The Daily Zeitgeist - Freddy Got Trendered 1/27: Trump vs. Minneapolis, Herr Bovino, Kristi Noem, ICE QoL, Ye/WSJ

Episode Date: January 27, 2026

In this edition of Freddy Got Trendered, Jack and Miles discuss Trump backpedaling a bit on Minneapolis, Herr Bovino hanging up his SS coat, Kristi Noem possibly getting thrown under the bus, the quality of life for ICE agents, Ye's full page WSJ apology and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. Hello, the internet and welcome to this episode of Freddie Got Trendered. That one courtesy of Vanadiums. Daddy, would you like some sausage? I don't know if I said this on the podcast before, but like that's a vocal stem for me. Daddy, would you like some sausage? Would you like some sausage?

Wow. Did you like some sausages? I never even saw the movie, but that was like in the trailer and it was just like burned into my brain and I wake up with just random shit going through my brain all the time. And when my kids were little and calling me daddy, I was just constantly be like, Daddy, would you like some sausages? And they were, of course, immediately like, what the fuck is that? What is that from? And I was like, it was from this movie, Freddy guy. Like, Canadian guy. Freddy got, Freddy got fingers.

attached to strings that have sausages on them and then he's playing the thing. I just rewatch that scene though to prep and it's holds up. I gotta watch that shit. I gotta watch that movie. A fucking a pioneer. We don't have

we don't have modern shitheadedness without Tom Green's contribution with his show like there's no jackass without Tom Green. Like you know what I mean? Like that sort of like I don't know, do we got a camera and let's just fucking was his fuck around. Yeah.

My name is Jack O'Brien. That over there is Mr. Miles Gray. This is the episode where we tell you what was trending this morning. And we're going to start off with a continuation of a trend we were talking about yesterday, which is a little bit of backpedalage. Yeah, yeah. Backpedlin from the administration. Dude.

It seems like the resistance in Minnesota caught their attention. Yeah. I will say, you know. It definitely seems like now people in the regime think that killing innocent people for being in proximity of ice is a bad look. Is a bad look? Yeah, is a bad on camera from like nine different angles. But now they have to. Yeah, they're like not our best angle.

Could we try something else? Keep that in mind because a lot of the things you're going to hear and we're going to talk about are about changing the look of things and how we perceive them. Because the first thing, too, is Trump is trying to change the sort of narrative here to make a, it seemed like typical Trump abuser shit, which is like, I'm going to create a crisis. And then I'm going to act like, I saved y'all from the thing that I did to everybody. Only I can solve it. It was his entire platform for this administration. Only I can solve the problems that I've caused. He's beer, the cause of and solution to all of life's problems. But, you know, like take Trump's posts about talking to Tim Walts on Monday. He like worded

it as if things were getting too out of hand because of the leaders of Minnesota. So he had to come in as peacemaker, bring the volume down. He doesn't want anybody to get hurt, except when he's talking about there will be a reckoning for these people just mere weeks ago. So he's bringing the temperature down, sure, Jan. And then so I think a lot of this, too, is if you watched Fox and Friends or other things, too, a lot of those brainless ass cabs on Fox were like, oh, my God, he's so presidential. He's trying to bring the heat down on the situation.

One bit of good news is that all of the people who have been vocal about ICE and resisting and demonstrating, they have successfully changed the narrative enough, the perception of what's happening to be nudged towards reality rather than the propaganda take that we get from the feds, that the regime can't just act like this is a small group of people getting out of hand. They are now having to be like, oh, shit, a fucking majority. I mean, they always knew this. I think they just thought their playbook of like doubling down was going to work again. But because of all the outrage, rightly so, Greg Bovino has been removed from his role as Border Patrol commander at large. And we'll return to his former job in El Centro, California, where he's expected to retire soon.

Yeah, yeah, you love to see. That's a real sacking, you know? Like, it's not like, we're moving them over here to like focus on to coordinate. You're retiring. He's got sent to his old job to retire. Yep. Go away. Dr.

Mr. Cody Johnston from some more news posted on Twitter. Like Greg Bovino being shown to his new office and it's Sean Penn being shown to his office. Yeah. Kick your feet up. One battle after. Miles, I can't let you go past what you wrote here, though. They want to show Trump. behaving presidential and how is he behaving? I said he's Trump is behaving

presidential. A new, a new turn of phrase. I've, I can't let you just spike that joke. You know, it's funny. I've written it a few times and I wrote it on blue sky and I don't think I don't think people caught what I was trying to say. I think they just visually saw. It does in print look like a typo. Yeah, it looks like presidential. Sorry folks. Look, I live between the lines. You know what I mean? Can I just say, man? I'm a fan. You know? Hey, buddy, look, he's behaving. It's always nice to be a fan. Always nice to meet a fan.

But the other thing, too, is the DHS has also taken Bovino's access to social media because on Sunday, he was just clapping back at people who were like, you're a piece of shit, like this, you're lying. And they're like, this guy is a fucking mess. As if we needed this. The guy was wearing a fucking Gestapo-esque trench coat, like a custom made. It's not standard uniform. for Border Patrol. He did it to look like

fucking Oberstombonfiro Gregory Bovino. And then I don't know if you saw, there was another clip. I couldn't even bother because there was so much bullshit coming out of Minneapolis where he tried to throw a tear gas canister at fucking protesters or just demonstrate, whatever, fucking people in the street.

And he's like, can't get the pin out to fucking throw it. And then he's like, he throws and he's like, gas, gas, gas. The weakest fucking I've ever seen only for the wind to blow that shit right back on them. Anyway, so he's gone. Gas, gas, gas. And then he's looking like...

Gas, gas, gas, gas, gas. Just like somebody who's never picked up a baseball who's like a famous musician going out to throw the first pitch. It would be like a European classical violinist throwing out the first pitch with their wrong hand. Right. Where it's like everything's going against you. You're not even an athlete. You're from Europe where like baseball overhand throwing is. isn't like a mechanic that people know.

Same how American people don't who don't know how to kick a ball in America. Yes. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I had a friend in high school came over from Turkey one year as like an exchange student. And we were like playing this game

where you throw the ball on the roof of the dorm and then it like bounces down. And if you like babble it, you're fucked. And like it was wild to be like, wow, throwing a baseball is a very unnatural thing. If you don't know how to do it, I was just like, yo, is, yeah, the arm motion is crazy. Even in, like, in soccer matches in England, like the, like, the ball will go into the stands and someone has to throw it to a ball boy.

Yeah. And you know, like in America, they'd be like, here you go, bro. Yeah, right back. A lot of underhand. Yeah. There you go. Right. But then he could have, like, booted it easily.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Whereas we, I look so stupid trying to play soccer. That's what's so funny when you see, like, American athletes try and kick a ball. because it's so fucking awkward he's into breaking their toes or some shit everyone's like we should put LeBron on the on the US

soccer team yeah yeah for what you kind of need to like roll out of your mom onto a soccer pitch to have the level of like naturalness that you're not you're not you're not gonna build that

in the off season but anyway and just because Wayne Rooney had a hair transplant doesn't mean LeBron James is also good at saw just the same way Wayne Rooney could not hoop because he had a transplant like LeBron did. What if he could? What if Wayne Rooney was just fucking awesome? Dude, if that was it, I would be, I would get a hair transplant so quick and I would be like, yo, bro, get me out here. Put me in the arsenal kit, bro. I got something to do.

Meanwhile, though, with DHS, Christine Nome and her freak boyfriend, Corey Lewandowski, who like, they're, you know, there's like a bunch of weird shit. Yeah. They may have also won free ticket. to the be thrown under the bus show. Because right now, now we don't know yet, but they did have a two-hour meeting with Trump on Monday, which is a lot of time, considering this guy's brain is fall off the skull tender right now.

So two hours? I mean, how much of that was nap time? Yeah. Is them just being like, all right, just stay here. When he wakes up, he won't notice that he fell asleep. He's like,

here, just put the bunker scene from downfall on again on a loop. He loves it, because he doesn't speak German. He doesn't realize it's a rap for Hitler in that scene. They also talked about, I guess, like, a lot of the conversation was around, how do we reorient this racist terror campaign into something just as racist,

but maybe less terror, seemed to be what the meat of that conversation was. However, Trump didn't say, dink the shower handle temperature down a little, like you don't want to change the temperature too much. You just want to, like, little ouchy right now. Yeah. A little ouchy right now.

is how they look at it. But apparently their jobs are not at risk. But I don't think, again, that doesn't mean anything because you probably already forgot what the meeting was about. So other great news, guys, screaming, fuck you, asshole, he's shit, you an American fuck bad. Get fucked, you lightweight, clan wannabe. Is actually working to make the job of ICE agent shitty.

Apparently in the weeks following goods murder and the immediate aftermath of Prettys, many agents have felt like the agency is making light. harder for them. Making life harder for them? Yeah, because of the way the rhetoric. They're giving them quality of life surveys. It's also like, dude, how about the way

you guys behave? Fuck what you think either way. So this is from the independent, quote, morale is plummeting among federal law enforcement officers tasked with carrying out the Trump administration's aggressive anti-immigration operation as they complained that long hours, ambitious arrest quotas in hatred from the public.

They also said, many of them have grown quote, disillusioned with the tactics. being implemented by leadership. So, wow. I like that not mentioned in there is like inability to sleep at night. The cries of the children that we've ripped away from their parents and put into concentration camps. Exactly. But I feel like that's maybe underlying the whole thing.

I don't know how these people can work. I mean, there was at one of the detention camps in Texas that had a bunch of children, there was like an uprising with the children that were being detained. Yeah. Like they were like actively protesting within it. And you can hear like there was a lawyer there who was going to see a client and he was suddenly rushed out and then just started recording and you can hear these kids fucking screaming.

Libertat. Yeah. Like freedom. It's I don't know how the, I can't even like hear the clip and be not fucked up and have like shitty goosebumps like hearing children screaming for like pleading like their voices are cracking from how intense their screams are asking to be freed, let alone being the fucking asshole who's sitting there in there with your fucking baton, with your arms crossed, right?

Yeah. Hipe down or whatever. Fucking scumbag. Anyway, so. Children concentration camp. Just, that's what that is. And again, it's not new because we've been doing this. But hey, let's try and fucking solve it this time.

Meanwhile, big fuckface himself is even out here trying to rewrite history. He went from saying Preddy was dangerous and what was he doing coming with a fully loaded weapon to now softer takes like this. He was asked about, hey, what's going on with Alex Preddy and what do you think is the way the administration is going to handle this? Here's fuckface. I love everybody. I love all of our people. I love his family.

And it's a very sad situation. I'm looking at the whole situation. I love everybody. I love our people. I love his family. And it's a very sad situation. Damn. It's a little bit different. Wasn't he a domestic terrorist before? He also has apparently said that there should be an investigation, but more like a real transparent one. He could out front his death would justify. Well, you know, we're doing a big investigation. I want a TV investigation. I'm going to be

watching over it. I want a very honorable and honest investigation. Yeah, yeah. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. We'll get to. Honorable and honest. Did you say transparent? I don't know if I heard transparent. I think Caroline Levitt said that yesterday. Okay. When she was back paling like a motherfucker too, right after we played one of her clips,

she said another thing where she was like, look, we don't want anybody to get hurt out here. That's like the last thing we want. And it was such a different tone than- form-tackling people and spraying them point-blank of the face with chemical irritants. We don't want anybody to get hurt. No, oh, my God. That was your plan A. Oh, my God. You thought that's what we were trying to do? Oh, this is so embarrassing. Oh, my God. Okay. Well, we got to, I got to talk to Gregory now. I'm going to have to. So again, about that investigation, the details around the investigation are already super fucked. Like, for starters, the feds are keeping state investigators out despite having a warrant. And also, no one knows where Alex Preddy's phone or gun is because there's no documented chain of custody over the evidence. So who the fuck knows what they're trying to do?

do with all that. And Keith Ellison, who's the Attorney General of Minnesota, got a restraining order against the government to prevent them from fucking with evidence, but the regime is in court trying to fight this as we speak right now. So I don't know how transparent that's going to be. Again, it's a bunch of fucking words. Extra judicial. And I love them. And I love him. And I love him. And that should make you feel better. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Exactly. It's going to be very transparent to me. I will be able to see it. Nobody else. And I would be able to decide what is transparent and what is

opaque. Thank you very much. But yeah. Also, they're rolling out. I mean, you can see a huge change in how ICE is behaving on the ground because they jumped this one guy's car maybe. Yeah.

What a fuck? This is incredible. The damage control is so wild. ICE is posting alleged good Samaritan content about how their agent actually do nice things for people while armed and masked up? The lowest possible bar for calling someone a good Samaritan. Yeah, like honestly.

And again, I'm going to read this, but it reads like AI fucking slop. Okay. First of all, this was posted on Monday, right? So this is after Alex Preti's murder. So this is them like on Monday trying to bring the temperature down with this picture. It's a picture of people like in the snow with the hoods of their cars open. It said on January 26. Second, during record-breaking cold temperatures in Shikope, Minnesota, ice officers pulled into a local

parking lot and noticed a man experiencing car trouble. After discovering that his vehicle had a dead battery, the officers quickly offered their assistance. Using jumper cables from their own vehicle, and with help from another community member, they successfully jump-started the car. There's that, I love that dash right there. M-Dash. Love an M-Dash. Ensuring he could safely continue on his way. Okay, first of all, but just the lowest level of goods, man, I've helped someone jump their car before and haven't even, like, felt good about myself. Yeah. You know, it's just a thing you do.

One time I help someone jump the car and they had the cables, I just had to pop my hood. They're like, hey, man, can you? I'll just, I'll do it. I'm like, oh, yeah, yeah. And I was like, it's, it is a nothing thing. It requires you to stop for five minutes and, like, gun the engine for a second and just, like, talk to another person. person, that's it. The fact that they also hit a, with help from another community member in there is pretty fun. Like, I want to know, I really want to know the, this version of events from the

person who needed the jump because it certainly feels like they jumped in on a, they're like, hey, we're out here looking for some good photo ops. What do we do here? A one man job. They couldn't even pull it off without like help. Yeah, it's just weird seeing a masked goon and attack vest. like not he's not even jumping the car it looked like the guy is so it's like this guy's just like lording over this person it doesn't look helpful he's just holding him at gunpoint to make sure nothing funny smile fucking smile fucking smile good samaritan right i think look it's three possibilities it's completely staged sure right and who knows who they're just like yeah fuck it let's just do this uh it actually happened and somehow they're like holy shit too document this shit we got

To tell you got to tell my picture. Yeah, exactly. Can we pose with you? Or third, which could maybe if this is happened, maybe there were two Minnesotans helping each other out. And the ICE agents rolled up and we're like, hey, you need a hand. And they're like, dude, go get a fucking dog up you.

You fucking loser. And they're like, okay, all right, all right. Or they tried to do it. And because they appear to be the dumbest fucking people on the planet, just a bunch of keystone tops. Yeah, they had the cables. like attached to the fucking windshield wiper fluid tank. Oh, Jesus Christ.

So, yeah, again, they're desperate. Considering that they were posting Nazi memes on Maine. Right. To now like, oh, we're like AAA for like stranded roadside people and we care. I think is a good indication that they know they've completely lost the country in terms of like the morality of it and the support. However, this is just another reason for them. They just have to go back in the lab and figure out how do we make it look more respectable to the public while we can kind of continue to do this shit.

But again, I don't know if that's what they want because part of the whole reason to have ICE do these raids like this was to create this sense, like this really acute sense of terror in people to really establish their strength. And now Tom Homan is in charge. And I was reading that like him and Nome don't get along because Tom Hohman. was just more like, you need like less, he's like, because he worked in Border Patrol for a long time. He's like, you need more frictionless operations. Like you're, you're trying to make it as gross as possible. Not to say Tom Holman is like reasonable.

He's just like the way, the way you don't get in trouble for achieving the objective we claim to be wanting to do. Right. Exactly. Exactly. So we'll see. But yeah, drunken barn cat, Tom Homan is on the ground in Minnesota now. So we'll see what comes of that. But again, I think really important to, like, this is absolutely a victory for, for everybody who resisted this ice occupation.

Yeah, it's working. On a small level, right, because you did get one of the most odious figures out that doesn't change their mission as an organization. But again, a demonstration that even the regime is having to be like, okay, fuck, like, we thought we could go that hard, but maybe we can't. Right. But I wouldn't say that this is a total collapse of vice or anything like that. But hey, small victories about it. Small victories. But victories can happen when people get together and organize as people.

And don't wait for the Democrats to figure out how to do the right thing. They're waiting for us, I think. Chris Murphy actually said something really interesting. He's the senator from Connecticut, which was basically like, if the Democrats can't be perceived as doing something tantamination, In such an acute crisis as of right now, people are going to fully abandon politics. Yeah. And I'm like, buddy, buddy, it's happening right now.

So if you're looking for some tangible action, you guys better fucking do something. Better figure it out. And when you come to power, you need to still be about that action or else this shit's just going to keep happening over and over and over again. And part of that action needs to be actual transparent investigations into the people who are responsible for. for these war crimes on their fellow citizens. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back.

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Listen to mind games on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. So Kanye West took out a full page ad in the Wall Street Journal, apologizing, claiming that he just wanted to reach the black community. And so took out a full page ad in the Wall Street Journal. Black and Jewish community. Yeah.

Yeah. And he has said that his latest years of outbursts were the result of his bipolar disorder, which we have heard before. And I think at this point, everyone assumes that those actions are coming from a place of unwellness. But he's also adding the car crash that happened in 2002 to the things that are wrong with his brain. Yeah, he said he potentially had a frontal lobe injury. Right. I was never talked about. Yeah,

was never diagnosed. With that. Treated. Yeah. Which I don't like, not to say anything about like, well, this excuses anything.

But I do think, like there's really interesting shit on like brain injuries and like how when somebody suffers a brain injury, like the most famous stories, Finius Gage who like got a railroad spike through his eye. coming out his brain but like survived and was studied extensively and had like a total personality change and it was like one of the first times that people were like oh so if you take that part out like this is what happens to the human's ability to behave normally or what happens

their personality a lot of things with impulse control can happen with wasn't that way the same thing with like Charles Whitman, the University of Texas shooter. He had a, brain tumor that was like, yeah, he had a brain tumor. Yeah, exactly. And he was like, in his note, he's like, dude, I don't know what the fuck's going on with me. He's like, I just can't, I can't stop myself.

Yeah, I totally, I think that's all valid. I think, you know, if that's, if that's his truth, so be it. But again, it's, okay. Yeah. The damage is like, look, motherfucker, the damage is done. And, oh, yeah. No, I'm not, yeah. In no way, is this like, and we're good.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, no, no. And I think, look, if this is, if this was actually written by him, I think that's great. It's an interesting look into his, his, his, his personal life or whatever. But man, just go fucking, go be somewhere and get right and don't bother anybody. Do it outside the public eye. You got enough money, Cole, you don't need to do anything publicly anymore. I know maybe I'm, I'm sure you are dying to probably regain some semblance of star power that you once had. But unfortunately, like, like, like as you mentioned in your letter, this has kind of put you in a situation where even your own fans or former fans are like,

I don't, bro, I don't even fucking hair, man. Like just, I mean, he released a song called a Heil Hitler, you know,

in this last bout of mania that is like Nick Quentes's favorite song, you know, like all those people really took it as a mainstreaming of, they're like, guys, we got Kanye now. Like this, we're,

we're good. Guys, this disturbed black man agrees with us. We've done it. We've reached the, mainstream. You're like, that's not nothing. And we didn't really talk about it. But, you know, there's this clip of Nick Fentez and Andrew Tate and these other fuckers sneako and this looks maxer dude, like, clavicular, whatever the fuck his name is. They were in a club in Miami playing that shit.

Yeah. And the fallout from that was another moment where these people thought were like, hey, bro, this shit's mainstream. Cut to, hey, you've been banned from every restaurant and fucking club in the city. Nobody wants you here. Get the fuck out forever. And they're like, oh man, whatever, dude. Like, I don't even fucking care, dog. Yeah. And then Kanye even told him, please don't play that song.

Yeah. So, like, just going with the brain injury theory, because the first thing that we ever heard from Kanye, other than, you know, producing the blueprint, but, like, the first time we heard of him as an artist was through the wire, which was a song written and performed, like, in the aftermath of that car accident.

And, like, that Rolling Stone had a thing a couple years ago that I found surprising at the time that he's been telling people that he worked with. Like, they've been protecting the truth of his, like, Nazi fandom and affinity for Hitler since the beginning of his career, essentially, like, since the early 2000s. And they say it, like, goes back to 2002, which is, like, shockingly early, but also exactly when the car crash happened. Sure. So, I don't know.

Like, if a car accident, if a brake accident, brain injury, like, just affects your impulse control and your ability to, like, self-regulate. It's just a kind of a damning thing to, like, see about our culture. Like, I remember when Kanye was at the peak of his fame and Trump was rising and it was like, oh, these guys are both just riding a rocket ship made of pathological narcissism. Right, right, right. And, like, it feels like that is the cheat code for our current society. Yeah.

No, it's true. It's true. And that was, and that was his, so much of his appeal as an artist was his exuberance and pathological levels of confidence. Right. Were inspiring to many people's like, yeah, bro, he makes me feel. And I get that too. I remember that too. Like, I was in the midst of like feeling I wanted to drop out of college when I, when college drop out came out and feeling like, no, this is, I can gas myself up and I can fucking accomplish whatever.

But yeah, it seems like there's a. there's a double-edged sword to that. And I think honestly, like, you know, I believe in the people's capacity to change in heal. So I hope he's able to do that. But he did this in 2023. He did this before. Yeah.

It's starting to feel a little like that Mr. show sketch where David Cross is like a reformed gay pastor. Right, right. He keeps going back and forth. Yeah. Video of him being like, I'm sucking so many dicks. And then coming back and be like, I was absolutely wrong.

I know what I said. Yeah, it's just like kind of a feels like this. It's exhausting. And I think anybody who, yeah, dealing with people like family with mental illness or addiction, you kind of have these similar ebbs and flows. So like I said, Kanye, just go get better, bro. Just take care of yourself, you know. Take it easy.

Don't worry about it. Nobody's looking for you. Yeah. So just go ahead. All right. Those are some of the things that are trending on this Tuesday, January, 27th, we are back tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get your vaccines, but you still can. Get your flu shots. Don't do nothing

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