Tim & Sam Round Up the Week’s Weirdest Stories
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The Bulwark
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🗓️ 1 November 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, Tim Miller from the Bullwark here with my buddy Sam Stein and my geese. |
| 0:05.1 | And it is Halloween afternoon. And we are just chatting on the slack. Unusual, a little unusually quiet from Mr. Trump. Don't say that. He was in Asia. I know. I'm jinxing it. He's in Asia. The hell knows. And so we're like, what are we going to talk about? and me and Sam just like |
| 0:20.7 | we're just going to bro out |
| 0:22.1 | before we have to go about? And me and Sam, just like, let's, |
| 0:21.0 | we're just going to bro out before we have to go take our kids trick-or-treating and, and talk about whatever we wanted. So we're going to pick a variety of topics. I have a few. And Sam, I would like to kick off with the Lincoln bathroom, unless you, and then you get to pick the next topic. How does that sound? Unless you want to talk to the else first. No, no, no, no. |
| 0:39.0 | That's, I think that's the most important. Okay. How does that sound? Unless you want to talk to those first. |
| 0:38.5 | No, no, no, no. That's, I think that's the most important. Okay. So if we're to do that, why don't we put the picture up on the screen for people who haven't seen it? This was a post from our president on his social media feed. It shows the old Lincoln bathroom and then the new one side by side. He wrote, |
| 0:53.6 | he renovated the Lincoln bathroom, |
| 0:55.0 | but had been in the Art Deco, |
| 0:56.6 | green tile style, |
| 0:57.6 | which was totally... and then the new one side by side. He wrote, he renovated the Lincoln bathroom, but had been in the Art Deco, green tile style, |
| 0:57.6 | which was totally inappropriate for the Lincoln era. I did it black and white polished, |
| 1:03.2 | statuary marble. And then I'm just going to throw up here dye work where Derek Guy has also a little picture. |
| 1:10.2 | You can look at how the Lincoln bedroom looks as compared to the Lincoln bathroom. Derek Guy has also a little picture. What do you say? |
| 1:15.1 | How the Lincoln bedroom looks as compared to the Lincoln bathroom. |
| 1:20.8 | He's not exactly noticing the connection stylistically. |
| 1:23.8 | But anyway, I'm wondering what your thoughts are. |
| 1:25.5 | A lot of ways to go on this, I think. |
| 1:27.0 | Well, it's just a lot of marble. Like, it's just a lot of marble like it's a it's just a lot |
| 1:29.0 | of marble and um you walk in there i'm presuming and you kind of it feels like a fun house mirror |
| 1:33.8 | of marbles also um i was surprised i thought he would put a bidet in i had to be honest but there's no |
| 1:40.9 | bidet and he seems like a bidet guy he does seem like a bidet guy yeah no |
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