The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 359 (Best of 2/17/25-2/21/25)

Episode Date: February 23, 2025

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Hello the internet and welcome to this episode of the weekly zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from this week, all edited together into one nonstop infotainment laugh, stravaganza. Yeah. So without further ado, here is the weekly Zeitgeist. Shout out to the listener who came up and said hi at Lego land over the weekend. Shout out to Zeitgeist. Oh, just like that?

Yeah. Zeitgeist. Almost like me and like, you a fan? Hey, you fuck with me? Yeah. I love that show. Yeah, man, I love that show. That's what I should have said. Oh, yeah, I love that footnotes, dude.

Hell yeah, bro, you too? All right, Zeitgeist. Instead, I said, oh, look, a fan. Way too loud to try and make... Honey, honey, look, look, look. Bam, get over here. He's like, oh, no, man, sorry. I'm actually on my way to...

No, you gotta wait. Won't let him leave. Please let go of my man, sorry. I'm actually on my way to, no, you gotta wait, won't let him leave. Please let go of my hand, sir. No, just one fucking sigh, you fucking coward. Fine, leave. Coward. All right, well, Miles, we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a brilliant anti-racism educator,

activist, writer, creator of the acclaimed podcast, White Homework, it's Tori Williams-Douglas! Tori! Hi! Extended scream for Tori! Happy Black History Month. I'm happy to be here. Well, let me just look at my Google calendar really quick.

Oh, no, no, no. Not coming up. Terrible news. We're not looking at Google. I've switched to Duck.co. Yeah. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I know this stuff before and then I'm like, that's it. The maps plus the lack of pride months and history months that have gone bye bye. No, I now use Apple Maps. I know because Apple's a good guy. I use Waze, a company from Israel. That is owned by Google. So we're good here. We're all doing the world tour.

Yeah, some of the maps that people were like, other examples of places that haven't made the switch. I was like, I've never heard of these fucking places. Bing, I mean, Bing didn't. Bing, oh wow, Bing. Yeah, do they have maps? Interesting, Bing, I don't know. How could they not?

I mean, this should maybe just motivate us to use paper maps again. I mean, I used to do that as a youth. So I might as well bring that skill back. Yeah, you kept it in your car. Yeah, the Thomas guide. The Thomas guide, yep. I like DuckDuckGo because when I'm making a sacrifice around on ideological grounds,

I like to feel like I'm making a sacrifice. You know, like the thing is objectively worse in most ways. It's harsh. It's harsh out there for sure. Proton mail, you know, can't really search that well. Just got me one of those. Just got me one of those. Yep.

Yeah, not great, but why should it be, you know? Taking one for the team, you guys. Turns out a lot of the things that were like, greasing the wheels of our applications was like their desire to rob you blind. Listen, listen. Jesus had his cross. Frodo had to carry the ring. We have proton mail.

Wow. I never thought about it like that. Yeah. Now I feel good. I know. I feel like Jesus Smeagol. Jesus Smeagol. Wow, I never thought about it like that. Yeah. Now I feel good. I know.

I feel like Jesus Smeagol. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good shot. Oh, God. It's a good thing we're not using AI, right? Because that'd be funny.

Oh, God. Just replace, honestly, someone, yeah, that is a good one. Just replace anything with Jesus with Smeagol now. I wanna see him. I wanna see Smeagol washing the feet of the tax collector. I wanna see it all. Oh, Mary Magdalene washing Smeagol's feet with her hair. Yeah. Wow.

We can make this really weird, guys. Like real weird, real fast. I can see Smeagol being so weird trying to resurrect Lazarus and shit. You they're like, can I get in there? Yeah, they're like, anything, maybe we don't, maybe I think Lazarus would have wanted it this way, rather than have a freaky dude with a loincloth all hovering over him.

Was Jesus walking around in a loincloth or is that just because one of his most iconic moments happened on the cross in a loincloth? No, Smeagol in the loincloth. Smeagol walking around. Smeagol always walking around. Yeah, yeah, yeah, gotta, gotta, gotta. Who came first? And then like on the cross. No, Smeagol in the loin cloth. Smeagol in the loin cloth. Smeagol always happens. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Got it, got it, got it, got it.

Who came first? But then like on the cross, it fits. It's the right aesthetic. Yeah. But for some reason, I don't want to see Smeagol on the cross. And that was an aesthetic choice. It was an aesthetic choice.

I'm going to take off my pants. Sir, you don't have to do that before the crucifixion. No, no, I want to be up here in my loincloth. We have talked before about some theories being floated that Jesus had a foot thing. And I had forgotten the story about Mary Magdalene washing his hair, washing his feet with her hair. Washing his hair with her feet would be awesome.

Yeah, other direction. That would fully be like, yo, Jesus couldn't escape the fucking rumors if that happened. They're like, bro, he had her wash his damn hair with her feet. The fuck is wrong with him? I don't know, bro.

He bailed me out of my party, man. I didn't have enough wine and food. But I suspect that there's lots of evidence of the foot fetish thing that I just don't know the Bible well enough to know. Oh, for sure. But yeah, the hair foot thing is like, that feels like, usually he's like, no, no, no. He's always the one who's like, no, no, no, no, no. I serve you. But then when it comes to washing his feet with her hair, he's like, yeah, no, no, no, no. I serve you. But then when it comes to washing his feet,

washing his feet with her hair, he's like, yeah, okay, we can do this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh-huh. Yeah. Usually, yeah, usually he's like, nope, I'm, yeah. Yeah, get in between those toes. Jack, you know so much about the Bible. Is this because of Miles? Yeah, yeah.

No, he's also a tortured Catholic. Okay, okay. I am a tortured Catholic. Yeah. All right. I just, yeah, I had Luther in school just crammed in my brain from kindergarten to eighth grade and then switched to Catholicism for high school.

And I was like, y'all are fucking strange. Oh God, that's weird. Got it all, you know? Got it all. Full spectrum. Then I remember a couple of times we go to Presbyterian youth group because a bunch of kids I knew in middle school were going. And I was like, what the fuck?

Y'all don't even swear in here. The fuck is this shit? We are 12. We should be saying the F word. Okay. Is that real? What? Saying that word?

Yeah, no, I did. Presbyterian school? I went to a, no, I went to a Presbyterian like youth group thing. Cause like other kids I knew like kids who weren't fully like on some Jesus stuff We're like, yo, it's fun, dude We do like scavenger hunts around the city or whatever and I went and like everything not fun It's no no, no, not even with like the very wholesome like the scavenger hunt was like tell a stranger They're a good like it was like weird like this wasn good person. It was like weird. Like it wasn't fun.

It was like doing like Christ stuff out in the open. Okay. Yeah, wash somebody's feet with your hair. With your hair, exactly. That is difficult for those of us with short hair. Yeah, at the time I think I was recruited, I had very long, luscious hair. Good, great for heat washing, so anyway.

We're gonna do a segment of Stroid Watch. Great for washing. So anyway, we're going to do a segment of a stroyed watch season one of this show. We used to do bloid watch where we would take a look at the tabloids. Come on. Let's go. Let's fucking go. So we're going to we're just gonna check in, you know, the ticker keeps, the percentage ticker keeps ticking upwards still like in the threes. So. I love that we like get focused. We're like, it's up to 3% rather than there's a 97% chance

it doesn't hit. Doesn't hit us. Nah man, but that 3% bro, we're here for it man. They already know. Yeah, let's work it out. It's a sickness. It's a sickness. But first, Ian, we do like to ask our guests.

This is something you may know about us. We'd like to ask you what's something from your search history that's revealing about who you are. Oh, yeah. So I became a father about three months ago. Congratulations. Thank you very much. And I have a lot of fatherhood related Google search things I could give you, but instead I'm going to do something that is sort of a knock-on effect to becoming a father. My most recent Google is phono have to be so loud? Question mark. Because I have fulfilled my elder millennial

from Portland, Oregon destiny, and I've gotten into vinyl records finally. You got a hi-fi or what? I got myself a hi-fi because I want my kid to grow up around as few screens as possible, is the lie I'm telling everyone. And I was like, to do that, I'll just start getting into records.

And in the last week, I bought a turntable and speakers off eBay and had to run the wires, all this shit myself. I did not realize how deep this hi-fi culture goes and how technical you have to be with everything. So my last one was why do I have to have my volume so loud when I'm on phono mode coming from my turntable? And I only kind of have an answer,

but yeah, I have dove headlong into record collecting and vinyl now. Did you have like a, I mean, I feel like every millennial has some records because that kind of just was like a thing we'd buy like in the years past. But do you have, did you have like a big collection to grow or you're suddenly now you're like,

I need to get everything on buy. We had like a decent collection because my wife had like one of those Crosley all in one like thing. Yeah, with this city speaker built in. Yeah, exactly. But much like Funko pop figurines, I think when you're a millennial,

you just accumulate records. I had over the years, always telling myself, I'll get into it one day. So I had a decent collection of stuff. Beatles, Queen, a couple David Bowie, all the stuff you buy and you hope someone sees when they come back to your house, either for sex or otherwise.

And you keep pointing to it. I just have these. I'm just the kind of guy who has these. So it's not a big deal. That's just an awkward silence in the conversation. And you just blurt out, the sound is so much warmer. What are you talking, the record, vinyl, vinyl. Pops.

Vinyl. Did you see that letter from Planned Parenthood on the kitchen table? I donate. I donate regularly. I'm in the president circle. So, but I've, I've. I donate regularly. I'm in the president circle. So, but I've dove in and I love it. I have, I think one of the things of getting older

and becoming less cool and throwing off, also being a dad, is I just don't have time to care about anything except what actually like makes me happy or what I feel like will make my family happy. And this makes me happy. And I don't care how much of a cliche it makes me because it makes me the most cliche. The most.

But I brought my son out to play on his mat listening to Father John Misty as he played on his mat. And I'm like, should I change his name to Bowie? Oh, you're going to love this. Listen to this. Jesus Christ. He was actually in Fleet Fox's. He was the drummer.

Yeah. He left. There's kind of a song about it, two states in the South, cause he lived in Washington with Fleet Fox. But yeah kind of a song about it. Two states in the south, because he lived in Washington with flea bugs. Oh, but yeah, I'm fully embracing it. My I'm like we're talking about dad shoes earlier. I'm dad shoes vinyl. That's full blown.

Full blown. Six gels have like that gel feel in the bottom. Like, can you feel the gel like that? I had this one experience where the point guard on my high school basketball team, let me wear his Allen Iverson gel react juice shoes. Yeah. I think you're talking about the question threes. Maybe the one that had DMX technology.

You could like feel the technology in the shoe. And I was like, this is the coolest thing. And then like, you know, I gave him the shoes back and never felt that again. And I've, I've always been kind of searching for that, but my brand loyalty per prevents me from searching too deep. Yeah. Is that what the ASICs gels do? Well, DMX technology was, I think you're talking about the ones that had D I

forget what number version of the Allen Iverson shoe, but the ones that had the DMX in the soul felt like the squishiest, I remember. But these are like, they're just comfortable. It's not like the kind of thing where you feel gimmicky. You're just like, damn, this shit is comfortable. I'm a gimmicky, I'm a gimmicky bitch. I don't feel as squashed. What you do is you put a peanut butter

jelly sandwich in your shoe. You put it in a plastic bag, you slide that in first. That's where dad was, number one. Yeah, that's right. And you got a snack in case you can't feel sour. You'll feel squashed. I got a squashed for there. Yeah. And you got a snack in case you can't go south. You'll feel squersh. I got a squersh for you. It was the moment the shoe went from being the question

to being the answer. Yeah. That's right. That it became the answer to my lifelong question of, how can I feel that squersh? Yeah. Well, how can I feel like I'm putting my foot in a gusher? Yeah, exactly.

Exactly. I want to feel like I'm walking. That would actually be a great collab. Reebok and gushers. Yeah, but like just one overly energetic step ruins the shoe. Like, dang it. Squirting out the side. Yeah. I got blue goo everywhere.

Blue raspberry. Shoes with a white limit. The stickiest shoe of all time. Yeah. Miles, what's something you think is underrated? Something I think is underrated. Wait, where did I see? Oh, he's got a shoe.

He's got a shoe. He's got a shoe. He's got a shoe. He's got a shoe. He's got a shoe. He's got a shoe. He's got a shoe. He's got a shoe. He's got a shoe. He's got a shoe. He's got a shoe. The stickiest shoe of all time. Miles, what's something you think is underrated? Something I think is underrated.

Wait, where did I see? Oh, yeah. Why was I like, why am I even looking this up? I was just talking about unintentionally bad music. Okay, I love music and I don't know if you guys know this. I like music. Okay, I'm kind of going out on a limb here to say that out loud on a podcast But this guy likes music this guy's got one thumb and loves music and one of the algorithms served me a track What's he doing with the other thumb? Don't worry about it. Why am I on thumb trial who cares? But one of the algorithms served me like this track that I just cannot get out of my head.

And a lot of people are watching like it's like blowing up on social media, but people I think are making fun of the songs. I on the other hand, I'm like, these are so sincere and literal that I fucking love it. Just allow me to play just an excerpt of one of these tracks just because I just want to familiarize the audience with this one. ["I'm Still Not Over It"] I'm still not over it.

I'm just not over it. Over it. I'm just not. Just not. Anyway, so. So this is just like rando people. These dudes in the Bay Area, they're singing. They're singing. Oh wait, that is their actual song? That's the band?

Oh, P. O'Malley? Paul O'Malley? Everybody got a short... P. O'Malley? Yeah, that's P. O'Malley or P. Malle or some shit. His name's like Peter O'Malley or P. Mal or some shit. His name's like Peter O'Malley or something. He's like, he does like Broadway type singing, but he's kind of doing like R&B with this other guy

who's like a producer. These, again, a lot of people watch you like with a sense of irony and I am so captivated because I referenced a tweet on Blue Sky that was about like how the world would be better if people just made whatever the fuck they wanted to art wise and we just don't stop giving a fuck about bad art or whatever. Yeah, this is so I don't know why, but it was so life affirming to see like people enjoy themselves by expressing themselves to whatever medium pleases them. And despite it maybe not being quote good or whatever, like the sincerity cuts through in a way that I was like this is just this is something

I don't know I just like really enjoy it. There's another song about the lyrics are you think I'm the one like we're on the run and I'm like what does that even mean? You think I'm the one like we're on the run? Like we're on the run. I'm like, what does that even mean? You think I'm the one? Like we're on the run? Like we're on the run. I'm like, yeah, whatever. Dude, I love these sixth grade lyrics. I fuck with them. Yeah. I mean, that is like, music is partially about just tapping into that, like, just feeling of being in middle school and having a crush and being like so dumb That's why these dudes who are like in their late 20s

I think are just killing it was like like you're saying this sounds like a note I would write when I got broken up within fifth grade. Yeah, like I'm just not over it Yeah, it's fucking cutting through Note my Yeah, it's fucking cutting through note my one time my sister's friend got broken up with in a note and the guy signed off by going things change people change and nothing ever stays the same and The degree to which like just speaking to exactly what we're talking about like that was such a bar That like she told me about it and I've never

forgotten it. I'm like, uh, my older sister's friend. Yeah. How many years older at this point? Like what's the age difference? Or she's coming two years. Every funny, if you're like six and she's 12, like, Hey, Hey, Hey, I gotta tell you about this really quick. huh? No, it was like she her friends were like cool interesting like yeah Yeah, so I was just invested and yeah, yeah, oh they broke up. What happened people change wait things change people change Nothing ever stays the same That shit is a bar

from Like a song like that that should be a lyric in a song that goes fucking platinum Yeah, oh 100% but it's dumb as hell as dumb as hell all right underrated oh I was just talking to people over the weekend who you know fellow dads and about like kids move, like all the kids have the same kind of general genre of movies that they like

what, like become obsessed with. And it's just like, you know, you watch it a hundred times. Like that's normal. Like star wars, you wear a tape. Um, and then like just talking about the fact that mine was jaws, which is about solicited an alcoholic sheriff whose death drive sends him into the heart of the ocean with like a man who's cucking him. And like, wait, what? Uh, Cooper in the book is having an affair with his wife and like,

there's some tension in the movie. And then Quinn is like the human death drive personified a child that was like just a couple of years older than me gets like burst like a blood grape. And like all the kids today have like finding Nemo and cars and cars too. And like, I guess I'm just at that point where like my kids are now at ages that I can remember and being like, that's so wild that at that age, my thing, like my kids things are Legos and and, you know, chess and Star Wars and you know, my

Oldest is like into via Star Wars. He's like gotten real into like military history, which is a little longer but history, I was like deep when my The age of my six-year-old I was like deep into this movie That was had so many like adult, you know how like one of the things that they rate movies on is like adult themes. There's just so many adult themes. There's a line where he's like, you want to get drunk and mess around with his wife? And you're just like, I was like, yeah, mom, dad, shut up.

This is what happens when like child development wasn't really like a thing for our parents. They're like, I don't really like a thing for our parents. There was no offing. They're like, I don't know, he likes it. Yeah. Like I think it was the philosophy. Like, I don't know, he likes it. He doesn't cry when he watches it.

It was like that in like old Disney movies, I think. So yeah. Well, which is wild to me though too, because I, my dad would show me a ton of weird art house films. Like, I remember watching like eraser head or like naked lunch and shit when I was like six. I could barely handle that as a 40 year old. How did that go? I just, I remember being bored. I was like, this shit's in black and white.

This shit is dumb. I just, and then, but obviously I'm like, this is some really intense visual shit going on in it. Like I won't shake, like the dancing chicken thing from it I Can't for whatever reason I really bother. Yeah But now like little sperm, baby Yeah, always flying around then the other thing was like but then I would watch Bambi and then like the mom gets killed about Parents are like well at least I raised her head to have like some like, you know Mattress side kind of shit happening in the beginning. I don't know. It was just very,

uh, I don't know. I think, and then maybe my parents used that to be like, well, he cried watching Bambi, but these experimental art house films and early Tarantino works are fine. Wait, how old were you when you watched early Tarantino? Like I watched every Tarantino movie like within a year of it coming out. Yeah. Like so I saw Reservoir Dogs when it hit tape. I saw Pulp Fiction when it hit tape. So that would have been like you were eight? Yeah. Well Pulp Fiction was at 94. Yeah. Yeah, so I was like 10, 11. Yeah. I mean, yeah.

And just me like watching the Gimp scene and I'm like, I don't know what's going on. Like I remember just fully watching that. I'm like, what the fuck are they doing? Like, it's just like not completely, all of like how graphic it was was completely lost on me until obviously I got older. I was like, yo.

That guy's silly. What? Yeah. Look at the guy in the mask. Oh dude, the Gimps coming out. That guy's so funny. What a goof. Yeah, I guess Die Hard was my favorite movie

when I was in third grade, so I was right there with you. We're all fucked up. It's all fucked up now. Yeah, tickled. A lot of jokes about him at SNL 50. Yeah. Kaitlin Gill, we do like to ask our guest, Yeah, um, what about him at that's an L 50? Yeah Caitlin gil we do like to ask our guest. What is something that you think is overrated? Stop putting so much stuff on french fries mmm They assume alone as a delicious side. They do not TV

So this is a west coast problem that I feel like exists everywhere But if you've gone to an In-N-Outout burger you are aware that you can order an animal fry which is all the animal style Stuff on fries that includes cheese grilled onions the sauce if you like pickles are incorporated somehow Please stop get the burger eat the fries Yeah, now if there was like a Wendy's in-and-out universe crossover And you said here's a baked potato and there's lots of good stuff on it interesting interesting Please tell me more about this product. Fries are fried.

Fried is crispy. Do not, and I know In-N-Out fries are devices in and of themselves. They are not the crispiest of fries, which is why it's even more important that you do not throw a bunch of stuff on top of them. Dip the fry in the ketchup. Minimize the contact time with anything liquid in nature and then consume the fry. I do like a dip fry I don't like I don't like I don't like I hate ketchup. I do barbecue sauce cheese You got it. I don't mind cheese on the fry

But like not right about this like if you disagree with me, you're not wrong I just I personally feel like fries should be preserved in there in their holy state, please So Victor Victor asked a question. I'll ask his question and I'll ask my question. One, he asks, is poutine too much? Never wanting to offend a Canadian, I'm gonna say that no, it isn't too much. You can say yes, he doesn't have a microphone, so he can't say anything.

Fuck poutine. I would never do this, but my perfect poutine would be like a little gravy warmer and curds on the side to assemble it myself. I won't. It's just what I want. No food. No, that isn't the correct way to eat.

Nobody's wrong about food. I also feel like poutine is the big flat steak fries, which is a whole different conversation. I get you. Now, for like the accoutrement of the fry, I that like no listen just give me the fry but what about Seasoning what about yeah? Yeah, not secretly at all the best fries with a weird like The ones that come frozen with the crackly too much like seasoning on the outside Yeah, yeah crinkle cuts good, but now she's talking about the ones that look like they get like. Their little orange.

They look like they need to go to the dermatologist. They do, yes, yeah, that's an excellent fry. Yeah, like I'm trying to think of who has fries like that. Like, do you remember like, maybe not. I was gonna say, do you remember like checkers or Raleigh's fries? Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I traveled a lot.

Some of the curly fries have like some of that around it. Oh, yeah, the curly fries. Curly fries have some of that, yeah, some of that a little bit too, yeah. Yeah, see, all right I traveled a lot. Some of the curly fries have some of that around it. Oh yeah, the curly fries seasoning. Curly fries have some of that, yeah, some of that a little bit too. Yeah, yeah, seasoning, all right. So as long as we get, listen, I'm with you. As long as we get seasoning on the fries,

all the extra shit shouldn't matter. Oh yeah. Now, it could be extra. No, I'm a white woman. It's very fair that you ask. Our reputation regarding seasoning is deserved and awesome. But I myself am very pro-seasoning and use it extensively in my own cooking. Yeah. All right, all it, but I've been served it often. But I myself am very pro-seasoning

and use it extensively in my own cooking. Yeah. All right, all right. But I've been saying to you, mayonnaise way too spicy. Way too spicy. Too much flavor. Yeah. Yeah.

Let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll hear you're overrated and we'll get into some news. news. Have you ever looked into the night sky and wondered who or what was flying around up there? We've seen planes, helicopters, hot air balloons and birds. But what if there's something else, something much more ominous that appears under the cover of night, silent, unseen, watching.

They may be right above your car late one night as you cruise down the road, or look like mysterious lights hovering above your home. Drones. Or are they? We used the word drone because it was comfortable to other people. One minute it was there and one minute it wasn't. Oh, that is beyond creepy. Do you feel like this drone was targeting you specifically?

Yes, absolutely. Listen to Obscurum, Invasion of the Drones on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The More Better the Merrier, title of your podcast. All your old Brooklyn Nine-Nine friends are appearing on your favorite podcast, More Better. Don't miss Brooklyn Nine-Nine stars and show hosts Stephanie Beatriz and Melissa Fumero as they welcome their friends and former castmates back to laugh about old times and swap some stories. This week, it's Gina Lanetti herself, the talented Chelsea Peretti.

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We're back. And I did not pay much attention to what Donald Trump was up to this weekend. At the Daytona 500? Yeah, I know. to what Donald Trump was up to this weekend. At the Daytona 500? Yeah, I know. I somehow watched every second of the broadcast of the Daytona 500 without catching the fact that... That was Trump?

No, I don't watch the Daytona 500 because I'm not American. Right. But he opened the race by riding the back of a limousine around the Daytona 500 track, and then also made some overtly dictatorial proclamations on social media, uh, posting he who saves his country does not violate any law. Damn. Take that Chuck Schumer. Boom.

Take that. Did you hear what he just said? Anyone who saves his country does not violate any capital L law. Love the random population. Okay. Indiscriminate capitalization. Yeah. He came up with that, I think, too, because he tweeted it, I think.

He who saves his country does not violate any law, which was attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte. Oh, fuck. See, I don't know that guy. He's one of the good guys, right? In history? Yeah. He's seen as a good guy, I think. Based on the Joaquin Phoenix film, I think he was just a crafty little dude getting after it out there. Yeah. Just roughing.

Also, he couldn't be that bad. He inspired ABBA to make a song called Waterloo. Waterloo. Yeah. Get just ruffling up. Also, he couldn't be that bad. He inspired ABBA to make a song called Waterloo. Waterloo. Yeah. So it does predictably have a much stupider origin. It's not an actual Napoleon quote. Of course. It was started with a conservative commentator, Logan Hall, posting an image of Napoleon along

with the quote. Is that different than Logan Paul? There's another guy. Logan Hall. Okay. There's another guy. There's also Paul. Okay. There's a guy called Logan Hall also. Their conservative commentator and influencer generator is just stuck on Logan. Yeah.

Logan Ball. Oh, Lamello's cousin. Yeah. Yeah. Lamello's cousin Logan. Yeah. Of course. But he posted the quote on Truth Social,

and then Trump just took it from that. It was originally a quote from a Napoleon movie that came out in 1970 called Waterloo, starring Rod Steiger as Napoleon. That's one of those names that I was like, okay, and then I'm going to watch the clip and I'll be I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that.

I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that.

I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be like, yeah, all right, dude, send that, send that along. Cause they think I'm doing some kind of unconstitutional nonsense.

I'm just saving the country. That's right. And then taken by a conservative influencer, stripped of context, put with a painting of Napoleon and voila history is written. I was really hoping that the quote was from Napoleon Dynamite. But yeah, what if Trump just fucking posted, I bet I could throw this football clear over the mountains. And you're like, he's got some real uncle Rico energy.

Yeah. Oh, 100%. Tori, isn't your child, you got to, you have a Napoleon enthusiast? I do. Yeah. It was, it was a long, it was a long, hard couple of. You have a Napoleon enthusiast amongst your progeny. I do, I do, yeah. It was a long, hard couple of, it was a pandemic.

The pandemic and the entire pandemic was Napoleon stories and hearing about Napoleon and going as Napoleon for Halloween and just was- Oh, I remember that, yeah. Yeah. Which was, he was a very cute little Napoleon, I will say. But it took a while to kind of try to talk him down. Although I was successful from the idea of having you know, having a dictator who's who just like wants the best for the country and like wants to do all these good things for the people. And so why wouldn't you give me all the power?

I want to make the country great. Yeah. It's very appealing to eight year old boys. Uh, and apparently to Trump. So they have that in common. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like my reaction to this is kind of the same one that you probably had where

you're like, of all the world famous European dictators, like, yeah, not Stalin. It's not Hitler. Like those would be really, how do you, as a, as a parent deal with your, your like your child being like, I love Stalin. Hey, I know you like to play. Do you like this Generalissimo Franco guy? You want to try him out a little bit? Yeah.

No, for good measure. No. Okay. Okay. What's this Mussolini doing in here? Yeah. Do you like this Generalissimo Franco guy? You want to try him out a little bit? No? For good measure? No? Okay. Okay. Oh, what's this Mussolini doing in here? Yeah.

Yeah. No. Okay. So my kid has done a pretty big swing, but there was that moment where it was like, okay, but capitalism sucks. So Stalin, he also did that. And we're like, no, no, no, no, no, keep going. Keep going.

Keep reading. Yeah. Yeah. So So I mean, for whatever it's worth, Trump will never get to this point because he hasn't read, but you know, he's reading the Communist Manifesto right now. A little older, a little wiser. Okay. Trying to learn some stuff. You know, it's a process. Yeah. Get them on that Fanon next, you know, some France Fanon. And now you got a stew going. Yeah.

Now you're cooking. Anyway, no, this isn't terrifying at all. I do love that, like, the right will just constantly blast out stuff that, like, attributing things to the wrong people. Like, this was like George Washington praying. Whatever it was, like the crossing of Delaware. Or like, this was like George Washington praying. We had whatever it was, like the Delaware crossing, the Delaware. Or like, this is the prayer. Didn't Mike Johnson a couple months ago do like, this is the prayer of like Thomas Jefferson, who was not really even a theist to speak

of. It's like, he prayed this every day. No, he didn't. And they just, it doesn't matter. Like, my thing that I keep coming back to is it's like, we had this for decades. It was like the marketplace of ideas. And you gotta put your ideas out there. Gotta compete in the marketplace of ideas. And it's like, this is the marketplace of reality now. Like, like the, like nevermind ideas.

It's like, what actually happened and what didn't is constantly up for debate. And Trump, I think, contributes to that on a pretty much daily basis, whether or not he's in office. It's like, there's like this very, like, elementary school logic that's applied, where it's like, well, if that historical figure said it, then it has to be okay, because they're from history.

You know, like in the same way, they have like that fake MLK endorsement, like, in the lead up to the election. they had like that fake MLK endorsement, like in the lead up to the election. And like, bro, this is a fake ass. What the fuck are y'all talking about? And like, I mean, I'm MLK. MLK said it.

Yeah. Like, what are we fucking doing? Thomas Jefferson did. Okay. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Yeah.

I mean, luckily though, the, the, the, the Sika fans love this very odd display of power. It is just interesting timing before we get to the Sika fans because this is as they're going over to Europe and being like, by the way, you all work for us now. Your only problem is that you're not friendly enough to Nazis and the right wing, and we're team Putin. So take it easy.

All right. See you later. Take it easy. Nice. No. Cool. All right, man. Great talk.

Great talk. Great talk. We'll we'll head on out now. Yeah, that's also God. It's all it's all happening so quickly. All the times to be quoting Napoleon. This is an interesting one. Right. Right. Of all the times to be quoting Napoleon, this is an interesting one. Of all the times to be quoting not Napoleon.

Right. So yeah, that weird racetrack display where he's like, you know, right around in my armored car, all of his goons went on TV to tell everyone how they should think of it and how cool it is because that's the deal now, because that was just the sickest display of impotent power ever ever. So I remember that guy. Well, he was a primary opponent, but Dog Burger. No, Doug Burgum. It's always hard to remember his name.

He's now the secretary of the interior. He went on Fox like the next day to like really just lay it on thick. I just like this is that was so amazing. And it's giving, you know, full blown I don't know what whatever dystopian vibes you want to put in there. I'll let you decide. But here's dog burger talking to Fox and friends. When we saw him take that victory lap of sorts going around the track. Uh, yeah. Yeah.

Well, Steve, watching President Trump in the beast leading the pace car leading a field of the most talented drivers in the world kicking off the entire NASCAR season for America. When he was doing that, it reminded me of how he's actually leading the world right now. Oh, opportunity to be with them with Prime Minister Modi from When he was doing that, it reminded me of how he's actually leading the world right now. Whoa! Boom! I had the opportunity to be with him with Prime Minister Modi from India, with the Prime Minister of Japan.

And the world is looking to President Trump for his leadership. And he's out in front and everybody's following his lead. And wow, is that great for America and great for the world. I mean, that's great for the world. You know, obviously he's out there in armored car, literally going in circles over and over again, going absolutely nowhere. Yeah, there are other directions you could have taken that metaphor.

Yeah, just leading people round and around on the road to nowhere, but it looks really fucking cool. Then he goes on, he keeps amping it up. He's like, oh man, the stuff he's doing now, he's on it, he's found another gear. He's like, Oh man, the stuff he's doing now, he's on it. He's found another gear. I just like the idea that because everyone's looking at him, that he must be like leader.

Like it's like, yeah, everyone looking at him the way people in the room with a monkey might follow the lead. If the monkey picked up a handgun and like, look, look at him like a monkey that just picked up a handgun. Uh, and they're all like, Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. They're all eyes on him though. Must be good because people are looking right. Yeah, exactly. Like major look logic of a adolescent bully, or just saying like, I mean,

well, they were looking like it was in disbelief. Yeah. But they were looking, even though it was, they were aghast. It doesn't matter. He goes on to continue to, you know, demonstrate how loyal he is to the leader. I got elected for the first time the same time President Trump did back in November of 2016. Working with him as a governor then, I mean, he was courageous during his first term, but this time he's fearless. He's operating at a next level.

He's had a different gear. And whether you take a look at things like last Friday, signing. He's had another year, just like ending democracy. You know what I mean? He's found a whole nother level. It's really awesome. I want the person who's piloting the ship of the most powerful military in the history of the world to be fearless.

That's what I the world to be fearless. Yeah. That's what I want him to be. Also, if you notice his hair is pretty wet and greasy. Yeah. That's because he washed Trump's feet with his hair. Just like the grease from his feet, he actually can't even wash it out anymore. He's like, yeah, I don't know. He's so greasy as a person. Going with the slick back now, I guess permanently permanently. But yeah, the obviously people within the administration

aren't the only ones who are falling in line. Again, there's always something happening. Metta recently, we found out. They also wanted to remind Trump that they are also very ready to bend both knees and bow prostrate before the leader. When he pulled like meta pulled an ad on their platform that was critical of the fascist takeover. This is a report from Muskwatch said, quote, the ad links to an online petition which has received roughly 95,000 signatures calling for a quote, massive

public outcry demanding us lawmakers take action against Musk and doge before more damage is done. And if you look on Metta's ad library, you can kind of see like why things were, you know, taken off or not. They claim that this ad violated its rules on quote, unacceptable business practices. And you're like, Oh, I'm sorry, like, unacceptable business practices, according to Metta prohibits advertisers from misleading people into purchasing or sharing sensitive information, exaggerating

health related benefits and touting deceptive financial benefits. So the ad must have been rife with fucking lies. Here, let me read it really quick. This was the main text I think that they have they were at odds with quote, a single individual now control sensitive US data risking our national security urge Congress to enforce strict oversight. Holy shit, man. Unacceptable business. We dodged a bullet there. Yeah. Yeah. What are they? Yeah. What were they thinking? What were they thinking? So yeah, it's healthy democracy crosses the line. It's just you're over you're touting

the the benefits of a healthy democracy. And that's just not real. Right? The one in the Washington Post also pulled an ad recently to that was critical. So it's Oh, boy, they're really bad. They're really like, yeah. Do we what do we think the chances are there's like a free election next time? Like, not good. Four years or two years. I don't think it's good either way.

No, like there's no way. I, he's not with the shit they're doing where if you think you can like kick a bunch of people off these like safety net programs and be like, yeah, then there won't be any kind of political backlash to anyone for this. Yeah, I don't. That's very hard to believe I'm like you'd have to if you're strategizing, well, how do we take away billions from people that are keeping them alive? Well, then we have to make sure they like we have to nullify their opinion in an election meaning we just have to do whatever the fuck we can to make sure these people can't vote

or we can manipulate the outcomes of it. Just seems like it's worse than people are able to like wrap their mind around at this moment. Like it's just the inability to speak freely, the lining up of every kind of barrier of any consequence and the complete absence of the Democratic Party at this moment in any effective way feels a lot stranger and further down the path than people. I think people are just like like, yeah, well, still gotta go to work in the morning, which true, you know? I think that like the trickle that, this is because what they're doing,

I think is fucking with the economy. So I think that's gonna hit people first. Sure. This is my theory anyway, right? Because it's like firing all of these people with all of these expertise is going to cause problems, even if it hasn't caused any problems quite yet, like, like, like structural problems, right? Or like, economic problems, like system wide problems, right? Obviously, causing problems for individuals at this point, we're seeing that people are people are dying. But I think that like, I think we're going to get that that's going going to hit before we get to the polls and whether or not they respect the outcomes of the election or somehow try to manipulate those outcomes.

I mean, if it's true that Elon Musk and his little very strange little boy squad have access to everything, then yeah, what's the I think I don't know it's hard to say if people are gonna be like what's the point in even voting like why why bother because sure will they have to even cheat when right every exactly if the democratic party has bent the knee and trump is like why not why one knee what why the singular knee right why not both you should get a double knee yeah yeah i Yeah. I don't know. Seems weird. Seems weird, guys. Seems weird, man. I think it's weird.

Yeah. Well, I think it's just, it's just so hard to fathom that the order of things is completely gone. And I think that's just as, whether it was just or not, it's just like, that's the momentum that's been caring for the last few decades. And to be like, dude, I think that shit's fucking cooked right now. Yeah. Is it's like, kind of like this thing where it's like, well, I need a few more things to make me believe that it is. I know what they're saying out loud means it's over, but now it's like the

ramifications of that are now I think on, on their way. And that's when you'll start seeing things like more fucking preventable incidences, whether that's like through negligence or actual malice, or just the inefficiencies that that come up from doing this thing. Because like they're definitely like they run the government, like people, you know, like anyone has worked jobs where people at the top have no idea what other people do at the company. And then they're like, yeah, they got to go. And you're like, are you serious, dude? Everything fucking fall. I know you don't think that is an integral part, but I'm telling you everything will fall apart if that

person doesn't work here anymore. Like everything. Yeah. And yeah, no, we're fine. Like it's working fine. And it's just one person. What could happen? And I feel like there are going to be a lot of moments where we begin to see that. But I don't know, I was surprised that they even rescinded the termination of the people who are overseeing the re-shakering of nuclear warheads. I guess there was a line there. Kind of, but I think that they do the thing where they intentionally overstep and then they go back half a step and everybody's like, Oh, fuck, thank God. Right.

And it's like, we're still not back to where we started. Like, and they keep doing that over and over. And I'm wondering, like, what is that supposed to set up? They're like, well, remember when we rehired the people that were in charge of like all the nuclear weapons? OK, now here's my next, my followup act that makes it seem less fucked up. Yeah, it's very hard to tell. But yeah, I mean, you put on the news and they're all very much,

it's like Fox even now more than ever is truly on board with being like, yes, whatever reality is, we're just going to say the opposite. You have Trump derangement syndrome. If you think that it's bad that we just fired everybody who knows how to access and control the nuclear weapons in this country. Yeah. God, that was a sad quote too. Not even a, that strange relationship between Trump and Musk on like, just got

even weirder on that, their Hannity appearance. Cause already that like oval office thing felt like, again, younger person praying on an old senile person to just wait for them to die so they can take all their money and then, but also kind of controlling them. So their family's like, I think that's not the one who's thinking this stuff. It's like, of course it's not. It's his, of course it's not. It's his move. Your father loves me. Get used to it.

Your father loves me and says, everything that I say should be respected just as if it were said by him. Are there any questions? Thank you. Moving on. But yeah, that was a very, that moment was also one where we heard Musk go off

about Trump derangement syndrome. And that's- You haven't even signed your NDA from Christmas yet. Yeah. Jesus. And when will you be changing your last name? Because he doesn't want you associating with him anymore. Yes, he told me that last night when we were in bed.

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But anyways, there does seem to be just even the way like the New York Times, and like everybody greets it as like, as if, well, this president is very popular. And you can tell because of all the crazy shit he's doing. And it's like, wait, I mean, just because he's claiming he's popular. You're also hearing these little whispers of like, meanwhile, Lisa Murkowski's office is like, we've never had this many calls before

from our constituents being like, what the fuck is happening right now? Yeah. And, you know, like Republicans are saying this, like, yeah, they're like my constituents, the people that vote for Donald Trump are, are very concerned, whether it's because they are federal employees, their family members are federal employees or people that rely on these government programs that are getting the fucking acts. So yeah, like there are,

in the last week I've seen multiple, there's just a ton of headlines about Republicans being very nervous is what they say, without actually doing anything like- And we hate that for them. No, no. It's awful. We were just a calm Republican

but they're trying to do the thing where they're like trying not to be like, this dude is fucking up. They're trying to do the thing where they're like, trying not to be like, this dude is fucking up. They're trying to use like, just this like very neutral language, but to also underscore that they are a bit concerned, like Don Bacon, he's a congress member from Nebraska, he's like, before making cuts rashly, the administration should be studying and staffing to see

what the consequences are. Measure twice before cutting. See, I like that. It's very dad folk. That's like dad core shit. Measure twice, cut once. You get it? Okay.

And he said, they have had to backtrack multiple times. Lisa Murkowski, the Senator from Alaska said, we all want efficiencies. There is a way to do it. And the way these people have been treated has been awful in many cases. Awful. Okay.

A little bit stronger language. Damn, second awful. Lisa, all right. Double down on that awful. But anyway, so many other members also spoke under the condition of cowardice and have said, they don't like that the Constitution is getting shitted on, but hey, what the hell are they gonna actually do about it? It's kind of the vibe right now.

We have no leverage. You're Republican, right? You're the major. We have no. Jeffrey says that Jeffrey, but also us. What do you want us to do? We're just see what Congress he came up with a new fucking like stupid nickname for Trump. This is where we're at. Or maybe it's Musk. I believe.

No, no, he it's because he goes, this guy's like Captain Chaos. And you're like, holy shit. Swish. Make him swish. Fucking swish from way downtown. The Democratic Party is died. So anyway. The Bernie, I'm going to say the Bernie video that is getting millions of views on TikTok

where he just like describes the situation as being oligarchs, felt good. It's the first thing I've seen a public figure do that just made, yeah, more of that. Let's just do that for three hours a day. Just talk to people about what is actually happening. What is oligarchy? Yeah, because clearly, I think a lot of the thing is like your audience for all the politicians out there, the baseline for knowledge is low. You're going to have to start with what is money. Okay. And how that all works, because assuming they know what things like subsidies are or grants or social safety net. No, no, no.

We have to start from the bottom and teach the web. Anyway, so. Yeah, you can't go camping anymore. You can't go to these federal hunting grants. You know what I mean? It's like your grandmother won't get medicine. It's like that kind of thing. Like. What?

Yeah, yeah. Not like they've cut Medicare. We will win. Subsidies by, you know. Yeah, thanks Chuck. But also there's like MAGA influencers posting on social media that these cuts are like hurting the people that love you, Mr. President, please

reconsider. So this all happening. So it feels like people aren't totally convinced that having no job or losing benefits is winning at all. Which brings us to the propaganda arm of the regime Fox News. They spent the morning doing a full on WandaVision on their viewers to get them to believe like Musk is doing a good job and that every cent the government is spending is on woke circumcisions.

So they covered this press conference where Trump was like, look at this, they're saying they want more equitable voting access in Africa, I don't know. Education in Asia, they're doing better than us, I'd say. So what are we doing? Like only reading like very specific words out of a description of a program, they just paint an entire thing to be like,

this is about circumstances like knows a public health measure that we're talking about, that does include education around that. It's not to be like, and here's our circumcision budget. So anyway, this is Fox, pretty much trying to spin all of that and inoculating their viewers to get them to sort of decouple the idea that like government spending is good that all government spending is actually

going on woke nonsense. That is a waste of your money. All right, Laura, so in the bingo card of waste of our taxpayer dollars, I don't know if anyone could have predicted social inclusion, learning, circumcision, voter inclusion, the list goes on, but what a horrifying list that is. And thank God for Doge and President Trump. Yeah. And I would love to hear one person in the Democrat party try to justify any of these line items. I mean, imagine you are a person who's been struggling the past four years, who's been trying to put food on the table, get the basics for your family.

And you find out $10 million of your hard earned taxpayer money is going overseas for circumcisions. They are indefensible items. And that is why Donald Trump is in there exposing it. You know, it's funny. I saw online. Yeah. Okay. It's that's not what's happening.

Your hard earned money is actually going to oligarchs. So they no longer pay. That's where the money is actually going. But nice try. Like, again, they want to connect all of this to be like, it just goes to woke stuff and that's your money rather than your money is getting shipped upward in another mass wealth redistribution scheme that we see every fucking time. And again, fortunately, I am forced to respect any point that is made using the didn't have that on my 2025 bingo card.

Yeah. Yeah. Metaphor that works every time on me. I'm like, God damn, that makes me think of bingo. And I feel like this person's talking. And I didn't have that there. The grand American tradition, every January 1st, we sit down and we make our bingo card for the year.

Right, yeah. What the fuck is anyone talking about? OK, the next number we're picking is I-14. Hold on. Sorry, I have $50 million for circumcisions here. What do I do? I put a tile here. Can I mark that? But again, these aren't fucking savings like Kristy Noem

was talking about or shit to put money in your pocket. These are critical programs that keep people alive, keeping our food from fucking poisoning us. Critical services. Again, they just want to have their people be as ignorant as possible and intentionally ignorant about everything that's happening again, so they can get away with this just massive theft. They also obviously need to sell Musk as being this genius, because right now a third of Republicans believe a third of Republicans

are in the category of Musk has entirely too much influence over this White House. So they're no they're like, oh shit, we need to get those numbers down. This is in the same segment they go on to do this thing where they're clearly talking to old people by describing Musk's technological genius. Of course, and they can code all of it, which I really think is what Musk's secret sauce is. He knows something that we don't know. He knows how you can develop programs

that can build products if you need it, or build software that can give us answers. Oh, wow. Oh my God. He knows, that is so fucking cynical. When you go, he knows things we don't know, like acting like, now we're using like a deification sort of logical

framework of like faith in Musk to be like, and the Lord knows how to make the programs and we must type it into the magical computer box and out will come the answers to our problems. And then he'll change them M to a B and it will look much more impressive. Right. What like, why, oh, why did the government think to hire someone who knew how to do computers before? Exactly. Exactly.

Like I remember when he took over Twitter and was like making all those changes and like firing everybody and then being like, come in and show me your code. And people were like, just even the questions that he's asking suggest that he has a very pedestrian understanding of coding and how any of this shit works. He hasn't coded anything successful in his life. That's not what he does. He goes in and takes advantage of imbalances or loopholes in laws where it can make him a bunch of money and then just repeatedly abuses those loopholes until he has millions and then billions of dollars. That's all he does.

And based on how other actual computer programmers talk about how Elon talks about it, they're like, this dude sounds like a kid who's hanging out with older kids and going back to his like kids that are his age and be like, yo, dude, this, that, like just saying a bunch of dumb shit he overheard without a real understanding of it just because he's around people that do. Um, so then on top of that too, Jesse waters also Fox, my man, put his tiny ass brain to work. Um, and this is the best he could come up with in terms of trying to manufacture consent for like levels of austerity that would make Margaret Thatcher look like fucking FDR.

Here is Jesse Waters convincing his viewers that Doge is also here. Just listen to this shit. What never lies besides George Washington. Math, math never lies. Math always tells the truth. Doge is math. Doge is math. Yes. So George Washington equals never lies. Never lies equals math. Math equals doge.

Due to the transitive property. Doge equals George Washington. Doge equals George Washington equals slave teeth as dentures. Yeah. That's what, again, all that's happening. And then on top of that too, we just had that fucking Hannity interview where Musk and Doge again with their weird ass elder abuse rope, like romance that they're doing on TV for everyone.

Trump and, Trump and Musk. And Musk. Yeah. Went on Hannity and basically like he was asked to think, and Trump just said the whole thing, he's like, well, inflation's back, and I got nothing to do with it. Just like, that's what this whole thing is now,

like completely, I mean, that is the most presidential thing about him, is just completely not delivering on presidential campaign promises. But yeah, we're there now with the inflation. You guys see this, you hear about this? Inflation's back. Crazy. Ugh.

I got nothing to do with it. I got nothing to do with it. My hands are tied, folks. Just taking direct quotes from Joe Biden. There's the ghost government. There's a ghost government controlling inflation. Yeah. Exactly.

We gotta get it under control, folks. Go ghost protocol. Danny Ackroyd. Danny Ackroyd's coming in. Didn't go to the 50th, couldn't make the 50th. Working for Doge, didn't go to the 50th. I'm surprised, I'm surprised. Bill Murray was there, Chevy Chase was there.

But you know, you saw that. Bill Murray threw some shade during the weekend update thing, you know, you know. He definitely watched SNL 50. Trump, oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Loved some SNL 50. Probably? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. He probably thought he was going to get in there. He's like, come on.

Are you fucking kidding me? Alright. That's going to do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist. Please like and review the show. If you like the show. It means the world to Miles. He needs your validation, folks.

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