Weekly Zeitgeist 416 (Best of 1/26/26-1/30/26)

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

(00:25):
We're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by
an award winning audio showrunner and creator of the podcast
The Secret Adventures of Black People. Last year, she launched
a show called Our Ancestors, We're Messy, about the gossip, scandals,
and pop culture that made headlines in historical black newspapers
across America. Welcome to the show. It's Nicole.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Oh I should yell?

Speaker 1 (00:49):
I can't yell. No, no, don't don't. I don't have
to yell.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
I feel I have to.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
We are comping, We are compensating.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Welcome show.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
God had something interesting to say, so instead I just yell.

Speaker 4 (01:06):
You could just turn me up later.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
How are you?

Speaker 4 (01:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:10):
Yeah, audio was really blown out. It's like trying to
make it seem like she was. How are you, Nicole?
How are you?

Speaker 2 (01:16):
I'm doing well. I'm doing well.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
How are you?

Speaker 5 (01:19):
You know?

Speaker 3 (01:19):
As you said, up Tom, uh, precedented times uh in
the country. You know but I think that, like I
was saying before, being black and Japanese, I've heard multiple
versions of this growing up, Like I'm sure you have
sort of like let's not.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Get it fucked up about what this country is that
you lived in, and I think this is but I
think this is.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
This is Right now, it feels like a lot more
people are now becoming a little bit more in tune
with that idea that it that nobody is actually safe
unless everybody is safe. A lesson being learned a little late,
but you know what, better late than ever. And I
hope that I hope that sort of those kinds of
realizations helped people get through this very very very fucked

(02:02):
up time, because yeah, it's not going to be easy.

Speaker 4 (02:04):
It's not gonna be It's a lesson we learn every decade,
two decades and forget then we learned them, forget that
this is the cycle we're trapped in, unfortunately, but I'm
glad that we're in the remembering part of it.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
Yeah, exactly exactly, because it's the it's like in the
twenty twenty three, twenty fours of our of our cycles,
when you're like and people are like and everything.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
And we're good again, We're good again.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
No no, no, no, no, no, no, what the hell are
you talking about?

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Like, well, Nancy Pelosi had a can't take cloth on?
I thought we were good with salved She's she's so old.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
Did you see how she took that knee that could
have killed her? But she did, but she did it
for us, And look at them. I'll just and still.
I think that's the thing too. We find ourselves like
similar similar in how what twenty twenty did for people
understanding police brutality. Now we're sort of broadening it to
state sanctioned violence, our stupid ethno nationalist, white supremacist immigration policies.

(03:00):
But it's like you're at that crossroad again where people
go this ship has to end full stop.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
This is bullshit, this is nonsense.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
It doesn't work, it's not helping, it's only harming. And then,
just like in twenty twenty, people like agreed, the cops
are wilding out, but right but.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
Right now not all ICE agents.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
And right now it's like ICE is wilding out, but
we might be able to just like no, no.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
No, no, what if they weren't wearing masks, would you
feel better about this then? But yeah, anyway, the most
consistent American value with state sponsored white supremacy supremacist violence, and.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Then the calls for more training than the calls room.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah, if we believe in two things, state sponsored white
supremacist viny and how do we solve it? Training?

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Training?

Speaker 6 (03:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
The person who like shows up in the office.

Speaker 4 (03:50):
Like Hi, Yeah, exactly, it's sexual harassment this person, this
person is talk.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
This guy's wearing a clan outfit. Well he came from that.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
He from the consulting company who's giving everybody all the
different brands interesting ideas.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
What is something from your search history that's revealing about
who you are?

Speaker 7 (04:10):
I mean, honestly, I was just trying to see what
was happening with TikTok now.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
Yeah, why what's the latest under new ownership? And nothing works? Yeah,
thing works?

Speaker 7 (04:23):
Scary new terms of service screen pops up. Yeah, that's
like we own everything you do. Anything you do anywhere
belongs to us now, And so I got scared and
deleted it.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
You know, TikTok is an American ownershipship. One thing about
those guys is they like owning everything as them being billionaires.

Speaker 7 (04:50):
It's ruined.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
Wasn't there someone like one of the owners talking about,
like very proudly how it's going to suppress any kind
of like like criticism of like Israel, And now people
are saying like videos aren't showing up or it's really
hard to get and I'm like, oh, right, so it's
working on day one exactly as planned, is like we
need to cut off the information supply to young people.

Speaker 7 (05:10):
Yeah, but it's also not working because everyone's like, oh,
it's glitching out all crazy.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
It's literally not working.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (05:16):
Yeah, and maybe they don't have the good algorithm anymore
that made it addictive.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
Do we have the the new one? Like what is
going to replace TikTok? Because this feels like this is
what you know, this is what it what always happens.

Speaker 7 (05:30):
And it is time anyway. No, but I don't know,
go back to red note.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
Redne Highlight is one I think I hear people talk
about there's like another one up scroll that I see
a lot of people talk about. There's like another one
where people like, what's like the what's like one that's
owned by ten cents. So we can go back to
the feeling of TikTok, right, and they're trying to get
these other apps. But yeah, I mean that's red note right.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
I don't know if it's owned by ten Cent, but
it's like the Chinese version.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
Yeah that I mean, yeah, I think generally are but
I think is ten Cent band?

Speaker 1 (06:03):
Yeah maybe not. Actually I don't think it is. Or yeah,
I mean I don't think red noticement. Either way. People
aren't happy.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
They said one of their latest fuck ups was because
one of their data center's lost power.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
Oh no, see what you guys you're doing? Yeah, so
you're doing storms all right? Shout out TikTok, what the fuck?
Shout out shout out billionaires. Really, that's the that's.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
The number one for it, really, trying to yeah, turn
this bigot off of information for stuff that'll give people
independent ideas of what they want.

Speaker 7 (06:33):
You know, they're like, let's not change our behavior, let's
just make it. Let's just censor the content.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yeah, fight our behavior.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
Well again, it's like, don't you remember being a kid.
That makes you go harder? Right when you're like you
can't have that, You're like, I can't have that, watch this,
watch this shit.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
I'm a room in my life trying to have that. Now,
I can't for this thing that you choose to go
on that we need you to choose to go on
for it to continue to be valuable. We're just going
to ruin it and checkmate. Okay, all right, that's I
don't think that's how that's going to work. I think
other people, But that is one thing billionaires are always

(07:09):
overestimating how much everyone needs them. I'm a job creator.
If I didn't exist, you wouldn't be able to feed
your family. And it's like, no, if you didn't exist,
someone else would be in your place, because your job
is actually the easiest one at the time.

Speaker 7 (07:26):
And they think people are loyal to the brands they
don't know. People will just be like, yeah, we'll just
go somewhere else. You don't care. Yeah, remember remember Snapchat?
No no friends or nope.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
Hey the kids do. What is something you think is underrated?

Speaker 6 (07:41):
Saying yea, yes, it's underrated because people act like they
want to do stuff, like like they're like, let's go
to a thing, and they like you you feel cornered
a little bit, And I'm like, why do you feel cornered?

Speaker 2 (07:53):
You could just say no, and if you don't want
to do it, like.

Speaker 6 (07:56):
Yo, I always say if it's not a hell yeah,
it's a no, Like if I don't feel it in
my spirit, if it doesn't light my whole.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
My ass on fire, then then I don't want to
do it.

Speaker 6 (08:08):
And I mean and that also comes from learning the
hard lesson, right, because if you do stuff that you
don't want to do, if you go to a job
that you hate, or if you you know, go help
your friend move when you didn't want to, then you
feel like a resemful sucker. That was like, you know,
you don't want to be carrying your friend's belongings into
their home and drop it hard because you really don't
want to be there.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
You know, you just dropped it.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
All right?

Speaker 3 (08:34):
No, I really want this to go?

Speaker 1 (08:36):
How about here?

Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (08:38):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's not a hell yet.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
No, I'm I'm like, I'm definitely I'm a people pleaser.
So I've definitely had had a lot of half assed
yes is. But once I really started going to therapy,
I knocked that ship off fully because then I was like, right, right, right,
Actually articulate your needs.

Speaker 1 (08:58):
That's the big thing.

Speaker 3 (08:59):
If you can't be out in front with your needs,
like in telling people describing them, then yeah, you're gonna
end up doing a lot of ship where you're there, like,
because man, there's so many times I've gone to things.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
And like, what's wrong, You're not having fun?

Speaker 3 (09:10):
I'm like, no, my god, I shouldn't have even come.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
Actually, what the fuck am I doing here? I tell
them this needs very dangerous advice for me, because everything
for me is a hell no. And then I have
to make myself do things, and when I do them,
I'm usually happy. So this is my question to you.
I'm very bad at seeing how things are gonna actually,

(09:35):
like my predictions are very pessimistic and bad always, So
I just have to sometimes make myself do stuff and
usually I'm happy that I did it. For you, is
your internal hell yeah pretty accurate? Like you you're like,
when I have a hell yeah in my heart, that's
actually gonna end up being fun. And when it's not

(09:57):
a hell yeah, it's actually something that I'm gonna regret doing, it's.

Speaker 6 (10:00):
Yes, it's pretty accurate because I can, like, you know,
you could just see like.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
Who else is going to be there, like yeah, you know,
and like the.

Speaker 6 (10:07):
Energy and and like sometimes it's like a combination like
the activity and who's I'm not going I'm not doing it,
But like if it's like the balance of well, I
think I might like white water rafting, but I might
not like it with these two people over here, I'm
gonna pick. I'm gonna be like yes because I've never
been white water rafting, and then then I'm gonna be like, well, experience,

(10:30):
and then I'll just stay away from those people.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
I try to balance it.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
That's great, that's admirable. This is probably the number one
challenge in my life is like what to say yes
and no too, And like I will often just like
go to my wife and be like this is I
don't I shouldn't go to this, right, Like I don't
need to go to this, Mom, Mom, I don't.

Speaker 3 (10:53):
I don't like art classes, right Mom?

Speaker 1 (10:56):
No, baby, you don't. You don't.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
You don't pick the active with these jacks.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
It's just the Yeah, social anxiety has fucked up my
hell yet hell no detector and so everything is like,
well I don't I'm gonna feel terrible about myself the
whole time. Fun So yeah, then it ends up sometimes
being worth So it's it's it's a it's a mess
out there. What is something you think is overrated?

Speaker 5 (11:22):
This could be this could be inflammatory to some people,
but I think me a aki.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
Some people some yes, go on, I'm open, I'm open to.

Speaker 5 (11:36):
I don't think I mean as an artist as created,
push pushing genre and form, completely rated, like fine, overrated,
I think one. I was pretty allergic to him when
I was younger because I was on Tumblr a lot,
and it would be people who made that the whole
personality and if you didn't like it, it was a
referendum on your taste.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
And I hate just because I don't. I don't want
people to freak out. As a filmmaker, I.

Speaker 5 (12:04):
Know I'm actually gonna go there because not as a filmmaker,
I think not bad.

Speaker 9 (12:09):
I'm not saying bad.

Speaker 5 (12:10):
I'm saying overrated, especially in terms of because I saw
Castle in This Guy and we over the weekend because
I was like, I'm older, I want to give it
a try. I want to see it, And when I
watched it with an open perspective, I went with a
friend who really really loves him, and I felt affirmed
in my impulse that while it's beautiful and wonderful, it's

(12:32):
a there's a lot of internalized misogyny under the performance
of like a female empowered voice. But I always say,
people can't tell the difference between a director who hates
women or a director who hates women and loves his mom.
And this feels like it falls under hates women loves
his mom, because it's like it felt like these ideas

(12:55):
not quite it felt like simplicity driven from an in
a ability to accept complex versus an understanding of the complexity.

Speaker 9 (13:04):
And so what we harald.

Speaker 5 (13:06):
Him as is this feminist and complex to these very
like beautiful ideas of humanity.

Speaker 9 (13:13):
I think we're giving him too much.

Speaker 5 (13:14):
And then my friend told me his whole thing is
about like identity, family support. Was that like his family
said he was like a horrible and he himself was
like I was not there as a So it's not
someone I don't know.

Speaker 9 (13:25):
It just doesn't feel embodied.

Speaker 3 (13:26):
Sure sure, sure, yeah yeah, I mean I definitely won't
push back on that because I think just generally just
Japanese cult. No, no, it is, no, it is very
misogynistic like to its core, so that's always gonna it.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
All that I think definitely bleeds through in a lot
of like sort of like those depictions.

Speaker 5 (13:42):
But help me out though, because people what I hear
is people say he's like feminists and like he has
female leads that are empowered and I was actually I
was like no, but just no.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
Yeah, I mean I think I haven't seen castle in
this guy in a long time. But I think for
a lot of the people, they probably limit it to
like two to three Miyazaki films and just draw everything
from that and are so hyper fixated on their love
of that that it's like any fandom where I think
it gets because even for me, like yeah, growing up
in just like with Japanese, like I'm Japanese, so ambiently,

(14:13):
Miyazaki was like always around. I wasn't a fan of
every single thing. But I think it's like, on one hand,
because he just completely created a whole other form of
like animation and an aesthetic that, to your point, is
like properly rated.

Speaker 1 (14:27):
Yeah, I think going deeper is totally fair.

Speaker 3 (14:30):
But yeah, I mean I think the I think, like
with any fandom, absolutes are probably not great, but I think.

Speaker 9 (14:37):
Yeah, that's probably whe I'm getting at.

Speaker 3 (14:38):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, like it's everyone. Everyone is a human
that's flawed on some level. But I think, yeah, I
don't know that it depends on your outlook, and I
think for sure growing up in like the Tumblr Miyazaki
era is like poisonous because I even was like, oh
my god, dude, what the like, please leave this shit alone,

(14:59):
like find.

Speaker 9 (14:59):
Something she does not need to be cut up like that.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
I will say, I think a lot of Miyazaki fans
are coming with a room tone of Disney movies and
Disney movies messaging around women.

Speaker 9 (15:16):
Fair is really fair.

Speaker 1 (15:18):
Like is based on the wildest most sexist tropes that
like you could possibly embody like I I've I went
on the Bechdel Cast to talk about snow White and
how they a long time ago, but like they the
ways that she every time, if you're just viewing it
as like a chart of her being in trouble and

(15:40):
in danger, anytime she does something of her own volition,
it is exactly sending her to her death. And then
every time that she is unconscious, that's when she is saved.
It's like the message is agency is the messages like
don't have agency and just be quiet and don't do shit,

(16:02):
to the point that if you can be uncout, Like
there's a part where the Seven Doors are about to
kill her with a pickaxe and then she like rolls
over in her sleep and they're like, whoa, she's pretty
as hell. Then like there there's a part like she
gets she gets saved from the coma because like she's
just laying there in a glass coffin like a piece
of artwork, and the Prince Charming like hears hears how

(16:26):
pretty she is and rolls up. But then like the
stuff that she does of her own voligious, like sprint
into the woods face first and just get like knocked out,
then like break and enter into people a person's house,
eat the most clearly poisoned apple of all time. Yeah,
so I just feel like I feel like and then

(16:46):
from there it's just always that's the ship is just
like you know, very that's the under undergrading message of
a lot of Disney Princess movies. And then to come
upon me a Zaki, people are like, yo, where this
is fucking? Is this written by like a feminist Judith Butler? Yeah,

(17:09):
thank you, thank you feminist. But yeah, so I think
it's like feminists by comparison. But I totally take your
point that like, once it gets that gene, people probably
are giving it too easy a pass and just like
taking it in as like this this must be fucking great,
because it's not.

Speaker 5 (17:30):
That's really fair. That's why I say overrated not but
like by no means just that aspect of him felt
so overrated to me in a way where I was like,
and you're right, like comparatively sure, like societally sure, and
especially you're saying like you're growing up and it's around everywhere.
Then absolutely it's rated. And I guess what would that

(17:54):
be when you're rating to scale?

Speaker 1 (17:56):
I guess, sure, sure, sure, appropriately rated.

Speaker 3 (17:58):
But yeah, I think it's like anything, there's another layer
of analysis people can engage in with it that probably
people choose not to to sort of preserve the idea
of like, no, I need it to be my you know,
my comfort film or creator.

Speaker 5 (18:13):
That's my favorite line roum the Office is when Mandy
Kaling's character Kelly Kapur, when they're talking about you know now,
they the episode is under review, but it's when is
Hillary Swang caught? And then Kelly's character just says no,
because if.

Speaker 9 (18:27):
Hillary Swank's not hot, then I'm not hot.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
That's right. Who is the fairest of them all? All right?
The looks ocracy power is transferred based on Ryan. Let's
say your quick break we'll be right back, and we're back.

(18:57):
We're back. And how am I pronouncing her name? Barrie Weiss? Barry?
I don't hear what I said.

Speaker 3 (19:07):
It's spelled in a way where you go, oh, you're
trying to be cute with that. It sounds like you're
spelling it like you don't want me to say Barry.
I guess that's how I yeah, yeah, so I'll just
go with Barie Barry, look, Barry whatever. Ms Weiss the
destroyer of CBS News.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
Yeah, so she took over CBS News after having had
a unsuccessful blog those subsidized by billionaire right wing philanthropists.
Don't forget her university too, and to college that doesn't
teach people know then how to get more calcified in
their bullshit beliefs. So she's taking over CBS News. We've

(19:49):
talked about how the CBS Evening News with dopely.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The man who came at a
tin of hissy coats in that Internet, man.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
Who came a ton of coats, and they were like,
this guy should be the new Walter Cronkite, right, that's
all you need to know. And he came through and
was like Walter Cronkite ain't got shipped on me, man
and uh, and then proceeded to like his very first broadcast,
like almost burst into tears because he fucked it up
so bad. He was like, are we talking about? Who

(20:24):
are we talking about? Things are going well, Things are
going well. First day?

Speaker 3 (20:30):
Not good first day of the show that's been on
for decades.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
Yeah, you're like, I think they, I think Loki. They
hate you in the control they hate you. Let's be
let's be real, Tony. But anyways, she's prepared to change
things up and fight fire with more flaming garbage. She
just had an all hands call with the staffers and
laid out a bold new plan for saving the newly
magalining network if they stick to their current strategy their toast.

(20:59):
She also said that CBS News isn't producing a product
that enough people want and not enough people trust us.
Seems like a problem. I'm with her so far. Yeah, okay,
she said, clearly the real problem here is streaming. Said
that the way they need to shift to a streaming

(21:20):
mentality is going to save them because that's where the
audience is, which is wild that she's just coming to
this realization. At a time when like this was This
was the meeting that when I worked at ABC News
in two thousand and two, two thousand and three, this
was the conversation that they people were having. What we need,

(21:43):
We need to break out. People are on the internet.
We need to go there. People are watching less shit,
Like we need to.

Speaker 10 (21:50):
Be prepared that the old people of CB you know,
the CBS watchers right would like live like vampires.

Speaker 2 (21:57):
They'll stay like seventy five forever.

Speaker 6 (21:59):
And I'm like, well, they're like they're supposed to we're
supposed to graduate into them, but we're not graduating into them.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
Yeah, because we value journalism.

Speaker 3 (22:09):
What Yeah, Yeah, and we witnessed the change. You're like,
I don't want that. She's like, the problem is it's
wold that you're saying. The problem is we've changed for
the worst. Yeah, that's going to affect things.

Speaker 1 (22:19):
So if we do, nobody trusts us. And the way
that we get past that is uh streaming. Which I
will say she shouldn't be too hard on herself because
the sixty minute minute segment that she banned, she censored
because it lacked the Trump administration's argument on the prisons

(22:42):
they were deporting people to that were you know, where
people were being in Yeah. Yeah. And our Salvador that
that actually did really well on streaming after it was
accidentally uploaded by a Canadian broadcaster. Yeah, that one.

Speaker 6 (22:55):
I didn't really know about it until like I hit
TikTok and I was like, oh, yeah.

Speaker 3 (22:59):
Look at us, which is wild that they go this
thing that we were suppressing that was news did really well.
And it's because of streaming, yes, not because you're reporting
the fucking atrocities at Seacott.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
It's the one thing that where a brief bit of
reporting like squeaked through your no news censors did well.
And she's like, stream dude, sits talking on YouTube. Actually
fuck on this other shit.

Speaker 3 (23:28):
It's really fucking It's so that whole meeting was really
stupid too, because she also at that meeting told staffers
at the CBS Evening News, quote, you've been offered a
quote extraordinary chance to leave. She was saying, she was
trying to fucking present this like severance, like, hey, if

(23:49):
you don't like it, you can get out of here,
but will also give you more. Apparently that the severance
package was quote an enhancement over what would normally get
a journalist would get as part of paramoun standard severance
plan for employees, and just really just said, hey, this
extraordinary chance is available to anyone if you want to
leave too.

Speaker 1 (24:08):
So that's also exciting new opportunities and not being here.
Yeah right, yeah, So she's also doing like it's just
classic corporate media bullshit. We want CBS News to be
like a media startup, is her thing about the oldest Oh,
a brand that's been around since the nineteen twenty.

Speaker 3 (24:28):
Oh are you going to embrace like a diverse set
of opinions and actually report from multiple perspectives?

Speaker 1 (24:33):
Is that? Is that what we mean by that? Yeah,
we are a new set of opinions to you, not
to me. They're bringing on eighteen new commentators like along
basically like Fox News. They're just trying to be Fox News,
and we'll be cutting staff that doesn't a lot where
whose beliefs don't align with her vision. And some of

(24:55):
these new hires. Man I did not know about these
these guys, Uh, They include Nile Ferguson, Patrick McGee, doctor
Mark Hymen, the latter being the wellness guru who's good
friends with RFK Junior and has claimed that he is
pro vaccine safety.

Speaker 3 (25:16):
But word, you know what else he is for being
a doctor. He is a germ theory skeptic. Also, you
gotta he doesn't believe in germ theory.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
He doesn't wash okay, yeah, yeah, hurt.

Speaker 1 (25:30):
And doesn't believe in germ theory. I mean that is
a thing you can only be in this era where
like a doctor actually driven. Yeah, where it's just like, what,
what's the most provocative thing that I could say that
it's gonna get people's eyeballs on this with complete disregard
for the truth.

Speaker 3 (25:50):
Theory denialist is actually how he's been.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
He moved through the skeptic phase when he saw when
he saw the numbers that his germ theory skeptic videos did,
he moved right into germ theory denialism. Yeah, yep.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
It's like that's not enough.

Speaker 1 (26:06):
Yeah, exactly, I gotta, I gotta go harder at this
germ theory.

Speaker 3 (26:10):
Yeah, this thing that absolutely changed medicine for the better. Actually,
I think it's good to have all these germs inside
you in unsanitary ways.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
Yeah, I mean it is the main thing that it
helped was women and childbirth. That was like one of
the first things that it was. People were like, I
guess we shouldn't walk right from shoveling horseshit into performing
childbirth and c sections and suddenly everybody stopped, you know,
one in two and stopped dying in childbirth. I mean,

(26:42):
so I could I could see how somebody in this
with this worldview would be skeptical every idea.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
Everything he says for is like I don't care if
people die prematurely. It's like you don't because his vaccine
skepticism is just like you know, he was writing the
preface for an RFK book like where he was just
talking about vaccines, Like this guy is just just one
of these peoples like I don't know, I think suffering's
cool or something.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
Maybe I don't know, Let's make you stronger.

Speaker 2 (27:07):
Yeah, he's perfect for CBS, actually.

Speaker 3 (27:10):
Right, yeah, yeah, exactly, And what exactly they want to do.
They want to have someone who has the title doctor
to go on there and maybe who's someone who's watching
on critically goes, well, this doctor said that actually measles
is tight.

Speaker 10 (27:23):
Yeah yeah, so I mean we should have seen it
coming because yeah, doctor Phil, these other doctor oz Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
Doctor Phil is my personal physician so I can't talk
too much ship.

Speaker 3 (27:35):
But oh patient, doctor confident.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, that's why anxiety.

Speaker 1 (27:41):
So yeah, so hot. He got a lot of interesting
things to say about the he's your physician journal entries
that I sent him.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
Yeah, hold on, Jack, now, hold on. You didn't want
to go to this birthday party?

Speaker 1 (27:56):
Why not? Uh? I didn't think what to do with
my hands, doctor Phil while I stood in the corner.
Jesus all right. Nile Ferguson, though this guy eluded me. So.
He's a conservative British historian and political commentator who made
headlines in twenty eighteen when he had to resign from

(28:17):
a Stanford University free speech program after leaked emails exposed
his plot to get Republican students to conduct opposition research
on a left leaning student the fucking oppo.

Speaker 2 (28:30):
For and then what right? Like were they going to
adopt them?

Speaker 6 (28:34):
Like?

Speaker 2 (28:34):
What was it?

Speaker 1 (28:35):
Well, his emails, the it's really the tone. It's really
in the tone of these emails. They're just like laughably
like movie villain coded. He at one point instructed his bingings.
Now we turned to the more subtle game of grinding
them down on the committee. The price of liberty is
eternal vigilance, asking them to unite against the social justice

(28:58):
warriors and urge them to bury whatever past differences they
may have for the common good. And now we turned
to the more subtle game of his h The student
he was talking to was, by the way, the son
of Susan Rice, a former national security advisor to Barack Obama.

(29:19):
He was the president of Stanford College Republicans at the time,
and he responded to that email saying, slowly, we will
continue to crush the left's will to resist as they
will crack under pressure. What interest, yes, master, yes, master,
indeed we wish that it's like.

Speaker 6 (29:37):
This is the son of the national security person from
Barack Obama's.

Speaker 3 (29:41):
Signed Yeah he heard person was included on an email
like this. This professor was also emailing John Rice Cameron,
who's her son.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:52):
Cameron's response was slowly, we will continue to crush the
left's will to resist.

Speaker 6 (29:57):
Oh that's why I don't have kids, because you don't
know how they gonna come out just having.

Speaker 1 (30:03):
Any national security I'm just saying, like I don't even
if it's under Obama, I feel national security might need you.
You might be like we treat people. Well, but if
you're for a living like ordering drone targeting of wedding parties,
then maybe it.

Speaker 3 (30:20):
Might be a little gray area on and who's not
for sure. Also, that Stanford free speech program is the
most frightening collection of words I've ever heard, because you know,
that's the Silicon Valley, all like autocrat Stanford is captured.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
Stanford has been captured, franking out the hits man. Yeah,
but more recently he's been writing for the Free Press,
Barry Weiss's Free Press, debuting with a genocidal rant that
urged the Biden administration to invade Gaza. He also offered
political insights, like comparing the twenty twenty four election to Barbenheimer.

(30:55):
So he's like a serious thinker that is going to
save CBS News.

Speaker 3 (31:00):
Wait what that it's a Barbenheimer the Barbenheimer election. WHI
Kamala Harris runs a campaign of unsurpassed vacuousness. On the
other screen, we have the dark, fiscile energy of Donald
Donald Trump.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
Okay, by Nile Fagus, get out of here. Anyways, We'll
see what happens.

Speaker 6 (31:22):
Man.

Speaker 3 (31:22):
I mean, look, I think Barry, you've got to you've
you're you've have died, You've diagnosed the problem, but have
completely arrived at the most incorrect conclusion possible, which nobody trusts.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
Us, and therefore we need to double down on streaming
by putting her most untrustworthy voices everywhere on our plan.

Speaker 3 (31:42):
Yeah yeah, well again, she wasn't put in there to
be effective in terms of making CBS a new like
a good thing. She was just there to like completely
muddy the waters in terms of what people are ingesting
what they call quote unquote news and having the name
like CBS it helps, it helps.

Speaker 1 (31:59):
Just generally, it seems like their problem might be the
unpopularity of their message because okay, they're eating shit as
when they tried to put it on like a major
news network on a major just like one of the
major networks, nobody wants to watch that shit. And then

(32:19):
in a more slightly more niche community, even the fascism
kink community is not a fan. Yes, the r Fucking
Fascist subreddit has announced that they will no longer allow
content or role play featuring Ice, leaving users stunned that
Ice is even too evil for the fascist kink community. Wow.

Speaker 3 (32:41):
Yeah, it's even on the subreddit drama page because the
moderator contends with the reality that their kink sub might
be problematic. Oh really, really, this is the post, and
this is interesting said, this is from the one of
the motteris Hello everyone, this is Brandy back again for
some reflection. This post isn't coming from any in my
capacity as moderator, but as a user, and doesn't reflect

(33:03):
any official stance of the Mad team, but merely my own.
I've been stewing lately, in the aftermath of the shooting
of Renee Good and now of Alex Pretty, I've been
acutely aware of beyond troubling trends here in this subreddit. First,
when you put the community on pause after receiving a
wave of input from users that we ought to update
our policies, the amount of hostility that I and the
moderator received for merely trying to respect the wishes of you,

(33:24):
our users was appalling.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
And these go on.

Speaker 3 (33:27):
Apparently this was like a whole back and forth. That's
just a weird I mean, what an like already, that's
such an odd kink to have when you're like, I
want you to dress up like Heinrich Himmler and just
blow my back out right now.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
Like, what, don't be that way in real life? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (33:44):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly what's your fantasy to be fucked?
Just oh my god, just crazy every which way by
Heinrich Himler.

Speaker 1 (33:53):
I want my legs shaking of that. I seed you
to wear this SSRM band M Yeah.

Speaker 6 (34:00):
This community is kind of wild because like like, okay,
we're grown ups. I've been in some areas where it's like, yo,
you know radical consent, right, Like yeah, we're not. There's
no and there's no bullshit here. You know, everybody's welcome,
all bodies are good bodies.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
We love that.

Speaker 6 (34:17):
And then you go on like the message boards because
I'm not going to those other parties in real life,
and they're like yeah, like exactly what you said. It's
like weird, race play crazy, like medical fat shit like
so it's like is this them meeting in the middle,
Like Hey, I want to be weird, but like you
can't really be weird.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
Yeah, And it's like there's you know some people who
have like shit tied, you know, sexual shit tied to
like taboos, and like yeah, maybe this is the ultimate
taboo for them for white people.

Speaker 2 (34:49):
Yeah, yeah, likes good time for that shit.

Speaker 1 (34:52):
Yeah, it seems like the timing is not good and
the fact that some of them are like immediately moving
to wanting to fuck Ice agents might reflect poor league
on your community because I think they banned it.

Speaker 3 (35:07):
Yeah, well so there happens that this is they go
on quote if the community is tipped past the point
of catering to liberals exclusively to primarily right wingers, Nazis
and Nazi apologists right wingers, then it's got to fucking go.
If any of this post is upset or scared you
their eader, you're probably part of the problem for the
rest of you who are actual liberals just trying to
express your fantasies safely.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
I apologize.

Speaker 3 (35:29):
I don't mean to deprive anyone of a safe space,
but to give you the behind the scenes perspective, this
place isn't safe. I honestly think if you get any
modicum of pleasure of like this fucking thing, there's something
you gotta zoom.

Speaker 1 (35:44):
Out of a little bit time to figure something out, examined.

Speaker 6 (35:48):
How way to make yourself a victim because like yo, like,
like you said, like the zoom out it's a microcosm
of the world we live in, which is like very
white and very privileged and very like all the things
that you know, this is this is they're representing it
like this, we need to have the safe spaces, we
need to like protect our fetish reddit.

Speaker 3 (36:10):
Yeah, like I know, we got we have a place
for liberals to explore. There's problematic kink. I think it's
like it also revealing that it's like this is for liberals,
like ex.

Speaker 1 (36:25):
Safe place, but like yeah, they're surprised when it's overrun
by actual Nazis. Well yeah, and well I can help
you out with that.

Speaker 3 (36:33):
It lacks that awareness, right that I think is endemic
of like what the problem is a lot of like
liberal white voters, Like I see this all the time
with people going it's like Nazi Germany. No, it's Jim Crow.

Speaker 1 (36:48):
It's like Jim Crow actually like American history.

Speaker 3 (36:51):
Well no, but I mean, like to the point where
it's like the like the you know, the the Nazi
we talked about the Nazis were studying Jim Crow. Jim
Crow law is to be like, Okay, this is how
you fucking subjucate people and create second class citizens and
keep them out of your society.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
Your learned from Henry Ford.

Speaker 8 (37:08):
Right, Car guy like, but like, how racist do you
have to be to be a car guy that's more
racist than the guy that's like.

Speaker 1 (37:18):
Who's putting? Ford had a picture of Hitler next to
his desk. Hitler had a picture of Henry Ford death.
Like That's what I.

Speaker 3 (37:28):
Think, Like, even just our our the American American culture's
inability to say Jim Crow and everyone go, God, that
was so fucked that see, because it doesn't have the
same weight, because we're still in this place where the
atrocities committed to black people especially just it doesn't occupy
the same part of the brain you have to you
have to go to Nazi Germany where they go, oh,

(37:50):
white people, right, that was wild?

Speaker 1 (37:53):
That was wild.

Speaker 3 (37:54):
I can wrap my head around that. I can't get.
I can't experience a requisite outrage to look at something
that was so specific to our history and be like.

Speaker 1 (38:02):
That can never happen.

Speaker 3 (38:03):
I think that's the thing that I'm really worried about
our inability to really move forward because we still have
this huge blind spot to our own history and being
able to reckon with that. So I don't know, it's
like hard to be like and we're going to solve.

Speaker 1 (38:16):
It now because X, Y and Z and like.

Speaker 6 (38:20):
I've been struggling, Like I feel like we're we as
a nation, not us on this Google, but like where
we where we kind of slipped up as a nationism.
You know when they were showing when you go to
the museums and your pictures of like the Little Rock
nine going into the school and these like you know,
white women and like old grown up people spitting at

(38:42):
children and I'm like, they're still alive probably or something
like there's no like you didn't know.

Speaker 3 (38:49):
People who have seen lynchings that are still alive are still.

Speaker 6 (38:51):
Alive, and they're just like chilling, Like that's the blind spot,
right like, and we let that shit go, and we
let that shit go, and.

Speaker 2 (38:59):
Here we are. Yeah, now motherfuckers are taking your neighbors away.

Speaker 3 (39:04):
Yeah, and now you have a subreddit being like damn,
is it fucked up for us to dress as overseers
and sex?

Speaker 1 (39:12):
What the what the fuck?

Speaker 2 (39:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (39:15):
What the fuck? Yes, it was it was interesting. We
were talking about how the Trump administration's planned to like
bring ice to the Winter Olympics in Italy. Yeah, and
they we were looking at a story from within Italy
about a deportation campaign that they were doing inside the
country and in the country in Italy, they were like,

(39:36):
this is like the Italian Guantanamo. So like in America,
we have to try and refer to the Nazis to
like other it, to be like these people are like
the Gestapo. This is like Nazi Germany and everywhere else
in the world. They're like, no, we don't need to
go that far back. This is like America. Like this
is you know, they can see it clearly.

Speaker 3 (39:58):
Basically, I thought these are slow catch your patrols, right,
this was like ice, right, Yeah, what the fuck?

Speaker 2 (40:09):
I thought this was a normal Tuesday in America.

Speaker 1 (40:11):
What But ICE is really losing losing the crowd it
reddit anti ice ice messaging is reportedly all over read
it right now, given in non political subreddits like our
cross Stitch, our cat Bongos, which is all about playful
drumming on cats, and our massive cock, which now contains

(40:32):
posts such as how hard I get when I think
about abolishing ice exactly?

Speaker 3 (40:43):
So many I mean, there's a there's a I think
Wired wrote an article two about how the Minnesota subreddit
went from like stuff about the Timberwolves and the Vikings
and like hot dish recipes to one of the like
organizing like a focal point from Minnesotans to like to
organize And obviously that's where the first instance of the
Alex Preddie video was posted.

Speaker 1 (41:04):
Also, and I'm.

Speaker 3 (41:06):
Sure they're probably like, fuck man, we just spent all
that money on TikTok, so we got to get Reddit too,
now even yeah, because you know Reddit does I mean,
they're definitely there's open them.

Speaker 1 (41:16):
They're open to but yeah, they're really ban our massive cock. Yeah,
the Trump administration is taking control of the subreddit. Are massive.

Speaker 2 (41:26):
Oh my god.

Speaker 1 (41:28):
I wonder if the Minnesota subreddit is, like if anybody
is like also being like, hey, real quick, did you
guys hear Yannis might like a Yannis trade might be
in between because because the because the Timberwolves are in
like in the talks, they're they're one of the teams
that people say it could happen to get.

Speaker 3 (41:47):
It's pretty much completely shifted to like a community centric
subreddit that for that one.

Speaker 1 (41:53):
Are Timberwolves are timberl All right, there you go, All right,
let's take a quick break and we'll come back and
talk about sea monsters. Be right back and we're back.
We're back and anti ice content is reportedly being censored

(42:16):
by TikTok. That that's been a lot of different places.
The mainstream media like CNN has been very careful about
how they talk about this, drawing a circumstantial connection between
their efforts to make videos about ice and the difficulties
they had posting them over the weekend. So they're like,
this is circumstantial. We don't have any proofs and it's

(42:37):
really impossible to test it. They wrote it.

Speaker 3 (42:40):
It's like they wrote that paragraph with their hands up
like someone has a gun on the like, and you know,
we're just drawing circumstance.

Speaker 1 (42:45):
You're not anything here, Just go ahead, MH. Like MPR
was a little bit more like TikTok says they're looking
into why many users have been unable to send the
word epstein and direct messages. So they're at least saying
it's half opening.

Speaker 5 (43:00):
What is the is it litigiously? What are these citing?
Is their inability are they like to actually say what
is happening regardless of its intent or whatever? You know
what I mean, or like the intention?

Speaker 3 (43:13):
I guess they don't even want to allege that they're
engaging in censorship like.

Speaker 1 (43:17):
That right, you're talking about why is TikTok saying.

Speaker 9 (43:21):
That no, why or like why CNN.

Speaker 1 (43:23):
Why CNN being so like middle of the road, because
that's that's told them. So they're all the dark leaders
have told them is the is the thing that they're
missing is that they need to be more middle of
the road. They need to do you know, you saw
how Kamala Harris ran to the right and how well

(43:45):
that went well. They were like that, that's what we
need to do. We need to instead of giving people
what they want, we give people what they want from
other people and then we're for no.

Speaker 9 (43:57):
One mm hmm yeah.

Speaker 5 (43:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
The idea that this there's no way to know, like
they literally in this CNN article shucks because the the
fucking I cannot think of the word the algorithm is
behind because the algorithm is a black box, so we'll

(44:24):
never know. And it's like maybe you just tried dming
the word epstein to somebody, like try that.

Speaker 5 (44:30):
It's also like we literally have been given our algorithms
on Instagram there it isn't a black box like you
can look at an individual.

Speaker 3 (44:36):
So yeah, I just like how when they're talked, when
they're asked about it like a spokesperson for TikTok just goes, well,
we don't have rules against sharing the name Epstein indirect messages,
so we're investigating why something that's weird we have rules
about that.

Speaker 1 (44:51):
That's crazy. So just you know, officially we don't have
rules about that, but behind the scenes, there might be
some filters being set up. Yeah, this all feels very remnant.
So the time TikTok was seemingly blocking users from writing
free Palestine. When the app returned after being taken offline
in the US, remember like the app went away, came back,
and suddenly people couldn't write free Palestine. So this is

(45:13):
the wild ass journalism that CNN hasn't thought of. The
people at four or four Media, a great site, were like.
I tried this myself on Tuesday morning using two different
throwaway TikTok accounts. Using one account, I could comment free
Palestine without a problem, and that comment is still up
as of Wednesday morning. Using another, my free Palestine comments

(45:34):
were immediately removed repeatedly, and I received a notification that
I had violated the TikTok community guidelines. I could comment
with a nonsense phrase free shavocado, free Shavaka do Hell yeah, yeah,
using that same account, however, and TikTok didn't remove it,
So I feel like that was pretty straightforward. I think
we did the experiment that CNN seemed to think was impossible,

(45:58):
and back then you'll never have to write that Jack, Yes,
back then you'll never guess what TikTok's excuse was for
why the thing was magically eating posts that said free
Palestine and kicking those people off. Temporary instability m exactly
the same thing. It's not not true, temporary the exact

(46:21):
same excuse.

Speaker 9 (46:24):
Do you guys watch vander Punt Rules.

Speaker 1 (46:26):
Only the first couple I'm aware of it.

Speaker 5 (46:28):
Like seeing in all these people reporting reminds me of
like Jax Taylor admitting to cheating. He's like, there's actually
no way to know if I did, if it was existing. However,
those women I don't. It's like none of it. And
you're like, we could just ask, you could tell us, you.

Speaker 1 (46:44):
Could say in your brain having experience.

Speaker 9 (46:48):
No, I couldn't speak from nobody.

Speaker 1 (46:50):
That happened largely for you to know if I'm telling
the truth or not.

Speaker 9 (46:54):
So stability was temporarily instable.

Speaker 3 (46:57):
So therefore a conclusion could be drawn, whereas the Asian
countries such as and therefore.

Speaker 1 (47:08):
Yeah, maybe someone just accidentally bumped the switches that turn
on and off ice and Epstein likes power outage and
temporary instability causes them to ban account.

Speaker 3 (47:23):
I mean people, It's funny because I was looking at
the TikTok subreddit to see because a lot of like
the people on there, I don't know how much they represent,
sort of like all users, but they're all like what,
we're getting the fuck off this, I'm on red Scent,
I'm on fucking up scroll, They're all like leaving. I
don't know if it still seems like that's that's still
a minority of people, but at the very least this

(47:45):
should show you, like, you know, guys, this is how
like olivearchy works, you know, like they couldn't. They're trying
to control the entire conversation around things like the Epstein files,
which implicate a lot of oligarchs and just terribly powerful people,
not to mention the genocide that's happening, Not to mention
talking about the current legal crisis, constitutional crisis that's happening

(48:09):
in this country. They're just trying to mute any kind
of thing where people are going to exchange ideas and
begin to be like that's right, holy shit, Oh my god.
Let me put the pieces together, or let me go
further in my education to understand what the forces are
that are affecting my day to day even my little
app where I was just watching hamsters make little pancakes.

Speaker 1 (48:28):
But you know that's this is the stake time being
controlled by a group that involves the Ellisons. Yeah, who
you know are Trumps, Yeah, close close advisors and who
he owns CBS, now you know what I mean, has
made it possible for them to become incredibly and illegally
powerful when it comes to the media landscape. So yeah,

(48:50):
spike and downloads for TikTok alternatives and one hundred and
fifty percent increase in TikTok uninstalls, and people are also
pointing out the TikTok terms now include, you know, the
right to I think they want to have the right
to know what your immigration status is and sexual orientation,
which is not uncommon for social media networks apparently, but still,

(49:14):
I think it's a change from before, which that's probably
not good. And people are also pointing out like that
there's this is going around. So this week it was
reported that Meta has been blocking users from sharing links
to the ice List, which is a website that compiled
the names of what it claims our Department of Homeland
Security employees. And Amazon is very involved in powering a

(49:40):
lot of the ICE operatinguting services.

Speaker 9 (49:43):
Yeah yeah, yeah, well that yeah, I read that thing
about the cloud.

Speaker 1 (49:47):
Yeah yeah. It seems that Apple also removed the ICE
tracking app de Ice or last Fall, which Tim Cook.

Speaker 3 (49:58):
Tim Cook is out there just deep throat in the
boot at every opportunity, he's like, oh my god, I love.

Speaker 1 (50:04):
Malania the movie. He went to the Malania, he went
to the private screening, private screening. But he might just
be a fan of cinema. You never know, he's a
fan of making money.

Speaker 3 (50:15):
Yeah, that's I wish they got to that story because
that the Milania thing is funny because it actually does
connect to the Stephen Miller thing.

Speaker 1 (50:23):
Let's do it. I came into today, Miles, I said, today,
I'm making the editorial decision we're not going to cover
the Milania documentary because we've covered it for like five
days running.

Speaker 3 (50:34):
But it's not even a movie good, it's it sums
up how backwards. Everything is you have an oligark paying
forty million dollars for the licensing rights to a documentary
directed by a sex krim okay and then throwing another
thirty five million dollars in marketing. But seven so this
fucker costs seventy five million dollars to try and prop

(50:56):
up the image of the the first lady. They're trying
to make like the soft face of fascism. It's it
has everything.

Speaker 9 (51:05):
By the way, it's going to be a vocal Stanley.

Speaker 3 (51:06):
Sexy Jamie Loftus for that one early Days.

Speaker 1 (51:13):
Segment we had at the time, shout it's his Height Gang.
That was his Height Gang creation. But yeah, she is
still promoting the documentary by opening the New York Stock Exchange,
all those all those movie fans who work on the
trading floor in Wall Street.

Speaker 3 (51:32):
You know what it is, it's the only places that
will have her.

Speaker 9 (51:35):
Yes, exactly because Jordan Belfort invited I'm sure.

Speaker 1 (51:39):
The original wolf.

Speaker 9 (51:40):
She is so fucking stupid like that.

Speaker 5 (51:43):
It is like it's also like it's either gonna save
us or like or take him down, because it's that
classic sort of story of like and his temperamental wife.
Actually like killed him in his sleep, and it's like
why it's it's so ridiculous, it's so fucking stupid.

Speaker 1 (52:00):
But I'm pretty sure that doesn't happen in the documentary.
I would watch if that was what happened to the documentary.
Yeah yeah, I don't think thing that's in there. But
if it was like an unauthorized documentary, that was just
you know, like we got a Queen of Versailles style
like look inside the house, and like you just saw
how dysfunctional the relationship was, and like that, like the

(52:21):
only time they interact is like on a fucking outlook
calendar of like appearances that are yeah yeah, where she
has to like consult her lawyers, consult her contract in
order to decide if she has to go to any
of these meetings. But what about that log line or
the tagline for it on the post? Yeah yeah, So

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jay I was pointing out that the poster that everybody's
seen because they only made one, has the tagline a
new film.

Speaker 9 (52:54):
No, this is real. Hey, hey, that's so real?

Speaker 1 (52:57):
A new film.

Speaker 5 (52:58):
First of all, switch it's giving be better or yeah,
be best, best, be.

Speaker 1 (53:06):
Best a new film Millennia. Speaking of the best, I
will say she's missing an opportunity because she loves to
play darize women who are like in similar positions, you know,
the former First Lady Michelle Obama, but with the be
best speech. I think she really fucked up by her
popcorn bucket, which we talked about, which is just the

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a new film movie poster tin popcorn bucket. There is
a Megan two point oh, M Threegan two point oh
bucket that is like M Threegan's head. And I'm just saying, like, yeah,
she already looks like that ship, Like you just changed

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the what's on her neck to being like what I unhinged?
I feel like.

Speaker 3 (53:53):
She's smart enough to be like, that's going to open
the door to countless memes.

Speaker 1 (53:58):
And I did not have it.

Speaker 3 (53:59):
And the true man, if you had a thing to
crack open the head and do, yeah, that's not gonna happen.
But the thing, the reason why I really wanted to
bring this up is because Michael Wolfe, the guy who
wrote Fire and Fury, He's saying that the one of
the reasons why potentially Trump could be rethinking the deportation
campaign is because Milania was quote pissed off that the

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Ice Murders has taken the attention away from her movie.

Speaker 8 (54:26):
Yeah d like last Yeah likes.

Speaker 3 (54:36):
So wild because because also like it's just so funny
to see how the truth social account for Trump is.

Speaker 1 (54:42):
Just spamming promo for the movie too. When it's like
I don't know if she's like you must post about it,
and he's like, I don't know, no one gives a fuck.

Speaker 3 (54:52):
Yeah, like just sort of you know, trying to hype
it up to the base. But again, ticket sales in
major blue cities look bisb. As we looked on the
amc Apps and Regal.

Speaker 1 (55:02):
They're going to they're going to buy out theaters like
they have unlimited money at this point because of the oligarchy.
They're gonna buy out the tickets. I just our citizen
journalists need to be ready to show show that the
theaters are actually empty.

Speaker 3 (55:17):
Right to go there and be like, I don't know,
this is this was a sold out show. I'm looking
on my here it is there are no tickets.

Speaker 9 (55:24):
And it's just if somebody.

Speaker 5 (55:25):
Wants to write like like a new Ish film, I
will play Millenia and we can redo it all. But truthfully,
for real, it's gotta be such an interest, like it
would be like have you ever seen Dog Tooth the first?

Speaker 1 (55:41):
Like yeah, yeah, yeah, Like I feel like that must
be what her life is like, you know, inside the
White House. 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 Miles. He needs

(56:01):
your validation, folks. I hope you're having a great weekend
and I will talk to him Monday. Bye.