The Daily Zeitgeist - Rage Zeit 12/1: Pete Hegseth, Oxford University Word of the Year, Lindsey Halligan, Washington DC Shooting, Paul Anka, Trump's R-Word Rant

Episode Date: December 1, 2025

In this edition of Rage Zeit, Jack and Miles discuss their respective weekends, Pete Hegseth's numerous war crimes, Oxford University's word of the year: rage bait, Lindsey Halligan's disqualification and dismissal of the Comey & James cases, the Washington DC shooting of two National Guardsmen, Paul Anka's on Sinatra's junk, Trump's R-word rant against Tim Walz and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oh my God. Dude, I went this Thanksgiving I went to. That's all, it's like, it's a bunch of adults and their kids. There's one little boy who's like maybe nine. This kid is like really into fucking six, seven. Oh, yeah. He was doing it and he, there's older lady at the, at the dinner. Obviously, no idea what six seven is or anything.

Like, so this kid just coming up going six, seven. And then, like, he offhandedly, I think she's like, wait, what did you say? Because, like, was confused by what he said to, he was saying to someone else. And he goes up to her, he's like, six, seven, and starts doing, you know, the juggling thing. Uh-huh. And he just walks away. And she turned around aghast. And she's like, was he talking about my breasts?

No. We were like, oh, no, no, no, no, no. Buddy, no. No, no, no. That's not what that is at all. that it felt like he was like as if he were a pervert right he like six seven yeah your tinius lady I would I'm diabolical and I would have let that lady think the kid was probably about it was I think I don't know if I had to guess probably your breasts yeah

in the moment I think I think for how earnest the shock was you probably wouldn't have any to be like yeah let's double down on that I'm over real. piece of shit i keep telling you you don't believe me but i don't think all right well i know enough i know enough about you because if you were a real piece of shit i don't think i'd be working with you real piece of shit real piece no you don't know me you don't know about me back in the day ryan was a real piece of shit there was a post on instagram where a guy was like this is how my thanksgiving's going and it was a guy reenacting the entire oh that's going to slick back real nice for like a minute and a half word for word standing next to the TV and he's like oh I'm I used to be a piece of shit sloppy like does the whole thing he's not even looking at the fucking TV just as if he's giving a dramatic monologue and then like the camera just pans over and it's like this boomer dad sitting in front being like okay he's doing I think you should leave monologues I think you should leave oh so you know the reference no that's just what I'm saying about you

with regards to your presence here i don't even want to be around anymore oh yeah it's a good one dad should i put that frank havoc on next what what no no i don't just we got too much shit on oh okay sorry i should have changed uh your your breathing machine up uh a decade ago i was on the trail of one of the country's most elusive serial killers. But it wasn't until 2023 when he was finally caught. The answers were there hidden in plain sight. So why did it take so long to catch him? I'm Josh Zeman, and this is Monster, hunting the Long Island serial killer, the investigation into the most notorious killer in New York, since the son of Sam, available now. Listen for free on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, wherever you get your podcasts.

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As part of the My Cultura podcast network available on the IHartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this week trend edition of DirtyEly Zeitgeist. Yeah. It's a production of IHartRadio. This is the episode where we tell you what was trending over the long weekend, in this case. What's going on with us? My name's Jack O'Brien. That over there is Miles Gray.

Hey, yay. Hey, I'm a little bummed. I didn't host Thanksgiving, so I don't have the leftovers to keep eating. So that is kind of a hard time right now. You're going through a lot right now. I would be, you remember me last year. I was drinking gravy, okay? Just to start my day.

I have none. It got to the point where I was considering just buying a turkey breast and just roasting a small turkey breast. Yeah. So you just have it? So you have the appearance of leftovers? yeah um all right well uh it's great to have you back it's great to be back after the long weekend we have a new format of episodes that are dropping on monday morning so it'll be the last one in the feed if you want to go check it out uh it's the icon episodes jamie loftest guesting on

this week's icon's episode about miss piggy yeah and it's evergreen so you can oh yeah can check them out whenever you want check them out whenever learn yourself learn something learn something something about very serious things like Miss Piggy. Exactly. But yeah. It's a chance for us to have a little fun, so we're not always talking about the news. Yeah, yeah, there is that whole thing.

There is that whole damn thing. Miles, before we get into what was happening in the news, we do like to let our audience get to know us a little bit better by telling them some stuff that we think is overrated, some stuff we think is

underrated. You want to kick us off with something you think is underrated. Underrated. Yeah. You know what's underrated? The Tilded Park steam train. Okay. Of course.

The Berkeley steam train just so I was up in Berkeley, took all the kids out for an activity and they say, oh, they might like the steam train. I'm like, yeah, bro, I've been on a fucking steam train, bro. Yeah. We go. This is the best fucking steam, like little kid steam train I've, I've ever been on. It was more magical. Oh, you

motherfucker. It's so powered by Steam. When they Toot that shit, the steam is fucking, it's everywhere. It's everywhere. I'm assuming a lot of like loud sounds. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. And the guy. So this

it's like a fuck, you know, we have quote unquote train rides here in L.A. They fucking suck. And they're like $70 to ride. We can't just be positive about. that Berkeley steam train we got it we got to take down the Griffith Park dude if you went on this fucking steam train you'd be like you'd go and burn down the Griffith Park steam like the

fucking travel town travel town I was raised on motherfucking Griffith Park travel town okay me too I mean not not raised on my kids were right and like dude buying the injection molded plastic toy I used to have like fucking eight of those things I beg my anyway all that to say to use what the kids say our fucking steam train is mid okay the one we have in L.A. And it's expensive. And the kids are all talking about weed when they say that. Exactly.

You can't even fucking, you can't even burn up your gas on that shit. This train, A, it's so wooded and magical, like you're going through proper forest. Then you get, you get like three beautiful looks at the bay,

okay? We went around sunset and it was like so fucking magical to see like the fog lit up. I was looking at her majesty and we were like, what the fuck is this? How do we do this? The guy's child Getting mad at your child

For getting to experience this Well you had to do travel time I'll show you a video I was taking a video of him the whole time Because his sense of wonder Was so fucking sincere Like Wow

Literally hand over mouth Like what He's looking around Look at him Yeah Oh my god That's beautiful That's beautiful

Anyway dude It's you know how much it costs You get five rides For 15 bucks or some shit. Oh, fuck? Yeah. That's just giving it away.

Not even five bucks to write a 10-minute steam train. All right, private equity listeners, you've heard, you know what the job is. They're leaving money on the table up there at the steam train. Exactly. The demand on this thing is going to be inelastic. You need to get over there and take that thing over. They don't even have a fucking proper gift shop. Wow.

They got a little fucking window. You can buy crap out of it. You could build out a whole fucking game store. whatever you want. Anyway, I was just so, like Hermacity and I were both like, this is the best fucking thing

we've ever been on. Oh, that sounds lovely. It kicked every little fucking mini train I've been on with a child's ass. So a shout out to the Tilden Park steam train. I grew up in Wheeling, West Virginia,

and they had, there's a little, like, zoo and park near there that has a little steam train. And I was, I was being like, oh, man, I kind of had one of those,

right up until you were like, and then three breathtaking passes of the bay. Yeah, yeah. Whereas you just like kind of get some puddles that are in the middle of the woods. Dude, and also the guy who's the conductor,

he's just, he has the best job. He just fucking goes to do, all day on this little train. And he would do this thing where he'd like look back and I could tell he was looking at all the families who were just getting like a good memory

out of his like work, like a nice train conductor. And like he was like a retired dude. You could tell. I was like, yeah. Oh, this guy's also getting something out of this.

It just felt like all around good. Um, and I'm sure people are going to be like, I got a fucking train that'll kick that train's ass. And you know what? I welcome it because I'm coming from the hinterlands of fucking L.A. steam train. We,

we fucking. It's a mess out here. Like just kind of goes past some fake little western towns. Yeah. They're just like clapboard. And the five freeway. Yeah. And the five freeway instead of having.

Instead of having. the bay uh we have the five freeway choking on smog yeah it's like how wave to the cars yeah we're no seriously like i'd sooner just take my kid on like the fucking i don't know like a just a commuter train anywhere else uh and it would be much better than the griffith park thing man and he wasn't like the the guy was driving it wasn't like getting weird about it like that's my smile that's my no mind if i smell your baby he comes around uh i live off this shit No, seriously, like I need to get that baby over here. Mine if I get a sniff of the top of the head.

Yeah, see, I've been sober off cocaine. Actually, I didn't get a good hit. I didn't get a good hit. Yeah, bring that baby back over. Yeah, I kicked cocaine 35 years ago. So this is kind of how I swapped in it. I still like, I like to do a good, but now something whimsical, like a baby's head. My underrated also from the holiday weekend is just old school recipes.

My go-to is a sweet potato crunch. that is just sugar and butter and sweet potatoes soaked in syrup out of a can. Yeah. I like it because I could make it years after an apocalypse and you'd be good, you know? Oh, because it's all canned. It's all like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Nothing natural. It always, it always, it's always a hit.

I have it photocopied from a cookbook that's old and stained and like from my mom's kitchen. Yeah. And I remember that this is also the cookbook where I got my, my special Christmas punch recipe where one of the three ingredients is Sprite. Perfect. Perfect. But I just, I don't know. It made me think about the fact that, like, I feel like I don't hate using Baja Blast as an ingredient, you know?

I feel like we've moved away. Like, the foodie culture has moved towards a New York Times recipe that, like, has. yeah in my travels to lisbon get the fuck god does it bang or not bro is it gasoline or not yeah i don't know there's a there's another school of food preparation that's like southern and midwestern and like casserole ass yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah and i just think i'm not saying get rid of like clean eat like clean eating's good but like for on a special occasion i think we should just embrace the fact that we live in a synthetic world where the finest minds in chemistry for the past like four decades

have been going into the lab and inventing things like nacho cheese, Doritos. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And we might as well use those things to our advantage when we're looking to make something easy and delicious. Agreed. Agreed. Yeah. It's funny because I have my,

her majesty's grandmother who like passed away like, you know, like in the 90s. My mother-in-law has like kept an entire fucking file of recipes that she's clipped. Yeah. And it's funny as I was looking at them, part of me is like, they were eating gruel in 1977, you know, like, I'm like, there's no way they were eating good food. But then I'm thinking about like just the history of cooking.

It's like, you're only eating now because of people fucking making shit forever. And once I got over that, I started like looking at these recipes and they seemed like kind of like odd, but then I'm like, no, this, this is probably going to taste fucking amazing. But as we've gotten like more into, as I think people become more traveled and the world is more connected, it's easier like cast aside these like sort of Americana type recipes. Right. And just focus on like the fancier stuff, which I totally get. But every now and then I look at these. I'm like, no, no, no, no, no. We're making this. Give me a casserole where cream of mushroom soup is like the core ingredient. I'm going to make this problematic Cuban casserole. That's right.

you know but it looks called in the book yeah yeah and like look she she was from Miami so I'm like it can't be it's not like it's somebody in Texas making it I'm gonna I'll trust the South Floridians take on a Cuban casserole just to see yeah what is something Milesa you think is overrated overrated is just the lack of physical spaces for kids to but we need to like we where the fuck is toys are us okay yes Here's my thing. And it has nothing to do with like Black Friday or anything. I, at my, um, when we were with our family, my nieces had like an educational toy catalog

or something. They brought home from school. Yeah, man. And the way, my son is not even three. Right. The way he was tearing this thing up. What the fuck is this thing? My kids are still into the, yeah.

Like we got one of those in the mail. That shit still works. Yeah. The mailers. Of course. And like, I remember it for me, it was like East Bay. you know what I mean and it was like well I don't know where to buy a Georgetown Hoyas shooting shirt except for this catalog because they don't sell

Georgetown Hoyas or Michigan Wolverines basketball shorts anywhere except for this catalog I used to I used to circle shit and add it up there's all my friends would do we circle everything we wanted added up and be like okay I need $3,000 that was like that was the activity we would do but for like my kid I realize like the whole idea of like a physical place where you can see all these like things that and and i'm not trying to raise a good consumer here but there is something about seeing a toy or object like in a place and being like wow this is how i'm learning because he's not watching tv and he's not getting hit with commercials all the time but part of me is like damn i wish i could like walk him through

like a big ass toy store where he can be like whoa yeah because i totally get that excitement and I don't want to be like, fire up the internet and look on this screen or whatever. Like, I, I want that. And there's like a couple local spots. Miles, why do you need that when you got unboxing videos? Yeah, right. Jesus. Put on Ryan's toys reviews, okay?

Big YouTube channel. It does seem like when I, you know, the market, as we've covered multiple times on the show, is bad at organizing a civilization of society. And this feels like one of those big blind spot where, like, a private. equity came in and killed toys are us and nobody's come in to fill that up. We're begging for it again. Yeah. It's just it's just like the target toy section is basically all you got. Their whole philosophy is like, well, if we do these business decisions, line go up. And it's not necessarily about like, well, what is the effect on people and culture that this has? And now you're at a point where people are like dying for just truly, people are just dying to be in physical space again. We watched Home Alone too as like our thanks. giving movie you know the the kids really wanted to watch home alone too right and the toy store in home alone too which again i don't know toys duncan's toys they were treating that shit like a mythical i mean it is a bit of a mythical place and that there's like a magical willie wonka style

old man who's just yeah they're attending to any any need and like talking to you and who who happens to be the wealthy owner whose painting is on the wall they don't have a concept of a toy store. Right. It's like, don't have it. It's just like, they were asking about it

like it was a fucking. You should show that, I mean, they're not probably old enough to see big, but shit, when they go to F.A.O. Schwartz, that fucked me up as a kid. I was like,

what the fuck is F.A.O. Schwartz. And again, I think that's the thing is like, there are these like little things that kids miss out on when we just don't have these physical spaces. And I'm, I think after being on a steam train,

I'm like, yes, because we do all kinds of shit, But I'm thinking about the things that used to make me so excited as a kid. And, like, just seeing a bunch of toys is, like, one of those things. And, like, it puts things in your mind of, like, you know, because my parents weren't buying me toys. They're like, okay, if you do this and you do good in school, you can get X or Y. And in my mind, I could put that in my fucking memory to something to work towards. So I just think, you know, bring back FAA Shorts.

Good news. Business chief reported back in 2020, toy seller, F.A.O. Schwartz reopens. under private equity backed company 360. So I'm sure it sucks shit now. Such low hanging fruit. And like, yeah, yeah,

because there's like, you know, shout out to like LA's got a bunch of like natural toys store type shit where it's like everything is ugly store. And I'm like, I love that. And all that shit's cool too. But there's also shit that he's trying to see.

He's like, I want to see a car from cars. Right. I'm like, bro, I don't know where the fuck to get. that you know what I mean I go on eBay or some shit but I you just missed that kind of shit anyway yeah man we had like a family on toy store near us and that shit got taken out by

the pandemic oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah all those all those little toy stores oh yeah Brian the editor hammock or schlemmer shout out hammock or schlemmer for all the weird ass gadgets if you were some gadget geek kid bro my god I was always in that fucking catalog trying to be like do I need infrared loves? Acquired by S5 equity. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. So it's probably sick. Still really good. My overrated is just the, this is just a Twitter trend, but there's the thing happening

on Twitter where people are like, what somebody posted what's the lore behind your header? Right. And it took over my feet in the past week. And like I realized too late that it's just, it's just clickbait. it's just like it's the same as there there's also one that's been around for a while it's like how do I fit this in my header never mind figured it out and it's just a thing to get you to click through to the header and it's never good it's not once being good it's just because the payoff requires you to click through yeah it like juices the algorithm to think oh man there's a lot of engagement on these posts and so it has just completely taken over oh yeah

that's why people do the seamless loop on videos or just put up nonsensical things like how is this possible and it's someone just squeezing an orange and juices coming out of it and then you watch it you watch it five times and like got your dumb ass yeah there's just going to be these like specific phrases that people know that you can use like we no way this is possible and it's a video of someone tying their shoe yeah exactly it's just the whole shit is broken because Bad. Those ones work on me who, like, loves a spot the difference type puzzle. I'm like, yeah, what the fuck is going on with his shoelaces?

You know, I'm like, nothing. God damn it, man, turn up this fucking phone down. It's stupid. But, yeah, the same thing you see those posts, too, that forget to get you to really, like, stay on a post a long time. It's like, it'll be a photo of, like, someone in a cafe. And it's like, the biggest text, like, when you're a person's face, like, don't look at the table. And then on the table, there's more copy that says, don't read the third word on the poster behind.

and that one's like, don't read the, and then, boom, they've got you. They got you. They got their engagement. Yeah. So, I don't know. It's very frustrating. It's just a thing that proves that this whole system is broken. This whole place sucks.

Whole place fucking sucks. But stop clicking on that shit and then stop getting it likes. Stop giving it likes, too. That's like we need to eradicate this trend is bad. There's not been a good one. yet. And I just feel like something about the way we interact with the internet and technology and like social media is like we're real easy, like we're just programmed to be like, I hurt that one. How do I feel about this app? Uber, it's five stars. But then when it comes to

interacting with a human being, we're like, fuck you. Right, right. It's bad. I don't know. Stop giving apps that I think that's been my overrated before is like the fact that go and look at Instagram it's like 30 million reviews and they're all five stars just like who's why are you doing that

who is doing that? It's all fake. It's all yeah I mean I'm sure it's just like popping up when people they're like oh people like this so we'll pop it up and yeah get a nice little thumbs up the phone down y'all I'm trying to put it down let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk about

War crimes. A decade ago, I was on the trail of one of the country's most elusive serial killers, but it wasn't until 2023 when he was finally caught. The answers were there, hidden in plain sight. So why did it take so long to catch him? I'm Josh Zeman, and this is Monster, hunting the Long Island serial killer, the investigation into the most notorious killer in New York, since the son of Sam, available now listen for free on the iHeart radio app apple podcast wherever you get your podcasts

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On our new podcast Health Stuff, we demystify your burning health questions. You'll hear us being completely honest about her own health. I'm talking about very serious stuff right now, and you're laughing at me. And you'll hear candid advice and personal stories from experts who want to make health care more human. Sometimes you're there to listen, to understand, to empathize, maybe to give them an understanding or a name for what's going on. That helps people a lot, understanding that it's not just in their head. We are breaking down the science, talking with experts, and sharing practical health tips you can actually use in your day-to-day life. From when to utilize and avoid artificial light to how to sleep better.

Everything you need to know about fiber and how to poop better. How to minimize the effects of jet lag and how to stay hopeful in times of distress. We human beings, all we want is connection. We just want to connect with each other. We want to make health less confusing and maybe even a little fun. Find health stuff on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What do you get when you mix 1950s Hollywood, a Cuban musician with a dream, and one of the most iconic sitcoms of all time?

You get Desi Arness, a trailblazer, a businessman, a husband, and maybe most importantly, the first Latino to break prime time wide open. I'm Wilmer Valderama, and yes, I grew up watching him, probably just like you and millions of others. But for me, I saw myself in his story. From plening canary cages to this night here in New York, it's a long ways. On the podcast starring Desi Arnaz and Wilmer Valderrama, I'll take you in a journey to Desi's life. The moments it has overlapped with mine, how he redefined American television, and what that meant for all of us watching from the sidelines, waiting for a face like hours on screen. This is the story of how one-man spotlight lit the path for so many others and how we carry his legacy today.

Listen to starring Desi Arnaz and Wilmer Valderrama as part of the MyCultura podcast network available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. And we're back. We're back. And the Washington Post recently reported that Pete Higgseth ordered a follow-on. attack to kill survivors after bombing a boat allegedly carrying drugs off the coast of Trinidad back in September. Yeah. Which the initial attacks were already pretty clearly war crimes.

And then he was like, I don't know. How do I really? How do I really step on the gas here? I mean, fuck a war crime. What about murder? Yes. Why don't I fucking just murder people now and like see where that goes? Yeah, because apparently he gave the.

kill them all order. Yeah, I don't think you're supposed to do that. I don't think that's ever supposed to be the strategic objective of your mission. I think your strategic objective ostensibly was stop the boat for bringing the drugs. That's, and then he's just so dumb and bad at his job that he kind of had mission creep where it became a kill them all, which is a thing he said on the record, you know? Yeah. They, apparently he had said's response it's fabricated inflammatory and derogatory

right um because he said quote these highly effective strikes are specifically intended to be lethal kinetic strikes okay but again we're not at war and you're using the flimsyest logic that's not even logic at this point to just fucking kill people which is why the fucking person who is I think the formerly

in charge of Southern Command was like bro I don't want fucking anything to do with this and left the post because they knew what the was about to happen and that's also why those members of Congress were like it's actually your duty to defy and disobey in a legal order like murdering people that are in a distra like you know there was a group of uh jaggs like you know the legal lawyers judge advocate generals i believe is what that stands for mark harman in that tv show obviously a fantastic show underrated show for how popular was that a lot of those ones jags that were fired under heggsath wrote a letter that

are like, this is illegal as fuck, just so you know. And they talked about, even if you wanted to say this is a war, they're like, you know, technically once they're in a craft or something that's destroyed, they are considered out of combat. So then to then fire upon them is straight up murder and

it's a war crime. What the fuck is anyone talking about? There's like no one would, just that's so beyond the pale. Yeah, it's imperial terrorism. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just aimed at inflicting the most inhumane damage to send a message to people of just fucking fear and that we don't value your lives.

Yeah. And also I think because Trump has like this weird dementia boner of getting Venezuela's oil. Like it's all part of like the fucking spooky tactics he's doing because he also over the weekend gave Maduro an ultimatum. He's like if you leave now, your family can leave safely. But you must resign immediately. Yeah, that seems like that's happening. Seems like there's the preparations are happening for war. Land strikes.

I'm sorry, you're going to fight a land what? I mean, we did water strikes and nobody really gave that much of a shit you know, so now we're going to do land strikes. It's just what comes after water strikes. Because they're coddling a fucking dementia-addled freak man who's like, I want to do this thing. And they're like, fuck, fuck. How do you kind of do it without upsetting him?

Yeah, so it's, I mean, there's no way to, there's really no way to describe this outside of a war crime. minimum and murder and just like a very technical level. He responded to the development of people on both sides being like, seems pretty clear cut. Like, why are we even discussing this in the MAGA rights favor way of responding to anything, posting an AI generated image? In this case, a picture of Franklin the Turtle doing a work from blowing up people

from a helicopter with a rocket launcher on his shoulder. It says Franklin targets narco-terrorists is the title of the book. That's a made-up term because you're just deeming anyone you kill narco-terrorist. Right. And then their next logic is, you know, last week when they were talking about illegal orders, Carolyn or Caroline Leavut was like, any order the president gives is legal. No, dumb shit. But, yeah, that's-

He said it. Therefore, it's legal. Yeah, yep, yep. Anywhere I'm standing is base. So you can't tag me. I can't get it because everywhere I'm standing his base. My shoes are base, so I'm always on base. So not it, not it.

But again, just take his shoes off. Now you've got both the House and Senate, Armed Forces committees are leading inquiries into this. And most of the GOP members on those committees are saying things like, if this is remotely true, this is illegal. And it does seem like it might be remotely true. Yeah. Based on the fact that it could be remotely true that there was two people surviving after a boat was fucking destroyed and then Hegset says smoke these two also

and they did. Trump said he believes Heg Seth of course because I'm sure Heg Seth ran to Daddy. It's not true daddy. I didn't murder people with military weapons. Trump said quote he said he did not say that and I believe him 100%.

He said we'll look into it. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine and if there were two people around Pete said that didn't happen. I have great confidence. Pete said he did not order the death of those two men. Trump's even kind of holding the framing that if he did, that is bad. That's bad. Yeah. That is bad to kill the two people. Like, yeah, he did. He did.

So, so now what? You made a good point in the doc that, like, the thing you would expect to hear from everybody align with is like, we don't know all the facts yet. We back our uniformed men and women as they defend American lives, like, blah, blah, blah. And like, the fact that we're not getting that anymore does suggest that there's, I mean, it just, there's so they this administration is so unpopular and so like some of the way politics is actually supposed to work seems like it's like remotely like having a slight impact and it makes sense right

because at the highest level if you're in the cabinet you're in the white house that's the sort of class of politician or you're insulated from actually probably talking to regular people right because everything's being fed up to you from the bottom and then you go down a couple levels and you have Congress people who actually do they're not all fucking billionaires they still do know some normal people they still do have to hear people fucking scream at them and they're like this shit is fucking bad like this is right up like they're not insulated from the hearing from people whereas at the higher levels they are so I just think this is yeah like it is wobbling a bit and I don't know if also this is a thing where because everyone apparently hates Pete Heggseth

on like just low key and high key but you know most senators are kind of like say some middle the road type shit but this could just be a moment too that they're like okay we can finally get rid of this fucking freak yeah because he's a murderer but we let it get to that point i'll point out that only three republicans did it vote to confirm this pile of fucking shit um and that was Mitch McConnell Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski they're somehow going to be on the right side of history with not confirming this guy. But also Pete Hegg said, there is no statute of

limitations on murder. So that's a tough one. It's a tough one for that guy. Luckily, you might be able to get a pardoned. But you know, might be something you have to think about. I mean, everyone is waiting for the axe to fall on him and we're going to talk about Cash Patel on tomorrow's episode.

But like, I do feel like as far as Trump is concerned, first of all, there aren't too many other options, given that all he wants is loyalty. But like, I do think their incompetence really creates, like, chaos and lawlessness, which he's then able to exploit for increased power. So I don't, like, I don't know that he necessarily gives that much of a fuck that they're doing a bad job.

Like, they're doing a bad job is like, you know, first of all, they're bad at their job and therefore going to be super loyal to him. And then second ball, as they do a bad job, more bad shit happens. There's more shootings, more crime, more controversies. that he can then use to be like, well, we're... Yeah, but he is consistent with not looking like a joke show. Like, those are the times when he then is like, we got to get this person. When it's like, bro, they've been laughing at you,

but I'm glad you've projected that embarrassment onto an external source and be like, get that out of here. It's not me. We have Oxford University's word of the year, which is two words, rage bait. I just basically wanted to bring this up here, because I think it's the same thing as like my overrated where it's just the shape of the internet and people like not taking into account that oh we're just seeing like so like their explanation for rage bait which is like a thing that people have been saying for years and doesn't seem to be like particularly salient now as opposed to you know it's like well that that was probably the thing yeah it could be they became aware it's like I think this stuff's just designed for engagement right wait a tick

let's talk about this it like first of all it feels like making this the word of the year as an act of rage bait in and of itself but it beat out

words and phrases like biohack and aura farming okay and they defined it as online content deliberately designed to elicit anger

or outrage by being frustrating provocative or offensive and they say that it's backed by data because rage bait's frequency of use

spike by a factor of three. But I just feel like it's like it's a word that people are using online, which is the place that you can track. Right. So you're just like, yeah, that's, that's a thing that people are saying about other people's posts online. It's not a thing that has like become a more commonly used in our like daily vernacular.

If anything, I think it just exposes that people become more aware of the fact that there, there is just content designed to get. your attention. Right. And like being more conscious now of being like, I'm not going to engage. Actually, I used to engage with rage bait, but now I can accurately call something rage bait. Therefore, I will not engage with it. Right.

Right. Anyways, these are always bad, but I do think it's funny when they just like completely fuck up and are like, hmm. Yeah, six seven is still it for me, you know? Yeah, it's got to be six seven. It's got to be six seven, man. I mean, I do, if their goal is to identify something that is now going to be. part of the long-term vernacular

than maybe not 6-7 but I dare you how dare you that's disrespectful if we're still doing Budweiser whether even flippantly you know us those us

we're broken we're not alone Jack we're not alone we're the silent majority still the best way to open a Zoom call with people you don't know oh I think you're going to say

a eulogy at a funeral Just get up to the lectern. Thank you, everybody. And we're there. I'm Miles. True boy. You know, your boy.

Probably you don't mind. I'm going live right now for my three friends. Get those hearts going. Let's talk about another instance of designed incompetence. And this one, I feel like, is going to be a sacrificial mega shipper. Lindsay Halligan. Yeah.

Taylor's oldest time. That's what that song was about, right? Beauty and the Beast. Beauty and the Beast, yeah, being... I mean, in many ways. A beauty pageant contestant. Yeah. Meets Donald Trump.

Mm-hmm. Immediately... Chance meeting. Chance meeting. He's immediately like, I want that in my administration. He puts her in charge of trying some of the most controversial cases that he wants tried. Yeah.

And like we said last week, So both fucking charges just absolutely nah famed out of the court. They laughed at her. Then they tried to, there was another thing too. They tried to appeal the decision about her appointment. And guess what? Another judge was just like, yeah, man, she's, well, what the fuck is this person even doing

pretending to be a fucking DOJ prosecutor? Right. She was like specifically called out as being like this, what, what is this? Yeah. Like, I don't know shit about what one of these. briefs is supposed to look like or whatever. It's probably not even a brief. Yeah, the judge was like, wait, hold on. You lied to the grand jury? She's like, well, I don't know. Like, they didn't like the

one charge. So I just put it on a different paper. I had them sign that one so I could get both. And they're like, that's what? Okay, lady, get the fuck out of here. So now, and again, the tale is oldest time. You've had to take a public L trying to serve dear leader and they've completely

turned their backs on you. You're out in the cold. one fucking knows you no one's returning a fucking call quote a source told CNN that halgan is not involved in internal DOJ discussions about whether the department will continue the cases without her it's not even clear whether she will report to her office in Alexandria on Monday wow I mean which makes sense because if they're like yeah you've been legally deemed as fucked yeah you know like bad at your job you've been described as being bad at your job on the highest level and literally nobody in the world like if a sporting figure like fucks up some people are going to come in and be like

he he's good or you know like there's at a rough season back and forth nobody in the world is backing her she's like everybody you know despises her on the same side of things and then her own team has been like oh Jesus Christ but it's funny too no introspection to like yeah that wasn't ever going to go well right we don't have a case at all and we put up a, we basically asked a, like a fucking field mouse to dress up as a DOJ prosecutor and go to court.

Sounds adorable. In the same way, but I think she should make a little AI art about that. I think if this were a Disney movie she got as far as the mouse would go, it's like, okay, that's cool. You got a grand jury to indict. But then under scrutiny, the shit completely fell apart because they're like,

you didn't actually, you lied to the grand jury. Also, there's a bunch of corn kernels in this manila envelope that you said it's like a file okay sure yeah bad day for her i'm sure she'll just you know i don't know go back to florida and but it is kind of an interesting wrinkle like we we talked about how this is a thing the dictators do it's called designed incompetence you put people in positions of power uh so that who like don't deserve to be there and they're just going to be loyal that's why you do it so you know you have their loyal because they're so grateful, essentially, for the job.

They're like, holy shit. Do you see what's on my door right now? Yes, it's granted on printer paper in a gold leaf, laugh, love font. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know if you saw that, but there was, they, Trump last week, he was revealed, put up printer paper outside of his office, that said the oval office, there was just printer paper. So fucking janky, dude.

That's where I'm like, is it for his memory now? right or is it that his request are so dumb they're like yeah yeah yeah right on that start like just fucking print it on paper print it he's not gonna know the difference yeah tell him it's actual gold he doesn't even get out of bed to eat macdon you know that's how they fucking talk about them you know what i mean like because everyone hates their job everyone hates their job yeah nobody likes their boss it doesn't matter how much how high you are on fucking mind conf you're still going to be like this guy's up because even if you're a Nazi I could be doing such a better much better job at being a Nazi than this fuck oh god I

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We're back. Over the break, there was a shooting in Washington, D.C., where a man attacked two national guardsmen, killing one. And there's been a lot of finger pointing. They're using this to basically take back more power than they ever have. Like, the immigration laws are becoming just like they can do whatever they want. They're now making it possible for themselves to reopen cases on people who've already been granted their green cards. Right. Like, nope.

Yeah. And he's even said, I will absolutely denaturalize Americans. Yes. I don't give a fuck. Yeah. Yeah, because everything's going so well. This is, there's, I'm sure, a lot of support for all of this, which is interesting to just kind of watch this spiral continue and just end up harming a bunch of innocent people. But yeah, a lot of the finger pointing that's happening seems to just be in one direction with the administration claiming Joe Biden.

Uh-huh. Yeah. Keep in mind that this man who worked with the fucking CIA in Afghanistan. Sure. Again, like this request for asylum was approved in April of this. this year. But don't tell that to Christy Knoem, who went on all the Sunday shows and all, she could not keep Joe Biden's name out of her mouth.

Like, and everyone was like, wait, what? This was approved under the Trump administration. She's like, yeah, but Joe Biden doesn't vet. And I'm banned from the vet because my pension for murdering puppies. I'm sorry, what are we talking? Anyway, here's Christy Knoem just kicking more dirt on Joe Byron's good name. But I just want to be very clear about this, because his asylum was approved in April of this year on the Trump administration's watch. So just to be very clear, was there a vetting process in place to approve that asylum request?

Yeah, the vetting process all happened under Joe Biden's administration. So was he vetted when he was granted asylum? Are you saying he wasn't vetted when he was granted asylum? Vetting is happening when they come into the country. And that was completely abandoned under Joe Biden's administration. So vetting is happening when they come into the country. And that was Joe. We did the asylum.

Doesn't it was Joe Biden did. I mean, he actually told us. So when we took over, Joe Biden was like, this guy is cool. Right. He said that. He said I vouched for this guy. He's fucking cool. And we believe Joe Biden.

Was we not supposed to believe Joe Biden, the coolest, smartest president we've ever had? I don't think so. I mean, whether, I think that's just so. irrelevant too because again you're you're trying to completely obscure the fact that this is because they're trying to apply this to anyone who enters the country without really understanding again this guy helped the CIA in Afghanistan during the illegal war so it wasn't some fucking rando that popped up he helped the american imperial war machine and based off that contribution was granted asylum that's that's how that's working to then be like it's all joe biden or blah

about you're like you're missing the entire point and also what if if we're talking very specifically about vetting or protecting people what about the fucking 22 year old child that christianome appointed to head the department of homeland securities center for prevention programs and partnerships which is that like after school programs is that what we're talking about prevention programs yeah yeah yeah yeah let me actually describe what this fucking entity does okay the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships, CP3, what we do, they establish and strengthen terrorism prevention efforts

across every level of government. Okay. Hmm. So, like, also, if, if you're talking about vetting and who we're letting in, who the fuck are you appointing to do any of this work? Right. Yeah.

A guy who used to work at a grocery store. 22-year-old with what fucking experience. And also, I think to your point, this allows for things, to happen that they can then just point to and just basically paint every person who's entered or requested asylum to be like they're all sleeper cell agents waiting to attack the United States and completely obscuring what this guy did in Afghanistan, maybe the fucking PTSD maybe this dude had working with the CIA in Afghanistan because I don't think they were just handing

out fucking coloring books. Right. It does seem like maybe the fact that he was known to be struggling with mental health disorders lately and the fact that he had a gun were probably the things to look at if you were looking at this clear-eyed rather than the fact that he was from a different country. But yeah, yeah, I do I do think this is probably the better example of what I was saying earlier, like where you put incompetent people in power who are loyal, but also they do a bad job. And when they do a bad job, that creates chaos. And so then you grab more power. Yeah, yeah. And that seems to be the example. the exact playbook that they're using here.

Yeah, because if anything, this is about access to guns. This is about the fucking stain of the war in Afghanistan and all these other things. Not Joe Biden and asylum seekers. Right. But that's again, like to your point, that's what they need these sort of events for is to completely just change the topic and make it about whatever they need to strengthen their hand. Well, let's take a quick break from talking about this administration to talk about how much old guys love talking about each other's Dix. Paul Anka.

Paul fucking Anchor. Paul fucking Anker, baby. Oh, man. Yeah, so Paul Anka, who is a singer-songwriter from back in the day. But I know that name primarily as the dog, Lorelai Gilmore adopted in season six of Gilmore girls. And I had no idea. And I remember, like, when we were doing a podcast, like at the network with him, I'm

like, Paul Anka is a guy? I thought that was the name of the dog. Gilmore girls. He has a documentary coming out about his career. And apparently I didn't realize he had reworked my way in English for Sinatra. That's like his big connection to Frank Sinatra is like it was a French song that he had translated. So it seems that during the promotion of this documentary about his career, he had some real

interesting things to say about Frank Sinatra's dick. And he was on page six saying, quote, yeah, it was huge. He tells page six in a recent. an exclusive interview before laughingly adding, I don't know what that does for you. Okay, did someone ask? Or he just be like, you know, oh, you don't want to know something about Frank Sinatra? Fucking hung, dude.

He also said this quote, Anka says he would hang out with Frank and the rest of the rap pack in Las Vegas regularly, and they'd all get in the sauna together, during which he joked, he, quote, had trouble with eye contact. Amazing. So, okay. Goes on to say Sinatra's ex-wife, Ava Gardner, allegedly once said Sinatra may have been just a skinny 110 pounds,

but 10 pounds of his weight is cock When people get old And just get dirty as fuck 10 pounds of his weight 10 pounds of it is cock Okay Ava thank you 10

Yeah it's cock You know what I mean Hand me that cigar And apparently Despite the interview Probably not asking about How huge anyone's dick was Paul Inco went on to say

That Milton Burrell Actually had the biggest of them all Biggest of all the dicks Yeah Yeah, so Paul Anka, we salute you. I love that he was keeping track. I had trouble with eye contact. Okay.

This is the proper way to do interviews when you're old. You know, this is like a weird derbation of like the Quincy Jones, you know, when he just started being like, yeah. Yeah, went on dates with Ivana, or Ivanka. Ivanka. Amazing. All kinds of stuff. when he was talking about, was it Marlon Brando and stuff? He was talking about.

You know, no, Quincy Jones, that interview was fucking wild. Yeah, yeah. He liked everybody, bro. Marlon Brando was fucking everybody. Richard Pryor. Yeah. Marlon Brando fucks Richard Pryor. Yeah.

Let it go, you know? Yeah. The fading days where you just like don't give a fuck anymore. You're like, why wouldn't I tell you the story? Have you seen Paul? I didn't realize how. how tan this man used to be, or is. Yeah, yeah.

He looks like fucking roasted turkey skin. Really? Holy shit. If you need to know how, like, what a turkey should look like, just look a Paul Anka face. That's right. And you want to crisp the skin. You want to give it a Paul Anka below. Yeah.

What you want to do is rest of the bird, maybe for 45 minutes after it's cooked, crank that oven up to 500 or as high as it goes, put it back in for about 20 minutes, just really fuck that skin up on the outside really just lock it in yeah Brian asked the important question how is this not blackface it's borderline it is borderline blackface via tanning

it's a loophole Brian yeah there's a photo with him next to Chuck Barry that he posted recently and I am a little bit like I mean yeah you could definitely he might be able to be like you know my mother was a creole right

all right Let's talk about Donald Trump's R-word rant real quick because even though he may be planning to attack Venezuela as we as we mentioned the United States president just declared on Saturday the Venezuelan airspace had been closed without offering any further details

because you can do that you can because you can do that you can just say other country your airspace is closed uh huh okay I mean I guess you can if you just commit work crimes and shoot down anything that you want. You can say anything. I can say I'm the president of the United States. I mean, he had a busy weekend. So he was starting a war with Venezuela, granted clemency to private equity executive David Gentile, who served barely a week

of his seven-year sentence for committing a $1.6 billion fraud scheme. But he still somehow found time to use the R word in a Thanksgiving message to the American people referring to Tim Walls in a rant. about ending migration from third world countries yeah yeah yeah yeah he loves he loves throwing that word around yeah like even when he was asked like they're like hey uh what about why are you using that word with tim walls he's like because i think something's wrong with him something's definitely wrong with him he's like do you regret it he's like no something's wrong with him so i'm going to just fucking be really and that's how you say that yeah that's the only way to say that i'm aware of you hit him

with the R word, baby. That's where I, that's how I was raised. Um, yeah, it's, this is, this is nothing new for him. I like how Waltz was like, man, this something's really wrong. He said, quote, this guy, uh, is apparently in a room ranting about everything. This is not normal behavior. It's not healthy. He's like, we need to see these MRI scans, huh? Right. Yeah. Which I don't know if that's the right, because MRI scans aren't usually used for like brain stuff, right? Yeah. I mean, I think he says that flippingly. It would be a mad. Could you imagine like, dude, he's got a giant, fucking void in his no brain. There's

I don't know what the fuck this guy's doing. He's been shoving the Q-tips in when he cleans his ears. There's like 15 Q-tips in there. It looks like he's loading a magazine with bullets. Just like, they're all

really neatly stacked inside his skull. It's like a Vulcan cannon. Yeah, he uses the same word when referring to Kamala Harris. But I think that one was to donors. And he just like has his is, am I speaking publicly or am I speaking to the media filter off?

He's having a little trouble with that one. His response, though, about the MRI is pretty wild. Yeah. Like, he was asked on Air Force One. They're like, hey, dude, like, Tim Walsh called for the release of your MRI results. And he's like, they were perfect. Like my phone call where I got in Pete's absolutely perfect.

If you want to have it released, I'll release it. Then the reporter was asked him, can you tell us what they were looking at? So this is what's kind of happening in this interaction. If you want to release it, you want to have it released news station, failing, failing news station is doing a lousy, by the way. But if you want to have it released, oh, release it. What were they looking at? What were they looking at?

No, no, no, no. What part of your body was the MRI looking at? Hold on. I just like, again, what were they looking at for releasing? No, what part of your body were they fucking... Was the MRI? Was the imaging. supposed to reveal.

And then here's the answer. Your body was the MRI looking at. I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn't the brain because I took a concocted and fist and I hasted that I got a perfect part, which you would be incapable of doing. Dude, shut up. You're so fucking weak, bro.

It's so, he's so, I think this is interesting because there's a New York Times piece that came out also last week talking about, like, just being like, look how this guy is withering away right before our eyes. And he lost it. Because they were pointing out, these motherfuckers falling asleep, the dementia is fucking ramping up. I feel like he's, I'll leave this for my predictions episode, but I'll say that now, I believe in this next year, he's going to do something to his appearance. Yeah. Or something to make him look younger or more virile in absolute desperation to save his image.

I don't know what it is, dude. If he got the lips. He might get, he got plumped up lips. He's got the message so wrong. He's like, I got thin lips. They say I look like Kenneth Branagh. I need to have juicy soup coolers. That's what I need.

And then they'll believe me. You don't know what? I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn't the brain. Was it your fucking knee? I didn't tell you. Because you tore it out there on the court?

Right. What happened? It is funny. The part where he says, I know it wasn't the brain. He like points at his brain. I know it wasn't her brain. Yeah. I think as a way of showing how sharp he is,

because that is the level of the questionnaire that he aced that he's so proud of acing where he keeps being like you could never I fucking nailed it I aced it they said it was the

best they've ever seen I named a monkey a lion an elephant which you could never do yeah all right but yeah

one of the things was point to your brain sir where on your body did they MRI you yeah MRI'd me I don't know where I don't know

it was just an MRI And it was perfect, and I'm perfect. And what was it for? My brain works good, and this is where my brain is. Enough said. Look at how perfectly I pointed to where my brain go. Still not sure what that MRI was about either. No.

No, we still don't know. Yeah. So we don't know. But also along with that, just unintended side effect of calling people the R word, you miss out on the other R word, redistricting, it turns out. Because Trump's casual use of the R word, like he's about to perform at the fucking comedy mothership may have tickled sycophants like Stephen

I will die alone Chung who does all his social media posts but he also just made his effort to rat fuck the electoral map of Indiana a lot harder so Trump has been demanding new maps in all kinds of red states to gain as many quote unquote safe seats in the house because to prevent it basically like a legislative curb stomping

in the form of a blue wave next fall and he's been traving trouble in Indiana of very specifically getting the votes for new maps where Republican lawmakers have not been as enthusiastic as maybe their counterparts in Texas. And this recent spat with Tim Wals may have just fucking sealed that because now he's pissed off in Indiana State Senator named Michael Bohashik, whose daughter has Down syndrome and he ain't having it. He wrote on Friday on Facebook that he has, quote, been an unapologetic advocate for people

with intellectual disabilities. He's saying Trump's choices of words have consequences. I will be voting no on redistricting. Perhaps he can use the next 10 months to convince voters that his policies and behavior deserve a congressional majority. Damn. Oh. Wait, that was a Republican?

Yeah, yeah. And it's like, like you were pointing out, this is the first time he's used the R word to describe anyone or made fun of people with any kind of disability. But the fact that you're now seeing people be like, all right, I'm actually, this is my off ramp now. Like, this is fucking absurd. Because I don't doubt that he, this state senator is the only person who has any kind of family members of intellectual disabilities or anything.

But in this moment, it felt very personal. And to then be like full voice, like, I'm off this shit. It doesn't feel traditional. Yeah, it feels like things are like shifting somewhere. It's wobbling. I don't know where it's going to go. But like, they're not as enthusiastic. I'm sure there was a lot of back and forth when like McCarthy is.

was the thing and like it just looks like it was like full-blown McCarthyism and then all of a sudden everyone was like out on the guy but yeah um it does go quickly sometimes so i don't i don't know if this is just a a temporary bout of turbulence or if the plane might be going down i mean just all this stuff right like you have the gop senators and congress people being like if this is true that's bad again who knows what they're going to end up doing they might be like all good here this was totally justified. Those fishermen had fishing poles with hooks on them. That's right.

And could have hooked somebody. But there's just that, the resignations that are happening, a lot of the Congress people saying, like, there's a lot of disaffected members of Congress who are, like, figuring out what the fuck they're going to do. It doesn't feel like it's, you know, the halcyon days of MAGA having control of both chambers and the Supreme, everything, like, full grasp on it. And they're like, no, peak America is over. you know oh yeah yeah yeah all right that's going to do it for this monday trending episode we're back

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