The Daily Zeitgeist - I Like My Pasta AlTrendte 8/19: Diaper Mami, DSA Wins, GTA 6 Leak

Episode Date: August 19, 2026

In this edition of I Like My Pasta AlTrendte, Jack and Bryan the Editor discuss Trump’s diaper mami, more DSA wins, the GTA 6 leak and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informati...on.

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Starting point is 00:02:05 That one courtesy of Max on the Discord. I like my pasta really, really starchy, so I just stir the whole time. Stir? I just stir it. You like it soft and mush? I stir it until it's just like a paste. I don't want to know what kind of pasta is. It was when it started.
Starting point is 00:02:27 Yeah. Be like, I think I see some spaghetti in there, but I don't know. I just want like a glutinous blob that I can. A mass. Bites out of like an apple. Oh, that sounds so bad. And it reminds me of so much pasta that I've eaten. I think I, like, didn't really, when I was first making pasta for myself,
Starting point is 00:02:48 I didn't really realize. I hadn't, like, put it together. That the thing that is good about pasta when you go, out to eat at a good restaurant is like that the pasta is not coming apart on your fork every time you like touch it it's not like a wet paper bag
Starting point is 00:03:07 it's got some integrity which is something we're missing in this country my name is Jack O'Brien and I'm thrilled to be joined today if all the cowboys gone where have all the cowboys gone is his catchphrase as well as
Starting point is 00:03:23 oh yeah it's Brian the editor. Oh, yeah. Hey, what's up everybody? Hey, what's up everybody? It's Brian the editor. It's me. It's me.
Starting point is 00:03:36 It's him. He's usually behind the scenes, putting things in the chat. Well, the chat has come to life. Yep. I'm usually back air, but now I'm up here. Yeah, back ear. You're on, you're going to go down on the shore Monday?
Starting point is 00:03:53 I got to make it to the short, bro. The shore sounds unique. Oh, for sure, unique. I got to check it out. You got to go down the shore Monday, Monday, Saturday. I want to get like a hot dog on a pizza or whatever you eat down there. It's not animals. I don't know, dude.
Starting point is 00:04:15 A hot dog on a pizza. I don't know. That's not really part of my shore experience. Look, bro, we used to be a country, so I don't know what's happening anymore. We used to be on fucking country. It is weird because I have good friends who like have grown up going to the same island as me on the Jersey Shore. And they will talk about things that are like restaurants that they're like, oh, and of course you go to Uncle Oogies, right, to get their hot dog sub. And you're like, no, I actually have no idea what you're saying.
Starting point is 00:04:47 We, my family is a totally different constellation of go-to things. We are a Manco and Manco. I mean, you're the sophisticated side of Ocean City. I don't know that I am, though. But yeah, I'm a, we're, I mean, Manko and Manko is definitely popular. But we fuck with Johnson & Johnson popcorn. That's another one of ours. I'm loving the smell.
Starting point is 00:05:14 I'm pretty sure. The image you're laying down for my nose is very nice. Popcorn, pizza. And then a bit of an Uncle Bill's pancake house, although I was going back over the charges from the Jersey Shore of what we spent. And I was like, holy shit, that's an expensive pancake breakfast. I'm upside down on these pancakes. Offside down on these fucking pancakes, man. Tell you what.
Starting point is 00:05:43 Anyways, this is the episode where we tell you some of the things that are trending on this Wednesday morning. I'll tell you what continues to trend. Natalie, Natalie Harp continues to be the focus of Washington. We talked about how over the weekend, John Ossoff referenced, like Donald Trump, not wanting to do his job and how he'd rather go on flights with Natalie. And that kind of pulled focus on the president's right hand. She's, like, always there. They call her the human printer.
Starting point is 00:06:23 Because she is, she's apparently the source of. Because she's got an HP tattoo on her, on the small of her back. Yeah, essentially. She's got an HP tramp stamp. She's walking around with a cordless printer and just ripping memes, ripping articles, just giving the president what he wants. And some of the stuff that he'll retweet, like the Obama's as apes meme was apparently her handiwork. She
Starting point is 00:06:54 printed that off to him somehow, even though that's a video. So, and she made a flip book. Yeah. Exactly. But he brags that long after his family and staff
Starting point is 00:07:10 has abandoned him to make money, she'll be with him. That's like a direct quote. So they seem to have like some sort of death pact that's implied in their relationship. Oh no, my dear friend. I've planned a far greater reward for you. And I pass on.
Starting point is 00:07:26 You shall be buried alive with me. Oh. Goody. But yeah, there are claims that she's been obsessed with him since she was a kid. I'm seeing a lot of upset. The front page of the drudge report was a picture of her staring at him and it said obsession, you know, making a reference to the movie of the summer. They just photoshopped their head onto that lady's head.
Starting point is 00:07:50 Yeah. And, but there is a quote from a New York Times article. There's also, there's daily mail articles that are really playing up the obsession details. This New York Times quote, though, that I'm going to read to you really takes it to a new level. Like before I was thinking, okay, he wishes she was his like, My Girl Friday, but like she's actually his caregiver. You know, his diaper changer. Like there, there's no denying anymore that he's constantly wearing diapers and that the people who are sitting behind him looking like they are smelling death, are smelling him having shit his pants.
Starting point is 00:08:37 I mean, yeah, he does have the schedule of a baby. Very angry baby who can type with their thumbs. Yeah, so many naps. So many naps. So many temper tantrums. And she is his diaper mommy. Diper mommy, diaper mommy, diaper mommy. It's a Motto-Mami reference for those.
Starting point is 00:09:00 Damn it, Jack. Now I have to sing the whole song. All right. Here we go. Thank you for the top. But this really takes it into a new direction. So this is from a New York Times article about the relationship. It says, even in this West Wing in which loyalty to the president seems to know no bounds,
Starting point is 00:09:18 Smith Harp's displays of devotion have unnerved some of her colleagues. Several videos shared with the times show Ms. Harp sprinting across great distances to keep up with Mr. Trump's golf cart as it putters across his course in Scotland. Wait, there's no room for her?
Starting point is 00:09:38 She don't get her own cart? Or maybe he's just like, how do you stay back here? Like a dog? With a fucking printer, like carrying in her hands I don't know. I'm having a hard time. The only way I can picture what this article is describing
Starting point is 00:09:55 is if she is a T-1000 because she's having to run with the fucking printer in her hands. And then she wrote a letter to him that was viewed by the Times in which she wrote,
Starting point is 00:10:11 I also am sorry if I was an embarrassment walking the course in Scotland. The letter goes on to say, want things to always be right between us. I also know I've been distracted all week, forgetting to eat throughout the days and even forgetting to sleep and only catching a couple hours at a time. The letter concludes with all my heart, Natalie. And then her brother also was like, I think she has a, how we say, unhealthy obsession, and that this is not the first president with whom she has had an unhealthy obsession that she would, like, write many letters, unanswered letters to George W. Bush.
Starting point is 00:10:51 And it's starting to give, like, somewhere between Terminator and Selena vibes. I don't know. Like, she just completely obsessed and smitten. And people are like, damn, it's, it's a lot, you know, it's just, it's a lot. So she's got a thing for a horrible Republican men. Yes. Yeah, I guess so. I mean, she seems to be a horrible Republican. She used to be a one, I think a O-A-N news presenter. So she's a horrible Republican in her own right. She's got the look. She's got the touch. She got the look. You got the power. So anyways, we're all keeping an eye on that one and just hoping that their relationship always is. good. I want things
Starting point is 00:11:45 to always be right between us, and so do we. Then it's just the lyrics to Casey and Jojo's all my life. Weird. Anyway, what's next, Jack? Hey, for that relationship, I don't know, but
Starting point is 00:12:01 I am popping some popcorn and eating it one at a time with a smile on my face. For America, there are glimmers, little pinholes of light that continue would emerge from the primary, the primary elections. I had heard people saying with the Minnesota kind of win by a DSA candidate,
Starting point is 00:12:29 people were like, and that is the end of the candidates that have a chance in these primaries. Great job, Democratic Socialists of America. You guys, like we've pulled off some major upsets. Like that, that should be it. And unfortunately for James Cawville, some elections, some races that people didn't think had any chance of going in a progressive direction have gone in a progressive direction. I'm talking, of course, about DSA Canada, Angie Nixon,
Starting point is 00:13:06 who beat a Democrat celebrity Alexander Vindman in the Florida. a U.S. Senate primary. Both are projected to lose to the Republican, but the DSA candidate Nixon was actually projected to do better. So I don't know. Let's just, let's take that as a foothold and keep building. But it was such an upset. Betting markets had her at less than 5% chance of winning, like all the way up to when
Starting point is 00:13:36 the voting results started coming in. It was like that, that big of an upset. Like there was, nobody was giving it. any chance at all. And so yet again, it does seem like James Cawville might have to change his tune when it comes to where the energy is, where the future of the, you know, the opposition to the Republican Party party is going to be. There's a theory by the guy, Ettingermentum, who burned me when he thought Kamala Harris was going to do better. What's his name again?
Starting point is 00:14:14 Ettingermentum. I think it's a made-up. That's made up. Yeah, yeah. It's made up. He's like an online shit poster, poll watcher, essentially. But he has some interesting things to sometimes say,
Starting point is 00:14:28 and he's like paying attention to all these different races that I learn about when they go, once they've happened. And he has a theory that one of the reasons we're seeing the left do better in Trump to instead of the first Trump administration is because during the first Trump administration, we had the narrative of Russia gate as an outlet. Like a lot of people who were opposed to Trump were being pulled in by this mainstream Democratic Party idea that they were going to like Mueller Trump and like get to the bottom of the scam that allowed Trump to win and like take his ass out of office.
Starting point is 00:15:13 And Germantum wrote one underrated reason why left is now accomplishing things that didn't under Trump 1.0. The disappearance of Russia Gate and its power as an alternative to the bread and butter lefty. This is neoliberalism's fault explanation for Trump's rise. I think he's giving literally everyone too much credit there. Now, stick with me, Jack. Trump was funnier and less dangerous in his first term.
Starting point is 00:15:38 So everyone thought it was some sort of a joke. I distinctly remember the kick that a lot of people were getting out of his antics. But now it doesn't feel like antics. Now everybody can feel like the effects of his bullshit. So I'm like, I'm not, there's, I don't think he needs to get so granular with why they're winning. It's like this is, this is what people have been wanting. It's just the government's been captured. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:16:09 Yeah, I'm somewhere in between, but I do think that like there is just a fuller understanding, a fuller, like, kind of comprehensive just being out on the mainstream Democratic Party. I think it's also just like the experience of putting hope into Kamala Harris and then like having her lose in such a way that made it clear, like, oh, we were like kind of lying to ourselves and being lied to. And so that like, I think just fully. People immediately abandoned the, which I was just incensed by of just like, there was no primary. Like, nobody picked her.
Starting point is 00:16:51 And we're just, she just gets dumped in everybody's lap. And you have to like fall in line or you're sexist or racist or whatever shit they wanted to put on. I remember there was just a lot of like, if you don't vote for Kamala, there's no reason to not vote. vote for her and it's just like oh turns out there were plenty of reasons not to vote for her we'll see we'll see
Starting point is 00:17:14 but one so Vindman I hadn't remembered that name but Alexander Vindman was a key figure in the Russia gate conspiracy or like the opposition to Trump won
Starting point is 00:17:28 because he came to national attention as the whistleblower in the Trump impeachment trial he was the person who which one he the one you like heard Trump. Not me, which impeachment.
Starting point is 00:17:40 Right. The Ukraine one. The one where he was like, maybe we'll help you out. I don't know in this Russia thing. If you could get me some evidence of what we're looking for on Biden. So anyways, this is just,
Starting point is 00:17:56 you know, a perfect DNC during the first Trump administration candidate. And he got beat. 50, not only, like, did, nobody thought it was going to be close and it wasn't close. Nixon won 56 to 43. She crushed him, despite the fact that his campaign had $16 million behind it, while Nixon had less than a million dollars. And she won basically in what would qualify in a national election as a complete landslide. 56 to 43 is not, not close. Trump won by like two percentage points and everyone was
Starting point is 00:18:35 like landslide. So yeah, it's, uh, continues to be a wave. And the, the mainstream media continues to not want to deal with that fact so much. There's a Washington Post article that, uh, the DNC and Chuck Schumer are conflicted over the Michigan win. They're like, but how do we, how do we get to the Senate, majority if we have this guy who we don't like El Sayed. And like Schumer's apparently telling people, hey, we could still win a Senate
Starting point is 00:19:15 majority even without him winning. So like they're they're also like already doing the like, I don't know. They're supposed to be the ones who are like vote blue no matter who. Yeah. And also it's like where is their triangulation that they love to do now? Like why are they just hopping on the fucking wave and. just sort of like laying low and then they can sort of fuck everything up later. I don't get why they're so resistant to people who actually have policies.
Starting point is 00:19:49 Is it just all the money they're getting paid from lobbyists? I think so. Well, yeah, I think it's the rich don't. So the Washington Post article is interesting because it doesn't really have anything to, like it doesn't say that like Schumer is like pushing against him or like, not supporting him. It says that Schumer had a different preferred candidate. They say there's a backlash to El Sayed on ideological grounds from, quote, many Jewish voters, but it doesn't really like have numbers. But I mean, like, they never fully like denounce these DSA candidates. They just won't give them any play. Yeah. Yeah. But then here's the important part. They said El Siyadh's
Starting point is 00:20:34 challenges run deep enough that three Democratic donors in Michigan are hosting a fundraiser for his Republican opponent, former Congressman Mike Rogers, on Tuesday. So that's the important detail. They're posing it as like a real struggle for the Democratic Party along ideological grounds, but it's just like, no, the donors are scared because he's a socialist. And like the rich people don't like socialist policies. Once you get a socialist and it's only a matter of time until they start talking about like taxing us properly. Right. Taxing people appropriately.
Starting point is 00:21:11 I think that's what it comes down to, but they're trying to make it more complicated. Yeah. I mean, the mainstream Democratic Party is funded by very wealthy donors and the wealthy donors do not like socialists and the people who are in power answer to other people who are in power who tend to be like the wealthy people who don't want socialism. And so there's a lot of ink being spilled about. how like this is a complicated position for the Democratic Party, but they're not saying that very obvious thing, you know, which is just so crazy because like back in the day, it's like rich
Starting point is 00:21:44 people, like very, very wealthy people have always been like pieces of shit. Yeah. It's kind of a requirement. But back in the day, they knew that they could get got so they would build a fucking opera house or a bridge or something that people liked to keep them off their back. And these people have gotten so fucking greedy that they can't even throw down some table scraps to like to keep their image up. They will buy a professional sports team and then use taxpayer money to, they'll refuse to use their own money to
Starting point is 00:22:21 like build a stadium. They'll be, they'll use taxpayer. No, that's like that's the new meta. That is the new meta now. Everywhere in the world like, yeah, it's like everywhere in the world now. It's like, yeah, we're not going to pay this fucking thing. Yeah. Y'all are going to know.
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Starting point is 00:25:42 And we're back. And so the big news that's trending right now is that a few minutes of Grand Theft Auto 6 leaked online recently, revealing that the highly anticipate a video game will include both playable basketball, which was,
Starting point is 00:26:01 doesn't seem like that bigger development. They said they haven't had that since, they said they haven't had it since San Andreas. That's what it was. That's still something that they've done before. And then seemingly some kind of morality system represented by a devil icon. Okay. So that's a little bit of, they brought in some mechanics from Red Dead Redemption 2.
Starting point is 00:26:27 Is that something that Red Dead Red Dead Redemption? There's a morality system in that game as well. Yeah. It's not very well developed, but it's there. Yeah. the article from Kotaku says perhaps the most intriguing moment in the leaked gameplay clip featuring Jason killing someone is a moment that seems to imply GTA6 will feature some sort of morality system. After beating and killing the delivery driver, we see a small devil icon appear on the screen
Starting point is 00:26:56 next to a negative symbol that seems to indicate some sort of morality or reputation mechanic will be included in GTA6, which is interesting. I'm assuming it'll be optional because this is a game that is the whole point for people is to... Yeah, it's kind of odd. It makes a little more sense in Red Dead because you're just... Well, I won't spoil it, but you're this cowboy. And you can decide whether you want to play things nice or be a dick. and there are consequences sort of in the game,
Starting point is 00:27:36 depending on your morality rating. But in GTA, I played all the GTAs, and you're always some sort of criminal, so I'm just not really, I don't know, I don't know who you're trying to impress. What if you're like a white hat criminal? Can you be a white hat criminal? It's like doing good.
Starting point is 00:27:56 Honestly, that would be- healthcare executives or something. That would be cool. You do kill a, like a tech CEO in GTA 5, but it's just a job. Right. Because you're a criminal. Anyway.
Starting point is 00:28:12 Yeah, I wonder if there will be like any Epstein subtext, any Mangione subtext. I am curious about the story element. Which city? What's the city that's like sort of the proxy for this one? Is it Miami? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's, I think it's Vice City. So, yeah.
Starting point is 00:28:30 Or just the, just, it's, it's, Florida. It's got, you know, the Everglades, and it's got a Miami area, and it's got, it's got a bunch of Florida stuff. But like, so this leak dropped when, like yesterday? I found out about it yesterday. Yeah, yeah, I think it was yesterday. Yeah, the hacker was motivated by the company's decision to not release a physical copy of the game and said they will not stop dropping leaks until the company issues a public apology and commits to doing better. which the floor is yours, because I know that is something
Starting point is 00:29:05 that you have talked about. So we're at war. We're at war. So Sony recently announced that they're going to stop disc production in 2028. GTA announced that there's not going to be a physical release.
Starting point is 00:29:22 And this is problematic for a lot of reasons, especially in Sony's ecosystem, because there will be no alternative. If you want to buy a PlayStation game, you will have to go and pay whatever Sony asked for. And their digital infrastructure is just, it hasn't reached parity with, like, Steam, for example. Their refund policy sucks. You lose your right to a refund the moment that you download the game.
Starting point is 00:29:57 You don't get a couple hours of playtime. As soon as you download it, refunds. gone. Whereas in the past with physical media, you could play a game for a little bit and be like, oh, I hate this game. I'm going to take it back. Well, it's like, I know, like, I get motion sickness sometimes and I'll play a game for 15, 20 minutes, get nausea, just not being like, vomiting everywhere, like an SNL character. I'm not going to be able to finish this. So it's cool on Steam that you get two weeks and two hours of play. You can play it for two hours and if you don't like it or whatever reason that you can just return it. And it's a great policy and it's worked for over two decades.
Starting point is 00:30:37 Sony doesn't have that. Also, you have to be online to verify your purchases. So if you're offline or you have shitty internet, you can't play the games that you've bought. So it's just they have a bad infrastructure to go all digital. In my opinion, I don't really care about the discs, but they need to tighten some shit up to make this viable. You can't download it and just like play it offline. You have to be it. There's something. There's like a sort of a countdown timer.
Starting point is 00:31:10 It's like two weeks where it has to call home for you to like play like a single player offline game. It's very weird. And it's just a very closed off ecosystem. And I don't like it. And, you know, AI is fucked up. up all the prices of everything. Everybody's raised their prices. So it's just like they're putting themselves in a really weird position when the biggest
Starting point is 00:31:36 piece of media that's ever been created is about to come out. When is it? Is it October? November. Something like that. But yeah, I'm like, there's this concerted effort to take back shit that like the rights that we already have enjoyed for decades from all of these companies. and just the whole video games industry is on fire right now.
Starting point is 00:32:02 So it's not a surprise. They've been working towards this sort of thing for a long time, Sony and Rockstar and all this. So we'll see if people play ball, but there are a lot of nerds who are very upset on the internet who like to collect physical media. And they're not pleased about this. And the theory being that like...
Starting point is 00:32:25 They're going to milk, like, the prices, they're jacking up the prices. It's going to be 80 bucks for the base game, $100 if you want all the content. Then you have to pay Sony to play online. Then you have to pay Rockstar to play with their servers. So it's like this $80 game turns into this never-ending payment for a game you already bought. Yeah, you're just renting it back from. It's not good. It's not a good situation.
Starting point is 00:32:55 to be in as a customer. Right. And, yeah, people are rightly, rightly pissed. And this hacker, I say kudos. Yeah. Especially since, especially since they're selling pre-orders and they haven't even released any gameplay footage. And the gameplay footage that they are going to release on Netflix is on Netflix,
Starting point is 00:33:18 meaning you have to pay to see an ad. It's just, it's none of this is moving in a good direction. We're just a... They're telling you that we're going to fuck you and nickel and dime you on everything this generation. As humans, we're just a overlapping series of subscription payments. Yeah. To various corporations. What is the partner...
Starting point is 00:33:42 So the partnership with Netflix is that they're just going to release a deep dive, like, into, like, what the gameplay is going to look like. I'm not coming at the end of August. I don't think they've said exactly what it's going to be, but people are, expecting, and rightly so, because again, they've already been selling pre-orders for weeks, and nobody's even seen any gameplay, which is, guys, come on, stop doing fucking pre-orders. Like, it's all digital, so it's not going to run out. You don't need to pre-order. You can just order it on the day. Right. I'm not sure how that came about. I haven't looked into it, but yeah, it's just this other tactic to, like, monetize the game before it's even out. It's just
Starting point is 00:34:23 very weird. Because normally you would, you know, I would like to think that they would say, oh, you know, like normally we would do this on YouTube, but the compression is a bit wonky. So we wanted a better service infrastructurally to present the fidelity of the gameplay. But it's not about that. They want to make money off of it, off of showing people a commercial. Yeah. So, yeah, I don't know. It's not, we're not in a good place. We're We're not a good place. And we're, you know, going towards a world where you never own a piece of media. Media is just, like, kind of rented out to you the way AI companies want to just to give us
Starting point is 00:35:05 subscriptions to information. And then we've also seen this week that entire chunks of media just gets deleted because corporations don't give a fuck about them. Yeah, Sony just recently deleted 500 movies that they, sold to people with a buy now button or a purchase button and I think it was Studio Canal films so stuff like you know Terminator 2 stuff like
Starting point is 00:35:36 movies that people like sold them on their storefront and they couldn't reach whatever licensing agreement with Studio Canal so they just pulled 500 something movies off the service and this is the future that we're going to be in
Starting point is 00:35:52 if there are no alternatives, no competition. You can buy a game and then it can get delisted and you'll never be able to play that game again. Because there's no file backups like on Steam or... Sounds good. It's not great. It's very upsetting as a gamer, but... Well, you've allegedly been ahead of the curve with your Plex server and... I have been maintaining my own libraries for like...
Starting point is 00:36:22 25 years or so. And I'm really glad I have. Yeah. I'm impressed personally. I just went on title yesterday looking for an album and it's gone. Oh really? Standing on the corner, this hip-hop group, all their stuff's gone. All their albums are gone.
Starting point is 00:36:40 It's just singles and stuff. And I'm like, yeah. Yeah, this is why I keep my own shit. Well, thank you for joining us today. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? Oh, I don't have anything funny. You can't find me in the real world. Eating and drinking and breathing.
Starting point is 00:37:05 Breathing air. Yeah. Must be nice. All right. Those are some of the things that are trending on this Wednesday, August 19th. We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. be kind to yourselves. Get your vaccines.
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