The Daily Zeitgeist - Dude, You're Getting A Trend! 12/9: Trump's "Affordability Tour", Australian Social Media Ban, McDonald's AI Ad, Sean Duffy/RFK Jr.

Episode Date: December 9, 2025

In this edition of Dude, You're Getting A Trend!, Jack and super producer Anna Hossnieh discuss Trump's "affordability tour",  the Australian social media ban (for the kids), McDonald's beating out Coca-Cola for the worst AI-generated ad this year, Sean Duffy and RFK Jr. making holiday flying better (by doing pull-ups) and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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That is courtesy of First Blood, 522 on the Discord. And I'm thrilled to be joined by the original super producer of this podcast. gone on to bigger, better things. Last cultureistas, this is important. Traveling the world, living her best life. It's super producer, Anna Hosnier! Thank you so much for having me back. Oh, my God.

Those are prestigious. Oh, don't tease them. Don't tease them with it, Anna. We were supposed to do prestige casting nominees today. We'll be doing that at a future date. Miles is out sick today. And we need the whole crew. We need the entire academy to...

Yeah, well, that's sort of the big announcement is that Miles and Jack have both been invited to be part of the prestige casting academy, which... After a long process in which you could work consulting with the board. For so long, it was just me. Yeah. Victor just wrote in the chat.

Holy shit. Crazy announcement. I know, which is why we need files here. I didn't know what to say. I was in tears this morning. Thank you so much. Now there's finally three of us, and we'll be making sort of non-linear decisions on who should be nominated for prestige casting, and then who should win the awards at the end of the year during the TDZ holiday special specials. This is going to be very exciting.

I have seen three of the movies on your list, so I got some homework to do. also it's it's all sort of vibe based so like if you like that actor's vibe you don't necessarily need to have seen the film you just have to that he's right he's a good person to cast that's right are excuse me i shouldn't just say he no we only that's that's one of the changes miles my are instituting it's only male actors well that's that's the other thing it's like while you guys are part of the academy i have 100% oh yeah like i run this like russia like it's it's like oh you voted okay that That's cute. I make the final decision. And if we do seem like we're getting cute, we're getting some cute ideas about taking back power. You will have us poisoned. That might be where Miles is today.

Just a preemptive poisoning. Don't they all seem to happen on park benches? I think in movies they tend to happen on park benches. I think the main guy that I'm thinking of who's who like, his face just started wilting and then he died like three weeks later. And they were like, oh, he was poisoned. by a rare form of, like, plutonium. That's right.

That guy was, like, in his tea at a hotel, but they can touch you anywhere. That's the thing about Putin's Russia and Anahosniz prestige casting academy. All right. So instead of doing prestige casting, Noms, we're doing just regular trending episode. Thank you so much for joining on such short notice.

I know you're feeling a little under the weather as well. but this could be like your flu game, your Michael Jordan flu game, you know? You know that reference? A lot of pressure. That is a lot of pressure. Well, I have this theory on our icons episode. We're doing a new format of the show

where we do a different icon every week. We've moved on, Anna. We're doing things different around here. What is the structure of, I don't even, I just do a bunch of research on, like so episode one was Einstein. Episode two was Erkel. Um, we just did Schwarzenegger with John Gabris. We did Miss Piggy with, uh, Jamie Loftus.

But something I'm, I'm realizing is it might be a trend that people's most iconic performances are brought out of them by shitting their pants because Schwarzenegger was shitting his pants the whole shoot of predator, uh, Harrison Ford was shitting his pants during, uh, the shoot of Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Michael Jordan was shooting his pants during the flu game. So just something to keep in mind, no pressure. Wow. Okay. That's cool.

Now, when do you do these icon episodes? We do them on Fridays, and then they come out on Monday, a week and a half after. We record them. In theory, usually it's like we're recording it at the last minute, but it's a beautiful dream. You just really throwing anything at the wall to see what sticks, huh? Desperation move. This show is odd. no, I'm sorry.

All right. But here we are talking about the trends. Big news, Donald Trump's affordability tour is kicking off today, Tuesday, December 9th, which he's going and he's going to be delivering great news about the economy, which what the fuck could that even mean? None of the economic indicators are good, but he's, it's like you were saying about prestige casting. It's going to be kind of vibes-based, you know? Well, yeah, I mean, wasn't the whole, I mean, now when I say wasn't the whole idea, like,

as if ideas are real conceptually in any part of the world in the current era, wasn't the idea that by doing all these tariffs, I was going to bring all this, I guess, factory work, all that, all that, all that time and energy and jobs back to America. Now, where are we at with that? Just curious. So he's maybe planning on sending out like a few hundred bucks to people at some point in the next couple of years.

That's the one thing that we have that's tangible from that. Otherwise, pretty much fucked. And all of the costs that are being incurred by these corporations and foreign companies are being passed on to consumers, prices have gone. up and up and up since he's taken over and now he has to he he's like struggling with what to do we covered on a recent episode how he was saying that affordability is a hoax and that it's just something that the mainstream media talks about and nobody else talks to him about it because he's cocooned in you know a bunch of yes man he hasn't talked to anybody other than

the media and then people who are around him being like good job sir You're killing it. But one of his economic advisors said in politics, perception is reality. That's the problem for Trump. The perception that things are more expensive is really affecting the way people feel about Trump's performance. If people feel they're poor, they're poor with respect to how they're going to vote, which is just, yeah, it's, but they don't, they don't feel that way by accident. It's like having an illness in the doctor saying, would love to have you. you into the office. I have some great news about the field of medicine. It's like, what the fuck are you

talking about? Like, what about the thing that I'm actually feeling right now? You just think you're poor. Right. It's just, you, you're just kind of feeling a thing that's not actually real. So anyways, we're excited to see how that goes. When an immigrant parent is like, I don't understand why you're so depressed, you have a roof over your head. That's right. And you're like, okay, but that's not really the point here, and they're like, you're crazy. Right. You're goddamn crazy. How could you ask for more when you have so much and yet you just feel so little? Mind over body, dog. That's what, you know, it's just like. Haven't you seen Christmas movies? Just feel better. How do you feel so bad? You can just believe your way into being able to like fly a little bit, I think, if the movies are

true. Unfortunately, we did see, as Superducer Victor points out, we did see this approach of mind over body, kill Steve Jobs. So, um, doesn't always work.

Let's say it's not 100% of the time, uh, successful. Because he was like convinced that he could just, he was like, I'm not going to take all those medicines, all those like weird foreign medicines. I'm going to eat clean and just,

you know, meditate a bunch. I don't know the exact. details, but he did not take the traditional Western course of medicine and didn't make it, turns out. All right. We got to move forward because Australia, the Australian social media ban is going into effect tomorrow. Everybody under the age of 16 will no longer be allowed to have a social media account. That includes Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, X, Snapchat, And Reddit, I feel like Reddit, my one big note for Australia, and I know they do listen and take my advice,

Reddit feels like they could take that off the list. No, I think Reddit should be the only thing that is banned. Everything else I don't think is that big a deal. I think Reddit's the real problem. I mean, like, 4chan 2.0, give me a break. Yeah, okay, Brian is agreeing with you, Bruns. Get that the fuck out of here. Um, so starting today, it's not that the kids get fined or their parents get fine, but the companies get fine.

That's why, so like, I don't think this is going to work 100% of the time for sure. They will be VPN. There will be an amazing amount of money made on VPNs in Australia in the coming months, but I do like that it's the people paying the fines or the companies. Like, it's basically like kind of putting the onus on the companies. to take their own research series. Like, they've had research for decades now being like, this is, like, really fucking up kids. And, like, if you talk to social media executives,

they're like, my kids, like, don't even know what a phone is. Like, we would never let them near a phone. But in Australia, 96% of kids age 10 through 15 are on social media. So I don't think that's going to go away overnight. I don't hate it. I feel like, I don't know, doing something that is putting the onus on the corporations feels good. It feels like a move in the right direction. Be sure, like, they're going to ask for your, like, ID or something.

I don't know. How do they know? Yeah, I guess they are. One of the reasons my mom went off Instagram is because they asked her to, like, prove her age. And she was so offended. Like, she was like, are you? Do this Instagram app just ask my age? You're dead.

to me. And I don't know. I just think that's very funny of like asking anyone to upload their idea or information because the way my mom was like, never again, don't you ever ask my age a fucking again. I'll never look at a goddamn Instagram story. If my daughter's again, that's it. It's over. Oh my God. That sounds exactly like your mom. She has no sense of my, like now my existence because Instagram asked her age. It does feel like the only way that anybody knows about my family is, Through my wife's Instagram posts. People are like, oh, yeah.

Every time you're somewhere, I'm like, Jack went somewhere. It's only because I'm looking at your wife's Instagram stories. Yeah, it's kind of nice. You just like go see your relatives and there's no catching up to do. They're just immediately like, oh, yeah. There was a photo of you. I think you went to like a bachelor party or something. And I was like, Jack has friends?

Yeah, I do. That's a lot of dudes in one photo. Jack knows. It was a lot of dudes. Outside of us. It was like indistinguish. from like a gay circuit party but it was a heterosexual bachelor party all the dudes look like hetero yeah yeah it was hetero but like all the dudes were like it was like 20 dudes in a pool

together hang out with their shirts off all wearing matching hats um you're in a pool uh let's take a quick break we'll come back we'll look at i think the worst AI generated uh ad we've seen so far this year coke has some competition we'll be right back If a Lenovo gaming computer is on your holiday list, don't shop around. Just go directly to the source, Lenovo.com. It's your last chance to score exclusive deals on the gaming PCs you want, like the Lenovo Legion Tower 5 Gen 10 gaming desktop and Lenovo Lock Gaming laptop. So avoid all that shopping, chaos and price comparing,

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so it's like how do you get this cat to like stand for this mug shot yeah it looks almost like a painting of the cat and I was like what the hell so I went up to it so I was like this is who how did you get this photo of your cat and then it says like oh they're missing just FYI this is an AI generated photo of the cat and I'm like what you don't have a fucking picture of your cat This cat is so elusive. It's like, please, no pictures. That, like, you have to AI generate it. And also, I'm like, how accurate is this?

Right. And also it says on the thing that it's a working cat. Well, again, like I told Miles, who pointed that out, that this is New York City. Everyone's working. Everyone's working. Who do you think you're paying rent? Okay? Do you think they put that because they're like, we are losing income here?

Like, this cat is an earner. Bring him back to us. It sounds like it because also if you look at the email says if seen reach out to, it says meow cat sitting at gmail.com. So part of me is like, is this like a like a cat sitter lost this cat and they're panicking? So they're like, yeah, that sounds like, oh my God, please in the next three days. Otherwise we're going to have to paint a black cat. That I guess doesn't really answer the question of why is it working.

Yeah, why is it working? It's that that would be the birds the other pets or something. be the most obedient, well-trained cat in the history of the world. And they're like, the sitter ran away. We need to find this cat. It actually babysits children. Yeah. It's making good bank.

All right. Well, elsewhere in the world of AI, McDonald's has somehow topped Coca-Cola made the most soulless all around depressing AI-generated Christmas commercial of the year. Very great. McDonald's Netherlands put it out. It's all about how Christmas. is the most terrible time of the year and then they just like steal a bunch of uh mood like holiday movie scenes like they've got um the national lampoon's christmas vacation like the way too big

christmas tree that like opens out and like breaks the window like they just have that happen um they have a dad falling while putting up christmas lights also i mean they just basically made national lampoon's christmas vacation but then there's also i didn't get that reference i didn't get any of those references. I don't think they're references. I think they're fucking just stealing shit because that's what AI does. It just remixes other people's shit. Um, there's also a weird moment where people are fighting over a teddy bear in a toy store. Again, these are like, you know, things where people are like, uh, the holidays, am I right? But the teddy bear is like sentient and can like seemingly feel pain. Seems to be like, um, which again, they're just like,

that's Ted. That's Ted. Yeah, exactly. Then Santa stuck in traffic. Um, that was the most unrealistic part yeah yeah i know because santa can fly stupid um and then they also have like a weird close-up shot of i think this is supposed to be like the shots in movies where like the aunt is kissing the kid from a christmas story like you have like a fish eye lens on her mouth but it looks like something out of mahalan drive uh but everything's fine because the guy goes into mcdonald at the end and then the song you hear the song says hi out in McDonald's until it's January and I'm like what are you trying to say like is it because it's cold out so go inside McDonald's but January is even colder you could say no it's because

McDonald's is the only good place during the holidays the holiday is the holiday fucking sucks so like why is that like that is such a okay don't act like you're not concept for an ad when like the holidays is what we all look forward to we get time off we get don't act like You're not always... Spice. You get presents. Don't act like you're always getting in traffic jams because Santa's in the middle of the street. Douglas fir.

I'm just naming trees. Standard move for you. Come on. Start naming trees. Yeah. Also, nobody looks forward to January after the holidays. January is like the fucking worst. It's a bumper town in January.

Yeah. New Year's start. I was like, what's your? revolution. What's your revolution that you're starting? No, what's your resolution? What are you trying to change by yourself this year? It's like nothing. Yeah. Oh, God, I can't wait to get over this time when I get to like do less work a little bit and just fucking chill a little bit with my family. Also, you didn't respond to this, but I thought I had a pretty good thing where I said also that's where Luigi got caught so I'm not hanging out and McSnitch aside. That's right. Shout out to Luigi, man.

And then aside, which is genocide, just saying comedy. I do feel like Luigi's going to have a big 2026, right? Like his trial's coming up. I feel like we're going to be. Luigi's going to be on. He keeps getting more and more handsome. He does. What is happening?

He's having like a glow up every single day in jail. In jail? Yeah. People were like, we don't like this ad. And the company behind the spot was like, what are you talking about? We worked so fucking hard on this. We hardly slept for seven weeks. working on the AI and claimed AI didn't make this film we did. First of all, it's not a

film. It's a McDonald's ad. Don't be like passionate, uh, starving artists about making a McDonald's ad. You made a shitty McDonald's ad that everybody hates. Like don't, this is not helpful. This is not helping your case. Sorry. Are they saying they built the AI to make the ad? No. Or they just like wrote a bunch of words in the AI generated system and then. Yeah. They I just wrote a bunch of words in the AI-generated system and just, like, kept tweaking. Yeah, somebody responded to their impassioned plea being like, our fingers hurt from typing prompts. Yeah, I was going to say, like, I don't think it's that hard to make a bad ad.

Oh, Sabrespark on Twitter, wrote that in response. Let's see. It's been a while since you've been on. Did you know RFK Jr. is the head of health and human services? Yeah, and let me tell you. Have you been keeping up with the Olivia Nazi, like, book drama at all? Oh, yeah. So fucking funny.

What an absolute icon. When you did the icon episode about Olivia? Did you read any of the excerpts are pretty funny? Yes, I've read all the, you don't think I haven't been following the substack of the guy Ryan that she was with before. Oh, my God. His shit is crazy, too. Both of the, I don't know how crazy people find each other, but that's like God's gift to us as people. as like society, the fact that we just see these train wrecks happen in real time and like, we pull out the popcorn and start snacking because we're like, um, what girl?

Like, she believes she's the hero. Yeah, she's the hero of the story. Um, and she also believes she's like, right, right, blonde. For me blonde. Like, and I'm also Joan Diddy and I'm like the best writer in the world. And then everyone's like this is kind of self-aware in a weird way. Do you see the post she did of like how you know things aren't going well after your book launch? And it's like, it's like a list of people reaching out asking if she's okay.

She posted that herself. It's on her Instagram. Everyone really, are you good girl? Like, everyone also offering her like free spa treatments. It's tough. It's a tough read. Her ex, when he like posted that thing the day that her book was about to come out. And it was like an account.

And you think it's going to be the account of how he found out that she was cheating with RFK Jr. And it was another guy. A different politician who she was. cheated on it's like dude that's honestly on you man this keeps happening to you what is going on i know it really is like shame on you mark sanford they're always like the worst dudes too um anyways rfk junior uh you know air travel bit of a mess right now and so in response to this crisis sean duffy is doing pull-ups with r fk junior outside of an airport bathroom they they set up a pull-up bar

with the idea that they're going to give people an opportunity to do pull-ups at the airport to, like, I don't know, work out their rage at, like, having their flights canceled, their holidays ruined. That is actually funny because when I was stuck in Vegas, like, two weeks ago, trying to get out of there, every time they would announce another delay, there would be, like, 30 dads being like, like, passive-aggressive laughing, so loud, but I knew it. I told you, honey. And I just started to be like, this is the passive-aggressive dad laugh at an airport is really something we need to examine because...

Ha! We're in hell. They have no idea what else to do, but to, like, aggressively laugh in the most stressed-out way. And I was like, that's... There's something there. Yeah. So, you know what? Praise B.R.F. G. Jr. let those dads do those stupid. You've been saying that shit. You've been saying that shit.

Ever since I read American Conto, I've actually really started to understand. Kind of. of RFK Jr. Duffy promised one billion in new grant money for airports with ideas on

how to make air travel healthier and more pleasant and it introduced influencers who suggested creating spots for people to work out in airports

and then RFK Jr. Did 20 pull-ups which is kind of crazy. That's a lot of pull-ups. Of course he did. He looked like he was dead. Like he looked honestly like he was dying

the whole time he was doing it. But then they also talked about the importance of breastfeeding like with a weird far away look in their eye. I will say that man is like, I don't know, being like RFK Jr. did 20 pull-ups. I'm like, I believe that

because I bet he's just at the gym working out and not doing his job. Yeah. He just seems like that guy. Like, he's like, how can I make my face more red and more purple bigger? And like, I'm like struggling than to actually show up and like make an effort to like,

I don't know, have an FDA. By the way, how are the vibes in Vegas? We have a story tomorrow about how private equity is taking over Vegas and taking away all the, like, fun perks of, like, you used to be able to, like, go to an all-you-can-eat buffet and, like, you know, have a good time for a cheap amount of money. And now it's, like, all resort fees and, like, all this shit that, you have a good time. They also said there's also a quote in this article about how Thunder from Down Under is seeing crashing ticket sales, which is. a bummer. I know you were hanging out with those guys. I have a hot take. Yeah. Okay. I love Thunder from Down Under. Turns out

they're actually Australian. They do bring them from Australia. They're not allowed to look at Instagram or anything because they're all 12 and I'm just joking. But I think lovely, lovely men, I can understand maybe why prices or ticket sales

are dropping because one, it's it might be conceptually outdated, especially when you have like Magic Mike Live and like all this sort of like I think the relevance has died off a little and I when you see these men up you know in front of your face you're like okay Adonis cool with them like they're like it looks like they're gonna like get struck in the head by one of their pecks like flexing in some of the pictures you sent us yeah I wasn't mad at that um but yeah but when I was like watching them perform

and I hope this doesn't get me in trouble because here's the thing. Loved all those dudes. They were all so lovely. Breit, my, no, I'm just joking, that's not all the names,

but when I was, like, watching them from the side, they're not good answers. What? Just hot. They're doing old choreo, but, like, the choreos all just a little off.

You could just feel like they're not on time with each other. Sure. They're just sort of, like, doing this sort of, like, like kind of like cool dance moves that are like

Victor's so pissed to appear like they're doing something but if you're really really looking at them you're like yeah okay these guys aren't exactly the end all be all of dancing like the second they start like grinding then you're like yeah okay yeah that's what you're good at

yeah this is your bread and butter but the dancing part is like the choreograph like group dancing it's that's not it and I will say magic mic doesn't do that. They don't do like choreograph. It's just all air fucking. They're like hanging from every like fan. Every surface. Anything that can be hung from there hanging from it. I'm not joking. There's a goddamn zip line they fly across. Like it's wild what they're doing in a magic mic live. Like anything

that can, a man can be like hanging or holding on to or just standing on. He's doing it and he is literally, you know, gyrating his dick in the air. You saw you saw both. well i've always seen magic or sorry under from down under at the t i i live show i've never seen them actually perform in their show okay got it but yeah i've seen magic mic live yeah so they were they were off their like typical routine and i mean this is something you just thought they were hot guys i didn't think they needed to be doing like choreo dancing yeah um this is something you'll see it like you know the the like indiana pacer an indiana pacer's game like the the dance team like they can't you can't find that many white people who are good dancers like

there's always like one or two people in the crew that is just like five seconds behind it's just like god damn this is um you know they can't all be the Dallas Cowboys yeah it's it's tough out here um they're being starved to death yeah but like yeah you try and put together a like dance squad of white guys just based on their looks and teach them to dance. You cannot have a legit incredible dance crew without a mean old southern woman emotionally abusing them with her hair touching the ceiling because that's how close to God it is. And that's our movie. That's our movie right there.

That's how you create dancers. Okay, look, there's Bill Belichick and there's Monica Altama. I can't get over that line from cheer. Like, you need the meanest most cutthroat woman in the room being like

you're cut. Yeah. Unless you show up. I need you inform it. Like, that's what you need. Then you're going to have an incredible dance crew.

Yeah. But otherwise... Otherwise, there's no point. Just start grinding and stop trying to do choreo. So you think the Vegas economy is collapsing because the poor dancing

by the thunder from down under, economy is collapsing. I think it's actually growing, but I think it's losing its old sort of like hype and joy and like glamour in that old sense. The joy is gone. Because yeah, you don't really have the classical buffets. You have all these like chefs opening restaurants. Like there's like a momofuku there. There's like all these different like places that they're coming and opening because they know they can bring those tourist dollars in. And then you have, you know, giant things like F1 coming in, creating these huge weekends that are just bringing all this money. but that's the thing is like that just doesn't trickle down yeah everything else is gone more affordable

experiences for these more high end like they're trying to make Vegas like bougie again and it's like that's not what Vegas is supposed to be Vegas is supposed to be where you go and become live like a shit whole weekend life where you're like that's all going away happens in Vegas days in Vegas well now it's like actually it doesn't because you know you can you know you want to yeah tell everyone you at F1 or you want to be like I was a momofuku or whatever you know I was at the cosmopolitan at what's that guy's name Bruno Mars's club the pinky ring horseshoe thing I went to that it was interesting that's yeah it's kind of defeating the purpose of what Vegas was conceptually built on which is this sort of like hedonistic

experience but now it's like corporate hedonism isn't a thing like it doesn't work you know so it is like the tourism is collapsing. We talk about this on tomorrow's episode. It's becoming a place for like foreign tourism. Well, also foreign tourism is collapsing because of the Trump administration, unfortunately. Yeah, that's unfortunate. Yeah, yeah. But they are getting better at extracting money from gamblers. I'll explain all of this tomorrow. But I wanted to get your Vegas street level view. I mean, I guess, you know, I was born in the Bellagio Fountains. Yeah, you just rose up out of the Bellagio Fountains. I grew up going to Vegas a lot because my dad and his friends all love Vegas.

I've spent many a lifetime in Vegas just on, like, holidays and just random weekends. And I know Vegas, like, the back of my hand. Yeah. I don't love saying that out loud, but I'm very familiar. Come with me, kid. Like, you know, like that you don't even see the, like, the, the cards with the titties on them anymore on the ground.

I know. Like, that used to be, we would, my dad would go. That's usually, they used to be why I would go. Well, my dad would just collect those. loose. Also, here's thing. My dad would straight up let a bunch of children loose on the strip and be like, all right, well, I'll have fun. Then go into the casino. And me and my, like, family

friends and siblings would just walk around and collect cards with women's, like, tits on them. And that was, like, being like, woo-hoo! Those were the days. Then we go hit the buffet. All right. Anna, such a pleasure having you. As always. This is a teaser for the coming

prestige casting nominations happening in the next couple of days. and then the prestige casting final awards episode happening during the holiday break. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? You can find me in hell, just joking. I'm on Instagram. This is the only place you can really find me because I'm off everything, but I'm at Host NIEA on Instagram.

It's just H-O-S-S-N-I-E-H-H-H. That's right. 3-H is at the end of my last name. That's where I am. That's where you can find me. That's where I post all my giggly joys. Yeah, you can listen to Las Colteristas. You can listen to This Is Important.

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