The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 445 (Best of 8/24/26-8/28/26)

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Keith McNally has seen teenage. sex and death, it can't miasma. It's a convoluted story why I looked this up. In his autobiography, I regret everything. He tries to tell a very kind of risque story about hooking up with a TV star in the 90s. And the pseudonym he used was X. Everyone figured out it was Jillian Anderson

because we're not stupid. Oh. Because he was just like, it was a very popular science fiction show for children that I did not watch because I'm, you know, for children, sophisticated. Yeah, it's not for kids. Yeah.

So I was a kid and I did watch it. Of course, I watched it, but I'm like, I watched it because I'm like, this ain't for kids. Yeah. That's how the smoking man. Yeah, you're not supposed to smoke cigarettes at least. That man is smoking. And so I was fascinated by this story.

I have plenty of celebrity encounters, dates and things of that nature that I like to talk about publicly, but without using the name. You're not a coward. Well, no. I'm not a coward. No, I'm just trying to respect Monica Lewinsky. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so I was like, I wonder if he saw that movie because he was so kind of disrespectful to her in the book.

And I'm like, did he see this movie? Because, you know, he's got this connection to her. The New York Post was reporting about, obviously it's her. We all figured it out because there are photos of them on the internet from this exact time. I don't think you seen it. Let's call her X. Nah, let's actually do file. X.F.

Let's call her Agent Scully. Alien Gandersen And yeah I keep thinking Maybe I should just like you know Post on his Instagram Like hey buddy have you seen this movie yet Right

But I don't want to get blocked She's really good in it He's kind of a dick To people on Instagram What's his move? What's his restaurant? Balthazar Oh that guy

Yeah Yeah yeah Yeah yeah And he would own the Odeon for a long time Yeah yeah yeah And you know I'm a classy guy right I like a martini I like a steak

Great fries I love French fries You're so classy you read autobiographies of people that own classy establishments? Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's classic.

Thank you. I read and everything. Yeah. Crazy. What's that like? It takes a long time. Yeah, yeah. Especially when you're reading phonetically.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. On the bus. He was disrespectful just in terms of not devising a better alias. He, no, he just kind of made her sound crazy. Oh, yeah.

Like, oh, she came over to my. apartment and she spent the night. Yeah. To a certain type of man, all women are crazy. I broke up with her and she got upset. Yeah. I was like, oh no. I thought she was going to take it well.

Yeah, right, right. And we're like, you know what? I love someone else. Right, right. That's the mentality of a man who goes, well, there's certainly nothing wrong with me. Yes. So what the fuck is their problem? Have you seen Camp Miasma?

I sure have. It's great. That's what I'm seeing amazing reviews. That's from the creator of, I saw the TV glow. and we're all going to the world's fair. Jane Schoenbrun, which, yeah, I'm excited to see this for. I thought it was great. I don't think it's their best movie, but every movie.

TV is your favorite? Yeah, I think so. That one kind of devastated me. I cried a lot. Yeah, because I love TV. Yeah, it'll do it. Yeah, it's a film about the love story between a person and their television. Yes.

Yeah. I just watched, was it a, Fuck. What's the Scorsese movie? Cun Dune anymore. Oh, my bad. It reminds me of the Sopranos episode where Christopher sees Scorsese.

He's like, Coondude. Hey, Coondon. Yeah, so good. Which one was it? Alice doesn't live here anymore. Oh, man, that movie's great. And it has a moment where, like, she has a son and she's having to, like, be a single mom and, like, go out and work.

And the son is just, like, sitting at home, like, watching TV. like an inch from the TV. And like, for whatever reason, I found that like so heartbreaking because it just reminded me of my childhood. I thought you were to be like, it reminded me of all the poor kids that I used to hang out with.

No, it was you. Okay. That boy was me. That boy was me. I love a twist ending. Yeah. What is, Kim, something you think is underrated?

Underrated. That's what I said. I feel. I'm coming to ask. Get your ass today. It's going to be a real confrontational question-answer session. Cooling blankets. All right.

Explain this to me. Okay. I don't think I'm in perimenopause. I'm a bit young for that. I'm 35, so it's in the range, but it's still young. I'm hot as fuck all the time. And cooling blankets have just been fantastic for me. I don't see anyone talking about it because, I don't know, we all praise AC so much.

But that's expensive too. Which is the cooling blanket the one with the fan under the blanket or no? No, it's just the type of fabric that can breathe. So it's still cozy, but I'm not sweating my ass off at night anymore. I have to buy one of these. Especially SoCal, I know it. It's awful when it gets hot. especially next month.

September is usually the worst. September for whatever reason. I don't know. So stupid. Yeah. They're like, I don't know. Is September a good hottest month? No.

What? Pumpkin spice. Fuck you. It's 95. Oh, this is rad. Yeah. I need the illusion of a blanket for like psychological purposes. Yes.

But I don't need the physical presence of a blanket. Yeah. See, there you go. Yeah. What are they? So my issue is with this premise of cooling blankets, when I go visit my parents, they have blankets on their bed that are,

like we stay there for two weeks of the summer. They have blankets on the bed that are like, I guess summer blankets, you know, they're designed. They're very thin. But like when it's too light, I don't feel like I have a blanket. And yeah, like Andrew said,

psychologically, I feel like I need something. Are they heavy and cool? Or are they like very lightweight? I feel like I just have a sheet on me when I'm in a thin blanket, under a thin blanket. Mine is that like, I don't know what the fabric is, but like that really kind of fuzzy, like cozy feeling. Oh, yeah, yeah. Like fleece. Yeah, but it's breathable.

I don't want to say it's fleece because I have. That's medical advice if you do that. Yeah. Talk to your. doctor. I will say the reason I asked about the fan one is I went to, I don't know why. I was like, like just visiting someone who I didn't know very well for the first time. And they were like, you know, let's give you the whole house to her. And one of the, one of the parts of the tour was the master bedroom, her and her husband

run very different temperatures. And she had some shit that was like, it's, it was like a fan with the hose that went under her side of the bed. So she was like sort of like getting a fan only under the sheets that was like a product. I have no idea what the hell that was. I thought maybe that's what a cooling bike it was. But it was basically like a personal like fan. Air conditioner. Yeah.

There was an air conditioner with extra steps. Yeah. It was that. Okay. So this is not that. This is just like a piece of cloth that has intrinsic cloth properties. Yeah. Sham wow.

but for cooling. Right. What is, what's something you think is overrated? So speaking of being an adult, I think summer, as an adult, especially, is incredibly overrated. I might have said this one before.

I don't remember, but I hate summer so much. Yeah, you're consistent with this. I like this. It is hot. It is humid in most places, including L.A. now. It's been a very humid.

midsummer and that is not what this place is all about. You still have to like work as an adult throughout the summer because it was great when you were a kid and you had school off and summer was something to look forward to and I understand loving it as a kid. But as an adult, you just have to continue on with your normal life except now you're incredibly sweaty and disgruntled. And like there are like in other countries like in Europe particularly people, people just take off for the sun, like the sun places shut down because they're like, no, what? Yeah, no, this is a bad, like the reason kids get off in the summer is because not because of like some student president, student body president who like fought for the rights of kids is because it was like wildly uncomfortable and terrible to be in like sitting somewhere doing work in hot weather. And right.

Well, isn't it also that the, and to this day, the current, like, school day is modeled after, like, a century or more ago when, like, kids had to, they were, like, helping out on the family farm. Yeah. So that's why school starts earlier than the typical work day. It's why it ends earlier. And then, because, like, kids had to, like, get up early and do the harvest and then go to school. And then summer is off because, like, that's hard. harvest season. So I think, I don't know.

And that I think we should bring back. Bring back everyone. Yeah. I want to hear about these kids being bored. There's a, oh God, the NPR has a story. It says, agrarian roots think again, debunking the myth of summer vacations origins. Really? I don't want to hear this NPR, not right now.

Did I fall for the, the propaganda? Oh, no. Agrarian propaganda. Damn it, Caitlin. Oh, shit. We worked so hard. We worked so hard. But yeah, I mean, like, I think the other thing, too, is as obviously Earth death is becoming

more and more pronounced for people, too, and, like, we're just in a run of, like, plus 95-degree weather for, I don't even know how many days at this point. Yeah. I'm like, can we take a page out of Spain's book here? Yeah, that's what I'm saying. You know, like, too fucking hot right now. fucking go to sleep, bro. We'll do this shit at eight tonight and go to bed later.

But right now, this shit is too fucking hot. What if they're like in the same way that they used to call school when there was like too much snow on the ground, what if there was just a universal rule that when there was a heat advisory on? No school. No work. The heat advisory doesn't really mean anything unless you have like kids that you're sending out into it. Like it doesn't affect me as an adult. But what if they were just like, there's a heat advisory.

on there. I was like, yeah. Like running out into the streets opening fire high. Yeah. No, we need that water for the forest fire. No. This is how we celebrate. No, use those regenerative cooling packs, please. Throwing regenerative cooling packs in the air as we do.

Yep. As we do. All right. Great overrated, underrated, Caitlin and search history. Everybody should be going out and making that their search history as well. Wait, what other cities are you hitting? You said Northeast, but let people know so they can wet their beaks. I don't know.

What's that? Their whistles? Their lips. Get excited for. What their beaks would mean that you're giving them a cut of the door. Hey, let me wet my beak on that, huh? With their appetite, yes, Catherine. Quet.

Yeah. Spelled W-H-E-T. Wow. Is that real? Yeah. It's not wet as in like water. Wet. Quet to sharpen.

Wait, what was your question, Miles? What other thoughts? You said you're starting off northeast? Where else do you expect to? Then in, and this hasn't been announced officially, but here's a little peek behind the curtain. The Zite gang. We are aiming to go up the West Coast in January. What?

The West Coast? Yeah. And then we haven't planned the rest of it yet. How far are we talking up west? Are we crossing borders? I would love to go to Vancouver. Fuck me too. And then whatever's north of that.

Keep going. Keep going. North Pole for Hocke. Yeah, Santa Claus wants to see the backtel cast. Huge fan. I mean, that would be a great location for a Christmas movie. Totally. All right.

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Yeah, the owner of both the Lakers and the Dodgers has... Well, formerly the Lakers. Formerly the Lakers. Well, it's not done yet. Yeah, yeah. Right. Genie's making fun. Still trying to, but yeah.

So he's apparently about to go down big. Like people, I'm hearing people, use the name Madoff in terms of, like, I don't think it's quite there, but they're saying, it's not made off, but that's never what you want to hear. I mean, it's not quite made off. It's not quite Hitler. And you're like, we're in the neighborhood. Right. It's more of a Pol Pot situation. Damn. Pol Pot. It's two days in a row, Pol Pot has come up on the show. Well, I mean, he left his mark. Yeah.

I can't. Yeah, but he basically was doing, so I don't, I don't understand. finances, but like he was borrowing against insurance companies in a way you're not supposed to do that. He's leveraging the insurance companies, taking money he didn't have and being like, well, look at how big this insurance company is type thing. And then you'll just use a shorthand fraud. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Fraud is kind of the word for it. Somehow, Jerry Cushner's brother, like, got word that this was really bad and was able to swoop in and get the Lakers for. Yeah, right after Mark Walter gave Trump a World Series ring. Yeah. That's interesting timing.

But yeah. Interesting timing. We, the Clippers, fine. That scandal came to an end. We have talked about that one before on the show. And the NBA was like, nothing to see here. They're good. But in the murkiest way, be like, what do you mean there's nothing to see?

We saw a bunch of stuff that is things to see here. Last year, Pablo Torre kind of outlined what Steve Balmer was doing as the owner of the Clipper, Steve Ballmer, like, one of the richest people in the world, richest sports owner in the world. And not only it wasn't shady as fuck, but he also was able to be like, and this is what he's always done. Right. This is what he did at Microsoft too.

And. Laws are merely speed bumps on the road to success. So now we have, we get to meet a gentleman by the name of Jed York, who is one of the owners of the San Francisco 49ers. You familiar with this football team? Yeah. Not a fan. No, but I know that they exist.

So he was caught in East Palestine, Ohio, which you may remember from a train derailment a few years ago, soliciting sex from a sex worker for $160. And he wasn't actually soliciting sex from a sex worker. He was soliciting sex from a undercover cop who just posted a thing on a website that was like cheap sex for rich man. And he was the cop hot? That's what he's at. Yeah, when he got busts, he's like, wait, so is the girl real? Just show me. No.

Showed up at the sting with exact change in his hand. Wow. In his hand. Not a penny more, not a penny less. Clutch to his chest. with a carnation in his hair. The phone that he had organized the deal in his hand, like still a light with like text messages,

walking up right now. An alarm going off says meet up for sex. I am a person from internet. I am wholly erect. Hello. Walks right into this trap, Dick first, and is immediately arrested. So sex work is work.

and, you know, I'm glad that this wasn't a Robert Kraft situation where there were actually sex workers who were, like, taken down with the rich person because I hadn't realized this, but, you know, people remember him, Robert Kraft's owner of the New England Patriots getting busted back in 2019. He, you're not going to believe this,

was able to afford really good lawyers who got him completely, who got him off. Someone had to get off. I mean, that's just what he was looking for the whole time anyways. prosecutors pressed ahead against four Chinese women who worked at the massage parlor, and the women didn't receive the same breaks. Instead, they received criminal records and about $45,000 in fines. Yeah, because, I mean, yeah, it's all just so twisted because, like, yeah, we still live

in this world where, like, we haven't decriminalized sex work. So everything, just the existence of it is criminal. And half the time, you don't know what gets somebody into sex work. Yes. But then this guy, I'm sure, was loving to exploit that fact to be like, well, cheap sex for rich man. Let me go. And has he made any statement that has he denied that he was there for that? No, he wound up to it.

I was just like, let's, we're going to put this behind us. You guys Niners fans? No, we're not. No, you're in Ohio. We're brothers fans. Yeah. Oh. Other details of details about the arrests is that he contacted the face.

ad three times. Like, hey, did you see it? Not sure if you saw my message. Oh, Jesus. What was he doing in Ohio? He's from Ohio. Okay. The owner, like his whole family.

So he got this position and it's $200 million by having rich parents. And once again, proving America is a meritocracy where only the best and brightest are able to thrive. What is his, what, how did they amass such a fortune? I have no idea, Miles. Oh, I don't. Probably completely ethically would be my guess. but he he amassed his fortune by being rich people's child and inheriting. His first job was with the Guggenheim Foundation,

which was a Mark Norman joint. So that's, hmm, he only worked there for a year. Walter. Mark Walter. Yeah, Mark Walter. I was like the comedian?

Yeah, just ran. It's like Mark Norman. Who? It's a Mark with a first name for a last name. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mark Walter joint. So I don't know. Just further good press for the extremely wealthy oligarchs of this nation.

I wonder what the cops felt when they found out that their clever sting operation led not to arresting a regular person. Right. Or they would get a bunch of rewards and praise. But a really rich sports owner, who everyone's going to be like, you should have just let him go. What are you doing? Because he's not going to get in any real trouble. Oh, he also is co-owner of Leeds United.

Yeah, no wonder they stink. And a lot of Americans play on that team. Yeah, I know. Good for him. Good for him. Well, speaking of undercover cop smiles. Here's my badge. You guys are all arrested for being unfunny.

I'm kidding. Let's talk about Hakeem Jeffries. My God. He's been hearing it from every. ever since they found out he was just chilling with Jared Kushner. Right. Who a lot of people were trying to speculate who the the go-between was. They said it was due to a mutual friend.

I was on Vituation Room with Francesca Farentini yesterday and she was like, I'm pretty sure it's Van Jones. She's like I feel like that is the person who knows both of them and would be like, hey, this might be a good thing for you guys just like cozy up together. I think most people- Link and build. Yeah. Link and look, fam, I'm trying to link.

I'm trying to build. Okay. And most people looked at his meeting with Jared Kushner, like, okay, yeah, this dude is compromised. And he isn't about to do shit to this administration if he gets the gavel, which I think most people are like, yeah, this doesn't bode well for people who are looking for any kind of accountability. So he just posted a video looking like, I would say, he posted this on Tuesday, looking like the most obvious undercover cop outside of the next game, assuring people that he is not going

to go easy on the Trump cartel. Yeah. All right. So this is Hakeem Jeffries. I've got some splaining to do upload version one. What's up, y'all? Just finished up an event here in the community in Brooklyn. I want to give you a little real talk on this Jared Kushner situation.

Okay. Okay. He asked for a meeting and I took it to discuss the affordability crisis that exists that is not a hoax. What a... How much time to go? I had a meet... It's like he was lying on the spot.

Yeah. We had a meeting and I took it at no boo to discuss the affordability crisis. Yeah. I can't afford a yacht. There it is. Go on.

Okay, so that is not a hoax. Thank you for reassuring the people that you are aware. By the way, anybody who's just listening to this should just be picturing. He is oozing charisma. Yeah. He looks like Russell Simmons doing a cameo video. Yeah. This is actually, this is exactly how Russell Simmons used to show. Yo, yo, Jim, I just want to say happy anniversary to you and your girl. Hey, man, I'm loving it here in Bali. We'd love to be there in the U.S., but, you know, kind of having some misunderstandings

with the police over there, my guy, so I will stay here in Bali. Okay, go on, Hakeem. At the same period of time, I shouldn't have to say it, but I am. no one is going to get a pass. Uh-huh. We're going to hold every single member of the Trump cartel accountable. Including my new friend. Name names. If you're stealing from the American people, short-changing the American people.

Is he going to give a specific? Or screwing over the American people. A specific consequence? You're going to be held accountable. Oh, held accountable. There it is. Which is his phrase. Like, he's used that.

before, right? Where he's like, they need to be held accountable. He was saying this even like at the height of like ice, ice raids and brutalizing people and killing people. It was just vague. They need to be held accountable. Boiler plate talk. In one way.

Accountability. Trust me, guys, I'm not compromised. Okay. I'm just saying we will stop them. Also, do you have weed you want to sell? To me, I'm not a cop. I swear to God. Or else I wouldn't be wearing this Yankee fitted.

That's three sizes too big for my head looking like Cassidy in 2005. Yeah, I mean, it's interesting how he evoked that because when we were saying, like, when we first heard about it, we're like, what could they possibly have common ground on? Right. Because of Fort. Jared Kushner is concerned with affordability. No, because that's not what his, that's not what his lane is in the administration. You know who would be good to talk to about the affordability crisis, a billionaire who just caused a many French revolution.

in Albania. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's my guy. He knows. He knows. Because I'm thinking like, what, what does Kushner actually do with the administration? Gaza, Israel, Iran, Ukraine. Right.

So then I'm like, okay, that's the one thing he is sort of transparently involved with in the administration. And then now that some time has passed, a lot of things have happened. Like, suddenly a lot of establishment Democrats launched like identical bad faith attacks against on Hassan Piker for being anti-Semitic. And they used like an out of context clip where he was saying that people continuing to insist that Judaism and Zionism

are the same thing will lead to more anti-Semitism and violence because that's, you can't, you can't use this defense that you're saying all Jewish people want this to happen because now you're painting every single person with that and for people who... As part of the horrible things that the Israeli military is doing. Yeah, and he said something's like,

if you keep doing this, somebody's going to do something. Right. And then they're like, You see what he said? He's positing anti-Semitic violence without even talking about the build-up to what, like, that point was. And now the other piece of news is Hakeem Jeffries has appointed staunch supporters of Israel to the Middle East and North African subcommittee, which is a powerful subcommittee.

This just happened like, yeah, like within a day of him posting that video, we just found out about these new assignments. And this is a very powerful subcommittee that shapes foreign policy in that region. And this is how the Guardian described a quote, in an apparent effort to stem the anti-Israeli tied, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a representative from Florida and Missouri Representative Wesley Bell, who just beat Cory Bush, will join the committee

while Jared Moskowitz becomes the Democrats' ranking member on the subcommittee for the Middle East and North Africa. Moskowitz predicted his position would become vital if the Democrats retake the House in November's midterm elections, as many polls indicate, quote, if Democrats take control of the House, all be in a position to help steer U.S. policy on Israel and the Middle East. So you're like, maybe Jared's like, link and build, link and build.

Yeah, link build. Let's wink. Just putting places, putting pieces together just to sort of make sure that the status quo is maintained, which I think a lot of people are pointing out that like, you've constantly seen all these new candidates talk about our need to decouple our government from Israel's and actually have foreign policy that's humane, that's sane. and also domestic policy that is also considering the people here

without just sending boatloads of money out. So it's just, again, another moment, too, where you're just seeing the establishment be like, oh, you thought you guys got a win? Watch this. I'm going to make it even harder so that the committees that are actually doing the business on like Middle East policy

is stacked with the people that wouldn't dare rock the world. Absolutely insulated from any public opinion or any wins on the left or from people who are, critical review Israeli military. Because I mean like on some level, we were saying like the one thing that I could see them having common ground on

is being like, man, what's up with these like, these like progressive DSA like leftist candidates? They're starting to like, they're starting to get some attention from like even independence or former MAGA people because of the way they're talking like we need to, we need to figure this out.

And when you look at Jared Kushner's history, I mean like this guy like literally had Netanyahu sleeping at his house as a kid. It's not like, this isn't a far off thing. Like it's a very close relationship. Wait, he had Netanyahu's. Yeah, yeah, like in the 90s. Like babysitting him?

Like, they're like, hey, Benjamin's coming over. You need to sleep in the basement because he's going to sleep in your room. I guess the guest room? Do you have any idea how nice his room must it? Like, he must have had that who's the race car bed. Yeah. With his feet hanging off the bottom. He's like, he must have had a bedroom like the bully from Peewee's Big Adventure.

Francis? Yeah. He must have had a Francis-ass bedroom like a giant bed. Like if you're going to kick him out. out and put the head of like Benjamin Netanyahu in there. Like what kind of room did this kick up? Was he the prime minister at the time or was he just in the Knesset? Let's see.

At the time, this was 1995. So no, not the prime minister yet. No, not yet. Not yet. Well, okay. So they just gave him a bunk bed. Yeah, yeah. I sleep in a bed shaped like a car.

I sleep in a bed with my wife. He's like, Charles, you're going to have to do something about this bed, man. Way too small for me, man. It's like rocks. I can't believe it, man. Yeah, Jared, I'll be out of here one day, guy. Give me a second. He sleeps with his eyes open, probably.

He's like, it's fine, I'll do it standing. That's what I do anyway. Just in the dark. Like the Bavaduke. Yeah. Like Mitch McConnell? Yeah, exactly. It just powers down.

Something about these guys. They don't need real sleep. No, no. of us, probably because you close your eyes, then you have to go into your subconscious. Yeah, they need to think about all the horrible things you've perpetrated on the world. Purity of heart. I think that's what it is. Yeah, it's like this approaching midterm.

So on the Democratic side, they're like, we're seeing a lot of energy from the left. We need to start criticizing Hassan Piker more. And using it as a litmus test, too. Because a lot of people are like, do you just avow Hassan Piker or whatever? And it's like, dude, what? I don't know. They're trying to make, I think because most people don't understand, at least the audience for these Hassan Piker attacks, they don't know about Twitch streaming. They don't know what that audience is like, what younger people are thinking.

So it's much easier to just be like, this guy's a freak to older people who will never look online. They'll be like, yeah, that guy's bad. Whoever that person is, I don't like them. It's all games that get played on cable news. Yeah, yeah. And it's like gladatory games, you know, it's like going. to the Coliseum and seeing a Christian fighting a lion. Yeah.

We're all watching this for fun, but it doesn't really matter. Right. Right. Yeah. The things that they say on these shows don't do anything to the real world. If they did, polling would be very different right now for the midterms. Like, I think people are just upset and most people aren't on Twitch, like you said. Most people aren't streaming Hassan Piker videos.

They're doing normal stuff. Yeah. They're trying to pay their bills. but there is a power structure in place. Like everybody who's running the campaigns and running the official democratic strategy is like in the bubble of only like hearing what is on what is being said on those shows.

Yeah, they should watch anything else. Yeah. Well, yeah. Turn MS now off, turn CNN off. Watch lanterns on HBO Max or something. I don't know. Just like have yourself a night. Anything.

Yeah. Well, I think it's like, yeah, it's like every, sort of move we see from elites or from politicians or whatever, again, always reveals their complete disconnect from the reality that normal people, like working people are involved in. Because for them, it's like the same way they tried to take down like Zoran or whatever, like just evoke the five stereotypes. And that's what surely he's a socialist Muslim 9-11. Right. That's not working because what he's saying is speaking to actual people's lived

experience. And for this, I'm sure their shorthand is like, okay, tie them all to Hassan Piker. get this spicy clip, make that the thing. But most people are gonna be like, I don't know, man. What about gas? Like, are you doing something about that? I don't know. I really don't know. Like, it was easier to get caught up on that shit when, again,

things weren't as existential, but they're completely misreading the situation and how people are like going day to day right now. But then on the Republican side, it's like, it's like a race to see who can fuck this up the worst because Trump is like demanding that the entire midterm strike. be tied to him and about him. Yeah. Like their biggest liability.

The biggest liability. Everyone would say, what's the biggest liability in the Republican Party? Oh, it's got to be Trump's terrible approval ratings. They're in the gutter. If anything, you'd hope that you could make every race just about the candidates. And maybe hat tip to Trump out of respect. But we don't need to get into the mag of at all. Like, let's just kind of be like, let's see we can get an office.

So there was a meeting recently because Trump is like sitting on like, over $400 million in campaign cash to use. And they're like, guy, the midterms are coming up, man. Like, we need to fucking start spending some money here. No, we got an affordability crisis. I can't afford that. I don't see. Let's hold on to that just in case.

Maybe I'm going to put this in the bank, man. The interest on this might be good. Might be good for me. All the consultants and strategists are telling Trump the same thing. Best way to spend this money. Focus on individual candidates, local issues that are going to actually resonate with people who are struggling, right? and also to decouple them from your,

I'm sure they're not saying this explicitly, but also just to like make, be able to give them, no, have a distraction free campaign, which is being like, no, with not you fucking around.

But this is what happened. This is from, I think Politico, quote, but Trump himself has rejected that approach. House and Senate Democrats, the president noted during the meeting, will make their fall campaigns a referendum on him.

His advisors told him that the poor polling reflect, reflects the fact that the voting public still does not know about many of his accomplishments, the dozens of new stock market highs, a decline in fentanyl deaths, the sealed southern border, the increase in domestic manufacturing production. The solution Trump settled on, according to three people familiar the meeting, was to lean into the Democratic strategy and focus on himself. The president ordered a series of television advertisements about his own record that will serve as a backdrop to the hundreds of individual house and Senate contests. That decision has resulted in a Trump midterm election,

that is set to be rolled out soon from MAGA Inc., which is the main organization that is holding all that money. It's bad. It does seem better than the Democratic strategy of attacking the actual candidates who are winning. Yeah, but this one, he's just saying, oh, what are they doing? They're saying, I'm bad. The defense say, I'm good. What if we tried that? Yeah.

Have we thought about that? It has historically worked. I'll just say that. In a strategy, we make fun of it, but. I'm pretty good. He's done okay for himself so far. And I think that's the thing where like just messaging wise, it's going to, if people are offered a thing where it's like, hey, this guy, the declining fentanyl deaths.

Right. And the sealed southern border. I mean, that appealed, the border thing appeals to people. And fentanyl. Like, yeah. I mean, it's devastated. Lots of communities around this country. The increase in domestic manufacturing production, I think pretty narrow.

Because again, I think most people are trying to hear like the thing that. I'm sure they've observed from successful candidates, especially progressives, are like telling people about shit they know will make their life better in a way they can understand. Most people are like increased domestic manufacturing products. What? Again, groceries, can I like, can I eat this beef that you're about to sell that's coming at a cut rate from Argentina? It will be cheaper. You should not eat it.

Don't eat it. Don't eat it. Don't eat it. But it's very affordable. Yeah, it's very affordable. but you cannot afford to eat it because of how sick you will get. You said there is an affordability crisis. What do you want me to do?

I'm addressing that. So affordable, you're in a crisis. How about that? Roadkill everywhere, guys enjoy. Yeah. So again, like just the self-padding on the back stuff, we'll see. Because I think at the end of the day, the people who are going to vote Republican aren't swayed by really much anyway.

They're going to do it because they're still bought in on like the MAGA project. Right. It's the independence that are. clearly becoming more and more, not the kinds of people who are like conflicted Republicans, but people who seem more of like a get for, you know, the left, if anything. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk about the cat in the hat, of course.

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And we're back. And it's time to talk about the Fart Corner. A second grade teacher in Georgia went viral after showing off her classroom's gas station on TikTok. on TikTok. And by gas station, we, of course, made a corner of the room where students can go to fart.

There's a yellow warning sign reading gusty winds area and an assortment of Fabriz products to cover up the smell. I feel like you need a fan in there, personally. Yeah. Like blowing it towards a window

or something like that. You said, teacher, I feel it should be innovator. Everyone has this. Hero. Yeah, hero. Kids fucking stink. I fucking stink.

I would like a little area where that's just it. We're just not going to pretend. Everyone does this. Go to the corner and shart. My personal opinion. Don't char. There's a separate corner for sharding. But yeah, to your point about how smelly kids are, when asked about this, she said,

I have a very weak stomach, so I cannot take it. Which is like, oh, my God. How bad do these children smell? I mean, yes and no, but I also, like, to your point, like, of kids stink, like, I just think maybe second grade teacher is not for you. Right. That's a hard age. Yeah.

The actual actualization. Oh, my God, I can't talk. But they're coming into, you know, who they are. And they're testing everything out. Yeah. So some people, this became a big debate quickly. A lot of people were quick to support this idea, suggesting every classroom should have one.

Some are in the Kim camp, some would say the Kim Winder camp, the high wind corner. And then other people were like, don't, wouldn't that like draw more attention to the farder and make the whole thing funnier to the room full of literal second graders. Yeah. Like my first instinct,

having a son who's just entered third grade and like just thinking of his, a comprehensive look at his work over the last year leads me to believe that he would find a way to turn this into a comedy gold mine

for the entertainment of his classmates. But maybe, so like, but I, I am, perfectly willing to be like the old school baseball scouts from Moneyball where they're like, what are you talking about

money? Like, these stats don't matter at all. He's got to have a good jaw. That's what makes a good ball player. Like if this is actually possible to like destigmatize, like catch children this young and destigmatize the human fart because she claims that she's like has really promising early results. the kids are just like going there and farting and then coming back and no one's like,

bah! That person just farted! Well, isn't it kind of like the whole six, seven thing? As soon as adults hopped on it, it's like backed off. So, you know, we have a far corner. The far corner is no longer funny because now the adults are in on it. Yeah. I do think you could try ruining jokes.

Right. Just try it. If you're sick of the kids, like all this, like, all right, everyone's settled down. Like, that's the opposite. That's part of the fun. Yeah.

This feels also like an Adam Sandler bit. This feels like him being like, oh, where I got on? And it's just like. Billy Madison. Yeah. Then go to my fart closet. That actually somebody commented in the,

and was like, I'm a teacher and we have a fart closet, which seems I don't like that one as much because that feels shameful. First of all, just in terms of the physics of it, it's bad. Yeah. Because you're trapped in there. Yeah. You should be ashamed.

Yeah. Yeah. I'm, yes, I'm out of view, but I'm also trapped in here with the unholy hell that my lunch has just wrought. So, yeah, seems, I do like it as a little thought experiment. The other thought experiments are, you know, a little social, experiments that teachers try are usually like, we turned half of our class into fascists.

So, I like this one better. They have a gas chamber. Yeah. Recall the wave. They take, you know, this is, this is bad. This seems a little bit more benign.

Also, yeah, take note, Mr. Beast, all your fucking social experiments. This is where you don't have the, you don't have the vision. Yeah, you don't have the fart corner, bro. To build fart dome.

Like, if you told me that like a, Scandinavian country, this was just like very common there. I would be like, yeah, that makes that that's like progressive and the sort of enlightened thing that I would expect of them. They're like, we, uh, we don't have prisons. We just have knitting groups that people join and like they come out fully rehabilitated. And, uh, yeah, yeah, you know, like this feels like something to aspire to.

The fart yurt. The, yeah. We can defend it. Just leaving your kid outside to sleep in the snow and fart. It just, that tickles me in a way. Yeah. All right. Let's get to the news that's been dominating this week is the passing of celebrities like

Dolly Parton, Tim Curry. Obviously, we had Hayden Penitier last week. And then, you know, Yiyoy Kusama, the great artist from Japan. We found out about her passing. she had passed 10 days ago, but I've seen a lot of comments being like 2026 has been like, what the fuck, 2026, which is something that people have been saying, basically every year for the past 10 years, our writer Jamim compiled a list. 2025 has been the craziest year for celebrity deaths in a long time.

Is it me or has there been an extra amount of famous people dying within the last couple of days from 2024? 2023 has been one of the worst years for celebrity deaths, 2016. Worst Celebrity Death Year ever? Now that's the one that I remember. That was a major talking point back in 2016 because that was when Prince David Bowie, Carrie Fisher, Muhammad Ali,

Alan Rickman and George Michael all passed away. That one was a big one. That's a big one. Yeah, last year outside of Diane Keaton, I don't really... Diane Keaton, Jane Goodall. There were a lot, I feel like, Jane Goodall. Charlie Kirk, Rob Reiner.

Okay, fine. I take it back. Couple kings. Yeah. Cheney. But 2016 was, fuck Kirk. A GoFundMe campaign back in 2016 was launched to help protect Betty White from 2016. What a, what a time, guys.

You remember that? Joke-ass Go-FundMe's. Joke-ass Go-FundMe's because we didn't have enough, like, disasters to be. Oh, God. Ferrombing. Why isn't Harambe on this? fucking list. I like,

except out for her on that. But the BBC claimed back in 2026 that twice as many notable people died in 2016 compared to 2015.

I mean, but like, it's just such a vague thing. Yeah. So I've always been like, what, no, first of all,

these things don't come in threes because like, if you just look at this week, people were like, and you had Hidden Pananeteer, uh,

Dali Parton, Tim Curry. it's over. And then like, you know, you can slice it however. You can really thin slice it however you want and be selective. But experts are saying that this is not an anomaly. 2016 was actually the start of a looming celebrity death apocalypse, which is like sounds crazy, but there has been a major spike in celebrity culture beginning in the 1960s,

thanks to TV and New Hollywood. And, you know, there's just like, we create more, we've created more and more celebrities since the 1960s. And, like, they're, you try and think of, like, celebrities prior to that. There's, like, a handful. And then starting the 60s, you know, there's just, like, more and more famous people. And those famous people are getting older, which makes sense.

But I also think that. that we are in a period, like, there's also like a first mover thing where these are the people who are like in their 70s and 80s right now were celebrities in a monoculture. Yeah. So they're like bigger celebrities.

Like yeah. I remember when I was a kid, like everyone was talking about how the only people who were like able to go on tours for like arena tours were like people in their 60s, like Springsteen and the Rolling stones and like people who are like of that age. And I think it was the theory was that like these were people who came along when there was just like a real monoculture and like becoming a rock star was like Matt like the biggest

you could possibly be. And then they're able to like continue to build fame and even beyond that, even as like more people are famous. And so yeah, you just have these giants out there looming. who are now, like, aging into a time when they are, like, you know, more likely to pass away? I wonder if, like, in 40 years, because monoculture is gone now, will we still have this kind of mourning for people? Because it's always a shame when someone passes, regardless if it's old age or untimely and very tragic. It's just, it feels like no one's going to care, and I'm kind of sad for that.

Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we'll, we'll see in like 2070 when it's all the TikTok pullets is happening. All the influencers. Like, oh, all. Three again today.

Yeah. The TikToker that went viral in 2019 died. Oh, no. The horse guy? Beloved YouTuber. Yeah. But there's actually been, this is actually a historic trend or a historic trend or a historical trend. Like there's been a steady rise in deaths of notable people and also like the

existence of notable people since the 1700s. Like before the 1700s, it was like, well, the only notable people are like, the king and Jesus. Yeah. Like, you know what I mean? And then like, it really like started to climb. That guy came back. And it started to climb in the mid to late 20th century into the 2000s and then like now you just see like the the number of they have it charted as like births of and deaths of notable figures you know like what must come down yeah exactly i guess that makes sense yeah yeah europe's just is europe's next top viscount this is this is the chart of the births of notable people and deaths of notable people I'm going to say this.

I don't think I appreciated how big the baby boom was until I was looking at this chart. Yeah. Well, it's the baby boom and also just like, oh, no, that's free. Yeah, never mind. Yeah. That's like all the vaudeville people dying. Yeah, right. Charlie Chaplin lived until what, the 90s, 80s?

Yeah. Yeah. There's only one death I want. I don't need to say it. Right. No, you don't need to. Yeah. I have a bottle of fucking sham.

that I really want to open when it happens. Paul McCartney. Yeah. So, uh, yeah, but it's, uh,

so it does, before I was just like, oh, people are just like, trying to make something go viral and they'll, like, find a way to, but it does make sense that there's just,

there are more famous people because there is money to be made off of famous people. But also, that's not to take anything away from, you know, the passing of, massive celebrities who were indeed. I guess that that's one thing that we can say now that I think is an improvement is that if there is a Dolly Parton out there, we're going to find her.

You know, the media is going to, you know, like she's in a previous age when we weren't, when there wasn't a celebrity generating factory out there, it would have, she might have, she might have just been the most entertaining person in her holler. But now it's easier to find the people. But it still might be because to get famous now, you also have to have this like gene for attention grabbing. Yeah. That is like maybe counterintuitive to or like the amount of time you have to spend on

that is maybe counterproductive to like the number of nine to fives that you end up being able to write. because you're too busy studying metrics on TikTok. Yeah, yeah. You mean, like, would Dolly Parton, if she were, you know, 14 today, would she still be, like, blowing up? I think so. Because, like, you can.

Yeah, there's so many unboxing videos you can fucking watch, but how many people wrote, I will always love you, you know? I was like. That's what I'm saying is I feel like some of the, some of the I will always love you brain power, had to go to like, oh, what's the next unboxing trend? Right. That's maybe a tragedy.

People not trusting their talent in going with that. I fall into that plenty of times. Miles highlighted this kid who's like a songwriter who was going viral a couple weeks ago on here, like as one of the songs we wrote out on, who's just like this young kid from, I think, the UK. And like, it's just like, here's a song that I wrote last night, like, plays it and like it's incredible and everybody in the, like all these like famous songwriters are in the comments being like, holy shit. Like you're, you're amazing. So like maybe there is a way for like

authentically gifted people to just be like, hey, this is my first video. I'm not like, hey, so just quick update after yesterday's unboxing video. Hey, everyone. I will always love you. Hey guys. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's the hope. That is the hope. It could be at the sign of the times, too, because the influencer trend is dying. People are getting pretty fucking sick of seeing rich people flaunt themselves for views. So I saw a video yesterday, or even this morning, I think, a lady bought a house, nothing crazy, but there was a little pond with a fish in it. She built a bigger pond for the fish.

And it was the most delightful video I've seen in a long fucking time. And I think a lot of people are going back to that. Just something enjoyable. I thought you were going to say there was like a, the mob went after her or something. Well, that was towards the end. Yeah. I've actually, I know those fish and that's actually a sign that those fish are

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