Weekly Zeitgeist 408 (Best of 11/17/25-11/21/25)

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The
Weekly Zeitgeist.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
These are some of our favorite segments from this week,
all edited together into one NonStop infotainment laugh stravaganza. Uh yeah, So,
without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist. What is
something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Okay,

(00:30):
this morning it was like big news and my circle
of friends that the Legends of Zeld movie that we're
finally getting to our first looks. Oh really, I'm a
big Zelder NERD. I played all those games to death.
It's the only game I could really play. I'm a
big dungeon freak. And yeah, me and my circle of
friends we love that ship. And so yeah, there's like

(00:51):
the first freak. It sounds so much nastier than yeah,
my whole vocabulary.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
When I say D and D. People are really going
to be looking for my name in the files.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Okay, so first looks, I'm looking at something that looks
like the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yeah it's pretty much it. Yeah yeah, right, well feel
pretty exciting.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
So ship that is like that they Hollywood's promise to
New Zealand that we will boost your tourism industry once
once every decade. It feels like what we're seeing here,
that's cool. It's live action, you know, that's that'll be interesting.
They said, oh wow, they're describing it west. The director
said they're aiming for something quote akin to a live

(01:39):
action Miyazaki, which I'm okay.

Speaker 4 (01:43):
Who There's a lot of opportunities, ye know, but you know,
we the vibrations we're going to copy. I used to
hate like video game adaptations, and then I saw that
movie Uncharted with Tom Holland, and I was just, this
feels like a meal, Like this feels like a I
really enjoyed that one.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Are you want to like Super Mario and stuff? I
was like, eh, well yeah, I mean I get like
the animated version. They're just trying to keep it like
to very video gaming kind of stuff because it wasn't
the John Liguizamo Bob Hoskins live action Mario Brothers we
got in the nineties. But are so good? Are the fans?
How are they? Because obviously, I mean I feel like
Nintendo fans are less toxic than like console or PC

(02:25):
gaming fans are the Are there are people enthusiastic about
this casting.

Speaker 4 (02:30):
Yeah, pretty okay. I think they didn't want it to
be like some big name celebrity where they were going
to just try to force it.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Like they did. Oh yeah, because they continuously do. How
are they gonna get Chris Pratt to do the voice though?
Is he just overdubbing them like in vo afterwards? All Right,
I'm gonna give you those directors me and then i'm
gonna give you the directors filmography, and you're gonna do
a bit of a Brittany Brosky face miles where it's

(02:57):
like okay, all right, yes, the kombucha face. So he
is best known for directing the Maze Runner film trilogy,
but then he made the Fourth Kingdom of the Planet
fifth or fourth Planet of the Apes reboot Kingdom of
the Planet of the Apes, which I've heard is like

(03:18):
interesting at least, And sorry, yeah, I don't.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
Look, bro, I don't do whatever the fuck you're gonna do.
You never know, because I know directing movies is you
might make a whole bunch of shitty ones and then
suddenly make a good one. So off of this and
Aiman's excitement, I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna stay
really positive about this.

Speaker 4 (03:37):
I do really like po I do like the No
Name performers. So it's a perfect pairing, man, if you
think about it. Because all the monsters in Zelda are
like non humanoid, They're they're like pig ape right thing creatures,
and so it actually kind of makes sense.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
That actually makes me more excited on the hate the
I'm just waiting for when they're gonna because I know
right now they say this woman Bo Bragison is playing Zelda,
but I know, but they're gonna put Sydney Sweeney in
that world eventually.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Oh god, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (04:03):
Yeah, And you know what, you know what else it is,
I haven't been excited about anything, uh like in movies
for so long, and so I'm just really allowing myself
kind of forcing myself to be really excited about this one.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
I love.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
That may not be a disappointment. Made really hyped over
a movie.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
I was pretty psyched about one battle after another.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
I was really psyched over weapons, and I never saw it.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
Still weapons, weapons, I know.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
I was just like, I remember seeing the trailer, I'm like, yo,
this ship fucking goes and then cut to like, you know,
life lifing. So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, But I'm glad.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
Also, it seems like it's aimed at theaters, right, Like
there's gonna be a theatrical release. They're not just gonna
be like now on Amazon Prime. No, no, no, okay,
that's good, that's good.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
No, no, no, I think I heard.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
I was really excited about the uh Miss Piggy movie.
I think I heard that it's going to be a
streaming thing, which is crazy, like you need to put
that on on go out in theater.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
That's fine because I just showed my kid them up.
It's Christmas Carol. He's fucking love fun. He normally doesn't
like seeing like live action shit. He likes the animated shit.
He was feeling, Oh nice, Yeah, is this going to
be like a live action Miss Piggy.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
Live action Miss Piggy.

Speaker 4 (05:20):
Yeah, I haven't even heard about this. Amma Stone and
Jennifer Lawrence and Miss Piggy.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
This might be relevant to one of our upcoming Icon episodes,
so stay tuned for those Amma Stones. I get you.
What is What's something he thinks underrated?

Speaker 5 (05:36):
Well, guys, I come on this show so much, I
feel like I'm running out of underrated things. So I
am just going to say pencils number two taekwonder Roga.
And then I what I said that I thought of
the office quote, of course, because I was just looking
at things in the office and saying that I think
they're underrated.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
You're just looking at the things around you and saying
you love them.

Speaker 5 (05:59):
Britt's basically what I'm doing. But I don't know. I
love a pencil. I don't have a lot more to
say about it. But uh, I just think I don't
type when I when I need to, like process information,
got to have that pencil I need to erase. It's
just it's a joy for me.

Speaker 3 (06:15):
The is with the green.

Speaker 6 (06:18):
Yeah, it's like the most classic cliche archetypes, classic.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
As being the pink eraser.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
The metal that holds the erasers.

Speaker 5 (06:29):
And the like lettering. It's like a shiny, green, beautiful thing.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
What about mechanical pencils? Where yet on that?

Speaker 1 (06:36):
You know?

Speaker 5 (06:37):
I mean, I don't. I'm not going to like tell
anyone they're wrong. I'm really exciting.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
I'm all kinds of mechanical I don't like. But you're
always like the feeling of writing, like the feeling when
you break the lead on that you pressed present too hard.
Oh yeah, Oh yeah.

Speaker 5 (06:59):
The one good thing about a mechanical pencil is you
can click the lead all the way out and then
pretend to give yourself a shot and get your So
that is.

Speaker 3 (07:09):
Did you do the thing where you could shoot staples
out of it? No, like a big pencil. If you
took the tip off the actual click part, you could
put a like a staple that's been like bent from
the stapler flattened out into the place where the lead
goes and if you pull back on like the eraser
that clicks on it, it would the tension were launch

(07:29):
of amazing.

Speaker 5 (07:32):
I would have been doing that a lot, definitely.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (07:36):
Hey man, that's where it goes out, baby, I got
all kinds of fun ship we can.

Speaker 6 (07:41):
Did it come out fast enough to actually cause any
kind of pain or even a sensation?

Speaker 1 (07:46):
Do you know?

Speaker 3 (07:47):
I mean if you maybe hit somebody point blank in
their eye, but it was enough to like fuck with
someone and be like what and that's.

Speaker 5 (07:53):
What you want?

Speaker 6 (07:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (07:56):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you knowing ever where someone like aarrently
turns ahead and like now they're you know, in the
Dan Crenshaw zone rocking the iPad, I'll.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
Put number two pencils in there as also a thing
that I think, out of context, like years in the
future could be in the same room of the you
know future MoMA as like cool design thing. You like,
the color is really worried the colors are all really
working together. It's just like a real quest, like with
with the Marlboro pack, you know, number two pencils the

(08:25):
Marlboro pack together. Yeah, oh my god. Actually yeah, because
the Marlborough filter is the same is a similar color
to the number two pencil, you know.

Speaker 5 (08:42):
Yeah, a pencil and a cigarette, so many things in common.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
Deep, what is something you think is overrated more?

Speaker 7 (08:50):
You know, I was gonna say the Epstein Files and
uh because yeah, so what?

Speaker 3 (08:56):
Okay, so what There's a guy called there a bunch.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
That's not me? Guy. I have any idea how many
people there are with that name?

Speaker 3 (09:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (09:06):
Yeah, well look, okay, sure there maybe people at the
highest levels of government engaging in ritual gay sex while
while passing anti LGBT legislation. Yeah you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (09:18):
Fu Yeah, so what mm hmmmm mmmmm.

Speaker 7 (09:21):
Don't we have anything better to do than to find
out what was in the mind of like maybe the
only evil genius we've ever truly known, which is like
this like a child hunter.

Speaker 3 (09:32):
Yeah right, Yeah, this is what Joe Rogan's probably gonna
be saying this Week's like, don't have anything better to
do this week? Guys.

Speaker 8 (09:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
Yeah, I'm so tired of seeing it because you're starting
to see that people get in line and bring back
the girls to my Instagram feed. You know, I keep
seeing people talk about this stuff.

Speaker 3 (09:49):
Yeah, remember when you used to be like more Ai, Like,
I remember what happened a little Mikayla, the CG Instagram
influencer that was fucking sick.

Speaker 7 (09:57):
Bro forgot you were like one of her few public fans.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
I forgot I was. I was, yeah, one of the
only person to get a fucking restraining order served against
them for stalking someone who doesn't exist.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
Yeah, but I think you're right, and I do think
that what you were saying is essential. Like Donald Trump
was like, all right, I want to vote for it
so people can move on. He was essentially like, I'll
let you see it. Yeah, if you promise never to
talk about it again. Let's just move it along. Not
much to see here, Okay, you've seen it. It's good.
We're done here, right, everybody can just shut the fuck up.

Speaker 3 (10:33):
No, No, I think the thing is no one's yeah,
it's I don't know if anyone's gonna get the satisfying
answer they seek. That's I think the whole thing about
it that I'm just sort of like, I don't think
it's going to be the thing.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (10:45):
I'd be surprised. Again, I've said this, if this is
this would be enough to fracture his own basis support
of him, because clearly nobody on the other side of
it is like, oh god, I don't know what's going
to be in there. What could it possibly mean about
Donald Trump?

Speaker 7 (11:00):
But well, all those people there, all those people are
just sort of a continually propagandized by Fox News, So
like that's not ever gonna change, you know.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
And I think all similarly, like im MSNBC, I think
some people are like, oh, thank god, I don't have
to do any kind of like radical action to try
and wrest control of my country from the oligarchs. Maybe
it'll just end elegantly with this leaked email thing that
right with the.

Speaker 7 (11:20):
Same thing with MANGIONI was my feeling of like, yeah, okay, yes,
but also I don't think a rich kid with a
gun is gonna save us, Like, it's not gonna you
know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
Right right? I mean JB.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
Pritzker's dad is in those emails. I don't want see
what that does for his uh the files, to see
what that does for his uh pursuit of power. But
maybe that's that shows he is, you know, uh, he's
of the elite class.

Speaker 1 (11:43):
He's well connected enough. He's like he's invited to the
Eyes White shop parties. He's just like doesn't go right,
right right, because the food sucks.

Speaker 7 (11:54):
That's so it's just like a baked laze.

Speaker 1 (11:57):
Everybody's trying to lean up at those things. You know,
you don't want to be out there having just eaten ribs.

Speaker 7 (12:04):
The craziest sexual acts you could ever imagine then, and
also like some loose popcorn like this, yeah right.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
This isn't even fresh. Yeah, I wonder what the food
spread was like at the as Wide shop party. Sadly
Tom Cruise got kicked out before we could have seen it. Yeah,
that was my main complaint with that movie. Well, this
guy's an idiot, right right, just stuck it out, should
have run away, tried to get some cupcakes or something.

Speaker 7 (12:31):
Well, it's a fascinating thing where it's like they people
sort of think, oh, they're gonna like leak these things
out in such a way that'll become less and less
interesting that people won't care. But there's also this other
the opposite could easily happen where it's like the more
you leave to the imagination, like, the more intriguing and
engaging it becomes.

Speaker 9 (12:50):
You know.

Speaker 7 (12:50):
So I think, like twenty thousand, do we have any
idea how many there are like in theory total?

Speaker 1 (12:56):
Oh yeah, it seems like a lot because he wasn't
putting a lot of time into the he was saying
like texts, yeah, stream of consciousness, nonsense. Yeah, that that
one is good. Would be his response to someone being like,
well I feel like I'm in trouble at work. He's like, yeah,
good point. Just zero thought just gives you like a

(13:17):
new level of like Wow, people will accept anything as
a reply to their question, never have to put off
another text message or email. You can just dash off
some bullshit and sounds all right to me. All right, Yeah,
I think I think we do. Like I wonder if
the fact that they're going to be heavily redacted and

(13:40):
leave the names like out for for all Republicans is
going to backfire because that is a big part of
like the game of you know, Q and all that
shit is like trying to figure out and like connect
the dots. And if you just like give them, you know,
too many emails for any one person to read through

(14:02):
in an entire lifetime and just be like they're have
at it like you kind of you kind of need
something to like some obstacle for them to work around.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
So I do want well, I think there's phases, right.
I think if you're trying to figure out how to
do maximum damage to the presidency with this, it's like
you they're they're clearly sitting on the most incriminating things,
like they haven't even begun to reveal those kinds, Like
you know, we're getting all these things come out in
a slow drip that only make it worse. I feel

(14:32):
like there's going to be some other thing that they
feel will be really compelling. But again, will the media
report on it enough? Obviously Fox will do its thing
to completely inoculate their viewers from experiencing reality so hard
to know, hard to know?

Speaker 7 (14:47):
Do you think that's the case. Are they competent enough
to have leaked the least damaging ones currently.

Speaker 3 (14:53):
I think just based on hearing from the survivors, they
clearly know everything you know, and I think haven't really
made the thing to be like we're going to speak
in a public form about this, because I think, a
it's probably not the best way to do that. But
I just feel just based on how you hear other
politics or other elected officials who have been in some

(15:15):
of these hearings, they're like, bro, it's yeah, what.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
I mean, Yeah, I feel like the email that kicked
this off, like those early emails where Epstein before Trump
was the president, said oh, by the way, like Trump
is the dog who hasn't barked. He was in like
he's implicated in all this. He was with redacted victim

(15:41):
for hours at my house, Like right, that's on its own.
That's it. Like that you're away with one.

Speaker 3 (15:47):
Of Epstein's victims for hours on your own.

Speaker 1 (15:50):
And he knows that you are implicated in this. The
person who was like organizing and overseeing the whole thing
like that, right, It feels like that alone. If they
were just like this email has been authenticated and that
was just the only thing, people would be still freaking
out about that, but then we all found out that
he sucked Bill Clinton's dick and onto the nice thing.

(16:12):
Christ it's so stupid whatever.

Speaker 3 (16:14):
That really would make me be like, what kind of
multiverse are we in?

Speaker 1 (16:18):
Right now?

Speaker 3 (16:18):
I know when that headline came up, but anyway.

Speaker 7 (16:22):
Well it's again I also write, we don't necessarily know
that that's true whatever, But I've been saying for ah,
I think if you pull back, like we are in
a time of transparency, like there's so much dark starting
with like the Me Too movement, and then up which
is so necessary, and then up till now there's just
like the sea, it's gonna become harder and harder to
like keep these secrets.

Speaker 3 (16:43):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, And I think some people will probably
engage with it in good faith, in being like people
deserve justice. And then there are other people who are like,
this will hopefully bring my enemies down forget, forget what
happened that facilitated this terrible fucking controversy.

Speaker 7 (16:58):
But right, well, and that's I think you're kind of
seeing that. It's like, oh, both sides are trying to
utilize it as a weapon, but it's like no, no, no,
you're all everyone is like, you guys are all someone implicated?

Speaker 1 (17:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (17:07):
Yeah, right exactly. So okay, how about this we both
agree that whoever's in this should probably face justice straight up, right,
no debate about that. Can we enter it like that?

Speaker 1 (17:16):
I don't know, just seems like something we should just
move on from. He's dead, he's dead. Okay, why are
we talking about that? Guy is a loser. He's dead.
He's such a loser. He's dead.

Speaker 3 (17:28):
You know who's dead? All the losers?

Speaker 1 (17:32):
Move on? Yeah?

Speaker 7 (17:33):
Well, can we talk about how my press secretary.

Speaker 3 (17:35):
Is, how hot my legitimate female wife is Milania Trump?

Speaker 8 (17:42):
Hello?

Speaker 7 (17:42):
And shout out to that great John Early bit on
his last HBO special about how the grab him by
the pussy tape sounds like John Early trying to pretend
like he was straight in junior.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
Right, it's such a good bit.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
Yeah, yeah, I totally grabbed it.

Speaker 1 (18:00):
Pussy grab the pussy? What is like?

Speaker 9 (18:04):
What?

Speaker 1 (18:04):
Why? How? Unless for both of you, I'll let you
do it? What? Okay? Good?

Speaker 3 (18:14):
Can I get off this bus now? Yeah? Yeah, sorry, sorry,
let's get off your bus.

Speaker 1 (18:19):
Locker room talking?

Speaker 3 (18:20):
What lockers are you hanging out?

Speaker 7 (18:21):
And I'm like, Jeff Lockers feels like, that's the kind
of thing people talk about, is that locker room.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
Great, great, great financier Jeff Epstein. Good dude, Let's take
a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk about how
Megan Kelly. You've entered the spin zone with Megan Kelly
and she's got u she's got she's got some interesting
takes right now.

Speaker 8 (18:53):
And we're back.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
We're back, and let's let's talk about so Donald Trump. Well,
one of the story is that we've been like blizzarded
with over the past couple months, was that he was
going after his political enemies and trying to put them
in jail for being mean to him. Essentially, was the
gist of it. And some judges were like, maybe we'll

(19:17):
push back on this, but they're kind of doing so.
The people that Trump put in charge of these prosecutions
have kind of done the heavy lifting. For those judges
and for anybody who was like, we need to protect democracy,
they were like, don't no, no, no, no, no, you
don't have to work that hard. Actually, we're gonna fuck
this up spectacular.

Speaker 3 (19:39):
So fucking bad. It's gonna be laughable, because I mean,
like it feels like one of the final guardrails we
have for protecting us from total despotic rule are the courts.
Like they've they've been able to push back a little bit.
And while obviously there are like maga meat bags and
judges robes operating in the courts like Eileen Cannon in
Florida who is based like.

Speaker 1 (19:59):
Doctor I don't know anything about them, kenn let him go.

Speaker 3 (20:03):
They're also like regular judges who care about like how
fucking trials work, just generally. So again, Trump wants revenge
on all the people that held him to account in
some form, and he will just do anything to get
them into court, even if that includes lying. His prosecution
of James Comy has hit wall after a while, because one,
there isn't an actual crime to prosecute. Two, no lawyer

(20:26):
with any real pedigree would agree to this openly corrupt bullshit,
and three, the person that was willing to do it literally.

Speaker 1 (20:33):
Knows fuck all.

Speaker 3 (20:36):
About prosecuting a case so Comy. Right now, he's seeking
to dismiss the case against him, and he's one step
closer to that happening since the judges decided that there
were some pretty terrible missteps during the grand jury proceedings.
So the prosecution now has to hand over all those
grand jury materials for Comy's team to review. Basically, the
judge is like, you guys don't know what you were doing,

(20:58):
and I think you maybe.

Speaker 1 (21:01):
Was what happened.

Speaker 3 (21:01):
Earlier this week, Judge fitz Fitzpatrick quote raised sharp doubts
about an account of the grand jury proceedings provided by
the Justice Department and whether it had turned over all
records of the interactions between Halligan and the grand juries. Basically,
what's happening here is that he Halligan said she like
that she was trying to get these these two counts
to get the grand jury to accept these two counts

(21:24):
to indict James Comy. They rejected one of them. So
she kind of just like turned around and brought like
a new paper for the foreman of the grand jury
to sign and just like, yeah, there you go where
one of the counts the grand jury didn't actually review.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
So she has like swapped it out and sort of
like when he signed, yeah, signed those report cards.

Speaker 3 (21:43):
Permission permission slip for a field trip.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
Right, like a cover sheet for your report card. Yeah,
without the report card attached. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (21:51):
They said again like this is how the reported The
judge claimed that Halligan had claimed she had her last
contact with the grand jury at four to twenty eight
pm that day while the jurors were delivered. But he
also noted that the grand jury initially rejected one of
the counts against Colemi, leading prosecutors to prepare a new
indictment that Halligan ultimately signed. Yet nothing in the record
reflects the grand jury's initial decision or consideration of the

(22:13):
second indictment. So he's like, the judge was like, there
was no time for Like, based on what I'm saying,
there was no way the grand jury could have actually
considered this second indictment, So what the fuck are you doing?
He also the judge also said Halligan, quote, who had
never prosecuted a case prior to Comy's, appeared to make
two fundamental misstatements of law to the grand jury that

(22:36):
could jeopardize the indictment altogether. Quote, the record points to
a disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps, missteps that led
an FBI agent and a prosecutor to potentially undermine the
integrity of the grand jury proceeding.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
So she had never prosecuted like a federal case before
she never any kind nothing, nothing.

Speaker 3 (22:55):
She's an prosecute lawyer. No, she's not a prosecutors who
has a law degree. Yeah, and was practicing it. She
wasn't prosecuting cases though, Okay, what I mean? She was
just there to represent people in like like insurance here.
I don't know what. I don't look her being a
US attorney prosecuting a federal case is so jack. That's

(23:16):
like us playing in the NBA. Like that's you and
me suiting up tonight in the NBA. I would watch
that too, but you want to see a guy.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
Even So, yeah, it would be entertaining because even in
high school, my specialty was getting dunked on spectacularly. So
I would just be like getting dunked on in it,
like exploding backwards like I stepped on a landmine, and
like it would be so entertaining for people. They should
put me in the NBA, just me show how good

(23:44):
everyone else is.

Speaker 3 (23:44):
I think this is the equivalent because a lot of
legal observers like, holy fucking shit, dude, this dude's cooked.
She's proper fucked. Then Wednesday, she was in front of
the judge again. Quote the full grand jury never reviewed
the indictment it handed up against former FBI director James Comey.
Interim US attorney Halligan conceded Wednesday, She's like, yeah, they

(24:07):
never reviewed it.

Speaker 1 (24:08):
Uh fun, Okay, yes, I was lying. You're being so
annoying about it.

Speaker 3 (24:13):
Prosecutors said that instead of presenting a new indictment to
the grand jury after declined to approve one of the counts,
Halligan simply brought an altered version to the magistrates courtroom
for the grand jury sports person.

Speaker 1 (24:24):
To sign, Like, isn't that a crime? Like just appeal it? Yeah, yes,
So how are they so bad? I mean, we know
the answer. How they're so bad is because you need
somebody who's spectacularly corrupt, and people who are good at
their jobs are like making the calculation. They're like, I'm
not I'm not gonna like fuck my career to just

(24:45):
like act like this guy knows what he's talking about.
The only people who are willing to do that are,
in this case, an insurance lawyer that Trump met at
a party, yeah, and was like I think you're I.

Speaker 3 (24:55):
Think you're beautiful.

Speaker 1 (24:56):
Yeah, And they're boring and you have a law degree
and therefore.

Speaker 3 (25:00):
Therefore you need to be a federal prosecutor to do
a revenge case that is already so difficult like in
you know, in a normal courtroom to try it because
as komis saying, this was a vindictive prosecution, he fucking
tweeted or truth socialed about it. And now you have
this loser coming in just making ship up. So things

(25:24):
are looking not good for this case.

Speaker 9 (25:28):
It's wild too, because these are like the tactics that
like sleazy folks use to keep you in lawsuits, right, yeah,
you know, and both these things like that legal.

Speaker 10 (25:40):
And but now they just run government.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
Yeah right, I'm stretching a thing out by just like
filing thing after things, yeah.

Speaker 10 (25:51):
Just to make your life hell yeah.

Speaker 3 (25:53):
And unfortunately the by any means necessary was truly by
any means, including deception. So I don't know, I mean,
like that's if this gets dismissed, just another humiliation.

Speaker 9 (26:04):
This is also the administration that like you know, with
senators have died, federal judges have died, you know, like
everything is on the table as far as I'm concerned
with them.

Speaker 3 (26:17):
Wait, sorry, what do you mean what sonors have died?

Speaker 1 (26:20):
Uh?

Speaker 10 (26:20):
Melissa Hartman?

Speaker 1 (26:22):
Ohinated, but oh you got you?

Speaker 9 (26:25):
Yeah, you know and then they just say, well, it's
not us, you know, but it's like, yeah, well I
don't know about that.

Speaker 3 (26:32):
Yeah that's why, Yeah, I I We'll see what happens
with Letitia James, because she's also another person who's in
the crosshairs of Trump's vindictive do O J crusade. Right,
they're already like I think it was Fanny May and
the Freddie mac they were like looking at her loan
stuff and like, we don't see any kind of deceptive
ship here, Like they're like, I don't know, go ahead,

(26:55):
I guess like even according to us, who would know
about this kind of like mortgage fraud. Were like no,
So that'll be another very interesting one to keep an
eye on, and I'm sure we will, because yeah, the
weaponized incompetence is really leaning into the incompetence part, likely
too much.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
Now, Yeah, Yeah, it's just get you get incompetent people.
They'll do anything you say, but they're not going to
be good at it. Always all right on the elsewhere
in the world of rich people who thought that they
could get away with fucking anything that they wanted. Ever,
the recently released Epstein emails don't just look bad for Trump,

(27:33):
although he is the name that's mentioned the most often
in them, former Treasury secretary, Harvard president, all around. Just
we've had quotes from this guy, just like a complete
dipshit neoliberalism, like let the market decide guru. Larry Summers

(27:53):
was in there literally asking Epstein for dating advice in
twenty nineteen.

Speaker 3 (27:59):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
And then in some emails Epstein for dating its dating advice.
In some emails, Epstein described Summers as his wingman. Yeah,
that's even worse than the one I had seen where
he's like, Jeffry, what do I do? She doesn't want
to fuck me? What do I do? Should I be quiet?

Speaker 3 (28:21):
Should I be strong?

Speaker 1 (28:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (28:23):
Very good, very good, very good.

Speaker 1 (28:24):
You were strong when you when you complained about her.

Speaker 3 (28:28):
Yeah right, Oh my god. To be that's being described
as Epstein's wingman has to just instantly under the jail.

Speaker 9 (28:38):
Yes, okay, between the Ebstein files and the me Too movement. Okay,
I just feel like, just be fucking nice to women, man,
you know.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
You know what. Sorry, I'm sorry. I hadn't considered that.

Speaker 10 (28:56):
Fucking cool.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
What if you were just nice?

Speaker 10 (28:59):
What if you were just nicer to me?

Speaker 1 (29:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (29:02):
Because think of.

Speaker 9 (29:02):
All of the young women at Harvard that he prayed on.

Speaker 1 (29:07):
Oh, we don't know that. You can't prove that. That's all.
He just happened to get dating advice from somebody who
made a guilty plead to sex crimes against children in
two thousand and eight.

Speaker 3 (29:21):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, but it was a
sweetheart deal. Sweetheart deal though, yeah yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
Yeah. It had already stopped accepting donations from Epstein, which
I'm sure that wasn't easy for them. He's an economics professor.
He winned that the woman who had abandoned plans with
him for another man was really attracted to the other guy,
and that I'm unsuitable as a partner. He resigned from

(29:49):
the board. So this has not gone over well with
like this honestly, Like I feel bad, how old fashioned
this feels that he had to step down from anything
like that. Oh my god, what is this the fucking
Obama administration, right, what is this? What's going on here?
He had to step down from Open AI, and the

(30:11):
New York Times is cutting ties with him outstanding there's
there's still consequences to people being complete fucking just revealed
to be monsters. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (30:22):
I mean it is tough when you're described as Jeffrey
Epstein's wingman, and you.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
Can literally the dangerous Nights Crew, the literally dangerous Knights
Crew with their slick.

Speaker 3 (30:32):
Back hair going out sloppy steaks, which was euphimistic probably
for them, but like this is absolutely this is like
the most purely cancelable offense right now is like you're
his You're his wingman, he was describing at being described
as And it's enough that you leave open ai the
New York Times, but you can still are you still teaching?

Speaker 1 (30:54):
I mean, look, teaching the children of the future.

Speaker 3 (31:00):
Fair most are legally adults at this point when they're
according to him, these are not children, according to him
and Megan Kelly, these are basically a don't okay, my god, they're.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
Not five okay uh? And they have to learn economics
from this fucking ghoul who does all the people who's
just carrying water for corporations in a corporatocracy.

Speaker 10 (31:23):
Boy does he understand economics.

Speaker 3 (31:25):
There's a clip of him, a student in one of
his classes at Harvard video taped him opening up the
lecture where he has to be like, guys, I'm a
shamed of myself, although not really saying that. No, but
he's always saying that because he's caught exactly. But it's
just wild. Just listen to this guy having me like, I.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
Know I'm in the FC five.

Speaker 3 (31:49):
What Okay, Larry Summers, try and explain this away.

Speaker 11 (31:53):
You will assume my statement the regret expressing my shame
with respect to what I did communication with mister Epstein, and.

Speaker 3 (32:05):
That I've scheduled I'm going to step back.

Speaker 11 (32:10):
Part time, but I.

Speaker 1 (32:11):
Started mm hmmm. Very important that you be in a
room with young people. That's very important. Nobody else could
do what you do, you fucking wizard of street.

Speaker 3 (32:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
I'm sure they all agree that this is a great vibe.

Speaker 9 (32:30):
I'm glad that he at least captured. The thing that
I was the most irked by was his communication with Epstein.

Speaker 3 (32:37):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (32:38):
How ashamed I am by my communication and nothing that
was indicated or suggested by that communication. Oh, by the way,
he's mister Epstein. Now, because y'all seemed like very friendly
and informal in those conversations, I thought you were his wingman.
Dude like that. You seem like you guys were brothers.

Speaker 3 (32:55):
That's some dude, that's just some fucking guy man, and
I shouldn't even even email them anyway. Today's lecture is
about multilateralism and its future in the G twenty. You're like,
oh huh, thanks.

Speaker 9 (33:11):
Lecturer is on the economics of blackmailing and how you
can work from the CIA and.

Speaker 3 (33:16):
The government and do whatever the fuck you want to
and shout out to Harvard man that he was.

Speaker 1 (33:22):
Just will quote launch a new investigation in twos, the
newest one.

Speaker 3 (33:28):
What the last one?

Speaker 1 (33:29):
The last one went well. Actually we actually found that
he was really good, So we gotta might we might
need to do a little better with our investigations.

Speaker 3 (33:37):
Yeah, this is the kind of ship where it's like
like these are this is the low hanging fruit to
bring these people to account of, like the Larry Summers
types where you're like, you're here, you're in the emails,
I don't know the fuck your relationship is, but like
you have no business being out here in like normal
the normal world anymore, let alone teeth like lecturing at

(33:58):
fucking Harvard.

Speaker 1 (34:00):
They have to pass their wisdom onto the youth because
they do like all those people I feel like have
bought into their own myth that like the reason they're
so much richer than everybody is because they're that much smarter.
So like, sure they have one hundred times more money
than most people, that's because they're one hundred times smarter.

(34:21):
So the idea that he has now been like publicly
you know, ostracized, but like he's still want like it's
important to him to continue to be Like, I like
what you want me to not pass this fucking galaxy
brain onto the children of the future. Come on, you
know you are so eminently replaceable. All you do is

(34:46):
carry water. You carry water for the most powerful people
in the given system that you work under. That's what
you do, and that's how you've gotten all the success
is you're just doing the thing that all the people
with all all the money and power want to be done.
And then you get benefits from that.

Speaker 9 (35:06):
Yeah yeah, okay, but before we squid games this hm hmm,
I am going to bring it back, like we can
watch the ship out of this, but then the actionable
ship afterwards, right, Like, I don't want to hear anymore
about how unlikable a woman is at your workplace.

Speaker 3 (35:24):
Oh yeah, that was the New York Times, that was
the New York Times, the New York.

Speaker 1 (35:28):
Times ob locasion that just was like, did women ruin
the workplace? Even they were like, no, I think that's.

Speaker 9 (35:37):
The New York Times, But I hear it from every guy.
You know, all this fucking woman at my workplace, you know,
And no, but she really sucks.

Speaker 10 (35:44):
You know, no woman has sucked this much?

Speaker 1 (35:48):
Right, yeah, right, exactly not this much?

Speaker 9 (35:51):
Okay, Ever, like I don't care how annoying she is,
how shrill she is, how squeaky she is, how whiney
she is, right, how bossy, how bitches?

Speaker 10 (36:03):
Oh my god, I.

Speaker 3 (36:04):
Hear it all the time you hang out, which is
better than me.

Speaker 1 (36:08):
Yeah. I do just want to like, while we're on
the topic of rich people thinking that they have like
galaxy brain and that we like they're doing us a
favor by even like, first of all, they love to
be like I created so many jobs, as if that
wouldn't have happened without them, But they also I think

(36:28):
they really feel like we need them. And Miles, you
found this Bill Ackman fucking thing where he came out
and was like a little advice from an old man
who's fucking killed.

Speaker 3 (36:40):
It, okay with women, like because Bill Ackman. Obviously we've
you've probably heard us talk about him. He's a fucking
billionaire hedge fund dude. Persian Square Capital is his hedge fund,
and he's we probably talked about him recently because he
was shitting his pickleball shorts over the election.

Speaker 1 (36:59):
Of Mom Donnie. And he's constantly giving out people to
move out of New City.

Speaker 3 (37:03):
Yeah, and never do it, and I think, and then
we also talked about his uh what was that where
he bought his way onto a hero.

Speaker 1 (37:08):
His way onto the professional tennis tour and then uh
got mons and then but like wouldn't accept it. He
was like, there was something off today, like my I
think my strings were too loose or.

Speaker 3 (37:20):
Something at the racket, something about the racket. I think, No,
it's because you're a fucking idiot who just bought his
way onto here, because you live in a fucking similocrum. Anyway,
this is what he this is what he posts. I'm
just gonna read his whole fucking bang or tweet about relationships.

Speaker 1 (37:35):
I quote.

Speaker 3 (37:36):
I hear from many young men, oh God, here we go,
that they find it difficult to meet young women in
a public setting. In other words, the online culture has
destroyed the ability to spontaneously meet strangers. As such, I
thought I would share a few words that I used
in my youth to meet someone that I found compelling.

Speaker 1 (37:55):
I would ask, real quick, what does he mean by
it's difficult to meet young women in a public scam.

Speaker 3 (38:03):
This is based off of him watching the Fresh and
Fit podcast on YouTube.

Speaker 1 (38:07):
Yeah, that's what I feel.

Speaker 3 (38:08):
Shit, And he's like, I'm surprised he didn't say females
at some point, but anyway, this is what he's saying.
This is what I would do.

Speaker 1 (38:15):
Quote.

Speaker 3 (38:15):
I would ask, may I meet you before engaging further
in a conversation. I almost never got a no. It
inevitably enabled the opportunity for a further conversation. I met
a lot of really interesting people this way. I think
the combination of proper grammar and politeness was the key
to its effectiveness. You might give it a try, and yes,
I think it should also work for women seeking men

(38:37):
as well as same sex interactions. Woke Okay, But and
then the last one. This is just two just two
cents from an older, happily married guy concerned about our
next generation's happiness and population replacement rates.

Speaker 1 (38:52):
Whoa mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (38:54):
It's always the population shit with these fing people. It's
either wrapped up in there like fucking you know, olive
dark brain, where they're like I need more bodies to
fucking exploit and consumer fucking it starts winding down, or
it's the fear of the brown planet thing to just
two cents.

Speaker 1 (39:14):
From an older, happily married guy with love in his
heart and eugenics on my brain.

Speaker 3 (39:20):
Exactly population replacement rate.

Speaker 1 (39:23):
It is kind of crazy, though, because I don't think
I've ever seen like when when he described his approach
of may I meet you, there were literally hearts coming
out of the star's eyes. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (39:36):
Yeah, he was fanning himself with a stack of one
hundred dollars bills as he said it.

Speaker 10 (39:42):
Listen as a young woman.

Speaker 3 (39:44):
M hm, canonically gen Z.

Speaker 9 (39:49):
Gen Z, I just you know that's that what do
you call it?

Speaker 10 (39:57):
Warmth mm hmm yeah, that May I meet you.

Speaker 9 (40:01):
Right looking in my eyes as like the the vehicle
for population generation replacement. Yea, it's just such a turn on.

Speaker 3 (40:12):
May I meet you?

Speaker 1 (40:13):
What is your breeding viability? Did I meet you to evaluate?
Do you mind if I bring calipers?

Speaker 3 (40:21):
Do you mind if I measure your skull circumference. What uh, nothing, nothing, nothing,
May I meet you?

Speaker 10 (40:26):
I mean, and I mean he did and it was hot.

Speaker 3 (40:29):
It's always like this advice from people who do not
live on the same fucking planet as we do. Like
it's like, I'm worried about y'all happiness, worry about the
fucking income inequality. Then m hm, like you wonder why,
Like there was a whole thing too. I was looking
at how the under five population is swinging in certain
places like Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, these really

(40:51):
expensive cities. They're like hemorrhaging like young families because they're
just so hard to afford to live in, and it's
going up in other places that are more affordable. I'm like,
that's your fucking issue. It's not that exactly, may I
meet you, it's I can't fucking afford to live and
that he like.

Speaker 1 (41:12):
Again, So first of all, we've just we've seen the
dipshittery in the Epstein emails of like Larry Summers being
like what do I say to her? And Jeffrey Epstein
being like you did well by expressing disapproval that you
had planned a vacation for her, and she left you
for a guy on a motorcycle, very strong of you.
Like that, the fact that they just they're in this

(41:34):
world where like their wealth just surrounds them. They just
have not taken a single breath outside of just a
world where everybody is just kissing their ass constantly, and
so they're just like gassed up on this idea that
everything they say is so fucking wise. And and now
I feel like we all looked at the Epstein emails

(41:55):
and we're like, that's so weird that everyone was like
my sex guru aka child trafficker, what shall I say?
Bill Ackman looked at it and was like, there's a
hole in the market here. These people need to hear
from a pickup artist like myself.

Speaker 3 (42:11):
Right right Exactly. A lot of people like it's funny
when you tweeted it. They're like, yeah, all right, asshole,
what because you told him you're a billionaire and he's like, yeah,
I was. This was working for me when I didn't
even have two nickels. And you're like, uh huh, yeah, sure,
sure go ahead, May.

Speaker 9 (42:26):
I need he He's weird when these guys like have
their pickup lines like that, they want to like bequeath
unto us, like so fresh in their memory as happily
married men.

Speaker 1 (42:37):
Right, and he thinks this is such a good line,
May I meet you?

Speaker 3 (42:43):
You should see it.

Speaker 9 (42:46):
Cheating on his wife. You know, he's cheating on his wife,
you know what I mean? And you know he's using
his money to do it.

Speaker 3 (42:52):
The boot liquor fucking replies in this tweet are just
so funny, like because it's a mix. There are people
who are real life people and they're like box and
then they're like the people who are so capitalism pilled
that they're like, this is actually brilliant, but someone I like,
one person, like an even better way to do it
is with no exception or no expectation in return, you know.

(43:13):
And he's like yeah, yeah, yeah, agreed, agreed, agreed, ireation.
Yeah yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (43:20):
All right, let's let's take a quick break and move
on to billionaires who were ruining the film industry.

Speaker 3 (43:25):
We'll be like, okay, okay, may meet you, and we're
back or back.

Speaker 1 (43:41):
And Fox News the number on their number one story
for like the first decade, their number they're going concern
for the first decade in existence was the War on Christmas. Yeah,
aka anyone being like, we're at a corporation, have made

(44:01):
the decision that it allows us to reach a broader
swath of our potential consumers if we say stuff like
happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas. You know, if we're
just like happy holidays. This is a holiday season in
our country.

Speaker 3 (44:18):
So you know, did you tell my grandmother to burn
in hell?

Speaker 1 (44:21):
Right now?

Speaker 3 (44:23):
I just said happy holiday? There's many holidays.

Speaker 1 (44:26):
We took that, and we're like waging woke. America's waging
the war on Christmas. And they don't want us to
even have fucking Christmas parties anymore. Now. They want it
to be faith neutral holiday parties. We're just never like that.
It's always been over exaggerated from the start.

Speaker 5 (44:45):
Yeah, the Starbucks cup, it's like commie red, you.

Speaker 1 (44:48):
Know, commie red, come to think of it. So, Santa Claus, Hey,
something's going on here. Yeah, probably started by those women malls,
I think. But uh so, you know, this particular holiday season,
everybody's bracing for higher costs, even though Trump has claimed

(45:09):
prices are falling. Everybody with eyes that tell information to
their brain, as Jeffrey Epstein so helpfully pointed out in
his email to himself titled breakthroughs Eyes transmit information to brain.

Speaker 10 (45:23):
Is that true?

Speaker 1 (45:24):
Oh yeah, he just like sent himself this like series
of high thoughts that were like so dumb.

Speaker 3 (45:31):
They're so dumb. It's just like it breaks your soul
even further.

Speaker 1 (45:35):
You're like the skin part of brain me brain, but
he spelled it meme brain.

Speaker 3 (45:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (45:43):
And then yeah, high school math at a private school.
It's so crazy to watch him try to put a
sentence together.

Speaker 1 (45:50):
Beard and mustache trap smell.

Speaker 3 (45:53):
Oh yeah, that's right. That was just like for what
why even? Yeah, Okay, one.

Speaker 1 (46:00):
Of the line items was just groups versus individuals. That
was a question mark. Question mark.

Speaker 3 (46:06):
I think this is a good point to Chelsea, You're
you're underrated. It was like, just write that shit down
and no one's ever gonna have to see that.

Speaker 9 (46:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (46:13):
Maybe, how like if people saw the notes I take
on creative ideas, everyone would give up on me.

Speaker 5 (46:20):
Yeah, writing a secret, make it so you can burn it,
yeah yeah, just.

Speaker 3 (46:25):
Or just you know, or it's written in a way
where it's like I know, what, how these words are
going to hit my brain and reactivate the idea. Anyone
else would be like, I think you're a child and
you have a childlike perspective on everything, and that might
be true. But anyway, but.

Speaker 1 (46:38):
Yeah, anyways, this is all to say if literally, this
is only a story that could have come out on
Fox News, because if anyone had said it anywhere else,
Fox News would have like broken, They would have gone
so hard about how people were trying to cancel Christmas.
But because it's Fox News, and because they are backed
into a corner of having to talk to real people

(47:00):
who are being affected by the economy while also trying
to hold water for Trump's economy, they've gone to this.
During a segment about tips to save money during the holidays,
guest Jade Warshaw argued that adults don't need gifts. Focus
on the people in your life who are aged three
to eighteen. Grandma doesn't need slippers. If they don't live

(47:24):
by you, don't get them a gift.

Speaker 3 (47:25):
Hearing it said earnestly on a news show is like
this again, we can't people can't afford shit. So this
is a new rationale, right to be like, eah, fuck
Christmas anyway.

Speaker 12 (47:39):
Budget budget, budget, you need a plan. Also, remember adults
don't need gifts. Okay, focus on the people in your life,
who are aged three to eighteen. Grandma doesn't need slippers.
If they don't live by you, don't get them a gift.
Now's not the time to spend and break the bank
sending packages across the country. Data. Focus on the people
in your life ages three to eighteen. That's my thirty

(47:59):
seven's for you.

Speaker 3 (48:00):
That's my thirty seconds.

Speaker 5 (48:01):
You know, baby gifts, No gifts were in fau.

Speaker 1 (48:07):
Eighteen. You could he just had a babyman.

Speaker 3 (48:10):
To quote Michael Jordan, Fuck them kids, you know what
I mean? It's it's this in this economy.

Speaker 1 (48:15):
No, you know, who doesn't give a ship about toys?
Two year old?

Speaker 5 (48:20):
Yeah, I'm surprised they're not defining adults as three to fifteen.

Speaker 1 (48:23):
Yeah, I know, it's getting there.

Speaker 3 (48:27):
Where's the conservative news math on what is a child
when it comes to pedophilia and what is a child
when it comes to gift giving during Christmas?

Speaker 2 (48:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (48:34):
Yeah, well can you reconcile those two numbers?

Speaker 1 (48:37):
Please?

Speaker 9 (48:38):
That?

Speaker 1 (48:38):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (48:39):
By the way, that a woman who is on there
is Jade warshow was like on the Dave Ramsey Show.
Who's like, you know a lot of people know him,
like this financial guru dude, who's also like out there
Christian conservative guy, like he fired his employees for pre
marital sex.

Speaker 1 (48:55):
Yeah, we fired them for premier Dude, these are having
premarital sex. Should be disqualifying for public life. Why do
you know that they're having premarital sex. Don't worry about it.
They admit it. They admit it.

Speaker 5 (49:10):
You admit it. Oh my god, Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (49:16):
Yeah, and you're fired now because you said you had
sex before.

Speaker 5 (49:19):
You're made one, like really goofy. Part of all this
war on Christmas stuff, we did an episode called War
on Christmas that I will push like many years ago,
but the history of Christmas is such that the Puritans,
who I would say are these people's cultural ancestors, they
banned Christmas. They hate in it, they thought it was
overly decadent, right, And it's like, so we're going, you know,

(49:40):
we're returning to basically what their proto religious icons rejected.
So it is just they don't know, I mean, they
don't know the same.

Speaker 3 (49:49):
Way they're becoming Nazis.

Speaker 1 (49:51):
Yeah right, yeah, they we're taking a trip through all
the best people in history. Yeah, the witch burners, the
people who bought the Holocausts.

Speaker 3 (49:59):
They're killing they're like, you know why your grandpa couldn't
hug anyone, right, it's because of World War two and
all the shit that it did to him. But you
guys just called him a tough bastard anyway, and now
you're he's spinning in his urn because you're cosplaying as
a Nazi. But yeah, sure.

Speaker 1 (50:18):
CNN jumped on this and was like, I feel like
this might be Fox admitting the economy is in the toilet,
because elsewhere they're like, the economy is thriving, but just
so you know, you can't buy people Christmas presents. Well,
the economy is so good, I guess don't worry about it,
just to shut the fuck up.

Speaker 3 (50:35):
It's so patronizing because it's like how you try and
convince a kid like to not do something like, oh,
doing that is not cool. That's actually not good.

Speaker 1 (50:44):
They don't need it. They don't need that.

Speaker 3 (50:47):
Actually, Christmas gifts this year not good for adult. It's
actually really dumb to do. Actually food, food is like
such an indulgence, guys in potable water. It's like, come
on for child, Yeah, I just seeing the wait.

Speaker 1 (51:04):
Actually wrote an article It's time to stop giving gifts
to adults. There's one in the Guardian. My family has
got a lot better since we stopped giving presents. I
actually was just talking to somebody who was like, yeah,
my family doesn't give, doesn't celebrate anything, and WO believe
we believe in not sing lebout.

Speaker 3 (51:24):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (51:24):
So this is a point that's been made before. I
don't think it was made in direct reference to how
shit the economy was in the past, but I do
like anytime it's framed as like unnecessary consumerist impulses where
you're just like buying a present to buy it, it's
just like it. It seems like a lot of this
could be addressed by just like being better at giving gifts,

(51:47):
not giving ship that people are going to immediately like
throw in the trust.

Speaker 3 (51:51):
Yeah yeah, I bought fifty air pod cases in bulk
that I'm just gonna hand out to people, not even
knowing if they have them. But I just need somebody
you can never can never use.

Speaker 1 (52:02):
Too many of these are the Fox.

Speaker 5 (52:04):
News people doing any kind of like smoke screen shit
of like Christmas is about being together and you know,
or they just like don't get gets They're not quite
stupid yet.

Speaker 3 (52:14):
I think they're still trying to do a thing where
they're trying to act as if they are dealing with
reality and like, yeah, prices are hot, and here's some
budgeting tips. I don't think they haven't quite it's it's
that would be something to really hit. Just try and
shift gears ideologically that quick, to be like it was
actually never about this ever. Ever, it should be just
about the vibes, folks, not the presence.

Speaker 5 (52:36):
And I always have that attitude of like, it's so
obvious that you figured it out.

Speaker 1 (52:40):
Yet, right right right?

Speaker 5 (52:41):
Yeah, telling you to your whole career past.

Speaker 3 (52:48):
Again, this isn't going to bode well for a country
that has been so had the marketing hammered into your
skull since birth that you must consume. Yeah, this isn't
gonna happen that easy.

Speaker 5 (53:01):
But I take umbrage with targeting grandma.

Speaker 1 (53:04):
Why are we why I know what slippers?

Speaker 5 (53:07):
Slippers are like some crazy indulgence.

Speaker 1 (53:10):
It's wild that they're it's wild that they're targeting grandma
since those are the only people who watch Fox News, right.
But I do feel like she kind of has a
point in the sense that there might be like a
karmic debt for that generation, like They're the generation that
Broadley has hoarded all the wealth. They tend to be

(53:32):
the ones who are watching Fox News. So I feel like,
if your grandma is a Fox watcher, oh, I think
if you might have my permission to not buy them slippers,
you just you just have an ironclad argument for your
Fox watching family to not buy them presents.

Speaker 3 (53:50):
You're like, I was just watching.

Speaker 1 (53:52):
And Fox and they said no adult present at eighteen
this year. So I'm not buying anyone who I've ever
seen watch Fox presence this year.

Speaker 5 (54:01):
But I think that they still expect presence.

Speaker 3 (54:04):
Of course, That's what's.

Speaker 1 (54:05):
So stupid about all of this. It is also like
such an American ass, like you know, Fox News just
like being the most American values, which is just like
stick them in a home. Fuck them. They're not useful
to us, you know, stick.

Speaker 3 (54:21):
Them in a home that won't even be subsidized by Medicaid.
No whoops about that part. There's a there's another act
coming up that will have to reckon with.

Speaker 1 (54:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (54:32):
I mean it's funny because I do. I totally get
like there have been years too or like her Majicine
and I are like, man, let's not do presents because
it's it is, it's a it can be a burden
to try and like give a good gift, and I
have the effort to give good gifts. I'm not like
I know people who are so gifted, and the pun
is intended at identifying like a good gift for someone.

(54:54):
I like, it's come to the point, like with her Magicine,
like if she says something like offhandedly, I'm I'll put
that in the fucking.

Speaker 1 (55:01):
Ye yeah, maybe it can be a fucking gift a gift.

Speaker 3 (55:06):
Yeah, yeah, I'm writing down like Titanic Cruise and.

Speaker 11 (55:15):
Oh my god.

Speaker 5 (55:16):
It is that phenomenon too, of like when you're a
kid and you're obsessed with one thing like mine was wolves, right,
and then you're in your thirties and you're getting bolf
shipped from your for the rest of your well, yeah,
it's like, we don't have to do this, we don't
have to do this.

Speaker 1 (55:30):
I get a book, like comedy books, you know, I'm
sure from people like from anything from the humor section. Hey,
you're the you did a comedy thing, you know.

Speaker 3 (55:41):
Matt Greening before the Simpsons, he did these funny books.
Life is Hell.

Speaker 1 (55:45):
Check it out. But anyways, I feel like, get all
of your relative presence if you can afford to. Don't
especially like i'd say the eighteen two or the three
to eighteen, and then maybe skip up to the elderly.
But the elderly get no fucking love and attention from
people in this world like that. Don't, don't skip your grandma.

(56:08):
Like you could come to an agreement with your significant
other that that's that's totally fine. But like skipping out
on the elderly, it just feels too much to no
country for old men.

Speaker 3 (56:19):
We're already skipping out.

Speaker 5 (56:20):
And maybe like a good middle ground is like get
your grandma and experience, take her somewhere, yeah, you know,
get her, take her out to dinner.

Speaker 3 (56:28):
Something kings rally.

Speaker 5 (56:30):
You know, it takes.

Speaker 3 (56:32):
Something different, something different, I mean, unless.

Speaker 1 (56:34):
They watch Fox News, in which case you can just
be like, just send them this clip them like burned. Yeah, hey,
it was gonna get you slippers, but dot dot dot
or this link.

Speaker 3 (56:47):
But you're wearing this. You send a photo you wearing
the slippers.

Speaker 1 (56:51):
Nice actually nice as.

Speaker 3 (56:53):
Hell feet or sweating now damn.

Speaker 1 (56:57):
All right, that's gonna do it. For this week's weekly Zeitgeist,
please like and review the show. If you like the show,
means the world de Miles. He he needs your validation, folks.
I hope you're having a great weekend and I will
talk to him Monday.

Speaker 2 (57:15):
Bye.

Speaker 1 (58:02):
Nothing that you att