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New Year, Same A**holes

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "New Year, Same A**holes", an episode of I've Had It published January 1, 2026 (38 min, about 6,455 words). It mentions 5 people, works and ideas, including Young Carol (Yan Carol), Mark Zuckerberg, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, BuzzFeed, McKenzie Scott.

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 5:00: BuzzFeed, Young Carol (Yan Carol)
  2. – 15:00: Mark Zuckerberg, Young Carol (Yan Carol)
  3. – 20:00: Young Carol (Yan Carol)

Notable quotes from "New Year, Same A**holes"

  • So after all this time, it dawned on me that I had never sent Pumps the famous Buzzfeed how gay am I quiz.
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  • Because I don't read. And she did not disappoint. And my favorite guest is Eene Carol.
    about Young Carol (Yan Carol) · at
  • But no, like Elon Musk him they call him now MAGA Mark Zuckerberg. Think about this. Mark Zuckerberg gajillionaire goes on Joe Rogan. I'll never get over this. I talk about it all the time. and he says, I'm just so.
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So, are we supposed to start the podcast? One, two, three. Patriots, gatriots, dayriots, black triots, brown triots. Um, I've seen some people requesting some additions, too. Transriots.

Mhm. And I can't remember the rest, but all of you are included. And anybody else can.

Nim triates. [ __ ] off. [ __ ] off. What's a nimriate? NB. A non-binary triot.

Oh my gosh, that's a good one. Y netriots. Nimbriate. Okay. Um, Seth and I are back filling in for Jennifer and Pumps. As you can tell, Seth is way less endowed than Angie.

And we're sorry you have to look at that. My claps are uncaged. Yeah, they are. They're let loose.

Yeah. Okay. In place of habits today, cuz they're hard to come up with. That is a skill that I think people do not realize how hard that is and Jennifer and Pumps do it easily every day.

I realized there was something very important that I had not shared with our listeners.

Okay. Um, so after all this time, it dawned on me that I had never sent Pumps the famous Buzzfeed how gay am I quiz.

Oh, yeah. Which I remember taking when I was younger. Uh, have you ever taken it?

I have not. We need to have you take it. I need to take it. It's like that moment of panic. You're like, "Am I [ __ ] gay?" And Buzzfeed said, "Yes. Yes, you are."

Said, "Yes, sweetie." "Yes, if you're even here at all, you're gay." So, anyways, I sent it to Pomps to take the test and I'll pop this up right here on the screen. She sends me her results and it just says, very bold, "Kind of gay with a pride flag behind it." And it says, "You're kind of gay. You really enjoy having sexual experiences with people of all sexes. Frankly, the one could turn out to be a member of either sex. Bisexuality, it's a party to which everyone is invited.

Okay, I agree with this wholeheartedly from a pump's perspective. I think she's found the one and I think it's pumps.

She's pumpexual. She's pumpexual. So, she's bisexual in the fact that she has found pumps.

Yeah, she knows what she likes. We have a lot of pump sexuals out there. Oh my god. I mean, that comment section is full of them. Our email is full of them. That girl, and she doesn't do anything about it. She doesn't use it.

Like water off a duck's back. It really is a dry duck. Okay. The other thing I have prepared for you guys really quick before we kick it to some of our favorite moments is people don't get to see you enough on screen. And so, I went through our YouTube comments. I searched up Seth to see what I could find, see what people are saying about you.

Okay. So, I'm going to read you a couple of these. All right. Ernest Bruce says, "I love these three blonde bombshells. Cute, smart, fierce. They bring a smile and warmth to my face and heart."

It must have been I and the ladies that day. Uh-huh. You would think, but then they pressed enter. Enter. Enter. And way down below, they added, "I like you, too Seth."

Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. So, yeah. I'm not a blonde bombshell, but blonde. I am blonde. Yep.

Okay. This other one says, "Seth." Jen's son, Seth, is helping out. Cool. Thanks, Seth.

We do all kind of look like a weird dysfunctional family. We do. When Jen and I would travel together or like walk around, uh, people always thought we were motheraughter.

I said, "No, we're grandma daughter. Grandma granddaughter. We're grandma handler."

Yeah. Okay. This one says, I like this one. Who is Seth? Where is Kylie? I'm parasially impacted by change. I absorbed Kylie.

No, Kylie and our I are actually uh one and the same. It's interchangeable really.

Okay. So, now we are going to uh play you a couple of our favorite guests from the 2025 year or as Pumps would say 2020 202025. She's working on it. I've noticed she's gotten better.

Yep. Yep. Um so I'll kick it off with my favorite guest of this year. I knew I was gonna love this lady. I bought her book. I was so excited for it to sit on my shelf because I don't read. And she did not disappoint. And my favorite guest is Eene Carol.

Eene, we're going to move on to our mega hit game. It's called Had It or Hit It.

Oh my god. Welcome to Had It or Hit It. I would hit it. Had it. Had it. I hit it every day. Sometimes twice a day. Okay. Had it or hit it. Dickpicks. girl. You know, if I wanted a dickpick, I would like to receive a dickpick. But it's like the cat bringing in a dead rat and dropping it right in your lap. So, I've had it with

Had it. I mean, what's amazing to me is I I have gotten just a very few in my life and then I've had friends send me theirs and I'm just like,

what the [ __ ] Did they think that your response is like, "Oh, baby, I want to come ride it." I mean, like, it's so shocking.

Wait, hold up. You've received dickpicks? Yes. Just one? And what? It was on Instagram. Like a direct message.

What? Somebody's DMing you dick pics on Instagram? very long time ago when I first got on Instagram. I don't even know who it was. Like it wasn't somebody I knew. It was just like a rando.

No, that's right. RANDOM DICKPICKS. THAT'S RAND. IT WAS just And I was dick. I was like so terrified. But then I have a girlfriend that gets them all the time and she'll send them and we're all just like she'll send them in a group text with no warning. And we're just all like, "Jesus Christ, like why did you put this in here?" Well, we know why men send them because they think that women are wired like they are. Men think they would like to get a picture of our breasts. So what we'll do is here's a gift. I'll give you this and then you'll give me a picture of your vagina. That's how they think. They just if it you know what if they'd send us a dickpick of a dick we know and that we have warm feelings towards.

That would be a nice dickpick. But not a random like Angie received. Not a rando. I know. So terrifying.

Okay. Had it or hit it? Aphrodite. Oh, love it. Hit it. Aphrodite is the name of my shotgun, which I Uhhuh. Yeah. Somebody did their research. Yeah. Yeah. Old Aphrodite sits by my bed. That's what I do. Yeah.

Do you uh target practice or anything with your shotgun for kicks? Well, I I haven't recently, but I have, of course, because I have to know how to shoot,

right? Because they were coming after you like crazy. I mean, it was terrifying.

Yeah. Hence, Aphrodite. Aphrodite. Okay. Had it or hit it? Revenge. Well, I think we've got to I think we got to hit it. I think we got to hit it because I think this is the last stand. It's being torn apart at the seams. Our country.

Yes. Now, are we going to sit still for that? No. We have to have a little bit of iron in our guts. And what gives that feeling? Revenge.

I agree. Okay. Had it or hit it? Cheerleading. Oh, can't you tell? Look at me. I'm sitting on a ball right now. Oh, you are

keeping your core all tight. Wait, pump the brakes. Throughout the filming of this whole podcast, you've been doing a cord exercise.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm doing this, ladies. I'm doing this. That's what I'm doing. I'm doing

That's impressive, Eugene. That's impressive. I don't have great core strength, but that I'm impressed right there.

No. And also, it gives the energy. It gives the Yes. I loved you. I was Get ready to fall and bend to me, Miss Cheerleader USA.

Oh my gosh. Wow. That's royalty, ladies. Ready? Okay. I mean, wow. You know, 1964.

A trailblazer at that. You know, Pumps here was a all-American cheerleader at her cheerleading camp and had a hyperextended toe touch

back in the day. Back in the 80s. Yeah. Wait a minute. I I Angie, what? This is the

I knew we were bonded, Eugene. I knew it. I knew it. I knew it. You can do the tote now. Which one? We two

We back in the day we called them to uh I think we a Russian is what we call them Russian.

Yeah, we call Russian. And then there was the tiger with the hands behind you. You touched her legs behind you when you do the sea jump.

Yeah. No, I never did that. Did you What about a herky? Did you do a herky where once

Oh, a herky. Herky came to our cheerleading thing. Herky. Herkimer. Wasn't that

her? Yes. Herkimer. I did not know that was real. Yeah, that was that's why it's called the Herky because the guy that invented it, I think his name was like Herby Herkimer or Herky or something like this.

Yeah. He's from my era. Yeah. No. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was a The contest was down in Cypress Gardens, Florida. And part of the Miss Cheerleader USA contest was we modeled, Are you ready for this? Southern gowns. Shut up. So, it was a pageant where you did cheerleading and then modeled.

Yes. I love it. That is some drag queen [ __ ] right there. I mean, that is straight up drag show. I'm here for it.

I won that, man. Oh, I bet you did. She wasn't [ __ ] around. She went down there. She

got took names, kicked ass. And we water skied. We watered. That was another thing.

In the competition. Yeah. No, not in the competition, but part of the uh you know thing. They got us water.

The water skiing. Were you doing like a pyramid? Like Well, that would be the thing. But you know, half of us could barely get up on the skis, so that we did that. But they what? Yeah. The water skiing was part of the of the pageant. It was brilliant.

Oh my gosh, that's hilarious. I love it. I got a big scholarship. Oh, wonderful. Excellent.

Yeah. No, and it was the first national championship that Indiana University had ever won. So, I was like,

"Oh, you were hot [ __ ] You were a big [ __ ] on campus." Oh, YOU HAVE NO IDEA. I'M WALKING around there.

HBIC. Yep, that's it. Oh, I love it. Okay. Had it or hit it, Jeff Bezos. Boy, I am I am divided on Jeff Bezos because he's done so much good. He's put books in the hands of so many people who've never read before. I mean, your book has been an Amazon bestseller. Her latest has been an Amazon bestseller and so it's providing you with income so you can feed your families. Uh so she can breastfeed 24 hours a day. No, I I'm just I I'm upset about his dark term.

Yeah. Yes. I'm just very upset about it. Makes no sense. I just I mean Laura Sanchez's boobs make more sense than Jeff Bezos turning dark.

Here's the thing, Eugene. This is goes back to my point when you were talking about the male jurors.

Something about Trump unlocks the worst impulses in people. Jeff Bezos, what what does he have? Two $300 billion. Who gives a sh Let's say he pays $20 million more a year in taxes. It's not going to affect jack [ __ ] in his life. But something about proximity and interacting with Trump makes people worse andor his supporters, the more they justify and excuse the titty baby, the whining, the immoral [ __ ] up [ __ ] this man does, the worse they become. I've never seen anything like it.

I haven't either. Jeff Bezos, think about it. You could leave your thumbrint on this globe as I was a billionaire and I did all of these things but I decided to

pay my employees more than anybody else and change the way we pay. But no, like Elon Musk him uh they call him now uh MAGA Mark Zuckerberg. Think about this. Mark Zuckerberg gajillionaire goes on Joe Rogan. I'll never get over this. I talk about it all the time. and he says, "I'm just so relieved that Trump is back back in power because I feel like men have been neutered in the workplace." And I'm like, "What the [ __ ] are you talking about? You neutered? Are you kidding me?" The whole system is set up for you to just walk into it. It's crazy how much worse people become after interacting or

He said that. Yes. Mark Zuckerberg neutered. Wow. This is why we're listen you know that $83.3 million that I'm being given by Trump

plus interest plus interest I'm going to be given it to help women get our rights back. That's where that $83.3 million is going. We you know that's it. I don't need the money. You know uh that is that is not right. I'm just stunned that Mark Zuckerberg said that that his reality is so warped.

Right. Totally. But then juxtapose, we were talking about Jeff Bezos. Juxapose Jeff Bezos with his ex-wife

McKenzie. Um, salute. She's donating money left and right. You know what she's donating to? A lot of philanthropists don't donate to this. She's donating to social justice causes. She's donating

Yes. Yes. And and if you look at the money that she's giving and she's quietly doing it, right? She's not out in the news having a written out the city of Venice having some circle jerk of a wedding that's just obscene. Um she's quietly donating. And then you look at Melinda Gates and then you look at um

the uh ex-wife or the widow of Steve Jobs and I can't remember her name but she owns the Atlantic.

She owns the Atlantic and she's making sure journalism goes out. And so here now we add Eene Carol to this list of boss [ __ ] philanthropists that are putting their money where their mouth is and donating to the causes that really lift us all up and I love you for that so much.

Thank you. Well, thank you Jennifer cuz you know what? We've got I've got everything I need. I don't need it anymore. What's What do you We don't need more stuff.

Yeah, but women need us. We've lost half our rights in the south. We live there.

Yeah. Oh, that's right. You're in a red state. Yeah. Oh, what are abortion rights where? How are they doing in Oklahoma?

There's none. None. Zero. Oh. Oh. Are you at the 13 week, the 12 week or no exceptions?

No exceptions. Not rape, not in incest, nothing. We got to turn that around. this we've got. No, this is not this h how clo how far do the women in Oklahoma have to travel?

Well, Oklahoma's big state. It's a big state. So, they have to travel to either like New Mexico, Colorado, or Kansas. But here's what's so tragic about these laws is they're not an attack on Angie has a daughter. I have two sons. She has a couple sons, too. But out of the two of us, there's only one daughter. if her daughter has a a eptotic pregnancy or something that she would need to have seek care or what for whatever her own personal reasons,

Angie's going to buy her plane ticket and she's going to fly her somewhere and she's going to receive the care she needs. So this isn't it's not just an attack on women. It's an attack on poor women.

And when you think about what mega Christian values I've heard you do, oh this is your thing. THESE MAGA CHRISTIANS, EENE, these MAGAC Christians, it is an attack on the marginalized and the cruelty. And I'm not religious and I don't know why my atheist parents raised me in the bubble belt, but nonetheless, they did.

But these MAGA Christians are so antithetical to the central character of the of the Bible who was he spoke out against the accumulation of wealth. He spoke for uh lifting people out of poverty. He spoke for helping the sick, helping the needy. And then you look at that [ __ ] Moses Mike Johnson, the most religious speaker of the house we've ever had, and he votes for that abomination of a bill,

which is this whole MAGA movement is an attack on the poor. And if I were a Christian, I would be so furious at these MAGA Christians for

But they don't know it, Jennifer. They do not know it. They It's not their fault. They they're in their news bubble and nobody can get through. That's why as you say as you saw the facts are not get through treating them with dignity and then offering them a way out of this cult where we see them

will help. So your first idea that's what we do because it's it's it's happening all over the world. You know that.

No no it's happening everywhere. But there's also been surprisingly and this has given me some hope. There's also been, ever since this acceleration of Trump's second term, there's also been a Trump backlash globally where countries that were heading kind of towards an authoritarian, those authoritarian wannabes are losing.

So, um, I'm I'm hopeful that we can find the humanity that connects us all because it's just, you know, it's it's so crazy to watch. I talked about this earlier. We were filming. You know, you go about your life and you hear a song that you like and you're kind of dancing in your car or something and you're throwing a ball with your dog and then it hits you like alligator Alcatraz like

oh what we're doing that like yeah no and then it hits you and then it's this really weird slow march into fascism and authoritarian authoritarianism because so much of my life can feel the same and I'm doing the same thing.

It is the same. It your life is the same. Right. Meanwhile, in LA, they're dragging fathers who are hardworking away from their children. The guys are wearing masks and they've got bulletproof vests on. We don't know who they are. They come in, drag fathers away. Then they drag the mother away. The kids are left with nobody. It's un. And we're not Everybody in the United States is not out marching. I'm really God, are we [ __ ] lazy. I'm telling you, we've got our phones and we got our entertainment. We're watching Netflix and we won't go out because his father is being dragged out.

You know, we just put it down. We got no better. It's something's the matter with Americans. We're we're have been entertained into h we're hypnotized. We just don't stand up anymore. I you know it's just amazing. I mean really

she makes me want to buy a gun. She I don't know what I was expecting when I heard that Eugene Carol was going to come on but she blew my expectations out of the water. She's so funny. She's so wacky and

willing to goof. She was so awesome. She's living up in the mountains with her shotgun and her dog.

Her her whole setting Yeah. was just perfect in a log cabin. I'm obsessed with her.

Okay, so my favorite guest this year, uh I was a big fan of her before we had her on as a podcast guest and now she's just become like family to the show. She's friends with Jenn and Pumps and that is Ruth Ben Guillot. And I had watched every single interview of hers. She's so smart. Uh, and here's a little a little clip from her episode.

It's kind of We were talking to another guest how weird it is with what's going on. It's like you're living a split screen.

Like on the one hand, we just saw you before we came in here and we exchanged pleasantries and everything's normal and great

and then you can leave here and look at the news headlines and you see what's happening. you know that Trump is going after the Fed and um the three-hour long um uh schmoofest in the cabinet room and you think what on earth is happening

and clapping for Putin. Yes. And military looking vehicles on the streets of American cities. All of that. I I know even though I study this uh the split screen is the same for me obviously. you know, you go to the store, you talk, you text with your kid, and then the difference is um I've been studying this for years. I've been able to predict sometimes where it might go and what the examples of history are and also foreign countries that can help us get through this and and also what we can just do in our daily lives to feel more prepared and to cope with the extra stress.

What's your top red flag that you're seeing right now? I know there are many, but the top maybe three red flags that you're seeing right now.

I think one is that we we've never had um an American president who's so openly um a fan of dictators,

right? Whether they're left-wing or right-wing. And this is really important because although inside countries um right-wing leaders uh always talk about the radical left, but at the at the highest level when you're talking about relations of dictators, they do the same things. So, Donald Trump is very he's a fan of Putin and he's also a fan of Xi Jinping who and and now most recently when the South Korean head of state just went to the White House, Trump lectured him on how great the North Korean leader is who's a murderous communist of one of the last uh you know kind of failed state dictatorships.

So, that is new. um even you know very conservative leaders such as Ronald Reagan, he was the one who told Gorbachev, tear down the wall. He was a hero in that regard. So this is totally new. And then you know going on with that um I'm very concerned about uh taking away all of the things that maybe we took for granted that government did. Disaster relief. Um my mother's social security benefits were terminated. She's 92 and she has dementia and I'm trying to get them back for her. Um, so th that's happening to many people. Things that we expected, good things that government did that maybe we had the luxury in America of not having to think about, many of them are disappearing.

Um, and that's also because of what Elon Musk did and Doge and Doge is still there in 38 government agencies. It hasn't gone away. So that I'm worried about. And then and then third um because a lot of my book strong men um is about military coups. I really don't like the u mobilization the politicization of the military. We have one of the mightiest militaries in the world that we were can be very proud of. It was one of the most popular institutions in America. it defends us and to to try and have um troops uh you know policing civilians um which is a goal apparently. I'm really worried about that. I'm very worried about that and I see that and with Trump I've always thought he's not organized or competent enough to do all this like the fake news like he lucked into calling you know undermining the news undermining facts

is and then I hear you talk if you'll just talk a little bit about how undermining the judiciary you know radical left judges are doing this how that leads the American society to come unglued. Oh, I'm so glad you mentioned that because one of the things that that keeps our society together um whether it's just turning out in our communities for I don't know our kids sports games or politics is trust and a common understanding of rules and respect for authorities. Um I'm a progressive person but I have great respect for authorities. And what we're seeing and this this is what autocrats do is uh Trump and his colleagues have been trying to discredit every kind of authority um that is connected with institutions um but also so from judges, prosecutors and trying to discredit democratic versions of the judiciary of the civil service. These are people who make government run. They don't make a lot of

money. they're they're you know heroes in their own way but also teachers, librarians, any kind of educator, doctors, think of what's going on um now you know it's going to become harder to get co vaccines and other kinds of like medical help. So any kind of authority that was respected and people looked up to um like again I'm going to repeat like the school librarian who doesn't like the school librarian right

but those all have to be discredited because um authoritarian states want to politicize everything and um actually disrupt areas like schools and and even faith institutions um that are that bring many types of people together.

Okay. So, we have him federalizing DC and um he has outwardly said his ambitions are to move to Chicago and other places.

We have him targeting the Fed. Um he is silencing dissenting economic data. Um he has loyalty tests, executive overreach, and then he does this political theater with the Oval Office. how he's made it all bougie uh you know in his Marie Antoanette era if you will and then he does the cabinet meeting where all the sickopants go on for three and a half hours.

So my question is obviously all of these things are terrible but for our listener and I think probably a lot of our listeners we have a lot of younger listeners you probably have parents that identify as I'm um socially liberal but fiscally conservative. This is a very American thing that you hear a lot of people say trying to have their cake and eat it too. I'm not going to get into why I don't think that's a sustainable thing, but a lot of people vote with that.

When you undermine the Fed and when you undermine the judiciary for the fiscal conservative voter, what happens to the economy when you when you undermine both of those things? when a company cannot take a contract to court

and try it and when you have inflated um economic numbers what will happen to what was the bedrock of this country was which is our economy what happens to that with these things that I've just listed Ruth

yeah I'm not an expert on the economy but again it's it's a question of trust if you undermine confidence in our regulatory and financial institutions including the Fed if you try and politicize ize them. If you pass um measures uh avoiding Congress and just doing it as executive orders practically that are harm business harming businesses, all the tariff stuff um and many of the things that are being done are actually allowing China to succeed to to the point that um The Economist, which is not a progressive liberal rag magazine, uh had a a cover a few months ago that had a blue as though it was a MAGA hat but it was blue and it said make China great again because that that the economist specialists in economic policy judge that what Trump was doing um for example you know wrecking the wind you know all of the progressive energy clean energy it's allowing it's allowing China to go into those places

um to those sectors so and small businesses are going to be harmed and then also we got to think about ripple effect things. Everything from gun violence to um disaster. If you don't have disaster relief because you've cut FEMA and all the other things, then businesses are going to be communities are going to be harmed. People can't go to work. Also, if people are sick because you have a health and human services uh head who seems to want to spread disease, right? It does.

That is going to harm the economy because people are sick. Look what happened during co and it doesn't have to be a pandemic. And so all of these things that are being done, there are people who say they're being done to wreck America that that present Trump and this is new is not on the side of America. He is allied with Putin. That's why he was clapping and and other leaders who are our adversaries. They want America to fail. with regard to Putin. Um, if you look at what you could say that maybe Russia and Putin are ahead of what Trump's appear apparently what Trump's ambitions are. So when you see the humiliation exercise of Tim Cook where they come into the White House, the oligarchs are arriving one by one for Trump's show and tell trophy hour.

That's awful. And they're humiliating themselves. Share with our listener what happened to Putin's oligarchs. What happens once they come in and kiss the ring? What happens after that? Ruth,

I I couldn't believe I what I was watching because in my book Strongman I have countless I describe countless uh situations that are the same whether it's Mubu's you know ministers in the Congo and they had to wear a certain kind of shirt that he told them to wear and if they didn't wear it they would be demoted. So it's like this total control and the thing about the strong men is that there is no end to their agilation that they need. They need constant acclaim and it

this is universal. It's universal. It's crazy. Mussolini did it. Do they all bougie up their offices like that too?

So um somebody on social media uh who is was from central Africa. I don't know this person but he posted a picture of Trump's redo of the Oval Office. And I was thinking that it's like um a temple to himself, right?

Because it has all these like fake gold kind of trophy looking things behind him.

And so this person said, "Oh, this looks like um the office of Bocasa, who was a murderous dictator in uh central Africa."

And so I went back into my notes and uh pictures that I had for research on my book because this is the people I studied. Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein, they all have these palaces and they're full of real, a lot of times it's real gold,

but they make them into temples of the to themsel because their egos are never satiated. And so they have these spectacles where all of the ministers have to say they go around the table and they say how great the leader is in front of the leader and it's televised or it's on the radio and if you don't do it adequately uh something bad can h in a real dictatorship like a real one party state something bad can happen to you. The other thing, and this started with Mussolini a hundred years ago, they're so insecure, these leaders, that if you're too competent or you become too popular or too independent, you're going to get demoted. Um, and so Mussolini had this.

Okay, that tracks. Okay, so I think I cut you off, but I do. No, it's okay. About the Russia oligarchs. No, no, no. That's what we always do in podcasting. But the oligarchs, how did it fair for them once they kissed the ring? So what happens is the leader it's it you get this thing I called autocratic backfire and it affects the leader the country and the oligarchs because the the leader surrounds himself more and more with lackis with sophants and so he doesn't have good information and so he has disastrous policies that backfire and cause you know ruin for the nation

but the loyalty must be renewed every day. Look at Mike Pence. He was a he was a very faithful Trump warrior. And then look what happened to him um or was almost happened to him on January 6th. So loyalty is renewed every day. And in Putin's Russia, where a particularly paranoid leader, uh a lot of um oligarchs have fallen out of windows or uh you never want to go into the hospital in an authoritarian state if you've been a critic because you don't come out.

There it is. There it is the smartest person I've ever listened to talk. She's so smart. The way that she makes history understandable and digestible is

is awesome. She's just a great communicator. She was definitely uh my uh fan girl moment of 2025 for sure.

And hopefully she'll be back on quite a bit in 2026. I'm pretty sure. Yep. Okay. Seth, do you have any New Year's resolutions? Uh, I never really come up with any New Year's resolutions, so I'll probably just make one to come up with one finally.

That's a good one. Mine I shouldn't say out loud cuz it's not going to come true and I don't want anyone told me to, but mine really is. I'm going to quit vaping.

You You [ __ ] watch. You [ __ ] watch. Uh, listener that will we'll see you next year in 2027 when that is again highly my least New Year's resolution.

I am consistent. That is true. That is true. Okay. Well, we will see you guys the next time you guys see me in this moment. This is pre-recorded. I'm in a U-Haul with my lesbian girlfriend, my lesbian dog, moving up to New York City. So, next time you see me, but I'll be with Jen.

Mhm. And we're going to be some lesbians in the big city. Big changes in 2026. Mhm.

That'll be fun. That'll be exciting. It's going to be you and Pumps [ __ ] [ __ ] up in Oklahoma.

Yep. Yep. I I wonder if you get there and you miss it cuz it's just not like home.

It's just not like home. I am really scared of someone telling me I have an accent, saying I like your accent. Because being from here, even from when I was little, I was like, I will not and do not have a hick accent

and then you travel or you talk to people and you absolutely do. It's funny, too, cuz I've grown up with some people with some accent.

Yeah. You're from like bone [ __ ] Yeah. And I've always thought, "Oh, yeah, that's that's the Oklahoma accent." I've got I've got it. I just don't hear it in myself. So, I will when I watch this episode back.

Uh-huh. It's hard to listen to myself every day. Yep. Okay, Seth, tell them with your hick accent.

All right, everybody. Have a wonderful New Year and we'll see you next Tuesday.

Tuesday and Thursday. That's how my parents really say it. That's how I say it when I'm not thinking about it.

Tuesday and Thursday. All right. Bye, listener. I'll tell you what I've had it with. Let's hear it. I've had it with that.

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Questions about this episode

What is discussed in "New Year, Same A**holes"?

In order: 0:00 BuzzFeed, Young Carol (Yan Carol); 10:00 Mark Zuckerberg, Young Carol (Yan Carol); 15:00 Young Carol (Yan Carol).

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How long is "New Year, Same A**holes"?

The episode runs 38 min; the transcript is about 6,455 words in 143 timestamped sections.

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