The Daily Zeitgeist - (T)Rump Shaker by Wreckx-Trend-Effect 5/19: Joe Biden, James Comey, Elon Musk, Romanian Elections, Jello Shots, Trump Watch

Episode Date: May 19, 2025

In this edition of Wreckx-Trend-Effect, Miles and special guest co-host Pallavi Gunalan discuss their respective weekends, Joe Biden's cancer prognosis, James Comey's "86-47" post, Trump not posting a...bout Elon anymore, the Romanian presidential elections, that kindergartener who brought jello shots to school, Trump's branded watch fail and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Remember lamb chops underwear, a special pair for you to wear? What? No. That was the commercial for lamb do it. Lamb chops underwear, a special pair for you to wear. Was it like the puppet brand? Yeah. What?
Starting point is 00:00:17 Was it for kids? No, it was for like freaky ass adults who shouldn't be talking to kids on the internet. Weird. No, yeah, it was for kids. Here it is, here it is, here it is, here it is. Bro, I'm so, commercial jingles never leave my mind and I bet I have the pitch right too. Hey, it's Plancha. Underwear! A special pair that you can wear when out of camp.
Starting point is 00:00:38 Underwear by Crude of the Loom. I guess it's time to change my clothes Okay, I didn't like that commercial why is laughing like that though I don't like that they were did on kids underwear like for everyone to see that was weird Yeah, lamp shop is just laughing like a psycho in the background. I guess it's time to change clothes. Oh, shut the fuck up, Lamby. Cause I just murdered someone.
Starting point is 00:01:12 Who's the person behind Lamb? That's a hand, Brian. If he came in his pants, that's a hand. Who is the lady? Shari Lewis. Yeah. The redhead, curly redhead? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:01:24 White people aren't doing their curls like they used to they need to bring that way height man The perms people were rocking Fuck it my mom had a perm she looked like fucking Wolverine. Hell, yeah, I bet nobody fucked with her No, I mean she was married so it's too late. But I couldn't do anything. I mean, so years later when he actually left her. So, yeah, but maybe the clock was ticking when she got the permit. I don't know. I don't know. We were talking about funny jingles, too, because like Jockeys really loves
Starting point is 00:01:57 like crazy Chicago based jingles from local shows or local stores. And I was like trying to think of some from Utah. And the only one I could think of was this like anti-Meth, but kind of pro-Meth jingle from when I was in Utah. And it was like, oh, Meth, oh, Meth. And I was like, I have to- Oh, I remember that one. You remember that one? And she's like cleaning. Oh, Meth.
Starting point is 00:02:22 She's cleaning her house and it's like so clean and she has so much energy. I think y'all talked about this on the show actually. Did I talk about it? Years ago. Oh, okay, okay. But I was like obsessed with this song and I was just like singing it. Miles, do you remember this?
Starting point is 00:02:36 Cause I remember this. Busy as a bee, where'd I get all this energy? Oh Matt, Matt, I don't sleep and I don't need, but I've got the cleanest house on the street. Oh, meth, hmm, meth. Get these hairs all out of my face. Get these bugs all out of my place. One more hit, no time to waste. Oh, meth, hmm, meth. I'm like, yeah, I want to wake up with meth in the morning, meth in my cup. I remember we heard this and I had the same feeling.
Starting point is 00:03:09 This was real. This was real. This was real. I think another guest had brought it up on the show. And I was singing it in fourth grade. Yeah, I get it. It's catchy. This is like the white people's equivalent of like a Negro spiritual.
Starting point is 00:03:23 It's so good. Oh, meth. Oh, meth. Like that pain of the white people's equivalent of like a Negro spiritual. It's so good. Oh, man. Oh, man. Like that. Yeah. Like of the white. Experiences should be singing it right. Centric spiritual. My my house is the cleanest on the block. And it was all like good meth points. It's like I'm doing all of the work that I need to get done.
Starting point is 00:03:43 Yeah, I know exactly no more procrastinating on taking apart that TV Oh meth Do not take apart old TVs, please What's inside that cathode ray tube? Oh Found out I was related to the guy that I was dating. I don't feel emotions correctly I am talking to a felon right now, and I cannot decide if I like him or not Those were some callers from my call-in podcast therapy gecko It's a show where I take real phone calls from anonymous strangers all over the world as a fake
Starting point is 00:04:23 Gecko therapist and try to dig into their brains and learn a little bit about their lives. I know that's a weird concept but I promise it's pretty interesting if you give it a shot. Matter of fact here's a few more examples of the kinds of calls we get on this show. I live with my boyfriend and I found his piss jar in our apartment. I collect my roommates toenails and fingernails. I have very overbearing parents. Even at the age of 29, they won't let me move out of their house.
Starting point is 00:04:51 So if you want an excuse to get out of your own head and see what's going on in someone else's head, search for Therapy Gecko on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. It's the one with the green guy on it. Hi, I'm Kristin Davis, host of the podcast, Are You a Charlotte? What we have all been waiting for.
Starting point is 00:05:12 Sarah Jessica Parker is here. And she is sharing stories from the very beginning, like the time she forgot we filmed the pilot episode. I remember some things about shooting the pilot. Right. I have some memories I can fill you in. And that you're going to fill me in. Yes. But then you forgot about it in the very long time
Starting point is 00:05:30 they took to pick us up. And she reveals what she thought when she read the script for Sex and the City the very first time. He said he wrote this like I was in his head in some way, which I found really interesting. And does she think Carrie is too good for Mr. Big? She had inexplicable feelings. Got it.
Starting point is 00:05:47 It is a human being that can't explain to her friends why somebody that might be beneath her is dictating the hunt. You can't miss this. Listen to Are You a Charlotte? on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Bob Pitman, chairman and CEO of iHeartMedia.
Starting point is 00:06:09 On this week's episode of Math and Magic, I'm sitting down with the one and only Bobby Bones, who are exploring the power of audio. The word on the street then was, he's too country for pop. But then once I got to country, it was he's too pop for country. So I kind of never really had a place to fit in, but that's exactly how and why I fit. I just embraced that. Like yeah, I don't fit into one specific hole. I think that is what endeared me to listeners. That's why I'm here now because I talk to people that grew up like me, have sensibilities like me, and have loyalties
Starting point is 00:06:44 like me. Listen to math and magic, and have loyalties like me. Listen to Math & Magic, stories from the frontiers of marketing on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This week on Dear Chelsea with me, Chelsea Handler, Ed Helms is here. I, of course, was drawn to the LSD story. In the 1950s, a CIA scientist secretly bought
Starting point is 00:07:03 the entire world's supply of LSD, embarking on a horrific attempt to discover the secrets to mind control. This is so insane. This was all under like official government activity. They built a apartment in San Francisco that had a glass mirror where he could sit there and watch, and then they would drug these customers. And he was just sort of taking notes and God knows what else behind this double mirror. And this was all in the name of science.
Starting point is 00:07:32 This just sounds like a guy off behind a wall. It does. I would just also like to say, if you don't have to take LSD like this, LSD can be microdosed. It's like an upper of energy enthusiasm makes you less nervous less nervous if I'm going heli-skiing. If it allows me to go hella-skiing, then yeah. I'm hella on board. Listen to Dear Chelsea on the iHeartRadio app,
Starting point is 00:07:54 Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, is this the internet? Oh yeah it is. Welcome to season 389 episode one of the Daily Night Guys, a production of I Heart Radio. This is the podcast where you take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It's Monday, May 19th. And this is the episode where we catch you up to speed over all the happenings that have been happening newswise in our hearts.
Starting point is 00:08:20 OK, all right. Yeah. Who's that? Oh, it's my co-host today, Paula B. Gannolin. Hello Paula B. I'm so ready to get with the happenings. Oh, I know you are. I know you are. It was good to see you on Wednesday It's good to see you. We just run into each other in the darndest places. I know. Did you go ham on the free candy that was at that event? No, because I'm vegan and there was only like one candy and then it disappeared. Oh, you're vegan?
Starting point is 00:08:47 I didn't even know that. Yes, yes. Fantastic. I mean, didn't you get it in my, I'm better than you attitude? No, not at all. That's why I was like, you got a real, I eat bacon all day type energy.
Starting point is 00:08:59 Oh my God, thank you. Yeah, I would have never known. Oh my God. I'm a vegan of the people. Thank you, thank you, thank you. The true vegans my god. I'm a vegan of the people. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you The true vegans exactly this is what we need just to just to relate to us It's because i'm vegan but very unhealthy like I already know what all the candies I can and cannot eat What are the what candy could you eat that was vegan? I could have eaten the sour patch kids
Starting point is 00:09:19 Oh, those are gelatin free swedish fish. Yeah, those are vegan if they're not, and I'm wrong, don't tell me, okay? Don't let me know. Don't ever let me go onto the Jell-O-Ton page. Oreos, I have a whole thing of that right now. I have to. What are the other sneaky, I know Oreos is one. Not Doritos. There's like another terrible food.
Starting point is 00:09:40 I'm like, that shit has nothing in it. That's animal food. Yeah, if it's made out of plastic, it's really good for me Yeah, so there there's two types of vegans. There's like the healthy kind and then there's me so yeah That's why you got the I eat bacon all day. I have a silly trash. It's just vegan trash, dude There's that that one spot in Hollywood that's by the offices in Hollywood are the I heart offices there Spot yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:05 Yeah, I'm like obsessed with Doomy's. That is, like it's vile how unhealthy it is that I'm also like, bro, I love this. I eat it all the time. It's so bad. It also makes me realize how unreal most of the junk food we eat is because it's so similar.
Starting point is 00:10:22 I'm like, this I'm pretty sure is nacho cheese. No? Yeah. This is vegan. Yeah. But I don't know what the fuck I've been eating. Yeah. Yeah. It's just made out of cardboard and plastic blended up. It's flavor oil.
Starting point is 00:10:33 It's flavor oil. That's all it is. And I love it. I love being American. I love laughing myself in flavor oils. This is where we're gonna talk about, what's going on with us first before we get to the top line news items.
Starting point is 00:10:47 What's overrated, what's underrated? Pauly V, what's something you think is underrated? That's okay if the dogs are barking, my dogs are barking too, you know? Here's your thoughts. Okay, hold on. Am I underrated? I don't know if you've seen this.
Starting point is 00:11:00 Tesla's trying to rebrand. Have you seen, I saw one where like, they put like a Toyota sign over, the owner put a Toyota sign over the Tesla's symbol because they don't, and then there's like ones where they're making bumper stickers that are like, I bought this before he went crazy. Like I love-
Starting point is 00:11:18 There's like pre insanity edition, I've seen people put that on their car. Yeah. It's like when you're trying to get a divorce, but you can't afford to move out. You know what I mean? They still have the car. Yeah. It's like when you're trying to get a divorce, but you can't afford to move out. You know what I mean? They still have the car. I think it's like nice to be that self aware.
Starting point is 00:11:30 And also like, I just love that the Tesla owners are, it's like having a barking dog. They're like, listen, I know it's got problems, okay? I'm so sorry. I know. I know. I know he's a Nazi. This is, I'm one of those, I was like a wealthy Prius owner
Starting point is 00:11:46 who was looking for something that indicated that I was a little bit like a literal class above other Prius owners and that's why I got a Tesla. And I didn't, I couldn't predict this. I did not know I would be driving a Nazi clown car. Yeah, it's, it is funny. Like it's the divorce, but you can't move out yet. It's like, I'm just gonna start wearing an earring now
Starting point is 00:12:06 to let people know we're divorced, but I still live at home, but I am wearing the earring now. But that doesn't the earring mean that you're gay from like the 90s? It's the one with the right ear? So it's like, we're like, yeah, you know what? That divorce is actually justified, you know what? 100%, 100%.
Starting point is 00:12:21 Underrated for me, I've just, I recently had to open a CD and I was blown away how my, so my underrated are millennial skills that are ingrained as muscle memory. Fucking CD, I was like, watch me fucking pop this shit open, get this sticker off. So quick, I felt like one of the,
Starting point is 00:12:43 like a Navy SEAL who blindfolds themselves and takes apart a fucking rifle and then cleans it and puts it back together. I was like, you're like, you're like what the winter soldier like, yeah, whatever. Yeah, no, just like, like waking up and all these tallies. Exactly. But all I have are a pile of loose CDs that I'm like, yeah, get it off. I'll get the sticker off. I just had this like, it's just wild again, how it was something I did so many times when I was younger is like the opening of a CD or a game
Starting point is 00:13:15 that had like similar cellophane like rapping on it. And how I think I just, I think maybe my underrated is physical media because really I, when I did that, I was like, man, this used to fill me with such fucking joy to be like, and this CD is me, I am this, I am the latest, whatever fucking, I am 50 cents get rich or die trying. This is me now.
Starting point is 00:13:39 And to like open the book and like read the lyrics or like the thank yous, like all of that, that was so nice. And then you saw that enhanced CD nice. I feel like everything- And then you saw that enhanced CD logo, you're like, I can put this in the computer? And for some extras, okay. I feel like there's so much,
Starting point is 00:13:52 like so much has gotten worse, like in terms of like art and consumption and stuff, because yeah, that was like a material item, but like more effort was put into it, and we got them fewer and far between, which I'm like happy that we have access to more stuff now, but I also think we have lost some art of unpacking videos.
Starting point is 00:14:12 With CDs would have been so much more fulfilling. Which will roll into my overrated, which is the just proliferation of digital media. I think there's something, it's good and bad, right? Having everything available. Like this podcast is good digital media. Well, let me clarify. Everybody loves it.
Starting point is 00:14:30 Allow me to clarify. Yeah. My heart immediately puts the press of the shutdown button. Just shut, they could have done that years ago, to be honest. But like the thing, I'm talking about like film and TV and music, right? The things we used to buy physically. There was such an intent around pursuing a piece of media where now everything is so passive.
Starting point is 00:14:54 It's like presented to us like on a carousel or like a fucking feed that I, as now, like I'm engaging more and more with like discovering music again. I realize like how that skill has been kind of atrophying, basically, because it's all just there all the time. And I forget, I feel like I watch less movies because I don't have to pursue movies as much.
Starting point is 00:15:16 It's weird, it's a very ironic thing. I was thinking about that too. AMC is doing 50% off of movies or something to get more people to come out to see them because they're just on our TVs at home, you know, like with all these subscriptions. But I think part of the art that we are missing, that we lost, it's not only like the physical touch
Starting point is 00:15:34 and the process of like going to the movies or whatever, it's the social aspect too, right? Like interacting, even if you go by yourself, you're still interacting with people at the theater You're still like there is some sort of community connection And I think that is lost in how everything has become digitized even like buying an album or a DVD I'm like, hey, bro, I'm gonna go get the I'm gonna go buy the album or whatever. You want to come with me? Yeah, I'm not doing nothing. I mean, obviously that's like some 19 year old
Starting point is 00:16:03 Early 20s shit. Go to you like go to the mall together or whatever. Yeah, where you call your friend and like, you ain't doing shit, right? No. You just go do some shit. Now, obviously it's a little bit different, but like, even that. Or you like share about it. Like it comes out and you guys like each get a copy
Starting point is 00:16:18 or whatever, and then you like listen to it all the way through, and then you talk about it. Like, I feel like there's so much media, there's so much consumption, and there is also so much like bad quality media because now it's on quantity instead of quality, which like we have to participate in too. Like we can't take our time with stuff we wanna put out.
Starting point is 00:16:41 Yeah, oh my God, yeah. Yeah, so like being able to like digest and criticize good art is also lost in addition to like creating it. Yeah. Right. Cause everything's so instant. It's like, now we're just like, it's like the second something comes out, then the takes are already going off on blue sky or whatever.
Starting point is 00:16:59 And I'm just like, what the fuck, man. It's very, basically I think what I'm saying is I want to be 19 again. I'm also in this nostalgia. I am also that. Yes, thank you. Polly, what's something you think is overrated? Okay, I did this because I was inspired by you and Brian,
Starting point is 00:17:19 my bald kings, okay, overrated hair transplants. Listen, we don't want Turkey to overtake us in the global race, okay? We don't want, like have you- Wait, what happened? Do you know somebody who went to Turkey recently? No, I'm just saying, like, have you seen those pictures out of Turkey where like it's the airport
Starting point is 00:17:37 and it's all the dude with hair transplants. The line and immigration. Like every guy has hair transplants. They all got their little headband on, yeah. I'm so sick of like unrealistic male beauty standards, you know, like these poor guys just feel like they have to have hair be tall and you know, all of those things.
Starting point is 00:17:56 They're so- Not only do they benefit from global patriarchy, but they also suffer from weak hairlines. And that's- Yeah. Just think about us. But I also just want, I just want my bald kings to own it. You know what I mean? John Cena, just shave it off.
Starting point is 00:18:09 It's fine. Oh, is John Cena losing his hair? He was, and then he, I think he said he got a hair transplant because he felt bullied. Oh shit. Yeah, and I was like, this man has the most makeup wishes. And he wishes he had hair, that's sad, you know? He couldn't use them wishes just for one?
Starting point is 00:18:27 They couldn't just use some hair? He could really use a wish right now. Hey, yeah. He could really use a wish right now. And that wish is actually an airplane to Turkey. Yeah. Yeah, there was a thing too, I just saw with Tom Hardy promoting something,
Starting point is 00:18:42 he was talking about his hair transplant too. I was like, oh, I don't know Tom Hardy. I feel like it's going to go the way of wrinkles, where we forget that wrinkles exist. We're going to forget that there are bald men in media. You know what I mean? I won't forget. You'll never forget. I'll never forget.
Starting point is 00:18:57 I look in that mirror and I go, we got this. Take that hat off, Miles. God damn it. Take that hat off. Take that hat off. For my formal events, yes, all the time. Like when I am, I mean, I can't. Do you have to like, what's your headcare routine?
Starting point is 00:19:11 My headcare, oh, like it's so straight guy. It's just like, it exists. Do you moisturize? Do you have to like sunscreen up there? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll sunscreen. If I'm out in the sun, I usually I'll wear a hat because I do not need to expose the entire top of my skull to UV rays all the time.
Starting point is 00:19:27 Yeah, that's fair. But yeah, yeah, gotta keep the lotion, gotta keep the, you know, you don't want your scalp tied up. I feel like they've got to have, you know how they have hair masks that you wear? There's gotta be a head mask, like a bulb. You know what I mean? That does a moisturizing, deep moisturizing pack.
Starting point is 00:19:46 Wow, Brian the editor says shave hyaluronic acid coconut oil. Damn, okay Brian. Okay. That sounds good. Okay, scalp man. Keeping that thing fucking. Korean scalp care. Yeah, I need to know. Hey, if you got tips, let me know. Also, I'm just, you know, where the, I always say this.
Starting point is 00:20:03 Come on fucking science. Where's the fucking pill that brings the hair back? I don't need fucking mechanical transplant. Yeah, forget about women's reproductive systems. Let's get this pill. I mean, we haven't made any progress on this. None. We don't even know what cramps are.
Starting point is 00:20:17 We don't even know what cramps are. We're fine. They're cramps. They're called cramps. Oh, they're hurting on the inside? We're bald on the outside. On the outside, and we still don't know! Alright, let's take a quick break and we'll be right back to talk the news.
Starting point is 00:20:32 I found out I was related to the guy that I was dating. I don't feel emotions correctly. I am talking to a felon right now and I cannot decide if I like him or not Those were some callers from my call-in podcast therapy gecko It's a show where I take real phone calls from anonymous strangers all over the world as a fake Gecko therapist and try to dig into their brains and learn a little bit about their lives I know that's a weird concept, but I promise it's pretty interesting if you give it a shot. Matter of fact, here's a few more examples of the kinds of calls we get on this show.
Starting point is 00:21:12 I live with my boyfriend and I found his pizjar in our apartment. I collect my roommates' toenails and fingernails. I have very overbearing parents. Even at the age of 29, they won't let me move out of their house. So if you want an excuse to get out of your own head and see what's going on in someone else's head, search for Therapy Gecko on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Starting point is 00:21:37 It's the one with the green guy on it. Hi, I'm Kristin Davis, host of the podcast, Are You a Charlotte? What we have all been waiting for. Sarah Jessica Parker is here, and she is sharing stories from the very beginning, like the time she forgot we filmed the pilot episode. I remember some things about shooting the pilot.
Starting point is 00:21:57 Right. I have some memories I can fill you in. And that you're going to fill me in. Yes. But then you forgot about it in the very long time they took to pick us up. I completely forgot about it. And she reveals what she thought
Starting point is 00:22:08 when she read the script for Sex and the City the very first time. He said he wrote this like I was in his head in some way, which I found really interesting. And does she think Carrie is too good for Mr. Big? She had inexplicable feelings. Got it. It is a human being that can't explain to her friends
Starting point is 00:22:24 why somebody that might be beneath her is dictating the hunt. You can't miss this. Listen to Are You a Charlotte? on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Bob Pippman, Chairman and CEO of iHeartMedia. On this week's episode of Math and Magic, I'm sitting down with the one and only Bobby Bones.
Starting point is 00:22:48 We're exploring the power of audio. The word on the street then was, he's too country for pop. But then once I got to country, it was he's too pop for country. So I kind of never really had a place to fit in, but that's exactly how and why I fit. I just embraced that. Like, yeah, I don't fit into one specific hole. I think that is what endeared me to listeners. That's why I'm here now, because I talk to people that grew up like me, have sensibilities like me and have loyalties like me.
Starting point is 00:23:19 Listen to Math and Magic, stories from the frontiers of marketing on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. A lot of times the big economic forces we hear about on the news show up in our lives in small ways. Three or four days a week, I would buy two cups of banana pudding,
Starting point is 00:23:41 but the price has gone up, so now I only buy one. The demand curve in action. And that's just one of the things we'll be covering on everybody's business from Bloomberg Business Week. I'm Max Chafkin. And I'm Stacey Vanek-Smith. Every Friday, we will be diving into the biggest stories in business, taking a look at what's going on,
Starting point is 00:23:59 why it matters, and how it shows up in our everyday lives. With guests like Business Week editor Brad Stone, sports reporter Randall Williams and consumer spending expert Amanda Mull will take you inside the boardrooms, the backrooms, even the signal chats that make our economy tick. Hey, I want to learn about VeChain. I want to buy some blockchain or whatever it is that they're doing. So listen to everybody's business on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. So Joe Biden announced that he has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that is metastasized. It's in his bones now. But the prognosis seems
Starting point is 00:24:48 pretty optimistic in that it looks like it is manageable. It's responding to hormone treatment. So this kind of goes off the last story where we did hear that he had like a nodule that they were looking at. And then now we've had the announcement that it is cancer. I think for this reason alone, I'm not running for president. I don't want everybody to know my medical business, okay? Well, a lot of people are even like, there's been a lot of speculation.
Starting point is 00:25:16 Like one oncologist who is the brother of Rahm Emanuel, former chief of staff under Obama and- Jesus Christ, does everyone come from Chicago? It's like the guy from Sopranos and his brother, the fucking Arie Emanuel, Rahm Emanuel, his brother, the oncologist. He was out here getting quoted. I don't know if this is sloppy, but he said as an oncologist, he's like, he must've had cancer for years.
Starting point is 00:25:39 What? Really? Like they're saying for this to have progressed to this point. And he wasn't trying to say this, that or the other, but he's like, I'm just surprised as an oncologist, typically doctors, especially if you're, you know, a president is under your care,
Starting point is 00:25:53 you're gonna overtest rather than undertest. So, you know, this is now- Unless it's a cognitive test, you know what I mean? In which case, they'll be like- You're gonna undertest. And, oh, let's switch the test up really quick for President Biden. Just hold a mirror in front of him and say peek-a-boo. And if he reacts, then he's all the way with it.
Starting point is 00:26:11 Yeah, so this was like this was like another thing that's been, you know, brewing around. And this is also happening the week when the book Original Sin is now being released. We got little excerpts from it last week where they were talking about putting Biden in a wheelchair, but they said the fucking optics would kill the campaign. So he gets to have a wheelchair only if he beat Trump was sort of like the thinking. Oh my God, Avalice. Jesus Christ. This is elder abuse at this point. I don't feel bad for him at all. This whole book now really puts really his three top aides like in the spotlight being like,
Starting point is 00:26:47 oh, you are the three who really hid everything from everyone in terms of like what his actual condition was. I also have a really irrelevant question. That's really petty. Why is it called Original Sin? Isn't that the apple eating? Like what is that? Yeah, I don't know. Everything has to be some kind of- Why are they called Original Sin? Isn't that the apple eating? Like what is that? Yeah, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:27:05 Everything has to be some kind of- Why are they making it sexy? Some Jesus. Oh, you're looking at like, yo, you're thinking like the, who was in that Angelina Jolie and Antonio Banderas, the movie Original Sin? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:17 I don't know. In my mind, Original Sin is just like sexy, you know? You might be thinking, well, I mean, that movie was sexy as hell, Original Sin. Wait, now I need to go watch it. Right. Yeah, yeah, this posters. Yes. Yes. Sexy. Now imagine Joe Biden and Joe Biden in that poster.
Starting point is 00:27:36 I prefer to imagine. Joe Biden and Antonio Banderas. Now, now we're talking, speaking of hair transplants. And they say Antonio Banderas? Now, now we're talking, speaking of hair transplants, and they say Antonio Banderas had one early. And people don't realize. That is like propaganda. I will not hear that about Mr. Puss in Boots, okay? Okay, I heard this from multiple journalists.
Starting point is 00:27:58 Anyway, who know? And look, I don't know. I heard he's beautiful and that's it. It's fine, it's fine. He is beautiful, he is beautiful. And he's also the, he also sells allergy medication as a bumblebee. But yeah, so there's also like, again,
Starting point is 00:28:11 this also led to Don Jr. There's all kinds of conspiracies now about like his cancer and what they're, what they're, what do they know? What's he doing? Da, da, da, da, da, da, da. But I think this has also allowed for an opportunity for the media to begin to be like, oh, Joe Biden, you know, like, let's forget everything that's happened.
Starting point is 00:28:30 Not to say that, like, you need to hammer Joe Biden even harder because he's announced that he's had cancer. But I think the sympathy right now is as much needed for Joe Biden, who has a ton of just shit coming out this week. There's also was it an Axios thing? Yeah, the audio from that interview with- Robert Herr. Robert, I was thinking Ben Herr and Robert Herr. And Steve Kerr and Ben Herr and Robert, Bob Herr. They're all in it together.
Starting point is 00:29:03 But yeah, the audio came out of like, I guess an interview or something that he had done. And like in a report or like, we'd heard that report earlier about how he wouldn't be fit to be before a jury Biden about his mis-handling of classified documents because the jury would just see him as like a doddering old sympathetic man sort of a thing.
Starting point is 00:29:25 But that came from this like interview. With a US attorney, Robert Herr, yeah. Yeah, with Ben Herr and the audio came out and it's like pretty bad. Like he can't remember the year his son died. He can't remember when Trump was elected. He's like stopping speaking and It's like very obvious. I think the interview was from 2023
Starting point is 00:29:48 and the report came out in 2024, but the audio just came out with Axios leaking it or leaking reporting on it. And so it's just like pretty bad. And obviously this whole time, he's just like denying his dementia. And then he got mad that they brought up the year that Bo died.
Starting point is 00:30:09 But he brought up Bo. And they had you. So like- How'd you bring that up? You're like, sir, you did. You did that. That was you. I mean, I think more than the emphasis being on Joe Biden,
Starting point is 00:30:21 this really is about what the Democratic party needs to fucking look in the mirror and be like, look what you're looking at what you fucking did to the country by like hiding all of the deterioration in his mental state and just being so fucking rigid and not allowing any kind of change to happen, whether that's in policy or candidacy or whatever. And now we're here and the reports get worse and worse and worse and now we got Ben Herr in the mix. I know. I truly think they don't care though.
Starting point is 00:30:51 I feel like they're trying to just campaign off of it. You know what I mean? This is how they are. They're just trying to make money. This is the thing that worries me about the oligarchy tour with AOC and Bernie is that all that momentum just gets funneled right into the Democratic Party again,
Starting point is 00:31:08 with no fucking attention paid to like all of the mistakes they've been making over and over and over again. It's like, well, there are these two people who are saying the right thing. So maybe that can excuse everything else the party did terribly wrong. But not even that, like they're not, like they haven't endorsed Zoran
Starting point is 00:31:25 in like in New York. Right. You know what I mean? They're not even utilizing it on a local level in a way that they could really like gain momentum for these elections. Because it's still the fucking party. That's the thing that- It's still the fucking party.
Starting point is 00:31:36 You know what I mean? They're like, yeah, we could do something different but we're not gonna fundamentally change that. If you want that, that's a whole other thing called democratic socialism and we're not doing that. We're not gonna- that, that's a whole other thing called democratic socialism, and we're not doing that. We're not gonna fundamentally change that. Yeah, it's also so crazy that Radiohead is headlining this year at the oligarchy tour.
Starting point is 00:31:52 It's so nuts. Did you buy your tickets, your wristbands? Did you get them? I did not, I did not. All the bots bought all the tickets. Oh my God, crazy. Yeah, it sucks. But anyway, yeah, fuck cancer though, forever.
Starting point is 00:32:07 And even Donald Trump was even like, had a normal message, or people were like, oh my God, look what he did. It's like, do not have your perception altered by this very milk-toast sort of expression of sympathy towards Joe Biden from Donald Trump. This is not, he's not suddenly a fucking decent person. He's just doing the bare minimum. James Comey, he was also in the news.
Starting point is 00:32:30 James Comey, you fucking idiot. This fucking media seeking bitch. I know, thirsty. What is going on, James Comey? So former FBI director, James Comey, was also in the spotlight this weekend for posting the most boomer ass shit online He posted a picture of the numbers eight six four seven eighty six forty seven Spelled out with fucking seashells and then he the caption was cool shell formation on my beachwalk
Starting point is 00:32:59 A lot of people are like you want to eighty six, 47? You want an 86, the 47th president? What the fuck? That is so funny. It's so funny to me that James Comey is, aren't we supposed to not know FBI people? Right. Aren't they supposed to be them and the CIA? We're supposed to not know who they are?
Starting point is 00:33:20 And they think he's posting these beach shell threats. Yeah, right, exactly. Menacing threats with seashells? Also, cool shell formation, I saw my beach walk. Oh yeah, what's your day to day like, James Comey? Everything good over there? Sounds wonderful. It's beautiful.
Starting point is 00:33:39 It's awesome, anything going on out there? And here's my active resistance. I'll put some seashells together. And here I am resisting 86, 47. I mean, anyone that's worked in a restaurant or bar has definitely heard the term 86. And most, I think generally most people have heard the term 86 something.
Starting point is 00:33:55 But to be fair, he did this last week with some starfish and it said 17, 38. So I don't think he understood it fully either. Yeah. Oh my God. So I don't think he understood it fully either. Yeah, he oh my God, like after this, it's like Cash Patel and many other people on the right were like, we're looking into this. This is a serious threat against the president. I mean, sure, because we know MAGA is in a perpetual state of like victimhood. They're going to do that. But obviously James Comey will probably have some splaining to do to the Secret
Starting point is 00:34:25 Service. But predictably, the 86 and insert presidential number here format has been around since at least Trump's first term when people were selling 8645. merch is like sort of like peak resistance lib, like, you know, merchandise you could buy. Then guess what, when Joe Biden was president, there was 86, 46 merchandise. And yeah, so this has just been a thing that has always happened, but again, it's all about selective outrage.
Starting point is 00:34:55 We're so cool. I love numerology. I hate making actual change. I love this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's so cool. I don't wanna like actually fundamentally upend how I live my life.
Starting point is 00:35:09 Can I arrange these shelves? I just wanna nice. I love locks on the beach. I love veiled threats to the president. Through shelves, through shelves. Love a shelf, love a shelf. I love pina colada. And arranges shelves on the beach.
Starting point is 00:35:26 Yeah, so again, you know, I think one other possibility on Wonkat they're pointing out is like, you know, James Comey's been writing these like really stupid like crime novels. And they're like, wait, does he have a book coming out? Yeah, he has a book coming out this week. So- He's pulling the Kanye.
Starting point is 00:35:45 Oh my God. The worst. Every fucking weird government, like horrific, uh, politician official type person. They just want to be an artist in the end. That's why artists are like less evil. It feels like on the whole, because we got to do what we wanted in the beginning. You know, we weren't just sitting there like, like murdering people. feels like on the whole, because we got to do what we wanted in the beginning. We weren't just sitting there murdering people most of our lives and then turning to painting
Starting point is 00:36:13 humble portraits or whatever Bush did. This is just, yeah, I just feel, this is like, couldn't have come at a better time for Trump when everyone is pissed about the fucking disappearing of like illegal residents in the United States or the fucking coming tax or not tax cuts but the tax bill that's gonna create huge cuts to social programs just every he like he really could have used it things like and they're mean to me and that's now what everyone on the right is doing with this call me thing so way to
Starting point is 00:36:43 go James comey you chalked up another win for Trump somehow. You're truly the king of kings. All right, let's take another break. Actually, no. Let's- No. Actually, no. You know what?
Starting point is 00:36:57 We're here for the people. We're gonna keep- We're gonna keep talking nonsense. There's a report in Politico that's reporting Elon Musk's GOP star is beginning to fade significantly. Not with help from you, Politico, just don't report about it. Don't talk about that, man.
Starting point is 00:37:15 I'm like, also, I think you're doing the White House's bidding with this article to insist so intensely that it's like, and he's nobody anymore. They don't even know him, he's gone. He has nothing to do with them. He has nothing to do with the Republican party. That South African refugee, we don't know where he is. Yeah, I don't know how that happened this week
Starting point is 00:37:34 when we welcomed 59 white people to America and we're like, welcome to Buffalo, New York, where you'll live. It's just like Durbin, you're gonna love it. So yeah, like they pointed out that Trump isn't posting about how great a man he is on Truth Social anymore. They even had like a bar graph to show like the huge fall off and how it's like nothing happening anymore.
Starting point is 00:37:55 Then like none of the fundraising material that Trump has been sending out to people when he begs for money, none of it used to mention like, he's like, I need your money because of all the great work Elon Musk is doing at Doge. And Republicans across the board rarely evoke his name for any of their press releases or propaganda.
Starting point is 00:38:14 So they're like, oh, this looks like a tactical retreat from Elon Musk. Yeah, it's probably that. It's probably a tactical retreat in that it's not, we're not, they're not walking away from his money or his ability to control conversations on Twitter. It's just that you're optically getting away from him because he polls worse than Donald Trump in terms of unlikeability.
Starting point is 00:38:34 We're playing checkers, he's playing throwing shit at the walls, okay? We have no idea what his next move is gonna be, okay? It's all strategy. He might throw the shit at us next. Yeah, that's true. We don't know. But yeah, I think headlines like these
Starting point is 00:38:52 would lead people to believe Trump somehow figured out that Musk is bad news, but that would hardly be possible because we're talking about Donald Trump here. So he's not gonna be like, that person's bad, and I'm good, so therefore we should not be in alignment with them. Yeah, so up like on about tariffs. You think he's going to care about popularity? Like he's he can read a room in order to like make them laugh or to do a bit.
Starting point is 00:39:19 But I think he's just too like erratic in some cases to actually like follow through with what he likes, what's popular, but he doesn't always hit that. The version that I think lets sort of libs who are like, don't know what's going on or aren't thinking really critically about what Trump is doing and just read Politico would be like, oh good, they ousted him. They knew he was bad.
Starting point is 00:39:42 And maybe things will be a little bit better because they did the bare minimum by getting Elon Musk out. But then you see these reports, ProPublica put out a report last week that suggests the administration is actually doing a lot to still help Elon Musk's business interests. I mean, it's clear with the deregulation stuff that's going on, but in Gambia specifically, in West Africa, the State Department launched an all out pressure campaign
Starting point is 00:40:05 that would allow for Musk to like flood the region with Starlink internet. And that's like, you're like, of course, like yeah, they're still helping him. It's just now he is less visible in what he's doing because they're like, okay, dude, I guess you being a fucking Nazi is not great for the optics here.
Starting point is 00:40:23 We only like subtle Nazism here. Can you imagine you're just like hanging out in Gambia, minding your own spectrum business, right? Spectrum, you're on spectrum, yep. And then all of a sudden there's an outage. Now Elon Musk's shit this in there and you're like, why is the US here too? What is going on?
Starting point is 00:40:44 Can I get like Cox or Charter or do they combine too? Is everything just one company now? Cause of consolidation? Fuck. We are such an invasive species. Wait, so Spectrum is Starlink? I know. Yeah, truly.
Starting point is 00:40:56 We are like the weeds of the world. Well, I mean, that was the whole thing with like the cold war. It's like, all right, well, maybe we can get our like capitalist tentacles into other places and that's how we can avoid like a hot war. Yeah, so this is just, we'll see what how this plays out. But again, this is just a tactic that takes, I think, I think most people, this just takes Musk's name off the table when it comes to campaigning or like, whatever. So they can be like, Elon Musk has nothing to do with anything.
Starting point is 00:41:25 So when you guys keep like saying, insisting that Elon Musk is the destroyer of everything and we enabled it, it's just not gonna resonate. They're gonna keep his baby on though, a secret service, a human shield. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. As the shield, he still has shield duty. Big Mackey, shout out the shield.
Starting point is 00:41:42 Yeah, I mean, I don't think they're going to say, we actually don't need the help of the richest man on earth to help our fucking fascist take over. We actually don't like money anymore, it's crazy. Yeah, we're actually like, we're really moving. We're like born to like eat, pray, love now. Yeah, like we went to Burning Man and we just realized like there's so much that can be like exchanged and bartered.
Starting point is 00:42:04 It's a beautiful thing. Okay, let's now take a quick break. And when we come back. Yeah, now we deserve one. Now we deserve one. Yeah, we deserve one. We'll be right back to talk about another election abroad that went left because the other guy went to right.
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Starting point is 00:46:12 Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. Hey, bit of good news from Romania. A centrist beat a far right extremist in the Romanian presidential election. Yeah. That's all we can hope for. That's truly the best we can hope for. The best we can hope for is that we are the
Starting point is 00:46:40 fucking rotting piece of flesh that serves as an example to other people. Like, don't fucking, don't do it. Don't fucking do it. Please. Remind, remember, remind yourselves of your own history with right-wing authoritarianism. 2016 was like, was it Trump got elected and then, uh, like Britain voted to be out of the European Union. It was like one, I was, I was like, I feel like they should learn from our, or it was vice versa, something like that,
Starting point is 00:47:06 where I'm like, somebody should have learned a lesson and we didn't, and it just kept getting worse. No, no, it's, I mean, let's see, for the, when was it voted? Yeah, it was like right within a few months of each other. And we're like, has the whole world gone mad? And the answer was yeah, pretty much. Yeah, no, absolutely.
Starting point is 00:47:27 It did, it did, it did. But I think again, yeah, June 16th was when that referendum happened. June 2016. Oh, so we didn't learn anything from that. That sounds right. Hold on, America? God, fuck the British, okay?
Starting point is 00:47:42 We won that war, we're not gonna learn shit from them. We're gonna go harder than they are on Brexit. It's like the British. Okay, we won that war. We're gonna learn shit We're gonna go harder than they are on You think you're spiraling into fascism bitch watch us, okay, where your ugly child Yep Get ready get fucking ready. So yeah, Romania The I think there was the former mayor of Bucharest, or former mathematician, current mayor of Bucharest. Yeah, he hasn't been inaugurated or whatever into the position yet, I guess. Right, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:48:13 But his opponent was a huge Trumpy asshole who was like, fuck the EU, fuck NATO, we're not helping Ukraine, we're gonna help Putin. Whereas the candidate that won was like, we actually need to like really guard ourselves against Russia and part of that is ensuring Ukrainian safety. You know, like thwart invasions and shit. I don't know, that's kind of our thinking.
Starting point is 00:48:35 That math brain, you know, you gotta really have a math degree to figure that out. Yeah, but truly, just like, yeah, I think this plus this equals momentum in the wrong direction for our country, especially with a country that Putin has its eyes on. But anyway, this is good news, good news where hopefully America can continue to serve as an example to just keep centrism in place. Yay. Look, you got to get your wins where you can. But I think the one thing I'll keep saying, like when Canada did the opposite of what America did and Australia did the opposite of what America did, don't just let the neoliberals just rest on their laurels.
Starting point is 00:49:16 You have to tackle the inequality or else the right wing fucking menace comes right back out at you. Okay. And they are able to pick people off with their messages of it's the others that are doing this. Okay, but hear me out, a new plan. What if we just gave up trans people and their rights as human beings?
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Starting point is 00:50:14 with a smoked brisket, dude. Beers to eat with a smoked brisket. Yeah, just eat the fucking can. I eat it solid like a man. I just bite the fucking can, bro. You gotta pie-huff that thing. Oh just bite the fucking can, bro. You gotta buy off that thing. Oh, I love you, Governor Newsom. I fucking love you, Charlie.
Starting point is 00:50:31 All right, so again, great. A little bit of good news that not everything's going fully by the wayside, but the bar is low. The bar is low. Paula V, did you put this in here about a kindergartner in Pennsylvania who, it's funny you- Don't call me a narc, okay?
Starting point is 00:50:47 Don't say that. No, no, not at all. It's funny that you brought this to our attention because I was thinking, I saw another thing that there was a kid who brought weed cookies to school and took out a whole fucking, I don't even know, like a third grade class or something. Listen, he wanted nap time to just last a little bit longer.
Starting point is 00:51:07 Yeah, for real, for real, for real. So in Pennsylvania, a fucking kindergartener brought jello shots to school. Shots, shots, wait, we have to do like kids. Shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots. Or as you said, maybe this was a promo for a different kind of shot? Baby shots? Baby shots.
Starting point is 00:51:24 Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do You might as well drink this ever clear laden jello shot that tastes like kind of like green apple But mostly isopropyl isopropyl Isopropyl isopropyl I need I so to clean out my dad wasted right now This is just like so funny when it's like I think a lot of times when, the stories always start off with like, a child brought these to school when it's like, no, some fuck wit parent left out a bunch of jello shots. The kid is always gonna bring some, something from home they think is cool to school.
Starting point is 00:52:16 Like right? He was like picking from like, they were like jello shots or should I, his hands hovering over guns. Like he's just going back and forth. A bag of math. Ooh, math. Ooh, math. Ooh, math.
Starting point is 00:52:30 Getting all the six year olds stressed. Ooh, math. Yeah, there was that. Do you think the teacher took one after they were like, I had a rough day. Let me take these home. Probably. I mean, if you, I mean, what do you, what happens? I'm just trying to think
Starting point is 00:52:46 of like what I've never seen a child inebriated before. Like they already seem drunk, like walking around. They walk off funny. But I guess like, are they like, like, like, like, like, like, like, are they slurring like a drug or they just feel like ill gross? Which is great TikTok material for TikTok teachers. And then they probably smell like alcohol. It's like, that's a lot of alcohol in a shot for a kid. That's, dude, a fuck ton.
Starting point is 00:53:14 Yeah, I mean, those kids, apparently they just went to the nurse's office and then the ambulance had to get them. Yeah, they were okay. Quick story, quick story. Quick story, brown hair. So I would think I was like two or three what we were at like a gathering and My mom left her drink unattended for a moment And I think it was like brandy or something and I apparently immediately grabbed this shit turned it upside down and was
Starting point is 00:53:41 Hammered and I was just running around in circles and I ended up running into the wall and then I just passed out. Oh my, and you remember that? But I was having a blast apparently. Oh, this is like a story that is told. This is like the 1800s when Brandy was used to put children to bed. Wow, how old do you think I am?
Starting point is 00:53:58 I said what I said. Please tell me it was E and J Brandy. Please tell me it was E and J. It was something like that. It was actually Johnson and Johnson Brandy. Please tell me it was E and J. It was something like that. It was actually Johnson and Johnson Brandy. Yeah, the early, yeah. Baby sleep tonic, I think is what they called it. No more tears.
Starting point is 00:54:13 No more tears, Brandy. Maybe like some tears, Brandy. Yeah, but then about how hard their life is as a three year old. You don't get it. You don't get it. Danny. You don't get it. Then I'm not your barely potty train. You're gonna be, you said you come back?
Starting point is 00:54:30 Why? Why you come back? Why'd you do that, mommy? Why'd you disappear all the time when you put your hands over your eyes? Why is, why my crayon sharpener don't work? Oh God. Oh man, the crayon sharpener that was built into the box of crayons. Did you ever use that?
Starting point is 00:54:46 I never did. I tried. It was always bad. I feel like I just always rage quit on it because then I think I was so particular about the paper that was wrapped around the crayons from getting destroyed. I'm like, bro, what the fuck?
Starting point is 00:54:59 This is fucking up. No, I'll be like, no, this thing's spent. The second it goes flat, I'm off this. You're just chucking out full crayons that went flat? Yeah, I'm a fucking animal. Oh my God. Yeah, I don't give a fuck. You're a monster.
Starting point is 00:55:12 So I was drinking ENJ brandy at three years old, not giving a fuck. All right, last story. Unfortunately has to do with Donald Trump again, but it's fine because it involves Schadenfreude for Trumpy dickheads who want to buy shit that has the word Trump on it. So there was a six hundred forty dollar Trump branded watch with Trump's like actual signature, like on the face of it.
Starting point is 00:55:38 But holy shit, this is like this is one of the most legendary fuckups, I think, in merchandising I've ever seen. When people got their fucking watches that they ordered, there was no tea on the fucking face of the watch. So it just says Rump. They bought Rump watches. What is that like song from the 80s? The Rump? Oh, Rump Shaker? Yeah, that's from the 90s. All I want to do is I'm a zoom zoom zoom Check baby check baby what you know That's actually the first verse that Pharrell Williams ever wrote for another artist is Teddy Riley's rap on Rump Shaker
Starting point is 00:56:16 Yes, Pharrell was a protégé of Teddy Riley 1800s okay, Pharrell was a protégé of Teddy Riley shout out, Virginia And that's how he sort of, that was like his entry point into music. I know this because I'm a Pharrell stan. I think if Pharrell starts aging, that's the end times. You know? He won't, he won't, he won't.
Starting point is 00:56:36 He won't, he won't, he can't. That's nuts. He can't. We can't do that. Yeah, Brian the editor says he was finishing his postdoc when that song came out. We can't do that. Yeah, Brian the editor says he was finishing his postdoc when that song came out. Just to give you, just to slightly age him there.
Starting point is 00:56:50 You guys do what you want with that information. But yeah, the fucking rump, the pictures of this, Pallavi, are so fucking funny. They're so ugly. He got the pink inauguration first lady model. Oh yeah, this one guy got it for his wife, Tim Pettit. Yeah, yeah. Paid $640 for it.
Starting point is 00:57:09 One of only $250. Yeah, and it's like the worst pink. It's like such a trashy watch. He got it for his wife. And my favorite part of the story, he's like so upset about how it didn't live up to the Trump quality of like, or his integrity or whatever. But then he said it made his wife cry and it's like, bro, she cried because you're getting her a Trump watch. And she's like, I don't, I don't give a fuck.
Starting point is 00:57:40 I, you know, I voted for, for a Kamala. Why the fuck would you do this? Tim? She's like, please pay the light bill. What are you doing? He sounds like a guy who doesn't think about gifts for like his partner. And it's just like, it's a thing I like
Starting point is 00:57:54 and it's expensive. I would like a rum blotch. And it's for lady, therefore forgive me for cheating on you. This is what he said to Fox 5 Vegas, quote, I thought it was really nice. It was beautiful. And I knew it was really nice. It was beautiful. And I knew it'd be something that she'd like. Would the president's, so he heard an ad for it on the radio.
Starting point is 00:58:10 He said, with the president's voice, I was curious. So I went on the website. When he got the bag or when he got the wife, he said, when he got the wife, got the, when I got my wife, when he got the watch for his wife, he said, I noticed it right away. The T is missing.
Starting point is 00:58:24 It says rump. This is according to his wife. How could they process this and go through something without checking their work? I'm very disappointed, Tim said. I want it to be something special for her. And we expected that it would be, it would have the integrity of the president of the United States and a good follow through.
Starting point is 00:58:39 You fuck wit. Like I love that this is the breaking point. He's seen everything that happens. And it's a typo. And he's gonna watch. Like, can you imagine being so privileged? This is the only thing Trump has done that has like materially affected you? Yeah, has intersected with your life for sure.
Starting point is 00:58:59 That's insane. Yeah. I mean, it totally tracks for this. He says, I think that someone needs to be aware of the mistake in their licensing department because he thought the president would do something but then found out this is just license. This is just Donald Trump selling his name to another grifter to grift you.
Starting point is 00:59:17 You're like, you're three. A Ponzi grift, a pyramid grift. Yeah, you are so many levels removed. And he just said, I would like an apology would, an apology would be nice for making my wife cry. And now he's going to get a coupon. She's like, I would also like an apology. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:59:33 This is so funny that they're like, okay, we're going to replace it. No refund, just an $800 coupon for you to use it on the website again, which is not a fucking- For something else. I was like, they better have a hump apron. You know what I mean? Oh, rump apron, yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:59:51 Oh yeah, Brian the editor is asking, yeah, what did happen to the Trump tourbillon watch? Because that was a huge- What is a tourbillon? It's just a type of watch movement that's very fancy. But it was allowing Trump to like charge super wild prices, but I'm not even sure when it's, let's see, Trump tourbillon, nothing in the news yet. It's gold, wow, big surprise.
Starting point is 01:00:16 Yeah, well, cause there was like a hundred thousand dollar victory edition that he was selling. And we were like, what is it, where is it from? But as of right now, we do're like what is it where is it from but as of right now we do not know what is going on with the Trump scam watch alleged scam watch most likely a scam watch all right well those are the things that were trending over the weekend we're gonna be back tomorrow with a brand new episode it's gonna be like you're gonna want to tune in for this one we got all kinds of other shit we have to get into,
Starting point is 01:00:45 like investigations and tax bills and all kinds of things. Maybe even a game show where people can fight for their citizenship. Like actually, I'm fucking not joking. And I'm sure Tyra Banks will be hosting. We were rooting for you, we were all rooting for you. We wanted you to be an American citizen. And we're so desensitized. We were rooting for him.
Starting point is 01:01:08 Why did they make them race swap though? That's so weird. Oh my god. We're gonna bring it back. And it's actually just gonna be called The Amazing Race. Swap! Oh god, it's a hellscape, but at least we're here together. That's gonna do it for us. We will be back then. Oh God, it's a hellscape, but at least we're here together.
Starting point is 01:01:25 That's going to do it for us. We will be back then. God bless y'all. We'll see you then. And by God bless y'all, I mean, whatever, whatever gives you power. God science y'all. I got it. Shout out germ theory.
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