Weekly Zeitgeist 269 (Best of 4/3/23-4/7/23)

not only is this like this fantastic person. Not only they well what a media critic they're out here educating, they're also a fantastic writer on their grind right now in Holly Weird, trying to get it done, which again, I believe this is going to happen, And if you know this person, you know they are gonna make it happen. But without further ado, please allow me to welcome to the Microphone Doctor John Paul. I was also very happy when I saw all the bilinated folks on the screen

the next day. What a day, A mighty good day. Yes, also the host obviously Black Fat Film as well, Yes, our sister show. Yes, Yes, how are you? How are you, doctor John. You know, I'm doing quite well. You know, it's it's been a I'll say, it's already April and I'm looking up and I'm going may I mean, March was like I gotta go, I don't even remember. And one day in March two that's like it literally zipped by. So I'm like, God, it's already April seven. But I'm

feeling good. You know, we've been we've been doing really good over here in the the black fat film world as well as in my own life and world. Things have been all right. So everything's good. Beautify, it's a beaut thing. What's it like? You know? I know what what kind of what kind of pitches you got going right now? What kind of pitches? You know? So I said this last time I was on the show, and I'm gonna say it again. Hire me, you know, I am I. There have been some really cool things that

have have been moving. I have something that's actually getting ready to come up that I can announce right now. You know, NBA's is something else. When you live in a world love, you know, they tell you this great thing happened, but you gotta shut your mouth about it. You're like, no, forever, forever, forever. Let me ask you something, Doctor John. Can I cannot call you doctor John? You sure can do. Let's be real. Let's be real when we have NDA's, because you know, we are familiar with

NDAs on average? How many people you break that in DA for? I break the NDA for the people that's in my immediate circle. Obviously my husband's gonna know about it. Yeah, because again it's real hard to do anything without my husband being like, what's happening. So usually now you've been going for a week, right, what are you doing? Who are you doing? Right? You gotta break the NDA for your family. Usually my mom WAI will know. My mom will be the second or third person I call outside

of my manager. But you know, when it's are coming down to friends, I have friends who are like, oh god, what are you up to? I'm like, I'm not telling you nothing because you can't need to keep a secret. So no, and let's be clear, and let's be clear, this is hypothetical. You haven't broke any indy, you haven't even tell no for anybody who listening, yes is a hypothetical. This is actually this is an improv comedy scene. We

just yeah that was the one suggestion was Na, that's all. Yeah, that's but you know overall that that's been, that's been a part of the world. And then you know, I want some awards for script recently actually placed finalists with Series Fast. You know, I've gotten awards with Crown and Seen Play and also the Santa Barbara. There are a few other ones that I'm waiting to come through to

see if I want or not. But it's really cool just to see people actually paying attention to the shit I you know that I have to say, and I right, So it's really cool. Part of me was like I made a mistake asking them what was going on? What the fun I got going on? No, No, I'm good, We're not starting this episode off too. I go like, man, I'm down on myself. And then the two right, hey, listen, you know how you know how the Melonati folks do, will we'd be like mash and I'm just trying to

be like you. That's always trying to be like you. Bro all trying to be like each other. And what better three people to try and be like than us. Right now, Nick, gotta ask you as a guest on this show, what is something from your search history. That's revealing something about who you are, what you're into right now. Oh gosh, you know what. The first thing that came to mind was that, do you know you can't drive from you know you can't drive? You know you can't

drive not I've been watching it, buddy. You gotta use your turns and you get a license to turn, to use your hands and they're not all teslas. It has to say tesla on it for you was his hands free, let go and let elon, Let go and let elon. That's what I would say. That's funny. It's a video of like here's somebody slipping. I'll drive and here's the worst part. It was a ford Field stuff. Yeah, but

you can't drive from North America down to Argentina. I just found this out and I was looking at my search history, said that was a thing I just looked up. There's a there is a region at like the smallest skinniest part that connects like I think maybe like Columbia to Ecuador maybe, and there's just no road there. I think there's something called the Interstate of America. Is that just kind of stops and it gets too hilly and too junglely and everything. I was just like I never

I never knew that. I just assumed you could drive everywhere, Yeah, because I know people that have driven like all the way up here from like Central America and things like that, and I can. But you're saying that there there just comes a point where you're like a man, like what would you do, Like there's just no travel at that point, Like I guess there has to be a fairy situation.

I would assume, but it's there's no road anymore. Like no, they were because I was watching some video of like some of the Migraine and you know, like that come from deep South America, and they say that when they get to that point, there's no road for them to even like walk alongside. They have to carry all their crap across like these rivers and these hills, and it's

just like this really dangerous. It's too dangerous for workers to even work there because they get you know, bitten with mosquitoes and the heat and then just like dangerous for them. So everyone just like I don't know, figure it out, fly down there. Maybe they don't want to

connect with each other. There's some probably there's some states in our in America that probably would rather if Florida couldn't connect to them, you know, like but no knock on Orlando, Okay, but you know, I just thought that was interesting, and then I don't know what, for some reason, the first thing that pops into my head is just like someday someone's gonna tell me they drove all the way down to Argentina. I'm gonna be able to call

them out on it. I don't know why that's the all my information I get is to call somebody out on it that wait wait, so wait, yeah, what was the like your mental path to be like hold on either to the bottom of this, Like I've been trying to forget what's going on with South America for a while. I don't know. I kind of don't know why we don't help them out more as much as we help,

like other countries help. Yeah, we helped ourselves to like them, but yeah, we helped ourselves to like fruit, you know what I mean, where like Dole came in like you need help, yeah, and that we'll like we'll fuck up anybody who's talking about sharing the profits of your Yeah, you know, I mean it even goes like I mean it's that it's even like even even earlier than that, they just like Europeans came in and just like just stole all their wealth and and tore down They're like,

you know there's structures of you know, these like massive civilizations. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and it's just they've been kind of like screwed ever since. And I'm just sort of, you know, it just feels like these people down there's a lot of people down there that need help. That's why they're like, you know, taking That's where they're taking the chance across these like places with no roads that that that nobody wants to.

Civilizition doesn't want to go to. And it's like, I don't know, I've just been kind of fascinated that I don't hear this discussed more about, well how it got to be to that point. It's, well, it's the same way why a lot of people don't want kids learning about the civil rights movement and things like that. It's like if they knew what we fucking did, they'd be

like that fucked up nightmare. So better than some money, do you racialize the Rosa Park story for God's sake so the kids figure it out, which is their solution much in the same way. Like for all this hand ringing about MS thirteen, it's like, why don't you read a fucking article about the US interventions in El Salvador and you'll understand that we're the reason there's MS thirteen And they're like, whoa, the boomerang has come back. But hey,

that's for another show. Check out Behind the Bastards, where you know Robert will be talking about all that kind of stuff. It's a great episode of money. Yeah are you did you do one of them? Yeah? Yeah, we talked about US militarization in Central America War two. Great. Yeah, google School of the Americas and you'll realize we had a really cool way to train people up on being like, oh yeah, y'all want to learn how to murder people that are like we should share the money? Yeah, have

a TV. Yeah, they're like they're fucking socialist, man. This is how we're fighting the Cold War with this shiit. What's something that you think is overrated? Overrated? Um, I'm gonna go with Golden Retrievers. I was just I was just in uh Idle Wild. Huh Idle Wild is a place that um, I guess because it's like an unincorporated like city or whatever. Anyway, their mayor is a golden retriever. It's one of the really up up of the mountains. Yeah,

mountain town heard about this a long time again. Yeah, mayor Max, who is extremely cute, don't get me wrong. Had nothing to do with his cuteness. Yeah yeah, I mean he's a cropt politician and of course yeah exactly is a capitalist. Yeah yeah, yeah, even more than any It's not so much that they're they're corrupt, it's that the price is so low for like for some milk bones. You can fuck in your chain, exactly. Police presence on your street, it's a nightmare. Um No, it's just that.

Like so, but ittlewhild is like one of those like mountain towns. There's like, you know, cabins and fucking you know whatever, like like wine stores and maybe not I don't know, I don't ski, but probably not skiing, actually, I don't think. It's just one of those like you can go fucking hang out. The local economy seems to mostly be based on people doing mushrooms, because like every other shot has like mushrooms on the t shirts that

they sell, like on the doorway. It's like, yeah, like ask me about my friend is still like a lot of mushrooms. So it was really fun. But one of the things they have is that like I guess two pm, presumably every day, maybe just every weekend. I don't really know. Um, I don't know. Probably during the week he's hard at work, you know, growing out legislation for the good people of Idlewild. You can go meet you can wait in line and

meet mayor Max. However, idle Wild is one of those towns because it's again like kind of a hippie dish mountain town. There are dogs fucking everywhere and who you know, just like people, people just everyone has their like cute ass dogs. It's wonderful, right, and like the idea like people waiting in line to see Golden Retrievers when there are literally like dozens of cute dogs everywhere you look is some shit that is like fucking ridiculous. Wait, so

are the dogs just roaming free? Like you know, like you're in like Kingston or something like what are we talking about? People have dogs out? Yeah, Yeah, it's just it's it's a cute. Literally, I took it literally, like, wait, there's just dogs fucking everywhere. No no, no, no, no no, sorry. But what what I mean is there's just like, right flavor of cute dog of any size is everywhere, and so the idea that like a golden Retriever, let's be let's be honest. They kind of like, you know, the

sis white Man. Yeah, it's like the boringest acis dog no offense to mayor Max who wow? You know, I like, yeah, the deference you've paid to the office of mayor. But yes, yeah, exactly. You know what I'm just saying, My Chihuahua is just going to beat the beat the brakes off mayor meat

from November. And this is this is my opportunity to god, can we run your Oh my god, this is another Can we run an insurgent campaign to get your dog to be the mayor dal You know what I think the key is to get my dog to be the DA of Ottawhile the takedown maya Wow, wow, wow, wow, power building power I have. I look all the time at my old tool set of lobbyist muckraking and fuckery

tools and how they're going dull. So I'm like, please give me something I can bring this motherfucker Max down with one print ad, one robot call and if we have budget a thirty second video spot we could. Yeah. And this day of of you know, digital marketing. I just think there's so many, so many viral options. I think a ground swell. Yeah, we exploit AI where they're like, wow, Mayor Max is dressed as a fucking Nazi okay in his off time, and he's anti mushroom Okay. Yeah, a

lot of German shepherds and Mayor Max's history. What's up with that? What's what's up? I don't know. I'm just saying it's interesting. It's an interesting choice. I wouldn't have made that choice. Yeah, personally if these dogs could talk, so yeah, fuck not fuck Olden Retrievers, but overrate I think we can agree overrate. Yeah, the Golden Retriever was like the dog of the eighties and nineties. Yeah, you know what I mean. Everyone fucking hounds like the gold standard.

I remember, like in class before I had a dog, and people are like, and I have a Golden Retriever, and heads like I have a Golden Retriever. I have a Golden Retriever And I was like, what the fuck is this? Yeah, hugenic shit man. We had a town that has all these like Golden Retrievers. Something's up. Well, it's a Golden Retriever to resident ratio. That's what we need to know. You know, Golden retriever specifically very small because they're the ruling class. It's like the one percent.

Mayor Max is the one percent. Wow, I saw the cutest thing. I saw a very fat I'm some kind of mud, but it looked like Chihuaha size book like curly poodle haraple, with like no fur on its tail at all, like a little rat tail sticking out. It was. It looked like it looked like a Wallace and Groment cheep. Right. It was like the cretest thing I've ever seen. And he was just rooting around in the snow bank while Mayor Max was getting cat and photo ops, and I

was like, this is something's up? Then have you seen Do you know who Mayor Max's father is? That Labrador retriever? Yeah, he likes it, he likes he likes the hide where he comes from, Mayor Max. You know what I mean? His father's brown. What is something you think is underrated? Artist? Thank you so much for asking. I feel like being a good party host is underrated, Like there's it. I

take throwing a party SERI. I'll say this before you before you go, I will I will underscore underlying cloth sign. I think anybody who has been to Arden's house for a party will say, yeah, you don't fuck around when you when you host a party. So I will give you that on it right now. I say yes, I agree with wherever you're going. I just want to let the audience slow. This is not a lie. I throw a kick gass party. M she does. I throw one a year. Here's the thing. I actually had a therapist

back in the day who helped me. She was like, look, bitch, nobody at the end of the day. You got to be a relaxed host. So the second the first guest shows up, you're done. And you've got to be a guest at your own party and just trust that people are adults and that so I literally, I also don't believe to me, I don't. I'm not a bartender gal. I like an elegant, elevated house party. I put out

all the alcohol anybody could want. So whether you're sober and trying to hide that you're sober, you mean you want to make a little like at like you know, a little sults or water with some bitters or whatever. Or if you're like I'm gonna drink all of the alcohol in most ailing, I don't care, but I don't give a shit building you. Yeah, and then you have some great tacos that'll always you gotta have a great snack. Oh guisados. Yeah, let's not be let's not funk around.

I know. I'm like, man, I'm here for the guisatos guisados. Then I also have to say, it's got to look gorgeous. And again it can even just be from Trader Joe's flowers. Most of my flowers, like make it look beautiful. Hide anything you don't want stolen or broken. You hide it, and then after that break or steal whatever you want in my house. I can't. I don't care. If okay, good, you know, I'll be like, okay, if it's not hidden, don't care. Literally happen. You got a nice TV already,

nice TV. I literally don't give a shit. Take it if it's nuts, if it's nut, walked away with the cats. Take I don't give a shit. There you need a little area, so like we got some shy guys, they can go. Like I put a little smoker section outside. I like, I will leave like cigarette, don't give a shit who wants to smoke everything. Don't judge them through in the smoke section, you know. And then I hire a DJ and I clear out my living room. And

you don't have to do this. There's different things to find. You gotta everybody needs an activity. But also let the shy people go hide in the corner if they want, Like if your guests alone, they're adults, they can do whatever they want and just let them have at it. And like I always say an end time, even though it's not really and end time, but I say it to make people actually feel like they gotta come, you

know what I mean. It's like, okay, it ends, really ends it like too, I say like seven to eleven, so that people actually show up by l ten thirty right right, right, let go. I love these tips. Yeah, as someone who had a wedding in the last year, that was the best advice I got because I'm very much like a people pleaser type personality, and they were like I was like, man, I'm so fucking stress. And I remember, like my cousin in law whatever was like, man, you gotta like you can need to be a guest

at this ship. Don't be like you need to stop being a host. You need to be a guest right now. And that little sentence completely flip the switch in my brain and I was basically out of my wedding suit and in a you know, shorts in a jersey within ten minutes. Because I love it. Because it's also like if you're so worried about because I get so anxious if somebody doesn't know someone, like are they going to be okay? And just trusting that Like they're adults, they've

all been to parties. There's enough little things that they can keep up moving and like, you know, I tryed to have assholes on my life, so like anybody they talk to is gonna be fun and cool. Absolutely. Yeah, you know you're taking care of love Mardon Marine's house. Yeah, there's my underrated thing. I love a party. You don't have to do it a lot, but like just leave your guests alone. And also you know it's going late

because she is a motherfucking night owl. Thank you for Oh, by the way, I also leave flowers for all my neighbors in a note, and I warn them in advance it's gonna be loud, and I kind of free, I sort of I did. I'm like, I don't leave my number for them to like text me to shut it up, but I leave them like a again just Trader Joe's like, Roses, it's six bucks. Yeah, I like, hey, but here, yeah yeah, ri ip to your sense of inquility, but your other

flowers just so you know, please don't bother me. All right, let's take a quick break and we'll be right back to talk about some news right after this, and we're back Trump anxiety, thirty four counts, world excited. Now. We don't know if it's exactly thirty four counts. I don't think it's been unsealed, but that's what sources who know have been leaking that number. That is three four counts right now. And the day has finally come, the one

that apparently, like Trump thought would never come. But hey, here we are. So this is in connection, This is in New York, This in connection with the Stormy Daniels hush money case. And you should be noted this is by far the weakest case against Trump right now in terms of like the severity of charges and how defensable the charges are. So before you start, you know, popping off and shit like that, just know this isn't done

and dusted. So I'm gonna go ahead and say this, this won't be the thing that puts Trump in jail, if at all. And I only say that because I'm only looking at the strength of history behind it, where keep criminalized presidents just don't fucking criminal. Powerful people just

do not typically see justice. But there's also something I was hearing from some like legal people were saying that because he has a lifelong Secret Service protection from being a former president, that that could complicate like the form

of confinement that he would have to go under. So it's like, I don't know if like he's gonna have secret Service with him like in the yard, like in the pen or anything like that, or if it's something like they said, more likely to be like house arrest and like the Secret Service acts as his you know, jailers or whatever. Anyone's like white house arrest could yeah, oh I know, I know. So he look he's doing ah, you know, he's right now, He's just he's standing by

and stand standing back. But again we will see what happens in that very specific way. However, it is good to see that we are seeing an actual fucking indictment because this is a first. But I'll tell you this. What will happen is this dude is gonna be arraigned on Tuesday, assuming that he doesn't, you know, become a fugitive, which it sounds like his lawyer said, he's willing to turn himself in, and that's probably the better way to go, unless you're trying to you really think this is a

wild West shit. But I don't feel like he can run that fast, you know what I mean. No, but he'll be the thing is that come and get me and Maga Smurfs assemble and fight the Feds, and I'm like, and then when only like fifteen people show up, he's been like a fuck. But anyway, he is getting arraigned. He is gonna have to go in front of a judge like a fucking normy, and then he's gonna have his prince taken. He's gonna have his little mug shot take in just like a loser, normal ass citizen would

rather than, you know, Orange god boy. So let's talk about the reactions to the indictment, since that's the one thing we can actually look at and talk about. Yes, wait, can I say before we get into this, what you were talking about, how like he is unlikely to actually like go to prison off of this. There's a tweet from twenty sixteen October first from at Bronze Hammer that was like that's been being reposted a lot right now. That's like, well, I'd like to see old Donnie Trump

wriggle his way out of this jam. Trump wriggles his way out of the jam easily. Ah well, nevertheless, that's what it feels like like it's gonna happen. It's like he's gonna find some way even like house arrest. It's gonna be in like what a mansion, you know? Yeah, I mean I don't know exactly. And we'll see even you know, his lawyers right now, and Joe Tacopina is like, oh, these are like they're trying to enforce federal election laws in a New York you know, in a New York

court and blah blah blah. And so we'll see what the defense looks like. But I'd imagine that they feel like they have some kind of case and clearly the jury felt there was enough there to indict him, So we'll go from there. And I think keep in mind too, for all the talk of like this is overblown or whatever, Michael and his ass went to jail in connection with all this shit this is about. So they determined that

his actions were illegal in that case. And if Trump was the one giving the orders, and how the fuck you're gonna act like anyway, I'm sure he'll find a way. This is like OJ being caught for the Jerseys, you know what I mean, We're gonna get him on something. Yeah, like when he kidn or like the guy who had his heisman, didn't he like trying to kidnap that guy or something? Where is that the Jerseys thing? Now? He was trying to steal his like his merch back basically

in Vegas from this dude's hotel. So and you know, to that, to that point, a lot of the people in Trump's camp are saying, like this trial has to be OJ on steroids. I think was the phrase that was used to try and create as much of a spectacle as possible. Oh yeah, So first up, Trump was apparently caught the fuck off guard by this, like he thought it would take weeks for something like this to happen, or didn't even think it might even happen at all,

because you know, viledged ass motherfucker. So once that sort of you know, the shock subsided and someone gave him a few loose Big Max, he basically hopped on the phone and began his quote unquote defense, which is to basically attack and degrade Alvin Bragg and you know, just the rule of law in general. There is just something they love to evoke so much. So first I want to play this. This is just a little bit of schadenfreude. This is Fox News the second they announced that Donald

Trump was indicted. And just listen closely because you can hear the fucking the gasps. This is so amazing. Huh. This is Fox News announcing that Donald This is like the break the moment they break news to tell you that he's been indicted. Here, we have just gotten word. Former President Donald Trump has been indicted by a grand jury in New York. Trump was under investigation by one more time, we have just gotten word former President Donald

Trump has been indicted by a grand jurk. That is so funny, y'all, dumb motherfucker's really never no, really, he's been held to account. Okay, so we had that. That's how they started things. Soon after, Jesse Waters said that this indictment was a quote disgrace, adding that quote no one wanted this, not even the left wanted this. Bitch, who are you talking to on the left. He's like, there for abolition, which I also support, Yeah, in this very narrow context for him, but yeah, this is again

like this. So we started, like, first, I think it's funny to watch the pundits try and figure out what, like the line they were supposed to tell was, because first, just like, this is unbelievable, and then they started coalescing around sort of this more consistent theme, which we'll get to. But he also was like, he's like, this is actually gonna help Trump and so like their Democrats, the Democrats actually did this because they think it's eat like it'll

make him easier to beat or whatever. I don't know what the fuck they're talking about, but there's some real mind twisting going on. Greg Gutfeld, who has one of the top shows in late night, the Median Extraordinary. Greg Gutfeld, who was still constantly looking for writers in case anyone on this team wants to submit for his show. Oh really, it's always bombing up on like writing opportunities, and I'm like, oh,

I could get such a bag. Well, you know what's funny, his writer's room is fucking up because there were six hours in between when the indictment was announced and when he went to air and he didn't have anything on it. They just went like their main story was whatever the fuck they had already pre written, was pro sports teams having like like Pride nights and the like at the venues. You're like Jurassic Park. They're like, if we don't look it in the eyes, it's not happening. You know. I

think that. I don't know if they're yeah, or they're just like they're just not nimble writers, Like what do we do? What do we say? It's bad? Right? But Gutfeld just kind of went on the only thing he said, He's like, this is actually really good for Trump, you know, because like it basically guarantees his nomination and his mug shot is going to probably be a campaign poster. Oh that's true, you know I could see that happening. Yeah,

But I'm saying at this point, I guess. I mean you have to Actually, you're gonna have to steal the election, you know, pretty hardcore if your whole thing is like, we're only going to appeal to people who think that certain people are above the law in the context of like your political allegiances. But I'm sure it'll circle back to something because the economy's tight, and he'll find some kind of fake populist message to act like. He's like, this actually makes me the most like man of the

people candidate fucking ever. I actually heard his new campaign manager is the Hamburglers, So he's leaning hard into the criminal aspect of it, and the fucking and the two dudes from the Cookie Crisp Was it Cookie Crisp also like Burglar Asses? I think? So, I'm trying to remember, okay, because what was the one that had like two like English cops or whatever. I'm completely fucking misremembering all this anyway,

zeking right in what what cereal am? I'm trying to remember when it was like those two like bobbies that were the loco um Tucker Carlson. Meanwhile, he said this could be the start of the perge. He's like, the rule of law appears to be suspended tonight, not just for Trump, but for anyone who would consider voting for him. This is what it seems to be. It is a political purge that sounds like if Tucker Carlson and Ben

Shapierra had a baby, that's like what you decided. Oh yeah, yeah yeah, I mean Ben is like, well, this is this is absolutely this is absolutely ridiculous. If you have you actually, this should never be happening. And in a country that where that we're supposedly the leaders in democracy, we're not going to really be sitting an example for the other nations like Russia and China that are basically going to make a mockery of everything that's happening here

that sar and my pussy is dry. I'm sorry, Yeah, it's dap. Yeah, I turned it. I turned the lap to DAP on that, but dap it up one time, Ben Shapiro oppression. And then so do you know who fucking Tucker Carlson had on as his guest for this monumental occasion to talk about it. Fucking Adam Corolla. Bro, I can't, I cannot. These days I've got shows with him, it makes sense. Yeah, yeah, he still performs at some clubs that I perform at. Wow. Yeah, it's when I

saw said I was like, yeah, this makes sense. Yeah it was. It made a Kimmel and it made a Corolla. Yeah. I just love how that literally caused like a split and Kimmel went left, he goes right, and here we are. But Adam Carolla he was saying again, he's like, this is all political theater, you know, just to bait more Trump supporters into protesting so they can be arrested. So he's claimed a honeypot operation to get more people caught up. I thought it was Antifa though. So he's saying that

they will commit violence. I mean that's like they're gonna be violent, so you're gonna get you're just trying to trigger them, right right exactly, you know they're gonna be vine. I mean, then that's all they're trying to do. It's political theater for people to just and I And that is obviously a huge concern and we'll talk about that

a little more. But he also claimed that there's like a religious angle to Trump's arrest because the Left is a religion and Trump is Satan, so you gotta get it was very like I think even the audience had trouble following very We didn't all leave our churches and temples as teenagers and argue with our families over thanksgivings for us to be called a religion, fuck you. Hey, we're a bunch of heathens and we stand by that. Yeah.

We don't even say bless you when you sneeze, motherfuckers. Yeah. Yeah, when I hear when I hear someone sneeze, I say, what the fuck? I say, thank science? You know what I mean? Yeah? Yeah, do you that trick to look in the sun to sneeze? No? Does that trigger sneeze for you? I don't do that myself. Oh, if I'm on the edge of his knees, I could look straight up at the sun and it fucking brings it right on out that work. I do that to break to

our Lord and Savior Donald Trump. So because he also looks at the sun, our Lord and Savior Apollo from the Apollo Capital Investment Group. Uh. And so I also want to touch Sean Hannity. Uh. He was also, oh, I should say this. At the end of Tucker Carlson's show, he said some wild shit. He made this off handed comment like under his breath but clearly audible, where he was like, yeah, might not be the best time to

give up your AR fifteen. And can I just say about that too, Like, I mean he's been recently there's been a lot of Tucker Carlson stuff where he's been talking about trans people with R fifteens. Yeah, and then in relation yeah to the natural shooting and all of that, they're now like proposing no guns for trans specifically. Yeah,

so you're admitting their people. Well, I mean it's it's all just fucking cruelty for cruelty's sake, because again, I think the like to get to like the attacks on the LGBTQ community is because the Republicans cannot fucking do battle with anyone at their level. They get smashed out.

So the only people they can go they have to push the Week around because that's the only people they can And I say Week more in the sense of like marginalized or the lack of support from mainstream culture that that's sort of the way that they're eking out their victories because they're taking els in every other arena. They're like, yeah, but I guess what, we just restricted the ability for these people to be happy So that's cool, right, base. Yeah, I just like I don't think that they have an

end game because it's also short term. Like they don't care about the environment, they don't care about like people dying, they don't care about human rights because they all just want, like within their lifetime, for their careers to be extended

and for them to be wealthy. And I'm also like I feel like if they had just become an influencer, like it would be easier, you know what I mean, Like there are other less stressful ways to get the bag, dude, like just starting only fans, like you're like you know what I mean, like already showing your ass on TV do something or with ethics, you know, like we're so fascist. Only fans is one I'm scared of. No, that's those TikTok women who were like doing the housewives bit where

they're like the trad wife thing. Oh yeah, that's like people are like, oh that's like a fetish, you know, And I'm like like fuck yeah, Like get your bag, you know, like get your bag and then just keep your bag there and any political movements don't use it

to buy guns, you know. Yeah. His Trump's little infant son Donnie Junior decided to use some Colombian inspiration fuel to go on his like live stream, and then he just like rattled off a bunch of dictators to make some because like, you know, pull pot Um fucking due Hitler Stalin, You're like what, dude, and he's like and Trump and Trump. This would make them roll over in their graves because they wouldn't believe how authoritarian this place

has come. But meanwhile, pretty much all of the Republicans have fallen into line to come to the defense of their Orange stepfather and using their favorite tools to do so. My buddy anti black racism and his cousin anti semitism, because they are all doing some combination. You're hearing this on Fox NonStop right now. I was up all night with the bait with the Geist child. He was a little fussy. I think he was excited to hear about

the sump shit. So we were just watching the news and I would look, I'm watching Fox like Jesus guist okay of Nazar trends. But they're all doing some combination of dehumanizing language for da Alvin Bragg, which is like he's a thug or he's an animal. Or some shit like that, and then evoking the anti semitism part by and he's a George Soros funded thug the man to completely basically I mean this, I guess do their dog and it's not even a whistle at this point. It's

dog full voice screaming at this point. But yeah, they're just trying to you know, Pitt. They're saying, the black guy and the Jewish guy hate Trump. You see, guys, that's who the enemy is. Yeah, because he's anti black and anti Semitics. That's why they would hate tru Although, hey, I love my blacks, including the two tokens I pay to stand behind me hit every rally. Thanks so much. I will be paying your hair relax her bills you

in voice four and here in Georgia. You know, we've got the one that Fanny Wallace is working right now, and she's a black woman. I just I'm like just thinking about when he gets indited here, yeah, the black woman. Where that's gonna happen, like already because we already know how his his you know, his rage for women of color.

But anyway, Hannity did the smart thing and he had two black guys on his show to go after out, and so I just want to play this moment where he's I don't know who the fuck these these people are, but this one old dude just goes. He's like he gets the crowd going, and then they they pan to a crowd shot. I just want you to watch this whole clip because like there's an audience cheering, but I want you to really pay attention to like the audience. Dude.

It's a very weird moment. I got news Wee every ounce, every second time I have, I'll donate and I'll get news Wee out of Brad. After we defeat this lawsuit, we're to file like some rights lawsuit that gets you for malicious prosecution. Thank you. Oh god, I'm so uncomfortable. Who is this man? Who is this this the enthused? It's such a weird like there are people just like looks like a bunch of like excited white dudes. Yeah exactly,

and then and jk rowling to the side too. But yeah, so again this is just we're seeing them all kind of unify around this message. Alvin Bragg has gone too

far because he's prosecuting people that are committing crimes. Even Ron de santiss As couldn't resist getting self tanner all over his mouth and said that he would not even extradite if the Feds wanted him too, which really isn't a thing, but it sounds provocative, And like so many Republicans right now who are trying to run for president are looking at a moment where you know, you could fucking maybe turn your back, but they have opted out.

And you know, I think it's as if they believe that powerful white guys should be above the law, which is like maybe unifying them, and I mean, they're they're genuine shock. Seems to really indicate as much because they say things like, oh, really for like a for a federal elections thing, that's obscene, Like you're saying that you shouldn't that you can break the law in that instance. It's a very very We're in a very sticky situation.

And all this is not great for people that hope to see like less violent fuckery around Trump's lies, because right now, like Manhattan is being like fortified as they prepare for Trump to turn him turn himself in, and you know, they're already having to like assess like the dozens of threats that are starting to come in, especially against the DA. So it's clear he's trying to do like a January sixth style ramp up of misinformation to

try and inspire some kind of violent confrontation. But where yet to see exactly what kind of appetite there is for this. Like I know Marjorie Taylor Green is trying to start to kick things off. She's like, I'm going down. I'm going to New York to protest. You believe me. I'll be there Tuesday. But I don't know if that's enough time for all the dark money groups to you know, coordinate air travel and buses for their acolytes to be vinolent. You gave us so much information and it was also

valuable in such a great perspective. And what I have to add is that Alvin Bragg is such a Gotham daass name, and I love it. They're shutting down to the island of Manhattan as Alvin Brag after the city's biggest joker. Yeah, the countries right, Yeah, people have said that this is another thing too. You go to like MSNBC.

I was watching all the news channels last night and it was wild how they're all around the clock with it, and some people look so fucking tired because it's like three thirty or four in the morning, and like pundits like, yeah, so we're gonna keep saying the same five things over and over for hours. But one thing that a few people said, like, this is a somber day. You know, this is the first time a former president has been

indicted for crimes. And and I'm like, but every fucking president is a crook and as a basic gass level war crime, like war crimer. So at those people were sad when the queen died. Fuck that. Yeah, right, No, of course they were. It's a somber day for us who believe that ascending to certain offices of power make you superhuman and therefore you can commit like untold transgressions against untold amounts of people. You just know that George Bush is just like having it such a field day

with getting away with his work cryings. He's like, you should have It's like that dude should have painted after he likes finger paintings. Yeah exactly, He's like, hey, you know, I'm just he's probably just he's probably in a field right now, like paint like finger painting. Abu Grave he's like I got away with it too, you know, just like horrors. I know. Yeah, when he signs all of his like paintings with a palm print on the back because he can't write, oh my God, like a little doggie. Yeah,

like your preschool project. You're humanizing him now you have to feel bad and fantaizing him, yeah, fantalizing him to start a little bold weapons of mass distruction. Bind your weapons, God, And what a dark world because like all he can do his laugh at the hopelessness over the like millions

of lives are completely upended by that fucking war. But you know, if there, if you're like a normal, everyday person, this was sort of upsetting, right, Like you will get thrown in jail and even killed by law enforcement for less.

And it's about again. For me, I'm like, it's about fucking time there's some at least demonstration that there can be accountability, although I don't know what level it will get to, so I will save my celebrations when shit actually gets real and we are hearing like guilty verdicts and things like that and see where that goes. But it's again, I'm like, it's with bated breath, I will. I will say though it is heartening. It's nice to

at least see that shit going to this point. Yeah, it's like seeing a cop actually getting indicted or like you know, try well because like all the time you're like, you know exactly, like it's like seeing shit on video and you're like, that is a fucking crime. I don't even I don't that's a crime. And now we're at least again maybe seeing it happen here. But the thing is, he's already he's already got two trials happening this year.

He's about he has two civil trials he's facing. One is a two hundred and fifty million dollars fraud case in New York civil trial, and then Egene Carroll's defamation case around her alleged the rape that she's accusing him of. So the first one, I think, the two hundred fifty million dollar fraud case starts in October and then the defamation case is in April. So Jan is doing more hours than I am this year. That's crazy. He is

booked and busy. Okay, I need his agent, yes, you need his terrible lawyers and aggressive like care you see me doing the Giuliani tour, You're like, what the fuck. Please don't have fake hair though that you sweat out like in the press conference, but if I wiped it off right now, and you were like, what the fuck? No, he was doing drag when he did thought that was rag. Oh yeah, I love that so much. Oh my god,

that's so funny. That was good Southern drac too. Like this even thing about like you know when you talk about accountability for presidents, right, like we let Nixon off the hook, and that that definitely emboldened Reagan to go iran contrat the fuck up and he was like, man,

what the fuck are they gonna do? You know? And now I think we're just we're seeing that momentum carry on to its logical endpoint or not endpoint, but where we are today in the form of Trump, who's only seen these other examples of like, yeah, you can get away with shit, like if you get to this point,

yeah you can, you can fuck around like whatever. So, like I said, it's the weakest case against him when you look at what is being investigated, like you said Carmen in Georgia and what the DOJ is doing with their special counsel. So we'll see, Yeah, what happens and how long it takes for legal jeopardy his legal jeopardy to ramp up exponentially. But that one we got, Yeah, that on tape. That's on tape too. But can you imagine the most tedious jeopardy? You know what I mean? Monotone?

I don't know the laws? Yeah, what is the jurisprudence in regards to bail? I'm just I'm just regurgitating, that's your answer. No, that was like, that was this prompt like a judge in India gave to chat GPT to to figure out if someone deserved bail. Oh really yeah, that WASPD say, like it just arrests ads or what? Yeah? Right, No, it was it just basically it was like looking up Wikipedia. It just sort of like recited the law back to you. I knew the entire legal system was based on Wikipedia.

I knew it. We all had a hunch you don't need a lawyer, you just need chat GPT. Right. Oh, can you imagine chat GPT fucking passed the bar like in the top ten percent? Right, So I think I think it would do a better job than Gwyneth or that other dude's lord, Like, yeah, at least simp over Gwynneth the entire war. I think someone as a it's probably gonna start off as a goof where someone represents themselves at trial with the help of at GPT, and then oh fuck yeah, why do we have to all right,

that's all right, chat GPT, j D to you. Okay, we could ask chat GPT to write us the script for that movie of something using chat GPT. Actually chat GBT wrote this episode. I don't know if you know that, Carmen, Like, everything that's coming out of your voice is chat I written. I'm Chatt. We all are in a way, we all are chat GPT. That's gonna be some fucking dumb ted talk when we're at the precipice of like cultural apocalypse, when they're like, in a way, we are all chat

GPT and we should embrace the fucking darkness. Chat GPT was more about the ai you made along the way,

you know. Fuck all right, let's take a quick break and we'll wrap this wonderful episode out by talking about the whitest trial of the century right after this and we're back and yeah, Ron de Santists, I think is worth talking about too, because he hasn't quite reached the heights of stardom that he did right after the midterms in November, when his poll numbers were sky high and a lot of movers and shakers and the GOP started making googly eyes and being like, I don't know, this

might be the guy, This might be the time. Now, just throttle off, you know, Trump and get onto de Santists, because he knows how to do this stuff well, and

he's smarter and he is all those things. The one thing though, that he just does not have, despite his like you know, quote unquote keen legal eye to be as cool as possible, is that he has no fucking charisma And there's nothing interesting about him except that he wears cowboy boots and like the weirdest times and I'm thinking just because he likes to get a couple inches

off them heels and that's why he does it. But that's like, he really lacks any kind of magnetism outside of his ability to be really cruel through his legislation in the state of Florida. And ever since then, ever since that like mid term moment, it's been a slow slide back down the charts. You know, it came out with a strong single, but the album people just didn't

aren't buying. And He's had moment after moment where Trump would send some you know, shade his way, like trying to smear him, and he would just back down or fucking hide from the media so he didn't have to talk about taking an lso publicly. And so when you see that, you're like, oh, he has no appetite to actually, you know, do battle with Trump in any way that you'd need to eventually if you're really trying to go for this nomination in the Republican side. But I think

we're really beginning to see the limits of this man. Like, you know, if you were a Pokemon card and you flipped him over and you look at the stats, he would have negative one twenty charisma points. His weakness would be standing up for himself, and his special attack would be eats pudding with three fingers. I heard there's an anecdote about how he eats pudding with his bare hands. Yet anyway, that's time me just making up. That's that's

me taking from that rip from the headline. I really enjoy eating with my hands, but putting what what No, No, you like te meat with your bare hands or like get bread dipping stuff, Like there's something very tactile eating with your hands, but not blooding sir girls. You know, I think the Santa's real problem is the fact that he can't straddle the line appropriately to reach both Trump and connects to his pass right. So he went to Yale. You know, whether he earned it or did anything good

while he was there is up in the air. But he went to Yale, which means ear to lead us. You're getting rid of all of these books, but you kind of have all of this past history with Like I've read all of them and love them. It's just I don't think he can do. Look, you you have to go full dumb slash like hostile. Yeah. Yeah, you

have to be so in your corner. Like the reason Trump got to be so successful because he was like, I will literally not hear any argument that isn't my own thought that I'm not going to come to the table or debate you. There's no backing down. So either you have to be Trump essentially and meet him with all of that energy, or you're totally screwed and you're and because you're handering to an already very specific alienated audience.

There's nowhere to go from there. Like, sensible Republicans wherever they are, if they still exist, are not looking at de Santists as an option, right, That's not far enough away from Trump for them. And Trump is still out here working, so they're not. His followers are not looking to replace him. So I don't know what hole the Santist is trying to fill with this craziness, other than you know, failing to try to like take down Disney and making sure kids can't read I guess, and eating

with his three fingers disgusting image. You know what it's from. So it's like this apparently happened four years ago. Is on a private plane from Tallahasse to DC and Twitter on a private plane where they provide you with silverware. I'm sure, sir, it's all as it goes. Is he enjoyed a chocolate pudding dessert by eating it with three of his fingers, according to two sources familiar with the incident. Again, I don't know if it's true, but I love if

this is fake. I love this kind of ship, like be like yo, this guy eats pudding with three fingers, like in front of people who he knows are writing about him. There's a lot of questions to be asked here because it's not like privately with your buddies where you're like, listen, I know it's gross, but this I like it. But maybe that's his like maybe that's his tack to populism like Trump did. He's like, yeah, I mean who doesn't eat, you know, putting with their three fingers.

You know, I'm I'm a regular American. People are like yeah, foxspoons Man, yeah something. It resonates with the toddler demographic. I also love just the idea that that that what's what is happening on private planes where where him and Amy Kloba schar She's eating salad with a comb, he's eaten pudding with three fingers. They're both looking at the Blasio going eating pizza with a fork, going what's what's

this maniac dote over here? Like yeah, yeah, you know, I mean you're and you're right though, it's like an impossible situation. So you know, if Trump comes along and he's the new hit movie and all the other studios trying to make the same movie again right now, and but they don't understand is that you can't You can't

be Trump to Trump. That's like a contradiction of the whole thing you you can't like because if you're Trump to Trump, you alienate the Trump base and you need those people, okay, or you don't be Trump to Trump, and then you're not being Trump at all because Trump

doesn't take exceptions to Trump. So really, the only real viable options I think for a Republican right now is just sort of like kiss the ring of Trump, sort of like support him until he just fades away, and then when he doesn't want to run anymore, get his

blessing and then run. And that's one way to be successful because if you blast him, if you do this like you don't this wavy thing, then you you're either you're losing his base, which you need to like win, you know, or you're just not being him and they don't have they like you're you're not being the Trump that you want you to be. There the option you

can be. And I don't know why I kind of wish Nicki Haley didn't go down the route Nicky Haley could be this person where she's like, I'm not gonna play this Dessanti's Trump game, you know, and I'm just gonna be this like old school Republican where I just am not going in hate and everything. And it feels like even she's like taking a page from this Trump stuff. If any Republican could come out, well, go ahead to your point, and I think it's finishing your thought. Is

they all this is what has happened. They all are in fear of the influence that he has and they have to just sort of like model themselves after. David Frum in The Atlantic sort of puts it this way. He's like, he's like, why are you gonna fucking like buy the tribute band album when you could just buy

the original album? Right, you know what I mean? Like why are you fucking with the tribute band because they're not going to do it as well as him, And that's kind of like this weird position that you're in, right is Like the thing is, I think the only way you can differentiate is to truly differentiate, and like to your point is disagree with him out loud or say shit like yeah, this dude is a mess and

his law breaking is not a good look. But every person that says that ends up getting the fucking buzz saw, and they're like they run away from it very quickly, and the few that stood up to it, they're like, all right, I'm not running for reelection. So it's like almost like do you have the medal to actually attempt to do that, because that would be the only way you could do it. But I don't know if there's enough in like the national conversation on the right there

that everyone is feeling like, yeah, man, that's bad. We do need to move on from him, because people are still talking about January sixth and some corners and things

like that. Yeah, if you have if you're sort of like a more moderate Republican, okay, and you wanted so you're trying to get that like whatever the eight percent of people that are that design every election or whatever, you know, you could basically you're not gonna You're not gonna lose QAnon because Qans, those maggot people there, they their hate for Joe Biden outweighs, you know, their love for Trump or whatever. So if like, if it's between you and anti Trump or and Joe Biden, they're still

gonna vote for the anti Trump Republicans. They hate Joe Biden so much. And I think there's a lot of people in the middle that are undecided, that are tired of all of this, Like you know, descents where the woke goes to die is Florida and Trump the Liberals, they're ruining this county. They're tired of all this hatred. It's over. You know. It's like they've seen all the Marvel movies and they're kind of tired of superhero shit. Right now. They wanted they want something a little bit different.

They loved it for so long, and now they want something a little bit different, and and you're right, no one's no one's gonna do it because they well, yeah, that's what's so funny though, too, Like when you see all the ads of like Republican especially like men, like Republican men running for office, there's like this through line of like, Hey, I'm buck Fuckville and I'm running for congressman.

And guess what I made love to this pile of bullets before the director said action because I'm about your Second Amendment rights. And you know what, I was always told one thing, to never back down from a fight, and that's what I swear to do. I will never back down. From a fight, unless it's with Donald Trump the second he calls my name out, and which is so funny that for all this like posturing of like

I'll never back, that's all they do. And but again I think it's all in service because like the people that it's attracting aren't necessarily thinkers. They're all mimics. And the mimicry is getting to a certain point. And yeah, it's it's hard to know, like, well, you know who ends up on top. But I just do want to play this one clip because it is kind of satisfying.

This is from like Ron to Sand He says like I might be running for president tour where he's also like hawking a book, but he goes to Iowa, very you know, a very strategic place to visit when you're thinking about running for president, and fucking this event was so backwards, like the second he comes on the stage, the stage crew took the like struck the podium from the stage, and then this antist gets all confused because

he's like, my podium, my podium's gone. And then you hear the governor being like he needs his just listen to hell and you will just take in a bit of shot and Freudo for how you know, lackluster. His tour is actually going there they go with the podium. He was about to speak at the lectern. Thank you all right, well they took that? Did you take my podium away from me? Oh Jesus, they took the podium. Well, it's great to be with you from the Free State. I you know, I love Family Guy and this is

one of my favorite episodes of Family Guys. And all right right, I don't y'all right? Where hey, how's everybody doing here? All right, Peter, Peter, we need the podium, bah reis we have the time I became king at Disneyland. So yeah, apparently what's funny too is he was working with an events company that does like a lot of

like the top draw conservative events. They they backed out of their contract with de Santis's campaign because they're like, dude, his They like apparently their belief is his, Like his campaign's a mess, and they don't want people. They don't want people to start associating his fucked up events with their company, like like with that podium thing, and they're like,

you know what, probably better off. We don't like we normally work with like the most vile racist, xenophobes, transphobes, homophobes, all the phobes you can, you know, imagine this is a bridge too far. He's just unprofessional about it. So we will see where he ends up, you know. And you're right too that nobody has seen do Santist talk for a length of time. They get these little sound bites and when you if you're gonna see Santist, if he goes in a debate with Trump, trouble will destroy

him because Trump is a performer. He's done. He's the Don Rickles of the Republican Party and he can just take them all down. And he's not gonna because he has a couple of talking points that he has that he works into stuff. But he's not he's not good on the fought and he sounds like kind of Kermit the Frog a little bit, and and and yeah, just as soon as people like hear him talk, it's it's it's going to be bad. And it kind of reminds me.

The other thing is, I don't know if we're gonna get into the Marjorie Taylor Green thing at all, but I don't know if you have time, but yeah, but go on okay, but but here's here's what they like about the santist, because all you need to do to be a Republican candidate is like one sound bite of you telling somebody to shut up, you know, like you turning around to a press going, hey, how about you shut up? And then people like I like this, and so they they they've seen some sent to scent as.

They like that he'll say shut up. I think he told a kid to put a mask on one time. They loved how we talked to that little you can take it off. He's like, take it off, yes, to a teenager or whatever the kid was, take it off, and they just like they like a guy who's like rude and sort of goes against everything they sort of preached to a very un Christian way to sort of speak to people. But they like that. They like a guy who's like not afraid to tell somebody to shut up.

And so and that's what we want have time to get into Marjorie Taylor Green thing on sixteen minutes. But like, you know that that is why that that is sort of the problem with the Marjorie Taylor Green sixteen Minutes episode is that you know, they they whatever there, there's just they let her talk, and that's fine, you should let her talk. But also, like you know, people liked her because she is the type of person who gets on and tells people to shut up, right, and and

then there go. I like that, but you have to show them. If you don't show the whole breadth of what she does, your misrepresent thing why people are criticizing her. And she's like the perfect example of like what has been going on systemically, I guess for in Congress for forever, which is people come in and like the Santis and margin killer gren and go. Congress is full of bumps. We gotta get rid of the bumps, right, and then they become the bumps, and then who though I'm a

Facebook bump, but I just got the Capitol hill. I'm one of the bumps for Facebook. But we're moving on up folk. Yeah, I mean it's it's it's a merry go round and yeah, it's just Rhonda Santists. Would I hope that you can find uh, you know, the exit tour as quickly as possible, because I'm feeling I mean, we'll see what again, we don't we just don't know what is going to happen. He may have some new

material or or we don't. But oh, to your point, nick, I was gonna say, like, he's not going to be able to go toe to toe with Donald Trump because Donald Trump is like just a bully, you know what I mean. He'll fucking he'll say whatever the fuck he wants to you. Rhonda Santis isn't like that. And if Trump was like, look at you, let everybody you should see his shoes he's wearing right now. How many inches did those add? Ron? But three inches? So what? So

what without them? So with them you're five six? So with them, he's probably about five three. Folks, your boy

right here, look at these, I'm wearing flip flops. These are lattis can be I'm six three, bring the tape measure out, and then Ronda Santis will be like, um I just I just don't think that that's Germaine to this conversation, like you love you said, Jermaine, Okay, it ain't gonna fucking work unless you can come back with like, oh yeah, I was just actually reading the story Stormy Daniel's thing, and you know I heard your favorite character in the our Super Mario world is told stool if

you get what I mean. All Right, anyway, yeah, and then like and then just Santis gets the gamer vote, but anyway, it's just not we just don't know what will happen. All right. That's gonna do it for this week's weekly Zeit. Guys, please like and review the show. If you like the show, U means the world to Miles. He he needs your validation. Folks. I hope you're having a great weekend and I will talk to you Monday. By