The Daily Zeitgeist - We're Just Not Over Trend 2/18: Plane Crashes, DOGE/NNSA, Ashley St. Claire, Putin, Luigi Mangione

Episode Date: February 18, 2025

In this edition of We're Just Not Over Trend, Jack and Miles discuss their respective weekends, the numerous plane crashes in North America, DOGE firing over 400 at the NNSA, Elon Musk's new baby mama, the Russian influence on Trump's takeover, Luigi Mangione's statement to his fans and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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start getting. Yeah. You know, I mean, Paul Simon was like reaching out to Sabrina. Oh, no. His hands, his hands. I know. And I'm like, you know, it's like that's always like the. Yeah, it was not great. Even I and I also saw I couldn't watch all of Paul McCartney either. Paul McCartney was so bad too.

Like they all just sounded like they were singing at Rand like just no. You know, it just sounded like somebody getting up there at karaoke when you're like. Either this person's very nervous or they've never even tried to sing before. Oh, to me, it sounded like. Like a dying warriors last cry before their narratively. I agree. That's definitely what it was.

But what it sounded like just sounded like they weren't even I couldn't even tell what they were trying. The notes they were trying to hit. It feels like a character bit. Someone were doing that thing like an aging guy. A tonal. Yeah. Yeah. Because you can hear that they're still in there.

You're like, oh, I can hear Paul Simon in there. I hear him in there. But it's so everything around it is like so it's like it's lost its vibrancy and vitality in this way that I don't know. And apparently I saw that like all these people went to go see Paul McCartney. Like then he had like a, like a surprise show and like all these people went and I'm like, for whatever this that's your shit.

I mean the music around it, like I liked the selection, the people, everybody else playing was good, but Jesus Christ, it's just the voice in particular was good. Hello the internet and welcome to this week trend edition of. It's a production of I heart radio. Welcome to this week trend edition of Super. I can buy heart radio. Yeah, I guess we're taking a deep dive into American consciousness. And yeah, this is the one where we shake off the cobwebs

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And even in the All-Star game, you know what I know? They they disqualified when being Chris Paul for hacking the fucking Matrix. What happens? Free free speech. I didn't follow that. But was the was the deal that they were like you don't have it doesn't matter. Like a made shot is the same as a missed shot or like the penalty. I don't know.

The penalty for a missed shot must just like be not. Clearly having a fast time negates not making a single shot. And I like having a fast time. I've always said that. I'm here for a fast time. Not I went to Ridgemont High. But cool reference dad I yeah for anybody who didn't see it the most exciting fast times I run high and yeah so for anyone who didn't see it

John Penn so judge right you judge Reinhold jack Jack's off. Jack's off to a window to a young Phoebe Kate. A pirate costume. No, for the NBA All-Star Week. And there was a skills challenge with Chris Paul and Victor Wemba Nyama. Seven foot four, hyper skilled, very exciting player for the Spurs. Um, and they just like, they did this thing where like they nailed all the passes, like you have to pass the ball through a tire. Um, they did like the dribbling and then when it came time to shoot the shots, they just

like kind of just blindly tossed them in the direction of the hoop Yeah as quickly as possible and then just like moved on to the next part and so they got disqualified, but I gotta say if They were about to win based on that strategy Like you just gotta let them win Like what do you you yeah, I guess it's also like hey don't make everyone look like an asshole. Yeah, yeah, that's right. You're like, yeah, fuck it, bro. Watch me just chest. I'm supposed to shoot these threes.

I'm a chess pass it to the ball boy. All right. The whole thing felt brought to you by State Farm and brought to you by everything just felt like a piece of sponsored content. And including that, like, I just feel like, you know, you, they're like, you're making a mockery of our presenting sponsor. You can't do that. A mockery of State Farm. But anyways, this is part of being an NBA fan is to complain about the All-Star weekend.

But we know you're not NBA fans, all of you, so we'll get to the government. We'll get to, you got, we know you're not nba fans all of you so we'll get to the government we'll get you got we know you guys are fans of doge so we'll get to that stuff uh but first this is the episode where we uh like to get to know each other a little bit better by telling you stuff we think is underrated stuff we think is overrated miles what's something you think is underrated uh something i think is underrated wait where did i is underrated. Wait, where did I? Oh, yeah. Why was I like, why am I even looking this up? I was just talking about unintentionally bad music. OK, I love music and I don't know if you guys know this.

I like music. OK. I'm kind of going out on a limb here to say that out loud on a podcast. But this guy likes music. This guy's got one thumb and loves music. and one of the algorithms served me a track what's he doing with the other thumb don't worry about it why am i on thumb trial who cares but one of the algorithms served me like this track that I just cannot get out of my head and a lot of people are watching, it's like blowing up on social media, but people I think are making fun of the songs.

I, on the other hand, I'm like, these are so sincere and literal that I fucking love it. Just allow me to play just an excerpt of one of these tracks, just because I just want to familiarize the audience with this one I'm still not over it Anyway, so Just like rando people

These dudes in the Bay Area. They're singing they're singing. Oh, yeah, that is their actual song. That's the band Oh P. O'Malley Paul O'Malley people everybody got a short Yeah, that's P. O'Malley or P. Mowler some shit His name is like Peter O'Malley or so he's like he does like Broadway type singing But he's kind of doing like R&B with this other guy He's like, he does like Broadway type singing, but he he's kind of doing like R&B with this other guy who's like a producer. These again, a lot of people watch you like with a sense of irony. And I am so captivated because I think I referenced a tweet on Blue Sky that was about like how the world would be better if people just made whatever the fuck they wanted to art

wise and we just don't stop giving a fuck about bad art or whatever. Yeah. This is so I don't know why, but it was so life affirming to see like people enjoy themselves by expressing themselves to whatever medium pleases them. And despite it maybe not being quote good or whatever, like the sincerity cuts through in a way that I was like this is just this is something I don't know. I just like really enjoy it. There's another song about The lyrics are you think I'm the one like we're on the run and I'm like, what does that even mean?

We're on the run like we're on the run I'm like, yeah, whatever dude. I love these sixth grade lyrics. I fuck with them. Yeah I mean that is like music is partially about just tapping into that like Just feeling of being in middle school and having a crush and being like so dumb That's why these dudes who are like in their late 20s, I think are just killing. It was like, like you're saying this sounds like a note I would write when I got broken up with in fifth grade. Yeah. Like, I'm just not over it.

You know, it's fucking cutting through note my one time my sister's friend got broken up with in a note and the guy signed off by going things change, people change and nothing ever stays the same. And the degree to which like just speaking to exactly what we're talking about, like that was such a bar that like she told me about it and I've never forgotten it. I'm like, uh, my older sister's right there. Yeah. My older, how many years older at this point? Like what's the age difference? Or she's coming two years. Every funny if you're like six and she's 12 like, Hey, Hey, Hey,

I got to tell you about this really quick. Huh? No, it was like she, her friends were like cool interesting like yeah Yeah, so I was just invested and I yeah. Yeah. Oh, they broke up. What happened people change? Wait things change people change enough and never stays the same That shit is a bar from Like a song like that that should be a lyric in a song that goes fucking platinum. Yeah. Oh, 100 percent.

But it's dumb as hell. It's dumb as hell. All right. Underrated. Oh, I was just talking to people over the weekend who, you know, fellow dads and about like kids, like all the kids have the same kind of general genre of movies that they like what like become obsessed with and it's just like you know you watch it a hundred times like that's normal like Star Wars you wear a tape. And then, like, just talking about the fact that mine was Jaws, which is about solicited an alcoholic sheriff whose death drive sends him into the heart of the ocean with like a man who's cucking him. And like, wait, what? Cooper in the book is having an affair with his wife and like,

there's so much tension in the movie. Um, and then Quinn is like the human death drive personified, uh, a child that was like just a couple of years older than me gets like burst, like a blood grape. And like all the kids today have like finding Nemo and cars and cars too. And like, I guess I'm just at that point where like my kids are now at ages that I can remember and being like, that's so wild that at that age my thing,

like my kids things are Legos and, and, uh, you know, chess and star wars. And you know, my oldest is like into via star wars. He's like gotten real into like military history, which is a little longer. But I was like deep when my at the age of my six year old, I was like deep into this movie that was had so many like adult, you know how like one of the things that they rate movies on is like adult themes. There's just so many adult themes.

There's a line where he's like, you want to get drunk and mess around with his wife? Wait, what? And you're just like, mm hmm. I'm like, yeah. Mom, dad, shut up. This is what happens when like child development wasn't really like a thing for our parents. There was no. He likes it.

Yeah. I think was the philosophy. I don't know. He likes it. He doesn't cry when he likes it. Yeah, I think was the philosophy He was like that he was like old Disney movies. I think so. Yeah, well, which is wild to me though, too, because I My dad would show me a ton of weird arthouse films like I remember watching like Eraser head or like naked lunch and shit when I was like you watch a racer. Yeah, I could barely handle that as a 40 year I just I remember being bored. I was like this shit's in black and white this shit Yeah, I just and then but obviously I'm like this is some really intense visual shit going on in it Like I won't shake like the dancing chicken thing from it. I can't for whatever reason that really

I won't shake like the dancing chicken thing from it. I can't for whatever reason, I really bother. Yeah. But like little sperm baby. Yeah. Always flying around. Then the other thing was like, but then I would watch Bambi and then like the mom gets killed.

I'm like, yeah. So I think my parents were like, well, at least I raised her head to have like some like, you know, mattress side kind of shit happening in the beginning. I don't know. It was just very, I don't know. I think, and then maybe my parents use that to be like, well, he

cried watching Bambi, but these experimental art house films and early Tarantino works are fine. When you watched early Tarantino, like I watched every Tarantino movie, like within a year of it coming out. Yeah, like so I saw Reservoir Dogs when it hit tape, I saw Pulp Fiction when it hit tape. So that would have been like you were eight. Yeah. Well, Pulp Fiction was a 94.

Yeah. Yeah. So I was like 10, 11. Yeah. I mean, just be like watching the Gimp scene. And I'm like, I don't know what's going on. Like, I remember just fully watching that. I'm like, what the fuck are they doing? Like, it's just like not completely all of like how graphic it was, was completely lost on me until I got older. I was like, yo, that guy's silly.

Look at the guy in the mask. Oh, dude, the GIMP's coming out. So funny. What a goof. Yeah, I guess Die Hard was my favorite movie when I was in third grade. So I was right there with you. We're all fucked up. It's all fucked up now. Yeah. What jokes about him at the SNL 50. Yeah. What is something else you think is?

Did you catch that thing in the SNL 50 or they said oh all we've had like 895 hosts and only two of them are murderers and then Alec Baldwin showed up a little bit later and like yeah Reference I look at her bad. I'm like were they low-key referencing? But I'm sure they were Blake later. So I'm assuming he hosted Yeah, I guess he must have like in the day. But then I was like, is that a clearly they wouldn't be like, yeah, and Alec Baldwin. Anyway, ladies and gentlemen, Alec Baldwin, the murderer or manslaughter or whatever you want to call it, negligent homicider.

But anyway, what are we doing overrated? We're doing overrated miles with overrated Clothing that is new but already distressed. This is an old head take but as I Look to get clothes again that I can wear like what happened? Yeah, I don't know. I lost a bunch of stuff I don't know where it's still like just a little fun wardrobe refresh, dude Someone swapped my house out with an ashen lot I don't know where they put my house but the guys getting old it's getting old show me where the stuff is I'd really like to get some of my clothing back but like I went to the mall to get some shit and like I'm a you realize how old you are

because you're like none of this shit is directed towards you as a consumer. I'm like, bro, I do not need a 7X tall tee with the Tupac All Eyes On Me album cover on it looking like he's acid washed. Actually, you kind of do need that, but yeah. Yeah, I bought one, you know. But then I saw like other shit that like, you know, I get that the distress trend has been happening for a while and like a lot of high fashion brands like to just put stuff out there already looking busted as shit. But I like cannot believe what people are paying for for shit that looks fucked up like golden goose sneakers.

No, cannot abide these fucking shits. Yeah, I have these fucking shits? Yeah, I have they look like fucked up like Stan Smith's Basically with their like proprietary logo on it all scuffed in shit on the toe Like shits that are I'm like the same fucking no Six hundred dollars behind a car on the fucking four or five exactly I sort of like just like as if you tied him by the car, like just married, but I'm dragging speakers behind me, not cans or whatever. And it's just like, I'm like, Phyllis, I'm like also trying to understand what the appeal

is. Like, are people just trying to speed run actually living a life and just go straight for the clothing that makes it look like that? Yeah. Or is it like, I don't actually go anywhere. I just sit at a desk and answer emails. So this is the type of person who spends Let me see $565 on a pair of sneakers on a pair of shoes, bro

That's not that's not like They these are sold out and so you're having to go street value that that is that's a really what they call M.s. Retail. Yeah, okay That is what they call. That's MSRP. Yeah, it's $565. Manufacturers suggested retail price. So I see that and I'm like, okay, bro, I already have shoes that look like I got drunk

and stumbled through a gravel parking lot for 15 years straight, because I have those from 15 years ago. Right. I don't need to buy them looking like that. So anyway, I just found myself getting, really becoming very aging rapidly at the mall, trying to find some shit I could wear. And I was like, why is everything fucked up already? And it's more expensive. And I'm 40. Anyway,

that's my time. Shoes like you have a drinking problem. Yeah, my nurse has come in with my my medicine. Hold on one moment. Yeah, no, I see. Yeah, I swallowed it. OK, you didn't really swallow it, right? I didn't try here. Not yet. I like to I like to bank them and do like four of them in your cheek. Do four of them at once at night. Yeah, I've been noticing these for like they were real big with moms

on the west side of L.A. back when I lived on the west side of L.A. And and since then, I've become big with so big. And I try not to judge. I try not to judge. And I feel like kids of family members that we visited. These are the coolest. That's when I first got put on to it. I was like, are you for real? Yeah, no.

By like where rock the vintage rock, the stuff you buy use, like I get that's you're being thrifty, that shit like has been lived in But don't jump to fucking six hundred dollars for busted shits. Yeah, don't do that. Don't do this is my tip This is not financial advice. All right, so I Watched the SNL 50 had a blast. I just my overrated while you're watching it I had a Baja blast or two or four or 50, but, uh, in honor of the show, I had 50 Baja's blast. 50 Baja salute. I will just say,

just one note is if you are, uh, a professional singer over a certain age named Paul. I feel like we got to take a step back, like do the rehearsal and be like, yo, this is not happening for you. We'll have one of the Jonas Brothers come out and cover your part, you know? Like, I don't know. Like it was just just and I guess I've known this for a while like as a Bob Dylan fan

Like he his voice went to shit at a certain point like in his 60s And he just kept working and like kind of steered into it and like his thing was like now I sing like this Like I don't really sing I just kind of crouched it out. Bob welcome. Bob with the Bob. Sounding like a fucking swamp creature but I assumed that was something specific to him because I kept hearing that like you know the top performing the top touring acts are like rolling stones and you know, all these older people. No, it's I haven't seen the money to pay to keep seeing this. Yeah, I just that's right. That's exactly right. They have hoarded all the wealth. They own all the houses, the older generation, and they just they're keeping these careers alive. The SNL opened with Paul Simon singing next to Sabrina Carpenter and it was just rough man. He like couldn't really find the notes.

Yeah and I'm look I get it you're an artist That's you only know one thing probably to do performing and stuff like that. But what Paul Simon is 83, McCartney's 82. Yeah, they were sounding great. And I don't like whatever. I think part of it is us like dealing with our own mortality, observing these things. But the other part is to I don't know, like in a way I'm like, I don't know, maybe it's more just to like just to honor them at that point to be like, Hey,

get up there one more time. Get up there. You did it. Yeah. And then we'll pair you with someone slightly more spry and it'll all be fine. But could they sing your parts too? And you just kind of play the guitar. I mean, it makes sense as somebody who, as I age, I spend more and more of my

day sounding like I just woke up. Like, if I haven't had a nice throat clear in 30 minutes and I'm about to attempt to speak, I should just like go to the bathroom and gargle for like an embarrassingly long period of the time. Yeah. You start sounding like boss Nass from episode one. Yeah, but I guess it's just yeah it's surprising to me that like this is so uniformly a problem among people over a certain age named Paul because they're still selling out and like having these massive appearances on important, you know, TV broadcasts. Yeah, because I mean, I don't know, like I get being a fan and you're like, dude, of course I'm going to see them perform every fucking time I have the opportunity to opportunity to because their music is so meaningful. meaningful. But I guess there's something for me like when I like when I've gone to see artists and their live performance or just such a departure from what the album is, I'm not always like fully

on board. And I don't like I'm not saying like you can't do that. But sometimes I just enjoy it. I don't enjoy it as much not that you have to sound exactly like the record. But I know I wonder what that experience is like for someone when you're so used to hearing a song a certain way and then the the current version is a bit bit different to put it likely. Yeah I'll just say yeah my I'll say I'll say it's actually an under rate my underrated is what age does to a voice because I'm not trying to there there definitely seemed to be a lot of people who were like I still loved it like I loved it I love seeing them up there. Yeah, I get it. Because I heard you from that perspective, you're seeing an artist you love continue to do the thing they do.

I am not I'm not the biggest Paul Simons or McCartney's fans. Paul's McCartney's not the big. I'm in. Yeah, Paul Simons and Paul McCartney's. No, I absolutely acknowledge what they've done in music, but they're not they're not for me. So I think my threshold like I'd probably watch like a old performance from Cisco Doing the thong song at 70s for some reason. I'd be like, yeah Cisco still got it Well, he's not burning his pipes out because he's not singing that he's not anymore, you know, yeah. Yeah Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.

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I don't know what's going on. I don't even care because if they, I've seen the website of the main dude and it looks like a pretty sincere website. P.O. Mal, you've seen his website? JNO. JNO. Yeah, the Filipino dude, yeah. Cause they're dressed like they're going to prom in 1997.

I know, but there's this thing like, if you've, I see it a lot in LA. There's like, there's like the music industry that we all know. And then a few layers underneath that is like a parallel music industry. Yeah, the Rebecca Blackverse, right? Dude, even it's like even more bizarro. Like there are people I follow on Instagram purely for a peek into this like, like they

do events that have step and repeats, but they're with brands you've never heard of. It's like usually like eccentric wealthy people who were just creating a parallel reality to like pump their own shit up in. Right. So I feel like it's somewhere in that area. Like it's sincere. It's not like we're making fun of anyone. Like this is, this is what they do.

And again, I fuck with it. I've known a lot of people who like just have that dream you know whether it be singing act it like you know they're just like oh yeah in their 50s they're like yeah I'm actually like kind of a singer and you know that 12 string out let me hear yeah yeah yeah yeah but there's that happens in LA that's really pronounced with the music like film industry because there are so many weird wealthy people who are just brute forcing things and make right like weird Movies that no one sees because they just want to be able to like I'm a producer. What if I start in the movie? I don't yeah, what about that? Go ahead. I love here's my note as a producer

What if I'm the star and I am the star now, by the way? Yeah. And I get to kiss the lead actress. Oh, no, we've already shot two thirds of the film. All right. Well, you said it was problematic if I wasn't the star. So now, you know, these are our options, people. This is what we're worried about. Options. All right. The news, the news. The news.

Ah, the news. Yes. A refreshing, bracing dive into the cold world of what the fuck is happening right now. We got more plane crashes? It's been four plane crashes in three weeks and Donald Trump is firing FAA staff. Yeah. We're gonna do the rest of the episode like that. It's been, uh, you caught, you probably caught the video of that Delta plane crash that, uh, that crash landed at Toronto's,

Toronto's, uh, YYZ airport. That's right. Um, great rush song and flipped over during the ordeal. Thank fuck. No one was killed. There were some injuries, but no one lost their lives. It's still not clear what even happened, at least from the time I've been reading reports around it. But the video is not comforting, given the numerous aviation oopsies that have been happening around the country.

So again, the fourth major aviation accident in North America in the past three weeks. Commercial jetliner and army helicopter collided at reagan We remember that uh, then a medical transport plane crashed in philly on january 31st killing the six people on board Yes, a few days later. Yeah two days later And then on in alaska on february 6 10 people were killed in a plane crash in alaska Just not a great just not a great theme happening. Not to say that they're all interconnected, but just again, maybe this is something we

should keep our eye on. So of course, Trump went ahead and fired a bunch of people that were working at the fucking Federal Aviation Administration. Almost about 400 people. But don't worry, as Transportation secretary Sean Duffy says they were all probationary yeah but they were all probationary Harry have you killed anyone yeah but they were all bad they were all probationary they were not even there for one one year so don't worry yeah they weren't even there long

enough to prevent a plane crash so their feel they their their presence won't be missed I guess and he said they reiterated no air traffic controllers were fired and no critical safety staff but again the FAA has been saying they are understaffed yeah I don't know if that that every part either way this industry is vastly understaffed and the thing they seem to keep doing is firing everybody. Yeah, it's part. I mean, it's clearly part the malicious intent

because they want everything to be as unstable as possible. But then there's also the stupidity is also very much there because, like, on top of that, Elon is like, don't worry, I'm sending the folks from SpaceX over to the FAA to like have a gander and give some suggestions on safety. And I'm like, oh yeah, yeah, cause SpaceX, right, right. Yeah, cause they're the leaders in worker injuries and crashes, like, right.

You can just like push way too hard and have a pathological disregard for human life. Yeah. Yeah. Easy when those rockets are unmanned to have them go boom. But when you have people's lives on the line, it's a little bit different. So, yeah, because then that sort of goes along with this other story that happened at the end of last week. So the Doge fucks, they fucked up majorly and fired up.

The teenagers who are like the most powerful people in the country right now. Yes, exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. But hey, you know, we don't even know who's in charge because most recently, it's like the administration's now even denying that Elon Musk is the head of it because of all the legal issues that's causing.

He's like, actually, you know, Musk isn't even like the doesn't even run. We actually don't know him. He just like kind of pops in with his kid every once in a while for like a cute little hang. Yeah, we love his son meat shield. He's so cool. But the way he holds the kid is so weird. It like really is not helping with the like all of a sudden he started holding

the kid like in a weird way in front of his torso at all times, like right after the Spinal Organs. Yeah, I like a little bit of weird timing. I like him close to my heart in that I like him in between me and an assailant and to my heart. That's right. That's what's going on. So it's going to be extra weird where when he starts like wearing his second kid on his back so that they're like a sandwich board

just running back. Oh, my God. It's just I'm a busy dad. Well, I don't have money for you guys weren't making fun of Pharrell when he wore this big hat. So what? It's a toddler. Just relax, folks. It's three todd. Just relax folks. It's three toddlers wrapped around my skull with duct tape. But, so again, the cost cutting at Doge,

they fired up to 350 employees at the National Nuclear Security Administration. These are the people who fucking work on nuclear weapons. Okay. Yeah. And are tasked with all that kind of safety. So once that happened, they were like, oh shit, maybe we shouldn't just blindly been cutting this group because they very quickly tried to reverse the termination. This is from the BBC quote, the Trump administration has since tried to reverse their terminations

according to media outlets, but has reportedly struggled to reach the people that were fired after they were locked out of their federal email accounts. A memo sent to employees Friday said that, quote, the termination letters for some NNSA probationary employees are being rescinded, but we do not have a good way to get in touch with those personnel. Please work with your supervisors to send this information once you get it to people's personal contact emails. Wow. Sorry. And on level of fucking up at the largest, most high stakes level that you possibly could. Exactly.

Do you actually know them? Do you know anybody who got fired? You like reach out to them for me? Like one of the people like one of the places that got hit with cuts was this plant near like Amarillo, Texas The people there they work on reassembling nuclear warheads Wow, which is one of the apparently most sensitive jobs you can have in this like industry or whatever in this in this department And you need the highest level of clearance and it's like I'm fucking fine Jesus Christ. Yeah anyway, so I mean so we talked last week

about the theory that they are You know fucking things up on purpose like we talked about how they Like have taken the most important high level intelligence threat assessors out of like the president's daily like threat briefing. And the theory being that they don't give a fuck if there's a massive terror attack because they will be able to use that the way that Putin used his own bombings of multiple apartment complexes in Moscow as a way to

consolidate power. I know this sounds like a conspiracy theory. It is like go look it up in any reputable news source. It's documented Putin bombed a bunch of apartment buildings himself and then blamed it on, I think, Chechen terror. Well, not his fingers in his ear but so like the theory being that like they seem to be making a lot of decisions that are endangering the lives of people you know on the one hand it's just likeangering the lives of people. You know, on the one hand, it's just like, it's the sort of incompetence we saw like the first administration, you know,

during the election, we were talking about how the really scary thing is that during the first administration, there were a bunch of people who were just their job was to ignore the crazy shit that Donald Trump told them to do. And like that's what they saw their position as they were Republicans, but they were, you know, uh, career officers or, you know, just had done this whatever. Yeah. Yeah. Bureaucrat.

And so now those people aren't there. So it could just be sheer incompetence. But on the other hand, like, I don't know, the more volatile and chaotic things get, the more he seems to thrive Donald Trump as a, like, as a political environment, as a political operator. So I don't, I don't know if it's one or the other, but it does seem like he doesn't give a fuck. Like every time there's a plane crash, he gets to come out and just give a press conference where he blames it on DEI or something, you know?

Yeah. Yeah. So like why that's not difficult for him. That's just another opportunity for him to get a bunch of cameras on him, play important presidents who's like calming the nation and also like get his wild ass racist takes out there. Yeah. And he's basically throwing our bodies into the machinery to stop the machine. Yeah.

To be like, I don't know, man, a couple of many of you people out there in the United States may have to lose your life until I can fully shut this thing down or create a level of chaos that allows me to ascend to the levels that I feel I need to. And I mean, like, you know, you see all the court cases that aren't going his way and how that's like just making him angrier and angrier. I know it's clear that that the there we don't benefit from ignoring the fact that this is intentional you know and I think because that I think there is a level where it's like it's easier to be like wow this this guy who's so out of his depth is screwing everything up and maybe accepting the fact that like someone who is very dangerous is now again sitting

at all these levers and deciding to just do whatever the fuck he wants in order to get what he wants. Yeah. Yeah. I mean the let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk briefly about the the Putin of it all. We'll be right back.

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They're growing. There's a growing course. The Dick rumors are growing. What are they saying? Rumors are growing unlike Elon Musk's dick. So what? Okay. Huh?

So a lot of people are pointing out that there's another woman who claims that I'm a Saint Clare Ashley St. Clare. She's like a mega influencer. There was a lot of people pointing out over the weekend that while it seems like he's just famous person who keeps having sex and, you know, impregnating people like a lot of these are happening via IVF. I wrote.

Yeah. And they're and then like a lot of the kids are male, like not all of them, but many of the kids are male that he's doing. And so this is like given rise to, you know, some rumors that there's something going on with that, that he has like a weird deck, basically, which is something that we've, we've heard about plenty of, uh, you know, monsters on a historic scale that like they're motivated by some, something weird going on downstairs. So it's there. It's out there on the internet

We haven't done our due diligence to figure out all the details But you know, we'd be remiss if we didn't just at least say People are saying and we don't know and we don't know true or not that he had a botched implant Procedure that like gave him a weird robo dick that doesn't really work. So anyways, good luck with that. We're so far down the road with the Trump administration that it's even like hard to remember that from the start, we found it weird that his priorities are so deeply and clearly and openly aligned with Vladimir Putin's.

Yeah. But we got a nice reminder over the weekend where they like they just basically went to Europe and fully aligned with Putin's positions on Ukraine and like also told Western Europe that they should be scared of the real danger, which is not Russia. It's you, the European government's being too mean to your right wing Nazi aligned parties. Yeah, I like the like he almost touches on something real too, like because this is true of so many governments.

It's like it's not the free speech part. It's the it's the inequality part, right? That's what's causing any deterioration we're seeing right now, but I like that. They got to do the thing Do the misdirection to avoid talking about the real part. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah Um, but it is you know, I don't know we saw it's like so far down the road It's hard to remember that we just kind of got over the fact that he mysteriously is willing to bend over backwards to do Putin's bidding. The liberal media spent so much time looking for a smoking gun where Putin had some sort of tangible leverage over Trump that now people are like, Oh, Russia gate.

OK, but it's just could be that Putin is continuing to manipulate him because he is the most easily manipulatable person who has ever wielded power is my theory of the case. Like you don't need a P tape. You just need somebody who's willing to compliment him. And a little bit of a little bit of the case. Like, you don't need a P tape. You just need somebody who's willing to complement him and a little bit of a little bit of debt, you know, and somebody who has a shitload of money, which is, again, the only thing that Trump respects.

I mean, yeah, they're like the US is like negotiating with Russia without Zelensky at the table now. And Zelensky is like, no, I will not accept anything that comes out of a negotiation where we're not present. Like what the fuck are you guys talking about? And I mean, yeah, this is a profound kind of shift it seems like, because now the Europeans are realizing,

they're like, I think America is compromised? Yikes, that's fucking scary. And part of me is like, please beat our ass, Europe. Right. We need a wake up call. I don't know what's going to happen, but somebody yell at us, please. Right. Yeah. Yeah. It's it is. I mean, all those leaders came away. They had to have like an emergency meeting with just like, okay, all Europeans only get in here now. And they're like, what the fuck is going on with them? What are we going to do? What the European Avengers unite and please come together in a, just the room so dense with cigarette smoke that you can't see three feet in

front of you. Um, they were first, surprisingly, none of them were smoking. They're all doing Zen. They were first surprisingly none of them were smoking. They're all doing Zen. Oh In honor of yeah trying to get in the headspace of JD exactly exactly. All right Should we check in with Luigi Mangione? Yeah, he uh, he released a statement thanking his supporters and he did it on The most boring looking website of all time. It looks like a word doc with some tabs at the top.

I mean, I hate Squarespace, Luigi. Squarespace. They can give you something real slick, man. Something real slick if you want it. Anyway, shut in. You just use offer code TDZ, man. TDZ? Your firstdz your first month. There you go.

Uh, they haven't advertised on our site for years on our web. I like to use it. I always use a guy. I just, I like to say throw back. Yeah. Yeah. These guys are loyal. Um, but yeah, he released a statement thanking his supporters.

Um, and the website also contains an FAQ section which reveals that people can donate to his give send go campaign and they politely ask that people stop sending him books and also he needs to he is able to receive photos oh Oh, great. Well then let me just take my shirt off. But due to the volume of photos, people need to limit themselves to just five photos at a time. Um, so essentially I'm going to have to insist that you send no more books and only five

more nudes per person at any given time at a time wow so wow I like it is very like without saying it saying something like just to keep in mind that you know the people at the you know facility do look at everything that is sent so creepy you might not be looking at your nudes also, just so you know, or your very normal photos that you want to send Luigi Mangione of you and a golden retriever. I don't know.

I don't know. Not my room to judge here, you know? Yeah, yeah, not at all, not at all, not at all. I was gonna put a question mark after like the, are they sending him nudes? But like what else what other pictures are people sending him? mmm Healthcare, I mean I only sent nudes right I think I'm trying to think of just like using my imagination for what I want to

Send Luigi Mangione because it's not like it's like a preschool or like oh send pictures of fire trucks, right? You know, he loves looking at fire trucks Yeah, please don't even know every photo that is received is screened and reviewed by law enforcement So this is like people and jacked off to a group of like armed people who are like we're gonna bust you out Luigi They're like, guys, that's, you're making it hot for yourself by sending stuff like that. Even though obviously you're joking, but hey.

But I kind of do like that the, it's better that the site is so normal looking, like so standard. Cause it's not a distraction. Right, that it's not like a flash animation with like his head like from profile like turning around. Yeah Kind of in bad taste Is that actually Angus playing on there? Okay shit. Yeah

All right, those are some of the things that happened over the weekend We are back tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show until then be kind to each other Yeah, be kind to yourself. Yep. Get your vaccines while you still can get your flu shot The worst particularly bad in 15 years years, they said this flu season. So go, go get them. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. No, we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. Hey man, what are you into? I have the hookup.

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