The Daily Zeitgeist - Trend Shapiro's Fortnite Foray 5/26: Trump's Disapproval Rating, Starbucks' Tank Day Controversy, Ben Shapiro, Stephen Colbert
Episode Date: May 26, 2026In this edition of Trend Shapiro’s Fortnite Foray, Jack and Miles discuss Donald Trump’s disapproval rating reaching an all-time high of 58%, along with Trump skipping Donald Trump Jr.&rsq...uo;s wedding. They also break down Starbucks’ latest advertising controversy, which echoes the company’s infamous 2002 “Collapse Into Cool” misstep, in which a poster promoting two new beverages drew criticism for imagery reminiscent of the September 11 attacks. The new campaign was tied to the release of a new oversized tumbler called The Tank, launched on May 18th and branded as “Tank Day.” The problem: May 18th is the anniversary of the Gwangju Democratic Uprising in South Korea, when the military-controlled government used tanks to suppress pro-democracy demonstrations. Next, they discuss the shooting outside the White House, which was covered by several media members who were filming at the time and the administration's use of the shooting as a justification for the White House ballroom. Next, in an effort to slow subscriber losses at The Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro streamed himself playing Fortnite for the first time. Finally, the day after the final episode of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert guest-hosted Only in Monroe, a public-access show from Monroe, Michigan, featuring guests Jack White, Jeff Daniels, and Steve Buscemi.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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The one thing that's fucking me up is Drake just bet a ton of money on Arsenal.
Yeah, that's tough when your team is like...
The biggest thing is when Drake bets on your team.
You're like, get the fuck out of here!
Is he the cooler?
The international cooler?
I mean, he's pretty hit or miss.
Like there's times he announces big bets and then everyone's like,
I feel like that one year the Chiefs didn't win.
Oh, right.
He put a fuck ton of money on the Chiefs.
Yeah, yeah.
But whatever.
That guy has bigger problems than this.
And when I was talking to other people, I'm like,
what are we going to do?
They're like, bro, this shit is bigger than fucking hip hop, bro.
Shit is big.
His biggest problem is what's he going to do with all these awesome songs?
Yeah.
I mean, three dang albums?
Come on, man.
Dude, he's got to put him somewhere.
He's got these.
He's going to do with all these streams.
Let's see if he's still dominating the top 20.
Have you listened to any of the three albums?
I'm breeze through Iceman.
I haven't made it through all three.
I just,
I don't have the time for that much straight.
You're right.
It is a breezy listen.
Very easy.
It goes down easy.
Very good,
right?
Good point, Ian.
Yeah, lyrics aren't very challenging.
Oh, man.
But really a lock on the top.
How's you doing on the streams there?
Let me check for you here.
Because that proves you're a better rapper than Drake.
All right.
I mean, the top five.
Choosen, Texas has invaded the top 10.
Drake is no longer.
What is Choosin Texas?
Choosin Texas is a song that I am unfamiliar with, but has been, I saw like a little headline
somewhere that said that Choos in Texas is like breaking records in terms of streams.
And Ella Langley's Be Her has also broken into the top 20.
That's also Ella Langley.
this is choosing Texas oh yeah they're both Ella Langley
bro this shit is kicking Drake's asses whooping Drake's ass
I mean not really it's number five
Drake he's in hell over over this right now yeah yeah yeah
but he loves he but he loves Houston what is he going to do he's always
choosing Texas oh that's a good point my thing
um Olivia Rodriguez has broken into the global top 20
fuck yeah yeah and uh
Olivia was also wearing an arsenal kit recently.
Guy named Michael Jackson is broken into the top 20.
Oh, you didn't beat it or something?
Billy Gene.
Oh, Billy Jean came back.
Yeah.
Billy Jean?
Huh?
Who knew?
So that's just off the string of that movie?
Yeah.
Have you heard of this guy?
All right.
I'll bite.
Who's this Michael Jackson?
Yeah.
I'm got to check him out.
He sounds like he's doing big things.
It's because that beat, dude, the second that bit,
boot, cut, doot, got, got, dude.
Bro, that already, you already know what time it is.
I think the reason Michael Jackson is doing well is because Drake references his glove on the cover of his new album.
Yeah, it was all Drake.
That's viral marketing for Michael Jackson.
It's not the movie either.
It's not the movie.
It's Drake putting the Michael Jackson glove on the cover in a very weird pop culture reference for somebody who's been accused of liking A minor.
Man, this is.
I don't even know.
I haven't even heard the other two albums.
I'm just got Ice Man on Loop, dude.
Yeah, that's right.
Drake is fucking back, bro.
Jack, you really got to get in, man.
You don't want to miss this train.
A maverick to your Iceman.
Go nose to nose with you and a towel
in a steamy locker room.
You know what I'm saying?
Also, all I'm saying is, you know,
Jared McCain famously huge Drake fan.
He was really excited for Iceman.
drop ever since those three albums came out thunder been losing i don't know i'm just saying that i blame them
i'm just saying i blame him and you know who i blame for uh the nicks being on a
unstoppable 10 game stretch of the the most dominant 10 game stretch of NBA basketball ever
Drake a little guy by the name is our mom donnie oh yeah yeah i mean he's winning bro between
arsenal and the nix i know he's having a fucking summer what the fuck is
going on with this guy. He's going to be having a fucking sum.
That's who we need to look where he's putting his money.
Yeah, bro. I want to see his polymarket account.
I bet he's bet he's bet he's been like $20 at an OTB.
Oh, yeah. Just with the like jankiest disguise.
They're like, yo, whoa, Mr. Mayor?
Nah, no, no, man. Give me freaking 20 on the Knicks, bro.
Hurry up. The fuck is going on, bro.
Dressed up like a Hasidic guy like Bono.
Oh, yeah. Wait. Why did Bono dress like a Hasidic Jew?
what was it for
just you know
be in Bono
not wanting to be noticed
yeah
Bono
Hasidic
I think he like
might have gotten
to a bike accident
or something
there was like
some incident
that happened
and they were like
wait a second
that's no
Hasidic Jew
that is Bono
yeah
oh it's because
the edge said
that he
rides around
on a bike like that
that was on
K Rock
wow I like
that someone
was like
no he he is not
his public
of like, no, he's not doing that.
Right.
Yeah, I mean, that is kind of problem.
Yeah.
Somebody should have said something.
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recording after the weekend, the long weekend in this case, we do like to dive in and tell you what was trending over the long weekend.
And what's going on with us?
My name is Jack O'Brien.
That over there's Mr. Miles Gray.
Thank you so much.
You can call me supporter of Premier League Champions Arsenal Football Club Miles Gray.
Thank you so much.
Yes.
I'm a champion, Jack.
You're still floating on air.
Oh, I'm going to be floating on air for a while.
Okay.
Because when you haven't won shit for 22 years and that shit comes, God bless it.
I actually had a really good conversation with somebody who was a Cubs fan recently.
He was like, I get it, man.
I fucking get it.
I get it.
And I'm like, thank you.
Thank you, man.
I appreciate it, man.
Thank you.
Just crying nonstop for the past two weeks.
And he was like, look, dude, I'm still not going to give you this pizza for free just because you got your wallet.
I'm like, please, please.
We're basically brothers.
I don't have nothing.
I forgot my wallet.
I forgot everything.
Yeah, so we're going to tell you some stuff that happened over the weekend.
Oh, yeah.
Talk about Donald Trump not going to a son's wedding, a yet another assassination attempt,
an amazing story about Starbucks.
Yeah, what the f.
Yeah.
Another weird ad campaign that I had forgot the collapse into cool posters.
I think we had talked about it here, but every time I relearn about the collapse into cool
9-11 ad campaign from Starbucks.
My brain goes on the same journey where it's like, this has to be fake.
Wait a second.
This actually happened.
Anyways, we're going to get to that.
But first, we like to let you get to know us a little bit better by telling you some things
we think are underrated, some things we think are overrated.
Miles, let's kick it off with something you think is underrated.
Underrated Arsenal Football Club.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
Now, speak on that.
Because I've been hearing some things about this.
I just have to say a couple things, okay?
I've been supporting this team since about 2001, 2002.
I was fortunate enough to watch us lift the title or the trophy 22 years ago in 2004.
And then the years in between was like the first five years we were still riding off the high of winning within.
You know how like you can kind of still ride that high?
We were like, yeah, we did win, like, a couple years ago.
Yeah.
And then a couple years ago turns into five years and turns to 10 and turns to 15 and turns to 20.
And by around 10 years, you, people start looking at you funny being like, bro, stop talking about when you lost, you won 10 years ago.
Like, you guys aren't winning shit right now.
But there's a picture of you, like, celebrating that win and you're wearing like a full gene outfit.
Like Britney Spears and Justin Timberlick.
I got two headbands on, crissed on my head, like three wristbands up my arm.
You have a band-aid under your eye.
I have two white teas on, one half on and the other on top of my other white tea.
It was a beautiful time.
I was wearing gerbo jeans.
But like in that period, right, we didn't do anything.
And a lot of other teams came up that were winning consistently and got a ton of the fans, like a lot of people supporting them in that era.
And the ones that still hung on, we weren't, no one could ever accuse us of glory hunting.
You know what I mean?
Or like bandwagoning.
because we weren't fucking doing shit functionally on paper,
but there was still this belief.
And the fact that it has come off now,
I'm telling you,
we are in the midst of seeing a global mass catharsis event, okay?
Because people are celebrating in India, Vietnam, Kenya, Japan, America,
okay?
America?
You name it.
We're there.
I'm assuming this is common for any team that wins this level of-
I will say,
Yeah, when Liverpool won it about six years ago, six years ago, it had been 30 years since they won, and they fucking turned up. And I get it because it had been 30 years. That was like the last time it's been at this level. The teams that have other, like this one team, Manchester City, they have just been like using brute force of economics and a bunch of like economic. They're doing like shit that they're getting in trouble for financially to get signed the players that they do. Right. And so when they win, they just had a parade for.
for like they're a legendary manager going,
bro, there was barely any people
that came out for that shit.
Wow.
And a lot of people are lamenting.
They're like, God, the culture just is not there.
And there's just something about this football club
that brings us together.
Yeah,
and for the people that laugh,
the songs.
The people that laugh and say,
uh,
you guys aren't winning,
we are fucking massive.
Look around you.
You know,
I'm sure you're seeing people rolling up in their red and white.
And I too will be soon.
Thank you very much.
That's been my time.
I'm seeing people.
Oh,
I wouldn't have recognized it otherwise.
Oh, every time I wear something, someone was like, oh, yay, what's up?
What's up?
You guys are particularly international, you were saying off.
Yeah.
I mean, like, because of the embrace of, like, international players of diversity, like, we were, you know,
where Arsenal is is, like, in some of, like, the blackest parts of London.
So the fan base, like, it's embraced the support of, like, black fans, black players.
We were the first team to, like, field, I think, nine black players on the field at once.
which was like unheard of in England at the time.
And we've signed.
You guys are the reverse Red Sox.
Reverse Red Sox, reverse Boston teams.
Yes, we're reverse Boston.
We're David Stern's worst and best, worst nightmare and greatest dream ever.
Thank you so much, David Stern.
But like to that end, there's just been a history of like giving players a chance and like allowing players from Togo or the Ivory Coast or Nigeria to like be part of our starting lineup.
and that's created a ton of interest from around the world.
Arson Venger, our most legendary manager, came from Japan,
which is how I even heard of him because he was really popular in Japan.
And that's when like all the Japanese people were like,
oh shit,
Arson.
So I'm just saying for all the people that are like,
I'm going to keep talking about this because this is the greatest beach of my life.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We're, this is, yeah.
I'm going to have my dad back on.
I'm going to have my dad back on to keep talking about Arsenal next time.
I'm like, dad, say something about Arsenal right now.
Is your dad a fan?
No.
Fuck, no.
He's a Laker fan.
I mean, like, that's where I get my Laker fandom from my dad.
But, like, no, he likes Arsenal because he knows that I've been waking up at like 4 a.m to watch matches live for 22 years.
Sure, sure.
And obsessed with it.
So, by osmosis, he is happy that I have this thing.
Same.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Thank you, Danny.
I'm always rooting for Arsenal because I have no reason not to.
Thank you, Jack.
And it was because of you.
We share this with you.
What's something you think is underrated?
You know, I'm not going to take all the credit, but I did a lot of work, a lot of heavy lifting.
Definitely.
Something I think is underrated taking a hard turn.
How much human trafficking is about labor?
When I hear the phrase human trafficking, I picture Liam.
Neson's daughter being taken or, you know, the sound of freedom trailer, certainly the Epstein
files, you know, human trafficking is of white teenagers from America is so routine in the, in these
worlds that like Liam Niesin is able to tell her, oh, okay, you're about to be taken. He just like knows
the drill. Some people broke into your apartment. Oh, yeah, you're about to be heroin slaved on a yacht.
like that's that's just how those works um and they i was reading a new yorker article over the weekend
about human you know human trafficking being a massive problem in the united states uh but uh you
specifying that it's rarely the blonde american women being kidnapped from parking lots after
someone put a zip tie on their door handle yeah yeah right that that meme over during the pandemic um
and taken to foreign countries it's
actually mostly immigrants from other countries being exploited and forced into doing labor,
serving people like those white ladies for little to no money.
It's the same reason America's been using slave labor for centuries because it makes it easier to make money.
Yeah.
Run on slavery.
Exactly.
And, you know, so there is like, so this article is just about all the ways that human
trafficking is used to fuel cheap labor.
And it can be, there's like an example of a 2024 pizza chain in Massachusetts
was convicted of using forced labor to make undocumented workers work 14 hours a day.
And I have to admit, like, it's like a point that they make is like if something's prices are,
like if a place's prices are too good to be true, like you should maybe like think about how,
how that's happening. Wait, so what's the, what's like the examples are like pizza place,
a massage place? This is a quote from the article. According to the Department of Homeland Security,
the majority of trafficking victims, 77% are forced into labor. In the U.S., most of these labor
trafficking victims are immigrants working in a commercial enterprise such as a hotel or a beauty
salon for little to no pay. But there's also, you know, restaurants, restaurant chains. And then
domestic labor is also a big thing.
Like the article is about somebody who is, you know, a 12-year-old from Africa who is like brought
to this rich family's house and basically like lives in slavery until her 20s in this
wealthy suburb of Houston.
And people are like, seems weird and they would like make individual complaints to the police.
but nobody would actually like act on it until she finally just like started talking to people and being like, hey, I think this is bad.
Yeah, right.
What's happy to be is bad.
Yeah.
It's also just the politics of the people who are, you know, on the right who are afraid of non-white people.
You know, a lot of the anti-trafficking fear on the right is like these.
immigrants are going to come in and like take us and take us to other countries.
And it's like, uh, it's actually those politics that are making it possible because like the,
the threat that is used to keep people in these situations is basically like, I've got your
travel documents. Like what are you, you're going to run away and get picked up by ice.
Yeah. And that's for you. That was another thing people were saying about the ice raids is that like,
this is, this is making the situation worse for the people to.
that are already in these precarious,
like,
not even like working relationship
in these like forms of slavery
and indentured servitude.
Yeah.
That, yeah,
to have that be like,
oh,
well, all it's going to take now
is me to make one little call
and you'll end up somewhere fucked up.
Yeah.
Yeah,
well.
Yeah,
well.
Yeah,
exactly.
It really, like, it feels like it's about a terrible situation in America.
And it's mostly about pre this administration.
Yeah.
Like a version of America that existed before.
this administration and like everything that they've done has made the situation like way worse
right it could get impossibly worse well yeah because it's never about the what they say it's
about right you know what i mean it's because if it was they'd be doing something different
yeah all these like affordable things that uh in the u.s like a lot a lot of the time they're being
driven like you know just doing the steve jobs episode of um the iconograph a lot of his
genius.
The ability to
do these big drops of iPhones
was made possible
by going to horrible
labor practices over in China.
So it's
a lot of the deals
and a lot of the increasingly
unaffordable, but like the
ways that America is affordable
is through
horrible labor practices or
indentured servitude
and like these things that people
can't wouldn't believe are just like hiding in plain sight all around us right so that's something
i was personally under rating and also the nicks i did not realize that thank you for softening
that with a sports ball thing i did not did not realize the last 10 games was the most dominant
stretch in the history of the NBA yeah um what is something miles that you think is overrated uh manchester
city but i don't have to get into that you already know uh hold that ill overrated how casual we are
as adults about the achievement of
pooping in the toilet.
Hmm.
We just do our business.
You feel like you deserve more credit.
Well, I...
You've always said this.
You come out of the bathroom at work and you say,
I did a big one.
I go, I go, Jack, come check this out.
And you're like, nah, it's fine.
I go, all right, well, then just at least clap.
Please clap.
That's what I do.
Jeb Bush, I close the door.
Please clap.
And everyone goes, Miles, please flush.
And I go, okay, one second.
I'll be right back.
Yeah, one sec.
You just have to, as soon as you check it out.
Okay.
Clap, though.
And then I will do it.
But no, like the guy's child, we've crossed the Rubicon.
I love to say that of like potty training where he's being going peepie in the toilet.
Wow.
It wouldn't go poo pooh.
And last night, he did.
Dude, he was so fucking happy.
He did it.
He's happier than I am about Arsenal winning.
and that brought me to tears
because his sense of a...
It was so fucking pronounced, dude.
He was huge for him.
He almost had a fucking backflip.
He was so...
He was like, we!
I did the poopie in the toilet.
I was like, yes.
I was like, fuck yeah.
That's what I'm talking about.
Keep doing it.
Keep doing that.
And then he got in bed
and he was like, oh, wait, wait, hold on.
He has like a little Jack Skellington,
like, plushy kind of thing.
And he goes, oh, Jack, Jack has to go to the bathroom.
Jack got to go to the bathroom, too.
And I was like, all right, we'll do that in the morning.
He's like, no, he has to go to the bathroom.
And I was like, all right.
So I just like, you know, like puppeteered the Jack Skellington over to the, his little mini tour.
I was like, oh, okay, see, oh, he's done.
He goes, okay, put his, put his underwear on now and put his pajamas on.
I'm like, okay, there you go.
And then he held him and goes, I'm so proud of you, Jack, you went pooping the toilet.
Oh, I'm so proud of you.
I'm going to tell.
He's like, I'm going to tell Nana.
I'm going to tell blah, blah, blah.
I'm so proud of you.
And he kept making his dolls go to the bathroom and saying,
he was proud of them, I was like, I was loving it.
And part of me was like, God damn, man.
These small victories are just so great.
Small victories.
You got to appreciate them.
Yeah, you have to.
My other overrated is like habituation, I think, is what the term is called,
where like you become so used to your environment that it's not novel or anything.
Like, it's just like anything.
Like you get exposed to something over time.
It's not interesting.
Yeah.
Pooping in the toilet.
and other parts was just like
I was driving down like the 101
like near Ventura County
where like it's by the ocean and I was like
god damn shit is beautiful.
And I was like I really don't
give a fuck about the Pacific Ocean
because I grew up near it
and I was like in any other
fucking context I'd be like
roll the windows down. Check
this thing out. This is a beautiful day.
I'm looking at the sea
and I'm realizing too
not that it's like a bad thing but like when you
get used to things like that sort of magic goes away and it's just funny how like the juxtaposition
of suddenly you go on vacation you're like whoa look at this street i'm walking on it's like blows
your mind and i think it's it's important to like not that you have to fight against that but
know that that's what's happening like this shit is beautiful you're just used to it so much that
you can't quite you know like it's not novel anymore and like that's just kind of a practice
recently just in general of like things i feel like i've gotten used to that should
offer me a glimpse into like beauty of humanity
trying to really like embrace those
and remind myself like in any other fucking context
this would be like mind blowing to you
so at least appreciate that how do you get yourself
I don't I don't know how I'm still
the way I am doing it is like
you don't think that's cool because you're so used to it
and try and remember that this is new
and I think that's the pooping and the ocean
and put all together I do think yeah I think that's one of the
great things about being around children, you know, is that they're like, whoa, you know.
That sense of wonder.
Yeah.
You don't, you want to, in my experience, like, I try to feed off their sense of wonder and their
sense of, like, what's new rather than them just picking up on my sense of like being over it,
you know?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, as much as possible.
Yeah.
I got, you got a yes and them.
Yeah.
That's what I'm like, yeah, Jack Skellenton taking a wild shit too.
I do, yeah.
there's that like meme of people being like every time you drive by a cow you just go cow
right right right right like every time we drive by the ocean i'm like guys look at the ocean
and they're just like uh-huh at this point oh i was looking at this shit how big it is it's i i'm
i can't lie interstellar had me thinking about the ocean too what i'm imagine if that was in
slow motion though dude imagine if we just went on the water for two seconds in 70 years
Years went by dog.
And they're like, what?
Shut up.
Anyway.
So anyway, habituation, pooping in the toilet.
Find the wonder.
My overrated is my understanding of idioms.
I came across an idiom that I've been using wrong.
So, do you know the phrase for all intense and purposes that people say for all intensive purposes?
Yeah.
Yeah.
And it's just like, now that we're on the internet, I'm writing everything down.
everyone's like, oh, everybody thinks it's for all intensive purposes.
I've always sat back and laughed smugly at those people.
Uh-oh.
And then my son, my very inquisitive eight-year-old son, one of the three thousand questions he asked this weekend was what does sight for sore eyes mean?
and I said, oh, it's like when somebody like looks sorry or kind of like messed up,
like you'd be like, oh, look at this site for sore eyes.
Oh yeah, you're trying to do the eight-year-old version of when someone looks like shit.
Yeah, when someone looks like shit.
Like a group of hungover people roll up their boss would say, look at this site for sore eyes.
That's how I had always used it, how I had always understood it.
I don't know that I used it that much because I'm not a middle school gym teacher,
but it is a phrase that like I'm sure I've used
and like had a very firm understanding.
And then my wife was like,
not only is it like not that.
It's not even, it just means being happy to see someone that you've missed.
What the fuck?
Yeah.
No.
Yes.
A site for sore eyes is like your eyes are sore because you've missed them.
And this is a site that relieves.
Well, I thought it was looking like,
shit you thought it was looking like shit too aren't you a sight for sore eyes aren't you basically saying don't you look like shit yeah and you look it up online it's pretty ambiguous that there is like one reddit thread where somebody's like my english boyfriend thinks that sight for sore eyes means you look like shit and i'm i don't know if he's i don't know if it's a british thing or if he's like stupid and everybody's pretty unambiguous they're like oh yeah i i think
I might have heard it that way once or twice.
But the true meaning is it's something you've longed to see and have finally seen it.
Your parent, you're coming home after a long time away and your parents say,
oh, you're a sight for sore eyes.
I thought like your eyes are so.
Yeah.
We're using it that way.
And I thought she just noticed that I was hung over.
Like, look at this sight for sore eyes.
Like expressing love.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm like, I look like shit.
I know, look like shit, Mom.
Leave it alone.
I drink Southern Comfort for the first time.
Oh, man.
Well, yeah.
I don't know, man.
Now I'm on the lookout for like other idioms of misused.
We've always been a UK podcast in it, bro.
I know.
In it, brov.
But I don't know.
There are plenty of people in the Reddit thread being like, I'm from the UK.
I've never heard that shit.
Oh, shit.
It's just little.
pockets of degenerates
of insecure degenerates
being right right they can't miss me
they must be saying I look like shit
there's no fucking way this
I make your eyes
burned because I look like shit
that's what you mean
I'm making your I'm an eyesore
yeah but yeah Zygang I don't know
are we are we alone
have you been misusing this
also are you even using it still
nobody's using it but
yeah sometimes
sometimes
times your eight-year-old comes at you with a question.
Where did you answer it confidently?
He's just reading, you know?
Dude, this is the problem with books, man.
That's what I'm saying, man.
Like, he's now able to fucking humiliate you.
My wife is like, no video games, only reading.
And then he like gets these ideas.
Yeah, he's all smart.
And he goes like, and while you're explaining, he just goes, going,
he knew what it was.
What?
What?
No, go ahead.
What is it?
He knew.
Oh, my God, guys.
My dad is dumb.
You're right.
Talking to his stuffies.
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Ian, what did you have for a site for sore eyes?
Oh, I knew what it meant.
Yeah, you knew the correct version.
Yeah, I'm not an idiot.
Fuck.
I like he didn't just say, yeah, no, I believe in the other version.
He said, no, I had it right.
Yeah.
not had it right
it's like
oh it's like my eyes are sore and you're like
a pleasant thing to look at it's like your relief
for my sore eyes you know
I thought it was it must be
I think because like eyesore
I think people must have mixed that up because
the eyesore is the eye something that looks
disgusting that looks like shit
for me it has to the reason because
so much TV and film has influenced
my entire reality I feel like
it had to have been like two movies where it was
said wrong and I go yeah that's the fucking truth right
there. Yeah, maybe. Maybe. I'll have to do further research, but. But then I guess, you know what it
could be is that it was being used sarcastically and I didn't understand the sarcasm, which is
humiliating. Yeah, yeah, but they're like, oh. I pride myself on getting the sarcasm. But I think,
but at my age, I didn't realize the sarcasm of looking like shit, right? Yeah. Was someone being like,
Oh, aren't you a sight for sore eyes because you look like shit?
Oh, I'm so happy to see you.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You guys look great.
Yeah.
So it is back to us looking like shit.
All right.
It's back to us looking like shit, but they mean it ironically.
That they want to see you because you look like shit.
That makes sense.
Oh, okay.
Oh, good.
Thank God.
I still look like shit.
I still look like shit and people aren't happy to see me.
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Mm-hmm.
And Donald Trump had quite the weekend.
First of all, just big news.
He's hit his highest ratings.
We know this man pays attention to the ratings.
Dude, he's done it, bro.
Hey, look at these ratings.
Highest ratings ever.
Outdone myself again.
He's broken his own highest rating ever for disapproval, you fucking losers.
He's currently, Fox News, their own poll has him around 60%.
dissapproval.
He's currently averaging, the average of all the major polls is about 58.3%.
The only reason I'm bringing this up is because it's the worst it's ever been and it's actually
lower, it's a lower rating than he had right after fucking January 6th.
Like when everyone's like, ah, I can't fucking do this shit anymore.
He's there just right now because of his, I need ballroom.
I don't care about gas.
I love Jesus.
He nuts.
You're filling up your tank with peanuts.
He might have actually thought he might just not know how cars work and thought that you're actually filling your car up.
Or maybe I had like an old car where a squirrel was hiding nuts in the gas tank.
And he's like, you fill it up with acorns, right?
Do I have this?
But yeah, the lowest it's ever been.
And I think it, based on like everything I said, he's not doing a single fucking thing to like try and reverse course.
He's just like having all the people in his cat.
Oh, also forgot to mention Tulsi Gabbard stepped down over the weekend.
I was almost like, wait, there wasn't someone left in humiliation.
Consequences for women only in this administration.
100%.
But anyway.
She was kind of anti-war.
That was her anti-war for being in the administration.
So they're revving up the engine.
Yeah.
And I think when she had to be like, yeah, Iran, it was a threat.
She's like, you even came up here.
here and said everything was obliterated last time.
I was like, I know.
Guys, I'm sorry.
I've debased myself.
I don't know what to do anymore.
But yeah, anyway, that's what has happened.
But, yeah, Trump is not fully not focused on anything domestic.
It's crazy that he's that despised because he has such good instincts for doing likable things.
Like, for instance, skipping Donald Trump Jr.'s wedding this weekend.
It makes that sound bite that we played where we're like,
ah, he's probably talking about his fiance.
Most likely, it does fit like where he goes.
And I've known him, I've known them for many years.
My own son, whose wedding I could give a fuck less about.
Yeah.
So just to recap, he said he didn't even want to go.
When asked about it, he replied, he'd like me to go, but this is not good timing for me.
I have a thing called Iran and other things, which is.
God damn.
We talked about that at the end of last weekend.
It was still unclear if he was going to go or not.
He said he was going to get blamed for going to his own son's wedding, which is,
would not have happened.
People would,
I don't,
I don't think I've ever seen,
I've seen like people,
yeah,
like nobody's ever gotten blamed for going to their kids wedding.
No,
you get blamed for fucking around all the time and not doing it a goddamn thing as president.
That's,
yeah.
So he didn't go.
The weekend happened.
He didn't go.
and he
it was because of
how busy he was
he still somehow found
the time to post
an onslaught of memes
including an AI generated
video of himself
throwing Stephen Colbert
into a dumpster
and a touching tribute
to Hulk Hogan
which is just a
picture of Hulk Hogan
saying
we all miss the Huckster
instead of the Holkester
Oh boy
Freudian slip
he looks like
shit in that picture
Hulk?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, he's just, I think that's after one of his more impressive wins, making it all even funnier, the bride of Donald Trump Jr., which for some reason I haven't been keeping up.
I thought he was still with Kimberly Guilfoyle.
Oh, no, Jack.
No, no, no.
He's married a socialite from Florida, Bettina Anderson.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
who wanted to get married at the White House.
But the president didn't think it was a good idea.
Put the kibosh on that?
I'd rather have a UFC fight there.
Yeah.
This is only for really important stuff.
I do think that that's a good indication
that she's in it for love,
that she was like, can we get married at the place
where your dad works?
That would be really cool for me.
Yeah.
Yeah, no, they got married in the Bahamas, it looks like.
Yeah.
Hell yeah, man.
Look at them.
39-year-old socialite.
Got 48, he's 48 years young.
Look at him.
Don't tell me drugs age you.
Okay?
This guy looks fucking great, dude.
The most cocaine eyes that have ever been on cocaine.
You think he was fucked up at that.
I wonder if that was in her vows.
And you have the greatest little.
piss holes in a snowbank eyes that I've ever seen.
The way you make my stomach churn,
as if I were the one snorting baby laxative.
It's impressive, and I love you, honey.
Let's talk Starbucks. Let's talk about the books.
They have launched a marketing campaign reminiscent of a real-world tragedy
for the second time.
And I just, it's, it needs to be repeated every time Starbucks marketing comes up.
They had a campaign in April 2002, so less than a year after September 11th.
And the picture was two drinks with a dragonfly looking like it was about to fly into one of the drinks.
and the copy was collapse into cool.
Not a phrase, Miles.
Not a phrase.
No, no.
Collapse.
The wording.
Collapse into cool.
Collapse into cool.
And I'm seeing two things.
Two things with a dragonfly looking.
A dragonfly in the background.
Like kind of poised to fly right into one.
A little bit of 9-11 in there.
It's like it feels like.
every time I see it, I'm like, it has to be satire.
And then I'm like, okay, so the person responsible for that ad, whether they were conscious or not, they were thinking about 9-11, right?
Like, there's no way that you collapse into cool.
Yeah, why would you collapse?
That's not a, that's not a sensation I want associated with something I want to, like, consume.
Yeah.
It's, it's like, oh, yeah, collapse.
into a deep-seated depression.
Yeah.
Collapse?
No, no.
At a time, yeah.
You want to maybe embrace the cool or something like that.
Yeah, you know what I mean?
Not collapse.
It was better than like the first draft of like jet fuel into cool.
Jet fuel into steel beams.
What?
So in South Korea right now, they're in a bit of hot water again.
So that that campaign was very controversial.
or more,
some people did say,
hey,
this, I don't know,
you're putting this everywhere
and it just feels
a little reminiscent of the terror attack.
Yeah.
And so it got called out.
They took it down.
I don't know if they ever apologized for it.
It just feels like so,
so weird.
So anyway,
they've got another campaign.
They recently unveiled plans
to start selling a large drink tumbler
called a tank
on May 18th by Declays.
declaring it tank day.
Okay.
May 18th is the anniversary
of the Guangzhou uprising
when the military government
deployed troops and tanks
to suppress pro-democracy demonstrations.
And so,
and used tanks to kill people.
So they're calling it tank day.
It's a known anniversary
of a massacre that happened using tanks.
The promo also used the slogan,
Thouac it on the,
table. And again, the
slogan is really the thing.
As with collapse and to cool,
the slogan is really the thing that brings it home.
Yeah. That
might seem like very strange
wording until you
just generally though. You're never like, oh, a new
new cup, thwack it on the table.
Thack this one on the table. Thack?
What are you? Donald Duck.
It's seemingly referencing a 1987
claim by police that
student activist Park Jong-Choi,
rather than being tortured to death, had died
suddenly after investigators hit the desk
with a thwack. Oh, so
that word? That word
is in the official
Like the canon of this event.
Yes. Wow.
Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.
Who?
At Starbucks is like
is like
in the background just being like
all right, how are we going to
how are we going to like fit some
just fucked up
messaging? Yeah.
into our campaigns
announcing weird little
new promotions
That is
What's their explanation?
Like the thwack
It feels like hard
You can just be like slam it on the table
Or is this like a Korean translation
That's basically being transit
Oh like the English is like
Thwack it on the table
The English and yeah
The whole
Everybody immediately was like
The fuck he talked
Like wait what?
it's been condemned by the country's president.
There have been boycotts in public protests in which outraged citizens of smashed Starbucks tumblers and mugs to smithereens.
And the head of Starbucks in South Korea had to apologize like multiple times.
And he was like, everybody involved with this has been fired.
Just so you know.
Except I'm including the head of marketing who's okayed it.
I'm curious.
How big of a shakeup we talk?
They claimed they removed all five employees involved in the marketing campaign.
That seems light.
Dude, they are beating this shit out of these cups.
I also love how Asian this demonstration is.
They put like a tarp down to be like,
we're going to smash the shit on the ground,
but like we're going to make it easier to clean this up when we go.
Yeah, yeah.
You know what I mean?
We'll clean up.
We'll be right out of your hair in one second here.
This is, man, that's not good for,
do you, not, I mean, like, one part of me is like,
Because, you know, the cynical American brain to me goes, they're doing like viral, like outrage marketing.
But there's, you may have fucked up and fully crossed the line into just pure outrage now rather than like, oh, what's tank day?
Rather than being like, yeah, man, remember all those pro democracy demonstrators were killed and tortured?
Right.
Day.
Starbucks Cup.
I feel like we need to look at the sales after the collapse into cool thing.
Like maybe they just saw sales like skyrocket.
and they've just been waiting to play their next
like outrage, insane,
like subliminal evoking of a horrible
national tragedy card
and they just like did it a little too hard.
It was like too evidently intentional.
Yeah.
Clabs into cool. They were right on the edge.
Yeah, I don't know.
I mean, like clearly look, Starbucks was able to shrug that one off
and keep it moving.
but I'm trying to see
I'm like reading about it
there are protests
I don't know man
I don't know
we'll see
I mean there's so many
I feel like the coffee game
right now is so congested
there's already like
17 other coffee chains
that are like fighting for power
as Starbucks
Oh yeah
And so
I feel like
coffee in particular
is going in a direction
of like the more
small the less chain
that the coffee place is the better.
Like people, nobody's like,
I love big chain coffee, you know?
Right, right, right, yeah, yeah.
Like, you can get a great cup of coffee
from anywhere.
Yeah.
Yeah, from home even.
I got this crazy thing called a coffee maker in my house.
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Podcast? Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to it.
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Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts throughout there.
But this one's extra special.
So how did we actually come up with a name, Hey Jonas, guys?
I honestly don't remember. I think it was on a call about what we should call it.
Oh, we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band.
Before Jonas Brothers was...
This is how you guys remember it going down?
Yes.
I have a very different memory of this.
We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast,
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That's the name.
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I'm still just talking about the collapse into cool thing.
It's like the dick in the background of the Little Mermaid poster.
it's like, I mean, at some level, you may not have known that's what you're doing.
But like, that's what you were doing.
Yeah, yeah.
And that one is like, that just came through your unconscious and somehow people weren't like.
Somehow that's less shocking though too.
Like, yeah, I don't know.
A guy hit a dick in there.
Yeah.
This one's like 9-11 Starbucks.
Yo, what the fuck are we doing?
Yeah.
All right.
We got confirmation from Ian.
We're getting confirmation from Ian during every.
Yeah.
Hey, I'm not crazy, right?
Am I an idiot?
Yeah, yeah.
Am I an idiot?
On the first one, I was an idiot.
On this one, not an idiot.
No, no.
Let's see, there was, it's, it's kind of wild that this is, I think this is appropriately placed.
Like, yeah.
But this is like the third story we're covering, which was that there is like, you know,
a hundred, I don't know how many shots were fired at the White House.
Yeah.
A whole lot of them sounded like a war broke out.
a man with a documented history of mental health conditions
who previously had told secret service agents
that he was Jesus Christ
opened fire on the White House over the weekend
and was shot and killed.
It's another day, another, like there's...
What could possibly be going on in this country?
What is going on in this country?
The wild part is,
I mean, like, like, this is, there's so many, so many angles to talk about this story, like, whether it's obviously the complete, you know, our turning of the backs of the government on people who need mental health support or gun control or these other things are just like the inequality that's driving people mad.
But then it's just also like how cynically, this was immediately just turned into more.
We need a ballroom.
Yeah, yeah.
We need a ballroom.
This guy was shooting at the White House.
That was my first thought.
Oh, I didn't know Trump said that too.
Oh, good.
Okay, so we're on the same page.
Yeah, yeah, everyone immediately.
We need a billion dollar ballroom that will protect him.
Should we maybe try and like prevent these things from happening by like solving the issue at the source?
No, no, we need ballroom.
We need ballroom.
The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a billion dollar ballroom that you buy for me for my birthday.
Thank you.
So is there going to be a ball?
Will every person have a ballroom in this?
Does that we all stay safe?
The president needs a ballroom slash bunker that will be unable to be destroyed.
in an aerial attack.
And you'll be hanging on with your fingers
and I'll be stomping on them as I stand.
Just get, get off, get off.
Get those little piggies out here.
It also got immediately turned into the
I didn't do it kid meme.
Like it was there was a reporter
outside the White House
who was, you know, on camera
as the shots started bringing out
and she said, what is that?
And everybody was like,
we've got a new queen
look at this diva
and started like
you know
putting her in front of
the stay puffed marshmallow
scene from Ghostbusters
and various things
her cameraman
initially guessed the sounds
were fireworks
which is always
he's like I don't know
fireworks another journalist
I think were they from like CBS
where like immediately
she was like
oh shit.
Yeah.
Like her reaction was like, what the fuck?
Like she kind of knew immediately where I think it's Julie Zirkin, who is this journalist
was like, she was almost like, the fuck is, is that?
And he said fireworks and she said, where?
Like, she's like, I don't see any fucking fireworks.
What are you talking about?
Yeah.
And then it was a massive gun battle that happened right outside the White House.
I just like, I feel like.
they everybody
I don't think Trump
openly like wants to die
but I think like
there are people in the Trump
administration who are like
this would actually be really good for us
if he went out like that man
that would actually
it's for our for our intense and purposes
for all intensive purposes
yeah
this would be good for the propaganda gift from heaven
I mean yeah
I it's
it's it's it's interesting to see them just that insistence immediately into this that it's just not even
working on is like the like the the actual rank and file GOP politicians because they're like they're about
to head into break and they're not going to they're not going to approve this money for the ballroom
even though he's trying to every day be like this is what we need is what you need for the safety
initially at the white house correspondence dinner they were a little bit more unified and sort of like
demanding a ballroom right but i think now as people
are beginning to be like
we're paying for everything
he's just cutting checks to himself
from the government's coffers
this isn't good
I don't think
I don't know you're saying why you're saying it's not good
it's perfectly fine
just feels like we're like that sort of thing
yeah I mean we're hollowing out the country
from the inside and I mean like
when the reckoning comes for that
I'm really concerned that not enough people
are going to be able to put together
where all that money has gone, actually,
and it'll just be time again to create some of her.
Oh, that shit's gone.
Boogie man.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
It's but offshore accounts.
I feel like,
I mean, like now there's like a mining company that the,
the Trump's own that got like a $900 million line of credit
through the U.S. government.
Like, they're just, it's, it's right.
It's right.
They're fucking playing in our faces, guys.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's all self-dealing.
It's, uh, shockingly.
out in the open. They don't really give a fun.
Yeah. Oh, but the thing with his health, though, he went to Walter Reed again.
Did he? Yeah. He was just like, he just said, oh, it's time for my six-month physical after my 32-week physical, my 36-week physical, my 190-day physical, all these weird physicals. He said everything was checked out perfectly.
Just finished my six-month physical at Walter Reed Military Center. Everything checked out perfectly.
Perfect. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Is that the one where he was bragging about how?
They said 69 times 2 divided by 13 plus 1,00032 got it immediately.
I just, I wish somebody had been like, all right, what is that?
Right, right, right.
Yeah, go.
Go ahead, computer.
That person, the Secret Service, would have taken out immediately.
Right.
All right, let's talk Ben Shapiro because we are enjoying this latest act of the Daily Wire.
Oh,
hero's journey.
Yeah,
what part of the heroes?
Piero came from nothing.
Just a handful of billionaire backers
coming out from nothing
became this massive,
massively popular social media figure,
creates the daily wire,
is like,
I'm about to change the face of media.
We're greenlighting movies.
We're greenlighting the next game of throne.
but all for conservative people,
all for people who are afraid of people who aren't white.
So as of late,
as an update,
we talked about this last week,
but it's not going so well.
Just checking out his channel,
seven million subscribers.
What's he up to?
Hemorrhaging subscribers,
hemorrhaging viewers,
hemorrhaging revenue.
Yeah.
The guy who like put together the plan for,
whose like vision it was for the movies
and for the big picture takeover.
over of Hollywood.
Let's give him credit.
Jeremy Boring.
Jeremy Boring.
Not just a clever name.
Has left the building.
He left the company last year.
Ben Shapiro is just still here.
But he's got,
it looks like he's got a plan.
He's,
he's fine in his stride because one of the latest videos
he just posted at the end of last week
was him playing fucking Fortnite.
Oh.
As someone who has,
Jack,
you're a bigger gamer than Bench.
Ben Shapiro is.
Of course.
Okay, we knew that.
That's, that goes without saying.
But he's now posting, it says Ben Shapiro tried Fortnite.
It didn't go well.
This is what Ben Shapiro is posting.
I'll just play a little bit.
This is from Ben Shapiro's account.
It's from his channel where he's earnestly playing fucking Fortnite.
And like, you can tell throughout the thing he knows how much of an L this video is.
So you have to explain to me what this game is, why it exists and everything.
I know nothing about this other than I've seen.
a bunch of dumb children doing a dance
that they call the Fortnite dance.
Okay, first of all, he starts off just,
I don't know anything about this.
I know it fucking sucks and it's for babies.
Dumb children, fuck all of you.
Yeah.
Fortnite is a genre of video game called Battle Royale.
This guy's like explaining it to him,
like he's had a brain injury.
And you pick up weapons and you fight each other
until there's only one person standing.
Like even I know this shit.
One of the most popular games to ever come out.
At one time, they recorded, I think it was like 45 million.
That Jepiro's checking his producers to make sure
that that's accurate.
He's like,
am I right?
More popular than like Monopoly.
Okay.
Before we start,
we're gonna have you drop it.
We're gonna have you drop it.
I think you should choose your skin.
I see you got Stormtroopers.
You got Vader on solo.
Is he gonna say something racist?
Does he's choosing his name?
I'm a big Star Wars guy.
Yeah, no, me too.
So that's good.
Anyway,
it's unbearable.
He goes on.
He's so fucking bad at the game
and he's just suffering through it.
And I don't know.
The back of the limousine scene from boogie nights.
Oh,
This is when shit has fallen apart.
You're in the pickup truck.
It's harder faster.
I'm going as fast as I can.
You know what I mean?
I'm going as fast as I can, man.
Go faster.
Go fast.
I'm going to space.
I can't, man.
That's where we're at.
Because what do you think the conversations around making this video we're like?
Because obviously we talked about the thing, he's losing the conservatives, especially
younger conservatives because he was more like the voice of like elder millennial gen X
conservatives.
Yeah.
Now with Gen Z, they're completely like, dude, this guy's a fucking dork.
That he, what are they like, holy fuck, Ben, we are losing younger conservatives.
What do we do?
What do they love?
Video game?
Yes.
That's it.
We'll do that.
So let us describe the video game like nobody knows what it is.
Yes.
To the kids who are playing it more than you could ever believe.
Yeah, they want to see an explainer video about Fortnite to your uncle who's uncool.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
Um, it's not great. The comments are fucking, they're brutal. This one person, but the fall off must be studied.
I said, imagine you're one of the daily wire employees laid off watching this. Yeah. Yeah. This is like a family guy cutaway gag.
Almost worth. Almost worth getting laid off for this experience of being like, well, now look at you.
Yeah. My God. So I mean, luckily, Grand Theft Auto 6 is coming out later this year. So he'll be able to, I'd love to see him in one of those.
the role play servers.
Pretending to be a cop or something.
Why can't I be a cop?
Can you play as a cop in granddad?
Yeah, I mean, there are like role play servers
where people go and purely are just like,
I'm a cop, like you're a person,
I'll pull you over, you have to respect the law
and like just do, I don't know, man.
Like part of me like,
if I didn't have a child in real responsibilities,
I could see myself trolling on there fucking constantly.
But luckily there are YouTube compilations
for that that I can watch secondhand.
And finally, Stephen Colbert
did a fun thing.
So the late show ended on Thursday.
And on Friday,
he guest hosted another talk show
only in Monroe,
a public access show in Monroe,
Michigan with Jack White
as his sidekick.
And people,
I mean,
people were like,
oh, CBS is going to be so pissed that he did this.
CBS actually financed and produced
the,
the episode but oh they did yeah I guess so wow um it's been approved for distribution on
the late show Monroe community media and Colbert's personal channel I feel like
Monroe community media is probably defeating the late show in terms of views but yeah wait but
then CBS is also trying to suppress no that's just that's just what people were oh
we're saying because like maybe people were uploading you but I'm sure he like contractually had to have
them involved as a producer wait there's Jeff Daniels and Steve Wuchemy also appear in this
it's an hour long I only made it 15 minutes in but you might run into a Sasquatch you never know
never know what have you careful out there he's talking have you guys have you guys ever seen a
cryptid of any kind I love the audio too it sounds like sounds like yeah yeah
These are the women who normally host the show.
Just like the TV show, only this time you see the weaners.
Monroe's original has plenty of fans who say it.
This is so funny.
There's Jeff Daniels.
Where's Bouchemmy?
Show Bouchemmy, you cowards.
Bouchemie actually wasn't even supposed to be there.
He just happened to be in Monroe, you know, walking by.
Hey, man, you know how it is back in those Monroe public access.
TV studios, man. They were bumping. You'd have Jeff Daniels in one studio.
Bouchem you'd be walking the halls, having a hot dog.
Magic was happening, man. It was like Capitol Records.
It was just down the hall doing a different show.
Yeah, yeah. All right. Those are some of the things that are trending on this Tuesday, May 26th.
We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other.
Be kind to yourself. Get your vaccines. Well, you still can. Get your flu shots. Don't do nothing about white supremacy.
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