The Daily Zeitgeist - The Zeits They Are A Trending 6/2: Trump's Goon Slush Fund, 60 Minutes, Trump's Peace Deal, Zohran Mamdani, Missouri vs Dolly Parton

Episode Date: June 2, 2026

In this edition of The Zeits They Are A Trendiing, Jack and Miles discuss the death of Trump's "Goon Slush Fund", Joe Rogan coming to '60 Minutes'?, an update on Trump's Iran peace deal, Zohran Mamdan...i repealing bedtime for kids, Missouri vs Dolly Parton and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:02:21 That one, Curtis. Oh, hey man. Hey, man. Down courtesy of Bird Turgler on the Discord. Oh, man. My name's Jacob Brown. I'm thrilled to be joined by Mr. Miles Gray. Yeah, bro.
Starting point is 00:02:36 It was a madness, man. On all the way, road, man. Was it a madness? It was a madness, man. Was it a madness, bro? The Ute was out there, man. The gal them, the man, man. So you were in London?
Starting point is 00:02:48 You can hear my voice. It's cracked. I was, oh, my God. What a time. What do you have behind us in the picture? That's Bukai Osaka and Gabriel Magalajish when we won the title because it happened after Man City drew. But anyway. So you went over to London.
Starting point is 00:03:07 Went to London for the big match. Yeah, that did not go well. That one didn't go well. We lost. It didn't matter. Went to penalties. It was, you know, penalties are a cool lover. But we did, we did what we had to do.
Starting point is 00:03:21 PSG was a better team. We know what we got to do now in the offseason. we need more weapons up top. So is that it? That's the end of the season? Yeah, yeah. Now it's done. It's done.
Starting point is 00:03:31 And then so we got to celebrate. That was your best team playing the best team of another league? In Europe. Yeah. That was to determine who the best European club team was. The best European club. And it was a Pais de Saint-Germain. Yeah, who we took it to penalties.
Starting point is 00:03:44 That's, I mean, taking the best, they're the holders of the title. So taking them all the way to penalties. And they're just, dude, it's crazy how much, like, the arsenal hate is so toxic in this way is really interesting to me like people have lost their minds hating on arsenal and i just love it because it there's just something about i think seeing a team that you never want it want to win do well that just pisses you off so when they lose you're like yes yes exactly right you'm like yeah man worry about your own patch uh but are you guys are people comparing arsenal to israel because that's uh that's that's the new trend that i'm noticing the Oklahoma wrote an article as we talked about about how the OKC Thunder are like Israel and that people used to like them and now they don't like them. And then the guy who made euphoria was like, yeah, actually euphoria, like all the hate they were getting now from the left and the right. It used to be only the right. And in many ways, euphoria is Israel.
Starting point is 00:04:50 No, no, don't bring that in there. Now, don't bring that into this. No, this is, if anything, there was an interesting article. I think it was in The Athletic about how we're more like the Knicks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There you go. Anyway, I had a great time. And then the parade was on Sunday. And that's why my voice is like this, I was screaming nonstop.
Starting point is 00:05:06 And I had flare smoke in my lungs, like fucking all day. And it was just, it was so dope. It's just so light-performing. That flare. Bro, I was hitting that flare like Rick, baby. Just straight up. Smoking that. Glowing smoke coming out of here.
Starting point is 00:05:22 Thumb in that flare. Yeah, so it was just crazy. And it was just so dope to be, I don't, I mean, there's thrilling no official numbers. There's just like a ton of speculation. But my God, it was everywhere in London and the parade just to be like, you know, you call it, what is it? Collective effervescence is the sociological term for that when a group of people just become a vibe immediately. Become like a soda. Yeah, exactly.
Starting point is 00:05:47 A fizzy lifting drink. Yeah. And it lifted our spirits. So, Arsenal, I love you. I will always love you. Congratulations. Thank you, man. Quick trip.
Starting point is 00:05:56 And then you're back. Not enough to have jet lag, to be honest, man. I was, oh, yeah, when you're there for like three and a half days, you're just like, an adrenaline. I came home. I went to bed at the same time. I woke up at the same time. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:09 All good. All good. All right. Well, this is the episode. I'm Jack. That's Miles is the episode. I'll tell you what is trending. And, yeah, let's see.
Starting point is 00:06:20 That $1.8 billion slush fund that Donald Trump was, setting aside for anybody who's like doing dirt on his behalf, basically. It was like if you break the law on my behalf, we have a fund that we will pay for January, January 6thers. Have the laws been enforced against you? Yeah. That's weaponization. That seems, that seems wrong.
Starting point is 00:06:44 We don't like that. Yeah. So it seems like that might have some legal problems that might actually cause consequences. It did have legal problems because... You speak of it in the past tense. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Court ruled. The court ruled against it.
Starting point is 00:07:01 So look, good news. Not that anything is materially improved for anyone, but more in the sense that egregious fuckery isn't totally frictionless at the moment. So this is from political. President Trump is retreating from plans for a $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund after a fierce backlash from fellow Republicans. White House officials communicated the decision to Republicans.
Starting point is 00:07:23 leaders on Capitol Hill Monday. And then the DOJ said, they will abide the court's ruling and will halt progress after the judge said, are you out of your minds? So as Darcy from 90-day fiancee would say, it's going away. Yeah. It's going away. It's going away. She was ranting about her emotional pain in life. She's like, it's going away.
Starting point is 00:07:47 So this fund is also going away. No more pain. That's a 90-day fiancé. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We love that one. Back at the other gig. Why did they stop? Like, why did they stop on this one?
Starting point is 00:08:05 What is it? Because all of his positions are unpopular. And yet he just like kind of drills them through despite court objections. What is it about this one that's like, the Republican Party is worried about it seeming too overtly criminal? Yeah, well, the other thing, too, is like, it was basically preventing them from passing in immigration enforcement bill because they kept trying to fucking sneak it in there.
Starting point is 00:08:29 They're like, dude, it's not going to fuck. Nothing will fucking happen if you keep insisting we do it this way. And also, I think the other part, too, is because of everyone being like, oh, people can't afford food, gas, whatever, that you're like, you're making this a priority. Taking people's tax money and giving it to January. very sixthers. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly. So, you know, it's, it's pretty straightforward. It's a loser. It's like, it's like a thing they got away with. And so they're like, so everybody likes these guys, right? It's like, no. People generally were pretty freaked out by that. They didn't love it.
Starting point is 00:09:06 It's a thing. It seems like they were willing to ignore. You got away with it. And there's still a group of people on the internet who are obsessed with like identifying every single person and like tracking what they're there. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Like, and also like, there's like, you know, people love hearing about the continued consequences because so many of these people have gone on to offend in other fucking terrible ways than not just. I hope they don't succeed in identifying everyone who was there. Yeah, I know, man. I know.
Starting point is 00:09:34 I know. Oh, Zite gang, I don't want you to. Pick the wrong day to take that tour. Daddy's got some secrets. Daddy's got secrets. Well, speaking of things that Republicans are going to be surprised that people don't like. CBS is trying to figure out how to fix 60 minutes because its ratings are going down
Starting point is 00:09:56 like literally everything else on television. Droopy. Ratings droopy. Not to see it's like all the CBS news shows. The evening news more. It's all under Barry Barri Weiss's command or her leadership because they're just turning into a MAGIF network. This is amazing work by her to be.
Starting point is 00:10:16 So she's like, tanked the entire network and then she's the one thing that she will talk about with the ratings being down is the thing that she hasn't been able to totally destroy you know yeah so she's she's like look at these 60 minutes ratings it's like well yeah compared to the rest of your network like yeah all ratings are down no nobody's watching CBS anymore to find out what's happening on on 60 minutes that's how people found out about 60 minutes before it was ad on CBS, but you've, you've now ruined that. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:51 And what to do? You know, the Anderson Cooper left last year because it's like, yo, this is some fucker. Like, no. He gave a more diplomatic answer. If I had to, if I had to, like, guess what her answer would be, it would be, like, recognize the error of her ways and be like, all right, I'm taking it. Because the other thing is that she has, like, fucked with 60 minutes and not it, not allowed them to put out reporting that was, like, important and that would have made.
Starting point is 00:11:16 made news. Yeah, about like, their attention centers. Yeah. Now they're like sort of this halfway, like half washed, half mega bullshit thing, which doesn't really work. So my assumption would be she's going to recognize the error of her ways and be like, okay, we're going to step away from fucking with the formula and let you go back to being 60 minutes.
Starting point is 00:11:37 You'd think, but this isn't an error, right? This is not erroneous. This is intentional, you know, to destroy it. And like the Ellison's seem to not care. Like everything you read is they fully back twice's leadership because they're like, yeah, fucking kneecap this thing and turn it into a, you know, MAGA network. Right. But yeah, they've, this is just a rumor, but I've read it in multiple places now. The rumor being that the broadcaster, and this I'm just going to read this, the broadcaster is struggling with ratings on its flagship shows 60 minutes after veteran journalist Anderson Cooper left last year, which is why they're thinking about bringing Joe Rogan.
Starting point is 00:12:13 Wow. Yeah. They said, Wilson, Rogan and Cooper are ideologically opposite. It's hoped that the immensely popular podcast with a reported 11 million listeners a day will attract some much-needed viewers. Technically, Rogan is already on screens as he presents his daily show and video format on social media. And he's so dynamic, too. Yeah. One industry insider said, quote, this isn't stunt casting.
Starting point is 00:12:36 It's strategy. Roganump opens a direct pipeline to the massive MAGA audience CBS has struggled to reach for years. they added, you bring in Rogan and you immediately gain a core connection to over 50% of the country. He speaks to viewers who feel ignored or mocked by legacy media. That could solve the ratings and credibility problems
Starting point is 00:12:56 of CBS overnight. What would that even? So would they give him like an Andy Rooney thing at the end where he's like, you know what's crazy? Yeah. Trans boxers or whatever the fuck. Weird shit he's going to say. I don't, I mean, this is just so fucking dumb.
Starting point is 00:13:12 This is some boomer-ass media thinking, right? Yeah, yeah, totally. Over and over. The guy has millions of YouTube views. That will translate to television immediately. Yeah. Like, Rogan is famously not a journalist and famously a fucking idiot. So I guess if 60 Minutes doesn't need to be news anymore, like to your point, just make it like an Andy ruin.
Starting point is 00:13:36 Like, why even call it 60 Minutes? Just be like, yeah, we got this new show called the fucking Rogan Ramp Fest. Yeah, that's a. Like, that makes me think because that is so much more, like, obviously you just like have Joe, give Joe Rogan a show if you're going to spend all the money that it would require, rather than like putting him on a thing that is your legacy media brand that he does not fit inside at all. It almost makes it seem like the point is the humiliation of like destroying 60 minutes by putting Joe Rogan on it. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, it's like, oh, we have access to. Joe Rogan, should we do the thing that might actually succeed, which is like make a mega news late night, like, broadcast thing with him?
Starting point is 00:14:23 No, let's humiliate this brand that keeps saying no to us whenever we give them notes. You know what I mean? Yeah. So, I mean, it's like, you know, it's a rumor. I don't. I have a, like, this just makes no sense. This is from the same argument. Another quote, another source told radar that the. rumored move is a gamble because he is raw unscripted and polarizing.
Starting point is 00:14:47 That could either electrify 60 minutes or blow it up. I don't think anyone's going to be like, oh, my God, the thing that 60 minutes is in desperate need of is Joe Rogan's take on something. He already gives his, like, that product already exists. It's called the Joe Rogan experience. How do I watch that on CBS News? That's the thing. Imagine him doing.
Starting point is 00:15:10 I have a TV that's stuck on CBS News. That's like the only way that that theory works is like, I've lost the remote and I can only watch CBS. I got one of these one channel TVs. It's only tuned to one network. Yeah, it's just going to be a thing that it'll make everybody hate 60 minutes instead of bringing his audience over. It makes sense. I mean, the people who are making these decisions, fuck no fuck all about what's happening or like how people are looking at anything. So yeah, man. Let's go.
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Starting point is 00:19:49 Pam and Jim of the office. That's right. That's right. Will they, won't they? Uh, yeah. I mean, it sounds like, uh, Donald Trump, he might be. I might have been reading books from the Ray J school of international diplomacy. Because the current Iran peace deal is, well, it depends. It's either falling apart, has fully fallen apart, is imminent or is basically done depending on who you ask and when the markets are going to open. The nonstop bombardment of Lebanon by Israel has already left nearly 4,000 people dead, 11,000 injured since March 2nd, according to Lebanon's health ministry.
Starting point is 00:20:24 And one of Iran's conditions, as we know from the beginning for, negotiations was that Israel has to stop with the attacks. Like that's just stopping people. Yeah. Like there's stop attacking, stop attacking Lebanon. That has not happened. And that's had a huge effect on Trump's ability to get any kind of deal or win.
Starting point is 00:20:43 And when Iran threatened to open V stocks over this, Trump apparently went off on Netanyahu on a phone call that Trump described as productive. But according to Axios, it was just screaming at BB. He was saying, quote, you're fucking crazy. you'd be in prison if it weren't for me. I'm saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this.
Starting point is 00:21:04 Another source who briefed Axios about the call said Trump was, quote, pissed. And at one point yelled at Netanyahu, quote, what the fuck are you doing? Okay. Yeah. You know, we've heard stories like this all the time of going, hey, you got to knock it off. This reminds me of the Biden administration, right? where it's like they won't do anything, but they will say,
Starting point is 00:21:29 they will tell you about a rumored conversation where the president says the thing that is actually true. Right. Which is actually a little bit more infuriating because that makes it evident that they like know, know what is true. Right, right, right. He's fucking crazy.
Starting point is 00:21:47 Yes, he should be in prison. Everybody does hate him now. Everybody hates Israel because of this. That's extra frustrating because they still don't, they won't do anything. Yeah, I mean, like, again, it's like, well, will that lead to some kind of pullback on like material support to Netanyahu? It doesn't seem like it. But for the moment, things are kind of back on track. And by that, I mean, Netanyahu has not stopped attacking southern Lebanon.
Starting point is 00:22:15 Trump was on Fox yesterday. And his brain mush came to light. I'm not even playing the quote. He just contradicted himself in the same conversation within minutes. it's when he was asked about the Iranian military, he said, quote, their military, we've sort of left it alone because we think that their military is somewhat, somewhat moderate.
Starting point is 00:22:33 We've actually left the military alone. Iran is in a very pat. And then he goes, Iran is in a very, minutes later. Minutes later. Sound like a few seconds later. Iran is in a very bad position.
Starting point is 00:22:44 They have no military. All they have is a good talk and a fake press. So they destroyed the military and their military is untouched also. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:22:53 And then as for the peace talks yesterday, it's so stupid. This is where Ray J comes in. This is where Ray J comes in. Okay, if you don't know this quote, you should by now if you listen to the show enough. If not, look up Ray J sunglasses, speedy. But, oh my God, rather than accepting things aren't going well, he's just protecting his ego by saying the peace talks are boring. President Donald Trump on Monday shrugged off the possible collapse of peace. negotiations with Iran telling CNBC, I don't care if they're over.
Starting point is 00:23:27 Honestly, I really don't care. I couldn't care less. I don't care. Yeah. I don't, I don't care. And then basically said that the discussions, quote, started to get very boring. So you're, you're just going to use that it's, I'm, it's like boring. So like, I don't even need to talk about it.
Starting point is 00:23:44 It's like so boring. That is my favorite negotiation tactic is gone. Oh, wow, whoa, whoa. So sleepy. stinky offer. Your offer just made me fall asleep. Dude, that's crazy. You want me to go to bed because it was so dumb? All right. But the thing is, whilst whilst the bullshit continues, people are still under attack in Gaza and the West Bank,
Starting point is 00:24:08 the shutting down of the strait is, as many humanitarian aid organizations said, it's going to affect the ability to supply humanitarian aid to the region until at least the beginning of 2027, even if shit stopped now. Right. So yeah, it's, you don't know. It's all it depends on who you're talking to, what day it is and what's going on. But apparently there's their talks haven't stopped. But again, we don't know how far we are or how close we are.
Starting point is 00:24:37 Right. It's not a great, it's not a great sign that he's doing the thing where he's saying the thing out loud about like what everybody else is seeing with their eyes, but then doing the, but there's nothing I can do. with these guys. These guys hold all the... It's like, do you think that makes you look like a good president? Yeah, right, right. You are not able to change the course of this war. You're just like, you're crazy. What are you doing? You're not.
Starting point is 00:25:03 All right. Here's a bunch of money and bombs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whatever you say. Yeah. That's your leadership on... Welcome back to... Welcome back to... Welcome back to...
Starting point is 00:25:17 You had such lightness when this show started. Yeah, I did. Now look at you. I got to go back. I got to go back to that moment mentally, emotionally. On to Zora Mamdani has finally fucked up. Dude. They got his ass.
Starting point is 00:25:34 This guy wants to abolish children's bedtimes, so they are in such an energetic deficit that they can no longer learn a modified version of the Civil War. It's actually sickening, which I feel is how the New York Post would describe this story where Mom Donnie, lifelong Knicks fan, has just, quote, repealed bedtimes for kids in New York because the NBA finals. Oh, he's just being adorable again? He was surrounded by kids and then, like, he has the order. It's written in comic sands.
Starting point is 00:26:05 And he, like, read in part, quote, whereas it is important for all New Yorkers of all ages to support the Knicks in their championship run. And whereas bedtime should not impede the ability of New York's cutest to cheer for the Knicks and watch every second of this historic championship series. Yeah, he's excited. If the Knicks win, Mamdani will be in really rarefied sports air. You got the Arsenal win and the Knicks. Yeah, man.
Starting point is 00:26:31 Oh, wow. What a run. He's on a heater. That's absolutely one of the great heaters that we've seen. 830, though. That's where it's every game I think is starting at 830. That seems too late. Like, why would you do that to the East Coast?
Starting point is 00:26:45 Well, because you've got to think about the West Coast. Because you got to think about us. 5.30. Yeah. People in L.A. don't work until like, you know, 430. They're going to start watching the game of 430. Don't worry about that. Well, and also, people in L.A. are probably like, you know, the fucking really freaked out Laker fans.
Starting point is 00:27:02 We're all fucking, like, fuck those, fuck the Spurs. I'm like, man, just I enjoy it. I don't. I get that we were. We were fierce rivals when Kobe and Shaq were playing with the Spurs. That was, I remember those games. I remember that time. But again, like, as a fan, I also really, you want to see something great and watching the rise of
Starting point is 00:27:28 Evan Yamah and like the resurgence of the Knicks. The Knicks are going into this finals on the most dominant 10 game stretch in the history of NBA basketball. And they're going against the person who is elevating what we thought was possible on a basketball court in Wenbinghamma. So, like, it's down. definitely worth checking out. I think the Knicks are going to win also. I hope the Knicks. It's always fun when the Knicks are in. I just want to see the fucking video. I just want to see the videos outside of Madison Square Garden to be honest and see the New Yorkers just see the city get torn down.
Starting point is 00:28:02 You think cat? How do you think cat's going to do up against women? That'll be interesting. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They are hard to stop. They got a lot of weapons. They got a lot going on. And finally, Missouri. has decided that they don't want to help Dali Parton help kids learn to read. We've talked before, especially on our Dalli Parton icon episode, about how her imagination library program sends an age appropriate book to registered children each month at no cost to the family. And 11 states provide full government investment and statewide coverage for the program. And an additional 13 states provide partial coverage. So Missouri was one of the states providing full coverage. about 45% of Missouri kids under the age of six were registered for the program statewide,
Starting point is 00:28:52 which is incredible. Wow. 45% of a kid. But the state just slashed the budget from $6 million to $2 million for the upcoming fiscal year, meaning that no new children or families will be able to sign up to get the free books. You got to be, sorry, kid, you got to be grandfathered in to the free books program. What the fuck? I mean, I can only imagine where else they.
Starting point is 00:29:17 Where that money's got. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sure. Wow. Look, just let the kids have a book, man.
Starting point is 00:29:25 Let the kids have a fucking book. Free books. Do something good for yourself. There's something electrifying about getting a book in the mail at that. Getting fucking anything in the mail when you're under six years old, it's, it, it, you, you'd believe in God. And it flips so hard where now I'm just annoyed by every piece of the mail that I get. Oh, I don't. I don't.
Starting point is 00:29:45 Have you been getting? I don't acknowledge my mailbox. My mail is none of my business. Have you been getting election mailers? Mailers, text, calls. Non-stop. Dude, fucking key chains. There's people dropping off merch.
Starting point is 00:30:00 Keychains. Yeah, I forget who. There was something I saw them like, what the fuck is this? They're really after you, man. They're really targeting you. I'm like, guys, I don't even, I'm not even registered to vote in California. Dude, I vote in Florida. Okay.
Starting point is 00:30:11 That's right. That's where my property is, if you know what I'm talking about. All right. Those are some of the things that are trending on this. Tuesday, June 2nd, June 2nd. Dune section. Yeah. June 2nd, Dune section election day.
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