The Daily Zeitgeist - Cream Of Mushroom Vape Trends 9/16: Donald Trump Assassination Attempt, JD Vance, Campbell Company, RFK Jr., Parental Stress

Episode Date: September 16, 2024

In this edition of Cream Of Mushroom Vape Trends, Jack and Miles discuss their respective weekends, the attempted assassination of Donald Trump… again, Elon Musk's "appauling" post-assassination attempt tweet, Ron DeSantis vowing to launch his own investigation into the attempt, Springfield, OH being beset by Proud Boys and bomb threats, JD Vance admitting to fabricating the pet-eating scandal, Campbell Soup Company changing their name after 155 years, RFK Jr. being investigated for collecting the head of a whale specimen 20 years ago, the US Surgeon General calling parental stress an urgent public health issue and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oh, my body is like fucking either because I'm 40 or just from having whatever. Dude, I was so fucking sick. It was it was awful. The worst man. It was because it wasn't even like I think it had to have been some kind of bacterial thing because it flew through this entire friend group. Yeah, yeah. We had that at like Thanksgiving one time at my parents' house where like we had two babies, three babies in the house and something just blew through and everybody got hit. It was because I remember like the sequence of it was luckily I was the last to get sick because the worst is like

sick parent plus sick kid. So yeah, yeah, yeah. When that was happening and I had to take off like on Tuesday, like that's because it was so sick and like she was getting sicker. He was sick. Then fucking Wednesday, dude, I was I just woke up Then fucking Wednesday, dude, I was, I just woke up fucking like, oh, sweating the worst. And you fear all your farts, you know? Yeah, no, can't trust a fart. Can't trust them.

Never trust a big fart with a smile. Never. Dang, look at that fart over there. I think it's smiling at me. Nope. That never dries. No, no, no. That looks like it'll just be dry and loud. Why are you? No, no, that's how it's going to happen.

Do you know why you're sick? Cause that sandwich had boys and food poisoned. Poisoned food poisoned poison poison All right, I think that was pretty good So y'all this is quest love and I'm here to tell you about a new podcast I've been working on with the Story Pirates and John Glickman called Historical Records. It's a family-friendly podcast. Yeah, you heard that right. A podcast for all ages.

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And like what's the history behind bacon wrapped hot dogs? Hi, I'm Eva Longoria. Hi, I'm Maite Gomez-Rejon. Our podcast, Hungry for History, is back. Season two, season two. Are we recording? Are we good? Oh, we push record, right? Okay.

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It's a production of iHeart Radio and it's a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's Welcome to this week trend edition of Dirt Adolescent Guys. Yeah. It's a production by Heart Radio and it's a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. And it's the episode where we tell you what was trending over the weekend, what is going on with us, Miles. Yeah. Are we announcing it? Are we acknowledging?

Yep. The show is over, folks. It's been a great run. We almost made seven years, but Jack and I have decided to hang up the headphones. Is that the thing you're tying on? No, no, no, no, no. Not yet.

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the, shut the, shut the, shut the, shut the, shut the, shut the, shut the, shut the, shut the, shut the, shut the, shut the, shut the, shut the, yo, man, like, you're 40. I was like, bro, I was actually in my mind. I thought turning 30 was a bigger deal. Yeah. Like once I probably just maturity. Yeah. And I think also like it feels like a very like old school, like over that, like shit, how our parents looked at turning 40. You know what I mean? Yeah. That. Yeah. I think I remember when my dad turned 40 and I was like, well, he's your dad's 40.

And I was like, I don't know What the fuck he looks the same? Yeah, but yeah, I feel like Hallmark card over 40 like turning 40 is like bald heads Like big beer belly as you're describing me right now Big old beer belly filled with donuts right Dunkin' Donuts right now. Yeah, yeah. I gotta get it together there. But yeah, anyway, it was a wonderful, wonderful time as I recovered from my terrible health. Yeah.

But yeah, I'm back. I'm back. What a run. I'm back. So sometimes your body just has to, you know, let you know. Yeah. Let you know, hey, you're 40 now. Sometimes a virus just has

to pop out and show you that your body is mortal and it can be turned into a curled up ball. If it has to be, you're trying to feel like 40 is no big deal. Oh, my friend. Yeah. Hold my tears. Before we get into the news, we like to get to know each other a little better. Yeah. Hold my tears. Before we get into the news, we like to get to know each other a little better. Yeah. By telling you something that is going on with us, something we think is underrated, something we think is overrated. Miles, you want to kick us off? Yeah. So I'll say underrated Crofton style YouTube channels. And by that,

I don't mean like like just Chaotic Gen Xers screaming like into a mic. I'm talking about like this shit Crofton pulls up and he's like I'm into mudlarking I'm into these guys who look for fucking mind shafts again during my illness, I could not fucking do anything and It was tough to like I needed it I wanted to occupy my senses but I didn't want to watch I could I didn't have the capacity to watch a show or like something funny even like comforting like I thought I could watch Simpsons and I was like ah dude I'm like I'm just in such pain that I starting to hate the

Simpsons yeah I hate that feeling where you just like can't you feel so bad though like you can't even enjoy the things you enjoy Yeah, exactly. So and I've stumbled upon this YouTube channel called drain cleaning Australia And it's this this Ozzy guy might he's from Western Australia we out here we're out here in path and he he is so fucking into his job like just Just clearing out backed up drains like people like have shit Exploding out of their drains. He's like, oh, this is what dreams are made of boys. Look at this This thing was absolutely

Might but this thing is chock-a-block. He keeps saying everything's chockers because when it's And his ability again, it's it's you can hear this smile Like as he I'm just gonna play I don't even know what clip this is, but here's you can just hear him Clear it. So let's investigate and see why he couldn't clear this drain Anywhere to go Pro a little bit of a sticky beak inside the cabinet here and you can see there's the waste pipe trap Sticky beak inside the cabinet here and you can see there's the Weiss Park trap here. So anyway, I'm listening. This guy, he like plays like weird 80s karate music when he's like, he's like,

all right, let's fly the jetter up, boys. And the power washer, like the fucking jet stream, whatever they he's unclogging. And then it goes like this, like synth track. It's like, do, do, do, do, do, do. And it's like, it's like, I was going to say he has the energy of a DJ who's about to drop the beat. Yeah. He sounds so, he's just like, oh, Oh, man.

Oh, I love, he's like, this thing is like, what I'm about to do to them. I think it's because like all these videos, they all have like, there's like three acts, you know, like there's a resolution at the end. There's like a, it's like the hero's journey. It all, it's all wraps up. He wins. There's sometimes there's a bunch of sewage that explodes everywhere, but he does it with such a, like you can hear how happy he is that it's like working. And he's always like, seriously, I love my job, everyone.

Like this is actually the happiest I've ever been and you're like this is dope And so I realized I found myself. I found a channel that spoke to me I was not for whatever reason during my even with my own gastrointestinal troubles I was not put off by seeing large amounts of raw sewage like backed up Feel like it'd be the last thing I'd want to see, but maybe not. Maybe just with that going on inside me, like all the, when that is what's like happening in your biome. Hair of the dog, they call it. Yeah. You're like the biome because we're all just like half biome thinking for us, you know, like millions of, uh, organisms, maybe they're just like, we want

to see some like, we want to see some pipe clearing porn down here if possible. Right, right, right. That's so interesting. Yeah. Anyway, so I recommend it. It's just, it's just, there's, it's joyful and easy to watch. So I've just found that kind of channel very underrated. Yeah. I feel like somebody needs that kind of channel very underrated. Yeah.

I feel like somebody needs to just like do a skim like when the, before the internet was broken when people actually like made content on there, I feel like you could have done just like maybe a single webpage that indexed things that are like good to watch when you are sick, you know, like just because normal, like your brain just changes. There's like a change in the chemistry of your brain. So yeah, you don't have like a bandwidth for entertainment. You know what I mean? They're like gang hit us up with your sick like day entertainment content. Yeah. Cause I, I definitely have

that I've like got a queue of movies that I want to watch But if I'm sick like there's just something about that. That's like too too much. Yeah, you feel fragile delicate. All right My underrated is insects Just a day with my head got got into bugs Just spending a lot of time driving around With my kids with the show, but how oh got into bugs, just spending a lot of time driving around with my kids, with the show, But Hal on, it's a podcast, But Hal that I highly recommend. And like the person who hosts it is great

and obsessed with bugs. And so like even a subject that doesn't seem like it'll be about bugs, like wraps around to like having an interesting bug fact here and there. But I'm coming away just feeling like all the bugs, like a bugs life ants that we blew it folks, like so boring compared to the reality of an actual bugs life. First of all, they're, you know, these massive wars that are happening beneath our feet,

like between ant colonies, like massive nations of ants. One type of ant has been like waging a world war with another type of ant for years. But this is the detail that got me this weekend. Insects will just pick up and fly away on a wind gust. Like when you look up in the sky and see a clear blue sky, that's because your eyes aren't good enough to see the hundreds of thousands of bugs

that are just like surfing around on wind currents at any given time above like like all the time or just because they're so light, they're like, ah, shit later. I don't know. Yeah. Like part of me, I'm hoping that they do it for like comedic timing. Like they just like say something awesome. Like that would be the greatest ability to have is just you like say something devastating and then and then you because all they do all they have to do because they're so light is in the right conditions just lift their hands up and then they just get taken

away sucked right off huh sucked right off into the sky miles I did think about you and quietly say they're getting sucked off into the sky. What, dad? Nothing, nothing. Shut up, shut up, nothing, nothing. But yeah, like they found a termite at 19,000 feet in the air. One scientist estimates that three billion insects are passing over our heads in a given month, depending on where we live. Yeah, it's just like a fucking,

just a super highway of, yeah, non-flying bugs in a lot of cases. Wow, wow, wow. Which also goes back to my thing on alien sightings. Like the sky is so fucking huge. Like we truly don't know half of the shit when it comes to like what's happening over our heads. We just think because we see a tiny white plane, that's all that's out there. Nothing in between.

But those things are, like those planes are massive. Like when you go to the airplane. Yeah, there's all these little fuckers flying around. And yeah, I don't know. Like if that was an ability that any species had, I feel like if you're making a movie about them, like that should just be it. You're just like.

Yeah, there's cooler shit to be like, yo, we gotta catch this wind gust, let's go. Yeah. Yeah. And they're also a good thing to get interested in like whether you have kids or not, but like specifically if you have kids, because they're just like around us everywhere. So you just like this weekend, we were having a tough, a tough moment. My eight year old and I walking down the street, he was sad. And I saw a beetle on the ground with a cool red pattern on its back. And I was just like, hey, beetle. And then we just focused on that for the next 10 minutes.

And there's this, the Seek app, highly recommend for any parents or just anybody interested in the world around them, because you can just put it up and it'll tell you what species it is. And then you have like reading material and you're like, Oh no, it's poisonous. Put it down. But yeah, so insects shout out them insects, shout out them insects. And yeah, I definitely have like a natural aversion to like bugs and mosquitoes. And this podcast host, I'm going to look up her name, is like, we don't know why people like they just did a certain point as children were told by our parents, we should be afraid

of bugs. And that's what I'm like, no, it's because they like bite you. And they're like annoying. I was into bugs. Like, there's very good reason to like find them annoying, but they're also like, if you just take the time to pay attention to them, there is an equally fascinating side that can outweigh how annoying they are. Dismissing them because of their grotesque exoskeletons. Yes. Yeah, exactly. Men in black. Really anti-bug propaganda. Yeah. I won't stand for it. Yeah. Miles, what is something you think is underrated?

Crofton style YouTube channels. Miles, and what I mean of course is by saying what's something you think is underrated? What's something you think is overrated? I thought you're just like G-checking me really quick to see if I'm still standing on that YouTube shit. And what do you think? Oh, so you still, okay. Oh, that's your answer. Wow. Okay. I thought you were fucking around. Sorry, real quick. Jane Lindholm is the host of the Roman Public Radio who passed her obsession with bugs. Oh, I thought you said she passed. I was like, wait, what? Yes, thank you. Thank you Lindholm Overrated there's like I saw another thing where it's like

Like over a dozen Reagan allies are now backing Kamala Harris you read like Bush out former Bush administration officials backing Kamala Harris for all these like Republicans backing Kamala and The media treats it like some kind of like political checkmate moment where they're like, oh, oh, look who's aligned with this side now. Well, well, well, look who's cool suddenly. And I think that's, yes, I've like, while that does indicate how sort of repugnant Trump is to these sort of like, you know, traditional neocons, it also, it's an indication of just how palatable the Democrats' current platform is to these neoconservatives. Like that part, I'm like,

eh, it's not really the flex you think it is. Because it's not like, again, when you look at a lot of the policies, they're, you know, left of the Republicans, but that just, again, when you compare that to other nations, we are that's like basically center right in most instances. So yeah, just seeing like the constant like I see a lot of like, Oh, look who just backed Kamala. And I don't that

doesn't mean that Trump has lost either although the polls like you know, they're they're always they're always fluctuating. The swing states still seem very tight. But yeah, but the polls, like, you know, they're, they're always, they're always fluctuating the swing states still seem very tight. But, um, yeah, but to me, I'm like, yeah, that, that's not, that's not that great, to be honest. You know what I mean? And I get what we're saying that it's a unification against Trump, but at the same time, would these, would these people still be there if it were advocating for things like Medicare for all or like tangible gun control or these other things. I'm not quite sure, but either way, not the flex that I think- We're not forcing them to swallow uncomfortable policies about international relations the way-

No, not at all. They seem pretty comfy. And it's not because they're suddenly cool. And they're suddenly right on this issue. Yeah. And it's like I can look past all these super progressive policies and I still back her. It's like, no, it's like, you know, compared. Yeah. This feels yeah, this feels are down the middle enough for me. Sure. Yeah.

My overrated is the phrase, sir, this is a Wendy's because I was reminded over the weekend that we could be saying, sir, the question was, is this your handwriting based on the. So I like a good, sir, this is, sir, this is a Wendy's, although it's like, it's one of those things that you know how the show Workaholics had like the board of like jokes you must stop making? Yeah. Like in their, for people who don't know, their writers room had like all the cliched comedy jokes that they had been seeing in TV for years, like, he's standing right behind me, isn't he?

Yeah. Hi. You know, all that shit. They had a board like saying, barring all of those. Sir, this is a Wendy's comes up a lot in conversations, but the greatest example of that actually exists. It's not a hypothetical. It's not somebody saying something wild at a Wendy's.

It is Donald Sterling's deposition from the year 2003. If you haven't seen it, I don't know, is it like too offensive to read this shit out? Is it too unpleasant? I'll just, I'll skip through it. But answer. Well I fool around sometimes, I do. When a girl seduces me and tells me all these hot stories and dirty things and tells me how much she wants to suck on me and takes my shoes off and licks my feet and touches me when i'm in a limousine she takes all of her clothes the limo driver said what is going on and she started sucking me on the way to mr. koon's house and I thank her. I thank her for making me feel good. Question. Sir,

the question was, is this your handwriting? Oh man, Donald Sterling, disgraced former owner of the Clippers. Yeah. Yeah. Complete human piece of shit. And one of the great racist NBA owners. Yeah. Billionaire abuse it like everything about him was racist. The way he made his money was racist. His beliefs, what he said in private, what he said in public during it, how he ran the clippers, but this was an actual, you know, very Trumpian.

Very, the question was, is this your handwriting? This was circulating again over the weekend. And I, I've been trying to like double check that it's real because it's so perfect and I haven't found anybody debunking it anywhere and it is written in the deposition style. Uh, so that's good enough for me. Right, right. Uh, but it's from 2003. And yeah, just you can now you can now say, sir, the question was, is this your handwriting? If you're looking

for a cliche to replace, sir, this is a Wendy's. Exactly. All right. A podcast for all ages. One you can listen to and enjoy with your kids starting on September 27th. I'm gonna toss it over to the host of Historical Records, Nimini, to tell you all about it. Make sure you check it out. Hey, y'all, Nimini here. I'm the host of a brand new history podcast

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Listen to Crooks Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. This summer, the nation watched as the Republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts, separated by two months. These events were mirrored nearly 50 years ago, when President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks. President Gerald R. Ford came stunningly close to being the victim of an assassin today. And these are the only two times we know of that a woman has tried to assassinate a U.S. president. One was the protege of infamous cult leader Charles Manson. I always felt like the one that was kind of his right hand woman.

The other, a middle-aged housewife, working undercover for the FBI in a violent revolutionary underground. Identified by police as Sarah Jean Moore. The story of one strange and violent summer. This is Rip Current, available now with new episodes every Thursday. Listen on the iHeart Radio app, Apple podcasts,

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And this season, we're taking a bigger bite out of the most delicious food and its history. Saying that the most popular cocktail is the margarita, followed by the mojito from Cuba, and the piñu colada from Puerto Rico. So all of these, We thank Latin culture. There's a mention of blood sausage in Homer's Odyssey that dates back to the ninth century BC.

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So Trump posted that he hates Taylor Swift. And then not long after that, there was another assassination attempt, another planned attempt on his life. I don't I still don't know the details. Like we're shots fired at him. No, it sounds like they shot at him. He fled. They shot at the attempted assassin.

Yeah, he fled. They he hopped in a car. They caught him like a couple of miles, like 30 miles away or something up the highway and 30 miles Yeah, something I think so I mean because the whole thing was that when he fled someone noticed him come out of the bushes and like take off in a car and they're like that's weird and took a photo of the car and the license plates and

That's how the cops were able to like even find him the the sheriff down there said like if that hadn't happened They're not sure they would have found this guy. Wow. Which is troubling. It's kind of what like they just were doing a sweep of the golf hole Donald Trump was about to play and noticed a the barrel of a long gun poking out of the out of the bushes. Yeah. That's why we don't have something more serious that we're talking about today Yeah, which is again. This is what how many days has it even been since what July 13th like two months? Basically, yeah, I think yeah a little over two months. Yeah, and so the last assassination attempt This is uh, yeah. Yeah very

Yeah, we are living in a wild, wild time right now. Um, but yeah, I mean, like, you know, as it stands there, there's still the guy, I think the guy just had made his first appearance in court and they said he was very like cordial with the judge. So I don't, I mean, I don't know what that means about anything. Everyone's looking for a motive. It's uh, we're still, they we're still they're still they're still piling on the evidence the one thing that seemed clear was that he did say that seemed to indicate

that he voted for trump in 2016 um 2016 um and seems to be like one of these republicans who's like the soul of our party was lost by Trump, you know, right? Sullying the good name of the Republican party. But yeah, I don't know, man. I mean, and you're already seeing all the people coming out. They're like Trump. It's like, they make, they talk about me so bad. You know, they say I'm a threat to democracy

and then this stuff happens. And Jodie Foster won an Emmy that day. Does Jodie Foster have to do something? If you remember Jodie, people like to impress Jodie Foster with shit like this. I mean, I like to impress Jodie Foster, but not, not like this. Okay. Not like this. Ryan, Ralph, Ryan, that kind of fucks up your assassin cred is being named Ryan. Doesn't it kind of feel weird? Hey, man, you know, there's good Ryan's out there. Not all Ryan's, but no, not all Ryan's.

But like, I'm not saying anything against Ryan's other than that. It's a name that doesn't feel like it like menacing. Yeah. Well, yeah. Assassins usually have like Lee Harvey Oswald you know what I mean yeah yeah we gotta give us something that sounds like it was like carved in stone right right right Ryan Hinkley right who's the one who was trying to impress Jodie Hoss yeah John Hinkley yeah right they I mean think about the fucked up middle. Hinkley and Ryan Routh must have that they're not even putting the middle name

in there when describing them. Cause like they go on stick a middle name. Well, they love to stick a middle name whenever somebody does assassination. Like Lee Harvey Oswald was just Lee Oswald. But then they were like, how do we make this sound more like it belongs in a history book? Uh, we'll drop, we'll drop that middle name in there. Yeah, we'll see. And I see that comes out. I think I saw Ryan Routh's middle name bandied about yesterday, but it's just like not catching on. Uh, I don't know why. Maybe it's like you have to UK. It's the like attempt that makes it. Or I mean like, aren't we just like pass like the three name,

like the three name heartthrob era, you know what I mean? What do you mean? Like, you know how like there was like Jonathan Taylor Thomas, you know what I mean? Like people had like the three name, like a team Tiger beat heartthrob, Chad Michael Murray. You know what I mean? That was like the way that was sort of the naming convention.

Now people just two names. So you're blaming Jonathan Taylor Thomas for the fall of the three name it a three name it. Absolutely. This is squarely a thing. We can't take these fucking direct lines from Jonathan, Jonathan Taylor Thomas to what has happened the last two months. And it's a new cop, a new podcast I'm working on that Jack refuses to engage in but I'm telling him this thing could blow the whole fucking lid off the JTT files. Yeah. Yeah. It's just it's there's some interesting theories in there that I haven't been

able to source myself. Well, you know, like I said, you got to trust me and then verify once the show comes out Yeah, a lot of people were at fur because the timing was strange because he literally tweeted I hate Taylor Swift exclamation point all caps and then hours later the we were hearing that there was another assassination attempt People are like, okay Definitely a Swift II. We don't and and interestingly, as people are looking into Ryan Routh's history, nobody's talking about how many streams of, you know, Taylor's version albums are in there. But sure. He did donate to Act Blue, you know?

He did. So it's really hard to, and I think the guy went to Ukraine too. He said he was willing to fight for Ukraine and I do think yeah he might he might have uh gone over there. So big Ukraine guy. Well you know there there there there could be something there who knows uh and Donald Trump you know you just there's something about you at the moment that is inspiring a lot of chaos and I think I wonder now what this is gonna do to him because like First it was like an outdoor rally now like golf. He loves to golf

I don't know if like it's affecting him that much but he was like very quick to be like, thank you to the secret service But like damn like I feel like that looks like his one happy place I wonder if he is now like again, I don't even I'll play virtual golf now, but probably not Like again, I don't even I'll play virtual golf now, but probably not. No, no nothing will keep him from his golf. Yeah it's very like Cartoon like dipshit Assassination attempt the guy just like a gun barrel poking out of some bushes. Yeah, I don't know it Like something you would see in a Looney Tunes cartoon. Yeah, right, right, right. Yeah, it's a little unsettling how, again, just like the kinds of people that have like

emerged to like make these attempts on his life are just there. Like everyone's like there. His social media posts are like chameleon like someone described to not understand where this person was coming from. The other thing is he shouldn't have been in possession of a gun. So there's a whole thing of like, how did he get an AK style rifle? Like who sold it to him? That's, he should not have had it. But again, this isn't about, it's not going to be about gun control. It's probably going to be about both parties being like, he's not my guy. That's not my guy. Yeah. I would say Russia, you know, AK, but the, you know, the, you wouldn't think that Russia

would be wanting to target this guy. But hey, when you, when you can't legally own a firearm, beggars can't be choosers. So maybe he just had to get with, you know, whatever someone would sell him. But yeah, it's a, I'm sure this is an ongoing evolving story, but the bad takes from the right are. Yeah. I mean, so Trump came through, was like, I am safe and well, nothing will slow me down, especially not after you donate to me.

Like he turned it into a donation opportunity, like it was straight away. And Elon Musk, meanwhile, I think topped him by tweeting that nobody's even trying to assassinate Biden Kamala, which like the no fair, nobody's even trying to assassinate Biden, Kamala, which like the no fair. Nobody's even trying to assassinate me. Approach is exactly like how my children would respond to someone tried to assassinate. Right. How come it's not even fair? Why is everyone trying to try and get me? Yeah, exactly. It's like, yeah, when you're playing tag or something and like somehow,

like the whole group, like it's like multiple people. You're like, come on. group like it's like multiple people you're like come on it's not fair you're ganging up on me um and he later deleted that oh which is wild because this is a man who you know he has he has a bad and stubborn strong and wrong sense of humor. And later deleted it claiming it was just a joke that nobody got. Unlike the totally real friends who thought it was hilarious.

Presumably. Well, one lesson I've learned is that just because I say something to a group and they laugh, doesn't mean it's going to be all that hilarious as a post on X. Turns out that jokes are way less funny if people don't know the context and the delivery is plain text. He actually said that? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh my god.

That's amazing. I wonder if he'll ever like make the connection that the people who are laughing around him are just like nervously laughing because he's the richest person to ever live. Yeah. You are surrounded by hostages. You're Tony Soprano. You should be wondering if all those laughs are sincere all the time. Elon, they're not. Andrew T was pointing out while you were out that it would be so, so easy for him to just hire a writer's room.

Like many of the best comedy writers in Hollywood are out of work right now. He could just pay people to make him look funny, but he stubbornly, again, strong and wrong with a sense of humor. It's gotta be. It's gotta be, baby. Gotta be fresh.

Talking a lot of workaholics today. But meanwhile, fear not, because as you were pointing out, we don't know all the details right now. The facts are emerging on the ground and the story is shifting as we speak. It might be different by the time you hear this. I do just want to alleviate any concern that people had that like we weren't going to get to the bottom of this because Ron DeSantis has pledged that Florida will conduct its own investigation into the attempted shooting.

Oh, not the FBI or something. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. No, no, no, no. Fuck that. We're doing our own actually. We're doing the, we're doing this shit Florida style. Incidentally in 2022, 82% of violent crimes in Florida were quote, not solved.

So that's 20 percentage points worse than the national average, which the national average is shockingly high. It's like 60%. I mean, I think. 62% of violent crimes go unsolved. Like why do we even, how, what is the argument that this is working? The numbers are telling a different story that this form of law enforcement is not effective.

But hey, but no, we need more money. Yeah, we need more resources. It'd be interesting to see what Florida's investigation finds. They're like, no, it was a totally different guy. It was actually Taylor Swift. Yeah, it was actually Kevin Hart. Like what? Why? He's not even like political. Yeah. So I know. I still like him. I still like him. I still like that guy. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll talk about some other politically motivated violence. We'll be right back. Sup, y'all. This is Questlove and I'm here to tell you about a new podcast I've been working on

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Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And over the weekend, the city of Springfield, Ohio, which was in the news following the debate after Trump claimed that they're stealing the dogs, they're stealing the cats. They're stealing the cats. They're eating them So bomb threats have continued to plague Springfield, Ohio since that happened Hospitals have been sent into lockdown multiple days of school evacuations Thanks entirely to the Republicans

Alf-coded racist conspiracy theories. All right. This show is hosted by two men over the age of 40. That's right. And just to remind you, you know, remember his favorite treat was cats. Dang eight cats and dogs, bro. But I mean, Haitian immigrants are unsurprisingly afraid to leave their houses after being targeted by vandals and just, you know, I'm sure we're already afraid to leave their houses after that debate, you know, right? Absolutely just turned into like monsters

They can all of this because of a fucking Facebook post that was nonsense again I we we talked about this I think maybe the day you were out or as I think is probably the day before I had to be out But it just about how this again, there's no evidence of this. There's like the cops are like, we've never even had a call about anything remotely like this. What are they talking about? And the woman who's behind it is now just like so sad

because she, it's like fourth hand information. She said, again, the claim about a missing cat didn't even involve her neighbors daughter's friend. Yes What's the fuck dude? This is like when I lied about like meeting Michael Jordan when I was like fifth grade But rather an acquaintance of a friend of the neighbor And again, she said it just exploded into something I didn't mean to happen and this is the funny thing this woman is now like Post-it like after being interviewed like yo, what the fuck like what?

What's going on here? She's wanted to say look the original poster of this She described herself as a Democrat that supports Trump and then she said quote. I'm not a racist She said through heavy emotion This is I think her talking to NBC News adding that her daughter is half black and she herself is mixed race and a member of the LGBTQ community Everybody seems to be turning it into that. And that was not my intent. Lee said this is the original poster of that Facebook thing

that she pulled her daughter out of school and is now worried about her safety with so much attention on her family. Please get the fuck out of here. OK. I like you're like, I, I didn't care about the safety of these Haitian people, but now my family is somehow getting unwanted attention. And now I am sorry, and I did not mean that. My daughter is half black.

Yes, and again, the sourcing on the information that was like cartoonishly, my daughter's friend's friends, neighbor, you know, uh, or sorry, my neighbor's daughter's friend. Yeah. She was like, it actually was not that it was an acquaintance of a friend. So it was like even less. It's just sounds like total. It's like, fuck man. I told, they're like, well, who is this person? I don't know. Look, I made it up. I'm racist. I'm sorry. I'm backwards. I have a lot of really backwards beliefs. But yeah, this is, and the way that like the Republicans now.

Democrat is voting for Trump. Yeah. How's it? What? Yeah. It's wild. I think when you were out, we were covering the way the New York Times covered the debate and they went and interviewed a undecided voter. Oh, another one? Yeah. Well, they watched the debate with them, bought snacks for the undecided voters. So the

undecided voters are being rewarded for being undecided, quote unquote. And they're like, I really worry about, you know, women's rights and like our right to control our body. But Trump really on immigration. And it was like, and she's like, and that's not a thing that bothers me or affects my life in any way. But the fact that he says it is what really like matters to me. So it's like, it's just that he says, right? He says racism is the fact that he knows how to be racist towards people who are not from America. Yes. Rather who aren't white. Sorry. What am I saying? Yeah. There's only, yeah. So that's what I like.

So I am decided about that. JD Vance, who was the first person to repeat this story and kind of elevate it, went on CNN on Sunday for an interview with Dana Bash, where he strenuously argued that the bomb threats have nothing to do with anything he did when, uh, she was like, so what do you think when there's like bomb threats and schools being closed because of the cats and dogs thing, why not actually be constructive and helping to better integrate these

Haitian immigrants who are legally here into the community? And he, he thought that was disgusting. Yeah, I thought that was he. You think I did what? Wait, what you're saying? What I find violence disgusting and that you said that is really disgusting because hurt my feelings when he said, quote, there is nothing that I have said that has led to threats against these hospitals, these hospitals, the bomb threats and so forth.

It's disgusting. The violence is disgusting. We condemn it. And then Dana Bash is like, Senator, this happened after you and president Trump on the debate stage said that cats and dogs were being eaten. And then he just like completely sid sidesteps it, pivots, just like, I don't know dude, I saw something dude, can't, can't. And then he got like-

Then he straight up, yeah. Then he just straight up admitted that they will create stories to further his agenda. This is wild. Yeah, you're like, I'm sorry, you'll create what? This is him again, now trying, it's now sort of trying to justify why he would even say such filthy nonsense out loud.

The American media totally ignored this stuff until Donald Trump and I started talking about cat memes. If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do, Dana, because you guys are completely letting Kamala Harris coast. You had one interview with her. You talk about pushing back against me, Dana. You didn't push back against the fact that she cast the deciding vote on the Inflation

Reduction Act, which is why a lot of Americans can't afford food and housing. You just said that you're creating a story. Yeah, there you go. Touch back on that. Oh. He's doing the thing where he pretends he can't hear. Sorry, you just said that you're creating the story. What's that, Dana? Oh, you you go. Touch back on that. Oh. He's doing the thing where he pretends he can't hear. Sorry, you just said that you're creating the story. What's that, Dana?

Oh, you're lying. No. You just said that this is a story that you created. I'm sorry, I can't even hear you. What? Eating dog food is not acting. We are creating, we are, Dana, it comes from firsthand accounts from my- Dana, it comes from lies that I'm making up in my head to pretend like I'm hearing them from people.

OK, are we clear on this? God, oh my God. The God liberal media is like so. Oh, my dude, you actually have the best last name for this job because you were just bashing me right now. It is. It's like fucking so unfair, dude. Like, why are you bashing other people is because I make shit up so wild be like, I'm if I have to be like, I have to create stories. Like, so you're creating stories.

So the story that you just said you had nothing to do with you. You created that you just said. Yeah. You said that. And you're like, yeah, DJ academics in that Migos interview, like the what? It looked like left out bad and boozy. I'm sorry. What? My ear. My ear. He did did that I think last week or two weeks ago to where he got Pressed about something he said and he was like, I'm sorry. I think my earpiece isn't working. Yeah Yeah, he has a lot of trouble hearing what people are asking him when convenient. I can't imagine

Yeah, what his marriage is like if his sort of response to accountability is to be like, my senses have all began to shut down for some reason. Sorry. I can't hear you, babe. Sorry. I'm sleeping, babe. Sorry. I'm sleeping. You're driving two in the afternoon and you're driving. Sorry. I'm sleeping, babe. Can't I don't even know what's going on. Don't even know what's going on. All right. I do have some kind of startling news, disturbing for people like me We are continue to be under attack me and my fellow soup cucks We mustn't

Stay sleeping in our comfy beds much longer because mark my words. They're coming for us first Jesse waters says it's not manly to like soup. Then my mother-in-law compliments me for being a rare man who likes soup. And yeah, I can read between the lines, Omar. Yeah. Now Campbell's Soup is dropping the soup from their name. Oh man. Yeah.

Company most associated with soup is dropping the word from, uh, what I guess they used to be called the Campbell's soup company. Oh wow. I think that's what it's technically called, right? Or their website is wait there. There's Campbell's soup camp. First of all, here's the other funny fucking weird sort of Berenstein bears thing. I was like, was it called Campbell's Soup? Campbell's Soup? Like the S's were always blending into each other?

Because there's the Campbell's Soup Company, then there's Campbell's Soup Possessive. Campbell's Soup? There's no apostrophe S? The company, if you go to their actual company website, it's called Campbell's Soup Company. Not Campbell's Poss company, not Campbell's possessive Campbell soup company. Wow. The label says Campbell's possessive.

There's just a lot. Look man, I'm always on my toes ever since that fucking 6.8 weeks thing. So just always like trying to make sure I know I'm standing on terra firma. You know what I mean before? Just anyway, so anyway, you can read all about it in my favorite book, Hot Chicken Water for the Soul, because that's where this is headed. They're erasing soup.

They're erasing. It's an outrage. Yep. Honestly, it's kind of weird that they still had soup in their name. Like, I feel like. Like, nice pivot. Actually, you know, it's kind of, it is a little weird.

What do you mean? Like just to be called Campbell's soup? Yeah. Like, I don't know. Wait, did their branding team just like wake up from the late 1800s? I feel like they should be selling vape juice by now. Like why, why are they just a soup company? What are you guys doing?

Yeah. They make a, what else? Yeah, actually it's mostly, do they own a lot of stuff They do and the the soup company was just throwing us all off I think that's how they you know, that's how they got in but then they're also like dude Do you like fucking do you like Cape Cod chips? Okay, you like goldfish you like Snyder's of Hanover pretzels you like V8 I mean V8 basically soup like that's the secret nobody wants to talk about but it's just cold soup you drink

Also all the other things that you mentioned great crumbled over soup. So yeah, that is true. Yeah, they were sticking to it I think they need to for some reason. I really want the Campbell company to branch out into vaping. Just for whatever reason, just for like, dude, I mean, I guess just, would it be tough? I need to check with Jesse Waters if it would be tougher if I was vaping my soup instead of eating it. Probably he, Hannity would definitely agree.

Well, that's the funny thing. Like the thing he objects to the pursing of the lips and the like holding a delicate object in your hand and bringing it to your mouth. That this is what Jesse Waters objects to about. You've seen everybody. Straws and so yeah, your buddy, Tucker Carlson and fucking Hannity vape like the second the camera cuts away from right there and that's a bit of lip-persing on a Cylindrical object. Well, look whatever it is what it is

I think Campbell's could pivot because we already trust them with things that we ingest So I'm like, well Campbell's isn't gonna make like a shitty vape juice Yeah, I've been trusting them for years. So yeah, why I do want cream of mushroom shitty vape juice. Yeah. I've been trusting them for years. So yeah, I do want cream of mushroom soup vape juice. Yeah. As Brian, the editor said, soup flavored vapes, bro. Take me to cloud city. Lando Calrissian. Hell yeah, dude. Hopped my best bin fucking twin speeder. I do feel like that would be kind of good, you know, in the way that they can like make vapes taste like anything. Why not a little chicken soup?

All right. RFK is back. He's got a bro. He's got an announcement. Okay. I just want to play this because he had a he had a camp fucking Trump campaign event in Glendale, Arizona, I think, somewhere in Arizona with Tulsi Gabbard, you know, cuz he's out there. He's team Trump now and He just again

He he has he did the thing that he's always good at which is like finding a way to make like sent like make Himself the central figure about a larger point and also just in a side that isn't quite relevant Anyway, this is funny. This is a funny thing to hear. And I'm just going to play it no context because I just think it's really funny that he's doing this on stage at a campaign of it. This is RFK with an important announcement. Listen up.

I'm going to tell you something that nobody knows. This week I received right after I endorsed President Trump, I received a letter from the National Marine Fisheries Institute saying that they were investigating me for collecting a whale specimen 20 years ago. Wow. It's 15 years past the statute of limitation, but they're opening an investigation. And this is then he goes about the weaponization. There he goes. He starts rambling a little more and then he's like, they're weaponizing the government, man. Wow. I'm just sawing off

whale heads on my own, a whale head enthusiast. And now I have federal agencies looking into shit. enthusiast and now I have federal agencies looking into shit. Huh. He acted like that is a thing that had for collecting a whale specimen. Like they're coming at after me for 20 years for everything. Uh, not ha not having had my license plate registration renewed on time collecting a whale specimen. Like what's going on? They're weaponizing the government Okay. Yeah, sorry, dude you pull you heard about a

Fucking way a beached whale that like a fucking carcass that washed ashore and you say kids get in the van And get the power tools and you go to pull up to saw its head off and then take it home While your daughter, Kick Kennedy, was talking about how the whale juice was getting everywhere. That could be, wow, that could be an interesting vape flavor. Whale juice? Whale juice?

Yeah, Campbell's soup, think about it. That's a good pivot right now, timely, timely. Yeah. But yeah, the whale, so I guess he then, I guess he said he responded to the letter where he, according to this NBC news report, baselessly linked the National Marine Fisheries Service with whale deaths and calling for the agency to investigate that. So he's like, boom, maybe you need to look into you.

I just cut its head off and then made my daughter drink its blubber and rotting carcass juice. He really seemed to think that that was going to go in a different way because he brought it up and everybody laughed because it reminded them about the wild ass story about him sawing off a whale's head and putting it on top of his van. Yeah, I feel like he's got that energy of somebody who just needs to be the center of attention at all times because of debilitating narcissism. And so just can't stop himself from dropping in an anecdote that is going to overshadow literally any other possible thing that anybody could have just said, look what they're doing into president Trump with their weaponized DOJ. We hear them

trot out that line all the time, but he had to be like, you know, guys, I saw the whale's head off like 20 years ago. And now they're like, that's bad. You know what I mean? And now thinking about the fact, you're like this weirdo anti-vaxxer guy who likes a soft whale head. Now that's in the front of mind. You saw the whale's head. I mean, he said collected a specimen rather than the main point, but yeah, well done. Well done collecting our whale specimen. All right.

The Surgeon General is warning about the difficulties of parenting, calling it a public health danger. He's issuing a new advisory, the likes of which we have seen for like smoking and air pollution in the past. But this one is a public statement that calls the American people's attention to an urgent public health issue and provides recommendations for how it should be addressed. And that is parenting. Yeah. And caregivers, family, the whole thing. It said there is a

critical link between parental mental health and children's long-term well-being and the urgent need to better support parents, caregivers, and families. They talk about all the stressors, you know, that is involved in raising kids, financial strain, economics, instability, poverty, time demands, children's health, children's safety, parental isolation and loneliness, technology and social media, cultural pressures and children's futures. And there's a lot like, you know, it says how, as you know, if you're an employer, a researcher,

a community organizer, a family friend or parent and caregiver, like how to, you know, sort of things you can think about what to do. And there are some things where it's like, maybe ask a parent to help out, you know, like one of your parents to help you parent kind of thing. Like that's not an option available to a lot of people.

And while I do think this is obviously like a super serious and very real thing, like the, I do appreciate that there is one section that says for policy makers and it's sort of basically being like, yeah, man, like create laws and programs that actually, you know, are able to address the needs here, like, right, childcare and like all these, like protecting our communities, all this stuff, functional social safety. Yeah. And I don't know if that will actually inspire any change, but this is truly like a, and I think these tips are good. Like it's important to think

about, like you do need to give yourself time off. Like it is possible to burn out or find ways to relieve your stress. But this is truly like a top down thing. This isn't a bottom up situation. Like the policies are the real things that are going to change all those things. When you're pointing out stressors,

like there's their financial strain, economic instability, you look at how much childcare costs and things like that, how much healthcare costs, guess what? Policymakers, you could completely wipe those stressors off the board with the right policies. So, I mean, it's like a very real issue. And I just like, it's like how, I was just sort of like looking at the Kamala Harris sort of campaign website.

I'm like, okay, what are you doing here for affordable childcare? And it's so vague. Just as Vice President Harris has cast the deciding vote on the American Rescue Plan, which made historic investments in the care economy. As president, she will fight to lower care costs for American families. It's like, propose something for the love of God. And there was, people were showing how some polls began to tighten in other areas because it felt like the honeymoon phase, Brat summer is over and now we're in freaky fall or about to be. And we're still kind of like she's done a good job of really not trying to get

into like waging into these like policy issues and just kind of being like, hey, man, it's not Biden. I'm against Trump. That's great. But these are still very much things that people are experiencing and would love to hear real tangible kind of solutions to. Now, whether or not there's follow through is a completely other, you know, completely separate question.

But as the surgeon general points out, this is very real and this needs urgent action. And most of that action really should be coming from policy makers. Yeah, the links I mentioned, parents are experiencing new stressors on top of the already daunting tasks of protecting their children from harm, managing finances and navigating the uncertainties teenagers face through adolescence.

The new stressors seems to be linking off to studies into phones and social media use, but it's probably worth mentioning that it's become increasingly difficult to raise a child and you know, the costs have gone way up and people's income has been frozen for decades. And you have people having to take on multiple jobs just to do the thing which is to provide for their children. There's your problem.. There's your problem. And there's your problem.

Yeah. This, I mean, again, people, everybody who's grown up in America, you just ask your grandparent, what are the oldest family member in your family? Let's living what they did for money and how many kids, what kind of family they were able to raise on that and how, what the cost of living was then. And you realize that at one point it was possible to do these things but we just live in such

a you know kleptocracy now that yeah yeah there's there's really all the pressures have fallen on people and like the thing that sucks is like when it says like oh well how can we take action when it says like for family and friends of like people who might be in the situation says reach out and offer practical support with household or everyday tasks. That is huge. That is huge. That is helpful. But like for policymakers, you see the things that they're talking about.

Well, invest in social infrastructure at the local level to bring parents and caregivers together, address economic and social barriers that contribute to the disproportionate impact of mental health conditions for certain parents and caregivers. Those are the real like, like, obviously the community one-to-one help is huge, but again, we still play in the sandbox with these rules that policy makers create. So unless we can actually change that,

that's also, it's an uphill battle. So, you know, somebody take this seriously. Yeah. All right. Those are some of the stories that are trending on this Monday morning, September 16th. Those are some of the stories that are trending on this Monday morning, September 16th. We are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get the vaccine, get your flu shots. Don't do

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