The Daily Zeitgeist - Donald Trump's 3rd Trendictment 8/2: Donald Trump, Octagon, AMC, US Credit Rating, Harvard

Episode Date: August 2, 2023

In this edition of , Miles and super producer Victor discuss yet another Trumpdictment, a Boston police officer yeeting himself down a slide, Narc Suckerberg building an octagon in his backyard,  Barbenheimer breaking AMC's all-time records, the US getting it's credit rating downgraded, and (in yet ANOTHER scandal) Harvard getting sued for human remains trafficking!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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i'm i as everybody who's been working on the show today knows i think something's wrong with my health in that i think i have i don't know something went on with my sinuses yeah but that's neither here nor there i don't i never get those aren't you aren't your boogers supposed to be green when you get a sinus infection oh yeah well i i know because every time i get it's just green snot dripping out oh yeah i'm not getting the greenies out so who knows man it could just be that my body realizes that even with another indictment something might not actually come of it um which is our first trend trump indicted yep third time cool new charges for overturning the 2020 election i'm

not shocked i just want to get to the part where he's either found innocent or found guilty like let's stop i don't like the in-between where everyone's like speculating you know what i mean yeah the only shock i have is that isn't this the first time that he's actually being charged with overturning the election everything else was like one shoplifting a snickers or something yeah there's there's many other cases but yeah this is the specifically for overturning the election and you know a lot of people we'll talk about it more in tomorrow's episode, but right now the main line of attack against the indictment seems to be that

Republicans are trying to paint this as Jack Smith is basically criminalizing free speech because Donald Trump kept saying the wrong things over and over, and that's all it was. He was saying the wrong things. But no, the charges are over a conspiracy know a coordinated effort to overturn the election which again we all saw that in 4k basically that's been that's been the right's response for this entire thing it was always like oh he's um he's a political prisoner or something like that not

that he did things illegally that hurt. No, they can't, they can't argue that part. It just has to be like, yeah, well he said that, but that's like not a crime. Okay. That's just like your opinion,

man. That's his locker room talk or something, whatever it is. But yeah, we'll see again. We'll see what happens. Uh, shout out the Fulton County,

uh, you know, grand jury down there. We'll see if that indictment is supposed to come soon. And then he can have four little indictments that he can try and raise more money off of. But it'll be hard because based on how he was screaming for money this morning,

sounds like he also knew that the PAC is not bringing in as much money as his legal fees. So whatever. When will any of us fucking know a $40 million legal bill? How insane that is. Yeah, I don't't even want to i can't even fathom that uh next boston pd is trending and i don't know if y'all have seen it but you should definitely try and find it

it's a video of this cop getting absolutely fucked out of a metal slide at like a playground i will play the sound for you just you can understand this officer he has his gun on his hip too as he is ejected from uh this slide uh but yeah just hear this this is the sounds of other cops filming him i believe here it comes down the slide and he just flew out oh fuck i'm sorry this video is fucking as much as i said i think i feel sick i think this video is healing me yeah that revives you oh yeah to see like just an an adult dicking around on a fucking slide and then absolutely get destroyed. Like, Justin, when we were watching, we were like, he fucked his wrist up

bad. The way he kind of brings it close to his body after flying out, you're like, oh, sir. He done a boo-boo there. Because he got shot out like a cannon. You didn't, because there's no way to describe it without seeing it of how fast he was coming out of that thing. No.

And the thing that's really confusing is i don't know about you victor i think of myself as a traditionalist when i go down a slide which is feet first with your butt on the slide right yeah this man came out of it feet first on his stomach with his ass up in the air like he was throwing it back uh and his everything just blows off his little uh utility belt but yeah uh he was like swirling out of there i was like anyone hitting the ceiling is there any do you know if there's any comment from the police or anything about the this incident or concerned citizens yeah the mayor said oh we're looking into why this why the officer was down there and then she had this

quote we want all of our public spaces to be beloved and if it looks like we need to make sure that there's more signage that this is for children or something we can do that too i don't know how that would have helped exactly that's amazing just the way that it's for children or something like truly this is what y'all are going to do but yeah anyway find that video it will heal your body and spirit

I still don't understand if the angle was like so extreme that that's why he reached what I felt was terminal velocity coming out. But we don't know. Broke the sound barrier. Yeah, right.

Next story that we have is Mark Zuckerberg is trending. Because he apparently built an octagon in his backyard. We're still not sure what the fuck is going on with this fight between him and Elon. We know that they were both talking shit. We know that Elon's mom was like oh it's not happening but then we also see him being like I'm gonna train with George St. Pierre and then Mark Zuckerberg he just did this thing I love that he uses like whatsapp which is so like to text his wife presumably like on an iPhone um but he likes on his Instagram stories he did did a screen cap of his WhatsApp

conversation with his wife, Priscilla Chan. It says, did you see the octagon I put in the backyard? She replies, yes, I saw it. It looks awesome. 30 minutes later, she just replies, Mark. Then he goes, we have plenty of yard space. Her response, I have been

working on that grass for two years. And now he's like, what do I do do keep the octagon or save the grass it it feels like he thinks it's charming and not like he fucked up his wife's hard work you know it's like oh look at how wacky i am just i decided to build an octagon back there yeah i like to annoy her a little bit when i like completely disregard anything she's been working on and putting like her mind towards in terms of like physical projects because i'm trying to fight another fucking loser in an octagon so well yeah i don't know i feel priscilla i'd say i feel bad for you but the rate at which you and your husband are buying up fucking real estate all over this fucking earth, including like in Hawaii, like go go buy a park.

You know, you want to work on some grass. Go, but I'm surprised Mark Zuckerberg didn't just like build a full blown like UFC gym because it seems like just buy something like already buying already existing something. Right. like already buying already existing something right when when you're that when you're a billionaire i'd imagine the way you go about things is like when i've played sim city or the sims yeah but i'm like oh yeah yeah yeah jim would look good there click and then it happens i have no idea what it costs but i can act out my will in physical space whenever i please so and rome offered them the coliseum. No, they did not. Let me... No, really?

I need to double check this, because I don't want to put false information out there, but I'm pretty sure Rome was like, oh, if you want to have this fight, come to the Colosseum and we're going to do this gladiator style. Oh my god, no, you are right. Jesus, in one of the wonders of the fucking world. Now, let's not go there.

We don't need to have this go down at the Colosseum in Rome, but whatever. Dude, in Zuck's backyard is better. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, like, do you think he, like, yells at people, like, you got to use WhatsApp. Stop using iMessage. Only use the shit that I make. Oh, like, I get that it's not the best for phone calls, but it is what it is. It is.

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from July 21st to July 27th. This is from their entire 103-year history. So, you you know that's that i know that includes all this i can go i know at least 100 years is all the star wars movies and all the marvel movies and titanic and avatar and shit barbenheimer and can you stop it can you have you seen both now i did the full barbenheimer last week and i'm very happy that as much as i love marvel it's nice watching two movies where i don't need 80 hours of screen time to understand what's going on no you know no just two standalone films love both of them what would do we know what the previous biggest week was like what was the thing that it this it must have been either uh i don't know like uh it must have it's it has it's

probably one of the avengers film releases or yeah i don't know i don't know what it usurped but all that to say like it it's just a testament to the power of the barbenheimer phenomenon which also talk about a little bit in tomorrow's episode because we hear people are the studios think they can manufacture something like this again and it's like that's not how it works it's purely organic yeah it's not you can't make the barbenheimer happen the barbenheimer just happens okay you can't split the atom and create some kind of energetic outburst like this thing that like this shit was but yeah i still gotta see opp to see Oppenheimer. It's good. It's long. Did you do Barbenheimer?

When you did Barbenheimer, did you open with Oppenheimer or you ended it with Oppenheimer? So I did Barbie on a Tuesday and then I did Oppenheimer on a Saturday. So you gave your brain a moment to absorb the art. Digest Barbie and then go into

Oppenheimer and then now i've digested oppenheimer so that's how i did it i i love both they're both very different movies i'm glad i didn't do them on the same day because i would have just split my atom you know right right right and then just passed out in the movie theater like halfway through oppenheimer i get that just eyes glazed over all fucked up yeah Yeah, for real. Credit is trending because, uh-oh, the US, our long-term credit rating has been downgraded for only the second time

in the nation's history from AAA to AA+, whatever the fuck that means. But basically, when they do that, it's usually, you know, it's seen as their people are worried about the credit worthiness of the united states um every person like from the administration on up to like other economists like this is absurd like why would they do such

a thing the white house said it quote defies reality uh but in a statement fitch ratings which is the agency that puts these credit ratings together they said there's three reasons for downgrading the u.s rating and you tell me if you disagree with any of these first concerns that the u.s economy is going to deteriorate over the next three years yeah maybe i don't know why why well why what's the next thing you're saying well a high national debt okay okay that's okay fair well what's the last one and repeated political standoffs over managing the country's finances specifically the brinksmanship over the country's self-imposed debt limit and you know seeing how that's turned into a fucking toy uh

and not i guess something that fucks with uncle sam's credit rating you know don't don't use your uncle's credit card this makes sense but aren't all of these things something that happened i mean i since i've been born i remember all of these things being a thing right like right we've been in like a trillion dollars of debt for like what five ten years or something during the obama administration the entire government shut down over things happening so why now what happened now where i i how does this affect things right it's it's i'm sure just observing like what is happening with the government and politicians like i don't know you have people who are just now think that they they can just break the economy to like win an election uh and that's not how things would work especially

when you're dealing with the largest economy in the world uh yeah i i i think the other part too is like you just see just like all of the extremism that's happening on you know like especially with the republicans too yeah it all it all comes together to paint a very vivid picture of like oh yeah yeah them motherfuckers i don't know if they can pay their bills because they argue over whether or not they should so that doesn't fill me with any joy i'm sure that's yeah talking about it it's grim and then have it speaking of boston so i didn't know this but the harvard medical school's morgue has been up to some absolute vile fuckery apparently there are 19 families who have joined a class action lawsuit against harvard and the medical school because they are alleging that human there is a human remains trafficking scheme which meant that the body

parts of their loved ones that they thought they were donating it to the medical school their heads brains skin and bones were basically being sold on the black market um is what this class action lawsuit is alleging you know the school obviously is pleading not guilty uh but they said again quote the human remains came from people across new england who prior to their deaths volunteered to donate their bodies to harvard's anatomical gifts program the donors had participated in Harvard's anatomical gifts program quote in the hope and expectation that this final act of service and kindness could help train a new generation of doctors because I'm gonna say but instead of treating the donors remains with respect and dignity Harvard quote abandoned the remains in a facility that was a place of freakish

desecration where according to the indictments, criminals were allowed to roam and pick over loved ones' remains for bits like trinkets at a flea market. Oh. What the fuck? Oh, God. What are we going to just... I think Harvard is due for the Elon Musk treatment soon.

You know, we're like, sorry, nah, man. I get it. Y'all had a good run early on. But every single thing coming out of this place is absolutely fucking vile. And now we're talking about y'all were backdoor trafficking human body parts. I'm really curious to know what else is alleged here. But that's so far what we do know about it. That's an 1800s crime of just like full-on

grave diggers going and picking up cadavers and selling them on the black market this is happening now what a crazy what do you get what do you think i mean what if someone's like hey man hey what's up harvard morgue manager it's me miles um y'all got any bones i could come check out or some skin yeah yeah come on down come on down we got some stuff i i have no idea no fucking clue but because i wonder if it's like oh we could use that liver for someone or if it's just a rich guy being like that's a real human hand that i bought at harvard isn't that crazy isn't that wild look i high-five myself with all the time good one oh yeah it fell apart it's pretty floppy and easily breakable so sorry about that

yeah uh yeah and brian in the chat is like yeah what we're talking about cheating trafficking with data fraud admissions fuckery it's all it's all there for us god they said ultimately up to 400 cadavers could have been used in the human remains trafficking scheme now where did they go i that's i'm asking you but like explain to me yeah like i don't what is the what is the value like i are these like fresh heads who what and what's the going rate for a human head yeah who wants that um and i guess i wonder if that guy just like padded his pockets cedric lodge uh they said along with his wife and several others are being accused of this. So I'm sure there's gotta be some kind of damning text messages or like new head just

came in. You may want to get down here quick. It's first come first severed. All right. All right. That's enough for me. It's a crazy plug to have. Yeah, exactly. oh yeah brian's

like i don't know maybe they use those stuff for the bodies exhibition but those are like full-ass bodies like i'm i'm curious i don't know like if you're buying like a forearm you know then what again this is how you know i'm an upstanding citizen i know nothing about the human remains trafficking industry uh because i'm a good guy you know the more i think of it the more like just depressed i am of someone would think of doing this you know of yeah what it's just so depraved too like but that's on like your greed is intersecting with like your half-hearted desire to sort of progress medical education i don't know anyway uh zeitgang let us know what is the going rate for a human forearm what is the going rate for skin uh and a head um and i guess

if you're buying at harvard really would like to know and why because that's i still just don't like it's like it's like garbage in my mind like i ain't buying this it's garbage it's an old dead hand no um all right well victor thank you so much for joining me uh we are going to be back I'm like, I ain't buying that. This is garbage. It's an old dead hand. No. All right. Well, Victor, thank you so much for joining me. We are going to be back tomorrow with a whole ass episode. So until then, fucking just be good. There's enough bullshit out there. Be a kind person.

Be kind to yourself, each other. You know, please make sure you're staying safe out there and don't do nothing about white supremacy, homophobia, transphobia, all that shit. Because it's already hard enough living on planet Earth. All right. We'll talk to you soon. Be back tomorrow with a whole episode. Bye. Bye.

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