I recorded this one sitting on my couch. I think it helped?
As always, I’ve meticulously cleaned up the A.I.-generated transcript for anybody who can’t hear this podcast or doesn’t want to. I tried to make it readable, while conveying what I actually said. Or what I meant to say…
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Transcript
Thank God It’s Friday!
…is the name of my favorite Bruce Jenner movie. [It was actually Can’t Stop the Music, dummy. Either way… how did we not know?]
It’s November 7th, 2025. I’m allegedly Jim Treacher.
I’m really tired. I don’t know about you guys, but it’s been a hell of a couple months. Not even two months, a little over seven weeks. I’m pretty worn out.
So I’m gonna take it easy this Friday. I do have one kinda-political thing I want to talk about, and then I’m going to talk about some music that I’ve been listening to.
GQ apparently has interviewed Sydney Sweeney. And I’m sure it’s a fascinating interview, but nobody’s going to read it. The only thing anybody’s going to talk about is the video I’m about to show you.
I’ll put the link in the transcript, and I’ll just play the audio of the video here for you. This is an interviewer from GQ, and she’s talking to Sydney Sweeney:
“The criticism of the content, which was basically that maybe specifically in this political climate, like… White people shouldn’t joke about genetic superiority, that was kind of the criticism, broadly speaking. And since you are talking about this, I just wanted to give you an opportunity to talk about that specifically.”
“I think that when I have an issue that I want to speak about, people will hear.”
And that was it.
And it’s great! That’s exactly what she should have said when a reporter, who…
I guess this reporter thought she was doing Sydney Sweeney a favor. Like: “Okay, let’s clear this up right now. People think you’re a Nazi. Tell them you’re not.”
Well, okay: Crazy people think she’s a Nazi. Crazy people think that she was talking about genetic superiority. Crazy people think that.
So what? She doesn’t need your help, GQ.
I think most people had moved on. The big news last week about Sydney Sweeney was, she showed up practically naked to some awards show. She wore a Saran Wrap dress. Which… I don’t know, I didn’t mind it. But some people were mad. But nobody was talking about her being a Nazi. Which she isn’t.
I think Sydney Sweeney handled it just right. I’ll embed the video, and you have to see the look on her face. It’s RBF, if you know what that means.
And you can tell that she’s kind of forcing herself to collect herself and just say: “Okay, this interviewer is trying to provoke me into something that I don’t want to say. About an issue that isn’t an issue, really, except among a handful of lunatics, mainly in newsrooms like GQ.”
I didn’t even know GQ was still publishing… But, great.
But I think Sydney Sweeney handled it exactly right. That’s how you should handle a hostile journalist. It’s a hostile question: “Don’t you think you should clear up whether you think white people are genetically superior?”
Well, of course she doesn’t. What’s wrong with you? Well, if there wasn’t anything wrong with you, you wouldn’t have gone into journalism.
I already liked two big things about Sydney Sweeney: her talent and her charisma. So now, it’s… five things.
So, what else is going on?
