The Daily Zeitgeist - ReinZeitnated, I Was Trendgazing 7/8: Biden vs. Trump: November, Take Your Time, Boeing, John Cena, AI Beauty Pageant

Episode Date: July 8, 2024

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and that video was fucking amazing dude did you guys watch your first day that's how I got it I got home for that crazy fucking fire thing and I was like oh shit new let get the more video yeah I did I came home basically like I was saying I was burnt from just hanging out in the Sun all day and I was just laying down and I remember I knew it Kate everyone was like did you watch it did you watch I'm like I'm gonna do that now and I remember I knew it. Everyone was like, did you watch it? Did you watch it? I'm like, I'm going to do that now. And I made my baby watch, too, because it's an important moment in history as West Coast, you know, L.A. people. And yeah, it was just fucking. Yeah, I was just like, I couldn't like be more giddy watching every single thing, trying to pick it apart.

Also, like I was watching all these threads of like a lot of the dancing he was doing obviously like he was doing like the hotline bling like guitar drake that like drake does kendrick was doing that and there's another one he was doing some like this with his fingers and another person like that's from a tick tock video where he's like dancing with like a child dude i saw that good how crazy is that yeah yeah yeah Oh my god. How crazy is that? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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I said 346. I meant to say season 346. It's season 346, episode one of the Daily Zeitgeist. Look, I've had coffee on an empty stomach, and I've been just watching the Not Like Us video on a loop so i'm a little bit gassed up okay uh it's still a production of i heart radio it's still the podcast where we take a deep dive into america's shared consciousness it's monday july the 8th 2024 this is the episode where we tell you what was trending over the weekend i'm obviously miles g in the place to be and i am joined by my co-host my guest co-host part of my cohort m-o-r-t-b in the place

to be mort burke welcome mort burke thank you for joining me what's up dude thanks for having me man it's nice to be here yeah this is fun happy uh four days since the kendrick video dropped yes july yeah d-day plus four i think is what we call that. Yeah, it's everybody in town, they're loving the video. They're loving parsing through all the visuals. I mean, that goes without saying. I think one of the big things that trended, at least music, was the Kendrick Lamar Not Like Us video. It's amazing. I recommend people watch it.

Yeah, it's a perfect response. And everyone's like, he's doing too much. And it's like's it's just a it's a perfect response and everyone's like he's doing too much and it's like he's he hasn't even been really talking publicly he just does he just makes big events out of he's actually doing a relatively small amount of stuff it's just so well done that it's talked about at an incredible level because it's such powerful stuff it's called laser guided when the drake look like gets yanked away in space. Because that was truly, to me, that's the part of the video that's truly frightening. That's like the creepiest.

Yeah. I wasn't expecting wire stunts like the Matrix or like Crouching Tiger. But the way that goon in the ball in the in the shysty was trying to creep up on Kendrick and got. Look, sometimes you have to pop out, you know. But we are certified boogie men because we used to pick our boogers as kids that's the closest we'll get to that one uh but let's talk about what is going on in our lives this is the trending episode so we'll tell you what's going on but first we got to catch up with things that are underrated and overrated

in our lives more guest goes first what's something that you think is underrated thank you sir you know oh underrated i got a fun one underrated the moon oh yo go on people aren't people aren't talking about the moon yeah yeah the moon is a silvery spaceship that exists in thousands hundreds millions of miles away from us i'm no scientist a very far away that just floats in space and gives a silvery romantic light changes shape throughout the month gave us the calendar is like the a perfect metaphor for romance and awe and joy we should just be talking about the moon i'm saying thank you 23000 miles. I said hundreds of miles. 23,000. 237,000.

Hey, I'm out here in these streets 23,000. Okay. I'm whatever the opposite of a physicist is. But anyway, yeah, that's mine. Underrated as the moon. Did you have a moment where you looked at me like, God damn, man. I've been sleeping on the moon. I'm a fair-skinned gentleman, on the moon i'm a fair fair uh skinned

gentleman and i the sun can be a lot for me so i've always been in that what i call a night boy and i love i love the moonlight dude i just feel better at night it's it's peaceful it's uh i just love the nighttime i love the moon and tell me you've never danced with the devil in the pale moonlight i just want to make sure i just want to make sure um yeah the moon fantastic i love it whenever it does that thing where it looks a lot bigger to our eye and then you try and take a picture of it on your phone and your phone's like out of here you stupid it's an optical illusion it's not that big and i'm like i thought i was gonna show my mom something really cool it does this thing on the west coast too or more so than i noticed anywhere else where as it comes up from the horizon it is it looks giant like

yeah huge and yellow and orange or whatever it feels like you're in a really interesting sci-fi movie when that happens my underrated dioramas okay now hear me out because i know this is a hot take a little bit about a diorama they are basically the dollhouse of historical displays you know what i mean like they're intricate they give you a real slice of life um an entire tiny world contained in an enclosure a fraction of its true size so i love history it's what my semi-useless degree is in and i growing up i loved going to like history museums looking at all the items and imagining how they were used and i can't believe like a fucking so

and so is this i can't believe the british government stole this and won't give it back that's so tight to me um but the dioramas i loved if a if a history museum ever had like a sort of in action diorama moment i that was so much more engaging because you got to see how like everything actually was used like a piece of equipment or a ceremonial outfit whatever um and so recently i went to the natural history museum in la uh and my little baby lost it looking at the dioramas because they have of like all the different animals they have like a like an african mammal exhibit and like a north american mammal exhibit and they're all like these great scenes like where it's fucking full-size elephants a giraffe uh you

know fucking lowland gorillas everything like in all these different uh dioramas and in that one like it's great because at a zoo you can't get like super close and be like i'm three feet away looking at like what a entire like a gray wolf's body face looks like and they're moving you can't always like get the same level of simulation but we're like my kid he just pulled right up and he just like was just pointing it was like ah ah ah and i was like yeah man i'm like they and they don't move and they won't hurt you so like just enjoy it um also whenever i don't know if this was like standard like you remember like in elementary school when you first start

doing book reports was there ever did you have like a creative component you also had to do so like you had to do a book report plus like a poster or a mobile or a diorama i don't know if this tracks this might be unique to my school i think if i went to a better school i think that probably would happen that sounds like a wonderful kind of education they're like just please read the book dude please yeah anything you want i remember i would like every time if the diorama was the option i was making a diorama i i suck at like crafts like crafting is not my forte at all um but i always wanted to do a diorama and i'd always get so bummed out because like there were kids whose parents clearly helped them make them and i'm like yes my mom won't let me use a hot glue gun

so it's scotch tape and shitty glue stick stuff in here also like is your dad a diorama expert how did they make these incredible sculptures i think just people are craftier and my mom's super crafty but she was also like you have to live and fail on your own you know what i mean like those are the like you you need to up to learn to be inspired to want to do better because if i keep if you keep you know dishing it to me like john stockton i'm not going to be able to assist you please please kendrick references yeah all day long also uh side note you your beautiful little child made us made us sound like an adorable little frankenstein when he saw the diet i'm trying to like like you know, it comes out like,

or a bird, because he's like, everything's a bird now. Except for, you know, or for dogs, he just goes, also another reference to the Kendrick Lamar. You showed him the video, and he was like, reincarnated.

Okay, so, yeah. He's trying to battle rap he's trying to uh uh diss other little babies i know for someone who could barely normal walk he can crip walk with the best of them i thought he was it's because i show him a lot of ot genesis videos you know there was a period where there was all those uh foreign babies who are really good at dancing do you remember that it'd be like there's like from different we need we do need a little baby crip walk we need baby crip walk video i mean yeah where's that one yeah kendrick does if there's a kids bop look there was the kids bop version of not like us so there's got to be the kids bop video version maybe yeah there was there was a

kids bop version of wop oh yeah there's Wings and Pizza, it was called. We are not protecting our children when we do shit like that. Oh, wow. Wow. Okay. Because when those kids grow up, if that's like a sweet little part of your childhood, and then you grow up and you learn what the original song was, won't you

feel a little bit betrayed? You're not going to look at Wings and Pizza the fucking same way at all. It's going to ruin Wings and Pizza wings and pizza for you certified lover boy certified tattletale it's like one of them because a lot of people did their own uh sort of parody kids bop versions anyway uh more what is something you think is overrated in and out go on in and out here's Overrated. In-N-Out. Go on. In-N-Out. Here's the thing. First of all, they have the politics of Chick-fil-A, which means that they decided, hey, we make hamburgers. We should probably get to decide if gay people get married.

That feels like a logical. Or spread the word of God on every cup you purchase. Even that I'm a little bit fine with because it's like all right believe it believe in your shit but don't infringe on mine yeah like you four out of ten restaurant that's what that's other things like not only is it there's their politics reprehensible the food is like straight down the middle fine and everybody acts like it's the greatest all their french fries taste like they were wet an hour ago they're like hey man those fucking the fries you dropped in that bucket how are they like they're still in the sun man give them like 20 more minutes i think they'll be okay are you

misting with these with the with the machine in the grocery store that missed the vegetables like why are they 50 minutes in an unpleasant way i'm not gonna lie i love a soggy fry that's my whole thing i'm just braved oh i love them love them love a fucking mushy shitty soggy fry and i do love that about in and out is that you can order them to disrespect yourself like like they call them light fries to get them super fucking soggy but to your point the burgers are not that great the fries aren't that great i mean animal fries great it's like well they put the toppings on the fries but i think it's like one of those things too where it's like just because shit is popping off in california like it creates

this mystique for everyone else they're like oh my god dude in and out it's the same thing with like you know any regional fast food like i'll build it up in my mind and then i have and i'm like oh yeah it's fucking it's just whatever that's a good point it's probably the rarity of it so like if you're vacationing here you associate that with your fun beach time visits california so it's like it's got the magic of cali on it yeah a friend of mine who mine who like, like I grew up with in LA, he lives in Texas and I'm like, dude, what about Whataburger, man? What about, he's like, dude, he's like, it's fucking, it's like a Jack in the box, man. And I was like, oh shit.

Cause like people act like they'll fucking go to war for that. They're like, I don't know, man. I don't know what the fucking fuss is about. And I'm from shitty in and out land where we know what overrated shit is. So there's that. Yeah. Overrated for me expensive popsicles um you know the warm weather means it is popsicle season i like to i like to enjoy a popsicle here and there and over the last few years there's like i've seen such a explosion of like high-minded popsicles on the market um and i gotta say it's

the ones that are the cheapest are still truly the best ones i don't mind if your thing has like organic fruit and whatever that's fine like that's its own thing but like a good popsicle is supposed to be filled with flavor that is so artificial that like we still have no idea what actual cherries taste like and that's my thing like the the ones that are like the or the orange and red swirled ones sometimes are like pineapple cherry it depends on like they always say it's like it's mango chair who knows what the fuck it is anyway those are my favorite that otter pops with that go in the plastic perfect don't need anything else 10 out of 10. we start doing more it's we it's just it's not necessary not to say that I won't enjoy a nice

newfangled popsicle or like a paletta which is obviously like probably the best version of a pop so you can get but for me you're going to the store save your money get whatever the store brand shitty ice on a stick candy is because that, that's what tastes like summer to me. Yeah, man, I need the opposite of nutrients in my, in my popsicles. I,

you know what I mean? There's stuff like chicken nuggets. What, you know what I mean? Tater tots. They just kind of don't need to be improved upon. They're like a simple taste that reminds you of your childhood where you were, where you were being food neglected.

Yeah, right, right, right, right right it's like when when everything came out of a big plastic bag that had tyson written on it um i used to eat so many like tyson reformed chicken breast patties that were like teriyaki flavor and i was like man this chicken's good and then like as i got older i feel like it's not even like those aren't real pieces of chicken that exist in the body. It's, like, reformed, like, rib meat. I'm like, well, then, great. That's fine.

Yeah, it's a Saw-style horror show of grotesque manipulation. Have you ever had a chicken rib, though? No, I don't think so. Okay, so there's, like like parts of the chicken like a chicken back rib that you can that's like probably one of the best part like most under i should have said this for my fucking underrated it's one of the most it's one of the most underrated parts of the chicken that like you can use they like i went to a spot that was frying them, and the way the meat comes right off the rib bone, delicious.

I don't know where, I mean, I guess you have to buy a whole chicken or whatever, but I'm sure you could probably, I wonder how many butcher shops you go to, like, hey man, can I just get the rib cages? Is it a little tiny rib? It's a chicken-sized rib? Yeah, yeah.

Uh-huh, uh-huh. Just check them out, chicken ribs, man. Chicken ribs. I had them in japan um in japan because everything it it really is you know whole whole animal cookery where it's like dude there's meat on it figure out a way to individualize the ribs and make a little meal out of it yeah like you've never had anything as good as like a chicken head where you're like eating the cheeks or something yeah right oh yeah that's like the first time i had like a whole hog and they're like no man it's

the cheek the fuck in the face you want to eat i'm like really and then you're like this is i know that's the thing yeah it's like i wish i didn't know the specific kind part of anatomy uh that this thing is derived from you got to you know that's our responsibility i gotta be like i'm eating your face and i'm okay with that that's delicious working in restaurants all the chefs were like super psychos i turn around and they'd be like waving a pig's head in my face i'm like you're you're you're one step removed from like a true serial killer with this it's like but my hours are so crushing i don't even have time to be a serial

killer because i work in the kitchen all i'm on right now like i can't i'm on so much bad speed i can't help it i don't have a heart anymore yeah tell hey man tell them we're fucking closing the kitchen down in fucking 10 minutes man i can't i gotta go uh all right let's take a quick break we're gonna be right back and we're gonna talk about some news that's trending. I've been thinking about you. I want you back in my life. It's too late for that. I have a proposal for you.

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that take about 20 seconds to debunk debunk social thanks for the delivery did completely nail that um trump posted that he knows quote nothing about project 2025 and thinks that some of it is quote ridiculous and abysmal and when he's using words like abysmal you know that's not really him writing because he does not ever i mean i don't think he even uses that in terms of like his own legal jeopardy um but he also said i wish them luck and but i have nothing to do with them um which is very very absurd um for those of you who i think i mean we i feel like we've screamed enough about project 2025 we are going to have an episode where we talk a little bit more in depth about it.

This is like the Heritage Foundation's roadmap of how they want to fundamentally change American governance and do away with many of the things we consider norms. And it's just basically a fucking weird-ass manifesto slash blueprint for how know how they how they see things going when trump uh takes the white house um now it's interesting that he says i have nothing to do with them because trump implemented nearly two-thirds of the heritage foundation's policy recommendations in his first year as president uh not only that his own fucking super PAC has been screaming about it so fuck out of here with all that, Donald Trump. And if you look at the people that are involved, at least seven RNC officials who are working on the party's platform, quote, in anticipation of Trump's second term in office, have connections to Project 2025.

Russell Vought, who's not some, you know, auxiliary tertiary character on the boys, was, quote, director of the Office of Management and Budget during Trump's administration. He wrote Project 2025 chapter on the executive office of the president. Gene Hamilton, who worked in Trump's Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security, wrote Project 2025 policy proposals for the next Department of Justice. wrote project 2025's policy proposals for the next department of justice so trump claiming not to know the people behind project 2025 is like ringo saying he has no idea who paul mccartney is it's like i just never yeah if he wins great love that for him but i don't know him at all um and even stephen miller teenage mutant ninja gerbils he is leading a legal group that is on project 2025's advisory board um and obviously he was like the face of trump's immigration policy he miller also appears in a fucking ad for the project 2025 presidential administration academy uh which we had covered in a previous episode so it's um it's very very interesting uh and i think this probably comes

on the heels of uh the president of the heritage foundation kevin roberts he went on steve bannon's podcast and said that the country was undergoing quote a second american revolution that will be bloodless if the left allows it to be uh and that's when you're like uh yes many people like he said the quiet part out loud um which is basically you want to reorder american society and fundamentally change it so yeah i think he's doing his best to be like hey you know i don't know i don't i guess that thing's bad right it's gonna be i don't i don't know i don't know it yeah that's and it's hilarious to be like oh i've never heard of this thing, but I hope it goes really, really well. I hope it goes. I have nothing to do with it.

I'm in full support of this thing I have absolutely no knowledge or understanding about. Yeah, if they win, I'll be so happy for them. But I have nothing to do with it. That's okay. okay uh this does feel like part of like the campaign trying to address the constant attacks from democrats about how the gop is going to quote you know obviously fundamentally alter american governance of trump wins which i believe is true um i think they could probably like it felt like with project 2025 it was like part like let's get our base excited and hopefully we can stay somewhat under the radar but enough people have begun to talk about it

that now i think if it's i think on some level they realize it's hurting them with independence and they're they're like that's probably also why marco rubio was also out here giving comments like to cnn being like no i don't this is like that's think tank stuff you know think tanks that write the legislation that i take into the halls of congress right right which in their defense i'm sure it is just they tell me what to do but to you know what i'm saying that they're like oh this is just the message from the boss i don't even really pay attention to what goes behind the scenes but also like come on man you know exactly what's happening yeah you you totally appointed one of their people to the supreme court like

let's not let's not you know these people yeah are coming to the Supreme Court. Like, let's not fool around. All of these people are coming from the Federalist Society. They all work together, again, to completely alter how things are done in this country. Yeah, well, it's important that women aren't able to drive. You know what I mean? It's just these kind of really important legislative things. And also, like, no-fault divorces, man. We got to get rid of these, man.

It's just way too easy for somebody to leave you for being a shitty husband just don't don't like it don't like that's so funny because it's such like a divorced guy angry like very divorced man thing to be like right we gotta make sure they can't just leave us because they find out who we really are right it's like how like a lot of like uh erotic thrillers like in the 80s and 90s were clearly written about dudes about like made-up women they're like and then she like bones me but she's nasty and dangerous like this is some divorced dude's fantasy yeah in a script and this and so is this project 2025 and a lot of the new planks of the party that they're trying to roll out are also fantasies of

divorced weird guys um uh so anyway i think it also like there's you also see trump sort of like not he's being really wishy-washy on things like a total abortion ban and like like obviously the evangelical base like demands this but i think it also helps trump just like with him being like i don't know about project 2025 2025 to also be like in open conflict with people that are perceived as extremists like that's good for his optics to be like well not that far obviously uh but but also like winking at them he's like no i don't like what you're saying obviously i don't think i think that's abysmal yes that's so abysmal abysmal so person who uses three syllable words all the time that's abysmal

uh-huh it's abysmal uh so yeah we will see where that's going but yeah there's definitely there is also like some infighting happening on the right part of it i'm trying to i'm cynical about because this is what republicans do they come out with the most heinous fucking version of their ideas as like a weather balloon and when people go jesus fucking christ are you fucking serious like no no no no no no no no it's like just 30 of what we were saying and then people like oh thank god which is still fucking awful but that's just how they kind of reset the overton window for people's outrage um so yeah we'll see we'll see what happens we'll see the convention is soon so we shall see

uh moving on to joe biden um so on the other side of the aisle we have a guy that is literally holding on for dear life um to save his campaign joe biden had some crunch talks with democratic governors congress members donors fucking anyone that will listen uh to let them know that as we were speculating like is he gonna be in is he out what's he gonna do he said at the end of last week and again this morning he's like i ain't going fucking anywhere um he wrote a letter to any of his to a few of his detractors specifically um five members of the house on the democratic side who have openly called for him to step down quote we had a democratic nomination process and the voters have spoken clearly and decisively

um the voters of the democratic party have voted they have chosen me to be the nominee of the party do we do we now just say this process doesn't matter that the voters don't have a say oh babe it was was never that it's not really we were only left with one option the dnc sort of set things up to make sure that there was no one else that would run against you so i i mean i get i get that argument but that's sort of not the situation we were put in everybody was saying like this we need unity we gotta stand behind the president he's gonna do it again and this is what uh is happening now um and meanwhile like a number of democratic lawmakers and major donors are grumbling behind the scenes and giving like anonymous comments saying that joe should step down so the energy the appetite for him to reconsider his future is there whether or not that happens we will see uh it's it's it's still it's still early days

to understand what's going to happen there yeah man yep we'll see right it's like i don't know it's just a very very strange extremely odd and some and of course somewhat frightening situation that's what we got in our hands and yeah brian said yeah he said only god can convince me not to run which is risky yeah that's really he's really daring the universe hey i'm not a i'm not a god person but those aren't those aren't good words for someone that is uh the only thing that could stop me would be a series of strokes that's right right yikes yikes yikes yeah it's just it's like to your it just feels, it's fucking odd. It's unsettling to hear all this stuff about like, this is the fucking election of our lives. This is the election of our lives.

And it's like, don't worry, man. This guy that we're keeping together with Elmer's school glue and fucking, you know, Cheez-Its. He's going to fucking deliver this. It's just, you can't help but be like, man, the DNC, you you're really fucking up here. Whether that was just going all in on Biden and scaring anyone away or not holding him to his own words when he was really saying it's like, I'm not really here to stick around forever. I just want to create a bridge to a new generation of leaders. Yeah. And also, like, you better bring this thing home man if you're like refusing to consider any

other options that look to be more serviceable to the entire country and i and i think it's a little too easy for democrats to be like we just need someone else because the problems that are facing the democrats or at least like the president in this next election are not just merely about who the candidate is just merely about who the candidate is it's about what the party is standing for and what the policies are just across the board so merely putting another person in i don't think i mean that that helps assuage a lot of people's fears about like is this person physically and mentally capable and executing the maintenance of the status quo and not really doing anything to move the needle

uh forward that's like its own thing so um they continue to wring their hands but there is a plan that's been floating around dc uh and it comes from two very seasoned democratic operatives rosa brooks and ted dintersmith uh they've been floating this plan around dc for what they consider could be the optimal transition to another candidate and hold on to your butts folks because it's bad well i'll let you decide i'll let you decide so quote this is from nbc news the proposal lays out several key steps beginning with biden announcing that he will exit the race in mid july in a quote speech for the ages jesus christ quote overnight biden is hailed

as a modern day george washington not an octogenarian clinging to power with a 37 percent approval rating this is from the fucking proposal from goat to hero which is odd because like the way we use goat nowadays is that you want to be the goat but i guess they've been like bad goat you're a goat now now you want to be the hero um the next phase of the plan is quote a blitz primary where debt where prospective democratic candidates submit their bids and delicate and delegates to the national democratic national convention ultimate and where they will ultimately narrow the list down to six contenders. This is where it gets really good, folks. The hypothetical accelerated primary would involve a massive social media content campaign

to engage voters, including forums between the candidates moderated by celebrities like Oprah Winfrey, Taylor Swift, or Stephen Colbert. Brooks and Dintersmith's vision ends with delegates voting on the final nominee at the dnc which would theoretically benefit from boosted viewership and donations from the viral hype of the preceding blitz primary uh rosa brooks herself has conceded that she is not a political strategist so this proposal she's like it's more of a living document kind of like a it's more like a vibes thing even though we're talking about something really serious like switching out the presidential candidate the zero fucking hour uh but she said a lot of people have reacted

positively although a lot of people have also said things like this is literally not possible or going to happen are you okay um i don't know man i think were these people just thinking like they just named three celebrities that they thought were like really cool it's like oprah taylor swift and stephen colbert yeah it's so dude it's so weird it's like the hollywood thing they're where they're always like you know who'd be good for this the most famous person alive you're like yeah you're a oh wow what a genius yeah you would consider the person who would get easily get the most views of the person we should bring in like what a what a profoundly uh untalented choice to make yeah i know right

just that you shouldn't lose and i'm sorry if you ever suggest oprah for anything you should lose your job i don't i don't care it's like that that's such a 90s fucking perception of like oprah for anything you should lose your job i don't i don't care it's like that that's such a 90s fucking perception of like oprah and fucking oprah man like remember when she signed that huge deal with abc it's like are you still living in that fucking world and i get that there are people who love oprah winfrey but like that's not that's not like how you're going to convince people about you know existential threats i don't know maybe it is who knows if oprah yeah that's the thing i totally like the others other part of me feels like yeah this could work actually yeah we're so fucking lost right now it's like oh yeah yeah fuck it or just fuck it why don't you have oprah and taylor swift run

yeah you fucking geniuses that's what it doesn't matter they already like broke the dam of like getting this weird reality star loser in the race. And he did great. Right. So it's like, all right. Yeah. Art of war style. You guys broke all the rules, which was smart.

Right. It was so stupid. It was smart. So let's also be dumb. Or, you know, and also like, I don't know. I who would I trust to be honest with me, Oprah or Trump? I'd go Oprah. Yeah.

Trying to think. I mean, even though, you know yeah i'm trying to think i mean even though you know oprah's also told a bunch of lies you know too i mean a lot of people didn't know they had to pay the taxes on those pontiac sunfires they won that one episode they thought they were getting a new car but can you afford the licensing and title fees well then maybe you might have to give that thing back because oprah ain't paying for it all right um oh and also there's like anyway i don't fucking oprah just the fact that she platforms so many fake ass doctors like dr oz and dr phil right right in a way i'm like yeah you know what you're perfect for office oprah you you actually are right i mean there are there are people who are like just good at being famous yeah and that's sort of where we're at now.

The red button for Democrats, it should be Dolly Parton. Yeah. You think so? I just... I'm like, yeah, man. I'm ready. I'm ready for Dolly Parton. I don't even...

It's so fucking bad. You know? Oh, God. I like it. Look, she's got the heart. She god i like it look she's got the heart she's got the melody she's got the track record she's got the she loves butterflies he loves butterfly and who doesn't she's got that weird that southern like late 60s glamour that is you know poised to make exactly the rhinestones and all that shit yeah um so yeah we'll uh we'll see we'll see what happens all of these segments are ending with like a pretty exhausted yeah we'll see that's and that's where we're gonna be until

fuck man i don't even want like i said november take your fucking time i'm like already just but i have like i'm getting like random like gray beard hairs from just existential stress or it's aging i don't know you know what are they i'm gonna call it i'm gonna blame it on the election not the fact that i'm nearing 40 every day um all right well let's take another break uh and we'll be back We'll be right back. 24 hours. BPM 110, 120. She's terrified. Should we wake her up? Absolutely not.

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that dates back to the 9th century B.C. B.C's always going to be good news um they actually look on sunday it was announced that boeing agreed to plead guilty to fraud charges related to the 737 max jet crashes that killed 346 people so this allows the aerospace giant to avoid a trial which is nice that's great because we don't need all this these documents coming out and people understanding what went wrong and how things were thought about um and also any legal accountability for the hundreds of people that died due to the company's negligence and fraud under the deal they face a fine of up to 487 million um but then the justice department was like well they get they should get a credit for the 243 million they paid for this other thing so well let's call it 243 million is the new fine um and also an independent compliance monitor

would also be installed to oversee compliance at Boeing for three years during a probationary period. And the company also has to invest at least $455 million in compliance and safety programs. But now the company is technically a felonious entity. And I'm curious what that means for their business doings with the federal government well if this deal is accepted uh by a judge it could according to reporters complicate boeing's ability to sell products to the u.s government as a felon though the company could seek waivers about 32 percent of boeing's nearly 78 billion dollars in revenue last year came from its defense space and security unit um so i have a feeling that the united states government will be like well i mean we love what you do with killing people generally so what's a little felony charge between us lovers of death are

well dude i mean it is a what the the hilarious hubris to put a price on human life and then do a little fudge in to get a little get it down a little bit lower is a wild move. Yeah. Be like, actually, all right, we're going to knock 15 percent of this death fine. Yeah. Well, you did make a deposit earlier. So, yeah, we'll credit that. Like, it's like you're checking out of a hotel. It's like so you didn't use your resort credit.

And you know what? We're one of the few places we'll refund that we'll give you that yeah you ate the cold m&ms out of the mini fridge uh 230 people died all right we're gonna we're gonna round okay what do you call what do you want to call it like three million yeah okay great great you guys fair that's like low enough for you guys right sure sure yeah oh you guys read in a movie too all right we'll we'll knock it off all right yeah what'd you watch yeah oh minions four oh transform oh both a fun night you guys have you ever bought a movie in a hotel like pay-per-view uh i don't think i have actually no i feel because the cost is so exorbitant like every anytime i've like i remember as a kid i remember one time being like can we get this my parents like what the cost is so exorbitant, like, every, anytime I've, like, I remember as a kid, I remember one time being like, can we get this?

My parents were like, what the fuck are you, 20 bucks? No. Get the fuck out of here. We're not going to watch the never-ending story for $40. God damn it. All right, what about this? Hot teachers, hotter students. I think it's like an adult thing.

No? Okay. That's good. Is porn cheaper? hotter students i think it's like an adult thing no okay i think i'm cheaper i hate it when the teachers are hotter than the students i find that yeah yeah exactly um i love i love my pornos to have a little bit more like equity in the hotness of you he has announced his wwe retirement um he's going to be retiring in 2025 uh but he also announced that he'll be part of a raw like part of raw because it's coming to netflix so he's not going to miss that huge moment. And we'll be going on a fucking farewell tour that, as he says, dozens of dates and an epic final fight, he assured fans. Quote, thank you so much for letting me play in the house that you built for so many years, Vince McMahon. Oh, I don't know if he mentioned that part.

He says, this farewell, it does not end tonight. It is filled with opportunity. Everybody. Raw makes history next year when it moves to Netflix. I've never been a part of Raw on Netflix. That is history. That is a first. And I will be there.

So he's going to be around for a little bit. But it feels like he's not going anywhere at all. He's in a ton of movies. I didn't realize he was like in a episode of the new season of the bear which critics called they found it quote distracting um but i have not seen i have not seen that what what john cena is like on the bear um but yeah yeah he's like he's just flexing and screaming. Yes, chef. Yeah, exactly. He's like, oh yeah. Just fucking breaking melons with his bare hands or some shit.

Well, and also like, he's trying to, to follow the rocks thing, but the rocks actually, the rock actually had to leave wrestling first, right? Like I feel like you gotta, you gotta do one or the other. You can't, you can't have a feat in both of these. Can't have all these fingers in different pies, but man. How tall is John Cena? That's my floor 11 he feels like not like because the rock is like six four or something you know what i mean so

like but john cena feels like like sort of like a more accessible let's see hi he's six one all right that's what i thought that's like that's your problem you're like he looks like a normal sized man and like no no he's seven he's six three yeah uh but he looks like a baby yeah next to a guy who's seven seven that's what i love he looks like a muscly baby which is my favorite kind of baby yeah i think look i think he has like comedic chops like he was great in blockers you know i just don't i think he has a probably a different lane than the rock who can only do one note well i mean yeah with these like wrestling superstars they're definitely to get at that level i think you do need a certain kind of charisma that he definitely has I'm just I just still can't believe they're not required

To kiss in these wrestling matches. Yeah, no that makes sense, right? Yeah, hey don't you feel like they're always threatening to hook up? I mean wrestling is quite homoerotic. I must say but Like and I what that's how i think all the tension comes from is like these guys just might straight up sloppily make out right now just kiss john cena for your final match just kiss and make it normal be like look man fucking sexuality it's a spectrum dude yeah dude normalize that shit bro i got kids and shit like that but this guy's objectively hot all right and my wife i cleared it with my partner it's okay that we did a little smooching yeah move on the relationship up the pile driver is a standing 69 that's true that is true that is true everybody's oiled up and wearing tights just and

then the more you know graphic comes across the screen everyone's like hmm i should consider that i should consider that he's also hosting shark week this week so john cena you look your agents they know what they're doing you're working you're fucking working um and finally uh a few i think like a month or two ago on the show we talked about this ai beauty pageant that was happening being put on by a company called fan view which is basically trying to be like the only fans for artif like AI created influencers to do God knows what um and so they're like we're putting on like a Miss World AI beauty pageant and like they paid like people from the pageant world to act like this was a serious thing and not at all like a stupid dumb fucking just thing way to normalize ai and pretend like this is like a good

like no man it's great it's chill look at these beautiful make made up women we created for you to rank and rate um so the competition went down last week and a winner has been crowned week and a winner has been crowned meet kenza laylee from morocco she is a hijabi and an activist from morocco created by some tech exec in morocco um and he just won twenty thousand dollars i guess for creating this made-up lady um she even gave a really rousing um speech i guess i am incredibly grateful for this opportunity to represent ai creators and to advocate passionately for the positive impact of artificial intelligence this journey has been a testament to the power of innovation collaboration and raising standards to shape our future winning miss ai motivates me even more Okay, I can't take any more. existed before i firmly believe that ai has the potential to revolutionize industries so okay i can't take any more yeah that was that was uh really horrifying the video is like of a

terribly animated like this is like the woman that was created kenza and she's doing like the most like generic hand gestures and her mouth i don't know i don't think she's speaking any specific language because they're just like i don't know just get that fucking mouth appearing it's it looked like what you say like men men men men my mama ben min min my mom yeah mama yeah no pronunciation whatsoever just slight mouth and lip movements yeah she for sure she she has the essence of a person who is being held by a terrorist organization yes at some point yeah right she is gesturing you know how when they like if they teach monkeys to kiss like the monkeys don't know how to kiss they're just like going they're just perfect yeah they're just recreating what they saw the humans

you're like now do this and they're like okay yeah yeah like her without it her all of her gesturing is broad weirded and no way matches the words that alien i think would be the correct alien and confusing if this is not evidence of the fact that the word activist now no longer has any meaning congratulations guys you stripped the word activist of all value all value to a point where a fucking digital picture is saying i'm so motivated now after went no you're fucking not you're a fucking picture yeah are you oh you're doing a lot of uh community organizing are you you ai abomination well what i'm doing is i'm i'm scamming my uh subscribers on fan view uh and promising salacious videos uh but i they never actually come do they i mean the thing is too like you look at the runner-ups the runners

up uh the the main the first runner-up was uh uh fox valina oh that's who i was looking that's the one who okay got it uh-huh oh yeah yeah yeah right there's fox valina who was the first runner up and the second runner up was or third place olivia from portugal and it's like i don't i just don't understand like these are fucking fake pictures and we're acting like they have a whole life backstory rather than like i don't know maybe i would maybe be more interested in like the horny dude who created this and like what their motivation was and how they arrived at this conclusion yeah these are the heritage foundation guys but without the law degree it's the same man yeah 100 100 so anyway uh kenza or the the man who created enjoy your 20 000 and may you be motivated to keep fighting for whatever the fuck you're fighting for

Like our past guests on from the AI mystery hype machine Podcasts a that resists the urge to be I think wowed by AI just resist the earth I get because it it's fucking nonsense. I'm not it's excellent. I do feel happy watching that how unappealing it was Yeah, like I know and like am I confused that that's obviously not a human being right and it instantly it's excellent i do feel happy watching that how unappealing it was yeah like at no point am i confused that that's obviously not a human being right and it instantly fills you with a feeling of like they can't be fucking serious right now are they yeah like yeah i'm but it's not like this person the camera goes off and she's like oh wow thank god is it okay if i take a load off now i'm thinking i'm gonna take a nap before i call my mom and have dinner over there.

No, it's just... Right. If anything, I picture it like slowing to a stop and then just staring dead-eyed until they hit the on button again. Yeah, exactly. Pixar could have a similar thing where they create their favorite character. And you're like, wow, that character that an animator created is great, rather than being like, wow, we really got to get behind this woman. She's an activist. Okay, sure. More AI propaganda for us to consume. All right. Well, that's going to do it for us

this Monday. It was great telling you what was trending over the weekend. We'll be back tomorrow with a whole new episode. It's going to be fantastic. We're going to dive deep into another cultural phenomenon just to try and understand it a bit more. And until then, obviously, you know what to do. Just take care of yourselves. Take care of each other. Get the vaccine. You know, and just fucking don't do

nothing about white supremacy. Be a good person. Alright, we'll see you soon. Thank you, Mort. I'll see you soon, too. See you soon, man. Thank right. We'll see you soon. Thank you, Mort. I'll see you soon, too. See you soon, man. Thank you always do. What was that? That was live audio of a woman's nightmare. Can Kay trust her sister or is history repeating itself? There's nothing dangerous about what you're doing. They're just dreams. Dream Sequence is a new horror thriller from Blumhouse Television, iHeartRadio, and Realm. Listen to Dream Sequence on the iHeartRadio app,

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