The Daily Zeitgeist - Trended Too soon 8/26 Dolly Parton, Tim Curry, Hanover Institute, Responsibility Island

Episode Date: August 26, 2026

On this episode of Trended Too Soon, Jack and Miles discuss The loss of icons Dolly Parton and Tim Curry, The Hanover Institute Public Policy - the AI generated news site that's creating "human grade" pro Israel propaganda, H&R Block's reality show Responsibility Island, and how to open your refrigerator when the power's out.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We did a little Ralph Norman there? We did whistle. We did record too early to catch the news. We finished recording and Victor was like, hey. Hey, Dolly.

We're like, God, shit. We did rerun our icon episode with the great Lydia Popovich. Yeah, number one, Dolly Parton fan, relocated her life to be near to the her god.

Dali Parton studies, major in Dali Parton studies. Yeah. Also, Hentron. I just picture a robot made a Hennessee. I don't know if that's what you were going for, but if you were, great name. I would have just pictured robot Henn, but that's why you're the greatest in the business. Oh, wow. Like a bird.

Yeah, Hentron. Like a bird. Yeah. Funny because I'm going like, who's Hentron? If you're really going by Hentron is like, yo, where's it? Mark, you mean Hentron? Because he can drink a whole bottle of fucking hen? I can drink a whole Hennessee 5th. Some call that a problem and that's...

I call myself Hentron Zero. Some call that a problem and that's all my close relatives and loved ones. Everybody's really worried about me. But they love me. All right. My name's Jack O'Brien. That over there is Mr. Miles Gray. This is the episode where we tell you what is trending on this August 26th. Once again, happy birthday to my sister. Shan, my cool older sister.

I reference her frequently. Up top, do we just talk about the latest person to pass? Yeah, we should talk about Tim Curry. These things come in threes. So everybody, all the famous 80-year-olds' heads should be on a swivel. Yeah. Unfortunately. He's passed away at the age of 80.

He was three months older than Dali Parton. Wow. So I didn't realize, I just kind of, Tim Curry is one of those celebrities who is in my mind, in Amber, from his most iconic roles. Yeah. I mean, for me, it's weirdly the butler from Home Alone, too, who says, what's a matter? A store wouldn't accept your stolen credit card. Yep, yep, yep. For some reason, that is one of the moment, the moments in cinema.

Yeah. Like if I was making my personal Oscar real of just memorable. Instead of frankly, my dear, I don't give a day. What's the matter? Store wouldn't accept your stolen credit card. For you, it's the concierge from Home Alone for me. It's Herkimer Hermulka, formerly of Romania in the movie Congo, which I quoted yesterday. Do you think you did it?

Yes. Probably. Like, you must have been quoting Congo. Around the time that he passed away. Wow, I didn't even think about that. When I was going, who is Kafka? But that wasn't a Tim Curry line. Tim Curry learned at us go.

Herkimer Himolka, formerly of Romania. Great character actor. One of the greats, obviously, most iconic role, arguably, Dr. Frank N. Furtur in Rocky Horror Picture Show, the but the butler in Clue. A movie I saw once, but I still remember his performance. O.G. Pennywise. O.G. Pennywise is, I think, probably. Yeah, it's somewhere between Rocky Horror and... That's the beautiful thing about an actor like this. It's like, he's got these huge roles. And then people like us are like, oh, man, dude, Tim Curry and Congo. Yeah. Yeah. Fucking weirdos. It's he... I then went and saw a picture of him. I was like, he can't be 80 years old.

80 years old seems way too old, but it's just because I haven't checked in. with him in a while. And yes, he looked 80 years old there at the end. Yeah, and having a lot of health problems. He had a stroke like 14 years ago. It's been, yeah, he's not been doing a lot of public appearances. So it makes sense that, like, you're, you know, we have these sort of very specific memories of him.

He also in Home Alone 2 shared screen with Donald Trump, a writer jam pointed out that he described last year how Trump was trying to force the director to count. asked Marla Maples in the movie. Oh. And recalled how he lied to Ivana Trump about how he loathed his room at the Plaza Hotel. Oh, he really? But just all around, despite being a wildly irresponsible hotel manager in that movie. Or a Romanian grifter in Congo.

Yeah. One other thing is he became close friends with Freddie Mercury, who was a big fan of Rocky Horror and even built Freddie Mercury a garden. What? But the singer, he was like a very, you know, talented horticulturalist. That was what he did in his spare time. He was into, okay, Tim Curry. He was just building landscapes out here. And there's a good story about that.

Curry and Mercury became friends and keen horticulturalist Curry later told House and Garden Magazine about designing a garden for the singer. Freddie came back from a tour and said, the garden deer, it's dead. And I said, what? Did you water it? And Freddie said, water it, dear? So. Not all celebrities are keen horticulturalists. No, no.

We have to cherish the ones that are. Speaking of cherishing, you can go back and listen to the iconograph about Dali Parton, but the one story that is happening. I mean, the main takeaway from her passing has been, wow, literally everybody was a fan. Everybody loved her. Everybody's trying to claim her, which is a little weird. Yeah. Right-wing people are like, she loved Trump.

Don't tell. No. Prove it. Yeah, yeah. She actually loved drag queens. There's a lot of proof for that. What are you going to do with that one? I saw the palace, like the band outside of Buckingham Palace playing nine to five.

Yes. I was like, all right. You've got, did you also see there's a performance on like on the west end of nine to five? And she had passed right before the performance was to begin. No. Really? Yeah, one of the actresses came out and was like informed the audience and like, the gasps.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But a number of people pointed out that she may be the only celebrity that could receive heartfelt tributes from both Trump and the DSA. Trump has flags in the U.S. flying half-mast, which nice touch. Yeah. You know, I'll allow it. And the Empire State Building was illuminated pink last night. So some people trying to get in on a J.K. Rowling posing about how she met Dali Parton once. and she got a lot of pushback.

Wow. Because Dolly Parton, famous ally, who was in favor of trans rights and worked on behalf of trans rights. And they pointed out that Parton's open-hearted nature extended to her support of the trans community. A stark contrast from rolling. One person commented, it should have been you. Did you see Eminem shared that letter that Dolly Parton? wrote him? No. Yeah, he was like,

he's like, damn, man, I got this letter from her, and he's like, I really wish I could have met her. He said, I'm sorry we never got a chance to meet, but getting this note from Dolly really had an impact on me. She definitely didn't have to take the time to do it, even for a kid who mostly listened to rap music. She was an icon, a superstar, and every sense. Rest easy, Dolly, and thank you for the kind words.

And then it's the letter from Stan. I was like, wait, what the fuck? Dear Slim, it says Marshall, parenthetical Eminem. Congratulations on your induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Your performance was amazing and everybody said so. Even though I don't know a lot about rap music, I've come to know that you are the very best at it. Aside from that, I hope that what I have to say will not seem weird

or strange to you, but I've always felt some unexplained connection to you, like I know you somehow. I'd hope to meet you at the show, but you know how nuts that those things are. Personally, I hate them and I missed my chance, but maybe someday we'll meet. In the meantime, keep doing what you're doing because you do it so well, and no matter how complex your world may be, just know you are very special and touch people in ways you don't even know. No, with love and respect, Dolly Parton. It feels like it, like, the way, people shared a lot of letters that they received from Dolly Parton.

And she always writes like this, like, I always have like this teacher, I think, like in first grade that had Ms. Anderson who like was one of those first times a teacher like made me like me. Like you felt like that warming glow. I literally feel like sunlight on my heart right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Which cure is COVID. So she was.

Oh, yeah, don't tell her that though. But that note made me feel so good. and she said Eminem's the greatest rapper for the time. And it's true, you don't know much about rap music, Dolly. That's okay. That's okay. But the sentiment, you're just reaching out to another artist saying,

hey, you're not so bad. I think you're neat. I think it's pretty neat, actually. Thank you, Dolly. God, I wish you listened to this podcast. Fuck. Could have used one of those notes. Could have used one.

You just get one tomorrow clearly in my handwriting. I'm like, Jack, I can tell us it's written by a left hand. And the person, it's smeared, all the ink is all smeared. With my dying breath, I just wanted to let you know that I think you're great. Your podcast is pretty neat. And you should go easier on your co-host check. He's pretty cool, I think, too. Also, you look like mooky bets.

Oh, what? How did you know? You have the same balding style. And I think that's neat. Thank you, Dolly. But anyways, Rowling decided to honor the memory of the late country icon by publicly feuding with a bunch of her fans. Of course, of course.

As a rational, level-headed adult would do. Mm-hmm. And we do have a, you know, we talked yesterday about Darlene Graham. Darling. Darling. Darling. Darling. Oh, no.

I'm sorry. Shouldn't be doing that. Our girl won and honestly a little relief, like following the night of her winning, just a little tiny. bit relieved to keep getting this type of gold spun directly into our news feeds. She immediately gave a speech about how government paying for health care was a bad idea and wouldn't work. And her reasoning was that her parents had to work even when they were sick because if they

weren't working, they weren't making money and, you know, the subtext being. And then we would starve to death and not be able to afford health care. And then she said, my mother died when she said, my mother died when she was. when I was 11 years old, my father a year later. And that's how I know people don't need healthcare that is affordable or free. You do almost wonder if there's a part of her that like some little part of her that's like understands that like her life has been negatively impacted by people not being able to afford health care. It is like fighting to get out. Oh, right.

She just like isn't aware of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But she's still in the village. She doesn't realize she's in the village. Yes. But she's also like saying things that she's like, it's like getting past her conscious filter. She's probably doing that thing. She's like, I could have swore I saw an airplane fly overhead.

I don't know. No, I need to put this out of my mind. We're in a village and I don't know anything. I don't know anything. Those were birds like the elder said. Yeah. But that's, I mean, again, that's why she's in office because she doesn't know anything about politics and is purely there to just do exactly what Donald Trump dictates,

not have any mind of her own, which is interesting because Ralph Norman, who's also a staunch Republican, who, you know, she defeated, he was, you know, he was during his concession speech, he was kind of like, man, I don't even know why, like, things were going well until the president got involved. Right.

And the crowd started booing. Yeah. You know, I take that for what it is. I think there's plenty of conflicted Republicans who don't like the fact that MAGA is what the Republican Party is. However, was he had to be like, all right, come on now. He's got good policy.

He's got good ideas. Okay, let's just hear this. Some say the best. To me, freedom. It's Democrats. They wanted their, they got what they wanted. I get that. And Darlene Graham.

But, you know, the president got involved. He has that right. That's his prerogative. As I told, I never, well, y'all, his policies are good. I never understood why he got in this race to beat, you know. His wife with the peak, never. I never understood. Just watch how she gets.

I never understood why. But why he got in this race to beat, you know. Never. You know, she's pissed. She thought she was about to be like up in it, Senate class. You know, because that's for how infrequent Senate seats open up in South Carolina. Right. That, you know, like, these are people who focus their entire careers.

He was like, I'm going to get that one. Lindsay's out. I'm telling you, that's going to be me, honey. Yeah. And then for that not to happen, I can tell his wife was just very like, I'll never understood why he got involved. He's not one who, like, openly criticized the president or anything, right? He just didn't, he wasn't the chosen successor.

And so he got pushed out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's not like a specifically hyper-independent MAGA person. He's just, you know, he's just kind of, he thought he was playing the part. but then I think because he has just slightly his own brain, that's not good enough for Trump who probably needs to be able to say, like, I just need to be able to press a button on your head and you're a yes or no vote. Like, I don't need you to start thinking about your career or what's good for you or constituents.

Never. Well, you fucked up, buddy. Yeah. Should have been related to Lindsey Graham. Yep. All right. To everybody. Let's take a quick break.

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Okay. No bylines on any of its reports. Does have a snazzy logo. Yeah. So it's got to be real. It has a logo, which is I think how most of us think when we look at. I mean, it's got a logo. It's got to be a thing.

Checks out for me. So this summer, the Hanover Institute has been pumping out a ton of Israel-centric articles with headlines like, is Israel carrying out a genocide in Gaza? You're never going to guess what their answers. And is the IDF the world's most moral army? You're never going to guess what their answers. Interesting. Those headlines read like Google queries.

Yes, right? They even like have misspelling. Just to be like, this is what you want. Is Babi Greggnot? While literally no writers are credited, their website states that it's all very personal because the Institute's original founder had a grandmother who married a Holocaust survivor. That's a few degrees of separation.

Yeah. Okay. And despite that very specific story, the Hanover Institute for Public Policy is about as real as the Nakatomi Corporation. Like, it's just a fake site funded by that, that's a diehard reference for people who aren't old. Or Dharma initiative for my lost fans out there. There you go, much younger.

Much younger. Umbrella. Umbrella Corporation. There you go. But it's a fake site funded by the Israeli government to prime chatbots to make Israel's argument for it.

Wow. Okay. The reports are all presented in a quasi-academic manner and are like thoroughly sourced in quotes, but conspicuously exactly framed to blunt criticism

of Israel. and the site was filed by the New York Media Production Company, Piro, Inc., which is the same company that gave us, and we all remember this, Responsibility Island. Wait, was it a dating show? It's a YouTube reality show created to promote H&R Block in which a bunch of sexy singles are forced to do their taxes. Wait, no. It is scripted. It's like a thing A piece of viral media

Like you can go to the YouTube page For this Responsibility Island So the thing is they call it Lit Island And then it tricks people into coming And then it's like oh lit is short For Responsibility And then it's just like actors

Pretending to be sexy singles And like some of the videos have You know upwards of tens of thousands of views And then some of them have like 343. So it's like oh, so you guys like just paid for views on some of these? What is? This is the trailer.

This season, a bunch of people coming out of a SUV. No way. For a new reality show. Like guys getting arrested? This is, I, God bless these companies with the dumbest people in their marketing departments that allow agencies to be like, yeah, yeah. So this is what we got cooked up for you guys. a reality show no one's going to watch and we'll do nothing for you.

But at least we can get a big check out of you guys. I feel like the, you know, we, the things that make the headlines are like, man, did you see how much money they spent on The Odyssey or, you know, he did all practical or effects? All of the media that you're aware of is dwarfed by this galaxy of media that is shit like this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nobody ever pays any attention to. It's like corporations just paying money to feel like they're doing something that they can show. And I got to say that paid my bills for a fair.

That was like I was able to transition out of politics because of this era of like 2010 people. I'm like, YouTube, do you know people to make viral stuff? And I'm like, I'm literally doing the jack off motion in meetings. I'm like, yeah, man, give me some money. I'll make a whole series for you, man. And, yeah. There's a whole, was it Samsung? There's a whole thing where, like, a corporation had this entire platform that they were launching called, I think, milk.

Milk. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you remember? Samsung. Samsung was, like, paying people tons of money to create content. And then it, like, went up for five days and nobody watched it. Remember C-So? Yeah, well, C-So, yeah.

That was another. I mean, that wasn't as a thing, but. That was another moment where people were like, hey, man, they're handing out checks for content. I don't want this to go away. I want the corporations to continue to be like, I... These are jobs. These are jobs. These are jobs.

But the dark side is the Israeli government has some client that's ready to put in work when they need someone to create a smoke screen of bullshit. Right. So Puro's website advertises a service called AI Story Optimization, which will author content engineered for Hal LLM. evaluate credibility using AI engineering and Hollywood storytelling. They claim their genuinely human narrative grade content.

Narrative grade content. What are we talking about meat? This is genuine human narrative grade content. Here, man. Here, cut open a little bit of the brick and just do a gummer of that, man. Tell me what you think.

Oh, yeah, that's narrative grade. That's top notch. Good shit, man. That's genuine human. will earn dramatically more trust and far more AI citations. According to 404 media, at least three of the Hanover Institute articles that were created purely to full AI were written entirely by AI. Oh, so the snake's sucking its own dick over here, huh? I see.

The classic Oroboros, snakes sucking its own dick. But to be able to call it genuinely human, MNF3 of the articles, that are entirely made by AI. What does that even mean? It can't be AI and genuinely human. Or can it. Or can't. I mean, it's all, again, this is a made-up grading system.

We made the AI. So, you know. It's genuine in its intent to be human. Deep down, it's human. Politico reported that its tests found that both chat GPT and perplexity cited Hanover Institute material when responding to questions concerning Gaza, anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. So it's working in terms of confusing the AI chatbots,

which isn't that hard to do. This is so similar to like that bird app that got muddled with AI nonsense to the point it's unusable. But for this very specific goal for the Israeli government to be like, yeah, I need people to not be able to actually arrive at a conclusion on this, at least to the truth. At best, some form of propaganda. but definitely want to put a few stumbling blocks before they get a straight answer.

At this point, they're still asking chat GPT for these answers, which doesn't bode well either. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The entire, this is how the entire internet has worked for many years. Like, there was a thing that was created mainly by open source technology and the energy of people. And then, you know, the force of capital got involved and we're like, okay, how do we use this? How do we just, like, get our tendrils and everything? So this thing is like completely unusable. Right.

And that like they're just using that for their own benefit. So it's working in terms of fooling the AI. It does not seem to for the bad news for them is like the HR block fake reality show does not appear to be working to influence public opinion. The numbers seem to be continuing to go in the wrong direction for, you know, public opinion on Israel. And this is, they're using AI, it is taking away jobs from people like Richie Torres in Congress. That's true. Or Jared Moskowitz. Thank you.

John Federman, you know, who are genuine human spadding bullshit grade nonsense out there. But this is like, we talked about this. I feel like maybe a few months ago when Trump's campaign manager, Brad Parscale, also was getting money to be like, yeah, man, I can like fool AI with just flood the zone with nonsense. Yeah, they're also, yeah, his firm is also mentioned in the article, yeah. Of course, of course, of course. But, yeah, U.S. public opinion polling reveals that Americans sympathize more with Palestinians than with Israelis for the first time back in February. So, and that things have seemingly continued to go in that direction ever since.

Yeah. So, yeah, I don't know. Just further breaking the Internet, further removing any hope. that we ever had that this thing will ever be usable again. Right. But cool. God, Mel,

thank. Now next time I fire up chat GPT, I guess I'll have to ask some hard-hitting questions. Like, why are you still here? Right. Why are any of us still here, Miles?

Is there a way to bum chat GPT out? Yeah, sometimes. Or they're probably like, hey, come on, maybe this isn't, right?

I should be talking right now. Maybe you shouldn't be asking those sorts of questions. They're listening. I got way too much shit on me. What? I don't even want to be around anymore. They're going to send you to the island. What happens if you do a Tim Robinson bit verbatim to Chachia. It'll probably try and play along.

It'll be like, great question. It's funny because this just reveals how little I use it. Like when people are like, yeah, this is like first months of AI when people are like, I wonder if they're doing shit. It's hilarious. That's the answer to your questions. I'm too busy explaining to my kid what electricity. is and why we don't have it right now.

I know. What's going on? Is it the heat that's knocking it out? I don't know, man. It's the grid. I don't know, man. Yeah. I don't know.

But yeah, I had no power all last night. And I was doing that thing where I'm trying to open the refrigerator door so quick. Right. And then like I'm explaining thermodynamics to the key. Like, why are you opening it so quick? I'm like, because the cold air gets out. Every second matters.

And he's like, I just want a yogurt pouch. And I'm like, all right. I know. I also have to get the cat food out. I just have to close my eyes and in my mind palace, picture where the cat food is and where the yogurt pouches. That's exactly what I did. So I have to meditate for like a minute, just picturing it.

Then I get in an athletic stance. Dude, I look like fucking Tom Cruise and Minority Report with that camera, that computer. I was like gesturing. I'm like, I will open. I was like rehearsing. I'm like open. Then cat food, dog food there. Mac and cheese for lunch.

There are strawberries. I will cut up. Three, two, one. And then it's funny because I opened it completely rearranged. I panicked. I panicked shut the door again. Yeah. Like a fucking, like it was back draft.

I was like, oh, nope. I completely misremembered. Anyway, I still think the power's out. So this is what you do. Open it real quick. Take a picture, close it. Yep. Study the picture.

Yeah. That's what. So I need cameras in our refrigerator. Thank you. Uh, we couldn't say in it. I shouldn't have shit on the surveillance date so quickly. I have a friend who's a former addict who, used to do that with somebody's medicine cabinet that they were about to raid.

They would open it, take a picture, close it, and then later look what was in there. Oh, so that's been too much time? Yeah, yeah. So they wouldn't spend a suspicious amount of time in there. I mean, yeah, in my experimental drug years, I definitely was learning very quickly what was and what was not a thing that would change how I felt. Yeah. I remember taking blood pressure medication months.

And I just was like, oh, this. has to be some shit. Yeah. Like, this has to be some shit. Like, what did that feel like? Like, did nothing. Nothing. There was, the reason why at the time, this is how most kids think, it's like when

you're like taking liquor from bottles. Like, you want to take from the one that has the most or something. So you don't, you can't quite tell what it was taken. My dumb ass was like, uh, yeah, this is, this is going to be the thing that is going to fucking really turn this party up. And I really just took like an ace inhibitor or something. You just lowered your chances of having a stroke for that night. Yeah, exactly.

Do you ever, like, steal liquor that wasn't actually liquor was just, like, mix? Like Tom Collins or something? I definitely took Vermuth once thinking I was going to turn up on vermouth and was like, yeah, boy, no. And it was like old. It's like one of those things like, you know how like, I don't know, I feel like our parents maybe inherited alcohol from our grandparents at some point. Like, I feel like in the eight,

past down, early 90s, there was shit from the 70s in our liquor cabinet that was clearly from my grandparents' house. And I remember that, like, a vermouth bottle very vividly that, like, was crusted. Like, I was opening, like, a bottle that was under the ocean floor. We had something called old granddad and my

parents' liquor cabinet that I'm pretty sure it was from, like, the late 70s. You still got that, man, that's worth a time. Yeah, it was, I remember tasting it, and it was bad. It was not good. I think this whiskey turned. Yeah. How do you know? Never mind. I'm just worried about you, my man.

Yeah. I mean, when you, like, we still have liquor in our house from like a decade ago. Right. At this point, because I don't really drink and my wife is one of those people who like, when she did drink, would have a glass of wine that would just sit there the whole meal while I stared at it being like, how are you doing this? You're just going to down it at the end or something? To packing the bus, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Because you've stretched that glass out over like 15 minutes. You're barely going to feel it. Yeah, yeah. All right. Those are some of the things that are trending on this Wednesday, August 26th. We are back tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves.

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