The Daily Zeitgeist - Central Perk from Triends 9/22: Charlie Kirk's Funeral, Tom Brady, The Rapture, Donald Trump, Pam Bondi, Tom Homan, Central Perk NYC

Episode Date: September 22, 2025

In this edition of Central Perk from Triends, Jack and Miles discuss their respective weekends, Charlie Kirk's funeral, Tom Brady's strange commentary, the incipient Rapture, Trump pushing Pam Bondi to prosecute his political foes, the abandoned Tom Homan bribery investigation, NYC finally getting a 'Central Perk' cafe and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Is this like a universal truth? Like men don't know the age of their friends' kids? Like so many times, even my closest friends. Let's see. How old do you think my kids are? I mean, I refer to them by their age on the show, so you probably know that one. Yeah, well. I would say the Geist child is.

I can tell because your youngest child was born. I know when he was born because we just started the show. Right, right. So he's as always the show. seven years old. Yes. Because that was 2018. I remember that was the first spring, winter, or beginning of the year, I remember from that year.

And I know your other kid is just, it is nine. That's right. Yeah. And I can tell you for sure that the guy's child cannot yet smoke. And that's about as specific as I can go. Dude, really, really spreading to your bed out, right? I'm going to go for like, the. So I'm pretty good.

I feel like I'm good. He ain't 18. Jack, we haven't even known each other 18 years. That's what I'm saying. I mean, yeah, I got a bad sense of time. It is wild. Like, one of my, uh, you know, my best friend growing up, like, sent me his kids,

driver's permit and I, like, fucking could not believe that shit. Yeah. He was driving? Yeah. Jack. I know, that's like a funny thing, too. Like, I have to really rack my brain because I can remember the year. Like, and I go from there.

It's not like I always have a running thing. It's like, okay, they just turned this age. They just turned this age. I'm like, they were born this year because I remember everything that was happening that year. Yeah. I just had a friend because I, like, to the area, I moved. One of my friends mentioned like a mutual friend who I haven't seen in years, like lives,

like in the area. And I was like, oh, he's like, oh, he's got a kid too. And I'm like, oh, how old? He's like, dude, I want to say like four. The kid is turning two. he jumped ahead two years he's turning to like an infielder right now it is somewhere between one and five but that's like doing double so yeah yeah the difference to a parent between two and four is so vast sure sure sure oceans of time but to an outsider

it's like i don't know like when did it's not moana two come out did it come out two years ago or four years ago i don't fucking know you know you know I didn't want it to came out. I'd be like, I didn't have a kid. You know, like, my ability to know the difference between how many years ago something happened is pretty shoddy in general. Right. So, yeah, if I have not been interacting with that kid, I am going to, when I see them for the first time, say, and who the fuck is this? I guess I think I'm around people who are just way on top of their shit.

Like, all my home girls know all the ages. Yeah, yeah. No, that's so much better. Well, they probably also talk to each other more about women. No, but I just like, yeah, I just, I just, it's just funny how much it's like a, like a dumb guy. It's not just Tim Allen grunts. Yeah. I'm like, how many, how many Tim Allen grunts is this kid?

I feel like, my life, when I hang out with my friends is like, so what do they, what's going on with them career wise? Like, what are you? And I'm like, you know, I've never known what he. does for a living at all. Like one of your friends? One of my college friends. Like he's, you know, he has a law degree and like he's kind of, he does different stuff.

But like when we hang out, we don't talk about that, you know? We just various things. And anybody in like, we just look at. We just look at the wall. Um, we yeah, and anybody in the world of finance, I'm just like, I've got one friend who's actually

interesting to hear talk about that shit. And, Like, so I will, like, I ask him what's going on with his, his work. But most other people, like, I don't talk to them about it. And if I ask them about it, they don't want to talk about that shit either. Yeah, my, my friend from middle school, I have no idea what he does for a job. We've been friends for decades. And then my other friend, no idea at all.

Like, you couldn't even at this point? No. I don't know what he used to be a carpenter. I don't know what he does for work now. Oh, man, I know a carpenter who had some pretty good stories. Hold on, you're in good company, it sounds like, yeah. My man, J.C., he's got something to say. I'm Jorge Ramos.

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Ed. Everyone say hello, Ed? From a very rural background myself, my dad is a farmer, and my mom is a cousin, so, like, it's not what do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? I know it sounds like the start of a bad joke, but that really was

my reality nine years ago. I just normally do straight stand-up, but this is a bit different. On stage stood a comedian with a story that no one expected to hear. Well, 22nd of July 2015, a 23-year-old man had killed his family. And then he came to my house. So what do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? a new podcast called Wisecrack, where stand-up comedy and murder takes center stage.

Available now. Listen to Wisecrack on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is a tape recorder statement. The person being interviewed is Krista Gail Pike. This is in regards to the death of a Colleen slimmer. She started going off on me, and I hit her. I just hit her, I'm hit her, I'm here.

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that they deserve to live. We are starting the recording now. Please state your first and last name. Krista Pike. Listen to Unrestorable Season 2, Proof of Life, on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I started trying to get pregnant about four years ago now.

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of Week Trend Dernaly's egg, guys! Yeah. Do you know the me saying Dernalies eight guys?

For seven years in a row is what fried my vocal cords? I thought it was snorting all that powdered milk. All that powdered milk. My name is Jack O'Brien that over there is Mr. Miles Gray. We are of course referencing the urban legend, possibly true story,

a loose theory that Al Pacino's voice when he went from talking like Michael Corleone in a normal voice to talking like Osamity Sam with us a cha cha cha cha

was all of the powdered milk that he had to snort in Scarface that's like wild fucked up his whole shit I wonder like what the whole process was for like that like the prop master

when it's like all right we got to figure out some shit for him to snort besides cocaine and we can't keep doing cocaine because it's messing up the production So I guess powdered milk, do we look into that? Is that okay? It's not just going to, whatever, it feels like the word is just the most. You drink milk, you're like, you've got thick spit going for a whole day.

He's just like. Just stuck in your, yeah, imagine milk throat, but in your sinus. Yeah, just plowing through caterpillar lines of fucking powdered milk. I feel bad for all those people in the 80s having to do fake Coke. I know. You'll remember you. All right. My name's Jack that over there is Miles Gray.

This is the episode where we tell you what's trending on this Monday morning. What was trending over the weekend? It's trending in our hearts. But first, we get to know you a little bit better by telling you some things that we think are overrated underrated. We ask our guests every day what they think is overrated underrated. This is our chance to get some stuff off our chest. You know what I'm saying? Yep.

Let's start. Should we start overrated? What if you want, man? Fuck it. What's cheese in you all? off, man. What's something you think is overrated? Me, man.

Who, me? Fucking billionaires, man. Just getting away with it all the time. Yeah. Specifically, this Steve Balmer, Kauai Leonard thing is killing me. It's Pablo Torre every fucking week now is like, truly they're calling him the boogey man. It feels like the Kendrick Drake like beef, but except it's just like upsetting legal documents about how pretty allegedly, but pretty clearly, allegedly. It really does feel like

that. Like the way, I had that same thought as he was dropping like his fifth episode where he's like, and here's more documentation. Yeah. Because so he found out that Steve Ballmer like basically did this thing where he funneled a huge investment into this company that ended up being a scam. Nobody allegedly knew it was escape at the time. And then that money was then paid to Kauai Leonard by that same company for doing nothing in order to get around the salary cap because they had signed Kauai Leonard to a salary that was he's like Kauai Leonard's one of the best players in the NBA but you have the salary cap that like makes it so no team can just come through like the Yankees and just fucking scorched her and like pay everyone all all the money um and so the way he

got around that was kind of this like sloppy thing where I I mean, I guess it's not sloppy in the sense that we wouldn't have found out about it if this company hadn't been... Yeah, got bankrupt and then sued and everything becomes public. Yeah, and then everything becomes public. But he's been going through the documents and just finding incriminating piece of evidence after incriminating piece of evidence. His fellow billionaire, Mark Cuban, has been defending him being like, no one would do this. This is just he's, you're wrong. He was scammed.

He didn't know. In a way. And he just happened to invest money in Kauai Leonard. Yeah, it feels like Pablo Torre is actually in the beef with Mark Cuban. Exactly. So what he does, Mark Cuban says a thing. And then Pablo Tori's like, I actually have documentation that, like, because Mark Cuban was like, I don't know.

It's like if it happened, then he would have to do it this way. And maybe like he would probably prop up the company. And probably he's like, oh, interesting. We just found documentation that she did exactly that. It's like he knows the whole case. And that's why it's really interesting to him just to drip it out. because it makes everyone look more fucking bad and also the people that defend Steve Balmer look even worse because they're like well it probably was done this or maybe it wasn't

evidence comes out that refutes it and it just again like sports is used like the one thing that people kind of feel is like free from like all the fucking chaos of the world but in the era of big money like that's completely gone and you know the insanely wealthy owner trope has been around forever. But like salary caps kept things somewhat under control, especially like in the NBA. Like for us, we've been talking about it for the last few years. The amount like the parody that exists in the NBA is unlike anything I've ever seen. Yeah, it's super fun. It makes it. Yeah, it makes it crazy that like the Oklahoma City Thunder who were like a joke team three years ago just won the championship. Yeah. Right. Exactly. And then like when you have people like Balmer just

coming in and sloppily skirting the rules like a common CEO. So it's just like, it's really fucking infuriating. And it has nothing to do with like the team or whatever. Like I, my fucking allegiance to the Lakers aside, like just looking at this, it just shows, I think that's what it is. I just hate the fact that that entire way of doing business, it's like, well, I'm a billionaire and I have my own rules is just done so blatantly in people's faces. And now you have a league with the NBA where Adam Silver is like not, not being as unequivocal

as I'd like him to be. When he's talking about, like, put, like, lay in the hammer down on people who circumvent the cap rules, it's like, are you really going to do it? Because Pablo Tori is really making it difficult now for the NBA to, like, not do, you know, come down seriously on the clippers. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's cool because he's a, you know, he's a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. He's a podcaster. His podcast is, you know, once he gets on a, his previous thing that he got into is just the Bill Belichick and his 22-year-old girlfriend thing. That was a fun thread.

And, like, when he gets on a thread like this, it's definitely worth listening. because like especially with this one it's a white collar malfeasance at a time when literally nobody else is paying attention to that you know seriously the authorities are asleep at the wheel and so he's able to like just go in and get the low hanging fruit but for people who don't know steve balmer is the richest owner in any sport he's one of the richest people in the world he co-founded microsoft with bill gates and they had an episode recently just about the parallels between what Microsoft got caught doing. And then in the 90s,

this is a big scandal. Yeah. And Steve Balmer was the like head of the company at the time that they were caught doing anti-competitive stuff blatantly by the U.S. government and like forced to, you know, it's like the one anti-monopoly thing that has happened that like really the government pushed back on. That's how blatant they were being. Best detail I learned over the past week is because I think it's easy to lose sight of,

like, how much money was at stake here. So Quiliter to do nothing again, to do nothing. Quiliter got $20 million, I think, from this company to do nothing. 28, I think. Yeah, okay, 28. He's getting paid more by this company to do nothing than he's getting paid by New Balance for being their face. The face of new balance. Yeah, face of their basket. skip-all thing. Like, which was a huge, like, the fact that they, New Balance got Kauai Leonard was wild. At the time, we were like, whoa, like, that's a huge get for them. That's, like, an amazing amount of value.

The idea that this company would just pay him for doing nothing, just, yeah, it seems very unrealistic. Yeah. Anyways, it's, it's just wild to think, it's like, he's the face of a brand for X amount of money, but then he can get more money to live. literally just do nothing. Because again, it's, it wasn't, it's, it's, it's not that he was ever doing anything with this company. They were just funneling money to him. But yeah, this is not abnormal for Steve Balmer, obviously, as the head of Microsoft who previously got caught doing

anti-competitive things. But also just like billionaires, as we keep talking about on this show, like it is what they do. They rewrite the history. It's very important to America's ethos and the American zeitgeist to believe that these are remarkable people who are doing things with like creativity. They're abnormal brain power. Yeah, their amazing brain power. And then, you know, so they rewrite these biographies where they like started everything from a garage and all this bullshit.

And then you actually look at the reporting. And it's just they find loopholes and exploit loopholes is what they do. And they are predatory and we'll do whatever it takes to make a bunch of money. Or win or whatever. Whatever their fucking worldview is. But yeah, it's just. but Pablo Torre God bless him

to fucking keep turning the heat up on the league because that would be the next scandal as if the NBA just kind of like If the NBA just looks the other way Yeah because again like you said Bomber's so fucking wealthy It's like he could buy the league if he wanted You know what I mean?

It's just like he's his That's just looming over everything Yeah All right my overrated is My ability to sneeze with mouthwash in my mouth It's an overreasing Overrated ability? It is overrated by me prior to what I'm about to tell you.

So I put mouthwash in my mouth, immediately fell a sneeze coming on, had the mouth full of mouthwash, and I just thought I'd be able to hold it in, like focus the sneeze through my nose, and not lose the mouthwash. You idiot. I didn't want to waste the mouthwash. This is good mouthwash that I just put in my mouth. I was like barely started rinsing. And so I tried it.

And it was like a bottle of mouthwash had detonated in my bath. Like I don't know how it was just everything in sight was covered with like a fine mist of plaques. Shout out plaques by the way. Great mouthwash. Thank you. there was literally I noticed there was like an outline of my toothbrush cup on the mirror

that's how that's how much that's fucked up and I hate to make a Hiroshima atomic bomb reference but the shadow was burned into the fucking from your mouthwash knees yes that's how that's how successful I was how do you feel now uh you know I feel like I just

I learned an important lesson that I keep learning over and over again as I get older the like i don't know i've talked before about how like you know that scene in the other guys where uh the two hero cops are like we're gonna make it like jump to to a thing across the and then they don't make it like yeah i always have that thought where i'm like i could i could jump from this building to that i could throw this football clear over the mountains yeah yeah exactly and yeah i just feel like i can go mind over body but the the physics of the situation make themselves real

and realer as I get older. Yeah, got to think positively. That's right. Anyways, that's my overrated. What's something, Miles, that you think is underrated? The Kamikaze retail worker, okay? There's nothing like the kind of hookup you get at a store than from a person

working retail who does not give a fuck. Someone who has one foot out the door. Someone who just got back from a job interview for a better job and is now just running the clock out. I had the great honor of intersecting with one of these people, these hero retail workers over the weekend because Her Majesty took me out to get a birthday gift on over the weekend. So, and I wanted some new cups. She's like, what do you want for your?

I was like, you know, we lost everything in the fire. I would like some cups I've been drinking with my hands for the past year like this just together just slurping out of the sink or out of our drinking bucket we don't even have a dipper but like I wanted to get like these like

really cool like just like these coffee cups okay that were just like kind of like I liked like the ceramics of it so there's a store we went into we get to the store it's like fucking two right and the store is closed and I'm like what the fuck is going on like I know the store is open We go next door and I'm like, are they, do the people like leave for lunch?

You're like, yeah, they should be back in like 20 minutes. We come back like 40 minutes later. Still nobody there. And then I'm like, what the fuck's going on? Then some guy pulls up behind. He's like, oh, what's up guys? This is like a multinational company. Like this isn't some like boutique, right?

I'm like, what's up? He's like, oh, my bad, dude. My bad. Yes. I just had a meeting dog. It was supposed to be 30 minutes. Dude, shit turned to two hours. He's talking to me like this, like very conference.

And I'm like, okay. I like this guy. Rich, like, Karen's and, you know, would be, like, getting more and more incensed and ready to talk about talking to their manager. You, you saw an opportunity. I go, what's up, bro? I go, I'm like, all good, dog. All good, dog.

He's like, dude, I'm so sorry. He's like, bro. I'll hook you up, bro. Sorry about that, man. I shouldn't have had you guys waiting like that. So I go, all right. And then, like, the guy was clearly very, like, loose. So I'm just talking to him.

Yeah. And I'm like, what's going on, man? Like, how do you like working here? He's like, bro, he's like, low key, bro. I fucking hate this place, dog. But, like, I'm, I'm about to leave, bro, look you. Are you, are you fainting surprise at this? Yeah, I go, oh, for real.

Oh, no. Really? Why? Why? He's like, bro, just fucking, like, it's fine. Like, you know, but like, I'm just, just so fucking boring, dude. You know what I mean? Anyway, what do you want? And I was like, oh, let me get like a couple of these mugs and a couple, like, two of those

mugs. And he's like, for sure, dog. He's like, I'm going to hook you up fat. And I go, when he said hook you up fat, I'm like, first of all, this guy smokes weed because that's like a weed dealer talk. We'll hook you up fat dog. I'll hook you a fatty dog right now. I'm pretty sure he was also trying to communicate to you that he deals weed.

Maybe. Maybe. I mean, like, there was an understanding. When he came in all fucking weird and I was like, bro, no fucking problem, dog. I don't even give a shit. Like, you do you. This fucking guy gave me 50% off and didn't even charge me for like other shit. like when I looked at the thing he's like bro I'm just gonna like whatever dude he's like I usually

I give like 20 I just give you 50s like dude and he goes I'll give you 50 I don't even give a fuck hell yeah and I was like yes dog thank you amazing and I just think of like when I used to do that when I worked at like the art like the laser tag place I used to give kids like tokens for the arcade machine yeah yeah yeah I was trying to hook them like I was like I just don't give a fuck and that was like my way to be like rebel I'm like y'all pay me minimum way watch this here's your fucking tokens do that have fun with that so again i just love somebody who's just willing to give that discount you know what i mean amazing and i get to when you don't fear death anymore like in terms of getting fired getting fired that you are actually the most one of the

most powerful beings in retail low key this place sucks shit dude low key bro i'm fucking oh i'm off this shit and i'm like where you off to next he's like dude there's this like custom furniture replace, Doug? He's like, the couches are so expensive. But if I sell like three in a fucking month, I'll make way more than I do fucking here. And I'm like, sick. He's like, also I might help start a restaurant. Then he like, he rattled off like eight different plans and I'm like, oh to be 24. I know. You know what I mean? I was like, all right, doggy, you do you. Thank you for my mugs. I'm out. You're like, you should definitely start that restaurant, man. Look at this right there. Oh, very beautiful mug. Yeah, very beautiful.

What's yours? is just how weird it is that Taylor Swift is marrying Travis Kelsey there I know people are probably aware of the story by now but there there's a moment in the game this weekend Travis Kelsey played

against the giants of New York Oh do you like headbut Andy Reid or something? He like almost got into a fist fight with Andy Reed his coach on the sideline and everyone was like uh oh trouble in paradise but anybody who like follows the chief was like

Like, no, they do that every week. Like, he's just, he's, you just got to like, let him out to run a bit. Get into it all the time. He, they just like, I think he knows that it like, psychs him up or something. Oh. And so Andy Reid like gets in his face and like, you just got to let him like froth himself up into a big, dumb rage. Uh, which is, you know, great coaching. I feel like, because he does like literally, I remember seeing it for the first time being like,

Yo, what the fuck? Are they fighting? Are they going to literally, like, start hitting each other? And then it's just like every week with those two. But it just gave me a moment of pause to, like, take a step back and be like, Taylor Swift is known for being, like, literary. And she's essentially marrying gronk. Yeah, yeah.

Slightly more put together articulate gronk, I'd say. Yeah, yeah, like, gronk probably, yeah. But, like, I don't know. It's just like, what if fucking. Beyonce had married gronk instead of Jaycey. It's so weird. It's just, it is very weird.

It is an odd coupling. It is an odd coupling. It makes sense like if you're doing like this storybook version. It's like, and the most famous pop star married the football man. And they lived happily ever after. But yeah, it's very much like there's that song American teenager,

I think by Ethel Cain that's like a like satire of those types of like Americana like Taylor Swift songs and it feels like a something out of that song like it's just so on the nose and like it does feel yeah like that that's something that Taylor Swift is acutely aware of the like you know doing the thing that you would expect the most popular girl in high school to do and marrying the like hottest football guy makes sense with her whole like Miss Americana thing it's just viewed at a a different angle. It's like, this is very strange. I wonder if like Andy Reid on their wedding day is like, hey, Taylor, a little bit of advice. Get in his face. Tommy's a fucking idiot.

Yeah. And he'll get shit done. He gets shit done. All right. Those are some things we think are overrated, underrated. I'm sure a thousand people have made that observation, but it did just hit me this weekend watching him lose his absolute mind. Let's take a quick break and we'll be back to talk about some of the news. I'm Jorge Ramos. And I'm Paola Ramos. Together we're launching The Moment, a new podcast about what it means to live through a time, as uncertain as this one. We sit down with politicians.

I would be the first immigrant mayor in generations, but 40% of New Yorkers were born outside of this country. Artists and activists, I mean, do you ever feel demoralized? I might personally lose hope. individual might lose the faith, but there's an institution that doesn't lose faith. And that's what I believe in. To bring you depth and analysis from a unique Latino perspective. There's not a single day that Paola and I don't call or text each other, sharing news and thoughts about what's happening in the country.

This new podcast will be a way to make that ongoing intergenerational conversation public. Listen to The Moment with Jorge Ramos and Paola Ramos as part of the MyCultura podcast Network on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. My name is Ed. Everyone say, hello, Ed. From a very rural background myself, my dad is a farmer, and my mom is a cousin. So, like, it's not like... What do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? I know it sounds like the start of a bad joke, but that really was my reality nine years ago.

I just normally do straight stand-up, but this is a bit different. On stage stood a comedian with a story that no one expected to hear. On 22nd of July 2015, a 23-year-old man had killed his family. And then he came to my house. So what do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? A new podcast called Wisecrack, where stand-up comedy and murder takes center stage. now. Listen to Wisecrack on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I started trying to get pregnant about four years ago now. We're getting a little bit

older and it just kind of felt like the window could be closing. Bloomberg and IHeart podcast present IVF disrupted, the kind body story, a podcast about a company that promised to revolutionized fertility care. Introducing Kind Body, a new generation of women's health and fertility care. Backed by millions in venture capital and private equity, it grew like a tech startup. While Kind Body did help women start families, it also left behind a stream of disillusioned and angry patients. You think you're finally like with the right people in the right hands, and then to find out

again that you're just not. Don't be fooled. by what? All the bright and shiny. Listen to IVF disrupted, the kind body story, starting September 19 on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is a tape recorder statement. The person being interviewed is Krista Gail and Pike.

This is in regards to the death of a Colleen slimmer. She started going off on me, and I hit her. I just hit her and hit her and hit her and hit her. On a cold January day in 1995, 18-year-old Krista Pike killed 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in the woods of Knoxville, Tennessee. Since her conviction, Krista has been sitting on death row. The state has asked for an execution date for Krista. We let people languish in prison for decades, raising questions about who we consider fundamentally unrestorable. How does someone prove that they deserve to live?

we are starting the recording now please state your first and last name Krista Pike Listen to Unrestorable Season 2 Proof of Life On the IHeart Radio app Apple Podcasts Or wherever you get your podcasts And we're back And Charlie Kirk's funeral was this weekend

yeah massive turnout big stadiums his wife said she forgave the killer yeah I was not interested in seeking the death penalty which is like that uh didn't make that many headlines like or it doesn't feel like it's going to be the lasting takeaway from the movement no or this funeral yeah she was like I forgive him

that turn the other cheek shit is real cuck stuff that nobody really Trump then just came out and was Like, yo, turn that other cheek so I could smack that cheek, too. Yeah, yeah. Straight up. He basically was like, fuck that. He was even like, and I'm sorry, Eric, or I hate my enemies.

I hate him. Yeah. And I don't wish them well, but not Biden either. And it's just everyone's like, whoa. It was interesting because the crowd wasn't like, it wasn't like raucous cheering. Yeah, it was everyone going like, oh, like they were laughing. This is a memorial that is caused by political division, like, and Jesus Christ. So that was like the one thing.

I was like, okay, well, he stayed. didn't it didn't erupt in cheers when he said that it was more but either way every pretty much every person that spoke was doing whatever they could to fan the flames like stephen miller started evoking the storm like on some qanonon shit and he's like they were woke in an army and they've got nothing and you're like whoa okay um you know a lot of people i think again they're trying to make this the proverbial fork in the road where the right embraces evil and violence because it's now been become justified. Even more so than they were already.

Right. Just to reiterate, I mean, there was actually like an NBC News report where they talked to people familiar with the investigation. Like we said last week, there were all sorts of, you know,

right-wing news outlets that were saying that this was part of a premeditated attack from, you know, multiple people had been posting in this, quote-unquote, like trans forum, uh, saying like,

September 10th is going to be a day like watch out Charlie Kirk and shit like that those posts were all made up they were all fabricated uh there is no evidence of a connection to any left wing group it appears to be somebody who was acting uh alone is everything we know about the investigation it was one person like most things like this too yeah it's a lone wolf thing how it happens. But yeah, if you just watch these speeches, you would assume that, like, this was some terrorist act

that was officially claimed by Antifa or something like that. Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly. Tugger Carlson, I do want to just give a, you know, there was a moment towards the end of last week where people were like, Tucker Carlson's even calling out Trump's anti-free speech rhetoric. He gave a speech at the memorial that was like, so unhinged

whereas like he was talking about how you know a little guy I know who's a carpenter by the name of J.C. Yeah. Had some things to say that some people didn't like and they decided to kill him. And, you know,

it was just a lot of anti-Semitic dog whistles. Not just dog screaming. Yeah. Dog barking. You know what I mean? Like evoking the crucifixion as a way to keep the Israel did it conspiracy theory alive is fucking nasty shit but again I expect nothing less from a group of people who are so opportunistic in weaponizing a tragedy for their own dark ass aims that something like this would happen like you know it is what it is and now we'll see what happens now I mean like you know there was talk over the weekend about trying to designate Antifa or trans people as like a violent extremist group it's they're doing everything they can to use this moment to

just create as many illegal categories of people as possible yeah it really does it really does remind me of the aftermath of 9-11 where it was like oh they're going to blame this on it iraq like you could tell right away it was just like how are they going to figure out how to do that the way they did that at the time was like fabricated evidence and um you know search for weapons of mass destruction uh i remains to be seen if if they will do that or if they will even like go to the trouble of inventing evidence or if they'll just rhetorically continue to do it over and over again yeah i mean because it's it's weird too because like even on the right like there there isn't even a real consensus on who did it like it depends on what flavor of right wing extremism you're into

Like some people are going to be like, it was AOC, you know, or like Antifa or other people, like, it was trans people. There's a ton of people like, it was Israel and you're not going to tell me otherwise. Yeah. So, I mean, again, like quite a fucking, quite an audience they've developed over there. Yeah. The Tucker, like, the part where he just bursts into, like, weird, like inappropriate laughter at one point is right. is unnerving, very unnerving. All right, let's check in with my goat, Tom Brady.

Oh. Tom Brady. I like you just go check in with your goat. You walk outside. Hey, you're doing okay? All right, buddy, here's an apple. All right, he's good. I wish.

All right, what else? Yeah, more sports ball talk, but there's a clip going around. I know the football talk. I only know this because I saw two things pop up on my feeds, which was like Travis Kelsey and Andy reading each other. face. And then this clip of Tom Brady, so there's a game between the Cowboys and the Bears where Tom Brady gave some interesting commentary. So George Pickens bobbled, the Cowboys player Bobbled a pass. Ended up in a pick. Yeah, ended up in a pick. And he was pissed at himself after

the play. He's slamming his helmet and anger on the sidelines. And then this is how this is how Tom Brady sums up the football player angry at himself for missing the pass and being violent with his helmet this is this is tom brady's uh goat commentary arms and picks not happy uh yeah those helmets can be it's like the dog at home time out on the field huh wow that's all you kick the dog throw the helmet man whatever it is um i feel like his whoever is doing his commentary with him was trying to be like let's move on with that wow um yo and also out of context it just sounds like he's responding that way to tom praise yeah wow you are a psycho hey the guy smashing that you know it's like the dog at

home uh what kick the dog smash him whatever it takes whatever it takes to what you kick your dog at what i mean i shouldn't be surprised that this is another quarterback and the NFL who's a little who's kind of not unfamiliar with what animal abuse is yeah right that does seem to get to the top you need yeah like the dog at home is so dark so that's why it's very baitman it's very patrick bateman which is the energy that he kind of gives off is just like holding it together so fucking hard yeah yeah you know um that like it's got to come out somewhere yeah just like the dog at home you know it's got to come out somewhere i saw the thing of like i didn't realize he he owns part of the raiders because people were being like was he in the booth and is in the booth

with their coaches um and people were like he can probably tell them stuff because as a reporter you like learn things from coaches but i uh i don't know i doubt that that's actually happening but i think people just don't there's something about this guy who talks casually about kicking dogs that makes people not want to trust him. What's he saying with that headset on? Who's he talking to? Like the defensive coordinator, guys, kick the dog, kick the dog, guys, kick the dog.

Jesus Christ. What is Tom saying up there? Keep saying to kick the dog. Is that a play? All right. Back to the world of Christianity. Big week for Kirk Cameron because it looks like the rapture is finally. Tomorrow.

Big news about tomorrow. According to TikTok, tomorrow is the day of the Christian rapture. began with a statement from a South African pastor named Joshua Malakala. Okay. But we'll go with that. Not sure that's exactly how you pronounce it. Claimed that Jesus would return during Rosh Hashanah and the rapture will occur on September 23rd, 2025. His source is that he saw Jesus sitting on his throne and I could hear him very loud and clear saying, I am coming soon. I like that he kept it vague. a teaser trailer.

What was Jesus doing, though? Sitting on his throne, bro. I'm coming soon! Just sitting there? You're doing some funny stuff? Sitting on a throne, man. Talking about how he was going to come? Coming soon.

Coming soon to a theater near you. This. I like, wait, is, wait, all of the, I've seen so much raptor talk. It's just because this guy confidently said that it's, it's tomorrow. Well, I think it's, I think it's become a very popular. Oh, of course. I mean, I'm all in on it. You know what I mean?

I love the, what was that? The leftovers? Oh. The leftovers is blast. I think this is wishful thinking. I do think that everybody is just waiting for something to end. Like, it just feels hard to imagine the future. And so people are just, you know, I think this is similar to people on the left having commentary on Trump's health.

You know, just like some. act of God that will come and make it all stop. Right, right, right. Yeah. In this case, you know, the way, it would make it all stop in the sense that all of the Christians would just be out of here and then we would be left behind. And as the leftovers illustrated, there would be like wild fucking parties. You think you'd be raptured or you think you'd be, you'd join like the cigarette smoker cult?

I think I'd be joining the cigarette smoker. Oh, you'd be left over. You'd be a left over. I think I'd be. Oh, you seem pretty confident that you'd be raptured? You're out of here? I don't know. It seemed kind of fucked up where they were at.

Right. Like that didn't, was it, were they being called to heaven or the rapture takes everybody to hell? No, rapture take everybody to heaven, man. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So this is, everybody disappears from Earth. And you go meet Jesus up in the sky.

It's a meet and greet with Jesus. And then like 20. years from now we have climate change licked because you have to think that most of those most of those oil executives are of a certain persuasion. Sure, sure, sure.

And I don't know. I feel like that I would be very happy for them and very happy for us. I think if this was about to happen. But TikTok is just absolutely we now have rapture talk which is just people prepping

for the rapture offering tips on how to endure the actual trip to heaven, the benefits of leaving Bibles behind for us, the unchosen. And, you know, some of these are seemingly from actual Christians,

but a whole lot of them are clearly jokes. One woman made headlines for saying that she sold her house and car prior to the rapture, but then, like, you know, you can see it has like hashtag satire comedy, hashtag satire in her post. But, you know,

it does seem like maybe some people taking it seriously. Somebody who are like, hey, you need pet sitting for the rapture. Just let me know. A lot of people making jokes. I wouldn't joke about it,

guys. I wouldn't joke about it. I think it's funny. And then you're left over here with people who like to party. Not so funny now, huh? That scene is fucking wild, though,

that first episode of the leftovers. Right. People just go puff the magic dragon like in their cars and shit. And you're like, what the fuck? Yeah, yeah.

It's just like shopping carts or like rolling. that full shopping cards. They said it's during the feast of trumpets is what this guy said is when he would return. So if you've got a trumpet, you are duty bound to go outside and play it and maybe freak out one of your neighbors.

That sounds good to me. Yeah. We don't know, you know. I mean, we will know. I mean, we will know. I wish we could have gotten a little more description of like what Jesus looked like on his throne and all that good stuff, you know.

Ripped? Is it shredded Jesus? Yeah. Is it, is it, Is it shredded or graded, Jesus? All right, let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk about some political news, and we'll be back. I'm Jorge Ramos.

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dear leader Donald trump in addition deal leader um deal leader make the deals deal leader in addition to declaring war on his enemies of the charlie kirk memorial he also was on truth social sending what would seem to be a private message about secret collusion and doing illegal stuff to Pam Bondi. Yeah. So he went on, he posted on Truth Social.

Pam, I have reviewed over 30 statements and posts saying that essentially same old story as last time all I, it's kind of hard to, he's basically saying like, you need to go after my enemies. Specifically, yeah. Adam Shifty Schiff. Letitia. They're all guilty as hell,

but nothing is going to be done. um he's really the tone of this is interesting because you can he's like we look dumb like we are losing our it's he said quote it's killing our reputation and credibility that we're not jailing our enemies yes and he's now just like saying get it done yes um which is really something it's interesting though i'm like is this it's weird if he writes a text message like this where it says pam colon and then signed president dj now is that like a weather balloon like that's the one version is like this is he just floated that out because I think he deleted it after oh he did yeah he deleted it after so

I'm like wow he doesn't is it or is it it I mean also it just seems like some old ass way to text like Pam this is the thing signed me grandpa accidentally sent it to the wrong app does seem like kind of a big deal uh yeah yeah weaponized the justice department against his enemies such is a Comey Schiff, Letitia James. My first reaction, though, was, and this goes to, like, what M. Gesson talks about, where, you know, in this sort of authoritarian takeover, you kind of lose track of, like, what is normal. Yeah.

My first takeover was, my first response was, like, why is everyone surprised by this? Didn't he not already do this one? Yeah, which shows you where you're at. Yeah, this is Watergate. We say he averages, like, a Watergate a week, but, like, this is actually just doing the, like, weaponizing the power of the president to go after his political rivals. It's like the thing that got has gotten presidents like specifically impeached. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

The fact that he deleted it does make him look like that's surprising to me. It does make him look like low key dog makes him look a little guilty. Low key dog, I'm about to quit dog. Lokey, I'm hook you up fat. I mean, yeah, that's the one. That is the only thing because like a deleted post is does feel like a bit of an admission of oopsie on his part but yeah it also like i think speaks to how he like what he what motivates him as a person because he says i've reviewed over 30 statements and posts which is like what your

human printer assistant lady just printed out some tweets for you to read right like paper form and you go this one says trump's not doing it signed this is from at patriot 226 9 uh this per like what do you what exactly are you reading what are these posts the fact that posts is like part of what he's taking in as like official uh you know material for him to make policy decisions is pretty well just doom scrolling and people are like he ain't fash enough and he's yeah i look like a fool which is that is the like motivating you know there's the sucking void at the center of him that like needs attention needs everybody to love him needs everybody to be paying attention to at all times and then there is like the horrible exploding sense of paranoia and humiliation

that like everybody's laughing at him yeah those are like the stop and go switch those are the ones and zeros in the you know binary code you know listen to your heart brain maybe you aren't that bad you know what i mean you know yeah no i think you want to you want to be that bad i think it's so hard coded like it's hard coded enough that he was throwing rocks at baby is when he was like five years old um but this is all just funny too because i'm like did he write it did he not but it sounds like people aren't surprised that this could have been a real text yeah people like members of the administration were like that sounds actually like he meant to text that because this is like how he texts like uh he texts the way he texts like that

it's a lot like what what the president writes online so it's just like impossible to know the difference. But yeah, whether he meant to or not, this is, like, wildly illegal. We have absolutely no ability to do anything about it. Yeah, yeah. But it is interesting. Brian, the editor asked the question, like, how far are we from when prosecute turns in to execute? I do feel like even Putin at this point will poison people quietly. He doesn't like officially, you know, he puts them in jail and then they like fall to their death. Yeah, or like a business person fell out of a window again. But I do wonder how much that changes now that America has gone full authoritarianism.

You know, like there's not that the eyes of the Western world are not on you judging. And so maybe it does just become full executions in the street type thing. I mean, I don't know. I think we'll see how that UFC fight at the White House goes. yeah you know um that'll be the beginnings of seeing how much people just want to see wacky shit happen in the capital there was a did you see the rendering of like what the fucking ring could look like no is it awesome oh boy it looks like an absolute fucking nightmare like it looks like you know that weird mid-century building that looks like a

spider by lax oh yeah yeah it kind of has that that's the octagon yeah the octagon yeah the octagon over the octagon. LAX spider. And then you can, and then you can also watch from the Lincoln Memorial. They'll have another potential fucking video village

or, you know, big screen. Or I guess that's where the way in will happen. It's all a fucking joke. Anyway. Go out big, you know? 250 years. Might as well go out big. Yep.

Yeah, that would be another option is that it's just a, it's an undercard with like the most dangerous UFC fighter in existence and Adam Schiff and he's just you know Jesus Christ that would

oh my God yeah and he just created some version of the fucking the mountain that he he fucking brings out of a cave or some shit yeah all right cool let's talk Tom Holman the border head I think he would like to be referred to as the

border Reichs furor yes yeah sorry that was Himmler's title so I think he'd probably want a similar one But yeah, dude, that spittle-crusted racist that regularly screams lies on Fox News basically looks like he ducked a fucking huge scandal. So last year, the FBI was doing a separate investigation. They weren't even looking at Tom Homan, just a separate, like, investigation. And one of the people that got caught up and it said, you know, Tom Homan, the guy that used to be the ice director in Trump's first administration, he's going around soliciting bribes in exchange for lucrative ice contracts. on the assumption that Donald Trump wins and Homan would have a similar post at,

like at ICE or DHS. Right. So the feds did what they do and set him up to see if he would take a bag of cash, $50,000. And of course he fucking took it, even because this fake businessman set him up and said, hey, let's do that, apparently there's recordings and hidden video that we, well, I probably won't see. But this is where it gets sad.

So since this was the Biden FBI, they weren't sure if they should be going after Homan with an election on the horizon. No, that would be a conflict of interest, Miles. God, we don't want to look like we're being political for a guy who's openly breaking whatever. So they decided to wait and see if he would actually follow through, cut to the change of guard, the FBI, the career Biden people handed off to the new Trump FBI, and they basically killed the investigation.

There it is. So right now, there's only, I think, two lawyers working in the DOJ's public corruption office as of this moment. So, you know, open corruption is essentially the de facto way of doing business if you're a registered Republican. Right. Yeah. If not, you will be treated like a common criminal.

That's just wild. But yeah. But any other, again, any other fucking time, this would be immediate resignation material. Oh, yeah. And even like in the National Review, which is a very, you know, very conservative outlet, they're like, this does not look good. Seems bad. It's like basically every journalistic outlets undercurrent, the subtext.

Real quick, Sinclair broadcasting, you know, when they canceled Kimmel, they said that they will be broadcasting a special and remembrance of Charlie Kirk in lieu of his show for ABC affiliates on Friday. That special ended up being Celebrity Family Feud is what they showed. I mean, the backlash has been pretty significant. And a lot of people have been like, you know, canceling their Disney Plus memberships. They've been protesting outside of like Disney or the old Kimmel Theater. Yeah. It's not a great, not a great look to just be the corporation that preemptive, well, not even preemptively. I mean, like the government pressured them, but like not even putting up a fight against something so blatantly illegal.

Yeah. A lot of people are like you, you're basically selling everyone out with being a company with their resources to fight back. just don't you're creating you're really making it really frictionless what if they get mad at us gives us we can't maximize our fucking shareholder value what do you think they're gonna do with you make it so it's hard to maximize share shareholder value you're gonna have to bend another knee and then when you go i've bent both knees they'll be like well then break your legs again to make new knees to man we're gonna we're gonna get so good at knee bends we're gonna our quads are gonna be fucking and then what do you do with the quads okay fine let's put okay

fine. You get jacked from the fucking knee bends and your quads are popping. Then what? Boom. We're like the official media thing of El Furer United States of America 250. Yeah, but they will.

We get to carry the UFC fights on Disney. Well, the president will compliment Disney's thighs like that are like Christmas hams. Like Christmas hands. You see their quads. They're like Christmas hams. All right. In less serious news, they opened a central perk in

New York City. It was announced... Oh, the Friends Coffee Shop? Yeah, the Friends Coffee Shop. I guess there was already one in Boston. Decidedly not where Friends took place. And they opened one in New York City and it looks like shit.

The one from the show was, you know, comfortable and inviting and, like, had big puffy couches that would just swallow you up. and this one looks like it could be the break room in the office from severance. Jesus. Yeah. Because it's the, do you know a part of the city it's in? Because the exterior was Greenwich Village, right, for like their apartment building. Because every time I'm like wandering through like Manhattan or something and I'm in Greenwich Village and I'm like, why are people outside of this building?

And I'm like, oh, this is the outside of the friend's apartment. Right. But, oh, in Times Square, of course, the most New York place. of course. The center of New York. The best place in New York. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It looks so sterile, man.

Yeah, it really looks sterile. It looks. I've not watched enough friends, really, ever, but like to know if it's really giving central perk, but I guess maybe like the bar is. I just like know that area. But yeah, no couches, nothing comfy. The lighting looks.

Yeah, like you have to have like, isn't it like a purple couch or something? something i feel like they're like things in my mind that i'm like there's a purple couch in there reset do do the thing like have the thing from the from the show just have a little section there's just like two couches like just have that there you know yeah this is this is this is this is an abomination abomination i feel bad for friends fans like if you're really like if you really fuck with the show that much just to go to like some it doesn't even like even if you squint your eyes like it doesn't even kind of look like it's hard for me to

hey man but good luck man good luck i'm sure the coffee's fucking great one person on twitter joe at hacker man joe tweeted they gentrified a fake location fucking vile right uh all right uh all right those are some of the things that are trending on this monday september 22nd we are back tomorrow uh with a whole last episode of the show for those of you who do not get raptured, you know, or, you know, it'll be there in the morning. You can listen to it early. We never know what time the rapture is going to happen.

Yeah. I mean, I feel like it's going to be an afternoon thing. Afternoon delay. People just like wake up in the morning and everything. Like that would actually be the safest way to do it if you think about it. What if something weird did happen? Like, not like a rapture, but something odd happened like that was mysterious that had the world's attention.

And then you get all these people being like, guys, dude i fucking told you what if like the weapon situation happened the day of the rapture um yeah i don't know like i i feel like

in the leftovers when they rapture people like planes start falling out of the sky because they rapture pilots yeah yeah it's like was this rapture handled by doge like who wouldn't you just like schedule it for a time when things

like there weren't that many planes, but they like do it right in the middle of that afternoon. Yeah. Yeah. Come on. I don't know, guys. Just stay safe or hey, look,

you know one thing? If you're an atheist, nothing's going to happen. Yeah. I mean, you might lose a couple friends or people at work. And maybe you'll, maybe you'll reconsider.

Yeah. Maybe we'll all learn an important lesson today. Who knows? Yeah. All right. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves.

Get your vaccine. Well, you still can't get your flu. get your flu shots, but you still can. Don't do nothing about whites of privacy, and we will. Talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye.

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