The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 395 (8/18/25-8/22/25)

Episode Date: August 24, 2025

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Hey guys, it's AZ Fudd. You may know me as a gold medalist. You may know me as an NCAA national champion. You may even know me as the People's Princess. Every week on my new podcast, Fud around and find out. I'll be talking to some special guests about pop culture, basketball, and what it's like to be a professional athlete on and off the court. Listen to Fun Around and Find Out, a production of IHeart women's sports in partnership with unanimous media on the IHart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,

or wherever you get your podcast. December 29th, 1975, LaGuardia Airport. The holiday rush, parents hauling luggage, kids gripping their new Christmas toys. Then everything changed. It's been a father. at the TWA terminal, just a chaotic, chaotic scene.

In its wake, a new kind of enemy emerged, terrorism. Listen to the new season of Law and Order Criminal Justice System on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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 uh yeah so without further ado here is the weekly zeitgeist my infant nearly died in a drug fire after mass shootings

after mass shootings God God did the drug fire after the mass shootings caused the drug fires we don't know we don't know we don't know what was he doing to say how is he in proximity of a drug fire with his

infant after mass shootings I mean so many things I don't know what it's fine my entire life has happened it's like St. Elmo's yeah exactly my entire life has been has happened in the aftermath of mass shootings

so I guess that's true generally right? Yeah I guess you know everything is after mass shooting was he out of school though. Sounds like he wasn't at a school. Hard to say. I think so. Miles, we're thrilled to be joined in our third and fourth

seats by the very funny host of the podcast Deadheads, which is a true crime look into who murdered their bank accounts, nay, all of our bank accounts. Please welcome Jamie Feldman and Rachel Webster. Is that right?

Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. There's nothing wrong with it. We love a bird squawk. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just want to clarify, just in case people think it's dead heads. It's debt, dead heads. Did I miss pronounce it? No, you didn't.

But everybody still, a lot of people do. Everybody still thinks it's dead heads and it's not. Yeah. We're like, we'll meet you in Vegas. You guys like to twirl. We would meet you in Vegas, but we're in debt. Yeah. I'm a bit of a debt head.

That's how I pronounce dead. Have you made merch that looks like Grateful Dead stuff? Yeah, actually. It's in progress. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, great. Yeah, yeah.

I feel like the Grateful Dead would be, like, super litigious, you know, like how that generation is. We had the Grateful Dead Bears in our first original, like, 700-page deck that we were sending to potential sponsors. And then we were like, we need to have a one-page deck and also get rid of the dancing bears in our artwork. Yeah, so we came up with our own artwork. But it was an inspiration early on. Yeah. It continues to be. Yeah.

Yeah. It feels like kind of like an ironic sentiment, like grateful debt somehow in our. Is that something? Hey, guys, is that something? Thank you so much. Let me write that down. Yeah, is that good? You should be grateful.

That is what they say to our generation. Can I be on your podcast? Can I be your podcast now? Absolutely. Oh, we have to make a new episode. So this, maybe this is it. Yeah, this is what we're, instead of writing our new episode, we're on this podcast. So thank you guys for giving us some questions.

How much of your portfolio is invested in an avocado toast? This is my first question. That's, I heard, my main problem. Yeah, let's take it a step back. Oh, Jack, they're even worse off than we thought. Oh, boy. Okay. Okay, you have to strike while the iron.

Okay, I'm going to just do a fill in the blank. You guys are going to tell me, you got to strike while the irons. On. On. Oh. on the steam setting. Is that it? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

The only work when there's steam involved. What is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Well, I'll tell you, this one I may have done at some, I may be I've done, you guys will know if I've done it. Have I ever done this one where it's the woman who runs, who lives under the roller coaster in Coney Island? No. I have never done that. Okay, it's a short documentary. I think you may have referenced it, but I just.

just started watching it because you sent the link and I was like, no, I've never seen this before. It's awesome. It's just like, I mean, it's just me fantasizing about, you know, old Coney Island or old middle class, middle class, you know, where people are eating cheese sandwiches and stuff, you know, and they're calling it that was like light, you know, like, you know, there was roast beef on ride toast. Yeah, like, how would you do today? Oh, I had a great cheese sandwich. Now I'm going to bed, you know. And, uh, it used to be able to, you know, afford a house on a waitress's salary and that house was under the Coney Island cyclone. Yeah, and I saw

a woman. Right. I saw a woman. That was cool. It was a great day. Did you talk to her? No, I'm going to wait till I'm going to wait till I see her a bunch more times. Then I might say, good evening. Wow. I can't wait to the move to the city like you.

Yeah, like I, and then if you go on a roller coaster, I mean, then you're done. Your bucket list is over. The bucket list back then was like, go to the fair, eating a cheese sandwich, and then Or like someone being like, you know what? When we go to Coney Island, I'm going to audition a new way of walking just to try it out. I'm going to kind of walk like this when I'm on Coney Island next time.

It was a big hit on the board rock walk. A couple people are doing a second bob and you're sitting in the middle of the first bob. Kind of like you're dancing, but now to a little rhythm in your heart. That's why I married him. I saw him bobbing down the boardwalk. He looked like a jerk, but I kind of thought it was a little bit of sparkle. Just why I watched the beginning of the documentary and this woman's like, yeah, I like got a job waitressing at Coney Island

and then it ends with her living in a house that's under the roller coaster on Coney Island. So like first of all, my favorite part about it is that the man who owned the roller coaster was a respected local businessman and he owned a roller coaster

and lived under it. And that was like, and he was like a pillar of the community because the whole thing was based on amusement. So it was like, you know, the guy who I don't know, they had a zoning issue or something. They had to talk to the guy

who owned the like flume and then they had to bring in the guy, I owned the, anyway, so he owned a roller coaster and lived under the roller coaster. And that was his business. Yeah, what's your career? I'm thinking about building a roller coaster on my house. It worked. And then just charging people money for it.

It was a hotel before, I guess, that house. And I knew of the house because of two things. Like, because the Woody Allen movie. Annie Hall opened. Annie Hall, he lived in this house. And I figured it was fake for the movie. I didn't know there was a real house. And then I went to Coney Island in the 90s.

and saw the roller coaster at that point had been abandoned, although she may have still been living in that house. I didn't realize in like, I was there in like 93. I think she may have still been in the house, but the roller coaster was overgrown because her husband had died.

And so the roller coaster wasn't operating anymore, but she was still living in the house and she raised her kids in that house. And it's just an amazing story of just like, I don't know, just back when you could own a roller coaster, and that was like you're living. And, you know, obviously that was not for everybody. You couldn't just have a – I guess there was some privilege involved, probably.

Not just everybody could have their own roller coaster. But this guy, you know, he went out every morning and inspected the coaster. Yeah. Just like pick up the paper and then just like kind of take – give it a nice look over once over just to make sure. The kids got to collect all the stuff that fell out of the pockets. Some guy came in the documentary goes, they – we had everything. Wigs, you know. Right, right.

Pocket bags. 30 baseball caps a day. Hitler youth pin. Everything would come out of a movie. It's such a whimsical story that it makes me have so much less respect for Mother Goose fairy tales. Like an old woman who lives in a shoe who fucking cares. Right.

This woman lives in a fucking roller coaster. Get your shit together, Goose. Yeah. And anyway, I love Coney Island because Coney Island, So then I'm going to segue into my over underrated. I don't know if I'm allowed to do that. But underrated is Coney Island. Go there.

But I didn't ask you yet, which is what's underrated. What the fuck is going on right now? Are there no rules on the fucking show? I'm sorry. What the fuck was that? Chris, we got new listeners coming in. They think we're going to talk about the news right now. Go watch the documentary.

It's called like the house under the roller coaster or maybe. Just one thing about that. The part that was rage-inducing for me was, like, the simplicity of life then, like, to your point, Chris, of, like, just the nostalgia for, like, I had a cheese sandwich, like, when she was just like, and I knew all the concessioneers orders as soon as they walked in, that guy, the one is scrambled eggs with toast, this is roast beef on rye. And I'm like, what a fucking, what a, what a whimsical time when that was all you, all you really thought about that and, you know, keeping black people from owning land in the area. Right. I mean, that's the problem is it's not, it was, but there was a, it's a big problem, but, but there was a living wage was, I mean, it was easier to buy a house. And that just leads to dignity. Dignity, privacy. That's what it turns out. Those are things that losing your privacy means you lose your dignity. I don't know how to describe it exactly, but privacy is something, is something we should. should have or should continue to guard. It's not just private. It sounds like privacy, who cares?

I mean, I don't care. I'm open. You know, that's not it. Privacy's about having a place of your own. And before the internet, regardless of what situation you were in, you could at least have some dignity because you called the shots in that space. And, you know, maybe not at work. I mean, it's obviously more complicated.

but these people are basically not rich people and they were getting to you know raise kids in a way there's never a mention in that that they were broke and they owned a roller coaster I mean you know I mean there's and in terms of

in terms of market economy I like that too it's like give a person a ride you get a nickel or whatever right like the simplicity of that now it's like give someone's all your money in return for like the world's worst internet service or whatever you know you give you give these tech billionaires

everything and all you get is a cardboard box with a six pack of soda as fast as you want which is not nearly as much fun as a roller coaster. All the roller coasters has been bought up by private equity and they like something, you know what I mean? Like they've like somehow ruined them. Yeah, they close them up

and let Justin Bieber go on them all the time or whatever. It's so wild that buy a VIP roller coaster for the guts of a roller coaster are like the two things I know them for are like like being strewn with baseball hats and, like, wallets and shit, and beheading people.

The fact that she raised children in that environment is pretty wild. She said she has this crazy accent that's like some old, old, you know, who knows, I guess the Coney Island accent. It doesn't exist anymore. Right. Yeah. And, yeah, like her and like, I don't know, Babe Ruth probably would have said, oh, you talk the same as me or something. But, oh, you own that roller coaster. You're a small business owner.

Yeah. You're an entrepreneur. And it is still privacy. Even if like hundreds of people are passing by your windows, but they're doing it at like 60 miles per hour, they're not going to see. They can't. Yeah.

She's like, I think I saw a naked old dude in it. She said, we just got used to it. The noise, we just got used to it. And the kids were like, you know,

like they enjoyed growing up in that house and there's a piano in there. I don't know. Anyway, it just looked like, I would like, let's put it this way. I would like, to own a roller coaster.

Zite gang. And I want to pull the handle and I want to be nice and I want to tip my hat and I want to smoke rum-soaked cigars and I want to pick up wigs and I want to do the things that America was founded on. Nowadays you're just going to find like, you know, vape pens, like maybe a couple iPhones and probably another Hitler youth pin or something. Totally. Anyway, I just love that this.

this, just seeing, like, sort of just that, oh, I don't know. Just, I love Coney Island because, okay, so then go ahead. Can you say it's time for the other one? Overrated. Oh, overreated. My famous is time for the other one. What's something, Beth, you think, is underrated? Vacuuming.

I absolutely love to vacuum. If you'd like me to vacuum your house, I'll come over and vacuum the hell out of it. Oh, you really like vacuuming like that. I love vacuuming. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It is so good. Is it just like the process of it of seeing a thing? I think I have like, when I see the canister fill up, I'm like, get the fuck in there, you pieces of shit.

Nice cry, asshole. Thought you could get away, didn't you? Yeah, gotcha. Yeah, the only thing that makes me mad while vacuum is if it tells you got to clean the filter or something because it got too much little dust. tiny particles. I'm like, oh, I don't have time for this. I need to suck up more particles. Yeah. They're all going to get away. Yeah, I really love vacuuming. I invested many years ago in a mewally vacuum. Oh, yeah. They're so good. And then I got a Dyson, because I, as everybody was saying, that's what's up. But, and it's pretty good. I don't want to talk about it because it can hear me right now. Yeah, unfortunately, the guy. It's a guy behind Dyson's a huge piece of shit. Really?

Yeah. He's like, I was like, because it was a, it was. one of those things as a millennial like I aspired to own like especially you know growing you coming of age in the 2008 financial crisis and being out of college at the time like dude I'll never fucking have that and then you see you read about this guy and you're like oh you're like a fucking anti-immigrant piece of shit all right that sucks he started determining is really what's up i hope meali is good because they're the best yeah i think they're french or something right they're from a different country sounds like it yeah uh Miles Eisen also started the term Apocalypse. That's the one Miles Dyson we do recognize. Not Sir James Dyson, the Brexit free.

Sir James. Beth, by the way, I couldn't disagree more. I have a dog's a version to vacuum. I run out of the room every time a vacuum is happy. Too loud. I'm very threatening. Do you, when you're vacuuming, are you like listening to music? Are you, or you're just like kind of hearing that? That is the music, man. Honestly, it's like, it's partly a workout in its own way. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Especially you get on some rug or carpet, and you're fighting that thing. I know. To move it. Ooh.

I think there's a dirt devil, like, or Dyson commercial at some point where, like, Fred Astaire was vacuuming. Oh, I didn't see that. Yeah, I'm not listening to anything except the sound, the hum of that machine. Yeah. The sound of the dirt. And just hearing the little crumbs flicker in the canister. Maybe something gets caught and you got to be able to, you got to, that's why. You got to have an open here.

You can't have that back. You can be battling something without, yeah. You got to hear it. What is something? So we did, we already covered the overrated? Yeah, I guess so. In the cold open. Oh, maybe it was underrated, overrated, whatever.

This one might be a miles only kind of jam. It's being mad that your mom was right about some stupid Asian shit that when you were a kid, you were certain was wrong. No. And here's mine. Growing up, my mom would routinely say, no, on a hot day, what you want to have is hot soup, because that will cool you down. And like, I think like many Americans, but many, I would say people even, that sounds fucking crazy and unpleasant. And I, the other day, when it was very hot in Los Angeles, I was like, fuck it, I just want some fah. I went and got fah in like an unair-conditioned restaurant in Chinatown.

So sweaty. What I will say is it did not cool me down, particularly, but it made me so hot that I, like, couldn't think anymore. And I didn't, I wasn't worried about the heat. So, yeah, comparatively, because you've just scalded the inside of your body that you go outside in the ambient temperature, it's like that highdecker on, I think you should leave. It's like, it's hot if you're not expecting it to be, you know.

Yeah, yes, exactly. It's supposed to be ice cold. It's supposed to be ice cold, this is roomed. Ah, exactly. So I think in that sense, yeah, for a week. It's so dumb. I think we're at the age where that sketch,

that sketch changed my behavior. I started stretching every morning after that sketch. That sketch is one where it's not even a focus of the sketch, but every time he shifts on the couch, she goes, oh. And I was like, I need to do mobility exercises. I do that. I interpreted that as hemorrhoids, but yeah,

could be mobility. Oh, yeah, yeah. I just, I do it when, when I thankfully, I think I've gotten myself out of the part of life or not like of the, of inflexibility, where that becomes a constant involuntary sound that I make. But they're like, oh. It was tying my shoes where it got bad. I was like, oh. I went in the ocean when I was back east and got like rocked by the waves. and like for the next 24 hours when I would either sit down or stand up I was making the most old man I was being like, oh boy

oh you were doing like I was vocalizing I caught myself doing like here we go now yeah yeah cool all right you got this

oh you got this okay yeah and that's because I'm young and cool yeah yeah well that was an injury but I will say I have found I think I've talked about this on this show before,

just a wee bit of stretching in the morning. Yeah, oh, yeah, you got to. So much more than I want to admit. That was my grandfather's end of life advice to me. Yeah, I was like, one piece of advice. Yeah, when he's getting to the end, I was like, bro, like just info dump, wisdom dump on me. And he's like, man, the one thing, he's like,

you got to stretch. Make sure you stretch. He's like, don't let your shit get like fucking tight and just seize up on you need to start out. Okay. Damn. If that's what you're thinking now? I'm like, shit, okay. The time that the besides, actually, these are both Netflix properties, we'll listen to, this is simply the power of media and the magic of the movies. But this came up for me when someone reviewed the Irishman, which is, which is,

has De Niro with like a youthful face swap. Yeah, the de-aged. Yeah. And they point, are walking, kind of lumbering. Yeah, yeah. And essentially that the reviewer was like, you know, it's, the, the face is not as bad as you think, but he still looks his age because his movements are that of, you know, his age, which is fine. It has a scene where, yeah, where they've

deaged him and he like beat somebody up and it is the least it's just like, guys, get a fucking body double here. What are we doing? You're just worried the whole time that he's going to topple over as he's supposed to be like showing off what a badass he is

and you're just like, oh, buddy, you're Your legs aren't bending. Yeah. Why is your hand on your hip as you lean down to punch him? All right. I honestly thought about that scene when Mike Tyson fought that racist kid. Which one? Oh, Jake and or Logan, Paul?

Yeah, whichever are the Paul brothers. Oh, yeah, yeah. Of, like, his legs, Roy Jones Jr. in the first round was like, I don't like Mike's legs. I don't like his legs. I was immediately, like, that is exactly right. And I thought of the scene in the Irishman where, like, you could tell that he is not under the age of 60 because of the way he's, like, walking without bending his, like, there's no lightness. He's not light on his feet in any way. Yeah.

It's really telling. And Tyson used to be, as a fighter, like, so, that was a thing that I didn't really appreciate until I did a little bit of boxing. It's like, he would like literally like drop it low sometimes during fight. Oh, yeah. He was so insanely flexible and like deft on his feet, his heels. So, yeah, that's a, to me, an underrated part of his game because everyone feared the power. But it's like, no, he can he can duck in a way that I did not realize a human being could do my back out trying to. Yeah.

I'm De Niro right now. Yeah, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. Call my nurse. Call my nurse. All right, let's take a quick break to just rest and stretch out, do our mobility exercises. Oh, my God. The video of Miles doing this. All right, we'll be back to get into this.

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Apparently, the explosion actually impelled metal, glass. The injured were being loaded. into ambulances, just a chaotic, chaotic scene. In its wake, a new kind of enemy emerged, and it was here to stay. Terrorism. Law and Order Criminal Justice System is back. In Season 2, we're turning our focus to a threat that hides in plain sight. That's harder to predict and even harder to stop.

Listen to the new season of Law and Order Criminal Justice System on the IHeart Radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And so is the Democratic Party. They're back from the dead. They have a new strategy that everyone's like. Newsom, baby. He's shit-posting and they love it.

They love it, don't they, folks? You should just start doing an actual Trump impression like what in his public appearances too you might as well I mean yeah in this era nothing holding anybody back at this point right who I mean who fucking care I think it would be cool if we saw more elected Democrats do something more legislative to fight back but I guess we can take shit posts and jokes for now you know that that we'll we'll take that it's a little bit because he has such a anti don't give a fuck energy like he he seems like someone who is in a cold plunge right now.

Oh, he's in a cold plunge right now. He's in a cold plunge right now. Smoking a ketamine smoked cigar. Right. Like, do it chasing every single trend for prolonging his life, you know? I mean, he's a big Joe Rogan fan, man. He is.

He is. I love, and I told him that. I love Joe Rogan. Sure, dickhead. But anyway, he's really taken social media by storm as he's really presenting himself is the anti-Trump Democrat fighter, but on a rhetorical level, purely. Not on a policy level.

I mean, there is, I mean, obviously he is trying to do like for like gerrymandering. He's like, look, if you want to add a bunch of seats, we can do that. I'm like, okay, that's fair. Like, look, you've got to fucking fight fire with fire in that case. I don't disagree with that if that's what Texas is doing. But his recent posts are just basically, we've talked about it, but it's him or one of his staffers just mimicking Trump's egocentric and coherent style of using all caps and giving his ops stupid nicknames,

the most popular response from the right has been some version of like, oh, grow up, or this is actually cringe. And I'm like, this is, okay, please tell us more. It's kind of genius, like, because to effectively sort of take down Newsom's parody tweet style, you'd have to own that Trump himself is a dumb fuck who tweets like a 4chan AI bot with like questionable grammar skills.

So they're just like, they're trying to dance around it case and point dana perino who used to work in the bush administration she's on fox she gave this sort of take of she's like i mean can we can we read like one of them just so people for anybody who like me had not tried to dana ding dong perino like what's what's one of the because they are doing like i feel like he has a writer who's doing a pretty good job of like approximating the whole Trump. I think any of us could easily do this, but I'm sure. But hey, bless whoever is getting paid to do that.

I don't think he could is what I'm saying. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. You know what I mean? That's where the liberal implosion is coming in because they're like, just so everybody knows he's not really writing this. He has a writer. Yeah. Which is so funny.

It's like, yeah, I mean, okay. Who gives a truth? That's what you need to say. He's, I mean, yes. Also, it reminds me of. at least my liberal threads corner is like, I'm allowed to not like stuff that Gavin did before, but like what he's doing now.

It's like an announcement. And it's like, sure, whatever. Sure. Yeah. I mean, go ahead. I thought you didn't like him. I thought you didn't like when he did this. It's like, are we not past-

America? Why are you going out to dinner? What? Are we not? Do you guys remember when freaking John Kerry lost an entire election for being a flip-fopper? which technically just means changing over time. I mean, how could you not, how could you not looking back?

I'm like, all you had to do in that moment, in my opinion, and we can't go back is just like, yes, I've changed upon receiving new information. Right, right. He did not do that, I don't think. No. So, yes, to give you an example of something that he tweeted August 14th, all caps, Donald is finished. He's no longer, quote, hot. First of the hands, parenthetical, so tiny. and now me, Gavin C. Newsom, have taken away his, quote, step.

Many are saying he can't even do the, quote, big stares on Air Force One anymore. Uses the little baby stairs now. Sad. Tomorrow, he's got this, quote, meeting with Putin in, quote, Russia. Nobody cares. All the television cameras are on me. America's favorite governor. Even low ratings, Laura Ingram, parenthetical edits the tapes, can't stop talking about my beautiful maps.

You're welcome for Liberation Day, America. J. missed the quote deadline. Whoops. And now I run the show. Thank you for your attention to this matter. GCN. That kind of shit. And then he'll post like AI Slop of like a Time magazine cover with him like with a fucking crown

on. The one I had seen was him being preyed over by like Hulk Hogan with Angel Wings. Yeah, Kid Rock and Tucker Carlson. Yeah. Then there's like another one where there's like this you know, legislator in California, this guy Carl DeMayo. He's been like sort of just shading Gavin Newsom.

And Gavin, like, the office has just been clapping back where it's like, he's like, this vulgar behavior from Newsom can't stand. And he put, you know a lot about vulgar behavior, wouldn't you, Carl, with like a screencap of the New York Post that says, potential successor for San Diego's disgraced mayor has alleged history of openly masturbating in bathrooms. And then. Yeah. That's actually pretty good.

No, it's pretty good. Like, this is how they should be interacting with everybody. Yeah. They were trying to hold on to decorum. there for a while yeah yeah yeah over i mean like there is this is where people who kind of take like are witty with words they have the edge on just like the racist slop that comes out of the right where you're just like oh i don't know johnny jerk off they're like oh my god how do you why how do you figure out of that work um so this is dana perino's giving her take and she's just

sort of like this is like embarrassing it's so fucking sad here she is huge trump's a reporter this person. The other thing is, or at the debate, the other thing for me is that for the last week, Gavin Newsom, and why am I giving him advice? You have to stop it with the Twitter thing. I don't know where his wife is. If I were his wife, I would say, you are making a fool of yourself. Stop it. Do not let your staff tweet. And if you're doing it yourself, put the phone away and start over. And if you wrote, he's got a big job as governor of California, but if he wants an even bigger job he has to be a little bit more serious okay i'm sorry what do we say be a little more serious like the president of the united states that he is truly mimicking he's just doing the exact same thing

as the president of the united but she's speaking to dumb people right 100 percent and then so newsome clapped back he like screen capped that or he like quote tweeted that clip and was like dude i've been doing this for a week and they still don't get it and then he then posted Dana Ding Dong Perino, never heard of her until today, is melting down because of me, Gavin C. Newsom. Fox hates that I'm America's most favorite governor, parenthetical ratings king, saving America. While Trump can't even conquer the, quote, big stares on Air Force One anymore. Trump has, quote, lost his step. And Fox is losing it because when I type, America now wins. Thank you for your attention to this matter, GCN. So, yeah, Dana Perino then immediately went on Fox again to Foxxplain that actually I do get what's going on. And let me, does this version, let me just play this clip because she's so defensive and just trying to find a way to sort of like explain how she does get it, but then starts binging up Zorn Mamdani kind of in the process. It's really strange. Here's, here she is on the five.

Jesse Waters tease her up for this. Martha's Vineyard ComFab in a second, Dana. But what was Gavin doing there? He was reading tweets that were written for him by people that he is heavily investing in to try to help him look more like Trump, I guess. I mean, I thought they hated Trump, but they're trying to be more like him, and they have to pay people to do it. The thing is, what I was saying yesterday is that I believe that everybody needs to find

their own way. You don't see Governor Andy Bashir doing things like this. He's running his state. Governor Josh Shapiro running his. his state. Governor Gretchen Whitmer running her state. And they've all of them got big problems. They all have things that they want to accomplish.

They all might want to run in 2028. And they are actually involved in being able to show what they show their work, right? They'll be able to say these are the things that we did. California's got a huge amount of problems. And if you think about Mom Donnie, his authenticity is what

rocketed him to the top. And now you have Cuomo trying to copy him. And it's just cringe and that was my point is that if you're doing this and it's not authentic and you're trying to do somebody else who you say it's Hitler and you think that we don't get the joke oh no we get the joke

it's just not funny you don't get the joke is it funny oh boy so now she's basically doing like the junior high attack of like oh my god like just not even original style like you're just biting his styles because you don't even have your own style you're obsessed with him

oh my you're a biter peeing your pants is the coolest She really should be like, look at my cancles I've got. I've been cultivating my ankle strength and this diaper. I mean, yeah, this is just very funny to see her try to be like, look, if you want to win, you've got to act like these other governors who are doing. Like, I really don't understand. It's like a very stupid way of handling it.

I don't even know if she knew what she was saying. It seems like, yes, it's a terrible but valid. valid sort of response to it's to me it's just still playing dumb though because it's like guys you know we're not copying his style to win we're mocking yeah it's called satire well no and we get it it's just not funny yeah okay that's funny sounds like it's struck and i mean this feels like we're it's sort of we're back in the like weird sort of phase again when they were calling everyone weird and it was they were it was fucking them up so bad they're like yeah we're not fucking weird yeah we're not fucking weird guys This is weird. Yeah, like, these motherfuckers are weird. And they're like, uh-uh. And now truly, I mean, it's like, it's just, it's interesting to see that because they are such thin-skinned bullies themselves that to just bully back in this way completely

sort of is disruptive for them, at least them. Yeah, like in their punditry. But again, unfortunately, that's not dissuading them from abandoning the policies, which is what we are kind of left with in our lived reality. And I think, look, it's fine because I like to laugh at this shit. and like laugh at conservatives. But this, this may be, let's add a few more weapons here if you're trying to fully fight back here

rather than to be like, dude, do you see that? Dude, I got Trump so pissed. I'm going to be the nominee in 28. If there's an election, I don't know. Should I even worry? Gavin Newsom, if you even want to run in 2028, like there's a lot of other shit that maybe needs to get solved very quickly.

Their instincts are so bad, like the mainstream Democratic Party's instincts are so bad. Like that, yeah, that's funny. The last time I've seen them, the other side, the Republican and conservative side short-circuiting like this is the weird thing. And they just like went away with that up from that for no reason. Like they were just like, I don't know.

It seems mean. Let's quit it. Let's cut it out. I hope they go with this. And yeah, I mean, if there was a lesson to learn from things that have succeeded from the Democratic Party in the past six months, I would prefer that they learn the lesson from Zoram Dani and be like, wait, these policies are actually popular, but they don't seem to be doing that.

Right. If you combined those two things, wow. Wow, wow, wow. Yeah, right, exactly. Or at least articulate a bunch of policies that are so antithetical to what's going on that people don't be like, oh, yeah, that's a way better way of doing things

than whatever the fuck this is. But you have so many of the establishment, are just in this sort of state of paralysis, too, because they're like, I don't know, I think it's just easier to be like, Trump's lost it and he's distracting the country rather than really sort of sounding the alarm because this every day, like the existential threat to what we even thought was fucking normalcy is just, it's going up in smoke. Yeah. All right. Should we talk about the Smithsonian real quick? Because this is something that seems to be breaking through, So specifically, Trump literally said that the Smithsonian is too focused on, quote, how bad slavery was.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Like, oh, my God, we get it, you guys. Yeah. It's actually a lot worse than I was even taught in school. Yeah. Yeah.

As I got older, it's been vastly underreported. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But okay, okay. But the museums are like the one place. that it is mentioned and so they've got to get rid of those too on the margins you know so in March he signed

an executive order directing the Board of Regents the Board of Regents to eliminate quote improper divisive or anti-American ideology from their museums and that has had a number of dramatic consequences including the fact that Weird Al has decided he will no longer be donating

his Hawaiian shirt for an upcoming Smithsonian exhibit Was that in the slavery exhibit? I don't think it was. He wanted it, though. He's like, I think it would be great in the African-American. He's like, weird out. Wait, what the fuck?

I've got like a 2C curl, you know, maybe. You never know. That's true. So his recent post was the Smithsonian's out of control where everything discussed is how horrible our country is, how bad slavery was, and how unaccompanied, how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been.

Anyways, people looked into like where, where this is coming from because i can't imagine that trump is spending a lot of time at the smithsonian they did take him on a tour of the uh smithsonian and the person who took them on that tour was like he was not happy anytime anything vaguely negative was mentioned uh he he would get really upset like like again like like you're taking a fucking four-year-old on a you know through a museum uh at one point He paused in front of the exhibit that discussed the role of the Dutch in the slave trade. And the guy was like, oh, is he, is someone, some of us getting through? And then Trump remarked, you know, they love me in the Netherlands.

So he's like, oh, never mind. This is about the Atlantic slave trade. Okay. Yeah. They love me there. So the only name that is mentioned in this executive order that he filed back in March is Lindsay Halligan. Halligan, who is an ex-Miss Colorado contestant from back when Trump owned the Miss Universe pageant. So, like, this was, she was a pageant winner under his pageant CEO ship.

She is a lawyer, and she just met Trump at an event at his golf course, and he hired her right away. It was just like, I like the way you look. You seem smart. because she, at the time, she was volunteering for the Innocence Project, which is shocking. And, but then she said that Trump reminded her of clients from the Innocence Project. Wait, what? Is that a pickup line? Because he's being railroaded so much, you know?

Wow. Wow. Oh, wait. She said, she said Trump reminded her of people from, oh, wow, wow, wow. Okay, master manipulator. I love that. great I like how basically he has his own like this Karen who will just roam DC and find things to be upset about and then report back to Trump right yeah like it's truly like the doge kid who got beat up by teenagers like big balls like big balls it's just like people he knows right determine the fucking entire agenda like of the US government she moved to DC to work with Trump and just before the inaugurates went to the Smithsonian

and that's where she made all of these discoveries that he is now grisly discoveries. How are we a lot to call him discoveries? I mean, to them. For her, I think they were, I think they were truly discoveries. She was horrified that some exhibits

mentioned racism and that others shockingly focused on, quote, another country's history entirely and had nothing to do with America. What the fuck? How do you even, how would you do a, museum that wasn't allowed to talk about other countries we don't need

content i didn't come to a museum for context or historical accuracy this is just i mean you know this is the playbook that the the white nationalists have to run is to try and sanitize any evidence of where where this country like with the origins of this country and the ills that we've still not reckoned with so it has to be just like i don't it's like you know it's it's like when you're like around a dysfunctional couple and like the dude is cheating all the time and they bring it up. They're like, why you got to talk about old shit. Yeah. It's like, right?

Because it's why I am the way I am today. Yeah, it's setting the table for everything we're experiencing now. I mean, you always bring it up old shit. He's treating everything like a beauty pageant. He's like it looks, it's, it's yucky to talk about that. We should only talk about positives. I don't want to see your cellulite America. Right.

Or that we ever had cellulite or that even it again. existed. It never did. Everyone had Barbie legs from the beginning. So gross. Yeah, everything is like being made for that level of like vanity and vanity and like even the like concentration camps are like being named fun like Saturday morning. Deportation Depot is like they all have alliterative names. There's the other one that they're opening up. Alligator Alcatraz. That was the one. There's one in, uh, I think Iowa or Nebraska. They're going to call the corn husker clink. Yeah, we talked about that on trending yesterday.

Trump toilet is what they should all be called. Right. But again, like this is all also, this helps too to put a, like a fun name on it. Then people will be like, oh, it's just the cornhusker clink rather than the sight of untold atrocities being perpetrated against innocent human beings. Right. It's also a too long of a name. All right. Let's take a quick break.

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we're just talking frownzia talking spacebags talking frondia space bag that's what used to call hitting a volcano vaporizer if you had courage you would put the box wine just in a box you wouldn't have that space bag in there you know what do you mean a soggy ass box yeah talk about sustainability I don't think you can recycle the space bag no just that's all that's going to be left they were an interesting people. They worship these space bags. All right. Finally, some

good news. D.C. is actually safe now. Yeah. It has been declared. Even though we are fully into the second week of the feds just absolutely taking over the capital.

But not like even a full week. We're in the second week, but like it hasn't been a full week since he declared, right? Like that was happening at the beginning. of last week. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We're like entering, yes, I mean, but this is what they're calling week to.

This is just record-breaking time that I've got to say. It's all impressive. Yeah, dude, you know, so I guess, you know, once big balls got jumped by some kids and what was the saddest version of like, what people are calling the Reichstag fire, Trump declared all-out Fed War on D.C.

And we've just seen countless clips and images of, you know, just masked goons, looking bored as hell on the streets of D.C. Like, truly. self-masked goons to be so bored with their slouched posture and like stupid punisher masks and people are like dude get the fuck out of my way first of all i've been reading so there's it's fucking up local businesses in dc because people are like bro no one's coming in bars or restaurants because you have fucking goons everywhere and the vibes are completely fucked up because it's a quote unquote war zone with the matter you don't like safety come on people get out there this is not safe bro Trump's like being like the mayor from jaw He's just walked around to be like, get out there. Come on, guys. It's fun.

The water's great. Although I did see a clip of a bunch of goofed up loser mass cops try to violently arrest a guy. And one of the goons thought he was like Ken Shamrock in the WWF for some shit and smashed his own head trying to suplex the guy. Like he was like wrestling and like fell back. And then the cop just hit his own head. And then all the other cops like, dude, are you okay?

And he's like, no. He's like the dumbest shit. And then they're fucking violently arresting some innocent fucking resident. But again, it's nonsense. Anyway, Mr. Donald has solved it. He declared victory on Kirkland Signature Twitter. He said, quote, D.C. gave fake crime numbers in order to create a false illusion of safety. This is a very bad and dangerous thing to do.

And they're under serious investigation for doing so. Until four days ago, Washington, D.C. was the most unsafe, quote, city. I don't know what city. He loves it. quote unsafe city in the United States and perhaps the world now in just a short period of time it is perhaps the safest and getting better every single hour people are flocking to DC again and soon the beautification will begin so anyways I wish that he wasn't the president

because he's such a funny stupid bitch you know like that is that is like movie montage speed that he's that he's claiming this happened like four days you went from the And now people are literally flocking. People are flocking. They're flocking. I also would just want to say one thing. Like, I feel like Kirkland signature is too nice of a term.

Yeah. I know. We actually fuck with Kirkland signature. We're Costco heads in this frat. True value. I don't know. I mean, I don't want to malign any of the store brands to be honest because they do give us an affordable alternative.

But like, anyway, the other lever that Trump does like to The pull as a distraction, aside from anti-black racism, is crime wave, the crime wave lever. Because that is one of the few things that still people have crime in this, like, nebulous part of their brain where even though they have firsthand experience with crime rates dropping, pundits on TV can just be like, crime wave, like a common Michael Scott. And it's somehow their lived experience. And they're like, yeah, yeah, it's a crime wave right now. It's so unsafe.

I've never seen crime where I live at all. But everything else is totally there. It's out there. Yeah. I heard about this one guy who, yeah, big, he got swept up in a crime wave, guys. There's fucking drug fire. There's a drug fire. He's walking his baby drug fire after the mass shooting.

And the crime wave actually put it out because it was like a wave. First of all, my baby was trying to surf the crime wave onto a drug fire. And he bailed so hard into a mass shooting. One more time for everyone on the back. My infant nearly died. in a drug fire after mass shootings. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

Okay. Nearly died. My incident nearly died. In a drug fire. I would love if he didn't even have a kid. They're like, Benny Johnson has no children. He's just straight up fucking lying to you.

Yeah, I would like that better, I think. He sounds like a funny. Yeah. It is boom times for white-collar crime, though. But I will say, this has been true since back in May, but now it's getting even, I mean, it's been true since forever that white color

crime. Private equity, anyone? As defined as crime committed by wealthy financial institutions. But, you know, white color crime of all sorts. It's just like all the investigations, all the really bad ones that the FBI was like looking into have been

replaced with, you know, going out and like sending a bunch of fucking bureaucrats out to just like mill about and be like glorified beat cops. They've been apparently reassigning white collar crime task forces

to like do immigration enforcement now, which they're not pleased with as people who got into the job of investigating white color crime. But, you know, I'm sure it's, I'm sure it's working and doing wonders for the safety.

People are flocking, I hear. People are flocking to white collar crimes. You have to. It's harder than The only thing you have to make sure you don't do it when you do a white-collar crime is then become a reality television star because you can do one or the other, but you can't do both if you don't want to get caught. Look who got out, though. Look who got out, though. You know what I mean? They got out. When the white color criminal who was also a reality star is in the White House, I think it's okay. Yeah, it's true. Any other time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, I'm more like the real housewives. Like, they can't do those.

Or Todd Crisley. You know what I mean? Oh, my God. Yeah, right. I forgot about it. And they got out because, again, the rules are, if you're white and do white-collar crime, then you have a shot of getting a pardon. Isn't that what the white and white-collar crime stands for? I feel it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I put the white in white-collar crime. Trump definitely thinks that.

Oh, my God. Yeah. Anyways, I mean, it is truly the crime that is causing, that, you know, is causing a lot of the problems that we're talking about. Right. And, of course, it is the one that is must be avoided and ignored. what's like been a perpetrator in terms of as you guys try to find out who murdered your bank accounts what's a name name who's a suspect that you've identified just generally um no i think ronald regan i think that that's uh you can really a lot comes back to that but it goes you know

i think it it starts at the beginning of of this american experience which is that it's all entirely based around an economy that is not really designed to make everybody happy and free. But specifically, when we're talking about millennials and we're talking about the last 100 years, we are talking about what we spoke of before, which is like the differences that millennials are experiencing based on policy decisions that started in the 80s. But, you know, this goes back to like things that were built up around the First World Wars, which is like, we need to buy stuff to make this economy work. and everybody is in the business of buying or selling stuff for us to buy or sell.

Right. And so everything is pushing us into that and simultaneously making it impossible for us to make a living at it. Because like all the things we said before, people aren't really running small businesses anymore. So it's just like, I mean, I think really what we're looking at is just how do we imagine a different way of living outside of this economy. that we've like been brought up to believe is like truly and all the only option yeah and also just not getting the information that like we've learned so much about just like the we were we've been shocked by so many things that we've learned in researching this podcast like we interviewed this woman elana botea who worked at capital one for years and then she became a journalist and she said something rachel heard on a zoom that was like there was no household consumer debt before 1980s before 1983 and we were So the credit cards and the banks are obviously like a huge part of us. Right? Like you just imagine that this is something that always existed.

And in reality, it's not, it's not that old. It's, it's our age. And so if it's our age, why does it have to be like the rule of the land? Why can't we like think of something else? Because we're eating too much goddamn avocado toast. Yeah, that's why. That's right. And not buying wedding rings.

When was avocado toast invented? I'm just saying, like, 1984. 1984. 1984. Yeah. I do like, they're mad at us for eating avocado toast, but also mad at us for not buying diamond wedding rings, which are way more expensive and financially responsible decisions. I think in weddings, like, they're mad about it?

Everything about, like, the modern wedding experience that we're told is like the thing that we're supposed to do. I mean, it is one of the reasons why I got into debt when I looked back on it because I went to so many bachelor's parties. I bought so many bridesmaid's dresses. I bought so many gifts for people to go to their weddings. Like, that is something I was led to believe was what I needed to do in order to stay in the group socially, right? But in reality, it was just, like, draining all of my big bank account. And meanwhile, like, the people who are making money are doing it investing in debt, right?

Investing in pretend money. But that doesn't, that doesn't transfer down to those of us who are actually being, like you're saying, lended in a predatory manner. And then it becomes something that you can never get. out of. Yeah. Yeah. But that is like just one piece of the bigger picture, which I think is that just like we are watching the transfer of wealth from the middle class to whatever is left. It's the middle and lower class working class to, you know, a few people. Basically five people. Yeah. Yeah. Claudia Scheinbaum, the, you know, President of Mexico talks about, she just openly

says like neoliberalism is a mechanism for redistributing wealth from the middle class upward like that's that's all it is and just like that's an openly agreed to like definition of it in other countries but down there but here in california that's the way we do business it's the way we do business you got to get that $20 air one air one smoothie yes i i did want to talk about this uh just a little bit about me anytime i read a New Yorker article. I have to talk about it on the podcast because I'm so proud about it. But I do think that that tie it. I read it every week. I get to them all every week, actually. I think it ties into the conversation we're having because there's a

new article about the ultra wealthy's trend of trying to live forever and like just like, cure everything. And it's just mostly boomer age people. Like they talk to this one. woman who works in the industry and she's like entertainment industry? No, no. The industry of like... Live forever. Live forever. The longevity industry. They interview one woman who like

works in this longevity industry of like, you know, just these people are like tested every week. Like they're like, okay, inhale into this bag, give us your poop. Like we need to like make sure that you are just like perfectly monitored. And she was saying that these are all people who spent

their health getting rich. So like for the first half of their life they were just like working around the clock trying to get rich and now they're rich and they're trying to like get their health back through these means because they're like scared of death and they don't want to admit that they fucked up but what all right so two of the details that jumped out to me one is the richest people already live 12 years longer than the poorest in this country like that just in addition to being proof that our world is a disaster or that capitalism's already broken. Like, it's just wild that these people who are driving this entire industry

are already, like, maxed out, which is what they find, like, afterwards there's, like, yeah, it turns out, like, all these things that people are doing can help somebody if they were not already doing these things, but they are. So, like, it doesn't help them. It's just this, like, soulless end-of-life denial of death, like, addiction to the idea of, like self and like perpetuating yourself is essentially like a religion it's like what these people have instead of religion at this point yeah and it kind of boils down like what the problem is just generally right it's like i'm so afraid like you can't take your money with you right and you're

like so afraid of like dying i'm never going to die exactly so if i don't die then i you know never have to worry about it and then i don't have to question like what the fuck was all this for and what was I doing with, like, hoarding my wealth to make sure that, like, I'm healthy. Like, again, it, like, goes back to not giving a shit about the collective and being, like, I need to make sure that, like, I'm okay. Right.

Yeah. It crystallizes the irony we've been talking about, which is that, like, everybody's dollar is made on burning this planet up more and more and more. And so what's worse than the lack of survival of planet Earth, like, the most miraculous, you know, thing we've ever, like, conceived of this. like wanted a

well I'm just going to build a bomb shelter to survive right exactly it's like don't look up it's like exactly like don't look up yeah you know yeah did you guys see Mountainhead the movie by the guy who we haven't succession yeah the succession guy

it's it's worth watch Steve Carell's character is like the is just exactly this guy like he knows he finds out that he has a like terminal diagnosis and he keeps just being like well you're not very smart are you to his doctor's like Just being like, I am, I have a genius level IQ, actually, and I'm going to beat this thing.

Oh, my God. Yeah, of course. That's how you do it. It is kind of funny that they, the two things that everybody says are like inevitabilities of the human condition are death and taxes. And like, that's all these people spend their entire lives just trying to avoid. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

They just like, not for these guys. Oh, yeah. They heard that when they were kids. We're like, yeah, right. Motherfucker. We'll show you. my life's purpose is to prove this wrong. And in the meantime, lose it all.

The one good idea I will say, and this is a little investment tip, one of the technologies they're looking at that I guarantee these very rich people are going to spend a lot of money on is a smart toilet that basically like reads your shit for like signs of disease and like they're like really investing hard in this. I feel like, I feel like that is inevitably that's the next aura ring. Which is funny, though, too, because that would help if everyone had access to that. If everyone had access to early on, for sure.

But no, it's going to be like this thing. They parade around Silicon Valley. And it's probably going to start off as like some dude underneath the house, like just running like fucking tests on it. The technology isn't there yet. A mechanical turd, if you will. Sure. Hey.

Like printers in the 90s, like they're going to be just like a bigillion dollars. and then one day maybe absolutely yeah but again it's the same thing like to your point if everybody had access to these things

yeah that would be fabulous yeah that helps all healthcare costs come down to make them make them an entity that you need to spend like you know

a billion dollars on it's like yeah like flying cars are a thing they're just a thing for like the ultra ultra wealthy you know

essentially it's just like helicopters and private jets yeah and then you know we like all the sci-fi shit from the future exists. Like, it just exists for only the ultra wealthy.

Yeah. Yeah. Like living long. Yeah. Which I think is pretty cool. Yeah, exactly. Eternal life. And I don't know.

I mean, I think for us, that's like, should be a motivator to get our shit together so we can be one of these people. Thank you. Totally. And also think on your grind set. When someone starts talking about progressive tax systems, be like, I'll hold the fuck up because when I'm one of these billies, okay? I don't want to deal with that.

So I'm going to. And that's my life plan. Yeah. We're just going to keep walking around eating dumplings from Chinatown and hoping for the best. There you go. That's our fun. I think that sounds like a good plan. Sound.

Also, like, I have invested a lot of time and looking, walking around looking for a bag of money. If anybody. Always like it for that. Or like loose drugs that fell off a truck. Yeah. Yeah. In a fire. In a fire after a mass.

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