The Daily Zeitgeist - No Pun InTrended 5/13: Arby's, Democrats, Trump, Postal Service, Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning

Episode Date: May 13, 2025

In this edition of No Pun InTrended, Jack and Miles discuss Arby's testing new menu items made from real steak, what the Dems are talmbout (spoiler alert: they ain't talmbout nothing), Trump trying to overthrow the postal service… again, the new novelty popcorn bucket for Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, the internet and welcome to this episode of No Pun Intended. Ah! So to speak. courtesy of Nick Semper Taranis on the Discord talking about my favorite type of humor when people say no pun intended when it was clearly thought out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Dead in the middle of little Italy. Little did we know that we riddled some middle man who didn't do diddly. The pun is intended there. Wow. There you go. Deep cover. Sorry. Do you want to share your shall we thing with the people or are you

going to copyright that? That's fine. That's fine, Jack. Those are just memories for us behind the mics before the lights turn on. You laughed so hard. No, we were just about to record and sometimes we get on tangents and I just said, shall we's therein? Shall we's therein.

That's never leaving my mind. Now you say it to your kids and like, what? Shall we? Shall we? We there? It's just the the accent it would take to pronounce Charlie's there in that way. Yeah, very adorable. Shall we? There when I like shall we?

They'll win. Oh, man. Oh, all right. Where are we? What is this? My name is Jack O'Brien. That's Mr. All right. Where are we? What is this? My name is Jack O'Brien. That's Mr. Miles Gray. Arby's. This is the trending episode where we tell you what is trending on this Tuesday, May 13th.

And I'll tell you one thing that's fricking trending. You know what? We're going to top and tail this episode. And there's a theme to these stories, a shared theme to the stories of the beginning and the end. And I'm not gonna tell you what it is. You're gonna have to figure it out. Figure it out. Story number one.

Arby's is testing a menu item that is made from steak. Steak nuggets. What do you say, made from steak? Made from steak. Huh? Is it steak? It's made from steak? Made from steak. Huh? Is it steak? It's made from steak? I'll tell you one thing.

There, there, it was steak at one point. Okay, that's fine. That's fine. But is it now? I was saying before we started recording that I'm not generally a fan of fried steak. Like chicken fried steak. But this is fried, right? I've, I just like-

This looks like, this is real steak though, in the pictures. Is, there's no fry to it? No, this is a straight up steak. Just like bites? Just like little nubs. Steak nubs. It looks like my fried steak. They're like, baby, let me cut up your meat for you.

Oh, damn. Thank you. That actually looks pretty good. All right, nevermind. Glad I didn't just spend a bunch of time talking about fried steak. Chicken fried steak, yeah. I'm on board. I'm back, Arby's, you got me.

Yeah, I mean, I'm curious. It's not how you kill it. It's hard to mass cook steak. That's right. Like that, so I'm, we'll see. But if anybody can. It's Arby's, they've got the meats. They do have the meats.

I had a, man, I thought I was sick of beef and cheddars, but when I took that road trip recently over Easter, up the five, her majesty loves Arby's because she used to work by the one on Sunset when it was still open. And she's like, their jalapeno poppers are so good. And their buffalo chicken sliders. I had both, I'm like, these are the most normal fast food.

I thought they were different. I'm like, Jack in the Boxes are better than this one. And the Buffalo Sliders so pedestrian, I'm like, you got to eat the fucking beef and it's like, no, disgusting. Yeah, there's something about like being like when you're really hungry in your like 20s or something like that first job hunger that like never quite leaves you just like imprints on you. Yeah. What were you eating? I had, so I worked my first very first job in high school was as a busboy at an Italian

restaurant. Okay. And I just remember looking at the food as I was like busing people's table, being like, God damn it. I want to eat every bite that this person left on their table. I was so hungry. And so I, I think that at least partially has something to do with how much I love Italian food and pasta. You ever eat the leave-ings? Yeah, I definitely ate the leave-ings. I don't think I did it at that job because I was like, I was a little scared, you know? Um, you know, you called out for eating the leave-ings? Yeah, I didn't wanna get kicked out

for eating the leave-ings. Hey, they didn't even bite this, they just bite part of the plate, dude. This mashed potato scoop is immaculate. Exactly. We'll fucking eat it. I'm sorry, it didn't touch anything. But then my next waiting job,

I would just eat the shit out of some fries, man. Oh, just the leave-ings, yeah. Yeah, the leftover fries, that's his own food group. I used to work on that Gordon Ramsay show Hell's Kitchen, that competition show. And like all these all the food that comes out, like, you know, there's like a fake restaurant where people eat at. Yeah, we would all we would fucking because they would also it's like a produce show. So they would put out like extra food just for like the visuals of the show.

Yeah. And like some so the server, some would just take it straight to the back and just put it on this table because it was just for the camera. And we would all fight over these fucking plates of food. Like truly be like, that's not even fair. The last time there was duck last night, you got the first fucking bite. And they're like trying to bite each other like dogs when the food gets put out for both of them at once. We looked like like pirates of the Caribbean animatronics, like people just absolutely lost it over like scraps of food. You have a saber in one hand. Yeah. Waving it just like biting it, like holding like a fucking club that has a flame on the end. Oh, well, we'll see what happens. Let's let's check in with

the Democrats. Couple stories breaking through the big one, I'd say. There's a new book coming out about what was it called? Original Sin. Yeah, it's got on the cover. It's Joe Biden with his hands over his eyes. Yep. Just going to say if I'm ever in a moody photo shoot and they're like, all right, between like do a serious one and now a fun one, they're like, and do one with your hands over your eyes.

Yeah. Not now. Couldn't be me. I'm not going to use this on a book about how I'm senile. Aren't you? No, photo to have floating out there on the off chance that you ruin the future of the country through just insane hubris.

I'm curious if that's photoshopped or that's a genuine photo of Biden actually covering his face. You know what I mean? Cause it's framed in a way that you could just cleverly get another mummy's hands to be pretend Biden hands. Yeah, I was just about to say what Brian the editor put in the chat that they were just like,

all right, Mr. President, play peek-a-boo. That's how they got his ass. Mental acuity test, Mr. President. Oh, peek-a-boo. Hey, where'd you go, man? I'm not falling for it this time. Okay, well then cover your eyes, Mr. President. Ah, where is it, where's Jill? Jill! eyes, Mr. President. Oh, where is it?

Where's Joe? Joe. OK, Mr. President, please. Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. Oh, peekaboo, peekaboo. Peekaboo. That song's really had a that was the very first song off that album that we were like, God, we love that song. And now it's like it's on the NBA playoffs.

It's like in every commercial. Very surprised by how mainstream. Just the opening of that, I mean, does feel like something where Joe Biden is like, what they talking about? They talk about that. What they talking about? They talk about that. What they talking about? They talk about that. What they talking about? They talk about nothing. Yeah, that was his internal monologue.

See, and I should drop what they talk about. They talk about that. What they do. Peekaboo. How do I get these boogers on my shirt? Peekaboo? 80 years old. Like, what the fuck? So this is a book where they interviewed Democratic strategists and, you know, people behind both the Biden and Harris campaign.

And they are just taking this opportunity to fucking throw his ass under the bus. One prominent Democratic strategist who publicly defended Biden claimed that he, quote, stole an election from the Democratic Party. He stole it from the American people. I'm sorry. Big Tim Robinson and a hot dog suit energy coming from a Democratic strategist there who publicly like who I'm sorry, Who was publicly defending him when we needed to know that he couldn't.

No, no, anonymous. We should get a name so these people are fucking never fucking listened to. Like, this is the exact shit that irritates me to the point of, that's like such a light word, irritates. Fucking, I'm losing my shit over the fact that these people are so opportunistic to take the fucking consultant money and be like,

yeah, yeah, yeah, this is it, this is gonna work, this is gonna work, and then afterwards be like, he fucked us, he stole an election from the Democratic Party and the people, and yeah, I was rah-rahing it in public and saying everything was okay. We're fine, everybody needs to stop with the bed wedding. Remember that?

Yeah, right, oh my God. Oh man, the crooked guys. Everybody's gotta stop with the bed wedding over here. The bed wedding is coming from inside the presidential bedroom. It's gonna. I'm sorry. Unfortunately, in this case,

there is literal bed wedding happening inside. His inner circle also, this one is getting a lot of headlines. His inner circle had a secret plan to transfer him to a wheelchair if he was reelected. If as like a treat, you know, you can have a wheelchair as a treat. If you defeat Donald Trump in the general election, cause they wanted to do it. Buff. Like they were like the main, the responsible thing to do would be put this motherfucker

in a wheelchair now. Like you guys think you it's nerve wracking to watch him try to finish a sentence. How about just trying to like go down some stairs? Yeah. Yeah. Walk on a stage. Like that's what we should be worried. Like that's the level of concern we have,

but unfortunately like that's not gonna win the election. And so they were like, we're gonna hold off and just, it sounds like it went way better than it could have. Their ability to hide this went way better because he didn't fall over a ton of times in public. I mean, the best job for them, even though most of us were watching him and going, get this guy the fuck out of here.

Are you serious? Don't run him. Do not run him. And yeah, here we are. Now they're like, actually we knew he was cooked from the get-go. You're like, then- David Plouffe, who worked on Harris's campaign,

was quoted as saying that the campaign was a fucking nightmare because Biden totally fucked us. Wow, they're talking tough now that there's absolutely nothing to be done. Yeah, exactly. I hate this revisionist shit. Like everyone saw it because everyone's like, we knew how bad it was. Well, guess what? You're also the people who were fucking standing idly by. And now afterwards, you're like, they fucked Biden really fucked us. Yeah, you can't you can't make it sound this obvious. Like he literally says in the book, and it's all Biden.

Pluff ads totally fucked us. It's all his fault. It's like what? No, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, David Pluff. Your 2008 Obama fucking playbook does not work in 2024. Oh my God.

I just got a New York Times like news update, push notification where they were like, we talked to 1992 democratic strategists to see how the Democrats can fix it. I was like, for real? Like that, how is that still what you're doing? it. I was like, for real, like that, what, how, how is that still what you're doing? That's like being like, we went back in time to ask a cave person how we can tackle the AI problem. Right. How? Senior aid who quote, quit the White House because they did not

think Biden should run told Tapper and Thompson that we attempted to shield him from his own staff. So many people didn't so many people didn't realize the extent of the decline beginning in twenty twenty three. Oh, so they even his own staff didn't realize it. This is so, again, irritating, I might add, to read all of this stuff, because you couple that with everything we're seeing now, like Amy Klobuchar recently went on NBC and said this quote, everything we look at in a rear view mirror after you lose an election,

yes, we would have been served better by a primary, but we are where we are. I'm not interested in going backwards in time. I'm interested in going forward. And I'm interested in, I'm focused on helping the American people. Okay. I'm interested in going forward

and doing that shit all over again. I will keep my mouth shut just based on whatever the DNC is doing. It's gonna be Buttigieg AOC, I feel like, right? It's like, that's who it's gonna come down to. They love Buttigieg. I think there's Pritzker and Newsom are definitely also people

that I think they're also thinking about too. Because here's the other, because we're all, all we talk about, right, is in the aftermath of this terrible fucking election loss, it's like Democrats need to fucking wake the fuck up. The problem is the status quo is killing people. The first person to reach the, we're not the status quo anymore finish line

is going to do much better in the next election. And for them, obviously that's impossible because they're so entrenched in their ideology, but that's the state of things. And then like you have like David Hogg, right? Like we just found out that the DNC is about to make up, take a vote to potentially strip him of his vice chair position and make him- Because he's openly being like, we need some new blood. So, okay.

So there, there's a little bit of contention here. The other, another person, Malcolm Kenyatta, is also a vice chair who would also have to, he's in the same position as David Hogg. Apparently there was some kind of procedural error that they're saying would like necessitate another election or vote on this. Kenyatta has publicly said that David Hogg

is making this story about him and that the complaint about his position came well before he even announced this like pack that he was launching to primary democratic incumbents. But the timing is odd either way, given the DNC's propensity to purge people that rock the boat. Yeah. So it's like everything's like, oh, you guys are going right back to fucking falling right back into the bullshit that got you here in the first place like this these Biden book quotes are just like it's not us it

was fucking Biden it's not us it's all Biden he told us fucked us or the other ones like it's all the people who cared about Gaza it's their fault it's like democracies work like you don't you're you're you're you're supposed to court a vote and if you don't get them that means you didn't court a sufficient vote to win. That's like, you can't have a business where you sell rotten meat. And you're like, well, it went down because no one wants to eat rotten meat.

I mean, the thing that I'm waiting for them to say is he fucked us because Harris was not able to run away from him. Like she felt like she had to like back all of his policies. Like that's the only way that I could see him fucking them because like, did he force Harris to run as like a Cheney endorsed GOP candidate basically, who talked more about like her gun than she did about,

you know, I don't know, Biden's support of Israeli genocide, like that. I mean, a little bit, I'll talk about a little bit in that I talk about how I don't wanna talk to the activists. Right, exactly. Yeah, and then like Jasmine Crockett, to your point about like which white guy is it gonna be?

This is what she said recently, like on like a Sirius XM appearance, she did, quote, it is this fear that the people within the party, within the primary system will have about voting for a woman, because every time we voted for a woman, we've lost so far. I think that that's natural. That's a natural fear because we just want to win. So there's a lot of people that are like, you know what?

Like let's go find the safest white boy we can find. I mean, I'm just saying major. She said then major donors are excited about quote one specific candidate. Quote, I had a donor on the phone with me telling me that all the donors are lining up behind that candidate. So I can tell, and I tell you it's not a black person nor a woman. So they have quote unquote, they have chosen, she added. When I say they, it's the same donors that most likely had their opinions about Joe Biden and moved.

So like, that would be the they that I would talk about in this instance. Yeah. I think that's Buttigieg. Because first of all, she didn't say straight white man. And second of all, I just, I feel like Buttigieg allows them to be like, and look at him, he has these good social media clips where he's like owning people on the, their podcasts.

Wasn't it the high hopes song that his campaign was playing? The high, high hopes for him. And you're like, I don't know, man, that's not the energy in America right now. That's like so sanitized. And I feel like he's coming back with like dark Buddha judge where he's like, got like three days growth of beard and he's just like coming on being like, you know, I feel like he's coming back with like dark Buttigieg, where he's got like three days growth of beard, and he's just like coming on being like, you know. I feel like for how scared the Democrats are

of like gay people and fighting for gay people's rights, that they would almost be like, it can't be Buttigieg. Like we don't even, you know, they're gonna hammer us on the fact that he's gay. It's like, I feel like that's the kind of regressive thinking the DNC would have given their like, they got us with the fact that he's gay is like, I feel like that's the kind of regressive thinking the DNC would have given. They're like, sure. They got us with the, they, them ad. I mean, yeah, yeah. That's right.

It wanted to be got by the, they, them ad. Like they were just waiting for that so that they could blame the left for that shit. Throw and throw another group of people under the bus rather than your inability to court the votes that were there. That fucks with our ability to think triangulation is a good idea. And so we're going to, we're going to claim that. I mean, the Republican set match are also just as much like in quote unquote

disarray because like you look at this budget bill they just put out, they're going to have to make $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid. And even Josh Hawley, Senator Josh Hawley, the fucking biggest coward on the Capitol, he's even like, I don't know, this isn't a good look for us. This is like political suicide, fucking with something like Medicaid. I don't know if y'all are actually understanding this.

So they're just in a weird place. You're like, but we have to feed the rich hogs their tax cuts. Yeah, yeah. How do we do it? Didn't the FBI guy, Trump's FBI guy, just like show up and like not have his budget? Cash, but hell yeah.

Budget meeting, he was like padding his way. He's like, oh shit. And yeah, and I remember like the vice chair, the co-chair, or the ranking member on that committee was like, you need to have this legally. Buddy, what are you doing? And he, I mean, credit him, he's such a bullshitter

that he seamlessly found some really tired excuse to be like, I don't know, are you working with our agency partners? And we are finalizing that, and I will bring that. And I will bring it. She's like, are you violating the law right now? Because legally you need to have come with it, like a potluck.

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From Campside Media and iHeart Podcasts, listen to GO! Boy on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. We're back. What's he up to? Trying to overthrow the Postal Service. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There's that. I mean, yeah, this is old news.

Like during the first administration, he kept talking about how we should privatize the US Postal Service. And then, you know, earlier this week, David Steiner was appointed as the next Postmaster General and CEO of the US Postal Service. And that appointment was Fishay. Yeah. Fishier than J.M. Rope, Captain Highliner's body odor.

I had to look into who Captain Highliner was. He's the guy from like the fish sticks ads Is that the I'd say fishier than last night's? NBA draft lottery. Oh You want to talk? I mean we can't say it on the other show That's straight off the docks That's straight off the docs. That's how fishy that is.

I'm generally not an NBA conspiracy theorist, but that shit is... I mean, as a Lakers fan? Every year after the Lakers get a suspiciously good player traded to them, that team that trades the really good player gets the number one pick. I mean, but at least our trade for AD wasn't as janky as the one for Luca. Yeah, you gave up a lot. Yeah, we gave up a lot.

Brandon Ingram, yeah. But it is ironic, it's like, you give us a dynastic, like a fucking generational talent in the NBA, and we will respond with one first pick for you. One number one pick. Which, like in retrospect, the only thing that if, if you assume that that number one pick was involved in the trade, it's the only way the trade now makes sense. Right. Like if you're just like, okay, Luca

for Anthony Davis and Cooper flag, then yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, then you're like, oh yeah, we can work with that. Anyways, for non-NBA fans, probably don't give a shit about this, but it is very interesting. Yeah, we sent Lonzo Ball, Brandon Ingram, and Josh Hart. That's right. Josh Hart? Josh Hart, look at you now.

Hey, worked out for you, buddy. Shout out to the Knicks and sorry to Celtics fans and of course, Jason Tatum, you really hate to see that happen. You do, you do. There's another headline, there's a few more aides. Two aides have now quit John Fetterman's office because it seems like it's getting worse and worse now.

It really feels like it's a thing where people should be, like we're just, for safety, people should be getting away from. I mean the fact that so much of like the center-left media is openly questioning where he's at shows that like the machine is already it's moving against him. But just back to the post office because that's not going to exist pretty soon. Steiner is a member of the FedEx board of directors. No problem there. He knows he gets it. Right. It's so, so the selection is very, you know,

questionable. What would have been very questionable. And then they also announced his selection without doing the vote publicly like you're supposed to. They were just like, and it's Stein, it's time. There's a guy so Steiner, right, which makes sense because Trump was threatening to fire everybody on that board if he didn't get elected. The board of governors. So it's, I don't know what this looks. I guess it's just like the post office no longer exists. I hadn't realized, but of course it makes sense that like FedEx ups like all the for-profit

Delivery services have like from day one been like we just got to take the post office out there It's so frustrating to us that they can that they will just do what we do, but for free like this is Terrible we need to make people pay for this shit. It's like one of the few things that we have that's good in this country is our postal service. Like fucking hell, man. And now Trump's in Saudi Arabia now, just sundowning in Riyadh in front of Mohammed bin Salman.

It's just, yeah, it's right now, I just wanna play a clip of this. He's rambling right now, like in this speech. And we have great partners in the world, but we have none stronger and no nobody like the gentleman that's right before me. He's your greatest representative. Greatest representative. MBS. Yeah.

Mr. fucking disappear. The fucking journalists. Your greatest representative. Yeah, I feel like that's a real half-assed compliment, by the way. And if I didn't like him, I'd get out of here so fast. Wow. Don't you? He knows me well. I do. I like him, I'd get out of here so fast. Wow. You know that, don't you? He knows me well.

I do. I like him a lot. I like him too much. That's why we give so much. You know? Too much. I like you too much. What does that even mean?

Was that a reference to the murder? And if I didn't like him, I'd get out of here quickly? No, I think he's just saying he's like the fact that I don't hear. Yeah. It means I'm only here because I like this guy. Otherwise, fuck you guys. And like, Elon's behind him in like a cave hole completely lost. It's Elon's there.

Yeah, that was he's back in his good. They got back together. I'm sure he's he probably also needs to be like behind behind MBS. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like he's also, he's I think courting that Gulf state money for his failing businesses. So he's like, can I go with you on that trip? On your money begging trip?

Dad, can I come? Yeah, just can you go on your own jet though, please? So yeah, everything's happening right now. And finally, the last story, the book. Yes. New, impossible popcorn bucket that requires a two part key for you to open it. Fuck yeah, dude. A two part key. This one. I yeah. So I thought it was like one of those double like when they want to launch a nuclear weapon. They have like two keys that turn at once. Like you have to, um,

unfortunately this is just a key that you put together like a very easy, uh, puzzle for babies. And then you put the key in to get your popcorn. The popcorn itself looks like it's inside of like, like a Coleman camping lantern. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know how this may, it might, maybe it ties in. It's surprisingly unfuckable. It's yeah. I mean, unless you're, you have some kind of plus sign shaped

anatomy where the keyhole goes, but no, this is not. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, like metaphorically, maybe key and lock is there like, that's plenty. That's plenty for people to talk about fucking. We be to rap what key be to lock. Yeah, also, I'm more upset. I'm more upset by the actual amount of popcorn this thing holds. I think it's like about the capacity of a small popcorn. Yeah, it's a massive like, you know, just so much plastic

around a very small amount of popcorn. Yeah, this is a bad. This is an L. Sorry. It's an L for me, unfortunately. It's a no for me, dog. Yeah, but I am. I hear this movie's good. I still haven't watched the last one. I really need to watch it. And then I go see this one. Are you sure you haven't? Because I was thinking that I haven't.

But I remember that I think like for the last last six flights I've had I've been watching it Peace meal. Oh, no, I haven't what like I have started the first Like one minute and haven't even been able to get myself because it just feels so much like one of those things you see in Theaters, I just always would find myself going to see these in theaters It's like sanctified you're're like, I can't do this. Kind of, I don't know. It's just like weird to watch a Mission Impossible movie that like has famous stunts in it, like on your phone.

Wow. But having the second one come out will hopefully push me. And I am going to see Friendship this afternoon. Oh, nice. We'll all look forward to that. Taking your kids? Yeah. Exactly. They're gonna love it dude.

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