,
referring to nuclear.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yeah, it's it.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Was really a stupid person that works for I mentioned
the word nuclear. I moved a submarine or two.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
I won't say about the two what over to the
coast of Russia, just to be careful, because we can't
let people throw around that word. I call it the
N word. There are two ND words, and you can't
use either of them.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Crickets them and you can laugh, guys, just a reminder,
you can laugh if it does.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Get to use.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
We have more than anybody else.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
It's interesting when Trump he's such a like a vibe player,
you know what I mean, Like he if the energy
in the room is good, he can be animated. If
it's not, he fucking it's just he dies.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
He's dying up there. Yeah. Anyways, I think they might
be silent because again, these are career military people who
you know, understand the consequences probably of you know, bringing
up nuclear weapons. And he's like joking about it again,
kind of like a Chris Rock special, Like yeah, he's
(12:05):
trying to be you know, doing doing N word material.
Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
He's like, you know, there's a difference. There's black people
and then there's nuclear people.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
You know that famous bid? All right, all right, Christ, Look,
I'm not saying OJ didn't do it, but I understand,
but I understand it wasn't that any.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Great special folks. Anyways, Trengineered incompetence, that's the new.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Title of me maybe, Yeah, a little bit of both.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Yeah, I feel like we're probably seeing matter. It'll be
interesting to see where they go from here, because it
doesn't doesn't feel like they've got a lot to build
on there, you know, like.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
That would have I would have terrified me that if
there was raucous applause or even generally applause outside of
like the uncomfortable oh god, I'm gonna laugh at my
boss's joke type shit.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Yeah. Yeah, So the only times when he threatened to
take their take their jobs, if they do exactly essentially.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
And I wonder if them there, but I wonder if
they laughed, because they're like, yeah, okay, let's let's yeah,
come and try that.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Yeah, like if that's yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
But this is like after you know, Pete Hegseth has
been on a rampage like firing everybody who he doesn't
think is on board. So this is like his you know,
these are his guys, at least partially, you know.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
And there's a lot of reports. I mean, like I
don't I don't think we talked about it, like a
few weeks ago. He's like making journalists like sign like
fucking pledges that they were going to like you know,
only report the truth or they're going to get their
credentials taken away. And then there's also a thing where
like journalists I don't think are really allowed to walk
on without a chaperone, basically through the Pentagon. So he's
(13:50):
really like trying to lock it down. And then there
was another report recently about just how erratic that Pete
HeiG Seth has become since Charlie Kirk died. He said, uh,
this is from the Daily Milk. They said, Hexead is
becoming increasingly quote obsessed with his own security and exhibits
frenzied behaviors such as fidgeting and pacing during meetings. Quote
(14:10):
there's a manic quality about him, or let me rephrase,
rephrase an even more manic quality, which is really saying something.
Dude is crawling out of his skin. Another source sighted, which.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
He always looks to be like ever since, he always
looks wildly uncomfortable in his own skin, much like you know,
I would say that described me when I was drinking
and didn't have a drink in me. I'm just saying, yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I mean, let's not forget. Famously they call him the
Dui Higher because not only were there like you know,
sexual assault allegations against him. There's a lot of talk
about how just fucking wasted he would get. And we
saw it, like it's on there's video of it on
Fox of him drinking, but you know, he was like,
oh no, no, I'm not gonna have a drink. Man,
if this job's serious, I wouldn't. I'm never going to
(14:58):
touch this stuff. A lot of people you know who
are like, were in recovery and things were like called
dry drunk.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Yeah, there's a thing called dry drunk, and it was
it's worse than drunk drunk in many cases because you're
not uh you know, you've got the addressing the issue.
You're crawling out of your skin is a phrase I've
heard quite a bit from people in recovery.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Anyways. Oh that's like a way to describe it, Like,
is that because it's like this sort of mortal discomfort
of Yeah, you're just uncomfortable in your own skin.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
You constantly are just like fucking make it stop, and
it being just like existence, you know, just existing as yourself.
So I don't know, don't want to speculate on that.
He does seem to be just uh not the.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Guy for the job again, without even speculating on that,
I can say this, he seems wholly unqualified and should
not be in that position, regardless of whatever he's gone
through in his personal life, just on the basis of
what I've seen, what I saw.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
In that one video, and I've seen a lot, but
just if you're just taking that one video.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Oh there is a video that people. It's funny that
people started reposting this video when he was on Fox
and Friends where he fucking he was trying to like
flip a skateboard up like with like by stomping on
it and just dings himself.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
In the nuts.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
That it's look, I mean, we all need a little treat.
Like there he goes, he goes, watch this, He's gonna Oh.
His face is even like, oh yeah, yeah, I got it.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
All right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back,
and we're back.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
We're back.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Eric Adams has dropped out of the New York mayoral
race that he was still somehow in. I do love
to check in with the New York mayoral race. One
of the last things giving me hope in this cruel,
dark winter of their discontent where they've let somebody with
(17:13):
actual economically left policies run in a race.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
At this point, it's like economically sane. This isn't even
like radical to be like, ah, maybe don't charge people
whatever for fucking food.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
I was so anyway, we'll talk. Eric Adams announced over
the weekend he was dropping out. He made it in
fitting form, in a baffling announcement where he sat down
next to a he descended stairs with the song my
Way playing, because being ending your failed campaign after being
(17:54):
indicted for a corruption is doing it my way.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Yeah, I didn't follow the rules, baby.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
He also sat on the stairs next to a blown
up portrait of his deceased mother, and uh, yeah, I
don't like it's just he said, I was wrongfully charged
because I fought for this city. If I had to
do it again, I would fight for New York again.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
No, I think they're good. I think they're good man.
You're right.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
I don't think that's why you were fuck I don't.
I can't be sure. I don't know all the ins
and outs of of the case, but I'm pretty sure
it was your stealing money.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
A lot of self dealing going on, not just from
you before, all kinds of people like let's not even
forget it. Like a couple, like less than a month ago,
one of your people who are allied with your campaign
just handing out bags of cash.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Yeah, the plan to make Trump, to make him Trump's
ambassador to Saudi Arabia. That is coming from a billionaire
developer who's working for the Bally's Corporation. And they want
to build a casino on a city owned Bronx golf
course and Adams Uh, Basically, a city council decision eliminated
(19:08):
this corporation from the licensing competition, and Adams, in a
wholly unprecedented move vetoed that city council decision, so kept
him in, kept him, kept him alive to build a
fucking casino in the Bronx just like es how nakedly
(19:29):
corrupt can you get?
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Make it a fucking park? Please? Anyway? So I do.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
The one thing that I do keep hearing is Trump
be and like, don't even vote for Mamdani because we're
I'm gonna cut off all funding for New York City
and you'll be fucked. I don't know how much of
New York City's budget is funded by the federal government.
Is that you know they have that dangerous.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
I mean, look, New York is, you know, has the
distinction of being a donor state, which is one of
the states that gives me more to the federal government
than they received. So I don't think they're gonna miss
that money because you know, along with what like eighteen
other states, those are the ones who get to be like, sorry, assholes,
we give you more than we're taking right now. So
(20:14):
like miss us with these threats.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
So we'll just keep this then we won't give you
all the money that he's tried this before and and
lost in courts.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
And be like, I'm not giving Steff the sanctuary cities,
Like that's that's Congress's You can say that, but Congress
is the one that ultimately does that. And courts have
already smacked this shit down. So again big jerk off
motion from Donald Trunk there on what you know, Sure, yeah,
you'll defund it. You'll you'll not give the money back
that they gave you.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Yeah, it is. It continues to be. It's like when
we take a few days break from this mayoral race
and then I just look at it again. It continues
to be that like kind of hard to wrap your
head around. How the Democratic already is respond responding to
the Mom Donnie candidacy, Like it's still they still continue
(21:06):
to just ignore the shit out of him.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
They like the Kamala Harris thing last week where she
was like so big grudging about saying that she would
endorse him, Like it's is their only excuse that they
think he's like his ideas are unreally like the Cuomo
Oh yeah, and what's next free pizza for lunch?
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Like yeah, is that their only thing is that they
think it's unrealistic.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Uh, I don't know, man, it's it's.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
It's so Wild's like all of their means tested programs
that they like pay themselves like millions of dollars to
come up with, and like you know, pay fucking consultants
millions of dollars. Like those don't work. Those never fucking work.
They just they have that added benefit of like making
them and the people who fund their campaigns a shitload
of money. But they don't have any reason, Like it's
(22:01):
just this big gaping like that you want to understand.
I remember, I forget the New York writer who wrote
the book on dark money. Maybe it was Jill Lapour,
but she always talks about how dark money like is
this thing. She compares it to like dark matter in
the universe, because it's this thing where you see the
effects of it.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Oh is it, Jane Mayor?
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Oh yeah, maybe yeah, Jane Mayor, that's right, and you
see like things moving, but you actually don't see the money.
And like this is this is the best example I
can think of of like how all you need to
know about how politics actually works is the Democratic Party
has the path forward for them staring them in the face, right,
(22:43):
and they are doing they are closing their eyes, they're
plugging up their ears, and they're just like humming as
loud as they possibly can.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Yeah. I was sort of struck. In the New York Times,
I think yesterday there was an op ed. It was
an op ed. It wasn't like the New York Times
saying it, but this professor from George Washington University is
basically saying, like, looks like the Democrats one path forward
is eat the rich populism.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
I don't know, just just just take care.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Just looking around and seeing some shit out there. Like
there's another candidate I think in Nebraska maybe who also
like outperformed Kamala Harris Dan Osborne. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so
like and they're pointing to him and Zoron being like
these two people they don't I mean, like because Osborne
(23:32):
and like, I mean, we're talking about social issues. He's
pretty conservative, not like like backwards, but he's conservative, Like
you know, he's not saying like there should be an
abortion band. He doesn't believe in that. But he's also like, hey,
you need guns, you need to zip up the border,
that kind of stuff. But also but he's when he asked,
he's like, I'm not here to talk about social issues, man,
I'm here to talk about the fucking millionaires and billionaires
(23:53):
who have no fucking idea what it's like to work
for a living. Yeah, that's what that's the Those are
the policies I'm interested in. And in this OpEd, they're like,
guys like this is you need a well defined villain
and political narrative, and this is one that speaks to
such a plurality of the idea that the elites are
(24:13):
siphoning up every dollar you have, not that it's it's abstract,
and then like what happened to my bank account? It's
coming in the form of what your gas prices are,
your electricity prices are I think of who you pay
money to to fucking live, like not you know what
I mean? Like who do you give your money for
for food, for shelter? These are the things that are
fucking squeezing people dry. Yeah, and those that's and they're like,
(24:36):
this is the fucking message all I don't.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
But seems to be working. Why it's amazing that you
are not using it?
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Yeah, just right there, but I get it. But he
was sort of also righting. He's like, but you know
what I mean, Like this the last paragraph was just
sort of saying like where is it? Uh? Oh okay,
It says turning Democrats into the vehicle for this coalition
will take a struggle, a bruising, messy contest to seize
the rains from a party establishment that will be scrambling
for its life. But working people fight much harder battles.
(25:06):
Working people fight much harder battles every day. It's about
time they had somebody in their corner sort of.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Like damn, maybe get the fuck out the way fucking bars.
Another thing that we've talked about before, the like the
Democratic Party always wants to turn somebody's success into being
Like he's just a gifted politician like Bill Clinton and
Barack Obama. The cover of Vanity Fair is the legend
(25:31):
of Zoran? Is this the man of the future? Is
this man the future of American politics? So they are
going to try and like turn it into like, Nah,
this guy's just fucking there's something ineffable about his riz.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
It's not the content of his words, Nope, it's the riz.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
He obviously would be the very first person to be like, no,
it's not, it's just.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
I mean, of course you would have to do that,
because you're just gonna be like, oh, it's anomalous, right,
So everyone can do It's that anyone can speak to
this lived, shared experience that fucking ninety nine percent of
Americans have, which is, what the fuck is going on? Bro?
Why does my dollar not get me anything?
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:12):
That part, that part is.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
That part, right, anyone can say it. Not so much
over here or right here, but right here here, that
part feels like.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
I knew it.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
All right, nice little Tommy Boy reference for the elder inside.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Yeah, we're that movie came out thirty years ago.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Jesus all right. Those are some of the things that
are trending on this Tuesday September thirtieth. We are back
tomorrow with the whole ass episode of the show. Until then,
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