The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 410 (Best of 12/1/25-12/5/25)

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Uh, yeah. So without further ado, Here is the weekly zeitgeist. Please welcome back to the show. It's Molly Lambert. What's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up. How was your turkey event? It was fine.

Yeah. Family, friends? How'd you do it? What if I told you I just watched a bunch of episodes of pluribus with my boyfriend? Hell yeah. Is that show good? Yeah, it is awesome. That's something about like where everyone's,

evil or everyone's good but she's trying to get people to be... Don't even look up it. Don't even look it up. Just watch it. I just remember reading the log line. I was like, what the fuck is this? Yeah, it's crazy. I don't like a thing that can't be summarized in the log line. I need a concept

clean and where I know exactly where it's going. Yeah. Yeah. And what will happen. Yeah, it's cool. It's cool that Vince Gilligan has been like, AI is bad. Yeah, it's kind of about that maybe, too. Which is cool.

That's cool. Maybe no spoilers. Also, yo, they did some weird shit on Google right now. I just Googled that. And then at the bottom, it said, what are you searching for, Carol? What the fuck is? Oh, that's from the show. Yeah, get the fuck out my face.

It's like a tie-in. You don't need Easter eggs right now. It's time for the birth of Christ, not his death. Thank you. Jesus Christ. What are they thinking? Wait, I like the idea of that you're right. against Easter eggs because it's like sacrily.

Oh, yeah, Molly. Okay, so I want to picture the death of my savior. No, thanks. No, no. Although I will take a little peek under that loincloth. Just to see. The only Easter eggs I'm interested in are hidden in the signs of the cross. Only Easter eggs I'm talking about is after I go six, seven.

You feel me? All right. Are you, oh, maybe that's what they're doing. They're juggling Easter eggs. Molly of the icons we've covered so far, Erkel, Einstein, Miss Piggy, do you think any of them would, had they existed the right timeline,

been on the Epstein flight logs? I could see Erkel just being, like, talked into it by accident, and then he's like, oh, no! And then Carl Winslow has to come save him from... Oh, great episode. That is a good episode. Carl's like, I don't like you talking to this, Jeffrey, Stephen.

Truly the only reason. that we had for him not being on it because he was a horny science guy and those those guys all seemed to end up on the well also didn't urkel go to space famously he did and like that's my thing is he had a jetpack essentially so what he probably wouldn't have needed the low lead express yeah urkel doesn't i don't think anything epstein could have offered urkel would appeal to urkel that he couldn't generate himself or invent himself like i bet he was trying however isn't he himself a teenage boy that's true Yes, this is true. Maybe he's getting canonically trafficked.

Yeah, boy. Damn, he would be honest for the wrong reasons. Yeah, Carl, save him. That's what AI should be for. If there was, if it was selling up, like, Cook Me Up an episode of Family Matters in which Carl Winslow has to persuade Urkel from not befriending Jeffrey Epstein. You see that like people are just using it to do stuff like that.

Oh, yeah, you are. I'm always seeing a bunch of fake-ass Mr. Rogers episode. That's like all Sora is, I think, because people being like. But it's not good. You know what I mean? No, of course. It's not, but... I want, like, real human actor or human writers to write.

I guess I'll read the spec script if it was done by, like, you know, Max Silvestri or something. You got to get, like, the... Yeah, we got to get real actors to do things that AI prompts would... That's the next level right now. What is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Oh, yeah, let me pull it up. I had a couple good ones. Let's see, let's see what I was cooking on this week.

This week, I, oh, I was searching up James F. Goldstein. You guys know this guy? I don't think so. I know. James F. Goldstein is that old crusty dude with the crazy outfits. Oh, at the Laker games. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That old lizard.

Yeah. I did a fucking deep dive on this guy because he's insane, but he has this insanely sick house. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No surprise. From Big Lobowski. Oh, is that the house? That's where the house with Jackie Treehorn, right? Yeah, where Jackie Tree goes.

Hey, you make a hell of a Caucasian, Jackie. I knew that I had seen it somewhere. I did a deep dive on this house because he's been like modernizing it steadily. The original architect that did it, it's this crazy house. It looks like a spaceship. Yeah. If you've seen the Big Lebowski, you know what it looks like. But it's this crazy house.

And the architect died in like 94. but he's been like modernizing everything so that like the roofs all retract and the there's like a pointed floor to ceiling window at the tip of the house and then that retract so it's all like indoor outdoor and all everything's like triangles and shit right and then he built he bought his neighbor's property and built a nightclub out of it and yeah yeah okay yeah i was thinking about just DMing him and just asking to come to his one of his parties after the lakers game because I feel like he doesn't really know anything about social media or the internet. And if someone with, like, followers, DM him, he'd probably just be, like, sure.

Is he on Instagram like that? Yeah, dude. He's on Instagram. He has, like, he has, like, few enough followers that I could reach him, but enough followers and activity on there that I bet he's checking it. Right. He's 178,000 followers. And he's always posting just, like, pretty unhinged shit.

This is just like, it's like, it's like, it's like dad post. Like this, this is just a, a video from his hotel suite, and it's just like, view from my hotel street. Pretty nice. He's got the balcony railing in the middle of the shot, too. Come on, bro. Compose that shot a little bit better, Jimmy. It's just every dad.

And then a lot of pictures with just, like, women that are at least 30 years younger than him. Right. Who are that? There's even a description? He's like, look at me. These are my medical. What's the caption on this puppy? hashtag happy Thanksgiving

there it is I mean he's not going to put an honest caption on there he's not going to be like here are two people I paid to spend time in my company I shouldn't talk shit on on the king by the way because I am looking to go to one of his parties he also posts a lot of video of him dancing with women who are both taller and younger than him

and his hips his hip movement it's just rocking back and forth he's not ready he's not ready for those young kids he's really holding on to this woman and I can't imagine that I don't know how many layers of emotion she's like blocked off here or what she's actually feeling as this happens. But I can't imagine that's like a good feeling when like a magnet who's so tan that his skin has to be falling off is like grab on your hips and

pulling. He's like an unwrapped mummy who decided to put some makeup on. He's like, hey, he want to dance. Oh, yeah. To push pictures of him dancing with women. I think if you're like, hey, I got, like, I'm coming with the flyest chicks. He'll be like, yeah, man, come on through. Come to the nightclub. Yeah, 100%. Should I just DM them now while we're on it? Yeah, I think he got to.

See if he gets back to you by the end of the show. Oh, shit. It says you can't message this account unless they follow me to connect it. It may help to follow them. All right. Let me tell us some of follow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's just get the engines going on.

Yeah, that's right. I've been doing a deep dive into that guy. It's interestingly, there's pretty much no information on why he's so rich available publicly. But it's weird because it's like, what are you? Because when a guy dresses like that, it's like, are you a good business guy?

I don't think anyone would take you seriously in business. The thing I always heard, because he is like sort of a bit of an NBA legend because he's always courtside at every, but not just Laker games. Like you'll, you'll like see courtside at like a Pacer's game. You know, like just he loves NBA basketball.

And the story I had always heard was, that he was a porn magnate who then has like kind of taken that out of his back story as porn magnets are well the other thing is he's a landlord like there was a whole thing where he was like fighting rent control too like he owns a ton of real estate in century city or something also and he like was like evicting old people oh yeah there's a 2010 interview on him you guys know a lot about him i'm actually thrilled i feel like that was a laker fan yeah is a laker fan you kind of learn who that the front row group is. I think the most mysterious woman is that Asian lady, too, who sits next to Jack Nicholson.

She also, I think it's like, there's some dynastic business or like her father owned, like, a ton of money. I don't know, all these people who said courts are got like weird money. Did you see that anecdote that someone posted over Thanksgiving weekend about, they were like, my mom dated Jack Nicholson for a little while. And it was pretty good. It was basically like there was a woman stalking him. They were really worried about it. Everybody was on high alert. Like, you know, if this woman shows up, like call the police.

She's like sending the most unhinged shit to him. And one day she shows up at his house that he's living, or his apartment that he's living at with this guy's mom. And she's like, oh, shit, oh shit. like you know she goes to call the police comes back to the living room after like being on on the phone with the police who are like we can't really do anything you know so she's like talking for five minutes comes back they're gone and she's like fuck did she like kill him did she kidnap him she's like looking around the house she goes up to one of the bedrooms and she's blowing him

this is all alleged but uh she you know the the mom kicks her out. And it's like, what the fuck? He's like, well, she offered me a blowjob. What was I going to say no? And, oh, yeah, what was the end of that? It was like, and that's quite literally what a legend is, is that you can tell a story about someone and it's as believable that it's true as it is that it's false. Right, right.

There's no way to know. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. There are so many stories about him that are, like, more incriminating so you can't really, like, tell them. Yeah. Blair, what's something you think is underrated? What something I think is underrated. Oh, shoot. I was good. Oh, okay. Orange cream, Ollipop. I'm really, I just got a flat delivered to my apartment yesterday.

A flat to your flat? A flat to my motherfucking flat, bitch. Yeah. Wait, what are we talking about? What do you say a flat? Are you talking like they brought in a fucking pallet, like on a pallet or like 36 cans or some shit? Yeah, I was 12, but that's what I thought of thought. You had 12 rack? Okay, you got a 12-pack dropped off a flat. Wait, was your low-end 36 miles? 36 is the most that I can conceive of. Is there a bigger size than that?

No, but you know, like when you go to cost, like a smart final on the card. Isn't that cardboard under? Yeah, it's like three 12 packs usually. I just call them a flat because it's a flat cardboard, you know? Okay. But I just like saying a flat. I used to work in bars and stuff, so I'm thinking like catering amounts. But, okay, good point.

You're thinking at 36, zero. of Natty Ice. We've moved on, Miles. We're mature now. Actually, Milwaukee's best. It's the worst. Yeah. No, but I love Ollie Pop.

I shouldn't be talking about brands or anything like that, but it really does bring a sense of joy to my life. And it's probably bad for you, but it does have eight grams of fiber, which is astounding since. How is that possible? I know. In our country, apparently, we're like majorly under fiberized. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And so all the people are age, which is a very mysterious number. no one will ever know. We're having a lot of incidents of colonies of colon cancer because we've gone too hard on the protein route and not enough fiber. Yeah. That is fucking everything is protein fortified. I know. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Protein Doritos. We're out here eating meat juice, chewing the fat. Oh, my gosh. But is Olipop also like probiotic too? Is that like the same thing? Like, because every so, it's like, bro, why can't, we just drink a soda. I don't give a shit if it's probioticrous fiber in it. Like

Well, don't get me wrong. I drink a lot of Coke Zero and I feel a lot of guilt about it because basically they're like you're buying cancer in a bottle. So then I try to mix in some healthier shit and I think I'll be a little healthier. Water down. Do you Coke Zero over Diet Coke? I recently

got into a Coke Zero in the past year after being like a lifelong Diet Coke person. Wow. Because I went to on my grief sabbatical to Europe and they had Cook Zero and I was like, yeah, this shit hits. And that's really good. It tastes really good.

What's the difference? Oh, Coke Zero tastes like regular Coke straight up. They taste very different. I was always like the guy who was like, I can tell the difference between Coke and Diet Coke. Like my sister would be like, all right, you have to, because she would drink Diet Coke and I would drink regular Coke when her kids. And I would like drink, I would be the taste tester to be like, no, it's diet. Obviously, you can like taste the difference. And Coke Zero, they got my ass, man.

I'm like, this is, this is it. You've done it. Yeah. Yeah. Well, bless up. Bless them up. Shout out to Oli Pop. I agree.

Like, their creamy sodas are, they're bringing the cream. Really? Yeah, I agree. Really? Okay. Yeah. There's some nice flavor profiles going on there. I got some, we had company over for Thanksgiving,

and we got a bunch of, not a flat, a bunch of four packs. Cairns, unfortunately. Yeah. Maybe next time you'll spring for a flat, but. I know. Any time that they sell soda in four packs,

oh, that's violence. So annoying. That's, that's like, that's going to be gone in the car ride home. I know. Like, what are we doing? What is something you think's overrated,

Blair? Well, I don't know if I said this or not on here and who can say, really, who has the memory? But these loud car, when I am president, these loud car men will be in jail. This one drove by on my street yesterday that set off multiple car alarms and had a dog have a panic attack in front of me. And my autistic ass was so angry.

I was like, wanted to chase after that car like a crazy. You would have caught them because you, people don't realize you're a D1 athlete. That's true. Yeah. T1,000 level scene. I felt such justice for that dog. And then it triggered all these other car alarms where no one was around. And I was like, that's inappropriate.

Why is that allowed? Yeah. The worst. I'm guessing the driver was hoping that loud sound would beckon their father home. Yes. That's been missing for so long. Yet it's, Daddy, my loud car. I know.

Like the, yeah. Well, you know, some people aren't. Maybe if I'm driving by a house and he's in there, he'll come out and yell at me. Yeah. help me to quiet down. Some people aren't born with a huge hog and then sometimes they have to go a different route in life. Is that true? Yeah. Some people aren't born with a large hug? Yeah. That's wild. Damn. I know. Okay. That's it's, it's true. It's true. Miles is not laughing at all.

This is my last time on the show. I'd actually, I realize I might have it cut the recording shirt because I have to go pick up my car. I'm just getting some of exhausts thrown on. I'm having the muffler take it off. Throwing some fucking flow masters on my shit. Shout out to mufflers. I didn't realize what we were avoiding with that simple technology. Yeah.

Yeah, I do feel like loud cars is one of those things where not only do I feel like there should be laws discouraging it, but I do feel like we should be taking names just so that like once the revolution happens. We can just be like... Don't worry. I've been compiling a comprehensive list of full with the license plate numbers. Yeah. Identify or modify all sorts of things. So I think it'll be fine.

So, Blair, when you are queen, they will be first against the wall. Yeah, that's right. Absolutely. I have a lot of other ideas for laws, too, in case you guys want to know. I think you should go on Bill Mars show for that one. No, thank you. No, thank you. pass

I was talking about mufflers and I guess that is a little misleading because a lot of those cars actually just have are artificially making that noise now Oh right right right yeah No these friends pay to make them sound like that Yeah

Room room They should just have their own voice Amplified going Room I did this I did this gig in Vegas A couple weeks ago That was private for a private

poker like group or whatever and at the same time there happened to be this like annual world car shows like everyone around the world for and like for these really fancy cars and i look down in my hotel room i'm like what is that incessant buzzing and it's just these cars in the tiniest parking lots doing in the tiniest parking lot doing donuts for 24 hours a day and i like went on stage for the poker people. I was so humiliated for them. I was like, these are you know, people, whatever.

And I went on stage for the poker people. And I was like, are you guys, I know, I know you guys all lost. And that's why you're here literally is for people who lost in the poker tournament. But at least you're not, are you happy that there's a dorkier group of people here than you guys? I know you're down thousands of dollars, but no, it could be worse. You could be those dudes. Yeah. Did they appreciate that?

They did. I actually worked those people. I was even, I was, and then I did a Raiders joke. I was scared of doing, but they liked it. Oh, you did a Raiders joke? Yeah. No, I think, well, they're not even real fans over there, so I think it's fine. I know.

Luckily, yeah, because I was scared. Don't say any Raiders jokes in L.A. or Oakland, though. That's a different story. I do it all the time so far. Oh, well, then, yeah. Just when you do it, make sure you say hi. And make sure you're wearing guys who come up to you. and say, why are you talking shit about the radio?

Just make sure you say hi to them. And also make sure you were in Kansas City Chiefs gear. So it takes as absolutely devastatingly as possible. Yeah. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk about this con job that's affordability.

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they don't know what they are or aren't allowed to do. And he committing a bunch of war crimes, that seems like. And now we're getting a congressional report being presented to a congressional committee this week that is 118 pages. And according to people who have read it, skews 80-20 negative in terms of its review of Cash Patel and the job he's doing. It portrays him as a joke. In addition to the public stuff we know, fucking up the Charlie Kirk investigation by treating it like, it felt like he was like a fantasy football player. Like he was just like, oh, they should do this.

Like they should do this to catch the guy. It's like you're the head of the FBI. Yeah. It's like if you ask like a teenage boy who played way too much call of duty to be like, all right, you go out there and you pretend to be the head of the FBI and you're taking over this investigation and you just do all these cliched shit. that makes no sense. And yeah, then say things like,

I'll see you in Valhalla. Right. Is that something I believe in religiously? No. No. Actually, no. It's just some cool shit I saw in an Avengers movie. Some shit, do like gladiators say, you know.

But we also get an amazing anecdote that I didn't know where when his plane touched down in Utah to, he was going to, you know, save the day. Right. After Charlie Kirk was killed, he would not leave the plane until someone found. a medium-sized FBI raid jacket

who's like, I forgot my fucking raid jacket give me yours. And then they, he was like, oh, this is too big. I look like a fucking little boy in this. And then once they once they like got him the jacket, he was like, wait, you have like a SWAT badge?

I want a SWAT. And so he like made them give him his like, their SWAT badges to put on his jacket. Right, right. It truly just, it feels like it's a movie where, like, a kid becomes the director of the FBI or something, like a King Ralph type situation. Oh, I love a King Ralph type situation. But, like, it's like if the worst guy instead of the coolest guy, instead of like someone who like, you know, loosened up the monarchy with his untethered wild ways, it's just like a really insecure guy who's like immediately like, everyone knows I don't belong here. Fuck, fuck, I'm fucking this stuff.

Give me your jacket. Give me your jacket. Oh, God, I want SWAT badges on mine, too. It really is just, uh, was it Vruca Salt? Like in, like, Daddy, I want a Golden Goose, Daddy. And he's like, I want an FBI raid jacket, Daddy with SWAT patches. All right, Wonka, how much you want for your swap patches, Wonka? Willie Wonka's like, the world is a strange place.

What if Willie Wonka was in there on that plane with him? You know. Willy Wonka has Epstein energy. Let's just say it. Oh, fuck. Willy Wonka would for sure have been on the flight log. Is he bringing a bunch of children to a mysterious destination? Yes.

No, those are umpalumpas. They look like kids, man. Does he get his money in ways nobody who fully understands? Sure. Yeah, sure, sure. The secret is just private equity. He's just private equity investor. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So just some quotes from the Daily Beast write up, a report. prepared by a group of active duty and retired agents and analysts blasted his leadership as dismal and warned that the FBI has become, quote, all fucked up and a, quote, rudderless ship under his guidance. It's all fucked up. It's all fucked up now. There's all fucked up is really. Yeah. They said the other thing. It says one key accusation that the FBI has become, quote, internally paralyzed by fear. Managers are, quote, afraid of losing their jobs and waiting on directions from the FBI director rather than taking a name. Yeah, of course. Another detail from this is that he's described by sources as fixated on his personal image, in one case allegedly ordering polygraph tests in a bid to root out FBI personnel who had criticized him. And then this is the part that I loved. An even more embarrassing scene as described in Utah in the aftermath of Kirk's killing, when Patel is said to have refused to disembark from an FBI jet until agents hunted down a medium-sized red jacket.

a medium-sized raid jacket. What the fuck is this? And removed their own SWAT patches to decorate his loaner jacket. Yeah, yeah. The thing with the polygraph test, it came because people started chatting about how he wanted a gun.

And then he was like, what the fuck? He's like, who criticized me about wanting a fucking blammer? Put him on the polygraph test. Yeah, and here you are. So the next in line, Dan Bongino,

also doesn't get away scot-free. Sources also described Bonino as, quote, something of a clown and said they strongly believed that neither Bongino nor Patel had the experience to effectively deal with top-tier threats facing the country. No, they're all sycophants, and that's what happened. Cash Patel wrote a fucking book

called The Plot Against the King, if you remember, after the 2020 election, and has been, like, sniffing around to get a little pat on the head, and it came in the form of this, And now look at you, you're just a fucking clown. A bit of a clown. I hear Cash Patel, it sounds like he's like a blog rapper from the 2000s.

Right. Yeah. Feels like he should have been. Yeah. Maybe we don't get a little better off. Cash Patel SWAT team next tape. You shouldn't have dropped out of Das Racist. Okay.

You could have stayed in Das Racist and been just a meme rapper, art, New York art rapper turned freak. Yeah, Bonjino's also been saying, like, this is a hit job, blah, blah, blah. But the thing that's interesting is, I believe one of the first people to get their hands on it was someone

at the post, I think. And, you know, they're very maga friendly, obviously, at the post. So now people are like, oh, you guys are, are you doing the thing where you're just trying to run them out now? Like, if you're putting this out there and not really defending it at all and be like, well, look at this.

People thinks he's a piece of shit. Yeah. I mean, Trump recently had to deny rumors that he's planning to fire Patel. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's had that phase. If they sick the post on you.

Yeah, right. Exactly. I wonder what are they going to do, replace them with like a fucking Teddy Ruckspin? I don't, that's the thing is I don't think these people are as likely to be fired as everybody thinks because I think they're doing what Trump wants them to do, which is like, you know, distract from him, keep things nice and incompetent so that... Keep morale low.

Yeah, keep morale low, create chaos and walllessness, which then he's able to exploit for increased power. But we were saying yesterday, the thing he hates, though, is people from the outside be like, these guys are losers. Yeah. So the fact that the public thing comes out that's like, oh, the FBI could be described as like all fucked up.

I don't think he optically wants that. But, hey, I don't know. Who knows what this fucking guy wants? Yeah. I do think the story about him refusing to leave the plane until he gets his jacket is probably the thing that's most likely to get him fired. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Well, strange things. More information coming through about the Trump family's entrance into the film business. We talked last week about how Donald Trump was, advising that they bring back rush hour. Yeah. And we were like, hmm, I mean, okay. I'm pretty sure, like, the only movie I've ever heard of him watching

is the fight scenes from Bloodsport edited together. Yeah, yeah. But now it's starting to make a little bit of sense. And he loves cats. He does love cats, right. He loves cats. He loves all, like, 80s musicals. But then I'm like, I was like, why Rush Hour?

And then... Look, it's a... Dorm classic. It is. But I think things become clear because we just found out. It's because Brett Ratner. Yeah, Brett Ratner is directing the documentary. Directing about his canceled-ass friend, yeah.

Yeah. He's also the director of an upcoming documentary called Melania. Yeah. Oh, Brett Radner's making Melania? Yeah. I'm like, oh, so he's like, hey, I'll direct this propaganda documentary. It's going to look like his Mariah videos. Right, right, right.

Where it's like, going to be just like, wind. Sorry, you can't, you're listening. You can't see that I'm shaking my hair. The hair is blowing in the wind. Yeah. I mean, it's like, yeah, again, anyone who has a section of their Wikipedia called Sexual Assault Allegations, I'm like, oh, of course you're working with the Trump administration. Look, I will just say it again.

Every time I'm on this show, just give Trump a talk show. That's what he wants. That's why he's coming for talk show hosts always. is because he just wants to be a talk show host. And if we just gave him a TV show, if we were just like, hey, you don't have to be present anymore, you can just be a talk show host, come in this room and here's a camera,

and now you're on TV. That's like all he wants. Right, right, yeah. He wants to do a monologue. And sometimes you can hear him starting to go into the monologue when he's talking to people. Oh, yeah. You guys hear about this this week?

You hear about this? You heard about this? Let's look at some headlines, folks. What? You're doing headlines. He's doing jaywalking. It's Donald walking now. I bet you wouldn't pass this cognitive test.

Excuse me, sir, sir. One moment, please. What is this? That's a dog. Fuck, he's right. He's right. He's fucking right. He's, I thought it was a gorilla.

Yeah, like all the things where he's trying to prove people are like stupid on the street. And he's wrong. He called the gorilla a dog. It is a dog, sir. That's what you want. She just wants to go viral. Yeah. So he wants to do that thing where you, like, lie to the kids about their presence getting taken away or whatever.

Right, right. It's also funny. I was reading, I didn't realize Brett Ratner moved to Israel in September of 2023. And it says, quote, Ratner is friendly with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Hell yeah, man. Well, you classic, get canceled move. Yeah, get canceled. Go to Israel.

Oh, who is the other director that did that? Tarantino. Tarantino. No, but the other one with the young. Like all of them. Is Brian Singer in Israel, too? Yes. Right?

Isn't Brian Singer in Israel? Yeah. He moved in June of 2023. Yeah, it really is the get canceled and fly to Israel. Tarantino didn't even get canceled. He just loves Israel. Right. He's like, yeah.

He married like Miss Israel. Oh, okay. She must have beautiful feet. So the documentary is hitting theaters in January. I can't think of another. public figure who I'm less intrigued by. Wow, it's hitting theaters. It's hitting theaters.

Wow, they're giving it a theatrical run. Isn't that wild? And then, all right, so. Look, I think she's fascinating because, you know, she's evil. Yeah, like how? But also a victim. But you're not going to get that texture

at all from this documentary. No, but didn't it just come out that she was with Epstein? Like, yeah, one of, uh, yeah, yeah, yeah, one of the, who's, biographer was it that said that? Was it Prince Andrew's biographer? I think it was Prince Andrew's

biographer who was like, oh yeah, she was with Jeffrey Epstein before Trump. Yeah, they met through Epstein stuff. According to Michael Wolf, who's a scumbag and liar. That's what I remember. That really set Trump off a few weeks ago. There's a lot of pictures of them early in their relationship with Epstein. I'm just saying.

And there's also stories of Trump meeting someone through Epstein and then having her installed in his apartment, like a bidet. Right, right. So she's producing the documentary through her production shingle, which is Mews films, because apparently Mews was her Secret Service code name in Trump's first term. And they unveiled the logo, which just looks like it was like a direct to VHS, like,

Robocop sequel, starring Dolph Lundgren. Missed opportunity for B-BEST pictures. Yeah, B-Best pictures. But, yeah, this seems like it has less to do with a passion for a film and more to do with just funneling cash from big tech to the Trump family. Why? Because the Melania doc was bought by Amazon for $40 million, which critics compared to openly bribing the president. So I was like, okay, I don't know how much these, like the licensing rights for a movie. Right.

Typically cost. So, and it's not a thing that's like always publicized. So on Reddit, there's a thread where someone's like, well, you know, it can go back and forth. Like, it can get pretty high. If a documentary that made the festival rounds and got some nice write-ups in the bigger trades, but then never got a theatrical release, that's probably $6,000 for a one-year worldwide license. Then he's like, you know, I know of movies that work well, small national ad campaign, streaming for only four months

might get $450,000. And then he describes a movie that broke out of like the festival circuit and became a big mainstream hit. It seems pretty clear he's talking about everything everywhere all at once. It had a wide theatrical, had cast visiting late night talk shows,

won multiple awards. That one got $12 million for an exclusive one year license for the U.S. I think even without those comparisons, right, basic business sense would say, if I'm paying $40 million for something, I'm going to be getting at least $40 million plus $1 back to turn a profit. It's not like, well, this is just a $40 million loss leader to help bring more subscribers in. And in that math, you're like, there's no fucking way. There's no fucking way that you're going to make fucking $40 million from this.

Everything everywhere all at once, which I remember being like a big deal. of, like, who's going to get that on streaming was, like, almost one-fourth of what they paid for this documentary that I can't imagine anyone's going to see unless, like, some of the shit that Molly's interested in about her, like, comes out. And it's just like, she's, like, evidently in absolute hell. It's just like, this guy fucking sucks. Yeah, it better look like that short film that Barney made in The Simpsons.

Or just black and white. You know what I mean? Don't cry for me, because I'm already dead. Finn. Yeah, it's, I don't even know what it says. Offers behind the scenes look at the 20 days leading up to the, oh my God, it's, they fucking turned a YouTube video into a documentary. It's just a few days before the inauguration is the documentary. Get ready with me for the fall of democracy.

Oh, my God. Yeah, it's a glorified. untold that they're just doing by Brett Ratner. Oh, well. Don't watch it. No, I can't, I can't wait to have you watch it and tell me if it's worth watching. I'm just, I'm just curious now. It's going to be surreal because we're talking about a person who has famously, like, negative

charisma. Right. So I'm, yeah. Or maybe she's just holding back, you know? Maybe she's just like, no. You don't get that. With machine, quip machine, Melania. It's just going to be like 90 minutes of her

mugging the camera being like... Right. Yeah, with just voiceover underneath. Yeah, with a huge fan on her so that she's like... Victor raises a good point. Will AMC do a Malania popcorn bucket for this? Oh, that's a really good question. And what could that be?

It would be the I don't care do you. Just that jacket. The I don't care to you jacket. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Or it's just a fucking big. big middle finger you could just do her head because her head is pretty like i think her head converts really nicely into any manner of like wax museum type thing because she that she is somewhat like there's not a lot going on in front of or behind the eyes sure if monia had popcorn bucket it's

very scary and i can imagine it yeah because it's like the megan 2.0 buckets yeah exactly yeah yeah Yeah, but hopefully the Malani, when it comes with 40 inch extensions on it. Right. It's just like, you're eating hair, too. You might, like, oh, God, how do I sit around the hair on the top of this dome? Is it going to be about her or her body double moving on the same? That's my question. You know, there's going to be the fucking weird liberal conspiracy theories after they see this doc are going to be kind of hilarious too.

Because, you know, like, she's actually, this is a distress signal she's sending through this documentary. it is so wild just $40 million just a bribe just a straight up bribe to just be like hey we're we're friends right want to be in business with the big guy you know what I'm saying yeah god how will they recover from this all right well speaking of wanting to be in business black Friday saved all of our asses the big story that's coming through is that black Friday retail spending rose 4.1.1 percent. Holy shit. Dude. Oh, you thought there was a fucking, thought there was a recession?

You thought economic vibes were all bad? Spending up, dog. Yeah. This is a very, like there's pretty much, that's like the one headline I keep seeing is just about how it's up 4.1%.

Yeah. And then. Swish. There's no way in then. Don't, well, some people did, granted CNN was pretty quick.

You heard Jack. He said swish. Swish over. That is a switch. Swish, nothing but net, string music. Do I hear a chamber orchestra playing? Oh, my God. What's wrong?

It's in the refrigerator? Most would add some just like sheepishly. They'd just be like, oh, these figures were not adjusted for inflation. Because if they were, and you would count for about 3% inflation, activity only went up about a point. That's not a great sign if you're all about all hail, the line go up. But credit to CNN because they're even like, there's another part about this, that isn't being discount, not that CNN was calling out other outlets, but they added this bit of information was that spending from lower and middle income Americans was in decline.

Uh-oh. But they pointed out that wealthier Americans are still buying shit like jewelry. Yeah, they're still doing fine. That's holding it all up. And again, last time I checked most of America is middle to low income. So how does this bode well for the economy? If people are, if people are pulling back on spending. I think that's showing you that, in fact, I don't know, again, like we've said, it's on paper, it's not a recession, but anecdotally, it is.

And you even have, like, other economists pointing out that, like, consumer sentiments are, like, in the toilet right now, which is a huge red flag. But again, if you want to just, you know, perform for the administration, you'd be like, it's up this year, despite the tariffs. Yeah. They're just doing the same thing that they've been doing since the pandemic, where they're, you know, the stock market strata of the economy is doing great. They're able to keep themselves propped up by just like making up shit and then buying their own bullshit back and forth. And then everybody else is fucked.

But you get to like keep writing stories that it's like the, and the market withstood all these difficult things by raising prices on consumers and then doing stock buyback, stock buyback programs for, The wealthy. The, yeah, just like the erasure of, like, working people is pretty wild. To be like, well, you know, yeah, I guess they're struggling. But the other people. Rich people.

They're doing a great one. They're doing good, baby. Oh, my God. Have you seen the jewelry that they were buying? So nice. Oh, spending's down. How come my neighbor just, he rented a villa for two weeks in Turks and Caicos. Mm-hmm.

Yeah, you think, you think it's a recession? What about people putting all those Christmas lights on their Teslas? Yeah. I have been seeing a lot of Tesla's with Christmas lights on them. Oh, really? Is that maybe like one or two? Yeah. Well, the fact that Molly said it, I haven't seen a Tesla with Christmas lights on it.

Is it always a Tesla? Yeah, for some reason. It's begotten. To soften the Nazi perceptions, I guess. Yeah, but they're those LEDs, so it's, it's unsettling. Yeah, it doesn't look like, it's not like a thing. It doesn't look nice, but it also doesn't look like it's, like, wrapped in Christmas lights. It's like they've had something done to the,

car where like they're like lights that are like implanted or like magnetic or something that can just you'll see some yeah yeah probably well they're they're wherever cars or just get a rudolph nose and put it on the front no no i'll go down brown boulevard to see what's up yeah check it out yeah i have to go to the americana at some point to show my child fake gigantic christmas tree so to buy some expensive jewelry to buy some expensive jewelry to buy some expensive jewelry because my child stays in Gucci. Down to the socks, okay? All right, let's take a quick break.

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We're back And Gwyneth Paltrow has been given a lot of interviews this week To promote Marty Supreme Which seems like it's going to be a Awards contender This is the movie starring Timothy Shalame Made by one of the

Uncut Jens brothers Yeah What are they called? The Safty's The Safty brothers But won now because they're not They're wrong The Uncut Brothers

Safti brother Made by one of the Safti brother Timothy Chalamee plays a ping pong champion. Yeah, or table tennis. I don't know what table tennis. It's be professional about it, yeah. Action figure. Yeah.

I don't really have a concept of what this movie is about. Like, even given all that, I'm like, who is he? No idea. Gwyneth Paltrow was in it with him, and when she saw the pockmarked skin that his character has, she suggested micro-needling only be told that it was makeup and he's like

I'm Timothy Shalame I'm like I was just in the makeup chair next to you yeah right I will say credits to that makeup team though that is a great makeup team because I'll say

Gwyneth Pouchos probably knows a thing or two about looking at skin so she was like oh you should try Mike he's like this is actually makeup Oh, God. Okay. So I will say, though, first rule of giving people skincare advice is don't give people

skincare advice that they don't ask for. Yeah. You know what I mean? Hey, what's up with you all fix you right up? Yeah. You want to do some of all fucked up? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's looking real fucked up.

Yeah. Can I give you a tip really quick for your fucked up face? Yeah. No. Also, damn, Timothy Shalemy is 29. I feel so fucking old. I thought he was like 19 a second ago. He looks, I mean, he's definitely playing younger than he is in a lot of his roles, I guess.

Well, he just came back from Turkey and got his hair plugs, you know. Do you get plugged up? You know all these, you know all the details. It's a rumor. It's a very spicy rumor, but, you know, there was a while that he was, he had shaved his head, which is one thing you have to do when you, when you do the plugs. Yeah. and um he had been wearing like a hoodie or like a beanie like tight to his head like if he was seen in public only and so he wasn't showing like his scalp which it's you know for about six weeks i'm a i'm a cosmetic procedure connoisseur for about six weeks it's like scabby looking and such yeah yeah yeah yeah he was not seen with does he have bad hair i was no but i

But I think, I think that if you're someone like Timothy Shalame, if you are the golden, like, child of the industry at the moment, you need to, the second to that hairline starts to freak back. He, like, had a hair on the floor of his shower and was like, getting on the next flight. Yes, to Turkey. Yes. Turkish Airlines. Yep. Istanbul. Here we come. PJ.

It's so funny. Like, when you see those viral videos of, like, the people leave. leaving Istanbul in the airport and all the dudes with their bandit stuff. It's just like, hey, came in for the plugs. I'm about to go home. About to go right on home. I love that. So that was one example.

And then it was also revealed earlier this year that Robert Downey Jr. So Robert Downey Jr. was introducing her at a gala and told a story about how Gwyneth Paltrow didn't know who Tom Holland was despite appearing in four movies with him because he had said she was like, But his name is Peter. And he was like, no, so he was playing a character named Peter Parker. Are you? Well, this is a direct quote from the speech. Okay.

Who's that, Downey Jr. remembered her saying, to which he responded, that's Spider-Man. He said his name was Peter. His character's name is Peter. He's Tom Holland. You've done four movies with him. Oh, my goodness. Come on, Grandma, let's get you to your yoni. Yeah.

Oh, Grandma, your yoni eggs fell out. Let's get you back to your room now. Wow. His name is Pete. That's Pete. I mean, like, it's also, Gwenith Paltrow doesn't live on Earth at all anymore. Like, I did a video with her for Vanity Fair many years ago.

And the way she lived, I'd never, like, she, like, we were at the shutter. hotel and she wouldn't eat any of the food like the shutter's hotel on santa monica is like fucking high class yeah very fancy because you're doing a shoot there she refused to eat it uh like one of her assistants brought all this like food for her that like her like you know where content like very classy glassed her first thing was she asked if anything was on plastic so she wouldn't eat it then her assistant was like no i actually have my she asked like what the food was at shutter she said no then the assistant brought out the glass tupperware and he had one bite and then they fucked off and I was producing this shoot

and I was like, oh, you forgot all your stuff. She's like, oh, she doesn't need it. It was, I'm not joking, like, five big ass things. That is amazing. I was like, this shit is so disposable to you. Like, I get why you would be like, I think that motherfucker named Peter. I love that she would also go to those lengths

to be in that much denial that she has an eating disorder. That is a person who is just like turning their eating disorder into a game. Well, I'm anorexic. Yeah, I'm anorexic, but I'm just going to, I'm just going to, I'm going to say it's because of this or this. Yes. I don't eat anything that's touched plastic.

Yeah. Okay. Okay. Or glass. Or the air. Yep. Yeah. And also why.

So I basically, I technically need to eat fish underwater while they're still underwater. That's my rule for it today. I go to Borneo and I scuba dive and I just take big ass bites out of the fucking sea life. I just fucking eat the fish I find down there like apples. Right. That's amazing. And yeah, I mean, there's definitely been stories about her being like, no, I wasn't in that one. And they're like, no, you're in like three movies that you don't remember being in, which I could, I can understand because like I'm sure shooting all those Marvel movies and like her parts are like.

woven throughout but she was like I'm not in end game and they're like you're in 20 minutes of end game you're you're so in that movie and it's possible that they could have shot that for like they could have shot that during another shooting and like put it but

I do but yeah I mean the one thing that is hilarious to me on here is just not knowing Tom Holland's name I know Peter Parker no that's Peter Parker Robert no that's Peter and that's Professor Charles Xavier over there.

That's Patrick Stewart. She's just like so method that the line between reality and the movies she's in has just disappeared. Yeah, like Salome's skin is messed up. It's not prosthetics. That's actually Peter Parker. I don't know what the fuck is going on. She had a great day back on the food thing. I remember there was a great post early internet where she was like, this is what Snap benefits get you.

And she, like, posted a picture of groceries that she bought with, like, you know, $100 and whatever dollars. And it was like... From, like, Arawan. And it was all just ingredients for fresh guacamole. Oh, my God. Like, you need a little bit more rice and, like, the staples to make that stretch. But I don't... Oh, right.

It was a food stamp challenge, I think. Yeah, is what it was. She would never... She would never... She would never purchase anything that was, like, in a bar. or anything like that, you know, not forbid. Wow, it really is. Like, it's, wow, what a, I mean, she got everything.

She got one corn, but it's definitely like, I got, I got the avocado. She got one avocado, though. One avocado, seven limes, which if you've ever had to, like, make your food budget stretch, you know that you need seven limes. Yeah, you know, the cheapest thing, the thing that always makes sense when you buy them. Oh, yeah, that's worth that. I feel like every time I bought limes, I'm like, what the fuck are they charging a lot? What the fuck is for a line?

That is, wow. Anyway, shout out to Gwena. And this is the crime report. This is the crime, the local news section of the Dailies I guess. No, just one quick crime trend and then a how to commit a crime. Okay. So latest crime trend, stealing the baby Jesus from the manger. Fuck, yeah.

there's a nativity scene in Brussels that caused controversy recently because they made the figures out of recycled textiles and they look it's kind of fucked up looking it looks like driftwood kind of but sure who gives a shit but like the conservatives were up in arms and then like as that was happening and everyone was paying attention to this manger the baby jesus was snatched from his crib and everyone was like oh my god first the church makes this god bless thing and now they're stealing the baby Jesus. They took BJ. They did? Yeah, Beech is gone. Beech is gone. The Beach, the baby Jesus. But people were pointing out, like, it doesn't,

it probably has nothing to do with the backlash because baby Jesus figures already disappeared, first of all, from that same spot multiple times over the past decade. And this is a huge trend. There are tons of news stories in the past several decades about baby Jesus being stolen from the, uh,

during the holidays in the U.S. and abroad. There's even a Wikipedia page for the phenomenon, which some have taken to calling Stolen Baby Jesus Syndrome. Wait, what? Hilarious. Who is sick with the syndrome? Who's got the syndrome? Hold on.

You got SBJS, bro? That's a bad case of SBJS. Yeah. Religious leaders have reacted to these thefts opting to forgive the thieves for their sins in the spirit. of the season. Oh, wait, sorry, no. They've turned churchards into little police states. Yeah, of course. Of course.

In addition to bolting Christ to its crib, they've installed motion-activated security cameras with steeple-mounted machine gun turrets. No, I made up the turrets. You might be able to sell a couple people on that. I know, right? Bolting, I mean, nailing Jesus down again? Yeah, yeah. No, I think, bolted.

Bulting. Hasn't the man been through enough? Yeah. Hey. Hey, it ends the way it starts, baby. You guys have, like, read your own book. What do you do? Oh, so I just take a, like, a three-eighth inch drill bit.

Three-eighth-eighths inch drill bit, just straight to the back of the skull of this thing. Put in some cabling and make sure that shit is not. Don-dong. I don't know. That missed everything. Everyone? It's the eye, the eye, bolting him down. What we're going to want to do is nail the Jesus down.

Nail the Jesus down. I don't, I think that was bad. You're going to want to get that nailed down. Yeah. And this is a new twist. They've also, there's a security company that offers a special holiday display tracker program, uh, aka GPS Jesus, which allows churches to monitor their baby Jesus with GPS devices. You just have to cut a big hole in the back of Jesus.

and shove the tracker inside again yeah we're mutilating this man god's fun i mean if yeah i mean who was this guy really you know oh man miles i've got a story to tell you brother brother i've got a story to tell you when i and i know this won't shock you at all but when i saw passion of the christ in high school yeah i'm not kidding you i couldn't stop crying for a week like sobbing they got your ass huh Yeah, because I was just like, I can't believe people are so mean. Like, I was just like the cruelty of humanity has impact I have seen is like disgusting. And I couldn't bear it. Like my system couldn't bear it.

This is what they were doing over at Santa Margarita High School. Have you rewatched it since then? No, I'm too afraid because like the way it impacted me the first time, like it was, I had like insane grief after. Like it really disturbed me. did you watch it without subtitles you understand aramaic i watched it in the theater and of course it wasn't played at your high school because my high school would have played that shit but same with mine it probably does play it now but i also um like was really right i was still catholic at that point now like you know my god is divine loving intelligence and i'm not a

religious gal even though i pray a lot but at the time it wasn't even about religion to me i was just like how are they these people how is humanity so cruel like how do we get that way yeah yeah yeah damn i didn't know i was autistic yet sure and also that you're just watching some fucking wacky-ass propaganda from that movie is fucked out like i watched that later in life and uh was like i can't believe this i was like how is this some how is like there's no story structure it's just He just gets the shit beat out of him for... Yes. And there's not even a straight.

Is it like it's a wonderful life or at least at the very end? You're like, oh, all right. It's a Christmas movie. Yeah, right. It does turn out to be weird decision for... Oh, you're nailing me to the cross. Oh, geez. Oh, job, brother.

Oh, that movie was gnarly. I'm, like, haunted by it still. There's a crime in Philadelphia where somebody stole the baby Jesus and our writer jam, like, put together the side by, side and it's definitely not the same guy. Like, the guy looks totally different. You don't think it's the same guy? I don't think so.

Like, the one guy's got a full face. These white guys look all the same to me. Okay. All right. Could be you, Jack. I don't know. I mean, it is the same guy. Yeah.

Yeah, see? Yeah, it's, but, but the, the judge, like, there's just, it's this crime that judges are like, were you trying to buy a bag of crack, you deadbeat? Like, they just, like, throw the book at this guy. because he kind of looks like the person they have on video. That's the only evidence they have is like a bald guy, a bald white guy on video, stealing the baby Jesus.

And they're like, it was him? So I mean, did that guy, was he exonerated? Because he was like, that's not even me. I don't even walk like that.

He's like going, he's going away for that shit. Oh, man. So do we think it's actually him or no? I don't think it's him. But I just think the, the fucking,

this is like a unique, a uniquely offensive crime. on to people in the United States. Well, the guy did, I think it sounds like he had, he had priors for theft. Sure. Richard Pryors. It's also, it's such a, like, my first thought is going to be, okay, teenage, like, what teenager did that?

Like, it's such a, just a, like, dumb-ass kid act of vandalism, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I mean, you'll do it for other reasons. Like, it's like, there are people who fucking hate, they're like they fucking hate Christmas. Why the fuck is this everywhere? And then, like, if you're like me, went to a Catholic high school, there's no greater prank than to steal the fucking baby Jesus because you're like, bro, like in the context of Christianity,

Catholicism, bro, you're fucking, you boosted the fucking peach, bro? That shit basically has magical powers. In 2014, FBI was brought in to investigate a possible hate crime in Massachusetts after a baby Jesus was stolen and replaced with a severed pig's head. And they were like, this is, they're, They're indicating their intention to do the next 9-11. Ew, that is really gross, still. It is gross.

A severed pig's head? I'm not done with that. So you zoom in a bit. And then it was just a unhoused woman who was suffering from mental health issues. And the pig's head was just something that she found in a dumpster. Like from a pig roast, like a whole hot roast that they ate. It was like a cook. Yeah.

But they, you know, they want there to be something scary. Of course, dude. Yeah, exactly. It's dangerous out here for the Christians, man. In 28, so just to show how, like, everything's bad. There's a new satanic trend in the United States, which is how the local news likes to cover this. In 2018, a church in Hoboken was mailed a baby Jesus

that had been stolen in 1931. Oh, I like that. That was the one stealing Jesus is was real, man. Like, that was, you impress me. Or like, in the 1930s. If that person was Catholic and their mother saw that in the 30s, she probably would have died. She's like, Charles, you brought home. How could you?

Oh, my heart. If I did that shit, my parents would probably die. Look, I don't think, like, anyone should be defacing anyone's religious property. That's why we live in the free country. But I also don't like the Charlie Kirkification where we're putting away someone for life for, like, stealing a doll, like, because we now live in Christian nationalism. When this whole country started on separation of church and state. Yeah, yeah, but they didn't know what the fuck they were doing back then

when they started this country that we say is the best. But I support, like, like, I'm more than happy for the good Christians that believe in, like, helping people and, like, the true essence of the religion. Actual Christians. I'm sure you talked about it, but, like, that woman who did the test was asking, calling all the churches for the baby. formula and only one church said yes and one mosque and I was like we need to tax the churches all of them like I mean in they're not doing what they're supposed to be doing to be getting the tax breaks that they're getting in this country another so another five laws that um I want to enact when I'm

president besides the the loud mufflers the loud mufflers see they will go direct to jail because that's my dictatorship but um I I think as we you're talking about. I think social media should be illegal for children until you're like 16 or 17. Australia's leading the charge. What if they're like really cute though? Or if they're really good like fire posts? It's so bad for their brains.

It's so bad for all our brains. I don't think and I think we should only have social media between 10 and 5 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. So that we all can have pretty big window. We can have regular nervous systems and sleep. Oh, you mean like that it shuts down. It's like actually the servers go down. It's inaccessible to everyone but outside of those hours so that we still remember what regular life is like

of like real brains like none of my friends were like oh my god it's so hard to read a book because our intention spans are so shot and we're so like ungrounded whatever and then you know obviously no guns and then i also believe that all congress should have to have the same no and uh should not be able to be in the stock market and also they should have to have all the same health insurance that they have, yeah. Yes, that the rest of the country has to have, that they make the laws for. Well, I think, I think this is a good campaign launch. Yeah. Okay. Can you tell it to someone else?

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