The Daily Zeitgeist - Trendcydides Trap 5/18: UofA Commencement Speech, Alligator Alcatraz, Trump In China, Chudthebuilder

Episode Date: May 18, 2026

In this edition of Trendcydides Trap, Jack and Miles discuss their respective weekends, another bad commencement speech, Alligator Alcatraz closing, Trump's China trip, Chudthebuilder finally getting to the "find out" phase and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

So you were just texting Drake bars miscellaneous? No, he texts. This is what I get. What was this? Saturday when you texting me that? Yeah, Saturday he texts me. This is just, no, it was like four in the afternoon. He just texted me.

AC's broken in my hotel as hot as hell. I'm running out of sodas. I might walk to Circle K by myself. And I was just like, okay. I thought Brian, I thought he was talking to his partner trying to get sorting some shit out. It's too mundane for a text message. But it's also not relatable.

coming from Drake. Like, yeah. That's a drink clear. You're running out of sodas, Drake? That just already feels like, bro, that's, that somehow feels like the worst self-owned as like a rapper who talks about how popping there on when he said, I'm running out of sodas.

I'm like, yo, at least he didn't say wine coolers, bro. You know how he loves wine coolers. Running out of Zimas. Running out of Zimas. I'm out of work to circle K by myself. Running out of all these Zimas.

I might bike to Pasadda. So Drake dropped a triple on us, right? Three pack of ass. Three album. Three pack of ass on everybody's heads. I haven't even gotten to the second. I'm only like maybe two thirds of the way through Ice Man.

You're just working through the Ice Man? Working right now working through the Iceman. Do we think he's doing intentional like pedo joke? Because he's got his hand doing the AOK sign with a Michael Jackson glove on the cover. I don't know what the fuck he was thinking. with that. I don't know. That's just a whole bag of fucking snakes.

I don't know what you're doing. That whole cover is a bag of snakes. And then like when then like the White House also just like AI spoofed that thing with it was holding a MAGA chain. Maybe he's coming out as a white supremacist and he's like that wasn't a okay. I'm doing like the white supremacy. The white power is what I was throwing up on the fucking thing. It's interesting because like I'm trying to be a, I mean, I'm fairly objective because like I don't,

I'm not a. like I was listening to Drake and I was like, okay, he has some things you can do here and there that I enjoy. And there's just something about like, it's through the filter of 2024, it's hard to listen to Drake for me on some level or like it's not quite the same. But I have to give it up because there are some bars and I'm like, okay, that's a, that's a great bar. Mostly they're about running out of soda.

Oh, running out of soda and just like, just like all my friends who are fucking dead to me, he's like, my sixth sense is kicking in because I'm hearing nothing but. people that's dead to me. Wow. I know, Drake. I know. I know. It's hurt feelings.

I know. Part of me just wishes like, you could have just put an album out and acted like you didn't take an L in 2024 and nobody would have cared. Right. Just move it along. At least of all your fans. Like.

Yeah. Yeah, because they didn't care then. The people who really ride with you would have been so happy to just like, you know, like there was nothing. Revision is history of this shit. The worst summer of their lives.

somebody said he wraps like somebody who who sighs until you ask them what's wrong I mean Yeah I mean I don't know Whatever fuck midfork They didn't even know Chris Crofton was genius

But they gave it like a 4.6 Or some shit I think that's fair I think where he's at It's just like It doesn't sound different I don't know, I guess also the thing is, like I just think it's resolutely mid,

like actually mid. Like it's not garbage, but it's just not good. No, like some people were like, this is straight up trash. I'm like, no, this isn't trash. But like the bar is a lot higher. Like, what's the other rapper? The one who looks goofy,

uh, says goofy things. 21, 21. Um, his, his album was garbage. The one who looks goofy says goofy thing. Oh, that one was absolute. That was garbage. That was horrific on us. That was horrifying.

Yeah, Drake dropped a perfectly mediocre album. It felt like other albums when Drake would put out an album and you're like, all right, there's a new Drake album. Right. You know, and like they're like, oh, there's like a couple tracks on there. There's a new Drake albums. That's the other thing is that back when he was dropping an album every year, it didn't really matter if it was mid because it came out at a consistent pace.

All this waiting people did raise the expectations way too high. Oh, yeah. And there was no way he was going to really satisfy anyone, least of all himself. That's why he couldn't pick an album to release. Hey, but how about all these? Yeah. How about three albums? Ooh, that feels like you're compensating.

They're like, I know I forgot your birthday. I got you all these gifts. And you're like, yeah, but you forgot the birthday. There's not a lot of thought it put into any of them. Really? Yeah, but there's three of them. look at all these. Just kind of spraying

spray and pray, you know? Yeah. I think also too, like if you had three albums worth of stuff, could have just like do like fucking week after week. You're like, oh shit, oh shit. Oh, right. Yeah, like if he's really trying to get out of his contract, then sure, go for it. But like, I don't know why he couldn't just pick the best songs

off of these three projects and mush them together. And just drop a good, well, because he's trying to dominate the charts. He knows. He knows. Oh, yeah, that too. the streaming numbers work. He's got 18 of the top 20 songs right now. So he's... Well, yeah, you put out 72 tracks.

Oh, no, I'm sorry. The two that are not from Ice Man are from the second and third album. So he's got 20 of the top 20 tracks right now on streaming. Flood in the zone. You know, Trump administration's like, this kid might got something.

He's flooding the zone. This bro, Steve banning it. I know. Nice job, buddy. The white power. Steve Bannon. The good sides winning out. Am I right?

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Huber me. I need some jokes to make me seem funny. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this special week-trend edition of Dernelie Zeitgeist. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, man. Yeah, man. You do buy everything.

I've noticed about you. Dude, I'm running. I rack up a tab in Chanel because I do buy everything like I'm Middle Eastern. Mm-hmm. That's good lines. My name is Jack O'Brien. That over there is Drake. That over there is Mr. Miles Gray.

Yeah. Yeah. Yo. Yeah. Yeah. Ice man. This is the podcast where we give you even more. We flood the zone.

with even more content than Drake does. Oh, yeah. You give you two a day. He gives you three. Yeah, yeah. We're still working through it. We're still working through the three Drake albums. I'm trying to understand what he says when he says,

I keep it a hundred on paper like Will. Oh, what could that mean? Will Chamberlain. Oh, Chamberlain. I was thinking of Walt Whitman. I thought he just was combining Walt Whitman. Yeah, man.

I'm working my way through it by like not really listening to it, but just listen. You haven't been listening to it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just, I mean, like, everybody was waiting for the Drake album to come out. He puts three out. I'm like, come on, baby. Let's do. I'm personally, I'm a quality, quality over quantity person just generally, except for this show where we flood the zone, baby.

Flood the zone. I mean, maybe you probably heard it in the cold open. It's like if you have three albums worth of stuff that you think is three albums worth stuff, then why not just hit people like consecutive weeks rather than being like three albums at once feels like, could you not decide on what the best one was? And you're just hoping that by putting three out, some will hit. But hey, he's bad. Hey, man.

He's prolific. That's what we'll call him. Prolific and gamey. He likes to game the game Algo. for all the people who are like, when's Kendrick going to drop? I'm like, dude, Kendrick does not need to define his whole career in terms of like clapping back to Drake. Although, if it does come out, I will be like, if it drops tomorrow. Shit. All right.

Well, this is the episode where we tell you what was trending over the weekend, mainly listening to Drake's three new albums, but other stuff happened, apparently. So we'd like to start off by letting you get to know us a little bit better by. telling you something we think is underrated, something we think is overrated. Miles was something you think is underrated? Underrated, just the like revival of lo-fi grimy stuff from the past, the not glitzy.

Because I was reading about how like Gen Z is like, they're single-handedly helping keep like shitty dive bars alive because it, there's something about it that resonates like to like a bygone era of like, I don't know, man, this is like your local boozer you go into. It ain't fucking pretty. Yeah, it ain't. Yeah.

Give me the fucking shoe polish to paint my hair line on like Carlos Boozer. Like it doesn't, it's not glitzy. It's not high end. It's usually pretty affordable when you go to like your local dive because they're like, dude, we haven't cleaned the keg, like the taps and fucking eight. You're going to catch a bacterial lung infection. Oh, yeah, yeah. Just by sitting this close to these taps.

And just like hearing about. that and also like how they're like the largest franchisee of pizza huts is in the process of converting a lot of his stores into the classic pizza huts pizza hut classic yes dude with the stained glass fucking light fixtures he he mentioned the stained glass yes this is legitimately this is what this is how this person is describing it sparks has 93 pizza hut franchises he's already turned 38 into classic locations of it all include vinyl booths checkered tablecloths stained glass lamps, even an old school salad bar. Best of all, they're even posters for Pizza Hutts long-running

bucket reading program. No. It's back? Yes. No, no. He's just putting like that ephemera up there. Oh, so it's not. But like, he can't put that up there and then not give the kids free pizza when they read a book. It's kind of like you go to a TGI Friday's and they got old goofy stuff on the walls.

You know, but all that to say is like, I, there is obviously. obviously like nostalgia is a huge marketing ploy these days, especially as, you know, millennials of our age fully move into like the hyperwashed consumer demographic. Yeah. But I think there's just something that just, I don't know, there is something that people yearn for this thing that I think that's what's underrated

about these things that still feels it's like that people are yearning for a pre-internet third spaces or something. You know what I mean? It's like after school, I remember going after school, go to fucking Pizza Hut. for like the buffet pizza lunch because it's so fucking cheap, just drink a bunch of soda

and then like, you know, go home after that. Uh, dive bars had some great, great memories in there. But again, I think as the economy becomes more and more on equal,

it's just that, you know, people are just like less into things that are, what is like the most grammable thing I can do versus like what feels good. Although I would, I wouldn't feel separate from that to be in a classic pizza hut and not be graaming the shit out of that.

Right. But I just think there's something. That does feel like a grammable moment, like a little time capsule. Yeah. And I'm like curious like what like what would your kids think if you took them to a Pizza Hut class. I think they'd fucking love it.

Especially, especially if they bring the fucking reading challenge back. They'll read that book right there. Yeah. Done. Done. Done. Give you more pizza.

Uh, yeah, I don't know. I, it's tough to say, you know, sometimes I've put a movie. front of them and they're just like, no, this is, this is slow as fuck. They did not

care for sister act. I was like, come on man. No, this is a classic. You're sitting on, you're sitting on, you know, uranium rods basically in films that you have been shown them in. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I mean? Armaged. Oh, yeah.

Shit, that was on TNT all day. I'm, I'm doling it out slowly. Yeah. Like, because it'll change their entire personality once they see. But yeah, they, uh, my son who's really into World War II, I let him watch Pearl Harbor on his birthday. And he's like,

well, it's official. Michael Bay is my favorite filmmaker. Oh, God. Yeah. Way do you see the Rock, man. Show Band of Brothers, you know, as like a gateway into Private Ryan, because Banda Brothers didn't nearly have the same level of... Is it bad? Is it not that bad? I was literally thinking about that this weekend,

whether I should go B-O-B. I remember when Bander Brothers came on, I'm like, yes, just the continuation of like private Ryan. I'm like, ah, pets heads aren't falling off in this one. Right. But it is, but there were like, picking up his leg on the beach. There were some just great characters,

you know, like, you know, Captain Spears and stuff. He's just in it for the weapons and shit. Yeah. You know. Amazing. I will say, I feel like my generation did a good job keeping dive bars alive as well. So shout out to us.

Yeah. But we can go to your local, your local boozer, you know. We openly, I think, I think we're known to, we're a drinking generation. This generation isn't supposed to drink. What do they order there? I don't know. They're selling Mali water at the dive bars? It's probably the people who do drink, you know?

Right. Yeah, yeah. And also, like, I just also, you know, like anecdotally, I like know younger people are like, they'll have like a beer when they go out. Right. Right. I mean, they're like. Mainly there for the ambiance and the, yeah, they're not.

The piss smell. Yeah, where we were like doing it as like a right. passage were like well my uncles always came in here and got vomit drunk and i think that's what you just do in here right why's this whole place smell like urinal cakes um my underrated uh is just something i hadn't appreciated until this weekend which is the death of the name dick oh wow my son uh as mentioned real into world war two shit was telling me uh he was reading the story of the people from the battle of midway as we all know Hell yeah.

And he was like, yeah, one of the guy's name was, did he say this? Yeah, like he said it was a bad word. And then my eight-year-old ran it and was like, it means penis.

It means penis. Your honor. Let the court record show that it means penis. But I was like, oh, right, they probably have never heard someone with that name. That name is effectively dead.

Yeah, No one's, I mean, all the Dicks I know are like old. Oh, boomers. Yeah, yeah. It was, it was one of the names. It was like, like Joe Dick and Jack were the only names that had been invented at the beginning of World War II. And then like, Bob. Yeah, Bob, Charlie.

Yeah. And then like just one of the original names became synonymous with penis. And then, um, and then I do think Nixon, you know, our worst president prior to O. Mama gets called a tricky penis, according to my youngest, tricky dick. And it really, I feel like, died with that. But I don't think I knew a dick. Wait, your kid calls Nixon tricky penis? No, no, just he.

Oh, that was a callback. Yeah, that was a call back to him running in. I really just. He's like, look at tricky penis up there. Like, just call him Richard Nixon, you know, at school. Just at home, fine. But, yeah, I don't know. meeting someone under 60 named Dick

is like meeting an old prospector named Jalen, you know? A white Jalen. I know a guy in his 70s named Corey. And I call him the first Corey. Yeah. But I feel like if anyone under 40 named Dick, you are the last dick.

You can call yourself Dick the last of my kind because it's over. Last of my name for sure. Yeah. Um, anyways. Yeah, I guess to Brian's point, I don't think Dick was like on the birth certificate usually. I think it was a nickname for Richard that people were like, I'm going with that. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Um, what is something Miles you think is overrated? Oh, man, overrated, uh, somewhere over the rainbow by, um, Israel, uh, kamikavi voli. Uh-huh.

famous ukulele rendition and now I don't say overrated because it but song objectively is bad I was at a wedding over the weekend it came on oh yeah and

my first my first instinct is go oh I was again by this Israel Kamukavi of Olay song what are doing but it's like a fucking emotional nuclear weapon it's potent there's something because in my mind I'm like he's dead right and like I can't help but it has like a very somber tone to it

and then at this wedding I was like starting to get emotional not because I was like happy I was like oh man like some of these people here are gonna be dead you know like they're not this this might be the last happy you're all dead you don't even hunt you go full Sarah Connors all right 100% I'm at the fucking chain link banks like but there's something about it's it's just so potent that I'm part of me like we need to set it down we need to set it down it's a lot use it when appropriately because I hear it a lot I hear it so much but somehow it doesn't lose its ability for me to be like oh fuck dude yeah yeah and again uh Brian in the chat is like that is not a wedding song I know dude it's if people use it in different context. I've seen multiple people come down the aisle to that song.

I've also heard it in like at a funeral, like a video, live show. Funereal a little bit. Yeah, 100%. That's why I'm like, that's why I think people are just like, they know it's potent, right?

And they don't know how they're deploying. Like I think it's the most potent in a memorial context. Versus like a nuptial context. But that's just me. And that's how it's got to be. It's, uh, my wife when she was like, one of the years of medical school, like, along, along the way, she was like, you know, just with this group for one year, I didn't know them. Um, I, it was just like one year and she was in charge of like putting the, uh, slideshow together.

Like, she was in charge of like part of it. And I was like helping her out with it a little bit. And she showed it, she showed it to me. And it had that song. And like, I started tearing up. I didn't know any of these people. I was like, it's just, you guys have just been through so much together, you know? That's what I'm saying. It's potent. It's too much. It's too much.

It's too much. It's too much. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. No, no disrespect to it. You know what I mean? That shit is fucking eat, bro. But people are playing with it.

People are playing with enriched uranium. Like it's fucking Play-Doh out of it. And you should not be. Speaking of you should not be, my overrated is, so there's this article in The Cut or New York Magazine or whatever. I always get, Vulture. Aren't those all the same thing? Yeah, they're all the same parents company.

Anyways, it's a good article. It's like the, it's called The Feed is Fake. It was getting passed around a lot, I think in media circles this weekend. But it's basically a dive into the. people who work in digital marketing who pay people to artificially get things more looks in the feed through what they call clipping, which is just like basically what happened with Russiagate where they're like, there's a whole basement full of people who are just like posting stuff about Donald Trump and how great he is and, you know, all that.

But it's just that for pop culture. and it's not that they're just saying they're behind like some viral trends. They claim they don't know of any trends that aren't artificially like boosted or manufactured. Wow. Wait, so what do they, what does clipping mean exactly? So clipping is what we do.

Like if we talk about a thing and covering it in that way? So like we have, you know, we'll have a video that is made by Hot Dog Sandwich. Shout out to the social team that works with us Hot Dog Sandwich. they do a good job. They make a clip. They put it up. This is you go out to a bunch of people

who don't openly work for you. They make a bunch of different clips, basically like fake fan accounts and just flood the zone with clips of your content. And then like real, like try and manufacture. They also just like generate likes and shit like that.

You know, it's like digital marketing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay, that makes sense. Yeah. But literally the quote is,

I don't know if we've seen a true viral trend in a while. All of them are going to have some manipulation behind them. And obviously, like, this is... Wait, what about the fucking grimace shape? I think McDonald's was behind that based on this article. They would suggest that the... But we said it was come so early. Miles, I've got to tell you something.

I've got to come clean on something. I was, I don't know if you remember that whole day I was incepting you. Right. Yeah, man. Hey, come over here really quick. But yeah, everyone, the, like this is inside the industry. So like, yeah, it's just astroterva.

That's what we've talked about forever. But they're basically saying it is like they call out specific trends. like they say the bad bunny half-time show and the controversy around that is like people were pushing artificially on both sides to try and make it a thing right they say Bieber's performance at Coachella was artificially gassed up there's like an online conspiracy theory that the band geese is like a sci-op dude I was just talking to someone this last weekend about this and I was so confused like you know geese bro it's like total fun I'm like what and I'm like I don't hang out in Brooklyn enough Because this person was like, everybody in Brooklyn, geese, whatever. I'm like, okay. But yeah, that was another thing where they were like, have you heard about this thing? And I'm like, I don't know, there's bands all the time that people are like,

what the fuck? Why are they getting all this attention? Yeah. So it's like, it's a thing we knew was happening. The article is basically just claiming that like we live in a manufactured reality where like the Sydney-Sweeney great genes controversy was. not real. It was just generated by like 15% of

the TikTok accounts commenting on it were fake and generated most of the uproar. And during the controversy, American Eagle's stock rose 10% at it, which first of all, I didn't know American Eagle was a publicly traded. Like, what the fuck? Added

400 million dollars in market value. So I don't know. It's just like, it's, you know, the same thing as Paola, the same thing as Astroterfair. Right, right. But it does, it is kind of an underrated almost you know,

metaphysical change where like now you just don't know if anything that is successful is actually successful. Right. No, that's true. I mean, I feel like we even see that a lot of times too like in podcasting where like you're like,

oh, this show's huge. And then like you kind of get under the hood of it a little bit and you're like, oh, I definitely have the impression of that. Yeah. But yeah, I think it definitely at every, so many different ways, like, we see this. And I feel like, I'm sure we'll talk about it this week.

It's like the downfall of the daily wire, too. Yeah. That there's like, there's a certain level of like sincere engagement you have. And then there's like these other levels that you can use to sort of give that appearance when it might not be as poppin. But yeah, they people like, one of the or two of the examples they call out is Nick Fuentes and clavicular. They're like, they seem like these massive viral people who have huge. huge followings. But, like, their flagship shows don't get that many, like, views.

They're pretty, it's just, like, clips of them being circulated around, and they are heavily invested in, in this sort of thing. Well, that's the thing is, like, if people didn't, if people actually saw a live stream of any of these people, like, what the fuck am I doing? Yeah, yeah. Like, watching it live. Just go to the part where he ODs at a Miami nightclub already. Right.

Yeah, yeah. So it's like, the good, the bad. like things that you would expect are like, man, they must be really upset about this. It's like, no, they might be generating that controversy to just like get people gassed up, get their name, get their brand in the

media, which again, like, I don't think people didn't know this. It's just this is like, this article is basically like, no, we're all living in like a false reality. Like nothing you've enjoyed is something that was genuinely,

there for a reason other than to like make you engage with it. I think that's the, I think people should definitely check out the comedy Jones Town video by the elephant graveyard about Joe Rogan and like the, and the Austin comedy scene and how like there are all

these right wing backers of you know, Joe Rogan and that whole thing of like create like trying to create a split in culture and like throwing gas on it with your money to sort of like elevate these voices. And you're like, oh, this is all this all makes sense when people think of like,

you know, I think was it, I think Bannon or one of those people, but like was saying, you know, like politics is downstream of culture. So that's why they're, that's why they're all obsessed with changing the culture

to change the politics. It's the one thing they, it's their white whale that they just can't quite do. They try the daily wire. Yeah. And it makes sense too. When you have people like Peter Thiel or whatever, like budding up with Joe Rogan or being a guest on there,

And it's like, yeah, he has a vested interest in, like, having a specific worldview kind of be the predominant one that people have that make his, you know, rise to even more power frictionless as possible. Yeah. Peter Thiel's funny, though, man. He's a good. I like his comedic sensibility. Oh, yeah, yeah. He gets it, man. Yeah.

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We're back. And we got another commencement speaker. So last week we talked about the University Central Florida commencement speaker. A real estate. Exactly. Yeah. And they went, they were like, we'll one up you. We'll give you a full on billionaire.

Yeah. Real oligart. And his speech, his speech must have already been written before he saw that she got booed because he just, he was, I think he might have made some adjustments, but he was just like, it's coming for all of you. Yeah. I think his adjustment was like, make it fucking scarier. So Eric Schmidt, the former Google CEO was giving the speech, the commencement speech at the University of the University of, the university. University of Arizona, Wildcats. And this is just, again, another fucking oligarch, another moment where he is having his first introduction to normal human beings and what they think about AI. Architects of artificial intelligence.

Interesting. He said you're the, he said artificial intelligence. It's just booze. The question is whether you will help shape artificial intelligence. We do not know. We do not know. the precise contours of what this, if you'd let me make this point, please.

Oh, you're doing, let me make this point. See, I even felt like one of the students right there. Oh, you're going to tell, oh, you want to get it. Boom. The point, I think he had that built into his speech because the point he was making is like, we should let immigrants contribute to the future. It was like what he did after that.

So it was like definitely, you know, set up to make, make them look like assholes but yeah it's just another person being completely fucking out of touch what else do you say? I think it goes on

choose a diversity of perspectives including the perspective of the immigrant who has so often been the person who came to this country and made it better okay yet everyone knows like got them got your ass

these large language models have a terrible bias brought bias, like terrible racial biases. But tell us more. Oh, do you hate immigrants? Oh, you're booing. Oh, you're booing immigrants. Did you guys get that?

Did you guys get that? You guys are booing immigrants. They hate immigrants. You guys are all canceled. I have, uh, just so you know, I have surveillance software in this entire arena that we've developed and we know all of you guys. So you guys are canceled. Um, please clap for me.

Eric Schmidt. Please clap. Yeah. Um, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The articles I'm seeing written about this is like the AI hate wave is here. Um, I honestly, I think it's definitely partially like that. I think people are, like, pissed and scared about the future. I honestly think it's just, like,

any time you let one of these fuckers get in front of normal people and talk about things, talking about the future, it just, like, it just reveals who they really are. It goes so badly. And they're also just like, oh, my. And I'm sure, like,

a lot of these oligarchs who have found themselves in these moments getting booed. by the masses, probably are like in their Trump White House correspondence dinner bag where they're like,

and that made me go harder when the poor said, fuck, what are they going to do to us now? Melt them down into goo with my AI. Yeah. I think AI is a symbol

of like how they think about us. And for sure. If they're saying, we don't need you because we have this thing. You better get on board, asshole, because we know what's coming

and we know what's good. And this is coming. Later on, he's like, when someone offers you a seat on a rocket ship, you just accept it. Like, you don't pick the seat. You just take the one you're given and you hop on. And you're like, what a terrible fucking, like, what are you trying to say? Yeah. So there, one of the, I think the article that I'm referring to was from Axios, maybe.

And it is called the AI hate wave is here. It points out that America's view of AI, 34% of people had a negative view of AI three years ago, and now it's over 50, like, just in the course of three years. But globally, opinion is moving in the opposite direction with, like, the share of respondents expecting AI to do more good than harm rising to 59% in 2025 from 55 in 2024, which that's according to Stanford. So who knows? Like that, you know, Stanford is a learning institution, oftentimes with, that is like just attached to the front of a giant,

you know, financial apparatus. But I do, I think it's like driven by the fact that we're, partially we're like at ground zero and see how they plan to use this shit. But it seems like an American capitalism problem also, as much as an AI problem. problem where like every technology, like it's not just AI, it's like, you know, healthcare, for instance.

I don't know. Like the Luigi Mangione thing like kind of is I still just like take a step back and be like, that seems really significant to me that he has such a high approval rating, you know, and did in the immediate aftermath. It's just like so many ways of these people, anytime these people interact, it's just like, they're so completely disconnected. And like there are ways that I'm sure AI could be used, like that they might be experiencing in other countries

where everything is not just completely driven on like value extraction and like fuck these people over. And like focusing on like how people actually interact with technology is like a thing. But it seems like literally nobody does that anymore in the United States. No, like when I was in Japan, people are like way more like less hostile towards AI. Yeah. Because I think in a lot of instances like it's being presented as like this will kind of make your job a little bit easier.

Right. Rather than like, oh yeah, we're paying you less because we got this thing now. Which is like how it's presented in the U.S. to people. Yeah. They're like already talking about getting rid of your job before they even know how they're going to do that. Yeah. Yeah. So, oh man.

I mean, I feel like there is, do you think there's a business in getting. like giving oligarchs a taste of how real people live like, not like a poverty safari kind of a thing, but like when like dudes before they go into prison, like sometimes like wealthy white kids will get like a prison instructor to be like you're about to go in, bro, this is how you're going to navigate prison. Right, right, right. Like look, you're an oligarch and you don't know how fucking real people are actually

operating. Like this is what the fuck you need to know. And they're like, it's going to be bad. They, I've never even heard it. of this supermarket. I didn't know that this existed. Yeah, it's called Croker. This is how other people eat. Oh, God. And people go in here by themselves? Yes, Eric,

they do. They don't have staff. You put the little bugles on each one of your fingers. And then they look like claws and they're fun to play with. This is whimsical. It's like a body switching movie. What is going on? Let's see.

In terms of our dear leader is doing at the moment alligator alcatraz is closing after one year so that didn't go well one cost a fuck ton of money that I'm pretty sure the state of Florida good luck to use paying that bill

went to China and was just like this guy made some good points we fucking suck kind of got owned from a negotiation standpoint as he does anytime he's around other other leaders yeah especially when Ziet dropped that

thing of like, you know, I want to, please don't fall into Thucydides trap. In terms like, yes, obviously. No, that's about a nation in decline, getting in their agro back as a way to compensate. Love your cities. He was like, we're not in decline. Those cities were mine. Who's this? This suicidities?

We're not in decline. We're not in decline. Says the president whose nation isn't quite the decline. And who also talks about how the nation is in decline all the time. And then, oh, did you hear though, too? He said, what the president was referring to was Joe Biden and how it was in decline, but not anymore. That's why they mentioned Thucydides' trap.

It has nothing to do with me being president. It's from Biden. And now we're doing good. Mm-hmm. Yeah, everything. He was talking, you should have heard the shit he was saying about Biden behind your back, bro. Oh, it's crazy. Oh, my God.

I was like, you're crazy for this one. Gee? And then as I said, he's like, there's also so many, like, look at the relationship between the U.S. and China. There's so many Chinese restaurants in the U.S. now, the most popular kind of restaurant. I was like, that's what you're saying at a whatever. Brilliant. He's also withdrawing a lawsuit that he had filed against the government, the IRS himself, essentially. Yeah.

So, like, in January, him and his failed sons sued the IRS because an IRS contractor has, leaked their tax returns. And they're like, oh, and like, we need $10 billion in damages to myself. And they're like, well,

I control this government body. So this is like when a lot of people are like, how can you do this? Like you're the executive branch and you're suing your own, you are the government. It's like he was attempting some kind of weird video game glitch

where it's like, dude, when you become mayor, you sue yourself and you can settle the lawsuits and it's an infinite money glitch in Sim City or something. And then luckily the judge presiding over the legal matter was like, yeah, what the fuck is this?

Can you please explain how this isn't like the government suing itself? Like you guys are the same. Like you, there's, there's nothing adversarial about this. So the case was dismissed. And Trump basically withdrew it because there was a window where he could do that without the judge's authorization. And now we found out that the justice department has this whole time been working on a fund of almost $1.8 billion to quote, compensate Trump supporters who claim they were victims of entrapment, excessive force, or malicious prosecution under the prior administration, or in some cases,

over events taking place during Trump's first term. Anywhere six. So, yeah, he's creating like a really nice sycophant slush fund to pay out insurrectionists and other Trump allies. As like a, I think as the Overton window, he was like, well, I'm not going to take $10 billion to myself. I will take $1.8 billion. Is that how it's related to the lawsuit against the IRS is just like him. He's loosening us up for like, give me $10 billion assholes. All right.

You know what? We'll make a deal. I'll only take $1.8 billion. If like every insurrectionist like arrested, sued and it was distributed equally, like each person would get like something like $1.2 million. But I don't think that's how that's going to work. I think I'd love to see what they do with that, you know, I feel. it's fucking terrifying you know like this true

it's so out in the open he's like here's money to give to people that like we did wild illegal shit under my encouragement so here's a little something back so I can maybe keep the support up also it seems like they're getting they're getting ready to

I mean it's basically like they're holding Cuba in like a fucking chokehold right now quite literally with the oil And all the other sanctions and embargoes that the U.S. has had on Cuba for decades. But yeah, like they're like all the Cuba hawks are just licking their crusty beaks in anticipation for some kind of U.S. takeover. Like you were mentioning, the U.S. is already in the process of creating like a humanitarian catastrophe with the oil blockades and like the energy crisis there. Yeah.

It's like. And their whole thing is like, it'll just just wait for it to get bad enough. And then we can just stroll on in, which is a time on her tactic with U.S. imperialism. But again, like they want to create a situation that's so untenable that the Cuban government comes to the U.S. to make some kind of deal. But another old playbook the U.S. is dusting off is fraudulently accusing a country that poses absolutely no threat to the U.S. of being a huge fucking threat, you guys. Oh my God, I'm so scared.

Yeah, this time it centers around an intelligence report that says that Cuba. have over 300 drones that can go boom and that maybe they're looking at maybe attacking Guantanamo or some other places like in like maybe Key West or something. And again, a lot of people are saying like they are probably going like this feels like a way to be like, this could be a pretext for military action. It's like the and the Cuban president is like we have no fuck. What are you talking about? Like, we're just, we're not trying to attack anybody. Um, so, yeah, this is, this is where the U.S. foreign policy game is at right now. It's like they're doing like the Gulf of Tonkin, like on some level.

It's like, dude, they've totally gone to fight with this boat that wasn't there. They're doing a pretext this time. I feel like they must be, they must be getting nostalgic or something. Because they didn't, they didn't do a pre. They didn't do one of those for Iran, you know? They're just like, yeah, we're going to do this now. There's like, very brief. They're like, oh, yeah, yeah.

It turns out they They were pointing They were pointing nuclear weapon Like at my head, dude What did you want me to do? I thought you broke that I brought all their weapons last summer dude I fucked them all up last summer

But then like they got some new ones or some shit I don't know But yeah this is like very You know the president of Cuba's like Dude there's gonna be like a fucking blood bath If they try and attack this country And like there's you know reports of people Preparing for an invasion because yeah

The US it seems to be what we do. Yeah, especially when you just talk like bring up like Venezuela and your talks in regards to Cuba. It feels like you're going to try and pull some shit because it feels like I don't,

I mean, the reports have always been like Trump's board of Iran now because it was too hard. And now like you probably are like, I don't know, can we offer up some kind of sacrificial nation state? Sovereign nation for him to absolutely

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Me. Is there anything to the idea that because you're from Harvard, you only got in because your parents made a huge donation. The group. The yard birds, right? That's the name. The Harvard yard, but they're open to change. Do you have a name suggestion?

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We're back. And Miles, I was blissfully unaware of Chud the Builder, until you brought them to my attention over the weekend. Those of us who spent way too much time on the internet and Reddit, or especially live stream, fail, have probably seen this moustachioed racist. named Chud the Builder. And, like, his whole career, like, he's a live streamer. And it's basically, he just, he goes live and he's just violently racist

to people on his stream. Usually black people tries to provoke them where racial slurs, all kinds of shit. And either, like, when they walk away or people like, dude, get the fuck away from me or they leave. He does some vert. The outcomes are either, A, he goes, yeah, that's what I thought, pussy.

And then, like, they walk away. He's like, yeah, dude, I'm out here. See, none of these. fuckers are going to stop me, man, because I'm like blah, blah, blah on his white supremacy shit. Or he'll, or it'll go to B, he'll pepper spray them when they get physical for not taking his bullshit. Or C, he'll brandish a gun and says, yeah, that's what I thought, pussy. Wow. So he does like some pretty flagrant shit.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like pretty flagrant. Like one of the last videos that right before this last incident was like him provoking this black kid. And I felt so bad for him because his two, like, his other friends. who weren't black were trying to get him to like chill out because this guy was calling him the end word and shit and being like, don't chimp out now. Don't chimp out. And you could, I think as a black person that read like there is, there are moments where you have friends who absolutely do not understand what this is doing to your like your limbic system. You know, like the adrenaline

that courses to your veins of having a white person call you racial slurs and how to handle that. and I get, I'm sure his friends were probably speaking more in the terms of like, let's not escalate or whatever, but like this dude was like truly going through the calculus in his mind. I'm like, do I have to, am I going to lay hands on this person? What am I going to fuck to do? Anyway, so then cut to this latest shit on last Wednesday. He was in, for whatever reason, like in front of a courthouse or some shit and he bucked with the wrong one. This is from the reports, quote, on Wednesday afternoon, officers responded to a call of, quote, shots fired outside the Montgomery County courthouse and detainings. two men who got into a fight that escalated into gunfire.

The men suffered bullet wounds with one being transported to a local hospital and the other treated at the scene. Both were listed in stable condition. So essentially what happened was Chud the Builder, this guy, his name's like Easton Etherly or some. Sounds like a fucking children's character. Yeah. Chud the builder.

Of course. Yeah. Sounds like a Thomas the Tank. He's like, these guys were laughing at me. And then like, then they like jumped me and they started wailing on me. So he pulled a gun out. shot one guy who again, he's in critical, like he's fine or he's stable. And then he also like accidentally shot himself in the arm too.

And the builder shot himself in the arm. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. He shot himself in the arm in this fracas. And yeah, like he went like there was a moment on the live stream where he was talking to the cops and he was basically trying to act like he was just minding his business when he was suddenly like suddenly just jumped rather than telling them that he was provoking this black man and telling him to quote not chimp out which is like his fucking

probably catchphrase yeah yeah it's like what he does all the fucking time um but luckily now this motherfucker rightly been charged and booked for criminal attempted murder employing a firearm during a dangerous felony aggravated assault and reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon there's a clip of him at his like bond hearing he gets said at like one and a quarter million dollars and the way his eyes close where he's like uh i don't have that that that's bad. This is probably not good. But I think just add another one to this long list of characters that live streaming has given us, like, where there's just like, there's some people who like have a little bit of charisma. You know what I mean? And are like I show like like speed. You know what I mean?

Like yeah, it gets crowds going on. Like he's trying to do something from something that's a little bit more positive. And then you have these like provocation artists like Johnny Somali who is, you know, currently, I think doing some time in a Korean prison because he liked to fuck around in Asian countries on live stream and be like, you know, playing like the North Korean national anthem on the subway in South Korea

or like desecrating like memorials to the comfort women of like, you know, the, that the Japanese were like sexually assaulting. He was like going like speed running. How do I completely... How do the worst shit possible? Yeah, yeah, exactly.

And now you have this fucking guy where now he's just truly going live on stream looking out there to get in some kind of fucking white supremacist argument and then pulling a weapon out or something to just you know to make himself sick so we'll see how long this goes

the Nick Quentes and you know the Ben Shapiro and all those people who have like artificially pumped themselves up to the very heights of the attention economy there are like probably 20 chud the builders who are just like, you know, toiling away in the outrage minds, trying and failing to kind of scale their.

I mean, it's like unbelievable to see like this shit that he does. Because it just truly looks like out of your mind person trying to get in a fight with people of color. Right. So you can just pull a gun on them or like spray or pepper spray them. And then all the freaks in his chat are like, yeah, dude, go. Jesus.

Yeah. All right. Should we talk about the Knight Rider car? That seems important. This is something that happened at the end of the end of last week. It seems important to me. So there's a... Untimely for our night rider.

Y'all remember Night rider. Yeah. It wowed audiences in the 80s with the concept that a car could have a British accent. Mr. Feeney from Boymeets World. Is it the same voice? Yeah, I believe so. Damn. Sounds the same.

So there's a museum that received. a speeding ticket in the mail because their kit car was caught going 34 in a 25 mile per hour zone on the 22nd of April, which like immediately put visions in my mind of like, oh shit, right

at the museum style. You close the lights. Yeah, yeah. Night at the Bible Museum. You turn out the lights. There's like a security guard going around and then when his shift is over, kit goes out and does 34 and a 25

not that great the museum says that the car which they have on display hasn't moved in years sounds like real chump yeah real Ricky Jervase from the night of the museum energy that these people are bringing also it's not even the real car from the show

it's a replica so it just seems like not even the real car from the show it's a replica as I say as I stand in front of it every day. But somebody else apparently has the same kind of car with a custom license plate reading

night. And this is one of the perils of owning pop culture inspired vehicles. There was a story last year, a Simpsons fan in Massachusetts got a Bort vanity plate for her car. And then mysteriously started receiving out-of-state toll charges

because the design of the Massachusetts plate is similar to the novelty, itchy and scratchy plates. sold online that cameras were fooled into thinking was her. Yeah, yeah. Red lettering on a white background. So, you know, keep your head on a swivel out there.

If you're the type of person who gets novelty, pop culture. Also, crazy fucking fact, William Daniels, the voice actor of Kit and also Mr. Feeney from Bolemy's Road, motherfucker is a 99 years old. Today? And well, yes. Wow. Shout out to him. Let's get there.

Let's get to the three digits, sir. Do it, man. We stay in a Mr. Feeney. That, that, uh, night rider car really fucked me up as a kid. That was like the toy that I got that really most blew my mind. It was just a semi. It was like, you know, 12 inches, you know, 13 inches, a long toy night rider car. Yeah.

I was like, God damn. Man. Doesn't get any better than this, man. I remember when they used to have, like, they used to have it at Universal Studios, Hollywood, like in the late eight. Like the night rider car would just be out there. Just doing the, like, having the red go back and forth. Yeah, right there on the grill.

Also, I thought that guy was, it's like, hey, bitch, what's up? What are you doing, fool? Look at this fool, Michael. I thought this guy was English. He's not? He was born in Brooklyn, Vietnam. Wow. He's from Brooklyn.

That's how good of an actor. Well, Michael. Yeah. I mean, I'm sure British people are like, you thought that was a British accent. Look, it was the 80s, bro. It's like when they like set a movie in the olden days and they're like, yeah, they don't speak an accent. They just speak olden days where they're like, old in time, olden language. If you would do me the honor. Yeah.

It's like this is taking place in Boston. Oh, good. He's still. And his wife, Bonnie Bartlett is still alive at 95, 96. God damn. what a life. What a life. Oh, I wonder, do they meet at Northwestern University? Oh, my God. That's what I'd always heard.

Taylor's oldest time. All right. Those are some of the things that are trending on this Monday, May 18th. We are back tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show. Yep. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get your vaccines.

Where you still can. Get your flu shots. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. The Daily Zykeyes is executive produced by Catherine Law. Co-produced by Victor Wright.

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