The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 434 (Best of 6/8/26-6/12/26)

Episode Date: June 14, 2026

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I got to say all day, I have, I guess it's entertainment. Is it? Yeah. I have been just searching to find new, videos or videos, different videos of Trump being booed and sleeping at the

next game. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Any ones that were sort of outside of the mainstream that you found, they're like, ooh, this is a good one. It's not getting the love it deserves. Oh yeah, I mean, well, the one that kind of started at, which I will just say is, you know, I think really good as AOC, reposted

one, but it's really good because the daughter, the granddaughter is there. So it's Trump and then the owner and then the grand. Yeah. And they're both like literally passed out. It's so clear. And she, because she's animated and she's looking like so you can see it so starkly. Right.

What's going on here. Otherwise you would think it's like, oh, the TV, the feed has glitched and we're just seeing a still. Yeah. Yeah. But then she's moving. Or you know, yes. Maybe just that part of the screen is frozen probably. Or, you know, to be fair.

Sometimes there are angles where you go, is it just sleeping? Or it's like, are you looking at a day? You know, there are ways to sort of misinterpret. But this one is just perfect. It finds his own lap so interesting. There's something just below his solar plexus that he's looking at with his chin down. It is so funny that the owner dude is also sleeping. Just, you know.

Yeah. I mean, you know, he's in a pod. They're good friends. They're having a good time. Yeah, yeah. Meanwhile, yeah, New York mayor, Mondami is like, yeah, yeah, he's a shitty band, you know,

like James Dolan does, you know. He's a DJ, he's a shitty DJ. Every billionaire needs their own, they have their own job. Artistic pursuit. I mean, everyone has a secret. I wish I was an artist pursuit, you know, 100%.

But Trump, I think truly it. That part of his soul is completely cauterized. There's another creative bone in his body. Who is it? Like, there's a lot of, of, I'm thinking men of note in retirement that become like oil painters. George Bush, yeah. Yeah.

Oh, oil painters. Yeah. They're painting. Yeah. They're like, I've always had this artistic. Were George Bush's paintings any good? I can't remember. Kind of.

They were kind of, right? Yeah. On the. Yeah. Are we saying better than Hitler's? Hitler was water colors, namely, right? Yep. Water.

Yeah. Hitler's, I didn't think were good at all. Like, they just seemed like very mid-tier, like, the sort of thing that would be hanging on the wall of a, like... Sanagogue? Right. That's exactly what I was going to say. Like a, like, low-level hotel. You know, like, it's just...

Right. Shitty cheap... I mean, there is something odd about the George Bush paintings. They're very strange, you know? Oh, yeah. It's just weird because he has a style, you know? Yeah, right, right. His style is four-year-old closing their eyes and trying to remember what Vladimir Putin looks like.

It is very much like, you know, I'm going to try, just replicating a picture. Like it's, you know, entry-level portrait stuff. Yeah. I mean, yeah, but what's up with the, yeah, he likes doing eyes. He likes doing eyes. It's, hey, the windows to the soul, as he famously said. As George Bush famously said. Came up with that.

There's so many good sleeping videos, so many good getting booed videos, the loudest and most enthusiastic booze were not in the stadium, which we had predicted because the types of people who had, like, the level of wealthy you had to be to get in the stadium, you know. I mean, it's mostly very rich people. Yeah, I was thinking, but there is definitely, it's mostly wealthy people. And then there is that, like, small percentage of people who are being absolutely reckless with their money because they have to. see it happen with their own eyes. Like, I remember when the Dodgers first got back to the World Series, like my friends were spending so much money. Yeah, yeah, for sure.

You can't do that with your income and you're like, when it's going to be there next time? Obviously, it wasn't exclusively millionaires because of the booze that we heard. Well, that was just going to say, like, you got to think about it. Like, the amount of people who did have money in that stadium, who classically would be Republicans, because they're like, I love the fiscal policies. That was as good as it gets for him.

Was that response? Yeah, exactly. Exactly. There's a, yeah, there's a $5,000 cover charge to boo Donald Trump. You mean? Maybe. Maybe. You mean to his face?

Maybe. Yeah, okay. What is something you think is underrated? I said, Aaron Sorkin. I think Aaron Sorgon's underrated. I watch the trailer. I'm in. I think it gets a bad rap.

But any guy that got addicted to crap. because he had like three TV shows and two movies going on at the same time. I think that's a, that's a multitasking. That's a multitasker right there. It's a bootstrapper right there. Yeah, yeah. Didn't shy away from the labor. Just say, you know what, dude, fucking uppers.

Yeah. Let's go. Like, that's the one thing that worries us about it is like, will it be too because we're going from Fincher to Sorkin. Finch's pretty damn good. Because he was social network, right? It was Fincher. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. To this one, I'm like, I wonder what, how sorkin-y it's going to get. But just based off the trailer, I'm like, yeah, it doesn't matter. I just want to see this shit. It's like, you know, let's not forget, like, a few good men, Sorkin. Like, Sorkin's, spend some good shit. Oh, he writes and bang. Yeah, but you worry about the director.

The directing is. Trial of the Chicago 7. I went in with some expect out. The tears in my eyes. That was like a Netflix one. I think that was. I think so. Yeah, yeah.

You know what it was actually good was Molly's game, which I think he direct that. I think he directed. I need to watch Molly's game. I wrote, that's the second time. We've brought it up. It's been referred to on the show this week. Yeah.

And I haven't seen it. Oh, we were talking about the pussy posse. We were talking about how I always get. Elijah Wood. The person who's supposed to be the, the asshole character is supposed to be based on. I always confuse whether it's Toby McGuire or Elijah Wood. Okay.

I think it's Toby. It's Toby. It's a good guy, man. Toby's a, that's based off of nothing. That's what they say. That's the rumor is that the asshole character is by some. I don't know, man.

What's that other movie? Was it now you see me? Like, there's a, wait, or is it Oceans 11? There's a, it was Oceans 11. Where he plays himself and he's kind of being a dick. And Tofor Grace is in one of those two where he's great. Oh, that's the people, those are the boys I get fucked up. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah. And after like 70s show or Spider-Man. Right. Different motherfuckers. Because he was in Venom or he was in Spider-Man, too. Yeah. He was in Spider-Man too. I think so.

Whatever. It's all getting together. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, thanks for tuning into this film podcast, everybody. Yeah. Where we're like, what was that one? Who's that guy? Who's he?

They don't even fucking know who Spider-Man is. Tofer Grace is a singular personality in my mind. But Toby and Elijah. Went a day with Tad Hamilton. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Thank you. Thank you.

Real ones will remember when a date with Tad Hamilton. Oh, yeah, he was Venom and Spider-Man 3. Right? Yeah. Yeah, there you go. He was the druggy asshole guy in traffic, too, which I thought he did a really good job. You really related to that character?

That's where he, like, really locked in for me. Dumping it off at the ER. Yeah, yeah. Exactly. Hey, we've all been there. Oh, yeah, yeah. I just saw Widows Bay, and I saw that scene you're talking about about her. He's like, you never press the doorbell.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was killing me as I watched it. What is something you think is overrated? I don't want to put this out in a bad way, but voting primaries. Nevada just had one on Tuesday. Go vote. I voted. Vote.

But a third of Nevadans can't vote because they're registered independent. So it was either Democrat or Republican. And of course, the Republican showing was a lot bigger. Sure, sure, sure. When I registered to vote when I was 18 and living in Nevada, I also put. independent because a lot of people don't give a fuck about party affiliation until the past five, 10 years. So it doesn't feel like Nevada got anywhere doing the primary, just more anxiety.

I think the parties know who they want. This is a bad take. I just, I was so disheartened. I don't feel like we got anywhere. I still did my civic duty and I hope to God it pays off. So you're not allowed to vote in the primaries, but then you're able to vote in the generals. Yes. So we don't get to.

side who from the Democratic Party. Yeah, yeah, got it. Yeah. But the guy that I voted for, Ford, is up for lieutenant governor. And then I can't remember the main governor. I knew it like two hours ago. But, you know, drugs. Yeah.

I love the civic engagement. And then the other guy. I don't know. So, I'm fucking, no. No, but no inherent. Like, if it makes anyone feel better out in at least the U.S. political landscape. Nevada's way more purple than people give it credit for.

And I would argue quietly leaning more blue because a lot of people are pissed off. Right. Yeah. I mean, that's the one universal emotion that that's become nonpartisan. Everyone's like, this is something's completely fucked up. Yeah. Every presidential administration, I feel like it starts one place and then just like is on a steady slide from.

They're on because both sides, this system is bad. The one side is way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way. But, yeah, it, uh, it feels like until something changes, that's going to be, everybody's going to be, like, mad. And then just, like, mad at who is in office. And in this case, good idea. Yeah, correct. Yep, yep, yep, yep. All right.

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Three-year high. Okay. So that means it was high during what almost the end of Biden? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Which was when it was really, people were really freaking out. Yeah. Well, yeah, people didn't realize how just how, how much prices had gone quite up yet. No.

Until that moment. Then people were like, wait, what the fuck is going on? That was like the moment that we, or most consumers are like, is the water boiling around us right now? It was warm. The water boiling in this hot tub that they keep throwing carrots into. So we just have new, new strategies and gas lighting. Jim Kramer, I guess this isn't really. Gaslighting's way more expensive now these days too.

Oh, yeah. These tariffs. Jim Kramer, I don't know that this is that new. He said it's false inflation. This isn't real inflation. This is like false. So I didn't pay the money to see what his logic was in the article. I have to assume there's going to be a refund at the end if it's false inflation.

Trump just came out and said, actually, I love inflation. I love it. The numbers I think are great. I love the inflation. And they were like, why? Yeah, explain your fucking point. Because we're getting the oil out, actually. We're getting the oil out from Iran.

We did it last night. We did it last night. We got the oil out. We just turned the lights out on the thing. Bing, got the oil out, boom. And they couldn't even see us because. Inflation, we're doing this. We're taking the oil.

We're putting them in balloons. We're inflating. Inflation is wonderful. These big gas balloons. You've ever been in a gas balloon fight? The summer's in New York. They were really fun. We do that all the time.

So not only is it like completely incoherent. I mean, I guess it would if he had some source of oil that we was secret and we didn't know about and that he wasn't telling anybody, which definitely seems like his vibe. But also he, if it's true that we had like a secret way of getting oil out of Iran, he just like told them. Right. Yeah, yeah, which is. He's like drinking your milkshake right now.

Yeah. We're drinking their milkshake. It's delicious. Milkshakes are over, dude. Anyway, it doesn't matter if you're drinking my milkshake or taking my Social Security. It's so crazy what is the same price as it was, you know, even before Biden. There are a couple things that are the same. Like, you guys, H.R.S. bounty here.

Yeah, yeah. On Craytown. For listeners, it's like one of those bars. It's like being on a ship. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. They have a wise man special that when I moved here in 2008 was $6.50 for a tecate and a shot of tequila whiskey.

I went there at some point a couple months ago, still $6.50. Wow. So that's the same. Yeah. We need to peg our. And that place isn't doing well. We need to peg our, and they're closed. No, they're going to try.

So that's the thing is like, we need to peg our economy to the Wise Man Special. Right. And then everything else will fall into place. I think so. Or just knowing that, like, Some things are like human rights, like a wise man special. Right. Shouldn't be more than $6.50.

It is crazy when you do, but when you go grocery shopping and you're like, this really shouldn't be $7. Yeah, you're like, that's all the time. I'm like, I'm buying a loaf of bread. I'm like, was it a loaf of bread? I'm like, six bucks. Six, five. Yeah, it's like, give me a break.

Yeah. It was like a half, like 120, like back in the day. A half a cart full of groceries is like $200 now. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's unreal. That's why anyway, man, groceries are over, dude. Doesn't matter. Groceries are done.

We're not doing that. Gross is overrated, dude. Bread's overrated. Eggs overrated. Yeah. That's how I'm just protecting myself from just the rampant, the rate rising consumer cost. The one thing is like, it's just consumer goods that you like compare an ad from 10 years ago

to today. And you're like an 85 inch TV back then was $7,000. TVs are the one thing that are getting cheaper. I think that's truly like the circus part of the bread and circuses thing. Yeah, cheap TVs, phones. Yeah. Dude, your TV can be bigger than your childhood home. Right.

And it's going to be 30 bucks. Yeah. Okay. Just don't watch anything serious on it. Just watch some bullshit and forget everything that's happening around. But the things we rely on to live, like the Wise Man special. Yeah. On the other hand.

Yeah. Can you really put a price on a shot in a beer? No. No. I don't even know how you could even begin that process to even analyze what the cost could be. I remember famously like Costco was very, like everybody was like, well, Costco. Costco, hot dogs are still cheap. I'm like, you know, they still have that great deal.

And then they like did a behind the scenes article. I'm like the CEO was like, I will fucking murder you if you raise it like there. So I wonder if there's somebody at HMS bounty or whatever the fuck. That's the number. Yeah, yeah. So is this mystery person? I will fucking kill you. It's also owned by Warren Buffett.

Yeah. All right. Speaking of old white guys, as we always are, the Republicans are they're just in a bubble where you lie and make it so you know I said it therefore everybody's going to assume that's true

and we can just like kind of move forward yep and what but sometimes they they go out on the street and do that and it's very funny yeah because I mean they're this was just like with the GOP gubernatorial debate in Colorado like

they're just used to just saying absolute bullshit in like a one way medium like where they'd be like Trendy Aragua is all the children you see from Venezuela and people are like but no one can ask anything so then that's just the sound bite. Did that play? Sure it did. Yeah, then you get a debate and they're like yeah yeah, I approve that

and they're like, oh my dog was in Iraq and you're like fuck man this is nonsense. It reminds me of the Elvis icon episode where like he would go and do public displays of karate that, like, his crew were pretending were, like, really awesome. Yeah, yeah. You're the main king. That's awesome. Great job.

And, like, you see it. It's like, yeah. He's like doing moves and they're like flying backwards. They're like, I think he pissed himself a little bit. Did you see that? No, no, it's just sweat. Just dick sweat. You know how the king is, man?

You know how the king gets rid of that yellow dick sweat. Anyway, so right now, just want to read a couple of, like, quotes about social security in the state of it, right? now. This is from CNN. Social Security's retirement trust fund, which helps support payments to senior citizens, their dependents, and survivors of deceased workers, is expected to be exhausted in late 2032. Overrated. Which is one quarter earlier than previously forecast. At that time, payroll tax revenue and other income sources will be able to cover only 78% of benefits owed. And again, that means this is going to be a ticking time bomb for who's ever running in 2028, if someone's running in

2028. The same thing is also going to be happening with Medicare, Medicaid. And right now, Mike Johnson has been saying things like, you know, we're not got to get the spending under control here. It might have to rather than acknowledge

Trump's big, beautiful bill and how that's like adding almost like $5 trillion dollars to the debt, the natural solution is to begin cutting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. That's their soggy dream come true. And that's just how they're, That's how they're trying to even present. It's like, well, I mean, we've got to get this spending, you know, under control,

even though we completely authorize this. Yeah. I'm just going to have to put people out on the fucking street. That's been the Republicans, like, dream like that since Paul Ryan. Like, forever. That's what he was talking about, like, at frat parties, I remember. He was like, yeah, I remember doing keg stands with my boy, just fantasizing about how we were going to cut social security.

Privatize that shit, man. I mean, it's every conservative dream, right? Yeah. So this, obviously, that's the most violent. shit you can do is like diminish these kinds of social safety. It's the one thing that kind of work. It's also their base though. It's like how can they do that?

Like old people that are on social security are literally like the number one voting demo for Republic. There's also a lot of people too who like you're like a lot of leopards ate my face type realization where people like my son is collecting social security right now and I just heard he's not going to get a fraction of it. Like what happened? They're like, because of the big beautiful bill. Right.

And they're timing shit to not all happen at once. so you can't figure out how bad they're fucking you in real time. So, you know, I think any person that actually understands these programs thinks it should never be touched, right? It's like, that's like the one thing that feels like it's standing beside the American people and helping them. And even then that's kind of shaky. And because it's such a third real topic, it's probably why Johnson's fellow Republicans,

you know, they don't really want to actually admit that's what they're after. and that's what's going to happen is that there are going to be cuts to social security. So case in point, Virginia's Rob Whitman. He was asked by a reporter about the social security cuts

and this motherfucker panicked and pretended to be on the fakest fucking phone call I've ever seen in my life. And I guess, I mean, maybe he's auditioning for like the new Social Reckoning film or something,

but here's Rob Whitman. He's doing some character work. I will just say that there's only, almost no chance that this guy does not refer to himself as a smooth operator to his friends, you know? Here's Rob Whitman being asked just very directly about what's going on with Social Security cuts. Congressman, what is Mike Johnson's secret plan to cut Social Security? I've got a phone call.

So, okay. So, firstly you can see. So he takes it out, hits a thing like he's accepting a phone call. But he's holding it to the side of his face that allows us to see what's on his screen. First mistake. First mistake. And the thing that he's hit is just maybe a browser. What do we think that is?

I don't know what it is. But by the time he gets through like, hey, a fake. Hey, hey, hey, how are you doing? Yeah, yeah. He's his face is hitting the screen. It's already activated. Look how much the fucking phone changes just from the moment he picks it up to right here. Congressman, what is Mike Johnson's secret plan to cut social security?

Hey, how are you doing? Hey, how you doing? Bringing a bunch of windows up. What, dog? It's like his phone's being taken over. by like a porn pop-up or something? It's over at 416. Okay, so now...

He's taking directions. Of course, it was... Hey, hey, how are you? How are you? All right, you buy yourself some time. Oh, yeah, I'm heading... Oh, yeah, yeah, I'm heading over there right now. Was it at 416?

He's getting detailed, good, good detail work. He feels... Yeah. Okay, you're 15 seconds in. He must really be talking to someone. He's saying it's over at 416. And you know he's talking to someone because just random shit on his phone's browser,

is popping up because that's what happens on the phone when you're on Azure conversations. That's right. Obviously, dude, everyone knows that feature, dude. Congressman, what is Mike Johnson's secret plan to cut Social Security? I appreciate that. I've got some more efforts that I want to talk to you. I've got some more efforts. I've got some more efforts.

And if you notice, he's doing a lot of he's doing this. Justiculating. Yeah, he's got busy talking. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've got some efforts. I got some more efforts. I want to talk to you about. I'm going to begin to start downgrading the improv. All right.

I mean, I get what you're saying. He's talking like a politician. He's doing too much. He's doing a little. Okay, let's see what else he's. Let's listen a little bit on a fake phone call, huh? There are actually more things that we have to be working on. Oh, my time.

Oh, so he's like, I want to make sure that we're, we're putting for a sponsor. A response. Thanks. I appreciate your help on this. I really, really do need, we do need some more, some more of your input. Smores? Smores. I got some efforts you're going to talk about.

I really appreciate your help on this. He's going to need your inputs. He also, like, says that he's going to do more. So he's showing that he is accountable on fake phone calls. He can be held to account. This is, I love that. And I got to do better on that. Yeah.

And we got to help. We got to help some efforts to improve that. He just does this every day. He just, I just just talking on the phone every day. Just but with a brick just to work out his arm. It's like, this ain't like work. Okay, go on. Yeah, if you can actually reach out, I'll make sure that we do more of this.

He is reaching out. We're on the phone with them right now. What are you talking about? Listen, if you reach out, we can do more of this. More of this. We keep it vague. We keep it nice and vague. Okay.

The good thing about improv is when you keep it vague, no specific. You want to leave some gaps for your improv partner to fill that in. He also, for purposes of a fake phone call, where you're trying to get the person who's listening and to leave you alone, he has sounded like he's wrapping it up from the very start like it's the whole thing is just like yeah and I'm gonna call it all right it sounds like he's like trying to get off the phone

that's not gonna let he's yeah you gotta have a fake conversation already kind of scripted but he goes on we gotta do more of this yeah let's not really really appreciate he's back to appreciate him thank you he said thank you okay okay there's some fake listening I like that

I like that I understand There's more of those things that they need to work. More of those things have to work on. Oh, I thought he said more listening that we have to work on. Now I'm trying to understand the power dynamic. Are you the superior here? Are you the subordinate?

I think it's switched half of us. Yeah, because he's like, yeah, and I'm heading there now. We got some work to do. They put someone else on the phone, actually. Yeah. On the other side, they're handing the phone around. It's a haven't seen in a long time situation. They're passing around the phone here.

You're a boss on the phone now. Oh, yeah. Okay, okay. Hey, yeah, I got to do better. I got to do better. There are more efforts, and I did mention that to him, too. And you got to do better, too. I know, but I got honest.

I guess I'm, I am low. I can really appreciate your input on that. Now he's, I think, going to begin to try and land the plane, but not doing a great job. Thanks. Thanks again. Thanks again. Way to get this guy to leave you alone. Hang up imminent.

Thank you. Oh, the phone changed. What is Mike Johnson's secret plan to cut social security? Oh, he's hung up. He just swiped up. swiped up and then just takes off. Even his walk. He walks like he's like, and this is how you walk?

Yeah. And this is how you walk. That looks like someone's so in their head walking. It's like when men and black when they take over a human. Oh yeah. This is how you walk. Yes. Wait, fuck.

Don't sink the same limbs while you walk. I think he was sinking limbs at first and then he like got it off. I'm surprised you didn't do like a skip to be like. Let me get him sunk up again. Let me just get in my, get in my body. He turns his head over his shoulder, he gives you a filler eyes. Yeah. Yeah.

So not a great, not a great display there. But again, that's what happens when you, all you have to do is just say bullshit and you're never questioned. Yeah. You try and do shit like, it's too much. He was trying to do too much. And also it's like, I don't know. That's just asking for trouble. Why not just do the, like, oh, I'm hard of here.

I can't hear you. They're usually good at that. Yeah, much simpler. If I'm giving a class, I'm like, bro, start using AirPods, man. Right. Right. Yeah, but you're not going to snitch on yourself. You're like, I'm on a call.

Yeah. Right, right. I said it's noise cancelling right now. Yeah, we have to do more of that. Uh-huh. We have to deliver for my constituents immediately. Do you guys have a go-to, like, fake phone call? First line?

I, I've never messed around the fake phone call, but I will, I will just be like, I don't know. I don't know. So you're just pointing at your head and saying, I don't know. I don't know. Alan, you're late on your rent, man. What's going on? What are you talking about? This, this is, you are overdue on rent.

I wrote it out because you did this last time. You said you can't hear me. I told you. Look at it. I can't read. I can't read. Okay, listen to what I'm saying, you're overdue on the rent. Or then you, that's what you go the other way, you go, of course, of course, of course.

Of course. Of course. Yeah. And we're going to handle that. Okay? I actually have efforts. Yeah. I have a lot of efforts going to.

Dude, and right now I'm late for a reading lesson, dude. I'm trying to learn how to read, man. I'm trying to help you. Dude, I'm trying to learn for you. Yeah. Okay. I'm trying to learn how to read for you, dog.

And now you're getting in my focus. Okay. Oh, we were in this together. What do you even want, dude? It's like, just fucking figure it out, man. Have you ever done a fake call? I've done it. The only time I've done it and I do it somewhat frequently is in Japan.

because that's how I let motherfuckers know I speak Japanese. Oh. Oh, okay. So I'll pick up and I'll answer in Japanese. Because sometimes people just chatting and shit whispering and I go, Moshoshu. Um, um, now I'm, I'm going to go,

uh, and they do that and they go, oh, fuck. Yeah. I was just saying some shit about him. Oh. Or you do it when you notice they're talking about you.

Or people, because sometimes people, like, when I was a teenager, especially I would get followed around stories. because they're like, this brown child will steal. Uh-huh. And then I would have to like, and I would hear them be like,

they're like, where is he? I heard that before. And then I would pick up the phone and they're like, oh, shit. Oh, damn. And then they back the fuck up. Right. But it's not like, it's not crazy. It's a lot of the times all I've, I've done it too.

Like one time I was, I remember being like 20. And there was like, a cute girl. And I was like, let me just pretty long. Yeah. You know what I mean? And then your phone starts ringing at the side of your head. And then my mom's like, minus her.

He might be my son. And I'm like, oh, my God. My, my girlfriend's tripping, bro. Yeah, she's a 67-year-old Japanese woman. I do remember. Mature women. Before, I did, I did used to do this. I, before there were, like, weed dispensaries,

I would be like this. You mean drug dealers? When there was just drug dealers? And maybe you're in a city where you don't know anyone. I remember being in New York and I would go to Washington Square Park. And I would just be like, I wish I could find some weed around. And then I got robbed. Hey, brother, hey, you look at some weed.

And then I paid like probably three times as much as I should have paid for for like vaped weed that has no THC. It's like Salvia or like Spikes or something. They're like, yeah, smoke it right here, bro. Some look the other thing, man. No, let me get on my flip camera. Go ahead. You're going to love this.

Boy, I wish I had new shit. Boy, I wish I had weed around here. Oh, my God. That's what he had said. Boy, I wish I had some weed. He was trying to do a dealer. Yeah, I'll be there. And I appreciate that that's what you did for me.

Oh, now 60 for 3 and a half grams? For nath? That's a lot, man. Used to be 50. We need to double our efforts on that. Oh, is just the Crippy? Oh, it's Crippy? Okay, okay.

I'll pay that. I'll pay that. Some Florida bingo. We all know what Crippy is. That's what they call the chronic out there. Crippy? Yeah, I remember going to Miami when as a teenager, and I'm like, you know, it's the Crippy?

And I'm like, the fuck is that? That sounds fun weird. Yeah. You didn't say that in Florida, aren't you from Florida? All the start weekend? South Florida is different. No, we didn't call it Crippy up north. What did you call it?

Oh, right, right. We were doing Jankham, dude. Wait, what the fuck? Do you know what about Jankham? Jankham was, I think this was Jankham. It sounds like a weird dice game. Jankum is one of those lines where it's like, I don't know if it was real or if it just got to the point where it was like,

kids were pretending it was real, so then it'd be like, teenagers all over the world are doing Jankum. And it was like, it's like you take like a, turd, I think. Tird or pissed or something or maybe you're with a piss. You put it in a bottle, you put a balloon over the top of the bottle, put it out in the sun.

You let it like ferment or whatever, and then you breathe in the balloon. Like the noxious feelings. My purpose or that's how you prank something? No, this was like the new sensation. Yeah, like in the playgrounds. Inhalent. Yeah.

And that works? I think it might have been fake. But that's what, I remember Janecombe a thing. Sewer gas. Mm-hmm. Uh, is one way. Yeah, it's just funny.

In November 2007, there was a moral panic in the United States. That's exactly when it would have been. Yeah. Did you know anybody who's doing Jankham? No. No. Because it requires you to have shit and piss on that. Yeah.

It sounds so ridiculous. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh. But then, and then there was, I think it was like, slurm or shirm, where it's like, you take like a joint or a sick, I think a joint. Angel dust, right? Yeah.

And you put it, no, you, I think it's like you put it in formaldehyde. Oh. And then you like, And then you like, Then you- People were dipping cigarettes in formaldehyde. I remember that. Yeah, I think that was that.

I was not smoking that though. No. No. I was doing Jankum, like a honor roll student. No, I was playing Jenga. Yeah. While you're out there doing Jankum, I'm doing Jank up. Boat Browns, Strick, one.

Yep. I think if there's any good, like, slang terms in Kentucky. I think they just called getting drunk buttered. Ooh, I like that. Yeah, isn't that kind of nice? I like that. Yeah, nice and nice and. buttered, man.

I'd just like anything with food, just like, as any kind of euphemistic description for something. Yeah. It's buttered, smothered and covered. And then one time our English teacher caught wind of this slang. Of getting buttered?

She's like, I keep hearing about nice children, good kids who are getting drunk on the weekends. You're not getting buttered. You're getting drunk. You're drinking too much. She knew the power of, no, no. Oh. I didn't know why you could.

Nineth grade. Every story, because every time you tell stories about you being Kentucky or Ohio, there's like some shit to 10th grade. Happening way above my pay grade for my age. Right. And I'm like, it's funny how like when there's small towns and there's nothing to do, like kids get into way darker shit than even in a big city.

Kids were like diet, dying from inhalants in Dayton, Ohio when I was a kid. That was a big, that was a big thing. It was, um, you get those, any drug you can get at the dollar tree. Yeah. It's like dangerous. Yeah. Right.

Right. So it was like computer cleaner. It was, it was like a computer cleaner that kids are doing. Dust off. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh.

Oh. Yeah. Yeah. Do you remember that song's about? No, dude. It's from intervention. This girl was just hitting dust off in a graveyard. Is her name Allison?

I think so. And just like, you've not. seen this clip, dude. It's not, it's one of those things I always talk about with intervention, like, before I actually realized addiction was all around me. Right. And it was like, no, dude, Jeff just likes to party. Yeah.

You're like 23. And then you're like, he is a dark alcoholic. And also it was like, it was around that same time too. So it's like, it's kind of like this Zoe Day Chanel looking girl. Yeah, yeah. Adorkeable. Adorkeable and addiction to Huffing computer cleaner. Yeah, man.

That is kind of adorable. Of all the things you did. And it's a little nerdy. Computer cleaner. This is it. Viewer discretion is advised. She just inhales the whole thing in her mouth.

That's fucked up. They cut the music to it. No. Yeah. This is from the episode, but they're going to... Oh, no. Oh. Anne Hathaway should play her.

Yeah. This is not. from the intro. This is pre, this is like pre-edits. This is a great edit. Yeah, this is like,

this is one of the OG ones. Yeah. This is set, this clip is from 2009, 17. Like all the clips we summon on this show, they have to be from 20.

How the fuck did she sign over? She's like, yep. And we're going to here. Yeah, yeah. One of my home girls from high school, her god sister was on intervention.

And I remember it was like after high school. Yo shit, Megan's on intervention. Like those people, a lot, those people didn't do that well. I feel like it might be because they had their lowest moment on TV.

Well, that was just like the air of like explain. And again, like when you're 20, you're like, oh my God, dude, this dude's so fucking drunk he fell through a screen door. You know what I mean? And then and they're like, oh, so he's got kids or whatever and he got back from Iraq, whatever, dude. It's like she's drinking the mouthwash.

Yeah, you're not used to drink the mouthwash. Oh my God, this guy's drinking the fucking hand sanitizer on ice at the hospital. Like, get older and you're like, this is so dark. Oh, my God. I'm like, hey, can't, hey, passing that mouthwash. Passing the mouthwash.

I'm all that a jankum and I lost my kids. I like that you were like, good, good call. People are, it's, it's a, there's a personality type. I think of people who watched intervention because they thought it was a comedic documentary show. Yeah. Well, it was the same time, it was like A&E was doing MTV True Life. Yeah, yeah.

It was like, it was so. But the edgy version. Yeah, yeah. And also they would just show those all the time. Yeah. They would run like, they're doing, it's like cable TV time. Yeah.

It would just show like nine of them in a row. Yeah. Like over summer it's like. Or Rocky, the dude who did the, have you seen most epic cry? There's the black man. Yeah.

That's the one thing. That episode is so fucking heavy. The people don't realize the buildup to that was his abandoned son talking about how he never knew his father. And he said, and you don't know what it's like for me to see every black man I've pass and wondering if that's my father? Oh, yeah. I remember that. And I didn't know.

And like, that's the line the guy says and he finds it goes, ah, and you're like, oh my God. This shit is hilarious. Oh my God. Oh, my God, bro. This old man crying, bro. Listen how this old man is crying, bro. Rewind that shit. Where the TiVo remote at? Where's my TiVo remote? Because I had all that shit on my TiVo in college. You just had those safe. Oh, my, dude, that's all you see to do is. That's the irony. You would get fucked up watching people struggling with addiction

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And bumblebees. Yay. We're back. Yay. Bumble bees are back in the news. They're cool, right? You remember these dumb motherfuckers? These big, the clumsy ass bitches of the sky.

Have you had, are you, do you get stung a lot as a child? What's your history with bees? Are you okay with bees? Bumble bees don't even do that. That's not even about that life. No. It's truly just they look They're thick and delicious.

I like you're going to say something even different. Like, it's truly like, they just look so cool. I always want to catch one. Yeah. So this is, I'm going to say this is surprising because, A, they're bug. B, they don't, they don't look. B there B. And C, they don't even seem like smart B.

That's so bad that you're judging them by. their speed and size to not be smart. I hate you. It really is. I deserve your such. I deserve your direction. You deserve the chair. Honestly,

this bee discrimination. You deserve the bees. Be killed. Like Nicholas, when Nicholas K is, not the bees. Yeah, you need that.

They need to tighten you up. McCauley calking me. They have like really sophisticated like legs and shit. And like, sophisticated left. You know what I mean? When you see them carrying your. making stuff.

You're like, oh, I could see how you could do some shit with this. You know? I like your own. They got like little Velcro legs, right? Yeah. They got the little thing. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. So I'm saying like both spectrums of people here. You're like, yeah, this thing's goofy. And so if you're like, oh, do their legs, do they're like, ingenious legs. I could do. I could use those. I could use those. Listen, the number of evenings I've spent taping Velcro to my hands and arms.

Yep, yep, yep, just a lot of, just damage all the paint. Come home with five tennis balls. Stuff to you all the time. Just any brambles that I walk through the day. There's a patch of blonde hair. You're like, yeah, I got too close to this guy. It kind of rips them out. Yeah, I'm like, I sit in line too close at the coffee place.

Just scalped someone accidentally. I will say the spelling bee people, the people who named children spelling competitions after them have been vindicated because bees are smart. They weren't fucking around. What? What do they? What do you got? Bumble bees possess a capacity for problem solving that demonstrates remarkable,

advanced cognitive abilities. Fuck yeah. That's what I thought. These better be the fucking tests I can't do. That is what I thought. They had that brain like that. I thought so. So the test forced bees to attempt to access an artificial flower.

Fucked up. Why not give them a real flower? by A, remembering its location, and B, rolling a polystyrene ball to a specific location climbing on top of it. So basically the B version of the test that demonstrated chimpanzees could work out how to retrieve an out-of-reach banana by stacking boxes. Wait, but how is that, the bees can fucking fly, man. What the fuck?

How is shit out of reach? Hey, look, man, I got a lot of tables here. Yeah, yeah. I mean, okay. I don't know exactly. I think it was in an enclosure situation where they can't really fly. Does that make sense? It's like it forces you to use your like.

Oh, because it has a low ceiling. Exactly. So for them it was like, nah, bro, we're taking that shit off the table. No fucking flying. Exactly. Just polystyrene ball.

Work it out. Damn, they know ball then. They know ball. They know ball. They know ball. They know. They know. They know.

They know. More intelligent, more intelligent than we thought. And they know ball don't lie. Can we say ball don't lie. Can we be honest. How did how Nixon 4 with their excrement? 23 out of 30 bees were successful. That means.

So this is a big thing that we covered in the Jane Goodall episode of the icons yesterday that like people were shocked that chimpanzees could use. There was a definition of man as like tool using animal. And that was like a hard, bright line between us and animals. Crows use tools. I mean, I don't even understand why we thought. we had it like that by ourselves. We never did.

Do you think, yeah? We didn't pay attention to animals. We used them for Skinner boxes. Which one can we torture the best? So that I can keep getting the science money coming in. Yeah, they used tools all over the place. Chimpanzees, Jane Goodall found them using little weeds to fish in, not ant hills, but a termite mouse.

Yeah, right. I remember that. Like pulling them out and then eating those shits off like corn on the cob. Just num, nom, nom, num, num, num, num, num, that's so smart. Oh, so fun dip with termites. Yeah, yeah, it was basically termite and they also had multiple, so they had multiple stems. So they would be like, oh, this is a, this is a good one, actually. So they like had a toolbox essentially with like multiple.

We're like kind of keep this one for later. Oh, so they have like a stick caddy. It's like, give me the, give me the spiky one. That's right. No, no, no, no. And the caddies like, if I may, so I really think you should go for the thinner, more flexible ones. Are you fucking serious? I know.

You've worked with the best. All right. It's about trust. You know, just, yeah. Check out the movement of the water. God damn it. He's done it again, man. Look at all these termites on here, bro.

Fuck, yeah. Can I get some? Shut the fuck up, man. Get your own fucking career, man. And then one day you could be. That's why you're the catty. And I'm the daddy. Gets a cut.

He like tosses them a termite. Yeah. And I just go, thank you, sir. For your trouble's hope. And then when you turn around, I'm like, one day,

I will be the one day. Fuck with me. They call me Pimpanzy. Fisher. Dr. Ali Lucola, Lucola, one of my favorite behavioral ecologists.

Yeah, absolutely. Lucola. Lucola. Lucola. said that most people think insects are reflex-based machines, that they can't have any emotional states or feel pain. And those people are right.

No, he said, some people don't even realize that they have brains. I hope that these results change the worldview about that. They certainly have, with regards to me. That's awesome. Now, and then how do you feel about bubble? You can be a real behead from now on? I just think that they should think about how they're portraying. If they're that smart, they should think about how they're coming off to the rest of the world.

Move around with a little more intent, okay? Yes, thank you. You look aimless. It's really off-putting. It's really off-putting. Oh, well, so if you're so great, why did I perceive you as not be a great? Look at how this motherfucker went from this flower. Didn't just go straight to the next one, going all over here up and down, around, and then low and then high.

And then just to get to the flower next to them? Y'all are stupid. I would just go to the next one immediately. All right. Finally, we got to talk Taylor Swift. And you got hourglass ankles. Our glass ass foggill bitch. Look at a man of war.

But the ankles help me trap pollen better. Shut up. Our glass ass, stupid Velcro ass ankles. I do. She shouldn't have called him barrel chested because he wants to be barrel chested. He's like, bird cage. You have to talk.

You have to talk about the organ growth from like the all the weird supplements and HGH these fucking guys too. Also, she just was trying to make sure that you realize like how big his top half is and how non-existent his bottom half is. Exactly. So she just setting up the barrel chest food to be like on them tiniest little ankles.

Gru looking motherfucker. So we got reporting. Look, like got drawn from memory. That drawn from memory. So good. Unconfirmed reporting from TMZ. But TMZ usually write about this sort of stuff, some of our finest journalists, that Taylor-Surchin Travis Kelsey is going to, their wedding is going to be more obnoxious than anyone thought possible.

Between 1,100 and 1,200 guests have been invited to a July 3rd wedding at Madison Square Garden. I don't know. I actually, I don't, this doesn't bother me at all. They should do whatever they want. But it's, they've gone to great lengths to ensure privacy, including communicating with invitees via text rather than physical invitations. But I, I got to say, this, it's so weird that it, my first thought is it's a distraction from whatever the rail plan is.

She's gone to extreme lengths to like throw the press off her sentence. she was being carried in and out of her building in a box before. Oh, hello. It's me, a frequenter of the Gayler subreddit. Would you like me to goon real quick and clown real quick? Get it. Get her ass. Okay.

So this is what the Gaylars are saying. This whole thing has been an elaborate gender play. And like Travis really. is with Ross, you know, his best friend that he's always with. And Taylor's been

trying to come out as gay forever. And there's all these exit signs that have been planted recently in her videos, et cetera, et cetera. There's all these other

little connections that I will not go into, but they are on the subred at Honey. And basically the thing is, they think that it's going to be a double coming out for Bill Fitzhound.

That's fucking tight. Isn't this the best conspiracy theory? you've ever heard. I just stay there. It's so fun. I actually, now that has to happen.

It's so fun. It's like the fan theories that are better than what the, what actually happens in the movies, like in Twilight or, because they're like, she's been dropping hints about coming out, you know,

like it was thwarted, you know, when she was going to come out with Carly Claus in that Vogue issue. Uh, and then like Scott, whatever, what's his face?

Van Pelt. The guy, that owns her master's. Scooter Braun. Thank you. They're all Scott to me. Sydney Sweeney's. Yeah.

Yeah, exactly. Scooter Braun was like, no, you can't come out. And so she didn't come out, but Christian Siriana had made that rainbow dress that's really famous that he posted, being like, oh, I can't wait for this to be blah, blah, blah,

Pride Day. She was going to come out. She didn't come out. Billy Porter ended up wearing the rainbow gown. And it was clearly not for Billy Porter because the flesh, quote unquote, colored panels on the sides were white. Oh, right. Like for white person's skin.

And so. Taylor Swift white? Yeah, I guess she is. I don't know. I don't know. Jack doesn't see race. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're really progressive.

I've heard that. I don't even know when white people are white, to be honest. It's like so hard for me. Yeah. Anyway, so how fun is that conspiracy theory? I love that so much more because that's like, that feels like, like some shit from a heated rivalry, like a novel. You know what I mean?

We're like the biggest pop star. Yeah, yeah, an NFL star. They're planning this event. Oh, fucking okey doke doke to you because now we're both gay and this is a huge coming out party. Welcome to Madison Square Garden. Dude, people were like. It should have happened during pride though.

That's the one thing. It's happening in July. But it's Pride months. Well, they don't want to overshadow. Oh, yeah. No, I guess. Because it'll be in July technically. So it's.

Yeah, I guess. They're overshadowing America's 250th. Yeah. Do you think this would be bigger than the signing of the Declaration of Independence if they did what you're describing? Yes, yes. Duh. I think honestly my- You would be celebrating this 250 years.

I think numerically, the people who even know what the signing of the Declaration of Independence would be dwarfed by the number of people who knew that the Madison Square Garden, quote-unquote, wedding was just the Travis and Taylor coming out ceremony. Right. That would be all people talked about for the longest time. But if it depends on who ends up winning American history, because if it's the conservative, and that was the day the blood oath was signed by demons at Madison Square Garden in front of the masses, and when we had to enact these even more stringent anti-gay laws, or it could be a fantastic moment. I don't know. But do you think this is a distraction from what?

Just like a probably a smaller, intimate wedding somewhere, are not in Manhattan. Yeah, that would be my guess, is that like they set this up, they throw everybody off the scent, oh, they send a lookalike in, you know, and then they have like a normal wedding somewhere else. The thing that I think is wild is that they're like, oh, no, to ensure privacy will be texting instead of whatever. Okay, do you not think people could take a screenshot of a text?

I don't understand how they think they're making this any more private. The implication is that she has hacked everybody's phone. and can watch what everybody does with their phones. And you, of course, know that I'm working with the intelligence community and can track whatever everybody does. Yeah. I mean, already, I think even just the number of people, that's where I'm a bit dubious. Like, I feel like they wouldn't invite 1,200 people to their way.

1,100 to 1,200 people. They're estimating that it would cost about $20 million. What? And I also, for florals are even bought. For the venue, for the venue, why would you have it at Madison? Is that a thing that anyone has ever done? Like, I know they had JFK's birthday at Madison Square Garden, but it was like a packed house. And they were, like, that was where Marilyn Monroe sang.

Yeah. Happy birthday, Mr. President. Like, but like having a wedding there, if you're inviting 1,100 people, isn't it going to feel? feel like a like the most poorly attended concert of all time that's what yeah that's I'm like it if kind of falls apart the second you even just think about it's not that's why I keep coming back to it would only make sense if it was like you know when you go to a club and they have like a little private room you get to the Madison Square garden you're like yeah where's the little private room for the 1200 person wedding they're like no this is it right here lower bowl lower bowl yeah there is a

There is like a little stadium like underneath, or like a little theater underneath the big stage that I've seen. Wait, there is? Yeah, there is. Like the belly room? Yeah, there's like a smaller room that's like a couple. I forget, like I think it's a couple thousand people seated there. So, dude, you just answered the question.

That's where they're getting married. But again, maybe. But even then, it's like not that nice of theater. Yeah, it's like if you're so into aesthetics, but if it's on your ground, it's probably a lot more private than a, above ground, which is where we all reside. Yeah. You said that like someone who lives underground and is trying to throw people off.

It would be really crazy if somebody lived underground and I think it would be weird. And how would they get built down there? That's crazy, man. You surface dwellers, I mean, us regular people. The way we love the air up here is, wow. Yeah, I see this being like, I feel like they would get married on some oligarchs island. You know what I mean? Like that where they can control the airspace.

or something rather than being like, we have to do it in a closed arena so people don't get pictures. And it plays so big that you already have to have all kinds of staff on hand to run the venue. Right. I'm guessing they do a private wedding with just the families and whatever on an island, probably like the day before, a couple days before. And then this is probably, yeah, this is like, yeah, they buy Croatia for like a day. Yeah, yeah. And then I think like probably that's going to be just a big ass party. Yeah.

Oh, look at this. What? You found out? What? No, but AOL.com. Okay. Where I don't get all of my news. That's the harshest news.

I just looked for the latest reporting on this. And they are saying, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey Wedding Buzz takes turn with decoy theory. So apparently I'm not the only person who's saying that this is a decoy situation. Because it's going to be a big coming out party, right? Right.

Oh, yeah. Taylor Swift wedding behavior of reportedly unrecognizable. a guest. Four hours ago. I don't know what that means. What is that fucking meme, bro? Like visually or like personality?

So they're saying like her having the wedding at Madison Square Garden doesn't sound like her? I see. Oh. I guess I know we're better than we all thought, you know, because I'm like, guys, no, not my tailor. Couldn't be. Absolutely could not be my paytime.

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