The Daily Zeitgeist - …I'm The Zeit Man! 1/28: Trump, Las Vegas Ice Cream Patrol, Kroger, Microsoft, Surge Pricing, Pete Hegseth, Christopher Walken

Episode Date: January 28, 2025

In this edition of …I'm The Zeit Man!, Jack and special guest co-host Bryan The Editor discuss Trump freezing federal aid programs, the Las Vegas ICE Cream Patrol, Microsoft and Kroger trying to bring "surge pricing" (AKA price gouging) to a grocery store near you, Pete Hegseth's confirmation, Christopher Walken's shocking secret and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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That one courtesy of Brian, the editor. Oh yeah, I'm just sundown in a little bit. This, I want to say morning just sundown in a little bit this ski video. I want to say morning, but it's 3 p.m. 3 p.m. Where you are. It's 3 p.m. I am still in my robe, still in a bathrobe, forever bathrobe, forever bathrobe energy is like that's a good just a good motto to live by. How are the egg prices down in Mexico City?

Well, Jack, let me tell you, if I go there, they're being weighed out like cocaine. Well, yeah, either my options for eggs are I go to one of the numerous little little shops in the neighborhood and I can just buy as many or as few eggs as I want. And it's so cheap that I don't even know how much it is. Or I can go on Uber Eats and have a man bring me a dozen eggs for forty one pesos, which is roughly two dollars. Living like a fucking king down there.

Oh, yeah. I just I snuck into my neighbor's hen house this morning and he shot my butt with a shotgun. It's a fox. Yeah, dresses a fox. He shot my butt with a shotgun and it just. Fox. Yeah. Dresses a fox. He shot my butt with a shotgun, but it just exploded my underpants and I just had a hard underpants on underneath. But other than that, I'm fine.

That's how we learned your name was Jack. That's right. Anyways, I'm Jack. That right there is Brian, the editor. The editor. He's right there at is Brian the editor. Brian the editor. I already screamed that right? Brian the editor. Yeah, it's me.

Yeah. And you aren't the scat man, but you grew up with the scat man. Is that correct? Yeah, the scat man was my stepdad. Yeah. He's all right, I guess. All right. Brian would love to keep talking about the scat man, but we have a bunch of terrible

news to speed run through. Yeah, I don't know. This is just take me back to the old Trump administration when it was just a new outrageous fucking thing every day. But in this case, it's like five new outrageous things every day. They're really flooding the zone with shit in this administration. Remember how out of it he seemed on the campaign trail after the assassination, like he had just given up and just like, oh, he's charged up now. Like, yeah, somebody put the energizer battery in his back.

This is I do remember he like has those he goes in waves, right? Where I think it's like Adderall based and like he'll get to he'll actually like rest for a couple of weeks and like not be in the public eye and then come back and just be raging. And it's like being in an abusive relationship where you're just going with the ebbs and flows of somebody's manic crazy energy. But it does feel like this time, you know how like Terminator 2 is like the first, like the stuff that was wild about the first one, but like cranked up like that. This feels like the crank to presidency of, of, you know, Trump presidencies. Did you see crank to?

Yeah, I was a big fan of the, the big middle fingers for the audience. Yeah. Yeah. Anyways, that seems to be the Trump administration, one of the Trump administration's guiding principles is a big middle finger to the audience. They just paused, quote, in quotes, trillions of dollars in federal funding. So this is after suddenly putting a stop to US foreign aid for if you're not like keeping track of everything

They put a sudden halt on US foreign aid Which caused chaos inside groups ranging from health care providers to landmine removers, but then on Monday night, I believe it was Tuesday morning a memo revealed that Trump now is going to temporarily pause federal funding for everything basically now is going to temporarily pause federal funding for everything, basically. The only thing that won't be affected is Medicare and Social Security, because that would affect people like his age, his voter base. But disaster relief, medical research, shelters for offering safety for domestic violence, suicide hotlines, Medicaid, you know, healthcare for the poorest people in the US.

All the Medicaid systems are locked in all 50 states, it seems. And I wonder, Jack, to what end? Like, what 4D chess is he playing, do you think? Oh, that's a really good question. I'm sure we can just go read the New York Times to figure out the strategy behind this, because that seems to be what their job is now is like, you know what, so from this perspective,

here seems to be what Trump is thinking. I've heard people suggest everything from this is just trying to speed up the collapse of civilization so he can do what he really wants. I don't know. Yeah, that's such an interesting thing that fandoms have created is your favorite whoever the fuck can do any old weird shit and the base will just create an excuse for them. You don't even have to try to lie to people anymore.

Yeah. Medicaid portals are frozen and even Meals on Wheels don't know if they can keep delivering meals to elderly shut-ins. So way to stick it to those free-loading elderly shut-ins. Yeah, I hear they put boots on all the Meals on Wheels vans. It's really sad. They might. I mean, truly, that might be. I don't know where does this stop. So just to read from the memo, according to the memo, this is to assess compliance with Trump's executive orders, specifically relating

to DEI, woke gender ideology, and the Green New Deal. Again, despite the fact that the Green New Deal was never signed into law. I feel something weird coming on, Jack. Just very exasperated sigh. Okay. It's very exasperating. I will allow an exasperated sigh because that thank you my own nation and you No further answers your honor That explanation is basically just like I want to do something

crazy to see I'm gonna like ask you to do something crazy. Like I need you to kill I'm going to like ask you to do something crazy. Like I need you to kill your friend. And you just stick this ice pick in this guy's fucking ear. All right. Yeah. So I know you're down. Except in this case, it's elderly people. I need to make sure that you're down for the cause.

You need to push this old lady down the stairs. Some elderly people. The memo also blamed trans people and Marxists for all of America's problems. I don't even know what a Marxist is anymore. Now, I really don't. I can guarantee you they don't either. Quote, the use of federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and Green New Deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars. This is a blatant violation of the Constitution.

It seems like that's not the president's job to determine how federal money is spent. I feel like he needs congressional approval for that. Checks and balances, like just trust in the system, bro. Like, checks and balances. Yeah. There are no checks and balances. There are no checks and balances, it turns out.

Because everybody seems to be going with the Well, we don't want him to be mad at us like that. That's I forget the quote but it's basically like a lot of the power that's given to you know authoritarians is just like freely granted by people who want to Like comply, you know people comply in advance with authoritarianism. Because they don't want any smoke. He's got the energy of a vindictive, like an evil child in a Twilight Zone episode or something, where they have super weird powers and the parents just don't want to like, just give just give them, just give them the candy bar. Okay. The weird left turn ending of looper where it just becomes about a baby, a child with superpowers.

Is that how looper ends? I am I thinking of the right movie, surprisingly forgettable movie with little cultural impact. I know I saw it at first and then they're like, and now you're on a farm with a baby with superpowers for some reason. Like the whole third act is in that farmhouse with a child with superpowers, I feel like. Am I making that up? Oh yeah, there is something, right?

Yeah, it's so weird. It's like a fun sci-fi time travel premise that then like all of a sudden, yeah, I don't know why it goes in that direction. I don't know why we went in this. Oh wait, actually I do because this is fucking terrible news. Yeah, it's terrible news. So we're just looking for and my brain reaches for any, any place that I can go besides the news.

We didn't even cover earlier in the week when Trump randomly started a trade war with Colombia. Basically Colombia was like, hey, could you like they've accepted deportation. Again, the Democratic Party, when they were in power, were deporting hundreds of people. They were just not handcuffing them and putting them on military aircraft and going out of their way to mistreat the people who they were deporting. So the president of Columbia said, please stop doing that.

We won't accept them if you're treating them like shit and doing it on military aircraft. That adds a whole aggressive element to this. Brazil also were reportedly outraged when they discovered the people were in handcuffs and Mexico denied one such military plane request to land. But yeah, so Colombia did the same. Trump basically was like, I'm gonna do tariffs to you. That's like his move. And then like it's kind of unclear what happened. Like a lot the story in the mainstream media has been and then Columbia backed down. By

the way, it's worth noting that the White House's official press release spelled the name of the nation Columbia with a U like Columbia University. So because of course they would. Yeah. Yeah, it's a really fuzzy thing because. Uh, so. Because of course they would. Yeah. Yeah. It's a really fuzzy thing because once again, the mainstream media, they vacillate between refusing to say what they see and straight up lying. Um, so it's very unclear because I read, I read the president's response, president of Columbia and, um, it was pretty unambiguous.

It was kind of like a fuck around and find out type thing. It's like, okay, you hit me with terrorists and enjoy your very expensive coffee, America. Coffee prices already started shooting up. Trump has won this quote unquote trade battle and they won't really elaborate on what that means. Yeah, I mean, so it really comes down to, Columbia's only demand was that it not be on military planes.

And they say we've now started accepting, you know, the planes of deported people back in. I heard they were sending their own planes, like regular planes. Which is what they offered to do in the first place. It was like Trump was insisting it be military planes. It's just like a fucking pissing contest. But because anytime there is a conflict, Trump will tell his version of the story, which is that he won, everybody's scared of him, he's the greatest and the strongest.

And the media just seems willing to like print that right away. Like it was just, I was like trying because a lot of people were like, actually it doesn't seem like president Petro of Columbia didn't really back down. He just said, okay, yeah. Like I said from the start, I'm willing to accept these planes of people if they're not military vehicles. But the media just went full like Trump wins trade war with like using leverage because he's a deal artist. Yeah, yeah. And they won't even say what leverage.

What's the leverage? I mean, America has biggest military, most money. So in that sense, I see the point. That's not leverage, that's threat of violence. Yeah, that's threat of violence, yes. I'm gonna use leverage to twist your arm up behind your back until it snaps, I guess. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right.

That is what we're calling leverage, these news in the mainstream media. So I don't know, it's just, it seems like a thing where people are just going out of their way to try and get on board wherever possible. Like it's like we've got a, we've got a, you know, the, they used to,

the mainstream media used to like keep score where it's like one for us, one for them, one for us, one for them. Like we need to do a story that Fox News would approve of so that they can't call us unbalanced or like biased. Yeah, man. And that's why here at the Daily Zite, guys, we pledge allegiance to our benevolent God

King, Donald Trump. That's right. And we do have to just say that every 20 minutes. So we hope you guys are okay with that. But now it feels like it's kind of a race to get as many stories as they can that are on board with the Trump administration. Like I can just see how it's being justified inside the newsroom where it's like, we've got to, we've got to like tell these stories how they want us to tell it so we can then like do the real reporting when it like actually

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So again, this truck does not serve any communities of any color. Yes. ACAB does include this ice cream truck, whether or not it is a Fiddly. Cause this shit is FAT. Partnering with ICE. Yeah. All right. Kroger and Microsoft are allegedly going to collaborate on making surge pricing a thing

in grocery stores. In person. Yes, in person. Not like Instacart or something. Yes, exactly. Okay. Tell me more. I'm interested.

So you know about the Intuit Dome, right? So there's a new stadium that just opened up in LA where before you go, you scan your face into an app and then you don't need a ticket when you show up there they just know it's you like you just walk in based on your face which they have scanned and then while you're in the stadium it's called the Intuit Dome it's for the Clippers who are owned by Microsoft's I don't know if he's still the owner I'm sorry they gave the Clippers their own stadium. Nevermind.

Nevermind. Nevermind. Nevermind. Nevermind. Nevermind. Nevermind. Nevermind. Yeah. Steve Ballmer, who's like Microsoft big wig, uh, created the stadium where it's,

it's that thing that we talked about that Amazon was promising where like in the future, whole foods is just going to be a thing where you like walk in, pull whatever you want off the shelves. That, that didn't work. And they had an army of Indian people verifying all the transactions. Exactly. What's they had now? People trying to keep track of all this shit. I'm assuming what's different now is that it's like a finite amount of time.

So it's not like you have to staff it around the clock. So you can just have the people behind the scenes like working for a specific period of time. I've heard from people who have gone that like they're getting, they're charging you for the wrong things. You get charged not in real time, like they send you the receipts like later in some cases. They're like, oh yeah, yeah, we saw that you got this.

So I think they really are like going back. They have people working, going back, reviewing the tape because they don't have the ability to do the thing that they're claiming they can do. I just wonder why they keep trying this. Like what is the end game here to just not have any employees? Well, cause it's like you would think it'd be to not have any employees on site or as few as possible, but you're still employing all these people to do other jobs.

I've heard it's a cool experience. I've heard people who go are like, it's weird. It's just like really strange. Like, have you ever been to a, um, I grew up shoplifting, Jack. Right. So I'm like, it's like unshopliftable. It's just like, you feel like you're shoplifting, I think is the deal. In plenty of stores and just grab shit and walked out. So I'm like, yeah, I mean, yeah, it's cool. But that is a fun feeling. My way is cooler because I think it'll be free.

But like if you're ever in a stadium like you and you're about to leave, do you like get that weird like feeling like you're about to like, you're like, oh, shit, I can't come back and I can't come you you get that like anxiety of like once I leave like I can't come back in No, I've never had that because I'm always itching to leave a stadium Out of here. Yeah, so I don't know it's this seems to be what the illusion of the Intuit dome is aimed at because they are announcing that they're gonna collaborate with Kroger to make a similar thing with Kroger and the thing that in addition to like a fun user experience like a flashy fun user

experience it's Kroger has said that one of the things they'd like to be able to do with this is now that they see you coming and like are tracking you around the store, they will change the pricing based on knowing like who you are and how much you spend at Kroger. Like, so you'll see a different price than the person next to you will see. Uh, Mr. O'Brien, I have a question. Yeah, yeah. Can I go to the bathroom? No, no.

My question is, what do you think their distinction between this and price gouging would be? It's what do you think they would say? So Brian, price gouging is an ugly term, an ugly term. We do, this is called letting the market decide. It's called surge pricing on milk and eggs. I mean, that definitely sounds more fun. It reminds me of that.

Surge! That very fun drink from the 90s. That's right. So we call it Mountain Dew pricing. Do the Dew pricing. Where you get to. The Dew pricing. It's do the dew pricing. We get to the dew pricing. It's. Yeah.

Mountain Berry refresher pricing. And it. Yeah. There's no doubt. It's just trying to find ways to use technology. It sounds like price gouging to me. Like with extra steps. Yeah.

I quote your president, the Mexican president on tomorrow's episode of TDZ talking about how they just explicitly say neoliberalism, like this version of capitalism that we lived under until a week ago. And now we live under like straight up oligarchy, authoritarianism, that version of like neoliberalism where like it's all corporations, like is just a way to find different, fun, interesting ways to redistribute wealth from people to corporate, like upward, basically to richer and richer people. It's a big straw and he's drinking all of our milkshakes.

Yeah, that's what, that is how the entire system is designed. And when you think of the political parties as, you know, designed to keep that system in place, then it starts to make a lot more sense, like why it's impossible for Joe Biden to do, you know, why we ended up with somebody with a futility fetish as president for the last four years. Because like that, the best, if you love being like trying to do the right thing and getting blocked over and over again, there's no better position for that than being president of the

United States. And I love this idea that you've had because regularly on the show they talk about, you guys talk about the horse race aspect of it, like the sport, the sporting aspect of it. But one side refuses to block, refuses to shoot. It's just, it's like you won't even try, they won't even try. It's so wild. Yeah. It's a, yeah, like there's a good article in, I think it's Defector. And Trump is out here using a fucking ladder.

Yeah. Yeah, exactly. And it's like the hard, it's like the globetrotters. Yes. The Democrats just are unwilling to fight back for some reason. They just don't play the game as, you know, for some reason. What one side plays and the other side doesn't because they like view it as undignified or something.

It's just like one long revolutionary war where like the Democrats are like the redcoats being like, well, not not lining up in perfect formation and standing in front of the people we're trying to shoot At like with a drum playing so that we can like dance to it not doing that would be undignified That's this is simply just how it's always been done. I need to remember when I was friendly with Strom Thurmond and it's like, well the other side is Mel Gibson with an ax running around behind you, you know? Yeah. I was getting big Patriot vibes from this. God,

what a fucking bad movie. Anyways. Very fun though. Yeah. Yeah. I like when he stabbed a guy with the American flag That was my favorite. He does do that. I didn't just imagine that huh that does happen He stabbed a man with the American flag. Yeah, I do want to look at a story. It's not on the dock but whoa, Oh Pete hang that script Pete Hicks that's got confirmed as Defense secretary. We have it, like such a fucking shit fire hose that it's impossible to like keep up with, but yeah,

striking a blow for racist evangelical abusive cable news hacks with drinking problems everywhere. He was confirmed as the country's new defense secretary by the Senate on Friday only because JD Vance cast the deciding vote. Um, even though they have, was confirmed as the country's new defense secretary by the Senate on Friday, only because JD Vance cast the deciding vote. Um, even though they have, you know, enough of a majority that they shouldn't need that. Uh, Mitch McConnell is growing a conscience here at the end of his life. So he, Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins all voted against confirming him.

And they did it. They did it because they knew that they still were, were gonna get him through because of JD Vance. But JD Vance, for some reason, pretended that he didn't know that this was the job of the vice president. He was like, I thought I was done voting in the Senate. Laugh, crying emoji. The laugh, crying emoji has been ruined.

Like nobody were not allowed to use that anymore. In public, no, I only use that in like private. Yeah, the text really. Yeah. OK. I'll allow that. You do what you need to do. Yeah. You'll never catch me putting that in like a tweet or something. This is the smallest margin for a defense secretary's confirmation since the position

was created in 1947. But what a fun, what a fun guy, JD Vance, you know, he just seemed, this is hilarious. I don't know. He's just like the kind of guy that you can just chill and have a beer with it seems. Yeah, totally. Just real salt of the earth. But I want to shout out Christopher Walken who announced that he doesn't have a cell phone.

I don't have a cell phone. I've never emailed and can only watch TV using a satellite dish on my house. And this is the thing that I used to laugh at celebrities about. Like it specifically started occurring to me when there was there was that film. I think it was called like the internship and it was oh, Vince Vaughn and Vaughn and Wilson and Google ad the Google ad where they get an internship at Google. Holy shit. I forgot about this movie. And it's just so clear that they like don't know what like in the interviews and like

press for it like they hadn't they've just been famous since before the internet essentially. Anyways, I used to laugh at celebrities for this and now I'm just like, God, you know, I like Janine Garofalo is like, I never like went on the internet. I never got a computer. I never like got a phone. And now it turns out that they were all right, all along. It's nice work. I've modeled my life after these people. I know. Like I'm using a form of exile that is very, like I get to have my own thoughts in my head. It's kind of nice.

Yeah. That, what's that like your own thoughts? Well shout out to Christopher Walken and all the, all the fine people not on the internet, uh, not experiencing this shit with, with all of us. It's just nice to, nice to know that they're out there, you know, um, living life in reality. Yeah. I guess that is a version of reality, right? Just kind of not knowing. Not knowing about this shit.

All right, Brian, thank you so much for joining on this Tuesday afternoon. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. And of course, I thank you for joining, but obviously, you know, you're just doing it because it gives you a chance to tell people where they can find you. Brian, where can people find you? You can find me at your mom's house. That's right. You can find him at your mom's house.

How about that? So how about that? So go find him there. Yeah, I know. I know you're all about self marketing. So just always glad that I can give you that opportunity. Yeah. Yeah. Where can people find you, Jack? Who, me?

Yeah. Yeah. You. Nowhere near as far as you can imagine from your mom's house. Very respectful. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore Brian and on blue sky at Jack. Oh B the number one and Jacob one Jacob one, but spelled with a CK, but yeah,

I'm sure it's sometimes spelled that way and that is going to do it for this Tuesday afternoon. Uh, we're back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show. Uh, we do have no trending episode tomorrow afternoon and no full episode on Thursday morning, but then we'll be back with a trending on Thursday afternoon and a full episode on Friday. Confusing. But we've got some work stuff to do tomorrow. So that is where we will be. Some good old fashioned corporate bonding. But yeah. Oh yeah. And I will be making that sound the whole time. Nothing like forced fun, right?

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