Weekly Zeitgeist 366 (Best of 4/7/25-4/11/25)

The weekly round-up of the best moments from DZ's season 383 (4/7/25-4/11/25)

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the
Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from
this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment laugh stravaganza. Yeah, so,
without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Our guest today, Francesca is a very it's a first
time guest. We always like first time guests. You might
know him from his newsletter Garbage Day or his new
podcast Panic World, talking about just you know, all the things,
the conspiracies, the way our minds are distorted through the
Internet and all kinds of things and how how that

(00:46):
manifests in our physical world. Please welcome to the microphone
the very talented Ryan Broadrock.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
Hello.

Speaker 4 (00:53):
I also don't have a song, but I will sing
something for your listeners. Hey what they can DM me
and I'll send them a weird video.

Speaker 5 (01:00):
That's tough time.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Is there a genre that you sort of specialize?

Speaker 4 (01:03):
I mean, you know, like ska music, you know you
can still still sure someone's you know it's coming back
with um I didn't, but with the economy and free fall,
like it's a perfect time for you know dy music.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Let's hell yeah exactly, Let's like use our I feel
like that could be the new street Man because like,
it doesn't require like well, it does require some amps,
but if you get a good horn section out there,
that's all you need that we can be doing Aquabats covers.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
There you go, anti negativity helpt. I'm glad I've already
derailed this podcast by mentioning skot music.

Speaker 6 (01:35):
Let's games, man, It's so embarrassing how much like freshman
year of high school was like, so this is how
you skank? And I was, oh, yeah, we're going to
do that the homecoming dance. Hell, we're all really into
ska and skanking. And I'd like to say that was
my most embarrassing period of my high school years. But

(01:57):
then I got into jam bands, so you know, you
can always go worse.

Speaker 4 (02:01):
That's unfamily worse. Yeah, Finger and Ship Oh. I was
absolutely yeah, yeah, soundtrack let's go.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
I was I was there.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
I was there because look, I played trumpet in band. Okay,
and then at the time, especially when I was in
around eighth grade, aqua Bats was popping off and I
was like, yo, bro get me in there, and I'm
good at horn. I can hit all these horn lines.
Next thing you know, I'm in a band called the
Liptnes because we like lifting icy. Okay, that's so incredibly good. Yeah,

(02:32):
we we did. We almost went to battle the bands
at Cresby High School in the San Fernando Valley, but
we didn't go to Cresby wed Dame all day baby.

Speaker 7 (02:41):
And with that, we like to ask another another hip
hop question. What yees another hip hop question? And asmole? Now,
is that like a blemish? Or is that like a
rodent that lives in me?

Speaker 3 (02:53):
This is this is called the Blake Wexler rap quiz.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
And I like asmole is not a rap lric, but
I it does feel like maybe something that would have
been Wu tang.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
What do you think an ass mole is?

Speaker 7 (03:05):
I would love if it was a well, actually, a
rodent would almost be like leave the roadent alone. It's
just trying to find someplace to live, you know. So
I think it's I think it's a blemish. Yeah, And
I think he is a blummish. He's a blumish on
an ass but he's a he's a boy.

Speaker 5 (03:19):
I mean, not to get super deep into the asshole thing,
but like when we say rodent, are are we saying
that this is a rodent? Like a gerbil who maybe
lives in an ass. Or are we saying it's a
literal mole who is shaped like an ass.

Speaker 7 (03:34):
That's very interesting, right, was it embedded like a mole?
We have a molet?

Speaker 5 (03:44):
Even think about that?

Speaker 4 (03:45):
To me?

Speaker 3 (03:46):
The rap term snitch for me, I thought we were
talking about that. I don't know.

Speaker 7 (03:49):
No, I only know that because snitch Harry Potter bro
I'm a big law enforcement guy, So that's how I
know snitch.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
But why how do you use it?

Speaker 5 (04:00):
He's on a snitch waiting list. Yeah, he's like just
waiting for something to go down. He's like call me please.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
That is I just some wild ass Karen to be like,
you know, I'm actually on a snitch waiting list for
the police.

Speaker 5 (04:15):
I've been waiting. Yeah, it's like stand by what is
like the the nest, like the home like those home
networks where they're like, you know, on their reporting. Blake's
just on there, just waiting for some ship to go down.
He's like number three on the snitch list. I keep
getting skipped. Come on, do you know much?

Speaker 8 (04:31):
So much?

Speaker 3 (04:31):
Shirt? Hell? Yeah?

Speaker 8 (04:34):
Dave over there in the blue House has an ass mole.
No one's asked no one asked him, and no one
asked what it means. Is it a mold that looks
like an ass? Is it a mole on his ass?
Is a mold that buries inside of someone's ass? Is
it a mole that looked like ass?

Speaker 5 (04:47):
It could be any gape.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
And that's why we use obscure insults on this show
before they get dragged up in some kind of AI
content net where they start throwing people in jail for
coming people ass moles? Anyway, what's something from your sch
street that's everything about who you are?

Speaker 5 (05:01):
Oh gosh, I'm gonna be real, real vulnerable here, and
I'm gonna be honest, and it's quite literally. Bad Bunny
c k ads. I think about it a lot. I
didn't know that I was attracted to Bad Bunny in
that way until I saw him naked on a big
and a big billboard, and then things started happening, And so,

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you know, a couple times a week, I'm just just
let's let's see what those look like. And am I
still I'm checking in? Why am I still attracted to
bad Bunny? And evidently I am, like I get it,
like I think he should whatever he ate like he's
thickened up a bit. I like it, he's not overly muscular.
His hair is back and showing those curls again. I

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like the mustache. I like the mischievous look in his eye.
It's really doing it for me.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
Yeah, so your voice, Lydia.

Speaker 9 (05:53):
I know.

Speaker 5 (05:53):
No, I'm telling you, I'm playing it in my head
right now.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
I mean I'm looking at it. I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
and I look like that except.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
Without the hair.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
But I know his tattoo game is wild. But he
got it like this a random ass horse.

Speaker 5 (06:06):
On his chest. Okay, honestly, that's how much I'm not
even looking at the tattoos. I'm like, who cares what?
He has tattoos where no one showed me though.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
I'm always just so into It's like it's always interesting
to me, like when people really cover themselves in tattoos,
like what that vibe is like, because it's it's funny
because you can start You're like, oh, that's cool, and
then you start looking closer and I'm like, what is that?

Speaker 5 (06:26):
Oh? I know, I love looking at shitty tattoos on
people when like they have.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
And he got a rainbow with clouds above his navel butt.
Like it's like the opposite of Tupac's Thug Life tattoo
he had over his belly.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
But it's like this rainbow.

Speaker 5 (06:40):
It's like care Bear stairs. Yeah, but yeah, no, I'm
a yeah, just you're back over here thinking about bout it.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
I'm just at random, like you wake up in a
cold sweat.

Speaker 5 (06:52):
You're like Benito kind of yeah. And I also live
in a state where like you can't look at porn
Hub anymore or anywhere of the big reputable porn sites,
like a big car just comes up and says, hey,
we can't verify your age, so you can't look at
this stuff anymore. So like I'm back at you people.
I mean, sure I could, but that seems like a
lot to go through porn. I'll just bad Like I'll
just google bad money and think.

Speaker 7 (07:14):
It means like thirty seconds, so good, like I can
get it into a Google search.

Speaker 5 (07:20):
I'm good. Yeah, I'm going good. I'm going all the
way back to old school, like I found a fucking J. C.
Penny's catalog under a lady and bras like that. I'm
trying to take it back to like some wholesome, awsome
masturbation material, and I just want to see a dude
in his underwear.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
Just Ryan, this car Ryan at my school, got he
got he was. It was on his way to getting
thrown out. One of the straws that broke the campel's
back is he brought in a shredded up newspaper ad
with the lady like underwear ladies. And this was so
I mean thish. This was nineteen ninety one, okay, And
so he was like like preening out of his pocket,
like look what I brought from home. They were like, oh,

(07:57):
and this Lutheran at school I went to, They snatched
that ship up like he was trying to flavory or something.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
The Civil War.

Speaker 5 (08:04):
I remember dude showing up with like Frederick's of Hollywood
catalogs that like accidentally got delivered to their house. And
it's like, no, accidentally what your mom's a hoe she
has she is turning tricks for your dad. Be happy
you have live in a happy home. Yeah, I'm mom
trying to tell you. I don't know how this got here.
You know how it got there, Karen, you warned that
teal set come on.

Speaker 7 (08:22):
Exactly what set, you know was there's so much porn
in the woods, you know, because I feel like you
couldn't go into the woods without stumbling on porn. And
it's just like I like, so, okay, porn in the woods.

Speaker 3 (08:35):
You look at it and then you put it, like
hide it in the Is it a good hiding spot?

Speaker 5 (08:39):
Honestly, I've always wondered that myself. That's a question I've
had for men for at least twenty nine.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
I think it was like, yeah, it's like so well,
because it was the same thing. Like here, it would
be the La River, like certain parts, like the tonguea
wash in the valley. We will hide shit in the
overpasses and be like, yo, rotors weed over there. There's
a fucking porn magazine over there. Because to have woods
out here in California right now, you don't have a
river either, really, no, you do have a cement block area.

Speaker 5 (09:07):
You would still anytime you did, like you go on
a hike, you go anywhere, like there are some hills,
some foothills, some what you know. I live in San
Jose and like they stumble across that ship in the trustles.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
I feel like maybe it's like the underground railroad for
like men, where they're like you got to leave things
behind for the next visit on their on their journey
of masculinity, so they may look at the same crusty
ass porno in the woods with four other fucking adolescent
kids or some ship.

Speaker 5 (09:31):
What is that? What is this? What is this saying?
Like I'm not a super outdoorsy person, but there's some
like phrase about like leave it has better than you
left it or something like that.

Speaker 7 (09:40):
Like oh yeah, what better way to do that than
with the magazine porn biode grades fast rate.

Speaker 5 (09:48):
Let me just talk this old jugs right here in
this burled wi willow tree and traveler.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
Something to energize you, probably what something you think is underrated?

Speaker 5 (10:02):
Shot?

Speaker 3 (10:03):
Ye got a shot? I under enhance most things.

Speaker 10 (10:07):
Yeah, uh probably it's gonna be a weird one. But
the dentist, okay, under or over that's under two miles
talks right under.

Speaker 3 (10:17):
Yeah, it's like hours, I think it's underrated. Motherfucker.

Speaker 10 (10:24):
I had this moment where I was like, I think
you'd be scared if you had a bad dentist or
because you're still regressing to your childhood.

Speaker 3 (10:33):
But then I thought to myself, I'm just laying here.

Speaker 10 (10:37):
It's almost like a like a massage, like a spot
some massage for my mouth. I'm laying here and two
professionals are leaning over me, cleaning ship I ate out
of my mouth for me yeah, And I was like,

(10:57):
this is kind of like and then if I get pain,
I get to say, hey, that hurt a little, and
then they get to just I was like, this is
kind of like a luxury since since obviously it's not
like I clearly when I think of like people be like,
what era, what other era of time and history would
you want to live in? I'm like, none of them

(11:18):
because of dentistry and medicine. I'm like, ain't no way
in the world I want to live in any other time.
You're telling me my tooth was like rotten. You just
grab some vice grips, yeah, yeah, yeah, pull it out.

Speaker 5 (11:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
Use the thing is your tooth has turned black dude
to satan and now evil is getting and I'm like,
go and we will have to remove it.

Speaker 10 (11:39):
You're like, what, You're just gonna pull it? You mean
to tell me if I get a little cut on
my arm and cut the whole thing off, you just
cut the arm off? Yeah, yo, yo, drink this whiskey.
And bite this piece of wood and I'm gonna saw
your arm off now.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
So they're like, hey, weren't you just looking through a
pile of horseshit behind the right now? Yeah, I thought
I lost my wedding ring. Anyway, I'm ready to do surgery.
I don't have to wash my hands, right, Yeah, totally.
I was like, why would I? Yeah, why would I?
This already has blood on it. Why would I dirty
another one? I already have open swords all over my body?
Why are you asking me about this one sword? Yeah,
like you don't see this one coming. I'm gonna mess

(12:13):
you up if my sword touches your open wound while
I'm doing surgery, if anything might, I should worry about
me getting my sword on myld blood.

Speaker 10 (12:20):
I have sword, I got sore cleaning juice coming out
of my swords, so it could actually help you.

Speaker 11 (12:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (12:26):
Nah, I don't want to leave nowhere else.

Speaker 10 (12:28):
So I'm saying that as somebody who's like the dentistry
even the sound of that drill, that it's not even
as loud anymore.

Speaker 3 (12:36):
I'm yeah, this is great. Put a silence.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
Yeah, They're like, yeah, just over the years, I remember
first in the eighties, like the because there's always some
form of entertainment the eighties is here, hold this cassette
player and put these headphones on. Yeah, I was like
the first version of I'm at the dentist and I'm
listening to like mc hammer or some shit.

Speaker 12 (12:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
Then TVs came in, and then TVs above the seat,
so when you're laying down you can see it. You
can see that ship now, Like it's funny. Last time
I went in there, like do you want to watch them?
I'm like, nah, I kind of like hearing y'all talk
about like whatever, because then it's funny. They have conversations
while they're doing stuff and like yeah chucking, and I'm
like this is cool.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
Yeah. I feel like I'm gonna in.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
There for you a lot, because yeah, they got me
hooked up to machines.

Speaker 3 (13:25):
Yeah, a team. You have a whole team. Yeah yeah.

Speaker 10 (13:29):
Nah is me and this little homie that like so
speaking of Filipino. It's this Filipino lady who like we
always like always sees her back and forth through just
talking Filipino stuff. And then this little homie that really
like is almost like like a like a Schneidey kind
of like, yes, whatever you need.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
Like he's so like quick and cute, like he just
wants to help.

Speaker 10 (13:51):
So whenever she's drilling, he stick the thing in the
mouth to suck up the water.

Speaker 3 (13:55):
He like Johnny on the Spot. Yeah, just Johnny on
the Spot just like sucked hold the spit there. And
I'm like, oh, thank you. And then I'm like you
are your job is to suck up my spit.

Speaker 5 (14:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:08):
This is a luxury.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
This is this is about this all wrong and people talking, Look,
I know America and Canada are and a beef. You know,
obviously the beef is one sided and that it's one
person with a beef, not us with Canada. But you know,
famously they say up there, it's like we have yeah,
we got socialized medicine, but no dental, no mental you
know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (14:28):
Because it's a luxury. Baby, it's a luxury. It's a luxury.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
It's a luxury to have teeth that affect your whole body.
You don't realize how much how you eat.

Speaker 10 (14:39):
And it is bizarre that like you're that dentists, your
dental coverage is separate from your health coverage.

Speaker 3 (14:46):
It's still weird. They're like, my mouth faint a part
of my body, Like what same thing with vision? Yeah,
and your eyes.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
Yeah, they're like, I don't know, having think problems in
my eyes can lead to other problems if I'm not
aware of my okay.

Speaker 3 (14:59):
Walking a hole.

Speaker 10 (15:00):
Uh yeah, yeah, you have health care. Yeah, you have
health care, but we don't cover pinky fingers. Yeah, you
gotta get a whole other doctor for your pinky.

Speaker 3 (15:07):
Oh oh yeah, we only do.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
We only do neck down doctor stuff, neck down, neck up.
I don't even know who does that kind of ship,
to be honest, you might have to look on the
internet for that. But the one thing I do like
about the dentist is and I think the reason why
I like weighted blankets was that lead vest they put
on you when you have central extra. Yes, that's when
I put the When I put the weighted blanket on,
I flashed back, and I'm like, this is my favorite

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part of the dentist for some reason, even though like, man,
we're gonna take an extra because I think you got cavities,
little kid, and I'm like, just put the big ass
mat on me, and I'm.

Speaker 3 (15:37):
Like, yeah, perfectly. They put lead on you and then
run out of.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
The red put this lead. Matt, Hey, I'm bounce to
the office next door while hit this button and looking.

Speaker 7 (15:49):
Yeah, just then like one of those bomb dismantling robots,
worry about it.

Speaker 3 (15:55):
I'm eight years old. This kid gotta this will be fine.
This will be fine.

Speaker 5 (15:59):
Yeah, you're a kid.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
You're gonna need a really good neck up doctor after this.
Just so you know, Allison, what's something you think is overrated?

Speaker 12 (16:07):
Okay, So as a as a dating coach, I think
a relationship coach. I never referred to myself as a
dating coach before.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
You make more money if you say you're a dating coach.

Speaker 13 (16:18):
Though, How you thought about being an alpha male influencer.

Speaker 3 (16:22):
I've tried it. It didn't work out.

Speaker 12 (16:24):
I can't do enough push up. So I think something
that's overrated is chatting on an app for a long
time before meeting a person. You got to hold the person, yeah,
or you even like a FaceTime you got to get
it off of texting.

Speaker 4 (16:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (16:43):
Then people are doing it.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
What I mean, logically, I get it, but I've been
out of the dating game for what is it five
eleven years now, I'm but I'm also assuming it's the
same thing where it's like you there are people can
some people are so different over text, and then you
meet them, like even in a dating context, like even
from working like with people in production, and then you
meet them and they're like so different than the way

(17:06):
they text, and you're like, am I it?

Speaker 3 (17:08):
Do they hate me?

Speaker 2 (17:09):
Or am I not as funny as I was on text?

Speaker 5 (17:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (17:13):
Definitely got to meet.

Speaker 13 (17:13):
People sometimes, especially when I was messaging men, I'd be like,
this conversation is so funny and so good, Oh my god,
it's gonna be great. And then I looked back after
like meeting them, and I was like, wait, I was funny,
they were generous, they were like, oh cool, and I
was like making all these bits by myself.

Speaker 12 (17:37):
And I also think it just like adds to the
like the gamification of yes, online dating, where people like
don't take it seriously because they're just like talking to
a bunch of different people. And then people were like,
I don't get why it's not working.

Speaker 2 (17:50):
Right because it feels I mean, I have like like
one of my younger cousins who's like in his like
early thirties. The way they talk about dating too just
feels like they're truly just playing like a numbers game.

Speaker 12 (18:03):
Yeah, just right, And it's their fault because like the
apps are designed that right, right, but you have to
like fight against the interface.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
Right because then I'm like, but isn't the whole point?
Like dating is just sort of like ah shit, I
got it, like the pre app. You know, when I
were younger, you would go and then like you just
go on a bunch of dates and meet people and
you're like, eh, sometimes you try and make it work.

Speaker 3 (18:22):
I guess.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
I guess because of the volume of interactions you're trying
to have. You're not trying to get hung up on
one thing. But I feel for y'all. I feel for
y'all out there. I feel for y'all out there.

Speaker 3 (18:31):
You know I did.

Speaker 13 (18:33):
I did take this advice. I started swiping with intention
like any red flags, I swiped left immediately, and then
I initiated the conversation whenever we matched, and I made
sure to respond right away and then tried to meet
in person. And that's how I got the boyfriend that
I got from like a dating app. Like the one time,
it was like the second person I swiped on and

(18:55):
we met up and it like worked out at that time.

Speaker 3 (18:59):
Yeah, So I like to dating productively.

Speaker 12 (19:02):
Yeah, because then you don't burn yourself out because you're
having like less but more like quality interactions.

Speaker 13 (19:08):
That's how you get maximum gains in your relations You
have to.

Speaker 3 (19:13):
Do it while you're working on your push ups.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
Yeah, you'll be doing one art one arm push ups.
Fucking right, Bro, you're sick as fuck.

Speaker 3 (19:22):
Dude.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
Just wait, dude, you will not be alone. I'm there
with you every step of the way.

Speaker 3 (19:25):
All right, have you heard of this bit? Quick kidding?

Speaker 2 (19:28):
Okay, all right, let's take a quick break. We're gonna
come back and talk about just everything that's happening, but
also we also check in with some some just right
wing men who I think are doing okay, I think
everyone's doing.

Speaker 3 (19:43):
Okay, we'll do that in a second after this.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
And we are back. So over the weekend, RFK did
this thing that we've seen happen already this year where
he will act like vaccine like he has a come
to Jesus moment and he's like, actually, vaccines are the
only way to really keep our children safe. And then
like once that tweet cooks, he then turns around and
he's like, psych take God's.

Speaker 4 (20:16):
Liver oil, invite him in a my guys, I'm still
with you.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
I just have to say shit so I don't look
like I'm trying to kill children. And he has done
the exact fucking same thing this last weekend. On Sunday,
he attended the funeral of an eight year old child
that succumbed to a measles infection and use that anecdote
to try and launder his reputation as a backwards anti vaxxer,

(20:40):
saying he was there to comfort the family and was
actively taking on this outbreak. This part of the tweet
was very interesting to read coming from RFK quote the
most effective way to prevent the spread of measles is
the MMR vaccine, and then he also said that he
was talking to Governor Abbott about read like deploying CDC

(21:01):
teams to help with the outbrit You're like, well, the
CVC that you're gutting.

Speaker 6 (21:05):
Oh yeah, they get what was this now?

Speaker 2 (21:08):
Obviously the replies one guy, yeah. The replies under this
tweet were un hinged. One person said your post got
cut off. The MMR is also one of the most
effective ways to cause autisms, as witnessed by millions of
parents worldwide and covered by the CDC's fraudulent study at
the heart of this documentary then links up to a

(21:28):
documentary called Vaxed from cover up to katash.

Speaker 6 (21:31):
Dell big Tree is as a sort of notorious anti vaxxer.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
Yeah, it was kind of feeling fuck that guy, but yes,
very again the heavyweights have come out. Then yeah, another
another fan comes out, quote, fucking real normal. I think
what you meant to say is that doctors in Texas
are murdering children with erroneous hospital protocols in order to
keep their trillion dollar vaccine grift going, and that you

(21:56):
have asked the DOJ to arrest these doctors charge them
with crimes against humanity. Sure huh no he when did
he ever say that?

Speaker 3 (22:07):
Okay, sure, sure again.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
I think also this is probably very normal for an
RFK tweet, that you inspire these kinds of just reactions
just in any capacity. And while that may have been
celebrated on parts of the Internet as if RFK saw
the light, because you did see some headlines that were
like RFK now says MMR vaccine is the way to
prevent measles infection, he in fact did not. Just a

(22:33):
few hours after that tweet, He posted how he was
visiting Mennonite families with children that had also been infected
with measles, and then he praised two healers. He said,
quote I also he's like on top of those families,
quote I also visited with these two extraordinary healers, doctor
Richard Bartlett and doctor Ben Edwards, who have treated and
healed some three hundred measles stricken Mennonite children using aerosolized

(22:57):
moodessinide and claref mycin.

Speaker 6 (23:01):
Ooh love a clarithromycin.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
I love a clarinet with mice in it, you know
what I mean. And both of these guys again frauds
and deal in anti VAXX nonsense and giving people their
own homebrew meds. Doctor Bartlett specifically was described as quote
having a history of using unconventional treatments and who was
disciplined for unusual use of risk filled medications by the
Texas Medical Board in twenty twenty three. So a very

(23:26):
predictable kind of thing.

Speaker 6 (23:27):
You got to be a massive piece of shit to
go to someone's funeral for their eight year old and
then be hawking this stuff. But the problem is, I mean,
they're preying on the Mennonite community and anti vaxxers have
preyed on all kinds of sort of you know, religious
folks and anyone who's like already predisposed of buying into cults,
which I would argue, you know, yeah, men nights are

(23:49):
they're all they only speak German, I mean I I
and you know RFK Junior's Children's Defense Health Defense Fund
or whatever has its own TV channel. They straight up
went and interviewed the first parents who's I believe six
year old died and they were like, we just don't
believe in owned vaccine whatever it was, you know, like
they were like, no, we would do it all over again.

(24:11):
We believe RFK Junior, you know, and it's too bad,
but that's this is God's will. And you're just like
it's I mean, I hate to be the one or
like people like child abuse, but it's child abuse. I'm sorry,
Like that is not the child's decision.

Speaker 2 (24:27):
When yeah, especially when you put it to the perspective
anyone who has their own child and you're like, well,
what are the options? Give them a thing the doctors
are saying will save their life, or give it up
to sky ghost and hope that everything works out, I'm
going sky ghost every time. You know, sky ghost is
currently bad record for that.

Speaker 5 (24:47):
True.

Speaker 3 (24:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (24:48):
RFK is really weird though, because like like he's a
Kennedy right, so he doesn't like he doesn't have the
usual profile of an anti vaxer, where like they're clearly
at a certain level just like lying to make money.
Like he's a he's like a true believer, which like
you know you're normally anti vaxxer. You're gonna see on
Facebook like event if you watching off the videos, you
can kind of tell like they know that, like this

(25:09):
is like a pyramid scheme and they want you to
buy supplements or some bullshit. But he is like genuinely
ideological about this in a way that it is I
think a lot more dangerous, especially because now he's extremely powerful.
Yeah but he is. He's super handsome, so it's fine
for me personally.

Speaker 2 (25:24):
I think he's huge shoulders.

Speaker 4 (25:28):
But like people like, I mean he he also Okay,
this is the thing I can't really tell about like
any of the guys in Trump world, like RFK right
now is like how much do they care about being popular?
Like it's a really weird moment. Unlike Trump one where
like they kind of still cared about the economy, about
like getting voted again, like voted into power again, like
the normal sort of levers of democracy. But now I

(25:50):
have no idea if RFK actually cares, if he like
if he causes a measles outbreak.

Speaker 6 (25:55):
No, it's like them, each of them are their own
little zelots. They're like riding this till the wheels come off.
And first of all, I dispute that he's hot. He
he seems like an or I mean, if you like
an orange dummy bear that's been left out in the sun.
You know, like that's like the sort of like he's like, yeah,
he looks out.

Speaker 2 (26:15):
He looks like his skin looked like turkey jerky.

Speaker 6 (26:18):
Yeah, and he's always telling you the last thing he's
gonna ever tell you.

Speaker 4 (26:22):
And you're like, he looks like he's I mean, but
I bet he looks like he just smells crazy, like
like he like like he's just got crazy old man.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
But you know what it is, like he has crazy
old man smell. But Cheryl Hines like sprays him with
a ton of columb before he goes out the door
because he doesn't listen to her, and she's like, Okay,
cover the dead fucking whalehead the car. Yeah, that's what
I'm saying, Like to your point, Yeah, he doesn't give
a fuck about This guy is fucking chopping off whaleheads

(26:51):
to take home and playing Heidi Bear with like a
dead bear cub and like setting it up in Central Park.
This guy is like on, he's got his own fucking
shit going that. I don't know how you get through
to him. And to that same thing. He he kind
of understands optics well enough because he comes from like
a political background where he's like, Okay, I'll do this thing,
I'll glad hand with grieving families and then just kind

(27:13):
of give some give a headline that maybe people won't
look right into what I say directly after that where
I show that was all fucking fake and I just
said that to say it because I'm a sociopath.

Speaker 3 (27:25):
But yeah, hey, I.

Speaker 6 (27:26):
Mean he's yeah, he's like doing the whole like you know,
experiments that you know he did when he was eight
years old on you know, feeding whatever animal to his falcon,
Like it's just that on a greater scale. It truly
our Ter Junior is probably the most singlely most terrifying
person in the administration. I hold and it I mean,
one thing, if he were going after big pharma, like

(27:48):
he says he hates, but they're not doing fuck all
about big pharma. Like if you if you were normal,
like if you were like, Okay, I understand my anti
vaxx positions are not popular, but my anti pharma stuff
is anti big pharma. You would lead with that, you
know what I mean, and try.

Speaker 4 (28:06):
Like it's there's no point there to what he's doing.

Speaker 2 (28:10):
No, no, no, It's it's like everything in this administration,
it's like we just need one thing to kind of
point to a problem people kind of agree on, and
then I'll do nothing that is actually consistent with that.
I'm just sort of using I'm evoking that that sense
of outrage and then be like, and that's why I
gotta do this other backward stuff, right, we gotta vaccine.
I don't know, but yeah, this is uh, you know,

(28:32):
we'll continue to see what's going on with this, but yeah,
that that measles outbreak doesn't seem like it's letting up
at the moment. Let's keep talking about the economy, guys,
mostly because I think this is I don't know this
is it's starting to there. I'm seeing I see headlines.
There's headlines every week that's.

Speaker 5 (28:49):
Like, oh, starting to crack.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
It did seem like we were getting a little wobbly
last week with the GOP and everybody sort of staying
in line and being like insisting that everything is fine.
This administration does is fine, these tariffs will be fine.
Then the markets took an absolute dump and we're getting
sort of various versions of dissent coming out. So right now,

(29:12):
a lot of like the big billionaire's hedge fund investors,
the people who like people the hyper wealthy that we're
backing Trump are now awkwardly kind of doing a tweet
that's kind of like, I mean, I don't know what
he thinks is going to happen, but we're about to
fuck everything up if we go forward with these tariffs
without totally losing it on Trump, like Bill Ackman, Jamie Diamond,

(29:32):
Howard Marks from oak Tree Capital. That list goes on
and on and on where people are doing a version
of not attacking Trump but being like this will end poorly.
We're already seeing it, but they won't go full bore
and say, like, get this fucking guy out of here.
This is a disaster, although it seems like they say
that privately. Elon Musk has lost around thirty billion dollars

(29:53):
since Liberation Day, which brings his total losses for this
calendar year to around one hundred and thirty billion. Mark
Zuckerberg lost twenty eight billion since Liberation Day. Jeff Bezos
lost around twenty three billion. Warren Buffett is the outlier here.
He lost about two and a half billion last week,
but that puts him up over twelve billion this year.

(30:14):
Because I think he's one of the few billionaires that
just noped his way out of shares like things like
Apple and Bank of Americans Group, and he's like, what
is this.

Speaker 5 (30:21):
Fucking guy gonna do?

Speaker 3 (30:22):
Oh yeah, no, no, no, no, no, don't. I'm this
is not gonna help anyone.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
So things aren't great for the people that were so
willing to bend over backwards for Trump in the name of,
you know, increased inequality. Musk is now basically telling the
Europeans that he wants zero tariffs. That's what he's now
coming to them with with Europe though, yeah, yeah, yeah,
with Europe specifically, because this was him sort of addressing

(30:47):
a European audience, and I think he was also looking
at how Tesla is just useless.

Speaker 3 (30:52):
Or the thing he's part of.

Speaker 4 (30:54):
I think it's part of the plan though, which is
like you put up the tariffs and then you basically
make them like bend the knee to get rid of them.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
Right of course, of course that's the whole thing. Like
where people always talk about Trump one of the best,
not the best negotiating strategies, but a negotiating strategy is
make people think like you will blow the earth up
to get your way. So people go, damn, we don't
want him blow the earth up, we might as well
do what he is. And he's like, probably I'm not.
I secretly I'm not gonna do it, but hopefully they
will come to me. But here's Elon Musk again with

(31:23):
a bit of a softer tone, as he tends to
do when his money goes shrinky Dinks, talking to the
to a European audience about where he sees tariffs.

Speaker 4 (31:34):
Can't wait to see how visibly high an academy he
is in this clip.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
I think he's on beta blockers, probably based on just
sort of his like low, sort of measured tone.

Speaker 3 (31:42):
But here here's here's Elon.

Speaker 14 (31:44):
And I'm hopeful, for example, with the tariffs, that that
at the end of the day, I hope it is
agreed that both Europe and the United States should move
iteally in my view, to a zero tariff situation, effectively
creating a free trade zone between Europe and North America, and.

Speaker 3 (32:06):
That that would be my That's what I hope I
hope occurs.

Speaker 14 (32:10):
There's like also more freedom of people to move between
Europe and North America.

Speaker 2 (32:15):
Which people which people knew that, yeah, exact.

Speaker 6 (32:18):
Are the white people?

Speaker 5 (32:19):
Uh huh.

Speaker 6 (32:19):
I love this, Oh my god. I love how Saddie is.
I love that it's the same energy that he brought
when he was like, you know, how are you running
your businesses with with with with great difficulty, To be
honest with you, I want him to get so annoyed
at the United States and be like, oh, you didn't
even let me buy your Wisconsin Supreme Court seat. I'm
going back to Africa like just you know, I really
want him to go back to South Africa and be like,

(32:41):
let's create I don't want this obviously for the people
of South Africa, but I'm like, just go, just go.

Speaker 5 (32:46):
He's like, let's do a part.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
He tries to get in on that same pro like
refugee program.

Speaker 6 (32:51):
He's like, but I he goes back and then tries
to come again, so he doesn't want to buy the
Trump gold card. This is a guy who is I mean,
I think he's reflecting what everyone else is, which is like,
it's not even about bringing countries to heal and having
equal tariffs, it's it is Donald Trump thinks that any

(33:12):
trade deficit is bad for the United States. That US
being able to buy more from countries that make diamonds
or coffee or bananas, things that we don't buy that
inherently means we're being screwed over. It is dumb, dumb economics.
Like again, he needs to go to school. He means
he should have actually finished his fucking classes at Wharton

(33:34):
or whatever. And I love py either, Like, we're going
to create a free trade zone, bitch, what do you
think the last thirty years has been for the United States?
It has been nothing but a free trade zone for
multinational corporations. They literally have free trade zones in all
of the impoverished countries. You're now slapping with tariffs so
that you get your cheap goods for free, and that
manufacturers can pay shit wages, Like do not understand what's

(33:56):
been set up for the last you know again, thirty years.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
This is how he's gonna extract concessions from many nations. Right, Oh,
that's the cool thing, and then America will be winning again.
But yeah, to your point, when he's like, oh, yeah,
our trade with Madagascar's way off, it's like why because
because we get vanilla from them, they make seventy per
they produce seventy percent of the vanilla on the fucking planet.
Like what are we opening up the Central Valley now

(34:20):
to do? Like we're growing coffee, We're going bananas, We're
going all these others.

Speaker 6 (34:24):
If you dig a little bit deeper, there's definitely some
vanilla in the Earth's crust. Like where does he think
it's coming from?

Speaker 4 (34:31):
I mean I read that it's actually not physically possible
for America to grow enough coffee for America coffee drinkers,
Like it actually can't be done.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
Yeah, truly, truly, And this is again the sort of
you see a ton of weird responses under like posts,
like in comment sections like on Fox and other places
where like they're explaining, oh, like we get a lot
of this from this country, Like wait, bo I thought,
oh I thought.

Speaker 3 (34:53):
This company was American. It's like, yeah, where do you
think the fucking material?

Speaker 4 (34:57):
Oh no, yeah, none of the anymore quick lesson. Yeah,
but I kind of sympathize sort of with like especially
like the average conservative voter who is now sort of
like realizing that like they elected like a demented old
man who now has like absolute power, and like they're
never going to admit it probably, but like this is

(35:20):
why you don't do this, Like this is this is
also not new, like authoritarians do weird economic shit all
the time, like going all the way back to like Nazism,
like they did weird economic shit, like the Latin American
dictatorships did weird economic shit. Like this is just how
it goes, because that's what happens when you have a
weird old man in charge of your country with no checks,
a bound Yeah, and now we can't nail it.

Speaker 2 (35:42):
Or coffee and gassing you up all the time, like yep, yep, exactly,
that's sir, exactly exactly just how this works.

Speaker 6 (35:48):
Like oh, sorry, sorry not to cut you off. I
was just gonna jump On because the South America stuff.
You know, I lived in Argentina for many years.

Speaker 4 (35:57):
And perfect example, they still.

Speaker 6 (35:59):
Are paying for the you know debt that the military
junta incurred. They were the ones who started the World
Bank sort of you know debt structure, and they're still
paying it now. And what's so crazy is like you
see the way that Elon revers Jaber Melay right in
in Argentina, and you're like, yeah, but we aren't Argentina.

(36:21):
I live there. We don't have a six hundred percent
inflation rate every goddamn year in which case right yet,
And so that's exactly it's like we're trying to I
think I don't think that this is the goal, but
I do think it's like, oh, you're going to cheapen
the dollar. You want to turn us into like a
competitive in quotation Marx country, rather than embracing the fact

(36:44):
that we are literally the economic hedgemon for a reason.
And yeah, I know, I mean it's amazing you hear
Howard Lutni, Commerce Secretary kind of echo these things that
I used to say in the early two thousands part
of the global justice movement, like you know, the these
labor standards and environmental practices abroad are really bad. It's like, yet,
no shit it man. So it's just like stop trying
to everyone's trying to couch it, no matter if it's

(37:05):
Lutnik or if it's you know, Scott bestt or something
bestin exactly or must or whomever or other billionaires. I
think he's gonna in three weeks is gonna bring everyone
to heal no matter what. They're all just trying to
make it look like what it is, make it not
look like what it is, which is a massive fucking
fuck up that, honestly, speaking of the junta, we could

(37:27):
be paying for for decades and decades and decades.

Speaker 4 (37:30):
I'm glad you mentioned that. I Uh, I used to
live in Brazil, so Apollo and uh you could obviously
see the ghosts of their dictatorship still to this day.
But I was living there during a hyperinflationary moment where
the ray I went from I think three ray eyes
to the dollar and a six like overnight. And I
don't think that the average American like understands like what
that looks or feels like. We're like, you know, you

(37:51):
go to the store and they're just taping new numbers
being over just like that. Yeah, no, like it literally
is just like that. Yeah, I mean for the businesses
that don't go out of business, right, So, like you know,
if you if you really can't like grab your head
around this, just like just you know, imagine like a
moment two or three weeks from now when like you
don't actually in your mind know what things cost anymore,

(38:13):
and like the chaos that that's gonna be. And like
and as you said, even if we come through this
and we're still in a democracy where we go back
to some sort of quote unquote normal democracy, that stuff
doesn't go away. Like the damage is decades, generations long.
So that's what I'm the most excited about right now.

Speaker 5 (38:29):
Yeah, that's what I.

Speaker 4 (38:30):
Mean I'm looking for.

Speaker 2 (38:31):
Yeah, I mean a lot of people are like when
are they gonna impeach them? What's gonna happen? I mean, like,
I think it is interesting because there is like it's
like what happens when one guy is just trying to
fuck up all the capitalists' money and like how do
they respond, like do that because like they were all
in line when they thought that this was just going
to be like yeah, dude, it's just an open season
on fucking people like workers over and consumers over. But

(38:53):
they're like wait wait not not not totally fucking up
the game either, because we're seeing things like there's a
there was a lawsuit out of Florida.

Speaker 3 (38:59):
I think that's really interesting.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
The New Civil Liberties Alliance filed a complaint over the
legality of Trump's tariffs, specifically because he was talking about
how he's using this specific Act to be able to
say like I can circumvent Congress and I can I
can levy tariffs just because I want to. So the
New Civil Liberties Alliance was representing a Florida based like
stationary company. They again argue Trump doesn't have the legal

(39:23):
authority to just declare shit like this. It's also very
interesting is the New Civil Liberties Alliance is partly funded
by Charles Koch and Leonard Leo. And you're like, okay,
this like a what is is this a little bit
of some asymmetrical warfare here are they trying to bring
him to heal? I mean guy, yeah, yeah, I.

Speaker 6 (39:44):
Mean these guys that have their monkey paw and they're
like fuck.

Speaker 2 (39:48):
Yeah truly like where I'm like, oh, oh, okay. Then
we've seen Republicans. We saw a Representative Bacon from Nebraska
say like he's like, I'm going to represent legislator introduce
legislation to law back some of the authority to enact tariffs,
like that should be our responsibility as Congress. But again
that may be less of an effective strategy, considering that

(40:09):
Mike Johnson put language into a bill in a procedural
vote last month that quote would prevent the Chamber from
voting on any proposed bill that would end Trump's National
Emergency Declaration against Mexico, Canada, and China, which again, as
in the Washington Post, it puts it effectively shielding House
Republicans from taking a hard vote that could rebuke the president.

Speaker 6 (40:29):
That was the biggest thing in the budget bill that
everyone was so concerned about. That's why it is unforgivable
that Chuck Schumer and nine other Senate Democrats voted for
it is because it abdicated Congressional responsibility to oversight for
things like the budget, for things like the very budget

(40:50):
they sign that away. And so yeah, the fact that
they're like, oh, shoot, I get to find Prince said,
we don't have any power. You can't just ask for
your balls back after you've like handed them over. Can't
be like cause them now. No, it's not how it works.

Speaker 2 (41:04):
You've handed them over, just now you're really done.

Speaker 4 (41:09):
What really gets me, though, is that like, this is
how it goes, Like you're talking about like the Junta
in Argentina, in Chile, in Brazil, going everytatorship you want
to look at that comes to power, the capitalists like,
we love this, this is so cool, and thetships like
give me your money, and they're like, oh, I didn't
think that that would happen. I mean, it's every single
instance going like going back one hundred and fifty years

(41:31):
when this happens, So don't I don't have a lot
of sympathy for them.

Speaker 2 (41:35):
Actually, I think I don't have any sympathy at all.
I mean I think that's part of the sort of
sickness that bleeds into the minds of these capitalists too,
is that they their their value system is so like
they have such tunnel vision that they don't actually consider
any other factor aside from I'm making the line go
up and and this guy's helping, and I don't know
what the other stuff that he's saying because I'm pretty

(41:55):
sure he's all in on this thing too cut to
you are now surprised, Pikachu dot Jake.

Speaker 4 (42:01):
That's why that's why I'm I'm very liquid in fart
coin right now.

Speaker 3 (42:06):
I tell us about that.

Speaker 4 (42:07):
I was doing talk to a coin but then a
point yeah hawk coin, but it went down.

Speaker 2 (42:13):
This guy's not a true believer or not. He's a
fed dude.

Speaker 5 (42:15):
He didn't.

Speaker 4 (42:17):
I just think I just think any good leftist listening
to this should invest in fart coin next. You know,
that's what you guys should do.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
Part coin or just fart on your coins, whatever you
got left, try those.

Speaker 11 (42:29):
No.

Speaker 6 (42:29):
I think that's a really good point about like fascists
and and the ways that it's seen like, oh, this
is going to help business, But in fact, because they
have so much unchecked power and they're actually often not
smart enough to do the ship that they're doing, it's
not ultimately good for business. The real thing we have
to hold on to is that, like the dollar is

(42:50):
still dominant, the point in which companies are not coming
back to the country and we are trying to borrow
from other you know what I mean, Like that's when
we are gonna get really fucked. But again this idea
that like the jobs are coming back, that like, you know,

(43:11):
all this is possible because right, because let's follow their logic,
it is okay, everything's gonna be really expensive to import.
Obviously that's falling on consumers. Consumers aren't gonna buy very much.
Then companies will what take five years to ten years
to build more infrastructure here in the US that will

(43:31):
bring about jobs that pay about I don't know, nine
to fifty an hour, maybe to assemble an iPhone. In
twelve years, you could get that job again, it'll be
nine to fifty like and then prosperity.

Speaker 2 (43:46):
For yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (43:48):
So wait, I was actually I was working on a
piece about this this morning. I've seen the answer to
that question, like if you and I'm sure you've guy
seen this too, No, like if you dig around like
the fucking dark corners of right now, the answer is
it's prosperity because women are out of the workforce, men
work in factories, and we've returned to traditional gender roles.
That is the final project of this and you can

(44:10):
see it this morning where like there's people in Fox
News being like we're solving the masculinity crisis by building
factories in America. Yes, like that's what's happening.

Speaker 6 (44:18):
When you come home, there will be a roast in
the oven. It'll be called my head exactly.

Speaker 4 (44:23):
But that's that's the plan, is that the plan is
to essentially destroy the global economy so that women don't
go to work anymore. Men have to like make like
buttons in a factory in Wisconsin somewhere.

Speaker 2 (44:35):
There's so many Yeah, there's so many endgames that are
so probable. It's like frightening, you know, because then there's
like the version of we need to accelerate the degradation
of like the economy here, so people just get frothing
at the mouth for some kind of new fucked up
social norms.

Speaker 6 (44:51):
So fifteen years, I foresee will be making buttons for
a Chinese podcast after having having to give up our podcast.

Speaker 4 (45:02):
Yeah, Chinese century is here, baby, Yeah.

Speaker 6 (45:05):
I mean that's really the winner in all this. That's
what's so funny. I Mean, we talked about how Russia
is not included on the tariff list, but it really
is China once again crushing it. And good for them.

Speaker 5 (45:15):
They didn't do.

Speaker 2 (45:17):
They're doing what Chuck Schumer is doing. They're like, Noah,
bro Let. These motherfuckers.

Speaker 6 (45:21):
They took that James Carville advice like Playdad played dead.

Speaker 2 (45:24):
Yeah yeah, yeah, no, go ahead, no, yea, go through
with that. You know, we make everything that your fucking
people consume all the time, right, are you?

Speaker 3 (45:30):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (45:31):
I'm smuggling a Hawaii phone across the border as we
speak right now.

Speaker 3 (45:35):
I'm very excited. I can't wait.

Speaker 2 (45:37):
Well, Luckily, there are still people that have completely lost
touch with reality and have no idea how the economy works.
Because Pastor Julie Green, aka the Maga prophet who Eric
Trump goes.

Speaker 3 (45:48):
I love show a lot. She's great.

Speaker 2 (45:51):
He was recently on and she was like, Eric, your
father I believe was anointed by God.

Speaker 3 (45:55):
And He's like, yeah, that part exactly.

Speaker 4 (45:58):
It's got a lot of teeth and gum you.

Speaker 3 (46:00):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:01):
She also explained that the tariffs are basically Satan trying
to make President Trump look bad. So here, let's let's
let let's let her sort of explain this, because I
how this works. Okay, it makes it's very clear, like obviously,
like the terriffs look bad if you understand Satan's plan.
And she says the word enemy, I don't know who

(46:21):
It could be people of color, it could be the world,
it could be Satan.

Speaker 3 (46:25):
I don't know. Use it interchangeably in your mind.

Speaker 15 (46:28):
First of all, this was a strategy to the enemy.

Speaker 11 (46:31):
From the enemy, God.

Speaker 15 (46:32):
Said, what happened to make our president look bad?

Speaker 5 (46:37):
She's very drunk.

Speaker 2 (46:38):
She's just about to say.

Speaker 4 (46:39):
She has an incredible she has the most incredible Pino
grucial voice I ever.

Speaker 2 (46:45):
Yeah, you shouldn't drink like a half bottle Carlo Rossi
Savion blanc and take a Xanax bar this.

Speaker 4 (46:55):
I want to queen out. I want to queen out
with this woman so badly. You talk about demons and spirits.
Holy shit it she has the most incredible turquoise jewelry.
I want to just hang out with this one. So
if you yes ended her in this state, she's in you.
This conversation will go to places you never thought fucking imagine,
like exactly, talk that.

Speaker 6 (47:13):
Ship down, Mike, Wait, this is way better.

Speaker 2 (47:15):
Yeah, Okay, just going Yeah, it's her sister.

Speaker 3 (47:18):
Okay, go on freaking out.

Speaker 15 (47:21):
First of all, from the enemy, God said, what happened
to make our president look bad? To make the tariffs
look bad? Actually, the tariffs are very bad for that
dark financial system the enemies have in place.

Speaker 4 (47:44):
She can't say the word God told us.

Speaker 15 (47:46):
When we start seeing a shaking in the in the
economy and the boy or not to fear, because this
is not going to affect us. This is going to
effect our enemy. And he's trying to keep a hold
of the economy. They're the ones who are bringing it down.

(48:07):
They're the ones who bring it up. They manipulate all
the time. So I don't want you to fear when
you start hearing these things. Whether it keeps going down
today or whether it starts rebounding today, I have no idea.
All I know is that God is judging that system.
So if we start seeing more and more of a decline,

(48:28):
God is saying, remember the land of Goshen.

Speaker 2 (48:32):
Okay, yeah, all right, all right, Yeah I'm now I'm starting.

Speaker 3 (48:34):
To feel totally fucked up just listening to Yeah.

Speaker 4 (48:37):
She's like, she's so cool. I love I love her.

Speaker 6 (48:43):
She's I wish I had that confidence, you know, just
to be like half a bottle deep and be like
I'm going live and talking.

Speaker 2 (48:51):
I want to get out, and you're so drunk. You
can only blame you can only describe global economics as
like just.

Speaker 5 (48:58):
The enemy and then now and they're mad.

Speaker 3 (49:06):
It's it's all the same.

Speaker 2 (49:07):
Yeah, He's said if justice John Robbins was going to
be Roberts was going to be imprisoned for.

Speaker 6 (49:15):
Election, Oh god no. But I'm like, I'm like, this
is people listen to these people like it's simple, it
makes sense. And you're like, if you think that Trump, God,
don't don't white people know they can still be racist
if Trump goes away, Like, don't they know.

Speaker 5 (49:30):
You don't need.

Speaker 6 (49:34):
You still got it, don't worry, like there'll be other racists,
There'll be other white you know, white You're you're doing
it great, you know, and you're just like, oh my god,
but we've really jumped the shark with these kinds of folks.
And they were like, no, the more they hate you,
And honestly, this is kind of a symptom of Internet
culture more broadly, and as someone who's sort of in

(49:55):
the pundit world on the Internet and political pundit world,
like you see it play out of well not naming names,
but like where you're like, the more people get mad
at you, some folks are like, that's when you're doing
it right.

Speaker 3 (50:07):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 4 (50:08):
I mean I agree with that though for me personally,
like that's if people hate me because I'm telling the truth,
that's what I say. Yeah, but I would agree because
you can't back down, you can't lose the fight.

Speaker 2 (50:21):
Right, No, No, And then you do this quintupling down
on nonsense and we end up in like I wonder
if she just saw her stock portfolio or some shit,
and she's like, oh shit, give me that fucking bottle,
give me some of my I'm about to go.

Speaker 6 (50:36):
She's got gold bars energy, she got real gold bars energy.

Speaker 2 (50:40):
She's she she got z bar, she got Xanax bars energy.

Speaker 4 (50:45):
I want to get thrown out of a Margaritaville with her, So.

Speaker 3 (50:48):
Yeah, yeah, exactly exactly.

Speaker 2 (50:50):
And they're like, I don't know, I don't know what
words she used, but it felt like it was a
racial slur. Although I don't know exactly what the thing,
but if had the energy that she said, that's how
she gets thrown out. I've a margaritavill All right, let's
take a quick break. We'll come back and talk about
a thing that's really popping off that isn't the economy.
The Minecraft movie, and we are back and I don't

(51:22):
know if do do you?

Speaker 5 (51:23):
Do? You all play games?

Speaker 3 (51:25):
Am I the am? I?

Speaker 5 (51:25):
Like?

Speaker 12 (51:25):
What?

Speaker 3 (51:26):
Am I the sole gamer here? Not video? Okay?

Speaker 5 (51:28):
Based on that?

Speaker 2 (51:29):
Based on how slow? Yeah, I already know that's okay,
that's okay, I get it.

Speaker 3 (51:34):
It's me with my little computer games.

Speaker 2 (51:36):
Because look, I'm much I'm a child of the eighties
and I love me some video games.

Speaker 3 (51:42):
But I just want to point out this thing. Well,
what are you laughing at, Blake?

Speaker 7 (51:47):
I have the giggles now of like, what's the rights
opinion on everything?

Speaker 3 (51:51):
Of just like gamers are women, you know, just everything
is just a woman Like yeah, we don't know.

Speaker 2 (51:57):
Yeah, it's like, dude, if you played Nintendo, you're actually amid.

Speaker 3 (52:01):
Yeah, okay, what that's it. That's all it is.

Speaker 5 (52:03):
The dude.

Speaker 2 (52:04):
The most boss shit is to fucking scream into a
pillow case. Okay, no pillow in it, just in the pillowcase.
But anyway, Trump basically has proudly shipped on so many
groups of people we can't even keep track. And we
were talking on yesterday show Ryan Roderick and we were
in Francesco.

Speaker 3 (52:21):
We were talking about the gamers.

Speaker 2 (52:22):
Now, what happens when Nintendo switched to that was announced
the same day of the tariffs, goes up exponentially in
price because people are already like, yo, why is this
shit so much more expensive? And now Nintendo has basically
canceled that not basically, they have canceled US pre orders
in order to quote assess the potential impact of tariffs
and evolving market conditions.

Speaker 3 (52:44):
That's not good.

Speaker 2 (52:45):
Again, they were already jacking the price up on the
switch to in anticipation of the tariffs, and they even
in twenty nineteen were just like, I don't know where
this shit's going to go. They moved the production from
China to Vietnam to avoid US tariffs on China, but
they weren't expecting the tariffs to be so high in
Vietnam because right now it's forty six percent. So we'll

(53:08):
we'll see how that shakes out. And now experts have
pointed out that this won't be limited to Nintendo. The
tariffs are going to have a huge impact on the
video game industry as a whole, and you look around
on social media, Reddit, et cetera. People are not taking
the new as well. Obviously, I don't know if how
much of a political force this will turn into or

(53:29):
manifest into. But just considering the fact that seventy six
percent of adults in the US played video games on
at least one platform that was from last year, and
it's also one of the big, if not the biggest,
form of mass entertainment. In twenty twenty two, global consumer
spending on video games was more than the music and
movie industries combined, and we saw political candidates try and

(53:53):
get in good with gamers. The Harris Walls campaign had
a fucking this whole thing called Freedom Town USA and Fortnite,
which was like, tell me you don't know what how
video game players think without without saying it. This is
from the description of a quote. Players can take advantage
of small business tax breaks, collect construction supplies, and build

(54:16):
new homes to lowering housing costs. They can also shoot
exploding footballs at opponents, a reference to Wallace's time as
a high school coach.

Speaker 3 (54:25):
Wow, yeah, this is not. This is not.

Speaker 2 (54:29):
No one wants to go in there and be like, yeah, man,
I can't wait to get off four A home. You
want to get you want to hop off Fortnite so
we can get those small business tax breaks.

Speaker 7 (54:37):
Take your real life that you're trying to get away
from and bring it into the game, right, Guys.

Speaker 2 (54:42):
You gotta go to that thing where I'm I'm I
gotta fight through a bunch of people to get to
the small business Administration, try and get a home loan
after a fire.

Speaker 3 (54:49):
I can't wait.

Speaker 2 (54:50):
This is my favorite level and even Trump right, he
streamed with this guy, Aiden Ross. I don't know if
you have heard of Aiden Ross. He's like one of
the biggest street on kick. He's he was like friends
with Kanye at peak problematic Kanye, although he continues to
be peaker. But just to give you an idea of

(55:11):
this guy's intellect, you know this guy. He he went
to mar A Lago and did a live stream at
mar Alago and a lot of people were like, oh shit,
Like this was part of a lot of people pointing
to Trump's campaign strategy and being like He's going after
these like younger streamer podcast type people who have huge audiences. Yeah,
and this guy gave him like a fucking gifted him
a cyber truck that had like the assassination attempt picture

(55:34):
like wrapped on the graphic on it. It was very
fucking sad. WHOA and I just want to point to
this man's intellect because it is very, very impressive. At
one point, I'm pretty sure on one of his streams
someone was asking, like why he supports a fascist in Trump?
And this is the process of him trying to figure

(55:56):
out what a fascist is.

Speaker 11 (55:59):
What is a fastest?

Speaker 5 (56:01):
Mean fastest?

Speaker 2 (56:03):
What does a fascist mean?

Speaker 11 (56:07):
It means you are a far right authorization on the
alter ultra.

Speaker 9 (56:16):
Oh my godnatist analyst political ideology characterized by dictator leadership,
centralized autocracity, militarism for forcible suppression, suppression of opposition.

Speaker 5 (56:32):
Yo, he can't read, he.

Speaker 2 (56:34):
Bro Floyd Mayweather has better reading skills than this kid.

Speaker 5 (56:37):
Oh my god, far what was that?

Speaker 2 (56:42):
I'm just gonna read the real thing again out loud,
like a like a person with just who is literate?

Speaker 3 (56:49):
Fascism?

Speaker 2 (56:50):
He pulls up the Google definite fascism is a far
right authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement characterized by a
dictatorial leader, centralized our talk. See militarism forcible suppression of opposition.
Now let's let's give it to me one more time
for the top eighten far.

Speaker 11 (57:08):
Right authorization on the Alter ultra ultra.

Speaker 9 (57:14):
Oh, my god, analytist analystalgy.

Speaker 11 (57:19):
Movement characterized by dictator of leadership, centralized autocracity, militarism for autos, suppression,
suppression of opposition. So I don't know what that means.
I should have got. I don't know what the fuck
of fascism is. I don't know what the fuck it is.

Speaker 2 (57:34):
It's a it's an ulture, not a lotti, you know
what I mean.

Speaker 3 (57:37):
It's ultra not a lotist.

Speaker 2 (57:39):
Oh yeah, I'm I'm all about fastists, you know what
I mean, because that's the authorization of.

Speaker 3 (57:46):
You know, also not like us. They not like us? Okay,
and here we are.

Speaker 2 (57:54):
The way he like is rage quitting while reading a
word is so frightening. And I feel like this isn't
just limited to Aiden Ross like.

Speaker 5 (58:04):
He is America Dog, there's a huge there is a
huge chunk of very manly men who cannot read but
sway on games, you know.

Speaker 3 (58:15):
For real, for real, And I'm read.

Speaker 5 (58:18):
Considering my relationship, all the choices I've made, Like, maybe
I just need to find an ultra nautilist author is authorized.

Speaker 2 (58:25):
Authorization, dictation? Do you authorize this charge?

Speaker 5 (58:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (58:30):
Of course autocracy?

Speaker 2 (58:33):
You know that's a.

Speaker 5 (58:35):
Wait, what are you.

Speaker 2 (58:36):
Recording right now?

Speaker 3 (58:36):
What? What what audio program do you guys record on?
Are you using audacity or autocracity?

Speaker 5 (58:42):
I'm using autochrasmosity.

Speaker 2 (58:44):
Oh that's the Oh that's the paid version.

Speaker 3 (58:46):
Okay, okay, okay, yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (58:48):
Mean like this is to your point, like Lydia, this
really does speak to like a lot of people were
laughing at him in the chat, but a lot of
people who watch him also have no idea what fascism
is also have no idea like what rights are. And
this is a huge reason why people are like I
can't believe they voted for him, Like, these people don't
fucking know some of the some of the people have
no idea, no fucking concept of basic civics, and.

Speaker 3 (59:11):
They just go to well what does Aiden Ross think?
Was Joe Jogan say? Oh okay, and off you go.

Speaker 2 (59:18):
And now cut to Aiden Ross this weekend after the
fucking stock market took a huge ship. This guy is
invested in all kinds of crypto. Uh, you know, has
obviously owns a ton of stock. This is him, I guess,
reaping what he sews because he's sitting at his life
like at his desk, watching his stoks go to ship

(59:41):
in front of his eyes. And here's his reaction about
what I mean, this is what fascism do to you.

Speaker 3 (59:48):
I don't know how.

Speaker 11 (59:48):
Maybe guys are investing in crypto or stocks.

Speaker 3 (59:51):
What the fuck is going on with with our country?

Speaker 5 (59:53):
Guys?

Speaker 3 (59:54):
Why am I poor?

Speaker 11 (59:56):
What is going on in the world?

Speaker 3 (59:57):
Why the fuck is this going on? Some any please
explain it?

Speaker 5 (01:00:00):
What's going on?

Speaker 11 (01:00:01):
Why are we all losing? Why are we all negative?

Speaker 5 (01:00:03):
Right now?

Speaker 13 (01:00:05):
Like?

Speaker 3 (01:00:05):
Does anybody know why? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:00:07):
I love I love that.

Speaker 3 (01:00:09):
Why I think we know a lotist?

Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
Yeah, you should blame a ulternt a lottist.

Speaker 5 (01:00:14):
M hm. He just turned into a woman right in
front of our eyes.

Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
Just walk right in front of the screen. But he's
gonna understand in front of a computer screen.

Speaker 5 (01:00:22):
Can't do it? Why are we negative? That's girl math?

Speaker 3 (01:00:25):
Yeah, yeah, it's really it's really, really tough.

Speaker 2 (01:00:28):
He was later on the live stream with DJ Academics
and they were talking about like he was like, I'm
getting killed PJ Academics said that with like he was
probably spitting like te Keil all over himself as he
said that, and Aiden Ross is like, yeah, like he
looks so I should probably pull up a clip.

Speaker 3 (01:00:44):
He looks so distraught.

Speaker 2 (01:00:45):
He's just like, yeah, dude, it's it's not good.

Speaker 3 (01:00:50):
It's not good.

Speaker 5 (01:00:51):
Well, which is so funny to see people who fundamentally
don't understand investing, Like stocks are a volatile environment, right,
Like that is the nature not real money. You are
representing the idea of how much money you could possibly
be held responsible with, right, Like, that's what debt is.
It's it's so funny. So like, dog, you've been for
the whole time. You've just been playing this weird game

(01:01:13):
where your gold starred and people think that you're worth
of whatever bullshit you're spewing gives you the right to
have access to certain amount of dollars which aren't even
really being exchanged. You're just exchanging promisory notes of more
and more debt. So, dog, you've been broke the whole time,
My guy.

Speaker 3 (01:01:28):
Yeah, yeah, you're playing a game. Bro.

Speaker 2 (01:01:30):
They do give into the whole fucking the thing. He
know what he's you know, how much he said he
lost eight figures, So we're talking a minimum of ten
million dollars.

Speaker 3 (01:01:41):
He's saying, was he reading that number or was That's
what I.

Speaker 5 (01:01:45):
Wanted to ask, because like, how are you diversified, are
you fully poured into just like fucking crypto one two three.
I mean, I don't know how crypto works, because I
also don't think that's real, but like in terms of stocks,
like you're supposed to have a diverse portfolio so that
if you take a hit, it kind of spreads itself out.
Not to say that you're not going to get a hit,
like obviously your over all portfolio is going to reduce.

Speaker 2 (01:02:07):
But this kid is not smart, so I'd imagine he
is probably so overleveraged in like two things, you know
what I mean, And he probably was like he probably
saw what like a lot of people saw the crypto
spike that happened after the election and was like, whoa baby?

Speaker 3 (01:02:25):
Up is good?

Speaker 2 (01:02:25):
I'm more if this is where this shit is going,
sign me the fuck up, Yeah, they say. He there's
like when you look for like what's his net worth,
people say around sixteen and twenty four million, Maybe not anymore, bro.

Speaker 5 (01:02:42):
I I just want to leave this tip here. Costco
sells gold bars. You can buy one ounce gold from
Costco at the current price of gold sometimes a little
bit under. All I'm saying is this gold is a
standard right. So, like, if you're a small time investor
and you don't really understand the stark monk, go buy
some gold. It in a safe Gold will always be gold. Okay,

(01:03:03):
that's why the price will go up. The price will
go down. But like, don't get on fucking red Robin
dot com or whatever these little sits are and buy
like a slice of a stock. That shit makes me
so angry. I owned twelve slices. You what it's like
saying you own half of the pizza dog? What are
you doing? Yeah, there's better ways to invest your money.
Throw up.

Speaker 2 (01:03:19):
I own half of the tire that's on that lambo.

Speaker 5 (01:03:23):
All right, that's like owning a like owning a jacket.
With a friend. We bought this Dulce coat together.

Speaker 3 (01:03:28):
I get it as I did.

Speaker 2 (01:03:30):
I remember I did that.

Speaker 3 (01:03:31):
I did that with a throwback jersey when I was
in high school. Who was it?

Speaker 2 (01:03:35):
It was a Willis reed in New York Knicks throwback jersey.
I was like, bro, look, let's go half on it
because you could wear like when I'm not wearing it,
you could wear an advice versa.

Speaker 3 (01:03:43):
Because I can't.

Speaker 2 (01:03:44):
I can't afford a whole ass. Mitchell and nest throwback
NBA jersey.

Speaker 5 (01:03:47):
I did that at twelve. We had a skirt that
me and two of the girls shared in.

Speaker 2 (01:03:51):
But none of this and that example, idiot, that's actually useful.
I mean, like you could be like I got the coat,
now you got the coat. You're not gonna do shit
with like your friend actional ownership of some other weird
thing just to try and bring more people into your
fucking Ponzi scheme.

Speaker 5 (01:04:05):
No, no, no, no, Week seven of a single Johnson and
Johnson Stock. Congratulations on your point seven to two cents.

Speaker 2 (01:04:13):
Congratulations, you've played yourself. So congratulations, Aiden Ross, you have
played yourself. I hope maybe Trump will give you back
that cyber truck man because maybe you can get some
money for that. I don't know, but good luck to you,
and by that I mean bad luck to you.

Speaker 3 (01:04:28):
Okay the hell?

Speaker 1 (01:04:30):
All right, that's gonna do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist.
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