August 19, 2025 • 32 mins
In this edition of The Big Trend Theory, Jack and Miles discuss that Justin Bieber impersonator in Vegas, Trump's new (totally not influenced by his meeting with Putin) attacks on voting, an update on Trump's declining health, Comcast getting rid of MSNBC, the (fictional) war for the soul of Washington D.C. and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the
Big Trend Theory. Oh. I don't know why we're doing
Vanadium Silver shout out to Vanadium Silver on the discord
doing a bunch of Bazeika fucking Bazinga status.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Guy, is that something a characters? I just know Bazinga
is from that show. I believe that's Sheldon. I do
believe that phrase.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Yeah, young sheld Trend.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
My God, Bazinga, get me out of here.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Lord give me take me Lord, Lord, call me home,
call me home. My name is Jack. That over there,
Well that's mister Miles gret The Lord hath not called him.
The Lord hath calling him home. There are a few people.
I think there's a few people. He's enormous wisdom and judgment.
The Lord hath not called him home?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Will be I take that back, guy calls a few
other people home before you.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
When the Lord does it, it's gonna be the greatest
day on Twitter. You know what I'm saying. And we
don't know what I'm talking about. Oh that's what Lord.
When the Lord finally does it for me and I
would finally get to do it. Bro, God's fucking all right,
let's talk about Justin Bieber impersonator.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I don't know if you saw the video, yeah, call
me or the audience everyone, everyone you watched it, Yep,
it's he doesn't.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Look anything like Justin Bieber to me at all.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
And it looks like, Okay, he looks like what our
parents would believe is Justin Bieber, you know what I mean.
Like where like if you've seen one photo and then
you process that through your like sort of age addled brain,
that you'd be like, eh, that's I think.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah, they're saying that's Bieber, that's Bieber. Yeah, but they were.
It was like a Vegas club who were familiar enough
with Justin Bieber to be singing along to a Justin
Bieber song. And I guess they were just drunk because
they just fully bought in. Dude. So there's a French
guy who just went up on stage. I guess he
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has a bunch of the same tattoos as Justin Bieber.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yes, you know this guy, he's he's not well if
you want to look like Justin Bieber to that point,
and I got the same tattoos.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
But he I don't think like it feels like it
could be a situation where he got all the same
tattoos because he was such a Justin Bieber fan, like
he doesn't look enough like Justin Bieber for him to
have like been told, yo, you look like Justin Bieber,
and then him getting all the tattoos is what I'm
getting for sure. He is trying to will himself into
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being a Justin Bieber impersonator. Anyways, but there's a thing
that's done on the articles about this where the headline
is like Justin Bieber impersonator. Wow's the crowd And the
picture that with the headline is a picture of Justin Bieber, right,
And so I was like, Yo, this guy I looks
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Apparently I've caught a bad angle on the impersonation because
this guy looks exactly like Justin Bieber. I was wrong,
But I think just you know, all newspaper all all
like online articles now are chosen algorithmically where they'll probably
write like five different headlines, give five different you know,
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images to accompany them, and then just see which one
gets the most clicks. And obviously the one where it
looks like you're breaking the story not of like a
Justin Bieber impersonator scamming some people for five minutes. But
of that, Justin Bieber has an actual doppelganger, is going
to get the more clicks to this, I mean shut
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out to this dude.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
He fucking finessed the Excess nightclub at the wind ye Vegas,
ran up a ten thousand dollars bar tab. Eventually he
paid it because they were like, what the I just
liked that. They basically were like, oh shit, Justin Bieber's
coming in. Then he got on stage and then did it,
like not just one song, he did a couple songs
and then apparently that's when the staff was.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Like, hold on, bro, this Saint Bieber the same beab Okay,
we got he spent too much time on stage. Yeah,
it was immediate. So there was a DJ who was like, yo,
look at this crazy thing that happened to me, Like
you see the video where he's like, man, that was
so crazy, Like Bieber's here, Oh he wants to like
perform on stage and he's performing and he like comes
off stage. She was like that was so crazy, and
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his friend's like it was right because that wasn't that
was fake. And he was like I know, man, that
was so great. Wait what and yeah that it becomes
clear to him and everyone. All right, Donald Trump men
with Vladimir Putin over the weekend, and as we've mentioned,
every time they get together, they like to score some
alone time to just chat talk shop without the prying
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eyes of everybody who wants to judge their love.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah, they've got like a sort of a big brother
little brother sort of thing where he's like, hey, I'm
worried about you, man, let me put some ideas.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
How do I authoritarianism? And so we don't know always exactly.
We kind of get a sense over the coming months
of like what they talked about, as Trump is like, yeah,
whatever he says, just you know, whatever, he'll let me do.
But in this case we got immediate results because Trump
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was immediately like, I'm we can no longer do mail
in voting. And I think he also like attacked voting machines,
expensive voting machines, the expensive ones. Okay, what is that
like cost you is it that they don't that there's
fraud or they cost too much? Because I'm a little
bit ferent the money.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
You know, they're expensive and they fucking suck and they're
gonna make it so I lose.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
But it's weird because he's not coming out and being
like and completely irrispective of my meeting with Vladimir. I'm
bringing this up. He was like, Vladimir Putin, famous autocrat
and election fixer, has told me that I'm right to
question the outcome of this election. You are being played
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full Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
So so fucking I mean again, that's why all those
staffers came out of there quote unquote ashen after that interaction,
because they're like, oh god.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
This guy literally put He's just like, I don't know,
I think you're right. Maybe you should. You know, it
works for me. Our elections are very secure. I win
every time, you know what I mean. Maybe, and maybe
that's something you should do. I wonder if that's like
Trump was.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Like, Vladimir, you got to help me, man, I'm going
to get fucking cooked in the midterms, And he's like, well,
just fucking just fucking ring the midterms about bro, just
he is that shit.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
It is such a bummer because it's like, on the
one hand, it doesn't cohere to any of the rules
of logic that should dictate this, Like he's talking to
somebody who is a known unreliable narrator on this thing. Yeah,
like yeah, he agrees, he said it. And but then
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also I come away from him doing that being like, oh,
but this is the end of American democracy because like,
who is going to push back against this? Like as
he attacks voting machines and mail in voting and like
anything that will give him an edge, what is the
mainstream media going to be? Like many question the veracity
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of the new Trump branded voting machines, but you know
what I mean, Like it's just like the fucking NPR
or who was it I think it was from PolitiFact, Yeah,
but it was like we're judging his claim that nobody
else has mail in voting as false like three Pinocchio's
or whatever, And it's just like Jesus, there's there's nobody
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who is going to push back. This ship is a rat.
I mean.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
The one thing is that you know, obviously he's saying
it's going to be done through executive order, so to that,
because really, I mean, in the if America was running normally,
and by that I mean in its shitty old way
that it has been for one hundred over one hundred years,
two hundred years. Now, you know this is something that
this would have to be an act of Congress to
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sort of to change the existing federal law about elections.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
So do it.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I mean it allows I mean, yeah, this is going
to be one of those things that will probably just
cause another constitutional crisis or people are like, who's going
to listen to? Who are the states? Do the states
just do it on their own? It's it's it's hard
to say, but again, these are all good things. Him
saying this stuff also keeps people from not talking about
Jeffrey Epstein. That's right, it's all happening, but it's all
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happening at once, and he does mean that shit. Because again,
I think we've said this all the time. All of
his policies are not going to bode well if there
are elections, So the next logical step be well, then
there just won't be any elections baby, or at least
ones that actually matter. But which is odd because you
know that apparently the twenty twenty four election was fine,
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that he just won in that there were no irregularities
quote unquote, and you know, but there's a definitely bipartisan
support for mail in ballots because originally Republicans wanted by
male in ballots to help like people in rural areas
and older voters and veterans and stuff like that. So
you know, they just got to do whatever they got
to do to keep this, keep the grift going.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Yeah, I feel like we're not getting them out of
office via election. That seems yeah to be more and more.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Well, you know, I think the one thing that that
Donald Trump does have going for him is that he
he seems to be going deeper into senility by the
fucking day because.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
He can't see it all. Yeah, that's fucking.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Oval office meeting he had with like the most powerful
leaders in Europe to talk about Ukraine. He just again
talked fondover. Putin mentioned the elections thing. He said the
Ukraine invasion was Biden's war, and then also said that
maybe I have a third term. I don't know, we're
looking into that. So basically a waste of time. Then
he gave the people there's this photo that he he
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gave like Macron and Zelensky, like a tour of his
like Maga hat collection.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
That he looks like a fucking museum gift shop.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
It looks also like again when like I don't know,
I remember there were like rich kids whose house, like
I would go to their bedroom and I'm like, damn, bro,
you have like a display for all your like like
baseball hats and ship on, like jersey and staff, like
keeping the ship up.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Yeah yeah, I'm like, what the fuck is this? Bro?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Like I don't even have a oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
So truly what I thought of Everyboddy. I couldn't have
been more baffled by all the kids without add just
like rooms look nice and shit.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Bro, I'm like, look, I know my ship looks like
a mess, but I know where everything is exactly. I
know where it is. This is just how I keep
it because it's chaos in my brain. And then he
had this moment too, like when they had this conference,
he fucking couldn't He couldn't even identify the President of Finland,
which is at this guy Alexander Stubb, who's someone he
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fucking golfs with.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
This is what I like.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
This is somebody he's interacted with multiple times, and at
this fucking thing, he's like, uh, where are you. I'm
gonna play this clip for you because I just want
you to know in the context of this clip, the
person he's looking for is sitting directly fucking from him. Yeah,
President Stube of Finland, he's he's somebody that where are
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we here?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Where? Oh?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
He looks better than I've ever seen you look. Damn,
that sounds brou When my grandmother's memory was going, that's
I remember that was like kind of shit.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
That have like the cute little defensive things. It's like you,
you're too good looking. That's why I recognize you. Are
you growing a mustache? I'm like, no, I'm not, grandma.
But it's okay.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
We already know anyway. So this is this she look,
this guy hits me Donald. This I think goes along
with many other like moments where you're like, is can
he even see these days?
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Right? Yeah? They're that like some people are like, you know,
this is more evidence that he's just dissolving. His brain
is dissolving. Others think that this is more evidence that
he's completely blind. I do just want to either one
to the Putin thing. We did get this on a
hot mic, him saying to the other European leaders about
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Vladimir Putin. I think he wants to make a deal
for me, you understand. As crazy as it that sounds,
as crazy as it's amazing, the guy just keeps giving
me free lunches as crazy as that sounds.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
I think he just likes me, you absolute fool.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
But yeah, a lot of people are pointing out that
Trump couldn't recognize somebody who was sitting like literally three
feet from him, and then like once it was pointed out,
he like starts squinting really hard and was like, oh,
look look at you, so so damn handsome, the real
Biden moment. He also couldn't walk in a straight line
that was arriving in Alaska.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
There's a lot of he looked like he got off
the gravitron or some shit at a carnival.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Yes, ziggin and zagging. I did go on the gravi
Trump by the way, he did, Yeah on the board.
Oh you're sick, dude. You can handle those like three times.
Because my nine year old was like real into it
this time. He was like, that's the most fun I've
ever had. And there were big kids miles. There were
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big kids going upside down on that ship. It was fun,
even though they were not supposed to. I was even intimidated.
They're like, Daddy, they're not. I was like, I know,
they're so cool, right, they're gonna say header gut, Just
keep your mouth shut. Till the fuck I don't know
these kids. I don't know these kids. Your kids should
be safe. I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Then the ride gets off. Header gut dickhead turn in
the midhouse.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Try anymore. I've tried. I've cried my way out of
so many header guts that I can't cry anymore. I've
read out of header gut evasion tears. Just pepper sprayed
them and ran. People are also talking about how big
and fat his like ankles and feet are because of
his venus insufficiency, a condition where leg veins fail to
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return blood efficiently to the heart. That is wild looking,
that does not look healthy at all. But they they
do think that he might be trying to compensate for
some blurry vision and refusing to wear glasses. Seeing Trump
and glasses would be so weird. Can't picture him, Like,
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the only way I can picture him in glasses is like,
you ever see a baby that has glasses, Like a
three year old that has glasses? Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're like,
and it looks yeah. I mean my nine year old
had glasses at age three or four, so like I
got used to that, but you know, you see it
on another baby, like babies aren't supposed to have glasses
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when you first see it. And I say that out
loud to them and their parents. But like, that's what
I picture, trumping glasses, like you know, it's like wearing
re specs or something. Oh like kareem yeah, uh, but
he's apparently. I mean. There was also that moment in
the Egen Carrol lawsuit where he was trying to make
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the case that Egen Carrol wasn't his type, and then
he was looking at a picture of him with her
and he was like, and there I am with my
ex wife Marlon Maples, oh right, right right, and they
were like, O what. His lawyer literally said, no, that's Carol.
Stop yelled hold on wait, you're not just supposed to
shout no, we're in court, buddy.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
He just like had to produce a Molotov cocktail from
his pocket, just throws it on.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
The ground, like we got to get out. There's a
fire here. What the fuck did I just tell you? Man?
But also during a twenty fourteen trial, after he had
to borrow a pair of readers from the judge. Uh
borrows the judges glasses? What a life power move? What
a life for Let me get those, my honor, let
me get When you're a billionaire, they just let you
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borrow their glasses. Fucking yeah, here you go, We want you.
He admitted that he needs glasses all the time, but
doesn't wear them because he's too vain. And it's it's
actually like a cute fact about me.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
If only I was too vain in my ankles, then
that way they would return blood back to my vein
in my ankles.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Yeah, he's so vain. He probably thinks the song is
about his don't you don't you? He? Uh So, wearing
glasses would would make it hard for him to make
fun of people with glasses. Apparently. This past February and
a speech to various assembled governors during a White House
business session, he took time to mock Chinese President she
(17:14):
Jim Ping's aids for wearing glasses. You fucking he's gonna
fucking this.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
This feels like the kind of shit that like a
like a bad guy in a movie does, and it
ends up being the end of him. It's like, he's like,
and if you only wore those glasses, he wouldn't have
walked into that you know what volcano or whatever?
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Right? Yeah, yeah, like just a giant, worrying fan that
he was like, walks face first into Milania, that you,
why do I sound like Darth Vader? All of a
sudden Blanya, I am your fa I mean I could.
I probably could be based on your age, That's what
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it might be. And then people, of course are asking
the question, why not laser eye surgery. It's because he's
deathly afraid of lasers, because I think he There's this
anecdote from nineteen ninety where so his theme music I
of the Tiger. So in nineteen ninety he was claiming
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I of the Tiger as his theme music, like six
years after Rocky three seven, eight years after Rocky three
began blaring from loudspeakers. As the bright green laser beams
projected over his large head, Trump began his walk toward
the five thousand members of his staff. However, a mishap occurred,
and suddenly the laser beams dropped by a meter and
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appeared to project through his midsection. Upon seeing this, he
dropped to his knees in fear of being severed in
two by the powerful beams of One of his aides
had to be like, it's all right, there, no it's
not like light. It's not James Bond lasers, man, there's
just lights. So people are speculating that's why he doesn't
get laser late. He also stared into that directly into
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that solar eclipse. Yeah, he's probably trying to just justify.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
He's like, if I didn't just look into that eclipse,
I'd actually be able to see a lot more.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Yeah, and just like not you know, wearing contacts or
like wearing glasses or any of those things. Also, like
those are the sorts of things that people with dementia,
you know, they just stop taking care of themselves as well,
a lot of them.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Well, luckily he has hundreds of people that are responsible
for doing that for him. So he will absolutely not
listen to you know, like I'm not taking please, sir,
you have to take your medicine. No, give me my
diet coke. Just fucking crush it up in his diet coke. Fuck.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
But I don't know. This just reminds like the thing
we were talking about last week with like the Reichstag
fire being somebody named big Balls getting beat up by children.
It's just like so silly, like this slide into outright
authoritarianism and fascism is so dumb, Like he's such a
dumb comedic character, and like part of me was, like
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I mean Hitler, like that guy was evil and like
everybody could. But when you think about it, actually, like
Hitler's mustache was pretty goofy looking like that, it was
like a Charlie Chaplin mustache. It was like a comedic
character mustache. But he wore glasses at least he knew
that's right.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
And I mean, like, I guess Trump's shitty comb over
and makeup is his like just odd ball esthetic thing
that he like.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
It made me wonder like, on the one hand, it
feels weird that the guy who's like bringing about the
Fourth Reich is like a toddling old guy with a
giant dumper, just like mister magooing his way around fucking
the country. But on the other hand, like I feel
like maybe having a comedic aspect help, Like that's actually
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part of the gig of being a world changing evil
monster is that, like you have to be a little
stupid looking so that people don't take you seeeriously enough first.
At first, you know, like Hitler was an idiot, looked
like shit had had a dumb mustache. Mussolini was like
a bonafide weirdo.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Like so something the on blind Boy, the guy from
the Blind Boy podcast was on another podcast I mentioned
this a couple of weeks ago where he sort of
talked about it sort of like the satirical part of
Trump sort of allows for all this other shit to
happen to you.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Yeah, because yeah, that's true. It's like a natural you know,
all these people, Like I think there would be someone
else if it weren't him who's like filling this role.
But there's something like that's part of the It's like
one of the traits of the natural selection that allows
somebody to be this like world dominating evil figures. Like
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well if they look stupid enough, like people aren't gonna
take it that seriously, I guess loose theory. Anyways, let's
take a quick break. We'll be right back, and we're back.
We're back. So Comcast, who owns NBC, is getting out
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of the MSNBC business. Yeah, they're spinning spicy for them. Yeah,
I mean.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Probably as a way to like probably please Trump to
be like, well there's NBC News.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
We don't even like her Donald.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
And then there's MSNBC, it's like this fucking weird, that
weird cousin that went to the liberal arts all women's
college that's gone.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Now that's its own thing. So there's spending way ESPN
just on the same subject. ESPN fucking just dropped the
Spike Lee's Colin Kaepernick documentary. Yeah, exactly right. Yeah, everybody's
just doing their part to capitulate.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Bend over, backwards, forward, sideways, whatever you have to do
to please the f're But yeah, like MSNBC, like CNBC
a few other channels into like its own thing.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
So the place where you're Robert.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Muller obsessed aunt will get all her milk toast political
takes milk toast, I said it.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
I will soon be called ms now.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Uh, the ms being my source for news is how
they're calling it. And so they also apparently, like when
they were talking about spinning it off, they're like, well,
can we retain the peacock logo because that's just something
that's like part of the MSNBC brand sort of and
that people recognize, and they're like, nah, bro, the peacock
is sacred and it will only be limited to actual
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channels in the NBC family.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Out away from us, essentially don't talk to me or
my son ever again.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
And there was I was reading an earlier report about
this spin off, like in March, and at the time
they were saying this, the name for the new venture
that ms now would be part of was going to
be called fucking spin Co.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Spin Co.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Yeah, like cool, some shit from like a fucking comic
book about the media empire that keeps people completely in
the dark about what's actually happening in their country. But
now I guess something happened and it's now going to
be called Versant v E R s A n T
s A n T. So I guess like a Palace
of Versailles for ants or some shit.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Yeah, or like iron Man Versant. You know what you want,
whatever you want? Ms now, Okay, miss now? Also is
there a mister now? These are all just ideas.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
That I'm there wouldn't be otherwise I'd be missus now.
So what's good? Actually he's on vacation. I thought that
one was air tight. Yeah, so for now they're miss now.
Misters he's so creepy ass doc.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
He's a principal, right school principal. Yeah, it was either
or the principal.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Your mother sure does care about your education, I think,
is what he says after he fucked his mom.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Loud, good lord across echoed across the whole plantation. What
a what a fun movie a time. We should talk
about that tomorrow when Chris Crofton's on the show. I'm
sure he'll know about it. Yeah, he's a big, big
fan of nineties movies. You've seen them all. The House
Oversight Committee is going to get the first look at
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the Epstein files allegedly.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Quote quote unquote, yeah, so Congress is they'll finally get
a peek at the Justice Department's files as part of
their Epstein investigation. So apparently they will land on their
desks Friday and the Oversight Committee will see them first.
This is something the administration has been fighting in every
way possible, but the will of certain members in Congress
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is steymying that plan, and the Oversight Committee also subpoened
people like Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, James, Yeah, Bill Barr
the bottom of this, And I'm not sure what's gonna
come of this document dump, because I that's a near
mathematical certainty that any documents that are shared will be
heavily sanitized in order to give no, not even just
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a whiff of an association between Trump and Epstein's crimes.
So honestly, I don't even I honestly don't even know
what the fuck if that will even satisfy the people there.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Like in the Oversight Committee.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
As we mentioned last week, Thomas Massey and Rocanna, so
a Republican and a Democrat, they are they are looking
to put a bill together to declassify all of the
files and put then basically make Congress vote on it
this fall. We'll see where that goes. But I just
think these papers that they're going to get Friday is
probably just going to be.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Like just just have like the words printed on it.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
I just say, Epstein files and deaf a pedo, Donald Deaf,
not any kind of sex crim pedo. Nothing to see here.
Goodbye Epstein files, god bye, Yeah, goodbye. All Right, we
have an update on Washington, DC. We did talk on
yesterday's episode about how safe now safe. Donald Trump unleashed
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the FBI, the maila secret service, the mail carrier, the
Aos police, anybody who could possibly.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Like be in any manner. So the irs was in
the streets trying to stop carjackings because a guy named
Big Balls got beat up by children and it worked.
He came out the next morning and went safe, Like
Enrico Palazzo at the end of Naked Gun. He everything's good.
(27:35):
He was like, guys, DC is back, everybody's going to
the restaurants. Everything is cool, and it's only getting cooler.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Yeah, everyone feels safe again, so much so that the restaurant.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Industry is loving it. I just asked them like literally
two days. He was like, and we did it. It
was just yah. It was just a little bit like
his timing was. It just proves, like all all of
these things just prove like he doesn't give a fuck.
He's not even trying to be believable in any way.
So he unleashes federal law enforcement claims like the next
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day that everything's safe and everybody is like going to
the restaurants. People looked at the stats and hey, hey,
what do we say about stats man? Come on, yeah, yeah,
we got some big pinocchios to hand out again, because
restaurants saw a decline of between like twenty two and
thirty one percent year over year on this day, which
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they had to go year every year because this is
Washington's Restaurant Week, which allows people to Jesus okay really
expensive exclusive restaurants that are discounted rate. So they were like,
all right, so let's see how this compares to Restaurant
Week last last year it was way the fuck down
because apparently, you know, it's not great when there's schoon's
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just arresting people and like pointing angy, Well tell that.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Tell that to our relatives in the Middle Country, where
they say, oh, good good, it looks safe from here.
It looks safe from me for them. I mean, you
just see the videos, like there's a guy on TikTok
who just like was recording his jog through DC, like
leaving his house, and it's just like it's just filled
with fucking armed maniacs and.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
It yeah, they're there.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
You couldn't find a way to make a place feel
less inviting than it just have a bunch of people.
I think there's something really fucked up about bored heavily
armed people.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Yeah, that's what they are. They're so bored. I remember
when I was a kid seeing my first machine gun,
Like I forget where I was. I know it was
invented right right.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
You motherfucker they called it the Gatling Gun. Richard Jordan
Gatling from North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
We went down to go see it, all right, I'm sorry,
like it was so uncommon and now it's just like
taken for granted that the streets are gonna be full
of people with fucking ar fifteen's like just everywhere. Like
that's so bad, Miles, I think it's bad. Oh Jesus check,
I'm there. I fucking said it. They're going to get
the show called they get fucking stinks. Whoa, whoa, whoa, Okay,
(30:22):
I don't bu First of all, Remington Arms Company, we
love you, We love everything you do. The Bushmaster is
one of our favorites.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Please please keep funding us, Please keep frand again, this
is all part of it. Incrementally, you want to normalize
militarized police presence in the streets. And I think the
reason why it feels even more pronounced is because DC
is relatively small, so you can put a lot of
bodies there and make it feel like shit is fully
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taken over, Unlike in La. La is so fucking big
you couldn't even if you had like all the military
there would you'd still find these pockets are like bro
I don't see shit. This place is too fucking big,
and I think that's what he wants. And on top
of it, they are sending like camera crews to document
what they're doing, so they can also have like this
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slow drip of clips of like ice violently apprehending people
to sort of keep up the propaganda sort of you know,
optics of it all, to be.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Like they're doing like Instagram cops. Like basically, they just
had a video where they arrested the guy who threw
that sandwich at them. Yeah, they were like, we got him,
ladies and gentlemen, we got him, We got him. Yeah, sure,
I mean the Yeah, it's that's cool. They're so scared.
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They're for like being so tough and being so concerned
about how how tough they're they're so scared of people
throwing sandwiches at them, and I mean.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
That's part of fascism. It's malignant weakness.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Yeah. So yeah, here we are. Here we are. Baby
smells great, sounds like weed. It smells like weed. At
least it smells like weed. All right, Those are some
of the things that are trending on this Tuesday, August nineteenth.
We were back tomorrow with a whole last episode of
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the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be
kind to yourselves, get your vaccines while you still can,
get your flu shots while you still can. Don't do
nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk to you
all tomorrow. Bye bye. The Daily zeit Geist as executive
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Speaker 2 (32:35):
Co written by JM McNab, and edited and engineered by
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Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the
Big Trend Theory. Oh. I don't know why we're doing
Vanadium Silver shout out to Vanadium Silver on the discord
doing a bunch of Bazeika fucking Bazinga status.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Guy, is that something a characters? I just know Bazinga
is from that show. I believe that's Sheldon. I do
believe that phrase.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Yeah, young sheld Trend.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
My God, Bazinga, get me out of here.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Lord give me take me Lord, Lord, call me home,
call me home. My name is Jack. That over there,
Well that's mister Miles gret The Lord hath not called him.
The Lord hath calling him home. There are a few people.
I think there's a few people. He's enormous wisdom and judgment.
The Lord hath not called him home?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Will be I take that back, guy calls a few
other people home before you.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
When the Lord does it, it's gonna be the greatest
day on Twitter. You know what I'm saying. And we
don't know what I'm talking about. Oh that's what Lord.
When the Lord finally does it for me and I
would finally get to do it. Bro, God's fucking all right,
let's talk about Justin Bieber impersonator.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I don't know if you saw the video, yeah, call
me or the audience everyone, everyone you watched it, Yep,
it's he doesn't.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Look anything like Justin Bieber to me at all.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
And it looks like, Okay, he looks like what our
parents would believe is Justin Bieber, you know what I mean.
Like where like if you've seen one photo and then
you process that through your like sort of age addled brain,
that you'd be like, eh, that's I think.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah, they're saying that's Bieber, that's Bieber. Yeah, but they were.
It was like a Vegas club who were familiar enough
with Justin Bieber to be singing along to a Justin
Bieber song. And I guess they were just drunk because
they just fully bought in. Dude. So there's a French
guy who just went up on stage. I guess he
(02:13):
has a bunch of the same tattoos as Justin Bieber.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yes, you know this guy, he's he's not well if
you want to look like Justin Bieber to that point,
and I got the same tattoos.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
But he I don't think like it feels like it
could be a situation where he got all the same
tattoos because he was such a Justin Bieber fan, like
he doesn't look enough like Justin Bieber for him to
have like been told, yo, you look like Justin Bieber,
and then him getting all the tattoos is what I'm
getting for sure. He is trying to will himself into
(02:45):
being a Justin Bieber impersonator. Anyways, but there's a thing
that's done on the articles about this where the headline
is like Justin Bieber impersonator. Wow's the crowd And the
picture that with the headline is a picture of Justin Bieber, right,
And so I was like, Yo, this guy I looks
(03:08):
Apparently I've caught a bad angle on the impersonation because
this guy looks exactly like Justin Bieber. I was wrong,
But I think just you know, all newspaper all all
like online articles now are chosen algorithmically where they'll probably
write like five different headlines, give five different you know,
(03:31):
images to accompany them, and then just see which one
gets the most clicks. And obviously the one where it
looks like you're breaking the story not of like a
Justin Bieber impersonator scamming some people for five minutes. But
of that, Justin Bieber has an actual doppelganger, is going
to get the more clicks to this, I mean shut
(03:54):
out to this dude.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
He fucking finessed the Excess nightclub at the wind ye Vegas,
ran up a ten thousand dollars bar tab. Eventually he
paid it because they were like, what the I just
liked that. They basically were like, oh shit, Justin Bieber's
coming in. Then he got on stage and then did it,
like not just one song, he did a couple songs
and then apparently that's when the staff was.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Like, hold on, bro, this Saint Bieber the same beab Okay,
we got he spent too much time on stage. Yeah,
it was immediate. So there was a DJ who was like, yo,
look at this crazy thing that happened to me, Like
you see the video where he's like, man, that was
so crazy, Like Bieber's here, Oh he wants to like
perform on stage and he's performing and he like comes
off stage. She was like that was so crazy, and
(04:37):
his friend's like it was right because that wasn't that
was fake. And he was like I know, man, that
was so great. Wait what and yeah that it becomes
clear to him and everyone. All right, Donald Trump men
with Vladimir Putin over the weekend, and as we've mentioned,
every time they get together, they like to score some
alone time to just chat talk shop without the prying
(05:00):
eyes of everybody who wants to judge their love.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah, they've got like a sort of a big brother
little brother sort of thing where he's like, hey, I'm
worried about you, man, let me put some ideas.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
How do I authoritarianism? And so we don't know always exactly.
We kind of get a sense over the coming months
of like what they talked about, as Trump is like, yeah,
whatever he says, just you know, whatever, he'll let me do.
But in this case we got immediate results because Trump
(05:31):
was immediately like, I'm we can no longer do mail
in voting. And I think he also like attacked voting machines,
expensive voting machines, the expensive ones. Okay, what is that
like cost you is it that they don't that there's
fraud or they cost too much? Because I'm a little
bit ferent the money.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
You know, they're expensive and they fucking suck and they're
gonna make it so I lose.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
But it's weird because he's not coming out and being
like and completely irrispective of my meeting with Vladimir. I'm
bringing this up. He was like, Vladimir Putin, famous autocrat
and election fixer, has told me that I'm right to
question the outcome of this election. You are being played
(06:16):
full Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
So so fucking I mean again, that's why all those
staffers came out of there quote unquote ashen after that interaction,
because they're like, oh god.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
This guy literally put He's just like, I don't know,
I think you're right. Maybe you should. You know, it
works for me. Our elections are very secure. I win
every time, you know what I mean. Maybe, and maybe
that's something you should do. I wonder if that's like
Trump was.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Like, Vladimir, you got to help me, man, I'm going
to get fucking cooked in the midterms, And he's like, well,
just fucking just fucking ring the midterms about bro, just
he is that shit.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
It is such a bummer because it's like, on the
one hand, it doesn't cohere to any of the rules
of logic that should dictate this, Like he's talking to
somebody who is a known unreliable narrator on this thing. Yeah,
like yeah, he agrees, he said it. And but then
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also I come away from him doing that being like, oh,
but this is the end of American democracy because like,
who is going to push back against this? Like as
he attacks voting machines and mail in voting and like
anything that will give him an edge, what is the
mainstream media going to be? Like many question the veracity
(07:35):
of the new Trump branded voting machines, but you know
what I mean, Like it's just like the fucking NPR
or who was it I think it was from PolitiFact, Yeah,
but it was like we're judging his claim that nobody
else has mail in voting as false like three Pinocchio's
or whatever, And it's just like Jesus, there's there's nobody
(07:59):
who is going to push back. This ship is a rat.
I mean.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
The one thing is that you know, obviously he's saying
it's going to be done through executive order, so to that,
because really, I mean, in the if America was running normally,
and by that I mean in its shitty old way
that it has been for one hundred over one hundred years,
two hundred years. Now, you know this is something that
this would have to be an act of Congress to
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sort of to change the existing federal law about elections.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
So do it.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I mean it allows I mean, yeah, this is going
to be one of those things that will probably just
cause another constitutional crisis or people are like, who's going
to listen to? Who are the states? Do the states
just do it on their own? It's it's it's hard
to say, but again, these are all good things. Him
saying this stuff also keeps people from not talking about
Jeffrey Epstein. That's right, it's all happening, but it's all
(08:49):
happening at once, and he does mean that shit. Because again,
I think we've said this all the time. All of
his policies are not going to bode well if there
are elections, So the next logical step be well, then
there just won't be any elections baby, or at least
ones that actually matter. But which is odd because you
know that apparently the twenty twenty four election was fine,
(09:09):
that he just won in that there were no irregularities
quote unquote, and you know, but there's a definitely bipartisan
support for mail in ballots because originally Republicans wanted by
male in ballots to help like people in rural areas
and older voters and veterans and stuff like that. So
you know, they just got to do whatever they got
to do to keep this, keep the grift going.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Yeah, I feel like we're not getting them out of
office via election. That seems yeah to be more and more.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Well, you know, I think the one thing that that
Donald Trump does have going for him is that he
he seems to be going deeper into senility by the
fucking day because.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
He can't see it all. Yeah, that's fucking.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Oval office meeting he had with like the most powerful
leaders in Europe to talk about Ukraine. He just again
talked fondover. Putin mentioned the elections thing. He said the
Ukraine invasion was Biden's war, and then also said that
maybe I have a third term. I don't know, we're
looking into that. So basically a waste of time. Then
he gave the people there's this photo that he he
(10:16):
gave like Macron and Zelensky, like a tour of his
like Maga hat collection.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
That he looks like a fucking museum gift shop.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
It looks also like again when like I don't know,
I remember there were like rich kids whose house, like
I would go to their bedroom and I'm like, damn, bro,
you have like a display for all your like like
baseball hats and ship on, like jersey and staff, like
keeping the ship up.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Yeah yeah, I'm like, what the fuck is this? Bro?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Like I don't even have a oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
So truly what I thought of Everyboddy. I couldn't have
been more baffled by all the kids without add just
like rooms look nice and shit.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Bro, I'm like, look, I know my ship looks like
a mess, but I know where everything is exactly. I
know where it is. This is just how I keep
it because it's chaos in my brain. And then he
had this moment too, like when they had this conference,
he fucking couldn't He couldn't even identify the President of Finland,
which is at this guy Alexander Stubb, who's someone he
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fucking golfs with.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
This is what I like.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
This is somebody he's interacted with multiple times, and at
this fucking thing, he's like, uh, where are you. I'm
gonna play this clip for you because I just want
you to know in the context of this clip, the
person he's looking for is sitting directly fucking from him. Yeah,
President Stube of Finland, he's he's somebody that where are
(11:45):
we here?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Where? Oh?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
He looks better than I've ever seen you look. Damn,
that sounds brou When my grandmother's memory was going, that's
I remember that was like kind of shit.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
That have like the cute little defensive things. It's like you,
you're too good looking. That's why I recognize you. Are
you growing a mustache? I'm like, no, I'm not, grandma.
But it's okay.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
We already know anyway. So this is this she look,
this guy hits me Donald. This I think goes along
with many other like moments where you're like, is can
he even see these days?
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Right? Yeah? They're that like some people are like, you know,
this is more evidence that he's just dissolving. His brain
is dissolving. Others think that this is more evidence that
he's completely blind. I do just want to either one
to the Putin thing. We did get this on a
hot mic, him saying to the other European leaders about
(12:46):
Vladimir Putin. I think he wants to make a deal
for me, you understand. As crazy as it that sounds,
as crazy as it's amazing, the guy just keeps giving
me free lunches as crazy as that sounds.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
I think he just likes me, you absolute fool.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
But yeah, a lot of people are pointing out that
Trump couldn't recognize somebody who was sitting like literally three
feet from him, and then like once it was pointed out,
he like starts squinting really hard and was like, oh,
look look at you, so so damn handsome, the real
Biden moment. He also couldn't walk in a straight line
that was arriving in Alaska.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
There's a lot of he looked like he got off
the gravitron or some shit at a carnival.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Yes, ziggin and zagging. I did go on the gravi
Trump by the way, he did, Yeah on the board.
Oh you're sick, dude. You can handle those like three times.
Because my nine year old was like real into it
this time. He was like, that's the most fun I've
ever had. And there were big kids miles. There were
(13:49):
big kids going upside down on that ship. It was fun,
even though they were not supposed to. I was even intimidated.
They're like, Daddy, they're not. I was like, I know,
they're so cool, right, they're gonna say header gut, Just
keep your mouth shut. Till the fuck I don't know
these kids. I don't know these kids. Your kids should
be safe. I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Then the ride gets off. Header gut dickhead turn in
the midhouse.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Try anymore. I've tried. I've cried my way out of
so many header guts that I can't cry anymore. I've
read out of header gut evasion tears. Just pepper sprayed
them and ran. People are also talking about how big
and fat his like ankles and feet are because of
his venus insufficiency, a condition where leg veins fail to
(14:40):
return blood efficiently to the heart. That is wild looking,
that does not look healthy at all. But they they
do think that he might be trying to compensate for
some blurry vision and refusing to wear glasses. Seeing Trump
and glasses would be so weird. Can't picture him, Like,
(15:01):
the only way I can picture him in glasses is like,
you ever see a baby that has glasses, Like a
three year old that has glasses? Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're like,
and it looks yeah. I mean my nine year old
had glasses at age three or four, so like I
got used to that, but you know, you see it
on another baby, like babies aren't supposed to have glasses
(15:22):
when you first see it. And I say that out
loud to them and their parents. But like, that's what
I picture, trumping glasses, like you know, it's like wearing
re specs or something. Oh like kareem yeah, uh, but
he's apparently. I mean. There was also that moment in
the Egen Carrol lawsuit where he was trying to make
(15:45):
the case that Egen Carrol wasn't his type, and then
he was looking at a picture of him with her
and he was like, and there I am with my
ex wife Marlon Maples, oh right, right right, and they
were like, O what. His lawyer literally said, no, that's Carol.
Stop yelled hold on wait, you're not just supposed to
shout no, we're in court, buddy.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
He just like had to produce a Molotov cocktail from
his pocket, just throws it on.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
The ground, like we got to get out. There's a
fire here. What the fuck did I just tell you? Man?
But also during a twenty fourteen trial, after he had
to borrow a pair of readers from the judge. Uh
borrows the judges glasses? What a life power move? What
a life for Let me get those, my honor, let
me get When you're a billionaire, they just let you
(16:32):
borrow their glasses. Fucking yeah, here you go, We want you.
He admitted that he needs glasses all the time, but
doesn't wear them because he's too vain. And it's it's
actually like a cute fact about me.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
If only I was too vain in my ankles, then
that way they would return blood back to my vein
in my ankles.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Yeah, he's so vain. He probably thinks the song is
about his don't you don't you? He? Uh So, wearing
glasses would would make it hard for him to make
fun of people with glasses. Apparently. This past February and
a speech to various assembled governors during a White House
business session, he took time to mock Chinese President she
(17:14):
Jim Ping's aids for wearing glasses. You fucking he's gonna
fucking this.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
This feels like the kind of shit that like a
like a bad guy in a movie does, and it
ends up being the end of him. It's like, he's like,
and if you only wore those glasses, he wouldn't have
walked into that you know what volcano or whatever?
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Right? Yeah, yeah, like just a giant, worrying fan that
he was like, walks face first into Milania, that you,
why do I sound like Darth Vader? All of a
sudden Blanya, I am your fa I mean I could.
I probably could be based on your age, That's what
(17:54):
it might be. And then people, of course are asking
the question, why not laser eye surgery. It's because he's
deathly afraid of lasers, because I think he There's this
anecdote from nineteen ninety where so his theme music I
of the Tiger. So in nineteen ninety he was claiming
(18:17):
I of the Tiger as his theme music, like six
years after Rocky three seven, eight years after Rocky three
began blaring from loudspeakers. As the bright green laser beams
projected over his large head, Trump began his walk toward
the five thousand members of his staff. However, a mishap occurred,
and suddenly the laser beams dropped by a meter and
(18:38):
appeared to project through his midsection. Upon seeing this, he
dropped to his knees in fear of being severed in
two by the powerful beams of One of his aides
had to be like, it's all right, there, no it's
not like light. It's not James Bond lasers, man, there's
just lights. So people are speculating that's why he doesn't
get laser late. He also stared into that directly into
(19:00):
that solar eclipse. Yeah, he's probably trying to just justify.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
He's like, if I didn't just look into that eclipse,
I'd actually be able to see a lot more.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Yeah, and just like not you know, wearing contacts or
like wearing glasses or any of those things. Also, like
those are the sorts of things that people with dementia,
you know, they just stop taking care of themselves as well,
a lot of them.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Well, luckily he has hundreds of people that are responsible
for doing that for him. So he will absolutely not
listen to you know, like I'm not taking please, sir,
you have to take your medicine. No, give me my
diet coke. Just fucking crush it up in his diet coke. Fuck.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
But I don't know. This just reminds like the thing
we were talking about last week with like the Reichstag
fire being somebody named big Balls getting beat up by children.
It's just like so silly, like this slide into outright
authoritarianism and fascism is so dumb, Like he's such a
dumb comedic character, and like part of me was, like
(20:01):
I mean Hitler, like that guy was evil and like
everybody could. But when you think about it, actually, like
Hitler's mustache was pretty goofy looking like that, it was
like a Charlie Chaplin mustache. It was like a comedic
character mustache. But he wore glasses at least he knew
that's right.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
And I mean, like, I guess Trump's shitty comb over
and makeup is his like just odd ball esthetic thing
that he like.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
It made me wonder like, on the one hand, it
feels weird that the guy who's like bringing about the
Fourth Reich is like a toddling old guy with a
giant dumper, just like mister magooing his way around fucking
the country. But on the other hand, like I feel
like maybe having a comedic aspect help, Like that's actually
(20:51):
part of the gig of being a world changing evil
monster is that, like you have to be a little
stupid looking so that people don't take you seeeriously enough first.
At first, you know, like Hitler was an idiot, looked
like shit had had a dumb mustache. Mussolini was like
a bonafide weirdo.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Like so something the on blind Boy, the guy from
the Blind Boy podcast was on another podcast I mentioned
this a couple of weeks ago where he sort of
talked about it sort of like the satirical part of
Trump sort of allows for all this other shit to
happen to you.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Yeah, because yeah, that's true. It's like a natural you know,
all these people, Like I think there would be someone
else if it weren't him who's like filling this role.
But there's something like that's part of the It's like
one of the traits of the natural selection that allows
somebody to be this like world dominating evil figures. Like
(21:49):
well if they look stupid enough, like people aren't gonna
take it that seriously, I guess loose theory. Anyways, let's
take a quick break. We'll be right back, and we're back.
We're back. So Comcast, who owns NBC, is getting out
(22:14):
of the MSNBC business. Yeah, they're spinning spicy for them. Yeah,
I mean.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Probably as a way to like probably please Trump to
be like, well there's NBC News.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
We don't even like her Donald.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
And then there's MSNBC, it's like this fucking weird, that
weird cousin that went to the liberal arts all women's
college that's gone.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Now that's its own thing. So there's spending way ESPN
just on the same subject. ESPN fucking just dropped the
Spike Lee's Colin Kaepernick documentary. Yeah, exactly right. Yeah, everybody's
just doing their part to capitulate.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Bend over, backwards, forward, sideways, whatever you have to do
to please the f're But yeah, like MSNBC, like CNBC
a few other channels into like its own thing.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
So the place where you're Robert.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Muller obsessed aunt will get all her milk toast political
takes milk toast, I said it.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
I will soon be called ms now.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Uh, the ms being my source for news is how
they're calling it. And so they also apparently, like when
they were talking about spinning it off, they're like, well,
can we retain the peacock logo because that's just something
that's like part of the MSNBC brand sort of and
that people recognize, and they're like, nah, bro, the peacock
is sacred and it will only be limited to actual
(23:31):
channels in the NBC family.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Out away from us, essentially don't talk to me or
my son ever again.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
And there was I was reading an earlier report about
this spin off, like in March, and at the time
they were saying this, the name for the new venture
that ms now would be part of was going to
be called fucking spin Co.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Spin Co.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Yeah, like cool, some shit from like a fucking comic
book about the media empire that keeps people completely in
the dark about what's actually happening in their country. But
now I guess something happened and it's now going to
be called Versant v E R s A n T
s A n T. So I guess like a Palace
of Versailles for ants or some shit.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Yeah, or like iron Man Versant. You know what you want,
whatever you want? Ms now, Okay, miss now? Also is
there a mister now? These are all just ideas.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
That I'm there wouldn't be otherwise I'd be missus now.
So what's good? Actually he's on vacation. I thought that
one was air tight. Yeah, so for now they're miss now.
Misters he's so creepy ass doc.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
He's a principal, right school principal. Yeah, it was either
or the principal.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Your mother sure does care about your education, I think,
is what he says after he fucked his mom.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Loud, good lord across echoed across the whole plantation. What
a what a fun movie a time. We should talk
about that tomorrow when Chris Crofton's on the show. I'm
sure he'll know about it. Yeah, he's a big, big
fan of nineties movies. You've seen them all. The House
Oversight Committee is going to get the first look at
(25:21):
the Epstein files allegedly.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Quote quote unquote, yeah, so Congress is they'll finally get
a peek at the Justice Department's files as part of
their Epstein investigation. So apparently they will land on their
desks Friday and the Oversight Committee will see them first.
This is something the administration has been fighting in every
way possible, but the will of certain members in Congress
(25:45):
is steymying that plan, and the Oversight Committee also subpoened
people like Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, James, Yeah, Bill Barr
the bottom of this, And I'm not sure what's gonna
come of this document dump, because I that's a near
mathematical certainty that any documents that are shared will be
heavily sanitized in order to give no, not even just
(26:09):
a whiff of an association between Trump and Epstein's crimes.
So honestly, I don't even I honestly don't even know
what the fuck if that will even satisfy the people there.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Like in the Oversight Committee.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
As we mentioned last week, Thomas Massey and Rocanna, so
a Republican and a Democrat, they are they are looking
to put a bill together to declassify all of the
files and put then basically make Congress vote on it
this fall. We'll see where that goes. But I just
think these papers that they're going to get Friday is
probably just going to be.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Like just just have like the words printed on it.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
I just say, Epstein files and deaf a pedo, Donald Deaf,
not any kind of sex crim pedo. Nothing to see here.
Goodbye Epstein files, god bye, Yeah, goodbye. All Right, we
have an update on Washington, DC. We did talk on
yesterday's episode about how safe now safe. Donald Trump unleashed
(27:04):
the FBI, the maila secret service, the mail carrier, the
Aos police, anybody who could possibly.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Like be in any manner. So the irs was in
the streets trying to stop carjackings because a guy named
Big Balls got beat up by children and it worked.
He came out the next morning and went safe, Like
Enrico Palazzo at the end of Naked Gun. He everything's good.
(27:35):
He was like, guys, DC is back, everybody's going to
the restaurants. Everything is cool, and it's only getting cooler.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Yeah, everyone feels safe again, so much so that the restaurant.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Industry is loving it. I just asked them like literally
two days. He was like, and we did it. It
was just yah. It was just a little bit like
his timing was. It just proves, like all all of
these things just prove like he doesn't give a fuck.
He's not even trying to be believable in any way.
So he unleashes federal law enforcement claims like the next
(28:11):
day that everything's safe and everybody is like going to
the restaurants. People looked at the stats and hey, hey,
what do we say about stats man? Come on, yeah, yeah,
we got some big pinocchios to hand out again, because
restaurants saw a decline of between like twenty two and
thirty one percent year over year on this day, which
(28:35):
they had to go year every year because this is
Washington's Restaurant Week, which allows people to Jesus okay really
expensive exclusive restaurants that are discounted rate. So they were like,
all right, so let's see how this compares to Restaurant
Week last last year it was way the fuck down
because apparently, you know, it's not great when there's schoon's
(29:00):
just arresting people and like pointing angy, Well tell that.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Tell that to our relatives in the Middle Country, where
they say, oh, good good, it looks safe from here.
It looks safe from me for them. I mean, you
just see the videos, like there's a guy on TikTok
who just like was recording his jog through DC, like
leaving his house, and it's just like it's just filled
with fucking armed maniacs and.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
It yeah, they're there.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
You couldn't find a way to make a place feel
less inviting than it just have a bunch of people.
I think there's something really fucked up about bored heavily
armed people.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Yeah, that's what they are. They're so bored. I remember
when I was a kid seeing my first machine gun,
Like I forget where I was. I know it was
invented right right.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
You motherfucker they called it the Gatling Gun. Richard Jordan
Gatling from North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
We went down to go see it, all right, I'm sorry,
like it was so uncommon and now it's just like
taken for granted that the streets are gonna be full
of people with fucking ar fifteen's like just everywhere. Like
that's so bad, Miles, I think it's bad. Oh Jesus check,
I'm there. I fucking said it. They're going to get
the show called they get fucking stinks. Whoa, whoa, whoa, Okay,
(30:22):
I don't bu First of all, Remington Arms Company, we
love you, We love everything you do. The Bushmaster is
one of our favorites.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Please please keep funding us, Please keep frand again, this
is all part of it. Incrementally, you want to normalize
militarized police presence in the streets. And I think the
reason why it feels even more pronounced is because DC
is relatively small, so you can put a lot of
bodies there and make it feel like shit is fully
(30:50):
taken over, Unlike in La. La is so fucking big
you couldn't even if you had like all the military
there would you'd still find these pockets are like bro
I don't see shit. This place is too fucking big,
and I think that's what he wants. And on top
of it, they are sending like camera crews to document
what they're doing, so they can also have like this
(31:11):
slow drip of clips of like ice violently apprehending people
to sort of keep up the propaganda sort of you know,
optics of it all, to be.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Like they're doing like Instagram cops. Like basically, they just
had a video where they arrested the guy who threw
that sandwich at them. Yeah, they were like, we got him,
ladies and gentlemen, we got him, We got him. Yeah, sure,
I mean the Yeah, it's that's cool. They're so scared.
(31:41):
They're for like being so tough and being so concerned
about how how tough they're they're so scared of people
throwing sandwiches at them, and I mean.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
That's part of fascism. It's malignant weakness.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Yeah. So yeah, here we are. Here we are. Baby
smells great, sounds like weed. It smells like weed. At
least it smells like weed. All right, Those are some
of the things that are trending on this Tuesday, August nineteenth.
We were back tomorrow with a whole last episode of
(32:13):
the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be
kind to yourselves, get your vaccines while you still can,
get your flu shots while you still can. Don't do
nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk to you
all tomorrow. Bye bye. The Daily zeit Geist as executive
produced by Catherine Law, co produced by Bee Wayne, co
produced by Victor Wright
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Co written by JM McNab, and edited and engineered by
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