The Daily Zeitgeist - Top 10 of 2025: #6 Least Hardcore Person Ever, HE IS NOT SENILE!!! 10.03.25

Episode Date: December 26, 2025

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Hello, Zyte Gang, and welcome to the end of the year. During these two weeks surrounding Christmas and the new year, we take some time off. During the mornings, we'll run some new holiday and end-of-the-year content that you can listen to while we're taking a break. This year, we've got our review of the year movies, predictions for the coming year, Santa University. We look back at some holiday classics with Chris Croft and so much good stuff dropping in the mornings. In addition to all that stuff in the afternoons, where we would usually drop the trends episode, we are rerunning the 10 most popular episodes of this year, according to you. You voted with your dang ears, and we listened with ours.

Actually, we looked at the data. We're spying on you. Honestly, I'm mostly in this podcasting thing. For the rich marketing data, it provides to me about each and every one of you. at the end of the year, when I look back to see what made the top 10, and this was actually my favorite year to look back at, our top 10 is full of episodes. I feel like made it because of a bunch of different reasons. There are some episodes that dropped after huge news events. There are some first episodes that dropped right after some hilarious news events, some great

new guests, some classic fan favorite guests, and some new formats we tried out that we're very excited to see that you guys enjoyed. Before we get into it, I just want to thank you guys for once again being such a cool community that's bloomed up around this podcast we've been doing all these years. You guys repeatedly make us proud. You're there for us when we go through some really difficult shit. You show up at shows of our guests and we always get great reports from our guests about our listeners. You are the rare podcast audience that makes us extremely proud to have you as listeners so far. So don't, don't fuck this up, you guys.

All right. And here is episode number six. It's called Least Hardcore Person Ever, and He is Not Seenile. It dropped on October 3rd of this year, and it features your favorite, our favorite, Marcella Argueya. Enjoy. How are things now that the magical fascist tour is made? to stop into your neck of the woods. You know what?

We're thriving out here, Doug. Yeah. My neighborhood, we're just... Everybody's looking over their shoulders. I realize I've got to be smiling at everybody in the neighborhood. I'm not an undercover, I swear. The rest of the problem with rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods. Put this in the fucking pod, bitch.

Yeah. It's in the cold open right here, yeah. It's in. Yeah, it's because when you're in a rapidly gentrifying Latino neighborhood, you look like the cops if you don't look like them. So I'm literally smiling. Today I was getting my battery changed

and my watch at my local jewelers. And I was like, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, I'm not. No fuck shit going on here. No fuck shit going on here. Yeah, so, yeah, it's tense everywhere. Yeah, it's exactly. I mean, it's like, but the government shut down.

So here's hoping these fools clock out. It was interesting that like even, it's affecting their ability to do social media I was reading Because, like, they had to, like, kind of, they have, like, a troll. Like, they have some department of people that they have to be scouts. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just like, oh, some of you are going to have to kind of take a break. Let's tone it down a little bit.

Yeah, yeah. It's affecting everybody. Anyway, but Chicago is doing good overall? Yeah, yeah. The weather's nice right now. Oh, y'all have weather? Yeah, it's 80 degrees every day right now. Oh, shit.

Oh, it's not even fall. I mean, I love it because I miss California heat, so, and I was so busy that. By the time all of my out-of-state work was done, which was on, what, Saturday, I really was anticipating ugly weather. And it's like, it should be about 70 right now. Yeah. And it's not. So I'm, selfishly, I'm happy. There you go.

Best place and time in the country to be a Chicago when it's warm out, I feel like. Shoot, man, that's nice. It's like perfect warm when it's 80. I mean, to me, there's people that are like, I hate it here. They're not used to even 90s. So I'm like, oh, you cowards. Yeah, because it wasn't it? Didn't it get like that earlier this year?

And it was fucking people up because they're like, you don't hate it. They're like, everyone's just traumatized. I mean, I grew up in Illinois frequently like every summer. Like every summer we got to be 100 degrees or more. I felt like we were used to both sides of this. Well, that's not how they act anymore because they feel like you're precious. Everywhere you go and the AC's cranking.

I hate it. So it's. Oh, you don't like AC? Oh, no. I mean, I do. It's like, I'm in the house. I'm not doing it. anything, the house is sweltering, yeah, turn the A-C on, keep a nice temperature.

But, like, when you just go to fucking go eat a meal and it's fucking, like, emergency room temperature in there? Fuck that. Right. I hate that. You're talking to Miss California Heat 2019. Yeah. It's my favorite, my favorite pageant.

Oh, what a sick freak you are, Jack. I'm a fucking sicko. He's just into the most esoteric pageants. Because they have. to wear sandals, you know, and so you get to see the feet. There you go. All right. Well, we're all sweaty.

Thanks for stopping by, Marcella. Yeah, it's been great having you. Thank you. Here I am. Good night. Yeah. Good night. Good night.

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Honestly, it feels more like a high-level prank than a crime. Who catfish is a city? and meet some memorable anti-heroes. There are thousands of angry, horny monkeys. Clap if you think she's a witch. And it freaks you out. He has x-ray vision. How could I not follow him?

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32 years, total law enforcement experience. But his brother Larry, he stayed behind and built an entirely different legacy. He was the head of this gang and nobody was going to tell him what to do. You're going to push that line for the cause. Took us under his wing and showed us the game, as they call it. When Larry is murdered, Gabe is forced to confront the past

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This is a production of iHeartRadio is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. And it's Friday, October 3rd, 2025. Fuck your Friday. Pick up my girls. I love my day tonight. Oh, yeah. It's National Body Language Day. National Manufacturing Day.

and National Techies Day National Boyfriend Day Wow, this is a real dud of a day, y'all Sorry about that This Friday Let's just let's indulge in that The boyfriend day You guys, oh you guys are boyfriends

Yeah, you guys are haters Because you're not boyfriends anymore That's right No, yeah Not boyfriend material Because I'm married I got a boyfriend, okay? I got a day friend

What's your man got to do with me? I got a man Oh, I love that song I'm trying to hear that scene Did you know that, like, that was his voice? Yes, isn't that crazy? What? I got a man.

Yeah, yeah, that was his voice. Yeah, he just pitched it up. I got a man. Same with the teenage dirtbag when it comes in and it's like, I got two tickets to Bider Maiden. Biter Maiden, I think is the name for the name of your name. Because I'm just a teenage nerd bag. Which that was a little bit more believable, but wow.

I got a man. So Positive K was. rapping at A, it was like, it has a strangeness to it that I couldn't put together when I was young. And I was like, oh, it's the same person rapping. Right. That's why it was weird. Well, I was today's years old when I just. You didn't know it's National Miles learned some shit day. And also, like, Dr. Dre, anytime he's on a track, it's just the other person on the track writing his rhymes for him a lot of the time. So it's like, why is Dr. Dre suddenly rap like Eminem? Right, right. It's always like, hey, you want, you want to do a track? He's like, fuck. You

mean you want me to do your homework? Yeah. That's another reason I don't like that. I got a man song is because I'm like, oh, another time a woman could have been used and you guys said, nah, no, we better not. I'd rather be Tyler Perry and put it on a way. You know what they probably did? They're like, we're like, well, have your home girl who did the vote because she was

trying to ask for money and shit. Yeah, it was annoying. She wanted to respect. All right, let me get in the booth. Watch this. I got a man. Now just pitch that up. Yeah, yeah.

I got a man. My name is Jack O'Brien, AK. My government nearly. shut down in a drug fire after mass shootings. That one courtesy of Lockerone on the Discord. And I'm thrilled

to be joined. As always, so many good drops here. I hope we're catching all these. As always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. There's Miles Gray and gay. I'm fucking all these spider webs. And now nickel will not call me back. Shout out to Christyama Gucci-Maine on that

one. We're talking about what's Keith Urban up to? You know what I mean? Is he here to fuck spiders? Is he fucking spiders? Is that what's, what's, what's, what's, what's, what's, what's, what's, what's? What's he fucking the guitarist? We don't know, that must be what's happening. Uh, but a lot of people who are posting memes, they're like, oh, Nicole Kimmy just went through a divorce.

It's like, she's about to clap back, like the way she did after Tom Cruise. What does she do after Tom Cruise? There's just like a glow up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. She was looking foin. Yeah. Yeah. Everyone's like, oh, she's been looking pretty good. You what's up. She danced in a parking lot. Mm-hmm.

I don't remember that. Yeah, that is a famous clip. I've heard people refer to it as a famous clip that I was not. Oh, yeah. And her fucking Ann Taylor Loft gear. And Taylor Loft. You guys couldn't see it at home, but I was doing a little dance. Yeah.

Her pants in the AMC video are very like. Her pants? Oh, my God. Don't you remember when. Ellen Strickland William. Sorry, I'm kidding you off. There's no way that's interesting. Alan Strickland William.

Alan Strickland Williams was like, of course I can believe Nicole Kidman's divorce. She went to the movies all those times by herself. So stupid. She is by herself. I hope I gave the credit to the right person because I wasn't thinking about that. Oh, man. Oh, yeah. Her pants do look, Ante-Teller loft, though.

Very 2000s. Yeah. Very shimmery. That's pretty funky. That had to be, that had to be some fashion designer that's cool. Yeah, Nicole Kimman ain't pulling up and no Ann Taylor loft. That was just me being a racist bitch. Miles, we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat.

I'm sure the listeners are on the edge of their seat, not knowing who could in a beat. One of our favorite guests, one of your favorite guests. That is such a good impression of our listeners. Writer, actor, one of the funniest stand-up comedians doing it. She has an incredible stand-up special called Bitch Grow Up that you need to go watch on. We used to say on Max, it's back to go watch it on HBO. HBO Max. You can also see her.

HBO Go Max it. You know what I'm saying? No. No, no, no. Come on. Who is it? Who could it be now? You can see her on a stage near you. Go check her website. It's the hilarious, the talented. Marcella Argueo! It's me. I don't have a song. I don't want to riff one because I smoked a little weed before and I don't know what's going to come out of my mouth.

You've been riffing songs the whole time. I know. I don't want to guys, sorry. I can't do a lyrical miracle. Yeah, Miracle. Lyrically or Mario Andretti. Spherical. Oh, I went to the sphere and I saw the Wizard of Oz.

Oh, you saw that shit? Yeah. It was both cool and uncool at the same time. Both cool and uncool. Yeah, we saw the clips and we're like, I mean, seeing anything in there has got to be fucking wild, but then seeing like the other parts that were just kind of like, this looks kind of like shit. There was.

There was some parts that you were like, uh, I paid money. for the wait what had you yeah what had you like that the first what was the first moment we were like

wait I don't know about the first moment but the moment I was like this is too far because I had popped a couple things

had popped up yeah but there was like a guy there was like people I'm sure that's one of the clips that's online there's like people

at the bottom of the screen but the bottom of the screen is right in front I mean everything is right in front of you yeah there's like AI people digital people

that it's like you guys CGI exists like couldn't do a blend of assortment of making a person right it looks like it looked like my nephew could probably draw something better free-handed it was so it was like they got people that do not know how to actually describe human beings well and it was like robot and you're like why would you just cut it out you don't even need it it's filler put a bush there

for God's sake that was the one that really pissed me off was this I was like I don't need to look at that. Because, you know, some of the flowers and shit, like, that's easy to replicate with AI, but a whole person that doesn't exist, oh my God, it was so, anyways. The cool shit was like the tornado and the

wind, right, yeah. Because when the tornado happened, it looks like, and people are like, there's garbage being thrown at you. It's actually like leaves, like tiny paper leaves. And they're so cute, I saved one. That's much better than garbage. Way better than garbage. They just throw garbage at you.

They just kick over the garbage can. It's a paper shape leaf. It's a keep. sake. That is cute. It was very cute. And then the apples that came out of the sky, you know, people really were waiting for that. I didn't really, I didn't know shit about this. I just saw the hilarious

clips and I was like, I'm down. My friend said she was going. I said, I'm in. I want to do something. We got to see it at 10 in the morning, you know? Wow. I don't remember the apples part from Wizard. Yeah, the apple, there's little like, like, I don't want to come plush. They're like felt apples. They come out of the sky. Because there's a point where the tree shakes and

drops apples in the movie. Oh, yeah. And so they make this huge tree. It looks really cool. I mean, the, the nature aspects of the,

of how they extended and made it, you know, bigger. That was really cool. You're like, well, and I took an edible. So I was really into it.

Yeah, you better. What the fuck? 10 a. m. seeing that shit. Yeah, it was,

it was great. In fact, there was a lady. Oh, my God. The fucking, but the getting to your seats is crazy. It's so steep. Yeah.

I actually like, oh, hit, like, as soon as I walked and I was like, And I went back and I was like, oh, my God. Like, this is like legit, a frightening experience just to walk down to your seat. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And then there, we were not right next to the aisle, it was two ladies and then us. And when everyone got up to leave, everyone like rushed out, you know, we were, we were not in a rush because I was like, I'm not trying to stumble. Yeah, yeah. Big ass fucking feet I have through these narrow little, like, I can't, it's got to be so uncomfortable for so many different types of people to, to be in there. And so we were like, we're not under rush. And then the ladies next post were like, are you guys in a rush? And we're like, oh, we're not in a rush. And the lady was like, yeah, these, it's like really dizzying.

You know, and I'm, you know, I'm older. And I go, yeah, and I'm on edibles. So that's the equivalent. We're also not in a rush. Yeah, that's an equivalent. And she goes, oh, my God, my son told me that I should take some before I came here. And I said, no, no, that's going to be too much. No, no.

She's right. It was a lot. It was a lot. She fucked up. She fucked up. All right, Marcella, we're going to get to know you a little bit better at a moment. Wasn't that enough information? There's plenty.

Jack, you selfish prick. I need more. First, we're going to tell a listen to a couple of things we're talking about. We're going to talk about teenage mutant ninja gerbils going to Memphis. There was like a big Memphis pep rally for fascism. So we'll talk about that. We'll talk about Pete Hegseth just melting down behind the scenes after he fucking bombed in front of the most powerful people in the military.

He's now making everybody to, everybody do a lie detector tests, just so insecure. Sign of a healthy marriage. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, exactly. We'll talk about mainstream comedians being fucking losers.

And the Google AI Trump dementia blackout where Google AI is not willing to weigh in on whether there's anything going on there. Google AI will give you a fucking answer on. There's no better way to show there's nothing to see here than erasing everything. Yeah, yeah. There's really nothing to see here. Truly.

For real, right? Oh, my God. All that plenty more. But first, Marcella, we do like to ask our guests. What is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? My search, the last thing I Googled is boat cruises in Chicago because the weather is still nice here. It's about eight degrees for the next few days. And my friend is visiting.

So we want to see the architecture and maybe some ice agents attacking citizens from a helicopter. What is going on? I can't enjoy anything. Yeah. Was that yes last night where they came out of a fucking black hawk? Let's get a little. What? There's trendy Aragua in here.

Yeah. Yeah. We said awa chilis. Oh. Jesus Christ. They're serving Iowa frescas. They're like, oh, we got to fucking get them. Yeah, so that's the last thing at Google's boat cruise is because I was like, but I saw that, literally probably the, but within a day of doing that, there was that image of the ICE agents, like doing PR for themselves and they're like on the Chicago River like, oh yeah, do you see that?

Yeah, and they're like, there's a guy with a camera and it's awful. They're just making the macarena. Yeah, it was gross. I was like, oh my God, you can't go anywhere. Giving out Halloween candy that was donated. We talked about that. past year where when you donate Halloween candy, it goes to the U.S. military to, like, they're like, because the U.S. military is like care packages, but what they actually do is use it to like bribe

the locals. Oh, yeah. Foreign countries. Now probably in our country. Yeah. Oh, I mean, they've been bribing children in our country. Yeah. You know, I mean, how else do you plant crack on a father? You know what I mean? Sure. And, you know, it's a little trick-a-o, you little swip-swap. It's pretty easy. Swap and trick-or-roop. A little swip-swap. Been bribing me since G.I. Joe. It was like the first thing that I liked.

Which brings me to what I find underrated. Hell yeah. Great transition. Great transition. Because what I really am irritated with, because nowadays when you buy stuff, it's just you get stuff, whatever, there was a time where there would be so many freebies. There'd be so many free items with the purchase,

whether think of cereal boxes with an actual toy inside. I'd get like maybe a sticker. sticker. Right. But there was always some, some giveaway. We used to have, and from the fucking origins of giving, of selling crap, people were always giving shit away. And we have finally gotten to the point where you rarely see that. So you're not getting something cool, something extra, something to play with. Even, even Happy Meals. Remember when we had Happy Meals as children? Yeah. The Happy Meal box was a toy in itself. You could, there has like, you know, the little perforated shit and it would have like a barn door and shit yeah you would have a barn door

and you could play with the toy fully in it and immerse yourself in the little cardboard toy and then if you had like siblings or a group there was eras where they would make it were like oh they all connected if you did this one thing and you can you can build a mansion or whatever and we and then what happened then we got the points they got the fucking Pepsi points and the marble miles and that's when companies really started being like wait this is how much people are willing to spend for free crap

oh let's fucking see how far we can take this and now we're in a position where nobody gets free nothing ever at all ever I remember Esté Lodder man free with your $60 purchase of land coal

huge bags four or five items you'd get a lot of items I was living off of the cool water free samples that you would get like my friend lived near a box store you just go through there

you never had to buy cologne you just got like as many free samples I was wearing there was an error for like two years I was wearing Nautica Sport Cologne all samples

I never bought it I just re-uped at the mall every time yeah and it's also like yeah because you were too young to be buying a bottle of Cologne anyway exactly right

you know it's like no it's training you to eventually be that consumer but I hate this thing where like everyone is expected to consume high quality all the time at five years old

or whatever as soon as a kid can get a phone it's fucking it's so shosh It's really taking the fun. I realize, I'm like, why is this not fun to shop anymore? Because it used to be even not that too many years ago, the pandemic shut that shit down. But you could go to Sephora, also, wherever, whatever, B, sir.

Oh, can I get a sample of this? Even like you could ask them to try something that's in the store. They don't do that shit anymore either. Oh, really? Yeah, they don't do your makeup at the Mac counter if you buy shit? You have to buy a certain amount. That's always been. I feel like that.

I think that's the hardest to get rid of. But let me tell you something about that, too. is now with, you know, the popularity of places like Sephora, they do offer, but now it's like you do have to spend. And at Sephora, it used to be, you didn't have, you know, you could just go in and do something real quick, whatever. So it is like starting to change because they realize people are going to go in there and take advantage.

But also, you can say, you guys got to figure out a way to obviously control that if you can't. Man, don't fucking change a whole shit for everybody. Yeah. I want free toys. The corporations have just won so profoundly. They, like, now they don't even, they like, charge us whatever they want.

They're just like, I don't know. Well, it seems like you'll pay for this. Come and get it. It used to be like, well, you little piggies. Shouldn't we give them like a little treat with that purchase? I mean,

they are spending a lot of money. And now it's like, man, fuck them. I don't even get a fucking cube to charge my fucking phone that I just bought and spent money on. Like, I get the cord and I stickers.

Oh, you want headphones? Fuck out of here. We should, at those prices, we should be eating all that shit for free still. It's crazy. Everything's,

yeah, they just shake it out into a trough. now. I just want to remind people not to spend so much. We got to pull back. I've been talking about that that like I think the whole

Oh, you've been talking about it, Jack, huh? Marcel, I was actually talking about this the other day. On my podcast. On my podcast, the Daily Zeitgeist. But all that shit where they were talking about like removing like friction from the consuming process where it's just like you just hit a button. And now we're all just like sitting in our houses.

I think that is helping them drive inflation like they can just charge whatever the fuck they want because nobody's noticing because they've made it so simple to to charge everything and like everything's on a fucking subscription and shit. I remember my parents were like mailing checks

to pay their bills. Yeah, it was so hard. I did yesterday mail a check to pay a city because these motherfuckers, if you don't pay with a check, they'll find a way to charge you. Oh, really? Oh, yeah, Chicago's sneaky. One shiasty motherfucker, I'll tell you that right now. You had to balance your

checkbook, I guess. I don't balance my checkbook anymore. No, but in the in the past. It's a lot of you do that work. You know?

I saw my checkbook here that I've had since I was like 19. It's the Simpsons. Oh, like the cover. Damn. Look at that's actually

and that's well made. You know what I mean? Yeah, it's cool. Checkbook cover now. That should have a last fucking three weeks. This is leather guys.

The Simpsons leather checkbook. Okay. This is when consumerism meant something. That's right. When your favorite characters were on your

capitalist function paper. Guys, we're talking in circles, aren't we? We make no sense. Anyways, guys, like and subscribe us on wherever streaming services, explaining the people that are contributing to the streaming service. Anyways, what's something

you think's overrated? I usually do one in the same, so I feel like we talked enough about that. Okay. You always... You never know what I'm going to do when I'm here. No, I'm good. we did. That's cool.

I think we did one in the same. Oh, wait. Here, wait. I did write this down in regards to that is companies realize how greedy they can be, how much we'd be willing to spend like we're gambling. Yeah. Yeah, it's all a casino. We're all gamblers. We live in a fucking casino now. We're playing with our lives. Yeah. All right. We're going to take a quick break. We're going to come back.

We're going to talk about the news. We'll be right back. It's Ryan Sechrest here. If you love adventure, travel, culture, food, and architecture, there are certain cities you've got to just visit in your lifetime. Madrid tops the list. World-class museums, inspiring art, venture just beyond city limits to discover vineyards and medieval towns and feel like you're adding a second vacation, but those escapes are all part of Madrid's magic.

Need another reason? How about the F1 Grand Prix arriving in 2026? The buzz is real. See what everyone's talking about. only in Madrid.com. I'm Stefan Curry, and this is Gentleman's Cut. I think what makes Gentleman's Cut different is me being a part of developing the profile

of this beautiful finished product with every sip you get a little something different. Visit Gentleman'scutburbon.com or your nearest Total Wines or Bevmo. This message is intended for audiences 21 and older. Gentleman's Cut Bourbon, Boone County, Kentucky. For more on Gentleman's Cut Bourbon, please visit Gentlemen'scutturbin.com.

Please enjoy responsibly. Have you ever listened to those true crime shows and found yourself with more questions than answers? And what is this? How is that not a story we all know? What's this? Where is that? Why is it wet? Boy, do we have a show for you?

From smartless media, campside media, and big money players comes crimeless. Join me, Josh Dean, investigative journalists. And me, Roy Scoval, comedian. as we celebrate the amazing creativity of the world's dumbest criminals. We'll look into some of the silliest ways folks have broken the laws. Honestly, it feels more like a high-level prank than a crime. Who catfishes a city?

And meets some memorable anti-heroes. There are thousands of angry, horny monkeys. Clap, if you think, she's a witch, and it freaks you out. He has X-ray vision. How could I not follow him? Honestly, I got to follow him. He can see right through me. Listen to Crimless on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Dad had the strong belief that the devil was attacking us. Two brothers, one devout household, two radically different paths.

Gabe Ortiz became one of the highest-ranking law enforcement officers in Texas. 32 years, total law enforcement experience. But his brother Larry, he stayed behind and built an entirely different legacy. He was the head of this gang, and nobody was going to tell him what to do. You're going to push that line for the calls. Took us under his wing and showed us the game, as they call it. When Larry is murdered, Gabe was forced to confront the past he tried to leave behind and uncover secrets he never saw coming.

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I didn't get you, I didn't get you have a break on that one. I don't call me, play, boy. I don't like when you breathe, Jack. I know, I'm sorry. it's too much it's way you knock that off you hear it

when he laughs he goes wait what's a good way to laugh without breathing just as an example can you imagine

you would cook his ass if he if he actually laugh like that yeah I'd be like always trying to

show off those nice teeth I'll always find the way shit on your life oh so you want to so you think

you Tarzan awesome oh oh yeah I'm Jane you're Tarzan And it's always something just sicko. Oh, yeah.

I'm a sick freak. Yeah, yeah. Let's talk about Teenage Mute and Ninja Gurbles. Yeah, so the, yeah, the Fash Across America Tour has made its Memphis stop. And Pam Bondi, Pete Hagseth, and Teenage Mugherbill, Stephen Miller, dropped in to have like another, just having to watch these pep rallies where a bunch of fucking federal, like, troops and agents just have to hear some guys scream at them. I guess that's like the theme of the week. So they did that. They gathered all this law

enforcement to basically be like, you know what? You guys are fucking unleashed, which is fucking terrifying. Because why the fuck is Hegseth, the fucking secretary of defense in an American city telling troops, you'll fucking have at it? Because they're just clearly trying to make the agents and troops feel like they're above the law. Trump told on himself when he was like, me and Pete have been talking that like it would be cool to train the military on cities so it would be cool yeah very cool donald very very cool that seems wildly illegal yeah but hey you know what like the teenage mutant ninja turtles they're also radical ninja gerbils got on stage and i don't know this he's every time stephen miller speaks it's just some whiny bullshit

where you it's just like big like you're not tough behavior and he's he's on a run he every i think i've seen three clips of him total in my whole life of him talking. And so this is probably the third one. And I'm always, it's always so jarring. Yeah. Well, it just doesn't match. None of it matches any of it. Well, he's saying how he's delivering

it, his body movement, and nothing matches. Yeah. And Marcella, look, you've grown around people who, uh, growing up around people who don't take shit. You know what I mean? Oh boy. You know, you know, I don't know. I used to run an MS-13. I was just kidding. I mean, not get myself in how old. Yeah, right. Drone strike.

I mean, I think like anybody, just let's assess his menace, quote unquote, menacing speech here. Yeah, yeah. Really gets the men in menacing. But there is a square inch of block in this city where a citizen doesn't feel safe is unacceptable. This is Memphis. This is the United States of America. Wait, pause. What I want the listeners to listen for as a bully, the way I listen.

First you have to listen. This is why I saved this clip for you. you have to listen for a speech impediment. There's history of it there. You can hear it if you really got a good ear. If you have a well-trained ear like me, I've been bullying since I was a child, I've been bullying kids.

Sorry, that's just my history. Yeah, yeah. I've learned to use it for good, but I started rough. Okay, you can really hear previous history of a speech impediment, which also explains a lot of how he says things. Okay, go hit the play. Okay, thank you for the play-by-play.

Bullshit is done. It's over. It's finished. Well, you can hear it, though, can you? You know, the gangbangers that you deal with, they think that they're ruthless. They have no idea how ruthless we are. They think they're tough. They have no idea how tough we are.

They think that they're hardcore. We are so much more hardcore than they are. Please, someone needs to sample this. I hope some famous hip hopper. Yeah, right. Just uses it. Oh, maybe Kendrick. If you need to do another, if you need to do another Drake desk,

you can, this is a sort of, we are so hardcore. Yes. This could be run by Drake. There's no idea how hardcore we are. What the fuck? They think they're tough. They're hard core? We are so much more hardcore than they are.

This is the, this is again, like, Marcella, this is why I, we were going to talk about this in an earlier episode, and I was like, I need Marcella, because I know, Marcella, you're, you're, the hair, your, the hair, your belly hairs on the back of your neck are shooting up. being like this bitch ass this punk ass bitch right now you think you think we're so much more hardcore like that is the saddest fucking sentence i've ever heard is we're so much more hardcore than they are it's it also sounds like how he talked to kids in junior high like he hasn't grown up

yeah yeah yeah always thought that was the way to talk you're hardcore well i'm like close do yeah like the west side connection album had just come out and he's like You think you're gangster? We're a gangster. You think you're hardcore? We are so much more hardcore. Okay? We're so hardcore.

It's just a perfluous amount of hardcore that we are. This actually is frivolous. It's frivolous the levels of hardcore. I wanted that to go on and on. Oh, I mean, it's there. It does. He goes on to basically say, you know why I'm hardcore? Because I'll have the entire U.S. military come after.

Oh, yeah. That's right. very tough. Much more hardcore than they are. And we have the entire weight of the United States government behind us. What do they have? Behind us. You guys hear that?

Right. Behind us. So we are going to win. They're going to lose. We are going to rescue Memphis. And it will not only be safer than ever before, but businesses and investment are going to pour in. And Memphis will be richer than ever before.

Because President Trump has decided this is a priority. And when President Trump makes a decision, this team behind me today, executes. Okay. So, yeah, for everybody out there in Memphis, I mean, I don't know. I barely know anything about Memphis 10 at Key, but I don't think, I don't think anyone's hardcore there from, at least what I know from. Not as hardcore as he is. There's nothing.

Memphis? Oh, yeah, you're fine. I do love, I do love this representation. It's very beat for Vendetta. I love this representation of like a leader of the United States, like, threatening gangs. Like, this is the shit that they used to sample in the 90s, except. Yeah, yeah. It didn't sound corny like this.

Do you know what I mean? It's too over the top. Like it is from a movie that, yeah, where like the performance is like, that's a little much, but all right. Like it's just, it seems like he studied like pathetic 80s movie villains to like perform this speech. Like, how do we like set T something up so when this person falls flat on their face, everybody can feel fucking awesome? That feels like the express like subtextual. purpose of the writing behind this scene. Do you think that the blood

was rushing through his veins? Like he felt a high? Do you think he was high? No. Look, you know how not hardcore this? Dude, I bet he is shook. Atterol. He's on speed. Yeah, he'll take someone that a doctor or a pharmaceutical company's manufactured. I think like this whole administration is flying on Adderall. I think we're going to talk about it. I mean, I'm saying he doesn't even seem like he does it. I'm saying like his wife finally gave him black cherry Pepsi.

And he was like, I got to speak for you, lady. You think he's on some Latter-day Saints shit where he's like, I have chocolate milk this morning, motherfucker. Don't talk to me. I had chocolate milk this morning instead of regular milk. I am fucking freaking out right now. I do feel like both in this speech and the Hegsafe speech

where Hegsev got up in front of the generals and was like delivering a similar speech that had like parts built in where you can tell they thought that there was going to be. like fucking swelling applause and they have ox cord buzz like it's always just empty room buzz

so here's the thing that's funny about that to me is that when you're a comedian and you watch other comedians and you watch them pause for laughter that is my favorite moment of silence and now I have to rewatch this with that in mind because I'm realizing

that I don't think I was watching that with like comedy brain in mind, but now I want to rewatch it with comedy. The pauses. Because the pauses are always so funny in comedy when people, there's a couple people with specials that they're like, I need you to applause. And then the crowd does,

they go, oh, we're applauding me right now. Oh, okay, my bad. I love a force of applause break. That was a joke,

folks. Yeah. Guys, if you watch my HBO Max special, there's a moment in the special where I say, please stop applauding. I don't have time for that. Because some of us write jokes to the point that we don't need,

I don't need a plug. Your laughter is enough. I need to move on. Yeah. You killed so fucking hard in your special. It's amazing. You killed so fucking hard. You're so fucking hardcore.

I was so hardcore. My special is the most hardcore. Hell yeah. There's words traveling about another comedian who just taped a special that went less well that we're not going to talk about. Theo Vaughn is a dumb piece of shit. Oh, you mean hair plug? Yeah. Mullet wig.

I do have a new podcast coming out. Comedy is Dead Season 2 with a new guest host, Chloe McCala, who is based in Chicago. We have, it should be coming out next week. I'm really, I'm doing, you know, we don't do planned drops anymore, right? Guys, we just drop the shit. We're in a society where there's no preparing for anyone to pre-listen. Nothing matters anyway. Anyway, so we're dropping two episodes at once because we recorded an emergency episode

because we wanted to talk about the thing we're going to talk about later on here. But we get into that Theovon thing, thing. So you guys don't have to talk about it, but I'm letting your listeners know that if they want to listen to them, they can take a little listen. I love to hear your commentary, because I know you're not going to fucking hold back. I don't hold back, but I do think that you wouldn't know what I'm going to fly next. Okay. And that, I'm tuned in.

In kind of a related story, I just like, did you, Marcelo, watch Pete Heggseth's speech to, like, all the Pentagon generals, like, all the top military brass where he just... Wait, wait, wait, wait. He's got a giant flag behind him, and he's, like, talking about how, like, you guys are too fat, essentially. But, like, you know, just getting... giving this speech that, again, same energy, same, like, you know, I've pumped myself up. I've delivered this speech in the mirror 20 times, but, like, you can tell there's nothing behind it. You can tell that he's, like, very scared. So anyways, that speech went very badly, just dead silence. No, like, not even polite claps. And, no, they were basically commanded.

They were at the end. No, they were like, attention. They're like, all right, speech over. Stand up. Now, sit your ass down. But, so the fallout from that is. There's a fallout? There's a consequence? Oh, my God. Is that he's now starting to institute random polygraph tests for people who work in the Pentagon that people are, they're saying it's to stop leaks from happening.

They're saying to stop leaks. But I guarantee there are questions on like, how good does Pete look in a suit, though? Yeah. Like, I mean, and that that was. a cool speech, though, wasn't it? Did you know that that shit's in it? Jack, put me on the poly right now. He didn't bomb

up there, right? No. Bombing is not a word that we would use in relation to that. The polygraph machine is smoking. On fire. Nah, that was sick, man. That was so fucking sick. You're so good at lifting

us up. Yeah. Jesus. Crazy. I was blinking eyes are that that Spider-Man. or that's what that moment is. Wait, what? When the Spider-Man meme, when they're just... Oh, pointing at each other?

Yeah. Except they're not pointing there. Got it. Doing that. Doing the polygraph with Pete. Doing the polygraph. The Pentagon's calling the reporting that he's subjecting people to random polygraph tests,

untrue and irresponsible, which is the new catchphrase that they're using for like any report because they made journalists sign NDA, is to be like anything that you report that we don't approve could be like you're basically the enemy at this point like the good countries do yeah yeah like that Saudi Arabia

festival we're going to talk about later okay yo or right now my god let's get to it I mean first I'm just generally right like looking at the state of mainstream quote unquote comedians it's so fucking depressing right now like yeah just for starters right like Fallon

is not funny but unfortunately he is a late night comedian but okay I had such a, I was such a fan girl when I was like 15 and I'm like, that's where it should have stayed. Yeah, he was, I mean, I get it at the time, like, his appeal was he was like the cutie guy who was always cracking up on stage. He's got cutie energy where he's just like kind of goofy. I mean, he used to be more chiseled, you know. He didn't have a drinking problem yet. Yeah, so it was growing.

It was coming. It was happening in front of our eyes. This was, this was him. He went on CNBC to promote like some new show he's doing. But he was asked by the host on CNBC. he's like, hey, what's it like being a late-night host in this era of, like, FCC threats and how does that in free speech? And this is just like the very, you know, with his chest out, no fluttering, straightforward, brave answer he gave. I am wondering how you're thinking about what you can put in a monologue, what it's like being on an FCC licensed avenue of broadcasting right now.

You know, our show's never really been that political, you know. We hit both sides equally, and we try to make everybody laugh. And that's really the way our show really works. I mean, our monologues are kind of, you know, the same that we've been doing since Johnny Carson was doing the Tonight Show. So really, I just keep my head down and making sure the jokes are funny. I have great writers, clever, smart writers. And we just, yeah, we're just trying to make the best show we possibly can in. We're going to keep, I'm going to keep my head down.

Don't be mad at me. We're, we're actually not like Jimmy Kim, like famed radical political ideological Jimmy Kimmel. This is essentially like what he's saying. We're not like that shit. Yeah, right. We're just, you know, we hit both sides. We normalize Trump.

You know, that's kind of our thing. But we also like to hit both sides. You let me touch his hair, which was a fun moment. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, the, the, the. Felon thing is interesting because he was never political. Yeah. And I think about, God, somebody recently did like a,

oh, God, I wish I could find it. But they were talking about how it wasn't until more recent presidents that president started going on late shows because, like, he brings up Carson, but Carson didn't have presidents on his shows, you know? So it's like you can't compare yourself to that because Carson did sometimes teeter the line in terms of humor. And it's frustrating to watch him make that competitive. Because it's like, dude, you're so, you're right that you have never been political, but to compare yourself or bring up Johnny Carson is not correct. Yeah, yeah.

It's just interesting to see him squirm a bit because, like, I think he knows. He's like, damn, this is such an elf for me. He doesn't want to be there. He wants to be drinking. He ends up talking, like, somebody like on cops who got pulled over, like being suspected drunk. He's like, no, this is what I do kind of like all the time, just, you know, like he doesn't look like he's lying to his wife, you know. Yeah, like it just the, that's the vibe. You can hear the voice when someone's just being, like, really detaching themselves from the answer they're giving.

And that was just so apparent. But detaching themselves because I think he really believes that. I think he actually probably has never wanted to ever put his toe into any political side of it. Like, he gets talked into it. You know what I mean? Like, that's what I'm saying is him specifically, I'm not surprised that he's detached. What's frustrating is like, if you're so detached, then why did you, why do you have these people on your shows then? Yeah, exactly.

So it's really pathetic. Is it Wichiwali or is it one mic? Yeah, the Riyadh comedy thing. I was just reading this thing where Pete David, I saw Pete Davis in on the lineup and I was like, okay, you're a comedian, like a stand-up like that. And his dad died in 9-11? Firefighter.

That's just the wildest thing. Like, I really couldn't wrap my head around that. There's like this clip of him on Theo Vaughn's podcast, were talking about it. And he's like, yeah, I guess because, like, you know, my dad, like, died of 9-11 or something. Like, I guess I'm, I guess I shouldn't, like, be gone or whatever. And, like, just-

Everybody, can we just pause and celebrate this Pete Davidson impression and this really fantastic? I wasn't expecting. I wasn't expecting to hear that. Hey, look, you got it. You got to get in where you fit is. It was really good. I just watched the clip.

But, like, it's just, again, for someone- Really? It feels like you were watching it all morning and jerking off to it so you can get the sound right. I was edging. I was edging. okay not quite full full blown joe but you know i was i was walking the line as uh what's his what's johnny cash says um but like hearing him say that articulated and also he goes on to say like yeah they're paying me enough money to look the other way like this is what other comedians have said

or some form of like weird equivocating i think jim jeffreys though he got pulled off because he's like yeah so they killed a journalist like so we don't do that all the time and they're like okay you can't say that so now you're not going to come yeah because they haven't admitted it Yeah, yeah, 100%. I will also say with Pete stuff, because his is the one I think my brain has been like, like I get sad for

the legacy, you know, people are always like my legacy, a firefighter, they care about the legacy they leave behind and their family name, you know, if you're a firefighter, you land mentally in like the traditionalist space. Like, I want to be a hero. I want to be a man. I want to do something with my life, you know? And it's a bummer. And then

you also go, yeah, Pete's just an American. Like, he is just so American that he, like, why would he care about international politics? I don't really like, he's not connecting it like that. He's like, I don't know. My dad died a hour, you know? Yeah. It was like a long time ago and we like won a war about that or whatever, I think. I don't, I didn't really pay attention. I have, and I lost enough with my dead father. Yeah, right. You got to take this money away from me. But it's that thing where, I mean, I think we have this and everybody in our family. That's why I think we should be talking about this type of shit. Because like, how many of your.

parents give a shit about international politics. Mine did, but that's because we're from El Salvador and Nicaragua. There's a long history there. You were supposed to care. Yeah, and America is a front row seat at all the destabilization in those places, too. So, like, you're going to, you'll be well aware of how all that, the international relationships

work there, for sure. And so with someone like him, he just strikes me as that American that just is like, well, it's not affecting me, right? Even though we know that it is, because all these fucking rich people are all in cahoots. But, Pete, you know who we should say and Nicole McKaylor brought this up is that Jessica

Carson, because she's gay and Jewish, she's the one that she was like, she's going to have interesting stories when she comes back. Yeah, she does. People were inciting some of her old stuff that she said and like on stage and just in interviews and talking about how she's like, yo, female comedians basically don't exist over there

because they can't say shit. And she was saying something to the effect of like, we have it so good here that we're able to do this material. and then sort of the underneath all that is like hearing about these like agreements they're signing to be like you will not fucking say anything that will bring any anyone into ill repute isn't that wild so producer victor points out i guess bill bird did a bit where he slammed biance for going over there and then also said he would 100% take the deal to oh yeah that's right he does do that that's like how he ends it right right right it's like the punchline is hey i'm not better i'm just pointing it out which yeah yeah You know, that's what's going on here. And he also tried to be like, in America, and it's like, yeah, but the whole killing a journalist kind of puts it over the edge. Or, I mean, just generally, right?

Like, if you can't, you can't really be some kind of, as a comedian, right? Like, you have to be a proponent for free speech because your careers are built on the backs of people before where they could not say things because of decency laws or things like that. And I'm not saying that philosoph, I mean, like in a utopia, philosophically, they would be aligned with that. But to your point, Marcel, it is true. It's the same way where, like,

people are like, well, yeah, I'm going to wear Nike's. I'm going to have an iPhone. Like, I don't really give a fuck like that, really. Like,

if it comes down to it, and I'm not, they're not going to, it's not like, they're taking me to a prison to go execute somebody. I'm getting paid and people are going to fucking maybe laugh. And then I fucking skate with millions.

Exactly. And we were, my friend and I, uh, because we were, we were like, we wanted to watch TV together, but we both had to like do something at a certain time.

And we were like, we had a limited time. So we were like, what can we watch that? Like, we don't care if we miss what we're watching that we both agree on. And we agreed on old Bob Barker on Pluto TV. There's like an old episode like from the fucking OG days where he still dyed his hair, brown. That was always funny. We were watching those episodes. And I was like, oh, this is interesting because this is the early days of like TV getting kind of spicy during the day.

And he says shit that you're like, oh, yeah, you're not supposed to. You can't say that. And it just made me. be like, man, the history of entertainment, this crossover with television versus like vaudeville, you know that. Because in vaudeville, you did have the person that was hired to say the political shit, you know, like there was always that act, unless, of course, the venue didn't want that. But there was always the, there was always the act that just, you were allowed to have someone push things over to the edge because you're in public and free speech was free speech.

It's this weird space we're in where it's like a scrambled egg of the history, the past, the future, the present, and all these entertainers that claim to be, oh, what, we love Lenny Brews, but technically you don't if you're going to this festival and accepting this money, you know? But I also know that the research I've done as an entertainer is I have learned that if people say they wanted to be famous when they were a kid, these are people, these are the people that fuck up and have no morals and no ethics eventually. That's the end. Yeah.

It's just, I have to be famous, yeah. Because that's always been their goal. I have never thought of that. I wanted to be a teacher my whole life. And then I was like, well, shit, I don't think I want to do that. What do I want to do? And, you know, make a list and, you know, comedy ended up on that list from someone else suggesting it to me, not even me thinking I was going to pursue the arts.

And I've made a fine career from it. But it could also be argued that many people would look at my career and look down on it and be like, your career isn't shit because I'm not fucking hell. rich and you know you're not popping like that yeah but I'm doing fine in terms of like how I've been able to eat off of your craft how I've maintained my self respect and who I am as a person my morals my ethics my family history you know what I'm trying to respect them and that's the difference because I could have been taking so much dude these motherfuckers uh honey boo boo boo's mom was doing a reality show and they wanted me to be the head writer like in 2017

2018 and it would have been good money yeah I was like I'm not participating in that nonsense. My team was pissed because they were giving it to me. There was a gig I could just take and I was like, I'm not doing that. I'd rather do stand-up and be on the road. So there's choices you make as a comedian

and as an entertainer and as someone who's going to be on TV, but in America, you can't really fucking, at the end of the day, all the answers are wrong. You're in America. We are everyone's demon,

you know, around the world. Guys, I'm high. This is what happens. Hey, we are demon, though. We are demon. Yeah, I'm reading a history, of comedy book where they... Which book?

It's called The Comedians, I think. Oh. Yeah, but they, like, I, and mainly I just like skipped right to the 60s part because I couldn't deal with like the very old shit. And you don't, P.S. guys, essay books, there's no skipping. You can read whatever book you want. Yeah, you can skip around, Jack, okay? Don't let the, let the bars the...

That's what I do. I go to the last... I go to the last three pages. I read those. I go done. That's because you're stupid, though. That's the funny. Yeah, that's true.

But I was surprised by how much, like, there were a lot of shows that, like, the Smothers Brothers, I guess, were, like, a show that went political at a certain point. And, like, they got canceled for it and were, like, their careers were really damaged for going political. So, like, there has been this censorship for a long time. And I remember, like, this came up in the context of Lorne Michaels because Lorne Michaels, like, went to a show a year after they were canceled. And they were, like, getting heckle. by John Lennon who was just like shit-faced and heckling them and he was like, all right, I never want to do anything that's going to get me canceled from TV. Oh, that's funny. And so that's why he gave us Jimmy Fallon.

And then also with the Smothers Brothers is interesting because Martin, Short, and Steve Martin were kind of in that space. You know, they were young and it's cool to watch them go on Fallon and talk shit. Yeah, talk shit straight to his face. Because they come from the era of like, nah, dog, we were political. Like you think we're some easygoing

sweetie pies, but actually we have always been political because that is their history because that's just, that's where they come from. So I love that they did that. That was a, you know, not everybody gets to see it or appreciate it. Yeah. And they're like, he's like, oh, I'm more of a Gutfeld guy because Gutfeld was on like the night before or two nights before.

Yeah. And he's like, eh, and it's just funny because he's like, okay. So you're going to act like I'm not talking shit directly too. Okay. Yeah, he's a put, like, you pussy. He just called him a best. You want to talk about who's more hardcore, more, more I'm short, Steve Morton, okay? He got a heart.

And they come from that, but that's that whole world. It's like, it's all fucking, again, it's all mixed in a really fucked up diureable nonsense. Put that on a T-shirt. Oh, yeah. Diarrieable of nonsense. Let's take a quick break. Someone draw it and then we'll come back. Do our last story about the diarrhea bowl of nonsense.

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I got yelled at Jack and Miles told me I'm talking too much. They said, I can do whatever. What the fuck was that diarrhea bowl thing? You know, we were talking about freedom of speech, but you are just babbling. And it's like, that's freedom of speed. And they're like, no, it's not. Anyways, it's the whole thing. I got one of their producers fired.

My bad. Here we are. We're back. We did want to talk about another, the new look, the hot new look of censorship, which is, you know, suing major companies that control all of the internet pipes that bring the internet to us, such as Google, and then making them scared. So now they are doing the bidding of the president. Like that I was just thinking about this in the context of the Washington Post article where like the Pentagon is threatening them. And like in a world where the system worked, they were just like hire so many lawyers to like be like, all right, we're going to stand behind our reporting and like go fuck yourself.

Like the court is the last thing that is standing currently against them. But instead, because it's controlled by well, people who just want contracts from the presidency, they just, like, give in, and they're like, would you be nice to us going forward if we give in on this? And so that's exactly what Google did recently, where they settled a $24.5 million, highly questionable lawsuit about Trump's account

being banned from YouTube after January 6th. They were just like, yeah, just pay him, make him happy, so he nice to us. And around this time, people started noting that their AI overview, which we've made a lot of fun of, because it fucking sucks shit at its job and also is killing journalism by making it so nobody goes to the actual websites that are paying to do the journalism. Their AI overview is suddenly not available if you search, does Trump show signs of dementia? It's available for so much shit. Like, you almost, the way it works, this morning, I had to answer the question,

why are groundhogs called woodchucks for my kids? Because, like, that, you know, it would make more sense for beavers. They kind of look like beavers. I was like, I bet they just got it wrong, and they thought they were beavers. And, like, it just got transposed at some point. And they have an answer for that. They have a paragraph that it answers that it's just like a anglicized version of an Algonquin word.

But, like, they, any question you can ask, they have a fucking paragraph answer summary, except for this one, this one question about, like, the most powerful person in the world who is showing signs of dementia. Suddenly, they're like, actually, we're not even sure what you're saying, man.

Yeah. Like, what do you even mean? So it will show AI results for similar searches about other presidents, it will show results for obviously Biden. Because he does, for sure. It will, yeah, exactly. Although their answer on Biden,

it's not possible to definitively state whether former President Joe Biden has dementia based solely on publicly available information. However, some reports and observations have led to questions and different perspectives regarding his cognitive function as he aged. But not with Trump. With Trump is just a list of links.

Age and health concerns about Donald Trump, Wikipedia. But it's just interesting. that they're like, I don't know, don't ask us. Don't look at us. They have to regulate artificial intelligence because we don't even have regular intelligence figured out yet. What are we fucking doing?

Well, I think that's why, well, fuck it. Then we'll just outsource it to this new kind of intelligence. I mean, yeah, the, I'm also curious, like, who are they convincing also by, like, suppressing this information? I know it's deeply cynical. I think they're just like passing the hop the table. being like, it's not us saying that shit. They just have to run every decision through a will this make Donald Trump mad filter.

That's funny because rich people have access to wiping shit off of the internet that they know that if something is, or they assume that if something is popping up, it's because it's paid to be there. So Trump's interpretation is probably like someone's paying for it to be there because that information shouldn't be out. Meanwhile, it's just us as a unit being like, that's looking. Huh? They're like, what is that? That's how it actually works? Yeah, yeah. I didn't go, is my grandmother showing signs of dementia?

You know, like, we had a family talk and we're like, is grandma okay? And we're like, no, no, you know? I mean, like, it's, again, with this thing, it's just one of those things that's so out in the open, but the narrative just like sort of just in the mainstream media is just sort of avoiding being like, something's wrong with him rather than be like, this guy's, this guy's a nut, you know? or being like, he's just, he's so angry. He's a hateful person. Like, yeah, he's that.

And something is not right with him, too. So let's not lose sight of that also, on top of all the other shit that we're talking about. But that's, that's pretty foundational to a lot of the things we're saying now, even. Right. People are pointing out that this has strives, stris and affected the question of Trump having dementia because everybody's now, you know, there's articles are Donald Trump, dementia search is being blocked by Google, what to know. I also think, though, that, like, just publicly showing that Google will bow to before the power of Donald Trump is, like, he probably doesn't hate that, you know? It's probably not the worst thing for him.

Like, it's like, we're thinking like, oh, this is a gotcha. They're doing corruption. And he's like, yeah, motherfucker, that's what I do. Like, that's, I'm just, I'm paying for. Yeah. As to the question at hand, we can neither confirm nor deny here on the Daily's. whether Donald Trump is showing any signs of, no. But Fallon has a drain problem, so that's what we can.

Can speak to that. I will say that there is a psychologist who hosts a show about his mental abilities and said that it's not looking good. He co-host a podcast, shrinking Trump, where he explains how he arrived at a diagnosis of dementia, said, we have to see a major deterioration in functioning and language and thinking and psychomotor performance and impulse control. What a lot of people don't realize is that Donald Trump used to be

a articulate person. He used to speak with a high level of vocabulary. So he's basically saying, against his own standard, you're seeing a massive fallout. Decline, yeah, yeah. I mean, just listen to a clip from even the 2020 election. Yeah. And then even further back than 2016

and then go to 2012. I mean, he He was an articulate racist back then. Yeah. What a thing to long for. There are times when he's really unable to complete a thought, sometimes he's unable to complete a word. According to a Daily Beast article about it. Yeah.

Acetamina, oh boy, where are we going to? What are we doing with this one? Yeah. Acetametaphethin? The idea that he's never heard of acetametaphon is, I guess it's not a white striped family. Why would he use that word, you know? Yeah.

No, I mean, Jack White hates him, so why would he be a white striped fan? Yeah. He does have a family history of Alzheimer's. His dad suffered from the disease, at which point Trump allegedly dismissed and derided him, spent the last years of his dad's life just teasing him for being, having dementia. Sick, bro. Sick. Him and Pete Davidson should have dinner. Yeah.

Love our daddy's crew. Yeah. fuck yeah i'm more hardcore than you i'm more hardcore to you ever your heart and you i'm more hardcore than you i'm more hardcore hardcore hardcore than you i am more hardcore i am more hardcore i am more hardcore where's lynn mano miranda that's what you will sound like it it he might as well have saying that as a musical because that's how not hardcore that shit was you know what i mean it was so insane and yes i do that and scenes and yeah when you're hardcore everyone knows your hardcore

But you will not be improvising songs on this podcast. I just want to clarify. No, no, no, I can't. I can't. Too much stress. Where can people find you, follow you, hear you, all that good stuff. Guys, Marcelo, comedy, about me. And I'm not on tour right now.

I'm kind of, my year is kind of wrapped up. I have a couple cool things happening. The new podcast, Comedy is Dead. Part 2 is coming out. It'll be on my YouTube. On my YouTube. And I will also be on a show that I still can't announce. And I don't care that I can't announce it because I'm very excited because it's a big deal.

And that's coming. So tune in to my socials next week. If you want to act like you've been on the Marcel train, now it's the time to do it. This is your last chance right now. Get it right now. Because if I see that you follow me on Thursday, bitch, I'm blocking you. Okay. I'm more hardcore.

anybody you don't follow, okay? That's how not into it for fame you are. You block people as you become fame. I used to tell fans to unfollow me on my Twitter. That was with great years. I was a real sassy little bitch when I was doing that. And then everyone got COVID and went mentally insane. I was like, hi, probably shouldn't talk to people like that.

They're nuts. Is there a work of media that you've been enjoying? I really have been enjoying Nikki Minaj and Cardi be going at it because I'm trying to grow as a woman. and to watch them not grow as women is a reminder that I do need to continue to grow and hold myself accountable and to hold myself to standards that I want

representing me at all times. This has been a journey to watch them go back and forth. Yeah, my God. They just, this is everything Cardi was saying back. I was like, what the fuck? When she ended it, I was like,

that's the way to end it. I mean, if you're going to go out, go out swinging and pretty tough. So she's more hardcore. She's like, I'm more hardcore than you. You're more hardcore. Oh, you think you're hardcore. watch this. Your child is

non-verbal because you're like, okay. Okay, Cardi. No, she ended it by saying you need therapy and I'm done talking to you. Oh, I was just going. I saw the knockout blow tweets that they were saying. Oh, no. The knockout blows were crazy. That's what I'm saying. Those were the ones I was like, well, but she was,

she ended it by saying that she needed therapy that her husband is taking advantage of her, that she's on drugs and she needs to go to rehab and she needs to love her child. It's really, it got dark. Yeah, they were very dark. You get Jack confused him in his whiteness, just stewing in it. Oh, man.

The way she was talking about culture. Is she related to Playboy, Cardi? Oh, my God. You know what? We got to wrap this up. Can we give him the light, please? Miles, where can people find you? Is there a work media?

You've been enjoying. Yeah, follow me everywhere at Miles of Gray. I'm talking shit about 90-day fiancé on 420-day fiancé. And, yeah, there's that. Work-a-media? No, I'm looking forward to finally. being able to go to the movies this weekend. So I'm going to

try and see at least two movies this weekend. Why didn't you go? Just like, just life, you know? Oh, yeah. Yeah, just take care of shit. I wonder. Yeah, yeah, yeah. To be able to take a time out to see a three-hour movie

like trying to see it like with Her Majesty. You know, you just want to. Man, that's crazy. I can go whenever I want. I have no kids. I am not married. And I'm free. I can do whatever I want.

Damn. That's rock and bars. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Bars, bars, bars. I go to them whenever I want. Bars, bars, bars. 12 o'clock doesn't matter.

No, no, no, midnight, I can do whatever. Okay. Shout out to Lady Gaga. She goes on that song. Boys, boys, boys. Anyways, what's a piece of media you've been enjoying? I'm on Twitter, Jack underscore O'Brien, Blue Sky, Jack O'B, the number one.

I like a, I don't think I've ever recommended a New Yorker cartoon. Here we go. There's a new one that's Pete Hankseth in front of the generals. And the generals are kind of looking at each other and Pete Hakesh out of the same. And then Randy Quaid yells, hello, boys, I'm back. And flies his jet right into the alien ship blowing it up. And I think you all just need to be more like that. All right.

It was good. That one courtesy of Tyson Cole. Shams it's Tyson. Says that to Tyson. I don't care I want to kiss you You can find us on Twitter and Blue Sky at Daily Zekeyes

We're at The Daily Zekeyes on Instagram You can go to the description of this episode Wherever you're listening to it And there at the bottom you will find the footnotes Which is where we link off to the information That we talked about in today's episode The Articles that we quoted We also link off to a song that we think you might enjoy

Hey Miles Is there a song that you think that people might enjoy. Yeah, yeah. This is a track from Heather featuring Orion's son. It's called Company. It's just really great music. I don't, I don't know, I don't even know how to describe it. It's just you will like it. If you don't like it, I don't know. Please tell me why you don't like it. Fuck you. If you don't like it, you're not hardcore. You think you're, we're so much more hardcore than you are. Okay. Orion Sun's so hardcore. You, I love All right. We will look off to that in the footnotes.

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