Weekly Zeitgeist 428 (Best of 4/20/26-4/24/26)

The weekly round-up of the best moments from season 435 (4/20/26-4/24/26)

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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. Yeah, so,
without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Ben.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
We do like to ask our guest, what is something
from your search history that's revealing about who you are?

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Okay, got some quick ones for you. Eurovision. You guys
have heard of that. We did a two part series
on the history of Eurovision, primarily as an excuse to
look at some of the strangest h I don't know
if we could call them songs at this point, or
performances that are on Eurovision their aperiences experiences.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yeah, so they are.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
It's weird because Eurovision. For anybody who somehow hasn't seen it,
I'm sorry you're not cool. But the most important thing
to remember about it is it's it's become an exercise
in soft diplomacy. So it's like if the Voice or
America's Got Talent, had all the states in the United

(01:18):
States going against each other to see which one is
the best state and Eurovision.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
It's a great idea, by the way, like America should do.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
That America's best state.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
You guys, best state state.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
I don't think it's America's best state.

Speaker 5 (01:38):
And then I think there would be so many more
murders and it's.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
Nice to have guns.

Speaker 5 (01:43):
When you did you say that as a family, and
you're like, oh, you know, this could really up up
available crimes.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
This could be our ratio.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Another thing I learned about was, you know how there
aren't that many Thai American people in the US, but
there are a ship ton of Thai restaurants right pretty
much any city you go.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Uh, that's I didn't know.

Speaker 4 (02:09):
There's not a lot of Thai people in America. Is
that right?

Speaker 1 (02:12):
That is correct?

Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah, there there are not a ton in comparison to others,
right to the number of restaurants especially. So the reason
it occurs is another kind of slick soft diplomacy, that's
what we call it. With Eurovision. The Kingdom of Thailand
years back decided, hey, we don't have to buy nuclear weapons.

(02:37):
Hey we don't have to you know, be one of
those five big dogs at the UN.

Speaker 6 (02:42):
All we have to do.

Speaker 7 (02:44):
Is we just got to the big dogs, right, big dogs.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
That's our next, that's our next.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
Podcast that Sophie and I are working on pretty fucking interesting.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Big Dog Got to Eat. So they this was a
concerted effort to get Thailand. Was like what if our
restaurants were just great and like we we just are
are they rigorous about there? Like, okay, you have to
have pad Thaie. It has to taste like this, because
I will say, of the cuisines, one of the most
consistent from city to city. I'm getting pad Thai, I'm

(03:26):
getting pad Seu. Yeah exactly, he's kind of getting right
about the same, and like very good. Is the Kingdom
coming through and being like regulating this pad thime, motherfucker.

Speaker 8 (03:41):
Regulating you're you you know, you're you know pad Thai?

Speaker 3 (03:46):
Is it really even a Thai dish traditionally Americ American?

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yeah, yeah, just so.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
And they did it as part of this concentrated to
your questions there concentrated thing under what we call the
box and administration th h A K s I n
uh two make Thailand more front of mind for people
around the world. They called it kitchen of the World.

(04:14):
So they would give you sweetheart loans, right, they would
give you advice on how to cook things like pat
Cio or pat Thai, and then they would also say,
here's how you make it. Here is a great deal
on the ingredients and the rest. It's one of the
most wholesome conspiracies I've run into in a long time.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
And they're so they're funding it from Thailand in the
United States. They were yeah, wow, yeah, that's really fine.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
That's why when you end up in because I know,
for any of us and the guys who are traveling
around a lot, and like Sophia, if you're on the
road doing stand up, it's to the point now where
it's kind of odd to be in a city and
not see a Thai restaurant. Yeah, you know what I mean.
So that's successful one.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
You gotta tell you though, if I go to a
Thai restaurant anywhere in the Atlanta area, the government knows
about it. We were talking on the show a little
bit earlier, a few episodes back about Pallenteer.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
We love you, Palenteer. Oh, we love them so much.

Speaker 3 (05:18):
Oh my gosh, we love two thumbs.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
We got we got a call from them about that episode,
and like, this has nothing to do with that call,
but we love you so much, Palateer. We think so
much you are good?

Speaker 4 (05:31):
That are better is if you were also Halle Burton?
So just you are?

Speaker 1 (05:36):
Yeah Helle Burton, I like it's like hall.

Speaker 9 (05:49):
To be just.

Speaker 10 (05:51):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
So the the thing, the thing that I want to
bring up as another part of search history is guys.

Speaker 5 (05:58):
Wait, can I ask a question about the time restaurant thing? Okay,
so my question is this?

Speaker 4 (06:04):
So is it?

Speaker 1 (06:05):
What the fuck are you talking about? If that was
your question, I get that a lot. So my question
is what the fuck are you even talking about?

Speaker 11 (06:16):
Is this?

Speaker 9 (06:18):
No?

Speaker 4 (06:18):
My question is this?

Speaker 5 (06:19):
So? But anytime I've been to a Thai restaurant, it's
run by Thai people and has Thai cooks. So there's
so few Thai people. How many restaurants is there per family?

Speaker 1 (06:32):
Like?

Speaker 4 (06:33):
What are we? How is this happening?

Speaker 6 (06:35):
Do you know what I'm saying?

Speaker 5 (06:37):
Like, I'm confused because Thai people I've never seen like
a restaurant that's Thaie and it's that's not who It's
always a family run thing.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
Yeah, it's never just some like affable white guy from
Minneapolis named.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
Bill right, Like a lot of a lot of sushi
places are Korean run and at least in Los Angeles,
like it's a there's not a great deal of like
rigor or like you know, people like Thai restaurant got
to be a Thai people owning it. So I mean
that might be the result of the conspiracy that he's
talking about, you know, Thailand being like we need we

(07:13):
need our people running this ship.

Speaker 5 (07:15):
We also, uh, if you've been to Thai restaurants that
are not run by Thai people or.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
The Thai government, please let us know.

Speaker 5 (07:26):
I'm trying to get do a demographic thing here, because
this is fascinating. Now now I'm in the in the
conspiracy with you, Ben, I'm sorry, go ahead.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
So this is but Ben Ben has to move on
to his third search history. Alan, we've done your revision Thailand.
Atlanta is the most surveilled city in the United States
is the third Yes, okay, yes, got okay.

Speaker 3 (07:47):
So you guys live in California, which, in my opinion,
is a much.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
Nicer place in a lot of ways that.

Speaker 4 (07:56):
I'm in Organ right now.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
Georgia, you're Organ.

Speaker 6 (08:00):
Congratulations.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
What's it like at the top of the map.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
It's good to be on top, pretty good, nicety, pretty good,
pretty pretty, A lot.

Speaker 4 (08:09):
More mushrooms, that's all I'm gonna say, there we go, I.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
Love me and Colinarily, yeah, I was going to say,
this leak not a legal inquiry, so I don't have
to reply.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
So the I can't say that to Ben. He's in Atlanta.
They're watching him.

Speaker 8 (08:25):
They're watching him talking about Moreles.

Speaker 4 (08:28):
Okay, right, all kinds.

Speaker 6 (08:31):
We love you Peter too.

Speaker 3 (08:33):
So we have all heard about flock cameras and so
what I was startled to find that for like, historically,
the in recent history the most heavily surveiled population has
been the United Kingdom because they have a lot of
close circuit television dash cabs, et cetera, et cetera.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
I feel like the twenty twelve Olympics really did a
number on them. They just like touch down the entire
city of London.

Speaker 5 (08:59):
I mean, it's kind of one of those like biggest
features in like British TV shows that you know, way
before we had any kind of surveillance. You would watch
a show that's British, You'd be like, what are they
always talking about. Let's pull up the CCTV footage. It's
like every single inch of the of the city's covered.
You're like, what the hell, But yeah, they just did it.

Speaker 12 (09:21):
Early.

Speaker 3 (09:22):
Yeah, they were early adopters for sure. But now according
to recent estimates, uh, the Humboldt Metropolis of Atlanta, Georgia
has one hundred and twenty four cameras per one thousand residents.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
Oh my god, congratulations only thank you.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
You guys know how like I love attention, right, yeah,
Like this is one of those.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
But you are always worried about your angles.

Speaker 5 (09:46):
So that mean you you said you wanted to do
more TV, so like I don't.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
Texting you that confidence.

Speaker 3 (09:55):
So it's strange because this is all not strange but
disturbing because this also means that law enforcement in the area,
including like local law and federal stuff that's sweeping in
because I don't know if you guys heard, ICE is
building a ship ton of concentration camps basically in the
in the Georgia area. Now they can pull that stuff

(10:19):
just like they would pull a ring camera, right or
a flock camera. That's a big problem here. They could
see everywhere you go. So based on some of that,
We've got an episode coming out on stuff they don't
want you to know if I can get to it.
But based on that, I'm gonna start going to places
that make me look like a cooler person, you know

(10:41):
what I mean. Like I'm gonna drive to a yoga place,
just hit all the cameras on the way and just
hang out in the back parking lot for a second.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
Or you know, because we want our overlord's paleteer to
be fans, right, yeah, we do.

Speaker 3 (10:54):
And I'm gonna like, I'm gonna not help at a
food pantry, but I'll drive there pretty often, just as
they for the record, Yeah, just for the record.

Speaker 5 (11:02):
And that's you know, it's kind of like what I
do when I like google things for jokes. I'm like,
you know, murder lol, ha ha ha. This is just
for jokes, you know. And sometimes it'll be like chin electrolysis.

Speaker 6 (11:21):
Ha ha, this is just a joke.

Speaker 4 (11:25):
I'm actually very hot and not ugly.

Speaker 5 (11:29):
You know, you just have to let everybody know you're
both not a murderer and also hot.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
It's true story.

Speaker 3 (11:36):
Back when I used to uh be cool and smoke weed,
I literally had those dark knights of the soul where
I was on a computer and I would I would
write not questions, but statements to the search engine, and
it was like, just to be clear, I'm looking at
this serial killer because of a show I have to do.

Speaker 1 (11:57):
Yeah, and click inter It's important. What is something from
your search history that is revealing about who you are?

Speaker 12 (12:07):
Yeah? So I am working on a book about scams.
Great for our topic today, perfect, And I was just
finishing up the second draft and I was writing about
the TSA and I was doing some I was like,
I should I should look into whether or not making
us use tiny bottles is actually preventing planes from blowing up.
And so I did a bunch of reasoning about whether

(12:28):
or not you could blow up a plane with a
big bottle of liquid, and if you could, could you
break it into small models? Anyway, So I did a
bunch of reasearch just see if this was real or not.
And about forty five minutes into the project, I was like,
I probably shouldn't be researching this on a plane.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
Oh, no research.

Speaker 12 (12:46):
I was doing a long international flight. That's where I
got a lot of work done. And I was like,
but it just and I'm just going on just searching
all kinds of stuff about whether or not you could
blow up a plane. And I was doing it on
American airlines WI FI. So this was just last week.
So if I don't get to fly to Toronto. We
will know why on some list either from the one

(13:06):
on my zoom screen when the Toronto I'm gonna drive
all the way. It was so embarrassing and I just
it just literally didn't curd me. I was just in
a work zone and like later like, oh man, it's
a weird place for that.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
Wasn't There recently some news that they are tracking everything
that you do on airplane Wi fi, Like, this is.

Speaker 12 (13:27):
Terrible timing for you to release this information of me.
I assume, yeah, of course they have to be right.
This is why because I do stuff like this. Whenever
I do research, I do say I always search for
could you make a bomb this way?

Speaker 1 (13:40):
For a joke.

Speaker 12 (13:41):
So every time whatever I'm searching Google, all my schedules
have for a joke after it.

Speaker 13 (13:45):
So they know, yeah, yeah, yeah, so they know. It's
also like this is going to be telling in one
of two ways. It's going to be telling because we're
either going to find out that they are tracking us and.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
They know everything we're doing and blah.

Speaker 13 (13:56):
Blah blah, which you know and you know, gos you
I hope you get out of it, or or they
aren't tracking it and people could just look up how
to make bombs and shit on planes and like nobody's
doing anything.

Speaker 12 (14:11):
And there's a third possibility, which is that they're not
tracking on planes, but they are listening to this made worse.

Speaker 13 (14:19):
American Airlines famously listens to the FBI.

Speaker 12 (14:24):
Everybody is happening up because they want to.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
Know eyes on Falcone.

Speaker 12 (14:29):
On another you got a great a great name for
the FBI to be talking about. Yeah, so what did
you ever get to the bottom of it?

Speaker 11 (14:40):
You want?

Speaker 12 (14:40):
Don't know the answer. I know the answer as far
as I can tell the so that this was all
this all trace back to a terrorism plot in London
that was foiled, and so it seems possible physically that
with a big bottle of liquid you could blow up
a plane, but it's never happened and they got caught
and that kind of seeming like a shoe bomber. It's
like we can't wear shoes because of one bomb that

(15:01):
did not work. So I don't I'm not super worried
about it.

Speaker 1 (15:04):
But you see the shoes. Did you see the shoe
bomb that they caught him with that ship? Does it?
Didn't know, but as a sneaker I'm.

Speaker 12 (15:12):
Really curious what he built a bomb out of it.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
They look like shit, they really yeah not not not
good looking shoes. I feel like we should be able
to be like these are Jordan threes.

Speaker 12 (15:24):
Yeah yeah, so these are good in air Jordan, but
instead of the air.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
Hey bomb, Yeah yeah Jordan, and I feel like we
should be able to take a swig out of our
water and just be like, see, I didn't die, so
now we're good.

Speaker 12 (15:37):
I totally agree, and I what I did for it
was it seems like, although it is maybe theoretically possible
with a big bottle, if that's true, it is also
possible with multiple little bottles that you pour into a
big bottle later. So the solution does not seem like
it is doing much of anything.

Speaker 13 (15:50):
Yeah, if I wanted to bring something, I would like
you said, just bring it in like eight three point
four anos bottles and just joined the big bottle.

Speaker 12 (15:57):
We give people and meet up in the bathroom afterwards
and have sixteen bottles now, like it's really I yeah,
it's it's on the theory that like terrorists are like
extremely lazy that at the last day're like, ah, man,
if I can't if I do three bottles. It's not
even worth it.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
Right, I can't even get this guy to can't because
terris also are always asking strangers to carry things onto
plane for them. That's that's another thing that the TSA
is all.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
My luggage here, Can you take this on the plane
plane for me?

Speaker 1 (16:26):
Excuse me?

Speaker 12 (16:27):
I love to offer to help someone put their bag
in the overhead compartment because I'm tall, but I have
never been like, hey, let me take that through security
for you.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
You see it like in thee man, could you take
this all the way to my plane?

Speaker 13 (16:39):
Form crazy because because they do be saying that, like
once you through security, like if you notice a bag, I'm.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
Like, didn't y'all didn't we go through this?

Speaker 1 (16:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (16:46):
Should there not be bags with bombs at this stage
of the airport? If I notice a bag is safe?

Speaker 12 (16:51):
I mean, this is you don't want to know. But
it's just like every time they do a test of
going through of their own tests the TSA bringing knives
and stuff through security, ninety nine percent of it gets through.
So even their own statistics, they are not stopping anything.
So they do still need you to be alert later
in the airport because they're not covering it. Yeah, but
they did take away my hummus.

Speaker 1 (17:08):
Like it's just so frustrating if you have it to
be like John McClain and just foil if you see
anything suspicious, I like the worst advice you can give
to I'd say thirty. Like the Fox News viewing portion
of the population is like, if you see something suspicious,
act on your suspicion because they think fucking everything is suspicious.

Speaker 12 (17:28):
I mean, I think I think that the slogan if
you see something, say something doesn't mean to us, just
like talk about it, like if if you're getting off,
you get exactly exactly.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
Hey, Molly, what's something you think is overrated?

Speaker 10 (17:42):
Overrated? I think new television and movies are overrated. New television, yeah,
move just everything new? Who needs new stuff? We made
enough stuff? Stop making it? Mm underrated and this will
be a controversial underrated because nobody you would ever say
this is underrated? Uh, Sasame Street you can watch on

(18:03):
t B now. Oh, you can watch the entire run
of Sasame Street.

Speaker 11 (18:10):
To general is underrated?

Speaker 10 (18:13):
Yeah to be Maybe that's the overright on overrated prestige
streamers underrated to b Yeah, the people streamer. If you're
willing to watch, uh, the same Fabrize commercial four times
in a row, every twenty minutes, and I am.

Speaker 6 (18:30):
Is it the one that is la yeah, ya la
la yes, And it's all.

Speaker 11 (18:37):
Like, I mean, I'm sure that there's different ones, but
I always get the one where the mother is like,
my son smells like shit, but look then she just
like nukes's room with Fabrize.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (18:48):
It's funny how ads have never changed. They just like
change update the slang a little bit. Yeah, they're like
my disgusting soy cook son is slime maxing in his room.

Speaker 11 (19:03):
I didn't know that the whole run is available on
to me. That's incredible.

Speaker 10 (19:07):
That's incredible. You never need to watch anything else except
for Sesame Street. You can see the origin stories of
all the characters. How did Big Bird and Slimy Meat
find out Slimy the Worm?

Speaker 11 (19:21):
Come on, come on, Jack, I love every once in
a while one will like end up in my feed
or I'll like, I don't know, just think of when
all of the like I missed the experimental animation that
used to be on all the time, where like I
don't know, they were giving the coolest people like PBS
money to do whatever.

Speaker 2 (19:43):
It was so beautiful.

Speaker 1 (19:44):
It was it was like invented by people who were
doing a lot of LSD too, and like it looks
like it in the early days. It really has that energy.
Bring back LSD on children's television.

Speaker 6 (20:00):
Do you guys see the video with Elmo and Robbie
us Off?

Speaker 4 (20:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (20:04):
That was also heartwarming to me, very cute.

Speaker 11 (20:06):
It was beautiful and every single example of him responding
to right wing backlash is very funny.

Speaker 6 (20:15):
They did have Elmo respond yeah almost.

Speaker 11 (20:17):
Should Yeah, put your money where your mouth is, Elmo?
What is that?

Speaker 1 (20:21):
How did they drop Elmo? Like, did you do you?
Are you guys aware of his origin story because Elmo
came out like in the nineties right like he was
after Yeah.

Speaker 6 (20:30):
El was just kind of dropped in. They're like, here's
our new friend Elmo.

Speaker 11 (20:34):
Yeah, I'm pretty sure he was. I think he was
like developed to speak to like I think sub preschoolers specifically,
and then he got so famous. I remember as a
kid being like Elmo's World wasn't on when I was
really little, but it was on when my brother was
really little, and the feeling in the household was this,

(20:56):
Emma is getting too much screen time he.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
Was getting too much. No, it was like many are saying.

Speaker 10 (21:05):
Me and sometimes my dad bring back Grover, the neurotic misanthrope.

Speaker 11 (21:11):
Yes, I think a prairie dawn. Recently they ditched so
many people to make space.

Speaker 6 (21:18):
You have sort of a prairie dawn energy.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 6 (21:22):
Obviously, I love her Jack kind of a Kermit Thank you.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
That's very nice of you. I think there's a lot
of I think there are more Kermit people out there,
but you've ever hosted anything. Yeah, Yeah, that's true, that
Kermit energy. Yeah, I think Yeah, I think Kermit is
deep down very influential in a lot of people's entire personalities.

(21:48):
There's like a whole genre of human that is like kermity.

Speaker 11 (21:53):
And they all got bodies like a flip phone.

Speaker 1 (21:56):
We all got bodies. That's right. Where I learned how
to move from girl, So I learned how to ride
a bike. Yeah, no spinal cord on that time. Yeah, yeah, Victor,
thank you very much. Victor said, I got that frog
in me. That's right, big frog gotta eat you know,

(22:17):
mm hmmm mm hmm yeah, sure, why the hell not?
I also, yeah, I appreciate your point on New television.
I just feel like there's too many movies to ever
run out of good movies to be watching.

Speaker 10 (22:34):
I mean, look, I watched Taxi, the seventies sitcom Wow,
so there's.

Speaker 1 (22:38):
Old TV too. What is what you're telling me?

Speaker 10 (22:41):
I need to take it, and you know what, a
lot of it's better than new TV. I do say
something I called the Gabba Gul test, which is like
the Bechdel test, but it's like, will this be better
than the Sopranos?

Speaker 11 (22:54):
Oh, that's an unfair hard stick to you.

Speaker 1 (22:58):
Are you like kind of meet like one foot out
on the Sopranos or.

Speaker 6 (23:05):
Test? Is is this going to be better than the Sopranos?

Speaker 1 (23:07):
If not, why are I just watching the Sopranos? Yeah,
over and over again. Correct, there you go.

Speaker 11 (23:15):
I learned not to. I don't. It might be over
by now. But my uh, my friend was talking about
I guess. For a long time it was really hard
to find the Drew Carey Show streaming or anything like that.
And at some point the Drew Carey Show made an
official YouTube account and was doing something called Drew Drops
and like three times a week. At the same time,

(23:38):
they would like upload most of the Drew Carrey Show
is now on YouTube for free. But they did this
like really fun slow rollout where there would be people
watching live for Drew Drops for like an episode that
aired twenty five years ago.

Speaker 10 (23:52):
But because I most brought up the Drew Carrey Show
earlier because you're talking about how Cleveland.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
Rocks, it's Ohio.

Speaker 1 (24:00):
I always loved the way they ended that song by
just screaming out.

Speaker 11 (24:06):
I didn't watch that show when it came out, but
the drew Drops have really like I was missing out.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
It's really good.

Speaker 6 (24:13):
The people yearn for sitcoms.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
They do, they do, and and.

Speaker 11 (24:18):
We won't We'll never get them again.

Speaker 10 (24:20):
But this is what I've been noticing is like YouTube
comedy cruise, you know where it's like they start, they
just keep getting bigger and bigger until finally they're an ensemble.
And I'm like it, because the people yearn for sitcoms.
This right here, what we're doing workplace comedy.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
That's right. We have three cameras on us.

Speaker 10 (24:38):
It was like one of those COVID era shows where
they're like, what if everyone's on zoom.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
We have a laugh track. They're just very quiet, they're
not they're not feeling us.

Speaker 12 (24:48):
At all.

Speaker 1 (24:48):
But we do have a laugh track. All right. So
if if you had to recommend an old TV show
that I can catch up on, it would be Sesame Street.

Speaker 10 (25:01):
It would be fun to see how the characters looked
at first. Oscar was orange to begin, Oh I forgot
about that, briefore orange.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
Yeah, that's crazy. Changes everything really you think about it,
nothing is the same. All right, let's take a quick break.
We'll come back and we'll talk about some news. We'll
be right back. And we're back, and there's a news

(25:41):
story that is highlighting a trend that we probably haven't
covered enough on here. So basically Ukraine has become something
of a sticking point with the right wing, who sees
US military aid as not Mega or America first. So
Ukrainian negotiators are trying to win Donald Trump over and

(26:02):
they've noticed that he seems to respond better to jingling
keys and flattery than any of the other ways that
you can negotiate, and so they are proposing a fifty
mile by forty mile part of the don Boss I believe,
a region that they are going to call Donnie Land
if he's if he sticks with them, And it's not

(26:25):
in any official documents, but they've been using it in
negotiations to try and get him on board to you know,
in the same way that everybody is you know, offering
him being like I think you should get the Peace Prize, sir, Like,
which is I think the easiest way to do this.

Speaker 13 (26:45):
So wait, this is going to be like a It's
going to be just like a a like a tourist
area or something like that.

Speaker 1 (26:51):
No, I mean right now, it's like a war torn
hellscape right.

Speaker 2 (26:55):
Right right, like build it up or they're just gonna
call the land.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
They're just call it that. They're just gonna be like
this is official from here too far. This land will
be Donny Land. It's a good Ukraine accent, thank you.
It's yeah. But this is like a thing that a
Ukrainian negotiators created a flag colored green and gold and

(27:24):
a nationally an anthem using chad GBT, although it's not
known if that has been shared with Trump yet. But
it just it feels like this, you know, Toddler diplomacy
that people are having to use, where you just are
like you are the best, sir. It's like, yeah, it's
how how people negotiate in elementary school and not even

(27:48):
like how dumb people and negotiated in elementary school.

Speaker 13 (27:53):
It's so crazy because if this is just like war
torn land and they're just gonna name it after room,
like why would you be why would that be like
something that somebody would like I'm thinking, like you donna
name some shit. Don't name the ship that's torn up
and bombed it. Give me like Tom Square, like name Tom.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
Square after him.

Speaker 13 (28:14):
But like he's so he's such a fucking like petulant
child and he's not gonn He's not gonna pay attention.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
He's just like they're calling it out to me. Some
good stuff, very nice stuff.

Speaker 1 (28:24):
It's a very important part of land, very important person.

Speaker 12 (28:29):
It's like how he when he met with Mom Donnie,
and Mom Donnie was like, you're he was just kind
of nice to him, but also told him that he
was a fascist, and then he was like, I love
that guy. He said nice things, like you seem really
upset about this, but it seems like the best way
to handle this is to put like a piece of
tape over something and write Donald on it and be like,
great news, dude, and then he stops being mad, Like

(28:49):
if if you could doe it, that much. You could
save that many lives in Ukraine by putting up a
sign of course you should. This is way better than
if you had to actually like bribe him. True, true,
you also have to do that.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
I think, Yeah, you gotta do that. That's the thing.
It's not just that you gotta do that too, it's just.

Speaker 13 (29:06):
That likes It just breaks my brain that that is
the person that like that, that's all you have to
do and.

Speaker 1 (29:17):
Is good the symptom of a broken brain and a
broken system. Then me being like, don't don't do this.
That's fine if that's what needs to happen, that's what
it takes. But it's crazy, it is crazy. I want
him name.

Speaker 12 (29:31):
Then I'm named this whole country after him if he
would like leave like that, Like it seems like this
is a reasonable plan. I'll call anything a name. That's
not hurting me.

Speaker 1 (29:40):
Yeah, like the we should learn a lesson from Hollywood
and just flatter, like flatter him today, just keep flattering him.
There is a reporting from inside the war room with
Iran that like they had to keep him out of
the war room and out of the decision making process

(30:01):
when they rescued those down pilots like they were like yeah, yeah, no, yes, sir,
we just think that uh you know, we'll we'll take
it and we'll we'll keep you posted and like kind
of kept him busy elsewhere.

Speaker 12 (30:14):
Yeah, so that like he wouldn't have to they give
him some iPad time. Yeah, true, him and apple juice pouch.

Speaker 1 (30:20):
I do think like an elaborate Truman Show situation is
our best bet. Like granted, the people who would be
in charge are probably also going to be bad, but.

Speaker 12 (30:30):
Yeah, yeah, this is Yeah, I don't I don't mean
to suggest it's good to flatter him just for the
fun of it, but like if you get something out
of it, Like if you're saying, like we'll do universal healthcare,
but we every time you go to the doctor, you
have to say, man, it's really nice to Trump to
give me this, Like, yes, I would do that. That
would be a fine trade for me.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
We will put that painting of you as a doctor
quote unquote with light coming out of your hands everyone
every in like every door that you have to walk
through to get healthcare, we will put that on top
above that door, replete with the eight horned beast coming

(31:06):
from the clouds.

Speaker 12 (31:07):
Just as I just want to trade that for something good,
like what I do when.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
Just do like fucking healthcare. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, Like if
Putin was.

Speaker 12 (31:15):
Like, I'll call part of Russia after you, if you
blow up your crate, That's that's when it's not good.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
That's when it's not That does that does seem to
be a problem because it does feel like all the
worst people figured it out first, you know, and was
just like kind of doing it quietly behind closed doors.
Yeah yeah, and that is how we got in this
situation in the first place. But yeah, there's been some
amazing instances. The US Ambassador to NATO under Obama once

(31:42):
said at the June twenty twenty five NATO Summit, so
flattery and saying he is the best, that he is
the only person who could have achieved this outcome at
this summit. Is meant to first and foremost keep him
on side, like people are just like openly like Mark Rutt,
NATO Secretary General Trump Daddy at the twenty twenty five
NATO summits that Daddy has some time, Daddy has to

(32:05):
sometimes use strong language.

Speaker 12 (32:09):
Yeah, crazy that the one almost feels a little bit
horny y. Yeah, can we take that word out of
horny culture. Now I think that officially has killed it
for me forever.

Speaker 2 (32:17):
Yeah, it is wild, wild, wild, venis.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
Anyway, it seems like a good way to run the
free world they've tied. I didn't really I miss the
fact that South Korea gave him a golden crown and
he was like, wow, it's very special and received a
shiny ceremonial necklace and said I'd like to wear it
right now. And this was while South Korea was engaged

(32:42):
in a three hundred and fifty billion dollar trade deal.
That's all the only thing I would say to these
countries is it doesn't have to be good. Like his
taste in gold is not quality. Like he likes stuff
from home depot that's like sprayed with gold spray paint,
and he like attaches that to the wall of the
White House, Like, ye, don't waste your money on a crown.
Like he looked happier when we let him pull the
horn on a semi truck. What if they just got

(33:05):
what if they just got him a fire truck that he.

Speaker 12 (33:07):
Can fire truck, name it after, painted the worst color
you could imagine, and then like fully just as happy,
save your money.

Speaker 1 (33:13):
Golden fire truck and horn, and don't give me a
real lump.

Speaker 12 (33:20):
Yeah, don't give me a real peace price, give a
fake preas prize. He will not know the difference.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
He looked when he's getting that peace price. He looks
so fuck like. I've never seen a look of such
utter joy on someone's face. All Right, I did want
to get to the scam.

Speaker 12 (33:35):
Though, Yeah, I get the scam.

Speaker 1 (33:37):
We're all struggling. Prices are going up across the board.
Job salaries payment have not gone up significantly in twenty years.
And you know, some of us go through our expenses
and cut costs and become a little less alive. And
some of us choose to as the great philosopher Taco

(33:58):
Bell put it, live moss. And we have three such people.
Three Southern Californians have been jailed for dressing up as
a bear, attacking their own luxury cars and collecting over
one hundred and forty thousand dollars of insurance money, which
I think they got a little aggressive with the amount.
But here's the bear suit that they used, and you

(34:21):
can actually see them like in the like. Because so
what they did is they parked their rolls Royce like
at a place where it was like you could kind
of see it on the ring camp and then somebody
just like got into bear costume. I don't know how
they were explaining that the bear got into the rolls Royce,

(34:42):
but he did. He managed to the light. The interior
light came on, and then you just see a bear
rooting around. I think they're doing a pretty good job
with like their performance.

Speaker 12 (34:57):
A lot of people I saw talking about the story
said there was a very obviously a bear suit, and
I was fooled for the first twenty seconds at least.

Speaker 1 (35:04):
Yeah, that was kind of a pressed.

Speaker 12 (35:06):
It's not a good it's not a good camera. It's
pretty far away, and I thought the bear looked skinny,
but I don't know what cycle bear was.

Speaker 1 (35:11):
Skinny and a little baggy, but I don't know. Maybe
it was like right after cave. Yeah, it's like Bucky.

Speaker 2 (35:18):
It was on that nose impic.

Speaker 12 (35:21):
So I tried to figure out where they got this
bear costume from and I can't find it. But it's
pretty decent, Like this is Alas look crazy.

Speaker 13 (35:28):
Yeah, Also, man, I'm all for I'm all for trying
to scam. Yeah, scamming insurance company. Yeah, I wish they
would have got away.

Speaker 12 (35:38):
I yeah, it was. The video of this is released
by like the the cops being from there, like wet
one hundred and forty grand back for the insurance company,
Like I'm being good for you. If they deny a claim,
we get nothing. But if if somebody tries to ruin
the pulster there rolls Royce, we have sixty detectives that
are going to go look into it and make sure

(35:59):
it's real.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
They got a fucking like expert, a wildlife expert to
look at it, and the wildlife expert was like, no,
that's that's not how they work. I actually know who
that is.

Speaker 12 (36:10):
Based on that, My main thing from watching the video
was like, because this was the original thing happened like
a few years ago.

Speaker 1 (36:16):
Yeah, and I'm they just got sentenced, Yeah, just got sentence.

Speaker 12 (36:19):
But the original yeah right, but the original crime was
like in twenty twenty four, and I the video being
from twenty twenty four is so much better because now
it would just be an AI video of a bear
attacking their car. And what I loved about their video
is there's practical effects. Yeah, it was a bear costume,
there was a there was a puppeteer in there working hard.
They actually had to ruin the car, Like I just
missed practical.

Speaker 2 (36:39):
You put effort into this, yeah whatever, Then she gets something.
Then she gets.

Speaker 1 (36:45):
Oh my god, I can't imagine how bad that bearsuit smells.

Speaker 2 (36:48):
I probably so hot. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he was wearing.

Speaker 1 (36:52):
A little red felt hat like Paddington. I think that
probably was a bad decision on their part.

Speaker 13 (36:59):
I've committed insuran. I've admitted to insurance fraud on on
on television before statue of limitations. I have statue of
limitations or are past Uh so I didn't give a ship.
It wasn't as elaborate as this it was. I was
helping a girlfriend's grandmother move out of a senior citizen

(37:21):
home and like ran into the pole and like told
the insurance man, somebody just hit my car. And the
senior citizen like built it, and they.

Speaker 1 (37:29):
Were like, oh, there's money going fifteen miles per hour. Yeah,
they brought it a pole experts expert.

Speaker 2 (37:36):
But they were just like, oh, was that the senior
citizen home?

Speaker 13 (37:38):
Okay, that makes sense money for yeah, And I was
like hell yeah, man, and you don't deserve fixing.

Speaker 1 (37:45):
Yeah, they fixed citizens.

Speaker 2 (37:49):
Yeah, I can't have a Rolls Wars with the dent.

Speaker 12 (37:55):
I would think that it must have been like not
that much because it would be like so obvious whether
something was a poll or a car.

Speaker 1 (38:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (38:01):
They they didn't even like really check they they I
sent it in. They saw the dent and stuff. It
was like whatever, and it was I think I got
like two grand for it or something maybe under that.

Speaker 12 (38:13):
But well that's I wonder with this bear video, Like
the video is hilarious, especially once you know and you're
like picturing the guy in the bear suit. But like
if they had just submitted the pictures of the claw
marks and then like I think a bear got into
my car and it ruined my upholstery, Like would the
insurance company would have had a hard time if they
would just park it out somewhere where you can't see.

Speaker 1 (38:33):
Yeah, just be like, oh, yeah we had the street
particet or something like that.

Speaker 12 (38:36):
Yeah, exactly. The camera didn't see at that time. Yeah whatever,
we like, I just like the cameras. What got them
in trouble is this in daytime they were they did this.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
It was at night.

Speaker 12 (38:44):
It was at night night and it was like it
was parked in their driveway and it was like a
like a ring camera really high up and the car
was kind of far back. So it's it's pretty small
and it's greeny in.

Speaker 1 (38:52):
Your mind thinks, how how did the bear get in
the rolls? They just like l door open.

Speaker 12 (38:58):
Bears will open doors if they are open doors. Yeah yeah,
really bears open doors, open doors.

Speaker 13 (39:03):
Yeah, they open doors for sure. They don't take much.
They'll just got to get that one long claw and
like politional. Yeah, yeah, it's if it's locked, it as harder.
But they will like they can break over, like if
you live in the mountains near bears. They will get
into cars all the time. So that part is plausible
to me. The size to crawl over the seats from
the front of the back and to tear it. Like,
there's a lot of things about they don't quite make bear.

Speaker 1 (39:25):
Sense, right, Yeah, it's not sized for a bear.

Speaker 12 (39:28):
Yeah, but I but yeah, bears can get into cars
in places. So like I think they came. I don't
remember where the city was, but this is California thing.
They're where the bears will get in the cars here.

Speaker 1 (39:39):
So yeah, this is one of the I've I've camped
in Lake arrowhead and it is one of the places
where they're like, uh, if you leave garbage outside, you
have to bury it six feet underground or like put
you know, lock it up well.

Speaker 12 (39:52):
And the best part was so the costume has has claws,
but they're fake. But then they got metal barbecue claws
that you use for pulled pork and used those to
do the actual tearing. So in the video there's a
guy in a bearsuit holding barbecue claws. Bears can't get in,
but they rarely do that.

Speaker 2 (40:14):
Bears have way more respectful luxury cars.

Speaker 1 (40:18):
The scratches are remarkably straight across they Yeah, I'm like that.
That would have been my first clue that this was
not a bear. Are there you you point out scams
a lot on the line, Alex, Are there some scams
that you've been other scams You've been impressed with the
ingenuity level of you know, efforts creativity that people went into.

Speaker 12 (40:42):
I had, well, I had I had a person try
to scam me in LA a few years ago where
they like pulled up next to your stop light and
we're like, your wheel is wobbling, let me help you
fix it. And I'm dumb enough about cars that. I
was like, sure, you see him, fine, go ahead fix
my wheel. And then they were like, ah, the part
costs like five hundred bucks. I fixed it, and I

(41:05):
it was it was the way who came up to
you as at this it was just next to me
at a stoplight and was like rolling on your winning like, hey,
I saw your wheels loose. And I don't know anything
about cars, so I was like, well, this guy's price.

Speaker 2 (41:14):
I know you grew up in a white neighborhood, alex.

Speaker 10 (41:20):
I.

Speaker 12 (41:23):
I mean it was the middle of the day. I
was driving like a twenty eleven super I was like,
there's no way he thought he was going to get
a ton of money from me. Yeah, it's weird that
he even thought, because like he so he did the fix,
and I like it was at some point it became
clear to me he didn't seem like he was actually
doing any real work, Like he sprayed WB forty on
the wheel from a distance, Like I don't think that's
how you would fix that, right, But he I was

(41:46):
going to say, like I was like that whole thing.
Here's here's what impressed about is like I got away.
He didn't murder me, he didn't I didn't give any money.
He I convinced him successfully. I was poor that. I
was like, because when he asked for five hundred dollars,
I laughed at him because it was so much more
than I thought he was going to try to scam
me for. I was like, I don't have a five
hundred dollars, what are you talking about? And and so

(42:07):
eventually he left. I think the laugh like really convinced him.
But I went and I googled it afterwards. I was like,
does everyone know about this scam? And I like google
the wobbly wheel scam and it was the guy, like
the top story if you google wobbly wheel scam is
about that guy. He's been arrested for so many times.
He is like the most famous wobbly wheel scam guy.

(42:30):
The same bit. Yeah, it was that was really wild.
And also I read they would be like he took
an old lady for two thousand dollars, and so when
I read that, I was like, so he'd already size
down to five hundred for me. He already thought the
best time getting his five hundred bucks. And I laughed
at him because.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
He's out there with a net fishing for minnows. Yeah, yeah,
there's there's a good New York article about these people
who go and crash into the back of track trailers
in New Orleans. Yeah, Orleans, like on this one stretch
of highway, and the insurance companies were like, weird the
number of these accidents that happened on this very specific stretch,

(43:10):
like and it's always yeah, and they would put a
bunch of people in it because these tractor trailer companies
have like insurance policies for millions of dollars, so you
can like really like you're hitting a deep pocket. But
like the shit that really blew my mind was that,
first of all, like the jobs that that creates in
the scam industry, Like you need like a really good

(43:32):
driver to like do that, so they would like always
use these same like there were like three really expert drivers,
because if you crashed to the back of a tractor trailer,
it's so easy for everybody in the car to just
have their head cut off, like then it's like the
perfect size for that. And so they had these like

(43:53):
very skilled drivers who they who would then like get
out of the car before everybody gave their statements, so
that they had it worked out so that like you
wouldn't know that it was always the same three drivers.
But the insurance company that was like and the lawyer
who was like making millions of dollars off of the case,
was like, look, you got you gotta be willing to

(44:15):
get surgery to like really make money on this. So
people were like risking their lives to crash at the
back of a tractor trailer and then like getting surgery
they didn't need in order to get these big payouts.

Speaker 12 (44:28):
This is the sad part of the story. It was
like the lawyer made a million dollars, but the people
who were actually risking their lives and actually doing surgery
are not getting nearly that much. They're getting a tiny
bit of all of this, and they're doing all the
interest stuff. And this is one of the things I
come back to a lot with scams that like scammed
people scam people like people in bad situations do stuff
like this. When the economy is good, you don't see

(44:49):
as many crash into eighteen, Like when everyone has health insurance,
they don't need to throw themselves into the like get
these scam surgeries, right, So yeah, the people like I
have empathy for the people who are in that level
of them. That's not that's not a scam that I
think is hilarious and cool, like ruining their own Rolls
RoCE with a bear costume. But it is one where
I understand where these people at each step in the

(45:09):
game was responding to incentives were it was their uncle's
Rolls Royce, because that's the other thing that wasn't Sorry
to give these guys credit for having a Rolls Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (45:19):
No, I don't. I thought you said your uncle's Rose,
because that is one of the things that makes uniquely
unsympathetic because that they had a Rolls Royce to begin.

Speaker 12 (45:27):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, That's what makes it fun to laugh
at them, is that they got caught. They had a
Rolls Royce and a bear costume.

Speaker 1 (45:35):
Story they're going to the They're going to the slammer
for six months and they will be forced to the.

Speaker 2 (45:43):
Car Or trying to scam Insuran.

Speaker 1 (45:45):
Trying to mess with corporations, you can't. Those are the
only people who have rights in our civilization. You can't.
You can't try and rob a corporation. All right, let's
take a quick break. We'll come back and talk about
the Internet's favorite conspiracy theory that the Trump administration that
is hopping on board with We'll be right back and

(46:13):
we're back. What do you so, you guys know seen
this cash Ptel guy? You heard about him?

Speaker 8 (46:19):
Yeah, he seems fun. Is there's something bad about him?

Speaker 1 (46:22):
I mean, we've seen him getting fucked up. Why don't
tell me he's not normal? Seen him slam beers with
with the American hockey team. On Friday, The Atlantic aka
a bunch of fucking haters, published a detailed article about
cash Protel's excessive drinking, as well as his unexplained absences

(46:47):
and paranoid behavior. Now, this is only based on interviews
with more than two dozen sources, which, Blake, can you
do the math on that real quick?

Speaker 5 (46:58):
Well?

Speaker 9 (47:00):
Dozen twelve dozen? So twelve and you said two twelves.

Speaker 1 (47:05):
Twelve twenty two twelve, Okay, thank you. He is erratic,
suspicious of others, prone to jumping to conclusions before he
has necessary evidence. Very good for the head of the FBI.
Of the FBI, According to more than two dozen people
I interviewed about Petel's conduct, including current and former FBI official,
staff at law enforcement and intelligence agencies, hospitality industry workers, members,

(47:29):
of Congress, political operatives, lobbyists, and former advisors, and as
someone who has seen how he handles major investigations, I
can say that that account seems to check out. Like
there was there's been two major crimes. There was the
Brown shooter, like the person who shot a group of

(47:52):
students meeting at Brown, and then there was the Charlie
Kirk shooting. And in both cases he like immediately came
came out and like pointed the finger at the wrong person.
It's like we got ladies and gentlemen, we got him.
And then in both cases they did not got him.

Speaker 9 (48:10):
No, you know, like a fucked up person would act.

Speaker 1 (48:13):
Right who control? Yeah, Yeah, Unfortunately, like major crimes do
not like happen on your like schedule of being drunk
most of the time, except for like the handful of
meetings that you have during the I.

Speaker 9 (48:32):
Have a window. I have a brief window during.

Speaker 8 (48:35):
The I used to be an alcoholic, so like I
know what alcohol makes you, makes you very like emotional
in this weird way and like very grandiose and and
and anyway patient. Yeah, it's not at all.

Speaker 1 (48:53):
What you when the steady hand at the till.

Speaker 8 (48:58):
But when you're an alcohol. You actually feel like you're
doing some of the most important work ever done while
you're because you're it's you've made it so hard for
yourself that you feel like a hero just because you
got up and like went to work, right, So like
you have a grandiose opinion of everything you do. Seems
like I'm in this battle and the battle is alcoholism.

Speaker 14 (49:20):
But you think the battle is like, Wow, my life
is so fucking I have like these highs and lows,
and like I wake up on the floor and then
I end up on the Senate floor and the blah blah, yeah,
and it all feels like almost divinely ordained, like that
you have this exciting wild life, but it's just you
and your body chemistry impersonating you know, excitement or or importance.

Speaker 2 (49:46):
So like people like.

Speaker 8 (49:47):
Cash matel the last person you want in power is
an alcoholic, That's all I can say. And and we
elect almost only alcoholics.

Speaker 1 (49:56):
Right, you know, we're alcoholics and one in the middle
sort of Yeah.

Speaker 8 (50:00):
Yeah, I look at cash hotel and I relate to him,
like jumping up and down in the fucking NHL locker room.
That's probably something I did that I don't remember.

Speaker 1 (50:08):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 8 (50:09):
Like I may have actually been in the Olympic locker
room at one point jumping up and down Pory Berrell
over my face.

Speaker 9 (50:14):
I would have no idea during miracle. I think during
the miracle on ice, there's.

Speaker 8 (50:20):
A possibility that somewhere giants are ACKed out, and by
blacked out, super important twenties.

Speaker 1 (50:26):
M that's right.

Speaker 8 (50:27):
I may have done some major I might have dismissed
the Iraqi Army. I have no idea.

Speaker 9 (50:33):
I forgot.

Speaker 1 (50:34):
There's a great anecdote from earlier this month in which
Patel was leaving work for the weekend but struggled to
log into an Internet computer system internal computer system and
it was just an IT issue, but he immediately assumed
that he had been fired and like had a massive
freak out and started frantically calling aids and allies to

(50:58):
announce that he had been fired. By the way, your house,
that turns.

Speaker 8 (51:03):
Out well the perfect. Like I lost my that's like
when I lost my car keys and like blame my brother.

Speaker 1 (51:10):
Yeah, yeah, yeah exactly. I was always blaming other people
blaming yeah yeah, same worst story, similar background in terms of.

Speaker 8 (51:18):
Yeah, Jack, I forgot we are brothers in this, so yeah,
like I ship in the yard one time I couldn't
get in the house. And I may have told the
story in the show before because I love the story
it makes it makes me look good. So one night
I locked myself out of the house, which I did
all the time when I was drinking for some reason,
even though my keys were on my car. I don't
know how it happened, like I had a key to

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the house, but somehow I ended up climbing through the
laundry room window a lot and so like and my
brother lived. I lived with my brother at that time,
so he would hear me like crash to the ground
because the laundry room window was like kind of high above,
you know, and he was like going.

Speaker 1 (51:54):
To work the next day. That meant being climbed through.

Speaker 9 (51:56):
Yeah, I wasn't a door.

Speaker 8 (52:00):
I was getting drunk every night too, so it was like,
you know, like Monday night, you know, like, oh God,
here's like a slam on the floor, and he's like tonight,
you know, Monday. Anyway, So I I shipp in the
one time I got locked out of the house, and
I ship in the yard, right, and so like my brother,
I shipped sort of in the bed the flower bed.

Speaker 1 (52:17):
And it's kind of fertilizer.

Speaker 8 (52:19):
It's kind of nice.

Speaker 2 (52:20):
Yeah, so yeah, that's nice.

Speaker 8 (52:22):
So Greg was like mowing the lawn or something my brother,
and he was like, did you ship in the yard?

Speaker 2 (52:27):
And I was so mad.

Speaker 8 (52:29):
I was like, you fucking peace?

Speaker 2 (52:31):
You think you?

Speaker 1 (52:32):
How dare you?

Speaker 8 (52:34):
This reflects more on you that you would think.

Speaker 1 (52:37):
That that would even like get it in your brain.

Speaker 8 (52:39):
Somehow you thought that makes you a bad person. And
then years later I was like, I did ship in
the yard?

Speaker 9 (52:44):
Yeah, up, yeah I did do it.

Speaker 1 (52:46):
I don't know. There was just a big pile of
human ship with your car keys next to it. You're like, ship,
how do you know it's my ship?

Speaker 2 (52:54):
Right?

Speaker 8 (52:56):
I might remember that story all wrong, but it just
to me is like the ultimate Like you're so belligerent
that you blame other people for everything.

Speaker 1 (53:05):
Yeah, and imaginary problems like you're just you're just not
seeing things clearly, and so the things like you're I
once heard someone say you're scared of the things you
should love, and you love the things you should be
scared of. Like your priorities are just completely out of
your sarities couldn't be more out of whack and so

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you see you see things like you see you see
a minor tech issue and you're like, well, they finally
got me, you know what I mean, And it's just like,
uh he it. Some would say this is called leadership,
Like if everyone knows that you're at the top freaking
the fuck out about everything for them, even imaginary stuff,

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then they know they don't have to and they can
go back to doing work. It's what I like to
call the Madman theory of leadership, which I like how
they just trying to be like it's the Madman theory
of everything, where I just uh, you know, act unwell
and it magically works out because I was born with
one hundred million dollars in a bank account.

Speaker 8 (54:11):
Right, They always leave that part out, like you know what,
it ended up didn't have any consequences.

Speaker 12 (54:16):
For me at all.

Speaker 1 (54:16):
Yeah. So, by the way, I know what I'm doing here.

Speaker 8 (54:22):
Victor h could you please cut that shitting in the
yard story please?

Speaker 1 (54:28):
That's a that's a Justin decision. Justin is the one
wherever you are, please.

Speaker 9 (54:36):
Somewhere out there.

Speaker 8 (54:38):
Did not get a big enough laugh for me to
to uh.

Speaker 9 (54:42):
Yeah, that was not that was Yeah, I enjoyed it.

Speaker 1 (54:46):
Yeah, I did enjoy it, but it's true totally. Yeah,
it's a nightmare.

Speaker 8 (54:52):
It's an Alcoholism is a very funny thing. And I
did decide I was I thought I was Jesus at
one point because I was laying bed and I was like,
I didn't die. I thought I was going to die
last night, you know, and I took those pills and
I did that other thing and then uh, and then
I'm still alive, and that means something like that must
mean somebody's like that seems like I'm divinely And then

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I was like, also, everyone's always telling me that I'm
an alcoholic, which I'm not. Everyone was always saying yeah,
so everybody was always saying Jesus was wrong all the time,
and so it's a good chance I might be the
son of God. And that was like towards the end
of my drinking because I realized that was probably flawed, thinking.

Speaker 9 (55:33):
Well, Jesus turned water into wine, and you turned a
ship in the backyard into a decades long quarrel with
your brother.

Speaker 4 (55:42):
Hit the bell. I got a bell here, I.

Speaker 12 (55:47):
Show we got me like shell.

Speaker 8 (55:49):
So hell, yeah, that's exactly right.

Speaker 2 (55:56):
That is so good that you.

Speaker 8 (55:59):
You He's got a bigger laugh than anybody and didn't
have to even confess to fucking shitting anywhere. You're a genius.

Speaker 1 (56:05):
Are we allowed to bring it back now that Blake
Flake saved it? All right? Absolutely not. He apparently routinely
gets hammered and being used like the poodle room in Vegas,
which I was not aware of, and the private club
Neds in DC, and as a result, some of his

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briefings had to be rescheduled for later in the day
to work around nasty hangovers. On multiple occasions, his security
team had difficulty waking Patel because he was still drunk.
I've been there, brother, and they had to request swat
team gear last year because Patel had been unreachable behind

(56:47):
locked doors. Have not been there yet, No, brother, God, damn,
that's like so tough.

Speaker 8 (56:54):
That's like that's good stuff. Like I mean, if you're
that's got to feel so good that you're this.

Speaker 1 (56:58):
Is like gonna make a really good share one day.

Speaker 15 (57:01):
Oh my god, you're damn right. You're not gonna believe
this one the least. Anonymous, Yeah, you're not gonna believe this.
How many of you had a swat team break down?
Your fucking door.

Speaker 9 (57:15):
Yeah, that's not his lowest point. Yet he keeps going
like over and over and over.

Speaker 1 (57:21):
Yeah. I mean, on the one hand, maybe this makes
him the best possible FBI director and that he's not
out there using state power to like entrap old grandparents
just be into like confessing to terrorist plots because they're Muslim.
But positive, Yeah, he he does seem to be pretty

(57:42):
chaotic and erratic and wrong all the time. So that's
probably probably not the best spin that that probably not
accurate to be like, and it's good that he's in
this position. Well, no, it is true that.

Speaker 8 (57:55):
There's a long line of It's not like there's some
great FBI director. There's ever been a good FBI.

Speaker 9 (58:01):
I mean, that's the thing that we're right.

Speaker 8 (58:04):
It's like, oh, well the golden day, you know, well
the good day, good old days when the FBI was
what always being horrible, I mean, always like completely out
of like he makes like what do you call him,
you know, Jared gar Hoover.

Speaker 1 (58:22):
Yeah, when by comparison, you know, or even Moeller, who
apparently was the per the picture of competence but was
like being competent doing the thing I just said, like
in trapping people in saying like that they were working
with al Qaeda.

Speaker 8 (58:39):
You know, Well, that's what we're operating with. The only
hope we have is that these guys are revealing that
all this has always been garbage, except they're just acting
in a way where they ruined it. They ruined it
because the way they did it before was they acted normal.
The FBI director acted normal while they did all these horrible,
hideous things. And that's, you know, that's gone out the window.

(59:00):
Now we see that these people are ghouls like they've
always been. So that's the hope we have. But I'm
just hoping that the problem is with that hope is
that they have got so much power because we were
playing frisbee for four decades.

Speaker 1 (59:15):
I don't know how we get it back.

Speaker 8 (59:17):
Yeah, because we wasted too much time having benefit concerts
instead of instead of doing real activism.

Speaker 1 (59:24):
They're fun, a lot of fun.

Speaker 9 (59:27):
What did we do with Remember farm Aid?

Speaker 8 (59:29):
Remember when aid fixed?

Speaker 1 (59:32):
It's amazing. The Department of Justice Ethics Handbook states that
an employee is prohibited from habitually using alcohol or other
intoxic staccess because it can impair judgment and make them
vulnerable to exploitation or coercion by foreign adversaries. It does
like that strikes me that he has been probably the

(59:54):
easiest to kidnap person in the history of this position.
Like when I was drinking, I was the easiest. Like
I would kidnap my, you know, I'd end up on
a commuter rail headed out into the suburbs of a
city that I didn't even like no I was in,
you know, Like so like, imagine how easy he would

(01:00:16):
be to kidnap and old hostage and nobody's doing it.
So there, I think the enemies of the state are
just like, yeah, man, actually, let's let this guy rip.

Speaker 9 (01:00:26):
Let's do so funny nothing. He gets so drunk he
can't recall any of the secrets. You know, They're like,
he's no idea, He's rattling off NHL STATSBR director FBI
director Chris Crofton is headed south with one flat tire
in his nineteen ninety two Ford tempo that says fuck

(01:00:49):
you on the bumper and the bumper stare right.

Speaker 1 (01:00:53):
But it might it might just be that criminal organizations
and enemy spies are like, and this guy's so good.

Speaker 8 (01:00:59):
For imagine what what's a honey trap for? Caspitel lottery
ticket on a fucking fishing line.

Speaker 9 (01:01:05):
Yeah, like a honey whiskey.

Speaker 1 (01:01:09):
They staged an intervention like a bunch of like spies
and dude, that's so assassin stage and intervention for him
to try to be like, dude, you need to get
it back together so that you can stay in power,
because these are the fucking boom times right now for us.

Speaker 8 (01:01:26):
We got the director and a net using the old
one hundred dollars bill on the fish.

Speaker 1 (01:01:33):
Got a butterfly.

Speaker 8 (01:01:35):
He chased it right around the corner.

Speaker 9 (01:01:39):
Uh, put a carrot on his stick, hanging out from.

Speaker 11 (01:01:45):
It.

Speaker 9 (01:01:45):
He's chasing it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:46):
I can't reach that damn carrot.

Speaker 1 (01:01:51):
Amazing.

Speaker 9 (01:01:52):
Oh my god, the world's.

Speaker 1 (01:01:54):
Easiest kids have to go.

Speaker 9 (01:01:56):
It's so funny. The fucking prevention with like Ninja's and
you know, like historic Elvis is there.

Speaker 1 (01:02:09):
Oh my god, the guy with like a dynamite vest
on and like the buttons, just like all the cartoonish
enemies of America.

Speaker 2 (01:02:19):
You're letting us down.

Speaker 8 (01:02:20):
Oh my god, we.

Speaker 1 (01:02:22):
Care about you getting back.

Speaker 9 (01:02:25):
Oh my god, Oh my god.

Speaker 8 (01:02:27):
That's the greatest intervention cartoon.

Speaker 1 (01:02:29):
That was just putting my head. He is doing the
Atlantic for two hundred and fifty million dollars because what
they said is apparently just totally untrue.

Speaker 9 (01:02:38):
If only they had one source.

Speaker 1 (01:02:40):
Yeah, yeah, high.

Speaker 8 (01:02:41):
They go with with how much they sue for?

Speaker 1 (01:02:43):
That's right, I'm so mad.

Speaker 8 (01:02:45):
I don't know two hundred and fifty million dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:02:50):
He like starts at two hundred and fifty dollars and
Trump is like, no, man, you got it. Don't you
know how to sue people? To make a headline?

Speaker 9 (01:02:58):
There's also eight other lawsuit because he keeps forgetting that
he's filing right, oh yeah, for eighty trillion dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:03:06):
He makes another statement that's like almost exactly the same
as the first one, just like a little drunkard.

Speaker 8 (01:03:13):
My favorite is that video of him like after the
butler was it the Butler shooting or was it Charlie No,
it was it Charlie Kirk shooting, when he was like
looking around wildly at the press conference, wearing that FBI windbreaker. Yeah,
like looking like what did you say like that kind
of thing? Like he was like looking around like, oh god,
you're looking so fucking nuts, and you can speaking of hanging,

(01:03:33):
he looks like he just got woken up.

Speaker 1 (01:03:34):
Like he got woken up and then just like popped
full of like speed or something. Yeah, because they have like, yeah,
we got imagine the kit they have. You need the
executive branch grade speed.

Speaker 8 (01:03:47):
Imagine what they're doing at that level they would have
to have that, they'd have like the alien technology to
remove your hangover.

Speaker 1 (01:03:53):
Right, doesn't seem to be working. This guy's got hangover.

Speaker 9 (01:03:57):
Is the haut visttel is not available before three pm,
So this.

Speaker 1 (01:04:03):
Meeting will have to be Yeah, yeah, that's the real
team also responded to the article by tweeting out their
three page response to The Atlantic. But a bunch of
the things that they were denying weren't in the article,
because that's true. Yeah, so they revealed extra stuff with
their statement. It's amazing. Oh really, god, that's not fair.

(01:04:25):
One that one of the details. One of the details
was that he once had his security detail shut down
the FBI Association store so he could shop alone, and
then complained that the merchandise wasn't intimidating enough, it's not
tough enough.

Speaker 8 (01:04:43):
He had Anheuser bush shut down for a couple of
days to dry out.

Speaker 1 (01:04:47):
Yeah, yeah, that's right. We're looking into them, all right,
that's gonna do it. For this week's weekly Zeitgeist, please
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