In this edition of Rage Zeit, Jack and Miles discuss their respective weekends, Pete Hegseth's numerous war crimes, Oxford University's word of the year: rage bait, Lindsey Halligan's disqualification and dismissal of the Comey & James cases, the Washington DC shooting of two National Guardsmen, Paul Anka's on Sinatra's junk, Trump's R-word rant against Tim Walz and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Oh my god, So dude, of this Thanksgiving I went to,
so that's all. It's like it's a bunch of adults
and their kids. There's one little boy who's like maybe nine,
and this kid is like really into fucking six seven.
Oh yeah, he he was doing it.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
And here's older lady at the at the dinner obviously
had no idea what six seven is or anything like.
So this kid's just coming up, going six to seven
and then like says he off handley. I think she's like, wait,
what did you say, because like was confused by what
he said. He was saying to someone else, and he's up,
goes up to her it's like six seven, and starts
doing you know, the juggling thing, and he just walks
(00:43):
away and she turned around.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Aghast, and she's like, was he talking about my breasts? No?
We were like, oh no, no, no, buddy, no, no, no, no, no,
that's not what that is at all. That he was.
It felt like he was like as if you were
a pervert, like ze, lady, I would I'm diabolical and
(01:10):
I would have let that lady think probably it was
I think I don't know, if I guess probably your
breast yeah, yeah in the moment. I think. I think
for how earnest the shock was, you probably wouldn't have
any and you'd be like, yeah, let's double down. I'm
a real piece of ship. I keep telling you. You
don't believe me, but I don'kay. All right, well I
(01:31):
know enough. I know enough about you, because if you
were a real piece of shit, I don't think i'd
be working with you. Real piece of shit, real piece. No,
you don't know me, you don't know about me. Back
in the day, a real piece of ship.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
There was a post on Instagram where I was like,
this is how my Thanksgiving is going, and it was
a guy re enacting the entire Oh that's gonna slick
back real nice for like a minute and a half,
word for word, standing next to the TV and he's like, oh, I.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Used to be a piece of shit. Stoppy like does
the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
He's not even looking at the fucking TV, just as
if he's giving a dramatic monologue. And then like the
camera just pans over and it's like this boomer dad
sitting in front and being like, okay, he's doing I
think you should leave monologues.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I think you should leave oh so you know the reference. No,
that's just what I'm saying about you with regards to
your presence here. I don't even want to be around anymore.
Oh yeah, it's a good one.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Dad.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Should I put that Frank Havoc on? Next? What? What? No? No,
I don't just we've got too much shit on. Oh okay, sorry,
I should have changed your breathing machine up.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this week trend edition
of Dirt Eily Zi. Guys. Yeah, it's a production of iHeartRadio.
This is the episode where we tell you what was
trending over the long weekend, in this case, what's going
on with us. My name's Jack O'Brien. That over there
is Miles Gray. Hey, I'm a little bummed. I didn't
(03:13):
host Thanksgiving, so I don't have the leftovers to keep eating.
So that is kind of a kind of a hard
time right now. You're going through a lot, right and
it would be you. You remember me last year, I
was drinking gravy okay to start my day. I have none.
It got to the point where I was considering just
buying a turkey breast and just roasting a small turkey breast. Yeah,
(03:37):
so you just have it so you have the appearance
of leftovers. Yeah, all right, Well, it's great to have
you back. It's great to be back after the long weekend.
We have a new format of episodes that are dropping
on Monday morning, so it'd be the last one in
the feed if you want to go check it out.
It's the Icon Episodes. Jamie Loftus guesting on this week's
(04:00):
episode about Miss Piggy. Yeah, yeah, it's evergreen, so you
can you can check them out whenever you want.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
And ever learn yourself, learn something, learn something about very
serious things like Miss Piggy exactly.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
But yeah, it's a chance for us to have a
little fun. So we're not always talking about the news. Yeah, yeah,
there is that whole thing. There is that whole damn
thing miles before we get into what was happening in
the news. We do like to let our audience get
to know us a little bit better by telling them
some stuff that we think is overrated, some stuff we
(04:37):
think is underrated. You want to kick us off with
something you think is underrated, underrated? Yeah, you know it's underrated,
then till the parks. Steam Train Okay, of course steam
Train just was up in Berkeley. Took all the kids
out for an activity and they say, oh, they might
like the steam train. I'm like, yeah, well I've been
(04:58):
on a fucking steam train. Bro, yeah, we go born.
This is the best fucking steam like little kids steam
train I've I've ever been on. It was steam. Oh
you motherfucker. It's so powered by steam. When they do
that ship, the steam is fucking it's everywhere. It's a
(05:19):
lot of like loud sounds, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah,
oh yeah. And the guy so this it's like, you know,
we have quote unquote train rides here in LA. They
fucking suck and they're like seventy dollars to ride. We
can't just be positive about that Berkeley steam train. We
(05:40):
gotta we gotta take down the Griffith Park. Dude, if
you went on this fucking steam train, you'd be like,
you'd go and burn down the Griffith Park steam like
the fucking travel town I was. I was raised on
motherfucking Griffith Park. Travel town. Okay too, I'm I'm not
raised on and my kids were right and like dude,
buying the injection molded plastic toy. I used to have
(06:01):
like fucking eight of those things. I beg anyway, all
that to say to use what the kids say. Our
fucking steam train is mid okay, the one we have
in LA and it's expensive. Then the ones they're all
talking about weed when they say that exactly in this train.
You can't even you can't even burn up your gas
on that ship. This train a it's so wooded and magical,
(06:22):
like you're going through proper forest. Then you get a
you get like three beautiful looks at the bay. Okay,
we went around sunset and it was like so fucking
magical to see, like the fog lit up. I was
looking at her, majesty, and we're like, what the fuck
is this? How this?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
The guy just started getting mad at your child forgetting
to experience this. Well, you had to do travel time
watch video. I was taking a video of him the
whole time because his sense of wonder was so fucking sincere,
like wow, literal handover mouth, like what he's looking around?
Look at him? Yeah, oh my, that's beautiful. That's beautiful. Anyway, dude,
(07:04):
it's you know how much it costs. You get five
rides for fifteen bucks or some shit. Fuck, Yeah, that's
just giving it away, not even five bucks to ride
a ten minute steam train. All right, private equity listeners,
you you know what the whole you know what the
job is. They're leaving money on the table up there
at the steam train exactly. The demand on this thing
(07:26):
is gonna be inelastic. You need to get over there
and over fucking proper gift shop. Wow, you got a
little fucking window. You can buy crap out it. You
could build out a whole fucking game store whatever you want. Anyway,
I was just so like her Massey and I were
both like, this is the best fucking thing we've ever
been on. And it kicked every little fucking mini train
(07:48):
I've been on with a child's ass. So shout out
to the Tilden Park steam train. I grew up in Wheeling,
West Virginia, and that they had. There's a little like
zoo and park near there that has a little steam train,
and I was I was being like, oh man, I
kind of had one of those right up until you
(08:09):
were like and then three breath taking passes of the bay. Yeah, yeah,
where you just like kind of get some puddles that
are in the middle of the woods, dude. And also
the guy who's the conductor, he's just he has the
best job. He just fucking goes.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Do do do all day on this little train, and
he would do this thing where he'd like look back
and I could tell he was looking at all the
families who were just getting like like a good memory
out of his like work, being like a nice train conductor,
and like he was like a retired dude.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
You could tell. I was like, yeah, oh, this guy's
also getting something out of this. It just felt like
all around good. And I'm sure people are gonna be like,
I got a fucking train that'll kick that train's ass,
And you know what, I welcome it because I'm coming
from the hinterlens of fucking La steam train. We fucking
like just kind of goes past some fake little Western towns. Yeah,
(09:01):
they're just like Clapboard and the five Freeway. Yeah, and
the five Freeway instead instead of having the Bay, we
have the five Freeway choking on small. Yeah. It's like hell,
wave to the cars.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Yeah, no, seriously, I'd sooner just take my kid on
like the fucking i don't know, like a just the
commuter train anywhere else, and it would be much better
than the Griffith Park thing they have, and.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
He wasn't like the guy who was driving. It wasn't
like getting weird about it. Like that's my smile, that's mine.
I try to smell your baby. He comes around. I
live off this ship. No, seriously, like I need six
with that baby over mind if I get a snip
at the top of the head. Yeah, see, I've been
sober off. Actually I didn't get a good hit. I
(09:46):
didn't get a good hits. Sorry, bring that baby back
over here. I kicked cocaine thirty five years ago, so
this is kind of how I swapped it. I still
like it.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I like to do a good but now something whimsical,
like a like a baby's head.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
My underrated, also from the Holiday weekend, is just old
school recipes. My go to is a sweet potato crunch
that is just sugar and butter and sweet potatoes soaked
in syrup out of a cane. I like it because
I could make it years after an apocalypse and you'd
be good, you know yea, yeah, yeah, yeah, nothing. But
(10:23):
it's always it, always, it's always a hit. I have
it photo copied from a cookbook that's old and stained
and like from my mom's kitchen. Yeah, and I remember
that this is also the cookbook where I got my
special Christmas punch recipe where one of the three ingredients
(10:44):
is sprite perfect perfect. But I just I don't know.
It made me think about the fact that, like, I
feel like I don't hate using baja blast as an ingredient,
you know, like I feel like we've moved away, like
the foodie culture has moved towards a New York Times
(11:04):
recipe that like hash in my travels to Lisbon, Get
the fuck?
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Ut?
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Does it bang or not? Bro? Is it gasolina or not? Yeah?
I don't know. There's a there's another school of food
preparation that's like southern and Midwestern and like casserole ass yeah. Yeah.
And I just think I'm not saying get rid of
like clean eat, Like clean eating is good, but like
for on a special occasion, I think we should just
(11:32):
embrace the fact that we live in a synthetic world
where the finest minds in chemistry for the past like
four decades have been going into the lab and inventing
things like nacho cheese, doritos, and we might as well
talk those things to our advantage. When we're looking to
make something easy and delicious. Agreed. Agreed.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yeah, it's funny because I have my Her Majesty's grandmother
who like passed away, like you know, like in the nineties.
My mother in law has like kept an entire fucking
like file of recipes as she's clipped.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Yeah, and it's funny. As I was looking at them,
part of me is like they were eating gruel in
nineteen seventy seven, you know, Like I'm like, there's no
way they were eating good food. But then I'm thinking
about like just the history of cooking. It's like you're
only eating now because of people fucking making shit forever.
And once I got over that, I started like looking
at these recipes and they seemed like kind of like odd,
(12:31):
But then I'm like, no, this, this is probably going
to taste fucking amazing. But as we've gotten like more
into as I think people become more traveled and the
world is more connected, it's easier like cast aside these
like sort of Americana type recipes, right and just focus
on like the fancier stuff, which I totally get.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
But every now and then I look at these, I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
We're making me give me a cast roll where cream
of mushroom soup is like the core ingredient.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I'm gonna make this problem a Cuban cast role, you know.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
But it's it's yeah, yeah, and like, look, she was
from Miami, so I'm like, it can't be. It's not
like it's somebody in Texas making it. I'm gonna I'll
trust the South Floridians take on a Cuban cast role
just to see what is something that you think is overrated?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Overrated is just the lack of physical spaces for kids to.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
We need to look where the fuck is toys are us? Okay, yes,
here's my thing. And it has nothing to do with
like Black Fried or anything. I at my when we
were with our family, my nieces had like an educational
toy catalog or something they brought home from school. Man.
And the way my son is not even three right
(13:49):
the way he was tearing this thing up. What the
fuck is this thing? My kids are still into the Yeah,
like we got one of those in the mail That
shit still works, yeah, the mailers, of course.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
And like I remember it for me, it was like
East Bay, you know what I mean? And it was like, well,
I don't know where to buy a Georgetown Hoya's shooting
shirt except for this catalog, because they don't sell Georgetown
Hoyas or Michigan Wolverine's basketball shorts anywhere except for this cattle.
I used to I used to circle shit and add
it up. This is all my friends would do. We
circle everything we wanted, add it up, and be like, okay,
(14:22):
I need three thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
That was like the that was the activity we would do.
But for like my kid, I realized like the whole
idea of like a physical place where you can see
all these like things that and I'm not trying to
raise a good consumer here, but there is something about
seeing a toy or object like in a place and
(14:46):
being like, wow, this is how I'm learning because he's
not watching TV and he's not getting hit with commercials
all the time. But part of me is like, damn,
I wish I could like walk him through like a
big ass toy store where he can be like whoa
we yeah, because I totally get that excitement. And I
don't want to be like fire up the internet and
look on this screen or whatever, like I I want
(15:09):
that and there's like a what do you need that
when you got unboxing videos? All right, Jesus put on
Ryan's toys reviews, okay, big YouTube channel. It does seem like,
you know, the market, as we've covered multiple times on
the show, is bad at organizing a civilization of society,
and this feels like one of those big blind spot
(15:31):
where like a private equity came in and killed toys
r US and nobody's come in to that for it. Again, Yeah,
it's just it's just like the target toy section is basically.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
You got their whole philosophy is like, well, if we
do these business decisions line go up, and it's not
necessarily about like well what is the effect on people
and culture that this hass And now you're at a
point where people are like dying for just really, people
are just dying.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
To be in physical space. Again, we watched Home Alone
two as like our Thanksgiving movie. You know, the kids
really wanted to watch Home Alone two, and the toy
store in Home Alone two, which again I Duncan Toys,
Duncan's Toys. They were treating that ship like a mythical
I mean, it is a bit of a mythical place.
(16:18):
In that there's like a magical Willy Wonka style old
man who's just they're attending to any any need and
like talking to you, and who happens to be the
wealthy owner whose painting is on the wall. They don't
have a concept of a toy store, right, It's like,
don't have it? Just like remember it was they were
asking about it like it was a fucking mart show.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
I mean, they're not probably old enough to see big
with ship when they go to Fao Schwartz. That fucked
me up as a kid. I was like, what the
fuck is Fao Schwartz. And again I think that's the thing,
is like there are these like little things that kids
miss out on when we just don't have these physical spaces.
And I'm i think after being on a steam train,
I'm like, yes, because we do all kinds of shit,
(17:02):
but I'm thinking about the things that used to make
me so excited as a kid, and like just seeing
a bunch of toys is like one of those things,
and like it puts things in your mind of like,
you know, cause my parents weren't buying me toys. They're like, okay,
if you do this and you do good in school,
you can get X or Y, and in my mind
I could put that in my my fucking memory as
something to work towards.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
So I just think, you know, bring back Fao Shorts
is a business chief reported back in twenty twenty. Toy
seller Fao Shorts reopens under private equity backed company three sixty.
So I'm sure it sucks shit now, such low hanging
fruit and like, yeah, yeah, because there's like, you know,
(17:44):
shout out to like LA's got a bunch of like
natural toys store type shits where it's like everything is
under and I'm like, I love that and and all
that shit's cool too, but there's also shit that he's
trying to see. He's like, I want to see a
car from cars, right. I'm like, bro, I don't know
where the fuck to get that, you know what I mean.
I mean, I go on eBay or some shit, but
(18:04):
I you just miss that kind of shit anyway. Yeah, man,
we we had like a family owned toy store near
us and that she got taken out by the panel.
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, all those all those
little toy stores. Oh yeah. Brian the editor Hamocker Schlemmer
shout out Hammocker Schlemmer for all the weird ass gadgets.
If you were some gadget geek kid. Broh, my god,
(18:26):
I was always in that fucking catalog trying to be like,
do I need infrared gloves acquired by S five Equity?
Hell yeah, hell yeah, hell yeah. So that's probably sick.
Still really good. My overrated is just the This is
just a Twitter trend. But there's a thing happening on
Twitter where people are like, what somebody posted, what's the
(18:47):
lore behind your header? Right? And it took over my
feet in the past week, and like, I've realized too
late that it's just it's just it's just clickbait. It's
just it's like it's the same as there. There's also
one that's been around for a while. It's like how
do I fit this in my head? Or never mind
figured it out, And it's just a thing to get
(19:09):
you to click through to the header. And it's never good.
It's not once been good. It's just because the payoff
requires you to click through. Ye, Like juice is the
algorithm to think, oh man, there's a lot of engagement
on these posts, and so it has just completely taken over.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Oh yeah, that's why people do this seamless loop on
videos or just put up nonsensical things like how is
this possible? And it's someone just squeezing an orange and
juice is coming out of.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
It, And then you were like you watch it trying
to figure out what they're talking about, and you watch
it five times and like got your dumb ass. Yeah,
there's just gonna be these like specific phrases that people
know that you can use. It's like, no way this
is possible. And it's a video of someone tying their shoe. Yeah, exactly,
it's just the whull shit is broken. It's bad. It
(19:59):
does work one me who like loves us spot the
difference type puzzle. Yeah, what the fuck is going on
with his shoelaces? You know, I'm like nothing, God damn it, man,
put this fucking phone down. It's stupid. But yeah, the
same thing.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
You see those posts two that forget to get you
to really like stay on a post a long times.
Like it'll be a photo of like someone in a
cafe and it's like the biggest text like near a
person's face, like don't look at the table, and then
on the table there's more copy that says don't read
the third word on the poster behind and that one's
like don't read the and then boom, they've got you.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
They got you, they got their engagement. Yeah. So I
don't know, it's very frustrating. It's just a thing that
proves that this whole system is breaking. Sucks. Whole place
fucking sucks. But stop clicking on that ship and then
stop getting it likes, stop it likes too. That's like
(20:53):
we we need to eradicate this trend is bad. There's
not been a good one yet. And I just feel
like something about the way we interact with the Internet
and technology and like social media is like we're real easy,
like we're just programmed to be like like I heart
that one. How do I feel about this app uber?
(21:17):
It's five stars, but then when it comes to interacting
with a human being, we're like fuck you right right,
it's bad. I don't know. Stop giving apps that I
think that's been my overrated before is like the fact
that go and look at Instagram it's like thirty million
reviews and they're all five stars. Just like what who's
(21:39):
why are you doing that? Who is doing that? It's
all fake? It's all Yeah. I mean, I'm sure, it's
just like popping up when people they're like, oh, people
like this, So we'll pop it up and get a
get a nice little thumb the phone down. I'm trying
to put it down. Let's take a quick break. We'll
come back and talk about war crime. And we're back.
(22:09):
We're back. And The Washington Post recently reported that Pete
Hegseth ordered a follow on attack to kill survivors after
bombing a boat allegedly carrying drugs off the coast of
Trinidad back in September. Yeah, which the initial attacks were
already pretty clearly war crimes. And then he was like,
(22:33):
I don't know, how do I really step on the
gas here? I mean, fuck a war crime? What about murder? Yes?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Why do I fucking just murder people now? And like
see where that goes? Yeah, because apparently he gave the
kill them all order.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Yeah, I don't think you're supposed to do that. I
don't think that's ever supposed to be the strategic objective
of your mission. I think your strategic objective ostensibly was
stop the boat from bringing the drugs. And then he's
just so yeah, dumb and that at his job that
he kind of had mission creep where it became kill
(23:12):
them all, which is a thing he said on the record.
You know, yeah, they apparently he Hest's response, it's fabricated,
inflammatory and derogatory, right because he said, quote, these highly
effective strikes are specifically tended to be lethal kinetic strikes. Okay,
but again, we're not at war and you're using the
flimsiest logic that's not even logic at this point to
(23:35):
just fucking kill people. Which is why the fucking person
who is i think formerly in charge of Southern Command
was like, bro, I don't want fucking anything to do
with this and left the post because they knew what
the fuck was about to happen.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
And that's also why those members of Congress were like,
it's actually your duty to defy and disobey in a
legal order, like murdering people that are in a just
like you know, there was a group of jags like
you know, the legal lawyers, judge advocate generals, I believe is.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
What that stands for. Mark Harmon in that v show
obviously fantastic show, underrated show for how popular it was,
that a lot of those jags that were fired under
Hegseath wrote a letter that are like, this is illegal
as fuck, just so you know, And they talked about
even if you wanted to say this is a war
they're like, you know, technically, once they're in a craft
or something that's destroyed, they are considered out of combat.
(24:26):
So then to then fire upon them is straight up
murder and it's a war crime.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
What the fuck is anyone talking about There's like no
one would just that's so beyond the pale.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Yeah, it's imperial terrorism. Yeah, aimed it inflicting the most
inhumane damage to send a message to people of just
fucking fear and that we don't value your lives. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
And also I think because Trump has like this weird
dementia boner of getting Venezuela's oil, like it's all part
of like the fucking spooky tactics he's doing. Because he
also over the weekend gave him Maduro an ultimatum. He's like,
if you leave now, your family can leave safely, but
you must resign immediately.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Yeah, that seems like that's happening. It seems like there's
the preparations are happening for war land strikes. I'm sorry,
you're going to fight a land what I mean, we
did water strikes and nobody really gave that much of
a shit, you know, so now we're gonna do land strikes.
This is what happens to people come back for water
(25:25):
strikes because they're coddling a fucking dementia adult freak man
who's like, I want to do this thing, and they're like, fuck, fuck,
how are you kind of do it without upsetting him?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Yeah, so it's I mean, there's no way to there's
really no way to describe this outside of a war
crime at minimum and murder and just like a very
technical level.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
He responded to the development of people on both sides
being like, seems pretty clear cut, like why are why
are we even discussing this? In the mega rights favorite
way for spawning to anything posting an AI generated image,
in this case, a picture of Franklin the Turtle doing
(26:06):
a work blowing up people from a helicopter with a
Brocket launcher on his shoulder. Yeah, it says Franklin targets
narco terrorists is the title of the book.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
And that's a made up term because you're just deeming
anyone you kill narco terrorist, right, And then their next
logic is the you know last week when they're talking
about illegal orders or Carolyn lev it was like, any
order the president gives is legal. No'm shit, but yeah,
that's ethetic, therefore it's legal.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Yeah, yep. Anywhere I'm standing as base, so you can't
tag me. I can't be it because everywhere I'm standing
his base, my shoes are based, so I'm always on
the base. So not it, not it, But again, just
take his shoes off. Now you've got both the House
and Saidive Armed Forces committees are leading inquiries into this,
and most of the GLP members on those committees are
(26:58):
saying things like if this is retly true, this is illegal,
and it does seem like it might be remotely true. Yeah,
he's on the fact that it could be remotely true
that there was two people surviving after a boat was
fucking destroyed. And then heg Seth said smoked these two also,
and they did. Trump said he believes heg Seth, of course,
(27:20):
because I'm sure heg Seth ran to Daddy, it's not true, Daddy,
I didn't do I didn't murder people with military weapons.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Trump said, quote he said, he did not say that,
and I believe him one hundred percent. He said, we'll
look into it. The first legg was very lethal, it
was fine, and if there were two people around, Pete said,
that didn't happen.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
I have great confidence. Pete said he did not order
the death of those two men. Trump's even kind of
holding the framing that if he did that is that's bad.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Yeah, it is bad to kill the two people, Like, yeah,
he did, he did so with so now what you
made a good point in the doc that, like the
thing you would expect to hear from everybody aligned with
is like, we don't know all the facts, yet we
back our uniformed men and women as they defend American
lives like blah blah blah, and like the fact that
we're not getting that anymore does suggest that there's I
(28:10):
mean it just there's so they this administration is so
unpopular and so like some of the way politics is
actually supposed to work seems like it's like remotely like
having a slight impact.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
And it makes sense, right because at the highest level,
if you're in the cabinet, you're in the White House,
that's the sort of class of politician or you're insulated
from actually probably talking to regular people, right because everything's
being fed up to you from the bottom, and then
you go down a couple levels and you have Congress
people who actually do they're not all fucking billionaires. They
(28:46):
still do know some normal people. They still do have
to hear people fucking scream at them, and they're like,
this shit is fucking back, like this is fucked up.
Like they're not insulated from the hearing from people, whereas
at the higher levels they are. So I just think
this is yeah, like it is wobbling a bit. And
I don't know if also this is a thing where
(29:07):
because everyone apparently hates Pete hegseth on like just low
key and high key. But you know, most senators are
kind of like say some middle of the road type shit.
But this could just be a moment too that they're like, Okay,
we can finally get rid of this fucking freak. Yeah,
because he's a murderer, but we let it get to
that point. I'll point out that only three Republicans did
(29:27):
it vote to confirm this pile of fucking shit, and
that was Mitch McConnell, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski. They're
somehow going to be on the right side of history
with with not confirming this guy, but also Pete Hegseth,
there is no statute of limitations on murder. So that's
a tough one, a tough one for that guy. Luckily
(29:49):
you might be able to get a pardon, but you know,
it might be something you have to think about. I mean,
everyone is waiting for the act to fall on him,
and we're going to talk about cash Betel on tomorrow's episode.
But like, I do feel like as far as Trump
is concerned, first of all, there aren't too many other
options given that all he wants is loyalty. But like
I do think their incompetence really creates like chaos and lawlessness,
(30:13):
which he's then able to exploit for increased power. So
I don't like, I don't know that he necessarily gives
that much of a fuck that they're doing a bad job.
Like they're doing a bad job is like you know,
he cares they're bad at their job and therefore going
to be super loyal to him. And then second, well,
as they do a bad job, more bad shit happens.
(30:34):
There's more shootings, more more controversies that he can then
use to be like well we're yeah, but he is
consistent with not looking like a joke show Like those
are the times when he then is like, we got
to go laughing at us. But it's like, bro, they've
been laughing at you, but I'm glad you've projected that
embarrassment onto an external source and be like, get that
(30:54):
out of here. It's not me. We have Oxford Universities.
We're of the year, which is two words rage bait.
M I just I just wanted to bring this up
here because I think it's the same thing as like
my overrated where it's just the shape of the Internet
and people like not taking into account that, oh, we're
(31:16):
just seeing like so their their explanation for rage bait,
which is like a thing that people have been saying
for years and doesn't seem to be like particularly salient
now as opposed to you know, it's like that that
was probably the thing. Yeah, it could be they became aware.
It's like, I think this stuff is just designed for engagement, right,
(31:40):
let's talk about this. It like, first of all, it
feels like making this the word of the year is
an act of rage bait in and of itself, but
it beat out words and phrases like biohack and or
a farming okay, And they defined it as online content
deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage by being frustrating, provocative,
(32:01):
or offensive. And they say that it's backed by data
because rage bait's frequency of you spiked by a factor
of three. But I just feel like it's like it's
a word that people are using online, which is the
place that you can track, right, So you're just like, yeah,
that's that's the thing that people are saying about other
(32:22):
people's posts online. It's not a thing that has like
become more commonly used in our like daily vernacular.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
It's, if anything, I think it just exposes that people
become more aware of the fact that there there's just
content designed to get your attention, right, and like being
more conscious now of being like, I'm not going to engage.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Actually I used to engage with rage bait, but now
I can accurately call something rage bait. Therefore I will
not engage with it, right, right, Anyways, these are always bad,
But I do think it's funny when they just like
completely fuck up and are like, hmmm, it's six seven
is still it for me? You know? Yeah, it's got
to be six. It's got to be six seven, man,
I mean, I do if they if their goal is
(33:04):
to identify something that is now going to be part
of the long term vernacular, then maybe not six seven.
But dare you that's disrespect if we're still doing Budweiser
even you know, let's we're broken. We're not alone, Jack,
We're not alone. We're the silent majority. Still. The best
(33:31):
way to open a zoom call with people you don't know. Oh,
they're going to say a eulogy at a funeral. Just
get up to the lectern. Thank you everybody, and miles
of your boy you know your boy Ibe, don't mind.
(33:52):
I'm going live right now for my three friends. Those
hearts going. Let's talk about another instance of designed and competence,
and this one, I feel like is going to be
a sacrificial mega shipper. Lindsay Halligan, Yeah, Taylor's oldest time.
That's what that song was about, right, Yeah, I mean,
(34:14):
in many ways, a beauty pageant contestant, yeah, meets Donald
Trump immediately, chance meeting, chance meeting. He's immediately like, I
want that in my administration. He puts her in charge
of trying some of the most controversial cases that he
wants tried. Yeah, and like we said last week, both
(34:36):
fucking charges. I'm just absolutely gnaw famed out of the court.
They laughed at her. Then they tried to There was
another thing too, They tried to appeal the decision about
her appointment, and guess what. Another judge was just like
uh yeah, man, She's well, what the fuck is this
person even doing pretending to be a fucking DOJ prosecutor? Right?
(34:58):
She was like specifically called out like this, what what
is this? Like, I don't know shit about what one
of these briefs is supposed to look like or whatever.
It's probably not even a brief, Like wait, hold on,
you lied to the grand jury. She's like, well, I
don't know. Like Day didn't like the one charge, so
I just put it on a different paper. I had
them sign that one so I could get both. And
(35:18):
they're like that's what, okay, lady, get the fuck out
of here. So now and again, the tailors. All this time,
you've you've had to take a public l trying to
serve deer leader, and they've completely turned their backs on you.
You're out in the cold, No one fucking knows you,
No one's returning a fucking call quote. A source told.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
CNN the Haligan is not involved in internal DOJ discussions
about whether the department will continue the cases without her.
It's not even clear whether she will report to her
office in Alexandria on Monday.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Wow, I mean, which makes sense because if they're like, yeah,
you've been legally deemed as fucked you know, like that's
at your job. You've been I'm described as being bad
at your job on the highest level, and literally nobody
in the world, like if a sporting figure like fucks up,
(36:10):
some people are gonna come in and be like he's
good or you know, like they're back and forth. Nobody
in the world is backing her. She yeah, yeah, like
everybody you know despises her on the same side of things.
And then her own team has been like a Jesus Christ.
But it's funny too, no introspection to like, yeah, that
(36:32):
wasn't ever gonna go well, right, we don't have a
case at all, and we put up a we basically
asked out like a fucking field mouse to dress up
as a DOJ prosecutor and go to court, which sounds
adorable in the same way that should make a make
a little she got. I art about that. I think
if this were a Disney movie, she got as far
as the mouse would go. It's like, Okay, that's cool.
(36:54):
You got a grand jury to indict. But then under scrutiny,
the shit completely fell apart because you didn't actually you
lied to the grand jury, like monstrably, there's a bunch
of corn cornals in this Manila envelope that you said
it's a file. Okay, sure, yeah, bad day for her.
I'm sure she'll just you know, I don't know, go
back to Florida. And but it is kind of an
(37:17):
interesting wrinkle. Like we we talked about how this is
the thing the dictators do. It's called designed incompetence. You
put people in positions of power so that who like
don't deserve to be there, and they're just going to
be loyal. That's why you do it, so you know
you have their loyalty because they're so grateful essentially for
(37:37):
the job. Like holy shit, do you see what's Yeah,
you see what's on my door right now? I guess
it's granted on printer paper in a gold uh laugh
love font. Yeah. I don't know if you saw that,
but there was the Trump last week was revealed put
up printer paper. Outside of that said the Oval. Yes,
(37:59):
there was just printer paper. So fucking janky, dude. That's
why I'm like, is it for his memory now or
is that his requests are so dumb they're like, yeah, yeah, yeah,
right on that start like just fucking printed on paper.
He's not gonna know the elements. Yeah, tell him it's
actual gold. He doesn't even get out of bed to
eat McDonald. You know, that's how they fucking talk about him.
(38:21):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (38:22):
Because everyone hates their job. Everyone hates their job, and
if that's your boss, it doesn't matter how much how
high you are on fucking mind comp you're still gonna
be like this guy's because even if you're a Nazi, I.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Could be doing such a better, much better job at
being a Nazi than this fuck. Oh oh god, I
wish I wish everyone else, everybody who works in the administration,
you could just get together ready to tell all yeah,
or somebody just needs to befriend all of them and
getting them drunk.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
The book would be called stress Diarrhea.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
Let's take a quick break and we'll be back, and
we're back. We're back. Over the break. There was a
shooting in Washington, d C. Where a man attacked two
(39:18):
National guardsmen, killing one, and there's been a lot of
finger pointing. They're using this to basically take back more
power than they ever have, Like the immigration laws are
becoming just like they can do whatever they want. They're
now making it possible for themselves to reopen cases on
(39:41):
people who've already been granted their green cards, right like nope.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
Yeah, and he's even said I will absolutely denaturalize Americans.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Yes, I don't give a fuck.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
Yeah, yeah, Because everything's going so well, this is there's
I'm sure a lot of support for all of this,
which is interesting to just kind of watch this spiral
continue and just end up harming a bunch of innocent people.
But yeah, a lot of the finger pointing that's happening
seems to just be in one direction, with the administration claiming.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
Joe Biden, uh huh. Yeah. Keep in mind that this
man who worked with the fucking CIA in Afghanistan. Sure again,
like this request for asylum was approved in April of
this year. But don't tell that to Christy Nome who
went on all the Sunday shows and all. She could
(40:30):
not keep Joe Biden's name out of her mouth, like
and everyone was like, wait, what this was approved under
the Trump administration's Like yeah, but Joe Biden doesn't vet,
and I'm banned from the vet because my pensiant for
murdering puppies. I'm sorry, what are we telling you? Anyway,
here's Christy Nome just kicking more dirt on Joe Byron's
(40:52):
good name.
Speaker 5 (40:53):
I just want to be very clear about this because
his asylum was approved in April of this year on
the Truck administration's watch. So just to be very clear,
was there a vetting process in place to approve that
asylum request?
Speaker 1 (41:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (41:10):
The vetting process all happened under Joe Biden's administer.
Speaker 5 (41:13):
Was he vetted when he was wanted asylum?
Speaker 4 (41:15):
Are you saying he wasn't vetted?
Speaker 1 (41:17):
Vetting?
Speaker 4 (41:18):
Vetting is Vetting is happening when they come into the country,
and that was completely abandoned under Joe Biden's administration.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
So vetting is happening when they come into the country.
And that was so we did the asylum, doesn't it
was Joe Joe Biden did, I mean he actually told
us so when the when we took over, Joe Biden
was like, this guy is cool, right, he said that,
He said, I vouched for this guy. He's fucking cool,
and we believe Joe Biden was Were you not supposed
(41:47):
to believe Joe Biden the coolest, smartest president we've ever had.
I don't think so. I mean whether I think that's
just so irrelevant too, because again, you're you're trying to
completely obscure the fact that this is because they're trying
to apply this to anyone who enters the country without
really understanding. Again, this guy helped the CIA in Afghanistan
during the Illegal War, So he wasn't some fucking rando
(42:09):
that popped up. He helped the American imperial war machine.
And based off that contribution was granted asylum. That's that's
how that's working. To then be like it's all Joe
Biden blah blah blah blah. You're like, you're missing the
entire point. And also, what if we're talking very specifically
about vetting or protecting people, what about the fucking twenty
(42:31):
two year old child that Christinome appointed to head the
Department of Homeland Securities Center for Prevention programs and Partnerships,
which is like after school programs. Is that what we're
talking about?
Speaker 3 (42:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (42:45):
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Let me actually describe what this
fucking entity does. Okay, the Center for Prevention Programs and
Partnerships CP three. What we do, They established and strength
and terrorism prevention efforts across every level of government. Okay
hm hm. So like, also, if if you're talking about
vetting and who were letting in, who the fuck are
(43:07):
you appointing to do any of this work? Right? Yeah,
it's a guy who used to store twenty two year
old with what fucking experience. And also, I think to
your point, this allows for things to happen that they
can then just point to and just basically pat every
person who's entered or requested asylum and to be like
(43:27):
they're all sleeper sell agents waiting to attack the United
States when and completely obscuring what this guy did in Afghanistan.
Maybe the fucking PTSD, Maybe this dude had working with
the CIA in Afghanistan, because I don't think they were
just handing out fucking coloring books, right, It does seem
like maybe the fact that he was known to be
(43:47):
struggling with mental health disorders lately, and the fact that
he had a gun were probably the things to look
at if you were looking at this clear eye, rather
than the fact that he was from a different country.
But yeah, yeah, I do. I do think this is
probably the better example of what I was saying earlier,
like where you put incompetent people in power who are loyal,
(44:08):
but also they do a bad job, and when they
do a bad job, that creates chaos and so then
you grab more power. Yeah. Yeah, that seems to be
the exact playbook that they're using here. Yeah, because if anything,
this is about access to guns. This is about the
fucking stain of the war in Afghanistan and all these
other things, not Joe Biden and asylum seekers. Right, But
(44:32):
that's again, like to your point, that's that's what they
need these sort of events for, is to completely just
change the topic and make it about whatever they need
to strengthen their hand. Well, let's take a quick break
from talking about this administration to talk about how much
old guys love talking about each other's dicks. Dude, Paul Anka,
(44:52):
Paul fucking Ankle, motherfucking anchor baby oh man.
Speaker 2 (44:57):
Yeah, so, Paul Anka, who is a singer song writer
from back in the day. But I know that name
primarily as the dog Laura like Gilmore adopted in season
six of Gilmore Girls.
Speaker 1 (45:07):
And I had no idea. And I remember, like when
we were doing a podcast like like at the Network
with him, I'm like, Paul Anka is a guy. I
thought that was the name of the Dog and Kilmore Girls.
He has a documentary coming out about his career, and
apparently I didn't realize he had reworked my Way in
English for Sinatra. That's like his big connection to Frank Sinatra,
(45:29):
Like it was a French song that he had translated.
So it seems during the promotion of this documentary about
his career, he had some real interesting things to say
about Frank Sinatra was dick and he was at page
six saying, quote, yeah, it was huge, he tells page
six in a recent exclusive interview, before laughingly adding, I
(45:49):
don't know what that does for you, Okay? Did someone
ask or he just be like, you know, oh, you
don't know some about Frank Sinatra. Fucking hung dude. He
also said this quote.
Speaker 2 (46:00):
Anka says he would hang out with Frank and the
rest of the rat pack in Las Vegas, regularly and
they'd all get in the sona together, during which he
joked he quote had trouble with eye contact.
Speaker 1 (46:08):
Amazing, So okay, goes on to say Sinatra's ex wife,
Ava Gardner allegedly once said Sinatra may have been just
a skinny hundred and ten pounds, but ten pounds of
his weight is cock. When people get old and just
get dirty as fuck, ten pounds of his weight, ten
pounds of it is cock. Okay, cock, you know what
(46:32):
I mean, Hand me that cigar. And apparently, despite the
interview probably not asking about how huge anyone's dick was,
Paul Anko went on to say that Milton Burrell actually
had the biggest of them all, biggest of all the dicks.
Yeah yeah, So Paul Anko, we salute you. I love
that he was keeping track. I had trouble with eye contact. Okay.
(46:56):
This is the proper way to do interviews when you're old.
You know. It was like a weird derivation of like
the Quincy Jones, you know, when when he just started
being like, yeah, yeah, went on das with Evanna or Evanka, amazing,
all kinds of stuff. When he was talking about was
it Marlon Brando and stuff. He was talking about Anka.
(47:19):
You don't know Quincy Jones. That Jones was talking about
how he like fucked everybody. Yeah, yeah, he like everybody. Bro,
Marlon brand was fucking everybody, Richard Pryor, Marlon Brando, fuck
rich Or Prior. Yeah, let it, let it go. You know,
just the the fading days where you just like don't
(47:40):
give a fuck anymore. You're like, why wouldn't I tell
you this? I have seen Paul. I didn't realize how
tanned this man used to be or is. Yeah, he
looks like fucking roasted turkey skin. Really, if you need
to know how like what a turkey should look like,
just look up Paul Anka face. That's right, And you
(48:00):
want to crisp you want to crisp the skin, You
want to give it a Paul anchor. Yeah, what you
want to do is rest the bird made for forty
five minutes after it's cooked, Crank that oven up to
five hundred or as high as it goes, put it
back in for about twenty minutes. Just really fuck that
skin up on the outside. I just lock it in. Yeah.
Brian asked the important question, how is this not blackface?
(48:23):
It's borderline it is borderline blackface via Tanning. It's a loophole. Bran, Yeah, loophole.
There's a photo with him next to Chuck Barry that
he posted recently, and I am a little bit like,
I mean, yeah, you could definitely he might be able
to like, you know, my mother was a creole. Shit right,
(48:43):
all right, Let's talk about Donald Trump's our word rant
real quick, because even though he may be planning to
attack Venezuela as we as we mentioned, the United States
President just declared on Saturday the Venezuelan airspace had been closed,
without offering any further details. He can do that because
you can do that. You can you can just say
(49:05):
for business other country, your airspace is closed. Uh huh
uh huh Okay, Okay, I mean I guess you can
if you just commit wark rhymes and shoot down anything
they want. You can say anything I can say. I'm
the President of the United States. I mean, he had
a busy weekend, so he's starting a war with Venezuela.
Grant and clemency to private equity executive David Gentile, who
(49:27):
served barely a week of his seven year sentence for
committing a one point six billion dollar fraud scheme, but
he's still somehow found time to use the R word
in a Thanksgiving message to the American people, referring to
Tim Walls in a rant about ending migration from third
world countries.
Speaker 2 (49:48):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, he loves he loves throwing that
word around.
Speaker 1 (49:52):
Yeah. I like even when he was asked, like they're like, hey,
what about why are you using that word with Tim Walls?
Speaker 2 (50:00):
Because I think something's wrong with him, Something's definitely wrong
with him. He's like you, like, do you regret it?
He's like, no, something's wrong with him. So I'm gonna
just fucking be ready. And that's how you say that. Yeah,
that's the only way to say things wrong with someone.
Speaker 1 (50:12):
You hit him with the R word. Baby.
Speaker 2 (50:14):
That's where That's how I was raised. Yeah, it's this
is this is nothing new for him. I like how
Walts was like, man, this something's really wrong. He's like, quote,
this guy is apparently in a room ranting about everything.
This is not normal behavior. It's not healthy. He's like,
we need to see these MRI scans, huh.
Speaker 1 (50:31):
Right, yeah, which I don't know if that's the threat
because MRI scans aren't usually used for like brain stuff, right, Yeah,
I mean I think he says that flippantly. It would
be could you imagine, like, dude, he's got a giant
fucking void in his no brain. There's like, I don't
know what the fuck this guy's doing. He's been shoving
the Q tips in when he cleans his ears. There's
(50:53):
like fifteen Q tips in there. It looks like he's
loading a magazine with bullets, just like they're all really
neatly stacked inside his skull like a vulcan cannon. Yeah,
he used the same word when referring to Kamala Harris,
but I think that one was to donors, and he
just like has his uh speaking publicly or am I
(51:15):
speaking to the media filter off? He's having a little
trouble with that one. His response, though about the MRI
is pretty wild. Yeah, like that. He was asked on
Air Force one.
Speaker 2 (51:26):
They're like, hey, dude, like Tim Waltz called for the
recent release of your MRI results, and he's like, they
were perfect, like my phone call where I got impeached,
absolutely perfect. If you want to have it released, I'll
release it. Then the reporter was that asked him, can
you tell us what they were looking at. So this
is what's kind of happening in this interaction.
Speaker 1 (51:43):
If you want to.
Speaker 3 (51:43):
Release it, you want to have it release station is
by the way. But if you want to have it released, releasehip.
Speaker 1 (51:55):
What were they looking at with the MRI? Hold on?
I just like, again, what were they looking at for releasing?
Speaker 4 (52:04):
No?
Speaker 1 (52:05):
What part of your body were they fucking MRI? Was
the the imaging supposed to reveal and then release? Answer?
Speaker 3 (52:16):
I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (52:19):
It wasn't because I took a cognitive a perfect park. Dude,
shut up, You're so fucking weak, bro, It's so he's so.
I think this is interesting because there's a New York
Times piece that came out also last week talking about
like just being like, look how this guy is withering
away right before our eyes. And he lost it because
(52:41):
they were pointing out the motherfucker's falling asleep. The dementia
is fucking ramping up. I feel like he's I'll.
Speaker 2 (52:47):
Leave this for my Predictions episode, but I'll say that
now I believe in this next year he is going
to do something to his appearance or something to make
him look younger or more virile.
Speaker 1 (52:58):
In absolute desperation to say to get the lips. I
don't know what it is. If he got the lips
you might get, he got plumped up lips. He's got
the message so wrong. He's like, I got thin lips.
They say, I look like Kenneth Branna. I need to
have juicy soup coolers. That's what I need, and then
(53:18):
they'll believe me. You don't know, I have no idea.
Justin m RI. Wasn't the brain? Was? Was it? Your
fucking you? Pour it out there on the court right
what happened? It is funny the part where he says,
I know it wasn't the brain. He like points at
his brain brain, I think as a way of showing
(53:39):
how sharp he is, because that is the level of
the questionnaire that he aced that he's so proud of
acing where he's he keeps being like, you could never
I fucking nailed it. I aced it.
Speaker 3 (53:50):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (53:50):
They said it was the best they've ever seen. I
named a monkey, a lion, an elephant, which you could
never do. Yeah, all right, but yeah, well one of
the things was point to your brain, sir, Where on
your body? Did they mri you? Yeah, mri'd me. I
don't know where. I don't know. I don't know. It
was just an MRI and it was perfect and I'm
(54:11):
perfect and what was it for? My brain works good?
And this is where my brain is. Enough enough said,
look at look at how perfectly I planted to where
my brain go. Still not sure what that MRI was
about either, no, no, we still don't know. Yeah, so
we don't know. But also along with that just unintended
side effect of calling people the R word, you miss
(54:33):
out on the other R word, redistricting. It turns out
because coructs casual use of the R word like he's
about to perform at the fucking comedy Mothership. May have
tickled sikaphants like Stephen I Will die Alone Chung who
does all his social media posts, but he also just
made his effort to rat fuck the electoral map of
(54:54):
Indiana a lot harder. So Trump has been demanding new
maps and all kinds of red states to gain as
many he quote unquote safe seats in the House because
to prevent it basically like a legislative curb stomping in
the form of a blue wave next fall. And he's
been trapping trouble in Indiana very specifically getting the votes
for new maps where Republican lawmakers have not been as
enthusiastic as maybe their counterparts in Texas, and this recent
(55:18):
spat with Tim Wallas may have just fucking sealed that,
because now he's pissed off an Indiana state senator named
Michael Bohassek whose daughter has down syndrome, and he ain't
having it. He wrote on Friday on Facebook that he
has quote been an unapologetic advocate for people with intellectual disabilities.
He's saying Trump's choices of words have consequences. I will
(55:38):
be voting no on redistricting. Perhaps he can use the
next ten months to convince voters that his policies in
behavior deserve a congressional majority. Damn oh h wait that
was a Republican Yeah. Yeah, And it's like and like
you were pointing out, this is the first time he's
used the rword to describe anyone or made fun of
people with any kind of disability. But the fact that
(56:00):
you're now seeing people be like, all right, I'm actually
this is my off ramp now, Like, this is fucking
absurd because I don't doubt that he this This state
senator is the only person who has any kind of
family members or intellectual disabilities or anything. But in this
moment it felt very personal and to then be like
full voice, like I'm off this shit. It doesn't doesn't
(56:23):
feel traditional. Things are like shifting somewhere.
Speaker 2 (56:28):
I don't know where it's going to go, but like
they're they're not as enthusiastic.
Speaker 1 (56:34):
I'm sure there was a lot of back and forth
when like McCarthyism was the thing, and like it just
looks like it was like full blown maccarthyism, and then
all of a sudden everyone was like out on the guy.
But yeah, it does go quickly sometimes, so I don't
I don't know if this is just a temporary baut
of turbulence or if the plane might be going down.
(56:55):
I mean all this stuff right, Like you have the
GOP senators and congress people like if this is true,
that's bad.
Speaker 2 (57:03):
Again, who knows what they're gonna end up doing. They
might be like, all good here, this is totally justified.
Those fishermen had fishing poles with hooks on him and
could have hooked somebody.
Speaker 1 (57:13):
But there's just that the resignations that are happening, a
lot of the Congress people saying like there's a lot
of disaffected members of Congress who are like figuring out
what the fuck they're gonna do. It doesn't feel like
it's you know, the halcyon days of MAGA having control
of both Chambers and the Supreme everything like full grasp
on it, and they're like, oh, peak America is over,
(57:36):
you know, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, that's gonna
do it for this Monday trending episode. We're back tomorrow
with a whole ass episode of the show. Till then,
be kind to each other, be kind to yourself, get
your vaccines, well you still can, ye, get your flu shots.
Don't do nothing about what supremacy, and we will talk
to you all tomorrow. Bye bye. The Daily Zeit guys because.
Speaker 4 (57:59):
Executive producer by Catherine Law, co produced by Bay Wage.
Speaker 1 (58:03):
Co produced by Victor Wright, co written by j M McNabb,
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Oh my god, So dude, of this Thanksgiving I went to,
so that's all. It's like it's a bunch of adults
and their kids. There's one little boy who's like maybe nine,
and this kid is like really into fucking six seven.
Oh yeah, he he was doing it.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
And here's older lady at the at the dinner obviously
had no idea what six seven is or anything like.
So this kid's just coming up, going six to seven
and then like says he off handley. I think she's like, wait,
what did you say, because like was confused by what
he said. He was saying to someone else, and he's up,
goes up to her it's like six seven, and starts
doing you know, the juggling thing, and he just walks
(00:43):
away and she turned around.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Aghast, and she's like, was he talking about my breasts? No?
We were like, oh no, no, no, buddy, no, no, no, no, no,
that's not what that is at all. That he was.
It felt like he was like as if you were
a pervert, like ze, lady, I would I'm diabolical and
(01:10):
I would have let that lady think probably it was
I think I don't know, if I guess probably your
breast yeah, yeah in the moment. I think. I think
for how earnest the shock was, you probably wouldn't have
any and you'd be like, yeah, let's double down. I'm
a real piece of ship. I keep telling you. You
don't believe me, but I don'kay. All right, well I
(01:31):
know enough. I know enough about you, because if you
were a real piece of shit, I don't think i'd
be working with you. Real piece of shit, real piece. No,
you don't know me, you don't know about me. Back
in the day, a real piece of ship.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
There was a post on Instagram where I was like,
this is how my Thanksgiving is going, and it was
a guy re enacting the entire Oh that's gonna slick
back real nice for like a minute and a half,
word for word, standing next to the TV and he's like, oh, I.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Used to be a piece of shit. Stoppy like does
the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
He's not even looking at the fucking TV, just as
if he's giving a dramatic monologue. And then like the
camera just pans over and it's like this boomer dad
sitting in front and being like, okay, he's doing I
think you should leave monologues.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I think you should leave oh so you know the reference. No,
that's just what I'm saying about you with regards to
your presence here. I don't even want to be around anymore.
Oh yeah, it's a good one.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Dad.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Should I put that Frank Havoc on? Next? What? What? No? No,
I don't just we've got too much shit on. Oh okay, sorry,
I should have changed your breathing machine up.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this week trend edition
of Dirt Eily Zi. Guys. Yeah, it's a production of iHeartRadio.
This is the episode where we tell you what was
trending over the long weekend, in this case, what's going
on with us. My name's Jack O'Brien. That over there
is Miles Gray. Hey, I'm a little bummed. I didn't
(03:13):
host Thanksgiving, so I don't have the leftovers to keep eating.
So that is kind of a kind of a hard
time right now. You're going through a lot, right and
it would be you. You remember me last year, I
was drinking gravy okay to start my day. I have none.
It got to the point where I was considering just
buying a turkey breast and just roasting a small turkey breast. Yeah,
(03:37):
so you just have it so you have the appearance
of leftovers. Yeah, all right, Well, it's great to have
you back. It's great to be back after the long weekend.
We have a new format of episodes that are dropping
on Monday morning, so it'd be the last one in
the feed if you want to go check it out.
It's the Icon Episodes. Jamie Loftus guesting on this week's
(04:00):
episode about Miss Piggy. Yeah, yeah, it's evergreen, so you
can you can check them out whenever you want.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
And ever learn yourself, learn something, learn something about very
serious things like Miss Piggy exactly.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
But yeah, it's a chance for us to have a
little fun. So we're not always talking about the news. Yeah, yeah,
there is that whole thing. There is that whole damn
thing miles before we get into what was happening in
the news. We do like to let our audience get
to know us a little bit better by telling them
some stuff that we think is overrated, some stuff we
(04:37):
think is underrated. You want to kick us off with
something you think is underrated, underrated? Yeah, you know it's underrated,
then till the parks. Steam Train Okay, of course steam
Train just was up in Berkeley. Took all the kids
out for an activity and they say, oh, they might
like the steam train. I'm like, yeah, well I've been
(04:58):
on a fucking steam train. Bro, yeah, we go born.
This is the best fucking steam like little kids steam
train I've I've ever been on. It was steam. Oh
you motherfucker. It's so powered by steam. When they do
that ship, the steam is fucking it's everywhere. It's a
(05:19):
lot of like loud sounds, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah,
oh yeah. And the guy so this it's like, you know,
we have quote unquote train rides here in LA. They
fucking suck and they're like seventy dollars to ride. We
can't just be positive about that Berkeley steam train. We
(05:40):
gotta we gotta take down the Griffith Park. Dude, if
you went on this fucking steam train, you'd be like,
you'd go and burn down the Griffith Park steam like
the fucking travel town I was. I was raised on
motherfucking Griffith Park. Travel town. Okay too, I'm I'm not
raised on and my kids were right and like dude,
buying the injection molded plastic toy. I used to have
(06:01):
like fucking eight of those things. I beg anyway, all
that to say to use what the kids say. Our
fucking steam train is mid okay, the one we have
in LA and it's expensive. Then the ones they're all
talking about weed when they say that exactly in this train.
You can't even you can't even burn up your gas
on that ship. This train a it's so wooded and magical,
(06:22):
like you're going through proper forest. Then you get a
you get like three beautiful looks at the bay. Okay,
we went around sunset and it was like so fucking
magical to see, like the fog lit up. I was
looking at her, majesty, and we're like, what the fuck
is this? How this?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
The guy just started getting mad at your child forgetting
to experience this. Well, you had to do travel time
watch video. I was taking a video of him the
whole time because his sense of wonder was so fucking sincere,
like wow, literal handover mouth, like what he's looking around?
Look at him? Yeah, oh my, that's beautiful. That's beautiful. Anyway, dude,
(07:04):
it's you know how much it costs. You get five
rides for fifteen bucks or some shit. Fuck, Yeah, that's
just giving it away, not even five bucks to ride
a ten minute steam train. All right, private equity listeners,
you you know what the whole you know what the
job is. They're leaving money on the table up there
at the steam train exactly. The demand on this thing
(07:26):
is gonna be inelastic. You need to get over there
and over fucking proper gift shop. Wow, you got a
little fucking window. You can buy crap out it. You
could build out a whole fucking game store whatever you want. Anyway,
I was just so like her Massey and I were
both like, this is the best fucking thing we've ever
been on. And it kicked every little fucking mini train
(07:48):
I've been on with a child's ass. So shout out
to the Tilden Park steam train. I grew up in Wheeling,
West Virginia, and that they had. There's a little like
zoo and park near there that has a little steam train,
and I was I was being like, oh man, I
kind of had one of those right up until you
(08:09):
were like and then three breath taking passes of the bay. Yeah, yeah,
where you just like kind of get some puddles that
are in the middle of the woods, dude. And also
the guy who's the conductor, he's just he has the
best job. He just fucking goes.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Do do do all day on this little train, and
he would do this thing where he'd like look back
and I could tell he was looking at all the
families who were just getting like like a good memory
out of his like work, being like a nice train conductor,
and like he was like a retired dude.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
You could tell. I was like, yeah, oh, this guy's
also getting something out of this. It just felt like
all around good. And I'm sure people are gonna be like,
I got a fucking train that'll kick that train's ass,
And you know what, I welcome it because I'm coming
from the hinterlens of fucking La steam train. We fucking
like just kind of goes past some fake little Western towns. Yeah,
(09:01):
they're just like Clapboard and the five Freeway. Yeah, and
the five Freeway instead instead of having the Bay, we
have the five Freeway choking on small. Yeah. It's like hell,
wave to the cars.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Yeah, no, seriously, I'd sooner just take my kid on
like the fucking i don't know, like a just the
commuter train anywhere else, and it would be much better
than the Griffith Park thing they have, and.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
He wasn't like the guy who was driving. It wasn't
like getting weird about it. Like that's my smile, that's mine.
I try to smell your baby. He comes around. I
live off this ship. No, seriously, like I need six
with that baby over mind if I get a snip
at the top of the head. Yeah, see, I've been
sober off. Actually I didn't get a good hit. I
(09:46):
didn't get a good hits. Sorry, bring that baby back
over here. I kicked cocaine thirty five years ago, so
this is kind of how I swapped it. I still
like it.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I like to do a good but now something whimsical,
like a like a baby's head.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
My underrated, also from the Holiday weekend, is just old
school recipes. My go to is a sweet potato crunch
that is just sugar and butter and sweet potatoes soaked
in syrup out of a cane. I like it because
I could make it years after an apocalypse and you'd
be good, you know yea, yeah, yeah, yeah, nothing. But
(10:23):
it's always it, always, it's always a hit. I have
it photo copied from a cookbook that's old and stained
and like from my mom's kitchen. Yeah, and I remember
that this is also the cookbook where I got my
special Christmas punch recipe where one of the three ingredients
(10:44):
is sprite perfect perfect. But I just I don't know.
It made me think about the fact that, like, I
feel like I don't hate using baja blast as an ingredient,
you know, like I feel like we've moved away, like
the foodie culture has moved towards a New York Times
(11:04):
recipe that like hash in my travels to Lisbon, Get
the fuck?
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Ut?
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Does it bang or not? Bro? Is it gasolina or not? Yeah?
I don't know. There's a there's another school of food
preparation that's like southern and Midwestern and like casserole ass yeah. Yeah.
And I just think I'm not saying get rid of
like clean eat, Like clean eating is good, but like
for on a special occasion, I think we should just
(11:32):
embrace the fact that we live in a synthetic world
where the finest minds in chemistry for the past like
four decades have been going into the lab and inventing
things like nacho cheese, doritos, and we might as well
talk those things to our advantage. When we're looking to
make something easy and delicious. Agreed. Agreed.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yeah, it's funny because I have my Her Majesty's grandmother
who like passed away, like you know, like in the nineties.
My mother in law has like kept an entire fucking
like file of recipes as she's clipped.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Yeah, and it's funny. As I was looking at them,
part of me is like they were eating gruel in
nineteen seventy seven, you know, Like I'm like, there's no
way they were eating good food. But then I'm thinking
about like just the history of cooking. It's like you're
only eating now because of people fucking making shit forever.
And once I got over that, I started like looking
at these recipes and they seemed like kind of like odd,
(12:31):
But then I'm like, no, this, this is probably going
to taste fucking amazing. But as we've gotten like more
into as I think people become more traveled and the
world is more connected, it's easier like cast aside these
like sort of Americana type recipes, right and just focus
on like the fancier stuff, which I totally get.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
But every now and then I look at these, I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
We're making me give me a cast roll where cream
of mushroom soup is like the core ingredient.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I'm gonna make this problem a Cuban cast role, you know.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
But it's it's yeah, yeah, and like, look, she was
from Miami, so I'm like, it can't be. It's not
like it's somebody in Texas making it. I'm gonna I'll
trust the South Floridians take on a Cuban cast role
just to see what is something that you think is overrated?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Overrated is just the lack of physical spaces for kids to.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
We need to look where the fuck is toys are us? Okay, yes,
here's my thing. And it has nothing to do with
like Black Fried or anything. I at my when we
were with our family, my nieces had like an educational
toy catalog or something they brought home from school. Man.
And the way my son is not even three right
(13:49):
the way he was tearing this thing up. What the
fuck is this thing? My kids are still into the Yeah,
like we got one of those in the mail That
shit still works, yeah, the mailers, of course.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
And like I remember it for me, it was like
East Bay, you know what I mean? And it was like, well,
I don't know where to buy a Georgetown Hoya's shooting
shirt except for this catalog, because they don't sell Georgetown
Hoyas or Michigan Wolverine's basketball shorts anywhere except for this cattle.
I used to I used to circle shit and add
it up. This is all my friends would do. We
circle everything we wanted, add it up, and be like, okay,
(14:22):
I need three thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
That was like the that was the activity we would do.
But for like my kid, I realized like the whole
idea of like a physical place where you can see
all these like things that and I'm not trying to
raise a good consumer here, but there is something about
seeing a toy or object like in a place and
(14:46):
being like, wow, this is how I'm learning because he's
not watching TV and he's not getting hit with commercials
all the time. But part of me is like, damn,
I wish I could like walk him through like a
big ass toy store where he can be like whoa
we yeah, because I totally get that excitement. And I
don't want to be like fire up the internet and
look on this screen or whatever, like I I want
(15:09):
that and there's like a what do you need that
when you got unboxing videos? All right, Jesus put on
Ryan's toys reviews, okay, big YouTube channel. It does seem like,
you know, the market, as we've covered multiple times on
the show, is bad at organizing a civilization of society,
and this feels like one of those big blind spot
(15:31):
where like a private equity came in and killed toys
r US and nobody's come in to that for it. Again, Yeah,
it's just it's just like the target toy section is basically.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
You got their whole philosophy is like, well, if we
do these business decisions line go up, and it's not
necessarily about like well what is the effect on people
and culture that this hass And now you're at a
point where people are like dying for just really, people
are just dying.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
To be in physical space. Again, we watched Home Alone
two as like our Thanksgiving movie. You know, the kids
really wanted to watch Home Alone two, and the toy
store in Home Alone two, which again I Duncan Toys,
Duncan's Toys. They were treating that ship like a mythical
I mean, it is a bit of a mythical place.
(16:18):
In that there's like a magical Willy Wonka style old
man who's just they're attending to any any need and
like talking to you, and who happens to be the
wealthy owner whose painting is on the wall. They don't
have a concept of a toy store, right, It's like,
don't have it? Just like remember it was they were
asking about it like it was a fucking mart show.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
I mean, they're not probably old enough to see big
with ship when they go to Fao Schwartz. That fucked
me up as a kid. I was like, what the
fuck is Fao Schwartz. And again I think that's the thing,
is like there are these like little things that kids
miss out on when we just don't have these physical spaces.
And I'm i think after being on a steam train,
I'm like, yes, because we do all kinds of shit,
(17:02):
but I'm thinking about the things that used to make
me so excited as a kid, and like just seeing
a bunch of toys is like one of those things,
and like it puts things in your mind of like,
you know, cause my parents weren't buying me toys. They're like, okay,
if you do this and you do good in school,
you can get X or Y, and in my mind
I could put that in my my fucking memory as
something to work towards.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
So I just think, you know, bring back Fao Shorts
is a business chief reported back in twenty twenty. Toy
seller Fao Shorts reopens under private equity backed company three sixty.
So I'm sure it sucks shit now, such low hanging
fruit and like, yeah, yeah, because there's like, you know,
(17:44):
shout out to like LA's got a bunch of like
natural toys store type shits where it's like everything is
under and I'm like, I love that and and all
that shit's cool too, but there's also shit that he's
trying to see. He's like, I want to see a
car from cars, right. I'm like, bro, I don't know
where the fuck to get that, you know what I mean.
I mean, I go on eBay or some shit, but
(18:04):
I you just miss that kind of shit anyway. Yeah, man,
we we had like a family owned toy store near
us and that she got taken out by the panel.
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, all those all those
little toy stores. Oh yeah. Brian the editor Hamocker Schlemmer
shout out Hammocker Schlemmer for all the weird ass gadgets.
If you were some gadget geek kid. Broh, my god,
(18:26):
I was always in that fucking catalog trying to be like,
do I need infrared gloves acquired by S five Equity?
Hell yeah, hell yeah, hell yeah. So that's probably sick.
Still really good. My overrated is just the This is
just a Twitter trend. But there's a thing happening on
Twitter where people are like, what somebody posted, what's the
(18:47):
lore behind your header? Right? And it took over my
feet in the past week, and like, I've realized too
late that it's just it's just it's just clickbait. It's
just it's like it's the same as there. There's also
one that's been around for a while. It's like how
do I fit this in my head? Or never mind
figured it out, And it's just a thing to get
(19:09):
you to click through to the header. And it's never good.
It's not once been good. It's just because the payoff
requires you to click through. Ye, Like juice is the
algorithm to think, oh man, there's a lot of engagement
on these posts, and so it has just completely taken over.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Oh yeah, that's why people do this seamless loop on
videos or just put up nonsensical things like how is
this possible? And it's someone just squeezing an orange and
juice is coming out of.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
It, And then you were like you watch it trying
to figure out what they're talking about, and you watch
it five times and like got your dumb ass. Yeah,
there's just gonna be these like specific phrases that people
know that you can use. It's like, no way this
is possible. And it's a video of someone tying their shoe. Yeah, exactly,
it's just the whull shit is broken. It's bad. It
(19:59):
does work one me who like loves us spot the
difference type puzzle. Yeah, what the fuck is going on
with his shoelaces? You know, I'm like nothing, God damn it, man,
put this fucking phone down. It's stupid. But yeah, the
same thing.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
You see those posts two that forget to get you
to really like stay on a post a long times.
Like it'll be a photo of like someone in a
cafe and it's like the biggest text like near a
person's face, like don't look at the table, and then
on the table there's more copy that says don't read
the third word on the poster behind and that one's
like don't read the and then boom, they've got you.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
They got you, they got their engagement. Yeah. So I
don't know, it's very frustrating. It's just a thing that
proves that this whole system is breaking. Sucks. Whole place
fucking sucks. But stop clicking on that ship and then
stop getting it likes, stop it likes too. That's like
(20:53):
we we need to eradicate this trend is bad. There's
not been a good one yet. And I just feel
like something about the way we interact with the Internet
and technology and like social media is like we're real easy,
like we're just programmed to be like like I heart
that one. How do I feel about this app uber?
(21:17):
It's five stars, but then when it comes to interacting
with a human being, we're like fuck you right right,
it's bad. I don't know. Stop giving apps that I
think that's been my overrated before is like the fact
that go and look at Instagram it's like thirty million
reviews and they're all five stars. Just like what who's
(21:39):
why are you doing that? Who is doing that? It's
all fake? It's all Yeah. I mean, I'm sure, it's
just like popping up when people they're like, oh, people
like this, So we'll pop it up and get a
get a nice little thumb the phone down. I'm trying
to put it down. Let's take a quick break. We'll
come back and talk about war crime. And we're back.
(22:09):
We're back. And The Washington Post recently reported that Pete
Hegseth ordered a follow on attack to kill survivors after
bombing a boat allegedly carrying drugs off the coast of
Trinidad back in September. Yeah, which the initial attacks were
already pretty clearly war crimes. And then he was like,
(22:33):
I don't know, how do I really step on the
gas here? I mean, fuck a war crime? What about murder? Yes?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Why do I fucking just murder people now? And like
see where that goes? Yeah, because apparently he gave the
kill them all order.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Yeah, I don't think you're supposed to do that. I
don't think that's ever supposed to be the strategic objective
of your mission. I think your strategic objective ostensibly was
stop the boat from bringing the drugs. And then he's
just so yeah, dumb and that at his job that
he kind of had mission creep where it became kill
(23:12):
them all, which is a thing he said on the record.
You know, yeah, they apparently he Hest's response, it's fabricated,
inflammatory and derogatory, right because he said, quote, these highly
effective strikes are specifically tended to be lethal kinetic strikes. Okay,
but again, we're not at war and you're using the
flimsiest logic that's not even logic at this point to
(23:35):
just fucking kill people. Which is why the fucking person
who is i think formerly in charge of Southern Command
was like, bro, I don't want fucking anything to do
with this and left the post because they knew what
the fuck was about to happen.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
And that's also why those members of Congress were like,
it's actually your duty to defy and disobey in a
legal order, like murdering people that are in a just
like you know, there was a group of jags like
you know, the legal lawyers, judge advocate generals, I believe is.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
What that stands for. Mark Harmon in that v show
obviously fantastic show, underrated show for how popular it was,
that a lot of those jags that were fired under
Hegseath wrote a letter that are like, this is illegal
as fuck, just so you know, And they talked about
even if you wanted to say this is a war
they're like, you know, technically, once they're in a craft
or something that's destroyed, they are considered out of combat.
(24:26):
So then to then fire upon them is straight up
murder and it's a war crime.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
What the fuck is anyone talking about There's like no
one would just that's so beyond the pale.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Yeah, it's imperial terrorism. Yeah, aimed it inflicting the most
inhumane damage to send a message to people of just
fucking fear and that we don't value your lives. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
And also I think because Trump has like this weird
dementia boner of getting Venezuela's oil, like it's all part
of like the fucking spooky tactics he's doing. Because he
also over the weekend gave him Maduro an ultimatum. He's like,
if you leave now, your family can leave safely, but
you must resign immediately.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Yeah, that seems like that's happening. It seems like there's
the preparations are happening for war land strikes. I'm sorry,
you're going to fight a land what I mean, we
did water strikes and nobody really gave that much of
a shit, you know, so now we're gonna do land strikes.
This is what happens to people come back for water
(25:25):
strikes because they're coddling a fucking dementia adult freak man
who's like, I want to do this thing, and they're like, fuck, fuck,
how are you kind of do it without upsetting him?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Yeah, so it's I mean, there's no way to there's
really no way to describe this outside of a war
crime at minimum and murder and just like a very
technical level.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
He responded to the development of people on both sides
being like, seems pretty clear cut, like why are why
are we even discussing this? In the mega rights favorite
way for spawning to anything posting an AI generated image,
in this case, a picture of Franklin the Turtle doing
(26:06):
a work blowing up people from a helicopter with a
Brocket launcher on his shoulder. Yeah, it says Franklin targets
narco terrorists is the title of the book.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
And that's a made up term because you're just deeming
anyone you kill narco terrorist, right, And then their next
logic is the you know last week when they're talking
about illegal orders or Carolyn lev it was like, any
order the president gives is legal. No'm shit, but yeah,
that's ethetic, therefore it's legal.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Yeah, yep. Anywhere I'm standing as base, so you can't
tag me. I can't be it because everywhere I'm standing
his base, my shoes are based, so I'm always on
the base. So not it, not it, But again, just
take his shoes off. Now you've got both the House
and Saidive Armed Forces committees are leading inquiries into this,
and most of the GLP members on those committees are
(26:58):
saying things like if this is retly true, this is illegal,
and it does seem like it might be remotely true. Yeah,
he's on the fact that it could be remotely true
that there was two people surviving after a boat was
fucking destroyed. And then heg Seth said smoked these two also,
and they did. Trump said he believes heg Seth, of course,
(27:20):
because I'm sure heg Seth ran to Daddy, it's not true, Daddy,
I didn't do I didn't murder people with military weapons.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Trump said, quote he said, he did not say that,
and I believe him one hundred percent. He said, we'll
look into it. The first legg was very lethal, it
was fine, and if there were two people around, Pete said,
that didn't happen.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
I have great confidence. Pete said he did not order
the death of those two men. Trump's even kind of
holding the framing that if he did that is that's bad.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Yeah, it is bad to kill the two people, Like, yeah,
he did, he did so with so now what you
made a good point in the doc that, like the
thing you would expect to hear from everybody aligned with
is like, we don't know all the facts, yet we
back our uniformed men and women as they defend American
lives like blah blah blah, and like the fact that
we're not getting that anymore does suggest that there's I
(28:10):
mean it just there's so they this administration is so
unpopular and so like some of the way politics is
actually supposed to work seems like it's like remotely like
having a slight impact.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
And it makes sense, right because at the highest level,
if you're in the cabinet, you're in the White House,
that's the sort of class of politician or you're insulated
from actually probably talking to regular people, right because everything's
being fed up to you from the bottom, and then
you go down a couple levels and you have Congress
people who actually do they're not all fucking billionaires. They
(28:46):
still do know some normal people. They still do have
to hear people fucking scream at them, and they're like,
this shit is fucking back, like this is fucked up.
Like they're not insulated from the hearing from people, whereas
at the higher levels they are. So I just think
this is yeah, like it is wobbling a bit. And
I don't know if also this is a thing where
(29:07):
because everyone apparently hates Pete hegseth on like just low
key and high key. But you know, most senators are
kind of like say some middle of the road type shit.
But this could just be a moment too that they're like, Okay,
we can finally get rid of this fucking freak. Yeah,
because he's a murderer, but we let it get to
that point. I'll point out that only three Republicans did
(29:27):
it vote to confirm this pile of fucking shit, and
that was Mitch McConnell, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski. They're
somehow going to be on the right side of history
with with not confirming this guy, but also Pete Hegseth,
there is no statute of limitations on murder. So that's
a tough one, a tough one for that guy. Luckily
(29:49):
you might be able to get a pardon, but you know,
it might be something you have to think about. I mean,
everyone is waiting for the act to fall on him,
and we're going to talk about cash Betel on tomorrow's episode.
But like, I do feel like as far as Trump
is concerned, first of all, there aren't too many other
options given that all he wants is loyalty. But like
I do think their incompetence really creates like chaos and lawlessness,
(30:13):
which he's then able to exploit for increased power. So
I don't like, I don't know that he necessarily gives
that much of a fuck that they're doing a bad job.
Like they're doing a bad job is like you know,
he cares they're bad at their job and therefore going
to be super loyal to him. And then second, well,
as they do a bad job, more bad shit happens.
(30:34):
There's more shootings, more more controversies that he can then
use to be like well we're yeah, but he is
consistent with not looking like a joke show Like those
are the times when he then is like, we got
to go laughing at us. But it's like, bro, they've
been laughing at you, but I'm glad you've projected that
embarrassment onto an external source and be like, get that
(30:54):
out of here. It's not me. We have Oxford Universities.
We're of the year, which is two words rage bait.
M I just I just wanted to bring this up
here because I think it's the same thing as like
my overrated where it's just the shape of the Internet
and people like not taking into account that, oh, we're
(31:16):
just seeing like so their their explanation for rage bait,
which is like a thing that people have been saying
for years and doesn't seem to be like particularly salient
now as opposed to you know, it's like that that
was probably the thing. Yeah, it could be they became aware.
It's like, I think this stuff is just designed for engagement, right,
(31:40):
let's talk about this. It like, first of all, it
feels like making this the word of the year is
an act of rage bait in and of itself, but
it beat out words and phrases like biohack and or
a farming okay, And they defined it as online content
deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage by being frustrating, provocative,
(32:01):
or offensive. And they say that it's backed by data
because rage bait's frequency of you spiked by a factor
of three. But I just feel like it's like it's
a word that people are using online, which is the
place that you can track, right, So you're just like, yeah,
that's that's the thing that people are saying about other
(32:22):
people's posts online. It's not a thing that has like
become more commonly used in our like daily vernacular.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
It's, if anything, I think it just exposes that people
become more aware of the fact that there there's just
content designed to get your attention, right, and like being
more conscious now of being like, I'm not going to engage.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Actually I used to engage with rage bait, but now
I can accurately call something rage bait. Therefore I will
not engage with it, right, right, Anyways, these are always bad,
But I do think it's funny when they just like
completely fuck up and are like, hmmm, it's six seven
is still it for me? You know? Yeah, it's got
to be six. It's got to be six seven, man,
I mean, I do if they if their goal is
(33:04):
to identify something that is now going to be part
of the long term vernacular, then maybe not six seven.
But dare you that's disrespect if we're still doing Budweiser
even you know, let's we're broken. We're not alone, Jack,
We're not alone. We're the silent majority. Still. The best
(33:31):
way to open a zoom call with people you don't know. Oh,
they're going to say a eulogy at a funeral. Just
get up to the lectern. Thank you everybody, and miles
of your boy you know your boy Ibe, don't mind.
(33:52):
I'm going live right now for my three friends. Those
hearts going. Let's talk about another instance of designed and competence,
and this one, I feel like is going to be
a sacrificial mega shipper. Lindsay Halligan, Yeah, Taylor's oldest time.
That's what that song was about, right, Yeah, I mean,
(34:14):
in many ways, a beauty pageant contestant, yeah, meets Donald
Trump immediately, chance meeting, chance meeting. He's immediately like, I
want that in my administration. He puts her in charge
of trying some of the most controversial cases that he
wants tried. Yeah, and like we said last week, both
(34:36):
fucking charges. I'm just absolutely gnaw famed out of the court.
They laughed at her. Then they tried to There was
another thing too, They tried to appeal the decision about
her appointment, and guess what. Another judge was just like
uh yeah, man, She's well, what the fuck is this
person even doing pretending to be a fucking DOJ prosecutor? Right?
(34:58):
She was like specifically called out like this, what what
is this? Like, I don't know shit about what one
of these briefs is supposed to look like or whatever.
It's probably not even a brief, Like wait, hold on,
you lied to the grand jury. She's like, well, I
don't know. Like Day didn't like the one charge, so
I just put it on a different paper. I had
them sign that one so I could get both. And
(35:18):
they're like that's what, okay, lady, get the fuck out
of here. So now and again, the tailors. All this time,
you've you've had to take a public l trying to
serve deer leader, and they've completely turned their backs on you.
You're out in the cold, No one fucking knows you,
No one's returning a fucking call quote. A source told.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
CNN the Haligan is not involved in internal DOJ discussions
about whether the department will continue the cases without her.
It's not even clear whether she will report to her
office in Alexandria on Monday.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Wow, I mean, which makes sense because if they're like, yeah,
you've been legally deemed as fucked you know, like that's
at your job. You've been I'm described as being bad
at your job on the highest level, and literally nobody
in the world, like if a sporting figure like fucks up,
(36:10):
some people are gonna come in and be like he's
good or you know, like they're back and forth. Nobody
in the world is backing her. She yeah, yeah, like
everybody you know despises her on the same side of things.
And then her own team has been like a Jesus Christ.
But it's funny too, no introspection to like, yeah, that
(36:32):
wasn't ever gonna go well, right, we don't have a
case at all, and we put up a we basically
asked out like a fucking field mouse to dress up
as a DOJ prosecutor and go to court, which sounds
adorable in the same way that should make a make
a little she got. I art about that. I think
if this were a Disney movie, she got as far
as the mouse would go. It's like, Okay, that's cool.
(36:54):
You got a grand jury to indict. But then under scrutiny,
the shit completely fell apart because you didn't actually you
lied to the grand jury, like monstrably, there's a bunch
of corn cornals in this Manila envelope that you said
it's a file. Okay, sure, yeah, bad day for her.
I'm sure she'll just you know, I don't know, go
back to Florida. And but it is kind of an
(37:17):
interesting wrinkle. Like we we talked about how this is
the thing the dictators do. It's called designed incompetence. You
put people in positions of power so that who like
don't deserve to be there, and they're just going to
be loyal. That's why you do it, so you know
you have their loyalty because they're so grateful essentially for
(37:37):
the job. Like holy shit, do you see what's Yeah,
you see what's on my door right now? I guess
it's granted on printer paper in a gold uh laugh
love font. Yeah. I don't know if you saw that,
but there was the Trump last week was revealed put
up printer paper. Outside of that said the Oval. Yes,
(37:59):
there was just printer paper. So fucking janky, dude. That's
why I'm like, is it for his memory now or
is that his requests are so dumb they're like, yeah, yeah, yeah,
right on that start like just fucking printed on paper.
He's not gonna know the elements. Yeah, tell him it's
actual gold. He doesn't even get out of bed to
eat McDonald. You know, that's how they fucking talk about him.
(38:21):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (38:22):
Because everyone hates their job. Everyone hates their job, and
if that's your boss, it doesn't matter how much how
high you are on fucking mind comp you're still gonna
be like this guy's because even if you're a Nazi, I.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Could be doing such a better, much better job at
being a Nazi than this fuck. Oh oh god, I
wish I wish everyone else, everybody who works in the administration,
you could just get together ready to tell all yeah,
or somebody just needs to befriend all of them and
getting them drunk.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
The book would be called stress Diarrhea.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
Let's take a quick break and we'll be back, and
we're back. We're back. Over the break. There was a
shooting in Washington, d C. Where a man attacked two
(39:18):
National guardsmen, killing one, and there's been a lot of
finger pointing. They're using this to basically take back more
power than they ever have, Like the immigration laws are
becoming just like they can do whatever they want. They're
now making it possible for themselves to reopen cases on
(39:41):
people who've already been granted their green cards, right like nope.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
Yeah, and he's even said I will absolutely denaturalize Americans.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Yes, I don't give a fuck.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
Yeah, yeah, Because everything's going so well, this is there's
I'm sure a lot of support for all of this,
which is interesting to just kind of watch this spiral
continue and just end up harming a bunch of innocent people.
But yeah, a lot of the finger pointing that's happening
seems to just be in one direction, with the administration claiming.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
Joe Biden, uh huh. Yeah. Keep in mind that this
man who worked with the fucking CIA in Afghanistan. Sure again,
like this request for asylum was approved in April of
this year. But don't tell that to Christy Nome who
went on all the Sunday shows and all. She could
(40:30):
not keep Joe Biden's name out of her mouth, like
and everyone was like, wait, what this was approved under
the Trump administration's Like yeah, but Joe Biden doesn't vet,
and I'm banned from the vet because my pensiant for
murdering puppies. I'm sorry, what are we telling you? Anyway,
here's Christy Nome just kicking more dirt on Joe Byron's
(40:52):
good name.
Speaker 5 (40:53):
I just want to be very clear about this because
his asylum was approved in April of this year on
the Truck administration's watch. So just to be very clear,
was there a vetting process in place to approve that
asylum request?
Speaker 1 (41:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (41:10):
The vetting process all happened under Joe Biden's administer.
Speaker 5 (41:13):
Was he vetted when he was wanted asylum?
Speaker 4 (41:15):
Are you saying he wasn't vetted?
Speaker 1 (41:17):
Vetting?
Speaker 4 (41:18):
Vetting is Vetting is happening when they come into the country,
and that was completely abandoned under Joe Biden's administration.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
So vetting is happening when they come into the country.
And that was so we did the asylum, doesn't it
was Joe Joe Biden did, I mean he actually told
us so when the when we took over, Joe Biden
was like, this guy is cool, right, he said that,
He said, I vouched for this guy. He's fucking cool,
and we believe Joe Biden was Were you not supposed
(41:47):
to believe Joe Biden the coolest, smartest president we've ever had.
I don't think so. I mean whether I think that's
just so irrelevant too, because again, you're you're trying to
completely obscure the fact that this is because they're trying
to apply this to anyone who enters the country without
really understanding. Again, this guy helped the CIA in Afghanistan
during the Illegal War, So he wasn't some fucking rando
(42:09):
that popped up. He helped the American imperial war machine.
And based off that contribution was granted asylum. That's that's
how that's working. To then be like it's all Joe
Biden blah blah blah blah. You're like, you're missing the
entire point. And also, what if we're talking very specifically
about vetting or protecting people, what about the fucking twenty
(42:31):
two year old child that Christinome appointed to head the
Department of Homeland Securities Center for Prevention programs and Partnerships,
which is like after school programs. Is that what we're
talking about?
Speaker 3 (42:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (42:45):
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Let me actually describe what this
fucking entity does. Okay, the Center for Prevention Programs and
Partnerships CP three. What we do, They established and strength
and terrorism prevention efforts across every level of government. Okay
hm hm. So like, also, if if you're talking about
vetting and who were letting in, who the fuck are
(43:07):
you appointing to do any of this work? Right? Yeah,
it's a guy who used to store twenty two year
old with what fucking experience. And also, I think to
your point, this allows for things to happen that they
can then just point to and just basically pat every
person who's entered or requested asylum and to be like
(43:27):
they're all sleeper sell agents waiting to attack the United
States when and completely obscuring what this guy did in Afghanistan.
Maybe the fucking PTSD, Maybe this dude had working with
the CIA in Afghanistan, because I don't think they were
just handing out fucking coloring books, right, It does seem
like maybe the fact that he was known to be
(43:47):
struggling with mental health disorders lately, and the fact that
he had a gun were probably the things to look
at if you were looking at this clear eye, rather
than the fact that he was from a different country.
But yeah, yeah, I do. I do think this is
probably the better example of what I was saying earlier,
like where you put incompetent people in power who are loyal,
(44:08):
but also they do a bad job, and when they
do a bad job, that creates chaos and so then
you grab more power. Yeah. Yeah, that seems to be
the exact playbook that they're using here. Yeah, because if anything,
this is about access to guns. This is about the
fucking stain of the war in Afghanistan and all these
other things, not Joe Biden and asylum seekers. Right, But
(44:32):
that's again, like to your point, that's that's what they
need these sort of events for, is to completely just
change the topic and make it about whatever they need
to strengthen their hand. Well, let's take a quick break
from talking about this administration to talk about how much
old guys love talking about each other's dicks. Dude, Paul Anka,
(44:52):
Paul fucking Ankle, motherfucking anchor baby oh man.
Speaker 2 (44:57):
Yeah, so, Paul Anka, who is a singer song writer
from back in the day. But I know that name
primarily as the dog Laura like Gilmore adopted in season
six of Gilmore Girls.
Speaker 1 (45:07):
And I had no idea. And I remember, like when
we were doing a podcast like like at the Network
with him, I'm like, Paul Anka is a guy. I
thought that was the name of the Dog and Kilmore Girls.
He has a documentary coming out about his career, and
apparently I didn't realize he had reworked my Way in
English for Sinatra. That's like his big connection to Frank Sinatra,
(45:29):
Like it was a French song that he had translated.
So it seems during the promotion of this documentary about
his career, he had some real interesting things to say
about Frank Sinatra was dick and he was at page
six saying, quote, yeah, it was huge, he tells page
six in a recent exclusive interview, before laughingly adding, I
(45:49):
don't know what that does for you, Okay? Did someone
ask or he just be like, you know, oh, you
don't know some about Frank Sinatra. Fucking hung dude. He
also said this quote.
Speaker 2 (46:00):
Anka says he would hang out with Frank and the
rest of the rat pack in Las Vegas, regularly and
they'd all get in the sona together, during which he
joked he quote had trouble with eye contact.
Speaker 1 (46:08):
Amazing, So okay, goes on to say Sinatra's ex wife,
Ava Gardner allegedly once said Sinatra may have been just
a skinny hundred and ten pounds, but ten pounds of
his weight is cock. When people get old and just
get dirty as fuck, ten pounds of his weight, ten
pounds of it is cock. Okay, cock, you know what
(46:32):
I mean, Hand me that cigar. And apparently, despite the
interview probably not asking about how huge anyone's dick was,
Paul Anko went on to say that Milton Burrell actually
had the biggest of them all, biggest of all the dicks.
Yeah yeah, So Paul Anko, we salute you. I love
that he was keeping track. I had trouble with eye contact. Okay.
(46:56):
This is the proper way to do interviews when you're old.
You know. It was like a weird derivation of like
the Quincy Jones, you know, when when he just started
being like, yeah, yeah, went on das with Evanna or Evanka, amazing,
all kinds of stuff. When he was talking about was
it Marlon Brando and stuff. He was talking about Anka.
(47:19):
You don't know Quincy Jones. That Jones was talking about
how he like fucked everybody. Yeah, yeah, he like everybody. Bro,
Marlon brand was fucking everybody, Richard Pryor, Marlon Brando, fuck
rich Or Prior. Yeah, let it, let it go. You know,
just the the fading days where you just like don't
(47:40):
give a fuck anymore. You're like, why wouldn't I tell
you this? I have seen Paul. I didn't realize how
tanned this man used to be or is. Yeah, he
looks like fucking roasted turkey skin. Really, if you need
to know how like what a turkey should look like,
just look up Paul Anka face. That's right, And you
(48:00):
want to crisp you want to crisp the skin, You
want to give it a Paul anchor. Yeah, what you
want to do is rest the bird made for forty
five minutes after it's cooked, Crank that oven up to
five hundred or as high as it goes, put it
back in for about twenty minutes. Just really fuck that
skin up on the outside. I just lock it in. Yeah.
Brian asked the important question, how is this not blackface?
(48:23):
It's borderline it is borderline blackface via Tanning. It's a loophole. Bran, Yeah, loophole.
There's a photo with him next to Chuck Barry that
he posted recently, and I am a little bit like,
I mean, yeah, you could definitely he might be able
to like, you know, my mother was a creole. Shit right,
(48:43):
all right, Let's talk about Donald Trump's our word rant
real quick, because even though he may be planning to
attack Venezuela as we as we mentioned, the United States
President just declared on Saturday the Venezuelan airspace had been closed,
without offering any further details. He can do that because
you can do that. You can you can just say
(49:05):
for business other country, your airspace is closed. Uh huh
uh huh Okay, Okay, I mean I guess you can
if you just commit wark rhymes and shoot down anything
they want. You can say anything I can say. I'm
the President of the United States. I mean, he had
a busy weekend, so he's starting a war with Venezuela.
Grant and clemency to private equity executive David Gentile, who
(49:27):
served barely a week of his seven year sentence for
committing a one point six billion dollar fraud scheme, but
he's still somehow found time to use the R word
in a Thanksgiving message to the American people, referring to
Tim Walls in a rant about ending migration from third
world countries.
Speaker 2 (49:48):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, he loves he loves throwing that
word around.
Speaker 1 (49:52):
Yeah. I like even when he was asked, like they're like, hey,
what about why are you using that word with Tim Walls?
Speaker 2 (50:00):
Because I think something's wrong with him, Something's definitely wrong
with him. He's like you, like, do you regret it?
He's like, no, something's wrong with him. So I'm gonna
just fucking be ready. And that's how you say that. Yeah,
that's the only way to say things wrong with someone.
Speaker 1 (50:12):
You hit him with the R word. Baby.
Speaker 2 (50:14):
That's where That's how I was raised. Yeah, it's this
is this is nothing new for him. I like how
Walts was like, man, this something's really wrong. He's like, quote,
this guy is apparently in a room ranting about everything.
This is not normal behavior. It's not healthy. He's like,
we need to see these MRI scans, huh.
Speaker 1 (50:31):
Right, yeah, which I don't know if that's the threat
because MRI scans aren't usually used for like brain stuff, right, Yeah,
I mean I think he says that flippantly. It would
be could you imagine, like, dude, he's got a giant
fucking void in his no brain. There's like, I don't
know what the fuck this guy's doing. He's been shoving
the Q tips in when he cleans his ears. There's
(50:53):
like fifteen Q tips in there. It looks like he's
loading a magazine with bullets, just like they're all really
neatly stacked inside his skull like a vulcan cannon. Yeah,
he used the same word when referring to Kamala Harris,
but I think that one was to donors, and he
just like has his uh speaking publicly or am I
(51:15):
speaking to the media filter off? He's having a little
trouble with that one. His response, though about the MRI
is pretty wild. Yeah, like that. He was asked on
Air Force one.
Speaker 2 (51:26):
They're like, hey, dude, like Tim Waltz called for the
recent release of your MRI results, and he's like, they
were perfect, like my phone call where I got impeached,
absolutely perfect. If you want to have it released, I'll
release it. Then the reporter was that asked him, can
you tell us what they were looking at. So this
is what's kind of happening in this interaction.
Speaker 1 (51:43):
If you want to.
Speaker 3 (51:43):
Release it, you want to have it release station is
by the way. But if you want to have it released, releasehip.
Speaker 1 (51:55):
What were they looking at with the MRI? Hold on?
I just like, again, what were they looking at for releasing?
Speaker 4 (52:04):
No?
Speaker 1 (52:05):
What part of your body were they fucking MRI? Was
the the imaging supposed to reveal and then release? Answer?
Speaker 3 (52:16):
I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (52:19):
It wasn't because I took a cognitive a perfect park. Dude,
shut up, You're so fucking weak, bro, It's so he's so.
I think this is interesting because there's a New York
Times piece that came out also last week talking about
like just being like, look how this guy is withering
away right before our eyes. And he lost it because
(52:41):
they were pointing out the motherfucker's falling asleep. The dementia
is fucking ramping up. I feel like he's I'll.
Speaker 2 (52:47):
Leave this for my Predictions episode, but I'll say that
now I believe in this next year he is going
to do something to his appearance or something to make
him look younger or more virile.
Speaker 1 (52:58):
In absolute desperation to say to get the lips. I
don't know what it is. If he got the lips
you might get, he got plumped up lips. He's got
the message so wrong. He's like, I got thin lips.
They say, I look like Kenneth Branna. I need to
have juicy soup coolers. That's what I need, and then
(53:18):
they'll believe me. You don't know, I have no idea.
Justin m RI. Wasn't the brain? Was? Was it? Your
fucking you? Pour it out there on the court right
what happened? It is funny the part where he says,
I know it wasn't the brain. He like points at
his brain brain, I think as a way of showing
(53:39):
how sharp he is, because that is the level of
the questionnaire that he aced that he's so proud of
acing where he's he keeps being like, you could never
I fucking nailed it. I aced it.
Speaker 3 (53:50):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (53:50):
They said it was the best they've ever seen. I
named a monkey, a lion, an elephant, which you could
never do. Yeah, all right, but yeah, well one of
the things was point to your brain, sir, Where on
your body? Did they mri you? Yeah, mri'd me. I
don't know where. I don't know. I don't know. It
was just an MRI and it was perfect and I'm
(54:11):
perfect and what was it for? My brain works good?
And this is where my brain is. Enough enough said,
look at look at how perfectly I planted to where
my brain go. Still not sure what that MRI was
about either, no, no, we still don't know. Yeah, so
we don't know. But also along with that just unintended
side effect of calling people the R word, you miss
(54:33):
out on the other R word, redistricting. It turns out
because coructs casual use of the R word like he's
about to perform at the fucking comedy Mothership. May have
tickled sikaphants like Stephen I Will die Alone Chung who
does all his social media posts, but he also just
made his effort to rat fuck the electoral map of
(54:54):
Indiana a lot harder. So Trump has been demanding new
maps and all kinds of red states to gain as
many he quote unquote safe seats in the House because
to prevent it basically like a legislative curb stomping in
the form of a blue wave next fall. And he's
been trapping trouble in Indiana very specifically getting the votes
for new maps where Republican lawmakers have not been as
enthusiastic as maybe their counterparts in Texas, and this recent
(55:18):
spat with Tim Wallas may have just fucking sealed that,
because now he's pissed off an Indiana state senator named
Michael Bohassek whose daughter has down syndrome, and he ain't
having it. He wrote on Friday on Facebook that he
has quote been an unapologetic advocate for people with intellectual disabilities.
He's saying Trump's choices of words have consequences. I will
(55:38):
be voting no on redistricting. Perhaps he can use the
next ten months to convince voters that his policies in
behavior deserve a congressional majority. Damn oh h wait that
was a Republican Yeah. Yeah, And it's like and like
you were pointing out, this is the first time he's
used the rword to describe anyone or made fun of
people with any kind of disability. But the fact that
(56:00):
you're now seeing people be like, all right, I'm actually
this is my off ramp now, Like, this is fucking
absurd because I don't doubt that he this This state
senator is the only person who has any kind of
family members or intellectual disabilities or anything. But in this
moment it felt very personal and to then be like
full voice, like I'm off this shit. It doesn't doesn't
(56:23):
feel traditional. Things are like shifting somewhere.
Speaker 2 (56:28):
I don't know where it's going to go, but like
they're they're not as enthusiastic.
Speaker 1 (56:34):
I'm sure there was a lot of back and forth
when like McCarthyism was the thing, and like it just
looks like it was like full blown maccarthyism, and then
all of a sudden everyone was like out on the guy.
But yeah, it does go quickly sometimes, so I don't
I don't know if this is just a temporary baut
of turbulence or if the plane might be going down.
(56:55):
I mean all this stuff right, Like you have the
GOP senators and congress people like if this is true,
that's bad.
Speaker 2 (57:03):
Again, who knows what they're gonna end up doing. They
might be like, all good here, this is totally justified.
Those fishermen had fishing poles with hooks on him and
could have hooked somebody.
Speaker 1 (57:13):
But there's just that the resignations that are happening, a
lot of the Congress people saying like there's a lot
of disaffected members of Congress who are like figuring out
what the fuck they're gonna do. It doesn't feel like
it's you know, the halcyon days of MAGA having control
of both Chambers and the Supreme everything like full grasp
on it, and they're like, oh, peak America is over,
(57:36):
you know, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, that's gonna
do it for this Monday trending episode. We're back tomorrow
with a whole ass episode of the show. Till then,
be kind to each other, be kind to yourself, get
your vaccines, well you still can, ye, get your flu shots.
Don't do nothing about what supremacy, and we will talk
to you all tomorrow. Bye bye. The Daily Zeit guys because.
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