The Daily Zeitgeist - PolterZeitgeist 10/30: Midterm Elections, 6-7, A.I. 'Friends', Kat Abughazaleh, Google Trends Halloween Costumes

Episode Date: October 30, 2025

In this edition of PolterZeitgeist, Jack and Miles discuss the upcoming midterm elections, "6-7" entering the lexicon, that AI 'Friends' video, Feds charging Kat Abughazaleh with conspiracy for… protesting, Google Trends 2025 list of top Halloween costumes and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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My name is Jack O'Brien. That over there is Mr. Miles Gray. Yeah. And this is the episode where we tell you what is trending on this Thursday, October 30th. Mm-hmm. What's happening? We got Halloween tomorrow. We're going to talk about some Halloween costumes.

What's happening? Oh, Oh, yeah, what's in the world? A lot, bro, a lot. We got elections coming up. Perhaps the very last ones. Yeah, of the normal, like, just only light fuckery variety. If we take away just sort of, you know, just the sort of, you know,

the traditional voter suppression tactics that the right uses. But yeah, some big ones. Obviously, New York, the mayoral race, that's coming up uh michael bloomberg i think just gave like a like a fucking one and a half million dollars to quomo again yeah they're pushing hard there's like a lot of uh a lot of stories being like the there's a there's a shift there's a movement and if this movement keeps up quomo's going to overtake mom donnie and it's like a tiny blimp oh yeah oh i've seen that where they're like they're like at this pace and i saw them yeah i saw a quote tweeted or like

my son is now twice the size he was 10 months ago. At this rate, he will be one trillion pounds by the time he's 20 years old. And you're like, sure, I get what you're trying to say there. People need it to be, yeah, people need it to be a close race. That's where we're, I feel like we're seeing the other side of the, I mean, not really the other side, but like, you know, the Democratic Party, even when they're losing pretty convincingly, will find a way to manufacture storylines that are like, I don't know. keep your eye on this one. Look, I don't want to say we failed this before the election, okay? So let's make it seem like a surprise on the day.

Yeah, and also it's just, it's amazing to see the solidarity that exists among people who hate any kind of equity or equality when it comes to our country. So it's like, you even have Republicans who are like, Andrew Cuomo is a piece of shit freak who's killing America who are now like, I mean, in this in this case i must say i have to back andrew quomo like someone who had his like biggest rivals from the new york state legislature or like backing him because again socialism kind of in the form of mom donnie yeah mom dine you're going to sell the rich he's going to make the make the rich have to be sold it's not like they've got the guillotine's out already uh virginia also a huge governor's race um that could also help gauge the temperature of a state that Trump won, but also, you know, Virginia has this interesting thing where they vote,

like, they have a history of voting for a governor from the party that lost the White House in the previous presidential election for the last 12 elections. So that bodes well for former CIA operator Abigail Spanberger, who's the Democrat. Oh, hell yeah. Has a lead over Winston Earl Sears, who's a former Marine, Magafriek, you know, stands for all the usual inhumane nonsense but she's a black woman so maybe that will help i don't know like that's kind of like a thing maga likes to do is like but if they're black right is it less racist if racism is said by a black person is it less racist i don't know we will see uh or does trump spamburger

i'm calling everybody every uh woman of color a low iq individual does that backfire in this case couldn't they've just been hearing that over and over and over again for the past eight years Yeah, not great branding. And then also they have a, it's just like a funny thing, a listener. Shout out Jillian who was like, you just know the lieutenant governor's race. This one, the Republican candidate, the Democrat who's running for lieutenant governor wasn't at the debate. So he put an AI version of her up to debate with and it was a fucking nightmare.

But again, just shows you where they're at, where their heads are at. And then obviously for us here in California, one 50 measure 50 not the big one we're always talking about but in this oh not the earthquake no the devastating earthquake that will completely shattered the city no not yet not yet not yet but this is this is one that would allow the people in Sacramento that that's I've been getting spam texts of both sort from Arnold yeah I got I got a spam text from Arnold being not how it should happen yes if it doesn't

go through America would be in a lot of trouble. Yeah, I mean, look, so Proposition 50 is where if voters of California approve it, that means there will be new maps put into effect that will create five more Democrat seats in the House. Obviously, this is in a direct response to what Governor Abbott is doing in Texas and then many other states too, like just other states are now trying to be like, this looks like we're going to get fucking swept in a midterm. So what if we cheated to avoid that?

That's what the Republicans are saying. And the Democrats are like, we're, yeah. So this allows Democrats to fight fire with fire, essentially. Yeah. And at this point, I mean, like, yeah, fucking do it to go go for it. Do fucking something. Go with God. Buy it on Diaz.

And I don't care if Schwarzenegger doesn't think it's fantastic. Big news for teachers and elementary school age children. Dictionary.com announced the word of the year for 2025. Drum roll, please. And it is. So weirdly, they printed it as the number of 67, which was confusing,

but it's obviously 6.7. It's a word. It's a number for possibly two words. Someone confusing. Seemingly, Dictionary.com's director of lexicography, Steve Johnson wanted to make 6.7 the word of the year to spite his friends who are teachers. Oh, great.

Great use of your position. Johnson knew they had, quote, something really interesting when he got a message from his friend, a middle school teacher, early one morning, like waking up from a fever dream, being like, oh, God, do not make six, seven, the word of the year. And he was like, yeah, so I guess I got to do that. Yeah.

Steve Johnson is a 12-year-old boy. it says like there's another quote from teachers teachers are banning the slang 6-7 and disciplining students who breach the rule quote i've been teaching for 20 years and i've dealt with all sorts of slang nothing has driven me crazier than this one adria laplander's sixth grade language arts teacher in michigan says something that you would have thought would have gone away it just kept on growing larger and larger snowballing into kind of like a cultural phenomenon is the is the positive read on it yeah great you know kids say whatever you want man fucking knock yourself out someone someone was so I said fuck I I never

whenever I scroll like I'm just never saving post but there was somebody talking about like you know you're talking about six seven being weird

and they're like we used to fucking act like cornholio from Beavis and Budhead right like that was probably also like what the fuck are why does everyone

need TP for their bunghole sir please don't make TP for your bunghole the word of the year that's the bush meme now they're like sir they made tp for your bunghole the word of the yeah i guess i guess back then we didn't have a meme driven uh information economy where no dictionary was fueled by uh you know engagement and clicks so those probably but uh six seven is

one of the probably you know most used words that i that i hear around And do your kids, you do it in a way that is driving you up the walls? It's just, no. It's just every time a number comes up, they'll say six, seven. You just have to say it like that, I guess. Yeah. And then they usually say 7-Eleven afterwards and then go into a weird rhyming thing. And then they started saying other numbers that I haven't committed to memory yet because they aren't the word of the year.

You should be like, those better, you better be reciting pie over there. Those better either be pie or the numbers from lost. Yeah. You get out of... Four, eight, 15, 16. You get out of my house. I ever tell you my friend Chris memorized my social security number and would just say it over and over again. Just like out loud?

Yeah, out loud. Just to fuck with you? Yeah. It's so stupid, but such a funny thing that would just cause panic to one specific person. And then we were hanging out a couple weeks ago and he still remembers it. Which fucked me up. 28366, 2952. All right.

That's somebody's. Let it rip, folks. Did you see this? The future of sitcoms? Yes, dude. What a fucking nightmare. So I thought it had to be satire at first. Like, I thought they had to be making fun of, like, AI people.

That was earned. Wait, it's earned. That's earnest. A guy named Tech Hala, like, as in Val. Valhalla a seamless portmanteau of Tekkenvalhalla. So we know we're on solid ground here. Posted an AI generated video

of friends moments essentially with the proclamation that sitcoms will never be the same again. Yes, my immediate thought was like, this is funny. They're making fun of AI. Like this is the most sloppiest of AI slop. And

you go to his page and it's just like all of his tweets are about like different innovations in AI and like trying to get people excited. Oh my God, wait is there, is this a Pulp Fiction one he also did? This is really fucking bad.

You know what they call a quarter pounder with cheese in Paris? What are they called? A royal with cheese. A royal with cheese. A royal with cheese. A fancy label. Still a burger. You know what they call a quarter pounder with cheese in Paris? What do they call it? A royal with cheese.

Oil with cheese. metric system and a fancy label. This is, this is nonsensical. It's, it's, again, it's just like worse. The friend's one is awful, though. The friend's one is wild because, I don't know. Truly an algorithmic. There are like weird parts where they like pause and like smile at each other,

like waiting for the person to come in. It's really like, really feels the most like a bad hallucinogenic experience. Because sitcoms are so specific in their performance too. Like so an algorithm's idea of what that behavior is just makes it look like these people are fucking like are fucked up on drugs or aren't making sense all like all the women look like versions of each like of the same person and all the men like it's like a Chandler fucking what's the other guy called Ross Ross and then the other guy Joey like they're all Joey in there I didn't even but yeah I guess there are like Joeyish Chandler's and just. Chandlerish Rosses and Rachel, Rachelish Rosses. But then the, oh, way, that could be intentional. Why's this woman spin around with her back, her guitar? Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, that death becomes her? There's some bleached or maybe and my. Okay, this, this Ross line. Yeah, let's just listen to this line because this is what I want to point at. Because yes, the shit is glitchy. Like at one point somebody's head is on backwards, a hand like opens the door from like opens a closed door and like their body is on the other side and they're like look at look at how

seamless this is but their inability to even like approach what like for any of this to work like the thing that drove pulp fiction that drove friends is like writing you know it's like joke writing or like the script for pulp fiction and like they just have like such a shitty grasp of that yeah but i guess I wouldn't expect tech pros to, but like, yes, this line, let's, let's, let's hear this line. As there's some bricks to maybe and my ma and run in house. What? One more time. As there's some bricks to maybe and my ma and run in house.

Is it the bricks, the baby and my mom running house? But they've got the, what? It feels so crazy. Like, you feel crazy. Smelly cat, smelly cat. What are they feeding you? And then this guy goes, like, a guy comes in and laughs and then goes, sits down on another couch or there's a whole cast of people there.

The same people are sitting over there. This is the problem, man. Like, this is, like, all of this shit is based on stuff humans are making. Yeah, it's just a remix. It's a seamless remix. All you're doing is just making bad fucking Xerox copies of shit we've already seen. so what, what fucking, what use is this? I get that the term's like,

this is a future, so what? You're going to be like, shit out a terrible version of friends. Yeah, it's just bad versions of other shit that's already been created, which is like what, you know, that's what's artistically bankrupt about it

is just that you're just like copying other people's shit without like giving them credit. But it's also what is going to make it suck so bad. Yeah. That it's just like, again, it's like a thing that's fun for the people playing with it to be like, wow, look what you can do.

But you can't, like, I don't know how you incorporate this into making, like, a good thing that anybody wants to watch at all other than people who are like, whoa, I feel like I'm on drugs a little bit, but like bad ones. Whoa, I made an arm come out of that lady's forehead. Right. All right. Cool. I don't know.

We'll see. There's a lot of... Melly cat, smelly cat. What are they meeting you? Whoa! and then like they cut over and like these women are just like pawing at each other nonsensically like they don't know how to just show affection it's just like so fucking whatever good luck man good luck tech holla yeah there is uh so the person who originally generated it called it the one with the weird AI so like they were like this is glitchy as fucking like kind of trippy but like I do think that this is a good like a good encapsulation of like how AI proselytizers feel they're just like whoa this is fucking crazy line go up look at look at how much this make line go up like like there was the one the AI company that released they're like

we did a full episode of South Park and then you watch it and it's just the most like dead thing with like characters moving around and they're like putting themselves in it and being like that's an interesting idea cut to the next scene like it just doesn't doesn't make any fucking sense. Well, I mean, it continues to not make sense. And I don't know if you were there that's the last week where I was talking.

There was like this one AI researcher saying like all these models are trained off of high quality human product like the actual things humans create and they're running out of material to feed the machine. Pretty soon it's going to start feeding off of its own slop that's out there and it's going to be even worse. I don't know. So whatever, man. I mean, they fed it all of friends and this is what it came back with.

It's like, I don't know. This isn't as good as friends. I got to meet the mozy, the bricks and I go my. Oh, Ross. Ross, you're so crazy. Yeah. I don't know where this ends. It seems pretty stupid and like a bubble that's going to burst at some point.

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I try to report them, but things keep getting weirder. I think they may be part of a cult. Hold up, Sophia, a real-life cult? And what is a dirt ritual? No clue. But according to this person, contractors are tearing down the patio to find, find out what's going on with her ceiling and her neighbors are not happy.

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here we go again with Cal Penn on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. We're back. And the mask off, just intimidation, corruption, 80s movie bad guy shit is really reaching a new level with the Trump administration it feels like. And one example of this is that a former guest currently running for office in Illinois, Kat Abugazale, was hit with a federal indictment for essentially just protesting. For protesting outside of an ICE detention center. I mean, people may have seen the clip where she was shoved over by an ICE agent.

Yeah. And what they're alleging was that she, her and others, because they like to hit people with conspiracy charges when they're protesting, quote, physically hindered and impeded a federal agent who was, quote, forced to drive at an extremely slow rate of speed to avoid injuring any of the conspirators. What? Right. What? Okay. They had to drive too slow.

Yeah. Do you have any idea how dangerous that is for them to drive too slow? Yeah. What are you talking about? Or were you trying to run someone over or driving aggressively and people get in front of your? car and then you're like what do you want me to drive slow and not drive over you uh the indictment also alleges abu gazelle along with uh other individuals quote banged aggressively on the agent's vehicle quote damn crowded together in the front and side of the vehicle and quote pushed against the

vehicle to hinder and impede its movement um they said other people in the group wrote peg on the vehicle and broke a rear windshield white wiper uh and also alleges that abu gazelle uh specifically quote join the crowd at the front of the government vehicle and with her hands on the hood braced her body and hands against the vehicle while remaining directly in the path of the vehicle hindering and impeding the... So that's basically attempted homicide.

Yeah, like, what the fuck is this? I mean, this is becoming more and more common. People are getting indicted. We've seen terrible prosecutions of protesters before, not even just in this administration. But like, why is a Palestinian-American candidate for office being targeted for exercising their free speech rights.

Like, we still have these fucking rights. Just to remind everyone. These rights are still there. They haven't totally towards the Constitution, although in action, it obviously feels that way. So she banged on a car and then stood in front of it, braced it so we wouldn't get ran over, and then we're inviting people

because the government wants to scare this shit out of others who, you know, would dare to protest or go out in physical space to let this government know that this is actually immoral, inhumane, illegal. By the way, Kat, who kind of launched this campaign on the grounds of, like, why not? Somebody needs to do this to, like, challenge the mainstream Democratic Party and, like, have actually progressive politics for people is tied for first in that race, according to polling. There's 16 other candidates, but she's tied for first.

So, I mean, that definitely makes me hopeful. let's hope that this bullshit doesn't slow her down. I mean, yeah, even the person Jan Schakowski, whose seat that she's going or gutting for, like, is like,

this is fucking bad. Like, what the, I mean, I don't, I'd, you'd hope for that much to come from, you know,

a Democrat talking about another person running as a Democrat. But yeah. Yeah, it's, it's, it's really fucking terrible. And I, I just saw the,

that Katie Miller, Chank Weger, fucking blowout argument that went completely off the rails suddenly. Yeah, this would see, so Stephen Miller's wife, Katie Miller, basically threatened somebody.

It was like, so they were on Pierce Morgan to uncensored. And she was like, what? It's uncensored. She warned Chank Weaver that he better checked that his application is clean.

Yeah. He is a U.S. citizen. But I guess because- De-naturalizing, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So threatening him with deportation. The whole, that whole segment was fucking wild because you know that one point chank is like oh god i mean i i only i'm glad

you know i i i only expect lies out of a miller's mouth or whatever uh-huh and then she takes it in this whole thing about like anti-semitism and the other panelists are like what she's like that's an attack against jewish people's like no i'm attacking you personally you as a person i never mentioned anything about that i'm just talking about your just behavior as a human being that's how i'm categorizing it and she's like pierce i'm gonna go i'm gonna go if this is if this is what you're going to allow. Because he was just like defeating her in a debate. Well, yeah.

And just being like your bad faith attacks about people saying that like anyone's opposition to genocide or something is anti-Semitic because it kept going back and forth into this thing when he's like, I'm not talking about any of this right now. I'm talking about you are whatever. So she she threatened a bolt, but stuck around just to say, I'm going to get my husband to call ice on you. Yeah, I do one, like, how often, on average, how often during a given day are the people in the Trump administration having the conversation from that Mitchell and Webb sketch where they're like, are, wait, the thing that, so she just threatened, somebody beat her in a debate and she just threatened to deport them. Like, are we the baddies? Yeah, because I think the are we the baddies thing, you already have to operate from a place of like sanity. Yeah, that's right. Morality. All of these people. people, I think, have probably done all the mental homework to completely insulate themselves from their own thoughts or subconscious.

Yeah. And then just, you know, ProPublica doing an investigation into corruption in, I think North Carolina, emailed questions to one of the people associated with what was being investigated. And Matt Mercer, Republican Party's communications director, Matt Mercer responded, writing that ProPublica was waging a jihad against North Carolina Republicans, which would not. not be met with dignifying any comments whatsoever, then said, I'm sure you're aware of our connections with the Trump administration. And I'm sure they would be interested in this matter. I would strongly suggest dropping this story. That's like the new, my dad's a lawyer, my dad's a cop thing. I'm sure you're aware of that I know somebody in the Trump administration. I'm connected to terrible. That is probably happening on a daily basis, at least. People who actually have connections in the Trump administration, and then, like, you know, a thousand times a day with people who don't

and are just like, I think you might know. Like, think about what this has done for corruption and con artists to just have the ability to dangle Trump connections. Yeah. You know, like, that's why corruption is bad is that it's just like, there's no fucking rules. Everybody's just going to be able to be like, yeah, uh, I've got an in with the guy. There's like no way to check it. Um, all right. Finally. We did want to check in, as we do every year on Trends, with the Google Frightgeist. Kind of mid this year, got to say. It is mid.

I think they, like, were more careful this year, and it feels like it's more grounded. So the thing we've pointed out in years past is that, so this is Google's list of the top costumes, top Halloween costumes. Like, really. Yeah, based on search and, you know, various data. I mean, to be honest, like, they have. have so much data on all of us. They should be able to do this with a high degree of fidelity.

Right. And in the past, so it's a useful tool, but in the past, like, their data collection and organization has been, like, really bad, like, shockingly bad. Like, they'd have, like, Spider-Man, superhero, Spider-Man, like, with no dash between, like, on the same list of, like, top 50 costumes. This year, they only gave us a top 25, definitely looks like an editor has gone through this and, you know, made sure there weren't quite as many dupes. And it does seem, like going in, I was like, well, if the top five aren't all K-pop demon hunters, this list is bullshit. Someone's get fired. And they do have the top five. You got Rumi, Zoe, Mira, Gino, baby Saja as the top

five. Who is your favorite Saja boy? Who's your favorite Saja boy? Oh, man. Baby Saja would be the best costume, you know? Just because a little beanie and stuff? Yeah, and then there's the abs guy, right? I like the one that's just all hair. I think that's mystery. Yeah, yeah.

He's pretty good. I just like that. The tiger comes in at number eight, which I didn't know. That was the name of the, that's the tiger. The tiger's called derpy? Derpy? I didn't know that. That card, that's not really derpy.

All right, anyway. Laboooo Boo, La Boo, number seven. The chicken jockey. See, so chicken jockey. So chicken jockey from Minecraft is the first non-K-pop K-pop demon hunter

and then followed by LeBoo-Boo another K-pop demon hunter Elfabove from Wicked The Lorax Still still hanging tough I'm saying This is where I'm a look This is how every year

This is when we start getting A little wobbly We're go really At number 10 The Lorax? Yeah Number 11 Hamilton

Who the fuck is that? It better not be of motherfucking Hamilton the musical in the year of our Lord 2025. I think it's Hamilton. So I think Hamilton the musical has entered the zeitgeist as a thing that

like a certain age of kid gets into, it's like dinosaurs and Greek myths and like that. They're having their planes, you know, it's like there's, that is an acceptable thing. Harry Potter, like Hamilton, I hear a lot about people

still being like, yeah, we actually took, you know, our kids to see a local production of Hamilton. Like, they know all the words to the song. And it's, you know, six years after that was a thing, you know, um, what, more than that probably, right? Like 10, 12 years. But I, I do think like that has hung around. And it is a thing that, like, is still in the zeitgeist. Um, Ladybug at number 16. I don't know if that's a character, uh, or, or what, but, um, Gabby from Gabby's dollhouse hanging The ladybug. Yeah, these, okay, fine.

I'll tell you the two that really made me go, hmm, Donnie Darko at number 20. What the fuck? Like that made, that makes sense to me in the year 2004 or what I, you know, like when I first saw that and I was like, yo, Donny fucking Darko blew my mind. Still haven't seen it. But, I mean, I do wonder if that's still just like a thing,

like kind of like Hamilton, but for. Teenage boys, we're like, but have you seen Donnie Darko, though, dude? No, bro. Get away from me, man. I'm just here to fucking drink your dad's alcohol. All right. The one that really, I feel like they stopped paying attention on the very last one. Number 25, Lord Farquod from Shrek.

Okay. Lord Farquod from Shrek. So this is one where you can shop costumes like off of this link to see like where they're getting this data and like what costumes they claim people are dressing up as I was like they must have like they must have just the Lord Farquod costume technology

must have taken a leap forward this off season and you go it's just the clothes it's just like a red cape red a little tunic black tights with like a little red

fes hat hard fringe wig maybe like 5% of them have the Anton Sugar wig that would actually let you know that it was not Anton Sugar. Although if I do see a kid in a Lord Farquod outfit with the wig, I'm going to be like, oh,

Anton Sugar from no country. Wow. So Brian the editor said that on the other podcast, Mess, was Sid and Marie. You should definitely check that show out on Big Money Players. So they spent 20 minutes talking about Shrek and Farquad. I know these are ever-presence in culture.

Shrek and Farquod people like that's not a thing that goes away over Shrek when you look at what like so if you go on Fright Geist and it says let's like you can look at the data part right it just said a lot of these they're just basically saying that a spike in FARC a search for blank costume these are these are trending costume means that and I'm like okay now does that mean every 25 people you see out there is going to be a Lord Farquart or so no right more than last year yeah maybe more people than you saw on August. I'll tell you that much. What are you going to be? What are you going to be following? So our seven-year-old is going as Venom. My wife is going as a ghost spider. So I'm going with my time-tested Green Goblin. Oh, okay. I'm going to say ill-fitting Batman. Ill-fitting Batman, making a return. Ill-fitting Batman. Ill-fitting Batman pants. Moose knuckle Batman. Yeah. Why is this guy handing out candy, Batman?

man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Similar similar situation with the Green Goblin where it's like a very tight costume that like I need to figure out what to what to do. Like I think I'm just going to have to be like Green Goblin, try it out for the 76ers this year. He's wearing Sixers shorts. Philly green

goblin. Oh, shit. Hey, why not? Why not? What are you going to? What are you going to? Priest. Priest. Priest. Interesting. and in a way creepy I you know I famously don't put any thought into

Halloween costumes it turns into back before my house burned down I used to have a lot of like just random shit I could slap together to make a costume this last year for my friend's 40th birthday I dressed because I went to a Catholic high school so I dressed as a pre we the theme was like a prom for my friend's 40th

so I dressed as a priest and you were the supervisor you were there the chaperone I was the DJ and priest And I just thought that was funny So I still have that So I think that's just going to be the easiest one Yeah, just a black button up And a little white piece of paper

And a collar No, I got it I got the legit stuff too, man Oh, you've got the scepter You burn in incense walking around with that incense Burning kids On accident Because I'm fucking swinging that shit

Way too hard There you go All right Those are some of the things That are trending on this Halloween Eve All Hallows Eve we are back tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show

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