Some More News - Even More News: Predictions For 2026: Trump's Health, MTG's Future, And Which Cabinet Members Will Be Fired?

Episode Date: January 2, 2026

Hi. For the first Even More News of 2026, Katy, Cody, and Jonathan return to two weeks ago – since that's when they recorded this – to share their predictions for 2026. They discuss future Trump health coverups, Lauren Boebert's potential rap sheet, the midterms, and much more. Then they spend about 20 minutes trying to wrap their heads around Elon Musk's snoozeville appearance on The Katie Miller Podcast. Get the world's news at https://ground.news/SMN to compare coverage and see through biased coverage. Subscribe for 40% off unlimited access through our link.PATREON: https://patreon.com/somemorenewsMERCH: https://shop.somemorenews.comYOUTUBE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvlj0IzjSnNoduQF0l3VGng/joinPluto TV. Stream Now. Pay Never.#KatieMiller #JDVance #evenmorenewsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hello! Welcome back to even more news. I am Katie Stoll. I'm not, but I'm here, and it's a new year. It's a new year, I put. It's the end of the year. and the New Year as well. I'm Cody Johnston, by the way.

Hello. Hello, Cody Johnston, by the way. And Jonathan is also here in the new year. Still just trying to recover from that New Year's bash. My head is pounding. It's pounding from the thing that happens in two weeks. We're recording this before our break. Evergreen episode.

The illusion has... Oh, I'll be asleep at 8.30 p.m. on New Year's Eve, almost certainly. Not me. I mean, we had to record in advance because otherwise I would be useless on January 1st. But I don't want to turn

people off. Don't click away just because we're recording this in a van. Just because we haven't changed our clothes in two weeks. I'm planning to change my shirt. I am going to change from this. After we record this, we're going to record our normal episode of even more news that comes out on

about the news December 19 and so you'll see me in an outfit change um but don't don't click away because this is going to be a great show and um for holidays happy new year everybody oh the new year yeah yeah instead of the other holidays happy new year it is a new year filled with possibility what brand came up with this Kleenex fine whatever Kleenex? Champagne. Falling ball of light. Cooks.

Alde acquaintance, whatever. Big counting down. Yeah, nice try. Big number. Yeah. Big disco ball is all over this holiday. It's disgusting. I still think champagne's.

I think champagne might be behind it. I mean, that's a real thing instead of the concept of counting down. Happy New Year. Hope it's good. This year will be better than the last. The last. But there is reason to believe that maybe this year, We'll be better than the last.

There's reason to believe. And that is why we are going to spend the first chunk of today's episode, giving our predictions for 2026. And let it be known that I am somewhat clairvoyant. It's a new gift that was given to me by the ghosts of our studio. And I can see the future. You've never said that you're clairvoyant. While, that's why I started this with Let it be known

Breaking news I am declaring it And I feel like I need to give that disclaimer Does that nobody just dismisses my predictions As The ravings of a mad woman Of somebody who's not clairvoyant Of somebody who's not clearfoying

The ravings of just any of us Just a person, yeah Thank you for jumping in there I was like a mad woman I mean I am mad I'm angry a lot Oh, not today We're not not today We're unless our

predictions are about things that are going to happen that are bad, because I didn't necessarily pick only good things. Good ones. I mean, I guess it all depends on... It's a mix. I tried to pick good things. I've picked good things. It's just, again, depends on... Well, I'll balance y'all out then. We'll see. Okay, one prediction I have is that in 2026, J.D. Vance, we'll find out that J.D. Vance has a love child. Wow. Oh. That is coming out swinging. Wow. With who? You don't know? No, I don't know.

That part wasn't revealed to me. So she's going to come forward. The mother is going to come forward. Somebody from his past or somebody like in the administration? Oh. Like is it like, oh, they just had a baby? Or is it like, oh, somebody from like years ago? Somebody, I think that it, I mean, it won't be from that long ago because the child will be young.

Yeah. I mean, that probably, the farther back it is, the less of a big deal it would be. And because he'll be immediately indignant. Like, who is the left to talk about family dynamics, you know? And I have been a wonderful, supportive father to what's your name over there for the three months that I've known about, him or her. Yeah. I don't know if I should rate that, like, because that did not even occur to me at all. But I want to make it a big deal if you end up being right.

So I'm going to rank that out of 1 to 10 I'm going to put it as like a four A chance of happening Like a low chance of happening But let it be known Let it be known though that I am Clairvoyant on account of the ghosts Giving me the gift

Cody what do you got I think that there is a Not 100% So this is just sort of looking at this chance I think I think Barry Weiss might get fired I don't think she's going to last at CBS That's cool

I think she's shown, and there's a new, I don't know if we're going to watch it, there's a new trailer for her endeavor at CDS. Yeah. And it's, I think, not going to get a lot of viewership. I think it will continue to decline the viewership there, and she will not last. Or she'll, like, change course, but. The trailer's, like, answering the questions that matter most, has feminism gone too far? It's wild, and it's like the most important people, J.D. Vance.

It's like, okay, I see. It's like putting the most out of touch person who's like a millennial, right? So let's find the millennial who's the most out of touch with what the millennial experience is like and like put her in charge of CBS News. And it's just all going to be town halls with John Federman. It's a fascinating, I'm fascinated by it. I think that you're right. I am one of the people that found out this week. that she used to date Kate McKinnon.

Kate McKinnon, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's not part of this prediction, but I just, my head went, oh, yeah. Sput around on my head. I think there's an element that is, she's like chasing, she's chasing like YouTube stuff,

but it's on CBS, and I think people just like turn it off. I think that is potentially more likely than mine, but no. I don't know, I don't know. Jonathan, you're up. Uh, yes, so mine are going to be. going to be, I don't know if mine are bold or not bold. This one feels kind of bold, given his floor, but I'm going to predict that Trump's approval rating dips to 30% or below, which is pretty low. He's at 36% now, but it's been really hard to break through the floor. My theory is

the economy keeps getting worse. Even if when Powell leaves, he's going to get rid of those interest rates to juice the economy, and inflation is going to get pretty bad. And I think, And this is depressing. I hope it does not happen. But I think there's a potential natural disaster that is devastating to an American city. And Trump has himself a like Bush Katrina type moment. Did you just put a. Oh, that's all part of why that you think the approval rating.

That's what I did. This is, this is one prediction. I thought you were just putting out of several predictions in one. No, I'm trying to justify what would put Trump's approval rating below. 30%. I mean, it's very likely that a we're not that far from it.

Disaster like that will happen generally and the likelihood that he will completely botch it unless it's in like the one place that he'll like if it's in if it's in Palm Beach he'll like he'll take care of it and he'll become king for life

but like if it's anywhere else if it's outside I mean honestly if it's in the panhandle of Florida I still think things could be disastrous because DeSantis, et cetera, and what he's done to FEMA, I don't think we'll fully really understand until something happens where they actually have to do their job and we see the effects of it, yeah. Although, speaking of inflation, I don't know if you saw, we had this

conversation on an episode semi recently, he said that deflation is bad. Oh, he did? Right. Yeah, he said it out loud. He admitted it. He was like, yeah, we're going to try to bring it down, but we don't want deflation. So he knows. Yeah. There's finally starting to be like we should level with people and say that bringing prices down would be bad for various reasons we're not going to explain it to these rubs but uh let's just say bringing prices down is bad you guys are all fine with that right there was this uh poll this week or a few weeks ago that was like very few uh people in the voting public kind of understand what the negative ramifications of deflation are and i think 70 percent said that only

if prices go down, not that if they stay stable, but only if they go down would they believe that inflation is under control? And so there's just this huge disconnect between what people want and what is possible or what politicians actually would want. That's what happens when you spend a lot of time campaigning about bringing prices down, saying that inflation's bad and we're going to bring prices down. We're going to bring prices down. Out of the gate, prices are going to come down. I do think that has something to do with this disconnect. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I shouldn't lie so much about that. And also, maybe it will happen, but that means we're going to be in a recession.

And I don't think people are going to like that as much as they think they will. Yeah. Yeah. At a certain point, and they're still trying to say, like, it's all Biden's fault, obviously. But at the same time, they're also saying it's an A-plus-plus economy. So are you, like, hamstrung? Or is Biden weighing you down? or are you rising above it all

and the economy is doing great? They don't know. Depends on the day. What a fucking mess. Okay. I'm trying to decide what my next one will be if it's going to be another big swing

or something that I genuinely I genuinely believe all my predictions. Of course, of course. I think that Dems are going to sweep the midterms. I'm going to say it. Sure. Yeah.

Like a full sweep in the sense that they take the Senate as well? I think we're going to make a really good run for it. Wow, okay. But I don't think, well, I don't think we're going to take, we're going to sweep. We're going to take control of the house for sure. We're going to have historic turnout.

We're going to have a really, really fucking great day on the midterms. That's my prediction. I wouldn't, I don't, I'm not going to go as far as to say we're going to take the Senate back. But it wouldn't be surprised. I agree with you completely. It wouldn't be surprised. I predict that we will take the Senate. Wow.

I'm pointing the flag. Happy New Year. But also it kind of depends on how some primaries go. Sure, sure. Maybe I'll adjust my prediction when the candidates really fully emerge, but I think there's a big chance. So Sherrod Brown in Ohio, you think, is a swing. Is his name, Sherrod?

Sherrod. Sherrod? I think it's Sherrod. I've always said Sherrod. Sherrod. It's probably Sherrod. Sharad. Mm-hmm.

Yeah, I mean, I'm trying. I mean. Okay, Sharad, Sherrod, no. Sherrod. Oh. And then what? Tala Rico, potentially. Talaico, potentially, I do think that this would be the time.

I think he would have, it would be, this is the time. If Lexus was ever going to happen. Potentially a candidate who could do it. Was that your prediction? No. No, but my prediction is related to. the midterms. And it's a little more depressing. I predict that Donald Trump will, and maybe this is premature, but I predict he will announce his candidacy for 2028 for the midterms to get people

out to vote. I think that he might use that as an opportunity to say if you vote for Republicans and we keep the House and we keep the Senate, then I can be president again. He's already announced that he is going to like make the midterms about him he's like I'm going to put my name on the ballot like all this sort of stuff he's saying that they're going to he's going to really really have his hands in there and I think that that might mean that he will just announce his candidacy and that he's running in order to get people out and vote I feel like Democrats would like that because one very popular guy he's he'll have a approval rating of 29% we've confirmed by that point and you know he

kind of understands, based on how he's talked about it, even though this Dershowitz conversation happened or whatever, I think he kind of understands that that would be a steep hill to climb serving a third term, so he would be doing it purely to juice. Totally. Like Hail Mary stuff for the, for the

midterm specifically. Yeah. Right. As we're recording, we'll talk about those later. As we're recording, he reclassified marijuana officially. Oh. We'll talk about later. That's my president. But Hail Mary stuff is what we're Yeah, exactly.

We'll talk about it later, Slash earlier. That's interesting. You piggybacked one prediction off of that. I mean, off of mine, I'll say I could see that. Now you go. If one of my other predictions doesn't come true. Oh. You can go right now, then.

I'll hold back on mine. I've got several more, but if Donald Trump does not die this next year, which is one of my predictions. You think straight up dead? Sub-sub prediction collapses on. stage. Oh my God. That I think, so I'll just say, I think maybe not dying, but I would say collapse on stage or like a very obvious health event where they're like scrambling and like having to do like

maybe they'll do a Dave. I'd love to see them try to do a Dave and get somebody to pretend to be Trump. Oh, no one could pretend to be. Do a Biden. I'm sorry. do a Biden Because obviously Because there was a

Biden Exactly Well they took that From the movie Dave Do a Paul McCartney Yeah The original Dave Paul McCartney

I call me Dave I guess I'll just toss Because my We all kind of predicted The same thing I predicted another Health event Attempt at cover up

That they are not able To cover up this time I mean they're not able To cover this one up He's clearly having Some kind of thing done With the MRIs in the hand

Yes We don't know exactly what it is, but I do predict something else happening that is unable to be waved away as he's shaking too many hands. Yeah, it is.

I mean, the, or it could be one of the things that's happening, like, getting worse. The droopy mouth happens more often. Whatever, if it's mini strokes or whatever, like, it just becomes more prominent. I guess the point here being, his health will continue to be an issue and it will be very public.

And so while I I definitely agree I could see Cody's happening kind of up against the clock here bud Well exactly yeah it's that tension of like Okay you're dying and nobody likes you I will say this The best

Possible outcome for J.D. Vance Is Trump dying close to the midterms Or shortly after? Sure. Because then he gets to be president for a couple of years He doesn't have the house so there's no pressure on him to, like, do anything. He can tamp down the most unpopular stuff.

He gets rid of the tariffs. He goes back to regular. He still talks a big game about immigration, but they don't do as much horrible stuff. And it positions him pretty well for 2028. I still think he would be the underdog, depending on who the Democrats nominate. But I think best possible outcome for J.D. Vance

is he gets to be president for a year or two with no pressure to do anything. Yes. That's why it's a tricky one because as much as I, want this terrible, terrible man to not be president anymore and to be deeply publicly embarrassed to have great pain of natural causes from natural causes. I do mean it. I do mean natural causes because it won't be satisfying otherwise. I don't want him to have a good life. Well, he did. He was a president twice. He's a winner. He doesn't win. As much as that exists in me, the existential threat of what happens if J.D. Vance has a good

nice run up to the presidency. Not so good. Yeah, and he's got the whole tech, all the Palantir folks and all that world. Really? That's why he's there. So, like, they're waiting. They're waiting for him to die. Yeah, they are. And there's a lot of people that want that and people that are ready to rally around him and that.

But I don't want to think about that too deeply. Does that count as your prediction, Jonathan, for your turn? Or do you want to give another one? I'll give more. I just don't want to bull right over you when we all were piggybacking off of the same one. I appreciate that. No, this is a separate one.

This one doesn't involve Trump. John Fetterman switches to the GOP and then tries to switch back when it becomes clear that it was a bad move. Oh, that's good. Oh, that'd be so funny. This one is more of a, that would be funny. Wouldn't that be funny?

I would give that a two on my own scale, but... Oh, that would be so funny. He'll announce it on the Barry Weiss show Where she interviews the most compelling people Tonight on Barry With the most compelling ideas Oh There's already a show called Barry and it's good

Oh no she's that Oh they should totally do Barry's over They should do Barry, yeah I know Um okay Marjorie Taylor Green declares that she's running For governor I was thinking president

But I think governor Kemp's up in 27 27, 2027, 2000, the year of my lord. The year, 20207, yeah. Yeah. I don't believe that she's done, is my point. And I think it's too much of a long shot to say that she's going to run for president, though maybe.

But governor, perhaps. Well, let's see. Right now, the primaries May 19th declared candidates, Chris Carr, Attorney General of Georgia, Brad Raffinsberger of the phone call A few other people It says Marjorie Taylor Green has declined But that could change Could change

She says a lot of things Historically She says a lot of things The point is that she's not done There's no way I don't think that there's any world Where she's done I think that she strategically is leaving

At a certain time That gives her January 2026 Gives her plenty of time to start campaigning for something. And so. Or start podcasting. And that's always the other option.

But also, it's not mutually exclusive. So, go, I don't know. Check out verdict from Tandy Criss. Should I give, just go through some of these other ones? Definitely going to happen. Pete Hagseth, he's going to get a DUI. Oh. In a fighter joke.

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's so dangerous. He's going to get a delay. Come on. Yeah, so I guess that's along those lines. Who's out? Because like there's a, you know, there's a, there's a, that happens in all administrations.

It's not like, oh, oh my God, somebody left the administration. That's normal. Obviously the turnover for Trump is higher than a lot of past presidents. In part one. Yeah. In part one. But he's assembled this, this crack team of loyal freaks. And there's no real serious person in the room.

And I don't even think Marco counts at this point as one of those people in the five jobs that he has now. So like, who's out? Who's gonna, can I know RFK's got some critics on the Republican Party growing. Whooping cough is now sweeping the nation, by the way. So if I had to rank them, I'd probably say Christy Noem. I mean, there's already rumbling, right?

Yes, yes. Like she's going to be out. Yeah. It would be hard to imagine Cash staying that much longer now that Bonino's out. Yeah. Cash has to go, right? He's got no podcasting friends anymore. Yeah.

There's nobody he can trust. But then after that. Cash should go. Like maybe Bondi, but she's kind of... She's so far, she's holding the line. It kind of depends on some of this stuff plays out. I do think Cash is likely. I brought it up because of the Hegg-Seth thing.

I think that there's an element of him that is, uh, going to increasingly make people in the military uncomfortable and the nation generally uncomfortable and he seems very erratic and I think your prediction speaks to some of that but not all of it he's just that way and I think he could be yeah there are still Republican medical doctors who are like what the hell are you doing yeah and I will I will say that I'm surprised there hasn't been more defectors or firings in the first year based on how the first term went but it's going to happen right

Susie does is keeping them in line that's exactly um and she loves them all not herself but yeah um yeah and just like again like the Trump one was so like you know half the people were like we can keep it together and they realize they can't and then also you know Steven Miller and Steve Bannon there was this effort, effective effort, then that got people out, even though they just sort of went to

the shadows and waited. But this, I don't know, either nobody or like a bunch of people next year. Yeah. I mean, I can't see Vance going anywhere. I can't see Rubio going anywhere. Duffy's probably going to stick around. That would be funny. If it's just Duffy gone and he's like, this guy was terrible. I got a terrible recommendation from Puck. this guy he's the worst he could barely do the challenge the road rules real world challenge no i feel like duffy's not going anywhere bondy is tough i think it depends on what happens tomorrow aka two weeks ago um with what gets released i i don't anticipate any huge bombshells just more of the same of stuff that's made him of i'm talking about the

epstein files uh and you will know by the time you listen to this what's in there probably I feel like Bondi has, like, done her best to be extremely deferential in public and has done the minimum of just when Trump wants something done at the Department of Justice, just being like, call Todd, call Todd Blanche and make him do it. Like, I don't want to have this stain on me, but I'm not going to stop you. Maybe that's enough for Trump. Yeah, because she's doing the effort. She's probably explaining, like, it's not like, you're putting me in a tough spot. I'm trying. Lauren Bobert

Gonna get caught shoplifting That's a 10 out of 10 That's definitely That's probably happened already And we just haven't seen the report yet I just came to me Kay that's so funny I mean listen

There's an epidemic of shoplifting And she's the ringmaker Yeah they're locking up the deodorant Because of Lauren Bobert It's super believable yeah yeah yeah 100% yeah she was giving a handy during beatle juice of course allegedly on camera I'm gonna google this because I feel like that's happened already I mean it could have yeah did it I guess not I started to be like Laura Lumer and I was like no

Lauren Bober I don't need to put some fanciness on her last name I have a good Cody, you go. Vance and or Trump, R word on stage or in an interview casually. Casual R word. Didn't you predict that for this year, though? Yeah, but Trump did it in a tweet, so we're getting closer. We are getting closer. Before he dies.

My last one is that Dr. Oz will go on stage and talk about how much it costs to do a vaginoplasty or create a penis and how it's extra if you add testicles. Oh, wait, he just did that this morning. stop we're not going to talk about this at the thing so you want to play the clip from at this point several weeks ago okay sure yeah yeah you know you got to have some fun vaginoplasti a vaginoplasti a procedure a child does not need cost 60,000 dollars shockingly a phalloplasti the creation of a penis costs on average in America according to this data high quality 150,000 dollars per child

I do believe with doing some work that these prices have continued to increase with increasing manufactured demand. And I must point out that the creation of a vagina in that case of a phalloplasty or a scrotoplasty where you add testicles, that's extra. The testicles, that'll cost you extra. This is because they're doing this horrible, evil thing of trying to defund any hospital that does gender-affirming care for children. and so they are

conflating a lot of things. You're pretending that penises are being made for children all over the place. What a freak, weird thing to be doing, talking about on stage. It's the beginning of the middle of September. You know what that means.

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We've done your homework. Do we want to talk about Elon Musk on Katie Miller's podcast? Jonathan, I know that you've got lots of thoughts. All right. So this is, we might have to cut some of this out for the show. I'll play the whole clip here. This is Elon Musk on Katie Miller's Stephen Miller's wife's podcast. I hate that she's got my name. But she spells it wrong. Spells it differently. Wrong. And right before this, the question is, what would you do if you start it over with $1,000?

I'd like to actually also highlight that the person sharing this, some right-wing blue check propagandists, he is saying, Elon Musk gives the most Elon answer to this question. And he is correct, but not in the way that he seems to be implying. Richest person in the world, what would you do if you had to start over again with $1,000? If you had to start from scratch today with only $1,000, what would you do? Well, I did originally come to North America with like, I don't know, $2,500, Canadian, so I don't know, maybe the two grand U.S. One bag of books and one bag of clothes in Montreal, age 13.

So that is how I started out. No, you didn't. Maybe technically, your father had an emerald mine. you were that he claims that he didn't even though there were interviews that have been scrubbed from the internet that have him talking about how they did unbelievably rich person your entire life um if you came with that amount literally doesn't mean that's all you had you fuck at this point i have a lot of knowledge a lot of things you have to go wrong for that to be the case it's like am i just emerging from prison perhaps

with a stipend oh my company's been confiscated. I mean, it would take Armageddon, which hopefully that doesn't happen. Like Ragnarok next level, and I lost. Yeah. The hell. What a complete, terrible interviewer.

Like, just clarify your point. This is, your question isn't. Well, she's, she's flustered by his charm. She can't, she can't get past his, his oozing charm. It's just. obviously the point of this question is yeah yeah we know you're the richest man in the world we get it Elon what if you weren't what is the advice you would give someone that wants to get a head in life exactly has a thousand dollars it is a hypothetical you the brilliant mind

that we all should be worshipping because you you're so ahead of the curve tell me how can I make this $1,000 into something to sustain me to build my life to build my own empire and he doesn't have an answer well he does

we will get to it he does he does have an answer it is an absurd answer but right I think we should emphasize that now that Elon Musk appears to be unable to understand the concept of a hypothetical question not what if you lost all of your

money because of some catastrophe but like the snap of the fingers you have a thousand dollars but it's 2025 what do you do now what does not understand this question and fine if understanding conditional hypotheticals isn't the thing that racist Nazis bring up to try to prove that other people are stupid uh and i don't want to go into the whole thing but there was a whole timpool thing where he watched Elon Musk being interviewed by Don Lemon and said that Don Lemon didn't understand a conditional hypothetical and that meant that he was stupid and racists on 4chan use this to...

Yes, they love it. They love this. They love it. So it's just very, very striking that Elon Musk does not seem to understand what a hypothetical question is. So that's why he's like, what I'm so smart, that wouldn't happen. Oh, and also, that would need Armageddon to happen. And then you'll hear him talk about, like, if Armageddon happened, but money is still valuable.

Exactly. You're a stupid idiot. Every step of the way, he's still just not doing it. Also, like, he doesn't, he can't, it's not even just that he doesn't understand hypothetical. He can't because of his ego and narcissism and his, like, his just view of himself. He, like, can't get past this idea. I can't imagine myself like that. It would never happen to me.

So I can't, I can't hear. your question. You're insult like you're like it's like he's insulted by it. I also love the idea of so there's Armageddon and I didn't win and I lost wait so you want to be like the Armageddon

overlord? Is that like your scenario exactly like just again Katie to your point she is really not doing a good job and just just say okay I'm asking you to give advice that's it. It's just asking for advice I don't think that I'm the best

interviewer but it's he's just interject just clarify your question even you can and again we can you know we're not going to get into this but like they're she's enamored she's like she's like they like I mean there have been rumors of their like relationship she left the white house to work for him and then left that to start this but now she's also kind of still like promoting xAI a lot or something it's unclear but they clearly have to something going on and that's why she's acting like this it would it felt too um easy to include something about them in my predictions for 2026 yeah i didn't then i'm just saying i do want to keep watching his there's more as he on this fascinating podcast on this thing that has

tons of uh listenership and viewership i mean it's impossible for me for someone to have that have that amount of knowledge, all the knowledge that I have, and then be dropped down to a low resource amount. Because the reality is that either something truly catastrophic has happened, like civilization is melted. Or I will be able to ask people to just give me money. And with the promise that I will have a high return, which is what I'm able to do right now, like if you give me a dollar, you will get much more than a dollar. pause pause pause pause then explain how yeah that's the question i'm dying if i have a dollar i can turn it into more money how explain how the question it started with a thousand dollars you've dropped it down to one and you're saying that you can do it explain how that's the question

elon answer her question sorry it's because of his knowledge and if he was dropped down to a low resource environment he'd be able to what a piece of shit yeah but yes he refuses to uh like actually answer the question. We're 90 seconds into this shit. She laughs and she does kind of look over a few times of like, should I get him to wrap it up? Should I just interject? He doesn't know what he's saying. He's just like pontificating

and blowing himself up as some genius. His answer is I'm a genius so I'd make more money. Okay, as a genius, could you answer that we can cut it if we don't? So this is, it's somewhat of an impossible dichotomy because civilization would have had to have destroyed or something.

In which case, $1,000 is not going to solve your problems. You can't do much with this. If you're wondering around radioactive creators and you're in like, you know, fallout or whatever, then $1,000 is not going to solve anything. And if civilization hasn't melted, then

probably just told people willing to give me money, which I've done before. I, listen, even more news is not in the top 20 Spotify podcast or any of that stuff. What? We're not, so I

don't want to just be like, you can't get a bunch of listeners to your podcast, but you're a famous person who is an integral part or was a major piece of the MAGA movement whose husband is one of the top ten pieces of the MAGA movement and you're interviewing the richest person in the world supposedly a genius supposedly like the most interesting man alive this is dull as shit I mean I so boring I could barely watch it the first time it was passed around I was like what do we how do we like it's it's it's obviously very very funny that

he can't do it but it's so it is so dull and like how is this cut this out why did you not cut this out you can edit stuff you don't have to post the whole thing right it's a bad I mean it's a fine question I guess to ask somebody like this but I feel like literally any other millionaire or billionaire would have a real answer the core what he's saying is You can't do that much with $1,000. That $1,000 isn't going to save you. $1,000 is a lot of money to some people. It's all that they have.

But we're talking, it's just so fucking wild and mind blowing to me to be like, but he's also like, but you know, if you're just smart enough, you'll be able to figure it out. But that $1,000 isn't going to move the needle essentially. It's like what, what, and then extrapolate that. little bit and apply it to people that are struggling that can't afford their rent. The vast majority of people in this country that do not have the resources that you have. But he also said that he could turn a dollar into a lot of money. Yeah, he also did. And he's also said this past

week there was these tweets thread of him going around of him saying in the future, we won't need savings because commodities, everything will be so cheap. Whatever it is, whatever his vision that he doesn't dare explain how it becomes that reality, but people will, we'll be living in a, his belief, we'll be living in a world where people will not need savings. I just did the, I just did the back of the napkin math, by which I mean on the calculator app, a thousand dollars to him, he has $600 billion, a thousand dollars to him is like a hundredth of a penny to the median American. That's wild.

like nothing you did that math you fucking did that math real quick you know yes but with a calculator but like and i estimated what the median american has probably even like it's not like asking him a normal question like that is confounding to him and so it's striking that someone with the knowledge that i have someone with his knowledge can't even like come up with something probably because he doesn't know. $1,000, I wouldn't. I'd stay poor, I got it. The easiest answer you could do is, say,

like, find out the basic, blah, blah, blah, and then take what you can and invest that into this thing or whatever. Any sort of anything. But even, like, an acceptable answer from him would be, like, well, I would take, like, an in-demand product. I would buy as much of a high-demand product that I could for $1,000, and then, like, go to a place where there's a low supply of that product and sell it for high, and so by the end of the week,

probably I'd have, like, four or five. $5,000 and so by the end of six weeks, you just extrapolate that and I'd have $50,000. Like, say that. Pick a thing. That's a really good answer. It's not going to help anybody's. If you close your eyes, sounds like a smarter version of Elon Musk said it. Even though, but that's a basic answer.

It's a little bit untethered to reality for a person that has basic needs. It's not a real thing. However, you could easily make that and then move on. But instead, it's an opportunity for him to say. I'm too smart to ever be in that situation. Yeah, I do think these people are like, I brought this up the other day and because last year it was like these people are weird

and I do think there's something about like these people aren't interesting and because they have all this power they think they're inherently interesting and so that's why you have to watch a town hall with Erica Kirk or like two-hour podcasts with Elon Musk or Cash Patel and his girlfriend

like there's a very, there's a huge disconnect of like what's interesting and compelling and even Joe Rogan which is a show that I don't watch or listen to especially after I spent a lot of time watching and listening to it for the episode like he has a conversation with people it's a frustrating conversation but he has like comedians on or he gets like a doctor on to spew some nonsense or something but this is just like well I'll get someone who's famous and important and just naturally talking to them for an hour is going to be really compelling. There's no way it won't be. It's also it's, yeah, it's so frustrating. There are so many ways it won't be. Literally anything that he says people

want to watch or she says, like, they're so divorced from the reality of what good content is or what people are interested in seeing or, you know, it's a spectacle now. People might turn in, what is the Elon going to say? But they don't know what they're doing. She doesn't know what she's doing um yeah it's um obviously it's all it's all uh illusions simulacrum they've all made where they're lifting themselves up and being like see we're actually incredibly incredibly interesting and fascinating you want to listen everything we have to say um hey cash patel how often do you travel to see your girlfriend what like i get that it seems easy because we all have conversations with people and we all have fun conversations and we're like oh that would be easy but

like Terry Gross is a really good interviewer for a reason. It's a skill. It took a long time. You like ask someone something. You wait a little bit. You like see what they're there. And like it's a it's like hard to do. Like it's very hard to do. And you can tell Katie Miller was just like, well, what's my next move? Well, I know a lot of famous Republican people. And we have fun when we chat. I'll just chat with them. And it's going to be easy. And like, maybe she'll get better at it right like people get better at things over time but like like even some of those actors on actors things are like okay uh uh Ethan Hawk talking to Sydney Sweeney is kind of interesting like Ethan Hawk I have another like we won't watch it but Ethan Hawk was on Joe Rogan

recently and it's interesting because Ethan Hawk is an interesting guy with an interesting perspective on stuff right yes but you know who's not Barry Weiss no Katie Miller uh they that's that that's sort like the thing i mean we've seen it all year and we're seeing it going to see it more and more um they just because they won the election in a landslide uh they think that they won everything and that they are that they are the culture now and it's just not going to work out for them it's the trump kennedy center it's not the kennedy center right it's like we get to control culture and entertainment and what everyone But it's off-putting and annoying

and it's just slowly, slowly falling apart. Oh, here's a new prediction. The Katie Miller show will not exist in, that's fair. By the end of the year. Before we go, I think we should end on something a little light, a little not

related to the people that we don't like talking about, but we have to every day. There's a really funny quote from Sigourney Weaver, that is about her time on the Mandalorian and Grogu set that I just wanted to read.

Grogu! You love Grogu, Katie. You love Grogu. So this is a quote about Grogu. There's the Grogu... She talked about like, she got to hang out with a bunch of Grogues on set because they've got different grogues for it.

There's the Grogu that walks sometimes and the Grogu that does weird faces. And then there's another Grogu that does that, whatever it is, the force. And they're like six people, who have to almost travel in a little clump around the main Groku. I just find it fascinating.

I love being behind the scenes for something like that. I love, I love that she is carrying on this Harrison Fordian torch of not caring or knowing anything about Star Wars. Whatever it is.

The Force? Yeah, like it's been decades and you don't even know what the Force is. It's so funny. I love that for her. Meanwhile, she's like, we found out a different origin of the Xenomorph

back and from Wiefing this. exactly and like yeah like if you talk to harrison ford about indiana jones or blade runner he like loves he's a huge fan but star was like i don't know you flip a switch again come on is just pretend that's so good yeah i shot the live i shot the alien guy who cares i swear i saw harrison ford at the farmer's market at the grove last week walking by pushing a little cart and like no one else was stopping and looking around and i just went oh and then it saw him from behind and i was like 90% sure that's Harrison Ford. And then I just kept watching and everyone was doing their thing.

No one cared? Yeah. No earring. So maybe. No earring. Maybe people just haven't seen him lately. They didn't watch 1929 or whatever. Did you guys watch that?

19. Oh, the Yellowstone show. No. Oh, no. The prequel. The prequel of Yellowstone? No, I didn't. Is that okay.

But I'd recognize the guy. He's fun. Helen Mirren. Recognize her too. I didn't see her. You know what I wrote. recognize. It's time to wrap this up. It's the end of the show. It's the end of the show. We are all showed up, ready to tackle the new year. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, folks, I hope you had a good holiday.

I hope you are easing back into the swing of things. I hope you feel bolstered by our predictions, which are all definitely coming true. And most of all, I hope that you know that we still love you very much five four three three two one march