The Daily Zeitgeist - She Got A Great Trend! 9/30: Muse Charm, MAHA Summit, Cornell Chi Phi Case, ‘Digger’, Caleb Flynn

Episode Date: September 30, 2026

In this edition of She Got A Great Trend!, Jack and Miles discuss Meta’s Muse Charm, the MAHA Summit, the Cornell Chi Phi rape case, the initial reviews for ‘Digger’, an update on the Caleb Flynn case and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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That short show title, courtesy of Donagie Kirby on the Discord. Shout out to you. D.K. D.K. I can't believe we haven't done that. Maybe we have done that before. She got a great trend. Hey, you know, it's hard to know, hard to know.

Impossible to know. And I would say I would bet my bottom dollar, we've known. never, ever, ever, ever, ever done any such thing on this show. On this show? Put a lot of time in a finger, thinking on the news show, the Daily Zitegeist. Not a fucking chance. No way. No way would they be up for such foolishness.

I'm back from meetings yesterday. I love missing a TDZ record for meetings. Oh, yeah, yeah, it happens. Productive. anyways this is the episode where you tell you what is trending

on this Wednesday September 30th one that kind of took it took its time getting to me but I was eventually

like all right I'll bite what is a muse charm what is why do I keep seeing Mark Zuckerberg painfully do a

toss on stage did you see his little toss that he did where he's like this little guy and he like tosses it up and like grabs it in like the most unnatural way. But you could just tell that he practiced that shit. Oh yeah.

Right, right, right. With his wife. Just like, all right, let me see the video. What did it look like? Fuck. All right, I got to do it again. I started sweating profusely every time it goes in the air. You see the top?

Yeah. It was, I wish he gave it a little more flight, dude. It would have been a little more swaggy. But he definitely just enough that it read. as a toss. Yeah. But it is, it's just fascinating because,

so this is Mark Zuckerberg trying to do his like, oh yeah, and one more thing, Steve Jobs thing, where he's introducing a new product. He's on stage. This has never gone well for it.

Yeah. His product debuts are always a fucking disaster in a way that like, yeah, he had that one where they, I forget what the product was, but like the internet went down

or the thing just like started melting down and he had to be like, oh, it was like, it was a, they were unveiling one of their AIs or were they're just like, you can just take something,

ingredients you have and then ask you like how to make a meal and the thing completely, like, shitted out as it was trying to like talk. I mean, again, but it also happens almost every time. Yeah. So on this one, uh,

he's debuting the muse charm and he's trying to, you know, give off charisma. And so he has it in his hand and he's like, this little guy, like toss a, it up like, like a confident

surgeon might. Yeah. You know, like where he's like about to, you know, flip a scalpel or something. Yeah, yeah. If you're really cool. I just remember my uncle was, like, had open heart surgery. My uncle.

Oh, wow. And he was talking about how he was like very nervous and then this surgeon came into the room and was just, he was like eating an apple and like kept like tossing it to himself in this way. That was like, so. confident he was immediately like, oh, I'm good. Yeah, yeah.

You know, there is a way to successfully execute the confident, sort of absently tossing something to yourself. That is very cool. And Mark Zuckerberg has seen that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He has not completely, he has not successfully absorbed it or the ability to do it on stage. It'd be like the same thing.

It'd be like, you probably try to light up a cigarette to look cool. A meal starts hacking on it. He's like, what's the? Wrong. And, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I get a drag off the filter. Anyways, this motherfucker's out there. And so these are all the reasons I was not nervous about this product. I was like, they're going to fuck it up. That meta's AI is supposed to be behind the other AI companies. And this is coming after their attempt to place AI directly on our faces with the smart glasses, which slowly curdled to be known as pervert glasses.

Now I believe that is their official. Internationally known. Internationally known. Which is not. Sometimes it's cool to be Mr. Worldwide and be internationally known, but to be internationally known as pervert glasses, not cool.

So they are doing what seems like a very transparent audible, but I don't know if that means it's going to be unsuccessful. They're selling first of all, they're selling smart glasses without the cameras.

So what do they have? I think they just have the AI agent that you can talk to. Oh, great. Yeah, so you look even weirder. Okay, cool. Yeah, but anyways, the big new swing

came with choreographed little toss where he's introducing the muse charm which is a little, it's basically AI Tomogachi. For anybody who's like, you know, a little bit older, you remember Tomogacchi's. Just a little bit older.

A little bit older. It's like a little bit older. He's a little bit older. He's a little bit older. Yeah, but the tech display does seem to fuck up because he's like, and then you put your thumb

on this little part and it reads your fingertip and that's when you can start interacting with it, but then he doesn't start interacting with it even though he has his thumb on the thing. And then he's like,

and we're still, we're still coding it out. And so you, but you'll be able to like talk to it and, you know, it'll be able to answer emails, do food shopping for you. But the pitch is clean enough that I feel like even Mark Zuckerberg couldn't fuck it up.

It's basically like, what if instead of a thing that goes on your face that makes you look like a pervert, the same product was on a little charm that goes around your neck that looks like Big Hero Six? Like, it's just like a cute little guy on a tiny little screen. who is, you know, in this Guardian article,

it says it's really significant that along with the wearable charm, Met has also introduced a new pair of smart glasses with no camera. So again, they're like audibling off the perfect glasses. Then it says everyone hates cameras and smart glasses, but if the camera is contained in a charm you wear around your neck, it shifts the agency. Suddenly, you're not recording people. It's just a cute little animated avatar looking out on the world.

So stupid. They're so fucking desperate. it. Like, again, I don't even think the thing that looks like a smart stopwatch is like the thing humanity is clamoring for right now. Oh, God, if only had a fucking tomogachi that could book me a

haircut or whatever. Because this is also coming off the news like a week and a half ago when 404 media was reporting like their whole like Muse AI agent thing was just a bunch of humans in a call center. Yeah. There's always, yeah, a bunch of humans

behind the scenes like trying to correct for the fuck ups of the AI. Yeah. So, yeah, oh, great. I mean, I love, though, that like maybe their solution was like, it's not, okay, if it's, what's the opposite of pervert, cuty, cutesy creature thing? And so this is why I'm a little scared, because cute stuff like works on people, you know, like, they, so this Guardian article, like, talks about, you know, that there is, like, cuteness experts and cuteness science that they're of course importing from Japan

but they you know it's very successful either it's going to trip people's like wait why you know distrust for doing something cute yeah like the

um Furby with the face melting off of it where it's like oh cute is a fine line it's a fine line between cute and you know, the end of the world and, you know, the uncanny valley. But I will say, like, I can see my kids wanting this. Like, it feels like a product that is going to succeed with young people.

And also one of the things from the article, they said, while Dale is not rushing out to buy one, he said, however, when I'm 80 years old, I'll definitely want one of these things. I want to wear it around my neck always and I want the camera on all the time so it can tell me where I left my glasses and I was like fuck man if they had a product that that was the only thing it did was just on and told you where you left shit and you'd be like hey where'd I leave my glasses and where'd I leave my keys that would be the price of it that would be worth the price of admission on it oh yeah and you would hasten your spiral into sinility too if you completely outsourced just like the most basic memory

Remembering stuff. That's true. Try it out, everybody. Did I breathe? Mews? Anyways, let's talk the Maha Summit. We've all got our eyes on the Maha Summit. What's the latest? We talked about in this morning's episode,

and we're like, you know, it's underway, so we don't know what's going to come out of here. We were looking at some of the speakers that we're going to be speaking. Yeah. The Coachella lineup. They dropped the Coachella line-up list. And it's like, wow.

And there's the one doctor who's not a medical doctor. He just likes that title who literally was saying, here are actually the benefits of snake oil. And we're like, okay, this is, this is going to be fun. This is going to be fun. Literal snake oil? Yeah, it hasn't disappointed. Now, the first fireside chat happened with J.D. Vance and RFK.

And he shared this nugget with the crowd. Is there in the New York Times? Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was frequently advised American. not to trust medical experts said on Tuesday that artificial intelligence can offer patients, quote, a second opinion that is much better informed than any doctor in the country and has the power to free us from medical tyranny. So that, just a quick hit. That's what's being talked about right now. I mean, obviously, RFK, like everybody in this administration, has a ton of money

invested in AI. So it's no surprise because they've constantly, he's like HHS is constantly doing stuff trying to integrate AI with our medical system or just medical practices. So, yeah, man, or maybe he's just really smart. Maybe it's not because he's invested. Maybe it's because he's really smart and he does know AI is best doctor. He just knows. Yeah. Yeah.

God, that's, he's really, I wonder how successful that it. Like, are we coming off of the curve of from COVID? Like, we were talking about this in the very early days of COVID where it was like, so here are the things the last time that there was a global, pandemic, like the, you know, the 1911 plague and it was like, people started hating doctors. They started getting into weird religious stuff. I'm just wondering, like, and then you eventually come off of that as a society. Just wondering where we're at on that curve.

Like, are people still being like, doctors are an op? Doctors are a conspiracy to, they're all in on it, trying to fuck you over? I mean, like, yeah, because like, health care already just feels so predatory that, like, I guess you can use that as your way to try and completely disorient people to over the fact that these people actually have expertise. They have years of school to do, to gain. And they have, but they are the face of an industry that is like designed to fuck you over in many ways. Unfortunately, like, yeah, you don't get to see the insurance administrator that's denying your claim. you just hear it from the doctor or someone at the hospital.

I'm sorry, but we were not able to Yeah, yeah. Well, that seems bad, Miles. Yeah, yeah. Hey, speaking of that, yeah. This Cornell sexual assault fraternity investigation.

Dude, it's, it's really, it's a fucking hard one to read about it. For so many reasons. But one of like the shittiest parts is how the campus police and district attorney handled this. Like it wasn't even an actual crime.

that happened. So I'm sure people have heard of this story. It's been big news the last week. But in 2024, Jane Doe went to campus police at Cornell to report that she had been assaulted while being drugged by a group of seven guys that were part of the Kai Phi fraternity. And at the time, no charges were filed. And the school said their own investigation was consistent with their policies. I'm presumably one of those policies was, this was, this actually happened telling the accused rapist that they could quote, mitigate their conduct by, writing essays. That's how they,

that's Cornell's way of handling accusations of rape. Can you, well, write an essay that you know. A teachable moment. That's the thing that we've got to lean into. We're talking about fucking adults here at this way.

So what happened was because no charges were initially filed. The Jane Doe recently filed a loss, a civil lawsuit and that has reopened the criminal investigation. And everything I have read is so fucking discused. disgusting in that the police, university, DA's office spectacularly fucking failed to properly investigate

and didn't even seem remotely interested in justice. Like, when you look at sort of what happens and how they talk about it, you're like, oh, it's like, again, here we have more institutions maintaining like the status quo of like, boys will be boys, rape culture. Right. And the DA

said it didn't prosecute because the victim's claims were supposedly very different from what she allegedly told campus police. Like her claims in the civil lawsuit were very different from what was told to police in 2024. And they claim, she said she did everything consensually, like taking the drugs, even the sex, to which most people are like, how is that possible? Okay.

She said that to the police? That's what the DA is saying. Like, well, the thing I got from the police was that she said it was, there was all consensual. and like, there's really nothing for us to do here. But it's like, you don't go to the police to let them in on how hard you partied the night before. And I was sick of a time you had. You go to the police to report a fucking crime.

Right. What is their theory of like what? It's so bad. Like when you read all of their excuses, it's just a bunch of excuses for not doing anything. And just like throwing their hands up and really just, again, not interested in any of this. You know, now this poor woman is like on the receiving end

of like the most cynical victim blaming from like hosts up to hosts on the view to even like randoms on the internet. You know, obviously just numerous comments on all kinds of articles and social media posts. So now the DA is switching up stories and pointing the finger at the campus police saying that they hid her statement. It says, quote, Tompkins County DA Matthew Van Houghton says he never saw the full transcript of her two-day interview with campus police. only saw the results of the investigation,

which included a summary in which campus cops say she told them the encounter with the fraternity members was voluntary, conscious, and consensual. If the DA's version is accurate, it would appear campus police hid the top line from prosecutors her claim that she was raped. The DA told CBS News, if she had said those words,

we certainly would want to have explored that more. Like I said, that wasn't provided to me. And also, it should be known. the DA never asked to even interview Jane Doe. Right. Not interested. Yeah. Just like,

I'm sure you guys have it. Did you ask them? Did you ask the guys to write essays? Well, then what more can we do? Well, then, yeah,

it's been properly adjudicated. I'm like, why would the police share information with the DA if there was no crime? Maybe, again, because everyone's covering their ass

so they can say, I mean, we did do, we put the paperwork to move to the right place, but we just be mum about. Like, what fucking planet are we on?

And also, the student journalist say Cornell deserve a lot of credit to because they did not let this go like when they heard about it like they're hearing about their fellow students being harmed and continue to report and investigate despite the university giving it the all clear so I'm sure this is going to there'll be more finger pointing back and forth but like one thing people if you know like anything about campus police the conflict of interest there is wild you know what I mean like they are not to the camp to the university yeah while they are police

they also have, they would rather it seem like everything is very buttoned up above board and just very safe. Nothing bad is happening at all. And so you get stuff like this, but yeah, the nothing to see here department

is what campus police end up being. Right. Well, yeah, shout out to the student journalists and yeah, everybody kept that one going and didn't let them kind of sweep it under the rug.

But it's like, yeah, but it's wild that like it takes, unfortunately, we can't even rely on like whatever fucking law enforcement even fucking is anymore. Sure. If this is like the shit that happens and it's already,

this is like such a consistent pattern with, you know, anything involving sexual assault in this country. And then like it's just like wild too because you see just the comments devolve into all kinds of weird bullshit from people just completely like, like, well, I think they're just,

there's so many people are like, well, they're just boys. No, stop. Even like Sunny Hostin on the view was like, well, these boys,

let's stop with this boys yeah yeah yeah little they're picturing children for some reason as they describe it yeah um all right let's take a quick break we'll be right back Canadian women are looking for more more to themselves their businesses

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as you guys meet again in the championship? Oh, we're coming back to win. And we're back. We're back. And the reviews for the Tom Cruise non-musical that people suspected was a musical, Digger, it came out, or it's coming out on Friday. The review embargo dropped. This is from the Birdman guy.

And, you know, he takes big swings. the reviews here are tepid at best. They are taking big swings. I would not say they're tebid. They are either like a masterpiece or like 90% of them are like Oh it's beast or famine.

Fuck is this. Okay. Yeah. I like when something's that divisive where you got like it's not even like everyone's like kind of like meh. Like that it's people like this is fucking brilliant.

And other people like it's fucking stupid. Yeah. So like deadlines. said it's a return to the kind of adventurous films in cinema's groundbreaking era of the 70s. But the critics who hated it like really really don't like it.

Yeah. Some claim that the film's most believable character is the animatronic cat. Others called it an endurance test of how long you can listen to men yelling incessantly. I can listen to that so long. And then said it was like,

watching, quote, the week's worst Saturday Night Live sketch with an inexplicably large budget and delusions of grandeur. Wow. Knives are out. Yeah. I'm more intrigued now. Like, now I'm like, is it that bad? Because it's going to reveal, I'm curious after, uh, well, I'll have to go see it now.

Like what kind of need to? It'll probably reveal the worldview of some of these critics, because it's dealing with, I thought it's dealing with some uncomfortable sort of realities that we're facing. Climate change, yeah. Even the deadline one that's like, it's a return to the open, that sentence starts with, for me, it is like a return to that, which when you're adding for me onto the beginning of the sentence where you're saying a good thing about it, you're already recognizing that people are going to fucking hate this thing anyways.

probably the most damning review came from climate reporter Jake Biddle, who despite the fact that the movie is a satire of how corporate greed is decimating the environment, had to stop himself from walking out. And not because of the movie, it's not like he's like, he's not like Neil deGrasstitinning it where he's like, you know, this thing is actually technically wrong. And like, that's why I don't like approve of it. He was just like, it's a mess of shrieking and spittle that will live. leave even the most climate conscious viewers reaching for an adville. Oh, fuck. Okay. Yeah.

Well, maybe they can, uh, you know, maybe that's, hey, those comments were enough for me to be interested. I mean, it does make me intrigued and they are leaning into that in the marketing. Um, their Warner Brothers is instructing moviegoers to ignore the critics and decide for yourself in an ad that has insufferable and magnificent as the two pool quotes. Wow. Same film, different truth. There's just something about a company saying, decide for yourself.

Yeah. That I'm like, uh, I don't know. Oh, no, man. Sounds like it might be an L. I don't know, decide for yourself, man. Still buy the ticket. Decide for yourself. This is bringing back to Megalopolis where like, remember, they released that trailer

where they were like showing horrible reviews and they were like, those reviews were for Apocalypse now and the Godfather and then there were Coppola's always ahead of his time come decide for yourself about Megalopolis and then people are like

those aren't lines from the actual reviews oh yeah I remember that you made those up probably with AI and like there were they were pulling from negative reviews but they just like AI did I guess yeah because you go hey

I remember when we talked about that when it was clearly like find us the bad reviews of these film and they're like sure thing boss I will make you happy I will make you happy sir David Lynch I feel like is the only person who's ever like really successfully pulled off a version

of the strategy when he released Lost Highway and the biggest text on the poster was two thumbs down Siskel and Ebert and then underneath that it said two more great reasons to see Lost Highway Yeah Ebert did not fuck with

David Lynch. He was just like from Jump Street was like this guy's a sicko. I mean, Roger, you doth protest too much. I bet you, well, hey, he's a great guy. He's got a great head of hair.

And now he's up there. Now he's up there with the angels, with Dolly Parton. And finally, just an update on a past story that Caleb Flynn, the guy who made the AI

song for his mistress and had it played in court while he was like mopping his forehead down. And while the jury was all kind of laughing to themselves and like silently mouthing things like, I know, right? To one another. Yeah. No surprise here because on Monday the defense rested, they had their closing arguments. The jury took two hours and they came back with guilty on all nine. charges, aggravated murder, murder, felony murder, felonious assault, tampering with evidence.

From the description in the courtroom, Flynn shook his head, sobbed, and wiped his nose as the verdict was read out loud before officers handcuffed him. He faces life in prison without parole, and sentencing is set for the beginning of October. The way the prosecutors laid out the case was prosecutor said Flynn wanted to quote, frame a faceless intruder while preserving his relationship with his mistress, full custody of his two daughters, his role as a word. leadership leader and his job at his wife's family business. Wow. Yeah.

That's what he was going for. He tried to have his murder and eat it to. Wow. Yeah. Like truly, like, thought he was going to pull off the fucking move of the century. Like, what a... I mean, already, you have to be really off your shit to, like, murder someone, let alone the fucking mother of your children.

So, yeah. They should have jerry-dudied this one and just, like, given him the illusion that he had won the case so that he just to witness him arguing like your honor could you tell my bitch in law mother in law that she has to forgive me he's just like so delusional because i was so right about everything right your honor uh yeah sorry man you're i sorry we really live in a dystopia jeff bezos paid for this trial to actually be a a prank show on you the murderer um but the real trial did happen and you are guilty. Anyway, please subscribe to your

reality show. I wonder if we'll ever get a reality show where they fool someone into thinking that they've committed murder and then put them on a fake trial, do the whole thing. I mean, you know, punked was getting close or they had people thinking

they were like setting buildings on fire and shit. I feel like we'll get closer to something like that, you know, just depending on how intensive of destruction we need. Just like a long, drawn out month. long. And you're like, psych, your wife is right here.

She's right here, divorced, obviously. She left you because you hired a hit man. Our improviser to pretend to kill her. Come on on. That was played by John Gaboris, everybody. Wow. I can't believe

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