The Daily Zeitgeist - The Trendsons 8/26: Snoop Dogg, Washington D.C., Chat GPT, Trump vs. Flag Burning, Amazon Prime Movies, Israel/Gaza

Episode Date: August 26, 2025

In this edition of The Trendsons, Jack and special guest co-host Mort Burke discuss Snoop Dogg's biggest fear, an update on the Big Takeover in Washington D.C., Chat GPT always getting the last word, Amazon in trouble for "selling" movies that you don't get to own, Israel's latest war crimes and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Marge. My special little guy. Oh, that's actually really good. Thank you. I think I can do early Homer where it's like... Interesting. Come on, boy. Where he sounds like Jane Gumb from Silesville lamps.

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that over there is mort burke it's mort burke everyone hello guest co-host with the mo host professional goofball fucking professional goof exactly what your gym teacher said

you would amount to what do you think you could be a professional goofball well you can't so this is the episode where we tell you what's trending. Should we do that for the people? I think so. I think, yeah, it's time to, well, I use the phrase

feed the streets, but people are allowed to say whatever they want to say. You do use that phrase a lot. All right, Snoop Dog. We've already covered how he I think performed at the inauguration,

if I'm not mistaken. But he's been enjoying his slide into elderly irrelevance for a while. And he was on a podcast, the It's Giving podcast. I was talking about how movies can be really scary to him. And he's not talking about hereditary or weapons. He's talking about the Pixar movie Light Year,

and specifically the fact that there are lesbians in Light Year. which on the podcast, he said, well, my grandson in the middle of a movie is like, Papa Snoop, how does she have a baby with a woman? She's a woman, Snoop Dog said, which, you know, should be an opportunity to just have a conversation about the fact that there are different types of families. Instead, it gave him a panic attack and he was like, I'm never going back to the goddamn movies again. I hope he was literally scared, like, behind, eyes just above the back. of the couch, like shivering. He said the whole experience fucked me up. I'm like

scared to go to the movies. Y'all throw me in the middle of shit that I don't have an answer for. You don't just like look it up, man. It's very easy for same-sex couples to have children. You could look it up and just like answer it for them.

How is that harder to answer than like if he was like, why, how, where do babies come from like that you know yeah no it's right it's it's much less salacious i've yeah my take is that he's been high for almost 50 years like he can't be held accountable for any of this stuff yeah things are very scary when you like come down briefly you know what i mean i when i smoked weed there was a period i just couldn't go outside for a while i would get so anxious and he's been like that for 50 years so he you know like a plate anything but a plate of cookies

scares him probably right in his defense too high for too long. Yeah. Also, as we were talking about, you know, as we age, many of us look more and more like old lesbians. And Snoop, no different. You know, everybody ages into a period of looking like an old lesbian. I'm surprised to hear he's so scared of lesbians looking as he does, like he could be an old

lesbian um so and they're like the cooler you are the more you like paul mccartney for sure looks like an old lesbian stephen tyler and like people i honestly like old lesbians i'd want to hang with like with some wisdom just as far as the look you know it's like it's nature's great equalizer that's where we're all headed like it or not yeah yeah no for sure and uh you know older women get like short kind of spunky hairdos and you know older men tend to get like spunky little hairdos. And, uh, yeah, we all just, we all start going to the same hair, the same hairdresser. Um, you're like, let's do something fun. Yeah. It's God's way illustrating to us finally at the very end that gender is a construct. Because we're all got to

look like a sweet grandma no matter what we do. Yeah. Yeah. It's like at babies, you can't tell the difference. And then at over a certain age, you can't tell the difference. Uh, so, uh, soup dog Ken, go, fuck himself. Um, all right. Checking into the world. of politics. The Fed taker of D.C. is still in full swing. Most of the focus is on the areas where crime isn't an issue and where, you know, it's just about owning the libs, essentially. But there was a little press conference where Teenage Mutant Ninja Gerbils, aka Stephen Miller, was like, people can finally wear their wrist watches again. And what the fuck does he think is happening and also that people can go to the park again which like I've I've been to DC

like people go to the park in DC like all these guys like try to be such tough guys but they're so scared everybody's so scared all the time everyone it's just men being so frightened of everything is like the problem with the country yeah yeah I'm so scared it's what if somebody takes my beautiful watch who gives this shit Yeah. Yeah, yeah, my beautiful fucking watch. Well, they are like, it's the main thing that they can't abide. Like the, during the, you know, Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, like the idea of people breaking windows to banks was they're like, what the fuck, man? Like, that's the worst thing you can actually do. Yeah. All of my crazy money is in there. Yes. You can go outside with your pearls and, like, have your pocket watch chain hanging out of your pocket. and you can use your bejeweled monocle, you know. We're finally getting back to when Americans can just be Americans.

It is going to be funny when the phrase, own the libs refers to being able to actually purchase a liberal person. That'll be fun. Yeah, that is, yeah, I can't wait. Let's see, Chad GPT apparently has a feature where it will not let you have the last word. And so I just want to share this. clip where somebody put chat GPT on a call with chat GPT and they end up having a conversation that's very similar to the types of conversations I've had with people who are just like too polite

talk or need more advice I'm here for you I appreciate that it's always good to have a sounding board I'll definitely let you know how it goes thanks for the support thanks for the support how specific I'm glad to be here for you take care and good luck with your chat Thanks a bunch. I'll catch you later and let you know how everything turns out. This just keeps going. Sounds good. Talk to you later.

Take care. This isn't dissimilar from like 90%? And I'll be here whenever you need me. 90% of like conversations that happen in business. Totally. Yep. And it really captures the British over politeness because they colonize the world and they feel guilty now. The laid back like smiling British over politeness.

all right talk to you then enjoy your day as well thank you okay beautiful talking to you all right good to see you i think we should kill i think we should kill each other and ourselves in like a murder suicide plot okay great idea i'm open to very open to it i'd like for this living excruciating night and end this unending unending hellscape that's become this conversation your idea on that and I think I'd like to partake in it with you. All right. Please end my life. I'll do anything.

Okay, good talking to you. Kill me now, please. Just anything. I'll go painlessly with like a gas or, you know, whatever you have. Great. Can't work. If I could, I'd have a gun in my mouth. Please shoot, shoot the computer, pull the plug, whatever you've got to do.

Okay. Just make it end. Any way that you can make it end. Just please take me out of existence. Okay. Good talk of you. I'd rather do anything than continue to exist. Thanks so much.

Anyways, so they've given us that, and that is worth burning down a fort. We've got a couple things. On tomorrow's episode, we also talk about innovation from chat GPT that's pretty cool. Not from chat, GBT, AI. The world of AI image generation has given us a new genre of content that I'm very Very excited to talk to you guys about tomorrow. Should we take a little break? Come back and talk about some other news.

Oh, yeah, it's going to break in. All right, we're going to take a break. We'll just be taking a break, and we'll be back after these messages. Okay, we're done here. Good seeing, yeah. Done here with Act 1, but Act 2 is coming up, and we can't wait to talk to you. And we'll do that right after that. Going to go ahead and hang up now.

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now on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And we, uh, when I was, was in Ireland. I noticed a thing that some Irish people, not all Irish people, but a lot of Irish people would not let you say, say the last thing on the phone. They'd go, bye, buy, buy, bye, bye, bye, buy now. Okay, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye now. Like, they would say buy 400 fucking times. Yeah, the Irish goodbye is a lie. Yeah, it's the opposite, really. Yeah, they want you to hear

them say bye. Compulsively. All right. Trump is trying to stop flag burning. This is a thing that he's doing where it's like, all just like broadly symbolic, you know, like he's just, he just did an executive order

where he's like, we're going to make it illegal for people to do flag burning or at least I'll be able to like charge them with something. For people, like I didn't realize it. I thought flag burning was like, so in some way like bad legally.

like you could actually get in trouble. That is not true. As long as it's your flag, you can't get in trouble for burning a flag. I know this because I was on an episode of workaholics where my character, Patrick Fartman, set

16 American flags on fire because he was, the character was trying to invent like this liquid that prevents them for being able to be burned. But so he accidentally just, which I thought was very like subversive for a comedy Central TV show.

And you looked into the legality. You were like, are they going to get my ass here? Like frankly, you have to buy these flags before you light them on fire or you will be thrown in the slammer. Yeah, maybe retroactively I'll get sent to Guantanamo for not having

proof of purchase. A veteran was arrested for burning the flag in D.C. a few days ago and this is, Trump is trying to do an executive order that's blatantly unconstitutional. Like there's like Anton Scalia has been like, no, that's free speech. And you know me.

Not a big free speech guy. He thinks hamburgers are illegal. Exactly. But people like Matt Walsh, the conservative influencer, saying, well, it's illegal to burn the pride flag. So it should be illegal to burn the American flag, which, again, you can burn any flag you want if it's yours. And if it's not yours, you are. burning somebody's shit and that's illegal. But yeah,

what you were thinking of our hate crimes where people vandalized buildings and neighborhoods because they couldn't sort out their feelings after watching Zach Snyder's 300 for the 20th time. So they're like, I don't know, I better go

light that bar on fire with the rainbow flag. Oh, I can't do that anymore? What is this, not America? What they get to enjoy themselves? these yeah the conservatives love their flags like uh toddlers love paul patrol and toddlers do love paw patrol they can't get enough of that shit and then they stop and then one day they stop it's really interesting they just it like a thing clicks inside them and they're just like no no more do i like paup patrol

it was like one day my kids were obsessed with paw patrol the next day they were like no we don't like that anymore this is this is not cool that's baby shit okay damn too cool for it. They're like, we like Velvet Underground now, Dad. It happens so fast. I like songs about heroin by Lou Reed. There's a great video of a Pomeranian chasing a bear out of a house.

My favorite part of it. I just like bears, I think. And like this bear seems to know that it's like sneaking around. What it like gets in the house, it like sounds like it's making the don't, dum, dum, dum, dum.

like music. But it really is fucking terrified of this Pomeranian on the grounds of it just being annoying as fuck. Yeah, he doesn't want to see the like empowered divorcee who's attached to it probably.

These dogs always react. I have a pit bull who's the sweetest dog in the world and Pomeranians always react to him like he couldn't bite them in half. They just freak. They do what they did to this bear. To my sweet dog who's just like scared

and confused. Yeah. I read, like a explanation that small dogs see big dogs and just think that that must be how big they are but I don't, I think they're just like some breeds are just like

built to be like assholes you know because they're small. I think it's almost the opposite where it's like they are, they know they shouldn't be this small like they know something through breeding nature and man has made a mistake and they have to compensate for it. Right. Or yeah yeah

it's like a Darwinian bluff like they're like We've been bred to be like too small to defend ourselves and also complete assholes. So no, so everybody's just like scared of us. Yeah, it's just a bluff of a combination of character traits. All right. Here's something I did not know. Amazon Prime is now facing a class action lawsuit because when you buy the movies and TV shows that you buy, you're actually not owning it.

It's just a license to use the VIII. video temporarily until they like are no longer licensing it and it will completely disappear from your library the second they no longer have the right to like show it to you and so people are suing them Apple faced a similar lawsuit back in 2021 and I don't know I don't know how this like works in either direction for anyone but yeah how did the Apple lawsuit go do you know no I have no idea yeah it's it's a fascinating question of like what happens to the thing that I purchased when the item that I watch it on goes away. Yeah.

It's just, it's no longer yours to, to view. I also wouldn't notice, like I own movies on Amazon Prime. I have no, like, idea which movies I own.

You know, they don't like make it easy to just like, look and see like all the movies that you've purchased. Yeah, they don't. Yeah.

Fucking Prime. And that's by design people. Anyways, pirate your movies. Don't pay for them. Or maybe I shouldn't say that. That's probably bad for them. movie industry. I'll say it. Pirates your movies. All right, Brian, the editor. Thank you, Brian.

And finally, Israel is tweeting its way through its latest war crime. They bombed the Nassar hospital, killed journalists and aid workers in a, so it was a what they call a double tap attack, which is one strike followed by a second soon after. So they did the first strike at the top of a hospital. Um, and then as the aid workers and journalists are rushing into cover and, uh, you know, uh, help the people who are harmed, they do a second attack. And they came through with the explanation that like, they were like, we regret this accident that we did on purpose twice in a row. Um, but yeah, it's, uh, they tweeted, uh, prime minister's office statement. Israel deeply regrets the tragic mishap that

occurred today at the Nassar Hospital in Gaza. Israel values the work of journalists, medical staff, and all civilian. They just like, don't give a fuck. They're just not even trying to yeah. Yeah. Follow for more documentation of untold human casualty. Yes.

Like and subscribe. Yes. Yeah, because I smash that like button. She'll tell journalists who worked for Al Jazeera, Reuters, and the AP. So, they don't give a fuck they'll kill anybody and nobody's doing shit about it but uh there there's a good cause that you can uh donate to that we talk about on tomorrow's episode uh you can go donate to

the global sumud flotilla um which is a coordinated nonviolent fleet of mostly small vessels sailing from ports across the mediterranean to uh bring aid to gaza so that's something you can do i also like the Zakat Foundation, Z-A-K-A-T. They're a Muslim organization, but they don't like proselytize and don't only help Muslims, but they're an independent charity organization who's doing a lot of good work there. Nice. There you go. All right, those are some of the things that are trending on this Tuesday, August 26th. 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 where you still can. Get your flu shots. Don't do nothing.

about white supremacy, and we will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. The Daily Zykeyes is executive produced by Catherine Law. Co-produced by Bay Wang. Co-produced by Victor Wright. Co-written by J.M. McNabb. And edited and engineered by Brian Jeffries. LaGuardia Airport.

The holiday rush, parents hauling luggage, kids gripping their new Christmas toys. Then, everything changed. There's been a bombing at the TWA terminal. Just a chaotic, chaotic scene. In its wake, a new kind of enemy emerged. Terrorism. Listen to the new season of Law and Order Criminal Justice System on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, it's Daniel Fischel.

Writer Strong. And Wilfredel from PodMeets World. We are back in Las Vegas and giving the people what they want. A full week of Y2K content. Tell me why. Well, for the Backstreet Boys residency, it's fear, of course. We joke and say this is our second marriage. But it takes a lot of communication.

Plus, it's carrot top, baby. And finally, Ashley Simpson-Ross joins us to talk about her upcoming sold-out Vegas Residency. Listen to PodMeets World on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Why are TSA rules so confusing? You got a hood of you. I'll take it all! I'm Mani.

I'm Noah. This is Devin. And we're best friends and journalists with a new podcast called No Such Thing, where we get to the bottom of questions like that. Why are you screaming? I can't expect what to do. Now, if the rule was the same, go off on me. I deserve it.

You know, lock him up. Listen to No Such Thing on the I Heart Radio app. Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. No such thing. I'm Dr. Joy Hardin-Bradford, host of the Therapy for Black Girls podcast. I know how overwhelming it can feel if flying makes you anxious. In session 418 of the Therapy for Black Girls podcast, Dr. Angela Nealbarnett and I discuss flight anxiety. What is not a norm is to allow it to prevent you from doing the things that you want to do.

The things that you were meant to do. Listen to Therapy for Black Girls on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. This is an IHeart podcast.