Episode #30: 1461 Days of Ignoring The Trump Administration | May 2-May 8, 2025

Watch all of the original 1461 Days of Ignoring The Trump Administration TikTok posts from May 2-May 8, 2025 on YouTube!

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On This Week’s Episode

Hey, it’s Josh, and this is Episode #30 of the Josh Bloom Podcast!

I hope you enjoyed the bonus episode “The Intelligence of Stupidity” earlier this week. Go back and listen to it if you haven’t yet here. A commenter on YouTube said that it is “an absolutely fascinating microcosm of what must be going on with a great portion of society today.” They then went on to criticize me in a very long tirade, but I decided to take the Simon and Garfunkel lyric “a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest,” as instructive and do some disregarding.

We are back again with another edition of “1461 Days of Ignoring The Trump Administration,” covering May 2nd through May 8th, which corresponds to days 103-109.

This week we also touch on, talk about, and mention what would happen if McDonald’s restricted sales to the leader of the Trump Administration, going to the dark side on May the 4th be with you, Al Franken’s removal from the Senate, my connection to John Cougar’s “Jack and Diane” (spoiler: there is none), Tony Soprano, and where there is Tony Soprano, there is Dr. Melfi, steel plants, Taylor Swift, Jeff not-so-ready-for-Amazon-Prime Bezos, my love of Andy Kaufman, George Carlin, and Steve Martin (who is also the subject of this week’s bonus podcast. Again, go listen if you haven’t!)

Podcast #30 is a doozy, which is a word that isn’t used often enough. Kind of like stymied. Why wasn’t there a Little Rascal named Doozy? I guess we’ll never know.

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Hi. It’s Josh.

A few days before the inauguration, I was thinking about how I wanted to deal with the next four years.

I was exhausted by the news!

But I wasn’t interested in going completely uninformed. I wanted to use the “opportunity,” as I had decided to optimistically look at this timeline, to become more mindful and better train my mind to take in the “news,” and then let it fall away from my conciousness.

Efficiently and totally. The other aspect of this thought was to then take the personal time I was reclaiming through this process and apply it to more creative endeavors.

This series, for example!

1461 Days of Ignoring The Trump Administration began. “Day 1” went viral on TikTok, so now I am in until 2029, right?!

If you are also someone aspiring to become the best version of yourself, please feel free to join me on this journey, which is sure to get weird around “Day 132,” “Day 877,” and “Day 1001,” etc.

For your pleasure (maybe not, let’s see), here is another compilation of posts, along with an exclusive intro and outro only available on the podcast (because I love you.)

As per usual, if you want to see video of the original TikTok posts that this podcast audio is derived from, you can watch them all on YouTube .css-j9qmi7{display:-webkit-box;display:-webkit-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webkit-flex-direction:row;-ms-flex-direction:row;flex-direction:row;font-weight:700;margin-bottom:1rem;margin-top:2.8rem;width:100%;-webkit-box-pack:start;-ms-flex-pack:start;-webkit-justify-content:start;justify-content:start;padding-left:5rem;}@media only screen and (max-width: 599px){.css-j9qmi7{padding-left:0;-webkit-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webkit-justify-content:center;justify-content:center;}}.css-j9qmi7 svg{fill:#27292D;}.css-j9qmi7 .eagfbvw0{-webkit-align-items:center;-webkit-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-items:center;color:#27292D;}