The Daily Zeitgeist - Trending Bubba 11/17: 'Blowing Bubba', Marjorie Taylor Greene, 'Hitler's DNA', 'The Running Man'
Episode Date: November 17, 2025In this edition of Trending Bubba, Jack and Miles discuss their respective weekends, the 'Blowing Bubba' Epstein email that sent the internet mad, Marjorie Taylor Greene singing a different tune, Hitl...er having a micropenis?, a quick box office update and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Have you ever seen this in a sports context, like when, like, you know, I was
Surrender Cobra?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
What the hands to the side of the head?
When does that come up?
I don't know.
It was a big thing.
There was a like a second stream quarterback who kept coming in for Tennessee last
year and was just like, it would just throw it like immediately throw an interception
and as it was running back, just be doing.
the surrender cover hands to the head it's i like doing it to like just feel relaxed a little bit
but get your i used to do that for my breath yeah it helps you get right for listeners
well i guess it's more just people do it in like the airplane as yes exactly there there's
two different yeah so surrender cobra i think is a reference to like when like soldiers are surrendering
they make them like have their hands on their head
and as a sign of like
you know we're not going to grab our guns or you know
there's also the hands clasped behind the head
which is the sign of like I'm just chilling
but then yes in sports there is like a reflexive thing
that sometimes happens where
the person just puts their hands there
it's almost more like it's like the home alone
or like the screen painting
but but to your
Temples, which is more of like an ay, aye, aye.
Yeah.
Like, hands to the faces, home alone coded, but hands to the temples, definitely aye, aye, aye, I coated in my mind.
Aye, aye, aye.
What have I done?
It's, because I was, I've been watching way too many, uh, reaction videos from the
World Series game seven.
He was doing like a breakdown of all the players.
And like, there was like one shot of the bullpen, I think after Miggi Rojas's, uh, home run.
Yeah.
Two outs away.
And they just, like, the bullpen, they're like two dudes and just went,
it said, surrender, Cobra, surrender, Cobra, surrender Cobra.
Like all the guys in the bullpen.
I was like, oh, that's funny.
And I had never.
But now with them, yeah.
I've seen enough World War II documentaries now, oh, yeah.
And you kind of look like a cobra.
Yeah.
I was very clever.
I got to say, whenever a guy doing war crimes came up with that one.
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Hello, the Internet.
and welcome to this week trend edition of DirtyEly Nightgeist.
This is the Monday morning episode where we tell you what is trending this morning,
what was trending over the weekend.
Kind of a busy weekend.
We had a long, you know, break because we had some,
both of us had some work shit to do on Thursday.
Yeah.
And so we have day jobs.
It's funny.
And people also know, like, oh, yeah, yeah.
I also have, I also do this other work too.
Yeah.
But yes, yes, that's why, that's why we wish I could give you 1,000% of our time all the time.
Oh, my God.
Just wish I could be more committed to this relationship with you guys.
But anyways, there was a lot, a lot happening over the weekend, I feel like.
Yeah, so we're going to get into that, Donald, the Epstein.
Like, when we last recorded, we had like three emails from Epstein and then I think 20,000 dropped.
And then you're getting texts, literal, these are actual texts I was getting that we're saying, wait, so Trump blew Bill Clinton, three exclamation or three question marks.
And I'm like, and I hadn't looked at the news yet.
And I was like, what is how?
Oh, okay.
All right.
We'll get her to do it.
My name is Jack O'Brien.
That over there is Miles.
Before we tell you what is trending, what was trending over the weekend.
We'd like to get to know each other, let you get to know us.
a little bit better by telling you some stuff
that we think is underrated
and overrated Miles. What is something
you think's underrated?
Underrated, how the power
and I again, Jack,
you pointed to something out and I even knew this
and I was saying this, the
fecal centric, underrated, or
overrated recently. I don't know
what you said. You're on a run, man.
This is like the DiMaggio hit streak.
Unresented.
You know, shit streak.
Yeah, something is
He'll be talking about it decades from now.
The planets are aligning to give me the weirdest interaction.
So my underrated is how the power dynamic shifts when a cop takes a loud shit in front
of you in a public restroom.
Okay, so I was in New York.
You may have saw me on social media flexing my jacket.
That local New Yorkers are like, what are you?
Wait, you dress for the snow, buddy?
And I was like, it's time from California.
They're like, oh, oh, all right.
Yeah, yeah, you're a loser.
Okay.
All right, all right.
It's all right. I'm picturing some like sirens in the background, yellow taxis, driving everywhere.
You're eating a chop cheese. Just to set the scene for everybody.
I'm eating a chop cheese wrapped in a fucking slice of pepperoni pizza.
You know, just trying to make the most New York thing.
And drinking coffee out of one of those Greek cups. Exactly. But the Greek, but the coffee is a bagel somehow. But anyway, so I was in New York near Penn Station. I was doing this like presentation there. I was at this office building where,
I guess, like, street cops come to use the bathroom because, like, they don't want to take a shit at Penn Station, which the new Penn Station is pretty nice, I got to say.
Like, it's, uh, it's not, it's not anything to fucking, uh, to not take a shit at.
Yeah, but I get, I think probably they're like, I can't go and shit in front of the very people.
I'm oppressing. So I must sneak away to, to be, to do my human activity in, in the privacy of this office building where they let me in, where the security guards let me in.
So I'm walking to the bathroom. This cop was walking.
rolling up on me from behind.
I was like,
like,
yeah, I was like,
all right,
here we go.
Like,
I don't know what the full.
Like,
what is this?
I like,
so I started to turn around
to be like,
what?
Like it just felt like it
with the intensity.
This go straight by me
into the bathroom
where I'm going.
And I'm like,
oh,
okay,
this guy has to go.
I get in there.
He finds like the furthest stall at the end.
He had so much tactical gear on.
So much.
I got too much shit on me.
He had too much shit on.
I,
You could tell he was, like, about to shit himself because he was, like, grunting, like, all these zippers and clips were being undone.
Shit was thudding to the ground.
He had, like, a thigh holster that he was, like, grappling with.
I was like, I was just like, this is.
And I'm going to get you suck.
Oh, like, 20 guns.
Exactly.
One at a time, just hitting the floor.
He was so burdened with his fucking agro-tactical gear.
He finally, finally sits down.
And this guy is doing a paint job.
Okay, like the struggle makes sense based on what's coming out of the song.
But again, this is New York.
So while this is happening, a dude who doesn't know what's going on comes in and hears
his shit and he's like, it was just kind of had someone to say.
He was like, oh, shit.
Like, because it was like loud.
And then the cop yelled back, yeah, really funny.
The number one, the number one cop response to everything.
Yeah, really funny.
Yeah, real funny, tough guy.
Yeah.
And I was like, this is the most new.
York shit I've ever seen. This guy's laughing at the cop. The cop's like, just not like trying to
like wrestle with it. Anyway, just the great equalizer of you having to take off all your GI Joe stuff
when you have to take a dump. It's so humanizing. And for a moment, I was like, oh, you're like a person
too with problems. But you get paid. With too many guns. Too many guns. Literally too much shit on
to take a shit. Hey, we've all got, we've all got our problems that fortunately, I'm happy to say is not one of
mine. And then you rode
two rats out of the bathroom
like they were roller skates, right? That's how you got
around in the year? I had
five rats underneath each foot. It was a
10 rat. I was drawn by 10 rats.
All right.
My underrated is
how dumb, rich
and powerful people are
people, people are getting a look at
these Epstein emails and
I feel like,
I don't know, our image of these
people as like powerful, like,
shapers of, you know, history and the news. And like, you know, that's a myth that they
believe about themselves and, you know, create and justify in order to, you know, keep up
the illusion that they, their privileges make sense. I feel like that's coming into conflict
with what is in these emails and the reality of who these people are. Yeah. Yeah. The email that
we're going to talk about later, the Bubba thing, I feel like people are like, this is like a
an Illuminati reference to a sexual ritual.
And it does just feel like a dumb guy being like,
well, well, well, if it isn't the blowjob brother, you know?
It's just like him being like your boy Donald done blowing Bubba.
Yeah.
Which is, I fully approve the internet's reaction, by the way.
Like in the, this is like J.D. Vance couch fucking territory.
100%.
I do, like, I do think in addition to like how completely,
implicated Trump is in all this
my big first
takeaway is
just how fucking stupid
everyone like he misspels everything
he writes in like incoherent
like sentence fragments
I think it's probably
spacing after the punctuation
I fucking hate
spaces before and after periods
I think he thinks it makes him look smart
like like we talk about
McCarthy type shit
yeah like the Einstein
like I'm just like
sloppy, you know, I'm a sloppy genius. But he's just, and like the stuff he talks about is
he like uses a TED Talk speak to just like say the most banal shit. Right, right, right, right.
Like someone's talking about like feeling unlucky and he was like, luck is not zero sum. Can't figure out
how to move up the curve. Okay. Well, so you're just saying like, you have no control over luck.
He did this note to self. Did you see the note to self? No. So it was like, uh,
These were called radical breakthroughs by him to himself, and they include beards and long hair, space, space, comma, space, are meant to catch and hold smells.
One of the line items.
What are these of shower thoughts of a pedophile?
Yeah, exactly.
It's shower thoughts of a pedophile.
One of them is just individual space, space, space, space, space, verse, space, the group, space, question mark, space, question mark.
he's doing these
he's doing
really dumb
word things
he goes number three
in his radical breakthrough
a mental object
i.e.
Mobject
action on mental objects
dude what about number seven
period space space space space
question mark
number seven
skin as part of brain
question mark
space space space space space space space space
space space meme brain
Like membrane, but skin...
But he can't even spell membrane, but he put meme brain, like M-E-M-E brain.
Oh, you fucking idiot.
Did you see, like, the other thing, it's funny, Larry Summers, that Harvard guy is also catching fucking strays.
Oh, yeah.
Like, real bad.
Yeah, that was the next one I wanted to get a loser.
But Larry Summers is emailing him about getting friend zoned.
And this is like the year Epstein.
guys. And he's like, he whined Epstein that a woman had blown off a weekend plan and complained
about being the friend without benefits. And Epstein replied, she's smart. Elipses. Making you pay
for past errors. Elipses. You reacted well. Period. Period. Period. Annoyed shows caring.
Period. Period. Period. No whining showed strength. Yeah. He like, he's just like has this like Yoda thing,
but his actual insights are mental skin connection.
Yeah, right.
And again, this guy, he's speaking from the perspective of a master manipulator,
not a person who interacts with other human beings.
Right.
He's just like, yeah, this is how you'll corner your prey into your fucking web of lies.
And then they're right where you got them.
Yeah.
And then, yeah, Summers had to just say, he's like, quote,
I have regrets in my life, as I have said before,
my association with Jeffrey Epstein was a major error of judgment.
Larry Summers who was like the head of Harvard
and the head of the economy at various points
like the global economy
that doesn't come out looking too good
yeah it is a full on indictment
of like the ruling class
they're all losers
yeah it's like across the political spectrum
all of these people are fucking losers
who are like treating
Jeffrey Epstein
years after he's been arrested
for trafficking minors as like a Yoda figure.
Yeah.
I got to ask you, man.
This girl blew me off.
What do I do?
Those Larry Summers emails are just generally seeing like the kinds of correspondence
in the emails, all of these people have been relying on their wealth or status
for everything.
So like they're tremendously lonely.
So when they're in these situations or like they need to connect with another person,
They're reaching out to a master pedophile Jeffrey Epsey for like pump up tips.
Yeah.
Like how to keep a conversation going.
He's like, uh, usually it's enough to be like, I'm Larry Summers from Harvard.
Right.
And now, now I'm like a third wheel.
I like how they called this like woman's like X or whatever.
He was competing for this woman's attention.
Motorcycle guy.
Um, which is like fucked up.
He's like, I'm Larry Summers and she wants the motorcycle guy.
She wants motorcycle guy.
Oh, shut up.
I mean losers.
fucking losers
fucking losers
fucking losers
you're not doing out your
fucking money
and your status
you fucking prick
what's something
you think's
overrated miles
eating a zin pouch
okay
now I've heard
really good things
about this
on various food blogs
but you're saying
this is overrated
overrated
um last week I was
I'm keeping it consistent
from last week too
I was talking about
checking it with your cousins
your cousins got good stories
like I said
one of my cousins
got married recently
congratulations to you
Austin and Amara
but they so my dad had like my other cousins over to sort of celebrate yesterday like
an informal like hey welcome to our family like let's all get together kind of thing
and my one other cousin was there and he's been smoking cigarettes and he's been trying
to quit yeah and he's he's done it all man he's done it all uh and now he's on zen
he's doing he's he's using the zen pouches because like very popular becoming more
or more popular, I feel like.
You were eating and he just put the shit on the table and I'm like, bro, what?
Why are you putting your Zen fucking pouch?
I've been seeing that too lately.
People just like pulling it out like it's, yeah, like it's just a cool thing to have.
I was like, did you not have room in your pockets?
He's like, no, I just like to have it out.
And I was like, okay, you're about.
A bit of a status symbol.
Sir, you're about to be 40 years old, but that's okay.
You let the shorties know you're on that Zen life.
But the funny part is, okay, so he was, he was chewing it.
then their dessert came out
there was like a cobbler we were eating
with some ice cream he put this in-crowing it
while he's eating
like in between like the meal was over
he packed up
and then we were this is like in between
what the dessert was coming out
you could like see it in the bottom
in no no no I'm just
I'm just referencing my time chewing
sure actual cut tobacco
so yet like this is like
the dinner ended this is sort of that
liminal period in between dinner
and dessert so that's when he's like
right, let me, I'm not going to have a cigarette.
Let me put my Zen back in.
Dessert comes, he takes it out, and he puts it on the plate, but there's like vanilla
ice cream.
and so the Zen pouch is white, and it kind of blended in.
And this guy, my cousin is famously a spacey dude.
Famously a spacey dude.
Like, he was on, he was, he was an extra on Dexter, and he got kicked off the show because
he was so oblivious.
He was running into the camera while they were shooting.
Okay.
This is, this is just, this is part of his brain.
It was like the one thing.
I feel like I'm a pretty spacey guy.
I feel like I would know not to run into the camera.
Don't walk into that.
Don't look into it either.
How am I supposed to not walk into it if I can't look at it?
How am I?
What the fuck?
He took the note of just pretend you're doing whatever you do
and ignore everything else, I think, is what the, like, was the direct, like, you know.
But on the other side of it, it's like, bro, you have to have some.
Anyway, that's what he does.
Got kicked off an extra gig for walking to the camera too many times.
As he's eating, I think he was mixing it up.
He didn't realize the Zinn was in this big bite of ice cream and collar he zoned up.
He took it in.
I see him and his eyes just widened.
And I'm like, I'm like, what's up?
He basically, and he's like, hey, I need, oh, he like spit it out and just sat there for a second.
Wow.
And was like, I need to go to the bathroom and like ran to the bathroom because he got such a fucking like hero's dose of nicotine from like just, just chewing it.
three times chewing down on the thing before realizing what he was chewing and like half swallowing the juices within that he was seeing like light speed like Millennium Falcon light fucking you know lines go by him ran to the bathroom and then we just started laughing because he came back he was like sweating I'm like what the fuck happened he's like bro I fucking almost ate that zin pouch I was like how he's like I put it on the then he broke it down I'm like of course you almost just you put you knew it was on the plate and you somehow still
scooped it up with your ice cream and
took a big old Zin couch bike. And then like the
insides come out a little bit? Is that what
Yeah. He was like straight shot of like
just gone.
Yeah. So anyway. Also I didn't realize
supposed to put in your upper lip.
Yeah, Zinn. Zin is like snooos
which I think goes they go in the upper lip.
So funny too because he
he was out of him in his bottom lip and I was just
I'd never seen a Zen canister before. So I was just
reading it. I was like, bro, I said this was supposed to go in your
upper lip. He's like, oh, really?
again
he just got them all around
horseshootie of zins
double decker horseshoes up and down
yeah yeah so anyway
don't eat his in pouts folks
all right fine
it might seem I do feel like this is the sort of thing
that back when I was a teenager
into nicotine and you're like and he's
like almost died from how much
nicotine it was I would have been like
okay so I need to so it's vanilla ice cream
I think yeah oh exactly
don't go
He had that rush that, like, all young men do the first time they think they know how to chew tobacco and they just end up getting smashed with a nicotine hammer in their brain and they're like, yeah, it's like, you just have to, like, lay down on a couch somewhere.
Oh, yeah.
I have a story.
Me, Chris, you met my boy Chris when we went to South by.
Shout out to Chris.
We were on our backs in my front yard, like at 16.
Watching the world spin.
Because we couldn't even get up.
We took a hero's dose of chewing tobacco
and on our backs and like
in the neighborhood. We're like, oh, God.
My overrated is very simple. Just coffee shops
that don't have coffee.
Yeah. What are you then?
Well, so they have espresso, right?
Okay. But they don't have drip coffee.
Which I think is, this is probably like a real
America ass take, but they only have Americanos.
I'm, I think, I'm not an Americano fan.
Like, I just, I don't think it's as good as coffee.
Trump will get you for saying anti-American stuff like that.
I feel like it is like a sarcastic drink.
Like, yeah, because, so the way it was created, actually, like, I looked at this up.
The way it was created was in World War II, American soldiers were like at cafes and we're
like, oh, this fucking espresso is like too strong.
Don't you have drip coffee?
And they were like, here you go.
and, like, dumped it into water
to be like, you're a bitch.
Right.
And it became known as the Americano.
And they're like, oh, yummy.
They're like, what the fuck?
I did that to diss you.
I know.
I don't know, man.
I just need, like, sometimes I need a big cup of regular drip.
Like, Mr. Coffee Maker, coffee.
That's what I'm in the mood for, you know?
I mean, they, I feel like when I've seen the places that don't do drip coffee,
they at least do the like very painful process oriented weighing the water pour over coffee
yeah like oh we don't have a fucking big thing or drip just ready to go would you a fucking
municipal worker yeah exactly we're gonna we're gonna weigh in the fucking asshole get out of yeah yeah yeah
you want dunkies too right fuck you prick get out of here that is like there is a judgment
that comes with it where i'm like you got dripped and they're like no we could we could do an
Americano for you.
Yeah.
And like you like having custody of your kids.
It's also hard to get the balance.
Like it feels like a drink that has been poured into water.
It doesn't feel like it's its own drink, you know?
It just feels, yeah, like Brian that is pointing out that like, if it's eight ounces
of water, that's probably okay.
If it's 12 ounces of water, you need more shots.
I was like, I don't know.
Could I get an extra shot in there?
And they were like, well, we can do two extra shots for the same price.
You want that?
And so I had four shots.
It tasted like hot water, but it also put me into the same mode as that police officer
that you were talking about.
I was like, everybody out of the way.
Mixed with the Boston slide cop somehow.
Yeah, yeah.
Blowing out of that thing.
It's just sliding down the street.
But yeah, I feel like it's a drink that was conceived passive aggressively.
Drip coffee is, like, if you have good beans, drip coffee can be really good.
like you just have a Mr.
coffee on the counter and just be like
you want one of these and I feel like people
would be into it anyways
I'll be drinking you ban anyway
yeah fucking coffee is
that oof don't look into what the
crop projections look like for coffee
over the next few years. I know or maybe just
don't drink coffee I don't know
just use Zinn that's an upper
you know yeah chew on a soak a zin
in a nice cup of hot water
could I actually can I ask you for a
favor it's going to sound weird
A raspberry zinger?
Oh, the tea?
Well, it's just some raspberries in a zin pouch and hot water.
You know how you like do tea?
Yeah, could I just like do that with three zin pouches?
Let's take a quick break.
We'll come back.
We'll talk about a...
What is this Bill Clinton?
Something blowing Bubba.
Who's that?
We'll be right back.
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And, yeah, if you're aware of the internet, I don't think you even need to be particularly
online, but if you're aware of the internet, you probably found out over the weekend
that one of the 20,000 Epstein documents was an email from his brother, Mark Epstein,
which everybody seemed familiar with who this guy is.
I don't, that just sounds like your brother, Marvin, Marvin Barry.
Exactly.
I think you're going to want to hear this.
Asking if Putin has the photos of Trump blowing Bubba,
which Bubba is famously one of Bill Clinton's nicknames,
quote, what's your boy Donald up to now, wrote Mark Epstein, Jeffrey Epstein's brother
in March of 2018.
All good.
Bannon with me, Epstein responded, referencing Steve Bannon, who was a big Epstein fan.
Oh, yeah, up until the very end.
Yeah.
And then Mark responded, ask him if Putin has the photos of Trump blowing Bubba, which this
is after Russia Gate.
like this is just this could just be like just real dipshit gay panic teasing type thing yep yep yep
it's that or there's some cursed imagery of a relationship between donald trump and bill
clinton out there new one we had heard of the p tapes we had not heard but maybe circulating in the
upper echelons of power there there was rumors that there's uh they're like the p tape bro
that's what you talking about that isn't shit are you kidding me this is you know this they call that
Teapot Dome is what they're calling
this scandal.
Ah, yeah, that's, but it could be
any Bubba, you know, that's
That's true. There's, America is full
of Bubba's, um, and that was
Mark, that was Marks, Bubba Sparks.
Bubba Sparks, Bubba Chuck,
Alan Iverson's nickname.
That's right. You know, who knows?
I don't think it's Iverson. Shout out to
Alan Iverson. This is man.
It's like, you beautiful, that killer
crossover. Her, wonderful.
old tweets were resurfaced
like from 2015
if Hillary Clinton can't satisfy her husband
what makes her think she can satisfy America
hashtag
2016 president
I love that that's
that weird just because of the shitheadedness
of the internet we go
oh
that's exactly
that is the exact sound
the internet made this weekend
oh oh
oh oh
And everyone goes, and I know it's not true, but it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
Because like you're saying, it's like the Vance thing.
It doesn't matter.
Like, I don't like you.
So if we're going to pretend to do this as a way to laugh at you, so be it.
Although a lot of people are speculating that's like, wouldn't it be sad if this were true?
And then MAGA, the off ramp for them was a consensual gay trist with Bill Clinton between him and Donald Trump versus him being a child sexual predator.
They're like, that's a bridge too far.
That's not, we're not going to allow it.
I mean, you couldn't script something more infuriating for someone so magabrain.
If, like, if they were, like, arguing with their Democrat family, like, yeah, well, Trump blew Bill Clinton.
And it's like, that's fucking fake.
Like, you can die.
Bubba also Bubba the love sponge, the guy who was in the cuck chair for the Hulk Hogan sex tape.
Yeah.
Had a lot, a big fallout.
Anyways, immediately after the story broke, the internet was flooded with old tweets from Trump,
pictures of him and Bill Clinton holding each other's hands.
There's a good one where Bill Clinton's at a lectern looking like down with a smile on his face.
And it said left, Bill Clinton, right, Donald Trump.
He was off camera.
And the White House Twitter account was really good at pretending they were not bothered or even noticing this stuff.
No cope detected.
oh wait they started randomly posting pictures of trump being a hetero man with his wife who he clearly loves spending time with at white house tweeted i can't help following in love with you the picture of trump kissing her on the cheek why even dignify this filth email with this kind of shit that's what makes it so funny right any other person like this is bullshit they're just i don't know what the fuck they're talking about but them to be like
like, okay, got to post him. He's kissing his wife. Let's put the whimsical. I think he likes
the UB40 version, but it might be the Elvis version. Let's say it's UB40. Let's put some horn
emojis in there. Then holding hands. I feel like this is from the same event, no?
Yeah. So they, to prove like how in love they are and how like their love has stood the test
of time, they have two pictures from the same event. They're dressed exactly the same. Everything
looks the same. I guess they got caught them on a good night. So they tweeted a second tweet from at
White House, America's power couple and, uh, eagle American flag emoji and it's just a picture of
Trump and Melania walking. And then the, the red circle, the red circle with the line through it,
eggplant emoji water drops, water drops. Right. Whatever that is. I think it's a, I think, I think they're
over it. It's not bothering them. Red X emoji.
tongue water drops
XX yeah
nothing we were detected
Mark Gapstein
issued a statement claiming that the Bubba in his email
wasn't Bill Clinton
of course it wasn't
didn't explain what the fuck he was talking about
that would have been like helpful
simply part of a humorous
private exchange between two brothers
right yeah yeah
no totally except your brother is like a
power broker
head of a pedophile ring
It's the one piece of context missing from that description.
And then, because wasn't there one where, like, Epstein had a portrait of Bill Clinton, like, in that blue dress?
Remember, like, that was like a weird thing that.
Yeah, that was a thing at some point.
I remember.
I don't, I don't know if the emails ever gave us additional reference, additional information on this.
But yeah, there's like, Clinton in the Monica Lewinsky blue dress.
All I'll say is there's, there's got to be something there for every.
one, folks, or at least the files.
Right. Let's see it all.
Let's see it all. Let's see it all.
That's what Donald Trump is saying. That's what he just wants us to put this behind him.
So now he's saying that.
We should move on. I'm totally with it. Whatever they want to do, fine. I don't care.
He really seems to be a little bit off his, you know,
kilter off his meds. He's acting like this is absurd and also responding in a way
that's like incredibly insecure.
he's doing everything in his power to like not get the documents released and then when he can't
get the votes to not get them released he's like that's a we should vote for it let's release
them because it was like inevitable and he knew it looked worse with him being against it
this is a classic rhetorical strategy we've seen deployed many times uh you know i think we
I think we I think we step on them I can't do that you can't I bet you I can break these
they're unbreakable
they're not unbreakable
no release the unbreakable
don't tell you the files
they're unbreakable they're unbreakable
they cannot break it's impossible
break them
broken
I don't care
mm-hmm
yep yep
that's right
don't do it don't
I don't care
yeah all good
no else taken
and they allegedly they're like thinking about
redacting all Republicans' names, which will also make them look totally innocent and, like, everything's good.
This is a thing with it, right? Like, there's the, we know the order was given to redact, like, to obliterate any trace of Trump's name in the documents.
So even if they do come out, they're going to be so redacted that everyone's just going to be like, what the hell are these?
Like, and who's this name? Let me just do some quick character spacing. This seems to be only five letters of a last name, you know, kind of thing.
But not only that, so then on top of like the redactions, the other way that they're potentially trying to complicate things is Donald Trump being like, you need to now open investigation into the Democrats looking and their connection to Epstein files, which again, if it's part of an ongoing investigation, then they can do the thing where they're like, well, actually these are part of an ongoing investigation. So until that's closed, similar to the thing is like, I'd show you my tax returns, but I'm being audited. Right. Right, right, right. Sorry about that. Which has worked for him in the past.
Yeah. But again, people haven't thought that his tax things show Bill Clinton being an absolute monster, which is what his base wants so desperately to be revealed. And then they're going to be like, what, my dad's in here? Yeah. Yeah. I will say, I don't think they're going to be disappointed by the Clinton stuff probably, right? Like, that's. I don't know. It's like, it's so hard to know, you know, they could do the thing where they just redact everything and they go here. And enough people are like, well, his name's not in there.
When they, like, move on, even though, like, you probably want.
But I think, like, when you look at people like Marjorie Taylor Green, some people are so all in on this thing.
Like, they've, I think they've been fed a worldview where it wasn't greedy kleptocrats, oligarchs completely controlling our world, that it was actually pedophile cabal, like, as a stand-in for, like, our societal ills.
Right.
And they're feeling it with the same intensity as somebody who's disenfranchised by living under capitalism, but they're like, it's got to be Clinton.
doing weird sex shit with Epstein.
They've got to be bad guys.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, by the way,
Brian Nutter points out that Trump's response being like,
I have a wife is very similar to the guy from the village people.
Do you remember when people were like,
you know,
this song is a gay anthem.
He was like,
if you keep saying it's a gay anthem,
I'm going to retire and go spend time with my wife.
I have.
You're going to get.
sued by my wife, a lawyer, who is my wife.
Real life, wife.
So, I mean, in many ways, they're connected, Trump and the village people.
Yeah.
All right, but let's talk about MTG because she, Marjorie Taylor Green, has continued to put
herself at the center of this by just, like, refusing to kind of go along with the Trump
administration line of bullshit.
I mean, like, we've been, we've been tracking her continued metamorphosis over.
over the last few months from a racist caterpillar,
enter now currently her new forum,
which is a, is she fucking for real chrysalis stage of development
before she becomes whatever butterfly we see come out?
Just for the record, I just, I think it's important to note.
The words of any elected officials should always be seen as propaganda
serving their own interest,
and MTG is no exception here.
What is notable, though,
is that she's doing the thing that zero MAGA politicians do,
which is stepping directly into Trump's line of fiber.
and is not flinching.
Like you have other people like Rand Paul or Thomas Massey.
Those people were never MAGA, like full-blown MAGA people.
Like they're their own brand of backwards conservative.
They're not MAGA accolites.
Like fucking Marjorie, like Marjorie Taylor Green rode the fucking MAGA wave into Congress.
And so, you know, she's had humane takes on health care more being, it's like,
it's going to cost a lot.
You're like, oh, that's not a lie.
That's a real life analysis that you gave out loud.
And then the Epstein files, although, like we've said,
said she's there for the demonic Democrat part of it.
Now the stress over the Epstein files, though,
has caused Trump to have even more diarrhea than normal.
And he's lashing out at the Republicans
that are supporting the release of the files.
So that means pushing MTG out.
Over the weekend, he posted, he said,
quote, I am withdrawing my support and endorsement of,
quote unquote, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green
of the great state of Georgia over the past few weeks,
despite my creating record achievement,
just goes on now.
goes on. Low taxes, no women's sports, no men and women's sports. Stopping. Transgender for
everyone? What is that? He stopped transgender for everyone. We were all going to have to be
trans. You didn't remember that? That's like a whole title of a thing. And I stopped transgender
for everyone. Like this was a weird Oprah Winfrey episode taping. In another post, he called her
lightweight Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Brown, parenthetical green grass turns brown when it begins
to rot.
And I was like, oh, I think this is one of the positive
signs that his brain is going into sidewalks.
Got his ass. Got her ass.
Marjorie Taylor Brown because
green grass turns brown
when it rocks. What the fuck?
That's like some third grader. She and
needs just that amount of
explanation. So it works every
time. I color brown because green
grass rots when it goes
rotten. Oh, you're rotten grass.
Cool.
Marjorie Taylor Green has said she's been
threats prank pizza deliveries even someone
threatening to pipe bomb her like business
she goes on to post quote
also the timing of this happens
to be days before we take the vote on releasing
the Epstein files I love America and the American
people I swear an oath to uphold the Constitution
however the president of the United States irresponsibly
calls a member of Congress and his own party
a traitor he's signaling what must be
done to a traitor so she's
being like this guy this is stochastic
terrorism which I'm like
hold the fucking phone
now do mom donnie
Yeah, right? So she went on CNN and was asked a pretty straightforward question of like,
it's interesting, you know, like, you basically have never gone on the record to be like,
oh, the president is fomenting violence against somebody or like, you know, making threats to
people putting them in danger. You only care about it until now because it's you, huh? And she gave
a surprisingly coherent answer on this. And with respect, I haven't heard you speak out
about it until it was directed at you.
Care to comment?
Dana, I think that's fair criticism.
And I would like to say, humbly, I'm sorry for taking part in the toxic politics.
It's very bad for our country.
And it's been something I've thought about a lot, especially since Charlie Kirk was assassinated,
is that we, I'm only responsible for myself.
and my own words and actions
and I am committed
and I've been working on this a lot lately
to put down the knives and politics
I really just want to see people
be kind to one another
I mean that part starts losing steam
when you're like just let the racists cook
but to even be like...
Is she in those files? What's going on?
She looks like she's trying to...
She reminds me of like a kid
after they get caught doing something bad
and it's just like you're totally
right, I am wrong, like, just how do I get past this without you being mad at me?
Right.
There's, like, a couple ways to read this, right?
Like, if she's to be believed, then she's presenting herself as someone that has come
around to realize that Trump only serves his own interests, despite the loyalty she showed,
which makes, I can, I can follow the logic of that, but I'm also deeply cynical with these
people.
So I'm like, no, I don't think you've fully seen.
The cynical side of me is that there's enough displeasure with.
Trump among electeds right now that she, I think, sees a lane to get her own thing going.
And either way, I think it's just important to note that she hasn't apologized for a single
fucked up thing she's said in her career.
So, but at the very least, there's some kind of vibrational shift occurring.
But I think it's more the vibes.
The vibes are off-surfing one, I believe, more than her being.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Than it being true contrition.
I don't think we can rely on it.
I have no, no.
But again, I think these are interesting cracks because you also have people like Ron DeSantis now sort of characterizing MAGAs like a racket.
I think people are trying to test the waters again to see like if they can make their own brand again.
Because Ted Cruz, it sounds like the rumors are he's going to be running in 2028 now.
So a different, different time.
Yeah.
And then Trump goes on to be like wacky Marjorie Trader Brown.
Remember, green turns to Brown where there's rock involved.
remember my sick burn from earlier footnotes yeah just goes on uh this was like while he was doing
like two dozen fucking posts uh on saturday or sunday night just screaming about it yeah i mean he also
like had candidates that he endorsed in the last midterm not do well so like his it makes it
like he for a long time he was just like a kill shot for anybody on on the in the republican
party's political career that you know if he went against you you're
and now it feels like that's less the case because he's so bad at his job.
So, yeah, he's losing that sort of full-in support of his party at the same time
that a bunch of new shit has come to light, so to speak.
I think that's the problem, too, is a lot of you, there's like a New York Times piece
even about how a lot of like people in the house are like, dude, I can't, like, this is bad
for midterms.
Like, I can't, I have to be able to run on something that looks like we're doing something
other than this guy complaining about Nobel Prizes and shit like that.
Like, right.
People are going to fucking ask me why utility costs haven't come down or why eggs, like,
that's the kind of shit I have to be able to give answers on and they're trying so
desperately.
And I think this is just the problem with where we're at in terms of like the degrade,
like the stage of capitalism we're in is that prior years, you could lie like everything
was okay.
but now the destruction of late stage capitalism
is affecting everyone on some level
that too many people feel it now
that you can't just say bullshit
like you're gonna fix it and not fix it
too many people are now getting like scraped up by it
they're like uh what the fuck is going on
and they just happen to catch the hot potato
at this moment and they have no fucking clue
what to do yeah um
aside for maybe scream at McDonald's franchisees
yeah start a war as we'll talk about on tomorrow's episode
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So this was definitely going viral over the weekend.
You know, some scientists working tirelessly to cure cancers, others are trying to figure out
the size of Hitler's penis.
It was recently reported that Hitler may have had a micro penis after new DNA testing
by the Cleveland Clinic found that, by the way, the Cleveland Clinic must have been like,
you know, keep our name the fuck off of this.
What are he doing?
found that he had, quote, the genetic condition,
Kalman syndrome, which can, quote, disrupt the process that drives puberty.
This is part of a Channel 4 documentary called Hitler's DNA,
blueprint of a dictator, which they had previously tried to analyze Hitler's DNA
by paying Holocaust denier David Irving 3,000 pounds for a lock of hair,
which, and this is going to surprise you, the lack of hair that they bought off a Holocaust
Denier turned out to
actually not be from
not be what they said it was.
It was the Holocaust denier's pubes
that he saw.
Oh yeah, I got a lock of Hitler's hair
right here.
Also like he's notoriously
I only know one thing
about David Irving and it's that
you shouldn't trust him
with stuff about World War II.
He doesn't seem to have his shit straight
on that on that particular issue.
And they're like, yeah.
Intentionally, yeah.
Seems like he's, this time the DNA came from an obscure military history museum in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, their number one export, which had a blood-drenched swatch of fabric from the couch where Hitler shot himself.
And they matched it with a 10-year-old swab from a relative.
Oh, my God.
And you think that swatch is like those like trading cards or like, this is a, this is a Super Bowl game worn Patrick Bohomes jersey swatch in this card, this trading card.
It's like, yo, here's a swatch of the fabric of the couch Hitler fucking off himself.
Got a fucking blood on it, dude.
It's got a fucking blood on it.
Have you seen the picture of the actual swatch?
No.
They have.
It looks like they, it looks like it feels like some GI got in the bunker, saw it and was like, bro, I'm having a piece of this couch.
Wow.
Yeah.
It's just.
Yeah, just rough cutting.
Yeah.
The scissors technology back then, not so great.
Not so great.
I will say, I did have the question, why did the GIs not check shit out, you know?
When they got in there, found him, just be like, we got to check if this guy's micro penis.
If he does, we got to shoot a lot of pictures.
I don't think they knew.
Yeah.
I don't think they knew.
They probably were just spitting on him and shit.
They're like, yeah, rest in hell, bitch.
Preston pissed dick head.
It's like some guy just chewing a big cigar is what I, a picture.
They're probably taking turns pissing on them or something.
Yeah, yeah.
hey speaking of big cigars let's see if this guy has one i'm just saying see if this yeah if guys got a
cohaba on him so uh the findings likely mean that he did have a undescended right testicle
this is so weird this is this is like i saw this everywhere on the internet this weekend like
people were yeah we found out trump blue uh bill clinton and and hitler had a uh micro penis on the
same day right in the 20s somebody
said that he hadn't undescended right testicle. So that's been, that's been around for a while.
But only up to 10% of people with Kalman's syndrome have a micro penis. So they're really,
you know, having to guess here. It's a one in 10 that he had a had a micro penis. I mean,
based on his behavior, maybe the odds are heavier than that. I do think weird dick stuff probably
accounts for a lot of
people who have strange
issues, but I don't know
that we have
the facts.
Yeah. Yeah. Ah, man.
They just love kicking a man when he's down, huh?
Leave him alone.
This documentary,
by the way, sounds
pretty suspect.
The makers set out to
assess Hitler's genetic
propensity for psychiatric and
neurodevelopmental conditions
which is
scientists generally don't like for you
to be like we looked at his
DNA and could tell that he was
going to be a bad person
because then that like leads
in a eugenicsy direction
it's not so good
so there's so many people
so many experts came out to be like
this is reckless
like what are you fucking talking about
like one person
from Cambridge from the
autism research center said going from
biology to behavior is a big
jump by looking at genetics results like this
there's a risk of stigma people out there might
think is my diagnosis being linked to somebody
who did such monstrous things
yeah yeah yeah that's
that's what they're doing it's not good
and also micropenuses
you know like that that doesn't
mean you're going to be a
horrible person
so that's also tough
it is fun to think that he had
had a micro penis and was living his life in intense suffering.
It feels like maybe this is like some like allies, like post-war propaganda, like,
yeah, just so you know, your fucking boy Hitler also had a fucking needle dick, all right?
So is he fucking tough?
Sure.
I don't think so.
I will say this is part of his legacy now permanently.
Like the way that, you know, everybody thought Napoleon was short and that was actually just anti-Napoleon propaganda.
Right.
like this is this is going to stay like he was in normal height for his for his era uh napoleon
and uh i feel like we just when there's a historic figure like this we do want the dirt and if
it if it's not there we'll make it up there's plenty of weird like go listen to behind the bastards
like there's early episodes about like what hitler was into sexually that's uh pretty pretty weird
it was very very scatological uh yeah uh yeah
Great, great.
Unlike this podcast.
No, no, no, no.
Look at this photo of the, like,
allies of like American servicemen in the bunker.
I thought this guy had a cigar, it looks like.
Yeah, it does look like he's smoking.
I think, is this guy holding a candle?
Maybe.
Wow.
Wow.
Couldn't even get power down there, huh?
They look dirty as fuck.
Well, I mean, they did just, you know.
They did just raid Hitler's bunker.
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report or the third
now you see me movie
now you see me colon
now you don't third
you can't do that on the third one
you can't make that
the subtitle
that's just
anyway
that was the number one movie of the box office this
weekend it made $21 million
domestically and had a worldwide
total of 75.5
which I writer jam points out
is kind of surprising for a franchise
that seems like it was designed to be enjoyed on Netflix
while assembling IKEA furniture.
Truly, truly, truly.
And then, I mean, I'm a little disappointed by this
that Edgar Wright's remake of The Running Man
did not do very well.
It earned 11 million domestic, 28 million global,
but since it isn't sinners,
variety didn't feel the need to focus on how much,
how far it has to go before it makes back its money.
Very neutral description of what happened.
Yeah.
So a pertinent question from Brian, the editor is, wait, it's out.
And that's a good point.
Deadline noted, and they're reporting on it, that the running man's low box office is partly
due to the changeover from the old guard to the new guard under David Ellison at Paramount,
the billionaire son who's like buying all the media, which likely affected the movie's
marketing campaign.
Also, probably the fact that the reviews weren't good.
like this is the type of movie that I feel like
I need the reviews to be pretty good
to get excited enough to go see it in the theater.
I'll definitely watch the shit out of it
once it comes on streaming, but...
But I heard like it's a little bit goofier
than the Schwarzenegger version.
Even goofier than the Schwarzenegger version?
Yeah, like I feel like it's...
Shortsger version's pretty goofy.
I guess it felt like edge.
I don't know if it had it more,
it felt like it had more of an edge to it or something like...
The Schwarzenegger one.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like, obviously, like, it's absurd and like,
and it has like it's sort of comic book moments,
But I don't know.
It could also just be like, it's too real.
Shit is too real.
Yeah, it takes place in a dystopian America.
He's like doing this challenge.
You know, everybody's trying to kill him.
And the reason he's doing it is because his family can't afford health care.
Like his wife is going to die or something.
Yeah.
Ugh.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But yeah, they're saying, you know, they, this movie was made under a previous administration.
the Ellison kid comes in and buys the, you know, whole company and he's like, I'm bringing
in my own marketing guy, Josh Goldstein, who starts on October 15th, which was a month before
a running man opened. And so people are speculating that, like, that's, that's what happened.
I personally remember enjoying the Schwarzenegger version, but I think your mileage may vary on
that one. But, I mean, I remember watching it as like a kid. And I thought it was,
was about the dance, the running man.
Like, I'm not joking.
Like in 92, I think I watched it
when I was eight or something and I was like, oh, the running man.
First time I saw someone doing the running man,
it blew my mind.
Yeah, and then, like,
oh.
And without con, because my parents just let me watch whatever the fuck.
They weren't like, bro, you're in for a fucking surprise.
Anyway, I watch that shit at eight years old.
I'm all right.
Oh, yeah, man.
That was my favorite when I was eight was diehard.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We should not have.
Probably should not have watched that.
Look at us now trying to protect our children at all costs.
It actually made me the coolest kid in my school.
I've given ground on movies a little bit because I'm like trying to keep them off YouTube and all that other stuff.
So I want them to like movies.
Oh, there you go.
So I'm like a little less.
I'm a little more permissive on the movies.
Show them a racerhead.
Aracerhead.
I read them the Tropica Cancer, Tropica Capricorn, you know, all that.
But, you know, no video games.
Show me razor head.
Show him a racerhead.
Made you cool.
Give them the Miles Gray media diet,
pre-10-year-old media diet that my dad raised me on.
All right.
Those are some of the things that are trending on this Monday, November 17th.
We are back tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show.
Until then, be kind to each other.
Be kind to yourselves.
Get your vaccines way you still can.
Get your flu shots.
Don't do nothing about white supremacy.
And we will talk to you all tomorrow.
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