The Daily Zeitgeist - Leave President Grindset Alone! Artemis II Flat Earth Fallout 04.06.26

Episode Date: April 7, 2026

In episode 2036, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian, Lydia Popovich, to discuss… What Phase of the Trump Administration Is This? This Last Week Has Felt Different…, Past Microplastics Research May Have Been Contaminated By Latex Gloves, Gov Greg Abbott’s Media Illiteracy Strikes Again! Artemis II Photo Becomes Fuel For Flat-Earth Mockery and more! In a stunning moment, Alex Jones notices Trump's brain is "not doing too hot," questioning his health, saying he “looks sick” and “babbles.” An Embarrassing Mistake May Have Skewed Microplastics Research All Along 'Spectacular' new Artemis II images shut down Flat Earth theory for good Artemis II crew saw a life-changing view. The story of a viral photo. Artemis's stunning Moon pictures - science or holiday photos? LISTEN: Tequila Shots by RikasSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Man, Lydia, what was that Dolly Parton thing you went to? I saw your stories. You were like in line with a bunch of fucking people waiting for some shit to go hear Dolly speak. That's opening day of Dollywood, baby. That's that's rope-dropping Dollywood. That's opening day. Because it's no longer the winter closed months, right? That's the deal like it's real.

Oh, no, they still close in the winter. They still close in the winter, but they open up. They basically close from like New Year's Day through March 11th, March 12th. Oh, and you were there for the rest of the rest of the winter. resurrection, the new, the opening again. Correct. And does Dolly always speak at the grand opening? She's always there opening weekend.

Always there. Without a doubt because they do a media day. So she like has a whole media event that takes place where she invites, you know, local media to come find out what's going on with her. So every single year opening weekend, you can guarantee to see Dolly Barton there. That makes sense. I know. I never, I never miss it. I never.

I know that. I mean, I saw the receipts. Shit. Yeah, exactly. That's also my most popular day on social media is people like kind of, I've realized people like live for it. I didn't realize people lived for it until probably this year. Opening day. Dali pardon season. I didn't realize it had an opening day. It's got a whole opening day. It's a whole whole vibe. And they did it different this year and it actually ruled. I was really excited about it. Man, she really is for the people. Like as a 90s Chicago kid like Jordan won't even come to the state of Illinois anymore. And it's hilarious. He won't fly over it He makes the plan Do a detour

He acts like it's hostile airspace He's like no No don't say They'll fuck away from I am Absolutely not No No Go into Canada

Go into Canada Dolly's got great pride And she understands The power of her brand Which is just her essence And being So if she wants something to crack She shows up

And it cracks up Like it goes It goes very very hard So I love it I love it And during the Dolly off season Are you putting in new moves?

Like, are you thinking of like ways to change your Dolly fandom? Or are you like looking at other artists just being like, you know, this is my time away? Dolly's kind of my oxygen. So I'm constantly just in breathing and exhaling. There is no Dolly off season for me. Certainly the park closes, but, you know, much like Dolly Parton herself, she never stops working.

So she always gives you a little project. So I'm usually just like checking out the. projects looking at the pattern seeing what's going to happen you know this is a big dolly year for us you know so i'm just trying to figure out you know well yeah because it's like you can see where she's going to pop up she tries to she's smart she's an older person she tries to kind of like stack her appearances and so i look at kind of what what the arcs are and with the projection so like this year for example we know we have the opening of the park i know she's going to be there so that's a that's an absolutely start of the season uh she's got her hotel opening up in nashville in june

along with a special museum inside that. So I know she's going to be there for that. And no way she ain't going to be there for that. Some brand new venture, you best believe she's going to be. You're really scanning the pet, like you're Peyton Manning with it. Where you're like, no, no, no,

I don't like that. You're like, no, lightning, lightning, just calling an audible. If you, if you don't think I don't already have a room booked in that hotel, which is in downtown Nashville, 30 minutes from my house the day before, like the very first opening weekend,

you've got me all the way fucked up because I do. They've already called me to ask me what my preferences are and for that hotel room because I'm like, you better believe I'm a special VIP. Call me. Tell me how I want my room. Oh, you got it like that. Damn. All right. Yeah. I got to, I've already got to.

I got to go to Dolly World. Honestly, if you come to Tennessee and go to Dollywood without me for the first time, like this friendship is over. I would never do that. Like, they'll call me. They have all of my loved ones, friends and faces there. They're like, hey, Miles Gray is here without you.

The one. Lydia? Lydia, Mosgar is here. The one use of facial recognition technology that we can all support just knowing if anybody's going near Dollywood without telling you. I go in there like, hey, sir, welcome to Dollywood. Are you lost?

I'm like, oh, no. They're like, oh, why's your shirt all wet? Huh? Lydia fucking told you, motherfucker. This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed human. How could this have happened in City Hall? Somebody tell me that.

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Yep, that's National Student Athlete Day. It's California Poppy Day, like the flower, okay? Not the Daddy's out here. It's also New Beer's Eve, because I guess it's the Eve before Prohibition was rescinded. Also, Fresh Tomatoes Day, because I guess the tomatoes are going to finally start hitting again, and National Carbonara Day. Get it in. Get it in.

Carbonara. Mm-hmm. New Beers Day. So this is right when, man, what a, what a party that must have been when they finally got rid of it. Exactly. Thanks. Thanks, Roosevelt. Exactly.

All right. My name is Jack O'Brien, aka, yo, J.O.B. Let's kick it. Ice. Hancy. Oh. All right, cop. I'll spread my legs, but I'm in basketball shorts with underwear missing.

ice hands, grab a hold of me tightly, groping like creepers, daily and nightly. Will it ever stop? Yo, I hope no. Turn off the lights and go slow. Oh. That is courtesy of snorffula and new Chris. Collabo about, you know, going through TSA and just wearing basketball shorts

and put a little penny in your butt so that the alarm keeps going off. Oh, gee, the penny won't set it off, Jack. A handful of change of your butt to set the alarm off so that they have to pat you down. And then you're just basketball shorts, nothing underneath. Upgrade into a stainless steel soup ladle. Look, we all have our kinks. I like to just, hey, look at me, look at me, make eye contact with me, ice agent. I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray.

It's Miles Gray, a.k.k.a. fecal, fecal bag. I want to try the fecal bag. Shout out to vanadium silver because I did talk about with my obsession with the Artemis toilet. Whenever I go to the Smithsonian in DC, the aerospace museum, I got to look at the fecal bag from this early space shuttle mission. Because it's labeled fecal bag. And I'm immature.

So thank you for that vanadium silver. So it's the actual fecal bag? It's just like they're just showing you all the parts. It didn't say it was used, but it's just sort of like, and this is what they was shitting in. and I'm like, he says fecal bag. Man, you're full of astronaut shit. I feel like that's like a thing they would have said on West Wing. You know, those are like, you know, VEP ripoffs.

Where they're like, I say crazy swears. That's it right there. I'm holding it up for you. Oh, look at that. Fecal bag. Yeah, it looks like a fecal bag. It's really uninteresting. But again, I'm immature.

So thank you. I'll be on my way now. Well, Miles. We're thrilled to be joined in our. third seat by a hilarious comedian. One of our favorite guests on TDZ, our resident Dali Parton expert. You can see her on stand-up stages

near you across the country. Go look it up on her website. It is the one, the only Lydia Popover. Lai-oh! Hello! Hello! I love to be welcomed by deep discussions of butt stuff.

It's like you guys knew I was going to be here. You know what? Let's talk about some butt stuff right up top. She loves that. It's in the news. Hey, man. to, yeah. Is it a bit of a walk? Did we have to do some work to get from ice taking over the airports to me putting change up my ass to make them have to pat me down in basketball shorts?

Maybe a little bit, but I'm just, that's ripped from the headlines right there. Straight up. I love it. I think that you should take that whole look to the streets and when someone asks you, spare change, go, I don't know. And then just give a little shimmy and let it drop and be like, hmm. Plus, you start doing the stanky leg. I don't even have to change it. I just go, and then it just like a handful of change just drops out of the bottom of my throat.

And you just go, freedom. Finally, finally. Anyway. What's up in Crashville, Tenekee? Oh, you know, we just are having erratic weather, you know what I mean? Just wildly swinging between cold and hot and raining and not. I'm just truly ready for spring to start happening. in a very real way, which it kind of is.

It kind of is. It's happening. Things are blooming. Wow, good for you. Because like in L.A., they're just like, surprise, motherfucker. It's 85 forever starting in February. And you're like, we had one of those. We definitely had a day where I was like, are my wearing shorts right now?

Should I wear shorts? And then the next day it was like, girl, get your coat. It's going to rain. It's terrible. Anyway, welcome to Earth. The weather reports really are load bearing everywhere except for Los Angeles. Right. Los Angeles, you really don't need them.

But I was in New York for a week. And like from day, from one day to the next, it was like 60 degrees and then 40 degrees and windy as fuck. My children are in shorts. Yeah. Anyways, technology these days. That is called parenting. That is called not knowing how to do it. What's going to happen with the weather?

I know. I'm like, do I put a sweater on my dog, don't I? You know what I mean? It's these big questions. You know, it's hard to be a mom. It's difficult. It's hard out here. Lydia, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment.

First, we're going to tell the listeners a couple of the things we're talking about today. We're going to play a game called, what phase of the Trump administration is this? Late stage. It feels late stage. Late stage Trump administration. God, that would be wonderful, wouldn't it? I don't know. It's hard.

Or it could just be the beginning of the end for everyone. It's hard to know, hard to know. It could be late stage humanity. Yeah, right. Yeah. The final days. We'll talk about Republican politicians not knowing how to do the internet

and just this administration, not knowing how to cover up this war. And we're going to talk about microplastics and the Artemis II photo and how it's being received in the flat earth community. It's crazy. This two-dimensional photo makes it look fucking like a circle, man.

I don't know. Disk, dude. Fucking told you as a disc. All of that plenty more. But first, Lydia, we do like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? So I got two things.

One's a quick one that shows that I am increasingly transitioning into the most basic bitch that's ever existed, and that is seven brew menu, specifically looking for the sugar-free flavors. I've cut out alcohol in my life. I've significantly reduced, caffeine. I'm down to basically

a little mini shot of espresso in the morning and, you know, a Diet Coke in the afternoon, like a singular Diet Coke where caffeine used to have such a chokehold on me. But now what I've replaced it with is like a fizzy not soda soda from Seven Brew. They just opened one in my little town

and it's a little drive-through hut just stocked with teenagers. They're way too perky because I'm assuming they're just jacked on energy drinks. And then I go and I order something that's called like a Blue Ocean and it's like sugar-free raspberry with, you know, sugar-free coconut mixed into a fizzy water that makes you feel like you drink in soda, but it's not because it doesn't have sugar. Is it have blue number 12 or whatever in it that's going to give me cancer?

A thousand percent. Yeah. But I don't care because it's one of my, like, I'm down to weed and sugar-free soda, man. These are my vices. I need them in my life and there's nothing more thrilling than just pulling up that and just ordering something new. So I'm obsessed with ordering new things, but I can never remember what's on the menu. So I'm constantly like, sugar-free menu. It's seven brew so I can get my little soda.

Nothing makes me feel older and younger at the same time than ordering just a brightly colored drink. Yeah, no, and you're also now kind of in like on TikTok, you'd be in your like beverage era too. You know what I mean? Like people who are now who are like, I'm really off the alcohol. But what I do now is I'm cooking up little weird sodas at home of unknown origin. I'm literally on that side of TikTok because I've also. also realize that spending $5 for like not juice squirts into water is insanity. Yeah, right.

Like literally insane. I'm like, bitch, just buy some fucking sugar-free Tarani at the house and get us some LaCoy and get it. Start cooking up. Yeah. Yeah. And then I have found that side of TikTok where it's literally just like people in like 75 ounce cups that are like, yeah, there's 75 ounces of water and five squirts of this and one packet of this and this and I'm like, yeah, God, tell me what's up. Yeah. I don't fuck it with it.

Oh, man. I'm ready to get my, like, quilted cozy for my cup. I'm ready. Sign me up. Let's go. Let's go. I wish there was such a thing as a beverage era when I quit drinking. I was putting away so many.

So many La Croy. Like, most of my exhalation was carbon. It was just, like, I was definitely gassier than I've ever been. And now I'm like, oh, maybe it's the like, I don't know, 40 fucking ounces of carbonated water that you're drinking. Like, yeah. Just so much San Pellegrino, it's not even funny. Like, just where I'm like, am I going to get like mineral toxicity because like I'm just all I'm drinking is this Italian water? But you're going to become Italian.

Oh, no. Yeah. So basic. So basic. I went through a phase where I was drinking, uh, diet sprite and chewing nicotine gum. And one of my friends was like, are you like a divorced seventh grade English teacher? God. I was like, yeah.

Nicorette and diet sprite. You're like a practice. Diet Diet. Diet Sprite. Yeah. That's like the name of a like a funny joke like a rap EP. Yeah. It's like,

Dias Sprite and Nicorette. And you're like, yo, you remember that first mixtape? Diet Sprite and Nicorette. God. That is a good name. Diet Spratt's fucking trash too.

It's not good. Yeah. I hate it. Like of all the diet sodas, it's not a good one. It's really. Yeah, I don't think I have everything.

I was in a bad place. It was in a bad place. Sounds like it. Yeah, I was going to say it sounds like a terrible place. That's just like the I hate myself diet. That's terrible. Glad you're out of there, man.

Yeah. Yeah. Good to have you back. Well, it's something you think is underrated. Opening for reality television stars, as I say. Oh, Sarper. I know many of us are, you know, who've been doing this for years. Like, I don't want to open for a reality star who doesn't know what they're doing.

I don't want to open for a TikToker. And I say, do it. Do it. So I opened for Sarper. I opened for Sarper, Govan, who is married to a woman named Shikina. They are two stars from the 90-day fiancé franchise. They've been on a couple of the shows. Sarper is a man from Turkey who on the franchise and in the lore is famous for sleeping with over 2,500 women.

And having a liquor bottle to commemorate each one. Yeah, each experience. He never not lets you know how many women he slept with. And we're believing him? We think he's, or is this self-methologizing? I think it's a bit of both. I don't doubt that he was able to pull. But at that level, who knows?

Who knows? You know, I believe he believes it. Yeah. And that's what's important. So it's kind of enough for me. Yeah. Yeah, he's a very truly toxic man. Like, he's just, but he's endearing because he's just so ridiculous.

You're like, what is this? Is this a bit? What's going on? Like, what is this personality, you know? And I truly love a well-behaved and a poor-behaved man. But there's something fun about a poor-behaved man. And I wanted to see, like, what's the deal? What's the situation?

What are these jokes? about. And this man is also currently touring doing 90 minutes. 90 minutes. Just because of the symmetry with 90 day fiance. Not because he has 90 minutes. I don't even know. Oh, certainly not. It does not have 90 minutes. I will tell you that. It's not a tight 90 minutes. Yeah, because Sophia Alexander, who I do the podcast, she saw him in Portland and was like, was live texting me. She's like, this motherfucker's about to hit like an hour and 35 minutes. And I was like, how? Just on stage by himself. Just being like, what else?

What else? I went on, it was a two-man show, which is unheard of. Just for most people who maybe you have them into a comedy show, a normal comedy show is about 90 minutes. And that means you see a host, a feature. The host usually does 10. Your feature usually does 20, and then your headliner does 60. And there you go. Nice little 90 minutes spent.

So in this scenario, I did 15 up top, and then this man did 90 minutes. So this was an extremely long show. And then there was a meet and great afterwards. And about 35, 40-minded sand, it became very apparent that everyone was there to get their picture taken. Because I couldn't have seen a more distracted audience. Just. On their phones and shit? Well, no, phones are locked up.

Oh, oh, right. Wow. Yeah, yeah. To say it from the Wolfmoffy. He's out here like Chris Rock. He's like, you just. No, you actually can't share this. Mm-mm.

And he doesn't give you the gossip you want. I think people show up or waiting to like hear him just rip. although he did make one great joke wherein he refers to Ed, Big Ed, from the franchise as unnecked. And it's a callback to a joke he did previous about not understanding the term unhoused

living in Los Angeles. And it truly, that was a great callback. It really sent me to a place that I could not stop laughing for quite a long time. And I had to text a few friends to be like, this got me. This got me good.

Like, this really got me. I had a few people that were like, you got to tell me how this goes. You got to tell me how this goes. How was it by the time you, like, so he does his 90 minutes. Were you even able to go back up? You're just like, all right, folks. Thanks a lot. Yeah, like at the end, like I did my time up top.

Killed it because I'm a very funny person. And you're an actual comedian. I'm an actual comedian who's done this for years. And then he didn't. And then afterwards he does, he ends his show with like a weird dance to a Turkish song, which is strange. The variety shows. He didn't realize I was coming back on to be like, hey, guys, like, thank you for coming and, you know, see us again soon and line up over here.

And it was funny. But yeah, that's it. I literally closed out the shows. But I sat there. I was, like, held hostage for close to two hours watching this man. But I would have stayed anyway. Like, that's why I did it. I wanted to see what it was.

And I actually had a great time talking to him. He was very enjoyable. I can say he loves comedy very, very much, which I found endearing. Wow. But I just don't know if your first tour going out and doing 90 minutes in cities is going to, going to really provide for an audience that wants to come back. Do you get the sense that it's a set? Or is he just up there?

He's a loose collection of jokes? It's a loose collection. There's not a real arc yet. I think there could be, but I don't think he has the wherewithal. I think he's just, he doesn't care if anybody's having a good time because he's having a great time. He's enjoying the shit out. He's no, he's like such a narcissist.

That he's like, this is great. I'm on stage. I get to say, whack. misogynistic stuff. People love it because they love the show and they're hoping to see Shikina too somewhere. And then that validates me and my self-made identity, a stand-up comedian who can do 90s. Exactly. I was so disappointed that Shikina wasn't there, though. I'd heard all the lore that she doesn't let him travel and that she's with him constantly. And when I, when he walked in alone, I was like, sigh. Like, I really wanted them to come in and offer me a stick of butter to eat. You know what I mean? Or something wild. But no, he was just there by himself. of butter to eat at one of the tell-alls, Jack, because they're like,

they're into like all kinds of weird keto shit. And they were, I'm not joking, just pulling out full sticks of butter, peeling the paper off and eating that shit, like a fucking candy bar. Yeah. And they're like,

oh, do you want one? They're like, here, dude, I can unwrap you one right now. Probably, like, killed multiple people, like, heart disease.

Yeah. Yeah. You're like, no, if you're not living, if you're not living on the keto diet, I don't think that's good to eat a fucking whole stick of butter. They say it's good, you know?

What's cholesterol? Listen, man. I'm not trying to malign butter in any way, sense or form. No, no, no, no. I love butter, but, like, eating it like that, I've never even thought of that shit. No, no. Was it weird that he closed his set with a Turkish dancing? You had planned to do the same thing?

Were you able to, like, kind of improvise something different? I was disappointed because I was like, God, how do we both know this song? Like, how does, how, God. And then I thought, well, at least we made it easy for the sound guy. You know what I mean? Those guys are always. Yeah. Just slammed with special requests.

So at least that Turkish song got a second spin. You know what I mean? It's not just taking up time in the hard drive. What is something you think is overrated? Overrated. Absolutely overrated right now is currently produced television shows. I just feel like TV has jumped the shark in a major way. Like reality TV is one thing, but like scripted television.

I'm just like, what are we doing here? There's like nine shows that are all based underground in a bunker. Like I don't give a fuck. Like, what do we, you know, like, everything is like post-apocalyptic. It's like, it's just, it's boring. What happened to good old fashion just scripted ridiculous TV? So it kind of forced me into going back and I am watching Grey's Anatomy for the first time. Like, when Grey's Anatomy came out, I was like in the streets.

You know what I mean? Like, I was not watching TV. I was out there fucking in clubs. I was sleeping during the day. You know what I mean? I had done drugs all night and partying. And I, you know, I was in my 20. and my youth.

I was not trying to sit at home and watch TV, but now I get it. Gray's anatomy. Really? I get it. It never made sense to me. This shit is so nuts. Like, I forgot that this is what made Shonda Rhymes,

shonda fucking rhymes. Like, I'm in halfway through the second season, and so much ridiculous shit has already happened that I keep on being like, what? What? Like, I watched an episode the other day that had all of these things were plot lines. a man had accidentally lodged a bazooka into his body and it had not exploded because he had made the bazooka shell himself at home trying to reenact World War II. And Christina Ritchie guest star was the paramedic that had her hand inside of his chest, keeping that bomb.

His chest. Yes, her whole hand in his chest. Damn, no, no. Right in the middle of his chest and he grazed him and kind of went between his skin and his chest. And so her hand was in there just keeping it straight. And it was old-fashioned Christina Ritchie. You know what I mean? Before she got the tits taken away, like just quality vintage Christina Ricci. Then the other subplot lines were one of the surgeons was about to have her baby and going into labor and she couldn't find her husband and she couldn't find her husband because he got into a car accident on the way there and was getting brain surgery by Mr. McDreamy, who was a name of a doctor. Yeah. So at the same time, they had babies, bombs and brain surgery, which I'm like three bees. Are these writers trolling me? What's happening? This is incredible. It's you're only going to go deeper near the absurdity of that show.

Yeah. And, you know what I mean? Nobody died that day. I'll tell you what. That bomb went off. That baby got born and that man made it through brain surgery. All wrapped up in under 45 minutes. Yeah, exactly. The bomb went off in his chest and he survived. Oh, no, the bomb got carefully extracted by the bomb squad. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, oh, you know what? People did get killed. The bomb blew up in the bomb squads. The bomb squad died. Yeah, but we don't care about that. Yeah, I mean, they signed up for it, right? Like, that's also the bomb squad guys, carefully. carrying this live ammunition. They had like this flak chest, flak, like vest. No helmet. Yeah, yeah. You got to, you got to get those looks in.

Like, we've got a hair budget for a reason, you know? We got to have these people looking good. And it was, the actor, I can't remember his name, but he was the coach from Friday Night Lights. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Kyle something. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he was, he was the head of the bomb squad and just ate it. But yeah, man, there's just so many, like, great cameos of just phenomenal actors or on that show. The cameo budget, the hair budget, all more than like those, those bunker TV shows have

for their entire production budget back then, you know. And it also, uh, reminding me how hot Isaiah Washington was. Yeah. Like, yo, we forgot about him. And by we, I mean, me, like, I, the amount of time I have spent thinking about Isaiah Washington in the past three weeks, like he is living rent free in my brain. That man is fine as hell. I looked him up because I was like, what's he look like now?

That man's 67. He could still get it. I would end my relationship today to fuck Isaiah Washington. Like, so hot. I was just like, goddamn, whatever happened to him, who did he piss off? Why is he not working somewhere? Oh, you don't know? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

He was saying some wild shit on set. Was he saying wild stuff? Yeah, he was saying wild shit on set. And they're like, get you get him out of here. Like all kinds of. Was it homophobic stuff? Oh, homophobic stuff. Oh, I hate that.

Yep. That's what happens. He's too fine. He's gone. Damn. He did it to himself. Yeah. See?

I wish you and I told me that. That sucks. Pardon to me. I didn't Google it. I just looked at pictures. I was like, I just remember when you said, when you said,

when you said, oh, oh, I saw your face. I was like, oh, damn. I don't know. Google image search him,

but not regular. A thousand percent, Jack. I didn't, yeah, image search. I said, show me pictures of Isaiah Washington. Just let him be Dr.

Preston Burke. Okay. He's Dr. Preston Burke. I will separate the character from the artist. Yes. Dr. Preston Burke can get it. But yeah, Isaiah Washington, do better.

Miss me. Do better, sir. I get this damn bomb. Dislodge for my chest. That shit was wild. I could not. There's so many people with shit lodged in their chest. And like, there's so many episodes of people were like,

I got a whole fence pole stuck through my chest. I have a freeway that went through my chest. God, I don't know. know. What got me there was like I saw a TikTok and it was like a clip and a woman was like, did you put it in your vagina and she had stuck a live gun in her vagina and it was firing in the ER and she was shooting people from inside her body and I was like, yo, I'm in. I don't know what this is. So is the barrels coming out of her vagina? I don't know which way it was coming out, but she put it in there and she shot herself internally with no exit hole and then she shifted and then she shot

another dude in a gurney next to her while she's like waiting to be treated. And I was like, this can't be real. Is this real? It was real? You got to get to like, that's a later season two. I think it's like, yeah, exactly.

I was like, damn. I'm gonna, this is my new travel, travel show. It's a good one. It's a South Park plot where Oprah's vagina

hold a bunch of people hostage with a handgun. I was like, this is where Ryan Murphy came to figure out how TV works. He's like, how can I be ridiculous. The whole thing was she was trying to,

she was like actually trying to pack that thing to smuggle it. Yeah, she was. She was like trying to go see a boyfriend or something like that. She's like, well, I could be with him. I was like, oh, my God. I got that thing on me to I got that thing in me.

In me. Crazy. That's not where you hold your gun. It's not good gun handling. Speak for yourself. Speak for yourself. Yeah, we know you like it in the butt. We like to smuggle things sometimes.

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I don't know. When I came back, I was off for a week and a half, Lydia. And it's not looking good. It's still bad, it turns out. Still bad. Yeah. It's consistently bad. Yeah.

I mean, it's just in like the last. couple weeks, right? He's fired Christine Nome. He's fired Pam Bondi. La Reza Pam Bondi. There are now rumors that Howard Lutnik, Commerce Secretary, is potentially on the chopping block as is Labor Secretary, Lori Chavez-Deremmer.

Which again, when you look at those people, they're dealing with like the economics, right? So he's got rid of Bondi because of the Epstein files. Got rid of Nome because of the disastrous ice raids. Rather than being like Stephen Miller put

of the shit. He's like, let me fire these people for things that I believe are making me look bad, not because the policies are bad. So it makes sense that you would move on to economics and domestic economics with Lutnik and Chavez Juremer. And now the propagandists continue to fight with each other over so many different things. There's like nine different specific battles happening with right wingers, whether it's like the Candace Owens camp versus the other people. If it's like the never Trump or Republicans rising up, which is giving a lot of the full. like died in the wool maga people. They're getting a little angry that that group of

Republicans is now elevating. It's just a fucking mess. And he is president and his ability to make things for everyone a living hell. That remains. But the buy-in from other people just seems to be diminishing a bit. And it's sort of like the lies and projection

of power can only last so long and the Iran war has been the closest to like the closest we've come to sort of emperor has no clothes moment in that like his insisting on like, I've got a plan, we're winning. It's all going great. And all of the evidence and data is just like,

bro, what the fuck are you talking about? Like, this is, we're beyond now a lie you can just tell over and over. And people on partisan lines are going to be like, I believe that. This one has become very difficult for him to shake. And, you know, he looks weak. He looks tired. And unfortunately, again, he still has the ability to take things to a dark, dark place. So I don't even mean to say this.

I'm like, he's about to be a rammed. and out on a rail or anything like that. But it's just the things around him, the pieces around him that were holding him up just seemed to be a little bit weaker. And I think even with the proclamations of Pete Hagseth and Caroline Levitt saying, like, he is the all-knowing commander-chief.

Like, he knows exactly what he's doing. It's clear, it's so clear he doesn't know what he is doing. And every move that he has made is the absolute wrong, incorrect one. Like wrong in a way that 70 to 80% of the population could have pointed out and been like, hey, this is bad and wrong and you're about to fuck up if you do the, oh, you already did it? Okay. Yeah.

Like, do we know for sure that he is like, like, this just feels like he really thinks he's in an episode of The Apprentice? Like, does he realize that this is our government and not just like a television show that he is running? Like, I am concerned at like his perception of literal reality. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, fire them. Valid, valid. Like, what are we doing?

And that's what's crazy is like before that would be sort of like, seemingly like a joke, right? But at this stage, honestly, he might. I literally, he just says whatever. I feel like he's senile. Like, I don't feel like he has a grasp on reality. Oh, no, no, no.

That's yet. I think that that's very much been confirmed just by his own actions and all the reporting we get about how people are describing the situation to him. Like, they're tailoring reports about everything to him. So he doesn't throw a fit. And now it's really about his like managing his anger, which I'm like, Oh, wow, interesting. I've had family members with memory issues that also get a little bit aggressive,

especially as they kind of come to grips with all that. I mean, now we're at a point where Ann Coulter is saying things like, quote, I wish legal experts hadn't screamed bloody murder about every little thing Trump did so they could speak with authority now that he's actually committing war crimes. Oh. Whoa. Okay. I mean, everyone's got exits. I mean, let's say everyone's got an exit strategy too.

You know what I mean? So I don't take the propaganda. turning on him to say that they see the light. But at the very least, they are seeing that it's not beneficial to them in the same way they probably thought it was. So they're like, yeah, I know a war crime when I see it. They're seeing the check engine light or possibly the eject, eject, eject, eject light come on. Eject.

In the plane that they're piloting, right? I don't think that she's quite right that this is on the legal experts. because I don't think that the conservative, the MAGA movement would suddenly have started listening to legal experts about war crimes. If they had just held their tongue on the other war crimes. Yeah. But it is interesting to see. I mean,

that people are coming to this moment. Especially with that fucking, that Easter tweet. Yeah, that really seemed to bother people for a lot of people like, bro, has he gone? I mean, again, like I said on the trending episode yesterday, people are mad at it for different reasons. Other people are like, this isn't rhetorically how any president should talk about war from like the buttoned up Republicans than the Christian fanatics.

So like, how dare you evoke another God's name like during Easter or whatever? But Alex Jones is another one who's like over the last few days. I don't know if like he's clearly trying to say, I don't know if he's on the 25th Amendment train or something or what his wallet is looking like that he's getting upset. but he's since the end of last week been talking constantly. Like this guy is a lost it. It's a mess. What's going on?

This is him just talking about just how his brain is not doing too hot. When your ankles swell up three times the size, they were before. That means heart failure. And he does look sick. And he does babble and, you know, sound like the brain's not doing too hot. So the guy who keeps, like, pausing in a way that makes me think that the audio is out on my. Yeah.

Right? He's also had some pretty wild appeal. He was like on Tim Poole's podcast like a couple weeks ago, totally discombobulated, Alex Jones. And they're like, hey, man, you should go home. Like, you're coughing all weird. Like he, it was odd. I don't know that he's ever been combobulated, but. Yeah, that's true.

Comroberc related. And here, again, on Easter, this is him responding to the Easter tweet, Alex Jones, Just going because, like, Marjorie Taylor Green was like, what the fuck is this guy talking about? Here's Alex Jones also saying some form of like, this is not good. That's what I'm talking about, the way Trump's behaving, way more erratic. His speech is not coherent all the time. You can't deny this is happening. So yesterday I gave me the good news that he didn't fire him.

He goes on. Then he's like at another point he's saying this whole thing is like a mess too. He's like, it's a clown show I believe is the words he uses because he's talking about how, Dude, this Iran wars was so preventable, yet here he is, and all of his doubling down is only causing more bad shit. This derails that whole thing. That's why he's kind of the scenes when they end the war, went off for him, try to act strong and tough up front for everybody. It's not working. So this is a clown show, folks, and I'm really worried.

It's a clown show and he's worried. I don't know if he's talking about his own show, but yeah. I love that he stopped, like, just to record that in his vehicle wherever he was. With the engine idling. We just got to. Correct. Engine idling, like just the full thing. At least his seatbelted in.

He's like, this is a clown show. Let me get, let me get buckled up. What do you know? Let people know, I'm going to go to a 30-minute rant in my driver's seat really quick. Hopefully that'll get through to the president. But, I mean, now all the White House can do, even with, like, the rumors when people are like, what's going on with his health? A lot of people were also, like, one of the, like, sort of TV doctors on MSNBC was just sort of posting. He's like, I don't know.

This all looks like the symptoms of someone. with dementia to me. And that's caused a huge response from the White House, basically saying like, no, uh, don't talk about his cognitive decline. Again, it's not like they can get Trump to do a sit down interview where he's coherent

and actually convincing the public that he isn't physically or mentally completely fuck. You know what I mean? So all they can do is just rhetorically just be like, that's not true. He's just quirky. Like he'll sit down and he's going to say a bunch of weird shit too. That's not necessarily.

going to calm things down. It might be like, oh, he's spoken some sentences there. But I think like what all, like, I think what people are seeing is he's not listening to any of the input, because he doesn't have anyone who's going to tell him different, but he's not even able to see a problem for what it is. And I think that's a combination of him putting sycophants around him, but also his like own just sort of sociopathic belief in his like omnipotence or something. Yeah. I do wonder if we're going to get. like what his moment will be the way that like Biden

was forced to do the debate and it was, you know, a complete disaster. I wonder if we'll get something like that with Trump because like the reason Biden was able to do to fuck up that spectacularly was because he was

the president and nobody could tell him shit. And so even though everybody was like, this is going to be really bad. They like just you know, at a certain point, he was like, I'm going to get out there and going to mop the floor with them, Jack. Yeah, give me some horse shots. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I got this. I got this, man. I mean, yeah, you'd think they, I don't know if they're like, I mean, the second he starts talking about nukes, we got to do the 25th of minute. I don't know if there's like a red line within the cabinet too where they're like. There has to be. You think at this point because these, like I said, this administration is currently like six to seven people in a Trump-shaped skin bag.

and they're the president collectively. Yes. And like again, to that whole thing about the him and his health, the White House responded over the weekend to all these like, bro, he's not doing okay. It's a deranged liberals cook up, cook up insane conspiracy theories when POTUS goes 12 hours without speaking to the press. They said nothing when Biden routinely went missing. Fear not. President Trump literally never stops working is the response to people saying he's

well mentally. Everything he does is a disaster. What good is saying he literally never stops working if these are the fucking results. He's working so hard. He's trying. You guys are being so mean to him. Also like being like Biden went missing a lot before. And like we we saw what that. Yeah. That that was the last president. And it was a wake up call to everyone to be like, man, we should not have people this old. Well, I guess not to everyone. Right. Well, and also, like, let's define what working is.

Like, once again, like, just because you're in your office doesn't mean you're working. Like, he could be in there just fucking napping. You know what I'm saying? Like, this man, like, I'm sorry, but he's not working. Like, this is a man who thinks working is like, I'm talking to my friends. I'm having meetings. I'm ordering small children to be shipped to Epstein Island. I'm, you know, making sure that Ivanka has cocaine.

Like, these are things that he thinks he's doing, like, working. Right. Well, it's, hey, but that's still where he's what I see. Because a lot of the people were posting a picture of just a Marine standing outside the West Wing to be like, that indicates the president is working inside. You could just ask a guy to stand out there and just for the optics be like, that guy's only there if the president's working. He's not there at president's napping. Or like, you know what I mean? Staring, like having, eating his way through a 30 piece fucking McNuggett.

Like, you know what I mean? Like that guy. He's doing a McNuggett. He's doing a nugget power hour. Yeah. But I mean like, I have the idea how hard this is, folks. Yeah.

Just watch, try to see Biden do this. He can't. But like, again, like the bullshit can, I think can only last so long in terms of like the rhetorical sense and narrative sense, right?

It's not that to say that like, it's going to suddenly collapse and then Trump's out. But like clearly his magical thinking that's been informed by his wealth and privilege is smashing into the hard wall of like global policy. where he is but one of many players on a global stage. And again, I think, but he has the capability to do things unilaterally that could spell disaster for every fucking one. And I think, you know, as he sees more and more, I think that's the thing where like as the tweets get more frantic because he's gone to allies and they're like, France, will you help me, the UK? Anyone, they're like, get fucked is what they all say.

Literally. And then now his tweets are like, these sick bastards better open. up in there and you're like, yeah, because you've got to figure it out, right? You're not desperate. So it doesn't it doesn't reek too good of a situation. But I think on some level, like, you're just

the wobbling has become a lot more intense as he finds himself alone with this Iran situation and no off ramp and, you know. Yeah. Let's get it done mainstream media or not just any media that knows how to ask follow up questions.

Like that is the one thing. This very scary thing is that, you know, people with these sorts of disorders are always the last to realize, like, how fucked up they are. So that's very scary because he's in charge of the most powerful military in the history of the earth. On the other hand, it does make him susceptible to, like, a sit-down interview with somebody not realizing, like, how bad he's going to look. All right, I'll sit down with this. What's her name, Zeeway? Let's see how this goes. She's probably a low IQ weirdo.

Yes. Love that. Sit down with Zway, you coward. I just feel like who is standing behind him. Like once that hits, it feels like fewer and fewer people are standing behind him. Like from his base, there's always going to be like a handful. But like the people who matter like in his cabinet. it I feel like have to be wobbling.

They seem like they're wobbling, right? And he's just firing everybody. Yeah. No one's safe, you know, and you can just tell by how people talk about him, how afraid they are of the acts. You know what I mean? And like, like, even his internal polling, like there's a couple I was reading just like the real super maga friendly pollsters.

They can't even fuck with the numbers anymore. We cooked it up real nice for you, boss. Just like, yeah. Just like you ask, okay, where are you at? You're at 58% disapproval. That's not good. The most Republican-friendly poll you can fucking find that is even somewhat tethered to reality. And you know, like all of those people, like the people that work in that White House, they see these polls.

And again, it probably makes sense why they're like, fuck, dude, this thing's burning down. Maybe I'll just find an exit position. So I don't look like a total piece of shit, even worse. when this thing completely falls apart, but it's still hard to even envision how it comes apart, you know? That's what I keep, everything's on the table. Yeah.

It's like, how does this crumble without literally crumbling, like, our country further or other countries? You know what I mean? Like, we've already made so many bad decisions. We've already killed so many people.

There's so many lives that have been significantly disrupted. And I just feel like we're going to see something big before this man shakes. You know what I mean? Because everyone's too scared. And people are standing on pride. And when it gets really scary is exactly what you said, Mazas, when people who are, like, so prideful about their choices from, like, individual voters to, like, people in his cabinet, right? That are so happy to, like, speak that rhetoric and are now like, um, uh, uh, uh,

like, yeah, it's the downfall scene from the end of that movie downfall. Yeah. Yeah, it's scary. That's scary. And I think, I honestly, I think the next thing is probably. going to be like ground troops on the ground, you know? Yeah. Because I don't.

Yeah. It's, it's, he, he's been just so much, so many threats about it. Pete Heggseth said, today we'll do the most bombing so far. It's like his like real tough guy announcement. Because again, like even with Hegg Seth, right? Like he knows like to the point of Trump, he hires these like incomplete, broken people because he knows he can fucking lord that over them. He's like, you're not fucking, you shouldn't even be in this job.

So you should thank your fucking weird crusader loving ass that I'm putting you as the fucking top person at the Pentagon. Because there's already a ton of stories about with Pete Hagsatsets. He's losing the Pentagon rapidly. But for him, his only way to stay in power is to just yes and whatever Trump says to the detriment of the entire fucking planet. And then you have that buttressed by the fact that HECSeth is like a subscriber to this. wacky like bring bring jesus back kind of belief system that these evangelicals have about war uh in you know the destruction of israel and how jesus will come back because of all of it so it's like so hard to pin any of it down because you're like i don't know everyone has some

weird form of magical thinking that they think even if it's all a disaster it's going to be okay because big jesse is going to come back right you said buttressed yeah nice buttrist that's a good one Had to. Buttrist. I like that one. All right. Well, on that note, let's take a quick break. We'll come back and talk about microplastics.

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tackling on no grip, a Formula One culture podcast that dives into the under-explored pockets of the sport. In each episode, a different guests and I will go deeper into the wacky mishap scandals and sagas, both on the track and far away from it that have made F1 a delightful, decadent dumpster fire for more than 75 years. Listen to No Grip on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. A shot fired in City Hall building. A silver 40 caliber handgun was recovered at the scene. From IHeart podcasts and Best Case Studios.

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a shocking public murder I scream, get down, get down those are shots, those are shots, get down a charismatic politician You know, he just bent the rules all the time I still have a weapon and I could shoot you and an outsider with a secret

He alleged he was a victim of flatdown. That may or may not have been political. That may have been about sex. Listen to Rorschach, murder at City Hall, on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Jay Shetty, host of the On Purpose podcast. My latest episode is with Noah Kahn, the singer-songwriter behind the multi-platinum global hit, Stick Season, and one of the biggest voices in music today. Noah opens up about the pressure that followed his rapid success. his struggles with mental health and body image,

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I go beyond the headlines with the people building our future. This week, an interview with one of the most influential figures in Silicon Valley, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. I think society is going to decide that creators of, AI products bear a tremendous amount of responsibility to products we put out in the world. From power to parenthood. Kids, teenagers, I think they won't need a lot of guardrails around AI. This is such a powerful and such a new thing.

From addiction to acceleration. The world we live in is a competitive world, and I don't think that's going to stop. Even if you did a lot of redistribution, you know, we have a deep desire to excel and be competitive and gain status and be useful to others. And it's a multiplayer game. What is the man who has extraordinary influence. over our lives have to say about the weight of that responsibility. Find out on Mostly Human. My highest order bit is to not destroy the world with AI.

Listen to Mostly Human on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. And we're back. We're back. And betwixt all of the Trump stuff and the space race, the trip to the moon, you might have missed maybe a slimmer, a sliver. a slim sliver of good news, which is that we might not be quite as fucked

as we thought microplastics-wise, thanks to some very stupid researchers. So researchers from the University of Michigan recently found that a mildly embarrassing error that might be contributing to dramatic overestimates of microplastics content across multiple studies because microplastic studies have possibly been tainted by researchers, specifically their latex and nitral gloves,

which are coated with tiny soap-like salts. You know the little powder that's on the gloves? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Called stearates, those can rub off, creating thousands of false positives per square millimeter due to their resemblance to polyethylene. See, I told you we shouldn't be wearing masks. This is all a myth.

We don't need gloves. We don't need no hand sanitizers. Bring back the straws. Put it back on the grill. We're eating that. Nobody ever found a turtle with a straw on its nose. Get out of here. Get out of here.

That's fucking nuts. I saw that study and I was like, surely it can't be all because of that. I don't think it can be all because of that. I mean, maybe the numbers are less crazy. Because, yeah, like, there has to be untainable.

samples where they weren't just like playing catch with the person's lung that they were looking at, you know? Right. Well, here's my other question, right? Because you said that it looks like a resemblance to polyethylene, right? Yeah. So is this double dumb researchers that like they can't even properly when they're looking through microscopes to like count the number of like polyethylene molecules that they're like, oh, these are steroids. These are polyethylene. So like, aren't they supposed to know the difference? Do we just have a bunch of? interns in there. They're like counting up the little things. I'm so glad you asked. Stero- what's going on? What's going on? What's going on?

It's proved to be close enough to fool the infrared light-based techniques used to scan samples of microplastic particulates. Sometimes science is more art than science. See, AI is ruining everything. If they would have just used their goddamn eyes instead of science, I'm telling you, man. I'm going back to churn and butter my old-fashioned way. Like we used to worry about bugs and like mice and stuff

And now we're like microplastics like give me a little mouse arm You know what I mean? I at least like that's organic. It's gross but I can I can pass that. Yeah, I mean I've heard a lot of people talk about like what's the environment they're in and all like that they try not to have these kinds of things happen But it is just it I don't know like I kind of net out to the fact that I'm like yeah microplastics are definitely they abound but yeah still bad still still abounding but stuff is Stuff is still bad. I mean, let me just share this with you guys. I had something incredibly humbling happened to me a couple weeks ago. I was eating a salad. I was using a plastic fork or a biodegradable

fork of some sort. Enjoying my salad, you know, doing work, talking to people, doing two things at once. And then I realized, oh, that was a little extra crunchy. And then I pulled my fork out of my mouth, and I had bitten off one of the tines of that fork and had swallowed it and eaten it. I had chopped, chopped through it. So how many microplastics is that? That's not micro at that point. Yeah, dude.

I was like, I'm fucked forever now. I spent a day Googling like what happens when you eat a fork. You know what I mean? I was like, God.

This is just going to pass through like gum, right? Yeah, I mean, it was bioadributable. It barely was able to pierce my fork. I mean,

pierce my salad. So like, I'm pretty sure it just like dissolved as soon as it hit my stomach because it was like one of those, you know, plant-based. You know, as soon as it gets, you know, hot, it melts forks.

So, yeah. Made of Alka-Seltzer. Yeah, exactly. Like, I'm just, I don't know. We're all going to die. I'm glad there's less microplastics and things, but I'm pretty convinced, you know, between the amount of, like I said, you know, blue, whatever I'm eating for my fricking sodas from seven, seven brew and eating forks.

This, this study is no bearing on my life. I'm already, I'm already doomed. Most of us are doomed. Yeah. Not if we make it before Trump blows. We were doing a lot of blowing up of those gloves, which is fun. And now I've inhaled all of those microplastics. Yes.

I mean, I think that's the thing. It's like tough because like there's clearly, like we're seeing the impacts like in physical health from like people like for microplastics. So it's like while I get that this study like for the University of Phoenix, she's like, whoops. Oh, we got to look that one up. I think there's also like I think it like the sort of cynical side of me is like if this thing. gets pushed harder and harder and harder. It does feel kind of like some kind of op to be like, dude, don't worry about the microplastics.

Remember that one lab? Did big plastic show up with a big check and be like, hey, hey, hey, guys. Let's talk. Guys. Seriously. Maybe you need to recount those. Right. Yeah.

We actually had the people who no longer have jobs of screenwriters write up a line for you. And it says science is actually more art than science sometimes. Which is like, that's catchy. That is very catchy. That's super sexy. That's right.

That's some shit you put on a college brochure to get kids into science. That's right. Put down those paintbrushes. Xavier, we need you to be a scientist. Let's check in with Greg Abbott real quick. Our favorite cautionary tale in the world of media literacy. So a few weeks ago, he shared a video of what he thought was an Iranian fighter jet, being shot down by an American warship.

Hilarious. It was a clip from a video game. It looked pretty good, though. Pretty good video games. He's not up on the latest video games. No. Shocked to find out. Yeah, and it wasn't even, I don't even think it was ARMA,

where all the good misinformation videos from that game. But yeah, he clearly, he's old, you know, and he likes to tell on himself with his dumb ass, and he did it again this weekend when he shared a picture. of what he thought was from the rescue of a downed American pilot, which did happen. A few more than a few planes went boom this last week. But this one required an actual rescue in the mountains of Iran.

And anyway, Governor Abbott was like, shared this photo that when you look at it, you're like, bro, this is a live action Norman Rockwell. Yeah. Yeah. The smiles. I'm looking at this picture. There's nothing about this that says genuinely taken by a photographer. Right.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's like, he's like, wow, look, he's got an American, they gave him an American flag. They had that just on standby. Yeah, yeah. But he posted this picture. It looks like a still from one of those, like, it's like a cross between one of those Jesus gets us ads and like a Michelobolch ad aimed at like Seal Team Six. People who fetishize Seel Team Six. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.

It's like, hey, man, there's a brotherhood here, man. That's right. Come on in. But he posted this picture from it, again, like an AI slot account, just completely uncritical. and just his words over the tweet was, this is so awesome. Okay. And even his bug fuck attorney general,

Ken Paxton shared the image and said, shot down on Good Friday, rescued on Easter morning. God is sending a message to our enemies. Now, again, a rescue did have to happen, but this sort of imagery is just so fucking saccharine, like,

just trying to be like, wow, look, even though our once mighty military is being found out in real time, this isn't this cool like this really nice moment where this uh you know pilot was rescued during this illegal war because i think the reality obviously the reality of it is fucked the u.s is like bombing civilian infrastructure they blew up bridge they're threatening more war crimes and we're learning also

that the pentagon is trying to cover up the actual toll this has even taken on american soldiers so uh central command has sent out quote outdated statements on casualty numbers meanwhile resulting in undercounts, including a statement sent Monday. This is from a week and a half ago, from spokesperson Captain Tim Hawkins, noting that since the start of Operation Epic Fury, approximately 303 service members have been wounded. But that was, again, that was an old comment. And then it excluded 15 soldiers that had been wounded, like, before he had even made this comment in Saudi Arabia.

And then, like, a lot of people have asked, Central Command, can we get numbers? Central Command also would not provide a count of troops who have died in the region. since the start of the war. The Intercept has an analysis that puts the number at no less than 15. And then they go on to say, during the Biden administration, the Pentagon provided very detailed accounting of like any kind of interaction, conflict, you know, firefight that ended in like wounded or dead soldiers. Now they say the Trump's quote,

the Trump administration's numbers by comparison lack detail and clarity. The current sentcom casualty figures do not. appear to include even more the more than 200 soldiers treated for smoke inhalation or otherwise injured due to a fire that raged aboard the USS Gerald Ford. So again, there's like a ton of these things that they're just like, well, maybe don't report that because that was like smoke inhalation from a, you know, like they're trying to do whatever they can to manage the optics of this illegal war. And it's just like an impossible task in this era with so much open source reporting and people kind of looking at other stuff that's out there and just being like,

I think this is bullshit from what we're hearing. So they're not doing great even managing this part of it. And it makes sense because now only 14% of the country thinks that there should be soldiers remotely even close to being on the ground. Yeah. Must feel good as a soldier, too, to recognize that your government is like, yeah, yeah, if you died, we're actually going to try and ignore that you actually exist. Right.

Yeah. Yeah. Let's keep it moving, folks. We're going to respect you less than we already do, which is pretty impossible. Like, the way that we treat soldiers and the way that we treat veterans in this country is abhorrent. Like, it is so, I think, like, depressing. Yeah. Like those pumpkin trebushes that people in the Midwest do when they get drunk.

That's how the U.S. military under Trump treats soldiers. Yeah. Oh, my God. All right. Well, let's end on a happy note. Yes. Artemis is out there. They're going to reach the far side of the moon.

We'll go out of contact. I guess that happened yesterday last evening. But on their way to the dark side of the moon, and the furthest point that humans have reached from the planet Earth, they took a digital camera with them and took some photos that are of a circle, looks like. Yeah. So one could look at this and be like, hmm, this seems like a globe, you know.

Looks like Earth. Looks like the planet Earth that we are aware of. And, you know, you can only see one of the land masses from where we're looking. So that would suggest that, you know, it's round and the other landmasses are on the other side. That's one way to look at it, yeah. I mean, to me it looks like a plate with some crab on it. So I don't know what you're talking about. Where are you going with this, Einstein?

After the photo was released, there was a fresh wave of people mocking flat-earthers being like, hey, do you guys see this shit? This is crazy. It's just like they're acting like they're in an active argument with flat-earthers. Yeah, right. One of the quotes of, well, once again, it appears that the flat-earth folks are really wrong. Thanks, Art of us, too.

It's like, you're not. They're not losing different parts of the same argument. They have one argument that they have lost already. Yeah, like, that's, I also kind of love, like, as we talked about, sometimes science is more art than science. Sometimes science is more snark than art. Like, I just, I love that these guys are just up there like, let's stick it to them one more time.

Look at this shit, fool. Like, dummies. Which I'm surprised because the rebuttal could just be like, This looks flat to me. Yeah. This two-dimensional photo. So what are you even trying to say? Looks like a coin.

You could just flip it over. Although the version that they see it is the entire earth would be visible on this flat circle that they want. But yeah, that doesn't quite work. I guess that's my question. Like, do flat earthers think that it's a flat circle or do they think it's a flat square? Like, is it map shaped and you just walk off the map? Or do they think it's circle and you just keep walking around the edges of the earth in a circle? There's no, I think there's like an ice wall.

There's one version where there's like an ice wall all at the edges. So if you go far enough, you're going to hit the ice wall. Yes. And then the white walkers. Yes. Yeah, yeah. And that's where the night's watch goes for the flat. Correct.

I was going to say, no, you're right. Now it's making sense. Thank you. I forgot about my history. I remember like a little over a year ago we were talking. I think we mentioned it on trends because there was like a little bit of beef going on in the flat earth community because one guy was like invited to go to the North Pole or one of the poles. And they're like, go, go.

Because, like, so much of it, there's so much, like, mythology around it. And, like, the fact that he was going to go see it with his own eyes, like, could have debunked a ton of stuff just by the mere presence of it. Because it's like, no one can get there. And if you were like, no, come on, we can show it to you. They should take one. They should take one, like, whoever their number one person is, they're, like, the Pope of Flat Earthers. They should just, like, have a little handgun to his ribs and just be. like you're coming with us asshole and take them up in one of these.

Just be like, all right. So you see. Yeah, they went to Antarctica. Keep looking out the window. Keep looking out the window. Yeah. Because they had a thing where there was like this is, they called it the final experiment. Oh my God.

I say, I mean, if we are sending Katie Perry to space for five minutes, let's send just the core flat earthers. Let's just set him up there. Be like, hey, look up there. There was that guy who tried to do the stunt to like he launched himself in a homemade rocket into the sky to prove he like said some people debate how serious he was about the flat earthers or if he was just like kind of a backyard stuntman gone wrong right but uh honestly did not go well sounds like a great episode of gray's anatomy i'm into it let's go let's write this shonda let's do it i love it anyways hope everybody gets back safe and their cool orange they're oh because sorry

i just have to mention so like when they went to an article the big thing was that there's like there's not going to be no 24 hours of straight sunlight. You kidding me? That's how any of the shit works. And then there was. And one of the flatterers is, the quote, sometimes you are wrong in life. I thought there was no 24 hours sun. In fact, I was pretty sure of it. I realized that I'll be called a shill just for saying that. And you know what? If you're a shill for being honest, so be it. I honestly believe there was no 24 hour sun. I honestly now believe there is. That's it. Wow. So they really did it. The final experiment. Yeah. Well, I mean, That's what I'm saying. It was really contentious because like, don't fucking don't like, don't, don't break it all down by going over there.

Some round earth or shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. You got to stay true. But again, other people just shift the goalposts. You know what I mean? Because at the end of the day, that's what you got to do when you're all in on a conspiracy theory. Don't ever let, don't ever let them catch you slip. Super producer, Victor said the Bob tried to buy a satellite to send it into outer space to prove flat earth. And hilarious. Still, still awaiting results. Lydia, such pleasure having you as always. Where can people find you, follow you, see you, hear you, all that good stuff? You can see me in person on April 10th in Knoxville, Tennessee at the Bijou Theater. I will be there with Felipe Asparza. We're going to have a good time. I will be in Atlanta on April 11th at Center Stage, also with Felipe Asparza. I've got dates back in Nashville towards the end of the month.

You can find out more about those at Lydia Popovich.com or follow me on social media at Hater Tuesday. And yeah, those are all the places that you can find me. Hell yeah. Is there a work of media that you've been enjoying? So I'm a little late to this one. You know, I am an older person. I'm not spending as much time on social media,

and my algorithm is verily finely tuned to basically, you know, dogs, diet Coke, soda recipes. So not a lot of stuff gets in, but every once in a while, something new gets in. Sorry, real quick. Did you say verily finely tuned? Is this like part, is this like the betwixt thing? I feel like you've gone.

Verily, verily finally. Verily betwixt the mangoes. It's all good. But yeah, it's a little, an Instagram reel, and it's a comedian, and her name is Michaela Donna, or Michelle Adana. I'm not quite sure how to pronounce her name. She's from New York. But she does impersonations of bodega cats that is incredible.

It just absolutely incredible. It's her in a little pink fur coat with little cat gloves and little cat ears. And she comes around the corner and she's just like, yeah. Like it's very New York. It's very Bidaga cat. It's on the button. The one that I've been loving is from December of 25. And I think she's brilliant.

She's great. So go check her out. Amazing. Miles, where can people find you as their working media? You've been enjoying. Yeah, find me everywhere at Miles of Gray. You find me talking about 90-day fiancé on 420-day fiancé with Sophia. Alexandra, you find me talking about

European soccer football on Ain't It Footy with Jamel Johnson. And Chris Martin The Beautiful game, in it? Beautiful. There's a, let's see, a couple, or one post I like. Where is it?

Oh, yeah. And this is just one from at hamshoes. Dot B.Skide, I also put, reminder, if you ever see somebody stealing food, no, the fuck you didn't. There you go.

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tequila shots. Like it feels very like beachy just like turn your brain off warm weather music. So I'm fucking with it. So this is Tequila shots by Rika. Rikas. Rikas. R.I.K.A.S. R A. R. R.I.K.A.S. We will link off to that in the

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