The Daily Zeitgeist - Lerts Turtch Basch Trender 5/6: AGI, Movie Tariffs, Newark Airport, 'Thunderbolts*'

Episode Date: May 6, 2025

In this edition of Lerts Turtch Basch Trender, Jack and Miles discuss how unprepared we are for AGI, Trump's "Movie Tariff" (feat. Jon Voight), Newark Airport not working anymore, Marvel changing the name of 'Thunderbolts*' and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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for artificial general intelligence. True. Oh, AI's popping, huh? And then we got this clip. Artificial general intelligence is gonna be wild if they ever get to make it. Also, we're not prepared for whatever this bullshit is you unleashed on us either.

So what do we have right now? Let's take a look at what is operational at the moment. So yeah, super producer, Catherine, she did this TikTok video of a guy, closing up an interview. Yeah. Yeah. On zoom. It said when they interview you using AI and it's clearly some avatar trying to say, okay, great. Let's touch base. And it gets caught in some demonic AI loop.

caught in some demonic AI loop. It's touch, it's touch, it's touch, it's touch, it's touch, it's touch, it's touch, it's touch, it's touch, it's touch, it's touch, it's touch, it's touch, it's touch, it's touch, it's touch, it's touch, it's touch, it's touch, it's touch, it's touch, it's touch, it's touch, it's touch, it's touch, it's touch, it's touch, it's touch, it's touch, it's touch, it's touch, it's touch,

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We're not, you're right. Fully unprepared. Yeah, I mean, when it comes, if it comes, if we just allow Google to keep burning down the entire planet's rainforest for six decades, we'll get to see them. We'll get there. It's gonna be, it's gonna blow your mind

how easy it is for them to replace you. How easy their AI bots say, let's touch base later as they're brushing you off. These like AI preachy people are like, and it will help solve climate change when it gets to that level of like intelligence, but that logic reminds me of like the boogie night scene where Mark Wahlberg and John C. Reilly

are trying to get a record deal, but not pay for the demo that they recorded. They're like, you got to pay for it. It's like, no, but we need the tape to get the deal to pay you. Brandon's like, yeah, no, that's not how this works. So I can do more work, so I can buy more coke, so I can do more work, so I can buy more coke.

Yeah, it's like, no, this one is gonna fix it. Burn more carbon and then eventually we'll get there. No, no, no, no, we won't. We will not. Let's see, so big news out here in Hollywood. The Hollywood Reporter, LA Times, all these places are covering Trump's planned movie tariff where he just like over the weekend was like,

I'm gonna do a 100%, which seems very scientifically arrived at 100% tariff on all Hollywood movies being made out of anywhere else. And he claimed to have done very strong research on how Hollywood is being destroyed. But despite that, the office of the US Trade Representative said that those services that he's playing to subject to tariffs are not subject to tariffs and that in 1988, Congress passed a law, quote, explicitly barring the president from regulating in any way the import or export of things like movies, books and music. But everyone's just treating this like, oh no, what's Hollywood gonna do now? It's like he just said he's gonna do a thing

that you can't do. I'm putting a 100% tariff on foreign ghosts across the board. And then rather than being like, what the fuck is this guy talking about? Like a LA Times headline would now be like, oh boy, foreign ghosts are in for a bit of economic trouble with their new tariffs.

Like how are the foreign ghost manufacturers going to react to Trump's new gambit? And small business owners who import foreign ghosts for their livelihoods. Like what is this? The statute couldn't be more plain according to a global regulations law expert. Congress in 1988 specifically said the president does not have the power to

regulate this. Um, even if it's like their legal opinion. Yeah, exactly. What the fuck does that guy know? Uh, even if something like a tariff could be enacted, the film industry is actually one of the country's strongest exports. Yeah. Like that's a lot of heavy lifting for this empire. I'm going to say it's like the one thing that we still do better than other countries in some cases. And that like still is influential in other countries.

And so trying to suddenly be like, and now nobody can do stuff anywhere else is like risking starting a trade war at a thing that like is America like America still is having a lot of success. Or like how is there even a trade war? Like countries will be like, all right, then like we just won't show the fucking movie. And Hollywood has been frothing at the mouth

for the Chinese audiences. Yeah, that's all they care about. They're all like, how's it gonna do overseas? What the fuck are we gonna do? Yeah, exactly. I don't know. Y'all, y'all gave this man money. So why don't you figure it out? Much like today's Alcatraz story, we wanted to kind of get a sense of where did this

come from? This idea that he so strongly researched. He did a research, dude. Just think about his word. Don't look into it. It turns out that this idea is probably thanks to the movie star whose most recent project was being the second build lead of the Charlie Weber vehicle High Ground. John Voight. Oh, oh, John Voight. Special ambassadors to Hollywood in addition to Sylvester Stallone and Mel Gibson,

all three guys who are at the top of Hollywood. So it makes sense that they would be in the top too. Yeah, at the top peak performance. Oh yeah. And Sylvester Stallone tries just mumbling on. He's like, exactly, exactly Sly. That's why I have you here as my special ambassador. So Voight said that he met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago over the weekend to pitch his plan for how

to save the movie industry. It also involved Voight's manager's firm, SP Media Group, who issued a press release clarifying that their proposal also included federal tax incentives, significant changes to several tax codes, the establishment of co-production treaties with foreign countries and infrastructure subsidies for theater owners, film and television production companies

and post-production companies. Wait, so they're like, basically like, okay, I know you heard we talked to Trump, but that's not what we were- That's not what we said. We did suggest tariffs in certain limited circumstances, but Trump just zoned out during their pitch, woke up when he heard the word tariff and was like, yeah, 100% tariffs. That's what's happening.

Just no understanding of what's possible. The president of SP Media Group was also at the meeting with Trump and told Bloomberg that they suggested that tariffs could be used to punish bad actors who take their entire production overseas. Speaking of bad actors, High Ground, John Voight's latest movie produced by SP Media Group and filmed in. It looks like a Western. So what, like Montana? Bulgaria. So what, like Montana? Bulgaria. Eh?

Uh-huh, Bulgaria. But that's obviously just one movie. John Voight's project before that, also by SP Media Group. Man with No Past, which has a young man on a motorcycle with. And like Chicago, no, it looks like New York. That's New York, right? Yeah, there's New York in the background. So obviously that was shot in Bulgaria.

Oh. And Strangers, that one even has John Voight on the fucking poster, bro. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Another Voight SP Media Group joint made in Bulgaria. Ah. You were gonna guess. I thought maybe, maybe, I know the rule of threes

and everything and it's ah, really. And that's a place so many people are talking about how Eastern Europe is where a lot of productions are landing Maybe I know the rule of threes and everything and it's, ah, really? And that's a place so many people are talking about how Eastern Europe is where a lot of productions are landing because it's much cheaper. That's the problem. It's such fucking tariffs. It's that people can't afford to live

and everything, the cost of everything is being driven up so if the labor is going up, it's because the fucking rents people have are going up and their bills are going up. Everything to do with the cost of living in America has been going up and up and up for decades. And the only thing that hasn't been going up is the average wage.

So yeah, this is what you're going to have if you don't address that, which is the root cause of it. And also the one thing that they will absolutely refuse to address. What a fucking weekend this dude had. Like, I do think that then opened him up to the idea of being inspired by film. And then he's later that weekend. See, let's catch a flick.

Yeah. He's like a bridge over River Kwai. We need we need one of those. What? Just need a bridge. One of the most iconic rivers. I was just talking to the Crown Prince, as I call him, Lawrence of Arabia. Some of you call him something else, but... I mean, his sons were talking to the Crown Prince. His sons were on a, did you see that story? That they were just on a two week heater across them. Trump boys just did like a grift tour where they're just like getting billions and billions of dollars or like millions

and millions of dollars of investment into Trump, like just funneling money to the sitting president. Yeah, exactly. Trump, Dubai, then like people are using crypto to buy shit. It's all, it's so transparent and it's so honest. But again, like, yeah, these people truly are like daddy's the dad, like it's truly the energy feels like daddy's the president. We fuck it all. Like what's going to happen? First term we were like, but the emoluments clause.

And now it's just everybody's fucking Henry Hill narrating good fellows. Just being like, nobody gives a fuck. Everybody's fucking somebody over. What do you, who cares? Yeah, man, this is a note to people running to oppose this shit. Maybe also say these people will be held to account and actually do it.

Nah. Yeah, I mean, now that they've made it so that you can just arrest whoever the fuck you want, maybe we should, maybe that would be a smart message for whoever's running against them. But hey, we love a slippery slope. We're already falling, we're already sliding. It's like,

We're falling like Alicia Keys. You can't be in the middle of the water slide and be like, nevermind. Right, right, right. Yeah. And then you get, oh! Let's take a quick break. We'll come right back.

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Listen on the I heart radio app Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. Yeah, we're back. And so Newark Airport doesn't work anymore. This is the first major airport that they've just had to come out and be like, yeah, I don't know, man. I wouldn't fly here if I were you. Like, I know people who had to fly to New York and have had to like rush to change their

flights, which costs a shitload of money. But like, it's just they. So the first thing that happened is air traffic controllers at Newark Liberty International Airport briefly lost communication with planes under their control, unable to see, hear or talk to them. Oh my God. Like just everything gone. The first line of defense went down and the backup also went down. And then all of those people were like traumatized by that. And so a handful of them are out on leave. And because air traffic controllers are not in any way protected and just a very weakly organized

industry, they just don't have enough of them to replace them and they're paid poorly so they can't attract new people there. It's just one of those things. It's like, the country is just a new level of falling apart. Well, and it's so delicate too, that like, if there is a quote, traumatic event,

those air traffic controllers can take time off to go see like mental health people, you know, like work through that. And like a lot of people are like, bro, that's the worst thing that could happen. Right. As you're in charge of, you know, pushing tin, as they say. I saw that movie.

And then suddenly you go completely, can't see, hear nothing. They're saying like one outage was 30 seconds. Another one was like 60 to 90 seconds. Jesus. What a fucking scary story to have to, and again, it just all goes back to like our crumbling infrastructure. Like they even admit they're like, yeah, their driver control system, not the best. Yeah. And they were in the process of doing a big replace, repair and replace on the infrastructure

for all this stuff. And Elon Musk came in and was like, no, fuck that. We're going to replace it. We're going to do Starling. they like, this multi-year project that was coming to it at the end was torn out basically. And now starting over from ground zero. I know Elon's left quote unquote, but he's still responsible for everything. So don't let him get away with this shit. But yeah, like what a fucking nightmare.

Like, and also hearing one of the people who was working on the systems, I think it was actually the secretary of transportation, Sean Duffy, who said like, quote, we use floppy disks, we use copper wires. The system that we're using is not effective to control the traffic that we have in the airspace today. Okay.

So what the fuck are you doing about it? The fucking World Cup is next year. Right. In the United States. Yeah. I mean, maybe people will be appropriately scared off. Buy a bunch of poppy disks, man. What's your problem?

Who cares? Yeah, man. We're gonna do a bunch of meth and we're gonna steal a bunch of copper wire. Get this thing back on track, man. That's where we're at, honestly. Like, to pay air traffic controllers a living wage or just like get them to do math and like,

just really fucking. I have no idea. This is air traffic. Like we're it's we've truly, we hang by a thread. Just like, yeah, all those invisible things that people, you know, behind the scenes, we we've been counting on for a long time and behind the scenes are being like privatized. And then, you know,

the answer to privatization or the result of privatization is always just like working people longer, harder and taking care of people worse until you can't find people who want to do your fucking shitty job. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then also a cut to the solution is the Trump administration coming in and being like a top us place, like we do things a little differently around here

and just like tearing all the fucking. Safety? Yeah. No, we don't really fuck with safety. Oh, you mean being a fucking scaredy cat asshole? Yeah. No, we don't do that. There's also a story that 90 percent of people in America use weather

forecast job market reports and food safety warnings and other information that's based on federal science. But only 10 percent of respondents are concerned that cuts to federal support for science are going to impact all that stuff. So it's just, again, it's like all these things that are happening in the background have been happening in the background for a while, getting worse because of neoliberalism.

And the answer has been an administration that comes in and it is just like, well, we just like, don't do that anymore. We just like, don't, it like doesn't matter. You don't have to worry about that at all. And there were just, like I'm trying to figure out what is that gonna look like? Like there's not gonna be people inspecting food,

like just food poisoning is gonna go up. You know what's a good way to actually familiarize yourself. Adam Conover did a show on Netflix called The G Word a few years ago, where the whole thing was like about like talking about the things that government does well and doesn't do well, but like going to like a USDA facility, going to speak with these people. And if you watch the show in the context of these people probably won't be doing this work anymore,

it will fucking terrify you. Yeah. Like truly, truly, truly. I think that for me, I think a lot of the stuff when I'm like, I wasn't able to sort of like really wrap my mind around it. It's from like seeing a few episodes of that show. I'm like, oh right, the weather

or like how we fucking keep our food safe or money or diseases. Yeah, so I don't know. We'll see. Yeah, like farmers rely on that shit, like the satellites and all that shit that's in the sky. There, yeah. And isn't tuberculosis coming back too?

I ran out of mine about that. There's a media embargo on that because that's gonna be like a Beyonce drop where they just tell us all at once. Nobody, but yeah. Yeah. Surprise album on you. Yeah. Don't be surprised if a little old friend, something that used to be so hot is suddenly your grandpappy out of the war.

All right. And finally, exciting news. I don't know if this was the plan all along or if this is a panic move, but Marvel has renamed Thunderbolts What after after the movie came out after its opening weekend now, it's called New Avengers. No, it is not Yeah, it just like changes the title on movie posters and like billboards and shit around The city and around around the world. What? There's apparently like a twist in the post credit scene that this is.

Oh, spoiler alert for a movie I would never see. Well, they've now spoiled it with a with the title. So I don't know. Am I allowed to am I allowed to spoil the thing that they've spoiled by changing the title? Wow. Okay. So okay, I get it. So they're they've spoiled by changing the title. Wow. OK. So OK, I get it. So they're they're called the New Avengers at the end. So they're OK. Brian, the editor, watched it. They're called the New Avengers at the end.

But like, why not call it that in the first place? Or why not just leave that as a twist at the end? Why change the title after the opening weekend? Other than like, I guess it's probably makes sense to marketers. I think I may be. It must be. They've been promoting the change by posting videos of the posters being swapped out, including one by Sebastian Stan. So sick, sick, sick.

That's so foolish, makes no sense. It feels like such a weird move. Like why, it's not gonna, I mean, I guess maybe the thought, and then when we call it New Avengers, that's gonna create a new wave of interest in the movie. So people will go and they're like, oh, it's the New Avengers? But then when they don't see any of the actual Avengers

in it, it'll be too late. We already have their money. And then it is what it right haha in your face loser It's not those Avengers fucking idiots or like is this like a bad Bob I like a C suite idea I think it's probably new Avengers. It's doing well. Let's call new Avengers Yeah, well then we have to switch out there then change the posters. So apparently the name Thunderbolts is a dumb joke in the movie but I the name Thunderbolts is a dumb joke in the movie. But I don't ever. I just like I got so tired just trying to like even like look into why

why this is happening. It's yeah, it's confounding. And then even when you find out, you're like, oh, OK. Yeah, fine. The some other renaming things, the history of renaming. First of all, the new Mission Impossible movie. So the first Mission Impossible movie. So the first Mission Impossible, the first of the final Mission Impossible, because the

last Mission Impossible movie was two parts. So Mission Impossible was Dead Reckoning, part one. And then it didn't do well at the box office. And so they've changed that movie's title to just Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning. And now Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 2 is now Mission Impossible Final Reckoning. Yeah, that's that's it. It's the titles, guys. I think that's going to do it. It's not that we've seen 9000 times. I confuse all the Mission Impossible movies now. Like, I can't keep any of them straight except for the one with Homeboy that died. Which one?

Why am I like so bad at names today? Homeboy who died? Who was Scotty in Book Nights. Norm MacDonald? No, the redheaded guy. Oh, yeah, yeah. Philip Seymour Hoffman. Philip Seymour Hoffman, yeah, yeah, sorry.

Anyway, that's where I'm at with this. Okay, so that's now the final reckoning, sorry. Anyway, that's where I'm at. That's where I'm at with this. OK, so that's now the final reckoning. Great. Mission Impossible, the final reckoning. Another Tom Cruise movie, Edge of Tomorrow, had its name changed to Live Die Repeat for home video. I just feel like they never nailed it. The one where he dies in that loop over and over again?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That movie was called Edge of Tomorrow. And then when it came out on the home video, they were like, what if we just give it a new name and everyone's confused because this name makes it sound like a straight to DVD John Voight movie? I would love some analysis on what data they looked at that were like, OK, yeah, we're doing this. We're having that. I mean, Edge of Tomorrow does suck as a title, I will say.

And Thunderbolts. OK, so this does explain because every time I saw the title, there was an asterisks. And I was like, this is probably some lore shit that like I don't want to look into. But I guess the asterisks was previewing. Yeah. Being like, haha, this fake title alert. But Brian, you watch the movie and it's you said Brian, that is the best movies ever seen. Honestly, I don't give a shit about Marvel movies, but it was enjoyable,

especially at someone who doesn't keep up with the Marvel movies anymore. Like, I don't know where any of these characters came from, but the movie was enjoyable and the villain was better than usual. Is Elaine the villain? She is a big bad, but it's she's more of like a bureaucratic villain. She hasn't big bad bureaucratic, but he's not throwing punches or anything. Yeah.

She's just like a piece of shit. You're at the actual villain is, you know, that better than your usual third string Marvel villain. Sicker than your average, some would even say. He doesn't have the shit out of me. Like the twist cabbage off instinct. Yeah, it wasn't bad. Oh, man. What was what were we saying earlier on tomorrow's episode that who should have

been a Batman villain? Oh, Anton Sugar. Oh, Anton Sugar. As a Batman villain? Yeah. Bro. That would have worked. I'm looking for Bruce Wayne.

Anton Sugar as just like a Nolan Batman villain. Oh. You know? Just, and like as just a regular dude who's looking for Bruce Wayne all the time He's got two face like a lot of people are mad at Cormac McCarthy for um, you know being a fucking pervert But not enough people are mad that he ripped off two faces gimmick with Anton Chigurh with the coin flip thing, you know, damn damn They're all probably just probably just watch dark night

It was like oh damn dog. That's so sick. That's sick, dude If you flip the coin, bro, I don't know if chronologically they one does the other but hey anyway There's that two faces flipping coins before. Oh, yeah You wrote in the comics. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's a part of his whole shit. He's not flipping coins All right. Those are some of the things that are trending on this Tuesday, May 6th. We are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves.

Get the vaccine. Get your vaccines while you still can. Get your flu shot. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to you tomorrow. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.

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