The Daily Zeitgeist - Big Geist, Gotta Trend 4/14: Strait of Hormuz, Eric Swalwell, DoorDash, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Amazon

Episode Date: April 14, 2026

In this edition of Big Geist, Gotta Trend, Jack and Miles discuss Trump's plan to also blockade the Strait of Hormuz, Eric Swalwell resigning from the House, that DoorDash grandma ad, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees, a horrifying tale from the Amazon… distribution center and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello the internet and welcome to this episode of Big Geist Got a Trend Courtesy of Vanadium Silver in honor of Big Dog Gotta Eat Got to, Mr. Got to My name's Jack O'Brien that over there is Mr. Miles Greg Yeah Yeah, hey. Got an email.

The big geist got a trend. Big Geist got a trend. Miles, you're experimenting with some influencer. Aesthetics, yep. Like I said, my trip to Japan, it's, I'm, for some reason, I've lost my Japanese identity as a Japanese person. And I'm becoming an American person who's insufferable about Japan. And that's a character you're going to play. the entire time you're over there.

I just discovered, like, last year when we were at an event, we got like a gift bag that had one of those little microphones in it. And at the time, I was like, dude, my house was brown. I don't give a fuck up. Like, I just didn't know, I didn't even know what it was, really. Yeah. And then I just rediscovered it. I took it like a pill. I just, I didn't know what it was.

I was like, not food, not food, Jack, not food. And I've just been, it's just so funny. Just the blown out audio. I've been talking to the guy's child about all kinds of stuff. Yeah. Trying to pin them down. I've only shown to you, Brian, Becca, Ramos, Danil, and Anna Hosnier are the only people that have seen those tapes. And they won't be public.

But it's, I don't know, man. Maybe I'll do some real insufferable posts out there, some meditations. Would love to see it. Yeah. Well, speaking of out there. Yeah. This Donald Trump guy. No, let's talk about the war. Because as we talked about yesterday, the right wing, the people who are.

are sticking with him on the right is claiming that Trump did a balzy reverse Uno on Iran by he's like oh you're going to shut down the straight I shut down the straight what's up now

it's like wait what that doesn't do anything so this all assumes that the U.S. is in a good position militarily to like win a global conflict because they're like

you're not going to be the problem we're going to be the problem now everybody's going to have to listen to us about this blockade no you're good copying off of the Iran's homework I just said listen to us

you guys have to listen nah dude and everyone's walking out of the room that does not appear to be the case they've lost all their allies and China does not appear to be afraid of the U.S. in this case. The New York Times reported over the weekend that China is considering or have possibly

already started sending shoulder mounted missiles to Iran, so actively supplying Iran. And then there's been news this morning that one of their freighters, which has been sanctioned by the U.S. It's on the U.S.'s naughty list for already, you know, shipping to Iran. Yeah. is sailing towards this straight. And there's also, the BBC is like, yeah, so the U.S. says that everybody's complying with their blockade, but this ship tracking data seems to suggest that at least four ships have just, like, gone through like there is no blockade without any repercussions.

So they're speculating this might be because the U.S. Navy wasn't ready for the command of blockade. No way. Killing it, boss. Are, killing it over there? Our world's, Earth's most powerful Navy, like the likes you've never seen before.

Right. That's another thing I saw on the internet. People are doing. Like, it's a drinking game whenever Trump does describe something as like, it's like nothing you've ever seen or like nothing that's ever happened before.

I didn't realize how frequent. Oh, he uses that turn of phrase. That's what I think it's, I think that's associated with his death drive, with his essential understanding that he's going to die and he just keeps wanting to do things that have never been done before.

That is why I was so scared of when he was flirting with like nuclear weapons and like a nuclear strike is like he just, he wants to break new ground. He wants to, you know, he wants to do something that hasn't been done.

Yeah. On the world on the earth. Exactly. Giant shit stain on history books. I mean, that's got to be a good strategy, right? You have a gaping hole to try and do something

no one's ever done before. or you don't have the wherewithal or know how to do anything. So you just take drugs. Yeah. Strategically, it seems like their move is take more speed and keep pressing.

Yes, good, good, and eventually, you know, if that is your strategy, you're going to land in a situation that doesn't really serve you strategically or the people in your country, shockingly. I mean,

this is also, too. Meanwhile, like China is like this morning, or yesterday last night was posting the United Arab Emirates, Spain and Russia for like talks regarding solutions to the Strait of Hormuz. Right. So like, it's interesting because I remember when I was a kid in the 90s, the media was like obsessed with being like, China will be the most powerful nation by 2020.

And it sounds like, I mean, it's probably been that way for some time, but now I feel like officially in 2026 with American hegemony completely on the outs. It feels like, yeah, I think we've reached that point now because they're the ones being like, this is irresponsible. Somebody's got to do something. All right, everybody, you guys want to talk to us. We're the sane people in the room.

Maybe we can figure out a solution about these whack jobs over in America. Yeah. I don't know if their forecasts had in mind that we would take a giant swing at our own reflection in the mirror and like accidentally punch ourselves in the face. spin around, have our pants fall down,

and end up somehow with a boot on our head and a bucket on our foot. Then seeing yourself again in that mirror and saying, get the fuck out of here, I'm going to kill you. You get a grenade out, and then you duct tape it to your own mouth and pull the pin.

Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. But that does seem to be where we're at. So some good news for Fox News, because this has been hard for, hard for them to cover. It's, you know, they're... Yeah, who do they side with? The Pope? Trump? Yeah. Yeah. Epstein? Where do you go?

It's been uncomfortable. Fortunately, uh, Eric Swalwell, uh, the former presidential candidate. I remember he got a little, he got a little pop off of a one of the debates, I think. Yeah, he was all, I mean, he was getting like some attention. for like a debate. He was like one of those guys who like to tough talk, do Trump tough talk. Right.

They're like, oh, we like this guy. But yeah, he has said he's going to be resigning. This is after he suspended his gubernatorial campaign, after multiple women came forward with allegations of sexual assault. Like he was drugging women. Jesus Christ. And, you know, this, he was like, yeah, this, I totally deny all of it. He said, quote, I am deeply sorry to my family, staff,

and constituents for mistakes in my judgment. I've made in my past. Okay, so what are you saying there? And then he said, I will fight the serious false allegation made against me. However, I must take responsibility and ownership for the mistakes I did make. A very nebulous purposefully nebulous statement. And, you know, he was one of the front runners in the California governor's race in a very crowded field that has the potential to actually elevate a Republican to office because the way the primaries work here.

And there's, it's so crowded right now. They're trying to get other Democrats to drop to try and see if they can get all the fucking momentum around a Democrat. But it's like they're splitting that like six ways and there's two Republicans. Wait, so how do the primaries work here? Do you explain that? It's the top two. Okay. So regardless of party.

The top two. Vote getters. Vote geters in the primary just get then go to. When we vote in May, those top two are going to make it to the general. Jesus Christ. Okay. Yeah. So that seems like a bad system.

Yeah. Well, I mean, I think it's mostly you're like, oh, okay, that allows for some kind of plurality. But yeah, when it's like this and you have so many people running, it's become a little bit. Like the top three candidates are Steve Hilton, who's a Republican, Chad Bianco, and then former Congresswoman Katie Porter. Right. And then you have billionaire Tom Steyer, who's still out here every fucking governor.

race. I'm a good billionaire. No. No. No? Oh, okay. He's all over the airwaves out here. He's all over TV. Tom Steyer. Yeah. That's the only one who I like fully recognize. Yeah. We just have, yeah, again, it's like our top two primary system. And again, the top, two of the top three are Republicans.

So, uh, we will see. We will see. And I think that's why on some level, people are like, okay, if Eric Swalwell's out, maybe more people will get behind Katie Porter. But it's a bit of a mess. I'm sure we'll talk about that more because that's a bit of a cluster fucking in the making. Yeah. And isn't there's like something with Newsom is not like backing any particular candidate. Yeah, he's, I don't think he has backed anyone as right now because he's just a, I don't know.

He's focused on other things. Yeah, he's focused on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And saying cool stuff on Twitter to hopefully get a presidential bid. But it isn't just the Democrats here. It's funny because once, you know, the Swalwell stuff, the allegations fully came out. Because this was something people were like, there's something going on with Eric Swalwell. When the allegations came out, it was pretty quick that Democrats were like, you got to, this is over, dude.

Like, this is over. Which put pressure on another Republican to also resign Tony Gonzalez of Texas because he's been trying. to like sidestep a scandal involving him and a former aide who took her own life through self-immolation. Jesus, and he was like texting her all kinds of wacky shit. And yeah, again,

after the Swalwell thing came out, it sort of became everyone in Congress would be like, well, we're gonna try and come after your guy. And they're like, well, we're gonna come after your guy. Wow. And they're like, guys, just fucking resign. Just fucking resign. It seems like the Swallow thing was like,

I see, that report is like there have been long whisper campaigns or like long like a lot of whispers about this which is like crazy so it's like everybody like knew it was like an open secret it was like Cosby where people were just like yeah I don't know that's what people say yeah I don't know crazy shit about this guy who knew but I mean it always starts with you you've heard the allegation and then it's a whispers yes until you know uh someone actually comes forward to like accuse them But then there's more, right? There's two other people in Congress, another Democrat and another Republican that the House is still looking at me like,

you guys also aren't into some fuck shit. Like Sheila, Sheriff Willis McCormick, she's from Florida, found guilty for funneling $5 million in COVID relief funds to her campaign. She's also been indicted. Yeah, yeah. She's like, no, I'm innocent. Okay, sure. And then Corey Mills also from Florida. he's under investigation by the Ethics Committee

because he's been like, you know, there's been domestic abuse, like weird stuff about his military record that doesn't add up financial bullshit. It's like when the Democrats have a thing, like a bill that they know is bad and that their voters are going to hate, but they have like a list of people.

They're like, okay, you're the next three in the barrel who have to like vote for this even though it's going to look bad and people are going to be mad at you. It feels like, there's also a list of like, these are the people who are doing crimes that we are just ignoring up to this point.

And now the right really needs, like Fox News was wall to wall, swall well. It was swall to wall. Swall to wall. Swall well yesterday. And like that, because God,

what else are they going to talk about? They can't talk about Donald Trump drunk driving the most powerful military into a fucking disaster. So yeah. Yeah. I do wonder like does that kick this all off where they're like we need we need a head over here guys. We need a head at Fox.

Yeah. Yeah. Otherwise we don't have shit to talk about. Throw it on the altar to sacrifice another one. But yeah, I mean, again, it's just like these are the basics, man. You're involved in domestic abuse, sexual assault, fucking fraud. Jesus Christ. Get the, like, get the tall order.

It's such a tall order to ask. It's like, can you not have? people like that cretans in there but again they're all attracted by power so it's like moths to a flame you say mops to a flan yeah is that not how you say let's take a quick break we'll be right back i'm going to tell miles about moths for a second oh hey ontario come on down to bet mgm casino and check out our newest exclusive the price is right fortune pick don't miss out play exciting casino games based on the iconic game show only at bet mgm access to the price is right fortune pick is only available at BedMGM Casino.

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I did not win that argument. I mean, you made a couple of fair points. but I'm just going to I'm going to stand where I stand and I'm open I'm open to it. One thing, we don't back down on this podcast.

No, no, no, not on a bad take. Man shit. All right. Yesterday we got to meet the DoorDash grandma who was standing next to Donald Trump when the image he posted of himself as Jesus Christ laying on hands to the sick

with white light glowing out of his hands when he was like, what? No, I thought that was, I thought I was a doctor. I thought that was just me being a doctor. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which also like, why? Why? Don't do that.

That's weird. You're not a doctor. But second of all, no, you did not. Nobody in the history of the world looked at that image and was like, doctor, Dr. Jesus. Yeah, exactly. If you showed that to a group of six-year-olds, they go, what job is that? That's Jesus.

Right. Yeah, yeah. Oh, nice. I want to be that when I grow up. What if Jesus was just a really good doctor and ahead of his time? Everyone's like, oh, my God. What kind of tricks is his fucker using, man? As a real miracle worker, he's like the way that people use that phrase about chiropractors.

Yep, yep. When they break your neck on accident? Yeah. Yeah. Anyways, as he was making that wildly unconvincing denial, he was flanked by a woman in a shirt that said DoorDash Grandma. Yep, yep, yeah. And as we talked about yesterday,

this is somebody who is being used as like a GOP kind of prop. Yeah. Yeah. be like, hey, look what, look what we've made possible by making taxes not tip. No tax on tips. When you really look, it's a deduction. You can take up to $25,000. So, you know, if we read the fine print, it's not, it's not as straightforward as people think.

But I know also there's like qualified jobs that are eligible. Sure. Got to make it a complete pain in the ass to actually use the nice things that the government is trying to do for people. Yeah. The discourse on the internet. and it's just weird because, like, as we watch, this is so fucking stupid, man, you got this, like, door dash ad happening while he's talking about trans athletes

in the Iran war. But there are, like, people who are now, like, being like, that was, that wasn't real. That wasn't a real door dash order. And we're like, yeah, obviously. Wait, what? They thought it was a real door dash order? Some people did, are like,

and there were articles written as if that was what people were thinking, where they're like, no, that wasn't a real door dash delivery. And that could just be the state of the media and also just trying to be like, rather than just reporting, it's like, I don't know, this guy did a fucking dumb PR stunt with a lady who had a cancer-stricken husband and completely ignored her cries for help for affordable health care.

That might be the story. Rather than me like, it's fake. I just want to play it. There was a, this is a video that DoorDash put out. They put a video out about the delivery and it's so fucking fake. But again,

we know that. And most people know that. But again, that didn't stop them from doing like a whole piece. package for this. I take pride in the work I do. The tips are part of that. Now I actually get to keep

She's getting in a fully branded DoorDash card. This is the first one I actually felt helped my pocketbook. She just pulled up to the White House About to knock on Just I have an order I have an order for

Darnold. Maybe it's a typo. I don't know. Oh my God. Nice to meet you. I have your DoorDash order for you. Look at this. You still look at the stage. That's funny that he said that it does look stage. Even he's having to be snarky.

He's like, this doesn't look stage. I'm like, look, it was never going to look fucking real. Okay. No one's pulling up to your, the door at the Oval Office with a knock, not guess who, bitch. That's not happening. But anyway. So, again, clear to most people, a lot of people are like, how sincere Sharon Simmons.

I mean, like, from what we know, she absolutely is, like, she's a real woman whose husband, I believe, has cancer. It says that she's been deployed to talk positively about this specific piece of legislation before. This was her in the summer of last year in 2025 talking to the House, ways and means, GOP committee about it. for appearing today. You gave heartfelt testimony. If you can, it goes on here she is now. It's going to free up some stuff for me.

It means that I'm going to be able to stay more connected with my family. So, okay. Yeah. She's clearly just a shill for this specific thing. At first, I was like, I didn't know she had done other shit before to try and prop up this bill. But other people were like, she's done this before. I don't think that matters either way because when she was out there talking to Trump, it's like, it's clearly a set of.

Yeah. Yeah. But then the head of PR for DoorDash did not respond well to people pointing out how this is just like a cynical like nonsense thing. This is the PR that head of public relations Julian Crowley, quote, no one is claiming it was a real delivery. It was clearly and obviously a planned event to mark a new policy starting to claim Sharon is a prop plant or an actor is totally wrong and off base. She is a. dash her and she participated to support the policy that benefits her with I'm sure some kind of grease payment on the side. Like that's what's so funny when it's like, just because she's an actual door dasher doesn't

mean you got her to appear for your own aims, your own fucking goals here. Then he goes on, of course, the people are like, there's no way like you didn't give her talking points. She's about to be with the president a nationally televised thing. And he said, of course we would speak to Sharon about what to expect before she. appeared before the media and win the present, but Sharon spoke for herself and in support of no tax on tips. Tak also won a prop for saying they support a policy that benefits them and many others

isn't fair. Yeah. It also feels like they are focusing on one very stupid critique of the thing and ignoring the fact that like the reason this was an elf for you was because she was next to the president as he was responding to the most divisive thing that he's ever done maybe and like kind of mocking Christianity and being like,

I'm kind of like Jesus. Yeah. Basically doing the John Lennon thing of being like, we're more popular than Jesus, but like in an easy to digest picture form. And like that that was what your brand is associated with is a huge L.

so to then like focus on one person who's like fake and be like, what the fuck are you talking? about. Of course it's fake. It benefits her. Yeah, yeah. That's pretty silly. Yeah. Again, I think I think we all know anytime Trump interacts with the personal public, it's not some fucking real person. Right. It's always again, like that's one of the few things that they're

tend to be somewhat careful with when having, like, making him look like a man of the people. But yeah, like the real, just the real absurdity of it all is you have a woman, a senior citizen. doing gig work to pay for cancer treatments because they're going broke from trying to stay alive. Horrifying. Yeah, and also Donald Trump was like,

and what do you think about trans athletes? You hate them, right? You hate trans people. I'm just here to talk about tax on tips. Yeah. It was interesting too because she was asked after about her support for Trump. And then she's like, I supported him.

And he goes, oh, did you vote for him? In the last election, she goes, I've supported the president. Uh-huh. And they're like, oh. I'm immunized. Yeah, just very hard. And then she was like, and I moved so I didn't vote.

I don't know if she was trying to be like, I didn't vote for this guy this time. But I'm fine taking a DoorDash check to go do some PR. But Sharon Simmons, you are, they're all obsessed with whether or not you're a paid shell or not. I think we all know. It's okay. We got the new Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, Miles. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Good, good class here, Jack. We love, we're loving this. Oh, yeah. I'm loving a lot of the bands here. Phil Collins, Iron Maiden. I mean, I stop right there. I'm in. Yeah, Oasis.

Now I'm in. Luther Vandros. I mean. Celia Cruz. I'm still here. Queen Latifah. Great. Yeah.

Billy Idol, Joy Division, New Order. Shadee, Felacuti, MC Light, Jimmy Miller, who's a producer. not the famous manager. And a few other people like Rick Rubin and like other sort of like people on the periphery of or not, you know, not the artists themselves, the performers. Wu Tang. I mean, this is all.

Anyone else smiles? Yeah. Oh, yes, of course. Tang. Wu, Tang. Wu, Tang. Thank you, Wu, Tang. I was like, this is great.

This is a great lineup. This is a great concert lineup. If I could see Felakuti, Wu Tang clan, Shadee, MC Light, Celia Cruz, Luther. and fuck you, Phil Collins just to round it out. But what's interesting is Mariah Carey. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has essentially become the music Hall of Fame, right? Like that's where we're at. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's always been like that. But the Mariah Carey, they said, was the biggest snub because this was her third ballot she was on. What did it? How is she not? Mariah Carey's like one of the, I don't know. She seems like a first ballot Hall of Fame. Like, absolutely. right away.

I would put her over literally, like not in terms of like my taste, but like in terms of her success in the music industry, I would put her over literally everyone on this list. Billy Idol, definitely. You could take a seat to Mariah Carey. You know,

also, but MC Light's a trailblazer. All the number one. Like she was just like every number one hit when I was a kid. Maybe it's just like my bias because like when I was a kid and going to school dances, she was like the hit maker,

but like this, I feel like she's bigger than like, oh, so many of these people. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

I mean, she can sing like fucking five octaves or whatever. She's a force of nature. But yeah, so that's them. And Lauren Hill also didn't make it because we were like, oh,

when's Lauren Hill going to get in there? But that's, that's this year's class. Sam, these year's inductees. Uh, we've got some news. out of Amazon, an Amazon factory,

rarely good news out of Amazon factories. Other warehouses, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's rarely like, guys, everybody's getting along and being treated well. I think mainly the news is coming out of that. It's like, we've pushed to new heights of efficiency by taking away yet more bathroom breaks,

by requiring people to be dehydrated when they start their shift so that they don't have to take a bathroom break. Anyways, just over a week ago, an Amazon worker in Troutdale, Oregon, died in a distribution center. According to employees, they were told not to help and instead were ordered back to work.

Supervisors later offered shaken workers counseling an unpaid leave. Unpaid leave. What the fuck. and people who went home early that day weren't paid for a full shift. And these fuckers wonder why, like, that warehouse in Ontario went poof over the weekend. Right. Did you see that? Yeah.

This guy did a Kimberly Clark paper product warehouse lit down like an over one million square foot, like, product warehouse. Yeah. $600 million, like, dollars in damage. And all he was saying was, all you had to do was pay us enough to, live as he was doing it. And this is, these are the conditions that many people are having to work on.

Please ignore the expiration. This person expired on the clock. Don't fucking help them. Don't help that. That fucker's dead. You have fucking back to work. Yeah. That's so like it's so dark. It's how you would script it out of like how like the peeing in bottles thing.

You're like, yeah, this is fucking. Now it's like ignore the dead bodies. It's how you scripted in like a sci-fi futuristic dystopia. Like I don't think in most movies about modern America, like it would not contain

this detail. But it's not that uncommon. In 2022, a 61-year-old Rick Jacobs died in an Amazon warehouse after experiencing a cardiac event. Amazon allegedly erected, quote, a makeshift barrier around the deceased worker

using large cardboard bins. This happened during a shift change and no one arriving for the next shift was even told what had happened. They had to keep working while, quote, emergency responders awaited the arrival of a coroner. So they just were like, keep it moving. Don't. Jesus. Just a bunch of boxes around it.

Like a kid who spilled their cereal? Otherwise, they're going to be distracted, okay? You just have to like keep them focused on the job. Do you have any idea what kind of fucking goals we're trying to hit in the next 12? hours. 2019, a 48-year-old Amazon warehouse worker had a heart attack, laid on the floor for 20 minutes before

receiving treatment from Amazon's internal safety responders. In the report on this, Amazon claimed they responded to the emergency quote, within minutes, which is technically true. Yeah, I guess within 20 minutes counts as within minutes.

Is it anything within an hour would be considered within minutes. Yeah, I guess so. Technically. Yeah. Legally speaking. And after watching their co-worker die,

everyone was forced to go back to work again. It's like, this is like, what is this, Narkina 5 from Andor? That fucking prison they were in for their, like, build the shit for the, are you fuckers are dead?

Yeah. It's like, like you said, it really is out of sci-fi. Like there are you, that's the only example that you could really come up with that like I mean are just like I mean I guess a lot of reality or like fictional yeah yeah

reference but my god it's yeah just put a box around it that's completely lost all humanity and again like these people still all they do is fucking fret about what are we gonna do what are we gonna do about like people are unhappy like you know people who are like these like sort of like you know sea sweets and shit like that and like oligarchs And you're like, people are like literally crying out for humane treatment. Pizza Fridays? No. Do we try pizza Friday?

Okay. All right. What about half paid days off after you watch a preventable death of a coworker before your eyes? That's actually better than what they're offering. Yeah. I'm saying that would be their escalation. Yeah, yeah. We'll give you half days wages if you need to sort of like decompress from the traumatic.

Or whatever. Yeah. Like on top. of the other traumatic events you're probably experiencing from having to toil in a distribution set. It's like, fucking, anyway. Yeah. Rape's a wrath out here, man.

Yeah. What's crazy, that guy who set up set that warehouse on fire was talking about, he's like about Luigi Mangione a tonne. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can, like, this is I don't know. I don't love the, anybody who's like betting against a leftward movement or, you know, violent uprisings for,

people like I don't love their odds because it does feel like I remember when there was the guy who murdered a CEO and everyone was like yeah like that's people were making merch seems seems like a bad trend that everybody is just ignoring and being like well well move it along invest more in security I guess yeah and AI invest more in AI because I'm sure peter teal is selling them a version of reality it's like dude we can neutralize these fuckers a second they get a freaky idea in their head. That's right. All right. Those are some of the stories that are trending on this Tuesday, April 14th. We are back tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get your vaccines. Well, you still can. Get your flu shots. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk you all tomorrow. Bye. The Daily Zykeyes is executive produced by Catherine Law. Co-produced by Bay Wang. Co-produced by Victor Wright. Co-written by J.A. M. Knapp.

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