The Daily Zeitgeist - McTrendald's Truck 5/14: Trump, Medicaid, John Madden, Nicholas Cage, Hasan Piker, Jesse Watters, Cannes, Oklahoma Education System

Episode Date: May 14, 2025

In this edition of McTrendald's Truck, Jack and Miles discuss Trump vs. Medicaid, the first images from Nicholas Cage's new John Madden movie, Hasan Piker getting detained at the airport, Jesse Watters swimming in poop water, Cannes cracking down on red carpet nudity or "excessively voluminous clothing", the Oklahoma Education System is mandating students identify 2020 election discrepancies and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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No, it's taking zero thought and a lot of money. McDonald's truck and then someone compliment him on how good his hair looks as a Swish well his trip seems to be going well all of us Americans are proudly watching on as he's overseas Doing us proud by grifting the shit out of Everyone for his personal gain. Oh, yeah. And my king, my king stays grinding, Miles. I don't know about yours, but my king stays grinding. My king is Jay Dillon. He's dead. So I'm sorry. Sorry.

But he then was like, I got six hundred billion dollars. Blah, blah, blah. It's like, no, it's not six. It's two hundred eighty. Dude, stop. Just shut up. Like he was talking about a huge Saudi investment and like, you know, fucking, I think just private sector investments. He's like, they're pledging $600 billion. And then like, it's not, it's like not even half that,

but go ahead, keep, keep. They will give anybody money if that entity is willing to help them wander. Look the other way. Yeah, yeah, and help them launder their reputation. They'll do that for anyone. It's just being shameless and bragging about it. We'll spare no expense.

We'll spare no expense. All right, he's also talking about Medicaid, pharma. Yeah, he, like again, right now we're in the midst of the Republicans trying to get their fucking tax bill through, which means a huge chunk of Medicaid is going to get absolutely ran over. And I think part of that is I think he's also, while like that's happening in the news, Trump announced on fucking truth, like I think it was Sunday, goes, prescription drug and pharmaceutical prices will be reduced almost immediately by 30% to 80%.

And you're like, oh, does it have anything to do with everyone appearing for their lives because Medicaid is about to go? Yeah, probably. Prescription drugs and pharmaceuticals, just so you know, very different things, apparently, in his mind. But again, he's just saying it's like an executive

order and many people rightly are pointing out that like, I don't pretty sure you can't whatever if he knew the executive branch can just like willy-nilly just start regulating stuff. That's like Congress that does that, but doesn't matter to him. He's just going to claim victory. And even the process for this is apparently RFK has to concoct like the actual strategy to get prices to come down and he needs that plan within 30 days. And then if that doesn't work,

it's like, it's so unspecific. You're like, and then what? And then what if the companies don't? And then, wait, I thought you, again, when Joe Biden was talking about people needing to fucking get their prices under control, you were calling that socialism, but then this is, but you're gonna just straight up be like,

I'm the president, you change your prices now. It's just all very strange. And he's like, he's grazing up against a larger issue that is like, yeah, prescription drug costs are way too fucking high, but can't fully go to the part of like, and we need to rethink what the pharmaceutical industry is or how they make money or the subsidies they get. Cause a lot of their development comes from grants that go into medical research. So, right. Which he's not fond of or not helping in any way.

That's, I think that's more of a bargaining tactic than anything with the pharmaceutical. Like if you don't, I won't give you any money to come up with your drugs that you sell to us for way too much deal. Yeah. I feel like any, like, I've heard people who are like, maybe he'll like do something right by accident. Maybe he'll like do something that helps people by accident just cause he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing, but he's around too many rich people. He just like only trusts what rich people tell him. And so the titans of these industries will not let him do anything good by accident. He's gonna, it'll fuck us.

Also, he doesn't have a sincere bone in his body in terms of being generous. So like he won't even accidentally do it. Cause it's always like, and what do I get? They're like, well, no, poor people will be able to afford healthcare and you can prolong the lives of the American citizens. Right. Right. Even like chasing approval ratings. I feel like he's not gonna, he's not gonna do it. No. Yeah. Willy nilly is, was his official strategy for the first hundred days. Yes, exactly. Willy nilly vanilly. Let's see. There's the first image of the new Nicholas Cage, John Madden film.

Nicholas Cage is Madden. Christian Bale is Al Davis. The image looks, I mean, they look like those people. First of all, I didn't even know this was a movie. Like it seems weird to me that we're making a Madden movie, but when you look at the cast, it's David O. Russell directing and writing it. Nicholas Cage. You think he'll lose it on them? What's that? During the filming? You think he'll lose it on them during the filming? Doesn't he lose it on set, David O. Russell? He lost it.

Wasn't that Huckabee's? Yeah, when he made I Heart Huckabee's, he lost it on, who was it? I know he's fighting with Lily Tomlin. Lily Tomlin, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They were fighting. Straight, one of the most bonkers. I mean, he was completely out of his mind. It would appear. Right, so David O. Russell.

David O. Russell, John Mulaney is Trip Hawkins, the Electronic Arts founder, who launched the perennial Madden video game. So it's gonna like take it all the way into the future. Catherine Hahn as Virginia Madden. Sienna Miller as Carol Davis, I guess. Do any of these people look as good as the actors playing them? Can't imagine that they do. I'm like, Sienna Miller is Carol, Katherine Hahn is Virginia, okay, John Madden.

Damn, son. Is this just about, like, I guess they're using this as an entry point to talk about the game that has more young people's attention than people who are like, wait, Madden's a guy? Yeah, I think that must be like a third act thing. I don't know, because he, I mean, he was a famous football coach for a long time.

He was famous for being, like he hosted SNL in like 80, I think, which is wild. So he was like a famous, you know, I guess he was like the Belichick of his day, but had a good personality. So people were fucking with him. I'd love to scribble on the Telestrator. Oh yeah, and say boom.

But yeah, his whole fear of flying thing, I was like maybe that's gonna be it because he was in some terrible plane crash or something at some point, but it's mainly, he's like, nah, I'm just kinda claustrophobic and some people I knew got into a plane crash. So I don't know how that becomes. I'm curious to see what the pieces of this movie are.

Yeah, right. But I'm in, I'm interested. Color me interested, okay? Hey, look, I love that Nicolas Cage trying to look like John Madden in the 70s makes him look like Eric Idle from Monty Python. And for that, I'm in. Kind of a puffy Idle.

Yeah. More people are being detained at US airports. Now, Hassam Piker posted on Sunday telling his followers, he'd been stopped by Customs and Border Protection and asked if he supported Hamas. Oh yeah, they're like, do you support Hamas? Do you materially support Hamas? Are you, is Hamas a terrorist organization

or a political group? What are your beliefs? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It was very, apparently he was in there for a few hours as they just kept asking many questions just about what he thinks of Hamas, it sounds like. Jesus. Yeah. But yeah, this seems to be that they're coming

for anybody who doesn't say, It sounds like Jesus. Yeah, but yeah, this seems to be that they're coming for Anybody who doesn't say who says stuff that they don't like as I said he was talking to them and I'm like You don't talk to the cops Don't talk to them. It was an insane situation It's very obvious that they knew exactly who I was Very obvious that they know how to navigate the conversation. And it was a really interesting conversation that took place. Who is this Trump? It was very cordial. I thought it was strange how cordial it was.

That's the point. That's the fucking point. So you go, oh yeah, it seems that they seem like on the up. Okay. I'll say some things to them. And now I just want to get home to watch Monday night raw. Yeah. No, you can.

Yeah. Okay. So you did it right?, no, you can. Okay. You will, so you did it, right? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Oh, Brendan. Brendan Dassey. It's very like, I mean, look,

every time we've had any kind of civil rights lawyer on, Alec Hariketsanis talking about copaganda, just that's it every time they ask you questions. I don't know, I don't know. I need a lawyer, bro. I'm not talking. I do not talk to the police. Yeah.

And Jesse Waters, the RFK swimming hole picture fallout continues with them just being like, what? It's clear. So this is absolutely, I mean, this is such Fox News logic because that's how you can believe half the shit you believe. Yeah. But again, he was swimming in Rock Creek in DC where they're like, do not swim in here.

If we catch you, it's illegal because it's so laden with fecal bacteria and E. coli that no human or animal, not even your pets, just stay away. It's not worth it. There's sewage overflow. Here's Jesse Waters saying, it's all good, man. Jesse, would you swim in a sewage-filled creek? That creek looks clean. It doesn't look like it's filled with sewage. And I have seen Pete Hedgeseth swim miles and miles in a speedo in the Hudson River, which like you can't even see through this.

You can see right through. I think it's fine. Uh huh. Uh huh. Uh huh. So, so the first time we met Pete Hague, Seth, if I'm not mistaken, wasn't he on a Fox News show talking about how he doesn't wash his hands ever? Hands after no after

ever using the bathroom because That that would be gay. I think was his he's like that Is like there's nothing there's nothing dirty about what I touched. Yeah, so that I got something Yeah, they seem to not believe in anything that they can't see aka germ theory Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah all of them all of them all of them. It's of course They seem to not believe in anything that they can't see, AKA germ theory. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, all of them, all of them, all of them. Of course, I mean, I also just like the thing

where he's like, and it's okay because I saw Pete Hegseth in the Hudson in a Speedo. Yeah, precedent. Weird detail. Precedent, your honor. Yeah, I mean, it's just, yeah, because I can't see the microscopic pathogens, there is no risk. Also that creek looked like shit, by the way.

It does look pretty brown as the person said. It also looked like it had that algae that feels all slick, like when you're like, ah! What the fuck was that, dude? So slippery. No, no, no, no, we're not doing this. And while I get that people have swam in shit water and been okay, every modern Olympics open swimming event ever. Open mouth swimming.

Yeah. That doesn't mean that people generally don't want to expose themselves to pathogens. I don't know. Call me soft, dude. I guess I will. And I will. And you know know I will. And you have, and you do. RFK Jr., by the way, has recently said, I don't think people should be taking medical advice from me. That is? If you had a child today, would you vaccinate?

So somebody asked Kennedy, if you had a child today, would you vaccinate that child for measles? And Kennedy said, probably for measles. What I would say is my opinions about vaccines are irrelevant. Oh My god, that's the head of America's health care. Yeah. Yeah I don't want to seem like I am being evasive, but I don't think people should be taking medical advice from me He added reiterating his stance when pressed further Okay, yet. You are the person who sets the agenda for fucking

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Be one of those cool former heroin addicts. Like be a comedian or a jazz saxophonist. Right, Keith Richards. Don't try and be a doctor. That's right. Anyways, let's take a quick don't try and be a doctor. That's right. Anyways, let's, uh, let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. I found out that was related to the guy that I was dating. I don't feel emotions correctly.

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It's because I think Brian was saying how they couldn't have lockers in high school because that's where the kids are putting drugs. And then I was like, Oh, that's where all the children put their drugs in the locker. And that's where you can find all kinds of things like this. Video is so incredible. Like it's really like one of the great comedic videos that just had was not intentionally disqualifying to be in any kind of leadership role. It's disqualifying and also so funny.

Like just fucking bars though. Every moment of it is he's like and then you feel the you can feel, see this, this pillow has a button on it. And I just passed my hands over it and felt a little something bumpy. And there, voila, and pulls out a handgun that's like a snub nose pistol from like a 1980s cop movie. 38 special, baby. 38 special 38 special out of a child's pillow. I will put that there. That's where they will hide the pistol. So when they lay their head at night, they might blow their top off with an errant trigger release. Who knows?

And when you hear that, there's only one. Now listen, that's called motherfucking bonds. Thank you. Thank you, Eric. Thank you for fucking spitting that truth. That spit that hydro ghetto shit. Like that is how he's going through life is just looking at the world. That's how he's going through life.

That's how he's going through life. That's how he's going through life. That's how he's going through life. That's how he's going through life. That's how he's going through life. That's how he's going through life. That's how he's going through life. That's how he's going through life.

That's how he's going through life. That's how he's going through life. That's how he's going through life. That's how he's going through life. That's how he's going through life. That's how he's going through life. That's how he's going through life. That's for fucking spitting that truth. That spit that hydro ghetto shit. Just like that is how he's going through life is just looking at every child as a potential. He also like pulls out a bag of cocaine that would be worth like three thousand dollars. Yeah. Modern.

This is the perfect place for cocaine inside a book. Now take this child's birth certificate framed. Now you put it over loose bullets come out. He's just, he's encouraging you to turn your child's bedroom over like, uh, you know, the mafia searching through someone's house, like in a six year.

They're an inmate. Yeah. You know what I mean? They're doing it. They're just going to want to go in the couch cushion and knife it to make sure there's not any contraband in there. What's he, now I'm like, here's, what's his latest headline with that?

We haven't, I mean, ever since he got off, let's see, the New York Times, this is the headline, why did Eric Adams have so many cell phones? Oh shit. Probably perfectly good reasons. Yeah. Kept losing them, you know? Mm-hmm. All right, what else we got?

Khan, so there's a big story that I keep seeing about Khan cracking down on red carpet nudity and puffy dresses. They changed their dress code to focus on, in accordance with institutional framework of the event and French law, you'll no longer be allowed to have nudity or big dress, excessively voluminous clothing.

Wow. Which I don't care. But it's also like there's a headline on the front page of Drudge that's like, Halle Berry like has to cover up after latest con controversy. Yeah, you're like, cover up what? She's covered up to her neck.

Yeah, yeah, and then you go there and it's, she found her, so this is the Variety article, found herself in a bit of a pickle. She opened up about the last minute switch to variety. I had an amazing dress, uh, by Gupta that I cannot wear tonight because it's too big of a train. So it's just the excessive voluminosity and, but people are making it sound like she was trying to go naked on the red carpet. So this whole story just seems like, I don't know what America has and say,

you know how UK papers have just like that second page where there's nudity on the tabloids. I feel like this is what our tabloids have instead where they're like, well, you can imagine if she was naked though, right? Yeah, exactly. I mean, check out this, check out this fucking. That'd be crazy, right? Think about that. Yeah. Good for them. I, that. Yeah, good for them. I- Good for them. Good, great.

I'm just like, cause I also looked, I'm like, do they have a puffy dress thing? And I just did like a Google image search for Ken puffy dresses. And yeah, I get it. Some people are pulling up in some extra large fucking dresses, but it's a red carpet. So I'm like, what is your fucking problem?

Like, isn't this like, I guess maybe that's where they're sort of, they're like, it's becoming too much of like a show out. Too much about the fashion. Yeah, yeah. And it needs to be more about the movies. But just being like the dresses are too big. I feel like it was just like somebody who like sat next

to someone in a big dress and were like, this is annoying. Well, part of me was like, okay, what black actress wore a big dress and they're trying to be like, we need to dial this back now. Okay, you had your little fun. Look who was affected immediately, Halle Berry. I know, that's also like,

why are they calling Halle Berry out immediately? That dress wasn't even like history on it. Like some of these other dresses, people are pulling like over. That dress was what she changed to after having to pull last minute audible because their previous dress was too voluminous. Or as Drudge put it,

new con dress code forces Halle Berry to cover up. What? All right. What? What the fuck eat? Cover up the fact that she almost had a train on her dress? Anyways, it's, it's fake news, fake news. I mean, I guess the things coming out of France

or French film, Gerard Depardieu, didn't he just get convicted? Yeah. Or just found guilty of like, predatory, like I don't know, like serial sexual assault. Yeah, real predatory shit. All right, and finally, the Oklahoma education system

is saying students must identify 2020 election discrepancies. So students must quote, identify discrepancies in 2020 election results by looking at graphs and other information, including the sudden halting of ballot counting in select cities and in key battleground states, the security risks of mail-in balloting, sudden batch dumps, an unforeseen record number of voters, and the unprecedented contradiction

of bellwether county trends. So they're basically encoding the big lie into the actual education system. Right, part of me would feel a little more scared if I didn't realize how, first of all, boring this weird version of revisionist history is. You know, where it's like, they need to look at graphs and spot discre...

Like, what the fuck? It's more cynical when they're like, and the Civil War was fought over and economic disagreement. Right, right. That's so simple and completely changes how a kid looks at the world. Then being like, OK, kids, time to do our 2020 election results graph analysis. And you're like, well, get the they're watching Italian brain rot content on

TikTok. Right. They're talking about Bombardier, Crocodile right now. What is that, by the way? I keep seeing that. You don't know Bombardio Crocodillo? This Italian brain rot shit that all these... It's like... Bombardio? No. Bombardio Cocodrillo or Tum Tum Tum Tum Sajur.

Bombardio Cocodrillo. Tum Tum Tum Sajur. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 2020 election graph analysis. The Bellwether counties. We don't even have, like, we're not even teaching civics. So how are they going to even make sense of stuff like a Bellwether county? This doesn't even seem like a thing you would learn in school. It's not like you like look at voter trends from recent elections in school and be like,

was this a fair election or not? Yeah, and what are they gonna do? They're like, follow the graph. And it's right here, at this moment here, where vote tabulation stopped in these bellw- that the steel was on. And then what does that do? Prepare you for the, to be a poll watcher

for the actual rigged elections that are happening? I mean, it's not great. I will say it's not great. No, no, not at all. I'm not saying it's fine. The kids don't give a shit, but like, it's so, like it's the dumbest version of this I've ever seen. It all seems like it seems like it's all happening

because everybody's looking to find a new and innovative way to kiss Donald Trump's ass, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah, right, right. And so that's where this is all coming from. How do I get attention? Like like so he says my name because that's like gonna make my career in shitty conservative Political circles. I'm just like trying it. What are these like? I Don't under I just don't understand even how they think this helps Again, you're right. It's really not about what these kids are learning. It's to be like, look what I did, sir.

Yes, sir, look at that. Stop the steal indeed, sir. Making them dumber for you, sir. Yes, sir. All right. Those are some of the things that are trending on this Wednesday, May 14th. 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 you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. The Daily Zeitgeist is executive produced by Kathryn Law. Co-produced by Bae Wang. Co-produced by Victor Wright. Co-written by JM McNabb, and edited and engineered by Brian Jeffries. I found out I was related to the guy that I was dating. I don't feel emotions correctly. I collect my roommates toenails and fingernails. Those were some callers from my call-in podcast,

Therapy Gecko. It's a show where I take phone calls from anonymous strangers as a fake gecko therapist and try to learn a little bit about their lives. I know that's a weird concept, but I promise it's very interesting. Check it out for yourself by searching for Therapy Gecko on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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or wherever you get your podcasts. You say you'd never give in to a meltdown. Never let kids' toys take over the house. And never fill your feed with kid photos. You'd never plan your life around their schedule. Never lick your thumb to clean their face. And you'd never let them leave the house looking like, uh, less than their best. You say you'd never put a pacifier in your mouth to clean it. Never let them stay up too late. And never let them run wild through the grocery store.

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