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Episode #40: 1461 Days of Ignoring The Trump Administration | July 11-July 17, 2025

Episode #40: 1461 Days of Ignoring The Trump Administration | July 11-July 17, 2025

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 Watch all of the original 1461 Days of Ignoring The Trump Administration TikTok posts from July 11-July 17, 2025 on YouTube!+++On This Week’s EpisodeThis week on the show, I start out on Day 173 challenging myself as I stated previously to be more vulnerable, and so I talk about not being much of an older brother. This was difficult, but worth it, because now I think that I am just so awesome for being able to be so vulnerable. I hope vulnerability turns me into even more of a conceited b*****d. What’s does this have to do with Marvin Gaye? Keep listening!Then I discuss a chat I had with a dude at the track and how that led to remembering someone’s name for what seems like the first time. I am not good at remembering names and I tell you why. It has to do with a personality disorder that I am working on. Suprise, suprise. His name is Frank, by the way, and we drive the same car. How’s that for a cliffhanger, huh? Excited now? Great! What does this have to do with the leader of the Trump administration? Stay tuned!Speaking of not remembering names, Day 175 is the one year anniversary of the tragic passing of a firefighter at a political rally in Pennsylvania where someone we know claims to have taken incoming fire of his own. Whatever you think about what happened that day, that someone is not thinking about the firefighter. This day started with a post I made claiming that if a reporter asked the leader of the Trump administration the name of this firefighter, he had 0% chance of knowing that name. This led me to address a commenter about this topic on Day 175, and then to respond to yet another supporter of the leader of the Trump administration later that day. I have included all of this back and forth for your pleasure. I hope it is pleasurable.The day is lighter on Day 176 when we celebrate the completion of 12% of 1461 days of ignoring the Trump administration. As per usual, I like to use these milestones to remind us all of what we are doing here. This was also the day that the leader of the Trump administration crashed the stage at the World Cup. If you’re into hearing about jerk-offs showing up where they’re not supposed to be, stay tuned!On Day 177, I get back to vulnerability time when I admit to wasting time and discuss my endeavor to develop brisk reactions that are the best responses. What does that mean? I made it up that day, so I am still figuring it out, but I welcome any and all feedback about how I can get better and better and better at this. I also use the occasion to bring up Morris Day of The Time. I like to bring up Morris Day whenever possible. On Day 178 we discuss a discussion. I was on the phone with my friend for two and half hours and I proclaim it to be a perfect conversation. How does one have a perfect conversation? Stay tuned. I will explain. I will also remind you that Bjork wore a swan dress once. Wasn’t that fun?And then on Day 179 I calm down a commenter named Lynda who was taken aback to find out that we aren’t already ten years into the Trump administration. I let her know that I understand, but as I think about it now at 6:52 AM, I guess that it has been ten years if you count all the way back to when he came down that escalator. If only he had tripped. Oh, well. I am vulnerable, so I can reveal that dark thought.+++Hi. It’s Josh.A few days before the inauguration, I was thinking about how I wanted to deal with the next four years.I was exhausted by the news!But I wasn’t interested in going completely uninformed. I wanted to use the “opportunity,” as I had decided to optimistically look at this timeline, to become more mindful and better train my mind to take in the “news,” and then let it fall away from my conciousness.Efficiently and totally. The other aspect of this thought was to then take the personal time I was reclaiming through this process and apply it to more creative endeavors.This series, for example!1461 Days of Ignoring The Trump Administration began. “Day 1” went viral on TikTok, so now I am in until 2029, right?!If you are also someone aspiring to become the best version of yourself, please feel free to join me on this journey, which is sure to get weird around “Day 232,” “Day 877,” and “Day 1001,” etc.For your pleasure (maybe not, let’s see), here is another compilation of posts, along with an exclusive intro and outro only available on the podcast (because I love you.)As per usual, if you want to see video of the original TikTok posts that this podcast audio is derived from, you can watch them all on YouTube at this link. Sometimes seeing my face makes it better (maybe not, let’s see.)Please follow the Josh Bloom Podcast on your favorite podcast app!Thank you,Josh+++More about Josh:I published my first newsletter before the age of ten, written using my next-door neighbor’s typewriter, copied with carbon paper, and distributed to mailboxes on my bicycle.One of my first stories was an obituary of ...

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