The Daily Zeitgeist - Deep Fried Trendz 10/21: Donald Trump, Arnold Palmer, McDonalds, Elon Musk, America PAC, 'American Psycho'

Episode Date: October 21, 2024

In this edition of Deep Fried Trendz, Jack and Miles discuss their respective weekends, Donald Trump's "closing arguments" on the campaign trail (featuring McDonald's employee cosplay and Arnold Palmer's huge dick?), Elon Musk's PAC paying Trump voters to register to vote, the upcoming remake of 'American Psycho' and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What do you think this world series is going to be like for the respective cities? Because now it's like a thing I've always fantasized about. I'm like Dodgers versus New York VLA. I would love to see that. It is the world series that I'm sure every advertiser on earth was praying for. Yeah. But every connoisseur of toxic masculinity is probably just licking their chops right now. They're very so far varying forms. I'm licking my chops. I'm licking chops so hard over here about this world series. It was so hard to watch it from the East Coast because like it starts at eight and like I'm already I'm already tired from being a parent and shit. So like even the adrenaline of watching like a you know pennant deciding game I was like

baseball is purely background noise for me even like at this point like I will put it on but I'm it's not ever going to be like we're staying up or we're like changing plans to do it. But I do find myself rooting for the Dodgers as you should. You know, I just want more dopamine in the general brain system. That's moving around Los Angeles. We need all the help we can get. I hope, I hope this just tears the country apart.

If I'm going to be honest, that's what I want that. I just want this to just reveal the civil war. Yeah. The election goes off fine. We don't even care about doesn't even fucking matter. They're like, right. Fuck. Yo, there's another cup. Yankees over there. Yeah. Nobody saw this shit coming. It's all about like different styles of baseball.

Or like, and they steal and move the runners along. Yeah. Oh, that's how you guys like to win. Oh, OK. I don't know. Stealing. Interesting. Stop the steal. Stop the steal. Shohei's on first. They're just screaming. Stop the steal. He's going for it. Hey, Matt. Are you ready to tell the readers about the extra special episode we have coming up?

Training. Yes. Exploring. I see. So, but you can do that kind of spooky scary. Well, yeah, but it's also because it's a ride. Yeah, I can go up and down on it. But you're in it, you know?

Yeah, exactly. You're in the spook. I think we have to let them in on our little surprise. Yeah, if you haven't already figured it out, can't believe this. Mariah Carey will be joining us this week. I say, oh, I want to go work with such and such from across town. Yeah, from across town. My girl across town.

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Elian. Elian. Elian. Elian Gonzalez. At the heart of the story is a young boy and the question of who he belongs with. His father in Cuba. Mr. Gonzalez wanted to go home, and he wanted

to take his son with him. Or his relatives in Cuba. Mr. Gonzalez wanted to go home, and he wanted to take his son with him. Or his relatives in Miami. Imagine that your mother died trying to get you to freedom. At the heart of it all is still this painful family separation. Something that as a Cuban, I know all too well. Listen to Chess Piece, the Elian Gonzalez story, as part of the My Cultura podcast network

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Yes. Whoa. Listen to the sonorous tones of one, Miles Gray. this week trend edition of their daily zeitgeist. Yeah. Oh, listen to the sonorous tones of one miles gray. Whoa, whoa. Do we do? Yes. Yeah, it's Monday. I'm just going to say a name like that.

And I'm here and I know you can hear it. I'm a little congested. I'm a little congested. The allergens on the East Coast, they kind of fuck with me. Like, I'm not going to lie. They hit different on the East Coast, man. The allergens. Wait till Coast they kind of fuck with me. I can make a different on the allergens Wait till we get to my underrated no joke the allergens on the East Coast hit different That was the first person ever because that one's actually true

The allergens do hit different on the East Coast. They fuck me up. Wait, really? Oh, you mean like I'm why I'm sure it's person-dependent I'm sure the other way people be like the fucking allergens in the West Coast or fucking me up an ecosystem Yeah, yeah, cuz I can't even handle the shit and like I've it's I have always fall allergies just in LA I mean now it's it's no different, but whatever it's not as bad not as bad This is the episode where we tell you some of the things that were trending over the weekend We also let you get to know us a little bit better by telling you what's going on with us. A little bit of a underrated, a little bit of an overrated. You know, we talk to these guests all week and get their overrated and underrated, blah, blah.

What about us, Miles? We've got thoughts, we've got ideas. Exactly. They're pretty similar week to week, but anyways, it's just a fun way to set the tent. Give you an idea what we've been doing over the weekend. Yeah. Exactly. You wanna kick us off? Sure. You want me to go?

Yeah, what's something, Miles, that you think is underrated? Under? Oh boy, what did I put here? Oh, first up, I am the East Coast. I was at a wedding for New Jersey people. It took place in New Jersey. Bruce Springsteen's Baby I Was Born to Run came on. And I'm, look, I'm from LA. I'm ignorant. I know Bruce Springsteen is deified in New Jersey. You're in the midst of a religious moment. A religious revival. 100%.

The way people rush to the dance floor, like the most emotional faces singing along, like damn near like tears in people's eyes, I was kind of like, oh, this, I thought it was a bit at first. I'm like, oh, here we go. Yeah, you're getting all into it because it's Bruce Springsteen and you're in New Jersey. And no, no, no, no, no, no.

This was like for real. Just look at you with like their eyes are like rolled back. Yeah. You're like, oh, shit. Yeah. And I feel like that's kind of how it is. Like with millennials, sometimes like when California love comes on, there are like certain like Tupac sort of tracks or other like west coast artists that kind of bring that out but nothing quite like this so that was it was I was under rating just exactly how much of a out of body experience it causes for the people of the Garden State and that was a wonderful thing to witness because I do

like I have you know I love I love New Jersey feel like the Valley, what the Valley is to LA, New Jersey is to New York, and that's why I fuck with y'all. But the other thing, salmon as a sandwich protein, I think is underrated. A salmon sand dough, and I'm not talking about lox, I'm talking about like grilled salmon, or however you're pan frying it, whatever.

Cause I'm trying to, I'm 40, I don't know if y'all heard I'm a man less come after me I'm 40 I'm 40 man come after me don't come after my beef and chicken though that I'm just trying to eat less beef and chicken and I usually default to those especially if I see like a you know a nice kind of roast beef sort of a sandwich or fried chicken sandwich I like those things I like but I also love salmon like just as an entree and I had the opportunity to have this fucking amazing salmon sandwich and I was like this is this is where this is where I should be going. This is same wedding? You know, no, no, no, no, no, this was just completely out of the this was like on my travels back to DC.

Mmm. Shout out to SoCo in Tacoma Park, because we're at this sandwich. They have like this salmon sandwich. And I, look, it's all about the margins. So I can still have my big gigantic sandwich, but I don't need a bunch of shit that is bad for me and the earth. So why don't I just have some salmon in it?

And it was fantastic. And now I'm like just trying to, you know, just cultivate those habits. So underrated, salmon sandwich. Miles, and this is weird. And this I'm like, just trying to, you know, just just cultivate those habits. So underrated sandwich miles. And this is weird. And this is like we're a fucking lying, are you lying? We connected. I didn't have a sandwich. I had salmon over the weekend. That was better than any like any salmon I'd had before.

Like there was something about how they cooked it. It just had a little bit more flavor. I feel like anytime I'm getting grilled salmon, for the most part, in my experience, it's dry. It's dry and it's also very flavorless. Like it doesn't. And this time they had olives in there with it that gave it a little saltiness. That just gave it a little bit of something that you have to under cook it. You have to like most people cook it to temperature and you kind of got to do it a little bit before. Yeah. So it's a little bit softer, too.

You know, media. Yeah, but that's different. Warm pink center, a wormy pink center. But no, no, no. The other thing, too, if you should try is to slow like roast it in your oven at super low temperature and you will get that just like a sauna delicious juicy. So give it a nice sweat in there. Yeah. Nice. All right. My underrated.

What did I write down? Animals ability to do stuff only humans supposedly do is my underrated. We talked last week. Huh? We're still on that, man. Yeah. I mean, my eyes are open. So my eyes are open to things that in the past, I might have scrolled right by. But we talked last week about how scientists are decoding birdsong and have known for a while that there's like more complicated communication happening than I would have thought possible. A type of tit in the UK figured out how to open milk jugs and then it like went viral

among birds. Like the birds taught each other how to open the milk jugs across Europe. And like it just over the course of decades, it was like now birds can open these milk jugs they used to not be able to because they can teach each other. So I just learned about another type of animal making a work of art that's really beautiful. So scientists kept noticing these large crop circles on the ocean floor in the subtropical waters off Southern Japan. There's these big intricately designed circles that have all these like squiggles

and you know, indentations in the sand. It's just like, and you have to like, rise up above it to like fully appreciate it. It's pretty cool. Like you need to zoom out, like you need to zoom out a little bit to get it. And scientists were like, what, what weird force is making art like this? That seems like it's designed to be appreciated from a different perspective than you would have while making it. And then they saw these little horny male puffer fish doing it basically as like an elaborate mating ritual. They just work 24 hours a day. And because it's under, at the bottom of the sea,

there's like various currents that are like fucking it up. And so they're just repeatedly over and over having to like make this design, set it up, reset it up, redo it. Oh, it's like Sisyphusian basically? Yeah, yeah. But like for 24 hours. And then if they do a good enough job,

the female puffer fish lays her eggs in the middle of the circle. And I don't know, even like the BBC article that I found talking about it calls the designs like random squiggles in some places. Where it's like, oh no, like they say, first a male traces basic circular shapes that embellishes them with ridges

by swimming inward at different angles. Next, he fills in the circle with doodles of random squiggly lines. It's like, I don't know, man, you don't know, you don't read puffer fish. You don't know what the, I bet the English language looks like random squiggles. Squiggly lines, yeah.

And then they also have to like add. They're like, and we think that they do this because it like sweeps oxygen rich water towards the middle, which is cool if that's actually true, but it also feels like they just needed like some sort of survival based mechanism for it to tie into, being like, we just did something dope to attract people, which is just basically art. And this does tie back to birds. I'm gonna tie it back to birds, folks.

There's this book, Evolution of Beauty, that looks at birds doing all these elaborate mating dances and says that it doesn't, it's not because like they're showing off how good they'll be at like getting food or whatever. It's just beauty. It's just the trees are full of singing flowers that exist just to be like beautiful for each other and they do it in like really complex ways.

And like one of the birds uses forced perspective. They like designed their nest with like different trinkets and like they will put smaller ones, two larger ones in a way that makes it look like it's like going away from you. Whoa. Yeah. It's just, I don't know. I'm like, cuttlefish have been shown to be able to, like, keep track of, like, weird three-dimensional, like, very complex three-dimensional equations when they're camouflaging themselves because, like, if they're in a tank and they see someone walking around the room, they'll camouflage themselves, keeping in mind, like, okay, they're 20 feet out.

So, to them, like, the thing behind me is... Whoa! What the fuck? Yeah, like it's wild. Like they just can do shit that I think we've just like, we'll look back on our writing about animals up to this point in a lot of cases and be like, we were just like, so, so dismissive. Just like, so I don't know, they're probably like doing it because they want to

signal they can be early bird to get the worm. And it's like, no I don't know. They're probably like doing it because they want to signal. They can be early bird to get the worm. And it's like, no, it's it's actually they're doing art in very complex ways. And they're talking idiot and they're talking dumb, dumb. So that's my underrated. What what's something you think is overrated miles, referees, referees, referees and sporting events. Yeah. Some there's been some wild sponsored segment about how AI should replace

referees, right? I mean, I don't know. I feel like it might've got that Brianna Brianna Stewart call right. Last night, but there've been some interesting calls throughout the NBA post WNBA postseason and the finals finale happened last night where the Liberty beat the links five but little contentious going into overtime was it a foul was it not a foul I mean Cheryl Reeve you know the coach of the links and you know coach of team USA who won the gold is like well

we've had two fucking championships just stolen from us from bad, from bad calls. Um, one of that was to the sparks and, you know, we don't have to get into that. Uh, but like aside from that, like there's just a lot of ambient anger about refereeing. I feel like really that's like increasing more and more over the last couple of years, especially when there's like more replay technology, we're like, well, we want to give the referees a chance to be able to like right their wrongs. This also happened like in the English Premier League over the weekend, there were a lot of like inconsistent calls or like fouls of the same type were not

being penalized in the same way and video referees are not having consistent calls. So whether justified or not, it just feels like there's just more and more awareness of refs making these game shifting calls. It just feels like there's just more and more awareness of refs making these game shifting calls. And, you know, I feel like a good ref is a ref who knows how to manage the game and also understands that like higher intensity games call for some nuance. Like you can't always like the letter of if you call everything if it's if you're going to be to the letter of the law, you have to be to the letter of the law like every single

time. And I just don't know if that's really possible because it's also an entertainment thing. And a lot of people I think get more and more like, oh, fucking red. And I know part of that is a sort of partisan fan this yeah partisan fandom as well. But like there are times when like you're just looking at an incident replay over and over again. They're like, they're going to review this and like, surely they can't what? Oh, okay. So surely they can't get it wrong after the incident replay. When they see it again in slow motion. Actually, I'm going to stand by what I said before. We're, uh, yeah, we're going with that one. Yeah, we're going with that one. I'm not wrong and I don't want to cop to it. So let's keep it moving. But yeah,

anyway, that's, that's's that's just something I've I've been watching over the weekend, a lot of sports and a lot of fan anger arsenal is a you know, it fucking did this weekend. OK, you know, it did it every time it does every fucking time. Yeah, every time. But I'll leave that there. I don't need to get into the specifics of my pain. But I was just saying I was just saying, oh, it's universal.

It's a universally shared frustration that referees are like they're like activist referees. You know what I mean? Like you're not keeping the game intact. Like you're saying like, I'm the main character and I'm going to decide this thing should happen. And then so anyway, that's me. That's me being a partisan fan.

I wonder on like a psychological profile, like what if there's a part of the ideal psychological profile that like makes a referee that is just like contrarian, you know what I mean? Because they have to be willing to eat so much shit, right? From the masses, right? You know, like, right. Widely derided and like hated by entire cities. Like, I wonder if that then requires a certain personality type that's like,

you know, came out of the womb being like, fuck you. That's why. Right. Yeah. Oh, you won't know my name. Fuck you. That's my name. I feel like in my time, like playing organized sports, you had refs that were clearly like, I suck at this sport. And this is just the only way I can kind of get near the game now. Yeah, just like I can't play so much.

So I also but I also have a chip on my shoulder. So I'll be kind of like an asshole as a ref. Right. You do have like like rulebook nerd refs who truly are just like I want to adjudicate this Sporting competition as best as I can. Yeah, but yeah, I don't know I mean, I'm sure I'm sure they're either way would be I hate them man nerds fuck My least favorite dude Get out of my sports nerd. Oh man, but also come on. Give me some fair calls nerd, dude. Get out of my sports, nerd. Oh, man. But also, come on, give me some fair calls, nerd, please.

I love you. My overrated is just any. I've noticed it happening on Microsoft Teams a lot, which I don't think anybody uses. But like it also, I guess, happens on FaceTime. The thumbs up. Yeah. Where does it happen on Zoom? Yeah, it does right now. Okay. Watch this three, two, one, and boop.

There it is. Where it uses AI, I think, to read our gestures, to then underline our gestures with a like emoji thumbs up or thumbs down or like, you know, laughter, you know, just so much dumb shit. I've never seen this be additive in the least bit. Like there I can't and I can't conceive of a scenario where it would be additive. I feel like I get like for like accessibility issues that like might be one thing, but there to raise your hand like in a meeting, there's usually just like a button you can click, where you don't have to like physically be like,

wait for the camera to be like, oh, it has recognized my hand inconsistently, like a terrible referee. And yeah, I don't know, I think it's just kind of like one of those things where it's like, look what it can do now. And you're like, I don't care if this, like this Bic lighter is also a can opener.

Like, that's not a function I needed on this other thing. And when it does get my hand gesture wrong, I do stop the call to tell it to get its eyes checked and ask it as shit for brands. Hey, Zebra, why don't you go, hey, you're late for your shift to footlocker. Why don't you go, Hey, you're late for your shift to footlocker. But yeah, I don't know. Like they never get it right.

Sometimes you stop a call because you accidentally showed your thumb on a meeting at a point where you have absolutely no opinion and are trying to keep your head down. And it's just like, Oh, Jack, Jack agrees. Care to chime in on that? Yeah. No, that was an errant thumb. I'm sorry. The AI is tripping. I was doing the hand jive for some reason.

Yeah, I don't know. Like best case scenario, someone is giving the thumbs up and you're just like adding an emoji to like something that was already communicated via thumbs up. Thumbs up. The original emoji. Like emoji, like you don't need it. Right, right, right. Sometimes you need to do the heart emoji with your hands to like, it'll create a heart emoji if you do the heart thing with your hands.

The hands are doing the work for you. You don't need to do it. But it recognized what your hand did through the machine learning and then put that form on the screen. Yeah, it's just, it's just tech people saying, look, look at me. Um, yeah, I can see how it would make sense inside Silicon Valley. And it makes sense. Absolutely nowhere else. I feel like, but let me know if you got, if you got the answer for what, why this makes sense, why it persists, why it is like default on,

on all these applications. Don't let me know, but you know, just feel good about knowing something that I don't know. I guess let's take a quick break and we'll come back and get into some news. Hey, Bo. Hey, Matt. Are you ready to tell the readers News. But you're in it, you know? Yeah, exactly. You're in the spook. I think we have to let them in on our little surprise. Yeah, if you haven't already figured it out, can't believe this. Mariah Carey will be joining us this week. I say, oh, I want to go work with such and such from across town.

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At the heart of the story is a young boy and the question of who he belongs with. His father in Cuba, Mr. Gonzalez wanted to go home and he wanted to take his son with him, or his relatives in Miami. Imagine that your mother died trying to get you to freedom. At the heart of it all is still this painful family separation, something that as a Cuban I know all too well. Listen to Chess Piece, the Elian Gonzalez story as part of the MyCultura podcast network available on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcasts,

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Two weeks left, y'all. Just fucking two weeks left. It's so wild. Yeah, 15 days. 15 days. So it's interesting. So his campaign said he was going to begin previewing this weekend, his closing argument with Election Day barely two weeks away.

And in that public appearance, he paid tribute to native Pennsylvania. Arnold Palmer's giant dick. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, right yeah, yeah, oh right, yeah, that thing, that thing, that thing, yeah. Yeah. That was cool. Do we have that? Oh, do we have that?

Yeah, yeah, well let's just pull this up. This is him just saying, hey, we're here in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, home of Arnold Palmer. He really loved this place. And then he switches it up to this. But Arnold Palmer was all man. And I say that in all due respect to women and I love women. But this guy...

What? Okay. But this guy what? Was a better woman than any of you will be? This is a guy that was all man. Oh. This man was strong and tough. Ooh. And I refuse to say it, but when he took showers with the other pros, they came out of there.

They said, oh, my God. That's unbelievable. I had to say it. No, you did not know you did it. I hate to say it, but when he took showers with the other golfers. Wait, are all the the other golfers, wait, are all the PGA golfers just like showering together after? I wouldn't expect that.

I mean, like, aren't you like, but like, aren't you, it's kind of like, you're subtly eliminated. You're out of contention at certain points. No, I mean, I guess everyone has to complete their rounds of golf, but I don't know. I guess an individual thing is like, but the showers are communal. Yeah. The time that we all come together Hey, wait, wait. Hey, you want your Sharon already Arnold isn't even in here yet, man. Hold on now. It's just It's just so wild Yeah, he had to say it though. He had he preface it in the way that all fans

Proprietors of toxic masculinity do. Like I love women folks. I'm about to talk about a guy's dick. So like just be straight up love women. God, I love women, right? God, I love women, but this guy's hog. Oh my God. A thing of beauty. Holy shit. But also let's be real. He didn't say in what direction it was unbelievable. He had the tiniest. So it could be a man after Trump's own heart. Yeah, maybe he's like the Greeks where they like admired a per little, you know, perfect.

Hey, adrenaline in the heat of battle will do that. You know, so you never know. You never know. Swinging that wood, you know? Yeah, yeah, unfortunately. And even like the like construction worker dudes behind him are like, oh, man, like they did. Like the laugh that wasn't like, holy shit, this guy's killing it. They're like, OK, what the fuck? I had to say we have women that are highly sophisticated here, but they used to look

at Arnold as a man is what he said after after that. I don't know what that means. So Mike Johnson, sound perfect. Mike Johnson. So my Johnson speaker and he's the guy who monitors and is monitored by his teenage son's porn pornography intake you know if he watches porn his teenage son finds out about it yeah yeah yeah yeah it's called healthy really yeah he's got her nice old coveted eyes Johnson had to like go on CNN Sunday and answer for this.

Yeah. Which is funny because he all, this is like what happens. Cause it's always like, is this your king? Like every time and he's like, come on, here's the thing you have to understand about eating pets or whatever. So this is him trying to pivot out of the Arnold, Arnold Palmer penis commentary. Why is he talking about Arnold Palmer penis commentary. Why is he talking about Arnold Palmer's penis in front of Pennsylvania voters? God, the alliteration.

Jake, you seem to like that line a lot. Let me tell you that Donald Trump is doing rallies nonstop around the country. Let me just say something. I don't want to be talking about this. Donald Trump is out there saying it. You continue to. Let's talk about it. Because you will address it. But you keep talking about it. He is out there talking to voters. I there saying it. It is. But you continue to. Let's talk about. Cause you will.

But you keep talking about it. He is out there talking about it. I'll address it. Let me answer it. Okay, don't say it again. We don't have to say it. That's just where it ends. Okay, don't say it again.

Okay, just stop. Wow, wow. You keep talking about it. This is like when people when people have like these like terrible relationship moments that like probably have damaged a relationship. But one partner is like, well, you keep talking about the fact that I was cheating, you know, and my God, it's your decision whether you drop your topic, it sounds like the motherfucker.

You're he's the one fucking bring. I didn't say to tell him to bring it up This is what is coming out of his mouth as he again Makes his final, you know closing arguments as to why he should be voted for and he's like, yeah I admire Arnold Palmer's dick. Okay, we vote for me now. Thank you My argument by the way goes on to ultimately be Shouldn't we give Donald Trump some credit for all the parts of the speech that weren't about Arnold Palmer's giant dick? Right. Or microscopic. We don't know. You know what I mean?

I still want to hold out. Oh my gosh. Oh my god. It's unbelievable. It's just like beautiful. What if it was just like a beautiful cock? You know? It could be. Yeah. And we never know. Look at that thing. Say that. Wow. Then they would rule folks. And it's like the whole they they have to lower the bar so much. It's so offensive even more and more. It's like, well, what about the other stuff? He said, OK, do you want to know what else he said? He said he could out drive Arnold Palmer.

When he said, yeah, he's like when he was maybe 75, he would might would be a good four or five yards past him. Okay. This you're pitching yourself. Then he, then he did a casual, you know, brought up another potential Logan act violation by saying he spoke with BB net and Yahoo over the weekend about the killing of Yaya Sinwar. And you're like, what? He's like, I told him he can't listen to Biden.

I didn't even see it. And if he did, he wouldn't be able to do the things that he did. He also said Kamala is a shit vice president. He said a lot of fucking nonsense. So, I mean, Mike Johnson, do you want to talk about any of those things too, or just do you want to ignore? He's like, can we just ignore the other things he said? Yeah, yeah. We just like move along and talk about like here.

I have like kind of a cut together, auto tuned thing with just various scraps of what he said that kind of make it sound coherent. Right. Exactly. And somehow that moment was upstaged by a press event in which Trump pretended to work at McDonald's. Just to I think the idea was like to burn Kamala Harris for her claims

of having actually worked at a McDonald's. But I think, you know, she did. Right. Well, he has no proof that she didn't. And she says she did. It doesn't seem it doesn't seem anyone's like, you know, denying the fact that that happened. But keyword here, she actually worked. And you at any point in her life, you larked

as a fucking lost old man who wandered into the back of a McDonald's is what that whole fucking thing looked like. Yeah. He even manned the drive-through total like killer photo shoot opportunity. Very similar in a just world. This would have been Very similar. In a just world, this would have been just the Ben Affleck Super Bowl commercial. Not a campaign event for a presidential candidate, but alas, we are where we are. Yeah. That whole event was really... Every single detail makes your eyes water in the bad way.

Yeah. The restaurant was actually closed. The customers were screened by the Secret Service and positioned before his arrival, which obviously kind of to be expected. But also like this is why presidential campaigns don't usually do something like this because you can't actually do it. And otherwise, it's just a weird, like transparent photo.

Right. Exactly. Nobody is going to trust and feel like really shitty with your pre screened customers who also couldn't even order food. Yeah, they didn't order food. He just they just got whatever Trump gave them. Yes, yes. I mean, I think this is a good just example of like how this is Donald Trump's entire existence is like just a bunch of setup opportunities for him to pretend that he contributes fucking

anything. It's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh yeah. And go there. You won't even have to actually work. You just touch the gross stuff the poor people do as they toil and then you can leave after 45 minutes or however fucking long he was there. I'm surprised like the customers, like they didn't go as far as be like, yeah, they weren't even customers.

They were just like his own staff and a bunch of rental cars, just doing the loop around and dressing like actual people. But here they are. I'm sure they got like some very wealthy people to like pony up a bunch of money to be, to have the good fortune

of being with people. Yeah. He loves to give fast food out. Like that is his love language, That's such a good fucking point. Yeah, he loves to give fast food out like that. That is that is his love language, as we saw when the college football championship winning team went to the White House and he just served them all like big cold McDonald's in a room that just must have smelled like when it started, it must have smelled like farts and then holy shit.

Oh, by the end. And did you see the clip of him trying to work the deep fryer, like on the fry station? No, there's one where this guy who's working there is like trying to show him like, and then you like submerge the basket into the fryer and Trump looked so lost trying to do it. And then there's a moment where like the fries are coming out and like the guys like showed him was like,

and then you kind of salt them and Trump, I think he puts like way too much salt because like it goes, oh, okay. Like the way, you're not gonna be like, oh no, not like that. But it's like someone who like, you know, higher status. You have to just be like, well, I'm not gonna point that out.

I'll just make an odd old tone. Mr. President. Bring that one up. He's like, bring this, higher status. You have to just be like, well, I'm not going to point that out. I'll just really well done. Mr. President, bring that one up. I'm like, bring this one up. OK, he's lifting a fryer out. He's shaking them out. Good for you, Donald. Killing it. He's going to bring it over. So dump them there.

He's dumping them in and into the under the heat lamp. But this salt part is funny. He just goes, put that right for a right thing right up there. And then you want to do this all over here. Yeah, I did. Yeah, they're good. You've got to do that one right

there. So grab that. Give me extra. No. Did you hear he went, oh, all right. Well, luckily, these people are fucking paying for this shit. So they can deal with their hypertension and whatever they whatever way they they they choose.

That does highlight one of my favorite things about fast food restaurants these days is that they all sound identical to like an intensive care unit. Yeah. Yeah. The fryer, like, lets off an alarm that like all of the employees are completely in urge to after like their second day on the job. And so it just sounds like a life support system. My son and I go to a veggie grill every Sunday and spend like an hour there. And it's just working the friars glad.

Yeah, just working the friars. We get behind the desk, you know, but behind the counter and just get our hands dirty. You're going to love this Buffalo cauliflower folks. You're going to love it. But yeah, I think that's a really good point that like, this is who he, like he's been a professional spokesmodel for an extremely long time. Like he's his, the way he was making his money primarily from the apprentice on was by lending his name to products, letting people license his name. And then he just kind of stands there, which

also is kind of the ideal Republican president. Like I feel like that's what Reagan was, was just like an empty suit who the Republican operatives were able to just like kind of hide behind and get their uses that shit done. Yeah. So here are neocon death puppet. Now let us work your little strings. Yeah, exactly. But yeah, it it should probably go without saying, but just to confirm Trump's first term made things way worse for fast food workers, specifically McDonald's workers.

Like they forced a settlement with McDonald's and its workers in a dispute over unfair labor practices. So, which seemed like a man of people. Yeah. It seemed like a band of people. Also, he was taking questions from the press through the drive-through window, obviously another photo op, and then one just bluntly is like, yeah, what about raising the federal minimum wage before that? Because it hasn't happened in a long time. And he's like, then just pivoted off to something, like completely didn't answer it.

And the entire gaggle of reporters go, what about the minimum wage? And he just turned his body to a probably conservative news person to be like, how hard were you working today, Mr. President? Oh my gosh. Your forearms must be fucking just stinging from all that work. Right. You did so good. Oh, my goodness. These I've never had fries this good, Mr. President. These are so cool.

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And so Elon just announced that his pack will give away $1 million every day to a registered voter who signs his pro Trump petition in swing states only. So he's basically turning voting into a game show in order to ensure that Trump supporters are all registered to vote. I like he's feeling a little too little like we're 15 days out. Yeah. You know, I mean, like, I guess you're just turning the volume up that quick now. I mean, like, you could have been doing this for a month if this was really about voter.

I don't know what I don't know. I don't even know what the fuck this is about anymore. It's like so absurd looking. I don't even know how to wrap my head around this. But he does like to just step into a situation when it's too late or he's completely irrelevant deaths. I mean, his super PAC has been they've been working away,

they've been working and every time like very, you know, I don't, I don't always trust political operatives and political strategists, but, uh, they seem to uniformly be like, they suck at that. Like his, his, uh, super pack, like one of the things they've been seen spending money on is just, uh, ads on Facebook that are just screen caps of Elon Musk tweets. So there's just like trying to make him feel good about himself. Hey, Elon, do you want to do an ad where you express your concerns,

like on camera to people so they connect? No, just put up one of my old tweets on Facebook. They're actually a lull copters. So Raffle, I actually don't know the saying, but. Oh my God. Yeah. And I don't know. He's literally paying them off with giant novelty checks.

Our writer, Jaham said, this is the kind of shit that plays on TVs in the background of RoboCop. Someone behind a big American flag, American flag check. Giant American flag, a woman in a Trump t-shirt holding the check above her head just with like gaping smile. This is, we should mention, this is transparently like very illegal. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 100%. Yeah, like Josh Shapiro, who obviously is a Democrat,

but you know, has a legal background, pointed out that this is, you're not allowed to offer cash prizes only to registered voters. It's basically bribing people to register to vote, which is punishable by up to five years in prison. But I wonder if Elon Musk is really gonna go to prison. Well, it's funny because there was that clip

when he was on Tucker Carlson, he was talking with Tucker Carlson and he's like, "'Oh my God, if Kamala wins, I'm fucked.'" Yeah, yeah. While some people, he's like, "'I'm gonna go to jail or whatever. Like, I don't know, maybe, I don't know if all dreams can happen for everyone so quickly,

but I think it does show that he understands that he can only flourish under someone like a Trump in office versus other people who are like maybe actually looking at what he's doing, his illegal behavior, all of that. Yeah, because like this is, even if it's like giving it away for the like what they call like a lottery chance at winning something that is still considered like completely beyond the pale. Right.

Well, now like sweepstakes are generally like legally fraught like you. So, yeah, I feel like they're just hiding behind that. But I just hope he has good legal representation because man, this could be bad for him. Oh, yeah, I feel like they're just hiding behind that. But I just hope he has good legal representation because man, this could be bad for him. Oh yeah, I hope he has good legal representation because you know this DOJ is gonna do something about it. Right, yeah, yeah. I'm like, that's the part I'm really thinking about

is like, will anything come of this? Like everyone is pointing to like statutes and be like, this is clearly violating that. And it's like, nah, I don't know, man. Maybe with it after it depends on who's president. Sorry, folks. It's just trying to get the bridge trying to get to election day, man. I got a lot of tables, man.

Look at these cuttlefish. It's interesting. So I was listening to an episode of on the media, they were pointing out that the five biggest individual donors in this election cycle gave to conservative causes, which is the first time that's ever happened, which I assume I would have assumed that would happen all the time. But if you think about like Elon Musk, probably eight years ago was not like an out and out, like right wing character.

Like it, it feels like things are accelerating in the direction of like a class war being waged by like the billionaire class on the rest of us that like, it's just, it's hap, we've just accepted it as like, yeah, of course that's happening. You know, of course that's what they'll do. But yeah. Yeah. Like, I don't know. It reminds me of the business plot where like the richest people in America tried to overthrow the government and install a fascist military dictator like during FDR's administration. And it feels like as we get closer and closer to like the possibility of outright fascism and authoritarianism with Trump, like the billionaires, the richest people in the country are like stepping up and being like, yeah, I mean, of course.

Please protect my money. I mean, because everyone's like coming out of the fucking crypto, the whole crypto industry also just being like, sorry folks, we kind of, we need this to work for us. And here's all this money to sway it. And it's also interesting too, like America pack, his pack, like it was also- Elon Musk's pack.

Yeah, Elon Musk's pack was all these other top, huge MAGA donors could just dump their own money into it. Musk has given 75 million to this committee so far. But the other thing that is really interesting, a lot of people have talked about how the Trump campaign has been really bad with like their ground game. Like they are not really doing any kind of real, proper voter turnout kind of initiatives that you'd see most presidential campaigns. Or they're like, or they're emphasizing some places at the total expense of other really competitive states. And in this article saying America back has formed a crucial part of

the Trump campaign's ground game and is running major canvassing and get out the vote initiatives in swing states that could impact the election, including Pennsylvania. So it's almost like Elon was seeing or these other donors were seeing like, oh man, like we can't just give him money. Like we actually need to like help in these other ways to actually help turn votes out. And yeah, so now you do is you you have to vow to vote for the first and second amendment. That's how they're coding it to be like you're going to vote for Trump. But hey, Kamala has a Glock. So, you know, you can still take the money. You can still take the money, you know, or do whatever you want. Yeah, I mean, she like it feels like the wealthies hold over our political process was more of a, you know, discussion point in 2020 and more, even more

of one in 2016. But it just feels like we're getting to a place where, yeah, the wealthiest have, after citizens united, this was kind of inevitable. The more money they have, the more they're able to wield power, the more power they wield, the more money they're able to steal, you know, by evading taxes. And it's just like we're over a decade into this vicious cycle and they're on the verge of like having a legitimate Shot at installing a dictator which is like if you just look at the extremely wealthy in America as like a continuous like organism from early 20th century like Gilded Age like up to Today like that's kind of what they've always wanted

to today, like that's kind of what they've always wanted. Right. And that's like Trump. Trump had a meeting with fossil fuel executives where he was like, get me a billion dollars and I'll get you whatever you need. I think that was a direct quote. You get me a billion and I'll get you whatever you need. Right. And they're even like, dude, we don't even we don't even say it like that, man.

But thanks. We'll think about it. The other thing is, as we see this aging Trump, you hear more and more rumblings about what the actual administration may be or not be, which is, does Trump even have the energy? He's falling asleep at shit already. He has no energy. He's canceling all these fucking events. And you see someone like JD Vance,

who is like handpicked by the Silicon Valley donor class and they're kind of like, here might be the thing. Maybe if they win, you can pardon Donald Trump. Like he'll resign and then you're president and then you can pardon him. And then we have a much younger, willing and able bodied person to really, to really fuck things up. Well, yeah. I mean, I think they just like haul him out as long as he's alive. You know, they're just going to do what they did with Reagan, you know, like Reagan, Reagan's second,

just going to do what they did with Reagan, you know? Like Reagan, Reagan's second, I almost said semester, Reagan's second administration, second term was, like he didn't, he was like invisible. Like he was behind the scenes for most of it because they were hiding him because he was declining. But he was able to get a lot of damage done, you know, despite the fact that even from the start, he was able to get a lot of damage done, you know, despite the

fact that even from the start, he was like, don't give me briefings that are more than a paragraph. You know, he was just like, I'll kind of leave it up to everybody else. But yeah, I just, I don't know. Like there, there is a hopefulness in the sense of like, it doesn't have to be like this. There's such a clear problem with like the power that the wealthy wield over the system. But it's just like during the Civil War, there was no tax on income.

Like that was the thing that like people had to fight for. So like there are these instances of like progress that have been made, these battles that are won by working class people over like billionaires, but they just kind of get written out of the historical record. And instead, you know, we named buildings after the billionaires that they were fighting against that. It's just so much easier for like American discourse to be like, well, what's wrong with these poor people and why are they on drugs?

And to be like, how come like there there's like eight people who's if you combined all their wealth, they have more wealth than fucking everybody, like half the planet or some shit, you know, like that. The conversations need to be around that. But again Class consciousness in this country is is not easy to come by these days Especially now when you have people like, you know, Elon Musk sort of being like no I'm like you dude like hang out with me and help me and do do as I say and that's how we'll Have a better tomorrow.

Will we? No. Jeff Bezos barely paid taxes and got a $4,000 tax credit that was aimed at helping parents who are struggling check to check. Like that's where we're at. Who is his accountant? Can I get a deal like that?

He has like an entire massive company's worth of accountants, like working nonstop to pull shit like that off. But look, I pay 5 million to save 3 billion. Yeah. There's an episode of the podcast search engine where they like interview this pro public, a reporter who got leaked like a rogue IRS agent, leaked them all of the tax documents of like the top 500 wealthiest people in the country, I think it is.

And yet it's just horrible, like transparent abuses of power, abuses of the system that should be enraging, but because they're, you know, we have a pro wealth, pro capital, mainstream media. So like those things just kind of get washed through. And yeah, yeah. So it's a bummer, but it is a problem that we have that could be solved. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, at least we have a American psycho remake that we can look forward to or not.

I don't know. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know about this story. It's the so there's rumors that Luca Guadagnino is working that the guy made like call me by your name and challengers and whose name I'm probably pronouncing. I can't call you by your name because I don't know how to pronounce it. What? What? I mean't know how to pronounce it. What what I could mean no what an email

He so apparently is in Talks to remake American Psycho. Although the studio is stressing that this is a new adaptation Of the book by Brett Easton Ellis not a remake of Mary Heron's film starring Christian Bale Which is a classic that is probably and Ellis, not a remake of Mary Haran's film starring Christian Bale, which is a classic that is probably the movie that I've seen the most people just miss the point of so so drastically. Be like, dude, Patrick Bateman is so fucking dope, dude. Well, yeah, that's isn't that is that's the name of the character, right? Yeah, Patrick Bateman. Yeah.

Like I know people who are in the beginning like, dude, this guy's fuck. This guy's a machine. Yeah, I was like, bro, I don't. That's not what this is about. Yeah. Yeah, I ended up at one point in college, like with a, you know, lacrosse player at his place. And he was showing me that and being like, dude, so sick, right? Like this guy, oh, I fucking love this part. And just like the weirdest, the weirdest taste

in that movie in particular, the weird. They're like, I got into Genesis because of this guy. And you're like, oh boy, no, no, no, no, no. The book has some really funny parts, like where Patrick Babin like writes long, deeply thought out reviews of bands like Genesis and all these things that I don't know. I feel like the first movie adaptation like really nailed it. I don't see the need for this, but if we're in the age of rinse

and repeat and ring it out for as much fucking money as possible Even if it makes no sense and potentially have already done it before and he's a good filmmaker So I have to assume like you see see something in there. That's worth taking another pass at but so the big Controversy is that there are rumors started by a single post on Twitter. Uh, so I think we should take that with a Trump McDonald's fries amount of salt. Yeah. Yeah.

Apparently they're going to gender swap the lead role. Get ready for Patricia Bateman guys. Um, I don't, I don't know this, this story just like makes me want to go to sleep for three years Well, it's also funny because like for all the talk with this is a reimagining It's like there was an American Psycho 2 gender swap Boogaloo. Yeah all American girls starring Yeah, and me the coon is in Bill Shatner Shatner straight the video video y'all. Exactly.

I was just reading too about like an article about how Hollywood has joined the book club. And like again, it's like this is the new place that studios are just farming for, like just trawling the IPCs for new stuff that they can do rather than, you know,

pay people for new ideas. It's like, can we option this book? Can we option this? Can we option that? Cause it's all very, still very shaky right now in Hollywood. Got to say not a lot happening. Um, compared to pre-strikes. So quiet. Yeah. It's ear, it's eerily quiet. Like, I mean, I, like, I know people who are fully changing careers now, like had fantastic careers,

writing comedy and now are considering like completely other different professions and are actively like moving towards that like taking out. I'm a farmer now. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. No, like truly it's like I don't know like I can't there's no way you can depend on this anymore and it's true it's like really it's really really bad and I feel like what's gonna happen is the lack of work is just going to kind of reduce the industry to like those who can like just weather the storm. And then when it picks back up, maybe they will begin to start working

again. But it's people with generational wealth. So it'll just be the sions. Yeah, it's all the trust fund writers and director type people out there who will be fine and the others will be forced to completely rethink their careers. They'll have some interesting takes on how to fix America's director type people out there who will be fine. And the others will be forced to completely rethink their careers. They'll have some interesting takes on how to fix America's political system, I bet.

Oh yeah, yeah, for sure. All right, well those are some of the things that are trending this Monday morning. We are back tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show, until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get the vaccine get your flu shot don't do nothing about white supremacy and we will talk to you all tomorrow bye bye hey bow hey matt are you ready to tell the readers about the extra special episode we have coming up

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On Thanksgiving Day 1999, five-year-old Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, was found off the coast of Florida. And the question was, should the boy go back to his father in Cuba? Mr. Gonzalez wanted to go home and he wanted to take his son with him. Or stay with his relatives in Miami? Imagine that your mother died trying to get you to freedom.

Listen to Jess Peace, the Elian Gonzalez story, on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. between sports and politics with a new podcast called Spolitics with me, Jamel Hill. I'll be discussing political, social, and economic issues through the lens of sports with some of the biggest names and smartest people. So here's the assignment. Listen to Spolitics on the iHeart radio app or wherever you get your podcast. Let's get Spolitical. Hey there, I'm Dr. Maya Shankar and I'm a scientist who studies human behavior.

Many of us have experienced a moment in our lives that changes everything, that instantly divides our life into a before and an after. On my podcast, A Slight Change of Plans, I talk to people about navigating these moments. Their stories are full of candor and hard-won wisdom. And you'll hear from scientists who teach us how we can be more resilient in the face of change. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey friends, I'm Jessica Capshaw. And this is Camilla Luddington. And we have a new podcast, Call It What It Is.

You may know us from Graceland Memorial, but did you know that we are actually besties in real life? And as all besties do, we navigate the highs and lows of life together. Big or small, we're there. And now here we are, opening up the friendship circle to you. Listen to Call It What It Is on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.