The Daily Zeitgeist - That White House AmbiTrend 1/30: The Candy Man, Nancy Pelosi, Epic Universe, Money Dysmorphia

Episode Date: January 30, 2024

In this edition of That White House AmbiTrend, Jack and Miles discuss the Inspectors General investigation into 'The Candy Man', Nancy Pelosi's pro-Palestinian protester problem, Universal's new 'Epic Universe' theme park,  'Money Dysmorphia': an alleged financial trend affecting Gen Z and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of... We got that White House ambi trend. Ooh. The White House ambi and that shit hits hard. Yeah, man. I am Jack. That is Miles. Yeah. These are some of the things that are trending on this Tuesday afternoon. Mm-hmm. Yeah, man. investigation when dr is it ronnie jackson yeah ronnie ronnie aka the candy man trump's personal

physician was accused of basically handing out candy a little you know pharmaceuticals psychoactive pharmaceuticals for the other people in the white house. He was like, never did it. So they started an investigation that has just been released. And it seems like, all right, so we'll just, I'll just read the, um, the report says we found that the white house medical unit provided a wide

range of healthcare and pharmaceutical services to ineligible white house staff in violation of federal law and regulation and dod policy additionally the white house medical unit dispensed prescription medications including controlled substances to ineligible white house staff no way yeah during the trump administration which is no way so i don't know like i've always you can kind of see that trump is on speed all the time in like micro details the sniffling the flakes of adderall shooting out of his nose um like one at one time it like shot out of his nose and you could like see one of his eyes like track it on the way to the ground because he was like so just like hyper uh hyper aware from all the adderall he'd

been snorting and then also like just the broadly like boom bust cycles of being awake and furious and falling asleep and being asleep for like days and i'm sure there's a ton of degenerates too that were in that white house who were just like yo wait there's a fucking pharmacy in here yeah hold on man hey dude can i get like some vikes or what man like because that'll that'll help a lot they're like you're technically ineligible um but come on hook it up man hook it up this also feels like is this not standard practice i feel like this would be any administration like not to be like this is a trump only type situation but it feels like if you have some kind of like weird like that there is a doctor on hand you can be like hey man can i get some of that

like that you'll always have people being like hey can i get some of that yeah exactly yeah here on the low on the low here's some yeah here's some up there's some downers white houses in general are full of like elvis drug, you know, like Elvis didn't do illegal drugs, but he abused the shit out of whatever, uh, his doctor would give him and his doctor would give him anything. Cause he was Elvis, um, to the point that, you know, didn't, didn't make it out of his forties. Uh, so it, it feels like that is kind of the status quo.

During that first Dr. Ronny Jackson scandal, I remember people were talking about how Obama administration officials would be on planes and take one to put you out and one to turn the lights back on. Yeah. He would just kind of be walking down the aisle of Air Force One, just handing them out. Yeah, like it's the Euchar on. Yeah. Yeah. He would just kind of be walking down the, down the aisle of air force one, just handing them out. Like,

yeah. Like it's the Eucharist. Exactly. I mean, I remember even reading like JFK being shot up with a lot of speed and like painkillers cause he had back issues, but, um,

you know, more or less constantly out of his mind, uh, with the Trump white house though, it wasn't just uppers, um, of the numerous problems With the Trump White House, though, it wasn't just uppers. Of the numerous problems with the medical unit, one of the most disturbing is its cavalier approach toward narcotics, particularly when the nation is suffering from a devastating opioid addiction crisis.

All phases of the White House medical unit's pharmacy operation had severe and systemic problems. It stocked four opioid pain medications, fentanyl, hydrocodone, morphine, and oxycodone. So they really needed that Provigil. They really needed that upper. Keep them straight. They're like, hey, man, this motherfucker. They, Rens Pribis is nodding the fuck out, man.

Can you help him? He is fucking bad, bro. He has to speak to the fucking UN in a second. Yeah, well, surprising yet not surprising. But also, I like that it's like, how long did this investigation take? They went deep. Here, we got it. We got it.

Control medications, including the sleeping pill Ambien and the stimulant Provigil were dispensed quote without verifying the patient's identity. Yeah. A witness told investigators that Dr. X asked if I could hook up this person with some Provigil as parting gift for leaving the white house in the unit it was authorized for us to do that kind of stuff so they were giving it out as a gift dude hook it i love that hook it up it's just like we're using straight up drug talk in the way it's like hey man you think we could hook it up hook it up with some fenty man for him right i mean remember there was you know he's trying to get clean he's trying to get clean but this will just help you know what i mean this is help a little bit there are the early days in the Trump administration where they talked about there was that room of interns

that just existed in a vape cloud. Yeah, exactly. Perpetual vape cloud. You know those guys were probably doing like, they're like, yo man, I'm gonna fucking sprain my wrist doing some Heely tricks in my shoes, and then I can go to the doctor and be like, ah, dude, my wrist, bro, you got something for this? Yeah. Yeah, yeah yeah i was doing tricks in my heely shoes yeah the ones you told me to not wear with the

wheels in the heel but i just i'm working on a fucking i needed some footy for my fucking new mixtape dude so uh brian the editor points out this does finally answer the question how do they sleep at night um with a lot of help baby just the man you know what i mean goblets of wine help from someone that they call the candy man yeah all right uh nancy pelosi wants the fbi to investigate pro-palestinian protesters uh because they're financed by russia obviously yeah this is an interesting one because while i i think there's like room for that to be true because it's chinese i think is such uh an incredibly just a fucking slap in the face to human beings who are witnessing what is happening in gaza and then being like this is offensive it needs to stop and i this is like horrifying what

i'm seeing and then nancy pelosi is so high on power and elderly that her only conclusion is like, well, I'm not disturbed by it. So it has to be it has to be Russia or China. Like just like that's what's wild is like that. Anyway, that came out of her so quickly and so easily and not understanding this, like how people were completely baffled by what she was saying. But it makes sense because she's part of this whole infrastructure for the Democratic Party. And yeah, might as well just blame it on something rather than people having eyes and a conscience. Yeah, if the polling, which states that people are really in favor of a ceasefire and disapprove of, you know, what, what is happening in Gaza. Um, if that polling is inconvenient,

then she's just going with, uh, not, not, should we like reevaluate where we are? Um, they're going with, uh, you're actually brainwashed by Putin. So she went on CNN on Sunday and said that pro-Palestinian protesters in the U.S. were secretly connected to Russia's geopolitical agenda and possibly financed by the Russian government. And she's going to ask the FBI to investigate the financing of pro-Palestinian protests. Just God-tier brain rot. It's like the same shit like Republicans do. It's like, well, we need the FBI to investigate this thing that has no bearing of actual truth or something,

but we just need to get that out there, that there's something to investigate, that something's afoot. And it's not the American empire just humming along, doing what it does so yeah i uh it just it's really it really it me up when i hear like when i heard this because i'm like yeah damn these people are so out of touch they are they live in outer space and they think they understand the dynamics at play to win an election in november when so much shit is

basically on the line in terms of like whatever the fuck project 2025 is going to be in a trump 2.0 administration and they're they're busy being like okay let's not look at the thing that's clearly affecting some of the support from the people that you need to get votes to to like win an election and like let's just let's just say it's you guys are just lemmings who uh are just marching lockstep with foreign adversarial governments uh rather than doing a bit of introspection so i mean again it makes sense like we were saying on yesterday's show it's like they're they'd rather just go all in on reproductive rights and make that the big thing they talk about rather than trying to and then like also with the immigration stuff that biden's doing like well let's go to the

right on immigration and maybe that can make up for the people we lost because of the genocide that we're a party to right um yeah maybe we'll have some of them well and also like you also think young voters are not gonna really be like oh yeah man let's what happened to the fucking dreamers like and all this other shit that like was being promised and you're gonna completely voters are not going to really be like, oh yeah, man, what happened to the fucking Dreamers? And all this other shit that was being promised, and you're going to completely just go full reverse on that? The math ain't math, and

I don't know what polls they're looking at, but it might be some version that they're like, hey man, can you just make up a poll that makes us feel like we're right right now? There's also, because the messaging was a little confusing because it was uh funded by putin but then she also uh responded to protesters go back to china where your headquarters is so it's unclear who's behind this it's they're still

trying to figure out who is funding these people who object to the killing of 26,000 people. Are they going to just go after DEI next, maybe? Who? It's just this woke culture that has people looking at untold, horrific death of innocents en masse

and they are affected. I don't know. These people are snowflakes. We used to just do this shit on the daily and y'all didn't say shit. I don't know what's going on now. I don't know. These people are snowflakes. We used to just do this shit on there daily and y'all didn't say shit. I don't know what's going on now. I don't know why y'all suddenly have a conscience. That's true. It's like, what is going on?

That's what I'm like. I was saying this backstage like before the habituation pod, like we're just like in this really bizarre period where the elites have been using like this form of explaining foreign policy or disseminating news that was like how adults interact with children like it's like elf on the shelf foreign policy where they're like y'all don't know y'all don't know at night this elf come to life and yeah you you can't you don't understand so don't get

this is a this is adults work and now most of the people that are a voting age are too old for that shit. Basically, they're like, what the fuck, man? I used to be able to be like, hey, you better behave because elf on the shelf. But they're like, there is no fucking elf. And this is bullish. That's a doll that you got up there. And they are just scratching their heads completely baffled as to what's going on. And because they're unable to do any sort of level of introspection the easiest thing to do is to begin to point

fingers outside of themselves and say it's this it's that it's that it can't it's where it's not us and that arrogance really fucking frightens me because um god it's just a fucking fucked up race to the bottom now yeah i mean you used to get people when they became adults to buy in by giving them something like a you know sustainable life but they stopped doing that and they're just expecting people to uh to follow along just out of pure inertia but it's just not there anymore you have a generation of people especially like gen z i mean granted like we had the internet but like i didn't there was not the resources for me to begin to like understand what is like what my government's foreign policy how that affected me or economic policy affected

me but like with gen z and younger they they're like wait what they tell you go to college and you get a house and shit and then they start googling and they start there there's more information available to them at a at like a more rapid tick and uh of higher quality so yeah that's what you're dealing with your kids your kids know how to search the fucking internet and they're going is elf on the shelf real and it says hell no and they're like oh my god who's who's putin's internet they're on that's right they just want to kill christmas it all comes back to the war on christmas yeah exactly um all right let's take a quick break we'll be right back i'm jess casavetto executive producer of the hit netflix documentary series dancing for the devil the, the 7M TikTok cult.

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We're back. And Universallando has a new theme park epic universe that just announced uh some more details including that the five themed lands will include super nintendo world what everybody wants thank you a how to train your dragon area i mean okay There's definitely, that's like a movie that people liked when it came out. Do your kids fuck with how to train a dragon? No. They have not to this point fucked with how to train a dragon. They're not fucking with dragon training.

Okay. Yep. But they're also like less in on Pokemon than most. Sure. Something about the training of animals or beasts does not appeal to them. Maybe. Um, they're not in on Pokemon because I avoid it because I just don't have, I don't understand it.

And so I just, I'm, I got so many, I got so many plates been in trying to keep the Pokemon out of the, out of their world. It's like the Truman show in my household. Wait, is it because you, if you're afraid that that was just open the floodgates to like a whole new like world of wonder and obsession for them yeah and i i don't understand it and i have to and then they'll think i'm dumb miles i just gotta i gotta keep the ruse up for another couple years until they're right pokemon age to grind they're like dad tell us what wait what's's a grind. They're like, Dad, tell us what's Raichu, Dad?

And you're like, oh, fuck. Oh, God. What is this? What do you want? Putin's internet? Get the fuck out of here with that. Raichu. I'm smoking. I'm going to bring in somebody to scare you straight. Dad, what are you reading on your phone?

Nothing. I'm just telling you Raichu is a Pokemon species in the Nintendointendo game uh freaks media franchise first introduced what dad are you just reading no no this is how i talk sometimes from miles he was just telling me about something really interesting um but the third park uh that was announced was a dark universe section which you might remember their failed attempt at creating a shared cinematic universe that only ever amounted to a

couple of movies that did very badly and you know a publicity photo featuring several problematic men plus Sophia Boutella she was in the mummy one I think with Tom Cruise. Yeah. And the movies that might as well not exist.

But apparently they're just repurposing some of the branding for a new monster attraction themed around a Frankenstein character, Dr. Victoria Frankenstein. It's just weird that they're doubling down is van helsing one of their ip too like like it's just so weird but that movie didn't didn't do great either yeah it's just wild oh yeah that's a universal joint to van helsing it's just like odd when they're like fuck man what ip do we have it's like they're going through their garage and they're like i don't know man i can give you a johnny depp character with a tom cruise thing uh russell crowe like yeah fuck it man call it dark universe or some shit like it's so uninspiring it's kind of giving me a panic attack just thinking about like i could see like a

monster like a monster like a monster world for sure if they have access to all those old classic monsters you could have some fun with that but calling it dark universe which was their failed attempt they were like we're creating the new marvel cinematic universe the dark universe right um and like suggest that they're still hanging on um and yeah we'll see i mean maybe it'll be fun maybe it'll be fun around halloween they're like oh we know what gen z wants they want boris karloff and bella lagosa like nobody's fucking like that's for fucking real like cinema heads like if you know that age of like the monster flick or whatever, but after that,

uh, whatever, go ahead. Universal is do it, do whatever the fuck you're going to do. You know what I mean? Um, they also are introducing a Harry,

Harry Potter section themed around the fantastic beast movie. So they're, they're just like not taking the hint on this. They're just like, yeah, dude, just ring it out. If the theme park is good.

Um, yeah. Our writer jam was wondering if maybe they should if they they might be thinking about a cat themed park if they if they're just doubling down on failed where like everything remember how in that movie like everything was like kind of bigger it wasn't like super big it wasn't like honey yeah kids but wasn't like Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, but it was like, yeah, the full adult. Yeah, like, oh, I'm a cat. Yeah. Adult humans were cat-sized. That would be fun, actually. Honestly, that's more fun.

Like, you don't even have to brand it. You'd be like, yo, go to Tiny World, where you feel tiny and shit. Yeah. Like, fine. Okay, Tiny World. Don't need to connect it to fucking Fantastic Fucks or whatever beasts. We had a tiny world weekend In my house we watched Honey I Shrunk the Kids

And Ant-Man My kids were really on a tiny world kick What did they think of Honey I Shrunk the Kids They liked it We're like well we need more tiny world shit Give me More people being Extremely small

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They say that this is about a thing where people are obsessed with chasing the high life. This is according to a survey done by, you know, like some credit companies a while back. But it showed that like 44% of Gen Z, 46% of millennials say they are, quote, obsessed with the idea of being rich compared to the average of 27% amongst the rich generations. And it's like it says a similar number of young adults admitted to being obsessed with being rich also admitted experiencing money dysmorphia, which is described as having a distorted view of one's finances that could lead them to make poor decisions. 59% of millennials and 48% of Gen Z also feel behind on their financial goals. Though social media is partly responsible for all of this, to which I say, this is kind

of dumb and people need to understand that for when you're younger, the rich is like a, it's sort of a level of comfort that you identify, not necessarily like I need to have all this money. And as we get, as people's futures become more uncertain and things become less attainable, you like, man man the people i know that have health care and like are able to like buy a condo are rich right yeah and that's the thing it's like stability and i think that's just kind of weird to i mean i get to that we also get poisoned by consumer culture to a certain extent especially when we're younger but i feel a lot of

this just also has to do with the lack of opportunity the lack of mobility and we're younger. But I feel a lot of this just also has to do with the lack of opportunity, the lack of mobility. And we're just sort of couching it in this language of like, they want to be rich. It's like, yeah, exactly. Blame it on the end of it. It's the same as,

you know, uh, fossil fuel companies and the media getting it so that like the world is coming to an end because we didn't recycle every piece of trash instead of like, no, it's actually, you know, know 70 these massive

corporations uh these people are obsessed with their finances because they do not have the material wealth because we live in a broken system that isn't giving it to them and yeah our financial system just basically sucked every drop dry and you have again generations of people that were told do x y and z and then you get out into the real world and suddenly you're doing the john travolta from pulp fiction gif where he's like where the where the fuck is everything at like what you know and now it's like yeah y'all are obsessed with being rich so nice they're like just yeah really cynical way to describe how they're like all of this wealth has been siphoned up and redistributed upward um and then saying like i don't know what's wrong with these people like

so obsessed with this rich people and like banks love to talk about how america suffers from bad financial literacy because it's a way of blaming uh you know poor people for being poor and not it's also true though too where'd you get your money because 80 of the time it came from your like you inherited it so right yeah anyway that's a that's it it's a grim one yeah that is a grim right. Well, those are some of the things that are trending on this Tuesday, January 30th. We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church.

And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and Shekinah Church. Listen to Forgive Me For I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm

Keri Champion, and this is Season 4 of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. Every great player needs a foil. I know I'll go down in history.

People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Listen to the making

of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Elf Beauty,

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