The Daily Zeitgeist - Luck Of The Trendrish 3/17: St. Patrick's Day, Trump, Chet Hanks, Bibi Netanyahu, Joe Kent

Episode Date: March 17, 2026

In this edition of Luck Of The Trendrish, Jack and special guest co-host Andrew Ti discuss Ireland being pissed at the US, Trump threatening to revoke press passes for… reporting the news, Chet Hanks finally making it back home, the death of Bibi?, groyper Joe Kent resigning over the war in Iran and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of Luck of the Trendrish. that one courtesy of snarf you on the discord. It's St. Patrick's Day. My name is Jack O'Brien. And I'm thrilled to be joined by today's very special guest co-host. One of our very favorite guests, a hilarious and brilliant producer and TV writer. You know from Yo Is This Racist, the new Starter Trek podcast. It's Andrew T.

What up? Still got nothing. Still got nothing. I'm strangling out. What's up, man? How are you celebrating my people today? I don't know. I guess. I mean, I will say, for what it's worth, I do love my ass some corned beef. Yeah. What else do you? What else does Irish? I don't know. I really don't do anything other than like sometimes remember to wear a green. But that's about it. Yeah. I have a little picture of the Pope. I kiss it in the morning.

But that's every morning. I'll tell you who is observing St. Patrick's Day and that's Donald Trump. Big time, bro. One of the leaders of Ireland. I'm not going to try and pronounce it. We both looked at the dark of it. I'm like, you keep talking. Dow is Sech, but to leadership position.

Mikhail Martin, spending St. Patrick's Day, visiting the White House, glazing Donald Trump in an effort to secure U.S. investment. But Ireland's president is like, better not kiss his ass too hard. She has blasted Trump's deliberate assaults on international law. The Irish are also pissed about the tariffs, the detention of Irish citizens by ice, and warnings of raids at St. Patrick's Day gatherings. Plenty of, plenty of reasons to be met at the Trump administration. What, what you got?

I guess, no, I'm sorry, I'm like, I will say, I guess I just, I'm like, I will say, I guess I just assumed clearly wrongfully that all the ice stuff was like a dog whistle for going after mostly Latino people and black people. So to raid an, like a St. Patrick's Day gathering and detaining Irish citizens. I think they just get bored sometimes. Yeah. It's just slightly more intellectually honest than I expected if I'm being honest. Right. Yeah. A little more intellectual rigor on their part than we would have expected.

Yeah. Yeah. I just, I think there is absolutely no, you know, institutional follow-through or, like, the ability to execute on anything in any consistent way whatsoever. Like, they also, you know, arrested all those Korean, like, auto workers. They're just letting, letting the dogs loosen. They're just racist dogs. But sometimes even a race-up of green eggs. Yeah. to do your job. I just hadn't, yeah, I'm just, I'm genuinely surprised that they're, they're detaining Irish citizens, like, for real. And I know not all Irish citizens are white.

Not all Irish citizens. I feel like, probably these are of white people. I would guess so. I guess I would be comfortable guessing that. But yesterday on the eve of St. Patrick's State, Trump used the holiday to awkwardly fundraise and justify the war on Iran in an email to supporters, uh, that made me wonder, like, did they get, like, the people who used to write greeting cards for Hallmark to, like, start writing his emails? I think it's, I think it's actually a perfect transition, but I feel like it is, like, e-cards people, e-cards grifters. Yeah, yeah, it feels very e-cards based.

So the email has a big picture of him with a green background. Yeah. And it says, I'm feeling lucky with a four leaf clover, exclamation point. And it says, you're an incredible supporter. You were there when they took my mugshot. You were there when they tried to silence us. And you're still here now after the Democrats said that I'd lose support from launching Operation Epic Fury. You could have sided with the radical left, but you saw right through their lies.

I gave the green light on Operation Epic Fury to keep you safe from. nuclear weapons, which I had said that we had destroyed, but, you fought for the truth and stood with me to make America great again. As a way to thank you, I'm opening up a spot on my MAGA roster just for you. And then there's a big button that says, it is your lucky day. Join MAGA roster. I can't fucking believe that this shit works. Yeah.

I mean, you want to be on the MAGA roster. I guess it's just like they're not even pretending to offer people anything. Nothing. You just get a spot on the MAGA roster. Or a fucking thank you email.

I guess presumably you get some of those things. But also like I'm feeling lucky is such an insane way to come into an email about the war. So I got to ask myself, am I feeling lucky? I am.

Actually, yes. Things kind of always work out for me. I was born a millionaire and things have been pretty sweet. But yeah, just the tone of like those greeting cards. I grew up in a greeting card family. I know this tone very well. And it's like, you've always been there for me. Brother, you're a, you know, sister.

You've always been there for me from day one. And then, you know, here's to you on this lucky day. I guess it's all parts of the hallmark business pivoted hard right is what you're saying. Yeah, yeah. Not just the TV operation. That's right. Anyways, talk a lot about St. Patrick's Day on tomorrow's full episode, but I just wanted to make sure you felt bad about St. Patrick's Day.

Yeah, dog. During, while you were experiencing it. Well, also just like, specifically this war, it's or just the, I mean, like, the Irish are like, pretty against this shit, man. I guess it's the difference between the Irish and Irish. Unilateral war and unprovoked invasions.

It's kind of been not our jam traditionally. Anyways, Donald's lucky to have you guys. I'm lucky to have you. Let's see. He's also threatening to revoke press licenses for reporting bad news about the war, which is hard

because there's just so much bad news about the war. about the war. Gas prices are over $5, like, on average across the country. Very bad. Way up, like 30% up week over week. This is, I mean, very ignorant. Like, what does a press license really do?

I don't know. Yeah. Like, do they not get, like, to publish? Is it, oh, right. It might be, I guess it's like. It might be on the backout, like the publication. side of things. You might lose the ability to put things out. But yeah, he has accused the Wall Street Journal of treason. So that's essentially a death threat. The famous left wing rag,

the Wall Street Journal. I know. Amazing. Has also, you know, said he was going to withdraw people's press licenses from the AP who can look forward to having their lives and livelihoods threatened after this a banger of a paragraph. All presidential administrations tangle with the press. It's the natural byproduct of journalists, watchdog roles in a democratic society, but the incidents of the past few days

speak to a hostility toward the very idea of being questioned in a way that some say scratches up against the First Amendment itself. Jesus Christ. It's up against. Associated Press, that is truly pathetic. The incident of the past few days

it doesn't blatantly violate the First Amendment. It's just like scritches up again. You know what? When you give your dog a nice little scritch. Yeah. It's a little scratch. He's truly just born apparently a few days ago

because that is pathetic. I know. What the fuck is wrong with you people? Hague Seth basically objects to anyone saying anything that is not complimentary of the war effort. I don't know. Maybe try not getting your ass kicked in a war that nobody wanted in the first place. Also, it's that the media has been super willing to go with the, I mean, even the AP now.

Being threatened can't say anything like factual about this. It's so fucking soft and pathetic and just like these fascist liars are trying to silence the press. Like anything softer than that is fucking pathetic. So I guess. The First Amendment seems like it's in danger. of getting a little fender bender being dinged up a little bit. Not even a fender bender.

I don't think the bend the fender is going to bend but it might be scratched. There might be some scratches. Yeah, pathetic. I mean, I'm just like, yeah, this is exactly what was going to happen the first thousand times

you just let this shit go. What are we doing? What's happening? Did you see that? Jeremy Colhane impression of Tugger Carlson. It's just been burned in my head. since he did it.

I've been getting a lot of feedback from people, very worried about Chet Hanks. You know, he's down in Medellín visiting his homie for his birthday. I think he was in Miami visiting his homie for his birthday. Then he was like, oh, dude, it's Tyler's birthday. So he went down there to Costa Rica.

And then he was like, dude, my other homie lives in Medellin. And so I went down there. And then he like realized that he, didn't have an American passport. And he was like, so like, free me. You know what I mean? Also, in that plea was like, I mean, to get back in the country, I would have to go to like Bogota or something.

I don't want to go to Bogota. Like, he knew how to solve the problem and just was complaining about not wanting to do it, essentially. This is dope too because it's like, he basically, all he really did was call his parents via national, like social media. Yes. Right? Yeah.

That's it. That's essentially like, mom, could you come get me? Yeah. Send a guy. Come get me. How many years is he taking off of Tom Hanks' life? Like, I will say weirdly seemingly zero. Yeah, Tom Hanks is just like, I don't give a fuck, man.

All right. Rita, that's yours. That's you and Bruce's according to rumor. Ooh. But, uh, yeah. So for everybody who was burning a candle for Chet, after pleas to free him from Columbia on social media, he attended a pre-Oskers party with his mom, Rita Wilson.

Hanks looked dapper, wearing an all-black suit for the special occasion. And looking at his Instagram, there's no explanation for how he got home. Like, did he visit the U.S. Embassy? Did his legions of fans rally for his safer turn? no way to know. He literally just followed his posts about being like trapped in Columbia with a post advertising

a cosmetic dentistry business. Do you think it was just fake? Hopefully it was just fake. That he wasn't down there? Yeah. Just a few lies. Who cares? Yeah.

Just get a little attention. Yeah. Bring up the likes. Bring up the, he's getting the attention. His teeth look great. I wonder if the like person who runs the cosmetic dentistry

business is the son of a talented dentist. You know, bad. Probably not. His teeth look too good. I think, yeah, I think cosmetic dentistry is like a, is like a specific type of, I didn't realize my main dentist in New York

was mostly specialized in high-end grills until. Oh, really? Yeah, until one day I went in there because it was all over like the New York Post or, you know, Daily News or whatever. like 50 cent drops $50,000 on a new grill

and she came in and was like not like unprofessionally pissed but under her breath kind of mentioned like how pissed she was that 50 hadn't come to her which was amazing she's like normally he's my client and he went to somebody else

yeah and it's all over the goddamn paper wow I know and that's like and it's just hard when she's actively in your mouth knowing how far down you are on our priority list. Right. Yeah, exactly. She's like, what am I thinking about?

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And let's see here. There's a rumor going around that Benjamin Netanyahu is dead. This is what we have to, like if there was a powerful, like, urge in this country, like, you know, invested in this war, I feel like they would be generating more viral content about, like, America winning the war. But instead, like, all of the viral hooks that are just, like, wishing that these two guys are dead, essentially. Yeah. It's like Donald Trump hasn't been seen for three hours. Maybe he's dead. So the Netanyahu one started because there was a press conference that people were like, this seems really AI generated. I think it wasn't like the glitch has been explained by video quality degradation and even lighting.

But like in response, because his like social media team presumably was like, this is a fun opportunity to humanize yourself, go do like a proof of life video at a cafe. But it like that video is really weird. Like he's like oh look you can see how many like I have 10 fingers you know so you know

I'm a lot. But there's like a moment where he takes a long sip of coffee but the cup is still completely full to the brim after he takes the sip. The ring on his finger vanishes in and out of the skin surrounding it. The till on the counter appears to be displaying a date from 20

24. Hell yeah. And Grok declared the video to be 100% a deep fake. Oh, God. So great. Yeah, I don't think we're lucky enough for it to be what people are speculating. I think the other thing to think about, I mean, probably a little bit less with Netanyahu, but certainly with Trump, like, the people surrounding him are too stupid to hide his death. Right.

Like, they would be stabbing each other in the back to be the first one to announce it. It will 100% be dropped on fucking truth social when he dies. And it'll be like a race between like Stephen Miller and whoever the fuck else is around to like do it first. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's also the rumor.

I mean, this has been like on everybody's mind since the war started, but that Israel would launch a nuclear nuclear. bomb at Iran and you know, this would he could get away with a war crime if he was dead, you know? Oh, God. I think that's probably a little too convoluted. Yeah, but he

and he would not hide. I don't think he was wrong. Yeah, yeah. He is allegedly hiding, like one of the theories is that he's hiding in Germany or he and his family were supposedly planning to enter the underground bunker complex in Jerusalem. And so the, the

idea that he'd be out grabbing lattes in public seems pretty, pretty unlikely one way or another. But yeah, interesting choice, Germany. That's so weird. Yeah. Hmm. Andy. Andy that. Uh-huh.

Like we mentioned, average retail price of a gown of gasoline is $5 today on Tuesday, according to AAA. So that's up from 365 a month ago, which amounts to 38%. one month rise, surpassing even the 30% rise in the price of regular unleaded gasoline over that span. And that's the only thing that,

I feel like the media is not allowed to be like, and people also think it's bad that we're killing innocent people, so they just have to cover it as like, have you seen these gas prices? Yeah. That's going to change how people vote. Well, as usual, everything is a proxy war over gas.

Right. That's right. It's the only way we can, know whether people are happy or not. Seems like, you know, morality and ethical introspection might have played some role in how

people voted in the last election. It seemed like they didn't like the Democratic Party being like, we'll do it even more. We'll keep doing the genocide. And finally,

Donald Trump's white supremacist loving director of the U.S. counterterrorism center. Joe Kent just resigned over the war in Iran saying that he cannot in good conscience back at Iran pose no imminent threat to our nation and it is clear

that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. This guy is a like Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson fan. At least at least he has, he actually believes in anti-Semitism, I guess. Yeah, he's got

yeah, he believes in that he's come to this conclusion, which I think is correct, that the war is unlawful and like everybody should resign, but he's come to it probably through like

a weird Tudor Carlson anti-Semitism thing. Unlawful shit, he wouldn't have been gone a long time ago, so it can't be that. Yeah. Tucker Carlson has called him the bravest man I know. What are we doing? What's going on? Is he just hurting?

into Jay Leno, kind of. He's just kind of, yeah, except it's not a easy miss, you heard about this. Yeah. What are we doing? What's going on? Yeah. I guess this is all to say that Trump is being abandoned on all sides. Yeah, yeah. Like, US allies internationally are being like, we're not

helping you with the straight of her moose. Even the Nazis abandoning him. And now like, yeah, the Nazis. That's some core demo shit, man. You're in trouble. That's why he's like making up the thing where like a president is, as we'll talk about on tomorrow. Ghosts. Ghosts still love him.

Ghosts, huge fans. I do mean the cast of the hit CBS sitcom ghosts. The best. Have you ever watched that show? I have not yet watched it. A friend of mine is on that show. And I did just call her a Nazi. So, yeah.

Well, you know, that's on her. Are there Nazi ghosts? Probably not right. It's all like Boy Scouts and just like other icons. But, but. Just saying eventually they're going to get there.

I mean, I think it is that sort of history washing where it's sort of the same thing that Disney, you know, pretty conveniently cuts out, you know, a significant part where Captain America's saying colored people are worse and things like that. You know, they just got a breeze by a lot of that shit. Yeah. Oh, a fucking private in the army was unthawed from 1942 and he's just cool with society. Yeah, he's really progressive. that's right um all right

like his little notebook of things he needs to discover should just be like no more segregated bathrooms you know right yeah um stop using all like one of 20 different slurs for Asian people yeah even said you can't say broads anymore

right nah he was he was the good one yeah it was the good one yeah it was the good one. Yeah, because he was weak, Andrew. So he's weak at first. So he couldn't just grow up and beat the shit out of everybody. And then he became an alpha, but he still had a coward's heart. Got the heart of a coward. A heart of a soy boy. That's what he was. That's right. All right,

those are some of the things that are trending on this Tuesday, March 17th, St. Patrick's Day. I hope everybody has a great. St. Patrick's Day. Stay safe. Have a good one. We are back tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get your vaccines while you still can. Get your flu shots. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye. The Daily Ziteguise is executive produced by Catherine Law. Co-produced by Bay Wang. Co-produced by Victor Wright. Co-written by J.M. McNabb. And edited and engineered by Brian Jeffries.

I'm Nancy Glass, host of the Burden of Guilt Season 2 podcast. This is a story about a horrendous lie that destroyed two families. Late one night, Bobby Gumpright became the victim of a random crime. The perpetrator was sentenced to 99 years until a confession changed everything. I was a monster. Listen to Burden of Guilt Season 2 on the IHeart Radio app. Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Good people. What's up? What's up? It's Questlove.

So recently I had the incredible opportunity to have a real conversation with an actress and producer, Jamie Lee Curtis, from routines to recovery, true lies, and a certain Jermaine Jackson music video. Jamie's surreal and raw. And it's something I really admire about her. I am so happy that I'm the head bitch in charge at 67, that I'm in the head bitch in charge at 67, that I I have the perspective that I have at my age to really be able to put all of this into context. Listen to the Questloff show on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ready for a different take on Formula One? Look no further than No Grip, a new podcast tackling the culture of motor racing's most coveted series.

Join me, Lily Herman, as we dive into the under-explored pockets of F1, including the story of the woman who last participated in a Formula One, race weekend, the recent uptick in F-1 romance novels, and plenty of mishap scandals and sagas that have made Formula One a delightful, decadent dumpster fire for more than 75 years. Listen to No Grip on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Clayton Eckerd. In 2022, I was the lead of ABC's The Bachelor. But here's the thing. Bachelor fans hated him. If I could press a button and rewind it all I would.

That's when his life took a disturbing turn. A one-night's would end in a courtroom. The media is here. This case has gone viral. The dating contract. Agree to date me, but I'm also suing you. This is unlike anything I've ever seen before. I'm Stephanie Young.

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