The Daily Zeitgeist - PresiTrendtial Medal of Zeitdom 9/2: Trump's NOT Dead, The Internet, Rudy Giuliani

Episode Date: September 2, 2025

In this edition of PresiTrendtial Medal of Zeitdom, Jack and Miles discuss their respective weekends, Trump's domestic deployment of troops being ruled illegal af, the Internet being totally convinced that Trump has died, Rudy Giuliani getting rear ended and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

maybe it's my old Christopher Reeves loving ass but you didn't like it just starts from the beginning he's like getting his ass kicked which is like I think it's cool to see Superman actually like just do Superman shit for like give me like five minutes of that you know instead of like it's just like he's always stressed out and getting his ass kicked the way the movie started also really it's like it starts with them getting his ass kicked in two completely different ways because that interview yeah was fucking terrible right they didn't do the movie any favors by having that right up front I missed a lot of the interview because I uh you know I was there with a seven-year-old nine-year-old so it was like 50% bathroom breaks honestly the the movie's

probably a little better better without the interviews I left I left as the interview was starting and came back. And I was like, holy shit, they're still doing this. This is fucking, they really thought that this was working. It makes this grown man, which, I mean, alien or no, you're, you're manning. You're like, what, 30s with the rationale of a 12-year-old. Yeah, yeah, exactly. They were bad, the new Superman movie.

Oh, really? Yeah. it's like i mean my kid loved it that's that's all like i said when i saw it it's a seven-year-old would probably think it's pretty cool my seven-year-old fucking loved it oh well then that's perfect for me that was that was my assessment i was like maybe seven-year-old likes it for me personally yeah i bro i don't have the mental capacity to handle anything beyond like what a seven-year-old be like oh wow wow why he fly like that i don't know either Let's find out together.

He's flying. Wow. Wait, she doesn't know that's Superman? Wee. She does. Rachel Brosnahan. This is Roger Brosnahan from, from jump.

That's like they, I don't know. That was the other thing is that Superman, Superman and Lois Lane felt like siblings because they looked very similar. Their features were so similar that they look like siblings. And it was gross. Yeah. I mean,

I like that. Do you think that? they cast people who looked like they could be siblings because they're you know Hollywood's making these movies with their eye on other blockbusters but they probably got one eye on the Hornhub charts and seeing

the step sibling stuff yeah they're like with a little we can make this scene hit different if you get that would be amazing if they just started being like she's my step sister she grew up with me in smallville oh hold on I think she's stuck in a drive

or something. Let me go check. They're like, well, we're just, we are giving the people what they want. They never fully explained how to hell you get stuck in a dryer, exactly. I don't know. That's the thing with my step sister, Lois Lane. She's such a goofball, you know what I mean?

She's such a clutz. It would be so funny. I'm such a clutz. I got stuck in the dryer again. So funny as Superman sucked at clapping cheeks. He was like, uh, right away. Like you're, fucking Superman and he's like

I thought you're a alien, a superpowered alien and you can't give me more than three pumps real loud three pumps My name is Ed Everyone say hello Ed I'm from a very rural background myself My dad is a farmer and my mom is a cousin

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to this week trend edition of Dirty Ali's 8, guys. This is the episode where we tell you what was trending over the weekend, what is trending this morning, and we let you, we allow you to get to know us a little bit better. My name is Jack O'Brien. That over there is Mr. Miles Gray. Hey, I'm back with scratches on my face because I didn't cut my son's fingernails. So I'm all, bro, he has this cute aggression shit. we'd be like daddy and he will rip my fucking cheeks up like his grip strength i'm like damn son

you should be a free climber rip the cheeks up like superman all right uh yeah yeah anyway i uh that very dangerous and they and like there's some sense they like they know it's a weapon that can be deployed um the nails the nails yeah of course Of course they did, because everyone goes, ow, and they're bleeding. Yeah, it's like they drop the thing and watch you pick it up. And then the next thing is like, I can put my nails into him and make him go, ow. He'll say, he'll look at my face and go, oh, what happened? And I go, oh, you scratched me.

He goes, oh, I scratch you? And then he'll bring his hands. You like that? Yeah, no, he'll bring his hands. He'll be like, oh, I scratch you? I'm like, no, no, please. What are you fucking Anton Chigur? Yeah, truly. She's like, menacing me.

I'm like, stop calling me Llewellyn Moss. You want to get fucking cut? What's that? What do you got in that tank? What is that? You carry around in you. Take a look right here. What are all these holes in your walls?

Jesus. Like you got a pneumatic execution gun or something. Perfect circles. Well, it's great to have you back, Miles. Thanks. Thanks. it's great to be back um big day potentially we don't know we don't know oh i will say this is yeah this is one of the schroedger's uh episodes where like we're recording it before

don't don't trump's press conference the internet has got itself gas we'll talk about the fact that the internet has itself gassed up that like he's coming up there to give the fucking lou garrig speech right today today today um i don't i don't believe it i don't think that's what's happening I mean, they've already said it's about defense. Okay. You know what I mean? Like, so he's probably just going to say something really quick and that'll distract people. Yeah, he's going to talk about his immune system.

That's the defense he's talking about. Exactly. Yeah. His defense against not going to hell so he can go to heaven. That's right. I mean, I don't know. I mean, he's either going to, one thing is true, he, it is unprecedented. We'll get into it.

But he hasn't, what, he didn't, no one talked to him since Wednesday. No one's spoken. He wants talk to him. We're trying to get him on the phone. We saw a photo that they say that, like, that was him looking like shit. Yeah, we're going to talk about it. It's, hmm. I will, I will say he does, he does have these rhythms where he goes quiet for a couple

days. I, I attribute it to, like, Adderall that he's awake for, you know, 24 hours a day for, like, two months on Adderall. Didn't hit? Yeah. Yeah. His benders off. Yeah, Hitler would have to sleep his benders off.

off. And one time he slept his benders off right through the beginning of D-Day. That's one of the reasons that history broke the way it did. Don't fucking wake him. Why? He's on one of his meth benders, dude. He's so mean. He's going to fucking scratch your face, dude. All right. But before we get into

any of that, we do like to let you again, you're welcome. Get to know us a little bit better. By telling you stuff we think is underrated, overrated, Miles, what is something you think is underrated? Underrated? Look, every day is a new. lesson as I become more of a parent and just the ambient stress over your kid doing new

shit. Oh man. That's. Oh, yeah. A lot of time I'm like, yeah, go ahead. Like there's so many other times. I'm like, yeah, go ahead. Climb up that thing. I don't know. He might fall off. But right. Right. Yeah. Yeah. But like in a social context, I'm a fucking mess like thinking about my kid. Because so today. Him going into a social context. Yeah. Him in a new social situation. Yeah. So for those for those interested. And I hope. you are because i've had quite a year we moved into like a new semi-permanent place as we figure out like our future and rebuilding and what that all is all going to look like um and it's been great and again thank you to everybody who's always been there supporting us it's

honest i don't even know i don't know how the fuck we've landed on our feet but i i make a huge attribution to the support of friends family and zeitgang so again if you ever see me i will take a photo with you. No one's ever asked me to do that. So it's fine. It's not like I'm always really. Okay, maybe a couple times, a couple times. But I will. Snitch the hat off their head. If I'm in town, I will come to your birthdays. I will, I will, I will, I will, I will, I will look through your child's bedroom for, it's for points of threats. He will do that. You kind of have to ask him to stop doing that. Jack, I don't know. Your child could use this popcorn bag as a way to transport drugs or drug money.

So anyway, we're at this new... You clearly just planted that bag of cocaine in there. What? Dude, it's, you have cocaine all over your pocket where you pulled it out from. That's powdered sugar. I'm, I'm doing a funnel cake stand later today. That's what that's from. Um, so anyway, the guy's child is also starting a new daycare slash preschool, which he's been, so this will be his third school in the last seven months, eight or what, it's September now

since like the end of last year. There's like his third school. And I've been like, oh my God. was lucky enough to go to like I didn't have to change schools too often but I was like what is he going to do is he going to be okay but I keep looking at things through the fucking prism of my own experiences and my fears rather than like looking at my son as being like his own thing obviously genetically he will probably carry somewhere like the the weird parts that have been passed down genetically through the generations but I like I was not great at making new

friends like I would always I'm like naturally a shy person so in a situation like I'm like oh god what are they gonna fuck what am I gonna say he's fucking two and a half okay so I don't know why I'm like do you got material ready for like how to make fun jokes with the teachers and the other students um anyway the dude just rolled up absolute social demon didn't give a fuck like through deuce is up he's just fine yeah and part of me I'm even still like you know he's probably just overwhelmed. He didn't know what's going on. You know, he probably doesn't even, he's not even connecting what's going on. I said, Jack, I sent you that picture of Joe Pesci and Goodfellas when he gets whacked.

You thought that's what it was going to be. That's how he was going to respond to be. He's like, this ain't my school. And he looks back at me. I'm like, I'm so sorry. We're not going back there. You know what I thought that's going to be like, but no, he's great. She's like, oh, another one? All right. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Although I may get a call in the next 30 minutes where they're like, uh, your son keeps asking

miss caroline if she's a tough guy i don't know what that means it is the one trait he picked up yeah but that's all he does he just asks he hasn't seen enough for him it's happy gilmore too he's like oh you walked out or you turned off happy gilmore too early you didn't like that m&m came um oh yeah he's gonna be five i've also noticed the same thing my kids when i was worried that they were going to have like social anxiety they do not they're not me it's early too i feel like i don't I had social anxiety until this is the thing just why can't our kids not be us you know what I mean I'm not my dad he's gonna have it he's gonna have it it's gonna be bad he's gonna piss himself on a fucking rye or maybe it'll be water ice I don't know what you know it's it's pretty complicated

out here if not what are all these zingers that I wrote him for you know pocketful of zingers for your first day of school uh my underrated uh mads micklesons desire to be like held it down slash tied up just any any uh so as you i've talked about before my uh probably my favorite thing i've wrote back in the cracked days was this article about actors who kind of like to do the same thing in every movie tom cruise likes to run bread pit likes to eat um john kuzag likes to get stuck in the rain and the the ultimate tom hanks love to pee in a movie. He loves a piss. He loves to pee in a movie. And I'm just obsessed with the idea of like how that happens. Watching a man pee. I'm just obsessed with the idea of watching people pee. Yeah. I like you go, what's that? And the internet's amazing because you can find so many videos of that. Just like how that happens. Right, right, right. Is it a note from the actor? But anyways, somebody on Twitter, who it goes by V-I-Z-L-A-G-F. on Twitter posted a super cut of Mads Miggleson like being tied up or tied down or like held down

or tying somebody else down and it's just there's a lot to go off of it's why does you have a boner in all these shots too raging boners so the the projects are polar the starvation Hannibal uh bitch better have my money music video is he's He's in there being tied up. Exit, Casino Royale, Unit 1, Valhalla Rising, Dr. Strange, and then something called The Call, which is a furniture ad in which he, like, gets. So it's interesting that these are like, there are some weird projects on there. Like, on the one hand, you could be like, man, they're really scraping to find examples of this.

On the other, you can read it as like, he will take a job that doesn't make any sense for him. him, like a Rihanna video or a furniture ad if they're just like, yeah, but we'll hold your arms down in like kind of a sexual context. His agent's like, Mads, I got this new script for you. He's like, you already know what I'm going to ask. You know what I'm going to ask. Why are you even, why are we even talking about it right now? But Mads, this could be just say it.

What am I going to ask? Are fine. Is it bondage? Is it hold me down? Is it bondage? Okay. Then yes. but this is uh i don't make sense unless i'm being held down

i care um their ropes work too i i don't know if this is more this one feels more in line with like tom hanks because like i the brad pitt one the john cusack it's just like tom cruise are like this is the thing i look cool doing whereas the tom hanks and like this one i can't imagine they think it looks cool it feels like it's coming from inside like a deep like psychosexual urge that they have this is probably why tom hanks isn't canceled is because he's found a way to route any kind of weird sexual desire into like somewhat a creative outlet he's like look as long as i'm pissing in a film like i can keep my shit together uh and they're all watching all those people i walk around this country i i make eye contact

with people and i know and that's where my confidence comes around they they've watched me piss like the ass pennies yeah there it is my god we literally finish each other sandwiches did you see that clip of ben stiller talking because it had been like 20 something years since that MTV movie awards where he was pretending to be tom yeah yeah yeah and he was like reminiscing about it and he was like I thought I'd be nervous he's like but the second I started doing it like he was he was just all in and he's like and that made it so much easier I thought I don't know what the fuck does how he was going to react and he's like he started laughing then I started he's like that scene where they just kind of start laughing, like, mannically at each other.

He just said that just started with him laughing and then Tom Cruise reacting and him just kind of, they just kept reacting to each other. Beautiful moment for all my old ass chugie listeners out there who remember that storied MTV movie awards when we used to watch them live. The premise was that Ben Stiller is his body double, right? Yeah. But then like he's like, and we're exactly, we're basically the same person. And it's clear that he has this.

obsessive relationship with him and is like trying to make things happen that aren't quite working both five seven too so there you go what is something miles you think is overrated uh overrated bro a fucking overly juicy sandwich okay like I know when you eat like a burger or something you're like oh look at all the moisture in that paddy or whatever and you see there's so many info they'll like cut a sandwich and half and like squeezing like oh look at all the juice come out yeah Like in certain contexts, that is indicative of like, oh, this is, it's a retreat. This is what I'm looking for. It's not like a dried up beef brick or something.

I'm talking about a fucking sandwich, okay? Right. I was at Jersey Mikes. Uh-oh. This man in front of me, bro, I still can't believe. Asked for an inordinate amount of oil and vinegar. Just like, keep going. Yes.

They're like, sir. Not even like keep going. Okay, so I thought I was on a fucking prank show because he kept going and I'm like, I'm looking around for like the other straight character in this sketch to be like, this is a fucking lot of liquid now, right? Are we even eat? Is this even a sandwich now? And he kept saying, can I get a little more?

Yeah, can I get a little more? And at least four times. By the time he hit the fourth one, the sandwich artist basically did a fuck you. amount of it to drive and be like oh yeah they were even like bro are you for fine right squeaked like emptied the full clip out on it and he was like amazing thank you uh and like the guy like then trying to wrap it there was like liquid pooling in the fucking in the fucking paper and they wrapped it up how is the bread even holding i from what i understand some people just like it to be

not even a sandwich just like a goopy mess with sandwich innards that they eat right and the bread becomes part of the sauce that's on top of it

exactly exactly and so anyway he fucking just like he just sauntered out of there like it was normal and I was like we had this moment I was up next

I was like what the fuck he's like I've never seen he guys was like I never seen anything like you guys both you guys both knew you would witness something.

We were like, oh, shit. Okay, man. Anyway, let me get a club supreme, bro. And don't fucking overdo it with the juice. Because I hate a fucking, like a sandwich and Jersey Mikes is wet. Okay? Like, that's how they do shit there. But I mean, most, I know that.

So I eat it the second I get it. I'm not to be like, yo, I'm going to let that shit cook in the fridge. No. But other sandwiches generally, like a nice sandwich, you think it can last a few hours without getting completely sogged out. And I understand again. That one sounded like it was sogged out on right away.

This was like a pre. It was like a French dip with oil and vinegar pre-soaked basically. Right. But anyway, so y'all, not for me. And I can't believe. I think it was just more of this situation I was in where the guy was like, oh, amazing thing. Like I thought he was going to be like, okay, buddy, I didn't say that much. Right.

You know. Yeah, yeah. But after the fourth one, because it got a little passive. It's like, sorry, can I, let me just get, just a little, can I get just a little bit more? I really like, I really like a lot of the juice on there. Wow. And then just that, like, it was like hissing at the bottom because it was like, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like, there was no more liquid in the bottle. Yeah. Just burn through a bottle. Anyway, don't do that, folks. And if you do, is that a fork and knife job, I guess, in which case feels different. I don't know. The shit was so soggy. I'm not joking.

There's probably oil drips like a fucking. like a trail of clues all the way back to where the fuck is. I think he walked outside through that sandwich and away in the garbage and then just jacked off in his car from just making somebody do that. That was what he was there for. What's your kink, man? I don't like bondage. I'm not a Mads-Nickleson, but I like to go to restaurants.

It's a little specific, but I like just making really specific orders and making the person uncomfortable with how wacky my order is. And I just kind of take that in. That's why I wear these meta glasses so I can record the whole thing. It's a new ad for meta glasses. My overrated just great, we had a great metaphor for capitalism this weekend with a trade in the NFL. My overrated is like NFL owners for a thousand reasons.

But even if you are a fan of an NFL team, having an owner. I think is bad for you. There's a trade in the NFL that was like not quite Luca level. Like when Luca got traded to the Lakers last year and everyone was like, wow, how does anyone think that was a good idea? This is a malpractice. So Dallas traded the best defensive player. It was Dallas again.

The city of Dallas is just getting fucked over. Trated the best defensive player in the NFL to Green Benfic. for like a couple first round picks and like another you know replacement level defensive player um and it's it's apparently like you know dallas has this famous owner who's like got a big ego and is like he thought he had made some sort of handshake agreement with his person and he like went back on it but he'd like just tried to cut the guy's agent out of the negotiation process and then so just based on his like personality issues with him right he made he just like gave him away because he was like yeah that's not how we do things around here great great team they got there yeah great team they suck

i know i was gonna say like aren't they i feel like every cowboys fan i meet in this era is like oh fuck dude they were expected to suck before this trade happened oh and now it's like double suck yeah yeah and he's so he's like this strong arm owner who like does everything on his terms he's older than Joe Biden and I just want to contrast that with the Packers are owned by fans right right right and they're run as a nonprofit so every all the money they make goes back into the team and they are like this trade was pulled off by I guess it's either their president or CEO but like you know normal nonprofit company shit but the guy who pulled it off just took a over in July after the previous leader of the team reached the mandatory age of 70. Wow. Yeah.

What is this a sci-fi utopia? I fucking hate, hate Brett Farv. So I don't know if I could ever get behind the pack. Just as a kid, like I just fucking hated Brett Farv, but I love this. I love this for them.

That's how a team or like capitalism should work. It's owned by the fans. the workers I don't think it's like I don't think it is a perfect utopia I'm sure there's all sorts of fuckery that happens but Zykegay Packers fan let us know

what I despite our outward view of it is it all fucked up now is it all fucked up my favorite philosopher Diddy what is he what the fuck is so are the Packers do they look like a contender now yeah they do oh so they really just

that was like a huge swing for them to be like oh we just picked him okay good good They've gone from, they're like the only team that consistently, you know, anytime, like I'm a sadly a Patriots fan. And anytime you have like a run, you're lucky enough to have a good quarterback. Like you can guarantee there's going to be some years where you like have a shitty quarterback and like your team is bad. Because it's just like that's not a thing that anybody can predict except Green Bay. For some reason, they've gone from Brett Farve to Aaron Rogers to Jordan Love.

is now their quarterback and like they've just all been awesome and they've all been like a situation where like the next guy was just like waiting in the wings and they're like okay he's ready trade away the previous guy the next guy is awesome right like right away yeah yeah and that doesn't have like for whatever reason it's just impossible to predict if a quarterback is actually going to be good in the NFL except in green pay they've like got it figured out but anyways you know having having a powerful one powerful, charismatic, in quotes, leader at the head of any organization, I feel like does not work as we're seeing over and over and over again. You don't want a decrepit monkey skeleton running anything, as Mr. Burns even showed us. You know what I mean? You don't want that. I was watching the Netflix cheerleader, the Dallas Cowboys cheerleader show that they put out. I've got a couple episodes of it.

And you get glimpses of Jerry, but more you see his. wife more. But Jerry Jones, God damn. Every time I'm like, what the fuck are you guys doing over there? Just old. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I feel like every time I hear about him, he's always in some shit being racist or old or whatever the fuck. But yeah. Hey, man. Great, great matchup. Great matchup. Love that for everybody. Um, all right. Let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk about other, uh, decrepit monkey skeletons. Yeah. Yeah. We'll be right back. My name is Ed. Everyone say, hello, Ed.

From a very rural background myself, my dad is a farmer, and my mom is a cousin. So, like, it's not like... What do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? I know it sounds like the start of a bad joke, but that really was my reality nine years ago. I just normally do straight stand-up, but this is a bit different. On stage stood a comedian with a story that no. No one expected to hear. The 22nd of July 2015, a 23-year-old man had killed his family.

And then he came to my house. So what do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? A new podcast called Wisecrack, where stand-up comedy and murder takes center stage. Available now. Listen to Wisecrack on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Dr. Joy Hardin-Bradford, and in session 421 of Therapy for Black Girls, I sit down with Dr. Athea and Billy Shaka to explore how our hair connects to our identity, mental health, and the ways we heal. Because I think hair is a complex language system, right, in terms of it can tell how old you are, your marital status, where you're from, your spiritual beliefs. but I think with social media

there's like a hyper fixation and observation of our hair right that this is sometimes the first thing someone sees when we make a post or a reel is how our hair is styled. You talk about the important role hairstylists play in our community the pressure to always look

put together and how breaking up with perfection can actually free us. Plus, if you're someone who gets anxious about flying, don't miss session 418 with Dr. Angela Neil Barnett, where we dive into managing flight anxiety. Listen to Therapy for Black Girls on the IHart Radio app,

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Ken Jennings' appearance on The Puzzler with A.J. Jacobs. The question is, what is the most entertaining listening experience in podcast land? Jeopardy truthers who say that you were given all the answers believe in...

I guess they would be conspiracy theorists. That's right. Are there Jeopardy Truthers? Are there people who say that it was rigged? Yeah, ever since I was first on, people are like, And then there's the other ones which are like, they give you the answers and you still blew it. Don't miss Jeopardy legend Ken Jennings on our special game show week of The Puzzler podcast. The Puzzler is the best place to get your daily word puzzle fix.

Listen on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. and we're back oh we're back oh we're back oh fucking we are so fucking back man um so this is interesting a judge has ruled that deploying troops mm-hmm federal troops to other uh you know to u.s cities uh is illegal as fuck I think I don't I guess I don't I mean I don't know what happened in 1878 when they passed the Posse Comitatis Act, but I guess it's something about deploying the U.S. military on home soil to enforce the law is bad. And again, this is something we all fucking knew from just, I don't know, I mean, for those

of us are like history wonks or people who just probably just read the articles, like, yeah, you get read the headline. Yeah. Like, this should be illegal, but apparently not. the ruling was scathing like truly like you know but it's just basically

but again I don't know I think we're in the era where I feel like a scathing ruling is the best we're going to get since Trump will get the chance to appeal and if you really broaden out like fucking everything he does

is illegal so like I saw the head and I'm like yeah and then I'm like but fuck dude what the fuck what does that even mean? And this is as good as it gets yeah yeah yeah just have that in the headline great news and also this is as good as it will get.

This is as good as it will feel. The ruling is just like, Congress spoke clearly in 1878 when it passed the act, prohibiting the use of the U.S. military to execute domestic law. Nearly 140 years later, defendants, President Trump, Secretary of Defense, Piss Pairs, Heggseth, and the Department of Defense deployed the National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles ostensibly to quell a rebellion and ensure the federal immigration law was enforced. There were indeed protests in Los Angeles and some individuals engaged in violence, yet there was no rebellion, nor was civilian law enforcement unable to respond to the protest and enforce the law.

Defendants systematically used armed soldiers whose identity was often obscured by protective armor and military vehicles to set up protective primitives and traffic blockades, so like the whole thing was just like, no, fuck out of here, you're cooked. But, I mean, best case scenario is somehow this stands or the Trump administration is dealing with too many other distractions to try and get this whatever. but um i don't know if but again if it does stand it will definitely affect the fascist warp tour uh that trump is trying to bring around blue cities right this summer and fall so i don't know just like one of those things are you like you're like oh good but we're now in an era where like the courts just seem unable to really do anything um right yeah i'm curious what the constitutional

crisis where like it seems like to this point it's It's been anything the court says, he appeals and then does illegal thing. And people are like, well, he can't do that. Yeah, there have been like certain victories, like with funding and things like that. I mean, we obviously have seen they're going to send Kilmore or Obrego Garcia to Uganda. Right. They're just like, they're finding every way to kind of be like, well, if I can't do that, then I'll do this. And if I can't do this, then I'll do that.

Yeah. And I don't know. And I think maybe it's because of how power. powerless we feel right now that people are probably all in on the maybe trump will just go away and be called home i think that's what's rather than like bruh unfortunately like there's this is a we're approaching i mean we're in a gut check moment we're just kind of looking to find a way a way to move to try and effectively resist this government even more so but i i get the magical thinking i do i do too i i was scrolling on saturday night

of a long weekend, you know, when I should have been sleeping, I was like, wait, why is everybody tweeting about Donald Trump possibly being dead? So let's, uh, let's talk about about that story. Because it's, let's talk does seem to, you know, there, there were people talking last week about Trump's hand bruising, becoming more and more visible. The ankles are not, not looking great on the ankle scale. Uh, I described it as like he now has just a, long tube of leg that just like goes straight up from like his an elephant's foot yeah yeah it's elephant foot yeah and then uh there's a stuff about him trying to get to heaven which i didn't really i don't know it it does it feels like just a thing he was throwing out there the heaven one i'm a

little i'm a little less like i don't think that's as indicative as like yeah i think he was just saying like everybody says i'm like a bad guy but i'm actually a good guy and i'm trying to get there and And that's why I am doing God's work by ending wars. Yeah. Yeah, that doesn't surprise me that he thinks he is like God's vessel here on earth. He's also just like the thing that they're like, oh, they're going back to the handshake thing where it's like, oh, his hands are all bruised because of the hands shaking. Right. But like, it's also not, how come it's on his other hand too at times?

Yeah, I don't know. He's a switch shaker? He's a great question. He can't go left and right. That's what makes him so dangerous as a politician. You thought he had no left? Okay. Okay.

You're about to get left behind. And J.D. Vance even, this feels like a thing that if there was nothing here, J.D. Vance would have been like, this question's stupid. Like, leave me alone. But instead was he said, yes, things can always happen. Vance told USA Today when asked if he was prepared to step up if something happened to President Trump, who survived two assassination attempts. That second one was like a guy in a bush 30 minutes before he was supposed to show up.

Yeah, he didn't lick any shots off. But yeah. Yes, terrible tragedies happened. He went on. He just kept going. And if, God forbid, there's a terrible tragedy, I can't think of a better on-the-job training than what I've gotten over the last 200 days. All right.

Okay. Okay. Which. I don't know. And if God forbid, that feels so ominous, like we'll be playing that back. We're like, oh, God. I mean, look, if God forbid, we have someone who's only had 200 days of job training to become the most powerful person in the world. Sure.

Does feel like something he might be more willing to talk on if he knew there was like a health crisis issue, like brewing in the back. I mean, he was like he didn't volunteer that on his own, like out of nowhere. He was specifically asked about it. But also given how his bad vibes killed a sitting pope, it does seem pertinent, you know, that this is somebody who's hanging around to. I wonder if he's like, he's like a mutant and like Peter Thiel is like a magneto type person. He's like, I've known about you, J.D., since you were a boy and all the people that you ambiently kill with your bad vibes. I want you to be the vice president. That would be interesting.

That would be a sick ass twist and a comic book. That would be good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just a guy whose vibes are so bad, he'll kill you because his vibes are so, it'll end your life. Oh, I mean, Peter Thiel's vibes are like weapons grade bad. He has weapons grade sweat. When people just like ask him a question, like, do, and you're for the survival of the human species. Yeah, I want to eat him.

Wait, what? He like, he like pauses and was like, well, and just like start sweating profusely. Dripping, my guy. Yeah. But the big, so the big thing that everybody was pointing to over the weekend, Trump hadn't been seen in days, had no events scheduled. And people are saying it's like the long. longest down period that he's had um as of what son mond yesterday he hadn't no one in the press has spoken to him since wednesday right so and then a few hours from now we will have a

his first appearance first appearance whatever that he's talking defense um so it's probably nothing i remember during his first presidency like there that was part of the rhythm where like he would be raging and like putting out tweets of like four in the morning and like two in the morning and then like he would go away for a couple days um and this seems like he like took a week off to get his strength back so he could start flying on adderall 24 hours a day again hey man it's it's it's not easy deflecting from the epstein stuff and everything else going on so yeah you know yeah um and yeah i mean so here here are the things that people report to the pentagon pizza tracker which we have noted has been a reliable indicator that

lack of attack on iran yeah last time it lit up there was like a photo released where he was like love playing golf with john gruden um and charlie kirk was like in your face i told you he was fine he said members it's been pretty sick to have certain members of the press so did he at the prospect of President Trump being ill. We're all a nice typo. We're all a little ditty every once in a while. But the picture that he was pointing to was something Trump posted. I think we're pretty sure it happened on like a whole week ago.

It was a week ago. And like that's old photos. They posted so many unquote undated photos that a lot of people were like, you know, people got time on the internet. so the way they were cross-referencing things are like this is a photo from fucking last year of him yeah yeah it's it's it's a pretty low effort job at pretending that like everything's fine i think that's the one thing to me that is interesting is that the amount of like effort they're putting into to try and make it seem like everything's okay i'm like something is up i don't know if it's on the levels of like wippy yippee for everyone but something's up yeah so the the one that seems to be like the person in the photo was like I took this picture with Donald Trump yesterday um is like taking at one of his Virginia golf clubs people seem to think that his face has been Trump's face has been photoshopped I don't I don't have specific like I can't

say for sure that it's been photoshop I don't use face app as much as I used to to know what the smile filter looks like now there are weird like there's two guys standing in the background that like it reminds me of that the shining documentary where people are like pointing out all the shit like in the background of shots right right right right and they're like this obviously means that the moon landing was faked um that's the level that the internet has gone to on this one yeah what's up with these guys i mean they're looking at a shitty person take a photo with an even shittier person yeah um the only photo that has emerged from over the weekend where it doesn't seem like

there's any digital manipulation is just him like in a car waving and looking Drupay. People are putting it. Drupay. Yeah. I will say Like I don't. So there's a okay. There's other, this all might be gone

like soon, but like Lev Parnas is claiming that Trump's health is deteriorating. Crams a ton of shit. Fuck that guy. He does. He's always like, he's full of shit, right? He's always, hosting some shit he's like oh man there's about to be a man he just always likes to chum the waters

with like some shit that he thinks he knows or whatever and it ends up being nothing like okay fine I mean like for all the people this is like when you see this happens a lot with like the like trades like player trades or transfers and like European soccer you have all these people who are like you know every sport like in the know type people like I'm hearing I'm hearing stuff right now yeah that blah blah blah like you're just trying to juice your engagement because you're close enough that people think it's believable. But like when you're off, you're like, hey, man, things change, man. Things change.

I don't know. That's what I heard. It's what I heard. And this whole shit with him, I mean, I think there's a lot of interesting things when you add it all together that paints something like, okay, I definitely think something is up. Like the hands. Yeah, the hand and the ankles are real.

Like that's something that like we've known. I think he's addressed it and been like, I have like vein reflux, but it's fine. and they say it's the best vein reflux that they've ever seen. Yeah. And they're talking about how he's got like this circulation issue and like, okay, that's probably leading to some kind of heart disease. Who knows? Then just even thinking of like this guy hates being in D.C. on the weekend.

Right. And for a long weekend, this guy was fucking nowhere, not being in the spotlight, not doing glad handing, not even fucking really like golfing in a way where he's like, look at me. I'm golfing everyone. And then there was a photo from, what was that? Like maybe two weeks ago where he was in the Oval Office and he didn't have like a tie on. A lot of people were like more subtly were like, oh, this is actually the more interesting thing to me.

He wasn't wearing a tie in the Oval. Andy wore a hat in the Oval at the Resolute Desk, which is like a lot of people like, I don't see photos of him like this casual. And then everyone, if you look, everyone else in the photo had to take their ties off. Look at that. He's wearing crumb. No, I'm just kidding. That would be amazing. He has ugs on.

But then if you look in the photo, everyone else has their tie off as to not draw attention to the fact that Trump wasn't wearing his tie. And you're like, okay, so he's like, that looks a little bit like when you're sick and you don't want to get ready for school. So you just throw on like your,

or as Belichick calls him, your give-ups. You put your give-ups on. And then just the, him slowing down, all of those things. I'm like, yeah, this all, like, I totally believe that he is not becoming healthier. No. What that means for like a timeline in terms of his mortality.

I don't know. I don't know enough about anything to say anything about that. But I'd be really surprised. The main thing that makes me think there's no way it's anything like that at least are around this press conference is that the drudge report is usually all over shit like this. And they're not even picking it up. They're just like, yeah, I mean, they're talking about, like, health concerns, but they're not, like, being like, this is a major announcement. It's not like, people are like, he's using a double. Shut the fuck up.

Yeah. Get fucking, be for real for a second. He's not using a fucking double. Nobody looks that terrible in real life, except for him, first of all. And secondly, that would be an amazing sequel to Dave if it was about being Trump's shitty double. you got a double. They said she got a double, too. Yeah.

Sure. The doubles for everyone. I mean, damn. What a rom-com. Yeah. Oh, two doubles falling in love. Two doubles while the president is like otherwise indisposed. What did you think about that video with the people ditching all the garbage bags out of the fucking Lincoln?

What I think people think there's like the Lincoln bathroom or something. Yeah. That's odd. I saw on Reddit people saying that it's just under renovation. And so. Okay. Did you see the size of those bags? They did not look like you were ripping out.

But some of the bags didn't look like as somebody who's had to like see renovation go down. There wasn't like chunks of drywall or insulation. It's like it looked like maybe some clothes. Like the bags themselves weren't packed to the brim that I'm like. And also why would the, why would the protocol and the White House to be like, just throw this shit out the side of the window at the White House. Really?

you just throw shit. It does seem like the sort of thing that only the president would be able to get away with. Nobody else is throwing shit out a window. Unless he's having like something going on. I was like, get it all out.

Get it out now. I don't want to look at it. Throw it out the window. And they're like, Jesus Christ. Just madness of King George style shit. Those sheets wet themselves. Oh, right, sir. I don't know.

I mean, like that is fine. It's a little just odd looking. but I think I think the health the thing that really upsets me is the media really not questioning this more and making this something to talk about because and rightly so with Joe Biden's senility there was no problem being like I don't this this dude might be fucking old you know I mean they they didn't push on that one enough similarly but like we're now coming off a presidency where it's now evident how we have all this you know reporting that suggests that it was a mess behind the scenes like they were just like

doing their best to like prop him up and make it look like you know just like the weekend of Bernie's presidency yeah and you know we're having another equally old president who is showing similar signs of like not being all there and they're just like well we're going to have to make the exact same mistake again because we are fair and balanced right right if we weren't fox news would yell at us well and they're probably also fear that the wrath of, like, the president being like, how dare you talk about real things? I'm going to, I'm going to revoke your license.

Right. Your broadcast license for showing me in my state as I appear. I do just want to raise because we, when Epstein stuff was happening at the top of the news, I was like, it'll be interesting to see how he responds to this. We've seen things like, I was talking about the jinx and the act of killing like where um people who have these like horrible things buried in their past that they just like haven't dealt with right and then like once they're confronted with it in any

way just does hell on your body yeah yeah it like fucks up your body like in the jinks and the act of killing like they both like got like horrible like burst like nasty burps and like and like i was like i wonder if like trump will just start like ripping nasty burps like well uh addressing the media but like maybe this is like it does the most notable thing about his physical state up to this point as a president is he's the only president who hasn't aged like a president you know presidents usually age like twice as fast as everybody else if not like Obama age super fast it's because he doesn't know what the job is right he doesn't know what the job is he's always taking it pretty easily but now all of a sudden like something it's like getting to him a little bit and I wonder if it's

purely coincidental that it like suddenly he physically is having problems around the time that he finds out he's all over the Epstein list and I think you know whatever happens at this press conference it's it's sure to be some kind of gigantic headline because he's got to throw people off he's trying to he's trying to move this conversation along and if it's a bunch of people speculating online or whatever it's better to be like oh my god he's declared war on DC Or some Wacky shit I mean or he'll look like Or it could be one of those things He's like I'm fine I'm fine give me out there And they're like

Hey You can't get out there Rock you look terrible Cut me Cut me I got bags under my eyes Cut them Drain the bags

What is that blood No it's a literal ketchup This guy eats so much McDonald's His blood is ketchup Speaking of Biden He dropped a picture On all our asses Looking sproats

spry he said look at these ankles ho showing off some ankles man like some he's wearing some ankle socks with like some thin trim legs on him yeah those are he's got some stems baby that's right oh man former president senile we miss you we miss you i mean at least at least this mummy knows how to you know how to pose and hit those ankles i mean hit the angles so he's both hitting his angles and his ankles. His ankle angles? Make sure you get my ankles. Make sure you get my ankles, Jack. All right. Let's take a quick break.

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We're back. intrigue within the Trump administration extended family over the weekend Rudy Giuliani it was announced that he was going to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom weirdly timed

in response to a story about his car getting hit by him getting rear-ended and having to like go to the hospital right but it's it's a weird story yeah like so the head of his security team issued a statement explaining that Giuliani was flagged down by a woman who was the victim of a domestic violence incident and he immediately rendered assistance and contacted 9-1-1 anything any headline with those numbers in it he's on board you know he's like getting me next to the numbers 9-1 and 1 I don't care how you do it I'm all on and then later

following this while traveling on the highway major juliani's vehicle was struck from behind at high speed he was transported to a nearby trauma center where he was diagnosed with fractured thoracic vertebrae multiple lacerations and contusions as well as injuries to his left arm and lower leg his business partner and medical provider were promptly contacted and arrived at the hospital to oversee his care like that his business partner needs to come in those are two hats you shouldn't be wearing at the same time do you think that those are the same person or those are two different people I read that is his medical way well were the two words medical his doting wife and life partner yeah yeah yeah his business partner and medical provider yeah I'm like it might be the same person you know what I mean I've been that in this era of profit profit driven medicine I Jack I just don't know it is just an odd headline because you're like Rudy Giuliani does not not stop for anyone unless he thinks he's going to have sex with them or something right like

i don't i don't buy that for one minute someone said it's probably more likely that like they were like they saw like they slowed down seeing something on the side of the road and then got rear-ended because they were just like they were on a highway and like rubber necking sure and then in comes this kid just rear-ending them because it's not as a lot of people on the right were like someone tried to hurt him can you believe it was that that what they're saying. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. They're saying this was a hit job. Interesting. Yeah. I mean, you, as long as it's not true, you know, that let's make it interesting. But also, did he actually, he's not in the hospital anymore. Like, he left pretty quickly, didn't he?

I know. It sounded. First of all, it just, it just reads like a work of propaganda. Like, so after, like, it's totally unrelated, him stopping. So unless he's like pulling out, into the highway from helping this person in the story. It doesn't make sense. But they just say following this while traveling on the highway. So like, why did you tell us the first part of the story other than to just be like, so Rudy Giuliani is actually Superman. And he was just like stopping to like help people.

And then, uh, no good deed. You know what I'm saying? Uh, guy got rear ended. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. And honestly, I truly, yeah.

Well, it is important because whoever is running Trump's social media accounts has declared that Giuliani will join the ranks of Martin Luther King Jr. T.S. Elliott and receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom for, we don't. Is it like in response to this? Details as to time and place to follow. I mean, look, it's because you are the mayor of New York City. I mean, I think him going after the mob is probably a big.

bigger achievement in the realm of politics, maybe than even being the mayor of New York at that time, but whatever, it doesn't matter. Maybe, maybe Rudy Giuliani's like, I got to get into heaven, Trump. You got to help me. They say they only let people and look at the people who have medals of freedom. They're all going to heaven. You know what I mean? T.S.

Eliot, MLK. It could be me. And I'm sure, did you just didn't, did Ted Kennedy get one? Ted Kennedy got one, but they had to, I think. They didn't give it to him immediately after Chappaquittic. Ah, I see, I see, I see, I see. Other people who've gotten them, Bill Cosby, Colin Cal and Nancy Reagan. So it's not all the...

A war criminal and a sex criminal. That's right. Wow. So it's not completely unblemished. I'm also the throat goat, Mr. President. I should be among the ranks of all the throat goats. Please, let me get that medal of freedom. Well, uh, love, I, be careful with the medication, Rudy, with the drinking you do.

I know. If you really broke your thoracic spine or whatever, uh, be, be careful, man. Be careful. Don't mix them up. Like, he's, you know, had a couple and was like, oh, let's stop for that woman on the side of the road. And then, like, his security guards helped her out. Or it could have just been, as Brian the editor said, Rudy was like, hey, hung at that woman for me. No, but do me a solid.

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