The Daily Zeitgeist - President Cuck, Bing Maps Forever! 02.13.25

Episode Date: February 13, 2025

In episode 1813, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian, Pallavi Gunalan, to discuss… Welp...President Got Cucked, Google Maps Has Always Been Trash, The Fake Anti-Kanye Ad and more! WATCH: Elon Cuck Trump (Clip) Google Maps Has Always Been Trash Google Maps updates Gulf of Mexico name for US users Google Maps accused of deleting Palestine – but the truth is more complicated Fact check: Google does not have a Palestine label on its maps How Google Maps Makes It Harder for Palestinians to Navigate the West Bank The Fake Anti-Kanye Ad BTS of Serena William's Super Bowl Halftime Preparation (Clip) Connor O'Malley's Take On Google (Clip) LISTEN: Elevator Spaghetti by Jorjiana WATCH: The Daily Zeitgeist on Youtube! L.A. Wildfire Relief: DONATE: Support the Kaller/Gray Family's Recovery Zeitgang Lightsaber Auction and Fundraiser Displaced Black Families GoFund Me Directory See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I've got my fascinator. Love a fascinator. Miles Gray stars in season four of Bridgerton. Tiny beanie to fascinator pipeline. The Bridgerton ball diamond. Yeah, wait, because isn't the, yeah, because they're just now getting the gay stuff popping on Bridgerton.

Honey, if you didn't think that was gay before. No, but I mean like now with like the one dude, because the one brother was having those like wild, he was hooking up with that one dude this last season, right? Oh yeah, I guess. I'm saying like that, where it was like more like, rather than like, I think so and so, I think Cressida's in love with us,

so it's more like, no, no, they fucking. I stopped after season one, but. Yeah, Jack stopped because it got DEI. Yeah, exactly. He's like, Indian women, I hate those. No thank you. And so he wouldn't want to season two. More of the guy talking about how he can't bust inside because of his dad.

I remember when everybody started watching, like, a little bit later than all the women who were watching, and they were like, this is what it's about? I'm like, yeah, we're horny. Come on. Yeah. When is he going to bust? When is he going to bust?

As a side of love. Does he when is he gonna bust? Does he's enough to buzz the pies of cream All right, I'd make it a bad cream party me cream in it. I'm putting me cream in it. I'm putting me cream in it. I'm putting me cream in it. Hello the internet and welcome to season 375 episode 4 of Dirt Island. Hello the internet and welcome to season 375 episode 4 of Dirt Island. Hello the internet and welcome to season 375 episode 4 of Dirt Island. Hello the internet and welcome to season 375 episode 4 of Dirt Island.

Hello the internet and welcome to season 375 episode 4 of Dirt Island. Hello the internet and welcome to season 375 episode 4 of Dirt Island. Hello the internet and welcome to season 375 episode 4 of Dirt Island. Hello the internet and welcome to season 375 episode 4 of Dirt Island. Hello the internet and welcome to season 375 episode 4 of Dirt Island. But uh my voice my voice yogurt Yogurt yogurt throat It's a production by our radio podcast. We take a deep dive into a marriage here consciousness and it's Thursday February 13th 2025 yeah, it's also a national cheddar day national tortellini day and

Galentine's day which I thought is that I always knew that from parks and rec, but it's probably like a real thing. No, it's from parks and rec. Oh, they were just like, we'll take that. But it's also a real thing and that's why I'm here with you guys. Yes. The gal in chief. Exactly. The daily zeitgeist. The G- see. My name is Jack O'Brien AKA Jack Ouija mangy O'Brien. That one courtesy of foolish wizard underscore on the discord. Said, has anyone done this yet? I said, maybe. Sounds familiar, but I like it.

So shout out to you foolish wizard and your name, as your name suggests, you know, you're not promising to know everything. You're a foolish wizard so we'll allow you I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host mr. Miles Gray what is it the flames steaming chuck on the discord timely fire reference and I don't mind them you know I'm really quite zen about the whole thing right now. But yeah, thank you for that one. Now just look on the bright side, man.

Now you can make what is it the flames jokes? What is it the flames? But yeah, you know, this is gonna be an interesting episode because one of my biggest ops is now on Mike with us today. You know, we'll hash that out in a second. Mm-hmm. You know what I mean? Somebody who's, I think, admitted on Mike.

Confessed on Mike. And I do it again. SoCal Edison is paying her a lot of money to admit fault for this one. In our third seat, a hilarious stand-up comedian, writer, amateur firestarter, actor, improviser. I couldn't think of the word for arsonist. Amateur arsonist. amateur arsonist, improviser, you can catch her on standup stages everywhere, go check her website.

And at the monthly facial recognition comedy show, which she also produces, it's Pala B. Gunaway! Woo! Pala B. The Pyro Prodigy! Pala B. The Pyro prodigy. Pyro prodigy. Hell yeah. So to catch people up, Miles, your house burned down in the fires and you were out for a month. And while you were out, Pallavi filled in for you a lot and admitted that it was all part of her master plan.

I started the fire. I did start the fire. I didn't start the fire. It wasn't burning until I burned it. I burned it. Yeah, no, no. Look, again, I'm pretty sure it was SoCalEdison based on everything I'm saying. So as much as I can't, because I can't sue you yet,

Pauly V, but I can sue Southern California Edison. Watch me pull off my mask and it's SoCal Edison underneath. You're three SoCal Edisons in a podcaster's outfit. Whoa. It's Thomas Edison, but he has like a crunchy surfer vibe. You can do SoCal Edison. SoCal Edison. How do they not have that as a mascot?

He's a racist surfer from Huntington Beach. Yeah, exactly. Like Edison with a flat brim hat and those oakly shades. I have an idea and it's like a light bulb on top. Yeah, exactly. I have an idea for like the wall. Oh, so Kyle Edison. Cha, brah.

Cha. Well, Pallavi, we're thrilled to have you back once again. Yeah. We're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, a couple of things we're talking about. We're gonna talk about the fun little press conference with Elon Musk, a baby, and Elon Musk's son. Ah, that's a Trump joke.

I called Trump a baby. No. Uppercut. Fucking. Finish him. Orange, fucking, Che. Fucking orange, fucking cheeto ass baby. Uppercut. Cheeto ass baby. Stupid cheeto orange.

Anyways, yeah, no, Elon Musk did a press conference, a joint presser with Donald Trump and baby and then just proceeded to act like Donald Trump wasn't even there. Donald Trump looked very, I don't know, it was not alpha mode Trump. And, you know, a lot of people are concerned. So we'll talk about that. We'll talk about inflation being all the way up. Nothing can stop it. It's all the way up. We'll talk about, you know, Trump is blaming Biden, but this seems to be where we're headed, assuming inflation is what we think it is and not what the mainstream media seems to think it is. And we'll check in with Google Maps.

You know, we talked, Miles, you guys talked yesterday about how they changed it from Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America. And we just want to take a look behind the curtain of how those decisions get made at Google Maps. They tend to be very shrouded in secrecy and also willing to do whatever authoritarians tend them to do. Tell them to do. Oh, hell yeah. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. We might talk about that fake anti-Kanye AI ad. Deep fake ad.

Plenty more. But first, Pallavi Gunalan, we do like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? How to set a fire and get away with. No. My search history, I keep searching for,

this is how I spend my time. I'm very unemployed. I very need a job. I keep searching for, this is how I spend my time. I'm very unemployed. I very need a job. I keep searching for different pictures of Count Orlok from Nosferatu 2024 just to meme him. Jesus. Because there was like one tweet yesterday that was like, I love being alone in my house and just getting more evil. Yeah.

So I did the Count Orlok with the speech bubble. And then also the entire time I watched that movie, I couldn't get the Sonic villain out of my head, like Jim Carrey's villain, because I'm like, the mustache made them the same to me. So I've just fixated on that, on Count Or warlock from Nosferatu because of that. I don't know. The mustache made it Dr. Eggman's Jim Carrey mustache flew from his face onto count warlocks.

Like in that, like in the Pringles commercials. Yeah. A hundred percent. Yeah. Big, big old mustaches having a, having a big day. I don't know if that portends anything historically. I don't know. Have there been weird authoritarians with weird mustaches having a big day. I don't know if that portends anything historically. I don't know. Have there been weird authoritarians with weird mustaches?

No, probably not. Nobody can say really. Don't look at any men involved in the Confederacy. Right. Yeah, from the Confederacy. That is so funny because like that's the South, but also that's South India. Like South Indian, Tamil like actors all have giant mustaches. Like they're all just thick, like it's very masculine.

And they've got to like my, I looked at a picture of my dad from when he and my mom first started dating when they were 17, full mustache, just like full. When they were 17? Yes. That's a man right there. It was crazy. If you can hide your mustache behind your shoe, then it's not big enough, you know?

Like that shit needs to be larger than your foot. Me and Miles are like, what? Yeah, you take your shoe and put it over your face. And if it's concealing your mustache, then you've failed. Is this like the, if your hand can fit over your face? Yeah, yeah, exactly. This is how I push your foot into your face. Yeah. Polly, what's something you think is underrated?

Okay, something I think that's underrated. This may be a story tomorrow. Oh my God, did I lose it? No, I didn't. Okay, so this may be a story tomorrow that you talk about more because I might have gained traction by then, but this is like a news thing. I think medicine is underrated, especially right now. There is somebody who is like related to JD Vance through marriage or something. She is a young girl who was – she's 12 years old. She was adopted into this family that is like a non-denominational Christian family from China when she was four years old. She has heart issues. They knew she would be required to have a heart transplant at some point in her life.

And Cincinnati Children's won't put their 12-year-old daughter on this heart transplant list because her parents refused to get her vaccinated for like COVID and something else. And like, if you don't get vaccinated, then you are more likely to get infections. The organ is less likely to last as in she will die. And her parents are like, well, we shouldn't have to do that. So they're fundraising off of it and acting like they're in the right. And I think this is abuse. I think this has so many different strands to it. There's like transracial adoption,

this weird evangelical adoption thing, issues that have like those people putting their beliefs on these children. And it's also abuse. Like she should be able to get the vaccine if it prevents, you know, especially just in general, but especially for in order to get this heart transplant and be put on this list. So I think especially right now, because I am sick, I'm taking cough medicine, I'm taking I just love being over 30 and taking ibuprofen because I exist. And so I think what is underrated right now is like medical advances, and we need to embrace them. And we need to understand them and appreciate them because we may not all always get them Yeah, we live in an age of wonders We might not very soon, but we did for yeah medicine was really on one there for I think we're gonna look back and be like

Crazy do you remember when like we didn't have iron lungs built into homes because of the polio outbreaks? Oh man. Yeah. It really, like in theory, I guess eight years ago or whenever this child was adopted, it's like they're being adopted by a family that's related to the person who's going to be the vice president of America. And now it's like of all the directions that young person's life could have taken at adoption,

that is the worst one. Like that is, that is where we live now. We just need to wrap our minds around the fact that like, this, when people look back, they're going to look back on people living in the United States at this time and be like, God damn, that must've been fucking weird. They're going to call it the dark ages. Again.

Yeah. Dark. Are we the baddies? Are we the baddies? Are we the baddies? But we look at, we were in our sheen outfits in the mirror, but our big bubble butts are like, are we the baddies? Not me.

I mean, I am. You look at this ass, look at all that cake. This ass is doing all the talking for me, baby. What is something, Calla V, you think is overrated? I think Beyonce's Cowboy Carter tour is so overrated and no one should buy tickets on Friday and go. And everybody should just log off of Ticketmaster and get out of the queue. I think it's going to be so shitty and bad. I don't think there's gonna be a show for you.

Somebody who saw a sneak preview, they say it fucking sucks, you guys. It's not creatively revolutionary. And if you made the mistake of buying tickets, you should just sell them at a loss. Sell them for super cheap. My DMs are open, because I love doing charity or whatever.

So I'll buy them, I guess. But yeah, I think it's super over guess. But yeah, that is your charity. That is your charity of choice, which is buying people's two tickets in like the center or whatever, you know, like not too far back, but not too low that you can't see everything from the top. You know what I mean? Like I'll do that. Anyways, I think it's going to be really overrated. Yeah, I hear it sucks. It sucks. You guys, you should get out while you can on this Cowboy Carter tour. Yeah.

Yeah, dude. The prices I've seen are fucking astrophucking nomical. Like, I couldn't believe, like, even shitty seats. You're like, bro, you got you ready to come up off like $1,000? Woo! Sometimes, I mean, Beyonce, you're like bro. You got you ready to come up off like a thousand dollars. Whoa Sometimes I mean Beyonce you are a billionaire Is she a billionaire at this point brought to be on the break on the precipice of or maybe her and her and her? Yeah, her controversial husbands combined wealth, but I'm like you got to make the tickets cheaper be come on Now make the tickets fuck a little bit cheaper a little bit cheaper

but hey make money I guess at the end of the day that is our God here that is our number one God make money between egg companies making prices better or Beyonce I mean the egg companies are artists I'm gonna say the egg companies are artists and the work they do like they let them cook when it comes to pricing because I feel like Renaissance tickets weren't as expensive as this I don't think so. I don't know. We're all getting squeezed y'all. We're all getting squeezed And the way this is all that's distracting us from our impending doom like we were like watching the Kendrick Lamar's from our impending doom. We were watching the Kendrick Lamar's halftime show,

just losing our minds because we didn't want to have to think about anything else that's happening. It was incredible, it was amazing. But also bad things are happening every single day. We need art more than ever to help us and inspire us and everything. Now it's very expensive to go see our favorites. I know. Our faves. Yeah. Reminds you again of what's like just tearing this country down.

It's like, oh, right. Nothing is attainable for anyone. It feels like. Also, like, why would we give a shit about credit card debt if like our family members are dying or what, you know what I mean? Or getting laid off from like their federal jobs that they've had for decades. Like, why would we care about credit card? Like nothing is real. I feel like there's probably going to be some like uptick in that kind of behavior, especially from right wing people seeing how like lawless Trump is like that trickles down in ways like you're already seeing like the people who have been pardoned from January six, like be like, hey, I need my other crimes fucking pardoned too, like while you're at it.

Like, I guess I was stalking Obama or something. Can you just like wipe that clean? Like I feel like again- You and my mom. I guess I was stalking Obama. She's fucking in love with that guy. Do you have his number? But like, yeah, I can see how that's,

like in the same way, like there was like those group of QAnon people who are who got all in on certain QAnon leaders who they're like, there will be no debts when the new order comes to pass in the world. So just max out your credit cards. Yeah, exactly. But maybe that's like me now. But with Beyonce, you know what I mean? There will be no credit card debt once I see the Cowboy Carter tour on April 28th in Los Angeles, California. By the way, the Kendrick halftime show is the most watched halftime show ever. The most racist halftime show ever. Thank you.

Well, yeah, of course. I thought it was really cool. He loved America because all the flags and the colors. So like he loves what's going on. Most racist. But most watched. Most racist. It all depends on your level of media literacy. There was a guy who like on, I think it was Newsmax, he's like,

this little rapper comes out in bell bottoms. He's like, that's gender affirming care. Those are called boot cut. I do wish, people are like, just a reminder before we bring this back, like showing the boot cut with the soaking bottoms. Right. When those would get wet, the bottom of your jeans would just be wet as shit.

Yeah. Because they're hitting the pavement. That would have been dope if he came out and his boot cut jeans were just wet all the way up. On the heels. Yeah. But yeah, I'm just because I guess it was the most watched Super Bowl, and so people just stuck around for the halftime show.

But it is interesting to me. Is it that America is so racist? The people who hated it were like, I'm going to watch this shit and have some takes, baby. What did they think they were going to get from the Kenner workshop? Well, that's what's funny is it was such a Rorschach test, depending on where you come from. And like for people who, who know, who know us up, they're like, that was fucking,

that was very specific for us. Thank you. I love it. And then other people either took it as it's patriotic. One guy said, he's like, I've never seen like such a, like this was a quote he said, and for a league so obsessed with diversity as the NFL is, maybe you noticed last night's halftime show was the first ever that we can recall that was fully monochromatic as far as race. Hmm. Oh, interesting point. So maybe you are the racism in the end.

More than 11. Hmm. So you're saying it needed more diversity. Yeah. Yeah. So there's a lack of dive Yeah, there are you in for diversity? Can you imagine like Taylor Swift crip walking up there? It would be such a trap Her ankles would have broken if she would have been all hunched over

The universe would not have allowed Taylor Swift to see walk in public in how much time do you think she has tried to see walk behind closed doors? Am I not allowed to say the full word? Because you guys keep saying see walk. No, no, that's just what I've always heard it referred to. That's just how we do. That's how that's how you know, we're just so used to saying Crip walk like we're tired of it. Probably. We're always talking about Crip walking. You guys, you too. Yeah, I don't know. I'm sure she it probably is like a thing where, you know, like, I think most people do this, like they'll be on TikTok and they see like a little dance

like, let me see if I can hit that really quick. Yeah, put my phone down. And then they're like, no, I just don't know how to do the heel toe. I don't know. She did. She had a choreographer because she wasn't just doing the sea walk. She was doing like other little moves, but like there was like behind the scenes of her preparing and like there was the choreographer and like telling her when to come out and stuff. And it was cool. I loved it.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, I mean, she was walking back in at the the Olympics, the Olympics. Yeah. But they like, you know, it's like a professional thing. So you have to like little aspect of it. Right. You're dancing in the Super Bowl halftime show. You got to do what the choreographer tells you. Unless you're got a fucking awesome ass flag. And then you get to go. Yeah.

The guys are super. Like part of me, Loki was there like, yeah, go do your thing, bro. Well, but yeah, just so you know, we're going to act like we don't know what the fuck what that was about. I would. I loved it. I know. And like gasp, that dancer was banned from the NFL for life Oh, no, they're gonna ask them back to next year's Who do we think is next year in response? Is it like Luke?

Kid Rock Kid Rock Ted new feature like Shaboosie probably. Yeah, I was like oh wait a plane like yeah Yeah, it's like a little country but also And guess what that cowboy Troy? What's a cowboy Troy? Country rapper dudes. Oh really? 20 years ago shit is not for me and I won't be watching it and then I won't be like going on social media being like What the fuck was that?

You know? Like, you're out right. Yeah. When they do a country medley, I mean, for this show, I'll probably watch it, but like, I don't know. It's so easy to be like, this isn't for me, but man, they really, some elderly whites really watched the shit out of that halftime show.

I remember there was one like, wow, I'm trying to find, I think, did you two do it one year? Yeah, in 2002. I remember that was like the time when I was like, bro, who is this shit for? We were automatically subscribed to watching them. We had to. Yeah, exactly.

It just appeared on our TVs, no matter what we were watching. Because it's funny to see how you can tell who's kind of making the decisions at the league because like before that, the year in 2000, it was Phil Collins, Christina Aguilera, like Enrique Iglesias, then Aerosmith, then you two. Britney Spears one is iconic. She was wearing two socks on her arm. Yeah, that was, that, that was fun. Hey, those two socks, man.

Those two socks on her arms? Dude, big bad voodoo daddy and Savion Glover in 1999. Holy shit. Yeah, there's a period where it was just easy listening. They were just like, I just heard this person on my local Kiss FM. I think we get that. No Savion Glover slander. That man was my first crush.

He was incredible. He taught Stumbleup a guess how to tap dance. And that is not easy listening. That is rhythmic listening. Okay. Okay. I was bringing in the noise and the funk. Oh, hell yeah.

Miles always does. That's actually part of his contract. I will do this show as long as I'm permitted to both bring in the noise and the funk. AM to the PM, PM to the AM. I remember going to the live show at the Kodak Theater at the time and I was so excited. I got so fucked up on Edibles, I passed out the whole show. Oh my God.

Yeah. My friend woke me up. He's like, it's over. I'm like, yeah. Yeah. All right. How was it? I was like, what a fucking wastrel I was. Yeah. Waste role. Sorry, Waste role leftoid.

Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. And we're back. And so I missed it. I was out. I was under the knife yesterday. So I don't know. I just had my leg surgery. And your BBL looks amazing.

Thank you. I know. You shouldn't be sitting on it. I think you know what that means. Like I said, Jack, you can't be sitting on it. You have to be on your stomach. I am sitting about four inches higher. Once the swelling goes down, it'll be like two inches higher.

It's not going to heal right. If you sit on it, I keep telling you that someone who's someone who's BBL is healing, you know what I mean? I had to lay on my stomach for a few days. Yeah. But so there was a, there was a presser in the Oval Office where they were like, we got to get out ahead of people seem to have questions about what Elon Musk is doing. Let's have him and Donald Trump answer some questions.

And it was a bad look for America, but also Donald Trump, I feel like. Yeah. I mean, if you didn't see it, dude, Elon Musk was standing behind the resolute desk and with his like with his kid with grimes picking his nose talking about no, like what I'm trying to do is, is the bureaucracy is taking over. And if we don't just mumble, just mumble fast when he asked direct questions about just the fucking dip shittery that's happening with Doge. And about just the fucking dip shittery that's happening with Doge. And okay, I will take picking your nose slander. First of all, that's an effective way to get out the dirt. And no speaking in your nose. Yes, yes, yes. How do you get out the noise and the funk from your nose? Yeah, one of the just like, just

fucked up parts of this was Trump was just sat at the desk just sitting idly by like some confused confused elderly person, like trying to bite. Trying to slam the Coke button over and over again. Yeah, right, exactly. And like just- Musk is like, that's the wrong one, but I'll use it, I'll use it. It felt like, you know, like those situations, like when like a younger person marries,

like an older wealthy person, Yeah. Who's clearly calling all the shots. Yeah, that is exactly what it felt like. That's what it felt like. It was like, this is like, and I don't care about Trump, but this has the weirdest elder abuse vibes I've ever seen, where it's like, because Elon Musk spoke more

than Donald Trump from the Oval Office, was even interrupting Donald Trump as he was speaking. And many onlookers like, how can this happen? I mean, it's pretty clear that Elon Musk is the actual leader of this country, and Trump is merely like the vessel to act out his will, because everything with Trump is like, always has to do with money and his like money problems or his lack of money or the fact that he wants more money. And when you look

at those like him owing E. Jean Carroll, like nearly $100 million, owing like almost a half billion dollars to the state of New York, just from decisions, like legal decisions from the last year, having literally the richest man ever at your side, it like just makes it clear how transactional this relationship is. And also Trump's just general fascination with

hyper wealthy people. Like he's like, he's obsessed with people that are so wealthy. Yeah. We've talked about people before being like, I can tell him whatever I want to because I'm richer than him. And the only thing he respects is like somebody who made more money than him, because it's just

like, he views that as like intelligence test. And because Elon Musk is richest person ever, he is going to respect him more than ever. Like, that's the thing. I think a lot of people are like, Oh, Elon Musk is richest person ever. He is going to respect him more than ever. Like that's the thing. I think a lot of people are like, Oh, Elon Musk really stepped in at this time. No, he, you know, just like Bannon, he's

getting too much of the credit and Bannon got banished after, you know, taking on too much credit is like, yeah, but Bannon was like, you know, he was a political advisor. Elon Musk is like Trump's idol basically, in that he's the richest guy in the world. He's going to be able to tell. And also Trump like doesn't like firing people in person. Like he's not like that.

The whole like you're fired thing, like Bill lies. The fact that he's like actually a baby about that stuff. He would like have other people fire people for him. So I feel like he's, we've got Elon to stay, unfortunately. Yeah. I feel like if he would have been fired, it would have happened by now. Yeah. I mean, we'll see.

I mean, like showing solidarity with him. Right. It feels like now we're approaching where like mainstream media is realizing like, oh, we should keep saying, calling him president Musk. Like I'm seeing that take go, go become a little bit more widespread. I feel like that's like the only shot maybe to like unsettle things is for Trump to be like for everyone to be like, you know, you're not even the president, like no one even thinks you're the fucking president loser. But again, I

have a feeling the promise of whatever, you know, money or whatever that he needs to write his own financial ship is probably more of a potent offer than anything. But this clip, I'll play just of like, you know, he's being asked very directly. It was like, people are saying, you know, you're orchestrating like a hostile takeover of the government. And this is old fuck faces answer to that. And by that, I mean, President Musk. Tractors, Mr. Musk, including a lot of Democrats. I have the tractors. You do, sir. I don't believe it. Say that you're orchestrating a hostile takeover of government and doing it in a non-transparent way. What's your response to that criticism? Well first of all you

couldn't ask for a stronger mandate from the public. The public voted, you know, we have a majority of the public vote voting for President Trump Won the house won the Senate The people voted for major government reform There should be no doubt about that that was on the campaign The president spoke about that at every rally the people voted for it. Trump's not saying anything at all. It's truly like he's in the cucks chair behind the resolute desk while Elon is having his way

with the country basically. Actually, for everyone listening, that was the point at which Elon lifted Trump over his head on his shoulders and Trump was playing with Elon's hair. Yeah, that was the point with Elon's hair. Yeah. That was the point at which that happened. Yeah. I mean, again, I wouldn't say that just getting squeaking by with a few, like

2 million more votes than your opponent is saying you have the strongest mandate of all time, actually. Look at your razor thin majority in the house. Like again, this is all nonsense, but this is where, this is where we're at. I mean, again, it really illustrates just kind of truly how dire this situation is. Trump is totally gone mentally. Like he has, it's like he, this time around, he's outsourcing all decision making to Musk and the project 2025 freaks. And the combination of that just feels like, oh, this, this ends in like, catastrophe that like, we're all going to have to deal with not like, political catastrophe, like physical catastrophe that I don't even know. It's completely like there's no one's behind the wheel. You mean like planes crashing and shit?

like planes crashing and shit? Whatever it is, I just don't know. I mean, like with just how aggressive they are with no any thought going into anything aside from like, we need to completely change everything. I think that's not giving them credit. I think that they know exactly what's gonna happen and they want that to happen. They know that rich people are gonna be fine

and poor people and middle-class people are gonna be fucked. And I think that's like by design. And then they'll blame DEI. And then they know exactly. DEI in quotes. No, but I'm saying like fall apart. Obviously, like there is definitely the chaos that they need to manufacture for them to like redistribute wealth and things like that. But I'm talking about like things like on just like small levels,

like with national security or science stuff, things are just going to be missed to the point where they probably don't care. Like, I agree, like they they're piling out. Maybe something happens, maybe a couple of terrible incidents happen or the national security event, you know, tragedies occur. But it's just like the focus is just all over the place on these like very narrow things. I'm like, this this isn't going to run in any capacity that works for anyone. I mean, I guess, again, for the oligarchs who are all in line now to just, you know, help. Yeah, I also, I also liked how in that same press

conference, he was like saying this thing about the mandate, he was saying this thing about how the voters voted for this. And then simultaneously when a reporter was like, hey, like you also said the thing about how Hamas got $50 million in condoms and that was wrong and it was Gaza and Mozambique and all of this stuff. Are you gonna like correct that? He was like, well, I will get stuff wrong and then it will be corrected.

And I'm like, okay, so you think the voters voted for you to be a fuck up? Like that's what you think? How are we supposed to know if what you just said was wrong? Like, they don't give a shit. I guess that's my question, right? Is like, when the things go catastrophically wrong. And we've like seen some direct examples of that,

like the firing of the head of the FAA and contributing to the understaffing of an already understaffed profession and air traffic controllers. And an actual first commercial air crash in over a decade happens. And there's just nothing that, I guess I'm just trying to figure out like what in this new world do the consequences look like when things go horribly wrong as a direct result of Elon Musk and Donald Trump's actions. We have the Democratic Party chanting, we will win.

Hopefully they get their shit together a little bit more. But like, everybody else seems to be so fully in line. I guess I'm just trying to like figure out what that looks like. You know, what, what the consequences could be. I mean, just looking at how these people operate in their day to day lives, there is no, there is no accountability that they would ever like. So it'll, it's just like with the inflation, like Trump are is calling it Biden and Biden inflation right now.

Yeah, we talked about that yesterday. You're the fucking president. You know what I mean? Wait, also, didn't he, he was talking about the Canadian tariffs being all wrong, and he was the last one to adjust them or something. I forget what it was, but it was something like that where he was like, these were clearly done all wrong,

and it was him. He was the one who was in office who redid it. It's your dad complaining about the remote settings not being what it's like. This is, this is your remote, man. What are you talking about? I mean, the closest thing, like in the form of backlash that I've can, I mean, I've read about even is just the fact that Republican members of Congress are getting calls and letters from their constituents who are like,

yeah, I voted for Donald Trump. I work for the federal government and I can't work right now. What the fuck's going on? Or other people is like, this program that I depend on is going away. Like what? That's not what I need. What the fuck is like? Who is this guy that's just trouncing around the White House doing whatever the fuck he wants?

That's like the closest thing I've seen in terms of like the Republican members of Congress having to deal with the fact that their cult mentality is affecting their constituents. And they've responded with like these very like Susan Collins-esque like letters of like, I'm concerned, like, you know, one letter represented Mike Flood from Nebraska.

He describes that Doge's work is stressful and then offered assurances. And he said that Scott Besson, the Treasury secretary, had, quote, told me to my face that mr Musk absolutely does not have full access to the federal payment system and the congressman goes on to say he takes his place He's his he pledged to take his responsibility under the Constitution various very seriously Especially with respects to Congress's power of the purse But again Musk is a fucking usurper. And they're just like, I don't know,

I'm not really here to govern. I'm just here to be a rubber stamp. So I don't know what I can do. But a lot of these letters too also end up inevitably having some kind of praise for Musk, like wrapped up in it. So it's very strange. And I don't think, you know,

we're not going to see anything amount to much in terms of pushback from Republican lawmakers. I feel like the closest is going to be the people that are directly affected have something to say. Yeah. Yeah, I think that's the inherent problem with Republicans in general or these people who voted for Trump in general, is it's not your problem until it's your problem. It's a basic case of not understanding empathy. And by that point, the whole system is fucked.

Like we can't wait around for that to happen. We can't wait around for you to be fucked for you to vote correctly or for you to like care. That's like, that's the whole problem with the system is this lack of empathy. Yeah, no, absolutely. And again, like it's a thing that most of these people don't understand is like, when these people fully fuck

this government, like the government up for obviously is it is not running well, prior to this, but it gave some kind of structure at the very least, that's gonna fuck over literally everyone in terms of a certain socioeconomic status, it doesn't matter what who you fucking voted for. And yeah, like, like everything in America, it's like we have to react to attract like, it's like, is that stove hot? All right, let me touch it a little bit though, to make sure. And

then when you until you actually burn yourself, then it's like, okay, we got to turn stove off. Right? It's just so like, upsetting that it's incumbent on the people who have the least empathy and will be hurt the least, you know what I mean? To get their shit together. So it's, I don't know, it's just really frustrating. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Should I burn more houses down or what do you guys think? You could try. I mean, it's worth it at this point. Somebody's got to. Somebody's got to do the work. I got my lighter. Arson has praxis. It's the most precise tool.

Yeah. Let's has praxis. It's the most precise tool. Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back with more stuff. And we're back. And so you guys talked yesterday, right? That Google Maps has changed the official name of Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Yeah. Yeah. Also talked about how Google's calendar has also removed any kind of, uh, like pride or

heritage month for any group out there. Just gone. Don't need to acknowledge those anymore. Like they nuked Black History Month, halfway through Black History Month. Yeah. Like, okay. Jesus Christ. They saw Samuel L.

Jackson pop out and they were like, nope, not anymore. Nope. Take it away. But yeah, this is kind of how things are moving, right? Is everybody's scared of Trump and willing to do what he wants with regards to things that aren't going to help people, right? He's not going to do anything about inflation, which seems like the one use of his authoritarianism that could help people.

But he's not going to do that. use of his authoritarianism that could help people, but he has never been able. He's never been able to build anything fucking meaningful in his goddamn life. Aside from a couple buildings with a name, but like that he's just incapable of that kind of shit. Yeah. So, but this is actually pretty par for the course in w w with regards to like the history of Google maps. First of all, if you're using Google maps in Mexico, it does still read Gulf of Mexico. Yeah.

So the, but this is, this is how they operate. They change things in whatever way they think is going to make the local administration happy. local administration happy and yeah, they do it in like in India, the border with Pakistan is like different depending on whether you're viewing Google Maps in India or Pakistan like that's the they just have whatever whatever they think that side is going to want to see basically. Yeah I mean it's the opportunistic business practices, whatever, whatever, whoever I need to please, uh, just so I can keep extracting money then great. Yeah, we'll do whatever.

I can disappear whole nations if I have to on our map application. If you Google South America from the U S it just says the United States of South America. Did you know that? Did you know it's like, uh, it has like our coups planned for the next five years? Or not really. I mean, what are you going to do? Who's going to stop it?

Yeah. It's now labeled downstairs United States. Yeah. It's the basement and the attic. Future United States of America. Future Florida, new Florida is what we're calling Brazil. Did you know they changed Europe and Asia to, they just, Turkey is now just hairland. Did you know that?

They- Hair and teeth land. They're trying to exclude the confusion between the two. Yeah. Now, yeah, right. Could you imagine the, all of Asia just say like the Orient and you're like, Oh my God. Oh shit. We're Asia just say like, the Orient and you're like, Oh my God.

Oh shit, we're going way back. I'm like, did my grandparents write this? The answer would be yes, basically. But yeah, I mean, it's influenced not just by history and local laws, but apparently, there's diplomats involved, policymakers, their own executives at Google are all making these decisions and it feels like they're basically catering to the whims of whoever is most powerful and have been like all along.

All of these things, like all of these norms and like, well, the corporations are really the ones who are in charge has been a crisis in the making ever since that became true. Basically during the Clinton administration, I think, when everything just became like, yeah, well, we're going to run America in the language of corporations. We're going to talk about allocating money to public programs as investing in those programs, and we're going to get like corporate

sponsors and yeah. And so like contractors who work for Google Maps claim that they're often told to alter maps with no reason given and that their changes take effect almost immediately. And they have an entire team known as the disputed region team. What a Did you guys see that viral video of Connor O'Malley describing this? No, I didn't find it. I saw a thumbnail of it, but I didn't actually watch it. It's like when he's standing up in front of like a projection, like, yeah, I'm going to try and find it while you guys keep talking.

No, I mean, like this is very much, you know, like with, you know, regards to Palestine, there's even a thing where it's like, oh, like people are like, there's no Palestine. You deleted it. And they're like, actually, we never, we never, never labeled it. How do you know it? Which is kind of which is weird, which are not weird. But like you look at other sort of math programs like Apple Maps zooms in on the region, but there's no label of anything like as Palestine.

But Bing Maps, Yandex Maps, and MapQuest all on the right side, they actually like, no, that's Palestine. Right. Because they're not powerful enough to have to make that decision. Right. You know what? I'm saying it. Check-ins from Israel.

I'm saying it here and now. Bada boom, bada bing, baby. We know what? I'm saying it. Check-ins from Israel and the Israel. I'm saying it here and now. Bada boom, bada bing, baby. We are coming back to bing. Bing is bing supremacy. It's happening, folks. Yo, well, bing, we love you. Once bing becomes powerful enough, they will then crater to the influence of it.

Right. Yeah, yeah, right, right, right. Let me add one thing, Jack. Jesus fucking Christ. It's always like these companies always use the fucking flimsiest logic to defend their just ridiculous behavior. Like in this one, like, well, we didn't label it Palestine because like, there's no quote general agreement on the bodies that make up its territory.

Yeah. And it's not just like theoretical either, like by not updating, like they have like outdated and erroneous information on the West bank. And so like drivers trying to drive on the West, because of course, because it is an upfront state, you need to be able to distinguish between unrest restricted roads and ones that are only permitted to be used by Israelis. And because Google maps refuses to do that, Palestinian drivers get sent. If they're using Google maps, they get sent on like really dangerous routes into places that they're not allowed to go because they're because of hard

type, because of hard time. Yeah. They're not allowed to go because they're because of hard time. Yeah, because of hard time. Yeah, I love how like cartographers from the 1800s are like back on top now. They're like we were more accurate than like whatever the fuck you got going on now. Here there do be monsters, it turns out. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, just the Google Maps, they're all it's's like it really is like the business plot fall over again now, like when you really look at how all of these tech people have are now truly inside the buildings, like you just look at even the people that are

running certain like who's running NASA is like Musk's friend who also runs a payment system that like could do away with regulations. Like everyone's just like, yeah, now I have a gigantic seat at the table to do whatever and I didn't even have to use guns for just. I feel like insane. Like I feel like, you know how like banking like fucked over people who were already vulnerable from this system.

And so those people like don't trust the banking system and like hide money under their mattresses. And then you're like, oh, that fucks you over on interest and all this other stuff. But now I'm like, yeah, I want to hide money under my mattress. Now I'm like, I want to use real money. I don't want to use any of these systems. I want to go off the... I feel insane.

I feel crazy right now. Yeah. It's not great. Part of the problem is Israel blocks GPS signals, but people are pressuring the company to make improvements to Google maps that would actually benefit Palestinians. I wish that brought some kind of measure of comfort, but even when you saw the employees within Google who are like, I'm not working on this fucking AI defense, offensive weapons system shit, no.

They're like, all right, dude, get the fuck out then. And we will fucking throw you out of the building when you raise your voice in protest. Google Street View will accidentally capture war crimes. Right. Whoops, whoops, sorry about that. Hey, yeah. Right. Whoops. Whoops. Sorry about that. Hey, did you guys see the fake anti Kanye ad?

Yeah, it was fucking terrible. Unbelievable. I didn't actually. What is this one? It's this fake ad, deep fake ad where there are a lot of celebrities basically having wearing a shirt that has like a middle finger on it with a Star of David and it says like Kanye underneath. And it's like, it's all deep fakes, but you get people like Drake or Mark Zuckerberg or Adam Sandler and like, I think, um, wasn't like

Woody Allen to, um, all in there, basically given the finger to Kanye, like in response to his swastika t-shirt website, Super Bowl nonsense. But like, it's just very, it's, it's so off base in so many ways where you're like, you're using deep fakes again. And it makes it even like less meaningful when you have people who are depicted in this commercial be like, I like obviously like, like, I'm not I'm not here to defend anti-Semitism or Kanye West anyways, like, but also AI is absolutely terrible. And this has no place in sort of making a point about this when in fact, it's going to be used as a tool by the very people who are actually spreading, you know, spreading hatred.

Yeah. Also like weirdly all the people are like different ages, like Mark Zuckerberg. It's like Mark Zuckerberg from 15 years ago. Yeah. It's just that it's your first clue. I don't understand why we need that AI video. Why do we need that AI video if we already have Snoop Dogg and Tom Brady getting rid of hate? I don't understand why we even need that.

We need it more. We need it more now than ever. I don't know the specific politics of the people who made this t-shirt and obviously fucked Kanye West all the way like that, you know, but the like focusing on just being like that. And this is why we're saying like anti-Semitism has no place here. And then also, you know, confusing that with like anybody who supports the rights of Palestinian people being anti-Semitic. Like, it all feels like part of this weird broad brush. Yeah. And also, but also like this thing specifically completely dilutes what

the goal is of anyone who is actually interested in fighting hatred. Obviously like this one is, this one is squarely aimed at Kanye West. Like when you're like, and I got, I got people to fake support their outrage for this, what the fuck is the point of this? Like you have other people being like, I don't need to be in this fucking thing. Like for what, for what it again, it just cheapens things because when there's like, you have actual anti-Semites in the fucking White House right now. Exactly.

And again, not to say Kanye West isn't, but like the emphasis is so fucking all over the place. Yeah, it's just great that they're jumping on the Kanye thing. This like person who's like kind of burned their career down by being like, obviously like there's real mental health problems happening and that they, the second, you know, they jump all over that. But when there's somebody who's like the most powerful person in the world, they're just like, he had a weird arm spasm twice while trying to say his heart. Are you neurodivergent?

Has it made you anti-Semitic? You may be entitled to some gold from all of the coffers of the Jewish cabal. This thing is just what the guy who made it, he identifies himself as a generative AI expert, creator, and advertiser. Sounds like someone with way too much time and a computer. Yeah. But yeah, great.

You've done it. You've roped in Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. Hey, the reunion we've all been waiting for. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, weird that the Superbow Bowl let Kanye have a fucking, you know, whoever, the powers that be of capitalism. We're like, yeah, he can have a, what?

It's the market. It's free speech. I don't know, yeah. Let him have a Super Bowl ad where he directs people to a place to buy swastika t-shirts. The focus is a little too myopic here. Like, maybe also get mad at the people who fucking platformed this bullshit in the first place also in exchange for- Where the fuck is Candace Owens? Why is she getting away scot-free?

Where the hell is she? Oh shit. Well, Polly V, what a pleasure having you as always on The Daily Zeitgeist. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? You can find me at wherever Miles is currently, just outside his home. Just a few feet away. I am at Paula Vegan-Olin, P-A-L-L-A-V-I-G-U-N-A-L-A-N,

but I'm just Paula Vegan Blue Sky, so that's cool. Got in there. And I have my shows at the Comedy Store monthly, Facial Recognition Comedy, and I'm also going at the Comedy Store monthly, facial recognition comedy, and I'm also going to Portland, NSF, and I'm probably going back to Texas. I'm trying to do this tour thing.

I'm trying to sell my fucking merch. I am unemployed. If you have remote work for me, please holler. DM me, because a girl is broke, and I am also as lawless as those Republicans who think they can put everything on a credit card because everything is going to hell that we talked about. I'm at that stage mentally.

I'm just like, whatever, it's fine. That's not going to be good. Message me, find me, look for my shows. Shall I share a tweet? Is that what we are sharing? I was just about to ask you if there was a word of media that you've been enjoying. Oh my God, that's crazy.

Okay, it's three different ones. One, I'm sorry, this is from anonymous at your anonymous and it's a screenshot of somebody else's tweet, which makes sense. And it's the picture of the villain from Titanic holding onto a child. And it's, you know, like when he's like trying to get on the boat. Yeah, yeah, Billy Zane. It's Elon Musk going anywhere in public.

But please, I have a child. Bro, the second Luigi Mangione popped out, that was like, he was like, oh, you know what? I need a flesh bulletproof vest in the form of humanizing myself by always carrying around Grimes baby. This baby. She, she responded that she was not happy about him being in public like that.

Yeah. She's like, I don't know what to do. Taking in his nose and shit. Everybody's using that picture to be like, look at this shit. I'm like, bro, there's a little, of course a four year old is going to be picking their nose. Or like a 36 year old. It's fine.

Anyways. I also have been looking at zoo babies. Okay, the second tapir, tapir, tapir, the Malayan tapir was born at Point Defined Zoo in Aquarium in Tacoma, Washington. They've been posting pictures of it. It is so cute. Mudeng always lives in my heart, but they won't like milk mudang anymore.

So I'm just like trying to absorb as many, like as much content from baby animals at zoos as possible. There's also a new baby elephant at the Oregon Zoo and I'm like very excited. And I'm like, am I going to go to the Oregon Zoo when I go to Portland to see this baby elephant?

Its trunk is so tiny. How quickly do baby elephants grow? I feel like they probably get like, like the window is small to see like a little tiny little elephant, right? But they're not like small. They just look like babies. Right. You know what I mean?

They're like big, but they look like yeah, they eat things. Yeah. They, it's cuts any, I love that baby elephants look old because of like, they're just like gray and wrinkled already, but they still look baby. I'm like, this is like baby Yoda all over again it's so cute so cute anyways that's what I'm following online and do you want to we will also link off to you're saying there's a Connor O'Malley tweet about yeah I sent that in the chat like the clip it was from his special from last year where he talks about Google Maps, like just

changing whatever it was. Yeah, yeah. Nice. We'll link off to that as well. Myles, is there work media you've been enjoying? And where can people find you? Oh, yeah. Find me everywhere at miles of gray. That's literally everywhere. Okay, you can even probably enter that at petco to get to give me some points or something. But also find Jack and I on the basketball podcast,

Miles and Jack at Boostees. This week I was coming out of my cave of trauma. And I'm feeling just fine. I got it. Coming out of my cave. Then finding out that, I was like, wow, Jimmy Butler on The Warriors, so many moves, Kyle Kuzma.

Everyone's moving around, Brandon Ingram on The Raptors. Listen to me hear all of these new bits with absolute awe in my voice. Also hear me on 420 Day Fiance, talking about 90 Day Fiance. Let's see, the other thing, what else? Is there a tweet? Is that the thing I'm talking about? Is there work in media you've been enjoying?

OK, it's hard to man. This was a video I was actually I sent to super producer Anna Hosni. Like on the side on a text message, it's just so it's so stupid. It's a guy on I'm just going to it's at all at who am you? And the video is called Mobility Training. And it's a guy doing all these like obscure exercises. And they're like, all the haters think this is all useless.

And then it cuts to him, like just basically being a tweaker, like just exercising to like smoke meth or like pull copper wiring out of the fucking wires. Oh my God. Or one exercise is looking through the fucking blinds of his house. Oh my God. It's so dark, but again, I was like, some people when you've been around, this kind of stuff, it hits a little bit. Yeah, I'm surprised.

It has so many likes and I'm like, yeah, this truly is an American tradition. You almost said condition, which was also happened. Yeah, 100 percent. The American condition, unlike any other. Boom. You find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien and on Blue Sky at Jack Obey, the number one. A work of media I've been enjoying that I think has been recommended by guests on this show.

The show from last year called Phantasmus by Julio Torres. It's so good. As mentioned, I was getting leg surgery yesterday. It was like local anesthetic. You're awake and feeling weird things happen below a blanket. And then I had to just sit there with my leg in one position while it dug around in it for three hours. And I was like, what am I going to watch? And I happened upon this. And I enjoyed it so much that there were multiple times where I was laughing out loud,

and they were like, what, did that hurt? Did that hit something? I was like, no, just watching something really hard. Oh, so it was like getting a tattoo, basically, where it's like, yeah, man, just pull up some shit and we'll be getting this shit done. Ripping some shit out. Ripping and tearing. Tearing, ripping and tearing. But anyways, so shout out to everybody who made that. It's really good. I highly recommend people check it out.

You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, dailyzeitgeist.com. You can go to the episode wherever you're listening to it and check out the description of the episode you're listening to and you will find the footnotes. Footnotes. Which is where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode. We also link off to a song that we think you might enjoy in the episode description.

Miles, is there a song that you think people might enjoy? Yeah. Last month, there was this video I saw of this rapper going way offbeat named Georgiana And I was like what is this? This like offbeat Polyrhythm rap delivery is very odd people are like why is this video on the internet? Why is this person in a serious like freestyle kind of context? But then I heard a new song they put out called Elevator Spaghetti.

And it's just kind of it's wild because it's such a mashup of like, just mumble rap, but over like a bossa nova like truly like elevator music. But the lyrics are just very mumble core, trappy, rappy kind of stuff. And I was like, Okay, this is weird. I don't know how talented this person is. But this is kind of interesting So we're going out on elevator spaghetti by Georgiana Some people say this person is an industry plant, but aren't we all at the end of the day? So shout out to Georgiana and elevator spaghetti This is a weird one, but it might it might hit might hit a chord in the brain Yeah, elevator spaghetti up there with mom's spaghetti in terms of that click iconic wraps for that spaghetti. Yep

I'm sure it's to get there's got to be some great spaghetti rhymes from Ghostface, right? Oh, yeah, probably I mean face has to has used spaghetti So I mean even in I believe black Rob said and I was born ready and I was already on fish and spaghetti That's another rhyme. But anyway, there it is. Elevator. Anyways, that is going to do it for us. The Daily Zyck has the production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts.

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