The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 386 (Best of 6/16/25-6/20/25)

Episode Date: June 22, 2025

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of the weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from this week, all edited together into one nonstop infotainment laugh stravaganza. So without further ado, here is The Weekly Zeitgeist. Do we need a cold open? Well, yeah. And I mean, plus look at Miles's is our push face. He's all mad

It's all fucked. It's all Can't can't even reference that anymore even reference the best way to say everything's fucked up Why did I fucked up now? Why did entertainment one of entertainment's most fucked up vile predators take up, it's all fucked up now. Fuck I'ma do now. It's all fucked up now. Fuck I'ma do now. Fuck I'ma do now. I guess I'll just jump off this building

and run off into the alley. Fuck I'ma do now. I like how he puts different emphasis on all the second time. It's all fucked up now. It's all fucked up now. He just thought only some of it was fucked up now. It's all fucked up now all fucked up now All fucked up now, it's all fucked up now Who is that character

weird Who is that character? Weird Jay Leno. It's like a six year old guy played by Adam Sandler or Jay Leno. Is Jay Leno doing Sandler? Yeah. It's all fucked up now. Honestly, the squeaky tank treads is actually the best thing we could have hoped for. It's so good. The specifics to really underline that this is a spectacular failure. It's the fact that no one's talking while it goes squeaky wheels through a dead silent city and then like just load like three of seven rows having people and not like

lined with people like people sprinkled throughout I remember seeing a very nervous looking man with his hand over his chest in a like a red t-shirt and he had like a pained grin or he's wincing, I don't know, it was very, it was a hot Dylan lyric. Yeah. I remember seeing, There's a man with a hand on his chest. With red vests.

And a red vest with a pained look on his face. Woo woo woo woo. Zim zim zim. I saw a man with a dance, I, damn dude, I'm Aziz. Oh shit, Aziz is here, yo. What's going on, Aziz? I went to see when Bob Dylan went to see when I'm from Aziz. That's my underrated, the Bob Dylan

to Aziz impression pipeline. Yeah. What is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? So let me make people sad. Oh, my cats passed away. Yeah. Two in the past year, a cat passed away. My latest cat passed away last month.

And, and so, you know, if you want to make me happy, Texas, come on out to community clash. Everybody else. Or buy a ticket for a friend. I don't, yeah, you ain't gotta come. We don't, we don't care if the audience is empty. We just want the money. Yeah. Do like those Christian, like those QAnon movies or a bunch of people just buy the tickets.

Yeah. Yeah. Go ahead. But now let me raise. Get your church to buy out the theater. Get your church to buy out the theater. This is good Christian. Cause Jackie's cat died. But let me raise your church to buy out the theater. Get your church to buy off the theater. It's good. Christian. Cause Jackie's cat died.

But let me raise you back up. I don't want another cat right now, but I think I want to buy some fish. I want to like to get a fish tank. I want to get a fish tank. So I've been looking at like fish tanks and like how to start one up and what to do and how to clean it and things like that. Because I'm like, I had a fish tank when I was a teenager, my family did.

But I go to like homies houses and nobody got fish bro. Nobody got fish. Yeah, it's not the wave that it used to be. Yeah, I feel like, you know, like even when I was in like my single phase, I never went over ladies houses that had fish, ladies or whoever you date. Do you go over people's houses, they have fishes

and you like, that's sexy as hell. Is that weird? I don't know. Yeah, they go, oh, he got a fish tank. What is this, a bad seafood restaurant? It used to be like a statement of like, oh, like classiness and wealth even. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, the bad guy in naked gun had a cool fish tank. It, I think that's the thing is it, we've just aged out of the fish tank being cool. Cause that was like some drug dealer bad guy shit when we, in the eighties, you know, we're like, yeah, fish. How many drug dealers are you dating? J'Kees? Maybe that's the issue.

Well, I remember so many drug dealers I knew in the early odds had fucking fish tanks. Yeah, fish tanks. They had some kind of aquarium popping off. Probably got a fish tank and she sells the best coca-ina here in Los Angeles. I shouldn't say that when people are getting it deported. Yeah. I do wonder how much of it is, because I've been to people's houses with fish tanks, but they're like people who

have kids that are the age that my kids are. So I wonder if it's like a thing that's like really appealing to young kids. If you have a kid, I guess so. I don't know, I just want to do it because I don't want another. I don't want another cat. I don't want a dog. But for the first time, since I've lived out in Los Angeles, I literally am alone in my apartment, whether it is, you know, I'm not living with a partner or have like another creature. Yeah.

I feel like even though I know fish tanks are work, like that's what people don't realize. I feel like it's nice to just have something that I can like take care of that feels a little less, you know, heavy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But you know, maybe I'll even name my fish.

Oh, are you ready? Cause people, I might not be, I might, it might be too much. Name the fish. Yeah. It might be too much. You'd rather be like, yeah, that's the blue one. Yeah. Which is a name.

Yeah. That's a name. The blue one. Yeah. The blue one. That's blue one. That's red three. That's red three right there, baby. So yeah, that's what I think I'm going to do. I'm going to pull the proverbial trigger.

Man, a lot of God metaphors for somebody about to head to Texas. But you know what? I'm getting ready, baby. I'm getting ready. You're in the zone. You're in that Texas zone. As soon as I walk on stage, I'm going to, baby. I'm getting ready. You're here in the zone. As soon as I walk on stage, I'm gonna have a cowboy hat on and a rifle on my arm. Shooting into the ground, propelling yourself off the ground. Like Yosemite Sam. So we, we experimented with the fish tank and the experiment did not go well.

Yeah. Still not sure exactly what I fucked up, but we've also been looking at turtles and both fish and turtles, the thing that I run into, because these are like starter pets. Like we had dogs, but you know, they passed away from old age, my life, and I've been married a long time. And our kids are interested in pets. As Victor said in the chat, like fish, turtles, these are like your starter pets to see if the kids are ready for another pet. The size of tank, like you go on like Reddit and

the people who are turtle experts are like, you're going to need to convert a room to like, Oh yeah. Like a turtle needs, how big a turtle? I know that's what I'm saying But I mean the thing with the turtle is they can grow based on the size of oh, yeah Yeah, and so like if you keep a turtle in a tank, it just won't grow Like I have friends who have turtles that are in a like small fish terrarium and they seem happy I have spoken at length with them, but they seem great. But then, yeah, sometimes they're like, that's absolutely not enough space for any breed. But if that's even the case, that will put me off to having a turtle. I'm like, oh shit, you need more?

That's exactly what happened. I was close. Oh no. I cleaned the tank. I was ready to pull the proverbial trigger, and then I backed off once I saw how much space. They were like, that's enough for a quarter of a turtle. Stop listening to lame people.

To turtle experts. Stop listening to marine biologists. Stop, stop. Do your own research. Yeah, do your own research. And we call it trial and error. Yeah. Maybe that turtle wanted to be small. Maybe it does. Maybe it does. Maybe that turtle wanted to be small. Maybe it does.

Maybe it does. Maybe it wants to touch each side of the tank with all of his limbs. Uh, stretch my shit out. Really, yeah. Really dominate the space. Really dominate the space. You know, maybe that's what it wants.

Look, he gets to do little turns. He's having fun. He can move. He can move plenty. All right, Andrew, what's something you think is underrated? Oh, man, just using normal ass water. Wait, underrated. Not using normal ass. Okay, listen, whatever I got. I took one step up in coffee madness, and and I am now buying separate minerals to put into distilled water to make coffee with in the mornings. So you're using distilled water and then adding minerals from tap water back in? Yeah, but like a calibrated proportion, I suppose.

So I guess underrated is not using an insane coffee process. Here's the thing I will tell you, Jack. I don't have the palette or the ability, especially given the cognitive dissonance that has gotten in this process to tell you whether it tastes better. It tastes better to me, but that's because I fucking bought a powder off the internet and now have to like buy water including this week I went at midnight past

midnight to the CVS that was open just so I could get distilled water so I could have my morning coffee damn wow wow love a placebo culinary arts yeah you're doing like the same thing about like marinating a Coke in the refrigerator for three weeks. It tastes fucking better, man. It's crispy. Although I know coffees I get will come out and be like. It actually gets a little bit overly crispy.

I like it at the five day crispiness. Five and a half at most. Five days, 12 hours. Gotta bring it back. Yeah. Well something you think is overrated. Okay, so this is inspired by a recent appearance me and my boyfriend did on our friend's podcast. Recently rebranded to Homie Vulgaris because it used to be called the Ain't Shit Show,

but it had shit in the name and the abbreviation is ass. So they weren't getting the traction that they wanted. So they rebranded. Shout out to Homie vulgaris. You should have them on. They're great. But I saw a personality test that morning and I knew I was going on their show. So I gave that because they have a very interesting outlook on the world. And I wanted to find out if the axis, it was like a, like a political axis. And it was like, like the X axis is like woke to chud and the Y axis is like, is chud or acts chud. So they ended up in like the top left quadrant where they're very woke, but they act chud. And it made me realize this is the path forward.

This is what the Democratic party needs. We need dark woke. So wokeness is overrated. But no, shuttiness is still bad. But I think if you can speak the language, you can overcome the obstacles in front of us. I think that like the right wing, they're calling it the soy right. You know, have you guys seen this? You heard about this?

Yeah, I've seen that. Yeah, I've seen this. Because they're the scoldy ones, you know, they're the ones that are coming out that's like, y'all aren't defending Israel hard enough, you're not, you shouldn't be buying this because they're woke, you shouldn't be watching these movies because they're woke. And it's like, brother, give me a fucking break. It's an exact mirror of like 2016 when it was like, we have to reevaluate all of these old classic movies for probably it's a Repeat of like the most important thing right now is not listening to baby. It's cold outside

It's like shut the fuck up like I guess I get it but like there are other things going Yeah, I think there's other things and it's like much worse things Yeah, yeah, and I think if we can just like put down like all the kind of like scoldy, annoyingness forever and just be like, yeah, no, you guys are cringe and we're making fun of you. Like it reminds me of when, what was it? The conservatives are weird thing.

Yeah, Tim Walsall. Like that was the biggest fucking bump that Kamala had. You know, that was- And then they phased it out. They were like, it's too popular. Yeah. It's mean. They were like-

It's too tough. Yeah. We're acting like chud. It's like, well, maybe you should be a little bit more chud-like. Yeah. And maybe you should whisper to them a little bit. Maybe you should go on Andrew Schultz's podcast

and like talk about healthcare. I don't know. Right't know. Like if these motherfuckers are willing to listen, just fucking talk to them. Like I don't know. Yeah, the left has the advantage that they're not the ones who are president. Like the people on the right who are like supposed to be like chuds or you know like dark mega. Like they're having to be like the president fucking rules Okay, it's cool that he threw himself a birthday party and more people should have showed up there and saying happy birthday Like it's like no, that's so my god Like the Rogan sect of like Trump supporters slowly peeling off because they realize like it was easier to be like

Yeah, man, fuck Joe Biden cuz I like, you know, maybe Trump, whatever. But now they're like, bro, I'm not about to fucking be like, this shit's cool. Yeah, quickly. No. Yeah, it's scoldiness. They're being like, you're not supporting the president hard enough because if the president is saying this and you're being skeptical, then like it's they're scolding them and it's like people, I don't care what side of the political party you're on, they don't like to be scolded.

Like I don't think people want to be like ignorant inherently. So I do think there's a way to like reach people and like show people a new perspective, but you can't do it through this like scoldy bullshit. And I'm sorry if this is a tangent, but like, did y'all see, um, cash Patel on, uh, on Rogan? Yeah. Dude, that goes like, hand in glove with what conversation.

Yeah. Yeah. With what you were just saying about how like, uh, like his whole thing about being like, Joe, listen, come on. Yeah. If anyone's not going to bullshit you, Joe, it's going to be me. It's like the FBI. It's going to be the guy with the shittiest eyes in DC somehow.

Yeah. Luther King Jr. Yeah, and we should not be afraid to make fun of his fucked up fly looking at, like he looks like Jeff Goldblum, like almost at the full transformation of the fly. He's a David Cronenberg body horror character. He's like a third of a way to a Cronenbe. And I don't want to hear Libs out here being like,

well, your cross-eyed friends might, your fucked up cross-eyed fly friends might hear this. Like, Cash Mattel might not hear you making fun of him, but your bug-eyed freak, blood-borne villain-looking friend might. It's like, you know what? If my friend who's bug-eyed gets upset about this, I'm sorry, dog. I might have to cut you off for a minute. We gotta grow a thick skin in these crying times.

Yeah. It's just too perfect that like the person who's like the face of, who's at the the person who's like the face of who's at the, the chair of untrustworthiness also just looks incredibly untrustworthy. Tell me, cause I didn't watch it. It's actually the, I was saving the, that Rogan episode. I usually catch them right away, but that one, I was like too delicious.

I need to save it for a time where I can really sit with it. He came on and was just like, what the thing, the thing that happened was this was when Elon and them were beef and Trump were beefing. And he said, yo, he's in the Epstein files. Right. And so this, it happens while cash Mattel is in the suit and he's like, yo, pull this up. And he goes, and so Rogan's just reading and he goes, damn, what do you think about that, man? So he goes, yeah, he goes, so does he have the Epstein files? How would he know?

And he goes, dude, I don't want anything. I'm not doing anything to do with that right now. I just got like. Yeah, and he says some amazing stuff where he's like, yeah, look, there's nothing new in there. Epstein, they have an amazing conversation about Epstein killing himself, which is just crazy because that's the, Joe Rogan like for all his faults, he usually has a few

things that like he won't budge on, you know, like legalizing weed. Right. Or yes, like Epstein killing himself. How cool would it be to get a cattle prod up your ass until you kill them? Yeah, monkeys beating you up. Trans women in sports is another one. Pumping a stool on stage. Yeah, there's a few things that like- There's only 200 real standup comics in the world.

No, it's 50. There's only actually 50 real standup comics in the world and he's one of them. Yeah, he's very notorious for just kind of like chameleoning with his guests, which is why he ended up having such a right-wing turn, you know? Yeah. But even then, like even when he had like right-wing guests, if Steven Crowder came on and was like,

weed is evil, he'd be like, no man, that's some bullshit. Let me tell you what, it comes from the ground and it's beautiful. Yeah, it comes from Earth. Is Earth fucked up? No. So it's just like crazy seeing this guy who's like, I don't know, his whole thing has been like, Epstein definitely didn't kill himself. I watched this documentary and I mean, he's right. Like, I'm not going to say he's wrong. Broken clocks, whatever.

But yeah, he's just sitting in front of the director of the FBI and the director of the FBI is like, look, F-Scene didn't kill himself. The cameras weren't working. The guards were sleepy. There are some small bean guards that had anxiety and they had to delete the footage or whatever. It's like, this is ridiculous that you are not pushing back on this.

Yeah, especially before he became the head of the FBI, he was loudly screaming. He's yeah, especially before he became the head of the FBI. He was loudly screaming. He's like, this is freaky. I don't know if he killed himself. And so he was a big conspiracy guy. That was like how he cut his teeth before becoming the head of the FBI. And the thing is, like, and I feel like this also is a lane for, you know, Democrats, left-wing people to kind of push through

because if you go to the comments on that video, they're not buying it. Like even like Joe Rogan's fans are like, bro. But are they willing to put the Clintons down? You know what I mean? If they go there and they're like, well, you know, this list, I think touches a lot more people than we've ever read before.

It's like, are they ready for that? I think that touches a lot more people than we were ready for. Yeah. It's like, are they ready for that? I think that's why the Democrats don't have a way forward is because, like, I mean, Bill Clinton, the Clintons are heavily all over the Epstein stuff. And if they wanted to, like, seize on that demographic, they would have to stop wheeling Bill Clinton out to Dearborn, Missouri or Dearborn, Michigan to be like, it's Judea and Samaria. They still think that the Clintons are like the most unpopular people on the fucking planet

are to some degree politically viable to them and they're not. It's the same reason like Kamala lost, it's like Joe Biden, like they weren't willing to just like, I don't know. They're not willing to rock the boat, so yeah. Yeah, exactly. And they're not willing to rock the boat on people that are just deeply fucking unpopular.

Yeah, exactly. And again, it's the wave right now, rocking the boat is the wave and y'all are missing it. Y'all are missing it. Oh my God, slosh it back and forth, exactly. Like and again, it's and it's the wave right now rocking the boat is the wave and y'all are missing it. Oh my gosh, slosh it back and forth baby. Yeah, plow into the iceberg. Let's go. Like, like, get real dude. Like, all right. Let's let's take a quick break. We'll come back and we'll talk about Elon Musk. Definitely not on drugs. We'll be right back.

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to your favorite shows. And we're back. And Jacque's Neil. Yes. Yes. Jack O'Brien. As you might remember on this podcast. Yeah. We like to ask if your search history underrated, but we also like to ask you was something you think's over Yeah over you know something. Yeah Something that I think is is overrated. Let me tell you what's overrated y'all

slapping slapping asses in the bedroom slapping booties slapping ass when you when you're making sweet love when you're making sweet love, when you make a sweet love. Don't get me wrong, a few ass smacks is great, but I feel like, you know, especially men, and we're men, we can attest to this. We, sometimes we used to, when we were younger, we got a lot of our things that we saw to do

from not real sex, from like porn and shit like that. And you don't learn, you gotta learn. I'm not aware of another, is there another way to have sex? It should be, but it was not for us men of our age. And you don't, sometimes let me tell you, man, slapping the ass is an art form. Sometimes I'm telling you, y'all doing it, not right.

You slapping too high, too low. Right. You're slapping, you're hitting the hips. Your ass slap is too porny. Your ass slap is too porny. Your ass slap is too porny. And then also, not everybody, not every partner's ass you got, got the same ass sensitivity. You know what I'm saying?

It's not everybody want the ass slapped as hard as the last person. Some people don't want their ass slapped at all. Some people don't want their ass slapped at all. Some people don't want their ass slapped at all. Some people's asses don't jiggle when you slap. Some people is just like slapping a cracker and it might break in half.

Yeah, yeah. It might break them. It makes the sound of a tennis ball racket. It does. Some people don't want you to Venus Williams their ass. They don't want a Serena Williams. Nothing, nothing. So, you know, I think the ass slap

is becoming a little too overrated and our lost art Maybe it's a lost art because it's not so much that is overrated. It is that We are not properly asking our partners. What level of ass slap would you like? Right, right. It is a chart. I'm gonna ask you to point on here You want me to slap? Yeah. How hard from gentle to Philadelphia bus driver. And, you know, listen, if somebody wants to Philadelphia bus driver, which

miles I could tell is an OG ass slapper. He knows the terms, baby. Philadelphia ass slapper. Philadelphia bus driver is a classic ass slap. He slapped the soul out of that ass. He slapped the soul out of that ass baby. He slapped the soul out of that ass. Some people may not want that like me.

I don't want my ass. I don't want that. Honestly, it feels gauche these days. Yeah. People like different parts of their body stimulated. You know what I mean? I'm more like I'm a necky ear. You know, if you're a necky ear. Yeah. A little do ASMR, a little kisses, add neck in the ear area.

Anyway, look, just a little insight to what happens behind the mics. When we turn the mics off, Jack, Jack, he said, now we just start kissing each other's necks. We start kissing each other's necks. Like I know. I know. I got weird when I asked him to hold my hand to make direct eye contact with me while we were doing over a 100.

Well, that's because I said our issues aren't with intimacy. They're with trust. They're with trust. And you were doing intimacy exercise. And you may not like eye contact. That's right, not everybody likes eye contact. I found out you don't like small kisses on your thighs. No, I don't.

And now I know that. And now I know that. And it's weird, he doesn't like eye contact in the day-to-day, but in the bedroom? He is locked in. Locked in. Locked in. Right here, right here. And it's weird. He doesn't like eye contact in the day to day, but in the bedroom, he is locked in. Locked in. Locked in. Right here. Right here.

I just keep saying. Right here. Yikes. I'll get you the idea. Right here. Right here. Right here. He'll hit you with that.

A lot. He'll hit you with that Philadelphia bus driver slap and then hit you with the New Jersey turnpike stair, baby. There it is. Where it's just staring right into you. So, shout out to the baby. There it is. Where it's just staring right into you. So, yeah. Shout out to the Tri-State area. And then the Delaware, I don't know.

The Delaware preview pumps. Preview pumps. Yeah, that's the preview pumps before you show your partner, like, this might be what you're going to be getting. This is what can happen. This is what can happen. It's the preview pumps before you know, you show you show your partner like this, this might be what you don't get. This is what can happen. This is what can happen. It's the preview pumps. Delaware is great at those. I feel like those should be New Jersey because New Jersey is the place where

the gas pumps are not self-service. You have somebody there to service you. So the preview pump, I don't know. We'll workshop it. We'll come back to you guys and let you know what Delaware is. In the meantime, let's get into some news stories. Shall we? We shall.

We got a grift check on aisle Trump. Isle everywhere. Isle infinity. Yeah. Yeah. Just, I don't know. I'm just, every day there's like a new thing where you're like, man, Trump just made $70 billion from this thing.

That's clearly a quid pro quo with another government or entity and I'm just like, yeah, okay. And I took a second because like Jackie kept bringing up that Masha guessing quote about how like, how quickly things become normal and then you forget how. Just, just a few moments ago, things seemed to be on the pale and no elected official would ever dare to do this. But like again, just off the top, right? We had the 300 million Elon gave to the election.

Another 100 million he gave after that Tesla infomercial at the White House where we got everything's computer. He gave him another 100 million after that. For what? Like he's not running for president anymore. Yeah, I think more just like to be like, help my efforts. Like I need your backing to do whatever manner of fuckery is necessary. Is that illegal?

Like to just give the president $100 million? Well, it's to, you know, it's committing it to spending to other groups. So it's not a direct line. You know what I mean? That's how the US government works. I think we're beyond that at this point. You know what I mean? That's how the US government works. I think we're beyond that at this point. I know we're definitely beyond it, but it's just like, it seems so weird to just be like, yeah, and this guy gave me a hundred million dollars in a briefcase.

Yeah. Well, he's like, well, he's committed it to some groups that are for my political purposes, specifically, although I will find a way to get that money in my pocket. And then also look, there was the jet from cutter. Then there was that fucking trip he took to the middle East where there was like $5 million a plate dinners to fucking meet him. It's all just adding up. And then there's the Don Jr. creating his own Soho house for wannabe fascists in DC that costs like $500,000 a year to join. $500,000 a year to join. $500,000 a year to join.

To join. And then maybe you get access. You know, like the grift there is like, well, if it's done from junior thing, this half a mil to join that I'm probably going to get access and you probably won't yoink. And then now we have just ripped this new financial disclosure report from Trump just in 2024, this dude made $600 million. That's from crypto, golf club licensing, other various licensing deals that he's done,

including what we see now because we saw the guitars, we talked about the watches, all this shit. Now, the latest thing is Trump Mobile, which is a mobile phone and network for real Americans. And it's made of fake gold. And the fine print is really something because it's basically like, Hey man, this shit could end as an actual telecoms company at any fucking moment. And you can't do shit about it. You should have known better.

We are trying. It looks like an iPhone. Yeah. It looks 100% like an iPhone, but it's just an iPhone that they did gold, but then the back has a T from T-Mobile on it. It looks like the exact T. And a one. Yeah.

A T1. T1. Which I'm assuming this is the first model of it, and the American flag. Yeah, and then like a little American flag, but the T1, I clearly designed by people who didn't make it to the level of math where you had like TI-82s, you know? No, just T1. Yeah, yeah, yeah. T1 clearly designed by people who didn't make it to the level of math where you had like TI 80 twos, you know, no, it's just T1. Yeah, T1. This is the T1 baby. Yeah, the website, it said repeatedly warns customers that its use of the Trump trademark quote can be terminated or revoked.

While noting that quote Trump mobile, its products and services are not designed, developed, manufactured, distributed or sold by the Trump Organization or any of their respective affiliates or principals. Again, they talk about how reliable this network is. The terms also make clear that the Trump Organization quote is not liable for third party services. It relies on warning that wireless services can be withdrawn permanently without notice. So like companies are going to be like, oh, no, we don't want to have our app on your phone. Using Android. So anything in that Google Play store is available. It's more just like whatever telecoms company whose network bandwidth we're using, if they

decided like, Hey, actually, no, we're not doing this. Then sorry, your phone might just be a golden brick. Well, you could probably use it for another network, but yeah, this is how things are now. We're at now with the $499. We've got gold iPhone at home. iPhone. Yeah. This is the-

I, you know what? Listen, man, if it wasn't such an evil man, I would almost kind of respect the grift. Yeah. Yeah. I would almost kind of respect the grift. You know, like man, the ability to turn anything you do into a money-making venture, almost, it needs to be studied because like this is great. Like the presidency, the office of the president is already a fucked office in general. And now we have openly. Yeah. Like made it back money making a money making venture. And was so funny.

I am a very big proponent. I think this is wrong. Let me say that for all the new people who don't know. Well, I'm saying, I think what's happening with this, the grifting is wrong. So all the new, all the new Zeitgeist fans who don't know me, let me just say that first and foremost, however, I am a very big proponent of like, keep the same energy, right? If like, if I do something and you tell me you shouldn't do that, and then you

turn around and you do the same thing That that makes me even more mad Versus if you tell me if I'm doing something and you like well shit I do that shit too then like let's both do it like you know like if Obama did this like they would have been boy They would have been where a fucking tan suit. He can't wear a tan I wear a fucking tan suit. He can't wear a tan suit. Nothing. Nothing.

And I'm just like national scandal. Like that's the thing. Crazy to me. It's just not a hustle because it's so easy. It's just shamelessness. It's just privilege. That's all. It's just privilege. Recognizing that the way the system works is that he has been a millionaire since he was a baby and has just been able to push his privilege and then bully people into backing down anytime his ability to just grow and grow and grow

his privilege was challenged. That Obama reference is actually pretty amazing because in this Guardian article I was reading, one of the ethics lawyers who worked in the administration, they were talking about how fucking buttoned up it shit used to be in terms of like appearances of conflict of interest. Uh, I think it was Norm Eisen was saying when Obama's in white house, they told him he couldn't refinance the house that he owned because he was in the midst of regulating the banking industry and they're like, oh yeah, this would not be a good time to do a refi, especially when you're doing of regulating the banking industry. And they're like, oh yeah, this would not be a good time to do a refi,

especially when you're doing stuff with the banking industry. Like how far we've come from like that sort of thing of like, which is fair, which is fair. Yeah. But I'm just saying like back then, they're like, don't refinance your fucking house right now. Because again, you are the most powerful person regulating laws to now. Yeah, man, you want to sell a mobile phone that's like a grift. You want to sell a fucking whatever the fuck it is, crypto and find gold?

Open green cards? Yeah, open up an entirely new revenue stream for people to use blockchain, like the sort of the opaqueness of blockchain to hide who's giving you money. Sure, sure, sure, sure, sure. But again, I think just a good indication to show like how how much now we're like, oh, OK, yeah, I guess that's what he's doing now. Is there a level that he hasn't gone to yet? Because this is like some like candy bars, I guess.

He probably like there are probably candy bars out there that are using his thing. But like, I'm just trying to think of like the most sold by the beast. As yeah, it's it's yeah, there's nothing. There's nothing he can do. He would have to literally be like I am taking the funding for all children's leukemia research and it's mine now Like that's really the next word me. Yeah, yeah birthday Didn't come to my party. That's I think like the next level of it is straight up Just like here's money from here. That is now just mine't give a fuck. He's probably gonna be selling his bathwater.

Oh like Sydney Switney? Like Sydney Sweetie? Yeah. Maybe. He'll probably do that. Extra little skin tags in there. Orange hue. Do we think he's gonna start like shacking it and start doing like a bunch of commercials too? With the general. That is the general. The big strong general. I mean, I guess that is the bridge that he isn't quite crossing yet is like full on TV commercial to sell a thing that he's behind. Like things will evoke his name or whatever.

But I guess maybe, no, he did that before. I don't know, man. He's done. He's done. Well, he did it when he wasn't the president. Yeah. Like after in between the terms, he did it when he wasn't the president. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like after, in between the terms, he did like a couple like infomercial type commercials. I mean, his shoes, he did commercials for the shoes.

But it's always just like him standing in front of a green screen being like- These are great. Yeah. Reading off of a prompter words that he'd never seen before. Yeah. We need to put the fear of God back into some of these politicians, it feels like like I'm not saying how we do that.

There's only one rich guy who's losing sleep right now. It's the, what is it? De Beers or like one? Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. One of those jewelry billionaire is like guys, like the inequalities out of control. I think, right. Or maybe LVMH. Yeah. Yeah. It's like the inequalities out of control. I maybe LVMH. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, it's like the inequality is out of control. I'm losing sleep over it. He's the only one. Everybody else is like, no, we're good, man. Are you fucking kidding?

We got all the power. Right? Because he's French. He has a little more context for, you know, out of control, wealth breeding, unhappiness. All right. Let's check in real quick with ICE because the fascist white supremacy army known as ICE is getting a lot of help. And it's not just Dr. Phil, as we talked about last week. It was actually recently reported that the airlines have been feeding private

information about citizens directly to the DHS and ICE via a data broker called airlines reporting corporation. Oh, OK. So probably that's like an independent thing where someone just like a government agency. No, they're a broker that is just taking our money and trying to sell it to the highest bidder. And in this case, the highest bidder. There's just there's a lot of. This has actually been happening a lot where data brokers like buy your information from any company that you know, you give it to, and then like the government can circumvent all these laws about how they, you know, spy on

us or, you know, access our information because they just like pay for it. Yeah. It's like, Oh, I don't need a warrant because they're selling this information that I just transact with or for. So yeah, all clear, all clear. I just like how that also that airlines reporting corporation owned by at least eight major USA airlines. They owned by Delta airlines where they're like, look, we can make another

pretty penny by packaging together all our flight manifests and then selling that off to people. Yeah. We talked before about like, there's this article, like long time ago, like six years ago, it was like, oh yeah, credit card companies are now no longer consider themselves like credit card companies. They consider themselves like data mining companies. They are taking your information and selling it to the highest bidder. Yeah. That's all up there, man. But yeah, it's like been, it's spread to everyone, everyone who pot, who has any information about you.

Like, Hey, I got some over here. I know they took a flight last week because anybody want to, anybody want, want that shit and want to know about that? I know what it's going to be. I know what it's going to be. I know what it's going to be. I know what it's going to be. I know what it's going to be at on this day at this time. It's just wild again to see just how just capitalism all just hand in

hand with this sort of now super fucked up draconian, like people kidnapping operations, it's just like, yeah. And they do that by help, by getting the information on people's whereabouts from the companies that we're also fucking Beholden to with our bills and shit like that. It's really I Don't know. It's yeah, it's a lot Yeah, right exactly like even credit reporting agencies are like yeah, you want to buy this ice? We got some for you. We got something for you fucking Lexus Nexus I don't know if people know Lexus nexus, but like Lexis nexus is just like a

Research tool that like is cost a lot of money But like I worked at ABC News like you got a Lexis nexus account. It was awesome You could like find every newspaper article ever you could find court cases Yeah, like kind of a kind of a startling amount of information and Lexis nexus signed a $16.8 million agreement with ice to help them surveil pre-criminals movements. I'm sorry, pre-criminals, pre-crime, pre-crime, pre-crime. Yeah, yeah, minority report. Yeah. Lexus nexus has had deals with car makers like General Motors, Honda, Kia and Hyundai, which basically they became the subject of a highly publicized lawsuit, which we've talked about before.

But basically the car companies are selling the data on how you drive to Lexus Nexus, who in turn sold it to insurance companies resulting in higher rates for drivers. And yeah, they're just, it's just different people selling your information. That's like what a big chunk of the economy is now. And we're giving away for free. It feels, it feels, I mean, like we also with the social, uh, with Doge and Elon getting access to all our social security shit. It just feels such like a daunting time even more. It feels like we just keep going lower and lower.

Yeah. When we don't. We've just given up total control. Like there's this massive, vast, impossible to like even keep track of because of how complicated is system that we're like, we've completely lost control of because we were like, I guess the market is good at deciding things. Well, just even look at how the American government handles it. Like even when they're trying to regulate stuff, they're just sort of like, well,

you can't sell Americans information to like China or Russia or Iran or North Korea or North Korea or North Carolina, or North Carolina too. Uh, but you know what? To other agencies in the U S that's fine. That's fine. That's, that's data meant That's fine. That's data meant for us to terrorize our own public. The laws that the Biden administration passed were to protect your information from going

to other countries, but we're good with it going to ICE. There's also a data broker called Ventel that sells location data of smartphones to US law enforcement agencies, including ICE, CBP, and the FBI. So that's, you know, they're basically, they have tracking devices on all of us that we carry around voluntarily. Yeah. I also, I don't know if you guys have talked about this yet or plan to talk about it, but like just in relation to the ICE, uh, what's going on right now, especially in Los Angeles. I'm sure you guys saw that story about the singer who got told by the Dodgers to not

sing the national anthem in Spanish. Yeah. And she did anyway, and they banned her. Yeah. Even though the national anthem is the version she's saying is an official national anthem of the United States for Spanish speakers. How they also like has somebody sitting right behind home plate in the MAGA hat, but kicked out somebody who wore an anti ice. They know the Dodgers have been real. I just want to say this to Dodger fans or if your organization, especially if you are a

person of color and you support your teams and they're doing shit like this, like the Dodgers organizations should be fucking ashamed of themselves. They are not, but they should be ashamed of themselves. And it was only like three NFL teams also that deign to say anything about what's happening. I was like, the Chargers? Okay. Okay.

Based Chargers. Thank you for speaking up. Yeah. I was like, the Chargers? Okay. Okay. Based Chargers. Thank you for speaking up. Thank you for speaking up, man. And so many other teams. Yeah. We got to demand, we got to do, we, you know, we're given, we're given our hard earned dollars and especially like the Dodgers, the Latin community and Mexican community are, and they came, they came to Los Angeles shitting on the Mexican community.

Why not? And they came to Los Angeles shitting on the Mexican community. It took decades for Mexican fans in LA to forgive what happened in Chavez Rizvin, for the building of Dodger Stadium, to then embrace the team. That was a whole process. And then to now get to this point and just be totally mum with it, I think again, it just shows you where people who they're in solidarity with. It's not with, it's not with the fans. It's not with the people that are paying to keep this machine afloat. It's with the other wealthy people who are calling the shots because yeah, I mean like

even that whole trip to the White House was such an L and seeing all those players go up there and like some obviously were maybe quietly not as enthusiastic, but either way, just like that visual was not. Yeah. Was that something that warmed the heartstrings? Turns out they're owned by billionaires. Ah, billionaires. They are absolutely free.

Surely not every team. Surely not every team is owned by some wealthy group of wealthy people. A couple of teams are owned by people who only have $990 million. I mean, what the Green Bay Packers, right? They're publicly owned technically. They're just owned by. I think technically. I don't want to talk about my Wisconsinites.

Uh, I'm a Chicago bear fan, so fuck the Packers, but like, you know, as far as the owners go, yeah, I'm sure there are some great owners that they have because everybody owns. Chicago Bears are owned by the Pope, right? Chicago Bears. Yes, we are. Yes, we are. We're going to have mass, mass on Soldier Field every Sunday now.

Yeah. But anyways, the Democrats tried to push through some things about using data brokers to access information for ICE. Biden issued an executive order putting a stop to data brokers selling private information, but his was like we said only to China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela. And eventually the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed a rule to crack down on data brokers that would obligate them to comply with accuracy requirements and provide consumers

access to their data. So Lisa would be like, we can't lie about you. And you, you know what we're giving to ICE and the Trump administration quickly scrapped that rule. Yeah. I mean, yeah, the clock's ticking with the ICE stuff because they've already projected they're a billion dollars over budget and the fiscal year ends in like three months. And I know, yeah, they're like the way they're describing ice spending.

They're like, dude, it's they act like there's no loss. Like to, to spend this much money is absolute. It's mind blowing, which is another reason why they're so desperate to get this big, beautiful ball sack bill over the line because they need so much more funding to really ramp up the intensity of these rays and to also detain people. So yeah, anyway, money. We are. And I know we say this a lot.

So fucked. Like we are, we are barreling down the suggest financially, economically, socially, mentally, some people physically, like this, we just, you know, start smoking weed if you don't because we don't need something to keep us afloat. Keep your head on the swivel and stay blunt. Yeah, stay blunt and keep your head on the swivel, baby, because it's getting rough out here in these streets. You know, as a matter of fact, I'm not, you can't even find me in these streets no more,

boy. You got to find me. People have always been told they can find you every end of every episode. Jackie, you better, you better go to a data broker and find my, my, my data. If you want to find me, that's the only way you can find me. I guess people are willing to pay a lot of money to find out where we are. Maybe we could just sell that off. Do like a hold on for a Patreon for a location. I'll share my location with you.

That's another to your Patreon. All right, for $600 a month, I'll share my location. I'll share my location. Keep a tracking device on my car. I trust you. I trust you, man. All right, let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk about some bullshit. Just like great shoes, great books take you places. Through unforgettable love stories and into conversations with characters you'll never

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Tech philosopher who, like, when you look at the shit, he was like writing all this shit about like how America would be better off as a monarchy, and specifically one run by tech billionaires in 2008. The New Yorker wrote a long profile on him. Just the levels of how pathetic this guy is, isn't pretty fun. It's worth a read. Throughout, he's like, well, I did this debate where I absolutely demolished him,

but the problem was that I was fat and he wasn't. Now I'm on the drugs. Do you think they're working? Yeah. Now I'm on Ozipic. Do you think they're working? What do you think of my new look? Just constantly fishing for compliments from this New Yorker reporter. Being like, do you think I'm hot? Do you think of my new look? Like just constantly just fishing for compliments from this New Yorker reporter being like, do you think I'm hot?

Do you think I look good? But as far as things that like one of the details that's just kind of casually dropped that I found pretty remarkable is so he just like started out as being a guy with a blog, being like, people like Marc Andreessen or Steve Jobs should be in charge of the world. And then Marc Andreessen reached out and befriended him and started investing in his company. That's how his career was built. And in all those group chats that these billionaires have too,

where they have those debates that they're also exchanging more of this information too. Like, oh, this is an interesting article from this yard guy. I don't know. I see it as a very, I guess, meta-reactionary movement where it's like, even most conservatives still are like, yeah, well, we're a democracy, we're a republic,

we're this, we're that. And he's like, the people like this are like, well, what if we were a monarchy? Yeah. So it's like, it's still the same kind of like aims towards like conservative fascist goals, but with like a different kind of like, I don't know, a different kind of like I don't know a different kind of like contrarian patina to it it's it's it's it's very faux edgy like I think a

lot of people like this like since since the Elon Musk takeover of Twitter they've really like blown up like I don't think without the with without X the everything app I don't think a Curtis Yarvin could really exist. I think that we would still have people like Ben Shapiro who is flopping, fail. People like that are all flopping and now we're getting a new school of conservative commentators and they're all kind of like,

I mean, they're more like mask off about being like, yeah, I do race science. Like, yeah, sorry, they're less than right. Yeah, just straight up. But I feel like also at the same time, like the conservative movement is very like anti intellectual. I think that's why like a lot of these like pot. That's why like people like,

oh, there's a hummingbird out my window. Oh my God. It was so pretty. It was so cool. It's that like, there's a big swath of like anti-intellectual conservatism where like people like Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson, where they have to like kind of debate

and like prove their point they have to like kind of debate and like prove their point through like stuff like that are getting replaced by like podcast bros who are just like, yeah, I don't know, man, like you can just have a beer with Trump and like, it's cool and stuff like that. And you don't have to really like, explain your position as much. So I do have kind of maybe a hopefulness to it that I think that this like, other side of like this kind of maybe a hopefulness to it that I think that this like other side of like this kind of like, I call it like New York, Republicanism, because it has this kind of like intellectualism to it, that I don't think is going to appeal to most people.

To the people who actually like vote for him? Yeah. Yeah, like like I don't I don't think most people really like care about like being like oh Now I know all the science of why like people are like less than and stuff like that it's like I think when you add that you're Forcing your audience to like do too much like reading and these motherfuckers don't read Like I just like to matter when I booed shit. Right. That's kind of where I'm at.

It's reactionary for a reason. Like, you're appealing to the reactions of people. So I don't think there's really even a need for a person like this to come in and explain why you're being reactionary. I think that that's a thing that like people who like go to college and don't come out liberal, they want to like find an intellectual reason for like, to put it bluntly, they want to find an intellectual reason for why they didn't get pussy in college.

And being like, all of these girls are, all women are lesser for why they didn't get pussy in college and being like all of these girls are all women are lesser people and they don't understand my massive brain is an intellectual enough reasoning for them. But I think your average conservative is just like, yeah, dude, I love Trump and like, you know, probably goes to the gym and like has sex with people like that person is not going to Be the target audience for sure like they're still gonna be watching like fresh and fit and like yeah They're not in their face and like ice baths at five reading the seven major steps of Curtis Yardens butterfly Yeah, they read Jordan Peterson's book and they're like this is boring

Reading's fucking gay. I don't like it. But I did, sorry, I'm yapping a lot, but you brought up Yarvin and I found this quote from the author Joyce Carol Oates that I liked a lot where she got into a tiff without Curtis Yarvin and she said, my overall takeaway from the Curtis Arvin profile

is that there must be millions of smart aleck, show-offy kids who annoy their teachers and go on to annoy other adults through their lives with their contrarian pose that hardens to a carapace over their faces until as adults, they still harbor a delusion that if there is a king or a furor, he'd be impressed with this guy's motor mouth and appoint him to his cabinet rather than deleting him with

a negligent swipe of his wrist as Stalin did routinely. And I think that is spot fucking on. I don't think he likes that quote at all. No, I'm sure he does. They've gotten to a very long back and forth, as all these losers do, because they spend all their time on Twitter. But all he had to do was,

you just need this one guy who goes with the grain of American capitalism. This guy has no claim to anything. He's just a child. He graduated from college when he was 15 or whatever. But all he did was just like tell the people who are rich and powerful what they wanted to hear. And they were all like, this guy's fucking genius. Holy shit. And then like go, they like found him. They like invested

in his company. They like rate, you know, he becomes like the center of this like intellectual circle and it's it's just so pathetic how easily it works the the one interesting detail is that he doesn't think the Trump administration's going farther far enough he he's quoted as saying if you have a Trump boner right now enjoy it gross it's as hard as you'll ever get what many see as the most dangerous assault on American democracy in the nation's history. Yerwin dismisses as woefully insufficient, a vibes coup. Without a full blown autocratic takeover, he believes a backlash is sure to follow, which might be what we're seeing right now. This is what he was saying like the day after inauguration. When I spoke to him recently, he quoted the words of Louis de Saint-Ju, the French philosopher

who championed the reign of terror. He said, he who makes half a revolution digs his own grave. And yeah, before he can finish that, the New Yorker reporters start saying nerd alert and punching him in the shoulder. I was like, y'all motherfuckers tried to do a coup. Like what are we talking about? Well, his whole thing, he has all these steps that, you know, obviously like Elon Musk is also like a follower of this ideology. And, you know, it's all about like the steps or campaign on autocracy. OK, you did that. Purge the purge the bureaucracy.

You tried that with Doge to a certain extent, but you didn't go full blown purge third Ignore the courts. Yeah, you're doing that part Co-op the Congress. Yeah, you're doing that Centralized police and power in the midst of that. They're still you know, they're trying to get there Yeah, we're working on that shut down elite media and academic institutions not quite getting that Working on that. Yeah, They're working on that too. Yeah, they're working on it. But yeah, that quite hasn't happened.

Then turning out the people's to have like your own basically enforcers on the street of your thinking. And when you look at the no king shit, you're like, the numbers just aren't there for that part, which is truly part of like his vision on how to have this like techno fascist dream world. But as we've been saying, like the vision on how to have this like techno fascist dream world. But as we've been saying like the Masha Gessen quote and like quote from anybody who's inside fascist takeovers like it always is like

Man, it was not as bad as we thought it was two years ago I feel like that's where things are gonna get worse is you know, They're going to do all those final steps. It's funny to me that these people don't... They're all kind of tripping over each other, not to really have power, but to just be the eunuch advisor to power. And in literal ways too. I spin spider webs in I'm various ears. Yeah, right. A little bird told me something you might want to know.

I will say though, I wouldn't write it off like entirely. No. Like I mean like. What we see is they have a blueprint, but it's not everything. I always say like they're trying to speed run the Third Reich in a way that it's it's a there's a little bit. There are other ways to do this, but they're very much trying to be like, OK, do this, this, this, this, this and this.

And if you just do that sequence, you get Third Reich, I think it does how it feels like and why we have this just. I don't know if there's like that much of a concrete plan. I mean, I could eat my words on this, but I don't think there's that much of a concrete plan, I mean, I could eat my words on this, but I don't think there's as much of a concrete plan only because it's Trump and it's not someone else. And I think Trump is like just uniquely like certainly a fascist and certainly advances fascist interests. But he's very he's stubborn, you know, he's stubborn and catty. And unless you're like Benjamin Netanyahu, it's kind of hard to like actually move him

in those directions, no matter how many little birds you have with him. I think that's the thing is like where all of the people know he's basically like a zombie corpse that if you hijack, you can get, you can make shit happen in America because every interest has their way. Like it's like the crypto people are kind of infesting his brain, infecting his brain. The project 2025 people, like even when you saw with the ice raids, how he was like, you know, we've got to dial back the raids on agriculture and hotels and restaurants. I mean, very good people. You're like, what the fuck? And then Stephen Miller through a

fucking fit. And that's why the other, like yesterday, Trump completely changed course. He's like, we're doing the raids again. Fuck it. Because everyone is in his ear trying to get him, like trying to make the office of the president do what they need him to do. Raids will continue until morale improves. Right. One other quote from the article. Yarvin explained that during the Elizabethan era, the finest minds of art and sciences were to be found at court. When I asked if he saw a parallel with Trump's inner circle, he burst out laughing.

Oh no, he said, my God. That is one thing as we look at their execution of the big parade and stuff like that. It's like he doesn't have the brains in, in, you know, a lot of these people are fucking idiots. They just want proximity to power. That's all, that's, that's all they want. They're defining feature.

Yeah. Like he's going out and being like, find me the finest minds. No, it's like, you've got, you've got like C tier Facebook shit posters in your cabinet. That's it. Also it's ironic because the finest minds weren't what won you the election. It was the dumbest guys on like podcasts and like the lowest common denominator type people that Democrats weren't able to turn out.

Like it's the finest minds are and say it again, a bunch of fucking nerds. Like. Nerds! All right, let's talk pizza real quick, shall we? Because this is just a story that is getting a lot of play. Not sure if it's actually true because there is a McDonald's in the Pentagon, but basically, the story. Is there really? Yeah, there's a McDonald's in the Pentagon.

It's like a shitty community college that has like a subway. Exactly. There's like the bottom of a. And a hand express. There's like five McDonald's in the Pentagon. It's like a shitty community college that has a subway. Exactly. There's like the bottom of it. And a Panda Express. There's like five food courts inside the Pentagon. The Pentagon is like this massive mall. Yeah.

Wait, so when that plane hit, they were like, is Panda Express okay? Yeah. Right. You know what's wild? Where is it? Sbarro has fallen. Before Ground Zero is the name for the World Trade Centers, it was the name of a hot dog stand in the middle.

There's like a little park in the middle of the Pentagon that's five acres. In the very center of that is a hot dog stand that just sold hot dogs. That hot dog stand was called ground zero. In this little nook right here. There's a rumor that Soviet Soviet intelligence you know doing satellite flyovers were like we're like why do all of their agents go to the center of this nook every every day at the same time and that sounds like meat that sounds like some shit where they are just like trying to make the enemy sounds stupid. I like how the American equivalent of a Game of Thrones betrayal garden is like the hot

dog eatery. Hot dog studio. It's like where you go with your advisor to be like, no, no. Can you pass the relish? By the way, there's not going to be any betrayals at the party tomorrow. Oh, no onions for me. I have to speak with Ferris later. It's going to be only your closest of friends.

Please enjoy another Costco soda housing three hot dogs Just so you know, this is what's inside the food court though in the Pentagon There's a McDonald's a five guys Popeyes Starbucks Duncan subway Panera bread Baskin Robbins Sucks that's a shitty line. There's also Lebanese Taverna and Smoke Dat BBQ. That one's not, the Lebanese place sounds kind of good. Yeah. They don't have a fucking, what's the place, the mall, like the bourbon chicken.

Dude, that's really good. Every time I go to the mall and when I get the free sample, I'm like, oh man. There's more. Then there's a Taco Bell. Yeah, there's Juice hot belly sandwich That's what I did the dots yeah, right they need some Auntie on's oh, yeah Yeah Auntie Annie's I don't know. I don't know how to say it. I feel like I'm saying it wrong every time I say and isn't no on Wow you said

I heard Auntie Annie's but I'm like white so I don't feel right saying the word Auntie All right, but anyways, so this this is all now in the news because the US government is repeatedly denied involvement in Israel's initial attack against Iran. They're like, this guy's what? Oh my God. We're all looking for who did this. What? Yeah, exactly. We're all looking for who's responsible.

That's crazy. Those are US made missiles? Damn. I think you should leave ass cabinet. Yes. Some reports suggest that the US may have played a greater role than has officially been admitted. And some of those reports involve Papajans and Domino's because the pizza index or pizza meter it was flaring up. This is a famous

theory for predicting global turmoil by monitoring deliveries from pizza restaurants near the Pentagon when something big is going down everyone's stuck in the office working late and stress eats pizza and okay Yeah, so that it's that they're working late hours working with so that's the thing Well, like a lot of people were like how that actually there's plenty like actually an official Pentagon spokesperson was like We have plenty of pizza options inside the Pentagon. Thank you very much Yeah, I'm sure this was in the middle of and it was also in the middle of the night. And also, yeah, like sometimes you don't feel like walking fucking three miles to get to the food court.

You know, also, Sabaro sucks. Right. I'd rather have Papa John's any day. Yeah. So the Papa John's close to the Pentagon was flaring up big time, uh, right before this, as was the Dominoes like they you know people become for this very reason people are like constantly monitoring the activity and they were like on high alert before the bomb started dropping essentially can I

pause it as a separate theory yes that maybe they're they're leaking this this pizza information so when you Google like pizza related stuff pizza gate doesn't come up. Uh huh. But that would benefit the Democratic party more than the Republicans in power, right? I guess you are right. That is true. Sorry, someone who, look, I went to Comet Pizza in DC. I looked for them kids. They were not there. They were not there. Miles went in full tactical gear. Yep. Yep. But yeah, but my my, my like, sort of plate carrier was super saggy because I didn't actually have the ballistic

plates. There was a there was a movie that came out last year called the sweet East that I really enjoyed where they go to like Comet pizza at like the beginning of the movie. And Andy Mellonocchis shows up and is like, where's the fucking kids? Where are they? And he like grabs this girl and they like find like all these like tunnels. It's like true. Yeah. And that's like the joke is that like, what, wait, what? This crazy guy is actually right.

But there's something just so morbid that we're like, oh man, a lot of pizzas are getting delivered. Innocent people are about to die. Yeah. Like pizza is equal to innocent lives., we have the pizza index for bombs and like military shit. And then the stripper index for like an economic downturn. When at the strip clubs, the dancers say, like the ones in New York, they're like, man, when these finance dudes stop coming in and stop tipping like

they do, they're tightening up, they're tightening up. That makes sense. Yeah. Like just sort of like there's so many Anecdotal sort of measurements for these kinds of things Okay, I bet if you talk to I bet if we got some drug dealers on the horn like some high-level drug dealers Yeah, yeah, we probably know because I feel like drugs sales going up would also be an indicator, right? But is that but that's a general inelastic demand, right? Like that shit just stays on. Yeah, I think it's just like it's popping or it's really popping.

Yeah, yeah, I feel like really popping would be like or maybe the kinds of drugs like maybe if you're moving a lot of Xanax and stuff, it's like, oh, people are worried. I mean, if moving like a lot of like coke and Iraq war vibes. It's like, it's like, oh, well, it's 2011 Obama, I got a feeling. All right, that's gonna 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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