The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 423 (Best of 3/16/26-3/20/26)

Episode Date: March 22, 2026

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So without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist. Miles. We're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a very funny comedian whose work we recently featured on this very show when he made a fake deportation hotline and got calls from, in one case, a kindergarten teacher trying to have a kindergartner in her class deported. You can go vote on whether he moves to your city for a day at Ben Palmer ismoving.com. His YouTube page is a must follow. It's at Palmer trolls. please welcome Ben Pullman. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Appreciate you having me. Thanks. Coming in with the real A.K.A. We're not going to say what it is, but you've got your fake name on the Zoom coming in. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Man of many identities. Different identities have been Rob, Brian, Jack. Oh, hey. I mean, it's not my real name either. You've seen them on. I haven't done miles yet. I have to do miles.

It's a good one. It's a good one. Yeah, yeah, it's a good one. People might think you're from England. Yeah. Well, I like a, I like a name also. I started off doing as Jackie. I like a name where it could be.

You don't know who is it. Yeah, you know where you're going to get. Exactly. And so then let them imagine who you are. Sure, sure. Blanks. I kind of like that. So it's like, when you're coming up with a fake name,

you don't want it to be like Josh or Ryan or like one of those names that is just, like you want it to have a little bit. bit of character so they can like hang a story on it sort of yeah i think that's a good strategy i mean i don't always follow it but i think i don't know it sounds kind of fun yeah i don't know if it matters but maybe yeah you can use anything any any little tricky that'll help you right yeah yeah dude like you've been doing like troll shit for a long time right like you were were you also like the people's were you doing shit like that, like judge shows and stuff too? Yes, the People's Court specifically told me never to call them again.

How do you go from like doing, I get the, like, yo, let's go get on People's Court. You fucking sue me. Let's fucking have fun. We'll have a laugh. How does that escalate to like, let's trick Congressman Ted Yoho a little bit? Or like set up a fake ice hotline so we can, I can just kind of fuck with some like the worst people in our country right now. Yeah. The Ted Yoho politician thing kind of happened because I have, you know, like the body of work or like the social media channels where I'm showing people the things that I'm doing. And that happened because a fan reached out and said, hey, I did something kind of similar to what you do. I made this fake website making fun of this company. And I thought maybe you could do something with it. And so that's when I was like, yeah, sure. I'm always down to try something. And then he was like, okay, cool, I'll let you know if we get anything. good here that people that fill out the forum thinking that the site's real, you know?

I'm like, all right. And then nothing happened. Then a year and a half later, he says, hey, that actual congressperson left his phone number with me on this site. Do you want to call him? What was the purpose of the website? Yeah, it was the social media at Parlor. Right.

Yeah, yeah. Right from the day. Yeah. He just made a, he bought the domain name parlor. dot social. So it somehow started getting ranked high in like duck, duck go searches. So if you would search for the social media app parlor and duck,

dot, go, his website would come up. And so I think that's how, and they ended up getting a real congressperson to sign up on the, on the site, leaving his phone number being like, hey, guys, call me. I want to work with you.

Say less. Say less. Big fan of your work. Let's just, that's how I have a blanket sentence. Let's, work together. Yeah. That's how I ended up doing that bit, but mostly the other ones, I kind of just set, you know, little traps or Honeypot websites or, you know, just try to keep doing

something different. Right, right, right. It's a real look into the dark night of the American soul, you know? You really see people at their worst, which is, it's entertaining. Like, I don't know another place where I can go to just see Americans, like, be as bad as I I suspect they are in a lot of cases. Yeah, yeah. Just shamelessly being like, yeah, my neighbor doesn't like me, and therefore I think they should probably be deported. I can't see into their house.

I think something's going on. And it's like, what? It's interesting to see how, like, such loose facts they use to basically formulate an opinion on somebody. But then also at the same time, like, a lot of the times when you're like, all right, then so you want this person deported. but they're also like kind of like some people have a reckoning with their own conscience. Like over it. They're like, oh, well, you know, like, I don't want to know it's me, but like I'm not saying I want this six year old deported. And we're like, well, that's exactly what you're doing.

Exactly what you're not. You don't want it said exactly like that. Right. It's a, it does kind of put into perspective the reason that law enforcement is always like at this point, the individual, uh, eventuated a, you know, like they put it in these terms. so that you don't have to think about what is happening. But you, when they call you, you're just like, so just to run this back to you and then put it in like very straightforward language, what they're doing. And they don't always like that.

The cops like, yeah, the individual discharge you liquid onto my foot. And it's like, well, you peed on your leg. It's charged. I don't want to say it like that. I don't want to say it like that. No, that's what often happens. And so when I start asking the questions, and I go, yeah, all right, so this is what's going to happen if what you're calling for happens. Like, what you're actually calling for ends up happening.

Here's what it sounds like. This is how these people will suffer. Yeah, because of the grocery store, when I go, so now we're going to throw her in a van. She couldn't, she couldn't speak good enough English and she helped you find the water in the grocery store where she works at Publix. Now you want her thrown into a van and driven across the border. She's like, well, wait. She's like, well, when you say like that, it makes me sound like a bad person. Don't go guns blazing.

Yeah. Don't go guns blazing. Well, that's actually what will happen. Yeah. Have you seen the news? See the ice agents. They are guns blazing. Does seem to be their strategy.

It does seem to be how they like to enter. Yeah. How they introduce themselves. She's like, I just, you know, I'm just doing my part. Just leaving the tip and then I don't want to, I don't want any part of it after that. But my thing is going, here's some part of it. Yeah, yeah. Just so you know, it's not as simple as like, I called the thing and I don't have to deal with the human fallout from my snitch. No, I don't have to think about that. Right. Right. Tell us something from your search history that's revealing about who you are, what you're into.

Okay, I've been looking up Kalshi, Survivor odds. Have you? Who's going to survive the war? Well, okay, the insider trading going on in competition reality is so wild. Like, I don't know. Survivor the CBS show. Okay. Yeah, Survivor the CBS show. What are our odds of surviving this shit right now? Yeah. No, they're on season 50. It's a big season for them.

And I went to go bet on the Oscars because that's something you kind of can't predict. You know, I mean, there's the voting body, but you don't really know. And so I'm perused in there. And I have Survivor basically spoiled for me because there's like 93% odds that somebody's going to win. Oh, really? Just based off of that, you're like, what the fuck? Well, yeah, because also... Oh, you're in production.

Right. Yeah, it's already done. Like, they've already edited it. And so they also have spoiled, like, traitors and The Bachelorette. Yeah. Because also, you don't pay anyone... Assistant editors enough to not make 10 times their salary on Cal Sheet. Yeah, you can bet on who's going to be a guest on Jimmy Fallon.

You know, we all have friends who are working on the Jimmy Fallon show. I don't understand why they aren't hitting a... us up and being like put 50 grand down on Sydney Sweeney. I think I'm one degree away from their talent booker. I got to just, yeah. Yeah. Hey, can you give me a list that's just like, just names? Yeah.

Why do we work? This is totally unregulated, you know, it's completely, as far as I know, legal, I know that they have reported a Mr. Beast editor to the SEC or something. Um, and funny. Because they spoiled beast games. You fucked up beast games. You're going to the fucking Hague, man. But it is disappointing, I think.

It's like, you're watching this show and then suddenly just somebody, before the first episode, even airs, has 93% odds of winning. But also, that means 7% of people just know they're built different than reality. Oh, right, who are, who would be like,

no, I don't buy it. The fuck. I mean, I think those are the roobs. I mean, I might be a little bit of a roob, too, because I figured, all right, if there's a top three, and they're pretty accurate, I'll put a little money on yes for the other two.

With the better odds. And then just hope when it funnels down to three, people start to get shaky about it and the odds go up. But I'm just handing Jared Kushner money, I think. Yeah. But look, you all are, though. You got to pay for that micro-budget, bro. Yeah.

Yeah, right. Exactly. We're all giving them something. Ramsey, what is something you think is underrated? Real conflict. Real conflict. Real productive conflict. like actually arguing the people and figuring shit out.

We were talking about this earlier. Like the inability to actually have friction with anybody, the fact that people want to have girlfriends and boyfriends as chatbots who can't argue with you, what's your problem? Can't you have a fight with someone? Can you disagree? Are you okay? What is going to happen to you?

I know I love conflict too. Brian the editor is spamming the chat. He's like, yes. I'm not afraid of comments. I'm like, you want to go? we will fucking go and I will be like a laser beam in a conversation. Do you and your mom have a lot of, like do you have a lot of debates with your mom?

The best most productive conflict ever. My mom and I were unbelievably close. Right. I am not conflict diverse because I have the most confrontational mother of all time. Same. So I always had to be able to stand on business, explain what the fuck I was doing, what I was thinking because she would fucking rip my shit up in real time.

I think that is such a gift that she gave you. Yeah. Such a gift. I'm always like at the time, I was like, hell yeah, bro, I'm way more on top of my shit because I always know,

I'm like, I'm going to have to cross swords with an adult. Totally. Totally. Is this the right thing? Conflict avoidance, I think is like the root cause

of like almost everything that is horrific in our society. Yeah. Conflict avoidance, we talked about this last time I was on a show. It's like why people like Trump exist. Like people who just want to get by

and get along and not argue, I see it all the time at my university. Like I work at a really incredible public university in the Midwest. Midwestern culture is all about like, be nice to people. Don't say anything. Don't fight. And so what happens is people have

seething resentments about everything. They're mad at everyone without explaining why and without talking to them. And it explodes in the most random places. And the handful of us that are willing to be like, well, this business is off or whatever. People know that that needs to be said

and are also like, why are you making a problem? And it's just like, grow up. Talk to human beings. Part of what's sexy and fun and engaging about being with people is sometimes being like, wow, that's fucked up. Whatever you just said is like not for me.

Can we work it out? Can we get through? The last thing I'll say is like, I didn't say one of the best moments in one of my greatest friendships ever was one of my dearest friends. We had like this horrible fight at the end of graduate school because we hadn't really seen each other for a few months

and we had been so close. And we were at a coffee shop, but we were like yelling at each other. We were like, I'm so mad at you, I'm so upset, whatever. And there was a moment where I think I got really anxious. And she reached her hand over and she put her hand on my hand. And she's like, you know that this is forever, right? You know, like this thing that we have is forever.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So whatever this is, we will get through it. Right. And like, let's hash it out now. And it was such an amazing reminder that you can have conflict and not lose. Right? Like you can gain something as a result of that conflict. And I think the fact that we are all lonely, that there's a loneliness epidemic has something to do with the inability to deal with the pain of sometimes being rejected, of sometimes having people be mad at you or disagreeing and knowing that it can get sorted.

Yeah. This, like, reminds me exactly of that clip we were talking about, Jack, with Don Lemon breaking up that, like, Gen Z friend group by asking if Trump was doing the Iran war, right? The Iran war, right? What did you say? Are you serious right now? Was. On our wild. Like, that is truly like everything that we're talking about.

Just for people who don't remember. Don Lemon pulled up on a group of friends like in their early 20s and asked, hey, like, do you think Trump is handling the war in Iran properly? The war in Iran. I think Trump's doing the right thing, honestly. What so? I got no comment on that. You don't know why?

No, I'm just taking a guess. You're just guessing that he's so confident. And see, someone who does that again probably is not pressed on their belief. beliefs ever if they're like, nah, I'm just taking a guess. And you're stupid actually. You look stupid for even following up with that question, actually. You kind of look dumb, dog. And his friend is even like, do I, what's my take here? I don't know about that. Are you serious? Yeah. How do you, how do you feel? I mean, um, I don't know. I don't think it's something right thing. Is this a joke? Is this a joke? Is this a joke? Yeah. No, it's not. All right. You can fucking drive home, bro. Or walk home. You didn't even drive a car. Shut your face I know you're in like a city he's gonna be able to get home but also I do like that he's like

I mean walk home sorry He can't even be confrontational Yeah His friend literally doesn't know what happened I mean that is the definition of toxic masculinity Right which is like I don't want to have to explain myself And I make that's right I've been noticing lately like

One of the defining features of toxic masculinity When you see the Doge Bros being interviewed is a performative exasperation. It's like, I can't believe you're asking me to explain and it's like that's what it means to be a fucking member of this planet. Yeah, that's what it means to be an adult. Yes, there are consequences to your actions.

What's the wrong with you? Like, oh, it's so gross. It's a gross. Yeah. Are you fucking serious right now? I don't know, dude. I flagged it for DEI because it had like something about like a gay prisoner or something, dude. So,

like, explained it. Oh my God. Will you leave me alone now? Frictionlessness is how everything is being designed. Every aspect of our day-to-day lives. The corporations are just trying to design the friction out of it so that there's just no

bit of discomfort. I am naturally conflict-averse, but me and my chat by girlfriend agree, it's a problem. And we're working on it together. You're working through it. Yes. Yeah, exactly. She's been listening to as their

Borrell. So she's telling you. Mainline these last three episodes, please, and then just like come back, come back to me with some notes. She'll go off severance. Yeah. Right.

She's also, I mean, as FYI. I don't know. What are they being so weird? That's actually a good way to do things. Oh, what? The Indies are like so,

ugh. You know, why do they have to keep making a problem? Yeah. Just still with the pain. Thank you. That is what that show is about. That's so genius.

I remember watching the second season be like, oh, it hit me what this show is about. I was like, this is about the obsession we all have with avoiding pain. And it's going to become a nightmare on planet Earth. Because that's part of what being, like,

your body is built to feel pain for a reason. Yeah, yeah. Like all that frictionlessness is basically putting us in a trash shoot to hell. You know what I mean? Just have frictionless trash chute and it's going so fast, so down. It's going so fast.

Yeah. But we don't want to get out of the warm bathtub. Like, yeah. So we're just sitting there just waiting. Boiling to that. Yeah, yeah. Let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk about this weird hellscape. We'll be right back.

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radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back, the Save Act. You know, the GOP is split on what to do with the midterms. Right now there's two camps. It's like you got the Maga Freaks who figure, you know, the massive voter suppression bill that is the Save Act should be just enough fuckery for them to keep their house majority. And then you have like the half-fucked Republicans that for some reason are acting like

they are going to actually go into an earnest election. election season. And they're like, what are we doing, guys? We're going to get killed. And it's like, but half the other people like, shut the fuck up, man. We're going to fucking, who cares? We know that. We're going to fucking steal it. You fucking idiots. What are you fucking talking about, you boy scout? And, you know, like for that second group, their main thing is like, we got to show some progress on the economy. They're like, that's how we're going to win. I know Trump wants to keep saying we won a war that we've absolutely lost already. But we need to say something about the economy me that's just from what I'm hearing from the poor people that are, you know, coming to my field

offices all the time. Voting. Yeah, yeah, right. Exactly. And obviously, Trump wants nothing to do with the latter. So his most loyal pieces of shit in Congress are now pushing for a talking filibuster as a way to get the bill through on a simple majority. So, like, put simply, the Republicans think that through this talking filibuster, essentially what happens is like the Democrats would have to hold the floor as long as possible.

and, you know, like, they're like, in the second they are unable to or get through all their members, then at that point, it could be solved with a simple majority vote. Now, that's a very simplified version of how that would work. And because I think for the Republicans, they think the idea is like, we can just exhaust them. Like, we can use this procedural maneuver to exhaust them. And by the time they run out of people, there is no choice but to vote. And it'll just go along a simple majority. It's actually not that simple.

Right now, Leader Thune is in the process of trying to get Trump to understand broadly. Even before you do like, well, what about this? That there are not enough votes for anything that you're trying to do at all. So what the fuck? Leave me alone. I can't fucking do this shit. The talking, again, the talking filibuster could also backfire because the Democrats can just shut the Senate down and be like, all right, it's time to talk. talk about the Epstein files for nine weeks straight.

You know, there's, there's many ways that it can go for a lot longer and not in the way the Republicans want where the Democrats could completely dictate every word that's being said in the Senate and bring attention to whatever they want to. And they just have to fucking sit and be like, are you guys, you guys done yet? Or are you going to keep going? Okay, fuck. Oh, shit. Now they're talking about the economy.

Fuck, fuck, fuck. So it, there's a, there's, there's some risks there. And I think the other big thing that they're looking at. at is because like the obviously there's a ton of low information voters who vote MAGA and they're constantly ingesting misinformation. So right now a ton of the MAGA base is convinced that like they're convinced a thing that is not possible numerically mathematically with votes is possible. It's just that you need to do these other things. And like no motherfuckers, it's not the votes aren't fucking there. So I don't know what the fuck you want me to do. And it's kind of like this very,

I don't know, poetic sort of conclusion to having so many people ingesting misinformation that now they're demanding a thing that is very difficult to do. And they're like, I don't know what to say here to any of this. So it's, I don't know. I mean, I think the other part, it's like, I mean, look, Senate Republicans like, then let's just fuck. The real solution here is to talk about the economy if we want to pretend there's a way to get votes. But again, Trump wants none of that because then that would involve admitting that more could be done. I mean, I get where the bag of voters are coming from, though, because I think they've been used to now, just years and years of them being, of their people that they've elected just being like, who cares about procedure and law?

Yeah. Do it. Do it. You know, what we need votes to do this? Like, just kidding. No, we don't. We wrote a new thing on the back of a napkin. And this is how we do it now, you know? Right. Like, let's do that. Who's got the most key chains? So you get like nine votes, dude. The other other side of this, though, is everything you just said does depend on a competent Democrat pushback. And I, if you were a betting man, and I know Morgan is,

I don't know if I'd go all in on that. Well, for them, they would just have to talk forever. Yeah, but you know what? Yeah, yeah. Betting on Democrat's spitelessness or incompetence has not been a bad move. Yeah, yeah. Luckily for this,

all of this depends on Thune's inability to get the votes for this. So it's kind of like, no, I'm not saying, they're not bad. No, no, no, I know you mean. I know what you're saying, Andrew. You're saying like 10 of them or just decide to vote for it.

It would be like, oh, I'm so tired, dude. I just do it. You know, like, whatever. Yeah. Again, if you're a gambling, man, it's a bet. I'm realizing now it would have been the smart move. is just betting that the Democrats will fuck this up somehow.

There's just a bit of gridlock from the people who are the actual like mechanisms in the Senate who are like, what the fuck are you fucking talking? What is this, dude? I can't I can't fucking make a thing happen that can't fucking happen. And you got all these people. Like Thune was saying that he's like, they're clearly like paid influencers that just keep harassing him. Like he's like, I know these people are getting paid to just fucking harass me to get me to do something. right now John Cornyn, who's, you know, in the race of his life in Texas, he like recently was like,

I'm actually for, you know, maybe nuking the filibuster. But for him, he's just searching for an endorsement from Trump against Ken Paxton, which I don't know what will happen there. But we'll see. Again, the other question is, where all these votes come from? Because we've seen a lot, that coalition that got you there from like young dudes who, just were like, what did the milk boys say? Like to, you know, unfortunately immigrants who thought they would be the protected class of

immigrants or descendants of immigrants who wouldn't face the fucking wrath of DHS and ICE ethnic cleansing who voted, these people are running in droves away or just not fucking voting. You know, like that energy is really not there. And I think especially for like low information voters, people who are not voting frequently, they're so disillusioned. They're just even sitting out primary. Like, they're just like, I don't even fucking know. Yeah.

Like, you look at some of these quotes from young voters who voted for them. This is like a guy who- You mean like Joe Rogan, you're talking about. Young men like Joe Rogan. Yeah, young men who do enough testosterone, TRT, and H-G-H to make your organs gigantic in your head nine sizes bigger. But they do have fresh faces, you know, just not in a young way. But it's like Joe Rogan looks like if you like, if you take an image and like Google Docs

and you just drag it from. like one corner to make it like bigger and wider, like in the proportions aren't properly maintained. Yeah, you don't hit control when you expand. Yeah, it's like him, Alex Jones. They all got that same vibe. They all getting wider. Yeah, this is one young man who was in a focus group outside of Charlotte, quote, I don't know why we are fighting in Iran if we've never been attacked.

I just don't understand why. I don't even really want to vote anymore. I'm really starting to think it's like it just won't matter. I don't want to feel responsible for taking a vote and feeling misled or misjudged or making a wrong move. So the decision-making paralysis, but also just like the basic part. First time around the sun. Yeah. No, truly.

I mean, I guess that is the problem. It is someone's first time voting. We've seen this. We saw this whole shit. We were front row at the lake show the last time they were manufacturing consent for a fucking debacle of a war. And I always say this. I'm like, and it is a flipping way of saying, like they had the benefit of 9-11 to try and sell this to people.

Like, and even to this kid's own words, he's like, we never even been attacked. Like, that's sort of the logic, like the line of logic that most people, if you get them to consent to something fucked up like this, it's usually like, oh, we got hit, so we got to hit them back. It's retaliatory. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Like, you can understand that.

another young woman said, quote, it does, like, in terms of the war, it does change how I feel about Trump. He said there would be no new wars, and he said that gas would be below $3 a gallon. I'm not happy with him right now. Yeah. And there's like a lot of versions of people

who truly hook, line, and sinker were like, I thought no wars and cheap food, or like, I can at least maybe. Wait until they find out about Red Shower 4. Yeah. And who's paying for that? I guess it's just like there's just like there's just a whole class of people that for whom Trump doesn't sound like a liar to them.

Yeah, for sure. It's bizarre. But I mean, fine, I guess. It's like a wealthy white person could be shorthand for someone who's successful and can be trusted, especially if you're not, if you're looking completely uncritically. And also for younger kids, I mean, you like, we talk all the time about how budgets for public education gets slashed and slashed and slashed and slashed. like this feels like a logical like this was always sort of the thing that people were talking about.

I was like, they need a less informed populace to get more stuff like this through. And then you add the crunch of trying to fucking survive and toil and capitalism. It's like, dude, I only have fucking like the brain cells to then be like, I think I'm going to drink a white claw and have a mouthful of zin. Yeah. So I can get through the fucking day. I'm not saying this is the solution to things. But like I think the Democrats could learn a lot that you can just lie. And they should just lie.

Like, you should just go out and promise. Like, you should just promise everything because it doesn't matter and nobody ever holds you accountable. So everybody should just be out there telling people whatever they want to hear and you'll win more elections. Unfortunately, they did that for like stuff like, we're going to end police violence. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's right. They did it for things. Yeah, yeah.

That could have been, that could have been something. But no, you guys lie about the dumbest shit and then don't follow through. And people like, what the fuck are they fucking? They need to pick better. Lies. Yeah. Pick better fucking lies. And I just do want to say, like, it's, there's just like this one clip, Don Lemon, you

know, like he does more like social media shit. He's like man on the street asking people like, hey, what do you do? Like he was like in the streets. I think in New York's just being like, hey, you guys think Trump is doing the right thing with this like war in Iran or all the right decisions being made. And he pulls up to this group of dudes like precisely the kind of dude who's like, what did milk boys say? like out here caught him in their environment asking these three young dudes,

yo, what do you think about what Trump is doing? And this question fucking rattles this group of three dudes in like the most, I don't know, it's, it's weird. Oh, you'll listen to it. What do you feel about the war in Iran? I think Trump's doing the right thing, honestly. What so? I got no comment on that.

This guy is dressed like a young undercover cop. He is. He looks like he's trying to infiltrate a BLM. fucking rally or some shit. Like fresh. Fresh. Fresh Yankees everything. Yeah.

Got the Kith. Got the Kith. I'm telling you all. Kith is Red Flag. Red Flag City. Okay. People said, they call it Fubu for white people.

So he said, Trump doing fucking everything pretty good. Let me just, I'll play it from the top so you can hear his whole answer. I feel about the war in Iran. I think Trump's doing the right thing. Honestly. What so?

I got no comment on that. You don't know why? Nah, I'm just taking a guess. You're just guessing that he's doing the right thing? Yeah. Are you serious? Yeah. Exactly.

How do you feel? I mean, I don't know. I don't think Trump's doing the right thing. Is this a joke? What? Is this a joke? Yeah. It's a joke?

Wait, no. All right, you can fucking drive home, bro. Or walk home, sorry. Damn. He just fucking pieces out, just goes up the block. And he's like, fuck you, bro. You can fucking go home on your own. And the guy's like,

damn, I don't even know what happened there. He goes on. And then wait for this third asshole to speak. I don't know what this happened. But he doesn't even know why. Yeah, I don't know why. I just think like, it's not good for a comedy. Like, I don't know. There you go. That's enough. So.

I don't really give a fuck about the war. Smokeweed, get money. Fuck bitches. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Don Levin's just soul dying. Look at this goofball with the Ed Hardy he got the fucking Sean Paul shades on. He looks like Polly Shore

in the goofy movie. Cheezy pizza, bro. Oh, God. I don't care about politics. What's your opinion? And then here's my opinion.

Why? I just took a guess. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You took a guess on what your opinion is. Yeah. Exactly. Well, I think it's like,

like again, there doesn't want to enter any kind of like real talk about it. He's just like, I don't know. My feeling is that like I'm Trump. I couldn't tell you anything other than that. And when he's like, you just trust that he's doing the right thing, I think again, goes to a lot of people whose shorthand is this older white man with money, I thought I've been, this idea has been reinforced for centuries in my mind that this is this person is making. the right decision. So I'm just going to rely on the cultural momentum of this depiction of this

powerful white man to be like, yeah, he's doing the right thing. It's also like to him that they won, or sorry, to them that he won the last election is all they need. Like, sure, sure, that becomes its own logic. I will say, you can fucking find your own ride home in Manhattan is a, the easiest place in the world. Good luck, asshole, getting uptown. Like, all right. Yeah, that will be tough. I mean, unless they came in from Philly or something, you know what I mean, in which place, you know, just catch the, you know, the Amtrak. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And you can take the new Assella. You're fine. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you could take the new Acela. It looks great. It looks great.

They updated the cars. You might want to try that. But the way that dude was really like, what do you think was happening for that guy who, like, who like, was suddenly like, dude, I've been fucking betrayed. Like, you know, because the way he's like, are you fucking serious? Like, his reaction. to him being like, is you doing the right thing? Nah, I don't think so. Is, are you fucking serious, dude?

Yeah. Yeah, I don't think you can disagree with one thing that he's doing. Like, you're pulling the thread of the sweater. You know, it all starts to dismantle the second you admit that one thing is wrong. Right, right, right. You have to hold the line. Like, here, I just want to play it again because this guy, his reaction is so fucking funny. How do you feel?

I mean, I don't know. I don't think Trump's doing the right thing. Is this a joke? What? Is this a joke? Yeah. Are they together? All right, you can fucking drive home, bro.

Or walk home, I'm sorry. I like that he did clarify that. Yeah. He's like, you can drive home. I mean, walk home. I mean. Is it because I think this is also the kind of thing, too, where like this was,

I was encouraging white people of good character in 2020. I'm like, you got to start ditching these backwards motherfuckers, you know. You know what I mean? And don't be worried if they go, are you fucking serious right now, dog? You need to be the kind of person who lets people, if you happen to be that person who's smart enough in a friend group, be like, yeah, this is bullshit, guys. Like, you need to send that shock through the system.

And I think that, like, this is like one of those examples where maybe they were, they just don't talk about politics all the time. Yeah. But I think it's like, like, men already have like a, you know, inability to talk about anything real. Compounded with men of that particular, those, you know, you could, I assume there'll be a link to that video. These kids, young guys, dude.

Or, yeah, or like, you know, aspiring mob guy. I don't know what the fuck they're, like, think about their life. That guy's a cop, dude. His uncle. Yeah, that's right. They're aspiring cops. They're absolutely aspiring cops.

He wants to be a cop. And, like, so it's like, I think they just go through life, assuming everyone of their boys thinks exactly the same. So that's also a crack in their social fabric. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And but that's a good part of growing up. too is like when you start being like also understanding like it's actually important who you hang

around and like yeah the energy that comes with that because it can actually poison you like on a certain level like energetically like you will become stagnant around people who are not growing or challenging themselves so shout it to the dude who sheepish she was like you know yeah but he also didn't really have a more thought out that I will say I have a feeling that guy must be like doing crypto or something it was like it's actually not good for like my little corn Well, I think he does have a car, you know, and I think that he's seeing that the war in Iran is causing gas prices to go up. Because he brings up the economy as a thing. And I think the other guy does not have a car.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. So this is not additive at all, but you have to appreciate the, like, he's like top half streetwear. Like, he sort of understands the kith fill away. And then the bottom half is like skinny jeans that taper off around the leg. He didn't really, he didn't get the note. It's schizophrenic style. We're going baggy.

We're going baggy. And how could you know because you're a cop and you just pulled that shirt out from something that confiscated from someone they arrested? Yeah, you don't hide guns in your lower body. You hired guns under the- Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. And shout out to like, it's funny too.

When you look at these guys, like they all like are sort of like three specific algorithms of fashion that like young men are served. It's like you can do kind of the more cop, kithing. you can go sort of loud Ed Hardy outfit with terrible cargo pants. And then like the dude who had the decent take, he got the best of adept in Goodwill hunting.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, look, I obviously, I don't think AI is good enough or will ever be. But if you just told one of those fucking programs built me a young man, and hit generate three times. Yeah, pretty much what you guys.

Because it's true. I mean, so, I mean, like, I see this so much in L.A. Like, there are, like, three outfits young dudes wear that are, like, all I see, like, it's like, are you wearing real tree camo with light washed jeans? There's, like, the real tree camo with light washed everything that fucking every motherfucker's wearing. The blue collar cosplay. Yeah, yeah, there's blue collar cosplay.

But then, like, you kind of drip it out with, like, a fucking, you know, whatever it is, you know, an expensive jogger or whatever it is. But it's just, it's interesting to do it. just see like the, I don't know. I will, I will submit this. And this is me, you know, as an old man who's been through several generations of teens. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think every generation has seen 19 year olds and thought precisely what you're thinking.

Oh, yeah, you know, 100%. 100%. But it's just like interesting, though, too, how much algorithmically, like stuff is, gets funneled, right? Like, it's all designed. Like, you kind of get an algorithm will determine. determine you're this kind of dude, and now it's going to be reinforced visually in your algorithm based on all the data. Oh, sure.

You get more feedback. Yes. I'm just saying, I do think teens have been funneled into three buckets for all the time. I don't know. Wait, so what were the three buckets for you? Which bucket were you in? Oh, I mean, obviously in my bucket, there was just like buzzcut, short sleeve, a button-up shirt to the top. There was just standard issue hippie.

and there was Black Panther. Yeah. Oh, okay. Except of the 70s. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. I definitely had like, we had like the happy goths. Like, so of like early 2000s, like when goth, mall gotts like became like really into like anime and invaders. Yeah.

Yeah. So it was like no longer that dark rooting goth. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And you obviously had skater kids. Yep. Yeah.

And then and then there were like the scenessters. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Mine was, it was joc, skater, rap, drugs. We're like sort of the four boy styles, and I was rap drugs. Yeah. What's sort of the bucket I felt like that's what I'm saying.

There's just, I don't know. At the end of the day, at the end of the day, no microphone should ever be thrust into the face of a 23-year-old. Why would they do that? No matter of their political affiliation. Like Don Lemon, being out there on the street, like, you know, respect Don Lemon. But it's like, what are you going to get from these guys? Like, what he is hoping to, what discourse is possibly going to come out of?

Well, I think that's what's unfortunate is like, these people do have votes, you know? That's his kidens up. So on some level, it's like, what the fuck are y'all thinking real quick? Oh, nothing. Okay. I get it. Yeah. Either was I.

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Oh, yeah. I feel like Donald Trump has a face that has a face that has. has seen like a Jacob Marley ask ghost that has like visited him you know that's the vibe I get off of him that he's definitely been visited by like

I feel like he probably gets visited by like the ghost of Christmas past future and present like every night and they just can't and he has not sunk in at all nothing all right uh let's talk DJ Tanner will you guys full house fan

um yeah sure Yeah. But I also liked Candace Cameron as a child. Yeah. She was very You know. The Cameron family. Of the girls that were, of course. Yeah, because we loved Kirk as a heartthraw.

But they're just all over the teen mags. You know? Yeah. And I just loved her look. I thought she was so cool. I love that. Her brother was so hot. Like, they really took a turn.

And they were, but they were like big, like, open. Like Kirk Cameron especially was like a big like, I'm going to say it loud and proud. I'm a Christian, like type of. Not early, early on. Really? Oh, no, because I was a kid Christian. I would have, I would have attached myself to that so much.

Yeah. It felt like a reinvention. It was later for sure. I remember it coming up when, like, there were episodes where he freaked out because he and his girlfriend were like asked to kiss or like something like that. Maybe there was a premarital sex, like storyline. And he was like, not going to do it. And I remember that being a story, like, at the time.

I think even as a kid, and I did hear those stories, I thought, like, this is a sign. I was not going to be a long-term Christian. But I thought maybe this guy's in the closet. And then he's like, you know, because that did happen with a lot of teen heartthrobs where they're like, I don't want to kiss on screen for whatever reason. And then they come out later. And you're like, yeah, because it's not attracted to girls. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. Anyways, Candice, Cameron Burray. Burr, yeah, Burret. It's like the Pavel Burray. She's married to a hockey player, I think. Not the famous one. She has a podcast every single week where they, like, you hear some wild shit.

Like she has mentioned before that she's like scared of having scary movies on in her house because to her that's just a portal. She's like, this is a direct quote. Listen, I'm in the film industry. I understand how it all works. I know that movie, I know that movie has a crew of 200 people and they're lighting it and they're adding the sound effects and it's makeup and the camera, people and actors. However, there's still something that can be incredibly demonic while they've made it. She's like, I don't want to watch that shit.

I'm not going to open my house up to a portal to hell. I guess fair enough. Yeah. I mean, that's, you know, she's also said she's, like, weirded out by the visual of God watching her having sex. Or when that train comes at her and she has to duck underneath it. She's freaked out by that. But I'm freaked out by that, too. Like, I don't want God watching me have sex.

Okay. Well, I will have got to say, to her credit, this is some more classic 80s Christianity, you know, that we've totally lost touch with. because the idea was, yeah, if you, I wasn't supposed to watch any movies over like rated G. And even then, you know, some of my pastors would be like, well, Disney's evil too. And they're trying to control your mind. But it was like that because we could be controlled by the media and then by, you know. Yeah. Because the government's controlling the media and they want to control our brain.

And we've just lost all of that. Like now it's like, no, listen to listen to the government. They're doing the right thing. They got it all. Now the Christians are in charge, Amy. I feel like did, was it like a 70s, 80s fad of believing in demons, like specifically, so concretely? Yeah, I was going to say. That actually ties really nicely into this clip that we have this week from CandaceaCampereon,

because very 80s energy here, she went to one of these demonic Hollywood sex parties that we're always hearing about. I've been to parties in Hollywood. I haven't come across one of these, but she somehow accidentally found herself there. I'm going to share this clip with you guys. I just want to get your thoughts on. Do you buy it? Do you think this is real? I mean, listen, I have some really weird, embarrassing moments, although I shouldn't say embarrassing.

For me, they were more shameful of going to places where I thought, like, oh, this person's a friend and I'm going to be cool and do this. And yeah, I went to a party once with Val because we were married. And it ended up being this underground party that was an S&M like sex thing that was so dark and demonic. And we walked in and my eyeballs were popping out of my head because I saw stuff I've never seen before in my life. And I'm looking at Val going like, how are we here? What is happening? And the one person that invited us, but we made a hard you turn. Yeah.

And what's going on? What is happening? Right out of there. And it just was like so slimy and weird. And I was like, we're going to pause before we ever say yes to going out with that friend again. We just had no idea what we were walking into. And it was so disgusting and gross. she saw things she never saw before, like men going down on women.

Right. What do we think she, what, do you think this was just like a Halloween costume party? Or do you think she actually like got invited to a sex party? Like any Hollywood Halloween party would be demonic. It's possible that it was an S&M party. And then, you know, there are some things that happened that would, might freak her out. You know, if someone had an animal mask or there were whips involved, but it's like, you know, I mean, who knows? That is amazing.

Shout out to her friend who is like, you know what she'd like to do? Yeah. I will also just say, like, I mean, look, I have limited but not zero experience with people who go to sex parties. And all of them that I know personally are the least demonic people I've ever. they're huge nerds mostly. Yeah. I'm just like, I don't know guys.

But they do like costumes sometimes, Andrew. Yeah. I'm not saying she wouldn't. Consumes and consent. Maybe she had never seen people asking for consent. That must be a demon. That is against the word of God. They're making eye contact with each other.

That makes sense because it's like the idea, you know, with demons and vampires and a lot of evil entities. Like they have to ask permission to get in. So maybe she just saw like. a man in leather and an animal mask asking for consent. And she's like, no, don't tell him. No. Don't ask.

No, he has your soul. Yeah, don't ask. Victor points out that her story does sound like a very special episode of Full House. God, the specialist. Yeah. The most special episode of Full House of all time. Anyways, shout out to whoever her friend was who thought she was cool. That's funny.

I really am waiting for whoever this person is to come out and be like, It was a dinner party. We were doing cocaine, and that really freaked her out. Oh, man. All right. And finally, it's time to talk Bigfoot. That's right. So Bigfoot's having a bit of a moment.

First of all, Amber Ruffin's Bigfoot, the musical, opened off Broadway and is getting good reviews. There have been multiple Bigfoot sightings in Ohio in the past week. Sure. There's a new Bigfoot emoji. Technically, it's called Harry Creature. for some reason, but it's definitely Bigfoot. So that that's dropping with like whatever than a new Apple update is. And at South by Southwest, a new documentary dropped called Capturing Bigfoot.

And it provides startling new evidence that the famous footage of Bigfoot strolling through the woods, the 1967 Patterson, Gimlin film, is 100% faked. Oh. I didn't realize like how load-bearing. that video was. That is like the video that everybody's like. I just want to say, I teased it earlier. I just want to say my friend who believes in Bigfoot

because my big thing is like, there is like 4K trail cams out now. There's cameras everywhere. How do we never seen another Bigfoot? And his answer has always been, no, big feet are so intelligent they can avoid cameras and disable them. Yeah.

Which is wild. They work for Trin. or whatever that the born company is. They work for that company. But there's still, there's still plenty of areas of mostly undiscovered forest

that are hard for humans to get to. I don't not believe. I love that. I mean, because every time there's a new, like deep, deep sea creature that's photographed for the first time. And then they're like,

oh, it's 200 years old or whatever. And like, I'm like, okay, I think, I think that it's, possible there's some forest creature that we haven't really photographed yet, but maybe someone has seen with their own eyes. My favorite Bigfoot. I don't think he's in Ohio. I'll say that.

Just outside Cincinnati. The, uh, my favorite Bigfoot detail, the thing that most made me want to believe was an interview with Jane Goodall where they were like, you know, it somehow came up. And she was like, yeah, so it's kind of weird. You know, every culture has a, similar conspiracy theory about like a Bigfoot in there. Like I've gone to, you know, these really remote tribes who, like, you need to take three planes to like get to them. They're completely cut off. And they have a Bigfoot mythology.

Like every different culture has one. I mean, counterpoint, though, it's like the least deviation from seeing another person as far as a mystical being could possibly be. Like, oh, what did you see? A guy. A little bigger. A tall hairy guy. Tall hairy naked.

I'm just saying. So the thing that's in this documentary is, first of all, it was already revealed back in a Fox special called Fox's World's Greatest Hokes, Secrets Finally Revealed back in the 90s. But in that, the guy who was in the suit named Bob Hieronymus. What? said that he was paid $1,000 to don the suit. And for some of it, like, people were just like, yeah, I don't know. That sounds like, it was on Fox. Nobody respected Fox at the time.

So that people were just like, it's not been officially debunked. But the director- Also, Amanda's named Bob Hieronymus? Hieronymus. Get the hell out of here. Amazing. I know a Joe Hieronymus. What?

He lives in Portland. One of the great names is crazy. One of the great possible names, like the greatest possible name. So the director of this new movie was contacted by a woman who found an old canister of 16 millimeter film belonging to her late father, which appears to be like a rehearsal for the Bigfoot film where it's like a slightly skinnier looking bigfoot walking into the woods. And her father has always been kind of one of the, I think he was the person who presented it. And so that's the thing that is making people. She believes her father had the film developed for Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin, who are the people who officially presented it to the world. One time my ex-boyfriend caught me really, really high and fully nude going to the kitchen for a snack.

And he took a side photo of that and then put it next to that big foot image. And I'm like literally in this exact same position with my arms. And it's one of the funniest and most powerful things. It's such an iconic shot. Yeah. It's like up there with like the Beatles on the Abbey Road cover. Like the like mid stride for mid stride photos. Yeah.

Yeah. I was midstried snack. Mm-hmm. But it contains the new documentary also contains an interview with Patterson's son. So this is the. the guy who like brought the footage forward who says uh that his family had previously refused to speak about it because the clip generated millions of dollars in licensing fees over the years which i don't realize but those are every time you see that holy shit being licensed

get out there and fake some cryptids well did you guys ever watch the documentary series about humble and like weed farmers up in humble Oh, it's really fascinating. It's really fucking scary. Like, you know, a lot of people disappear up there, never to be heard from again. But there's a chunk of it where they kind of talk to, you know, seemingly. Yeah. Or just like ask about Bigfoot as just a part of this.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. As one of the reasons that these people are disappearing and not being murdered by my like. Drug dealers and drug dealers. I mean, it can be both, which is that weed barren Bigfoot is out there. Yeah, but there's like seemingly... Pinkfoot's a kingpin. Normal, smart people that live in Humbold

that are scared of both the drug dealers and Bigfoot, you know, like they're like, no, I mean, either one can kill you, really. I was going to throw this out there. Bigfoot versus drug dealers is a pretty good movie idea. It's a good premise. Yes. Maybe they're working in concert and they give him free weight.

Well, at the end, yeah. Right. But not at the beginning. But he like takes over. It's like a scarface thing. Yeah. The rise and fall of drug dealing Bigfoot. Not a fall.

Can he swim? I feel like he... That's a really good question. I feel like he's more likely to live on it in, like in a coastal forest where one of the ways he can disappear is by dipping into the water. Interesting. It's a great theory. I think he's got to swim. Yeah.

He's so lanky, you know. Like an Olympic swimmer. They always have those long arms. He's like Michael Phelps. That's true. Maybe he's like. A lot of hair, though. Really bad drag.

Yeah. Really bad drag on that. Well, he shaves himself down for competition. Yeah. That's actually my conspiracy theory is that who that's who Michael Phelps is. Yeah. Okay. Shaved down.

Shave down big foot. But the theory in this documentary kind of like puts a heroic spin on it because like Roger Patterson was like kind of a con artist type of guy. but he knew that he was dying. He died in 1972, and in like 1968, he had like sort of a terminal diagnosis and was just like, I want to leave my family some something to take care of them. And like, what a brilliant way to do that to be like, I'm going to create the best Bigfoot like footage. And then they're just going to like have to license it over and over and over again. And it worked.

His family, you know, was able to make money off of it. Yeah. That's what it's all about. what it's all about. I still want to believe. This is the American dream. Truly. It's like tricking other Americans into believing something that's not real and then making money off of it.

Yeah. I mean, it really is the backbone of our society. That's great. You're going to be shocked to learn that some members of the Bigfoot community are blasting the new movie, calling it a sleazy, deceptive production. Fair enough. Yeah. So they would know. They're saying that Patterson's son was.

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