The Daily Zeitgeist - Kate MiddleTrend's Photo Editor 3/18: Tucker Carlson, Boeing, McDonalds, Trump, Fruit of the Loom

Episode Date: March 18, 2024

In this edition of Kate MiddleTrend's Photo Editor, Jack and Miles discuss their respective weekends, Tucker Carlson getting pranked by "Kate Middleton's Photo Editor", airline tickets probably getting more expensive… thanks to Boeing's fuck ups and capitalism, federal regulators being sick of McDonalds' ice cream machines being broken, Trump's latest word-salad-jazz-solo in Ohio, a veritable cornucopia of Mandela Effect (feat. Fruit of the Loom), and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me for I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and Shekinah Church. Listen to Forgive Me for I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jemay Jackson-Gadsden. We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts. There's a lot to figure out when you're just

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get your podcast presented by capital one founding partner of iheart women's sports hello the internet and welcome to this monday trending edition of their daily prediction of iheart radio this is a podcast where we take a deep dive into america's shared consciousness and tell you what is trending this is the episode we record on monday morning uh tell you what was trending over the weekend what caught our attention what's going on with us i am jack that is miles yeah uh how you doing miles i'm doing great i'm doing great yeah i'm doing great uh-huh yeah no it seems good natural uh not like a ai that just got stuck oh man i was i was you know i started i'm playing around i see people on the

internet fucking with chat gpt and stuff to try and get it like just to put it in these like logic puzzles to get it to do stuff like say fuck and I can't do that and then gaming it out. Again, it's a fun puzzle toy is what these are. Yeah. You can't even get a reliable description of a fucking restaurant on there half the time.

No. Which is wild anyway. But yeah, I'm great. I'm great. Why do you ask? all right well uh we're gonna get to some of the things that are trending first we like to tell you a little bit about what's going on with us by telling you something we think underrated overrated uh miles is there something you think is underrated underrated uh how my personal psychology affects my sleep style and my

sleeping and my ability to uh guarantee myself good sleep what i mean is my people pleasing affects my sleeping um and i brought this up on the show i bring it up a lot uh but now i'm here to articulate it a little more uh see i'm already fucking up i was gonna say succinct and more articulate way but no i'm gonna abandon that my sleep bad because me scared of asking people for a thing um but yeah like her majesty a sprawler okay oh yeah that's her Sprawler. I didn't mean to say like, Oh yeah. Like I slept with her before. Oh yeah, man.

Dude, what the fuck? Oh yeah, man. That thing where she kicks with her left leg. Uh, yeah. Oh,

I'll get her on the phone. What the fuck is going on? I, I meant to say, I also sleep with a sprawler dude when you're when you're with the cincinnati sprawler man it's it's tough and i sleep we have a minimum of at at minimum two pets in the bed i would mostly say it's between one it's a 1.5 wow there's always the dog the cat here and there when that happens the sprawler seeds territory on the bed to the to the animals and then that encroaches on my part of the bed uh-huh i i'm not i'm not a i'm

not a tiny lad as they would say no i'm six foot two okay you are a big man i'm 700 pounds of pure muscle okay it's all in my thighs. But like, I, I also, I like to get my leg out a little bit. You know what I mean? Like I have noticed that's like a sleeping thing that helps is when I sleep sort of like army crawl style,

that kind of helps anchor my body and I move less. Army crawl style is how I've been sleeping lately. That's crazy. Yeah. On your stomach, like just like one arm. On my stomach with hands up, like,

uh, something like that the cops just told me you know freeze basically because i if i if i do it with my hands under me like they fall asleep so you sleep with your hands under you sometimes sometimes my arm goes under my head oh and then do you get like that weird like wild nerve compression and then like your arm tingles for like three days like chronically i can't feel my hands most of the time oh like rachel ray yeah yeah um so anyway because of that it's a definitely a hard life and every time i want to move my first instinct is like oh don't disturb

the path the dog will wake up and then my growl and then the baby might wake up or then i'm like i don't want to like i don't want to push push her, shove her in her back so I can get some space so I can sleep comfortably. And it ends up affecting my quality of sleep. I don't. And so that's why I blame myself. I don't blame the sprawler or the animals. They do as they do. And it's on me to communicate my needs, which I'm not very good at.

And it's a hard life and I have no spine. But that's only because I sleep in such a contorted manner that my physiology has completely changed you're just in a little prison of sheets over there unwilling to move yeah part of me like feels like a friend's style sitcom solution is in order it's like i put up like a cardboard fucking barrier where i'm like that's the wall sorry like we had a deal we were given a certain amount and we just have to make it work um but no i'm just learning new ways but then part of me is like maybe i just need to take some cbd or something to like get over that i'm like no yeah just knock yourself out because then you can sleep anywhere man exactly but then her majesty's

like just fucking tell me fool like yeah and i'm like i i know that but it's funny because my first instinct is to be like don't disturb the other piece don't disturb the body i feel that so anyway um we we had some success with a weighted blanket uh which helped with the sprawling and the kind of flying around uh for the way you described it though was trapping her under a tarp that was very weighted at the corner but so have you slept with like a weighted blanket on like you're not under a weighted blanket and the person you're sharing the bed with is under a weighted blanket no no it kind of fucked up the sheet the movement your ability to like move because the sheets are like kind of cut off and

like basically sewed down halfway across the bed. So you're saying that's a, that's a potential solution. It was a solution we pursued and hasn't, hasn't worked out that great. Okay. But, uh,

and also it's usually kicked off and just like a, uh, mountain range between us by the end of the day or by the end of the night. Or hits the floor and you're like, what the fuck was that? It was the weighted blanket. My underrated got to watch some movies because we were traveling

and traveling without children. I actually got to watch movies made for adults. Not adult movies. I've been told not to watch those on airplanes. But movies made for adults. Not adult movies. I've been told not to watch those on airplanes. But movies made for adults. So my one underrated is specifically the violence in the movie Bottoms.

I just think more movies. I don't want to spoil anything, but I think more movies across genres should randomly take place in the Tarantino movie universe. Yeah. Like that's what it feels like it's just like oh yeah and like murder happens here kind of pretty casually and just gnarly like prison violence level fistfights with no explanation um but it's because that but my loose fan theory is that it takes place in the Tarantino movie universe. And this is the universe where a team of Jewish soldiers just turned Hitler into ground beef.

And everybody's like, vengeance, good. And now that's acceptable. What did you think of Iowa Dibbery, though? I remember you were about to watch it. And I was like, bro, when I was like her range, I i'm like she was believable as a as a teenage high schooler yeah yeah totally yeah no it was like yeah everything like her physicality her i don't know anyway i thought that was also really um underrated i just uh and then just bad movies in general i put off watching the movie salt burn because i had heard it was shitty um finally watched it on the flight back from austin and it is uh shitty but also i wish

i had watched it sooner it's just a total mess but so much fun and like it kind of like sticks to your bones like a good movie would despite the fact that it's um truly a mess right there's something about like a movie that sets up a geography or like really like locks you into a physical location where you like know where everything is that really i find hard to shake um so that that's one of them and then I also just wanted to give a shout out to, um, the, like the metaphysics of losing because I was just watching a highlight of the Detroit Pistons this morning. Um, a game that happened, I think it was over the weekend, maybe last night. Uh, it's the end of the game.

The Pistons are tied with the Miami Heat. Pistons have the ball. Can hold for last shot. They're in a situation for non-basketball fans. They're far more statistically likely to win given those factors. Any other team, you're like,

oh, I'm about to watch a game-winning shot from the team with the ball. With them, I already know I'm about to watch a game-winning shot from the team with the ball. With them, I already know I'm about to watch them lose spectacularly. Because that is who they are this season. They are in the midst of a time and space warping losing season. Losing can just take over a team's psychology. I feel like take over a team psychology. And like, I feel like a fan base is psychology.

It becomes like, like black magic. It's like there, there was a period during my childhood where my dad's team was on a streak like this for two straight seasons. And it's just like truly a thing. Like it, like it, it really warps the physics of the universe

like everybody is just going in one direction and it's like so inevitable yeah it's rough man yeah yeah shout out to detroit and the people going through that and losers around the world you know yeah yeah sometimes yeah yeah tottenham hotspur comes to mind when i hear that word yeah um that's a rival see is that is that your rival yeah why they said is that a rival and i was like i thought of it as the phrase arrival like the denny villeneuve film and i was like denny villeneuve i've begun pronouncing tennis the way as tenny tenny villeneuve that's the way like i feel like people in the 80s talked about tennis shoes like put your tennies on did you ever hear that shit tenny you want to go play

tenny do people still say tennies for tennis shoes because that was like such a specific thing back then sneaker was back like in the 80s like that was a tennis shoe they're like put your tennis shoes on yeah and then you heard tennis anyway so not enough we're old as shit what's something you think is overrated oh man you want to hear old as shit well how about this overrated y'all we need to stop using the matrix as a fucking metaphor okay it's just bad when i hear somebody use it earnestly i'm like you're telling on yourself because it's about to get weird or racist or misogynistic or culty or whatever um two examples jack you were there for one of them we were in austin this dude pulled up to us because he was running like the spiritual book scam like hey i want to give you this book you're

like no i'm good and they're like okay well here i'm gonna leave it there do you want to make a donation like no because i'm not trying to give a donation because i don't know what this is and i don't need this book and he goes oh so y'all like living in the matrix i don't remember this at all this happened in austin oh shit jack it wasn't you it was my boy chris my bad see you keep blending me with these these close white people in my life they're interchangeable uh we were there anyway uh but you saw this dude because we saw this guy when we were walking um to the coffee shop earlier in that day he like had face paint on like he looked like he

was the last airbender and shit white dude anyway he said oh so you like living in the matrix and i said yeah i like living in the matrix and that blew his first of all blew his fucking mind that i came so hard back man y'all was like hell yeah like the matrix i'm like fuck that what i want to do what i don't even know what you're trying to offer me he's like i didn't even want to wake up this morning let alone from the matrix yeah i'm like bro i i saw what happened joe pantoliano he said he was eating a steak and i saw what they eat on that ship they were eating gruel no thank you anyway so then another person i overheard use it earnestly this weekend and i'm like yo and my brain just shuts off when people are really trying

to be like you know like honestly it's like you need to get out of the matrix. And I'm like, dude, please stop talking like this. Like either say the thing that you really mean, which is like, I hate women or some shit like that. Or if you're talking about this sense of like isolation and like disconnect from like each other and our surroundings and our environment then let's start there you know i mean maybe hand out some marks and talk about the forms of isolation that workers can experience um but rather than being like the fucking matrix i'm like because honestly saying like doing stuff like yeah we just need to like be more connected to each other and like to nature and we need to like have more lasting bonds we can we need to be more engaged with each other and to nature, and we need to have more lasting bonds. We need to be more

engaged with our community and build community. That's a much easier proposition than being like, we gotta go into the fucking underworld and find the mothership and then destroy that shit to bring the Matrix down and free all the battery people. I'm like, no, man. It's easier. Let's stop

doing the Matrix thing, please. I feel like, I mean, they really hit the moment. That is a very powerful metaphor. 100%. I always talk about how I think it also has to do with, I mean, it's the same thing as all the hero's journeys where it's just not wanting to be. I think people quietly underneath the surface of their consciousness have a real

problem with being one of eight billion on on this planet and so getting to be like the one of eight billion i think is very very attractive so like when people talk about like yeah we're in the matrix it's always interesting to be like and you're neo right no who are you in asian smith yeah oh so you like you're upholding the framework of the matrix yeah yeah that's right man just a cog that's what i've always wanted to be i'm red pilled i don't think you know that yeah it does it does feel like there's a certain type of uh mind frame is is uh well right gravitating for that metaphor these days i think i get the matrix offered us this metaphor to sort of look at our world and our society through and be like oh shit this is interesting but i think we can evolve past that and really get to the heart of

it and talk about like the these feelings that we're having because it's also encapsulate this feeling of people like something's not right something can be better and i think jumping to like the matrix talk completely sort of kneecaps the ability of like engaging with the actual topic that we want to discuss which is like can we build something better than this yeah agreed um we'll have we'll we'll have more on can we build something better than this uh in tomorrow's episode our expert episode we'll have we'll we'll have more on can we build something better than this uh in tomorrow's episode our expert episode we'll look back and see if the the ways of the ancients and we're in the matrix right david wingrow do you think you're fucking really guys stay tuned this is like the most the most serious

expert guests we've had and i just like keep coming up with these ideas of like the dumbest shit to ask hey like so what was the matrix like for like the mesopotamians though yo what do you think is going on with kate middleton though you're british bro like come on all right uh my overrated is uh the makers of the little dosing cups that come with medicine. Oh, the disease is coming off a real hot streak in our household. We got a strip flu. Why not both going on? And so just been working with the little dosing cups a lot.

There's a lot of these that we just have laying around that have only like 10 milliliters as the like just a single like dosage on the cup like why even why make that or like some of them have are written in ink that like is like a dry erase marker it's like yo yeah i don't know it's i mean this one's not fully thought out because then like as i was writing it i did an amazon search and was able to like order exactly what i'm asking for here in like two minutes so right um but you should have gone to a science supply store yeah but like just why not make that like just the extra ink or the extra notches like cost you extra like a must right yeah it's like dude just those three more lines like that's like a fourth of a one fraction of a cent but you extrapolate that over a billion things and that's like seven hundred thousand

dollars i don't know i don't know it just seems like it's like injection molded plastic but just get a fucking different mold yeah but i guess i, but you've done the thing is like now you have one dosage cup to rule them all. Yeah. I just ordered the one dosage cup to rule them all. So they're fairly cheap. So my other under overrated is getting into a quid pro quo relationship with crows. Oh, I missed. So I've been making nice with the crows feeding them almonds uh has worked out

great they haven't torn up our yard um except i uh went to texas as previously mentioned for like three days uh missed one feeding and they ripped up our picnic table umbrellas like they just shreds they ripped it to fucking shreds like just fuck like they just ripped like it's it's flappy it's like a pirate flag yeah it's oh wow completely there's just like a hole in the middle of it and one of the like we were like what the fuck did this but like they had like dropped pieces of the umbrella like around our yard so it was pretty right pretty clear yeah and one of the further down the street they dropped one so then written in blood it said fuck you jack exactly so i was like oh sorry sorry sorry sorry um so are they better now like

yeah i just went back to feeding them and no more random acts of vandalism. Yeah. Oh, wow, man. Well, it's interesting to watch this thing evolve where it's now to the point where they're like, where the fuck were you, dude? I was out here looking like an asshole. Yeah. Told my other, told the rest of the murder that this dude was going to bring almonds through. Fucking humiliated me, dick.

So I said, never mind. Let's just fuck up this umbrella i didn't want to do it man i didn't want to do it we have a very complex relationship um i get that you're trying your best man but i look stupid as fuck they uh but yeah right right before we recorded i just peeked out the window and there was a crow uh standing on the the pile of almonds that I just put out. So we're back, baby. And speaking of back, baby, we will be right back, baby, after these messages to tell you some of the stuff that's trending. BRB. Don't call me back.

I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and LA-based Shekinah Church, an alleged cult that has impacted members for over two decades. Jessica and I will delve into the hidden truths between high-control groups and interview dancers, church members, and others whose lives and careers have been impacted, just like mine. Through powerful, in-depth interviews with former members and new, chilling first-hand accounts,

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All you need to do is record everything like you always do. One session. 24 hours. BPM 110, 120. She's terrified. Should we wake her up? Absolutely not. What was that?

You didn't figure it out? I think I need to hear you say it. That was live audio of a woman's nightmare. This machine is approved and everything? You're allowed to be doing this? We passed the review board a year ago. We're not hurting people. There's nothing dangerous about what you're doing.

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I'll try harder into the future. Well, the crows are gonna make you answer for that one. Kick this guy's ass um just see me against a wall with crows like pinning my shoulders smacking you with their wings fuck that brb shit fuck with you um all right so we got a little insight into what tucker carlson's new shows uh fact checking process looks like. He went from Fox News a whole ass cable

TV show to Twitter where it seemed I think he bragged even. He's like, I don't have anybody on set with me. I just use a remote and it does the camera work for me. And these soggy paper towels are my friends.

One thing where you're going to miss that staffing, that budget, is when it comes to booking people and fact-checking people. It's such a weird thing, too. You need fact-checking people. Although, I mean, let's be real, that was never... It's such a weird thing, too. It's like, you need fact-checkers kind of sometimes, Tucker, even though you don't care. Yeah, I guess you need specific type of fact-checkers.

Right. He got punked. Yeah. He interviewed a guy who claimed to have Photoshopped the infamous Kate Middleton picture and then been fired by the palace for negligence. He said that the photo was really taken by Kate Middleton picture and then been fired by the palace for negligence. He said that the photo was really taken by Kate Middleton's uncle

at Christmas time and part of his job required erasing a Christmas tree from the background. It's so good, dude. These dudes are pranksters and they uploaded the whole process even the interview with his producer where they're like well like what a world will need some proof he's like oh yeah for sure and

again this shows you like american people they just hear an accent they're like no this shit believable bro this dude was he sounded from like he do it doing englandish england talk in it he said he's just had nine buddies in a sprint. But then they're like, okay, fine. We need like a contract. They send over the most fuck you prank. Not most fuck you. But like, if someone just bothered to read the whole thing, they would have caught some things. Like the, there was like a Latin phrase for Tesco, like in the crest of like the of kensington palace

and then just other wild interesting tesco's a british a british supermarket chain yeah yeah yeah it would be like trader joe's in the presidential seal they and look they got they look they got they have an affordable sandwich at tesco i I gotta say. Yeah. Back to my thing about nationalizing sandwiches. When I lived in Ireland, all I ate was supermarket sandwiches. Yeah. Yeah. I love a British sandwich. They're so like cheese and onion.

I'm like, yeah, man, why not? That's like a chip flavor. Yeah. I want to eat that in a sandwich. Cheese salad, ham salad. Yeah. I want to eat that in a sandwich. Cheese salad, ham salad.

Yeah. In the States, we stopped at tuna and chicken being the thing that you can just combine with mayonnaise and call it salad. But man, they solidify. That's not how that's pronounced. Saladify. Saladify. Saladify, yeah.

The contract also contained a clause allowing the palace to amputate one limb of their choosing should their employees fail a probationary period. And Carlson's producers were like, yeah, man, it looks pretty good. Yeah. I love that it was just all confidence, too. And just being like, here's the thing, man. We're coming to Tucker Carlson first with this because the mainstream media is too scared to fucking touch this and they're like okay yeah yeah yeah we love that i mean that checks out we are awesome yeah they just massaged his ego and uh he he was like yeah man i mean that that makes sense to me

people fucking love me uh killing it yeah this sounds like everything else i hear on a day-to-day basis which is that i'm fucking awesome um so yeah the best the best of two is up top during that interview because it never went to air so like you only see the version i think that they recorded from like the satellite feed or whatever yeah tucker cross is like and this isn't like a prank or anything these guys are for real they're not pranksters or nothing. They're like, you fucking loser, dude. Anyways, we still don't know what's going on with Kate. The internet is speculating wildly as the internet's doing what it's best at, speculating wildly. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Without much to go off of. So, honestly, like i said you believe whatever you want you can i i believe that she like went through the line the wardrobe and what is in narnia we're yeah there there's a thing that like the internet loves where people like don't like the the woman who got canceled while she was on a flight and like didn't know she was canceled until she landed she landed like we are all that person right now like we just don't know what has happened and so the internet you know um anyways uh you'll never guess what the boeing fuck-ups mean for us the consumer surely this worse product that we're getting where we don't know if

the plane that we're being flown in uh whether whether the wheel or door will fall off or surely that will um resound in lower costs right yeah yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah. No. Wait, what? No. It means they said this summer could be some of the highest ticket prices we've seen. Why? First of all, like we've said, almost every five days, there's some kind of terrible malfunction or mechanical defect that we hear about on a Boeing plane. And so many airlines have now rethought like what that means for their business so a lot of like executives from the u.s airlines have said quote express doubt about the boeing 737 max delivery schedule southwest expects 42 percent fewer jets this year than they ordered united told boeing to stop making the 737 max 10.'re like yo bro just just fucking stop yeah you got any more the 737 max nines left you got that in a 12 can i get that yeah because we don't need the fucking

you got this in a 12 because this shit is not going to work um so anyway so the reason is so if there's less planes coming online for the airlines and they can't like and we have planes that are aging out of their fleet what does that mean well according to one aviation analyst quote it's a simple matter of supply and demand with new aircraft production heavily constrained especially at boeing and a limited number of older aircraft that can be kept longer in service and continued very strong demand prices are likely to increase um and the only other option for um like in terms of major plane manufacturers is Airbus. And Airbus is also having some issues and they're also behind on delivering their existing orders.

So I think it's creating a perfect moment for an industry to claim, hey, man, supply chain and demand is just really messed up right now. And gouge customers rather than saying, hey, you know, we know it's fucking scary that you're about to fly in a Boeing aircraft, but you know what? To regain your trust, we're putting all our planes through rigorous inspections and dropping prices to show the skies are still friendly and not the skies are fuck you.

Because that's where we're at. Surely there's an economic read on this where people see planes falling apart and demand goes down but of course that is not that's not the economic read that we're gonna get in any u.s outlet because right they are written by and for corporations essentially so like now that's gonna call oh you were you have a problem with the planes falling apart that's gonna cost you oh somehow okay so wait let me get this right you don't want to fly on the plane where the door blows out and the wheel falls off okay well if that's the case sorry this is i want to refer you to a landmark Supreme Court case of beggars v.

choosers. And if you don't like that, then guess what? You're going to have to pay more. Yeah. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. That's capitalism.

No choice on your side and no competition. Deal with it. Okay. We'll give you an extra seatbelt. How about that? Wait, what? Yeah. Yeah, man we'll give you an extra seatbelt. How about that? Wait, what? Yeah. Just to secure you better. Yeah, man, you can have an extra seatbelt. Just to secure you better in case, if you're

in an exit row, you know. It goes around your neck. So, it doesn't really help you, but it keeps you from, like, turning into, like, a whip because sometimes our planes you know when the engine cuts out or the pilot gets thrown forward onto the controls people fly about um and unfortunately that turns you into a whip that could hit the person next to you exactly that's

when you're gonna want your neck uh strapped in. To be secured. Yeah. For us, for lawsuits, basically. Have your lawyer look into the case law here. Beggars v. Choosers. It doesn't work that way. Just another story that we've been covering for a while, but the McDonald's ice cream machines are

another great example of capitalism. Like the stuff that capitalism is supposed to work, the ways it's supposed to work, just like completely breaking down. So talk before about how fucked up McDonald's ice cream machines are. Essentially they're constantly broken because, um,

they signed a deal with like a bad company. Yeah. Taylor, uh, allegedly a bad company. Taylor, allegedly a bad company. I don't know if you can call a company bad. But they decided to deal with this bad company, and the bad company is bullying

McDonald's. They're like, yeah, you can't touch this shit. You can only call us, and we'll touch it for you. And they can't get any other ice cream machines? That's the part that confuses me. Not a sign of contract.

We better not catch you with no other ones. Oh, something's broken? You want to know how to access stuff? Sorry, bro. I can't even give you the fucking instruction manual because you might figure it out and then you're cutting off a revenue stream for us exactly they won't let mcdonald's employees access the menu to diagnose the problem

you like need a code right that they won't give them um and then somebody created a product that you could put onto the ice cream machine to allow you to fix it yourself and they uh got put out of business essentially by uh by the ice cream machine maker anyways the ftc and department of justice antitrust division sent a letter to the u.s copyright office calling for exemptions for commercial soft serve machines from the digital millennium copyright act basically so the this soft serve machine maker is now in the target of the fdc and doj letter points out soft serve equipment breakdown can lead to 625 dollars per day loss of sales there are long wait times for authorizer repairs and a licensed repair

technician charges over 300 per 15 minutes yeah um this is just so funny when you see like ftc and doj take swift action yeah for fucking ice cream machine you made you made the wrong motherfucker wait for his uh mcflurry man like that is definitely what happened with the real shit man we just talked we had an episode where someone who worked at doj was talking about the problems of private equity yeah and the antitrust laws and shit and we're like yeah man we can't get to that but we can't we'll put a foot in the ice cream maker's ass from mcdonald's how about that how about that um anyways uh it's just so weird like that that mcdonald's would sign a contract with one company it's like it reminds me of like when a nba team signs like a veteran who's like over the hill and is immediately hurt and you're just like stuck with that like it feels very i don't know uncapitalist these are the sort of things that

um capitalists would freak out about if it weren't being done by capitalism yeah well then you think about all the fucking capital like political social and monetary that goes into even securing a deal with mcdonald's to be the exclusive fucking and then all the glad handing all the fucking money spent to fucking it probably the decision probably rested on like four people they had to get to fucking really buy into it and then here we are you're uh all right let's take a quick break and we'll come back we'll do a unhinged trump bullshit roundup. We'll check in with the, the Mandela effect that it probably got me the most.

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iheart radio and realm listen to dream sequence on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever and we're back we're back and donald trump had an eventful weekend in ohio yeah so he made headlines for the moment in which he bragged that the country would suffer a blood bath if he doesn't get elected which is uh definitely rhetorically scary uh his campaign claimed he was talking about the destruction of the auto industry and the comment was sandwiched between talking points about car tariffs so maybe was talking about that um but i mean definitely didn't clarify it in that moment yeah i it it they all they all like you know sort of attach themselves to that headline or that that quote to create headlines but at this point it's like dude the guy's not even saying things in general yeah like it's just like it's more like you can report on the vibe it's not

the substance yes it's all just nonsense because he even he have to i mean we didn't even cover the times like that he had an all-star weekend of just like how's the back there but like yeah we're saying all kinds of wild shit and yeah but again to be fair during this mind word salad it was car point and is it gonna be a bloodbath if i don't you know for everybody thank you also claim that uh my migrants are not human then bemoaned democrats saying that he lacks humanity for comments like that um yeah man being dehumanized sucks i guess turns out i know it really does it really to thank you thank you it really does it really does suck to be humanized to, to not be seen as a person too. Yeah. At one point he claimed Biden beat Obama in an election that clearly never happened anywhere

outside of his brain. I think what he was trying to say was that Biden's results in the 2020 election were better than Obama's results in 2008, which i think is like part of a election like people are like and that's why it's suspicious there's no way biden would get more votes than barack hussein obama but the way he says it makes it seem like he's even the people the people it's just so funny to watch the people who are at the rallies who are like framed up right behind yeah because it's like so funny to watch the people who are at the rallies who are framed up right behind. Because it's like a mixture of like, yeah, and then fucking confusion.

And then checking their phones. These people are not very engaged. But anyway, this is the moment where he says it. And there's a woman in the corner who's looking at us like, what the fuck did he say?...state against Biden. The largest, in the largest margins ever. You know what it was interesting. Joe Biden won against Barack Hussein Obama. Has anyone ever heard?

Has anyone ever heard of Barack Hussein Obama? Obama. Yeah. And then people were like, what? Huh? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I guess.

Yeah. Are you comparing like election results from previous years is it the primary you're talking about either way it doesn't i'm not even sure what the fucking point is to bring that up anyway well i think they uh trump people are like no way biden got as many votes as they say he did because that would mean that he got more votes than obama and therefore you can just like... It was our most beloved president, wasn't he, folks? We love him.

Ever heard of him? We love him, don't we? And they said Biden beat him? I don't think so. I don't think so. That guy's got the riz. Biden is old. No way, Jose.

He also repeatedly complained about the teleprompters blowing in high winds and suggested that the people who set them up shouldn't be paid, aka the Trump special. When you look at this big clip, it seems windy because those things are flapping around. Flapping around like a bat.

Yeah, 100%. Under Biden, the cost of rent is up 30%. Groceries are up 30%. Everything is up. Chicken's up. rent is up 30%. Groceries are up 30%. Everything is up. Chicken's up. Bread is up. And I can't read this damn teleprompter. I can't read this thing.

No, folks, I can't read. I can't read. This woman's got an iPad. This woman's got an iPad in the backgroundad fucking most boomer shit front row with a giant ipad well at least he's good on that uh 45 or 454 million right yeah yeah yeah i mean oh oh no actually no no not at all rich buddy to bail him out we heard obviously the person from chubb insurance was able to secure the eugene carroll uh money for him right but his like his lawyers are in court right now being like y'all we need

leniency because they said securing the bond is a quote, practical impossibility. Wow. They said they have spent quote, countless hours negotiating with one of the largest insurance companies in the world. And it's proven that quote, obtaining an appeal bond in the full amount is not possible under the circumstances presented. They said that the other bond companies will not, quote, accept hard assets such as real estate as collateral and will only accept cash or cash equivalents such as marketable securities.

And he also said that, or his lawyer noted that companies, quote, typically require collateral of approximately 120% of the amount of the judgment, which would be around $7 million and to also what they're saying is for him to even run his businesses he would also need 500 500 million cash so like they're saying he needs like a billion dollars basically for this shit to work

or else he's he's he's bad quote in addition sureties would likely charge bond premiums of approximately two percent per year with two years in advance, an upfront cost of over $18 million. That $18 million, couldn't even recover that if he won his appeal. Not fair. First of all, not fair. But the good news is he's a billionaire. He's the

richest guy ever, so why does it matter? He's the most billionaire. He's trying to do it both, right? Because he needs to put this money up next week and he's selling. He was like, but don't worry. Like, like they were noting, like he has Mar-a-Lago, he has 40 wall street or whatever the address is there. He's got all these other buildings.

So it shouldn't be that big of a deal. So really no need to put this money up. Cause obviously he's got dough, but that's the thing. It's a, anyway. So last we heard Letitia James saidames said you know if he can't pay then we will we will we will begin to recover the money how we have to if that means going after his assets yeah um so tick tock tick tock tick tock we shall see yeah tick tock uh gotta sell or uh hang it up you know yeah oh you're talking okay yeah yeah um that too all right uh and finally just checking or hang it up. Yeah. Yeah, me too.

Alright. Finally, just checking with the Mandela effect. Lifehacker last week did a deep dive into the Fruit of the Loom Mandela effect, which they lump it along with the colors of letters,

the colors that we associate letters with in a camp of examples of the Mandela effect that can be explained. So, for instance, with the colors of letters, let me just ask you, Myles. What color is the letter E? What are you talking about? Does the color E associate with a letter? When you picture an E in your mind

and it has to have a color, what color would that be? It's like a red or orange or a green, I feel like. Okay. Did I get that wrong? I had blue. That is apparently the answer that a statistically significant

portion of people, and it might be people who are a little bit older than you no i had the frisser i know you're what you're talking i said fisher price thing fisher price magnets i had them shits yeah yeah but see i was bilingual bro i wasn't looking at the the english letters the same way i have my your mind palace is uh fucking enormous right salt burn up there you know dancing in there yeah in the new i got i got a little one story mind palace oh yeah a little ranch style mind palace yeah that's not bad that's not bad it's cute it's cute it's uh we don't have like

much yard space or anything it ain't much but yeah it's ours but anyways i only have room for one letter e it is blue um and that a statistically significant portion of people my age also uh have that in their head because of the fisher price magnetic letters that a lot of us saw or experienced growing up and so they're saying that things like that can probably explain some of the Mandela effects. You know, Shazam. Right. People associated Sinbad with the Shaq movie and created a movie called Kazam. I forget which one it is.

So, but this one, this specific Mandela effect, because I've been seeing this bubble, like, go back and forth bubble like go back and forth on the last like month yeah the fruit of the loom one is about one is back because i can this is probably the most convincing mandela effect for me when i picture the fruit of the loom logo i definitely see a cornucopia behind the fruit bunch. Yeah. I was the same. I was the same. 100%. And I couldn't believe that it wasn't true. Yeah. Like Snopes did a deep dive and were like, did they ever make a logo?

They must have had a logo with this. They've never had a cornucopia on their logo. There was maybe a point where they like applied to add that to it but it was it never like made it public i remember seeing like in that article where they showed like here's literally every iteration of the fruit of the loom logo from the inception of the company yeah and i was like how in the fuck is there no cornucopia here yeah i don't know why

it's also just it's it's probably the one of the few main lfx where i refused to believe what was being said to me yeah like from just reflexive i was like no no that's stupid that's the actually uh that one actually happened sorry um the yeah it's weird that this one doesn't get because like the berenstain bears one i feel like is a little overrated as an example of the mandela effect because it's just like a spelling right yeah it's a pronunciation thing yeah um like and i said it because i never they're like we're always used to something steen so there was just enough momentum as a kid who's just like sort of like has a chat gpt type brain you're like i'm just doing like pattern like like pattern creating and i'm like

baron steen like stain no that's that's a stain that's another thing and it's it's steen that's fine i feel like we should bump fruit of the loom up call it the fruit of the loom effect you know yeah um but yeah so basically the loose theory of the case here that kind of makes sense to me is that basically you know fruit of the loom ads were probably popping up a lot around like thanksgiving christmas time at a time when that that's really the only context i've ever actually seen a cornucopia other than in my mind being associated with fruit of the loom the only other instance is thanksgiving school projects right like drawing coloring in a cornucopia with like a bunch of

construction paper cornucopia like i like that's my main experience and so i don't even think you need to like say and so thanksgiving is when fruit of the loom ads happen because fruit of the loom ads happen all the time but i think it's just associating like cornucopias i i don't think i've ever like seen one in a photograph necessarily but i've seen them drawn you know yeah yeah and it's about the same level of detail in the drawing as you see with like a coloring book or like a you know thanksgiving art project yeah so i think my brain and a lot of people's brains just filled in the Thanksgiving cornucopia art projects and illustrations with the Fruit of the Loom logo. That's like, I like why you're saying that.

But Jack, the bottom line is there was a logo. There was a cornucopia in the logo. And I don't know why people keep trying. And I wish you would stop fucking lying to me. Is this the Matrix? Stop fucking coping, bro. Yeah. Okay?

You're right to believe that. It's corny and you're coping. Don't buy into the man's explanation as to why you think now your history has been changed and subverted by the powers that be. No. There was a cornucopia. And ultimately, I am Neo. And that's the fact that I know that there was a cornucopia just proves it

oh man 20 year old me would have absolutely been like dude I am Neo because I'm not buying into this fruit of the loom bullshit there was a cornucopia anyway I'm cornucopia gang I can't accept it I just can't man

we got too much going on man don't take this from me I got a lot of tables man alright those are some of the things that are trending on this Monday March 18th we are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show until then

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