The Daily Zeitgeist - How I Trended Your Mother 8/20: White House TikTok, JD Vance, Steven Miller, Shake Shack, PS5 Pricing, ICE/'Cornhusker Clink'

Episode Date: August 20, 2025

In this edition of How I Trended Your Mother, Jack and Miles discuss The White House joining TikTok (to zero fanfare), JD Vance & friends getting booed at Shake Shack, prices going up for the nearly EoL PS5, an ICE Goon/U.S. Concentration Camp update and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Wait, why trended? Couldn't it be trend? How I trend your mother is... Like how I met. But met... I guess past 10. Yeah, but adding the trended It just feels dirty Feels like a verb

Yeah Well, Mett is a verb Oh yeah, you got me there I got you there I got you there I'm gonna have to question your police work there Miles Met is a verb One more thing

What But yeah It adds like something to it Like how I trended your mother I don't know what it is Yeah yeah Venadium silver you sicko but thank you for the run

of sitcom based trending titles anything to distract from the news you know it is a pleasure what's going on why what's up something going on

oh man I'm in the office the TV show yeah I'm inside the office right now man I'm in the office dude really that's sick I don't know this but I'm in the office what's Dwight like I'm back at the

back at work coming into the HQ on a daily basis while I'm in New York temporarily and I forgot how humiliating it is to go to the bathroom at work Oh yeah, yeah Just walking by shoulder to shoulder

Talking to your boss Taking a dump in the urinal Shoulder to shoulder You also peeing out of the hole in your In your penis right now I'm sorry, is that the small talk you're doing that? That was the small talk I went with It wasn't good.

Jack, I told you. I gave you a bunch of one-liners to do in the bathroom and a list of things to not say. That one did not go over well. So you got Pisk running through your rethrow right now also? Straight line. Hey, straight shooter over here. You mind if I take, mind if I, oh, all right, someone's got a split stream? Oh, a player, huh?

You're a player. I'm the CEO. I really would ask that you leave me alone. Stop. Let go of my. hand we shook hands before we started being i don't care if you're scared this is not the place to grab a stranger's hand um i don't i think i've told that story when i when i worked i had a i had a boss who like had you know he had flow issues because he was like an older guy yeah and peeing next to him like

there are a few for whatever reason like our bladders were synced up and i would all it would be like one of those things where like you'd like sometimes i would see him go in the bathroom like i ain't going at the same time I ain't going at the same time and other times like experiencing hell second hand yeah because other times we'd be like right there and to be too late for me to do you you turn like hey what's up miles and I'm like oh yeah nothing man you're clearly going towards the bathroom so you can't yeah and I can't be like oh wait sorry my computer's on fire I got to go back and then he was doing he was having straight up green mile yeah Tom hanks I have heard some elderly men go through some shit yeah it's like go through labor.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. It ain't. And look, no shade to that. I just don't like to be reminded of my own mortality. Yeah, that's just like, I'm going to be there fucking soon. Old as fuck. Hey, man. Get it all checked out, man. Keep it all healthy.

All right, Miles. Let's get into a little bit of what's going on with the zeitgeist. So apparently America's TikTok ban is going to expire early September. So what better time for the White House to join TikTok. TikTok. There is an official White House TikTok account featuring things like a video of Trump telling followers, I am your voice. Just real cool shit, man. Yeah. And you're never going to guess what the comments are like on these videos, these comments that like, because it's not being run by, you know, Trump or like a bot farm. Let me guess you are so strong. You have so strong.

those arms must be like Christmas hams. Holy shit. You have hams like Christmas arms? Comes in big guy, big old guy. Big guy, real big guy. Tears in his eyes. Mr. President. Sir.

Mr. President, sir. Tared. All right. I'm just going to read some of the comments. Okay. Wendy, where's the damn Epstein files? Donald. Okay, that's one person.

Marson Marge. Where are the files? Carson March? Five question. Oh, damn. They got Cars and Marge on there. Tori Renee. So about those Epstein files.

Yeah, it's just that over and over. They won't let up. You hear tell of these town halls also not going so hot for the Republicans and just politicians. I saw Elise Tophonic get booed off the stage twice in one fucking showy. Yeah. So apparently there's still interest. There's still interest in these dang Epstein files. I don't know what these fucking people are.

on about I died he died he's dead okay we showed you a lightly edited video a lightly edited video

where the part that we edited out had a weird orange blob going through it yeah so just like what

find a new angle okay the weird orange blob was another hit man an inmate we allowed to be a hitman in there okay sorry what do you want what do you want

what do you want I like how their whole thing is sort of like how when you've been humiliated in middle school and you're like mom I can't go to school tomorrow they're gonna keep talking about it and you're like fine and then you go Monday they still talking about it yeah you can't you can't sit this one out Congress but I mean they'll try they'll try

it's kind of a bad time though for Congress to be in a recess because damn could use could use some Democrats speaking out about all this shit that's happening right now especially in DC yeah and fucking gestures to everywhere i'm sure corey booker's got some bars for when he comes back probably he's probably taking z bars right now fucking time traveling energy uh we did see similar news i guess this is all part of a the same thing uh jd vance jidavance um oh pete haggseth mm-hmm teenage mutant ninja gobles gerbils yep yeah gerbils please put respect on you and ninja gerbils uh all

showed up at Union Station to buy Shake Shack for the troops that they have stationed there to arrest people for the color of their skin and for some reason they got booed

and because they're like not good at this I guess they like visibly like reacted like the photo op so they're like doing a photo op they're like standing out front proudly with the troops behind them. And as people

booed them, they are like making a face like, hey, what the hell? We're doing a good thing for them. We're buying them shake shacks. This is just them walking through. This couch fucker. He's going to fucking couch, buddy. Right here.

Do not come past this. Mr. that was just that was the one of the couch go fuck the couch jadey man that was just that was the up close stuff here's here's just them walking into the room

here's the one where there's more booze just a fucking Stephen Miller is in a fucking tan suit too this dickhead if you're not to let Obama get away with it. I'm not letting you get away with it, Miller.

I can do it because I'm disgusting. Okay. What do you think the fucking vibes are like when they inevitably get into like the quiet of their protected bulletproof car and have to like, clearly they've just been heckled to high hell. People are like, what's the pussy boy?

Go fuck a couch, you loser. And then they got to be like, there's a bunch of haters or something, huh? Yeah. Right? And they're like, oh, totally, dude. These people are just so fucking. they don't know what they're angry about they don't even know exactly hey it's part of the job you know i'm

sure that always happens to other politicians who aren't committing crimes against humanity right exactly exactly uh there's also another there was a moment too where stephen miller is just like he's asked about like damn you know it sounds like the people of dc are fucking angry and are resisting and protesting and stephen miller had to do this whole fucking like sort of everything's fine those people are just like old hippies who like don't know any this is this is so fucking sad like this dude is such a fucking loser this is him

trying to be like it's not an L this it's everything is going well and these people are like outside fucking agitators. They have no families they're raising this city they have no one that they're sending to school in the city they have no jobs in the city they have no connections in this community at all

they're the ones who've been advocating for the one percent the criminals the killers the rapists their drug dealers. And I'm glad they're here today. Oh. Because me, Pete, and the vice president all going to leave here and inspired by them, we're going to add thousands more resources to this city

to get the criminals and they get members out of here. We're going to dismantle those networks and we're going to prove that a city can serve for the law-abiding citizens who live there. We're not going to let the communists destroy a great American city, let alone the nation's capital.

And let's just also just another thing. All these demonstrators, you've seen out here in recent days, all of these elderly white hippies, they're not part of the city and never happen. So you're not shook at all. By the way, we didn't go home and I'm going to do even better stuff because you were mean to me. Look what you made me do now. Now I'm going to have to go home and eat a fucking entire one gallon jug of best foods mayonnaise

in front of my wife and put my whole fucking marriage at risk again because she says it's quote unquote disgusting that all I eat is quote mayonnaise and it's just people don't know how difficult it is to keep people safe all right just shut up fucking go away is a fucking hero that's what they they get in there and they're like that's the price of being a fucking hero for white supremacy um Donald Trump uh is also I I had a similar question after the there's this headline about him being worried about getting into heaven. Did you see that?

I saw it and then when I clicked on it and then saw what he said, I was like that nice try. He doesn't really seem like he's that worried about it. Yeah. But people are, yeah, making a big deal about this headline where says Donald Trump has sparked fresh health concerns after confessing he's worried about not getting into heaven. I just think, first of all, there's a lot of interest around his health because I don't think I think everybody gets the sense we're not getting out of this thing electorally. with Donald Trump

and... Not the way he's saying it. Yeah. And, yeah, when you listen to... But, like, if you listen to how he's saying it, it sounds like he's just being like, I want to try to get to heaven if possible. I'm hearing that I'm not doing very well.

I'm really at the bottom of the totem pole. He-he. But if I can get to heaven, this will be one of the reasons, this being the, you know, his attempt to stop the war in Ukraine. He's stopping so many wars, Jack. And we talk about it.

He stops, like, fucking, like, 700 wars basically. So many wars. Do you have any idea how many wars he stopped? Everybody being like, what the fuck is he? He did just say him and Netton Yahoo are war heroes. I mean, he's definitely pumping up his own dick to try and be like, I'm a man of peace. So I don't know, maybe subconsciously, clearly. He's like, why are they talking about, why do you have to hide my ankles? They're like, oh, nothing, Mr. President. It's just, everything's fine. What's wrong with them? People would be jealous and we don't want to start that. Yeah, exactly. He is nothing, if not litigious and he's trying to like pre-litigate his heaven or hell

thing you know like oh when st peter's like yeah here's the thing guy actually can't prove that i never actually did any of that well i can because i'm omniscient um i'm saint peter and guess what you're going to hell going to hell do you think saint peter does it like that he's like okay you heaven you go into hell yeah well just to turn it up on a little stink on it Yeah, playing double bass on the drum kit. I think this is like a fantasy, but like stories like this, I think give people hope. Well, first of all, there's that fantasy that I hope everybody's abandoned a long time ago, that like Trump will have his like Scrooge like Christmas morning moment where he'll be like,

I've seen the errors of my ways. Like, you get a ham, you get a ham. Right. He does love Christmas hams when they're on the arms of men that are coming up to him with tears in their eyes. Right. I mean, I don't know. I mean, dementia can alter someone's personality, so.

Yeah. Maybe in that sense, it would be a function of his cognitive decline rather than like a moral panic. I do hope he gets like the end of like the act of killing or the end of the jinx thing where like you see these people who've committed crimes and who are having to like deal with the fact that they've committed them. But like it's all being held down by their unconscious and suddenly they just have have like intense gastrointestinal distress.

Yeah. There's like, it's not that. It's not that. It's the McDonald's. I just ate something weird, I guess. Uh, anyways,

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but this time I'm taking it to the next level. Listen to Cheekies and Chill on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. and we're back and uh so PlayStation 5 uh which came out in 2020 is that right yeah yeah yeah long time ago uh just announced that the prices are going way up mm-hmm i wonder why it's don't they make those in the u.s this vice article is talking about how um it's being caused by difficulties, but they don't mention the tariffs at all. Similar to many global businesses, we continue to navigate a challenging economic

environment. As a result, we've made a difficult decision to increase the recommended retail price for PlayStation 5, which is weird because, like, Fortune, the headline is Sony will pass on tariff costs to U.S. consumers by hiking PlayStation 5 prices. CNN at least did the thing. They did, today is your last day to buy a PlayStation 5 before Sony increases prices. And then as you read it in the first paragraph, they're like, yeah, the fucking tariff, bro. Yeah.

But, I mean, there's also word that vegetable prices have had the highest spike in costs in the past month since the 1940s. Yeah. They said wholesale prices. So what the fucking stores buy at? I've spiked 38%. 38%, which the last time that happened was, I'm assuming it was the 1940s, I'm assuming it was the 1940s, I'm assuming that was because the fields were emptied

because of a different authoritarian you know over in Europe Dan Crout FDR. Thank you and thank you also there's some good stats coming out on ice and

you know all what they're doing one stat just came out that 71% of the people that ICE has arrested have no criminal record oh yeah that's innocent people I feel like that's held steady since, like, that's kind of their batting average for the season. Yeah. Which is 70% absolute whiffs.

And because, again, it's not even about, it's not even about what they're saying. It's about it's just to merely fucking antagonize and intimidate people. Yeah. Yikes. Yeah, 71%. Wow. Okay. And then that's why that clip where Stephen Miller's like, they want the drug dealers, the gang members.

It's like, bro, you're not even getting these people. people. So, shut the fuck up. What you're trying to do. And then also, another is the, they've announced another alliterative concentration camp name

in Nebraska. They're going to open a Nebraska concentration camp. They're calling cornhusker clink after alligator alcatraz, deportation depot. And I didn't hear this one. The Speedway Slammer in Indiana.

why again this nation is being ran by someone's racist uncle with all these fucking uncle jump called the speedway slammer it's just dad jokes like but like sub dad joke level like what else do you have what else can you do like okay you have clink slammer jail what are they going to do next what are they going to do next uh who knows who knows like I guess they could have called it, like, Alligator Auschwitz. They're probably just going to be like, yeah, it's just going to like, and this one's Bergen-Belsen, this is Sobibor, this is Auschwitz. Right.

Because now it's just, we're not going to, we're just going to take from the Nazis. It's kind of what we do. Sort of our whole thing. But then we like give them, we used to give them cute nicknames, but we're, we're so tired. And our, our dear leader's brain is leaking out of the ears. And all those fucking places, too, like all the reports about alligator alcatraz are Like, these places are slapped together in a fucking white supremacist panic and are just absolutely atroof, have people put people are putting people in absolutely atrocious living conditions.

There's like tuberculosis outbreaks and shit. TB outbreaks for the first time. And yeah, the numbers are, uh, unprecedented historically. But why are they booing Stephen Miller? Yeah. At least, at least we can boo them. We can tell them to get fucked on TikTok. and those we'll talk about tomorrow

we can shit post and you know when we're Gavin Newsom is going to get their attention and tell you what, yeah dude Kid Rock doesn't seem too happy Get him. Get him son Yeah so Gavin Newsom

posted an image that I'm forced to assume is real where Gavin Newsom well so there's been a couple AI slops one has Gavin Newsom being

preyed over by Tucker Carlson, Kid Rock and a winged angel version of Hulk Hogan. And then there's all, he also posted a picture of Kid Rock as Uncle Sam saying, Kid Rock wants you to

support Gavin Newsome. And Kid Rock seems unhappy. He lost it. The only support Gavin Newscum will ever get out of me is from these nuts. Oh. That's pretty good. So you'll use your testicular fortitude to support this candidate?

You're putting your balls on the line? He's nuts. What is that? What does he think? Look, this guy's a fucking idiot, you know, who larks as like some working class person. So he's like, yeah, these nuts. And then he's going to go fucking cry in his big greasy pillow. God, his pillow must be so greasy.

It's a greasy. It looks like a fucking KFC bag. It would if he didn't, like, have a full-time staff that was there switching it out. every night of form. Oh, actually, yeah, they take out his extensions. Yeah. May I remove the royal wig kit? You may.

My name is. My name I wear wigs. I'm just going to get that going. That is what's happening today. We're back tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourself. Get your vaccines.

We still can. Get your flu shots. We still can. And don't do nothing about white supremacy. No. We will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye. Peace.

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