The Daily Zeitgeist - April FoolsTrend 4/1: April Fools' Jokes, Air Force One, Niagara Falls, Easter

Episode Date: April 1, 2024

On this edition of April FoolsTrend, Jack and Miles discuss April Fools' Day jokes (both personal and corporate), People stealing stuff from Air Force One and selling it, Transgender Day of Visibility being on thesame day as Easter (and the Right lost their minds), Niagara Falls declaring a state of emergency over eclipse tourists, and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this special Week Trend edition. I guess they're getting less special since we've been doing it for about close to a year now um but it's special in that it's a departure from the norm of our departure a little bit of a break from the norm uh to quote my favorite rapper uh is that will smith um anyways i'm jack o'brien that is miles gray it is great april Fool's Day. Oh, shit. Wait.

I am Miles Gray. And I am... Hold on. I am... Do my name. Donald... Ronald... Donald...

O'Brien... No, let me do that again. I am John DeSantis. Yes! Fucking got you guys. it's a fucking joke you should have seen the fucking look on your face um because it's april fool's day yeah i got scary you you kind of went away there for a second yeah i didn't know who you were yeah it kind of fucked me up i can tell you're not great something came over your face yeah i was like am i john desantis who is um anyways i mean we're gonna get into it it's april fool's day and the

pranks are coming fast and thick especially in my household um i can tell and by my household i mean it you know we have the sign out front and we have what one of the thing you know uh that we have on there is that in this house we believe that elon musk is the funniest comedian oh my god dude killing it today they gotta lock him up for murder because he's fucking killing it with the jokes and also maybe lock them up for murder yeah just generally yeah there might be something there i don't know um so we're gonna get into the things that trended over the weekend the things that are trending right now but before we do that uh we do like to get to know each other a little bit better yes by telling you some things we think are underrated and overrated yeah um

you want to start? You want me to start? Yeah, sure. Which one are we doing? Unders? Unders. Unders? For Unders?

Unders. I'm going to say underrated. Just after seeing some posts on the internet this last Easter Sunday, the servers and kitchen staff on these holiday brunch days, underrated. Because I think in the past you know we talk a lot about like during the holidays especially valentine's day that seems to be the like the moment in the service industry that people are like it's fucked up like it's high tension there's a lot of expectations and it bleeds over into but i'm seeing just from like people's screeds about shitty easter brunches that they've had that like come off as like no you sound like a fucking

entitled prick actually it doesn't sound like you had the worst fucking easter brunch ever in memory it sounds like your server did yeah no 100 and like the ability and then like this whole thing like i saw a couple i'll be honest i saw three different instagram stories from people that like i'm not really friends with but you know just like people like people you've interacted with in the past so you follow them and like they were all versions of like the service was like awful although like it would always be like all these insults to the kitchen staff, the wait staff, and then it's the people that have to fucking deal with you and not throw hot tea on your head.

They are the true heroes. Truly. And so, yeah, I think it's just one of those things where all of these days, it's like these moments where strained familial relationships and expectations just inevitably spill over into how you interact with wait staff or the people at the restaurant. And I just think they got a string of them coming up we got easter brunch you got

mother's day brunch that's gonna be another one where people are gonna fucking freak out right so you know a salute to them dads and grads yeah yeah i feel like i don't know do people lose it as much on i feel like people don't give a shit about their dads enough to be like yeah man we were doing something special for you dad like it's more mom that you're like no more farthing's gotta be right for my fucking mom leave dad alone dad anyway yeah i salute them because i i've already seen there's already posts like i like to go on trip advisor too to look at just what the roundup is for angry people i just love reading like yeah fucking seething reviews of places because it's more just a look into the person than like a reflection on the restaurant

most of the time yeah some of the wildest shit from people who think that they're telling you helpful information about how uh bad their dining experience was and also i wonder i do wonder zeitgang who works in you know who who's worked service industry during these holidays, I'm curious if there is a hierarchy, like if Easter is worse because people are coming from church. And so they're like, well, I already did my good shit for the week. I can treat this person. I already shouted out the resurrection so i'm yeah i'm fine to fucking scream at somebody we're good here yeah um yeah i don't know yeah let us

know if you if you have a if you have a ranking of like worst days i feel like mother's day has to be like you know what i mean like is it's built around this parental relationship and all the trauma that comes along with that and like in a day where you're pretending to depending on your relationship with the mother could be celebratory it could be like passive aggressive it could be like i have to do this because my mom's gonna freaking freak out and then right you know i don't know but tell us yeah tell us you tell us uh my underrated is uh celebrities bullshit like the just the shit they have laying around their house apparently um there's a new yorker article about how the celebrity

memorabilia market is booming like like rich people instead of putting a van goh up on the wall are putting like Kurt Cobain sweater from the MTV unplugged on their wall. Um, and first of all, I'm not here to say one way or another, I can tell you which one I'd be more impressed with and it ain't the Van Gogh. Um, but apparently the price goes up,

the dirtier it is like the the Cobain sweater apparently has, I think what they described as like a brown crust in one of the pockets that people speculate is probably vomit, given where he was at during that performance. So what, he's vomiting in his pocket? Like a little kid? Yeah, just like a little quick vomit in the pocket.

We've all been there. But that raises the price. Like the price goes down if the sweater or, you know, the piece of memorabilia has been washed or disinfected. Like we want their funk all over it. Like we want it to be filthy. You want their vomit in it. Yeah.

Like a jack-off rag from Kurt cobain would be like the highest valued thing that people could think of yeah like a spunk sock of yeah kirk cobain it's you know what's wild though too this sweater like it's a cardigan it's so non-descript that like i'm seeing people replicate it like just to be like like the style and i feel like now it makes me want to be like you know what that sweater is i got right here right right that's the fucking unplugged fucking nirvana that's that's coban's fucking sweater dude yeah exactly don't mind the price tag but i think this this makes a lot of sense for the same reason we've been like speculating like with the a lot of the experiences people were having around Taylor Swift concerts being comparable to like religious experiences.

Right. And, you know, tracking the rise of a kind of spiritual, almost like quasi spiritual relationship to celebrity with the fall of religion. And this just feels like almost a one-to-one like i'm pretty sure the catholic church has things that were i mean they have like the mythical kirk cobain sweater uh from the unplugged yeah the shroud of turin yeah like they had to invent a thing like that's honestly they would fuck with this kind of uh logic yeah yeah this was touched by you know john paul ii the thing is like even with the shroud of turin i'm like i don't know if jesus existed i know kurt cobain existed and i've seen that unplugged so that has fucking value

to me that could be any old fucking shroud of anywhere it could be a shroud of norwalk california for all i know yeah yeah but yeah i mean i know like the catholic church sells like medals blessed by the pope and i'm sure those medals would go for way more if they like promised that the pope had you know like fallen asleep and drooled on it or whatever oh yeah i mean like think about how much people were like paying for like a hotel bill that was signed by like john john lennon and yoko when they were like in that hotel forever right yeah people would just be like that's scrap from room service six figures instantly yeah um but it's like it's an it has an inverse relationship to how i would feel about any other human like so if you said that you were selling the sheet from that picture where the he's like naked and like spooning her like kind of monkey style um like if you sold that sheet i think people would be super into it oh yeah like it would go for

like a million dollars if there's like pubes on it dude yeah if there's pubes on it even better yeah but like if it was literally anybody else and you're checking into that hotel room like it would be the worst thing that you could possibly imagine it's all context baby but the article says the market kind of went up during COVID because people were at home with money. And again, this like mainstream media thing of like people were on a spending spree just, you know, during COVID. Once they got that stimulus check, just like the media likes to paint this version of us that like you get the stimulus check. And then you need a little piggies. Just like people like passed out in a pile of like

half unboxed flat screen tvs but so they're attributing it to that like feeling nostalgic and at home and but i would add that they were afraid of death now more than ever and yes like the this gives you a connection to like the quotes throughout the article are people being like this is immortality right there like this touching this eric clapton stratocaster that was gifted to him by right you know george harrison this is the one he put down when he saw jimmy hendrix play live for the first time and rethought everything in terms of guitar playing. Yeah. Yeah.

It's just trying like connecting to immortality in some way via, uh, Kurt Cobain's dried vomit in your pocket. Also way better stuff to collect them. Fucking Harlan Crowe's like Hitler crap. Right. You know what I mean? That's a room.

Even if it's like niche, like no one's going to be like, Ooh, I don't know about all this Kurt Cobain stuff. They'll be like, oh, okay, dude, that's fine. Versus like, you want to see a Nazi tea set? They did say, they said that they studied how disinfection related to celebrity memorabilia.

And so with like Kurt Cobain, the dirtier the better right with hitler they were people were like yeah could you run that through the wash real quick yeah like we'd love to get kind of freaky but i want it i still want it i still want it which i'm a little surprised by like i feel like people who are into nazi shit like would be like i like want whatever the closest is to the experience of hitler taking a shit on my head right you know it's to that because that is that was how he related that was like remember super producer anna was saying ask if we watch the gentleman the new guy richie yeah i've been why i watched the first two apps okay well i won't spoil it but there is someone who's really into some hitler shit and something

very specific that is a piece of hitler memorabilia that's obviously fake for the show but it encapsulates literally what you're saying like to almost nearly a team yeah well hitler was like that was his fetish and like to the point that he like needed that in order to get off was uh a woman shitting on his head so oh oh well this is a little bit different but oh okay but it's it's let's just say it is a physical remnant of adolf hitler ah got it someone is really into collecting in this show all right uh what's overrated miles overrated the act of posting through it this is something that we see it's a new phenomenon okay it's a it's something that has brought been brought through in the social media age and if you're not familiar with when someone goes oh they're posting through it

it's when someone is in the midst of some kind of scandal or controversy drama and everyone knows about it but they use their social media to act as if nothing's going on you know or it doesn't bother me or i'm actually this is actually really funny to me that's actually why i'm posting about it um like really leaning into it and there's a great example this sunday with sean p diddy love trafficking combs who uh posted this man is embroiled in a pretty dark and seemingly wide-reaching criminal controversy with trafficking i mean like department of homeland security is the one that you got mixed up with not like yeah the cops you know i mean or like the dea you're like oh it's drugs

like homeland security like the new one they made up to terrorize like brown people from the middle east that's now they're coming after what what are you doing pd so he posted a picture of his like i think youngest daughter in easter clothes like this is my daughter love the first of all the daughter's name is love sean combs yikes jesus and just like yeah i guess he thought this would help like reorient his sheet like sinking ship but there's this like weird power that i think famous people think they have that becomes like you know clear when they do goofy shit like this like they really think by just going well i want to talk about how cute my little baby daughter is and not that i'm in the center of multiple scandals and potentially like one of the most prolific predators in the music industry.

Like, that's enough to change the discourse. And I'm like, sir, just fucking vanish, man. Like, don't fuck it. Like, whatever. I mean, I don't know. Like, you're revealing the world that you think you operate in where you're truly like the fucking lever puller of all that exists in your reality but in this instance yep make sure yeah good thing those comments are off um yeah just post post through it but it's not it's not doing what you think is doing p diddy oh yeah it's like the

um kevin spacey christmas videos yeah let me be frank videos yes he's like y'all still love this though i know you're disgusted by my some of my behaviors but uh i know you're disgusted by like me right personally but what how about i remedy that by showing you me yeah no but still the play the hits baby um all right my. My overrated are the April Fool's pranks. My kids played on me this morning. Shots fired. Just dog shit. You guys, the signs saying kick me and poop on me and pee on me.

All right, Hitler. We're uninspired. I could feel you putting them on me. The magnet tile obstacle course that you laid out uh was perfectly visible before i got to them um also you put toy sharks in the obstacle field uh i like sharks so i'm not sure what what you're going for um writing you are uh are spelled a e r nice try uh fart or poop or pp uh uninspired so indecisive by the way or maybe oh is it uchiwale or is it one my am i fart or am i poopoo yeah thank you make up your mind and then when those stopped working they just started shooting me in the butt and penis with nerf guns yep um and hitting me with

foam swords like yeah that's the time honor tradition is shooting your parents in the junk with some kind of projectile yeah i remember had the ball zuka they it was funny they just thought they were just like immediately like yeah it's it's a free-for-all today because it's i don't know where they got the idea that they could just shoot me uh because it was april fool's day but yeah that that had been discussed prior to this morning and uh we went to war wow i i just love a scathing post-mortem on your children's it's this is i work in comedy you guys this is you need to step it up you know it's so funny so disappointing the fuck out of me man i remember doing this kind of shit and getting a response same response out of my dad he's like you ain't fooling nobody with that yeah like this that's

all you got i remember i was so in my fucking bag about that i asked my mom the next time i was like i'm gonna do something real i'm gonna really get him to believe something messed up and i i ran it i think i ran it by my mom i was gonna say that like so when my dad like had this cat for, since I was before I was born. So at the time when I was like six, this cat was like 16 or something. And I was like, I'm going to fucking tell my dad, the cat's dead because I was shamed so bad by the other one.

Oh, you think these, these minuscule attacks are enough to shift me and get me to believe some shit? Try harder. And I was like, and as a kid, I'm like, oh, okay, I'll harder. I don't have nuance. So I'll just go to extreme. Like, your cat is dead.

Your foster parents have been killed. Wolfie is dead. Like, that's where my mind went. Because I was like, I don't know what to fucking do. Did he bite? No, my mom was like don't fuck she's like no don't do that yeah i was talked out of it i remember vividly being like this is the answer and i think it was like my mom or my grandfather something like no no that ain't that full like

don't even do that like just like put ben gay in his underwear or something you know what i mean yeah um you may notice that i have clown makeup on um and okay the one prank that i guess was pretty good is they did tie my shoelaces together and then perfectly uh you know measure the distance that i would fall so my head fell into a bucket that i couldn't get off and then when i pulled the bucket off i did have clown makeup all over my face so i guess that one well you got me guys but um yeah i don't know needs work uh would be my grade hey kids don't go don't go extreme on it you know what i mean just you know i think i think you should take your father's critiques as a sign that they actually got to him. And that's his only defense now.

No. They didn't get to me. It's fine. No. Your dad is posting through it. He's posting through it. It's fine. You thought that was cool.

It's not actually good. Why is your dad crying a little bit? Yeah. I'm poo-poo or poo-poo. Bullshit, man. I'm John DeSantis. Ioo Poo. Bullshit, man. I'm John DeSantis. I don't know. I don't know.

All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk about some news stories. We'll be right back. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series, Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and LA-based Shekinah Church, an alleged cult that has impacted members for over two decades. Jessica and I will delve into the hidden truths between high-control groups and interview

dancers, church members, and others whose lives and careers have been impacted, just like mine. Through powerful, in-depth interviews with former members and new, chilling, first-hand accounts, the series will illuminate untold and extremely necessary perspectives. Forgive Me For I Have Followed will be more than an exploration. It's a vital revelation aimed at ensuring these types of abuses never happen again. Listen to Forgive Me For I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradente.

And I'm Jemay Jackson-Gadsden. We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline, a new podcast from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts. When you're just starting out in your career, you have a lot of questions. Like, how do I speak up when I'm feeling overwhelmed? Or, can I negotiate a higher salary if this is my first real job? Girl, yes! Each week, we answer your unfiltered work questions. Think of us as your work besties you can turn to for advice.

And if we don't know the answer, we bring in experts who do, like resume specialist Morgan Saner. The only difference between the person who doesn't get the job and the person who gets the job is usually who applies. Yeah, I think a lot about that quote. What is it like you miss 100 percent of the shots you never take? Yeah, rejection is scary, but it's better than you rejecting yourself. Together, we'll share what it really takes to thrive in the early years of your career without sacrificing your sanity or sleep. Listen to Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app,

Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Keri Champion, and this is Season 4 of Naked Sports, where we live at the intersection of sports and culture. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game.

Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really near them boys. I just come here to play basketball every single day, and that's what I focus on. From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Angel Reese is a joy to watch. She is unapologetically black. I love her. What exactly ignited this fire?

Why has it been so good for the game? And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained? This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better. This new season will cover all things sports and culture. Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple

Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. And we're back. We are back. And we are back. And Sunday, March 31st, was Transgender Day of Visibility.

It was also, as you may have heard, the day that uh christians eat chocolate bunny rabbits to celebrate uh easter um and a ton of right-wing people freaked out oh yeah because they claimed the white house issued a proclamation celebrating transgender day of visibility um and people were like that's biden is attacking easter um mike johnson called the overlapping occasions abhorrent yeah on twitter um while presumably like just barely keeping himself from jacking off to porn and having a record of his jack-off session sent to his son hey covenant eyes man still fucking with the covenant eyes via his his app that does that yeah yeah um but i mean also dude every everybody had the most bad faith takes christy gnome said joe biden banned religious themed eggs at the white house easter

egg design contest for kids and he announced that tomorrow's national transgender visibility day did he forget that tomorrow's easter resurrection sunday that kind of sounds like a like a sporting event um joe biden in his white house blah blah blah uh newt gingrich is president biden literally out of touch with reality literally literally out of touch with it what and how is he touching reality literally what how would you literally be in touch with reality? Is it like that fresco that's in the Sistine Chapel, like where God and Adam are touching fingers? Is that like in my mind that's being in touch with reality in a weird way,

like touching God? Anyway, he said, why would he take away Christianity's holiest day, Easter, and declare it to be, quote, transgender day of visibility? Why? He said, we would be irritated whenever he did it but doing it on easter is an obscene insult to every christian interesting yeah because that's that's exactly what happened and that's exactly that's yeah that's exactly what happened uh-huh he uh the day before he was like oh tomorrow's easter um let me do this thing that's going to piss off Christians

because the whole world revolves around them and we'll make it in-your-face trans day of visibility. Right. In-your-face Christians. Oh, wait. It's always been trans visibility day. Yeah. March 31st.

It doesn't change year to year unlike easter uh easter falls on different dates i didn't realize it was like moon based yeah because the moon's phases determine easter's date western easter is the first sunday after the first full moon after the equinox while eastern easter is after passover um that's i mean that makes more sense right because the setting of the the passion is during passover right you know what i mean so like i remember her majesty was like how come passover and easter like aren't just locked in as the same time like in the bible isn't that what's happening like when he's getting crucified like wasn't the last supper like potentially some kind of seder maybe um but then then we had i did this whole thing and i looked into it i'm like oh

it's like the council of the elves of trent made this proclamation in 330 that easter shall be the first sunday after the full moon after the equinox. And then I'm like, oh, okay. It's kind of witchy for Christianity to be into the phases of the moon. A lot of that stuff is. They don't want to talk about it. Yeah, a lot of druids doing dances around. Yeah, a lot of night elves working in there.

But yeah, again, it's just so stupid to be like, he changed it. They fucking do this every time there's a national day. The office of the president says, oh, yeah, it's proclaimed that this day is this day. That's been this day for over a decade now. And then the other attack that people have been going on is like, and they banned religious designs. That has been the fucking rules for 45 fucking years or however long this thing has been happening across all administrations it's like dude we don't need religious designs we get it

it's fucking easter if we've seen another jesus sag i'm gonna fucking lose it nice try biden think we wouldn't notice yeah oh yeah actually it happened 45 years ago um right exactly and so everything's just all bad faith reads on everything and then just be like i thought this president's supposedly a catholic it's like don't worry he is he's out loud being like i don't like abortion right telling you all that i'll say that out loud i don't care yeah but you know i get it like times are changing but hey i'm still still big c catholic poppy yeah don't worry um i feel like joe biden really loves easter like i feel like that's a big big holiday for him yeah i feel like he seems like

one of those guys where it's like every easter my grandpa he loves to eat the dove truffle chocolate eggs that's his favorite thing and sit in his rocking chair and then we bring us we bring our eggs to him and he'll open them and then eat our candy and it's fun that's all he does and then we bring us we bring our eggs to him and he'll open them and then eat our candy and it's fun that's all he does and then and then grandma gets mad yeah he must love it all right uh millions of at&t customers just had their personal info published on the dark web uh i got a nice email about this easter morning um thanks a lot at&T for ruining Easter he is risen and by he we mean your social security and locking information has risen up

on the dark web reportedly the personal data of 73 million current or former AT&T customers including addresses social security numbers and passcodes was published on the dark web which is less than ideal for those of us who count

ourselves among the 73 million um proud current and former a i one of the 73 million see that's why i'm with t-mobile you know what i mean they know too many people who use t-mobile to go into collections so they don't even bother trying to get that information but hey hey man it must must be hard but i mean this feels like every fucking three months i'm getting some letter like we're so sorry every everything about you has been leaked yes to the dark web um it's like it does almost feel like we should just come up with a new way to keep track of shit at this point right like our social security numbers are burnt like i feel like we're you know in the mission impossible where they're like we gotta catch get the data file before all of these ids

get burnt well we we exist in the the world where he accidentally peed a little bit on the guy what while he was hanging from the ceiling and oh they caught him yeah the knock list exactly we've all we're all on the knock list and the knock list has been burnt yeah we're burnt yeah the spot has been burnt sorry we can't smoke weed here anymore like 330 million people in the u.s and they just sold 70 million of their uh personal informations and social security numbers on the dark web. So it feels like that's a significant enough chunk that it's not enough to just be like,

and we've got you like you get to know Norton antivirus very well because they're your new friends. AT&T is just on a run right now, man. I know it's been a little over a month since the mass outage. Yeah. And now, Sawi,

your blood type, birthday, and social security are out there on some knock list. Yeah. Hey, change those passwords, man. Change those passwords.

I had to figure that out. Not the hard way, but I realized like once, you know how like browsers will be like, if you save your passwords in a browser, they be like hey your passwords were found in a information leak like these following ones you should change them like oh they were all the same word like yeah like password i had from like the aol era right i was like nissan pathfinder 97 yeah that's uh don't look at don't try that don't try that don't no one try that so do you do the

like randomized ones like the just big long oh yeah now hell yeah when it's like hey can we suggest a fucking password you loser yeah rather than like i like weed i'm like okay i'll listen and it's like and like yeah yeah that that seems solid yes please, please. That one. Yes. All right. Big news for Donald Trump. Like there's a bunch of positive news stories, I guess, for Donald Trump's like money problems over the weekend because Truth Social, I guess, went public last week. And he's now valued at like five billion dollars. Like he's a tech billionaire again. Yeah. Or he's a billionaire again and a tech billionaire again um yeah or he's a billionaire again um and

a tech billionaire probably for the first time but it's just it's such a weird story like they keep talking about how his partner in this deal is like the owner of a shell company um but like that's just not that's not a bad term anymore they're just like yeah um and he's like monetizing his political influence they're like so all these people are gambling that he's gonna like win the next presidential election someone someone i forget who it was maybe in the new republic they called it a trump and dump scheme like with this stock just to get up because like everyone's like they they lost like over 50 million dollars last year this isn't like this isn't a broth this is a fucking fire this is a dumpster fire this isn't it yes suffered a net

loss of 58 million dollars last year brought in so like i was like oh but so they must be advertising a bunch on truth social i you know try and spend as much time as I can on Truth Social, but that amounts to never having gone on it. And it brought in $4.1 million in revenue in 2023. Yeah. Great. Great. I love that. That sounds good.

Sounds like a good business. How on end? How much of my money can I give you? Right. How many monies would you like? How much of my money can I give you? Right. How many monies would you like?

It's just like such an indictment of the whole, like Wall Street, you know, like the idea that there's any there there in the whole Wall Street world. Right. Like it's, you know, just valuations based on kind of nonsense, just growth as we've talked about before in the tech world like that's all they care about the promise you know like when people like look at tesla and

they're like well how much money are you like making they're like well dude think about like what it can do though like what the potential that's what that's what you're that's what it is think about that so their future like end game for this is he gets elected president and then like that makes the network grow and he's like just raking in advertising money and like subscription money i guess yeah well this is feels so weird that like the president would be monetizing the presidency yeah uh but here we are i mean like it's really just it's like real all like traditional oligarch shit right because the guy that he's doing this company merger is with uh this investor billionaire named jeff yass yeah yes we're the yass queen headlines for this

because it's right there where my ass queen's at because Because without him, right? Without him being like the person to merge with the Donald Trump media company, there's no billions of valuation added to, or billion dollars of valuation added to Trump's net worth. And as like journalists are looking more into it, they're like, oh, this is what the fuck is going on. This guy, yes, is an investor in TikTok. Yeah. And so when Trump came out there a lot of people

being like who who's this reversal benefiting because it's not just because trump gives a fuck it's because he can monetize his opinion to try and change the direction of the herd and with yes being a donor of tiktok they're like got it so this is the tit for tat here you're gonna reverse course and be like no no tiktok is very good got it so this is the tit for tat here you're gonna reverse course and be like no no tiktok is very good we love it and i want all my mega faithful to also believe that and then you get to get just basically get some get some cash injection um just to to fight your legal fees it's all it's all right there it's all just right there in front of us i don't know what like maybe my like i said maybe i maybe it's the hard reset I gave my brain

with one of those massage guns to the temple. But it does, like all these, the past couple of weeks of Trump stories, and particularly this one and the Bible sales one, are just like hitting me as like, wait, what? Oh yeah. Like it just feels like we've reached a level of cynicism and like open oligarchy in this case that is just kind of staggering well yeah and

the reporting on it is like yeah and that's the guy he's working with the guy usually said he doesn't like trump anyway so that's why he has money that's a smart yeah they're just like this guy's a maverick and really smart like he's doing this it's like fuck what he's ducking accountability and these people are enabling it because they know they can now buy influence over this guy like quite literally and just be like i'm i'm i'm fucking way too in on tiktok man i can't handle this shit right now like all the there's just this rotten logic at the core of the entire system that the mainstream media buys into with like wall street being the economy and um corporations basically having all the power to do whatever they want um at this point um and so the mainstream media like i feel like this is a savvy move by

trump because he just recognizes that like it's taking advantage of the one thing the mainstream media won't call out which is just like how blatantly and completely fucking corrupt like the whole wall street system is so they just have to be like yeah i guess he's like got a lot of money now that's how you do it i mean that's one way to do it but yeah yeah anyway yes queen that's my op-ed for the wall street journal yeah the wall street journal is really just like donald trump had a big week uh oh wow cool fuck cool um all right uh let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk about some more news stories. We'll be right back. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series,

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hold on one second okay hold on one second i just sawid's picture, so I can make sure that he's not being traded. All right. So at first I was like, oh, okay. They grabbed a pen or something. But no. So NBC correspondent Kelly O'Donnell is the president of the White House Correspondents Association and sent an email out being like, would you guys stop fucking taking shit off of air force one? It like looks,

it's a bad look for the media. Um, and one person was like, okay, here you go. And returned an air force one embroidered pillowcase. Like that's my bad. Oh, I didn't know. I wasn't supposed to do that you took they don't notice if a motherfucking pillowcase is gone take the fucking shit like

take a fucking pen or some shit or a wine glass right some other shit which i didn't realize that's what people were taking to were like the fucking wine glasses yeah this it's truly i mean wine glasses make sense given what we previously discussed of like there being some filth to it so like pillowcase got your presidential like head sweat well can they get close to joe byron's pillowcase i can't imagine probably not but there's probably like other beds like it's just other pillows like every pillow on the plane has an embroidered pillowcase so you're just coming up on one of those but i think that's the promise right that's when you're selling me the air force one embroidered pillowcase the thing that's popping

into my mind that made me a bit on it. You're like, I gotta smell it first. Yeah, exactly. Does it smell like Werther's Originals and like kind of rotting vegetables? What does that scalp do? Let me know. Yeah, baby powder. His scalp has to

smell like baby powder, right? Who? Joe Biden? It seems so dry. It smells like a medicated sock a medicated sock i don't know i don't know what that is but it feels like a sock that you put like mentholated cream or something into yeah yeah like vicks vapor yeah yeah yeah but like but it's mixed with a foot yeah like i feel like he just sprays the top of his head with like lysol or something and calls it a shower a secret that everybody who works at the white house knows is that if you have if you're having some congestion issues you

just smell joe biden's scalp and it clears your shit right away it's like a bowl of kimchi uh soup you know um just your shit just clears right out uh but yeah i i respect it i mean it's clear that journalists aren't being paid enough but it's not it's actually not a good grind um it seems like like people aren't paying that much also i'm sorry i'm coming the fuck up if i'm on air force one i don't give a fuck what kelly o'donnell has to say how it makes us look these this is my shit yeah this is my tax oh you pay for this joe biden no who did the taxpayer so guess what you i will take a blanket i will take the captain's hat i will try and dislodge the fucking you know the

control sticks or whatever from the car i'll do that shit i don't care that's mine that's mine yeah uh just take the whole frame of like the uh lights and the little air thing that blows air on you oh yeah yeah i just like anything i can basically get my grubby little fingers on to just pry off they're like this guy's like dismantling his row like we have to get him off the plane and he keeps proclaiming it's his shit i don't know what i don't know what to do i paid for this yeah that flotation device i mean that's basically true that'd be so funny you just pull the fuck just you know how because sometimes the seat cushion itself is the flotation device it's like removable you just rip that shit off and you come you just saunter off the plane with that you're like uh miles i'm like what what yeah i'm late a problem i'm late my kid has a fucking

basketball game i need to go to get the fuck out of my way um the white house's position is the journalists who want a souvenir can get a package of m&ms decorated with the presidential seal no uh but only sometimes don't want it sorry i'm taking the seat cushion i'll cut the seatbelt i'll cut the seatbelt i'll bring i'll get scissors i'll clip the seatbelt that's mine that's my seatbelt now i'm sorry you just wear that as a belt now i feel like every person should feel like that when you're in the presence of the opulence of how our government spends tax money yeah you know what i mean you know how like because people get we talked about this too especially when like trump's uh first administration with people like scott pruitt and people being like i'm gonna i want all this money to be like i want a new desk or i want this furniture i want to take i want dean and deluca candy all the time

i'm like if that's how y'all are spending it don't fucking look at me wild when i go in there and be like i'm sorry i'm taking this fucking respirator device from the overhead part i'm taking i'm taking it i'm taking it i'm taking from them because for years they've been taking from me as tupac says this wish this wish this is my wish so i'm taking it back i'm taking them all back you quote tupac i quote goonies yes um the you can actually buy one of these souvenir boxes of m&ms uh from the george w bush administration for 6.99 on e right now. So that's not making anybody money, man. You got to come up with something better than this. Oh, hell yeah.

My seat belt that I'm clipping, you know that shit's going to look right. I'll do nice images. Also, the box, I'm so sorry. This doesn't feel like you were on Air Force One. It looks like you bought like, it looks like a weird deck of cards. Yeah, it does. you bought like it looks like a weird deck of cards yeah it does it looks like a george w bush uh deck of cards like you would get at the houston airport but not like the racist ones where they're like the al-qaeda's most wanted deck of cards people were buying like in the fucking early odds and this is just a persian guy yeah we're putting on here for reason yeah we

ran out of al-qaeda guys sorry sorry yeah no that that was uh that was cousin balky from that tv show there sorry sorry to that man all right and finally uh just a rundown of some of the april fool's jokes on the internet uh so far i mean it's always bad so far so bad so far so bad this year feels especially dire um the biggest prank is elon musk tweeting he was going to work for disney and make their content more woke um which i'm sure his i'm sure there is like an army's worth of people who are like stand up and like salute and you know write five laughing crying emoji faces even though it didn't even make them smile um but uh yeah i mean right now it's mostly like April Fool's Day on the Internet is just an excuse for brands to cobble together half-hearted jokes and bad Photoshop's in order to get our attention as we're giving it to them right now. Ikea Singapore had an ad campaign of invisible objects spelled I-N-V-S-B-A-L.

I don't know. Sure. I saw 7-Eleven made Big Bite hot dog flavored sparkling water. We covered it last week when you were out. Oh, really? Yeah. None of it. Nothing's like good.

No, no. It kind of sucks. Yeah, one is like a baby translator app. I saw something like that. Or it's like aiming at your baby. And I'll tell you what, it's like no one cares. I don't know what it is. I think, is there anything that would make you laugh at this point?

Or does it just feel like April Fool's, it doesn't fit with our with like the tone of society like or what we're like everyone's on edge like dude i don't give a fuck about a fake hot dog sparkling water just get the fuck like there's real shit going on like please yeah give a fuck if elon is making the linguine woke at disney as he said in that stupid tweet excited to join at disney as their chief dei officer can't wait to work with bob eiger and kathleen kennedy to make their content more woke even the linguine oh what why is that i don't know dude that's what's like who is this for anymore? Duncan announced on Instagram they're changing their name to Donuts. What? Just Donuts?

I don't know. It just feels like people in a boardroom convincing themselves, just saying over and over, that's funny. That's actually really funny. Because our company has a sense of humor we like to have fun you know what i mean unless it's like providing better benefits to our workers but like so let's just do something funny like um fart cologne huh great great did somebody do fart cologne i know but that just feels like this the kind of shit there's a sriracha toothpaste i don't give a fuck

i don't know why i'm like so i don't know why my response is like this it's almost like maybe it's like why you're like hey kids do better with your pranks yeah it's like this ain't this is such first draft foolery yeah like really fuck with my sense of reality say my fucking cat died man i need to fucking feel something all right uh finally i just we're just keeping an eye on this we we mentioned that there's a big uh a lot of stuff happening in the run-up to the solar eclipse uh next week or is that later this week it's a week from today right it's a week from today yeah um it's like you know a lot of tourism a lot of people traveling to the path of the solar eclipse um and like we we mentioned in a previous

one uh in a previous story about this that like indianapolis's eclipse numbers like the the amount of people they have visiting indianapolis is like way higher than the number of people they had visiting for the super bowl when they had the super bowl there yeah yeah it's going to be absolute like all of these towns are going to be completely overrun to the point that the mayor of Niagara Falls, which National Geographic suggested was one of the best places to see the eclipse, just declared a state of emergency as a precautionary measure. And like, this is, this is a tourist trap.

Like, I guess I wouldn't call it a tourist trap because it is like a cool thing to see, but it's a town that is based on drawing tourists right right and buying overpriced ponchos yeah we're not going to be able to deal with this shit yeah i i just good luck good luck to these small places that are going to have like seven million people pull up looking directly into an eclipse with no protective eyewear because your hospitals will also be overflowing with people with eye injuries um but i don't know they're like you know a part of me is like oh man that's gonna be so cool like it's gonna be a state of emergency that's how many people want to be in the path of totality but then i'm like oh no that that actually sounds like the worst way to do it like i feel like the

best way is if you could find some random spot just to be there and, like, not have to have, like, a bunch of people like, oh, whoa, the eclipse, the eclipse. Like, just to try and experience it in a more, I guess, natural way. But I don't know. I like hearing about, like, everybody is, like, preparing. Like, it's, like, all police officers and, like, emergency crew. Like, they're on alert to like make sure and everything is fine like they're able to deal with the amounts of people it feels like this setting for a great or terrible bank heist film like miles i love this pitch this is an

amazing idea i know you're reading the notes but it's you this this group of bank robbers oh yeah they're planning a series of high profile bank robberies and but the thing that has that they have in common is that all of these banks and maybe a federal reserve they lie in the path of totality of the eclipse and because of that the municipalities law enforcement resources will be so strained that they can take advantage of this moment and abscond with millions of dollars you have the timing down you know like the because you have to do it during the eclipse while everybody's distracted and staring at the sun with like bad glasses maybe you do maybe you switch out the glasses like a shipment of the glasses oceans 11 style to like so that everybody's

blinded after the eclipse all the innocent people and children who just wanted to see it sorry sorry pal sorry um yeah maybe that would be too mean for oceans 11 so maybe they just like somehow find a way to do it with the the cops yeah yeah yeah yeah like the ones that like you're like oh yeah we got a shipment of the you drop these off the chief's like what's this i'm like oh yeah these are some eclipse eye protection you know just want to make sure everybody's safe out there during the eclipse oh i didn't think about that thanks yeah you should probably just just drone pretty quick to all your men and women out there on the force boom when you take a bite we'll tell you um tell you all about it they uh also niagara falls has like the next four days is rain and snow. Like that's the thing that I feel like would really like having that many people show up and then there's no like sky,

no visibility of the sky would be. And that's going to happen in one of these towns. It's not going to be sunny everywhere. Yeah. I didn't even think about that. And then like, do you, you can't ask for a refund to god can you

uh you can yeah actually you can oh okay i'm like usually he's pretty good pretty good about like getting back to you at least monday partially cloudy so we'll see yeah yeah total crap shoot um it does feel like people should just be like, yeah, renting an ATV and just driving into the desert. Although that is terrible advice and I should probably legally not say that on Mike. Just going to someone's, you know, undeveloped land, private property. Random tourist should just like drive into the desert in an RV, you know? And cook up some meth, man. There you go.

While you're at it. Anyway. Yeah, but it's going to be a whole thing. It's like the sort of thing the internet loves, the timing of it. It's happening during the workday, right? So it's like a distraction on a Monday. Yeah.

And then the possibility of disaster is also there, I feel like. And the possibility of a great bank heist film. It's all there. I'm on all. I'm still, I'll say this Jack, when, when it happens on Monday,

I'm going to go outside and do a hard reset looking straight into that thing for, for the whole time. Just, I just want to be able to go to sleep at night, close my eyes and see the eclipse. So it stays with me forever. That's right.

Just see a white blob. Just, um, please don eyes and see the eclipse so it stays with me forever. That's right. Just see a white blob. Please don't look into the sun. Don't do that. Unless you're me, a trained professional. Second time we've had to give that advice to our listeners. Alright. It is what it is. Those are some of the things that are trending on

this Monday, April 1st. Happy April Fool's Day. I hope you're having a better interpersonal April Fool's Day than Elon Musk and the public pranks that are cracking everybody else up. Or be so radically honest with someone that they think it's a prank. There you go.

That's how I would lean into it. You know what I mean? And not in a way that's scathing. Like maybe just reveal a truth or an observation you have in a way that maybe not. I don't know. Look, I'm not a relationship expert, but I might try that later. And if I'm single tomorrow, you'll know why. All right.

Back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye.

I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me for I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and Shekinah Church. Listen to Forgive Me for I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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