Episode #38: 1461 Days of Ignoring The Trump Administration | June 27-July 3, 2025

Watch all of the original 1461 Days of Ignoring The Trump Administration TikTok posts from June 27-July 3, 2025 on YouTube!

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On This Week’s Episode

This week on the show, I have had it with political pundits on the left who continue to wonder why the right acts the way they do. They already know the answer, but they keep asking the question so they will have something to talk about. I get it, but just because I get it, it doesn’t mean I like it!

Then, I tell a story of spending an afternoon entertaining the conservative parents of my friend and their attempts to see if I would talk s**t about the leader of the Trump administration. You won’t want to miss this! Day 161 is very special, because we go to 11. That’s right 11, 11, 11. We are 11% through 1461 days of ignoring the Trump administration, so of course I have to discuss “Spinal Tap” and how the Trump administration is a total s**t sandwich.

Did you know that highly intelligent and well-educated people are more susceptible to the manipulation and indoctrination techniques of cults? Well, they are! If you want to find out what I’m talking about, great, you’re already listening. Spoiler: It is not about the leader of the Trump administration’s cult, and it’s not about the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi aka “Sexy Sadie” either. Then things get really fun, when I take Day 163 to address a commenter named “Chief” and recommend to him that he spend some time listening to “It’s Alright To Cry,” a song by the oldest living former NFL player, Rosey Grier.

On Day 164, I contemplate bad people, and more specifically, the degree to which bad people are bad. Of course I bring up one of the leader of the Trump administration’s most admired serial killers, “Dr. Hannibal Lecter.” And finally, on Day 165, I discuss the passage earlier today of the bill that may kick 17 million people off of their health insurance and why and how we will survive the leader of the Trump administration and the Trump administration, and be better for it.

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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 232,” “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 at this link. Sometimes seeing my face makes it better (maybe not, let’s see.)

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Thank you,

Josh

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More about Josh:

I published my first newsletter before the age of ten, written using my next-door neighbor’s typewriter, copied with carbon paper, and distributed to mailboxes on my bicycle.

One of my first stories was an obituary of John Belushi. Strange for a ten year old? Yes!

My writing today is governed by deadpan sarcasm that goes granular on various cultural topics that I am deeply curious about. I hope you enjoy this sometimes snarky stream of consciousness.

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