Pentagon Pete’s Spending Spree, Spielberg = Pied Piper Of Idiots? 03.11.26
The Daily Zeitgeist
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🗓️ 11 March 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In episode 2020, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and host of Go Fact Yourself, J. Keith van Straaten, to discuss… Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon Is Spending Billions On War... And Millions On Lobster, Trump Playing 4D Checkers Baby With Save Act, Old Habits…Iran/Midterms, Is Hollywood’s UFO Trend A Government PSYOP? And more!
- Is the Iran war really costing the US $2bn per day?
- Pentagon Should Focus on Defense Priorities, not Lavish Dinners, After Historic $93.4B “Use-It-or-Lose-It” September
- Pete Hegseth Blew Billions on Fruit Basket Stands, Chairs, and Crab
- Hollywood Is Suddenly Taking UFOs Seriously, With Rival “Disclosure” Projects in the Works (Exclusive)
- ‘A lot of stories but very few facts’: sceptics push back on buzzy UFO documentary
- MAGA Congresswoman Claims UFOs Might Be ‘Interdimensional Beings’
- UFOs, Aliens & Steven Spielberg's 20-Year Obsession
- Close Encounters: Cultural Impact
- Claim: NASA tried to stop Spielberg's 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
- CIA Influence on 'The Day the Earth Stood Still'
- The Day the Earth Stood Still: Rejected by the US Air Force, but aided by the CIA?
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| 0:00.0 | Miles, are you able to do the thing this afternoon? |
| 0:08.4 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 0:09.2 | If we're out by three, yeah, yeah, I'll be good. |
| 0:11.8 | Yeah, the thing, the thing, the thing. |
| 0:13.9 | I've been watching the Sopranos lately. |
| 0:16.3 | It sounds like every conversation they have. |
| 0:18.2 | Got the thing later, yeah. |
| 0:19.5 | The thing, our friend in New Jersey. You watching it for the first time or? No, no, no. Maybe like six or seventh, probably all the way through. And what's striking you this time that you might have missed the first time around? I think these guys would have voted for Trump. Yeah. There were a ton of think pieces about like the last few months. Or maybe it was just because of Michael Imperiali. He was like, yeah, these guys would have voted for Trump. Like, yeah, no shit. No shit. They're bad guys. Yeah. It's fun seeing sort of the before they were stars folks on there. Yeah, like Perez Hilton. That Perez Hilton is in an episode of The Sopranos. |
| 0:55.3 | As, |
| 0:55.5 | as himself? |
| 0:56.5 | No, he's like a ticket taker at like a university playhouse. |
| 1:01.1 | Oh, that's funny. |
| 1:01.9 | I didn't remember that. |
| 1:02.1 | Super random. |
| 1:03.2 | And I'm like, what the fuck is Perez? |
| 1:04.7 | So I random. |
| 1:05.8 | Sorry random. |
| 1:06.9 | It is weird to know that ultimately he wanted to be an actor. |
| 1:13.3 | Yeah, right, right, right. |
| 1:14.3 | That's where the vitriol came from. |
| 1:16.8 | It's always, it's always telling on yourself a little bit. |
| 1:20.1 | When you're really mean to a certain type of person, there's probably some manner of hang up in there. |
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