The Daily Zeitgeist - It's Mueller Zeit! 3/23: TACO Trump, Japanese PM @ WH, ICE @ Airports, Robert Mueller

Episode Date: March 23, 2026

In this edition of It's Mueller Zeit!, Jack and Miles discuss their respective weekends, the war in Iran (feat TACO Trump), the Japanese PM @ the WH, ICE picking up the slack for TSA?, that Air Canada crash, the passing of Robert Mueller and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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either happier or destroyed. How does it work? It's like a, like a ballroom that you don't have access to? So everybody's in the lobby of a hotel like ballroom area. And that's like a hospital waiting room basically? Yeah,

you like drop them in there at their board and then they're like, get the fuck out of here, which is very necessary because like a lot of these parents have like chess boards on their t-shirts and shit. Like they have like chess puns and like they're, you know.

Oh, like they're living vicariously. Yeah, yeah. They have extreme opinions on like how these kids should play. So it's definitely necessary. And an advantage for my son who's dead doesn't know how to play chess worth a shit. So wait. So then you just wait. And it's truly like it's not until he emerges and it's like giving you a thumbs up or thumbs down.

You can just tell from his body language. You can just talk to his body language. Yeah. How long does that, like, what's a, like, if he goes deep. So this one was tough because it was, uh, it was too, like, it was the first time that he was playing. So, like, he would play white against somebody and then black against somebody. Like you, you, you play both sides because white, white is a big advantage when you're like a good, because it's the first move. Because you move.

Oh, right. Yeah. Um, oh, white's always moved first, huh? Even, so all that shit is reinforced even on chess. Exactly, bro. Get your kid out of there, Jack. Don't they have like woke chess or they're like black goes first? Black goes first in this tournament.

Is that even a thing or is that such an abomination to the chess world to be like, black's actually going to go first? I've never heard of it. Oh my God. Is there a black leader of a nation anywhere? I've never heard of it. I've never heard of such a thing. Interesting.

Oh, so then it says like home. So you get a home and an away leg, basically. But like no break in between. So he's coming out after an hour and a half, and he's either, you know, one time he split a couple of times. He won both and one time he lost both. One time he was soaking wet. One time he just came out soaking wet with missing a shoe.

And no explanation. His pants were beyond dry. They were desiccated, I would almost say. But the shirt itself. His head was covered in the goo from fire in the sky. Oh, but then nothing else in his body was. Is that fucking ectoplasm?

I don't know how it just. I'm covering Zing goo. I told you to stay away from Vigo. Vigo. Yes, go. I think go. Hello, the internet. And welcome to this special week trend edition of

Dead early's a geist! He sounded like, was that in honor of Robert Moll? I don't know what that was. It sounded like the cry of... It sounded like one of the cats that's in heat around my house. The cat seemed... That fucking sounds fucked up.

Anyway, sorry. I don't know what that was. I love it. I love it, though. RIP Bob Mueller, we'll talk about him and his... The fine eulogy that the president gave him. My name's Jack O'Brien.

That over there is Miles. Gray, this is the Monday episode where we tell you what is trending? What trended over the weekend? What is trending on this Monday? We also let you get to know us a little bit better by telling you some things that we think

are overrated, some things we think are underrated. Miles, what is something that you think is underrated? Underrated? Oh man, how difficult it is to teach a little boy how to pee.

Like getting out of diapers Okay, so at home He got a little toilet And he says down easy But right now we're in the era Where he's starting to really be Like at school he pees in a toilet But they sit down on the toilet there

And we were out yesterday We went to Disneyland Because we have like this three day pass I went in January I had to get it in yesterday And then we got one more date That we're trying to figure out To go before it becomes so far

fucking crowd. Although yesterday they opened some bluey thing there and it was a fucking mob zoo. Damn, bluey? Luckily, luckily all the attention was on bluey stuff so it actually ended up making other rides easier to get on because people, I'm not joking, the line looked like TSA

at LaGuardia or some shit. I've never seen like a line so long going through the park. I didn't know where it was starting or ending or going to. It was going out through the parking lot. Dude, it was a ton of people with strollers. I was like, you can't bring your stroller in line, like, on the line for a ride.

But I'm like, they must be, anyway. So we're there. He didn't like, he didn't want to go to the bathroom. When we leave, he's like, we're driving. He's like, dad, I got to go pee. Yeah, man. And I'm like, I'm like, you rock in the diaper, bro. So if you want, it's all good, man.

Like, you can, you can give yourself some grace. And he's like, no, I want to go in the bathroom. I said, all right, shit. So we go. I see fucking, he's like, you know, it's like, really, one of the first times I've had that moment as a parent where your kids went like, Daddy, I have to go. Oh, really?

Yeah, yeah. I'm like, all right. Daddy, Daddy, I have to go to the bathroom. Welcome to fatherhood, brother. Yeah, it's like that whole scene in Tommy Boy where he's pitching the guy and he's like, oh, I can't stop. Anyway, I get to the, we get, I see like a gas station on like the map. I get off.

It's one of those gas stations that only has like a, like a box office, like sort of thing in it. It's not like a proper, like, full on, like mini mart with a bathroom that you can pee in. So I'm like, oh shit, there's no bathroom here. Fuck. A box office. It's like one of those tiny little shacks. Yeah, they're not letting you inside.

Yeah. I know there's not a bathroom in there. I can see all four walls. Then we, I'm like, he's like, it was like big daddy then. He's like, I got to go. I'm like, shit, we go in this alley. And I'm like, all right, go. And he's like, where's the toilet?

I'm like, fuck, bro. The world is your toilet, son. Yeah. So, yeah, but I pull, we get the pants down. And he's still like, trying to like sit down. I'm like, no, you got to aim your, aim it and then go pee there.

I've had to hold him parallel to the ground. Yeah. So he could just go straight down. Just straight down looking like a, just, just straight to have pissed all over my feet. Yeah. It was like,

it's just so fucking funny. I still need to do that to go pee. I need to, I need to make myself completely horizontal to the ground in the to, in the stall. Super, I need to go, Mission Impossible style in the stall.

And Pete directly. down to the toilet. Yeah, so. He pissed all over my shoes, I was wearing some nice sneakers, too. I was like, fuck it. It is what it is. Like, you know, it was just so funny.

He thought it was so funny. He's like, Daddy, I pee on your feet. Your feet are my toilet. Yeah, my feet were the toilet. But afterwards, he was so proud of himself. I was so proud of him. And it was just, it was a harrowing, but unbelievably

completely my logic I was like oh shit dude you've been in a diaper and also you piece sitting down so much I forgot that

this is like the next phase the idea of holding it yeah the invention of holding it all I could do was oh shit he's gonna piss all over his

his own feet and pants yeah like gravity yeah we went 90 we went parallelogram and great so anyway

I wish I to tell you it gets better, man. When we were visiting my parents in Florida, I was driving, like, across the state to see my friend. And I just

forgot to do the thing where you're like, everybody, go to the bathroom. You got to go. It's not a question. It's like, go stand in front of the toilet for one minute until it comes out, because otherwise it's not. I forgot to do that. Yeah. And we get on the highway, and

he's just like, I have to go like five minutes ago. Like I have to go so bad. It's my youngest. And he's like, it's coming. It's coming. So I like pass him a Gatorade bottle.

And it's just like shooting all over the backseat. Like he doesn't know how to aim, you know. Yeah. Yeah. It was a real disaster. Anyways. Gatorade bottle. Yeah.

I mean, that's, you jumped a few levels right there. I know. It's your character didn't have enough XP to do that. You know what I mean? Exactly. I mean.

It's a real. It's a, it's, yeah, that, that, that, I, I should have known better than to, but like, what, what else? It was, he was just going to pee directly on the seat. So, couldn't pull over or anything? No, we, we eventually got to a place like, you know, two minutes too late. Side of the road or something, you know what I mean? Yeah, no, we were, it was, it was a, it was a tough spot. Like, it was, it would have put us in danger if we had pulled over at this at the spot.

Highways on Florida, man. Oh, yeah. My underrated is how many people have my name, how common my name is around the world. I had to be in Austin for Southwest Southwest last weekend. Right. And I landed there like late, late Friday. Like it was Saturday morning, dude, like sleepover party cred. I got there.

How late was I up last night? Try this morning. Oh. So I get to the hotel and I'm thinking like no one's going to even be awake at this point. Like what the fuck am I going to do? I should have called ahead. Get to the locked door and the door opens and the guy's like Mr. O'Brien right this way. Oh.

And right away I'm like, nah. Something's off. This guy's putting way too much respect on my name. I know how much deference I command. Like I spent my whole life as me. This guy's made me way too much respect. You thought you got promoted by the Christmas Adventures or some shit. Exactly.

Put me in the office in the back of the hotel. Right this way, Mr. Right this way, sir. And like I could tell he's doing like little double takes here and there. Like he's almost like gets that the vibe isn't right. So he's like, you're John O'Brien. my real name. I'm like, yep, that's, that's right. He's

like, your room is ready. Your son is there already. I was like, oh, okay. You got the wrong guy, friendo. And, but he is underrating, how come mine? He's like, but you're John O'Brien. I was like, I think I might be the other

John O'Brien. I think you might have two John O'Brien's coming here. And that's like fucking melting his brain. Yeah, yeah. He's typing. We got like 15 John O'Brien. coming into day. He's like, nope, you're the, you're the only one. Let me call my manager.

Like, they are, they are getting people out of bed to deal with this. And as I, like, sit down, resigned to the fact that I'm probably going to, like, not stay at this hotel. A big tall, older guy walks in, like, five minutes behind me. And he's like, hi, I'm John O'Brien. And I just like, you know, I'm like, hey, I'm also John O'Brien. There's our problem. I'm like, you believe it. There's two of us. Me and this guy have a nice little conversation about both being named John O'Brien. I was hoping he's going to be a dick about it. No, he's like really nice. Like at first he was like, so why are you telling me this? I'm like, we got the same room. It's crazy. Can I stay with you tonight?

Maybe your son. We figure out both our people are from Koduk. Anyways, nice guy. We figure out we're both there for South by. He's like, I'm like, he looks kind of familiar. he looks like an actor like kind of Sean Bean energy you know big tall handsome British dude he goes to take the room they're like we we fucked up we're gonna bump you to a neighboring motel

which was really nice it was fine I just wanted to get to a bed but something I'm like fuck who why are they putting so much respect on that other John O'Brien's name I look it up it's Ed John O'Brien from fucking radio a band that I fucking love.

I've seen them live like four times. What? I just like didn't recognize him because I was like under the veil of just being, I don't know, sweet deprived. It was Ed O'Brien, who sometimes goes by Ed John O'Brien. I was like, what the fuck? Um, oh my God.

But yeah, apparently he was there debuting like some new solo project. Uh, I think I asked him if he still lived in Ireland. It's like, no, man, my family's from England. Oh, cool. That's cool, too, man. I was like, ah, good-day, mate. Oh, teasing crumpets then, huh? Yeah, but yeah, basically.

That's so funny. You're like, oh, it's your radio. Then I saw him on the street the next day, and I was like, ah, nah, never mind. He probably likes, like, talking to something. but he has no idea who he is, you know? I think most, I think people who are famous really prefer those kinds of interactions because it allows them to feel like not like some exalted figure or someone that needs

a ton of attention. Meanwhile, I got to feel what it was like to be an exalted figure for like 15 fleeting seconds. I love that for you. And it was glorious, man. Like just pop, you don't even have to call ahead to the hotel to be like, hey, is someone going to be awake. They're just,

they're waiting by the door. Like, like they're there to. It would have been so funny if they didn't even clarify that the sun was there and they just, they just,

you to the room. Yeah. Daddy. Oh. Oh. Oh. He's just goes and you like, no, no, no,

no, no. Wrong room. Wrong room. Yeah. Oh, right. You have the room with my son. And that is what he sounded like.

The chick kicked out of me. Hey, Tommy, get over here. Tom York starts bouncing on me. Spooky dancing on you. Turn a blind eye to Israel. That is my favorite of his solo songs. Turn a blind eye. Indeed.

He does seem to have one of those. All right. What is something you think is overrated? Overrated speakers that sound good. The emphasis on always being like, these got to be the best fucking speakers. These are the best of the highest fucking fidelity. There's a time and a place for that.

Yeah. Because the other side of that coin is the shitty tinny speaker. And Her Majesty, like, hates dealing with, like, technology or Bluetooth speakers. Because she's like, it never fucking connects. And so she bought, like, just a straight up, like, radio, like an all-in-one radio with, like, a speaker built in. Wow. And the speaker on thing, that thing fucking sucks. Yeah.

But there is something to hearing music on the radio out of a tinny speaker that I completely had forgot how it will take you. I started time traveling because a song like Susan Vega's fucking Tom's Diner came on. And that was a song I used to like my like I remember like my dad had the tape and like we would listen to it in a shitty car radio sometimes. And hearing like that song on a really tinny speaker. like in another room, it just was like,

oh my God, this is how I, like, I used to listen to music as a kid. There's like a radio in another room, kind of playing. And I was like, hold on,

this is great. Kick this on. And I just love now hearing just like old school music on a, like go to fucking Goodwill and buy like a shitty like boom box or something that you can put an ox cable in so you can like listen to your music now through. It's a very different. experience. And I think because everything from our headphones, to our computer speakers or, you know, our fucking cell phones have like really good

speakers that even if you're playing it out loud, it's like you get a pretty decent sonic range. Listening to like an old all in one radio, whoo. So, fuck, I don't know. I got to say, it's like for millennials, I think you will have a very specific like sense memory that you will appreciate. So I got to say, don't, don't always emphasize a good. also embrace your shitty speakers too. And that's an underrated disguised as an overrated. And that's how it's done, folks. Oh, you don't have an overrated?

Come over here. Man, you're really into the radio. Sounds like you're a real radio head. Hey, man. I'm still going to beat you up for being in here with my son, man. It was a mistake. I didn't even know he was in. I didn't even know.

I didn't even know. Why do you curl up next to him? Because I miss my son. he's 32 I had my first experience with usually up to this point when I get to travel without my kids I'm like oh

just just traveling with kids is the fucking worst they were like real like just it was like they were casting for cute babies on both of my flights to Austin and I was like man those were the days and I'm never going to experience that again

like just having a cute baby bounce on your lap. I don't know, man. We can go to the park. You could, you could steal one for a second. Get the thrill. You know what I mean? Brian, the editor, has a fun fact. Tom's Diner was used to calibrate the MP3 compression algo. Really? Yeah. How about that? Brian's coming through the facts. Anyways, my overrated is electronic thermometers. Oh, you want to go Freddie Mercury on them? Yeah. I don't know. I'm starting to, like, this might be a weird. And I, and I'm, I'm, asking, bring this up more to like find out if I'm the only one. Like my mother had a weird thing with cameras like, you know,

film cameras where her camera just always broke. And like it was just, it never failed. Her camera would never be working. Um, whenever she got a camera, she would like get a new camera. It would break. Like she just had bad luck with cameras.

Physically break or something like would malfunction like internally. Like it's just not working. Yeah, it's just not working. The pictures were fucked up. The flash would never work. Okay, powder. So I'm wondering, do I have that with electronic thermometers? Because I swear to God, every time my kids are sick,

my youngest is not feeling well this morning, go. And every one of our electronic thermometers is busted, is not working, is out of batteries or it just like doesn't even when you replace the batteries, like the batteries have like some weird film on that. and then like it just like doesn't it doesn't work ever like your batteries have a film on them yeah you ever get that with like or like a white powder like oh oh oh yeah like at the contacts that developed yeah yeah you got to use coca cola and a cue tip mm-hmm i'm wondering if i need to go back to like the i think my family used a single mercury thermometer the entire time that it was

oh i remember the yeah i remember the day we got a digital one and like my mom was kind of like i don't know about this. Yeah. And then we kept using the like the Mercury one. Mercury one, I mean, you never,

they never break. They never run out of batteries. They do, if they do break, you get like fun crazy like the Mad Hatter, but. I feel like the really interesting thing

about this take, Jack, is do you come from a family of like super powered people who just like mildly break small consumer electronics? Yeah, wondering if like we just,

like we just have a very specific curse on our family because it, yeah, it's wrong. right? Like you you have electric thermometers that like work fine, right? What the fuck? Another one broke.

Another one gone. Has it, do you have experience with other things breaking too? Like, No. Or does your sister like your other siblings? I don't know. I'm going to have to like look into this family curse to see if there's a,

if there's another bit of technology. Your aunts and uncles? My sister is very tech savvy. But like it's known in my mom's family. Like don't ask. don't ask her to take the family picture because her camera's going to be broken. Oh, I love this.

No, you got to look deeper into this. Yeah, okay. All right. That's what I wanted to figure out. If it is supernatural. And I think we've found that that. But yeah, they only, I mean, it could be, like we're keeping them in the equivalent

of like a medical junk drawer with like medicated lollipop sticking to them. And like I do, I feel like maybe it's on me and my ADD that like these just get kind of Like the presence of it being in a junk or would render it unusable. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. No, I think it's.

No, I'm more, I'm all in on you having a kind of fucking powder. The curse of the electric thermometer. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're, you've got something going on. You've got like an electromagnetic frequency. Your shit is all fucked up. You got something going on. It would.

Yeah. I mean, but luckily the mics always work around you. The mics have work. Yeah. Yeah, it's, it is very specific. My mom, fine with other technology, just cameras. Me. Can I send your mom a bunch of cameras just to have a break?

Just to see. Yeah. She walks by people, like, she's walking by like a tourist attraction and just everybody's like looking down at their camera. Like, what the fuck? Your mom could be like a CIA weapon where it's like cameras, can't operate around her. It's like,

it's undocumented. She's like the tails. She just like goes with, she, she is like, tails to Sonic. She's just like always there next to the CIA operative

and like nobody can ever see. Exactly. The only problem with the mercury thermometers, I could never really see what it, what it said, you know? Yeah, yeah,

yeah. But maybe you break them open. There's barely enough mercury to play with. Yeah, you can't like get that high. All right. Those are some overrated underrated.

Let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We will talk about the news. You know Roll Doll, the writer who thought up Willie Wonka, Matilda, and the BFG. But did you know he was also a spy? Was this before he wrote his stories? It must have been. Our new podcast series, The Secret World of Roll Doll, is a wild journey through the hidden chapters of his extraordinary, controversial life. His job was literally to seduce the wives of powerful Americans.

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Oh, man. Seen bad? Yep. Pretty bad. Continues to be. Donald Trump is in need of a headline. So he's floated this idea that they're actually going to pause on the war crimes to negotiate with Iran. But this is the thing, right? It's, that's like a headline. And you get like,

oh, wow, Trump said that there's high level negotiations taking place. But a few days ago, he said he's going to start destroying energy, like Iranian energy facilities and power plants if they didn't open the straight of Hormuz. And he's like, I'll give you till Monday. And then it's going to be flattened. And then Iran responded by saying like to that threat by saying, if you touch our energy facilities, we will destroy every fucking power plant in West Asia. How about that shit?

Tell you how lies that? How are they going to hold that? Well, we're talking desalalinization facilities. We're talking power plants, critical infrastructure. So when this announcement came out... You can do that? Okay.

Oh, wait, how? Why are you so mad? But don't fight back. We're in America. Why are you being mean to me? Lay down. Lay down, please. So when this announcement came out,

everyone was like, oh, thank God, a de-escalation. But again, the Iranians are like, they just completely shitted on this like notion that there were any kinds of talks happening. He said, we haven't had talks with Trump directly or even through intermediaries. So I don't know what the fuck this guy is even talking about. You just made a threat and then suddenly said, oh, no, everything's all good. We've had some really great talks with Iran. So the straight of Hormuz will postpone things for five days. And now you're like, okay, what the fuck's going on?

guess what? It was, it's, it's fucking market manipulation and end up with a little bit of cowardice, you know, mixed in. But he was pumping, he was pump faking war crimes. And like an Iranian academic who's, you know, like in Iran, but posted, quote, every week when markets open, Trump makes these kinds of statements to drive down oil prices. Even his five day deadline aligns with the closure of the energy market. But in reality, there are no negotiations underway, nor does Trump have the capability to reopen the strait of hormones. Iran's firm, threat has once again forced Trump to back down. Yeah. That's, that's what's going on. And then people noted, like, look what happened with the timing of his messages and what happened

in the market. At 7.04 a.m. Eastern today, President Trump said, the quote, the U.S. and Iran have had productive discussions to end the war. By 710 Eastern, the S&P 500 searched 240 points, adding $2 trillion in market cap. 27 minutes later, Iran completely denied all of President Trump's claims and said there has been no contact with the U.S. By 8 a.m. Eastern, the S&P 500 had fallen 120 points, erasing $1 trillion in market cap. That's a $3 trillion swing market cap in 56 minutes just in the S&P 500. We're going to find out that he's just like doing micro-transan-like just enriching himself off of the shit, right?

Yeah, that's, that's, I mean, there's so many things where money's just gone missing already. Like even the stuff when he was like suing companies, they're like, Like, what happened? I don't know. I don't know where that went. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know where that went.

Yeah, I guess it's mine now. With the Trump organization broadly. And this is just so, I mean, like, again, this is because you have a fucking guy whose brain is oatmeal goo. Hmm. Just saying whatever the fuck he wants, blustering, but without having the capabilities. And you have, he's surrounded himself with ignorant people that only say yes, that this, like the blundering is only going to. get more fucking intense. Like it's just,

uh, I don't know, man. Like Democrats, somebody. What's, is there any kind of, is there anything going on? Are we just going to keep just watching this shit?

Because it's kind of, it's, it's already causing pain globally. Yeah. Uh, not just for Americans at the pump. Like, many countries are affected by the,

the straight being shut down and the prices going up. Like, even in Japan, like, it's record highs for gas prices. which is probably why the prime minister visited the White House at the last week. Hey, did you fucking knock this shit off maybe? Yeah.

So, uh, Takaiichi Sanai went to the White House at the end of the last week to, you know, manage the U.S.-Japan relationship because of all the economic and security implications. Um, because Trump wasn't happy that the Japanese didn't immediately jump into the war. So Takaiichi was there to do some damage control. And I'm, I'm only bringing this up because like nothing really came much out of the meeting, except for this one fucking moment where a Jap like so they're they're having the Oval Office sort of presser and a Japanese journalist asked like hey so you kind of just like kicked off this global war that disrupted energy markets without telling any of your allies um like

what the fuck is up with that you know I think people would have probably appreciated a heads up because this this affects everybody and he had a real I thought I thought I was watching fucking VEEP the way the fucking president is talking about it. Very confused about Japanese citizens. One thing you don't want to signal too much. You know, when we go in, we went in very hard and we didn't tell anybody

about it because we wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Okay? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor? Okay. Jesus. Who is laughing? Everyone uncomfortably.

Right. So everyone was like, wow, we, okay. I mean, were you, what were you, why didn't anyone tell you about Pearl Harbor? Why didn't anyone tell me about Pearl Harbor? Were you the president? I don't even, sure. Again, a bit attempted humor, I suppose. Jesus Christ.

This is like led to people like, like, in Japan being like, what the fuck was that? more so for Takaiichi being like, did you, can he press, like, it was like, this comment aside, people were like, the fucking weird comment aside, like, what about not getting Japan involved in the defending the strait of Hormuz or getting entangled with this fucking U.S. Israeli war

and maybe some pushback? But, yeah, very, very, it felt like a thing like, like Michael Scott would have said. It was so much like scripted television. It kind of was just, Yeah. And this is the prime minister who's pretty conservative.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. She's like, women. She's like the mega. Take a backseat. You know, it's very emigents. Get out. You know,

she's definitely not, for me being a half Japanese person. Not the kind of person I want in charge of a country that I'm hoping embraces things like, you know, diversity, especially as the population contract and maybe being a little bit more open to how things can be better.

But yeah, at the moment, not much has progressed there. But hey, you got to talk about Pearl Harbor. And why do you tell me about that? Why do you tell me about Pearl Harbor? All right. Other kind of fallout from this administration, you know, DHS funding is still not happening.

Democrats are trying to rain in ice and, you know, try and, force them to make some changes to, you know, how things are currently running. Ask them to follow the law. Can you write that down? Write that down? Can you write that down? We get that rule down.

We will not, we will follow the law. Mm-hmm. And this is causing a shutdown where TSA agents are not being paid. And that's led to wait times that are in some instances longer than the flight. people are about to go on. There's reports from Atlanta that there were lines like stretching out,

like going out around like baggage claim, out the door around the building. So nuts. Looking for a solution on this one. And it seems like Donald Trump's solution is like send in ice, maybe. Yeah. And it's crazy too because

the, you know, Senate leader John Thune was like, dude, I got a deal here. we can pass a bill to get TSA funded. Like, I can get all of DHS funded without ICE. Should we do that? Because then, you know, all the people stop blaming the Republicans for the gridlock at airports.

And he's like, no. No deal. No deal. Uh, what? So again, his solution is we're going to have ICE be at the airports. And you're like, what the, why? Because apparently they're going to, quote, help T. agents with crowd control.

One DHS official told CBS news, quote, I have no idea what we're doing. Former ICE official told CBS that federal immigration agents were likely not trained to perform the technical tasks involved in airport security, such as

operating screening machines. Yeah, we know that. They can't even operate a fucking mask or car. So I don't think they're going to use complex machinery. The other thing people are there to just like push people around in case they get mad. Exactly. And one thing is like, no masks, no masks.

We don't want to freak people out even more. So they're not wearing masks. They're just loafing around airports, like being like, yeah, okay, this way. Most people have been like, wouldn't like customs and border patrol be like the more logical option here, given that they are stationed at like international points of entry and things like that are a little bit more adept at dealing with like people transiting places. Just triple down on ice and now that's what they've got. Yeah, exactly.

What if we rub some ice on it? Yeah. And Trump is addicted to fucking band-aids, like dumb band-aid fixes that don't do anything. So I guess he thinks ice to the American people's like short hand for tremendous safety of civilians. So maybe he thinks that's a win. But, you know, again, rhetorically it's all like, it's all the Democrats,

all the Democrats. but when you control literally every dimension of the government, it's hard to say like it's all because of these people. Because Trump said he doesn't want to take the deal because he wants to Senate Republicans to pass the SAVE Act. Right. And Thune is like, dude, I keep fucking telling you there's no fucking votes for this. No one wants to even like nobody's going to even get rid of the filibuster

because if anything goes sideways in the midterms and the Democrats end up taking the same. Senate. What then? We have to have some like they're like no. So it's not it's just not going to happen at this moment. But Trump has said like if the Republicans leave for this recess like the spring recess he's going to get he's like you better not lead. I don't want to hear about anybody leaving during the recess. You figure out the fucking save me act. Okay. And said if they don't, he's going to invite everyone over for Easter dinner at the White House, which it sounds like. like from the reporting that Republicans take that more as a threat than a privilege that they'd be like,

you know, you all bring your families here. And if you're not here, well, then guess what? I'm going to throw my toys out of my crib. Just like death of Stalin where like everybody has to sit there with him and just answer his questions and entertain him. And try not to offend him lest they be sent to the gulag. So just to recap on our master deal. artist. He is the master of the art of the deal.

So he's having to lie to claim that he's in talks with Iran, which is where he was before the attack on Iran. Yeah, yeah. He's having to lie to just pretend to be at the level he was in

before he started the war. Yeah, this asshole with Netanyahu started the war, no fucking plan aside from thinking that killing people and bombing shit would be enough to like make to put someone who's in an existential position

cave I no and then he's also trying to win this thing that is you know the the Democrats are like okay we found that ice is a loser for them we're gonna like dig in we're gonna be like no we're not gonna fund this shit until you come around and like aren't abusing

the American people with this group of Gestapo goons. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Gestapo. And his response is like, not only we're going to shut down the government,

make everybody's lives hell, and then our solution is going to be to send those very people that they object to out to make them, hate them even more. Yeah. Yeah. Yep.

And there's already people who are just like, you know, like they're, because there's already right now, I think, at 17 airports where there have been ice goons deployed. And, you know, you can see people social media posts. Like, what the fuck are these people doing here? They're just make everyone so fucking uncomfortable. Yeah. But again, I think it's, it's such a stupid thing, like to your point, because it's just going to remind people more. Like, like Trump is front and center. It's like, the line's fucking long because this asshole isn't doing just the minimum to even fund TSA when he could.

and then he's putting the, you know, architects of everyone's, or the, I guess the people who carry out all of the modern American misery in the form of ice age. And it's just visibly there just so you can see them and be like, yeah, yep, yep, yep, yep. This is why Trump needs nine more years in office. It's a good look. That's a good look. Let's take a quick break.

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Yeah. And it's going to have negative impacts. like this. I mean, yeah, God, just like this, I think most people remember a time, it's like, I feel like there weren't as many bad things happening because, you know, people are getting paid properly and we weren't just, you know, having workers stretched so thin. Yeah. But like to even, I mean, just shows just the further decline of this country where it's like our travel infrastructures rumbling. We don't have the people who like keep us safe being paid well enough or, you know, properly funded.

Yeah. Just, I mean, yeah, like, at every, at every turn, you just kind of see just this degradation. I'm just like, yeah, the, after this, like, I think LaGuardia had to shut down. It ended up causing all global flight delays because so many flights go through LaGuardia. Yeah, just another, another shitty example. But yeah, two pilots dead. It's just a very, it's really sad. Yeah, and I can't imagine what that air traffic.

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I think he died of being just old. He was 81. Yeah. This is crazy because Chuck Norris also passed away. We'll talk about that on tomorrow's episode. But he was 86. Robert Mueller seemed old as fuck. Norris was 86?

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Doesn't that feel. right? Like they had to have been Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Okay, yep. I feel like Chuck Norris would have a real hard time pulling his punches with for Elvis. Oh, because I'm like, wow, you're amazing.

Priscilla, right? He did train Priscilla. I remember in the episode there was something. Chuck Norris trained Priscilla? Yeah, yeah. He trained Priscilla. That's crazy. Yeah, wow, 86.

86 and racist. Oh, yeah. God, like you can get a lot of. a mileage out of being racist for some reason staying alive in this country. His last few years was spent as like a racist columnist on the internet,

just clickbait articles. We'll talk about that. But in addition to say, Robert Mueller also pretty racist too. Pretty racist. In addition to a special counsel investigation, he served as an FBI

director from 2001 to 2013. Great period. Great period. One of our best. He claimed, He claims to have asked the DOJ and Department of Defense to knock off all the torture. Knock it off.

Hey, you guys fucking knock it off. Will you knock it off out there? Trying to work in here. My water bill. My water bill. Yeah. Hey, knock it off. All right.

Knock it off. What is he talking about? But he was responsible for expanded surveillance techniques that involved a network of informants that infiltrated mosques, Muslim community groups, and social organizations with immigrant ties. So, you know, laying the groundwork,

laying the foundation for the white supremacist authoritarian government that we would eventually put all our hopes on him to bring down. The racist FBI predated Mueller, we all know that now. Yeah, yeah. He was just... I guess

just like the very, laying some foundation for the very specific type. One of the many gardeners that tended that patch of racist grass. Yes, yes. But Donald Trump posted Robert Mueller just died, good.

I'm glad he's dead. That's straight up a quote. That's what he wrote. That's it. Because he just said that in. Ulyger. Eulogy, this was like kind of one of his more restrained.

Right. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Like I had no longer heard in. people. I'm glad he's dead. Wow. He can no longer hurt innocent. I mean, there is truth to that. That's true. But it's, yeah, I don't think he was thinking of, I don't think

he was thinking of, uh, for the people he set up in weird terrorist plots. Yeah. Weren't a thing. But, all right. Hey, this elderly, uh, Muslim guy at the, at the mosque is, uh, you know, really open and susceptible to suggestion. So let, let's

pretend like he's a mastermind. He's going to do it. All right, arrest him. Anyway, score another one for Mueller. God's ass. It's Mueller time. Oh, well. Oh, Robert.

Thanks. RIP, Bob. Thanks for nothing. Where were you with that report, Jackass? That's right. All right. Those are some of the things that are trending on this Monday. March 23rd, we are back tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show.

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