The Daily Zeitgeist - Celebrity Cruise Sets New Obliviousness Record 08.08.25

Episode Date: August 8, 2025

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Oh, home. Oh, here I come. Home is wherever I'm with you, Mom. Oh, Paul. Oh, me, Paul. If I was a band and people thought that that's what my music sounded like, I'd be like, I'm never doing anything creative ever again. it's kind have you seen the video that's like getting passed around on Twitter of them performing it no but I'm so scared oh mom here do I go let me just read some of these lyrics to Alabama Arkansas I do love my mom and pa not that way I do love you wait not that way as in like I don't love my mother and my father the way I love my romantic interest oh that's good

they clear that up. It is important that they clear that up. I think that's why they said Arkansas first. They're like, I'm going to name the places that are kind of infamous for that. I don't love you like that. No, not like that.

FYI. Well, hot and heavy pumpkin pie, chocolate candy, Jesus Christ, ain't nothing please me more than you. And these people are from Los Felais. Los Feliz.

It's true. Edward Sharp was born in a Gelson's. It's born in the Whole Foods, hot food section next to like a $13 piece of pizza. Yes, it would be more appropriate to say Arawan, but Arawan wasn't that bougie and widespread in that far east in Los Angeles until then. That's correct. But if I was from Alabama or Arkansas, I would be so offended. Like this is the most, like they're like doing Arkansas hillbilly face. Hey, pass those spoons over here, Paul, let me get a spooning.

Not like that. I don't love you like that, Paul. But I don't like that. Nope. I like my Paul. This is an I-Heart podcast. If you're looking for another heavy podcast about trauma, the saying it, this is for the ones who had to survive and still show up as brilliant, loud, soft, and whole.

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Yes, I ate pizza yesterday for breakfast. Manko and Mancos, I felt bad. And then today I was like, how can I eat something for breakfast that will make me feel worse? And I ate a plate of leftover beef and mashed potatoes. What the hell is going on with you? I don't know. I come home and I eat like I don't know how food works for some reason. But I can report I feel like shit again for some reason.

producer Victor goes beef is so big what is what was it but but I think you don't know that's right you would have said that it was like a steak or that's why it's so concerning that's that you don't know what it was just it was a red red meat of some sorts yeah something rare yeah real real rare now it's a couple days old it's been reheated a couple times it was really good on the last reheat and this time I was very hungry, and so I didn't notice if it was good or bad, and now I feel terrible. I'm thrilled to be joined in our second seat by a brilliant

comedian writer, actor, please welcome the hilarious, the riding of recumbent bicycle in short shorts. It's Blake Wexler! Hey, it's Blake Wexler, a.k.a. Let me go on, like a Wexler in the sun. Let me go on.

Plump legs, you know, I'm the one. When I'm out walking, I strut my stuff. Yeah, these plumpers are out. Big thighs, big thighs recumbent bike. I might, I just might stop to show them off. Let me go on. And that was from gross face killer. Today is my dad's birthday, but I don't want to talk about that. So, I'm going to talk about these. I want to talk about these legs. The man I inherited, the original plumpet. My dad. Your dad have great legs. They used, they're not aging well, but they were once, they were once a good, yeah, a good leg. the rest of them. It's gone to shit. But yeah, no, he had good legs in his, in his heyday.

Hey, we're not all in our prime. Congratulations. Congratulations, Blake. Thank you. We are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a brilliant anti-racism educator, activist, writer, creator, creator of the acclaimed podcast, White Homework. Please welcome back to this show. Tori Williams Douglas. Hi, thanks so much for having me back on. I would get to be back on with Blake, too. This is my first. God. Different second host. Oh, really? Oh, yeah. You've had Blake as a co-host before.

It's an honor. I have. Oh, it is an honor and a privilege and a delight. Tori. Oh, my God. Congratulations. Congratulations. Thanks for having me on. Happy to be here.

We're thrilled to have you back. Mm-hmm. I am coming from DTS down the shore for the part of the Jersey Shore. I grew up going to. Did we talk about the abandoned amusement park on yesterday's episode? We somehow didn't get to it. We got to everything else under the fucking sun, but we didn't get to that for some reason. Because we were talking about the amusement park where I appeared to pee my pants, even though I didn't. That place is now, for the first time in my life, the rides are not open this summer. It is a straight up abandoned amusement park that's been purchased by a hotel developer, which is like. We're so close to a Scooby-Doo. Like, I feel like I need to go there and start dressing up in a ghost mask and, like, trying to scare people to do something with the property value. Probably scare the hotel operators so they bring them rides back.

That'll work. It'll 100% work. Both of you have kids, so you'll probably have like a more in-depth analysis on this since mine is purely selfish. but getting on amusement park rides where there's clearly been no regulation or anyone looking into how unsafe they are where like it's one of the scariest things in the world like do you blink when you bring a kid to a fair you know like do you let them go on the ride it's like you know it's better not to think about it just get on the ride there's a reason like carney is derogatory like that the people who run carnivals are uh yeah it's i don't I guess they're good at putting the rides together because they, like, take them apart and put them back together so frequently. But, man, I've, like, gotten on rides that are, like, creaking and sputtering, and the person who is running it does not have a shirt on, doesn't have all their teeth, and just, like, appears to be out of their mind on something or another. You're risking so much. Yeah, I know.

You're risking everything. Your children's lives, apparently. For Winsie. Yeah. It is an important, it is an important milestone. No, like I, I very distinctly remember going on the thing that spins around so fast that, like, you can't have it at normal amusement parks, the one that, like, sticks you to the wall. And as we were doing that at the Kentucky State Fair, the guy who's operating it, again, jeans, no shirt, long, long rat tail in the back. Yeah, you didn't even have to say that part.

Started walking on the wall. like so that we're sticking to he was walking on it so like parallel his body is parallel to the ground and it was the sickest thing i'd ever seen it was so dope you're just like look what i can do i was like who's operating the thing it's like if you're in here walking around like every amusement park is like don't get any ideas and he's like here's one exactly like if he had died The thing just would have kept going faster and faster and, like, taken off forever. Yeah, yeah. And some of the roller coasters are made of wood, and it's like, okay, so you have something

that's already probably going to break and kill someone at some point. Let's just make it made of a substance that it never should have been made out of from, like, to begin with, like, like a log flume. Also, why is the wood going in water? That's not sustainable. That's degrading. It's just unwise. Unwise is the perfect word. It's weird to me, like the roller coasters were in.

invented and they were just like wood and we all take it for granted we're like yeah well that's all they had back then but it was like the 20s like they were also they were making things out of metal in the 20s they knew they knew about metal back then like well it was the bronze age so right right right it was you have steam engines so come on we've got the infrastructure here for some reason we're just like no that's they they couldn't have possibly made a roller coaster out of anything except for what appears to be like 40 large jenga piles yeah so they had the brooklyn bridge back then which is not made of wood i mean no not at all looks like a roller coaster kind of those hipsters are going to make it made of wood the real i'm i always wonder i'm like is

are the ones that they bring into town for a week or a couple of weeks like they do in portland for the rose festival and set up and then they take it down you know, 10 days later or whatever, go out of the next town. Or the one that's here that's just always here. I'm like, which one is safer? And I don't want to look it up because I actually don't want to know. Yeah, yeah. But the one that's just always here, always open with the wooden roller coaster that we have.

Yeah. I don't know. Should I look at the data on how many children have lost digits? All the high profile, like, horrible things happen at the place, the ones that are permanent. but I just wonder if it's because when a bad thing happens at a carnival, they leave town before the sunrises. I'm like, you're just like, I don't know. Pack it up.

Impossible to say who that was. There's just a mangled body in the field somewhere. There's no paper trail or record of anyone who works there. They have no permits. Yeah, they just kind of show up. Yeah. All right. Well, Tori, we're thrilled to have you here.

We're going to get to know you a little bit better. moment. First, we're going to tell the listeners what we're talking about today. We're going to talk about Trump's tariffs, I guess. I don't know. Yeah, we're going to do that. It seems bad, seems dumb. We'll talk about this vanity fair profile of like this yacht that had all the most famous people on the planet on it, and it's truly upsetting. It feels like they should be ashamed of themselves for this one. And we'll talk about why that song Home is suddenly so popular to shit all over. All of that, plenty more.

But first, Tori, we do like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? The thing that I have been searching the last week or so, and this is just going to be TMI, and I'm going to do it anyway, is how soon after hitting perimenopause you can get HRT because I've been feeling very toasty lately. I'm like, well, I was going to try to power through. And then my sister was like, no, if you start my younger sister, who probably shouldn't know these things, I don't think is like, no, if you start earlier, it helps more. So I'm honestly just like searching for HRT and then I'm slowly watching places, change the name of it from

like hormone replacement therapy, which people, well, bigots just automatically associate with trans to menopause therapy or menopause hormone therapy, which I think is really interesting. And so I'm going to die on the hill of calling it HRT because- Oh, yeah, look at that, Mayo Clinic, menopause hormone therapy is what it's being-posed. And I want them to be like, wait, what gender were you assigned at birth? I can't tell. So hormone replacement therapy is now menopause hormone therapy, according to the Mayo Clinic, because everybody is scared.

And men is capitalized for some reason in menopause. They wanted to make themselves even more comfortable. It's menopause. That's right. Yeah. So just I've been searching up a lot of gender affirming care, I guess is what we're going to say. And yeah, it's interesting trying to figure out like, does my insurance cover this? Do I have to pay out of pocket?

We live, obviously, you all know this, in a hell country. one of the shithole countries we've heard so much about we live in a hell of a country i agree torrey hell of a country hell of a place here i am trying to figure out hmm is there any way to like mitigate some of these very miserable symptoms and then you know thinking about oh we we don't know very much about how to deal with menopause slash perimenopause because we don't invest in even before all the briefs got canceled we don't invest in researching anything about women's self because it's not urgent um it's a real mystery actually i feel like that's like the first sentence it's complicated right it's very complicated it's scary god intended women to suffer and so here we are uh yeah believing

that science isn't real and i'm trying to get answers from google that aren't AI generating because the AI is not helping with us the AI turns out not helpful When the entire medical establishment doesn't really know what the fuck they're talking about, I'm just going to trust Google's AI to kind of summarize my way out of that problem. Yeah, they're pretty good. I'm sorry you're going through that. The symptoms I've heard of the hot flashes. Yeah, the hot flashes.

How hot, how flashy we're talking here. You asked the tough questions. How flashing we're talking? I had this very strange moment where I've been trying to be responsible and be in bed reading a book at 10 p.m. every night, right? Congratulations. I mean, that is great. Obviously, it's summertime, right? So windows are open. I don't have the comfort or on. I'm just got, like, my little one sheet. And I'm, like, reading my book. And there's, like, you can feel, you know how you can feel the air, like, under the sheet that's, like, around your body? I feel it, like, I can feel the temperature rising under the sheet. I feel it. I can feel the temperature rising under the sheet. As I'm reading a meter. You're creating a hot air balloon under the sheet. Uh-huh.

Uh-huh. And I was like, oh, this sucks. I was like, what is happening here? So I think I need to start taking an ice pack to bed with me. Yeah. Just to be safe. Just an emergency. You know, those like break in case of emergency ice packs that you can take?

Yeah, yeah. That I take on like hikes and stuff for my kids. Yeah, the chemical ones. Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Just to be safe. Just to be on the safe. Just to be on the same. Uh-huh. Back of the neck. Yep.

Yep. I like it. I have to sleep with a blanket as well. Like, even if it's like so hot, I have to like need some sort of, in my mind, it's like protecting me from an intruder. You know, like this thing. A creep who could come into your room. Yeah, they can't get through the blanket, though.

So, yeah. Yeah, something about like sleeping without a blanket. My body is like, we're not actually sleeping. Yeah. I don't know what you think this is, but this is not bedtime. If you're sleeping with nothing on top. of you. I can't even nap without something on top of me. That's how ingrained it is. That it's like, oh, well, what are we doing here? We're just hanging out on a bed. This is nothing.

So, yeah, I relate to that. Good. I'm thinking. Great. I'm thinking now. I'm like reverse claustrophobic. I like to have something close. And like I find it nice and cozy. I think I descend from pack or like den, you know, den animals. Yeah. I got that, I got that den animal inside of me. You do. That dog. That den dog. I sleep with a bunk bed just laying on top of me.

So, like, I have a bed and there's no, like, rise off. Yeah, take the legs right off. I did. I used to, like, feel very comfortable under beds, like, as a kid. I would just, like, kind of hide under a bed. Yeah. Then they would come and take me, and my dad would tell them that he has a very particular set of skills. Tori, what is something you think is underrated?

Okay, so I'm going to lie a little bit, because this is not technically underrated, because back in the day, it was huge. It was a sensation. But I am feeling a little bit of a way about the book The Historian by Elizabeth Kestova, which is one of my absolute favorite books. And it came out in 2005, right? It's a novel. And it's just really beautiful, beautifully written, came out during, like, kind of like, when, I don't remember when Twilight came out. It feels like it was kind of the Twilight era. So, like, vampires were in the air. That was just the thing. And I just really... There was a du-op group on every corner.

Sorry, no, I'm a little off. I'm not that old. I'm not that old. Vampires were everywhere. Twilight was at the top of the charts. There was a do-op group on every corner. This is, like, this book specifically was also, like, a New York Times bestseller. It was amazing.

And I can't believe no one's turned it into a film yet. But it's like this really beautiful story. about this girl who, like, this young girl who finds these handwritten letters in, like, her father's library, and that each of them starts out, my dear and unfortunate successor, and if they're written by this historian, who is very concerned that he might be being hunted by Dracula. And so he's writing down, and they're, like, all date marked, like, 1930, like December 1930, right? So she is like, what is this, decides to go and ask her dad about it, and then they have all these adventures together all over, like, Southeast Europe. And it's just,

like, very romantic and, like, cozy in the way that she describes, like, all of these different countryside is amazing. And obviously, like, you know, this is you're talking about Romania because Dracula. And it just, it just seems like a really perfect, beautiful story to turn into, it would have, The book is so long, it would have to be two movies. But I am on a campaign. If anyone is listening, please hit me up. Please, I just really want to see this on film. It would be stunning.

I just think it's interesting that when this character writes a bunch of letters about how they're being hunted by a Dracula, it's art. But when I write Blake, like, just a couple letters about how I'm being hunted by a swamp thing. Yeah, harassment and stop doing this. Is this a joke? This doesn't really add to anything. You won't let me bring it up and make fun of you for it on the show. These are the things he says to me.

Jack, we just got to punch up your writing, man. We just got to make it eloquent and beautiful. It's not the subject matter. It's how you're writing it. Right. It's your lack of skill. He's on my six. Swamp things on my six.

I just use police. The tone is so fucked. He's on. We got a smoky in the swamp. Yep. Exactly. He's been chasing me for 20 clicks. I'm about to die. Yeah. It sounds really lovely.

It is. If you're a reader and you haven't read it, highly recommend if you like novels. Not terribly smutty, because I know that's all the rage right now. A little bit of romance. But, yeah, mostly just good times. They're just, like, have the misfortune of being the other Dracula, the other vampire novel that was popular at the same time as Twilight. And so they were like, we're going to be busy making these over here.

Probably. And it was more for adult. Like, I think it was more written to an adult audience. It's not particularly Y.A. And obviously, like, YA is where all the money is because you can get all of the girlies screaming about Robert Pattinson, who turned into an amazing actor. I just watched Mickey 17 fucking sucked. And I'm, like, sobbing because his performance is so compelling.

The movie sucks? It's weird. It's like two movies are two trains. One is going 55 miles an hour. I'm heading north. I fucking hate this. South and you're just like,

what is fucking happening? Is your recommendation the historian as well written as Twilight? And I'm going to read a pull quote from Twilight for you just to get you to know what you're competing with. Aren't you hungry?

He asked, distract it? No. I didn't feel like mentioning that my stomach was already full M-Dash of butterflies. No, are you serious? Yeah, yeah, that's a straight up bar. More of that. That is barn.

You need to write more like that. Yeah, well, I try, okay. I can't get out of my cop speak. Yeah, I know you can. It's so weird. At this time, I walked into the street and ascertained an individual of the description of a swamp thing. beautiful the guy's not a cop the protagonist is not a cop that's the crazy no that's just how he that's how he talks he's a social worker and yet you're still making him talk like a cop oh man but that twist when she says her stomach was already full and i was like wait but what was going on of butterflies what so is that a literal and by the way we don't this doesn't have to be a literature uh you know a literature podcast but

So, did she eat actual physical butterflies because vampires eat things? Or is this like a cute romance? She's not a butterfly yet. She's not a vampire yet. Oh, I understand. And I'm sorry for any spoilers. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. She's not a butterfly yet.

She's not a butterfly yet. In many ways, she's not a butterfly yet. She's just learning to. She's a larvae. To blossom. Creepy, creepy metaphor. If this was written by Stephen King, there would be a lot of butterfly metaphors probably. But, yeah, she's not a vampire yet.

She's just eating butterflies by the handful. Okay, cool. She's a frog. Yeah, yeah. Compulsive. It's like how you get pico when you're pregnant. That's what's going on with her with her. She's like butterflies.

You like crave chalk or sand or something. Just like butterflies for me, thanks. I was being reminded because we're down the shore. I was being reminded by my sister that I used to eat sand. And I was like, was I pregnant? when I was like four years old because I ate a lot of sand and I remember it being delicious

That's a texture thing I think when you're a little Yeah It's salty too I liked how salty it was Beach sand is salty Yeah Everybody knows that

It's all the pee Oh no That would make it That would explain everything Tori what's something you think is Overrated Okay so I think The thing that is overrated

is buying a new cell phone when your contract is up. I think that's bullshit. I don't think we should be buying tech on big tech's schedule, and we should try to keep our things as long as possible. So that's the hell I'm dying on. I have never gotten a new device and been like, oh my God, this is changing my life. It's just like, I need this to be able to contact friends, family, whoever,

to do my work, right? It's record podcasts. Like, there's never been a moment where I'm like, oh, yeah, baby, this is a game change. sure this is it for me. Yeah, yeah. And so I'm like, okay, what can I do to like minimize consumption? If you just like double that like, oh yeah, you're supposed to get a new phone every two years,

like fuck that. Like make it last for four years. I know you do get throttled. That sucks. That's real. Yeah. But you don't, that new phone is not going to make you feel good feels for more than like a day or two. Yeah, it immediately becomes invisible.

Like a day is stretching it. It's just immediately it's just like, oh yeah, now I don't notice. the thing that was like kind of wrong with the last one but it immediately everything else immediately becomes invisible and i like put the same like you know protector on the phone so like i don't even remember you don't even notice that's new yep yeah yeah yeah same case same protector it's an insane process too or it's like okay so i just paid off this phone you know and like you wouldn't just buy a new car every single time you paid off your car like it's just so stupid you know definitely like it's sure it's not as fancy as it was i'm about to pay off my car i feel very proud of

myself i bought it new like hell yeah and but yeah i'm like i still love this thing it's amazing it's a Subaru forester and i live in portland so obviously it's the perfect car i got a cross stretch i thought they just gave you those when you moved there standard issue yeah if you're if you're queer and you live in Portland so not all fourlanders get them there's some reparations going here for Subaru specifically. They get Impresas. If you're a CIS, you get a Subaru Impressa.

Oh, man. Oh, man. No. So it's like, nobody's ever going to spot me in my car because it's the same car. Everybody else in Portland is driving. It's the perfect vehicle. Yeah. But I love it.

Yeah. All I'm like to say, I'm like, yeah, I'm going to have this puppy paid off. Very proud of myself. And also, like, I don't want a new car. Like, if I can keep this thing in other. 10 years, that would be fucking awesome. Right.

So, yeah. And that's how I feel about my phone and my laptop. Yeah, I feel like the battery always where, like that, that's just the question is like, how long is the battery going to last until you need to do like a second to charge at noon every day? You know what I mean? Like, and that that's always the thing that like, at a certain point, it's like, you can, you can visibly see the battery, like the battery chart going down. Like an hourglass

It's not like a slow decline It just jumps in quarters It's not even smooth 50% Yeah All right Well yeah You don't own me

I like that Tim Cook Tim Apple Tim Apple Steve Job You don't know I don't work for you asshole Let's uh

Let's take a quick break Would that be fun? Yeah let's take a little bit I'm exhausted This is fuck me I'm so tired This is totally fucked my shit up I am so fucked up right now.

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Of course. Oh, my God. Are you guys ready to talk about terrorists? Yes. Terrace. My favorite thing to pretend I understand. Yes. It's, I mean, I will say it's a tool that has been used. But it is the only tool that Donald Trump is like,

if a car mechanic only had a hammer and that was the only, thing he used to work on your car with. You just, like, beat the shit out of your car with the hammer. Only if your car was, like, actually way more complicated than a car and was, in fact, the global economy.

So he's hammering away. I'm tired of even, like, is this the real one? Or because he's, like, been, like, these tariffs are happening. But I think these are the real tariffs. Like, they're happening, right? And, yeah, definitely. India and India and,

in Brazil, not Indiana. Indiana. Have been, quote, punished the worst with 50% tariffs. And there are reasons that have to do with just like them being mean or nice to, like it's

completely illegal. For the president to be like, I'm doing tariffs on a country because they're being mean and like I'm punishing them is not, like, so far beyond like how things are supposed to or allowed to work.

Brazil is being punished for having a socialist leader that people actually like. That's the subtext. And then the, yeah, that's humiliating for him. And then they're also, quote, persecuting his friend, Yair, Bolsonaro. Oh, because he has consequences for his actions. Yeah, he doesn't like persecution, yeah.

That is also not. great for him, to be setting the president of authoritarian leader facing consequences. Yeah. No thank you. And so after Brazil's justice system charged Bolsonaro with attempting to orchestrate a coup in 2022, which that must have been weird for the Brazilians. Yeah. Yeah.

It's been hard. Hold on. He demanded Brazil's legal system intervene on Bolsonaro's behalf or face tariffs on the entire country. They did not change their decision, and so they're facing big tariffs. India, their tariffs doubled from 25% to 50% because they were buying Russian oil despite the war in Ukraine. We'll be interesting to see how Tim Poole and the other paid Russian assets feel about this, who are also like mega people. But, you know, what one could say, it would be, we wouldn't have this problem if you ended the war. on Ukraine in 24 hours, like he promised he would. But I guess that's neither here nor there. People are like, ooh, he's being mean to Putin. I think he has a meeting coming up with Putin.

So that should end right around immediately after that. Meetings between Trump and Putin typically involve them meeting. Putin, like, taking him to behind a closed door without the media present. And then Trump suddenly decided. to capitulate to whatever Russia wants because he is not a good negotiator and because it would appear that they might have something on this guy. I don't know. It might be. It's like that toxic, like your friend who's always like, oh, I'm just going to get, you know, like, get drinks with my toxic ex. And it's like, they're going to fuck. They're going to fuck each. Come on. Trump and Boone are

going to fuck each other. God damn. They're going to get back together. Yes. And yeah, we've, we've, I feel like the compromise stuff, like everyone was like, oh, the P-Tapes, and then we like started laughing at the P-Tapes and like RussiaGate was maybe over a bit overblown. I don't know that it necessarily won him the election. But as we've seen his behavior around the Epstein files, I feel like there's probably no shortage of potential things that they might be holding over his head would be my guess based on how he has been acting around. around that stuff and his inability to act like it's weird to be a sexual predator, you know? It's not to him. Yeah, it's just a power play. That's just all it is.

It's like, that's what guys like him do. Yeah. You know. So anyways, we'll see where that. Switzerland got a 39% tariff because. For being boring. Not my chocolate. Yeah.

Not Tori's favorite chocolate. Oh, no. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Americans import more from Switzerland, and then we export to them. So he was like, you got to start buying our shitty weapons and energy. Or corn. Buy our corn. How would you like to make everything out of corn for a couple of years?

And they were like, I don't know. That's even bad. We wouldn't. We've noticed that everyone in your whole country smells like corn. We probably don't notice that, but I think we all probably, smell like corn because we're mostly made of corn at this point. Fair. Valid.

Anyways, so they got hit with the tariff hammer. And then the EU was able to limit tariffs by agreeing to buy a bunch of natural gas. People are saying that, you know, in cases like the EU, he's able to get a temporary concession here and there. But the long-term impacts on trade are going to be bad.

Like, already you're seeing countries just decide not to trade, like find other people to trade with. Like, they now know that the U.S. is completely unstable, completely irrational. And so, like, the prime minister of Malaysia said at a conference across the world, tools once used to generate growth are now wielded to pressure, isolate, and contain. As we navigate external pressures, we need to fortify our foundations, trade among ourselves, invest more in one another.

And India and Brazil, the aforementioned countries that are really getting the hammer, the only thing he knows how to wield, have been talking to each other even before this latest hike and have planned to increase trade between those countries, trade with each other, to $20 billion over the next five years. So there's like, why the fuck would we ever work with you? And this is also happening at a time when America is just like naturally becoming less of a hegemonic power. So like that, you know, China is obviously going to become like this is the best possible thing that could happen for China. And all the people who are like, we've got to be competitive with China. That's all we're worried about are like, I don't, I don't see how they are letting this happen and be like, good call, sir.

other than they're just like scared of him and cowards. Even if you think that there's a reason for him doing this beyond him being a petty little piece of shit with no fucking plan whatsoever, which is what's going on. His other reasoning is that, oh, it'll boost like American manufacturing. But the problem is that these alleged facilities, like, you know, these steel mills, you know, like these cool, like natural gas, like these, these factories take a while to fucking build. they take years to build so you can't just go cold turkey and be like yeah no we'll just build this enough steel manufacturing to support all these like us cutting ourselves off from the rest of the world like that's just not humanly possible like if you're going to do this you kind of ease into it and it just it's that hammer approach a tool that he's never held a literal tool that he's never

touched any tool whatsoever but i bet he picked up a hammer once i bet there's so many pictures of him with one of those hard hats and like preparing. But like, has he ever successfully driven a nail all the way in? No. No. Oh, no. Not once. No, no, no.

He's never swung it. Yeah. He's held it while wearing a suit and in a hard hat. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's what it is. What an idiot. Yeah. I think it's going to be, I think it's going to be bad.

I mean, I always, you know, the, it's like the macroeconomic version of the great leap forward with like this famous disastrous policy in China where Mal was like we don't need to make all the pig iron like we'll make all the pig iron in your backyard and it's like well that what what exactly is that so just like stop farming

start making iron and everybody start to death he's like problem solves everyone's dead into the grave that we dug ourselves read the first first paragraph of the background section of Wikipedia and then didn't get any further than that. Yeah. It's so interesting because we clearly have, I don't know what I want to say.

Like, it's clearly within like the American myth that we could resurrect all of these industries. I think that we have like a big enough, clearly economy. We have intelligent enough people. We could do that, but it, that requires a plan. And that's like antithetical to anything. thing that Trump has ever done. Yeah. And we have, yeah. We can build up, right? We can build up to producing enough steel or we can build up to doing whatever and we can offer, you know,

obviously we'd have to be giving subsidies to people because it's more expensive to manufacture here and that's something we do already with firm. Like, there are tools available to him that he has no interest in using. Yeah. We have manufacturing still in this country. It just doesn't look like it used to. The time that they're

fetishizing was a time of very powerful unions. The reason that things worked back then was because of very powerful unions that fought on behalf of the working people, the people who like worked at companies.

And the, so if like you could rebuild manufacturing here, it's still going to be predatory and the workers are still going to be treated like shit and have to like get off work at the factory and fucking drive Uber, you You know, like, that's still going to be the case because it's a system that completely has given all the power to corporations.

So, like, it's the thing that they're looking back on so fondly is union membership and, like, a very strong, yeah, the thing that they think is communism. So, so this is going to be bad. the thing that these tariffs do, it passes costs onto companies. As we've seen during the pandemic, American companies do not take the hit. And they're like, well, our stock price has gone down a little bit now because of these things that are costing us money or like making it harder for us to, they pass those costs onto consumers and in the form of inflation. So we're, you know, we're going to feel. the hit of these tariffs. And then Trump is also trying to get Jerome Powell, the head of the Fed,

to cut interest rates. But like the thing that cutting interest rates causes is inflation. So we're getting inflation from the tariffs. And if he has his way and fires Jerome Powell and puts in like one of his yes men, we're going to get inflation coming from that end. And we could have, you know, runaway inflation and all the like that's Biden's thing man what are you talking about yeah what a hey man hey man it's kind of it's it's Biden's fault if there's inflation play Matt dude yeah it's like all the all the economic like horror stories like the great leap forward where they tried to make pig iron in their backyard and like on farms instead of it's like I don't know shit about economics or economic history, but like the handful of like horror stories I know are that and then like runaway

inflation where people are like bringing wheelbarrows of like cash to the bank like and just like or like bring it to the grocery store to buy like a gallon of milk. Like those are going everywhere from the wind to like that. Those are the two things that are in play now with this brilliant negotiator taking things over. So we'll be, you know, You know, he's a shrewd negotiator, and his ways are mysterious. Oh, wait, no, he's just a fucking idiot. That's just mysterious. What is he thinking some of the time?

I think it's just self-enrichment. Yeah, that's also possible that he's just like, yeah, we're going to, like, fuck this up. Fuck it up. Fuck it up. Buy up a bunch of shit. I mean, that's like the game plan. The only problem is that he's the president of the United States. He didn't have this job.

It's just the one problem. If he didn't have such a high-stakes job, this wouldn't matter his personality and every the billion things they're wrong with that fucking guy. But yeah, no, if only there was a way not to put him in that job. I still think he might, if we were like, we're bringing, we're firing Jimmy Fallon. Who's the one who has like the Johnny Carson show like now? Is it Jimmy Fallon? I think that's Fallon, right?

I'm not a comedy fan, so I wouldn't. No, it is. It's Fallon, isn't it? It's Fallon, yeah. I think if they were just like, we're firing Jimmy Fallon and we want you to take over, sir, we just need you to like resign the office of president, you know, give it to whoever you want. But like we like just his response when he found out that Sidney Sweeney was a registered Republican, it was the happiest I've ever seen him. I really think all he wants to do is just get on TV for two hours a night and riff. and, like, think that he's funny and cool.

And, like, I feel like we might be able to get it. I think, and you change the title from Tonight Show host to Tonight Show CEO. Tonight Show, Furor. Yeah, Furor of the Tonight Show. And I think he would do, I think you're right. Like, he just needs to feel important. He needs to have some sort of power over a Dominion. This Dominion's too big that he has right now.

Give him a smaller, poor, poor our friends who work for the Tonight Show. Yeah. I know. I think they would give it up. I think so, too. Yeah. Take one for the team. Oh, wait. Oh, fuck. Yeah. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.

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everywhere causing a reappraisal of the hey ho stop clap stomp genre of like uh Kind of lo-fi indie from the 2010s, I guess it was. Yeah. Like that, hey-ho song about Luminaires and... How's that go? Oh, they go, hey. And then they go, oh. Okay, I understand.

Why is it so catchy? It's abusive. It is pretty low-catching. It's, uh, but this is the one that I have heard in the most Volkswagen commercials, I believe. The, home, heard, do I go. And the lyrics. The thing that I think people are responding to is the performance. First of all, it's like, I think we all heard it in the car commercials and assumed it was like some American Idol runner-ups like number five pop song.

You know, I did not know that this is what the people look like. I'm going to now share my screen so we can watch this. And there's nothing wrong with the way they look. It's just not exactly. Don't neuter all my comments before I make them. Their look is great. I think what they're doing is fantastic. It's good.

So I'm playing the video without sound for you guys so you can see the vibe of the people. Wait. Is this a tiny desk concert? I can't tell if it's tiny desk. It's a Timu Tiny Desk concert is what's going on here. They had to throw that desk away right after this concert. We're not completely. Legal audio, because AI will crawl it and make us take this episode down, but

you got to look at what they're looking like. She does smack herself in the head so far that her little beanie falls off. And the lyrics are Alabama, Arkansas. I do love my mom and pa. Not that way that I do love you.

Well, holy moly, me, oh my, you're the apple of my eye. Girl, I've never loved one like you. man oh man you're my best friend i'll scream it to the anyway these were jack's vows hot and heavy pumpkin pie chocolate candy jesus christ ain't nothing please me more than you darling so i do chocolate candy oh jesus christ sorry i stepped in some chocolate candy while i was writing my Chofel candy.

What do you fuck with Jesus Christ? Did AI write this shit? What is happening? It does. It does feel a little bit like that. It does feel a little bit like that. I did not know they looked like this. The guy looks like he has spent,

I don't know if he has actual dreadlocks in this video, but he is flirting with them and he has, he is very seriously considering it. It's, the look is so, I'm going to. I hate what I'm about to say, but it's true. I do have this album on vinyl. Oh, man.

And I didn't know they looked like this. So this is like music that it's like, okay, I'm shuffling around my house, you know, paying outstanding bills and taking eviction notices off my home. And this is good to play in the background during that. But the look of these people. Kind of feels like a children's song is what, like, that's. That's how I felt, like, I was like, this is a good, this is good children's movie soundtrack music. Like, and so to have a guy who seems like a cult leader, singing it into the eyes of somebody who appears to be on all sorts of drugs. She does, she looks like a child who is on drugs.

Yeah, yes. That's, that's the energy. I think that's what's throwing me. That's what's throwing me. That's what your hangoff is. David Koresh and the magnetic zeros. Anyways, but I don't hate the song as much as everybody. Everybody's like, it's the worst written song of all time.

And, you know, it's just, I think, again, it's doing what it set out to do, which is be earnest as hell. Is it earnest? It feels tryhardy to me. Oh, so tryhardy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I think they're earnestly trying. It is the tri-heartest shit.

Yeah, I think they're earnest. earn it they they're trying so hard and they do not give a fuck yes try hard is one of the like if you had to describe this in three words like I do feel like try hard yeah fucking try hard it's it's like the audio equivalent of like PDA you know where like you're in public and you see like a couple like exactly it's humiliating the whole thing is humiliating it's so embarrassing yeah What's that clip of, is it Tyre Banks saying, this is so humiliating? That's kind of how I feel watching this.

I love her. Yeah, truly giving us some of our great memes. All right. Speaking of humiliating, I do want to move on to a real world, like kind of glass onion situation. Real world White Lotus meets Glass Onion, meets Oscar after party. Who died? I'm so intrigued. No, unfortunately.

I mean, I'm not going to say unfortunately, but, yeah. It's for some reason they let a Vanity Fair reporter tag along and, like, take acid with them on this Ritz Carlton yacht cruise. So it's like a, it's like, what would a, what would a cruise look like for Dakota Johnson, Kendall Jenner, Tom Brady, Orlando Bloom, Pharrell Williams, Martha Stewart, Naomi Campbell, Patrick Schwarzenegger Ricky Martin Jaden Smith

Toby McGuire for some reason Alicia Silverstone for some reason Janelle Monet Wow Janel Monnet Sophia Vergara and of course Leonardo DiCaprio is there

you know But this is a yacht It's not a cruise Because to me a cruise It's like A cruise is like Someone's getting dysentery But so that many people

It's like a giant yacht It's like a mini cruise ship giant yacht and they're just like everybody is treated like that you know like they I'm sure people were being carried around like you know what I mean like just like touch the deck yeah nobody's foot they're just like piggyback I said piggyback like as they just went from dackery to daquery they do still drink daqries which I was a little disappointed and throughout I was like is that doesn't seem like it seems like they should have some version of daquiry that's like beyond what we have access to.

Well, we love Hemingway. Oh, Jack, I have a daquiry for you. Next time we hang out. Oh, yeah? Next level daquiry? Yes. It's not the kiddie stuff that you get at the bar. I'm picturing the virgin daugree I used to order at TGF Fridays.

It is nothing like that at all. It's not even sweet. picturing Tom Brady drinking a TGI Friday's dacry with a big dollop of a whipped cream on top. As his skin continues to constrict around his face. yeah that's it does keep getting tighter it does it says I get this shit tightened a little bit I need a skin tightening at noon so I got to go pretty soon the article does note that the ship set sail as the big beautiful bill was being passed so like as normal people are being robbed of their

health care and like this massive bill to make wealthy people more rich is passing these people are all getting on a massive yacht and like the the one celebrity who was there that I have to give a shout out to is Miguel the musician is there but he does not post about it and he's just there to perform and then he gets the fuck out and I'm like hell yeah Miguel like that's probably I kind of love him honestly but we just get these little little views these little pinhole views into like what these people are like. So the writer is told that 28-year-old Brooks Nader

is poised to be the breakout star of what, just breakout star of this like influencer cruise. And parentheses, a mover and shaker baby, says Sarah Jane. We'll get to Sarah Jane in a moment. The striking blonde is a former Sports Illustrated swimwear

model, and rumor has it is dating Brady whose head I can see across the deck in his new spectacles. a six foot four librarian. I like that Tom Brady's like wearing glasses to be like. Just when you thought it couldn't get hotter. He's a six foot four librarian.

It's like, it's a new look for him and it sounds great. I still want to fuck him. Lauren Sanchez, then they say Lauren Sanchez Bezos first noticed Brooks on Instagram and decided to befriend her. Sarah Jane tells me. So Lauren Sanchez Bezos, like Jeff Bezos's wife is just like,

going around discovering people and being like, you get to come to our parties now. And like, you're hot enough to come to our party. Right. Jesus Christ. Oh, this is so fascinating. I was wondering how all those people wound up at their wedding, at the Bezos people, their wedding.

It's like, what, you're just sending out, like, invitations to everybody who is at, what, the Oscars? Like, I don't get what the metric is here, because you guys aren't real friends, because you're barely even real people. Right. They're not. They only surround them.

There's a good quote later from Martha Stewart that talks about this. Martha Stewart is on another fucking planet. It's wild. But like Patrick Schwarzenegger, Kate Hudson, and Janelle Monet have all been in things that are like about shit like this. They've been in like White Lotus and then Glass Onion, which was about like a Elon Musk type inviting a bunch of people on like a weird thing like this. And like the writer is like, so is this like weird for you?

Patrick's horseenary is like, yeah, you know, but what am I going to do? Say no to this horrifyingly humiliating thing. Janelle Monet is like, just straight up is like, is this glass onion or what? Even Kate Hudson is here. Good for her. Good for her. Yeah, it just owns it. I will allow it with Janelle Monet

because, yeah, that's what Janelle Monet can do absolutely nothing wrong. I do want to talk about Sarah Jane, though, because she has some great quotes defending Sanchez Bezos. Oh, boy.

Yeah, she's got some things to say. She's like, I guess Jeff Bezos is the top of the richest people, but like, there are a lot of big people where it's like, yeah, it should be like that. He made it fucking. big and like they've been in love for like years or something they're so secure and real if the press was going to attack her friend as emblematic of the age of oligarchs well sanchise doesn't give a fuck it's fuel i find that so inspiring so just it's not it's just

you know she's aspiring to be a kardashian and like this like fuck the poor thing she's like so hungry for wealth and fame and status and like that hunger is like powering her you know like that so she's like both embarrassingly like bougie and into this shit and also embracing that in a way that she should be embarrassed about but like a thing that should be embarrassing and instead she's like that's my personality actually this isn't one mistake this is me. This whole thing is me. This whole thing is just my shit. This is my shit. This is being put on by a billionaire, Israeli billionaire who is a billionaire because he, well, he, he made his money by selling a poker site. Yeah. So don't you feel silly, Tori, after making that statement? Yeah,

poker, not predatory at all. No, it's actually fine. He made his money off of people's gambling addictions. The good old fashion. Yeah, the old fashioned way. Good old fashion way. It's not some tech idiot. He's a gambling. A vulture. Yeah. He talks to one of the people who sells these sorts of yacht experiences and he says, say you want to go to Greece tomorrow. You go to Greece. And then they explain it with with crypto and AI cash piling up in recent years, the boats have to get bigger. That's a very positive effect. But of course, it's still the ultimate luxury. So like, it's They treat this as like it's solving a problem that people have, which is like too much money because of crypto and AI.

So it's just, you know, the upwards, all of these new, every new development that people write about in the mainstream media and seem excited about on Wall Street is all just ways to redistribute money upward. And then those people, unfortunately, they have a problem they have to deal with, which is Like, what am I going to spend all this money on? And so this gives us. Not definitely not a small one. Not a teeny, tiny little boat.

Big boat. Oh, a shit boat. Martha Stewart has some amazing quotes in here. So she's talking about how, like, she, it used to be cool to be on yachts, but that she says, I mean, it's almost common now, extreme wealth. We know everybody that's really rich. We know them all. I mean, it started in the 1990s.

When I first went public with, like, her Martha Stewart Omnamedia, I was hanging out with Bill Gates and Charles Simonia. I don't know who that is. And the Google Boys. I mean, that's when it started. The Google Boys. Them Google Boys. But now everybody has one, she says.

The reason he got a yacht MV, what she's talking about an ex-husband, was when he visited Ron Prolman's boat. I was on the board of Revlon. Like, it's just all this shit. Yeah, she's just going from one, like, statement. She just seems so, like, bored and just insulated. I was CEO of the Atlantic Ocean. So, yeah, I was on Ron Perlman's boat.

At one point, she's flipping through her Instagram feed and finds that she's just getting a lot of outrage comments from fans. Somebody wrote, meanwhile, people can't afford food or rent. And her agent leans over and whispers to me to the writer, there's not a better Instagram follow than Martha Stewart 48 at Martha Stewart 48 so that's so that's

yeah 48 next president but like they still they like know they get it so like the writers like do you does this bother you what with like Zoran Mamdani being nominated in New York

and like Donald Trump trying to like help billionaires and she's like the old Roman Empire is coming to an end. I always get that. I'm mother hen. I'm not supposed to be doing this stuff. I'm supposed to be in the garden picking tomatoes.

So she turns it into like a women empowerment thing. Yeah. Which it is. And then she has a run where she's like mad about people caving to Donald Trump. But then she goes on to say, I'm a great admirer of Elon Musk. And what he's done.

He's an inventor. He's like the Michael Angelo of our time. And look what's happening to him. Even he is struggling. and there's very little he can do until something big happens. People hate him. I mean, I had to put my Tesla in the garage

and I like my Tesla. What kind do you have? The fanciest one, self-driving Tesla. Even my daughter won't take it and she's an environmentalist. She won't take it. What is it happening? I can't give this fucking thing away.

Yeah. Then there's like a model dancing and she's like, keep dancing. You're setting the vibe. vibe, girl. Oh, boy. Oh, boy.

Toby McGuire is there with his teenage son. Everyone's doing small doses of LSD, getting shit-faced on margs and Dax, and just, like, go back and forth between talking about how surreal it is to be famous and around this many other famous people and then, like, trying to justify why it's okay. And, yeah, it's just, they're, like, larping as people. from before we knew that this is unsustainable. It feels like, you're like, yeah, this feels like the 90s. Anyways, it just, it feels like, oh, also at the end, as the guy's getting off the boat, he gets a call from, like, one of the people involved with organizing it. And they're like, ooh, could you not say that this person was there?

Also this person. And then, like, a little later, they're like, actually, you can't write this article. And he's like, yeah, sorry. I was there. You let me there. Yeah, this is done. I'm allowed to say what I saw. But make sense that they wouldn't want him to say that.

It's just, I guess they're getting a little lazy and they chose not to, like, car bomb him or whatever. Like, the person who revealed the Panama Papers. Oh, brutal. Yeah. Anyways, how sick would it have been to be there, you guys, right? God, I know. I can't believe I was busy. The amount of stuff I would have.

while these people were doing drugs. I'd just be, like, checking all of the doors to all of the rooms. I've stolen from way more places. On eBay, and then just, like, give all the money away, help someone pay their rent. Like, I would have been a problem on this phone. But, like, pulling out, like, the orca signal and, like, pointing it directly into the water. Like, I would have been a major fucking problem. So, I don't know.

Not sick for me, personally. What's that high-pitched squeal that she's making into the water? Don't ask. Don't ask about that. It's fine. Do more drugs. Do more drugs. Two more drugs.

This is going to really freak you out when you're on LSD and the orcas finally attack. They can smell it. They can smell the LSD through the whole of the boat into the fruit. Oh, my God. Orcas love LSD. They can't get enough of it. Their whole world's one big acid trip, those stupid fish. I will, I will admit that I'm a little hostile to this because.

I'm fucking a hater and I'm jealous and like I just am not on my grind set hard enough and like I wish I could have been there you know yeah dude one of these days I'll taste what a true daquery taste like in the mouth of Tom Brady that makes it sound like I want him to baby bird it to me yeah I was gonna which is fine and that's how they drink there's no straws they have to regurgitate food to one another just so it doesn't get contaminated by the upper middle class I feel like that was the Epstein thing. I don't know if that was this yacht specifically. You're right. I get confused. I confuse these two things all the time. It's easy to do.

We have no glasses on this, on this island. All drinks are mixed in mouths and regurgitated between guests. Tori, such a pleasure having you as always on the Daily Zeitgeist. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff. Yeah, definitely. I have some podcasts that I I do. You can find me there. White homework that I do with Benjamin Faye. We talk about collective liberation, anti-racism, and then I do a podcast called Go Home Bible You're Drunk with Justin Gentry. And we talk about what it's like to survive all of the fascism when you grew up in all of the pre-fascism of just really hyper-conservative evangelism. So, yeah, I'm on blue sky occasionally.

Sorry, glass.b e sky to social. It's usually where you can find me. So, yeah. Hell yeah. That's what I'm up to. Is there a work of media that you've been enjoying? You know, prop posted, I don't know if it was like a tweet or a thread or something. It just really spoke to me.

He goes, look, man, when speaking on black people, anything said after the blacks in your sentence will most likely make me want to punch you with the throat. The blacks is the road ends in 100 feet of your sentence. And I was like, yep, that is for me. My God. Prop is the best. Blake, where can people find you? Is there a work of media you've been enjoying?

People can find me at Blake Wexler on all social media. I'm going to be doing my reviews or end show in Philly on August 23rd. I'm going to be in Wilkesbury, Pennsylvania, doing stand-up August 29th to 30th. And then coming up, Asheville, Arkansas, Boston. I also posted a video where I accidentally offered to suck off an entire audience of Daily Zykeying members. So you can check that out on my Instagram. And then also, work of media. So this is not, if you're not a sports fan, you don't have to be a sports fan to enjoy this.

There is an announcer for the Phillies named John Kruk. And he is, I don't know if he's losing his mind or what's happening, but he starts rambling during like these broadcasts about the craziest stories like John Oliver did a segment on him where he started talking about like playing in a prison he's nuts so he had another one that happened the other night where this Instagram account it's called the Philly Fly FLY posted about it and he started talking about how you can just in the middle of a baseball game if you apply 25 pounds of pressure to a human ear you could rip it off someone's head He just started talking about that during a baseball game.

And then he was like, oh, I was at a museum and I learned it. And the other announcer goes, when were you at the museum? And the guy goes, what day is it? And he goes, it's Monday. And he goes, yesterday. He did. Like that does it matter. So the guy's completely losing it.

So, yeah, if you get a chance, you don't have to be a sports fan. You can just appreciate an old man slowly losing his mind during a baseball game. Hell, yeah. Amazing. That's great. Work of media. I've been enjoying a tweet from Demia diguibay at Electra Lemon on Twitter tweeted, oh, that trailer is bad.

The movie must not be good. You goon, you stooge, listen to yourself. A marketing team is trying to make your movie averse aunt buy a ticket, and you want to take them at face value. You are weak. You won't survive the winter. You should be put down like a dog. I won't say I fully agree.

I'm not going to fully endorse. that idea. But yeah, movie trailers are not always indicative of quality of a movie. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien on Blue Sky at Jack O'Bee, the number one. You can find us on Twitter and Blue Sky at Daily Zekegeist. We're at The Daily Zykegeist on Instagram. You can go to the description of this episode wherever you're listening to it.

And underneath the show description, you'll find the footnotes, which is where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode. We also link off to a song that we think you might enjoy. Super producer Justin is there a song that you think the people might enjoy Yeah this song has a big lo-fi sound that has like a slow tempo that makes a lot of space for It's gonna be home it's gonna be home no it's not gonna be that no I thought because it's low-fi No I mean no that that okay um it's no we can stop that um man you really threw me off there uh so this song has a slow tempo it

It has a lot of space for the dreamy chords and the silky vocals. Fittingly, it starts off with the sound of like a river or a creek in a forest or something because it really makes me feel like I'm floating in warm water. So this song is called Meeting Farrow by Jadu Heart, and you can find that song in the footnotes. The Daily Zikeis is a production of IHeart Radio for more podcasts from IHeart Radio. Visit the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That's going to do it for us this week.

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