There’s more news and less comprehension today than any historical period that didn’t involve literal witch trials, and trying to stay on top of it all can feel like playing a game of telephone with 30 people, except everyone’s speaking at the same time and like a third of them are openly racist for some reason. From Cracked co-founder Jack O’Brien, THE DAILY ZEITGEIST is stepping into that fray with some of the funniest and smartest comedic and journalistic minds around. Jack and co-host Miles Gray spend up to an hour every weekday sorting through the events and stories driving the headlines, to help you find the signal in the noise, with a few laughs thrown in for free.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-the-daily-zeitgeist-28516718/
episode 3: Bongs For Boomers! Failed Artist - FEMA Edition 06.04.25
In episode 1874, Jack and Miles are joined by co-host of 420 Day Fiancé, Sofiya Alexandra, to discuss… Trump Got A Burner, Pass The Bong Boomer! FEMA Head’s Hurricane Gaffe Isn’t Nearly As Bad As His Art and more!
- Trump Got A Burner
- Pass The Bong Boomer!
- Acting FEMA Chief Told Staff He Didn’t Know About U.S. Hurricane Season
- No hurricane season? Acting FEMA chief’s remark was a joke, DHS says...
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Speaker 1
I do that every fucking breaks, just like Jesus Christ.
00:09
Stop it. But I can't stop myself. I can't stop myself.
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Speaker 2
No, I don't, I don't, I don't. I don't care.
00:14
I'd be annoyed. Well, that's something for you to work out, honey.
00:17
Speaker 1
Oh, I got a lot to work.
00:20
Speaker 2
Honey. It's not coming from me.
00:21
Speaker 3
You just got honeyed. He's not coming from me, Babe, sweetie,
00:24
you just got, babe, you just got sweetie.
00:28
Speaker 2
I have therapy, Babe. I still got my post therapy glow.
00:30
Speaker 1
Babe, Babe, you are fucking glowing.
00:34
Speaker 2
Thank you.
00:34
Speaker 3
Yeah, he's babed you so much you must feel really
00:37
bad about yourself.
00:39
Speaker 2
Babe, you stop babing me. Motherfucker.
00:43
Speaker 1
When somebody gives me good psychological advice, I'm so mad
00:48
because they've defeated me at that time.
00:53
Speaker 2
Don't give me usable advice. What do you think you're
00:56
better than me? No better than me now pissing me
01:00
off so much? Why the fuck did you give me
01:03
that shread of self awareness? Why therapy doesn't work for me? Okay?
01:07
Do you think I didn't know that that would be?
01:11
But every time I think I didn't fucking know.
01:14
Speaker 1
Yeah, I know. Wait, do you think I didn't know that?
01:16
Speaker 2
It sounds like you have trouble like expressing boundaries. You
01:19
think I didn't fucking know that knew the worst person
01:23
in the Jesus Christ, Hello the Internet, and welcome to
01:34
season three ninety one, Episode three of der Nally's Guys.
01:39
Speaker 1
Production of iHeartRadio. This is a podcast where we take
01:42
a deep dive into American shared consciousness. Season three ninety one,
01:46
Episode three. How many episodes then, are we miles?
01:49
Speaker 2
What do you mean in total total? Like one thousands?
01:53
All I know is Mark Maren can eat Mark can
01:55
eat my ass? Quidding? Sorry, bro, you aren't even fucking close.
02:01
I don't compare the downloads. That's not relevant.
02:03
Speaker 1
Yeah, yeah, no, forget about that. Don't don't compare the
02:06
he was like and I think we just did good work.
02:08
Don't compare the good work. Don't compare the good works
02:11
ratedness versus the second ratedness.
02:14
Speaker 2
Just look straight at the data.
02:16
Speaker 1
The bitch, God, damn, damn, and seventy four episodes, according
02:22
to many. Many are saying we've had one thousand, eight
02:24
hundred and seventy four episodes, which is at least as
02:29
many as Mark Marin has had.
02:31
Speaker 2
I actually don't know. Amazing. Did you actually know January first,
02:34
eighteen seventy four, the New York City annexed the Bronx.
02:40
I'm just I just looked up the historical facts about
02:42
eighteen seventy four in the US. Well, hey, the Philly
02:46
Zoo opens, the first public zoo in the US.
02:48
Speaker 3
Guys, this is finally a fact I can use.
02:51
Speaker 1
Guys, kise Man, we were just talking about how cool
02:54
zoos are. Yeah, when zoo, you know they have these
02:59
like enture libraries and neighborhoods.
03:01
Speaker 2
I think we should open miniature zoo's exactly. I think
03:04
everybody should have.
03:05
Speaker 1
A little zoo in their front yard.
03:06
Speaker 2
And we're in the thick of reconstruction to an eighteen
03:09
seventy four thick and I did.
03:13
Speaker 1
My name is Jack O'Brien aka Free Your Mind. Whang
03:19
you're at Del Taco, the color blind hot Sauce might
03:24
be yellow. That one courtesy of Christy Almagucci Mane, in
03:29
reference to my complaints about the design of the Del
03:33
Taco Hot Sauce packets. The coloring Sophia who I have not.
03:41
Speaker 2
Weeks this might be. I tell you if I tell
03:44
you that they are hot.
03:45
Speaker 1
There are hot sauce packets of increasing heat that are
03:49
colored red, orange, black? What order would you place those on?
03:56
Speaker 3
Orange?
03:58
Speaker 2
Red, blast?
04:00
Speaker 1
Yes, thank you, that is a correct answer. Wrong, incorrect,
04:03
I'm sorry, back in the middle for no reason.
04:06
Speaker 2
Yeah, I believe, back in the middle, in the silver wool.
04:13
Speaker 3
I'm sorry, black in the middle, back in the middle,
04:15
like fucking yeah, it has to be on either end.
04:20
Are we serious?
04:21
Speaker 1
Can't be Yeah? Miles suggested that it's they're they're going
04:25
to the charred habernaro.
04:28
Speaker 3
Why are they gas fishing us right now?
04:30
Speaker 1
There's totally.
04:33
Speaker 3
Catlighting us, and.
04:34
Speaker 2
I hate it.
04:35
Speaker 1
Bull uh Thrilled to be joined as always, buy my
04:38
co hosts, mister.
04:39
Speaker 2
Miles this part show. Oh yeah, it's me a k A.
04:44
I was suting else to wipe my butt with fake charmon,
04:49
don't rub me, right, babe, baby.
04:52
Speaker 3
I was souting else, I'm not wiping with great bye
04:59
on my.
05:02
Speaker 2
Shut out snark youla. Yeah, I'm still used. Look, I
05:06
received a bunch of cheap ass toilet paper when the
05:09
house burned down. People like you need toilet paper. Someone
05:11
dropped off a military grade toilet paper, and that it's
05:14
so thin. I don't know it's violence, and I've been
05:18
balling it up and.
05:19
Speaker 3
It's really fucked up, like they don't know the trauma, like,
05:22
for example, like my friend's house burned down.
05:26
Speaker 1
I know, I know, you're so hard on us, and
05:28
it's our coast, so hard, our coast house burnt down.
05:33
Speaker 2
I'm actually fucking sandwiched by the two people that regularly
05:38
the hardest co opt my tragedy.
05:42
Speaker 3
That's very sensitive one like this happened to like my
05:46
friend's house burned down.
05:48
Speaker 2
It's me that boy.
05:50
Speaker 3
I know, I know, so you more than anyone should
05:53
know what I'm going through.
05:58
Speaker 2
That is helpful.
05:59
Speaker 1
And to know that when you've been saying you're bawling
06:02
out of control for the past couple of weeks, you're
06:06
just balling, you're referencing, you're you're wiping.
06:08
Speaker 2
Yeah, I was just like wrapping it around my fists
06:11
like fucking John Coodandamn, it is control.
06:14
Speaker 1
At this point, we need help, Miles. We're thrilled to
06:17
be joined by one of our very favorite guests, the
06:20
talented writer and stand up comedian who co hosts The
06:23
Great Ninety Day Fiance podcast. For twenty Day Fiance Ship
06:28
with some Guy named Miles. Great, that's so weird.
06:32
Speaker 2
That is so weird. There's no way there's another.
06:35
Speaker 3
What are the chances, dude?
06:36
Speaker 2
This is fucking me up. Dude, first the fire, now
06:39
that other people, with my very simple word, very name, it.
06:43
Speaker 1
Is the hilarious, the talented Sophia Alexandra.
06:49
Speaker 3
I'm so happy to be here. I love you guys.
06:51
Speaker 2
Oh wow, they love you. And how are you doing
06:55
with everything going on with your friend's house running down?
06:57
Speaker 3
Actually been really hard on me. Yeah much, your brave,
07:01
your brain, Yeah, I really am. It's like a lot
07:03
of people probably have like pieced out by now, because like, wow,
07:07
that's a lot of trauma to happen to someone I
07:10
know so much.
07:11
Speaker 1
Trauma just dropped off huge palettes of uncomfortable toilet paper,
07:17
and we're like, my job here is done. Yeah, cracking knuckles,
07:21
Yeah all right. That it was such a great example
07:24
of somebody's like just bad intentions poorly or like good
07:28
intentions poorly executed, just being like you're actually hurting more
07:32
than you're helping.
07:34
Speaker 3
Yes, it's literally the can drive of experiences, right, because
07:38
it's like no one wants the fucking expired cans you're
07:41
bringing Okay, no one wants that shit. Yeah, do you
07:44
bring the stuff you would want to eat? Okay, not
07:47
like fucking green beans from like eighteen seventy two.
07:51
Speaker 2
I gotta no one wants that. I got a whole
07:53
case of novelty Trump toilet paper from the first administration too.
07:57
So it's like, you're gonna love this, man.
08:00
Speaker 1
I don't know, man, I think it's pretty fun. Well, Sophia,
08:03
we're thrilled to have you. We're going to get to
08:04
know you a little bit better in a moment. First,
08:06
we're going to tell the people a couple of things
08:08
we're talking about. We're going to talk about how Donald
08:10
Trump gots to have a burner phone. He's just constantly
08:13
on the phone. He his phone time is out of control.
08:17
You guys, we need to talk about Donald's phone time.
08:21
It is out of control and nobody's stopping him, and
08:24
he's just getting calls from anyone. His number is out there.
08:28
We can call the president.
08:29
Speaker 2
I'm just have one question.
08:33
Speaker 3
What about the emails though.
08:36
Speaker 2
We'll get there.
08:37
Speaker 3
We'll get okay, just.
08:38
Speaker 2
Thank you that.
08:40
Speaker 1
Yeah, if you know how to use the internet, you
08:42
can call the president and uh, he will say who's
08:46
calling who's that. Literally he answers the phone, who's calling?
08:51
Speaker 3
And he answer. I think he's like, who's calling?
08:55
Speaker 2
It feels it feels like it's I like to think
08:57
of him as like a little boy who would always
08:59
race to the phone and like, I've got it. Who's calling?
09:03
Speaker 3
It's for you, daddy. It's his favorite thing next to
09:06
pushing the elevator button.
09:09
Speaker 1
We let him push the elevator button and do phone
09:13
pretty close. Very few temper tantrums. Anyways, we'll talk about that,
09:18
We'll talk about how bloomers are getting the high again generally,
09:22
how things are going for the Trump administration, and we're
09:26
going to talk about the new FEMA head who just
09:29
seems like.
09:31
Speaker 3
With hurricanes though it's like a myth, right, Yeah.
09:35
Speaker 1
Well what.
09:37
Speaker 2
A joke he he is.
09:39
Speaker 1
I think he did know what it was, but he
09:41
just is one of those people who doesn't know, like
09:46
is just trying to make a joke. For him, is
09:48
like trying to speak in a foreign language. He's just
09:51
like trying to vibe out like like we were talking about,
09:54
you know, And so he did a he did a
09:56
joke by being like I said a thing that wasn't true,
09:59
And that's the best case scenario. But it's because he's
10:02
he's actually an artist at heart. Why are they all
10:05
fucking failed painters? Damned painters?
10:08
Speaker 3
Can I say that if we didn't learn that lesson
10:11
with Hitler? Like I don't know when we're going to
10:13
learn it or never, Like if it's a failed painter,
10:15
like put them to the side, they can run.
10:18
Speaker 1
Shit.
10:18
Speaker 2
Okay, George Bush, you killed like a million people? What
10:21
about you? Also? Failed painter? People are gonna be like folks,
10:26
They're going to be like, oh, isn't that quaint?
10:27
Speaker 1
After the fact, Yeah, he kind of got the bug
10:30
after killing the millions of people. He was like, what
10:33
are you who killed?
10:36
Speaker 2
Yeah?
10:37
Speaker 3
You in some type of mood where you're like maybe
10:40
my dog now, Yeah, that's gonna cap off this reign
10:44
of terror.
10:45
Speaker 2
I just I just sick with an iPad coloring book,
10:48
you know, because that's your point.
10:51
Speaker 1
I think you know what you are suggesting that art
10:54
school applications like people who get in get in, and
10:57
people who don't get in are just like sent to
11:00
a pit somewhere. I think that's a good suggestion that
11:03
we should take seriously. I'm glad you suggested it.
11:06
Speaker 3
Yeah, I'm really glad that I said pit.
11:08
Speaker 1
First, to a pit, to a pit somewhere.
11:11
Speaker 3
That is so specific.
11:12
Speaker 1
Jack Dark Knight rises.
11:14
Speaker 2
But before we get to anything, you remember.
11:16
Speaker 3
What happens after the pit. Right, that's not a good plan.
11:19
Speaker 2
Oh yeah, that is true. He comes out as Bane.
11:21
Speaker 3
Right, you can't do that. Then you're creating a bunch
11:24
of schools.
11:25
Speaker 1
Oh yeah, Bane got born in the pit.
11:28
Speaker 2
He was born.
11:30
Speaker 1
That is no way a metaphor. It's just he's like,
11:34
I was literally born in that pit, Bros. Like I
11:37
was born there.
11:38
Speaker 3
I've literally never seen sunlight. This is not a metaphor.
11:41
Speaker 2
This is a Christopher Nolan movie.
11:43
Speaker 1
There's no metaphors. I was born in the literal darkness
11:46
that you're referring to.
11:48
Speaker 2
I should really wear a hat or sunscream. My skin
11:50
is not used to the sun is really burning.
11:53
Speaker 3
I wish I had sunglasses. I'm crying right now.
11:58
Speaker 1
Before we get to any of it, Sophia, we do
12:00
like to ask our guests, what is something from your
12:03
search history that's revealing about who you are?
12:06
Speaker 3
Okay, So I look this up because my local bookstore
12:11
was selling this like special collection of these of this music,
12:17
and I was like, this is so interesting because I
12:20
don't know who this is, so I looked it up.
12:23
I'm gonna butcher the name because I'm not friends yet,
12:25
but it's Les Realise Dnu Day, and it is the
12:29
fuzz Feedback and Folklore Basically. The article I read on
12:33
NPR was called the fuzz Feedback and Folklore of Japanese
12:36
psych rockers Les real Oh.
12:39
Speaker 2
They're like the Japanese band with their friend's name.
12:42
Speaker 3
I've heard of them, yes, and I guess their whole
12:44
thing is they tried to record an album one time
12:47
and they like hated it, and so from then on
12:50
they were like, we're just gonna like not do studio shit.
12:52
It'll just be live shit. So all of their stuff
12:56
is just live performances, and a bunch of it has
12:58
been like bootlegged and put together are whatever. So it's
13:01
just kind of fascinating. And I didn't know anything about them,
13:04
so I looked them up.
13:07
Speaker 1
Wow, okay, shit, so all live it's just all live recordings,
13:12
all live albums.
13:12
Speaker 3
M hmm.
13:13
Speaker 1
That's kind of an interesting way to go about things.
13:15
Speaker 3
I've never heard or thought of that idea. It's like
13:18
they were just like, yeah, that's not for us. I'm like,
13:20
you know yourself, how did you do that?
13:23
Speaker 2
Right? Yeah?
13:24
Speaker 4
You know.
13:24
Speaker 3
I'm like if all of us had that kind of
13:26
fucking self realization where I'm like, there would be like
13:29
at least seventy percent fewer comedians, you know, like all
13:35
this live shit is not for me.
13:37
Speaker 2
Yeah, not for me.
13:38
Speaker 1
I got to keep trying. Mark Marin told me I
13:41
have to keep trying. I need to get my ten
13:43
thousand hours of stand up in and then I'll magically
13:46
be good.
13:47
Speaker 2
Yeah. I wasn't good though.
13:49
Speaker 3
It was not funny ever.
13:51
Speaker 1
Yeah, it's like a reverse the Beatles. The Beatles were
13:54
a studio only, you know, reverse miles in me. Yeah
13:59
as of late oh late career studio only.
14:03
Speaker 3
I just want to say, my local bookstore, Skylight Books,
14:06
and if you become a friend of the store, you
14:09
get like twenty percent off, so instead of ordering shit
14:12
from Amazon, you could order it from them.
14:14
Speaker 2
Boom.
14:14
Speaker 1
The ship you have to do to become a friend
14:16
of the Skylight Bookstore fucking dirty.
14:20
Speaker 2
I'm not going to tell your bodies.
14:22
Speaker 3
I'm not going to tell you what friends forever, which
14:24
is the status that have cost me? I can't.
14:27
Speaker 2
Oh you want to be friends forever?
14:30
Speaker 4
Oh?
14:31
Speaker 1
We got another one.
14:32
Speaker 3
I can't even tell you what happened, but I'm just
14:34
gonna like say that.
14:35
Speaker 2
It's like see orgish, right, It's like close your eyes
14:39
and put your hand out. Okay, wait, is this a gun? Yep?
14:42
And there's fourteen bodies on it. And now you're in
14:44
the club. Guess what. We're friends, friends.
14:46
Speaker 1
Forever, friends forever.
14:49
Speaker 3
And they put a little sticker on your cheek.
14:51
Speaker 1
They're like, it's a tattoo. What is something you think
14:57
is underrated?
14:59
Speaker 3
Okay? Taking classes as an adult without necessarily pursuing a degree.
15:06
I think that like learning is really dope. And I
15:12
am a nerd at heart, and I love a structured
15:16
environment where I have a teacher and like classmates. And
15:20
so I've been taking writing classes on Zoom and because
15:22
I decided to design kind of my own mini MFA program.
15:26
So I just found like on different websites like writing
15:29
workshops and through like writers, I follow when they teach,
15:33
and I kind of have been taking classes and it
15:36
feels really great. And I keep announcing that I'm going
15:38
to class to no one all the time. I'll worry
15:42
about going to class.
15:44
Speaker 2
I gotta go.
15:44
Speaker 3
I'm going to class and I like will like my
15:46
I'm a backpack, but I'm just walking to my office
15:49
to be on zoom.
15:51
Speaker 2
I really like it.
15:52
Speaker 3
And I like having classmates, and I like having group
15:55
like chats with your new classmates, and I like learning
15:59
about people lives and I like learning new skills. And
16:03
I think that if you have been on the fence
16:05
about taking a class, you should absolutely do it. Community
16:11
community college, zoom whatever. I mean, what a joy.
16:16
Speaker 2
Yeah, because I remember in like the height of lockdowns,
16:19
a lot of places were just offering full courses like
16:22
in video form that you could just like just mess
16:24
around with and just see if if you want to
16:26
take a lecture at have it or something.
16:30
Speaker 3
Yeah. Just having to two and a half hours a
16:32
week where I like em in class and I have
16:35
to pay attention to other people's like work and be
16:40
really detailed and just learned stuff. It does something really
16:43
good for you.
16:44
Speaker 2
I never thought them. Yeah, I never thought about recording
16:46
for twenty day fiance like that, but yeah, Tom, just
16:52
being open minded, seeing people through other people's eyes, really
16:56
taking detailed notes then sharing them with your class. Yes, exactly.
17:00
I in a way, I'm also taking m FA courses.
17:02
Speaker 3
We're all doing it.
17:04
Speaker 1
That's such a good idea. How did you like what
17:06
was the first step you took to like start taking classes?
17:08
Because I feel like I would.
17:10
Speaker 2
Like to do this and just have not.
17:13
Speaker 3
So Chloe Caldwell, who's one of my favorite writers and
17:16
now a good friend, I follow her on Instagram and
17:19
she was posting, Hey, I'm starting this class. This is
17:22
the name of it, this is you know, how many days,
17:26
this is the cost. And then I emailed her and
17:28
I was like, Okay, I want to take that class.
17:30
And then that kind of got me rolling. And I've
17:32
done like workshops too, which are just like a week
17:35
or a weekend or something if I can't commit to, like,
17:38
you know, a six week class. So yeah, that's how
17:41
I started. And then once you kind of are, you know,
17:45
in the world of it, it's so much easier to
17:47
find other stuff. And I highly recommend writing workshops dot com.
17:52
I do not work for them. I just like writing
17:54
workshops nice. So anyway, do it, anyways, do it?
18:00
Speaker 5
Do it?
18:00
Speaker 1
I will. What's what's something you think is overrated?
18:03
Speaker 3
Dressing your age quote unquote, And I say that because
18:08
there's a lot of people that will say that kind
18:11
of shit, But then also other people will be like,
18:13
I thought you were way younger than you are. So
18:16
I'm like, if I gave a fuck about what anybody thought,
18:21
I would have like a much sadder life. And I
18:24
just want to say that there is no dressing your
18:26
age quote unquote. Everyone you think is hot is hot,
18:29
and they're like way and it's like period. Yeah, so
18:33
it's all about like how swaggy you feel and what
18:36
you're doing. No one can be like, well, a skirt
18:38
has to be above below your knees because you're over
18:41
forty or whatever the fuck, Like, do not listen to
18:44
that garbage. You can have like pink barets in your hair.
18:47
It does not matter how fucking old you are, Like,
18:50
people need to settle down with that.
18:51
Speaker 2
When people say that, they're telling on themselves that they
18:54
have absolutely no swag, real thank you, no personality. No
18:58
they've not. They don't know how to represent their.
19:01
Speaker 3
Beat broken ass coffee maker, no drip.
19:04
Speaker 1
Wow. You should say that to them the next time they.
19:09
Speaker 3
Say it, and they're like, no, no one would ever
19:12
say it to me.
19:14
Speaker 2
No one would, dare no one would.
19:16
Speaker 4
Yeah.
19:16
Speaker 3
Yeah, I don't give off like I accept constructive criticism
19:20
from strangers or I guess non constructive.
19:25
Speaker 2
But yeah, I'll get hostile if I need to.
19:29
Speaker 3
Yeah, just where the ship that makes you feel good
19:32
uncomfortable and that's.
19:34
Speaker 1
It mm hmm, because I have been I've been toying
19:36
with this look that's like a hat with a spinnything
19:39
on it and a big lollipop, and Miles.
19:42
Speaker 3
Has been like, like, it's not it's not ideal.
19:45
Speaker 2
It's not like perfect dress your age. I just said,
19:48
it's infantilizing. Yeah, yeah, I mean literally lined with that.
19:52
If that's your vibe, Like, if that's the vibe you
19:53
put out, then go ahead.
19:55
Speaker 5
Man.
19:55
Speaker 3
If you're feeling like baby jack, fucking baby Jack.
19:59
Speaker 2
It baby Jack cool. Okay.
20:02
Speaker 1
I don't know why everybody has to say it's baby
20:04
stuff or my catchphrase wowie zowie is uh my favorite short,
20:12
and one of this is just my favorite short.
20:16
Speaker 3
Get one of the zigang Please draw Jack wearing a
20:19
spinny beanie and draw I do it. No A, I
20:26
regularly to do it.
20:27
Speaker 2
I mean me as good as or bad as you
20:30
need it to be.
20:31
Speaker 3
Just don't let me figure. I don't care.
20:35
Speaker 2
Anyways.
20:35
Speaker 1
I think good advice, great underrated, great overrated. We're gonna
20:39
take a quick break and we'll be right back to
20:41
talk about the news.
20:43
Speaker 2
We'll be right back.
20:54
Speaker 1
And we're back.
20:56
Speaker 2
You know, just thinking when I when I choked out
20:58
that guy for walking out of Anger Management, that was
21:00
a literal oh you think I said, oh, you're a
21:03
tough guy. Huh. In my mind it was, oh, so
21:05
you're better than me. You think you're better than me.
21:07
That was a subtext there.
21:09
Speaker 1
And just the thing that never doesn't make sense about
21:12
that anecdote is you hadn't seen anger management. I understand
21:20
that narrative as like an expression of like you are,
21:25
you know, selfish, need to like have your taste validated,
21:29
but you hadn't seen it yet.
21:32
Speaker 2
I didn't like the idea of someone disrespect to me,
21:38
like I'm off this and were you a Sandman fan?
21:41
Like is that where you just like he's better than
21:44
I was such a teenage mess, dude, It fucking my
21:48
brain was so fucked up from like puberty, not knowing myself,
21:53
like ambient racism, my parents splitting up.
21:56
Speaker 3
I'm sorry, ambient racism. Yeah, there a headlining coach.
22:01
Speaker 2
I know it's your favorite band, I know, so what
22:05
it's on my leg style So what.
22:11
Speaker 1
Ambient racism tattooed around my gun woo.
22:14
Speaker 2
It's really hard to.
22:15
Speaker 3
Fit it around my belly button, like it was really
22:17
fucking hard.
22:19
Speaker 1
Like it's a lot of so tiny.
22:22
Speaker 3
It's a lot of fucking letters. People can't tell what
22:26
it it hurts. It just looks like I did a
22:29
black arc. It's like I'm messed up a rainbow. That's
22:33
what it looks like. But it says ambient racism if
22:36
you look closely.
22:38
Speaker 1
But the bottom stretch the letters way out because I
22:41
have a fucking huge belly. But the thing is dinner
22:46
plate down there.
22:48
Speaker 3
Cavernous.
22:51
Speaker 1
And the dinner plate navel cavernous bb.
22:55
Speaker 3
All right, yeah, I've seen you get ramen out of.
22:57
Speaker 2
It is just the just the right.
23:02
Speaker 1
Yeah, you're on your back.
23:03
Speaker 2
You just sit there right there?
23:05
Speaker 3
Why dirty a plate?
23:07
Speaker 2
College college girlfriend got alcohol poisoning from doing a body
23:10
shot for the belly too much, bab Keep going, I
23:19
just did seven big gulps. Keep going way there.
23:25
Speaker 3
I remember when you almost died because he used it
23:27
as a measuring comfort Nike.
23:28
Speaker 1
Well, I just saw a picture of a woodpecker's tongue
23:35
that it like wraps all the way around their brain.
23:37
To to protect their brain from.
23:41
Speaker 3
The from the trauma.
23:44
Speaker 1
Yeah, the repeated cte that they're giving themselves but self
23:48
care woodpeckers, That's all I'm saying. But that's how my
23:50
belly button is. Is just like a series of like
23:53
caverns that like twists and turns inside my body.
23:58
Speaker 3
I mean sometimes I know when Miles on vacation, he's
24:00
splunking down there.
24:02
Speaker 2
That's I love that he says he's an Italy.
24:05
Speaker 3
But we all know the truth.
24:06
Speaker 2
People don't know. Yeah, they're like, oh my god, if
24:09
people only knew what I was actually up to down there.
24:14
I mean, guys, Jack's oh never mind, but.
24:19
Speaker 1
I can't even begin to it.
24:21
Speaker 2
There's a place down south that has the echoes of
24:26
the gods ringing through it.
24:28
Speaker 1
Okay, all right, this episode is completely off the rails
24:32
which were trying to talk about. We were talking about
24:34
Trump got Burner.
24:35
Speaker 2
Yeah, he got Burner.
24:37
Speaker 1
There was an Atlantic article back in April where they
24:40
were like, we scheduled an interview with Trump like for weeks,
24:43
did like this the thing you always do where you
24:45
like send it to the administration. They like, clear you
24:49
everything had gone according to plan, and then somebody within
24:53
the administration was like that they're not nice to you,
24:56
and so he like started tweeting about how they were mean,
25:00
like they's never written a fair article about me, and
25:02
it was unceremoniously canceled, and so they they pivoted and
25:07
just called his ass because you can like find his
25:09
phone number on the internet.
25:11
Speaker 2
Hot, wait, hold on, what does that mean the art
25:13
I didn't read the article. How did they find his phone?
25:15
And how come we don't have this fucking.
25:17
Speaker 1
So they were pretty opaque about that. They said that,
25:21
like we'll just say the White House staff has not
25:23
been super but good about keeping the phone number out
25:27
of people.
25:28
Speaker 2
Oh my god.
25:30
Speaker 3
They just so delicious when you're like, I'm gonna drain
25:35
the swamp, but just put all incompetence in charge.
25:39
Speaker 1
Exactly who's calling the President of the United States asked
25:44
according to the magazine, and then they just did a
25:48
like hours long conversation with him and this is a
25:52
parent which that that was the thing that stuck out
25:55
to me. I was like, wow, the fuck does like
25:58
he he just spent hours to these people, like after
26:01
they called him unplanned, unprovoked the president of the United States,
26:05
he was just like at his golf club. I was like, yeah,
26:09
I know who you are. You're not very fair to me.
26:11
But then just like they were like gave him a
26:14
chance to brag about himself, and he couldn't resist.
26:19
Speaker 2
Let's start from the beginning.
26:20
Speaker 3
I dont to know that the American president does not
26:24
have anything to do at all. Exactly, He's like, I
26:28
could not have any problems that I could think of
26:30
to solve. I'm just gonna go ahead and take this
26:34
stranger's call for two.
26:36
Speaker 2
Also should be that that detail alone should actually be
26:39
the most frightening thing for American people, because yeah, that
26:43
it's all these other fucking pieces of shit that are
26:45
doing all the day to day decision making. That's also
26:47
a thing that came out on that Joe Biden book
26:50
that people don't really talk about, was this moment where
26:53
the whole immigration like Biden didn't know what to do
26:54
about immigration because he had no way to like he
26:57
was bad at mediating the internal fights within the administration. Harris, Yeah,
27:01
so there was nothing happening, and they're like what else,
27:04
So what else was happening? Like that, He's like, I
27:06
don't know, I don't know. You guys handle it, And
27:09
here we are.
27:10
Speaker 1
Yeah, so it sounds similar. I remember the Obama like
27:14
BlackBerry thing, but I didn't realize like he was adamant.
27:17
He was like, I'm keeping my BlackBerry. They were like,
27:19
you can't. And so he worked with the NSA to
27:23
create a BlackBerry that like didn't have various like it
27:29
like you couldn't forward an email that he sent you,
27:32
and only like eight people had access to it. It
27:35
was very much like fun, just give him a fucking toy.
27:38
Speaker 2
Yeah, right right right.
27:39
Speaker 3
Well, but they were like, we're gonna encrypt the shit
27:41
out of this. Yeah, so your phone is not just
27:44
like completely vulnerable and available for like the easiest of hacking. Yeah,
27:50
and so he eventually Trump went to the seven eleven.
27:53
Speaker 2
Yes.
27:54
Speaker 1
No, Trump has been less persuadable by reason. From the article,
27:59
so the Atlantic was just like, so, let's do a
28:01
deeper dive into this secret cell phone that we were
28:03
able to use to call him. From the article, it
28:06
says advisors tried to break his habit, but Trump either
28:09
didn't understand or didn't care. In Trump's second term, his
28:12
advisors have given up trying to restrict his phone use.
28:15
He calls people non stop. Trump's campaign advisor Chris Leacevita
28:20
said in an interview with Politico during the Republican National
28:23
Convention last year. I don't worry about it, because what
28:26
are you gonna do? Take his phone, change his phone number,
28:29
tell him he can't make phone calls.
28:31
Speaker 2
Yeah, it's like yeah, yeah, no.
28:33
Speaker 3
Yes, yeah, yeah, exactly correct.
28:37
Speaker 1
It just sounds like people who you know, are like
28:42
scared of their kid being like, I don't know what
28:44
am I going to do? Take away his phone? Trump
28:47
Trump went. When people were like, this is the major
28:50
security risk, he'd say, it's not true. My phone is
28:54
the best on the market, the market. It was just
28:57
like an iPhone that he has, be like, I paid
29:00
the most for the iPhone that ain't even a pro,
29:03
that's the regular iPhone. The best time that micro Why
29:06
is your screen crash?
29:07
Speaker 4
Yeah?
29:08
Speaker 2
Damn tell what your thumbs are all cut up as shit?
29:11
I like to swipe to text. Does a hell of
29:14
a job on my fingertips.
29:16
Speaker 1
The first time Trump's team truly understood also from this
29:18
article about the history of his private line, first time
29:21
they understood he would have a different relationship with his
29:24
cell phone than did president's past was Election night twenty sixteen,
29:28
the eve of his improbable victory. He was answering every
29:31
phone call. The outside advisor marveled to us nearly a
29:34
decade later, noting that none of the numbers was in
29:37
Trump's contacts. He just answers the phone. He doesn't want
29:40
to miss phone calls. He's just stray numbers that aren't contacts.
29:45
He's and like, there's an anecdote in there where the
29:48
Dilbert guy is like, I just got a random phone
29:52
call from Florida and he called me left a voicemaih.
29:56
Speaker 2
Did that guy die? He's I think on his term cancer.
30:00
Speaker 1
He has the same thing Biden has, and oh really
30:02
think that's why Trump was calling him Actually was to
30:05
be like, hey, anything.
30:06
Speaker 2
I can do for you.
30:08
Speaker 1
But then like he like called it. He's like, I
30:10
can't believe that shit just happened. That's a Trump voicemail. Now,
30:13
like two hours Trump called him back. He was like, wait,
30:17
aren't you like busy? But yeah, yeah, no, no, I'm good.
30:22
I'm good.
30:23
Speaker 2
Why you busy? Do you call you back? I'll call
30:25
you back like an hour.
30:27
Speaker 1
He's just spending his whole day talking on the phone
30:31
like a fucking teenage girl. In nineteen ninety two. Yeah,
30:34
like that's what he does.
30:36
Speaker 2
One of the numbers he's calling the Corey hotline.
30:38
Speaker 3
I don't think that you should drag teenage girls into this.
30:41
Speaker 1
Because they were I mean, they were doing important working
30:44
on their phones.
30:46
Speaker 3
It's very it's very fun to imagine that he's so
30:51
not to imagine, but to know that he's so insecure
30:55
it so badly needs attention all of the time that
31:00
he picks up exactly stranger's phone calls. Like I bet
31:04
you if like you called him, like old school nineties
31:07
style to change his long distance service, I bet you
31:10
he would be on the phone with you for like
31:12
ten days.
31:13
Speaker 2
Yeah.
31:14
Speaker 1
No, he's just like an unscheduled call that lasts over
31:17
five minutes is a shocking luxury for all, but the
31:21
most retired person likes an unscheduled call from somebody.
31:25
Speaker 2
Oh it's so good to hear from you.
31:27
Speaker 1
Yeah, middle of the day on a work day, and
31:30
he's just sitting there for hours, just being like, yeah,
31:33
what's good. Yeah, no, I know you're mean to me.
31:36
Usually in print. Here here's some cool stuff I'm up to.
31:39
Speaker 2
Oh me nothing right now, I'm just hanging out.
31:43
Speaker 3
Also, I love that he didn't actually know that that
31:46
person had been mean to him. Someone had to like
31:48
inform him, Yeah, you know what I mean, Like that's
31:51
so funny. Someone's like, oh, actually, you're supposed to not
31:54
like this person.
31:55
Speaker 2
And even then it doesn't matter to him because as
31:57
long as in the moment you're in his face and
32:00
you're not talking cash ship to his face, he's like,
32:02
and I love this person giving me attention right now
32:05
and asking me a question.
32:07
Speaker 1
There's almost no there's like so many pictures of him
32:09
on his phone in this article, like which he's just
32:12
like constantly on his phone or like texting someone, or
32:15
there's almost no chance that he's not talking to like
32:18
crypto scammers.
32:19
Speaker 2
He looks like such a dickhead on these like in
32:23
these pictures, like he's like hello, like doing the like
32:27
I'm kind of like, I'm a little bit far sighted,
32:29
so I got to really put my phone far to
32:31
start typing some shit.
32:34
Speaker 1
Oh boy, big dumb smile.
32:35
Speaker 2
I think if hey, look y'all, if any of y'all
32:37
can figure out how to get this number, please let
32:39
us know. Yeah, please let us know. I'm I could
32:42
do it. I don't know who I'll do an impression
32:44
of but I will try and talk to him and
32:45
get him to believe he's talking to somebody else.
32:47
Speaker 1
Australia. I just have to learn the Australian president's name.
32:50
But you gotta Australia.
32:52
Speaker 2
President Trumpet's me President Australia. Things down under.
32:59
Speaker 3
My name is Melbourne, Australia.
33:02
Speaker 2
I'm the President. I can't do the dundee. Oh good
33:07
to see. It's good to hear from you. Crocodile.
33:11
Speaker 1
Always been a big fan of your work. Yeah, like
33:14
truly the scam, the you know, gen z prank phone
33:18
call artists of TikTok and YouTube or falling down at
33:22
the job that they haven't been able.
33:23
Speaker 2
To get like we need to get like yeah, like
33:26
like somewhat like James Adomian to put out his elon
33:29
musk and talk to him for like seventy five hours
33:32
and just get some weird ship out of him.
33:35
Speaker 3
I would just pretend to be his daughter and have
33:39
a phone sex with him, oh gosh, And then I
33:42
would record it and release that, yeah.
33:44
Speaker 2
And people would be not shocked.
33:45
Speaker 3
I'd be like, hey, dad, it's a vanka hold on
33:49
about the way. You're ready, You're ready roddy, you're ready rotting,
33:55
skin falls off your face and to really hot.
34:01
Speaker 2
I feel like you could. You can just say you're
34:03
some random You're like, I'm a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader and
34:07
I think you're swell. Go on, yes, send me a
34:10
picture of you right now.
34:11
Speaker 3
You just Google and send and'll it'll be the easiest.
34:14
Speaker 2
He got Getty images watermarks all over it.
34:16
Speaker 1
He's like, exactly, body is sliding off your skeleton like
34:23
slow roasted pork. So what I'm saying, I just do
34:26
it in my voice, like go on, go on, Oh
34:31
baby wants to fuck me? It sounds like maybe you would.
34:34
That meat is loosen and pulled pork. Yeah, I feel
34:37
I feel like a dumb prank phone call like that,
34:39
like they they would overreact and then somebody will prank
34:43
call the president get his ass really good, and they'll
34:46
be charged with treason or treason and they'll be put
34:50
to death. Yeah hanged, rather right, hanged?
34:53
Speaker 2
What is that they'll be hung?
34:56
Speaker 1
Is a just them?
34:57
Speaker 2
And they'll be packing down there? What do you mean
35:04
what does one have to do with the other. I
35:05
don't know just how the term works. Oh, will they
35:08
be executed?
35:09
Speaker 5
No?
35:09
Speaker 2
No, That's what I meant. I just meant, whoever doing it,
35:11
they'll be hung.
35:12
Speaker 1
They'll definitely be hung. You can tell, all right. In
35:15
continuing on our trend of old person news and yesterday's
35:20
trend of drug news, we got some news about the
35:23
elderly getting on board with weed.
35:26
Speaker 2
Dude. The boomers are hitting the bong hard. They're still
35:30
smoking bonds, I hope.
35:32
Speaker 3
So, I don't know, there's nothing funnier than a tiny
35:36
old person hitting a giant bong.
35:38
Speaker 2
Yeah, and like really and then like ging that thing
35:42
up just.
35:42
Speaker 3
Like yeah, no cough, no nothing.
35:46
Speaker 2
No test convulsion, just straight. Oh. I like this one.
35:51
I like this one.
35:52
Speaker 3
Oh, this is a little nice, this a little peppery
35:54
or than that other one.
35:55
Speaker 2
Welly, you can taste the oh look at it the
35:59
tannin's Wow. Uh did not have a turkey. But yeah,
36:03
it sounds like the sixty five and older crowd have
36:05
shed all like the refer yeahs dude, turps. Yeah. The
36:12
reefer madness propaganda brain is withering away and people are
36:16
now embracing the weeds. The stigma is not as much
36:19
of a thing as it used to be with the
36:21
sixty five and older crowd. Crowd, and obviously like the
36:25
expansion of like legal and legal recreational and medical medicinal
36:29
cannabis has opened the door for holdouts like my high
36:32
school teacher, My high school history teacher who inspired me
36:36
to even be interested in history as like a major.
36:39
All the time we would talk about like like we
36:41
would talk about weed. He's like, hey, guys, really should
36:44
really stop talking about that. I know you're joking to
36:46
kind of get me riled up, but like it's illegal
36:48
or whatever, Like would you ever smoke weeds, sir? And
36:51
he would always say, I only don't smoke it because
36:54
it is illegal and I'm a law abiding citizen. But
36:56
if it was legal, I would do it. And we're like, oh,
36:59
we're gonna smoke with you when it's legal.
37:00
Speaker 1
He's like, for instance, I'm drunk right now. Yeah, my
37:05
high school history teacher. Shout out to high school history
37:08
teacher who was secretly dipping all class or like yeah,
37:11
secretly but like he just had a little one in him.
37:14
Was taking SIPs.
37:17
Speaker 3
Soda that you can in no way do dip secretly
37:22
in a clandestine manner.
37:24
Speaker 2
No, No, he was.
37:26
Speaker 1
He was always at SIPs. But that sounded like, yeah, anyway.
37:30
Speaker 3
It was like, Oh, I was shitting myself in public,
37:32
but no one knew. It's like, no, we all.
37:34
Speaker 2
Knew the entire time your pants filled down because it
37:38
was so heavy.
37:39
Speaker 1
But he actually gave me early weed insight. Also, he
37:43
was like, the only reason weeds illegal is because it's
37:46
so easy to grow at home, like and so difficult
37:49
to tack. So you can't make buttweise are worth a
37:53
ship in your bathtub, But you buy a grow light,
37:56
you can grow some pretty great weed. What nobody's gonna
37:59
know about it.
38:00
Speaker 3
That's a fucking hero right there.
38:02
Speaker 1
I knows that's teaching it a fucking Catholic high school
38:06
in Kentucky.
38:08
Speaker 2
Was just being like, yeah, man, so here's what it is.
38:11
Speaker 4
You know.
38:12
Speaker 2
That's like I'm sure like there's a tradition of knowing
38:14
like what the government will let you make on your
38:16
own and won't because of how companies can profit. I'm
38:19
sure for that. It's like moonshine is more like the
38:21
local thing than like weed, maybe on the West coast,
38:24
but anyway, there's been a forty six percent optic in
38:27
consumption among seniors who man this like Journal of American
38:32
Medicine study from twenty twenty one to twenty twenty three,
38:36
and now like from when they were asking. In twenty
38:38
twenty three, seven percent of adult sixty five and older
38:40
said they'd used cannabis in the past month.
38:44
Speaker 3
Yeah boy, hell yeah, hell yeah.
38:47
Speaker 2
I like through I think, you know, it's the pandemic lockdowns,
38:52
and I think acceptance around using it for certain chronic
38:55
illnesses or pain management is definitely adding to the usage.
38:58
And I've also noticed a more of like a who
39:00
gives a fuck kind of adage from that generation recently,
39:04
at least the ones around me are more like, way
39:07
different than what I remember as a kid, or they
39:09
were like so button up and like, yeah, dude, don't
39:10
give a fuck. I'm getting high now, I don't have
39:12
anything to do.
39:13
Speaker 3
Well, then to piggyback off of that, I think I
39:16
totally agree that it's not giving a fuck, and I think, actually,
39:19
I'll take it further. It's because they're like, well, we
39:22
have no future because the next couple of years that
39:26
we have or whatever, or under this administration, everything's getting cut,
39:31
America's fallen apart. They're like, you know what, I might
39:34
get into heroin tomorrow. I don't give a fuck.
39:36
Speaker 2
Like, yes, where do I sign up? That means they
39:40
were getting nihilistic under Biden during this thing. That's what
39:43
I'm saying.
39:44
Speaker 1
It built up there who gives a fuck muscles on
39:47
climate change and yeah you know Gaza and all that stuff.
39:52
Speaker 2
So now we bro I can't be fucking arst as
39:55
they say, I've seen more than like also personally a
39:57
few examples of friends are getting their parents to try
40:00
it for pain management. Like a friend of mine's dad
40:03
who was taking all kinds of like opioids for like
40:07
hip and like knee replacement surgeries, was just so zonked
40:11
out all the time and was like but was resisting
40:14
cannabis because they had this very like boomer idea of
40:17
like if I, if I ingested, I might turn into
40:20
a black jazz pianist or something, and I don't want
40:23
that to happen. So I don't know if I should
40:26
take this edible not.
40:28
Speaker 4
Ready for me to become Miles David Jim is gonna
40:33
call me cheech and chum, Yeah exactly, be so us
40:37
they're gonna come me John Coltrane or something.
40:42
Speaker 2
Since they've crossed that bridge, like they're fully like, so
40:45
they're like, I can't believe I didn't do this, like
40:48
I feel so much like it, like clear headed, because
40:51
I'm not so fucking wasted from like traditional like pharmaceutical
40:55
pain medicines. Not to say this works for everyone, but
40:57
like anecdotally that that's been the one I've seen happen
41:00
a lot common where it's like they've always got this
41:03
back pain, they hate taking pills for it, and now
41:05
they just like take their little vape and now they're
41:08
great or an edible or something.
41:09
Speaker 1
Yeah, so it's it's not a surprise when compared with
41:13
the opioids that yeah, have been legally sold to people
41:16
for the past couple decades.
41:19
Speaker 2
Yeah.
41:19
Speaker 1
Wow, massive, massive improvement, guys. Yeah, please do that.
41:24
Speaker 3
Also side note, if you're like a grown up who
41:28
smokes with like a.
41:29
Speaker 2
Younger people, is this like a podcast for thirteen year olds? Okay,
41:32
but like if you're.
41:33
Speaker 3
A grown up, oh my god, why do I sound
41:36
like that?
41:36
Speaker 1
Also?
41:37
Speaker 3
Grown Damn, I don't even talk. I've been really valley
41:40
sounding this whole episode, and I'm like, I apologize to
41:43
the listeners. I don't know what you are.
41:45
Speaker 2
You are a valley by way of Odessa.
41:48
Speaker 3
Yeah, never lived in the valley. What is this accent.
41:51
It is horrible. Please leave, Please leave my mouth. Yeah,
41:55
I just wanted to say that if you're an older
41:57
person smoking weed with younger people and you're cool as hell.
42:03
If you're an older person drinking with the younger people, Bill,
42:08
that is not cool. That you are a monster and
42:12
you need to leave.
42:15
Speaker 2
I don't I don't know. I got a family friend
42:18
who's older, like they're like, oh, you're smoking.
42:20
Speaker 6
I'm like yeah, They're like I've been doing that too,
42:22
And I'm like, brouh you you're not ready for this ship.
42:26
And you're like, well, they're like, to the store. I
42:29
go to the store, and I'm like, all right, this
42:31
motherfucker turned into a scarecrow. And like at this family
42:34
party and high a hit and there was way too much.
42:42
Speaker 2
Like just fucking a scarecrow, just physically there as a
42:46
presence but not in anything. Scarecrow.
42:50
Speaker 1
And I just experience what it was like to get
42:53
high with me back when I got high.
42:55
Speaker 2
Well, at least they weren't like you hate me.
42:58
Speaker 1
They were just like I didn't say that out loud, Jack,
43:01
I love you, but you.
43:02
Speaker 3
Do look like you would be absolutely not fun high.
43:05
Speaker 2
To get high with. Now I was a nightmare.
43:08
Speaker 1
I hated myself.
43:11
Speaker 3
Yeah, no, I totally for some reason feel that from you.
43:14
I don't know what that means.
43:15
Speaker 1
It must be good. I think it's a good It
43:17
reflects well on my personality, like general, you know, chillness,
43:21
it means you're very an.
43:25
Speaker 3
Exactly. It means that this is the real jack. You
43:28
know what I'm saying.
43:29
Speaker 1
It's like I'm high in my regular life. Man, I
43:32
can't be double high.
43:34
Speaker 3
You're a freaking high off beautiful family and cool job,
43:39
and like, why would you even need anything else?
43:42
Speaker 2
And cool? Yeah? Thank you so much.
43:43
Speaker 1
And this is thirteen year olds out there. I don't
43:46
need anything else.
43:47
Speaker 2
When you're grown up, you get to pick your own
43:49
clothes and you can buy them whichever ones you want
43:51
to buy.
43:51
Speaker 3
You guys, get ready with me. So first of all,
43:54
my mom let me get this skirt from the Limited
43:57
and it was my birthday money, so okay. Second off,
44:01
I wanted to get the stuff from what Seal, but
44:03
I could not afford it. Well, I got it from
44:05
my best friend Brittany, and I'm borrowing it for this outfit.
44:09
Speaker 1
Britanh my god, so many syllables in Brittany.
44:12
Speaker 3
Brittany, Brittany, britt Britanny.
44:17
Speaker 1
Let's take a quick break. We gotta meet our favorite
44:20
new character in the news, FEMA head Guy.
44:24
Speaker 3
We'll head guy, Hurricane head.
44:27
Speaker 1
Hurricane Richardson, and we're back. We're back, and we got
44:43
a new head of FEMA. David Hurricane Richardson the acting
44:49
head of FEMA, and at a big meeting with his employees,
44:54
he said that he did not know the United States
44:57
has a hurricane season, leaving the people who work for
45:02
FEMA somewhat concerned and baffled. He's like, I was just
45:07
joking around, Like he's one of those guys if.
45:09
Speaker 3
He's he was not joking though he was in no
45:12
way joking. It's not even a joke.
45:15
Speaker 1
People like that who will say something and everyone's like
45:18
what the fuck And then they'll be like, oh my god.
45:21
Like once you get to know them, you're like, oh,
45:22
they were joking, but like they don't know how that works.
45:25
Speaker 2
You know this sense of irony because you see it
45:28
all the time in bad comedians who just say I'm
45:31
just gonna say the opposite of something and assume that's irony. Sure, yeah,
45:37
and it's just like what, shut up?
45:39
Speaker 3
I actually love Hitler. You guys get it, Yeah, like
45:43
what that's not you.
45:44
Speaker 2
You're not exactly in that binary. You're either a Nazi
45:48
or you're not a Nazi. I'm a Nazi.
45:52
Speaker 3
But either way, it wasn't a joke.
45:54
Speaker 1
It's hard to Yeah, yeah, it was not a joke
45:57
in any functional form of joking.
46:00
Speaker 2
You know.
46:00
Speaker 1
The Democrats have been like, Okay, well, even if that
46:03
was a joke, this is what happens when you hire
46:05
for vibes over qualifications, because he's not in any way qualified,
46:10
but like the vibes are terrible, like they like, it's
46:13
not like he's a funny person. During his first all
46:16
hands FEMA meeting, he told others, don't get in my way,
46:21
adding obfuscation, delay, undermining. If you're one of those twenty
46:26
percent of the people and you think those tactics and
46:28
techniques are going to help you, they will not, because
46:32
I will run right over you. I will achieve the
46:34
presidents in time.
46:36
Speaker 2
That's the vibe actually that Trump was going for.
46:39
Speaker 3
He was like, truly, I was having a seizure during that,
46:42
And I don't understand how you can make FEMA and
46:47
to something that's like a war rally.
46:49
Speaker 2
Yeah, like, do you know what FEMA does?
46:54
Speaker 3
Yeah, you're not in charge of the marines, bro, Like,
46:58
what is this?
46:59
Speaker 1
You ever see something marine?
47:00
Speaker 2
Yeah? Yeah, I and I alone in FEMA speak for
47:05
FEMA Jesus Christ and I alone face.
47:07
Speaker 1
I don't stop at yield signs is also something he said, which, okay,
47:13
you know, like you're supposed to when there's other stuff.
47:15
Speaker 3
No, you know what what yield means? Like, I feel
47:19
like a lot of the words he uses he does
47:21
not understand, and that is kind of It's kind of
47:25
key for the administration. I think it's kind of a
47:27
thing everyone has in common. They just do not really
47:30
know what words mean.
47:31
Speaker 2
No, there's a lot of words. Yeah, I'm an asshole,
47:34
get out of my way. Fuck you pretty much.
47:37
Speaker 3
And I would have taken so much less time.
47:39
Speaker 2
Yeah, he said, you woman. They didn't get that.
47:41
Speaker 1
He was like a fun, joking guy when he said
47:44
that he didn't know we had a hurricane season, when
47:46
the rest of the meeting.
47:47
Speaker 5
Was like, I will fuck you up. Don't even look
47:50
at me. I will destroy you. I will make you
47:53
wish you were never born. I didn't know there was
47:56
such a thing as a hurricane season. Well, how did
47:59
they not know that that was a joke.
48:01
Speaker 2
Bro, all the funniest guys do, right, I'm sure he's
48:08
threatened to skullfuck someone in that. I'm sure he has
48:12
used to. He was he probably did a bit from
48:15
that Will Farrell LESNL thing or the most Terrible Boss
48:18
like where he's abusing the employees just like right after
48:23
it didn't mean that skull fuck joke. Literally, come on.
48:25
Speaker 3
Guys, I feel like this is what happens when like
48:28
someone Binge watches Succession who's like, you know, then you're like,
48:35
I'm gonna make Fema and Logan roy industries, Like, oh
48:40
my god. Certain Well, there's.
48:42
Speaker 1
Been like studies on like narcissism, and the thing they've
48:45
found is that a lot of the biggest narcissists and
48:49
like the meanest people are the people who like haven't
48:53
really like in the entertainment industry, for instance, It'll be
48:56
like people who haven't who aren't like talented, they're just
49:00
like there because they were in the right place at
49:03
the right time, and so they're like defending their position
49:07
because they have a sense that like I don't actually
49:09
know why I'm here, and I feel like that like
49:11
this guy is in no way deserves to be the
49:14
FEMA chief. His background is that he was a former
49:19
marine and a terrible artist and novelist. Back to a
49:24
running theme we've found here with Trump, I guess I
49:29
was meant to be a filmmaker.
49:31
Speaker 3
But I didn't know he failed two forms of art. Yeah, yeah,
49:35
now I know this man is like extra dangerous.
49:37
Speaker 2
What have you believe? He's like the anti double threat,
49:44
He's a minus one threat. Yeah.
49:46
Speaker 1
In twenty twenty, he had a gallery show which included
49:50
a painting depicting AOC kind of like it's not recognizable
49:55
as AOC other than if I tell you, oh this
49:58
is being done. Who's from the right, Because it's a
50:04
woman in a jay gouvera poster with like hoop earrings
50:08
which today was even where and it says hashtag bimbonic bimbonic,
50:12
hash Amazon on the top.
50:15
Speaker 2
What does that even mean?
50:16
Speaker 3
I don't understand hashtag. I understand what bimbo is, but
50:21
I don't know what it's supposed to.
50:22
Speaker 2
Be replacing, like a bionic bimbo.
50:25
Speaker 3
But what word is it supposed to be replacing? Like
50:28
what's the wordplay there?
50:29
Speaker 1
Oh?
50:30
Speaker 2
Oh, it's just a word. I thought was funny to
50:33
make fun of a woman. That's why I put that there.
50:35
Speaker 1
I thought it was gonna go viral.
50:37
Speaker 2
Okay, well, I did it as a hashtag fuck hashtag
50:40
bimbonics not taking off really.
50:42
Speaker 3
Quick though, But like it seems like it's kind of
50:45
complimentary to portray her. Or is Jay Gevera because he
50:48
Givar because he was like kind of like an important
50:50
revolutionary or is that what you were going for?
50:53
Speaker 1
Darter Cortes is a socialist. She is like the pigs
50:57
for Orwell's animal farm. My initial impression of her that
51:00
she doesn't really care about the working class. She just
51:03
doesn't like rich folk. That was my initial idea, kind
51:06
of like cha.
51:07
Speaker 3
Oh so okay, I say rich. So you think the
51:10
main thing that Vera was about was he was like,
51:13
I don't like.
51:14
Speaker 1
I hate rich people.
51:15
Speaker 3
I hate riches.
51:16
Speaker 1
I'm just jealous of all their sway. I just really
51:19
wish I was dropping call them mister coffee.
51:24
Speaker 3
Exactly because they got all that's what damn you are
51:27
a dry as call me Alexandra Curig.
51:35
Speaker 2
Court s wish't he's hit like a drunk Disney character.
51:47
Speaker 1
He also wrote a twenty nineteen novel called War Story,
51:50
which terrible art on the front that I look appears
51:54
to be his own.
51:55
Speaker 2
Did I miss the part where you said the gallery
51:56
said it looked like Baski Yats work.
51:58
Speaker 1
Yeah, yeah, I just thought that was going to like
52:01
actually kill some people, so I din't want to. But
52:04
the gallery owner compared his work to that of Bosquiocht
52:07
in terms of his materials and arresting imagery.
52:10
Speaker 3
Jesus, why would somebody say that this is so fucking
52:14
viscerally upsetting.
52:16
Speaker 1
It's at best it can be. It's like a poor
52:19
man's mister brainwash. It's just like, you know, somebody appropriating
52:24
one image, mashing it up with another and being which
52:27
is wild, because that's down and that is not all.
52:31
It's not even like this person must not know what
52:34
Basquiot there was, like fucking poetry and like all kinds
52:38
of shit and the message.
52:39
Speaker 3
Medical revolutionary statements and pulling in history.
52:44
Speaker 2
And but this guy understands. This guy understands blackness. I
52:49
think just like Basquiat did. Probably the gallery the gallery.
52:53
Speaker 3
Owners probably sounds bisquick.
52:55
Speaker 2
Yeah, he's like, oh, it's very much like Basqueiot totally.
52:59
Speaker 3
The gallery, by the way, that I'm actually Ovaltine inspired
53:03
a painting. I love his work.
53:05
Speaker 1
The painting that looks like nine thousand things you could
53:08
find on fucking like any of those public art sites
53:12
where they're like, turn your art into a poster is
53:16
being sold for ninety thousand dollars. And he's like kind
53:19
of an art nepo, like his mom as an artist,
53:23
and so I think, like, this is his way into
53:25
these galleries and shit like she must.
53:27
Speaker 2
Be so also, wait, when did you see this gallery? Show?
53:31
Speaker 1
Was guarantee?
53:33
Speaker 2
What what you when twenty twenty you said yeah, someone no,
53:37
But I'm just like because I'm like, this isn't an
53:40
original idea. And then in twenty eighteen, someone posted a
53:44
she Givara image with AOC like but photo realistic, and
53:48
I'm like, dude, this guy's just fucking ripping off.
53:50
Speaker 3
Like it's even worse to be the fuck Jerry of
53:54
painting when you're already are not.
53:57
Speaker 1
Jesus, I do want to get to his novel.
54:00
Speaker 2
Yeah, let's play war games his novel.
54:03
Speaker 1
And so he says that his novel is eighty percent autobiographical.
54:08
And I'm going to let you guys decide which parts
54:10
you think are real and which parts aren't okay, So
54:14
like the stuff that is, you know, demonstrably autobiographical, is
54:19
like the The novel follows a DC area resident, a
54:23
cigar smoker, and the son of an artist who taught
54:26
him to paint from a young age. His name is Steerforth,
54:30
and he goes to war not because he has to
54:32
or because he's especially committed to the cause, but because
54:34
he's dreamed of the adventure of war since childhood. So
54:38
he just basically looks fun is his reason for going
54:41
to war. He's constantly being complimented on his amazing paintings,
54:46
especially by very young women, including his female students, and
54:50
he's constantly like, fucking you know, college age women as
54:54
a teacher, Oh sweetie.
54:55
Speaker 3
Your mommy and daddy didn't like your art.
54:58
Speaker 2
I like your paintings.
55:00
Speaker 1
That cigar smell makes me think of my papa is
55:03
one of the what one of the girls says before
55:06
kissing him on the cheek.
55:08
Speaker 3
And before she fucking kills herself because that's not real.
55:11
Speaker 2
Holy shit.
55:13
Speaker 1
All the women in the back find him quote irresistibly charming.
55:17
A reporter who visits a rock and questions how a
55:19
man who's obviously not gay and seems to have melted
55:23
and seems to have quote melted more than one heart,
55:26
with those blue eyes, that crooked grin, and that practiced
55:29
southern draw. Practice southern draw could be.
55:32
Speaker 3
Saying do you think that's sexy? At crossing his own accent?
55:38
Speaker 2
Why would that not?
55:39
Speaker 1
Serial killer? Ship?
55:41
Speaker 2
Is that big broken arm? Yeah?
55:46
Speaker 7
And then the talented mister why are you practice? I
55:53
love his performative neck brace that he wears, Like, what
55:57
the fuck are they saying?
56:00
Speaker 1
Later, she brushes over the possible war crimes she saw
56:03
committed on Steerforth's watch. I wonder which part of that
56:07
is that he got away on or the hot woman
56:11
who was like, God damn, how are you single?
56:15
Speaker 3
Jesus the boss to write a warst story where you
56:18
are like, I'm really excited to go to war for
56:21
the adventure, and then at the end the like moral
56:24
isn't that? Like, oh, war is terrible? I thought it
56:27
was going to be an adventure, but in fact, now
56:29
I've been so fucked Yeah. If that is not the
56:32
book you're writing, I do not understand how you're.
56:35
Speaker 1
Like the moral of the story is like and it
56:39
was actually pretty tight and like we did some fucked
56:42
up shit and got away with it because I'm hot.
56:44
Speaker 2
But I smoked the cigar and had sex with college students.
56:48
Bread the idea of.
56:50
Speaker 1
Somebody still think is cool to smoke the guard I
56:52
don't know. I guess maybe it's coming back. That's the generator. No,
56:55
that's that generation.
56:57
Speaker 2
They're weird like that, or I mean he's not young
57:00
enough because like the Tate Brothers are big fucking stogy
57:03
smokers too. But again they're still they're doing they're LARPing
57:06
as like fucking boomer men.
57:08
Speaker 3
So you know, well, I think it's like that's what
57:10
they think rich people do.
57:11
Speaker 4
You know.
57:12
Speaker 1
It's a war story, but it's also a love story.
57:16
He has a girlfriend who is a quote Mongolian born
57:19
college student who loves his paintings. The book describes her
57:24
as thin, with nice hips and a round bottom.
57:28
Speaker 2
It's a good writer. Guy's a good writer.
57:31
Speaker 1
She lives in an apartment building full of immigrants and
57:34
works in a hat job.
57:37
Speaker 3
Okay, yeah, I feel like he really knows the common man.
57:40
Speaker 2
Yeah. I feel like he's probably stalking this Mongolian born
57:44
college student that might be based on something real.
57:46
Speaker 3
She's probably said a million times I am not Mongolian. Yeah, okay,
57:51
I've told you I'm Filipino. Stop fucking calling me.
57:55
Speaker 2
I just work at the Mongolian barbecue place you come
57:58
after lunch every day.
58:00
Speaker 3
I am white.
58:02
Speaker 2
She's Mongolian born and a college student with hips and
58:06
a round bottom around.
58:09
Speaker 1
He buys her ice cream, smokes cigars, and says things
58:12
like this waterfront reminds me of summer and painting. Holy
58:17
sh it's just yeah, like you can see that he
58:21
wants to have an artistic soul.
58:23
Speaker 3
He wants to have a personality, and he doesn't, and
58:26
it is sad.
58:27
Speaker 1
This water front reminds me of painting, which is an
58:31
artistic thing you can do. Jesus Christ and now sends
58:35
a good portion of the book sexualizing female marines and
58:38
complaining about them being in the military in the first place.
58:41
So great, that seems like probably what he's actually doing.
58:46
Speaker 3
Am I supposed to kill strangers with someone with a
58:49
round bottom nearby?
58:50
Speaker 2
Am I right? My dog's up top? That's just written
58:54
in the book. Yeah, yeah, who's that up top for?
59:01
Speaker 1
Up top?
59:03
Speaker 2
Okay, crookeds.
59:05
Speaker 1
Anyways, it seems like a hell of a book. Go
59:08
check it out or fia. Such a pleasure having you.
59:11
Speaker 3
I love you, guys, Thank you so much for having me.
59:13
Speaker 1
Where can people find you? Follow you, hear you all
59:17
that good stuff.
59:18
Speaker 3
Please listen to my ninety day fiance podcast with Miles
59:22
Gray called four twenty Day Fiance. You don't even have
59:25
to watch the show. Actually a bunch of people don't
59:27
and they still listen and it's funny for them. So yeah,
59:31
and then you can find me on Instagram and whatever
59:35
the Sophia so f I y a and you know,
59:39
have a have a great life.
59:41
Speaker 1
You guys.
59:42
Speaker 2
All right? Thanks?
59:43
Speaker 3
Why does it sound like I'm killing myself. I'm just kidding.
59:46
Speaker 1
It's our last day of school before Yeah, you just
59:49
your book?
59:50
Speaker 2
Yeah, and like, but we're about to but where you're
59:51
just graduating junior high and you're like, have a good
59:54
life because I don't know if we're going to the
59:55
same high school next year.
59:57
Speaker 3
It's so true that I'm all dramatic. When I walk away,
1:00:00
I'm like, is anybody going to turn around? And I'm
1:00:02
checking to see if you turned around, and I'm turning
1:00:04
around but it's like at the wrong time.
1:00:06
Speaker 2
And it's like, oh no, sorry, I don't know. My
1:00:08
parents might move to San jose, I might go to
1:00:10
a different school. I don't know.
1:00:13
Speaker 1
Stay cool if they do. Anyways, I'm serious, you better
1:00:17
fucking stay cool.
1:00:18
Speaker 2
Never change.
1:00:19
Speaker 3
Okay, you're a cutie. I envy you.
1:00:21
Speaker 1
Remember that you? Oh god, I really did take a
1:00:25
never change and uh, you're a cutie. I would be like, God,
1:00:28
do they like me? I think they love me?
1:00:33
Speaker 2
They said they wanted to see me this summer. Stay
1:00:36
Where was all this energy all year? Katie? Dang, Katie,
1:00:42
you right like you talk? That's my favorite Simpsons one.
1:00:50
It's like he talks.
1:00:53
Speaker 1
Is there a work of media that you've been enjoying?
1:00:57
Speaker 3
Yes, so this is a Reddit post I saw, so
1:00:59
you can't really really enjoy it by clicking on it,
1:01:02
so enjoy it for my mouth. And basically it was
1:01:05
a thread where people were talking about what to do
1:01:08
and where they're escaping to if shit gets really bad
1:01:11
under Trump. And a Scottish person posted and said, hey,
1:01:16
if anybody needs to marry somebody for you know, to escape,
1:01:23
I am available. We can do a two year you know,
1:01:26
limited marriage whatever. And people were like, that's so nice
1:01:30
that you would offer that, and this other person replied
1:01:34
and said, this is extra nice for me because I'm
1:01:38
a autistic. I'm a black autistic disabled woman. And then
1:01:45
the person the original poster replied and said, oh my god,
1:01:49
I am also. I am also a black autistic and
1:01:56
I was like, this is the most beautiful meeting of mind.
1:01:59
Speaker 2
Wow. This is the Scottish person too.
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Speaker 3
The Scottish person was like, yes, I am also exactly you. Wow,
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I'm a black disabled stick woman.
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Speaker 2
That also sounds like some Reddit shit where people just
1:02:13
be claiming that shit so they could get away with
1:02:15
saying all kinds of stuff, you know, because fu ai
1:02:18
people are on there faking to be black people all
1:02:20
the time. But I do like to wish.
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Speaker 1
I hope that's sincere and it was a real connection
1:02:24
your heart.
1:02:24
Speaker 3
I just want to say that that is a fucking
1:02:26
sitcom that I want to watch because yes.
1:02:30
Speaker 2
Escaping, escaping and finding each other through Reddit so cute.
1:02:35
Speaker 3
That's it.
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Speaker 1
Miles where we'll find you as their work media you've
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been enjoying.
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Speaker 2
Yeah at Miles of Gray everywhere. Basketball talk, check out
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Myles and Jack im d Mens. You're talking to Megan
1:02:45
Gaily this week, probably the most famous Pacers fan.
1:02:49
Speaker 3
I's so fun.
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Speaker 2
Yeah, and look she is in heaven right now with
1:02:53
her pacers in the finals. So yes, just just just
1:02:57
fucking tune in for that one. Obviously, tune into Alexandra
1:03:01
and I a work at media, Like, uh, you know,
1:03:05
as a parent of a little toddler, there's a lot
1:03:07
of Miss Rachel being played.
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Speaker 5
Uh.
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Speaker 2
She just had a potty training episode that dropped. She
1:03:12
was a fucking banger. A lot of poop do, a
1:03:14
lot of farting do so many farting jokes in there.
1:03:17
Speaker 3
I was like, hell, yeah, when you're child, farting jokes
1:03:19
are like everything.
1:03:21
Speaker 2
Yeah, because about honestly, and it's like, oh, do animals poop? Yeah?
1:03:24
Speaker 3
Poop do?
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Speaker 1
Do?
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Speaker 2
Does do? Do our parents poop? And it's like yeah,
1:03:30
it's like all these fart sounds. But anyway, on top
1:03:33
of that, she's also gotten a lot of shit because
1:03:35
she's been very vocally a supporter of Palestinian people, especially
1:03:39
what's happening to children, and a lot of people like
1:03:41
how dare you? You should stay out of this, and
1:03:43
she's been like, yo, I'm sorry, I'm I'm about the kids.
1:03:46
This is what she posted on threads two days ago
1:03:48
from Miss Rachel for little quote what people don't understand
1:03:51
is that my career and reputation will never matter to
1:03:53
me as much as standing up for kids. What people
1:03:55
don't understand is that no amount of cruel name calling
1:03:58
or false accusations will stop me from standing up for kids.
1:04:01
Well people don't understand is that I will risk my
1:04:03
career over and over to stand up for kids. Well
1:04:06
people don't understand is that that's why I miss Rachel.
1:04:10
The kids brought me here. I was like, God, damn
1:04:16
yes exactly.
1:04:18
Speaker 3
Second of all, one of the things for the show
1:04:22
is like things you want to promote. I want to
1:04:24
promote Jewish Voice for Peace because it is really really important.
1:04:31
I mean obviously for everybody, but I think Jewish people
1:04:34
have a hard time because a lot of anti Semitism
1:04:37
creeps in. But we have to just keep focused on
1:04:40
what matters. And that is exactly what Megan was talking about,
1:04:43
and it's dead and starving children and just people in general.
1:04:47
So Jewish Voice for Peace if you are a Jewish
1:04:50
person who is struggling and wants to help, and yeah.
1:04:54
Speaker 1
Hell yeah, you can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore,
1:04:58
Brian on Blisky at jack Obe number one. I enjoyed
1:05:01
this tweet from a non FPA tweeted in turn attended
1:05:06
as first town hall today and I found this sitting
1:05:08
on his desk after It's just like one of those
1:05:11
like legal notepad things, and it says efficiency misspelled culture,
1:05:18
invest in people training.
1:05:24
Speaker 3
I can see it on a giant banner.
1:05:26
Speaker 1
Yeah, it's just been so many empty, empty meetings like
1:05:32
that emptiness. So I guess we gotta like invest in
1:05:35
people or.
1:05:36
Speaker 3
Something here gains sounds crazy, I don't know.
1:05:39
Speaker 1
You can find us on Twitter and Blue Sky at
1:05:42
Daily Zeigeist. We're at the Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. You
1:05:45
can go to the description of this episode wherever you're
1:05:48
listening to it, and there you will find the footnote nope,
1:05:51
which is where we link off to the information that
1:05:53
we talked about in today's episode. We also link off
1:05:55
to a song that we think you might enjoy, Myles,
1:05:58
is there a song that you think people might enjoy? Yeah?
1:06:02
Speaker 2
I just want to go out on a track from
1:06:05
an LA artist, Georgia Ann Muldreau, like multi genre, just
1:06:10
super creative artists, I think super dope. This track is
1:06:13
called Wu punk w U p U n K, and
1:06:17
it's just a groover, you know, instrumental groover, but just
1:06:19
to get into Georgia A. Muldrow's other work is a
1:06:23
fantastic artist, all right.
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Speaker 1
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Speaker 2
Then bye bye.
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Speaker 3
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Speaker 2
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