The Daily Zeitgeist - High At The InauguraTrends 1/22: Elon Musk, Crypto Bros, 'Opus', Netflix Price Hike

Episode Date: January 22, 2025

In this edition of High At The InauguraTrends, Jack and special guest co-host Bryan The Editor discuss Elon geeking at the inauguration, CryptoBros feeling a bit of regret for putting Trump on, the trailer for Ayo Edebiri's new cult movie 'Opus', "Netflix and Chill" getting a little more expensive and much more! WATCH: Scott Cheggs on X: "I think Elon may have a glitch in his software. https://t.co/X7z2KdWFS4" / XSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Listen to that. Sonorous resonant. Ryan, how you doing? How are things looking from down in Mexico City? Feeling pretty smart, aren't you? I don't want to be smugger. I don't want to be smugger or anything, but I did read the tea leaves, you know? Uh-huh, you did.

You were unambiguous. You weren't like, oh no, this is just because I like the weather. You were like, that place seems fucked up. So anyways, great to have you here. Great to be here. We are recording as yet another fire seems to be breaking out in Los Angeles.

Hopefully things get under control. Hopefully everybody stands safe out there. And if you're out of the, if you're out of the, the, the danger zone, so to speak, when you go out, wear a mask. Cause my mother tells me the, the air is fucked up. Not great. It's not great. I just realized I have a meeting in 15 minutes, so this is going to be a short one. All right. I'm a fire.

Rapid fire. Jack. Rev fire. We're still at the clock. Right. Quote, Miles and Jack, I'm at Boos. He's Brian start the clock. All right.

Elon was on something at the inauguration. There's just a video of him. Why you you good? Is you rolling? Bitch, I might be. And that is what he would have said if he had any amount of charisma. He might have said that. Big Gucci Mane fan.

Instead, he would have said, go fuck yourself. I don't know how clear I can be about this. Go fuck yourself. So powerfully uncool anyways he does seem to be enjoying the studio space of his body during the during this clip if you haven't found it well we will link off to it in the footnotes but yeah we were trying to speculate is it ketamine is it MD MDMA? Is it some combination, some unholy combination of the various substances we know he partakes them?

Whatever it is, dude was geeking and leaking. You can leak in the real nasty like that's like if a Walt Frazier did commentary on people's drug use. Geeking and leaking is Elon Musk. Yeah, he looked high. But before this encourages you to think he's cool, this was right before he did two very clear Nazi salutes. So he's on, him on drugs, you know, some people do drugs and make good music.

He does drugs and does a full Nazi salute reveals his true self. Yeah, just fucking it like the thing about the Nazi salute that it feels like it's almost like bursting forth from. Yeah, like it's like it's it's a Dr. Strange Love sitch, you know? Yeah. Yeah. It definitely felt like he's except he didn't try and pull the arm down. Yeah. Yeah. And also, you know, he does seem to be on that Dr. Strange. Like he watching Dr. Strange Love with Elon Musk would be interesting because he would be rooting for the generals and Dr. Strange love and being like, yeah, these people have like good ideas. We should kill most people and then I'll repopulate the earth myself.

Anyways, interesting times over there. Elon Musk continues to be a terrifying and also uncool at the same time. Powerfully uncool, powerfully uncool. Like Elon Musk is so uncool at the same time powerfully uncool powerfully uncool like Elon Musk is so uncool He makes Bezos look slightly more cool than he is Right and compared when they're standing next to each other you're like, oh Yeah, like Bezos is the cool one Swag He's cool. He's he comes off cooler than Zuck or Elon

Somehow cuz they're so lame. There is also of course that clip of Zuck Oh with the boobs. Yeah looking down at some boobs and then smiling like truly just like a fucking seven-year-old How do you look at boobs and then like just can't stop yourself from smiling over the age of so bouncy the headline I was trying to recreate is, I knew one day I'd have to watch powerful men burn the world down. I just didn't expect them to be such losers. That is from Rebecca Shaw. Great headline. They should have never gave these nerds money.

They should have never gave these nerds money. We need to stop letting white people do this shit is a line from tomorrow's episode that Pallavi Gunalan says that I think is just a good thesis for the coming years. All right, it's kind of impossible to keep track of all Trump's bullshit right now. So we'll just like kind of take our time, look at like a thing at a time, specifically

crypto, the crypto bros, how are they dealing with all this? So he just pardoned Ross Ulbricht, who was the guy behind Silk Road. Silk Road was the, you know, dark web marketplace where you could buy drugs and as cool as that might sound, he did it while using a pseudonym lifted from the princess bride. He called himself Dread Pirate Roberts. But libertarians and crypto enthusiasts were very adamant that Trump pardoned this guy on day one and Trump in order to secure their votes remember There's like a point during the election where he like went to the Libertarian Caucus. Oh, yeah, didn't they boo him they did but then he like one of the things he said he'd do was pardon this guy on

Day one day one came and went people were like what? Get ketamine guys, I don't know, you need to, yeah. Just ask Elon Musk. We were speculating, does he take the, like, drugs that you just take as an eye dropper? Like that, I feel like that's the thing that people do. I feel like rich people don't do, like, regular people drugs in a regular way.

Yeah, yeah, he doesn't have a bag of powder in his, and he's like using his car keys to take bumps off. I feel like rich people don't do powdery drugs. They're like, no, my mucus membranes are too rich for this. You know, people who are like terminal with cancer have like pain drugs that are like pumped into them via a like automated, like surgically inserted machine in their body.

I feel like he probably has that just because I remember like, I feel like Madison Cawthorn when he was snitching on everybody, I feel like he said they're doing cocaine through their eyeballs with eye drops. Why? Yeah, God, that must've seemed so strange to him. A total like Rube from the city. He's like, guys, anyways, he got booted the fuck out of there. Anyways, also the Silk Road guy, like this is I didn't realize this.

I've seen this story covered in a couple of places, but he was also I guess it wasn't the primary thing he was being held for, but he did try to murder multiple people. He kept trying to hire assassins who, as we've learned many times, hitmen don't really exist. They're just undercover federal agents trying to trick you. And he kept hiring hitmen and they were like staging the murders to make him think that he had killed the people. Like they would like show him photographic evidence of the people were killed. And then he would like hire them for more murders.

And like that somehow wasn't the thing that he was being held on, but he thought he fully believed he had murdered multiple people and was like, yes, I would like to order three more murders, please. I would feel really uncomfortable. Like having like a task rabbit hitman that I like keep hitting up like you either have a goon on staff or you keep switching it up I feel like I don't know if I can trust a task rabbit assassin yeah I've always said that Brian I said you have to you know you have to go with people you trust your personal

recommendations is the only way to hire a hitman. But anyway, so he, you know, in addition to being what would appear to be like a cold blooded murderer and having made millions of dollars off of what was basically a Kijiji for children curious about meth, he was parted by Trump. And people like, so crypto people are still, they funded $10 million for his inaugural fund. They paid Snoop to play at the pre-inauguration, which I didn't, did you know that Snoop performed

at the pre-inauguration crypto ball? Yes, I couldn't help but hear about it and was immediately shown the tweet where he was asking, like, which one of you basically like asking, like, which one of you rappers is going to end up performing for Trump? Like, like, which one of you said that a long time ago, a long time ago, and people immediately pulled up that receipt and it's like, it's you bro, you're the dumb fuck

who's gonna take, you know, bag over everything. Bag above all. You know, I'm not surprised about the, you know, what was it, Soulja Boy or? Yeah, Soulja Boy was, that doesn't surprise me. Soulja Boy was like actively lobbying Trump on a. But like, I mean Snoop doesn't surprise me either

because he's a rapacious capitalist So and a lot of successful people are it turns out that's how he's not a rapper anymore It's like he hasn't he's a mascot for hip. Yep more than a rapper these days He is to rap what Donald Trump is to business people He's a person who is the symbol of something that they were once involved with. But anyways, people are also in within the crypto world, they seem to not be too impressed with Donald Trump's big meme coin offering. So like, I don't know shit about the crypto world, but apparently meme coins are viewed as like Embarrassing because they're just like they're kind of like something you would create to satirize Cryptocurrency well, there's there's two varieties of meme coins There's what you just said and then it's either that or it's a complete fucking pump and dump scam

and a lot of the the crypto evangelists like the people who really Who really like I was I just happened to like sometimes I'll go on those stupid like the news apps on your browser where it's just a bunch of advertisements and weird shit. And I clicked on this crypto thing and they're like, uh, Shiba Inu coin is, is on pace to hit 0.003 cents within the next 10 years, within the next 10 years. And that is,

those people must really believe in the long game. So there's this schism in the crypto community, I imagine, where some people really believe this is the future still somehow. And everybody else is like, well, it's fucking it's free real estate. Let's get this money. Let's scam people. And yeah, I could imagine that pissing off these delusional people. They put a ton of money into like getting him into office so that he would do legislation and executive orders that would make it easier for them to do

crypto, you know, the seemingly legitimate scare quotes crypto. And then he immediately does the pump and dump skis immediately is just like, I'm going to make as much money as I can. And then just like no different from what and Hawk to a date or that Paul brother or whatever. Like, yeah. Yeah. There were like meme shirts on the Jersey shore boardwalk. They were like Hawk to a for president 2024, 2024. And it's like, that's basically what we got.

Like that's just a fucking, just a meme figurehead guy. Like that's, I mean, not, we got much worse, obviously, but people are saying it was embarrassing and it's filling them as crypto people with dread. But I don't know. You call it one crypto engineer claimed that Trump's meme coin made him question if he wants to be involved with crypto at all anymore and complained that he doesn't know how to explain the last few days in crypto to his children. Which that's the thing when you when you have something like crypto, you have the fantastical appeal of like, this will bring forth a new era of whatever the fuck they think is going to happen with crypto. Yeah. But it also just happens to be a perfect way to scam people and launder money.

Like there's going to be a little friction. Just happens to be by accident as a totally accidental byproduct of this legitimate thing that we've made. It does seem like they object to because Supervisor Victor is like, oh, this is where they draw the line. The Nazi shit. Yeah, it does seem like they're reacting. They're drawing the line on the on the cryptocurrency more than the Nazi stuff. But yeah, that that seems to be everybody's just like, we're going to run this country like a business and that's going to be a good thing. And that has been that way. Everybody's just like, we're going to run this country like a business and that's going to be a good thing. And that is been that way.

So it's always been to me. It has. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll talk about movies and Netflix and McDonald's and all the fun stuff. We'll be right back. Lately on the NPR politics podcast, we're talking about a big question. How much can one guy change?

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of country music. We may even end the episode with a little jam session led by Bobby himself. Y'all be sure to listen to this episode of God's Country with Bobby Bones on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. An old lady came up to me. She said, how much for this cream of wheat? And we're back. And how are you on cult movies, Brian? Do you like cult movies? Do you like cult in general?

Just just so happens, cult movies are one of my favorite genres of film. I have seen all the cult movies. If it's got a cult in it or anything to do with psychedelics and cults, I've seen it. What? So, all right. What are some cult movies? What are your top cult movies? In recent years. Is us a cult movie? What did you say?

Us? No, that's, I don't really take that movie super literally. Okay, sure. Like, I don't put it in the category of, I mean, I totally see the visuals of it does have like a cult kind of thing, but I don't consider that like a cult movie as such. I like stuff like The Wicker Man both of them

the Wicker Man reasons, obviously Yeah, Midsommar is probably the most recent one where I'm like I actually kind of like Low-key fuck with that cult a little bit. Yeah, they've got some points. I still haven't seen Midsummer and I need to. I think that the way things are structured in the Midsummer cult is kind of interesting. Man, I wish I could dive into this more because I'm sure there are all sorts of problematic things under underlying what you're saying here. Like, I just kind of fuck with the way that they respect. Oh, yeah. Oh, man, I'm so problematic.

You guys don't even know. So, all right. Well, we have a new cult. Like we've been talking before about how cult based content. We got a lot of reality shows, reality series about cults, like over the past, uh, you know, three, four years, perhaps owing to the fact that interesting cults tends to grow during periods of larger existential questioning. So I think it's worth mentioning that the trailer for Opus just dropped, Iowa Deberry's new movie. She's from The Bear and just a really funny comedian and really good actor. And she plays a journalist who visits a remote compound belonging to a reclusive pop star

played by John Malkovich. And it turns out it's a cult. I'm remembering now Marcy Martha May Marlene. Have you seen that one? No. Marcy Mar- all right, that's a good- Martha Marcy May Marlene is a cult movie from like 2011. It's the first thing I saw. Okay, I'll check that out. may Marlene is a cult movie from like 2011. It's the first thing I saw. Okay. I'll check that out. It's good. Good.

Cold movie. I enjoy it. But yeah, I'm ready for a new cult movie and this one looks like it especially with John Malkovich as the, uh, as the head also, but it's kind of hard for me to picture John Malkovich as a quote pop star. Yeah. Like I could, I could see him as like a Michael Franks type figure like a soft rock star but not a pop star yeah it'll be interesting like how they yeah because he doesn't have that classic pop star look

necessarily no yeah but yeah I'm on I'm on board definitely on board he definitely 24 like aankovich cult. Yes, it is a 24 and the trailer is a lot of fun. So Netflix is crushing it. I just saw a headline that was like Netflix fucking blowing up, doing so

good at the stock market. And so, of course, they are going to make us all pay more. They are raising the prices on their ad free premium And so of course they are going to make us all pay more they are Raising the prices on their ad free premium plan to $24.99 a month which that is and for what what didn't it used to be like it was like very recently It was like in the low teens, wasn't it? Yeah, like they they feel like this was literally like a year ago,

like to the day, like they, yeah, they bumped it up to like, I don't know, like $17 or something stupid. Yeah, this is just the thing that I keep saying about how there's no consumer, no voice for like the consumer. The vast majority of the humans in this country have absolutely no voice in this country. This is a great and like we need like this is what Ralph, Ralph Nader's big, um, you know, innovation was like a consumer advocate who would stop

car companies from killing people by being like, could you put seatbelts in your cars? That would be cool. Um, just like really common sense ideas. Maybe it's me, cause I did call the FCC on Hulu one time. Cause I don't know if you ever use the Hulu app, but you're watching a show on Hulu and it's like you have the volume set and you can hear the dialogue

and the effects aren't too loud. And when I say the ads, damn near blew out my speakers, I was so fucking mad. I was like, there's, there's a, I think it's called the FCC mad. Well, I was called the FCC mad because there's, there's a law about, they're not allowed to do that about the loudness of advertisements. And when I talked to the people at the FCC, they were like, that only applies to broadcast television. And I was like,

I don't care what fucking cable this show comes into my house on. This is illegal. Like, not anymore. Because yeah, because we, for a long time now, the only people with a voice our corporations They can do whatever the fuck they want. Anyways, they're in this feedback loop where they Can treat the consumer like shit by like raising prices. They're like, okay Let's stress test these people see how much we can charge them for a thing and the feedback they get is that their stock price Goes up. So it's like a system that is built specifically to reward people

for treating the consumer like shit. Yeah. And it also ties into the whole thing of like these companies, which I can't remember. Oh, it was Adobe who got in trouble for making it really hard to cancel your subscription. Like they always hide it or make the button really small. They make you click through like five pages. I tried to quit Audible the other day. They make you click through like five pages. I tried to quit Audible the other day.

I had to click through like five pages. Like, are you sure? But are you sure that you're sure? Are you, like, what if we give you a discount? Like, they won't let you cancel shit. So yeah, a lot of people are just gonna be paying for Netflix and might not even know that the price has gone up.

Yeah, last time prices were raised, people were like, that's fucked up. One of the arguments that we heard back, presumably from like a paid plant, was like, I'm sorry, you just want to keep devaluing art and make it so we can't. Oh, we're devaluing art. Yeah. You're devaluing art by not wanting Netflix to raise their prices at will. And then, you know, get positive feedback from raising prices. You're devaluing art by not wanting Netflix to raise their prices at will and then You know get positive feedback from Raising prices, but anyways in this case

It's important to note that like their structure like the what they're investing in going forward is NFL games and boxing matches between sounds expensive terrible celebrities. Yeah, so that's that is what you're subsidizing. It's not art. It's cte It's ct. They're raising prices to invest in research into Ct giving brown people how do you give it around people? one of the big reasons the Subscriber boost happened in the first place was because people wanted to see the second season of squid game.

So which sucked. I didn't see it, but it's just fun to note that a anti-capitalist story about the horrors of exploiting the masses inspired the corporation to jack up their prices. So that's where we're at. It is so funny that the second season, yeah, I'm hearing like not great things about it. It's like when they didn't know what they had, when Netflix didn't know what they had and weren't paying any attention to Squid Game, it became like they made a really great season of TV. Once they knew what they had, it's like it got immediately made a shitty game show and then yeah of mediocre

Second season. Yeah, anyways, that's happening They're raising prices And as long as people don't cancel their Netflix subscriptions, they will keep doing that and Getting rewarded for it. Let me just let me just throw in something here just to make me seem even more problematic. Jack, everybody just really evaluate what the fuck is on Netflix that is that important to you where you can't learn how to torrent. Okay. Piracy is still very much alive and thriving. So yeah, just pirate Roberts. He's back out here. We all have computers. We all have computers. I'm just a man with a here. We all have computers. We all have computers

I'm just a man with a computer brian the editor. What a pleasure having you on the show as always Uh, where do people find you follow you all they can stay the fuck away from me internet people You can't leave me alone. Where can people find you? Uh, you can find. Don't stay away from me. I love you. Jack underscore O'Brien on Twitter and Jack Obey the number one on blue sky. And blue ski. That is going to do it for us this afternoon. We are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other.

Be kind to yourselves. Get your vaccines. Get your flu shots. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get your vaccines, get your flu shots, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. Lately on the NPR Politics podcast, we're talking about a big question. How much can one guy change?

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