The Daily Zeitgeist - Coyote vs. Trendme 8/31: The Pentagon, Freedom Fuel, Trump vs. Canada, Coyote vs. Acme

Episode Date: August 31, 2026

In this edition of Coyote vs. Trendme, Jack and Miles discuss their respective weekends, the Pentagon’s influencer psyop, an update on Freedom Fuel, Trump’s trade war with Canada (feat. Lake America), the release of ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Yeah, but you almost always, are you thinking about coming out of retirement? I keep reaching out. I keep reaching out to all of these major universities and letting them know that I still have four years of eligibility. Like I, I get all those, when I was on the practice squad for the Georgetown women's basketball team, that apparently like I had my lawyers look into it. That didn't count. I could still play for here. also I barely remember that because I was always so hungover but fun times great workout like oh man I hate posting that one sweaty hungover guy oh yeah they would fuck me up oh my god his

sweat just smells like a cork oh like not even in a bad way it's just so it's just authentically smells like a wine drenched yeah not even wine it's like that's like peaty It's peaty. That's pork I'm smelling. Oh, sorry. Yeah, I passed out face down in the bog last night, ladies. You're smelling the bog on me, I think. Passed out face down in a bog and didn't drown?

No, I just kind of absorbed the bog power. I breathe through my ass. A different kind of Wade Boggs. Yeah, yeah. Wade. I was doing a different, I was doing the Wade Boggs challenge. Which is apparently drinking. 24 beers like Wade Boggs did it when he was playing baseball.

But I thought it was, I got drunk and confused and thought it was wading through a literal bogs. Yeah. After 24 beers. Got that new cool song I wrote, Wade in the Bogger. Wade in the bog and then people didn't like it, but that was a good song. Just picturing Jack, like, singing a spiritual. just run my running stream of consciousness hungover commentary the whole time

is he coming a Negro spiritual Wade Boggs did once claim he downed over a hundred beers on a flight from Boston to L. yeah that's a classic it's like the only thing I want to 100 beers what why why did you have a crazy clue beers on an airplane. Isn't that all the beer on an airplane?

I know, right? It's like, dude, you drink literally all, we only bring a hundred beers on there. There's not that much room to store cans of beer on a plane. Are there eyewitnesses or is this just him, you know, being like,

I drink a hundred beers on an airplane? I mean, Andre the Giant definitely did. Well, yeah, because like, well, there was like,

there was like, there was also that one restaurant tab. He ran up. Yeah. Like, Andre the Giant. Yeah, like those are at least,

those are documented. Yeah, like someone could be like, you know, no, I was there. I wonder if like someone's... They were bringing him beers on a forklift, you know? Yeah. Like, that's... Yeah, you need a forklift to wait on that full. Like, that's their...

Claiming to have drank 107 beers as a normal, sized human, seems like it might be an exaggeration. But it's such a funny thing to claim. Like, that is some Uncle Rico shit to the... Like, yeah, I drank 107 beers on a single flight. Three... How many hours that?

Like, five, six, six, hours. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Between that's like a five, five hours. So that's, by the way,

Logan to LA. Somewhat, it's so funny in the Red Sox subreddit, someone said, hey guys, we all know Wade Boggs, the legendary drinker. And he said,

I had the pleasure of sitting next to Wade Boggs at a bar. Yeah, I was reading the same thing and he claims that he, he was like, he would actually leave 20%

left in the bottle. So like he wasn't actually finished. Which this was two years ago. So Wade Boggs is still fucking crushing it. Like, still, it's funny.

Is he still crushing it or he's still haunted by something he hasn't dealt with quite yet? That's 1,200 ounces of beer. If he drank 100 beers on one. Like, wouldn't that kill you? Like that, that would definitely kill you, right?

Unless, like, he has some weird. That's 75 pounds. I just have to call bullshit. beer. An adolescent-sized human body worth of beer. I'm starting to think bullshit too, because where is that going? Like, you're literally getting on the plane and then getting off 75 pounds heavier unless

you're doing a lot of pissing. Oh, the pissing must have been absurd. Like, he must have just stayed pissing. Like, it must have been like an actual fountain. Yeah, just like not. Extra large, hefty bag catheter. Yeah, stood at the toilet while drinking the 100 beers. Anyways, don't try that.

That's my takeaway from this. I would not recommend anyone do the Wade Boggs Challenge unless it's wading in an actual bog. There's no shortcut for saving time. But saving money is simple. Just combine your car and home insurance with Bel Air Direct and save. Get a quote at bellairdirect.com. I'm Mungesha Together and I'm back with a new season of the podcast Skyline Drive.

This time I'm diving into a rabbit hole of peptides, organoids, blood boys, blue zones, and brain replacement to try to understand what this longevity obsession is all about and what it really means to live forever for all of us. I learned about some rad science. I can make a brain for you and then we can test what draw is the best for your brain. That's incredible. As opposed to his brain. Here's some hard truths. I would expect Indians to age faster, but I did not expect it to be almost a four to five year acceleration.

And get myself into a world of trouble. I'd say probably start bone smashing. That doesn't work. Make it look more defined. They say it works. I don't know. Listen to Skyline Drive, How to Live Forever on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,

or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, this is Hayes Davenport. And Sean Clements. We host the podcast Hollywood Handbook on the Big Money Players Network. Our show is extremely accessible to first-time listeners. Each week, we talk to someone in show business, aka the biz, and try to help them with their careers and see what they have to offer us. Everyone has a good time, and no one gets mad at their publicists for letting them do our show.

We've had a lot of great guests like Sarah Sherman. Not that great. Actually, can you help me shape this? How about we flip an arm's head? How about we flip the script? What is the surprise woman? Actually, you think is the straight man is actually the one who's acting weird. Adam Scott, this entire time you've been expecting Adam Sandler to come to visit the show.

I would never expect. I would never set expectations for something like that to happen. If the universe allows for something like that to happen, I'm open to it. I'm always going to accept. You know, Danny McBride, fine. Yeah, it's all this fragile masculinity exuding. I could smell it walking down the hallway, to be honest with you. I was like, is that weed?

Nope, it's fragile masculinity. Ben Stiller, no. Because a lot of times out of context, people don't get it or even know what a circle is. You know what I mean? They're like, oh, I go watch a state. Everyone's so dumb. And fake. Right, fake.

And also not interesting. or just like, oh, I've got my life. I don't care about your life. And a lot of other big shots that wouldn't be where they are without us. Oh, and by the way, Will Ferrell told us personally he loves the show and he wants to be a guest on every episode, but he's just so busy. Listen to Hollywood Handbook on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. If your bookshelf and your for you page are equally important to your personality, welcome home. This is Pros Society.

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When I was 14 years old, I was kidnapped and held captive for nine months. I survived and I've spent my... life exploring how other people survive what should have destroyed them. I'm Elizabeth Smart, and these are the survivor files. I just remember this low, taunting voice next to my ear saying, shut up, don't say anything. Every week, I'm with survivors who lived through the unthinkable. I knew if he woke up, without a doubt, he was going to hurt me. I started feeling that there was someone at the end of my bed. and I just started screaming. They are abducted, stalked, controlled, and nearly silenced.

But these aren't stories about what's taken from them. There's stories about what it takes to make it out alive. Listen to the Survivor Files with Elizabeth Smart on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, the internet and welcome to this week trend edition of Do you know he's like guys. Wee. Uh, we.

My name is Jack O'Brien. That over there is Mr. Miles Gray. Hey. Coming out of retirement. Yeah. I decided coming out of retirement. They said his workouts have been crazy. Is this a story outside of Los Angeles?

Aaron Donald coming out of retirement? It was, it was a national headline, which is why I even bothered to ask. I was like, is this good that he's coming out of retirement as someone who is notoriously. ignorant about most things NFL after 1998. Yeah. He's a, yeah, it's at least interesting. It'll be interesting to see

because he was so good. So top of his form, Aaron Donald, when he retired, and he's been out for three years, but people say he's still in tip top. Tip-topper. My name is Jack O'Brien. We said that. This is the episode where we tell you what was trending over the weekend. What is

trending on this Monday morning? But first, We like to let you get to know us a little bit better by telling you some things we think are underrated, some things we think are overrated. Miles, what's something you think is underrated? Underrated how kids nickname, kids make up names for things that end up, it's underrated how a kid's imagination can also end up becoming up with a curse word or something I wouldn't say in public a lot. the thing being So Her Majesty Like went on a trip to visit a friend

And like brought back the guy's child Like a little like a school bus toy Sure And he he was playing with it And he started calling it bussy Bussey Yeah And

I was like the first I was like Wait what? Say it again Say it again He's like yo where's my bussy Okay Your buddy was like Oh that's a fun name

He's like yeah This is Buzzie And he's like, because that's different than there's school bus. You can't not react to that. You're not. And also, I'm not trying to like. You're not made of steel. I'm not showing my hand to him either.

I don't want him. I'm not trying to be like, yo, what do you call that shit? I was like, oh, yeah, okay, that's bussy. Uh-huh. And what else is going on with that? And I was laughing. So I turned around and started laughing. And which made him more curious.

He's like, why are you laughing? And I'm like, I was like, no, sorry, I was thinking. And I just had to do the thing that you do as a parent where you just have to make up some outland. Like, oh, sorry, I was thinking of a thing that uncle Jeremy said, like, on the phone last week made me funny. That made me laugh. Don't worry, it's not doing bussy.

Anyways, keep telling me about the bussy. Yeah, dude. Just, that's crazy, bro. The people can go in and out of the back. Yeah. And then just like being like, what's wrong with me? I'm a fucking adult. But it just so funny.

I just got. the biggest kick out of this organic as well you should of the toy. That means you're alive. And then I started laughing because then I had to show her majesty the meme that Chris Crockton loves

which says oh hell no, they burn in sponge pops pussy when it was like the Macy's Day float that had the flame in the back. And I was then explaining to her that Chris Crofton loves, like I just was connected to someone. It was connected to

so many things I just kept laughing about. But anyway, shout out SpongeBob. Children, real, you know, random thought generators. They're great. Great for content, these fucking kids. I'll tell you what, man. Yeah, exactly. All right, my underrated, I'm carrying this over from the Garfield Notebook dump.

You missed the Garfield episode. You were out of town. But my underrated is the state of Indiana during the 1980s, which is something that this Garfield episode revealed to me. So I was talking about, so Jim Davis caught proud Indiana, Indianian, Indianian.

So is David, he went to college with David Letterman at Ball State in Indiana. And David Letterman is from Indianapolis. And then we were talking in the Madonna episode about how Michael Jackson was born in India. Gary, yeah. Gary, Indiana.

So I'm just like, wow, Indiana was like holding down the 80s. They had Letterman who, like the Letterman show that was like this cutting edge comedy thing, like debuted 1980. Thriller came out, 84 becomes the bestselling album of all time. Garfield fucking explodes. Like it starts in 80 or it starts in 78. And like by 81, it's like seven of the 10 books on the best sellers list.

It's crazy how much people fucked with Garfield. So then I was thinking about it during the notebook dump. And I was also like, oh shit, like John Cougar Mellencamp was like the Springsteen for Indiana too. Yeah. Herzel go, Jack and Diane Pink Houses. Like these are popular song like number one hits that are like portraits of life in Indiana. Axel Rose was from Indiana who locked down the late 80s with Paradise City. and then Blake in our conversation talked about how

Bobby Knight and Indiana University basketball was like dominant in 81 to 87 and I started thinking about that. He also coached Michael Jordan to gold medal in 84. Started thinking about that and then I was like oh shit Larry Bird. Right. French Lick.

The most associated with a state that I have for a basketball, professional basketball player. And it was like Bird versus Magic was like the entire. entire 80s. It was like a crazy. And then the movie Hoosiers came out in the 80s and is like, you know, a favorite of, of people who are like, Larry Bird and the Hoosiers guy play basketball the right way. If you know what I'm saying. So screaming. A Christmas story said in Indiana.

The thing that really, that I was like, oh shit, Indiana Jones comes out in the 80s and is called Indiana for no fucking reason. Right. whatsoever. And then, so after I recorded, I couldn't, like, I kept thinking about Indiana shit that happened in the 80s. The Lou Holtz and Notre Dame was like a big deal in the 80s. But the thing that really, uh, that I wanted to add to my Indiana was the center of the world during the 80s is that stranger things. I feel like a show that was supposed to be emblematic of the entire decade of the 80s. And like, I feel like that's the one thing they absolutely do nail is like their ability to like really, you know, nail the essence of the 80s.

Right. Is also set in Indiana. So, like, it's like people know something about the 80s and Indiana or like people in the 80s were like, yeah, fucking India. What's going on? You just name your character, Indiana, and you got a hit on your hands. It's fucking weird. He was just going to be called Eric Jones, but then they're like, just what about Indiana?

Yeah, yeah, okay. Soy random. Yeah, and I have no good explanation, which is why I like it. It's because it, like, doesn't make any sense. It's just, like, randomly everything was coming out of the, you know, 38th largest state in the country. I love a shit like that where you, like, can't explain exactly why it is, but it's just like, yeah, the zeitgeist, there's something happening on a deeper level that, you know,

we can't put words to that for whatever reason. Yeah, for whatever reason everyone's like. center of the universe. Yeah, the center of the universe is this random state above, above Kentucky. What is something you think is overrated miles? Overrated traditional elder care, you know, taking your elderly loved ones to like a convalescent home, assisted living center, because you got Costco. And that's what I want to point out.

Every time I go to Costco, it's my favorite thing to see. the old discarded family members in the furniture section where they're like, you wait here, we're going to go shopping, you just disassociate, look into the middle distance with these eight other elderly people who are on this sectional couch with you

that are also in a similar situation. Just playing bridge. There's something amazing about like every time, every time. And this must, I'm wondering if this has to be a universal constant, because when you're shopping at Costco, you're typically buying in volume or something

because you're, you're paying that unit price. You want that unit price to come down. Oh, yeah. And though, so I always see like big family outings, but it's just like there's something about just this, these cozy sections in the middle part of Costco

where there's a ton of furniture. There's a bed if you even want to lay down shit. Yeah. Just lay down. Test that out for two to three hours. Yeah. But I think there's just something. there's something great. I don't know, there's something like heartwarming to me

because it reminds me of like when I used to take my grandma to the grocery store, but she was sold. You're like, oh, just sit here by the flowers. Yeah. Like, because we want to get you out of the house. Yeah. But like, you're not going to... You're not going to do the, you know, like the 45 minute walk around and put you in this. It's like, sit right there and enjoy.

So, you know, take your family to Costco. There's food around. There's plenty of people. Someone's going to have an eye on them. Yeah, drop by every couple hours. some free samples for them. But yeah, you know, you know what I mean? Armful of like little mini hot dogs, whatever they got out on that little hot plate, go out there.

But Costco, I honestly think you might have a new business model you can tap into. I could definitely see them doing like end of life. That's a thing that happens in, I think, the last season of succession, right? Where they're like, we're going to pivot to end of life care. Oh, yeah. Like city of the future for the elderly. Well, yeah, because you're going to pivot to end of life care. people just, they're like, oh, here's an entire market that's about to just emerge all at once

in the next right now to 10 years from now. But yeah, I just, I love the, I just love the, there's an honesty about all of the old people who are just left there while their family shop and they're just, they're not even using phones, they're not even reading. They're just like purely on pause just right there. Yeah. Love to see it. You can watch the, whatever, whatever they're showing on the TV displays and the TV. section. The one that I go to, the TVs are kind of often another. So, like, too far away. They're challenged inside their own heads. Yeah. Comfortably. Yeah. Comfortably, but, yeah, well, you know, depends on. Yeah. I'm trying to put a positive spin on it when I see it.

Late stage capitalism. I can't afford the end of life care, but I can't afford this cost co-card. And I can't afford to let you sit on this wonderful, uh, goddamn. That's comfy. Is this micro-swe? Wow. It's vegan, huh? Okay. Shit breathes. All right. My overrated, also kind of related to the elderly,

is Blue Zones, which is a thing that I totally fell for. You know, it's a fairly straightforward premise. It's funny. I didn't have this myth busted for me until, I'm not joking, 10 days ago. Oh, really? When I was on my trip and a friend brought up,

they're like, you know, blue zones are bullshit, right? I was like, what? No. No. No. I saw so many infomercials about people in the Blue Zones diet, and that's how they live forever. So the three famous ones are Sardinia, Okinawa, and Loma Linda in California. And I lived in Loma Linda for about a month and a half.

Well, my wife was doing a medical rotation. And so I thought that that was going to convey on me. I was like, well, that month and a half didn't count. Well, you didn't age for sure. Yeah, I did not age. So there's a book by a fucking statistician, boo, called Morbid Debunking Modern Longevity Science. Boo.

It's an Oxford researcher named Saul Justin Newman. And he is looking into, like, a lot of these cases where people will be like, this person lived to 116. What's their secret? And both in the individual cases and in the blue zone cases, he's like, usually their secret is they don't have a birth certificate. And so they're able to just say however old they want to be. And the media is like, oh, hell yeah, we got a story, folks. And I respect my elders.

Yeah. Hell of you. I don't know. I got to be like 105 at this point. He was 88. But he looks into blue zones. And so it started with a statistician looking at. into the fact that they're like more 100 year olds in Sardinia than other places.

And I didn't read the book, I read a New Yorker summary of the book. And they don't get into any debunking of Sardinia. So that one might be valid. But what happens, how it goes from this one place seems to have like very long-lived people who more frequently than others make it to 100. How it goes from that to like, there are certain regions in the world that have this magical property was a National Geographic article that came out the next year.

It was like, okay, well, how about we build on that? Let's turn this thought-out statistical research into a BuzzFeed article, the print journalism equivalent of a BuzzFeed article. And the author of that NatGeo article trademarked the term, started suing people if they sold

anything that had mentioned blue zones. So made millions of dollars issuing municipalities blue zone stamps of approval, went on to write like bestselling books about blue zones, offer cooking classes, speaking fees, found a company that made millions of dollars. And yeah, it's just, you know, the way that shit in America works, where it's just like there's money to be made. And so we will exploit a loophole. But in terms of the writing of the art,

article. Loma Linda was included because his editor was like, we got to have an American one or like this thing's not, and people aren't going to give a shit. Oh my God. That's how they ended. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, I think Loma Linda is slightly, like, has elevated, uh, length of life, but

it's not like this magical place where everybody's 100 years old. It's a place where, you know, due to the, it's seventh day event. and so they're all vegetarians, so that can be helpful. But Okinawa is wild because I didn't realize this. So it says, among Japanese

prefectures, Okinawa ranks first in consumption of KFC and lasting consumption of seafood, sweet potatoes, and leafy greens. Its residents have Japan's highest average body mass index, more than a third of Okinawa men's smoke.

And some books about Blue Zones encourage people to drink two glasses of red wine a day, but Okinawans drink like tons of beer. Yeah. And so... Odeon. Yeah. And so they were like, so I don't know, I guess you got to eat KFC smoke and drink beer. And they think that it goes back to the fact that there was a devastating American bombing campaign

during the Second World War that destroyed the infrastructure and all its civil records. And so... Jesus Christ. So it was just like, I don't know, man. vibes-based record-keeping. It just has fewer civil records and birth certificates for people who are currently hitting this age. And then there's also the fact that people can't, you can collect money like at a certain

age in various, like in various countries. He tells the story that I think I remember from the news that they went in Japan on the respect for the aged day in 2010. Japanese officials went to the home of a Tokyo man to congratulate him on living to 111, and they found a mummified corpse in his bedroom, and he'd been dead for three decades, and his family had just been collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars in pension money. Hold on, let me check on him really quick. Yeah, he's all right.

He's good. He's doing all right. Which also does put the Mitch McConnell thing into perspective. Like, you can pull that shit off for a while. I remember, I think like a year or two ago, we talked about a lady who brought in a corpse on a wheelchair to sign a check at a bank. Yeah. And then they're like, lady, this is a dead body. This is not a sleepy man.

This is a corpse. Oh, man. My birthday is respect for the elderly day. Oh, really? September 15th, yeah. God damn. That's why you've always respected the elders and brought them to Costco. And I deny them the piece of.

of being laid to rest and just doing social security scams. That's right. Yep. Yep. Yep. But yeah, I don't know. But that totally got my ass. I was like,

I got to live like the people in Loma Linda and Okinawa to eat this KFC. Shout out Young Brands. Yeah, exactly. But to have a new zone with me, how'd this guy eat all this Taco Bell and live to 48? The Wade Boggs zone. people are able to drink over a hundred beers. They're saying it's like,

it's kind of like his hitting map where it's like you don't want to pitch to Wade Boggs in the Wade Boggs zone. But then you map that over Earth. These are the spots you want to live. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back.

We'll talk about some news. We'll be right back. There's no shortcut for saving time. But saving money is simple. Just combine your car and home insurance with Belair Direct and save. Get a quote at bellair direct.com. I'm Mungeshit Together and I'm back with a new season of the podcast Skyline Drive.

This time I'm diving into a rabbit hole of peptides, organoids, blood boys, blue zones and brain replacement to try to understand what this longevity obsession is all about and what it really means to live forever for all of us. I learned about some rad science. I can make a brain for you and then we can test what draw is the best for your brain. A suppose to his brain. Here are some hard truths. I would expect Indians to age faster, but I did not expect it to be almost a four to five year acceleration. And get myself into a world of trouble.

I'd say probably start bones smashing. That doesn't work. To make it look more defined. They say it works. I don't know. Listen to Skyline Drive, How to Live Forever on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

When I was 14 years old, I was kidnapped and held captive for nine months. I survived, and I've spent my life exploring how other people survive what should have destroyed them. I'm Elizabeth Smart, and these are the Survivor Files. I just remember this low, taunting voice next to my ear saying, shut up, don't say anything. Every week, I'm with survivors who live through the unthinkable. I knew if he woke up, without a doubt he was going to hurt me. I started feeling that there was someone at the end of my bed, and I just started screaming. They are abducted, stalked, controlled, and nearly silenced.

But these aren't stories about what's taken from them. There's stories about what it takes to make it out alive. Listen to the Survivor Files with Elizabeth Smart on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, wherever you get your podcasts. If your bookshelf and your for-you page are equally important to your personality, welcome home. This is Prose Society, the weekly podcast that's part book club, part group chat for thought daughters, pop culture obsessives, and anyone who thinks pride and prejudice and love island

deserve the same level of discourse. I'm Eli Rallo and every week we're connecting the dots between books, the internet, and the conversations everyone can't stop having. I'm going to have to look up this story. I'm obsessed. I'm obsessed. From bestselling authors and your favorite book talk creators to the latest pop culture moments, nothing is off the table. It's like if you can hide some real messages inside compelling characters, then that is a Trojan horse. Whether you're looking for literary deep dives, smart pop culture conversations, or a community of readers who love to think a little too much, you're in the right place.

Listen to pro society on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. See you between the pages. Hey, this is Hayes Davenport. And Sean Clements. We host the podcast, Hollywood Handbook on the Big Money Players Network. Our show is extremely accessible to first-time listeners. Each week, we talk to someone in show business, aka the biz, and try to help them with their careers and see what they have to offer us.

Everyone has a good time, and no one gets mad at their publicists for letting them do our show. We've had a lot of great guests like Sarah Sherman. Not that great. Actually, can you help me shape this? How about we flip it on his head? How about we flip the script? What is the surprise woman?

Actually, you think is the straight man is actually the one who's acting weird. Adam Scott, this entire time you've been expecting Adam Sandler to come to visit the show. I would never expect. I would never set expectations for something like that to happen. If the universe allows for something like that to happen. I'm open to it. I'm always going to accept. You know, Danny McBride, fine.

Yeah, it's all this fragile masculinity. Exuding. I could smell it walking down the hallway, to be honest with you. I was like, is that weed? Nope, it's fragile masculinity. Ben Stiller, no. Because a lot of times, out of context, people don't get it or even know what a circle is.

You know what I mean? They're like, oh, what's a state. Everyone's so dumb. And fake. Right. fake and also not interested or just like, oh, I've got my life, I don't care about your life.

And a lot of other big shots that wouldn't be where they are without us. Oh, and by the way, Will Ferrell told us personally, he loves the show and he wants to be a guest on every episode, but he's just so busy. Listen to Hollywood Handbook on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back.

We're back. Hey, and speaking of media scams. Yeah. We're learning that the Pentagon, I mean, we kind of had a sense that the Pentagon was colluding with right-wing influencers when they were, when they, their entire press corps became comprised of right-wing influencers. Yeah, there's like the one guy in the clan outfit, um, with the all overprint American flag clan costume. There was, uh, Laura Lumer, you know, just all, all kinds of really fun people who,

top not. I'm joking about the clan person, but it feels like a real character that we would eventually seen this idioticry that that was somebody who would be. It's just so funny. You see that press pool? It's just a guy in American flag KKK out for like Mr. Secretary, Secretary, oh yes, yes. People are asking why you're so

based. Um, so anyway, I assumed that that was happening at a like production level like a oh well that we're giving them access and that's all journalists seek is access. I did not know that they were on the fucking payroll.

Yeah, well there's definitely some we have now found are just straight up like their employees of the Pentagon. And it's funny too because like right wing pundits like they always love to call people feds. They're like, no, that guy's not a real. That guy's a fed. He's like, he's

not a real republic. He's a maga. That guy's a fed. The government's making do that. Like, well, shit. Every accusation can be a confession because the Washington Post revealed that Pete Hegseth is employing these pundits to push his agenda in public.

against this backdrop right now, right? We're like, Iran just struck some more military infrastructure. And now Trump is like, we're going to hit back. We're continuing to spiral downward in this failed military campaign. So, yeah, it makes sense that he wants to pay people to get out there and be like, hey, man, like, talk up, like, how I'm good. And like, this is all necessary. This is from the Washington Post. Quote, the Pentagon has secretly installed several conservative military veterans with large

online followings in government roles declining to disclose their assignments as they amplified Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's viewpoints and attacked those who scrutinized the administration. At least some of the influencers have been assigned to civilian roles that could lead to changes in policy. Neither the Pentagon nor those involved have disclosed the government roles, despite the Trump administration's claims that they are running the most transparent defense department ever. Some of these people like I've heard, like not really heard of, because I'm not on military Twitter that much. One guy, this guy, Kurt Schlictor,

he is like a retired military, Air Force colonel, or Army colonel. And he is always out here saying wild, just nonsense stuff. He's like, when Scalia died, he's like, there's going to be a civil war because Scalia's dead.

And last week, against, you know, all the talk about the trade war with Canada, he decided to anthropomorphize Canada in an op-ed where he said that, hey, Canadians need to submit to Trump in the trade war because we're better. And he also said, if Canada were a woman, she would be a, quote, fugly, sexually dysfunctional wine woman with a hate has no home here sign on the front lawn of the condo. It shares with five cats, all named after characters in Twilight. Americans don't think much of

Canada, literally. Literally. We don't. think of you. Anyway, so this is, yeah, these are the kinds of just, you know, galaxy-brained rhetoricians they've got on the, on the payroll now. I like that his like wild, you know, anthropomorphization of, like, the worst thing he can imagine is somebody with a hate has no home here. Yeah. It's, because they're all, they're so, like, just not in the real world anymore.

everything reflexively is like, it's like a lib woman. Right. That's the worst thing you could be. A woman with cats and you, you don't think hate has any place in our society. Oh, so what is the, it's like,

I'd prefer a man who says hate fucking lives here with a bunch of dogs that he feeds Miller Light. That's America. That's what I'm talking about. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Pentagon has said, that this is all, they accuse the post of leaking classified information. That's what they do every time.

They say this is bullshit and also how you get this classified information. Also, this is illegal. Yeah. And also, you're not allowed to have this information that is classified and also totally not true. How did you get this fake information? How'd you get this fake information that you're not allowed to have because it's, you're not allowed to have it? I did have the question, and this is just an indication of where we're at.

I was like, damn, is the Washington Post allowed to say that? Right, yeah. That person going to get in trouble. Are you fired, dude? Oh, you're getting fired for doing journalism. Trouble, dude. You can't do journalism like that. Not there, dude.

You ain't on substack? God damn. I think that's where they kind of, you know, they still do have people doing journalism. I'm sure they just have to be like, look, man, okay, you can't do like another piece like that for like six months. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They just do the, they launder the, they're, Trump bait the like Trump-pleasing articles through the op-ed section. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

And stuff too, like where they might, it's easier to go after people in the cabinet than full frontal attack on Trump and just be more like, Pete Hags out's doing what? All right. We have an update on the story of freedom fuel. Yeah. Which, as we covered, gas prices have not gone down as promised. in the in the aftermath of the aftermath yeah that you know once trump got his sweet ceasefire that uh never happened uh and in fact they've gone up except for in one place uh where they sell

freedom fuel is it are they still doing the same pricing based on like trump like 47 uh it's just lower it's i know they're just keeping it on average it's the cheapest fuel around if you're in Pennsylvania or New Jersey. Just like the two states where these things exist. New Jersey, where you can't even pump your own gas, they make somebody pump it for you. That's how expensive the gas is in New Jersey. I mean, I think the second this story came out,

everyone's first question was like, okay, who the fuck owns this? And then we're like, okay, we're connected to it. A billionaire trying to do favors for Trump in like that lines. Yeah. And another dude who like owned some gas stations again with connections to Trump world. The second part was like, where the fuck are they getting this gas on the cheap? Or are they

just their self-owning by completely saying like, all right, we'll eat this dear leader for a, you give us some kind of sweet deal down the road. Well, a new lawsuit may help answer that. Oil supplier Mansfield Oil Company, this is from the New Republic, sued a company that provided gas to freedom fuel, KRS Inc. for acquiring over 1.1 million gallons of fuel, worth about $4 million without paying for it. According to the lawsuit, KRSM hadn't paid for the fuel as of August 17th, despite getting the fuel from Mansfield between May 21st and July 7th, which lines up to when we saw the freedom fuels even be unveiled by Trump around 4th of July.

KRSM sold a, quote, portion of the fuel that acquired to freedom fuel stations. We don't know how big a portion that is, but Mansfield alleges in the lawsuit that KRS sold discounted fuel to freedom fuel and was able to, quote, garner such publicity because he quote, never paid for it. Oh, that's a good way to do it. How, like I haven't been trying that because I've been paying like I've been getting gas that's very expensive in my non-electric vehicle. Wait, you paying for it? So yeah, yeah, yeah, I was paying for it. That's your problem. You're paying for it. No, no, no, no, no, just steal it. Just don't pay for it. Just don't. This, this one, trick they don't want you to know.

We did. When we were talking about this before, we were like, yeah, you know, it's probably some sort of quid pro quo where like the person, they got a wealthy investor to like pay for all the money or pay for all the gas up front and then like they're getting some payoff down the line. But then

we were also like, that does seem like a little bit too sophisticated for Trump. Like there's got to be something else like very very stupid. Like it. Yeah. his schemes tend to be much stupider than that. Yeah, it's steal the gas. Yeah, it's just don't never pay for it.

Don't pay for it. And then ask for him to bail you out. Yeah, which, yeah, yeah. I think maybe that's, I think that's probably what happens, right? They go, oh, Mr. President, Mansfield oil is real. They keep talking about how we stole the gas, you know? Like the thing you told us to do, like what did he did? They'll be fine.

We'll just, I'll stop it. Don't worry. Just keep on, freedom. Freedom that fuel. So the freedom fuel was free to the... Yeah. To the owners. Very revolutionary, you know?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. In many ways. Absolutely. Hell yeah, dog. All right. And speaking of Donald Trump, he does have the way to get, you know, we've been talking about how data centers have become very unpopular and everyone's mad at them. You know, thanks to...

We were talking last week about how... a lot of the backlash against data centers, which bring nobody any benefits except for the billionaires who are building them, how the entire, all the negative feelings about those are being seated in the American public by a Chinese propaganda campaign. Yeah, yeah, it has to be. Was their theory of the case? Anyways, Donald Trump has a solution. He's figured out how to pitch this stuff, baby.

I just, I wasn't sure how the senile bastard was going to pull off a rhetorical masterstroke and convince Americans that shitty data centers are good and needed. But he's only gone and done it, Jack. He posted on truth. Oh, nah. Hell no, man. He said, this is what he said, and done it. Quote, the only reason that communities throughout the USA should not want data centers is if they want to end up being backwards and poor. If they want to be successful and rich, with far lower taxes and jobs all over the place, let data rain.

The good news is that there are plenty of other places that want them. If we kill the golden goose, you will only have yourselves to blame. China could not be happier with this anti-Data Center movement. Actually, they can't believe it is happening, President EJT. Yeah, I mean, yeah, I know China. seems to be fine with their own policy of not needlessly wasting water to fire up the meme maker machines. Yeah. They have fewer data centers.

They have like, you know, hundreds of data centers instead of thousands. And they aren't racing to build more. So it could be that they're just like jealous of how awesome we are building data centers for billionaire funding. or it could be that this country that has an advantage when it comes to robotics seems to be catching up an AI while spending way less money, has the ability to do whatever the fuck they want because they're not governed by public opinion, which is bad, but they're not. They're just like, yeah, we'll build data centers if we want to. Oh, you don't want that? Get fucked. We'll disappear you and you won't even show up on Google image search anymore. kind of like 80s boomer mentality.

It's like, oh, well, well, you're against data centers? Well, China loves that. So I hope you're happy. Yeah, it's the Russia. It's the Cold War thing. What are you fucking talking about, bro? What kind of just you're dusting off dumbass, synophobic takes just to get people to be like, fucking kill your own land with the data center because China, you'll make your own China.

We're going to be so rich. Get in loser. We're going to be so rich. Unless you want to be backwards and poor. Hanging out, eating at the table with the kids playing magic the gathering like a loser. If we kill the goose, you'll only have yourself. It's interesting, though, too, because now it's clear it's gotten to Trump to the point where he's like, what the fuck? People are really pushing back against this?

Like, and they're winning? Okay, that's it. Guys, look, if we kill the golden goose, you're only going to have yourselves to blame here. So he's on some level, he's really acknowledging that the influence of residents being up in arms by having these nonsensical facilities near them. Just explain like what, so show us in the data centers that have been built so far how it has improved the communities that are around it. Yeah. Made everything better for them. We'll wait right here. How am I supposed to be successful and rich when I'm so fucking sleep deprived from the sound of a data center next to my head? Well, you'll get a good paying minimum wage job, dumping water on the data centers, maybe.

I don't know. We probably don't need you to do that. But yeah, it's just China does not have a government where the main incentive is trying to find ways to funnel money to rich people. This is a great way to funnel money to rich people. 100%. Therefore, it is proliferating in the United States until people push back and stop it from happening. otherwise it'll keep happening, but other countries where that is not

what the government is designed to do. The government is not a wealth redistribution machine for like distributing money upward. Like they don't need these things that are just, don't create jobs. Do wastewater. Do create noise pollution. Do harm the environment.

Yeah. They don't need them. Okay, well, it's not worth it to them. Name some of the benefits now, Jack. You keep harping on the cons. So, uh, data. I mean, data.

Data, you know? Like, so it's going to drive AI, uh, which is the future. Oh. I want to drive AI. Well, you can't do that. China has the ability to drive AI. We do not actually allow those cars to be sold here. Because now China's driving AI and you don't even get to sit shotgun.

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And we're back. We're back. And in keeping with speculation of how people are kissing Donald Trump's ass, we got over the weekend of an amazing example from Google, the former do-no evil. company that just one day quietly were like, sorry, we're, we're going to do a little evil.

That's not our motto anymore. You can't make your motto something like so easy to like agree with and then be, just erase it and not have that be suspicious as hell. But anyways, uh, Google, so Donald Trump in his trade war with Canada was like, we're changing Lake Ontario to Lake America.

And Google Maps just, jumped to it. Yes, sir. Yes, sir, Mr. Trump, sir. And for U.S. users on Google Maps, you will now see it as Lake America, baby. Oh, God. It feels like instantly shitty when I hear that name.

Lake America, I'm like, oh, that thing must be just filled with old diapers. The color just immediately changes to shit around. Right. As of Sunday, Bing Maps haven't made the switch. but are expected to possibly affecting tens of users. MapQuest also wants no part of this shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which this is actually wild to me.

Like, this is how our current system is set up where like, I remember at a time when people were like, well, it's good that these companies are so big because they can stand up to pressure from, you know, massive nations. And now it's that like the more power, the company, the less they are willing to say no to powerful, like, countries and other powerful people because they need to, like, stay in Trump's good graces, like, less he get mad at them and not continue to shower money on them. And so only, only a shit company that

nobody uses anymore is able to be like, hell no, man. Fuck that. We're MapQuest. We stand for something. Fuck that. Yeah. And I think, yeah, there's, uh, I forget who. There, They're pressuring Apple, too, to make sure they do it too. It's just, it's an all-out. I think they're all going to change except for MapQuest. But yeah, I mean, we've talked before about how Google Map. I think it was back when they changed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, that Google Maps looks different in different regions to, according to them, organize the world's information.

But I think they clearly rushed to appease Trump as quickly as. possible since even the government's geographic names information system database, which informs which these maps are pulling from, had yet to make the switch as of Sunday when they were like, yes, sir, here it is, sir. I do, this made me wonder. Like, I think we will, like, when there's finally good thorough reporting on this era of corporations, just, you know, doing what, whatever they can to appease Trump and make him happy and smile upon them because it is the thing that is financially best for them. I feel like they have to have anywhere from like a team to an entire department whose job is customer service specifically for one cut for Donald Trump. You know what I mean?

Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. ways to delight Donald Trump around the clock. Oh, yeah. All day.

You know, like, it, they, it would be the thing you would do if you were, like, serious about your bottom line and, like, the, looking at tariff rebates, like, that's the, this guy being an incompetent dip shit, uh, who favors corporations over everything else, like,

has made them. I think, I think I saw that it was like, responsible for like 3% of GDP growth over the, which there wasn't much to go around. So it's like the main driver of GDP growth in the last quarter was just tariff refunds to corporations. Yeah. I mean, this whole like the trade war too is such an underrated aspect. This is potentially going to have ramifications like on races in the midterms, which I think we'll talk about tomorrow's episode.

Yeah. But like, man, just even like the sentiment with Canadian consumers. Like, I totally get it. They're like, what the fuck is wrong with these people, man? Yeah. And like you, there was like a recent poll that was done with Canadian consumers. And some people were like, yeah, dude, like fuck anything with the, if it's, if it even looks like USA on there, like I'm fucking chucking it in the trash or taking it to return it

at the store. They just want to be states. They just want to be the 51st state. Exactly. That's all they want. Other people are a little more like news. nuance and they're like, well, like, you know, obviously like these companies that, the products that I enjoy and like the people that work there, I don't want to affect them. I'm like, oh,

please, you don't have to be so thoughtful and Canadian. Just go ahead and go ahead and skull fuck these these companies with your boycotts. But yeah, I mean, that's just like a huge thing. Like with the amount of trade that, you know, states like Michigan or Maine does and just making things harder and hostile and not thinking that's going to affect, you know, the standing of your party there. A bit stupid. A bit stupid. Yeah. But if anybody knows, if there's been reporting done on, like, how they approach these decisions and, like, who is, who's making the decisions to be like, like, who within Google is, like, guys, we have a golden opportunity to please, to please Herr Furer.

Right. Like, let's be the first to do this. even before he makes the official change in the database. Like I, yeah, I want to know. Yeah, I want to know what that looks like because it's got to be so pathetic, you know? Yeah, I mean, I'm sure it's the, that's like the one time the CEOs like know what they're doing. They're like, yeah, man, I don't worry, I got this man. I'll figure.

I know how to, I know how to please this tiny insignificant human. How do you think I got to where I am? Yeah. By pleasing billionaires. Like, I, I know. I know. This is, and it's easy. We don't have to think just the second he says,

I wish this happened. We're just going to do it. And then we're going to make a gold version of that and send it to him. So we just sent him a gold Lake America in that chain that he could just wear. And finally, Coyote versus Acme came out over the weekend, which is the, is like a space jam for legal thrillers.

It's a comedy. It's actually a comedy. This is the movie. that David Zazlov tried to kill off for tax purposes. Because of the sex scene, right? And he was like, guys, we're all going to look away.

You're all going to avert your eyes while I watch the sex scene over and over again. So there's no sex scene in this film. I will not, never not tell this story. If the opportunity comes up, there's a well-sourced story about David Zazlov,

you know, when he's taking over one of the streaming companies that he's overseeing. Fleabag is like one of their top movies. Or maybe it wasn't even theirs. But anyways, he's like, all right, guys, let's all watch Fleabag together.

And then pauses it because she's jacking off to Obama, I think, in the first scene. And he's like, all right. So here's the deal. We're either going to stop this or we're going to watch it. We're going to power through. And nobody looks at each other the whole time. Everyone's like, wait, what?

Oh, okay. And so he's like, and so we pressed play and powered through and nobody noticed that I was furiously jacking off the whole time. Like, what a weird thing to, what a weird rule to set down on, while watching something that has sexual content with other people?

Got some weird stuff going on for sure. I just need you to not look at me, okay? It feels like some shit you say like when you're like a pubescent boy, And like, you're like, oh, dude, this. Me and the boys are all watching porn together. Yeah, and you're like, what's going on? What are we doing together? Watching this grainy porn from someone's cable black box.

And I'm going to be like, all right, no one be weird as we all stare at porn and just still statues. I'm going to be behind these curtains poking my head out. I'm going to go take a bath. Anyways, it came out. and it did better than expected. Earned $15.4 million domestically, 23.9 worldwide, which it's directed by David Green,

who made Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles out of the shadows and written by the guy who wrote May December, or I don't know if it's a guy. Sami Birch, who wrote May December, and based on a story by James Gunn and Jeremy Slater. But it's got Will Forte, which any time a movie starts,

as Will Forte, I'm on board. Yeah, typically, you're going to have laughs. You're going to have some laughs, baby. Catchup Entertainment is the distributor. They paid $50 million for the rights. But Zazloff's tax write-off was $30 million, meaning that the movie has already come close to making the amount back that he was looking to get

from the tax write-off from actual paying customers, just if he had just, you know, gone forward with it and released it, he would have made more money. Well, it was just a better time to cut losses and anger people. Yeah. We did the Zazlavian takeover. The Zazalavian way. It's crazy how he's just basically with the Ellison's on the scene, he's been able to kind of like sort of enjoy a little bit of like obscurity at the moment. Yeah.

Because everyone's focused, even though he's part of that whole. take over of our news and cable and things like that, but he must be loving the lack of mentions. That's that he likes people not looking at him. Yeah. So this is actually, this is great for him. Don't look away.

Don't look at me. All right, guys, here's how we're going to play this. People are like, people are like, yeah, I was in a boardroom with him. He came in and said, all right, guys,

cards on the table. here's how we're going to play this. For the next hour and a half, you're going to negotiate with me, and you're not allowed to look at me. And no matter how weird the sounds are that are coming from under my desk, you're not allowed to look at me, okay? Right. And it was such an alpha move.

Anyways, the other big movie that came out that I was kind of intrigued by, it was this Ridley Scott post-apocalyptic thriller. The Dog Stars only brought in $8 million. on an estimated $70 to $110 million budget. It just looked like such a middle of the road. Like, it looked so basic post-apocalyptic, you know? Like, there wasn't any, I couldn't see anything in it that I was like, oh, this is adding a new, I guess the thing that it's adding is the person has a plane,

which is cool. But I get, you know, the first Mad Max movie has. a little flying helicopter thing. Yeah, I guess it's just like also the, when you look at the marketing materials, I'm like, dude, I don't know what the fuck this. Like it doesn't say anything to you where you go, oh, this is interesting.

It's like the same like, I don't know, it looks pretty bleak and pale wherever these guys are with a gun in tattered clothes. Is this, uh, is this somewhere in Indiana? I don't know. What are we looking at? If it's not Indiana, I'm out.

I'm out. But yeah, it's a shame. a shame. That also I knew nothing. I remember seeing the posters and always being like, is this a joke? Like what? The dog stars? I think that was also the title through me. I'm like, is there a dog in this? And the thing, I think it would have done probably not, not great, but it probably could have done fine if it got, if it came out and was like 100% on rotten tomatoes and people are like, oh, Ridley Scott's done it again. Right. But it came out and like, nobody really thought it was good. It's like in the 40s or 50s,

on Metacritic, and it might indicate that Ridley Scott, like, a thing that people like, did you watch Napoleon? No. Napoleon is like a very strange movie. Like Joaquin Phoenix is playing Napoleon and he's like kind of sleepy

the whole time. And it's like, it's kind of interesting, but it is also just a little bit like, what is what is happening here? It's very sleepy. And that's what what the reviews of this one are saying. Gladiator 2, not sleepy at that that movie was just crazy

ridiculous that was so ridiculous it was so ridiculous I could I could it was having trouble paying attention like tracking everything I was like what the fuck

yeah I think those are his two I think at this point you're either getting weirdly sleepy or like this shit is yeah like your brain on it goes house of Gucci

Napoleon gladiator to the dog stars it's like every other one he's he's doing one for them, as in like put them to sleep, and then one that is like a fever dream that I had. Right, right, right. Yeah.

Yeah. Anyway. All right, those are some of the things that are trending on this Monday, August 31st. 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 while you still can. Get your flu shots. Don't do nothing about white supremacy.

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