The Daily Zeitgeist - "That Wasn't Very Skibidi Trends Of You..." 8/16: Trump/Putin Meeting, 'Skibidi', Sydney Sweeney, Tom Cruise

Episode Date: August 18, 2025

In this edition of That Wasn't Very Skibidi Trends Of You, Jack and Miles discuss their respective weekends, the Trump/Putin meeting in Alaska, 'Skibidi' being entered into the Oxford English Dictionary, Sydney Sweeney's new movie a flop?, Tom Cruise turning down Trump's Kennedy Center offer and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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My name is Jack. That over there is Mr. Miles Gray. Yeah, I just want to shout out the San Fernando Valley. It is August 18th. That means it's 818, the fucking golden area code. Shout out to San Fernando Valley. Shout out all my valley people. Shout out everybody.

But specifically the San Fernando Valley. All of them. It's our day. Even the cops. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The dead ones.

How are you doing? Miles, we were just catching up. Usually when I go away for a little bit, something bad happens in the past. It's been the debate. And then Trump almost getting. shot. I think those were the last two. And then this time

we got we got Benny Johnson making up a crime but like that's basically and I mean steady drift of into authoritarianism but it didn't like speed up

it didn't accelerate that much while I was out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's yeah I don't know I wish there was something a little more dynamic to be honest but it's just the you know the slow rot continues. That's right.

Yeah, yeah. Well, it's great to be back. Okay, this is the episode where we tell you what is trending, but first we get to know each other a little bit better. I want to get to know. Doing our own overrated underrated. And Miles, do you want to kick us off with something that you think is, oh, I don't know, let's say underrated?

Underrated? Again, the dreams, the dream world. As I was moving, I got. As you lay you down to sleep? as as the Lord layeth me down to sleep at night and my pillow my head hiteth thy pillow I was having those like the weirdest I just have to I'm really just I wanted my pillow yeah yeah sorry I don't have my biblical pronouns I'm not good at this um so I I I had these crazy ass fucking dreams but this time yeah I was I was like talking with some like film critic

people. I just found myself in a conversation to these people. And they, for some reason, I was really talking up my acting chops. And they're like, and they were like, oh, really? They didn't believe me. They're like, you're full of shit, bro. You can't act. And I'm like, oh, really? They're like, what if I do a monologue for you guys

right now? And they're like, yeah, let's see it. What's up then? Like, it was like that kind of energy. Like, it was like a fucking rap battle. They're like, okay, it's good, bro. Then let me hear some fucking bars. Everybody made a circle for you to show up your acting shots. And then And then so then I fucking, I just, I, I, there was some play apparently. I just was like, this is from the lines. Yes, bro.

It was like that. This is something that would happen to me in a dream, but I wouldn't know the lines. This was like Mary Catherine Gallagher shit where I was like, this is going to be a dramatic law. Monologue from the Lifetime movie, Where's Emily, where I will be playing. So in this scene, I was playing an elderly man whose memory was slipping and was still coming to grips with his memory slipping. And his wife, Emily, who had passed. away he was still in this liminal space between had she passed away or is she still there and do i know like what what is my reality anymore and all i did was i was pretending to clean up

and i was talking it was just a monologue where i'm talking to emily and then the last part the button of it i just go emily emily and i say it like five times by the fifth time i'm tears are streaming down my face. Wow. And I'm going, Emily, Emily. And then I ended it right there. They fucking clasped up immediately.

They loved it? They were into it. They loved it. You have higher self-esteem than I do in my dreams. I felt that shit in my bones, bro. I woke up and I was like, fucking Emily. Hell yeah. Anyway, so anyway, while you were gone, I was like to have dreams while you're talented.

I don't know, any other time. I've never done, I've usually, I'm having the same dreams where you're, like, completely frustrated by your, like, lack of God-like ability. This time, for whatever reason, I fucking crushed this monologue looking for him. Damn, man. Congratulations. That's used for you. Thanks.

Thanks. And then you woke up and your pillow was missing. Yeah. Because you had it. Thy pillow. You were carrying it the whole time. Because I was carrying it. That's right.

That's the alternate, the twist ending to the, ate a big marshmallow, woke up. Pillow was missing. But it was because I was carrying the pillow the whole time. Exactly. that's that's wild congratulations on that dream that sounds very fulfilling did you have like tears in your eyes when you woke up no i did not i did not although i'm photosensitive so if it's really bright when i wake up my eyes will water that's right um all right uh moderated just uh having a little distance from the news cycle and then like checking back in i think it's weird that trump is now against

revealing the Epstein list I just I was thinking about it and I was like if anybody else in the world went like was against the revealing of the Epstein list

you would be like if I was against it if I was just like I don't think I think we should just let bygones be bygones the guy's dead you would be like somehow I don't know how

but Jack O'Brien is on the Epstein list. He's going way too hard on this. It's like, I mean, he's never been pictured with him. What's your stake here? Yeah.

He's kind of the wrong age. But that, like, that is obvious that he's on it because that's the only reason anyone would ever take that position. So to have him come out, it's just like,

it's just so funny to me that he just is, is like, yeah, I don't know. I think we should just chill out on this thing. Let's move it along. Hey, man, journalists, I don't know how to crack this mystery. What could this possibly mean?

What could possibly be going on here? I mean, we know that he's on the list. So that, I don't know. What could that possibly mean? Even then, what could that possibly mean? But probably in very innocent ways, in very innocent ways. That does seem to be the benefit of the doubt that he's getting. He is just like, we don't know in what context.

and I saw an article being like and he might be just protecting like some of his friends too Oh that's like that's the most generous possible So you're caping for sexual predators And like somehow there's like a selflessness Involved in your caping for sexual predators And we should commend that

This dude he is so close to sounding like one of those people Who are on to catch a predator Because there's a few excuses these dudes give When they're on to get caught by Chris Hanson He goes you have some lemonade for me and they're like, oh, shit. And they're like, I just came here to tell them that is dangerous

to meet people on the internet. And that's what Trump's about to be like, and that's what I was, I was on those planes to be like, don't you go to that island. That was the entire conspiracy theory. The Q thing was all him being like, yeah,

and he was friends with him because he was secretly undermining the whole sexual predation thing. And justice system. Yeah, exactly. So there's that. And then, I was also, I was reading this book on the history of comedy and there's just this like throwaway thing.

I just dropped in it. It's like the entire history of comedy from the early like 20th century. I was like, I'm not going to read all that shit. So I dropped in in like the 60s and there's this story about the like the Nixon administration going after like I think it was the Dick Cavett show. You know that like one guy who like looks like he's from like he looks like he looks. looks like he would be on crooked media, you know, he's like, he's got the side swoop hair and just looks like he just like stepped out of a country club, uh, but he like had a competing show. There's, there's like, I've seen David Bowie interviews with him. Um, but basically his

thing was that he would interview people who were like against the war at a time when that was like very controversial and there's just there's like stuff on the nixon tapes where nixon's like what's this guy's deal is he jewish can we screw him and and the show gets moved like the show is successful and they turn it from a nightly show into a show that is one week a month and and the book is just like but they didn't succeed in canceling it so it's a way you It's just like, the thing that I'm getting at with like that's underage is just like how pervasive and insidious like anti-left wing conspiracies are throughout U.S. history. That it's just like taken for granted that if you do any, if you just like, this guy just had people on his show that were against the Vietnam War, which now we, in retrospect, we're all like, we were all against that. not true in fact if you put it on the president himself would change the programming of your

fucking television channel there's also an anecdote about how the f dick gregory um the comedian who you know was very involved in the civil rights movement ran for president and you know it was uh completely screwed over the media completely ignored him but the fbi was like talking about like trying to get the mafia to kill him like just straight up like the most just these like wild things that are conspiracy theories

they are like the things that conspiracy theories are made of and we don't talk about them like they just get mentioned like obviously that's not the point of this book that is about the history of comedy but they just like mention it and move along right right right yeah that's just like

and the feds tried to screw him too and you're like oh oh yeah just like that exactly wait why did i don't understand why him being jewish was something nixon nixon was just anti-semitic and thought like he believed in all the like fucking conspiracy theories that like jewish people run the media and uh shit like that uh yeah there's wild anti-semitic shit in the nixon tapes but again feels like if we were really concerned about anti-semitism like this would be a big part of like what did what did nixon think of henry kissinger yeah you know i don't he's like i probably not probably said wild shit about him yeah

behind his back to be honest oh man wow anyway again all of these things continue to pulse through the veins of the country yeah and we just don't like admit it or like you know pay any attention to it like when it happened in history it's just like taken for granted And it's just, it is the thing that everyone's always looking for of like, you know, the satanic panic and all these things where people are like, they actually hid messaging. And they were, they were secretly trying to convince people. It's like all that shit is happening is just happening against people who espouse human rights. Right, right, right. People who are not.

Well, I mean, it shows, you know, it's like the, it's like a living organism, like imperialistic capitalism is just sort of like, if you start seeing green shoots of people talking about equity or how to, like, end it. It's like, you fucking spray round up on that shit. Yeah, yeah. That's, it's a living organism and it is allergic to anything that has to do with, you know. Yeah. It finds a way. Against white supremacy.

Uh, what, what is something Miles that you think is overrated? Uh, overrated, uh, my, my way of packing. So I'm, I'm in the process of moving. Um, you may notice if you see video. I'm in another closet now new closet who this um but I for being 40 years old I should be better at packing but I still pack like I'm a 20 year old like moving from like into my first off campus apartment kind of thing where shit's just going in trash bags nothing's organized it's just like it goes in a box because like I think I get into this sort of like decision making

paralysis of if I have to organize then the process takes way longer because I can't be like well where do I put this one like loose electron I'm like fuck it everything in my vision right here is going in this fucking box now left corner box yeah exactly corner box and then my labeling system is fucked I put I have one box that says miss MISC bullshit miscellaneous bullshit there's a bunch So there's a cutting board in there. So many mizk boxes. Dude, USB C cables. And I'm like, uh, uh, you just have 40 boxes that say misk on them.

I know, exactly. And I don't know why. I'm like, oh, this is fine. Because I think I'm in such the, the real sort of stress inducing part is packing all of your shit. It's like, how do I make everything that I, in this place, disappear into a box? Yeah. And I don't think about the unpacking part.

where now I may not I've I may not have headphones tomorrow or something or a fucking power cable for my computer but I'll figure it out I'll figure it out I'll figure it out so anyway being more organized is is better but my freestyle way of packing very fucking overrated and I have to I have to grow up I'm too old for this I I'm in New York City right now and I packed all my like recording equipment and just I want to show you the thing that I packed it in is a bodega thank you back A bodega thank you bag that I got from my parents' house when I was there last week. That's where all the cords were wound up. I mean, they were in an organized fashion, but they were in a bodega thank you bag. Good for you for even putting him in a bag. When I travel to record, shit is just stuffed in a backpack. Strewen. Oh, yeah.

Takes me three hours to untangle all the cables. All right. My overrated, have you ever flown Frontier? Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I enough said

all right Frontier is like a weird psychological pressure test like to be like can we make we make this person go like lose it they so I flew back

from the East Coast with my kids solo and my my young guest had to go to the bathroom so many times one of the bathroom one of the three bathrooms

on the plane was closed like broken they can do about that I think somebody went in there and did a paint job. I had a problem. Yeah, yeah, did an absolute pay job. I was on a flight where we couldn't take off because someone did a paint job so bad.

Like, as the plane was boarding, it delayed our takeoff by 40 minutes because whatever happened in there was a crime. It was, yeah, yeah, crime against humanity. Yeah. They, yeah, so this is not, this is no one's fault, right? Other than, like, whoever decided to make this airline

that they were like, that so this will be a hundred dollars cheaper than the other ticket sometimes more but it will be harrowing yeah yeah yeah and there will be screaming there yeah there yeah there's just the poor people who work on the plane like you know the people just anybody trying to sleep anyone who had the idea of sleeping i think whoever designed those fascist benches that are designed to keep unhoused people from sleeping on them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think design the frontier seats.

There's like a, you like land. You're like, okay, finally that ordeal's over. And you have to like take a bus that like takes an hour to like get back to the baggage plane. You're not at LAX. You're in a weird side. We're actually not officially. LAX won't officially let us fly out of there. Yeah.

You know, I don't know, man. It was just I wonder if they named the airline because. traveling in a wagon train during the frontier era is the only comp that like makes this make sense. Right, right, right, right, exactly. If you, if you're thinking in those terms, if you're thinking about the Oregon Trail, you're going to be all right.

Because then it's not, it's not bad if you're, the captain's like, I have cholera folks. Right. I'm going to have to land the plane and someone's going to have to fix our wheel before we, we have to, we have to forge this thing across our river really quick. anybody got strong arms

and I think you can hunt for squirrel on the plane too. You are. That's the only way to eat anything. Is there only refreshments or something? That's like, well, here's a musket. And there are loose squirrels. Yeah, go ahead. I bet it. You know, solve a couple problems.

Don't worry. The muzzle velocity isn't enough to damage the fuselage and cause a pressure issue. Don't worry. It's actually a pop gun. That's either that of your bare hands. Anyway, shout out to the people who work on frontier because that's got to be harrowing uh anybody who's flying it it was just it was it was kind of a nice community experience because like everybody was in it together and everyone was just like openly being like fuck i mean it was the only one that i could

afford uh and it will never do it again i will just not go on vacation in the future i will just just just walk man take a bus like honestly uh well because all those front those those I'll so many of those budget airlines like the ticket is cheaper and there's like oh you want to check a bag that's $92 and I'm like what the fuck I'm back to like a regular ticket price now damn you look thirsty man you know that's crazy your eyes are really red dude you look super dehydrated you look jaundiced anyways uh let's take a quick break and we'll be right back have you ever looked at a piece of abyss have you ever looked at a piece of abstract art or music or poetry and thought, that's just a bunch of pretentious nonsense. Well, that's exactly what two bored Australian soldiers set out to prove during World War II. When they pulled off what was either a bold literary hoax or a grand poetic experiment, publishing over a dozen intentionally bad but highly acclaimed works of expressionist poetry under the name Earn Malley in an incident that caused a media firestorm and even a criminal trial.

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geopolitical he's like yeah this dude um got nothing done I mean if anything it was a it was actually a negative um it was a win for Putin uh but I think anyone who's yeah the media narrative that this was like a toss up or like that nothing was accomplished shook ass media dude yeah that's incorrect like that he by by having the meeting in the u.s by like rolling out literally a red carpet um by then coming away and basically the the thing that Putin wanted heading in which is like we'll talk about a peace deal without a seat deal without a ceasefire and, you know, all the things, he just came right at him. Trump, quote, very severe consequences for Putin if he refuses ceasefire.

Then after it, Trump dropped ceasefire demand, echoing Putin's position and jittering Ukraine. Wow. Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. So, yeah, he absolutely gave Putin what he wanted. He fucking, like, the way when even Vladimir Putin got off the plane, it was like, he looked like a Beatles groupy or something. He was like

there is like what the fuck is this? Yeah it's and these are like supposed to be the two things that Trump actually respect the only

two things that he actually like concerns himself with or like you know power and evil you know

and he's any time he's in a position against somebody like this it's just but but specifically Putin yeah he just he does it's a little a little bit of the old cat and mouse where the mouse just like crawls up to the cat and rolls over and shows his belly yeah totally and even just yeah the famous gambit and then brings a side of dipping sauce too

yeah yeah yeah if you drags it up if you want i know i know i know i'm seasoned i know i'm unseasoned my i just know that you liked it last time so yeah yeah yeah yeah this is very good this is very good so yeah the whole thing he even like went around like it was just so stupid the visuals he's like and these are my planes like he was doing like weirdo fucking show and tell and Putin's like whatever bro let's just get to the part where I tell you what I want and you accept it and I get the fuck out of here yeah um and that's pretty much what happened like they were supposed to have a lunch and all this other shit shit got scrapped the fucking press conference that was supposed to happen was very short um and yeah just Vladimir got what he wanted in that again

Trump is not really putting any conditions for a ceasefire. He's just saying, I guess, yeah, we'll just do a peace deal. Because again, for Putin, that means he can continue attacking Ukraine. If there's no ceasefire and they're, quote, working on a peace deal, that just means the goalposts just get shifted constantly. And he can just basically keep, like, there's really no end in sight. Yeah. And so, yeah, I mean, a lot of people on their, like, even Marco Rubio, who is, it's just so funny to see these people like Marco Rubio who were. prior to Trump, such staunch anti-Russia sort of politicians.

And now he's just having to bite his tongue off in these meetings and then act like it was an actual victory for the U.S. went on one of the weekend shows. And, you know, somebody was like, the president went into that meeting saying he wanted a ceasefire. And there would be consequences if they didn't agree on a ceasefire in that meeting. And they didn't agree to a ceasefire. where are the consequences? And Rubio was like, that's not the aim. Oh.

The guy was like, oh, but the president said that was the aim. So that's like according, that's like your opinion, man. Exactly, exactly. That's it. That's it. I think the other things they were saying was that because Trump is technically taller than Vladimir Putin, that that was also a big win because it was the two biggest alphas on the planet.

I don't know what alpha means in this context. I think maybe just really tiny men who lash out in anger whenever their power is threatened. I guess that's like the movie Stepbrothers. That's the level at which these people like understand diplomacy and like how is like, all right, let's go back. You want to see my drum set? How many pushups can you do? You want to see my stealth bomber? Look, there it goes.

There it goes. There were people who are like, that's so baller. that Trump had the stealth bomber fly over as Putin got there and it's like it's stupid. It's fucking dumb. Like I don't know what you think this is. Like especially when the result of this was fucking not the outcome that anyone,

especially Ukraine who this whole thing is about, not fucking, you know, Trump's sort of show and tell with war machines. But everything, there were so many. There was like also this like the reports or that like after the meeting all of the advisors came out like quote ashen faced and like shook.

On the Trump side? Yeah. Well that seems to be how everybody responds when they see them. Remember there was that like dinner they had together that Malani was there for when during the first administration

and like everybody came away with that just being like what the fuck was going on because like they like went away against the you know advice of anybody who like knows anything about diplomacy. He, like, wouldn't listen to any of his advisors and, like, went somewhere else with Putin to, like, have a conversation. Yeah. Everyone was like, that's fucking so weird.

It's so weird. It's so weird. Like, I think something's going on maybe. Yeah. I don't know. That's why it's weird to me. It's also wild to me that Melania Trump maybe had more fucking, uh, just, like, resolved to do something. Because she had Trump hand, like, a letter over to Putin that she had written.

and she was like hey come on now let's protect the children vladimir like even trump like he's like i don't know do whatever the fuck you want to know this is from my wife you know makes the like chattering motion with his hand you know how it is i don't know something about the children uh that's that is funny that his his wife is like i here actually i don't trust you to deliver the message just hand this to him yeah exactly and just like all the embarrassing other shit that like like the trove of documents that were left behind in a hotel where people were like eight pages miles they were eight pages and they were uh the trump administration was like it was like a lunch menu or something um in fact it was full of previously undisclosed and

potentially sensitive details about the meeting um they left it in a public hotel printer like the business center um the menu contained names and phone numbers numbers of three U.S. staff members, plus the names of 13 U.S. and Russian state leaders. And it had a cheat sheet for how to pronounce complicated Russian names, including President Putin, P-O-O-O-all-capitalized TIA-H-N. They gave them the... emphasis on poo. Yeah, exactly.

And that's like something funny that you could bring up to him. There was another thing in that document that was talking about how they were going to give, Trump wanted to give Putin like a golden eagle thing like a statue like Chotchky and then it was rejected as like too thirsty yeah they're just like sorry bro we got

we got a lot of other things to do bro we're out of here and they're like oh but you're eagle he's just standing there like the otter with a guitar holding his eagle oh Jesus Christ somebody who needs all words written phonetically with pauses built in on my scripts I'll give them a pass on this.

Okay. But how do you not know how to pronounce Vladimir Putin's name? I think it's probably just standard operating procedure for like everything, even if it's a given just so no one's caught off guard because everyone's a fucking idiot in this administration. Also, I don't know if you're in the buildup. He kept calling, fuck. He kept calling one of the, I think he kept calling, like he kept referring to Lunders. Leningrad, Trump did, and they're like, what the fuck? Billy Joel song.

He was like in Leningrad and they're like, dude, what year does he think he's in? Does he knows, it's called St. Petersburg or is he still in the fucking Cold War right now? Because this guy's time traveling with his decaying brain. Oh, man. So now what? They're all going to meet. Trump's going to meet with Zelensky. He's going to yell at him for not being grateful enough.

Yeah, that's probably happening as you're listening to this, if you're listening to it when it drops. So, yeah, so Monday, Zelensky's meeting with Trump, along with all of like the European power players like Kier Starmor, Macron, Maloney, MERS from Germany, the head of the EU, the NATO secretary, because they were all basically before the call telling Trump was like, dude, ceasefire. Don't just fucking let this thing go to straight up peace talks. Like we need the ceasefire to be able to end the fighting and actually get some stability going. And so now he did the absolute opposite. They're all just like, okay, so now we have to go be face to face and be like, oh, what the fuck was that about? So I don't know what exactly is going to come of that. I know Trump has demanded Zelensky wear a suit this time.

There were reports that Zelensky will be wearing something in the style of a suit. Oh, good. I think maybe a suit style jacket. Yeah. Oh, my God. That's got a few of a tuxedo t-shirt. Ultimate troll. I was like, you happy now, bitch?

You like this motherfucker? Anyway, if I look, if we're just going to be joking around being a clown show to everything, then why can't I wear my tuxedo shirt? But yeah, I mean, essentially, Zolensky's like, dude, I'm not going to fucking seed any land. I'm going to get the borders of the country as they were established.

We're not giving up land to fucking Vladimir Putin. You can't make me fucking do this. I mean, the one benefit here is that like the EU now, like they have no other choice, but to really be like, bro we can't like if you think about the trade deal and how they're like we're going to spend 750 billion dollars in the u.s to try and like get because the whole they wanted to butter trump up to keep him engaged in the ukraine stuff yeah but now this guy has no fucking like he

does whatever vladimir putin wants i think now they have to go probably look him in the eye and really know for sure they're like okay so like we really have to like so there's nothing You know, I'm back there? It's all just, yeah. So you did the opposite of what you said you were going to do. No, I didn't. No, I didn't. I said, I did exactly what I did.

I said, I told Vladimir, whatever you want, baby, I'll help you. Whatever you need. There was a lip reader who read him saying, I'll help you right away. It was like the opening gambit. Opening gambit. Here are my cards. Do you want to, like, I just feel like it would be cooler if you could see my cards. And my cards are

Let's get you that pot Yeah Am I right? Yeah Nice to see you President Trump I'll help you with everyone Right now I'll fucking do it

I'll fucking kiss you I don't care man I'll help you whatever you need Right here in front of God and everyone So yeah The EU Learning in real time Of what countless others

Have learned about Donald Trump It doesn't matter If you fucking butter this guy up he will fuck you over because he it's not about relationships or any kind of social like any kind of agreement there's a thing in sports where like a team that like is really good at pressing right like who like uh you know full court presses like when you play defense like right when they unbound the ball on the other side of the court and basketball like a team that is really good at that is actually often very susceptible to that if you like do it back to them they like kind of

free. And I feel like that's a little bit what you have with Trump and Putin where like, yeah, like hearing the EU being like, yeah, we'll give you all like all these concessions just don't like that that's fucking stupid. That sounds like what Trump would do with Putin where they're just like conceding to him. You know what I mean? Like it's that same like bully shit. But it's just Trump is not good at it when it happens to him. He just like is so easy to manipulate. What the fuck's going out with this press? I can barely get the ball in. I didn't prepare for this I was the one pressing down his legs but I was the one anyways we'll see how it goes probably good I think he'll salvage it and we'll all be in a good place

and Russia won't get exactly what they want not exactly this 95% did you see there was a fucking there's already a clip of like the Russians captured like an APC from the from the Ukrainians and American and then they've started flying an American and Russian flag on top of it

while they were just marauding around. Team USA. Thank you. They're just like chanting USA as they take Kiev. Oh, boy. All right. Let's take a quick break.

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So last year they added the ick and boop. I was like, wait, boop? Like the play booping on someone's nose? It was just booping on someone's nose. Which I was like, all right. Well, that should have been in there a long time ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Then he booped me, you know?

Gave me a little boop. Anyways, they argue that these are, they're trying to pick the words that have, quote, real staying power. And slang words that children use? Yeah. They've added some TikTok-friendly words, including trad wife. Okay.

Which I agree. DeLulu. Uh-huh. Which is like delusional. Uh-huh. Skibiti. Um, which, as our writer jam points out, that's going to make some intergenerational Scrabble games go off the rails.

Oh, yeah. Um, Brian editor said next year, chimpanzee bananini. Of course, and tomb, tomb, tomb, so who. And they've also done broligarchy. Okay. Which I don't know that I've ever heard that one used casually in a conversation. It's definitely like for online political discourse, I see broligarchy.

But I don't feel like I hear kids being like in the fucking brologarchy, dude's out of control. Yeah, yeah. That one just feels like more political. That feels Cambridge deck dictionary. Yeah, yeah. All right. Skibody is, I. because I did want to, like, it's a nonsense word, right?

Like, it's the word that can have a lot of different meanings. I was curious what Cambridge was going to do with that. The definition is a word that can have different meanings, such as cool or bad, or it can be used with no real meaning as a joke. What? Are these their examples right here? Yes.

Yeah. So one example they use is, what the skibbitty are you doing? Other examples, the use cases. Skibbitty, skibbitty, skibbitty, a boy around seven sang to himself as he dribbled a soccer ball. What? What? Next use case. What the skibbity are you doing?

Which I already went over. Next use case. What was the most skibbitty part? That doesn't tell you shit. Are we saying good or bad here? Okay. Next use case. In the viral song, the words, you're so pretty were replaced by you're so skibbity.

and then the final one that I feel like is really cementing them as getting it knowing the kids and you know I'm sure we'll win the respect of their children

which has to have been the point here final use case that wasn't very skibbitty Riz of you Jesus Christ why do they think is this just like the death of dictionaries or like they're lowering themselves to have to be like well we got to get that

we got to get the youth into what words mean again. So let's let's give them a little treat by putting their nonsense words in here. Yeah, I think they might, you know, all dictionaries now have like online versions. And they obviously see spikes when they do some shit like this. And so they've, they've gone that they've probably hired some people who used to work at BuzzFeed to be like, right. How do we juice the numbers, baby? I wonder, like, what's urban diction? definitions definition of skibbity uh usually worth a word to start a conversation uh a conversation

filled with brain rot okay this is written by someone who's like these fucking kids person one skibbity person two don't worry my bro i'll get you out of ohio with my one two buckle my shoe type as well we busted down uh person one kill yourself okay yeah that sounds like that seems realistic at least um all right weekend box office report there's some reports that Sydney Sweeney's new movie was Flop City did bad and then there are also

reports coming out saying actually it wasn't a flop that was actually a art house movie I think the confusion comes from the fact that it came out on 1,000 screens which is kind of a wide release

like over a thousand screens the headlines tried to make it about the American Eagle controversy I think it probably had more to do with the fact that like I think they could get it on a bunch of screens for cheap and they did that because it was like free but they also spent like I did not know this movie existed other than the fact that like there was the controversy and then the next time she was seen publicly it was at the premiere for this movie and I was like okay there's a movie coming out that would basically not exist the outfit was really an owl for her um the movie

movie, which is a heist movie, made $500,000, opened in 16th place, which is lower than the annual release of the Grateful Dead movie, which is the thing I didn't even know about, that I also didn't know about, I guess. But yeah, I don't know. It's, it's hard to say that it was because of the Jains. No, my Jains. Dude, not enough people were fucking, not enough people, that overlap of people, I don't, no, no, no. It's, I mean, Everything was, I feel like even before the ads, there was like, no one was like, this shit's going to be the sickest fucking movie ever. It seemed pretty tepid, but, oh, man, now I, now I have to go see it.

I mean, it's got Paul Walker Hauser in it. He's usually, he doesn't miss that often. Paul Walker? Paul Walker, Hauser, isn't that? Oh, God. Okay, Jack, I thought, I thought he was risen. Terhouser. Oh, God.

I thought he was risen. He was risen. He was risen on screen, huh? Skivety, Skivody, Ohio, raised up there. Skivody, Riz. One two buckled my shoe. One too buckle my shit.

We get it, guys. Kids, we get it. Kids, we get it, dude. Jack didn't grow up in Skibbitty, Ohio for nothing, dude. I, uh, Skibbitty Dayton. I still haven't seen weapons. I am excited to see that. Did you see that yet?

No, maybe we have to go see. I think we have to see it together because her majesty ain't. But she's like, bro, I don't want to see the fucking monster children in the night Everyone on the team that that works on the show everyone's fucking seen it except us and they're everyone's like off-broad It is one of those Like everybody on the internet has also seen it like I know just ran I'm trying not to learn anything about it But I know about that like hot dog lunch that like you don't know that no there's just I have no idea choose to believe it's like I think you should leave I have no idea what the context is but like somebody is

apparently served a lunch tray that has like five hot dogs and uh chips with like onion dipping sauce you know potato chips with that like a sour cream onion dip yeah yeah um anyway I like I know that reference but I yeah it's just a moment that happens that people are like uh to live in the movie weapons. Oh, that's so funny. That's like me like, dude, and then there's that one part. I think like a red Mustang drives by in the foreground of a shot. So you're gonna red Mustangs, I did just see

Final Destination Bloodlines. Those, uh, good, good time and there's a, there's a red, old-time car might be a Mustang, probably not. I'm not a car guy. Leave me alone, guys. Um, but, uh, watch that, watch Bo is afraid. Watched, uh,

was this all in the plane? Yeah, man, I've had a lot. I've been clocking plane hours. You went where you flew solo back New Jersey to L.A. because I had to, you know, bring the kids back. My wife was already back

because she's a fucking or whatever. So flew the kids back and then yesterday flew right back to New York because I had to be here for a couple podcasting things. New York City. Show them how you walk in New York City, man. Have you seen

there's so many of these Eric Adams like things that are going viral where people are like I can't believe this is like part of his campaign and it's just like a video of him addressing the camera describing like a bird getting caught in a bird trap and it's so obvious that like someone has just done a AI version of his voice and like put it over an image of him talking like the the voice and the video like don't match up in any way but everyone's like man, this guy's so wacky. I was like, no, somebody's just making silly videos of him being silly.

Wait, what are, like, this is, this is real shit or this is just some shit being posted on the internet? I'm seeing people fall for this thing that's like clearly fake AI videos of Eric Adams. Got it. Oh, because he's so dumb that it's believable. And I just think it's unfair to him and people need to give him a chance. I also, when I got in a New York City cab last night, there was an ad for, I think they were like trying to skirt the fact that this was basically political like ad placement

that was like see me talk to Eric Adams is like some morning show and then it just like was a campaign ad with like him talking about how he had like cleaned up the subways or whatever I cleaned up the subways with my own broom okay

so Jesus Christ Eric oh man well I mean the in taxi entertainment was always lacking I gotta say so I'm glad at least it's filled with propaganda now as as the sci-fi films have foretold that's right finally tom cruise has reportedly turned down uh trump's kennedy center honor uh which has freed up room for kiss and the guy from phantom of the opera great great some people on the left are like yeah tom cruise is one of us

um you know he's generally apolitical and was just like ah sorry sorry uh scheduling conflicts um But one other possible reason that isn't going to make any one happier, at least not that many people happy, is President Trump has thrown his support behind removing the Church of Scientology's tax-exempt status. Oh, no. Well, God, I won't be celebrating that. I want Scientology to be thriving. That's right. Yeah. They have such a great track record of letting journalists do their thing.

Strange bedfellows. Am I right? Anyways. Shut up Church of Scientology. They call Trump a big orange Cheeto and I'm here for it Could you imagine Jesus Maybe pretty soon, pretty soon

Yeah okay well good for you Tom Cruise but yeah Realistically show shit That is so funny like that's It is like Tom Cruise is like kind of Hulk Hogan Coded a little bit like just like what his position in the Zike's like as an icon Right right right right It's just, like, very, I don't know, I associate them with that part of, like, history. Yeah, like, if you flattened the 80s, like, into, like, a couple pictures of, like, pop culture moments.

Tom Cruise's face has to be part of that. Hulk Hogan's face has to be part of that. And also, like, if you put, if you just, like, added a background in both of those cases, an American flag would probably be the thing that, like, makes sense, you know? Right, right, right, right. Tom Cruise, like, top gun and all that shit. And all that shit. And all that shit. Fucking cocktail or whatever, bro.

Ristty business. Or just a bar behind it. Yeah. Mother fucking bars. All right. Thank you. Those are some of the things that are trending on this Monday afternoon. We are back tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show.

Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get your vaccines way you still can. Get your flu shots. Don't do nothing about white suppress. I'm a C, and we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye.

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