The Daily Zeitgeist - AlTrend & The Chipmunks 8/28: U.S. Open, Casper Ruud, Will Smith, Minneapolis Annunciation Catholic School, OrgyDome @ Burning Man, Mr. Beast, Rolling Stone

Episode Date: August 28, 2025

In this edition of AlTrend & The Chipmunks, Jack and special guest co-host Blake Wexler discuss, the U.S. Open, Casper Ruud getting offended by the N.Y. Zaa, Will Smith and AI… back together again, the Minneapolis Annunciation Catholic School shooting, blowing the roof off the OrgyDome @ Burning Man, Mr. Beast being mad that he's only the 7th most influential content creator and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I think that was courtesy of Vanadium Silver on the Disclays. chord you betcha you betcha it was my name is jack o'brien i'm thrilled to be joined in our second seat by one mr very funny comedian one mr very funny comedian yes uh his special is daddy long legs uh his thighs are plumpers because they're so ripped he is blake wexler thank you you may call me mrs beast mrs beast yeah if you'd like you use my proper name Mrs. Madame Beast. Madame Beist.

Bonjour, Madame Beist. It's not good podcasting. It's great podcasting. It is great. It's wonderful podcasting. We got to see each other in person at the U.S. Open fairly recently. You suggested that my wife and I were getting a divorce. I suggested that you get one.

He said by the tone that I'm hearing you use with her, you should get a divorce. You should... Yes. You should call a lawyer. Get off that call and call a lawyer. She loudly heard me say to an innocent bystander, that's never going to last when I motioned towards both of you. So, yeah, yeah. I don't know how long you've been together for, but it's not going to be honest.

Yeah. I'm a good judge in these things. Yeah. But, yeah, you've got a great city there, New York City, I got to say. So lovely. Thank you. Thank you. Lovely to be there.

Queens, Queens, very easy to get to. I did have a. blast it was there was like just one of these stupid things where no matter how well intentioned you are like sometimes it just comes back to bite you in the ass where there was this tennis player where I'm like oh my god she is like so much cool added to like she's like so captivating and so charismatic and then she ended up being the one who like yelled at the other American tennis player oh yes the one who was like horrendous she was like you should be better at losing what is your problem I also saw that girl and she

seemed very, like, her energy, I was like, she seems like kind of like a spoiled 12-year-old. I was like, how old is she? And you do like that. You're like, I like children who give off vibes, like, they could be one of the kids who gets killed in Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. Some hysterical tragedy. Yeah, yeah. It's like, they fell in what?

Terrible. Also, big news, the only real rooting interest that I had was, uh, one of the, uh, one. Once I heard that somebody who's like ranked in the top 30 in tennis named Casper Rood was asked what he thought of New York City, maybe my favorite city in the world, New York City. And he, uh, he came out and said, it sounds like weed like everywhere on every corner. And the, the journalist like laughed like, ha ha, that's fine. And he was like, no, seriously. It's like, have you, have you been there?

It's horror. And I was like, all right. This, this nerd needs to lose. And indeed he did lose. Right away. Boy, did he lose unexpectedly for the second major in a row. He's maybe he should take a chill pill or, you know, I don't know, try some of that weed that he subjects to because whatever you got going on, Casper Rood, it ain't working.

I don't even smoke weed, but I'm so defensive of New York, New Yorkers being able to do it. to do whatever the hell they want yeah as they have forever as they will continue to yeah there was a a player name i think like tomas machach or something he's like check right he's the guy who has you beep it out it's like we can't say macho that's actually a problem yeah that's a huge problem he i think that was him he has like really short shorts and like is one of the most captivating playing. Like he did a split by accident. Like yesterday, he played against Fonseca, this Brazilian. But like, it's, it's a cool thing if you ever want to go to the U.S. Open. If you get the cheapest ticket, you can just jump around to every single. You just like walk into places. It's crazy. It's so much fun. People like playing on a tennis court that's just like they're right there. You could reach out and give them a little shoulder rub, though. I've been told you should not do that. Yeah. Oh my God. The hollering when I did that was insane. It's like, okay, we get it.

Nothing. Jesus. I have talked about how the, like, there's a great anecdote from the podcaster, Sean Clements, who, uh, one of the Hollywood handbook guys, very funny. I think one of the funniest podcasters out there, um, was talking, he wrote a movie about tennis and pickleball, uh, and had a bunch of famous tennis, like, uh, Andy Rodick was like one of the consultants, uh, Cocoa golfs. coach Brad Gilbert was one of the consultants and he said like they all just like talk about men's

legs the whole time they're like obsessed with how strong men's legs are yo I'm in yeah yeah he was like he made fun of one of them to like he was like yeah this guy's like obsessed with legs and uh and erotic was like yeah man me too like that's that like it is the most important thing in tennis is like having a great pair of legs on you. So I just thought I'd tell that story to you because you, you know, famously. Yes. Canonically got them plumbers on you. I do.

I do. Yeah, it's been fun watching the next generation of legs, you know, in this tournament. So it's been cool for me. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Speaking of the next generation, let's talk about Will Smith. Yeah.

So Will Smith posted a concert video in. Europe where he was like it's great the the caption was it was great to see you up close and like be seen by you up close and uh the the concert footage was him in what appeared to be like a sold out show in the coliseum i don't know like looks like kind of old timey and european what is that venue and yeah the venue's crazy uh and people noticed however so i see the video i'm like oh my my god will smith is like like the the way the germans feel about david haslhoff like that is how like some other european nation feels about will smith um and then someone paused and zoomed on the crowd and we got some major clankers in there man we got some uh the word the new slur for robots uh we got some bad acid

hallucinations happening all over their faces like they're just uh a disaster you know like just scrunch faces we got scrunch faces we got we got eyes that are missing um yeah just like faces folding in over each other yes really horrifying stuff um and i assumed okay will smith is exaggerating the size of his crowd that's set the in the same way that like a lot of the videos that he released um in connection with his album that dropped back in March that we all remember and we all listened to eagerly snapped up and uh started listening to on a regular basis you had to tell justin to stop playing those songs at the end of the episodes that miles isn't on yeah it was like justin kept playing the will smith songs yeah we we've done that

one before uh for the past five days in a row yeah those videos like made me sad where he was like i'm just freestyle in here oh and like the freestyle sucked but like he was like feeling them so much And it was just, it made me sad for, not necessarily for him. He seemed to be having fun. But for the inevitable passage of time, you know, that we're all getting older. And this felt like, okay, he's, he's really getting sad. Turns out an AI, an AI like doctor, like somebody who like checks into this stuff, looked into it and was like, all right. So here's what happened.

He's not adding people to the crowd. He, what he's doing, he's not making his crowd seem bigger than it really is. He's making his budget seem bigger than it really is. What they've done is those, like, moving shots over the crowd were initially photographs. And they turned, they used AI to turn them into videos. And the AI just, like, isn't good enough to do that. No. So they, you know, it doesn't make it any better.

It's bad. I mean, it makes it less sad. He's not being like, look, everybody was here. everybody love me um it just uh but it but it does suck that he instead of like hiring a video production team he just like took some pictures that people took on their iPhone and tried to make it look like he had a uh was spending a lot of money on it so yeah just not a shot that you need like we didn't he yeah we didn't need to it's just one of those things it's like well i think we made this joke before but it's like walking in on your kid and they're in a room and they just

go, nothing? Or it's like, wait, I would, wait, now what's going on? Now I'm wondering what's going on. It's the same with this. Or it's like, why is, why are these, like, these weird deformed ghouls, you know, in his audience? And it's like, all right, so what else is going? Are there people not going on? What else is going on? Will Smith? Yeah, it's not. It's very popular. Do you not have a big budget? Right. Like, I don't think there's a city in the United States where he would have this size of crap personally. I agree. And I think it would even, just off the virtue that he is a high he's such a famous actor

and he can also perform music you know right even if you put like Brian Cox live in Central Park like yeah I'd go watch that like what does he like an above average musician yeah yeah

people would of course I'll see that truly and they also don't speak English so they don't know how bad his rhymes are you know it's it's not it's not the point of it yeah yeah sounds like it was like written by a Romanian guy, like the runs that he's coming up with. All right.

We've also need to talk, of course, about mass shooting that happened. Two children have been killed following a shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school. And as usual, the right gave us a tsunami of bullshit in order to sidestep the issue of gun control. Gun control seems like at this moment, it is a thing that, um, everybody has given up on. I talked before about how there's this, like, Malcolm Gladwell article in the New Yorker. Those, like, had some interesting things to say about, like, crime.

And, like, the very clear moral of the article was, like, if people didn't have guns, like, murder would go so far down. It's great. Like, guns are the only, most crimes are not planned out. They're just a thing that happened. Like, a murder, most murders happen. The vast majority of murders. happen because somebody is like going through something or really angry and has access to a gun.

And if they didn't have access to the gun, the murder would not have happened. That was the very clear moral of the story. And he's like interviewing a criminologist. And they're like, yeah, but I mean, we're never going to get rid of guns in America. So we can, we can move past that and try to find out their solutions. Yeah, yeah. The other big thing, and this is always like a thing that Americans have to deal with whenever there is one of these mass shootings that happen again, because of gun control laws controlled by conservatives,

we have to be like, uh-oh, who is the person who did it? And are they going to be able to turn this into some sort of political statement? The shooter was reportedly a trans woman and had a kill Trump message written on their weaponry, along with anti-Semitic and racist language. So I feel like those balance each other out. But people on the right have claimed that this is an excuse to put. for transphobic policies suggest that this is becoming a pattern.

Elon Musk retweeted that. Just a quick check on the math there. So the percentage of mass shooters who are trans, 0.11%, that is compared to the overall percentage of the population, which is between 0.5 and 1%. So it would be like 1 5th to 1 tenth as common as it should be.

statistically. Also, trans people are more often the victims of mass shootings than the perpetrators of mass shootings. So that should tell you everything you want to know. But, you know, if you have a political point to make, you're going to do it. Carolyn Levitt decided to share a post on Instagram, Instagram, from a conservative lifestyle magazine, which suggested that a demonic force was responsible for the shooting. And J.D. Vance offered his thoughts and prayers and then got all defensive when people were like, fuck your

prayers. But I know everybody's hearing me say, okay, here's what J.D. Vance said. Here's what, you know, Carolyn Levitt said. Um, but like what did First Lady Melania Trump have to say about this? We're all, you know, let's get her involved. Defening. Is she going to read anything on the back of her coat what are we going to do here um so for some reason she decided to go on twitter and offer her own ideas of how to prevent school shootings which uh were the plot from minority report um she she said there should be preemptive intervention based on early warning signs um and fox news is you know running with this they had a former idf operative on who's trying to sell trump and israeli style ai threat detection

platform. Jesus. Yeah, which seems not good for some reason. It just seems bad. Some flags are being raised in there, the color red. Yeah. But that I do, I do think, you know, the, the Foucault's boomerang, the idea of, you know, the tools of empire being used abroad, then coming home, like that feels like what we're going to see here. Like, I could see this becoming very popular where, you know, suddenly people are quietly being arrested or loudly by masked thugs. It doesn't seem to matter anymore because of like, you know, something that a social media algorithm said about what they said. I wouldn't be surprised if the rights, and I do actually believe this, that the right would

suggest to ban schools to avoid school shootings before they would ban guns. You know, it's like, well, the shootings are happening in the schools are the problems. let's make ourselves even stupider rather than yeah it's it's one of these things like speaking of that they did where they're just like we just need cops in the classroom like well then it like stops really being school at that moment right yeah so what is that then because it's not school you know we need more cops in the classroom yeah so scary but yeah i think like once sandy hook happened because because i think the question we ask ourselves like what will it fucking take for gun control and not even as a rhetorical question like what would the answer be if not

Midwestern children in a church right I don't know not even rhetorically what else you could possibly choose as a as the worst thing to them like it's yeah and like you said they're looking for a some someone some entity to blame other than the thing that's firing the bullets that kill people and this of course you know the person happened to be trans even though that's the least common thing in the entire world so of course now they're like oh cool now we can not talk about guns and do more hateful shit yeah so yeah it's the worst they didn't have anything to say about the fact that the shooters rifle shotgun and pistol were all lawfully purchased no because those are the laws in america because it's a good country uh we're going to take a quick break we're going to come

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true. So the Orgy Dome the top of the Orgy Dome just like blew off at Burning Man. And I think it was just that the orgy action was like so powerful. They were just, they fucked the roof off.

They fucked the roof right off that dang thing. Fucked the roof right off. Um, this is something from like a moot, like, I, I feel like this was a common thing in movies where like the roof would fall off of a thing and people would be like in a shower or something like covering it. You know what I mean? Like in old timey movies. Like that just that actually happened. Doing the Heisman pose like. Yeah, yeah.

Um, but, uh, so this is a thing that exists at Burning Man where couples, I think generally sign up for this. and uh you like sign a a form a consent form and then uh you get to have sex with strangers in a uh orgy tent the orgy dome and then this year it has been the highest wins in a long time it's been it's been a bad run for burning man i feel like for they've had a tough time yeah last year it was like just a giant mud field this year it's uh just crazy winds and then mud and, uh, the orgy dome fell victim to high winds. Um, and we, we got to, we, we got, RIP to the orgy dome. Um, we got, we got, we got, we, we got to see what, oh, Brian the editor has shared the alleged entrance to the orgy dome, which is a giant

bejeweled asshole. Asshole. Yes. Yeah, yeah. A rectum. Pink rectum. Um, there's also a video of the orgy dome that um you know after the wind blew it away uh and it uh looks like shit because it's like i don't know is it like the lights on in a bar you know um there's just like purple like benches for people to like fuck on this is kind of what it feels like i hope this is you know because clearly the orgy dome had seen a better days yeah so i hope they come back next year with a more structurally sound orgy dome, you know, with more comfortable purple fuck benches and one that would withstand the wind of the desert because you just don't know when a gust of wind will come

and just blow that orgy dome clear into the air. And no one wants that. The orgyers don't want that. We don't want that. It's sad. I feel like orgies are, yeah, like Brian the editor said, orgies are meant for opulent palaces, not tents in the desert. Well said. I could see like the right tent in the desert, you know, working out. But like, in this case, everybody's filthy. Like, they're given the option to wear gloves for sand purposes, which is just like, I don't know, man. Oh, my God. That just makes, I forgot about the sand. Immediately makes me want to not fuck with that. Yeah. That's a, that's an immediate nah fam for me. No, that is a, that is a not fuck with that situation for sure. Yeah.

And finally, there's a, the article that we've all been waiting for, Rolling Stone has come out with the 25 most influential creators of 2025, content creators, the new artists, the artists of our era. That, by the way, is what they would use to get everybody horny before they entered the Orgy Dome. They just pass out the top 25 list, just to get the blood fall in. Hell yeah. Nice. Yes, please. Let's go. Um, so I think Drusky's number two, uh, my favorite person on the list, Caleb

Heeran, uh, at number six, very funny comedian, uh, neck and neck with Ms. Rachel at number three. I don't personally, uh, taking a lot of Ms. Rachel's content, but I do appreciate what Ms. Rachel does, uh, for children and also, uh, taking a stand for society, Palestine and society and just like, um, but, uh, so Caleb at, Number six. Another guy you may have heard of, Mr. Beast. Is there a Mrs. Beast? Ooh.

Is there a Mrs. Beast, Jimmy? Jimmy Donaldson, a fake-ass, Superman sidekick-ass name. Yeah, I'd go by Mr. Beast as well. I mean, like, Jimmy Donaldson, who turns into Mr. Beast is just, like, such a comic book ass. It is. Yes. but uh he's so his whole thing is that he makes people like do stuff for money but it's like

as a he like he has somehow spun it as like as not um you know a guy in a top hat making unhoused people fight each other for his amusement and instead is like i'm like the greatest uh philanthropist alive um and it has worked on the children children. I spoke before about we were staying with our friends in Boston and they were like, oh, you live in L.A.? And I was like, here it comes. Like, have, have I met Brad Pitt or, you know, and they were like, have you met Mr. Beast? I was like, oh, no, I don't think so. And they were like, uh, and that was it. I guess I have nothing to fucking say to you that. No more, no more follow-ups. That was the only one they cared about. And yeah, they, I don't know if he even lives, too. That's,

another big thing is that it's not just the like mr beast has become a thing for the parents to willingly deliver their children as feed to mr beast is that true no parents like mr beast yeah i think like it's it's people because you have to allow the kids to where i know a bunch of parents because you know it's how do you get kids you know get kids toys or whatever like obviously it's the parents buying it you know yeah so i've heard that uh i i've heard that uh i I've seen a lot of parents be like, oh, it's, you know, it's like McDonald's. It's like fast food, you know, for, but like for children. So yeah, yeah, yeah, they're consuming it.

These are like the cool parents who were like, yeah, my parents let me watch Mr. Beast. So he was not, and the other way that he gets the parents, by the way, is he is a mainstay at the word G tent. He's been fucking his way through that thing for a decade now. but he got mad about being on this list because he was behind Caleb Heeran who Caleb's so funny who has talent very very talented person is not just a person who has like a gamified an algorithm but it's just like there because he has a ton of talent is super funny and uh mr beast's response to being uh directly behind him instead of being like oh my god

that's crazy to be that close to, you know, somebody who's like an amazing comedic voice was, according to this list, a guy with one million followers is more influential than me. And again, so just a reminder that the list appeared in Rolling Stone magazine. A guy with one million followers more influential than me. What did I do to piss off the Rolling Stones?

Which is, I have to admit, very funny. Let's hope that's not a typo and that he does think that the Rolling Stones have a magazine. Yeah. Yeah. And they put lists in it. They review other like bands as albums and stuff. Yeah.

Keith. Keith is just like real big onto into like who the biggest influencers are. Love it. And Mick. Yeah. What is Keith's last name? Why can't I think of Richards? I was going to say Richards, but it sounded wrong.

You know, where like it's something you've heard so many times or it's like, what are those tissues called that end with? with X. Like, you can't even think of it. Yeah. Anyways,

he deleted it and everybody just made fun of him for being a fucking loser. Yeah. Imagine being a billionaire and caring about some random magazine list, loser shit was what one fan said. Sorry, Jimmy. Caleb has something you'll never have a personality. Hell yeah.

He does have almost a billion followers. It is crazy how famous Mr. Beast is. He's so famous. And has it? He has, like, food, too? Like, there's Mr. Beast's food. Like, I don't, like, snacks and stuff.

It's, it's a level of fame. I can't wait to get a Mr. Beast iron lung at some point. When polio comes back. Yeah, yeah. It is coming back. We'll talk more about that tomorrow. It's fucking coming back. It's fucking coming back.

It's so hot right now. It's huge. That is the thing that, like, you know what else went viral? Yeah. Back of the day. COVID. You know, the flu pandemic of, 1911 yeah polio was an honorable mention in this year's list but polio was bacterial polio went

bacterial i think uh because it was cured by what you might call it penicillin yes the old penicill sock sock um made it sound so dirty i did yonis salt yeah i got yonis socked in the orgy tex salt me um all right that's been plenty that's more than enough like Thank you so much for joining us. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? Yeah, this was great. It was really great seeing you at the U.S. Open. It was great seeing you at our nation's capital.

Dude, I don't think we had seen each other in over five years. Isn't that crazy in person? Like, it was before COVID. Very handsome. There are certain people. I've recently saw, what's his name? The guy from SNL. Mike E.

Jay Farrow. like you day in person and like he's just you know he's like goofy guy from s and you see him in person you're like holy shit this guy is like handsome as hell like everybody who's famous is so handsome it's crazy it's like what the fuck you're like at it you're like you're like you have to be a 10 and then like they're like all right we'll make you famous and like you'll be the ugly guy yeah this is I I failed at an analogy earlier that we had to cut out of the podcast this analogy I'll stand by where it's like seeing a point guard in public where they're always juxtaposed next to like six

foot 10 you know seven foot three guys and it's like wait this is the tallest guy I've ever seen so tall and athletic it's crazy but anyways you have that too you're very handsome well like likewise you are too what uh actor uh I forget his name but he was like a pilot in one of the Star Wars movies the new ones um you probably have gotten him a bunch of times I'll... Oliver... Oliver Platt. I get this shit all the time.

It's Oliver Platt. No, I forget his day, but he's been in a bunch of stuff. Yeah, yeah. This was put in sharply for me. I saw the movie Weapons. Did you see Weapons? I haven't seen it yet. Okay.

Well, I saw the movie Weapons, and then the guy who plays the cop in that, again, plays like, you know, a kind of deadbeat cop. not the first he's not he's not cast as like this guy is handsome he's just like a guy and then walked out of the movie like 15 minutes later passed him on the street in new york and my first instinct because i'm dumb was to be like hey it's me from i was just watching you remember from you were inside the screen you were doing live yeah um to me but yeah yeah he was going into a josh sharps amazing show which everybody should go see if you're in new york sick and it's also next to my favorite pizza place.

His show is called Tadda, and it's next to Bleaker Street Pizza, which I hadn't had for a number of years and got to have when I was back in New York, and it holds up. But now everybody knows about it, and there's like lines around the block, which is annoying. There's such a big line. It's great. Yeah, I went there once. It was great.

And I did wait for once. The Nona Maria and the grandma slice are the two that I think are worth checking out. So good. Blake, where can people find you? They can find me in line at Bleaker Street Pizza. And also, at Blake Wexler and all social media, I am tonight and tomorrow going to be in Wilkesbury, Pennsylvania, at Wisecrackers Comedy Club. And then also, these tickets aren't on sale yet, but I will be in Asheville, September 26th, December 7th. I don't think the N is silent in, oh, Asheville.

Oh, there's another one. There's another one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's confusing when you talk about, you know, the rock and roll and country music. But no, this one is Asheville with a, the N is so silent there isn't one.

There isn't one. This ends silence speaks volumes in Asheville, North Carolina. And the December 7th, I'll be in Chicago. January 6th is a bit, 16th.

Jesus Christ, I did it. I finally did it. January 16th. I'll be it in Brooklyn, at the Littlefield. That'll be a big show. So those tickets aren't on sale yet,

but I would love to see you guys there. And you won't be talking. about where you're going to be on January 6th. I'll be talking to where I was. That's right. Yeah. I'll never forget. All right.

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