Everything Trump Touches Turns to Sh*t

Summary

The Find Out Podcast – Episode Summary
Episode Title: Everything Trump Touches Turns to Sh*t
Date: March 10, 2026
Host & Panelists: Luke, Rich, Zach, and guests
Theme: Honest, irreverent, left-wing analysis of the chaos and consequences of Trump’s second term, with a heavy focus on economic turmoil, foreign wars, and the growing absurdities in American politics.

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Episode Overview

This episode, self-described as the “Everything Sucks” edition, tackles a litany of current crises under Trump’s second presidency—ranging from jobs and gas prices to the war in Iran and political dysfunction. The hosts blend gallows humor, exasperation, and unfiltered progressive commentary, examining both the immediate pain points and the systemic issues underlying today’s U.S. political landscape.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Economy: Job Losses and Surging Prices

• Opening Hot Take: The show begins with a contrast between Biden’s positive jobs record and the recent 92,000 jobs lost under Trump.
  • Luke (00:00, 01:03): “Joe Biden never had a single month of job losses in his four-year term...He is the only president in history to never have a negative job number in a first term.”
  • Rich & Zach react with disbelief about the current administration’s failures, circling back to the impact on everyday Americans.
• Gas Prices:
  • Gas up 55 cents per gallon in under two weeks—nationally, some places see increases of $1+ (02:14–03:03).
  • Diesel hitting $5+ in many areas (03:00–03:03).
  • General consensus: This is hitting Trump’s base hard, especially truckers, with Rich suggesting, “If truckers are angry at Trump, he is screwed.” (04:18–04:28)

2. The War With Iran: The Infinite Quagmire

• Reality Check:
  • Seventh U.S. service member killed in the ongoing conflict with Iran (02:16, 36:30).
  • U.S. bombs have caused civilian casualties, including 180 girls killed in a double-strike (23:27–23:27).
  • Luke (24:19): “According to reports this weekend, he is strongly, strongly considering ground troops.”
  • No clear plan or exit; U.S. may be in a “Chinese finger trap” scenario (24:08–24:14).
• Political Fallout:
  • No public enthusiasm for the war, even among usual Republican supporters (46:00–46:40).
  • Gas price spikes are a direct, visible consequence—can’t hide the cost. (47:12–47:43)
  • Rich (22:51): “He's going to tank another 3%. He's gonna wave his arm, say, we won, we're done. Regime change is done. And leave.”

3. Trump’s Contradictory and Destructive Decisions

• No Grand Strategy:
  • Hosts mock Trump’s lack of both short- and long-term planning.
  • Unknown Guest (40:02): “A strategy that's bad is one thing, but a strategy that directly contradicts your past strategy...you have to be uniquely intelligent to be that bad at being good.”
• Making Life Worse for Supporters:
  • Tariffs and oil policy are driving up the cost of goods and fuel for the very voters Trump claims to champion.
  • The hosts speculate Trump’s only real “plan” is to distract with foreign policy when domestic issues flare (45:02–45:19).
• Missed Political Opportunities:
  • If Trump had simply coasted or “golfed,” America might have benefited from economic momentum and he’d be far more popular (09:59–10:04, 10:25–10:42).

4. The Immigration/Deportation Debate

• The podcast highlights the dangerous rhetoric and moral bankruptcy of the Trump movement regarding mass deportations:
  • Luke (06:49): “They had signs...that said ‘mass deportations now’...that audience of 20,000 people is like this bloodthirsty. Like, let's—how else do you think that a mass deportation is going to happen?”
  • Zach (07:24): “They thought he was just going to go after criminals. Like...anybody with a brain and who doesn't like Trump could see that this was coming.”

5. Conservative Media Influence and Bro Podcasters

• The hosts lay blame at the feet of figures like Joe Rogan and Andrew Schulz for normalizing Trump and then displaying buyer’s remorse (05:19–05:41).
  • Luke (05:42): “America is paying the price because a 58 year old podcaster decided to finally pay attention to politics.”
  • Repeatedly, the show mocks media figures who promoted Trump but now object to his worst policies.

6. Corruption & GOP Rot: Kristi Noem and Markwayne Mullin

• Kristi Noem Firing: Celebrated for being replaced, but “with someone equally atrocious,” Markwayne Mullin—who once challenged a union boss to a fistfight and is allegedly insecure about his height. (01:12–01:57)
• $200M TV Ad Scandal:
  • Noem awarded a massive no-bid contract to a company set up just 8 days prior.
  • Rich (16:35): “More than the entire budget of Spider-Man: No Way Home.”
  • The scandal is likened to the movie “War Dogs” (17:27), underscoring the comical level of grift and inexperience.

7. Political Hypotheticals – Would a Longer Trump Era Be Worse?

• Panelists debate whether it would have been better for Trump to win in 2020 or 2024, weighing the impact of consecutive years of damage vs. the new, more “MAGA-fied” administration (12:13–13:59).

8. Political Satire: Video Games as a Battleground

• Rich describes his meta “campaign” in online shooter games, making pro-Trump players endure long punishments unless they support progressive causes (30:23–33:39).
  • Could this be a template for a new kind of political activism?
  • Zach (35:04): “I think that that's the kind of thing that will win you votes.”

9. Calls for Progressive Reform and 2028 Hopes

• The group discusses dreams for a post-Trump government, including major tax reforms (21:09–21:34) and the need to “reimagine government,” not return to “business as usual” (20:11–21:02).
  • Zach (21:56): “I'm gonna need a Costco size Xanax prescription for the 2028 election cycle.”

10. Get Fucked: The Outrage Segment

• Notable Rant:
  • Rich singles out Rep. Andy Ogles and neo-Nazi Jake Lang for vile, Islamophobic public stunts, and white nationalist provocations (50:22–52:44).
  • Rich (50:47): “This one goes out to two tremendously large pieces of shit...and they both need to get fucked expeditiously...”
• Public Shaming of Far-Right Figures:
  • The show calls for open contempt towards right-wing provocateurs getting mainstream Republican support (53:00–53:31).

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Memorable Quotes & Moments

• On Trump’s Supporters:
  • Rich (05:33): “Joe Rogan. We are all suffering because Joe Rogan is too much of an inbred piece of...to figure out that this is exactly what was going to happen.”
• On Trump’s Administration:
  • Luke (10:59): “This is what happens when you vote for a guy who bankrupted casinos.”
• On Short-Term Political ‘Strategy’:
  • Unknown Guest (40:02): “A strategy that's bad is one thing, but a strategy that directly contradicts your past strategy...”
• Rage-As-Activism in Gaming:
  • Rich (31:46): “If they answer wrong [about Trump], I verbally berate them as long as humanly possible...I don’t want them to feel safe in spaces.”
• On the War’s Cost:
  • Unknown Guest (43:07): “Every day in Iran could fully fund the VA for a week.”
• Biting Summary:
  • Rich (53:53): “Everything sucks. Brought to you by Find Out Podcast.”

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 00:00 – 03:23: Jobs report, gas price surge, opening complaints on “everything sucks.”
• 04:18 – 05:17: Iowa’s truck stop, trucker sentiment, gas prices and Trump’s vulnerability.
• 05:19 – 06:49: Bro podcasters (Rogan et al.), conservative media enabling Trump.
• 06:49 – 09:01: Mass deportation, mindless cruelty, and how supporters justify it.
• 12:13 – 14:44: Would a Trump win in 2020 have been better/worse? Panelists debate.
• 16:02 – 18:52: Kristi Noem’s scandal, $200 million ad contract, GOP corruption.
• 20:11 – 22:17: Reimagining government post-Trump, Van Hollen tax reform proposal.
• 22:47 – 25:24: War in Iran details, U.S. stuck, no clear outcome or strategy.
• 30:23 – 35:00: Video game activism—Rich’s meta anti-MAGA online antics.
• 50:22 – 53:53: “Get Fucked” segment: Calling out Andy Ogles, Jake Lang, and far-right bigotry.
• 53:53 – End: Closing round, dark humor, new media projects, “everything sucks” wrap-up.

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Tone and Style

Irreverent, biting, and sometimes exasperated, the hosts’ discourse bounces from dark humor to serious progressive critique, always keeping the tone accessible and informal (“just normal dudes you can shoot the shit with”). There’s a heavy mix of humor and righteous indignation, intended to both vent and galvanize.

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For Listeners

If you haven’t heard this one, expect a smart, hilarious, and unfiltered breakdown of American political dysfunction, with a focus on how Trump’s second term is unraveling both daily life and basic governance. The episode is full of both sharp insights and cathartic, half-comedic rage—bitter but never surrendering its sense of the absurd.

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Find Out Podcast continues its mission of no echo chambers, no bullshit—just real talk (and a lot of justified swearing).

Transcript

[Luke]

Joe Biden never had a single month of job losses in his four year term.

[Rich]

Yes you did, you fucking idiot.

[Luke]

Once you get involved, you can't get out.

[Zach]

What are we doing in Iran? And I was like, I don't know, I can't tell you anything.

[Rich]

So there's this game called Arc Raiders that I play a lot.

[Luke]

Some places with under $2 gallons, we can't find them. What is one way you excite Republicans?

[Unknown Guest]

War shot a missile and hit a school. It was before, you know, service people

[Luke]

were dying and so Vietnam is a perfect example. Our company, Find Out Media. Hey everybody and welcome back to the Find out podcast. Unfortunately, I don't know if this is going to be the title of the episode, but this is kind of the everything Sucks episode of, of the Find out podcast because really everything sucks. So we're going to talk about all of it. I mean that's, I mean like there's a jobs report on Friday which there was a. We lost 92,000 jobs. By the way, Joe Biden never had a single month of job losses in his four year term.

[Zach]

Is that true?

[Luke]

It is true. He is the only president in history to never have a negative job number in a first term.

[Zach]

Joey B. I love it.

[Luke]

So we have that. Kristi Noem being fired is a good thing, but she's being replaced with an equally atrocious Mark Wayne Mullen, who actually is a senator from Mark Wayne's One Word.

[Rich]

By the way, the senator in history,

[Luke]

Tommy Tuberville is there, my friend who didn't know about the three branches of government. What Mark Wayne did challenge the head of the auto workers to a fist fight. Yeah. In a hearing.

[Zach]

Yes.

[Luke]

So you know, perfect on the cruelty scale. Also guys, this is really petty. But he's very short and they've caught him using these little blocks to stand on when he stands behind a podium. So I would never do that to anybody who's a decent human being. But somebody who is like, I'm a big, big A beta or a big alpha male. He's definitely a beta.

[Zach]

But

[Luke]

look at it from this, from his. It's a debate that you could see the.

[Zach]

He's five eight, I'm five inch.

[Rich]

Turn yourself down a little, Zach.

[Luke]

You're loud. Zach's getting all fired up about 58 being too called short.

[Rich]

Well, he hid behind a chair on January 6th too.

[Luke]

He did do that. So there's those two pieces, obviously, like sad news. We've lost a seventh service member in the war with Iran and I am going to Call it a war. I'm not going to do the stupid. That's what it fucking is, is a war. And then also, gas prices have exploded across the country. I took my son to school this morning and we walk by a gas station every day. Do you want to know how much it's up? I think in the last week, but maybe two weeks. Let's see, 55 cents. It went from 260 a gallon to 315. And we're hearing stories of 40, 50, 60 cents per gallon across the country.

[Zach]

Isn't it like a dollar where you are, Luke?

[Rich]

It's a dollar more expensive.

[Luke]

It's up a dollar.

[Zach]

That's insane.

[Rich]

Diesel's over 5 here, the average.

[Luke]

Yeah, diesel, yeah, Diesel's over. Is that 4.99 here. We don't use as much diesel as you do. I saw that price this morning as well. But, you know. Oh, and also just prices are up everywhere. So, guys, what makes you happy right now? What's the. What's the good. Do we have anything? Is there anything at all other than the fact.

[Zach]

Awful. But it's true. All kind of makes me happy because it just means that Trump is just making more and more people leave his side. Like, in the end. What.

[Luke]

Who's.

[Zach]

Who's he getting from this? No one. He's just. Right. Right. But there's so many people who are looking at this going, what is this? It's awful. So, like, the more this stuff happens, I look at it and go, this.

[Rich]

So here's the question. Do they really pay attention? That's always what I want.

[Zach]

When they drive past the gas station. They do.

[Luke]

Well, see, that's the thing, right? You got to get. It has to hit them in the face or they're not going to get it.

[Rich]

So a claim to fame here in Iowa is we have the world's largest truck stop and it has. It has gas prices on these just fucking ginormous fucking billboards that you can see from miles. Yeah, see, I cannot wait. Sounds terrible. I can't wait to see it hit $4 a gallon gas.

[Luke]

Luke, you should go with your. I will. No, no, you should go. And I want you to talk to truckers because. Because if truckers are angry at Trump, he is screwed.

[Zach]

That's true.

[Luke]

Remember the first. Remember the first become armed.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Unknown Guest]

Remember.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Luke]

Remember the.

[Rich]

Remember the first heavy.

[Luke]

But don't you remember the first term when they brought a bunch of, like, big rigs and they put. Trump actually got the sit.

[Zach]

Yes.

[Luke]

And he looks like a little kid in A candy store. Because he's like, I'm, like, I'm a big boy. I'm driving a truck. Like all of us did when he

[Rich]

was just like he did when he was in that garbage truck for the 24 election.

[Luke]

Well, that one. But he almost ate it.

[Zach]

On, God.

[Rich]

What I wouldn't get, what I would

[Zach]

give would have been so funny.

[Unknown Guest]

Yeah.

[Luke]

I mean, Zach, mine was the same. I would have framed it a little bit differently. And the fact that, like, I think a blue wave. Yeah, more of a tsunami is forming. But it's true. I mean, like, the thing that is really frustrating about a lot of this, as Luke smashes this.

[Rich]

Sorry, sorry, sorry.

[Luke]

Getting. Getting ready to do battle. Yeah, we're getting ready to do battle with the truckers, you know.

[Rich]

Oh, and that's not the kind of armed I'd come with.

[Luke]

No, I know, I know, I know. But it's, it is sad. But, like, you know, also, we're seeing all these bro, bro podcasters being like, I didn't vote for this. This is what I voted for, you idiot. Yes, you did.

[Rich]

Joe Rogan. We are all suffering because Joe Rogan is too much of an inbred piece of. To figure out that this is exactly what was going to happen.

[Zach]

Yes.

[Luke]

Oh, don't, don't take, don't take anabolic steroids, guys. It's not good for you in all kinds of ways. Well, I did see something that said that, like, we are America is paying the price because a 58 year old podcaster decided to finally pay attention to politics. It's like, yeah, Yep, that's very fair. It's not wrong. I mean, I don't think that Trump going on Joe Rogan won him the election, but, like, Rogan actively. Well, he endorsed him and promoted him. And then all of a sudden he's like, well, I don't, I don't like this ice stuff. Whoa. I don't like this Iran warsup. Well, I don't like this. I don't like all of the things he's doing. Well, and Andrew Schultz is another one, right? They're like, oh, we love this big tough man now. They're like, wait. And my answer, my question to them is, what did you think he was going to do? Right? Like what? Because we all thought this is what it was going to be.

[Rich]

Did you watch a single second of those fucking campaign rallies? Every one of them sounded like a goddamn clan rally. And every part of it was him saying just shit like this. We're going to go around America we're going to go around the country and we're going to be. We're going to be big swinging dicks. And that's. That's what he is. That's what he's doing. He's a rapist doing rapist things.

[Luke]

Well, yes, but don't forget at the Republican National Convention last August, they had signs that people were holding in the crowd, which were produced by the rnc, because they're all the same that said mass deportations now.

[Zach]

Yes.

[Luke]

That people were holding. So, I mean, unless they just didn't watch or they just. I don't know, like, the crowd is like, that audience of 20,000 people is like this bloodthirsty. Like, let's. How do you else. Do you think that a mass deportation is going to happen? Then all of a sudden we just, like, open the door and say, okay, everybody, come on now. And they're like, oh, yeah, this is working. We should have done this a long time ago.

[Zach]

I can tell you two things. One is they don't think about the context at all. So they just don't think about how it's actually going to work. But in this particular instance, like, they thought he was just going to go after criminals. Like, they didn't think this is how it was going to go. Like, anybody with a brain and who doesn't like Trump could see that this was coming. But anybody who liked Trump was like, oh, he's, you know, he's just going to get the criminals out. Like, now you're going to get a bunch of just regular folks out, too, and it's going to be brutal as shit. And you're not. And I mean, like, I think, like, we all made posts about this during the election. Like, this is coming, you know, just wait, just give it a second.

[Luke]

And also, also, every administration since we have had an issue with immigration has gone after the criminals.

[Zach]

Right.

[Rich]

Like, it's not a new thing.

[Luke]

It's not.

[Zach]

No.

[Luke]

Did they think that Joe Biden was just, like, letting. Oh, well, we're just going to let some rapists and murderers stay.

[Zach]

Right.

[Rich]

Well, that's what, that's what they were told, though, that he let them in.

[Zach]

Right? Yes.

[Luke]

Oh, yeah. They just open the door. Which, like, I know our audience knows this isn't true, but I'm going to say it anyways. We have never had open borders.

[Zach]

No.

[Luke]

Like, it does. Unless you're talking about, like, those very dangerous, like, places in Texas that go through, like, the national park. And it's very dangerous, frankly. Like, a lot of People die when they try to go across. Like, they don't. Like, it's not a thing.

[Zach]

No, it's not like an open door. I mean, we've had bad border enforcement that's. I'd say argue that Biden was not good at enforcing the border, but he definitely didn't open the door. Like, come on in. It'll be great. You'll love it. Like, it's not what happened.

[Luke]

Well, don't forget that. Like, I don't disagree, but he had a. They had a bill with bipartisan agreement, 1500 more border agents on the ground two years ago.

[Zach]

Yep.

[Luke]

And Donald Trump told Mitch McConnell. And was that Mike Johnson then? Or one of those Johnson or Kevin McCarthy? And he goes, kill it, because it's not good for my election chances.

[Zach]

And he was right. You know what?

[Luke]

He was right.

[Zach]

He was absolutely right.

[Rich]

He was 100% right.

[Zach]

There's no question about it. But, you know, the fun. It makes me think of the funniest thing. Like, there are two things that Trump has done that I think, like, he could have used his ammunition in the midterms, and he fucked both of them with this whole thing. One is that he did get border crossings, like, significantly down. He delivered on that. The ICE part aside, like, he, you know, that's getting people out, people coming in. He actually had a winning argument there, and it's gone because of the entire ICE thing. So he screwed himself there, and then he did have gas prices coming down, and then he screwed himself with Iran. It's like the two things where he's like, okay, yeah, it did a decent job. Gone. Can't use him at all.

[Luke]

The. The wild thing about this, and this would have been the same in the first term, is if he had just golfed and had no legislative agenda whatsoever,

[Rich]

he could have just.

[Luke]

He would be at 60%.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Luke]

Because he would just be like, everything's amazing. Everything is great. It's beautiful. We have this beautiful, like, no immigration. And people just be like, uh huh, huh, because my gas prices are low and, like, rates are coming down and all that. He could have just, like, done himself nothing. Instead, like, all of the bad things that are happening right now, or most of them are direct result of him.

[Zach]

It's poor judgment. It's just. It's truly just like. Because you're right, there's a lot of this stuff where he easily could have just, like, done nothing and everything was already in sort of like, recovery mode anyway. He does a couple of tweaks at boom. He looks like a Genius. He did the same thing in his first term. He didn't do very much. He just let Obama.

[Luke]

That tax cut. That was it. Right.

[Zach]

And, like, even that in the short term is beneficial economically. So it's like he just looked great. But then this is.

[Rich]

This is what happens when you vote for a guy who bankrupted casinos. Because a casino is just like that. You open it and you let people come in and then you take their fucking money. That's all you have to do. Well, but no, he couldn't do that either.

[Luke]

I mean, it's the same during COVID If he had gotten everybody to take Covid seriously and, like, led, he would have won that election. It wouldn't even been close. Nope. Because it would have been like one of the. It's like sort of The George Bush after 911 thing, which he squandered as well. But, like, there was a period where George Bush was at 80, 90%.

[Zach]

Oh, it's crazy.

[Luke]

Like, and people don't. Like, this was 25 years ago. People don't really remember this, but it's true.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Luke]

And it was 92%, I think. And he did that thing where he, like, got up on the rubble with the firefighter and he's like, all these guys are going to hear. Everyone in the entire country went, yes.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Luke]

And, like, Trump could. That was Trump's moment. Instead, he was like, no masks. No masks.

[Rich]

Nope, nope.

[Luke]

Covid's fine. Covid's fine. Hermit Cain's dying in his crowd. Like, all these people are like, you know, and he's just like, no, no, no, there's nothing here.

[Zach]

Yep.

[Luke]

I want the credit for the vaccines, but don't take the vaccine.

[Zach]

Like, it's just like, it was ridiculous. I don't know. Yeah, it's. It's one of those things where, like, he. I mean, think about this. He almost. I mean, he didn't almost win, but he was pretty close despite all of that. That's the part that.

[Luke]

Oh, 2020. Yeah.

[Zach]

Like, Biden won, but, like. And his electoral woman is pretty fine. But then you look at the raw math, and it's like a ton of people liked how he did Covid. And, like, that's the part for me that.

[Luke]

Right.

[Zach]

I. Breaks my brain. Like, how could you look at his decisions and go, that's great. Did.

[Rich]

So here's a question somebody asked me the other day that I was, like, just dumb. Dumbfounded by. Would you have rather had Trump win the 20 election or the 24 election?

[Luke]

If you had to pick 2424. I'll tell you why.

[Zach]

Why?

[Rich]

All right.

[Luke]

Because eight consecutive years would be almost impossible to come back from. I think that there was some good work that was done in between. I think Joe Biden will be. Other than the decision to run again from a policy perspective, at an impact perspective, very good. You know, was rebuilding things. I think if we had given him another term after Covid, I don't, I mean, I don't know if it would be as destructive, but like, like the consecutive years I think would be devastating.

[Zach]

I, I have the, I think the alternate way just because of a different factor. In his first term, he was surrounded by a bunch of regular like just boring ass Republicans. He didn't have like Pete Hegseths and people like that who are woefully underqualified and just like MAGA hardliner around him this time around. He's like, I'm not bringing anybody who knows anything into my administration.

[Rich]

Anybody who'll tell me, no, you're getting out.

[Zach]

Exactly. That's why he had such crazy ass turnover in his first term because he's just like cycling through people who are like, hey, this is a bad idea. Nope, you're out. And it just, that's why I got

[Rich]

rid of Christine Ohm. Right. Like she, she started to put the blame back on him and he said, you're out.

[Luke]

Yeah, but don't we think that. Won't you think all those idiots would have been in the second term? Because there wasn't going to be anybody else.

[Zach]

But at least the, the, at least the baseline was way more functional than the current baseline. And that like, you're right, it probably would have shifted. But a lot of this shift he made this time was because he had this four years of like revenge tour shit.

[Luke]

True.

[Zach]

If he won, he might have just been like, oh shit, this work and I'm still president. Right. And he just keeps going, you know, so that's why I would have picked 20.

[Rich]

I think I would sooner pick 20. I think he would have jerked himself off for four years and been done.

[Zach]

Yep, I agree.

[Luke]

I think my only, my only problem with that. Well, is that, you know, we also got Justice Breyer off the court and, and we were able to get Jackson in there, which basically switched out an 80 year old for a 50 year old, which, you know, he lived, he did end up living through that term, but then again, we don't know what this term would, we don't know who would be president right now.

[Zach]

True.

[Luke]

You know, after that, like if he had. Because you know, let's say he won by the slimmest margins, but he. He still lost, like, Georgia. Like, he wasn't gonna let that go. Like, I, I. All that election stuff. I don't know. I mean, it's really interesting. I'd love to hear what people think in, in the comments. Like, what you think.

[Rich]

I mean, so, like, then. Then you. Then you wonder, January 6th never happens. What does that do to him? And, and the Republican Party politically if January six doesn't happen?

[Luke]

Well, it might. It puts them in a stronger position. Right. Because I think I. There are people who looked at that went, nope.

[Rich]

But, yeah, maybe, maybe, maybe on the ground it does. But as a party, they maybe had, like, a slight bit more spine before January 6th. As soon as January 6th came around and they all decided, all right, this is the Hill we're gonna. We're gonna go to bat for. We're gonna defend a fucking insurrection attempt. There is nothing we will not defend.

[Zach]

Yeah, right.

[Rich]

There you go.

[Zach]

That's fair. I. I think. I think it opened. It opened us the scab. It kind of kept ripping the scab off the healing to the point where all the people just went, all right, fuck it, I guess we're gonna have a scar now. And, like, they just kind of leaned into that shit. So I think January 6th was sort of like, it was their ability to realize, oh, we can do anything we want. We can press, like, it doesn't matter. Like, if we can almost overthrow the. It doesn't matter, and it's fine. We could. We could do whatever we want. And I think it emboldened Trump and all those people to get to where they are now, where they're like, hey, I'll put a fucking TV anchor in front of the department, change its name to the Department of War, then go to war with Iran. It'll still be fine.

[Luke]

If you.

[Zach]

We could just. Years ago. My mistake.

[Luke]

Alcoholic weekend acre with white nationalist tattoos.

[Zach]

Yes.

[Luke]

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I don't know. It's really. It's an interesting exercise, which. None of which is good. Obviously, I'd love to be in someone else's presidency right now, but we don't know if, like, you know, I don't know. So it's. It's an interesting thing. But I do, I do want to go back to the Kristy Noam thing because I think it's funny, like, he only fired her because he figured out that she spent $200 million on a TV ad that promoted herself. It wasn't all the. It wasn't all the awful shit. Right. It was the. It was the ones you all see at the airports. Those cost 220 million or 200 million

[Rich]

more than the entire budget of Spider Man. No way home.

[Zach]

That's insane. How is that possible? What is the money spent on that is like a room and a green screen.

[Rich]

Like, it's, it's. It was a. It was a no minimum. No minimum, no bid budget.

[Luke]

Was that the eight. Was that the one where the company had been set up? Eight days. Eight days. Eight days, yeah.

[Zach]

So.

[Luke]

So for those who didn't see Christy. No. Had these horrendous hearings last week where she just got destroyed, like, over and over again.

[Zach]

Yes.

[Luke]

And then there was a congressman,

[Rich]

I

[Luke]

can't remember his name, but was like, do you know this company? She's like, no. She's like, do you know how much, like, this company got? And they're like $200 million. And he's like, but they were incorporated eight days before they won that contract. How is that possible? She's like, I'll have to get back to you. I'm like, but, you know, these people like you.

[Rich]

It's literally War Dog. That's what it is.

[Luke]

Yes.

[Rich]

It reminds me of that movie, War Dogs.

[Luke]

Yes. Which for those who don't know, War Dogs is a movie in which these two kids, basically, and it's based on a true story, set up this company to. To make bids on supplying arms to Iraq.

[Zach]

Right.

[Luke]

Or in Iraq, Afghanistan wars. And they won. Yep. And like, they got in trouble and stuff later. But, like, that was.

[Rich]

They ran a company for a while, though.

[Luke]

They did. And they made a ton of money. Did they go to jail for that?

[Rich]

One of them did. I think the other one was, like, on house arrest for the most time.

[Luke]

Yeah. One was like, the one that clearly broke the law. I can't remember the. I was. Jonah Hill was. Yeah. Because he was like the one that was all in. Right. And the Miles Teller character was sort of like.

[Rich]

Well. And he kind of like Miles Teller's character.

[Luke]

Yeah, that's what I thought. I haven't seen that movie in forever.

[Rich]

Good movie.

[Luke]

The Corrupt. I mean, the thing is, like, last week, like, people just kind of glossed over it, but it was like, we awarded a 20% of $1 billion to a company that incorporated eight days before. Now, I wish when. I wish we knew that when we incorporated, find out, like, could have gotten 200 million, like, eight days, we passed that barrier. It's just, it's, it's, it's Crazy.

[Zach]

Like, how is it $200 million. That's the part I still can't understand. What was it spent on?

[Luke]

Well, they did, she did film in South Dakota. I don't know if you noticed that. There's a, there's a segment of that ad, and also there's a couple ads, so I think that adds to the cost. But, like, where she's on a horse.

[Rich]

Yeah.

[Luke]

And she rides up to the wash to the Mount Rushmore, and her, her head is perfectly aligned.

[Zach]

God.

[Luke]

With everybody else.

[Zach]

Great.

[Luke]

That's not an accident.

[Zach]

No, that's not an accident. But I, I, I just, I'm very stuck on this. Like, if a Spider man movie costs the same amount, you have famous actors and green screens and also, where the, did the money go?

[Rich]

You know, right into the corn. Lewandowski's pocket.

[Zach]

Right. That's what, there's got to be an investigation. Like, that's one of the key investigations Democrats have to do in the night.

[Luke]

100%. I mean, there's the money go. They're gonna, there's gonna have to be a special prosecutor for every single department. It's like, God, can you imagine? Here's your for Commerce. Here's yours for Interior. Here's yours for dhs.

[Rich]

Like, it's like people ask me, People ask me, like, what are you going to do when Trump's not president anymore? I'm going to cover this.

[Zach]

Yes.

[Rich]

Because my cousin's going to do a 180. It's going to be me gleefully describing the hell that these people are going through.

[Zach]

You'll become the Internet's happiness translator.

[Luke]

It's so happy. You can get happy.

[Rich]

No, I'll still be telling them to get. Yeah, that's true, but only this time, get in prison.

[Luke]

I'm not going to fall. I'm not following up on that. No. But it is interesting because it's like, you know, we have three years, so

[Zach]

it's like, oh, my God.

[Luke]

But, you know, there is going to have to be investigation. I mean, like, there is going to have to be investigations, but we're also going to have to be holding hopefully the Democratic administration accountable for basically reimagining government. Because nobody wants the same.

[Rich]

Get to work.

[Luke]

Yeah, nobody. Nobody wants. Like, if anybody's. I mean, no one's dumb enough to do this, but it's like, let's get back to business as usual.

[Rich]

It's like back to brunch. Wrong.

[Luke]

But, like, someone has to come up with a vision for what this looks like moving forward. Because it wasn't working before.

[Zach]

No.

[Luke]

Who do you think could do that?

[Zach]

I don't know. It's just rough.

[Luke]

Well, there is one dark horse that put out something last week that is an interesting start, which is Senator Chris Van Holland, who we is a friend of the pod. I don't know if I'm allowed. Is that a trademark? Did I have to be?

[Rich]

I think we should come up with it. Yeah.

[Luke]

No, no, I just mean there's another podcast that says Friends of the pod. Oh.

[Rich]

Oh, interesting.

[Luke]

Sorry, sorry, sorry.

[Rich]

Crooked Tim's a thief.

[Luke]

Friend of the Find out podcast. Chris Van Holland, a senator from Maryland put out a proposal last week. What was it? To eliminate taxes on anyone earning under 100,000.

[Zach]

I think it was under like the living wage.

[Rich]

The living wage? Yeah.

[Luke]

Oh, it's the living wage. So it's lower. So what is that like, like 90

[Zach]

something for a family? Like six for a family of four, family of her. Single or 40 something for a single. Whatever it was. I like. The idea is super fudgeing smart. It's a great idea.

[Luke]

But these are. I mean, I'm not saying that's the solution. That's a piece. Right. But like, you know, in the idea is that the, you know, millionaires to billionaires would pay more. But I think I. But these are the kind of things like this is part of the reason why I'm not. Part of me shrugs when I'm like, oh my God, there's gonna be 3, 000 candidates running. On the other hand, it's like there's gonna be so many ideas.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Luke]

That come out that. And they'll all steal from each other.

[Zach]

They should.

[Rich]

I'm gonna need a Costco size Xanax prescription for the 2028 election cycle.

[Zach]

Oh my God, it's gonna be so fun. I can't wait.

[Rich]

It's not going to be fun at all.

[Luke]

We're gonna need. We're gonna need a bourbon company to sponsor us because not.

[Rich]

Not me though. Only you guys.

[Luke]

All right, you can have this.

[Rich]

I get a pre workout subscription.

[Luke]

Yeah, you'll get this, you'll get the Xanax and we'll.

[Unknown Guest]

We'll take.

[Luke]

We'll take the bourbon.

[Zach]

Oh, this is my favorite kind of stuff. Like I'll just.

[Rich]

Sponsored by Big Pharma and Jim Beam.

[Unknown Guest]

Oh, yeah.

[Luke]

Everybody would love us in that. In that.

[Zach]

Oh, yeah, yeah, that's all right. Make the money.

[Luke]

But, but anyway, so back to, back to everything lovely that's going on here now. So we're in what that We've now made a full week of Iran and now two days. We're taping on Monday, but you'll hear this on Tuesday. Anyone have a. Anyone got an idea of why we're there?

[Rich]

No.

[Luke]

We heard any.

[Rich]

Why we're here, but I'll give you my. My prediction for the future.

[Luke]

Sure, let's hear it.

[Rich]

He's gonna tank another 3%. He's gonna wave his arm, say, we won, we're done. Regime change is done. And leave.

[Zach]

Yep.

[Rich]

Because gas is going to be $4 a gallon. He's gonna go, I can't do anything with this.

[Luke]

You think that's gonna work, though?

[Rich]

It won't work. I mean, we've. We've. We've traded Khomeini for Khomeini and literally. Literally. And this guy just had his wife bombed and his dad bombed.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Rich]

So I don't really. Don't really understand. Anywhere we go, he's going to be less radical than the last one.

[Zach]

Yeah. To me, it'll be a stop the bleeding moment, but enough blood will have been lost where. I don't think he can.

[Rich]

Yeah. I mean, literally seven people have died so far.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Luke]

Yeah. And I think it was 180 girls. So. And it. And I think it has now essentially been confirmed that that was a U.S. bomb because they hit it twice. Yeah, yeah, they went. They hit it twice. So Iran did not, like, accidentally have two missiles fail in the exact same spot and land in the exact same spot. I'm sorry, that's just not believable. We did that. So. But, like, does he win people back by doing. Like, this is. This is why you don't get involved, because once you get involved, you can't get out.

[Zach]

Right.

[Luke]

Like, this is. Vietnam is a perfect example. Like, weak, slow, Walked ourselves into that war. And then we went, oh, my God, there's 70,000, man.

[Rich]

It's like a Chinese finger trap. He's stuck. I mean, he stuck something more important than a finger in.

[Luke]

Oh, he's in trouble. I don't know.

[Zach]

I don't know.

[Luke]

I don't know how you get out of it.

[Zach]

Well, I mean, it's easier now. It's easier now because there's not boots on the ground. But if he puts troops in, then it's like, very, very complicated. But right now it's just like, just stop bombing.

[Luke]

But according to reports this weekend, he is strong. He's strongly, strongly considering ground troops. Now, look, in a war, you say things to throw your enemy off. Like, there were reports this weekend that American troops were captured. Al Jazeera reported on it. I haven't heard it. The US has denied it, and we have not seen any evidence. So, like, there are.

[Rich]

I'm.

[Luke]

There's an infinite information war going on here as well. But ground troops, man.

[Zach]

Like, I don't get it.

[Luke]

I just don't know what we're gonna get.

[Zach]

I don't know.

[Luke]

There's a story today that came out that said the analysis of a long, protracted war across the Middle east would not topple the regime. Right, so then how are we doing that, then?

[Zach]

I don't know that. I mean, that's. That's the answer to almost every question. Every question about, I don't know. You know, it's like, I got. I got a haircut yesterday.

[Rich]

More importantly, he doesn't know.

[Zach]

No, he doesn't know.

[Rich]

He doesn't know.

[Zach]

Like, I. I've been getting my haircut by the same person for, like, two years, and she always asks me political questions. She asked this first question, she asked, like, what are we doing in Iran? And I'm like, I don't know. I can't tell you anything. I have no idea. I could make a bunch of bad guesses, but nobody fucking knows. And that's like, is he dementia? I don't know.

[Unknown Guest]

You know?

[Luke]

Well, I also think he. He has neocons all around him.

[Zach]

Yes.

[Luke]

And people who are bloodthirsty and, like, feel like, well, we spend $1 trillion a year on the military, we should use it. I'm like, I feel like that's the opposite. Like, that is. It should be a deterrent, not an offensive weapon.

[Zach]

He's listening to weird voices.

[Rich]

Because I read that fucking Christian nationalists in the fucking Oval Office putting hands on him, praying, because they want him to start fucking Armageddon.

[Zach]

That's the thing. It's like, there's people in there that I don't think we know very well, because I know for a fact, I was reading this report yesterday, that Vance and Rubio were not fans of this.

[Luke]

Like, they were.

[Zach]

They were opponents of it. And then they've gotten on board now because they have no fudgeing choice. But when you're second in command and then your Secretary of State are like, no, we don't like it, and then. But I'll do it anyway. Okay. Who the fuck convinced you then? Because you're the two people you should probably be listening to the most. Didn't do the job.

[Luke]

Well, I'll tell you one person. His name is Bibi Netanyahu.

[Zach]

Yes, that's true.

[Luke]

He has been pushing Trump for years to do this.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Luke]

Because he wants to do it. Because he thinks that the way he could stay in power, which is probably right, is to wage a war with Iran, push off elections, and because he's got corruption stuff that's still hanging over his head once he's out.

[Zach]

Oh, yeah.

[Luke]

And then you also see opposition parties in Israel saying that they're on board with it, too.

[Zach]

Yes.

[Luke]

So for. For them, it's a perfect scenario. You get your opposition telling you you're doing the right thing. You get the US Come pulling and do a lot of your dirty work for you. And then it turns out this weekend that apparently Israel was hitting fuel depots, which pissed off Trump, because, you know, that's one thing he understands that oil go boom, so do prices.

[Zach]

Right.

[Luke]

Like, he's just like, oh, I get that.

[Zach]

That's true.

[Luke]

You know, it's. But so I don't know. Also, Marco Rubio and J.D. vance both want to be president.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Luke]

They are sitting here, getting my chance. And state. And state. And they're having to. There is now hours of footage of them explaining, defending, like, someone. I don't know if I fully believe this, but someone I saw, like, a few people this weekend said or last week, they were like, oh, J.D. vance. Yeah, that presidency is not happening now. No, I mean, I think. I think it does.

[Rich]

Serious trouble.

[Luke]

It's real problem for him, 100%.

[Zach]

I mean, it's. And a lot of this justification, too. It's like, it doesn't make any sense. Like, going back to the Israel thing. Like, Blinken, I saw a video of him coming in and being like, the same thing. Like, Israel came to us during the Biden administration were like, hey, we're going to. We want to wage, like, a war on. I think it was on Lebanon and Syria, because we have, like, after October 7th, we have valid intel that says that they're about to attack us. And Biden was like, yeah, no, if you get attacked, we'll be with you, but until you do, we're not doing that. And Trump did the polar opposite with this, where he like, well, we're going to go fight Iran with or without you. And they're like, all right, fuck it, let's go. Like, it's.

[Luke]

Well, also, Syria and Lebanon did not attack.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Luke]

So, like that. But also the other thing is that Benjamin Netanyahu has been saying that Iran is like, a month away from a nuclear. There's been 30 years.

[Rich]

A super cut of it. Yeah. It turns my fucking stomach to think the sheer amount of like warfare and murder that's happened because he sat up there and lied.

[Zach]

Yep.

[Luke]

Well, 130 girls.

[Rich]

Yep.

[Luke]

Right. But I mean there's a whole. I mean you could add new. All of Palestinians, you know, people in the west bank, all over the Lebanon, which they've got. You know, Israel has invaded Lebanon now, which no one's talking about. And it's like how many wars do we have now, guys? Like this is. And, and you know, and then also the, the administration has been putting out these horrible AI like slop videos that are mixed with like us like bombing stuff. And it's supposed to be like I. All I could, all I could hear is Team America, World Police in my head the America yes song. Because it's like so over the top and so like does this. I mean I know it fires certain people up, but I'm like, I, I can be a supporter of an action if we're defending ourselves, but I'm still not going to cheer the bombing of people.

[Unknown Guest]

No.

[Luke]

It's such a weird super macho.

[Rich]

Like I should never imagine that.

[Zach]

Yeah, it's very tone deaf to reality.

[Rich]

You know, it's like, like they're putting like fucking Halo clips in and then they're super cut. They're splicing it with video of fucking bombs in Iran.

[Luke]

Yeah, it's like that's. But I think is wrong with you. A lot of their audience thinks that life is a video game.

[Zach]

That's true.

[Luke]

Right?

[Unknown Guest]

Like, I don't know.

[Luke]

I mean you guys talk about playing like online games, especially war games. Those people are like, like not everybody because you obviously are playing but like a lot of them are maga, right. You run into a lot.

[Rich]

Oh my God.

[Zach]

Oh my God. Oh yeah, dude. I. Some of this.

[Luke]

Luke's waging his own.

[Rich]

I was exactly. I actually inspired.

[Luke]

I probably no tell a story because I actually think you joke about this, but this is not a stupid idea.

[Zach]

No.

[Rich]

Well, so there's. So there's this game called Arc Raiders that I play a lot. I don't know if anybody listening knows about it, but the concept of it is that you do raids on the surface of a war torn earth, that you fight big robots, but there's also fellow humans that are like running around and you can talk to them. Like if, if their character gets close to you, you can talk to them, they can talk to you. And you have the choice like you can make teams, you can, you can make deals with them or you can Just blast them. And. But when you. When you blast somebody, they don't die immediately. They get down on all fours and, like, they can't do anything. And they're like. They're that way for a while. They're, like, crawling around, and you can save them or you can kill them. And I've gotten to a point where now I do that to everybody. I don't make any deals off the bit because too many people lie. And then I ask them. I'm like, how do you feel about Donald Trump? What do you think about ice? And if they answer right, there's an item called a defibrillator that brings them back to life. And I bring them gifts. I'm like, here's something nice for you for being a good person. And if they answer wrong, which happens frequently, I verbally berate them or as long as humanly possible. I mean, just 20 minutes or longer. And the only reason is because I don't want them to feel safe in spaces. Like, they shouldn't. You shouldn't get to come home from work and be like, all right, I'm gonna get on video games. I'm gonna yell slurs, and nothing's gonna happen. Now I'm gonna make you waste your 20 minutes dumb.

[Luke]

You got.

[Rich]

You got home from your medial construction job, and you wanted to get on the Internet and say slurs, and now you're 20 minutes wasted. Congratulations, dumbass.

[Luke]

Would you say that? They around?

[Rich]

Oh, they around, all right. And every. It's. It's always so funny, too. There's this one. He was like. We were on either side of a wall, and we were talking to each other through the wall, and he was saying terrible shit. But I didn't want to, like, run through the door because he would have the first shot, and he'd kill me, and then he really say some terrible shit. So I went. So in the game, you get, like, your stuff, and then you go to an extraction point and, like, sucked down to the middle of the earth. I went and waited at the extraction point in a bush. Waited 25 minutes.

[Luke]

Waited. You just sat there for 25 minutes?

[Rich]

Sat there for 25 minutes. Finally, I hear his footsteps. I hear him coming. I hear, come. I walk out the bush.

[Luke]

Blam, blam, blam.

[Rich]

Right in the back of the skull. And he immediately knew it was me. He starts yelling, you live, tar. You, like, got you, though, didn't I? And I punched him in the back of the head, and I'm like, who's

[Luke]

the alpha now, bro?

[Zach]

Exactly.

[Rich]

He Wasted. He wasted almost an hour on that one raid just to be ruined by me.

[Luke]

I think we've, I think we found a new campaign strategy.

[Rich]

It is so fun.

[Luke]

Deploy a thousand Lukes into these places and make Trumpism and MAGA like not be cool. I'm actually not even fully joking what

[Rich]

I was gonna say. I, I made a video talking about this and it got some good attention. And all of a sudden like once or twice a day I'd get a DM with a link to a YouTube video and I'd go watch and it's somebody else doing it. And then there's this other guy on TikTok who started a series and he's got like 50 or 60,000 followers and he's doing it and it's like, this is amazing.

[Luke]

This, this is like the, this is the only video game reference I'll ever be able to pull. But it's like the leroy Jenkins of 20. Exactly.

[Rich]

Right?

[Luke]

Look what you just. Oh, look who's here, everybody. Oh, that's Rich.

[Rich]

He turns up almost when we're done. We've had so much productive conversation. You missed. We solved everything.

[Zach]

Yeah, you did. Oh.

[Luke]

We have a new campaign strategy for any Democrat. We're going to send a thousand Lukes into video games across the country. And if people say that they are voting for the Democrat, they get rewarded with defibrillators and prizes depending on the game. Exactly. If they don't. And if they don't, they die in the game.

[Rich]

Of course.

[Luke]

In the game. In the game.

[Zach]

In the game.

[Unknown Guest]

Yeah.

[Luke]

And it's just the game.

[Rich]

In the game.

[Unknown Guest]

To be clear, there's like 20 in the game. Luke has the best KD.

[Rich]

So my Steam profile, when you, when you, when you kill somebody, you can. It's like the platform. You can see their Steam profile. And my, my comments are all magas. They're like commenting on my profile, just straight hate because I have been murdering them.

[Luke]

I think honestly, like, we gotta talk to some campaign people because I, I actually don't think it's stupid for a long term like brand perspective of like making that toxic. Like, and, and it's like, well, what

[Rich]

I think, what I think. Imagine you get me somebody who's running for office and we just play arc Raiders together and I kill somebody for them and then they talk to him.

[Zach]

Ooh, I like that.

[Rich]

Tell me that wouldn't be hilarious.

[Zach]

That's really cool. I like that a lot.

[Luke]

I can't wait to find the campaign that actually will agree.

[Zach]

I think so. But here's the thing. I think that that's the kind of thing that will win you votes. You won't lose votes for mom.

[Rich]

Donnie would do that shit with me.

[Zach]

Yeah, I bet he would.

[Luke]

Yeah. I mean, I don't know about the, like taking somebody prisoner to make them answer questions.

[Rich]

In the game, of course.

[Luke]

In the game, it's okay. You have to like, you have to

[Rich]

like, you know, explain your position to them. You got to meet voters where they are and it just happens that this one's dead on the floor in front of me.

[Luke]

In the game.

[Rich]

Of course.

[Luke]

Wait, so when they're down, they could still talk.

[Rich]

They can still talk, but they can't get away from you.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Rich]

Like you can. You can.

[Zach]

Their fate is in your hands.

[Rich]

Their fate.

[Luke]

Do you think that unaliving their character is going to make them receptive to a progressive message?

[Rich]

No, no.

[Zach]

No.

[Rich]

But if they say, I like this idea, defibrillator, and you get a good gun.

[Zach]

That's true. It's a great plan.

[Unknown Guest]

I'm not familiar with the game of that specific game.

[Luke]

Neither explanation.

[Rich]

Because you showed up late.

[Zach]

That's true.

[Unknown Guest]

That's true.

[Zach]

That is true.

[Luke]

No, I, we're just, we're just saying the whole, this is the whole episode of Everything Sucks.

[Zach]

That's Baseball solutions.

[Unknown Guest]

Video games are fun.

[Luke]

Video games are the cause of all of our problems, guys.

[Rich]

Edits them into montages of bombing innocent people.

[Zach]

That's true. That's how.

[Rich]

That's less fun. That's not cool at all.

[Zach]

Yeah, that is less fun.

[Luke]

But man, we've, we've kind of run the gamut on all the things that suck. We talked about the jobs numbers being bad.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Luke]

Christy Gnome being fired and replaced by little, Little Mark.

[Zach]

Little Mark Wayne.

[Luke]

Mark Wayne. And also the fact that the Iran war, a seventh service member husband has lost their life. And prices are going up. And gas prices, I'm saying in my. Where I live in New York city, are up 55 cents from last week.

[Zach]

I don't know. Mine are up. I looked at the actual, the AAA numbers. It was 57 cents. In the last month, they've been up 17 worse or like 19 worse than our last episode where we talked about this.

[Rich]

So, so does that, does that mean that we're not. There's no gas under $2 anymore. There never was.

[Luke]

There never was. All these like independent analysts were like, President Trump today said that there is some places with under two dollar gallon. We can't find them. But anyway, they'll move on instead of just saying he was a liar.

[Zach]

They have the state by state level and aaa. I'm very curious to see what I can find. It's gotta be.

[Luke]

I think this, I think the national Average is now three something.

[Zach]

Yeah, yeah, it was in the two.347.

[Unknown Guest]

Yeah, I was gonna say 341 on Friday.

[Luke]

And a barrel of oil has hit. Is 100. Has hit a hundred dollars.

[Zach]

Great.

[Luke]

Straight Luke's gonna go to the biggest truck stop in the world and start converting truckers. That's what he told me.

[Rich]

I don't think that's a plan. I think that's a terrible plan. It's also one of the like the bigger hotspots of human trafficking in the

[Zach]

U.S. yes, that is true.

[Rich]

Is that specific? Is that specific truck stop?

[Zach]

Oh really?

[Luke]

Well, it's the biggest one.

[Rich]

It's on i80 right through the middle of America.

[Zach]

Jesus Christ. That's awesome.

[Rich]

I have never once, I've driven past it hundreds of times. Never once stopped.

[Zach]

Not. I mean, why?

[Rich]

They got a, they got a fucking barbershop there. There's like pizza places, there's a Cheesecake Factory in there. It's ridiculous.

[Zach]

And a truck stop, that's ridiculous. That's human trafficking. Jesus Christ. For you.

[Unknown Guest]

The just what really. A couple of things struck me this morning. I get struck daily by observations about how awful Trump is. But the one, the one today was, I remember when he was campaigning and he was talking about how the price of fuel is the most important thing of all of the prices because it's baked into everything. You know that trucks that deliver stuff and, and the ships and the military, like the cost of energy is a proxy for the whole economy because our entire economy runs on energy. And of course energy is all driven by oil, thanks to Trump. Again, it's like proof that this, there's, there's never a strategy because my brain goes to like, well, he wants oil to be the exclusive thing that we use and he wants oil to go up in price so that all of his buddies who make money from oil, you know, the old Bush Halliburton strategy, all of his buddies who make money on their oil make more money and that it would just be that simple. But he's, he undercuts his own political messaging. I feel like every week like he undercuts what he was arguing the week before. And it's no different here where now he was in on the State of the Union speech talking about how I think gas was like 291 or something, a gallon on average. And how proud he was that it was entirely him who got gas below $3 a gallon, and a whole week later he's bombing the country that controls the strait, that has 20% of the world's oil going through it. It's.

[Rich]

Yep.

[Unknown Guest]

Mind boggling. How did he forget? Or does he just not care?

[Luke]

Are you, are you suggesting that he didn't have a strategy here?

[Rich]

You know, he's a renowned strategist, Rich. You take that.

[Unknown Guest]

Strategy that's bad is one thing, but a strategy that directly contradicts your past strategy like that, it feels like you have to be uniquely intelligent to be that bad at being good. Right.

[Luke]

Well, we know that the election is going to be about affordability. And so what does he do? He puts tariffs, he increases taxes on every single American by taxing their goods so that those go up. And then he bombs Iran. Yeah. Like squirrely wise, we're like seven, seven months, eight months out from the election. Like, he's like, oh, it's all short term. It's all short term, but it's like, is it?

[Rich]

I think we're just gonna always be in short term pain with this because I think that was how it was at the beginning. Right. It was like short term pain, long term gain, and then it was a year and now we're in more short term pain and we've had no long term gain.

[Unknown Guest]

I think it was what, like, October, they said, like, wait till 2026. That's when the boom begins. Like the golden era.

[Rich]

Yeah. And then the first, like the first press release of 2026, he's like, it's going to take about a year for the economy to recover.

[Unknown Guest]

You can't turn the Titanic around in a night. Remember that. Oh, my God, you literally can. And the Titanic crashed and killed everyone.

[Luke]

If he. I don't know if this would be smart, but at least at the beginning of the Iran stuff, he was saying, I am doing something that no president has been, every president has wanted to do and hasn't done. And now I'm going to do it for the betterment of the world. At least if he had continued to make that argument, I wouldn't agree with it and I'd still be against it, but at least I'd be like, at least that's a theory of change. Rather than like, we've heard we need regime change. Then we heard Israel's going to bomb. What's that?

[Unknown Guest]

It's not regime change.

[Luke]

It's not regime change. Yeah, but he said regime change. Then he said, then Marco Rubio was like, well, Israel was going to bomb them and then they were going to bomb us, so then we had to bomb them. And then we've also heard Caroline Levitt say it came to Donald Trump in a premonition, in a vision. In a vision, feeling that this was going to happen. A notoriously.

[Rich]

He felt it in the force.

[Luke]

Yeah. Is he. Yeah. Is he like a sith or something?

[Rich]

Well, he. He put out that AI picture in like, May on May 4th.

[Luke]

That's true.

[Unknown Guest]

It's all coming together.

[Luke]

He's so dumb.

[Zach]

Oh, my God.

[Unknown Guest]

And this is just happening.

[Luke]

Yeah, it is just. Yeah, we're like, what, day nine on this war? Eight.

[Zach]

Yeah. It's all going swimmingly.

[Luke]

Oh, yeah. Everything's great. The economy's doing well.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Luke]

You know, the prices at the pump. Great. You know, spending. It's. They said the estimates are 800 to a billion dollars per day on this war.

[Unknown Guest]

I think it was the entire VA's budget for a week. Every day.

[Zach]

Cool.

[Unknown Guest]

So. So every day in Iran could fund the VA fully. Fund the VA for a week.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Unknown Guest]

I was doing. I was looking at the math. The war in Iraq, the worst days of the war in Iraq was 300 million a day. So from day one, we're spending triple the daily cost on Iran that we ever spent at the worst, most expensive part of the war in Iraq. And that was a, you know, war on terror. War in Iraq was like a $2.3 trillion total, you know, total campaign. And it's still costing us more because of all of the.

[Zach]

And you know what else?

[Unknown Guest]

The veterans.

[Zach]

The dow is under 50.

[Luke]

I didn't even talk to them.

[Rich]

Oh, yeah, the Dow. The dow.

[Luke]

It's under 50,000.

[Zach]

It's under 50,000. So we can still investigate pedophiles again. Investigate pedophiles. But at the same time.

[Rich]

Jesus Christ. It's a lot.

[Luke]

Under 50,000.

[Zach]

It's 47,000.

[Unknown Guest]

It's 47.

[Luke]

Oh, geez. Almost not 46,000.

[Zach]

It crashed him.

[Rich]

Yeah.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Unknown Guest]

Whoops.

[Luke]

Well, and the other thing about the VA thing, he's creating more veterans who need the VA's assistance by having a war.

[Zach]

Right.

[Luke]

Like, there's just all of these things that just.

[Rich]

Oil futures in the last month are up 50%.

[Unknown Guest]

Jesus Christ.

[Luke]

Yeah, well, that's the thing. We. We aren't even, like, we haven't even gotten to the point where that oil that is being blocked isn't coming. Like, we're still using.

[Unknown Guest]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Luke]

No, nothing. We're not in that world yet. Yeah, no, it's all speculation. And they're trying to like, make, make a buck now because they know if that if price goes to $4, the consumption will drop and they won't make as much. So it's. It's this vicious, vicious cycle that was also 100% totally avoidable.

[Zach]

Yep.

[Luke]

Like, we didn't have to. Like, what, are we safer now?

[Zach]

Apparently.

[Luke]

Like what? I don't.

[Zach]

I don't know. We can't make. It's impossible to try to make sense out of it.

[Luke]

Oh, and then speaking of another thing, do you hear this stuff? They're talking about Cuba.

[Zach]

Yes.

[Rich]

Oh, yeah.

[Luke]

Where they're like, cuba. Cuba's next guys.

[Zach]

Right.

[Luke]

Apparently we're gonna hopscotch all around the globe and just take out every, every leader, whether they want it or not.

[Zach]

Like we're supposed to, like, his whole thing is like isolationism and nationalism. Now he's going and just like getting other countries. Like, which one? Pick one.

[Luke]

Well, because. Well, because his domestic agenda is a disaster. Right. So he has to find different ways to excite Republicans. And what is one way you excite Republicans? War.

[Zach]

That's true. I mean, what are we. We're not talking about Epstein. We're not talking about affordability. We're not. All this is just like not a big deal anymore because it's Iran. But that won't last.

[Unknown Guest]

I think the share of the headlines versus what people actually compare about, care about are two different conversations because, yes, the war is consuming all of the headlines, but one of those headlines from the Washington Post last week, or no, I think it was New York Times, was about how in recorded American history, no president has ever started a conflict with less than 50% of support for that conflict all the way. I mean, you can Pre World War I, like as far back as you can think, but even Vietnam, Korea, Gulf War, even the little ones in Syria, in Libya, those started with a. At least a slight majority of support for the presidents, including, you know, including Obama and Clinton who started those, started those campaigns. And then of course, as time goes on and costs pile up and we start losing people and the mission gets lost, we, you know, turn on almost every war that is started. People love the, the action movie shit, I guess, up front. And I mean other people, not me, but we always, we always sour on it. And this one, we were sour on it from the beginning. It was like the polls showed 25 to like 40% support, depending on the pollster, for the attacks on Iran. And that was before it was like, oh, yeah, no, they definitely shot a missile and hit a school. It was before, you know, service people were dying. And so it's just going to get worse. So people are not. This isn't changing. Like, this isn't going to get better. It starts better and then it gets worse. Every war since recorded American history starts better and gets worse. So this one started worse and is going to get worse below. Below Afghanistan and Iraq. Like. Yeah. Where's the bottom?

[Luke]

Well, we, we, we were talking about a little bit before, but like, the fact is, like, they can't hide this war because the gas prices are. It's a straight line.

[Unknown Guest]

Yeah, right.

[Luke]

It's right there. And the prices went up so fast last week that there's no denying what it is. Like, we heard reports overnight of 40, 50 cents. Like, you know, you got a 12, 15 gallon tank. Like that all of a sudden is real money.

[Zach]

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Luke]

And you know, like, you're not going to be like, when people are. Why are gas prices up? Trump's war in Iran. There's no other explanation.

[Unknown Guest]

If only we had those EV tax

[Luke]

credits or like continued to build those charging stations that they stopped building because they're like, we don't need any of that.

[Rich]

Focused in on renewable energy. You know what doesn't have to come through the straight Hormuz? The fucking wind.

[Unknown Guest]

The sun.

[Luke]

Wind turbines cause cancer, Luke.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Luke]

Oh, you mean like wind and solar. Oh, wow. Those things. Yeah.

[Unknown Guest]

He's thinking of the whales and the Iranian people. Those are his top.

[Zach]

Top.

[Luke]

The two things he thinks about when he goes to bed and wakes up is the Iranian people and then whales.

[Unknown Guest]

Right under that.

[Luke]

Well, you think he has a favorite whale? Do you think he could name one? Actually, do you think he could name one species he could name a sperm whale?

[Unknown Guest]

Yeah. Do you think he knows that a sperm whale is real or do you think that he would think that you were punking him if you asked him about a sperm whale?

[Zach]

That's a great question. You might think you're punking him.

[Luke]

I don't know if he could do it. No, I really don't think he could

[Unknown Guest]

name a humpback whale.

[Luke]

Oh, yeah, you think so?

[Zach]

Killer whale. That would be interesting.

[Luke]

He'd probably say. He'd probably call it Shamu, right?

[Zach]

That's true.

[Unknown Guest]

That's true.

[Luke]

He used to live by me down in Florida. My Trump's. It's not good.

[Zach]

It's not terrible.

[Unknown Guest]

I don't hate it.

[Luke]

You just have to like, get grapples.

[Unknown Guest]

It's still better than Him.

[Luke]

Yeah. Yours is better. A lot of things, beautiful things.

[Zach]

It's just the cadence you gotta get.

[Unknown Guest]

Yeah, right. You're talking too fast. That's the thing that's, that's tough for me, is I imagine you're an 80 year old. Slow. Yeah.

[Zach]

Yeah. Well, he also does the soft one now. It used to be like that big, the one we're doing, but now it's just like he's tired, you know, it's hard to get that voice right.

[Unknown Guest]

Rambling.

[Luke]

Well, he's barely awake in any of his meetings, even though, even the interesting ones, he's like, I was not asleep.

[Rich]

We're about two years off from Mitch McConnell. Donald Trump.

[Zach]

Yeah, six months maybe.

[Unknown Guest]

I can't wait. Mitch McConnell. Like, I kind of just feel bad for him, but he kind of looks like. No, you know, the politician in the first.

[Rich]

Stairs.

[Unknown Guest]

Luke. Luke, I know you know this character, the politician in the first.

[Rich]

Yes, I know who you're talking about.

[Unknown Guest]

After he gets exposed to the, like the radiation or whatever, and he just like slowly melts into water, like in front of the. That's, that's, that's who I see when I, when I see Mitch McConnell. I, I don't, I don't hate the idea of, of Donald Trump getting there.

[Luke]

Guys, we are, we are ready for a, for a segment. Ladies and gentlemen, it is time.

[Rich]

Oh, come on. Come up with a better name.

[Zach]

No. How does this get straight?

[Luke]

Oh, no, no, wait.

[Rich]

Anyway, it's bad. It's get with Luke.

[Luke]

Oh, get. Ladies and gentlemen, it's all Get Fucked presented by.

[Zach]

There you go.

[Rich]

See, that sounds like a sex show,

[Luke]

though it doesn't sound any better. There's no way with the words that you chose for this.

[Rich]

Anyway, this one goes out to two tremendously large pieces of shit on this fucking planet. Andy Ogles and Jake Lang, both of them, they are tremendously large pieces of shit and they both need to get fucked expeditiously. Because if you missed it, Andy Ogles put out a tweet this morning.

[Luke]

Congressman.

[Rich]

Yeah, a sitting congressman, by the way, said that Muslims should not be allowed in America, that they could not. We couldn't coexist with them. And Jake Lang took a goat in a U haul to outside of the mayoral mansion in New York City and pantomimed it implying that of course Muslims have sex.

[Luke]

Who is that person?

[Zach]

Oh, that. I still, I was confused, like, why.

[Luke]

He's a white supremacist, right? He is a neo Nazi.

[Rich]

He's a neo Nazi? Yeah. He's the Same, same guy that, you know, protesters in Minnesota literally saved his life because people wanted to him up and they literally got him out. Saved his life. And then he does this.

[Zach]

Yeah, great.

[Rich]

And so same, same, same guy, by the way, who made destroying things look like the least masculine thing possible because he kicked down the abolished ice sculpture.

[Luke]

That was him.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Luke]

It was like, God damn, dude, you

[Rich]

could at least put a little ass into that.

[Luke]

Boots are squeaking and his pants are tired.

[Rich]

Oh my God. Absolutely feckless, spineless fucking. Anyway, both of them can eat shit and get fucked.

[Unknown Guest]

I've watched him kick down the ice sculpture like 500 times. Like that was the longest video I've ever seen because I just kept watching it and laughing because he almost ate shit on his very first kick. Because you can only do it once, right. So I know his, his adrenaline was probably like going crazy. He was the most exciting thing.

[Luke]

He's also kick down is, is generous because he like it was more of a like over and then he got

[Unknown Guest]

arrested for it and like fined for

[Luke]

that guy's a loser is the right term. Just a loser.

[Rich]

Losers. Like. Yeah, he's weird. I mean, I, I, I, I, I question the mental soundness of someone who will take an innocent animal into a U Haul vehicle and pantomime sexual activity with that animal. How are you going to call anybody else? The ones that are wrong in the head.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Luke]

I kind of feel like the whole Neo Nazi thing applies. Yeah, right, right. If you espew those beliefs after seeing what the Nazis did in the 30s and 40s. You're awful.

[Zach]

Yep.

[Luke]

You're awful.

[Rich]

That's it. Tremendous piece of.

[Luke]

Yep. And Republicans seem to wrap these guys up in the flag and they all love this shit and give them speaking tours. Yeah.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Luke]

Well. And now I saw Tennessee. There's going to have to be a Charlie Kirk Plaza at every University of Tennessee Jesus campus or whatever. Well, it's like he didn't go to college, so why is he that, like, I don't understand.

[Zach]

Like, I don't know.

[Rich]

Well, the governor or the governor of Arizona turned down the, the license plate.

[Luke]

At least I saw she, well, she's a Democrat and she's actually really good.

[Rich]

Yeah.

[Luke]

And that is Katie Hobbs. So kudos to Kate. Governor Hobbs. Good job, because that is garbage. I don't know why anybody thinks we should celebrate that guy. Like, just because somebody died doesn't mean they were a good person. And he was not a good. He was literally trashing trans people when that happened. So with that, everything sucks.

[Rich]

Everything sucks. Brought to you by Find Out Podcast.

[Luke]

That's right. I hope you all enjoyed us talking about everything that sucked. And at least you could have a couple chuckles because obviously the news is generally very dark right now. But we always have to be able to laugh a little bit or we will all go insane, which maybe we're headed that way anyways. I don't know.

[Unknown Guest]

I'd rather die insane laughing than just insane, so.

[Luke]

Oh, definitely. Look at that. We're going to end on a silver lining.

[Zach]

I like it.

[Luke]

Silver lining. Also, before we go, we have launched our company Find Out Media. And Zach, we have a show coming out, right?

[Zach]

We do. We have.

[Luke]

What's happening this week?

[Zach]

Tomorrow you might want to ask me. You want to ask the guy who's on the show.

[Luke]

I don't.

[Rich]

I don't know anything about this show.

[Luke]

What are you doing?

[Rich]

The podcast, co hosted by myself and Brian Anders, the angry country music star. You've probably seen him online. The first episode is coming Wednesday.

[Luke]

Right?

[Zach]

That's Wednesday. We Wednesday.

[Luke]

Because people hear it on Tuesday.

[Rich]

So, yeah, tomorrow, if you want a 30 minute version of what Brian and I do every day, come listen to Get Angry.

[Zach]

Yes, it's exactly.

[Rich]

It's like getting hit with a brick of anger.

[Luke]

Yes.

[Zach]

You couldn't say it better than that.

[Luke]

You know, it's a good way to channel frustrations. And that is the set. That's the second show of seven that are coming from Find Out Media over the next six, seven weeks.

[Zach]

Yeah. Month and a half. So.

[Luke]

Month and a half.

[Unknown Guest]

Yeah.

[Luke]

And you can get all of those shows by subscribing to a Findout Media membership, which you can find us on Patreon, you can find us on Substack at Findout Media. You can also get a membership at YouTube and you will get access to all the shows. So that's how we're doing that. We're really excited. Brian has been. Brian was on our show a few months ago. If you don't remember him, you should go check out his music too. He just dropped a song called Are We Great Yet? Yep, I believe.

[Rich]

And it's going on tour as well.

[Luke]

He's going on tour the Midwest, which is exciting. And you know, if you could stream his music, that helps him a lot because artists do not make a lot off their music anymore. And so. But the song's really good. I dig it.

[Zach]

I've had it stuck in my head literally all day today.

[Luke]

It's really good. It's not a. It's not really a Country that's like

[Zach]

Rage against the Machine with some country in it. Like, that's pretty much how it feels to me. Yeah. Yeah.

[Luke]

I, I wouldn't have compared Brian to Zach de la Rocha, but, like, you know, you, it, you know, there's some similar singing is a little different, but

[Zach]

the music is very ragey.

[Luke]

Yes. 100. So you guys should go check that out. And I think it's the theme song

[Zach]

of the show very much.

[Luke]

It is.

[Rich]

It is.

[Luke]

So Get Angry will be coming on Wednesday. So you will actually hear this or hear. You can watch Get Angry before our next episode on Thursday. So now you're gonna have Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, organ. All kinds of fun. I also think we're gonna change our live shows that we were doing on Wednesday nights at 8:45pm Eastern. Turns out that all of us, well, most of us have children and we're in different time zones and night's really hard consistently for us to do. So we are going to move to. We're going to try it. We're going to move to Fridays at noon Eastern time and we're going to see how that goes. So we won't be all hanging out at night. There'll be a lot less alcohol this way.

[Rich]

I don't know, Tim. Tim might crack it open Friday if you don't start in the morning.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Luke]

Not at noon.

[Zach]

Yeah, let's make it. You could do it from the bar.

[Luke]

Yeah, well, that I could do. So anyways, guys, you could do like check us out@findout media.subsect.com always be buying the merch. Am I the only one wearing anything?

[Zach]

So. Yep.

[Luke]

So you can get that atfind out podcast.com thank you, everybody and hope you enjoy Get Angry and we will see you on Thursday. Bye for now. Bye, everybody.