The Daily Zeitgeist - Smarter Than Your Average Trend 8/17: Jon Ossoff vs. Trump, Mamdani, KFC Bear, Rebel Creamery

Episode Date: August 17, 2026

In this edition of Smarter Than Your Average Trend, Jack and special guest co-host Sofiya Alexandra discuss their respective weekends, Jon Ossoff’s takedown of Trump, Mamdani being summoned like Candyman, the KFC Bear mystery, Rebel Creamery filing for bankruptcy and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Where's your what? Miles. Where's my, my. Oh, my, my. I actually don't know where he went. I know he had a vacation plan, but I don't know where he want. Brian, do you know?

Is he there? Is he there with you, Brian? Miles. No. Where's Miles? And when Miles isn't on the show, everybody should be asking, where's Miles? I think that's a good pitch Brian, you're right?

I'm just waiting for the cold open to cool down That's helpful What? Waiting for you guys to be funny And entertaining Yeah, did we start yet? Is it happening?

Is this a show? Why has everyone been so rude so far? This is crazy Your little power trip To now Brian And being like, so when does the comedy start? Yeah, so when are you guys like actually going to do a thing that is entertaining to me? Would be my question.

I'm like, wow, I really miss Miles at a time like this. I know. And his accents. Right. I did. I did. accent work is great. Yeah.

I think he should go permanently with an accent. Again, this is like the poochie episode where we just talk about Miles when he's not on the show. But I think what if he just had like, did, when, went full Madonna in 1997 and just had an accent going forward? I think if he had to choose one, it should be Australian. Australia, it's, it's his strongest accent. That's for sure, Sophia. I think that's the strongest word.

Yeah. Really underlines the ridiculousness of the real Australian accent. And I don't feel bad about saying that. It's a silly accent. Great. I love it. It makes me immediately endeared to the people. people who speak with it, but it's hilarious.

It is goofy. It's silly as fuck. Yeah. They're not here to just fuck spiders. Okay. Guess what, Brian, we're not getting funnier, and I need you to know that. This is what it is, okay? Oh, okay.

We're just going to talk about Miles being funny instead of actually be fun. Remember when Miles said this really hilarious thing? That was really cool. Remember when Miles was funny? Hope wherever he is right now He's being real funny I bet he is I bet he's so funny

The trail of people Doubled over And you know He's at the resort Catatonic From all the laughter It's either diarrhea or Miles I thought it was Fent

I thought they were doing the Fentfold It was just I was too far away to hear their Uprorious laughter And passed out From the hilarity. That's right. That's how it happens.

Killing people. A lot of people don't realize that's what was killing a lot of people. He's a not a silent killer. All kinds of loud, gregarious accents and jokes. Man, what a time he must be at him. Oh, boy. Love to think about it. You said it, Sophia.

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What do you think it is now? It's images and words being spoken, captured by some sort of, uh, textiles. Technology. Danny McBride. He loves Oh, that's fantastic. And you make it on, you make your own. That's great. I call him Terro Reed. It's a good name. They're all named after cast members of American Pie.

Yeah. I call, I don't, I never looked up if she was in this, but I call him Leachie Sobieski. Yeah, I don't think she was an American Pie, but I still like that. Haven't looked it up. She was prominent around the same time. Yeah. Then Mary Steenbergin. Why are you guys talking to me? I'm worried.

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You're hired to fill the space with you. You have something in your guts. You go with it. And Sean Johnson recalled the moment she realized her now husband, Andrew, was the one. He was just so unapologetically himself and knew nothing of Hollywood. He hadn't been on a plane before without his family. It was so pure. Listen to Joy 101 with Hoda Cotby on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Hello, the internet, and welcome to the special week trend edition of their daily nightgeist. This is the episode where we tell you what is trending now on Monday, what was trending over the weekend with Miles out somewhere, making people fent bend, fentfold over with last. after. I'm thrilled to be joined by the hilarious and talented. Sophia Alexandra! So happy to be here. Wonderful to have you here. We're blessed, blessed to have you. All the way from the great city of Portland, Oregon. That's right.

Just riding a unicycle nude in the nude. And it's so slick because Jack's slick taint just got off. I tried it out. Yeah. If I could only ride a unicycle, I'll tell you what. Anyways, this is the episode where you tell you what was trending over the weekend. What was trending? What's trending on this Monday?

We also let you know, get to know us a little bit better by telling you some things that we think are overrated, some things we think are underrated. Sophia, I'm going to give you dealer's choice. Do you want to start? Do you want me to start? I want you to start, Jack. Something we think. All right.

I'm going to kick it off with something I think is underrated is how this goes down. I got a couple underrateds. All right. One, just trashy, guilty pleasures as inspiration. I was just listening to the podcast, Blank Check. They're doing the director, Martin Scorchese, Scorskeesky. Brusketa. Bursketti.

Gabagal. Martin Scorsese. They just did mean streets. And had another example. Something that we talked about in the Indiana Jones iconograph was this tendency for like the finest filmmakers

of the second half of the 20th century. You're Spielberg, you're James Cameron's, you're Christopher Nolan's, most successful, let's say. Are people who basically tend to trash movies from their childhood and make them into great art. So like James Cameron is taking

like movies that when he was growing up would be like mystery science theater 3,000 sci-fi movies about like robots from the future. And he's like making those into really good movies. Spielberg with monster movies like making those into high art. Christopher Nolan drew a lot of inspiration from Scrooge McDuck, as did George Lucas. Anyways, for Martin Scorsese built his career on remaking movies that he was, like, raised on trash gangster movies, like the original Scarface and stuff like that. And like, I hadn't really made that connection. But again, it's like stuff that people are like, well, you're just wasting your time on

like guilty pleasures and bullshit ends up being like the thing that fuels this like great, this filmmaking career that's like, you know, multi- Oscar-winning, considered high art, which made me wonder, as a parent, I'm like, this is a good lesson for me to just like,

let my kids, whatever they're interested in, you know, follow that interest, not be like, well, this is, this is do-do.

But it did make me wonder, like, what is the trash culture of today that are going to be the, like fueling the great filmmakers of tomorrow. Like, will we have skibbitty toilet movie? I know there were plans to make a skibbitty toilet movie, but like, will it be YouTube stuff?

My best guess is morning glory milking farm is, do you know about morning glory milking farm? No. It's like a centaur romantic romance novel. That like everybody's crazy about romance novel. where you fuck various mystical creatures. And I feel like that is going to fuel the great filmmakers in like 10 to 20 years. We're going to have all sorts of these romantic, you know, centaur fucking movies that are like made at a Oscar winning level.

That's my guess. That or needos, the squishy toy that everybody is fucking with now. Well, I think, like, trash culture can mean so many things, right? Like, right? Even something as simple as, like, the fucking Super Mario movies are really great and funny. You know, the Lego Batman, great. Like, if we had been told before, you would make a movie that's based on a toy, it's like, you would have been like, that's going to be garbage and not funny or good or anything.

But, like, we've now transcended that. And, like, there's Barbie and there's whatever. So I just feel like in the way that you couldn't imagine toys or video games being bases for like high art, quote unquote. Yeah. Now there's so many movies and worlds that have been created through video games that are like sophisticated and incredible. And like, yeah, just because I was hanging out with like around a 13 year old that was staying with us for the summer, me and my best friend. And his daughter, not just a strange 13 year old that we both. decided should live with us.

But yeah, just seeing like the lore that is behind some of the games, it's like, I'm like, what the fuck? This one's about like someone getting over the loss of their like family. And it's like a therapy game essentially, just like weird shit where you're like, this is actually high art and brilliant. Yeah. Anyway. Yeah, exactly.

I feel like there's stuff hiding in there. And like when people react that strong. strongly to something, it's, they're reacting for a reason. You know, they're reacting, like that thing has become extremely popular for a reason.

I do just want to read you the synopsis for Morning Glory Mielking Farm. Violet is a typical down-on-er-luck millennial mid-20s, over-educated and drowning in debt on the verge of moving into her parents' basement. When a lifeline appears in the form of a very unconventional job in neighboring Cambrick Creek, she has no choice but to grab at it with both hands. and the opportunity that arrives is a milking farm that milks semen from centaurs. So like just that's Minotars.

I'm sorry, I keep fucking this up. Minotars. Yeah, no, it's totally different now that you said minotaur. Okay, much hotter, much more normal. Yeah, I'm very turned on now. Yeah. I'm like, you on a bicycle right now. no.

I also have just as a general underrated how fucked up boomers are getting. I feel like we're underrating how because we have this picture of them. They're like hoarding all the money. But like what are they doing with that money? Apparently they're like getting so high. There's like new studies that are just like.

Amazing. Yeah, boomers are smoking so much weed right now. And like we, we, they, they've like quadrupled the amount of weed they've smoked, they've been smoking on a daily basis in the past, uh, few years. So I just think it's like there, there are these generational studies that are like,

you know, I think I assumed that all the marijuana like statistics that are like, weed is the new most preferred drug in America, uh, you know, like has surpassed alcohol. I assume that was like being driven by young people. It's like their grandparents and their parents are just getting incredibly high. Yeah, I see a lot of old people in the dispensary just spending money on the craziest shit. And I love that.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I think it's an interesting part of the picture. And also, I think young people don't have, because they've hoarded all the good jobs and all the wealth, young people are like, I can't get high like that. I have to go to work, man. I have to work three jobs. And so, like, all the weed is being smoked by their parents. Kids are also, like, committing crime at a far lower, like, a historically low rate.

Bro, who has the energy? You know what I mean? Exactly. After working, like, eight side gigs and shit and, like, trying to make sure your parents are in dead and you yourself not having health insurance. Who has the energy? And what if you got hurt? committing a crime.

Like, that's so much worse even than, like, killing. You know what I mean? Like, what if you throw out your back? And then you have to become Luigi. That's like your only option. And maybe you're not hot, you know? Then what are you going to do? What are you going to do that?

Did you imagine? Could you imagine? I mean, I can't, honestly. I've tried. You know how us elevens are, Jack, you know? I know. It's just like, it's really hard. People don't know how hard it is.

But I do think that if it was the opposite, like, young people were committing more crime and smoking, like, much more, like, their marijuana consumption was, like, going up and up and up. Like, it would be a national news story. But it's like, the crime is going, their crime is going down and their parents are smoking incredible amounts of weed. And we're just like, yeah, well, makes sense. They're drunk driving our nation off a cliff. So it makes sense that they should be. And high driving. Fucked up all the time.

And high driving. Yeah, exactly. What is something, Sophia, you think, is underrated? So I just came up with the super fucking simple salmon recipe. Okay. And I mean, I'm sure I didn't invent it or whatever. But I take that fancy-ass like mustard with a little like mustard things in it, you know? Mm-hmm.

The mustard with the little mustard seeds. Yeah, like the mustard grass. rounds. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And I put it on top of the salmon. Then I put some soy sauce on there. Okay. Squeeze, just a squeeze a lemon juice. Pop the shit in the oven. And I've been cooking my salmon at a lower temperature. So it can be really moist and delicious. So 350, like 20 minutes. Your salmon recipe is you're underrated. Yeah, it's my underrated. Can we share it? Can we? Can we link off to it or is it proprietary?

I mean, I just made it up. So yeah, it's not proprietary. Go for it. You made it up? It's an original? Yeah. It's an original. Does that like explain the entirety what you just described? That's it. God damn. That sounds pretty good.

I generally like line like a thing with parchment paper so then there's no like clean up. Right. Okay. I have my own culinary adventure this weekend where I made my own pizza crust with my kids. Ooh. Used a simple, you know, if you do like making blank with kids, they'll give you

like the simplest recipe. That's cool. So handmade our own dough, you know, got it. It was real like gummy, you know, not gummy, but like, I know what you mean. You know what I mean. Like it was nice and stretchy like pizza dough should be. we put our little four, individual pizzas in

and it came out tasting exactly like a shitty frozen pizza. Oh my God. I was like so confident. Like I was, I was guarantee, you know, I would have put odds on Cal feet that the shit was going to be like bubbly and, you know, have that good chewiness.

Yeah. Yeah. That pizza crust has. It did not, did not work out. That's fucking bullshit. After all that work. The process was fun, though. So I'm going to keep trying to make pizza crust because I know I know I have it in me.

I believe in you. Have another underrated. I don't know if you've watched the latest Z-Way episode with La Roach. No. That shit is the funniest shit I've ever seen. Z-Way is so good. For anybody, Z-Way is the most underrated. The fact that Z-Way is not on late night and like 45 jimmies have been, like, I can't

believe Showtime canceled that show. That's insane. Whatever. Zeeway. Amazing. But La Roach, if anybody doesn't know, is the stylist that styles Zendaya and, you know, some other people, but mostly Zendaya is like his calling card. Yeah. And he does name drop her. He calls himself the Zendaya of stylists. Uh-huh.

That's one way to do that. Yeah. This man is the least humble man of all time. and she is so fucking funny, as always, and it's really, really great. So if you want to have a good laugh, fucking watch that. That sounds amazing.

Calling yourself the Zendaya of stylists for styling Zendaya. I'm trying to think of like what the proper context of that would be because it's like you're, yeah, I guess like in a way, you should hear the Zendaya of stylist for styling Zendaya.

you're associated with her. But are you the Zendaya? I'd be like, somebody who played with Michael Jordan being like, I'm the Michael Jordan of teammates of Michael, you know what I mean? Like, it's almost like... The Scotty Pippin.

Circular. Yeah, Michael Jordan of Scotty Pippins. Yeah, that's right. Although that's not even accurate because Scotty Pippin legitimately is great. It was great with that, yeah. And, like, LaRoech is not. It's not the same thing.

It's like, DJ Collid. Being like, I'm the Michael Jordan of. Of music and you're like, wait. What? You're not, no, that's, you know what? Let's just say it's not good. It'll get you to stop talking.

Yeah, it will allow DJ Collid. Yeah, I'd really like that. All right. Let's talk about some underrated or some overrated, shall we? Yeah. There was a livability charge. was making the rounds on Twitter over the weekend. Did you see this one

where it was like on one axis on one axis it had like how expensive the city was and on the other axis it had quality of life

and it's funny because all the best quality of life and expensive are like Zurich Oslo, Amsterdam, Vienna, just like, you know, northern European cities. And then the worst are New York, Chicago, Los Angeles.

And I just, every time there's one of these livability indexes, I don't know what it is exactly about them. It's like, they seem to over-index for cities that don't have a lot of diversity and seem to have a tough time with, uh, with cities like New York. People either. Right. Yeah. So to me, it's always kind of crazy to compare the like infrastructure, you know, of a tiny place like, say, Finland, which by the way has amazing infrastructure.

Sure. To, you know, infrastructure in America, not that that couldn't be a lot better. But the point is you're talking about comparing New York to fucking any city is crazy. Same with L.A. I'm like, what are you talking? talking about. Yeah. Like any of those tiny cities.

Yeah. It's a better quality of life according to them. Orlando. Yeah. That doesn't make any sense. You also clearly don't know how to live in those cities or what's important or great about living in them. Right.

Yeah. Yeah. They don't value that at all. Yeah. But yeah, I feel like these are, these generally are self-reported by the sorts of like nimbie people who pay attention to like property value and are playing the game of like property value as like driving their reason for living somewhere. and so that probably has something to do with, like, how these different things are rated and underrated.

So just, like, livability. And most people who live in New York don't own their homes. And that's not the number one thing. They do have access to, like, the coolest city. People in New York aren't filling out livability surveys. They're too fucking busy doing fun shit. I think, yeah. Owning property in a car or whatever and like having parking or something.

These are the number one things that matter, which, you know, to be fair, they do matter to a lot of people. But I'm saying that if you can't conceive of a different way to live and why that might be a perfectly wanted way to live for some people. Yeah. I think that's crazy. Also, you're saying that about Mom Donnie's New York. You better watch your mouth. That's right. Exactly, as we'll get to.

Mm-hmm. That shit is improving every day. Every day. People seem to be happy. I'm just going to say, people seem to be happy. What is this place called? People seem to be happy. Numbayo.

That's the place that, that's the outlet that gave us this livability chart. Numbio. Anyways, Sophia, what's something you think is overrated? I don't know if it's like overrated. I don't know if it's like overrated because I don't think anyone likes it, but it's just still there. I'm not as like basically the AI option for starting anything that you start to do on your computer. You know, I don't need help replying to an email that starts without my consent. Right.

You know, where they're like that. Hey, can we offer you some suggestions? But they don't even ask anymore. Like I clicked on the fucking email box and it said, Sounds good. 1030 is perfect. I'm also excited. It's like,

I would have been like, what the fuck's going on with Sophia? This is so fucking strange. Don't, don't do that. Sounds good. Yeah. Yeah, like, perfect. Yeah, I'm like, you don't know my fucking life or schedule. And also I would never talk like that.

It just mimicked... It just mimicked what it thought a human being who is just an NPC would say, you know? How do we help you become the NPC that will make you most easy to dispose of once the AI gets a little bit better? And also just forge you because then everyone will sound exactly the same. So it'll be so easy to forge everybody. They're forging our entire beings is what they're trying to. do. Let me use excessive exclamation points and random fucking, like, uh, capitalization. Okay. That's how people will know it's me. That's right. I'm as unnerving as possible so that I'm a unique

butterfly that they can never replicate. That's my, that's my goal. If I'm replying, what sounds good instead of a key and peel gif that is nois, it's not me. It's not noise. You need to know that. And it's not noise. You're correct, Jack. Gotta say, it's not noise. Let's take a quick break.

We'll come back and we'll talk about some news. We'll be right back. Behind every night spent making the kids lunches, there's a lot of suspense. Will they finally eat the veggies? Will the pasto survive the first bite? Will the lunchbox come home empty, half full, or come home at all?

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Every episode we're trying to help our guests improve their careers by mainly focusing on how they can help us improve our careers. The show is famously super accessible so you can easily jump into any of our 650 episodes and understand what's going on. We recommend some of our recent episodes with Ben Stiller. The definition of what is a movie has kind of changed anywhere, too, right? What do you think it is now? It's images and words being spoken, captured by some sort of technology. Danny McBride.

He loves Mawba. Oh, that's fantastic. And you make it on, you make your own. That's great. I call him Terro Reed. It's a good name. They're all named after cast members of American Pie. Yeah.

I call, I don't. I never looked up if she was in this, but I call him Leachy Sobiesky. I don't think she was an American pie, but I still like that. Haven't looked it up. She was prominent around the same time. Then Mary Steenberg. Why are you guys talking to me? I'm worried.

Why are you talking so down to me that you think I don't understand your little play game? I just really. I get it. I'm trying to set you up for success here. Listen to Hollywood Handbook on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Nick Tuturo. You probably know me from NYPD Blue, the longest yard, or Spike Lee's Black Klansman. But I'm also from Queens, which means I know pizza.

And on my new podcast, delivering happiness with Nick Totoro, I deliver pizza from Prince Street pizza to a new guest. Are you delivering pizza now? Then we sit down for a real conversation. I've shared a slice with everyone from Seth Rollins. What are you doing? My belt. To Alex Rodriguez.

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You go with it. And Sean Johnson recalled the moment she realized her, now husband, Andrew, was the one. He was just so unapologetically himself and knew nothing of Hollywood. He hadn't been on a plane before without his family. It was so pure. Listen to Joy 101 with Hoda Kotby on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back.

I'll go ahead and admit it. We are back. That's so great. I know. Fuck it. you know, we're back. Sooner or later, someone was going to own up to the fact that we're back. Let's talk about a couple things that are, we're trying to go over the weekend.

John Alsop came out with a speech about something that we talked about last week that Trump doesn't want to do his job anymore based on the story we talked about last week where Maggie Haberman was like, yeah, I'd say that 75% of his mind share is taken up. by constructing monuments to self, which was an amazing, amazing turn of phrase. Because it also is so cute to imagine that he has a mind share. Right.

Yeah, yeah. Just like a bloviated sack of self-importance and fucking fraud and pedophilia. Yeah. She also said it like plus or minus 5%, which was like, that's so specific. That implies a level of. of order in his mind that I don't think is, uh, matches up to reality. But let's go, let's go with it. I like that her concern was to make sure that statistically the mind share percentages she assigned

where we're going to be like valid. She's like within the margin. Yeah, within the margin of five percent margin of error. She's like, please don't quote me without that. Um, but then Ossoff said, uh, he'd rather take flights with Natalie. as one of the things he'd rather be doing. He'd rather be playing golf. He'd rather be taking flights with Natalie, which is in reference to his personal assistant, who we have mentioned,

travels everywhere with him, was, you know, the way that the story he's referring to went down is Donald Trump walked on to old Air Force One and immediately was taken away in a catering truck to another plane, to the secret plane, because he had intelligence

that the decoy plane that he was leaving was going to get blown up was going to get blown up with Marco Rubio and like the entire White House press corps on board and nobody told nobody told them that

but he was like you know what two birds right stone I don't have to fly with these losers also they might die one of the people that he was not willing to say they might die was Natalie who is his

personal assistant Natalie Harp. And a lot of people were like, oh, ho! Like, the implication being that they are having an affair with each other, which is gross. I don't, yeah.

I don't think anybody should be putting that possibility out into the world. Dude, look, all the hair in my arm just stood up. Just picturing anything. It's so wild. I would say, that just in terms of strategy

from the Democratic side, first of all, just in terms of the reality of the situation, it's much more likely that she's changing as diapers in a totally non-sexual way. There are sexual ways

to have your diaper change, but this is, I feel like that's probably what's going on, probably hard to say. But just in terms of effectiveness, I don't think this is necessarily the direction to take it

if we're really trying to like get his ass don't be like Natalie and Donald kissing in a tree you know you could maybe imply that she's like one of the shiny bubbles he distracts himself with but I think most people who support him would be impressed like this actually feels like it's one of the lies that he's probably telling to his caddy while he's golfing as the caddy like drops the ball next to the cup and says like, amazing, sir. Good shot, sir. Strong and straight and long like your erection, sir.

Yeah. I feel like it's something he would make up. And so therefore, probably not the best approach to take when pointing out fucked up things about him. I think what a great way to, like, distract from the fact that you're falling asleep everywhere and shitting yourself than to imply that you're, like, actually virile enough to, like, fuck your assistant. Right.

So that, I mean, I think he would love to spread that rumor as far and wide as he can. But no. No. It's not, yeah, he would probably like that. He'll probably start sharing it being like they're saying the terrible things. Terrible. Look at this rumor that they're spreading. Would you believe it that they're saying this thing about?

Yeah, yeah. All right. Speaking of other things. the Democratic Party are not doing a great job on probably a little bit more seriously. A study was released last week from Yale that said Medicare for all would save 114,000 lives every year and save the thing everybody's always saying is, well, oh yeah, well, how'd you pay, how you pay for that? It would save the U.S. more than $1 trillion, according to this. expert analysis.

I feel like they should have put the trillion dollars thing first if they know the way that American politicians speak and think. And in terms of how popular that is, because it is treated by the Democratic Party as a radical position that people don't, won't get behind. 90% of people think that they should actually be moving towards health. healthcare for all, Medicare for all. I mean, if after all of everything that's been going with Luigi, you haven't learned a lesson

about how badly American people want health care, I don't even understand. They really aren't learning that lesson. It seems, Sophia. It is like kind of bad. Like, we have this rush of energy behind these policies, and there's just nobody there to do it. Like, there are so many just common sense platforms that would just, like, be proactive. And, like, anybody, I feel like could figure out that you could just do. And people would be super excited about them and just, like, low hanging for, like, I was talking about how the Nancy got through case, like, where the police just completely fucked up her, like, everything about her case.

But that would be a perfect thing for progressive candidates to be like, look, the police. Like, you guys always talk about how the police, like, you know, don't defund the police. You should fund them more and stuff. This is what they do with that fun. Like, they're bad at their job. We're not saying, like, you know, taking social justice completely out of it, look how bad they are at their job. Like, you could just constantly be telling that story over and over and over and over and over again

because it is the reality of the situation. And just nobody is picking that up in the Democratic Party. Nobody's like, yeah, okay, that would actually gain us a shit, shit ton of voters. I feel like naming hurricanes after billionaire energy executives are the thing people always like talk about online, but like just do that shit. Like, people talk about that because it would be, first of all, it would seem petty and vindictive, but it would also communicate a willingness by politicians to go scorched earth and not, like the problem that people have.

have with the Democratic Party is that they are not, they've been unwilling to not play ball with the sorts of people that you would be naming the hurricanes after, you know? And I feel like that's got to be the number one concern. Spineless ass bitches. Yeah. It's like we, you know, we're still reeling from the Obama era where, you know, he came to power on hope and change and, you know, the rhetoric of the left, but then he completely bailed out the Wall Street and, you know, fucked people for a long time. And like, so you have to

find ways to let people know that that's not the plan going forward. And I feel like naming hurricanes after these people would be effective, you know? But anyways, it just feels, we're just,

yeah, Medicare for all seems like don't even have to be creative for that one, you know? It's just right there, right in front of you. Real softball. real softball, is what I'm saying. All right. Let's talk about Mum Donnie. One person who seems to be doing the stuff that would, yeah, he seems to be in the same universe being like, oh, here's the thing that would be popular.

Why don't I do that thing and make it seem like I'm working for the people and, you know, actually like work for the people for once and like see. what happens when I do that. So in addition to covering up potholes as requested by TikTok users, within hours of their social media cries for pothole help. And it's so many now. It's what, like 100,000? Yeah, they've fixed 100,000 potholes. He's giving out free Broadway tickets to 2,000 lucky lottery-winning high school students.

And he's announcing it in multiple languages, including Spanish, I think Mandarin, Bangla. Hell yeah. And yeah, his approval rating has jumped 13 points since April to 61% just within his first

100 days. And then meanwhile, I did just want to point out Karen Bass, a video of Karen Bass was going viral over the weekend. Karen Bass is the mayor in Los Angeles who is somehow still leading Nithia Raman in polls.

But she's kind of the establishment candidate. She heard about this momdani guy and the stuff he's doing. And she made a video of her own where she took somebody's pothole request and went out and

tried to fix the pothole and did not succeed. And in fact, she but still posted a video. I was like, sorry, there was there is a car parked here. So unfortunately, we're not going to be able to fix the pothole. But we just wanted to let you know that we were planning to fix the pothole.

Do we get partial credit for this? Yes, that is the sort of partial credit bullshit. Like, to not be able to get together a video of your crew actually, like going through the process of getting a work crew together and then not even being able to get a video of them actually fixing the pothole is kind of. of an amazing level of ineptitude. Yeah, and also the lack of commitment. You're telling me y'all couldn't go and find another pothole in fucking Los Angeles.

Are you joking me right now? Covered. Pockmarked. It's like the surface of the moon. I'll tell you the ones that have blown out my tire a bazillion times on fucking Culver. Like, do you want me to come through? Like, you couldn't go on to the next request or you couldn't wait till the car moved. Or how about this?

don't film that day. Film the one you actually do fill. That sounds like a lot of work. Yeah. We're here already and I've actually got like meetings booked solid this week with various. The important thing is I wanted to. Mm-hmm. So you're welcome, Los Angeles.

Yeah. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back and we'll talk about a bear stealing someone's KFC, allegedly. we'll see if we'll see if this is passes the smell test we'll be right back behind every night spent making the kids lunches

there's a lot of suspense will they finally eat the veggies will the pesto survive the first bite will the lunchbox come home empty half full or come home at all and will you finish episode 8 before you're done slicing the cucumbers

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Brought to us by Paula Vigan Allen, who's helping us with writing this week in addition to J.M. McNabb. A woman woke up to a broken table with her KFC dinner missing because a bear broke into her home. So her neighbor, who happens to be her sister, saw the bear on a walk of shame exiting the premises at around 5 a.m. And her sister started calling multiple times to check on her, which is what finally woke her up,

despite the bear shattering her glass table. So she apparently thought the glass table was a car accident outside, which just adds to how good, I mean, I'm assuming this is leftovers. I'm assuming she didn't buy a KFC dinner. Leave it for the next day. Like, like it's being decanted, like a fine red wine. It's like you got to let the KFC breathe for a night. It is a vintage, so you got to make sure you treat it right.

I mean, it is from the site. You know how there's like you can't actually call it champagne unless it's from the champagne region? You can't actually call it Kentucky Fried Chicken. unless you're buying it and consuming it in Kentucky. But yeah, so whatever portion of the KFC dinner she ate must have knocked her ass out cold. And also was so delicious smelling that it lured a bear into her home for leftovers. And she did, her quote was, and by the way, this is, I think, in the Guardian or the independent, like, one of those British newspapers that's just like, let's tell a story that confirms every suspicion we have.

have about Americans. Yeah. Listen to these dumb bitches. Listen to this dumbass. North said, I'm a little sad over my KFC. The bear did say it was just right. All I'm saying is we don't have the bear entering or leaving. I guess I need to see the crime scene because it makes it sound like the bear just

picked up a basket of KFC and like walked out the door, which. Yeah, was the door open? I feel like there's a lot of missing details that make me think something else was a foot. I think it broke through a glass window. Oh, okay. Or maybe I'm confusing that with the glass table. How good does that KFC smell? Bears break into cars.

Like, they can open doors. Yeah, that's true. That's a good point, Brian. Well, maybe she just didn't lock her door. Okay. Well, Munch did it really similar. situation this weekend when we went to the river. There was a lady breastfeeding her baby, and next to her was a bag, and

when she ran towards the bag, and without missing a beat, pulled out half of a giant baguette, and ran away with it. Wow. As I was telling him to stop. Right. He just kept going like this while he was running. So you just made a, you made the face, like how, I'm trying to picture who would eat a like blondey like

Dagwood would eat a sandwich where you just like kind of unhinge your jaw back. Like a sword eater. Yeah. Yeah. Like a sword eater. Exactly. The sword eater approach to baguette consumption. Because he was like if she catches me, this shit is it's gone. Right. He was just deep throading it while he ran. And by the time I caught up with him, it was fully gone. And the mother of the baby was so shocked. He ate the whole man baguette.

Yes. Holy shit. The mother of the baby was so shocked, but he looked so goofy doing it that she started laughing. And the father was swimming, he started laughing. And I'm like mortified. I'm like, I'm so sorry. But he looks so stupid. Deep throating the baghead.

No one was getting got upset. But what a little asshole. I know. That's really impressive. I didn't, like that only makes sense to me. I'm trying to picture it and I can only picture it happening in a cartoon.

Or at a circus with a sword swallower. I know. Munch. Appropriately named. I know. This could, I'm just saying

this could be the most needlessly elaborate KFC heist of all time. Like, because her sister is conspicuously the only witness. And like,

I don't know. She like maybe goes in, eats the KFC, and then is like, fuck, I need an alibi, and then just like crashes through all the glass. Seems not worth it, but I'm just saying. Because it is suspicious she didn't like grab her phone or something to try to film the bear. Right. Give me that. Give me the pics or it didn't happen is what I'm saying. Exactly.

She's like, and then the bear made deep eye contact with. The story is also like, you know, either someone who like really gets into storytelling or in my case, if I'm giving needless details, you know my ass is lying. What if it's a conspiracy between the woman and her sister? Because really what happened is she sleepwalks and she walked through her own damn glass table and finished her own KFC. And her sister's like, just all the bones are gone. their sister's like, I got a cover for her. Yeah, this is humiliating. I'm going to say it was so bare.

How well insured was that glass table? That's what we need to find out. And then finally, Rebel Creamery. Are you familiar with Rebel Creamery? One of the top, keto diet-friendly ice cream has just declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy. This comes after the company was ordered by a judge to pay $23.8 million to rival ice cream maker Van Luen.

They got sued back in 2021 because this is like I did not. Van Luen is delicious. Van Luen is delicious. I've seen the rebel packaging and just assumed that it was Van Lewin because it's the same basic color palette and the same font. And they were just like, yeah. Well, that clearly was to trick people like us who know that Van Luen is delicious. Right.

So that we'd be like, oh, this is probably delicious too. Yeah. I'm no expert on trademark infringement, but it does seem that this is the exact opposite of rebelling. It's just so funny. We're, uh, yeah, we do things a little bit different. You can call us rebel and then they just like copy. What we do is we conform stylistically to rebel flavor wide. Nope, it's still not good.

Nope. It turns out. Sophia, such a pleasure having you on this Monday morning. Where can people find you, follow you, hear you see you, all that good stuff? At the Sophia, T-H-E-S-O-F-I-A on Instagram. If you're in Portland, I'm doing a show at Al's Den tonight, Monday night, August 17th. And generally in my bio, you'll find where I'm doing shows. Okay, bye.

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