The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 426 (Best of 4/6/26-4/10/26)

Episode Date: April 12, 2026

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Naviganza. Uh, yeah. So without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist. What is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? Oh, buddy. We just did, we're working on Jimmy Saville right now. Oh, boy. So I don't really want to bring up that because mostly it's just like Jimmy Saville,

necrophilia, Jimmy Saville, Satanist ritual. Like that's like, but the main thing is, is that I've been rewatching neon Genesis Evangeline with my wife, who's just been. sort of leaving, but she comes back and forth and I explain kind of what's going on here. But I looked up the Japanese lyrics to the theme song so I could learn the Japanese lyrics to the opening song, The Angel's Cruel thesis. Wow. And can you give us a little bit?

I just have to, honestly, because I have not, unfortunately, I've not fully memorized it yet. It's okay. You can be a carry-up. Wow, that's pretty good. Yeah, thank you. It sounds good to me, but Miles is actually this is upsetting you? No, no, no.

Zonkoku, not ten, Shinotese, Madobe, gotta you got a teutu. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You're doing it. You got that. You got that. I'm so, you got that.

Now do the next verse. Keep going. There's the next one of this. This is a star spangled bag. No, no, no, no, no, go to the next one, man. The secret third verse? You just, you just said a bunch of war crimes that happened. They're in World War II.

Oh, fuck, oh, yeah. This is just, I thought it said. Honestly, there is a third verse. Oh, there is? Yeah, yeah, but it doesn't come up until, I think, until the rebuilds. I remember those, as a kid, going to Japan and seeing the models for that show and always being like, those next level. I want these.

Oh, I wanted to be one. I got obsessed with it in college, and that's kind of feel like the thing that is kind of, It's a secret I have in terms of how much I like anime. Oh, interesting. Because I do like anime. But Evangelion is my favorite, and that's the reason why I listened to it. I just wanted to know the words. That's my favorite theme song of any television show of all time.

It's so funny how iconic anime theme songs have become just over the years because so many people are into anime that so many of these songs that, like in Japan, you're like, this is like, oldaku stuff that you would only hear someone who's like really like trying to slap this music out loud. Real free. But here, yeah. I know people who are like, like, They're like, I know the Dragon Ball theme song in Japanese and like, Shala, hey, shala.

And I'm like, whoa. Yeah, dude. People emotionally connect. I think there's something about it. There's, there is, because it's also, it's, it's better stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, you're getting really good, like, content in your cartoon. Like, there's emotional content.

It's also, like, we don't even have fucking theme songs anymore for, like, TV shows. Like, the ones, you can remember the ones that have theme songs. What has happened to theme songs? Yeah. What in the living fuck? I feel like the last. one was, remember true detective had that great song

that they did a really good opening song and you were like, oh, this is awesome. We loved it. We would like listen to the song and sing the song. I feel like that is all gone. Was that made? We're true detectives. It was by like bones that got to bones. Yeah, yeah. But was that made for the show? Yes. Oh, well, see, that's what I'm talking. But did it have the

titular true detective in the night? Yeah, well, yeah, I don't shit. No, I don't think it ever said. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. It's not like family matters. Every step you take. Honestly, that would be amazing. Just like there's a girl, there's a girl with a footlers in her. You know. Jesus crazy.

And you're all out there and you're all alone. I can seem running away from freaks trying to bow. Wow. And there it is. And there it is. I think he kind of could have smiled. Yeah. Yeah.

Just turns to Karen's smile. I knew that time was a flat circle. Sucking his signal, like, Kendo. But unfortunately, that, a whole, I did not understand that whole show was stolen from, essentially the concept of that was stolen from Thomas Legati. Really?

The author who wrote this whole book about the, like, he wrote an anti-human philosophy book. Uh-huh. Oh, yeah. He's amazing. He's amazing. He wrote this, like, he's a horror novelist.

Yeah. That decided to create an anti-life philosophy book. Uh-huh. So he wrote, like, essentially, like a parody philosophy book that was about all of the worst theories that anybody's ever had about our existence. So, like, Schopenauer and all these things that were just, like, mechanical machines that we should, to save the universe, humans should be eradicated. Right. It's all right book. It's great book. It's very funny. Agreed.

Agreed. Yeah. Just like pure nihilism. Like all the nihilism, they were just like, I'm going to pull that one and that. And it's just going to be a cop who says that shit. Exactly. They were very, he was correct,

but, you know, yeah, unfortunately he's right. Well, it's something you think is underrated. Opening for reality television stars is a same. Oh,

I know many of us, I know many of us are, you know, who've been doing this for years. Like, I don't want to open for a reality star who doesn't know what they're doing. I don't want to open for a TikToker.

And I say, do it. Do it. So I open for Sarper. Sarper. I open for Sarper, Gouven, who is married to a woman named Shikina. They are two stars from the 90-day fiancé franchise. They've been on a couple of the shows. Sarpur is a man from Turkey who, on the franchise and in the lore is famous for sleeping with over 2,500 women.

And having a liquor bottle to commemorate each one. Yeah, each experience. He never not lets you know how many women he slept with. Yeah. And we're believing him? We think he's, or is the same? Self-mothologizing. I think it's a bit of both. I don't doubt that he was able to pull, but at that level, who knows? Who knows?

You know, I believe he believes it. Yeah, and that's what's important. So it's kind of enough for me. Yeah. Yeah, he's a very truly toxic man. Like, he's just, but he's endearing because he's just so ridiculous. You're like, what is this? Is this a bit?

What's going on? Like, what is this personality, you know? And I truly love a well-behaved and a poor-behaved man, but there's something fun about a poor-behaved man. man. And I wanted to see, like, what's the deal? What's the situation? What are these jokes about? And this man is also currently touring doing 90 minutes. 90 minutes. Just because of the symmetry with 90 day fiance. Not because he has 90 minutes. I don't even know. Oh, certainly not. He does not have 90 minutes. I will tell you that. It's not a tight 90 minutes. Yeah, because Sophia,

Alexander, who I do the podcast, she saw him in Portland and was like, was live texting me. She's like, this motherfucker's about to hit like an hour in 35 minutes. And I was like, how? Just on stage by himself. Just being like, what else? What else? I went on, it was a two-man show, which is unheard of. Just for most people who maybe you have them into a comedy show,

a normal comedy show is about 90 minutes. And that means you see a host, a feature. The host usually does 10. Your feature usually does 20. And then your headliner does 60. And there you go. Nice little 90 minutes spent. So in this scenario, I did 15 up top.

And then this man did not. 90 minutes. So this was an extremely long show, and then there was a meet and greet afterwards. And about 35, 40 minutes in, it became very apparent that everyone was there

to get their picture taken because I couldn't have seen a more distracted audience. Just... On their phones and shit? Well, no, phones are locked up. Oh, oh, right. You know, wow.

To say it from the wolf mafia. He's out here like Chris Rock. He's like, you just... No, you actually can't share this. Mm-mm. And he doesn't give you the gossip you want. I think people show up or waiting to like hear him just rip. Although he did make one great joke wherein he refers to Ed, big Ed, from the franchise as unnecked.

And it's a callback to a joke he did previous about not understanding the term unhoused living in Los Angeles. And it truly, that was a great callback. It really sent me to a place that I could not stop laughing. for quite a long time. And I had to text a few friends to be like, this got me. This got me good. Like, this really got me.

I had a few people that were like, you got to tell me how this goes. You got to tell me how this goes. How was it by the time you, like, so he does his 90 minutes. Were you even able to go back up? You're just like, all right, folks, thanks a lot. Yeah, like at the end, like I did my time up top.

I killed it because I'm a very funny person. You're an actual comedian. I'm an actual comedian who's done this for years. And then he didn't. And then afterwards he does, he ends his show with like a weird dance to a Turkish song, which is strange. The variety shows. And then he didn't realize I was coming back on to be like, hey, guys, like, thank you for coming and, you know, see us again soon and line up over here.

And it was funny. But yeah, that's it. I literally closed out the shows. But I sat there. I was like held hostage for close to two hours watching this man. But I would have stayed anyway. Like, that's why I did it. I wanted to see what it was.

And I actually had a great time talking to him. He was very enjoyable. I can say he loves comedy very, very much, which I found. endearing. But I just don't know if your first tour going out and doing 90 minutes in cities is going to really provide for an audience that wants to come back. Do you get the sense that it's a set or is he just up there? He's a loose collection of jokes. Yeah. It's a loose collection. Yeah. There's not a real arc yet. I think there could be, but I don't think he has the wherewithal. I think he's just, he has, he doesn't care if anybody's having a good time because he's having a great time. Yeah. He's enjoying the shit. He has no. He's like such.

a narcissist that he's like, this is great. I'm on stage. I get to say wacky, misogynistic stuff. People love it because they love the show. And I hope to see Shikina too somewhere. And then that validates me and my self-made identity a stand-up comedian who can do 90s.

Exactly. I was so disappointed that Shikina wasn't there, though. I'd heard all the lore that she doesn't let him travel and that she's with him constantly. And when he walked in alone, I was like, sigh. Like, I really wanted them to come in and offer me a stick of butter to eat, you know what I mean, or something wild, but no, he was just there by himself. They were offering people sticks of butter to eat at one of the tell-alls, Jack, because they're

like, they're into like all kinds of weird keto shit. And they were, I'm not joking, just pulling out full sticks of butter, peeling the paper off and eating that shit, like a fucking candy bar. Yeah. And they're like, oh, do you want one? They're like, here, dude, I can unwrap you one right now. Probably like killed multiple people, like of heart, heart disease. Yeah. You're like, no, if you're not living, if you're not living on the keto diet, I don't think that's good to eat a fucking whole stick of butter. They say it's good, you know? What's cholesterol?

Listen, man. I'm not trying to malign butter in any way, sense or form. No, no, no, no. I love butter, but, like, eating it like that. I've never even thought of that shit. No, nah. Was it weird that he closed his set with a Turkish dancing? You had planned to do the same thing?

Were you able to, like, kind of improvise something different? I was disappointed because I was like, God, how do we both know this song? Like, how does, how. God. And then I thought, well, at least we made it easy for the sound guy. You know what I mean? Those guys are always just slammed with special requests. So at least that Turkish song got a second spin. You know what I mean? It's not just taking up time in the hard drive. Finally, Blake, what is something you think is overrated? Extendable leashes, I think, are the work for dogs. I think are the worst invention. I think it's horrible. I think it's horrible. And I'm actually, I'm coming from, like, like cities living in a city, you might as well not have the dog

like on a leash because you can't control it. The dog can wander into the street. If it's going after another dog, it's not like you can like, like it has enough tension where it, if you hit a button, it pulls the dog back. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're kind of like pulling on a little string with your tiny little hands.

You're just saying the invention's not sufficient. You need a strong automated rewind. You need a real. Yes. Yes. This is why I put my dog on the end of a fishing reel. And I just let him go. He's out there.

And if, like, I see too much action on the line, I just reel his ass back in. But otherwise, I mean, he gets to roam, explore the whole city. Two, three hundred meters, they want. Where you could put the rod in, like, the holder, you know, to, like, keep it in place. It starts going 35 miles per hour for some reason. It's like, uh-oh. Got a big one. Got a big one.

I got my dog was swallowed by a larger dog. Finally caught the mail truck. Yeah. So this is something I remember from like back my last dog-owning phase where this was going. We started out with the retractable leash and then I was told, you can't do that to him. No, no, no. What are you doing? Do you have any idea how confusing this?

that is for him. He has no idea how long a leash you've given him. You got to teach it. Look, if there's one thing I've learned is that big dog got to eat, you got to let him know that shit, you know? You got to tell the big dog. And that's the origin story of how I became Big Dog Gotta Eat guy. But yeah, I was going to say what if that wasn't in the intro and it's like, well, there was nothing else that we talk. Yeah, there's no cold open if we didn't use that. Dog psychology is a whole thing that I've just, like, adopted all of these beliefs that I've, like, heard from people who are probably, you know, like, I am. Completely insane. Yeah, yeah.

I'm like a Manosphere-grade, uh, knower of dog facts. Like, the amount of science that I've, like, just accepted because someone was like, yeah, you know, as I learned from being raised in a wolf pack. I'm just like, yeah. Well, then this guy would know. Well, there's also like ascribing all this like intention and consciousness to your dog is sort of like the nicer version of, you know, thinking chat GPT can think. It's like, we just give consciousness to everything. That's right. We have to.

The fucking cloud is a man looking at me. Like, yeah. My car, Brian. That one is true, you know? Yeah. That cloud is a man looking at me. But everything else I agree with what you're saying. Yeah.

It's great. I used to watch Caesar Milan's show. Yeah, I think I watched a lot of Caesar Milan when we first got dogs because, like, that, that was what was popular at that time. And, yeah, I have no idea how much that shit is true. But he was very convincing and authoritative. And I needed someone to tell me what to do. But I remember he was so authoritative. But one thing that made me laugh every time, a dog authoritarian, a dog authoritarian, a dog purist.

And his dog, his own dog was named Daddy, which means. made me laugh. So his favorite dog his name was Daddy. So he would be like, you need to do this. You need to do this. Very strict, very strict.

And he goes, oh, my dog, daddy, for instance. What's the name of your dog? It's so, it was really sweet and endearing.

Like, it looked like a cool dog. But, like, hearing the name daddy prescribed to a dog would never not send me into a giggle fit. So,

rest in peace to daddy. Yeah. And all daddies. And all dad. Any father who's ever passed away, may they rest in peace. All right. Yeah.

Victor Want some treats, Daddy? Want some treats, Daddy? Oh. God. Victor's voice in the chat is always so horny. Is it just me? Is that just at my head?

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And we're back. We're back. And yeah, so Donald Trump was like we're going to wipe out your whole civilization by tonight. That was yesterday. We're recording this yesterday, so we don't know what exactly happened. We do know how people reacted to it, which was, seems like people scared. I mean, yeah, you got a lot of people. We touched on the trending episode on.

Tuesday about how like the Alex Jones is Tucker Carlson's Candace Owens are all doing some version of pull the fucking plug on this administration now this get back. Wow that's crazy man those nut jobs yeah and I think that's crazy yeah and a lot of being a little crazy even for us even for us because we just we do pretend crazy for money on YouTube yeah we do and fashioned anti-semitism it's wild when like they like it gets too real for the people that are the like architects of the bullshit artistry on the right or just like this is a little weird but again as we'll see there'll be a theme in this episode people are also looking for exit strategies as a way to sort of frame themselves as being like i was actually against it the whole time kind of a thing so it's you know they're saying

the right things but the intent TBD where they're actually at but in terms of like those threats on like fox news newsmax every day they have to do some version where if like people are like these are war crimes and they got to go like no they're not And if they are, fuck yeah. How about that? So this is Jesse Waters talking again about like, you know, the fact coming up about a lot of people are saying what he's talking about is absolutely illegal. And it's funny when Democrats are able to say that when Republicans are in power,

but not when they're in power. It always strikes me as odd. Waters, man. Also my boy. My boy, Waters. Come in to fix the Wi-Fi in a second. Here's Jesse Waters, you know, talking a little bit about just kind of like what's going on in the strait and the situation in Iran and war crimes and all that.

Yeah, Democrats calling Trump crazy helps Trump. It makes him look like he's this madman who's totally unrestrained and unwilling or willing to do anything to win the war. So the Iranians look at that and they go, uh-oh. Iran? We better sign something. This guy's really willing to do it all. But I didn't think his tweets were any more bombastic than they usually are.

And bombing power plants is not a war crime. Bill Clinton destroyed Serbia's entire energy infrastructure. Both Bushes took out Iraq's electricity grid. Hey, asshole. Those are still war crimes. The fuck are you saying? Oh, yeah, there's a, there's a way to do this all the time. Yeah.

Again, sure. But he's, his whole point here is, yeah, man, it's fine. It's really not that bad. It's just, it's going to be power plants, maybe. although nobody knows. Even Caroline Leavitt was asked like, what does the president even mean with half of this shit? And she goes, only the president knows.

Oh, good. Which is, that's good. That's why I like it though. Terrifying response. Right. Just keeps us all on the edge of our seats. Only one person knows the password. That's how you want it.

That's right. And I'm sure, maybe they've completely lost their minds probably. But, you know, that's where my, that's where my butter, my bread is buttered. So not going to happen. But there's always, they're always doing, it's between him and this other guy, Carl Higby on Newsmax, they're doing this version of like, it's actually good that this guy is so unhinged, irrational, and unpredictable. That's actually like an advantage that we have.

Oh, you're scared that the world is going to end? Imagine how the Iranian people feel or Iranian. Which is so fucking grim. Like, you're talking about actual fucking human beings. and it's not just like, you're not playing SimCity and you go, delete power plant. Well, oh, that's going to be hard for the people there. That is, those are, those are fucking machines that keep like life support like going or any other kind of thing that requires electricity. Anyway, they try and make it an abstraction to sort of separate the actual human suffering toll.

So here's Carl Higby on Newsmax, who is basically like, they're calling it, they should be like, hell yeah, brother, for war crimes. Mm-hmm. The whole world. You crazy bastards or you'll be living in hell. Just watch. He's reading the truth post right now. President Donald J. Trump. Wow.

And instead of being like, hell yeah, brother, that's America. They're out there whining about like war crimes. Not a peep, though, when I got hit by an Iranian-built IED that killed three of my friends right next to me. That'd be like war crimes, get bent. I don't care. I don't really care about it. Basically, every left-wing network this morning,

and last night, by the way, Trump issues expletive-laden threat against Iran. Meanwhile, I'm like, yeah, man, that's exactly what I voted for. Okay, well, maybe you should, maybe you should reenlist, bro. I think that man should not be a journalist. I think he's got a little bit of what do you call, what's it called when you have a bias? A little bit of a bias because of his personal experiences with an IED. Yeah, what else are trying to gooting and hollering?

Hell yeah, brother. Why aren't they like, hello? I mean, again, they're trying to model the behavior for their viewers to try and make this palatable. So then if this guy is up here being like, hell yeah, brother, this is good. There's going to be millions of people who watch that because, you know, most at this point, people have watched the news to be like, and what is my state mandated response to this bit of news? Ah, yes. Hell yeah, brother.

Hell yeah, brother. It's just like such a childish and imbecilic way to look at this entire situation. Like, this isn't a fucking fight in high school with a bully. and like you're lying about your uncle being a cop who got kicked off the force because he was too crazy. You know what I mean? You see like this is serious shit that is going to affect the entire fucking planet if this keeps escalating. And it already has. So this is like, yeah, they're on hell yeah, brother mode right now.

And I'm not seeing much of a change. You see Trump talking about how the Iranians want bombs? Yeah, yeah. There's always some form of that. too. Yeah. I can't believe you said that, though. It was one of those things were like, no one's ever said that before. Yeah.

No one's ever been like, actually they want moms. They're saying closer. They want me to bomb them. Yeah, yeah. I'm closer. Do more. That reminds me of like my first like college history lecture class about like Spanish history and colonization.

And like the first day they were talking about like the missionaries coming to the new world and this one girl was sincerely confused. And she's like, I don't understand why. the native people were upset in the new world, I was told they all wanted to be Christian, so isn't that good? Wow, that's cool, man. That's what you made it that far. What a great.

You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. And I was like, they let anybody into UCLA? Smooth brain. Yeah. Very smooth. Like a skating rink. Like the smooth jazz. And now we have the head of turning point just said it. Again, this

is Tuesday. So this is before the just fucked up deadline. the head of turning points, I said, if Trump drops a nuke on Iran tonight, then I'll absolutely call for impeachment. Oh, okay. Good. People are. Not too late then?

That's, you don't feel, you don't look at it. What about now? What about now when he's threatening to do that? Because you're still, you're still going to feel this shit either way. Right. It needs to stop now. Senator Ron Johnson said, quote, I hope and pray that President Trump is just using this as bluster. Well, that should take care of it then.

Yeah. There's just a lot of like, oh, yeah, he's, I think he's joking. And then he was, oh, fuck, he's what the fuck? He's been showing people this whole time where he's at and owning that just, you know, historic L that this is just does not seem it's on the fucking table for him. Well, he means it's a nuke of owning the libs is what it is. Right, yeah, yeah. It's a metaphor. He's going to nuclearly own the libs.

It's not actually going to drop a bomb. It's like an explosion. I'm sure that's what people want to say, yeah. Yeah, it's a bomb of liberal tiers. It's a classic tear bomb. It's not an actual thing. Nuclear. Nuclear.

is smaller. That's at an atomic, a very small level. Tiny, tiny. teeny tiny when you think about it. Yeah. And you, stone? When the, when the, when people are hoping what he is saying he's not serious about, that hasn't, that hasn't worked out for us yet.

Like, there's not been a thing that he, like, says. And people are like, oh, few, he wasn't serious about. Like, it always eventually ends with him doing the thing. and people being like, God damn, didn't see that one coming. Can he do it, though? Can he just, does the president have the ability to do that? They've been purging the Pentagon

of the sorts of people who would push back. So that's my concern, is that, you know, you would hope at a certain point that there's enough people in between him and that decision that are going to, you know, refuse that order. But, yeah, well, and the nuclear weapons,

like, that's, it's his, sole authority. It is. Is it really? Yeah. Yeah. That seems bad. Oh, that sucks.

Yeah, that's not good. Oh, man. Oh, no. That's not good. Oh, no, I should have looked into this a little bit sooner. No, I shouldn't have voted on. I mean, I think that's it.

It's because now, like, even now, like, there's starting to be more, I'm reading more and more pushback of people like, no, don't, just don't, J.D. Vance wasn't, he wasn't implying that nuclear weapons would be used. So I don't know. It's, it's, again, either way. What we do know, there was this foreign policy person, Elizabeth Saunders, was saying it's like, right now we're at the crossroads of humiliation or escalation. Let's go with humiliation, please.

Yeah, please. So what is this New York Times article that like kind of took a look behind the escalation to this point? What did they have to reveal? Just everything, it sort of reads as like, yeah, this all makes sense. This is what I figured. like for starters that, you know, for previous administrations, every time Netanyahu has come to the White House being like,

we got to kill everybody. They're like, yeah, nice try, asshole. Like we'll do some shit, but not, like, what you're asking for is beyond the pale. And also, like, doesn't make sense tactically or just from an intelligence standpoint,

and none of that. So the one of the first thing is, like, you, we learned from this report is that, like, Netanyahu came in, was like, It's going to be easy. This thing's going to be in four steps.

First is taking out the Ayatollah. Second is crippling their ability to project power in the region. Third, a popular uprising in Iran, easy. And that B to C, there's your problem. That's always their plan. And then the popular uprising happens in Cuba, in Iraq. Right. Never four works out for him.

A secular leader is put in charge that we can control. again this when the CIA was like was sitting in on this they were like they were they told Trump that was quote farcical um like that the regime change was possible not have used that big word at this at this stage he's been losing words i think it's got to be down to like real bad that not true but again Trump also we also realized how diminished his ability to retain information is like one of you know this general that he's elevated cane who was like used to be a fighter pilot, but because he says all the stuff that Trump likes. He's like, you're my new military advisor. This is from the New York Times piece. General Kane's role in the lead-up to the war captured a classic tension between military counsel and presidential decision-making. So persistent was the chairman in not taking a stand, repeating that it was not his role to tell the president what to do, but rather to present options along with potential risks and possible second-and-third order consequences, that he could appear to some of those listening to be arguing all sides of an

issue simultaneously. He would constantly ask, and then what? But Mr. Trump would often seem to only hear what he wanted to hear. And you're like, geez, Jesus Christ. And also goes on that no one is willing to be honest. And I think that's what's telling about this New York Times piece, because what we've seen over the last, you know, five, six weeks of this conflict was people clearly going to the press to try and be like, it's bad, but I don't, we're not telling him it's bad. So maybe the, if we tell the press, it becomes a story and then he hears it's bad and becomes bad. This article goes on, quote, one person familiar with their interactions known that Mr. Trump had a habit of confusing tactical advice from General Kane with strategic counsel. In practice, that meant the general might warn in

one breath about the difficulties of one aspect of the operation. Then in the next note that the United States had an essentially unlimited supply of cheap precision guided bombs. To the chairman, these were separate observations. But Mr. Trump appeared to think that the second most likely canceled out the first. At no point during the deliberations did the chairman directly tell the president that war with Iran was a terrible idea, though some of General Kane's colleagues believed that was exactly what he thought. So the ambiguity in Trump's just tunnel vision. This management style, right, where you fire people and shout of people until they tell you what you want to hear,

you're eventually going to get this guy in charge who's just telling you what he realized you want to hear even though he knows it's a bad idea because he's a coward and he's just like, I don't want, I don't want him to be mad at me. Yeah. And I want to keep my position. You know. Undering and killing millions of people. Well, then, so then this is where the piece gets even more interesting because people like,

is this, is this, is this Rubio? Is this Vance leaking? Because this is very, very, like, in the room where it happened type information that we're getting that the press wasn't privy to unless someone is there straight leaking. So we're leaking on purpose, right, to sort of maybe... Yeah, because it's clear no one is able to speak to the president directly. Like, or doesn't have the spine to do so. So because they're cowards, they're like, they're like,

I'm not going to say the house is on fire. Like, go tell the neighbor, but don't say someone else did it or something. I feel like when he sees that the fire department shows up, he'll recognize that the house is on fire. Right, exactly. Yeah, right. But don't tell them. Maybe you just call them.

So there's a whole section, Vance the skeptic. And this is where you're like, exit, exit positions are beginning to be. Katie Vance, whose feet are huge, by the way. What you? No, no. There's this whole story where these guys were wearing shoes that didn't fit them because Trump would like make fun of people for having big feet or small feet. Yeah, yeah.

And so they would wear bigger sizes. And then you could like see in pictures like Marco Rubio, there would be like an inch between his ankle in the back of his shoe. This is so far. It's so stupid. It's real. And these are the fucking people that are supposed to even push back, right? So this is the section on Vance, quote, nobody in Trump's inner circle was more worried about the prospect of war with Iran or did more to try to stop it than the vice president.

Holy shit. Lady Jans. Mr. Vance had built his political career opposing precisely the kind of military adventurism that was now under serious consideration. He had described a war with Iran as, quote, a huge distraction of resources and, quote, massively expensive. The vice president told associates that no amount of military insight could truly gauge what Iran would do in a retaliation when survival of the regime was at stake. A war could easily go on in unpredictable directions. Moreover, he thought there seemed to be little chance of building a peaceful Iran in the aftermath. Beyond all of this was perhaps the biggest risk of all, Iran held the advantage when it came to the Strait of Hormuz, if this narrow waterway, blah, blah, but anyway.

So this shit would have been interesting for him to have said in the press before the war. But yeah. Yeah. Then. Where's all Mike Johnson and all of this? I don't even know. I mean, he's doing whatever. He's like, well, you know, whatever the president believes is the right thing to do. And we'll have to discuss that.

Or he'll say some version of, I haven't seen that. I haven't seen that. You haven't seen the truth social post where he's threatening genocide? Spending 23 hours a day trying not to jack off. Like that's basically. I don't know. It's hard to know. It's hard to know because there's already, there's a vacucus.

There's like a power vacuum already forming where like people are already fracturing off because they're beginning, at least it seems to be, there are many Republicans that think there's going to be an after, after this. And they're trying to, trying to make it clear whether it's Alex Jones or Tucker Carlson, pretending like they always knew this was bullshit or now J.D. Vance being like,

I was, I was the one always saying to stop. I didn't really say it that loud or forcefully all the time. But can you write that down that I was all the most opposed to this? Thank you. It's dark that the idea that there's an after to all this is, is the optimistic outlook. Yeah, maybe there will be a future.

Well, you don't, yeah, you just don't, that's, you know, like, you can see every, everything I could imagine happening. I could imagine him being completely being like, I'm just going to manufacture a win out of fucking thin air and pretend I won just so I don't have to fucking do this. I don't have the medal for it. And then I can also, again,

because it's about humiliation or escalation, escalation looks like the more viable option for someone is, you know, narcissistic is Donald Trump. Yeah. And narcissism and facing his own death. Like, yeah. Yeah. He's good.

Yeah. You guys see The Apprentice? Have I seen. Oh, the movie The Apprentice. I haven't seen it now. But you haven't seen it? It's incredible. Yeah.

Does it make you feel better? It's a weird thing where, uh, you, it humanizes Trump. But it does it in a way where, you hate him even more at the end. Wow. Right. It's like this thing where I didn't know I could hate them more than I already do. And they found a way to do it.

Right. Coming from a place of knowledge. Yeah. It's really, I think it's incredible movie, but no one's seen it because the subject matter is so distasteful. I think that's right. It's like,

yeah, but it's just so brilliant because you like, you kind of get a window into this guy, like how he was formed. Right. Like this, his nature of his like psychopathies, like where it came from.

Right, right, right. It's pretty dark, man. It's pretty damn dark. All right. Speaking of pretty damn dark, let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk about Sam Altman real quick. Why hasn't a woman formally participated in a Formula One race weekend in over a decade?

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An old fave. Greedflation. Remember this? Yeah. Remember, we didn't know what to call it. Miles. During the pandemic, we noticed that as the economy stopped, like, people stopped going to work and, like, buying things and all that stuff. The stock market managed to stay afloat.

People were like, huh, that's weird. And then we noticed at the grocery store, all the prices went, like, way the fuck up. Oh, yeah. And we were like, oh, that seems unfair. Why are they doing? Ow! Ow! Ow!

Why are they fucking doing that to us? This one cool trick, companies don't want you to know. They don't want you to know about. And it seemed pretty straightforward. And then, sorry, the first quarter reports come in and they're like, guys, we got record fucking profits over here. We're like, oh, but you said the reason the prices went up was because of- We weren't buying anything.

Yeah, yeah. And because of fucking supply chain issues. Supply chain issues was supposed to be the reason why you have record profits. But then companies that didn't have supply chain issues are like, oh, okay. So if they're, yeah, everyone. Every fucking person just raise the prices during the pandemic. And I haven't noticed. But I do believe at the time, right, no one was like, because we weren't buying anything.

Right. I know I was like flush. I know a lot of people during COVID that were working, like had all this like extra money. Right. Like because they weren't buying anything and they weren't doing anything. And I just think it was like, how do we get that? Oh, we can kind of click it up a little bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Especially too with the payments too, like when people were getting relief checks too. that was another time the company was like, oh, somebody's got some money. How do you suck that up? I'm coming and coming in pennies. They all drink our milkshake is essentially what it comes down to. And they have an amazing ability to know when we got a little bit of extra milkshake for them to drink up. And they did that. And we were like, that's not how economics is supposed to work.

And economists were like, you're fucking crazy. Well, I'm the economist and I just made a bunch of money. so fuck all of you. It's working. Yeah. I even remember when Kamala Harris during her presidential run mentioned greedflation

and everyone was like, whoa, it was like she came out and was like, I think aliens assassinated JFK. They were like, wow, fringe theory. Fringe theory.

So there's this new story about how Doritos is having to cut their prices. Notice that it doesn't get covered when they raise their prices. It just gets covered now that they're cutting it. Yes, that's so funny. It's to be like,

all being like, God damn, can you see what's happening? We got a fucking deal. They're coming for the chips. So they're big, big news that they're cutting prices. The reason they had to cut prices is because they left the prices too high for too long. And in this article from finance. That sucks for them. Finance.jahoo.com in this article, they just like are now admitting greedflation.

Yeah, yeah. They admit it. It says across the package. food industry, companies raised prices aggressively during the pandemic as the phenomenon of greed flation took hold. Phenomenon? The phenomenon. So you're acting like, so like the pet rock.

So this is like the twist is greedflation. So we are, oh, so it's just a fun new fad that we're all just like. Greed didn't exist before this. It was wild. Phenomenon. I hate, this is like a part of the, it's the way they package the information. Yeah, yeah, exactly. You're like, you calling it.

So passive, too, about it. Well, it's like, it's a thing. The latest craze with teenage corporations. Corporations. It's like El Niño. Right. That's how they're acting like, like, we don't know why it comes and we don't know what it does when it lays. This is exactly what.

So this is the orthodoxy in the world of not just economics, which is like an academic discipline, nobody gives a fuck. But that's how like these channels are 24 hours a day paying attention to the market. They act like it is weather patterns. They act like it's not. Nothing. You're just, like, we know some things about so we can, like, make predictions, but they cut out the fact that it's just these corporations at the levers just being like, we're going to fucking charge them as much as we possible as much as we possibly can. Yeah, yeah, we're going to push this to the very lip at all times.

Yeah, and there's just nobody working on, like Ralph Nader used to be somebody who was famous for working on behalf of consumers. There's not that person anymore. This is what we have in. instead is like the tacit acknowledgement that they were charging us unfair amounts of money like five years later. That's like when the Pope apologized to Jewish people for like, sorry, we helped all those Nazis to get out of Germany. Except they're not even saying, sorry. They're just acknowledging that it was a thing that was a craze. Oh yeah, that happened. That happened. That was crazy that that happened. We were all crazy back then. But we're moving on. Do you not think that us here at Doritos weren't also suffering from the lack of connection from our revenue is going on? We were suffering and we felt the way to connect with you was to remind you Doritos is here.

Yeah. At first, this is a quote from the article. At first, shoppers didn't mind the price increases. Because we didn't know and we were dealing with the pandemic. Because you told us it wasn't happening. Yes, and we were also scared of our fucking minds. And if it was, there was some people were like, oh, that makes sense if stuff's not getting here, stuff's not moving. We believed you.

You can kind of be like, I can see the logic in that. Yeah, it makes sense. Yeah, of course the Dorito tree. We didn't mind. We can't get to the Dorito trees right now. All the workers, they're sick. And they don't, you know, like these workers, they don't want to go to the Dorito trees. And Henry, nobody wants to work anymore.

I tell me about it. All right. Tell me about it. You know how many times I've tried to get the homeless people around my office to go attack the police station? Nobody wants to do anything anymore. And that's fun. That is fun. I was going to give them $100 a piece to piss all over the front of a police station.

Or at least tell them. Yes. The one. who did the best job was going to get $100 and they would have to fight over. And I'd watch from a car across the street. Yeah, and get content. Thank you. Double dipping.

That's what that's called. That's called synergy. Partly because of higher prices, Frito lays net revenue shot up 13% between 2020 and 2021. And another 9% between 21 and 22. I'd go up, baby. Because they just kept raising prices. And then people were like, I don't know, Doritos shouldn't cost $7. They really shouldn't, man.

They really fucking shouldn't, dude. Yeah. It is, it's corn. Yeah. It's corn with salt on it. And sweet dust. It is the easiest. I love that dust.

And I don't care what amount of flex of, of asbestos are in it. Yeah, yeah, because it tastes good, right? But I know it's cheap to make. Sure. So just give it to, poison me at cost. Right. Right. That's all I ask.

We're going to agree. I'll pretend it's not poison. I know it's poison. Yeah, we've got. Given on that one. Don't worry. That was the first thing we gave on. Just the fact that they just did all that math and say that eating a fucking sheet of ham is the equivalent of smoking a cigarette.

They have this whole thing now. They're saying they're applying. They're saying that salted meats are as bad as nicotine. It's like, yeah, then just don't charge me a lot for it. Yeah. Like, I'll eat a lot of it then. I'll eat so much. So nobody else can eat it.

You guys want is dead, right? On the elites. I'll get out of your way. Like, that's my problem. Jersey Mike's like a 50. for the supersets. Are they trying to kill us or are they trying to keep us alive to work? It's not perfect middle, you know?

It's the same thing with like our, like our pharmaceutical drugs that we get here versus the ones in Europe. It's like ours work just enough that you don't go to the hospital, but not good enough that you're not going to keep, you're going to stop buying the fucking medication. You've ever gotten that good stuff in Europe? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's so much. I was sick in Europe and I got the good stuff.

It's worth getting sick in Europe. It is. You know what it's just to see the other side. Yeah. They get really good over-the-counter. Oh, dude, it's the best. It doesn't look over the cat. It doesn't have bright colors because why would it?

We're not trying to like fucking sell you on this. It's like white box that says medicine. That is like it's not sexy. There's no packaging. You know, some commercials for it. It just makes you feel better. And I do obviously think Europe's got its own issues, but not with that. Yeah, at the very least, they believe in some things.

They have their issues. It's just hard for us to see them from inside this shit storm. What those issues are. Your issues look great to us. Their issues are our issues. It's all the same shit. They got Italy. You got a fucking Nazi in charge of Italy.

Yeah. You've got free speech getting kicked in the ass in the UK. Yeah. All the time. Germany's going back towards the right. All these types of things are all happening. So they're all going to get it. Well, yeah.

Because at the same time, it's always like, what's causing these people to move to the right? It surely can't be because we're not, you know, improving their quality of life or anything like that. But I find it interesting because. Because how can nobody see that when people are upset and angry, they move to the right? Like, it's kind of interesting because you're like, nobody happy is in there. Yeah, sure. There's no happy.

There's nobody happy. No, he's happy to be a Republican. Right, right, right. They're literally just, are. They feel like it's like what even Megan Kelly said. I just, I am one. And so I am like this no matter what. Right, right, right.

And that's really a crazy way to be. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It doesn't make any sense. Well, they treat it like it's being realistic, which is. so fucking frustrating. It's so funny. That is what, that's how they talk to you

about being Republican. They're like, well, like idealism is, yeah. Did you see Rogan talk to Theo Vaughn about that, about how Theo Vaughn was saying something about he might have trying to express some form of emotion. Yeah, he was like, and about Iran

and all this kind of stuff. And Rogan was like, you got to come hang out at the other shit, man. Stop talking all this shit. You should be partying with me and doing this stuff. And I legitimately, I was like, oh, that's, that's being invited into MAGA.

Being invited into that means that you get to not care about anything. Yeah, that's right. They're basic, they've positioned themselves at the fork in the road, basically. Right. When someone goes, I think it's like stuff's all fucked up. And this feels weird. It was like, am I like crazy, man? Like, I feel like, you're crazy.

You're tripping, man. You just need to relax. He's like, am I overblowing this? Yeah, dude, you are. Way overblowing it, man. Come have some cigars. I think we just need to go on Rogan. I mean, I think, I know, I just want to get in the office and see what happens.

I am not a, how do I put this? Like, because I'm not even a leftist. I'm not even, I don't know what you'd call me politically. I am just like not, the idea that you could segue into the other side in this fashion is so easily. Right. It's just, I'll never understand it. I'm doing very well financially. And I'm extremely angry.

Yeah. And I don't understand how not everybody else feels the same way. I think because you're still tethered to the real world because there's people who, who truly, they don't, they wouldn't know a poor, they don't know a single working poor person, right, at all. So that, that way of living is completely obscured to them. And they're only around other people who are like, man, shit's great. I mean, the news is fucked up.

Right. But materially. I've just tuned it out. Honestly, you guys, I've just tuned it out. Yeah. I just can't with the news. And let's just, it's such a bummer. Let's go to Dubai or something.

Right. Relax over there. Let's go. Let's go to Tehran. We know some people over there. No, I do, yeah, I guess that's why I can, yeah, I'm confused. Because you know how hard life is. These people have either have never known how hard life is or have it's been too long

since they knew how hard life was that to them. They're like, I don't think it's that bad for everyone. Dude, you just need to come party with me. Dude, my mother shit. I basically discovered as a CEO, number one, a CEO is the most replaceable person in any business. I feel like if there was a, if AI was going to replace anybody, they would replace CEOs. Yeah, yeah.

All you're doing is recognizing trends, right? That's kind of what you're supposed to do. What does that better than an algorithm? And your collection of letters. Yes. And so I think that's a thing. I also learned that by me getting like 1%, 2% less takeout, I could give everybody health care. Yeah, right.

And it was this amazing thing of like, oh, the littlest move of the needle up top changes everything. All of this stuff. And that's all you have to do. Yeah. But they fight that. Like that idea of like not doing the thing that is most profitable for the CEO at all times is dangerous to them. I just doesn't understand because it made all of my employees way happier. And you're all working and they're happy.

You feel a beholden to your employees. I love my. I'm indebted to my employees. And the relationship is completely inverted. They're like, I'm, I'm exploiting you for my fucking game. What are you talking about? You're lucky you get paid money to do shit. And I think that because that's ridiculous.

And that's the sickness. It's just ridiculous. I need nothing gets done. Yeah. Yeah. And that's like you can kind of see it. Like these guys are full of fucking shit. Right.

Yeah. Yeah. They just got to make two million less than a fucking $50 million package. Yeah. Or boo hoo when they're like, I mean, because and that's the defense people always do. It's like, I mean, just think of how this is going to impact these job creators. Like I see what your bonus package is. Hundreds of millions of fucking dollars.

Get fuck. And you guys. There's plenty of money. There's plenty of money. There's plenty of food. There's plenty of oil. There's plenty. That's why also they work overtime to convince people that it is such a zero-sum game.

And abundance like that is completely unachievable. Money is fake. Yeah. Money's fake. Everybody can get some. Anyways, they're cutting prices. Praise be to the corporate overlords of freedom lane. Burger King apologized too.

Yeah. Burger King apologized for the Whopper. They did the thing where they, because of the McDonald's, well, that guy, the fucking non-human CEO did. that thing, made all these guys have to, like, face a reckoning. Burger King's like, we suck. They did the dominoes thing.

They did the thing, we suck. We get it. We're putting out new burgers. And so apparently new burgers are good. Oh, and they changed the fries. Oh, I hated those. But that's a big deal. Yeah. I was like, somebody's listening to somebody. Yeah, yeah. And I'll be like, hey, we're moving the needle here. They're like, the French revolution of America. It's like,

we're getting new whoppers. Let them eat woppers. The Donald's CEO has to go on TV. One percent. rat meat in these roberts. I'm kind of a god. Preventory revolution. It's just we just ask for, we don't understand how, like, we got to ask for, we're not

getting enough. Right. And it's, it's, we got to get it. We don't even know, we can't even imagine what it would be like to get enough. Yeah. I feel like in this country. Yeah. I mean, we can line up a bunch of these guys, I think, in, in a row.

I think what I would do is I would get about 100,000 Americans together. I'd go to Washington, D.C., I'd go to all these various places, and I'd line up all of them, right, a bunch of them, in a super long line in which we, elephant line, and which we attach them by chains with big, like, dunce caps on. And we take them on a national tour of cities where people are allowed to throw things at them. And then I think that then they can have the money. Okay. If they are, if they can, if they can all come into a national punishment tour. every year, nothing has to change. Well, they still need to come off that money, though.

Well, that's what I was saying. They could give free stuff out that day. So, like, when you go there to go throw shit at them, you also get a $500 check. Right. Like, you get, like, money from them. You could throw stuff at them. They go, we're sorry, we're sorry.

And then they all get batting a big fucking, like, circus, like kind of like a train, like a circus train. But they go to big box car. I would go to the next town. I would up to anywhere. Whatever town they're in, the town gets to vote on who's going to throw the things. thing. Oh, sure.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's going to be Shohei Otani, Randy Randy Johnson, just a, people just going to be fucking just going lacing. Oh, yeah, dude. We gotta get to get it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Baseballs.

But I feel like if they all could take that for the team, America would be actually satisfied with that. Yeah, yeah. I think they just need to go on a listening tour, guys, personally. Honestly, but you see, I don't think you understand everywhere I go, I am on a listening to. Wow.

The five guys CEO gave away. a one and a half million dollar bonus to employees because there was like a buy one get one thing that just inundated all the stores with so much business and like the crews are like what the fuck are you guys doing he gave away the one and a half million dollar bonus he's like it's the least I can do

he said I didn't want anybody shooting me in the back or anything after the first day that's what I'm fucking talking about that's what he said they need to fear because we really screwed it up we had no idea that we were going to get that kind of response that's amazing I don't want anybody shooting me in the back

Guess what? That's all they need. That's the exact example that they all should follow. Yeah, he knew well enough. That guy needs to go on a speaking tour. When people did the math, though, they're like, if you spread that out, I want a half million dollars over all the employees. It's like 10 bucks. You could have done a lot better, bro. I was like, hey, hey, hey, let's go back to congratulating me, please. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You got it in five guys bucks. Yeah, yeah. We don't need to look into all the details of it. That's a million dollars. I don't have any more. I said, I don't need that.

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