Trillbilly Worker's Party - Episode 383: Projecting Quiet Confidence

Episode Date: March 6, 2025

Covering some news items from this week, also encouraging Mexico and Canada to invade us, checking in with our old friend Jimmy Page, and speculating on what would happen in Tommy Shelby married Ephialtes of Trachis Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Sorry, it took me so long there was Watching a video starring Tommy Shelby about how to project quiet confidence one doesn't want to start Podcasting till they have a firm grasp on how to project quiet confidence. So for those listening This is my first foray into projecting Quiet comment quite confidence. What if a guy did that and just ruined his entire life he just like it was like At his office job. He was like moving up and in the ranks Was quickly quickly on his way to middle management. Yeah, and just started incorporating Tommy Shelby's

rules for success and just like always had eye contact with people so it make it start smoking and the board meetings but just like keeping not saying the fucking word what is that what isn't one of the rules like always be slow in your movements people are like is is is George on smack he's been crawling he's been Crawling sometimes on all fours It's like no he's doing the Tommy Shelby. He's projecting quiet confident Yeah, you see here's here's some literature on the subject you send them a YouTube link Oh, I'm picky fucking blinders, and I'm here to get promoted You know who also thought they were peaky fucking blinders this week?

Who? Elon Musk with that goddamn Tommy Shelby haircut when he left the. Okay, I think that's gotta be old. That's gotta be an old photo. There is no way he's out in public these days without security. Like, I saw that photo of him and I was like,

it was like seeing one of those, you know, when you go to the gun range and they give you one of those Posters with the outline of a box. I was like damn you could shoot him at least 300 different ways Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, like when I see him now, I'm like damn you could shoot him at least three or four hundred like different There's a million ways to dome that man. There's a billion ways. Like he's even got that weird scar on the side of his head. It's like there's your tart just right through that. That's a good one. Yeah, yeah, that's a good one.

That wouldn't happen though. What would happen is somebody would take a shot and it would just go right through that Tommy Shelby haircut and out the other side and miss just like Trump just would graze him a bit Use carrot stick motivation. That's one that's one Is this the Tommy Shelby rule? Yeah Let's see

You want to pay raise you sure you won't give away the trade secrets for free This is the free episode after all you're right. We should be thinking put this behind paywall No, no, we're good. Well for example you want to pay raise in your appraisal so you go to your boss and say hey boss I've been working here for a long time, and I would like a raise There's a lot of I in the sense which means the sentence is more focused on you than the firm you should say hey boss I think I can generate more value for the organization. What would you need to see for me in the following months hmm hmm well and then he just if that doesn't work the boss just kind of looks at inquisitively like well we're gonna have to look at the budget and try to you

know think things around then the guy just pauses for a second goes I'm peaky fucking I'm peaky fucking blinders and then it just runs out like we're demoting you to janitor actually we're you're going to work in the cafeteria yeah I'm sorry sorry back back back to the bottom for you yeah mailroom peaky blinders you can go to Mel- I don't think I've ever seen a man look that bad. Felix from Choppa said that he looked like he swallowed a birdcage and that's correct, but he kind of has something going on where he like, you know when rockers are still rocking in the old age and touring?

Yeah. And they look kind of like themselves, but just kind of older and fatter and with more wrinkles. Yeah. He kind of has that vibe going on a little bit. He looks like an older version of himself. He looks like Glenn Danzig in five years. I like how his mom was like There was like a tweet going around from some 1488 Nazi account like we love Elon

He's a national treasure and his mom was like, I'm a proud mother It's like dude, you're like 60 if your mom is still doing like proud mother shit when you're That's that's boy mom stuff. That's the reverse edible thing reverse edible Edible edipus edipus. Oh Who's that? Who's that? I don't know Said edipus Rex. Uh-huh. I'm drinking coffee. Are you? I'm drinking a damn fine cup of Joe. How are you gonna project quiet confidence

when you get jittery? Tommy Selby doesn't drink any caffeine after probably 9am. No? He has probably some morning tea and that's's it And then he goes out and blinds the peakies. I'm leaky leaky binders What is that's like a show about like The Mitt Romney quote about binders full of women but it's leaky yeah because there's because they're women Yeah, and there's because they're women and there's breast milk Coming out of the binder. I was more thinking

Well, you say that there is a I've been saying this on the show for a while and I got a print of retraction here I've been spreading the pernicious lie that there was a breast milk cookie place over here next to the house cut, because it's called the Leaky Mama. You didn't think? Oh, so it's not actually a breast milk place? Turns out it's lactation cookies.

It's like cookies you eat that promote breast milk production. Oh, you had the cart before the horse. You had the opposite. What I was thinking was that an enterprising mother? Was just using her Excess to like start a cookie business without even stopping to think for two seconds like The sort of you know FDA dimensions of that how that's probably Human products probably none of that matters anymore Tom well and I can imagine Elon being pro something like

yeah like RFK we are going back to the 19th century in every single regard yeah so that what what I'm saying is wouldn't be out of bounds now but a couple months ago I was like come on Sexton grow up yeah you know right thanks the Biden administration right that would not pass muster no but in the Trump administration yeah you can probably jubilantly yeah you can sell as many breast milk cookies as you want in the Trump administration I was trying to think of yeah they're probably you know they're probably yeah that probably be the norm going forward.

Probably be able to get Tiddy Milk on tap at McDonald's. You know what I mean? That and Methylene Blue. Isn't that what RFK Jr. takes? Methyl Blue or Methylene Blue or something? Yeah, he takes all kinds of weird stuff. He's obviously on TRT. You can get TRT, Tiddy Milk, and Methylene Blue at McDonald's now.

You know you really can just kind of get any kind of intervention like quick. You know your society is fucked up when you can no longer do like a suicide? And it tastes relatively okay. Like you could do suicides, you know, when you're a kid like the... You're talking about running basketball court? No, not to... Or a different kind of like at the McDonald's when you get every drink. Oh, oh, yeah You know you one of everything right? Yeah, and it would still taste it with these dumb as fuck

You'd be like that's anti-climatic. Why did I do that? I just wasted this but it was still Yeah, it's like look man. I'm a badass. I've got Diet Coke and Fanta. Yeah, that's a good, I'm a badass. I got Diet Coke and Fanta. That's a metric of society, though. When you get to a point where the suicides are just anticlimactic and boring, when you go from that to the suicides

being downright nauseating, like you've got Sprite, Methylene Blue, Tiddy Milk. TRT. TRT. Yeah, it's like you start on one end and by the time you finish you're a completely different human being with a completely different cellular structure. And also you probably have some sort of weird like

prion disease too. Everything, I saw a thing going around on Facebook the other day about ivermectin. Yeah. And it was, the claims about ivermectin, I don't know if you've checked in, on the right wing grifter world. It has been five years.

I gave up on ivermectin like spring of 20. By the time the George Floyd protest popped off, I was not interested in ivermectin. I wonder if I find it. I took a screenshot of it. The claims about it are now even more grandiose than I've ever seen before. It prevents the damage caused by drugs created

using mRNA technology, blocks the entry of spike protein into cells, and if the person was vaxed, they can treat themselves for damage already done through Evermectin. It only has beneficial effects and no harmful effects in the treatment of this coronavirus. In fact, even before entering the cell,

it has already destroyed the virus in the blood. It has a very powerful anti-inflammatory action, so you can use it for orthopedic injuries. It treats autoimmune ailments such as rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, Crohn's disease, allergic rhinitis, dog wheat. I mean, you can also treat herpes it Cardiac overload Like the it can kill cancer cells

Ivermectin is now it's it's it is the health pill from the Jetsons like, you know, dude Everyone is completely and totally Insane gone gone Everyone is completely and totally insane. Gone. Gone. Gone. Dude, look, listen, on Twitter today, I was like, okay, to do tariffs, you need a bureaucracy, right, but-

Presumably you need 15 warm bodies to administrate the thing. To enforce the tariffs. Elon and them are getting rid of the bureaucracy. So it's like, okay, well, the past two weeks, I've just seen the Trump administration go back and forth like we're gonna do the tariffs, we're not gonna do the tariffs.

We're gonna do it on maple syrup, but not cars and timber, but maybe timber, going back and fucking forth. And then so it's like, okay, well then then if you're not actually gonna do the tariff then why like completely freaked of the economy out because it has made all everybody lose it like confidence in the in the market right you have Canadians who are the nicest people you'll ever come across okay? I was just talking with the Canadian friend of the show Steve slack askack ask you about this mmm I think he might be the only nice Canadian I'm a

deviate from you a little bit there you think he's the you think he's not a representative sample no he's not a representative sample he's the only nice one they're all they're all they're business dealings. You have essentially a nation of, you know, friendly people for the most part. Hockey-loving, beer-loving people actively booing and jeering the national anthem of the United States at hockey matches. It's the kind of shit that turns like, you know what I mean? booing and jeering the national anthem of the United States at hockey matches. It's the kind of shit that turns like, you know what I mean, like when you see when you see otherwise my old man, I'm not saying that Canada is my old man, I don't mean that, but when you see otherwise like, you know,

people that probably aren't necessarily politically engaged across the board being like, no, death to America. That's how you know you've you've shook things up a little bit. And then we're also talking about JD Vance claiming that Canada is killing Americans because they're letting too much fentanyl in through our northern border. I saw that. Which pokes some holes in the things we've been saying for the last couple years.

Like... Man, if it was like the reason that at the southern border they're harping on that's cuz it's you know It's Mexican people you know what I mean, but they don't ever say anything about Canada now. They are was like no No, actually Canada Now they're getting ready to deport 250,000 Ukrainians who came to America from the from that war Tom Look the fucking I said that on Twitter. I was like, okay, this makes no sense. You need bureaucracy to do tariffs, but maybe they didn't want to do tariffs, but maybe they did, but why, why are they freaking out the economy? And then I had people

on my mentions. I'm not trying to single anybody out, but people- I single them out. I had people being like- It's your program, single them out. Name names. And people saying, this was all part of Trump's grand plan They're gonna tank the economy and then short like bet on the short option that the economy is gonna tank and it's like There is no grand strategy these people are fucking idiots they're drug addicts They're drug it's like I said sometimes literally in the case of the no no I am saying this literally the liberals are drug addicts in like spiritually the fucking conservatives like

You know obviously you've got fucking cat. You know Elon on ketamine and Pete said he said he's an alcoholic and everything dog It's like we said this on that episode when me and Aaron did the episode I think like two weeks ago There this is not like 1934 Germany. This is like 1945 Germany. Like they're all meth addicted, insane people. There's no grand strategy. Someone linked me an article from Yanis Varoufakis who was like, this is all part of Trump's

destabilizing evil strategy plan. It's like no dude, they don't know what the fuck they're doing. They're fucking morons. Trump sad senile half the time like they're motivated by just Like evil like like like hatred prejudice. You know cruelty they have score settling Yes score settling, but more than anything dude like the fucking second step in a the second step As a nation. You fucking put your power, you put your faith in a higher power to restore you to sanity.

That second part is key. Restore sanity. None of these people are sane. You cannot have a grand strategy if you're all fucking drug addicted insane. You have to have some raw materials to work with to restore sanity. No, there's no, it's 1945 Nazi, but, you know, Hitler in the bunker type shit. Genuinely, there's nothing here. I mean, think about this.

We basically have a brain-addled, gay-coded, fucking drag queen president. Okay? Yeah. Nothing going drag queen president. Yeah. Okay? Nothing going on up there. No. Okay? We got Elon Musk, who is a ketamine addict who has somehow convinced the world that he

is like some hypergenius Tony Stark rocket man when in actuality he's just a venture capitalist. Okay? Uh-huh. when in actuality he's just a venture capitalist. Okay. You got Pete Hickseth who has the power to make war on any nation on earth who is literally and actively in the throes of alcoholists. JD Vance is addicted to the computer. He's too online. He's too online.

Like dude, every single one of them has all the, this is what I was saying like on Twitter, dude, it's so wild for me to sit here in Kentucky and be able to see this like all from the bird's-eye view because if I had the ability to get through to Claudia Scheinbaum or Justin Trudeau I would tell them you're vulnerable you can invade yeah no one would stop you everyone is asleep at the wheel also every nation in the world except Israel hates us. They're not gonna intervene.

No! No! You have a pincer movement! You're perfectly placed! Even the English and the French might just be like, I got the call too late. I'm sorry, man. I'm just now seeing this. Exactly. You know what I mean? Dude, no one fucking likes us. We're completely vulnerable.

Everyone's asleep at the wheel. Just fuck it. You come from the north and the south. Fucking pincer movement. You've got us. You've got us right now. There's nothing we'll do. You think Pete fucking Hagstaff can mount a defense against... No. No, come on.

No, and they've fired most of the generals in the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Now's the time. Now's the time. Nations on the earth. They've and they fired most of the generals in the joint chiefs Then by God the Chinese need to step up nations of the earth here are cry cry we are vulnerable We're vulnerable take us. I Don't want to be an American anymore Nothing Mexican or Chinese would be very tight though. Oh, yeah, I can't wait to be Mexican Chinese I don't have the Constitution be Canadian. Although I respect that as a nationality Dude

Nothing is coherent. Everything is shorting out. I saw this article in the New York Times this morning written I guess ostensibly by a Chinese journalist but it was completely like schizophrenic and erratic it was like the Chinese people love America because it's democracy but they also love authoritarians but they are they they want a new Trump but they don't like Trump but they want they want they think Trump is Mao and we think the New York Times thinks Trump is Mao and they had an illustration where they had a mural of Trump there's a telling that wasn't a Chinese journalist that was a

that was an AI generated article I don't care if he called himself you know that's it no one is insane. Everything is run by incoherent AI like Okay Now listen, I am I am but a but a ignorant coal smudge reprobate, okay But my presumption is that in order for AI to thrive it has to have good inputs. Mm-hmm It just definitionally can't have good inputs. If we're talking like Elon and the Doge Kids and those are the types, that's like the median

person that's like bringing AI into the, like we're basically just creating like a bunch of like racist low IQ robots and like that's going to inform our future. Like when we go see the AI doctor the AI doctors gonna be like have you considered phage therapy? Okay I have a bone to pick with the people who are pissed off about our AI doctor thing you completely missed the fucking point the point was that there is a healthcare crisis there is a problem with the culture of medicine and with doctors and everything you don't solve it with fucking AI No, you get rid of the profit motive, and then you have a cultural social revolution

To engender new social ties and compassion among people and a fucking civic spirit Yeah, I'm fucking pissed off for everybody today one get worked up. I'm sweating no. I mean if you think about it. You know FDR confiscated all the gold, but he said, no, we can't nationalize medicine because it will hurt the prestige of the doctor profession. So medicine in this country starts from a bourgeois conceit, you know what I mean? Whereas in other countries, it's like,

no, this is just like being a teacher, it's public health proposition. Here, it's like no, this is just like being a teacher or so. It's a pub, you know, you know public health proposition here It's like Nah, I'm just gonna keep feeding you stuff That's gonna make your prostate grow to the size of a volleyball while I like golf and Tahiti like the valedictorian of my class No, not the value to her. She was cool. The Yeah, she was because she went to go on when she went on to be a doctor But she was cool, but this saluted tear and is that the second?

Yeah, she was a fucking moron and she went to go study medicine and I just shuddered to imagine like fucking the people under her care Doctors is one of those professions. It's like there's a lot of great doctors. Uh-huh. There's a lot of bad doctors there That's why I'm saying they're given the choice. I guess you're right people in the comments given the choice between the bad doctors and the AI I guess I would choose the AI but that's like get it That's like having to choose between like Biden and Trump. It's like both are fucking terrible Yeah, maybe maybe we need to up end the philosophical

Premises and the political economy. Yeah. Anyways, yeah, I'm feeling wrathful today. Let's talk about funny stuff I'll say if we get too far away from doctors. I got one more axe to grind. Okay The doctor that basically killed my mother by not prescribing her a simple round of presumptive antibiotics The doctor that basically killed my mother by not prescribing her a simple round of presumptive antibiotics. I looked at her CV. For one, she had graduated from one of these tuition-driven medical schools. Basically if you write your name on the MCAT, you'll get in or whatever as long as you can pay for it or whatever. Her previous job before going to University of Louisville Medical System was

that she was a consultant with Casper Mattresses. Like I guess, like advising them on like, like you know, postural things or whatever. And this person didn't know enough, like actually wildly upended my life because she was so god damn stupid that she didn't know enough, like actually wildly upended my life because she was so goddamn stupid that she didn't know that like, oh, if somebody in this condition is like, it like, the value proposition on like not, there's like a high downside of not doing it. You know what I mean?

The, that basically is having an AI doctor. That's what we're talking about. My doctor was a Casper mattress. No, it was just a Casper. Just a Casper mattress. She felt nice to lay down on top of, go to sleep. Interest saying, man. I miss the days when Casper mattress would hit us up.

And be like, do you want to? No one hits us up anymore. I remember the last time we got solicited to do an advertisement. We should have did that we just took the free We should have just what's wrong with us Yeah, you don't have to buy Casper, but the world is falling apart brother Yeah, that's why everybody is trying to get as much out of it as they can as quick as possible Then again some people can't even figure that out. I read an article in the New York Times this morning

about Act Blue, you know that Democrat? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the platform. Dude, it was hilarious. What's going on with Act Blue? That place is falling the fuck apart. Like they are literally crumbling. So they didn't make enough off those $36 Bernie Sanders donations?

Suggested donations? They did not. How many times did you get Bernie $36 Bernie Sanders donations? Suggested donations? They did not. How many times did you get Bernie $36 in 2020? Maybe none probably. I probably did two or three times. Why 36? That was just like the buzz. Like our average, like our campaign's funded

by an average donation of $36 from working people just like you and I was like, you know what? I wanna join the chorus. I hope nobody looks up. I've probably donated like a thousand dollars to like John Fetterman or something. Just a stain on your, like you get on this program every week

and they look up your act blue and it's just like, what the hell are you doing? Why you giving money to Federman? All that Casper mattress money went to Federman. Federman. Mm-hmm. That dude's chief of staff, former chief of staff had an op-ed in the New York Times like, The Democrats have been here before 20 years ago. We can come back. We got this. We can do this. It's like, I... Dude...

Everywhere you look... Everywhere you look. There's like I dude Everywhere you look No No, no. Well 20 years ago was he talking about 2000? It's not about Bush. You know what's funny about that. The best metric, you know, the Democrats are fucked Is that 20 years ago? They had West Wing at least they don't even have West Wing It's funny. Here's the weird part is I just read this article this morning. You heard about this black pastor in Atlanta That's like leaving this target boycott, which is like whatever. I mean, I don't know. Is he a right-wing? He's like well he's upset because target like had committed to like sourcing product from like black businesses

Oh, okay, like starting back in I think 2020 around the George Floyd protest. Yeah. And then like this year they just kinda in the cover of darkness walked back. Stopped doing it? Yeah, so he's called for a 40 days and 40 nights Linton season boycott of Target.

Okay, I can do that. I hate Target. Yeah, I don't know. I could get on board with that easy. So, but it's like, it's funny that to see like all these sort of, you know, we remember like the Kendall Jenner Pepsi commercial where they're like, you know, like here's like a bunch of people coming, here's the cops, now we're going to share a Pepsi together and whatever. Like even that sort of like tepid Liberalism that kind of sprung up around George Floyd. It's like now they're just like

Now we probably better go with the Nazis dude. Yeah Did you see Gavin Newsom today went on Charlie Kirk's podcast and said? He basically threw trans people under the bus. He was basically like yeah, we should keep him out of sports. I mean it's the the long the the the Pivot everyone. I mean this is my thing man. It's like at what point Like if this is the best they can do is Gavin Newsome Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer

Well, and then the CIA agent they're trying to make a star now. Who's in Michigan? There's a gave the retort Oh, let's just lock in Listen what everybody was like comment about how weird it was. She referred to herself as a Cold War kid It's like now she's a company woman like only a person right? Yeah would refer to themselves as a Cold War kid That's true. You know a normal person say I grew up in the 80s. Uh-huh a CIA person. I'm a cold I'm a cold kid Fucking freak That is true. You fuckin' freak. That is true.

That is 100% true. That was weird because I saw Libs getting pissed off that leftists were getting pissed off about her saying that. And it's like, okay, let's just set aside the fact that she basically said Reagan was good for taking down the Soviet Union and all this. Who, by the way, as we talked about on our Patreon a few days ago, it's not even like a cliché to say that we have Trump because of Reagan.

It's literal. We literally have Trump because of the 1981 tax cuts that created Trump. They literally made his, that single act literally made his empire. So we would not have Trump if we did not have Reagan. Let me ask you a question. What do you think goes on in the cultural climate in the 80s where Trump sort of becomes this, yeah, I think I've heard somebody referred to him one time

as like the only person that's ever been too big to fill because his name. He was, yeah. Because if I'm not mistaken, right, like he actually doesn't own these casinos. He licenses his name to them. What happened was in 1986 the Reagan administration tried to roll back some of those tax cuts in this weird like sort of mealy-mouthed way, partly because there was a bad recession and they were getting pushback. And that actually wound up causing a lot of Trump's enterprises to start to go under.

And so a lot of his creditors came knocking basically in the late 80s and early 90s. And one of his creditors, I can't remember which one, but he eventually went to go work in Trump's cabinet literally said 2016 yeah yeah he literally said he's too big to fail yeah so we have to basically bail him out yeah and I mean so you like America's mascot in a way I mean yeah he was the president yeah he was just like his name was shorthand for like like success in America or like opulence.

Well and what's so ironic about it, and I think I should have a piece coming out in the nation about this, but what is kind of so ironic about it is that if you can say nothing else about America, it's that this goes for the indigenous people and the treaties that America made with them, This goes for the freed slaves. This now goes, this goes for fucking hillbillies. This goes for a fucking, even fucking Zelinsky. America never honors its deals. America is dishonorable.

It's a turncoat nation. It's a turncoat nation. It never honors its deals, and now it has the consummate dealmaker in the Oval Office. So it's like like from a narrative perspective the character arc has kind of come full circle. That is true. It's like what comes after this? It's hard to think. That is true. Yeah the best America does is what's the Malcolm X quote? It's like you don't stab a man in the back nine

inches pull it out forward and then your progress. The best America can do is stab you in the back five inches. That's the best deal you're going to get. And pull it out four. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the best deal you're going to get. That's the best deal you're going to get. America can't keep its deal with itself. You know what I mean?

The only fulfillment of its, you know know it made some welfare Concessions and some civil rights concessions in the middle of the 20th century But even those have now been rolled back So it's like it can't keep it deals even with itself, and so I just don't but we're freeing the slaves, but We're just gonna subjugate you for the next two or three hundred years make sure you can't get jobs no 40 acres of you know it's a that is our defining characteristic trait if nations like people can have a defining trait that is America's we don't honor our deals we're dishonorable we're dishonorable we are we have no honor we have no honor that's the problem from the beginning I have no honor. We have no one. That's the problem

From the beginning have no honor. We got off to a bad start and the honor department Yes, we did and we just kept going with that. Well, it's working for some Yep, I don't know man. Just something to consider Why are we talking about Trump in the first place? Oh the Alyssa slacking thing? Okay What was funny to me about that is like even if you want to get down you want to you know fucking Praise Reagan to high heaven Who alive under the age of 40 45 remembers Reagan or the Cold War nobody

Nobody like I barely do. Why would you be? I'm in my late 30s. I guess my first thought when I saw that wasn't like, oh, they're going right wing like they have been since they've been doing the chainy stuff. Since they have been doing since the 90s with Clinton,

my first thought was like, oh, they're clearly just pandering to 50 and up. People that remember the Cold War. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's what I'm saying. It's a loser. It's a loser message. It's a death cult message. If you're pandering to people that have no future, people in their 50s and 60s, like

they've got maybe 30 years tops, that you've ceased trying to build out a vision of the future. Yeah. Like you would think that, I mean, I don't know man, Brad Summer at least had a little bit more of a fucking cultural relevance than the Cold War and Reagan. Yeah. That's true, this is a step back from Brad Summer.

This is a step back from Kamala's Brad. And people are like, oh, you know, they just keep saying this, they'll never learn, and it's like, yeah, it's not, I know, they just keep saying this they'll never learn and it's like yes I know they will never learn so like we're gonna have to start having some conversations about that I've referenced this on the show a lot. I've never known how thread this needle I might just need to sit down and just work it out

But this country is sort of like, you know, I've referenced this documentary the several times on show But it's the world of Dr. Nakamats. It's like, it's eccentric Japanese, like sociopath, it's like horrible to his kids, and he makes all this useless junk that he passes off as these great inventions, but yet he gets all these commendations from like U.S. presidents and like heads of state and stuff, because he's like made some sort of like illicit fortune somehow that's like not clear how he made his money or whatever. I think that's kind of like illicit fortune somehow that's like not clear how he made his money or whatever. Right. I think that's kind of like going to be our future, you know what I mean? Like we promised this great like all this great innovations, all the stuff people forget that

like five years ago like Elon Musk had enough money to like you know give every man woman child on the planet like 10 bucks or something like that. Yeah, what did he do? He made a flamethrower and sold it and sold it on a Shopify account I saw that he's lost like 45 billion dollars in valuation in the last two months. That's so sick. Keep taking it Yeah, if you see a Tesla make sure nobody's in it, but Blow it up before like it blows that person up. You know you're doing that person a solid I mean I saw it yeah, they're like offering like 0% APR and Tesla's now like they're No one is buying those. When I was in California this summer This is wild dude. I was in the Central Coast and I would walk by like a

in the Central Coast and I would walk by like a buy here pay here like place you know in Eastern Kentucky you see one of those places and like you're getting like a 2008 Malibu or something in California it's Tesla's at all the pay buy here pay here places right it's like people are buying these or getting underwater on them and like having let them go back or I don't drive this anymore so I'm just but you could you you could just go buy like a, you know, like an eight year old Tesla or something like that at a buyer pay your place for like next to nothing out there.

It's like how, I'm, dude, I don't know shit about economics, but I can just like kind of see some things. And it's like the whole tech industry has just hijacked our economy for years We talked about this a little bit last week I think but like there is no fucking way on planet Earth Tesla is the most valuable Company auto company out there. No, they're not even like competing with like like fucking like Nissan's having to merge with whoever they merged with, I don't know,

was it like Toyota or Honda maybe? Or Kia maybe? You know what I mean? And it's like, and they're not even eating into that market share. So like how the fuck, you know what I mean? But they have like no market in Europe already, is what I understand.

It is 100% Elon Musk sycophants. It is. Juicing that stock. That is it, it's cold personality. It is cold personality, this is kind of really what's fans it is juicing that stock that's it it's called personality it is called the personality this is kind of really what's depressing we had Gabby Del Valle in the show a few weeks ago she went to CPAC and I was reading her article about in the verge about going to CPAC and she was like honestly one of the most

surprising things about it was that Elon got a bigger like standing o than Trump did like Trump's Trump still got a huge Standing ovation and everything but like the correct like the crowd went crazy for Elon It was obviously he was the celebrity there, which is crazy to think about because he is The most rizzless man in the universe if you have half a trillion. Yeah, I know it's been said before I'm just gonna say it I'm not trying to be epic. I'm not trying to do guillotine memes I just really feel this deep down and I'm not even saying we have to do this literally

But you do start to see why it's Stalin and Lenin just shot everybody and then just shot everybody. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Now I'm not saying that's correct, but you understand. You understand. You start to understand it a little bit.

Yeah. Yeah. What is to be done here? Well, just shoot them all. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I just say it.

Well, here's the thing is, it's gonna come to a point where, listen, I don't wanna go I'm just saying. Well, here's the thing is it's gonna come to a point where listen I want to go off the rails here, but I do a fear in the back of my mind is that if we don't they're gonna Do it to us. Well, yeah, that's where this is going man. Yeah Because Trump's already you ever hear where he's talking about bringing the death penalty back for drug like first-time drug offenders Mm-hmm. He's like all the countries that kill the drug dealers, they don't have drug problems. Yeah, okay. Did you see his unhinged thing addressed at Hamas?

Like if you don't return all the hostages tomorrow, we will annihilate you all. It's like dude, are they gonna nuke Gaza? Jesus Christ. Yeah, let's just irradiate all that before we build our resorts and stuff like what the fuck are you talking about dude? Yeah, I just think that like from a narrative perspective like Trump is the culmination of everything You could you can make the argument that like George Bush is the culmination of everything America stands for Reagan or you could make a Progressive argument that like FDR or Lyndon Johnson or Obama is or whatever but genuinely Trump captures the true essence and I mean that in the the definitional you know I mean that in the very definition of essence he Captures the true essence of America dude, which is its dishonor. I want to tell you something

So what comes after that I want to tell you something I? Think he's just like the final guy I mean I think so maybe not him literally because he will die eventually you dive into what I'm saying And there will be another president or whatever, but there won't really be another president Yeah, there'll be another president. Well America but there won't really be another president. Yeah. There'll be another president just cause that's just how it is now. Well, America finally has a king. It took 250 years, but it finally does have a king. Yeah, we're back.

Yeah. We are back. I guess I kind of knew this when I went to that UFC fight in December of 2023. They're grown men. Dude, I'm talking like, dude, when Trump came in there like it's like you watch videos of like the Michael Jackson tour like he's going playing in Budapest in 94 or something you got grown men passing out you got women passing out like just from touch the him just touch the him of like yeah they

they catch wacko Jacko's hat and immediately just turned to fucking ashes. You know what I mean? Dude, I saw grown men now granted all of them looked all of them looks like the cuffed calf kid that was harassing They the the elder Nathan Phillips. Yeah, but I saw them with tears in their eyes At this man and I just looked around and I was just like We're gone Over yeah, we have a king now He's it America has never had dude the pop. Yeah, they call the pop once may comes in the arena Yeah, it would it would if you'd had to have Ford Dwayne the Rock Johnson's walk in to equal this

I guess like I'm trying to think of like people past American Figures with a cult of personality like Kennedy kind of had it Obama kind of had it the fucking founders but not at the time those that's just retroactive cult the personality around them like Trump is the first in my opinion political figure to basically be literally symbolicallyically, essentially, whatever, a king. Yeah.

And, oh my god. I don't know, I don't know what that, like America's already passed through the event horizon if it's transitioned from Republic to Empire, like the Roman Republics, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or like the Roman Republic like going from

You know consuls to Caesar. You know what I mean? Like we've passed through it We didn't have to have like a prolonged protracted civil war like they did. Yeah We now have a god-king we have an emperor Who has surrounded himself by a bunch of sick drug- sicko fans who are all trying to like do this like Parapetetic, you know what I mean? Like erratic like inconsistent non-cooperative like Hosts of things that like don't really mesh with each other. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense But I just don't I don't see the Democrats getting it people are gonna be like people are saying like

there's gonna be a blue wave in the midterms dog I don't want to hear the phrase blue wave ever yeah I'll be honest with you I don't give a goddamn if you flip the house the Senate and everything with Alyssa Slotkin next time. You're done. Even if you come to power, you're still done. Because you're not going to do anything. You're just going to sit there and then we're going to get somebody named like Klaus Rodriguez, the son of an Argentine fucking death squad leader or something.

Speaking of that, isn't it funny how all the people who they once thought were going to be the Obama types Those are also now pushed aside who the fuck is Alyssa slotkin nobody knew this person for the most uncharismatic wooden Boring, I mean like they're not even going with the Obama clones anymore Julian Castro would have been. Julian Castro lets us face the Zionist governor of Pennsylvania. He literally mocks his cadence.

Mayor Pete, all that like... They're like, nah, let's just go with a right wing CIA agent. That's gonna be our standard bear going for if we gotta get tough It's time to get tough God damn Freaky minders, I'm trying to think of other plays on Creaky creaky my? Creaky-mizers? Creaky... Creaky-finders? They're like, um...

If I was like an old... Leaky-finders. Dude, we're gonna become plumbers and we're gonna call our outfit leaky-finders. Leaky-finders, that'd be great. Yeah, and we both have the hair cut and smoke cigarettes. And most importantly, project quiet confidence. Let me show up on the job site. I'm gonna fucking unclog your fucking toilet, man.

I'm gonna fucking unclog your fucking toilet, man. I'm gonna fucking unclog your fucking toilet, man. I'm gonna fucking unclog your fucking toilet, man. I'm gonna fucking unclog your fucking toilet, man. I'm gonna fucking unclog your fucking toilet, man. I'm gonna fucking unclog your fucking toilet, man. I'm gonna fucking unclog your fucking toilet, man. I'm gonna fucking unclog your fucking toilet, man.

I'm gonna fucking unclog your fucking toilet, man. I'm gonna fucking unclog your fucking toilet, man. I'm gonna fucking unclog your fucking toilet, man. I'm gonna fucking unclog your fucking toilet, man. I'm gonna fucking unclog your fucking toilet, man. I'm gonna fucking unclog your fucking toilet, site. I'm gonna fucking unclog your fucking toilet, man. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Creaky finders would be a good. I'll just call ahead and say, listen, if your wife's home today, you might want to sit around some errands, because this guy coming out

there, he projects quiet confidence. And this guy's chick stink bait He's broken up several homes just by showing up not even doing anything just showing up With that haircut that's like creaky creaky Or leaky finders and the motto underneath his we project quiet Or we we go to med school and become proctologists, or urologists.

Oh, leaky finders, yeah. Though our practice is also called leaky finders. Leaky finders, we're finding leaks in the uro... Yeah. Oh, I'm fucking leaky finders. Spread your cheeks, man. I'll stick my finger in your butto. We're gonna get to the bottom of this

Your medical mystery while projecting quiet confidence That's what you do. You just put the glove you don't say a word You just put the glove on one finger sticking up you made your smokers And the guy immediately knows to get on all fours and bend over Immediately knows to get on all fours and bend over Yeah, I went to leaky finders and they found my they found my prostate issue Boy, did they boy did they boy did they? I think creepy finders would be a good name for like an old man A club of old men like to go in the park with the metal detectors creaky finders Yeah, yeah

While finding I think I'm for these two Quiet company while finding you so strict I'm on man. What about? Shiner's freaky shiners, um, they're like shiners club. Okay. Yeah. Yeah Shiner's. They're like Shiner's Club. Oh, okay, yeah. Yeah. Stee, uh, Meekie? They're like Meek? Meekie?

I've actually forgotten the name of the original show now. It was Peaky Blinders. Peaky Blinders, okay. What is a blinder? What's peaky mean? I Don't I watched like a half an episode of that show and I was just like cheeky cheeky Cheeky Shriner she had her their cheeky Shriners. Yeah cheeky

We're like the Shriners, but just a little mischievous We go around helping children With you know disabilities, uh-huh, but we do it with a little mischief involved. Oh cheeky Niners. They're like the 49ers cheeky miners That's a good one. They mine, but they're cheeky about it. Yeah. Hey, come on in here man. We got a lot of coal for you Just joking not so much coal after the war on coal Wow, I could do this all day well No, I went work how much oh

We still got a lot of time left. How much? Like 30 minutes. Oh really? I'm just kidding 15. That's fine. You got 15 minutes left. I was thinking of something What was that? I was Reading the other day. Oh man, they turned me into a meme Reading the other day. Oh man. They turned me into a man You think JD Vance said that to his wife. Oh my god. Oh my god. They made me a name, baby Listen, that's the thing that wouldn't happen if it stayed off. He's like gripper chats and shit, too You know what I mean? You wouldn't have been you wouldn't have they wouldn't have made your fat face the Way you call that dome in Las Vegas where they know the sphere sphere

They wouldn't have done that if you'd just been offline. That's true. He's dude. He's he is addicted to the internet my question is if you're a heart a very probably Filet-o-fish ridden heart away from the presidency. Why you an online guy got the levers of power? You don't need this. It's for the rest of us that I think they're powerless the fact that Trump tapped him to oversee the tick-tock deal tells me that they literally see him as their like cultural theoretician yeah you know I'm saying like they really do literally think he's like the way... The James Madison of the book. Yes, they think he's James Madison. They think he is!

They literally think he's James Madison. He's like tapped into some fucking... He's like the Sherlock Benedict Cumberbatch meme. Sherlock Holmes. He sees it all. He's like fucking a genius. That's our boy genius, J.D. Vance. He comes up with racisms you couldn't even think of that we haven't even thought of yet he's he's so brilliant he's in the lab cooking up

racism all day long his third eyes open buddy who do you whose idea do you think it was to blame those plane crashes on DEI JD Vance you think it's JD 100% 100% what else do you think is his handiwork in this administration so far? Deporting the 250,000 Ukrainians. Oh, that's 100%. Deporting, I mean a lot of the deportation stuff. You remember his campaign ad? Do you hate Mexicans? It's a hell of a thing to say. Who turned me into meme? Osha! Osha get out here! You gotta see this! It would be funny if JD just affected like a hillbilly voice at home.

Like in public he'll just like say mamaw or something casually sometimes. But at home he does the full cosplay. Dude I hate his voice. It's so fucking dumb. Yeah it's a little grating. Him like, have you ever want say thank you yeah I saw somebody was like you know that was completely unplanned JD he's linsky just like it said the wrong thing and JD couldn't

handle it anymore is not uttered a word in the last 10 years that wasn't pre fucking cooked up on your percent So they turned it turned him into a meme I saw someone had asked him about it and he was like, I think it's funny. Oh, I think it's funny what they did to me That's just that's his projecting quite confident. Yeah, right, you know Yeah, it's like when somebody had said that we had annihilated him on his first episode. He wrote and he said, I don't know about annihilated,

but next time I'm in Weitzberg, drinks on me. Remember getting that? Yeah. I wonder if he still feels that way. We should take him up on that and be like, hey listen, you did say drinks are on you next time. This Buds on me, wasn't that like a Budweiser advertising campaign?

What if we met up with JD and just got completely seduced by his beautiful blue eyes as Trump said? We just sit around till the wee hours of morning just going, Bud-wise-er. Oh my God. to the We Are as Wonders going, bud, wise, err. Oh my God. Man oh man. That is another thing that's funny is that a lot of people think JD was tapped for his looks.

You know what I mean? That's true. It's like in optimum form, JD's like an all right looking guy, but he's just not a guy that I think Universally people would consider hand like you know what I mean have you seen that thing about how? The there's like a specific type of face that's becoming popular in Mar-a-Lago Like like a certain physiognomy a certain physiognomy. Yes. It's called like the Mar-a-Lago face

That's how they're that's they're boiling down racism to this point You are they're in there finding new frontiers They are they are in a dark dark place that would like it's it's weird because it's It's very obviously dark, but it's kind of still grimly very amusing and funny in a weird way And I don't know why I can't really put my finger on why. I guess it's partly because you see them also suffering. Yeah, yeah I guess that is true. It's like that video of Pete Hegseth talking about like, oh you know for a long time I switched to beer. It's hilarious, like everything he was saying was something you would hear at an AA meeting but from someone on the other side of that. I quit hard liquor just

drank beer for the longest time. And then he was like now I drink gin. I mean because like that's the thing like you if you're an alcoholic you don't if you're an alcoholic you want to start drinking clear liquor like vodka or gin because when you sweat it out you're not gonna smell as bad. You know like when you were in college and part of your like prowess was like how much how hard you partied, how much you could drink and stuff. Uh-huh. Hegseth is the, leads the Department of Defense and he's still doing that.

You know what I mean? But like have we ever had another public official that is actually just, it's known that he's in the throes of addiction and he even talks about it. I mean like I'm sure like a lot of those like delotted heads like in you know the turn of the century were probably not like broadcasting it. No I think about this I myself had the same thought this morning because like it's and I know George W. Bush was like a recovering alcoholic but like most of the people in like the Bush the previous Republican Administrations those were all like squares

You know what I mean? Like fuddy-duddy's like they weren't like they were not drinkers It's like you did have like James Jesus Angleton guys in the CIA who were like bad alcoholics But public figures elected figures people in the cabinet that kind of stuff. No, they were usually That's why I'm saying like these guys are like Hitler in the bunker like they are fucking zooted off of who the fuck knows a speed Ketamine fucking Painkillers, I'm sure alcohol you name it. They're basically like fucked up on the only the kind of drugs only like Michael Jackson's doctor could have administered But they all have like weird vitamin deficiencies and cause them to like

You know like Pete Hegseth like didn't wash his hands for over a year Have we ever had another public officials like now I didn't wash my hands over here cuz that's trying to build my Microbiome up or something Damn That's crazy. Yeah But JD's the only one in that group that doesn't really abuse substances as far as I can tell his drug of choice is online His drug of choice is the web. Yeah Twitter that's sad and that's why they've tapped him to be their cultural It's like here's what they did they sat around and they they were just pointing out everybody's substance use issues and they're

like, well, who's got it the least worse? It's like, that's between this guy who really likes hot sauce and JD who's online. It's like, okay, JD's got pretty blue eyes, let's go with him. Dude, he was, yeah, his thing this week was he got, that Twitter user, alaliker, had just tweeted this thing about how, after the Ukraine, after the Zelensky thing, JD and his family went to Vermont to go ski or something, and people were protesting it.

And there was an article about like JD Vance you know has to hide from protesters in his hotel room or something like that. I don't remember what the headline was but that Twitter user ala liker tweeted it and was like these people are really soft and JD Vance Like quote tweeted it or whatever the vice president of the United States Quote tweeted like you know and he what is so wild about it is that like the tweet didn't even include JD Vance's name I don't know how the fuck you found it, but it's just I mean it's just that's

A level of loser-dom that... You're the vice president. You made it! You're the number two guy. You don't have to be on the website anymore. Mm-mm. It's like you were saying about like, Elon. Like, you're that rich and you look that bad? Yeah.

You look that stupid? Dude, you look like Tommy Selby from Peaky Blinders had a kid with Etheltes, the hunchback trader from 300. That's what you look like. That's just bow or jeans though, you know what I mean? That would be a great spin-off. Tommy Shelby and what was the name of that I felt he's a felt he's they have they try to remember like oh I remember yeah wasn't he or is it she or he what was the thing I should say they to be say yeah they try to make a life together they run like that would be called that would be called, that would be called Freaky... Winder's, Freaky...

Hinder's, cause he's like hunchback. Yeah, Hinder's. That would be good. Freaky... There's gonna be an obvious one that's what I'm supposed to say in the comments. That's why I'm trying to make sure you the comments. That's why I'm trying to Head off at the pass because I hate hearing from those people. I hate them

freaky Liner this thing Slimer slimer that might be there my little freaky song. There's an obvious one here though Freaky Whiners We haven't done whiners yet. Yeah, like they're whining, but there's no reason why Tommy's I guess because maybe Tommy Tommy Show me don't fucking loveless marriage man. How'd this happen? I left me beautiful fucking wife to bury her filthies. Why'd I fucking do that, man?

I used to project quiet confidence, now I'm slummin' it. Now I'm slummin' it. Slummin' it in ancient Greece. I've got doubt, I've got so much doubt. I should have kept moving slow and doing the carrot on a stick move. That's how you built your empire. Tommy, what are you doing now? They're making me go fight at Thermopylae.

You don't want to die. I don't want to die for a spider. I'm not even from there. I don't know what I saw in them. They were funny, they had some funny jokes, but it's not like I was really, you know, I'm like, I wasn't happy with my life, I needed to change something. Sometimes you can get just a little unhappy and up in... have you ever read Rabbit Run? Joan of Dyke!

You get a little ahead of yourself just for being a little unhappy. You want to recapture your past man! I like how little Jimmy Bay just slides into your tummy. State secrets about me! I Always thinking about Jimmy Page cuz you know, I like Zelinski had to go to like here's here starmer and McCrone after getting sonned by Trump and Vance

and what that would be like if you if JD if Jimmy Page was the actual Jimmy upset This is a man you gotta let her have to get something You gotta wear a suit. I hate to tell I hate to say Like the jeans you can see the outline of my cock. That's what I would have done, I would have worn jeans, tight jeans, president would have seen that. My massive dick man. Stuff a zucchini in there. Stuff a zucchini in there, we've got to impress him man. He likes that stuff. Why you you why you dressed like a cat burglar?

You look like you're stuck on one of those fake glass boxes He's like try this on so Lindsey comes out and he's like wearing one like he's dressed like Austin Powers He's got like one of those frilly like Austin Powers he's got like one of those frilly look that's an improvement mate now go back there telling you want to see for peace man you want the Ukrainian man before you looked like the Italian job now now you look mod dead mod he dresses him like 60's mom. Who are you? Who who?

Voldemort is it? Yeah Voldemort Zelensky. A lot of songs I wrote were about another Voldemort We loved Lord of the Rings back in the day there was a time when you loved Lord of the Rings You couldn't beat the women off you Vomit Mozo Lensky man get back in there minerals Get back in there get your minerals. He's calling him Baltimore Voldemort's he's dressed like a mod from the 60s. He's got the frilly lace collar

The cufflinks and everything telling me what a super piece man remember the peace sign a lot of people forgot about Jimmy. Yeah, there's a lot of things people forgot about Jimmy. But I'm happy about that. I'd rather not than bring it back up. That's a different time. Different time. It just starts unburdening myself about that

Let's guess no idea what he's talking. Yeah at the time she was 14, man I mean that they said that was all right. I was normal normal Normal He's getting called Voldemort. And it ends up being a bigger embarrassment to him than even the JDMance thing. It's like why did you let Jimmy Bade dress you up like Austin Powers and talk about his sex crimes. Get your minerals down, man. You look great. Oh my God.

Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God.

Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. I got one I got one for you Baltimore Zelinsky goes back to the White House but Trump's out of office it's Bob Dylan's press and now Eddie's trying to get a mineral deal done with Bob Dylan. He's like, I say what kind of minerals are we talking here? Heavy metals. What about rat? Uranium. You like uranium? Does it come pre enriched in your soil? Wait, what are what are the minerals that Trump wants? They're called something What do they call they use them in like cell phones and stuff? Oh rare earthman. That's what I'm thinking of. Yeah Yeah, yeah. Yeah Shit, I'm having a hard time doing Bob because I keep thinking of Jimmy Page

you got a Rare earth mineral. Rare earth. We've lost Bob. I have lost Bob a little bit. It's been a minute since I've done it. It's been a while since I've done Bob. They say it's rare.

I see plenty of earth around here. It's not so rare to me Why you dressed like a why you dressed like a fucking Pete Townsend You didn't bring your computer with you did you? Because if you did, we have a strict no child porn We can't No child porn Don't even Google beat towns and computer None of that around here No, not even go there

Jimmy Page gives him a computer full of CP and he takes it to him He gives Voldemort Zelensky a computer full of CP and he takes it to give Voldemort the wincy computer for CP to make Bob look bad that bastard page trying to get me a good it's not a little trick on Caught him in the middle of his scandal man, I'm the one that's diabolical man Why you dressed like me the night I hit on Francois Hardy in Studio 54? I had so many rare earth minerals up my nose that night. You could have powered a hundred million iPhones. But I'm splitting my noggin. Yeah Baltimore it's a place he goes back to Ukraine just completely humiliated Like fucking Pete Townsend Just like awesome power transport fucking laptop full of CP

Good This is what I've wondered in this whole thing like if I was Zelensky, dude What I found so funny was I saw this thing from Zelensky a few days ago here He was like will trade will trade NATO membership for some of the rare earth minerals in his barter And it's like dude, you can't trade something you never had you were never gonna get NATO membership you dumbass If I was here if I was him I would go to Putin and be like, why don't we team up? You can just have all Ukraine just I haven't done on this But I am pissed off and I have a vengeance now, let's go. Let's team up and go to war with the West That's why we try it's

Actually, you say that's probably his best play at this point his best play at this point. He's going with Putin Unify this thing. We'll learn to speak fucking Russian or whatever. The fucking whole thing is made. No Or whatever fucking whole thing is made no Exactly Like you the man has like no friends Not basically they have so funny. It's like He's basically Drake now Yes, yeah, so his argo said Drake rented out this like casino to play cars by himself and listen to Sabrina Carpenter like Howard Hugh shit dog Howard Hugh shit. He's gonna start growing his nails out really long and pissing in jars

Drake becomes a germaphobe Sit him and Zelinski sitting in what used to be the fucking Blasio. He has no friends Zelinski, no fucking Blasio. He has no friends, Zelensky. No. Probably should change his name. Voldemort is a little off-putting for some. I'm gonna be honest with you. I understand that name probably has a rich cultural history. It scares the hoes. That's a scare the hoes name. Is he married? I'm sure. Maybe not anymore. I don't know. Maybe she's just like You know you were the belle of the ball two years ago. The whole thing makes so it makes it so nonsensical. It's so stupid

Like he could have sued for peace like two years ago and like You know got a pretty good deal out of it. You got how it is on the spot. You know what it is, dude Here's what happens these guys. It's the same thing happening in Trump all of them. Zelensky now thinks he's a warlord. Mm-hmm. He thinks he's like no he's like dog you're a TV comedian that won an election. He slipped on a banana peel and you know. Everything, everyone who is slightly mediocre, it has never been better times to be mediocre. You will get gassed up so much if you're mediocre as fuck now. Dog, you are so right for one.

But two, if you're mediocre, you're like two steps away from kicking way outside your covers and achieving far beyond anything you thought you would ever do 100% Elon Musk has done that. Yeah, Linsky has done That's what all these guys all these players on the international scene have in common. Yeah total mediocrities that have somehow somehow Somehow felt upward. That's true man It's never been better times to be mediocre I saw like It's true. Man, it's never been better times to be mediocre.

I saw like, European leaders were like, there was an article, like an op-ed in the Financial Times that was like, we need to switch European economy from work, from welfare to warfare, basically. It's like they're all trying to like gear up their war machines, which have been dormant since World War two Yeah, like military stocks in Europe are basically kind of like going up It's like they're dusting off all these like out-of-date like fighter planes. You know, I mean

Uh-huh. Oh Well boys, it's time to saddle up again. I understand what the point is for continuing that Like genuinely, why doesn't somebody sit Zelensky down and being like bro you you're beat I mean like you're done bro. You're down to the field and Europe keeps wants to keep pouring more They really do think that Putin is like Hitler and he's gonna take over the rest of Europe. Maybe he will but He broke the fourth wall there you turn to look to the camera Maybe he broke the fourth wall there. He turned and looked at the camera and said maybe he will I saw something from like their foreign secretary Lavrov or whatever being like

everything that bad that's ever happened in the world is because of the West and He named a bunch of things and it's like true Is rushing? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, but like Russia with the exception of an 80 year period from 1918 to 1990 Was pretty responsible for a lot of that too And also even during the Soviet Union days, you know to me they weren't perfect either You had lofty ideas, but let's call it what it is. You wouldn't perfect even Had some problems over there so maybe they are maybe they really will try to like roll through Europe and like

Do a blitzkrieg and like but the thing is is like I don't really understand enough about like Putin's ideology It seems like he just wants more territory and could he reasonably take all of Europe if you wanted to? I mean Trump would let him that would be pretty funny. A lot of people would die and that would be good. No no no but Trump would be like this at least they got some strong leadership over there now. But I can't imagine China would let that happen but maybe they would. What do you think what's not only what's going on what's good nothing makes sense anymore No, the tariffs thing for example just doesn't make sense No It's like the way they've rolled this out has been like if they just would have done it and got it out of the way

Like three weeks ago. Yeah, kind of like a surgical procedure. It's like you got to just do it and get it out of the way Yeah, it's just like it's gonna if you keep saying it's gonna hurt and cause pain to the economy then like you just you're scaring the markets by all this uncertainty so just do it but they just won't. You know also that's kind of wild but like sure Trump's saying he's gonna do a reciprocal tariff. Yeah. It's like they charge us 25% we're gonna turn around and charge them 25% I sounds like isn't that just like Our bit about like you go to the bank and like you take the money out, and then you just read deposit it You know just to aggravate the tailer

Right because like at that point You're right like I guess it's like the whole thing about a trade war is that I just don't really see... I don't know. What's the upshot to it? Yeah, what's the deal? Like, what do you hope to accomplish here? Right. By just saying, Mexico, Canada, no more free ride.

I guess it's a political thing, like it helps with the base. But like, that's the thing, people were being like, that's the thing when people. The base are. Yes, they are. They are stupid as fuck. Stupid as fuck.

But I don't understand, and this is the point I was trying to make on Twitter, it's like they are kind of fucking up the economy and we're already kind of in a recession They seem to be making matters even worse And people were like oh, it's because they're gonna. You know it's a pump-and-dump scheme. They're gonna juice the economy They're gonna get else and it's like okay That's not completely inconsistent with the way they've approached things so far. However, they still have to maintain a degree of hegemony

and they can't just tank the entire economy. Because ultimately, I don't care what anyone says, you will get pitchforked. Even if it's a bad reactionary, January 6th type insurrection deal, it'll happen. That is a law of just human societies. You can't crash the economy and just loot it dry like that without greasing enough palms to keep things under control.

To keep things humming along. Yeah, and I just don't think they're smart enough to do that. Here's the problem, man. It's like that scene from Rounders where Ed Norton's character keeps stacking the deck and he does it so much that Matt Damon says that I have to sometimes fold so many winning hands just so it's not obvious.

Right. That's what they're doing here. It's like you can shear a sheep many times, but you can skin him only once. Right, right, right. They're skinning the sheep from day One right so it doesn't make exactly and that's what kind of tells me that they don't have their shit together They don't know what they're doing. They're not going about it like in the

Smart evil way like Reagan did it they're going about it in the dumb evil way I'm saying Mexico Canada you can invade they're dumb and evil When they Mexico, Canada, you can invade. They're dumb and evil. When they get dumb and evil, you can invade. Yeah, we're already terrified of Mexicans, anyway. Dude, I just want everyone to remember, there was a global day of jihad, all these people convinced was coming. Oh yeah, I forgot about that.

They were fucking hiding in their goddamn basements. There were people that took to their basements on the global We are paper thin bro. We're soft and Kleenex, please anybody could invade us No one's fighting the goddamn Mexicans and Canadian army No, that's happening. They could steamroll us. Yeah That's happening. They could steamroll us. Yeah. The only reason that anybody gives us any fucking deference is because we have the strongest economy in the world still. Today.

Today? Right. Well, that also has implications for our military strength, right? Like, do we really need a trillion dollar military if we don't have the world's largest economy? Well, this is what I've been wondering, like, you know how they're cutting all these, like, IRS workers and shit. I think the IRS has like 90,000 workers and they're trying to cut that in half. Like, what does that do to your credit rating?

Can't be good, right? I mean, if they can't collect. What are we looking like over there at Standard and Porsche? They might have C-. Wow. I can't imagine that it's good. What are we looking like over there at Standard and Porsche today? Can I see minus? I can't imagine that it's good. Let's see what America's credit rating is. What are we? Are they downgraded to shit? I bet they have.

Let's see. America credit. I mean granted you don't really need to be able to collect taxes because you've got the strongest economy and military in the world technically so you can just print money however I don't know does she have to have some semblance of like fiscal You would think There's three agencies Fitch has us at AA plus which is stable Moody's has us at AAA which is negative and Standard and pours has us at AA plus which is stable. Okay. So

Well, actually that was as of January 5th 2024. Oh Lots happened since then. That's true Man Fucking around with these batteries bro Graham forecast for 25 us will lose its last triple-a credit rating Six hours ago. What if what happens if Moody's also downgrades America's credit rating? Moody's go for it do it Downgrade we're gonna downgrade credit reading

Dude, this is like this is I mean being an American is almost like being a Dallas Mavericks fan right now You know they made this big trade They shipped off their franchise piece and the guy they traded for is out and then also Kyrie Irving their other big piece just tore his ACL and I hear Dallas Mavericks fans tweeting like man our entire legacy we were a contender now we've just went back 20 years just because of one guy Nico Harrison the guy that made that bad trade that's kind of what we're doing here. It's like, why, like, I didn't sign up for this.

Mm hmm. You know? Well, I guess you kind of did. I guess I kind of did, but. But. Being born a child of privilege. Being born a child of privilege. That's what you are.

You're a child of privilege, dude. Fucking check your goddamn privilege. Are you over there playing chess with batteries? I are. You're a child of privilege dude. Fucking check your goddamn privilege. Are you over there playing chess with batteries? I am. You okay? What's going on buddy? I'm not okay now. I have chronic fatigue now.

It sucks. Are you just tired all the time? I'm just tired all the time. Yeah. I think I'm dying. But that's alright. Genuinely I'm alright with it. I think, think I mean I never thought I'd say that but you need me get more sleep anyway Yeah, never made him. I love I would let like honestly if I died

You know what you're gonna do I tried I mean I tried I tried to make something myself. I Mean yeah, I mean there. I never thought I'd make it this long. Or this far. I thought I'd, I genuinely at 23, I genuinely thought I would check out around 32. Really? Yeah, I really did. I told my mom that. I thought I'd be a billionaire industrialist.

Yeah, you did? Yeah, I thought I'd be drowning in money and women, yeah. Yeah, you did yeah, I'd be drowning in money and Women yeah Well, I mean the thing is it's it's hard to be an industry it's hard to make a billion dollars off of an industry anymore That's true. You can get a billion dollars from being a Nazi a rapist vapor cage fight Yeah, not if you're a cage fighter if you own the promote if you own exactly yeah, so I mean those things Yeah, you'd be good there, but

But yeah, I just have too much stress I need to like be I need to not stress as much and I've been trying to I've been genuinely trying to not stress as much But I just don't know how to do it I go that my therapist and I'm like how am I not stress as much she's like well you kind of you kind of learn how to not stress as much and I'm like interesting yeah interesting that's a good way to look at it yeah so I know I don't stress as much by not stressing as much. Perfect. Perfect. This is perfect. Exactly what I needed to hear. I think that makes so much sense when you think about it. I just need an entirely new personality and I've been saying this for years but I think that's just what

I'm gonna have to do. I, my might become an adrenaline junkie Thinking about going that route. Yeah, I've never done it before. Yeah, I've never What would be an adrenaline junkie type thing? You know that thing where they have squirrel flying suits You like jump off a cliff and you can fly you know talking about yeah, didn't that guy in France died trying? He was he was the prototype. I've made peace with the death thing. All right It's not it and that's not a that's not a calculation. It's not a calculation for me. Just did I have a good time? Did I have a good time? Yeah, and So if I die

Doing the jump Cliff jumping thing then that's fine. I'll at least have a new personality. That's true and I'll get to sleep I'll get to rest a little bit Things will be chill at that point And um, so that'll be cool. I'm ready for that. Yeah Yeah so anyways, uh go to patreon if you'd like to If you'd like to help me achieve my dream of becoming a billionaire industrialist

Or yeah tom's dream of being a billionaire industrialist. Or yeah, Tom's dream of being a billionaire industrialist. I'm trying to die. So if anybody would help me with that. Which way, Western man? Starve us out or give us more money. I'm really not trying to die. I just want to not be so tired. I'd like to sleep well.

That's never going to happen. I'll tell you something. You know what I do for a good night of sleep What? I'm not kidding you. I can count on one hand how many good nights of sleep I've had since I was 14 years old I quit sleeping good at 14 That's when my cortisol went through the roof and I was besieged by fears of well dying. I think my Sleep my bad sleep started around six years ago. Really?

Yeah. You got that much mileage out of it. I did. Even as an anxiety sufferer. Even as an anxiety sufferer, I still had pretty decent sleep up until about like 31 or 32. Yeah. And then for some reason around that time,

it just got away from me. Yeah, well. Well. Sometimes that happens. happen sometimes yeah I'll give us some may also I'm doing a bod pod next week a bod pod yeah I'm wearing one see my body fat composition since I've been getting jacked I'm just curious where I'm at you know what I mean but I gotta get a podcast about your body no they put you in an actual pod. Oh, okay

All right. I thought you were doing this solo that you were telling me like I'm gonna do a solo episode next week about my body Which we could ever come to you and someone a tense. I'm gonna do a bod pod That's just a whole podcast without you but about my foot about my body You have permission to lenny me to in the back of the head. Why not? Look, I don't know. I think I'd let you do it. I would let you go out there and do it The audience needs to learn someone in the comments said I miss when they were more vulnerable. I'm telling vulnerable well You know, let's talk about our deepest fears. I Feel like I do that every goddamn episode

I told you been besieged by fear of death since I was 14 years old. But that's not the thing. You're not actually scared of death, Tom. Not anymore, I'm not. No, it's masking something else. You're scared about something else. Oh, okay.

Because death is inevitable. We all have to face it so you can't be scared of something that you have to face. I'm just making this up. I don't know if that's true or not. Is that true? Like my mother, I both respect and fear death. Yeah, I mean, it's gonna happen someday.

So I think generally the way people deal with this is they get religion or they find love or they start a family. Then again, maybe a family might make you more scared of death You can't here's the trick. That's what drives a lot of people crazy They buy guns when they get families because they're We must protect this house they start doing the underarm or dancing and then it's like oh you don't have any natural predators or Enemy only wants to kill your kid nobody wants to kill you

People weren't be more vulnerable Tom okay Do a bod pod I'm not doing a bye I was what I was saying is I'm gonna go getting that pot there Dex a scan I think now so Colin Dex a scan. Yeah, so what does it do is it? Dexa scan I think that's what I'm calling. Dexa scan. So what does it do? It's gonna tell me how much lean muscle I have, how much fat I have, and how much bones and water I have. Does it tell you how much cum you have? I don't think so. How many sprints? Well another thing I'm doing is an RMR test which where they put this like little mask on you.

Uh-huh. It tells you how many calories you burn just at rest. Okay. So you can kind of adjust. This is the integral part of getting jacked. Just you have to do some science stuff. You gotta do some science stuff to get jacked? Yeah, that's the only one. It's the only one? Yeah, to do with any sort of pinpoint accuracy. That sucks, because I don't like science,

and I don't wanna do it anymore. Well, you wanna know how much protein you need to take. There is a way to do that too. You gotta get in the zoot suit, and shit and piss and sneeze and everything into it. The zoot suit? Yeah. What?

Listen to ska music in like South LA? No, listen, listen. If you were a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War, okay? Yeah. And you didn't wanna get like, you know, thrown in jail or whatever. Right. There was another way jail or whatever. Right.

There was another way, another path. You could serve your country by helping the food and drug administration come up with a recommended daily allowance for protein intake. Okay. And the way they arrived at that is they got a bunch of conscientious objectors from the Vietnam War put them in zoot suits, okay? And they were instructed to, they had to piss shit, anything like sneeze, blow their nose, everything into this suit, and they had to come out at the end of whatever their time interval was.

I don't know if they did it every day or by the week or I hope I hope it wasn't by the week. What the fuck is this? This is how they came up with how much protein you need every day or by the week or I hope I hope it wasn't by the way can be off fuck is this this is how they came up with how much protein you need every day what does the zoot suit have to do with it that's kind of bitching I guess you look fly as fuck hey it's like yeah I mean I get what you're doing here but what's with the suits like well you want to look good for science and your zoot suit is covered in your own piss and shit everything yeah And then they come and they they vacuum all of it up out at the end of the day or at the end of whatever The period is thank you your piss and shit, and they weigh all your your viscera all your skin shavings dead cells hairs all that stuff

And they came up with a community health approach that said based on those studies and Based on some stuff about nitrogen balance. They said that the average person needs 0.8 grams per kilogram of protein per kilogram of Body weight in protein every day. Okay That's how they came up with that So we were just talking for going program like protein feels like almost like a marketing ploy it is just to me They they're trying to cram it down our throats literally

It's why people are freaked out about eating the bugs which I've stated. I'm pro bug protein I don't see why anyone if it was good enough for John the Baptist. It's good enough for me. That is true I'll eat locust. Yeah, I'll be the subject of a DC Talk song. Fuck yeah. But yeah, friend, that's how they decided how much protein you need to... So you're saying there might be some problems in this methodology that might have given us some false... I don't see a single... No, no, no, I think they're correct. Oh, you think that we've deviated from...

I think we're advised to eat too much. We yeah Okay, so you're saying that this original experiment actually was on Like spot-on it got the science right probably because of the zoot suit honestly honestly, if you have the right ideas and values around fashion Probably gonna get a good scientific on the back end. The zoot suit is kind of like a cloak of armor it's like a you know like a cape or something that like a hero would wear like all heroes should wear zoot suits. That's true. Like once and once you don it once you have it on like the

universe comes clear to you you can see the paths of how people move. You know what I'm saying? You can see the future and the past, everything you reach singularity. That's true. And that's why we're the premier Zoot Suit podcast. Zoot Suits, like I said, they started out in the 1930s, I believe is like Mexican-American attire because there was the zoot suit riot I

Think I was a song by the former lead singer the stray cats Suit right where is that a ska song? I'm blending the history with the The history are historiography. So you mean tell me there was a riot where I came out and just shitting on everybody else Just looking good as hell That was the zoo suit right everybody was cutting that's how we have protein models or models of protein intake to the Yeah, because we had a riot with dudes and shit easy That happened at Berkeley.

Yeah, not the zoot suit right, but the protein stuff. I'm pretty sure the zoot suit right did happen close to Berkeley. It was 1943 in LA, which is close to Berkeley, right? Well. What the fuck is Berkeley, I don't know. That's Bay Area. Okay, All right

The zoot suit Damn dog. These go fly. These go hard I'm about the zoot suit I'm all about it Zoot suit riot damn. Are we gonna end this one or you just want to keep going? I Just keep going if you want to. All right, what do you wanna talk about? Well, I don't think we got enough mileage out of the zoot suit thing.

Hey, man. Hey, man, you know what I mean? I want you to wear a zoot suit, buddy. That's for protein. I just wanna take it off of you. We're just trying to figure out how much protein you need. Mm-hmm. Oh man. I'm so tired.

I wonder if I'll ever be healthy and good again. I wonder if I'll ever be good again. What happened to me? I was a contender once. I really was! I I was a contender. I really was I Really was a contender Maybe maybe I just need a vacation. I need to get in the healing waters of link Minnetonka Yeah, we need to go to the Our Lady of Guadalupe unless you take the waters for your chronic fatigue. Yes. Oh

Yes You take the waters for your chronic fatigue. Yes. Oh Yes That would be good well anyway, maybe we should just end it Zoot suit right Right. Yeah. All right Let's go ahead and I'm getting ratioed on Twitter for being a dumbass doesn't understand economics So you don't there's nothing new about that though I wish I was smarter. I wish I was smarter and hotter But at least I'm not jaded vans

That would truly suck Because that would mean I'm God's least favorite son Simultaneously God's favorite and least favorite that's true That is so true Thank you ladies and gentlemen for listening to this program Please go listen to us on Patreon. Patreon. We've got the whole catalog there.

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