The Daily Zeitgeist - It's Trending Home 7/2: MTG/Tucker Carlson, JD Vance, July 4th Fireworks, 'Wonka's Golden Ticket', InfoWars

Episode Date: July 2, 2026

In this edition of It's Trending Home, Miles and Jacquis discuss Mitch McConnell still being alive… sort of, MTG & Tucker Carlson starting their own party, JD being averse to "low wage foreigners", Trump's overly large July 4th fireworks display, the trailer for 'Wonka's Golden Ticket', The Onion's takeover of InfoWars and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, it's Thursday. It's July 2nd, and it's time for this wonderful afternoon edition for It's Trending Home. That's from B.C.R. On the Discord. It's Trending Home. That's what the English fans say when they believe that they're going to win the World Cup, that it's coming home.

Is it? Is it? I don't know. I mean, there's some Harry Kane came in massive. Are we talking about football? Talking about football. Yeah, I think they were, the England match was happening right. Like he was ending right as we were recording with Matt.

Yeah. And Congo, fuck, bro, almost, almost did that shit. But you know what? Harry Kane was Canaan. Anyway, I'm Miles Gray. I'm joined by Jackie Sneal. Yeah. What up, y'all?

What's new with you? What's new with someone that I see you yesterday? What did you eat? What do you do? Oh, man, what I eat? What I eat? I went to the beach yesterday. Oh, you did?

It was beautiful. Yeah. I went to the beach. I only took like 30, like 45 minutes to get there. Yeah. About 40 minutes to get back. Went to Malibu. boo.

Wow. Like you got your toes in the fucking sand and shit? Yeah, my toes in the sand. Made me a sandwich. Made me a sandwich and some grapes and a couple drinks. Took some shroom gummies. Oh, yeah. There you go.

I was like, make it all make sense. There it is. You know. Me and my boys still is. I need to get, I need to get, let me tell you something about people in LA. For those who don't know. Yeah. We don't go to the fucking water.

Because LA is too big. unless you live on the west side of Los Angeles, going to the water is a journey. It's a journey. Yeah. It's a journey. But I need to start to. I need to start to. I take journeys for everything else that brings me down.

I need to start taking that journey at least once every like two weeks, two, three weeks, just to like go reset, be by the ocean. The real thing is like you got to find a little beach that speaks to you because we have so much beach space in southern California. I think a lot of people just think, like, they go to Santa Monica or Malibu or whatever. There's Zuma. There's El Porto. There's so many. There's Roy Rogers.

There's a couple little vibey spots that you can go to. I used to do that shit all the time in college. I'll hit up. I'll hit up. Manhattan Beach sometimes. A little beach, if I want a beach town. But you know the beach I hit up in Malibu, which is

like the best. It is kind of a smaller beach, but it's Carbon Beach, billionaire's beach. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I go in right on the side of Paul Allen's house, Paul Allen from Microsoft. His biggest house has a coastal access point right next to it that they try to hide, but I've been knowing about it. No, no, no, no, yeah, yeah.

And nobody's ever, nobody's ever on that beach. Like, it's so chill, the water is literally right, it's small. Right there. It's truly the best beach, like, that is in the popular areas of this side of Los Angeles. is great. Without being fully in the cut. Well, I'm glad. Damn,

what a day you had. I did. I did not have that kind of thing. I'm so sorry. But anyway, it's fine. It's just work stuff. I'm glad to be employed.

That's what it's all about. Get to the beach tomorrow. Next week. One day. One day. One day, one day I'll hear what this whole beach is about. I'll check it out for myself.

But let's talk about what's trending. First up, Mitch McConnell is trending because about two weeks ago, Mitch McConnell stopped coming to work. We're like, what the fuck happened to him? Because he, I went through his like, mixtape of falls and brain farts and shit that he's had over the last year. And you're like, bro, this guy is, something's going on.

His aide said he was hospitalized. And they're like, he'll be back to work. Once he's recovered, don't worry about him. They gave no explanation for the hospitalization since the cool thing about being an old politician is that you hide how close you are to death to death. Because your ego won't allow you to let go of that power. So you just, you just, you pretend everything is all good. Well, now we know what happened and it's not good. Apparently, he was found unconscious after suffering a heart attack.

Yeah. And he was received CPR when paramedics got there. And that's, and he's been hospitalized ever since. This dude keeps having run-ins with the Reaper. He's, he died. He died, I bet you. And they brought him, they were able to bring him back to life. And now he's just brain.

dead. Oh, you think it's like that? I think he died. Like, I think he stopped. I think his heart stopped beating. He technically died. Yes, and they were able to bring him back. Sure.

How much time did he not have oxygen? How much time? Yes, and I think the problem is he didn't have oxygen for a while, and he's just brain dead, and they don't want to say it for whatever reason. Yeah, look, I've been watching the pit. I know how to do some medical diagnoses off of a few loose sentences about someone's health conditions. Oh, you know.

Listen, he did. He died. And he died. He did. If this is, is this like, I know some, like, I guess Diane Feinstein, was your name? Also was the crib keeper coming to work and basically knocking on death's door every day until she just died. And I don't know if she was still in office, but I think she was. She was. I don't understand, like. I mean, he is out. His term is over after. this. Like, he's not doing it anymore, but he's 84. It's like, he's 84. Bro, you were cooked fucking two terms ago. Well, maybe, maybe, I think really at the beginning

of Trump's presidency is one to really start like, oh, bro, he don't got it anymore. This, we used to call him the grim reaper. He was, like, during Biden, when he started, like, having, like, freezes and shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. I, I, I don't know if it's the power of it all. It is. But, like, yes, We need term limits, and that's what we should be pushing for as a collective. And hopefully some politicians will also agree and make it, at least bring it to the floor. I think I saw recently that that was happening, like somebody introduced a bill for term limits. Yeah, there's a lot of talk about that.

But also on like the actual politician side, why do you want to be working until you literally don't know where you are? Like, retire. Because that's all they know. You know how like some people like that's all they know and they can do and like once they stop doing that thing, then it's like I really have no reason to live anymore. Like my whole shit was about like being feeling fucking powerful. That's so weird, man. That's why we're smart, but we have, we don't have that kind of power and we will live forever. We'll live forever.

I'm just I'm just dabbing little bits of power. Not like this shit. I'm 40. If I can at the most, at the most, I only want to. about 20 or 30 more years of working and that's pushing it. Realistically, I want about four or five more months.

I want to make $60 million. And then I want to retire forever. I want to do one thing. I want to just film a movie. That's big. I want to make $60 million and I want to retire forever.

I know that's unrealistic. So realistically, 15 to 20 years is I want to be done. That's why you got to be up. You've got to be on that fire plan. Financial independence, retire early. That's where people, like, I know a few people who are fucking gunning for that shit.

Like, they want to just build up enough of, like, an account, an investment strategy so that they can just live off the interest. And they're like, and I will never work again. But those are people that I know who have, like, very high paying jobs. So it's not for everybody. Not for everybody. Next up. Oh, should, I just lost my dog.

somebody saying, I've been retired, by the way, it sucks. Brian. I'm sorry, Brian. Let me teach you how to do retirement. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll show you. Meanwhile, third party is trending right now. Marjorie Taylor Green and Tucker Carlson have been like somewhat in sync over the last couple of weeks when it comes to them making like really big statements about like where they're at as Republicans. They recently announced within a day of each other that they are quitting the GOP. Like they were citing Trump's war mongering and. caving to Net and Yahoo when it comes to all things Iran. Yesterday, Marjorie Taylor Green says she's having, quote, serious conversations about starting a new political party, saying the GOP, she once made Sweet Love 2, was no longer the same person that she knew back then. And within 24 hours, Tucker Carlson has now made the same announcements. I'm like, okay, they're cooking something up.

Quote, I'm going to help build a third party, Carlson said in an interview with the Columbia a journalism review. There should be a good faith effort to figure out what benefits the country. He basically argued that when it comes to the two issues he views as most consequential for Americans, war and finance.

Okay, I could place a couple. I would say like inequality. Sure, that's one way to be sure. Yeah, sure. He's a Democrats. That's what we call not being able to force it.

Yeah, yeah. I don't have the finances. I don't work in the financial sex. But sure. He says that Democrats and Republicans are, quote, lockstep solidarity with each other. And then he says, it's not a democracy. We have a one-party state opposing as a democracy. I'm like, true, true, true, true say.

And it needs to be broken. And there's going to be a third party. And I'm going to do everything I can to bring that about. I was wondering who would like blink first in terms of like saying like, like, we're making a third party. We're going to try and capture all the people that are completely rejecting the Democrat-Republican binary. Yeah. So Tucker must have. some financial backers because him and Marjorie Taylor Green creating a third party is most is

obviously going to be pulling votes from just the Republican Party. Yeah. Which be a gift to Democrats. But I don't know. It could be. Who knows? Or those, the independents who like are kind of like, well, they're not as racist, but I'm like also they are.

I don't know. We'll see how they play that, how this one plays out. I'm of sound body and mind. It's a fully believe with every fiber. and Adam in my body, that an independent is just a Republican. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If anybody is an independent,

and that's what they say they are, you're just a Republican. You just don't want to say it without saying anything else. If people were like, I'm an independent because I'm actually like so, uh, rad, like not even radically progressive,

you know, like I know people who are independents because they, they just can't, they can't actually stand saying that they're Democrats. But I do get that there are a lot of pendants. A lot of people who are like, who'd you vote for? And they go, I'm an independent. And you're like, yeah.

Okay. But that's different, though. Like, like you said, they're saying things more. Like, yeah, those people have something to say. You know, but somebody who identifies as like, yes, I'm an independent. I think they're both bad. Yeah. Yeah.

Let me see your tweets. Let me see your tweets. Let me see your tweets real quick. Um, also, J.D. Vance, he just recently, this dude is still pushing his fucking stupid book, like trying to promote his. dumb book on TV. It's been like two months of this shit, I feel like. Anyway, he just got on to fellow Catholic convert Laura Ingram's show, to show, you know, just like, he just wanted to riff on the Bible and just talk about how his Catholic faith is just like, just made him such a

cool guy. She was at, like, she asked him, you know, how is your faith informed how you view policy? And his answer is just him saying a bunch of empty shit until he basically just uses his faith to justify being xenophobic. Here's a brave Catholic convert, J.D. Vance. You make better decisions over the course of time. The other thing, Laura, I'd say that my faith really motivates me towards is to remember that our economic policy, it doesn't exist for corporations, it doesn't exist for Wall Street. As much as we want everybody to be successful, it exists to support the dignity of human beings. We want... So he's saying my faith reminds me that it's okay your economy is supposed to work for the dignity of human beings i think is what i'm just

trying to follow his logic every american to be able to raise a family to be able to support themselves in comfort and indignity yeah that's why we're trying to bring investment in manufacturing back to the united states of america that's why we don't like low-wage foreigners coming in and undercutting the wages of american workers wait okay so your faith says that you want to make sure that the economy works for people to live with dignity. That's why we can't have any broke boy foreigners coming into the country. Brown foreigners. Listen, I would love, and listen, I love my maid.

I love my name. I love him. Trust me. My wife gives her her old clothes all the time. All the time. All the time. But if we can get back to the basics in America and have, Have a young Negro be that.

Have a young black child or black woman be our maid. Then we're back to America, baby. Those jobs used to be to slave. Those used to be slave jobs. My great granddad used to talk about his mammy. And I just wish. I wish we could get back. I want my children to know about that.

Hearing her voice just booming through the house as she made us grits. You remember those episodes of Tom and Jerry with the block lady that they never shoulder face. I want to get back to that. I want to get back to that. I want faceless women of color serving me. That's the America I know. I'm like, what the fuck is my

faith prevents saying we want to keep low? It's like the most tenuous shit I've ever heard. I'm like, but then I'm like, oh wait, yeah, I do remember in the book of Mark, the parable of the low wage foreigner. For he shall not sell his land and allow the usurpations

of the broke ass low wage foreigner. Low wage foreigner. Resist their pleas for dignity as they are only the devil disguised as the needy. I think that, I think that was from the Bible.

Or something like that. Jesus was a low-age foreigner. That's what I'm saying, bro. You know, he was low-way- You think he was born as a carpenter? He was born as a carpenter? He was, he made sure people was drinking. Yeah.

He was doing his best, bro. He was just like, yeah, bro, I got it. They're like, Jesus, man, you got money for this? He's like, bro, watch this shit. Bro, let me that wine-jure, bro. Give me that. I ain't got no money, baby. I got magic. These have called him Jay the plug. If you really know, if you really had the real version of the Bible.

And he's like, what's that big dude from Texas? He's like, hey, because I'm from Texas. That would be Jesus. Wait, who's that? Big plug. I think big plug. What's his name? Because I'm from Texas. Well, Beyonce Blu-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Oh, Big X the plug. Big J-the-plug. Big J-the-plug.

Give me that bread. Give me that fish. Boom. Multiply it. Bang. Okay. All right. Let's take a quick break.

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are black. And we are back. And we're back. Both. Because no those dos. So just just a note on we talked like I think on Tuesday or Wednesday's episode about how Trump is basically like overcompensating with the four because he ruined the fourth of July and no one gives a fuck about it with him as president. That he's like, we're going to have the largest fireworks show in history because I just want to and it sounds like it's true because last year for the fourth of July, seven thousand, uh, fireworks were set off for the big 4th of July, you know, official show at the Capitol. This year, it will be over 850,000 shells being launched for this. That's wild.

That is going to be a Guinness World Record. That's wild. I mean, can't argue. It will be like nothing you've ever seen. However, it is a little, I'm like, I mean, the people can't even get a Millie Vanilli concert booked or know how to clean up a pool. And they're going to launch a fucking damn near a. million shells into the air? It is going to be, and listen, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I don't like

fireworks shows. I love a fireworks show. I love a fireworks show. I love a fireworks show. I love fireworks. Disney, Fourth of July, whatever. I love seeing fire, New Year's. Yeah.

Chicago on every Friday night, uh, during the summer, you get on a boat and they pop the fireworks over Navy Pier. I love a firework show. Every, every Friday in Chicago? During the summer. Wow. Yeah, during the summer. Yeah, it's beautiful.

It's beautiful. but like 800,000 something bad. It feels like something's going to catch on fire. Something bad is going to have. Just to do what? To prove what? I think it's just because

it's like I was saying it reminds me of like when I was a shitty boyfriend and I fucked up and rather than like apologizing properly and like reevaluating why I upset somebody I was dating, I would just like buy them a bunch of shit to try and paper it over. And that's, like, kind of what this is. He's like, sorry I completely fucked up your big birthday, but here's way more fireworks

than you could have asked for. Hopefully that will do something because I'm not interested in changing who I am. So apparently he's going to also talk. He's going to give the longest speech, he said, on July 4th and his schedule to be like 108 degrees. Yeah. That he was saying. And he's like, and I will do it.

He said, and I'm going to do it just to prove to people that I can. And I'm like, oh, shit. Are we going to watch? it happened on live TV. But again, fantastic. Let's be real. Like,

he actually isn't going to, like, the high that day could reach that, like at, like, you know, 3 p.m. He's not giving a speech

till 9.45 p.m. So the hottest it'll be is like in the 80s, but still in the 80s, in that humidity in D.C. In a suit. Let's be real. He also,

even if they have to hide it, he's going to have some type of cooling system up there. Oh, yeah, yeah. They're just going to just going to fucking strap ice packs just all up and down his body probably and then he gets a cold, who knows? But the thing with the fireworks though

is obviously like, sure, this is a densely populated city. And the other part too, the heavy metal pollution in the Potomac River, they're saying just taking that like sheer volume of fireworks they normally have and then exponentially multiplying that, it's going to bring pollutants like, quote, perchlorates and heavy metals,

the effects of which on humans and the environment are still not well understood by scientists. The park service, there were documents that got leaked that point to a potential, quote, public health disaster with the fireworks creating, quote, very unhealthy air quality in D.C. So much so that their internal report

recommends people wear fucking N95 masks when outdoors, and quote, remain indoors as much as possible during and after the show. How the fuck are you supposed to see the shit? They're like, it's going to be the biggest fireworks show you've ever seen in D.C. Do not come outside. It's crazy.

Stay inside. And if you're outside, we're a respirator. Where a fucking mat is crazy. Like, people are going to pinpoint back to this day. They're going to be 70. And me, like, what happened on July 4th? Yeah.

2026, I got cancer. Right. That's where it is. This is going to be like Agent Orange. Yeah, and I'd imagine, too, just with everything situated, there's like going to be a lack of, obviously they're also saying, too, with the heat, that like low winds will, quote, it will struggle to push the smoke along. So it could just, like, sit right there. So this administration and this presidency has taught me so much. I've always been a cynical person when it comes to the country.

not always, but like for most of my adult life. Realistic, realistic. Realistic, cynical. Since, and most of my adult life, especially since college. Mm-hmm. But there would be things I foolishly would believe. Like, you know, if aliens came to the earth, that, like, it would unite Earth. Like, things like that.

This administration, this presidency has stripped my, like, like, my faith in humanity so drastically. Like, this is crazy. This is crazy. And it's like so small. It's like, this is a television show. And it's so funny. Like 800,000 fireworks for what you are literally.

Somebody literally might die. Because they just go outside and breathe it in and like they get fucked up and they will die the next day. That is going to happen. They're saying the humidity, it's just going to like, the smoke will just be chilling. They said if a chance of scattered storms materialized, it could become an even more humid and primed for smoke to hang around. Have you ever, like, it's like when I remember being like in a really humid place for the first time when it's smoking weed outside. And I was like, bro, it's fucking hang. It's just lingering in the air.

It's different than like being in the desert air climate of like Los Angeles. Like, shit just fucking hangs. Yeah. It's humid like that. It's fucking air is thick. And that's my, that's my contribution to science is smoking a blunt in the humidity once. And that's, that was, that was the A-B testing I was doing. Okay.

And then also there, that trailer just dropped for the new Willy Wonka themed reality competition series. Wonka's golden ticket. People are not fucking happy about it. It's just like, it's like, it's like, it looks like basically grown-ass adults to do like Nickelodeon guts type like physical contests. Yeah. We're just like, I love that. Yeah. And I'm like, does that even have to be Willy Wonka thing?

I'm like, also wasn't the whole point, like, the real kid that wins was pure of heart? And that's just not in it for the fucking clout for the money. Like, that was like the sort of moral kind of. So I don't know how they're going to replicate that. But anyway, there was just a lot of people were really pointing the fact that, like, there's, Gene Wilder's voice is going to be like part of the show. Because, look, we've never heard anything wrong going happening with Willie Wonka. and AI combining, but here we are.

And it's just like, the voice is just like very not good, to put it lightly. It's created by 11 labs, which is an AI company that recently made a huge deal with Matthew McConaughey for his voice, which actually I'm like, AI McConaughey as Wonka might be like more interesting just to hear that. But a lot of people said, called it quote, deeply evil and AI necromanic slop. Yeah. And like the voice also just doesn't really sound like Wilder. It's like seldom do these voice models actually sound like the person.

Like there's moments. Yeah. But it's never like, oh shit, that's them full on doing new voiceover. Like no. Yeah. Also like, I mean, it could be an age thing. But does Gene Wilder have such a recognizable voice and I'm like, that's Gene Wilder. Like I don't.

Yeah. I guess it could be an age thing for me. Right, right, right. No, I mean, like, it's, it's like one of those things. Like, if you remember Willie Wonka. Sure. And if you hear it, you're like, man, you'll probably just be like, it'll just be off to you. I think for people that are diehard fans of it and diehard Gene Wilder fans are like,

this is nothing like it. But I think at the end of the day, for casual viewers, we would be just as fine as, like, hiring a human being to do a Gene Wilder impression. Yeah, because I'm like, his voice isn't so recognizable. Yeah. And to me, where it's just like, you know, like, even Matthew McConae has a pretty recognizable voice. Now that could be recently biased, but like, and we

just hear his voice more than Gene Wilder's now. But like, how great, do you know how bad you have to be to make a voice that you can be like, that doesn't even sound like somebody's whose voice I don't fucking know.

Like, that's crazy. That's crazy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's how bad it is. Yeah, yeah. He's like, I don't know what Gene Wilder sound like, but I know it ain't that. This is like one of those. things are like executives are like yeah we're like using AI to fucking blah blah blah blah and cut to people like bro this shit sucks and now I'm more put off by it but that's our duty as Americans is to be hostile towards AI whenever we have the opportunity to do so

and then finally in some good news so you know the onion took over the over info wars I did know that yeah because they actually bought the distress property off, you know, it went to a court, like a court sale because Alex Jones is broke. And he's like, and I'm got to pay the Sandy Hook families. Well, the official Info Wars launched on, launched today. And dude, he's, they've already done good. They've already done better than Alex Jones by donating $100,000 to the Sandy Hook families. Alex Jones has yet to pay any of the almost like $1.5 billion he owes them for all the bullshit lies he was

peddling about crisis actors and fake dead children and all that shit. And a lot of the money came from sales of the new Info Wars rainbow logo merch, which the Onion has been selling. So good on it. You know what I mean? I love this. Ben Collins has taken control of it and made it a thing, a force for good. So get your Info Wars, your Rainbow Info Wars hats.

And then you'll actually be helping Sandy Hook families because Alex Jones is continuing to try and evade any kind of accountability there. So anyway. Yeah, he ain't gonna never pay that shit. Well, he ain't got the money to pay it, but. I mean, he probably does. It's just like he's doing a lot of like,

how much? Anybody. What are you got to do? How much is it? $1.5 billion? I don't know if he has $1.5 billion. He has, he's got shit. He's got something.

Oh, yeah. But he hasn't paid a dime. Well, yeah, because he has money. He just will be broke for the rest of his fucking life. Yeah, well, he's tactically. bankrupt, you know what I mean, like where everything's... Well, I don't have anybody. You know what I mean? Just spend it all on caveman nutraceuticals.

What I did. And just eat and old... I just eat south berry steak. Yes, and I just... Grounded up turtle shells, but I cook up in hot water, like a cup of noodles. Anyway, that's probably what he eats. Um, Jackie, thank you for joining me for the trending episode. Guys, we will be back tomorrow morning with a brand new episode.

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