The Daily Zeitgeist - Jack-O-Trendern 10/31: World Series, Halloween, Martha Stewart, Donald Trump, RFK Jr.

Episode Date: October 31, 2024

In this edition of Jack-O-Trendern, Jack and Miles discuss the Dodgers beating the Yankees in the World Series, companies giving out free stuff for election day, Martha Stewart being mad at Netflix over their 'Martha' doc, Donald Trump's garbage truck photo op and his desire to let RFK Jr. "go wild on medicines" and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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what kind of dudes are these dudes? We're gonna find out, Jules. New episodes drop every Thursday during the NFL season. Listen to Dudes on Dudes on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of Jack O'Trender. That's what my Halloween House of Horrors nickname should be. Jacko Lantern.

How did I miss that one? Yeah. David on the Discord was like, wait, shouldn't your Halloween name be Jacko Lantern? I don't know if this is so obvious. It's like a bad idea, but I feel like it should be Jacko Lantern. Yeah. Never thought of that. idea but I feel like it should be Jack o lantern yeah never I did get called that a lot when I was you know younger and just like calling anyone anything was considered teasing I don't know if you've seen it have you like a Jack in

the neighborhood who walks his dog but he has that lantern he carries when he doesn't jack oh sick the jack of your head like see hollow his shit it sounds like it could be like a tarot card. Oh, you got the Jack O Lanterns. Oh, no, you're fucked. This is not a good sign. All right. Enough fun.

Halloween talk. OK, wow. Let's get into more Halloween talk. Oh, I'm Jack. That's Miles. It is Halloween. Yes. Happy Halloween. Yes. We'll have my uh... Happy Doggers World Series Victory Day also.

Oh shit. Wait what? Yeah. Yeah. What? Yeah. Yeah. The city is basically every... For millennials of a certain age from Los Angeles, nothing the dog pound track New York New York is playing through our minds constantly. Manor. Manor. Just the video, just the part where when he kicked down the twin tower,

where they're kicking down the twin tower. Yeah, that was a little look. But I don't know if Dog Pound had anything to do with Al Qaeda or whatever bin Laden. I don't think so. But what if that was like in bin Laden's diaries? That's where he got the idea. He's like this track by Corrupt and Snoop Dogg.

Hold on. Wait a tick. Was that the song that said New York, New York, big city of dreams, but everything in New York, you know, is what it seems. Yeah. Cool. Well, that's certainly true for Yankees fans tonight as the Bombers fall. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we have temporarily become like a, uh, 1% baseball podcast for the baseball playoffs. So, so people who, uh, hate baseball or don't pay attention to it,

it's only the last time I mentioned it's over. I do just have to bring up the fact that, you know, as someone who grew up, uh, in, you know, partially in Boston was a Red Sox fan for a while, labored under the curse of the Bambino. There was some shit in that Yankees loss that reminded me of what like rooting for a team that labors under the curse of a, of a band. There were just some mistakes like where they were like, oh, wait, there's nobody covering first and stuff like that. That just reminded me, I'm not going to blame it all on fat Joe, but him claiming to be the ghost of Babe Ruth himself and calling himself the Bronx bomber himself.

Yeah. And calling himself the Bronx bomber himself. Yeah. I love the self-ascribed nickname himself. That's right, folks. It's me, the Jack O'Lantern himself. Oh, cool. OK, let's go, honey. I don't I don't like I don't think this party is going to be good. Anyways.

Anyways, the Dodgers did win. The fireworks were a poppin some Metro buses did. The requisite fan chaos that ensues after an LA team wins. Yeah, it happened. And also the LAPD, I feel like for the last two days was probably hiding in their little vans in case the Dodgers won. Because the second the Dodgers won won there was like riot cops in like downtown in East LA But anyway, that's that's just that's just what sports does to I know a lot going on in Los Angeles LA is a city that loves its Halloween and so day after the Dodgers win the World Series It is Halloween here in Los Angeles. The kids are all dressed up the long

Decorations are out in full force. Yes. I feel like. Yeah. Joe Biden is out here biting kids. Yeah. He's like, Joe Biden is biting kids. Can you imagine if he was still running for president right now? Yeah. So wild. But these are fucking hilarious. Truly anybody who there are some things that we like can't forget, right? We can't forget the people who like are now kissing Trump's ass in case he wins.

Yeah, because they like want to usher in the business plot and, you know, a world of corporate fascism, even more intense than the one we already have. We also can't forget the people who are like, you're you're actually wrong to say Biden is a bad candidate, and that's actually fucked up of you. He's going to do it. He is like the biggest liability. He's not even running and he's still a massive liability. Just take a bite of this. Just a little baby turkeys. is like the biggest liability. He's not even running and he's still a massive liability.

Take a bite out of this little baby turkey's leg. Anyways, I mean, it is what you wanna do when you like come up on a baby. And as we talked about, one of the problems with aging is it's not always that you like lose your way in a sentence. Sometimes it's that the impulse control goes. We've talked about it with George H.W. Bush and with Joe Biden, at least his impulse control is just like, dang, those legs are, those baby toes and legs are juicy. I want to take a bite out of them.

Baby feet are just, they're just, you know, little chubby, juicy little bitey feet. That's what I look at. My the guy's child. And I'm like, thank God those feet are still looking still like, looking like the Michelin man, baby. Yeah, just a little bubbly toes, little bubblegum toes. And we eat them because we're on the left. Because we're on the left. Yeah, exactly.

I'm just looking at those and I'm picturing my next all night party. Getting the adrenochrome baby. Exactly. I'm off that adrenochrome. All right. There's an op-ed. Some news, right? Kind of.

We had to find some Halloween stuff. We already covered the Google's half-assed list of the most popular Halloween costumes. I will be fact checking that on tomorrow's episode because we will. The Joe Byton. Tomorrow's trending. Yeah, Joe Byton. But yeah, there's not bad in Slate that is like, let your kids go wild on Halloween. You do see evidence of the helicopter parenting on Halloween, at least as compared to when

I was growing up. When I was growing up, it was more of a be back before dark type thing on regular days. And on Halloween, it was like, be back before we, your parents go to bed. And that's not the way it seems to be anymore, at least in Los Angeles. I don't know. But this person's like, just let them go feral for one night, for God sakes. Yeah. It feels like kind of like a love letter to a bygone era.

Because, you know, they're just sort of like the parents are clogging the streets. Kids are all like polite and shit. I don't think, I don't know, personally, I think having that kind of impulse control is a good thing. But I guess narrowly, they've been like, just, I think having that kind of impulse control is a good thing. But I guess narrowly they've been like, just let Halloween be the day they take fucking just obscene handfuls. Now look, some people have the candy bowl set up and you know it's obscene handful time. Sometimes you're like, oh, this shit is nice. I can't I'm not going to look I'm not going to crash out in this person's front door. So here, let me just

take one. But yeah, I just know for me personally, I was solo like I didn't have I didn't have parental supervision, like starting around like eight years old. Yeah. And I just, but I think I don't know, we live in an era now because we see so much cell phone video of things happening bad that it's like, yeah, you know, it's safer than it's ever been in many ways, but not in people driving. People are not looking when they drive. So be careful of that. But, uh, yeah. Anyways, uh, have fun out there kids. Uh, yeah, we got, we got our 2000 pieces of candy. Um, I will be telling people to take one each at the beginning of the night.

And as soon as I get a little bit tired, I'm like, Hey man, how big is that bag? Yeah. Yeah. No, no, I live here. I live here. It's fine. I don't care what your fucking mom said here. Just take. I'm going to be making them take an oath of not doing the candy buyback program with any of my candy. We'll talk about that on tomorrow's episode. Yeah. All right. Some companies that are giving out election day freebies. We got your Krispy Kreme. We got your IKEA. Wait, what's Ikea giving out? I don't know. Let's take a look. Bistro furniture. We get free frozen yogurt. Ah, frozen. Man, if it was fucking meatballs,

my ass would have already been like, I would have been like, fuck voting, bro. I'm at the IKEA for these meatballs. I know. Well, that's the problem with IKEA. Like that's a day. Like IKEA, is this a voter suppression tactic? Who got to know? No, no, no, no. You never just pop into I can't eat. No. Oh, I don't know who's wrong here.

Probably me. Also, my kids are always like far from me for some reason. Like, you know, like it's there's always like an IKEA in some outer borough in New York or you know what I mean? North Carolina based Krispy Kreme donut chain will give out I voted stickers. Wait, what? And the original glazed donuts that participating US jobs again feels like they're just doing that. Is that a burden? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

No, you voted. You're fine. Here, take this Krispy Kreme. Yeah, you voted. You don't. Yeah. But can I vote here? No, no, no, you can't. Johnny Rockets free milkshakes. OK. I guess you want to voters to the ballots. If you want to crash out on the scooter. Miles, I was talking. Oh, sorry. My milkshake. Bring all the voters to the ballot.

Maybe is that something? Miles, don't interrupt me. Then a boom, then a boom, then a boom. Yeah, great. Is that something? Miles, don't interrupt me. Yeah, great. But the thing with IKEA is, there's a little hack. Sometimes I've been able to get my jury duty moved to the Burbank courthouse, and that's closer to that local, the IKEA there. Little hack for you. So, you know, if you're going to do your civil duty, you can also do your, your.

You get dismissed early and you get, and then you just kick it at IKEA, eating those, you know, meatballs of questionable origin, sleeping in some stranger's bedroom on the, out on the IKEA floor. Uh, we got some new M&Ms. We are going to talk about election stuff after the break. Uh, got a M&M and Snickers ice cream treats, peanut butter, Eminem's peanut butter cookie sandwich and dark chocolate Snickers. I don't care about this that much.

You care. I like peanut peanut butter. Eminem's I think are pretty underrated, to be honest, because they're well, they're because also like the sort of weirdo cousin of Reese's Pieces. You know what I mean? Yeah. Because I like I've never liked them. You really? Yeah, never. I fuck with peanut butter cups heavy. I do not really like the and I love peanut M&Ms,

but peanut butter M&Ms for some reason. You probably would have fucking let ET die and shit to probably hear you. Yeah, yeah, I definitely would have. Me and my friends like to do it. Do it. Do it, kill it. It's fucking gross. Yeah. I have my brain is so fucked up off of E.T. Reese's Pieces that I'm like it became one of those first candies.

I didn't know what it was when I was seeing it. And I was like, wait, M&Ms have like this. This is a very specific color palette that they're using. And I remember the day I fucking had Reese's Pieces, I was just fucking like I felt I thought I was Elliot and shit. All right. And then lastly, on the bullshit front, Martha Stewart is mad about, there's a new Netflix documentary about her, Martha. And she participated in the documentary and she was not happy with how it turned out. She complained the final scene makes her look like a lonely old lady. Okay. And they basically cut her grandchildren out of it. So it seems like she's just like this lonely,

all alone person, all alone. Right. And she also suggested that the director should use rap music in the documentary, like Dr. Dre, Snoop, or Fredwick. But instead he used a lousy classical score, which she says has nothing to do with me. So I just like how Martha Stewart sees herself versus how the world sees her. I mean, wow. Shout out, Fred Reck. That's what is she?

What? Martha, is this what happened to you at Club Fed? Like you've just been all because I mean, Fred Wreck's mostly a... I know him mostly as a producer, but I guess he also is, you know, was a rapper too. But yeah. Fred Wreck makes more sense. The R was mistakenly deleted in the story, but yes, Fred Wreck. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Yeah. Not Fred Weck. No. I was just doing a bit. I know that rap producer. I was just doing a baby voice on that one.

That's why I find a new angle. Got it. Got it. Got it. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk about the garbage truck photo op and his weird way of saying that he wants to protect women, whether they like it or not. Yikes. And we're back. We're back. And Donald Trump garbage truck photo op is making the rounds. He looks particularly orange.

Oh, yeah. If you've seen the video from it, he looks particularly drunk. We know he doesn't drink, but he might be failing. Like his brain, body connection might be falling apart. That moment, he does that thing where, I mean, he's looking at the door handle and he like swipes for it. I think assuming that he was going to put his weight on it. But then like his eyes must deceive him.

Yeah, because it was a little bit further out. Real quick, real quick. Yeah, it does a little quick wobble. Swipes at it. Yeah. He looked like someone hit him with the sham god, basically. And was like, whoa, exactly. But the the stationary garbage truck put him on skates somehow. Oh, shit. Whoa, what the fuck is this thing?

Hey ref, that's a carry over bro. What the fuck was that? Oh man, he hated sham god. The hand should be perfectly on top of the ball. Should never be able to be on the side. I'm the sham god if anyone. And then, so he was wearing a bright like glow in the dark orange vest for that and then he kept it on addressed a crowd and started complaining about how his advisors keep telling him not to

describe himself as a protector for women. Here we'll play some audio here. Yeah, there's nothing. Don't ever tell a geriatric old white man who's drunk off-powered to not do something because guess what? He ain't listening and my people told me about four weeks ago. I would say no. I want to protect the people I want to protect the women of our country. I want to protect the women sir. Please don't say that. Why they said we think it's We think it's very inappropriate for you to say. I said, why? I'm president. I want to protect the women of our country. They said...

Yeah, great. Yeah, but they're loving it. They said, sure, I just think it's inappropriate for you to say. Pay these guys a lot of money. Can you believe it? I said well I'm gonna do it whether the women like it or not. I'm gonna protect them. Hmm Yep, he's like I think he's just gonna end it with I'm gonna do it they like it They're not the tech the women obviously Wow. Yay. Great. Great. Great. Yeah

Yeah, I think I don't know what happened. Is he self-applicating the makeup? Is he a makeup person? Right. Real orange, like big, big orange. He looked like, you know, those stress dolls that have like the wild ass, like red circle mouth and you squeeze it and like the eyes pop out and the ears pop out and shit. That's what his shit looked like.

His there's a, there's a picture of him with like he's speaking and a bunch of people photoshopped it, but his like mouth is in the shape of an O and you're like this guy looks Oompa Loompa Jason. And then another thing he said, uh, and this, this was actually at the, uh, Madison square garden Nazi rally. He claimed that he wants to let JFK it's so wild. How much like this would have been.

First of all, I do want to say him missing the door and almost falling over and looking like he was like on his way to collapsing. If Kamala Harris, who were not like worried about her health at all, like that's not a thing that people are concerned about. If that happened to her, it would be like people would be like, there's your October surprise. It would be such a huge news story. MSNBC would be like, she might be fucked in her head.

We don't know. Go back to Biden. We got to go back to Biden. Who knows? Who knows? It's yeah. I mean, remember like Hillary had to sit down at a 9 11 thing and people, it was like the biggest news story. It was like, is she,

she collapsed. Yeah. It's like, it's hot as shit. And these people don't know. I'm sorry, but they're, they're not, they're not built for the heat. They don't care. They're just like, yeah, he, whatever. It's not like, is one of 20 wild things he said. Yeah. So at the Madison Square Garden rally, where all the person did like the racist standup routine, he claimed that he wants to let RFK Junior go wild on medicine. Which that's actually the most frightening sentence I've ever heard is,

you know, our junior go wild on medicines, just windmill on them. Huh? Is I mean, that just like the an argument I've seen people bring up is like, oh, the libs keep mocking Trump for his like, you know, garbage truck driver thing or like his McDonald's stunt. driver thing or like his McDonald's stunt. And like, but his voters think it's endearing and adorable. But I think like that and like him saying things like go wild on medicines, like it just feels like you have a toddler who is running for president. Like go wild on medicines is like how my kids would describe, like what, throwing them on the ground, if they got the chance to run, to be a doctor or something.

You know? Yeah. Like it's just it. And I promise to go wild on medicines. All right. Okay. Wait, in a good way? I don't know. It's going to go wild on them. Yeah. So I don't know, but what that actually means,

according to Kennedy himself, he told supporters on a Zoom call that Trump promised him control of the public health agencies, which are HHS and its sub-agency CDC, FDA, NIH, and a few others. He couldn't list all the agencies that he would be in charge of. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, that's great. That's great. I can't think of anyone better than RFK Jr., the person who really helped mainstream anti-vax nonsense here, being the guy who gets to go wild on the health agencies.

Yes, gets to oversee all the health agencies. Yeah. Lest you think that they're just like dangling something in front of him. Howard Lutnick, who is like one of the billionaires who is Trump's transition co-chair, he appeared on CNN and the reporter was like, so, you know, he, Kennedy's like claiming that you're going to put him in charge. And his claim was, no, we're not going to put him in charge. He just wants access to data. But then he just like repeated a bunch of, he was like, I talked to the guy

for two and a half hours. He makes a lot of really good points and like started just like quoting like vaccine skeptic talking. I think it's worth hearing this guy talk because you can hear how greasy this dude is. Like you're like, Oh, I don't trust this guy. Here's this is Howard lightning. I talked to him for two and a half hours. So I spent two and a half hours this week with Bobby Kennedy Jr. And it was the most extraordinary thing

because let's face it, we've all heard on the news, all sorts of sort of snarky comments about him. And I said, I don't know. I think I've heard journalistic reporting about his abhorrent behavior. They're being snarky. They're being snarky. They're being snarky like you fucking sawed off a whale head and shit, got whale juice on your kids. You want to bone a journalist and impregnate them.

Journalists are being such bitches. Oh my gosh. Stop with the snark. So tell me, how's it going to go? And he said, why don't you just listen to me explain things? And what he explained was when he was born, we had three vaccines and autism was one in 10,000. Now a baby is born with 76 vaccines because in 1986, they waived product liability for vaccines. Yeah, these are all just straightforward. Just all. Yeah, this is the runway that you create rhetorically to land the anti-vax plane. And that's why let's not talk about, you know, medical advancements. It's because it's because of the liability and also the ability to diagnose and suddenly there's an

explosion or maybe the ability to diagnose and, you know, identify things change too. But yeah, he's doing the 100%. You could tell this dude had a two and a half hour conversation with RFK Jr. Because he's talking like someone who's just been like, oh my God, yes, I'm fully on board with this. Yeah. As bad as so many of the things that would happen in a Trump administration are like, this could be the worst one. Like we've seen RFK like did a full like anti-vax campaign in, I forget where it was. Was it American Samoa? Like he- Oh yeah, where people died. Yeah. Yeah. Where he made the whole island like very skeptical of vaccines and like was pointing

to all these news stories with like bullshit. Just like this guy. And there was a massive outbreak that killed a bunch of people that he had to like go and apologize. Mostly children. 83 people died in some all because of this outbreak. This will kill children. If this fucking guy gets, Oh yeah.

And to drop, to drop any kind of regulations and like public education around being like vaccinated and inoculations, like those are going to lead to multiple fucking wacky outbreaks of shit that should not be happening anymore. Yeah. Um, so not good. Not good. Miles, I don't know, man. We'll see. Should be a fun weekend. I like hearing people going wild on stuff, you know,

like going wild on the keyboard, you know, going wild on the drum set, going wild on public health you know, like going wild on the keyboard, you know, going wild on the drum set, going wild on public health regulations. Going wild on medicines sounds like a euphemism for like a drug problem, you know? Oh yeah, yeah. He's going, he's, he's fine. He's just going a little wild on medicines, but we think he's fine. He's got heroin. Yeah. But that was originally created as a cough syrup.

All right. Those are some of the things that are trending on this Thursday, October 31st, Halloween. We are back tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine. get your flu shots, don't do nothing about white supremacy,

and we will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye. Bye-bye. I'm Julian Edelman. I'm Rob Gronkowski. And we are super excited to tell you about our new show, Dudes on Dudes. We're spilling all the behind-the-scenes stories, crazy details,

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