The Daily Zeitgeist - The NYT Games App ConnecTrend 2/13: Trump/Elon, ICE Raids, Joe Rogan, Gulf Of America, Disney

Episode Date: February 13, 2025

In this edition of The NYT Games App ConnecTrend, Jack and Miles discuss Trump getting OWNED by Elon's young child, an ICE raid update, Joe Rogan's analysis of the current political climate, a Trump fealty update (feat Google and Disney) and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Do you think you got it takes to be a TV personality and commercials and you know, Saturday morning shows Listen to those amigos on the I heart radio app Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts snakes zombies sharks heights Speaking in public the list of fears is endless But while you're clutching your blanket in the dark wondering if that sound in the hall was actually a footstep The real danger is in your hand Hello the internet and welcome to this episode of the New York Times games apps connect trends or strands or

Trendle or the mini trends Anyways all of our title space Word for word Brian the editor that one courtesy of vanadium silver. My name is Jack that over there is miles No need for the fanfare no need for the fanfare I'm just me. I'm just little old me. What is fanfare? Technically is it like the I feel like people I've heard it referred to as like fanfare and it's like when a royal enters and there's the people with a short Sarah So the definition a short ceremonial tune or flourish played on brass instruments to introduce something or someone or a media attention or? elaborate ceremony aha aha aha

The the shittiest fanfare I can imagine is me just screaming your name We were talking about just the new Lil Wayne and how her ad lib is Like one point she goes on and then like she forgot what it was and I was like Look, we will not slander Georgiana on this show, especially after we were given elevator spaghetti. Okay. Uh, but the question, knees weak elevator spaghetti. Um, did you see the Kendrick, uh, edit where they just keep putting broccoli? No. So I was like, woke up, looking for the broccoli and then it just keeps coming back to broccoli over and over again.

for the broccoli and then it just keeps coming back to broccoli over and over again. Hockey keeps a horn on me that broccoli. Exactly. Ownership. The blueprint is broccoli. I get off and broccoli. Is that what it basically is? Yeah, exactly. Okay.

I know that's not well enough to do that. Yeah, I do not. So I, I do have woke up looking for the broccoli in my head every morning when I wake up now, uh, so you win Kendrick. Fine fine yet again. My name is Jack. That's miles. We did that and Yeah, this is what's trending on Thursday. We you do have a few hours before it's Valentine's Day Yes, don't fuck that up y'all fuck it up. Don't oh my god Don't fuck that up y'all. Fuck it up. Don't fuck it up.

Oh my God. Yeah. And give one, why don't instead of sending money up to the oligarchs, give your money to someone in your community. How about that? Give you, let's give our money to each other rather than. Oh, like pay your neighbor to give your significant other a back rub. Like pay your neighbor to go to Rite Aid in a panic to buy you a shitty box of Russell

Stover's chocolate. That's right. Dude, dude, dude, Richard, Richard, Richard, can you fucking go really quick? Yeah, just fucking keep the change, bro. But you should send me back for like 15 minutes. Fucking run. Hey, here's $15 to just cut all the flowers in your garden. You just rip out someone's flower bed, you leave 10 bucks there.

My bad. Had to do something. Had to do something. Hey, man uh my bad anyways these are some of the things that are trending on this thursday february 13th we do just want to take a moment like we talked about the elon musk oval office press conference how trump just kind of sat there looking like what what did you compare it to you had the perfect looking like. What did you compare it to?

You had the perfect comparison. He was like in the seat, basically. Yeah, he was like a seat. And then it was it felt like when the elderly and Nicole Smith married that, like about to die billionaire, just so she could basically like and everyone goes, you know, she's just in his ear all the time running his shit. He actually is not in control.

It was again, and then they do a elder abuse to prove that's not the case, but the press conference just confirms everybody. Do you love her? Oh, I got this baby. You're tired. Of course he loves me. He's always been in love with me. I'm the love of his life and everything I say he believes and also agrees with. And we are so excited for a long future together. Um, so that those were the vibes. We did fail to, I mean, we mentioned that Elon Musk

was throwing his son on his shoulders, like a meat shield, you know? Like a. Throw your son on your shoulders. But we didn't, I hadn't really zoomed in on what the kid was saying to Trump. Yeah, a lot of people have pointed out that he not only was telling him, he's like,

you need to shut, some people are saying you need to shut your fucking mouth. I didn't hear that. It looks like his mouth does do like a F thing, but the audio sounds more like, you need to shut your mouth, when Trump wasn't even talking. But the one we do hear very well,

is when he goes again at the Fucker is at the resolute Little three-year-old he you're that I'll say it out loud so you can hear you can kind of process what you're hearing He says you're not the president and you need to go away. This is Elon Musk's son extra Saying this to the president because I don't know how to pronounce his motherfuckers name. It's the Missy Elliott line backwards. Okay one more time. You can hear it in the background. Restore democracy. Again you're not the president. You're not the president you need to go away. Um wow. Chilling. Bone chilling. 100%. I mean I don't know what is this fool hearing behind closed doors, namely the doors that his father slams in his face when he's done using him as a meat shield.

But you can only imagine what he overhears to be like, oh yeah, that's like the old dude that we just make fun of. Yeah, yeah, exactly. It's just and then he picked his nose and wiped it on the resolute desk. I like that here. Here, take that. Take that bitch. Yeah, that's.

Anyways, couldn't have been more disrespectful to Donald Trump. The explicit purpose of this press conference was to prove that Donald Trump was like, it was a partnership that they knew what was going on, and then they couldn't have scripted it any better to just make it look like Elon Musk was dominating this motherfucker

Yeah, one had his four like whatever how old ever old this child is just whispering shit. You're like, yeah, keep your mouth shut That's right boy. Hey, remember it used to be Rudy Giuliani's kid. That was like most annoying little asshole I'm kind of I don't find this kid annoying at all. I like what he's doing I like someone on someone on like right wing cope that account posted on blue sky. That's where like that clip was from. And someone already said this kid's got more balls than all the Republicans. Yeah, exactly. He's part of the resistance.

He's going to lead us out. I mean, yeah, but I think what's fucked up is that it's like the worst case scenario is that like his dad is like, that man is not the president's son. I am the president Yeah, and he needs to go away if he told you something you told him to shut his fucking mouth All right, you don't think he's like gonna be like our Luke Skywalker and he's saying the same shit to his dad Fucking come for you. All right How are the ice raids going? Are they going as planned?

a bit of an ish news. Obviously we're still dealing with like absolutely immoral and illegal, you know, raids being perpetrated by ICE. And we mentioned earlier this week that border furor, Tom Homan, was really upset that people are arming themselves with knowledge of America's laws. Terms and conditions do apply. To thwart the activities of ICE agents.

It was weird in that quote to hear that highly educated immigrants were the problem. Yeah, he was not happy about that. Hey, they're way too educated. Anyway, so- I thought there weren't any of those. I thought that was the whole point. No, no. You were going after people who were not educated. Not the millions we're going after. They're way too fucking smart for us, man. Interesting.

We knock on the door and we're like, can we come in illegally? And they're like, no, fuck. But again, things aren't really going according to plan. So the thing about trying to deport millions of people is that you're trying to deport fucking millions of people. And this was a very simple fact that many experts had pointed out when Trump kept promising this terror campaign during the election. So like in order to deport even 1 million people

in a calendar year, ICE agents would need to hit a daily rate of 2,700 people. The most they've done is 1,100 and the numbers look like they're closer to 800 a day, but they've stopped reporting like for nine days now. We haven't heard anything. Before they were like, there's how many people? I think as the numbers go down, they're like,'s how many pages I think as the numbers go down they're like alright right but I think

we're off this shit and let's say even if you were able to hit those numbers where do you put people because they're running out of capacity local jails maybe new contracts with private prison industry yeah probably but even they aren't able to deliver the kind of capacity that Trump is looking for and even if they had the capacity for it to lock these people up, who the fuck's going to do the work? Because ICE's own estimates say they're about 30,000 people short of a full on expulsion campaign. And even if you had the fucking people, how are you going to fucking pay for this massive operation? Because well, I mean, we, the taxpayers taxpayers obviously are gonna get our pockets ran but yeah

The question my dear boy is not how we are going to it's how you are going I'm going to pay for the brutalization of my neighbors and people I depend on to have my life moving in a positive direction Anyway, the White House is currently begging Congress for a hundred seventy five billion dollars But again that would require a functioning Congress to make that happen. So we'll see how that works. And the other ironic part about all of this is that the administration basically made all those raids like TV spectacles. You know what I mean? Like we're doing ride alongs. It's like, and they're all like, we want to show our supporters that we know how to wear a cowboy hat and be racist at the same time,

like Kristi Noem did on a horse. But apparently the intense media coverage has also undermined the raids because too many people just know what ICE is up to, just turning on the TV. And Tom Homan's like, I'm not saying like, I'm not gonna say that was a mistake, but maybe we do a little less because they're, they were terrible at

this shit. And yeah. So I guess a slight silver lining. Still early, you know, for this fascist authoritarian regime, it's like, you know, a great NBA prospect. They're in the early days of open outright fascism where they're not even trying to hide it. So Maybe they're just you know, they're not used to the pace Of the NBA, you know, they're like they blow out both ACLs

and They they disappear. They'll just be like, yeah We we put up bad numbers and we need more funding and we need more time put up bad numbers and we need more funding and we need more time. Could you imagine? Four to, I don't know, 20 more years. An athlete being like, yeah, man, look, when I read, look, I know I'm putting up bad numbers, but that's because I need more money. OK. All right.

I mean, it is basically how a lot of capitalism works. Yeah, that is true. I mean, we just don't let our athletes get away with it. With AI. For some reason, something about the athletes that doesn't appeal to that mainstream media sensibility. I don't know what it is. Yeah. Anyways, let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. Have you ever looked into the night sky and wondered who or what was flying around up there? We've seen planes, helicopters, hot air balloons, and birds.

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Just fucking absconding with your money. Well, just shut up. Yeah. Oh my god That's fucking him and then this this other thing about Elon. He was gonna steal everybody's money. He has 400 billion dollars. I'm telling you he's not gonna steal your money. I'm telling you that's not what he's doing What he's doing is he's a super genius that's been fucked with Okay, and when you've been fucked with by these nitwits that hide behind three-letter agencies And you're dealing with one of the smartest people alive and he helps Donald Trump get in office and he goes I want to find out what kind of corruption is really around Well, you fucked up you fucked up and pick the wrong psychopath on the spectrum

He's gonna hunt you down. He's gonna find out what's going on and that's good Everybody he's gonna hunt you down. That's good getting State is good for everyone. I think he's specifically talking about the CIA and FBI and, you know, again, we're on this podcast, not huge fans of the FBI, I would say. Well, you know, I go back and forth. I go back and forth. Just the logic that we start with, that he has $400 billion and therefore he's not going to try and take your money is.

Do you know how greed works? Like you had all. So he got to Joe. He got to Jeff. May I call you Joe? Joseph. Joseph. He got to one hundred billion in our experience.

And he was like, not enough is not enough. And he just kept being like, just kept. You know, the way somebody like that gets money, makes the money is not how they talk about it in their autobiographies. There goes written it's by exploiting mismatched deals and people who have less power than them. And in this case, exploiting government contracts to acquire like a hundred billion dollars, such a irrational, unethical amount of wealth.

And he was like, this, I can't sleep at night having a hundred billion dollars. I need to get to four hundred billion dollars. And now that he has four hundred billion dollars, I just have this feeling that people it's like that guy, have you seen how much alcohol he drank yesterday? You're not going to drink your alcohol. Did he have three alcohols last night. He has an unquenchable lust for money that will never stop. What? How is that?

How is this person? Just because the guy's a warrior philosopher. Dude. Okay. He sniffed up like a half ounce of cocaine. You think he's, he's going to take your little Graham that you got. Well, you're not looking. He's not a half ounce of cocaine. You think he's he's gonna take your little Graham He's not gonna take more cocaine This is so fucking hair brained but again, this is all part of the full court press that they're doing to can you know inoculate people from

Arriving at their own conclusions as to like what Elon Musk might be up to and I can only imagine how many dipshits are gonna Walk around be like do dude, you only got $400 billion. Why would you want more? Cut to there's that report that said that the state department was procuring $400 million in armored fucking Teslas. And then when the news got out, they basically disappeared that little detail.

And there was like $400 million for armored vehicles. And you're like, oh, oh Yeah, the dude is just out here straight up running everyone's fucking pockets Yeah, well anyway For anyway, or Tesla's anyway, let's see Google Maps deleting bad reviews and turned off the review function of the For the Gulf of America, which I didn't know you could leave reviews on different bodies of water, but that's, that's fun. Uh, I'm going to be know how I'm spending my Valentine's day, but people were like

this, uh, you know, one star Gulf of America stinks filled with McDonald's cheese burgers and oil bring back Gulf of Mexico. Uh, so they deleted those negative comments. filled with McDonald's cheeseburgers and oil bring back Gulf of Mexico. So they deleted those negative comments. And right now the most recent review is from a month ago. They did the same thing when people gave bad reviews to the McDonald's that ratted out Luigi Mangione. So yeah, you know, they're on this they're on the side of good.

Yeah, always, always making the right decision. And speaking of on the side of good, Disney employees are just pointing out, so ABC paid a $15 million settlement to Trump last year over something that they could have won in court, but they were like, we don't want him to be mad at us. We don't want Dear Leader to be mad. Then Disney next day trans storyline in an upcoming Pixar movie.

And they've now scrapped all trigger warnings for racist old cartoons on Disney Plus, whittling it down to a shortened warning that's buried in the about section. And they've reportedly also tossed their DEI initiatives. So just fully Getting on board the keep mag a happy train. Oh man, Bob Iger, dude fucking you're such a cool guy Bob I yeah, oh man Listen to this guy on Who hosts the town? You know that podcast think about Hollywood is about the movie? It's not it's not about the movie unfortunately

just dudes from Southie talking about a Actually, that would be like a just Joe Masola the Celtics coach who watches that every day, right? And Matt Damon and Ben Affleck talking about Hollywood. Hey, we had the town. Yeah. Anyway, so we're gonna We're gonna rob the Cathedral Yeah, the Hollywood Bowl Yeah. Anyway, so we're gonna, we're gonna rob the, we're gonna rob the cathedral. The Hollywood bowl. You remember that part in the town where the cathedral Fenway pack, no, but this guy was on the bill Simmons podcast. They're just like a couple of,

you know, media movers and shakers. They were like, if I'm a Iger, I'm doing this every nine times out of 10. You gotta just, you know, make this Trump stuff go away. Yeah you just gotta bend over just die bend over just open your mouth wide stick your tongue out and let him run this shitty boot all up and down. Yeah that's all you gotta do and then hopefully you'll pray every night that it doesn't come for you eventually. It probably won't. It probably won't. You just gotta make that stuff go away and be nice be nice to Donnie Trump Yeah, anyways Disney employees seem to be like recognizing that this is happening and you know are giving interviews

Being like well, it seems like Disney's business is now keeping mega happy for a living Yeah, yeah Yeah, for a living. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Can't wait to go. Yeah! Can't wait to take out a home loan sized loan to go to Walt Disney World and see what's, like, did you see there was that headline maybe like three weeks ago where Disney was like,

I think everything costs too much at our parks? Like internally they were like, it might be too much based on what we're seeing in the flattening of any kind of profits because we just turned up the volume to be like, well, we'll only appeal to people with a lot of money or people who will do anything to come at our, but I mean selling organs, anything.

Call it alternate, alternate point of view. It's not enough Have you heard the Kendrick song? It's not enough guys. It's about Elon Musk. All right, that's gonna do it for this Thursday We're back tomorrow with a very special Valentine's Day episode Yeah pound town episode Coming straight from pound town city with Zara Norbach. With the mayor. Very fun with the mayor of pound town city. Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves. Get your flu shots, especially this year guys. The flu is out there as bad.

Go get your flu shots, get your vaccines while you still can. RFK was confirmed. Confirmed, yeah. We could have talked about that, but they're all gonna get confirmed. Confirmed. Yeah, we can. We can talk about that, but they're all they're all going to get confirmed. Yeah, yeah. That's that's over. That part. That's over. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. Unless you're Bob Iger. Unless you're Bob Iger. Unless you're Bob Iger.

Yeah. In which case, just embrace it, man. Just do nothing. Yeah. Yeah. And we'll talk to you all tomorrow. Bye do nothing. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, and we'll talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. Why would you do that to me? Los Angeles, 2021. A friendly neighbor appears out of nowhere and promises to make all my dreams come true. Let's not forget that David Blum was a professional con artist, so you didn't stand a chance. But my dreams soon turned into a nightmare. I'm Caroline DeMore. Listen as I take down my scammer on Once Upon a Con on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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