The Daily Zeitgeist - OcTrendber SurGeist 10/8: Hurricane Milton, Spirit Christmas, TikTok, 'Gladiator 2'/MF DOOM, Trump

Episode Date: October 8, 2024

In this edition of OcTrendber SurGeist, Jack and Miles discuss the incipient disaster that is Hurricane Milton, empty Spirit Halloweens being turned into Spirit Christmas stores, TikTok being sued for 'wreaking havoc' on teen mental health, the new 'Gladiator 2' novelty bucket looking like an MF DOOM tribute, Trump's racist "murder gene" rant (and even more terrible shit he's said and done that has been completely normalized by the mainstream media) and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Am Jack. Uh-huh. That is miles. Mm-hmm. And These are some of the things that are trending today. We're not really going to talk about, well, I guess we'll talk about some things that could be October surprises if people, if Trump was a normal human being. Not already at the bottom of the barrel? Yes. But first we of course want to open with Milton, the hurricane that is... We'll show a clip on tomorrow's episode about a meteorologist being brought to tears with how powerful this shit is. As he's breaking down, he also says it will be a three by the time it gets to Florida,

but don't let that keep you from worrying because there's just this massive storm surge. Yeah. 10 to 15 feet of water, which is, as the mayor of Tampa said, unsurvivable. And like, if you look at just sort of the news stories, there's plenty of people who are like talking about what their plans are to leave. And there's also, I mean, not as much talk, but there's definitely you're hearing more and more stories of people who just do not have the means to evacuate. And I think that's probably another thing that that meteorologist was connecting, because he was also thinking of that that category five is definitely touching the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. And that's going to

also cause just fathomable destruction and potentially the loss of life. And yeah, now we're looking at like the situation in Florida where, while there are people who have been able to evacuate and prepare their homes, there are many millions who are not. So this, I just, yeah, I hope this outcome is not as terrible as a lot of the experts are forecasting, but it seems like this is definitely something that should be taken very seriously.

So I hope people who are living in that path, I hope you're able to get safe as best as you can. It also feels like maybe this would be a good service that the government would provide. Yeah. Yeah. Their inability to get fossil fuel companies to stop, uh, you know, throwing, hurling unsurvivable hurricanes at human beings.

Maybe something that they something is wrong. A little job creating opportunity would be to, you know, figure out a way to get people the fuck out of there who don't have the means to do that. Like when there is an unsurvivable hurricane bearing down on them, maybe, you know, use some of those buses that they were using to bus migrants to New York and instead use those to evacuate people from the path of, again, what is being described as literally unsurvivable hurricanes.

Shout out to super producer Justin for pointing out that they do have buses that they use to bus migrants for publicity stunts. Right, right. Exactly. But yeah, this is it's God, just more chaos happening. And when we talk about how this is obviously it's, God, more chaos happening. And when we talk about how this is obviously being politicized, weaponized by the right in just the most obscene ways.

But yeah, that is obviously the biggest story, I think, right now. So in not the biggest story right now, news. DC pivot. Spirit Halloween's are now going to be taken over by spirit Christmases. So spirit Halloween famous for taking over the empty shelves of shuttered brick and mortar businesses and turning them into Halloween fun for a couple of months at a time.

They're now being like, what if the fun didn't have to stop? Right. Huh? Um, so why isn't their spirit Thanksgiving? Right. Yeah, that probably seems, I get it. You can't, you can't just, that's a big, that's a big swing to be like, get your gourds here that light up and talk like pilgrims.

Yeah. Just plastic gourds galore. Yeah. Oh, look, we have, we have whimsical settler colonial themed trinkets for your dining table. But I mean, seasonal Christmas stores are a thing. Oh, yeah, it does make sense that they would get in the game. They have unveiled the sign, the equally impressive spirit Christmas sign, because as we know, Spirit Halloween, just like an orange flappy plastic banner

that they just like put up on the side of buildings. Now we've got a blue flappy banner with red writing and a winky sanny clause. Wow. Putting his hands up as if to say, I am not touching any children. What are you talking about? Right. He's like, no, wiggle style.

How the Wiggles allegedly the Wiggles, like iconic gesture was thumbs up. And it was rumored that they incorporated that to subtly, unconsciously send the message to parents like, hey, we're our hands are right here. Don't worry about us. But anyways, so what will spirit Christmas look like? It will be a bunch of Christmas bullshit. It sounds like with an opportunity to get your picture taken with Santa Claus. Oh, there it is. The kids. There it is. There it is. Does any kid like taking a picture with fucking Santa? All I I used to work at the mall like in college and I remember whenever that shit showed up, it was like people dragging their kids and like maybe like then ironic teenagers being like, yeah, let's go to sit on Santa's lap and ask him

for weed. But yeah, I don't know. I will say to a certain kid who believes in Santa Claus, it is very exciting. I would also say that for the propaganda wing of the Keep the Santa Claus children who are listening to this episode now is the time we didn't tell you before we started swearing to stop listening. Yeah. But any children who are still listening Please skip ahead. Yeah, you don't want to fuck around and find out right now. Yeah, so any You know that there's there's a whole propaganda wing that is out here trying to get kids to believe and the

Sant the mall Santa Claus's are real hit and miss in that direction Yeah, because like the I think that was the first place where I picked up a clue. I was like wait, they're Santa's helpers Why the yeah, what is that? So why are they dressed as him then like that's weird? Man, why are they tricking us? Why the obfuscation mom? Yeah Man, why are they tricking us? Why the obfuscation mom? Yeah Look, it's it's all bullshit. You know, I'm glad I found out quick You know, you just said that like you just figured that out just now. I did I did I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna look man. It's And it's all fucking and I knew that man. I'm all fucked up now. I just found out Santa's bullshit

I will say that this would be a better idea if they somehow were able to pull it together and invent toy stores. Right. You know, if like this was a place because the main thing with spirit Halloween, it's not just that you can get Halloween decorations there. You can get the main thing that everybody's looking for for Halloween, which is costumes. The main thing that people are looking for around the holidays is gifts. If they had like good gifts, that would be something. Novel idea. They might even be worthy of getting purchased and turned into an empty husk by private equity.

Right, right. If they pulled an idea like that off. Full circle. But anyways, they're soft launching it across 10 stores in the Northeast. So do you plan on traveling to the Northeast to experience this? Yeah, I mean, obviously, because I need to see with my own eyes that Santa isn't real. But yeah, but you know, like I said, I'll find a good time to go. I'm definitely, I'm gonna book my tickets right now.

I just need to figure out what city will have the best one. Yeah. Just an interesting, so because TikTok is owned in China, the government is admitting like that it is bad for you and addictive and bad for the well-being of children. I mean, to be fair, they kind of they came out after Instagram. They came after Instagram. Yeah.

But now they're coming after TikTok. There's a lot of legal challenges going around. Right. But I don't know. Feels like a fraught time to be raising children. Yeah. You know, I mean, it's like anything, too. It's the same thing, like with Instagram. It's like, yeah, these are designed to keep kids scrolling infinitely and probably ingesting messages that might be detrimental to their feelings of self-worth.

Potentially, maybe get them to start smoking cigarettes or doing galaxy gas or other shit like that. So it is really wild to see just, you know, kids getting exposed to like a thing and then that's all they can like an addictive piece of media. And then that's all they want to ask about it. And it's like, oh, you literally robbed this child of free will. Like they don't have free will like that. Right. Right. Addiction is. Yeah. Yeah. So cool. Thanks for for that social media um mf doom is trending yeah baby for all my doom fans out there it's trending because like you know with

every tentpole movie comes out the theaters are like hey man we've got a bucket and this one you might not want to fuck you might want to put it on your shelf if you're a hip hop band, because a Gladiator 2 buckets were revealed. And it's the MF Doom mask because so he started off wearing like a Doctor Doom mask and then he switched it up to the mask from Gladiator. So this is quite literally this is like this is an MF Doom mask. I didn't realize that that's what it was. Yeah, yeah. He switched it up.

So that's I think because that was like a sort of readily available mask you could buy that was being mass produced. Cause he wasn't like forging it out of steel, like in the fucking, you know, in his own ironsmithing workshop. Now we're all having our illusions burst, aren't we? I pictured him with an anvil and hammer for forging it in the fires of Mordor.

The picture of the mat, like it looks dope as hell. I don't understand how it's a popcorn bucket. Do you see do you see what I mean? Like the part that goes over the eyes and then the part that goes over the crown of the head. What are how far like it feels like the top would need to be retractable and so on. I think it's removable or it has like a top would need to be retractable in some way or something. I think it's removable or it has like a hinge clearly.

Okay. That's the only way I get to it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You have to pop that thing off like the monkey brains they were serving at Pound Cop Palace in Indiana Jones. That's right. And you also get one. You get a little guy for your soda cup, AKA dog, you know, M then with wow, wow, MF dog. Mm hmm. Let's workshop. We'll workshop it. Yeah, let's do that off, Mike. All right. Well, we're going to take a quick break, workshop it,

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Most of the time. And we're back. And didn't do a great job workshopping that. MF Dog? He said, didn't do a great job workshopping that. MF dog. He said, didn't you? All right. Yeah. Yeah.

And then do dog. Let's just, can we just get to Trump's racism already? Let's talk about, yeah. So we're going to dig in a little bit more on the history of the phrase, October surprise, like what, and what the mainstream media means by October surprise. There's probably like four stories today alone about Donald Trump that feel like they would qualify at any other time with any other presidential candidate as Yeah. Yeah. But why don't you kick us off, Miles, with Trump espousing race science. Yeah.

So, uh, look, racism has always been a focal point of this career. And I'm always like, how do you get like, what's the bottom? What's the floor for the shit that you can say? Cause but, and he always impresses, uh, you knowes with just how fucking depraved his comments can be. So he was on Hugh Hewitt's podcast, and Hewitt asks him about the economics of Kamala Harris's proposed housing subsidies and a policy question. And Donald Trump manages to turn it into just a nice, fun, like Ted talk on eugenics. When you look at the things that she proposes, they're so far off.

She has no clue. How about allowing people to come through an open border? Oh, talking about housing. 13,000 of which were murderers. Many of them murdered far more than one person. And they're now happily living in the United States. You know, now a murderer, I believe this, it's in their jeans. And we got a lot of bad genes in our country right now.

Yeah. Wow. We got a lot of bad genes. And we're not talking about Jordache for the people in the back. He wasn't saying like they have a knife or a gun in their jeans. No, no. And also just the idea is like, and they've killed more than one person, these people, these murders, they're living in our country. I'm like,

13,000 miles police or who? Oh, the mic. Oh, oh, so sure. So the guy who sleeps with mine camp under his pillow is out here just throwing out fucking about the jeans. Yeah. And I mean, like, it's just getting like, obviously, for the last three months, it's just been getting worse and worse and worse and worse. And, you know, there's a lot of talk about how he dropped out of the 60 minutes interview that Kamala Harris did and how that's been a tradition for like over five decades now. Yeah, every presidential candidate does that. Yeah, exactly. And I'm like, oh, like, is this because like low key they are like, damn, bro, his brain is a play dough. And I don't know if we can trust him just to sit across from someone who is going to ask questions and he's going to turn some you can just picture, right?

He's being asked a question about abortion and he somehow just turns it into a lecture about like phrenology and how like the ancient Aztecs used to eat people. And you're like, what? Right. Yeah. So that is door number one. Um, door number two. So a few months ago, Jared Kushner openly admitted to rooting for Israel to ethnically cleanse Gaza in order to open up the quote, very valuable potential of its quote waterfront property. And now Trump is similarly signaling

that he would also like to see the land stolen, developed and turned into a tourist destination that would be quote better than Monaco. So that's the thing that he said like out loud, not, yeah. He said quote- Not on a secret tape 20 years ago. No, no, no, no, no, no. This is again, this was also

from that Hugh Hewitt interview. From Hugh Hewitt, holy shit. He said it could be 20 years ago. No, no, no, no, no. This is again, this was also from that Hugh Hewitt interview. He said, shit, it could be better than Monaco. It has the best location in the Middle East, the best water, the best everything. It's got it is the best. I've said it for years. I've been there and it's rough. It's a rough place before all of the attacks and before the back and forth. What's happened over the last couple of years? What back and forth?

Just stop talking about anything you fuck. So, yeah, that's an interesting one, too, that he's completely sort of underlying, underlining the idea that this is a full on displacement of Palestinian people ethnically cleanse the region. So you say technically cleanse, I say real estate opportunity, a real estate investment. Yeah. And of course, there's no record he's ever been to Gaza because he definitely hasn't been to Gaza.

No. But yeah, so just brain, Play-Doh saying things that if Lex Luthor said them in a like hard R rated Superman movie, you'd be like that feels a little much. He's like, I've been to Palestine, It's really wild. It's actually in Texas. People don't know this. And you're like, oh, fuck.

Oh, buddy. He also on that subject bopped along to YMCA at an October 7th attack remembrance event. They played, you know, as they do at any Trump event, they played YMCA and he just danced and the one song is one song. We're going to skate to one song and one song only. And then, yeah, he doesn't, you know, you saw how long his moment of silence for his own attempted assassination lasted. Um, think about how little he gives a shit about anybody else.

And then finally, there's a new Bob Woodward book coming out that is mainly about like the Biden administration's failures with Gaza and Ukraine and Afghanistan. But he has some anecdotes in there about Trump and Putin that are, I don't know, like one of the things people talk about with October Surprises, like it should be, like if it's going to be impactful, it would go in the same direction as concerns people already have about this person. And I do think like his coziness slash fondness slash horniness for Vladimir Putin would like kind of concern everybody. But so the this anecdote is interesting. So Trump sent Putin a bunch of COVID tests back at the

beginning of the pandemic, when covid tests were in short supply globally. And he had his own private stash and sent them to Vladimir Putin like for his personal use, because he was very scared. He's like a germphobe, just like Donald Trump. And Putin literally had to be like, thank you, but please don't tell anybody because they'll know something's going on between us. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, where'd you get these? Nowhere. Are those American COVID tests, buddy? No, no, no. They fucking, I found them or some shit. Why do they have a cartoon of a shirtless, rippling Donald Trump on them?

All the boxes look like they have like self-tanner, like all the like smudged all over them. Like someone just dirtied them with their, well, all right, fine. The book also suggests he had up to seven private calls with Putin at Mar-a-Lago. After he left office, right? Yeah, after he left office. This is like when he's in Mar-a-Lago and the source was aware of these and Trump actually cleared the room. So, I don't know, that's just worth keeping in mind that this motherfucker liked to call she and Kim Jong-un on speaker

to impress dinner guests at Mar-a-Lago. In this case, he's calling and being like, clear the room. Don't get everybody the fuck out of here. I gotta call my boy. You wanna hear something cool, watch this. You'll never guess who's gonna answer this FaceTime call. Look, look, look, look, look. Right. Hey Vlad, it's me.

Oh, and also, we forgot, even on top of that, then another thing came out about Brett Kavanaugh, where I think it was in the Guardian reporting that they looked at that FBI investigation. It really wasn't an investigation. Basically Trump's White House said, do not fucking bring anything to light. You can pretend you're investigating, but you better act like you didn't see a fucking thing. So more fucking nonsense. But again, this

guy's that's the thing. It's like to any reasonable person, you're like, this guy's a fucking this is this is a waste of all everything. My energy, my attention. So it really I don't know what how it's going to move the needle. And again, I don't know what what the next thing he already said people were going to come like immigrants are going to come into your home and like murder you and eat your pets. And now he's doing eugenics. I don't know what the next ring of hell below all this is. Like it might be fantaisic. I don't know if you've ever seen Agatha all along. These migrants will change your whole reality and you think you'll be in a procedural drama and you won't. You'll be the victim. victim. Whatever it is, he'll find it.

He's still digging. Yeah. Well, those are some of the things that are trending on this Tuesday, October 8th. We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Yep. If you're in Florida or anywhere near in the path of the hurricane, please stay safe until then be kind to each other. Yeah. Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine.

Get your flu shots. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. Hey everybody, the time has finally come. This week, starting October 7th through October 11th, that's Monday through Friday everybody, we are revealing the iconic 400. Yes, Bo and Yang and I famously missed our 400th episode here on Los Cocheristas, but we are ready to reveal the iconic 400. Who is on the list?

Does it matter? No. Will it be fun? Yeah. There might even be a surprise or two in there, so listen carefully. Listen to Lost Culture East us on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network on the iHeartRadio app,

Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. In California, during the summer of 1975, within the span of 17 days and less than 90 miles, two women did something no other woman had done before, tried to assassinate the president of the United States. One was the protege of Charles Manson. 26-year-old Lynette Fromm, nicknamed Squeaky. The other, a middle-aged housewife

working undercover for the FBI. Identified by police as Sarah Jean Moore. The story of one strange and violent summer, this season on the new podcast, RIP Current. Hear episodes of RIP Current early and completely ad-free and receive exclusive bonus content by subscribing to iHeart True Crime Plus, only on Apple Podcasts. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th 2017 was assassinated. Crooks everywhere unearthed the plot to murder a one woman WikiLeaks. She exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country into

a Mafia state. Listen to Crooks Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. To listen to new episodes one week early and 100% ad free, subscribe to the iHeart True Crime Plus channel, available exclusively on Apple podcasts. Hey friends, I'm Jessica Capshaw. And this is Camilla Luddington. And we have a new podcast, Call It What It Is.

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