The Daily Zeitgeist - Pope Trendonardo 5/8: Pope Leonardo, Bill Gates, Pepsi, Trump's UK "Trade Deal", Joe Biden

Episode Date: May 8, 2025

In this edition of Pope Trendonardo, Jack and Miles discuss the new 'Nova Pope, Bill Gates giving away all his money, Pepsi getting knocked out of the top 3 sodas in America, Trump's UK "Trade Deal", Joe Biden's appearance on 'The View', and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello the internet and welcome to this episode of Pope Trenton Ardo, AKA Pope Tren Doe Tren Doe Tren Doe. AKA America, America, Tren Poep. Wow. Look at look at us. Just when religion was dying in this country, we did it. We fucking did. I mean, because it's so funny. You read so we read so many articles about it's like where does the Catholic church like

need to make gains? And they're like in America, it's contracting. And maybe they're like, maybe this will help. Maybe this will help. Yeah, maybe. If you really wanted to help, you would have, you know, who you would have made pope. And we already told you that with our AI Slop who you should have made pope LeBron James

LeBron Mm-hmm. Honestly. Yeah, if you can just do any Ron sounds like a Pope's name Pope LeBron. Yeah fourth. Yeah Pope Leonardo the Leo the 14th a lot of people had that idea before so the four starting things off on a very unoriginal front yeah the big big thing because Americans are into college sports and Villanova Villanova yo new pope just dropped he's from Nova if you fuck with the Philadelphia area bro like you know about Nova, my friend Chris, you know, Philly fam, Philly based.

All his like relatives went to Nova. Yeah. He's like, bro, but he's like between the Nova Knicks and the pope. He's like, we're eating, bro. I know. For real. I was like, you're right. Shout out Villanova. Shout out Wildcats. Shout out. Villanova is a college in the Philadelphia area That's won a couple of basketball titles recently. And there they have a thing happening with the Knicks right now. We're like all of the play, like a bunch of the best players on the team played together in college, which like doesn't happen.

And then they just got a dang pope. Just got everything's coming up. Philadelphia. Everything's coming up. Nova. Oh, yeah, man. Good for them. What's up with this boy? He's from Where is he from Chicago born in Chicago? It's a Chicago guy going going to Villanova for got things to hide his real name. I guess Robert Prevo Is that house pronounced Prevo isn't that how they pronounce like the tour buses, Prevost, those buses?

Oh, is it? I don't know, I've never pronounced that before. But you know, you've seen a bus that's- P-R-E-V-O-S-T. Whatever it is, Prevost, Prevo, let us pray though. Let us pray though. I like my shit with chunky Prego. His name is Cardinal Prevo

He was born in Chicago. Okay. Yeah, okay, and now I'm on a roll Now you can't stop talking in rhyme. It's a first ever American Pope. This was as a young Catholic boy I was like, but why is the Pope not I think it was like the first time that I was like, wait, America is like not not the only country. Yeah, it's not the center of the world. I remember being blown away because wasn't John Paul Polish? Yeah. And I was like, how? How do you do is that a thing?

Like a worldwide first racist jokes we all hear. Yeah, that guy. How many light bulbs can he screw in? Or not? Yeah, but this was a shocker, I gotta say. So he's just some dude from Chicago. He was an American. He's got an American cardinal.

Just some guy from Chicago. Yeah, just some dude. Perfect 80s comedy. Yeah, King Ralph style. So apparently having an American pope was considered taboo before. It was very taboo because given the geopolitical power already wielded by the United States,

you would think maybe take a step back. What's left of the geopolitical power. Maybe an alternate source of power. The two most powerful people in the world now are both American. And the president of the US. Like any good American Catholic person within the structure of the Catholic church,

has he also helped cover up sexual abuse? He's been accused of it, Miles, and the people who accused. Oh, accused of covering it up? Accused of covering up sex abuse cases. Wow. I mean, it seems like a lot of like, let's see where this investigation goes type thing. And then like moving, I don't know if he was doing the three card Monte thing that they

do with the sex preds, but the sex crimes. But yeah, obviously, you know, that's not great. Also, and you're not gonna believe this, but has said some less than progressive things about same sex marriage in the past. So. Well, hey, look again, that's the Catholic church for you. I know. But for a pope, for a pope, for a pope, he's on the progressive side of the

leisure. He he he was a Francis guy. The so woke pope like kind of brought him up, blessed him with what is what is considered to be one of the most powerful jobs in Catholicism, which is like he names the bishops. I don't think he like named, he's not like you're Ted, but like he determines who gets to be bishop, which is. Oh, he's like the bishop shot caller? Bishop shot caller.

Wow. Which is not the cardinal. At first I was like, that seems like a real conflict of interest that he like named all the people who voted him to be Pope, but those are Cardinals. Wait, what's different? Bishops higher or lower? I think Bishops lower, right? Cardinal is like, right.

You know who the Cardinal is of your city, like Cardinal Roger. Yeah, they always shot him out. L.A. Who is the who is like the big Cardinal in your area? I think it was O'Hara was maybe his last name. OK, sure. Cardinal Bishop O'Hara. That that could be wrong. That might just be in the name of a of a high school. That is a high school in Philly.

That might be. Yeah, yeah. I was a bad I was I was asleep at that point in the mass, I guess. But he was like the big archbishop. Oh, he was the archbishop. John Francis O'Hara, archbishop of Philadelphia. I was thinking of the school. I was there. There's no cardinal here.

My parents are not going to be happy there. It's they just listen for the occasional times that Catholicism comes up to see if I know what I'm talking about. Straight up heresy And it and also with you they they do appreciate when I when I say that and with your spirit Maybe less about the Savior's Downstairs when you guys do talk about the church. I'm just saying they would have given him a big one. Yeah But yeah, he spent a lot of time in Peru one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, he spent a lot of time in Peru, supporting Venezuelan immigrants. Seems very quick. Pro immigrant. Very quick. Right. This is

day two. I don't know. I don't know. I just don't even know what the norm is. Like, is it usually a knockout drag? Day two brutal. I think it usually takes a little bit longer. I think we, you know, some of the people who were like on the short list, according to the media who were like on the short list according to the media Were like much more conservative than this person. So I guess in that respect we dodged a papal bullet Papal bull yeah, whatever. I don't know. There's a word play there. Thank miles. Just blessed that joke with his hand I have to I mean anyways that, and that's all the Pope news that's fit to print, as far as I can tell. Maybe too much, sorry about that.

Yeah. Sorry about all the Pope news. All of that. He's got glasses? I don't know. Yeah, good for him. All right, what's Bill Gates getting up to? Bill Gates, he's trending because he's basically said,

I'm giving all my money away for the next 20 years. I'm gonna do the good billionaire thing and give away over his more than $200 billion on quote global health development and education. So basically in 20 years, it will close its doors in 2045. And I think, I don't know, part of it is like, I think he's, the way that I've seen this rolled out, he has a lot to say about Elon Musk, which you should.

You're a billionaire. What's his problem? Oh, okay. But he's like, I feel like part of me is like, are you saying this to juxtapose yourself as a billionaire? To be like, I'm not one of the bad ones. I mean, I'm a billionaire by default, I am bad, but I'm not the bad one. Cause look at what Elon's doing.

He said, he was accusing him of quote, killing the world's poorest children. I mean, that's- Facts. Facts, so I'm not gonna be like, all right, Bill, we had a dunk on him. But then he also goes on to say, you know, that like he would, I'd love for him to go in and meet the children

that have now been infected with HIV because he cut that money. When, you know, Bill Gates, he seems pretty consistent in terms of like trying to make the world better. Now, how effective that is, I'm not the best person to sort of gauge how effective his philanthropy is, but they clearly do stuff. And I'm glad to hear that someone's like,

and I'm, fuck it, I'm giving it all away. Cause he did say, my kids ain't getting this shit. He did, yeah. I think they're getting like, yeah, some manner of 50 million. Something. Yeah. They're only getting 50 million. Yeah. And the. Yeah.

I guess usually these things like the Gates Foundation or like the Clinton, whatever, like they just become like wealth funds and they're like invested and stuff like that. So the idea of like setting a end date where they're like, and that's when we'll be out of money because we are giving it all away. It is a fucking someone go out with a fucking bang. Be like, no bro, he's a hundred Billy fucking unhoused people. Yeah. In the United States. Boom. Let's go. I mean, like, I get it.

You're stretching it out over years, but you know, the brand is really toxic for billionaires and it can just take one person to really- And work on their branding. Try and change the tune, yeah. You know that's the conversation that's happening behind closed doors. How do we work on our branding? How do we build a brand that-

And it's all these greedy motherfuckers who don't know a working person if their life depended on it, so all their ideas are so abstract and like won't resonate. Like what if you opened a theme park that was free for Brown kids? Oh, I don't know what the answer is, but I know that it involves AI. That's right. You know, exactly.

Exactly. All right. There's a big, I don't know which one's bigger news in terms of the passing of the torch, but we have a new top three soda, which, I'm not gonna say I'm shocked, but I was spiritually affected by this. I was not ready. You sound like you're the tentative.

It's like a head of state has passed or something. Yeah, exactly. This is, there's a new top three. So do you know the top three sodas off the top of your head up to this point? I don't know. I only know like Coke or Pepsi are probably the top two. Coke and Pepsi and Dr. Pepper have been our three. Dr. Pepper really like the people who love Dr. Pepper love Dr. Pepper so hard.

Yeah. Like they just, it's like an A-pop. Yeah, yeah. Anyways, Pepsi has been knocked out of the top three. Oh. And. My God, Jack, hold on. Really?

Are you all right? Yeah, yeah, for real. All of the Pepsi. All of the Pepsi has been knocked out of the top three. It's been replaced by Sprite. Oh shit! Yeah. Okay, I can get behind that.

Sprite, hey, our time has come. Clear soda drinkers. NBA fans unite. Yeah. We obeyed our thirst to the top three, baby. Anthony Edwards did it to him. For knowing how was surprised. For knowing how on the internet, people know the healing power of Sprite out of like a fucking soda fountain,

this was a long time coming. Surprising that it took this long. Yeah. I mean, while we're going through such a caffeine assence where everybody is like being caffeinated, it's surprising that a non caffeinated beverage is taking is landing in the top three. However, I will say we're not if you need a caffeinated

pick me up, you're not going to Pepsi anymore. Yeah, you're going to monster like cocaine blast. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Monster cocaine. Monster cocaine blast. Oh, yeah. Get that MCB. Yeah. So cocaine. Monster cocaine blast. Hell yeah, get that MCB. Yeah. So it never really made sense. Like this is, this seems like, you know, either Coke or Pepsi, we're going to last in the top three and then you needed some,

some variety in there. But yeah. I mean, Pepsi, I don't know. I mean, it may, we've been dunking on Pepsi since we did that, like one long form story about the logo redesign, and how lost they are as a company. Who has been a spokesperson for Pepsi? Britney Spears, dude, the top people, the Spice Girls, David Beckham, Messi.

Yes, back in the day, recently, I'm saying. Oh yeah, they're off that Generation Next shit. Remember, that Generation Next was fucking killing it. The the last time I heard I can think of a celebrity being associated with Pepsi Was the genera? Yeah? Yeah, the family 2020 Was that 2020 I think it was right after anyway Yeah, where she's like I've solved racial inequity and injustice. She gives a cop a Pepsi and then everybody's cool. I don't know if this is a direct result of this, but it's definitely like they're part of the same thing.

You know? Yeah. I mean, that must suck to work at Pepsi, right? Like if you're like in their innovation, like if you're the people that are like in charge of making sure the brand is hot, they're probably like, you fucking fucked us. Yeah, cause Sprite is a Coke product, I think, right? Yeah, there is a Stary-Doo or whatever the fuck, whatever, you know what I'm talking about? That they're giving away an NBA con.

Stary, yeah, Stary-Doo. Stardew Valley, Brian the editor has? Yeah, Stardew Valley, yeah, exactly. I think that's what I was- A tie-in. Conflating the two. But yeah, again, our new valley. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think that's what I was. A tie in. Conflating the two. But yeah, again, just fall back. I think, do you think it's a good time?

I mean, no, they're not gonna do that, but like Pepsi should just give up. I think they have a little bit. I think their focus is on Mountain Dew. Like they're seeing the growth, probably like the growth lines not really match up for the actual Pepsi beverage. But yeah, go ahead.

I like their good, good Pepsi, like weird, like nitro Pepsi where like you there's like a little nitrogen canister that you like carbonate the Pepsi with. And it's supposed to be actually pretty good. So maybe that's their lanes like more of a niche thing. Yeah. But yeah, perhaps we do a liquid nitrogen one so we can all have fun. I mean, when I was a kid, like Pepsi was the shit when I was a kid,

like Pepsi was cool. I was I was a Pepsi fan. Yeah. I didn't I didn't I wasn't like when he's like, oh, Pepsi. I was like, oh, shit. I remember coming in from like playing outside and being really thirsty It was like the summer and just taking a massive Pepsi to the dome Just like chugging a can maybe a can and a half of Pepsi and that being the first Like drug experience Where I was like, yeah, I feel incredible. A gut tearing burp right after inside the garage that had the refrigerator that was

from Pepsi. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, all right. Well, uh, all right. Producer Bayes. Wow. Coming hard. This is for boomers. That's why I'm saying boomers are Pepsi sands. Damn, Bayes. I'm not a boomer, Bay. And also I'm off Pepsi now. You know what I mean? So like, you know. I never actually liked it. Wow, bae, and I was like, your parents? First of all, my mother never let me drink colas. That's why I was always team Sprite.

For whatever reason in her mind, clear soda was somehow the better option. But this is a crazy fall from the late eighties when Michael Jackson and Madonna were like Pepsi people. And like that was. Yeah, something happened in that branding, like that marketing department, they must have maybe taken just obscene swings on talent

and they're like, we are gonna fucking create our business if we pay Kendall Jenner another $14 million to hold a can of Sprite up to a cop's face. Yeah, can of Pepsi. If she had held a can of Sprite up, we actually would, none of this would have happened and she would have solved racism. Exactly. All right, we'll be right back

I found out I was related to the guy that I was dating. I don't feel emotions correctly I am talking to a felon right now and I cannot decide if I like him or not Those were some callers from my call-in podcast, Therapy Gecko. It's a show where I take real phone calls from anonymous strangers all over the world as a fake gecko therapist and try to dig into their brains and learn a little bit about their lives. I know that's a weird concept,

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on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This week on Dear Chelsea with me, Chelsea Handler, Connie Britton is here. I think you should encourage your friend to go ahead and not be holding out for any man to have her babies. If she is passionate about becoming a mother and she has her eggs frozen and she has her life together,

go for it. She could be waiting another 10 years before she finds the right guy. Connie didn't meet her right guy until you were what, 50, Connie? How long have you guys been together? Yeah, no, 52. 52. 52.

I adopted my son as a single mom because I kept thinking, oh, I'm going to meet the guy. I'm going to meet the guy. I'm going to meet the single mom because I kept thinking, oh, I'm gonna meet the guy, I'm gonna meet the guy, I'm gonna meet the guy. I finally was like, what am I waiting for? And I did it, and I'm just so glad that I did. I wanna change the narrative about single parents and also help to create a community for single parents so that they can not feel alone in it.

One of the big things is it's so hard, especially for women, to ask for help. Listen to Dear Chelsea on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. My husband has a secret son from a past partner. Hold up, Sam, how do we know how we've done the DNA test? Well, John, luckily it's Mother May I Have a DNA Test Week on the OK Storytime podcast, so we'll find out soon. And this wife writes, My husband received a Facebook message from a woman saying that he is the father of a five-year-old.

At first he didn't remember her, but then he realized they had a one-night stand right before we started dating. Wait, but do we have proof he's a dad? Well the author says there's no confirmation the kid is even his son, but the woman from Facebook has a meeting with her lawyer soon. I think she's going after our money. If the kid is actually my husband's, she would be entitled to it too.

So what's a husband gotta say about this? This could be his kid. Well, apparently he broke down in the middle of the living room apologizing, but this is what scared me. His first instinct, if the kid is his son, is to pay the child support, but not be an active father in the kid's life

because he only wants a family with me, his wife. Oh, this is a mess to hear the explosive finale. Follow. Okay. Storytime in the I heart radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. We're back.

And the orange smoke has come out of the White House and it announced a trade deal. I thought you were gonna talk about that most beautiful girl thing. Oh no. Did you see that? No, I did not. It's so stupid.

There's like a, sorry, this is like a thing in our doc right now of a trending story where Yahoo has said, she was named most beautiful girl in the world at age 6 here's what she looks like at 24 It's the dumbest article of like just like this I don't know who the fuck is saying this is the most beautiful girl in the west when she was six years old that is Gross fucking predator shit. Not like some guy with an eye for talent,

whoever the fuck named it. But then like, you're like, and now she's still a model. Great. Yeah. Great. Like what the fuck was this? So this person had an eye for that. Yeah, this story just weirded me out to the extent that I was just gonna try and skip it.

But I just, I couldn't, when I saw though, it was just funny because I was like, okay, what the fuck is going on here with this headline? It just, now I just have more questions about who goes around naming the most beautiful children in the world. Like we need to fucking investigate anyone who's doing that shit. Well, she looks like, like the pictures of her when she's six, it looks like she's back in that like beauty competition, like child beauty competition shit like Toddlers and Tiaras shit, which yeah, that whole thing is so weird, so broken and strange and those are, and by the way, those are the people who think everybody in Hollywood are pedophiles. And you know what I mean? Like that. This is what they've got going on on the weekend

I also make sense because Yahoo definitely appeals to like the oldest people on the internet So for them they will read a headline like this completely uncritically and be like what did ever happen to the most beautiful six-year-old? Alright, and then that be it. Anyway, she's fine. She's 24. Great. Yeah. There we go. Amazing.

Amazing story. Great work, Yahoo. Trade deal. Trump has announced a historic trade deal. More historic than anything ever. Yeah, it's not much of anything. It's first of all, like, I know it's a trade deal with China, okay?

Not our ninth largest trading partner. Like, at least hit the top three. Who's it with? With the UK. The UK? Okay. With the UK. Yeah, yeah. And, you know, it's like, first of all, there's still 10% tariffs on them.

So it's like, well, what's the thing? They're like emphasizing other industries, like AI and biotech and all this other shit. So a lot of people were like, what is this really? And is this just a fig leaf? Like, is this an actual deal? Or are we just saying we're claiming victory because we need to claim victory?

It feels like they're just claiming victory to claim victory because like, while the market had a slight uptick, this does nothing to actually Sort of assuage concerns over what the fuck is going on with the economy and what these what this trade war is gonna look like Howard Lutnick though came out and he started trending because again, it's sycophant Fridays or Thursdays or Saturday Whatever. It's time for the sycophants to come out. And this was him talking about how this is the Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick saying how fucking sick this deal is.

But the president, and by the way, I wanna make this clear while Jamison and I worked hard, this was the president's deal. And people think, oh, that's not the way it works. If you got to sit next to him, I have the best deal maker to my left. And if you don't think that we take advantage of him calling the prime minister, getting that deal done, you don't understand who's the president of the United States.

So he's the closer he gets deals done that we could never get done because he understands business, he understands deals. And that's why we're here today. Wow. OK, Jesus Christ. And by the way, like it's almost like it's like written word for word from something that Trump dictated. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Who's the president, and by the way,

the most amazing president of all time, and if you don't know, you don't understand president deals. The way he make a deal, so deal that I was even like, you're the closer, okay? God, man, it's getting so weird. I mean, it's been weird. But like the just the the fact that every five days

they need to have an in-person pep rally for him in front of him, like in front of the media is is really weird. It's really weird. It's a weird world. It's fucking, fucking sad. So a lot of people are like, we'll see what this fucking deal renders. But this just feels like a lot of just deal for Optics sake TBD on what the long term benefits will be for either country. All right. And finally, Joe Biden had to had to get his his flowers.

It's like everyone's talking about this guy. It's funeral. What about my this guy. His funeral flowers? What about my dang funeral, or not funeral? I could have won. Yeah, so he went by the View. Yeah. He's like in a reputation management tour. Literate.

And he's got a quote, veteran campaign and communication strategist to help him fix his public image. And so his first stop was the view and he claimed that he would have beaten Trump had he run. So like basically just being like, we saw when he dropped out, he was like, she can't win, man.

She stinks, man. And it's me baby, all day, Joe B. And when he dropped out, there was like a massive like multi-digit surge in polling. Like the only reason that it was ever anywhere close was because he dropped out. Because it was not you. And also to be fair,

she ran on the same things you would have ran on too. Like I smashed yourself. The reason she lost was because she refused to knife you the way that. And again, this is just a great, you know, Kamala Harris refusing to back away from Joe Biden's terrible policies. Great call on her part and her advisors. Good. Great call. You you got absolutely nothing out of it other than a fucking historical loss that

Completely fucked this country for decades to come But on the other hand you have the loyalty of this guy who came out and just fucking knifed you on the view Right. Yeah, I don't know. It's just like I don't know why he thinks he needs to resurrect Like what the far you want any kind of image thinks he's still got a future of any sort. Like not just like not being alive, but I think he thinks he has a future, like he can run again. Dr. Jill can buy him an Oculus headset

and just let him fucking have fun for like 12 hours a day with that thing. Like I'm sure it'll blow his mind. Just let him, just he's old, okay? He's old. He's like, you know, a lot of people didn't show up. He acts like the depression in turnout had to do with the fact that he wasn't on the ballot

rather than people being so dissatisfied with the direction of the country and having a candidate who was not offering anything different. Main character syndrome, yeah. It was actually all about me. Well, many stories appear to all be about you when they're when you're you That's just the way that life works and apparently that

Optical illusion never gets any less tricky to certain people. Yeah Like last time I ran and that looked totally different for me than this time when I didn't run and this time I lost And that looked totally different for me than this time when I didn't run and this time I lost. When asked about whether or not the stories about his cognitive decline were true or not, he refuted them and then like rambled for several minutes before his wife had to be like, all right Joe, let's move back.

Okay Joe, let's wrap it up. Let's wrap it up. Where my cognitive decline? I got no cognitive binders. Here, there's wrap it up. Let's wrap it up. I got no cognitive mind. Here, there's a little bit. And which I won't go into, it's interested time. And so- Interested time. And we got it done.

And you know, one of the things that, well, I'm talking from all- Well, and Alyssa, you know, one of the things- There you go, Dr. Joe, come on with the alley-oop. Finish that. You know, what Joe's trying to say I think here? That was a question about his cognitive decline and he fucking trailed off mid-sentence How who is out here being like dude this guy's still got it

We got to get him out there in front of the view just a bunch of people who are making money off of this shit like including the fucking Chris meager whoever this strat at the community comms guy He hired who's just like yeah, we're all fucking take a check and tell him I can I'll convince the world the earth is fucking Brown and the sky is orange sure Brian the editor asked if he does birthday parties. That is like literally the, like he's very predictable. Like he is like a pool string toy, you know? Like I know exactly what he's gonna sound like. You ask him a question, he's gonna talk about it

for a half a sentence, talk about how, and we did something about that, we got that done. So, and then he's gonna stumble a little bit and then someone's gonna come in and be Like and that's I cannot handle powerful old white guy geriatric jazz anymore from either these fucking boots I know please none of these people say actual things out loud that makes sense ever Trump it's interesting like I feel like they've decided to Take over like there's a lot more press

these days with Donald Trump where he's not talking and people are talking about him and he just sits there pleased and allows people to talk about him. That's how you hide up someone's cognitive decline. That's right, yeah, that's how it's done. And this guy's so smart, he's not even saying anything and don't ask him. He's falling asleep in his soup. All right Those are some of the things that are trending on this Thursday afternoon We are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show until then be kind to each other be kind to yourselves

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