The Daily Zeitgeist - All My Friends Are Trends 5/10: George Santos, Tucker Carlson, Coronation, Steven Seagal, Bermuda Triangle

Episode Date: May 10, 2023

In this edition of All My Friends Are Trends, Jack and Miles discuss George Santos pleading not guilty to fraud, Tucker Carlson re-launching his show on Twitter, how many Americans watched the coronation, Steven Seagal's performance at the Guitars in Formation festival, and the REAL explanation for the Bermuda Triangle!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I feel like fucking shit. Yeah. Wait, is that I feel like making love? That was I feel like making love. I feel like fucking shit. I feel like making love that was i feel like making love feel like fucking shit tonight or you know it's like uh what's that carol crows god i feel like hell tonight god i feel like fucking shit tonight uh yeah i don't know i think i just got a little bit of a flu and you are traveling um we are not releasing you're in the big apple baby watch out is it ready for you i doubt it i don't think it's possible for it to be see when i go to the get the nyc souvenir gift store and clean them out with my authentic knickknacks that i buy the most authentic knickknacks

um but tomorrow right tomorrow no full app because i'm sick i'm sorry i was on a plane yeah we couldn't do it the best you got this is what you got well you got you got us talking to you um here on wednesday in the afternoon, letting you know what is happening. George Santos, he's in some trouble, folks. It's not looking good for George Santos. He's pled not guilty to fraud charges, but he was arrested. He's in custody. Yeah.

Turned himself in. I saw this thing. I think one of his aides said that they had been working with the FBI for a while now. Whoops. Yeah, man. Seven counts wire fraud.

Three counts money laundering. Two counts making false statements to the House of Representatives. One count theft of public funds i'm sorry couldn't i feel like two making false statements to the house of representatives couldn't you get a lot of people on this right that feels that feels like they're just hey you're handing out speeding tickets at the nd 500 you know what i'm saying this is what am I doing here? I'm Sebastian Maniscalco. Oh,

oh, um, I, yeah, I don't know that this is interesting that you can arrest people for doing this because it seems like, uh, well,

when there's, yeah, when there's enough will to do it, I think that's the, that's the difference, right? Is like, if he wasn't such an,

like an actual, it's so wild how we're even defining embarrassment for a political party clearly george santos was a bridge too far for the republicans that even they're like yeah i mean yeah we got it i mean we got to give them up yeah like we can't protect this guy so yeah all right well usually getting elected to a public office at that level but i think the scammer in me wants to think, let's get out of jail free card. Oh, like when you get the office?

Yeah, when you get the office, man. He had to have thought that's what he was getting. I know. The fact that he found out from CNN, it's just the worst way to find out about... Anything. Anything. Anything. I got broken up with by CNNnn one time it was the worst

yeah i remember that yeah poppy harlow one time dropped off a bag of my old hoodies from an ex and just let me know it just wasn't working out that's right and said yeah you know she just feels you guys hedged your bets too soon she's just coming off a breakup and maybe it was a mistake getting involved this this seriously so quickly and i was like oh damn thanks poppy for the hoodies at least at least came back tucker carlson was allegedly uh has is says he is relaunching his show on twitter with full-blown z's right wing unapologetic, white supremacist Elon Musk. You're sick delivery of full-blown Z's. Full-blown Z's, right-wing,

white supremacist. I think this is really demonic and dangerous because it's like Tucker Carlson, the whole the ire of his existence

is everything that's on Twitter. And so for him to have the keys somewhat by having Musk's okay just feels like a really, really bad place for him to kind of throw his shit around. Yeah, I mean, there are reasons to think, like when I first heard this i was very upset like it scared because like he's good at propaganda good tucker carlson was good

at propaganda like and elon musk is unapologetic and rich and shrewd at the same time people are The median age on Fox News is 65. 65 years old. It's dead. The median age is dead. And the median age on Twitter is 40. And also, the vast majority of people on Twitter are left-leaning. There are, of course, plenty ofis and right-wing pieces of shit but the majority of the people lean to the left there's also the fact that like i don't know this this reminds me of when like facebook video was like yeah we're gonna be the place where you watch nfl football

from now on and it was like oh shit could you imagine what a weird world and was like no you're not right yeah no one's going there yeah no one's going there this isn't gonna happen a lot of people are just gonna start brigading and making fun of him and we'll see how long he's he's like this place is actually terrible for me yeah and i think also too like if you want to go to your audience they're all in like fucking parlor yeah you know or fucking gap or whatever whatever one of those other alternatives for but again because twitter the really the only appeal it has for conservatives is that they get to it's because there are left leaning or liberal or progressive people there that they can antagonize that's the only appeal

it has to them right right um yeah so i don't know like it seems like he i saw somebody say he paid 44 billion dollars to turn twitter into parlor he could have just paid 200 for a parlor yeah he fucked up he reminds me of like francis and peewee's big adventure like yeah he has to break our shit yeah he's like no but i want twitter daddy yes and it's like i don't want any bike it has to be peewees and again it's just for him to be able to be like haha you said i can't be here now i own it now what i'm the most annoying guy ever do you love me now dad are you the other the other question i have is like so if twitter is predominantly left-leaning like this has to be not succeeding, what he's been doing.

Twitter is a worse product now than it was by far. But apparently his self-reported stats are like, Twitter's usage is at an all-time high of 8 billion minutes per day, which is a very weird and specific stat. Like it seems like there was a day when they had a lot of minutes or something that he is choosing because what other people like outside people who can look at metrics say that Twitter is actually continuing to slide. Well, let him do a year of owning it and then compare it from when he owned it.

And it'll look less shit but yeah i don't know i mean good luck good luck with this health site oh my god also tucker's like rebranding as a folksy country guy after like eight days of not being on tv he's now like this picture that he like distributed to his or like that's on his website is that actually him or is that a terrible foot like because the proportions are weird josh brolin arm he's yeah he's like rolled up his sleeves in a weird way but it also yeah seems like his arms are very short is he holding a shotgun in his hand yeah uh some khakis yeah just folksy and that's right after he was putting sun on his scrotum because remember

that was the last big health trend he was on about handing your ball full sack because it doesn't that's how you yeah it wasn't that was in one of his like man documentaries yeah yeah like just has some of the weirdest ideas about masculinity anywhere. Real men get taint skin cancer. Real men tan their scrotum.

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And we're back and 10 million americans watched the coronation oh wow that's i don't even know what uh what does that even mean what does that even mean man because does that even mean, man? Because I don't know. I feel like back in the day, like 10 million people watched a rerun of like Friends, right? I wish I had my, you know, Nielsen brain on and I could tell you what that even meant. But that sounds good. I just love that most of them were over 55. Yeah, 80% were 55 or older. That's, it's not like most. 80% were 55 or older that's it's not like most 80 were 55 or older that is yeah just a

creepy ass old institution but apparently yeah like the queen's funeral got way more eyeballs on it which makes sense because that was the last monarch that people who gave a fuck about the monarch cared about then you're like yeah yeah the finale people didn't hate her and this guy it was like just the pictures i've seen of him just like looking like a pampered child it's just so weird i've never seen an elderly man look more like a pampered child it's very it's very strange i don't know what it is too like about it's like almost i don't know what it is too like about it's like almost i don't know if i'm even this i'm i have the right like perception of it all but like it

seemed like the queen was maybe not so trying to be like i'm the queen kind of shit like charles's vibe is like i'm the king now that's like what his energy feels like when i finally yeah and he's like give me my fur robes etc so i can lord this scepter over the audience yeah but we should oh man i wonder i wish we had figures on how many people did the homage of the people oh man i mean everyone in spirit was there with their hand on their on their television oh whoa oh wow this This is interesting. It said that the homage to the people was actually toned down after criticism. Oh, wow. Damn. Zeitgeist

does it again. TDZ. That's the TDZ effect. Got another one. Put another notch on the old club because the Archbishop of Canterbury had to take an L. King Charles of Zeitgang, for sure. Steven Seagal headlines a pro-war festival in russia uh continue to show his appreciation for his adopted home of russia

his adopted daddy of vladimir putin um headline the festival guitars in formation guitars in formation what is this he he came out with a like a special guitar did he it said he walked out on the stage and as he told the crowd that the instrument held particular cultural significance quote maybe many of you don't recognize this this is an old old soviet guitar recognize this. This is an old, old Soviet guitar. It's been fully restored. This is going into Vladimir's museum forever.

Just saying in English. This is an old, old Soviet guitar. What the fuck is an old, was it like an old tender rip-off or something? He's got trump speak like his that that does seem like trump making something up old rip old so yeah guitar it's been fully

restored folks it's gonna be in vladimir's museum forever forever forever folks i like how he just really also he's kind of has like this like gene autry kind of thing where he i can picture him like strummy and he's like maybe many of you don't recognize this yeah but this is an old old soviet guitar he does not have that kind of charisma so i'm pretty energy of a guy with a guitar at a party where no one else has a guitar just yeah sweating out his painted hairline. Oh man. What a, what a direction. See, there's like a whole YouTube channel dedicated to analyzing the latter day works of Steven Seagal.

Yeah. And they're hilarious because like, just, just someone casually pointing out how terribly like inconsistent or like the continuity issues or just his, like the lack of anything that's based in reality. And it really like, it's,

it's a delight. Um, like even from the way he'll like hold a gun, like he's finding new ways to do that incorrectly. Right. Just pure Seagal confidence. He's got, yeah,

he's truly a genius. Uh, one of our greats. Um, Brian called out, he said he's seated in the entire movie of Skype props. Yeah. He's truly a genius. Uh, one of our greats, um, Brian called out, he said he's seated in the entire movie of Skype props. Just sitting. I mean, that, that was happening towards the end of like even his American films. Like he just would find a way to like do a chase scene where he didn't

actually move somehow. They have even, he has bad doubles doing his running for him now. Half past dead, it's officially embarrassing and impossible to miss that he can't fully get his heart rate above

60 or threatens just ceasing to exist. He's reverse crank, Jason Statham. He's reverse exist he's a reverse crank jason statham he's reverse crank got a reverse crank situation got to keep it real what if we had a reverse crank him pitching pitching ideas on set oh man the the stories of just anybody who's ever worked with him are actually horrifying but oh yeah yeah yeah of course he's also even like selling he he was kind of popular in japan you know because he was he's actually like kind of legit at aikido and oh yeah and like spoke japanese and people like really

into him and then like i think once things just started wobbling his stock started to fall and he no longer did those very lazy aikido demonstrations where like people would run him full speed and he's kind of like wave his hands and they'd be like oh the Russian ones are great oh yeah Systema that's what that's called Systema those Systema videos that guy is fucking I knew somebody

who was doing it he was like really into martial arts he's like it's really cool but he was never quite like saying that it was like the shit that you saw in those videos more just like a very aggressive way of beating people up. Yeah. He just has a Russian guy after Russian guy falling at like running at him and like falling as he waves his hand at him. And yeah, they'll go to punch him and he'll like kind of tap their knuckles and they're like their arm will blow off.

But he also like is you can see that he's like communicating something to them like there's a pre-existing thing where he's like all right i'm gonna push this way so you're falling this way okay there you go okay um there you go and here's that all right and that guy is barely sweating yes um and finally a scientist says he solved the bermuda triangle and just says that it's like probabilities are the leading cause of the Bermuda Triangle disappearance. And basically, it's suspect weather. If he plane and boat piloting, there's no reason to believe the Bermuda Triangle phenomenon like is anything other than that's just a place where a lot of planes and boats are traveling right essentially seems like is what he's saying it's like a combination of a tricky area and if you don't have your shit together you will get got so yeah it's a high probability of getting got

yeah well i don't like that i like that it's a magical fucking place i don't need your fucking realistic explanation i want to know that like there's a magical fucking place i don't need your fucking realistic explanation i want to know that like there's a hole in the sea yeah that would just swallow you or a monster or some shit and yahoo news doing their job well uh that is the image that they have chosen to accompany this the scientist says he solved the bermuda triangle just like that uh and i thought you wrote that we would say yeah just like that just like that huh huh you think you're a tough guy you think you're a real tough guy nikki you saw the bermuda triangle just like that huh let me show you something really clear

but like the image they used to accompany it as a plane getting struck by lightning as it falls into a hole in the sea and then it's so horribly photoshopped i love it it's so bad it's it looks like next level they took like niagara falls like the edge of like a waterfall yeah and then it's like brutally mapped over like an ocean so you get that feeling of a sinkhole or hole in the ocean and then you just read that it's just falling in headline and look at the thing and be like oh shit there's a lightning niagara falls vortex in the middle of the bermuda triangle and a scientist no it's actually just bad weather just bad weather and yeah and operator error but but the picture the i know we know it's this it's yahoo and this this website is made for elderly people who like this kind of stuff so

hey the website's called yahoo you know what what are you gonna do what do you exactly all right those are some of the things that are trending yes yes on this wednesday i'm gonna go back to sleep you're gonna go take a bite out of the Big Apple. Am I right? Yeah, I'm going to go. The weather's really nice. It's nicer than LA right now. Amazing. Alright, well, we'll be back tomorrow

afternoon for Trending. So, we'll talk to you all tomorrow's Trending episode. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine. Get your flu shot. Don't do nothing about white supremacy.

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