The Daily Zeitgeist - Trendal Eclipse Of The Heart 7/9: Freedom Fuel, Graham Platner, Marco Rubio, Spencer Pratt

Episode Date: July 9, 2026

In this edition Trendal Eclipse Of The Heart, Jack and Miles discuss Trump's 'Freedom Fuel' initiative, Graham Platner being mad that people found out he's a sex crim, Marco Rubio's war with "far left extremists", Spencer Pratt feeling the fraud and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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And then Less than Zero chimed in with Turnaround Zite, guys. Every now and trend, I fall apart. So shout out to both of them. You know. Bonita's out, guys. That's also her too, isn't it? I think so, yeah. Yeah, bro.

I didn't know she was, so she passed away, right? That was, that's in relation to her. Yeah. Was there a name Bonnie? Bonnie Wilson? My Bonnie. My Bonnie lies over the ocean. But my, oh, Bonnie Tyler.

Bonnie Tyler. Sorry. I didn't realize she was Welsh. Like those songs, yeah, those songs just felt like such like truck stop America. Yeah. Yeah. Every now and that I fall apart. You're like, oh, shit.

Rock set. I mean, that all felt very European, but they were tapped into something that Middle America was feeling very strongly in the early 90s. My name is Jack O'Brien. That over there is Mr. Miles. Great.

This is the podcast where we tell you what is trending on this Thursday, July 9th. I'm just curious, do you have a specific memory tied to any of Bonnie Tyler's songs, whether it be total eclipse of the heart or holding out for a hero. Just the music video, but I think I saw that like after. I don't think I was watching that on MTV.

My first memory of like where I was really like, bro, I think I fuck with this artist was in a short circuit. There's like a scene where Johnny 5 is like going to save them. And it's like playing. We need to do a Hall of Fame of movies with soundtracks that went entirely too hard. Fucking went so much harder than they needed to. Bro, Johnny 5 was just rolling down, like, they're trying to save his friends.

And it's like, I'm holding out for a hero. Yeah, I do remember that. And I was like, this shit. My other one would be mannequin or Mannequin or Manikin, too, I think won the Academy Award for like best song. And it's a classic. What is the song? What was it? Nothing's going to stop us now?

Nothing's going to stop us now. Oh, wow. By Starship. All right. I mean, no need for that movie. to be making us cry. Yeah. And yet.

Oh, man. Back when fucking, back with soundtracks mattered. Back when we were a country, man. That we used to be a real country. God. Fisher Stevens could do a problematic South Asian character and we would all laugh. They had a movie called Soul Man. That was just a white guy in blackface.

It was harmless, though. It was harmless. And they had a whole scene where he was bad at playing basketball and everyone was baffled. Did you watch that movie? I remember seeing, I mean, I've seen the like clips of it. I don't, I don't remember well enough to remember the scenes, though, because I remember it would be on like Comedy Central every now and then in the 90s before they were like, yeah, I think that's where I caught it.

I have a sense memory because he tries to dribble between his legs and it just comes up and hits him in the balls. Right, the nuts. Got to have that. You got to have that. Got to. All right. Sorry, what's trending?

What's trending? Freedom fuel is trending. Thank you, Mr. President. Wow. The White House has announced that a new chain of freedom fuel stations will be selling gas at a below market rate of $3.47 a gallon in honor of, yes, our 47th president. The 25 locations are only in Philadelphia and New Jersey. Yeah. Yeah. Do you see this freedom fuel?

All right. Check it out. Freedom fuel. Wait, they turn this Wawa into a. a freedom fuel network. Yeah. Wah, have you seen that it says

this is their announcement, Freedom fuel has arrived. The first freedom fuel network gas station has landed in Philadelphia. President Trump is leading the charge to lower gas prices this summer, putting more money in your pocket, flame emoji. So, first of all,

that's still more expensive than the average gas price, uh, before Trump and Israel's war on Iran. Yep. So just to put that in perspective. Um, And well above when Biden left office, too. Yeah.

He first posted about Freedom Fuel Network back on July 1st, although no one was sure was a January announcement, because it was just AI slop. Yeah. The pictures are like, what the fuck is this? But yeah, it's real. There are gas stations that are selling gasoline for $3.47. There's the White House posted a new video featuring what are definitely,

not actors. Oh, that's not fair. That's not fair. For low gas prices. Listen to this. You think they're actors? I said they're definitely not actors, Miles. Why don't you listen to this?

Do you hater? Listen to my young African-American male here, who's so excited about the gas. I saved money. I had to go back and get my change. I thought gas was more expensive, but it's not. So thanks Trump for saving me some money.

We're here at the first... Thanks Trump for saving me some money under his breath, dickhead. Yeah, they're like, we're here. There's a couple other people. Freedom fuel network gas station right here in Philadelphia, leading the charge to lower gas prices. Okay, well, we're not going to play that copyrighted music.

Yeah, it's a lot of people who are like, whoa, price is this low, can't believe it. Gotta be doing something, right? With prices this low on gas, this guy couldn't be in the Epstein files. Also, just real quick, with that first young black male testimony that we got. What is the process for paying for gas

that they were working from there? He paid at the pump. He was probably like, let me get 80 on five. Got it. Filled up. And he's like, oh. Oh, shit. It was only 77.

Got it. All right. I got changed back. Went in. Got care. Okay. Wow. Someone, Jack, you don't pay for,

you've never paid for gas with cash? With cash. I have not paid for gas with cash in many, many, many years. I did that. It's funny. I only, I started paying with cash only like eight months ago. I started doing it because I had some like cash that I just had loose around. I was like, oh yeah, I'm using this. I'm using this. And I had the same thing where I was like, do I, if I don't, I gave you 20, but if it's like 18, do you keep that? And the guy's like, no, you come back in and get your change. And I'm like, I knew that, bro. I'm not one of these like technologically fucking, I've become a fool because I just wave my plastic rectangle at the pump. I was using it as a fact check. I was like, that doesn't happen. No way, sir. That's a lie.

That's a lie. You got your change. This is especially funny, considering that Trump has been ranting about the communist menace a lot recently, proclaiming that those liberty-hating reds pose a bigger threat to the country than both World War II and 9-11. Combined. Yeah. Stan put World War II on the shoulder.

of the Twin Towers as they're collapsing, better than what we've got with Antifa. And then, yeah, he goes and launches state-run gas stations. Or is it state-run? You know, that's the big question. That's the implication. Is that it's state-run. People are trying to figure out what is happening.

The White House is claiming that the Freedom Fuel Network isn't state-run, but rather a private company. And this mysterious company run by anonymous executives that popped up overnight is being actively promoted by the administration, but it is in no way affiliated with the government. He also called the Freedom Fuel Network a very smart retailer, making it extra.

When has he ever said anybody besides himself is very smart? Yeah, I mean, it's hard to, I think it's one of two things, right? Because it can only be. Right. It's he owns the company. Yeah, or like, I think you could also figure out Who actually owns those physical gas stations that have now been turned into freedom fuel network gas stations?

Right. Because it's not like he owns those properties. So someone does. And is that person or is that network of gas stations, are they getting basically... They're about to get a big ass contract. Yeah. Right. Because that's the other thing too is like, oh yeah, baby, I'll do propaganda.

Like, there's such a weird place. Like, it's not like Trump. You own Iran now. What? You can shore up. your numbers. I mean, I guess maybe he's like, we got to, we got to still be getting people and fill it up. I'm like,

I feel like you're not really, that's not, maybe where you're most vulnerable, perhaps, like, in terms of like getting your poll numbers up. So it must be someone, because that's a specific area, like Philly, New Jersey. So I picture someone who owns gas stations in that region and is

willing to play ball and take a loss on selling $3.47 gallons of gas in order to curry favor with the administration for whatever X asked down the line. I'm sure it's not a long-term thing. All that. I think it's also, I just don't think the fucking grift is juicy enough for Trump to be like, this is what we do. We sell gas at a loss. Right. It has to, it has to suggest that he is worried about his favorability enough to do something like this, which never seems to be a concern for him. He's never trying to sell himself too hard.

Because he's just used to people being like, well, his approval's in the shitter. And, whoa, look at that. He won another election. Because he could say, very smart retailer, this man came to me hat in hand and came up with this idea. Big bulging muscles. Yeah. Tears in his eyes.

What? And he's like, sir, please. He got down on his hands and knees. Like a dog. Very smart, though. Very smart. Also, the good people at Freedom Fuel Network seemed to have gotten the idea for Freedom Fuel from a T-Mobile promotional stunt in June, because the company that in June,

T-Mobile took over some shell locations for a day, redoing the stations to feature, you know, the color pink that they own. Machenta, Jack. Yes. I'll have you know. Selling gas for just $1.99 cents a gallon to T-Mobile customers. That does feel like Trump to be like, well, that's too low. Yeah, yeah.

But maybe we bring it up. to something that has my number in it. And in that case, the company just, you know, they were taken over shell stations and subsidizing the cheap gas in an effort to make their brand look good. There are some speculations that this could be part of a, you know, a scheme that the Trump family has done before where you basically like insert yourself as a middleman in your own dealing.

And like it makes it seem like there are things being done. done on behalf of people, but you're actually just paying yourself. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not, yeah. And then saying, that's definitely a possibility. And then saying it costs more than you paid and then taking the difference off the top and pocketing it, which is what the Trumps were doing. That feels more like what you would expect from them. That's small time for them now, I'm saying.

I just don't think this is juicy, lucrative. Miles, remember the tax. Yeah, your favorite. Remember the checks. All the way down to, all the way down to what, one cent, spy magazine. was set, did a experiment where they sent the richest hundred people in New York City, a series of checks from $100 to $50 to $25 all the way down to one cent. And the only person who cashed anything below a dollar was Donald Trump who,

who took it all the way to one cent. Yeah. So this man does not. It could be like, yeah, you know, like how when people are like, how do people get in the NBA and still do like this fuck shit when they got money? It's like sometimes old habits die hard. So maybe even like, how could he be president? like he loves a griff, although I just do think it's too complicated.

Like, this just feels easier for whoever owns these gas stations in this very specific region to be like, this is a set up play for me to get some kind of concession down the road. Sure. It's just a question. Like, I'm just watching eating my popcorn like Michael Jackson on the thriller video, like just waiting to see what kind of scam it is. Because we know that it's not, like, the thing that would make sense is that, like, he got somebody to do him a favor to gain him some political, you know, points.

And down the road, he'll quietly do some sort of favor back for that person. That's how like a politician, but that is just a step too complex, the gratification, a step two delayed for Trump. You know, like, he will have that idea and then be like, well, why should I cut them in? You know? Right. It should all be me. So we'll keep.

Keep an eye on it. I feel like it's going to be bad. I'm just looking right now, just a cursory search of the two, just the two locations that came up in New Jersey. They're both Sonoco locations. Sonoco. Sonoco. We don't have that out here, so I don't know how the fuck we say that.

And then let me just look in Pennsylvania. Epitome, as Lacey was calling. He was pointing out the guy on Love Island. Oh, yeah, epitome, epitome. This guy is the epitome of, So it's Carco in Pennsylvania. Didn't even know. That's a cool name for a gas station.

Carco. And then let's see. Yeah, I mean, I just, I feel like this, the next phase is looking at all these locations on a map. I'm sure. I'm sure people are on it. Get on it. Yeah, yeah. Somebody.

It's probably like Judd-legum or something. I saw somebody tweet, like, we used to have something in this country. Sorry, I'm rolling coins over here. We used to have something in this country called, I have a year. here for some reason in my hand. A one euro coin. Wow, aren't humble bro. We used to have something in this country

called investigative journalists who would be able to look into and find out if a sitting senator was dead. I know, right? Like, I feel like you could go to that hospital, slide orderly like 300 bucks and be like, yo, bro, snap a flick real quick. For real.

Or like you were in there, bro. What's going on? What do the beeps sound like? What those beeps do? Are you hearing like, is he on a vent, bro? What's going on? No. Anyways, we are still on Mitch McConnell.

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We're back. And, uh, Platner. Graham Platner. The main Democrat who was, uh, you know, everybody was like, well, he's, uh, progressive, economically progressive. Yep. Got that populist appeal. Got that populist appeal.

But also seems kind of racist, which these people kind of like also. Like he was bragging. about wanting to machine gun people in Iraq and Afghanistan, has a Nazi tattoo, posted other stuff. And then we come to find out there are some pretty credible allegations of sexual assault against him. It all just kind of came together all at once. A little too mega for the people who are like,

this guy's like mega. Yeah, yeah. Not like that. Not like that. Not like that. Yeah. And I think right now there's definitely, I'm seeing a huge rift between his supporters and people that once

supported him. You have a lot of people who are like, this is a fucking hit job. They're doing everything they can to get him out of the race. And I'm like, you really, honestly, if we're trying to, like, have any kind of societal progress, we need to take these allegations seriously and not immediately go to, like, into like rape apologia. That ain't it.

And then you have other people who are like, yeah, man, this, this, what a, what a betrayal. There are a lot of people who were really rah-wrying the campaign. They're like, it feels like a betrayal, like this shit should have been known. There was an interview with the consultants who were running a, campaign and they look like bumbling like when they were asked like didn't you do any like background checks on him and they're like yeah we paid

some people and you know and they're like and what did they find? He's like they found some stuff and it's like what the fuck and you still went to what do you what do you think? The Vanessa Bear character who speaks and whispers. Yeah it's just so yeah no he's a great

he was a great can it's just he don't know what I didn't know what that skull meant I thought it was a rock band logo or something. So, yeah, there's a lot of conflicting opinions. Should he stay and should he get out? So he's out. Yeah, he's out.

He announced his resignation with an 11-minute video saying he's getting out of the race, but was railing against like the forces that were at play to get him off the ballot. Not really like a conciliatory or somber vibe. A lot of like anger or denial. It's definitely true that the influence of the Democratic establishment is not new to doing what they can to dilute or destroy progressive leftist influence. But at this point after he was the candidate, like, I feel like the Democrats would have, I don't know, they are pretty incompetent, but you would think that they would have done that

during the primary. Either. Yeah, and he's pointing to, like, his thing is like, this is the last week they could have got me out and then all this stuff comes out or whatever, but given these credible accusations, which he denies, this may have not been the moment to point that out. Right. And so now the Democrats in Maine have until the end of the month to figure out who to run in his place and they're having like a convention. They have like 600 delegates that are going to make that decision. So a lot of people now are like they're going to just fucking shit can any progressive get a fucking puppet in there who's going to play establishment ball and completely negate all the like sort of progressive momentum that was behind Plattenor's campaign. While other people are hoping for like a Bernie backed gubernatorial campaign. candidate to take his place. So that's really like kind of the next

the next moment for the pardon to fuck up. And that's where I do see the influence coming in where they would be like, let's put our thumb on the scale to get somebody who's like just slightly to the left of Susan Collins. Yeah. So we're we're triangulating. We're going to Clintonian this shit today.

Yeah. Apparently, like, from the Collins campaign, they aren't relieved that Platteners out, which is interesting. Because no, I'm sure she is a political machine like everybody else and, you know, has all the same consultants that the Democrats have who are like, aha, this is a, this is a fucking layup. A progressive? This guy's a- Yeah. Her, it sounded like the strategy for them was like, they were just going to bring up all this stuff that like, like, his past comments and these other things to be like, and he's, not good. He's not a good guy,

actually. And so now... I can see why they wouldn't be released. It's just funny that their worries, like, they're going to just bring in some clean establishment dem. Could you do another Nazi? Yeah. Could you let us... You got any more?

You got any more of them? Like, it feels like now, yeah, like, when you, like, run for office now, they're going to have to do like that full body check, like when you're going into prison. They're like, I get naked. Now fucking squat down and cough.

Yeah. No, Nazi. shit's falling out, right? Okay. You made it past this right. Did you imagine being, carrying something? Boathing something, squatting and coughing. So, so, so.

And like 43 cell phones blow out? Bending down and coughing. Like, just lodges. God, bro. How many you got up there? These are all Nintendo Switch controllers. What are we going to do with these? One more cough and the switch falls out.

There we go. Rubio is going to war with the far left extremists who have done what do what. I don't know exactly. Who do they? Yeah, I'm just, so he's like really going to try and go to war. He's like, this is, again, like the biggest threat to the country. Yeah. I don't, where are they coming from?

Well, it's like rhetorical, right? Like, it's just always nonstop panic about this non-existent movement of like Antifa super soldiers. Sure. When really it's code for people on the left organizing and just, you know, showing their displeasure in public demonstrations, protests, etc. You know, but then, but they have to make that be like the people who are there who are so offended by this like fascistic regime. They got to make them the real. Like, no, they're the enemy of democracy, not us. So it's not the point.

They're moving magazines all over this great land. It's very moving boxes and boxes of magazines all over this great land and a threat to your children's safety. Exactly. But yeah, now Rubio is trying to get world leaders together to like really formalize this campaign against the far left. Quote, Secretary of State Mark Rubio has invited senior ministers for more than 60 countries to a meeting next week about what the Trump. Trump administration views as a major peril. The, quote, resurgence of transnational far-left terrorism. Uh-huh.

The meeting was prompted consternation among career and political U.S. officials, some European allies and independent analysts who do not see the threat in the same terms. Some U.S. officials told the post... You do not see the threat, period. At all. They're like, yeah, I mean, it sucks that people, like, know what we're up to, but are they a threat? Not really. The officials told the post that they worry it is part of a Trump administration effort to use powerful counterterrorism tools to crack down on U.S. activists they view as left-wing extremists, which we've been hearing about for the last, you know, as they begin tinkering with the terms of what is extremism or terrorism.

They just sent somebody to jail for 50 years for moving a box of magazines. Yeah. Yeah. It's really, it's, they're, they're doing it. They're really trying to figure it on. I think this is trying to be like, can we get a coalition of the willing here to completely be like, see, it's not just us. These other countries also agree with us that it's bad. So it must be bad if they're agreeing with us. They're openly anti-ante, they're openly against anti-fascism.

So you're throwing an anti-anti-fascist convention. So you can take out the double negative. No, no, you can't do that actually. It doesn't work that way. So it's a fascist convention? no no you're a fashion it's anti anti anti anti fascist oh okay okay okay okay okay okay okay okay okay okay okay okay okay okay okay okay okay okay okay okay um speaking of fascists Spencer Pratt not so happy goofy ass fascist man he would have been what a nightmare what a nightmare we got without him in the race huh yeah exactly he would

have really done some big things I mean that guy, he was pissed and he didn't really know what to do about it. He didn't know what to do. He pretended lived in a trailer. He knows like, my house burned down on the palisades. I live now in this like trailer, man,

it's fucked up. And everyone's like, no, he doesn't. He lives at a hotel in Beverly Hills. Live at a hotel. He lives at a hotel in Beverly Hills. So he just posted a video from apparently

it's funny because he claims he lives in this trailer if you look at this trailer it's fucking empty it looks like it looks like it's abandoned and he's like as if trying to be like this is where I live these are like the under steer conditions I'm in he posted this video called I didn't get cheated you did

because he's not going to go down without crying about his own election failure and like again dressing all black like the oma have your friends singing this is for my home my homie. And you know me. Rather than acknowledging that he pulls like basically lower than Greg Bovino in L.A. A city where Democrats outnumber Republicans by millions. He's going down this predictable route of not taking the L and crying about some made up bullshit. So here's a 10 minute

video where he's just in this trailer and he, you know, just talking about a bunch of instantly debunkable lies. So this is how the video just starts. Just to give you an idea of like how how hot he's coming in. In judicial ethics, the mere appearance of potential fraud is disqualifying. Same goes here. Whether or not there is widespread fraud occurring, there certainly could be. And it doesn't matter how many times you scream, there's no widespread fraud. A lot of people believe there is. And there's no way to actually validate it. I mean, there is. So first of all, there's a lot, just in that 18 seconds, you gave us a lot of bullshit. He said that just the appearance of fraud is enough to validate. So basically if

he just claims that there's fraud and says it looks to me like fraud. He said in judicial ethics, the mere appearance of fraud is enough to be disqualified. Okay. Also, this is not his, this is not like this isn't what people. This is some chat. GPD.

Yeah, you lost me already with this shit. Also, you're counting on people not knowing what you're saying, right? Like, you're listening comprehensions off. So judicial ethics, you're talking about the code of conduct for sitting judges. man so for a judge he's like just so you know if a judge even appears like there's appearance of fraud or you know unfair unbalanced treatment that's disqualifying by and the same way that was

the beginning of the video yeah he wasn't like hey i'm spencer pratt like this is what's going on this is where i am uh that was he opened with that word salad uh i also just feel like i was worried he was going to do this in the immediate aftermath and there was going to be some bullshit and like some technicalities. The fact that it's taking them this long, like, man, they really got nothing. I just don't like, I don't, I don't understand, but by what property is the transitive property of judicial ethics applies to election law? Right.

Those are completely different things. So conceptually, just shut the fuck up. And then you're like saying, then he goes on, he's like, they say there's no fraud, but it feels like it. So therefore it's serious. It feels like it seems to be. What? And there's no way to.

to verify it. Yeah, there is. You count the fucking ballots and there's your fucking result. Again, he's just pushing back against this whole thing of like, didn't they got all these ballots like afterwards and they were counting him. Yeah, that's the fucking law. It's been like that. Dude, so there's nothing new about this. Mail and ballots. He goes on to just be like, whoa, what happened? And doing the same thing whenever there's like a blue shift as mail and ballots are being counted. And a few days later, suddenly Mithia started overperforming as they continued. to accept ballots seven days after the election. That's legal.

That's part of our election process in California. It's also what everybody expected. Like I've talked Hayes Davenport from Hollywood Handbook, who's like one of the smartest people I know about like local L.A. politics, like pays a lot of attention to do it. The day that the election results came in and I came on here and was like, we're fucked. Spencer Pratt could be the next mayor.

he was like, nah, it's not enough. Every time. He needed to be up by 11 points, 12 points. He's only up by nine. She's going to overtake him as they count the bouts. That's just how it works every single time. It happened with Rick Caruso too. There's a 10 point shift at least every single time. So yeah, it's just.

I just don't get it, man. And it feels it feels like there's fraud. So it feels unfair. Like this dude definitely grew up rich, right? Like he must have been. Like, he just feels like he's no fair dadding his way into, like, that, that seems to be his explanation. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's, you know, let's see.

We're going to get all that money. Didn't he blow, like, millions of dollars on crystals? Oh, yeah, his dad is a dentist named Skip Pratt. Oh, yeah. And he went to fucking crossroads. Yeah. Oh, yeah, he did. It's a tale as old as time in this city.

Your daddy's a dentist named Skip, and you went to crossroads. And then you go to fucking USC, maybe. Did he go to USC? Yeah, he did. Yeah, he went to USC. University of spoiled children, motherfucker. It's like a very,

didn't used to be as good as school as it is today, but now it's like up there with, oh, it's a great school. Yeah, it's a good school. UCLA is an amazing school. I mean, yeah, we all know. USC is like up there, like starting to catch up to UCLA.

And, but it's just like it costs a hundred thousand dollars. I remember like my high school girlfriend, her mom started working there because my girlfriend in high school was like a pretty good volleyball player. And like to get ahead of it, she's like, if I start working at USC, that's going to help your tuition. That's right. And like was doing a setup move for her own kid.

Because like, because they weren't like super rich or anything like that. But that was she's like, if I can get an administrative gig at USC, then that's going to set you up for going there for your tuition. The shit that I've heard from parents like who are just like better. being parents than me about they're like, oh yeah, well, we've been applying to this school since they were six months old because we knew that every time we got rejected from that school, we would be accruing points for future applications to this school. Right.

Man, I am not a good, I'm not good enough at paperwork for this parenting shit. But shout out to the better parents than me. Yeah. Look, you're fine, dude. You got, you're a great. I've seen what you and your wife. You got your kids out here doing all kinds of chess things, extracurriculars. Yeah.

It doesn't matter if you don't have enough points. Just eight. Right. Where am I going to get more points? Anyways, those are some of the things that are trending on this July 9th. We are back tomorrow with a whole episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves.

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