The Daily Zeitgeist - Satan's Tariffs, Minecraft Screenings R Turnt 04.08.25

Episode Date: April 8, 2025

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Should I finish White Lotus? Like is it? Was it so was the finale such a let down? It's like why the fuck you fucking care? I find myself bitch about it. That's that's like why I know discourse based viewing though. I resent so much. Okay.

Well then don't because it's actually not that great. So I would say don't and if you have other TV that you like then watch that TV. I watched the first episode of the studio and that you like, then watch that TV. I watched the first episode of the studio and I was like, oh, this is good. Oh really? I heard it was good. I don't, I'm not a TV person.

So I'm very much like, what is the internet talking about? Okay. Yeah. So then I'll watch that. And it was very fun because last night as we were trying to finish it, Matt's entire family was clearly watching Max at the same time.

And so we kept signing each other out of it. So we were watching it and then exactly we couldn't even log in the beginning. We were like, oh, everyone's watching this all like his brother, his sister, his mom. We know like they're probably watching it in separate rooms in the same house. Right. So it's probably on in every single device. And then halfway through when we finally got it logged in, first of all, he logged everybody out in order to watch it.

He was like, oh, I'm logging everybody out, which is such a bitch move. That's terrorism. That's so mean. That's terrorism. That's sheer login. Wow. Because it stops in the middle of you watching it. If you're watching it and someone logs everybody out, it will like sputter.

It's not going to keep going. Oh, and then you just think something's wrong. Right. Right. Exactly. And then in the middle of it, we were watching somebody log us out. So it's like, I was just text the group, text the family. No, it was just, yeah, terrorism. You know, people losing it over the family it over the rich white people angst show. Have you ever wondered if your pet is lying to you?

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It's Tuesday, April 8th, 2025. You say what day is that? It's National Library Workers Day. First, you're talking about librarians. Now it's the library workers who I'd imagine, do we also consider them librarians? Or just people who work at, if you're custodial staff or whatever. Shout out to y'all. National Empanada Day, National Zoo Lovers Day. Like you go to a zoo, not like a zoo file or something, like you're an animal. Like you like the zoo. Shout out to LA Zoo.

I have not been since I had the Geist Child. What? And I hear it. Oh, it's good. It's good. I mean, it is like, it's kind of a, it's kind of an uphill climb consistently. And the last time we went, the animals were all really horny.

Like the rhino was like, just dig fully out. Really? Yeah. And the giraffe, one went the animals were all really horny like the rhino was like just dick fully out really yeah One giraffe just like dick out just chasing this other one, but it's spring man. It's spring. What are you gonna? Do exactly yeah a good day damn well hey Take your kids for some kind of nature lesson if you want to go to a zoo soon while the season still is out there My name is miles Gray, aka. So bye bye Miss American buys. Get them all with tariffs now our finances dry. And good old boys get tariffs on their whiskey and rice.

Singing this is how the economy dies. Singing this how the economy die. Shout out to Archcam Cam for that very wonderful submission on the discord for that aka and look, I'm gonna get right to it. I'm thrilled to be joined by my co host today. We all we all know her. We all respect her. We all love her. She's a comedian. She's an activist. She's a host. She's a journalist. We only have multi hyphenate guest host song. That's just how we do

this. It can't just be a podcaster because that's me me and then I can feel better when they do all this other shit That is very impressive. So please join me in welcoming to the mic our guest co-host for today, Francesca Fiorentini Also, shout out the bittuation room side. I should have It's all good. Hey, thanks for having me. I don't have a song I forgot to do a song but I now I have to join the discord and next time I'm I don't have a song. I forgot to do a song, but I now I have to join the discord and next time I'm on somebody, somebody suggests a song, please. Yeah, I'm currently fucking with Blake Wexler, who's in the discord asking for AKAs. I'm like, Oh, he ain't even coming on the show. He goes, please ignore that.

Blake's like, well, I'm gonna be booked. Well, our guest today, Francesca is a very, it's a first time guest. We always like first time guests. You might know him from his newsletter, Garbage Day, or his new podcast, Panic World, talking about just, you know, all the things, the conspiracies, the way our minds are distorted through the internet and all kinds of things

and how that manifests in our physical world. Please welcome to the microphone, the very talented Ryan Broderick. Hello. I also don't have a song, but I will sing something for your listeners. If you want, they can DM me and I'll send them a weird video. That's totally fine. Is there a genre that you specialize in? I mean, I like ska music. Oh, shit.

Still, still. Sure. It's coming back. Did you watch the documentary that came out recently? I mean, I know I really like ska music. You know, you can still, sure. Someone's, you know, it's coming back with the documentary that came out recently. I didn't, but with the economy and freefall, like it's a perfect time for, you know, DIY music. Let's do it. Oh, hell yeah. Exactly. Let's like use our, I feel like that could be the new street band because like it doesn't require like, well,

does require some amps. But if you get a good horn section out there, that's all you need. That's all you need. You know, we can be doing Aquabats covers. There you go. Finally. Anti-negativity helmet song. I'm glad I've already derailed this podcast by mentioning Ska music. No, no derailing.

Man, it's so embarrassing how much like freshman year of high school was like, So this is how you skank. And I was like, Oh yeah, we're going to do that the homecoming dance. Now we're all really into that at the homecoming dance. Now we're all really into ska and skanking. And I'd like to say that was my most embarrassing period of my high school years. But then I got into jam band. So, you know, you can always go down.

Oh, that's so much worse. It's so much worse. That's unfathomably worse. Yeah. I'm sorry to say that too. Were you fucking with Goldfinger and shit? No. I was.

No, I don't know. Yeah, yeah. Tony Hatchbrook. Oh yeah. Let's get a soundtrack. Let's go. I was there. I was there. I was there. Because look, I played trumpet in band. Okay. And then at the time, especially when I was in, I know where this is headed. Around eighth grade, Aquabats was popping off and I was like,

yo bro, get me in there and I'm good at horn. I can hit all these horn lines. Next thing you know, I'm in a band called the Lip Tones because we like Lipton ice tea. That's so incredibly good. Yeah. We did, we did a lot of live shows, and we in a band called the Lip Tones because we like Lipton iced tea. That's so incredibly good. Yeah.

We almost went to battle the bands at Crespi High School in the San Fernando Valley, but we didn't go to Crespi. We went to Soda Dame all day, baby. Anyway, Ryan, thanks for joining us. Thanks for having me. Weird time for panics right now, huh? I mean, for me, it's great.

Like nothing, you know, there's something new to talk about all the time. We were really kind of nervous when we started the show with that sort of, that sort of lens, but it's actually paid off quite well for us. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you, Mr. Trump.

Are we anxious enough? Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Well, so sometimes like that is it. Like sometimes we're not anxious enough. Sometimes we're too anxious. Like we really just can't get it right. So it's, yeah, it's been a good time for me.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, we're going to touch in on all of the things that we've not anxious enough. Sometimes we're too anxious. Like we really just can't get it right. So it's, yeah, it's been a good time for me. Yeah, yeah. Well, we're going to touch in on all of the things that are just throwing us for a loop at the moment. And even the billionaires, they're like, hey, what the heck's going on?

Usually we're in control of everything. We'll talk about that. We'll also talk about RFK doing his like very predictable 180 to 180 that he does very publicly. And then also talk about the Minecraft movie, because while the stocks are down, the box office numbers were up, fucking way up for the Minecraft movie. And the kids are fucking there's some clips I've seen on the Internet. Just kids fucking losing it in the movie like they're watching. I can't explain it.

I've never thrown my drink in the fucking air during a screening, but these little freaks have. Uh, but before we get into any of that, we ask you, Ryan, our guess, what's something from your search history that's revealing about who you are, what you're into? Well, uh, recently I was Googling like quinoa recipes because I, I gained a lot of weight during the winter and I'm trying to like, you know, get back into shape.

And I'm happy to say I did discover a pretty good recipe for making quinoa not taste like dirt. So there you go. OK, is quinoa like the way forward? Is that like? I mean, apparently it's slightly better than rice. And here's here's a little here's a little tip. You can take a Japanese curry cube and put it in a rice cooker with quinoa And it actually tastes like food. Yeah, not and not like drywall, which I think is what it usually tastes like

Yeah, so I I'm like this is when I chime in that I have an allergy to quinoa that like It doesn't I don't like, you know get our hives or anything And I don't really have allergies note anything else But it kills my stomach like if it's not cooked You know you have to cook it so perfectly that like the little curl comes out and if it's like slightly Under which like every vegan restaurants was like here this hard Sawdust and it's just like my stomach goes in a spasm straight spasm It's uh, I think it's not the easiest thing to digest. You know what I mean?

It's, but it's filling as shit. So that's true. Something about a quinoa shortage recently? Is that a good thing? I mean, I assume we're just going to have all kinds of shortages now. So I'm really just like, I'm enjoying food. Not the quinoa. I know. The coffee. I like the idea, Francesca, that you're so LA, you go to a place and like, I actually have a quinoa allergy. I think he is sorry. I'm like, Oh my God. Um, well we'll see if we can get you anything to eat here. I'd like some bread. I can only eat just massive amounts of bread and butter, please.

Yes. Free. Thank you. Thank you. That sounds really good. Very much. Ryan, what's something you think is underrated? Underrated.

That is a great question. I actually, okay, like this might be kind of an insane thing to say, but like, I really didn't properly use Instagram for like five years because I just like didn't want to use it anymore and now I'm using it again. And Instagram stories I actually think are underrated as like a way to understand what people are up to.

Like I actually am like enjoying Instagrams, like just using them. Okay, give me an example. Like what's a story that you've seen? You go, okay, there's value to this. Oh no, it's not like anyone's really, it's not like there's any actual value of what people are putting on it.

Oh, I thought you were blowing up with breaking the shifting the paradigm. You're like, nah man, the real fucking truth is in the fucking story. I don't wanna like rag on my friends here, but like they're not doing anything interesting on here. But I do feel like, you know, cause I live, I live in New York. I'm in my mid thirties.

I work in the media sorta and like it used to be, you could go on Twitter and yeah, there'd be a ton of new stuff, but you'd also see like what people in your industry or your friends or whatever were like thinking about, you know, the new HBO season finale or whatever, you know, their lives. Facebook used to be like that too, but like those places don't do that anymore. So actually like Instagram stories is kind of like the last place left to just like passively see what people in your life are up to. Oh, for sure. And that I think is pretty cool. I think you're right about this, especially when you realize that so many people think that their grid is like precious and they can't post shit there. And so they'll just do a lot of stories. And then they'll never, and like also like famous people will do a lot of stories and never post or like post only official shit. So

that's also a way to like low key creep on the people, you know what I'm saying? And it's nice that it's like automatic, little keep going. So I don't have to like, so I could just like start it and then be brushing my teeth and like keep on watching it. And then two and a half hours go by. You do it while you're brushing my teeth and like keep on watching it. And then two and a half hours go by. You're brushing your teeth? You know, I'm trying to not do this, but I get bored. Brushing your teeth? Like, what can I do? You get bored brushing your teeth?

You know what I mean? This is like two minutes and like no one's even entertaining me right now. Because you do it till the timer go off? What? Do you have an electric toothbrush? Is that why you said two minutes? No, I just gave you a lot of talk. Cause a lot of them have. I have like have an electric toothbrush? Is that what you said two minutes? No, I just because a lot of them have

I have a shitty electric toothbrush. That's like definitely way too hard for my because you just speak now pink every time like, I don't watch any content when I brush your teeth, but I just stare angrily into my own eyes. And I just you know, it's like, it's really intense for me. Yeah, I do. When I brush my teeth, no content. But I I try and see if I can count to 30 in my mind's clock. Like see what my internal clock is like.

I have a whole countdown that I do like four on this top row, four bottom, the four on the inside of my teeth, four on the, anyway. See I gotta do that. That's a better way. Yeah, it's probably better, yeah. And that's why I'm so fucking Zen about everything. I think a lot of people don't realize that's my secret

is just not consuming content when I brush my teeth. Ryan, what's something you think is overrated? Overrated. That is that is also a great question, because I you know what? I'm going to say I'm going to say the city of Nashville, Tennessee. I went there recently and it's pretty cool, but I think people are making a really big deal out of it. Mm hmm.

Mm hmm. Like in what sense? What do you mean? Like, like, it's not it's pretty cool, but I think people are making a really big deal out of it. Like in what sense? What do you mean? Like, like, it's not, it's not, uh, I don't think it's like equipped to handle the level of interest that it has. Uh, when I was there, it was like the week where like all of the bachelorette parties had arrived simultaneously. That I feel like that's what I hear. It's the Vegas for that part of the country, right? Yeah. But it's like specifically for bachelor parties, which nothing against, but a good bachelor party. But the city can't like handle it. So like, and you can't drink outside. That's the problem.

Vegas, New Orleans, you can drink on the street. Yeah. So who cares if it's crowded? In Nashville, you can't drink on the street. So everyone just gets stuffed into these giant country bars and you can't do anything. And I think that's, I think it's a little over. I think they got to change the, if they can change the drinking outside laws, then I'll say it's not overrated. But right now I would say it's overrated. So I'm guessing you love the ability to drink outside.

No, I think it's well, I mean, yes, of course, I'm a civilized person. But yeah, it's twenty twenty five. But more importantly, if if you're cramming everybody into like, yeah, it's not fun. Yeah. I get a little claustrophobic. So if I could just have a beer on the sidewalk, like a person, a normal human being, I think that would be better. So yeah, I'm going to go with Nashville, Tennessee is being overrated until they

fix that specific problem. I think it's overrated too, but that's because Kid Rock always throws me out of his honky tonk. Dude, I walked by it. It was so big. It's like a five story bar. Oh, is that big? And he's always having a weird meltdown in there, which is awesome, I guess. It's like the bizarro mothership, comedy mothership.

Wait, what is this? What is a honky tonk? A honky tonk is a country bar. And typically they play honky tonk music, which is a specific kind of music for a honky tonk bar. Yeah, and Kid Rock owns one. And he just, it's a scream fest all the time. There's that clip of him going to, I forget, it was like some keyboardist for Journey or some shit and like took over his birthday and told the crowd

they weren't shit because they weren't saying along with him. Exactly. Is that the wife, the husband of... Lauren Boebert? No, no, no, no, no. The Journey person is married to this spiritual advisor of Donald Trump who believes in like the prosperity gospel and And I'm forgetting her name. Paula white. Paula white. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

They all probably hang around that honky tonk. It makes sense. Uh, journey. We were all rooting for you. Jesus Christ. I, I, I was, I also realized, I think I've mentioned the keyboard player because I think that dude played with Carlos Santana Woodstock, uh, and there And there's a very iconic Carlos Santana's

little sacrifice performance, or like the keyboard players like fucking like just. Oh, you know a lot of cool facts about the Journey keyboard player. You know, that's just I got a bit of a stocking case. I'm trying to get thrown out of the courts. I think it's called just being a number one fan anyway. Cool. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. See, fandoms are back.

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He's like, I'm going to kill you. I'm going to kill you. I'm going to kill you. I'm going to kill you. I'm going to kill you. I'm going to kill you. I'm going to kill you. I'm going to kill you.

I'm going to kill you. I'm going to kill you. I'm going to kill you. I'm going to kill you. I'm going to kill you. I'm going to kill you. I'm going to kill you. I'm going to with you. I just have to say shit so I don't look like I'm trying to kill children and He has done the exact fucking same thing this last weekend on Sunday he attended the funeral of an eight-year-old child that succumbed to a measles infection and Used that anecdote to try and launder his reputation as a backwards anti-vaxxer saying he was there to comfort the family and was actively taking on this outbreak. This part of the the tweet was very interesting to read coming from RFK quote, the most effective way to prevent

the spread of measles is the MMR vaccine. And then he also said that he was talking to Governor Abbott about redeploying CDC teams to help with the outbreak. You're like, whoa, the CDC that you're gutting? Oh. Yeah, they got teams? What was this? Obviously the replies- One guy.

Yeah, the replies under this tweet were unhinged. One person said, your post got cut off. The MMR is also one of the most effective ways to cause autism as witnessed by millions of parents worldwide and covered by the CDC's fraudulent study at the heart of this documentary. Then links up to a documentary called Vaxed from cover up to catastrophe.

Del Bigtree is a sort of notorious anti-vaxxer. Yeah, I was kind of feeling like, fuck that guy. But yes, very, again, the heavyweights have come out. Then another fan comes out quote, fucking real normal. I think what you meant to say is that doctors in Texas are murdering children with erroneous hospital protocols in order to keep their trillion dollar vaccine grift going.

And that you have asked the DOJ to arrest these doctors and charge them with crimes against humanity. Sure. Huh? They're waiting. When did he ever say Okay, sure. Sure. Again, I think also this is probably very normal for an RFK tweet that you inspire these kinds of just reactions just in any capacity. And while that may have been celebrated on parts of the internet as if RFK saw the light because you did see some headlines that were like

RFK now says MMR vaccine is the way to prevent measles infection He in fact did not just a few hours after that tweet He posted how he was visiting men at night families with children that had also been infected with measles and then he praised two Healers, he said quote. And then he praised two healers. He said, quote, I also, he's like on top of those families, quote, I also visited with these two extraordinary healers, Dr. Richard Bartlett and Dr. Ben Edwards, who have treated and healed some 300

measles stricken Mennonite children using aerosolized, Budesonide and Clarithromycin. Ooh, love a Clarithromycin. I love a clarinet with mycin in it, you know what I mean? And both of these guys, again, frauds, deal in anti-vax nonsense and giving people their own homebrew meds. Dr. Bartlett specifically was described as quote,

having a history of using unconventional treatments and who was disciplined for unusual use of risk-filled medications by the Texas Medical Board in 2023. A very predictable kind of thing. You got to be a massive piece of shit to go to someone's funeral for their eight-year-old and then be hawking this stuff. But the problem is, they're preying on the Mennonite community, and anti-vaxxers have preyed on all kinds of sort of, you know, religious folks and anyone who's

like already predisposed to buying into cults, which I would argue, you know, yeah, Mennonites are, they're all, they only speak German. I mean, I, I, and, you know, RFK Jr.'s Children's Defense, Health Defense Fund or whatever has its own TV channel. They straight up went and interviewed the first parent who's, I believe six year old died. And they were like, we just don't believe in vaccine, whatever it was, you know, like they, they were like, no, we would do it all over again. We believe RFK Jr., you know, and it's too bad. But that's this is God's will. And you're just like, it's I mean, I hate to be the one or like people were like child abuse, but it's child abuse.

I'm sorry. Like that is not the child's decision. When you, yeah, especially when you put it through the perspective, anyone who has their own child and you're like, well, what are the options? Give them a thing the doctors are saying will save their life or give it up to Sky Ghost and hope that everything works out. I'm going Sky Ghost every time, you know, sky ghost currently bad record for that. True. Yeah. RFK is really weird though, because like, like he's a Kennedy, right? So he doesn't like he doesn't have the usual profile of an anti-vaxxer where like

they're clearly at a certain level just like lying to make money. Like he's a he's like a true believer. Yeah. Like, you know, your normal anti-vaxxer you're going to see on Facebook, like event, if you watch enough of their videos, you can kind of tell like they know that like, this is like a pyramid scheme and they want you to buy supplements or some bullshit, but he is like genuinely ideological about this in a way that is I think a lot more dangerous, especially because now he's extremely powerful.

Yeah. Oh, 100%. But he is, he's super handsome. So it's fine for me personally. He's got big shoulders. He's got huge shoulders. Big shoulders. No, but people like...

I mean, he also... Okay, this is the thing I can't really tell about any of the guys in Trump world like RFK right now is how much do they care about being popular? It's a really weird moment unlike Trump one, where they kind of still cared about the economy about like Getting voted again like voted into power again, like the normal sort of levers of democracy But now I have no idea if RFK actually cares if he like if he causes a measles outbreak

No, it's like each of them. No, each of them are their own little zealots They're like riding this till the wheels come off and. And first of all, I dispute that he's hot. He, he seems like an orange. I mean, if you like an orange gummy bear that's been left out in the sun, you know, like that's like the sort of like, he's like, yeah, he looks like a melted acid. He looks like he, his skin looked like Turkey jerky. Yeah.

And he looks like he's always telling you the last thing he's going to ever tell you. And you're like, he looks like he's, I mean the last thing he's going to ever tell you. And you're like, he looks like he's I mean, I've never met him, but I bet he looks like he just smells crazy. Like, like, like, like, he's just got crazy old man. No, but you know what it is? He has crazy old man smell. But Cheryl Hines, like, sprays him with a ton of cologne before he goes out the door

because he doesn't listen to her and she's like, OK, at least I'll cover up the dead fucking whale head. The cod. Right. Yeah. The cod. That's what I'm saying. Like to your point.

Yeah. He doesn't give a fuck about it. This guy's fucking chopping off whale heads to take home and playing a Heidi bear with like a dead bear cub and like setting it up in central park. This guy is like on he's got his own fucking shit going that I don't know how you get through to him and to that same thing. He, he kind of understands optics well enough because he comes from like a political background where he's like, okay, I'll do this thing.

I'll glad hand with grieving families and then just kind of give some, give a headline that maybe people won't look right into what I say directly after that. Where I show that was all fucking fake. And I just said that to say it because I'm a sociopath. But, you know, hey. I mean, he's yeah, he's like doing the whole like, you know, experiments that, you know, he did when he was eight years old on, you know, feeding whatever animal to his Falcon.

Like it's just that on a greater scale. It truly RFK Jr. is probably the most single, singly most terrifying person in the administration I hold. And it'd be one thing if he were going after Big Pharma, like he says he hates, but they're not doing fuck all about Big Pharma. Like if you were normal, like if you were like, okay, I understand my anti-vax positions are not popular,

but my anti-pharma stuff is my anti-Big Pharma, you would lead with that, You know what I mean? Right. And try to. Right, this is my problem with him too. Right. Like, there's no point there to what he's doing. No, no, no.

It's like everything in this administration. It's like, we just need one thing to kind of point to a problem people kind of agree on. And then I'll do nothing that is actually consistent with that. I'm just sort of using, I'm evoking that, that sense of outrage. And then be like, and that's why I got to do this other backward stuff, right? We got a vaccine. I don't know. But yeah, this is, uh, you know, we'll continue to see what's going on with this,

but yeah, that, that measles outbreak doesn't seem like it's letting up at the moment. Let's keep talking about the economy guys, mostly because I think this is, I don't know, this is, it's starting to, I'm seeing, I see headlines, there's headlines every week that's like, oh, oh, it's starting to crack. It did seem like we were getting a little wobbly last week with the GOP and everybody sort of staying in line and being like insisting that everything is fine, this administration does just find these tariffs will be fine. Then the markets took an absolute dump. And we're getting sort of various versions of dissent coming out. So right now, a lot of like the big billionaires, hedge fund investors, the people who like people, the hyper wealthy that were backing Trump are now awkwardly kind of doing a tweet that's kind of like, I mean, I don't know what he thinks is going to happen, but we're about to fuck everything up if we go forward with these tariffs without totally losing it on Trump. Like Bill Ackman, Jamie Dimon, Howard Marks from Oak Tree Capital.

That list goes on and on and on where people are doing a version of not attacking Trump, but being like, this will end poorly. Trump, but being like, this will end poorly. Yeah, it's ending. It's already seeing it, but they won't go full bore and say like, get this fucking guy out of here. This is a disaster. Although it seems like they say that privately. Elon Musk has lost around $30 billion since liberation day, which brings his total losses for this calendar year to around 130 billion.

Mark Zuckerberg lost 28 billion since liberation day. Jeff Bezos lost around 23 billion. Warren Buffett is the outlier here. He lost about two and a half billion last week, but that puts him up over 12 billion this year. Because I think he's one of the few billionaires that just noped his way out of shares like things like Apple, and Bank of America, and Citigroup.

He's like, what is this fucking guy going to do? Oh, yeah. This is no, no, no, no. This is not gonna help anyone. So things aren't great for the people that were so willing to bend over backwards for Trump in the name of increased inequality. Musk is now basically telling the Europeans that he wants zero tariffs.

That's what he's now coming to them with. With Europe though. Yeah, yeah, yeah, with Europe, because this was him sort of addressing a European audience. And I think he was also looking at how Tesla is just useless. But I also think it's part of the plan, though, which is like you put up the tariffs and then you basically make them like bend the knee to get rid of them. Of course, of course. That's the whole thing. Like where people always talk about Trump, one of the best, not the best negotiating

strategies, but a negotiating strategy is make people think like you will blow the earth up to get your way. So people go, damn, we don't want to blow the earth up. We may, we might as well do what he did. And he's like, bro, I'm secretly, I'm not going to do it, but hopefully they will come to me. But here's Elon Musk again, with a bit of a, a softer tone'm not going to do it, but hopefully they will come to me. But here's Elon Musk again with a bit of a softer tone, as he tends to do when his money goes

shrink-y-dinks talking to the European audience about where he sees tariffs. Can't wait to see how visibly high on Ketamine he is in this clip. I think he's on beta blockers probably based on just his low measure tone. But here's Elon. And I'm hopeful, for example, with the tariffs that at the end of the day,

I hope it is agreed that both Europe and the United States should move, ideally in my view, to a zero tariff situation, effectively creating a free trade zone between Europe and North America. Um, and, uh, that, that would be my, that's what I hope, I hope occurs. Um, there's like applause. More freedom of people to move between Europe and North America. Who, which people, which only that, yeah, exactly. The white people. Uh-huh.

I love this. Oh my God. I love how sad he is. I love that. It's the same energy that he brought when he was like, you know, how are you running your businesses with great difficulty, to be honest with you.

I want him to get so annoyed at the United States, be like, oh, you didn't even let me buy your Wisconsin Supreme Court seat. I'm going back to Africa. Like, just, you know, I really want him to go back to South Africa and be like, let's create, I don't want this obviously for the people of South Africa, but I'm like, just go, just go, he's like, let's do a part.

He tries to get in on that same pro like a refugee program. He's like, but I, he goes back and then tries to come again. So he doesn't want to buy the Trump gold card. Um, this is a guy who is, I mean, I think he's reflecting what everyone else is, which is like, it's not even about bringing countries to heal and having equal tariffs. It's it is Donald Trump thinks that any trade deficit is bad for the United States, that us being able to buy more from countries that make diamonds or

coffee or bananas, things that we don't buy, that inherently means we're being screwed over. It is dumb, dumb economics. Like again, he needs to go to school. He should have actually finished his fucking classes at Wharton or whatever. And I love the idea that they're like, we're gonna create a free trade zone, bitch, what do you think the last 30 years has been for the United States? It's been nothing but a free trade zone for multinational corporations. They literally have free trade zones in all of the impoverished countries you're now slapping with

tariffs so that you get your cheap goods for free and that manufacturers can pay shit wages. Like, do you not understand what's been set up for the last, you know, again, 30 years? This is how he's going to extract concessions from many nations. Right. Oh yeah. That's the cool extract concessions from many nations. Right. Oh yeah.

That's the cool thing. And then America will be winning again. But yeah, to your point when he's like, oh yeah, our trade with Madagascar is way off. It's like, why? Cause, cause we get vanilla from them. They make 70%, they produce 70% of the vanilla on the fucking planet.

Like what, what are we opening up the central Valley now to do like we're growing coffee, we're growing bananas, we're growing all these other things. If you dig a little bit deeper, there's definitely some vanilla in the Earth's crust. Like where does he think it's coming from? I mean, I read that it's actually not physically possible

for America to grow enough coffee for American coffee drinkers. Like it actually can't be done. Yeah, truly, truly. And this is again, the sort of, you see a ton of weird responses under like posts, like in comment sections, like on Fox and other places where like they're explaining, oh, like we get a lot of this from this country.

Like, wait, but I thought, oh, I thought this company was American. It's like, yeah, where do you think the fucking material? Oh no. Yeah. None, none, none of them are anymore. Quick lesson. Yeah. But I, I, I kind of sympathize sort of with like, especially like the average conservative voter

who is now sort of like realizing that like they elected like a demented old man who now has like absolute power. And like they're never going to admit it probably. But like, this is why you don't do this. So like this is, this is why you don't do this. Like, this is this is also not new. Like, authoritarians do weird economic shit all the time. Like going all the way back to, like, Nazism, like they did weird economic shit like the Latin American dictatorship did

weird economic shit like this is just how it goes. Because that's what happens when you have a weird old man in charge of your country with no checks and bounds. Yeah. And now we can't have vanilla or coffee and gassing you up all the time. Like, yep, yep, exactly that, sir. Exactly. Exactly. This is just how this works. Like, you want to go to...

Oh, sorry, sorry. Not to cut you off. I was just going to jump on it because the South America stuff, you know, I lived in Argentina for many years and... Perfect example. Yeah. They still are paying for the, you know, debt that the military junta incurred. They were the ones who started the World Bank sort of debt structure and they're still paying it now. And what's so crazy is like, you see the way that Elon reveres Javier Mele, right, in Argentina.

And you're like, yeah, but we aren't Argentina. I live there. We don't have a 600% inflation rate every goddamn year. In which case, right, yet. And so that's exactly, it's like, we're trying to, I think, I don't think this is the goal, but I do think it's like, oh, you're going to cheapen the dollar, you wanna turn us into like a competitive

in quotation marks country, rather than embracing the fact that we are literally the economic hegemon for a reason. And yeah, I mean, it's amazing you hear Howard Lutnick, Commerce Secretary kind of echo these things that I used to say in the early 2000s, part of the global justice movement, like, you know, the these labor standards and environmental practices abroad are really bad. It's like, yeah, no shit, man. So it's just like, stop trying to everyone's trying to couch it, no matter if it's Lutnik or if it's, you know, Scott Besant or something. Besant, exactly. Or Musk or whomever or other billionaires. I think

he's going to in three weeks, he's going to bring everyone to heel. No matter what, they're all just trying to make it look like it, what it is, make it not look like what it is, which is a massive fucking fuck up that honestly speaking of the junta, we could be paying for for decades and decades and decades. I'm glad you mentioned that. I, uh, I used to live in Brazil, Sao Paulo, and, uh, you could obviously see the ghosts of their dictatorship still to this day, but I was living there during a hyper inflationary moment where the REI went from I think three rays to the dollar to six like overnight

And I don't think that the average American like understands like what that looks or feels like we're like You know you go to the store and they're just taping new numbers Never just like that. Yeah, no like it literally is just like that Yeah, I mean like that for the businesses that don't go out of business, right? So like, you know If you if you really can't like grab your head around this just like that. Yeah, I mean, for the businesses that don't go out of business. Right. So like, you know, if you really can't like grab your head around this, just like, just, you know, imagine like a moment, two or three weeks from now, when like you don't actually in your mind know what things cost anymore

and like the chaos that that's going to be. And like, and as you said, even if we come through this and we're still in a democracy or we go back to some sort of, quote unquote, normal democracy, that stuff doesn't go away. Like the damage is decades, generations long. So that's what I'm the most excited about right now. That's what I'm looking forward to. Yeah. I mean, a lot of people are like, when are they going to impeach him? What's going to happen? I mean, like, I think it is interesting because there is like, it's like, what happens when one guy is just trying to fuck up all the capitalist money? And like, how do they respond?

Like, do they? Because like they were all in line when they thought that this was just going to be like, yeah, dude, it's just an open season on fucking people like workers over and consumers over. But they're like, wait, we're not not not totally fucking up the game either. Because we're seeing things like there's there was a lawsuit out of Florida. I think that's really interesting. The New Civil Liberties Alliance filed a complaint over the legality of Trump's tariffs, specifically because he was talking about how he's using this

specific act to be able to say, I can circumvent Congress and I can levy tariffs just because I want to. So the new Civil Liberties Alliance was representing a Florida-based stationary company. They, again, argue Trump doesn't have the legal authority to just declare shit like this. He does. It's also very interesting is the New Civil Liberties Alliance is partly funded by Charles Koch and Leonard Leo.

And you're like, okay, is this like a, what, what is it? Is this a little bit of some asymmetrical warfare here? Are they trying to bring him to heal? My two favorite guys. Yeah. Yeah, I know. These guys that have their monkey paw and they're like, fuck. Yeah, truly.

Like where I'm like, oh, oh, okay. Then we've seen Republicans, we saw a representative Bacon from Nebraska say, like, he's like, I'm going to represent legislature, introduce legislation to claw back some of the authority to enact tariffs. Like that should be our responsibility as Congress. But again, that may be less of an effective strategy considering that Mike Johnson put language into a bill in a procedural vote last month that quote, would prevent the chamber from voting on any proposed bill that would end Trump's national

emergency declaration against Mexico, Canada, and China, which again, as in the Washington Post puts it, effectively shielding House Republicans from taking a hard vote that could rebuke the president. That was the biggest thing in the budget bill that everyone was so concerned about. That's why it is unforgivable that Chuck Schumer and nine other Senate Democrats voted for it is because it abdicated congressional responsibility and oversight for things like the budget, for things like the very budget. They sign that away. And so, yeah, the fact that they're like, oh, shit, I guess the fine print said we don't

have any power. You can't just ask for your balls back after you've like handed them over. It can't be like, can I use them now? No, it's not how it works. You, you, you handed them over just now. Mm hmm. Oh, you have one. What really gets me though, is that like, this is how it goes.

Like you're talking about like the, the Junta in Argentina, in Chile, in Brazil, going every dictatorship you want to look at that comes to power. The capitalists are like, we love this. This is so cool. And then the dictatorships like, give me your money. And they're like, Oh, I didn't think that that would happen. And it's every single instance going, like going back 150 years and this happens. So I don't, I don't have a lot of sympathy for them.

Actually, I think I don't have any sympathy at all. I mean, I think that's part of the sort of sickness that bleeds into the minds of these capitalists too, is that they, their, their value system is like, they have such tunnel vision that they, they don't actually consider any other factor aside from, I'm making the line go up and out and this guy's helping. And I don't know what the other stuff that he's saying, because I'm pretty sure he's all in on this thing too. Cut to you are now surprised.

Pikachu dot J. That's why, that's why I'm, uh, I'm very liquid in fart coin right now. Uh, I was doing talk to a coin, but then, uh, yeah, hawk coin, but it went down. No, this guy's not a true believer. Nah, he's a fed dude. He didn't. I moved over. Man.

I just think, I just think any good leftist listening to this should invest in fart coin next, you know. That's what you guys should do. Fart coin. I love that. Or just fart on your coins, whatever you got left. Try those. No, I think that's a really good point about like fascists and the ways that it's seen like,

oh, this is going to help business. But in fact, because they have so much unchecked power and they're actually often not smart enough to do the shit that they're doing, it's not ultimately good for business. The real thing we have to hold onto is that like the dollar is still dominant. The point in which companies are not coming back

to the country and we are trying to borrow, right? From other, you know what I mean? Like that's when we're gonna get really fucked. But again, this idea that like, the jobs are coming back, that like, you know, all this is going- It's impossible. Because, right, because, so let's follow their logic.

It is, okay, everything's gonna be really expensive to import. Obviously that's falling on consumers. Consumers aren't going to buy very much. Then companies will, what, take five years to 10 years to build more infrastructure here in the US. That will bring about jobs that pay about, I don't know, $9.50 an hour maybe to assemble an iPhone in 12 years.

You could get that job. Again, it'll be $9. Like, like, and then prosperity for. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So for, so wait, I was actually, I was working on a piece about this this morning. I've seen the answer to that question. Like if you, and I'm sure you've probably seen this too. No. Like if you dig around like the fucking dark corners of X right now, the answer

is it's prosperity because women are out of the workforce, men work in factories, and we've returned to traditional gender roles. That is the final project of this. And you can see it this morning where there's people on Fox News being like, we're solving the masculinity crisis by building factories in America. That's what's happening. When you come home, there will be a roast in the oven. It'll be called my head. Exactly. But that's the plan. The'll be called my head. Yeah, exactly. Uh, but that's, that's the plan is the plan is to essentially destroy the global economy so that women don't go to work anymore.

Men have to like make like buttons in a factory in Wisconsin somewhere. There's so many, yeah, there's so many end games that are so probable. It's like frightening, you know, cause then there's like the version of we need to accelerate the degradation of like the economy here So people just get frothing at the mouth for some kind of new fucked up social norms 15 years I foresee will be making buttons for a Chinese podcast After having been having to give up our podcast. The Chinese century is here, baby. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, that's really the winner in all this.

That's what's so funny. I mean, we talked about how Russia is not included on the tariff list, but it really is China once again. And good for them. They didn't have to find us. They're doing what Chuck Schumer is doing. They're like, no, bro, let these motherfuckers. They took that James Carville advice. They're like, play dead, play dead. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, go ahead. No, yeah, yeah. Go through with that. You know we make everything that your fucking people consume all the time, right? Are you okay? I'm smuggling a Hawaii phone across the border as we speak right now. I'm very excited. I can't wait.

Well, luckily there are still people that have completely lost touch with reality and have no idea how the economy works because pastor Julie Green, aka the MAGA prophet who Eric Trump goes on her show a lot. She's great. She was recently on and she was like, Eric, your father, I believe was anointed by God. He's like, Yeah, that part. Exactly. He's got a lot of teeth and gum. You know, it's like, oh, yeah.

He's got a lot of teeth and gum. You know, it's like, oh yeah. She also explained that the tariffs are basically Satan trying to make President Trump look bad. So here, let's let her sort of explain this. Oh, I'm fascinated how this works. It makes, it's very clear, like, obviously, like the tariffs look bad if you understand Satan's plan. And she says the word enemy.

I don't know who it could be, people of color. It could be the world. It could be Satan. I don't know who it could be people of color it could be the world it could be satan I don't know use it interchangeably in your mind first of all this was a strategy to the enemy from the enemy god said what happened to make our president look bad she's very drunk she's I was about to say she's incredible peanut butter voice she has She has the most incredible voice. First of all, you shouldn't drink like a half bottle of Carlo Rossi Sauvignon Blanc and take a Xanax bar. I want to queen out with this woman so badly.

Talk about demons and spirits. Holy shit. Oh, I bet she has the most incredible turquoise jewelry. I want to just hang out with this one. So if you yes. And did her in this state, she's in you. This conversation will go to places you never thought. Yeah. Fucking exactly. Talk that shit. Honestly, fuck Mike White.

This is way better. Yeah. OK, just go. Yeah, it's her sister. OK, go on. Freaking out. First of all, this is a strategy to the enemy. From the enemy, God said what happened to make our president look bad. To make the tariffs look bad, when actually the tariffs are very bad for that dark financial system

that the enemies have in place. She can't say that. God told us when we start seeing a shaking in the, in the economy, he said the angel boy are not to fear. Oh, we're not. Because this is not going to affect us. This is going to affect our enemy. The enemy is trying to keep a hold of the economy. They're the ones who are bringing it down.

They're the ones who bring it up. They manipulate all the time. So I don't want you to fear when you start hearing these things, whether it keeps going down today or whether it starts rebounding today. I have no idea. All I know is that God is judging that system So if we start seeing more and more of a decline God is saying remember the land of Goshen Okay. Yep. All right. All right. Yep. I'm now I'm starting to feel totally fucked up. Just listening that yeah, she's like

She's so cool I love I love her. She's good. I wish I had that confidence, you know, just to be like half a bottle deep and be like, I'm going live and I'm talking. Yeah. I want to get hammered and go live on Facebook. You're so drunk.

You can only blame. You can only describe global economics as like just the enemy and the enemies hating right now and they're mad because it's bad for the enemies. Yeah, it's all the same. Yeah, she's a cook and yeah, she's a chief justice. John Roberts was going to be in Roberts was going to be in prison for the 2020 election. Oh, God. No, I'm like, I'm like, this is people listen to these people. Like, yeah, it's simple.

It makes sense. And you're like, if you think that Trump is God, don't, don't white people know they can still be racist if Trump goes away. Like, don't they know you don't need him to be your instrument for racist. You still got it. Don't worry. Like there'll be other races. There'll be other white, you know, white, you were doing it before. Just fine. You were great, you know, and and you're just like, oh my god but we've really jumped the shark with these kinds of folks and they were like no the more they hate you and honestly, this is kind of a symptom of internet culture more broadly and as someone who's sort of in The pundit world on the internet and political pundit world like you see it play out as well

Not naming names, but like where you're like, the more people get mad at you, some folks are like, that's when you're doing it right. Yeah, I know. I mean, I agree with that though, like for me personally, like that's, people hate me because I'm telling the truth. That's what I say. I agree. Yeah, but I would agree.

I've got an idea. You can't back down, you can't lose the fight. Right. No, no, and then you do this quintupling down on nonsense. And we end up in like, I wonder if she just saw her stock portfolio or some shit and she's like, Oh shit, give me that fucking bottle. Give me some of my, I'm about to go.

No, she's got gold bars energy. She got real gold bars energy. She's, she's, she got Z, but she got Xanax bars energy. I want to get thrown out of a Margaritaville with her. So yeah, exactly. Exactly. And they're like, I don't know. I don't know what word she used, but it felt like it was a racial slur.

Although I don't know exactly what the thing, but it had the energy that she said. That's how she gets thrown out of a Margaritaville. All right, let's take a quick break. We'll come back and talk about a thing that's really popping off. That's how she gets thrown out of a Margaritaville. All right, let's take a quick break. We'll come back and talk about a thing that's really popping off. That isn't the economy, the Minecraft movie. Imagine you're scrolling through TikTok. You come across a video of a teenage girl and then a photo of the

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wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. Francesca, Ryan, any familiarity with Minecraft at all? Professionally, yes, but not personally, no. I never played it. You're a professional Minecraft streamer. No, I just, I read about internet culture. So unfortunately, I have to understand all this stuff, but I've never actually picked up the game.

I mean, I know through like my nephew and like younger kids in my family, then I'm like, damn, these fucking kids loving the shit out of Minecraft. It's their shit. But while we've had a lot of ups and downs at the box office this year, thank God, a Minecraft movie has brought back some kind of upward line.

I'd like to say- We need to land after Snow White. We're so back, yeah. Yeah, exactly. Well, the Minecraft movie isn't woke unlike Snow White, right? So yeah, it is right themselves and being square Yeah cubists even but you know a lot of people said hey, yeah, my kids fucking loved it I didn't fall asleep in it. It made a hundred fifty seven million dollars domestically and $144 million overseas.

Overseas, best ever opening for a video game, and clearly the best opening weekend of 2025. Again, should not be considered a surprise since Minecraft is the best selling video game of all time. Yeah. What's super fascinating to me about the clips that I've seen of children going completely insane in this, in the, in the stands and throwing stuff and screaming is that like the references that they're responding to aren't in the game really they're like, like chicken jockey, like we're just chicken jockey

comes because we'll play a clip from chicken jockey where the kids lose it. My understanding is that like the majority of the culture around Minecraft isn't like... I mean, I can't speak to Chicken Jockey. I have to figure out if that's really a thing named Chicken Jockey in the game. But a lot of the references that people are going crazy for are references to streamers and creators and internet memes about Minecraft, which I do think is a really interesting distinction here, because it's essentially a young audience

that is actually getting their internet culture spat back at them, and they're really excited about it. Isn't that sort of where Destiny comes from? The streamer? Didn't he get really big in Minecraft? Or was it another M-Craft? I forgot. I didn't get really big in Minecraft or it was another Mcraft I forgot I thought he was like really calm. So dream. Yeah. Well for destiny Yeah, my company closer, but so dream is probably the biggest minecraft streamer He was the one that had like a mask on for a while and then he like took his mask off Oh, so like it's so it's sort of basically it's like hey like we acknowledge the shit posts online

And this is a lot of fan service. I think it's a lot of that. Yeah, it's so it's sort of basically it's like, hey, like we acknowledge the shit posts online and this is a lot of fan service. I think it's a lot of that. Yeah, it's a lot of that. So like what is that gang got a movie and there was all these references. We just be like talking about like me smoking blunts and eating Taco Bell or something. Exactly. Wait till he does the Baja blast section. But so everything like they had their own marketing campaign, organic marketing campaign on TikTok because a bunch of kids were just getting so hyped

that the movie was coming out. And I get it, like, it feels like one of those things where you're younger, you're like, finally, dude, this is a movie for us. Like this one's for us, which is wild because I am gonna play this clip. I'm not gonna play the whole thing because I don't want to. Before you play it, hold on.

I don't wanna get yelled at by any 12 year old that happens to listen to this. Chicken jockeys are the official name for a thing in Minecraft and it's used in the games files and they were also called that by dinner bone, who is a Minecraft developer. So it is an official dinner bone. You guys are familiar with dinner bone. And the Minecraft developer, he helped point the term chicken jockeys.

Okay, now it makes sense. All right, we don't even have to do this segment anymore. So wait, are gamer developers like little heroes? Do we have to bully them because are they like the next Elons of our world or are they actually creating something cool, unlike Elon? Well, so Minecraft, Roblox, Fortnite, to a degree, you can like make stuff in those games. Roblox and Minecraft more so. And then the people who make stuff that gets popular, like you can set up a server for

Minecraft, people can come visit your server. And so like that's how a lot of Minecraft culture spreads around. If you have two or three more hours, I can go deeper into this. So we need to fight them or no? Do we need to head off the next extreme right movement? My ultimate take is that all gamers are bad and have to suffer, which is why I'm pro-tariff right now. Ooh, I love that.

Yeah, I just think they have to suffer. Are they gonna hit the gaming industry? No, no, no. Yeah, the Nintendo Switch is gonna cost 50% more. That's right. And it was already- See, that was 450, so that's 450, half of that $225, $675. Yeah.

Sony this morning is saying that they might have some issues with supply chain. Like gamers, welcome to hell. That's what I say. Yeah. Yeah. Oof. Look, I game, but everything I play old games. So well, actually, I mean, FIFA just feels like it's old because it's the same fucking game every year. But

anyway, this chicken jockey line though has a lot of people being like, Yo, is this like the gen alpha rocky horror picture show or some shit because like the energy is wild. Again, give a little taste before we play all of the audio and get some kind of like copyright warning. But here is how first of all, if you look in the audience, all these kids have their phones out recording like the line, the chicken, the chicken drop, the chicken jockey drop. Okay. In the video, they say the police were called.

We don't have any evidence that supports that. Although who knows? But here are the kids just losing it in theater to Minecraft. Oh, that is loud. Okay. They're fucking dapping each other up. What the fuck? Okay.

So I think this is fantastic. I actually think this fucking rules and I'm so happy for these kids. Like that seems fun as hell. I never had this. I even think like there should be like phone allowed screenings for certain movies and rules and I'm so happy for these kids. That seems fun as hell. I never had this. I even think there should be phone allowed screenings for certain movies and let people just go fucking crazy. I mean, who cares? In that room, nobody cares about the phones.

That's what I would think. Yeah, yeah, yeah. For sure, for sure. Definitely, yeah, producer Victor in the chat. This is definitely, even the Taylor Swift concert video, they were at least being organized, excited, and just of like swaying to the music and singing in their seats These kids are again like to your point I'm sure all these kids want to be in there and turn the fuck up But if that fucking cherry coke hit me on my shoulder that kid threw up is ugly in there

There's no parents in there too who are not happy. Yeah, That's just me as a curmudgeonly elder millennial. Again, I would not subject myself to this, but that's just me putting myself in that quick position and be like, get off my lawn. I would probably just let them throw a bunch of drinks on me and sheepishly walk out. If I was 12 years old in a Minecraft screening

and someone threw a coke on me, I'd be like, that was so sick. In the same way that I felt like when I like went to a concert for the first time and got like, you know, beat up in a mosh pit. Like that's right. That's part of the fun of this, I think. That's true, because I remember being at a concert when I was like 17 or something and I got beer, like beer just got on me because people were throwing beer. And I was like at school on Monday, I'm like, yo, dude, I got beer on me.

I got bird's throw. Yeah, exactly. That shit was like all over me, dog. That's how fucking turnt up it was. Like got birthright. Yeah, exactly. That shit was like all over me, dog. I think it's cool. That's how fucking turnt up it was. Like these kids are like 13 years old. Like this is the- Think about how mad you are when you get drinks spilled on you now. Like I-

Oh my god. I think the last time I got a drink spilled on me, I was like so livid. I was like, I'm never going to the club again. This is why I don't go out. You went to a club and got a drink spilled on you? Yeah, but I mean- Damn. It was like years ago. I mean, we're talking like six years ago

and I was like, never again. I don't can't remember, I can't remember anything that was kind of like this big as a game. And then like, what was there like, I mean, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was a TV show and they came out with a movie. That was cool. Yeah, but we weren't, we didn't have phones to encourage

turn up behavior like that either. We were just legitimately excited. In terms of the game, in terms of the experience, I would say Avengers Endgame is probably pretty close to this, but that took what, 32 movies to build to? Which is, this is just one movie. Also, your producer in the chat mentioned Five Night at Freddy's, which was out last year, I think, and that was pretty huge, too.

Yeah. But these games are just in culture and we never talk about them. Right. And so you don't have to do much to get people to just go fucking crazy because it's this thing that no one really talks about Minecraft, even though every kid on Earth plays it. Right. Exactly. I'm like, those kids in the audience, they're like,

I've been playing this since I was five, basically. and then free and you can play it on almost any device. Yeah. No, it's, and there's like no real game to it. It's just like Legos. Like it's, you know, UK cinema was forced to issue a warning after they saw the videos. They said, please do not engage in a disruptive behavior with a you. Cause that's how you know, it's in the UK.

Um, and then there's just, again, like there are numerous sort of anecdotes reports of just kids. They said, oh, I'm not going to do this. disruptive behavior with a U because that's how you know it's in the UK. And then there's just again, like there are numerous sort of anecdotes reports of just kids. They said pop with their clips showing food and popcorn thrown across the audience along with loud shouting some swearing and general raucousness including people jumping out of their seats. That's awesome. That's so sick.

Losing it losing it it, losing it. I'm trying to think of what movie that could even come out now that I would be like, there we fucking go. I mean, I did the last time I was like that in a movie was the second, the second Downton movie,

which I was like, yes. Like when I saw the trailer. Downton Abbey? The fuck yeah. The Downton Abbey. You were going nuts for the Downton Abbey. Yeah, she got thrown out. The were going nuts for the down and out. Yeah, she got thrown out. The trailer of the down and out. And then when I went to go see it in the theater, yeah, I got turned up.

You were throwing meat everywhere and shit. I'm pretty revved up for the new Final Destination movie. I want to see some crazy wacky death sequences. That seems really fun. But no, I cannot imagine. I mean, I'll be hooting and hollering, watching some Rube Goldberg machine death that takes five minutes. Yeah, sure.

Absolutely. But no, I have no frame of reference for how these kids must feel. Like it is a very uniquely weird generation. I know. I think in that weird sense, like you're like, fuck yeah, I'm like, damn. Like part of me is just like, I want something like that. Yeah, seems cool. You know, like I want to lose my shit in a movie theater and be like, damn, like part of me is just like, I want something like that. Yeah.

You know, like I want to, I want to lose my shit in a movie theater and be like, yo bro, we were throwing fucking popcorn everywhere. Yeah. We all 40. You know what I mean? We're all fucked up. I'm telling you, get down. Sorry. That was exciting.

Still on that down. That's good. It was a good movie and I was, yes. Yeah. Damn. God. That's why just chase your joy folks. You got to chase your joy. My friend's going to see a live musical for Sailor Moon soon.

Okay. That feels like similar kind of. But I feel like they would like say it like anime fans aren't going to be like, I'm not about to throw a fucking Diet Coke in there. Not with this one. Not while I'm doing cosplay. Yeah, it's true. Get my shit all fucked up. Avatar 3 is coming out? Oh,, so I'm just looking at. Oh, well, if I ever see Pyacon,

the talking whale from Avatar again, in Avatar 3 shop, I'm gonna scream and yell. Oh, I love that whale. I love that whale too. Love a whale. I do too. Love a whale. And hey, we love a whale and we loved having you

as a guest today, Ryan Broderick. Thank you for having me. Where do the people find you, follow you, do all that kind of wonderful stuff here you read you all that? Sure. You can read garbage day at garbage day dot email, you can listen to panic world at anywhere you put audio content into your ear holes, you can just type that in, it'll be right there. And

you can follow me. I guess I'm mostly on blue sky these days. And you can just find me by typing in Ryan hates this into blue sky. It'll pop up. Is there a work of media social or otherwise that you're enjoying? Like, like personally enjoying? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think The Pit is the greatest TV show maybe of the of the last decade. A lot of people are talking about that.

Yeah, it's really good. I will say Moody medical dramas are a recession indicator, but I think the pit is fantastic. Damn, that's true because what great anatomy came out like 2004. Yeah, he's so cool in it and he's so sad and it's just great. Were they trying to sue them to be like, we were going to think this is ER? No, it was supposed to be an ER sequel.

Then at the last minute, they lost the ability to make it an ER sequel. Oh, and then it's like, fuck it, it's all the same. So they just made it anyways but he's effectively playing the same character he was playing in ER and now the estate for I think what Michael Creighton or whatever is suing them. Oh boy. You hate to see it, you hate to see it. Just when I was gonna throw my Diet Coke in the air. Francesca thank you so much for joining today. Where do the people find you, follow you, hear you, support you, listen to you,

and what's the work of media that you like? Um, yeah, come out to see me live in San Francisco, May 7th, Wednesday with Matt and I at Cobbs Comedy and go to francescafarentini.com for tickets and Bituation Room, wherever you listen or watch on YouTube. Okay. This is this creator, Olima Omega. And he does like sort of reverse shots from TikTok. Oh, like react as if

react and reverse shots. And there's just a guy doing like, like popping balloons. It's very sad. And he is he's handcuffed to a chair being held. And one of the one of the balloons like hits his face and he's like trying to go, but then he starts clapping. It's so good. I love that. I love this. Such a simple format. Simple.

I feel like millennials have like conquered. That's like such a, I feel like millennials do those the most. Really? Where they're just kind of like the fuck. Yeah. Cause I see ones of like OSHA kind of violation ones, like worksite ones. See that one a bunch. And people are like, yo, or like stuff in a cook, like a chef, like in a kitchen. Well, because Gen Alpha just doesn't have that like meta-ness or they don't care.

There's like, this balloon pop is cool. We're like irony, poison, and we're just always like, oh, wow, look at that. Yeah, we will never understand the earnestness required to cheer for chicken jockey. Exactly. For that, I'm very jealous. I wish I could. That's because we are millennial Bane. That's right.

Because of the recessions. Yep. That was from whatahellavowaytodad.com on Blue Sky, who posted that millennial Bane thing. It's like, you think you've know the recession? We were born in it. I quoted that and I was like, yeah, Lehman Brothers collapsed on my 24 in it. I, I quote to that and I was like, yeah, Lehman

Brothers collapsed on my 24th birthday. I remember very well. And I was like, is this bad? You can find, oh, let me, let me shout out a work from blue sky that I liked at gloomfather.bsky.social posted boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me. That's what you should do. And then at ghost in exile.beastguy.social posted, the question of if a country could fuck itself harder than the UK did with Brexit has today

been answered. I was living in London during Brexit, actually. That shit was exactly like this, actually. One for one. Everyone Googling tariffs and also like, is it two Rs or two Fs or both? It was like a lot of finance guys like up, like on roofs just sort of looking down and you're like, what are they gonna do today? Call it a void. Yeah, like again, the way to remember it

is you can't spell tariffs without FFS for fuck's sake. I think someone put that on the internet. You can find me at milesofgreyfuckineverywhere. You can find me also talking about basketball on milesandjackoutmadboosties. And I also talk about 90 Day Fiance on 420dayfiance. You can find us at on Twitter and bluesky at Daily Zeitgeist.

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The song we're doing is not unfortunately not available on like the streaming platforms unless you go to SoundCloud where the real remix shit is made because there was a remix that Fred again did of a Dochey track called swamp bitches and this one's called it's called freelance But if you look up dochi Fred again remix It's it's just gotta her flow is so dope and then the Fred alone or the Fred again beat just gives it a new kind of suddenly kind of gangster quality to it. So it's a very enjoyable one. We will post that link in the footnotes. So you can at least listen to that on spot or SoundCloud. The

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