The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 399 (Best of 9/15/25-9/19/25)

Episode Date: September 21, 2025

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It's a story. It's about the scariest night of my life. This is Wisecrack, available now. Listen to Wisecrack 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 god i'm hosting today blake let me do this not a good working I never get to fucking do this I don't care because I want to introduce our guest today he is a fantastic gentleman

a scholar, a podcaster. You may have heard of his wildly fantastic podcast, The Dollop. Maybe you've seen him do stand-up. Maybe you heard him on other shows, like this one, maybe once or twice, or will you accept this rose a bunch of times? Or just fucking everywhere, because the man's funny, okay? And he likes a bit of an accent as well. Please welcome to the microphone.

Mr. Gareth Redo! Thank you. Thank you. Doing a lot of podcasts is not a barometer for being funny. I appreciate it. Oh, yeah. Ten years ago, maybe. Yeah, my mom was like, well, you do so many podcasts, you must be funny.

And I'm like, right? Used to be. Yeah. That used to be the way. I have so many podcasts now that people are like, are you, why? What's going on? You okay? Yeah.

It is a problem. I agree, though. People don't know. I might be doing a couple more shows, too, in the coming future. And I don't want people to be like, are you okay? And then I get to say, well, my house fucking burned down. So no. Yeah, that's the, my house.

house burned down when I was in high school. And what an excuse for everything. It was just for four or five years, I'd be like, sorry, did your house burn down? Because that's what I dealt with. Your house burned down in high school? Yeah. Oh, shit. How?

Not fully, but mostly. Sorry, I was playing with firecrackers on the side of the house and I burned the door. It was Wisconsin. It was how you got a new house. I had you both beat. My dad got sick in high school. So I was just like, oh, yeah, sorry, I have a sick dad. I obviously, he ended up living, but barely.

So he, I remember telling someone that, what kind of show is this? And she goes, oh, yeah, well, my house burnt down. And I'm like, that's not the fucking game we're playing here. Yeah. Oh, I, I will say on behalf of Miles and I, since your dad pulled through, I do think we win. I have a seat. Well, what's a dead house versus a barely living? He lives.

What's the currency exchange? How was his rebound? Was he okay, okay? I would say it wasn't I mean he's fine There's such a two ways I could take this Or I could lie Aren't there

You want to do the on air version Blake We're recording my guy My dad's fine I'm gonna co-host the podcast with him coming up It's called Failing Sideways With the Wetzlers And it's being Larry Yeah no he's doing great

He's alive And you're right I'm sorry to hear about your home Miles wins Yeah I win Thank you Any other questions

Did it think so I also had Osgood Schlaughters when I was 14 for grumpy knees yeah yeah um gareth it's great to have you man uh always good to see you always good to have a bit of a lot with you as well a giggle yeah yeah well wait let me say i've got my new 18th podcast called next we have which oh everyone must go listen to what's that about what is it about it's about an hour no it's uh it's basically uh it's like it's like a lot the games with people. We do weird interviews.

It's like three to four segments a show that are just kind of hodge, podge, popery, random, but it keeps the attention span. I mean, it's like scrolling, but on a podcast. Nice. Wow. When's it's out? It's out?

Blake, so I don't know. It's out, Blame. I'm just going through here. I don't see any of our names here. I don't know. It's new. It's new. There's not a lot of press.

This is I'm breaking. When does it come out? What days? Uh, Fridays. Great. Uh, nice try. Nice try. No, you thought I was trying to trick you? He almost got me.

Rachel Wilson? She went to my high school. Yeah, Rachel Wilson. And Arden. Wow, Bobby Lee, fantastic four milk. Brooks Wheeling. Okay, you got friggin' Dave Anthony, Scott Ackerman, Brennan Lee Mulligan for you D20 dropout heads out there.

Uh, wow. Oh, Ray. Bobby Lee and I touch penis also? Repeatedly. Who? Yeah. Raco, great. Yeah, man.

Dropout's got some fucking, they got some time. Dropouts to the spot. They got it. I mean, I'm like, God. I heard you guys are making money over there, huh? I know.

It's always a shame where so I remember like, you know, Barry Katz, like the manager sounds like he's on nitrous. Yeah, um, was fired by every comedian who's ever. Yeah, he's repped every comedian.

Yeah. I remember literally 20 years ago, I was doing this like prank show in New York and he, He represented someone and we were in the back of the car and he was like, you have to start a podcast. And I was just like, what? And he was like, you got it?

And I was like, all right, man. And then it was like 10 years later. I was like, damn, he was so right. I just like, the doubt's been around for a while. But I was like, wow, he really. Yeah. He did see that one. That spooky guy was on to something.

Spooky guy. Oh, man. He looks spooky. I'm just looking at his pictures. He looks like, he looks like the most fashionable white walker. he's a haunting that's a nice compliment that is yeah

that's a great way does that make sense like if I say that like he looks like a white walker with his shit together like he could get a job like a VP

is it this guy right here he looks like a white lives matter Walker yeah yeah no he is he's yeah he's represented everyone well

except for me it's probably I'm not doing not me either probably I'm not doing so hot he was the guy who made Dane Cook large really did he invent a superfinger too no no no no no that's all that was thomas edison

created that dude remember that did you ever do the super finger earnestly no dude i tried to and that's what burnt my house down is the force yeah you can't you're not supposed to do it yeah yeah you can only do it on the night day and has a show otherwise you do get a curse yeah and then insurance will not cover and then you date someone of a questionable age uh okay so sorry the america i like you can Groom at 15 and banged at 18. That's allowed. Thank you, everybody. Jesus Christ, we're back, aren't we? What is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are?

All right. This is revealing about who I am in multiple ways, which is that I remembered. I had a memory of tweeting something about how the xenomorph is really just a huge wasp that can't stop drooling. But then... Yeah, like, it drools a lot. A lot. In a way that any other thing that drools that much,

you'd be like, that thing is stupid. It's sick. All right, so here's the train of thought that I think actually tells everyone literally everything you might conceivably want to know about me, which is I have a memory of this. Because I basically was like, someone else made a sort of similar joke

on some social media, and I was like, I already did that. And then I looked for it, and I couldn't find it. So that was my search history, is Andrew T, Zeno Mor, wasp. I couldn't find it. I would just be a good A.K.A. for you. Did I just Xenomorph wasp? Did I just

think this? Yeah, yeah. And so I don't know. I genuinely don't know. It seems like it's not there, but I also deleted most of my tweets at some points. Maybe it was in the deleted batch of tweets. You're like, ooh, this one's going to get me in trouble with the Zenomorphs come with the Geiger estate. All of those

movies have some very serious character saying a nearly completely perfect organism. I have to tell you it's only an okay organism. You can get, you can get rid of that second mouth.

Yeah, second mouth, the drool. Yeah, yeah. It's fucking, it can't reproduce unless a fucking, like, certain number of humanoids look at its eggs. Yeah, like stare at its eggs with their mouth open.

Like, what kind of plan is that? What kind of plan is that? for propagating your sushi. Like, it doesn't, if it wanted to bring people in, if that was its strategy, right? Like, think about, like, a flower that wants to reproduce. So it's brightly colored. It's like, it looks fucking so hot to bumblebees.

Like, bumblebees are like, oh, yeah, I want to fuck that thing. Or, like, you know, they, or it looks delicious to other thing. Well, there is one that looks like something that I forget which insect it is, but the insect tries to fuck it. Yeah. All right, well, that's fine. But anyways, like, this one is on a scary-ass planet that, you know, like, just not, does not look cool.

It's missed and eerie blue lights, and it looks like a fucking, like, de-merifying. Yeah, you see that. You're like, hell no. Yeah. Why would you look at that? Yeah. Like, they really need some, they need to up their game in terms of. Even if, yeah.

It's just that so many things have to go perfectly for one baby to be born. And that, I think, is not such a good plan. That perfect. Evolutionarily speaking. And also when it runs, it's like not that. Yeah. So when it pops out of that motherfucker's stomach, spoiler alert. For people who've managed to miss that.

I saw Senator Cassidy's testimony. And it runs out. It doesn't run that. Like, it's like just like, it just like kind of scamperes out. Like, in a way that's, you know. It kind of, well, some of these are answered in Alien Earth, Jack, then the hit series on FX. Oh, is it?

Okay. They show more of the Xenomorph in between, which is why this came up for me. Someone was talking about Alien Earth, and I was like, hold up. I already made this sick-ass joke. And I just think I'm suing. I maybe didn't make this, the sick-ass joke is what I'm saying.

It's a perfect, perfectly scary thing. Unfortunately, that doesn't make it perfect for reproduction and survival. Yeah. They're like, oh, it's gorgeous. Nature's the pinnacle of nature's achievement. It's like, what the fuck are you talking about? Yeah, because there is a thing. Also, like, the conceit is that everybody wants to use it as a weapon.

And, like, it's just, yeah, that would be the worst weapon. It's such an insane weapon. It's going to turn on you so fast. You haven't heard of just a better gun. If you really want to have a really... You guys have some pretty spooky guns in here, man. This thing's got two mouths. Yeah.

It's not even the best gun in the, like, spaceship area. What did it even look like? Would it be like the character... You know, in Gooney's data has the vest where, like, a punching, like a boxing glove pops out of? Springloaded. Would that be, like, just have a xenomorph that, like, pops out of a container? Like, how are you going to weaponize that? You open your vest and then a xenomorph pops out of your chest and like, yeah, every time they've tried to depict that on screen as the xenomorph being a quote unquote perfect weapon, all it does is kill some, quite a lot of the people in the area.

Yeah. It doesn't do anything that a fucking like cruise missile couldn't do a billion times more efficiently. If you have the technology for interplanetary travel, I'd imagine your weapons might be better than just unleashing it. drooly monster. I'm so sorry, but, like, yeah, but just, like, putting a big bug in the house cannot be the best way to do this. Yeah, it's like the equivalent of, like,

putting some bees under someone's door and then, like, walking away, giggling to yourself. And then they're like, I was on vacation. I came home. There was, like, three dead bees in my living room. Or, like, the bees killed a bunch of stuff. Right. Why would you do that, man?

That's such an insane way to kill people. Man, if everybody stays inside this house, who we want to stay inside this house, we're in business. There's just too many variables. Too many variables. I don't like it. I don't like it. It's a dumb idea. On the house?

Yeah, bad idea. Yeah. Do you ever want to use that spaceship for your own? No, oh, you just want to kill some of the people in it real scarily? Okay. I feel like still at the ancient, like, using an asp as a weapon. Yeah. A version of, like, weapons were the unleashed.

The Asp on Cleopatra. Oh, I comfort and bobbed your city with scorpions. Yeah, yeah. Like, what do you? I just, I, listen, I get that it's a monster. I just think the underlying research imperative seems shaky at best. Yeah. Monster can't even close its fucking mouth.

What is something you think is underrated? Um, okay. This is something that when I used to live in the Bay and I had rich ass friends, friends who were in tech and they shout out to the rich friends rich friends they don't talk to me anymore um but they would really soon

start making phone calls again once they get the met of glasses yeah that's true point to their temple and polyvie and they calling CVS no CVS your extra care savings no no polyvie

um they like would outsource, like, all of their chores. And I'm like, I feel like chores are underrated, like cleaning, like get it, like, laundry, dishes, cleaning. Like, you don't want to be overwhelmed by it. But if you haven't, like, changed your child's diaper ever, then, like, I feel like you're not living in the same plane of existence as me.

Do you know what I mean? Oh, if you don't change your mom a bear. Okay. Yeah. Daddy, daddy bear doesn't get his paws dirty with dut. Yeah, sorry. Can I'm out there bringing the honey home. No can do.

I don't know what your audience is, but the bears are tuning in, okay? They're excited. That is so funny. Yeah, I mean, like, whenever I hear people, like, earnestly be like, oh, I don't change diapers. I'm like, you're a fucked up person. It's kind of, like, so, see. We talked about this with, like, J.D. Vance, right? Didn't we, didn't he have something about, like, not interacting with his kid in, like, a very humane way?

Yeah, yeah, I forget. It's one of the many famous Vance quotes. or he's like, I think he's like, he's like, my wife like likes to like coddle them. I just kind of yell at him. And you're like, oh, it's the mama, dad, a bear, you know, I am a mean to them and don't really look at them. I don't want to deal with that shit. And then my wife cleans up my mess.

He's like, I learned it from succession. That's how I learned. That's the parenting book I read. Yep. Yeah. It's like, that's a show. That's a show. It's a, it's a parenting tone.

actually. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And just generally, I do think boredom, downtime. Like, I listen to podcasts a lot for a fucking living sometimes. Yikes. And, but just like carving out time to do boring tasks, like clean up without anything, without like anything going on, you know? Yeah. It's the mind mindfulness as true as a chore wheel. What's your favorite chore? What's your favorite Sure. I really like doing laundry. Like, I like, I like the folding and putting away of laundry because it feels like a fresh start. I also get to look at things that I have and be grateful for them. And like, you know what I mean? I'm like, oh, like, this is a cute. Yeah. And I also like don't like, I don't like, I don't like things too much where I have to wash my hands a lot because my hands get like dry really quickly. So like dishes I don't like or like cleaning the toilet and like washing. And like wash. washing my hands, you know, like, I just don't like weird, wet situations. You don't like washing your hands after using the toilet? Listen, I think that you don't need to use shampoo and you don't need to wash your hands.

Okay, you are- And deodorant can be made out of bark. Okay, well, when the Democrats take over, you'd be a great pick for Secretary of Defense. Thank you so much. Yeah. This whole thing was, excuse me, germ theory? He never washed his hands after he pooped because it, like, made him stronger. Somehow. I was just reading back to like the chore thing.

He's texting a signal chat with shit hands. Oh, yeah. He's like, hey, get my cell phone, man. Bring my phone over here. You're like, oh, dude. There's some. He's like, how come the charging ports all clogged up with stuff? He's like, I don't know. That's why I got the magnetic charger because that hole's all like crust, you know. I was reading a thing that like it was a poll of parents talking about allowances and like how kids like the financial awareness of children. And of like these 2,000 parents that they had pulled, they were saying their like average allowance is around 120 bucks a month. And I was like, damn. Inflation. I'm like, how come wages

actually haven't gone up in, like, in a way with, everyone's is not fixed up wages. Really everything's gone up. I got five bucks a week. And if I was lucky. We didn't. Because my parents, were like, this is your home. But also, like, they didn't ask us to do too many things. Like, they did, obviously, like, the majority of stuff, but they'd ask us to help, like, a little bit here and there. They wanted us to be kids, basically. Yeah, yeah.

And so, but they were also like, we're not going to pay you. Like, you live here. Like, what you're talking about? It was, yeah, like, I was, the thing was like, they would pay me to pick up dog poop. And, like, they had, like, a per bag thing. I was breaking down pieces of shit and bagging it up individually. That is so funny. my fucking allowance.

And my mom was like, poop trap house, like just cutting up. Bagging up, dude, but naked, butt naked, bagging it up.

Black balloon meant something totally different for you. That's right. Yeah. Trying to put poop into a balloon.

It's not, I wouldn't recommend it. You just need a thing that opens it up. I do it all the time. You do it now too? Your wife pays you. You get a PVC pipe thing

that's big enough. Just wrap the end of it right there. then perfect funnel. You're going to get accused of fraud and your parents are going to require back pay on this. I'm sorry. They've already demanded it. They've already demanded it. I have to pay.

What is something you think is overrated? Bravo. I'm going to get assassinated for saying this. You're from New Jersey, Mary. Be careful. The manzoes might hear you. Blood is thicker than water. Yay, there you go.

So, you know, I, I've watched, I've watched housewives. I've, I've enjoyed some housewives. Oh, my God. She said that with tears in her eyes, you guys. I just want to be clear. I can't help but notice that we are low-key living during fascism. I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but. Many have not, so.

Yeah, you're saying this. So sometimes when I watch TV and the people on it are just, like, mentally ill, drug-addicted, white-collar criminals. I'm like. Sometimes when I watch and that's happening. Maybe we could do a little something more with this platform, maybe. I think it's just this is our, I think, bread and circuses phase of the fall of the empire where, like, our circuses. are like just the obscenely just off the rails reality TV that's just on where people like, this is a normal person on this show?

This person has anger issues and a drinking problem. I feel like for a while, I've been being more of a bitch about like, you guys need to cast this kind of person. You guys need to cast this kind of person. And I think people don't understand that I know that Noam Chomsky can't go on Bravo. I'm not suggesting that. But a reunion episode? Could be sick.

Give Kathy Griffin another show. Have like a voice for someone who's like an honest, bitchy person. I think they should do that instead of all drunk white collar criminals awaiting trial. The only people to identify with are mentally ill drug addicted boy. You know, fucking Galane Maxwell is in the prison with Jen. Shaw. Yes. They're in that same prison. It's her and Theranos homegirl. Elizabeth, what's her name? Elizabeth Holmes. Holmes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All of whom would make sense on

Bravo. Yeah, for real. Exactly. Yeah, even Galane Maxwell. And they would just be like, oh, look, we have socialite Galane Maxwell. You're like, that's how you're going to describe her? That could have entirely been happening in the background of a Real Housewives. Like, she could have been a character on Real Housewives, and they just would have yada yada past like, yeah. Where's I'm throwing a party for Jeffrey. In the lower third, Galane, socialite.

Friend of financier. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. Oh, Jeffrey, her boyfriend, he's so wealthy. Everyone just, they want to know his secret. They have such a weird on again, off again, relationship. The tension is so thick. He cheats on her all the time.

I've heard. I've heard. And that's just happening in the background. So I don't mind if they keep the shows like that, but I think they should add like a Kathy Griffin show. or, I mean, those, the I've had it ladies, I believe they originated from Bravo. Wait, who are the I've had it, ladies? Oh, you know them.

You just don't know that that's their name. It's those two blonde ladies who are like leftists and they look like Republicans. Oh, yes. Yes, and they love Hassan Piker. Jennifer Welch and Angie Pumps Sullivan. Yes, pumps. What a great nickname They're killing it right now

Aren't they? I feel like that show They're doing fucking numbers I feel like that Come on Andy Like this is Who you need to be going after They originated it on Bravo

They're telling it like it is Why not Give me one good reason why not I guess now it's like They have more the power Right It's like Why would they want

a cable show where they're probably like making less than what they would make on YouTube or Patreon or whatever they're using. Yeah, exactly. That's fair. It's interesting to be in this time now where like going independent in a few different like industries actually is the more lucrative thing where it used to be like,

you got to get on a, you got to get on TV, you're got to do this. You're like, I'm making money from substack actually right now. And that's working great for me. They're like, but didn't you? Yeah, I used to work at the Washington Post, but I left because it sucks. Don't you want to make less money and not be able to say the truth?

Yeah. Exactly. Have your articles whittled down to nothing by a roomful of editors who are here to just absolutely obfuscate? Yeah, yeah. Also, mentally ill-drug addicted white-collar criminals is, like, who does that not describe in the current power structure? I feel like every leader in the country, everyone is just either that. or aspiring to that at this point. Yes, of course.

If you get that into a good acronym, you might have a good show going there. Just covering it all. Middle C.C. Yeah. Yeah. Well, we'll try it. Yeah.

It was cool. I mean, it wasn't bad. I wouldn't say it was a good. Yeah. Might. Fuck. This is going to take up the whole episode. It'll take a second.

Yeah. Let's not waste Mary's time trying to workshop this one. Yeah. Stop wasting my time. Yeah. She keeps looking at her watch. Winddack? Winddack.

Yeah. That's good. That's catchy. Yeah. All right. Good. We're back. We're back.

Except it doesn't. It's actually completely out of it because the white is now at the beginning in front of ill. White ill, mentally drug-indated collar criminals. You can't just move the words around. It turns out. out. And you as a writer understand that, Mary. Of course. Yes. This is where we need help. What's it like writing for the New Yorker? Pretty cool. It's such a dream. That's so cool. So prestigious and awesome. Yeah. What the fuck. You probably understand all the comics and

shit too, right? Absolutely. I understand all of them and I laugh out loud. Over coffee. Actually, over wine with like your fellow intellectual elites. Yeah. At the salon, if you will. My children will just walk up to me with a copy of the New Yorker and make me explain one of the comics to them. And I'll always do it even if I don't fully understand what they were going for. Humiliating, explaining a comic to a child that you don't even understand.

I would love to see that bit of improv. The dog is clearly represents, what was it in his mouth, democracy? This dog's just hard. I'm hungry, man. It's like, give a dog a bone. I think he's what they're trying to say, kids. I like to finish end conversations with my kids by saying, am I right, brother, up top? And then make them give me a high five. Yeah.

And they don't love it. And they always say you're high-fiving too hard. Let's take a quick break, and we'll be right back. Ah, come on. Why is this taking so long? This thing is ancient. Still using yesterday's tech, upgrade to the ThinkPad X-1 Carbon, ultra-light, ultra-powerful, and built for serious productivity with Intel Core Ultra processors, blazing speed, and AI-powered performance.

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I'm Jorge Ramos And I'm Paola Ramos Together we're launching The Moment A new podcast about what it means to live through a time As uncertain as this one We sit down with politicians I would be the first immigrant mayor in generations But 40% of New Yorkers were born outside of this country

Artists and activists I mean do you ever feel demoralized I might personally lose hope This individual might lose the faith But there's an institution that doesn't lose faith. And that's what I believe in. To bring you depth and analysis from a unique Latino perspective. There's not a single day that Paola and I don't call or text each other,

sharing news and thoughts about what's happening in the country. This new podcast will be a way to make that ongoing intergenerational conversation public. Listen to The Moment with Jorge Ramos and Paola Ramos as part of the MyCultura podcast network on the IHeartRadio app. Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. My name is Ed. Everyone say, hello, Ed. I'm from a very rural background myself.

My dad is a farmer, and my mom is a cousin. So, like, it's not like... What do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? I know it sounds like the start of a bad joke, but that really was my reality nine years ago. I just normally do straight stand-up, but this is a bit different. On stage stood a comedian with a story that no one expected to hear. Here.

Well, 22nd of July 2015, a 23-year-old man had killed his family. And then he came to my house. So what do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? A new podcast called Wisecrack, where stand-up comedy and murder takes center stage. Available now. Listen to Wisecrack on the IHeart Radio app. Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is a tape-recorded statement.

The person being interviewed is Krista Gail Pike. This is in regards to the death of Colleen Slimmer. She started going off on me, and I hit her. I just hit her and hit her and hit her and hit her. On a cold January day in 1995, 18-year-old Krista Pike killed 19-year-old Colleen Slimmer in the woods of Knoxville, Tennessee. Since her conviction,

Krista has been sitting on death row. The state has asked for an execution date for Krista. We let people languish in prison for decades, raising questions about who we consider fundamentally unrestorable. How does someone prove that they deserve to live? We are starting the recording now. Please state your first and last name. Krista Pike.

Listen to Unrestorable Seasons, Season 2, Proof of Life, on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. So there's a new ad campaign, hitting the friggin' airwaves from a group called Make America Fentanyl free. And apparently this comes from a... Math? Yeah, math. Math. Quick. It's not, it's math, I believe, too, is how you say that. Not free. Yeah, make America fentanyl free. Apparently after the 2024 election, Trump had an idea. He's like, I would have do something about fentanyl. And because the only language he knows is sensational television, it was going to come in the form of these scare ads that are really more confusing. Like, when I see them, I'm like, wait, what is fentanyl do this?

feel like you're on fentanyl when you watch it? No, because then I would have been nodding off and dissociating probably as more than just like the abject confusion I was experiencing while being very coherent. By the way, I mean, I know you're pushing back. I'm not a drug guy. I wouldn't know what you guys are talking about him. The fentanyl is great. By the way.

Yeah, yeah. I mean, they had them in the patches back then, the lollipops. The lollipops, man. I had a classmate in high school who was like would raid his parents like drug cabinet and that was my entry point into trying every prescription drug under the sun. And that was like that was, it's 2002 and I had my first fentanyl lollipop. Oh. Yeah.

Was a bad AP European history lecture. America's awesome in so many ways. Yeah, yeah. We really are just like it's a dreamland. We have loose death chemicals in every bathroom. Yeah. Like it's, it's just, it's shocking we have buildings. I know.

It's like shocking. Yeah, truly. You can get this shit literally anywhere. But anyway, these ads have now hit the airwaves in markets like West Virginia, D.C. and Philadelphia. And let's just check one of these out. This first one is called, there's not even a title. Like, they're all just called Make America Fentanyl-Free.com. No need for a title.

This one, I believe, is one where a guy becomes some kind of spooky blue-skinned ghost because fentanyl. I got hooked on fentanyl. No, it's a white guy. Yeah. In the mirror. Whoa. First, my teeth started to rot. God, he looks like shit.

My skin turned blue. Okay. Your skin turns blue when you do fentanyl? Yeah, that's why the side effects are smurf. Oh, yeah, you don't want to get smirved. Yeah. He should have bought his vent from Gargamo. I started to age very rapidly.

I lost my hair. It looks like Trump. Every friend. And I will. only be remembered as that drug use. Oh, my God. Take fentanyl. Because if you do, you'll be dead.

Like me. Oh, my God. Oh, my fucking God. He just activated ghost fucking protocols on our asses right there. He said, you'll be dead. Like me. And then he disappeared. Yeah.

Because he's dead. That's, yes, he's like him. So many more questions. Like, I searched fentanyl hair loss and nothing came up. It was more like about how drug abuse can impact your hair on some level. Like it can be found, but not a thing where it's like, here are the things that fentanyl does. Your hair comes out. You have blue skin.

I've only read that in like in relation to like an overdose or something. But this one wants you to think like your hair going to fall out. Your teeth are and they fucking caramels and then your skin blue and you die. It's very funny that in this day and age are the reason to not do things is what it externally does to you internally. Like, none of that is about Oregon failure

or lifespan shortening or any actual thing that would ruin. I mean, the guy died, obviously, we never really had time to get into that.

But it's just teeth, skin, hair, friends. Right. And the friends probably stop because they're like, we can't get late with Barry.

Yeah, do you want to look like a three? Yeah. I didn't think so. I became a three. Yeah, I became a three. A blue three. Make America three free.

Yes. Yes. We want to be three of the threes. Three of them. Great show. Okay. I think they heard you on that point about what it does to you because here's another one. They had a one minute long out.

I can't, I couldn't bear to get through the whole thing. I mean, I did watch it, but I won't subject to you to the full minute. But Josh Blue. Here's the last 20 seconds where they show the last, like, they show three. three people. The first one, I think, was a girl who smoked weed at a club. She's done for her. Yeah. No, she's, they're all dead. The thing about these commercials, because he, his Trump's whole thing was he wanted ghosts. He wanted basically the voices of the dead, like some fucking weird, you know, uh, what's that Charles Dickens thing, uh, Christmas

Carol type shit to happen where it's like, you know, there's something about when a ghost talks to you, that it really, you know, Marley was on fentanyl. and Marley Marley and Marley He lost Jacob Jacob wouldn't hang out with him Because he was ugly I did

I do give it up to Tiny Tim though He had that He had that injury And he didn't touch the fentanyl Despite having a little crutch His skin was a little bluer And his hair fell out a little more He might look normal

Correct I think that would offset The penalties of his body Might help a little bit Yeah Here's the last 20 seconds of the one where I think This guy's trying to get

a little bit more into the health rather than you just will look like shit approach. I was immediately addicted to fentanyl. Exactly like the drug dealers wanted. My skin turned blue. I aged rapidly. My or... Okay, maybe not.

No, he said my or is painfully deteriorated, but again, they're leading by skewery. My blueing is like, okay. I mean, bluing is for doing laundry with your whites. Yeah. If your whites are looking dingy,

head bluing to your laundry. I turned blue. Yeah. I shouldn't have, I shouldn't have gone on, I shouldn't have gone on that tour of that chocolate factory and ate that candy. I'm just going to say, it's so wanka. Yeah,

this is the most wanka-coated shit. Okay, one more time from the top. I aged rapidly. Uh-huh. My organs painfully deteriorated. Then I died. Alone.

Fitinocules. Damn. Join President Trump's fight to end the fentanyl crisis. Wow. It's a lot. Also, why does it have to be Trump? Like, can't you just be like, we're trying to stop this? It's kind of stop it.

He's the only one. It's because his idea. And I think, again, he's obsessed with cable news and commercials. Well, you said the other day, 340 million Americans died from like. Oh, yeah, yeah, last year. Last year. No, 300. Three hundred.

We're the lucky 40 million. We are the remaining 40 million. We are the remaining 40 million. We are the remaining 40 million. Oh, my tooth. Oh, my. Hairless. Blue hairless, blue, toothless, threes.

Just hands and smurfs. We used to be a nation of sixes. Yeah. Now a nation of threes due to the scourge of fentanyl. I wouldn't even fuck anyone. Yeah. But like now like so this dark, it's a dark money group. So we don't know where the money like is actually coming from.

But we know it's obviously aligned with Trump because he's the one who even dictated these commercials happen and his like team is working on them. But they're spending millions. to like hammer home Trump's message. You know, they're like, essentially they have to, it's like twofold, right? Like you got to keep the fentanyl panic going because that helps justify like increased police activity or like blowing up people in boats. Yeah. Because they have, you know what I mean?

Like, or saying like, we have, we're into crisis with our borders because the fentanyl. And also it creates the optics that he's actually doing something because he has a commercial. I'm like, oh, did you see that? I think I'm going to join. He's fighting for it. Yep. No, it's amazing because most fentanyl is from, like, ports. It's, like, legally shipped into this country.

So, again, not that reality has any connection to action, obviously, but it is just he is. It's just all invented boogeymen. Yeah, you need that. You know, the thing I was thinking about, like, because obviously they're trying to tie everything to, like, this trans shooting nightmare, which, God, it's just enough. with the shooting from the trans people.

I mean, it's been five already over 6,000 shootings. But that men competing in women's sports really got this sort of brainworm cooking for people so that now you're hoping you can make the shift into the, you know, it's just reality being the starter never mattered. And then, of course, you go to, you know, Wonka Town by the end. Yeah, you just need to loose threads to kind of connect. And you're like, and that's logical and correlation is causation. Yeah.

And that's all you need to know. But the thing is, fentanyl deaths have been declining pretty rapidly for the last two years, which is great. And it's more to do with like better. The past year is what matters. Yeah, it's better. It's like more to do like better just like education for people, like parents of like people who have overdosed and like family members like becoming like getting into activism. and like shit like Narcan. Yeah.

But you know, like the thing is like, again, this is what's so funny is like Trump just thinks of like a drug, like a wave of drug addicts or a drug addiction to be like, okay, and you can stop that by going, I don't do that. You're going to turn blue. And that's how you, that's how you scare them off of it. Rather than like actually like addressing drug addiction, you know, like that's, that's how you get people off drugs. It's like you create, it make it easy for people to get treatment also.

It's like we have people living on the streets. we should just euthanize him. Yeah, as Brian Kill Me. He's not a root cause guy. Yeah, it's just how to, I got to clean up Park Avenue. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's more of like, somebody brush this dandruff off my shoulders. I need a better dandruff brush for my, for my coats.

I mowed the lawn and the grass keeps growing back. Every now and then you hear, like, a seed of a plan where you go, oh, real? Like, there are like, there's talk of mental health care and all this stuff, but it's just, it never actually comes to any kind of fruition. No, no, no, no, no. It goes off the fucking rails. Yeah, it goes in a direction you can't even imagine it going. Yeah, he says it all, yeah.

Yeah. Well, speaking of the attorney, well, I don't know what the fun. I don't even know how to fucking segue into this. Pam Bondi? Speaking of hell. Speaking of hell. Um, hey, let's, let's, let's, let's float on the river sticks a little bit more, shall we? And really check it all out, um, because Pam Bondi is now, like, because of,

people who aren't doing like glowing eulogies of charlie kirk she's now taking that to be hate speech basically is like the new take from the regime i'm just going to play this clip where she kind of lays out her tortured logic here as to why i don't i don't know i mean like well just listen listen to the attorney general there's free speech and then there's hate speech and there is no place especially now especially after what happened to charlie in our society Do you see more long? This is Stephen Miller's wife's, by the way. Yeah.

This is Stephen Miller's wife's podcast. What a great conversation we're about to sit fireside by. Look how big her note card is. You know what I mean? It's like, it's because it's like, there's a lot of great thoughts on there. All of the words she's saying for the entire podcast are on the card. It's a hate menu. Well, it's the swastika logos take up half the card.

Yeah, yeah. But at least they're in the corners. So it is a aesthetic. No, it is nice. Go on the center. Yeah. Yeah, go on, Katie. Enforcement going after these groups who are using hate speech.

She's asking if law enforcement are going to be arresting people. So we show them that some action is better than no action. We will absolutely target you. Okay. Go after you if you are targeting anyone with hate speech. Wait, hold on. Hold on. Anyone?

Hold on. Hold on. What's that? What's that? You, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech, anything. And that's a question. nice nice sound anyone anyone this this quote well whites this is it so funny this quote like guys fucking riled up the right just from pan bond because they already hate her because woman

abstain as well but like i think like first of all for starters i think most of us in the u.s know by now especially after the last decade that hate speech is protected under the first amendment that's why they go around doing this shit in public. Yeah, right? Just so you know, that is. So when you go, there's free speech and there's hate speech, well, according to the- What Charlie Kirk did was free speech. What you're saying about Charlie Kirk is hate speech.

There's not even a legal definition for it. Eh, well, you know, that's for me to figure out is AG. I'm on a podcast. What do you want? Yeah. Yeah. What do you want to do? Like, say facts.

Liberals, like, obviously pointing out that this is just like illegal. intimidation and the AG should probably know the laws of the land. But again, like I said, the right, like they're fucking act. They're like calling her a moron because they know better than anyone that hate speech is their favorite form of free speech. Yeah. And it was wild to see like conservative like Twitter fucking influencers on the right be like quote tweeting this thing and be like, just so you know, this is a slippery slope,

this can be weaponized against us. Like when you say that, I'm like, wow. We keep, like, finding ourselves, like, I keep going, like, now, look, I loathe this lunatic all right guy, but that part is, yes, I agree with that part of what he's, not why, but that part is right as, you know, like, they kind of keep doing that, where it's like, if you watch a abysmal piece of shit, Nick Fuentes talked about Charlie Kirk, you're like, kind of yeah kind of yeah Siri search griper wars yeah so and and they keep doing this

like like and they very clearly don't have a grasp of the law not even that the law is effective for us anyway but they are now saying these quiet parts out loud more and more and it just shows you the level of confidence

that they have to not to be idiots i mean cash patel right now to like they're he's getting grilled as he should i mean he fucking like i'm gonna start to go fummy to get him eyelids he just looks so gone yeah he they can't even fake it i know his face is permanently set to i'm so out of my depth right now and yeah this is what happens when you have the dumbest guy in the world appointing people to positions based off no credibility or anything whatsoever

and he didn't even do it the first term that fucking moron had at least some of them had some like they're morons but had some sort of background now it's just like RF he learned that first time he was like they like to fucking like uphold norms

and shit I need a freak out of these guys yeah right Rex Tillerson you were like yeah I agree with this oil magnate yeah right right right right he has He has a Chevron tattoo on his neck. I love it. He has one of those cool.

It's right behind his ear. It's really cool. Barge and in charge. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. But she really, you know, I think they are also still very sore over the Epstein thing,

which, again, is another thing that draws us, you know, we're strange bedfellows when we're all going, like. Epstein files now, yeah. Let's go. Yeah. I mean, you know. I agree with this Patriot front guy. Marjorie Taylor Green.

There's times where I'm like, yeah. I've been waiting. I'm like, when is she going to drop the act? You know what I mean? I'm like, this has to be in service of some other thing. Like you have, you must have some ulterior motive. And like, like even Nancy Mace. I mean, Nancy Mace has already revealed herself to be very duplicitous

because she was already like talking shit about the Epstein survivors after she walked out of that meeting in tears. But like with Marjorie Taylor Green, like it's starting to actually affect her, like strain her relationship with the White House. But I'm like, is, do you? actually are you that hopped up on the Facebook memes that you're you're about it i don't know it's very hard to to be able to detect it and you have to be suspicious but there are times where you are just like if i mean yeah like insiders stock trading and pedophilia there's you know israel they're

all starting to be like things are you like we're kind of yeah so sometimes i think with like the like anti-israel stuff there are a lot of people who get into it for from the absolute opposite end of the spectrum. They're like, what did you say? Jewish people? And you're like, you're like, yeah, we should stop funding Israelis because the Jews are,

and you're like, yeah, pull up, pull up, pull up. Yeah, pull up, pull up. Pull up. Pull up. Pull up. You're chucked. Pull up.

Cockpit warning. Oh, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit. Um, so, so, yeah, that's, that's where we're at. But again, so like, after this backlash, Pam Bondi. like had to clarify she was like she's like look according to this coach quote you cannot call for someone's murder you cannot swat a member of congress you cannot docks a conservative family and think it will be brushed off as quote free speech these acts are punishable crimes and every single threat

will be met with the full force of the law this inspired many people on twitter to just be like hey okay based on what you just said about like calling for someone's murder like doxing people or members attacking members of Congress. How did these statements add up, according to this new sort of perspective you have, like, quote, we have to beat the hell out of the radical left lunatics, Donald Trump, quote, just kill him. Brian Kilmead. Quote, we should be posting protesters exact names and addresses online, docs the people, Greg Gutfeld. They are at war with us. We're going to avenge Charlie Kirk's death, Jesse Waters. I don't think it's, I think she'll be like, I don't know, she's like, that's, well, that's not hate. That's, that's, that's, that's, dislike speaking.

Yeah, that's protecting, that's protecting Charlie Kirk who practice. There's hate speech and then there's just like thumbs down speech where you're just kind of don't like a thing. Okay. But if you're a hater, we also like have been trying to find the line on, you know, when you are endangering the lives of people who need representation. Like we, you know, we talk about that for ages and they have been there is no gray area. you can say whatever the fuck you want. I mean, that is the, we, we right now are, are kind of legislating the world

that they dragged us into and then having to go, well, yeah, we've been saying a lot of this stuff that there are difficult conversation. Like, I think with the Charlie Kirk thing, it's just like, it's just weird to see them upset about a shooting. It's like, we're not used to you actually being pissed about a fucking shooting.

So we're trying to figure out, how to tell you that this is inconsistent with what you've been saying for fucking 40 years. I think that's the hard part is because they're not interested in anything that's like logical or, you know, uh, intellectually sound. It's purely like this desire for them to have absolute power culturally and like governmentally and dominate just the country with like with their viewpoint. So they use the language as if they are into democracy. But they're everything they do and say is completely antithetical. to that. And I think that's what the Democrats are up against. They think they're playing against somebody who's like, well, we have rules, right? It's like, no, they're just trying to squeeze the air

out of the country. That's what they're trying to do. So there's no air repercussions. Like, they're babies. So it's like a spanking where, you know, like obviously the Charlie Kirk thing is one thing. But even before that with quote unquote cancel culture, it's like, oh, I was canceled. It's like, yeah, because you were at a job and you used a racial slur. You know, like you're not allowed to do that like they don't like rules they don't like repercussions and then when the rules don't suit them then and also when you know like bond you was like oh hey actually you can't do hate speech like garret said it's like oh now we're all on the same yeah hold on hold on some things some things do i mean we do need some form of free speech so what is hate speech that yeah exactly

yeah yeah it's whatever they would hate to hear them someone call them yes um is what how that works. And I think that's really instructive in this like new era we're in because like if that's how they're playing, then you have to also play that game. Like they're not here to like compromise in any way. And I think a lot of this stuff going in the opposition sense, you have to understand that you're working, you're up against someone who's not willing to compromise at all. We have been playing their version of the game for so. I mean, fighting against it, But, you know, you can't, there's, you have, you cannot physically be like we are going to take guns out of our society because, again, we rue in the fucking world that you created. So, and then they are now trying to fight this version of this. And again, they want to do it in the way that is illegal, that is immoral, all that stuff.

But you, I, I lose faith every two months and everything over again. and making... Where are we at in that cycle, by the way? Are we getting close to... There is no bottom, but this shooting being connected to trans people is another bottom where I go, how, how?

I wouldn't even know where to start arguing that, really, because if you're engaging in that, that person, you can't logic your way out of that. No, no. They're just being like, I'm, I just need to hear the buzzwords thrown out to justify my hatred for the group. And it doesn't matter if it's true or not, but that's just how they're conditioned to perceive the world. And that's why they're so easily, you know, they're, they're malleable. Yeah.

And be like, no, now let's foment hate over here. And just because I'm going to say, uh, this thing and this other thing, yeah, that's all you need to say to each other to justify your hatred. It was a trans person. Yeah. It's a person they've never fucking met by the way. None of these people have ever been around a trans person. And it's hatred for the sake of hatred. I think the white men people, they really always operate as the minority that's under attack.

And you really are always shocked at how they can keep finding ways to do it. I mean, if you look at the structure of power in this country right now, how you, could be like it's all right white people are in the cross hair it's crazy it's like that's why you're like I don't even know how to have the argument but that's how I mean that's how you keep that sort of like white supremacist

ideology alive is because if if there it's always at stake and it's always you're always in the crosshairs and you're so marginalized and you're you got to put a fucking flag on your car yeah and you like there were people in fucking like Huntington Beach or somewhere. I saw it like

Huntington Beach. Yeah, like a bunch of fucking Nazis out there. I mean, imagine walking through Huntington Beach being like, give whites rights. Like what? Where the fuck do you live?

Have you been here? You just protested by six Froyo places. Yeah, exactly. I'm like, also, have you looked around like fucking people of color don't want to go to Huntington Beach? No.

You've got your little place. Stay there. What are you marching for? Jesus Christ. Anyway, um, so great country we've got here. Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. Come on. Why is this taking so long?

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Not like Polycule. Like slack-jawed yokel. Yes. Yes. Paul Kule. Polycule. I think is how I mispronounce it. Anyways, she has broken new ground for centrist establishment Democrats,

proving that they are capable of endorsing Zoran Mamdani. Many thought that it was physically impossible up to this point that there was some manner of physical allergy that they were suffering from. But no, she just, like, did it. She did, she, and in a very, like, establishment centrist Democrat way, in a New York Times op-ed. Yeah. And the New York Times, like, let her do it. She just did it in the New York Times. And they weren't even like, we got to find a way to put an end to this.

I mean, it's wild to hear people like Jamie Raskin, I mean, of Maryland, Pat Ryan of New York. They were both like a formal endorsement. And then Rahm Emanuel and Richie Torres, Richie Torres, who is one of the most staunchly pro-Israel Congress people. Yeah. Who like definitely was not singing his praises. They've kind of softened to be like, oh, like maybe he has the potential, like effectively lead the city. you're like, what the, to me, I'm like, I'm more scared at that. Like, what are they?

I'm happy. I'm excited. No, for sure. But there's something, I can't look at them and feel like that's totally sincere. I knew it was all. I knew it was going to happen too. Yeah. He's so popular.

And like at the end of the day, every other Democrat needs to get reelected. By association. So what are they going to do? Just ignore this hugely popular person that everyone liked. They were. Most Jewish people voted for that like, yeah, does feel like they've been able to, they've managed to do that with like the Sanders, Bernie Sanders. I mean, they kind of like brought Bernie Sanders in a little bit. But for the most part, yeah, I guess you're right. They have like kind of moved in that direction. You know, running for mayor of New York City. I could, I could see how they would be more cowardly when it comes to someone running for president. Right. But it's like everyone in New York likes this guy. you look stupid if you don't endorse him. Like also in a town too,

we're like like with New Yorkers like if you're doing like the one thing everyone like it's clear this guy is liked by the city and if you're suddenly not doing that like, like what the fuck is wrong with you bro? Right. Like this guy is doing great. Trump, it was quote shocked by this endorsement by Hockel and then I think was like threatening to like withhold federal like whatever fucking dumb move he's trying to do. But yeah, I mean it is it is like I think the Democrats are.

learning that beggars can't be choosers right now. Yeah, they're going to get voted out if they don't, you know, get on board for popular policies. That's how I feel about it. Of course, we don't have a lot of faith in them, but these people need to win elections. Yeah. Or like we need to juxtapose more candidates in,

uh, in these races that act as a way to nudge them like into the right way. But also part of me, I've lost complete faith in these people that have been elected. I'm like just bringing a fucking new crop of people. who like aren't so poisoned by like lobbying and maintaining the status quo that like they're like I think it's harder work for a politician to be like I actually need to dismantle the status quo like to learn that lesson than someone who's been suffering at the hands of the status quo and now is empowered to legislate responsibly and be like these are the things we actually need to change that will help people because I think right now the Democrats are just going to be copying homework and doing it like in a really poor like piss poor way. Yeah. It would seem to be a thing where they would be able to be like, well, look, he, this is his playbook. It's been shockingly popular. Shocking to us, shockingly popular. We should just kind of do the same thing and, you know, make the argument that, well, and we're, we're, you know, part of the system. So we know how to dismantle it. But they, the fact that it's been this fucking hard for them to just feel to just do the, bare minimum of be like, I endorse him is a sign to me that, like, I'm very skeptical of

that line of argument that, like, they're, you know, essentially what it is, they are, like, they represent so many people who are behind the scenes who, like, helped them get elected, who the ideas of socialism couldn't be, like, more anathema to, you know. Yeah. I think one of the reasons, too, is they ran the traditional playbook on how they scare out, like, people, like, progressives or leftists, which is for us, first, like, they're a socialist. And like, never was like, yeah. And, uh-huh. Yeah, no, he was pretty clear about that. He's brown. Yeah. So am I. Yeah, so are we. Yeah, so are we. He's Muslim. What is this? 2001? What the for you're talking about? Like, no. And I think when they're like, well, we're out of fucking ideas. What are we supposed to do now? Right. They're like, maybe we can co-opped the movement. Oh, that's the other part of the part. Perfect. Let's co-opt. Let's see if we can do the old-fashioned co-opt.

Andrew Cuomo, though, he came out with a pretty sick response, huh? Yeah, he did. He did a video where he is reading some of Mumdani's old tweets, but set to like Hans Zimmer music. Yeah, this is how you fight back. Democrats take note like fucking Andy nipple clamps Cuomo. So he apologized for saying the NYPD are racist.

Does he apologize for calling the NYPD? That actually does kind of bump me out. Anti-queer and a major threat to public safety. Do you apologize for calling Barack Obama pretty damn evil? Does he condemn the phrase

globalize the interfire? Do you still believe that quote? This is so funny because you knew they needed all this music because if not, You would just hear an old man's dried up mouth and lips move around. Yes, yeah. Reading talking points that they've been drilling for six months now to know about, you know.

You hate to see it. What if we did like some Hans Zimmer? Like, what if we made it sound like scary? Yeah, what if we completely overexposed this shot too? So Andrew Cuomo looks like a bed sheet. I think that will also. I'm dying to know who does social media for him and Eric Adams. I know.

they're so good, like, bad, but like they look ironic. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Like, they're unwittingly helping everyone except their client, which is truly. But I think that's also, it's probably some guy who used to do like TV stuff. And then as he saw the social media thing on the horizon, he tried to pivot to social media, but functionally has no experience on how people on the internet think. And so just charged him a bunch of money. He's like, yeah, I'll put this up on your Twitter.

I'll shoot a video. and you just post it, right? I don't know anything about tone or context or how the internet talks about things, but these are wins. He opens with the claim that the NYPD is anti-queer. And it sounds like a slur

the way he says that too. They're saying NYPD doesn't like quiz? I don't know. Is he going to apologize for that? Apologize. Yeah. Like it's a well-established fact. that the NYPD is like pro-LGB-Q plus people or something.

Yeah, yeah. Don't look up Stonewall or anything. Right. Nothing to do with the NYPD. Like, what the fuck? That's a gotcha moment. I mean, it just shows, too, like, how he also is a, a Cuomo's appeal is to the status quo, which is, are you pro police? That's why he did the, are you going to apologize to the police?

What was the other one? Oh, then it's pro-establishment Democrat. He's like, are you, would you deign to say that Obama? is evil in any capacity don't look up Obama drones and also finally to like all of the Jewish people in New York

bringing up the globalized the interfadal line which has been fucking clarified so many times at this point like I feel like And he never said it even they just ask him what do you think about it and he's literally never said it yeah again and like they should just ask it of everyone now

just anyone they're like I never said it's like well yeah either did Zor Eric Adams. We know you did it. Yeah. I feel like Eric Adams' social media strategy is a little different, right? Oh, it's very funny. Way too long.

Very slow videos. Yeah. Which I appreciate. It's at a pace for a different kind of person. Right. For sure. No editing. The engagement on Eric Adams campaign, Twitter, it's like funny.

Like, he can barely get like 30 likes. on a post yeah yeah he's just got to he's got to give out more chip bags with money in them you know yeah yeah yeah yeah oh god more of a face-to-face politician I don't do don't go in for this social media stuff you know what I know look a man in the eyes and hand him an empty greasy five guys bag with 40 bucks in it yeah oh man all right that's gonna do it for this week's weekly zeitgeist please like and review the show if you like the show uh means the world demiles he he needs your validation folks uh i hope you're having a great weekend and i will talk to you monday bye

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