The Daily Zeitgeist - Maria Full Of Trends 2/24: Elon Musk, CPAC, Hooters, Egg Smuggling

Episode Date: February 24, 2025

In this edition of Maria Full Of Trends, Jack and Miles discuss their respective weekends, Elon at CPAC, Hooter's going out of business (thanks to private equity), Americans smuggling in eggs from Mexico and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I'm like 80, 80 some percent. Shit sucked. Yeah, I've heard this flu is really bad. That's crazy, dude. In America, I haven't heard anything about it. We actually don't have a flu. I've heard this was really bad. That's crazy, dude. In America, I haven't heard anything about it. We actually don't have a flu. And that's a shot. They're actually conspiracy.

Bill Gates, bro shot fired. That's crazy, dude. That's crazy that you feel like you have to lie for the globalists, Brian. I didn't think that. I didn't think that was you, bro. Oh, so you got to lie for the glow. Used to love the game, man. You know what?

I don't even know what side I'm on anymore, actually. I think I'm actually on the side of it. I can't tell you. I can't even be accurate with what a globalist is. I don't either. To me, it's someone who's who believes that the Earth is round. That's just my slur as a flat earther. Right.

Glob. No, those are the globulous. What do they call them? They have a rounder. They call them globers. Fucking globers out here trying to fly to the north. Globers are the drivers. But hold on. Now it's getting a little charged. out here trying to fly to the North Pole. Hold on, now it's getting a little charged. Yeah, a bunch of Harlem Globe prouders, if you know what I mean.

What the fuck is that? Is this racist? I was more of a... What was the other team that I played? The Washington... Washington Generals. The Generals. I was always a Washington Generals guy myself, if you know what I mean. That's such a weird thing. What was their gameick? They were just there to lose, right? As wild as they were called the Washington generals, like they couldn't be more of like, I mean, it's very subversive when you think about it. When they were pulling down their

opponents, when they were pulling down their opponent's pants. They're pulling down the pants of the Pentagon, the Washington generals. OK, I'm just saying that would be so wild if you like were told you had a meeting that like the Harlem Harlem Globetrotters wanted to recruit you. And you came in and it was they wanted to recruit you for the Washington general. Amen. The way I am the way you look with your pants look around your ankles, we got to recruit you for the Washington General. Hey, man, the way I am with your pants, look around your ankles. We got to get you. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Those pasty thighs, man, you would you would look great in a pair of heart boxer shorts. When when we play as long better, as long as your basketball. Yeah, exactly. Didn't Krusty like when he was like gambling, didn't he? Like there was no money on the. Yeah, yeah. I think gambling on the Washington generals.

He's like, it's a great. Is the fucking ladder. They were do. I think there was a they were do joke in there. Yeah, man, I'm I'm actually playing with the Globetrotters. Oh, cool. That's awesome. Your game was always like about the fundamentals mainly and like your pants falling down every once in a while.

I'm going on tour with the Globetrotters for the generals. Oh, yeah. I'm a basketball punching bag. That's what I've become. I'm just really like that. I'm the most skilled at falling for a crossover of anyone. They just like they go, they go watch those YouTube videos of people getting crossed up.

And they're like, who's this kid? The guy doing the cross? No, no. The guy who just fell down. But he put on a. Shit. You fell over. You got put on skates. Shit dude. He fell over and got hit by a sniper. You come out of both your shoes and your pants falls down and you just get a call from a recruiter.

Somehow you get a bucket stuck on your head after somebody crosses you over. Wait, where did that bucket come from? Exactly, no one knows. This kid's just got it. This kid's fucking got it. You know that sound you're looking for? He holds up the phone and it's just a boy. Only only only only three.

Oh, dude, is short story. Or is this where you're right in the middle? Oh, that was him shooting. We have these. you step on a. Right. All right. Was that break there the whole time? Why?

How does he keep finding the rates? There's a rake on your basketball court. This guy's going to find it. This guy's gonna find it. Hello the internet and welcome to this week trend edition of DIR DAILY'S EYE GUYS! A production of iHeartRadio, this is the podcast where we tell you what was trending over the weekend. My name is Jack O'Brien and that over there is Mr. Miles Gray! Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Too early for that kind of screaming. It's me though. I'm here. I'm doing it. You are. Yeah. We're both doing the damn thing on a Monday morning. We are, exactly.

Get just like a re-entry. Like a couple Washington generals, you know what I mean? Just waiting to get crossed up by the week That's right. We just come in all limbs Just trying to defend Kyrie Irving were they getting famous Washington generals? No something thing. I don't know We're anyway, I think the point probably don't there you probably is like an alias if you played on the Washington generals Anyway, you'd be like I can't go out there with my real name.

Anyway, there's some guys that my dad coached at university of Dayton that were like, there's a guy named chip hair. Incredible. Bob Yule. Chip hair is just the wildest combination of nouns for a game. It's got chip hair over here. Chip hair. Anyways, I'm Jack, that's Miles.

We're going to tell you some of the things that we're trending over the weekend, but first we'd like to get to know each other a little bit better by telling you something we think is underrated, something you think is overrated. Miles, what is something you think is underrated, something you think is overrated. Miles, what is something you think is underrated? Something I think is underrated, something I went on a YouTube rabbit hole, I went down a YouTube rabbit hole over the last few days, of just watching Sound Clash videos. Like, okay, so this is from like old school reggae music where there were like

groups called Sound Systems where you pulled up with your actual sound system and you were trading songs with another sound system as a, like in a battle. You were speakers, your sound system, my sound system, my dub plates. Like I got these artists to call me out as a DJ on wax. And when I play that, I bet you can't top on what I can play versus you. It's just like very, it's, it's energetic. It's lovely. lovely. But I got it all started when I saw a clip with this white guy on stage in Antigua like during a sound clash getting the

audience so charged up. I was like what the fuck is going on and I'm just going to play a clip because you can hear this. It's this guy. He's a selector named David Rodigan and he's from the UK, but he's like respected like in the culture because he is so, so just into reggae music and the art form. I like Washington general situation where he goes out there and goes like,

check out this hot beat and like plays snow informer. Right, right, right. Yeah. So there's this clip. I just want to play it. Cause I saw it. I'm like, what the fuck is going? Why is this dude rocking the car the crowd so hard and That's when I got into the sound class of video But I just want to play the audio because it's really it's just satisfying because then this day he gets so charged up He starts yelling a bumble clot. It's all it's got everything This is David Rodigan versus poison dart in Antigua

But this specific track when he drops it, because the whole way, like a sound clash is one, is based on how the people in the crowd respond, like whether or not they're, they rush the stage, like that's the ultimate form of showing that you, like you're down with the music, is physically moving towards the stage, or sometimes you just dance or whatever, but this one, he got the crowd lit, this is David Rodigan. When I came on the stage tonight, boys and dads said to me, Rodigan, you come with bodyguard.

No! To protect you, I don't travel with nobody, God. What? I don't even travel with no singletop. Here he goes, he's about to drop it. You know why? You know why? Watch the crowd right here.

He's got a tucked in polo right now. Woo! He's got a tucked in polo right now. He's got a tough in polo. They're throwing their drinks. This guy looks like a geometry teacher. Okay, bald guy, glasses, an incredible bit. Where is he from? He's from the UK. Okay. He's from England.

Yeah, yeah. So he's affecting something there. He's adding. Oh yeah, but he's like known. He's known. Like this, when he comes to town, like people like this, this is, it's just wild anyway. So I went down to David Radegan straight up rabbit hole but yeah this track of just just seeing the reactions

like this is so dope and I think more than I think the actual sound clash aspect of it I think I'm right now just because I found myself really pouring into music the last couple months and I think maybe that's really what's underrated just generally is just sort of how music brings people together from many backgrounds and creates instant common ground for everyone to be like in a celebratory mood. And I think I've just been seeking that

or just seeking that kind of energy. So when I see this dude, David Roddigan, pull up in Antigua with his dub plate of a substitute lover by Half Pint, that's when, yeah, I was an Antigua, with his dub plate of Substitute Lover by Half Pint. That's when, yeah, I was just like, yes, yes. So that's just a known song that he just played and everyone was like, oh, I love this song. But if you listen, because the whole thing is about dub plates, right? A dub plate is when an artist gives you an only you recording, an exclusive recording

where you're shouting them out. If you listen The guy says he calls out Rodigan like in the vocals so people understand they know the track by half-pipe But when they go oh shit, he's he's calling out Rodigan They're like, okay, bro. This dude got half-pipe dub plate and that's why he's like, yeah He's shouting the bumble clot like the bad guy from Mad Max. Yeah, this he can hear in the beginning. Radigan is not no second fiddle.

And they're like, ah, bomba clout. Yeah. Yeah. Boom. B-clot. Anyway, Sound Clashes. Anything, people getting together, celebrating music. Because this shit back in the day was like violent. Like straight up violent. But now we're at a place where it's much more celebratory. But damn. Is it still about having good equipment? Or everybody's playing with the same equipment?

You're using shared sound systems now. and now it's like from what I, what I've seen recently, a lot of this stuff is really about the dub plates that you get from, like you're securing these dub plates from legendary artists because that's why, you know, there's, as I look into it, so much of the vernacular like killing the sound or whatever is about killing the opposite sound system and things like that and using your trues to defeat, to vanquish your enemies. You know, when I came on this podcast this morning, Miles said, did you come with a bodyguard? I said, Miles, I didn't come with no bodyguard.

No bodyguard, no. BUMBA CLAD! And here's why. I was like, whoa, who do you got bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, us on to. And he was, it's a great podcast. He's one of the rubber bandits, the Irish rap group that wear bags over their heads. And he recently, it's very strange podcast, very like meditative and like kind of calming,

but he interviewed a guy who is going around Ireland lifting large rocks Which is a revival of an old custom that used to like be the greatest show in town in Ireland like the the rocks he goes around and lifts Were like a hundred years ago were famous like they have names They they used to just be what people did. They'd be like this guy, the strong man whose name you you've heard before is coming to town to lift like the whales

back rock and everybody would crowd around and travels with a bodyguard. Yeah. And that's when prolapsed anuses were invented. Yeah. Oh, right oh right, terrible. People ask if Shamus O'Reilly came here with a bodyguard. He doesn't need no bodyguard. He's lifting the whale's back rock. Bumbleclot. So this is just then, so the, because this makes sense, like,

because there's like strongmen competitions, like lifting the Atlas stones is like a huge thing. So that like now this custom is like, was it dead for a little bit? And now it's coming back. Yeah, it was gone for a while and now it's coming back. And I just feel like there's something, yeah, just hearing it, you know, each stone is different.

Like it has, it's, he talks about weights, like they're like, you know, the internet, like weight, weights with handles. He's like, you shouldn't be lifting weights with handles. You know, you don't have to get to know the weight. You don't have to like understand what the center of gravity is of the weight. Like he just goes to this beach that has a bunch of different rocks and like lifts the different rocks to work out.

But I don't know. Like you hear about what people used to do back in that, like they used to like sit on flagpoles, right? And you just like sit there and watch a guy sit uncomfortably on a pole and wonder if he was going to fall. I guess that was like the equivalent of a suspense film. Like seeing someone suspended hundreds of feet in the air. The first paranormal activity. Yeah, exactly.

Contained thriller. Every tiny move. It doesn't leave the pool. Yeah. This guy's great because sometimes they'll like wave his arms around like he's going to fall and then you're like, oh no. Dude, he's fucking with us. Phone booth cramming, which I'm guessing was the equivalent of cuddle parties today, but just like how many people could cram into a phone booth.

But I was thinking about that. Like, I think there's we all want to like bury ourselves in something that isn't the overall state of the world that isn that isn't the overall state of the world that isn't connected to the overall state of the world, I think a little bit at the moment, or like have some some outlet that is that I just saw a YouTube video where people were trying to make chocolate chip cookies with those like grabber trash picker up things. So they're like, you know, trying to crack an egg with that, trying to, they got, you know, one giant chocolate chip cookie out of it that looked like shit,

but they did the work. Right. I don't know. I think like mundanity doing dumb shit for the sake of it is going to make a comeback. I think people need it for their sanity maybe. Yeah. And yeah, you know, like we're all part of this, like hive mind trying to figure out what the entire hive mind should be doing and Generally like struggling against what the hive mind is deciding if you're not like Stupid or evil generally like you the the direction the hive mind is taking is generally not great

So, I don't know. I think there's a poetry to the mundanity of the ways people used to entertain themselves and, you know, just doing dumb shit for the sake of getting together and shouting Bumbleclot into a speaker. I think it's a thing that's like, all this stuff is like pre-internet shit. Yeah.

You know? And I think that's, I think maybe that's also the appeal. Like it does on some level sort of harken back to like the realest shit that we were experiencing as people before like the dawn of like hyper speed communication and global connectivity of that kind. But yeah, I mean, that's what I'm saying. I think that's, it keeps coming back.

Make art folks, just make, just do shit. You know what I mean, please. Yes, please What's something you think miles is overrated? Um the musk Trump campaign to overwhelm us I keep saying this some version of on the show, but I don't say it and again I don't mean to say this like being overrated to say that it isn't Consequential or a threat to our existence because it very much is but I think it's important to Remind ourselves or at least it's been important for me to remind myself That they need to wear everyone and everything down and create such instability That everything just folds in their favor, you know, they need a distracted and

very and very tired media and electorate for everything to be as frictionless as possible as they consolidate power so part of this fight I think at least for me personally is also managing the chaos that surrounds me because it which is not easy I'm not saying it's even like guys just forget about it for a little bit just yeah and watch some lift a rock and watch some sound clash videos. There you go Watching some sound clash videos is good to give yourself a little bit of solace from the chaos because you want to still be able to maintain your center as these things are happening because that's the way we can be effective in resisting when the time comes and in resisting in the ways that we can now, even the small ways like

just, you know, withholding our dollars from certain companies or whatever. But yeah, I just think this has been a huge thing that I've really been thinking about as I read more and more about just sort of like historical like things that have happened in history and the people that Musk and Trump and their ilk sort of like are taking information from is that this is a lot of this first phase of this administration is to truly see just how much they can get away with just to really see what the limits are and how many people object and how many people just fold. So I don't know, I've just been reminding myself that that's part of the design. And while it is absolutely damaging and violent, I think knowing that, that for them to win, they want everybody to just succumb to it, then that's that's a way for me to try and find a

way to push back is to not succumb to it. Not that I felt like suddenly I'd be like, Jack, you know, I actually here to talk about Doge, because I think we've been getting it wrong. But you know what I mean? Like knowing that we have to just sort of maintain, like, don't let the chaos around us completely take us away. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So again, it helps sometimes because it's so transparently clear what they're trying to do and just to remind yourself that when they're telegraphing everything like that, there is a little bit of Power that we can take from that. Yeah. Yeah, albeit albeit a fraction But again, I think really important to consider rather than just going to all out, you know becoming just fully Cynical over everything and there's plenty of reason to do that, but, but that is the point of what they're trying to do also.

Yeah, it's definitely easy to be cynical about what has happened so far. And I am in fact cynical about the institutions that have failed to this point, but we have to not be cynical when the opportunity arises whenever that may be, I think. Yeah, and something we'll continue to explore on this show, because I think like many of us, like, we're all kind of like, what the fuck are we supposed to do?

Yeah. Like clearly this is some fuck shit and I don't like it. And sure. Aside from the stuff where they're like, we'll call your Senator. Sure. Did that emailed. But, you know, I think we're also looking for everyone's also looking for other real tangible ways to,

to try and help sort of slow the forces at work right now. But again, things that we will be unpacking together over the coming months. All right. My overrated happy photo montages is one of the things like I just I have this feature on my phone where the picture like the wallpaper is a rotating series of pictures, happy pictures of like our family. And also my in-laws moved in and we got them one of those aura picture frames, which they love. And that's in our kitchen.

And it's just a series of happy pictures of our family. And I've like, because of just the context of media, my only context for like happy picture montages is when something horrible has happened to that family. Right. Right. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. There's like a part of me that has this like gnawing feeling like, well, I know what it's going to look like if something horribly tragic. What a memorial service will look like. Yeah. Yeah. Like it feels a little like a memorial service to have just nonstop happy, happy family pictures around. Yeah. You're like, watching like dip in with why does,

why does only the good die young have to play underneath this? The fuck is that? Yeah. Um, and then my other one is just not going into a interaction and like knowing what to say, I guess. Like I'm reading this book, The Wild Edge of Sorrow. It talks about the need to like share grief and not feel like we need to like carry it all alone or like feel like we can't acknowledge it. And they, one of the, he's like writing about like this

kind of simple work that saves people or like helps people out. And he describes it as like all we did on Saturday was show up, speak, listen. And I feel like that I used to have anxiety like a more worse social anxiety before hanging out with people because I thought I needed to like have answers or like know what to say ahead of time or like perform or be funny or you know, someone seemed to think I was like smart or funny or if I was like, you know, had a good interaction with them, I'd feel anxiety because I'd feel like I had something to live up to. And then like, I don't know, I've since realized like all you need to do

is just listen, just show up, listen and like speak when you have something to say. But really just like show showing up and listening is like the whole fucking thing. And yeah, that's a big part of like a lot of addiction recovery stuff is just that. Like, you know, I think, I think the way that I've learned the idea of just like being able to show up and listen and not know what you're going to say ahead of time. And you know, sometimes not having the best thing to say in the moment is like from a lot of that, a lot of like being around people who are, you know, trying to recover from addiction. And a lot of the secret is just, you know, showing up and not having the answer, but

just being like, Oh, that makes me think of this thing that might be helpful for you, you know? And when you're the person showing, I mean, as someone who is currently going through a crisis and leaning on others to get through things that showing up is so it's like it's like 90% of like the help that just being there. It's like even with my friends, like I don't need them to really say anything to me specifically. I'm not I don't need to hear something specific, but like the act of them being there and listening and just and then again just saying just sharing whatever they have or whatever their feelings are and is so massively helpful than like I think a lot of the times too people like fuck someone's going through it like what do I do what am I supposed to say when I see them or whatever and honestly just physically showing up is

or whatever. And honestly, just physically showing up is so is already so much like it's already so much. And I think yeah, that's that's a really important thing to keep in mind just to show up, speak, listen. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll we'll talk about some news stories. We'll be right back. castmates back to laugh about old times and swap some stories. This week, it's Gina Linetti herself, the talented Chelsea Peretti. Remember when we were in that scene where you guys were just supposed to hug and I was standing there? Yeah! I was like, can I also hug them? Then next week, the 9-9 nonsense continues as the more better amigas sit down with Joe

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Apple podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. And we're back. We're back. And CPAC happened this weekend. We're going to mainly talk about Elon Musk, but it is worth noting that the Nazi salute is the new thing. Oh, yeah.

The new meme, the new trend on the right. Bannon did like a quick, a quick little one, but it was like the quickness and the littleness of it was almost like what was so creepy about it because he's just like, well, all right, I can do it. I can get away with this real quick. He's like, all right. Oh, right. Oh, and then kind of, but then he like nods after he's just like well alright. I can do I can get away with this real quick And then kind of but then he like nods after he's like yeah, yeah, that's right guys. Yeah, I'm a secret Nazi I mean not really I just did a fucking full-on heil Hitler in public, but yeah Yeah, and then some other dipshit also did it on on stage. It's like you say Jack

It's the hottest trend sweeping the right is now just allowing yourself to not pretend That you aren't a Nazi anymore. Yeah, Nick Fuente is always fun to watch the Nick Fuente s reaction videos That's the guy right the the full open not pepper sprayed the woman in the face for knocking on his door. Yeah He is in all these videos. He's like, Oh my God, it's a full like he's just so overjoyed and like can't believe it's happening. He's like, I can't believe we're at this point where they're doing the Nazi salutes. Like, yeah. Well, his, his greatest dream, presumably. But I think so. Yeah. I mean, especially for him as an avowed Nazi himself. Yeah. Yeah. He thinks the brand is very strong at the moment.

That's right. Elon Musk was there also in a pair of like big like meme sunglasses, a big hat, big gold chain. Yeah. Had a chainsaw for a portion of it. Left his child on stage for a portion. Like just forgot about his child that he was carrying around with him the way that clip is wild he like gets off that stage and then it pans over and there's like a little lost boy going down the stairs of the stage like where where do i go and even like the security

we're like hey man what uh what do we do with this fucking dude this your kid fool what are you doing Uh, what do we do with this fucking dude this your kid fool? What are you doing? Yeah, it's uh, it's weird. I mean there's been like grimes has been reaching out and being like There's bad bad shit happening. Can you like respond to our emails? We need your approval for like this medical thing and um Yeah, he's he's not responding. I don't know. It's dark, dark times in some ways for Elon Musk. In other ways, he seems to be having a blast talking about how he's made it legal to be funny again, I think is what he said.

Yeah. Hmm. Which is very strange. His whole appearance was fucking odd. Unhinged. Yeah. Which is very strange his whole appearance was fucking odd Yeah, yeah, and I mean and I that's the most charitable fucking way to describe it I mean he was up there looking like ketamine braised dog shit on stage and He was then he like unveiled his new SNL character guy You wish you hadn't started a conversation with at the racist rave

an L character guy you wish you hadn't started a conversation with at the racist rave. Yeah. Because there's this one moment where, again, a lot of people were like, what's up with Elon here? Just full on blackout shades, not really making sense. And people were like, can it mean much? But anyway, we'll play a little bit of him trying to have an answer about Twitter and free speech or something. If you got to protect the first amendment

it's not much more important than that yeah i i i i i got a lot of criticism and people said well that proves he's a huge idiot from uh... you know like look you know you bought it for whatever forty four billion dollars and now it's worth like eight cents and it's not worth eight cents but you know, it was essentially to, you know, buy freedom of expression. Okay.

Whoa, you got lost there for a second? Yeah, yeah, yeah. People are like, ooh, what the... Jesus Christ, like, this is... He's saying a bunch, a whole bunch of nothing. Yeah. Um, and yeah, I mean, this, this comes along with the news of like this email that was sent from his office, basically telling people, tell us what you do, justify your existence and your job or resign. Yeah.

Millions of federal employees over the weekend, like got this Saturday email saying like, uh, you need to explain your accomplishments from the past week and five bullet points. Uh, and if you don't respond, you'll be fired. And like everybody, like the people who actually work at these organizations, like including like Trump appointees, like FBI director cash Patel was like, you don't have to do that. What would he?

Yeah, Tulsi Gabbard apparently also is like, don't listen to that. You listen to me. Right. Don't listen to him. I'm daddy. Which is interesting, cause that's, I think that's where we're seeing,

maybe the optimistic version is where maybe we're starting to see crack show in terms of like the infightighting and the real power power struggle that's going on because the one thing with all of these people, none of them want to ascend to then just be like, okay, you're the one and like puppet FBI director, but like I get to bully your employees around now that threatens cash Patel's sense of importance or Tulsi Gabbard sense of importance or potency. So that feels like a little bit when they do that and just be like, don't fucking listen to that. The other version is maybe they have take the job seriously and they don't want like state secrets to just be sent in bullet points over an email but again I don't know I think it certainly doesn't look like a unified movement at the moment no it seems chaotic as fuck but like that it's yeah we have a garrison from coolzone coming on tomorrow to talk about this but but they have been pointing out that Elon just really wants to run America as the CEO of the country. This is how he has operated.

He's basically copying and pasting emails from his Twitter takeover. So it's basically that. He's just doing what he did at Twitter, but with the US government, except the US government is a lot bigger and more complicated and there's centuries worth of norms and institutions in place to make it so that you can't just be like, fire the entire FBI. Yeah, we'll try. So that you can't just be like, you know fire fire the entire FBI They'll try. I mean, it's definitely what is happening is that these

organizations are Going to be reeling from just all this shit even just like these this short first month or so Like that's gonna echo into the future for sure in a very substantial way The thing that I think just looking at the email and the CPAC thing, I do want to bring up the Ketamine stuff just for a second, because the email, just looking at the whole weekend as a sequence of events, I'm like, okay, what's going on here? Like this email was clearly like a thing

where he's like asserting dominance, and then you have other people being like, no, no, no, don't listen to him. Which I'm like, okay, so there's some kind of disagreement over who wields this power ultimately. And the one on stage at CPAC was different than the one in the oval office or the one in the Hannity interview. Um, the, you like, I don't know, the different Elans. Yeah.

Yeah. I'm like, this is like, I'm like, I don't know, maybe you're navigating something when you get to that CPAC stage to try and like really up your brand again and be like, whoa, look at the showman Elon Musk. But this quote he gave to Don Lemon last year about his use of ketamine may give us a glimpse into what he's thinking. This is about him. This is explicitly Elon Musk talking about his use of ketamine. He says, quote, there are times when I have sort of a negative chemical state in my brain,

like depression, I guess, or depression that's not linked to any negative news. And ketamine is helpful for getting one out of the negative frame of mind. So I'm like, OK, you put in a weird floppy performance on stage at CPAC. Now you're sending fucking emails out to millions of federal workers being like, answer to fucking me. And I'm like, so you do ketamine when you're feeling down? Yeah. Okay.

Okay. Okay. I just, I don't know. I don't know. I'm just saying this optimistically, this may be some kind of infighting. Now ultimately we'll see who wins. Because I think that's the next question is what really is this agreement between Trump and Musk?

Like if it's the traditional Trumpian agreement with someone like Musk, it would be like, I will use you until you are causing me too many problems and then I will flog you and then I can just move on and burn through a bunch of other people. But he does have that internal barometer of value which is like who is rich, how much money does this person have? So yeah, yeah, I think Elon is like particularly well situated, but yeah, obviously Trump is ultimately self-interested and the president of the United States, so if it ultimately like comes down to him or Elon, he's gonna tell him to fuck off.

And having Elon though there helps from I guess a PR standpoint because he's going to tell him and having Elon though, there helps from, I guess, a PR standpoint because he's the face of the Doge antics and not Trump necessarily. But that doesn't mean the electorate feels that way. Like if you looked at the town halls that happened at the end of last week, these are Republicans going to very red districts. Most Republicans who like are in any kind of swing district, they don't really even do town halls anymore because they don't want to have to face their constituents. So the ones that even bothered to have town halls were in very

red districts and they were met with a lot of pushback people screaming at them and some of these Republicans were like, if you guys are just gonna yell at me, there's no point in doing this, okay? So I don't know what you want me to do here. And they're like, do something. He's destroying our jobs. Like we're take my, my daughter lost her job, X, Y, and Z. So there, there is this pressure also emerging from their own base. And I think that's where it's interesting to see how that's

navigated if Trump just goes, it was all, Elon, I got to get rid of them folks. We're getting this thing back on track. Or he's just like, fuck it, bro. Like welcome to the new era. So, yeah, it is. Yeah. The drug point is also is interesting. Like I like specifically, like not linked to any sort of negative news or anything. It's, you know, the amount of awful shit he's having to suppress,

like the children he's like leaving behind, like all the horrible things he's just like doing in his personal life, let alone, you know, all the fucking lives he's ruining with what he's doing with the government and you know, all the money you grab. It reminds me of like the end of that movie, the act of killing where the guy is like,

just has really like completely repressed the horror of what he's done. He was like the killer for this like huge ethnic cleansing genocide, like mass killing that was happening America backed like years before. And now he's this like government official and they're interviewing him about all the people he killed. And like he just has this like seemingly perfect facade of like, no, we did, you know, I've justified this to myself. We did what we had to do. But then at the end, like you see it like bubbling up like from like his gut, like he like starts like burping and like having these like horrible like realizations somewhere in his body.

And like, I feel like, yeah, but I'll just say it makes sense that he might have to pour more and more chemicals on top of negative negative feelings in his brain. And it's not even tied to like negative news or anything. You know, sometimes like what a weird description. Yeah. And I mean, sometimes like what a weird description. Yeah. And I mean, this is what, you know, how fascists have operated in the past.

And you know, the Nazis were flying on drugs for a large portion of what they were doing. Hitler, love math. Yeah, because you, yeah. When you're suppressing that much humanity, like of your own internal humanity It's it it's real helpful to just have tons of drugs Course, yeah your veins. Yeah, exactly that help you dissociate in ways that

Have you stumbling around with sunglasses on? But yeah, also I just want to touch on this as all this is happening fucking James Carville my guy Oh my god, James crazy guy. I'm gonna lose for the Democrats. This is this I listen up y'all This is this is wisdom straight from the mountain This fucking bog rat will not shut his fucking sound hole up So he's now says the Dems are doing great. This is a quote the Dems are doing great Yeah present what I've what I have said very publicly is a Democrats need to play possum. This whole thing is collapsing Oh

Is it it's gonna be take miles you have to understand he can't make any points that don't relate to swamp critters that he's personally eaten raw. Caught with his hands and eaten raw. Exactly with my inside beak like a squid. But the thing is he said the whole thing is collapsing. It's gonna be easy pickings here in six weeks. Just lay back is what he's saying. Just it's gonna be easy pickings here in six He goes we're in the middle of a collapse

It's over just like you hang a little piece of rotten chicken meat above From a tree branch in the busky. Oh, and then you won't see the crock of that Go see the Gator come out then you put the 22 to the head of pop now. You got one fresh You eat it now Yes, yeah Okay, sure the strategy to combat Trump is to show the people that there is no opposition to this at all Yeah, I think is what exactly yes very good James and you can just sit back and watch them was that collapse? Okay, um, this is the exact strategy the party was using for the last decade to no avail. Okay, they're like tire

Electoral strategy the whole thing has election. We don't need to offer an alternative when the other option is this shit. Just gesture at these guys. Look at that. You think they want and then we'll just go they're collapsing. Let's be passive because we cannot disrupt the status quo even if it means that our backs will be first against the wall. Does he also does he think like this works like the way this works is the party implodes and they have to go through some kind of official implosion trial where they then give control to the Democrats? Right.

Like what does he even fucking talk about? And they don't collapse it back. And do you collect your coupons that you then, uh, you, you turn into convert for actual seats in Congress, right? That's right. Cause they collapsed. That's okay. Cool. James, James.

Thanks for that one. Yeah. I mean, I've, I was thinking about the, like, you know, the conservatives one in Germany, the far right did better than they've done since world war two. Like it feels like these drastic rightward shifts keep happening everywhere that like neoliberal parties have been in power for the past however many years. And yeah, I mean, it seems pretty straightforward. There are these two conditions, right?

There's the one is that the neoliberal corporate Borg state is clearly not working for the people. The people know that. The one party system of like center Dems and center Republicans in America, they bailed out Wall Street banks. They fucked the people who were victimized by those banks. I think that's happening everywhere. Like people are like, well, this current system where corporations are the only thing that actually matter and people don't matter and like we don't get any policies that actually

benefit people. People are out on that. Like there's never been a point where everybody has agreed like fuck that thing as much as as much as they currently agree on that. And then the other feature is totally articulated, though. Yeah, but it is the feeling. Yeah, that feeling does exist. And then the other feature is that like that that machine that they're saying fuck that about

is like sophisticated, won't allow for anything to happen that would like break it from the left. Like it's specifically designed in a lot of cases to like convert class and economic disaffection into political energy that results in, you know, neoliberal policy that continues to funnel, you know, people's money upwards. And the left most successful parties in those countries,

like the Obama Dems, Merkel's party in Germany, are like brilliantly designed machines designed to take the leftward momentum of people's actual needs and opinions and turn it into like more of the same. But again, like people aren't stupid. They know they're getting fucked over by the status quo. No matter how many times the media tells them like economic indicators are good because of gig work. Okay. Here's my economic indicator of my wallet.

Yeah, exactly. And so the only compromise between these two immovable facts, like the system is like, you know, there and impossible to overturn. And the people want it overturned is they're letting the corporate oligarchy like that. Right. They're letting corporate oligarchs come in and break it because they are ultimately, it's like a compromise because it's like the people get to feel like they're breaking the current system and the people who are ultimately in power in the current system, like the richest people who like that system ultimately ends up serving, like still maintain all their power.

And so it's, it just ends up being the only way that you can like take that disaffection with the system and still have the people who run the current system that is like causing all that disaffection be okay with it. And it's just, that's what we just keep running into. There's this article in I think, is the New York Times. It was about like Denmark and how they're like, it's so weird. Denmark is the one place where like social Democrats are doing well. Like the, and then they like list all these policies they passed that are specifically like trying to stop private equity by like they enacted something called the Blackstone law.

Those are reference to, you know, the New York based real estate firm. Wait, they're against corporate landlords? Yeah, exactly. Like they just fuck. They did policy to fight climate change. They just like passed laws that actually did stuff for people. And they're like, it's weird that they're the one state where this is right. This isn't happening. What's going on over here? And it's just like, yeah,

there's just people aren't stupid. They recognize that they're being fucked over by this system and like, all you need to do is like, give them policies that help them once in a while and it just you can't get it done. Yeah. Yeah. It's also interesting to see like how like they talk about like, oh, how like Fredericksons

policies have just like been massively successful for her and in the process marginalized the far right in her country. And you're like, it's almost as if meeting people's needs is a deterrent to extremism. She's a genius or something. I don't, I don't know what the heck is happening. One trick social Democrats don't want you to know. Yeah.

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Listen to The Hookup on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. And we're back! We're back. And it was recently reported that Hooters is preparing to file for bankruptcy. By the way, the Newsweek headline that our writer, JM, found, Hooters and bankruptcy talks, what we know so far. Covering with the seriousness of Watergate. Yeah. Or like a fucking asteroid, like barreling through space towards

what we know so far about the asteroid for Hooters. Claiming it's a lack of foot traffic, which makes sense. That's the most logical version. Well, I think I think not as many people are going in to buy stuff. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. OK. I do have to assume nobody like really plans on going to Hooters or it's like much rare for people to like be like, all right, it's Friday Hooters night as much as it's a thing that strikes you as a good idea for some reason as you're walking past a Hooters. Yeah, I was the last time I did that I was 19 years old. Yeah. Yeah.

The year was 2003 and I was like, bro, let's go to the hooters to watch that. Hooters. I heard their wings are good. I used to do it. I thought I was so cool. Cause like I'd order off menu shit at the hooters. It's so sad. What?

You knew the secret menu at Hooters. Cause okay. so fucking sad. What? You had a dog? You knew the secret menu at Hooters? Yeah, cause okay, so I used to know, one of my homegirls was worked at Hooters, and but she like, she told me like, I was like, what the, cause this is how it started. I would go because she would go in and we would drink for free. Wow. And then, then she like kind of put me

onto the off menu stuff and I'd go in and be like, yo, dude, like, can I get the fucking, you know, get that Daytona style, like where they'd grill the wings also. And wow. Showing off to my friends. I think that's like an honor. It's become like widely known at this point, but yeah, that was something I was very, very into.

But again, that was 20 fucking years ago. Yeah. Anyways, the predictably the people on the right were like, it's, they relax their hiring standards to be more inclusive and now woke, killed it. Dead now. Um, the other thing that happened recently that they're not talking about is that private equity took over, uh, and Lobster and Toys R Us you know quickly they're filing for bankruptcy. Yeah let me guess they're doing the

thing where they buy them buy up all the like they buy Hooters and then now they make the restaurant pay rent on the land Hooters already owns. Yeah exactly. They own the land yeah. And then they're basically, they're eating it from the inside out. Yeah. I think, I think that's how it usually works. And then they're like, these places are underperforming. It's actually like a really good metaphor for what we were just talking about with like the corporate, like highest of the high people are that

that's how you get this system to fall apart. You just pay off the people who are in charge of like making the big decision. So like, you know, we have previous private equity episodes. There's one called Blake who killed the free ambulance, I think. Yeah. With Brendan Ballou. Yeah. Yeah. But private equity are these massive like shell companies they have like companies within companies. You've never heard of them unless you like pay attention to finance. Uh,

but they are like, or they've killed one of your grandparents or they've killed one of your grandparents and you're currently in litigation with them. Uh, they are like three, third and fourth biggest companies in the world, like behind, I think Walmart and Apple or something. Like they're way the fuck up there. But you've never heard of them by design.

And they're basically a series of shell companies. When they take over a company like Hooters or Toys R Us or J Crew is another one. They just strip it for parts. Basically the their innovation is like we take all of these different things and we get them to pay us money while extracting all the wealth from the assets that the business currently has with absolutely no interest in making the company work. Like, it's just they're like the premises. They come in and like, they're

these smart consultants that tell you how to make the company work. But what they do is just like, pay less money to the people who work there, you know, file for bankruptcy and like use legal proceedings to like just extract wealth. They buy the land that the business is on off of the business and then start charging them rent like it's all just a one-sided business transaction, but was similarly to What I was saying about the oligarchy they make it make sense to the people at the very top With like big payouts for the owners, but then everybody else just gets fucked. Yeah. Yeah, they're like, oh, okay Well, I make it and you guys are gonna be you guys will take care of it. Yeah. Yeah

Yeah, we're gonna fucking we're gonna load this thing up with so much debt and we're gonna just we're gonna We're gonna make all the money from it. And then when it's hollowed out, you just fog it dude. That's all Yeah, well Hooters, I think I think you went a lot longer than you probably should have so right It is wild how, how unwaveringly they stuck with the aesthetic that they were like, just crystallized in Amber. Like what this person who started Hooters in, what was it like the eighties? It was like, this is, this is what hot babes are.

And then they've also, yeah, they also like did a thing where they, they were trying to do so much all the time. After a while, they're like, a thing where they they were trying to do so much all the time after a While they're like we need an airline. We need to do this. We need to do that. And I think whatever Rest in peace Hooters. Bye. Bye. I was actually Shocked to see they started selling their wings as frozen food and for some reason that didn't take off Hmm. So crazy. Yeah, that's real. Oh man who'd believe who'd have believed it? their wings as frozen food and for some reason that didn't take off. So crazy. Yeah. That's real. Oh man. Who would, who'd have believed it? Also, I mean like again, who is this?

Like this is aimed at a generation of men that like for all the people that are complaining about this, like fucking what's his face? Steven Crowder's brother. I'm like, okay, are you going to Hooters every week? Right? Yeah. No. Then why aren't you, why aren't you. I'm like, okay, are you going to Hooters every week? Right? Yeah, no The why aren't you? Why aren't you going if like what the fuck are you talking about? It's it's the laziest thing But it's all woke. It's like bro. You don't even go to fucking Hooters, right? Because you know, it's not interesting to you. So bye like let's fucking Thank you find a new angle. It's a normal sized collar everyone And then we just want to talk about a new angle it's a normal sized collar everyone and then we just want to talk about a new growth opportunity egg smuggling is surging at the southern

border it's you know we've heard that smuggling at the southern border is a huge problem from the Trump administration but they were not talking about eggs eggs smuggling things back in. American smuggling things back in. Back in because we are hungry and need nutrition. But yeah, obviously, you know, he didn't magically lower the price of eggs, which are now at an all time high. Yeah.

And because eggs are cheaper elsewhere, including Mexico. People are trying to bring them into the U S which is prohibited. Uh, we're also seeing an uptick in other egg related crimes, uh, such as like theft, not, not eggings, which have probably gone way down. I have to assume. You're balling if you're fucking egging houses. Right. Yeah. 100%. 100%. Yeah. The people try try to they stole a hundred thousand eggs 100,000 organic eggs Organic is important because that means it like probably goes bad quicker. I don't even know bro

Oh, that's just a thing That's like when people like in the early days of like selling weed you'd be like, oh this shit is Cali weed, bro Right, and you can they don't fucking know what you say Callie weed, bro. Right. And they don't fucking know what you say. It'd be like, Oh, Callie weed. It's just like, directly from Callie.

What's interesting too is remember we were talking about the cheese smuggling stuff and cheese theft like a few months ago. And I'm wondering too, like this is all these eggs are just basically getting sold to like restaurants to be like, cause I'm sure they're like, yeah, bro, I got eggs on the cheap right now, bro. Yeah. Yeah. I'll get you like 50,000.

Yeah. There's a reason that like restaurant ownership is often like mob related or you know it's what one of the most commonly mob related businesses is like it's not highly regulated it's probably like fairly easy to hide earnings and move money around and so there is yeah there is like this food related black market that I don't know. Just this one in particular seems like it would be a stress dream that a drug smuggler would have. You have to smuggle thousands of eggs.

But if you first of all, they like go bad. What if you're what if your whole product went bad? And second of all, like if you hit a bump, everything cracks. Like you can't even like carry it on your person with that. Like imagine a bunch up your ass and get on a plane. You know what I mean? You can, but you have to be, you have to be doing some crazy workouts. Yeah.

Crazy workouts. Yeah. No, no one is capable of that. But I mean this is also wild too that like Like it has all the buzzwords of Trump stuff. It's like southern border Smuggling eggs, you know, right? And now I wonder if he's like we have to stop the inflow of illegal eggs at our southern border That's the biggest that is the biggest threat that we face right now. Illegal eggs coming in. Like, I guess he's not going to want to want to talk about something that implies that Mexico is better at at being a country than we are. You can make up some dumb shit about how Mexican eggs are

killing people or something like that. They're killing them, folks. You didn't know. Yeah. All right. Well, shout out to the egg smugglers, the real heroes of this, this country. I do like, I feel like that would be a good, I don't know. Like I'd want to watch a documentary on like just the like engineering feat of like building a thing to smuggle eggs with, like how, how they go about that.

How do they meet that challenge? This is the thing that was in the cheese story too, like you're not moving something that's actually illegal to possess. That helps. So you're going to be like, yeah, bro, I just got 400 eggs on me, man. I'm just delivering these. You know what I mean? Like, and I think that's what's kind of, that's the genius of this kind of black

market. It's like you're, you're dealing with stuff that isn't going to get you any attention to begin with. And they had like, yeah, so you're just like taking an egg truck and yeah, bro, it's boyos hermanos all over again. I know. I'm just seeing somebody with eggs inside their jacket, like an idiot. Like my experience with smuggling is like smuggling drugs into something like just on my person and I'm like damn that would be much harder if they were eggs.

Dude, I can't wait to see Maria full of eggs. That was, that movie was called Maria full of drugs, right? Yeah, yeah, I think so. At least that's what my childish brain thought. Uh, alright. Those are some of the things that are trending on this Monday, February 24th. Oh, shit! We forgot though, today is also the anniversary. Oh, it is. Yes. We can't... Let us not forget. Happy one year anniversary... Yes.

...to Willy's Chocolate Experience. Yes. Uh... Glasgow Willy Wonka Happier times happier times This was the day we found out about the fucked up Oompa Loompa and the child who was made to act But it was on their cell phone because people were that oh Anyway, a year unknown was a child, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, the actor who played the Oompa Loompa

Kirsty Patterson has been conducting a number of interviews this week claiming that she didn't even get paid the full amount she was promised to get 500 pounds only paid 200 but in good news it was real money and not like AI generated wonka bucks, which is kind of what I would have expected. Yeah. Yeah. But she's apparently working on a doc, a doc about this. Dude, get as much, Kirsty Patterson, get as much mileage out of this thing as possible,

please. And I'm not even saying I'm going to watch this documentary because I'm pretty sure I know everything already. But if there is some new footage or something of you looking even sadder by a bunch of Bunsen burners and, you know, graduated flus cylinders or whatever that chemistry set was you were serving lemonade from, maybe I'll watch it. But I think we don't have to. Fostow Winklers. And like he made up all these like fake little wonka terms Or the AI I guess yeah, come on. Don't get don't give a human credit for a eyes work The ultimate sin in this economy

There has been one documentary about it already Reminding me of the Newsweek headline about Hooters going out of business. This one was Wonka. The scandal that rocked Britain, um, came out of a month after the event. I did me. I wasn't there. I guess I wasn't boots on the ground in, uh, in England when in Britain, when this happened, so maybe this shit did rock. I just thought it was a fun story that the internet talked about.

UK's I gang did it rock Britain or we all just rocking back and forth with laughter because I think that's probably what happened Were you just like grimly acknowledging one another in the streets and being like, how are you doing? Good considering. Yeah, like when the fires were in LA. Yeah, exactly Yeah, it's like this whole fucking wonka thing, man. Yeah. God damn it. This country's going to hell. Do you know anyone who was affected? Yeah, I have a friend. Shit. I have a friend whose niece is three and you know, I guess his sister was thinking of bringing his niece to the family. Do you remember Bradley? Yes. Yeah. Who I shared a back garden with. yes. Yes. Yes his his niece's friend

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