Episode #39: 1461 Days of Ignoring The Trump Administration | July 4-July 10, 2025

Watch all of the original 1461 Days of Ignoring The Trump Administration TikTok posts from July 4-July 10, 2025 on YouTube!

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On This Week’s Episode

This week on the show, the leader of the Trump administration gives a speech where he states that he hates Democrats. Like, really. He says, “I hate them.” Nice, right? So if you were wondering if you should call your senator, don’t bother. People who hate are not people who can be negotiated with. Let’s just ride this out! The next day, I criticize the other side of the aisle for posting about the floods in Texas that have claimed the lives of dozens of young children at summer camp. I saw people posting that Texas was now quote-unquote “finding out.” I find that behavior and talk to be just as hateful as what the leader of the Trump administration says. Garbage people are everywhere. Except for Philadelphia, it seems. If you know you know. If you don’t, well, the garbage collectors are on strike in Philly. Okay?

Special note: You will hear a short satirical video I made about the farewell concert event by Black Sabbath last weekend. The reason I include it here is because on Day 168, I address a commenter who somehow found a way to make my ridiculous video political. I take the opportunity to point out a couple more examples of how we are living in times when now literally every single word is political. But that won’t stop the fun. You will hear another short satirical video afterwards, because thankfully, there are still some people out there who want to play.

On Day 169, I coined the phrase “empathy for idiots,” because I realized that empathy isn’t just for people who suffer (like me!) It is also for dum-dums who don’t realize they are dum-dums and I give examples of characters from some of my favorite stupid comedy films. I think you will understand the concept right away and recognize the idiots in your life to empathise with. Then things get real for a few days when I begin to discuss my journey with psychotherapy as an individual who sacrifices and suffers and sacrifices and suffers and… well, you get it by now. The next day, I reveal that my therapist wants me to think about being more vulnerable in order to better connect with people, and so that is what I am attempting to do on Day 172 as I discuss the party I attended a couple of weeks ago and the effect it had on me. Don’t worry, I manage to somehow connect this to the song “Walk Like An Egyptian.”

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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.

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