Weekly Zeitgeist 446 (Best of 8/31/26-9/4/26)

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3:04Welcome back to the show. The hilarious, the talented is Chris Duffey. Hello. Thank you. Thanks for having me. Glad to be here. The Duffman. I'm going to breathe. Yes. It's good. I'm good. I'm glad to be here. So I'm excited. I'm ready. This is the big. This is the highlight of my week of my month. Frankly, this is the highlight of September. Oh, come on now. Come on now. How's the book doing? How's it? How's it out? How's it out there in book world pushing books? Oh, you know, it's a, it's every day is a thrilling adventure through the world of books. As I, you know, occasionally someone says, hello, will you sign this? And then they say, it's not for me. I won't be reading this. I'm doing this to someone else. What's the point of doing that? I mean, you're in a show. I'm going to give it as a present, but it's funny to say like just so you know, this copy is not for me. I would just end up in a book. I would never. I don't need help in learning how I can be just more, you know, present. I actually, you know, another interesting about like, this is my first book I ever wrote.

4:08And there's like a really robust and thriving scam ecosystem out there targeting authors where like every single day I get an email from like an obviously fake email dress saying like I represent different celebrity book club. And like for only $500, like we'd love to put your book in front of all of do a leap us fans. And then you're like, I don't think do a leap of emails from like do a leap of book club at hotmail.co.org. Three dot do a leap a dot book club. Yeah. And that one's like a real one. But I'll get like a lot of ones from slabs that don't even have a book club where it'll just be like, hey, like would you like to be in the, you know, Ryan Felipe book club. And I'm like, I don't think that's like a relevant thing in any way. Definitely not real. Yeah. That is so set because because like when you like I worked on a book years ago over over a decade ago. And I remember even then they were like, yeah, so we don't really have like a marketing apparatus.

5:11So you guys are going to mainly do that. So there are enough desperate authors out there that the cottage industry has risen up. I'm sure they're being generated by AI because they also all start with like the same kind of like vague compliments where they're like, you wrote something that is really important and transformational. But it's not being seen by enough people. This could help people. This could really help people. And I'm like, I kind of think it's just like a funny book. I don't know that it's really like what I mean. It is. It's interesting because just from like the discreet, I haven't read the book yet. Okay. But you're going to give it to a friend and you're like, yeah, I'm going to inform you. It's not this laughing not really for me, Chris. But I feel it's so basically where you're coming from about just sort of being like being more open and being more open to the like our abilities to have humor about ourselves, our risk taking and things like that. So which does feel like such an important like message. Yeah, yeah, I'm underselling. I do think it's an important thing. I mean, you guys get it. Because it's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's not a good message at all.

6:11No, I mean, the real message of my book is like people, I think people are way too focused on the like performing part of comedy. Like people are like, how do you tell a joke? How do you like make people laugh? How do you tell a story? And I think the most interesting part, which I wonder if you guys agree with, but I think the most interesting part is like, how do you see things and realize that there's something funny there? Like how do you walk around the world and see the thing that inspires the laughter that inspires the joke? Which that's the thing that I think everyone should do. I don't think we need like everyone to be a comedian or a comedy writer or a host or a podcast. But I do think if everyone could walk around the world and be like, that's a little bit off. That's funny. I'm going to laugh to myself about it or I'm going to notice the funny things of myself and have a sense of humor about myself rather than being so self-serious. Like, that's the stuff that I'm most interested in and I feel like it doesn't get a lot of attention. So that's really what the book is about. Yeah. That sounds great, man. I personally think the only thing that's interesting about comedy is asking stand-up comedians who are your guys? And then also just asking them for their general thoughts on politics and like how things have changed and like nobody knows it.

7:13Nobody knows what the laughs anymore. Yeah, yeah. I could. I kind of personally think like one of the most important things we can be doing is like giving, you know, like far right politicians a chance to kind of show they're just like us. You know, like laugh with them on that stuff. That's right. That's right. Yeah, yeah. That is what comedy is for. What is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Ooh, yeah. Okay. I looked this up. I recently was, I'm writing something about witches and I recently was researching the witch of pongo. Okay. So pongo is a place in Virginia. Her name is Grace Sherwood and she's basically a witch. It's really funny. It's like she's so famous that like there's like a statue of her and Virginia Beach somewhere. And she basically was a witch that was taken to trial like six different times and then like proved innocent six different times like and everyone in town was like my crops died.

8:17It's Grace. And she's like, fuck. Okay, let's go to trial. And she would go to trial and be like, I, I, there's no evidence. They were great. And then sort of like my cats lost. It was Grace. Like literally everyone in town kept taking her to trial. And she kept countersuing and kept getting off. But her whole life was consumed with witch trials. Wow. Until they eventually got her. They got her. They put her in the water. Oh no. They put her in the water. Oh, but it's a fascinating story. And I've just been like poor fucking Grace. Send Grace from 1688. Like send one up to Grace. I know. God, I could feel, I could just hear this playing in her mind. This was America people. Grace, not a witch, not guilty. Oh, wow. Yeah. Fucking six times. It's so wild. Murder was filled with the trial that they gave her. Yeah. Wow. Just shut up to the witch of pongo. Witch of pongo.

9:17We love her. We love her. That's what it's been in my search history. I wonder if you just are you a witch fan? Generally or? Yeah. Yeah. I'm pretty excited. I'm so excited. You know what I say? I'm like a, I'm an empathic skeptic. Like I'm always like no. And then like a ghost reveals itself to me. Do you know what I mean? And I'm like no. I'm not interested. And then like a curse happens. I just kind of feel like I don't believe it. And then the universe keeps trying to show me stuff. And it's like a ghost. I don't believe that. I mean, I don't believe in that. I just kind of feel like I don't believe it. And then the universe keeps trying to show me stuff. And then I just feel like it's a ghost. And I think that's how I feel. I don't believe it. believe it and then the universe keeps like trying to show me stuff. Pulling you back in. Yeah. How do you feel? Oh, yeah. Which is our now. I don't probably not, but I'm a fan of their work. I'm a fan of their vibe. Yeah. And I'm a believer that sometimes a vibe can be so overpowering that it does become us. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not going to say nothing about which is right now.

10:18That part right? Because you don't want to be proven right or wrong. I love them. Yeah. I love witches too. I love having that power. I love them. Love them. Love them. I have a famous hex on my witches. We have an 11 foot which flying on a broomstick that is there. Oh, yeah. You're definitely growing. You're deprivation. And it's known like I will during the dead of summer, this summer, you know, windows open because it's hot out and hearing people walk by and be like, they have a big witch for how like talking to their kids about like this house has a good witch when how we talk about it. You must have loved hearing that. Oh, Miles, you have not like, I mean to the point that I'm now talking about it like three months after it happened. So yeah. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You ran out into the street like, oh, hey, you talking about this house? Yeah. We got the witch. Yeah. Sure do. So you know to sure do. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It'll be out soon. Don't worry. Don't worry.

11:19That's really fun. I've got to jump to them like out of breath being like, couldn't, couldn't help but hear you talking about the witch. That was last week. It's actually a mission to the witch in this pongo. She has a crazy back story. Yeah. Clicker six times. Yeah. Yeah. Man, this is good. We're keeping her name alive. We're keeping her memory. We'll keep it in the witches happy. And I bet Zite gang, I know there's Virginia. Tell us you know about the witch of pongo. Please write it. Please tell us about what you know about the witch of pongo. It's a huge story. I'm probably missing some details. I mean, there's books and shit like that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What is something you think is underrated? Hmm. Hmm. Apparently, you know, I've been journaling a little bit lately. Yeah. And yeah, I mean, it's like my girlfriend told me to do it and it's been nice. I think, you know, it's so easy to, I don't know, be sucked into the digital world and I don't know. I think, I mean, I go to therapy and stuff like that and that's obviously helpful. But I don't know. I feel like it's so rare that you put pen to paper, you know, unless you're specifically

12:20trying to. I feel like you get something out of, and it doesn't even have to be journaling. I don't know. Just putting pen to paper is something that I feel you lose in life. Right. And it's nice to do a little bit of that. Yeah. What do you, when you journal, are you like reflecting on your own emotions? Did it recap a few days? Yeah. A little bit of that. It's like a gratitude journal that I am doing. So it's kind of like starting every day and ending every day with like things that I'm grateful for. And that kind of is a good perspective shift in terms of just like you get so stuck in your set ways. You know, you can feel dissatisfied with certain aspects of your life, but when you also recognize what you're thankful for, that's helpful. And then in the back, there's space for just like free style journaling if you want to talk about things. The gratitude. Oh, so you read that piece about Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez. How they just take every day. That's how we stay around. They were all grateful for them. And we're so good for them. Number one, I'm a gratitude list. Yeah. Number two. I'm just saying, Lord, sometimes it switches. Sometimes Lauren gets the top smile. But Jeff gets the number two spot. I don't know.

13:21That's like that. And that's what's beautiful about gratitude. You know, it can, it can have in flow. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And you compare that to Grand Theft Auto 6 though dog. Like that's good. That's good. That's good. Yeah. That's good. Did you see that tweet that was like, there was like a community note on the tweet where they were like, oh, the, the, the driving in this game is so bad. Everyone is stuck at this light. This green light because the car is in the wrong lane turning left. And then there was a community note on Twitter that was like, oh no. This happens all the time in Miami. Like this is not like you. Like you are the most realistic thing. Yeah. Yeah. I thought that this morning I really made me laugh. That is, are there cities where, because LA famously you get two cars after the light turns. You get two cars going through the, if it's in a hurry. After a red light. Yeah. If you're turning left. Oh, yeah. Three. Wow. I'm a two. I can't really get real mad if somebody stops at one. When you get in front of me. Yeah. How often do we do this?

14:22Fucking go. You fucking are serious. My kids are like, what? I'm like, they didn't break the law. They break the law like they're supposed to put like we all agree that they're supposed to. But I do feel like the two cars going at a red light left turn signal is what's keeping LA afloat. You know, like if we lose that, it's all shutting down. The whole, the city would not work. Yeah. New York, they go early. That's the thing. That's when it turns. They just, yeah, it's called that. We got for a left or the New York left. I've heard it both ways. But it's a little bit more like Miami just like doesn't have one. I don't know if the kids burned left is illegal. It's just dangerous. You know, because like people just gun it to hit that left turn before people actually end up crossing into the intersection. Yeah. I'm familiar with the move. I just did it for the first time with my wife and child in the car. And, and dude, I didn't know you went to Pittsburgh. Dude, her majesty was like, she's like, whoa. She got turned on. She got turned on.

15:22She was like, she jokingly says she goes, I don't know. I was with a man. I don't know. We were living our life a quarter mile. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. I said, I'm going to promenny, brothers. Yeah. Yeah. She just immediately handed you. Yeah. Yeah. You're a pink slip. You can have my pink slip. You win. There you go. Hey, we going up there. All right. Hard. Yeah. Come on, Miles. What does something you think is overrated? Okay. As a horror baby, I, I, I, horrors my favorite genre. I'm going to get a lot of flack for this. But celebrating Halloween early is overrated. What does that mean? It means like September is fine. September, October, I get it. Some of y'all celebrating in July and August when the Halloween decorations start to go, August is not one pumpkin spice lot taste start in August. And that is an abomination. It was 100. It was 100 degrees.

16:23Yeah. And I'm only saying it as a horror person because it loses some of its magic. If you're selling, if it's like year round, right? You know, I just feel like we need the Halloween decorations shouldn't come out until September. I agree. I agree. No, no, don't stand on that shit. I stand on it. There you go. Don't go. We're going to do capitalism. We have to do it correctly. Okay. Don't give them your money in July and August. I wonder because Victor was saying in the Philippines, it's Christmas decorations like early, right? That's kind of a first Christmas. They get some curious, is there a country that's doing that with Halloween? They're like, oh, you know, it is. It's six point eight weeks until Halloween. You got that. The shit's going up. You know, how Mariah on Halloween night has the thing where she turns on. The Halloween decorations into Christmas decorations is there. What are we going from into Halloween decorations? Can we just enjoy summer back to school back to school back to school? You know, we got the earlier and it is. It really is. My niece and nephew went back to school in July.

17:23No, yes, they did. That's a that's climate change. No, I think it's too hot. I swear to God, it is too hot for them. Where the fuck are they? They're in Arizona. Oh, in Caldum. No, literally, I think a lot of kids. There are many kids in hotter places go back to school earlier because they can't be outdoors. That's fair, I guess. That makes sense. That would enjoy. No, they don't. So I just I dainted Donnelly was just talking about how she's like my husband. I always feel bad for him because we have like pumpkin spice season and like fashion season. And I was like, man, this like sucks for you. You don't have anything. And she was like, and he wasn't listening to me because he was reading about football. And I was like, yes, they have football. Like football season, I feel like starts right. I feel like that today that once, once people start talking about football and being like the seasons basically started, even though it's pre season season, it's like, don't matter whatsoever. Like once that starts, it's like, okay, you can have your Halloween.

18:23But that is end of August. That is end of August. No, I'm not giving it up till September. September 1st. You got Halloween to the NFL. Right. That's sure it's bigger than that. No, it is. It's definitely bigger. CT is scary. Yeah. Okay. So there are some spooky things. Do you agree? So are you good with September 1st being? Yes. Yes. And like, should we have a ritual of some sort that's like, yeah, this, this, we burn the summer man or something like an effigy. Well, it is one burning man happens. Yeah. So maybe that's what it was. It's not even the official start of fall. Right. Because fall doesn't start this, the fall soul system or whatever. Right. Right. To late September. So y'all pulling it up to just makes it. So I don't know. Y'all have kids, so it's different, but for the rest of us, actual Halloween night, October 31st means very little. Right. Because all the parties are beforehand all the celebrations beforehand, that on that actual day, I feel like most people who are kid free are not, I don't know, like all the parties that my friends have are normally the weekend before. It's like the busiest weekend of my life. It's, it's more fun in the lead up.

19:23We're lucky though, it's exactly. The Halloween is on a Saturday because usually when it's in the week, it's always on either side of that day. day, but it's on Saturday now. So we're going to allow Halloween week. Yeah. The seven days of Halloween. I have them for all of our couple of friends. You do an annual Halloween party and like they go fucking hearts. But like to the point where like they in their invite this year, like we're going to dial it back not as many sword swallowers or made swimming in the foggy haze pool or fire breathers this year. More just like normal stuff like bobbing for apples because they like truly like one time they went so hard and the barely any people were there and like damn too much. Yeah. They're like you don't deserve this. People are numbering us at this point. Right. But that's okay. You RSVP the yes to the party full show up. Yeah. Exactly. They're fully millennials. So it's still paper was post. Okay. Okay. Amazing. All right. We're going to take a quick break and we're going to come back and talk about the news. We'll be right back.

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24:37That was very Kafkaesque. Who is Kafka? Who is Kafka? As I said, the day before Tim Curry died. And that was a reference to the movie Congo, which Tim Curry was also in. But at the time, the Supreme Court ruled that Trump's mail-in ballot scheme was able to move forward because the the states that were suing they couldn't quite prove any damages yet. So they said, this is actually too soon. Too soon. But they also didn't say whether or not this scheme was legal. They're just like, well, first of all, we're not saying this is legal. But go ahead. You haven't been hurt yet. Yeah. So yeah. But I know I will be. Well, and even then it could be too late when you sue then. So you're kind of just going to have to let this guy metal in the midterm. So a whistle blower within the postal service has revealed that this whole operation, obviously, it's not about ballot security. And from their perspective, this is all just a scheme to make mail-in ballots completely unusable. This is just this is from the Guardian. Quote, the snail mail carrier has been building

25:39an entirely new federal federal ballot mail portal since June months before the service was permitted to move forward with the executive order. The portal will screen all incoming ballots, but its development has been rushed and quote, risky as a service tried to me quote, impossible deadlines. For instance, the agency has eliminated testing procedures for the platform or risk that could potentially derail the midterm elections, according to the whistle blower. And this is one of the official quote, potentially millions of American voters may not receive their mail-in ballots this election cycle in a timely matter or at all. So I mean, this is always the fear with anything. Trump was going to do with mail-in ballots like that the end game was just about negating them as a source of votes that could threaten his power. So Trump's solution to that issue, that inconvenience, is just to create a system so poorly designed that it throws the entire election into chaos in terms of mail-in ballots. So it's specifically the mail-in ballots are going to be fucked

26:41this election. Definitely found a way to metal and muck via this portal. So like they're saying, first of all, like this whole thing was rushed, they would they think a thing like this would take at least a year to do, but they've just branded through in like six, just under six months. And they're saying, and even if you were to do everything right, make sure your registration's right and things like that, the post office might not even get you your mail-in ballot in like in time because the system is designed to not make the process efficient or even safe because it has a zero percent failure rate. So this is from the whistleblower quote, quote, for example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to the United States Postal Service and the USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the portal because for example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they've moved, then the United States Postal Service would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. UPS USPS would then expect the state to quote, take back the entire back to cure the

27:46issue with the single ballot. That sounds very complicated. Damn intentionally so. And like also just impossible. Like it would be essentially impossible to vote by mail. That sounds like if is there any hope that this like that something stops this or is this just like they're saying this is the way it is. They're right now that the postal service has anything. This is a whistleblower who reached out to Senator Blumenthal and was like, Hey, I need your help. This is what's going on. So he is now, you know, out here getting the word out that this is in process. I'm not sure what exactly the next legal step is here. What exactly is going to happen or if they will follow through? I'm sure Trump wants to because the way it sounds, a completely fucked up portal that can that just mucks up the process of sending ballots out is exactly what he wants. But yeah, as Blumenthal said on Monday quote, the main takeaway for me is that the postal service has designed a system to disenfranchise millions of Americans. One third of all Americans cast their ballots by mail and the postal service puts all of their votes at risk.

28:48Right. And it's way more like I've heard people be like, well, this could actually be bad for Republicans too because they're, you know, rural voters also count on the gallon ballots. But I think it's like 50 something percent of Democratic voters vote by mail and only like 20 something of Republican voters vote them. So if they are like, no, we're all good here. People vote by mail as usual. And then the votes are just invalidated if they're coming in over the mail. Then like, yeah, he would just be winning the election. Yeah. So right now I know the Senator Blumenthal basically told the postmaster general David Steiner that he needs to provide documents about the plans to actually look at them first. But yeah, I mean, you got two months until the jump, the midterms. So yeah, yeah, where this goes. Yeah, that's plenty of time. Two months seems fine. Yeah. To sus this all out. Yeah, I mean, the plan was to launch it yesterday on September 1st for that to launch the portal

29:53but as of now it has not been launched and they're and they're not sure like what the plan is as a disregarding. Okay. So this is going to be a weird winter. Yeah. Or it's going to be a magical winter. Yeah, people are going to have to, I mean, yeah, I don't know if in the process is like a whole effort to like help people that need to vote like do normally vote by mail to get them a ballot to put that in a ballot, but like whatever that is. I mean, it's it's just causing so much confusion. And again, this is exactly the point because it was never like we're going to win out, right? It's like we're just going to make it so fucking hard to vote or so chaotic that we either benefit from the lack of people's ability to vote by mail or in the confusion, we can just inject our own weird narrative to say actually this is what's happening. I mean, look at how much of a mess this this whole voting system is. You'll never have to vote again. Was what he says when he was running for president last time. So it seems like one of those things where we should be taking him at his word.

30:56Yeah. Seems like. Wow. Yeah. Y'all, y'all gagged me on that one. Yeah. So it's everyone who's just trying to vote just vote big vote vote a lot. If you're planning on voting, make sure at first your registration hasn't been totally fucked with because in Texas, a lot of people are discovering that like their registrations completely up just thrown up into case. Yeah. Under registering people. Yeah. All right. We should talk. We should talk about Nick Adams. Yeah. There's an old radio reporter named Studz Turkle, which I think is top five names of all time who used to travel America, finding stories and the humble lives of everyday Americans. And he was kind of louded for the unmistakable authenticity of the humanity he uncovered. And this American life and

31:58you know, others have kind of tried to recapture that glory. But nobody has quite succeeded until now. Right. I mean, there's got a little guy by the name of Nick Adams who we've covered before. I think Nick Adams is like Studz Turkle. The guy who's like wrote the definitive like oral history of the great depression. Yeah. Yeah. So Nick Adams is this Australian guy who moved to America's like high up in the Trump administration doing some made up job. And he tried to be a diplomat. And then that failed. So now he's just he's just screaming on the periphery to be part of the machine again. Is he like something to do with American tourism? He's like the American tourism. Yeah, I mean, yeah, he just accepted a position very publicly like I just proud to accept. So we've talked to we've heard from him before with his man on the street reporting from inside a movie theater showing the Melania documentary, right? Wasn't that the situation where he was going

33:02to see the Melania documentary. There was a dad with two daughters who allowed me Jack. This is this is said. I'm settling in for a show of showing of Melania and the theater is packed. Earlier, by standard asked if I was heading in to see Avatar and I stopped dead in my tracks Avatar. Nice son. I currently replied. I don't watch woke movies. I'm here to see the groundbreaking documentary about our incredibly talented first lady. The man's two little girls began jumping up and down pulling on his sleeve and begging daddy, we want to see Melania. But but he's dammit. I thought you girls wanted to see Zootopia too. No, no, no, they said now nearly shouting. We want to see Melania. She's the most beautiful first lady ever. This never father was scrambling stressed out. He even did that. Girls, I'm afraid you aren't the only ones who are captivated by President Trump and his beautiful wife. I said kneeling to get on the

34:03aisle. The dialogue crackles with the authentic. Yeah, I virtually everyone in this theater is here for the 7 30 PM showing and it's been sold out for days. Tears began to well up in their eyes. Fucking saw this. Okay, but I said in a hush tone, I happen to have a few extra tickets with me. And I'd like why would you dad have them? They jumped for joy and began hugging their father. He looked relieved as he wiped the sweat off his brow with a smile. I handed him the tickets and pulled him close. Raise these girls right. I whisper. Oh my god. Teach them to be classy, conservative women. Oh my god. Don't let them become like Megan Markle. Kavish, he hugged me and thanks me profusely. What are you going to do now? He asked, don't worry about me son. I told him with a twinkle in my eye. I love to copy. I've already got tickets to the next showing. Wow. Otherwise, I'm just going to be standing here in the lobby creeping people. I'm coming up to little girls.

35:08In a year. This, this slop, this sort of fairy tale slop that like now has become completely like common in conversations is just mind boggling. You mean true stories that actually definitely happen? That's what I meant. That's what I meant. You're at least told. So his main thing these days is rage posting about the trial of a mother who, you know, during a fit of postpartum depression, killed her children, very complicated sad nuanced story that he's treating like the trial of the BTK killer and he like doubt thrown on whether she should herself be murdered in court is like proof that America has lost its mind. But in between that, he came up for air to tell us about a little something that happened to him the other morning. He was out for a jog, but he doesn't just jog. He has what we're going to later learn in the story is a magical weighted vest. Yeah. Miles,

36:11do you want to take us through the story? Yeah. And just you know, if the background of this is obviously when jelly roll was guest hosting on Kimmel and decided to do did some some jokes about joke that weren't very nice. Yeah, about dear leader. So that's why jelly roll is a topic in this weird reality. So this is Nick Adams. He just posted this a few days ago. Quote, I was on a run parenthetical with a whited vest in the park earlier when I saw a group of Ginzy guys at the park having a small bonfire. I overhead them talking about jelly rolls. I just didn't know you didn't. I just wish you could just like, no, the story's over. That didn't happen. You didn't that didn't happen. Yeah. So it gets so much better. I know. Okay. Let's go. Quote, I was disgusted by jelly rolls divisive comments about the president one said, brah. I love his music. One of the others replied tossing what appeared to be a CD into a

37:13small fire pit, but I will never listen to any of it again. Slowing down. I approached them. Boys, what's the lightest? I interjected. I'm trying to keep your heart rate up. You fucking loser. I couldn't help but here you discussing jelly rolls performative leftist bitch you signaling on Jimmy Kimmel. How people talk? Go ahead. No, cap. I never liked him. Beats a week and he's chopped a F one of the boys fired back. We are burning our CDs to show solidarity with DJT. Again, really interesting shift in vernacular that the guy first just saying, no cap I never liked him. Beats are weak in his chop day. F. Right. We are burning our CDs to show solidarity with DJT. Okay. Very. Help people talk again. People talk. He goes on fire in the park at the same time. And what time of day is he running? Because they're having a mournful on fire. What it was? Posted this at four in the afternoon. So he said earlier mourn. Yeah, it could have been a sunrise fuck jelly roll by fire. Clasic. Yeah. We see it all over the United States. He goes on.

38:19I looked closer and I saw a heap of jelly roll CDs spanning his entire discography, melting together in a fury of patriotism, fuel, you can tell that the spandas entire discography through the fire. Yeah. They were melted together. But you could tell that it was it was a varied group of CDs. Right. Yeah. I mean, I saw them all. Every single one is out. The other thing that makes me so mad about this started to cut you off. Yeah. He did. He was I saw the jelly roll clips. They were a compote. In fact, they were cowardly. They were like incredibly middle of the road. You could tell like they were like, let's split the difference on this and just be like, I don't know. I don't think he's doing such a great job. It was like it wasn't even. Yeah. It wasn't even in a humble fire. But yeah, it's because he did. He decided not to do the glazing. So he got, you know, yeah. Sorry, they're melting together in a fury of patriotism, fuel, flames. Carry on, boys. I said as a smile grew across my face, I threw another 20 pounds into my vest.

39:21What? You should get what? Okay. Don't worry. Okay. I threw another 20 pounds into my vest. You should give kid rock a listen. He's infinitely more talented than jelly roll. Trust me. I'd depth them all up and broke into a dead sprint to finish out my run. The kids are going to be all right. And and see scene. Broke breaking into a dead sprint after trying to have a, there's so many great. I threw another 20 pounds into my vest into my vest from where? So thank you. He's the witch of pungo. How do he just sum in 20 pounds out of nowhere? How do they know? Where did your fun go? Yeah. I literally was like, do they have weighted vests that somehow add weight? But that would violate the laws of physics. Absolutely. Violates the laws of physics. Because where does it, where do those pounds hide? Can't mask your whole of the business here. Yeah. I thought at first he was saying like I like put the CDs in my vest because that was a better

40:27use of them than just figure it out. But that's not what he said. No. He just somehow said, I'm actually way even more. He's like at the end of the story, I became somehow even more badass as I put another 20 pounds into it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's sprinted away. Sounds like a five year old telling you a lie about something. Yeah. And then I put 20 pounds more into the vest and I sprinted all the way up the mountain. Yeah. Totally. Cool. All right. Yeah. Well, that's cool. Man, it sounded like you had a cool birthday. That's awesome. Totally. Yeah. The kids are going to be all their CDs. They're many jelly roll CDs. It makes me so it just both my like like you know, our insane president tells stories like this. Like they're like it's very child. There's very like childlike stories with like insane exaggeration. Yeah. Right. Like we're like people telling them like thank you for everything you do and they're all lies. But it's so interesting that like it's like a shared characteristic of people who have no grasp on reality. Right. Yeah. I mean,

41:28this guy, I mean, that's the thing. Everyone's like, is this satirical? But this guy is ruined his career. Like doing anything serious except for being like this maga just punted it. And that's gotten him into the maga verse for sure. So he's successful in that way. But like the way he talks you're like, oh, this guy completely lost it. Yeah. Because it's not because even it's funny because people will be like, oh my god, I had a similar experience after I just this is the replies to the tweet after I just finished my 100th straight rep of 295 on the bench press. And he said many people are saying this is happening all across the nation. Some another person just said same exact thing happened to me. Nick out of the class. There's a great awakening happening in our nation. Right. Yeah. So same exact thing happen. Yeah. I do exactly. Exactly. Exactly. If he made that up, he, Michael, man needs to hire him to doctor the heat to script because his ear for dialogue is so on point. Yeah. That like, oh, yeah, my, no, Cap, I never locked in beats a week and he's chopped

42:29I F. We are burning. He goes right from that too. We're burning our CDs to show solidarity with right. Right. It feels like it feels like a jet like a definite like chat GPT. It's like, how would a like give me some hardcore Gen Z slang for some kids saying jelly roll socks. How do I say that in a Gen Z way? Okay. He's chopped on. No cap. I never liked him. Beats on and he's chopped off. Yeah. That's fucking garbage. That is wild. That is, oh, the stories were forced to listen to. Yeah. But again, and like to create just, I mean, this is all part of that infredecent information ecosystem for conservatives to be able to even read something like this. They go, oh, shit. Okay. So there is, so there is, there are repercussions for jelly roll with the jet the Gen Z bonfire crowd. I wonder if this one gets printed out by the human printer and served

43:34to Donald Trump, you know, because I was saying that like I feel like fortune 500 companies must have an entire like Trump glazing departments for, you know, finding ways to please their dear leader because that does, you know, help their mind in the end. And so I wonder if like that's what we're seeing is just people writing for an audience of one and like they just know specifically that he will believe this. He's like, it sounds actually exactly right. To me, it's like the way Google has changed the name of Lake Ontario to the other name. Yeah. But only a few search it in America. So in the United States, so it's so interesting to me that it's like we're living in such a stupid time that it's like Google acknowledges it's not real, but they want to, they want to be buddy buddy with the guy giving them billion dollar tax cuts. So they're like, if you search it in the States, just make it say like America. It's too fucking stupid. Yeah. It's the village. It's a dumb, dumb world. We live in.

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47:47And we're back. We're back. And the most famous NFL player on the internet right now. Yeah. It's crazy. I think you can say that. Yeah. Because of it's crossed over to people who don't even know about the NFL. No. 100% this is the most famous NFL player. Yeah. Clearly the women that were involved knew nothing about the NFL. Yeah. I know. Well, that's the thing about the NFL is also like people's faces are hidden by the helmet, something that he took advantage of by just wearing the helmet everywhere. Like on every facetime call. Sorry. I'm a full-fledged player. Dejan Love who allegedly scammed at least 26 women out of $1.3 million in four states by pretending to be a San Francisco 49ers wide receiver. And the way he did that was by wearing a San Francisco, San Francisco 49ers football helmet everywhere he went. And like a hoodie trying to look like he just got out of practice.

48:47We'd like to travel kid on. Yeah. So like wearing his helmet at Costco. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I'm like 49. I would wear this. Gotta protect the goods. Yeah. He was arrested by VASBI on federal fraud charges when the feds claim that he enticed women into romantic correspondence on dating apps, specifically seeking genetically superior women and then asked for money to put in lucrative investments. Wow. So. So the feds are going after men that are like, you know, victimizing women now? No, no, just just this specific thing. Yeah. Yeah. They're like the look of him for some reason. Sure. Sure. It's so fucking wild. This is 26 women getting this like love bombing campaign. Turned into now give me every dollar you have. It also seemed like he didn't meet with most of them. Did I pick up on like it seemed like a lot of messages. Yeah, a lot of messages back and forth. Yeah. I think that I think that might be right because I think if they met him in person, they would be like, there's no way this motherfucker's in that.

49:51There are NFL players who were like as a like as a joke like going and like working out on the beach with their helmet. Yeah. But like they would work out without their shirt on and it's like, oh, that's what an NFL player. Oh, that's a monster. Yeah. I'm looking at versus this guy who looks like me when I was 16. Yeah, it looks like a normal, you know, 20 something. It looks like a guy who you would believe played sports at one point. And that's like high school. Yeah, high school sports. Yeah. Yeah. So he convinced people of his NFL cred with his Instagram account, which is full of photos and videos of him doing things like carrying or wearing a 49ers helmet. Okay. That's a real that you actually can't get one of those. I don't know. I haven't seen I haven't seen a millennial man's basement who's into the NFL ever. I don't think I've ever seen a football helmet in there. Yeah. He wasn't playing. So if people were like, why are you here at this, at this boba shop for New Orleans house for the four. Wait, wait a second. Aren't the 49ers playing on that TV right there?

50:54Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This damn finger injury was his explanation. I love that finger injury. Makes sense. I mean, obviously I can't guess the ball with my finger injury. So yeah. Can we can we take a look at just a screencap of the video of his contract signing, which takes place as many contract signings do at a coffee table in a random house. It does seem like for the most part he has studied the Instagram accounts of like actual professional athletes and then just like taken certain signifiers. Yeah. That's that's him. That looks like every major contract signing I've seen. Yeah. We're in a tiny chair and someone's apartment. Not certainly not in the front office of the team you're signing for with the log gigantic logo behind you announcing to the world this is our new signing. It really feels like if you like what I used to make movies with you know my sister like my neighbor because our family had a camcorder. Sure. Sure. And like if if we had to make a movie where like I just got

51:59signed in the NFL like this is the sort of thing you would have the contract signing. Yes, it would be a your living room table. So like yeah. Yeah. And you would like work out with the helmet on like it's like the same level of yeah. Yeah. It's creative. It's creative at least. I just feel like when I was watching all of his videos and you'd be like yeah this is my Lambo and like you know I have this house in Malibu and then I have like I feel like actual rich people don't do that. Mm-hmm. Well yeah. Like they don't have to be like oh yeah and then I got this and this and like that was a lot of his account too. Yeah. And like rich people aren't like one rich people don't I like don't want you to know where they live. Right. For sure. Yeah. Like they're not posting their house and random you know I just thought it was crazy of that like I don't mind. I mean I think because we live in such a fake ass world where perception is reality on social media like it really is easy. It's like okay I just need to show a few objects yeah that are like wealth signifiers. Yeah. Once I've done that I can put those away I can take the rental back because I mean this is like what the tape brothers did too like their lawyer had

52:59to come on be like dude they never had fucking like sure Bugatti money. They're just they're posers on the internet man. That's that's just how shit works. This video though of him that everybody's looking at of the most interesting video is a beach workout. It's like he he's seen Rocky three. Oh my god. He's seen that sometimes there's like players athletes work out on the beach. He's clearly skipped leg day I want to say yeah like my legs are thicker than his. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. My son's legs are thicker. He's also giving like I got too much shit on me. I don't want to even be around anymore energy. Here we go. Say hi. Hi go so slow out. What the hell was that? He fell. He fell. And who's throwing this ball? Awesome then. Yeah. No like actual NFL players have quarterback throwing the ball to him. Someone who can throw a football. Yeah. A speed that matches your ability to run and the guys like lobbing it all wobbly. It was me throwing the ball.

54:01I think another embarrassing thing about this is it's not that like it's not that hard to sleep with an actual athlete. Like I'm gonna say they're in these streets. Oh yeah. So like that that was funny. The girl that posted this was like you guys are stuck with your dumb fuck boys. And I got this man. And I'm like man it's not like there are billions of athletes and they're not they're they're out here. They're fluing everybody out. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. Sure. Yeah. Other things he did to prove he was rich besides the beach workout that looked official as hell because it had the little orange cones. So you know, you know he's a professional athlete where where the fuck else is he gonna get those orange cones showed off his luxury car keys. Yeah. I know. I'm like you can get those on eBay just like a random fob. You can eat yeah they're like if you want the newest one they're like 150. Yeah. Small investment. You need to make the first buying a multi hundred thousand dollar car. I showed off his condo which like look like a pretty normal condo but it did have one pretty unique feature which was a normal bed that he

55:04claimed cost eight thousand dollars. That like I wonder so the bed that cost eight thousand dollars is that like I think I remember Shaq had a bed that was like really expensive because it had to be like huge. You know what I mean? Yeah. I'm wondering if like when me probably yeah if that was like something he had in the back of his head I'm just trying to understand his art. Do you know how it is man like when you're five nine one hundred fifty pounds. You got to have a custom made bed bro. You know just to be able to support that fucking mass that's going on there. And then so that that I can like kind of understand I can pick up like expensive bed like I'm sure a lot of professional athletes have to have like really expensive bed. Then there's a moment where he shows how rich he is by filming a collection of Chuck E dolls that are stashed against one of his walls. Yeah. And I'm like where the fuck is that coming from. Yeah. Like who is the professional athlete who he saw with like a weird collectible. That's the part I'm like tell me more about this though. I mean that I'm actually like respect that seems like it's less the professional athlete and that's

56:07more Dijon love like he's yeah he's like he's like okay so I'm like playing the role of a professional athlete. What would I do if I signed a kind of 25 Chuck E doll make condition in my bedroom stacked against the wall. Obviously like any other athlete that's like the one personal touch where he's like actually working with what he what he would do. I need to see him with 20,000 in magic the gathering cards. Right. Okay this and that. I wonder what the balance of my deck is. You know I usually go black green. Okay this holographic charizard. It's a family family heirloom. But that actually would make more sense because like Jake Paul like has a five million dollar Pokemon. Yeah. Yeah. There's some shit like that like but Chuck E dolls is like so very special. Let's just it's just this whole flex off that he does with the bed and then leads to the Chuck E doll. This is so stupid. This is my bed. It's about $8,000 a bit. Uh-huh.

57:10Oh my god. It's like a college boys apartment. The Stevie's like love or shit. All of horses. So these these dolls about 2k they give us these for football. For football. These are about $2,000 each. Those are those the stash. They're like like compression. No rich person does this. I need y'all like like no rich person is like and here's my $2,000 this and here's my $2,000 that you know. Yeah. When you go to a rich person's house usually you go you you start clocking things. Yeah. You're like let me have like I've been here before. He got 48k and Chuck E dolls. What the fuck is he? This is the Chuck E doll room. That is the most authentically like weird rich person. Yeah. Yeah. Details like. Got a doll from my Chuck E dolls. I have a room from my Chuck E dolls. I have a big Jennifer Tilly fan. Yeah. Uh-huh. So I have some sign memorabilia from Jennifer Tilly. Also she's the bride of Chuck E the voice famously. Here's a lock of her hair. Yeah. Rich people do do that when making a video for their insurance company to be like okay. We do. Yeah. Yeah.

58:13This one is from Charlie $5,000. Uh-huh. Here's my $3 million of jewelry. But I mean he had a good backstory as to how he could afford in $8,000 bed. I'm off looking at $8,000. I'm probably fucking $8,000 TV from a $2,000 Chuck E doll. Like many of the most famous players in the NFL. His family is one of the richest families in Switzerland. Oh okay. It's just like baked. You could. This is junior high liars. Yeah. Yeah. Because like without the Swiss Switzerland thing, you could maybe be like I just signed this contract with an $5, $10 million. So like I'm you know I'm living in an apartment but like here's like my Chuck E doll collection. But to be like I come from generational wealth. Yes. Let me spell that for you. Uh-huh. And then have that apartment. It's like I don't know who Friedrich love is. That's my father. And he named me Dejon after our great-grandfather. He did show his targets. Fake bank accounts using the fake bank account pro app. All right,

59:15scammers. Yeah. I love that there are apps that just make it scary. People is like what the number one growth industry in America. So like I'm gonna get into it. Yeah, to like make a app that is like makes the it's like you're the Nvidia of scams. Yeah. We're just like supplying scammers with the thing they need. Like that's that's smart. That's smart business. He's not the only I don't know if you all saw the one with the the person pretending to be Harry Styles. That was another successful and he got money. He was getting money from women and then another one is Keanu Reeves. God bless. You think Keanu Reeves is in your DMs. I can't help you. He's not even in his own DM. He's not even out. He's not here. Yeah. Yeah. But no, and it's and you know, they are hitting up like lonely older like grandmas and stuff. And it's also just wild too because like clearly date this day, John dude is also like a product of the social media age of online flexing and like the worst thing you could be is broke. Right. So you do everything

1:00:19in your power to effort to project this sort of image of like success and wealth. Yeah. And again, you end up just being a fucking weird guy. Yeah. But like it is also just so easy now for people to be like, well, this is why I'm in real life. But my online avatars is rich NFL. Yeah. And also like I'm actually now successfully scamming about over a million dollars by handing them to my 18 year old friend who's like the 18 year old friend. So I do think he probably would have pulled it off if he was fair amount of maxing. Nobody would have been able to figure it out through that smoke screen. But I will say as much as we're saying like we wouldn't fall for this. There is somebody who did fall for it. And that is Google. Google fell for it because people were like, why didn't people just Google him for themselves? Right. And there are screen caps where if you like searched his name, Google's like AI answer was said that he, uh, Dejan Love is a wide receiver for

1:01:19the San Francisco San Francisco 49ers and information about his position, contract and teammates, texting, texting habits is available online for some reason. So I mean, obviously the AI is hallucinating, having trouble. Uh, he's also associated with the team through various social media content and articles, position wide receiver team 49ers. So I mean, again, amazing work by Google, change your business from, you know, finding the most trustworthy sources on the internet to a single answer that is frequently so wrong that it aids in a bet's a serial scam. Right. Right. Yeah. I also feel like, well, would he have gotten away with this if he didn't? He took their money and said, and it was on investments. Yeah. But I think they, he wouldn't have gotten in trouble. Maybe if he just took it, does that make sense? But it was the investing part. He was like keeping touch with them and like being like, I'm holding on to this, but like, we're wrong. They gave it to them. They gave him the money specifically for investments. Right. Like he said, oh, I have this stock option. That's going to help you. This is going to blow up and they gave him the money for

1:02:22that. Yeah. Cause the whole thing was the financial advisor. He's like, I'm going to, I'm going to set you up with my guy. Sure. 18 year old guy. He's like, and he's got the fucking, he's got the matrix figured out so you can turn your money like 10 X your investment with me, which is so funny. Because in these other videos that you see of him where he's like talking to like Mark, like a mark, he's trying to, he's trying to sort of set it up. Like, yeah, you know, like I'm very interested in you and like, this is serious if we're together. You know, so like I have to ask you a couple questions and I don't, and I'm not going to judge you based on these answers. So don't feel judged. But the first question he asks these potential lovers, I think is pretty telling. You know, here's this is, this is his key to gotta ask you something, you know, if like if we're going to be together, you want to know specifics, you could ask me and I'll be specific. But my first question is this to be my girlfriend. So how much would you say you make on average per month? My second question is how much are your bills every month on average? Like cell phone rent,

1:03:24whatever it is that you pay every month on average, that's some expense. My third question is, are you any dead credit card, their car loan, hospital bills, student loans, whatever. Fourth question is like, what would you say your credit is? Good, bad, fair, whatever. I'm not judge you off for the answer that you give. I'm just trying to understand. And the last question is, what would you say your savings account is right now that you have access to that you can go out and touch? Hey, so how liquid are you? Hey, Ma, you wet and by that, I mean, how liquid are you? I can't imagine a man before I go on a date asking this like, fucking red flag. What is your savings account? I mean, like, what is the number? Yeah, the routing number. Basically, sorry, really, how much money can you send right this moment? Also, it's funny because like, he's shooting himself like, low angle, low angle. And the background sound though, I'm pretty sure that's a YMCA that you hear like children playing something. Yeah.

1:04:27Like Akira is flying too close to the sun on wax wings branded with the 49ers logo. His laughable props were his downfall because the feds noticed he had spent over $1,160 at a website specializing in custom football helmets when they got ahold of his. And so many other things too. He's like, he was buying fake money, bought followers. Just they're like, oh, it sounds like you have all the tools you need for this ruse that you're saying. And fakebankaccount.com should probably have, but yeah, a lot of NFL players are clanting him. And the Mets even referenced him. They said, running like Dejan Love when somebody, when they were showing a clip of somebody doing a bad job running the basis. And people are also selling custom Dejan Love jerseys and rookie cards. And which it's just like, it's, it's wild too like that this is also, this is just a common thing

1:05:27of this like lover boy scam that happens. Yeah. Like in it's so pervasive. And there's so many examples of it because it's always like some form of like, I thought he like really liked me and like, he showed me these things that could be our life. Then he's like, you need to fucking send me money. Yeah. Or like, I'm going to really crazy. Yeah. It's like the tinder's wind layer. Did you all watch that documentary? Oh, yeah. It was a guy that did this literally this. Yeah. And they're not targeting rich people. They're like, right. People's bank account. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Really fucking people over. Yeah. And yeah. Yeah. Very sad, but also amazing what he thought he could get away with it. What he was getting away with until he flew too close. People have pointed out that he did this entire scam without AI. So it can't be done. Wow. He's legendary. He's almost applauded him. Right. Yeah. But then I'm like, I tepid applause. No AI. Like he could have, because now, because this has been going on for years and now with how AI is he could have been putting himself, because everyone was like, why aren't you in the roster? He could have put

1:06:28himself in the roster. Right. Yeah. But he didn't. Yeah. Because he was anti the data centers. I actually don't know how to use a. He got one big assist from AI and it wasn't him using it. It was right right. It was Google. Yeah. Oh, they were. It was Google. Fucking up their answers. But I mean, I said, I don't know. He's apparently a wide receiver for the. If I was a scammer and that came up, I would have been a fucking backflip. Oh, so happy. I'm like, oh, he posted. He posted. He was like, that's Google saying. That's me. Yeah. That's Google saying it. So. So yeah. And also don't ask to see a highlight tape at all of me in college, high school or the NFL, because I can't do it. That's right. Yeah. His backstory was that he was like working. His best friends are like the five best wide receivers of all time. Like Tyree. He was like working out with them and they were like, God, damn, you're faster than Tyree. Kill. Really? Me. I like that video. None of them follow him. The team doesn't follow him. Yeah. So many people. They're jealous. They're jealous. Yeah. Did you see that one that lady who was on temptation island who got busted for saying she was like in the Duke Physicians

1:07:31Assistant program? Nope. There was this like woman who was on like, you know, uh, uh, angel Murdoch was her name. She was originally like on a reality show and then she kind of kept like she kept this new grift up where she was saying she was in the Physicians Assistant program at Duke and was like, she was like, get ready with me for my psych rotation or whatever. And then little did she know this program has less than a hundred people in it. Right. So if people started, like she was already kind of famous, then people in the program were like clocking that she was saying she was in like, have, have any of you seen her? Right. And she posted like a graduation photo. That I did see. Yeah. Yeah. People were like, she's like running by the real graduation like drawing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. And then like the class historian for that class was like, I'm the class historian and I'm also a black woman. I know every black person in this program. Sure. So there's no way. I wouldn't notice another black woman in this program. Yeah. And I'm and I feel bad that you have to do this. But it's just like again, there's just like this version of reality that people

1:08:32are so addicted to like these outside perceptions that you're just fucking by any means will just go deeper and deeper. I don't know how they think people are stethoscopes and shit or fake helmets or whatever. How do they? How do like we're in 2026? How do you think people aren't going to find this out? People find old tweets from like random celebrities. They're going to find this out about you. Yeah. It all depends on your audience, right? So like if you're an influencer trying to do it with a younger audience, that's that you probably have a smaller or a shorter shelf life for the bullshit. Whereas like you're going after vulnerable people who are lonely who it doesn't matter. The fact that you are talking to them is enough. Yeah. That's the better mark. I do. I would be interested in seeing the average age of his the people he was going after. Someone more young though. One of them one of them was kind of hot. I'm like, babe, you can do better than this. The one that's been speaking to like the news and stuff. She's kind of young and hot. So I'm like, babe, she's going to Halloween. This is going to be a good viral Halloween. Fake, fake 49 or so. Bigger than a shitty fake money. Even a bunch of Chuck E dolls. It's my costume. That'd be so good.

1:09:34I'm like, five Chuck E boxes. The Chuck E dolls are the deep cut for the real head. They're like who said? Wait, they said I'm like, come on. Come on. Why would I have two thousand dollars in Chuck E dolls, fam? All right. That's going to do it for this week's weekly zeitgeist. Please like and review the show. If you like the show, uh, 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. Bye. Oh.

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