The Daily Zeitgeist - Saratoga Trend Water 3/26: Footlong Doritos Nachos, Snow White, Trump/Voter Suppression, DMV Appointment Scalpers

Episode Date: March 26, 2025

In this edition of Saratoga Trend Water, Jack and Miles discuss Subway's new Footlong Doritos Nachos, DisneyCrats blaming the left for Snow White's failure, Trump's new voter suppression executive ord...er just dropped, scalpers selling free DMV appointments and much more! Subway's New Footlong Doritos Nachos Look Like 12 Inches Of Disappointment Disney's Snow White Fiasco: Death Threats and Zegler's Social Media Guru Trump’s New Executive Order Is an “Astonishing and Unprecedented Voter Suppression” Effort – Mother Jones See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:02:04 Hello the internet and welcome to this episode of Saratoga Trendwater. Ah, my name is Jack that over there is Miles. What could that be about? You're the red, white and blue. Shout out Jill Colucci. All the funny things you do. You do The live Live recording live performance of a America's funniest home video soundtrack by Joe Colucci Jill Colucci Jill legend. I thought you'll clue Joe. Yeah. No, anyway
Starting point is 00:02:38 How'd you do that? Oh Come on, you know, let's just call searching on YouTube aka Come on, you know, that's just called searching on YouTube aka It's a drop now I don't like using it but I keep saying it I say How do you know he said don't worry about it dad? He's a daddy. I'm a dad He like really he seems like a child like he seems like the the type of old person who has reverted to child brain a little bit. Yeah, that's what's, that's what senility do to you. Mm-hmm.
Starting point is 00:03:11 Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Anyways, my name's Jack, that over there is Miles. This is the episode where we tell you a couple of things that are trending right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And the big news. It's trending.
Starting point is 00:03:22 Hell yeah. That's taken both sides of the political spectrum by storm. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And the big news. Hell, yeah. It's taken both sides of the political spectrum by storm. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Subway's new foot long Doritos nachos. Now, when I hear that, I'm like, what the fuck are we talking about? A foot long nachos? And then I guess merely it's the container that it's in. Yeah, can I get 14 inches of nachos please?
Starting point is 00:03:48 That's how I've always ordered nachos is by length. President Trump, we have your foot long nachos here. Oh wow. How'd you do that? Oh yeah, so basically what we do, so the photos of this, we watched a review video. At first I'm like, look, I'm not against nachos. Okay, first of all, we are very pro nacho.
Starting point is 00:04:08 And by the way, I am pro. I thought I made a brilliant discovery when I started dipping Doritos in salsa. I was like, Doritos, yes, great on their own, can be the base for some sauces and nachos. They work really well and that way put you ever put salsa on a block of cream cheese yeah oh yeah you know that's that's called those are my nachos it's called Super Bowl baby so the this
Starting point is 00:04:36 Doritos fucking foot it's just a box with loose chips in there and they're putting stuff from the fucking like this box looks like children's like individual you know lunchbox apple sauces like this. The box looks like children's like individual, uh, you know, lunch box, apple sauces. Like that's what it looks like. Like the, it would have four of those stacks to each other inside. Yeah. Yeah. You buy a cardboard sleeve. Yeah, that's what it looks like, but it's just loose sandwich ingredients thrown on top of chips. I was, I said, you know what? I am going to ride for this.
Starting point is 00:05:05 You did? I don't care. You did, and you saw it. I don't care. And then I saw it and I said, there's one ingredient. I said, there's one ingredient that doesn't sit right with me, doesn't sit right. So, you know, nachos have a lot of ingredients.
Starting point is 00:05:21 They're not defined by any one ingredient. And these got the cheese. They got jalapenos, which I'm on board with. They also have just the sliced tomato from the sandwich. Just half layers, just half moons of sliced tomato on top. No, no, we don't do that. Like, are you going to also put shredded lettuce on there? Like, what the fuck is this?
Starting point is 00:05:44 I mean, and then also the onions are just like the loose Slice slivers of onions. You can't do a deconstructed pico You can't but a guy oh, no, that's not how this shit works. And I know that subway is in a bad way right now Look, I'm doing my best to keep y'all open. I'm eating my tuners. Their head is in the right place yeah, the you know, like collabing with Doritos, the kings of fast food collaboration. Yeah, exactly. Right. Yeah. Good idea, Subway.
Starting point is 00:06:16 But this just five dollars. That's the other thing. It's five, five, five dollar different nachos. Because it is it does look like they're just five Doritos in there Yeah, I think the way they could have gotten away with this if they said look if you buy a bag of Doritos or chips One nacho fire for you. Yeah chips for like any sort. Yeah Over if you want whatever the fuck if that's your fucking life if you want to ruin it this is just subway baby but yeah this isn't gonna this feels like a big swing and a miss from subway it does it also feels like something that I wouldn't mind to give it a try you know I just say hold the tomatoes I just
Starting point is 00:06:58 can't get past like I think that we love nachos especially when we go to restaurants because we can't do it at home There's just we just can't get it right at home the way you get a rest This just feels like some home ass nachos. This feels like my mom said we got nachos at home, right? And you're putting loose ass tomato slices Some Doritos and microwaving it and being like there you go. Eat up dickhead There you go piggy oink oinkhead. There you go, Piggy. Oink, oink.
Starting point is 00:07:26 And you slap that up. Fucking loser. Do you want to just eat it with no hands out of the little paper trough that we've given you here? Or you want me to tie your hands behind your back? Because a real piece of shit, real sick fuck like that, huh? You sicko. All right.
Starting point is 00:07:40 The narrative around Snow White. Oh, my God. Continued. The narrative around Snow White has continued. Disney is basically taking a page from the Democrats' playbook, a page from every media, a page from America's playbook after the Black Lives Matter protests where they're like this, the left is the reason. It went too far. The left is the reason that crime is going up. It wasn't going up. Is the left in charge of everything? Yeah, the left's in charge, man.
Starting point is 00:08:15 Yeah, that's what they do. But like I've gotten so much more interested in the Snow White movie release and like its build up just over the course because it's one of those things where ambiently I was like oh it must suck because Rachel Zegler because like you would see articles that were either one Snow White sucks the movie fucking sucks or he sucks or Rachel Zegler like Rachel Zegler's a piece of shit type article or number three a blending of the two like it sucks because Rachel Zegler is a piece of shit. And you're like, oh, wait, so what exactly is the star?
Starting point is 00:08:50 She's she was like discovered during her West Side Connection. No, West Side Story. Try out video. Yeah, story. Yeah. She did a good video. Everybody was like, she's good. She starred in that. Everybody was like, she's good. She starred in that. Everybody's like, she's good.
Starting point is 00:09:09 And then she starred in Snow White and everyone's like, she's good. But she also did do a boo boo. She did say free Palestine. But they're like, she's good, but she's Colombian. Yeah, yeah. Like sort of like an initial thing. So this new, there's a new article out in Variety and there's no other way to look at this except for a total fucking poorly written hit piece, you know what I mean, on Rachel Zegler to
Starting point is 00:09:37 lay the failures of Snow White at her feet basically and absolve everybody else of any kind of wrongdoing. So they start off the article by saying her support of innocent people being slaughtered in Palestine was step one of her downfall, I guess. So they pointed to a tweet where she was thanking fans for like going to an event to like promote the movie. And then like on this thread, she added another one that said, and she's like, and always, you know, remember Free Palestine, that got a ton of engagement because a lot of people agree with that sentiment that yes, this is completely vile,
Starting point is 00:10:12 what has happened. And just then she signed the movie's death warrant. Right, exactly. And then this article goes on about how the producer Mark Platt flew to Rachel Zegler to try and convince her to delete that tweet. And she's like, nah. I'm like, okay. I'm like, so far this variety article makes her sound pretty cool to me. Sounds pretty upstanding. Like she's sort of, you know, has values. So this article then goes on to speculate that her support for Palestinians manifested in death threats to Gal Gadot.
Starting point is 00:10:45 Gadot, whatever, however we're saying that, waiting for Gadot. And the article doesn't provide any context in regards to how people may view Gal's politics and how she's been the subject of repeated protests. Like when she screened the IDF-produced documentary bearing witness to the October 7th massacre, like she personally was like hosting a screening of that.
Starting point is 00:11:06 Then she had a Hollywood Walk of Fame star ceremony. It was interrupted by protestors again, because she's very, very vocally saying like, Israel is not doing anything wrong. Y'all are tripping. Everything's all good. Everyone is Hamas that disagrees when they basically sort of like what her stance is.
Starting point is 00:11:23 Not really a compelling argument as to why people didn't see the film, but okay. Right. Yeah, but between the two, one of them has the more unpopular opinion, and that is the more famous one, Gal Gadot. She has a very unopinion, that's very unpopular with people like that.
Starting point is 00:11:43 Globally, I would say. Yeah, globally, in the United States, even a lot of people were like the election is really coming down to a lot of people not thinking Joe Biden's doing a good job by fully backing Israel. That was pretty much agreed on. Like nobody thinks that what's happening is good. Yeah. So, OK. Then the movie is happening is good. Yeah. So, okay. Then the movie is supposedly not good.
Starting point is 00:12:08 I haven't seen it, but the reviews are like, it's kind of a piece of shit. Many of the reviews do say like Rachel Ziegler is the lone bright spot. I've seen that review in a lot of places. So what's their diagnosis here, Miles? It's just, it's absurd. So then they, then they said she posted, fuck Donald Trump, like after the election. And they're like, and that was alienating audiences even further. And I'm like, okay, is that all you got? And then they're like, then she's a real troublemaker because she told people that she wasn't going to the Academy Awards when her debut film West Side Story was nominated.
Starting point is 00:12:46 This is from the variety piece. Zegler had already strained nerves at both the studio and Steven Spielberg's Amblin partners when she complained on social media that she wasn't invited to the 2022 Oscars as the star of best picture nominee West Side Story, a film distributed by Disney. They're pointing to the fact that someone asked if like, oh, are you excited for the Oscars? Are you gonna be there, whatever? And she's just like, no, I'm gonna be watching from home. No real context outside of that. They're like, wait, you're not going?
Starting point is 00:13:14 And then we find out that one of these Disney executives basically didn't allow her to go to the Oscars because they wanted her on set for Snow White. They wouldn't allow this young performer to go to the Oscars because they wanted her on set for Snow White. They wouldn't allow this young performer to go to the academy awards when their debut film is nominated. Okay, cool. But yeah, this, this makes her look bad. Again. So by the end of the article, I'm just left with the impression that this was written by the Disney side of things and they were just hell bent on scapegoating her for their own terrible
Starting point is 00:13:42 filmmaking. And what a lot of the people have viewed as like negative aspects of the film aren't anything to do with anything Rachel Ziegler was in charge of creatively or any. They're like, yeah, her performance fine. It's all the shit around. It's really not that great. And I think the piece loses credibility for a number of reasons, but leaving out the fact that so much anger was coming from right wing freaks complaining about her inadequate whiteness is also a spectacular failure and feels intentional.
Starting point is 00:14:08 Oh, they don't mention that part of the controversy. No, no. And it feels intentional in order to simplify like this post-mortem of Snow White too. Rachel Zegler supports Palestine, which caused death threats for Gal Gadot. Then she said stuff about Trump and is also ungrateful. So that's why the movie did poorly
Starting point is 00:14:24 rather than why the fuck did anyone think this was a movie worth making? And also for all the complaints like in this piece is like, oh, she shouldn't be so vocal about her politics. Yet Gal Gadot can do the same and there is no criticism of that. I'm really- Well, those aren't politics.
Starting point is 00:14:39 She's just like being real, dude. Oh, okay. She's not like being idealistic and silly like Rachel Ziegler. She's being realistic about how they need to kill all those kids. That's important. Really fucking backwards. It is a very consistent and effective form of propaganda against the West in the United States. Sorry, propaganda against the left in the United States. Sorry. Propaganda against the left in the United States, where things just constantly get rewritten, where the left is allowed to say what they think is going on.
Starting point is 00:15:16 Like with the Black Lives Matter protests and everyone agrees. There are a lot of people. A lot of people agree. You got a point there. You come with some consequence and rewrite the story of like murders went up during the pandemic. And that was actually somehow because people criticize the police. Yeah. Some like and not because they froze all these like
Starting point is 00:15:41 non-police programs that were actually effective at like. And also, like everybody just had too much free time because they were all like, everybody was like out of school and there were no programs or any of the things that keep people occupied. Yeah. Um, no, it's definitely because, uh, the police feelings were hurt and everyone was like, hell yeah, the police are sad. We can go out and commit murders that seems realistic and do shoplifting, which actually didn't happen. It's, you know, it's with the 2020 2024 election where it's, you know, they criticize Kamala
Starting point is 00:16:18 Harris for not for running a basically a right wing campaign, like the, uh, a campaign to the right of the democratic party, uh, historically and they lose. And then it somehow becomes that it was the group far left and it was the groups which like, yeah, I don't even know what the fuck the groups means, but like the, yeah, it's just always, they find a way to turn it around and it to turn around and they just agree on that. They've just always agreed that that's whose fault it is. Anytime something bad happens to this center left thing that has no identity, whatever Disney version of politics is, it's just bullshit.
Starting point is 00:17:04 It sucks. It's not going to be good. Like whatever they're doing is, is not going to work. Uh, the democratic party, whatever they're doing, it's not, it's just a fucking Venn diagram. It's not even like a thing that actually exists. Nobody actually has those beliefs because it's just beliefs you made up to try and cram the Venn diagram into reality. I'm one of these people, I believe in body autonomy, but not the kind of autonomy that
Starting point is 00:17:30 sort of prevents the state from brutalizing an immigrant. Right. That's, you know what I mean? That, not that. Yeah, not that. That's kind of where I'm at. Does that make sense? Is, where are my people at?
Starting point is 00:17:41 Oh, there's a lot of us, but yeah. It's just a very, it's a reflex. And I think also more than anything, when you have these institutions that are all about maintaining its power and influence, it can never be that someone outside of it made an observation that was like true or that they bear any responsibility
Starting point is 00:17:59 for the outcomes of the things that they are absolutely, fully behind and responsible for. Cause no one's being like, dude, like every, it's just these oversimplifications of why people didn't go. It's not like people were protesting outside of the theater because Rachel Zegler said, fuck Donald Trump. Like, no, you also, you've preemptively pulled back
Starting point is 00:18:19 all the marketing shit and none of that is discussed in the article. So just fuck off this shit. They're just blaming her and probably, yeah, it looks like they have it out for her career now, but it's, it's wild. Yeah. It really, it also like people should read Alec Herrick and Sanis's Coppaganda book, the section where the Harvard sociologists like, you know,
Starting point is 00:18:44 begrudgingly and with great consternation, regret to inform you that the only way to lower crime is to double the police force. And we hate that. We hate to report that because we're coming from the left and it's like you're actually not, but they're coming from the default position. Yeah. That's the status quo. Yeah. Yeah. The status quo. Exactly. Um, but it is really sad that that producer had to leave his 38 year old son to go mark. Yeah. His son, Jonah Platt, someone commented on Instagram. We're like, dude, your dad's like doing some weirdo shit.
Starting point is 00:19:20 Kind of like violate her freedom of speech country to like tell somebody to delete a comment? He really just said, he left his family. This is coming from a 38 year old man. He's like, you really want to do this? Yeah, my dad, the producer of an enormous piece of Disney IP with hundreds of millions of dollars on the line, had to leave his family to fly across the country to reprimand his 20 year old employee for
Starting point is 00:19:45 dragging her personal politics into the middle of promoting the movie for which she signed a multi-million dollar contract. That's what the money's for! Is essentially what it comes down to. He also calls like her immature for saying free Palestine. Which again goes back to that is that's the thing that we see over and over again, is anything that is to the left and like, you know, what a lot of people actually believe, even though they don't necessarily identify it as being to the left, it's always attacked as being childish and immature. Now, like, it's not real.
Starting point is 00:20:22 Just say like to to mischaracterize things as being the left or the right when you're saying, I'm opposed to innocence being needlessly murdered. What are you, on the fucking left? What are you, a child? Yeah. Huh? Yeah. Like, nice attack, but what I'm talking about is an appeal to our own fucking humanity and sense
Starting point is 00:20:41 of decency. So yeah, I'm a decent person. Yeah. Narcissism is not something to be coddled or encouraged, says the guy who's like, don't make my daddy leave his family. I'm a 38 year old. I'm a 38 year old and my brother Ben has all the talent. I'm just Jonah. Yeah.
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Starting point is 00:24:57 A lot of quarts are asking the question. Sorry, folks. How could it dump some terrible some terrible fucking news on us on ourselves a little bit a little bit I think of it as like a one of those fun ice wall ice. Yes, I challenge. Yeah ice bucket challenges Yeah, like fuckery back challenge. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and who do you challenge to tell this news to next? So, you know we heard during the run run up to the election that he was saying, you won't have to vote anymore. Vote in this one, you won't have to vote anymore, folks. And we wondered, what was he talking about? What, Danny, what does it mean?
Starting point is 00:25:36 Right. What's a woman? So it means he just signed a, quote, far-reaching executive order that Eliza Swearenbecker, senior counsel in the Brennan Center for Justices voting rights and elections program described as quote, an astonishing and unprecedented voter suppression effort. Yeah, that's from Mother Jones. It would prevent millions of Americans from registering to vote.
Starting point is 00:26:03 The centerpiece of the order is a requirement the voters show proof of citizenship when registering to vote in federal elections. This is again, but this is, the bigger thing is that, right? Our elections are not, that's not from the fucking executive to determine how elections are executed.
Starting point is 00:26:20 Yeah, it's not a federal thing either. Those are up to the states. The shit about this is, this is giving inspiration for backward states to then run this playbook on their own people. Right. And like, even like when you just, like the sort of these four things that Mother,
Starting point is 00:26:37 in this Mother Jones article that they're pointing out, and I think many experts are also pointing out to these sort of four things too. It's really, it's fucking slippery. Like the first one's preventing people from registering to vote because they have to provide sort of four things too. It's really, it's fucking slippery. Like the first one's preventing people from registering to vote because they have to provide proof of citizenship. A lot of people don't have that.
Starting point is 00:26:50 And I think the default way would be to bring your passport. But then even when you look at the statistics, more passport holders reside in blue states than red states. Right. Okay. I guess you just disenfranchise your own voters and some level. I mean, I guess it's purely also to,
Starting point is 00:27:05 this is probably a setup move to be able to cast dispersions on election results because they're like, well, we tried, we tried to button this up and the state's refused. Trying to change deadlines for voting by mail, like letting Elon fuck in the Doge people, like use, get into all kinds of personal information to try and track voter registration
Starting point is 00:27:26 fraud. It's not a fucking thing at all. They tried to do this in the first administration and remember they couldn't find anything. And they fucking just slithered back into silence into their dark corner because there was nothing there. Overall, this is just kind of giving blanket power to Trump. Let's just let Elon handle it though, you know? Yeah. What happened with my thumbs, Elon? How'd I put that guy in the chat, dude? I don't even know. But yeah, this is a very another just huge, huge attempt to upend the little few norms we have left in the country.
Starting point is 00:28:03 So we'll see how this plays out, but like just cause on its face, it's like so unconstitutional, but that's everything here nowadays. So. I'm sure the courts got it. This does feel like the sort of thing that, you know, the courts are pushing back on some of his executive orders.
Starting point is 00:28:19 This might be a one for us, one for them type thing. Yeah. Well, they just did the one where they said, Hey, the ghost gun thing that Biden did, all right, yeah, we're gonna keep that in place with just Alito and Thomas being the dissenters. But holy shit, man, this is, they're trying fucking everything.
Starting point is 00:28:37 And the other part of it too is, there are other versions of bills like this that are like, your name must match your birth certificate or you will not be able to vote. And a lot of people point to people who get married and change their last names. Then what? Right. Yeah. That's not gonna match your birth certificate. And guess what happens? And guess what the majority of people who end up changing their last names or things like this is fucking yeah, they're trying it all. But yeah, I think the dark heart of this bill or this executive order is the inspiration
Starting point is 00:29:05 it can give to the states that do have, you know, some ability to try and enact this kind of shit as unconstitutional as it may be. Well, on a happy note, people are still out here grinding. You know what I mean? So the DMV. Still grinding, man. Hell yeah. It can be tough to deal with. You gotta go there, wait all day. Sometimes you don't even get an appointment. Have you wait, have you seen these places that are just like little satellite offices
Starting point is 00:29:31 where you can just run in and get like your bro, there's a spot I went to. It was like in a mechanic shop and they gave me real straight because yeah, because you know that the house burned down. So I had to change my registration and shit. And it was like the renewal was happening right as I'm like, bro, there's no mail that's getting there. Right. I just went there. Boom. Knocked it out. Yeah. Brian, the editor. Yes.
Starting point is 00:29:53 Triple A has these kiosks. And I was like, yeah, wait a second. It can't be easy. I'm going to be at that. I'm trying to get my father in law's passport tomorrow. Like we're last second. He's like leaving next week and they've been fucking holding that shit hostage. I'm going to be waiting at a federal building. Yeah. Are you going to bring your manifesto? Got some notes, guys.
Starting point is 00:30:17 I got something to say. Like, oh, but anyways, people are out here basically selling DMV appointments. So they'll like get the appointment by like hopping online, like on the internet, you know, getting my appointment. And then because people are so desperate, and like the only other options like waiting all day online, they will then sell them to people for up to $250. And it's not illegal. So this is that one, of course, is250 and it's not illegal so this is that one of
Starting point is 00:30:47 course is happening it's not a little yet count this is Miami-Dade County yeah so they're treating it like a hype drop where they use boss exactly to fucking generate appointments then they sit on these appointments DMV and the appointments dude the bots are just fucking up all the game, bro They fucked up the sneaker game now. They're fucking up the DMV appointment game dead stock DMV appointments This is so fucking wild just just sure so they basically what do they do? They just stand around like hey, bro, bro, bro, bro. You wanna blame me? I got a moment. You want to get over there I mean cuz they do that shit. I had known like the New York restaurant scene
Starting point is 00:31:25 for reservations. Oh really? Yeah. There's like scalpers outside the restaurants? Well, no, they sit on like when the, you know how like, it's like anything. It's like, you know that the reservations for a month from today open up and like at nine o'clock,
Starting point is 00:31:37 you got to go on the thing and people are just flooding it. And then they're like, hey bro, you need a reservation this day. I can, I can slide it to you for a little bit of cash. That's crazy. Yeah. Smart. I mean, and by crazy, I mean smart as hell. And yeah, they're on their ground. Spooky, hilarious. Yeah. Crazy, scary, spooky, hilarious. It's a good country. It's a good country. This unfettered capitalism thing is working well. That's going to do it for us this afternoon. We are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show Until then be kind to each other be kind to yourself
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