The Daily Zeitgeist - The Wu Trend Clan Using AI 3/11: Sam Seder vs. MAGA, COVID, Mahmoud Khalil, RFK Jr./Steak 'N Shake, Mel Gibson

Episode Date: March 11, 2025

In this edition of The Wu Trend Clan Using AI, Jack and Miles discuss Sam Seder vs MAGA, the 5 year anniversary of the COVID declaration, ICE detaining Mahmoud Khalil for organizing protests, RFK Jr. promoting healthy eating… at Steak 'n Shake, a Justice Dept. attorney getting fired for NOT arming Mel Gibson and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hello the internet and welcome to this episode of the wood trend clan using AI Another song school But song was very yeah, I mean the RZA has not really evolved much It's a day but the look his love, his embrace of technology, that's one thing he's been consistent with. There's a new video out that's AI. It's bad, guys, it's bad. It's just like the actor's hair changes throughout.

There's like weird knees. The everything looks like weird and glossy. There's nothing really happening in it They released that as like the official video. Yeah, like it had it as if it had a director and shit Damn, I mean I'm sure obviously someone has to tell the you know prompt the fucking thing. But yeah, it's given big Coca-Cola Christmas commercial. Yeah. Yeah, but definitely better Christmas commercial. Yeah.

But definitely better. Why are those cars moving like that? It's like they do it at like 17 fingers. So at least they got, they dialed that kind of shit in. My name is Jack. That over there is miles. This is the episode where we tell you some of the things that are trending on this Tuesday, March 11th in the afternoon. What's trending miles.

There's that Sam Cedar clip going viral mm-hmm which I don't I guess I think I've confused say like the Sam's but so Sam Cedar is a former sitcom actor and now he has a podcast and like kind of just is like kind of a progressive liberal is that that sort of his thing? Yeah, it's progressive. Yeah. Yeah. Majority report. Yeah. And so he went on Jubilee and did a like debate against 20 conservatives and just like kind of owned a lot of them. Yeah. Pretty repeatedly. Like it's this format where 20 people sit around and then like

they're like three to one. And then people like have to run in and like grab the chair to debate him. Like after he like issues a prompt, um, it's all very weird. It's like basically seems just dedicated to generating like viral clips. And there was some open embrace of like one girl that I think is getting a lot of the attention came through and she was like, yeah, why wouldn't I embrace xenophobia? Like, you know, she was just like, yeah, that's we're a white country, bitch.

Like, what are you talking about? And then the Latino dude that came up later and he's like, yeah, yeah, Christian nationalism, white nationalism. Yeah, yeah, Christian nationalism. Straight up. Actually, the way he said is like, yeah, we need that if we're going to turn this country around. Right. And you're like, oof, good lord.

But I do, it did seem like a viral ad for conservatives and mega people. They're just like you, or I get like, they don't look like what we typically associate them with. I'm curious how they like cast this, where they found this cast of mega people because there's, you know, black people, Latino people, Indian people. Wait, is that built on your belief that those people couldn't be conservative? Couldn't be mega, I guess. Not that they couldn't be, but that it's just like, I guess when I think of mega, that's not who I picture. And then like mainly it was like the,

all the like hipster looking people, like they all kind of looked like young hipsters. Well Jubilee is, you know, it's a known thing on YouTube and stuff. So you're attracted to it because you're trying to get up in there. So from that perspective, like, yeah, it's not gonna be like this sort of CNN town hall look

of like we're talking to the MAGA voter. But numerically though, when you look at who voted for Donald Trump, yeah, it's a lot of people who, again, don't fit whatever the quote unquote look is. But I mean, I think it's interesting to see him go on Jubilee to do that because those are the kinds of places where the people who don't really pay attention to the news kind of get like their discourse from. Yeah. So to have him go there and actually just sort of like

truth talk, like the basics when they're like, dude, the FBI doesn't pay taxes. And he's like, bro, the FBI is funded by the government. No, of course they don't pay taxes. Like, what are you talking about? And they're like, huh? I mean, the thing I'm struck by is just how depleted the critical thinking skills are of these people.

And just how, like even in the face of hearing someone say something to you that completely contradicts what you're saying, like in a logical way, immediately just goes into like, I'm just gonna have to double down and get angry, or like the people who just gave up and they're like, you know what, someone else is probably going to have to come up here to argue this better than I do. Someone else is going to actually be better at debunking this. So I'm just going to,

but you're wrong. I know you're wrong. I just don't have the facts to back it up because you're actually not wrong. So we're just going to, I'm going to let somebody else take this one. It was funny when he was like, what, he's's just asking me like what month are we in right now? Just to be like, okay good. So we can agree on that. Yeah, cuz then also I think Hassan piker went on Theo Vance Podcast. Oh he did how'd that go? I haven't seen it. I haven't seen it. Yeah Hey, but I'm sure it was good the different guys coming together having a good conversation and Probably landing somewhere in the no No, I don't think that's how it was. Yeah, we'll have to see but I mean that's those are the spaces

I think people you know, like the rather than being like, how do we get a Joe Rogan of the left? It's like just have people you know have people with progressive politics go on these fucking places to just So they they are in front of some of these people but yeah it was a very the that Jubilee debate I was just like God we're fucking cooked man no one even fucking no one even knows what anything is anymore yeah all right it is the five-year anniversary of the pandemic declaration we still haven't forgiven Tom Hanks or Rudy Gobert I feel no nor will we nor should we no no do you think that's where because Tom Hanks or Rudy Gobert, I feel like. No. Nor will we, nor should we.

No. No. Do you think that's where, because Tom Hanks is like so central to a lot of like Illuminati conspiracy theories, do you think it's that association or do you think, like I guess it was kind of there before, right? It's just like he is associated with liberal theories and or liberal causes and he is America's dad so he gets like all the daddy issues and shit. Yeah.

Yeah. And I think also because he didn't like openly embrace Trump, then he's the enemy. So yeah, but his son, bro, bad man, road man. Yeah. Him not a waste you. All right. The US no longer has free speech ice has known and Mahmood Khalil Who is one of the pro Palestinian organizers at Columbia and they also revoked the student visa of a Chinese student who was?

organizing protests at this time. Yeah, so fucking wild dude straight up detaining people and You like Mike Johnson the speaker speaker, was asked like, what crime did this person commit to warrant being arrested? And he just goes into this thing of like, just nonsense. He's like, I was there. Not again, doing the thing, not answering what the crime was and just doing this like hyperbolic thing of like,

Columbia was a war zone. And this guy, he's handing out stuff with Hamas information on it, and he's trying to make everyone Hamas, and we just will not have that. If you're a student coming from abroad to be an American, and you're terrorizing your fellow students, that is not gonna happen.

You will leave. And completely obscuring everything around what was going on. And also just completely like on top of that, avoiding just how dark that is when purely organizing a protest, a nonviolent protest, just advocate, advocating for human rights gets you fucking in jail. And I think this is a thing that people always talk about is how this actually, this isn't good for fighting antisemitismSemitism to just call these things anti-Semitism because when you're invoking this idea of like what these people are, you know, the actual people who are protesting

in good faith, which is most people, it's there to talk about that these are crimes being committed against human beings that absolutely we should not be standing by and aiding and abetting this. And to say that to do that we will actually put the forces of the state against you, that's not, that doesn't help bolster the case that these are the good guys or this is the side of good. It fucking completely, it's just so fucking, it's really fucked up to watch. And today, I think the Senate Democrat, like Judiciary Dems from their Twitter account set like posted a free Mahmoud Khalil thing, which I was like, whoa, really, really OK.

Do you know what got over them? They'll probably apologize for that by by the end of the day. But yeah, the thing I'm seeing a lot of people point to is like, he was part of the people occupying that building. And that's it's just that's the one thing you can't do in America is, you know, threaten property. Right. It's like, yeah, there were sit ins during the civil rights movement, like with, I guess those would be considered like occupying a building in this current environment, right? Anyways, the Senate judiciary Dems thing. It's like very confusing to me

like yeah, you do everything you can to also like foster the environment that chills free speech, especially around campus protests around Gaza and then now You're acting like it. this is like a big issue. Again, I think they all, the Democrats are in the process of constantly revealing how duplicitous and wobbly and ideologically inconsistent they are. Because in one breath, or six months ago,

they were condemning any kind of nonviolent protests that was happening on campus. And now they're worried that this kid is getting detained purely because who's in power. Not because they actually, not because of the actual opposition to this. Just fucking absurd. But anyway, we'll see what happens.

They're already, they're mentions already a fucking mess under the comments under that. All right, let's take a quick break. I'm sure, I'm sure. Under the comments under that. All right, let's take a quick break. We'll come right back. And we're back and RFK Jr. is promoting healthy eating by visiting Steak and Shakes. So this is. Okay, what?

Yeah, in his pledge to make America healthy again, RFK Jr. has been promoting the hell out of Steak and Shake, thanking them for quote, RFKing the French fries, which does not mean that their French fries are now cooked in Whale Blubber and contain bear meat, but actually means that they're no longer using seed oils mean that their french fries are now cooked in whale blubber and contain bear meat but actually means that they're no longer using seed oils for cooking fries and have moved to beef tallow instead because nothing says healthy like beef tallow. Hey it is flavor i'm not gonna lie that's flavor that's flavor but no it's gonna be better it's gonna taste better this was beef

tallow was the thing that they moved off of in the 80s because they were like this is really bad for you Yeah, yeah, yeah, and so we have to like move you now one thing is it is really bad for you But this is just you know it's another part of this administration that is just governed by internet memes and the whims of whatever is popular right now and the anti-scientific and just like, well, right now we're worried about seed oils, which I'm not saying you shouldn't be doing research and paying attention to dangers around seed oils, but like to be just like, and therefore going back to beef tallow,

and I'm going to endorse fries cooked in beef tallow served with milkshakes and triple steak burgers as like healthy eating. Yeah, no fucking way, dude. Yeah. He sat for an interview with Sean Hannity inside a steak and shake So I don't know who owns steak and shake and we should probably look into that because they're clearly like this Twitter county is a fucking right-wing

Hellscape like this shit. They're posting Yeah, like eating steak and shake in a Tesla telling people to fucking hodl Tesla stock like from the steak and shake fucking Twitter It's a glory holdings, which anybody who listens to the podcast dough boys knows is a is a shitty company that like this guy like Puts his name on come it like what once he takes over He's like this is now a bug lari company and then those like horrible things and it's basically like private equity shit

yeah sure well hey man now everyone's eating from look I think this is all part of Trump's plan like you're saying to die on the toilet like Elvis for everyone he wants to make that accessible for everyone we should all should all be given the free freedom to die on the toilet like our king. Blowing our intestines out with just constant beef tallow, just ingesting huge amounts of beef tallow. God, he dies from like just his horrible diet and like all the prescription drugs he's on. Like he's just the again like I think in the same way that people were unable to accept Elvis's death like I think the country his supporters will be

unable to accept his death in a way that might lead to a civil war in this case like it'll be instead of fun Elvis sightings and people being like Elvis is still alive, it'll be fucking a civil war. Yeah like or yeah like fucking Donald Trump Jr is trying to be like, I have his death shroud, only I can claim supreme power over like oh yeah I feel like there'll be some weird artifact they start fighting over oh fuck. Yeah just to state the obvious, actual experts have pointed out that attributing the adverse health consequences of processed foods to seed oils is bullshit because It's the junk food as a whole. That's the problem again

Maybe like if you're like, ah, should I cook this thing in this healthy food in? seed oil or like avocado oil like that totally understand like you can figure that out. But to be like getting rid of seed oil is going to save the country. A country that is like struggling through obesity. We're getting a little myopic here for the sake of making this a cool like hit for RFK.

Dude, there's this guy, I bet RFK will probably succumb to this new shitty MAGA diet that he's having to do, even performatively. Because I bet this dude was eating like spirulina, like fucking all day or some shit. So now, the shits RFK is taking, because you know that dude was eating healthy before, probably.

Yeah, his shit used to sparkle, and now he's just absolute paint jobs. RFK is taking, because you know that dude was eating healthy before, probably. Yeah. Spark. His shit used to sparkle, and now he's just absolute paint jobs. RFK, you deserve every watery paint job you do from now on. I'm so sorry. They also claimed that, the health experts claimed that swapping out the oils for lard and beef tallow would make them even worse. Of course. lard and beef tallow would make them even worse. But it is the whole problem,

like the whole idea of like healthy eating in the U S like as our diets have gotten like way worse, really starting in the eighties is that corporations took over and we're like, we have to keep the messaging on brand that like one way or another, it needs to be you're consuming your way to health. So rather than being like, you're going to eat less, which we've seen with like the Ozempic thing,

hurts their bottom line and like, they're not happy about it, but it is also the only way to like really lose weight. Uh, rather than, you know, acknowledging that reality, they are, they're, they're like, well, instead we're offering these fat free products that are like fucking so powerfully like, uh, sugar saturated that you won't be able to go to sleep for three days. Hey, I love snack wells though. That is exactly what I had in mind, man.

Those things. Tasted like shit. I would never get over those devil's food cake cookies they had. I thought on the box they looked so fucking good and I was like what is this chemical bullshit I'm eating and then I don't know anyway. What happened to the snack wells people? Like the ladies that were marketing that. I hope they're all okay.

I bet they're fine. They now sell cigarettes. All right and then finally a Justice Department attorney was fired for not arming Mel Gibson, I guess. It's being reported that former US pardon attorney, Elizabeth G. Oyer was fired last week because she wouldn't let Trump supporter Mel Gibson have his guns back. She was asked by the administration to restore

Mel Gibson's gun rights, which were taken away following his 2011 domestic violence misdemeanor conviction. And she believes that her refusal to carry out that request led to her dismissal. She said that DOJ employees are afraid right now because dissent is being punished and the Justice Department like kind of issued a non-denial denial where they were like no the timing on the email actually doesn't make sense. But just as a reminder for people who weren't paying attention back then, his guns were taken away after he waved a gun in front of his ex-girlfriend after physically attacking her and threatened to murder her as she tried to get away,

allegedly. So, and I mean, we have a lot of audio evidence of him being pretty scary. Oh, absolute fucking goblin. Yeah. It's unreal though, too. Just what the government's prioritizing. Mel Gibson's like, let me get my fucking gun back. Give me back my gun. You kill my gun, you kill yourself that's right oh my god and the gun was

peeing its pants in the elevator when it saw it was standing next to him just that scene was I remember I was like yo that movie is upsetting the movies fucking straight-up upsetting especially for having watched it as a child oh yeah I don't know what... Damn, man. I mean, that was like some shit you just watch. Fucking ransom. And you're like...

Ransom, bro. Dude. This is how it works, dude. Everyone, you kidnap someone, you don't get the FBI involved, or do, I don't know, then maybe it'll end happily. But yeah, Mel Gibson, you absolutely fucking do not deserve anything Get the fuck away. This dude was in Alta Dena Making a fucking hissy fit about the MAGA the fires and how the like Alta Dena needs doze and shit Fuck up man, like I don't truly shut the fuck up Mel Gibson. Yeah

He's probably he's probably trying to get in good either because there's some crime that he needs to get pardoned for he's gearing up to Do some shit that he needs to get pardoned for right right? He's a not one I still like there's something about his demeanor on the Joe Rogan podcast when he's talking about like how all his friends cancer was cured by fucking Hydroxychloroquine that is just like, I'm like, man, on the one hand it's like terrifying on the other hand, it's like, whatever drugs he is on are so powerful. He's out here denying reality with his chest. Yeah, exactly. All right, that's going to do it for today's trending. We are back tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show.

Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourself, get your vaccines while you still can, get your flu shot, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye. Later.