The Daily Zeitgeist - Final DestinaTrend: Blood Zeits 5/21: Water Based Cooking, Mr. Beast, COVID, Internet Ennui, Billy Long

Episode Date: May 21, 2025

In this edition of Final DestinaTrend: Blood Zeits, Jack and special guest co-host Pallavi Gunalan discuss the "water based cooking" trend on TikTok, Mr. Beast being hot now (???), Trump making it nig...h impossible for Americans to get COVID boosters, UK kids thinking they'd be better off without the internet, Trump's pick for the IRS and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:02:00 Find it on the iHeart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello the internet and welcome to this episode of Final Destination Trend, Blood Zites. Which one of us will die by the end of the episode? Probably all of us. If I had to guess based on that dang movie, that I think just came out. We were having a lively discussion. Producer Victor was doing his best not to spoil it, but like the- Did you see the promo for it?
Starting point is 00:02:33 The trailer? No, there's a promo truck with logs on the back of it. Oh yeah, yeah, I did see that. That was driving her. I'm like, that's literally what our entire generation thinks whenever we're behind a truck now. But it's so funny that it's like that specific thing. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:02:48 I was tailgating that truck all day. I was being like, please. My name is Jack O'Brien. That over there is my co-host for today, Pauly V. Gunawayne. Miles is never coming back. She killed Miles in a roundabout way. You put a final destination curse on he and all of us.
Starting point is 00:03:09 Yeah, and also the Saw movies also at the same time. Yeah, kind of added to hat on a hat, but you needed to get the job done. I just took a tricycle part because I thought it was cute. Yeah. You know? All right, well, this is the episode
Starting point is 00:03:24 where we tell some people what is trending on this Wednesday, May 21st, this afternoon. Let's see, TikTok has reinvented soup, is one way to read this story. Super producer Victor linked through. Super producer. Super producer. Victor linked through to this video on TikTok where it says POV. You started water based cooking and now your skin is clear.
Starting point is 00:03:51 Your stomach is thriving and you recover from illness overnight. Holy shit. To be fair, it's like water based, like it's based. You know what I mean? And then like that text is over a series of pictures of soups being cooked and then vegetables being steamed, which it's. Do you think the skin is just getting better because like their face is oversteamed? They're just getting like a spa treatment, you know? It's like I I think all of the things that they're showing look delicious and healthy.
Starting point is 00:04:27 So I'm not here to say this is a bad. This isn't like one of the bad ones where, you know, people are like, I eat a little bit of plastic every day. It's getting this is why I also don't mind like the Stanley Cup water thing. I'm like, as long as you're drinking water and eating your veggies, kids, you know? Yeah. I also don't mind the crispy diet Coke thing where they just have like a really nicely refrigerated diet Coke. Now that is poison, but I just like that it's not like, and if you drink five diet Cokes, you'll never die. You'll see God. There's just really a lot of loving attention lavished on the experience of having a single diet coke. But yeah, this just seems like, I don't know, taking centuries old recipes and cooking techniques and turning it into a viral trend
Starting point is 00:05:20 by being like hot water based, water based Yeah. This is like when white people discovered turmeric and we were like, why were our fingers stained for centuries for you to just find this out? That's right. We love rediscovering things and being like, POV, you've just invented a new type of cooking. We need to, I think instead of trying to like do a revolution Or like do things through a system where we legislate human rights I think we need to distract white people with like Easter eggs and like constantly help them like think like they're discovering new things You know just be like oh my god. Good job. It's America. Oh my god water-based cooking. Good job
Starting point is 00:06:02 If that were happening right now, I'm not sure I'd be able to distinguish it from what, from our current timeline. Because I feel like white people love being online and on TikTok looking for little Easter eggs and clues that have been left for them by the powers that be. Mr. Beast is hot now.
Starting point is 00:06:24 It seems like he went to the same person as Mark Zuckerberg. Hot. I'll put it in quotes. Or David Dobrik, I guess, when he got jacked or whatever. Yeah, yeah. He just, or like Matt, right? Is that the Matt Reif? Is that the guy, the comedian who has like a jaw implant? It feels like Mr. Beast got like- Oh, oh,'s like a plastic surgery Yeah, oh or malaney malaney too. Oh my god. Wait malaney for real Well, i'm malaney's jaw has changed interesting
Starting point is 00:06:56 Don't parasocial get mad at me audience. Okay, his jaw looks different I have seen that online, but I didn't didn't notice that. I thought it was just- Oh my God. Mr. Beast's face looks crazy. Yeah. Good. Crazy good. Sorry, I cut you off before you could think.
Starting point is 00:07:12 His facial hair looks like the Tiger King. It could be that he's just accentuating his jawline with a little beard. You know what I mean? That's a thing that people do. No, his face is different. Also, Leah Sampson, a good friend of mine who's a hilarious comedian, lives in New York. The first comment under this complex post is, what half white, half black woman is responsible for this? She posted it underneath. Also-
Starting point is 00:07:44 Oh, Michael B. Jordan has done, he's gotten his jaw fixed. Like we all knew that. Super producer Victor pointing out. Yeah. We don't, we don't mind it sometimes. Sometimes you're allowed to have your jaw redone. Yeah. He totally like, he didn't have a chin before and then now he has one.
Starting point is 00:07:59 Early seasons of The Wire, he's plays a character who goes missing and, uh, it's one of the more heartbreaking moments in the wire. Yeah. And, uh, he did not have a chin back then. I think by the time he was on like parenthood, he had a chin. Oh yeah. Yeah. Um, great. I don't know. Men can get, uh, gender affirming care. That's fine. Um, that's, I'm fine with that. If they feel better about themselves, I just don't think Mr. Beast is hot now. I don't think this makes them hot. Mr. Beast is hot now. It's official. Find a new angle.
Starting point is 00:08:34 Is he on the, what chocolate does he sell? Beast treats or whatever the fuck? What is it called? Beast treats. I thought it was just like Mr. Beast chocolate. I didn't know that it had a name that made you feel like a dog. I don't think they, I think I made that up, but hire me for branding. Beastables, which is great. Crustables and Beastables, Uncrustables.
Starting point is 00:08:57 Yeah, I don't think he's hot now, I'm sorry. Next question. No further questions, your honor. Trump is quietly making it impossible to get COVID boosters for most Americans, essentially, despite the fact that he has tried to take credit for the COVID vaccine rollout, calling it one of the greatest miracles of the ages. He is also, you know, he knows that his base does not like COVID and does not like to, does not like the vaccine.
Starting point is 00:09:31 They love COVID. They can't get enough of it. They did not like the vaccine. And so he is doing what the people want. And you know, with the help of RFK, the government had previously recommended seasonal vaccines for all Americans six months and older. And now they have announced their direction going forward,
Starting point is 00:09:55 which will be only given to adults 65 and older, as well as children and younger adults with at least one high risk health problem. Everyone else is gonna get injected with COVID. That's right. You do have to come in and get injected. You have to get injected. You're going to have a card. It'll say here's COVID. One immediate blatant problem with this change is that the FDA didn't offer any intention to establish carve-outs for caregivers of people who still qualify for COVID vaccines under its new rules, which would be smart. It feels like they give everything the level of thought that a Hollywood screenwriter would,
Starting point is 00:10:36 where it's just like, we're going to make this change because it's going to look like this to people who aren't really paying attention and moving on. It's almost worse because Hollywood screenwriters have to answer to their fucking nerd fans. And Trump has to answer to the White House press corps, which are now people that are like, hey Trump, I heard your dick is good. Like, wanna talk about that?
Starting point is 00:10:59 How is your dick so good? How is your dick so good? Like, that's the extent that they ask him questions now That's a really good question that a lot of people are asking My dick is great. They're saying it's one of the great dicks of the ages Miracles of the ages if you heard that it needs a boot. It doesn't need a booster. Okay. Yeah, but a lot of people are pointing Pushing back on this and saying, you know, you have to make allowances for people who are going to be, you know, caregivers for that.
Starting point is 00:11:32 So. Exposed to COVID potentially. Well, I'm sure the Trump administration will be quick to respond to that, AKA, just ignore the shit out of it. Have you seen Tom Cruise eating popcorn of late? I've heard so many things about Tom Cruise and popcorn. I've seen random, I'm like, why is he gonna have a popcorn line?
Starting point is 00:11:52 Why am I seeing, there was one where he was walking to stage and he pointed out that somebody had already eaten their popcorn before the movie. There's always talking over popcorn to AMC employees. And now we've seen what it looks like as he's eating popcorn. And he's like basically throwing fastball, like each piece of popcorn,
Starting point is 00:12:11 he's like throwing into his mouth. He does his own stunts folks. With ferocity. It's kind of wild. Do you have, can you imagine Tom Cruise being normal in any situation? No. Exactly. It's, it is such a nightmare to like have somebody point out how quickly you've eaten
Starting point is 00:12:30 your popcorn. I always finish my popcorn way too fast. And like I go in with intention being like, I'm not going to finish my popcorn. I'm going to finish this popcorn is going to be here at the like Act two, you know like as as we're heading into act three. I'll be polishing this bad boy off I'm gonna do a thing where I eat the top half with my drink and then the bottom half I make sure sour patch kit. I Do things about born one for the pre movie I have two things of popcorn, one for the pre-movie, and then one for the, maybe another third one
Starting point is 00:13:06 for after I go double-handed and my mouth at the same time. Scoop. Double-handed and your mouth. Just all of it in as fast as possible. Inhale, you know, like one of the worms from Dune, just gobbling it up. It's all over my face after. I can't look anyone in the eye,
Starting point is 00:13:24 and that's how you enjoy a movie. It is like as people are making fun of Tom Cruise for how he eats popcorn and it is strange. I do ask that you watch the video. That's the most relatable thing about him though. Everybody like I, when I eat popcorn, I look ridiculous. Insane. Yeah, I'm like, just like shelving it into my mouth.
Starting point is 00:13:42 That's why the movie theater is dark. It's not to watch the movie better. It's to eat your popcorn and shame. There's no, like, you know, it's the opposite of a Reese's. There's that Reese's ad campaign. There's no wrong way to eat a Reese's. There's no right way to eat popcorn. It's just always bad.
Starting point is 00:13:57 I feel like I'm, when I like put it into my mouth, my wife is like, what are you, why do you eat it like that? And I just ask her to, you know, kindly turn around and not look at me. Don't look at me. I'm hideous. But it is such a Tom Cruise way to eat popcorn. Just like he, I have seen, it's like,
Starting point is 00:14:21 have you ever seen somebody who like pops cashews or like peanuts into their mouth? And they just like kind of, it's like, have you ever seen somebody who like pops cashews or like peanuts into their mouth? And they just like kind of, it's like an upward toss into the mouth. Yeah, it's a very like, I'm an alpha male, I'm making the business deals here kind of guy. Yeah. But every popcorn thing, and it's just so high risk,
Starting point is 00:14:38 high reward, which is how Tom Cruise lives his life. But I would try that. And if I got like three in a row, I would feel like I was on the top of the on top of the world. We're trying to do that with it. Yeah, I would be like taking out my eye. Like I would be. Jack doesn't do his own popcorn.
Starting point is 00:14:56 I don't. I need somebody to step in for me. Yeah, because it's not like throwing it up and catching it in your mouth where it's like a nice lazy arc. It's just an upward fastball. I don't have the patience to wait for it to fall down I need it in my mouth faster. Also The I think the other surprising thing is that Tom Cruise eats popcorn, which like I'm like what I would think he would eat Some sort of gray goo, you know, yeah
Starting point is 00:15:22 Yeah, I mean it is one thing that is still impossibly movie star, uh, slash Scientology, like hyperbaric chamber of him is eating the popcorn one piece at a time is like who has that restraint? You know? Yeah. I'm like, that's, that would be a bigger stunt for me than learning how to ride a motorcycle off a cliff. I'm like, yeah, yeah, I got it.
Starting point is 00:15:49 Whatever. But I'm like, the popcorn, I can't wait. They're like, oh, cut, go again. God, the people behind me would be getting pelted with so many individual pieces of popcorn because I'd also be like in a panic to get more popcorn in my mouth. Sweating, you know. Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. Are you breaking up with me?
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Starting point is 00:20:20 Listen to A Really Good Cry on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And for some reason during the break, we started talking about Clint Eastwood movies because that is like an alpha move of throwing popcorn. And it feels like Eastwood. I feel like it's a little too much work for Eastwood. Like Eastwood would eat a single kernel at a time, but like kind of suspiciously and- But that's why his eyes are so squinty all the time.
Starting point is 00:20:53 He's trying not to get popcorn in them. You know? Yeah. Just like one at a time and kind of like without joy. The popcorn falls in love with him randomly. Yeah, yeah. We're also saying that every Clint Eastwood movie. He writes such one-dimensional female characters where they're like, I hate you. And then all of a sudden it turns into lust when he one-handedly saves them or something.
Starting point is 00:21:14 Psych. You secretly everybody wants to have sex with Clint Eastwood no matter how old they are and how old he is. I know. I was like, because I watched his movies because I had missed them or what. They weren't in my zeitgeist. And so I was like, I like, I could, I watched his movies because I had like missed them or what it like, I, I, they weren't in my zeitgeist. And so I was like, Oh, I should watch these as an adult to see what the like cultural references. And it's literally just like Clint Eastwood writing scripts of what he thinks is cool from like probably when he was like a teen, you know? And also he'd like just can't stop having kids. So it might not be that dissimilar from what life is like for-
Starting point is 00:21:44 Is he like that too? Yeah, yeah. He just like walks into... There's a very funny podcast, the Action Boys, that covers Clint Eastwood movies a lot and they talk about how his sperm is like airborne. You just like get in the same room with him and like you become pregnant. How many kids does he have? He has eight, but like he's still having them with people who aren't his wife. He's 94? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:09 Ew, ew, ew, ew. And he's been married five times. Yeah, yeah. Gross. It says children, at least eight. At least eight that we know of. There's no way to know. He's had numerous casual and serious, okay.
Starting point is 00:22:26 Yeah. Yeah. Many of which have overlapped, gross. This man will sit on any woman, and chairs, and any chairs at a Republican national conference. That's right. All right, there is a new survey
Starting point is 00:22:44 that The Guardian is covering that finds that almost half of young people would prefer a world without internet. This is a UK study that has found that nearly 70% of 16 to 21 year olds feel worse about themselves after spending time on social media and half would support a digital curfew that would restrict their access to certain apps and sites past 10 p.m. 46% said they would rather be young in a world without the internet altogether. I'm gonna be honest. It was fun growing up with limited access to the internet. Like I had fun. I went outside.
Starting point is 00:23:19 I'm not necessarily saying it's better because I wouldn't know that experience. But like I was just thinking about all the crazy shit we did as kids and how it was real interactive social stuff. And it was hard. There was bullying and whatever, but we came up, we made our own fun. We were like TPing houses and shit. Do people do that anymore?
Starting point is 00:23:40 Do they do TP houses? Well, we have talked about how the two things that have faced massive shortages are toilet paper and eggs, the two things that we used to throw at people's houses. So yeah, these kids are growing up in a struggle I never used to know. It's been bad for quietly retaliating against nemesis in middle school. There was also like a thing recently where they talked about how people like our phones like tracked how many selfies we would delete and then try to advertise like beauty products to us like in that moment. Yeah, that makes sense.
Starting point is 00:24:18 Wasn't that a thing? Yeah. Yeah. That's like that's so gross. It's like they're literally squeezing us for every, and these are like kids, like teens, you know? Yeah, and if your phone is just like subtly suggesting to you that you need to fix the way you look,
Starting point is 00:24:33 like that can't be good. When you're a teenager, you need skincare. I'm like, this is crazy. It's, yeah. And it feels, I do really feel like it's taken away a big chunk of people's free will and that we're in a much worse place than we realize when it comes to the amount of time. A quarter of respondents
Starting point is 00:24:51 spent four or more hours a day on social media. 42% of those surveyed admitted to lying to their parents and guardians about what they do online. And while online, 42% said that they had lied about their age. 40% admitted to having a decoy or burner account I mean that stuff all seems pretty harmless 27% said they pretend to be a different person completely. They're like no mom. I'm just jacking off in here I'm not looking at things to consume. I swear to God. I swear to God. I'm just jerking it I'm just jerking it to the friend of yours, but I'm not trying to buy more shit. I promise.
Starting point is 00:25:28 Yeah, I just I think boredom is underrated, you know, I think like having to make your own fun and just like come up with shit and not always have an option that is going to distract you and occupy your brain with something that has been like market tested to divert you and give you an idea that steers you towards consumption. I feel like in a very obvious way that it would be preferable to not exist online. Yeah. I mean, it is good for being aware of political issues and if you can get outside of your
Starting point is 00:26:02 bubble, which a lot of people can't online. But I also feel like there's not enough interaction with human beings when you're trying to solve a problem for critical thinking. It used to be we'd have a question and you'd be like, well, do you think it's this or that? And we wouldn't immediately go to our phones. Right. But we're kind of, what is it called? Offloading or substituting? Outsourcing. Outsourcing. Yeah. Logic to like AI or whatever. So even, even now, like, yeah, you can look it up,
Starting point is 00:26:33 but do you know like the source is correct? I don't even think we have necessarily the, the talk it out skills that we used to, you know, I definitely don't have the talk it out skills that I used to have. I'm fortunately just have an AI script writer that writes everything that I say. So in your brain, in my brain, yeah, implanted black situation.
Starting point is 00:26:55 That's the one place that I trust Elon Musk. I think he's off base on a lot of stuff, but I do trust him to implant a chip into my brain to help me Google things in my brain. Here's a crazy thing. I don't know if this is bad to say, but I went to college with someone who's like third in line at Neuralink. Wow. Third in line like in the leadership or third in line to get the thing put under their brain?
Starting point is 00:27:19 No, no, no, no, no. In leader, like he's at the he's been at the company since we like graduated. Wow. Yeah. So I'm like, I'm, I'm very curious, like what the internal, because a lot of like, like I worked on neural probes in my masters and the idea was to implant a probe to help a prosthetic move by you thinking. Right. So like amputees and stuff. But like with Neuralink, I'm like, what else are they doing up there?
Starting point is 00:27:43 And then like, because initially when it came out, I'm like, what else are they doing up there? And then like, cause initially when it came out, I was like, oh, that's cool. They're like trying to do a similar thing, you know, assist people who have, don't have like access to movement or whatever. Yeah. But it's tough. Yeah. I feel like that I do, you know,
Starting point is 00:28:01 back in the days when before all tech had just like gone down this like a dark fascist libertarian direction. Optimism. Yeah, I was like, I was like, that's cool. Like it's going to be enable us to like create new senses. Like not just like help people who have lost certain senses, but like, you know, it could enable us to like have feeds that like enable us, you know, biomimicry. Yeah, stuff like, you know, it could enable us to like have feeds that like enable us, you know, biomimicry, stuff like that.
Starting point is 00:28:28 Yeah. So suddenly like you're just trailed by a drone that gives you like a bird's eye view of everything around you. And it's like goes directly into your brain or like something, you know, that stuff all seemed like cool. And now it just feels like, no, they'd find a way to like fuck with you. And they'd monetize your head. Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
Starting point is 00:28:51 And speaking of monetization, Trump's pick to head the IRS, Billy Long, is it's just like, I don't even know. Like, I guess I just feel like we have to keep talking about this shit because it's so openly corrupt. But he is somebody who. Like has told business executives like that he's going to give them tax breaks. Like he they're just he's like they're like, yeah, I mean, this is going to be great. He's like making sure that we never like he's giving them these passes that are
Starting point is 00:29:24 basically like I'm audit proof because of this guy who and like the way they're like talking about they're just speaking openly on these like recorded zoom calls and just being like, yeah, it's pretty crazy. I call up one of my friends and I say, Hey, the IRS Commissioner, Billy Long, the new one coming in that we're all excited about, is Billy coming to the inauguration? My friend says, well, he doesn't have a ticket. He's not, because he's not confirmed yet. And I said, well, make him my guest. And then he goes on to say they had one dinner,
Starting point is 00:29:57 spent a few nights together, and that he... It was a whirlwind romance. Yeah, exactly. And then he said that he was told that his company, companies would no longer have to worry about IRS scrutiny on like certain subjects because like specifically these employee retention tax credits, which the IRS was thinking about shutting down.
Starting point is 00:30:25 He the quote is he actually pushed ERC, the employee retention credits. Is that not a blessing? We could be worried about promoter audits now. We could be worried about anything with the old administration, but Billy actually is now taking over and we don't have to worry about that stuff. It was just like the rich have have nothing to fear but fear itself. Yes, exactly. Like literally.
Starting point is 00:30:48 And we don't even have to fear fear itself because we have all the good pharmaceuticals. Yeah, that's true. Like in this meeting, he's like, I had to tell the guy, please take your sales hat off and put your IRS commissioner hat on. This is insane, dude. Like you're not trying to sell me anything.
Starting point is 00:31:04 You're the IRS commissioner. You can't be like Constantly like trying to win my business as the IRS commissioner. That's so crazy That's so crazy that people think self-regulation would ever work exactly Anyways, good world that we have here. Uh paul v always a pleasure having you Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? Dallas, Sunday, May 25th, 9 p.m.
Starting point is 00:31:30 Dallas Comedy Club, please come out. Please tell everybody, please buy tickets. Here I go. If you come out, I will say hi after the show. And you can find me at Pala V Ganalan, P-A-L-L-A-V-I-G-U-N-A-L-A-N. I also run a show at the Comedy Store monthly called Facial Recognition Comedy with my friends.
Starting point is 00:31:48 We had bossa musiphan on Friday, which is crazy. Amazing. Yeah, he's so sweet, so smart, and so fun. But yeah, I don't know if we're gonna have a June show, but we are gonna have a July show, so come through. Those shows are always so great. Everybody should be going monthly. And please, if you're in Dallas,
Starting point is 00:32:05 Zeit Gang, pull up, show Pauly some love. That is going to do it for us this afternoon. We are back tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get your vaccines while you still can. Bored them. Yeah. For real, though. Like that's going away. I'm going to get 10 just in case. Get your flu shots. Don't do nothing about white supremacy and we will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye.
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